WSU has too much at risk for political games.(Opinion)(Wayne State University)

Crain's Detroit Business, December, 2005

Did Wayne State University break state elections law? The Michigan Chamber of Commerce has asked the Michigan Department of State to find out. The chamber's complaint was triggered by postings on the portion of the university's Web site managed by its Labor Studies Center. The page promoted efforts to place a minimum-wage ballot question on November 2006 ballot.

As public school districts know, state law prohibits using public dollars to promote a ballot initiative, whether it's a school millage or, in this case, a minimum-wage law. Hal Stack, director of the center, said the promotion was a student intern project and it was removed after the chamber complained. (Stack described the piece as a "link'' on its site in our story on Page 21, but it appeared...