Tutor Turns In 54 Papers
The former tutor who says she wrote school assignments for Minnesota basketball players made public another 54 examples of the work she claims she did.
Jan Gangelhoff provided the assignments to the Saint Paul Pioneer Press Thursday and said she will also share it with investigators reviewing allegations of academic fraud within the basketball program.
The latest course work was found on an old computer Gangelhoff said she had given to a relative. It includes 54 take-home exams, research papers or other work dated from 1994-96, the Pioneer Press reported.
The papers contain the names of eight former players whose names are already included on material among 225 documents Gangelhoff previously gave to the newspaper.
The investigation is focusing on Gangelhoff's allegations that she did course work for at least 20 men's basketball players from 1993-98 -- which would be a violation of NCAA rules. Gangelhoff is a former office manager for the university's academic counseling unit.
The papers are on 23 computer disks in a bank safety deposit box, Gangelhoff's lawyer, Jim Lord said. Lord said he and the investigators planned to make backup copies today as "sort of an insurance policy for all of us." He said the papers would then be printed out, but he wasn't sure how long that would take because there are about 300 of them.
"As soon as that's done, as soon as we can get together with the investigators, Jan will sit down with them," Lord said, adding that his "best guess" is around the middle of next week.
Lord and Gangelhoff still have not agreed to the investigators' request that she turn over her personal computer for examination by a forensics expert.
"I'm considering it, but it's an awfully intrusive thing to ask for her own personal computer and everything that's on it," Lord said. "We've given them everything on it that was relevant."
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