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The Pendulum, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Pacemaker-winning weekly newspaper, will have several executive staff positions open starting in the spring semester.

Professors Anne Marx and Hal Walker in the Department of Leisure and Sport Management took more than 60 students from their introductory courses to the RBC Center in Raleigh recently to learn more about career options in the sport management industry.

Rex Waters, associate dean of students, made two presentations during the Nov. 11-14 annual conference of the International Leadership Academy.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ remains the nation’s top-ranked master’s-level university for study abroad programs in the 2009 Open Doors report by the Institute of International Education.

Kim Pyne, assistant professor of English and education, and Melanie Shoffner (Purdue University) published a chapter in The Doctoral Degree in English Education, edited by Allen Webb.

"Civilization," a sculpture by former ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ scholar-in-residence Ahmed Fadaam, was installed on the portico of the Arts West building Thursday afternoon in an event that included a live question-and-answer discussion with the artist from his home in Baghdad.

Citizens are wary of political appointments in North Carolina’s judicial selection process, with 69 percent of respondents in the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll indicating their support for continuing direct election of judges to their positions.