Judge Sides With UNC in N&O Records Suit Posted May 20, 2014 A Wake County judge on Monday denied The News & Observer access to a record the newspaper had sought as part of its coverage of Carolina’s nearly four-year-long academic fraud case. The N&O sued the University in January after UNC declined to provide a copy of a spreadsheet showing detailed information about athletes who had enrolled in courses in the former department of African and Afro-American studies that were found to be fraudulent. (UNC General Alumni Association)