Citizen Bowles
Erskine Bowles spent 90 minutes Wednesday with the News & Record's editorial board.
The UNC system president was passionate and engaging, his eyes dancing as he addressed issues such as tuition rates, the role of intercollegiate athletics on UNC campuses, the N.C. A&T chancellor search, chancellor and faculty pay and teacher education.
Bowles made clear his love for the job, saying he looked forward to every day running the 16-campus system.
When apprised that someone said this was the job Bowles was born to do, Bill Clinton's former White House chief of staff didn't disagree.
But when asked if he thought in retrospect that it might have been a blessing for him to lose both of those U.S. Senate races (first to Elizabth Dole, then to Richard Burr), Bowles smiled and quipped, "Does that mean I get my money back then?"
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