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UW-La Crosse jock vanishes from bar districtLA CROSSE, Wis., Sept. 30, 2006 -- A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse basketball player, Lucas Homan, 21, disappeared after celebrating the start of the Oktoberfest comunity festival in the bars downtown. Housemates realized that Human was missing when he didn't come home and then failed to show for a golf outing, police said. He was last seen about 2:30 a.m. in the downtown bar dustrict, according to police. Police brought in search dogs in hope of picking up a scent. Volunteers searched Riverfront and Copeland parks. Police said the case is being regarded as a criminal investigation. People with Homan said he had been drinking heavily and earlier in the night was in a fight at the Vibe bar.
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Peters makes three touchdowns to lead WarriorsST. PAUL, Minn., Sep. 30, 2006 -- Scott Peters hauled in three touchdown passes thrown by Drew Aber and the Winona State University Warriors went on to score a 24-17 Northern Sun conferenfe football victory over Concordia. Peters' third scoring reception came late in the fourth quarter to give the Warriors a two-touchdown lead. Peters finished the game with seven receptions for 105 yards. Aber was 19 of 28 for 255 yards. Mike Salerno added a 25-yard field goal in the first quarter to start the scoring for the Warriors. Winona Stste improved to 2-0 in the conference and 4-1 overall. Concordia falls to 1-1e and 2-3.
Defensively the Warriors were all over the Golden Bears offense, recording 12 tackles for loss and five sacks. Dane Clark led the charge with two sacks for losses of 15 yards, and 2.5 tackles for loss of 16 yards. Dave Braun added to the effort with three tackles for loss (11 yards) and a sack (7 yards). Marcus LaBadie was the leading tackler for the Warriors with six solo and six assisted tackles.
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Baltimore University waives frosh tuition, feesBALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 30, 2006 --Tthe University of Baltimore, which will launch a freshman curriculum for the first time in 30 years, has waived tuition and fees for the inaugural year. The first frosh class of 130 freshmen begins next fall. The program will cost $900,000, about $7,000 per student after grants are subtracted. In recent years the university has been only for upper-division and grad students. A donor is underwriting much of the waivers.
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TV, X-box reported stolenWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- A Winona man, Eric Gryzybowski, reported a stolen television set and X-box at 2 a.m. Saturday . Gryzybowski told police he isn't sure if anything else is missing.
Reporter: Danette Gunther
Feds add Upward Bound at-risk quotaWASHINGTON, Sept.30, 2006 -- The U.S. Department of Education announced a plan to require high schools to make students at high risk for academic failure in college as 30 perent of enrollees in federally funded Upward Bound programs. If the plan goes into effect, there will be less funding for financially needy high-school students but more for high-risk students.
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Report: College leader had fingers in foundation potBIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 30, 2006 -- The president of Bishop State Community College, Yvonne Kennedy, controlled a private foundation and told her staff how to spend its money, the newspaper the Birmingham News reported. The report is the latest in scandals that have rocked he Alabama two-year college system. The nonprofit foundation has no record of the money was used, the newspaper reported. Kennedy had claimed publicly that she served ex-officio with the foundation. Meanwhile, the state community college system is investigating allegations that several of Bishop State employees helped relatives obtain financial-aid payments without attending classes, including a disabled 67-year-old grandmother who was signed up for three sports. In anothe development, the U.S. Education Department has put Bishop State into "heightened cash monitoring" catageory and is monitoring studentsŐ eligibility for aid before releasing funds.
Background: Report: Chancellor's son on contractor payroll
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WSU victorious without six boozing froshWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- Winona State University defeated Southwest Minnesota State 4-0 victoryin women's soccer without six players who wer suspended for boozing. Six of the nine freshman players had been celebrating a friend's birhday the night before practice. coach Ali Omar suspended them for one game. The rule prohibits drinking 24 hours before practice or 48 hours before a game. Sophomore Leslie Schumacher was not sympathetic: "Everyone is told the rules the first day of preseason and is known of punishment if they are broken." Schumacher said the six frosh "broke a lot of trust" and "can only blame themselves."
Not having all of the members of the team did not seem to hold the Warriors. The Warrior defense held the Southwest Minnesiota to only three shots with one on goal the entire game. The Warriors had a total of 25 shots with 12 on goal. The three shots for the Mustangs came from senior Liz Schiesl, senior Noelle Bergman and sophomore Jena Termeyer. The goals for Winona were scored by junior Holly Sutton, who had two goals, and senior Christine Beatty and sophomore Heidi Woerle.
Reporter: Amanda Baruch
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Date: Saturday, Oct. 7
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Page Theater, Performance Center
Cost: $9 to $17
Contact: (507) 457-1715 |
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Matt Horel is WSU medalistDETROIT LAKES, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- Winona State University came up with a 36-hole total of 594 and placed second in the NCAA Central fall invitational at Wildflower Golf Course. The Warriors came up with rounds of 293-301 in placing second. Matt Horel was the Warrior medalist with a two-over-par 146 that tied for third. Also in the top 10 was Bret Toftnessm in a tie for fifth with a 147. Ross Jacubucci was ninth at 150.
Dramatist Carlyle Brown to speak
at SMUWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- Minneapolis actor and playwright Carlyle Brown will read at St. Mary's University from his new play, "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: A Fictional Account of the Demons and Dilemmas Faced by Langston Hughes While Attempting to Write a Poem on the Night Before His Appearance Before the U.S. Congressional Investigation Committee on Un-American Activities, Led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.Ó A reception will follow. Brown will be in Winona also as the lead actor in Theatre du Mississippi's "My Children, My Africa" Nov. 3-5 and 10-12 at the Masonic Theatre, 255 Main St. Tickets $5 to $15.
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 11
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Figliulo Recital Hall, Performance Center
Cost: Free
Contact: (507) 459-8090 |
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Children's stories coming to SMU stageWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- A multiracial trupe, Theatreworks/USA, will perform eight children's tales at St. Mary's University. Stories include "Amazing Grace," If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," "Imogene's Antlers," and "Owen."
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Cambodian genocide recalled, re-enactedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 206 -- A survivor of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, Sobatha Oum, wants to make sure that 1.7 million people who were murdered and buried in mass graves are not forgotten. Oum offered a Winona State University audience a first-hand account of day-to -day life under the extremist Khmer Rouge regime and how he, the only living survivor of eight children, witnessed what's now known as the Cambodian Killing Fields. Oum described the violence ofthe Khmer Rouge, who every day murdered hundreds of people. As a 7-year-old child, Oum said, he was trained to be a sniper with the resistance. For the last 23 years Oum has been living in the jungles of Cambodia, working with other survivors to stabilize his country.
Immediately after his presentation, Oum led his audience outside for a simulation of the war. Knowing the re-enactment has been be disturbing to earlier participants, Oum required everybody to sign a release form. From there, particpants assigned to a group that served as their family, and they were given an overview of the boundaries of the simulation. The goal was to reach a base camp without being captured by one of four individuals who were impersonating the Khmer Rouge. Only 6 percent of the participants escaped capture.
Reporter: Alex White
SMU regents nix football proposalWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2006 -- The cost of reviving football as a varsity sport at St. Mary's University, probably $10 million for starters, would be too much. After considering information from a task force, the university's regents unanimously rejected a proposal to resume football. A program would require a stadium, more coaches and support facilities, the report said. Proponents had argued that football would draw more students to St. Mary's, whose Winona enrollment has plateaued at 1,200. A universuty statement saud that regents felt that "as responsible stewards of university resources," reinstating football at this time wpuld not be in the best interests of the university and its students. The reasons for reinstating football could be achieved by upgrading existing athletic programs, the statement said.
Craig Franz, university president, said that more than money figured into the decision. "There was no single factor," he said. Brother Craig Franz, university president, Information collected on tge issue will be useful in future discussions on improvements existing athletic programs and facilities, Brother Franz said. Former Athletic Director Chris Kendall, now student development vice president, who co-chaired the task force, said the concept was to make a full commitment-- nothing halfway. A shoestring approach was not an option, he said. There was no comment on whether the cross-town presence of Winona State, which has become a regional Division II football powerhouse, had pre-empted a local following for a second collegiate local team.
St. Mary's fielded a football until 1955 when budget issues forced its cancelation. Restoring the program was considered in 1988 and rejected. Kendall said he expects the issue will come up in the future. In the meantime, St. Mary's continues as the only member of the Minnesota Intercollegaite Atheltic Association without a football team.
The task force was headed by Chris Kendall and Tony Piscitiello, the university's chief recruiter. Members included administrators, faculty, students, staff, alumni, and people fromthe Winona community.
Background: SMU trustees put off football decision
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Ceremonial shovelsful to mark Maxwell projectWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2006 -- Winona State University announced an all-star line-up, a political photo-op if Winona ever had one, for the ground-breaking next week for the remodeling of Maxwell Hall. On the program: U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn.; U.S. Rep. Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn.; State Sen. Kierlin, R-Winona; State Rep. Greg Davids, R-Preston; State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona; and State Rep. Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon. Jim Gelbmann, from the office of U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., and Dawn Wilsey, from the American Prosecutors Research Institute in Washington, are scheduled to speak. The Maxwell renovation, an $11.2 million state-funded project, will include mock courtrooms, interview rooms, magistrate classrooms, and a mock house for training child advocates and child protection personnel and first-line reporters. Afterward, dignataries will proceed around a corner to the recently remodeled Pasteur science building for a dedication ceremony. Tours of the entire science complex will be offered, said acting sciences Dean Jeff Anderson.
Date: Monday, Oct. 2
Time: 1 p.m.
Place: Maxwell Hall
Cost: Free
Contact: Ann Kohner at (507) 457-5870 |
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WEEK ENDING SEPT.30, 2006
Sept. 30, 2006: A cigarette-disposal receptacle was found damaged between Richards and Prentiss-Lucas dorms at 6 a.m.
Sept. 30, 2006: Several students were cited for an alcohol violation at the Lourdes dorm at 10:15 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2006: Security guards and police Department responded to a noise complaint outside of the Conway dorm 12:40 a.m. A student was arrested for minor consuming and warned about the noise.
Sept. 30, 2006: At 5:15 p.m. a student reported damage done to a vehicle parked at the East Lake dorm .
Sept. 28, 2006: A Lourdes dorm supervisor called security guards at 11:25 p.m. for a drug violation in the residence hall guards found nothing.
Sep. 28, 2006: At 5:10 p.m. A ChartwellŐs employee reporetd a problem with a student. Security guards spoke with both parties. The matter wasresolved.
Sep. 28, 2006: A student was cited for an alcohol violation at the Lourdes dorm at 11:35 p.m.
Sep. 27, 2006: The parking staff repported a vehiclular accident.
Sep. 27, 2006: At 1 p.m. damage apparently caused by firewroks was reported to a gassy area between the Minne classrook building and and the Krueger Library.
Sep. 7, 2006: A student fell near the front of Lourdes at 7:45 a.m. and was helped to the campus nursing station.
Sep. 27, 2006: A non-student was removed from campus for disorderly behavior st 7:40 p.m.
Sep. 26, 2006: At 1 p.m. pillars were reproted tipped over near Phelps Hall.
Sept. 25, 2006: A student reported at 1:30 p.m. that somebody walked over her vehicle just off campus and caused damage.
Sept. 24, 2006: Security guards responded to an report at 3:05 a.m. of an unescorted man in the Conway dorm but couldn't find him.
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WSU house boat has 22 September bookingsWINONA, Minn., Sdpt. 29, 2006 -- The WInona State University launch River Explorer began fall semester with 20 Sotember bookings, according tio porf Drake HOkanson of the Mississippi River Studies steering committee. Hokanson said bookings have included a three-day class session with a two-night sandbar camping. For instructional purposes, the commitete charges $60 per hour. For non-instructional use: $90 running time; $22.50 standing.
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER? The cops arrested a Wayzata, Minn., yachtsman, Scott Emmet Leiferman, 35, after a taxi was damaged returning him and a buddy to his 54-foot yacht. Lieferman was sent to detox. Police had found the cab, its lights and horn in emergency mode, at the Winona Yacht Club at 1:42 a.m. The driver said two passengers had disabled his radio. Then, police said, Leiferman popped out of the dark and tossed a vial into the brush. The vial was being tested, but police believed it contained 1.42 grams of cocaine. Lieferman, also, was carrying the prescription drug Xanax, police said. En route to jail, police said, they were threatened. They quoted Leiferman: "I can't wait to bury you guys," They also quoted Leiferman that he would never return to Winona. He was enroute downriver to the Gulf and Florida Keys.
At the jail, police found $730 in cash on Leiferman, which he offered them to forget the whole thing, the report said. Leiferman refused a test for the alcohol content of his blood. The buddy, John Edward Fresonke, 27, Stillwater, Minn., tested at 0.24 percent, triple the breakpoint for being impaired under Minnesota law, police said.
The Daily News identified Leiferman as the owner of Harmon AutoGlass, a 23-store franchise headquartered in Golden Valley, Minn. He bought the franchise in 2004 after operating a job-recruiting company in Arizona. The Daily news also reported this background: Leiferman was convicted of drunken driving in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2003, went to jail, and completed addiction treatment. He holds a 1994 marketing degree from Mankato State University. Last year he was named a distinguished young alum by the University of Minnesota.
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Committee pursues rappers Crest for WSU showWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2008 -- The Winona State University student activities committee has voted to pursue the Midwest hip-hop act Crest for a campus concert in early Npvember. Preliminary committee discussion with Crest has been that a show would cost $600 max -- "a bargain," said the UPAC concert subcommittee -- because the band would already be in town for a performance at Rascals bar downtown. Some UPAC committee members noted that Crest had failed to attract much attention at Winona gigs. Concert subcommittee chair Mike Paul responded that the turnouts for over-21 performances have been weak but that over-18 nights have been full houses. The Crest, a Midwest group, comprises emcees Jack Cracker and AD, producer and disc jockey Skrabble, and beat producer Jason Blare. They will be on tour with disc jockey DJ Abilities from Nov. 1 to Nov. 4. The Rascals show is Nov. 2.
Reporter: Sam Keane-Rudolph
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WSU student discovers car was sideswipedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2006-- A Winona State University student, Tera Ann Haas, told police that her car was sideswiped at 520 Harriet St. From scrathes it appears that the second vehicle was white, police said. The incident was reported at 6:11 p.m.
Reporter: Nicole Swenson
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Congressional hopeful: College loan debt must be cutWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2006 -- Rising higher education costs that leave college students with no means to pay for it is an "absolute tragedy," the Democrat running for Minnesota's First District seat in Congress said at a news conference at Winona State University. If elected, Tim Walz said, he would work to cut interest rates on student loans. "We need to make education more affordable," he said. Walz charged that Republican incumbent Gil Gutknect with voting against policies that would reduce student loan interest rates. Many students are left with only two options for college, Walz said -- joining the military for eventual tuition benefits, or borrowing more money. Those, Walz said, shouldn't be the only options for tuition, which he noted has soared 44 percent at state colleges and universities in the last five years. Walz said that the government should be willing to offer more aid to those who volunteer for "national service," including humanitarian work in organizations like AmeriCorp and jobs in the national parks. "We need to have a new way of looking at this," he said. "If they work for us, they should be able to go to school free." Walz, a retired National Guard command sergeant major, said the Army should also count as national service but should not be the only option and absolutely should not be required. Walz said he opposes the draft.
Walz came down hard on Gutknecht on education. He accused the six-term Congress member of failing to address college costs as an issue. Gutknecht's focus, he said, has been charging that there is a a liberal bias on campuses and calling for something to be done about it. Gutknecht's position on higher-ed is political ideology, Walz said, contrasting the Gutknecht record with his own goal of making education more available to future generations. "Effectiveness and principle always trump political ideology," he said. "It is ethically the right thing to do."
Noting that he is a school teacher, Walz said he believes in public education for altruistic reasons, because it's good for the individual. But also, he said, he wants students to graduate and get jobs and pay taxes for selfish reasons. "I want you to do this so that I can one day retire," he said in an oblique reference to the prospects for the national Social Security pension program.
At the news conference Walz was addressing mostly student journalists. He said he worries about the effect of higher-ed costs. The American Dream, he said, can be defined as owning a home, making a living wage, and your children being able to do the same or better. But he cited a survey that most Americans no longer believe the American Dream is possible. As a parent, Walz said that he too is questioning whether the American Dream is possible. He talked about he and his wife sitting down recently with a financial adviser and figuring out that it would take 40 percent of their income -- they're both school teachers -- to put their 5-year-old daughter through college. Walz said he is "terrified" by the numbers. Too, he added, a second child is due in a couple of weeks.
Walz said he is the only K-12 public school teacher nationwide who is running for Congress. He said he should be at the table in Congress for fresh input on national educational policy. His experience at Mankato West High School for 20 years, he said, "gives me a unique perspective."
While U.S. higher-ed policy now is making it more difficult for young people to go to college, China is in the final stages of building 800 universities and making it easier for their young people to go on, Walz said. The Chinese are investing in a 50-year vision with a massive commitment to education, he said. Walz, who has taught in Chinese high schools, said he doesn't favor the stratified Chinese system, which limits education to an elite, but, he said, the Chinese system nonetheless is a threat. In the long term, he said, he favors the U.S.model of open accessibility to higher education.
