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JULY 29, 2010

USF athletics facing racial discrimination charge from fired academic adviser

landers.jpgUSF's athletic department is facing allegations of racial discrimination and covering up NCAA violations from an African-American academic adviser who was fired last week after committing a secondary NCAA violation this spring.

Myrtice Landers, 52, is 11 months short of reaching her retirement, and has hired attorney Wil Florin, who is also representing former football coach Jim Leavitt in his lawsuit against USF. She does not deny the NCAA violation that resulted in her firing -- she gave $326 in textbooks to a walk-on women's basketball player in January, thinking she was on scholarship -- but contends that "numerous similarly situated white employees, including her superiors, committed both similar and more egregious NCAA rules violations but were not disciplined," according to a news release issued Thursday morning by Florin. ... Read more

Posted by Greg Auman at 7:50:53 am on July 29, 2010 in | Permalink | Comments |

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