… with years of insider trading in front of him. Carrying on the family tradition of thievery while working toward his MBA at NYU, his life was shattered when the SEC got wind of what he, his father, and his brothers were doing, and put them all in jail. At the tender age of 26, Ayal Rosenthal had to go to prison.
NYU decided to revoke his degree onaccounta they didn’t want to be known as the school that made Ayal Rosenthal what he is today.
Rosenthal is suing the university. He wants his degree back.
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It’s an interesting moral question. Should you be denied an education merely because you’re a precocious criminal? Universities don’t typically revoke the degrees of people who commit crimes after they’ve graduated. Do you think Wharton will revoke Rajiv Goel’s degree? Scads of insider traders and associated miscreants graduated from Harvard. Have you heard about any of them getting their degrees revoked?
Just because this guy was so smart he broke the law before he graduated, he has to suffer?
February 10th, 2010 at 12:39PM
He should keep the the degree. He earned it. heh
February 10th, 2010 at 1:34PM
Universities don’t withdraw degrees because the recipient broke the law after graduating, but they may do so for breaking the university’s rules as students. It’s cleaner if it’s not retroactive — I suppose that’s why Harvard held off awarding degrees to the women involved in the killing there last year.