As the majority of East Carolina students were cramming in the last week's worth of summer fun before heading back to school, the members of the ECU Marching Pirates were already back on campus, taking part in their annual band camp from August 14-19.

East Carolina will look to these five strategic directions as it pursues opportunities into the next century.

Creating Creativity Professor Eddie Jacobs has a tough job: teaching a music course with no single right answer and very few wrong ones....read more