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THE DAILY CLIPS March 25, 2011 News, commentary, and opinion compiled by the East Carolina University News Bureau from: The Greenville Daily Reflector The Raleigh News & Observer The New York Times The Wall Street Journal USA Today The Charlotte Observer The Fayetteville Observer The Greensboro News & Record Newsweek U.S. News & World Report Business Week Time East Carolina University News Bureau E-mail to [email protected] Web site at http://www.news.ecu.edu 252-328-6481

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THE DAILY CLIPS

March 25, 2011

News, commentary, and opinion compiled by the East Carolina University News Bureau from:

The Greenville Daily Reflector The Raleigh News & Observer

The New York Times The Wall Street Journal

USA Today The Charlotte Observer

The Fayetteville Observer The Greensboro News & Record

Newsweek U.S. News & World Report

Business Week Time

East Carolina University News Bureau E-mail to [email protected] Web site at http://www.news.ecu.edu

252-328-6481

Programs and candles are held by friends of "Mandy" Kelly during a candlelight vigil, held in her honor, at the Trustees Fountain on Thursday, March 24, 2011. (Aileen Devlin/The Daily Reflector)

ECU hosts memorial for grad student By Jackie Drake The Daily Reflector Friday, March 25, 2011 Enthusiastic. Dedicated. Leader. Genuine. Caring. These words and more were used to describe East Carolina University graduate student Mandy Kelly, who was killed Monday in a wreck on U.S. 264 near Wilson. Students and staff hosted a memorial in the Science and Technology Building on Thursday night, followed by a candlelight vigil by the Trustees Fountain. A native of Ontario, Canada, Kelly came to ECU to pursue a Master's in accounting. She was set to graduate this May and had a job set up at a Charlotte firm. “Mandy adopted ECU as soon as she got here, and from looking at this room, ECU adopted her right back,” said Dan Schisler, chairman of the Department of Accounting.

With “great honor and sorrow,” Schisler presented Mandy's family, who drove all the way from Canada, with her Master's of Science in Accounting. Kelly was well known as the president of the accounting honor society Beta Alpha Psi, the vice president of membership for the Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society and a member of the Golden Key national honor society. She helped incoming freshmen as a graduate assistant in the Office of Student Transition and First Year Programs. The annual scholarship awarded by the accounting honor society will now be named the “Amanda L. Kelly Beta Alpha Psi Scholarship,” according to accounting professor Douglas Schneider. “She touched so many lives here,” said Omicron Delta Kappa member Tiffany Lee. “Her enthusiasm and cheerful attitude were contagious. She had a sincere passion to cultivate a new generation of leaders on campus. She always gave 110 percent. Her leadership was exemplary.” “We are blessed to have had Mandy in our lives,” Student Government Association President Tremayne Smith said. “Let's smile as we remember the funny moments, how she said “eh” after everything, all her corny jokes and she was the most tan Canadian. We'll always remember the love she shared.” Friend and neighbor Brittany Harrell recalled Kelly's prolific texting abilities and how she always used to send “good luck” texts before a test or quiz. “She knew no strangers,” said friend and classmate Ross Browning. He remarked on her “constant Facebook status updates, her Canadian expressions and how she said “holla” after just about everything.” While proud of being Canadian, Kelly became a passionate Pirate. As news of her death spread, several students changed their Facebook profile pictures to the Canadian flag. “Knowing Mandy, she's probably on Facebook checking on us right now,” her roommate Farah Hussein said. “Thank you all for loving my daughter,” Mandy's mother Sandy Jacobs said. “It was hard having her move down here, but I wanted her to follow her dreams. She definitely lived life to the fullest. I am so proud of her. As Mandy would say, Go Pirates! Holla!” Contact Jackie Drake at [email protected] or (252) 329-9567.

