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She's on the rebound at Wayne State

Casey Banks, a 21-year-old senior center on Wayne State 's women's basketball team, has averaged 7.1 points a game since her insertion into the starting lineup. Banks says she thinks her team can still make a move in the GLIAC South standing (7-13 overall, 4-8 GLIAC). "Honestly, I do think we could be doing a lot better," she says. "I think we still could win the GLIAC, but we have some work to do." A photo of Banks is included with the feature story.

The Gay Moralist: Open relationships and double standards

As I embark upon a week\'s worth of same-sex marriage debates with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family (details below), I am bracing myself for his arguments. Please join me as I debate Glenn Stanton at Wayne State University in Detroit on February 13 at 7 p.m. in Community Arts Auditorium; at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids on February 15 at 4 p.m. in Kirkhof Center Grand River Room; and at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant on February 16 at 7 p.m. in Bovee University Center Auditorium. All events are free and open to the public. Dr. John Corvino teaches philosophy at Wayne State University in Detroit . He writes bi-weekly for BTL and occasionally for the Independent Gay Forum www.indegayforum.org.

Keeping it civil

John Corvino, a Wayne State professor and columnist for Between the Lines Newspaper, will participate in a debate, Feb. 13, at WSU. The topic will be "Same-Sex Marriage: A Civil Debate." Corvino will debate with Glenn Stanton, senior analyst for marriage and sexuality with the Focus on the Family organization. "Marriage is, in an important sense, a public institution, and public institutions deserve a serious public dialogue," Corvino says. The debate will be at 7 p.m. in the Community Arts Auditorium. Other debates are scheduled for Grand Rapids and Mt. Pleasant later in the month.

Southern Illinois U. agrees to Justice Department demands to open programs to all races

Southern Illinois trustees have approved an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department that makes students of any race or gender eligible for three fellowship programs that had been reserved for women or members of minority groups. As part of the settlement, the university denied having engaged in illegal discrimination but said it would open all of its paid fellowship programs to members of any race, gender or ethnicity. University president Glenn Poshard vowed to press ahead with efforts to diversify SI campuses and said the university would take the necessary steps to assure that nothing in the criteria used in the school's graduate assistance programs would hamper the participation of women and minorities in the program.

NextEnergy opens National Biofuel Energy Lab

NextEnergy is partnering with Wayne State University in opening the National Biofuel Energy Lab located in the company's new center in TechTown. The first-of-its-king lab is made possible through a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. WSU College of Engineering professors Simon Ng and Naeim Henein will manage laboratory activity and other WSU professors, graduate students and Ph.D. candidates from the College of Engineering will conduct day-to-day research and experiments on site.

A low-fat diet is no shield for women

A story about the results of a new study on women's health includes comments from Susan Hendrix, professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the School of Medicine . Results of the study, which found that a low-fat diet is not enough to protect women from heart disease, colon and breast cancer, were released at a news briefing in Bethesda , Md. Wayne State and Hutzel Hospital are among 40 sites participating in the landmark study. The message is that "a low fat diet is not enough," Hendrix said. She suggests that women may need to limit fat intake more strictly, exercise regularly and consider cholesterol-lowering drugs.

WSU series sweats the small stuff

The next in a series of nanotechnology lectures at Wayne State University will be by Charles Winter, associate chair of the Chemistry Department, on Feb. 21. He will speak on the topic "Growth of Nanoscale Thin Films by Atomic Layer Deposition." A visiting professor from Northwestern University will speak on March 7 and professor Claudio Verani of the Chemistry Department here will deliver a lecture on March 21. All presentations begin at 2:30 p.m. in the WSU Welcome Center .

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