Minnesota colleges tackle textbook costs
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 31, 2008 -- To find ways to lower textbook costs, the state college system has funded six pilot projects. One project, at Minnesota State-Mankato, put $5,000 toward more textbooks on reserve in the library. None of the pilot projects is at Winona State. Anoka Technical College received $148,300 to identify lower-cost textbook alternatives and that fit into course design. South Central College, in Faribault and North Mankato, received $36,525 for more used textbook options. Vermilion Community College in Ely received $60,000 to for textbook leasing. Hibbing Community College received $20,000 to explore possibilities with textbooks available through library subscription databases. Minnesota West Community and Technical College, in Canby, Granite Falls, Jackson, Pipestone and Worthington, received $8,000 to create a limited textbook rental program.| MORE |
Additional pilot projects will be considered for funding for this year, said state chancellor Jim McCormick. "Textbooks are a significant investment these days," he said. "If we can lighten our students' financial burden, they may be able to graduate with less debt." A national survey two years ago pegged student textbook costs at two-year public colleges at $850 a year and at four-year colleges $942.
City's cover photo by WSU prof
| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 31, 2008 -- A photograph by masscom prof Tom Grier of Winona State University, "Sugarloaf Winter Sunrise," was selected for the cover of the City of Winona's annual financial report. Grier's photo was selected by Mary Burrichter, city finance director. Background: 29 pieces in state exhibit |  WINONA WINTERSCAPE Cover of new fiscal report |
Crane's wet tires a give-away
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 30, 2008 -- A Winona State University freshman, drunk and his bladder about to burst, took a piss on a construction crane's tires at Huff and Mark streets -- as the cops were watching. The guy ran, but the cops tackled him and he confessed to the deed at the crane. The ticket had three charges: Underage boozing, public urination and fleeing police. The incident was about 12 a.m.Nursing senator resigns, cites schedule bind
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 31, 2008 -- Nursing major Jonathan Williams, elected in the spring to represent the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, has resigned from Winona State University Student Senate. Williams blamed "course conflicts." In the spring elections, Williams received 56 votes for one of two nursing seats on the 28-member Senate. There were no other candidates. Williams is the second senator to step down this fall.Background: Write-in business rep Blechinger resigns
Background: Roster of student senators
Background: Spring election results
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 31, 2008 A student reported at 1:17 a.m. that he was assaulted by two acquaintances outside of ZaZa's pizza joint on Huff Street. Police were notified. |
Judge overturns state ban on most Cuba travel
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 31, 2008 -- A Florida law that restricts profs, researchers and students at the state's public colleges from traveling to Cuba has been stricken down by a federal judge. Judge Patricia Seitz ruled that the state should not be allowed to regulate travel from private funds, which is the source of almost all college-related Cuban travel. State funds, however, may not be used for travel that is banned by the U.S. government as part of foreign policy, the judge said. The Florida travel ban also had applied to Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, which the federal government classes as terrorist states. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida had challenged the law with a line of reasoning that the statute violated faculty First Amendment rights.Prof writes on campus sustainability
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 31, 2008 -- A Winona State University biology prof, Bruno Borsari, co-authored a paper, "Empowering Universities and Colleges to Become Dynamic Actors for Driving Sustainable Development," for Proceedings of the Second International Sustainability Conference and Creating Values for Sustainable Development.
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Warriors tucker in soccer overtime
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 30, 2008 -- For the second match in a row Winona State University went into overtime but this time fell 2-1 to Metropolitan State of Denver in nonconference women's soccer. The Warriors had opened their season with a 2-1 overtime victory. The second time, however, Winona State lost the momentum and allowed Metro State to score 6:55 into extra play. The first half had ended in a 0-0 tie before Metro put a shot past Warrior goalkeeper Amanda Diehm 6:01 into the second period. The Metro goaltending also slipped up in the second period, when Winona State's Cori Beard put a shot into the Roadrunner goalkeeper Lisa Jewett's hands for a tying goal at 54:03.Statistics
| COURT CONVICTIONS WEEK ENDING AUG. 30, 2008 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT UNDERAGE BOOZING Joseph Bernard Dieckmann 18, 832 W. Seventh, $180. Lauren Elizabeth Speca, 19, 267 Grand, $180. Brittainy Gail Vanderpool, 18, Elba, Minn., $180.
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WSU runners dominate SMU invitational
WINONA, Minn., Aug 30, 2008 -- Winona State University placed three runners in the top 10 and went on to finish second in the St. Mary's Invitational cross country meet. Freshman Bryan Lindquist paced the Warriors by at fourth with a time of 23:45.5. Senior Ryan Ledin followed for Winona State with an eighth-place finish in 24:22.6. junior Ryan Slack was right behind in ninth at 24:26.1 Winona State also added two more runners in the top 20 of the field of 45 runners with sophomore Ben Tharaldson in 18th at 25:47.2 and sophomore Ryan Burch in 20th at 26:03.4.Statistics
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WSU runners dominate SMU invitational
WINONA, Minn., Aug 30, 2008 -- Winona State University runners took five of the top seven finishes to win the St. Mary's Invitational women's cross country race. Sophomore Jenna Southworth paced the Winona State, the only runner in the 52-runner field to come in under 20 minutes, at 19:56. Junior Steph Smith followed with third at 20:48.3, junior Allie Glasbrenner at 21:03.6, sophomore Madeline Heinrich at 21:06.7 and freshman Amy Pawelko at 21:12.0. Adding to the Winona State efforts were sophomore Michelle Jeske at 21:43.8 for 11th, sophomore Kelly Rieber at 22:12.4 for 19th.Statistics
Laptop taken in house burglary
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 30, 2008 -- Police said someone entered an unlocked house in the 250 block of East Third Street between 4 and 5 p.m., Thursday, and took a Toshiba laptop computer. The burglary as reported about 9:30 a.m.
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Tech comes from behind in 2nd half
HOUGHTON, Mich., Aug. 30, 2008 -- Winona State University fell a little short in its football season opener, dropping a 26-21 nonconference decision to Michigan Tech. The Warriors had led 14-6 after scoring 14 points in the second quarter, but the Tech Huskies countered with three unanswered touchdowns for a 26-14 lead early in the final period. Winona State was then stopped at the Tech one-yard line later on in the final period before scoring for what proved to be the final score with 1:29 left.
Andrew Verbancouer scored the first touchdown of the season for the Warriors. Verbancouer took a handoff and rumbled seven yards for the tally. Ryan Abbott added the first of his three points from placement. That scored erased a 6-0 Michigan Tech lead. The Warriors then went on to take a 14-6 lead when Amir Ross hooked up with Drew Alexander on a 29-yard pass and catch for a touchdown. But with 53 seconds left in the first half, the Huskies came on to score and trim WSU's lead to 14-13.
Michigan Tech continued its scoring with a touchdown run at 8:05 of the third quarter to take back the lead, 20-14. The Huskies then scored their fourth score of the game with a touchdown pass at 14:54.
Winona State put up more yardage than Tech, compiling 394 total yards to 354. Randy Spring led Winona State rushing with 69 yards. Greg Preston passed for 141 yards. Ross finished with three completions in three attempts for 72 yards. Tyree Burks was the top receiver for Winona State with five catches for 53 yards. Jared Stahlecker, who tied for Warrior tackling honors with eight, came up with a fumble recovery, the only turnover in the game. Statistics |  ANDREW VANBER- COEUR Season's first WSU touchdown |
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Warriors split in Oredigger Classic
| GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 30, 2008 -- Winona State University won its first match of the season. then split a pair of matches in the Days Inn Golden Oredigger Volleyball Classic. The Warriors won their first match, going five sets in beating Adams State. Winona State had to come back from a 2-0 deficit to win the final three sets 25-22, 25-18 and 15-8. In Winona State's second match, the Warriors lost in three straight sets to Mesa State. In the victory over Adams State, Kerry Daly and Jessi Peterson had team-high 15 kills each. Jenna Padley came up with 13, Carmen Stankowski 12. Mollie Bjelland directed the offense with 56 assists. Stankowski and Rudi Balich each had 23 digs. Adding to the Winona State defense was Daly with seven blocks. Top efforts for the Warriors against Mesa State went to Daly with nine kills. Bjelland with 25 assists and Balich with 18 digs. Daly added five blocks. Statistics: Adams State match Statistics: Mesa State match |
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College president: Don't believe what you see
FORT DODGE, Iowa, Aug. 30, 2008 -- About a photo that appears to show the president of Iowa Central Community College, Robert Paxton, pouring beer down the throat of a young woman on a boat, he says: Not so. Paxton said the keg was broken and no beer came out" "I wasn't misbehaving. I wasn't drinking." The photo has been in wide circulation around Fort Dodge, as well as a companion photo showing someone=body else on the boar pouring vodka into someone's mouth.College president quits over $300,000 bonus furor
CONWAY, Ark., Aug. 30, 2008 -- The president of the University of Central Arkansas, Lu Hardin,, resigned after months of controversy over a $300,000 bonus that the university's governing board approved at a secret meeting in May. An associate said that Hardin, a former state senator, hoped his resignation would put the issue to rest. The resignation is tied to a $700,000 contract buyout package.| MORE |
The secret bonus raised criticism when a newspaper reported the salary. Hardin responded that the bonus was not his idea but that of three of his administrators. The criticism flared, however, when it was learned that Hardin himself had the memo justifying the bonus.
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Hardin, university president since 2002, recently had surgery for cancer in one eye.
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 30, 2008 Several students were cited for alcohol in the Quad dorm at at 12:55 a.m. A student was cited for an alcohol and housing violation at Lourdes dorm at 12:20 a.m. |
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EARLIER PROJECTION WAS $30 MILLION
$40 MILLION
FLOATED AS COLISEUM PRICE TAG
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 30, 2008 -- The city government listed the proposed Winona coliseum as a $30 to $40 million project in soliciting architects to come up with a preliminary design. The advertisement for proposals was the first to use a $40 million figure, a third higher than boosters had cited earlier, although there have been occasional mentions of $35 million. City Manager Eric Sorensen told reporter Mark Sommerhauser of the Winona Daily News that $40 million was used in seeking bids to attract more designers to consider the project. Sorensen said he doubted that the Legislature would provide funding for a $40 million project. Sorensen also said there could be taxpayer resistance.
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Mystery has clouded the coliseum project, particularly funding, since Mayor Jerry Miller unveiled the plan in December. Miller said that local backers had been lined up for $5 million toward the project. He didn't name them. Others have said that Winona State University would draw on its donor list for the $5 million. To the Legislature, which would need to come up with the remainder or authorize an election for a local tax increase, the city has proposed the coliseum as a joint city-university endeavor. Multiple uses have been listed as tare show and conventions, university commencements and varsity basketball, as well as tourist-geared theater and music festivals.
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The preliminary design is budgeted at $250,000 from a state planning grant. The proposal suggests a river background by tying the project into the city's mast plan for development. The location, according to the request for proposals, specifies a site "generally to include from the river to Sarnia Street and generally in the Main Street to Huff Street area." An earlier planning committee, whose mission was a Shakespearean theater that has been subsumed into the coliseum project, had been eyeing these sites:
• Tri-Mac lumber yard.Some thinking has been to include a deck over the Union Pacific railroad industrial spur with walkway links to Levee Park on the river.
• Winona 7 movie house.
• The former middle school, now Washington Square apartments.
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The current planning committee specified that the site needs to allow for adjacent commercial development. The specs ask that "public and private partnerships" be considered. The document asks also for conceptual building options, market and demographic analysis, and funding possibilities for construction and operations. Although Mayor Miller has talked about Winona State operating the coliseum as a joint municipal-university facility, the committee has asked the design firm ti=o com up with operational and organizational recommendations.
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The committee plans to choose architects for the feasibility and design study after reviewing submissions in October. The committee timetable is to select the planning firm by April.
Background: Coliseum linked to city property buy-up?
