Jane Stancill

In this March 15, 2012 photo, a billboard featuring the photo of murdered UNC student body president Eve Carson seen on National Highway 49 west of Munnar in southern India. The image of a slain U.S. university student body president has turned up on billboards in southern India. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Bruce Siceloff)

Billboard in India used murder victim's image for ad campaign

Along the roads of southern India, the billboards are plentiful, promoting movies, mobile phones, fine silks, Chinese restaurants and Communist Party politicians seeking re-election.

There, along National Highway 49, not far from the mountain town of Munnar, were at least two billboards with an image that would be chilling to most North Carolinians: the smiling visage of Eve Carson, a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student body president who was killed in 2008.

The East Carolinian newspaper, where a series of photos were published Nov. 8 showing a naked man sprinting across the field and then being tackled and arrested. (WBTV)

University newspaper adviser is fired over photos of streaker

GREENVILLE, N.C. -- East Carolina University fired the adviser to its student newspaper this week, two months after the paper published unedited nude photos of a streaker at a football game.

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