“The death threats, Mary Willingham expected.
More shocking is that the University of North Carolina is now disavowing her research as a whistle-blower — research that showed between 8% and 10% of the school’s football and basketball players are reading below a third-grade level.
UNC issued a statement Wednesday night saying it did not believe Willingham’s account of a basketball player who could not read or write.
Illiterates in big time college sports UNC reacts to illiteracy invesitgation
It went on: “University officials can’t comment on the other statistical claims mentioned in the story because they have not seen that data. University officials have asked for that data, but those requests have not been met.””* Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore (TYT Comedy), Ben Mankiewicz and Michael Shure break it down on The Young Turks.
Read more here from Sara Ganim / CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/us/ncaa-athletes-unc-response/
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A few years ago, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution did a story on the high number of freshmen at the University of Georgia who were required to take special developmental courses in their first semester, because they did not have the skills to do college work. Some of the students quoted in the story had made stellar grades in high school, and we’re shocked to learn they had to take these courses. Since that story appeared, I have learned that some other universities offer similar developmental courses. Maybe most do now. I wonder if UNC, and in particular, it’s athletes, aren’t taking more than their fair share of heat for a problem that starts before students ever get into college. I believe that CNN requested similar records from many other universities, but was turned away.
As James Caan said in the program, this is not an exact quote but the essence, when was the last time 80,000 people showed up to watch a god damn science experiment.
This was prolly the funniest vid I have watched yet !!!!!
This is why athletics have no place at an Academic University, and why they should be separate institutions. There is a clear conflict of interest when an athlete generates an exorbitant amount of revenue for the very University that is expected to grade them fairly.