State employees must still wait for backpayST. PAUL, Minn., May 19, 2002 -- The Minnesota Legislature adjourned without ratifying any public employee collective bargaining plans after a standoff over new benefits for domestic partners of state employees. In ongoing debate tinged with anti-gay sentiment, House Republicans had opposed the new benefits. The lack of ratifiation means that all state employees covered by those contract, including those at Winona State and Southeast Tech, will revert back to coverage of the old contracts. What next? Under a contingency plan, employee unions will resubmit the agreements to a committee headed by Rep. Carol Molnau for interim ratification. To avoid another showdown over domestic partner benecfits, Molnau is not expected to call a meeting of the subc ommittee. If there is no meeting within 30 days, the contracts, with the domestic-partner benefits, will go into effect with retroactive backpay probably in mid-July. The contacts will then have to be ratified by the 2003 Legislature.
BackgroundL: Gay-partner employee benefits appear dead
Cooking for friends: As easy for 40 as 10CURRY'S MENU
Sliced tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, asparagus
Cheddar biscuits with ham and honey mustard butter
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Cured ham with wrapped asparagus and herbed cheese
Pasta with cured ham pepper and herbs
Seared duck breast with peppercorn sauce
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| WINONA, Minn., May 18, 2002 -- It's a meal they're still talking about. A Winona State University junior cooked eight courses for 43 of friends for an end-of-the-semester costume dinner party. Payton Curry, 22, said that it took three days to get everything started. The dinner itself lasted five hours. Curry said the premium mail-order items he bought cost $850 so, all tolled, the $20 his friends each paid left him $120 short. "If I did it to make money," Curry said, "I wouldn't be able to do it at all." Curtis Jepsen and six of Jepsen's roommates held the party at their house at 427 Center St. The guests dressed up in costumes. One was a doctor. Then there was a cat, a fairy and a hippie. Curry did not dress up for the party. Curry's been a serious cook for only a few months. He began cooking at his mother's house last summer for eight people. Since then he's thrown three other dinner parties for his friends. "It's just as easy cooking for 40 people as it is for 10," Curry said. He is currently cooking at the Green Mill in Winona. This summer Curry is cooking at the Chardonnay restaurant in Rochester, Minn.
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Prof adding realism to WSU chem labsWINONA, Minn., May 18, 2002 -- A Winona State University prof received a $5,000 grant to rewrite general chemistry classes over the summer to be more applicable to nursing students. Schneider said lab exercises would use simulated urine and blood rather than sugar water. The changes will not be negatively affect non-nursing students because the fundamental principles are the same, Schneider said. Labs would have a leader and an assistant and a recorder to document the work. "Documentation is a huge part of nursing," said Schneider. Schneider and two student co-authors are writing a textbook to for the new labs. She said the lab text might have develop a wide following: "We have received some positive responses from publishers,"
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WSU poet's work chosen for poetry yearbookWINONA, Minn., May 18, 2002 -- The International Library of Poetry chose a poem by Winona State University-Rochester computer lab coordinator Debra Bond for its Best Poems and Poets of 2002. The poem "Freedom's Flight of the Stars and Stripes," was Bond's entry, her first, in a poetry contest:As it flutters in the wind
We Stand beneath its wings
As it flutters in the wind
We hold our right hand across our heart
As it flutters in the wind
We pledge allegiance to its cause
As it flutters in the wind
The stars and stripes take flight
and gives us freedom's respite
in the United States of America. "One major contributing factor behind my desire to write about the flag was seeing my father's respect for the flag," said Bond. "Even before the 11th, he was always flying the flag. He sees the flag and remembers all that his family has been through." Bond's father was an airplane mechanic instructor during World War II. He lost two brothers, one at Pearl Harbor.
CAMPUS READER
What in-the-know Winona college people are reading:
| Steven Levy. "The Man Who Cracked the Code to Everything," Wired (June 2002), Pages. 132-137, 146-147. Levy, a senior editor at Newsweek, tells the story of perhaps the most audacious self-publishing project in history -- the 1,200-page "A New Kind of Science" by math genius Stephen Wolfram. This article is a preview of what promises to be the most discussed book of the year on campus. |
| William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Macmillan, 1959. Who knows how many editions this classic pocket primer on usage has been through since Strunk, an English prof at Cornell College, printed it privately in 1917, or maybe earlier. White's update for the New Yorker magazine in 1957, on which the 1959 edition is based, is still a succinct guide, although a bit dated for avant-garde grammarians on changing preferences, such as serial commas. |
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Background: Campus site offers new service: Reading tips
Earlier reading tips: Rohypnol: Another Aid for the Rapist
WSU plans high school music campWINONA, Minn., May 18, 2002 -- A week-long chamber music summer camp for high school students begins June 23 at Winona State University. The finale will be a Friday concert, said prof Paul Vance, coordinator. The faculty will be high school and college educators from Minnesota and Wisconsin, several with more than 20 years experience, he said. The cost: $275, which includes dorm housing and meals.
Contact: Paul Vance or (507) 457-5254
SMU prof reports on maize endosperm researchWINONA, Minn., May 18, 2002 -- A Saint Mary's University biologist, Dick Kowles, biology department, presented a paper on the maternal effect influencing DNA replication in the developing endosperm of maize. The presentation was at the Council for Undergraduate Research meeting in New London, Conn. Kowles said the project, which has taken several years, was with the help of students Carrie Beckenbach, Karen Haas and Tara Flanagan.
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new Canadian media editionWINONA, Minn., May 18, 2002 -- The leading mass media textbook in Canada was revised in a third edition by profs John Vivian of Winona State University and Peter Maurin of Mohawk College. The edition is a spinoff of "The Media of Mass Communication," which Vivian introduced for U.S. colleges in 1989. The Canadian edition has been more and more "Canadianized" in successive editions, Vivian said. It is published by Prentice Hall Canada. Meanwhile, a 2003 update of the sixth edition of Vivian's core book, is due this fall. |
WSU prof offers fast-track learning thoughtsWINONA, Minn., May 25, 2002 -- A Winona State University special-ed prof, Lyelle Palmer, presented a paper, "Proving the Impossible-Meeting Standards with Accelerated Learning," at a meeting of the International Alliance for Learning.
Retired prof to Mississippi wildlife postWINONA, Minn., May 18, 2002 -- A retired polysci prof at Winona State University, Jim Eddy, was elected president of the Friends of the Upper Mississippi River Refuge. The organization has six chapters from Wabasha, Minn., downstream to Savanna, Ill., to promote wildlife projects.
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