Kenneth Wainstein’s report on the 18-year reign of “paper classes” at UNC-Chapel Hill was designed to end the scandal once and for all. But that’s not happening.

For one thing, the NCAA has re-opened its investigation of UNC-Chapel Hill. In that light, it might be of more than cursory interest that the NCAA has just punished the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. The university “lacked control over, and failed to monitor, its athletics program” for five years, says the NCAA. Because it did not “properly certify the eligibility of 40 student-athletes,” the university will be punished by vacating all basketball and men’s ice-hockey wins with the ineligible players, reducing points for women’s skiing and swimming competitions, banning post-season play this year, reducing scholarships, and a fine of $30,000.

That seems to set a high bar for punishing UNC for its severe academic fraud, which took place for 18 years involving 3,100 students (about half of whom were athletes).

We’ll see. Meanwhile, Michael McAdoo, the former UNC-Chapel Hill football player whose badly flawed student paper launched the search for academic fraud in 2011, is suing the school. His class-action suit, filed in federal court, says that the university deprived him of a “legitimate education” because it focused entirely on keeping athletes eligible to play.