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University officials are investigating the use of unnecessary force by police officers at Saturday's ECU-West Virginia University game. ECU Police Chief Scott Shelton confirmed that some fans that rushed the field were tackled or pushed to the ground by police officers, and punches were thrown by a sheriff's deputy whose name was not disclosed.
ECU welcomed its largest freshman class in history this fall with 5,500 students. With such a large increase from last fall, ECU was unfortunately unable to house 280 of these new students in campus housing. To remedy this problem, ECU was forced to lease space off campus at both The Bellamy and North Campus Crossing apartment complexes.
With less than two months until Election Day, Americans are gearing up to vote for a campaign that will either lead to the first African-American president in U.S. history, or the first woman vice president in U.S. history. The past two weeks have been full of political action with both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions being held, the announcing of potential Vice Presidents and attacks being slung from one campaign to another.