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Purple army picking up soldiers
Bonesville.net Staff Report
©2004 Bonesville.net
Purple Alert, East Carolina
University's recently-launched initiative to facilitate advocacy on behalf
of the school's strategic plans and visions, has enrolled more than 1,000
supporters in the two weeks since it was launched.
The
concept was formulated as a vehicle
for informing the university's alumni base and other allies of the status of
ECU's highest-priority projects in the N.C. General Assembly's budget-making
process and to provide phone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses for
Purple Alert enrollees to use to voice their advocacy of the programs to
their local legislators.
Purple Alert, which banks on
generating leverage with its website and periodic e-mails, is seen by many
associated with the school as a
potential difference-maker as the
legislature considers funding for the proposed Cardiovascular Diseases
Institute, a project championed by ECU and University Health Systems to
fight the leading killer of North Carolinians.
As of Wednesday, almost 1,100
partisans had
answered the call and signed up for
the effort, establishing the likelihood the momentum of the campaign would
ultimately produce the 1,500 members envisioned by Purple Alert organizers.
A party connected with the
initiative told Bonesville.net in an e-mail message, however, that the
response from ECU constituents in some counties
had been disappointing and in other
counties had not met objectives.
The home of ECU, Pitt County,
and a pair of metroplexes to the west, Wake and Mecklenburg Counties, were
at the forefront of those which had far surpassed Purple Alert's goal of
enrolling at least 10 advocates in each of the state's 100 counties. But a
trio of counties not far from the school's campus — Greene, Hyde and Pamlico
— were among those with no recruits.
Interested parties can obtain
information or enlist in the undertaking by visiting
www.purplealert.ecu.edu or by
calling 252-328-9300.
The following image provides a
graphical overview of Purple Alert's county-by-county representation:
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