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[quote=Anonymous][b]October 27, 2016
"Folt should take charge of scandal mess at UNC"[/b]
[url]http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article110655212.html[/url]

"After millions of dollars spent on attorneys and public relations help, after years of obfuscation and complaining about news coverage involving the football team and a coach’s resignation, and then the academic/athletics scandal with phony classes in African studies which drew lots of athletes, the sad, sorry saga of UNC-Chapel Hill’s dispute with the NCAA appears headed to no end.

Good grief. The university, which handled this entire scandal poorly from the beginning — choosing to attack The N&O and Kane and hiding behind legal maneuvering and expensive outside public relations help — just can’t seem to get this resolved. And in the meantime, alums and taxpayers rightly want to know why.

For years now, university officials have waffled about everything in this scandal, and as a recent N&O series showed, even tried to downplay the fact that classes like the phony ones in African studies that proved popular with athletes could be somehow improper. The problems were finally investigated by Ken Wainstein, a Washington attorney, who found pretty much what Kane had found in his investigation, a clearly improper group of phony classes and other problems. The tab on that investigation was over $3 million.

Had the university been more forthcoming from the start, had it not cloaked itself in the “Carolina Way” and simply refused to believe that the problems were as serious as they were, this could have been put to bed long ago. The latest fuss between the university and the NCAA is frustrating for the university’s constituency. Folt needs to take charge in a public way and do what has to be done to write the last chapter on this sorry story."[/quote]

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