Hey, now. Don’t be totally dismissive of the academic side of UNC. They’ve got a half-way decent chemistry department: Brookhardt, Gagne, Jeff Johnson, and Crimmins just to name a few. Not only do these guys have good reputations as synthetic chemists, I know several students who came out of those labs with impressive educations (in terms of both knowledge-base and hands on skills).
So the achievements of many professors and their students are somehow diminished by the wrongdoings of unrelated persons in the athletic department? No, either the chemistry – as described in the literature – works or it doesn’t work; such things are not dependent on the behavior of the football team.
Funding sports at the expense of academics is a serious issue, but UD sounds ready to toss out the baby with the bath water.
June 12th, 2012 at 5:40AM
Hey, now. Don’t be totally dismissive of the academic side of UNC. They’ve got a half-way decent chemistry department: Brookhardt, Gagne, Jeff Johnson, and Crimmins just to name a few. Not only do these guys have good reputations as synthetic chemists, I know several students who came out of those labs with impressive educations (in terms of both knowledge-base and hands on skills).
June 12th, 2012 at 6:14AM
MikeS: Chapel Hill is in danger of becoming a once-respectable school — and all because of sports.
June 14th, 2012 at 10:22PM
So the achievements of many professors and their students are somehow diminished by the wrongdoings of unrelated persons in the athletic department? No, either the chemistry – as described in the literature – works or it doesn’t work; such things are not dependent on the behavior of the football team.
Funding sports at the expense of academics is a serious issue, but UD sounds ready to toss out the baby with the bath water.