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CHRISTINA CLARKStaff Columnist

Do you remember back when you were a kid and the designated dinner maker made that one meal that you didn’t want anything to do with?

We all had that one meal that looked like vomit and smelled much worse, so what was yours? Liver and onions? Brussels sprouts? Or have you repressed that horrible memory?

Were you forced to eat it, or did you go to bed hungry?

Did you ever have a time when you were a kid and you really wanted McDonalds, but the answer was no?

Now that you have kids, do your kids probably hear no just as much as you did?

“No, you can’t eat ice cream for dinner; no, you can’t stick your finger in the light socket; no, you can’t keep a snapping turtle as a pet, and no, you can’t have fast food for dinner today.”

This might be a few things you have heard, or maybe you have even said some of them yourself.

Why? Because it’s a par-ent’s job to raise and mold their kid into a functional member of society, and to not be their friend all the time. This job often comes with the word “no.”

A dad from New York, however, has just found his job to be a whole lot harder, as a psychologist has labeled him an inept parent for tell-ing his son “no.”

According to ABC news, “David E. Schorr says psy-

chologist Marilyn Schiller pronounced him incapable of caring for his nearly 5-year-old son after he of-fered a choice.”

What was this horrible, awful, disturbing choice only an inept parent could give their child?

According to the report by ABC, Schorr, who thought his son had been eating too much junk food, told his son that he could have dinner anywhere else but McDon-alds, or he could have no dinner at all.

Schorr is not a very strict parent, according to the ar-ticle, and soon regretted his stance after the child threw a tantrum, so he offered the “elsewhere or nowhere” as a “final offer.” The toddler chose the latter and Schorr then took his “irate” son home to his mother, and continued to attempt to change his son’s mind as

they waited for his mother to return from work.

He told his child no, and what did that get him? He was labeled as an “inept” parent.

According to the ABC article, “Schiller told a judge the fast food flap ‘raises concerns about the viabil-ity’ of the father’s weekend visits with his son and asked a judge to eliminate or limit them, his lawsuit says.”

A person should be able to tell their child no and not have to worry about whether or not their child will be taken away, or that they will be labeled inept. It is a parent’s job to look out for their child’s best interest, and the kid is not the one who should be calling the shots.

The question for you: did Schorr make the right call, or does the psychiatrist have a point?

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THIS WEEK’S TOPIC: Has the recent Death of WSU student Tiane Brown changed your views on campus safety around here?

DARRYL TERRELLPhotography Major

CLAIRE WINTERNutrition Major

JUBY ABRAHAMPre-Pharmacy Major

“Definitely, because my friends and I walk to parking structures all the time. Even at night we think we’re safe and we’re really not. One of my friends, he would see her (Brown) every single day, as a random student. They would go to the parking structure at the same time. And to think that could happen to any one of us, is just completely scary. You never know until it happens.”

“It hasn’t really changed how I feel about the safety of campus because it’s just how you act around it. I never go anywhere by myself after dark, and I usually always have people with me when I’m walking around. It hasn’t changed my view because I already knew the basis of how it was around here.”

“Since the situation has happened, I have been a little more cautious where I am, specifically by myself because of course I don’t want that unfortunate event to happen to myself. Because I have so many female friends I try to keep my eye out for them; we all walk together. I do feel like since it happened the police have been more on their P’s and Q’s.”

“No, of course not. It’s Detroit. Things are gonna happen, but unfortu-nately that’s the way of the world. Yeah, the cops need to start paying at-tention to things and cracking down, but the city is going through it’s own thing right now. Campus safety can only do so much.”

TYLER GRIFFISPhotography Major


Faculty, students share experiences from overseasInternational Education Week seeks to draw students from abroad

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CHRIS EHRMANNNews Correspondent

In celebration of International Education Week, Wayne State President M. Roy Wilson, and three WSU students discussed studying abroad and working overseas.

Associate Vice President for Educational Outreach and Interna-tional Programs Ahmad Ezzeddine helped organize the event.

“International Education week is a joint program actually, that both the Department of Education, U.S. Department of Education and the Department of State really promote to celebrate al l the international activit ies that are going on at the universities in the U.S.,” Ezzeddine said.

Ezzeddine said the week also in-cluded some cultural events, a quiz show and a fashion show.

“We really cannot just l imit our-selves — we need to broaden the ex-periences and the exposures of our students because we need to under-stand the world. We need them to have a better understanding of the world and be able to compete with other students,” he said.

Wilson was the guest speaker for the event, and his speech explored

why it is important for students to study abroad and learn more about the world around them.

“Detroit has always been a place of opportunity,” Wilson said. “Thankfully, we do have a lot that ’s already going on — there’s pro-grams in place to prepare students for the international market place.”

He said that everybody l ives in a smaller world now because of how easy it is to go around the globe. According to Wilson, WSU used to be recognized for the amount of international students the school had.

“In the last few years, our in-ternational enrollment has unfor-tunately dropped,” he said. “For years, Wayne State boasted a large international student population. In the early 2000s, we had more than 3,000 international students — 10 percent of our enrollment — ranking us ninth in the country. That f igure dropped to 5 percent in 2006. We have been working dil i-gently to reverse that trend.”

One of the programs that Wilson mentioned was the African Democ-racy program, where students are able to go to Africa and witness the “birth of democracy.”

“Our students from the United

States also benefit from overseas educational experiences,” Wilson said. “For example, last year our senior students from the school of medicine traveled over 6,000 miles to Israel.”

