With basketball season opening, there are some interesting stories around.
First off, UNC finally got around to firing and disciplining some other people involved in the massive academic fraud scandal.
Brett Blanton, who was associate director of the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes, and Travis Gore, an administrative assistant in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, were canned Thursday.
Not fired: Bobbi Owens. Owens, a professor of dramatic arts who was previously a senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, is barred from leadership and programmatic roles.
She was not fired but clearly sees this disciplinary action as vindication: "I have always conducted myself with care and integrity, both as a faculty member and in the leadership roles I held, so I knew that eventually I would be vindicated.