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ashling

(25,771 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 04:32 PM Jan 2014

Death threats for researcher who demonstrated college athletes read below a third-grade level

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/12/death-threats-for-reseacher-who-demonstrated-college-athletes-read-below-a-third-grade-level/

According to a CNN report, the woman who revealed that 10 percent of the student-athletes at the University of North Carolina are reading below a third-grade level has been the subject of multiple death threats.

Worse still, Mary Willingham told CNN, UNC has refused to support the findings of a study it asked her to conduct. According to Willingham, when CNN asked her for data about the scholastic aptitude of student-athletes, she provided the network with information that UNC had collected.

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Death threats for researcher who demonstrated college athletes read below a third-grade level (Original Post) ashling Jan 2014 OP
Stay Classy, NC! n2doc Jan 2014 #1
well to be fair hfojvt Jan 2014 #3
And the athletes' reading abilities don't improve with age. SunSeeker Jan 2014 #2

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
1. Stay Classy, NC!
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 04:48 PM
Jan 2014

Not Surprising. Rich Flair (the wrestler) got death threats just for rooting for the 49ers over the Panthers this weekend. People are idiots.

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
3. well to be fair
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 05:05 PM
Jan 2014

I think those death threats were from Brutus the Barber Beefcake and Rowdy Roddy Piper.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
2. And the athletes' reading abilities don't improve with age.
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 05:03 PM
Jan 2014

Especially the football players with all their head injuries. These schools just use these athletes, they don't educate them. Sad.

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