ANGRY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Unusually animated, shouting at times, WSU president Darrell Krueger lit into student leaders. Krueger accused them of engineering a referendum against his pet project du jour, the New University.

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Krueger testy in showdown with students

WINONA, Minn., March 4, 2005 -- In a heated confrontation over student opposition to the New University initatives, the president of Winona State University, Darrell Krueger, accused student senators of manipulating the issues into politics. Krueger was plainly upset at a referendum two weeks ago in which students voted by a 5-1 margin against the New University. MORE Krueger said he would not pay any heed to the referendum: "The New University is not a political issue," Krueger lectured student President Dusty Finke and a Senate entourage at a formal meeting to discuss the issue. "It went from an educational issue to a political one. It should be discussed educationally. The Student Senate misused the process. Administration doesn't listen to politics, it listens to educational issues. Student Senate needs to start dealing with the issues as they are and understand the educational process." MORE The confrontation occurred at what is called "a meet and discuss." Either the Student Senate president or the university president can call these sessions for information or to hash out issues. The Friday session, called by Krueger, was in a Maxwell conferfence room. MORE About the referendum margin, 916-189, Kreuger said the opposition was based on ignorance: "Student Senate treated ignorance with democracy." Krueger is a political scientist by training. MORE Krueger, who is retiring and sees the New University reforms as his last hurrah, accused the Student Senate of not doing its part to educate students on the New U plan. Students are being closed-minded and basing their opinions of the plan solely on cost issues, Krueger said. Most observers, it is true, believe the overwhelming student objections to the New University is not the reforms but the $1,000 permanent tuition surcharge that would be phased in. MORE For months Krueger has said the New University program, which looks also for new state and private funding, is essential in a time of dwindling general financial support for higher-ed. To the student senators he repeated that theme: "We should be trying to solve problems for next generation. If we don't WSU will be a skeleton of what we are now." MORE Sen. Ryan Flynn, who represents students in the College of Liberal Arts, challenged Krueger's claim that students are ignorant about the New University: "I am well educated on the issues of the New U Plan. I have participated in visionary conferences, a steering committee and other groups, and I don't think it's worth the cost to us or the future students." Krueger retorted: "I do and I think I know more about it than you." MORE Student Senate President Dusty Finke said he felt the referendum was done properly and students were canvassed well. The turnout for the referendum, more than 14 percent of the student body, was the largest in Winona State history. After the meeting, Finke called the showdown with Krueger "a very emotional meeting." Finke noted that the process of educating students about the New University had been going on for two years and had failed. "The student opinion is broader than the 20 people making all the decisions on the New U," said Finke.

NEW UNIVERSITY Project logo DARRELL KRUEGER University president DUSTY FINKE Student president RYAN FLYNN Liberal arts senator MEET AND DISCUSS PARTICIPANTS Dusty Finke Student president Ryan Flynn Liberal arts student senator Caitlin Powers Sophomore senator Mick Reis Business student senator Travis Reese MSUSA liaison Darrell Krueger University president Steve Richardson University vice presdient 10 others

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Legislators take aim at Power Hour

WSU plans visitor center at Huff and Mill

WINONA, Minn., March 4, 2005 -- The first Winona State purchase of property on the Lake Winona side of Sarnia Street eventually will become an arrival center for campus visitors, according to the university's new master plan. The Huff Street site is described as a portal to campus. The visitors center would include a new headquarters for the campus security staff and parking slots for security vehicles. The security office now is in the Sheehan dorm with no parking for either security or visitors who need to stop to ask for campus parking permits. MORE The university will take possession of the old Lincoln school in September in a $700,000 deal made last spring. The visitor center is planned as a second phase of site development. First is to raze the school, which the planning document says has "reached functional obsolence for which remodeling would be out of the question." A softball diamond and parking will be built on the site. Later would come the visitor center, which the master plan says would be "a small facility that ultimately could be integrated into a larger building." MORE The cost of razing the Lincoln building has been estimated at $700,000, in additition to the $700,000 acquisition price paid to the school District. The university is also acquiring property on Winona Street for a heavily landscaped passage behind Kwik Trip and Gordie's gasoline station to the main campus. A pedestrian tunnel under the Canadian Pacific tracks is envisioned. MORE A timetable is not specified for the post-Lincoln use of the Huff and Sarnia site, although the old school is expected to come down this fall. Other property south of Sarnia, including the entire 12-block Lake Park neigborhood from Winona to Franklin streets is identified for long-term acquisition, albeit at a lesser priority than some other acquisition targets, including Belleview Street to connect the new East Lake dorm with the main campus.

