I would say the best thing about ECU is its lovely open and campus and the welcoming feel from its students. I remember touring ECU before I was a freshman and just loving how everyone was so friendly and easy going. There were no judgements about grades or extracurriculars that you might have brought in, they were simply happy to have you come tour their school.
One thing that I would change however is the ECU website. It can be very difficult and irritating to try to find anything on that website because of its search system, which tends to be very lacking. Its actually easier just to google the topic separately and just insert ECU as tagline to find what you need.
Another thing about ECU is its reputation--that is all partiers and drunkards--but don't let that scare you. We actually are a really good school with great academics without any pretentiousness. Really only a small percentage go partying, and if you stay away from downtown on the weekends, you dont even know that it really goes on.
We definitely have a lot of school pride when it comes to football. Going to the games are fantastic, especially when you can sit in the student section with everyone and you do that cheers and chants.
Most of the time however, you can see students spending their time at two places: Wright Place (which is like an outside student common area/breezeway) and the Library. Both are pretty nice to go too because theres lots of place to meet up with friends, grab something to eat, get coffee (Starbucks stole all my money because of this), or study. At Wright, theres outdoor tables too and place to sit, where, if its nice out is a really great place to study or simply have lunch (especially after 4 when most of the students are done for the day).
And probably the biggest recent controversies we've had on campus are the Streaker at the Football game and Gunbrella Man. The streaker not only did it during a military appreciation game, but he also made the ECU newspaper, front page, in only his birthday suit with not little bleeps or blurriness to be descreet about anything.This cause a huge controversy, because I dont know about you, but I certainly dont want to see some man's body parts right smack dab on the front page. And also, Gumbrella Man, the alleged gunman on campus who really turned out just to be a guy with an umbrella. Atleast though, you know ECU is alert about possibly threats and ready to take action by being prepared for any possibility of one.