Holden Thorp, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said today that the University will appeal the judge’s order and seek a stay in the lawsuit filed by N.C. media organizations about public records and the NCAA investigation of the football team:
“Our responsibility is to protect the privacy rights of all of our students, whether they’re on the football team, in the marching band or in a Chemistry 101 class. So this is really not about the football investigation. If this ruling were to stand, it would put the privacy rights of all of our students at risk.
“We have provided more than 23,000 pages of documents in response to the plaintiffs’ requests. That includes hundreds of pages of phone records in redacted form. We have even offered to provide the parking tickets with personally identifying information removed. We have done our best to comply with N.C. public records law and our federal obligation to protect student information at the same time.”
Contact: Nancy Davis, (919) 962-2011, nancy_davis@unc.edu