PR Experts Assess Holden Thorp’s Tenure Posted Sep 24, 2012 But acting swiftly and being done is exactly what the Chancellor did not do according to professor Dulcie Straughan, also a public relations expert in the UNC journalism school. “In this case now we’ve had the story dragging on forever, and it looks bad that way,” she says. “It just keeps on…something else is popping up all the time.” (Chapelboro.com)