Alaska governor tapped as McCain running mate
DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 29, 2008 -- In a stunner, the Republican for candidate for president, John McCain, named the first-term governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, little known anywhere else, as his running mate for vice president. McCain praised Palin as reform-minded, and she cited her work against Old Boy corruption in Alaska politics. Critics called Palin a lightweight with no credentials for foreign policy or national affairs. Some called McCain's choice a ploy to lure women voters disenchanted by Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama for passing over Hillary Clinton as his running mate.Background: Races that campus people are watching
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 29, 2008 An emergency medical team responded to the Quad dorm at 11:29 p.m.regarding a highly intoxicated student. |
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Warriors drop volleyball openers
GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 29, 2008 -- Winona State University opened its season women's volleyball season by dropping matches in the Days Inn Golden Oredigger Classic. It was a 3-2 loss to Chadron State College of Nebraska and also 3-2 t0 the host Colorado School of Mines. Against Chadron State, Winona State rallied from a 0-2 deficit to tie the match and then lost the fifth set by a 15-12 count. It was nearly the same in the second match, only this time Winona State lost 15-11 in the fifth and deciding set after taking a 2-1 lead. Against Colorado Mines, Alysha Pettit, Jenna Padley and Kerry Daly all had nine kills apiece. Mollie Bjelland recorded 34 assists for Winona State . On defensive Rudi Balich led the Warriors with 21 digs. Pettit and Daly each came up with four blocks. Against the School of Mines, Daly and Padely each came up with 15 kills. Bjelland posted 44 assists. Balich had 28 digs. Pettit came up with a team-high blocks.Statistics: Chadron match
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| COURT CONVICTIONS WEEK ENDING AUG. 29, 2008 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT UNDERAGE BOOZING Patrick R. Davis, 20, 729-1/2 E. Fourth, 45 days and $80. Zachariah Robert Higgins, 18, Rochester, Minn., $182. Andrew C. Hindrichs, 19, Mazeppa, Minn., 30 days and $605. Luke Andrew Miller, 18, Coon Rapids, Minn., $180. Kelly L. Pomeroy, 18, 11 Lenox, 30 days and $505. Jordan James Stahl, 18, Windom, Minn., $180. LOUD PARTYING Jack D. Dombrook, 22, 4140 W. Seventh, $260. Karl A. Pellowski, 22, 73 E. King, $260. Ryan K. Thomas, 21, 1600 Valley Lane, $130.
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Tech looks to local artists
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 29, 2008 -- Local artists have been commissioned to create uniquely Winona art for the Southeast Tech campus under a state law the requires 1 percent of construction budgets to go to art. Works include scenics by Julia Crozier, abstracts by Greg Inman, stained glass by Reinarts Studio, and landscapes by Larry Veeder. In a Winona Post article by Cynthia Porter, Crozier said the local artists created art for specific campus places -- a custom touch not possible when institutions go catalog-shopping for warehoused art.| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 28, 2008 A student reported at 4 p.m. that she allowed her friend to use her bike and it was stolen from outside the Tau dorm. Theike was unlocked. Security cited several students at 8:35 p.m. for lighting fireworks and throwing them underneath vehicles. |
WSU READY TO BUILD
$30 MILLION DORM
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 28, 2008 -- Architectural renderings of a long-delayed 400-bed Winona State dorm construction project were unveiled by university Vice President Kurt Lohide. Construction will begin in April with occupancy for the Fall 2010 semester, Lohide said. The project, a four-story structure with brick facade, has been pegged at $30 million.
The project is a scaled-down version of a plan dating to 2002 for a much more elaborate plan for what was called the Gateway. The earlier plans included student suites wrapped around a central parking ramp with shops and recreational facilities. The plan was scuttled by the state college system budget-planners as too expensive when estimates began climbing toward $60 million because of a global shortage of concrete and building materials. |  $30 MILLION South of high-rise Sheehan dorm |
Vomiting drunk ticketed at WSU dorm
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 28, 2008 -- An emergency response team treated a 19-year-old Winona State University student for intoxication at the Morey dorm. The woman, who had been vomiting, was cited for underage consumption of alcohol.
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Warriors come from behind in 2nd half
WINONA, Minn., Aug, 28, 2008 -- No. 19-ranked Winona State University opened its soccer season, defeating Regis 2-1 in nonconference overtime. Sophomore forward Lauren Sturdivant took a pass from senior Leslie Schumacher and popped in a goal 54 seconds into the overtime for the Warrior victory. The goal capped off a come-from-behind win by the Warriors, who trailed at halftime 1-0, thanks in great part to a Regis goal at 32:03 of the opening period.
In the second half, the Warriors got more on track. Amelia Kasten cracked the scoring ice for the Warriors with a goal at 62:37. Sturdivant also had a hand in that goal with an assist.
Amanda Diehm got the win in the nets for the Warriors. The lone goal by Regis came off a blocked shot by Diehm, but the ball then bounced off a Winona State player and into the net for the goal. In the end Diehm finished with one save. Regis finished with only six total shots. Statistics |  LAUREN STURDIVANT One gaol and key assist |
Bar safe missing, so too $600-plus
WINONA, Minn., Aug 28, 2008 -- A safe containing $600 to $1,2k 00 of checks and credit card receipts was reported stolen overnight from Hei-N Low bar at 529 E. Wabasha St., Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack said. A janitor reported the safe missing at 7:16 a.m. Police said a hasp was missing from the inside room where the safe was stored. How entry was gained was under investigation. The safe was a gray Grandall brand, 30 by 30 by 24 inches in size . The safe itself was valued at $400.Write-in business rep Blechinger resigns
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2008 -- A junior studying business at Winona State University, Kira Blechinger, confirmed that she will resign as a student senator before even taking office. Blechinger accepted the office as a write-in candidate last spring in a confusing set of circumstances in which other candidates for multiple office opted for other Senate seats. About resigning, Blechinger said: "Some things come up over the summer that affect my spare time." The resignation leaves August Whipple as the only senator representing College of Business students. Blechinger's seat will be on the September ballot. Blechinger said she had decided before fall classes began that she would resign but delayed submitting a resignation letter. To student President David Obray, she apologized "for late notice and lack of communication."| MORE |
The Student Senate also has an open seat from the College of Nursing that was not filled in spring elections. Also on the new ballot will be four at-large, three freshman and two grads seats that left until the fall election so new students can choose their reps.
Background: Roster of student senators
Background: Spring election results
Newcomer gets WSU quarterback nod
| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2008 -- Transfer student Greg Preston will be the Winona State University starting quarterback, football coach Tom Sawyer said. Sawyer said it was a tough choice between Preston, who played two seasons at Division I-AA Tennessee-Martin, and sophomore Amir Ross, who was last season's backup Warrior quarterback. A factor, Sawyer said, was that Ross missed some practices recently because of a minor hamstring injury. Preston, a junior engineering major, transferred to Winona State last spring. As a freshman at Tennessee-Martin, will start Saturday at a Michigan Tech. |  GREG PRESTON Starting quarter- back |  AMIR ROSS Ham- strung |
University ponders art sale for flood repair
IOWA CITY, Iowa., Aug. 27, 2008 -- A valuation of Jackson Pollock's "Mural" at the University of Iowa has been ordered as part of consideration of selling it to help repair damage from flooding that devastated the campus. A member of the university's governing board, Michael Gartner, requested the valuation. It is thought the mural might be worth $232 million. Gartner said he doesn't necessarily favor selling the work but wants to know what options are available for rebuilding the campus. The painting was donated to the university in 1951 by wealthy art collector Peggy Guggenheim.| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 27, 2008 A student suffered an asthma attack in the Quad dorm at 11:50 p.m. An emergency medical team was called. At 7:19 p.m. a student reported the theft of her iPod earlier in the day. Security guards checked on an alcohol violation in the Maria dorm at 11:12 p.m. |
Survey finds students wary of digital textbooks
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2008 -- College students overwhelmingly prefer ink-on-paper textbooks over digital, according to survey by the Student Public Interest Research Groups coalition. About 75 percent said they prefer a printed textbook, and 60 percent said that they would buy print versions even if a free digital copy were available -- if the price were right. Students were critical of current publisher restrictions on how long digital books can be viewed. Printing on many digital versions is restricted to 10 pages, and access expires typically after about 180 days. The survey had about 500 respondents.Scholarship to WSU accounting prof, student
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2008 -- A Winona State University accounting prof, Gloria McVay, has been awarded a Lean Accounting Summit faculty-student scholarship sponsored by the Association for Manufacturing Excellence and the Institute of Management Accountants McVay and accounting student Samantha Duellman will be attending the Lean Accounting Summit.Oops, valuable Leger painting missing
WELLESLEY, Mass., Aug. 27, 2008 -- Authorities aren't sure what happened to a 1921 painting by the French cubist Fernand Leger at Wellesley College. It may have been thrown out with crates after being shipped back to Wellesley from an Oklahoma exhibit. Or maybe stolen. Sources confirmed that Wellesley has filed an insurance claim. The value of the painting, "Woman and Child," is not certain. Legers average about $2.8 million. The painting was last seen in April being shipped back from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, which had it on loan. Back at Wellesley the painting was supposed to go into a storage vault. It was discovered missing last fall.ELECTION CHIEF
ON REGISTRATION CARD SHORTAGE
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 26, 2008 -- Responding to a complaint that organizers of a student voter registration drive at Winona State University were denied enough registration cards, county Auditor Cherie MacLennan said it was an inventory issue. "My office did not have enough forms on hand to meet their request," said MacLennan, who runs county elections. MacLellan said she referred students to the secretary of state, which had a surplus of the forms. In early August when Winona State student President David Obray asked for registration cards for new students, including 2,000 freshmen, most of them first-time voters, he was given only 50 cards. The same thing happened two years ago when students asked for registration cards.
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MacLennan denied the suggestion that she is creating obstacles for students to register to vote: "I encourage a dialogue between my office and the Student Senate," she said. "My office is here to assist the students.
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MacLennan said too that the problem this year relates to a state-mandated format change in the voter registration application form. County auditors, she said, have to purchase new forms. "Each county," she said, "must pay for their own stock of voter applications with property tax dollars." Abut the legal requirement for universities to make a "good-faith" effort to distribute voter registration cards, MacLennan said that the university is expected "to provide adequate inventories of cards for their students."
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Specifically addressing Obray's early August request for cards, MacLennan said: "In the recent case of WSU requesting voter cards my office did not have enough forms on hand to meet their request and no date as to the delivery of the new ordered forms before the upcoming primary election. Therefore, I suggested that they contact the secretary of state whose office had just informed us that they had a large surplus of the old voter card free for the asking."
Background: Obstacle faces new student voters
Academic award to WSU volleyball team
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 26, 2008 -- The Winona State University women's volleyball team, with a B-plus cumulative grade point average of 3.41, has been recognized the American Volleyball Coaches for a team academic award. Coach Connie Mettille said that her team members said. work hard on the court and in the classroom: Kiersten Arendt, Rudi Balich, Mollie Bjelland, Krista Bogue, Lauren Brown, Kerry Daly, Lisa Dobie, Katie Matel, Crystal Otte, Jenna Padley, Kelsey Penebaker, Alysha Pettit, Carmen Stankowski and Kelly Thompson.UP IN AIR
WSU ADOPTS
TOBACCO-FREE POLICY
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 25, 2008 -- Winona State University will become a tobacco-free campus in January, including sports facilities where varsity games are played. President Judith Ramaley said the policy is consistent with the university mission to improve health and well-being "by setting an example of healthy practice." Ramaley did not address enforcement issues but said a plan for implementation will be developed. The tobacco ban begins Jan. 12, coinciding with the start of spring semester.
