The affiliation agreement between the School of Medicine and Oakwood Health Care Inc. is the subject of this article. The partnership has been widely reported in the print media, as evidenced by previous entries in this daily media report.

In this story about the policies of U.S. and international courts in regards to antitrust issues, and the current case by the Antitrust Modernization Commission against Microsoft, Wayne State law professor Stephen Calkins was quoted. "The problem is: The list of issues is as long as your arm," Calkins said. "The whole thing could overwhelm a congressional audience." Current antitrust laws are undergoing modernization reformation.

Wayne State University officials were on hand during drive-time's "Jim Harper and the Morning Show" for a special in-studio event honoring the wishes of a local Michigan soldier stationed in Iraq. Corporal Chris Crocker received baseball bats, balls, gloves, jerseys, t-shirts, hats, bases and more courtesy of the Wayne State University Athletic Department. Rob Fournier, WSU athletics director, presented the equipment to Crocker and his mother, Donna Meinke. During an earlier segment of the "Jim Harper and the Morning Show," Meinke made a plea for donations of baseball equipment so that U.S. soldiers in Iraq could enjoy playing ball. Harper acknowledged participating officials from WSU's Marketing and Communications Department including Steve Brown, associate vice president, Barb Donia, director of creative services, photographer M.J. Murawka and Fournier.

A WDIV crew randomly interviewed Wayne State University students on campus about their reaction to the redesigned Channel 4 Web site www.ClickonDetroit.com launched by the NBC affiliate today. Students were asked to test drive the site on their laptops and comment about the new features and design. The story is scheduled to air during various segments today.

Wayne State University Law Professor Robert Sedler commented about the Bush administration's desire to consolidate all court challenges to domestic spying programs operated by the National Security Agency into one case in Washington, D.C. If they succeed, a motion in Detroit for the U.S. Department of Justice would move a challenge by a host of plaintiffs to the federal district court in Washington. Sedler said this seems very unprecedented. "Typically, the (multidistrict) panel gets involved when there are claims arising from the same incident, like an airline crash. These are constitutional cases, and the facts differ from case to case." A photo of Sedler was included.

Wayne State's School of Business Administration received a Michigan Corporate Partnership Award during the Michigan Technology Leaders 2006 forum held in Rochester. The award is made in recognition of joint ventures between Michigan companies and local individuals or groups, benefitting the technology community and enhancing commercial relationships. Wayne State received the award for its work with SpaceForm, Inc.

A team of Wayne State University researchers provided an analysis for the Brookings Institution in Washington that shows a faster decline in middle-income neighborhoods than middle-income families. \"Families earning between 80 percent and 120 percent of their metropolitan-area median incomes - what many would consider to be the \'middle class\' - shrank from 28 percent of the total in 1970 to less than 22 percent by 2000,\" according to the analysis, by Jason C. Booza, Jackie Cutsinger and George Galster of Wayne State University. The analysis attributed the shrinking number of middle-income communities to, among other factors, gentrification of more marginal neighborhoods and a bunching of high-income families in more homogenous surroundings.

An increasing number of students nationwide and worldwide are turning to online degree programs to complete or advance their educations while they work. Online enrollment jumped from 1.98 million in 2003 to 2.35 million the following year, accounting for 7 percent of postsecondary education, according to Eduventures, a Boston firm that studies trends in education. Another study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, reports that 65 percent of universities offering face-to-face graduate courses also offer graduate courses online. By early 2008, Eduventures predicts, about one in 10 college students will be enrolled in an online degree program. Last March, Congress passed a law that drops the requirement that colleges offer at least half their courses face to face to receive federal student aid - a move analysts say should attract more students and schools in the online industry.

Included in gubernatorial hopeful Dick DeVos' "Michigan Turnaround Plan" is an increase in funding for secondary and higher education. He wants to create a "governor's bureaucracy override" to permit faster decisions, eliminate income taxes for families making under $14,000 per year, start merit pay for public schoolteachers, consider per-pupil funding for universities and community colleges and to phase out state welfare benefits after four years. DeVos also seeks to eliminate Granholm's Cool Cities program. This move would redirect $4 million in grant funds to improve the image of the state to prevent college grads from fleeing Michigan.

Professors from Wayne State are mentioned in this story as starting the \"Sherlockians,\" a group affiliated with the Baker Street Irregulars. This society is composed of people who are dedicated to sharing information through reading and studying the rewriting of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the Central Great Lakes region for his work in establishing a 75-acre research and technology park as a spin-off from Wayne State.