MASTER PLAN Expanded THE NEW HUFF STREET The Lincoln site south of Sarnia and Huff to become softball field, parking lot, visitors center, security headquarters

Twin concerts at WSU Sunday

NewU budget for fall taking form

WINONA, Minn., March 4, 2005 -- The coordinator of the New University initatives at Winona State, Carol Anderson, hinted that the oft-quoted $1,000 figure for a tuituon increase to pay for the program may not be accurate. The actual cost hasn't been figured yet, Anderson said. The $1,000 figure was put forth at a Student Senate meeting in March 2004 by university President Darrell Krueger. Since then, Krueger has neither backed off the figure nor backed it up -- despite pressure from students and from state college system trustees. For months Krueger has said the program was still being worked out and needed flexibility, not the strait-jacket of a budget. MORE Now, Anderson said, has come the time in the New University timetable to come up with a definite budget and finance plan. The first step, which took place Monday, was for a key committee to decide what from the New University plans should be implemented in the fall, said Anderson. On Tuesday committee members met with a consultant from National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. The consultant, Dennis Jones, told the committee cutting, if necessary, should begin with internal adjustments. Rather than hiring new people, consider training current employees in new areas, he said. MORE Anderson said she understands how students feel pressed financially but repeated her view that many students haven't learned about the great improvements that await them in the New University. In a referendum two weeks ago, students voted 916-189 against the New University. The referendum was on the agenda for a Friday meeting between Krueger and student leaders. Anderson said she was planned to attend.

NEW UNIVERSITY Project logo CAROL ANDERSON Time for a budget DARRELL KRUEGER He came up with $1,000 tuition surcharge figure

WINONA, Minn., March 3, 2005 -- Three of the five finalists for president of Winona State University would be acceptable to the search committee that spent 4-1/2 months combing the nation for candidates.The names of Steve Kopp of Ohio Univeristy, Judith Ramaley of the National Science Foundation and John Wanat of the Universty of Wisconsin-Milwaukee were forwarded to state Chancellor Jim McCormick. The search committee did not announce a ranking. Although McCormick is expected to name a new presdient from the three recommended candidates, he is not bound by the search committee's recommendation. Not making the committee's final cut were Paul Keys of Governors State amd Ginny Combs of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. MORE STEVE KOPP Kopp is special assistant to the chancellor for the Ohio Board of Regents and is tenured on the Ohio University biology faculty. Previously he was the university's chief academic officer. Earlier he was at Central Michigan University. He holds a doctorate in physiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelor's in biology from the University of Notre Dame. MORE JUDITH RAMALEY Ramaley is the assistant director for education and human resources at the National Science Foundation. Previously at the University of Maine at Orono on leave to the National Science Foundation. She is a former president of the University of Vermont and Portland State in Oregon. She holds a doctorate in anatomy from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor's in zoology from Swarthmore. MORE JOHN WANAT Wanat is a tenured political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. From 2000 to Janaury 2005 he was academic vice chancellor and provost. Previously, he was vice provost at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; a master's in political science from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill.; and bachelor's in math from Loyola University in Chicago. MORE The new president will replace Darrell Krueger, who retires in June. MORE Dusty Finke, student president at Winona State, said the committee met Wednesday morning and discussed the candidates and considered feedback from students and others who met the candidates during campus visits over the past two weeks. Of the narrowed list of finalists, questions have been posed on campus about Ramaley's posture against organized labor at the University of Vermont and whether she would be a good fit at Winona. Whether the union issue figured into the search committee's discussion was not immediately clear. MORE In St. Paul, the public relations director for the state college system, Melinda Voss, said a news release was drafted Thursday and would be released on the MnSCU website. Voss said Chancellor Jim McCormick and members of the Board of Trustees will conduct interviews with the three finalists. "After the interviews have been conducted, the chancellor will make a recommendation about which candidates would serve best at WSU," Voss said. She said the final choice by trustees on March 15. DARRELL KRUEGER Who will successor be? HOW CANDI- DATES CAME ACROSS IN CAMPUS VISITS STEVE KOPP Fund- raising Leader- ship NewU Assessing WSU JUDITH RAMALEY Vision Diversity Informality NewU JOHN WANAT Openness Town-gown NewU Students

