doubtingt
Senior Member
Look, I'm not saying the AS/AAS department was righteous. A report that says they weren't righteous doesn't cause me any dissonance. The report, is fine, as far as it goes. It just doesn't go far enough. But if you think you got me, which you don't, and that make you feel like a big man, then feel like a big man.
You do that, you stick with that,
And I will know the truth. That no show classes are not new nor department specific at UNC. That nothing like this goes on for nearly two decades without at least tacit support from a whole lot of people, people who will never be mentioned in any report ever. That people don't want to think bad things about Tobacco Road so this too shall pass and business as usual will continue at UNC.
Until the citizens of the old North State, the TAX PAYING citizens of NC, demand not a pretty narrative of nothing but love for Tobacco Road, but a university that actually provides a world class education for EVERY student, nothing will change.
But things as changing. More people are catching on and are ready to make that demand.
Imagine a five story office building with a leaky roof. Every office on the fifth floor has a leak and everyone puts the trashcan under the leak. On the fourth floor, about half the offices have trashcan under a leak. Only a quarter of the third floor sees any water coming through the ceiling. By the time it reaches the second floor, every leak is caught in a trashcan. The building maintenance supervisor's office is on the first floor, and he never sees any water.
One day part of the roof caves in and it attracts a lot of attention. An building inspector is called in to figure out what happened. In the report, a couple people on the second floor are blamed for the collapse, because they kept emptying the trash can and never reported the leak. The maintenance supervisor is blameless, because how was he to know the roof was leaking?
Bad analogy to this case. This case is more like all the floors of many buildings were investigated. The AAS department deliberately cut a massive hole in their roof which wound up leaking down to the athletics department on the floor below them. Some people in the athletics department knew about the leak and did not report it and even encouraged students to take advantage of it. Other departments drilled tiny holes in their roofs (case by case grade inflation within legit courses), but nothing on the scale of the AAS and those small holes cannot be as easily identified as deliberate fraud when investigated. Thus, the AAS is blamed because they are by far the most to blame and are the instigators of the most massive and widespread academic fraud. All others are not completely innocent, but are not nearly as culpable. It is the extremity and the scale of the fraud by the AAS that is responsible for it being so provable, unlike the more widespread, minor and hard to prove fraud of giving an athlete a higher grade than they deserve in a course.