welcome back, everyone. a cheating scandal has erupted at one of america s most elite private colleges in the country. but it s not the students who were caught cheating. mm-mm. the administration of the school was trying to boost the school s ranking. and the scandal is now raising some new questions about the value of those college ranking magazines. with more on this here is abc s abbie boudreau. reporter: at claremont mckenna college students live by a code of honor. but educators at this prestigious liberal arts college outside los angeles admitted they were the ones who had been cheating. for six years the school submitted false data to the critical u.s. news & world report, lying about the average math and reading s.a.t. scores of their students, inflating them by 10 to 20 points each.
glowing academic reputation was based on lies. the president of the college east of los angeles announced a senior administrator has resigned after revealing they sent false s.a.t. scores to major college ranking groups and not once but for six years. we are told the median score for the incoming freshman was 1400 but the school reported a 1410, instead, and that may not seem like a lot because the maximum is 2,400 but that could damage the school s standing. u.s. news and world report ranked the city as the 9th best liberal arts college in the country up from 11 the previous year so what students have a case against the college for misleading them? randy: the proof really ends up being not pudding after the fact. talk to the kids see what kind of jobs they have talk to their employers, how have they been harmed or damaged, how has
it s decision day in florida. the polls open in two hours. it is an ugly fight to the finish. and a prestigious college has fudged some s.a.t. scores for some of the incoming freshmen. why would they do that and admit to it? um find out. 911 calls from the crash in florida. he s coming too fast. here comes another one. see, there he goes. that was a bad one. we ll be talking to someone who was in the middle of the wreckage, sandwiched between two semis. a tennessee state senator is on the hot seat in a way. he is sponsoring some anti-gay legislation, but you will not believe what he s saying about homosexuals, homosexuality on the radio waves. you ll hear the transcript and you can decide for yourself. the fight for florida officially begins in about two hours. even before the polls open, the gingrich camp is back pedaling here. if the polls are right, florida appears locked. romney with a very healthy double-digit lead there. gingrich is lowering expectations f
jerry sandusky was seen raping a boy in a locker room shower. that s all he was required to do under pennsylvania law. tell the people in charge and let them decide whether to contact police. well, governor tom corbitt told nbc that just wasn t good enough. he says, by law someone in paterno s position should have to call the cops himself. should the law be changed? absolutely. i know that members of both party, republican and democrat, have already introduced measures to make that change. well, corbett is on the penn state board of trustees which fired paterno this week. he also began the investigation against jerry sandusky when he was state attorney general. sandusky is accused of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period. right now, let s bring in sarah ganum. she s a crime reporter for the patriot news in harrisburg. she s at the penn state campus. you have been on this story for years. when it broke, you came on and broke it down and explained it to our
amen. a very emotional game. a prayer, that prayer was for the eight alleged victim of former defensive coordinator jerry sandusky out of jail today on bail. the scandal leading to penn state s first game without head coach joe paterno in 46 years. beaver stadium was filled with navy blue. tears in the eyes of a generation of students, alumni and fan, many of them having to reconcile their loss of paterno who ran the program for so long. his departure might have seemed sudden but his fate was sealed long ago for how he handled and some would say mishandled a report that his former defensive coordinator raped a young boy in a locker room shower. paterno s son jay is still penn state s quarterbacks coach. he spoke to espn about the first of many saturdays without his father in command. joe has always taught us about the blue line at practice, when you cross the blue line, the only thing you can control is what you re doing right there. we had to imagine there s a blue lin