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There was a New York Times article last week, about how a UNC professor was charged with some type of public fraud, he was the chairman of the African and Afro-American studies department.

He ran the department for 20 years and they found out that dozens of this classes would never meet. A majority of his students were UNC basketball and football players. The chairman and his assistant (she retire with full pension after 30 years) presided over 500+ unauthorized grade changes for athletes dating back to 1997, which included forging professors' signatures.

He was paid 12 grand to teach an afro-american studies class, inwhich numerous athletes enrolled. He wasn't even in the country at anytime the course took place.

That is very shocking and quite sad.

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Posted by Zach

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Posted on 1/8/14 at 11:56 am to cajunangelle

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That is very shocking and quite sad.

True story. Centenary College had a great BB team when Robert Parish was there. Most of the players were semi-literate. English 101 was required and it was a bitch of a class.

So, the athletic dept. created "English 101 for Basketball Players Only". But this was a violation of NCAA rules. So, they circumvented the rule. Any student in the college could register for "English for BB" .. HOWEVER...you had to find out where registration would be held and at what time.

So, the players were told that registration for the class would be at the asst. coach's house at 11 pm on Tuesday. And don't tell anyone else!

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