UNC fires professor arrested in Argentina
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has fired Paul Frampton, a physics and astronomy professor who was arrested in 2012 and charged with attempting to smuggle drugs out of Argentina.
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Chancellor Carol Folt fired him earlier this month for "personal misconduct and neglect of duty", according to a letter to Frampton.
In the letter she wrote "I concur that you committed misconduct of such a nature as to render you unfit to serve as a member of the faculty of this University."
British news reports say Frampton told investigators he was in Argentina to meet a model he'd met online and someone gave him a bag they claimed belonged to the woman.
His advocates in Chapel Hill say Frampton made a mistake, thinking he was helping a friend. Friends, students, his ex-wife and Congressman David Price have rallied behind him.
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