Three students also shared their experiences with their specif ic in-ternational experience.

Debanina Seaton, a senior at WSU, took part in the African De-mocracy program which took her to Ghana. Nishanth Alluri , who is in the WSU Student Senate, trav-eled to Belize and West Africa, and Swetha Jairajan, a graduate stu-dent, has completed seven years in the human resource department in India at the Bank of New York Mel-lon.

“It was very good. It was an op-portunity to talk about my posi-tive experience and that could help influence other students under-stand it ’s a great place and a lot of opportunities,” Jairajan said.

Alluri has participated in the in-ternational programs and was glad he was asked to give a speech on his experiences.

“I ’ve done a lot of things for them (study abroad),” Alluri said. “I did student panels on orientation days talking about studying abroad. I

have done a lot of speeches and I ’m doing a lot with undergraduate research. I really wanted to put out there what my experience was.”

Wilson also shared his experi-ences of international trips when he was younger. One trip was to Cameroon. In that trip, he said he learned more about the Cameroo-nian people. His friend tried to give some locals money for helping them out because of a bag that was stolen.

“They wouldn’t accept it and they wouldn’t accept it because they said they knew why we were there and that we were there to help the people of Cameroon,” Wilson said. “I learned a lot from that story; I learned that wherever you go there’s good and there’s bad. And right there was a poignant remind-er of that.”

The event concluded with a recep-tion where l isteners could converse with the speakers and learn more about their experiences. Alluri said he was happy to give a speech and that people should know more about the world.

“It ’s good for people to be ex-posed so then you can use that to make a positive change here,” Al-luri said.

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Anchorman back in action

Fact or fairytale ?

TIM CARROLLA&E Correspondent

After nine years of waiting, fans are finally getting the sequel they’ve been asking for - “Anchorman 2.”

The movie, which has been in devel-opment ever since the widely popular first movie came out in 2004, features the same writing team of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The duo has worked together on movies like “The Campaign,” “The Other Guys” and “Step Brothers.” Both Ferrell and McKay got their start working for “Saturday Night Live.”

“Adam McKay has such a fertile mind. He sits at the monitor in his little tent with a microphone and just throws ideas out,” said Steve Carell, a co-star of the movie. “You know, you can pick and choose. You don’t have to say what he’s giving you. But invariably you want to because everything that he says is kind of golden.”

Carell plays Brick Tamland, a weather reporter with an IQ of 40. “I love the innate intelligence of Brick,” Carell said. “The counterintuitive quality of his char-acter, I think, is what appeals to me.”

The main stars of the first movie will also be returning, with Ferrell in the lead role as Ron Burgundy, and Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Christina Apple-gate and Vince Vaughn all reprising their roles from the original movie.

“It was such a blast doing the first one that I would jump at the chance to come back and beat a dead horse,” said Rudd, who plays Brian Fantana, a news corre-

spondent. Carell feels the same. “We all just wanted to do it for the sake

of doing it, and I think we all would have done it in a vacuum,” Carell said. “Even if there was no film and any camera, we would have come back and done it, because it’s so much fun.”

This time around, the news crew, who fell on hard times after the 1970s, will be starting new jobs at a 24-hour news channel. The setting is changed from San Diego to New York in the early 1980s. Other than that, not much is known about the film, as the cast and crew has kept quiet and the trailers only tell so much.

“I don’t want to say anything whether it does (happen) or whether it doesn’t,” Rudd said. “I want people to have ques-tions going into this. I want people to feel about this the way they feel about ‘Lost in Translation,’ in a way. Remember, when Scarlett Johnson whispered into his ear and no one knows what she said. I want that level of frustration.”

And while the stars won’t give away much, Rudd and Carell do hint at some special guest stars appearing, just like the first film.

“You know, all those cameos that we had and the big fight scene in the first one, people just wanted to be a part of the silliness,” Carell said. “So I think the same holds true for this one.”

“Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” will premiere in theaters across the coun-try Dec. 20. For more information on show times and ticket prices, call or visit the website of your local movie theater.

SHAWN BOHNContributing Writer

Based on the book of the same name, “The Book Thief” tells the story of a young girl named Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nelisse).

The film opens with Liesel on the run with her mother and younger brother. Very soon her brother dies and she steals her first book at his fu-neral, “The Gravedigger’s Handbook.”

Unable to care for Liesel, her mother gives her up for adoption and she is taken in by a German couple, the kind and doting Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and the strict but loving Rosa (Emily Watson). In her new home, Liesel meets her soon to be best friend, Rudy (Nico Liersch). Using “The Gravedigger’s Handbook,” Hans teaches Liesel to read, creating a love for books so great that she’ll risk

everything for more. The opening third of the film is its

strongest stretch. We feel for Liesel as she grieves the loss of her mother and brother, and struggles to ad-just to her new home. The chemistry between Liesel and Rudy is so strong that there is an immediate sense of a genuine and lasting bond. The slow creep of the Nazi state’s power breathes down on the neighborhood, as homes are randomly ransacked, friends disappear, and book burnings are held in the streets.

While this is nothing we haven’t seen before in dozens of World War II films, in the beginning it lends a genuine gravity to the story. We root for Liesel and anxiously hold our breath as she steals book after book from the Burgermeister.

The film’s greatest strength lies in the relationship between Liesel and a young Jewish man named Max (Ben

Schnetzer). Max arrives at Hans and Rosa’s door exhausted and on the run, seeking refuge. Hidden in the basement, Max feeds Liesel’s vora-cious appetite for books and encour-ages her to write her own. Their re-lationship and its development carry the film until eventually, when Max is forced to leave after Liesel lets slip the secret of his presence.

