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WSU conference explores cutting costs through shared community services

Wayne State University is kicking off a two-day conference, "Creating Collaborative Communities," to educate and encourage communities to search for ways to pool their resources for shared needs. Conference organizer Asst. Professor of Political Science Jared Carr said part of the genesis of the conference is an observance of the 70th anniversary of the university's school of public administration. The other part is an observance of an existing drive by communities to put collaborative agreements into place. "The Michigan Suburbs Alliance, the governor's office, the University of Michigan and the Citizen's Research Council are working on this issue," Carr said.

The survey says…

On Oct. 18, the City Council of Sterling Heights voted to award the contract for the 2005 Sterling Heights Residential Survey to the Center for Urban Studies at Wayne State . The survey will be sent randomly to 3,000 people in the Sterling Heights area. The survey will cost the city $23,167 and will ask residents of their opinion on the police and fire departments in the city. The survey will allow the residents to rate the city services as excellent, good, fair or poor.

Wayne State names residence hall for Ghafari

Wayne State University has honored alumnus and benefactor Yousif Ghafari by renaming the former North Residence Hall after him. A member of the university's capital campaign steering committee, Ghafari gave the university's fundraising campaign a major boost with a pledge of $9 million earlier this year. "Yousif Ghafari's generous gift is a wonderful testimony to his commitment to higher education and to Wayne State University in particular," said President Irvin D. Reid. A photo of Ghafari, who is founder and chairman of an architectural and design consultation firm that bears his name, accompanies this four-column, top-of-the-page story.

Labor after C-section tougher for overweight women

Though women who have had a cesarean section can often deliver vaginally with their next pregnancy, the odds of success may be lower for overweight and obese women, according to researchers led Dr. Peter Baumann of Wayne State University . Their study of nearly 8,600 pregnant women with a history of C-section found that the likelihood of a successful vaginal delivery dipped as a woman's weight climbed. Overweight and obese women were more likely than their lighter peers to require a C-section after an attempt at vaginal delivery failed.

Disappearance of S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald is subject of WSU theater's docudrama

"Ten November,\" a docudrama about the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, is discussed in this article. The play opens Oct. 28 and runs through Nov. 6 at Wayne State University 's Bonstelle Theatre. The Bonstelle production, directed by Lavinia Hart, tells the story with a mix of monologues and short vignettes interspersed with folk songs. \"In one sense it\'s a docudrama because there are a lot of facts presented, but in another sense it\'s a very creative, moving, fictionalized depiction of the event,\" Hart said. \"It culminates in a total effect of being able to step inside the lives of sailors who worked the Great Lakes from the 17th century to the present day.\"

Age-old tradition

A story about Halloween traditions includes comments by professor Janet Langlois of the English Department. An expert in folklore, Langlois points out that many believe that Halloween customs were brought to this country by Irish Immigrants who came here during the Great Potato Famine. The Celts, who lived in what is now Ireland about 2,000 years ago, observed a festival call Samhaim in which the ghosts of deceased persons came back to the outer world to mingle with the living." She said some Halloween traditions, such as trick-or-treating, jack-o-lanterns and pranks date back to the Celtic era, while others came about in more recent times.

Women May Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men

Women's skin has twice as many nerve fibers as men's skin. A body of research has yet to yield definitive answers, says pain researcher April Hazard Vallerand, PhD, RN of Detroit's Wayne State University College of Nursing. "It does look like females have some differences in pain in some areas," said Vallerand. "Women can detect heat more easily. But women also acknowledge pain more frequently. What underlies all this is that women are more willing to discuss their symptoms in the first place."

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This article about the 24th annual Minority Business Celebration in Grand Rapids notes that Frank Wu , dean of the WSU Law School , was the keynote speaker. He talked about affirmative action and pointed out that progress has been made in diversity because many people are "uncomfortable, at least troubled," by all-white, male boards and groups. He predicted that, if current trends continue, by 2050, "we will cease to have a single, identifiable racial majority in the United States ."

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