Saturday, October 25, 2014

A Reckoning in Chapel Hill

By now I'm sure you've seen some version of the whole sordid story: how the University of North Carolina had a set of fake classes in the Department of African-American Studies that were taken by  3100 students, especially athletes, over an 18-year period.  While it was largely the doing of the department secretary, who established and "graded" the classes, her boss was complicit.  Who was minding the store?  The See No Evil monkey department chair and the Hear No Evil monkey dean?  Anyway, the big dude newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post are riding on UNC's case like a rented pony, and I'm afraid the fall out or flying material is going to adhere to other surfaces like academics and research as well.  Holy academic schadenfreude, Batman!  

 I'll scrape my UNC sticker off my ride for the trip back home in December and come back with a righteous LSU one..

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8 comments:

  1. Linda KayOctober 25, 2014 at 10:11 AM

    Oh, my....scandal, scandal, scandal! I understand that the athletes are kept so busy with practice, that I'm not surprised someone comes up with a way to get them by for grades. Ugh.

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  2. TexWisGirlOctober 25, 2014 at 10:26 AM

    always something...

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  3. Grand CrapaudOctober 25, 2014 at 12:21 PM

    The coaches were in on it, I'm sure.

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  4. Big Sky HeidiOctober 25, 2014 at 12:26 PM

    That's a shame that a few renegade hyperfans can do things like that!

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  5. MikeOctober 25, 2014 at 3:25 PM

    The only thing different about UNC and other schools is UNC has just been caught.

    As for the cartoon. Aren't you glad you weren't standing in the spot where the phrase 'that's when the shit hit the fan' came into being?

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  6. CloudiaOctober 25, 2014 at 6:07 PM

    Individual departments garner respect more so than the U as a whole when it comes to the individual field.

    Notice they chose to trash the African American Studies dept.

    More coming to light every day - so do right!

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  7. DeenaOctober 25, 2014 at 6:20 PM

    I guess you won't be wearing baby blue UNC panties after this fiasco!

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  8. BilboOctober 26, 2014 at 8:03 AM

    Academic fraud in support of college sports? I'm shocked ... SHOCKED, I tell you! Is Deena right?

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