Family remembers grad student By Gina Childress The Wilson Times Friday, March 25, 2011 WILSON — It has been a heartbreaking and emotional week for the family and friends of 24-year-old East Carolina University graduate student, Amanda “Mandy” Louise Kelly. “The last words we said to each other were ‘I love you,'” said Michael Gee, Mandy's boyfriend of just over two-and-a-half years. “She was on her way back to Greenville to work after visiting Michael in Raleigh for the weekend,” Sandra Jacobs, Mandy's mother, said. “ We just celebrated our two year, eight month anniversary,” Michael said, his voice trailing off. Mandy died Monday morning in a fatal crash on U.S. 264 Bypass in Wilson. Investigators said she lost control of her vehicle, ran off the roadway, overcorrected, crossed through the median and the wire guardrails and hit a passenger truck head-on. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Mandy's family who traveled to North Carolina from her native Canada, her boyfriend and a close college friend, all came to Wilson on Thursday to visit the crash scene. While in Wilson they also gathered her personal belongings and spoke with investigators. Another daunting task they faced was picking up the cremated remains of Mandy's pride and joy and constant companion — her Bichon poodle, Topaz. Topaz went everywhere with Mandy and was in the vehicle with her when it crashed Monday. He was taken to Countryside Animal Hospital for treatment but did not survive. “She named him Topaz because she got him for her birthday,” her mother said. “Her birthday is in November and that's her birthstone. Topaz is with her now.” Stan Jacobs, Mandy's stepfather, her brother, Shaun Kelly and Sandra, said they are very grateful for their recent visit with Mandy. In early March, Mandy flew to her hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for a 10-day visit with family and friends. “We drove her back to North Carolina,” Stan said. “We stayed in Greenville for a six-day visit and we left last Saturday.” “We had the best visit,” Sandra said. “She was very sad to see her family leave that day,” Michael said. “And most of the weekend we just talked about what a great visit we all had and how much fun everyone had.” Mandy's parents left just two days before she died. Her parents said they were very grateful for the 16 days they spent with her. Mandy and her brother Shaun were very close and considered each other their best friend. “She was so close to him and loved him so much,” Sandra said. “She always told him everything and knew it would never go any further and that she could always count on him for anything at all,” Michael said. Too emotional to talk about his sister, Shaun nodded his head in agreement. ——— Mandy moved to North Carolina in July 2008, after visiting Michael who at the time lived in Greenville. “We met at the beach in Myrtle Beach that same year,” he said. Mandy and Michael were both vacationing at the same resort and just happened to meet through their mothers. “I was at the pool and I met his mother there and we hit it off,” Sandra said. “During that week we all hung out together and got to know each other,” Michael said. “When we left at the end of the week, Mandy and I exchanged numbers but truly we didn't think we would ever see each other again since she lived in Canada and I lived here.” But the two kept in contact.

“After many hours on the phone and a $1,000 phone bill later, she drove from Canada to visit me,” Michael said. “She came here and fell in love with the campus.” “And with Michael,” Sandra said. “Since she loved going to school so much, she decided to come here and get her masters in accounting,” Michael said. “Everyone in the program knew her and loved her,” said Ross Browning, one of her best friends. “Me, Mandy's roommate, Farrah Hussain and another very close friend, Brittany Harrell spent a lot of time together.” Browning said he, Mandy and Farrah all were graduate students majoring in accounting, and for the last several years attended every class together. “I always told her if I had to describe her in one word it would be ‘thorough,'” Browning said. “She was very organized and was always reminding me what I needed to bring to class and what assignments were due.” “She was definitely a very organized person,” her stepfather said. “She was such a smart, beautiful and outgoing person,” her mother said. “She was so intelligent and one of the hardest working people I have ever met.” Mandy was just six weeks away from receiving her master's degree in accounting from East Carolina University. She was an honors student and was the top in her accounting class at the ECU Business School. She had just been inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma. The award is the highest national recognition a student in business can receive. “She had already received a job offer from an accounting firm in Charlotte,” her mother said. “She was going to start on Nov. 1. But, she didn't want to wait that long to start so she was waiting to hear from them if she could start after she graduated.” Thursday night, Mandy's family and friends held a candlelight vigil at ECU. After the ceremony, her family will return to Canada for her funeral. Contact Gina Childress at [email protected] or (252) 265-7821.

