Book contents: Dan Kane, Michael McAdoo

Investigative reporter Dan Kane of The Raleigh News and Observer was featured recently in a New York Times article regarding his persistent work on the ongoing athletic/academic scandal at UNC-CH.

The article by Sarah Lyall focused on several aspects of the scandal, including a plagiarized paper by athlete Michael McAdoo that helped to set off an important phase of the investigation.
New York Times link:  Reporter Digging Into Scandal Hits a University's Raw Nerve

Kane, McAdoo, and many others will be well represented in the forthcoming book Tarnished Heels: How Unethical Actions and Deliberate Deceit at the University of North Carolina ended "The Carolina Way".  The book, which contains over 360 pages of data and fact-based information, can be pre-ordered now at Amazon.com.
Link:  Tarnished Heels

Below gives an idea as to Kane and McAdoo's representation within the book.  More information on the contents will be revealed as the release date of mid-June approaches.

Kane, Dan, 61, 62, 72, 74, 75, 89, 90, 92, 93, 98, 100, 118, 123, 128, 134-136, 138-140, 176, 224, 229, 231, 259, 260, 280, 281, 293, 300, 301, 303-305, 308, 316, 317, 324, 342, 343, 346, 353, 354

McAdoo, Michael, 29, 34, 59-65, 70, 71, 78, 79, 89, 90, 93, 94, 98, 106, 125, 225, 291, 292

Book contents: Deborah Crowder

Chapter titles:

• Chapter Seven – Academic fraud; AFAM grade changes; Deborah Crowder
• Chapter Eighteen – Carol Folt; Jan Boxill; James Moeser; Nyang’oro and Crowder emails; Public Relations firms

Page listings from the index:

• Crowder, Deborah, 92, 95-99, 101, 103, 110, 121, 123, 125, 126, 225, 240, 245, 271, 279, 296, 312, 313, 318-322, 325, 342-344, 346, 357

Inside the Book: Part One

Coming in mid-June of 2014, Tarnished Heels: How Unethical Actions and Deliberate Deceit at the University of North Carolina ended “The Carolina Way” will feature:

• Over 380 pages of fact and data-based information.
• An introduction, 23 chapters, and a conclusion.
• Over 25 full color photographs.
• An end-of-book index with 60 names/entities that played a role in the unfolding scandal -- with some of the interactions dating back more than 30 years.

More specific information about the contents will be revealed as the release date approaches.

The book is now available for pre-order online through Amazon.com:  http://www.amazon.com/Tarnished-Heels-Unethical-Deliberate-University/dp/193952122X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396905767&sr=1-1&keywords=rob+j.+anderson

4/16/14 update

Book contents for Deborah Crowder:

Chapter titles:

• Chapter Seven – Academic fraud; AFAM grade changes; Deborah Crowder
• Chapter Eighteen – Carol Folt; Jan Boxill; James Moeser; Nyang’oro and Crowder emails; Public Relations firms

Page listings from the index:

• Crowder, Deborah, 92, 95-99, 101, 103, 110, 121, 123, 125, 126, 225, 240, 245, 271, 279, 296, 312, 313, 318-322, 325, 342-344, 346, 357

Critical praise for Tarnished Heels: Burley Mitchell, Retired Chief Justice of N.C.

     “Tarnished Heels” documents the efforts to uncover the facts of the worst combined academic and athletic scandal in the history of the University of North Carolina, America’s first public university. It is a sad tale of expensive and ineffective efforts at “spin” control preventing the UNC administration from admitting and correcting clear wrongdoing at an early stage in its now four year effort. The book shows that despite specific, repeated urging of both the Chairman of the UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees and the Chairman of the Consolidated University System’s Board of Governors to be quickly forthcoming and transparent, the administration repeatedly withheld facts until ordered by a court to disclose them or they were exposed by the investigative reporting of several news agencies.