Walz related the cost of higher education to the war in Iraq: "If we quit spending what we spend daily in Iraq for 2-1/2 months, you would all go to school for free." Walz criticized President Bush for the Iraq war. "Iraq is a mess and needs to be separated from the war on terror," Walz said. As issues, Iraq and 9/11 and the war on terror should never have been connected, he said. Al-Qaeda, he said, was virtually nonexistent in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion and occupation and now the country has become a global center for spreading world terrorism. "The world is less safe because of the situation in Iraq, and we must start from the ground up to improve this situation," he said. What to do? "We need to begin with a sound infrastructure and provide Iraqis with their basic needs to survive," he said, citing electricity, water and sewage systems -- and jobs. "Without this only more violence will result," Walz said. He said that U.S. policy in the Bosnia war in the 1990s was a model of infrastructure-building as a priority. There was less violence, he said.
Walz said that President Bush and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld were told before the attack on Iraq that the lessons from military history were that 350,000 soldiers would be needed. The advice, he said, was ignored with only 120,000 soldiers committed. Pressed on whether he would favor sending more troops now, Walz said: "Nothing should be taken off the table." He added, though, that immediate withdrawal should begin unless there is hope for Iraq emerging from the "mess."
Asked about a new poll that shows him leading Gutknecht 46 percent to 40 percent, Walz said he has come a long ways from "Tim, who?" in 21 months of campaigning. He added that he didn't know details of the survey, including margin of error. Even so, favorable polls are good news, he said: "I'll probably get more money and run a few more television ads. But I enjoy being the underdog. It suits me." Whatever polls report, he said, he won't be changing campaign strategies. On average, he said, he travels 250 miles a day starting at 6 a.m. and often returning around midnight. He has gone through three sets of tires and countless oil changes, he said, all to listen to the voters: "People are smart. I don't need to tell them what the issues are. I need to listen and find what they want from me in Washington."
Reporters: Rebekka Buck, Sheila Goodlund, Jennifer Irish, Lydia Oglesby, Jessica Pluth, Kelsey O'Neal, Brittney Richmond and Emily Schlough
Background: Races that campus people are watching
Metro State speaker to tackle disparitiesWINONA Minn, Sept. 28, 2006 -- The vice president for student affairs at Metro State University , Esther Peralez, will speak at Winona State on disparities in higher education. Her title: "Educational Disparities: Substituting the Presumptions of our System with Respect and Dignity." Peralez' visit is part of Winona State's Hispanic Heritage Month activities.
Date: Monday, Oct. 2
Time: 4 p.m.
Place: Purple Rooms 104, Kryzsko Commons
Cost: Free
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Grad rate for Division I jocks now 77%INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 28, 2006 -- At the nation's universities with big-time athletic programs, 77 percent of athletes arere graduating within six years, according to a new report from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The percentage, for NCCAA Divison I universities, is 1 percentage point higher than a year earlier. Critics were quick to point out, however, that a switch from federal data to NCAA data between the two reporting periods muddies up any comparison. The new NCAA report tracked 93,000 athletes on 5,000 Division I teams.
Missing WSU computer traced to WashingtonWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2006 -- A Winona State University student, Anthony Kristinen, 19, of 367 W. 7th St., told police that his Gateway laptop, leased from the university, had been stolen. Kristinen, who filed the report at 1:20 p.m., Wednesday, said he had delayed making the report because he suspected that he had misplaced the computer, said Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams. Meanwhile, the computer-support office at Winona State has received a call from Gateway saying that computer had been traced in Washington, William said.
Reporter: Rob Thoresen
Iowa State hires ex-Colorado presidentAMES, Iowa, Sept. 28, 2006 -- The president of the University of Colorado System, Elizabeth Hoffman, who resigned amid criticism of a football sex and booze scandal, has been hired by Iowa State as executive vice president and provost. Hoffman is a former Iowa State econ prof. She had been at Colorado.
Speaker: The land is watching usWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- We are not as big as the land we live on, an American Indian author told a Winona State University audience OF 300. Kent Nerburn, author of "Neither Wolf nor Dog," called the land "aimated." Nerurn said the theme of his book, winner of the 1955 Minnesiota Book Award, is the Indian concept of the land being alive and with spiritual value. "The land was bigger than us, and we are the observed, he said. Nerburn said that he tried to bring readers to an unfamiliar setting, to take them in to a new place to experience new things. He tried, he said, to make non-Indian readers see out of two sets of eyes -- one theirs, the other of the native people. Asked if he were frustrated living on the Red Lake Reservation in north central Minnesota and writing the book, Nerburn said: Every day. "No one said they appreciated what I was doing for them," said Nerburn. At Winona State the book is part of projet tio give students a common refence point It is being read by more than 1,000 Winona Statestudents in over a dozen classes.
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Emergency contraception usage up at WSUWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- The number of students using emergency contraception at Winona State University has increased over the past two years, according to a survey. Of the 754 students surveyed last spring, 14.6 percent reported that they or their partner used the "morning-after pill," compared to just eight percent two years earlier. The number is also higher than the 10.3 percent average in a national compilation by the American College Health Association in 2005. Winona State used the ACHA questionnaire for the campus survey.
The Winona State survey also found that the number of students reporting that they used a condom or some other form of contraception before sex has decreased by five percent since 2004. However, campus health director Diane Palm rejects the idea that students are relying wholly on emergency contraception. Rare are individuals who use emergency contraception as their only means of contraception, Palm said. She noted, though, that Winona State does make emergency contraception available. "Some universities don't," she said. Also, Winona State publicizes the fact that morning-after pills are available on campus, she noted.
In the latest Winona State survey, students who had not had sex within the past year were excluded from the analysis on contraceptive usage. The number who had not been active sexually for a year was up -- from 22 percent in 2004 to 30 percent in 2006.
Palm said that Winona State will continue to poll students every two years. "We're going to do the assessment every two years to see what kinds of programming we need to focus our health promotion and illness prevention on," she said. "It's how the health education department learns what kind of things the WSU campus seems to be struggling with." The survey, which cost $5,000, is funded from Palm's health services budget, which comes from student health fees.
Reporter: Matt Huss
Library map thief to jail for 3-1Ú2 yearsNEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2006 -- An antiquities dealer was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in federal prison for stealing dozens of rare maps from academic libraries in the United States and Britain. E. Forbes Smiley III was caught in a Yale University library with a razor blade after cutting maps out of the collection. Smiley admitted also to thefts at Harvard; the New York and Boston public libraries; the Newberry Library, in Chicago; and the British Library, in London. Smiley helped investigators track down most of the stolen maps. The sengecning judge said Smiley's cooperation after being caught persuaded him not to throw the book at him, which could have been seven years.
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WAR PROTEST ARRESTS. Police hauled three war-protesters to jail after they went into a National Guard armory, 1303 Homer Road, with a declaration of peace and started a sit-down protests. After an hour, a Guard worker called the police. Arrested were Diane Catherine Leutgeb-Munson, 24, Michael Timothy Munson, 24, and Eileen Clarice Hanson, 32, all of the Catholic Worker movement. A judge ordered their release pending a court hearing next week. Outside the armory, other protestors hoisted a banner and recited the names of people killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars. They were not arrested.
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Woe-beleagured Gambling faces new suitGRAMBLING, La., sept. 28, 2006 -- Grambling State University continues to be embroiled in questions of financial and managment problems. The alumni association, with support of the town mayor, filed a fedral lawsuit alleging 40 legal and civil rights violation against employees in "personal vendettas." The suit also says that financial records have been maintained improperly. Futher, according to the suit, university officials illegally used the alumni association's nonprofit status to collect sponsorship revenues from the Bayou Classic football game. It was only a few months ago that a state audit found that the university appeared to have largely dealt with the fiscal and managerial problems. Earlier the university was put on probation for books that were called unauditable.
Car tampering? Well, boozing for sureWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2006 -- Two Winona State University rugby players, both men, age 20 and 19, were cited for under consumption at 1:26 a.m. after police were called to check on somebody tampering with a parked car in the 400 block of Lafayette Street. Officers confronted the pair and discovered they had been drinking, said Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams. One man's blood alcohol level was .167 pecent, the other's .064 percent, Williams said. The legally drunk level in Minnesota is .08.
Reporters: Anne Pilmonas and Rob Thoresen
Capital University alleges fiscal misdeeds by ex-execsCOLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 28, 2006 -- Two former executives at Capital University have been sued by the university for real-estate and building-renovation deals that, according to the suit, cheated the institution out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Accused are a former university treasurer and a former facilities manager. The university, which is in financial difficulty, suggests through the suit that its problems are at least partly the fault of the real-estate and renovation schemes. This year several Capital programs have been shut down staff laid off.
Cops now OK inside dorms in emergenciesPULLMAN, Wash., Sept. 28, 3006 -- The Washington State University governing board voted to authorize firefighters, police and other emergency personnel to enter dormitories without restrictions. The measure addresses a ban by a judge, who found that police were violating student privacy rights by roaming the dorms to look for infradtions. The judge ordered a permissions-only policy. The regent's intention now is to make emergencies an exception.
Background: Judge: Cop dorm patrols unconstitutional
Senators agree to hear arguments for outside accounts WINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- The Winona State University Student Senate voted to delay a revocation decision on the club status of the Tri-Sigma sorority for having an unauthorized off-campus bank account. A decision was put off until the Friday after next. Tri-Sigma had been notified earlier that its off-campus account violated Student Activity Funds Committee policy. At a Senate meeting Wednesday, Tri-Sigma members defended their outside account, saying the club could have quicker access to its funds than going through university rigmorole. A Tri-Sigma statement distributed to senators said, also, that having an off campus account helps clubs "learn the practices and responsibility for their own financials, builds character through learning proper money management, and allows for a faster flow of money to make for a more fluid and effective organization."
Most clubs comply with the no-outside-accounts policy. In exchange, clubs have access to free envelopes, postage, printing, color copies, state owned vehicles, and grants from student fees. Tri-Sigma asked for time before the Senate next week to make a case for an off-campus account.
Meanwhile, the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity has aceded to a Senate demand to close its off-campus account or lose club status.
Reporter: Paul Solberg
PHOTOGRAPHER: PAUL SOLBERG
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Even before the lease-buy contract was signed,
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Maxwell tenants to find new digs supersizedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2006 -- Winona State University will spend $654,000 to remodel the old Cotter school buildings at 101 E. Wabasha, St. before relocating programs from Maxwell Hall, according to a building permit issued by the city. The $645,000 will come from the Winona State facilities budget, said Scott Ellinghuysen, the university's finance vice president. The facilities budget is used to maintain facilities and grounds. In anticipation of the move to Cotter, the remodeling expenses were "taken into account" when the budget was put together last spring, Ellinghuysen said. Substantial upgrades were needed for student health services and the child-care center, both of which be must meet state codes, Ellinghuysen said. Keller Construction of Winona will perform the construction, described in the permit application as "remodel for office space."
Steve Ronkowski, the university's facilities coordinator, said the remodeling project will include protective matting for the floor in the lower level that will house the workout gym now in Maxwell. Also, new floor matting will be installed in the child care center, Ronowski said. In the health services area on the second floor, exam rooms will be built. There are plans to renovate the third floor for a future art department relocation but that area will remain undeveloped for now, Ronkowski said.
Preliminary design plans were drawn up by the Holabird & Root architectural firm of Rochester, Minn. The plans show a large free-weight gym area and a separate area for cardio fitness in the lower level. The first floor will feature a spacious child-care center with one room for infants, an infant napping room, one room for 1- and 2-year-old toddlers with an adjacent napping room, a room for 2- and 3-year-old toddlers, two rooms for 3- and 4-year-old preschoolers and a room for 4- and 5-year-old preschool children. The second floor student health services facility will include rooms for offices, medical records and at least seven exam rooms, according to the architectural drawings. The drawings for the proposed third floor art department include three large sculpting studios, a drawing studio and two design studios. Only half of the third floor is taken up by the art department in the drawings. "There will be space on the third floor for future expansion," Ronkowski said.
Ronkowski said the construction would start immediately and Keller Construction would have until Dec. 22 to complete the project. On Dec. 22 Rochester Moving & Transfer of Rochester, Minn., will begin packing and moving all programs out of Maxwell Hall. The move will be completed by Jan. 15, Ronkowski said. The programs being relocated into the new facility, which the universuty has renamed Wabasha Hall, are being moved in order to accommodate the $11.2 million renovation of Maxwell Hall. The state Legislature included the Maxwell project in the state construction bonding bill that was passed last spring. The Maxwell renovation is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2008, Ronkowski said.
Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: WSU art studios to move to Wabasha
Loyola profs: Top university leaders must goNEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 28, 2006 -- Faculty in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences at Loyola University registered no confidence in the university's top two administrators. The profs voted 61-19 that Kevin Wildes, a Jesuit priest had failed to provide competent leadership before, during and after Hurricane Katrina; did not follow proper guidelines for terminating tenured faculty members as the university sought to cope after the hurricane; and failed to foster faculty trust and confidence. A separate motion passed 70-10 that there was a lack of confidence in Provost Walter Harris Jr. After the hurricane Wildes and Harris had devised a restructuring plan to pare down the faculty, eliminate 14 academic programs, and suspend 12 programs
PHOTOGRAPHER: PAUL SOLBERG
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Warriors pick up pace, defeat St. Cloud StateWINONA, Minn, Sept. 28, 2006 -- Outside hitter Megan Pulvermacher led the Winona State University volleyball team to a 3-1 nonconference victory over St. Cloud State University. Pulvermacher had 19 kills and scored 22.5 points. Winona State lost the first match 30-19, but the won three consecutive matches, never letting St Cloud State score more than 23. Winona State now has a season record of 11-8.
Match Three was the Warrior peak with a .393 hitting percentage. The Warriors followed up with .294 in Match Four. Coach Connie Mettille, said that the women were nervous and tight in the first match because of an earlier defeat at the hands of St. Cloud State. That loss was blamed by Mettille on a struggle with blocking. Since then, she said, there has been a definite improvement in team communication.
On Wednesday night, Winona State had 11 blocks to St. Cloud State's four. Mettille named Pulvermacher the game's key player. Pulvermacher exemplified senior leadership particularly in the last three matches, said Mettille. Outside hitter Carmen Stankowski scored 13. Middle blocker Kiersten Arendt had 11.5. After a rough start spiking, setter, Lisa Dobie had 44 assists and 12 digs.
Reporter: Sarah Dotta
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NAIL-BITING TIME. After being drubbed earlier in the season by St. Cloud State, Warrior coach Connie Mettille contemplates the rematch ahead as the starting line-up is announced. |
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Wisconsin declines to recognize Catholic clubMADISON, Wis., Sept. 27, 2006 -- The battle of a group called UW Roman Catholic Foundation to be recognized as a student club at the Uiversity of Wisconsin hit a new roadblock. Yvonne Fangmeyer, director of the universityŐs Student Organization Office, cited rules against granting funds from student revenue to groups that are not "controlled and directed" by students. Fangmeyer noted that only three of the Catholic group's board members are students. Chancellor John Wiley weighed in too. Wiley said that the $145,000 he approved in student fees for the group last spring after a year-long dispute would be wihheld unless the group could restructure its governing board. His decision, Wiley said, was based on rules governing all student organizations -- not on religion.
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WSU names temporary library headWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- After a failed search for a university librarian, Winona State has hired Larry Hardesty from the Universty of Nebrasaka at Kearny to fill in for a year while the search starts anew. University President Judith Ramaley, who announced the appointment, said that Hardesty would assist in the new search. Before Nebraska-Kearney, Hardesty held library assignments at Austin College and Eckerd College. His doctorate is from Indiana University in library science. He also holds master's degrees, one in library science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one in history education from Nebraska-Kearney.
His publications include "Books, Bytes and Bridges, which he edited; "Bibliographic Instruction in Practice," which he edited; and "Faculty and the Library." His article "Faculty Attitudes towards the Library," published in Library Trends, received a publication of the year award in 1995. Hardesty has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Academic Librarianship and also of Collection Management. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Portal and Library Issues. He has written numerous journal articles on computer center and library relations, collection development, accreditation, the future of academic libraries, library instruction, and faculty and administrator attitudes toward libraries. |
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Evangelicals create college as Penn State feederSTATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 27, 2006 -- A Christian college will be established near Pennsylvania State University with a curriculum to feed ito Penn State requirements, clergyman Paul Grabill said. Grabill, of the Assembly of God denomination, described the program as orthodox Christianity with an evangelical Protestant leaning. The curriculum, he said, would be under the aupices of Eastern University of St. Davids, Pa., , a nondenominational Christian college. Eastern holds accreditation from the same association that accredits Penn State. Whether Penn State will accept the articulated curriculum has not been determined, but accredited institutions generally recognize each other's courses.
WSU players take league offense, defense titlesST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- Winona State University's Aaron Boettcher and Kenzie Yewman captured Northern Sun conference offensive and defensive football player of the week honors. Boettcher threw for four touchdowns and ran for another in the Warriors' 48-7 con erence victory over Upper Iowa University. Yewman led a quartet of defensive players, who intercepted six Upper Iowa passes with three interceptions.