Southwest Missouri getting new name

Anti-NewU referendum on Krueger's mind

WINONA, Minn., March 3, 2005 -- Less than a week after an overwhelming vote by Winona State University students against his pet project, the New University, President Darrell Krueger summoned student President Dusty Finke to his office for formal dialogue. The meeting was set for 1 p.m., Friday. Finke said the agenda includes the referendum, in which students, concerned largely by a proposed $1,000 tuition surcharge, voted 916-189 against the New University. With a 14.6 percent turnout, the vote became a binding referendum. As such, it is the official position of the student body. MORE Krueger has been visibly upset in recent weeks at growing opposition to the New University among tuition-weary students. At a February forum three weeks ago, Krueger was was blunt: Students don't run this university. How Krueger views the impact of the student referendum on state-level funding sought for the project is unclear. However, his director for the project, Carol Anderson, firm in an interview Wednesday that the initatives would proceed undeterred by the referendum. Anderson blamed student senators and named Finke as leading the opposition and not adequately informing students about how they will benefit from the New University. MORE Krueger called the meeting with Finke under a long-standing protocol called Meet and Discuss. Both Krueger and the Student Senate can call meetings to discuss items. Both can put items on an agenda. The Senate can send a delegation to the sessions, as well as campus news reporters. Both the Winonan student newspaper and the CyberIndee planned to staff the meeting Friday.

NEW UNIVERSITY Project logo DARRELL KRUEGER University president DUSTY FINKE Student president

Indiana considers tuition guarantee

WSU master plan update cost $48,000

WINONA, Minn., March 3, 2005 -- The Denver consulting company that updated the Winona State University master plan, which proposes doubling the campus, was paid $48,000 for the project, according to documents. In August, Paulien &: Associates of Denver began updating a less ambitious 1998 plan. The company, which concentrates on campus design for universities nationwide, spent four months meeting off and on with top-level Winona State executives for the update. Although the revision was completed in December, the university's contract with Paulien was extended to March for additional work. MORE The Winona State contract calls for Paulien to "furnish the necessary professional services to complete the Master Plan Update." The resulting update, dated December 2004, was sent to the MnSCU state college system headquarters by Darrell Krueger, president of Winona State. Krueger signed the cover letter. MORE The major change from the earlier plan, created in 1998, is the identification of almost all the Lake Park neighborhood, roughly 12 square blocks, for long-term acquisition. Also new in the update is a buffer around the current campus by acquiring properties across Huff and Main streets from the main campus. Responding to community objections when the new update was revealed in news reports two weeks ago, university executives have pointed out there is no immediate plan, nor is there funding, for massive property purchases. Acquisitons will be piecemeal as property comes on the market and as university resources allow, they said.

MASTER PLAN All the way to Lake Park

Gutknecht sticking to House job

ROCHESTER, Minn., March 3, 2005 -- Thoughts about going for the U.S. Senate in 2006 have been scotched by Rep, Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn., amid growing Republican Party support for fellow House member Mark Kennedy. Asked in a trip to London about going for Sen. Mark Dayton's seat, Gutknecht was quoted by the Post-Bulletin as being "a House of Commons kind of guy." Gutknect earlier floated the possibility of seeking the Dayton seat in the rough U.S. equivalent of the British House of Lords. About his southern Minnesota House seat, Gutknecht said he loves the job. He is in his sixth term.