From there, the film drags, and despite bombs dropping on the city several times, there is a lack of a sense of danger for the characters in an increasingly tumultuous setting.

Hans is conscripted into the army for standing up for a Jewish neigh-bor, but returns a few scenes later with nothing more than a limp, ef-fectively rendering the whole charade meaningless. Jewish men and women are marched through the streets as Liesel yells for Max, but no sense of the horrible fate that awaits them

is ever hinted at, as they are just another prop in the World War II backdrop.

“The Book Thief” isn’t a film about World War II. It isn’t a film about Nazi Germany or the evils of the Holocaust. The strength of the story lies in that it is simply about one girl’s loss and the solace she finds in books.

With a different setting, this wouldn’t be a problem. However, rel-egating the seriousness and horror of World War II Germany and it’s perse-cution of Jews to a simple backdrop can at times leave a bad taste in your mouth. The film screams fairytale at every corner, which begins to clash with its setting at the halfway point, especially at an overly sentimental end. If you can overlook this, it’s a fairly engaging story of a young girl’s courage in the face of immense loss in an ever chaotic world.


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Restaurant offers green fare, eco-friendly ambiance

DEBANINA SEATON Contributing Writer

Perhaps it was what I ordered that made the experience mediocre. Or maybe it was the price of those same orders. But Freshii, Aramark’s re-placement to AVI’s Freshens, seems to be missing that “oomph” it was expected to have.

Maybe I was just afraid of order-ing the other items that were set at a Coney Island prices.

When I went to Freshii, I was overwhelmed by the use of green and white colors, as if to promote healthy eating habits to purify the body and mind while also being conscientious of

protecting the environment. I thought it was clever, although

they chose to hang food utensils and napkins above the heads of short patrons who have to stand on their tiptoes to grab a spoon or fork.

I observed this from sitting on some strange, plastic pistachio-colored stool. But furniture is the least of po-tential buyers’ concerns.

The two items I ordered were a make-your-own smoothie and the Southwest-style chicken soup, both priced at $5.99.

The ingredients I ordered for the smoothie were kale, coconut milk and pineapple so it would taste like a green piña colada. It was given to me in a 14 oz. cup that looked more like

8 oz. and though it tasted wonderful, there were moments I had to stop to chew the kale. I prefer my vegetables completely blended in a smoothie.

On this occasion, the customer service was nice, though it took them a while to make the smoothie with only one person ahead of me. For the taste, I recommend the drinks. as for the price, only go if you’re rich or just got paid.

Then there was the second occa-sion. I sometimes have to ask myself what management is thinking when they hire certain people. I understand everyone deserves a chance at em-ployment but there is a proper way to present and conduct yourself. Have you ever seen “Lord of the Rings?”

The service seemed to be conducted as if Orcs were in charge. In fact, one employee screamed and acted like an Orc. They were disoriented and discombobulated with several orders already placed and no one to prepare them. They were slow and yelling at each other; some of them just stood around or wandered in the back room.

I ordered the Southwest chicken soup for $5.99, and what I thought would take just a few moments took longer.

They acquired a large carry-out con-tainer and stuffed one-third with rice and the other two-thirds with vegeta-ble stock. Then they daintily sprinkled the top with tomatoes, broccoli and a little corn. It was not enjoyable.

TIM CARROLLA&E Correspondent

The Warriors are getting greener.Freshii, Wayne State’s newest restaurant,

opened to the public in mid-November. The convenient, healthy fast food place saw lots of hype leading up to is debut with emails sent out, signs posted and ads being seen all around campus.

Freshii joins Gold n’ Greens as the second healthy fast food alternative on campus. Gold n’ Greens opened at the beginning of the fall semester. Freshii is different, however, because it is a restaurant, not a cafeteria.

Freshii is as eco-friendly as a restaurant can be. They carry all biodegradable to-go contain-ers and utensils, use all energy efficient appli-ances, take advantage of paperless marketing and even build their stores with eco-friendly materials to take less from the earth, all accord-ing to their website.

The restaurant, which boasts an all fresh all healthy menu, is a good thing to have on cam-pus according to students.

“You don’t see a lot of vegetarian stuff on campus, so it’s nice to see a place like Freshii,” said freshman Michelle Santos. “It brings variety and choice. You don’t have to eat fatty foods anymore. If students want to, they can live healthy. Everybody can choose now.”

The food isn’t bad either, according to Santos.

“I came here once before and the food is really good. That is why I came back. I’ll defi-nitely be back again. I would recommend it to students.”

The restaurant, which is located in the Tow-ers next to Subway and across from the Faculty Administration Building, features a green and white color scheme, promoting health and

freshness. The menus can be found on TV screens above the staff and rotate different items such as sandwiches, soups, wraps and even smoothies. The right hand wall is covered with pictures of different items that Freshii has and the nutritional value they hold. The picture for kalamata olives, for example, lets diners know that the vegetable is “iron rich, providing sustained energy” and “contain phytonutrients that help protect against cancer and bone loss.”

“We have these pictures here so students can see what they’re choosing and why it’s a healthi-er choice,” Freshii Supervisor Ennam Abyad. “There are so many beneficial items here, people really have different options at Freshii.”

According to Abyad, it’s important to have a healthy fresh dining option on campus because normally students are surrounded by junk food and forced to eat unhealthy, because that is all that is there.

