(08-05-2014 10:59 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 09:46 PM)Leargh! Wrote:  

(08-04-2014 05:31 PM)XLance Wrote:  Blah blah blah blah blabbering drivel blah blah blah.

Suddenly, UNC-CHeat is concerned with plagerism?!

Well, since you enjoy a good "cut and paste job", here is one from another board... "I'm not an expert on plagiarism but best case for them is that UNC- CHeat hired a reading specialist with a fake paper who falsified records for 10 years. Not something to brag about."

But I am confused about one thing... Even if Wilingham plagiarized every single paper that she ever turned in for college credit, how does that change the truth that "is in the transcripts?" I mean, really... Why can't you cheaters just admit to cheating, pay the price, drop the laundry, and THEN move forward?

You all really are the most pathetic bunch of whiners I've ever encountered.

It doesn't and the fact they hired her with this now known only make them look more foolish. Blind hiring the blind to lead the blind.

And the personal attacks on her and them trying to distract from the truth just indicates they don't get it. It seems they have hidden information from the NCAA. Not that it would happen, but NCAA should give their bb program a 2 year death penalty. Help them get some perspective.

I see yea UNC and we're about to raise yeah.

(08-15-2014 12:01 PM)domer1978 Wrote:  I see yea UNC and we're about to raise yeah.

Yeah, I saw that. ND must have already adopted the "Carolina Way" playbook. At least ND self-reported.

(08-15-2014 12:01 PM)domer1978 Wrote:  I see yea UNC and we're about to raise yeah.

You're going to have to try a lot harder.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...heel-tutor

The Secretary of State's office launched its probe shortly after the NCAA started looking into improper benefits and academic misconduct within the program in summer 2010. Thompson was connected to several academic violations in that probe and had declined to speak with investigators in either investigation previously.

Woodall said Thompson has also met with former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein, who is conducting an independent probe into the fraud in the school's formerly named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department that included no-show classes with significant athlete enrollments.

The NCAA in June said it was reopening its 2011 investigation into academic misconduct at the school. It sanctioned the football program in March 2012.

Billboard on 1-40 outside of Chapel Hill.

Andy Katz ‏@ESPNAndyKatz · 10m10 minutes ago
UNC announces it will announce findings of independent investigation of past academic irregularities on Wednesday at 1 pm news conference.

(10-20-2014 09:33 AM)CommuterBob Wrote:  Andy Katz ‏@ESPNAndyKatz · 10m10 minutes ago
UNC announces it will announce findings of independent investigation of past academic irregularities on Wednesday at 1 pm news conference.

It takes a couple of days to get that much white paint stirred well. They're gonna need a lot of paint to whitewash all of their mess.

Message from Chancellor Carol L. Folt The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Dear Carolina Community,

I want to be the first to let you know that this Wednesday at 1 p.m., Kenneth Wainstein, a former federal prosecutor who we retained to investigate past academic irregularities at Carolina, will publicly release his report. At that event, UNC President Tom Ross and I will share our reactions to the report, our plans for responding, and also answer questions from the media. In the days and weeks following the release of the report, my team and I plan to meet with students, faculty, staff, alumni and other members of our community regarding Mr. Wainstein’s findings and how we move forward.

There will be a live webcast of Mr. Wainstein’s presentation on Wednesday. Please go to carolinacommitment.unc.edu to access this webcast. We will also post Mr. Wainstein’s report and related materials to the site.

The last few years have been difficult for our community. I believe this report will allow us to have a complete picture of what happened at Carolina and build on the numerous reforms we have already put in place.

I understand that many of you have questions, and I hope that many will be answered on Wednesday. We will continue to keep you informed as we move forward.

Thank you for your support.

Signature

Carol L. Folt

Chancellor

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10 KEY QUESTIONS

After eight months of investigation, attorney Kenneth Wainstein, a former U.S. Homeland Security adviser and top Justice Department official, is expected to release his findings Wednesday into the long-running academic fraud at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Wainstein’s probe is the third investigation led or backed by UNC tasked with finding out what went wrong. Here are 10 key questions in the case:

1 When did it begin?
Gov. Jim Martin’s report pegged the fraudulent classes to the fall of 1997, though some evidence suggested they started in 1994. But Martin did not talk with Julius Nyang’oro, former chair of the African studies department or Deborah Crowder; their cooperation with Wainstein might pinpoint when the classes started.

2 Why did it begin?
Martin said some classes may have resulted from Crowder's desire to help anyone in need of a class. He also suggested Nyang’oro used the classes to boost enrollments in his department, which could lead to more staff and resources. But one UNC email suggested Crowder was concerned the classes had gotten into the “frat circuit,” which indicates she didn’t want everyone to have access.

