Walter Edwards, director of the Humanities Center , and Kevin Boyle, one of the speakers at the Humanities Center 's Hope and Fear conference, were interviewed by Chris Proseta of WDET on the conference which took place at McGregor Friday. The report aired Friday evening.

The Wayne State men's basketball team opened its season Tuesday with an 85-79 victory at West Virginia State . The Warriors have added seven players and must replace the backcourt that got them to the second round of the NCAA Division II tournament the last two seasons. Wayne State added Oakland point guard Kris Krzyminski and Jeffrey Ferguson from Missouri to the team.

Herb Goliday changes positions on the basketball court much like a chameleon changes colors to keep his enemies off balance. Goliday, a fifth-year senior, has played everywhere but point guard in his two seasons at Wayne State . He\'s primarily used at shooting guard, small forward and power forward, with the role depending on the opponent. While starting all 32 games last season, Goliday averaged 14.2 points and 5.6 rebounds. In Tuesday\'s season-opening 85-79 victory over West Virginia State , he scored 12 points. \"It\'s good I can play everywhere because I see things from different perspectives,\" said Goliday, 6-feet-4 and 206 pounds. \"I can use my speed to beat bigger guys in the post, and I can score from outside, where most big guys aren\'t comfortable going." At the end of the day, I enjoy challenging myself against bigger guys.\" Coach David Greer said Goliday is the first option on offense this season after the Warriors lost two of their three starting guards from last season, when they went 20-12 and reached the second round of the NCAA Division II tournament.

ACLU of Michigan: Actor Danny Glover, also a community activist, will be the keynote speaker at the annual dinner, 6 p.m. Sat. ACLU will honor former Gov. William and Helen Milliken; Jacquelin Washington, chairwoman of the Wayne State University Board of Governors, and David DiChiera, director of the Michigan Opera Theater at the Hyatt Regency-Dearborn. Tickets $150. (313) 578-6816.

Parents and Teens Connecting Meet and Greet: The Bangladeshi Student Association of Wayne State University brings recent immigrant parents and teens together to watch movies, discuss books and discuss family history. Sat. 3-5 p.m. Knapp Branch Library, 13330 Conant St. , Detroit . (313) 852-4283.

The role of Jewish studies on the campus of American colleges and universities was the subject of insightful examination at two back-to-back panel discussions, held recently in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Maurice Greenberg Center of Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford . "Jews did not have a country. We were wanderers…strangers in a strange land. Israel serves to make Jews normative," said Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, speaking to an audience in the University's Wilde Auditorium. "Jewish study programs do the same thing for Jewish studies. It makes it normative," concluded Trachtenberg, who was president of UHA when the Greenberg Center was founded. Currently president of George Washington University in Washington , D.C. , Trachtenberg offered his insight as part of a three-person panel of UHA presidents that also included his successor, President Emeritus Humphrey Tonkin, as well as the school's current president, Walter Harrison. Noting his astonishment at "how little people know about other people's traditions," Trachtenberg pointed out that Jewish studies programs are "not supposed to be a haven for Jews. It is equally important for these programs to attract students who are not Jewish." Likewise, said David Weinberg, director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit , Judaic studies programs have the ability to build bridges. Cohn-Haddow was "envisioned as a means of reconnecting the student community with the Jewish community and vice versa," said Weinberg, who was part of the a second three-person panel that included Lawrence Baron, director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies at San Diego State University and Richard Freund, director of the Greenberg Center.

Wayne State University 's Law School invites all Black Law Students Association (BLSA) and Asian and Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) alumni to its Jazz Night. The event will be hosted Thursday, Dec. 8, in the law school's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium atrium beginning at 5:30 p.m.

The Hilberry Theatre at Wayne State will present Tennessee Williams' classic Nov. 18-January 28.

The Wayne State University Department of Music will celebrate their 39th annual Salute Concert to Downtown Detroit with a performance of Dave Brubeck's "To Hope! A Celebration" at noon on Nov. 22.

David Weinberg, director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit , says Judaic studies programs have the ability to build bridges. Cohn-Haddow was "envisioned as a means of reconnecting the student community with the Jewish community and vice-versa," said Weinberg, who believes these college programs have reached a plateau and may be on the decline.

Evening anchor Paul Snider talked about Wayne State 's support of "The Kalamazoo Promise" program by offering a 50 percent reduction in participating students' room costs in WSU residence halls. Snider noted that the offer is good for four years to students who remain eligible for and are recipients of "The Kalamazoo Promise." Listeners were directed to www.admissions.wayne.edu for further information.

Wayne State's support of "The Kalamazoo Promise" was noted during the evening newscast. Listeners were encouraged to visit www.admissions.wayne.edu for contact information.