Dr. Yuko Kishimoto, a clinical psychologist at Brody School of Medicine, talks about the origami cranes she is making to sell and raise money to benefit survivors of the Japanese tsunami and earthquake as she speaks in her office Thursday, March 24, 2011. (Justin Falls/The Daily Reflector)

Crane sale to aid tsunami victims By Ginger Livingston The Daily Reflector Friday, March 25, 2011 When counselor Yuko Kishimoto lived in Houston and hurricanes struck, she would advise people to find healthy ways to distract themselves from the constant news about the destruction. Kishimoto encouraged people to take a break from watching television reports about the event and to participate in a hobby or take on a task like organizing a fundraiser. She is now finding comfort in her own advice. A native of Japan and a counselor with the Brody School of Medicine's Academic Support and Enrichment Services, Kishimoto and her co-workers are organizing a fundraiser to aid people in northeastern Japan who lost everything in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The event is scheduled from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Monday in the first-floor corridor of the Brody School of Medicine.

Kishimoto is creating paper cranes to sell at the event. Individual cranes will cost $1 and a mobile of five cranes will cost $5. Her mother, who is staying in Hawaii, is helping her with the cranes. The crane is a spiritual symbol. “Traditionally it's been a symbol of hope,” Kishimoto said. The Japanese tradition of senbazuru promises that a person who folds 1,000 cranes will be granted a wish. Today, folding 1,000 cranes is viewed as a form of healing and hope during challenging times. “It has been rather therapeutic to make the cranes because it means I'm not watching the news and it's a way I can help contribute to the recovery of Japan,” Kishimoto said. Her family lives in Tokyo, which was spared the tsunami and the worst of the earthquake. However, they have experienced rolling blackouts, some food shortages and are now dealing with a water supply with high levels of radiation. Her brother briefly took his family to southern Japan, where there was no damage, Kishimoto said. However, no one in her family has thought about coming to the United States to stay with her or her sister, who lives in California. Kishimoto's parents were visiting her when the earthquake struck. “It's frustrating because we couldn't get through to our relatives right away,” she said. “That was the scariest moment.” Days later they received emails reporting that her family was all right. Her father returned to Japan on Monday but left her mother in Hawaii temporarily. The cranes are made through the art of origami or Japanese paper-folding. It's a skill Japanese children learn early and is a “rainy day” activity, Kishimoto said. “I don't even remember anyone teaching me to do it,” she said. “You just know how to make these.” The fundraiser's proceeds will be given to the Tohoku Region Pacific Coastal Earthquake Iwaki City Fund, Kishimoto said. The city is managing the fund and is distributing the money two ways; some will go to residents to cover their daily expenses and the other half will be used to rebuild the city, she said. Kishimoto selected the charity after talking with a friend who has family in Sendai, the city closest to the earthquake's epicenter and one of the area's hardest hit by the tsunami. “I wanted to be pretty mindful about where the money is going,” Kishimoto said. “I wanted to make sure we donated to an organization, instead of individuals to make sure it helps as many people as possible.” She also wanted an organization that had little overhead expense so most of the money would go to people.

Along with the cranes, organizers will be selling Warren's hot dogs, soda and chips for $4 and espresso brownies for $1.50. Frames by James also has donated a framed limited edition print “Pirates top the Pack” for a raffle drawing. Tickets are $1 and the drawing will be held at a later date. For more information about the fundraiser, contact Academic Support and Enrichment Services at 744-2830. Contact Ginger Livingston at [email protected] or (252) 329-9570.

Witness: Richardson beaten by bouncers By Michael Abramowitz The Daily Reflector Friday, March 25, 2011 A friend who drove James Richardson to Raleigh after two men were killed testified at Richardson's capital trial Thursday that he was beaten badly prior to the shooting. Latoya Boyd, 27, a 2006 East Carolina University graduate and close friend of Richardson, told Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Robb that she was with Richardson and others on June 30, 2009. First they were at Dr. Unk's, then they made their way in the early morning hours to The Other Place. Just after 2 a.m. that morning, Andrew Kirby and Landon Blackley were killed in a drive-by shooting outside The Other Place. Richardson could face the death penalty if found guilty of the killings. His trial enters its sixth day of testimony today. Boyd said Thursday she was angry about the way Richardson was treated by bouncers inside and outside The Other Place after an altercation, but said it was avoidable. “It was something small, but got bigger because (James) made a big deal out of it. It turned into something it didn't have to be,” Boyd said. Once outside the club, Boyd said, the bouncers from inside the club and from other clubs “jumped” Richardson and beat him up. When Richardson got up and headed around the corner onto Reade Street, Boyd noticed he had dropped his phone. It broke apart, so she picked up the pieces and followed in his direction, where her car also was parked, she said. While walking alone to her car and trying to put the phone together, Boyd said she heard shots. She then got in her car and followed a friend in another car to the home of another friend, she said. From there, Boyd met up with more people who were with her and Richardson at the club. She then picked up Richardson at his mother's house on McDowell Street. She did not report seeing the white BMW Richardson had been driving there. She said she drove him, his brother, Andre, and another friend to a hotel in Raleigh, where she patched up his bruised forehead and went to sleep.

