“A whistleblower at the University of North Carolina has revealed a typo-riddled, 146-word term paper that earned a football player an A- in a bogus course meant to boost his GPA and keep him eligible.
The single-paragraph report on Rosa Parks was revealed in an ESPN interview with Mary Willingham, a campus tutor who spent a decade working with UNC athletes and who has taken the lead in speaking out about how the school allegedly jipped jocks out of a quality education.
In the segment, Willingham and former Tar Heel gridder Deunta Williams explained how athletes at the school were urged to take scam “paper classes,” listed in course books as independent studies classes in departments such as African American Studies.”* Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!), Dave Rubin (Rubin Report) and Wes Clark Jr break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from Philip Caulfield / NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/unc-tutor-reveals-10-sentence-term-paper-earned-football-player-a-phony-class-article-1.1737861
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Ok, found the link, definitely says football. Aaron you are off the hook. :-)
Looks like ESPN went with athlete on the 25th and nydailynews.com referencing ESPN, have taken it upon themselves to make the athelete a football player on the 28th.
Aaron Wysocki,
At 1:11 in the video, and on a few other occasions in the video the claim is made that TYT doesn’t know what sport the student in question plays.
In your intro text above, you make the claim:
“…earned a football player an A-…”
Has more info come to light on this matter? (link please) Or, is the text intro embellished with artistic license? (not what I would expect from TYT).
As I have the utmost faith and respect for the integrity of TYT, so for now, I am going to believe that Aaron Wysocki reads the word sport and sees the word football. :-)
if i wrote a paper like that i might actually get kicked out of my university.
jipped?