This weekly co-production of WSU School of Business Administration and Detroit Public Television, featured Lou Anna K. Simon, president of Michigan State University . This completes the program\'s coverage of the Presidents of Michigan\'s 3 research universities. President Reid appeared during the 2004 season, and President Mary Sue Coleman (UM) appeared during the 2005 season. Host Larry Fobes (SBA) interviewed President Simon about the leadership challenges at all major universities, and her special need to remain true to the institution\'s land grant heritage. WSU students in the studio audience also had opportunity to ask leadership questions on-air. The episode will be re-broadcast on February 1 at 5:30 pm.

An Associate Press article that ran widely throughout the country and focusing on how the SEC can punish corporate crime without penalizing shareholders, includes comments from WSU law professor Peter Henning, a former SEC attorney. At issue is interpretation of a recent SEC statement regarding financial penalties to corporations for wrongdoing. The statement said the commission "is expected to seek penalties from culpable individual offenders acting for the corporation." But Henning says the statement is so general that it doesn't say much. "It's kind of what everyone knew already: If you cooperate, it's going to help you." He points out that the extent of wrongdoing and the time frame it covered are factors the SEC considers in recommending penalties.

The Detroit Lions photo and artifacts exhibit at the Walter P. Reuther Library is discussed in a story about the team's eight decades of highs and lows. Among the guests at the exhibit's opening Thursday was Wally Triplett, a Lion in 1949 and 1950 and one of the first African-American players in the N.F.L. A photo of Triplett looking over some images from the Reuther's "Double Coverage" exhibit accompanies the story.

Jerry Herron, director of the Honors Program and former director of the American Studies Program here, is quoted in an article about how Detroit is putting its best foot forward in preparation for the Super Bowl. The writer calls Detroit "a gritty working city with a checkered history that's busy trying to redefine itself." He says Detroiters are a little defensive about their national image. Herron points out that "Americans don't like poverty. Americans don't like things old. Americans don't like urban violence. We have all the problems that everyone else has that people like to pretend exist only in Detroit ."

George Galster, professor of urban affairs at Wayne State University , commented about Detroit 's current financial struggle as it hosts the Super Bowl this weekend. The city and its school system each struggle with multi-million dollar budget deficits. The unemployment rate is 6.8%, second only to New Orleans . And an estimated 10,000 people leave every year. \"Being in the doldrums is a compliment to describing the economy here,\" he said.

An editorial states that Michigan 's universities "need to do more to track and trim waste." Following an examination of state audit performance reports for 11 of Michigan 's 15 universities since 2000, the Free Press revealed this week in a Jan. 16 story what the writer called "patterns of inefficiencies." The University of Michigan 's main campus is singled out as an institution that was not audited, and has not been audited in more than 20 years.

"Engaged Learning: A Journey to the Future" will be the topic during Wayne State University's fourth annual Student Academic Success Summit, to be held Thursday, Feb. 23, and Friday, Feb. 24, on the Detroit campus. Leading educational speakers Vincent Tinto, Judy Patton and J. Herman Blake will be presenters during the two-day summit. Background information about the speakers is provided. The summit's logo image is also included.

Various topics about the effect of the Super Bowl on Detroit are discussed with Wayne State University faculty. Included in the discussion comments are: School of Business Administration professors Hugh Cannon, Neveen Awad, Jeff Stoltman, Richard Beltramini; and Professor Jerry Herron, director of Wayne State 's Honors Program.

A feature story, accompanied with historical photos of the Detroit Lions, examines the "Double Coverage: An Exhibit of Detroit Lions History through Photographs" currently on exhibit at the Walter P. Reuther Library. The exhibit highlights the birth of the Detroit Lions in Detroit , famous Lions players, championships, the four playing facilities and a snapshot of the National Football League (NFL) and Lions history.

