Challenger vowed

Wayne State University student Hansen Hunter, a Freman Hendrix supporter, is quoted in a national story about Detroit 's mayoral race. Hunter says he wants "less fat cat…less family and friends, more job opportunities and less haves and have nots."

November 9, 2005

Poll finds 33% of Detroiters want to leave

Tawny Barnes, 27, a Wayne State business student and Wayne County employee, and support of Kwame Kilpatrick, commented in a post-election story. "I work downtown and I see a lot that he's (Kilpatrick) doing.

November 9, 2005

Area sports in brief

Ice hockey: Wayne State defenseman Steve Kovalchik is College Hockey America 's defensive player of the week. A senior from Riverview, he had four assists in two games.

November 9, 2005

Still Way Overdue

Jack Lessenberry, a member of Wayne State 's journalism faculty, opines about recent honors bestowed upon civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo. Last week, Wayne State University 's Organization of Black Alumni (OBA) honored Viola Liuzzo with its top award at its annual banquet. When Liuzzo died, she was a student at Wayne State . Tara Young, a member of the OBA, has been fighting to get WSU to give Liuzzo a posthumous degree, but so far the university has said no. "They say they have rules that they can't give a degree to a dead person," Young says. "That's the least they could do after her sacrifice." Lessenberry concludes that Liuzzo deserves an honorary degree from the nursing school and that "there ought to be something on campus named for her."

November 9, 2005

WSU Honors Community Peacemakers

Wayne State University \'s Center for Peace and Conflict Studies hosts its 2005 Community Peacemaker Awards Nov. 19, the eve of the center\'s 40th anniversary. The awards honor those who have made a difference in promoting peace and social understanding in our community. The event, with emcee Huel Perkins of Fox 2 News and keynote speaker Shirley Stancato of New Detroit Inc., will take place at the WSU McGregor Memorial Conference Center at 6 p.m.

November 9, 2005

People making news

Wayne State 's office of alumni relations hired Jason VanDiver, formerly an assistant to the dean in the College of Nursing , as an alumni relations officer.

November 9, 2005

NextEnergy's Biodiesel Value Chain Initiative

Wayne State University is noted in this column as one of NextEnergy's "committed network of partners. Other partners listed include: Daimler Chrysler, Robert Bosch Corp., Delphi Corp., BioDiesel Industries, the United States Army Tank Command and the U.S. Department of Energy.

November 9, 2005

Deadline today for cancer session

Wayne State is noted as providing cancer-care experts and specialists for the 14th annual Mercy Center Symposium to be held on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Mercy Regional Cancer Center in Port Huron .

November 9, 2005

Can't afford tuition? Here's why

Three editorials were featured concerning tuition costs and offering various solutions to the rising costs. Among suggested solutions: Privatizing colleges and universities which will lead to a leveling of costs and an increase in the quality of undergraduate education; improving administration through hiring qualified administrators, and the federal government should concentrate on providing proper loans to students.

November 9, 2005

Delphi to spin off welding company; SpaceForm's new technology will be in Detroit 's TechTown

SpaceForm Inc. will be located in TechTown, the research and technology park at Wayne State University . Delphi will give SpaceForm a license to use the new technology and startup assistance. There is also funding from the Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor and Automation Alley. The welding system, known as deformation resistance welding, can join metals of different thickness and grade. It's also useful for joining tube structures. The lab is expected to be ready to bid on contracts by spring 2006.

November 9, 2005

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WJR reporter Lloyd Jackson interviewed Wayne State Professor Seymour Wolfson about his upcoming session of a computer training program for 19-21-year-old Detroiters that have a high school diploma or GED. The interview was part of Jackson 's daily Motor City Moment report.

November 8, 2005

The morning grind

Professor Lyke Thompson comments about Detroit 's mayoral race candidates and how they may fare in a close contest. \"The polls have the challenger Freman Hendrix slightly up. The other thing that is to his advantage is the elderly tend to get out and vote more. On the other hand, if the weather is good ... then it will encourage the young voters who favor Mayor Kilpatrick to come out and vote," Thompson says.