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The existing policy prohibits tobacco with 25 feet of doors and windows, in university cars and inside campus buildings including dorms. Enforcement has been uneven and lax. Former university President Darrell Krueger on relied peer examples to decrease smoking on campus, but campus groups, including a student referendum last spring, have been pressing for an absolute ban. A year earlier an all-campus committee adopted a proposal for a tobacco-free campus. A campus-wide survey completed in last October found 74 percent of survey respondents favorfavors a tobacco ban.Ramaley said the ban is based also on "a review of responses from campus constituency groups." She noted a trend to tobacco-free policies at other colleges.
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Said Ramaley: "Wellness and fitness are a major theme for the university, expressed through our Integrated Wellness Complex, our academic programs and our community partnerships," Ramaley said. "This is the natural next step, to practice what we teach."
Background: Campus smoking ban wins overwhelmingly
Shorty's sold to make room for house
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 25, 2008 -- Fire-ravaged Shorty's Bar and Cafe across from the Amtrak depot on Mark Street may be leveled for construction of a duplex or triplex. Kevin Brady of Fountain City, Wis., has bought the property and adjoining house for $120,000, according to county transaction documents. The bar and grill, a morning coffee klastch place and night-time college bar, was destroyed by fire in 2005. Owners Greg and Theresa Fakler decided against trying to rebuild the structure, which had been a workingmen's grill and bar most of its history back to 1890.
After the Faklers' decision not to reopen, there was speculation that Winona State would buy the property as part of a universuty plan to bridge the four blocks between the main campus and the East Lake dorm -- and also to retire the Shorty's liquor license. The university, however, kept its eastward expansion plan across the tracks on Belleview Street. |  AFTER THE FIRE Mark and Center streets |
Background: Shorty's faces $400,000 bill to rebuild
Finances force student newspaper cuts
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 25, 2008 -- The University of California student newspaper, the Daily Californian, has trimmed its publication schedule and staff because advertising revenue is falling off. Wednesday issues are being dropped, editor and reporter salaries are being reduced, and the staff is being cut 25 percent, said editor Bryan Thomas. He announced a campaign to build an endowment. The goal, Thomas said, is return to a five-days-a-week. The advertising situation mirrors that of the imploding newspaper industry as a whole.| MORE |
The Daily Californian is 135 years old. Since a 1971 dispute with university administrators, the paper has been financially on its own. The paper publishes 10,000 copies.
Regional award to WSU nursing club
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 26, 2008 -- The Winona State University chapter of Kappa Mu received the Regional Showcase of Excellence Award from Sigma Theta Tau for a presentation "Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing." Prof Diane Wrobleski portrayed Nightingale, the nurse who was a pioneer in aseptic technique, nursing education, public health and hospital design. The chapter will be recognized for the presentation in Indianapolis, Ind., on Sept. 26.Movie buff produces WSU radio show
| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 25, 2008 -- A library technician at Winona State University, Nathan Wardinski, is producing a radio show, "Sounds of Cinema," that will air on campus station KQAL at 4 p.m. Sundays. The one-hour-long program includes film music, information on new releases, and reviews. KQAL manager Mike Martin described the Wardinski program as a "serious discussion." Said Martin "Many mainstream media outlets have reduced the discussion of film to box office grosses and celebrity gossip. This program is intended to open up a greater understanding of the medium, making us all better consumers." The show, also, is syndicated to station KMSU at Minnesota-Mankato. Wardinski holds degrees in radio-television-film and creative writing. He blogs at Maverick at the Movies. |  RADIO SHOW DEBUTS Goal: To promote understanding |
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 25, 2008 A threatening note was reported in the Minne classroom building at 11:24 a.m.. The note, it was learned, had originated in a class project and was not intended as a threat. At 10:20 a.m. an employee reported a harassment incident . |
Turncoat announcement: Penny favors McCain
DENVER, Colo., Aug. 25, 3008 -- Former Rep. Tim Penny, D-Minn., stole a little thunder from the opening day of the Democratic national convention by announcing his support of the Republican presidential candidacy of Sen. John McCain. Penny, a Winona State University grad who represented southern Minnesota in Congress, spoke at a GOP-arranged news conference. Penny said he went to Congress with McCain in 1982 and worked with him on a number of issues on which McCain sought bipartisan coalitions. At the news conference, Penny was among several independents and moderate Democrats who spoke for McCain. Penny is chairing Minnesota Citizens for McCain. Penny is a maverick who worked closely with independent Jesse Ventura when he was governor. Penny lost a bid for governor himself in 2002.Background: Races that campus people are watching
Advertising vet joins WSU faculty
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 24, 2008 -- An advertising buyer for the giant retailer Target, Tanya Rolfson, has joined the Winona State University masscom faculty. Rolfson, herself a Winona State masscom grad, holds a master's degree in communication from Bethel University. She has taught for the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and the Art Institutes International Minnesota. At Winona State she teaches courses formerly taught be Becky McConnell, who left the faculty. Rolfson, known to Winona State classmates by maiden name Ryan, has worked all sides of the advertising business, including client, agency, media and production house.| MORE |
At the ad agency Carmichael Lynch, Rolfson worked on Harley Davidson, Northwest Airlines, Solomo and VeggieTales accounts. Earlier she was the Minneapolis Business Journal. Most recently, at Target, she managed an annual creative budget of $15 million.
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 24, 2008 Security guards picked up a strong odor in the science building. Fireifghters discovered a malfunctioning vent. |
Body may be that of missing prof
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Aug. 24, 2008 --A body found in a park may be that of a University of Iowa polituac science prof who disappeared last week after a report that he solicited sexual favors from female students in exchange for better grades. The prof, Arthur Miller, had disappeared into the park five days earlier, reportedly with carrying a high-powered rifle. Police said the body could not be identified immediately.Education prof leads China conference
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 24, 2008 -- A Winona State University prof, Mary Jane Guy, was co-director of a two-week educational leadership conference in China in partnership with Virginia Tech.Block parties to signal solidarity against crime
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 23, 2008 -- Neighborhood block parties throughout the city, three in the Winona State University neighborhood, are planned Tuesday as as a show of solidarity that criminal behavior will not be tolerated. The parties are the National Night Out project to strengthen neighborhoods. Winona police community liaison officer Kevin Kearney said that McGruff the Crime Dog would make the rounds. Coordinators for the Winona State-area parties are Mary Jane Guy, Jay Kohner and Laura Preim. People weree couraged to leave outdoor lights on as a sign of support.Date: Tuesday, Aug. 26
Time: 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Place: Sanborn Street between Huff and Harriet (Winona State, sponsor)
Harriet Street between King and Howard (Winona State)
Sanborn and Franklin streets (Winona State)
Near Gabrych Park (Sponsored by East End Watch)
Howard Street between Vine and Laird (Howard Street Watch)
Fourth Street between Walnut and Market (Valleyview Tower Watch)
Druey Court (Maplewood Townhomes Watch)
Fifth Street between Walnut and Market (East Fifth Street Watch)
Belleview Street (Belleview East Watch)
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RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY POSTED AUG. 23, 2008 MALL RESTROOM. A handicap access restroom is being built at the Winona Mall/ The contractor, Rush Creek Ltd., listed the projectproject at $55,000 in a building permit application. NEW JUDGE. A 17-year veteran as an assistant county prosecutor, Nancy Bostrack, was sworn in as a Third Judicial District Court. Bostrack was appointed to the $129,000 job by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. She will be on the ballot in 2010 for a second term. Background: Bostrack to judgeship MCGIVER BOMB. Police mailed citations to two teen-age men for a homemade explosive device that shattered glass at the former Burger King near Winona Mall. The device, a yellow liquid and foil inside a soda bottle, exploded in the drive-trough lane about 8:30 p.m., Wednesday. Witnesses said a group of young people scattered when the bomb went off. No one was injured. The charges against the teens, age 18 and 17: Disorderly conduct and public nuisance. |
Police: Truck, tire iron used as weapons
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 23, 2008 -- Two men were jailed after a series of assaults, one involving a tire iron, in the Winona State University neighborhood. In one incident, about 3 a.m., the driver of a red pickup truck rammed a 19-year-old man at about 30 mph at the Kwik Trip at Huff and Sarnia, police said. The victim flipped into the air and hit the windshield. The truck, police said, jumped a curb and raced off. At the Winona hospital, the decision was made to fly the victim to a Rochester hospital fro serious injuries. The victim, police said, had been in a fight 1-1/2 hours earlier near Sarnia and Walnut streets, about seven blocks away, in which a 20-year-old man suffered head cuts and a 19-year-old man suffered a bloody nose. One of the men said he was hit with a tire iron.| MORE |
After the Kwik Trip incident, policed spotted a red pickup with a dented hood and shattered windshield. The driver was arrested. Later police arrested a second man and located a tire iron in a garbage container.
Biden is Obama's vice president pick
CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 23, 2008 -- In a 3 a.m. text message to supporters, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama announced that his running mate would be Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. Biden chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which Obama supporters see as derailing Republican criticism that Obama is light on international issues. Biden and Obama have an easy relationship, which also favored him. On foreign affairs, Biden's two-day trip to the Republic of Georgia after the Russian invasion gives him current credibility on oil-rich Middle East issues and Soviet and European relations. Biden, 65, was elected to the Senate first in 1972.Background: Races that campus people are watching
Thieves cart off flavored vodka
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 23, 2008 -- Burglars carted off six bottles of flavored vodka in a break-in at Fifth Street Liquor, police said. Access was through a window that was busted in. The liquor was valued at $60 to $80.WSU begins trimming grad requirements
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 23, 2008 -- The graduation requirements at Winona State need to be pared to meet a mandate from the Legislature, the university's academic vice president, Sally Johnstone, said. The change, from 128 credits for a bachelor's degree to 120, means two fewer courses for graduation for most students. Johnstone said the faculty curriculum committee will be working through details. Another Legislature-mandated change is a 60-credit max for associate degrees.| MORE |
Guidance on implementing the changes will come from the state chancellor's office in St. Paul, Johnstone said. "Minnesota is not the first state to do this," she said. "Some states say students should complete a bachelor's degree in four years and others, like Minnesota, focus on the number of credits instead." The changes will be phased by the year 2010, she said. Currently enrolled students will not be affected.
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About the Legislature's role in curricular policy, Johnstone said: "This is a growing movement that states legislators are taking an active hand in changing."
Reporter: Chelsey Wilson
Bare-ass debate coach fired at Fort Hays
FORT HAYS, Kan., Aug. 23, 2008 -- The debate coach at Fort Hays State University was fired for mooning judges at a national tournament. The incident was last spring but became as issue only when a clip was posted recently on YouTube. The clip has the coach, William Shanahan, dropping his shorts in front of judges after a heated exchange. Shanahan was swearing and gesturing violently. The clip has been removed from YouTube. Shanahan had coached the Fort Hays debate team years and he once led it to a national championship.| MORE |
The university president, Ed Hammond, called Shanahan's display a breach of faculty duty. Shanahan was a tenured professor of communication. Hammond, also, suspended the debate team for a year because of other videos that showed students swearing and yelling during the competition.
WSU tests soak-through parking surface
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 23, 2008 -- Soak-through paving for parking lots is being tried at Winona State University. A new lot at the Tau Center on the West Campus has been covered with a packed mix of 60 percent pea gravel, 40 percent gravel and a less-than-usual amount of sand. Under the pressed material is a layer of aggregate and a filter layer that allowed gravity to pull the water directly into the ground rather than be diverted to storm sewers.| MORE |
The university's construction coordinator, Bruno Ronkowski, said the pervious surfacing, the first attempted in southern Minnesota, will he watched over the winter. If the surface proves durable, the university will use it in the future as part of its environment-sustainability program, he said.
