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diablesseblu
10-12-2012, 10:19 AM
http://www.wral.com/former-unc-president-william-friday-dies/3281443/

Devil in the Blue Dress
10-12-2012, 10:59 AM
This is a sad loss for our state. Bill Friday seemed to have a vision for improvements in various aspects of life and was a voice of reason.

BD80
10-12-2012, 11:43 AM
http://www.wral.com/former-unc-president-william-friday-dies/3281443/

Wasn't he on Dragnet?

Indoor66
10-12-2012, 12:22 PM
Wasn't he on Dragnet?

Not cool. Bill Friday was a fine gentleman and must be resting uneasily after seeing his beloved University being found to operate in the manner recently revealed. May he rest in peace.

davekay1971
10-12-2012, 12:34 PM
Bill Friday was a fine gentleman and must be resting uneasily after seeing his beloved University being found to operate in the manner recently revealed. May he rest in peace.

This was my second thought. My first thought was a note of sadness to hear about a good man who did a lot for UNC passing. My second thought was that it must have grieved a man who absolutely put academics and academic integrity above athletics, to see his university become involved in one of the worst academic scandals in history, all for the sake of athletic success. RIP, Mr. Friday.

sagegrouse
10-12-2012, 01:15 PM
http://www.wral.com/former-unc-president-william-friday-dies/3281443/

He was 92.

Friday was head of the UNC system from 1956 to 1986 and a real force for higher ed. At age 90, ee was even criticized by the Tar Heel nut cases after Butch Davis was canned.

sagegrouse

77devil
10-12-2012, 01:53 PM
I had forgotten that Friday was an original co-chair making the current mess at UNC more than a little ironic He must have been deeply saddened by the whole, sordid affair.

slower
10-12-2012, 02:47 PM
Truly, the greatest Tarheel of them all.

Fletch
10-12-2012, 03:03 PM
Truly, the greatest Tarheel of them all.

Friday earned his undergraduate degree from NC State, but most State fans (rightly or wrongly) associate him with UNC and Chapel Hill after running the system for all those years.