GIL GUTKNECHT Formal announcement expected soon

Georgia ponders secrecy for donors

Referendum called mostly uninformed

WINONA, Minn., March 3, 2005 -- The overwhelming student referendum against the New University, a 916-189 vote, won't slow implementation of the project's reforms and new programs, said project coordinator Carol Anderson. Students, she predicted, will eventually change their minds. "Experiencing it is going to be more powerful than everything,” Anderson said. It is easier to explain and understand the New University by actually being a part of it, she said. MORE In an interview, Anderson singled out student President Dusty Finke for the near 5-1 margin in the referendum. Finke had a large influence on the student body, she said. Students-speaking-to-students has a stronger impact than other communication, Anderson said. MORE So what's next for Anderson? Committees involved in promoting the New University will put together funding proposals to implement changes, she said. Anderson suggested no retreat from the $1,000 tuition surcharge that university President stated will be needed to fund the programs. It has been the price tag that's been the heart of students objections, not the New University changes themselves, say student leaders. MORE Although the referendum last week had the largest turnout for any student election in Winona State history, Anderson said the majority of students were only "somewhat informed" or "slightly informed" about the New University. Few could be considered "confidently informed," she said. Too, Anderson said, she is sorry and concerned that so many students are not willing to put forth the effort to learn more about the New University. It is hard to inform all of the students because of such a wide range of students, Anderson explained. MORE Using the interview as a forum to promote the New University, Anderson said that she believed that the changes would allow students to "experience an education that is unlike what they could get at other universities." Students would be graduated more prepared for their future than their peers, she said. The New University will focus on an array of student opportunities, she said, noting that she envisions an enormous array of opportunities for a higher quality and deeper education that includes hands-on, experiential learning outside of the classroom and also opportunities for travel studies, research, field experiences and internships. Anderson said that she understands that the $1,000 increase in tuition concerns students.

NEW UNIVERSITY Project logo CAROL ANDERSON Targets Finke for New University failure to inspire students DUSTY FINKE A thousand bucks is the problem

$350,000 to female football player

College fundraising up 3.2%

9/11 investigator: No military panacea

WINONA, Minn., March 2, 2005 -- The world needs the talents of young people, a member of the 9/11 Commission told Winona State University students. For peace, said Michael Hurley, there needs to be communication between young people around the world. "You are at the height of your powers," Hurley said. "You can make a difference. If something seems unfair to you, do something about it." Hurley urged students to consider government careers, to educate themselves on international current events, and to embrace global studies. MORE As a 9/11 Commission member, Hurley grilled the likes of defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, presidential adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell and President Bill Clinton for a critique of U.S. intelligence and the nation's preparedness. Hurley said the United States had at least five chances to kill Osama bin Laden and other top Al Qaeda terrorists before 9/11. The failure, he said, was due largely to a lack of imagination on the part of U.S. leadership: "The attacks were the result of deep institutional failings." MORE The commission's final report suggests the original terrorist plan called for the hijacking of 10 airplanes, with additional targets on the West Coast. Hurley said he believes the book should be required reading for all adult Americans. On preventing future terrorist attacks in the United States, Hurley said there is no military solution. Reporter: Chandler MacLean

MICHAEL HURLEY Young people can make a difference

STALLING FOR GOOD REASON WSU frosh guard Jonte Flowers suspends time as 22 seconds remain in the second overtime against MSU-Moorhead. The Warriors won 98-86. MORE

PHOTOGRAPHER: SHELLI DANIELS

TYING THE GAME. Soph guard Zach Malvik swooshes in a free throw to tie up the game.

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Warriors to conference semifinals

BASKET- BALL MEN'S WSU 98, MSU- Moorhead 86

WINONA, Minn., March 2, 2005 -- Top-seeded Winona State University defeated Minnesota State University-Moorhead 98-86 in double overtime in opening round play of the 2005 Northern Sun men's basketball tournament. The game was tied at 69-69 after the second half and tied at 79-79 after the first extra five minutes of play. In the second five-minute overtime Winona State went on an 8-0 run for a 92-82 lead. Moorhead trailed the whole game except for an 82-81 lead at 3:40 of the second overtime when Deandre Buchanan scored a three-pointer. Zach Malvik led Winona State with 28 points, followed by John Smith 18, David Zellman 17, and Jonte Flowers 14. MORE The quarterfinal results: WSU 98, MSU-Moorhead 86 (overtime) Concordia 93, Wayne State 84 Northern State 94, Southwest Minnesota State 83 Bemidji State 81, UM-Crookston 68 The semifinal lineup for Saturday at Winona State: WSU at MSU-Moorhead Winona State at Concordia The tournament championship will be Sunday.

Phi Beta Kappa: No Moore, no chapter

Many varsity jocks not making grade

Smoke ban voted down

WSU women take quarterfinal loss

BASKET- BALL WOMEN'S WSU 89, MSU- Moorhead 64

WINONA, Minn., March 2, 2004 -- MOORHEAD, Minn., March 2, 2004 -- Minnesota State University-Moorhead, which sports six women at 6-foot-1 and taller, trounced Winona State 89-64 in the first round of the Northern Sun basketabll tournament. The loss eliminated the Warriors.Amanda Evans led the Warriors with 22 points. Kim Dreyer scored 19. MORE The quarterfinal results: MSU-Moorhead 89, WSU 64 Concordia 102, Bemidji State 84 Northern State 85, UM-Crookston 76 Wayne State 66, Southwest Minnesota Stated 58

"Incurious" wins Mac movie contest

GUSTER April 22

Howie Day: No; Carbon Leaf maybe?

