The morning sports report carried an item on Wayne State's runner-up performance in the GLIAC men's basketball tournament last weekend in Findlay, Ohio, and mentioned that the team will play this weekend in the Division II NCAA Tournament against Southern Illinois.

Wayne State lost to Alabama Huntsville 6 to 5 in both teams' final hockey game

Wayne State (19-11) was selected to play in the NCAA Division II tournament.

Wayne State and Ferris State advanced to the Great Lakes Region of the NCAA Division II tournament, which begins Saturday at Findlay, Ohio. Fourth-seed WSU will play No. 5 Southern Illinois.

Wayne State lost to Mercyhurst 0-6. Tiffany Thompson made 42 saves for WSU.

John Telford, former sprint champion at WSU, wrote an opinion piece on the decade old effort to restore track to WSU's sports roster. He said President Reid appointed a blue-ribbon committee chaired by Elliot Hall to consider the matter, and they voted to retain the status quo. A student survey put track 2nd after soccer as a sport students want.

Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson wrote in an op-ed, "The whining is loud over the National Collegiate Athletic Association's unprecedented attempt to tell schools that if they do not educate their players, they will lose scholarships and eligibility for postseason play."

Wayne State University's Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI) has been awarded a 2-year, $85,000 grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation to implement and evaluate a program to prevent abuse of women with disabilities. "The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation funded our initial research to look at the scope of the problem in Michigan," said Sharon Milberger, associate director for research at DDI and lead researcher for the grant. "Now, thanks to the Foundation, we are able to build on this base of knowledge and systematically combat this serious problem," Milberger added.

Wayne State's Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI) has been awarded a 5-year, $250,000 grant to assist Detroit families with children who have disabilities. The grant, targeted to fund DDI's "Detroit Family Support 360 Project, provides a one-stop support center helping families obtain the supports and services they need in order to enhance their health and well-being. "The one-stop system of family support gives families an opportunity to learn about a myriad of support services available to their children with developmental disabilities," said Elizabeth Janks, DDI associate director for training and community support and Detroit 360 project director.

Both newspapers used parts of an AP story about former state schools Superintendent Tom Watkins joining Wayne State as special assistant to the president. He will lead a study to determine how to expand online courses for high school students in large urban school districts.

The station aired a public service announcement for the upcoming Detroit Orientation Institute in April. It was mentioned that the Institute is a service of the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs at WSU. Remarks from a past attendee who praised the program were included.

During a studio break for his PBS special, author-psychologist-lecturer Wayne Dyer mentioned that he used to attend Wayne State University "just down the street" from the Channel 56 studios.

The station aired a public service announcement for the upcoming Detroit Orientation Institute in April. It was mentioned that the Institute is a service of the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs at WSU. Remarks from a past attendee who praised the program were included.

During a studio break for his PBS special, author-psychologist-lecturer Wayne Dyer mentioned that he used to attend Wayne State University "just down the street" from the Channel 56 studios.

Wayne State 68, Ferris State, 63, was the score in the semifinals of the Great Lakes Conference tournament in Ohio.

Yale University will no longer require parents earning less than $45,000 a year to pay anything toward their children\'s educations. Harvard announced a similar program last year, freeing parents who earn $40,000 or less from paying anything, and the change helped raise its applications to record levels. Several of Yale\'s other competitors, including Princeton, have taken a slightly different approach by no longer requiring loans for low-income students, and they also believe the move helped increase applications. Yale\'s change is more generous than many of the financial aid overhauls at other schools, public and private universities alike. The University of North Carolina, for instance, no longer requires students from families of four earning about $37,000 or less to take out any loans to cover school expenses. Rice did the same but set the income bar at $30,000. \"We wanted to signal that we\'re serious about access,\" said Richard C. Levin, Yale\'s president. He also said Yale would reduce what it expects parents earning between $45,000 and $60,000 to pay.

Law professor Peter Henning is quoted in a story about a lawsuit filed against the Clinton Township Police Department by a resident who says he was falsely arrested in a rape case. "The problem for the township is they're going to be on the hook for what the officers did, and this is not a very sympathetic case for them," Henning said. He pointed out that the defendant, who went to prison for the alleged crime and was later proven innocent by DNA evidence, has a strong case against township authorities.

Dr. Peter LeWitt, professor of neurology at the WSU School of Medicine and a physician with a large Parkinson\'s practice at Beaumont Hospital, is quoted in a story about symptoms of the disease, which afflicts Pope John Paul II. "There are many changes that allow us to treat Parkinson\'s more successfully and manage its side effects better," LeWitt pointed out. Other experts concur that there are new strategies to treat the disease and options to control the pope\'s symptoms for many more months, if not years. In the United States alone, an estimated 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year and about 1.5 million Americans have the disease. This story, by Pat Anstett, ran widely in Knight Ridder Newspapers throughout the country.

Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center has named Dr. Padraic J. Sweeny of Dearborn chief of emergency medicine. Sweeny is also a clinical associate professor, emergency medicine, at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.

Michigan-based professor Nikhil Dhurandhar has understood viral infection among chickens enough to lead him to his breakthrough research of the theory that obesity can sometimes be triggered by a virus. \"Obesity has many reasons, from genes to metabolism to hormones, but we want to draw attention to the fact that certain viral infections could also lead to obesity,\" Dhurandhar said. His team at Wayne State University identified three such viruses.