3 Who else knew?
Numerous emails show counselors in the tutoring program for athletes knew the classes didn’t meet, only required a paper and weren’t challenging. Another document indicated a Swahili professor knew about them in asking that a football player be placed in a “paper” class. Whistleblower Mary Willingham, a former learning specialist in the tutoring program, said it was common knowledge within the program that the classes were being used to keep academically challenged athletes eligible to play sports.

4 Did athletic officials raise questions about the no-show classes, and if so, to whom?
Athletic officials told Martin that after an independent study scandal at Auburn University in 2006, they had raised questions about the AFAM classes to the Faculty Committee on Athletics. But no documentation supports the claim, and Martin cited only one member of the committee – Jack Evans, then UNC’s faculty representative to the NCAA – who recalled such concerns. Martin later had to retract the finding.

5 Had the university admitted athletes who struggled to do college-level work?
Willingham said her review of testing data found more than 120 athletes over an eight-year-period who could not read at a high-school level. University officials and experts they hired dismissed her research as seriously flawed and said it overestimated the number of athletes who had trouble doing college-level work. Academic records independently obtained by the N&O suggested athletes with subpar academic abilities were being admitted, and needed heavy tutoring.

6 Why were so many athletes taking Swahili?
Eighteen Swahili language classes were identified as no-show classes. Other records show athletes paying little attention in Swahili classes that did meet.

7 Is it an athletic scandal?
Martin and UNC officials have said no, because all students had access to the classes and received the same high grades. But earlier this year, UNC officials began acknowledging the disproportionate numbers of athletes enrolled needed further explanation. In June, ESPN and the N&O reported high numbers of no-show classes and independent studies among members of the 2005 men’s basketball team. Later that month, UNC announced the NCAA had reopened its investigation.

8 Were tutors writing papers for athletes?
Rashad McCants, a star of the 2005 men’s basketball team, made this claim on ESPN. Other evidence has raised questions about tutors overstepping their roles in helping athletes.

9 What drove the hundreds of grade changes in these classes?
Martin’s report found 560 suspicious grade changes. Some may have been as innocuous as a student turning in a paper late due to sickness; others might involve something more nefarious.

10 Did the scandal go beyond the no-show classes in the African studies department?
Transcripts and other records show athletes often enrolled in the same classes, suggesting the goal was to keep them eligible, not to help them pursue a degree that best fit their abilities and interests.

Read more here: N & O

You State people are all alike. Wainstein's report hasn't even come out yet and you are already saying the results are invalid or that he didn't know how to do his job. Typical.

(10-21-2014 11:44 AM)XLance Wrote:  You State people are all alike. Wainstein's report hasn't even come out yet and you are already saying the results are invalid or that he didn't know how to do his job. Typical.

"State People" ... Ha! You wish it was only State people! The gig is up, UNC has been outed. Everyone, not just State people know it.

I think we all know that UNC was never going to spend that kind of money to buy a report that will sink their ship. This is NOT an independent investigation, Wainstein is not JUST a former U.S. Homeland Security adviser - he is currently a "fixer" for whistleblower cases. Look it up.

UNC already knows what is in the report because they wrote it. Hell, the fact that they are releasing it on a Wednesday and not a Friday and following it up with a Press Conference, shows that they are sure that this "report" will be favorable to them.

Now, I could be wrong. But unless those questions are answered, UNC just wasted a lot of the Ram's club or Dental foundation's money on a big pile of caca.

How many times will we hear "move forward" tomorrow? For me, I am more interested in justice for the past... then UNC can move on.

(10-21-2014 04:36 PM)Leargh! Wrote:  

(10-21-2014 11:44 AM)XLance Wrote:  You State people are all alike. Wainstein's report hasn't even come out yet and you are already saying the results are invalid or that he didn't know how to do his job. Typical.

"State People" ... Ha! You wish it was only State people! The gig is up, UNC has been outed. Everyone, not just State people know it.

I think we all know that UNC was never going to spend that kind of money to buy a report that will sink their ship. This is NOT an independent investigation, Wainstein is not JUST a former U.S. Homeland Security adviser - he is currently a "fixer" for whistleblower cases. Look it up.

UNC already knows what is in the report because they wrote it. Hell, the fact that they are releasing it on a Wednesday and not a Friday and following it up with a Press Conference, shows that they are sure that this "report" will be favorable to them.

