WSU student wants hate speech bannedWINONA, Minn., Dec. 14, 2001 -- People who say offensive things shouldn't be allowed to express themselves on campus, said a Winona State University student who is circulating a petition against hate speech. Patricia Walsh is focusing on materials that math prof Barry Peratt has on his office door. Walsh said the materials, which list contact information for an organization that claims to cure homosexuality, are belittling to gays and lesbians. Her word for the Peratt's materials is "hateful." Walsh said she will collect her petitions in January and use them for publicity for her cause.
Details: Student: Hate-speech takes freedom too far
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nominated for EppieWINONA, Minn., Dec. 14, 2001 -- A fantasy book by a Winona State University librarian, Kathy Sullivan, has been nominated for an Eppie award. Sullivan's "The Crystal Throne" is her first book, although her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and the web. In January or February, Sullivan's book will be published in print as well. |
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Dec. 14, 2001 | BASKETBALL (MEN'S): UW-Parkside 71, WSU 58.
BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S): WSU 68, UW-Parkside 63. |
WSU ski class: Money back guaranteeWINONA, Minn., Dec. 14, 2001 -- Ski prof Sue Ann Mullen said that never in her 30 years at Winona State University has warm weather stopped her ski class. "There have been times when there wasn't skiing before Christmas," she acknowledged, though -- a problem in the old quarter system when the winter term began in November. Mullen's students ski at Mount La Crosse downriver in Wisconsin. Hill managers plan to start blowing artificial snow soon and open next weekend. If the weather gets too warm, then the students would get their money back, said Mullen. It's never happened. "This is Minnesota," said Mullen. "Give it a day, and it will snow." Her classes begin in January.
Reporter: Lauren Freeman
Warning: Sex offender eyes Winona for homeST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 14, 2001 -- A man classified as a high-risk sex offender plans to live in Winona as soon as his prison sentence is up, the state prison agency said. The agency did not provide an address at which James Ellis Warbington, 30, plans to live. He's serving time for "forced sexual contact" with women of his acquaintance. His description: white, stocky, 5-foot-10 and 239 pounds. He is required to register with local police wherever he lives until 2006.
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Dec. 14, 2001 | Marijuana was detected coming from a room in Prentiss dorm at 8:43 p.m. The occupants were confronted. |
Presidential observer: Too early to rate Bush
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LIKE SONPolysci prof Darrell Downs compared President George Bush in Afghanistan and his father George Bush in Desert Storm, saying that they both have a "go get 'em cheerleader sort of aspect to their personalities." |
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| WINONA, Minn., Dec. 14, 2001 -- A Winona State University political science prof finds it difficult to rate President Bush's job performance until Bush has had a chance to concentrate on domestic policy. Darrell Downs said that Bush had been expected to "delve into domestic affairs" right away, but the events of Sept. 11 forced the President to concentrate on international affairs. Presidents typically focus on foreign issues in the last two years of their term, Downs said. About Bush's performance in rallying the troops and the nation, Downs said that he would definitely give him a positive score. In reference to a recent Gallup poll that listed Bush's approval rating at 87 percent, Downs said that it is a fair reflection in terms of the nation's sense of support on foreign policy right now, but it is not a fair reflection of his capabilities in domestic policy, which have yet to be seen. Will Bush be re-elected? Way too early to tell, Downs said. Downs feels that Bush's weaknesses include the perception that he's neither an intellectual nor a careful observer of details in international affairs. "It's not that he's Dan Quayle, or anything," Downs said, "but that he doesn't try to portray himself as a Henry Kissinger."
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Prof sees negative economic effect on social work WINONA, Minn., Dec. 14, 2001 -- More Winona State University social work grads than usual may have to leave Winona to find jobs due to the recession, said Carole Madland, a social work prof. Madland said that 90 percent of her grads find jobs during normal times -- but only half in Winona. "The percentage will change if the recession continues," she said. "They may have to move elsewhere to work." Jobs are getting scarce, Madland said: "We were spoiled during the Bill Clinton years -- the economy was so good, there was no trouble getting jobs." Madland pointed out that this is hardly the first time that the economy has affected the job market. "During the Reagan years all students struggled to find jobs, so we're moving back," she said. "But in reality," she said, "the good students -- the go-getters, the ones going places -- have no trouble." Funding for non-profit and state organizations and agencies is in jeopardy, Madland said. The Woman's Resource Center of Winona could suffer, she said. Nursing homes and hospitals are required to have a certain number of social workers, she said. For every 120 beds in a nursing home, one social worker needs to be available, she said. Madland said the recession won't hurt internships: "They'll need students even more if positions are cut." Few internships pay, she said.
