Dixie Cops to Conspiracy

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Whether SRU would have turned the corner and become a full-fledged member of the cartel we never will know. But given that money seems to be the foremost criteria for cartel admission, it seems that it would have been just a matter of time before Dixie accumulated a sufficient war chest to pay the toll.

degree mills are a joke, but state and other universities exist that run two parallel degree-assembling chains...the hard way for common people and the easy way for "special interest groups" and other apples of the liberal-lefty eye.
When I would relate difficulties i might be experiencing, faculty would shrug it off "Well, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen" sort of way (and i was paying full international tuition fees ). I remember the day they awarded Abdul from Pakistan a sound B. The "barely passing" mark was C, but Abdul got to have B -professor explained- to "avoid problems". Abdul could barely speak and out of a 1h conference of his, bleeding-heart lefties tried hard but could only get a sentence or two straight, not to mention the wanton arguments. Abdul was on some "bring democracy over there" scholarship.
It is all the more frightening that anyone with enough money can hire "celebrity faculty" or build a campus and turn from ebay degree seller to accredited provider for the asking.
After all, if i had enough money, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbaciov might give me private tuition in my living room...