Now, I could be wrong. But unless those questions are answered, UNC just wasted a lot of the Ram's club or Dental foundation's money on a big pile of caca.

How many times will we hear "move forward" tomorrow? For me, I am more interested in justice for the past... then UNC can move on.

Yeah, it's not only State people. The entire country knows UNC Chapel Hill is a cheating fraud.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/22/4....html?rh=1

Quote:The system of no-show classes at UNC-Chapel Hill was pushed by academic counselors for athletes, hatched and enabled by two sympathetic officials in a key department and employed by coaches eager to keep players eligible, a new report into the long-running scandal has found.

The 18-year scheme generated inflated grades through lecture-style classes that had been quietly converted into bogus independent studies. The report, released Wednesday afternoon, found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes.

Kenneth Wainstein, a former top U.S. Justice Department official, found that the academic counselors had pushed for the easy classes and embraced those started by Deborah Crowder, a longtime manager for the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/22/4...rylink=cpy

Jon Solomon ‏@JonSolomonCBS · 15m15 minutes ago
10 of 15 players on UNC's national championship basketball team in 2005 were AFAM majors (the department with paper classes).

Quote:The report is in many respects a reversal from what two previous investigations concluded – that the academic fraud lacked an athletic motive.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/22/4...rylink=cpy

Quote:Wainstein’s investigation also found two other methods for placing students – predominantly athletes – into paper classes. At least five classes actually met, but Crowder and Nyang’oro allowed some students to take the class as a paper class. In a “handful” of other cases, Crowder added student athletes, who would turn in a paper to her, to grade rolls without a professor’s knowledge.

Nyang’oro said he allowed Crowder to create the classes, and later created some after she retired, because he also thought student athletes were in a difficult position. He said early in his career he had seen what had happened to two athletes who flunked out: One was murdered in his rural hometown; the other ended up in jail.

Nyang’oro and Crowder had not cooperated in previous probes, but sat down with Wainstein and his team after facing a criminal investigation by Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/22/4...rylink=cpy

USA Today is a little easier on UNC with the quotes it takes.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/col.../17717243/

An independent investigator found evidence of 361 North Carolina football players and 128 men's basketball players enrolled in no-show classes beginning in 1999, a scheme designed to raise their grades and keep many of them eligible, according to a report released Wednesday.

Kenneth Wainstein, a former U.S. Attorney and general counsel to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, found that most of the wrongdoing was pinned to Deborah Crowder, a longtime university employee who managed the African and Afro-American Studies Department, and Julius Nyang'oro, who became chair of curriculum for the department in 1992.

However, Wainstein also found that academic advisers who worked with the athletic department regularly steered athletes to these classes, which required only a research paper rather than class attendance.

Unlike regular independent studies, however, "There was no faculty member oversight of the research paper on which the grade was based. "In fact, students never had a single interaction with a faculty member; their only interaction was with Crowder."

The NCAA won't do a damn thing because UNC is a P5 moneymaker.

(10-22-2014 12:50 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

Quote:Wainstein’s investigation also found two other methods for placing students – predominantly athletes – into paper classes. At least five classes actually met, but Crowder and Nyang’oro allowed some students to take the class as a paper class. In a “handful” of other cases, Crowder added student athletes, who would turn in a paper to her, to grade rolls without a professor’s knowledge.

Nyang’oro said he allowed Crowder to create the classes, and later created some after she retired, because he also thought student athletes were in a difficult position. He said early in his career he had seen what had happened to two athletes who flunked out: One was murdered in his rural hometown; the other ended up in jail.

Nyang’oro and Crowder had not cooperated in previous probes, but sat down with Wainstein and his team after facing a criminal investigation by Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/22/4...rylink=cpy

There's also this:
Wainstein’s review of the papers that Crowder graded shows that in half of them, at least 25 percent of the content had been plagiarized.

At least five academic counselors for athletes leaned heavily on Crowder to help struggling athletes remain academically eligible to play, the report says. Before Crowder retired in 2009, athletic counselors urged athletes to turn in their papers before Crowder retired so that she could grade the papers rather than a professor.
....

It was common knowledge within the support program that the classes didn’t meet, were easy and offered high grades, the report says. They became such a crutch that when Crowder retired in 2009, football team counselors were desperate for the classes to continue, warning coaches the team’s overall GPA would plummet, which it did.

But some in the program knew that the classes, which typically required a term paper at the end, lacked a professor. Crowder played that role, even though she only had a bachelor’s degree from UNC. She created the classes – often at the counselors’ requests – collected the papers and graded them, often without reading them, the report said.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/22/4...rylink=cpy