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The head women\'s basketball coaches of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) projected Wayne State to finish fifth in the GLIAC South and chose Lake Superior State University and Ashland University to win the league\'s North and South Division titles.Warriors travel to Western Michigan for exhibition game on Sunday.

November 9, 2004

Over 100 films, over 35 directors attend, over one weekend in Detroit

Reporter Nora Flaherty interviewed Detroit Docs founder Chris Walny who described the 105 documentaries coming to Detroit at three venues on the Wayne State campus, the DIA, the Birmingham 8 and the Detroit Film Center. The opening party at the Welcome Center on the campus of Wayne State, Thurs., Nov. 11, from 7 to 10 pm., will feature an award to Wayne State's Harvey Ovshinsky, streaming films and visiting dignitaries and filmmakers. This year's line-up features the docs that are winning all the awards at other festivals. This weekend will be the only time you can meet the filmmakers in person and catch many of the films in Michigan on the big screen. Wayne will host film workshops and panels with filmmakers and Wayne experts this weekend.

November 9, 2004

Detroit Schools lose pupils

This front page story says the Detroit district may be out up to $35.5 million and may face layoffs as enrollment dips by over 11,000. Associate professor of Education Michael Addonizo, who specializes in school finance, said that even a loss of 5,500 students would force the district to consider any options for budget cuts. "That has got to be devastating for the school district," he said.

November 9, 2004

Ill Symptoms

A front page story featuring a photo of Dr. John Crissman says his resignation was a blow to the community and discusses the changes at the medical school during his tenure.

November 9, 2004

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Michigan State is enjoying its highest enrollment number since 1979, but overall applications are down. A spokesperson said a greater percentage of accepted students actually enroll now, and she thinks it because potential college students are becoming more selective in their applications.

November 9, 2004

College cuts will hurt state, leader says

As Michigan moves from a brawn-to-brain economy the state's 15 public universities are its most important resource, Gary Russi president of Oakland University told more than700 civic leaders and students at the Detroit Economic Club.

November 9, 2004

Distinguished alumnus

Mary E. Burkhardt has been selected as a Distinguished Alumnus by the Wayne State University Pharmacy Alumni Association. Story features her photo.

November 8, 2004

Calendar

Wayne State University's Law school will host "Corporate Citizenship and the Law," on Monday, November 8, in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) will host its inaugural Jazz Night for BLSA alumni on Wednesday, Dec 1, in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.

November 8, 2004

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A photo ran with a cut line show students from Wayne State\'s Law School who participated in at trial seminar. The photo included Ida Smith-Charlton, chairperson of the Student Trial Advocacy Program and Lesley Carr, trial coordinator for Wayne State\'s Student Trial Advocacy Program.

November 8, 2004

Calendar

The Driker Forum for Excellence in the Law and the Center for the Study of Citizenship will present "Corporate Citizenship and the Law" on Monday, Nov. 8, in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium of the Wayne State University Law School.

November 8, 2004

University presidents make case for state funding at Econ Club

Presidents of the state's 15 public universities on Monday called for a reversal of state funding cuts to Michigan's "most important public investment," its 15 public universities. In a speech delivered at the Detroit Economic Club luncheon at Cobo Center, Oakland University President Gary Russi said Michigan's universities are vital contributions to the state's economy, yet the state is investing nearly $250 million less in them than four years ago.

November 8, 2004

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The Detroit Docs film festival will be featured on the web page Mon. through Sunday. WDET said it will get approximately 10,000 hits in that period as they regularly track 45,000 visits per month to the events list.

November 8, 2004

WSU/Detroit Docs Gala at Welcome Center

Wayne State and Detroit Docs will celebrate the opening of the international film festival's at the WSU Welcome Center at Warren and Woodward, Nov. 11. The festival will screen films at WSU, with lectures and workshops by the university's experts and filmmakers.

November 8, 2004

Wayne State Gallery Hosts Art Selections From Cuba

The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University, 480 West Hancock, in Detroit, will present "Cuba from the Inside Looking Out II," a contemporary Cuban art collection, on Nov.5 through Dec. 19.

November 8, 2004

Document this: Film festival adds sponsors, focuses on becoming regional, national draw

Harvey Hollins III, vice president for governmental affairs, commenting about the Detroit Docs International Film Festival, said he has been inviting state and community leaders to attend in order to raise awareness about it. He said that with the right backing, the festival could rival internationally renowned film festivals, such as Toronto's Hot Docs festival.

November 8, 2004

Oakland maintains its swing status

Kurt Metzger, demographer with Wayne State University\'s Center for Urban Studies, said Oakland County's Democratic shift has stemmed in part from growing populations of black, Jewish and Hispanic voters in the county, many of whom have migrated from Detroit and Wayne County. \"You tend to think of African Americans as this kind of across-the-board voting demographic, and therefore, as the African-American population increases across Oakland County, that drives the Democratic vote,\" Metzger said. But, he added that within Oakland County there has been a newer movement of more upwardly mobile blacks from places like Southfield to Farmington Hills, West Bloomfield and Commerce Township. Along with that socioeconomic movement could come a change in voting patterns.

November 8, 2004

Ice Hockey

Visiting Wayne State's women's hockey team lost to Maine 4-3 in overtime. Laura Monk had a goal and an assist and Kelly Zamora tied it at 3 with a power-play goal.

November 8, 2004

White enrollment climbs at black colleges

Increasingly, white students are enrolling at the nation's 120 historically black colleges and universities. In the past quarter-century, the number of white students at these campuses has risen 65 percent, from 21,000 to nearly 35,000 - an increase driven partly by court orders aimed at desegregation and partly by interest in programs the schools offer. Most of the influx of white students has come at public institutions, which receive funding from federal and state governments. Such colleges are pressured to increase their white enrollment - even as affirmative action requirements at some other universities are waning.

November 8, 2004

Study proves the effectiveness of Vfend for the treatment of candidemia

This article focuses on results of a study headed by Dr. Jack D. Sobel, professor and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the WSU School of Medicine. The study found that Pfizer's Vfend antifungal treatment is an effective treatment for patients with candidemia, an often-fatal hospital-acquired bloodstream infection. "Because of Vfend's broad spectrum of activity against infections caused by yeasts and moulds, it is a good first-choice treatment option for immunocompromised patients who are at risk for those types of infection," Sobel said. Results of the study also appeared in several other online medical newsletters.

November 7, 2004

On the go!

Wayne State hosts Detroit Docs International Film Festival with screenings Nov. 12-14. Lectures and workshops by university experts and filmmakers will run throughout the event. Wayne State's Hilberry theatre company performs in repertory: "Blithe Spirit" by Noel Coward," "The Merry Wives of Windsor," by William Shakespeare and "Mother Courage and Her Children." Bonstelle Theatre, Wayne State's undergraduate theater company, presents "A flea in her ear" by Georges Feydeau.

November 7, 2004