American University gives up Sudan investmentsWASHINGTON, Sept. 27 2007-- American University became the latest U.S. institution to pull out of ivestments in companies that do business in the oil and gas sector in Sudan. The decision is a protest against human-rights atrocities.
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Rushford nanotech project to be profiledWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- The operations manager at PlastiCert, Craig Porter, profile the Rushford Institute for Nanotechnology at a meeting at Winona State Univeisty by the Composites Consortium. Also presenting will be Kevin Klungtvedt, program coordinator for institute engineering prof Beckry Abdel-Magid and engineerng student Jared Gardner.
Date: Friday, Sept. 29
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Place: Maxwell Hal
Cost: Free
Contact: Beckry Abdel-Magid at (507) 457-5658 |
Panel to discuss, assess campaign coverageWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Five journalists will participate in a panel at Winona State University on local election coverage. The panelists:
Rusty Cunningham, La Crosse, Wis.-based publisher of the Winona Daily News. Dave Dicke, anchor for HBC cable television. Darrell Ehrlick, editor of the Winona Daily News. Rebekah Ibisch, a reporter for television station WKBT in La Crosse, Wis. . Cynthia Porter, news editor of the Winona Post
Masscom prof Tom Grier, who organized the panel, said the event is geared to masscom students but is open to everybody. The panel is part of the university's American Democracy Project.
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 10
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Maxwell Leadership Center
Cost: Free
Contact: Tom Grier |
Background: Races that campus people are watching
Small ballot slate yields only winnersWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 --Here is results of the Winona State University Student Senate fall election:
AT-LARGE
(three vacancies) | | Kaleb Lindsey |
| 311 | | Che Wang |
| 235 | | Phasuthorn Viryasiri |
| 220 |
SOPHOMORE
(two vacancies) | | Charles Moburg |
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FRESHMAN
(three vacancies) | | Colin Smith |
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| (write-in) | | Leon Durivage |
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Mugby shop awaits city inspectionWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- The Mugby Junction coffee shop under construction in Winona State University's Somsen Hall should be open no later Monday. Bruce Bechtle, director of campus food vendor Chartwells, said that one small adjustment is needed to bring the coffee shop into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Last week the contractor made two small adjustments to bring the plumbing into code, Bechtle said. Now, once the facility complies with disablities requirements, Chartwells will schedule a final city inspection. Once the inspectors are satisfied, Chartwells will bring in the coffee beans and perform a pre-opening run-through, Bechtle said.
Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: Coffee aficionados have to wait |
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Dare they use a racial slur? WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Sept. 26, 2006 -- A shake-up has ocurred at Wilkes University over a diversity trainer who utteredm, even shouted, racial slurs in a cultural sensitivity class. Ron Feldhun, said that he used the slurs, and encouraged his students to do likewise, with the idea of wringing the sting out of words like "chunk." Now Feldun's boss, Andita Parker-Lloyd, the university's multicultural-affairs coordinator, has been fired. Feldhun says that it's not right and that the univerity merely wanted to get rid of Parker-Lloyd because she's been vocal in fighting a traffic ticket, which he says has embarrassed the univerity. The university denied the cgarge.
Yale endowment grows 23%NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- The endowment of Yale University earned 22.9 percent in the latest fiscal year, probably the highest of any U.S. university. The income, said univerity President Richard Levin, "will allow the university to achieve new levels of education and research excellence." The endowment now stands at $29.2-billion.
Background: Earnings off, but Harvard endowment nears $30 billion
RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
POSTED SEPT. 26, 2006
SCHOOL TAXES. School budget-planners will recommend a 19 percent increase in school taxes to the School Board, mostly to pay for fire sprinkler, heating and ventilation projects. The increase would raise $1.9 million.
BOX-ELDER INVASION. Box elder buygs are showing up in doors and windows with cooler weather and in unusually heavy numbers. University of Minnesota insect expert Jeff Hahn blames a warm spring and dry summer.
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WSU-Concordia football to be live on broadbandWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26 2006 -- This weekend's football game between Winona State and Concordia of St Paul will be broadcast on the Internet. The company College Sports Television has a three-year contract with the National Collegiate Athletic Association for television and broadcast play-by-play of Division II football and basketball games. Winona State and Concordia tied last season for the Northern Sun conferene championship. The game will be at 6 p.m., Saturday, at Concordia.
Former trustee raises $31,000 on bike tourST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- The cycling trustee, Robert Erickson, a former member of the state college system's governing baord, raised $31,000 on his fifth annual pedaling tour of system campuses. The money is for scholarships for part-time students. Over the five eyars Erickson has raised more than $290,000. Erickson, 60, rode through Winona State and Southeast Tech on Sept. 19 on his 53-campus odyssey.
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U.S. to Swiss Muslim scholar: Nyet, againWASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2006 -- The U.S. State Department again denied a visa to Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, who had to give a faculty position at Notre Dame University two years ago because the government wouldn't let him back in the country. To support its new denial, the State Department said that it had learned that Ramadan had donated $700 over a five-year period to French and Swiss charities that provided humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The Bush administration says the donations ended up going to the Hamas organization, which the President calls terrorist. Ramadan's defenders point out, however, that Ramadan has not supported terrorism and in fact has been a vocal critic of terrorism and radical Islamism. The visa denial, they say, is because of Ramadan's criticism U.S. Middle East policies.
The American Civil Liberties Union took up Ramadan's cause when he first was denied a visa in 2004. The ACLU says the denial is example of Bush administration suppression of people whose views differ from the administration's. The ACLU has used the term "political censorship" and is expected to continue its federal-court case on Ramadan's behalf.
Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies and philosophy, now is a visiting fellow at Oxford. Ironically, Ramadan has the confidence of Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, a close Bush ally who has named the scholar a British commission to combat terrorism.
Background: Judge: Visa delay needs timely resolution
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Cops called to Lourdes dorm, ticket boozerWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Police ticketed a 19-year-old man for underage drinking at the Lourdes dorm at o State Univerity at 1:51 a.m.
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The John Martin Socha murals on Winona history in a Somsen Hall staircase are being restpred |
WSU prof to discuss 1930s public works projectsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- A Winona State University history prof, Colette Hyman, will discuss the role of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration in public art and public higher education. Hyman said she will draw on her research on arts programs and the history of Winona to highlight salient features of the John Martin Socha mural currently being restored in the foyer of Somsen Hall on campus.
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 27
Time: 1 p.m.
Place: Second floor, Krueger Library
Cost: Free |
Background: WSU restores historic Winona mural |
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History prof |
New president for University of PhoenixNEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2006 -- After a nationwide search for a new president, the governing board of the University of Phoenix chose one of its own, corporate insider William Pepicello. Pepicelo earlier was president of another for-profit college, the University of Sarasota. Since 1995 he has been with the Phoenix parent company, the Apollo Group, except two yers at Sarasota. Pepicello replaces Laura Palmer Noone, who retired in May as president of the 250,000-enrollment Phoenix program, which operates mostly night schools in major U.S. cities.
Lawsuit: Minority journalism program discriminatoryALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept 26, 2006 -- The advocacy group Center for Individual Rights filed a discrimination lawsuit against a program for minority student journalists operated by Virginia Commonwealth University. The suit alleges that the university engages in illegal racial discrimination by excluding white students. The program is one of at least 20 for minority high-school students operated by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund at U.S. colleges to encourage minority students into newspaper careers. The basis for the suit is the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law, and civil-rights statutes, which prohibit racial and ethnic discrimination by colleges that receive federal funds.
Cops bust Olmstead Street partyWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Police ticketed a man and a awoman for loud party at a house near Olmstead and Mill streets at 11:34 p.m.
WSU art studios to move to WabashaWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- The Winona State University art department, now in crowded Watkins Hall, will have a new home in the old Cotter junior high school, according to university documents for the Cotter remodeling. Design plans show the third floor of the building, which is being renamed Wabasha Hall, with three large sculpting studios, a drawing studio and two design studios. Only half of the third floor is taken up by the art department in the drawings. The university's construction coordinator, Steve Ronkowski, said there will be space on the third floor for future expansion.
The art department's home has been in Watkins, which was designed for the department with an exhibition gallery at the entrance on King Street. Over the years Watkins also has been shared with other academic departments that have come and gone, including computer science and the College of Education's now-defunct industrial arts unit.
The Cotter building was acquired on a lease-buy contract to accommodate the campus nursing station, a workout gym and other facilities being displaced by the remodeling of Maxwell Hall on the main campus. The Maxwell tenants are expected to move to Wabasha Hall, two blocks off the main campus, over the break before spring semester so crews can begin gutting Mawell in $11.2 million make-over. |
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Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: WSU has option to buy old Cotter buildings
Cops bust party, find illegal beer kegsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Two Winona State University students were ticketed for noise and possession of more then one keg of beer at a party early Monday. The cops found three kegs. Police busted the party at 12:01 a.m. at 270 Sioux St. The students, age 21 and 20, did not have a city permit that is required for beer kegs. Police discovered the kegs while investigating a noise complaint.
Reporter: Anne Pilmonas
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WSU goes to attorneys on election rulesWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Amid continuing criticism about the role of Winona State University in the 2005 local school-tax referendum, the university circulated a document from the state college system's legal office on applicable statues:
Faculty upset at bypass in dean choice| WINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- University President Judith Ramaley has ruffled the feathers of the Winona State Faculty Senate by appointing an education dean without consultation. The Senate voted Monday to protest to Ramaley at the next scheduled meet-and-confer showdown meeting with administrators on campus issues. Sen. Bruce Svingen noted that Ramaley had promised to include the Senate in administrative appointments. At issue is the sudden departure of Education Dean Cecilia Rokusek last week and the immediate appoitment of recreation prof Lorene Olson as acting dean for nine months. The issue has raised all kinds of questions, not the least of which was why Rokusek left. A week after Rokusek cleared out her office, Ramaley said the dean, on the job only a bit more than a year, had left for "pesonal reasons." It was unusual that it was Ramaley, rather than academic Vice President Sally Johnstone, who would announce personnel decisions involving academic deans. |
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Reporter: Ruanna Hayes
Background: Ramaley: WSU dean's departure temporary
Who authorized WSU anti-bacterial dispensers?Sept. 25, 2006 -- The Faculty Senate voted to press university administrators for information on who authorized anti-bacteial hand-sanitizer dispensers to be installed in Winona State University hallways . Concern was expressed that antibacterial sanitizers actually damage the body's natural immunities. Authorities were quoted that sanitizers strip away the outer layer of oil on the skin, which usually keeps bacteria from contact with the flesh itself. Also, recent studies were cited that challenge the oft-repeated advertising claim that hand sanitizers kill 99.9 percent of germs. Senate President Mary Kesler said she would add the issue to a growing agenda for the next contractually mandated sit-down meeting with administrators. Several senators said the campus Wellness Committee never met regarding the issue. Sen. Cindy Killion was curious as to where the money came from to install the dispensers and keep them running. The dispensers have been installed in several campus buildings, including Memorial, Minne, Performing Arts , Phelps and Somsen.
Reporter: Ruanna Hayes and Nicole Swenson
WSU profs buy bench to honor Alex YardWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- The Faculty Senate at Winona State University voted unanimously to buy a bench on campus for the late history prof Alex Yard, a former Senate president. The Senate earmarked $1,500 for the bench. A location has yet to be decided. Yard taught nearly 20 years at Winona State. He died in 2005 of cancer.
Reporter: Nicole Swenson
Background: Cancer claims WSU faculty leader
Author to discuss Lakota insightsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- Author Kent Nerburn will discuss his work, "Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder," at Winona State Uiverity. The book chronicles a road trip with a Lakota Indian, which leads to revelations about the white manŐs invasion of the Americas.
Ramaley: WSU dean's departure temporaryWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- The Winona State education dean, Cecilia Rokusek, is on a leave of absence for personal reasons, university President Judith Ramaley said. In an announcement released campuswide, Ramaley did not elaborate on Rokusek's unexpected departure last week. Ramaley said the leave is for nine months, which puts its expiry at July 1. Ramaley confirmed that Lorene Olsen of the recreation faculty has agreed to interrupt a sabbatical to serve as acting dean beginning Oct. 1. In the meantime, liberal-arts Dean Troy Paino is handling College of Education matters.
Olson started her college studies at Winona State. Later she was graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She holds a doctorate from the University of New Mexico. Olson has been on Winoa State faculty since 1989 and served nine years as a chair within the College of Education. She is known mostly for travel-study projects, including the
Pacific Challenge and Costa Rica programs.
Background: WSU education dean quits at mid-semester
Profs' lobbyist profiles Hatch, Pawlenty higher-ed stancesST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- The director of government relations for the state faculty union, Russ Stanton, issued these side-by-side reports on proposals from the major gubernatorial candidates to improve Minnesota higher-ed :
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In June, Pawlenty put forth a Ňfree tuitionÓ proposal. The proposal is a sharply scaled back version of the Georgia "Hope Scholarship" program.
Under PawlentyŐs proposal, only students in the top 25 percent of their high-school graduating class would receive two years of free tuition at a Minnesota public postsecondary institution, although students in math, science, technology and engineering could receive an additional two years. Students from households earning more than $150,000 (about 10 percent of households) would be ineligible for grants. On the other end of the spectrum, students from low-income to moderate-income families who receive student financial aid would have their financial aid subtracted from the amount of free tuition.
The Pawlenty proposal would only affect about 16,000 of the approximately 250,000 students in higher education in Minnesota. Current students would not realize any benefit from the proposal, which would take effect starting fall of 2007. Even then, it would apply only to recent high school graduates and not benefit students previously enrolled or non-traditional students.
Pawlenty's proposal would cost an estimated $112 million. He said he would pay for it out of future "budget surpluses." The problem is that if the governor funds inflation adjustments for higher education and other state programs, there won't be a budget surplus. The fear is that colleges and universities might have to eat the cost of providing free tuition.
Pawlenty says his plan is designed to create an incentive for high school students to become better prepared for college, and to stimulate interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
Critics of the governor quickly contrasted PawlentyŐs promise with his record on higher education funding. When the governor took office four years ago, he balanced the state budget by cutting appropriations to higher education and other programs rather than raising taxes. This action meant cutting the MnSCU budget by $204 million and the U of M budget by $185 million. The colleges and universities then raised tuition sharply to fill in the shortfall of state appropriations. State university students saw their tuition raised by approximately 45 percent during the four years of the Pawlenty administration.
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PHOTOGRAPHER: JENNIFER IRISH
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Democrat congressional candidate Tim Walz dropped in at a coffee house on the periphery of the main Winona State University campus to rally supporters to get out of vote. |
Congressional candidate: Time is shortWINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2006 -- Congressional hopeful Tim Walz reminded supporters at the Blue Heron Coffee House that they only have 45 more days to mobilize friends and neighbors for the Nov. 7 election. "It's about the people," Walz told the friendly gathering of about 100, many of them waring yellow Walz campaign T-shirts. Walz, the Democrat challenging 1st Congressional District Rep. Gil Gutknecht, arrived and walked through the crowd greeting people individually, some by name, and shaking hands. "It is no secret that we love coming down to Winona," he said. "I appreciate your enthusiasm and your care for the issues." Then he struck his people theme: "What we need is the voice of the people." Walz said that he's ready to become the voice of the people and that the country is ready for positive change.
On issues, Walz called it "an absolute disgrace" that 47 million people do not have health insurance. On college issues he expressed concern about rising interest on student loans: "Why are we making it more difficult for our children to get an education?"
Reporter: Jennifer Irish
Background: Races that campus people are watching
PHOTOGRAPHER: ALEX WHITE
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Sponsors called it the Healing Field, a fund-raising project in suburban Goodview for a proposed place for children to recover right after abuse incidents -- other than the police station and hospital. |
Flags commemorate Winona child-abuse victimsGOODVIEW, Minn., Sept. 24, 2006 -- The National Child Protection Training Center, based at Winona State University, wound up its four-day Healing Field event to raise money for a local facility for abused children. Fourteen-hundred flags fluttered at La Canne Park, one flag for every child-abuse case reported in Winona County in a typical year. For a $30 donation, community members sponsored a flag to build a center for children who now are shuffled back and forth between police stations and hospitals. In an opening ceremony, organizer Robyn Kieffer called on college students, especially those in education, nursing and social services, to volunteer at the Child Protection Training Center on campus. Speakers at the Healing Field included State Sen. Bob Kierlin. Winona Mayor Jerry Miller and Goodview Mayor Jack Weimerskirch. The Child Protection Training Center director, Victor Vieth, also spoke. The 2005 Mrs. Minnesota spoke about her own child-abuse experience.
Reporter: Alex White
Background: Display to honors child-abuse victims
COMMENT: ELECTIONS
DARRELL DOWNS
AND PATRIOTIC DUTY
The worst thing that anybody has come up with to support their dubious argument that college students were manipulated to vote for a school-tax hike last year is that Winona State prof Darrell Down and his friends drove student-voters to the polls. Somehow, to the critics, this constituted manipulating the election It's an odd criticism. What could be more American than enabling voters without transportation to get to their voting place? This has been a patriotic gesture of good-willed people for generations.