“We want to be the better alternative to the Towers food, and to cafeteria food and junk food,” said Abyad. “Students are always being told to eat unhealthy because that’s all that’s out there and Freshii can change that by being the alternative.”

Abyad also says students shouldn’t worry about Freshii being just another sandwich shop.

“We’re not a one way shop,” said Abyad. “We offer plenty of different nutritious menu items and beverages, with less soft drinks than other restaurants and more healthy options.”

Abyad closely followed the restaurant’s mani-festo, which is found on their website freshii.com, and says that Freshii aims to be the apple you choose over the candy bar.

If students are seeking an alternative to the daily sub sandwich or taco meal, Freshii will certainly have the healthy options they’re look-ing for.


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Everybody danceTIM CARROLL

A&E Correspondent

The Seventh Detroit Dance Race and Winter Workshop will take place at the artLab J dance studio in down-town Detroit Dec. 20 and 21.

The event is hosted by artLab J Dance Company and The Umbrella Company.

Over the two-day period, a show-case of works will be presented that have been choreographed and per-formed by different dance artists.

Apart from the performances, there will be a variety of classes avail-able for those who are interested in expanding their repertoire and are open to new experiences. ArtLab J will host workshops focusing on Contemporary, Improvisation and Partnering Technique, while The Um-

brella Co. will teach Contemporary and Yoga.

The event will be open to those interested in sharing their work with a greater audience, regardless of experience. It is an opportunity for emerging artists to make a mark in the city of Detroit since artLab J understands that it is a challenge finding available space to dance in around the downtown area, and so the organization wishes to create a bridge between the artists and the city.

The collaboration with the New York dance studio Umbrella Co. ex-tends and strengthens the bridges of artistic expression across the nation. This event fits into the overarch-ing philosophy of collaboration that defines artLab J. More than a dance studio, artLab J is a nonprofit entity

that strives to foster creative poten-tial within the greater movement realm, and in their words, “wishes to give every dancer, no matter what level they are at, a chance to explore and expand their technique, passion and their joy for dance.”

The Umbrella Co., founded by Stephanie Booth and Jessica Parks in 2010, is, like artLab J, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to cre-ating work that progressively moves the medium of dance forward.

By combining a wide array of influ-ences including classical ballet and post-modernism, a “vocabulary” is crafted, leading to the creation of a “language” directed both to dancers and non-dancers alike so that they may take part in the wider human conversation.

As is then evident from the man-

tras of the collaborating studios, the bi-monthly Dance Race is not merely geared towards those already famil-iar with the ways of dance and show, but also to everyone who is looking for a fun night out and wish to learn more about what’s happening in the ever-growing dance community.

The event opens up at noon Friday, Dec. 20 with a yoga session held by Jessica Park from New York. Both days will end with the Dance Race performance at 7 p.m. For more in-formation on the event, please visit http://artlabj.com/Workshop_Class.html.

Those interested in participating in the workshop, or for those who would wish to take a single class rather than the whole day, should fill out the form found at http://artlabj.com/uploads/WINTER_WORKSHOP.


Detroit Sound Conservancy looks to protect city’s musical history

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Preserving sounds of past, present, future

LATONYA BERRYContributing Writer

Known as Motown and synony-mous with the names Berry Gordy, Eminem, Kidd Rock, Aretha Franklin and groups like The Temptations and The Supremes, Detroit has a rich musical history.

But are you familiar with Kenn Cox, Alma Smith or Thomas Bowles? Known as pioneers in Detroit music, the Detroit Sound Conservancy is working to make sure artists such as these are never forgotten. The orga-nization is dedicated to keeping the city’s rich history in music plentiful.

Started in the summer of 2011 as HEAR Detroit, the organization’s mission was to “become a catalyst for indigenous musical preservation and historical advocacy in Southeastern Michigan,” according to the Detroit Sound Conservancy website.

Officially, The Detroit Sound Con-servancy was founded the following summer, in 2012. The organization’s first website, through Wordpress, states “Every day, lovers of Detroit sound lose another hero. Every day, lovers of Detroit sound lose an-other landmark. Every day, lovers of Detroit sound lose the opportunity

to celebrate and educate. And every day, the legacy that Detroiters do have of our music making, that im-mense sonorous panorama of activi-ties and connections that lovers of Detroit sound here and around the world adore, becomes more fragmen-tary and harder to conserve. Detroit needs a Detroit Sound Conservancy.”

Founded by Michigan-native and former music journalist Dr. Carleton S. Gholz, the organization’s website says the goal is to “become the go-to leadership for accurate information and effective strategy to increase and maintain Detroit’s capacity to conserve its musical past.”

“The current DSC working board includes musicians, preservation-ists, teachers, archivists, librarians, journalists, coders, ethnomusi-cologists, architects, photographers, filmmakers, publicists, DJs, urban planners, and, most importantly, fans of Detroit music,” according to its website.

This summer, the DSC successfully led a Kickstarter project fundraiser. The project had a funding period of 30 days with a goal of $5,000. According to the DSC’s Wordpress, “The DSC imagines gathering oral histories, preserving the written records of Detroit music journalists,

encouraging the digitization and dis-semination of music-related audio and video, and organizing around historical landmarks and collections critical to telling the story of Detroit music.”

“With more than 100 hours of tapes in its possession, including interviews with the Stooges’ Ron Asheton, techno pioneer Ken Collier, blues musician Bobo Jenkins, and the late producer J Dilla, the Con-servancy hopes to become the gold standard of digital archiving,” The Grammy Foundation reported.

