It\'s not that Donte Pryor, a seventh-grader at Hope of Detroit Academy, isn\'t trying to do better, it\'s just that he needs extra help. An A student in math, he\'s struggling with English. \"But since I\'ve been coming to Youthville, I\'ve not only brought up my English Language Arts grade, I\'ve actually brought them all up,\" he said as he worked on a Powerpoint project. I found Donte at Youthville Detroit, a state-of-the-art youth center on the city\'s North End. Over his shoulder peered Pavan Parasu, 19, a Wayne State University freshman. Parasu is one of about 20 WSU honors students who are volunteer tutors at Youthville. \"A lot of other students at Wayne are from the suburbs and aren\'t engaged with the city\'s issues, like education,\" said Parasu, a Big Rapids native and premed student. \"I\'m not doing this for my major. I want to get involved.\" WSU\'s Honors Youthville Detroit Team started in October when Nancy Galster, the special initiatives coordinator for Wayne State \'s Honors Program, wanted to connect her students with the newly opened facility less than a mile from campus. For Galster, the mentoring program is having the desired effect. \"I\'ve read their journals,\" she said. \"It hasn\'t been automatic magic. They\'ve had to work to forge relationships, but it\'s been a very successful venture for my students.\"