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"New WSU coach aims team in new direction"

New head football coach Paul Winters is profiled in a feature story. The Warriors' eighth head coach and first black coach says "I'm looking to have a team that competes hard and tries to find a way to win. The biggest thing is I don't want to accept excuses on why we can't win. There are no excuses for losing. It's my job to turn it (the program) around with a change of attitude. And with that, results will come." Winters has solid credentials, from playing and coaching in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to coaching under Barry Alvarez at the University of Wisconsin. A sidebar with the 2002 game schedule is included on the page.

Debating a plan for a blacks-only fund to finance an 'Africa Town' in Detroit

Robin Boyle, professor of urban development in the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, says the proposed "Africa Town" project in Detroit is born out of frustration. According to the proposal, a fund would be established that would lend city money to entrepreneurs, but only if they are black. "But this idea is quite unreal. There's a lot of posturing here." Boyle says such a fund would be not only bad policy but illegal.

NMC speaker compares Iraq to Vietnam

Professor Frederic Pearson, director of CULMA's Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, recently addressed an audience of about 200 at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City about the chances for the democratization of Iraq. "There is some hope, if we get the right balance" of U.S. and Iraqi leaders in the security forces there, Pearson said. He added, however, that "Americans are perplexed that we're seen not as liberators but as occupiers. We're going into one of the most anti-colonial places in the world." A photo of Pearson is included.

WSU, WDET show class in support of Coleman

Columnist Karen Dumas, writing about a controversy involving WDET-FM manager Michael Coleman when he was at another station, says she is impressed that Wayne State and WDET are "standing behind Coleman. . . . More than all, we should recognize the integrity of the Wayne State University for standing behind their employee and for showing us all the importance and principles of teamwork and true leadership; a class in which we should all enroll." Dumas points out that many people jump to conclusions before they know all the facts.

Wayne State men win GLIAC basketball tournament

Wayne State won its first GLIAC men's basketball tournament championship since 1999 with 73-71 win over Ferris State in Big Rapids on Sunday. Wayne State is 22-7 and will learn later Sunday know where it will play in the NCAA Division II tournament's Midwest Regional. http://www.detnews.com/article/20110306/SPORTS0203/103060332/1133/sports0203/Wayne-State-men-win-GLIAC-basketball-tournament http://www.freep.com/article/20110306/SPORTS08/110306010/1056/SPORTS08/Wayne-State-73-Ferris-State-71-Warriors-win-GLIAC-title http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=999&DateTime=3%2F6%2F2011+11%3A58%3A10+PM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=999&playclip=True&RefPage= http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=1004&DateTime=3%2F6%2F2011+11%3A27%3A52+PM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=1004&playclip=True&RefPage= http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=2785&DateTime=3%2F6%2F2011+5%3A48%3A16+PM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=2785&playclip=True&RefPage= http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=2790&DateTime=3%2F7%2F2011+7%3A45%3A43+AM&LineNumber=&MediaStationID=2790&playclip=True&RefPage=

Spring Gala supports dance at Wayne State

In February 2000, the WSU dance department was renamed the Maggie Allesee Department of Dance after a generous gift of $2 million from Allesee, a longtime Metro Detroit dance and cultural arts advocate and philanthropist. Guests at the Fifth Annual Spring Gala dinner, held at The Whitney, enjoyed a full evening of cocktails and elaborate meals. Following the dinner party, a concert \"Dancing the Legacy\" was held at Wayne State\'s Bonstelle Theatre. Allesee\'s gift is the largest of its kind to any university dance program in the country and created the first individually named department at WSU.

Software cuts out test dummy

King H. Yang, a professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering at WSU, has studied computer modeling as it relates to vehicle crashworthiness and occupant injuries for over 27 years. Yang believes that numerical simulations will eventually replace conventional crash testing. "There is a lot of information about injuries that we cannot get from using crash dummies, but is readily available from the computer simulations." Yang believes that as engineers continue to develop computer models, they will one day be able to pinpoint the type of injuries that will occur as a result of a given crash.