Downs, a political scientist, never concealed that he strongly favored the referendum. Because he was partisan, however is hardly a reason that he should not have ferried students to the polls. Democrats have done this for eons, of course targeting those of their persuasion. So have Republicans. So why not Downs? Why not School Board members? Why not the leadership of Winona State civic clubs? And of education clubs?
Those who criticize Downs, and also other professors who gave students a lift, need to roust themselves from the naivete. The next time there's a school referendum, these critics should gas up their own buggies, identify motorless voters who share their views, and also perform a patriotic duty -- instead of grumbling for months and months about their own failure to win over a majority to their view and then mobilize these people to polls. Downs is a role model who doesn't deserve to be a target of disapprobation. |
WSU club offers Buddhism 101WINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2006 -- The Soki-Gaki International-USA Club at Winona State University will hold an introduction to Buddhism meeting.
Date: Monday, Sept. 25
Time: 5 p.m.
Place: Dining Rooms E and F, Kryzsko Commons
Cost: Free
Contact: Adhya Enkhbat |
Woman kicked, cut in Johnson Street assaultWINONA, Sept. 24, 2006 -- A 24-year-old Winona man was arrested for a fight at Johnson and Fifth streets, between the bar district and the main Winona State University campus, about 3 a.m. The woman had bruises on her arms from being grabbed and had been kicked five or six times while on the ground, police said. Officers said there had been a fight involving the man and two women, whom they found arguing and yelling outside.
Reporters: Elizabeth Adams and Danette Gunther
WSU profs to perform Ravel, othersWINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2006 -- Winona State University music profs are performing a recital to benefit the campus chapter of the National Association for Music Education. Featured composers include Ravel, Poulenc and Debussy. Performers include Eric Brisson, Suzanne Draayer, Natalie Filipovich, James Hoch, Deanne Mohr, Zoe Shepherd, the Coulee Region Arts Project Trombone Quartet and the Winona State Faculty Jazz Quartet.
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 26
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
Cost: $3 to $5 |
Senator: Some colleges mum on earmarksWASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2006 -- A senator focsuing on pork-barrel appropriations to colleges, Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said that 39 colleges have failed to provide details on their lobbying and earmark revenue . queried 100 colleges. Sixty responded. Of those that haven't, 10 asked for more time. Earmarks have become controversial because members of Congress can slip them into bills as favors for home-district constituents without a thorough review by committees and fellow senators. Coburn, chair f a subcommittee on federal financial management, plans hearings specifically about academic earmarks.
COMMENT: ELECTIONS
STUDENTS
GOT IT RIGHT
The vocal Winona anti-tax faction, which lost the 2005 school-budget referendum, keeps ranting that college students threw the election to the other side. They're right. Every analysis shows that precincts with heavy student populations favored the school tax increase.
But the people in this faction also suggest that students were ill-informed about the issues, some even saying students shouldn't be allowed to vote. On this they are wrong. Most Winona State students have recent experience in public schools. These college students know first-hand how desperate things have become in the public schools because of shrinking state financial support. It could be argued that students were among the most informed voters.
We keep hearing from the anti-tax crowd that students somehow were manipulated. In a sense, we can accept that. Students were "manipulated" by convincing arguments that Winona schools needed more money to perform their mission. We would prefer that this be called persuasion, which is what debate in a democracy is all about. But if the opposition prefers the word "manipulation," well, let them play their rhetorical games.
The anti-tax people also miss a reality. As unfortunate as it is, most college students, products of an amusements-centered Nintendo Generation, are not easily motivated to immerse themselves in public policy issues. They don't go to the polls with willy-nilly preferences. When they vote, it's because they feel an overwhelming need to participate in shaping their future. This happened in the 2005 school referendum. Students foresaw a great disservice to the next generation of Winona kids unless the schools received the funds they needed to do their job. |
Profs sponsor Flunk the Guv contestSACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 24, 2006 -- Free tuition for a year is the prize for some lucky and perhaps talented student in the Flunk Arnold video contest on California State University campuses. The prize is for the best 30-second web site or video that argues for flunking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his record on education. A political action committee associated with the union representing 23,000 Cal State faculty and staff is sponsoring the contest.
COMMENT: ELECTIONS
PUT UP OR SHUT UP
The eruption of anger against college students for voting in the 2005 school-election has so far been loose talk -- all sugestion, innuendo, non sequitur. Yes, we hear the emotion from the local faction that opposed the school-school tax hike. We don't hear facts that support the assertion that Winona State resources and facilities were misused. Please, please, if you are going to make such serious charges, then share with us the evidence that supports your position. |
Private college leaders: More state aid neededST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 24, 2006 -- The president of the Minnesota Private College Council, Dave Laird, called for more grants for college students from low-income and middle-income families. Laird noted that the state earned a D grade on higher-ed affordability in a recent study. "Minnesota thrives when our residents are well educated," he said. "That's why we all benefit when the state helps keep college affordable." Laird noted that state-based aid in Minnesota has failed to keep pace with rising tuition and fees.
Writer: Unfair that profs ferried students to pollsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2006 -- Professors who ferried students to the polls in the 2005 Winona school election were acting unethically, a writer charged in a letter to the Daily News' opinion page. John Schreiber quoted political science prof Darrell Downs about driving students from the East Lake dorm and the old St. Teresa dorms to Central Elementary School and the high school to vote on election night. Schreiber's letter was the first specific evidence, amid a new outburst of outrage against student voting, about professor involvement in the election. Although the points in Schreiber's letter were somewhat disconnected, he seemed to say that Downs, by driving students to the polls, was not in violation of any laws or regulations: "Was this legal?" Schreiber asked rhetorically. "I am afraid so. Was it ethical? I think not."
Earlier writers against student voting on local tax issues have charged that students were "manipulated" into favoring the school-tax hike, which narrowly passed. Some have said that Winona State facilities and resources were used in violation of state law to promote the referendum, but they have not produced any evidence. The critics have repeatedly pointed out that Downs, a political scientist and activist, is the husband to School Board member Natalie Siderius, but left unsaid whatever their point is.
Schreiber, like other recent letter-writers, was firm that students, many of whom are in Winona only for a few years, should not be able to bind the rest of the local citizenry into long-term tax obligations. "Through the highjacking of the referendum by college students and their professors with approval of the School Board, millions of dollars were taken out of the pockets of the majority of property taxpayers who voted no in the referendum," he wrote.
Schrieber critcized Judith Ramaley, president of Winona State, for encouraging students to vote. Ramaley sees voting as important in community involvement. Schrieber, however, expressed doubt that Ramaley is sincere about community involvement. "If Ramaley truly means what she says (about) 'strenthening the university's ties to the Winona community,' she will use her influence to remove tax-exempt dorms and campus housing and put them back on the property tax rolls, leveling the playing field between college stusents and property tax payers, making sure this never happens again."
Background: Writer alleges WSU election abuses, raps Ramaley
Background: Comment: We oughtn't disenfranchise students
Background: Comment: On student voting, Ramaley right on
Background: Commenet: Probe needed into allegations
COURT
CONVICTIONS
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 23,
2006
IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
UNDERAGE BOOZING
Anthony James Anderson, 18, Eyota, Minn., $177.
Alexander Ryan Bowes, 21, Eden Prairie, Minn., $177.
Ario Phillip Cognetta, 20, La Crosse, Wis., $177.
Amanda Rose Coughlin, 20, 914 Parks Ave. 215, $477.
Joseph Thomas Erredge, 20 Apple Valley, Minn., $188.
Eden Elizabeth Forman, 18, Edine, Minn., $177.
Bridgett Rose Frauenshuh, 20, 700 Terrace Heights 772, SMU, $177.
Amanda Lee Haechert, 18, 457 Gould St., WSU, $177.
Mark James Hautala, 20, Greendale, Wis., $477.
Steven Charles Mach, 20, 253 Jackson St., $477.
Benjamin Todd Malchow, 20, St. Charles, Minn., $177.
Kelsie Kristine Papenfuss, 18, 259 E. Eighth St., $177.
Michael J. Simonson, 19, La Crosse, Wis., $177.
Brian Todd Sommerfeldt, 18, Rochester, Minn., $177.
Lisa Marie Strum, 18, 700 Terrace Heights, SMU, $177.
Ryan Morgan Warffuel, 19, 457 Hould St. 1730, WSU, $177.
Kathryn Ann Wautlet, 18, Sun Prairie, Wis., $177.
Michael Hoseph Welhouse, 20, Grand Forks, N.D., $166
Matthew John West, 20, 653 W. Sarnia 17, $177.
Andrew Charles Szurgot, 19, Rochester, Minn., $177.
NOISY PARTYING
Heather Jane Feldmann, 23, 55 E. Links Ave., $265.
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WSU 3, MSU-Moorhead 2 |
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SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 23, 2006
Sept. 23, 2006: A dorm supervisor requested assistance with a possible alcohol violation at 3 a.m.
Sept. 23, 2006: Security guards cited several students for an alcohol violation in the Maria dorm at 11 p.m.
Sept. 23, 2006: Security guards responded to reported screams outside of the East Lake dorm at 10:17 p.m. Nothing was found.
Sept. 23, 2006: Security guards assisted police with an accident at the Tau dorm parking Lot at 12:30 p.m.
Sept. 23, 2006: At 1 p.m. security guards responded to Lourdes Hall, where a student was feeling faint. An emergency medical team took the student to the hospital.
Sept. 23, 2006: Security guards assisted an emergency medical team with several injured football players at 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 23, 2006: A student was cited at 11:45 p.m. for an alcohol violation in the Quad dorms.
Sept. 23, 2006: Security gurds and an emergency medical team responded at 12:10 a.m. to a student who had fallen down steps near the Morey dorm. The student was taken to the hospital.
Sept. 23, 2006: A non-student reported from the Lourdes dorm at 1:47 a.m. that she was assaulted while in Fountain City, Wis. Police were called.
Sept. 23, 2006: On 9/23/06 at 2:30 a.m. Security guards cited several students for an alcohol violation in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm.
Sept. 22, 2006: Police Department reported arresting four students on sidewalks adjacent to campus, three on Sept. 8 and one on Sept. 9.
Sept. 21, 2006: Security gaurds cited a student for an alcohol violation in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 12:04 a.m.br />
Sept. 21, 2006: Security guards responded to a reporrt of marijuana at the East Lake dorm 11:50 p.m. but found nonthing.
Sept. 20, 2006: Firefighters responded to an alarm in Somsen Hall at 10:14 a.m. It was determined that a worker was sodering near a fire alarm that was eventually activated.
Sept. 19, 2006: An emergency medical tram responded at 11:30 a.m. to a student who had fainted in Phelps Hall. The student declined to be transported to the hospital.
Sept. 19, 2006: Police reported a call about a fight in the Lourdes dorm kitchen at 7:10 p.m.of . It must have been a prank.
Sept. 18, 2006: Firefighters responded at 9:25 p.m. to an alarm at the Prentiss-Lucas dorm. Burned popcorn had set off the alarm.
Sept. 17, 2006: Security guards notified police at 4:48 a.m. of a student at the Maria dorm who was planning on hurting himself. The police arrived, evaluated the student and allowed him to remain on campus with a friend.
Sept. 17, 2006: Security guards and maintenance workers responded at 10:04 p.m. to a trouble alarm in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm.
Sept. 17, 2006: At 10 p.m. security guards warned tenants of Building C at the East Lake dorm about their noise and also cited them for an alcohol violation.
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Yale launches academic unit on anti-SemitismNEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 23, 2006 -- Yale University has established the first university-based institute in North America for the study of anti-Semitism. The new Initiative for Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism will be directed by Charles Small, who is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy>
COURT
CONVICTIONS
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 16,
2006
IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
UNDERAGE BOOZING
Shane Ordell Jacobson, 18, St., Charles, Minn., $602.
Cody John Brommerich, 19, Whitehall, Wis., $277.
Robert Joseph Christiano, 2-, Rochester, Minn., $177.
Andrew Louis Gilbertson, 19, 226 Kansas St., $277.
Shawn Michael Irwin, 19, 123-1/2 E. 10th, $17.
Christopher Michael Jacus, 21, Madison, Wis. $377.
Justin Peder Lehrke, 19, Janesville, Minn., $277.
Lane Joseph Lisowski, 20, Cochrane, Wis., $177.
Robert Thomas Mason, 19, 408 W. Eighth, $177.
Benjamin Leo Mitchell, 20, 728 W. Ninth, $502.
Katie Marie Phillips, 20, Eau Claire, Wis., $177.
Reid Morgan Prosen, 19, 1010 W. Mark, $177/.
Christopher James Steinke, 19, Minnesota City, Minn., $177.
Adam Joseph Schoenack, 18, Rollingstone, Minn., $877.
PARTYING
Andrew Reid Plemmons, 23, 39347 Highway Drive, $177.
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SMU 1, Macalester 1 (tie) |
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Griak Invitational
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Harvard alums trim giftsCAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 23, 2006 -- The proportion of Harvard College alumni who give to their alma mater has dropped to the lowest level since 1989. Gifts last fiscal year were $595 million from undergard alums, off 39 percent. Why? One theory is competition from other charities.
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Warriors edged by Division I Western IllinoisCEDAR FALLS, Iowa, Sept. 23,006 -- Western Illinois University, a NCAA Division I team, scored five minutes into the second half and held on for a 1-0 win over Winona State University in a soccer invitational. It was the only shot Winona State goal-keeper Amanda Diehm missed in the Western Illiois' 10 shots on goal. The Warriors were outshot 13-5 by Western Illinois but put three of their five shots on goal.
Background: Statistics
Yes, there is life after Brigham YoungPROVO, Utah, Sept. 23, 2006 -- A philosophy prof has moved on after being fired from Brigham Young University for criticizing a proposed constitutional amendment that would forbid gay marriage. Jeffrey Nielsen now teaches at both Westminster College and Utah Valley State College. Nielsen's contract at church-operated Brigham Young was not renewed after he wrote an opinion piece in the Salt Lake Tribune that opposing gay marriage as immoral.
Background: Mormon college fires prof for gay-marriage view
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Warriors steal game from Upper Iowa, move to 3-1WINONA, Minn., Sept. 23, 2006 -- Winona State University defeated Upper Iowa 48-7 in the Warriors' first Northern Sun Intercollegiate conference football game of the season. The victory brought the Winona State rcecord to 3-1. Back up quarterback Aaron Boettcher, subbig for the injured Drew Aber, completed 12 of 20 passes for four touchdowns. Interceptions made the difference for Winona State. The Warriors picked off six interceptions. Junior cornerback Kenzie Yewman had three. Because of all the turnovers the Winona Stste offense scored 31 points. Wide receiver Scott Peters scored two touchdowns and four catches. The game was history after the first quarter. The Warriors scored 28 points in the first quarter alone and allowed the Peacocks only 7.
Reporter: Steve Lange
Background: Statistics
Utes claim double-crossSALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 23, 2006 -- Utah's top American Indian official, Forrest Cuch, says the University of Utah has failed to deliver on scholarships that were promised in exchange for tribal suport to maitain the varsity nickname the Utes. Tribal support was essential for the university to win approval from the National Collegiate Athletic Association to keep the Indian nickname. Ute officials say there were told that their support would prompt an alumni donor to contribute to the scholarships. A university vice president, Fred Esplin, has denied there was a promise. Esplin said there was discussion several years ago about scholarship opportunities but not during last year's talks about the Ute nickname.
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Griak Invitational
WSU (46th of 52) |
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Warriors 46th in 52-team Griak InvitationalMINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 23, 2006 -- with 1,337 pointd Winona State University finished 46th out of 52 teams in the Roy Griak Invitational at the Les Bolstad Golf Course. The top Winona Stte runner for was Chet Heacox at 28:52.90. Heacox placed 252nd. Neil Skoog come in 264th for Winona State at 29:02.20. Ryan Slack was 332nd at 29:48.50. The event featured 509 runners.
COMMENT: ELECTIONS
STUDENTS AS ROBOTS
From the crowd that would keep college students from voting, we keep hearing that students are zombies. They don't use quite that word, of course, but what else does it mean when they say, over and over, that students were "manipulated" into voting for the 2005 school-tax hike. Students can no more be herded than cats. An implication of the anti-student crowd is that students are dumb. Hey, it's time for a reality check. Look at the ACT college-prep scores of Winona State States, their high-school academic record, their IQs. These kids aren't your average bear.
And manipulated by whom? The suggestion is that profs somehow are abusing the master-student relationship. If anyone would believe profs are bullying students from the podium and then marching them to the polls, think again. Wouldn't you, if bullied, get your revenge in the privacy of the voting booth? These people make no sense.
Recently, the respected Winona State political scientist Darrell Downs has taken heat for driving dorm students to the polls on election night. All we can say is: "So?" Why shouldn't a professor, like any citizen, be able to participate energetically to get out the vote. It was on his own time, not class time. Come on, get real: Should a political scientist, of all people, not be politically involved? |
Ohio State appeals award to fired coachCOLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 23, 2006 -- Ohio State University appealed a judge's award of $2.4 million to former men's basketball coach James O'Brien. O'Brien had argued that the university had no cause to fire him in 2004 despite the fact that he loaned $6,000 to the mother of a recruit. It is a lower-court judge's award that Ohio State is appealing. O'Brien said the $6,000, being a loan, not a gift, was allowable under the rules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Even so, the NCAA has penalized Ohio State for the O'Brien payment as well as other irregularities in the Ohio State athletic program.
