CitizenBBN
02-05-2013, 09:21 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/opinion/nocera-academic-counseling-racket.html?hp&_r=1&
REALLY worth the read if you care about UNC's** massive fraud.
From the story:
Once he got on campus, however, he was quickly informed by his academic counselors that North Carolina didn’t have a criminal justice major. According to McAdoo, his counselor picked his major, African-American studies, because it wouldn’t interfere with football practice.
Among the first classes he was “assigned” (as he phrases it) was a Swahili course, an “independent studies” class taught by the department chairman, Julius Nyang’oro. “There wasn’t any class,” McAdoo recalled. “You sign up. You write the paper. You get credit. I had never seen anything like it.” He never once met his professor. Despite the strange circumstances, he researched and wrote the paper. It was that paper that got him in the trouble with the N.C.A.A.
For purposes of clarification, the line the NCAA has hidden behind is the academic staff didn't engineer this hoax. If they'd set it up for the players that's an extra benefit, but supposedly none of the academic staff knew these kids were taking non-existent classes for 10 years.
Apparently the big lies are easier to tell than the little ones.
PLEASE Mr. McAdoo, stand up to what you know was a wrong situation that wronged you and 100s of other athletes, robbing them of any chance to get a legitimate college degree. Also the school that made you the sacrificial lamb when it was the school that was behind it all.
They robbed these kids of educational opportunities. If the kid chose to take the easy path in school OK, we all know people who do, but to actively steer them that way is a big no no both ethically and per NCAA rules.
REALLY worth the read if you care about UNC's** massive fraud.
From the story:
Once he got on campus, however, he was quickly informed by his academic counselors that North Carolina didn’t have a criminal justice major. According to McAdoo, his counselor picked his major, African-American studies, because it wouldn’t interfere with football practice.
Among the first classes he was “assigned” (as he phrases it) was a Swahili course, an “independent studies” class taught by the department chairman, Julius Nyang’oro. “There wasn’t any class,” McAdoo recalled. “You sign up. You write the paper. You get credit. I had never seen anything like it.” He never once met his professor. Despite the strange circumstances, he researched and wrote the paper. It was that paper that got him in the trouble with the N.C.A.A.
For purposes of clarification, the line the NCAA has hidden behind is the academic staff didn't engineer this hoax. If they'd set it up for the players that's an extra benefit, but supposedly none of the academic staff knew these kids were taking non-existent classes for 10 years.
Apparently the big lies are easier to tell than the little ones.
PLEASE Mr. McAdoo, stand up to what you know was a wrong situation that wronged you and 100s of other athletes, robbing them of any chance to get a legitimate college degree. Also the school that made you the sacrificial lamb when it was the school that was behind it all.
They robbed these kids of educational opportunities. If the kid chose to take the easy path in school OK, we all know people who do, but to actively steer them that way is a big no no both ethically and per NCAA rules.