Rex Murphy: That’s not the real story here though by a long shot. Nor is the bribery — though that is a full scandal. It is that a university was willing to harlotize itself, admit an incompetent brainless internet hobbit, knowing that she and her mother only wanted university to wear as a logo, a status tag, a prestige trinket.
Universities are not like other institutions — corporations, government. They don’t just have ethical boundaries, ethical codes. They are the expositors of ethics. They instruct in why ethics are necessary. They are in the best and true understanding of them, the source pool of all secular thought on why morality and ethics are both necessary and foundational for every given society. Or at least they were. But here — and elsewhere — it has been shown that giddy Hollywoodites, millionaires of any provenance, anxious to add a BA to some mulish offspring, can purchase a university’s stamp and prestige in much the same kind of exchange in which Ms. Giannulli and her mother can purchase some upscale brand of shoes.
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