Take her fake diploma off her desk, tell her employer she really didn't meet graduation requirements and resign, or go back an earn those last three credits.
OT: UNC Scandal... Go Heels!
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Fun Fact: Did you know... Deb Crowder's life partner is one Warren Martin, one of Dean Smith's BB players? Martin played on the '82 team that won the National Championship. They began their relationship back when Crowder was the admin of the AFAM dept. The much-referenced Wainstein Report mentions Crowder 467 times and presents her as the mastermind of the academic scandal at UNC. In all fairness, Crowder was an essential agent in the fake class and grade changing scam in the AFAM dept. But she was hardly the mastermind. And she hardly acted in a vacuum, and she hardly devised the scam on her own. "Errbody" knew: boosters, admin, staff, coaches. Errbody.
A spot-on concise analysis from Mike C. of Statesville, NC:
"Over the decades which included the athletic eligibility cheating scandal, UNC built their brand and made hundreds of millions of dollars off of their athletic programs. Part of selling their brand was getting folks to believe in the mythical Carolina Way: that UNC was somehow different and better than other schools, that they "did things the right way", and that their star athletes were also stellar students at a "public Ivy." The mountains of evidence that have come out about the scandal reveal all of this to be a self-serving scam and a pack of lies.
"More shameful than the exploitation ofone's own student-athletes is the years of stalling, denials, obfuscation, deflection, scapegoating, and cover-ups that have made up UNC's response to what has been exposed. Part of their stalling has been because they calculated that this year, like last year, if they could delay penalties, their men's hoops teams had a chance to advance in the tournament. Winning ball games, first and foremost, is what they care about over there on the Hill and they have proven they will do anything to protect and encourage that.
"More troubling, UNC is seemingly unwilling to take any true responsibility for what happened and many of their defenders appear to believe they did absolutely nothing wrong. Instead, they want to defend their athletic brand at all costs and part of that is preventing wins from being vacated, preventing championships and banners from being further tainted or taken down, and avoiding serious NCAA sanctions that would serve as an objective emblem of their longstanding cheating, rule-breaking, and lack of integrity.
"In short, they are engaging in expensive and misguided legalistic wrangling to attempt to extend their current team's season, grow their brand, and try to prop up again the rotting corpse of The Carolina Way. It is a simple, if cynical, calculation on their part: they are spending tens of millions of dollars to save and make hundreds of millions of dollars. No shame; no repentance; no apologies. The sense of entitlement, self-aggrandizement, and brazen arrogance is nothing short of breathtaking: clearly UNC's attitude is that following the rules and engaging in fair play and good sportsmanship is for chumps and suckers. Let the other schools fall for that junk. Carolina is "in it to win it" no matter what the cost to their bank accounts, to their integrity, or to their souls."
"Over the decades which included the athletic eligibility cheating scandal, UNC built their brand and made hundreds of millions of dollars off of their athletic programs. Part of selling their brand was getting folks to believe in the mythical Carolina Way: that UNC was somehow different and better than other schools, that they "did things the right way", and that their star athletes were also stellar students at a "public Ivy." The mountains of evidence that have come out about the scandal reveal all of this to be a self-serving scam and a pack of lies.
"More shameful than the exploitation ofone's own student-athletes is the years of stalling, denials, obfuscation, deflection, scapegoating, and cover-ups that have made up UNC's response to what has been exposed. Part of their stalling has been because they calculated that this year, like last year, if they could delay penalties, their men's hoops teams had a chance to advance in the tournament. Winning ball games, first and foremost, is what they care about over there on the Hill and they have proven they will do anything to protect and encourage that.
"More troubling, UNC is seemingly unwilling to take any true responsibility for what happened and many of their defenders appear to believe they did absolutely nothing wrong. Instead, they want to defend their athletic brand at all costs and part of that is preventing wins from being vacated, preventing championships and banners from being further tainted or taken down, and avoiding serious NCAA sanctions that would serve as an objective emblem of their longstanding cheating, rule-breaking, and lack of integrity.
"In short, they are engaging in expensive and misguided legalistic wrangling to attempt to extend their current team's season, grow their brand, and try to prop up again the rotting corpse of The Carolina Way. It is a simple, if cynical, calculation on their part: they are spending tens of millions of dollars to save and make hundreds of millions of dollars. No shame; no repentance; no apologies. The sense of entitlement, self-aggrandizement, and brazen arrogance is nothing short of breathtaking: clearly UNC's attitude is that following the rules and engaging in fair play and good sportsmanship is for chumps and suckers. Let the other schools fall for that junk. Carolina is "in it to win it" no matter what the cost to their bank accounts, to their integrity, or to their souls."
I edited the post above and think we should consider how these attitudes and actions pertain to Ped State, too.
For those interested in details of the UNC scandal and the "academic" fraud element of the NCAA's case, see Bob Martin's "Minding the Coach" and this very thorough article: http://mindingthecoach.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-question-of-academic-fraud.html?m=1
Thanks always RUinPinehurst for keeping us informed.
Do you have a link to a good summary article or articles of the whole of everything that has happened to this point something that I could share with someone to get them up to speed on the entire topic?
Do you have a link to a good summary article or articles of the whole of everything that has happened to this point something that I could share with someone to get them up to speed on the entire topic?
The Raleigh News & Observer has covered the saga fairly well and continually and has a primer page, although its landing page is not exactly current; see: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article72207687.html. The N&O's Dan Kane has been "the" point man on the scandal.
You may also want to check out the Devil's Den "free" forum on hoops for a Duke perspective on "the Endless UNC scandal"; see: http://www.scout.com/college/duke/forums/1386-free-hoops?s=167
Pack Pride's free forum is fun for an NC State perspective, which can be very entertaining and informative; see: http://www.scout.com/college/north-carolina-state/forums/2515-packpride-sports?s=178
NCAA's Emmert did not address the UNC scandal at today's Final Four press conference, while he did so at last year's Thursday presser. He did speak to NC's HB2 "Bathroom Bill," which was kinda sorta repealed today in Raleigh. The NCAA will make a decision next week on whether it will schedule tourney games in the state in the next few years.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/unc-dealing-long-running-ncaa-probes-46479554
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/unc-dealing-long-running-ncaa-probes-46479554