Frank H. Wu, Wayne State University's Law School dean, commented about a Michigan Journal of Race & Law story which questions a 2005 study done by Princeton University. The study predicted that four out of every five seats created by accepting fewer African Americans and Hispanic students would be filled by Asian Pacific Americans at the elite schools, based on an analysis of enrollment data from law schools at the University of Washington, the University of Texas and the University of California's Berkeley, Davis and Los Angeles campuses from 1993 to 2005. Asian Pacific Americans made up 12.9 percent of the enrollments at the five law schools with Affirmative Action in effect, and 14.3 percent without, which is a less significant increase than the Princeton study had predicted. "The study is important because what typically happens is that Asian Pacific Americans are excluded from the civil rights dialogue, and then are suddenly introduced as spoilers in the affirmative action debate," Wu said. "The better approach is to oppose bias against Asian Pacific Americans even as we encourage inclusion of African Americans and Latinos."

Dr. Robert Lisak, chairman of the Department of Neurology, commented about an Ohio auditor who returned to work after being hospitalized with Guillian-Barre Syndrome, which is a rare, paralyzing nerve disorder. "It's a self-limited disease," said Lisak. "It only rarely occurs. The problem is that some patients, although a minority, are left with significant neurological deficits. They may have difficulty walking or feeling things. Some patients are left with nothing." He added that the syndrome used to lead to death and still could lead to prolonged and permanent disability, but today patients get better faster, due to more advanced treatments.

Wayne State was mentioned in this story for being one of the sponsors of ARISE Detroit's weeklong recruiting program, which begins on Saturday with a volunteer fair at Campus Martius Park. The program ends June 30.

A new version of the federal application for student aid for the 2007-08 school year creates a loophole for parents: Money saved in education-savings accounts for dependent students will no longer be counted in determining aid, as long as the accounts are in the student's name. The changes in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA - which were released for public comment this month - could cause a rush by some parents to move assets from college-savings plans in their names and set up custodial accounts in the child's name.

Responding to demand from Michigan hospitals, Wayne State University\'s College of Nursing will launch a program in September to shorten from 22 to 15 months the time to train nurses to be neonatal nurse practitioners. Wayne State has the only neonatal nurse practitioner program in the state and produces about 10 to 15 graduates each year in its 22-month program. College of Nursing Assistant Dean Linda Lewandowski says she expects to train about 10 more through the 15-month program. Michigan hospitals are working with WSU to train their own nurses in the 15-month program. Sparrow Hospital in Lansing plans to help Wayne State pay for the increased cost of providing the accelerated program and will subsidize its nurses' incomes while they're in the program, according to Sandy Geller, a neonatal nurse practitioner and department practitioner and department manager for its neonatal intensive care unit.

The Wayne State University Library and Information Science program has been selected as the winner of the Excellence in Distance Education award in Sonic Foundry\'s 2006 Rich Media Impact Awards at the EduComm conference in Orlando, Fla. ECHO, for Enhancing Courses Held Online, is the LIS program\'s online distance learning instructional project that was developed by implementing Mediasite technology with the goal of providing distance students with access to course content \"live\" and \"on-demand.\" \"The LIS Program at Wayne State University is proving that Mediasite truly is a revolutionary communications medium,\" said Rimas Buinevicius, Sonic Foundry\'s chairman and CEO. \"We\'re delighted to honor how the Wayne State LIS Program is transforming the way they not only communicate, but also compete in today\'s marketplace.\"

A correction ran about the June 18 Port Huron Times-Herald story on the Medicine Assessment Program at Wayne State University. The program is under the direction of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. The information was incorrect in the original Page 1B story.

Wayne State University Law Professor Peter J. Henning commented about the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against five Argentinian investors claiming they used insider information to reap more than $1 million from Tenaris SA's agreement to buy Chesterfield-based Maverick Tube Corp. Henning said it will be important for regulators to show how the insider information was acquired. "They're going to need a link," Henning said. "They've got all the timing evidence that they need but suspicion doesn't get you all the way there. It will be critical that the SEC is able to prove the defendants acted with insider information."

A Wayne State study was noted in this article about workplace bullying, a growing problem in today's "new economy" as companies face stiffer competition and CEO's turn over faster, developing few personal bonds with people around them. The WSU study concluded that four out of every five Americans feel they have worked for a tyrant, at one time or another.