The Kickstarter fundraiser ended Aug. 8 with a surplus of $3,592. With the DSC’s fiduciary being The Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation, after the check was delivered the organization started its campaign, including gifts for backers and a brand new website.

Gohlz said immediate goals include finishing up sending out gifts to the Kickstarter backers by the end of the month and slowly rolling out the website and the first round of oral histories this fall.

“As we go, we will build up the website with everything we have learned over the last two years of organizing, from how to preserve au-dio cassettes to how to conduct oral

histories of Detroit’s musical experi-ences,” he said.

Gohlz said 2014 is going to be a big year. “Our goal is to couple our working board members with a hand-ful of interns, turning our volunteer, part-time, seasonal organization into a day-in, day-out, on-the-ground presence in Detroit,” he said. For the DSC, this will mean continuing rais-ing awareness through its website as well as fundraising for budgetary needs.

“It will also mean building a consortium of groups to meet over the course of the year to come up with an actual plan for Detroit music preservation,” Gohlz said.

The DSC also hopes to find a temporary home that will be used to begin the physical archive of their recordings, in addition to raising enough money to hire a full-time director in the fall.

“No one wakes up every morning in Detroit with the professional goal of thinking about Detroit music, its past, present, and future, irrespec-tive of genre,” Gohlz said. “We want to create the conditions where such sonic laboring can take place.”

For more information on the De-troit Sound Conservancy visit thede-troitsoundconservancy.org.

Authors, athletes, local celebrities unite for charity event

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‘Detroit Legacies’ celebrate diversity

LYNN LOSHFeatures Correspondent

It was a night for Detroit to come together and celebrate.

Mitch Albom and Judge Damon J. Keith launched their books and hosted the charity event “Detroit Legacies: In Black White” at the Fox Theatre Nov. 11.

The planning of the event started out with talk of a book release party, but Albom decided he’d rather do something for charity. All of the pro-ceeds went to S.A.Y Detroit Chari-ties, Reading Works and the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, part of the WSU law school.

Any costs of the event were paid by Albom.

“I just wanted to do something to celebrate the togetherness of De-troit. We hear a lot of criticism of Detroit, a lot about how we don’t get along, but I think that’s a mis-nomer,” Albom said. “I think people get along here, across racial lines and ethnic lines or religion lines quite well. And I think we’re trying to celebrate that tonight and prove it. That’s our goal.”

Keith, 91, and Albom, 51, shared the stage with notable members of Detroit’s past and present, some talked about their experiences with racial harmony and some who read excerpts from Keith and Albom’s books.

Albom’s novel “The First Phone

Call from Heaven” was released Tuesday, Nov. 12, but all who at-tended the event were given a free and autographed copy Monday night. Keith’s biography “Crusader for Jus-tice” came out Friday, Nov. 15.

Keith and Albom came out to a standing ovation before sitting on couches that were reminiscent of a living room. The comfortable feel continued throughout the night as attendees got to hear personal sto-ries from special guests.

Keith shared his own personal story about fighting against racism, his dreams of becoming a lawyer and his rise to becoming a federal judge. Keith’s book reflected on his memo-ries of race wars, and he spoke of how he sensed a brighter future.

“We are moving forward and no one can stop us,” he said to the crowd of more than 3,000 people.

Music artist and Detroit native KEM performed with Motown leg-ends The Four Tops, and “Saturday Night Live” alum Tim Meadows, who grew up in Detroit and graduated with a bachelor’s from WSU, told a few jokes and reflected about his youth in Detroit.

Athletes Matt Stafford of the De-troit Lions and Jimmy Howard of the Detroit Red Wings spoke about how cultures cross and blend when play-ing sports and being teammates.

“Obviously (diversity is) something in sports — you’re playing with peo-ple of different ethnic backgrounds from all over the world. We play for

a common cause and pull together as a team,” Stafford said. “That’s what makes sports so great.”

Former University of Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr, former Uni-versity of Michigan player Mike Hart and former Detroit Tigers player and close friend of Judge Keith, Willie Horton, also shared their stories.

The honoree of the night was for-mer Detroit Tiger’s General Manager Jim Leyland, who was presented by Detroit Tiger’s player Don Kelly with a plaque signed by Mayor Dave Bing that named Nov. 11 “Jim Leyland Day” in Detroit.

“A city’s like a team,” Leyland said. “It was a wonderful feeling to see Latin-American, black and white players all come together and that’s what Detroit needs to do. The city is like a team, just bigger. We must pull together.”

The 15th most winningest man-ager in baseball even sang a few lines of an old Motown hit for the crowd. The themes of the night were “community” and that all people are “more alike than different.”

Albom shared the lesson that he learned from his former professor Morrie Schwartz, the inspiration for his first novel. He said Schwartz had said to him that as he got older he realized that all people were “more alike than different.” Albom said he took this to heart and with his nov-els has tried to spread the message.

“It’s (wonderful) that a city with over 80 percent blacks can elect a

white man,” said Keith, mentioning Mayor elect Mike Duggan, who was also at the event. “Doesn’t that say something about Detroit? This vision starts here; let’s pull together for a great community.”

WSU student Alexandra Sewell attended the event with her sister Olivia and friend Sarah Fox-Long, who are also both WSU students. The Sewells are close family friends of Judge Keith.

“We take a lot of classes that revolve around race relations and overcoming adversity and urban problems for minorities and that. It’s always cool to get a different perspective, because a lot of times we only get it from a Latino point of view. It’s good to get it from some-one else’s view,” said Sewell, who is a junior and majors in Latin-Ameri-can Studies.

