Karen Shugart Archives

Feb 24, 2011
  • Karen Shugart

Paul Rogat Loeb: ‘You can’t be afraid to take on the challenges’

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   In his tours of college campuses, author and activist Paul Rogat Loeb has observed that many students lack an understanding of how social change occurs. They...

Feb 09, 2011
  • Karen Shugart

Raising Cain, Alan Abel-style

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Before Stephen Colbert and Sacha Baron Cohen were even born, Alan Abel was straightfacedly urging TV newscasters that Americans needed to clothe their animals for morality’s...

Jan 28, 2011
  • Karen Shugart

Campus Kitchen transitions to student leadership

GREENVILLE   (Jan. 28, 2011)   —   In little less than a year, East Carolina University’s Campus Kitchen has saved more than 1,300 pounds of food from being wasted and...

Nov 12, 2010
  • Karen Shugart

ECU student killed in Afghanistan honored, remembered

GREENVILLE — Vice President Joe Biden cried as the father of U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. David J. Smith explained how his son, an East Carolina University student, was killed from...

Jan 21, 2010
  • Karen Shugart

ECU professor’s debut novel thrills readers

GREENVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 21, 2010) — As a child growing up in Rhode Island, East Carolina University professor Gregory Funaro had long suspected that the statues surrounding his grandfather’s pool...

Jan 20, 2010
  • Karen Shugart

ECU students raise money for Haiti earthquake victims

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Jan. 20, 2010)   —   Struck by the images and stories of the earthquake in Haiti, many East Carolina University students have felt compelled to act. ECU...