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North Carolina Tar Heels (official thread)

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colobuck79;2194895; said:
This, and the Franco Harris connection. Franco is the biggest Paterno supporter. He is also a democrat party delagate. Where is the democratic national convention this year? That's right, being held in Charlotte, NC at the Time Warner Cable Arena and Bank of America Stadium...... FACT.
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Only NCAA logic would allow a former player to investigate his alma mater...

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Should the NCAA Revisit North Carolina?

Sat, Aug 25, 2012



It All Depends on Their Version of ?Nexus?

By B. David Ridpath, Ed.D.
Associate Professor and Khan Nandola Professor of Sport Management, Ohio University, College of Business

There has been an unprecedented failure and erosion of institutional academic integrity, along with an extreme overemphasis on athletic success, at one of our premier academic institutions. Penn State, you ask? Mercifully, for this article, the short answer is no.

This time it?s another highly ranked public institution ? namely the University of North Carolina ? that is posing a challenge to the statement made by NCAA President Mark Emmert when he doled out the penalties to Penn State for the Sandusky scandal. According to Emmert, ?Football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people.?

If that sounds like nothing more than public relations spin to you, you?re not alone.

It is difficult to argue against the NCAA returning to Chapel Hill to investigate allegations of academic fraud and, frankly, it is unconscionable that they have not already. One of the main criticisms, oftentimes valid, of the NCAA enforcement and infractions process is that it is arbitrary and capricious and lacks any consistency. If they do not investigate alleged blatant and overt academic fraud at North Carolina, conceived to gain a competitive advantage in the flagship sports of football and men?s basketball, then any remaining shred of credibility and faith in the much maligned process will be evaporated forever.


The NCAA was at UNC investigating before, albeit with Marcus Wilson doing the investigating. Wilson is a former UNC football player who now works for the NCAA Enforcement staff. Full disclosure: I have met Wilson and he seemed to me to be a man of integrity, but the conflict of interest and impropriety of assigning a former athlete to investigate his alma mater is too large to ignore and should have never happened according to the NCAA?s own bylaw 32.3.3 Conflict of Interest. It states, ?Any enforcement staff member who has or had a personal relationship or institutional affiliation that reasonably would result in the appearance of prejudice should refrain from participating in any manner in the processing of the involved institution?s or individual?s infractions case.?
This was the NCAA?s first mistake in this growing scandal, but it certainly appears to not be the last mistake ? or the worst.
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NFBuck;2211528; said:
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/buckshot/2012/09/more-trouble-in-chapel-hill
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Yeah, I would hit it.

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I have never liked UNC in any capacity so maybe I am a little jaded when I say that the basketball and football teams need to be hit with PSU-like sanctions. Every action allowed by the UNC Athletic Department - from the booster scandal, to the academic fraud, to know this - has had a direct impact on the ability of those teams to perform at high levels. But for some reason UNC is viewed, at least in D.C., as a school that does EVERYTHING the right way. I know this isn't the case in the slightest just from talking to some friends who go there. The NCAA needs to stop with this double standard nonsense and man the fuck up with this case. /rant
 
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UNC player plagiarized from 11-year-olds?

North Carolina's academic scandal has hit a new low ? literally.

According to a report in the News and Observer, Erik Highsmith was caught plagiarizing from four 11-year-olds for a communications class in the spring 2011 semester.

Highsmith was required to blog about poultry farming, people and pets for 30 percent of his grade. Apparently, that was too much for the Tar Heel receiver. Here's a look at a comparison of his paper, and what the 11-year-olds wrote on an education website for their peers.

Highsmith: "Poultry farming is raising of turkeys, ducks, chicken and other fowl for meat or eggs. Poultry farms can be breeding farms where they raise poultry for meat, or layer farms where they produce eggs. The 'best' breeds depend on what you want from them. Good egg layers are Rhode Island Reds [brown eggs] and Leghorns [white eggs]."

