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Congress has mixed reaction to report on simplifying student-aid process

Students from families earning $25,000 or less would be automatically eligible for the maximum Pell Grant, and low-income students could work more hours without losing any federal financial aid, under proposals that will be issued this week by a Congressional advisory committee. The two proposals, offered by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, are among dozens of recommendations contained in \"The Student Aid Gauntlet: Making Access to College Simple and Certain.\" The report, which was ordered by Congress, is part of a continuing effort to simplify the application process for federal student aid and make college more affordable for low-income students. Many of the proposals could be considered as part of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which lawmakers are expected to take up this year.

WSU paper airplane tradition flies into immortality

Columnist Neal Rubin dedicated a feature story to the Wayne State student tradition of impaling the ceiling tiles in the North Commons of the Student Center Building with paper planes. Hundreds of planes, nose first, are tossed up to the acoustic ceiling tiles 2 ½ stories above the carpet. "We've claimed for years that the airplanes in the ceiling are the only true student-generated tradition Wayne has," says David Johnson, director of the student center building. Michael Bowen, the student center's assistant director, can't be sure if any of his airplanes still hang like bats from the ceiling. "I didn't sign anything," he explains. A photo of the North Commons ceiling is included.

Despite gains, women continue to battle against the erosion of reproductive rights

Jacquelin Washington, executive vice president of the ACLU Fund of Michigan and a past president of Planned Parenthood of Southeast Michigan, (Member and Chair of Wayne State's Board of Governors - not identified in article), wrote an op-ed about the move to overturn Roe v. Wade. Washington warns that if lawmakers have their way, more and more women will be thwarted in their efforts to prevent unwanted pregnancies and to obtain an abortion if and when they need one. "Without services," Washington argues, "comprehensive reproductive health services, including access to abortion, women cannot fully participate in the workforce or in the political arena, or make responsible choices for themselves and their families.

Trend of commuting to work has economic effect

Kurt Metzger, research director with CULMA's Center for Urban Studies, commented about the commuting trends in the Kalamazoo area. Metzger said the 2000 Census showed that 69 percent of workers in Kalamazoo County work outside their immediate community of residence. \"This shows that the usual state of affairs, except in large cities, is for the majority of workers to work somewhere other than where they live,\" Metzger said. The choice can have a significant financial impact on the municipalities where the commuting workers are employed.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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