Backround: Ohio State sports gigged, fined $800,000
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Griak Invitational
WSU (23rd of 29) |
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WSU Women runners 23rd at GriakMINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 23, 2006 -- Winona State University freshman Steph Smith placed 59th out of 278 runners in leading the Warriors to a 23rd-place finish in the Roy Griak Invitational at the Les Bolstad Golf Course. Smith covered the course in 24:31.55. Another Warrior freshman, Allie Glasbrenner, came in 94th at 25:02.55. Rounding out the top three Warrior finishes was freshman Lena Parrilli, 177th at 26:28.25.
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Turkish court acquits professor-novelistISTABNBUL, Turkey, Sept. 21, 2006 -- A University of Arizona prof was acquitted of "denigrating Turkishness" in her latest novel. Utranationalists had pressed the prosecution of Elif Shafak for "The Bastard of Istanbul." The issue was simmering contention on whether Turks killed as many as 1.5 million Armenians in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire. Outside the court building, demonstrators, who oppose reforms proposed by the European Union, waved flags with swastikas surrounded by the European Union stars. In the courtroom the judge listened to protesters who wanted to be heard in the case. After half an hour the judge told the protesters, politely, to excuse themselves. Then the prosecution, which had been forced into pursuing the case, argued against trying Shafak. The judge agreed. The case was over.
Shafak was not in court. She was in a hospital across town after giving birth to her first child. Shafak's citizenship is Turkish. She is in Turkey on a one year leave from the University of Arizona. At Arizona she teaches Middle Eastern studies.
Overshadowing the case is the Turkey's government application to join the European Union. The Union is insisting that Turkey first get rid of Article 301 in its penal code. The article has been used to prosecute writers and journalists who bring up the so-called Armenia Question or who otherwise paint Turkey in less than glowing terms. For months Shafak has been called a traitor in Intenet attacks by ultranationalists who support Article 301.
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Griak Invitational
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RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
POSTED SEPT. 23, 2006
SUGAR LOAF REDUX. The Bub's Brewery building at the foot of Sugar Loaf, which most recently housed a furniture store, will reopen Sept. 30 as an antiques mall, owner Mark Zimmerman said. Zimmerman has 20 dealers signed up and hopes for 50.
A BIGGER RTP. Composites manufacturer RTP, based in Winona, bought Wiman Corp. of Sauk Rapids, Minn., and plans to integrate Wiman products, mostly plastic sheet and film, into its product line. Wiman, which has 55 employees, will remain in Sauk Rapids. RTP, owned by Winona State benefactor Hugh Miller and Miller family members, has 600 employees at plants in Asia, Europe and North America.
STRIKE OVER. Workers ended their two-day strike against Badger Foundry. Terms were not announced, but agreement reportedly included company concessions to icrease its offer on employee health care. Alsom there are job guarantees if the company issold.Background
LESS DAY CARE.The Faith Builders Christian day-care center will close because of financial difficulties, owners said. The facility, which opened 15 months ago, tended to 63 children.
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COMMENT: ELECTIONS
WAKE UP
TO STUDENT POWER
The Winona anti-tax faction needs to take adult responsibility for losing the 2005 school-tax election. Instead, they are blaming college students for "highjacking" the election and increasing school taxes. Some go to an extreme and say college students shouldn't vote on local tax issues. Hey, grow up. Accept adult responsibility for your failure to prevail in the election. Yes, failure. The fact is that the anti-tax people failed to make a convincing case with a majority of voters, including college students.
This being a democracy, the lesson from the 2005 election to the anti-tax folks is that they must work harder in the future to persuade fellow citizens, both on campus and off, to the validity of their position. What can be said of the 2005 election is either that the anti-tax people didn't work hard enough to make their case or that their case was heard and found wanting.
This is a democracy. We talk things through and come to decisions by majority votes. Crying in your beer afterwards, and getting really nasty with the rhetoric, not only is unbecoming but childish.
As adults and therefore citizens, college students are voters. This is a reality. They won't go away. People on all sides of issues need to figure students into the mix to put together majorities. In a college town like Winona, the challenge is to find ways to engage and persuade students -- not disenfranchise them. |
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Central College Invitational (second day)
WSU (5th of 10) |
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Student loan defaults on riseWASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2006 -- The default on federal student loans increased slightly, to 5.1 percent, in the government's latest report. The 2004 default rate compares to a record low of 4.5 percent the year before. U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings was pleased: "The new rate is the second lowest ever recorded." Spellings called, however, for more "outreach" to student borrowers about their responsibilities. Here is a breakdown on the latest report on default rates:
8.1 percent for public two-year colleges, up from 7.6 percent.
8.6 percent for for-profit colleges, up from 7.3 percent.
3.5 percent for public four-year colleges, up from 3.3 percent.
2.8 percent for private four-year colleges, up from 2.6 percent.
Walk for brain-injury funding scheduledWINONA, Minn., Sept. 23, 2006 -- The St. Teresa Women's Institute at St. Mary's University is sponsoring fund-raising walk around Lake Winona for the state Brain Injury Association:
Date: Saturday, Sept. 30
Time: Checkin starts at 9 a.m.; walk at 10
Place: Lake Park Lodge
Cost: Donation
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AAUP eyes job rights for part-time profsWASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2006 -- A draft document from a committee of the American Association of University Professors calls for colleges to grant hearings to part-time profs whom they plan to let go. Part-timers, known also as adjunct profs, historically have had no job protection or tenure. The proposal calls for written terms of employment. The draft also recomends tenure for adjuncts who teach at least 12 courses over three years.
Earnings off, but Harvard endowment nears $30 billionCAMBRIDGE, MAss., Sept. 23, 2006 -- Harvard University's endowment, the largest in the nation, grew by $3.3 billion last fiscal year to reach a record $29.2 billion. The university said the endowment earned a 16.7 percent, compared to 19.2 percent the year before and 21.1 percent the year before that. The 2006 return, however, exceeded the median return of the 25 largest other university endowments in the country,
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Central College Invitational
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Jury: Execute North Dakota coed's murdererFARGO, N.D., Sept, 22, 2006 -- A federal jury recommended execution for a man convicted of kidnapping a University of North Dakota student as she left work at a mall three years ago and then brutally slaying her. The body of Dru Sjodin was found in an icy ravine on the Minnesota side of the border mopnths later. In the courtroom Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 53, focused straight ahead as the sentence was read. He showed no emotion. Although North Dakota does not have the death penalty, it is allowed in federal cases.
Background: Guilty verdict in kidnap-murder
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Concordia of Moorhead 3, SMU 2 |
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Two mystery writers to speak
at SMUWINONA, Minn., Sept. 22, 2006 -- Two mystery writers, Camille Minichino and Ann Parker, both of whom hold physics degrees, will visit St. Mary's University to speak with students on the art and science of writing. Minichino, on the faculty of Golden Gate University, has published eight novels in the Periodic Table mystery series. Parker, from the San Francisco Bay area, has been a science writer almost 30 years ago. Parker says she delights in thiungs like slipping an oblique William Butler Yeats reference into a fluid dynamics article. Book signing:
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ITA Central Regional Tournament
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Federal agency: Big Brother? Who, us?WINONA, Minn., Sept. 22, 2006 -- Technology is the answer to concerns that the Bush administration's proposed database on college students would enable the government to engage in Orwellian Big Brother monitoring, according to a U.S. Education Department administrator. Russ Whitehurst, director of the department's research, said that college transcripts could be encrypted and then held by a "trusted third party" outside government. Individual students would be tracked only by a random-generated code. The Education Departtment is trying to revive the Bush plan for a database to track studentsŐ progress through college. The plan was earlier scuttled because of congresisonal objections over student privacy.
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St. Benedict 3, SMU 1 |
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SMU receives grant to showcase math womenWINONA, Minn., Sept. 22, 2006 -- The Tensor Foundation awarded a grant to St. Mary's University to encourage women to study math. In part the grant will fund a speaker series:Oct. 9: Catherine Roberts from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. Roberts is editor of the Journal of Natural Resource Modeling. She developed a computer simulation program at Grand Canyon National Park.
Feb. 6:Joan Ferrini-Mundy, associate science and math education dean at Michigan State. Ferrini-Mundy is former chair of the writing group for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' principles and standards committee. She bolds the Association for Women in Mathematics award for contributions to math ed.
Spring:Judith Rich O'Fallon, retired Mayo Clinic prof. O'Fallon was involved in the design, conduct, analysis and publication of clinical trials and related lab research at the Mayo Cancer Center.
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WSU 1, Northern Iowa 0 |
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Proposal: New criteria for college rankingsWASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2006 -- Despite continuing criticism over college ranking systems for providing little useful information to prospective students, nobody's doing much to correct the problem. Kevin Carey, policy manager at Education Sector, a nonprofit research group, issued a report that colleges have the information and tools for better rankings but are pleased enough to capitalize on the flawed commercial system for marketing purposes. Meanwhile, he noted that the commercial rankers, like Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report and America's Best College Buys, continue to thrive.
Education Sector's report calls for more sophisticated measures. The emphasis should be on quality of teaching and learning and success after graduation, according to the report. The report suggested building on the National Survey of Student Engagement, called Nessie for sort, which provides data on the quality of teaching and learning from 1,100 participating colleges.
As examples of current problems, Carey faulted commercial ranking services that give low scores, for example, to Miles College in Alabama and Jackson State University in Mississippi, hoth historically black institutions. U.S. News, he said, over-values standardized test scores, which hurts colleges with a lot of financially needy students. He noted that Miles and Jackson State spend relatively little on each student, but in the Nessie survey, are well above the national average for frequency of outside-the-classroom discussions of course work among students and professors. Both schools, he said, also score well in the promptness of instructor feedback. "Conventional measures rank Miles and Jackson State below par," he said. " Nessie tells exactly the opposite story."
Carey proposed basing one-fifth of a college's ranking on its quality of teaching. He suggested Nessie's main criteria: academic rigor, prevalence of "active and collaborative learning," quality of interaction among students and faculty, opportunities for enriching educational experiences, and the supportiveness of the campus environment.
Background: Ranking again cites WSU as quality bargain
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Missouri State settles tennis sex-discrimination suitSPRINGFIELD, Mo., Sept. 21, 2006 -- Missouri State University settled a federal gender-discrimination lawsuit filed by four former women's tennis players. The players will receive $1,000 each. The women had argued that a university decision to drop five of 21 sports violated a federal law that bans sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funds. In the settlement Missouri State promised to comply with federal Title IX provisions.
WSU education dean quits at mid-semesterWINONA, Minn., Sept. 21, 2006 -- After only a year on the job, the education dean at Winona State University, Cecelia Rokusek, resigned abruptly and left campus. There was no explanation. Lorene Olson of the education college's physical education and recreation faculty was named acting dean. Olson's appointment is effective Oct. 1.
Rokusek arrived at Winona State for the Fall 2005 semester. She became known outside the education college in February when students campuswide learned that the university had quietly tightened the requirements for graduation with honors. The change had been Rokusek's idea. The change prompted student outrage over not being consulted and created a crisis for new university President Judith Ramaley, who had approved the change.
More recently the university has been criticized for its role in the November 2005 school-tax election, in which student voters were pivotal in increasing local property taxes. Critics have not been specific, but they have asserted that students were "manipulated" to vote for the tax hike and that university facilities and resources were misused in the election. Students in the College of Education, through clubs and other forums, were out front in promoting the school levy. The university also sponsored forums on the issue. There has been no link confirmed between the controversy and Rokusek's departure, but the suddenness of her unexplained departure stirred campus specualation.
Rokusek arrived at Winona State in July 2005 from Florida Gulf Coast University, where she had been assistant to the university's chief academic officer. Rokusek had more than 28 years of experience in higher-ed, including 10 years as a dean. She holds a doctorate from the University of South Dakota, a master's from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and bachelor's from Mount Mary College. She studied also at the University of Michigan, Bryn Mawr College and Harvard Law School. |
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Background: Veteran dean to WSU ed deanship
Background: Students peeved at WSU president
Background: Writer alleges WSU election abuses, raps Ramaley
Background: Comment: Right move the wrong way
WSU club schedules lean 'n' rock dance WINONA, Minn., Sept. 21, 2006 -- A canned-music dance with the theme "Lean Wit It Rock Wit It" will be sponsored by the Black Cultural Awareness club at Winona State University. Club President Ben Brako said the goal is to promote diversity and provide an entertainment alternative on campus for students.
Date: Saturday, Sept. 23
Time: 9 p.m.
Place: Smaug, Kryzsko Commons
Cost: $2 to $3
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Profs: Chancellor's merit pay plan duplicitousST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 21, 2006 -- Two leaders of the state professors' union accused the state college system chancellor of violating state law by charging ahead with faculty merit-pay grants known known as ISEPL. In a letter to members of the Inter-Faculty Organization, union President Nancy Black and chief negotiator Rod Henry said that Chancellor Jim McCormick's team explicitly agreed in the last contract negiotiations to abandon their merit pay proposal, but, said Black and Henry, the chancellor has gone ahead anyway and launched the project. The plan violates state law that prohibits unfair bargaining in labor negotiations, the union leaders said.
Although Black and Henry stopped short of the word "duplicity" in their letter, they said that the union had been betrayed:
"Before printed copies of our new contract were even delivered to us, MnSCU was implementing a variation of pay-for-performance: the IPESL grant program. Despite knowing from negotiations that such a program would be of great concern to the IFO, MnSCU did not mention the creation of such a program until mid-April 2006. We had not been informed through the normal method of meet-and-confer. Documents show that this initiative had been discussed within MnSCU for some time and had even been shared with campus Presidents who in turn had sent it around some of their campuses. A June application deadline had been circulated. In short, by the time the IFO was informed, it was meant to be a 'done deal.' Unilateral implementation of a compensation scheme is a violation of state law: an unfair bargaining practice."
Black and Henry said that throughout negotiations for the current contract, union negotiators worked in good faith to come up with mutually agreeable solutions to shared concerns. "Many hours were spent creating proposals that, in our opinion, were fair trades for terms that the other side wanted. At the end of the process the IFO Negotiating Team accepted a proposal that gave a significant amount of money to faculty but not every dollar that could have been on the table. In turn, MnSCU did not get everything they wanted either. They did not get merit or performance pay -- something they had especially wanted from the outset of negotiations-- in fact they had floated several proposals for merit or performance pay."
The union's decision-making structure, including what's called a state-level IFO Delegate Assembly, has historically opposed merit pay. "The recent history of the use and abuse of these pay systems in Minnesota schools and nationally shows that these essentially short-term pay schemes cause long-term problems," Black and Hrnry wrote. They acknowledged in the letter that merit pay is favored by some members of the MnSCU college system's governing board, all of whom are appointees of Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The union views such plans as attempts to impose top-down, executive-controlled, central-administration leverage that can be used to reward administrators' pet profs and punish others.
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Nice work if you can get itNEWARK, N.J., Sept. 21, 2006 -- A federal monitor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, which has been plagued by one scandal after another, reported that a state senator was on the payroll for $35,000 and didn't have to do anything much. The job of Sen. Wayne Bryant, a Democrat, was to spend three hours a week on campus reading newspapers, the monitor said. Bryant denied the charge: "I regularly performed the various duties and services that were consistent with my job description. The monitor, a former federal judge who is reviewing the university's practices, found no substance in Bryant's job description as a program-support coordinator. As a state senator, Bryant has steered millions of dollars to the school.
How would Sherlock Holmes explain this one?NEWARK, N.J.,Sept. 21, 2006 -- A medical student at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey stole a hand from a cadaver and gave it to a nude dancer, who kept it in a fruit jar of formaldehyde on her bedroom dresser, according to court documents. The student, Ahmed Rashed, now a medical resident in Los Angeles, said through an attorney that he is innocent. Police found the hand, as well as six human skulls from a mail-order catalog, in the stripper's bedroom.
Sudy: Textbook supplements more important than everWASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2006 -- Most college profs are using some form of textbook supplements or integrated learning tools to help a growing number of unprepared entering frosh, the Association of American Publishers reported. Supplements are used by 53 percent of instructors nationwide, according to a Zogby study commissioned by the publishers. Patricia Schroeder, the association president, called the findings "a wake-up call" for anyone concerned about the future of higher education. "Too many college students are not ready for college work, and they need new types of learning tools to succeed," she said. The survey reported that 55 percent of college instructors find entering freshmen not ready for college-level studies. The figure is even higher at two-year colleges -- 75 percent.
Findings from the survey:
65 percent of profs say that supplemental course materials, such as study guides, online homework and tutorial systems, help retain students who might otherwise fail or drop out.
79 percent say their less-prepared students would do "significantly better" in intro courses if they spent more time using supplemental materials.
90 percent say these students would do better if they made greater use of assigned textbooks.
77 percent say that supplemental materials "clearly enhance most studentsŐ learning."
57 percent say most students would be more successful in their coursework if profs required supplemental materials.
86 percent require or recommend supplemental materials, an 11 percent increase from a 2004 study.
