NCAA - I've been following this for over a year

[Dr. Jones]

Another new article... scathing. Business Week.

The corruption of academics at the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus could turn into the most revelatory of all of the undergraduate sports scandals in recent memory. Beginning three years ago with what sounded like garden-variety reports of under-the-table payments from agents and improper classroom help for athletes, the affair has spread and deepened to include evidence of hundreds of sham courses offered since the early 1990s. Untold numbers of grades have been changed without authorization and faculty signatures forged—all in the service of an elaborate campaign to keep elite basketball and football players academically eligible to play.

The rot in Chapel Hill undermines UNC’s reputation as one of the nation’s finest public institutions of higher learning. Officials created classes that did not meet. That’s not the only reason more scrutiny is needed. There’s also the particularly pernicious way that the school’s African and Afro-American Studies Department has been used to inflate the GPAs of basketball and football players. The corruption of a scholarly discipline devoted to black history and culture underscores a racial subtext to the exploitation of college athletes that typically goes unidentified in polite discussion. (UNC’s former longtime Afro-Am chairman, Julius Nyang’oro, has been criminally indicted for fraud.)

https://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-06/unc-athletic-scandal-charges-of-fraud-could-be-tip-of-wider-revelations#r=lr-sr

 

[colton]

Another new article... scathing. Business Week.

Untold numbers of grades have been changed without authorization and faculty signatures forged—all in the service of an elaborate campaign to keep elite basketball and football players academically eligible to play.

Wow, that's grounds for criminal prosecution. If someone forged my signature to change one of my student's grades without my permission I would raise all kinds of ****.

 

[HeavenHarris]

Wow, that's grounds for criminal prosecution. If someone forged my signature to change one of my student's grades without my permission I would raise all kinds of ****.

naughty admin be cursin with no reppurcusssions tbh

 

[HeavenHarris]

colt45 unchained

 

[Dr. Jones]

Wow, that's grounds for criminal prosecution. If someone forged my signature to change one of my student's grades without my permission I would raise all kinds of ****.

It's really bad. Some faculty have 'resigned' with early pensions and bonuses... connect the dots.
I've written on it so much that I am too tired to do it again, but the evidence is truly mountainous... and the NCAA says "it's not under our jurisdiction."

 

[nightmare3983]

It's really bad. Some faculty have 'resigned' with early pensions and bonuses... connect the dots.
I've written on it so much that I am too tired to do it again, but the evidence is truly mountainous... and the NCAA says "it's not under our jurisdiction."

At the end of the day, the NCAA's position on this is just more evidence of something we already knew: The NCAA is all about the money.

 

[Dr. Jones]

This story is FINALLY after many, many months blowing up. CNN has just ran with it in Raleigh.

And the money-hungry puppet (ESPN) has already ran a story to try and downplay it. There may just be something coming down on UNC... the NCAA will be FORCED to do something ... I just don't see how with all the unbelievable proof that has surfaced (including leading faculty and players themselves) that they can turn a blind eye.

 

[Dr. Jones]

So since yesterday the NCAA has issued a statement directed at CNN saying they're research is incomplete and uninformed, but never mentioned UNC by name.

Since that NCAA article CNN has issued another article ... death threats included.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/ncaa-athletes-unc-response/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

 

[Dr. Jones]

More..

Both were under a page long, written ? sort of ? in pen, loaded with cross-outs. That a college instructor ? even a junior high teacher ? would accept work in such condition seems impossible.
As for the content, it’s heartbreaking. The one titled, “Abortion” includes, as written: “It seem that the women ought to be the one who desides,” “Abortion is a tough typic and men difently does not need to make the choice,” and “women that get abortion are many times looked at as a bad person.”
The other, titled “A Girl Part of UNC Football,” includes, “The young lady manger [manager] fills that she does get specill treatment. She fills that the coaches treates her nice becaus she is girl.”
His grade on these college essays? A perfect 5 out of 5, on each. They include the professor’s check marks of content approval, including twice-underlined praise as, “Interesting.”

https://nypost.com/2014/01/11/unc-is-a-stark-example-of-colleges-warped-priorities/

 

[colton]

"Interesting" is a pretty good choice to describe the spelling, I think.