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Good morning, readers.

Bruce dePyssler, an eccentric, mild-mannered, hippie anthropologist, served as the advisor for the Campus Echo, North Carolina Central University’s student newspaper, for 26 years before retiring this summer. During his tenure, the program racked up a staggering 300 student journalism awards.

“DP,” as he is affectionately called by the NCCU community, wasn’t just a professor but a father figure who made the Echo feel like home, and its staff like family.

“He was a nurturing presence,” says Phonte Coleman, a musician and member of the hip-hop group Little Brother. “He always looked out for all of us on the Echo. He went hard for us, and we went hard for him.”

Coleman, a former Echo reporter, likens dePyssler to “The Dude,” Jeff Bridges’s iconic character from the film The Big Lebowski. 

“He just seemed like that cool professor that probably smoked a lot of weed,” Coleman says. “My first impression was this dude is not your typical kind of buttoned-up, stodgy professor.”

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, his opinion, man.

Read more below dePyssler’s historic career at NCCU.

—Justin

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INDY Selects

The Durham Patchwork Market, The Bike Library’s grand opening, a production of a Shakespeare deep-cut, and more events around the Triangle we recommend this week.

Cutting Class

The Assembly reports on why UNC-Chapel Hill scrapped a project that had explored purchasing Kettering University, an engineering school in Flint, to speed up development of a new college of applied sciences.

Backtalk

UNC-Chapel Hill’s response to a student op-ed on campus food insecurity and a call for Duke to do more to address homelessness in Durham.

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TRIANGLE: Wake, Durham and Orange counties have all seen a rise in homelessness since last year, Axios reports.

WAKE COUNTY: Members of the 1983 NC State national championship basketball team have lost a court battle against the NCAA seeking compensation for continued replays of their victories, WRAL reports.

ORANGE COUNTY: A UNC-Chapel Hill professors’ study on Black maternal health was cancelled following the Trump administration’s National Institutes of Health cuts, The Guardian reports.

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