How about a small piece of uplifting news? 

When the college cheating scandal broke, I wrote a blog asking, among other things, where were the colleges who weren’t selling their slots. Here’s that paragraph:

Some college admissions bribery is legal: giving millions to your Alma Mater so your kid can be accepted. Who is more guilty? The wealthy parent who gives the bribe donation, or the school who alters its standards to let their kid in? Are there institutions who can stand up and say, “Slots in our school can’t be bought!

Well, there is one! The Wall Street Journal reported on November 7, 2019, that Occidental College in Los Angeles got an email from Rick Singer, the man who admitted to orchestrating the cheating scandal. Mr. Singer was suggesting that Occidental “reconsider an application from the academically challenged daughter of a wealthy family.” He wrote:

Are you kidding? We can create a win-win for both of us.

The Journal reports that Vince Cuseo, Occidental’s admissions official, gave a simple response:

No

The article goes on to say that Occidental isn’t doing as well as other schools in endowments and facilities because they simply don’t have the money. But they have something the other schools don’t have: INTEGRITY. More power to them!

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. (Proverbs 22.1, ESV)