Month: November 2021

Recent reporting by The Onion and several lesser media outlets finds growing tensions between President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, continuing a historical trend of the nation’s leader often being at odds with their second-in-command. The Onion looks at the most contentious relationships between a president and vice president in U.S. history.

John F. Kennedy / Lyndon B. Johnson: Though publicly cordial, Johnson was humiliated by JFK’s frequent taunts that he didn’t have the guts to arrange the assassination of a president in his home state and be sworn into office by a family friend in a hurried transfer of power.

Ronald Reagan / George H.W. Bush: Frequently got into heated debates over who harbored more contempt for the nation’s poor.

Bill Clinton / Al Gore: A simple disagreement about the function of White House interns got between these once close friends.

Dick Cheney / George W. Bush: It was an open secret that President Cheney had little respect for his running mate.

Millard Fillmore: The thirteenth president didn’t have a VP but makes the list because he was racked with self-hatred.

James Polk / George Dallas: Polk was the messy one and Dallas was the neat freak.

George H.W. Bush / Dan Quayle: Disastrous wife-swapping experiment.

John Adams / Thomas Jefferson: One of them shot the other, or was that, maybe that was, no, yeah, one of them shot the other one.

From: https://www.theonion.com/the-most-contentious-president-vice-president-relations-1848070021

Earlier this month, Administrative/Presiding Judge Ron Cable swore-in new attorney Troy Nance, who also happens serve on Judge Cable’s team! Attorney Nance graduated from East Carolina University and The University of Akron School of Law and recently passed the Ohio Bar Exam. With this accomplishment, Nance was promoted from Law Clerk to Judicial Attorney!

Congratulations, Troy!

We hope you enjoy this day, taking the opportunity to gather with loved ones in the spirit of gratitude for life’s many blessings.

In addition, it’s nice to break for a few days in order to recharge for the end-of-semester push.

Finally, safe travels for those who are travelling.

Again, Happy Thanksgiving from the Department of Political Science.

Last week Dr. Baumgartner was one of the experts on the vice presidency interviewed for a lengthy piece in “USA Today” on the vice presidency of Kamala Harris. See the story (which was picked up by Yahoo News) at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/vice-presidents-just-dont-break-150004001.html.

ATTN ALL POLS MAJORS: ECU has a great new tool for finding scholarships and applying for them. If you haven’t already done so, I strongly encourage you to go to the ECU website link below and fill out the “General Scholarship Application”.  This allows you to fill out ONE scholarship application, and the software will alert you when there is an “auto-match” with an existing scholarship.  You can also search for special scholarship by your discipline or through key words, like “study abroad”.

If you have further scholarship related questions, please e-mail: scholarships@ecu.edu

More information can be found at: https://www.northcarolina.edu/current-students/presidential-scholars/

Join the Office of Global Affairs in celebrating International Education Week, November 15-19. Highlights:

• Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program panel discussion – Learn more about how you can participate in this prestigious US Department of State fellowship program.
• Global Zone Training – Help build a more welcoming and inclusive campus environment for our international students and scholars.
• Moroccan Tea Open House – Enjoy traditional Moroccan Tea and discuss your international research, teaching and engagement plans in a causal atmosphere.
• “Cooking with Pirates” – Prepare special ethnic dishes with celebrity ECU faculty chefs from the comfort of your home, or just watch along!

Visit https://global-affairs.ecu.edu/iew/ for more information.

Registration for spring 2022 classes has already begun. When YOU register depends on the number of credit hours you have completed PRIOR to this semester – in other words, The number of COMPLETED HOURS you have, as of SEPT., 2021. The schedule is below:

You can find the number of completed hours by checking DegreeWorks. The number you are looking for is the “overall credits,” listed below your minor (in the right hand column, at the top). See the picture below:

Other information about registration can be found here: https://registrar.ecu.edu/students. It’s a good idea to spend a couple of minutes looking through this information – LOTS of questions answered here!

If there are other questions, please contact your adviser.

During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. The resolution, drafted by future U.S. president John Adams and adopted in Philadelphia, created the Continental Marines and is now observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.

Today, there are more than 200,000 active-duty and reserve Marines, divided into four divisions stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Camp Pendleton, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Okinawa, Japan. Each division has one or more expeditionary units, ready to launch major operations anywhere in the world on two weeks’ notice. Marines expeditionary units are self-sufficient, with their own tanks, artillery, and air forces. The motto of the service is Semper Fidelis, meaning “Always Faithful” in Latin.

FROM: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/birth-of-the-u-s-marine-corps