The smell test
Published August 5, 2016
by Carter Wrenn, Talking About Politics, August 4, 2016.
It’s an odd sort of logic: UNC-Chapel Hill lawyered up and made its case to the NCAA: It admitted it held phony classes that never met; it admitted football and basketball players were in the classes – but said none of that’s a problem because phony classes don’t violate NCAA rules.
It’s an unusual argument coming from the ‘crown jewel’ of higher education – but that’s how UNC Chancellor Carol Folt sees it: We did it. We’re guilty. But we shouldn’t be punished.
And the responsibility doesn’t stop with Folt: Not one member of the Board of Governors, the Trustees, or Margaret Spellings has said: Wait a minute. Hold on. This doesn’t pass the smell test.
August 5, 2016 at 9:29 am
Michael Harper says:
It's just one more example of how this state continues to embarrass itself across the nation - and shows no concern about it. Truly, as a public school teacher, I cannot leave this miserable state soon enough.
