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[QUOTE="Ward, post: 1726429, member: 1958"]
[URL]http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/unc-scandal/article69262627.html[/URL]

Not sure if you've seen this story that came out over the weekend. I'll bullet out the main points.
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[*]Unless I'm mistaken, basically UNC used the argument that there was never an administered limit in place on the number of hours of independent study classes a student could take and still get their degree until 2006. This significantly narrowed the scope of potential violations. 
[*]The reporters found a document from 2003 that said there was a long standing limit on the number of independent study hours a student could take while still earning their degree. 
[*]This is potentially huge because if they allowed student athletes to earn their degrees with a larger number of independent study hours than a non-student athlete that is a large impermissible benefit
[*]Opening up the scope of players who fall in this category by removing the 2006 cut off supposedly adds additionally another 100 student athletes to potentially have committed violations dating back to the 90's. 
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Of course no major media outlets have really ran with it. I didn't expect ESPN to because they want to protect one of their cash cows in UNC basketball but was hoping maybe Yahoo would run something.
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