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Wow. Just Wow.

Jane Stancill, News Observer:

In 2012, when former Gov. Jim Martin unveiled the last report into academic fraud and no-show classes in African and Afro-American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, the leader of the faculty, Jan Boxill, called the report “disturbing,” and “astonishing.”

Wednesday’s report from Kenneth Wainstein showed that Boxill, a faculty member who served as a counselor for the UNC women’s basketball program, had little reason to be astonished.

Boxill was directly involved in sending students’ work for the classes, Wainstein’s report said, and went so far as to suggest the grades her players should receive.

In one email exchange Wainstein uncovered, Deborah Crowder, the department secretary and mastermind of the scheme to set up the no-show classes, responded when Boxill forwarded a paper for a women’s basketball player in 2008.

“Did you say a D will do for (the basketball player)?” Crowder wrote to Boxill. “I’m only asking because 1. no sources, 2, it has absolutely nothing to do with the assignments for that class and 3. it seems to be a recycled paper. She took (another class) in spring of 2007 and that was likely for that class.”

According to the report, Boxill replied: “Yes, a D will be fine; that’s all she needs. I didn’t look at the paper but figured it was a recycled one as well, but I couldn’t figure out from where.”

… Boxill is a senior lecturer in the philosophy department and was chair of the faculty from 2011 to earlier this year. She directs the university’s Parr Center for Ethics.

Margaret Soltan, October 22, 2014 5:35PM
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3 Responses to “Wow. Just Wow.”

  1. Dave Stone Says:

    I think you missed the best part: http://www.amazon.com/Sports-Ethics-Anthology-Jan-Boxill/dp/0631216979

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Dave: You’re right – I wasn’t aware of her anthology. It says it’s about cheating. She’s an expert.

  3. theprofessor Says:

    I believe that just as Bob Woodward taught journalists that The Big Truth sometimes requires lots of little and middling lies, so Jan Boxill has come to understand that attaining the transcendent Platonic form of the Right Thing means doing lots of wrong things down here in the land of shadows.

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