We at Paper Class Inc.(@paperclassinc) have used the platform of Twitter over the past few years to share articles of interest, and the occasional personal opinion, related to the UNC scandal. From the beginning, however, we have known that a Twitter presence comes with a real cost-exposure to constant badgering […]
In a recent commentary on WCHL, ardent UNC sports fan Art Chansky revealed his strategy for combating the NCAA’s Notice of Allegations [NOA] against the university’s athletic program: Blame it on the women! Complaining of women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell’s (alleged) behind-the-scenes efforts to lobby for a contract extension comparable […]
SACS places its member institutions on probation only rarely. One can only assume that the decision in this case reflected SACS’s frustration with the University’s pattern of less-than-forthright testimony about its past failures. We will read the report in its entirety when it is released. Let’s all hope that UNC […]
At the panel presentation that kicked off the work of the Rawlings committee in April, 2013, Jay Smith made a plea to the UNC faculty that they become more openly “adversarial” in their relationship to athletics. In the wake of the NCAA’s finding last week that UNC had lost “institutional […]
In its Notice of Allegations against UNC, the NCAA has stated the obvious: there was no real institutional control over the athletics program in Chapel Hill for a very long time. We hope that the leaders of UNC will finally address publicly and honestly the causes and culture behind this […]
Over at Inside Carolina, the fan forum for true blue Tar Heel devotees, there’s a competing interpretation of the AFRI/AFAM course fraud that manages to exonerate the athletic department from wrongdoing. According to this interpretation, all the malfeasance that marred the UNC curriculum for two decades was carried out by […]
The self-inflicted wounds continue to multiply in Chapel Hill. All around the campus one hears the clarion call, ‘Let us move forward!’ A faculty petition now making the rounds denounces those who would impede this forward progress; it calls on the whole community to “stand by the detailed, transparent approach […]
AS PUBLISHED at The University of Nebraska Blog - 4/16/2015 The NCAA and its member institutions continue to claim that college athletes are students first, and that they therefore should be regarded as amateurs not deserving of financial compensation for their athletic labors. College athletes are handed “world class” opportunities […]
Although it may seem like a counter-intuitive proposition for anyone who dislikes corruption and believes that bad behavior should always bring painful consequences, University employees and “student-athletes” should always refuse cooperation with the NCAA and its investigators-for two basic reasons of principle. First, the NCAA’s investigatory techniques are flawed at […]
We welcome Seth Holtzman (Assistant Professor, Catawba College) as a guest writer/blogger at Paper Class Inc. Some defenders of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claim that “The Carolina Way” is alive and well in spite of the unfolding athletic/academic scandal there. By “The Carolina Way” they could […]
Potomac Books has announced the official release of our book, Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports. In anticipation of the book’s distribution, we would like to make available some documents that help to fill out the context for the story we […]
In a recent Daily Tar Heel (DTH) article about the fallout from the Wainstein report, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham was quoted as saying: “At some point we’ve got to move forward. And I think we’re to that point.” In the final installment of our continuing series, “Why we can’t […]
In a recent Daily Tar Heel (DTH) article about the fallout from the Wainstein report, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham was quoted as saying: “At some point we’ve got to move forward. And I think we’re to that point.” As part of our continuing series, “Why we can’t move forward,” […]
In a recent Daily Tar Heel (DTH) article about the fallout from the Wainstein report, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham was quoted as saying: “At some point we’ve got to move forward. And I think we’re to that point.” As part of our continuing series, “Why we can’t move forward,” […]
In a recent Daily Tar Heel (DTH) article about the fallout from the Wainstein report, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham was quoted as saying: “At some point we’ve got to move forward. And I think we’re to that point.” As part of our continuing series, “Why we can’t move forward,” […]
In a recent Daily Tar Heel (DTH) article about the fallout from the Wainstein report, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham was quoted as saying: “At some point we’ve got to move forward. And I think we’re to that point.” As part of our continuing series, “Why we can’t move forward,” […]
In a recent Daily Tar Heel (DTH) article about the fallout from the Wainstein report, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham was quoted as saying: “At some point we’ve got to move forward. And I think we’re to that point.” As part of our continuing series, “Why we can’t move forward,” […]
In a recent Daily Tar Heel (DTH) article about the fallout from the Wainstein report, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham was quoted as saying: “At some point we’ve got to move forward. And I think we’re to that point.” As part of our continuing series, “Why we can’t move forward,” […]
In a recent Daily Tar Heel (DTH) article about the fallout from the Wainstein report, UNC Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham was quoted as saying: “At some point we’ve got to move forward. And I think we’re to that point.” No, we’re not to that point. We’re not even close to […]
One of the key features of UNC’s athlete-friendly curriculum, the contours of which came tantalizingly into view in the Wainstein report of October 2014, was the easy availability of “independent study” courses. In the parallel AFRI/AFAM curriculum supervised by Debby Crowder, but also in other departments across the College of […]
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