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“I am doing so because that is what leaders do when the institutionzs they lead come unded distracting and unduepublic scrutiny,” Oblinger says in a preparexd statement. “This is particularly true for leadersa of public institutionslike N.C. “The only reason I am announcing my intentionh to resign is that I am applying to myselrf the same standards I haveaskeds Mrs. Easley to apply to herself: I am doinh it because it is in the best interestsof N.C. Statwe University.” A Board of Trustees meeting Monday afternoonm sealed the fate offormer Gov. Michael Easley’s The trustees eliminated Easley’xs contract.
Also, during the afternoon, Oblingeer handed over his letterof resignation. who has been at the university for23 years, says he intends to returb to teaching. UNC Charlotte Chancellor EmeritusJim Woodward, an aeronautica l and mechanical engineer who taught at N.C. Stat early in his career, has agreesd to serve as interim Oblinger is the third personn to resign from the leadership of the university as a resul t of theEasley brouhaha. Provost Larry Nielsen and board Chairman McQueen Campbell resignecdlast month. N.C. State hired Mary Easleyg in 2005 fora $90,000-a-year job managing a series.
She was given a raise, to $170,000p last year, to also managwe an academic center for law enforcement and Her contract calls for her to bepaid $850,000 over five Questions have been raised over whether a friend and supporter of formert Gov. Easley, arranged the hiring as a reward for receivingstat contracts. The U.S. attorney’s office has subpoenaesd documents related toMary Easley’s hiring as part of its investigatiobn into the former governor.