A UNC athlete wrote this final paper and received an A- :pachaha:

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I didn't see a thread on this...


By James Nye

PUBLISHED: 01:08 EST, 28 March 2014 | UPDATED: 10:01 EST, 28 March 2014

An awful 146-word term paper littered with grammatical errors that is barely even readable has become a potent visual symbol of the University of North Carolina's fake classes scandal.

The one-paragraph essay on civil rights icon Rosa Parks earned an A- and was exposed by former UNC professor Mary Willingham, who spent 10 years teaching UNC's athletes before she turned whistleblower on alleged classroom corruption.

The shocking essay came to light during an ESPN documentary timed to coincide with the March Madness basketball competition. It contains allegations that UNC athletes in danger of failing were encouraged to sign up for fake tutor groups designed to let students pass.

The so-called 'paper classes' were essentially no-show study groups that allowed semi-literate and in some cases, illiterate athletes to pass, thereby boosting their Grade Point Average to meet the NCAA's eligibility requirements.
The anonymous essay, titled, 'Rosa Parks: My Story' attempts to recount the important moment on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, when Parks refused to give her seat up for a white man.

However, it fails to even place the event in the past or give any gravitas to the momentous moment in American history.

'Some of these college students could read at a second or third grade level,' Willingham, a UNC academic adviser since 2003 told ESPN.

'Students were taking classes that really didn't exist. They were called independent studies at that time and they just had to write a paper... There was no attendance.'

During the course of her ESPN interview, Williams confirmed the existence of 'easy paper classes' and alleged that students were guided to these classes by their academic advisors.

'Their job isn't necessarily to make Deunta Williams a better person, a smarter person,' Williams told ESPN.

'Their job is to make sure I'm eligible to play.'

Deunta Williams, played football at UNC from 2007 to 2010 and has admitted to the scam, now says he is ashamed to have been involved with it.

Willingham's whistleblowing began in 2011 after she became appalled that UNC, rather than educating its athletes was keeping them from needing to study at all.

She began to release information to journalists about basketball and football stars who read at a grade school level.

She confessed herself to steering many young men into lecture classes that simply did not exist.

And most galling for her, given UNC's proud history pushing for desegregation, that the courses were in African-American history.....

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We've discussed the lack of academic rigor for athletes at major schools before, but holy shyt :dead:
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that shyt is written like a bad porno :mjlol:
 
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This is why I dont put stock into when the commetators brag about "(player name) has already graduated in just 3 years and will have his masters by the time he leaves"

If a top athlete puts forth any effort at all they can do that, whereas the average student takes 4-5 years just for a bachelors
 
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this is the attitude you ACC brehs have. "Oh, but lets talk football." :scusthov:

No different than the SEC brehs. #GOINGB1G
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We could talk about soccer I guess....womens basketball? Not sure what else yall good at.

Yall just going from being one conferences bytch to anothers :snooze:
 
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North Carolina coach Roy Williams denies Rashad McCants' assertions
USA TODAY Sports 1:31 p.m. EDT June 6, 2014
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Rashad McCants, who was the No. 2 scorer on North Carolina's 2004-05 championship team, told ESPN that he seldom went to class — some of which were bogus — and that tutors wrote his papers, according to a report in Outside the Lines.

McCants also said coach Roy Williams was aware.

The Outside the Lines report was scheduled to air Friday afternoon at 3 ET.

The report says that McCants would have been academically ineligible had he not been provided the assistance.

SCANDAL: Whistleblower says she will resign

McCants said Williams knew about the "paper-class" system — classes that didn't require students to attend; they were required to submit only one term paper to receive a grade.

Williams responded in a statement Friday:

"I strongly disagree with what Rashad (McCants) has said. In no way did I know about or do anything close to what he says and I think the players whom I have coached over the years will agree with me. I have spent 63 years on this earth trying to do things the right way and the picture he portrays is not fair to the University or me."

Williams also defended his players and program: "Our players have been deeply hurt over the last couple of years, and again today, by the comments and innuendo concerning their academic achievements. The young men who accepted scholarships to play basketball at this University have done so expecting a world-class basketball experience, in addition to a world-class education. Obviously, we pride ourselves on being one of the top basketball programs in the country, but equally important, in helping our players grow academically and socially, as we promised their parents we would."

McCants told ESPN that he made the Dean's List in Spring 2005 despite not attending any of his four classes for which he received straight-A grades.

McCants left school after his junior season and was selected 14th in the 2005 NBA draft by Minnesota. He last played in the NBA during the 2008-09 season.

From the Outside the Lines report:

McCants, who said it was common for basketball players to major in African-American Studies, said he assumed tutors writing papers for athletes was to be expected and he didn't question it while he attended UNC.

"I thought it was a part of the college experience, just like watching it on a movie from 'He Got Game' or 'Blue Chips,'" McCants said. "... when you get to college, you don't go to class, you don't do nothing, you just show up and play. That's exactly how it was, you know, and I think that was the tradition of college basketball, or college, period, any sport. You're not there to get an education, though they tell you that.

"You're there to make revenue for the college. You're there to put fans in the seats. You're there to bring prestige to the university by winning games."

It's the latest revelation in an ongoing scandal at the school.

Mary Willingham, a reading specialist at UNC who resigned after blowing the whistle, detailed encounters with athletes who had never read a book or were incapable of writing a paragraph. The academic support program tolerated plagiarism and helped athletes remain eligible.

Willingham told CNN in January that her research of 183 football or basketball players from 2004-12 found 60 percent reading at fourth- to eighth-grade levels and roughly 10 percent below a third-grade level.

UNC had called Willingham's findings flawed after its own internal review of her data, which she provided to Provost James W. Dean Jr., on Jan. 13. She has stood by her findings.

Willingham met in April with former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein, who was hired by UNC to conduct a review of possible fraud in the formerly named African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) department.

The NCAA sanctioned the football program for improper benefits and academic misconduct involving a tutor, but there were few penalties overall.

UNC athletics director Bubba Cunningham said in a statement: "It is disappointing any time a student is dissatisfied with his or her experience. I welcome the opportunity to speak with Rashad McCants about returning to UNC to continue his academic career — just as we have welcomed many former student-athletes interested in completing their degrees."

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Sensitive Blake Griffin said:
This isn't going on at Kentucky, at least not in the basketball department. They're taking legitimate courses, Brandon Knight took calculus when he was at Kentucky. Not a bullshyt ass african american studies course that they just made up and is literally an entire class made up of athletes.The NCAA hates us and Cal, they would like nothing better than to catch us for something like this.

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:skip: Sure it isn't
 
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