These newspapers carried an AP story regarding a 13.5 percent tuition increase at Eastern Michigan University this fall. Eastern was among the last of the state's 15 public universities to set tuition for the upcoming school year.

Tuition at Eastern Michigan University this fall will be up 13.5 percent from last year's rate under a new budget that also allows the university to issue bonds to cover improvements of campus buildings. The increase to students would have been only 9.5 percent, but the university needed additional money to repay debt created by the bond issue, the article says. Other increases at state public universities have ranged from 7.5 percent at Saginaw Valley State to 19 percent at Central Michigan . Wayne State is mentioned as raising tuition by 18.5 percent.

This issue carries a "Great Lakes Football Fan Preview" that includes schedules and a brief write-up on several university teams in southeast Michigan . The entry on Wayne State notes that Paul Winters is entering his second year as head coach of the Warriors, who were 1-9 in conference play last year. The team roster includes nine returning starters on offense and eight on defense. The season opener is Sept. 3 at home against Northwood. "Tartar/Warrior Day" is set for Sept. 24 against Indianapolis .

Oakland University, the only school that has not set tuition for fall 2005, is expected to adopt a 15.2 percent increase during its trustees meeting Wednesday afternoon. Eastern Michigan University increased its amount of financial aid available to students by $1.7 million to help offset its 13.5 percent tuition increase. Wayne State's 18.5 percent tuition increase is noted in the story.

Republican Representative Tom Casperson and Republican Senator Mike Goschka have decided to move away from their earlier support of a proposal to cut Northern Michigan University's budget by 10 percent and try to restore some of the cuts if the state receives additional revenue, which is expected. Until now, the state legislature was considering serious budget cuts at NMU and Wayne State University, while giving all other state universities modest to large increases.

The Chamber of Commerce proposes that the SEC stop assessing large civil fines against companies and focus instead on punishing individuals. That may be along shot, as the agency will feel pressure to continue imposing hefty penalties as a deterrent, said Peter Henning, who teaches courses in securities litigation and white-collar crime at Wayne State Law School .

If the Oakland University Board of Trustees approves a budget recommendation offered by school administrators, students will see a 15.2 percent increase in tuition this year.

Wayne State University hosts a Graduate School Open House Aug. 3, 3-7 p.m. at the Welcome Center . Representatives will review applications and the $50 application fee for students will be waived.

Wayne State 's School of Social Work has established an endowed scholarship fund to support students in its new doctoral-degree program. It is Michigan 's only PhD program focusing solely on the research to advance social work practice in urban settings.

The WSU Library System has received a 2005 Digitization for Preservation and Access grant from the Library of Michigan. The grants are part of a statewide effort to digitize significant local and state-related information held in libraries. Funds from the grant will be used to further develop the Virtual Motor City photo collection, an online resource already containing more than 15,000 digitized images from The Detroit News Collection at the university.

The Michigan University Commercialization Initiative is a consortium of state universities, including the U of M, Michigan State and Wayne State among others. MUCI has made more than 60 grant awards to researchers at all the major research universities, but their own funding is precarious.

Most physicians know remarkably little about patients with traumatic brain injuries. In medical school the average amount of lecture time devoted to traumatic brain injury is only four hours, said Jay M. Meythaler, chair of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Wayne State Medical School .

In his letter of July 27, 2005 to the Detroit News, Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid is correct that Wayne State has been hit with major state appropriations cuts resulting in budget cuts. (\"Tuition hike needed to preserve WSU\'s role.\") However, not all those cuts hampered the university\'s operations. Surely, discontinuance of cell phone reimbursements for administrative staff, elimination of some senior staff positions in the overgrown administrative structure, consolidation of two colleges, and the elimination of one college\'s administrative structure while maintaining its programs, did not harm WSU\'s quality of education. Over the past decade, WSU has kept its tuition costs far lower than many of the other Michigan public universities. Nevertheless, it should be noted that, in the last five years, Wayne increased its tuition at least 50 percent. Finally, he is right that WSU must provide high quality, as well as affordable, education. So why did I join with two other members of the Board of Governors (Tina Abbott and Richard Bernstein) to oppose the WSU administration\'s 18.5 percent increase -- the biggest increase ever enacted in Wayne\'s 49 year history? The three of us, I believe, wanted a more balanced approach to affordability and quality.

In an article about Detroit's upcoming mayoral primary election John Mogk, a law professor at Wayne State University stated, "I think people are desperate to pick somebody who can do something positive to improve conditions" on the mayoral issue.

This article about Detroit 's upcoming mayoral primary election quotes Wayne State Professor George Galster about the city's renewal efforts. \'\'There are certainly some good signs of urban revival in Detroit ,\" said Galster. \'\'But the overall structural problems are worse than ever. It\'s true that we\'ve got 6,000 new jobs downtown, but this city has been losing 10,000 residents a year since the late 1990s. We hit the bottom after the 2001-2003 recession, and unlike the rest of the country, we stayed there. I really don\'t think this city can fix its problems without a wider, regional solution.\"

Christopher Cox, the newly confirmed chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, may not offer much regulatory relief to the businesses that backed his 16- year career in the House of Representatives. The Chamber of Commerce proposes that the SEC stop assessing large civil fines against companies and focus instead on punishing individuals. That may be a long shot, as the agency probably will feel pressure to continue imposing hefty penalties as a deterrent, said Peter Henning, who teaches courses in securities litigation and white-collar crime at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit . "People like to see large fines,\'\' Henning said. "That plays well in the media too.\'\'

DeMaria Construction has been hired as general contractor by Wayne State University for a $2 million capital improvement program on its Detroit campus.

A new wave of prescription drugs that offer hope for improved treatment of chronic, debilitating diseases could become a health care tsunami as more of the drugs hit the market and drive up costs. Known as specialty pharmaceuticals, or biologics, the new drugs are targeting such diseases as cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. They\'re credited with providing such benefits as giving some rheumatoid arthritis sufferers the ability to work and dress themselves. James Leisen, head of rheumatology at Henry Ford Hospital and program director for division of rheumatology at Wayne State University , said the biologics he uses to help treat rheumatoid arthritis sufferers get significantly better results than other therapies. \"Twenty years ago, we used gold shots,\" Leisen said. They helped about one-third of patients, he said. \"Then Methotrexate came along in the \'80s. It was a great advance. With Methotrexate, over 50 percent would get better.\"

This article on the importance of workers taking vacation quotes Mark Ketterer, a professor of psychology at Wayne State University in Detroit . He says more people should take as much vacation as possible because, among many reasons, research shows that death by heart disease is 40 percent higher in people who shun vacations. Most folks who don\'t take all their \"due time\" aren\'t paranoid or nuts, Ketterer says, as much as they are hyperconscientious and committed. \"I think culturally, we\'re nuts,\" he says. \"A friend said the United States is the only country in the world that takes vacations in order to be able to work harder. Everywhere else people work so they can take vacations. The result is to work yourself into an early grave.\"

Detroit restaurant veteran John Lopez has teamed with former Boocoo Executive Chef Shawn Mac to revive Twingo's near Wayne State University . Lopez and Mac purchased the Twingo's name and plans to reopen the former French restaurant as Twingo's Euro Café.