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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Former UNC professor Julius Nyang'oro is unlikely to face jail time. (Harry Lynch/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Julius Nyang'oro, a former African studies department chairman at the University of North Carolina who was allegedly part of an academic scandal involving the school's football and basketball teams, was indicted for a felony on Monday for accepting $12,000 for a class he didn't teach, according to &lt;em&gt;The News &amp;amp; Observer&lt;/em&gt; in Raleigh.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nyang'oro, 59, was indicted by a grand jury in Orange County, N.C., on a charge of obtaining property by false pretenses, according to the county's district attorney, Jim Woodall. The charge is reportedly a lower-level felony and is unlikely to include prison time if Nyang'oro is convicted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UNC athletes represented 45 percent of the enrollment in Nyang'oro's classes \u2014 a disproportionate number compared to the rest of the university, as less than five percent of the student body plays a varsity sport. The football team had the highest number of students, with the men's basketball team \"a distant second,\" according to the newspaper report.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXTRA MUSTARD: Iron Bowl hero gets standing ovation in geology class&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scandal, which allegedly stretched back to the mid-90s, includes roughly 500 grade changes that were either suspected or confirmed to be unauthorized. Athletes accounted for slightly less than half the changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"The allegation is that he was paid to teach a face-to-face, lecture-style class and he accepted and kept $12,000 for that, when in fact he didn't teach that class in a face-to-face, lecture-style manner,\" Woodall said Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2011, Nyang'oro created the class, AFAM 280: Blacks in North Carolina, a few days before the summer semester began. It was filled with 19 students \u2014 18 football players and a former football player. UNC records show Nyang'oro was expected to teach the class, but it never met.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UNC officials conducted a probe led by former North Carolina Governor Jim Martin, but it found athletics did not play a role in the scandal because non-athletes had the same access to the classes as athletes and received similar grades.\n&lt;strong&gt;MANDEL: Bowl projections becoming clearer as regular seasons end&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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