90 percent require or recommend a textbook for courses they teach.
"To meet the needs of diverse student populations, college instructors are relying more heavily on new types of learning tools that accompany todayŐs modern textbooks and personalize the learning process," Schroeder said. "That adoptions for these materials have increased 11 percent over a year and a half ago is a clear sign that professors are seeing positive results from these materials."
When deciding which textbook to adopt for their courses, the survey found that instructors consider both price and quality. According to Zogby: "Professors are requiring the materials they believe can help their students succeed -- new textbooks and supplemental tools -- which suggest professors believe the price of success outweighs the cost of failure."
Approximately three quarters of instructors agree that price is important to them when choosing a textbook, but nearly as many said the usefulness of the textbook is the more important factor. By more than 17 to one, instructors said they place more importance on the effectiveness of a learning tool than on the price.
Zogby surveyed 502 college or grad-school instructors at two-year and four-year institutions on Aug. 29 and 30.The margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.
Background: Survey details
WSU coffee aficionados have to waitWINONA, Minn., Sept. 21, 2006 -- The opening of Somsen Hall Mugby Junction coffee shop at Winona State University is awaiting a stamp of approval from the city health inspector. Despite news reports and posters to the contrary, the shop wasn't ready on Thursday. An aide to Bruce Bechtle, campus dining services director, was unsure when the shop would open except that it will be soon.
Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: Mugby Junction coffee brewing at WSU |
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WSU goalie named soccer player of weekST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 21, 2006 -- Winona State University sophomore goal-keeper Amanda Diehm has been selected the Northern Sun conference defensive soccer player of the Week. Diehm helped the Warriors to a 1-0-1 Northern Sun record during the week. Diehm recorded a 2-0 shutout of Northern State and then came up with four saves in the 2-2 tie with the University of Mary. On the week Diehm recorded seven saves.
Background: WSU shuts out Northern State
Background: Warriors, Mary remain tied in overtime
Court: Louisiana board OK in choosing presidentBATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 21, 2006 -- The Louisiana Supreme Court declined to hear a a case against the trustees of Louisiana College, a small Baptist institution in Pineville, for how they selected a new president. A faculty and alumni group claimed the trustees had violated their own bylaws. The presidency has been embroiled in one mess after another, mostly involving attempts at micromanagement by trustees. Two years ago the trustees got into screening textbooks for whether the books sufficiently reflected Christian values. The college president at that time during the controversy, and the collegeŐs regional accreditor put the college on academic probation.
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How much is Penn State footall coach paid?HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 21, 2006 -- The PennsylvaniaŐs Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on whether the salaries of three Penn State administrators and football coach Joe Paterno must be released to the public. A newspaper, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, sued after being denied the information. The unversity argued that as a "state-related" but not a state university, it is exempt from Pennsylvania open-records laws. The Patriot News leapfrogged that issue and has sought the data from a state agency that handles employee pension plans. The law clearly makes the pension plan subject to public scrutiny. Why the university secrecy? Privacy, say university attorneys. It is known that Penn State's president, Graham Spanier, is paid $492,000.
Arguments in Fitzy case being drafted WINONA, Minn., Sept. 21, 2006 -- Attorneys in the pool-cue beating case against erstwhile Winona State University junior John Michael Fitzgerald are honing arguments for the judge about what to do next. The issue remains evidence -- whether Fitzgerald, 22, was aware of his right to remain silent after police arrested him. At a hearing last week, the judge gave both prosecutor Chuck MacLean and defense attorney Richard Bowen until Oct. 26 to file written arguments on the Miranda right-to-remain silent issue. Bowen has been arguing that Fitzy's right to remain silent was violated. After the briefs are filed Oct. 26, the judge will have a 90-day window to decide how to proceed. Unless Bowen pushes for a speedy trial a pretrial hearing likely is almost two months away.
Fitzgerald is charged with nine counts, including kidnapping and terrorizing a Second Street couple who were rousted from bed during a drug-related burglary. The husband and wife, both in their 50s, were tied up and beaten with a pool cue. A second man accused in ghe case, Drew Steinquist, 20, of Winona, remains in jail but with a work-release provision for job in suburban Goodview. Fitzgerald, from the Twin Cities, was has been free on bail since shortly after the arrest. |
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Reporter: Brittney Richmond
Background: Fitzgerald's evidentiary hearing delayed
SMU hosts
season-opener paintball tourneyWINONA, Minn., Sept. 21, 2006 -- The St. Mary's University paintball team SMU Kidz will host 14 teams Saturday at the Back 80 between Winona and Rushford. Competing in the first open meet of the season, the Midwest North Divisional Tournament, will be teams from Iowa State, Michigan Tech, St. Mary's, Winona State, UW-Madison and UW-Platteville. Competition begins at 9 a.m.
Details: SMU Kids
Study: Minority coaches get interviews, not jobsWASHIGTON, Sept. 21, 2006 -- More minority applicants are being interviewed for college head football coaching jobs, but most jobs still go to whites. Only four of the 26 head coaches hired by NCAA Division I-A and I-AA programs in the past year were from minority groups, the report said. More minorities make the short lists, however. The report said 70 percent of the schools interviewed minority applicants last year, compared to 43 percent the year before. Progress was made also in hiring minority candidates, the report said. Fifteen percent of football head-coaching jobs went to minority applicants last year compared with 6 percent in the previous year. The report singled schools that neither interviewed minority nor spoke with members of the Black Coaches Association or the NCAA's Minority Opportunity Interests Committee about head-coach vacancies:
Boise StateGeorgia SouthernMissouri StateRiceWisconsin at Madison
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Ranking again cites WSU as quality bargain WINONA, Minn., Sept. 21, 2006 -- For the 11th year in a row Winona State University has been named among 100 best colleges on a weighted criteria of cost and quality. In its annual list, Institutional Research and
Evaluation of Rome, Ga., publisher of "America's 100 Best College Buys," the list was winnowed from 1,473 accredited institutions that offer dorm living and four-year undergrad degrees. Winona State is the only Minnesota school included. The report profiles the schools that are the highest rated academically but that also have the greatest value as a function of academic quality, cost of attendance and financial aid available.
Criteria include a high-school grade point average and SAT or ACT entrance-exam score above the national average, as well as cost below the national average. Lewis Lindsey Jr., president of IRE, made a point in the preface to the report that schools could not buy their onto the list: "No college or university has paid to be included in this book. Institutions are included solely on the basis of merit." The ranking has been heavily promoted in Winona State marketing in the past.
Institutional Research and Evaluation sells its reports for $15, almost entirely to prosective college students and their parents. Reports include:
America's 100 Best College BuysAmerica's Best Private CollegesAmerica's Best Public CollegesAmerica's Best Christian CollegesAmerica's Best Small CollegesAmerica's Best College Scholarships
Star Wars creator gives $175 million to alma materLOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 21, 2006 -- George Lucas, a billionaire from his Star Wars movies and other enterprises, will donate $175 million to the University of Southern California to build a new film school and establish an endowment to support it. Lucas, 62, is a 1966 USC grad. The gift is the largest in the university's history. News of the donation appeared in the Los Angeles Times, which lerned about it before the university had wanted to make an announcement. Asked to confirm the gift, Lucas said: "I discovered my passion for film and making movies when I was a student at USC in the 1960s, and my experiences there shaped the rest of my career." The university plans to formally announced the gift and a new name for the film school, undoubtedly Lucas, at a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 4.
WSU students to be polled about "free" newspapersWINONA, Minn, Sept. 20, 2006 -- Students will be surveyed at Winona State University about whether they would be willing to pay an additional fee, perhaps $5, for out-of-town daily newspapers to be available free on campus, student President Carl Soderberg told senators. The program, sponsored by the newspaper USA Today, would provide the students' choice of three newspaper on campus racks from 20 papers that would be available. After a pilot run, the charge would be adjusted to reflect how many newspapers that students pick up. A USA Today representative, John Fiddler, said papers would be at discounted bulk rate.
The delivery of the newspapers, the racks, and the recycling of old papers would be included in the cost, Fiddler said. Newspapers would be distributed in dorms and study areas, he said. Having access to a variety of newspapers on campus is "not just an amenity but a resource that Winona State can give to their students," Fiddler said. Another benefit, he said, is that the profs can pick up articles from the USA Today college website for class exercises. Already in the program, he said, are the University of Minnesota, St. Mary's, St. Olaf, MSU-Mankato and Gustavus Adolphus. Soderberg said, however, that he had contacted the student president of the University of Minnesota-Morris and that a survey found that most students weren't interested.
Reporter: Sarah Botzek
Background: "Free" newspapers trial OKd by Student Senate
Pelowski outraises Reiman but spends itST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 20, 2006 -- The Republican challenger to 10-term State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, Lewie Reiman, is keeping his powder dry. Reiman, a Lewiston farmer, has raised $3,550 for his campaign and not yet spent a penny, according to campaign finance records through Aug. 21. Pelowski, who has begun posting his trademark green posters and billboards around House Distrcit 31-A, has raised $7,510 and spent all but $1,616, the record say. By law candidates must file periodic campaign finance statements.
Background: Races that campus people are watching
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POSTED SEPT. 20, 2006
FOUNDRY STRIKE. Workers at Badger Foundry voted 129-4 to strike rather than accept a company offer that would have required them to pay more for health care. Picketing began Wednesday, Foundry managers tried to keep production going, but output slowed.
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Mugby Junction coffee brewing at WSUWINONA, Minn., Sept. 19, 2006 -- The aroma of fresh-brewed coffee will waft through the hallways of Winona State University's main building, Somsen Hall, soon, when the highly anticipated on-campus Mugby Junction opens Thursday for the first time. The coffee shop, in Somsen 116, is a partnership between Mugby Junction and the campus dining services vendor Chartwells. The partnership will resemble a franchise with Chartwells operating the coffee shop. Bruce Bechtle, Winona State director of dining services, said that Chartwells will be purchasing the products directly from Mugby Junction and using Mugby recipes. Carew Halleck, the self proclaimed "head bean" of Mugby, said that the coffee at Somsen will be certified as organic. Also, he said, the coffee will be certified as grown and processed by people being paid a fair and livable wage.
The Somsen shop, Bechtle said, would be staffed by two or three people depending on business. The hours likely would be from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., he said. The Chartwells employees working in the shop have been and will continue to be trained by Halleck and his Mugby Junction crew. "Carew is great," Bechtle said. "He is teaching them everything from the Mugby Junction philosophy to what the proper outcome is -- supplying a great cup of coffee to the campus."
The Somsen shop will feature Mugby Junction's full menu of drinks and is expected to expand in the future to include grab-and-go baked goods and sandwiches. Somsen prices will be the same as at the three Winona and two Rochester Mugby locations. Location and customer convenience are key, said Halleck: "If you don't put yourself in the middle of where they are, you don't get them."
Bechtle knows a thing or two about coffee. He once ran a shop similar to Mugby at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. "We are going to try to do all the things that make a good coffee shop a good coffee shop," Bechtle said.
Halleck said in the future he would like to see the campus Mugby Junction used to create a commercial business experience for business or management majors. Halleck's idea includes having a team of students responsible for the monthly financial reports, inventory management and labor management. The experience could become a practicum at the business school, he said. He acknowledged, though, that "it may not be the best way to run a commercial business." Halleck likened Mugby to an adjunct professor. "I think that would be a kick in the butt," he said.
The grand opening of Mugby Junction comes less than a month after renovations were started in Somsen 116. The $25,000 renovation was paid for by Chartwells as outlined in the dining services contract, according to Scott Ellinghuysen, the university's finance vice president Scott Ellinghuysen said most of that cost involved the purchase of counters and equipment.
Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: Price tag for WSU coffee shop: $25,000 |
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Four candidates on sparse ballot: All shoo-ins?WINONA, Minn., Sept. 19, 2006 -- For 10 vacancies on the Winona State University Student Senate, the ballot has only four candidiates. Here are candidate profiles:
At-large sentor
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Kaleb Lindsey, political science juniorThorn Viryasiri, marketing senior Michael Che Wang, business junior
Sophomore senator
(two vacant seats)
Charlie Moburg, public relations sophomore
In money race, Chatfield Senate hopeful leadsST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 20, 2006 -- The vice mayor of Chatfield, Brenda Johnson, has raised $35,000 in her campaign to succeed State Sen. Bob Kierlin, R-Winona, according to her campaign finance records. Johnson, a Republican, who has been campaigning since she announced her candidacy in November, has almost as much as the other two candidates combined. Independent Kevin Kelleher of Houston has raised $24,500, and Democrat Sharon Ropes of Winona has raised $13,600, according to documents they filed with the state under state campaign finance disclosure law. The three-way race is for the seat that WInona indistrialist Bob Kierlin has held for two terms. Kierlin has decided seeking re-election.
Background: Races that campus people are watching
New lawsuit in Father Erickson murder caseDAVENPORT, Iowa, Sept. 19, 2006 -- The Catholic bishop of Davenport, William Franklin, has been named in a lawsuit filed by relatives of one of two men believed to have been killed by a Winona, Minn.-trained priest in 2002. The suit, which also names bishops in other dioceses, asks that all church documents regarding child molestation be released to police, as well as the names and locations of everyone accused of molesting children. The Davenport diocese said it has already turned over all its information about child abuse by living priests. The Diocese will continue to release information to when credible accusations are made, a statement said.
The murder case involved Father Ryan Erickson, who committed suicide in 2004 as investigators were closing in on him in the shooting of a Hudson, Wis., mortician and a student intern. Investigators have concluded that the mortician had confronted Erickson about molesting altar boys and that Erickson decided to silence him. The apprentice, as much as investigators have determined, got in the way and also was shot to death. Father Erickson entered the priesthood after training at St. Mary's Seminary in Winona. He gook courses at St. Mary's College. Court documents say that seminary officials well as Erickson's bishop in Superior, Wis, were aware of a cloudy sexual history. |
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Background: Semimary dubious of Erickson booze, sex habits
About rap-sheet, candidate says "rascal days" overWINONA, Minn., Sept. 19, 2006 -- A former Student Senate vice president at Rochester Community and Technical College, Kaleb Lindsey, hopes to put his troubled past behind him and get to work on the Winona State Student Senate as a senator at large. Lindsey, on the Winona State student ballot this week, resigned under pressure as the student vice president at RCTC following the drunken trashing of a hotel room and wrecking a state-owned car at a Minnesota State College Student Association convention last fall. He had driven a state vehicle under the influence of alcohol and destroyed a hotel fireplace, according to a report in the Echo, RCTC's student newspaper. In an interview Monday, Lindsey said there were no tickets issued or any conviction, that he was under the legal alcohol limit, and drove only two-10ths of a mile on non-public roads. "It was a mistake," said Lindsey. "No one's life was in danger, but it was still stupid."
The incident is not Lindsey's only experience with alcohol on the record. On March, 24, 2004, Lindsey was caught driving drunk in Winona County. Again on Aug. 31, 2004, he charged with minor consumption He also has four speeding tickets on his record in Winona County. Asked in an interview about his court reord, Lindsey said his wild party life has come to an end: "I'm 22 now, and I feel like I've gotten that party spirit out. Honestly, I just want to get to work now."
If elected in the current election, with balloting ending Thursday, the issues Lindsey plans to get to work on are lowering tuition, finding a solution to high textbook prices, and fighting student apathy. Lindsey sees renting textbooks is the best option for cutting down textbook costs but acknowledges the challenges of establishing a rental system: "There are eight times more textbook publishers than students lobbying for what they want. Show up or you lose."
As a senator, Lindsey said he would try to get students to care about things that matter. One way to get students to care about what Senate is doing, he said, is to address issues that are important to students like tuition rather than talking about a new building renovation. To reach students, Lindsey said he also wants to fight the club mentality that he has seen in other schools with senators huddling in their office and being inaccessible to their student constituents. Ironically, Lindsey himself was difficult to access for a news interview about his candidacy. It took a reporter threeattempts to schedule an interview via e-mail before Lindsey contacted the reporter. He apologized for not checking his campus e-mail: "G-mail is far superior, but it's clear now that I'll have to start checking my campus e-mail more."
At the end of the interview, obviously about his court record as a campaign liability, Lindsey said he wanted to put in a final word: "Let me just say that I've always been sort of a rascal, but I'm done with that now and am really sorry for the things I've done that have only caused pain to me and to others." Asked if there's any rascal left in him, Lindsey said he's still a rascal but is using that aspect of his nature to a better end.
Reporter: Lydia Oglesby
Michigan to jocks: Maintain dignity of Facebook.comANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 19, 2006 -- The University of Michigan is requiring varsity athletes to sign a good-conduct pledge on Facebookcom and other social-networking sites. The policy requires a "high standard of honor and dignity" reflective of the university's athletics program when posting on such sites. Violations could mean suspension or termination from a team and reduction or nonrenewal of a scholarships, the policy says.
