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UNC probe gets deeper and deeper

Aug 13, 2012, 9:58 AM

Forget Butch Davis, this is the definition of lack of institutional control!

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/08/13/2266292/transcript-in-unc-probe-may-be.html

Transcript in UNC probe may belong to Julius Peppers

By Dan Kane - dkane@newsobserver.com

A 2001 academic transcript published by The News & Observer two days ago that UNC-Chapel Hill officials insisted was fake may be the real thing, and it may belong to one of the most popular athletes in the university’s history — Julius Peppers.

If both transcripts are authentic, the university could be in far deeper trouble with regard to an ongoing academic scandal that is still coming into view. At issue is whether individuals in the university set up a series of bogus, no-show classes that were predominantly taken by athletes, possibly with the intent of helping them maintain their eligibility to play sports.

Should Peppers be entangled in the practice it would suggest that trumped-up classes for athletes may have been going on much longer than university officials have confirmed. It may also draw the basketball program deeper into a situation that initially centered on football players.

Peppers was a star football player at UNC from 1999 to 2001, and also saw significant playing time as a member of the basketball team for two seasons. He is now an All-Pro defensive standout for the Chicago Bears.

A poster to the PackPride bulletin board for rival N.C. State University fans put up a link late Sunday night that shows what appears to be a partial transcript of Peppers’ on UNC-CH’s website. The web address for the transcript is very similar to that of the test transcript.

A review of the purported Peppers transcript and the test transcript is a match for 34 of 36 classes. The two classes that are not similar show the same class and semester, but differ on the grade. The Peppers transcript shows an incomplete for a Black Nationalism class, while the test transcript shows the student receiving a B-plus. The test transcript also shows an A for an African American Seminar class that the Peppers transcript only shows he was registered to take it.

If the information is true, the discovery could cause huge problems for UNC-Chapel Hill. For one, the N&O reported the test transcript because it shares several characteristics with a major academic fraud scandal at the university, one that university officials have been reluctant to determine just how far back it goes. The African-American Seminar class, known as AFAM 070 back then and as AFAM 398 today, appears four times as a no-show class in an internal review that found 54 such classes during the period of 2007 to 2011.

The classes were all in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. University officials have said the only two people they believe to be culpable in the no-show classes are the department’s former chairman, Julius Nyang’oro, and former department manager Deborah Crowder. Evidence has suggested, however, that athletes were steered to the classes by academic counselors assigned to the athletic department.

UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp has described the courses as an embarrassment to the university that deprived students who enrolled in them of a proper educational experience.

The transcripts show grades of B or better on two other classes that popped up as suspect classes, and three independent studies in which grades of B or better were given. The independent studies are also suspect because university officials could not verify that anyone taught or supervised the students who took them.

Without those grades, Peppers might have not been eligible to play either sport.

Pack fans on the bulletin board also noticed another confirming detail: A 2003 ESPN feature story on Peppers in which his agent, Carl Carey, a former academic counselor to Peppers at UNC-CH, is described as saving Peppers from receiving a failing grade in his first semester. According to the article, Carey convinced the professor to give Peppers a re-test in an Elements of Drama class. The transcripts show a D for that class and for that semester.

The transcripts could also spell trouble for UNC-CH because federal law requires universities to keep academic records private. The 37-year-old Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act can potentially force an academic institution that releases such records to lose federal funding.

University officials could not be reached early Monday morning. Over the previous several weeks, UNC officials had repeatedly said the test transcript was just that, a mock up put together to test a university computer program that helps a student learn what other courses are needed to obtain a degree. But they declined to check academic records to back up their claims.

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Davis' cell phone records were just ordered to be made available and I doubt that they've been received yet or that enough time has passed to make a thorough inspection.

unc is deathly afraid that, by these records finally being made public, evidence will surface of Davis' involvement with the tutor who paid thousands of dollars of parking tickets for football players and allowed her credit card to be used by a player to purchase airline tix. Not only that, those cell phone bills may prove that Davis had contact with former asst coach John Blake WHILE Blake was acting as a runner for an NFL agent---and simultaneously on unc's payroll as well.

IMO---this investigation of corruption and coverup at unc is getting precipitously close to a point where the NC State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) can start issuing subpoena's---and, of course, then the tutor can't refuse to testify (as she did to the NCAA) and neither can Davis, N'yangoro, or the former admin asst in the African-American Studies dept ALL of whom have refused to go on the record about a number of things.

Don't know that it'll ever happen, but wouldn't it be fun if some of this can be directly traced to John Swofford!!!

UNC probe gets deeper and deeper

When will the NCAA open ANOTHER investigation?

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Unlike UNC, everyone else doesn't constantly boast about....

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Burn, Tarholes, Burn!***

We don't need no water...***

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Yep, the unc probe gets deeper and deeper and

When does it hit the basketball program?

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Was about to post this but the German bomb would have

That's what she said

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Butchy's not even out of his own trouble yet....Don't forget

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7 of the basketball players also, so this is really

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It's time for a Freeh-like report on the tar holes.

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