Kalamazoo Gazette - The Western Michigan University women's basketball team beat Wayne State 116-66.

The article mentioned that Wayne State enjoyed an increase in student enrollment, with 223 more students enrolling this fall. The article also quotes Anthony Miller, a Wayne State freshman who picked the university over several other schools. ...The18-year-old from Troy said he wasn\'t even considering Wayne until he received mailings during his high school senior year that touted programs that lined up with his desire to become a surgeon. A campus visit also helped change his mind. \"I focused on a lot of specifics before I applied. I was totally against Wayne State because it was in Detroit and it might be unsafe. When I visited, it was fine and everybody was so nice.\" Miller received offers from Rochester College, Calvin College, Oakland University and Michigan State. Wayne State clinched the deal with guaranteed entry into its graduate medical school if Miller maintains a 3.6 grade-point average and excels in core curriculum classes.

Peter Henning, a Wayne State University law professor and former assistant U.S. Attorney, was quoted on Macomb County Prosecutor Carl Marlinga's attorneys plan to ask a federal judge today to dismiss a key piece of evidence in the case against him and two co-defendants. Marlinga is charged with conspiracy, fraud, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission and exceeding campaign contribution limits. Among the motions obtained, the one to suppress the tapes would do the most damage to the government\'s case, Peter Henning said.

Cheryl Somers, associate professor of educational psychology at Wayne State University, believes it\'s important for students to take the precursor to the ACT college entrance exam, also known as the PLAN test. The test will help seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students measure the depth of their academic abilities. \"If you frame it to the child as if the test is truly diagnostic -- to determine how much they know at that point -- and you tell the child you don\'t have explicit expectation for their performance, then in theory, there should be no pressure,\" Somers said regarding the test taking difficulties for students.

Wayne State University professor of Africana studies, Melba Boyd, is a consulting historian for a core exhibit at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The show will unveil its $12 million multimedia to the public on Nov. 30. The slave ship is a key element in the exhibit, called \"And Still We Rise: Our Journey Through African American History.\" The exhibit has been in the works for two years and under construction for eight months and is presented in 22 galleries. The museum expanded the core exhibit space to 22,000 square feet from 16,000 and it delivers its message with artifacts, murals and tableaux containing more than 100 body casts.

This article on fetal alcohol syndrome(FAS) and alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder(ARND) quotes a professor from Wayne State\'s School of Medicine. \"FAS is characterized by growth retardation, central nervous system impairment, and a distinctive pattern of craniofacial anomalies,\" said Sandra W. Jacobson, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and first author of the study.\"ARND refers to nonsyndromal individuals with confirmed heavy prenatal alcohol exposure who exhibit measurable, but generally subtler neurobehavioral deficits than those seen with FAS. Whereas FAS is well established and easier to diagnose, it is not generally recognized that a child can be adversely affected by prenatal alcohol exposure without the characteristic facial features and growth deficits. Nonetheless, alcohol-exposed children with attention deficits or poor social judgment who lack the pattern of facial dysmorphic features may suffer from a similar set of problems that interfere with their academic and social performance.\"

This article in the college hockey roundup section notes that Wayne State men\'s hockey coach Bill Wilkinson earned his 400th career victory win the Warriors defeated Robert Morris 3-2 on Friday. The same round up article also noted that the Wayne State women\'s team was defeated by St. Cloud State 7-2.

The weekend calendar section mentioned the Detroit Docs International Film Festival at Wayne State University.

An op-ed piece maintains that electing university boards is a political anachronism in Michigan that should end because only a tiny minority of voters have any idea who they are voting for.

Wayne State professors Anee Roth, Marc W. Kruman and Donald Haase will convene with other scholars at the Holocaust Memorial Center for the Second Academic Conference on Altruism. The free event will be held on Sunday, Nov. 14.

Professor Jessica Litman of the WSU Law School is quoted in an article about a new grassroots organization aimed at returning "a balance between copyright holders and the public in the cultural arena." The group, called FreeCulture.org, promotes the use of open-source software, encourages student artists to adopt relaxed licensing agreements for their creations and campaigning against legislation that expands the powers of copyright holders. "What's happening now is that we're trying to apply this (copyright) law to a couple hundred million consumers, and it doesn't make any sense to them," Litman said.

The Wayne State University department of music will present its 38th annual Salute to Downtown Detroit Concert at noon Nov. 23 at Old St. Mary's Church in Greektown. Admission is free.

Karen Dinkins reported from the Welcome Center where the Detroit Docs International Film Festival opening party was being held Nov. 11. Dinkins provided background information about the festival and encouraged film buffs to attend documentary screenings being held at various site on the Wayne State campus during the weekend.

The station featured a morning report on the opening of Detroit Docs International Film Festival at Wayne State University in Detroit. The report described the festival, mentioned the venues at Wayne State, and said that many directors were in town. It also featured interviews with two film directors, who mentioned Wayne State.

Michael Belzer, associate professor of urban and labor studies in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, appeared on the \"Points North\" public radio show with host Peter Payette. Belzer discussed the 2 year nurse\'s strike at Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, and the broader issue of labor\'s efforts to unionize healthcare workers.

Cathedral Cultural Series will present a Sacred Music Concert, 7:30 p.m. Fri. with Paul Salamunovich as the guest conductor for a concert featuring the Archdiocesan Chorus and the Wayne State University Concert Chorale. $10 tickets will be sold in advance and $15 at the door.

The Wayne State University women\'s basketball team begins its 2004-05 exhibition season with its lone pre-season game at Western Michigan University on Sunday, Nov. 14. The Warriors will face more Division I competition to open the regular season at the Eastern Michigan Eagle Classic against EMU and Lafayette next weekend.

Mentioned in its newscast the third annual \"State of the Black Youth in the New Millennium\" symposium that will be held at Wayne State on Nov. 19 that features keynote speaker Chuck D., commentator and member of the legendary hip hop group Public Enemy.

Gov Jennifer Granholm said, "Our education system is the jet fuel that propels our economy," as strong emphasis is placed on higher education. The development of a highly skilled workforce is only one way in which public universities serve as an economic renewal. An other way is that public universities fuel the Michigan economy through the research conducted on their campuses.

The following is a verbatim report from this legislative news service: "In an annual address on the state of public universities, the head of the group representing Michigan's 15 public campuses urged policymakers to respect the constitutional autonomy of the institutions and to reverse the trend of cutting funds to universities. Those cuts, he said, are already putting the state in jeopardy of having six of the campuses evolve from being state-supported, to being state-related. . . ." Gary Russi, president of Oakland University and chair of the Presidents Council State Universities of Michigan, said, "Price controls in the form of tuition caps imposed from Lansing, coupled with the serious erosion of state funding over the last three years, do not make for a sustainable model for growing enrollment and improving quality."