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WSU computer chief: Cross your fingers

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- Even though Winona State University's computer support center has lost almost all employees due to the strike, manager Dean Feller is slogging on. "Today went fairly well," he said after the first day of the AFSCME and MAPE unions walkout. "I think that people realize the strike is now happening, so they aren't calling in as much," Feller said. "We'll have to wait to see the long-term effects." Only Feller and one full-time staff member remain. Five MAPE members and one AFSCME member are out. The center, which handles mostly student laptop questions, has cut hours. A long-term effect may be longer waits for service, Feller said: "Some high-end tasks may not be able to be performed because all my very qualified technicians are gone. It looks like everything is up and running. It's still functional. Let's just keep our fingers crossed."

  • Reporter: Jenny Butler
  • Background: WSU cuts computer help hours
  • Background: Police: Problem-free strike so far

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    Police: Problem-free strike so far

    WINONA, Minn., Sept. 2, 2001 -- As a state employees' strike entered its second day, Winona police reported all was copasetic. "This has been a pretty quiet picket," said shift sergeant Gary Hoeppner. In the first day of the strike, which includes pickets at Winona State and Southeast Tech, Hoeppner had not received any complaints or calls about picketers. He cautioned drivers to pay attention and to watch for pedestrians, especially at the campuses. Picketers should stay on the sidewalks, he said.

  • Reporter: Sarah Mundy
  • Background: Statewide strike called historic

    Campus rally: Strike called historic

    Cathy Finken, the regional president of striking MAPE union, quoted Minnesota Public Radio that 75 percent of state workers were on strike. Because of the strike's economic impact, she said, state government "could not afford to let it go on long." Finken encouraged strikers to fill out unemployment forms, even though they don't qualify, to "jam up their system." The goal, she said, would be a quicker strike resolution.

  • Reporter:
    Erin Dougherty

    • WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- Cheering and shouting by striking state workers echoed through Winona State University at an outdoor rally. Mark McAfee, political action director for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, drove from St. Paul for the rally. The crowd cheered his first words: "The biggest work stoppage in history of Minnesota. And you're a part of it!" McAfee called Gov. Jesse Ventura's proposed employee health care plan unacceptable. The president of the AFSCME Local 945, Rollie Salling, stirred the crowd by shouting: "What do we want? And when do we want it?" Union members shouted back: "A fair contract! Now!" Salling said that students were the first to be hurt by the new state budget because of the tuition increase. David Bratt, president of Faculty Senate, asked profs to walk the picket lines when they are not teaching, to write to the governor, and to contribute food and money for the striking workers.

  • Reporter: Beth Renner
  • Background: Bookstore cuts hours

    • R.I.P.: Vernon W. Weinmann

    MABEL, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- A retired technical writer for IBM, WInona Teachers College grad Vernon Weinmann, died of a brief illness at rural home. He was 78. He was graduated from Winona Teachers College in 1948.

    WSU SECURITY
    REPORT
    Oct. 2, 2001    		INCIDENT NO. 1: A person who was restricted from campus was reported to be on campus at 12:10 p.m., but security agents could not locate the person. INCIDENT NO. 2: A student reported some scratches on her vehicle at 8 p.m. Scratches had accumulating since the begining of the semester, she said. INCIDENT NO. 3: A student suffered a seizure in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 10:33 p.m. and was taken to the hospital.

    Strike-crippled WSU bookstore shortens hours

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- The whole staff at the Winona State University bookstore is out on strike except Manager Karen Krause and student workers. She is closing an hour early, at 4 p.m., on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and two hours early, at 3 p.m., on Wednesdays and Fridays. For Homecoming this weekend, Krause said she will be open 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

  • Background: Where is Ventura stallion?

    QUICK
    SPORTS
    Oct. 2, 2001    		FOOTBALL (MEN'S): WSU running back Kevin Curtin was named Northern Sun offensive player of the week. SOCCER (WOMEN'S): SMU 4, St. Catherine's 3. WSU moved from 19th to 17th in the NCAA Divsion II weekly poll.VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S): WSU hiter Lisa Schlaak was named Northern Sun co-player of the week.

    Union leader: Where is Ventura stallion?

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- The Winona president of the striking AFSCME union, Rollie Salling, called for Gov. Jesse Ventura to end the strike by more than half of the state employees. "He could come in on his white horse and solve this problem if he wanted to," Salling said. The major issue for AFSCME and also the MAPE union, which is striking too, is health coverage. A second issue is compensation. This was the status of the union and Ventura compensation positions when negotiations failed Sunday:


    		FIRST
    YEAR    		SECOND
    YEAR
    VENTURA PROPOSAL3%3%
    AFSCME PROPOSAL
    		5%
    		5%
    .
    VENTURA PROPOSAL4%Nothing
    MAPE PROPOSAL4.5% 4 .5%
  • Background: Negotiations fail; strike a certainty
  • Background: Some AFSCME workers ignore picket lines

    STRIKE SOLIDARITY
    Defections reported to be few

    Some AFSCME workers ignore picket lines

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- Some members of the AFSCME union, which entered the second day of a statewide strike, have crossed picket lines at Winona State University, the union's local president, Rollie Salling, acknowledged. "It's a personal decision," Salling said. Union members who reported to their jobs are almost all "fair share" members who are not full-fledged members, he said. By law, state employees who don't want to belong to a union are charged 90 percent of the regular union dues but aren't formally enrolled. The law was designed to give employees the freedom not to join a union yet pay their share of the cost of being represented.