Looking for its first win of the young season, Wayne State continues its three-game road trip with a pair of contests against members of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference at the Wheeling Jesuit Tip-Off Classic this weekend. The Warriors will face West Liberty State on Friday (6 pm), before taking on the host Lady Cardinals Saturday at 2 pm. Friday\'s contest will be the season-opener for WLSC, while Wheeling Jesuit enters the tournament with a 1-0 record and WSU is 0-1 after the first game of the year. WSU dropped its first game of the year at Indianapolis on Tuesday night, 74-58. Senior Shatona Clark had a team-high 11 points while newcomer Pam Wingate led the squad with seven rebounds. The Warriors will host their home opener against Concordia on Nov. 22, while the GLIAC opener is slated for Dec. 1 at Gannon in Erie , Pa.

David Bonior, university professor of labor studies at Wayne State , will be the guest speaker at the November meeting of the New Baltimore Historical Society on Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., at the First Congregation Church Youth Building . His discussion will focus on his book titled "Walking to Mackinac," which describes the adventures of a 300-mile hike in 1997 that Bonior and his wife Judy traveled from their Mount Clemens home to the Straits of Mackinac

Wayne State , which won only six games last season, returns 12 letter-winners and five starters. Returning starters are senior guard Shatona Clark (14.5 points), senior guard Kristen Rogers (10.9 points), junior guard Cherita Smith (7.8 points), junior guard/forward Bethany Mesko (7.3 points) and sophomore guard/forward Nicole Rogers (7.0 points).

During an interview on the Frank Beckman show about proposed new math requirements for high school students, the state schools superintendent mentioned that he has talked with Wayne State and other universities about programs to upgrade the math-teaching skills of current high school teachers.

An ad than ran in Detroit's two black newspapers, which accused the media of unfair treatment of incumbent mayor Kwame Kilpatrick during the election campaign, has triggered calls for a boycott of those newspapers, the Michigan Citizen and the Michigan Chronicle. Professor Howard Starks of Wayne State 's Africana Studies Department said, " Detroit is over 80 percent African American in population. Who would a boycott really hurt? . . . These papers are the only true voices we have in our community. In a black city we should be talking about how to stop our papers from struggling financially." (This article appeared originally in the Michigan Citizen.)

Dr. Piero P. Foa, hailed as one of Wayne State University \'s most influential teachers and a trailblazer in the field of diabetes research, died Saturday of natural causes at his home in West Bloomfield . He was 94. Dr. Foa is credited with presenting the first convincing evidence that glucose stimulates the secretion of insulin and that hypoglycemia stimulates the secretion of a second pancreatic hormone called glucagon. His discovery helped promote the fight against diabetes, a disease that, according to the American Diabetes Association, affects 20.8 million people in the United States , or 7% of the population. A professor emeritus in the Department of Physiology, Dr. Foa\'s long and distinguished association with the School of Medicine began in 1962 when he came to Detroit as chairman of the Department of Research at Sinai Hospital and professor of physiology at Wayne State \'s School of Medicine . Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Ira Kaufman Chapel, 18325 W. Nine Mile, Southfield . Memorial contributions may be made to Wayne State University Medical School , Piero P. Foa Annual Lecture, 101 E. Alexandrine, Detroit , 48201.

Detroit faces a blight removal challenge in nearly every corner of the city. The city has lacked the courage to win the blight war through a systematic attack on derelict building owners. The solution is simple. Tighten building standards and make property owners personally liable for the cost of repairing their blighted buildings or demolishing them. If they refuse to pay, seize their assets. A civic task force made this recommendation about vacant and deteriorated buildings downtown near the end of the Young administration in the early 1990s. It was never followed. Unlike other major cities, Detroit places too much focus on the rights of property owners and too little on their responsibilities. Beginning in the 1970s with the federal Housing and Urban Development Department\'s low and moderate income housing debacle, abandoned and blighted buildings have ripped apart Detroit\'s solid neighborhood fabric, just as blighted buildings have crippled downtown and continue to slow its rebirth… The city\'s sympathy for blighted property owners ranges from the humanitarian to the laughable. Understandably, senior citizens and other low income homeowners have not been subjected to strict code enforcement, since they lack the funds to make repairs and have few, if any, other shelter options. Sadly, for many, a house in disrepair is the only home they have. There are no parallels between low-income residents attempting to keep some modicum of shelter over their heads and owners of downtown buildings or neighborhood speculators. No one is required to own a downtown building or vacant neighborhood house as a matter of survival. Those who elect to own property should be held accountable to their neighbors and the community for its condition. The excuses for maintaining blight must end before the city reaches a point of no return. The Kilpatrick administration must have the courage to aggressively enforce tightened property standards and owner responsibilities for Detroit \'s renewal to take hold. John E. Mogk is a professor of law at Wayne State University in Detroit .

The Associated Food Dealers of Michigan has awarded a $1,500 scholarship to Detroiter Alana Frazier. Frazier is a junior at Wayne State University , majoring in marketing and public relations. She is a graduate of Martin Luther King High School in Detroit and is the daughter of Cliff Green and Evelyn Frazier.