For every cell in your body, you support 10 bacterial cells that make vitamins, trigger hormones and may even influence how fat you are; guess what happens when you take penicillin? Alan Hudson, of Wayne State's Medical School says microbes that were once thought to be eliminated by antibiotics can still thrive in the body, and that raises disturbing questions about how best to treat infections. He has found Chlamydia in arthritic knees, pneumonia in Alzheimer's patient's brains and common mouth bacteria in the arterial plaque of heart attack patients. So physicians crank up the antibiotics, but they may be killing the good germs with the bad. The article includes a photo of Hudson in his lab at Wayne State .

Some attorneys are baffled by a recent Michigan Court of appeals decision that a divorced Ferndale father cannot allow his girlfriend to spend the night when his daughters are visiting. Joan Mahoney, professor of law at Wayne State , commenting on the unusual ruling said she finds it "contrary to most trends in family law."

Specialists from across southeastern Michigan , including Wayne State University and the University of Michigan , will present broad range of topics on female malignancies in the Mercy Regional Cancer Center in Port Huron .

Suzanne Newsome has been named career counselor at the Wayne State University Law School . She is a 2004 graduate of the Law School .

Two brief stories on WSU art exhibits. "Susan Unterberg: A Retrospective," a well-known New York photographer has a show of her work at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, and leading fiber artist and WSU professor Urban Jupena's show -- "Urban Jupena Sabbatical Exhibition" -- is at the Community Arts Gallery.

When Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans two months ago, another impoverished, mostly black city stepped in to help. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pledged that his city would host 500 families displaced from the Gulf Coast . The offer came as Detroit found itself facing another crisis, the latest in a half-century of problems that mirror those of New Orleans : poverty, crime, poor schools, white flight. Most pressing now is the city\'s dire financial situation. The Motor City faces an accumulated $300 million budget deficit and could go broke in 2006, its auditor general warned recently. Since July 1, 500 city workers have been let go, including police and firefighters. More layoffs are possible. The bad news comes just three months before Detroit will be on the world stage when it hosts Super Bowl XL on Feb. 5. Detroit once was the heart of the USA \'s industrial might and a symbol of its blue-collar middle class, but the city has been in steep decline for decades. Detroit \'s population has shrunk 50% from 1.8 million in 1950 to just over 900,000 in 2004, bumping it off the list of the nation\'s 10 most populous cities. \"We\'re just as flooded as New Orleans , except we are not waving white flags from the roof,\" says Robin Boyle, professor of urban planning at Detroit \'s Wayne State University .

City council candidates:Terry Margolis She has lived in Novi for 11 years and is the immediate past president of the library board. In her position as the head of the corporate consulting division at the Wayne State University School of Business, she works every day with business leaders to help them run their organizations more effectively. Thus, she believes she has the skills and abilities that will help move the city forward as it approaches buildout. She thinks roads, water and sewer are the most important aspects for city government to focus on, as well as public safety and balancing development with the need for green space. Other areas she would like to see the city focus on are recreation and cultural offerings, including senior services. She also feels that office service technology development will have the lowest impact on city services.

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) announced today that they plan to file a formal Complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Sean 'Diddy' Combs. Also named as a Respondent is Citizen Change, an organization founded by Combs that sponsored the 'Vote or Die' Campaign during last year\'s presidential election. NLPC alleges that Combs and Citizen Change appear to have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) and the Internal Revenue Service Code by promoting the election of John Kerry and the defeat of George Bush. NLPC alleges that while Citizen Change appeared to promote voter mobilization, consistent with the activities of a nonprofit organization, the organization actually engaged in prohibited electioneering activities. The Complaint cites Citizen Change rallies where speakers called for the election of Kerry and the defeat of Bush, including an event on October 26, 2004 at Wayne State University where actor Leonardo DiCaprio urged the crowd to vote for Kerry, as did Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

The Bush administration appears to have backed away from a proposal to help colleges that have taken in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. In September the U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, announced that President Bush would ask Congress for $227-million to help students and colleges affected by the hurricane (The Chronicle, September 16). Much of that money was to provide $1,000 payments to colleges for each dislocated student they had enrolled. The funds were intended to help colleges meet the unexpected costs associated with educating students who typically had already paid their fall tuition to their home college and were not being charged by their host institution. Last week, however, President Bush did not include that proposal in an emergency spending plan to rebuild devastated areas of the Gulf Coast that he submitted to Congress. Mr. Bush is asking lawmakers to reallocate $17-billion that had already been appropriated to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for hurricane relief. The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate are expected to introduce their own spending plans for the rebuilding effort within the next several weeks. Susan Aspey, an Education Department spokeswoman, said department officials \"still support\" the proposal. But privately, administration officials have told higher-education lobbyists that they have dropped the plan because Congressional leaders have shown little interest in it. Advocates for colleges say they have not given up on the proposal, but they know, in the current climate of budget deficits, that they face an uphill battle in getting any additional money for students and colleges affected by the hurricane.

Taxpayer support for public universities, measured per student, has plunged more precipitously since 2001 than at any time in two decades, and several university presidents are calling the decline a de facto privatization of the institutions that played a crucial role in the creation of the American middle class. Graham Spanier, president of Pennsylvania State University , said this year that skyrocketing tuition was a result of what he called \"public higher education\'s slow slide toward privatization.\" Other educators have made similar assertions, some avoiding the term \"privatization,\" but nonetheless describing a crisis that they say is transforming public universities. At an academic forum last month, John D. Wiley, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison , said that during the years after World War II , America built the world\'s greatest system of public higher education. \"We\'re now in the process of dismantling all that,\" Wiley said. The share of all public universities\' revenues deriving from state and local taxes declined to 64 percent in 2004 from 74 percent in 1991. At many flagship universities, the percentages are far smaller. About 25 percent of the University of Illinois \' budget comes from the state. Michigan finances about 18 percent of the University of Michigan \'s revenues. The taxpayer share of revenues at the University of Virginia is about 8 percent.

