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Do College Age Children Understand Reality

As many people throughout the South was hit by a major snow storm a college basketball game between Duke University and UNC was postponed to a later date.

Many UNC students took to the internet to attack the Duke coach for cancelling the game. Even though it was the ACC officials with the coaches from both Universities that concluded that the severity of the storm was the main reason for postponing the game.

UNC backetball player Marcus Paige stated to the local media that the snowstorm wasn't horrible as all. Even though one person in the Raleigh area died and many were injured. Below is the article and link to this story plus news coverage after the snow and ice had stopped.

WRAL news story link

Disappointed students who walked away without seeing the Battle of the Blues last Wednesday may disagree, but the North Carolina Tar Heels said the snowstorm wasn’t a horrible thing.

“A week off didn’t hurt us,” said James Michael McAdoo. “The game being cancelled definitely gave us time to rest and catch up with schoolwork. And off course it gave us time to be kids and play in the snow.”

And believe him, people played in the snow.

“Yes, I played in the snow, why wouldn’t I?” McAdoo said. “I didn’t go sledding because the coach wouldn’t like to hear ‘McAdoo out for the season.’”

“We went outside and threw snowballs around with the students on campus. It was a good time,” Marcus Paige said. “I didn’t think it could snow that much down here. I’m from the Midwest so I’ve seen this much snow. For me it’s no problem but I didn’t think North Carolina was capable of getting this much snow.”

The cold of that winter blast provided Carolina a chance to keep heating up, adding two more wins since the postponed game against Duke. Carolina bolstered its battle of the blues resume and has now won seven straight games.

“It gives us a little more confidence,” said Marcus Paige. “The game against Pittsburgh was a really big game for us. We taught we really got better that game.”

“You don’t have to psych yourself up, if you do, you’re not breathing,” said Coach Roy Williams. “And I know I’m alive.”

That’s for the snowstorms side effect of four games in eight days. Marcus Paige is looking at the silver lining of that storm cloud and calls this week a great preparation for next month’s ACC tournament.

UNC Football To Play New Rival Team

UNC Tutor story   Sports agent charged

With the bad press and the terrible football season for UNC there is a bright side to the greatness of the UNC legacy. There are still lots of teams willing to challenge the UNC football team to exhibition games. These teams feel that they are as good if not greater than one of the best teams in college football.

We could have one of the greatest games ever played in North Carolina once the Consolidated Football Federation has announced the winning team of this year’s Pee Wee Football Championship game. This will give the UNC football program better odds at losing a game by single digits instead of the usual 20+ differences.

Even though a player for UNC may be arrested for driving without a license, having illegal drugs and a gun while in a felon’s car, that doesn't mean that they're all bad roll models. Yes a few players have broken multiple UNC and NCAA rules and regulations as well as multiple North Carolina state laws. But they still have a right to an education; even though some former students still can't read or write. For that matter certain class credits have been taken away from students due to a fraudulent teacher who was teaching nonexistent classes.

But UNC as a whole has a commitment of a higher standard that is not being reported in the media. To raise tuition rates and other fees to cover multiple lawsuits from former players, students and teachers. To pay out huge settlements to former coaches and administrators who were scapegoated out of the University. Paying heavy fines for all the violation the students, staff and University officials broke.

But most of all, UNC is committed to help the new incoming University Chancellor in receiving a huge pay raise as former Chancellor HoldenThorp was making about $420,000 a year. Yes UNC is everything one can expect from a public school system that receives tax payer’s money to help run the school. And with a new $810 million bond that recently passes, things are looking brighter for UNC's future.

Crying For All the Wrong Reasons

So UNC is out of the 2013 NCAA tournament 

and is under Federal Investigation; again.

I want my mommy

• Rapes and sexual assaults not being reported to local law enforcement
• UNC Honor Court attacking rape victims
• Improperly accepting gifts from sports agents
• Lying to federal investigators about receiving travel accommodations and jewelry
• Teachers giving passing grades to nonexistent classes
• Unauthorized grade changes
• Fraudulent classes
• Academic fraud
• Tutor writing term papers for players
• Players and tutor taking money from sports agent not authorized to do business in the state
• Assistant coach working as a middle man between sports agents and players
• For showing the world that sports comes before academics and student safety.

Just remember to look on the bright side of life

As in the past few years, there's always hope for next year

University Attacks Rape Victims

This story found here and here

A University of North Carolina sexual assault victim has been charged with violating the school's honor code and creating a hostile environment for her attacker by speaking out about her ordeal.

Landen Gambill—a sophomore who last spring reported being raped by a student she says is still on the school's Chapel Hill campus—was notified of the charge last week in an email from the school's graduate attorney general. The email, published by Jezebel.com, reads in part:

University of North Carolina (UNC)

209 South Rd  Chapel Hill, NC 27599

(919) 962-2211

You are being charged with the following Honor Code violation(s):

I.C.1.c. - Disruptive or intimidating behavior that willfully abuses, disparages, or otherwise interferes with another (other than on the basis of protected classifications identified and addressed in the University's Policy on Prohibited Harassment and Discrimination) so as to adversely affect their academic pursuits, opportunities for University employment, participation in University-sponsored extracurricular activities, or opportunities to benefit from other aspects of University Life.

The matter has been turned over to UNC's Honor Court. If found guilty, Gambill could be subject to a range of sanctions, including probation, suspension or even expulsion.

The charge came approximately a month after a group of current and former UNC students including Gambill and Melinda Manning—the school's former assistant dean of students—filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights alleging that school officials had pressured Manning into underreporting sex offense cases.

"This type of gross injustice is unacceptable," Gambill wrote on her Facebook page. "It's important to me that we continue to advocate for the rights of survivors—not just because it affects me personally but because I desperately hope no one has to go [through] anything like this again."

Some of Gambill's supporters have also taken to Facebook and Twitter, changing their avatars to say "I Stand With Landen" and tweeting messages with the hashtag #standwithlanden.

Colby Bruno, managing attorney for the national Victim Rights Law Center, told InsideHigherEd.com the code violation is "outrageous.” For the university "to entertain this as a viable claim is a problem, because it's not,” Bruno said.

The university would not comment on Gambill's case, citing federal privacy laws. But at a board meeting last month, Leslie Strohm, UNC's vice chancellor and general counsel, told trustees "the allegations with respect to the underreporting of sexual assault are false, they are untrue, and they are just plain wrong."

In 2010, the Department of Justice estimated that 25 percent of college women "will be victims of rape or attempted rape before they graduate within a four-year college period," and that schools with more than 6,000 students "average one rape per day during the school year.”

According to New York University's "National Statistics about Sexual Violence on College Campuses," fewer than 5 percent of such cases are reported to law enforcement.

The Shot Heard Throughout North Carolina

Full story here.

The winning shot

Celebration Time!!!

Wished they were somewhere else