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Aug. 17-22

  

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WSU out of classes for late registrants

WINONA, Minn., Aug. 22, 2001 -- The academic vice president called on Winona State University profs "to be receptive" to students who are registering late and let them into already-filled classes. Steve Richardson said a surge of foreign students and frosh can't get into classes. Richardson denied he was pressuring profs: "Winona State continues to recognize the importance of small class sizes, and I am reluctant to ask you to do anything that compromises educational quality," he said to faculty. "I ask only that you give each request fair consideration and, if possible, that you help an anxious student find a seat in your classroom."


UPCOMING CAMPUS EVENTS AND SCHEDULES

SAINT MARY'S
SOUTHEAST TECH
WINONA STATE

WSU SECURITY
REPORT
Aug. 22, 2001		An employee reported that a person asked him to move his vehicle from a parking stall. When the employee refused, he said, the man threw a garbage in the pickup bed.

King Street partying leads to noise tickets

WINONA, Minn., Aug. 21, 2001 -- Responding to a complaint about loud partying four nights in a row, police knocked on the door at 576 W. King St. a little after 11 p.m. and issued two noise tickets. The residents were both 20, police said. Under the new city Landlord Responsibility law, the tenants' landlord will be notified. After three violations, the City Council could revoke the landlord's rental license.


ONE PARTY,
SIX CITATIONS

226 Kansas St.
The morning after

Cops bust first keg party of season

WINONA, Minn., Aug. 21, 2001 -- Police busted more than 100 guzzling Winona State University students, mostly frosh, at a raucous back-to-school beer party on Kansas Street. The six guys who threw party were ticketed. Everybody else was read the Riot Act and sent staggering back home, mostly to the dorms six blocks away. Under the new Winona Keg Law, which prohibits more than one keg per household, the cops confiscated:

  • Two half-barrels.
  • One quarter-barrel.
  • A tap.
  • Beer glasses.
  • $218 cash.
    The party-givers had been charging $5 for a bottomless cup. The bust was the first proactive assault on partying in memory. Past police policy has been to respond only to complaints. This time the cops took up an invitation that had been plastered all over campus for an all-you-can-drink $5 party at 226 Kansas St. At 9:44 p.m. the cops knocked on the door. Tickets were issued to the proprietors and their agents, whose ages ranged from 20 to 28, police said. The charges: Keg Law violation, Noise Law violation, and selling beer without a license.
  • Special report: Cops, kegs and kids

    WSU SECURITY
    REPORT
    Aug. 21, 2001    		INCIDENT NO. 1: A student reported he was approached about 11 p.m. while walking on 9th Street between the Quad and Prentiss-Lucas dorms by a man who requested money. The student gave the guy some money and he left. There was no threat of force, the student said. INCIDENT NO. 2: A student was arrested at 12:30 a.m. as a minor consuming alcohol on campus. A second student, who was 21, was asked to leave campus for possession of beer. INCIDENT NO. 3: A student reported at 5 p.m. that her bicycle was taken from the bike rack in front of the Sheehan dorm between Aug. 19 and 21.

    Foot cops patrol WSU 'hood for boozers

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 21, 2001 -- Police on foot patrol stopped four boozers in the neighborhood west of Huff Street, just off the Winona State University campus, in the early evening. Three students, age 18, 19 and 20, were ticketed for minor consumption. The fourth, age 21, was cited for public consumption.

  • Details: Partying convictions, fines
  • Details: Underage boozing convictions, fines

    Revelers injured in Third Street brawl

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 21, 2001 -- A brawl left numerous people injured at Brothers bar, a downtown college hangout, about 1 a.m. Firefighters were called to help with injuries.


    How serious is meningitis? Diane Palm: "It can lead to permanent disabilities such as hearing loss and brain damage. Despite treatment, 10 percent of those infected die each year. Although a rare disease, the number of cases has risen dramatically in recent years, with about one third of these cases on college campuses. Recent studies have shown freshmen living in dormitories to be at a slightly higher risk of contracting the disease due to close living quarters, smoking, alcohol consumption, and frequent bar patronage."

