OK, this is not the Hansbrough everyone would expect to get caught for traveling, but a new and unlikely story has come out of Chapel Hill in the past couple of days. Props to the Pack Pride posters who initially came up with the title of this post. Great line and I had to use […]
UNC Scandal
Monday Musings
NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) N.C. State holds on for 10-7 victory at Connecticut N.C. State made the equivalent of football sausage Saturday against Connecticut. For the Wolfpack, how it was made was not as important as the end result, which was a 10-7 grind-it-out win over the offensively-challenged Huskies. N.C. State’s offense made […]
AFAM Grads Shocked: “We worked hard”
Graduates of the AFAM Studies Department at the University* of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say they were surprised and disheartened to learn of the academic scandal involving the department. This according to the N&O’s Dan Kane. Seems Dan sat down recently and spoke with some people who actually had to do some work to […]
Thorp: We’ve learned our lesson…we promise
The N&O’s Dan Kane keeps the heat on, keeping the stench from southern Orange County in the public eye (or nose, as it were). Overnight he reported that UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp appeared before the university faculty at the first Faculty Council meeting of the new academic year. Despite the fresh start of a new […]
UConn AD on NCAA: “It’s a double standard”
The ongoing scandal over at the Flagship is now getting reaction from its peer institutions. Michael Rosenberg, SI.com: In a class called How To Embarrass Your School Without Getting In Trouble With the NCAA, I give the North Carolina Tar Heels an A-plus. And they don’t even have to write a paper. The NCAA looked […]
UNC-CH’s promises still ring hollow
The local media outlets today are reporting at least part of what was forged from yesterday’s double secret behind closed door meeting of the UNC System BOG panel. It’s hard to believe it took 5+ hours for this. I’m going to paste some quotes below, but please click the links and read both in their […]
UNC BOG panel discusses academic fraud behind closed doors
The N&O is reporting this afternoon that A UNC system BOG panel met for more than five hours behind closed doors, citing confidentiality and privacy issues. The purpose of the meeting was reportedly to discuss UNC-CH’s current academic fraud issues… CHAPEL HILL — A UNC Board of Governors panel met for more than five hours […]
TBJ: UNC AD expects investigation will find more academic improprieties
Triangle Business Journal staff writer Jason deBruyn released a story this afternoon with some very interesting statements from UNC AD Bubba Cunningham. The statements are interesting, but for anyone not currently sipping wine and eating cheese in the city limits of Chapel Hill they are hardly surprising. Go here to read the full piece by […]
Kane: Academic support director for UNC athletes quietly moved out of job
The N&O’s Dan Kane continues to keep the pressure on and keep the NEW Carolina Way in the public eye. This go ’round he seems to want us to be aware of some recent personnel changes within the UNC-CH academic support program for athletes (is that an oxymoron or what?). Pasted below are a few […]
N&O keeps the heat on UNC: “… A Decade of Questions”
Andrew Curliss and Dane Kane have this time tag teamed the Tarheels and the result is something akin to a “rasslin’” match I watched as a boy on WRAL at 11:30pm on a hot Saturday summer night much like tonight. In case you had better things to do in your youth, you can catch up […]
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