Dennis Archer, WSU alum and former mayor of Detroit, also at-tended the event. He was chosen as a speaker to read an excerpt from Keith’s biography.

“I think it’s outstanding and much needed given the negative impres-sions written about the Detroit in the newspapers or (television),” said Archer of the event.

The almost four-hour event raised over $100,000 for the local chari-ties.

“It’s so important, as we gather here tonight, to try and reach some-one who needs help,” Keith said. “People are helping by being here.”


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Duo takes second in Michigan Innovation Competition

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WSU students mean business

Women’s hoops has impressive start

LYNN LOSHFeatures Correspondenr

Starting your own business is a dream most have had at one point.

Wayne State students Adham Aljah-mi and Sagor Bhuiyan of the startup business SIB Medical are one step closer to making that dream happen.

The two pitched their idea for a stool sample-collecting device and won second place in the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition.

The device could help simplify and cut costs for colon cancer screening.

“It’s safer and takes away that awkward factor,” Bhuiyan said of the device, a biology major.

Accelerate Michigan gives startup businesses a chance to pitch their ideas to investors. The competition has a company segment and a student segment.

Winners of the student competition received a top prize of $25,000, sec-ond place received $15,000 and third place received $10,000.

This year, at the 4th annual Accel-erate Michigan Innovation Competi-tion, nine WSU students competed in the student competition, in a pool of 34 student competitors in the semi-finals.

WSU student companies that competed were SIB Medical, Eli Tea,

ClickTheCause, DragAround.Me, AskSupportNow, College Tour and Functional Fluids.

“There are over 60 top investors judging venture capitalists that help small businesses become big,” said WSU student Elias Majid, who com-peted in the program with his startup business Eli Tea.

Students who are enrolled in at least two classes at a Michigan uni-versity or college are eligible to apply to the program and there is no fee for students to enter.

The event was sponsored by over 20 companies, including Pure Michi-gan, Quicken Loans and DTE Energy.

Application requirements were a one-page executive business plan for the first round and a three-minute YouTube video for the second round. The semifinal round and final round consisted of five-minute presenta-tions.

The competition took place in Detroit, beginning Tuesday, Nov. 12 at the Guardian Building. The Wes-tin Book Cadillac Hotel hosted the event Nov. 13 and Nov. 14 until 3:30 p.m. when final presentations were completed. Winners were announced Nov. 14 at Orchestra Hall.

Out of the nine WSU competitors, eight used the Blackstone LaunchPad to help with their businesses and to prepare them for entrepreneurial

competitions. “Blackstone LaunchPad is an office

that helps students start companies, explore starting companies and if they have a company, help to grow a company,” said Senior Program Ad-ministrator Aubrey Agee.

Agee is a former WSU student with bachelors in mechanical engineering and an Masters in business adminis-tration. He started his own business, which is now defunct, before com-ing to WSU as an advisor to student entrepreneurs.

The LaunchPad, located in the Undergraduate Library, is funded by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation and the New Economy Initiative of Michigan.

“(The LaunchPad is) helpful in looking at the longterm and with the financial lingo,” Majid said.

WSU is one of several campuses to receive a Blackstone LaunchPad. The Blackstone Foundation sets up the program in economically depressed regions across the United States. There are currently LaunchPad pro-grams in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylva-nia and Florida.

“We don’t do any work for the students, we just guide them,” Agee said. “We connect them with mentors in their field, mentors in law, men-tors in finance, mentors in technol-ogy.”

The LaunchPad helps students by showing them templates and ex-amples, as well as going over their executive summaries. The students also help each other edit their work and mentored each other with their videos.

The LaunchPad also offers the Wayne State Warrior fund to start-up business. The fund offers up to $5,000 for scalable student busi-nesses.

Wayne State and entrepreneur Brian Royster credits the LaunchPad with helping him perfect his pitch.

“When I first started going to the LaunchPad, the first piece of advice Aubrey gave me was ‘practice makes perfect’ and all the practice I’ve got-ten in the launchpad has helped me,” Royster said.

Though Royster didn’t get to the fi-nal round, he still received exposure from being involved. His company AskSupportNow developed a device that actively fixes computer problems before they happen. Someone regis-tered on his website after he gave his pitch and he met a potential custom-er at the event.

Royster said if he competes next year, he’ll be better prepared.

“I’ll be a little bit smarter about it next year,” he said. “The judges were keenly interested in those who had patents.”

FUAD SHALHOUTThe South End

The Wayne State women’s hoops team scored the game’s first 13 points on its way to an impressive 77-62 season-opening win over California Univ. of Pa., Nov. 17.

CUP scored 11 of the next 21 points to cut the deficit to 10 at 21-11 with just over 11 minutes left before intermission.

WSU maintained its double-digit ad-vantage and still led by 10 (33-23) after CUP’s Chelsea McKnight drained a triple with 3:34 remaining in the first half. The Warriors then went on an 11-4 run to take a 44-27 lead after 20 minutes.

The Warriors shot 65 percent in the first half.

Both teams would open the second half trading baskets until the Warriors

went on a 6-0 spurt to increase the lead to 22 points and demoralize the Vulcans.

After that, the closest CUP would get would be 19 points on two occasions. The Vulcan’s knocked down a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 56-37 at the 13:06 mark and then later on hit a basket with 6:28 remaining to cut the Warrior lead to 68-49.

The Vulcan’s outscored WSU 13-9 down the stretch to make the score a little more respectable.

