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Frank Wu, dean of Wayne State's Law School, will deliver the keynote address during the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce awards ceremony for outstanding community accomplishments during 2004. A recognition dinner called Hometown Welcome 2005 will be held from 5:30-9 p.m. on Thursday at the Atheneum Suite Hotel & Conference Center, in Detroit.

January 23, 2005

The business of luring business

Wayne State Professor Peter Eisinger comments in a story about the effectiveness of federal programs in luring business - a commitment by the federal government that has spent $57 billion on economic development projects since 2001 alone. State and local governments spend billions more. Eisinger says there is "extremely broad agreement as to the desirability of substantial government involvement in the creation of private sector employment."

January 23, 2005

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Dieter Zetsche, president and CEO of Chrysler Group, was a guest on \"Leaders on Leadership\", co-produced by Detroit Public Television and the Wayne State University School of Business Administration (SBA). This is part one of a two part program featuring Zetsche, with part two to be broadcast on Jan. 30. The interview by program host, Larry L. Fobes of the SBA, and questions by members of the Wayne State student audience, focused on leadership in the very difficult situation of merging two major firms, with two different business cultures, into a single business entity.

January 23, 2005

Women: Roundup

Wayne State's women's basketball team defeated Northwood 75-72. Shatona Clark scored 23 and Bethany Mesko for the Warriors.

January 23, 2005

Wayne State, Oakland prevail

Herb Goliday and Morris Hall scored 18 points each Saturday to lead Wayne State to a 73-62 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory over Northwood. Ethan Banks scored 16 for the Warriors.

January 23, 2005

Three rallies for the Warriors not enough

Wayne State's men's hockey team suffered its first overtime loss since Feb. 21, 2003, as Robert Morris defeated the Warriors 3-2. A photo of Warrior freshman Stavros Paskaris is included.

January 23, 2005

Drug researched at Wayne State target multiple sclerosis

A drug developed at Wayne State University to target multiple sclerosis, a condition that strikes more people in Michigan than any other state, besides New York and California, has drawn national attention. The drug, Tysabri, is not a cure but it is believed to dramatically reduce relapses by blocking destructive immune cells in MS patients.

January 21, 2005

Race, class and the race to get in class

Wayne State Law School Dean Frank Wu takes issue with UCLA Professor Richard H. Sander's recent paper arguing that eliminating racial preferences in law schools will actually result in more, not fewer, black lawyers. "He (Sander) uses old data from 2001 to support his claims that without affirmative action there would only be a 14 percent decline in the number of African-American law school applicants. If Sander had used new data from 2002 and 2003 there would be a more significant decline of 35-45 percent of African-American applicants," Wu says.

January 21, 2005

Places to go, Things to do

Wayne State's Hilberry Theatre performs plays in repertory: "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht, Jan. 22-29 and "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller through March 24. The Bonstelle Theatre features "Metamorphosis" through Jan. 23 and 28-30.

January 21, 2005

Local Roundup

CityLife: Frank H. Wu, dean of Wayne State University's Law School, will be delivering an affirmative action lecture titled "Toward a Diverse Democracy: Affirmative Action and the Future of Racial Justice," 10:50 a.m. Jan. 28 in the Stetson Chapel at Kalamazoo College.

January 21, 2005

Tour museums and galleries

An article about the Cultural Center area's Tour d'Art, being held in connection with the Motown Winter Blast celebration this weekend, mentions that the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery at Wayne State will be one of the stops. An accompanying map identifies the WSU campus.

January 20, 2005

A test for Detroit

A story about this weekend's Winter Blast in Detroit notes that such events help attract crowds to Detroit. It notes that the annual Detroit Festival of the Arts, held on the Wayne State University campus and around the DIA, attracted 350,000 to Midtown last June. Such events play a vital role in getting people from the suburbs to see firsthand the $1.2 billion in commercial and residential investment that has been made in Midtown since 1998, including lofts and condos.

January 20, 2005

Sights, sounds of civil rights battle

In Marta Salij's review of the book "We Shall Overcome" by Herb Boyd, she points out that the author is a Detroit area native who once taught history at Wayne State.

January 20, 2005

Theater

\"Death of a Salesman," playing at WSU's Hilberry Theatre, focuses on a man who spends his entire lifetime trying to become the man he thinks he should be. The play continues through March 24. Performance times vary, and tickets range from $13-$22.

January 20, 2005

U-M gap in grad rates at high end

The gap between graduation rates of white and black students at the University of Michigan is the second highest among 11 similar elite universities, according to a study released Wednesday by an advocacy group for minority and low-income students. Although U-M's graduation rate of 67 percent for black students is higher than the national average of 40 percent, the fact that it is considerably lower than several peer institutions is cause for concern, said Kevin Carey, director of policy research at the Education Trust, a Washington-based think tank that conducted the study.

January 20, 2005

Pioneering work in black classicism recognized

Michele Valerie Ronnick's photo exhibition titled \"2 Black Classicists\" has been touring the country since 2003 and will travel to several national universities this year. Her book The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926): An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship will be published this spring. Endorsed by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this account begins with Scarborough's birth as a slave in Macon, Georgia and narrates the rise of his career as a public intellectual and the first professional classicist of African descent.

January 20, 2005

Changing face of county focus of forum

Kurt Metzger, research director at CULMA's Center for Urban Studies, spoke recently at Leadership Oakland's "Breakfast of Nations" event. Metzger talked about the trends and issues related to increasing diversity in the greater Detroit area. "Oakland has already seen some in terms of Southfield. Now we're starting to see it in Harper Woods, Redford, Warren and the southern part of Macomb County - the border communities.

January 20, 2005

Pointes for Peace hosts talk on 'liberal media'

Jack Lessenberry, lecturer at Wayne State, will be the guest speaker at the Pointes for Peace public forum Monday, Jan. 24, in Grosse Pointe Woods.

January 20, 2005

WSU studio slates 'Miss Julie

The Studio Theater will present August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" in January and February.

January 20, 2005

WSU dance via the Internet

The Maggie Allesee Department of Dance will present its "Telematics Dance Concert" Jan. 22 and 23. A video stream of the performances will be available at www.dance.wayne.edu/DanceTechnology.html.

January 20, 2005