Confirmation and comments from various Twitter accounts about Rodney Purvis being cleared by the NCAA. From Pack Pride per Debbie Yow: Rodney Purvis has been cleared to play this year (@rpurvis_0) From Mark Gottfried @rpurvis_0 fully cleared by NCAA to participate! Very happy for him. Has handled this with great class From Dick Vitale Can’t […]
WRAL: Thorp to step down at the end of the school year
According to WRAL, Thorp is on the way out. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Holden Thorp will step down as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the end of the 2012-13 school year, sources told WRAL News Monday. The move is expected to be announced Monday. UNC’s […]
…and boom goes the dynamite
This News and Observer story posted recently proves that the Mayans were right after all! There are actual adults in Chapel Hill. CHAPEL HILL –       A report by a special faculty committee looking into the academic fraud scandal at UNC-Chapel Hill found an athletics program largely divorced from the faculty, academic counselors for […]
N & O: No-show classes mostly for athletes
Good morning! The News and Observer has played Santa yet again. Wait until you get a load of some of the bombshells in Kane’s latest front-page above-the-fold article that hit this morning. The entire thing is a must-read. Here are some explosive passages: Students looking to enroll in a summer class at UNC-Chapel Hill taught by […]
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 […]
N & O: “Carolina way” has become a joke
The raging academic scandal at UNC-CH keeps picking up momentum. An editorial in today’s News and Observer goes further than any such piece produced so far. An excerpt: The university, which used to boast of its “clean†athletics program, the “Carolina way,†has always maintained that it does not treat athletes different from other students, […]
UNC-CH BOT chair troubled by latest revelations, wants answers
If you were wondering where the UNC-CH Board of Trustees stood on the latest news out of the flagship, an article in today’s News and Observer explains that Wade Hargrove, the chairman of the UNC-CH BOT, finds it “troubling in the extreme” and wants more answers Wade Hargrove, chairman since last summer, said […]
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 […]
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 […]
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