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As seen in: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Substack, College Matters from The Chronicle, The Daily Tar Heel, RealClear Science, The Daily Texan, Trusteeship Magazine, The Assembly, RealClear Education, Powder Bulk Solids, Workplace Material Handling and Safety
No longer really here. Editor at @chronicle. Author of Discredited: The UNC Scandal and College Athletics' Amateur Ideal. andyandy.bsky.social

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"If someday you find yourself in a place called Tilt Pinball..."

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By Andy Thomason Verified
| Substack
If someday you find yourself in a place called Tilt Pinball, you will see they have Sega Star Wars Arcade. If you choose to play as Luke Skywalker executing the trench run, as I did, and if you shoot down enough tie fighters, the game will tell you it’s time to fire your proton torpedos to destroy the Death Star. Only it won’t tell you the special button you need to push, so you might fail to fire, as I did. The game hasn’t anticipated this possibility.
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Andy's Still Writing Something

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By Andy Thomason Verified
| Substack
When we last spoke I was fresh off finishing Discredited, the book whose creation I documented in this newsletter. Funny story: A year or two ago a podcast producer got in touch wanting to interview me about the UNC scandal, and I had to re-read Discredited to remember what happened. My review: Not bad! Since then I’ve kept up the writing, albeit in smaller form. I keep a kind of digital diary, which involves quite a bit of writing.
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The Ungovernable University

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By Jack Stripling Verified, Andy Thomason Verified
| chroni.cl
Last month, Kevin Guskiewicz took a pay cut to leave Michigan State University’s presidency for the top job at Clemson University. He lobbed a grenade on the way out by criticizing the institution’s trustees, a group of eight elected officials who in recent years have been accused of dysfunction and backbiting. It’s the latest example of how partisan governing boards, willing to throw their weight around in new ways, are making presidents uncomfortable. Are those boards overstepping their bounds?
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