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Report: UNC advisers steered athletes to no-show classes
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11:00 AM ET 07.29 | For eight years, Bobbi Owen has been the highest-ranking official in charge of a program at UNC-Chapel Hill that keeps up with the studies of roughly 800 athletes so they can graduate while juggling the heavy demands of their sports. The staff of more than 115 full and part-time employees in the academic support program for athletes includes counselors who track academic progress, tutors and specialists in learning disabilities and time management. Nearly all of them work in the plush confines of the new $70 million Loudermilk Center, a 150,000-square-foot building for athletics at Kenan Stadium. Yet a faculty report released Thursday suggests the support program strayed from its original mission. The report spoke of "potential confusion" in the role of academic counselors at Loudermilk, with the authors saying that they had been told that support program staff steered athletes to classes in the African and Afro-American Studies Department. There, the report said, an unnamed staff member helped the players enroll in no-show classes.
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Surely you jest...
Otis B. Driftwood
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I don't.........And stop calling me Shirley.................
<flips quarter to Leslie Neilsen>
Mickey Bad Arse
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What's the big deal?
Half of the country, even at the high school level, is enrolled in on-line courses, which effectively are no-show courses.
Joe Mammy
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I guess this will be a new HBO series...maybe they can get Paulie Walnuts to administer the no-shows.
You add up all your mortal sins and multiply that number by 50. Then you add up all your venial sins and multiply that by 25. You add that together and that's your sentence. I figure I'm gonna have to do 6,000 years before I get accepted into heaven and 6,000 years is nothin' in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It's like a couple of days here.
Hippy Weed
Columbus , OH
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Collegiate athletics have gotten out of hand. The universities that care about education need to seperate themselves from the athletic department and have their football and basketball teams play in a minor league which is essentially what they are now.
bluesuiter
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Well, that's just what the Ivies did...
Joe Mammy
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IDIOTS!
Jon Deaux
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oops.....forgot the quarter flip!
Jon Deaux
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...and dumb ****.
Deep Creek
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This is NOT true....regardless of the TAMU t-shirt, NC is NOT in the SEC.....
BackRoads
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This one from the University of Georgia in 2001 should bring back some memories.
One of my all time favorites was the final exam given in a course entitled Coaching Principles and Strategies in Basketball and taught by Jim Harrick Jr. who was an asst. coach on the basketball team and whose father was the head coach. 39 students in class and they all "earned" an A grade.
A copy of the final exam is shown below...the last two questions you just gotta love.
PEDS 3912 Final Exam Name:
1. How many goals are on a basketball court?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
2. How many players are allowed to play at one time on any one team in a regulation game?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
3. In what league to the Georgia Bulldogs compete?
a. ACC
b. Big Ten
c. SEC
d. Pac 10
4. What is the name of the coliseum where the Georgia Bulldogs play?
a. Cameron Indoor Arena
b. Stegeman Coliseum
c. Carrier Dome
d. Pauley Pavilion
5. How many halves are in a college basketball game?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
6. How many quarters are in a high school basketball game?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
7. How many points does one field goal account for in a Basketball Game?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
8. How many points does a 3-point field goal account for in a Basketball Game?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
9. How many officials referee a college basketball game?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 6
d. 3
10. How many teams are in the NCAA Men???s Basketball National Championship Tournament?
a. 48
b. 64
c. 65
d. 32
12. What basic color are the uniforms the Georgia Bulldogs wear in home games?
a. White
b. Red
c. Black
d. Silver
13. What basic color are the uniforms the Georgia Bulldogs wear in away games?
a. Pink
b. Blue
c. Orange
d. Red
14. How many minutes are played in a college basketball contest?
a. 20
b. 40
c. 60
d. 90
15. How many point are played in a high school basketball game?
a. 15
b. 30
c. 32
d. 45
16. Diagram the 3-point line.
17. Diagram the half-court line.
18. How many fouls is a player allowed to have in one Basketball game before fouling out in that game?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 0
19. If you go on to become a huge coaching success, to whom will you tribute the credit?
a. Mike Krzyzewski
b. Bobby Knight
c. John Wooden
d. Jim Harrick, Jr.
20. In your opinion, who is the best Division I Assistant Coach in the country?
a. Ron Jursa
b. John Pelphrey
c. Jim Harrick, Jr.
d. Steve Wojciechowski
Joe Mammy
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Seconded!
Hippy Weed
Columbus , OH
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This is similar to the entrance exam that students take at SEC schools.
bluesuiter
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What's passing?
Leprechaun Flotsam
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Depends on who is taking the test for the athlete.
bluesuiter
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This should be posted under NCAA basketball.
NCSU1988
Houston , TX
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Things that should be done and things that are done are very rarely the same, here in the Republic of FanNation. Get used to it.
Jon Deaux
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