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Speaking of school scandals..
Topic Started: Oct 23 2014, 03:50 AM (140 Views)
Mikhailoh
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...fake classes for athletes at UNC.

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Wednesday’s report, prepared by Kenneth L. Wainstein, a former general counsel at the F.B.I. and now a partner at the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, found that between 1993 and 2011, two employees in the university’s African and Afro-American studies department presided over what was essentially a “shadow curriculum” designed to help struggling students — many of them Tar Heels athletes — stay afloat.


20 years. And the coaches say they did not know. Please.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/sports/university-of-north-carolina-investigation-reveals-shadow-curriculum-to-help-athletes.html?_r=0

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jon-nyc
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Another reason to blow up the NCAA. Ok, we can't do that but at least officially disassociate it from academics - make it just another way for a school to monetize its brand, in this case with a minor league sports team rather than an affinity credit card or a sweatshirt.


What I find really odd - the fake classes weren't just taken by athletes. Really? As despicable as it is, I understand the incentives behind having fake classes to give to athletes. But to non-athletes as well? I guess there's something in it for the university to goose other disadvantaged students GPAs as well - federal money maybe? Bragging rights at social justice conferences? I'd be curious if anyone knows.
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George K
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Eliminate College Sports

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No doubt similar preferential treatment is occurring at universities across the country — because, as Mary Willingham’s research suggests, it is necessary. According to Willingham, one in twelve students playing football or basketball at UNC — so-called “revenue” sports — were reading below a third-grade level. That those students were admitted to middle school, let alone an institution of higher learning, is alarming. That not just Crowder but a whole nexus of coaches, counselors, and faculty thought it acceptable to give those students diplomas is appalling.

But it points to the moral and intellectual rot that has taken hold of the typical university, due in large part to the culture of much college athletics. College football and basketball (to name only two) are de facto semi-professional leagues — and revelations that college players regularly receive “improper benefits” from agents and others suggest that they are treated as such. There is no deference to the “student” portion of “student-athlete,” because, for the most part, they are rarely students. Division I soccer players spend the vast majority of their time on the field. Does anyone believe that the star running back for a Rose Bowl–contender SEC school is spending much time in the lecture hall?

Allow me to submit a provocative solution: End college sports — in the interest of both sports and college.
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Jolly
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The SEC West.

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Horace
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HOLY CARP!!!
I think the line between real and fake classes would be very blurry in any subject that ends in "-studies".
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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
I took a film class my senior year at Oregon State and it had quite a few athletes in it. Some of the time they put us in to "groups" where the non-athletes shouldered the burden of the work.
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