ECU

Resting atop University Hill, Emerald City University is the region’s leading public college. ECU’s combination of broad curriculum range, generous financial aid and scholarship programs, and high graduate employment rates make it the school of choice for much of the Pacific Northwest. ECU enjoys a well-deserved reputation for excellence in the theoretical and applied sciences, and the current president Steven “Mac” Macinter is dedicated to maintaining it. The University’s good name is even more meaningful to Emerald’s grateful city fathers, as it was a key factor in attracting high-tech companies to the area and reversing the early-’90's economic doldrums. To borrow an old phrase, the attitude in Emerald City is “What’s good for ECU is good for the city.” The university’s various athletic teams all play in the Pac 12 conference, but the ECU Sasquatches football program is by far the best known, most beloved, and successful of them all. ECU also boasts several NCAA lacrosse titles (men’s and women’s), and the Lady Sasquatches are a perennial power in basketball. Other ECU sports teams like men’s basketball and baseball are mostly outstanding only in their punctuality in showing up for games. Like the rest of Emerald City, an undercurrent of the supernatural exists on the ECU campus. The land the university is situated upon was formerly known as Gallows Hill, and was the site of many public hangings back in the days of swift, harsh punishments. Even before the last man was strung up there, tales of unquiet spirits roaming the Hill at night abounded, and ghost stories remain a common thread in ECU student life. As ever, the truth and seriousness of such sightings are a matter to be proven or disproved by further investigation.