She didn't use steroids, nor did she bet on baseball

It's been interesting to watch the commentary from many in the college admissions profession, lamenting the departure of Marilee Jones, the now ex-Dean of Admissions at MIT.

Facts are these: She claimed to have a couple degrees, 28 years ago, and didn't "have the courage" to come forward with a correct resume - til now, when an anonymous tipster forced the University's hand.

Ooops.

Those of us in this college admissions universe -- I put myself in this camp -- have a mission to promote honesty, fairness, integrity, all that is right and good and Mom and apple pie. Dean Jones wrote books and made speeches and advocated honesty and fairness and all that blah blah blah -- but I can't help but feel like I feel looking back at all those home runs that were obviously steriod-enchanced, or reading Pete Rose's records and knowing that he bet on every singe game he managed.

28 YEARS? Can you imagine living with a lie -- or in this case, several lies -- for 28 years? And it now looks like an anonymous tipster was the only one keeping it from being 29, 30, 40 years?

And we want kids to trust US in this college admissions thing?