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The problem with traditional paving is that it is a impervious, blocking ground absorption and forcing water to run off into channels and storm sewers. The channeled water increases likelihood for flooding
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 23, 2008 Several persons were stopped by security guards for possession of alcohol at 11:15 p.m. When the persons ran, security guards and police gave chase. One individual, a non-student, was arrested as a minor consuming. A student was injured jumping on an inflatable in the Kryzsko courtyard at 5:57 p.m. An emergency nedical team was called. |
Book featuring WSU trees into new edition
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 23, 2008 -- A Winona State prof and a groundskeeper. whose book "The Trees of Winona State University" was nominated for a Minnesota book award, is being revised for a second edition. The new edition is scheduled fro release this fall, said prof Tim Grier, who photographed campus trees for the book. Senior groundskeeper Bill Meyer is the co-author. "We originally printed 2,000 copies of the book, and there are only 200 left, which is good," Grier said.| MORE |
For the new edition Grier has no shortage of images, 50,000 in all. The number itself is a problem. "It takes me up to five hours just to pick one picture of a tree to use," he said. He has 300 different frames of one featured tree. For each page of the book, you only use four photographs of one tree.
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Why a new edition and not just a reprint? A lot has changed, Grier said. Maps needed updating to guide readers to trees. The new edition will be in both hard and soft covers. Pages will total 130. The first edition had 96 pages. Height and width are trimmed 15 percent.
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"Every picture is taken on campus and one thing that's interesting is that no other university has done this before," Grier said.
Reporter: Courtney Rappa
Background: Book shows off campus forest
Researchers: Profiling may curb cheating
NEWARK, Ohio, Aug. 22, 2008 -- Students who cheat have weaker self-images and bleaker outlooks on life, according to psychologists at Ohio State University-Newark who created profiles of 450 undergrads. Honest students have a more positive view of others, said Sarah Staats, a co-author of the study. The findings suggest new tools for targeting audiences for anti-cheating campaigns, Staats said. The research found that students who said they had not cheated in the past month or year and had no plans to cheat in the future possessed qualities like courage, empathy and honesty. Also, non-cheaters were less likely to believe that their peers had cheated.| MORE |
Students who scored lower on courage, empathy and honesty not only reported having cheated but believed that other students cheated more often than they themselves did. This belief rationalized their own cheating.
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The research found 47 percent students saw themselves not cheating in the future, 24 percent saw themselves cheating, and 29 percent were undecided. Said Staats: "Interventions may have a real opportunity to influence at least a quarter of the student population."
| COURT CONVICTIONS WEEK ENDING AUG. 22, 2008 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT UNDERAGE BOOZING Adam Thomas Shea, 20, St. Charles, Minn., $405.
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Cops tag six underage boozers
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 22, 2008 -- Police have resumed foot patrols in the downtown bar district and neighboring student-housing neighborhood, Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack said. It's a fall ritual for the new semester at the colleges. On Thursday night and into early Friday officers cited six young people for underage boozing. The tickets generally mean a $177 fine. Most of the incidents were within a few blocks from the Winona State University campus, Bostrack said.| MORE |
About 10:40 p.m. cops stopped and ticketed three 20-year-olds, two women and a man, near King and Harriet streets. Within the hour they ticketed an 18-year-old woman in the250 block of West King Street. About 1:30 a.m., cops ticketed two men, age 19 and 18, near Wabasha and Johnson streets.
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One goal of the foot patrols, Bostrack said, is to head off vandalism.
R.I.P.: Ruth M. (Modjeski) Thilmany
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 22, 2008 -- The long-time owner with her husband of Johnnie's East Side Bar, Ruth Thimlany, died at a nursing home at age 84. Her husband, John H. Thilmany Sr., died earlier.Southeast Tech wins grant for radiography
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 22, 2007 -- Southeast Technical has received a $2 million federal grant for a new two-year degree program in radiography and certification programs in four other medical fields -- mammography, pharmacy, phlebotomy and ultrasound. Radiography is a growing career area involving internal body images for examination. Nate Emerson, vice president for student affairs, said classes of 25 students are expected to begin the every semester.OBSTACLE FACES WSU STUDENTS
FOR VOTER REGISTRATION
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 22, 2008 -- A student get-out-the-vote project at Winona State University has encountered problems again obtaining voter registration cards for upcoming elections. Student President David Obray said he requested 2,000 registrations cards at the office of the county auditor but was given only 50. Obray said the law requires that the university make a "good-faith" effort to distribute voter registration cards.
Obray has asked the MSUSA statewide student association to report the matter to the secretary of state. It is the secretary of state, Mark Ritchie, who is responsible for elections in Minnesota, and county Auditor Cherie MacLennan, who is responsible for elections in Winona County. In the meantime, Obray has asked MSUSA campus organizer Holly Davis to bring the requested number of voter registration cards from St. Paul so the Winona State Student Senate registration program can proceed.
Local primaries for City Council, County Board and School Board elections are Sept. 9. National elections follow Nov. 4.
The problem in obtaining registration cards has echoes to 2006, when sophomore Jared Stene, chair of the Student Senate Student Services Committee, was denied sufficient voter registration cards by MacLennan. Stene finally obtained the cards after the secretary of state intervened. The issue fueled student suspicions that the local community would rather that college students be disenfranchised, especially on local ballot issues because , by sheer numbers, students can influence elections. Winona State has 8,000-plus students, including 2,000 freshmen who mostly would be first-time voters. The county's population is 50,000, the city's 27,000.
Stene's 2006 work propelled him to high visibility as a student senator. The following spring he was elected student president. He decided in November 2007 of a previously undiagnosed congenital disorder. Background: Students given registration cards, finally |
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R.I.P.: Marie (Graham) Horton
WINONA, Minn., Aug, 22, 2008 -- A 1942 College of St. Teresa grad, Marie Horton, 89, who served seven years on the Winona City Council, died in a Phoenix, Ariz., hospital. Death was attributed t pancreatitis. Besides being elected to the City Council, Horton also served 11 years on the city Housing and Redevelopment Commission. she had living near a daughter in Arizona since 1998. Her St. Teresa degree was in sociology.Pilot ground school set at WSU
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 22, 2008 -- A federally approved aviator ground school begins Tuesday at Winona State University. Prof George Bolon said the course helps students pass the required written examination for private pilots. Registration can be competed at the first of second class, Bolon said.Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning Aug. 26
Time: 7 to 10 p.m.
Place: Stark 106
Researcher: Why false-positives for sports doping
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 22, 2008 -- Drug-testing practices are so flawed that the only result is that the value of athletics is being undercut, according to researcher Don Berry of the Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas. Writing in the journal Nature, Berry said: "Cheaters evade detection, innocents are falsely accused, and sport is ultimately suffering." What's wrong with the testing? For one thing, Berry said, tests are not always validated by checking against samples. The result is that it is impossible to know how many dopers are incorrectly cleared and how many clean athletes are falsely accused, he said: "If conventional doping testing were to be submitted to a regulatory agency such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to qualify as a diagnostic test for a disease, it would be rejected."| MORE |
Berry raised statistical probability issues. A hypothetical test that correctly determines that 99 out of 100 samples but goofs up on one would generate a three-quarters chance in the next 26 samples that a mistake would occur and a clean athlete would be identified as doping, he said.
WSU prof co-authors Canada media text
| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 21, 2008 -- Winona State University prof John Vivian and Mohawk College prof Peter Maurin wrote the fifth Canadian edition of the textbook "The Media of Mass Communication." The edition was published by Pearson Canada. The Canadian edition and also latest U.S. revision, now its ninth edition, have been available for fall adoptions. The book is the most adopted in its field in both countries. Background: Media text enters ninth edition |  "MEDIA OF MASS COMMUNICATION" Fifth Canadian edition |
Catholic college turns away pro-choice advocate
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 21, 2008 -- The University of San Diego, a Catholic institution, withdrew its invitation to feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether for an endowed chair after complaints she once served on the governing board of of the abortion-rights organization Catholics for Choice. The abortion issue seemed to be a litmus test at the university. A university spokesperson said that Reuther's public position are in "direct conflict" with the values inherent in the endowed position. Revoking the invitation has stirred a protest that Catholic doctrine has trumped academic freedom. Among 2,000 signers of a protest petition are 50 faculty members. The petition, sponsored by two women's religious groups, asks the university to re-appoint Ruether to the endowed chair or to sponsor her in a lecture on academic freedom.| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 21, 2008 Security guards removed an an individual from a concert in Memorial Hall at 9:30 p.m. because of his behavior. At 11:37 p.m. security guards investigated a report of drug use outside of Tau dorm but found nothing. Police were called to the Quad dorm for drunk student. |
School Board race narrows to four
ROLLINGSTONE, Minn., Sept. 21, 2008 -- One of the five candidates for the District 3 seat on the Winona County Board, canvas manufacturer Greg Kuehntopp, confirmed that he is withdrawing his candidacy. Because Kuehntop missed a July 17 deadline, his name will be ar on the Sept. 9 primary election ballot. The primary will leave two candidates for the November general election from among Steve Herrick, Mena Kaehler, Berard Siebenaler and Rudie Spitzer.Background: Races that campus people are watching
WSU LAUNCHES
$10 MILLION FUND DRIVE
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 21, 2008 -- Winona State University unveiled a $10 million fund drive to fund scholarships and a range of other projects. Already, university President Judith Ramaley said, 157 donors have pledged $6.4 million. The project, called Light the Way, seeks $4 million for scholarships, $3.5 million toward a wellness center that includes an indoor track and workout gym, and $2.5 million for the National Child Protection Training Center. The project is the largest to raise funds in the university's history and the first in what the university calls "comprehensive fundraising."
The university has called in consultants in recent years on the feasibility of a capital fund drive. The early conclusion was that the university was not ready. But a 2007 report urged a relatively modest goal for an initial project to assure success. It was important, the report said, to already have a solid head start before an official launch. The Light the Way campaign already has $3 million that the university has told legislators would go toward construction of the wellness center. Scholarships are a perennial magnet for donations, and the campus-based Child Protection Center has attractions for fundraising.
Ramaley said that donor support is a growing need at Winona State. "Our financial circumstances are very different from what they were even a decade ago," she said. "We still offer a first-class education, but with just 29 percent of our funding coming from the state we must think and lead differently." The need for scholarships is increasingly critical, Ramaley said. While tuition costs at Minnesota's state universities have doubled in the past 10 years, average grants increased by only a third, she said. Higher education is moving out of reach for many families, she said. "Increasing funds for scholarships will ensure that a vibrant mix of students with diverse backgrounds, cultures and ideas have access to Winona State University," Ramaley said. "This mix brings considerable value not only to Winona State and our region, but also to the economies and societies where graduates live and work."
Jim Schmidt, the university's fundraising vice president, said the construction of the wellness complex, a 90,000-square-foot facility, will support expanded academic and research programs focused on healthcare and wellness. The complex, he said, will provide a platform for new degree programs, advance new healthcare technologies, and create new partnerships with the university. He specifically mentioned Winona Health. the complex, he said, will foster a holistic approach to wellness. "The purpose of this facility is to create opportunities for WSU students and the community at large to improve their health and well-being," Schmidt said. "External partnerships are critical not only for completing the facility, but also for increasing its value and impact in the region."
Funds for the National Child Protection Training Center will help stabilize erratic budget issues involving federal moneys. The Light the Way campaign, Vieth said, will help expand the center as "the only national organization that has as its goal the elimination of child abuse." Vieth said the center is generating reform. The impact, he said, is positive in the lives of hundreds of millions of children. Background: WSU to unveil long-term project |  FUND DRIVE Expect to see lots of this logo
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College foundation ordered to reveal donors
LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 21, 2008 -- The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that the University of Louisville must disclose the names of donors to the university foundation, even though the foundation is a separate private corporation. The court found that the foundation, a fund-raising organization should be considered a public agency because t he public has legitimate interests in how the university's fund-raising arm operates. The public interest outweighs any case that cab be made for donors privacy, the court said. At issue are names of 47,000 donors.| MORE |
The Louisville Courier-Journal, a newspaper, had sought the names the state open-records law. The foundation responded that many donors insisted on anonymity and that fundraising could be damaged by revealing names.
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At issue specifically were donations to the McConnell Center for Political Leadership. named for long-time Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who helped found the center. Forty-six corporations and foundations donated to the McConnell center, which raised questions about political favors that could not be answered if the donors were not identified.
