And yet, as the bribery cases have made clear, the campus remains a place of pervasive wealth, where celebrity, money and status are still a part of daily life. that when a recent “Saturday Night Live” skit spoofed the admissions scandal, it opened with a shot of U.S.C.’s central library. On the sun-streaked campus, students said conversations focused on a mix of envy and judgment for those with more. And wealthy students are a fixture at elite colleges across the country — the challenges at U.S.C. In the campus bookstore, one wall is filled with pricey Kiehl’s bath products and an Abercrombie & Fitch welcomes students in U.S.C.

Source: New York Times April 03, 2019 09:00 UTC