Dan Kane isn’t letting up, referencing a report two years ago by the Indianapolis Star questioning “clustering” (or, as they say in Swahili, kuna tofauti za) at The Flagship (News & Observer): The report notes that seven of the players on UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2005 championship team who had graduated by the time the story was […]
UNC Scandal
Rogueapalooza By The Numbers
With the latest shenanigans out of Chapel Hill coming to light as of late, SFN has been on top of things with articles on the “Carolina Way” becoming a joke, the chair of the UNC BOT, the flagship wants a refund and the original Rogueapalooza article. Also of related interest to this article is the […]
Four-member BOG panel to oversee UNC-CH academic scandal investigation
There is a lot of news breaking from the slow-motion train wreck in Chapel Hill.  Tonight the News and Observer ran this article explaining how the BOG has now all of a sudden decided that maybe UNC-CH wasn’t exactly going the extra mile to get to the bottom of their raging academic scandal. Some good […]
The Flagship wants its money back
If you haven’t already, catch up with all the recent batch of shenannigans over at The Flagship here (Rogueapalooza). Clearly, UNC was swindled (again) by a rogue, but now Thorp means business and wants his money back (WRAL): CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina wants a professor at the center of an […]
Rogueapalooza (Updated!)
Anyone who has ever wondered how UNC-CH has kept ~100% of their football and basketball players eligible for generations — wonder no more! This piece from today’s N & O sheds light on some amazing “stuff” that was going on over there during the summer of 2011. Before we get started, first think about the timing of this. If they […]
Roy Williams, 3 percent, and Swahili
In the past week, the News and Observer has dropped the academic bomb on the University of North Carolina. An investigation into the African and Afro-American studies classes from 2007-2011 showed the following: There were 686 enrollments for the 54 suspect classes. Of those, football players accounted for 246 of the enrollments, or 36 percent, […]
UPDATED: Orange County DA asks SBI to probe UNC-CH academic scandal
WRAL link. Excerpts: Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall was so concerned by the report on the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that he has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to take up the case. and An internal UNC investigation of department courses between […]
UNC-CH academic scandal update & Tar Heel police blotter roundup
A WRAL story that went up this evening has some interesting details regarding the widening academic scandal in Chapel Hill. The most important thing to me is the revelation that, according to the article, ~58% of the students in the “suspect” classes were athletes: More than half of the students enrolled in the classes in question were […]
Ovies: North Carolina’s NCAA gift that keeps on giving (updated with commentary 3:49 pm)
Full link. While a sports related scandal exposed possible fraud within the African and Afro-American Studies department, the issue goes well beyond athletics. It eats at the core of what a university is all about. North Carolina prides itself in national academic recognition. That’s why public comments from chancellor Holden Thorp and UNC system president […]
N & O: UNC-CH football and basketball players made up 39% of the suspect classes
I hope nobody passes out from shock when they read this N & O article that explains how UNC-CH football and basketball players accounted for a wildly disproportionate number of the enrollees in the imaginary classes over in Chapel Hill. We never saw that one coming! Wow! Who could have imagined! Some highlights: There were […]
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