Study questions value of extra math homework
BANHAMTON, N.Y., Aug. 21, 2008 -- Exta homework helps only some students achieve better scores on math tests, a new stdy says. Econometricians at the State University of New York-Binghamton and the University of Nevada reported that additional homework is most effective for high and low achievers -- and less so for average achievers. Daniel Henderson, of SUNY-Binghamton, said: "For the average achieving classes, who may have been given too much homework in an attempt to equate them with the high achieving classes, educators could be better served by using other methods to improve student achievement." The study was based eighth-grade students.Breza dissents on Tiger's liquor license
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 20, 3008 -- The City Council voted 5-1 to grant a liquor license for a new Third Street bar, Tiger's, that the owner plans to operate with teen pool hall in the basement. Council member Tim Breza said he saw youth and alcohol as a bad mix -- even though the booze would be upstairs. Owner Greg Yahnke described Tiger's as a billiards club and a dining establishment. Tiger's will serve breakfest, lunch and dinner seven days a week, Yahnke said. The lower level would be a youth center with pool tables, foosball, ping pong and video games.| MORE |
Tiger's will be in at 265 East Third, which is being vacated by the American Legion to move into a new clubhouse adjacent to the East Lake dorm of Winona State University on Sarnia.
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Absent from the Council meeting was Third Ward represetative Deb Salyards. Her ward includes the downtown commercial district and the main Winona State campus.
Bio prof writes cancer case study
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 20, 2008 -- A Winona State University biology prof, Bruno Borsari, coauthored a case study on ovarian cancer for introductory classes. The case study, "But I'm Too Young!" deals with cellular and genetic mechanisms that are responsible for causing cancer. The publisher: National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.Cops intrude on drunk's slumber
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 20, 2008 -- An 18-year-old drunk sleeping it off in the bed of a pickup truck in the 100 block of East Sarnia Street was cited for underage boozing. Police found the man abut 2:30 a.m. while investigating a report of someone banging on a door at a house in the neighborhood.WSU to unveil long-term project
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 20, 2008 -- News reporters have been invited to Winona State University to learn about an initiative that will "positively impact current and future students." Also affected will be the Winona community and children and families for generations to come, the university said in its invitation to the news conference. Details were not announced, although it was expected the announcement would be specific plans for construction of a stand-alone building to house the campus-based National Child Protection Training Center.| MORE |
Expected at the news conference were Judith Ramaley, university vice president; Jim Schmidt, vice president for fundraising; and Vic Veith, director of the National Child Protection Training Center. Schmidt and Vieth have been working on construction funding for the center. Since it was founded the center has been shuttled around campus to space as it's become available. Vieth has talked about a $1 million structure.
Date: Thursday, Aug. 21
Time: 11 a.m.
Place: Outside Somsen Hall
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 20, 2008 An ambulance crew responded to the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 1:27 a.m. for a student wifh an asthma attack. A Code Blue alarm was acivated near the gazebo at 10:11 p.m. because a student was having difficulty breathing. An ambulane crew allowed the student to return to her dorm. A city-owned picnic table was taken from campus sometime before Aug. 20, it was reported at 2:45 p.m. Police were notified. |
Preston, Ross vie for starting quarterback
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 20, 2008 -- The smart money was on Amir Ross as starting quarterback for Winona State University's football team this fall. Then Greg Preston transferred in after three seasons at the University of Tennessee-Martin. Coach on Sawyer has fueled the competition between Ross and Preston, which he says is sharpening them both. Ross agrees. To Jeff Bersch of the Winona Daily News, Preston said "It makes me want to compete that much more. It makes me focus a lot more. It's going to make me and the team better." Preston struck the same message: "If we work hard, we'll make each other better each day."| MORE |
Preston, 6-foot-3, and 210 pounds, plated in eight games for Tennessee-Martin last season and threw 27 passes. Over three years he led the Skyhawks to a 9-3 record and a conference championship. Ross, 6-foot 3 and 190 pounds, was the backup quarterback to three-year Winona State starter Drew Aber last season.
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Sawyer, in his 13th season coaching at Winona State, has been impressed going back to spring drills with how Ross dealt with the challenge from Preston the newcomer. Sawyer called Preston a teacher. "He was Greg's best teacher in the spring," Sawyer said. "The reason Greg can play in our offense today is because of what Amir did in the spring. But it's made Amir better, too. That's what competition does."
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The season begins Aug. 30 for Winona State at Michigan Tech, a nonconference game. A home stadium scrimmage will be:
Date: Thursday, Aug. 21
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Maxwell Field
Cops cite underage boozers on Howard
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 20, 2008 -- Police cited two Winona State University sophomores, age 20 and 19, in the 300 block of West Howard about 1:50 a.m. for underage consumption of alcohol. Police had been called to check out three or four suspicious men in the neighborhood.KQAL-FM adds Rick Steves travel show
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 19, 2008 -- A new travel show, "Travel with Rick Steves," has been added to programming at Winona State University radio station KQAL at 89.5 FM, station manager Mike Martin said. The program runs Sundays at 3 p.m. Steves is the author of 30 travel guidebooks and longtime host of the "Rick Steves' Europe" television series. About the show, Steves said: "Rather than being the tour guide, as I am on TV, I get to host the coming together of experts on various cultures and travel themes with our callers and listeners."WSU cranberry research seeks diabetic volunteers
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 19, 2008 -- For a study on a possible influence if cranberries on blood-sugars, Winona State University biology researcher Ted Wilson has asked for volunteers with Type II diabetes. Participants will be paid $150. WIlson said that participants must be age 40 to 70, non-smokers and not insulin dependent. Blood will be drawn weekly at a a two-hour study period, Wilson said. The study begins the week of Sept. 8. The deadline for applying: Friday, Aug. 29.| MORE |
With funding from Winona-based nutrient-supplement distributor Watkins, Winona State has conducted several studies in recent years on curative qualities of cranberries. None have been conclusive. The latest study involve Wilson Emily Carrell and Erin Morcomb.
Contact: Ted Wilson
Tough lesson: Minnesota's open container law
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 19, 2008 -- Policeoni foot patrol stopped two Winona State Universuty students, a man and awoman, each carrying an open bottle of beer, and cited them under the state open-container and underage consumption laws. The man was 20, the woman 19. The incident was about 12:20 a.m.near Sanborn and Harriet streets.Extra title for WSU academic chief: Provost
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 19, 2008 -- The academic vice president at Winona State, Sally Johnstone, has been bestowed an additional title -- provost. Making the announcement, university President Judith Ramaley said Johnstone will have direct responsibilities in preparing the institution for reaccreditation. The university's current accreditation expires in Spring 2012.
In U.S. higher education, the title provost usually denotes that the academic vice president is the first among equals at the vice presidential level with senior administrative duties. In the six-campus Minnesota state colleges system, the chief academic officers at all but Minnesota State-Moorhead already carry the title provost and academic vice president.
Johnstone has been at Winona State since 2006. Earlier she was executive director of the Colorado-based Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications. She holds a doctorate in experimental psychology from the University of North Carolina. |  SALLY JOHNSTONE Now provost and vice president for academic affairs |
100-plus college leaders: Drop liquor age to 18
MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Aug.19, 2008 -- The Amethyst Initiative, a campaign to lower the legal drinking age to 18, has support from more than 100 college leaders, said the organizer John McCardell, the retired president of Middlebury College. The organization released the signatories of presidents who support its position in an attempt to generate news coverage. The presdients agree that the 21 age is not working and has created a culture of dangerous binge drinking. The campaign calls on elected officials to weigh the consequences of restrictions and to work rather on helping young adults make responsible decisions about alcohol. Neither presidents Judith Ramaley of Winona State nor WI=illiam Mann of St. Mary's have signed the statement.
The signatories: Vincent Maniaci, American International College |
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Lapse reveals SAT, other data
NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2008 -- The college-prep testing service Princeton Review accidentally revealed the names and the scores of perhaps 34,000 students who took SAT and LSATs. The names and scores went online and were left up for seven weeks until the problem was brought to the company's attention. The company blamed a glitch during a site update. The company also said that only someone with advanced computer skills could have accessed the data. Other sources said that all it took a typing in relatively simple web address.| MORE |
Many students prefer their scores on the standardized national tests being kept private, especially those who inflate the results in bragging about their academic prowess. Amlso, any high-scoring students prefer not being razzed about their prowess. Data include class rank, fashion sense, popularity, and family income.
Funeral to be Friday in Burnsvile
BURNSVILLE, Minn., Aug. 19, 2008 -- A funeral for Winona State University sophomore Andrew Sarreal, who was killed in a traffic accident, will be Friday in his native Burnsville. His mother, Lynn Leberknight, asked friends to remember Sarreal by dressing casually for the service. A CD mix of his favorite music was being out together, she said.
Survivors include Al Leberknight, stepfather; Linzey Sarreal, sister; and Errol Sarreal, father. Date: Friday, Aug. 22Background: Grief counseling offered at WSU |  ANDREW SARREAL Traffic accident victim |
2,000 freshmen move in at WSU
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 19, 2008 -- About 2,000 freshmen, perhaps the largest number in Winona State history, moved into dorms and the campus neighborhood to begin six days of orientation before classes begin Monday. The university will wait until late September to issue its fall semester enrollment tally, after the inevitable shakeout during the first few days. One new student, Kirsten Ilgen, 18, of Grantsburg, Wis., was typical as her family unpacked their van and helped her move her worldly possessions up an elevator in the 13-story Sheehan dorm. To reporter Nolan Rosenkrans of the Winona Daily News, Ilgen said: "I just wanted to feel at home."Boosters sponsor $100-a-plate dinner
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 19, 2008 -- The annual Winona State University football scholarship fund-raising dinner will be Monday, not the traditional January, coach Tin Sawyer announced. Menu: Steak and chicken.Date:Monday, Aug. 25
Time: 6 p.m.
Place: Winona Elks Lodge
Cost: $100
Contact: Tom Sawyer at 507-457-5213 office
WSU student rowing for Norway in world meet
WINONA, Minn., Aug., 19, 2008 -- A Winona State University senior, Paal Haddal, will represent his homeland, Norway, in the World University Rowing Championships next month in Belgrade. Haddal trains on Lake Winona, which he he described to reporter Kari Knutson of the Winona Daily News, perfect for training for the 2,000 meter men's single scull. The championships are Sept. 5-8. On Lake Winona he spends hours rowing, sometimes going out twice a day, rowing from one end to the other. In Belgrade Haddal hopes to finish his race in less than 7-1/2 minutes.Nevada regents uphold prof's firing
CARSON CITY, Nev., Aug. 19, 2008 -- The Nevada higher-ed governing board unanimously has upheld the firing of a tenured University of Nevada-Reno researcher who complained to federal officials that animal abuse was going on at the university. The university had justified dismissing Hussein Hussein, of the animal biotechnology faculty, for withholding some donated research money that should have gone to the university. Hussein has claimed the dismissal was too severe a penalty. About an accusation that Hussein had plagiarized student work, a hearing officers earlier found insufficient grounds.NCAA OKs beer ads during broadcast games
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 19, 2008 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association executive committee decided to continue allowing beer commercials during televised college games. The committee chairman, Michael Adams, president of the University of Georgia,, acknowledged opposition to many college presidents and athletics directors: "While not everyone agrees 100 percent, I think we represent what is a good balance." Beer ads will be limited to 60 seconds per hour.R.I.P.: Stephen S. Miller
SPRING, Texas, Aug. 19, 2008 -- A Winona State College grad, Stephen Miller, 58, died unexpectedly at home. Most of his career was with 3M Corp.City seeks passenger rail service upgrade
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 18, 2008 -- The City Council unanimously called on Amtrak and federal and state officials to add another train on the Chicago-Minneapolis route through Winona. Earlier the Minnesota-Wisconsin Amtrak Corridor Group, of which Mayor Jerry Miller is an organized, also asked for more service than the current one westbound and one eastbound train.Background: Mayors call for more passenger trains
Counseling offered after death of WSU student
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 18, 2008 -- Campus counselors will be available for Winona State University people grieving the death of sophomore Andrew Sarreal, who was killed in a weekend highway accident. Vice President Connie Gore encouraged people to contact counselors at 507-457-5330 or at the campus counseling center at Wabasha Hall. Sarreal, 19, was a grad of the Burnsville, Minn., high school. He had begun his Winona State studies last fall. He died Saturday, 1-1/2 weeks before he was to begin his second year of college. Said Gores: "Over the next few days the members of the WSU community -- faculty, staff, students -- will join together to celebrate the beginning of a new fall semester. Unfortunately at this time we must also reunite to mourn the loss of a valued member, and we ask the entire WSU community to hold Andrew's family and friends in your thoughts."