WINONA, Minn., March 2, 2005 -- Rock performer Howie Day turned down a $15,000 Winona State offer as a second act for the university's annual April concert that this year features rockers Guster. The student amusements committee now is scrambling with a bid for acoustic balladeers Carbon Leaf. TYime is tight. Committee member Katie Baier said that the concert was supposed to be all figured out back in January. It's still all up in the air now, she said. MORE The new goal, Baier said, is to have the concert lineup settled before Spring Break "because after Spring Break break we're going to have to start selling tickets." Break begins March 12. If Carbon Leaf says no, the concert will just be Guster and the group's on road opening band. Tickets will be cheaper if this happens, probably $15, Baier said.

CARBON LEAF Acoustic ballads

Prosecutor: Case has been draining

WINONA, Minn., March 2, 2005 -- A man charged with the murder of Winona State University student Stacy Smith, her unborn child and her daughter Taylor could face consecutive life sentences, said the prosecutor. Chuck MacLean, who has worked on the case since Dec. 16, said Paul Allen Gordon could receive life imprisonment because the crimes involved multiple victims. He said Gordon faces 10 charges, one indicating that Smith's daughter, Taylor, was possibly killed during a sexual assault. If found guilty for this charge, Gordon would receive a life sentence with no possibility for parole, MacLean said. The sexual assault itself carries a prison sentence of a minimum of 12 years and maximum of 30. MORE Gordon also was charged with second-degree murder, which carries a 40-year sentence, said MacLean. He said that in this case the prosecution must prove that the defendant had the intent to kill but no premeditation. Gordon also faces an arson charge the fire that was set at the Sugar Loaf Apartments to cover up the other crimes, MacLean said. Arson carries a 20-year prison sentence, he said. MacLean also said that all tenants of the apartments are considered victims in the case. Gordon also faces charges for drug crimes and terroristic threats. MORE MacLean said Gordon's bond, set at $20 million, is high but there is in the state constitutition on bond. The constitution does require that bond be set, so, if Gordon can come up with $20 million, he could be freed untilo his next court date. MORE MacLean said Gordon has a high bond because he has shown a strong willingness to flee from justice. He said Gordon traveled to Detroit after the Sugar Loaf murders. From Detroit, he went to California and met up with a girlfriend, MacLean said. MacLean said Gordon told his girlfriend to lie to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, telling them that he was returning to Detroit. Gordon then went to the Mexican border, intent on fleeing the country to avoid prosecution, MacLean said. MORE Gordon will appear in court again on March 10, where he will have the chance to appear with an attorney and challenge evidence. The hearing will be at 9 a.m. on the fourth floor of the Winona County Courthouse. He said Gordon also must appear again on March 14 to face drug charges. MORE MacLean said he is not sure if Gordon will go to a jury trial. It depends on if Gordon pleads guilty or innocent. "It's his call to make," MacLean said. MORE MacLean said he has worked on other murder cases but this is the first one involving multiple victims. He said he has four attorneys on the Gordon case and has spent the last three months gathering evidence, working with police, analyzing phone records and electronic information, identifying possible informants, observing autopsy information and handling search warrants and court orders. MacLean said the case is stressful because there is more than one victim. He said the sexual assault and murder of the 10-year-old daughter also make it complex. "This case is particularly draining," Maclean said.

PAUL ALLEN GORDON Charged with strangulation, sexual assault on minor, arson CHUCK MACLEAN Three months of building evidence

WSU parking revenues near $22,000

Spande wins Stark volunterism award

Stats revenue projections upgraded

Vigil planned for eating disorders

Grad sets up WSU football scholarship

Misspent Iowa State funds returned

Who will run next time?

Geoscience prof: Revisiting Mark Twain

JUDITH RAMALEY Former University of Vermont president

CONGRESSIONAL CRITIC. Among Ramaley's critics was Vermont's iconoclastic member of Congress, Bernie Sanders, who called on her to soften her resistance to unionization efforts by University of Vermont employees. The union movement succeeded. Ramaley left.

