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Pirate Nation in Eye of Another Storm

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,
Katy Barron
Published February 6, 2020 at 12:18 PM EST
Students gather at East Carolina University's student center.
Students gather at East Carolina University's student center.
Students gather at East Carolina University's student center.
Credit Courtesy of The Daily Reflector
Students gather at East Carolina University's student center.

Infighting among the East Carolina University Board of Trustees has spilled out into the public realm once again. In the latest scandal, two trustees, Robert Moore and Phil Lewis, are accused of trying to convince a student to run for ECU student body president so they could ensure a voting majority on their board. 

Host Frank Stasio speaks with The Daily Reflector in Greenville, NC executive editor Bobby Burns about the latest controversy with the East Carolina University Board of Trustees.

A governing committee of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors met Wednesday to discuss the charges against Moore and Lewis. They decided not to take any action, but the complaints will go before the full UNC Board of Governors on Friday. Host Frank Stasio speaks with Bobby Burns, executive editor at The Daily Reflector in Greenville, North Carolina about the latest charges and the history of bad blood on the board. 

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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