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Poll: WSU union members favor strike

WINONA, Minn., Aug. 28, 2001 -- A random check of Council 6 employees at Winona State Uiversity found overwhelming support to walk out on strike over stalemated contact negotiations. About 190 campus members of the statewide union -- secretaries, janitors and technical emloyees -- are eligible to cast ballots Thursday. The advance poll, conducted by journalism students, found 30 union members favor a strike. Six oppose. Four were still undecided. Sixteen declined to discuss their intentions. The poll was conducted Wednesday by journalism students of prof John Vivian. "The students tried to find Councl 6 members in every Winona campus building," Vivian said. "Although hardly a scientific sampling, the results point to strong sentiment for a strike." The students reached almost one-third of the campus Council 6 members.

  • Background: Union seeks regaining lost ground

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    R.I.P.: Brian Lee Cordes

    AUSTIN, Minn., Aug. 28, 2001 -- A Winona State University grad, Brian Cordes, 37, died at a Rochester hospital. He lived in Austin and worked in marketing at I.B.Industries of Brownsdale, Minn. He had grown up in Winona.


    TWO STRIKES
    701 W. Howard
    101 W. Third

    Lesson unlearned, it's
    nonstop partying

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 28, 2001 -- The wave of police party-busts over the weekend included back-to-back raids at two low-rent dumps, first Friday night and then Saturday night. The followup raids were at 701 W. Howard, a decripit converted church at Baker Street, and at 101 W. Third, a walkup at Main Street downtown. Tickets were issued at both places both nights.

  • Background: Eight busts

    • Post-party depression may just be setting in for tenants at these addresses. Under a year-old city ordinance, the tenants face mandatory eviction if there's a third noise complaint. Also, the landlords could lose their rental licenses.

  • Background:
    1st license loss

    • SMU plans character development sessions

    WNONA, Minn., Aug. 28, 2001 -- A one-day workshop on character education is being planned at Saint Mary's University to help teachers at Catholic schools instill life-long values in their students. An expert on active learning, Tom Jackson, is the main presenter, said workshop coordinator Michael Flanagan of the Saint Mary's faculty. Miller has written four books on teaching family values.

  • Date: Sept. 22
  • Cost: $15
  • Contact: Michael Flanagan

    Student Senate ex-committee chair busted

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 28, 2001 -- The chair of the Student Senate public relations committee at Winona State University last year, Nicholas R. Dircz, was among 31 young people busted in a police clampdown on campus-area partying last weekend. Dircz, 21, was ticketed at a rowdy party at his house, 118 E. Sanborn. At Winona State he is majoring in public relations.

  • Background: Cops bust eight beerbusts

    WSU SECURITY
    REPORT
    Aug. 28, 2001    		At 1 p.m. two windows were reported broken on a construction trailer to the east of the Physical Plant.

    WSU art profs exhibit their work

    WINONA, Minnl, Aug. 28, 2001 -- The Watkins art gallery at Winona State University opens its first fall exhibit with faculty ceramics, drawings, graphic designs, paintings, prints and sculptures. Featured is work by Mary Coughlan, Kurt Huber, Ray Kiihne, Seho Park and Anne Plummer. An inaugural reception is scheduled for 3 p.m., Sept. 5.

  • Dates: Sept. 5 to Oct. 31
  • Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays.
  • Place: Watkins Gallery
  • Cost: Free

    Young scholars, hooligans hard to tell apart

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 28, 2001 -- Neighborhood outrage at Winona State University student rowdyism and hooliganism is boiling over. In a letter to the Daily News editorial page, a West Wabasha Street resident, Phil Larson, used the university's motto to take a slap: "Do these students represent 'A community of learners dedicated to improving our world'?" Beefed-up weekend police patrols shut down eight parties on Saturday night alone. Thirty-five booze-related citations were issued over the weekend, capping a week of student excesses and arrests, ranging from the laughable, one drunk student wandering along Huff Street with his butt bare, to one out-of-control basement party with more than 100 revelers.

  • Background: Cops shut down eight parties

    • At SMU it's St. Syllabus Day

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 28, 2001 -- Fall semester classes began at Saint Mary's University with profs handing out syllabuses that lay out course requirements. For most students it was hardly a day of heavy-duty learning. "St. Syllabus Day," the seasoned students call it.


    854 W. Fifth
    Women tenants ticketed

    Cops locked out of party; five cited

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- When the cops knocked on the door at a wild party on Fifth Street about 12:30 a.m., the partiers raced for doors and windows and disappeared on foot into the neighborhood. Inside, the music stopped, and nobody answered the police knocking, although the cops heard somebody click the dead-bolt. By the time the cops gained admittance, all was tranquil, although, they reported, lots of cigarettes were smouldering in ashtrays and elsewhere, and half-drunk booze cups were everywhere. Police ticketed five women who said they lived at the address, 854 W. Fifth.


    Carpenter gets WSU quarterbacking nod

    VERMILLION, S.D., Aug. 27, 2001 -- It was a coinflip to decide who would start at quarterback for Winona State University in the Warriors season-opening game at South Dakota, said football Coach Tom Sawyer. Junior Bruce Carpenter was heads. Sawyer said having both Carpenter and sophomore Andy Nett is like "having two starters." Both quartebacked last season, Carpenter for four games until he broke a leg and then Nett the rest of the season.