Sarreal, a masscom major, lived in the Lourdes dorm his freshman year.
The accident occurred as Sarreal was driving to Rochester to meet his mother at the Noodles & Co. restaurant on the nortwhest side off Highway 52. Background: Collision claims WSU sophomore | ANDREW SARREAL Traffic accident victim |
Vietnam vets' traveling memorial due at WSU
WINONA, Minn, Aug. 18, 2008 -- A scaled-down version of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington will visit Winona State University Sept. 18 through 21. Ann Kohner, campus organizer, called the visit a fitting way to recognize military veterans. Kohner noted that Winona State closed in the 1860s because most of the faculty was away fighting the Civil War. Kohner, who also is organizer of the university's 150th anniversary celebration, also noted how the influx of veteran after World War II transformed Winona State.
The traveling memorial is sponsored by a grassroots Vietnam War veterans' group. The wall is a 3/5 scale model that spans 288 feet.Said Kohner: "Because many people have not been to Washington, D.C., to view the Vietnam Memorial Wall, we thought it would be a nice idea to bring the replica traveling wall to Winona." |  VETERANS MEMORIAL At an earlier visit at Thornton, Colo. |
Tab for college ex-president autobiography: $18,000
CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 18, 2008 -- The former president of Chicago State University, Elnora Daniel, who resigned amid questions about spending practices, authorized publication of a glossy coffee-table book honoring herself before she left office. The 52-page book cost $18,000 from her university account. The book, titled "A Retrospective: Ten Years of Vision and Leadership," features photos of Daniel with politicians and her family. Four-hundred copies mailed to faculty and donors.| MORE |
Daniel's spending practices became an issue after A state audit found that she had spent $15,000 from a university account for a Caribbean cruise on travel with five members of her family. After the revelation, Daniel resigned when her contract ended June 30 but activated a provision for $241,000 in salary and benefits for another year.
WSU tracksters 34th in national grade ranking
NEW ORLEANS, La., July 11, 2008 -- -- Winona State University is ranked 34th academically among 58 Division II college men's teams by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. To be nominated a team must carry a minimum 3.00 cumulative grade point average, a straight B on a 4.0 scale. Winona State accumulated a 3.25 GPA. The University of Tampa led at 3.67.Undoing a college exec's resignation fails
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 17, 2008 -- The status of a recently resigned vice president at Southwestern College, Greg Sandoval, remains in limbo. The college's governing board lacked a quorum to consider a proposal to postpone the resignation until January, when Sandoval would qualify for lifetime medical benefits. Sandoval resigned in June as vice president for student affairs after a employee filed a sexual harassment claim. Sandoval later tried to rescind his resignation, but was denied by college President Raj Chopra. Then the presidency of the college's governing board, David Acosto, went to bat for Sandoval but failed to get the issue on an agenda for want of a quorum.Dean quits after degree legitimacy
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 17, 2008 -- The dean of the public policy school at Carnegie Mellon University, Mark Wessel, resigned after an investigation into a degree from the university. Weis had claimed an "excessive transfer credits and excessive units for independent study in lieu of course work" for a degree awarded n 2004, the year he was appointed dean. Earlier he was Carnegie Mellon's chief operating officer. Wessel was an economist and financial analyst for the U.S. Department of Energy before joining the faculty in 1993.Hurdler to academic honorary team
NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 17, 2008 -- A Winona State University hurdler and sprinter, Lisa Meyer, has been named to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association all-academic team. To qualify, student-athletes must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.25, a B-plus, and have met an NCAA Division II qualifying standard. In the 400-meter hurdles, Meyer has qualified at 1:01.96.McCain: Cut red tape to encourage innovation
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2008 -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for government support for innovative approaches to higher-ed. "We must rise to the challenge and modernize our universities so that they retain their status as producers of the most skilled work force in the world," McCain said in a policy statement in his higher-ed goals.| MORE |
The goal was among six in McCain's higher-ed policy outline: The others:
• Remove regulatory barriers that impede new ideas and innovations by colleges and universities.Background: Races that campus people are watching
• Better information for parents about colleges by making the data that institutions report to the federal government available in a "clear and concise manner" so that students can make more-informed choices about where to go to college.
• Simpler higher-ed tax benefits so families can figure them out and claim them.
• Simpler applications for a federal financial aid by consolidating government programs.
• Eliminate government spending on pet research projects of members of Congress through the lawmakers earmark process.
• Expand the federal role as a "lender of last resort" for students to obtain loans in when the lending system falters and to insist on honesty by private lenders.
Englich stays as WSU community liaison
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2008 -- The interim community liaison director at Winona State University, Vicki Englich, has been put in the position on an ongoing basis. As interim director since 2005, Englich developed the Adopt-A-Block and Neighborhood Mentor projects. Also, she helped coordinate flood recovery relief last fall and the Spruce Up Winona Day. He duties include promoting student engagement in the Winona community.| MORE |
Englich is finishing her first term on the Winona School Board and has decided against seeking a second. Earlier she was an educator for the Winona Historical Society. Englich holds an undergrad degree in English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Study: 15% of students have pondered suicide
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 17, 2008 -- Three in 20 college students have seriously considered suicide and one in 20 have attempted suicide sometime in their lives, according to a new study. More than half of 26,000 students in the 70-campus study have thought about suicide, the study found. The study was based on an online survey by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education under the leadership of psychologist David Drum of the University of Texas-Austin. They found that that 6 percent of undergrads reported contemplating suicide in the 12 months before the survey was taken. Among grad students, it was 4 percent. More than half the students who experienced a recent suicidal crisis did not seek help or tell anyone, the study found.| MORE |
Researchers faulted current practices to identify at-risk students. Suicidal thoughts are recurring with multiple points for intervention. Advance indicators include depression, substance abuse and eating disorders, the Drum team said. Campus mental health counselors need help from administrators, advisers, faculty, parents and student leaders, Drum said.
WSU women golfers 22nd in grades nationally
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Aug. 17, 2008 -- Winona State University's women golfers had a collective grade point average of 3.529 last season to rank 22nd in the National Golf Coaches Association all-scholar rankings. The GPA is closer to A than B on a 4.0 scale. South Alabama led with 3.734. Stanford was second at 3.702.Whistle-blowers challenge no-bid contract
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 17, 2008 -- Two senior employees at California State University claim they were fired for questioning whether Chancellor Charles Reed misused public funds by hiring a consulting firm without competitive bidding. Sources say a third senior employee also was fired but has signed a gag agreement not to discuss the issue. The consulting firm, Georgia-based C. Richard Barnes & Associates, was hired for $2 million for negotiations with faculty labor unions. One of the fired employees, lawyer Paul Verellen of the California State system's labor relations office has filed a whistle-blower complaint with a state review agency. The university has responded that bidding was not necessary for the contract. About the firings, the university says it was a staff reorganization.Collision kills WSU sophomore
ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 16, 2008 -- A Winona State University sophomore, Andrew Sarreal, 19, was killed when his car rear-ended an oil-tanker on Interstate 90 southeast of Rochester. Both vehicles were westbound in a 70 mph zone, police said. The accident happened at 2:14 p.m. two mies east of the U.S. 52 exit. Westbound lanes of I-90 were backed up. The driver of the semi-trailer truck, Keith Snyder, 45, of Hammond, Minn., was unhurt, police said. Sarreal was driving a Mitsubishi Lancer.Salyards proposes licensing on-street parking
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 15, 2008 -- Winona State University students should be required to buy permits to park in the university neighborhood, City Council member Deb Salyards said. In a message to select members of the university's Student Senate, Salyards said permits would ease congestion in the campus neighborhood. She expects opposition. "Winona is always afraid of the unknown," she said. Indeed, student President David Obray responded that the plan smacks of "student-targeted taxing," which he said is hardly "an unknown strategy."Obray said he has appointed senior Sen. Josh Martin, a member of the Senate Student services Committee, to look into the Salyards plan.| MORE |
Salyards, whose constituency includes the main Winona State campus, has consistently sought to reduce student presence in the university neighborhood. She was the main architect of 2005 city restrictions to reduce off-campus student housing by denying new rental licenses in blocks with more than less than 70 percent owner-occupied residences. Salyards, up for re-election to a second term in November, operates the Carriage House bed-and-breakfast on Main Street across from McCown Gym. She is widely known on campus for once telling an interviewer: "I like student when they are sober."
Background: Election 2008: Races campus people are watching
WSU rivers expert co-authors book
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 15, 2008 -- A Winona State Unversity biology prof, Michael Delong, co-authored a book "The Riverine Ecosystem Synthesis: Toward Conceptual Cohesiveness in River Science," with Jim Thorp of the University of Kansas and Martin Thoms of the University of Canberra. The book, published by Academic Press, describes the integration of hydrology, geomorphology and biology to define the functioning of streams and rivers.| COURT CONVICTIONS WEEK ENDING AUG. 15, 2008 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT LOUD PARTYING Elizabeth Kennerly Cantwell, 20, Middleton, Wis., $180. James Allen Rondeau, 20, 27 Huron Lake, $180.
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Winona State tabbed to place 2nd
ST. PAUL, Minn. Aug. 14, 2008 -- Defending champion Winona State University has been picked to place second this season in the Northern Sun conference in soccer, according to a preseason poll of league coaches. The Warriors picked up four first-place votes and totaled 155 points. New Northern Sun member Minnesota State-Mankato garnered nine-first place votes and totaled a league-high 194 points.
Winona State defender, senior Heidi Woerle, was picked as preseason defensive player. Woerle earned NSCAA/Adidas All-Central first team honors along with Northern Sun first-Team honors a year ago.
Aside from winning the Northern Sun regular-season championship last season the Warriors grabbed a berth in the first round of the NCAA regional tournament. Winona State was 8-1 in the league and 16-3-2 overall. |  HEIDE WOERLE Great year expected on defense |
Malaysia bans book on Muslim women
KUALA LUMPUR, Malayasia, Aug. 14, 2008 -- The Malaysia Ministry of Home Affairs banned a collection of academic research papers about the challenges facing Muslim women. The government agency said the collection, "Muslim Women and the Challenge of Islamic Extremism," could damage the religion. Islam is the official state religion of Malaysia. The collection was published by the activist group Sisters in Islam as a follow-up to a 2003 academic conference.| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 14, 2008 A fire alarm activated at Wabasha Hall at 10:38 a.m., but security guards found no fire or smoke. |
Bar stabbing trial again delayed
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 14, 2008 -- A jury trial for Jonathan Hans Minor, 23, accused of stabbing an off-duty bouncer at Schyde's drinkery 2-1/2 years ago, has been postponed by Judge Jeff Thompson. Minor's attorneys said documents that they need to put their case together only recently arrived. The trial, expected to take a week, now is docketed to begin Jan. 26. A pretrial hearing will be Jan. 16.
This is the third postponement. In May, Minor's attorneys, Rich McCluer and J.P. Plachecki, asked for more time because they hadn't been provided e medical reports on the victim, former Winona State University football player Steve Adams. They raised the possibility that Adams' account may be clouded by his own drinking. McCluer and Plachecki also said they haven't had medical documents on whether Adams' wounds warrant the charge tat Minor "substantial bodily harm" and "great bodily harm."
