The ever-growing University of Illinois admissions scandal has now reached athletics. Many big-time athletics programs face controversy over their requests that admissions officers let in athletes with less than stellar academic credentials. But the Chicago Tribune [1] reported Sunday that at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, some athletic boosters had senior athletics administrators lobby on behalf of non-athletes -- applicants with ties of some sort to the donors -- and the athletics administrators complied, in at least one case turning an automatic rejection based on a poor academic performance into an acceptance.