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...
Karen Shugart Archives
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...