    WSU health chief encourages mass inoculations

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 21, 2001 -- The chief campus nurse enlisted Winona State University club leaders and varsity team captains to encourage their members to be vacinated against meningitis. "We strongly believe that your influence upon the university's students will have tremendous impact," Diane Palm said in an e-mail message. Palm said whole teams and clubs can get shots at one time if leaders make arrangements with Katrina Keiper by Aug. 27. A contract firm, Vaccess, is doing mass inoculations Aug. 29.

  • Background: Dorm frosh at risk

    • City to porn shop: Only five years more

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 20, 2001 -- The City Council will give five years to Adult Book & Video, the city's only porn shop, to move from its Third Street site downtown or leave town. The Council decision is embedded in an ordinance that allows sexually oriented businesses only in three remote enclaves in the city. Rather than test the constitutionality of a flat-out ban on Adult Book & Video at its current cite, 72 E. Third St., the Council allowed five years for it to comply. City Attorney Richard Blahnik, who drafted the ordinance, had included a 10-year grandfather clause to reduce the chance that porn shop owner Dennis G. Buchanan II would go to court on First Amendment grounds. The Council, under pressure from the moralists' group STOP, decided on five.

  • Background: Mayor: No rush

    • WSU SECURITY
    REPORT
    Aug. 20, 2001    		INCIDENT NO. 1: A student reported he was approached about 11 p.m. while walking on 9th Street between the Quad and Prentiss-Lucas dorms by a man who requested money. The student gave the guy some money and he left. There was no threat of force, the student said. INCIDENT NO. 2: A student was arrested at 12:30 a.m. as a minor consuming alcohol on campus. A second student, who was 21, was asked to leave campus for possession of beer.

    Enrollment swelling at Southeast Tech

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 20, 2001 -- Fall classes at Southeast Tech had 1,086 students enrolled the first day, a 10.5 percent increase. Jim Johnson, president, said some adjustments, probably upward, will occur in the next few days. Not until the 10th day of class is the enrollment locked in for calculating state funding for Tech.


    Union negotiating board favors strike

    ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 18, 2001 -- The 450-member negotiating assembly for the largest state employees union voted for a strike. The issue next goes to a vote of the 19,500 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees the last week of the month. At issue were wages and health benefits. The union, which includes more than 200 Winona State and Southeast Tech employees, is asking for 6.5 percent. Gov. Jesse Ventura has offered 2.5 percent. Ventura wants to cut state-funded medical insurance. The union wants more health coverage.

  • Background: Labor chief: Don't underestimate us
  • Comment: Jesse, be a man

    DRAAYER
    LUNDEEN
    Soprano and organ

    WSU musicians in Nystedt premiere

    ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 18, 2001 -- Two Winona State University music profs are presenting the U.S. premiere of a work by Norwegian composer Knut Nystedt at the Summer Noonday Organ Recital Series in Rochester. Suzanne Draayer, soprano, and Patricia Lundeen, organ, are performing "Prayers for Fellow Prisoners." Lundeen called it "almost a duet between the organ and vocalist." The words come from German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who spoke out against Nazism and wrote the prayers and hymns that comprise the piece. "The mood moves from thankfulness and praise to God for letting him survive to more of a mood of despair," said Draayer. Both Draayer and Lundeen have met the composer, 85-year-old Knut Nystedt. Said Draayer: "Nystedt is struggling to make sense of the chaos in our lives, why does this happen and how do we get through it."

  • Date: Aug. 28
  • Time: 12:20 p.m.
  • Place: Christ United Methodist Church, 400 Fifth Ave. S.W.
  • Cost: Free

    WSU quarterback candidates: Carpenter, Nett

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- Don't expect to know who be quarterbacking for Winona State University before the Warrior bus arrives in Vermillion, S.D., for the football season-opener Aug. 30. Coach Tom Sawyer has it narrowed to junior Bruce Carpenter and sophomore Andy Nett. "They both can start and win for us," Sawyer said. In terms of game plans, Carpenter and Nett are interchangeable, he said. He's watching Carpenter's recovery from an ankle that was broken in a spring game. Going for Carpenter is a stronger arm, Sawyer said.

