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Former official to help with investigation
Posted: Wednesday May 08, 2002 3:38 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Michael Glazier, an expert in NCAA rules
and regulations, has been brought in to advise LSU as it continues
to investigate the possibility that school athletes were involved
in academic fraud.
LSU is investigating allegations of academic improprieties
involving the Academic Center for Athletes and the kinesiology
department. The allegations center on a number of football players
and include charges of plagiarism, improper use of note takers,
tutors and academic center employees providing too much help,
athletes taking unsupervised tests and kinesiology department
superiors pressuring instructors to let improprieties continue and
keeping quiet about it.
Glazier, an attorney who once worked for the NCAA in
enforcement, has worked with colleges on compliance since 1979.
Among others, he has represented Minnesota and Southern California,
both of which suffered NCAA sanctions following investigations into
academic fraud.
If found guilty of NCAA violations, LSU would be subject to
punishment as a repeat offender. The university is still on
probation for sanctions relating to the recruitment of former
basketball player Lester Earl.
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