Although new SEC rules requiring lawyers to report wrongdoing by clients have yet to be tested, the visions of corporate counsel turning into regulators policing their clients have not materialized - the relief of the bar, said Peter Henning professor at Wayne State University law school. "They yelled and screamed about federal regulation of lawyers, and it's not so."

The American Jewish Committee and Wayne State University will cosponsor a day of programming on Thursday, Nov. 10, exploring the two recent Supreme Court decisions impacting the constitutionality of displaying the Ten Commandments on government property. The program will feature a roundtable discussion with legal experts and it will be held at Wayne State .

As a youngster, Derrion Fuqua got to meet some of his dad\'s friends -- Terry, Franco and Lynn. At the time, it was nice and all, but it was also no big deal. Whenever Fuqua recounts those days to his friends and Wayne State football teammates, however, they listen in amazement. \"Unfortunately, when he was playing football, I never saw it. That was before I was even born,\" said Fuqua, talking about his father, John. \"But he let me meet Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Lynn Swann.\" John (Frenchy) Fuqua played seven seasons as a running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, collecting two Super Bowl rings in the process. He still holds the team\'s single game rushing record of 218 yards, set in 1970. The matter-of-fact relationship the young Fuqua saw between his father and former NFL teammates didn\'t really sink in until he was old enough to appreciate it. \"I didn\'t know what it really meant at the time,\" Fuqua said. \"But it makes me step back to think about it. Sometimes, it even blows me away. My friends can\'t believe I got to meet those kind of people.\" Just as his father was part of something special in NFL history, the younger Fuqua is hoping to be part of the start of something special at Wayne State . The Warriors, who picked up a 14-7 win over Gannon last weekend, have a chance to finish this season with some momentum. Wayne State (3-6 overall) finishes its season Saturday at Hillsdale. The Warriors went 3-2 at home but are 0-4 on the road. \"Right now, we want a winning (home) record to set it up for next year,\" Fuqua said. \"We only lose three or four senior starters, so most of our team is coming back. I have high expectations for next year.\" Fuqua leads Wayne State \'s secondary with two interceptions this season.

Wayne State's Jazz Lab 1 Big Band, under the direction of Chris Collins, will open their concert series at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8th, in WSU's Schaver Recital Hall. The event will feature a guest performance by composer John Cooper, a WSU alumnus. Tickets are $5 and $8 and may be purchased at the door.

The tragic sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975 , is marked by Steven Dietz's play, "Ten November," now at the Wayne State University Bonstelle Theatre. Nine male actors and three female singers play various roles as they represent not only the 29-man crew of the ore carrier that sank in Lake Superior during the storm but other characters linked to the tragedy. "Ten November" continues through November 6, with Friday and Saturday performances at 8 p.m. , and a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee.

Columnist Bill McGraw writes about the collection of Rosa Parks' papers donated to Wayne State 's Walter P. Reuther Library in 1976. "Over the years," he writes, "the Parks collection has been examined by the scholars, union members, journalists and students who generally use the library, which is known internationally for its archives on the history of the labor movement, civil rights and urban affairs." The collection includes papers, awards, letters, clippings and other items that connect with Parks' life between the 1950s and the mid-1970s. McGraw focuses on pages of notes from a yellow legal pad because they are among the only items in the collection that Parks herself wrote. She took the notes at a lecture during 10 days at a camp that provided training in labor and civil rights activism. The session Parks attended was held shortly after the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ruled racially segregated schools are illegal. "With the Supreme Court decree, the job is not if the schools will be integrated, but how to integrate them," she wrote. Photos of the notepad and one of the library's file rooms accompany the story.

A story about the continuing controversy over whether public employers, such as state universities, can legally offer benefits to same sex partners focuses on Dahlia Schwartz and Dr. Kathleen Moltz, professor of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. They are plaintiffs in a suit filed by the ACLU that contends that Michigan 's constitutional amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman does not bar public employers from providing benefits to an employee's domestic partner and children. The issue is working its way through the courts and could eventually end up in the Michigan Supreme Court.

Michigan officials say they will push toward a goal of having 100 percent of the state's core-subject teachers "highly qualified" by the end of the year despite an offer from the federal government to extend a looming deadline. The state has worked with Detroit Public Schools and Wayne State University to get certification for teachers instructing in areas that are outside of their college majors and minors. In three years, a total of 185 Detroit teachers have received training through the program.

The weekly events listing includes the following two items: 1) Lawrence Technological University will host "The Future of Affirmative Action in Michigan " on Nov. 21. The program features Dean Frank Wu of the WSU Law School and Ward Connerly, a regent of the University of California . 2) On Nov. 21 WU will give opening remarks for a 4 p.m. session at the WSU Law School that will explore two recent Supreme Court decisions impacting the constitutionality of displaying the Ten Commandments on government property. The discussion will resume at 7:15 p.m. at Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park . Contacts for more information are provided.

The Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State will host a forum on gender and corporate citizenship from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Friday. Scholars, businesspersons and legal experts will discuss how corporations encourage or discourage diversity, the domestic partner benefit controversy and what companies are doing to keep talented women. Panelists will include Erica Beecher-Monas of the WSU Law School . The event will be held at the Law School , beginning at 8 p.m. Admission is free.