Boyd told the jury that she was not aware that anyone had been hit by the gunshots or that Richardson was a suspect until she left him and saw a news report later that day at the Raleigh home of Richardson's sister, Tiffany. “I was shocked,” she said. Boyd said she was interviewed periodically after that by a private investigator working for the Richardson family and another man. She was not interviewed by the prosecution until Tuesday, when Robb and Greenville police Det. Connie Elks went to her home. Robb asked her why she did not go to the police with her information. “I didn't think I did anything wrong,” Boyd said. She said she did not see Richardson with a gun that night and did not see him after she dropped him off at a Raleigh barber shop later that day. Following Boyd's testimony, Greenville police forensics officer Ralph Mendenhall showed the jury video footage recorded outside The Other Place shortly after the shootings. Jurors saw evidence markers in the video that pointed out where bullets and shell casings from a fired .45-caliber semi-automatic weapon were discovered by officers in front of The Other Place and Lucky's, a bar next door. They also saw two pools of blood that marked where Kirby and Blackley fell after being shot. Officer Wyatt Coltraine testified about how he examined the crime scene after it was cleared. Coltraine displayed diagrams to the jury that marked where 20 individual pieces of evidence were located, some on the sidewalk in front of the clubs, some in the windows and walls and some far into the street, he said. One bullet went through the front window of The Other Place, then through an interior wall before dropping onto a shelf where napkins and utensils lay, he said. Another bullet went through a window of Lucky's then got lodged in the wall of a walk-in cooler inside the club, Coltraine said. He passed evidence bags through the jury with what District Attorney Clark Everett said were the actual shell casings, bullet fragments and pieces of copper jacketing that encased the bullets found outside the clubs. In all, five spent shell casings were gathered from the crime scene and one from the BMW, according to testimony.

Not all the shell casings were of the same brand and metallic composition, Coltraine said, but all were made to fire a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun that could accommodate both brands in one gun. J udge W. Russell Duke told jurors at the conclusion of Thursday's testimony that today's session would extend only until lunch. Contact Michael Abramowitz at [email protected] and (252) 329-9571.

William Colt William Colt, 50, passed quietly away at his home early Wednesday morning, March 23, 2011. Arrangements have been made for a remembrance of Bill's life at 3 p.m. Sunday to be followed by a service at 4 p.m. in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel. ll Bill, as he was known and loved by his family and close friends was employed at ECU. He worked in the housekeeping department at the Rec. Center on campus. Prior to his employment at ECU, Bill owned and operated Vacuum Cleaner Hospital in Greenville for almost 20 years. Bill was preceded in death by his father, William "Bill" Arthur Colt on March 12, 2011. He leaves behind his best friend and wife of many years, Michele Gentile Colt; his mother, Rosemarie Colt; and three brothers, Roy, Steve and Karl, all of Greenville. Bill Bill also leaves behind in the care of her mother, Jenny Eastwood and his only child, Emily Paige Colt. A beautiful 17 year old, Emily is a student at North Pitt High School. She truly was the love of his life. Bill will be remembered by all the many people he has touched in his 50 years with much love and laughter. He was stunned to see the outpouring of care and affection shown him by our very large family, friends, business associates and the many students he came to know and love. He also loved kids and he never met a child that didn't come to love him in return. His gentle manner and carefree style was only surpassed by his very large heart and his wonderful ability to accept any and all and to remind us all that it's all about love, family, friends and kindness. He loved the Lord, he loved his family and he loved life. He will be missed. Memorial contributions may be made to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 401 Harrison Oaks Blvd., Ste. 200, Cary, NC 27513 (919) 677-3993 or 1-800-936-9337. Online condolences at www.wilkersonfuneralhome.com. Published in The Daily Reflector on March 25, 2011

