Quick now which ACC program doesn't pass the smell test? Louisville? Florida St? Clemson? I would have nominated one of these until I read a lengthy review of "Cheated" new book by two former UNC officials, one a professor the other an academic administrator revealing a widespread (3000 students mostly athletes) program of concerted academic fraud whereby courses were offered which required no class work and submission of one "paper" which most instances was plagiarized to obtain a grade of A, named athletes who participated Julius Peppers and Rashad McCants and implicated is none other than Roy Williams. University chancellor Thorp who was finally forced out in disgrace after he fired one of the authors and commissioned a phony whitewashing report exonerating the school, a subsequent investigation by an outside law firm nailed him.
Seems a professor in the African studies department one Nyang'oro concocted this scheme and his courses in African studies and Swahili became among the most popular on campus and not just for athletes. Mr. Nyang'oro finally got himself indicted over this fraud but turned state's evidence. The University has managed to hush up most of this to date but the cat is really out of the bag now. Wish I could post a link to this story but I don't know how, find it in weekend edition of WSJ in Review section, quite a damning account and more than an embarrassment to UNC, a school I always thought was one of the better state U's.
Seems a professor in the African studies department one Nyang'oro concocted this scheme and his courses in African studies and Swahili became among the most popular on campus and not just for athletes. Mr. Nyang'oro finally got himself indicted over this fraud but turned state's evidence. The University has managed to hush up most of this to date but the cat is really out of the bag now. Wish I could post a link to this story but I don't know how, find it in weekend edition of WSJ in Review section, quite a damning account and more than an embarrassment to UNC, a school I always thought was one of the better state U's.