Post from the website: "Poultry farming is raising chickens, turkeys, ducks and other fowl for meat or eggs. Poultry farms can be: 1. Breeding farms where they raise poultry for meat, or 2. Layer farms where they produce eggs.

Entire article: http://www.foxsportssouth.com/10/25.../msn_landing.html?blockID=809829&feedID=10956

Reminds me of :

ScriptOhio;1899886; said:
Favorite Dave Foley story:

Dave was one the smarter (academically) players and was an engineering major. In one Industrial Engineering class we had a Indian and/or Pakistani graduate assistant. He said that "today we are going to discuss fault tree analysis", however, with his strong accent it came out as sounding like "poultry analysis". Dave blurts out "What the @%&#! are we going to study chickens for?" Needless to say, the class cracks up.

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UNC tolerated cheating, insider Mary Willingham says

As a reading specialist at UNC-Chapel Hill, Mary Willingham met athletes who told her they had never read a book and didn't know what a paragraph was. She said she saw diagnostic tests that showed they were unable to do college-level work.

But many of those athletes stayed eligible to play sports, she said, because the academic support system provided improper help and tolerated plagiarism. When she raised questions or made an objection to what she saw as cheating, she said, she saw no one take her concerns seriously.

Willingham, who still works at the university but not with athletes, said she lodged complaints at least two years before UNC's academic problems erupted into scandal. She channeled some of her frustration into a thesis for her master?s degree, on the corrupting influence of big-money sports on university academics.

But after attending the recent funeral of former UNC system President Bill Friday, a prominent critic of revenue-driven college sports, and seeing that no one within the program was willing to admit that they had been aware of a problem, Willingham decided it was time to go public.

In a series of interviews with The News & Observer, she said there were numerous people in the academic support program who knew that what was going on was wrong, but they looked the other way, helping to protect one of the nation's most storied athletic programs.

Among her assertions:
- The no-show classes that had been offered by the chairman of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies date back at least to the time Willingham began working for the support program in 2003. Commonly known within the program as 'paper classes,?'they were billed as lecture classes, but the classes never met.

Willingham learned of them when she was asked to work with a female athlete on a paper. Willingham said the paper was a 'cut-and-paste' job, but when she raised questions about it, staff members told her not to worry. The student later received a grade of B or better.

- Members of the men?s basketball team took no-show classes until the fall semester of 2009, when the team was assigned a new academic counselor. The new counselor was appalled to learn of the classes, and wanted no part of them. University records show the enrollments stopped that semester for basketball players, while they continued for football players.

- Numerous football and basketball players came to the university with academic histories that showed them incapable of doing college-level work, especially at one of the nation?s top public universities. Diagnostic tests administered by the university confirmed their lack of preparedness and also identified learning disabilities that would need extensive remediation to put them on a successful academic path.

Some athletes told Willingham they had never read a book or written a paragraph, but they were placed in no-show classes that required a 20-page paper and came away with grades of B or better.

- Roughly five years ago, Bobbi Owen, the senior associate dean who had oversight of the academic support program, sought to rein in the number of independent studies offered by the African studies department, which by then averaged nearly 200 a year. Independent studies required no class time and often not much more than a term paper; they were popular with football and basketball players.

University records show that the number of independent study enrollments plummeted in the past five years compared with the previous five. Those courses have also been cited for a lack of academic integrity.

Willingham, 51, said most of the athletes in the nonrevenue sports are capable of doing college-level work. But lowered academic standards for the football players and men's basketball players - known as 'special admits' - brought in athletes who lacked the academic ability, while still being expected to devote at least 20 hours a week to their sports.

She called that a dynamic destined to produce cheating. The special admissions go at least as far back as the early 1990s.

"There are serious literacy deficits and they cannot do the course work here," Willingham said. "And if you cannot do the course work here, how do you stay eligible? You stay eligible by some department, some professor, somebody who gives you a break. That's everywhere across the country. Here it happened with paper classes. There's no question."

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Nothing to see here, move along.
 
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