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http://www.wralsportsfan.com/ncaa-r...into-unc-ch-academic-irregularities/13776719/
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The NCAA has notified UNC-Chapel Hill that it is reopening its 2011 investigation into academic irregularities at the school, athletics director Bubba Cunningham said Monday.
"The NCAA has determined that additional people with information and others who were previously uncooperative might now be willing to speak with the enforcement staff," Cunningham said in a statement.
"The enforcement staff is exploring this new information to ensure an exhaustive investigation is conducted based on all available information," a statement by the NCAA said. The NCAA also said that, as with any case, the enforcement staff makes it clear that it will revisit previous infractions if additional information becomes available.
Earlier this month, former UNC basketball player Rashad McCants, a member of the 2005 National Championship team, told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that he took classes that required nothing more than a paper and that tutors wrote papers for student-athletes. McCants said he rarely went to class yet remained eligible to play.
Head basketball coach Roy Williams denied McCants' claims that Williams knew about the classes, and McCants' 16 teammates signed a statement that said, "With conviction, each one of us is proud to say that we attended class and did our own academic work."
The "paper class" system came to light in January when former UNC academic adviser Mary Willingham claimed the university put player eligibility above academic integrity.
Willingham claimed that, for more than two decades, these no-show classes were prevalent in the African and Afro-American Studies Department.
A 2012 investigation led by former Gov. Jim Martin found problems in that department dating to the mid-1990s. The investigation revealed hundreds of bogus classes and altered and forged grades, but Martin determined that the discrepancies benefited non-athletes who took the classes as well as student-athletes.
Cunningham said that, since 2011, the university has conducted and commissioned numerous reviews of this matter and provided the NCAA with updates. In February, the university retained former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein to conduct an independent investigation and instructed him to share relevant information directly and confidentially with the NCAA.
Investigations into academic misconduct at North Carolina began in 2009 after allegations of improper benefits within the football program. The NCAA sanctioned the football program for both improper benefits and academic misconduct involving a tutor, leading to a postseason ban and the loss of 16 scholarships.
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