  • Background: Transfer players fill WSU defense gaps
  • Background: Sports mag: WSU gridders No. 22 nationally

    COMMENT: JESSE DOUBLESPEAK
    CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS

    Talk about scapegoating: Gov. Jesse Ventura has pushed the largest state employees union toward a strike and tells us it isn't his doing.

    The governor says the Legislature approved only 3 percent for employee raises. Theefore, as he tells it, the Legislature's to blame that he can't go higher than 2.5 percent.

    The governor's weird math aside, the fact is that he asked the Legislature for only 3 percent.

    Stand up and be a man, Jesse. Accept responsibility for your actions.

  • Background: Labor chief: Don't underestimate us, Jesse

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    Potatopanotis cancels Thursday show

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- The Winona State University rocker group Patotopanotis canceled a show at Rascals, a downtown music bar, because one member had a family commitment.

  • Background: Potatowhatever back at Rascals for fall

    Six WSU athletes named to Hall of Fame

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- Two varsity athletes whose performances put them in the record book when wrestling was a major varsity sport at Winona State, William Hitesman and Ron Moen, will be inducted into the university's Athletic Hall of Fame. In all, six athletes will be inducted, said Athletic Director Larry Holstad. The induction will be at a campus luncheon on Homecoming Day. Oct. 6. Retired Athletic Director Dwight Marston will be an honorary guest. The inductees:

  • Susan Frame, Class of 1974, volleyball and softball.
  • William Hitesman, 1973, wrestling.
  • Sharen Keller, 1963.
  • Ron Moen, 1970, 1976, wrestling and football.
  • Steve Portsman, 1972, basketball.
  • Jim Washington, 1978, football and track
  • Background: WSU colors explain homecoming theme

    Minnesota ACT scores up to 22.1

    IOWA CITY, Iowa, Aug. 17, 2001 -- The ACT college entrance scores of Minnesota students are rising, the testing service reported. This year, at 22.1, the Minnesota scores are more than a point above the national average, although still short of the state's record 22.2 in 1997. A perfect score, virtually unattainable, is 36.0. The greatest Minnesota gains were in English, reading and math. Science scores were unchanged.


    POTATOPANOTIS
    Paul Hoppe on the congos and Jeff Meronek on the guitar back up Juwan Johnson's version of Tom Petty's love ballad "Last Day With Mary Jane" at the El 2 Triple Oh bandfest at Stripe's. Johnson jams off and on with Potatopanotis.

    Potatowhatever back at Rascals for fall

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- After their debut in a bandfest in May, six Winona State University guys with a strange name, Potatopanotis, have been signed for two performances at Rascals downtown to start the fall semester. Rascals owner Craig Timm has Potatopanotis booked for Aug. 18 and Sept. 15. If the shows are anything like last spring when the rockers first played Rascals, Craig will be turning crowds away at the door. Over the summer the group honed its 20-some vocal-instrumental combinations a couple times a month at Rascals and at clubs in Rochester, Minn., and a bike race in Platteville, Wis.

  • Details: WSU band band packing in crowds

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    Anticipating science funds, WSU readies shovels

    Pasteur Hall, the science building at Winona State University, was built in 1961 for education majors to learn to teach science. Never was it intended for intense science instruction and research. Among problems is ventilation, which has caused illness. Wet labs will all be in the new building.

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- If the Legislature approves funding for a new Winona State University science building next session, which ends in May, construction would begin immediately, said university Vice President Cal Winbush said. The project would take approximately 20 months, he said. The state college system is asking the state to borrow $30 million for the building. Winbush is hopeful for approval, noting that science is a priority statewide. MSU-Moorhead also plans a new science building, said Winbush. The Winona State building will wrap around Stark and Pasteur halls. The project has two phases, After the new building is up, the 40-year-old Pasteur science building would be refitted. The 60,000 square foot interior would be gutted and remodeled into offices and general science classrooms.

