Krueger orders immediate belt-tighteningWINONA, Minn., Dec. 25, 2001 -- Anticipating the worst, the president of Winona State University, Darrell Krueger, ordered his vice presidents to limit spending immediately. The result, he said, will be to shift money scheduled for spending this year into next fiscal year. "Proactive efforts on our part now will help us to protect the university's future," Krueger said. He expects state budget support to drop, triggering a tuition increase in the fall to make ends meet. A worst-case scenario has tuition going up 23 percent.
Background: Prez: Budget realities not known yet
Background: 23% tuition increase possible
Homecoming balloon rides to return to WSUWINONA, Minn., Dec. 25, 2001 -- Tethered balloon rides will be back at Winona State University for homecoming next fall, said student activities Director Joe Reed. The Michigan company that provided the balloon this fall, Kramer International, will be invited back, Reed said. This fall about 50 students ascended 55 to 60 feet over the campus before the wind picked up and rides were canceled for safety reasons. The student activities planning committee paid Kramer $2,100 for six hours.
Reporter: Justin Goedel
Background: Balloon takes WSU students not too far up
ANNE
ROHWEDER
| 
KATI
DUPONT
|
BRETT
CAROW |
SANJEEV
MISRA | 
PETER
OLSON |
NED
WELCH
|  |
|---|
|
TOMORROW'S GREATEST BYLINES TODAY |
Art prof: Web jobs not plentifulWINONA, Minn., Dec. 25, 2001 -- The chair of the Winona State University art department, Anne Plummer, said her grads would have a harder time finding a job in this recession. The strain on art students, Plummer said, probably is the same as seniors graduating from other departments. "A lot of the graphic designers go into web page design," said Plummer. Because of corporate downsizing nationwide, graphic designers will have a tough time finding companies that want to hire, Plummer said. Art education will also be difficult, she said. The November unemployment rate climbed to 5.7 percent nationwide, the highest in six years.
Reporter: Lauren Freeman
Background: Hiring data dim
Background: Foreign students anxious
Outlook by fields:
Accounting | Advertising | Arts | Aviation | Aviation mechanics | Business | Communication | Computer science | Criminal justice | Elementary education | Engineering | Finance | Journalism | Marketing | Nursing | Paralegal | Photojournalism | Public relations | Social work | Specialized education | Television | Therapeutic recreation
Choreographers tapped for WSU "love" showWINONA, Minn., Dec. 25, 2001 -- Great suspense dissipated when faculty dance director Gretchen Cohenour posted the names of Winona State University student-choreographers for this spring's Dancescape after a day of tryouts. "It was really tough to make those decisions," Cohenour said. Judges representing profs and students with dance knowledge, ranked candidates for creativity, composition and choreographic structure, technical clarity, overall integration of the form and content or theme, and performance quality. The theme is "Love Stories," coinciding with the performance being Valentine's Day. "The students are like authors: They write a story but in dance," Cohenour said. "The bottom line of our program has always been the encouragement of creativity." Choreographer candidates have been revising their entries since September, a process of continuous revision. "We like to shape the program around the process," said Cohenour. "It's not about competition. It's about the quality of learning. We want the students to fully realize their artistic capabilities. This is accomplished by positive feedback from faculty as well as their peers." Now that the auditions are done, the focus turns to producing the show. Cohenour said the best way to understand the Dancescape process is to think of a jigsaw puzzle made up of different students' dance pieces. The tricky part is putting together a cohesive show, Cohenour said.
Reporter: Sara Greenlee
R.I.P.: Ralph E. LeahyWINONA, Minn., Dec. 25, 2001 -- A Winona State University grad who became well known in Wisconsin prep athletic circles, Ralph Leahy, died in a Winona nursing home. He was 88. Leahy spent most of his career in Cochrane and Pepin, Wis. He was inducted into the Wisconsin Coaches Hall of Fame in 1978. His baseball teams won 113 games in a row. In basketball, Leahy's teams won 89 straight conference games.
"PROUD TO BE
PALESTINIAN"Feras Abdulhafiz recalls an analogy the Palestinians call "The Story of the Basement."
