… just-released report about the real slave class in big time university athletics. These are the professors and academic tutors who devote themselves to play-acting the student part of the student-athlete. Shadowy simulacra sacrificing themselves for the good of the team, mentors/assistants/helpers (they go by many names) often do more than write papers and attend classes for the guys. One of them at the University of North Carolina paid thousands of dollars in parking tickets for a player.
Despite the large, one-time payment being made by credit card just one day before UNC attempted to [interview the tutor about academic fraud], University officials say they did not know about the [player’s] parking tickets until November 2010.
“The University learned this information during a separate review of parking citations received by football student athletes in response to media requests for records under the North Carolina Public Records Act,” the response states.
Those records, for which The Daily Tar Heel [the UNC student paper] and other media outlets sued, showed UNC football players racked up 395 tickets totaling more than $13,000 in a three-and-a-half year span.
One of the additional monitoring measures UNC has now imposed is a biweekly report of student-athlete parking citations from UNC’s Department of Public Safety.
LOL. The Biweekly Student-Athlete Parking Citations Report. This is going to crowd out the biweekly student-athlete police citations report.
Plus, in response to rampant cheating via tutors, here’s what UNC’s going to do:
… UNC has abandoned the academic mentor program, imposed additional constraints to student athletes and their tutors or learning assistants, increased the budget to hire and retain tutors and to expand rules education for tutors, among other corrective actions.
That academic mentor program sounded so good… academic… good… mentor… good… But now they have to trash it! What are they going to put in its place? What are they going to call it? Academic Enactor Program? Meanwhile they’re going to “expand rules education for tutors.”
What about rules education for professors, like this guy?