Anti-union record trails Ramaley

WINONA, Minn., March 1, 2005 -- One of the finalists for the presidency of Winona State University, Judith Ramaley, was run out of town in mid-term as president of the University of Vermont in 2001 after a troubled period in which was emerged as a strident voice against unionization of campus employees. Members of the Winona State search committee declined to comment on whether they were aware of Ramaley's anti-union record before bringing her to the highly unionized Winona State campus as one of five final candidates. The union issue was not raised in public forums during Ramaley's campus visit. Several meetings that administrators and the search committee held with Ramaley were closed to the public and news reporters. MORE The history of Ramaley's tenure at Vermont is widely documented. About the efforts of 300 university custodians, painters, electricians, shuttle-bus drivers, inventory clerks, plumbers and other employees to organize a union, Ramaley's stance was unmistakable. In a newspaper interview she said: "My position is clear: I do not believe that unionization will do anything to improve educational quality at UVM and may serve to hinder our efforts to strengthen Vermont's university for many years to come, and perhaps most regrettably, if successful, the unionization effort will sharply divide UVM's faculty into unionized and non-unionized factions." MORE At Winona State, profs have been represented for more than 20 years by the Inter-Faculty Organziation as a collective-bargaining agent. The Association of State, County and Municipal Employees represents the support staff. Smaller unions represent mid-management and other employees. The only Winona State employees not covered by union-negotiated master contracts are top administrators and their confidential assistants. MORE The union issue in Vermont drew wide attention. U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders went on record encouraging Ramaley to fire an anti-union consultant and allow employees "to conduct a free and fair campaign." The employees finally won their campaign to unionize, which spurred the faculty to step up its unionization movement. MORE Ramaley had walked into the presidency of a troubled university at Vermont. The job had been a revolving door, three presidents in seven years. There were ongoing racial and diversity issues, which Ramaley acknowledged being unable to solve when asked them in a Winona State interview. Ramaley also found critics in dealing with a hockey hazing scandal. She claimed in Winona State interviews that she helped clean up Vermont's image as a party school, but one evaluation when she departed was that the reputation still permeated the university's image, making it "difficult to attract students and dollars because people no longer consider the institution the public Ivy it once was." Morale was described as low. With low levels of state financial support, tuition rose to the highest levels in the country among public universities. MORE In May 2001, three years into a four-year term, Ramaley was forced to resign by the university's board of trustees. Faculty were pushing for a vote of no-confidence in her leadership. Ramaley's last two job evaluations had been negative. Alumni were furious that their voice had been unheard in the hockey hazing scandal and that the university had been sullied nationally. Ramaley's strategic plan for the university was meeting strong opposition. On Feb. 9, 2001, Ramaley announced her resignation: "The job of university president is both difficult and taxing, and it is clear that the time has come for me to pursue other opportunities." MORE Ramaley, whose academic background is zoology, went to the National Science Foundation as a senior scientist with a concommitant courtesy appointment at the University of Maine.

DARRELL KRUEGER Who will successor be?

Bail unusually high at $20 million

WINONA, Minn., March 1, 2005 -- With bail at $20 million, the man accused of triple homicide in the murder of Winona State University junior Stacy Smith and her 10-year-old daughter and unborn child won't be going anywhere soon. The unusually high bail was set for Paul Allen Gordon, 22, by Judge Margaret Shaw Johnson on Monday after prosecutor Chuck MacLean called Gordon an "incalcuable" flight risk." The record shows Gordon left Winona within hours of the stragulation deaths of Smith and her daughter and a fire that then destroyed their apartment. A few days later, court documents say, a California girlfriend drove Gordon to Mexico to avoid prosecution. MORE The charges that face Gordon carry the possibility of life imprisonment without parole options. Asking for a high bail, MacLean told Judge Johnson: "He will flee as far and as fast as he can. Simply put, the defendant has nothingh to lose."