"A needy person approaches you and asks if they could set up camp in your backyard. Seeing their need, you agree. But when winter comes, they ask to live in the spare room in your house. Being a nice person, you let them. Eventually they bring their relatives and have kids of their own. The guest, who has now overtaken the house, then tells the owner, 'If you want to live here, you have to live in the basement.' They lock you in there, only letting you out occasionally for food."
Abdulhafiz then tells about his grandfather refusing to give up his home one morning before sunrise in 1948 when Israeli soldiers demanded that his family leave for no reason. As he was holding a shotgun to defend his family, an Israeli helicopter sniper killed him in full view of his family, Abdulhahiz said. His father, who was 9, saw Israeli soldiers destroy everything in their home as the family fled in their nightclothes, he said.
The family joined 70,000 other Palestinian refugees and found the way to the Syrian refugee camp, where Abdulhafiz' father then lived for 30 years. "In this camp and many others, Israeli troops and planes chased the refugees constantly. We lived in constant fear," Abdulhafiz said. In this environment, Abdulhafiz was born "into a room made of clay and of fear."
The family eventually migrated to the United Arab Emirates. As non-citizens they were unable to join local clubs, but young Abdulhafiz was allowed to play soccer in one for a while, until the other children asked where he was from. "They didn't know I was Palestinian. I was 12 years old and very proud to be Palestinian. But when I told them that I was, about 40 kids chased me until a janitor hid me from them," Abdulhafiz recounted.
His dream to be a professional soccer star ended that day, but his Palestinian pride did not. "I will die proud to be a Palestinian," Abdulhafiz said. |
|
| A call for equity: If $5 billion to Israelis, why not for Palestinans too?WINONA, Minn., Dec. 25, 2001 -- Palestinian Feras Abdulhafiz has a message for Americans: Your taxes are supporting an Israeli government that has mistreated native Palestinians for generations. Abdulhafiz, a senior computer information system major at Winona State University, rattles off stats. For one, he says, the U.S. government contributes weapons and $5 billion annually to the Israeli government. Abdulhafiz believes the solution to the age-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is to enforce United Nations Resolution 242, which originally gave 46 percent of the disputed land to Palestinians. "If the United States really wanted to solve the problem, it could. It could develop a new resolution or at least cut off its aid to Israel. The United States led the war to implement the resolution to get Saddam (Hussein) out of Kuwait. Why are they waiting so long for the Palestinians?" Abdulhafiz said. "Palestinians believe that they are not fighting Israel but the United States. Israel is like another state of America. And Minnesota does not get $5 billion every year, but Israel does," Abdulhafiz said. Palestine now only owns 13 percent of their native land but would be content to have 22 percent. "That 22 percent is not going to hold all the refugees if they all came back. Other countries could try to grant citizenship to the refugees."
Reporter: Jenny Butler |
WINONA CAMPUS WRAPUP
TOP FALL NEWS
How one campus reporter ranks this fall's news:
1. Terrorist attacks.The attacks of Sept. 11 affected the Winona campuses, many people finding themselves unable to attend classes or tend to everyday life.
2. Alcohol. Police cracked down on destruction of property and rowdy behavior due to alcohol-related activities. Police Chief Frank Pomeroy and Mayor Jerry Miller called on the Winona State Student Senate to form an alcohol incidents task force. Complaints dropped dramatically after the task force started.
3. Campus strike. AFSCME and MAPE union members went on strike at Winona State and Southeast Tech for wages and health insurance. The unions struck statewide, taking out most maintenance and clerical workers for two weeks.
4. Tuition hike. In a meeting with new state Chancellor Jim McCormick, Winona State students named tuition as their No. 1 concern. Chancellor McCormick said choices are few: Either lower the quality of education or raise tuition. University executives said tuition will go up at least 7 percent next fall, after 9.1 percent this fall.
5. Rape arrest. Former Winona State University student Jude Wilson Halter confessed to two July 2000 sexual assaults near campus. Halter also confessed to spying on a woman while she slept in her bedroom near campus.
