WSU frosh describes "gorilla" chase, assaultWINONA, Minn., Nov. 7, 2001 -- A Winona State University freshman described being chased up an interior stairwell in 13-floor Sheehan dorm by a group of 14-year-old thugs who were in the dorm on the pretense of trick-or-treating. The freshman, who asked that her name not be printed, called for tighter dorm security on Halloween. A dorm custom has been to allow trick-or-treaters to parade in and out undescorted. Here is the woman's account, compacted from a letter to the Winonan student newspaper:"As I was entering the elevator to go from the fourth floor of Sheehan to the 13th floor, a group of boys, all around age 14, got off the elevator and started grabbing me in sexual ways. They allowed me on the elevator, where one proceeded to put his arms around my waist and make thrusting motions."The boys let me get off the elevator on 13, but when I went back to 4 they were there waiting. They chased me up the stairs to 5. They ran around the floor looking for me while I hid in the bathroom. A group of girls helped me detain the boys on four while secuity was called." The woman said she understood that the 14-year-old who was arrested may do jail time.Background: Monster-dressed kid charged in sex incident
R.I.P.: Donna M. ReilandARDEN HILLS, Minn., Nov. 6, 2001 -- A College of St. Teresa grad, Donna Reland, died at an alzheimer's facility at age 81. She had taught high-school business education most of her carrer.
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Nov. 7, 2001 | SOCCER (WOMEN'S): Northern Colorado 2, WSU 1. |
Faculty union backs off salary proposalST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 6, 2001 -- Some movement has occurred on salary issues in the statewide profs' union negotiations with Chancellor Jim McCormick's negotiating team. Faculty negotiator Christopher Brown said the union has scaled down its proposal to 2.4 percent in each of year of the two-year contract that's being worked out. The chancellor offered 1 percent the first year but went along with 2.4 percent the second year, Brown said. Talks, however, are not going well, Brown said. He said the revised state offer puts $800,000 less into salaries than the initial offer. "When informally questioned about this anomaly, they indicated it was an oversight," Brown said. "Frankly, this oversight causes us to question how seriously they are taking this process." Background: Profs: Contract talks not going well
R.I.P.: Diane G. (Fisk) LiskowPLAINVIEW, Minn., Nov. 6, 2001 -- A Winona State Teachers College alum, Diane Liskow, died at home at age 60. She was retired from the Elgin and Millville, Minn., schools, where she taught kindergarten fro 26 years.
Advance info scant on Florida foesWINONA, Minn., Nov. 6, 2001 -- What Winona State varsity women will face in the Sunshine Disney basketball tournament over Thanksgiving in Florida is largely a mystery. Without a scouting budget, Coach Terri Sheridan said she won't have any advance peeks until the competing teams all swap videotapes at Orlando. Winona State plays two NCAA Division II teams out of the Sunshine State Conference: Florida Tech and Barry University. Not knowing about the two Florida teams is like going in blind, Sheridan said. Winona State hasn't played either team before. The upside will be a ton of experience, said Sheridan. Reporter: Nicole Mossing
College students help pass school tax hikeWINONA, Minn., Nov. 6, 2001 -- Education majors at Winona State University helped carry two school tax increases in an election to raise $3.2 million to keep Winona schools operating more or less at current levels. The main increase was approved by a 54:46 margin, a second increase by 51:49 -- a razor-thin 35 votes. In Ward 3, Precinct 2, where many Winona State students live, the vote was 405-54 on the main issue and 401-57 on the other. University President Darrell Krueger had supported the tax increase, and math prof Steve Leonhardi had campaigned strongly among students. The Winonan student newspaper carried a Page One endorsement of the tax increase. Background: Krueger: Referendum needs support
Diamondback pitching awes WSU coachWINONA, Minn., Nov., 6, 2001-- Winona State University assistant baseball coach Kyle Poock said the 2001 World Series was the best he ever remembers. Poock called the New York Yankees and Arizona evenly matched, it taking seven games for the Diamondbacks to win. Arizona pitching held the Yankees to a World Series record low .183 team batting average. Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson did "a job on them," Poock said of Arizona's top two pitchers. Schilling and Johnson shared the Series' Most Valuable Player award. Schilling started three of the seven games with only a few days rest between starts. Johnson pitched in three games including Game 6 and then closed Game 7 the next night. "At our level, we wouldn't allow our guys to pitch with no rest, but these guys are professionals," Poock said. Reporter: Brian Weber
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Nov. 6, 2001 | FOOTBALL (MEN'S): WSU wide receiver Adam Lilla was named Northern Sun offensive player of the week. WSU linebacker Deric Sieck was named Northern Sun co-defensive player of the week. |
Wanta smallpox shot? Rots of ruckWINONA, Minn., Nov. 6, 2001 -- Students can't get a vaccination for smallpox at Winona State -- or anywhere else, said Diana Palm, the university's student health director. "If an outbreak was to occur, an emergency supply of the vaccine would be sent to the origin of the outbreak," said Palm. Otherwise, the national stockpile is being held at a secret location, said Palm. Since the recent anthrax scares across the country, interest in bioweapons, including smallpox, has swelled. Experts say the smallpox vaccine, if given within four days, could decrease death or illness. Smallpox was eliminated by 1972 in much of the world, and vaccinations haven't been available in the United States since 1977. Reporter: Lauren Freeman