Reporter: Angie Anderson
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Columnist to Winona: Lay off the college kidsWINONA, Minn., Dec. 14, 2001 -- For months letter-writers to Winona newspapers have slurred college students as noisy, lazy, drunken and worse. Now Daily News columnist Jim Galewski says: Enough, stop the stereotyping. Galewski cautioned against "shaking our fingers at this community of young people." He said thousands of college students make life in Winona better and don't break noise, keg, boozing, parking and other laws. He also noted that without the colleges, the Winona economy would suffer a $500 million loss.
Flu shots late at Winona campuses| Nursing students who administered the flu vaccine at Winona State University last week said everything went smoothly. Junior nursing students administered the vaccines while seniors and profs oversaw the process. "It is very nerve racking the first couple of times, but then you get used to it," said Becky Skozek, a junior. "It is fun to see big, strong men come in and be so afraid." |
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| WINONA, Minn., Dec. 14, 2001 -- Flu shots at Winona college campuses came a month late due to a national shortage of vaccine, said nursing prof Suzanne Smith. At Winona State shots were originally scheduled to be administered Nov. 13-15, but were delayed until Dec. 4-6. Shots were given Dec. 10 at Saint Mary's. Nursing profs are unsure of exactly what has caused the shortage but they suspect that the events of Sept. 11 are part of the reason. "Hospitals have made sure that they have many other vaccines on hand this year for things like anthrax, just in case," said Smith. "The vaccines are first distributed to those who really need them, like the elderly, then we get them." Although later than ideal, Winona State student health director Diane Palm said the shots were in plenty of time to protect people in the heavy flu season.
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Student: Hate speech takes freedom too farWINONA, Dec. 14, 2001 -- As Winona State University sophomore Patricia Walsh sees it, she's fighting hate speech. Walsh is circulating petitions aimed at math prof Barry Peratt, who has persisted in posting articles and posters on his office door about an organization that claims to cure homosexuals. She doesn't see Peratt's postings as a legitimate exercise of free expression. Walsh's petition reads: "Freedom of speech ought to be exercised in a context that does not make a student attending an open placidity for education feel belittled, targeted, or otherwise discriminated against."
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| Walsh acknowledges that she has received both criticism and praise. "I have gotten a lot of criticism for anti-freedom of speech," she said. "I do support freedom of speech. My issue is appropriate context," she said. Her view is that Peratt has openly targeted a small minority group -- gays and lesbians. "Perrat can say whatever he'd like in his living room or on his time," she said. "While he is an instructor, the priority should be equal education," she said.
Walsh said, "I have gotten praise from many other individuals who also have been bothered by the inaccurate discriminatory material posted." She doesn't sees homosexuality as curable or even something needful of a cure.
Her petition begins: "Excuse me: Hate-speech is stepping on my right to equal and safe education." She said the petition supports the position of women's studies prof Tamara Berg, who has filed a complaint against Perrat for the articles and posters on his door. Walsh said the goal of the petition is "to have the material removed and have some supporting evidence for a hate speech clause."
She started the petition in early November. Two different petitions are circulating right now. "Eventually, we will take the two petitions to the administration of Winona State, the Wintranet, and the Winonan in hopes that we can get the material on his wall removed," Walsh said.
"Also, I hope to get enough support from the community on and off campus to establish a hate-speech clause on the Winona campus," she said. Walsh said, "I started this petition because I was confident that enough people on the Winona campus valued equal and safe education. I knew we all had to have a way to voice our opinion and show our support to each other," she said. "There are enough people on the Winona campus who recognize the dangers of hate-speech, together we will be able to make a major change and provide a safer educational environment, which is why we are here, right?"
Walsh wrote on the petition that "freedom of speech crosses the line of appropriate context when it is damaging to one targeted group." "Then it becomes hate speech, which on many campuses is a punishable offense," the petition read.
Walsh does not know how many signatures have been gathered at this point because several petitions are still circulating. The original two petitions are posted on the wall opposite Perrat's office. Walsh passed petitions around in classes, talked to people in the area and encouraged other people to take a copy of the petition to do the same.
The petition will end on Jan. 15.
Besides the hate-speech petition, Walsh is also involved in starting a Lesbian Avengers chapter in Winona. "Lesbian Avengers fight for civil liberties and equal treatment of all minority groups by making very loud, visible, aggressive statements when civil liberties have been violated," she said.
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