The trial is expected to hinge on expert testimony based on medical records. Adams took five penetrating wounds in the lower back. After the latest trial postponement, Adams said in an interview in Phoenix, Ariz., where he now lives, that he still suffers the effects of the wounds. Doctors say the effects will be with him his whole life, he said.
Adams was off-duty as a bouncer at Schyde's Drinks and Whatnot the night of Feb. 7, 2006, when Minor, intent on starting his 21st birth celebration a night early, showed up drunk and was thrown out. Minor came, at which point Adams escorted him out. The stabbing occurred outside the bar. Adams said he didn't realize immediately that he had been stabbed. Minor himself nearly severed a finger in the scuffle.
Police quoted a friend that he and Minor had driven down from Anoka, Minn., for the birthday outing and that en route brandished a black-handled folding knife with a 3-1/2-inch blade and said: "If anyone tries to fuck with us I am going to carve them up like a turkey."
Minor, a pizza joint employee in Anoka, had a number of prior convictions in Anoka County. He was on probation for drunken driving at the time. Minor has won freedom pending trial on $100,000 bond and has relocated to West Fargo, N.D. |  JONATHAN MINOR Trial now in January  STEVE ADAMS Wounds still a problem  SCHYDE'S DRINKS & WHATNOT 102 Johnson St. |
Background: Bail renewed for Minor
My flag? No, but dunno from where
WINONA, Minn., April 14, 2008 -- Police stopped a drunk stumbling through the 100 block of West Wabasha Street with a U.S. flag on a six-foot pole about 1 a.m. The man admitted stealing the flag but had no idea from where, police said. A charge of possession of stolen property was pending while police comb the neighborhood to ind where the flag came from.Profs' union dues up 8.4 percent
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 14, 2008 -- The collective-bargaining agent for state university system profs, the Inter Faculty Organization, has raised dues 8.4 percent to $753 a year. The union called the increase "modest." The increase, the first in two years, comes as profs's salaries negotiated by the union ratchet upward with the new semester under new two-year contract with 11.2 percent salary increases plus raises for seniority and promotions. About the dues increase, the union said: :The vast majority of faculty will be paying a smaller percentage of their salaries in dues than they were two years ago.
The union said rising costs necessitated the dues hike. The union noted that meeting expenses, including lodging, are up 13 percent and mileage 31.5 percent. |
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Background: Profs OK contract by wide margin
League coaches peg Warriors 8th
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 13, 2008 -- In a preseason poll, Northern Sun conference volleyball coaches picked Winona State University to finish eighth. The Warriors totaled 92 points in the 14-team conference. Defending NCAA Division II national champion Concordia of St. Paul was selected to win the conference again. Winona State finished fifth in last year with a 10-8 league mark and 19-14 overall.| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 13, 2008 The theft of a bike sometime on Aug. 12 or 13 from a rack outside of the Phelps clasroom bulding was reported at 1:05 p.m. Afalse fire alarm was activated at the John Nett Center at 10:26 p.m. |
Confidence marks opening football drills
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 13, 2008 -- The talent overfloweth, said Winona State University football coach as he out his 2008 team through its second practice for the new season. Sawyer, in his 13th season as Warrior coach, told sports editor Jeff Bersch of the Winona Daily News that competition is keen among returning veterans for key positions. Yet to be named are quarterback, running back and wide receiver. "We have a lot of seniors on our football team, so we're building on that senior leadership," he said. "We have the right mix, where there's more kids at each position who are a little more evenly balanced."| MORE |
The Warriors open at Michigan Tech on Aug. 30 in a momconference game -- . 19 days and 22 practices away. The team opened practice Monday. Twice-daily workouts begin Saturday.
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Last season the Warriors' 10-2 record put them into the NCAA Division II playoffs for a second consecutive season and fourth in five years. A preseason poll by Sporting News has them at No. 15 in Division II. Lindy's Sports Annuals ranks them at 25.
Background: League coaches see WSU as division-leader
Club-wielding intruders startle tenants
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 12, 2008 -- Two men in ski masks broke into a West Fifth Street house and smashed household items with golf clubs and hit two of the people in the house in a melee that lasted about five minutes, police said. Superficially injured were a person clubbed on the head and another on an arm. The intruders fled before police arrived. Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack said the intruders were demanding to see one of the residents of the house, who was not among the six people there at the time -- a little before 3 a.m., Tuesday. They left with about $200 from a desk and $40 from a wallet.| MORE |
The incident, with the earmarks of gang-like heavy-duty debt collection, bore striking similarities to a February break-in on Harriet Street. Those men also wore masks and wielded golf clubs in demanding to see one of the residents, who also was not there. Bostrack characterized both intrusions as "not random."
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The intruders in the latest incident, in the 850 block of West Fifth, were described as a white. One was listed as six foot, stocky and 200 pounds-plus. The other was listed as 5-foot-7 and 180 pounds. Witnesses said the ski masks were black, as were bandannas, long-sleeve shirts and stocking-style caps.
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The incident was similar, also, to a February 2007 house break-in in which two thugs demanded to see a fellow druggie who had stolen a box of money. Not finding the guy, the thugs bound his parents and beat them with a pool cue. The parents survived. Arrested and convicted were John Michael Fitzgerald, 22, a Winona State junior studying business, and Drew Steinquist, 19, a recent Winona High grad.
Background: Police find some house robbery items
Background: Masked robbers barge into house
Background: 7-1/2 years prison for WSU junior
Frat advisers gig Pong Toss video game
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2008 -- The Association of Fraternity Advisors has criticized the Wii video game Pong Toss as a glorification the frat house and dorm drinking game that is an "unsafe or detrimental behavior. The association president, Jay Anhorn, said the game is targeted at young people at a most impressionable time in their lives. Anhorn noted that the Wii game is rated "T" for teen by the Entertainment Software Rating Board.Charges pending in strip-club arson
ALMA, Wis., Aug. 12, 2008 -- A fire that destroyed the Gin Mill, a strip club that served as a motorcyclists' clubhouse, has been linked to an Arcadia, Wis., jailbird. David Osley, 25, already en route to prison on unrelated offenses, will be charged with arson and burglary, Sheriff Mike Schmidknecht said. The fire, which was set about dawn May 23, 2007, destroyed the tavern. The remains have since been cleared.| MORE |
The Gin Mill, remotely located on a back road atop Chicken Ridge above Bluff Siding, was headquarters for the Road Dogs Motorcycle club. Generations of curious college boys, often juiced up before venturing the twisty road up Chicken Valley, were frequent customers. The fire left the more accessible Four Mile Club, south on Highway 35 from Buff Siding near Marshland, the only club with exotic dancers within easy driving distance of Winona colleges.
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Osley, of Arcadia in neighboring Trempeleau County, Wis., has three conviction on his record. One conviction was for trespass into a dwelling, another for stealing a strong box for a house. For drunken driving, he has been sentenced to 27 months in a Wisconsin prison.
Background: Fire claims Chicken Ridge strip joint
Computer keyboard check finds fecal matter
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 12, 2008 -- Students at the University of Washington swabbed down keyboards in the undergrad library and tested for the bacteria as part of an environmental research project. They found fecal coliform. In response the university changed janitorial protocols to include keyboard cleansing. The university said, however, that fecal coliform does not always come from feces but from paper and textile mills.Academic award to WSU volleyball team
LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 11, 2008 -- Winona State has been named one of 39 NCAA Division II universities to have earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association team academic award for last season. Team members together maintained at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average.|
RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY POSTED AUG. 11, 2008 SURPRISE ON DREDGE COSTS. New obstacles, all financial, have arisen in moving the historic river dredge Thompson to Winona as part if the Marine Art Museum complex. The museum board has declined to release details, but Chair Rachelle Shultz said that state agencies including the Historic Preservation Office, have listed requirements that had not been anticipated. As a result, Shultz said, the project is being given a second look. Background DYNAMIC SIGNS. The city Planning Commission voted 5-2 to recommend that the City Council not allow any new dynamic that dynamic advertising signs. The Commission was more moved by arguments that the signs can distract motorists than by concerns that the city could be intruding on free expression guaranteed in the First Amendment. Existing dynamic signs could remain.Background
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| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 11, 2008 Firefighters responded to an alarm in the Gildemeister classroom building at 11:39 a.m. Painters spraying had set the alarm off. |
Warriors No. 2 on national academic list
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 11, 2008 -- The National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches has ranked Winona State University No. 2 on its annual list of Scholastic All-America teams. Winona State had a cumulative grade point average of a 3.755, equivalent to an A-minus on a 4. scale. Southeast Missouri State of the NCCA/s Division I led at 3.8200. In all, 64 teams from all NCAA divisions that were ranked with a 2.87 average and higher.| MORE |
Winona State also placed 12 of its 22 varsity gymnasts on the coaches' scholastic list. The 12 ranked individuals equaled the same amount earned by Southern Utah, Alabama and Ithaca. Southeast Missouri State lead all teams by placing 16.
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Four Warriors had perfect 4.0s: Melissa Baudhuin Alexandra Nugent, Renae Lee, and Jory Waldron. Also named Jessica Ganrude, Katie Gregory, Krystin Holody, Kourtney Johnston, Heather Rumelein, Eileen Strube, Megan Vitko and Melissa Vodvarka. THis marked the third straight year that Nugent, Strube and Vodvarka earned national All-America honors. It was the second consecutive year Ganrude and Holody. For Waldron and Lee it was a return to the list.
Penalty eased for prof who took his own courses
MOBILE, Ala., Aug. 10, 2008 -- Bishop State Community College went too far in firing an instructor who enrolled in his own classes, an arbitrator ruled. The arbitrator said that a reprimand would be a properly measured action against Henry Douglas of the culinary department and that he should be reinstated and offered backpay. Douglas had enrolled in 10 courses that he himself was teaching and also six other courses at times when he was scheduled to teach. o show grades were logged in seven courses: Six A grades and one B. Why did he do it? To augment his associate degree, Douglas said, Also, he said he was not in fact teaching himself but was under the supervision of another college employee. The other employee was also fired but has since been reinstated.WSU cracks ties at 17th in academic ranking
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 10, 2008 --The Women's Basketball Coaches Association listed Winona State in a tie at 17 for academic team honors in the NCAA Division II teams for last season. The Warriors posted a collective grade point average of 3.413, the same as Abilene Christian. The University of South Dakota, in its last season as a Division II team, had the top GPA at 3.649. | WINONA COLISEUM? | |
MASTER PLAN ALREADY AFOOT?
CITY EYES MORE PARKING SPACE;
HARDEE'S RESISTS
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 9, 2008 -- The city may have a jump start on a site for the proposed joint municipal-Winona State University coliseum. Winona Daily News reporter Mark Sommerhauser cited the city's comprehensive plan, created in 2007, to create a parking lot in the entire city block that contains Hardee;s fast-food restaurant and former Chrysler dealership and Charter Communications building. Judith Bodway, director of the Port AUthority, declined to link the block, bounded by Main, Johnson, Fourth and Fifth streets, to the coliseum project. But Sommerhauser's article raised questions anew whether a master plan for the coliseum has already been put together behind closed doors, The speculation has roots in the secrecy that surrounded the original coliseum planning by city, university and yet-to-be-named deep pocket donors who reportedly will pony up $5 million toward the $35 million facility.
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On the record is that the city has budgeted $200,000 for a parking lot, partly for the county building across the street at Fourth and Main. It has been learned that the owners of the cramped Chrysler dealership had tried off and on for years to acquire the Hardee's property, which stretched one whole block on Fifth, but finally gave up and relocated to Huff Street. That the Hardee's lot is on the city's radar is widely known. In his Daily News report, Sommerhauser quoted Joe Munger. president of the Hardee's franchise, that the company has no intent to sell. The city could use its eminent domain authority to take the Hardee's property in the name of the public good, but Bodway has said that's remote.