City to student plan for street cart: No WINONA, Minn., Sept. 5, 2006 -- The Winona City Council voted against licensing a food cart proposed by a Winona State University grad. Joel AnAcabe had wanted to peddle brats and cheese curds between Johnson and Franklin streets to catch the late bar crowd. But the Council turned down the plan after Tim Breza, whose constituency is the whole city, expressed concern about street litter. AnAcabe, who has a degree in marketing, was upset. Noting that Madison, Wis, has 55 mobile concessions, he said: "Every other big school has had the opportunity and hasnŐt had the issue with trash." AnAcabe had wanted to run his stand during and after the big bar hours, 9 p.m. to probably 2 a.m. It would help clear people off the streets by giving them a quick snack, so they wont have to stop at other fast-food places, he said. "We didn't get it because we aren't a restaurant chain."
Council member Deb Salyards, whose Third Ward covers downtown and WInona State, voiced concern that AnAcabe's proposal had not yet been vetted with other downtown business owners. In an interview after the session, AnAcabe told reporters "The board was looking at the negatives and not the positives." Anacabe said that McDonald's and the Ebert's and Gerbert's sandwich shop are open until 2:30 a.m. and never were put through such hurdles. Council members encouraged AnAcabe to rethink his business idea and come back with answers about how his cart would affect surrounding business and how noise and trash levels could be kept down. Angry, AnAcabe said he is not planning on coming back even though he received some positive feedback. Council member Gerry Krage, who represents the Near West End, called the idea great. Debbie White, who has a citywide constituency, said she liked the flavor and uniqueness of AnAcadeŐs thinking.
Despite some encouragiung words, AnAcabe was taken back at the rejection. He said he had talked with people at a florida company, which licenses the Hotdog Machine, and said there had never been any issue with mobile concessions in other locations.
Reporter: Stacy Brogan and Reporter: Alex White
8,186 TOTAL HEADCOUNT
WSU enrolls largest frosh class ever
WINONA, Minn., Sept. 19, 2006 -- At 1,735 this fall's freshman class is the largest in Winona State history, the university announced. The number of frosh is up marginally, 0.8 percent, from last fall. Compared with two years ago, the total is up 10.1 percent. Chief recruiter Carl Stange attributed the growth to the university's reputation for technology-assisted learning, new partnerships with Winona businesses and community organizations, and new science labs and the expanded Kryzsko student center. Stange also cited study-abroad opportunities. The overall student headcount is 8,186, almost three percent more than last fall's 7,949. Because many students are taking larger class loads, the full-time equivalent enrollment is up this fall to 7,693, compared to last fall's FTE of 7,476, a 2.6 percent increase. The headcount, Stange said, maintains the university's enrollment target.
Of the total headcount, 7,340 students are at the main and west campuses in Winona, 795 at WSU-Rochester , and 51 in the custom training off-campus.
Stange was positive about enrollment prospects. This summer, he said, many high-schoolers visted campus with their families and decided to apply for admission next fall. Also, hundreds of high school juniors and seniors have begun visiting this fall, he said.
Background: SMU's Winona enrollment approaches 1,300
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WSU enters pact with Slovak university WINONA, Minn., Sept. 19, 2006 -- Winona State University has entered an agreement with Catholic University in Slovakia to exchange students and faculty, to collaborate research and community development, and to exchange academic information and publications. The president of Winona State, Judith Ramaley, and the president of Catholic University, Boris Banary, signed the agreement last week.
Catholic University is a state-supported university in Ruzomberok in northern Slovakia, adjacent to the Czech and Polish borders and not far from Ukraine, Hungary and Austria. Ruzomberok, population 37,000, is in the Tatra mountains. The university has 10,000 students.
The agreement flowed from a visit to Slovakia in February by a Winona State delegation comprising Ken Gorman, Tim Gaspar, Gabe Manrique, Jim Reineke, Roger Riley, Cecilia Rokusek and Wade Nelson. In Winona for the signing with Banary were Dalibor Mikulas, vice president for international cooperation, and Peter Zibko nf Stephan Kucik of the of history department.
Background: WSU hosts academic Slovak delegation
Report: Low standards plague teacher collegesNEW YORK, Sept.18, 2006 -- Teachers being graduated from college education programs have outdated visions and embarrassingly low standards, according to report by Arthur Levine, former president of Teachers College at Columbia University. Levine, now president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, blames faculty, admissions, and graduation standards. Curricula at most teacher-education college, he said, is irrelevant. The schools have "not kept pace with changing demographics, technology, global competition, and pressures to raise student achievement," he said. Levine's report is drawn from responses to a survey 1,200 heads of U.S. schools and departments of education, 5,400 education-school faculty members, 15,000 education-school alumni, and 1,800 elementary, middle and high school principals.
Levine recommends making student achievement the primary measure of the success from kindergarten through 12th grade, rather than teachers' licensure scores. Also, he recommends five-year teacher-education college programs, not the current four. Currcula should include general-education courses and a major, followed by a year of study in how to teach the major subject, he said.
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Police thwart suicide threat atop siloWINONA, MInn., Sept. 19, 2006 -- A 16-year-old girl got upset and climbed the Bay State flour silos at 55 Franklin St. and threatened to jump. Officers were called at 7:26 p.m., Monday. They talked the young woman down from the silos and took her to the hospital for a mental health screening, police spokesperson Tom Williams said. The girl was put on a 72 hour hold at the hospital.
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Stankowski, Balich lead WSU past Upper IowaFAYETTE, Iowa, Sept. 19, 2006 -- Freshman Carmen Stankowski came up with 20 kills and Rudi Balich posted 33 digs to lead Winona State University to a five-game Northern Sun conference volleyball victory over Upper Iowa University. Stankowski had 20 kills in 47 attempts for a killing percentage of .234. Stankowski had 11 digs. Balich and Stankowski were two of four Warriors to have double figures in digs: Megan Pulvermacher and Lisa Dobie each tallied 11. Dobie netted 48 assists, also. Jenna Padley had a Winona State-high three total blocks. Winona State opened the match with a 30-24 win. After Upper Iowa tied the match with a difficult 30-28 win, the Warriors went up with a 30-26 win in Game Three. The fourth close game was decided 30-27 by Upper Iowa. Then Winona State scored a 15-8 invictory the final game.
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Drunk driver runs red light, hits 2nd carWINONA, Minn., Sept. 19, 2006 -- An 18-year-old Winona State University student was arrested for third-degree drunken-diving after running a red light at Huff and Broadway and colliding with another car. The woman's blood-alcohol content was .21, almost three times to legally allowable max, said police spokesperson Tom Williams. A 19-year-old passenger, also a Winona State student, was ticketed for minor consumption. The collision happened just before midnight Monday.
Reporter: Sheila Goodlund
PR student: Senate needs public relations helpWINONA, Minn., Sept.18, 2006 -- A candidate for a sophomore Student Senate seat, public relations student Charlie Moburg, sees himself as an asset to the Senate, which he says desperately needs some public relations help. The Senate hasn't done well in getting its message out to students, Moburg said. "The textbook funeral was a cool idea, but I didn't even know it was going on until the day of." Moburg also attributes the small number of candidates on the fall Senate ballot -- only four candidates for 10 vacant seats -- to poor public relations. He says even the number of students who voted in the Sept. 12 Minensota primary elections would have increased had the Senate done something as simple as sending out a message to dorm supervisors to remind tenants that the polls were open.
In an interview Moburg said he favors raises for student security guards on campus. "I know people who work security and they only get like $9 an hour," he said. "Safety is important, and they should get a raise."
As a freshman, Moburg said he wanted to run for Senate but didn't have a lot of support: "My friends laughed at me and said they wouldn't vote for me, but this year when I told them, they thought it was a good idea." Moburg says he knows the university and the issues much better now. Last year, Moburg was his floor representative on the Prentiss-Lucas dorm council, but has little other leadership experience. Moburg said he had wanted to be on his high school student council, but it was too difficult to be elected beause he came into the school from the smallest of four feeder junior highs. Students from the largest schools always won the popularity contest, Moburg explained.
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Desire2Learn: Blackboard never deserved patentsWASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2007 -- The patent dispute between the learning software companies Blackboard and Desire2Learn escalted. Desire2Learn, which has been accused on pirating Blackboard parents, said in a court document that Blackboard was built on previously developed technology and never should have been granted the patents. Desire2Learn chief exec John Baker was blunt: "We don't believe the patent is valid." Blackboard filed for its patents in 1999.
Survey: Lots of cheating among M.B.A. studentsWASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2006 -- More than half of the graduate business students have cheated at least once during the last academic year, according to their own admission in a survey in the journal of the Academy of Management. The survey inluded 5,300 students at 32 U.S. and Canadian universities. How many cheated? Fifty-six percent, most pursuing M.B.A.s, compared to 47 percent of grad students in nonbusiness programs. The study was co ducted by profs at Rutgers, Washington State, and Penn State. In their narrative with the datam the authors expressed alarm: "If business schools fail to do anything, they are sending their graduates into the business world believing that high levels of cheating are commonplace and acceptable.
Why so few women in science, math leadership?
Report: BiasWASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2006 -- Women are underrepresented in college leadership because of biases, discrimination and outdated institutional structures, according to a report from the National Academies. The report notes that women comprise a growing perentage of science and engineering students but continue to be a small part of faculty at research universities. Further, the reporter said, women receive fewer resources and less support than their male counterparts. The inequities disadvanatge women in seeking administrative roles, the report said. The report explicitly rejected the idea that women are stymied in their careers bcause they are innately less capable.
Thai marketing senior seeks diversity role in SenateWINONA, Minn., Sept. 18, 2006 -- A senior who has been involved with several Winona State University diversity clubs, Thorn Viryasiri, has filed for an at-large Student Senate seat. His travels, Viryasiri said, has given him an understanding of all different types of people. Viryasiri, who is from Thailand, is a member the campus Japan Club and the International Club. Last year he was treasurer of the Malaysian American Club. Why is he running? Viryasiri said he'd like to bring some cultural diversity to the Senate's Diversity Awareness Committee. He is a senior marketing major. Along with being in several clubs, he works for cmpus catering contractor Chartwells and plays intramural soccer.
At age 13, Viryasiri spent the summer in Japan. The summer after that was in Germany. At 15 he came to the United States for the first time as a high school exchange student in Michigan.
Viryasiri says that he is aware of the impact of the decisions Student Senate makes because he talks to friends who have been involved with Senate, including former Sen. Rotney O'Shea and former student President Ryan Flynn. Viryasiri doesn't feel that most students are aware of the work that Senate does and would like to improve communication with students. Asked if he disagrees with any Senate decisions, Viryasiri said he fully supports all the Senate's actions. "They're just trying to help students, and I understand that you canŐt make all students' dreams come true," Viryasiri said.
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Senate lets Soderberg off hook for sofa dealWINONA, Minn., Sept. 18, 2006 -- Student senators listened in silence as President Carl Soderberg read verbatim an explantion for his $1,219.97 purchase of office furniture for the Winona State University Senate office without consulting the Senate cabinet. Soderberg had been critcized for the purchase, even with some early talk of an impeachment, but senators said nothing after Soderberg read his statement. The meeting then moved on to other agenda items, senators apparently satisfied with Soderberg's mea culpa. Before the meeting, Soderberg said in an interview that he was unsure if the Senate would take any action. The furniture was on the agenda under the Cabinet Report portion of the President's Report. Senators all had received a copy of the statement three days earlier.
The sofa saga began over the summer when student activities Director Joe Reed approached Soderberg about spending $5,900 remaining in the Senate budget for fiscal 2006. At that time, Soderberg said, his understanding was that the money would be lost if not spent. Soderberg decided to use the money for new furniture. "Aesthetics and professionalism are very important," he said in a recent interview. After ordering a sofa-loveseat combo at the Slumberland furniture store, Soderberg learned that the leftover 2006 money had been rolled over into the this year's budget and need not have been spent. He consulted with student Vice President Kari Winter, who admonished Soderberg for proceeding unilaterally with spending the 2006 funds. Soderberg then tried to cancel the order, but he was told at Slumberland that it was too late.
Junior Sen. Theresa Strahota recalled being surprised when she saw Soderberg in August and he told her the new furniture would be arriving soon. "I was like, 'Furniture?!' He should have consulted with the rest of us, but are we going to impeach him over this? No." Strahota said.
Soderberg knows he made a mistake but hopes that everyone now will move on and focus on the $4,900 of the money that is left. He wants it to go to student clubs.
The sofa and loveseat replaced chairs that everybody agrees were overdue for the junk heap. Winona State College was stamped on the bottom. That makes them 1957 to 1975 vintage. "Those chairs have been put to rest," Soderberg said. "They're in a dumpster."
Business Sen. Rick Howden accompanied Soderberg for the shopping trip to Slumberland. Howden was neither supportive nor unsupportive of the purchase, he was just there, said Soderberg. At the store Soderberg's eye caught a tan New Generation brand sofa. He sat on it, said he liked the way it felt, and then flipped through some upholstery swatches and found a deep purple that he thought would go nicely with the Senate's yellow office walls. He special ordered the New Generation sofa at for $599.99 and a matching loveseat for $579.99. The delivery charge was $39.99. Asked about the purchase, Slumberland salesperson Jesse Thompson put the Soderberg purchase in the medium price range. Thompson said their most expensive Slumberland sofa is $1,600 and the cheapest $400.
Reporter: Lydia Oglesby
Background: Soderberg OK'd $1,200 for Senate furniture
Background: Soderberg details loveseat purchase saga
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WSU takes trailer hitch off van
WINONA, Minn., Sept. 18, 2006 -- On instructions from the state college system, Winona State has removed the trailer hitch from the university's 12-passenger van. Scott Ellinghuysen, vice president for faculities, said the state Risk Management Division had ordered that trailer hitches are to be removed from state vehicle with a capacity of 10 or more occupants. The action left hitches only on two minivans and one sport-utility vehicle. Student and others needing a large vehicel will need to find alternatives for towing equipment, Ellinguysen said. . The order from St. Paul came as mediators were working out a settlement with the families of three Minnesota State-Mankato students who were killed in a university van on a trip to Detroit. Two students who were critically injured will also share in the money. The settlement is $5.3 million, which the MnSCU state college system and Great Lakes Reinsurance will pay. The settlement was announced after nine hours of mediation involving 20 attorneys.
The accident happened in 2005 when the students and a faculty adviser were en route to an engineering competition. The students had built a race car to compete in a Society of Automotive Engineers Formula event. The families argued that it was unsafe for the van's stability to be towing a trailer.
COMMENT: ELECTIONS
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A lot of wild talk has erupted about the role of college students in Winona elections, particularly on issues that raise taxes. It's plain that collegians put a school-tax increase over the top in 2005. Now there are a few vocal locals, from the keep-taxes-down-no-matter-what school of thought, who fear students might make a majority this November in favor of a half-penny sales tax for transportation infrastructure. The no-tax-hike crowd has hinted that Winona State University allowed itself last year to become a partisan forum by lending facilities and resources to the other side. The allegations have been vague.
To put the issue behind us, Winona State University President Judith Ramaley should authorize an investigation into the charges. If there was an illegal use of state resources in the 2005 school-tax election, Ramaley should acknowledge them and issue appropriate reprimands publicly and state clearly to everyone on campus what their legal obligations are.
But let's be clear. It is entirely appropriate for a university to be a forum for partisans on public issues. Student clubs for education majors have every right to take positions and try to win voters to their cause. So does the other side. It's OK for Gene Pelowski to be invited by student Democrats to stump on campus -- and for student Republcians to invite Lewie Reiman. The Winonan student newspaper has a right to editorialize on one side or the other. There's nothing wrong with Michael Moore bringing his case to campus or Anne Coulter.
Until Ramaley can clear the air on whether the institution, as a state agency, has become partisan, we are of the conclusion that the latest batch of criticism is sour grapes. The anti-school tax faction failed to make a case in 2005 for its position with a majority of voters, including students. Now the faction is scape-goating its loss on the university. Ramaley can end this nonsense and should. |
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ELITISM TAKES BLOW. With membership declining, the private Winona Country Club, now dubbed Bridges, will complete its transition into a public course next year. There will be no more $1,500-a-year memberships. Nine holes are expected in the $15 to $18 range, and 18 holes $30 to $40.
BYE, BYE, BLOCKBUSTER. Both Winona Blockbuster video rental shops, both in Midtown groceries, closed with neither advance warning nor explanation. The stores were franchised by RBP Companies of Chicago from media conglomerate Viacom. Viacom also owns CBS, MTV and Nickelodeon. An RBP spokesperson said the Winona market is saturated with video outlets.
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Background: Statistics
Cops spot booze bottle being ejected from carWINONA, Minn., Sept. 17, 2007 -- Police cited a 21-year-old woman for having an open container of alcohol in a car near Winona Mall a little before 3 a.m. Officers had stopped the vehicle, which was being driven down the wrong side of Gilmore Avenue with no headlights, said police spokesperson Thad Pool. After pulling the car over, officers saw the woman throw a bottle out the window, Pool said.
Reporter: Elizabeth Adams
Winona primary turnout 18 percentWINONA, Minn., Sept. 17, 2006 -- Almost one in five Winona County voters turned out or last week's primary election, said county Auditor Cheryl MacLennan. The county's 18 percent turnout compared to 13.2 percent statewide.
Cops arrest unconscious, vomit-covered driverWINONA, Minn., Sept. 17, 2007 -- Police arrested a 20-year-old man they found passed out in his cart at 10th and Grand streets about 3:30 a.m. He was charged with drunk driving. Police spokesperson Thad Pool said officers had been tipped to a man attempting to drive but who kept opening the door to throw up. When officers arrived, they found a man not only passed out but covered in vomit. His blood was flowing with 0.21 perceg alcohol -- 2-1/2 times the state definition of drunkenness.
