It was announced yesterday that Erskine Bowles has been selected as the next President of the UNC system. He was a business major at UNC, I believe he graduated from what is now the Kenan-Flagler BSBA program. Someone described him to me "he came from money, married money, and made money." Right next to McColl is the Dean Dome, which is located on a street named after his father, Skipper Bowles.
Although he's a Democrat, a lot of Republicans have told me that extremely complimentary things about the man. The real irony of all this is that very much like his father, Bowles never managed to get elected to political office (he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate twice). This position will probably be the only time in his life he can be addressed as "Mr. President."
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