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Parking will be a key issue for the proposed coliseum. A frequently cited model, the coliseum at Northern Illinois University, has a 3,000-car parking lot that consumes several acres.
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Officially no one has gone beyond discussing site possibilities. Most discussed has been the blocks between the downtown riverfront area and the university -- an area that includes the Chrysler, Charter and Hardee's properties and also landmarks including the old Masonic building, the elegant United Building Centers headquarters, and the First Congregational, Central United Methodist and Central Lutheran churches. The area also includes mansions whose owners have resisted Winona State's gradual northern expansion across Sanborn Street and then Wabasha Street. Other possibilities under discussion have been west of the university across Huff, which includes a lot of shabby student housing. Also, the area east of the main campus across Main Street, with proximity to the proposed Amtrak-bus transportation hub, has been discussed.
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Also officially, a city planning committee is looking to a consulting firm for site recommendations. A $250,000 state planning grant has been approved for the planning, but a contract for the predesign work has not yet been issued.
Background: City lays plans for theater, sports complex
Background: Secrecy shrouded planning
Background: City accepts $250,000 for coliseum planning
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 8, 2008 Security guards responded to a call about a drunk individual outside the Lourdes dorm at 4:18 a.m. An ambulance crew took the person, who was not a student, to the hospital. |
Staggering 20-year-old draws cops
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 8, 2008 -- Police on foot patrol in the Winona State University neighborhood found a drunken 20-year-old woman stumbling and falling. AFter a blood-alcohol test found 0.27 percent, more than tripe the definition for drunkenness, police cited the woman for underage boozing. The incident was at Main and Sanborn streets a little before 2 a.m.| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 6, 2008 Firefighters responded to the John Nett Center on a fire alarm at 12:10 p.m.. Problems were encountered with air conditioning unit. |
FBI takes over firebombings investigation
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug 6, 2008 -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation added $20,000 to reward fund for information about two firebombings aimed at two University of California-Santa Cruz researchers who work with mice and other animals. The fund totals $50,000. The FBI took over the investigation when authorities reclassified the bombing as domestic terrorism.Background: Firebombs hit profs' house, car
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 5, 2008 Security guards responded to a trouble alarm in the Quad dorm at 9:35 p.m. A maintenance crew was notified. |
WSU switcheroo doesn't stall Giel upgrade
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 5, 2008 -- Improvements at Paul Giel Field, the high school track used by Winona State University, will be completed for Fall 2009 sports, said Jeremy Miller of the Morrie Miller Athletic Foundation that is helping fund the $2.6 million project. Miller said the project is on schedule despite setbacks, including Winona State pulling out of its original financial commitment. Now, Winona State will lease the facility for practice and competitions because state attorneys decided that the university could not enter a joint operating agreement with a private foundation. Miller said the lease arrangement is wholly as workable as the original plan.| MORE |
Miller acknowledged an initial lack of response from contractors to an bid invitation. The project will be re-advertised, he said. Miller expressed confidence that groundbreaking will be this spring.
Background: Artificial turf to go on levy ballot
Background: Feds OK lead levels in fake turf
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RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY POSTED AUG. 5, 2008 PASTOR PLEADS INNOCENCT. The Rev. Don Budd, 64, pleaded innocent to taking sexual advantage of a woman parishioner from his Methodist church in 2003 and 2005. Budd is charged under a law that forbids clergy from sexual conduct with anyone seeking spritual counsel. Budd's attorney, Rich McCluer, has argued not the facts but that the law treads unconstitutionally into religious doctrine. Background
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Trash box fire upstairs from Brothers bar
| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 5, 2008 -- Firefighters contained flames to a trash box in a laundry room above Brothers Bar at 129 W. Third St. a litte after noon. Aside from smoke, there was no damage. A witness said a juvenile fled the room moments before smoke began coming out. Firefighters used a fire exgtinguisher to quell the flames. The fire was being inspected as arson, police said. |  FIRE ALOFT 129 W. Third |
No headlamos only start of his problems
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 5, 2008 -- A 46-year-old Winona man was arrested near Huff and Fifth streets after police spotted him driving with lights off about 11 p.m. A breath test pegged his bood-alocohol level at 0.12 percent, about 1-1/2 the lega limit, police said. The had no insuracne and was driving after his license had been revoked, police said.League coaches see WSU as division-leader
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 4, 2008 -- Northern Sun conference coaches have made Winona State University their preseason choice to capture the conference's new South Division football championship. Winona State received five first-place votes to total 35 points. Minnesota State-Mankato garnered two first-place votes to come in second with 29 points. Rounding out the division standings was Wayne State (25), Augustana (23), Concordia of St. Paul (17), Southwest State University (10), and Upper Iowa (also 10).| MORE |
The Northern Sun expanded to 14 teams this season, which led to the creation if two two seven-team divisions. Mew to the conference are Minnesota -Duluth, St. Cloud State, Augustana and Minnesota State-Mankato.
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In the North Division, UM-Duluth received six-first place votes to hold the top spot with 36 points. The University of Mary totaled 29 points for second and St. Cloud State third with 27 points. St. Cloud received one of the first-place votes. Then came Bemidji State (21), Northern State (17), Minnesota State-Moorhead (11) and Minnesota-Crookston (6).
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Winona State, the defending Northern Sun champion. totaled 148 points and four first-place votes to received the No. 2 ranking in the overall championship poll. UM-Duluth received seven first-place votes and came up with 151 points for No. 1 spot.
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 3, 2008 Firefighters responded to the John Nett Center at 2:58 a.m. on a fire alarm. No fire. |
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 2, 2008 A trouble alarm activated at the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 9:26 p.m. A maintenance crew was notified. Security guards responded to an alarm at the John Nett Center at 10:20 a.m. A maintenance crew was notified. |
Firebombs hit profs' house, car
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug. 2, 208 -- Firebombs damaged the home of a molecular biologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a car parked in the driveway at the home of another university researcher. The university called the bombing "criminal acts of anti-science violence." Police classified the bomb on the porch of David Feldheim, whose research involves mice, an attempted homicide. Feldheim and his family, including two young children, escaped on a ladder from an upstairs window without serious injury.Feldheimn's name was among 13 university employees whose names and addresses, were in an anonymous flier that read: "Animal abusers everywhere beware; we know where you live; we know where you work; we will never back down until you end your abuse."| MORE |
In the other incident, also about 6 a.m, a car parked in the driveway of a faculty member's home on the campus was firebombed. The vehicle was destroyed.
WSU students in training as election judges
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 1, 2008 -- Winona State University students are being recruited to fill 100 vacancies fir election judges in fall elections. Two profs in charge of the federally funded project, Kara Lindaman and Ruth Charles, say the vacancies mostly are in southeast Minnesota. Involving students involved in the election process fosters a stronger commitment to community and social engagement, Charles said. The project is funded with a $29,500 grant from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to recruit college students to monitor polling places to staff polling places, administer procedures, and ensure that the rights of voters are protected. Historically election=on judges have mostly been civic-minded pensioners.| MORE |
Charles and Lindaman's students were assigned to polling sites throughout the state in July. In August they are attending county-level training sessions. Their first service as election judges will be in the September primary and the November general election. Many students still need placement and are available to serve where there is a need.
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Charles teaches social work, Lindaman political science. They conducted a pilot project during the 2006 mid-term elections with 10 students. Lindaman called the results encouraging. A follow-up survey found the experience had lasting effect on the students, she said: "They feel more like citizens."
Background: Campaigns that campus people are watching
WSU makes college ranking list again
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2008 -- Winona State University has been named among the Best in the Midwest by the The Princeton Review college ranking company for the fifth year in a row. In all, 159 Midwest colleges receiving the designation. Fourteen of the colleges are in Minnesota, only three of which are public institutions. The Minnesota colleges: Augsburg, Carleton, Crown, Gustavus Adolphus, Hamline, Macalester, North Central, St. Catherine, St. Mary's, St. Olaf, St. Scholastica, St. Thomas and Twin Cities and Crookston campuses of the University of Minnesota.| MORE |
Princeton Review's rankings are based on student opinion from 654 schools. Criteria include accessibility to profs and the quality of campus food.
LOCAL ELIMINATION PRIMARIES
IN SEPTEMBER
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 1, 2008 -- Important dates leading up to the November 2008 elections:
Aug. 25-28: Democratic national convention, Denver
Sept. 1-4: Republican national convention, St. Paul
Sept. 9: Local primaries to reduce races to two candidate
Nov. 4: The big day
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Races that Winona campus people are watching:
U.S. PRESIDENCY
John McCain (Republican): Arizona senator
Barack Obama (Democrat): Illinois senator
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U.S. SENATE
Minnesota
Mike Cerisi (Democrat): Speculation abounds that he may re-enter race
Norm Coleman (Republican): Has party nomination for second term
Al Franken (Democrat): Has party endorsement
U.S. HOUSE
District 1 (southern Minnesota)
Dick Day (Republican): State senator from Owatonna
Brian Davis (Republican): Mayo Clinic physician; holds convention endorsement
Tim Walz (Democrat): Incumbent
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MINNESOTA HOUSE
District 28-B
Mostly Wabasha County
Steve Drazkowski, Wabasha: (Republican): Incumbent
Linda Pfeilsticker, Wabasha (Democrat)
Distict 31-A
Mostly Winona County
Gene Pelowski, Winona: (Democrat): Incumbent
Rhett Zenke, Winona: (Republican)
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MAYOR
Jerry Miller: Incumbent
Haakon Nelson: Nextel customer service rep
Clarence Russell: Former Goodview city clerk
John Skalitzky: Former Winona State University student senator
CITY COUNCIL
1st Ward (Far West End)
Al Thurley: Incumbent
CITY COUNCIL
3rd Ward (Central city, including WSU)
Deb Salyards: Incumbent
CITY COUNCIL
At-large
Debbie White: Incumbent
Jim Kerkenbush:
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COUNTY COMMISSION
3rd District (western townships, Altura, Elba, Rollingstone, St. Charles)
Rudie Spitzer,
Jerry Heim (incumbent): Decided against seeking re-election
Mara Kaehler, St. Charles
Greg Kuehntopp, Rollingstone Township
Steve Herrick, St. Charles
Bernie Siebenaler, St. Charles
COUNTY COMMISSION
4th District (downtown, West End)
Dave Stoltman: Incumbent
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SCHOOL BOARD
4th District (Dakota and rural, exurban areas to south, west)
SCHOOL BOARD
3rd District (central city)
Greg Fellman: Controller-accounting director for Franciscan Skemp, La Crosse, Wis.
Kelly Herold (incumbent): Winona State University communications prof
David Kulas: Former Winona State computer instructor
Jean Leicester: Retired Winona State education prof
Vicki Englich
Michelle Langowski
Ruth Marg
SCHOOL BOARD
5th District (Goodview, Stockton and rural, exurban areas to north, west)
Fred Peterson (incumbent, not seeking re-election)
Gary Shurson
Mike Lafky
Background: Campaigns that campus people are watching
| WSU SECURITY REPORT AUG. 1, 2008 A parent called at 3:25 p.m. for help in containg a daughter from whom they haven't heard in several days. The student was located. Firefighters responded to several pieces of cardboard on fire on the south side of the Sheehan dorm. No damage. |
Aetna to reimburse for underpaid claims
HARTFORD, Conn. Aug. 1, 2008 -- A major insurance company, Aetna, announced reimbursements to thousands of college students who were underpaid for claims. Aetna said it discovered the problem as the state attorney general was investigating how insurers pay for out-of-network care. Miscalculations involved only a small percentage of its claims," an Aetna spokesperson said. In Connecticut 1,300 students will receive $100,000 for claims processed since 1999. National reimbursement total were not announced.NEWS TIP? Let us know if you have a campus-related story that needs to be told: editor@indee.info |
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