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The citizens of the state of North Carolina are being poorly served by our government leaders. There has been a scandal brewing at UNC-chapel hill for quite some time. The NCAA is currently investigating multiple scandals involving employees of the state as well as student athletes who receive fully funded scholarships to our publicly funded university. The fundamental right of our citizens to know how our tax-funded schools are operating is being blocked by the Board of Governors, board of Trustees and the administration at that university. Furthermore, the local news outlets have had to resort to lawsuits in an attempt to obtain the records that include such mundane topics as parking violation citations issued to those student-athletes that are under NCAA investigation.
North Carolina State University was totally and completely scrutinized in the late 1980s for less-egregious issues. At that time, the Board of Governors and the school's Board of Trustees demanded or complied to an independent investigation into the operations of that school's athletic department, particularly as it related to the basketball program. Furthermore, the independent investigators brought in several SBI agents to scrutinize the program.
Given that course of action for another school within the UNC system, we must demand that UNC-CH open their doors to an independent investigation team that has historically operated outside the influence of the university system. Obviously, UNC-CH has used its political and financial might to hire the necessary staff of lawyers and advisers in an attempt to conceal their past actions. That action implies that they are not to be trusted to investigate themselves.
Vote for an independent investigation of UNC-CH's athletic department
Greetings,
We are requesting that a vote be cast to form an independent investigation committee to examine the athletic department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The actions of that department have been to use financial assets to hire a staff of lawyers and advisers to assist them in blockading any requests from the local media for public records regarding activities of employees and scholarship athletes.
I am writing to you as a tax-paying citizen of this state to request your assistance in forcing the university to comply with an independent investigation into the actions and operations of the UNC-CH athletic department. The first step toward that goal would be to demand that the university officials comply with the media demands for public records. To date, these requests by local media have been denied by the university officials. The media responded with a lawsuit but that has been languishing in the judicial system. Only with the help of our elected officials can we ultimately achieve our goal of fair access to those public records that we all own as citizens, taxpayers and voters in this fine state.
Our request is simple and straight-forward. We only want the access to the public records that we own and that can only be achieved with the assistance of the state legislature as it represents all citizens in this state.
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