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| WINONA, Minn., Nov. 6, 2001 -- The Winona State University women's soccer team, nationally ranked at 17th, will play Northern Colorado to open the NCAA Division II national tournament Wednesday at the Warriors' home field. The winner advances to the region championship game against Truman State in Misosuri this weekend. This is Winona State's first NCAA post-season soccer berth. |
Indian speaker: War is men's doingWINONA, Minn., Nov. 5, 2001 -- The power structure of the dominant white society, with men over women, makes for a war-prone culture, the vice chairman of the Indian Advisory Board for the Minnesota Historical Society told a Winona State University audience. Joe Campbell said that no woman raises her children to kill other children. Wars are an example of the male influence, he said. Campbell objected to the naming of North and South America. Campbell said that the name was Turtle Island for 10,000 years before white settlers arrived. Campbell said he considers himself neither an Indian nor a Native American but a Native Turtle Islander. According to Campbell, most Minnesota history books are wrong because they fail to give due credit to the Native Americans who settled Minnesota. "And they wonder why our people don't want to go to school," he said. "I was lucky to get out or they would have ruined me." He quit after the eighth grade. Reporter: Annie Rohweder
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Nov. 5, 2001 | Security guards responded at 12:15 p.m. to the Somsen dorm where a student was feeling dizzy. An ambulance took her to the hospital.
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WSU seeking bids for dorm web serviceWINONA, Minn., Nov. 5, 2001-- Winona State is asking for a bid to see if a company besides Hiawatha Broadband can provide the dorms with a better web access, said David Gresham, the university's network director. Student complaints have been growing about slow service through Hiawatha, a Winona company headed by Gary Evans, a former Winona State vice president. Hiawatha also provides television and telephone service to the dorms. File-sharing programs like Napster and AOL Instant Messenger are part of the problem, said Gresham. One interim solution would be restrictions on pipe-hogging programs, Gresham said, but he doesn't want to go there. Two years ago programs could be blocked, he said, but now sophisticated programs can go around a block. Reporter: Lauren Freeman
WSU television ad award to be presented WINONA, Minn., Nov. 5, 2001 -- An award earned by a 30-second Winona State recruiting commercial last summer will be presented Thursday to university. The commercial, "Success is a Matter of Degree," which aired in Minnesota and Wisconsin, received a national Copper Axiem Award. The commercial was produced by the Winona-based marketing agency Mediawerks.
Profs: Contract talks not going wellST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 5, 2001 -- A state college faculty negotiator, Christopher Brown, said Chancellor Jim McCormick's contract negotiation team has been slow on the issues. He predicted "potentially protracted negotiations." It had been widely thought that a contract would come quickly, following settlement of the AFSCME-MAPE strike that idled more than half of the state's workforce in October. Not so, it turns out, said Brown. He called the McCormick team capricious. About recent negotiations, he said: "Their team members didn't show or drifted in and out of the session, and many of those remaining left early on Friday." State college profs, including those at Winona State, have been without a contract since July.
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Nov. 5, 2001 | VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S): SMU middle-hitter Rhonda Thibault was named to the all-conference first team, and setter Melissa Cowan to the second team. SMU frosh Tracy Koertgen was named conference Rookie of the Year. |
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"Packinghouse Daughter" author at WSU readingWINONA, Minn., Nov. 5, 2001 -- A 2000 Minnesota Book Award winner, Cheri Register, will read froher her work at Winona State University. Register's latest award is for "Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir," which deals with family loyalty, small-town life and working-class values in the face of the violent labor strike at the Wilson & Co. meatpacking plant in Albert Lea, Minn., in 1959. Date: Nov. 15Time: 7 p.m.Place: North Lounge, Lourdes HallCost: Free
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Aware that many Winona State University students feel targeted by the cops on many counts, Deputy Chief Andrea Foss said alternate-side parking violators have been ticketed "all over town." Even so, most tickets have been in the congested campus neighborhood. |
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| New parking ticket blitz: 239WINONA, Minn., Nov. 5, 2001 -- The cops issued 239 weekend lessons, each one costing $25, for motorists who haven't yet learned the idiosyncracies of winter parking in Winona. The latest blitz began Saturday at 1 a.m., which, being, Nov. 3, an odd-number date, meant that cars should all have been on the odd-number side of the street. In all, 563 tickets have been issued since Nov. 1, when winter parking rules set in. City cews hope everyone has learned the lesson by the time that plows are out after the first snow storm.Background: Blizzard of 324 tickets |
Tech president to Ventura advisory boardWINONA, Minn., Nov. 5, 2001 -- The president of Southeast Tech, Jim Johnon, was appointed to Gov. Jesse Ventura's Workforce Development Council. He has a three-year term.
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