Fox 2 covered the opening of the Detroit Lions history exhibit at Wayne State 's Walter P. Reuther Library showing some of the vintage photos and memorabilia. Former Detroit Lion Wally Triplett was interviewed about his career with the NFL dating back to 1949. WWJ Reporter Mike Payne also provided on-site coverage of the event and interviewed Mike Smith, director of the Walter P. Reuther Library.

Wallace also contributed a story to "Michigan History" about the historical development of the Detroit Lions since their founding in 1934. A sidebar notes that the Reuther Library is featuring a pictorial exhibit titled, "An Exhibit of Detroit Lions History through Photographs," coinciding with Super Bowl XL. Several historical photos of the Lions are included with the story.

Noah Ovshinsky reported on the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies' symposium on Immigration and Ethnic Relations in European and North American Cities, held yesterday and today in the Community Room of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library. The symposium was attended by European and American policy-makers, health care practitioners and scholars. The presentations focused on police-community relations, housing, health, education and social relations. Jason Lane , program director, was interviewed saying that there was a critical need to discuss immigrants' issues now as immigrant uprisings have occurred in cities around the world - most recently in Paris .

Ryan Moitozo reported on the opening of a special exhibit at the Reuther Archives last night.

Sidney Dillick, a retired Wayne State University professor and dean, died Jan. 26 from heart failure. Mr. Dillick joined Wayne State in 1964 and served as a professor and dean in its School of Social Work (SSW) retiring in 1985. He was responsible for starting the undergraduate program for SSW and authored a text used in many schools of social work, "Community Organization for Neighborhood Development, Past and Present."

Wooten scores 40 in OU's first victory vs. Valparaiso Grand Valley State defeated Wayne State 's Warriors 65-55 in men's basketball. Kris Krzyminski scored 19 for Wayne State .

Alexey A. Petrov, assistant professor of physics at Wayne State University , received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development Award. The NSF CAREER Award is one of the highest honors granted by the NSF to young faculty members in the area of science and engineering, and is intended to support their career-development activities. The five-year, $400,000 grant was awarded to Petrov for his proposal, \"An Integrated Research and Education Program in Physics of Heavy Hadrons.\" Petrov will work with Detroit-area high schools to develop an educational program in computational science, while also conducting research into the balance of matter and antimatter in the universe. The studies have implications for particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Petrov said the practical applications of his work could be as fundamental as \"the practical applications of electricity to people in the early 1800s.\" Petrov received his doctorate and master\'s degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst , and a diploma from St. Petersburg Technical University .

Mary White, nurse practitioner, uses games to get college students to talk about health. In her first year running the Wayne State campus health clinic, she has devised programs like condom bingo (it uses packaged condoms as tokens for the otherwise standard game); hosted slumber parties where female students don\'t really spend the night but do show up in their pj\'s to ask personal questions in a non-clinical setting. "College students are at a stage of life when they develop health behaviors that will serve them the rest of their life," says Barbara Redman, dean and professor in Wayne State \'s College of Nursing .

Three readers, including Allen P. Kovacs, adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at WSU, wrote letters to the editor discussing Professor Yong Zhao's Jan 16 op-ed column (\"Creativity can\'t be taught, but it can be killed\"), encouraged global interaction and discourse of American children through curriculum policy. They agreed that American students are falling behind, that they need particular encouragement in math and science and that the mission cannot be accomplished solely through an emphasis on test scores.

The WSU Board of Governors, citing President Reid's outstanding performance, approved a 5-year deal that will boost his pay to $516,760. Reid now makes $219,251 annually with an additional $115,956 in deferred compensation, which he would be able to tap into as early as 2007 under his current contract. With salary and deferred compensation alone, Reid is the third-highest earning public university president in the state behind University of Michigan \'s Mary Sue Coleman, $576,458, and Michigan State University \'s Lou Anna Simon, $425,000, who gave her recent $85,000 pay increase back to MSU.

WSU professor Corvino is doing a \" Michigan tour\" debating same-sex marriage with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family. He will appear with Stanton at Wayne State University in Detroit on February 13 at 7 p.m. in Community Arts Auditorium. The debate is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Citizenship.