Godwin: Time to step on accelerator By Nathan Summers The Daily Reflector Friday, March 25, 2011 The East Carolina baseball team has zoomed out to one of its best starts of the Billy Godwin coaching era, but the Pirates' skipper wants his team to hit the gas even harder now. For the second time in Godwin's six-year tenure at ECU, the Pirates are 16-4 after 20 games, equaling the start of the 2009 team that eventually stretched its hot start to 20-4 and finished the campaign at the Chapel Hill Super Regional. Hellbent on taking the final leap to the College World Series for the first time in club history, Godwin knows one the biggest enemies of the Pirates now is getting too comfortable. “I always say momentum is nothing but attitude, but they're playing with confidence,” said Godwin, whose club won nine of its last 10 non-conference games and will open Conference USA play against Memphis tonight at 6 inside Clark-LeClair Stadium. “We don't need to coast. This is the time you step on the accelerator a little bit. Human nature is complacency. ... we need to challenge ourselves to play at an even higher level.” Godwin is reminding his team that despite its lopsided record, league play can make or break any momentum. The Pirates have ridden a marvelous early season from their pitching staff. In 20 games, ECU's starters have pitched five or more innings 16 times and seven or more innings seven times. But Godwin knows a great finish is tougher than a great start, and feels preparation outweighs almost everything else for his pitchers.

“If they do all the things during the week to prepare to get on the mound, their easiest day should be the day they toe the rubber,” Godwin said. Zach's attack ECU catcher Zach Wright is searching for fastballs, but they're getting tougher and tougher for him to find with every big game he has. Wright is far and away the Pirates' top early-season slugger with six home runs, and also leads the team with 15 RBIs. Sustaining that success will mean hitting increasingly more difficult pitches and far fewer fastballs than he's seen so far. “I've been smoking fastballs lately and I think every team knows that, so I'm sure the scouting report says off-speed and curveballs,” said Wright, who admits he struggles with breaking balls from right-handed pitchers and changeups from lefties. “I've just got to react to it.” Wright said he was surprised to be walked with a 3-1 changeup against Rutgers last weekend with a runner on first, but it's one of many adjustments he'll have to get used to if he remains the Pirates' hottest bat. “You've got to kind of take what you get,” he said. “You pray for fastballs but they don't always come.” Memphis keys According to Godwin, the key to beating Memphis (11-8) is keeping the Tigers' toughest twosome at bay. Junior middle infielder Chad Zurcher (.471 batting average, 32 hits, seven doubles, 15 RBIs) and junior center fielder Drew Martinez (.346, five 2Bs, 10 RBIs) will be the greatest threats in disrupting the Pirates' pitching surge. “They've got two of the best table-setters in the league in Martinez and Zurcher,” Godwin said. “They're a very experieced lineup with a lot of guys whose names I've been seeing for a lot of years. “They've just come off playing Arkansas in front 6,000 to 10,000 people, so they've been through a little bit of everything.” The Tigers won one and lost two to the Razorbacks last weekend. Contact Nathan Summers at [email protected] or (252)329-9595.

Renowned organist to perform, judge The Daily Reflector Friday, March 25, 2011 Pre-college students will compete this weekend in the fifth annual East Carolina University Young Artist Competition for Pre-College Organists. Before the competition begins, however, the event's judge, organist Jon Gillock, will perform at 7:30 p.m. today at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 401 E. Fourth St. His performance on the Perkins and Wells Memorial Organ, C.B. Fisk Opus 126, will include 19th and 20th century French music. Often a soloist at international festivals, Gillock also has been a featured recitalist and master teacher for conventions of both the American Guild of Organists and the Royal Canadian College of Organists. In 1996 he was chosen to give the opening recital for the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists in New York City, which celebrated the centennial anniversary of the organization. The competition is an innovative outreach program designed to inspire young musicians to strive for the highest level of musicianship and technical accomplishment in piano and organ performance. The competition is open to any pre-college student in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Florida. In addition to generous monetary prizes, the first-place winner also will receive an invitation to return to perform at East Carolina University in the 2011-2012 season.

Eshelman has given $30 million to pharmacy school.

