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When it comes to closing a nearly $3 billion state budget shortfall for the next fiscal year, more than 6 in 10 North Carolinians support an increase in the sales tax by 1 cent per dollar spent, according to the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll. More than half of respondents – 56 percent – said they would oppose the elimination of state jobs to address the gap.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ professors Laura Roselle and Joel Karty have been selected as Senior Faculty Research Fellows for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.

Most North Carolinians know that Raleigh is their capital city and that Beverly Perdue is their governor, but according to the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Poll, fewer than 1 in 5 state residents can correctly name Roy Cooper as their state attorney general, and barely a third could correctly identify both sitting United States senators.

With the 2010 congressional midterm elections less than a week away, only one third of respondents in the latest ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ poll believed Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr deserves re-election as he fends off Democratic challenger Elaine Marshall.

Associate professor Hunter Bacot joined with leading political scientists in North Carolina on Oct. 19 for a panel discussion on the 2010 elections, an event in Raleigh, N.C., sponsored by the North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation.

After an aggressive publicity campaign, the Model United Nations Society at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ has seen a recent increase in membership and prominence on campus.

In a news conference followed by a Q&A with ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf discussed on Wednesday his vision for the future of his nation, the need for the United States to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan, and how economic development in the Muslim world is critical for reducing terrorism and extremism around the globe.

Former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf talked about the qualities of leadership, the conflict in the Middle East and many other topics during an intense one-hour class session with International Relations students on Oct. 13.

It was an oft-repeated word on Thursday: “complex.” For three professors and two students taking part in a community conversation focused on the upcoming visit to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, there was no other way to describe the man’s history, or what it means for the university that he’ll be on campus as the keynote speaker at Fall Convocation.