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FROM THE HILL
The Class
of ’15
23,733
Applied
7,450
Admitted
(31.3%)
3,990
Expected to enroll
(53.5%)
PHOTOS BY ROBERT WILLETT/THE NEWS & OBSERVER
58%
Female
42%
Male
18.3%
Of those enrolling,
are the first
in their families
to go to college
The football team faced new uncertainties as Baddour and Thorp met with the press the day after Davis was dismissed.
Thorp: Football Probe Began to Chip Away at Reputation
Aconsistent element of the University’s handling of the football investigation that started in July 2010 was vigorous support of Coach Butch
Davis by Chancellor
“To restore confidence in The University of North
Carolina and our football program, it’s time to make a
change,” he said. “What started as a purely athletic issue
Of those reporting
their graduating
class ranks:
42.5%
were in the top 10
12%
were first or second
79.7%
were in the top 10%
Holden Thorp ’86 and
Athletics Director Dick
Baddour ’66. Baddour
expressed his support for
Admitted freshmen
come from:
Davis’ leadership of the
program as early as last
year’s Aug. 26 news conference. When he and
Thorp appeared before
the trustees in November, they said they had
found no evidence that
has begun to chip away at
this University’s reputation. I have been deliberate in my approach to
understanding this situation fully, and I have
worked to be fair to
everyone involved. However, I have lost confidence
in our ability to come
through this without
harming the way people
think of this institution.”
95 N.C. counties
41 states and the
District of Columbia
21 other countries
53%
have traveled
outside the U.S.
16%
Davis was involved in
any of the problems that
surfaced either in players’ improper contacts with outsiders or academic improprieties.
Eight months later, on July 27, after meeting earlier
in the day with the trustees, Thorp announced Davis
had been dismissed. He said it was his decision, not the
trustees’ or Baddour’s.
In nine allegations
leveled against UNC in
June, the NCAA gave no indication that Davis was
culpable, and Thorp reiterated that the University had
not found Davis at fault. Thorp acknowledged that the
timing, eight days before the start of preseason practice,
are fluent in a
language other
than English
Source: Preliminary numbers
as of mid-August, from the
Office of Undergraduate
Admissions. For more, see
bit.ly/2011-first-year-stats.