  • Reporter: Colleen Becker
  • Background: Science plans unveiled

    • Labor chief: Don't underestimate us, Jesse

    ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- The executive director of the AFSCME state employees union warned Gov. Jesse Ventura against dismissing the strong possibility of a strike. "The state makes a fundamental error if it is misreading the determination of our membership," said Peter Benner in an interview reported by the Associated Press. "If they aren't drafting contingency plans now, I think they are derelict in their duty." A strike vote begins Aug. 27.

  • Background: Ventura aide: Strike not expected
  • Background: Profs' negotiations also lagging


    SPORTS
    Aug. 17, 2001    		 GOLF: (MEN'S): Senior Joe Dietsch was named an all-American scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America.


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    SARNIA DORM
    For juniors and seniors who otherwise would squeeze campus-area rentals

    Sarnia dorm to ease Winona housing shortage

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- The new Winona State dorm on Sarnia Street, due to open in 2003, should free up some starter homes for families, said university housing director Michael Porritt. The apartment-like units will be marketed to juniors and seniors who want to live on campus with an off-campus atmosphere, Porritt said. About 300 beds are planned, which will ease pressure on rentals in the campus neighborhood, he said. There will be no new parking problems, Porritt said, noting that each resident will have an off-street parking space, Also, he said, a shuttle bus will traverse the eight blocks to campus.

  • Reporter: Colleen Becker
  • Background: Grad students to run Sarnia dorm?

    Coach doubts Juaire will get clearance

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- The chances that wide receiver Matt Juaire will wear a Winona State University football jersey ever again are "slim," Coach Tom Sawyer said. Sawyer believes that Juaire, who transferred back from Florida State this fall, has a legitimate application to the NCAA to extend his eligibility. But, Sawyer said, exceptions are rare. If Juaire receives a retroactive red-shirt for sitting out last year at Florida State for medical reasons, he still couldn't play this year because he's switched colleges twice. He could play next year, though, under a 10-semester eligibility rule.

  • Background: Juaire back from Florida, seeks red shirt

    THE FOLLOWING EXPANDS ON A PRECEDING BRIEF

    WSU band Potatopanotis packing in crowds

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 17, 2001 -- A Winona State college band, Potatopanotis, has been packing crowds into Rascals, a downtown nightclub, and Rascals owner Craig Timm has booked the group back for fall: "People love them" and "don't want to leave," said Timm. Last spring Timm was turning fans away at the door by 10 p.m. because his bar reached its legal occupancy -- the 225-person fire code limit. Inside, the crowd would be up a dancing, their hands stretched overhead resonating with Potatopanotis. Said lead vocalist and percussionist Paul Hoppe: "It's a great feeling."

    EXPANDED
    COVERAGE

    Reporter:
    Sanjeev
    Misra

    Timm first heard about Potatopanotis at the group's debut last May at the Minnesota City bandfest El 2 Triple Oh. Since then Potatopanotis has been scheduled once or twice a month at Rascals. Timm said the crowd decides which band are invited back. Crowd reaction determines who stays and who hits the road, he said. Customers want more Potatopanotis, he said: "More of the same faces keep coming back for them," he said.

    Mid-show Hoppe looks up from his drum set to the packed hall, feeding off the crowd's energy. The intensity rises. By the night's end, said guitarist Nate Michalowski, "It's one big party." The crowd keeps shouting, "One more song," until the chief Rascals bartender cuts the power so the place can close on time.

    "I am proud to be surrounded by this much musical talent," said Michalowski. The band performs as many as 20 different instrumental and vocal combinations. The band's versatility allows members to switch instruments for each song, if need be.

