Ohio St Rb Clarett in trouble?
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State formed a special committee Friday to investigate allegations of academic misconduct in the football program and whether players have gotten preferential treatment in classes.
The university's actions follow a New York Times story that reported star running back Maurice Clarett received assistance from a professor who allowed him to take two oral exams to pass a class.
Athletic director Andy Geiger and interim provost Barbara Snyder, who are heading the investigation, appointed 10 people to assist them in their probe of football players' academic conduct.
The committee consists of Ohio State professors, department chairs and other educators at the university. Stanley Ikenberry, a former University of Illinois president, will serve as a consultant to the committee.
Geiger did not return a message seeking comment Friday about the investigation. Snyder said in a statement she did not know how long the investigation would take.
Ohio State said the university has been in contact with the NCAA and will work closely with the association during the inquiry.
The Times reported that Clarett, a freshman on Ohio State's national championship team last season, passed African-American and African Studies 101 by taking two oral exams.
Paulette Pierce, an associate professor, told the newspaper she worked directly with Clarett and administered the exams after he walked out of the course's midterm exam in the fall quarter.
Pierce, who has not returned numerous calls seeking comment, also told the newspaper that several football players had informed her that tutors occasionally wrote their papers, but she had no direct proof.
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I'm an OSU fan and I guess I'm totally in the minority here, but I think OSU should get their dicks knocked in the ground for this tom-foolery. The various OSU websites are just full of talking heads that somehow try to defend this horsesh#t but it's just not what I expect from OSU.
Mo Clarett graduated a half year early from high school. He also carried a 3.5 accum in high school and scored a 1220 on his written SAT exam. A 1220 is a very very good score. It's the kind of score that future electrical engineers have when taking the test.
Yet, he completely got up early and walked out of a written mid-term exam in black studies 101 as he didn't know any of the answers AND had gotten only 22 out of 40 right on a written quiz. He then was the ONLY one in his class to take the next two exam orally and of course miraculously passing.
Something smells really rotten here. Anybody that legitimately got a 1220 on a SAT should have zero problems with a black studies 101 course.
He either didn't score the 1220 on the written SAT himself or he's taken too many shots to the head. Something is very very wrong here.
The university's actions follow a New York Times story that reported star running back Maurice Clarett received assistance from a professor who allowed him to take two oral exams to pass a class.
Athletic director Andy Geiger and interim provost Barbara Snyder, who are heading the investigation, appointed 10 people to assist them in their probe of football players' academic conduct.
The committee consists of Ohio State professors, department chairs and other educators at the university. Stanley Ikenberry, a former University of Illinois president, will serve as a consultant to the committee.
Geiger did not return a message seeking comment Friday about the investigation. Snyder said in a statement she did not know how long the investigation would take.
Ohio State said the university has been in contact with the NCAA and will work closely with the association during the inquiry.
The Times reported that Clarett, a freshman on Ohio State's national championship team last season, passed African-American and African Studies 101 by taking two oral exams.
Paulette Pierce, an associate professor, told the newspaper she worked directly with Clarett and administered the exams after he walked out of the course's midterm exam in the fall quarter.
Pierce, who has not returned numerous calls seeking comment, also told the newspaper that several football players had informed her that tutors occasionally wrote their papers, but she had no direct proof.
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I'm an OSU fan and I guess I'm totally in the minority here, but I think OSU should get their dicks knocked in the ground for this tom-foolery. The various OSU websites are just full of talking heads that somehow try to defend this horsesh#t but it's just not what I expect from OSU.
Mo Clarett graduated a half year early from high school. He also carried a 3.5 accum in high school and scored a 1220 on his written SAT exam. A 1220 is a very very good score. It's the kind of score that future electrical engineers have when taking the test.
Yet, he completely got up early and walked out of a written mid-term exam in black studies 101 as he didn't know any of the answers AND had gotten only 22 out of 40 right on a written quiz. He then was the ONLY one in his class to take the next two exam orally and of course miraculously passing.
Something smells really rotten here. Anybody that legitimately got a 1220 on a SAT should have zero problems with a black studies 101 course.
He either didn't score the 1220 on the written SAT himself or he's taken too many shots to the head. Something is very very wrong here.
I have a very hard problem seeing someone who had that good of a GPA in HS and scoring so high in the SAT getting up and walking out on any test. That good of a student walks into tests prepaired. When I went to college if you got up and left the classroom without finishing the test you got a "f" on the test. I fact I dont ever remember talking a test and a fellow student getting up and walking out of the room(5 yrs).