6. Rugby drunk. Matthew H. Ahlberg, 20, from Rochelle, Ill, fell off the rugby parade truck during the homecoming parade. He was intoxicated. Police Chief Frank Pomeroy said he might not allow another homecoming parade if alcohol-related problems don't end.The Winona State rugby team was banned from future parades.
7. Smoking policy. Winona Sate University President Darrell Krueger banned smoking within 25 feet of dorms and academic buildings. Campus Republicans responded with a petition drive against the policy. Freedom was the issue, the GOP group said.
8. Boozing summit. Police Chief Frank Pomeroy called in the presidents of Winona State and Saint Mary's for a dressing down and think session on boozing. Pomeroy called the college drinking problem worse than ever. The chief said that Winona State President Darrell Krueger has not worked hard enough to get rid of boozing.
9. Gorilla groper. On Halloween a woman reported to campus security that she was grabbed inappropriately in Sheehan dorm. The groper turned out to be a 14-year-old boy in a gorilla costume.
10. Parking. Students stewed over parking. As parking spaces became harder to find with colder weather, a new city fine for illegal overnight parking infuriated students. In November, the cops wrote 1,550 tickets, almost all in the Winona State neighborhood.
Reporter: Justin Hargraves |
|
UNDER-AGE
BOOZERS
WHO GOT
CAUGHT
BEING
STUPID
DON'T
TELL
THEIR
MOTHERS
|
CAMPUS
SALARIES
Louis
DeThomasis
SMU president
2000: $139,281
Darrell
Krueger
WSU president
2001: $152,130
Jim Johnson
Tech president
2001:
$125,000
OTHER
SALARIES
|
The CyberIndee serves Winona State University masscom students as a reference resource and as a digest of campus news.
The
CyberIndee enriches learning by providing audience feedback for students'
creative work.
The CyberIndee reports Winona campus news for a global
audience.
The CyberIndee offers information, entertainment and opinion
geared to campus people.
The CyberIndee is financially independent of
campus administrators and student politicians.
CYBERINDEE
PEOPLE
EDITOR
John Vivian
WEB DESIGNER
Matt Del
Vecchio
2001 CONTRIBUTORS
Tami Adams
Will Albertsen
Angie Anderson
Kent Anderson
Jon Arias
Matt Bartlett
Colleen Becker
Matt Bennett
Samantha Bishop
Seamus Boyle
Jim Bube
Ryan Buhler
Bonnie Burmeister
Jennifer Butler
Megan Carlson
Brett Carow
Brad Carpenter
Christina Clawson
Pam Dardis
Forrest Dailey
Michael D'Angelo
Susannah Davis
Tim Davis
Megan Diamond
Shannan Dittrich
Erin Dougherty
Katie DuPont
Marge Dwyer
Melissa Elbers
Regina Elliott
Michael Fischer
Emilly Forrest
Lauren Freeman
Brian Gallagher
Jeff Ganske
Erin Gerace
Justin Goedel
Alisa Green
Steve Grommesch
Lyndsey Hafner
Melissa Hamilton
Katie Hanson
Scott Haraldson
Justin Hargraves
Julie Hawker
Lane Hermanson
Don Hinrichs
Holly Hollett
Jennifer Johnson
Clint Klapataukas
Brad Lawler
Kara Lesniak
Mark Lorisch
Meghann Miller
Matt Michalowski
Sanjeev Misra
Nicole Mossing
Terri Neils
Kim O'Donnell
Peter Olson
Lauren Osborne
Cari Panovich
Shannon Passaglia
Agata Polanska
Jen Powless
Laura Putzer
Bill Radde
Nate Reker
Beth Renner
Meghan Robinson
Annie Rohweder
Dawn Rothering
Kelsea Samuelson
Chris Samp
Lisa Schneider
Kate Schott
Shawna Tessum
Alex Tichenor
Amy Vercnocke
Breanna Wagner
Brian Weber
Andy Weldon
Brooke White
Dave Wichterman
Whitney Wolfe
Chris Yarolimek
Robyn Zmudzinski
Melissa Zyduck
EARLIER
CONTRIBUTORS
|
|
|
