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UNC Athlete Sham Classes Are Some Higher Order Of Sham

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
March 28, 2014
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Submitted by Hank on Fri, 03/28/2014 - 05:00
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University of North Carolina has loose academic standards for athletes. Obviously lots of schools do that. But UNC takes it to a whole new level. 

Some of the classes never met and only required a paper. And even terrible papers earn an A.

This paper, uncovered by ESPN, was a paragraph long, chock full of spelling and grammatical errors and didn't say much of anything.

I was on the competitive shooting team in college. We had to go to class.

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