Reporter: Elizabeth Adams
Music, theater on SMU Family weekend scheduleWINONA, Minn., Sept.17, 2006 -- The a nnual Family Weekend at St. Mary's University, this year a Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, will begin with an evening jazz concert. The schedule:
Friday, 6 p.m.: The 18-piece university Jazz Ensemble and six-piece Jazz Combo I, directed by John Paulson, will perform in Figiulo Hall. Two Jazz Workshop Combos, directed by Paulson and Eric Heukeshoven, will play for a reception afterward. Tickets: $4 to $6.
Saturday, 2 p.m.: The 75-piece university Concert Band, directed by Janet Heukeshoven will perform in Page Theater. The Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, directed by Patrick O'Shea, and Women's Choir, directed by Peter Schleif, will follow. Tickets: $4 to $6.
Friday, 7:30 p.m.: The Max Frisch dark comedy "The Firebugs,"directed by Tom Houde, will be presented in the Performing Arts Center. Also at 7:30 p.m., Saturday; 3 p.m, Sunday; and 7:30 p.m. Monday. Tickets: $6 to $8.
Contact: (507) 457-1715
Shooter wounds 5 Dusquesne basketball playersPITSSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 17, 2006 -- A shooting outside a Duquesne University dorm early Sunday wounded five varsity basketball plyers, one critically with a bullet in the head. Most critically hurt was Sam Ashaolu, who had transferred from Lake Region State College in North Dakota. Police launched a search for the shooter. Witnesses said the man, who was not a student, had gotten into an argument with basketball players at a dance. The shooting occurred around 2:15 a.m. after people had left the dance. Some of the basketball players encountered the shooter and a few companions and tried to calm the suspect, police said. Then, as the players began walking away, they were shot, according to police. Other players raced to help and were also shot. The shooter fled.
Writer alleges WSU election abuses, raps RamaleyWINONA, Minn, Sept. 17, 2006 -- A letter-writer to the Daily News, Ken Chupita, called the president of Winona State University disingenuous in ignoring allegations of election abuses on campus in her recent article defending the right of college students to vote. Chupita called for Ramaley either to resign or to apologize for "the mess in her own backyard." Chupita's opinions echoed continuing concern among some Winonans that students were crucial in passing a school tax hike last year and might do so again on a proposed half-penny sales tax increase for street improvements. Chupita accused Ramaley of allowing or encouraging the Winona School Board to use Winona State facilities and resources "for partisan referendum rallies" in the run-up to the November 2005 school-tax referendum. Also, he said, the School Board had "distributed its political referendum material on campus via WSU audio, video and facility resources." He was not specific as to incidents or dates.
Chupita said that Ramaley's article, which appeared in local news media, missed the point of critics: "This issue is not student voting but legal student voting and the improper use of WSU resources in that process." Chupita mentioned a recent prosecution of one student who had registered to vote in her home county as well as Winona County. Chupita said that double-voting is a problem with students from other states because cross-checking voter registrations is impossible for all practical purposes. He offered no examples, however, of double voting across state lines.
In charging that Ramaley has presided over misuse of Winona State resources, Chupita noted that her predecessor as university president, Darrell Krueger, had explicitly advised campus people against using campus resources "to promote political candidacies or activities." About Krueger's statement, issued in 1996, Chupita said: "Krueger's behavior demontrated responsible leadership, something that is not discernible at WSU today." Plainly Chaputia is not a Ramaley fan: "Wagging her finger at us before addressing the mess in her own backyard is disingenuous and borders on arrogance."
Background: Ramaley: defends student voting
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Writer: WSU president misses point on student-votersWINONA, Minn., Sept. 17, 2006 -- In an letter to newspaper opinion pages, Ken Chupita accused Winona State University President Judith Ramaley of ignoring the misuse of campus resources in the 2005 school-tax election:
On Sept. 12, Judith Ramaley scolded us in this newspaper for our concern about college student voting. Unfortunately, she missed the civics point. This issue is not student voting, but legal student voting and the improper use of WSU resources in that process.
Recently, one of her students was charged with felony voter fraud. Instead of using this incident in her column as a teaching opportunity for others, she chose to ignore it while criticizing resident voters.
Had she contacted the Minnesota Secretary of State's office, James Hansen would have informed her that Minnesota cannot guarantee there were not other double voting incidences by in-state college students and that there is no way to identify or prevent out-of-state college students from double voting. This is relevant because Minnesota maintains tuition reciprocity agreements with neighboring states at taxpayer expense. Ramaley ignored this, and offered no cure for the problem.
Perhaps MnSCU attorneys advised her to hunker down on such issues since she allowed or encouraged School District 861 to use WSU facilities and resources last year, free of charge, for partisan referendum rallies, contrary to written WSU directives. When faced with a similar misuse of resources, her predecessor, Darrell Krueger, wrote two letters (Sept. 20, 1996) to WSU faculty and staff that stated, "University systems should not be used by anyone to promote political candidacies or activities. ... When we are politically active on campus, we need to make certain that no federal or state laws are violated, either in spirit or letter of the law. We must not (his underlining) use student employees, secretaries or other personnel, nor can state equipment or other resources be used to produce or distribute political materials." (District 861 distributed its political referendum material on campus via WSU audio, video and facility resources.) Krueger's behavior demonstrated responsible leadership, something that is not discernible at WSU today.
Wagging her finger at us before addressing the mess in her own yard is disingenuous and borders on arrogance. She owes the taxpayers and her students an apology or her resignation. What say you, Judith Ramaley? |
Background: Writer alleges WSU election abuses, raps Ramaley
Background: Ramaley: "Let's rock the vote"
Background: Verbatim: Ramaley on student voting
Background: Columnist: Election swayed by manipulated students
Background: Comment: "Those damn college interlopers"
Cops suspicious at bike-tossing revelersWINONA, Minn, Sept. 16,2006 -- Police spotted a rowdy group tossing a bike in the middle of the street in the 400 block of W. Mark a little before 1 a.m. Six minor consumption tickets were issued to the revelers, all 18 or 19 years old, police spokesperson Thad Pool said. Four were Winona State University students. A couple of hours earlier, about 11 p.m., police cited three individuals, all 20, for minor consumption at a party at 157 E. Eighth St.
Reporters: Scott Gillette and Paul Solberg
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Megan Mae Behrens, 20, St. Charles, Minn, $177.
Kevin David Blake, 18, Eagan, Minn., $177.
Ashley Marie Ellen Brown, 20, Buffalo, Minn., $177.
Amber Lace Marie Case, 19, Gunnison, Colo., $177.
Samantha Jo Harter, 18, Onalaska, Wis., $177.
Nicholas Heiden Hoffman, 20, Mequon, Wis, $277.
Kerry Ann Jacobson, 19, 401 E. Broadway,$277.
Michelle Mae Kleiboer, 19, La Crescent, Minn, $177.
Rachel Elizabeth Meyer, 20, Lakefield, Minn., $237.
Nicholas Matthew Munoz, 18, $177.
Travis Roger Nation, 20, Rushford, Minn., $377.
Amber Robin Olson, 20, Strum, Wis., $177.
Casondra Ann Oseldsen, 19, 318 W. Bellview, $177.
Rochelle Anne Peterson, 19,Preston, Minn., $177.
Melissa Louise Plemmons, 18, Rockford, Ill., $77.
Chad Andrew Robertson, 20, Pine Island, Minn, $177.
Noelle Joy Roskam, 20, Red WIng, Minn., $177.
Justin Allen Schulz, 20, Rochester, Minn., $177.
Kelsie Ann Schmidt, 19, La Crosse, Wis., $177.
Jill Torrence Thompson, 20, 214 W. Seventh St., $177.
Jonathan Thomas Walters, 18, 2022 Country Drive, $402.
Lance Edward Westveer, 20, Prior Lake, Minn., $177.
Garrison Leo Zollinger, 18, Prentiss 426, WSU, $177.
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Dan's Dugout bilked for $265 by "coach"WINONA, Minn., Sept. 16, 2006 -- A guy identifying himself as "a coach" asked for a donation for football uniforms from Dan's Dugout Bar at 579 E. Third St. He was given a $265 check. Then somebody thought to check with the city Park and Rec Department about whether any football team was needing a sponsor. It turns out the guy wasn't a coach and there wasn't any football team. Police Sgt. Thad Pool said other bar-owners have been alerted. Who was the "coach"? Police don't know, said Pool.
Reporter: Stacy Brogan
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Judith Ramaley could not have been clearer. To townspeople grumbling that Winona State students upped property taxes by swinging an election in favor of a school bond in November, the university president lectured firmly: Either you believe in democracy and the right of citizens to vote or you don't. Her message was in a thoughtful and firm letter carried by local news media verbatim. She was passionate, indeed eloquent on democratic values and on student rights. This was Ramaley at her best, doing exactly what a university president should. The letter also articulated a key element of one of the themes of her presidency -- civic engagement. She now has provided grist to what had been mostly rhetoric.
The lesson for unhappy locals is clear. Like it or not, students are part of Winona's political mix. Their support on political issues, one way or the other, needs to be sought. Students' ears and minds are open to all sides. Even more basic, Ramaley's message was that students are people too. Citizens even.
The CyberIndee invites reader input for periodic updates of the Ramaley presidential approval rating. Brief comments on Ramaley's latest performance will be shared with readers. Anonynmity is assured if requested.
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Background: Ramaley: Let's rock the vote
Background: Verbatim: Ramaley on student voting
Background: Columnist: Election swayed by manipulated students
Background: Comment: "Those damn college interlopers"
Background: Previous Ramaley report cards
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First half dooms WarriorsGRAND FORKS, N.D., Sept. 16, 2006 -- A total of 34 unanswered points in the first half lifted the University of North Dakota to a 49-2 victory over Winona State University in nonconference football. North Dakota capitalized on a number of short-field situations to build a 34-0 halftime lead. Most of the early North Dakota scoring came by way of the airways, with 14 of 18 for 239 yards and four scores in the first 30 minutes. In the first half North Dakota totaled 229 yards in 28 plays. No. 13 Winona State netted 90 yards in 34 plays.
The loss was Winona State's first of the season. The team is now 2-1, all in nonconference play. The Warriors had been ranked 13th. North Dakota, ranked No. 4, now is 3-0.
The only score for the Warriors came in the third quarter when defensive lineman Dave Braun tackled North Dakota's quarterback in the end zone for a safety.
For the game, the Warriors came up with 65 plays for 183 yards on one yard rushing and 182 yards passing, while North Dakota amassed 379 total yards on 53 plays for 296 passing and 83 rushing. The Warriors held the edge in time of possession 35:59-24:01.
Individually for Winona State, Scott Peters caught seven passes for 108 yards. Alex Wiese carried the ball 10 times for 26 yards. Aaron Boettcher went 9 of 22 for 109 yards. Drew Aber was 5 of 10 for 73. The two Warrior quarterbacks, though, were sacked nine times -- Boettcher four times, Aber five times. Defensively, Braun came up with five total tackles on four solos and one assisted tackle. He finished with three tackles for loss and one sack, which was the the safety. On special teams Mike Salerno punted the ball eight times of a solid 40.6 average.
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Ballot choices for NovemberWINONA, Minn., Sept. 16, 2006 -- These are the 2006
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Warriors open league soccer season aheadABERDEEN, S.D., Sept. 16, 2006 -- Winona State University broke a three-match losing streak and opened up Northern Sun conference soccer season with a 2-0 victory over Northern State. Senior Christine Beatty came up with a goal and an assist in leading the Warriors. Sophomore Amelia Kasten added the other Winona State goal. The Warriors got a shutout performance from goal-keeper Amanda Diehm, who came up with three saves. Beatty scored the only goal that Winona State needed on an assist from junior Kayla Walters at 10:42 of the first half. Kasten then took a Beatty assist and scored at 89:06. The Warriors put up 16 shots with 13 going on goal.
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WSU (4th of 9) |
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Carleton 1, SMU 1 |
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St. Olaf Invitational
WSU (16th), SMU (20th) |
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COMMENT:
RAMALEY SENSE
WRONG
TO DISENFRANCHISE STUDENTS
Thank you, Judith Ramaley, for bringing sense to the silly arguments from a faction of local folks who would keep college students from voting. In a thoughtful opinion piece in local news media, Ramaley made the case as Winona State president that, like it or not, college students are doing their duty as citizens to vote on municipal issues even though many students are here but a few years. There was elegant eloquence in her message: "Students are members of the Winona community, so why shouldn't we encourage them to exercise their rights as citizens? While they live here, we ask them to consider themselves to be citizens and neighbors and responsible contributors to the community. Part of that responsibility includes becoming informed about public issues and expressing their opinions at the ballot box."
Ramaley was responding to an argument that's emerged from diehards against taxes for municipal and school betterment. Their argument is that students, many of them transient, should not bind long-timers into tax obligations. This faction is carrying scars from the 2005 election in which students made the difference in the majority vote for a property tax increase for local schools. Theirs a strange position for disenfranchisement. Nobody has mounted a serious argument for disenfranchisement along this line since the founders of the republic eliminated property-ownership as a qualification for voting. Nobody in modern times would consider disenfranching renters. Or blacks. Or women. It would be wrong morally, not to say inconsistent with democratic principles.
Disenfranching students on select issues is in the spirit of some of the most regrettable practices in the history of this country, all of which have been laid to rest. The sad exception, its seems, is a minority of Winonans with values from the 18th century and with no feel for the common good. Anteing up to pay taxes for better schools and roads, even if it means sacrifice, is what marks individual commitment to community.
An undertone of the Old Winona argument to disenfrancise students is latent hostility toward Winona State, whose growth has changed the complexion of the community. It's time for these people to accept reality -- and also to acknowledge, as Ramaley has pointed out, that students play a positive role in the community. That, we suspect, may be too bitter a reality for these Old Winonans to accept. But we can't let these people hijack democracy by leaving unanswered their argument for denying students their civil right to vote. Students are citizens too. Wishing they weren't here won't make it happen. |
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St. Olaf Invitational
SMU (9th), WSU (13th) |
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WSU
SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 16, 2006
Sept. 16, 2006: Security guards responded to the East Lake dorm regarding a fire alarm at 8:19 a.m. Nothing was found.
Sept. 16, 2006: A report was received at 5:30 a.m. of damage to the fountain near Gildemeister.
Sept. 15, 2006: Security guards responded to the East Lake dorm regarding a suspicious person at 8:40 p.m. An individual was located who had been camping nearby.
Sept. 15, 2006: Security guards responded to the football field at 9:43 p.m. concerning a high school football player who was injured. An ambulance transported the student to the hospital.
Sept. 14, 2006: Security guards responded cited several students for an alcohol violation at the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 11:25 p.m.
Sept. 14, 2006: Police were called at 11:38 p.m. for an intoxicated student at the Maria dorm. The student was taken to the hospital due to the level of intoxication.
Sept. 14, 2006: Security guards responded to the Sheehan dorm at 10:13 p.m. concerning a student suffering from an asthma attack. An emergency medical team talked with the student, who declined to be taken to the hospital.
Sept. 13, 2006: At 12:05 p.m. a student reported harassing behavior at the Lourdes dorm in an about 1:50 a.m.
Sept. 13, 2006: Several students were cited at 11:54 p.m. at the Lourdes dorm for a noise violation.
Sept. 12, 2006: A truck driver reported at 9:25 a.m.that he struck a vehicle parked on Mark Street near the Sheehan Hall dorm entrance.
Sept. 11, 2006: A student reported at 7:03 p.m. that his laptop was removed from his dorm room between 12 and 5 p.m. Police were notified.
Sept. 11, 2006: A fire alarm as activated at the Maria dorm at 5:40 p.m. It was a false alarm.
Sept. 11, 2006: At 2:03 a.m. a student at the East Lake dorm was reported to have overdosed on a medication. The student was taken to the hospital.
Sept. 10, 2006: Security guards responded at 9:45 p.m.to the Maria dorm, where a student accidentally broke a window. Guards administered first aid.
Sept. 10, 2006: A student was cited at 11:10 p.m. for an alcohol violation in the Prentiss Lucas dorm.
Sept. 10, 2006: Security guards responded at 11:45 p.m. to a complaint of a student in the Lourdes dorm causing a disturbance. The student became belligerent. Police were summoned. The student was arrested for minor consuming and taken to the hospital due to his level of intoxication.
Sept. 10, 2006: At 11:30 p.m. a student reported being harassed by a former boyfriend in the Quad dorm.
Sept. 10, 2006: At 7:34 p.m. several students reported a suspicious man wandering around Lourdes Hall. When security guards arrived, he was gone.
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UNDER-AGE
BOOZERS
WHO GOT
CAUGHT
BEING
STUPID
DON'T
TELL
THEIR
MOTHERS
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CAMPUS
SALARIES
Judith
Ramaley
WSU president
2006:
$217,200
Louis
DeThomasis
SMU president
2001:
$155,245
Jim Johnson
Tech president
2001:
$125,000
OTHER
SALARIES
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