  • Background: Quarterback candidates: Carpenter, Nett

    Union leader: We want to regain lost ground

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- This is catch-up time for state employees who have steadily lost ground in wage negotitions since 1993, said union local president Rollie Salling. A strike vote is scheduled Thursday at Winona State and Southeast Tech. Voting began Monday at other workplaces throughout the state. Over the past eight years employees represented by AFSCME Council 6, mostly janitors and technical employees, have lost 5 percent in real dollars, Salling said. He offered this background:

    "In 1993 when the state was hurting financially, AFSCME employees took it on the chin and accepted zero percent one year and 1 percent the next. For the last four years, when the state has had large surpluses, wage adjustent remained at or under inflation."
    Salling said the union has been pushed toward a strike by Gov. Jesse Ventura, whose negotiators have offered only a "measly" 2.5 percent wage increase at a time of continuing state budget surpluses. Too, the union is displeased with Ventura's insistence that employees pick up a greater share of health insurance premiums. The change could eat up 15 to 25 percent of employees' net income, Salling said.
  • Background: Campus employees strike vote Thursday

    Expensive partying: $552 in fines

    WINONA, Minn., Sept. 7, 2001 -- Four guys living at 707 W. Howard paid a total of $552 in fines for a loud party. The fines:

  • Derek R. Barkeim, age 19, $88.
  • Matthew M. Beckendorf, age 20, $138.
  • Michael S. Engel, age 19, $88.
  • Michael S. Engel, age 19, $138.
  • Special report: Cops & Kegs: College kids in trouble

    QUICK
    SPORTS
    Aug. 27, 2001    		 SOFTBALL: (WOMEN'S): SMU first base player and pitcher Jill Hocking, who was graduated in May, was named NCAA Minnesoita Woman of the Year.

    Chancellor sets Winona visit, will "listen"

    ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- The new state college chancellor, Jim McCormick, will make a second visit to Winona on Sept. 6 as part of a tour of all of his 34 state colleges. "This system exists solely to serve the people," McCormick said. "I want to learn from faculty, presidents and administrators about the barriers that stand in the way of meeting those needs." He is scheduled at both Winona State and Southeast Tech. McCormick was at Winona State over the summer for a Covey leadership seminar.

  • Background: College execs escape injury in river accident

    WSU student plea: Please sign my blue card

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- Hundreds of Winona State University students began fall classes, going professor to professor with half sheets of blue paper in hopes in finding vacant lecture seats. The sheets, called "blue cards," are one step in gaining admission to classes that are at capacity with students who registered early. Without a prof's signature, which authorizes overload class enrollment, late-arriving students can't get into closed classes even though they've gained admission to the university. How big is the problem? Academic Vice President Steve Richardson said hundreds of seats need to be opened up.

  • Background: WSU out of classes for late registrants

    Union protests WSU over layoff

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- A union grievance was filed against Winona State University for laying off Carol Slade last spring as the coordinator of the electronic portfolio program. Slade was among several employees, including library Dean Dick Bazillion, who were let go. The university never announced or explained the layoffs publicly, but reliable back-channel sources say that anticipated budget problems were the reason. One laid-off employee, Michael Matthews, said he believed the university made procedural mistakes and missed notification deadlines.

  • Background: WSU electronic-resume coordinator laid off

    Business-types named to college strategy unit

    ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- Two business executives were named to a new citizen advisory commission to help build a strategic plan for the state colleges. The appointments of Vance Opperman and Glen Taylor signals a continued shift to aligning state higher-ed policy into the agenda of major businesses, obsrervers said. Opperman is chief executive officer of Key Investment and former president of West Publishing. Taylor, who will chair the commission, runs Taylor Corp. of Mankato, which has more than 70 operating divisions around the world. He owns the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx basketball teams. Mary Choate, chair of the state college trustees, who made the appointments, said non-business constitutencies will also be represented on the commission.


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    Winona broadcaster teaching at SMU

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- A 1993 Winona State University masscom grad, Dean Beckman, joined the Saint Mary's University faculty to teach mass media courses. He holds a master's degree in masscom from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He spent 13 years in radio in Iowa and Minnesota, most recently at KAGE, KWNO and the sibling Winona Radio stations with numerous duties, including assistant news director, sports director, acccount manager and web manager. He continues in commercial broadcasting, doing play-by-play of high school football and basketball for Hiawatha cable television.


    WSU withdraw janitor uniform plan

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- A plan to require Winona State University janitors to wear uniforms has been dropped. Dick Lande, who is in charge of maintaining the campus, abandoned the plan after learning that the janitors' union had conducted a survey and found wide opposition. Lande had proposed uniforms to distinguish staff janitors from intruders, especially in the dorms.



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    WSU-Mankato solar car at state fair

    ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- An award-winning solar car made by Mankato and Winona college students was scheduled to be displayed at the state colleges booth at the state fair. The car, Northern Lights VII, won first place in the stock car class in the Formula Sun Race in Topeka, Kan., in June. The car can run 60 mph and travel 300 miles per day. It will be displayed Friday to Monday.


    Feminist group tones down rape talk

    Winona police records show these reported rapes:

    2000:Four
    1999:Three
    1998:Zero
    1997:One
    1996:Zero

    Hard data on rape is problematic. For example, defining rape in domestic situations is usually muddy. Too, not all sexual assaults are legally rape. In 2000, Winona police invesrigated 54 sexual assault cases, including the four rape reports.

    WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27, 2001 -- The Women's Resource Center, a private agency that counsels rape victims, has backed away from alarmist stats on unreported rapes. Diana Miller, the center's education manager, declined in an interview with Winona Post reporter Eric Gustafson to divulge the number of cases the agency has dealt with this past year. Miller also avoided the kind of extrapolations on rape incidence that the center's staff people have cited in the past in a well-intended campaign to alert women, including college students, about their vulnerability. A year ago those extrapolations fueled hysteria at Winona State University about serial rapists, and police denials set off suspicions that the university and police were covering up a major problem. This fall, presenters at frosh orientation toned down their high-end extrapolations to avoid a repeat of the Fall 2000 hysteria.

  • Background: Rumors laid to workshops

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    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

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