     “Tarnished Heels” reviews clear, and to date uncontroverted, evidence of many fraudulent no-show “classes” by faculty with the direct involvement of staff, athletic academic advisors to players, tutors and others. It is a sad story for we who received degrees from and truly love this great university. It is a reminder of the danger of “big time” athletics corrupting a university’s academic mission and demonstrates the vital role of investigative reporting and a free press in America.

                                             Burley Mitchell

                                             Retired Chief Justice of North Carolina

                                             President, UNC Law Class of 1969

Critical praise for Tarnished Heels: Dr. David Ridpath of The Drake Group

“Fantastic and illuminating read. This book is ultimately a modern day tragedy in that it exposes, with excruciating detail and facts, how one of America’s best public institutions sold its soul for the perceived benefits of athletic glory at the expense of core values and academic integrity. Despite years of claiming the Carolina Way and doing it right, the University of North Carolina, like so many other institutions before it, has now firmly placed itself amongst the worst offenders of academic integrity in intercollegiate athletic history."

Dr. B. David Ridpath, Ed.D., Kahandas Nandola Professor of Sport Management at Ohio University and author of Tainted Glory: Marshall University, The NCAA, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT -- Tarnished Heels: How Unethical Actions and Deliberate Deceit at the University of North Carolina ended “The Carolina Way”

The book Tarnished Heels: How Unethical Actions and Deliberate Deceit at the University of North Carolina ended “The Carolina Way” will be released in mid-June of 2014.

Comprised of over 350 pages of fact-based information and data, the book will chronicle the past four years of the university’s athletic/academic scandal, while also researching much further into the past for corroborating evidence.  It will show how rather than choosing transparency and ultimate responsibility in regards to the numerous questionable practices that were exposed, the school instead sought to obfuscate the media while also attempting to largely dodge accountability.  The main motivating factor behind those dishonorable actions appeared to be a desire to hold on to ill-gotten athletic accolades (and the prestige and image that came with them), all while undermining the very charges that an institution of higher-learning should ultimately stand for: education and morals.

• How far back does the data suggest the scandal reaches?
• How many administrators, faculty members, and coaches (both past and present) have been involved?
• Have there been connections between UNC and the NCAA that might support an unfair degree of leniency?

These questions and many, many more will be thoroughly examined.

More information will be released via this blog in the coming weeks as the official release date nears.

The book is now available for pre-order online through Amazon.com:  http://www.amazon.com/Tarnished-Heels-Unethical-Deliberate-University/dp/193952122X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396905767&sr=1-1&keywords=rob+j.+anderson

Narrow the scope of a major issue: UNC's PR intent?

     In recent days there has been a sort of "war of words" between a.) a UNC professor who has (for several years) been steadfast in his objection to the school's ongoing athletic/academic scandals, and b.) a UNC learning specialist who has tried to discredit both the professor and another UNC faculty member (who also happens to be a whistleblower of sorts).  The professor is Jay Smith, and the whistleblower, of course, is Mary Willingham -- essentially the only two university faculty members who have consistently spoken out about the scandals that have not only damaged the university's reputation, but also brought into question its morals.

     As has often been the case in recent years, whenever a UNC apologist has spoken up and tried to turn the focus away from the school and/or tried to discredit those who question the university's actions/morals, the focus of his/her argument is much too narrow in scope.  This is a popular Public Relations tactic: draw the public's attention away from the more important and damaging issues.  In this particular case the efforts deal with the wording in emails, the possible intent of Smith and Willingham's continued strong stance, and other "small picture" issues meant to deflect from the big picture: ongoing academic fraud that clearly benefited athletics.

     So the question is this:  what would the apologists latch onto if the BIG PICTURE of all of the university's past questionable practices were ever fully revealed for the nationwide public to peruse, while also allowing those people to come to an unbiased conclusion based on the entirety of those events?  There would be no small nuances of wordings to focus upon, nor bickering emails to parse over and dissect in an effort to look for intent (while deflecting from the main issues at hand), or anything else of such a limited scope.

     The answer to that question may soon rise to the surface.