Brown and Bridges each posted double-doubles for WSU as Brown had team-high marks of 19 points and 14 rebounds, while Bridges chipped in with 13 points and 12 rebounds.

Overall, WSU had 21 assists on 31 field goals.

The Warriors are off until playing at Indianapolis on Saturday, Nov. 30.

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Warriors win season opener, 93-73

WSU closes season with sixth straight loss

MICHAEL LEWISContributing Writer

The Wayne State Warriors men’s bas-ketball team began the regular season by crushing the Wilberforce Bulldogs, 93-73, in its home opener Nov. 14.

The Bulldogs came out firing, leading the Warriors by as many as six points in the first seven minutes of play. How-ever, the Warriors responded with an 8-0 run initiated through a three-point play from guard Chene Phillips. From that point on, the Warriors held on to the lead, relinquishing it only once and tying the score five times. They held a 12-4 scoring margin to close the quarter with a 45-36 lead.

Although the margin of victory was large, the Warriors did not dominate the defensive end of the floor as well as pre-vious David Greer coached teams. Even though the Warriors tallied 12 steals as a team, Coach Greer saw room for im-provement in their defensive game.

“I thought we gave up way too many open shots,” Greer said. “We didn’t start the game with a defensive mindset. We had one of those first one to 100 men-talities and that’s totally different from what we’ve been practicing.”

In the second half, the Warriors kept their lead in double digits until the Bull-

dogs crawled to within seven with nine minutes left. It proved not enough as the Warriors scored six straight and the lead never dropped below 11 points for the remainder of the game.

Despite their inconsistency on the de-fensive end, the offense soared. Sopho-more guard Gavin Toma led the way with 19 points and senior big man Bryan Coleman followed with 18. However, a bulk of the help came from senior guard Deon Dismuke and sophomore forward Michael Lewis (no relation). Dismuke totaled 13 points and seven assists go-ing a perfect 6-6 from the floor. Lewis followed his impressive performance against Michigan with 12 points and six rebounds. This is a breath of fresh air to a team weighed down by injuries.

“It feels good to help the team out,” Lewis said. “My teammates helped keep me calm and kept me doing what I do best.”

The Warriors will play their next game Nov. 30 at Lewis University in Rome-oville, Ill. This gives them plenty of time to practice and fix their mistakes on both ends of the floor. Greer is well aware of their flaws as a team and is prepared to work his team for their next few games.

“We were thinking too much,” Greer said. “We’re going to need to be a lot better than that if we’re going to beat Lewis.”

HUMBERTO MARTINEZ JR.Sports Correspondent

In the 2013 regular season finale, the Wayne State football team (3-8 overall, 3-7 GLIAC) dropped its sixth straight game, a 28-21 defeat at the hands of the Michigan Tech Huskies (6-4 overall, 6-4 GLIAC) in Houghton, Mich.

“(The team) played hard,” Warriors head coach Paul Winters said, “with great intensity and spirit. We just came up short.”

After the Warriors punted away on their first possession, the Huskies marched 86 yards in 12 plays for the first score of the contest.

On MTU’s ensuing possession, line-backer Jamiil Williams intercepted a Tyler Scarlett pass at the Huskies’ 35-yard line. The Warriors would turn the ball over on downs, though, after going for it on fourth-and-5.

Scarlett threw his second of three interceptions on the day – this one was picked off by linebacker Ed Viverette – midway through the second quarter. WSU turned this one into points with a Toney Davis rushing touchdown to tie

the score at the 4:40 mark. The Warriors forced Scarlett’s third

interception 1:10 later as safety David Churchwell came away with the pick. That turned into an 11-play, 43-yard drive that saw WSU take the lead after a five-yard touchdown pass from Doug Griffin to Dominique Maybanks with 16 seconds remaining in the half.

The Huskies took the second half kickoff and scored the game-tying touchdown in 8-plays, covering 76 yards.

WSU regained the lead with a 20-yard touchdown run from Desmond Martin. That series went 50 yards in only three plays thanks to a 29-yard scamper by Martin on the previous play.

But MTU tied it again after a seven-play, 70-yard drive.

It forced a WSU punt, and took the lead 38 seconds into the fourth quarter with a four-play, 67-yard drive.

The Warriors were stopped on fourth-and-1 on its next possession. Following that, the Huskies missed a field goal attempt wide right that would have put them up by 10.

WSU got the ball at the 9:50 mark and went on an 8:04 drive that took them to the MTU 11-yard line. But, on fourth-and-3, they came up two yards short of the conversion.

Their defense gave them another chance, though. Defensive end Greg Hasse forced a fumble that was then re-covered by cornerback Gerren DuHart.

“It was a great job by the defense to get the ball back and create the turn-over,” Winters said.

WSU had the ball at the MTU 35-yard line with 54 seconds left.

Griffin found Maybanks for a 15-yard gain on the first play, but was picked off on the second.

“We just misfired on the (second) pass,” Winters said.

After two Huskies kneel-downs, the game, and season, was over.

WSU rushed for 276 yards as Martin, Griffin and Davis ran for 149, 112 and 46 yards, respectively.

“I thought that Doug Griffin made some good decision and ran the ball effectively. Desmond Martin made a lot of big plays that gave us a real big spark,” Winters said of the run game.

“We were able to do a good job up front.”

But even with those numbers and four takeaways, WSU’s inability to convert on fourth down plays cost it mightily. It finished 1-for-5 on fourth down conversions.

