What follows are the lead paragraphs of a lengthy story written by an investigative reporting class at the University of Cincinnati for City Beat. The student reporters included Morgan Batanian, Katie Coburn, Fernanda Crescente, Taylor Jackson, Tyler Kuhnash and Camri Nelson. Research was contributed by Taylor Hayden, Talis Linauts, Kayleigh Murch, Matt Nichols, Malia Pitts and Lauren Smith.
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“Kevin Leugers pays the University of Cincinnati to provide him with a quality education.
“The second-year student majoring in marketing and philosophy had no idea officials had quietly funneled tens of millions of dollars from students to the athletic department in recent years to cover the difference between revenue and expenses.
“’It seems to be a corruption of education, in all honesty,’ says Leugers, a University Honors Program student and Kolodzik Business Scholar. ‘Athletics is being given priority over education, over the professors, over the students. I just think that’s wrong.’
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