FSU places itself on probation; will reduce sports scholarships

As a result of an academic fraud scandal that affected approximately 60 athletes, Florida State has placed itself on two years probation and will reduce the number of scholarships in several sports.

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Documents show key figure in FSU's academic scandal had 1 evaluation

The department that Florida State President T.K. Wetherell harshly criticized for not knowing about the academic fraud in its midst gave one of the key figures in the school's ongoing cheating scandal just one written performance review in her 61/2-year tenure at the school, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.

FSU adjusts its football schedule in light of probe

Florida State has begun recent football seasons against the likes of Miami and Clemson, but because of an academic fraud scandal that will leave Coach Bobby Bowden's team short-handed, the Seminoles will open their 2008 season against two of the weaker teams they've played in recent memory.

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Mike Bianchi: Appropriately, a cheat sheet for FSU's AD

Perhaps it is only coincidence that new Florida State Athletic Director Randy Spetman is a retired Air Force colonel who was once in charge of the European nuclear weapons arsenal.

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FSU professor: Online music course, which athletes cheated on, was a 'state-of-the-art class'

The professor of the online music course that is the focal point of Florida State's investigation into academic fraud by athletes told the Orlando Sentinel he "wrote a beautiful class and it was abused."

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FSU president knocks Seminoles athletic department

Florida State University President T.K. Wetherell told the Orlando Sentinel in an exclusive interview that he did not trust the school's athletic department to conduct an investigation into allegations of academic fraud involving approximately 50 athletes.