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Anonymous
Well.. there are people who can’t read with UNC diplomas. Seems pretty simple. |
Anonymous
Those people are male basketball players and football players. If I'm hiring a UNC grad who isn't either of those things, I have zero concerns about accidentally hiring an illiterate fool. |
Anonymous
They gave the same paper class curriculum to anybody that wanted to take them for credit. That’s how they avoided NCAA penalties. The argument was that the school undereducated the regular students and the athletes. That way there was no separate treatment. |
Anonymous
Lol. This is an academic smack talk board! GTFO! |
Anonymous
So academic integrity is not a big issue with you? |
Anonymous
DP. Sweetie, we get it. You have an axe to grind. Go grind it elsewhere and let the grownups talk. Whatever your problem is with UNC, we/I don't care. I know you hear other people tell you that tell you a lot that they don't care about your opinion so you might want to spend your time figuring out why instead of trolling here. |
Anonymous
It’s not an ax to grind. The fact that UNC graduated athlete and non athlete illiterates for decades in order to cheat at sports is a huge story. It shows that the school is dishonest, sloppy and unserious. I might add that to me it’s racist as well to not give a promised education to black athletes to make sure they don’t miss even one money making game for the school. |
Anonymous
Again, we don't care about your opinion. You need to get over this obsession. Talk to your therapist. |
Anonymous
You have many of your facts wrong but I suspect you don’t care. UNC’s mistake was not maintaining focus on the African and African-American studies program. Everyone lost as part of a valid attempt by a leading SOUTHERN university to critically examine an important subject. Most places don’t have the integrity to even go down that academic path in the first place. Especially in the South. Duke, for instance, should consider their Nixon studies program. Seriously, and separately, they should have the integrity to consider whether being named for a family whose impact on human health makes the Sacklers look like Girl Scouts is appropriate. They can base the program in Colvid Farms where their basketball players live. |
Anonymous
| ^^^. It went on for decades. Giving diplomas to people that don’t take classes and read at a 6th grade level. UNC made sure regular students got in on the scam to say the whole school got lousy educations and not just athletes so the NCAA couldn’t penalize them. It’s legal for a school to suck academically in the NCAA as long as it can suck for anybody there. |
Anonymous
It definitely went on too long but I suspect that is because the program had more of a political focus than an academic one. I think that fact and the issues of a white university administration coming down on a new, largely black run program allowed for a noble endeavor to become a major problem for everyone involved. The school did nothing to push “regular” students into the program, there was and is real interest in AFAM. As we are seeing, it’s a hugely important subject matter. It is so important that it deserved a much better effort than was the case. Where did you go to school? |
Anonymous
Ha ha. It allowed them in and of course they found the do nothing for an A classes. The players never missed a game for poor academics and got diplomas reading at a 6th grade level. That’s UNC. University of No Classes. I went to Georgetown. |
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Anonymous
| I never claimed Georgetown was morally great. I’m just saying there aren’t decades of Georgetown graduates with diplomas that are illiterate. All I am saying is that UNC is not very good academically. |
Anonymous
No, UNC is excellent at academics. It just had a major failure in an area where your school had a an even bigger failure and never did anything but offer money. Payouts are easy. Undertaking a new academic program with as much history, political ramifications and other implications is hard. Unfortunately, AFAM became more about the movement than academics. That may have been socially justifiable but the school should never have let it happen. Still, one problematic program does not damn the entirety of the University. I am surprised your Jesuit education results in you having such a simple approach to a complex matter. Moreover, they have reformed things and are on to better for both social and academic purposes. Y’all wrote some checks to the descendants of people whose very sale paid for your school’s survival. Hoya Saxa! |