    Rock band Potatopanotis has six members:

  • Dave Casey, a 20-year-old music major, is the band's bass guitarist and background vocalist. Casey plays with the Winona State Jazz Ensemble.

  • Paul Hoppe, a 26-year-old biology major, is a lead vocalist and percussionist. Hoppe is the band's specialist on the harmonica and congo drums. He has learned African hand-drum music at Winona State.

  • Paul Mathees, the 27-year-old original drummer from the well-established Winona area-band Schwa, is now Potatopanotis' sole drummer and background vocalist.

  • Nate Michalowski, a 26-year-old exercise science major, is a lead guitarist, lead vocalist, and only mandolin player.

  • Jeff Meronek, a 25-year-old Winona State graduate with a double-major in music and psychology and a minor in philosophy, is a lead guitarist and vocalist. Meronek said he has written some songs performed by Potatopanotis, including fan favorites "Roll" and "The Messenger."

  • Jim Trouten, 24-year-old music major, is a lead vocalist, background guitarist, violin and trumpet player. Trouten has performed with the Winona State jazz and string ensembles and wants to be a music producer.
    • Half of Potatopanotis' songs are Jeff Meronek's originals. The rest are covers of classic and contemporary rock groups.

    After the band's first gig at the El 2 Triple Oh bandfest at Stripe's Bar in suburban Minnesota City, Potatopanotis has played at clubs in Rochester, Minn., and a bike race in Platteville, Wis.

    SIT ON
    A POTATO
    PAN,
    OTIS.

    How about that unlikely and almost unpronounceable name Potatopanotis? Michalowski recalls a memorable loss in the childhood game of palindromes are sentences that are spelled the same way from front to back and back to front. Michalowski's 15-year-old buddy beat him with the word "sitonapotatopanotis." Michalowski says he was overwhelmed by the defeat and the word never escaped him. Eventually the band adopted the word as its name. Because of pronunciation difficulties, it was shortened and became well liked.

    Potatopanotis next plays at Rascals on Aug. 18 and Sept. 15. Michalowski said the Friday, Sept. 15, show should be "one of a kind" because it's his birthday.

    Rascals Bar has been rated a 2 on a four-point scale in Pro Star, a national band and club review.

  • Background: Rascals: Still rockin' after 15 years

    EARLY AUGUST NEWSCYBERINDEE ARCHIVES



    		•
    		SPECIAL REPORT


    		COPS &
    KEGS


    		COLLEGE
    KIDS IN
    TROUBLE


    FROSH
    BOOZE
    ALERT

    PLACES TO AVOID UNTIL YOU'RE 21


    BROTHERS
    129 W. 3rd St.


    BUB'S
    65 E. 4th St.


    BULLS-EYE
    107 W. 3rd St.


    GABBY'S
    102 Johnson St.


    HOUSE
    PARTIES
    Especially
    if host charges


    JAKE'S
    79 E. 2nd St.


    RASCALS
    151 E. 2nd St.


    SHORTY'S
    528 Center St.


    YARD
    PARTIES
    Especially
    if host charges


    WELLINGTON'S
    Westgate Mall


    Cops patrol for
    under-age boozing.

    Minimum fine: $128.

    More if fake ID.

    More if you're
    obnoxious

    Imagine calling home
    from jail
    for bail money.
    Yes, you get
    only one call --
    just like a criminal.

    Judges can schedule
    court appearances
    at bad times -- like during class,
    over Thanksgiving break.


    WHO GOT
    CAUGHT?


    LOUD &
    OBNOXIOUS
    PARTIES



    When good times get out of hand

    CONVICTIONS
    Winona County Court


    UNDER-AGE
    BOOZERS



    Who got caught being very, very stupid

    Don't tell their mothers


    CAMPUS SALARIES

    Louis DeThomasis
    SMU president
    2000 total: $139,281

    Darrell Krueger
    WSU president
    2001 total: $152,130

    Jim Johnson
    Tech president
    2001 total: $125,000

    OTHER
    SALARIES






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