South Africa may kill elephants in the Kruger National Park for the first time since 1994 on concern the world\'s biggest land mammals are breeding too fast. African elephants can weigh as much as 6.5 metric tons and live for 70 years. They demonstrate complex social behavior, such as covering dead animals with leaves and twigs and staying by the body for days, according to the Web site of Wayne State University in Detroit .

When Johnny Kline was, well, globetrotting with the Harlem Globetrotters in the 1950s, he didn\'t realize what he was a part of. When you\'re in your 20s, you\'re thinking about having fun and little else. It wasn\'t until years later, when NBC\'s Tim Russert reported that China \'s Madame Chiang Kai-Shek had died at the age of 105, that Kline knew life had taken him on a special trip. "I told my brother, who I was watching TV with, that I knew that lady,\" Kline said Tuesday. \"I had lunch with her and her husband in 1953 and 1956."We were in their temple or castle, whatever you call it, as members of the Harlem Globetrotters. Looking back, this was a tremendous adventure.\" Kline, now 73, fully realizes the impact of his latest accomplishment. On Thursday night, Kline, an All-American basketball player at Wayne University (now Wayne State ) before his Globetrotters days, and eight others will be inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame at Cobo Hall.

Alexandria Idziak and Lindsay Pipp were the recipients of the 2005 Children\'s Trust Fund Scholarships awarded by the Metro East Chamber of Commerce. The students were chosen for their academic achievement, financial need and dedication to the community. Idziak graduated from Roseville High School and is a student a Wayne State University .

Jack Moss, who retired as Kalamazoo Gazette sports editor three years ago, is one of nine inductees into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Moss, who started with the Gazette as a sports writer in 1948, joins golfers Leo Diegel and Calvin Peete, Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford Sr., University of Michigan football player Ron Johnson, Wayne State basketball player Johnny Kline, NFL All-Pro Paul Krause, jockey Julie Krone and Michigan State/Pittsburgh Steelers football coach George Perles as the Class of 2005.

Jean Davis, interim assistant dean for Adult Health and associate professor At Wayne State, is conducting a study on the effects on menopausal sleep disturbances. The study, which has revealed a connection between exercise and sleep, is funded by a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. "What I'm basing this on is (that) not only are sleep aids not doing any good, most women are not using hormone replacement therapy, which has been shown to help (sleep disturbances)," Davis said. "What we're hoping to come up with is a basis for custom exercise 'prescriptions' that meet the needs of the individual." A photo of Wayne State graduate students Lindsay Sammut and Schawna Thaxton assisting a study participant is included.

Michele Valerie Ronnick, associate professor of classics, Greek and Latin at Wayne State , will speak at Mt. Union College on "13 Black Classicists," and will also display a photographic exhibit, which has traveled the country for several years, on the subject. Ronnick is the author of "William Sanders Scarborough - An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship."

Recently enrolled Wayne State University student Frederica Gordon was interviewed by Blast on the afternoon drive time show. Gordon, is a native of New Orleans , who left the city to escape Hurricane Katrina. She has decided to make a new life in Detroit .

Four local projects are targeting everything from myeloma to kidney failure. Teams at Wayne State University are working on projects that could lead to therapies for stroke, fetal alcohol syndrome and chronic kidney failure. Children's Hospital of Michigan is teaming with Wayne State are working on a study that explores blood from umbilical cords donated to research by women delivering babies at Hutzel Women's Hospital.

The Wayne State University College of Nursing appointed Jim McFarlin, formerly a journalist with The Detroit News, as information officer.

Aaron Dworkin, 35, of Ypsilanti is founder of the innovative Sphinx Organization, which promotes young African-American and Latino classical string players. Sphinx now runs a high-school preparatory institute at Wayne State University among other activities such as an arts camps, instrument loans and teacher training.

The last name of George Galster, the Clarence B. Hilberry professor of urban affairs at Wayne State University , was misspelled in information with a front-page article Monday.

Defending Division lll national champion Calvin College won over Wayne State in a cross-country meet.

Charles Baxter will read from his newest novel. Baxter, who taught at Wayne State , now teaches at University of Minnesota .

Deborah S. Walker of the WSU College of Nursing has been awarded a $725,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen the newly pre-accredited graduate nurse-midwifery concentration at Wayne State . According to Walker , "Certified nurse-midwives will be educated to provide culturally competent, quality health care to underserved and vulnerable populations, with a focus on specific issues related to the urban environment." The School of Medicine 's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is cooperating in the program.

Wayne State's College of Engineering's Transportation Research Group, through the Transportation Research Group and the Bioengineering Center, will host a Drive Safely to Wayne State campaign Sept. 26-28. The campaign program, which is free and open to the general public, is designed to make the daily commutes to campus safer and to raise awareness of driving issues such as road rage, distracted driving, drinking and driving, and safety restraint systems.

Mary Kramer, Crain's Detroit Business publisher, dedicated a column to Wayne State's Institute for Information Technology and Culture, a four-year-old institute led by Professor Allen Batteau. The institute currently has a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to study what happens among organizations responding to specific crises. Batteau hopes that the NSF will provide additional funding to include Hurricane Katrina research. Ultimately, he said, the research will lead to developing simulations that could be used as training tools for governments and organizations. As a border city, such training could help the Detroit region prepare for the unexpected. "Institutions need maintenance like levees do," Batteau said.

Peter LeWitt, M.D., a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Wayne State and colleagues presented data on the efficacy and safety of the patch in 351 patients with late stage Parkinson's who were inadequately controlled with levodopa.

Wayne State's per-student state appropriation of $8,665 is noted in a story about the $1.48 billion higher education deal that was struck last week. Senator Mike Goschka (R-Brandt), a member of the Senate Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee, said the original difference between schools that were well funded and schools that weren't was unacceptable. "We felt it was important to say that regardless of where you go to school in this state there should be a minimum amount of state dollars that would go to support any of our 15 public universities," Goschka said. The University of Michigan is mentioned as receiving a total allocation of $316.3 million from the state, which represents a $4 million cut from last year's provision.

Students who drop out of school, are expelled or don\'t take a full load of courses are automatically flagged as having broken the terms of their student visas. That happens dozens of times each year at Michigan colleges, often by accident, such as when students drop a class without realizing the consequences for their immigration status, said James Dorsett, who runs Wayne State University \'s Office of International Students and Scholars. The college does what it can to keep students from falling out of status in the first place by warning them if they are about to run afoul of immigration rules, he said. So far, Dorsett said, only one Wayne State student has been arrested for an immigration violation detected by the system.

Columnist Carol Cain discusses former Michigan schools superintendent Tom Watkins' career move as he leaves Wayne State , where he served as special assistant to President Irvin D. Reid. Since March, when Watkins joined WSU under a six-month contract, he has been putting together a comprehensive report that is about to be released on e-learning for children in the K-12 years. The story also notes that Watkins will be starting an educational consulting firm to work with school districts and other clients.