November 8, 2005

Delphi's woes blamed on lousy management

David Reynolds, a labor studies teacher at Wayne State , commented about the unions challenging Delphi Corp. by forming the Mobilizing@Delphi coalition to fight Delphi 's plans to cut wages and close plants. Delphi is currently involved in bankruptcy proceedings. "The Delphi unions are trying to broaden their base of support while addressing economic trends that affect a broad swath of workers," Reynolds said. \"These are structural issues, so this kind of coalition makes perfect sense.\"

November 8, 2005

Wayne State offers free tech training

Young adult Detroiters can hone their skills on IBM or Apple computers, learn to surf the Internet and receive job placement assistance - all while getting paid to do so, thanks to a free training program sponsored by the Wayne State University Word Processing Training Center through the university\'s department of computer science. The next computer training session begins Dec. 5. Students can earn monetary incentives for attendance and performance, as well as receive supportive services for lunch and transportation. Details and contact information are included.

November 8, 2005

TechTown invites entrepreneurs to open house

TechTown, Detroit \'s only research and technology park, said Monday it\'s inviting all technology entrepreneurs in the region to an open house luncheon Nov. 30 at noon. TechTown says entrepreneurs at any stage of launching a startup, or growing an already established tech company, are invited to learn about TechTown\'s unique facilities and programs for new businesses. Included are affordable office, wet lab and dry lab space, a custom process for producing a startup plan called FrontLine Accelerator for Science and Technology, Internet 2 connectivity, custom-designed work environments, access to Wayne State University\'s grid computing lab, building management from the global real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield and more. The event will be held at TechOne, 440 Burroughs St. , between Cass and Second avenues.

November 8, 2005

Insurers don't treat patients the same

How people are injured has a significant effect on the treatment they receive after a spinal cord injury. "The differences between auto accident survivors and victims of violence couldn't be larger," says Cathy Lysack, a WSU professor of gerontology who is studying the disparities.

November 8, 2005

Teens fight against violent game

Debra Hernadez Jozefowicz-Simbeni, an assistant professor at Wayne 's School of Social Work , commented on a particularly violent new video game described in this story saying she wouldn't buy it for her children. "We know that in terms of school violence and school shootings in particular, one of the main factors that contributed to the school violence was bullying, " she said. "We know that media has an effect on kids across the board.

November 8, 2005

Bonior: On workers ' rights, we can do better than this

WSU professor of labor studies and former Michigan congressman Bonior wrote a commentary on American rights in the workplace as part of the "Workers' Rights are Human Rights Tour." He estimates that each year 23,000 American workers are fired illegally.

November 8, 2005

WSU Law School creates leaders of tomorrow: Dean Frank Wu sets bar high

\"Never judge a book by its cover,\"? could quite possibly sum up Frank Wu, dean of the WSU Law School . At 37, he is one of the youngest, if not the youngest law school leader in the nation and possibly the world. Wu is not your father\'s law school dean. \"I would like law school to serve as a venue for real intellectual excitement,\" said Wu. \"Wayne State dominates the bench and the bar in the city and the state as few other law schools do in any region.\" The story features three photos of the WSU Law School and a commencement.

November 8, 2005

Women, minorities, jobs discussed

This article on the front page of the business section covered The Center for the Study of Citizenship's conference on Gender and Corporate Citizenship, held last Friday. The daylong event included business leaders, academics and students discussing the evolving roles of women and minorities in today\'s corporate world. The list of speakers included Carolyn Buck Luce, senior partner at Ernst & Young; Erica Beecher-Monas, WSU law professor; and Janet B. Reid, managing partner at Global Lead Management. Photos of Janet Reid and professor Beecher-Monas accompanied the article.

November 7, 2005