“We felt like the first time we had a fourth and very short; we didn’t go for it and they went right down the field to score that first touchdown. We felt like if that’s the kind of game it’s gonna be, we’re gonna have to go for it on some of these fourth downs,” Winters ex-plained. “And some of those just came up short.”

WSU finishes the season at 0-6 on the road. Their youth, together with a tough schedule, was not a recipe for success on the road.

“You can’t have that,” Winters said. “You can use excuses if you want, being too young or whatever, (but) you’ve gotta be able to go on the road and win football games.”

The Warriors won’t have to wait too long to see the Huskies again. The teams meet on Sept. 6 to open up the 2014 season at Tom Adams Field.

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Women’s volleyball season falls short

Pistons nab Italian basketball MVP

ZEINAB NAJM Senior Writer

The Wayne State women’s volleyball season ended Nov. 16 with an 11-18 overall record on the season. This is the first year under Coach Phil Nickel that the team will be missing the GLIAC tournament.

On Nov. 15, the Warriors hosted Ashland and lost in four sets. The Eagles won the first, third and fourth sets, while WSU only managed to win

the second set.Ashland took an early lead in the

first set but WSU made a run to take a 10-9 lead. The rest of the match was back-and-forth with AU winning 27-25 after a 4-1 run late.

In the second set, the Eagles raced out to another early lead but WSU took over the set. They finished the set with the help of a 4-0 run and a Heather Weiss kill, winning 25-21.

The final two sets would go to Ash-land. They took control of the first set early on with a 16-5 lead and would go

on to win 25-15. The fourth set was a back-and-forth one between the two teams and WSU came out to a strong start but couldn’t hold the Eagles back.

AU won the set 25-23 and the match.WSU played their final game of the

season on Nov. 16 against Lake Erie College. They honored seniors Nicole Arends, Kristen Bulkiewicz and Jessica DeLeeuw before the game.

The Warriors sent the seniors off on a good note sweeping the match in three sets. WSU won 25-10, 25-15 and 25-8.

Bulkiewicz moved up into second place all-time in program history in kills with 1,323 including the 12 she earned against the Storm.

WSU dominated the match from beginning to end. They had leads in all three sets and won all three in con-vincing fashion.

The biggest stat of the match was the -.104 hitting percentage of Lake Erie compared to the .351 of the Warriors.

Madison Reeves collected 72 assists over the two matches to lead the WSU.

SEAN MCCABE Contributing Writer

Luigi Datome fires up a jump shot as the Detroit Pistons finish up practice — swish. He takes a pass from former Piston great and newly minted as-sistant coach Rasheed Wallace and shoots another — nothing but net. The 25-year-old Italian rookie is doing what he does best, and now he is doing it at the level he always dreamed of.

“I think NBA is the dream of all the kids, especially from Europe where it is much farther than maybe a kid in the States,” Datome said.

The 6-feet-8-inch, 215-pound, small forward decided to make the leap to the NBA following a career year in which he averaged 16.4 points and 5.6 rebounds for Virtus Roma of Lega Basket Serie A. The performance also netted Datome the Most Valuable Player award in Italy’s highest basket-ball league.

Datome had interest from several NBA teams, including the Boston Celt-

ics, Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs, but ultimately signed a two year, $3.5 million contract with the Pistons.

“The Management (GM Joe Dumars) and coach (Mo Cheeks) they told me that the reason why they wanted a player like me was for my technical skills,” Datome said. “So I felt like Detroit was the best fit for me. I think it was best team that I could show my potential and now I’m here and work-ing out to do it.”

The move was one of many that Dumars made this offseason in an attempt to change the culture of a Detroit locker room that has not seen a winning season since 2008 or a playoff appearance since a 2009 first round knockout at the hands of Leb-ron James and the Cleveland Cava-liers.

The Pistons brought in free agent Josh Smith, added Brandon Jennings in a sign-and-trade with Milwaukee, re-signed Will Bynum, brought back Chauncey Billups and drafted Kentavi-ous Caldwell-Pope No. 8 in the 2013

draft. “The talent upgrade can allow you to

play position-less basketball and not have to worry so much,” Dumars said in an August 2013 article for Grant-land.com. “I don’t really get into play-offs or bust thing. But I do think we have a much better chance to become a playoff team this year.”

The 25-year-old might be old for a rookie by NBA standards-, but Da-tome has been playing professionally in Italy since age 15, and has more professional experience than anyone on the Pistons roster except 16-year veteran Billups.

His outside shooting will open up more space down low for Greg Monroe and Andre Drummond.

“He’s been good,” Monroe said in a recent Mlive article. “He’s getting up and down. He looks like he is moving fine. Obviously the shot is there. He’s made a lot of shots. He’s definitely go-ing to add another shooter.”

According to Datome, the years of pro ball have helped not only his game grow, but made him a better man.

“They (former teammates) used to treat me like I was 30-years-old when I was 15, so yeah for sure it helped me a lot to grow up soon because pro-fessional basketball in Italy is very important,” Datome said. “It helped me out in basketball for sure but also to be a better man.”

Gigi, as he is known by teammates, grew up watching the NBA and Los Angeles Lakers’ superstar Kobe Bry-ant and playing against the five-time champion would be another dream come true.

“Kobe has been on the floor for many years since I was much younger and was one of my favorites,” Datome said. “Playing him will be another great experience.”

The Pistons are betting that Datome, Smith and the rest of the new addi-tions can lead the club back to the winning tradition it experienced in the not so distant past, and they hope it’s as smooth a transition as Datome’s jump shot.

Swish, nothing but net.

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