GOP is rising on UNC board BY JAY PRICE AND ERIC FERRERI - Staff Writers Fri. March 25, 2011 RALEIGH The new Republican majority in the legislature has begun putting its stamp on the board that leads the UNC system, making it more male and - no surprise - more conservative. Among the eight board members the Senate picked Thursday, seven are men, including a Wilmington businessman who donated millions of dollars to help conservative political candidates last year, and a former Republican Department of Transportation secretary. Still, the new appointments to the 32-member Board of Governors don't necessarily signal a radical upheaval: Two were reappointments of current members, and two more were former members. And while the new group is more conservative, that doesn't mean its decision-making will become partisan, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger said Thursday. Indeed, that would be a mistake, he said. The eight new Senate picks all are strong supporters of higher education, Berger said.

"That they would happen to be Republicans or Democrats is a secondary thing," he said. "I think the members of the Senate wanted first and foremost to get people on the board that represented a cross section from around the state, and that didn't lean exclusively toward one campus or another." Politics stays behind The board sets policy for the 17-school, state-supported system. Members are appointed by the legislature and serve staggered four-year terms. The House is scheduled to vote on eight more new appointments next week, and the other 16 seats will be up for consideration in 2013. The board traditionally has avoided partisan arguments, though that may have been easier in the past because members were appointed almost entirely by Democrat-controlled legislatures. Some Republicans already were on the board, but there are very few split votes or contentious public arguments over policy decisions. Most of the time, board members heed the advice of the system president and its staff. "People assume our votes break down along party lines, but more often than not other factors play into it," Chairwoman Hannah Gage said. "The process to get to our board is very political. Once you arrive, the service is less political than you might think." On campuses, officials say they're more interested in whether board members support higher education. "I couldn't say it's good or bad," Robert Winston, chairman of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees, said of new board members' political leanings. "I think on both sides of the aisle there are people who understand the value of higher education. I personally don't feel it's a political issue." A conservative board may operate differently at times. But UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp said he doesn't expect seismic changes in the way the university system is governed. "I don't think the ideological shift will have the effect on policy that some think it will," he said. On campuses, officials say they just hope new members support higher education. Take, for example, Fred Eshelman of Wilmington, a Republican appointed to the board Thursday who is executive chairman and founder of Pharmaceutical Product Development Corp. Of the eight senate picks, he is most likely to raise liberal hackles. CBS News last year described him as "one of the top individual funders attempting to influence the outcome

of the midterm elections" by giving $3.38 million to a group that bankrolled negative ads on behalf of conservative U.S. Senate candidates. He also helped Raleigh businessman Art Pope lead another group, Real Jobs NC, that funneled money into state legislative races the GOP targeted. Eshelman, though, has demonstrated vigorous support for higher education. The 1972 UNC-CH graduate has given more than $30 million to the pharmacy school at his alma mater; it now bears his name. The changes to the board's makeup aren't just in political philosophy. Board diversity For three decades, the legislature set aside four seats for women, four for minorities, and four for appointees from the minority political party. But after facing a lawsuit seeking to overturn that quota system, the legislature abolished it in 2001. Since then, the legislature has followed the spirit of that practice, sprinkling the board with minorities, women, and members of the minority political party. This year, the board is losing four African Americans and at least five women because they were not reappointed, had reached their term limits, or chose to give up their seats. The slate the Senate appointed Thursday includes seven white men and Ann Goodnight, a white woman currently on the board. There are only three women among the candidates from whom the House will choose another eight members. Few minorities appear to be among the House candidates. The board has four other African Americans whose terms don't expire until 2013. State Sen. Josh Stein of Raleigh, a Democrat who sits on the Education/Higher Education Committee, said he was disappointed at the lack of diversity among the senate picks. "A board like the Board of Governors, that is serving the entire state by overseeing one of our most important institutions, should reflect the whole state," Stein said. "In my view, that means geographically, racially, by gender, political party and institution of higher learning, and it will be successful to the extent that it does." 'Different times' No one should be surprised, though, that a different party in charge means changes in major appointments, said John Sanders, an emeritus professor with the UNC-CH School of Government. "We're living in different times," he said. "The way the legislature acts today is different than two years ago or 20 years ago." Gage says she doesn't expect board members all to think alike.

"We'll still have African Americans and women and Democrats and Republicans," said Gage, who in 2008 became the board's first female chairwoman. "Just not as many. We can make a lot about it, or pull it together and keep on moving. It's not going to be a monolithic group." [email protected] or 919-829-4526