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ashling

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Sun Jan 12, 2014, 04:32 PM Jan 2014

Death threats for researcher who demonstrated college athletes read below a third-grade level [View all]

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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