The UNC Chapel Hill student newspaper’s editor says farewell.
Ever since the response UNC gave to the NCAA regarding our academic scandal, I feel like I attend a school trying to seem rather than to be.
I’ve read the documents pertaining to the case. I understand why UNC did what it did to protect the institution, but I can’t help feeling empty inside because of it.
Our moves make us seem like we did nothing wrong, when in reality we robbed hundreds of the education they were promised. There is no way you will spin it to change my mind. It was a bureaucratic technicality made to preserve the “Southern Part of Heaven” aesthetic of Chapel Hill, not a moral defense that righted the wrong done to the students in the fraudulent classes.
April 27th, 2018 at 9:32AM
” I feel like I attend a school trying to seem rather than to be” may be the best training for most jobs and citizenship…
May 2nd, 2018 at 7:39AM
True, it’s disgraceful, but never have so many robbery victims been so grateful to the robbers. Moreover, UNC’s Promiscuity Proposition (make sure that zero-work courses are spread around to some non-athletes as well) allowed some of non-usual suspects to experience the pleasure of being robbed.