On Monday afternoon, the Ledonia Wright Cultural Center sponsored a Holi Indian Festival on the grass behind Mendenhall. This was ECU’s first annual Holi festival, but it is held at the beginning of March all around the world. Holi is also known as the Festival of Colors.
Last night, Chancellor Ballard and ECU’s administrative board met with faculty, students and staff in an open-forum setting to discuss current, pressing issues regarding the university. The event, sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa, Student Government Association, National Pan-Hellenic Council, the Interfraternity Council and the Pan-Hellenic Council, was, as Student Body President Brad Congleton explained, “An open-forum and an opportunity to meet Chancellor Ballard and his team.
This Monday, an audience of more than 5,000 gathered at Minges Coliseum to see a mountaineer, a humanitarian, an advocate for peace and a New York Times best-selling author. Amazingly enough, there was only one speaker slated to appear and speak. Greg Mortenson, co-author of “Three Cups of Tea” and founder of the Central Asia Institute, a not-for-profit organization created to promote education in remote areas of Asia, spoke on behalf of the College of Business and his own cause in a program entitled “Promoting Peace Through Education,” a mission that began for Mortenson over a decade ago after failing to reach the summit of one of the highest peaks on earth.
After almost two years of planning and organizing, the much-awaited Campus Kitchen program kicked off last month. On Feb. 24th, the program opened its doors at Todd Dining Hall to celebrate being the first school within the UNC system to get a student-run, hunger-fighting operation underway.
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