The News & Observer has been banging the drum on this one for some time and recently spoke with a Chapel Hill reading specialist, Mary Willingham, who worked closely with UNC athletes. Among other things, Willingham asserts she met with students who did not understand the concept of a paragraph, students who had never read a book and, it goes without saying, students who "were unable to do college-level work." Willingham recounts issues with cheating and plagiarism and a basic inability to function as a college student—even in classes specifically designed to make it impossible for athletes to fail. All this, she asserts was enabled by the administration and academic and athletic departments at North Carolina.
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