Spring Break
The Information and Computing Services are attempting to introduce Banner to ECU through marketing and information sessions. "The overall majority probably still does not know how to use it. Most people probably won't learn until they're forced to use it," said Don Sweet, associate chief information officer and Banner project director.
Students can cut out the hassle of having to lock up their bikes while going to class. Math professor Yan Lyansky created his own line of folding bikes, "Downtubes," which are convenient for students and faculty on campus. Folding bikes have been around since the late 1970s.
Last Monday, the Pitt County Board of Commissioners voted 5-4 to approve the renaming of the U.S. 264 Bypass to Martin Luther King Jr. Highway and to revert the road currently bearing King's name back to Fifth Street. The proposal, which was first passed by the Greenville City Council in December, is set to take effect this June although the finality of the decision has left some people from all sides of the debate unsatisfied.
A famous scene from the movie Forrest Gump shows a digitally implanted Gump standing by as then, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, attempts to stop two African American students, James Hood and Vivian Malone, from becoming the first African Americans to attend Alabama University.