An editorial urging readers to take their voting duty seriously mentions the various elective positions up for grabs in the state in the November election. Included are two seats to be filled on the Wayne State University Board of Governors.

A photo of the Women About Town exhibit at the reopening of the Detroit Historical Museum mentions that the interactive display shows how clothes evolved in the 20th century. Some of the garments featured are from a Wayne State University collection.

George Mogill, clinical professor in the WSU Department of Family Medicine, will receive the Exemplary Teaching Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians at its annual meeting. A family physician in Detroit , he has devoted more than 50 years to training family physicians.

George Mogill, a clinical professor of family medicine at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, received the exemplary teaching award from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Wayne State's Warriors will be meeting the top-ranked team in Division II football this Saturday - undefeated Grand Valley State. This year, Wayne State is 3-0 in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play, its best start since 1979. \"When we were in the middle of losing however many games in a row, all I really cared about was making improvements,\" said coach Paul Winters, in his third season with the Warriors. \"I think we\'re getting better. That makes me happy.\" Grand Valley coach Chuck Martin said earlier this year that he expected Wayne State to be one of the most improved teams in the league. \"Paul\'s got people excited about football,\" Martin said. \"He\'s got the players excited. I\'m not surprised. They played us as tough as anybody in the country.\"

Warrior running back Joique Bell is profiled in this story that chronicles his career at WSU that has led to him becoming one of the nation's best Division II rushers. "We saw a kid that's a great athlete," said Paul Winters, WSU head coach. \"But we also saw a young man with character. He worked in an education office while in high school.\" Bell, a redshirt freshman, is ranked second nationally in three categories: all-purpose yards per game (233.0), rushing (195.3) and scoring (15 points). Bell\'s most recent milestone occurred Sept. 18 in a 35-31 victory over Mercyhurst. Bell had a team-record 318 yards on 26 carries and four touchdowns behind an offensive line of one junior, three redshirt sophomores and a redshirt freshman. Bell said he has no regrets about signing with Wayne State and playing in Division II because he knows how committed the coaching staff is to seeing him and the team succeed.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm, along with several Michigan civil rights leaders, spoke at Wayne State University on Mar. 27 to discuss the status of civil rights in the state and to create a strategic plan of action. Frank Wu, WSU Law School dean, and Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press columnist, moderated the discussion.

The E2Detroit entrepreneurism and excellence workshop at Wayne State next week is highlighted in this story. The agenda includes association and academic experts such as Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid, TechTown executive director Howard Bell, Wayne State venture development office director Judy Johncox, College of Engineering Dean Ralph H. Kummler, and others.

Stephen Calkin, Wayne State law professor and former Trade Commission attorney, discusses the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court following last year's conservative bench appointments, especially that of Chief Justice John Roberts, who was a corporate attorney with the international law firm Hogan and Hartson. "Very few if any of them are real liberals," says Calkin. "It's clear they're all thoughtful conservatives. They won't be issuing populist kinds of opinions." After a more than decade-long hiatus, business cases - and especially anti-trust cases - are a high priority for the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court session.

George Mogill, a family physician in Detroit and clinical professor in Wayne State's department of family medicine, received the exemplary teaching award from the American Academy of Family Physicians at its annual meeting.

Wayne State University will be participating in the two-day Region 5 Premedical Conference at Central Michigan University Sept. 29-30. More than 250 premedical students will learn what they need to know to get into medical school including interviewing techniques, how to present resumes and how to write personal statements.

Fraternity and sorority students from Wayne State University and Oakland University will be on hand to perform step routines during the Detroit Zoo's free African American Festival on Saturday. Zoo spokeswoman Patricia Mills calls the step routines "a festival highlight."

Detroit rappers Obie Trice and Trick Trick lead a panel discussion on prophecy and death in hip-hop culture at noon Saturday at Wayne State University\'s UGL Auditorium. Other speakers during the free event include producer Nick Speed, WHTD-FM\'s (105.9) Sean Anthony and The Detroit News\' Adam Graham.

An editorial suggests that Education Secretary Margaret Spellings\' proposals to make college more affordable and accessible are well-intentioned -- but they could turn into a bureaucratic nightmare. Her plans were announced prior to the release of the first major national report on higher education since the 1980s. Spellings says she wants to apply the same principles of accountability in the No Child Left Behind Act to colleges and universities. The editorial further charges that the No Child Left Behind Act has given birth to a whole new, costly, bureaucratic federal process for local schools, while undermining local and state control. Spellings also proposes a national database, maintained by the federal government, which would track college achievement without compromising student privacy; and a national college achievement test. The editorial calls the latter proposal for a test "as chilling as it is preposterous" suggesting that no single test could measure college achievement in so many specialties -- biology, English, nursing, computer science -- that are typical of university programs.

Wayne State University faculty, staff and students are less likely to be involved in a traffic accident than in the past, according to data compiled by the WSU Transportation Research Group (WSU-TRG) at the College of Engineering . The Drive Safely to Wayne State Campaign, Oct. 9-11, is designed to make daily commutes to campus safer and to raise awareness about driving safely. Details of the initiative are given.

The Wayne State University Children's Bridge and Children's Hospital of Michigan will host the second biennial Children's Conference Sept. 28-29. The article gives details of the conference and speakers.

Brief profile on the Wayne State University Law School. The WSU Law School provides services in the areas of litigation, administrative law and transactional work through the following clinics: Free Legal Aid Clinic, Non-profit Corporations and Urban Development Law Clinic, Criminal Appellate Practice and Civil Rights Litigation Clinic.

Representatives from more than 100 colleges - including Wayne State University - are expected to take part in the 2006 Greater Kalamazoo Area College Night on Oct. 16 at Kalamazoo Valley Community College's Texas Township campus.

Wayne State University Law School is inviting alumni from the classes of 1966, 1976, 1986, and 1996 to a class reunion on Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Law School . Details and contact information are provided.

Wayne State University earned national recognition twice in the past year for innovation in the application of information technology. Developing procedures to identify and document functional processes in WSU\'s core applications, thoroughly testing them with automated scripts before bringing new systems online and monitoring end-to-end service have led to improved system performance and annual savings of approximately $225,000, the university said Wednesday. The effort also earned the university special recognition twice in less than a year from Campus Technology magazine. One article named Wayne State one of 16 \"Campus Technology Innovators\" for 2006, selected from almost 500 entries. In the magazine\'s December 2005 issue, Wayne State was named one of the nation\'s top 100 universities for its IT practices.