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Porn producer combs universities for recruits

Universities across the state have learned that a gay pornographic film company, led by Derek Ward, a local gay porn producer, has been recruiting students on campuses. People are paid to post flyers listing his Web site and Ward says some students e-mail him directly after viewing his Web site. Among universities where Ward claims he is filming are the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Eastern Michigan University, Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University and Wayne State University. He says once he gets the "bigger universities out of the way," he plans to target smaller campuses like Oakland University among others.

Tradition: University revs up for spring

Wayne State University will celebrate the passage of winter with its 22nd annual Groundhog Day-like tradition with a funeral for Ol\' Man Winter starting at 11:30 a.m. Led by the \"Monster Truck Hearse\" and Jay Towers from WDRQ\'s \"Jay and Rachael Show,\" the procession will include a burial march starting at Einstein Bros Bagels outside the North Residence Hall. Marchers, including students, employees and the community, will bury winter and welcome spring outside the circa 1890 Saloon. Those attending will receive commemorative T-shirts, coupons, hot chocolate and more.

Body basics

Wayne State University's Humanities Center is presenting "The Body" on Friday, April 8, a daylong interdisciplinary conference examining and contemplating the human body - from a psychological perspective. Walter Edwards, director of the center, says this year he received 22 proposals; the center picked eight, and funded the research. "It should appeal to people in the humanities, and arts and culture, in a wide range of disciplines," Edwards says. "Within the humanities, we study human beings in terms of their mental, physical, emotional and cultural lives, so the body is a viscerally important topic."

Ferber Kaufman Life Town facility

"News Morning" anchor Fanchon Stinger reported on the Ferber Kaufman Life Town facility which includes a 5,000 square-foot village designed to offer simulated modules for persons with disabilities. Wayne State's College of Education developed a curriculum titled "Simucations for Life" which will be used at Life Town's village. Volunteers will be following the curriculum as they lead persons with disabilities through the modules including a miniature bank, library, medical offices, traffic lights, pet shop, drug store, theater, to name a few.

WSU offers program to turn engineers into supervisors

Wayne State University\'s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has launched a program to train engineers to become production supervisors in high-tech automotive manufacturing plants. The program includes an industrial engineering curriculum, with elective courses in labor relations and organizational behavior. The Production Management Leadership Program also incorporates internships with one of several industry partners, including the Big Three and Visteon Corp. in Van Buren Township.

Michigan residents likely to live in homes they own

Kurt Metzger, director of research for the Center for Urban Studies, commented about a new U.S. Census Bureau report showing that 74.5 percent of Michigan's 3.8 million occupied housing units were inhabited by their owners in 2003. Only Minnesota had a higher rate with 76.6 percent. \"We grew out instead of up in Michigan. We\'ve always been a state of single-family homes where the cost of housing was relatively cheap because there was a lot of it.\"

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice, FBI and U.S. Postal inspectors are looking into the Delphi accounting irregularities, according to the company. Delphi Corp. says it does not believe the company itself is the focus of a federal investigation into the auto supplier\'s accounting errors, leading legal experts to believe the target of the probe must be people who work at or used to work at the company. \"My estimate is that Justice and FBI are going after individuals at Delphi, like the CFO or others in the accounting area," said Peter Henning, Wayne State University law professor and former SEC and Justice Department attorney. \"Corporations will cooperate and provide info to implicate individuals and convince the federal government that it was just some individuals doing bad things and not the whole company.\"

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