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The undergraduate tutor linked to North Carolina’s investigation of possible academic misconduct in the football program did not have her contract renewed in summer 2009 because “there was too much of a friendship between her and the players,” UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp told the university Board of Trustees on Thursday.

“They’re only supposed to do their work inside the [academic] support center,” Thorp said in an interview during a break in the trustees’ meeting. “If they’re getting together outside the academic support center, then the chances are they’re doing academic work outside the center.”

The school announced on Aug. 26 that it was looking into possible academic improprieties involving a tutor who worked for both the school and head football coach Butch Davis. Athletic director Dick Baddour said then that a player interviewed during the NCAA’s investigation into possible improprieties involving sports agents shared information about the academic situation, prompting a separate branch of the investigation.

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/09/24/699679/tutor-too-close-to-athletes.html#ixzz10QTD7Si2

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