PAUL ALLEN GORDON Charged with strangulation, sexual assault on minor, arson

WSU placement chief offers tips

^^^ NewWSU master plan map with expanded long-term acquisition area south of Canadian Pacific tracks <<< Enlarged notation, in high resolution, southeast of Main and Sarnia

WSU exec: Plan not for tomorrow

WINONA, Minn., March 1, 2005 -- A campus map showing Winona State doubling the campus south to Lake Park are only in the distant future, if that, said Steve Richarson, the university's second in command. Richardson was called on the carpet by the Faculty Senate, whose members had not been folded into the long-planning suggested by the map. The map appeared in a new 78-page university master plan, surprising faculty leaders when it was reported on the CyberIndee last week. There had been neither faculty nor community input. Trying to allay faculty anger, Richardson told the Senate: "Campus master plans are not a blueprint for what will happen. It is what our options are for the future." MORE Every five years the master plan gets reviewed, said another vice president, Jim Schmidt: "It's an update on what you said you were going to do five years ago," said James Schmidt. Asked about the Lake Park neighborhood, which the CyberIndee accurately reported was identified on the map as low priority for acquisition, Richardson said: "We are not actively seeking those. We are going to leave these properties in low priority because we never know what's going to happen in 20 to 30 years." MORE If Winona State has no plans to acquire the Lake Drive neighborhood, as some university executives said in their early responses to the CyberIndee report, the map should not have shown the area as a low-priority target for acquisition, faculty negotiator Matt Hyle told Richardson. "It should have been listed as no priority," Hyle said, defending the CyberIndee against Richardson's assertion that the news site had implied otherwise. Hyle said that the CyberIndee's conclusions were logical based on what was shown in the master plan. MORE Journalism prof John Vivian, faculty publisher of the CyberIndee, said in a later interview that the report was absolutely clear that the map showed both short-term and long-term acquisition and that the Lake Park neighborhood was identified as long-term and low-priority. "Nobody could read the story otherwise," Vivian said. "What we have going on here is a clumsy attempt to kill the messenger. The issue is the message -- what the map says." MORE Vivian said masscom senior,B.J. Puttbrese, who broke the story, should be praised for recognizing the iumportance of the map and bringing it to campus and community attention. "The form that the university takes in its physical expansion is an issue that deserves the widest possible discussion and dialogue," he said. "It's everybody's future." MORE The map had been developed in a small circle of administrators with a Denver-based consulting firm. Tom Grier, the university's communications director, said the plan was never meant to be secret. It is a public document he said. But pressed, Grier said the 78-page master plan update, completed in December, wasn't something that was being shown and thrown out to everyone, said Grier. MORE Grier, like Richardson and Schmidt, emphasized that the expansion towards the lake, which would take out historic mansions, isn't in the near future. "If property in those areas for some reason came up for sale, we would try to buy them," said Grier. "The plan is a tremendous list wish." MORE Grier said that the entire master plan could happen in the next 10 to 15 years only if we lived in a perfect world. "If for some reason an entire neighborhood decided to sell, by the lake, we could acquire the land," said Grier. He acknowledged that the city has explicitly voiced that it doesn't want the university to expand across Main Street, Huff Street, or Sarnia Street. All those buffer areas, however, are shaded on the Page 49 expansion map in the new master plan as targets for acquisition, albeit a low priority. MORE Grier pointed to the Lincoln building acquisition south of Sarnia on Huff last year as an example of the university's piecemeal approach to expansion. The university didn't have plans to buy the old Lincoln school unitl it came available and then pursued it. "With land like that, if we don't try and buy it, it won't become available for another 100 years," said Grier. MORE A master plan is always created much larger than the university would ever want it, said Grier. MORE Grier said that he didn't know for sure but he thought that university President Darrell Krueger had shared the new master plan plan with the Mayor Jerry Miller. "President Krueger has a good relationship with City Council members," said Grier. Miller and City Council member Deb Salyards said last week they had been briefed many months ago on university plans to buy up modest homes and some commercial property on Belleview Street along the Canadian Pacific tracks, the so-called Eastward Expansion. They were shocked to learn about the new plan's map that shades a 10-wide swath of property, south of Sarnia all the way to Lake Park, as an area for acquisition. MORE Grier said that Krueger doesn't believe in using eminent domain, a legal vehicle that government agencies, including Winona State, can use to force people to sell their property for the public good. Winona State policy is to not to go and force people out of their homes, said Grier. That wouldn't be a very smart thing for the university to do, he said. MORE Grier said listed projects that will happen in the near future: A new 400-bed dorm at Main and Mark. A 300-car parking ramp at Main and Mark. a $12 million workout gym at Memorial Hall. A solarium expansion at the Kryzsko student building. The press box at the Midwest Wireless stadium. Revovation of the Pasteur science building. MORE All of the projects include property that the university already owns, he said.

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