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After a bumpy year in which its chancellor resigned amid questions about the hiring of the then-governor's wife, N.C. State University found his replacement in the flat lands of northern Indiana. William Randolph "Randy" Woodson, provost at Purdue University, will begin work by May 1 as chancellor of the state's largest university, which has nearly 34,000 students. Woodson, 52, will make $420,000 a year when he takes over from James Woodward, interim chancellor since James Oblinger's resignation...