When the college admission scandal broke and the colleges involved in this criminal conspiracy were revealed, I shook my head and said, doesn’t affect me or mine. Wrong! Almost five dozen rich people paid college administrators, coaches, test-takers upwards of $25 million so that less-than-bright kids could get into prestigious colleges and universities by cheating, bribery and plain criminality by those rich people, coaches, and administrators. First, of the colleges involved, the University of San Diego (USD) was prominent on the list. One of my nephews graduated from its law school. In my own experience, I recall a visit from a couple of parishioners who visited our home when I was in middle school asking for our family to “tithe” 10 percent of my step-father’s police officer salary to help built the University of San Diego, which, in 1954, was an empty wide space up a hill on Linda Vista Road. By the time I graduated for...(Read Full Article)