Came across this article while perusing the local news here in NC. Of course the News and Observer is based in Raleigh so there might be a bit of a smirk behind the article, but I don't think so...lol.

Six years ago, the head of the tutoring program for athletes at UNC-Chapel Hill paved the way for a valued employee to have her retirement party at a spacious, climate-controlled luxury box in Kenan Stadium. He persuaded the athletic department to waive a $1,000 rental fee and offered to pay the $575 tab for wait service and cleanup.

But that employee did not work for the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes, then run by Robert Mercer.

She was Deborah Crowder, the longtime clerical employee at the Department of African and Afro-American Studies who had been providing athletes fake classes for high grades for the previous 16 years.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article4362...