Detroit\'s rookie Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has six weeks to change voters' minds; they say he is less trustworthy and less suited to the job than his opponent Freman Hendrix, a new poll suggests. He needs more over- 40 voters and at least a few white voters and must ignite his base of young black voters, the polling indicates. \"Kilpatrick is too young to be mayor. He\'s like my 31-year-old nephew and I wouldn\'t elect him to be dogcatcher,\" said Bill Blake, 41, a Wayne State University employee. Lanita Stewart, 32, a records clerk at Wayne State University , is typical of Kilpatrick supporters -- under 40 and African American. \"There\'s no concrete evidence against him that he\'s really destroying the city,\" said Stewart. \"I see a lot of houses being built, parks being renovated and he\'s had to make some hard choices.\" Katrina Bannister, 30, a records clerk at Wayne State University , said she voted for the mayor four years ago, but voted for Hendrix in the primary. Now, she\'s leaning toward Kilpatrick because she says the news media have not reported all the good things the mayor has done. She said the mayor has been involved in getting a lot of after-school programs up and running that he gets no credit for. \"I\'ve seen more of what the mayor is doing,\" said Bannister. \"I\'m trying to keep it business, not personal. I want to know during the next four years, what do they plan on doing? How do they plan to fix the problem with police layoffs and firemen layoffs? I\'m hoping the mayor has a bigger plan.\"

This survey of Detroit area voters quotes three Wayne State employees and a student on their views on the Kilpatrick/Hendrix race for the mayor.

Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at Wayne State , Galster, writes with Wayne State Emeritus Professor of Economics, James Hamilton that "not in my backyard" has collided with "rights of the disabled" in Detroit . The obvious solution is to limit - but not prohibit - the number of supportive housing facilities in single-family neighborhoods. Meanwhile the courts have trouble coming to this conclusion.

Technology columnist Mike Wendland dedicated his column to a Wayne State University research study on e-learning released last week. The 6-month-long study, authored by Tom Watkins , special assistant to the president at WSU and former superintendent of Michigan schools, includes 29 recommendations involving the incorporation of e-learning in Michigan K-12 schools. " Michigan cannot lead in the 21st Century without casting off the anchors of attitude, archaic laws and public policies and beliefs that bind us to 20th Century education models," says the report, which also suggests Michigan is losing it leadership role in e-learning because of state and federal budget cuts and a lack of political commitment. The recommendations were compiled after meetings with hundreds of school superintendents and administrators, technical leaders, teachers, business leaders and students. The report can be viewed online at www.coe.wayne.edu/e-learningreport.pdf.

Joan Mahoney, a Wayne State University Law School graduate and ex-dean of the school, was awarded honorary membership in the Order of the Coif.

The Wayne State men's hockey team will play its home games for the next three seasons at the Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum. The Warriors played their inaugural season at the Detroit arena, but moved the next year to the Great Lakes Sports City Arena in Fraser and spent three seasons there.

Professor Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson of the Political Science Department was interviewed on the Lessenberry Show about term limits in the state Legislature. The Michigan Chamber is floating an idea about a petition drive to change the limits to 14 years of combined service in either chamber instead of the current split of 6 years in the House and 8 years in the Senate. Other guests on the program were former Michigan Sen. John Kelly and journalist Chris Christoff. The call-in show is hosted by WSU Journalism instructor Jack Lessenberry.

This brief on the front page names five food outlets that plan to open "near Wayne State University this fall." Locations are not given.

Bush's main proposal for reviving the storm-stricken Gulf Coast has a history of failing to deliver on the promise of prosperity. "There really isn't any clear evidence that very small micro-businesses - mom and pop operations - will benefit," says Robin Boyle, professor of urban planning at Wayne State .

The Brush Park redevelopment Plan is deeply flawed and has been neglected. "The city created a great plan for Brush Park . It made sense," said George Galster, a Wayne State University professor and expert on urban affairs. "They've sown the seeds, but have done nothing else."

Telemus Capital Partners L.L.C., a startup financial-management holding company in Southfield , received approval from the National Association of Securities Dealers to trade stocks and bonds. Randy Paschke, the chairman of the Wayne State department of accounting in the School of Business , was quoted on the new company's quick start. He said the fact that they already have $1.2 billion under management tells him, "…many of their clients moved with them."

This op-ed essay says universities are a cog in one of the great inequality producing machines, encouraging economic and social stratification. Only 28 percent of American adults have a college degree, but they live in areas and work in fields where most are educated. This has created a social chasm, and behavioral differences between the two groups are vast. Divorce rates for college grads are plummeting, but not for others. High school grads are twice as likely to smoke as college grads, and less likely to exercise. College grads are twice as likely to vote, and more likely to do volunteer work and give blood. As the gap between rich and poor grows, fewer of the poor are able to obtain a college education. Students in the poorest quarter of the population have only an 8.6 percent chance of going to college, while those in the richest quarter have a 74.9 percent shot at a university degree. The most damning indictment of our university system is that these poor kids are graduating from high school in greater numbers; it's when they get to college that they begin failing and dropping out. Higher ed is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening the class structure of the United States .

Family doctors, who meet the broadest and most basic health care needs, are being driven from the field by age, rising business costs (especially malpractice insurance) and increasing job pressures. More than a quarter of Michigan 's 12, 700 primary care physicians are at retirement age, while most of today's students in Michigan 's medical schools are being lured into specialty fields.

Wayne State University has announced it will provide Graduate Program Enhancement Awards of $1.5 million over the next two years, with $250,000 in funding provided to six doctoral programs. The Graduate Enhancement Awards are part of President Irvin D. Reid 's broader vision for the university.

Norma Goldman from Wayne State University will offer a series of five lectures this fall about Caesarea Maritima, the harbor on the coast of Israel . The talks will be 10 a.m. - noon Thursday mornings, beginning Oct. 20, at the WSU Oakland Center . The class is part of the six-week fall program of WSU's Society of Active Retirees.

The appointments page notes that John Varghese has been named administrative manager at WSU's Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He was formerly assistant director in the budget office.

Professor Lyke Thompson, director of Wayne State's Center for Urban Studies, commented extensively in a piece about the Detroit mayoral race and Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's remarks during a recent debate at the Economic Club about character issues and drug use among youth in the suburbs. Kilpatrick said that in suburban communities such as Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills young people "do more meth, they do more Ecstasy and they do more acid than all the schools in the city of Detroit put together." Thompson said national data would support the mayor's comments but there are no specifics to Metro Detroit to back up his claim. "There are several national studies that indicate drug [Ecstasy] use by suburban teens is higher than its use by teens in inner cities," Thompson said. "On the other hand there is no data to suggest that it is higher in those cities than in Detroit." Thompson added that some officials both in the suburbs and Detroit have found this kind of attack to be useful because it gets them votes.

Don H. Barden (Chairman and CEO - Barden Companies, Inc.) was featured on \"Leaders on Leadership\", co-produced by the WSU School of Business Administration and Detroit Public Television. Barden told Larry Fobes (WSU SBA) about his leadership experiences in the real estate, television cable service and gaming industries. The WSU student audience asked for leadership guidance they could apply in their own careers. The program will be repeated on Wednesday, September 28 at 5:00 pm

MichBio Expo 2005 will be held Thursday at Cobo Hall. Wayne State University , together with Pfizer Global Research and Development, the Michigan Economic Development Corp., Henry Ford Health System, Michigan State University and the U of M, is among the major sponsors.

The Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University , appointed the following: Allen Goldberg assistant professor in the physical therapy program, Health Care Sciences department, and Candice L. Garwood and Susan LeRoque Davis to assistant professors in the Pharmacy Practice department.