May 17, 2002

Charges of Academic Wrongdoing Roil Another Sports Powerhouse

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

LSU investigates whether tutors improperly did course work for athletes

Louisiana State University's football team had a remarkable season in 2001, winning its first Southeastern Conference title since 1988 and its first Sugar Bowl in 34 years.

But the team didn't have long to bask in the glow of victory. Two weeks after the Sugar Bowl, Roger W. Grooters, director of LSU's Academic Center for Student Athletes, informed the athletics department's compliance director in a

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