  • Background: Union unaware of strike-busters
  • Background: Students free to honor picket lines

    Students free to honor picket lines

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- Students who sympathize with striking AFSCME and MAPE union members can volunteer on the picket lines, said Dave Bratt, the faculty president at Winona State Universty. Also, students can choose not to pass through the picket lines, Bratt said. Students can't be penalized for missing class but are responsible for class work, because classes are still taking place, he said. By law, profs and employees from other state employee unions are prohibited from joining the strike, although they can demonstrate support in many ways, including walking the AFSCME-MAPE picket lines during off-time.

  • Reporter: Lance Morgan
  • Background: Strike cuts student health services

    Strike cuts WSU health services by two

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- The student health office at Winona State University cut back services because the AFSCME-MAPE strike has reduced the staff. The only tests being offered are for pregnancy, strep and sexually trasmitted diseases, and urine tests and pap smears. Blood work and mono and other tests are being referred to the Winona hospital. Patients are still being taken in for other ailments. Testing that had been done by medical technologist Linda Schwarze, who is on strike, are now performed by nurse Pat Przybylski and three other available nurses. Also on strike is records Clerk Pam Rasmussen, which means longer waits.

  • Reporter: Erin Dougherty
  • Background: Hospital handles turned-away students

    Balloon takes WSU students not too far up

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- Students formed a line 30 to 40 long for tethered helium balloon rides outside the Gildemeister and Pasteur classoom buildings at Winona State University. The yellow balloon, operated by Kramer International of Grand Rapids, Mich., took up one person at a time. "Awesome," said freshmen Kaylyn Habberstad after coming down from her 55-foot ride into the wild blue yonder. "You could see the whole campus." said. Riders hung from a harness, and two Kramer employees men pulled tethers to guide the balloon and keep it from going up, up and way. A student actyivities committee paid $2,100 to bring the ballon to campus for six hours as part of Homecoming week.

  • Reporter: Justin Goedel

    Central Lutheran addition displaces students

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- The Lutheran Campus Center that once had its own house is now homeless and meeting in the Blue Heron coffee house across from the Prentice-Lucas dorm on Huff Street. The group's house, at Wabasha and Winona streets, was towed away last spring after Central Lutheran Church sold it to make room for an addition. The Campus Center minister, John Carrier, said the group had assumed there would be enough room in Central Lutheran's addition for the group, but it didn't work out. Kathleen Kussar, student president of the Campus Center, likes the Blue Heron's relaxed atmosphere, but the group cannot put on events. "We have had smaller meetings and more of them to enable us to get stuff accomplished," said Kussar.

  • Reporter: Clint Klapatauskas

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    SMU boozing task force starts up

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001-- A 16-member Saint Mary's task force on alcohol and drug abuse began assessing university policies, brainstorming concerns and issues. Julie Thornton, dean of students, encouraged task force members to talk with their colleagues, classmates and constituents for their thoughts. Four students are on the task force.


    French artist displaying at SMU

    ,big>WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- A French artist living in Chicago, David Gista, will open an exhibit of paintings and drawings at Saint Mary's University. An opening reception is scheduled for 4:30 p.m., Oct. 4, with a slide show at 6:30 p.m.

  • Date: Oct. 4 to Nov. 9
  • Time: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays
  • Place: Toner Gallery
  • Cost: Free


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    Quartet rehearsing Mozart for Younger event

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2 2001 -- A sring quarter from the Winona State University music department will offer a Mozart interlude prior to the dedication of the Younger courtyard in the university's central mall on Oct. 5, director Paul Vance said. The quartet will play about 10 minutes.

  • Reporter: Jeff Ganske
  • Background: Courtyard, clock to be dedicated

    Football, wrestling champ into Hall of Fame

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- A Winona State athlete on two championship teams, Ron Moen, is being inducted into the university's Sports Hall of Fame. Moen was a member of the conference championship football team in 1968. That effort came on the heels of the 1968 conference wrestling championship and followed with another league wrestling championship in 1969. The crowning athletic effort for Moen came in 1970 when he won the conference championship at 190 pounds and went on to help the Warriors to a third-place team ranking in the NAIA national tournament with his third-place individual effort at 190 pounds. After his collegiate career, Moen went on to Caledonia, Minn., where he coached high school football for 18 years, 11 as head coach, and assisted with wrestling.

  • Background: Six WSU athletes named to Hall of Fame

    • MOEN
    1970, 1976 grad

  • Won eight letters, four in football, four in wrestling
  • Football All-Conference, 1968, 1969
  • NAIA District 13 football team 1968, 1969
  • NIC vhampionship football team, 1968
  • NIC vhampionship wrestling team 1968, 1969
  • NIC wrestling champion, 1970
  • NAIA wrestling All-American, 1970

    • CyberIndee runs record 300 stories


    SEPTEMBER
    Big news month

    WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2, 2001 -- The CyberIndee carried more than 300 stories in September, a record for a single month, said j-prof John Vivian, whose edits the news site. "In my 38 years as a journalist I have never seen so much news in such a compact period," Vivian said. Student journalists covered the East Coast terrorism, the pending AFSCME-MAPE strike, and the campus drunkenness epidemic. Also, he said, the news site has stepped up in in-depth news coverage.

  • Background: CyberIndee mission statement

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