J-prof: Covering war has different rules

WINONA, Minn., Feb. 26, 2002 -- The danger of reporting a war has never figured much into prof Drake Hokanson's journalism classes at Winona State University. "As a reporter in Minnesota the biggest danger you may face is a flat tire," said Hokanson. The hazards he focuses on in class are ethics issues, he said in an interview following up on the deaths of eight reporters in the Afghan war and the recent kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi. "When a reporter goes into a war, especially guerrilla warfare, anything can happen," said Hokanson. "No matter how big the publication is at home, you are completely alone." There is a huge difference in everyday news reporting and reporting in a war zone, said Hokanson, who is widely traveled and has lived in south Asia. To reporters heading for a war zone, he recommends learning everything possible from other reporters who have covered wars and have experience in wartime communication. Also, he said, never go into a situation alone. As a general rule two reporters are safer than one, Hokanson said. Hokanson has taught journalism for 20 years. Never has he been in physical danger, he said. Reporter: Sara Nelson

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SMU's Heffron Award to Brother Jerome

RADEMACHER Service award

WINONA, Minn., Feb. 26, 2002 -- A veteran Saint Mary's faculty member, Brother Jerome Rademacher, was presented the Heffron Award for service at the university's Founder's Day celebration. Brother Jerome, as he's known on campus, was recognized specifically his detailed attention to ongoing development hiking and skiing trails in the bluffs behind the campus. Rademacher is chair of the Saint Mary's physics department. In other Founder's Day presentations, Robert Hentzen, co-founder of the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, was awarded an honorary doctorate. Named outstanding female senior was Kathleen LaPlant, who is studying environmental biology. Outstanding male senior was Douglas Wener, a history and social sciences major. Background: SMU to honor charity leader

Environmentalist: Fremling wrong on dredging

Photographer: Mike Martin EAST LAKE Landfill across Mankato Avenue Silt plume downstream toward Homer

WINONA, Minn., Feb. 26, 2002 -- The latest Lake Winona dredging project has gone amuck, and retired Winona State University biologist Cal Fremling "has used up a lot of his professional credibility" advancing and then defending the project, said the executive director of an environmental activist group. Sol Simon, of Mississippi River Revival, made his charge in responding to an opinion piece by Fremling in the Daily News. Simon cited state complaints about engineering permit violations and his Revival's own complaint that has been lodged with the state. He called the project "an environmental debacle." Among Simon's specifics: > Two massive spills of silt into a waterway. > 14 acres of wetlands filled with silt. > More than a mile of a stream filled with silt. > Wildlife killed. > A large plume of silt entering the Mississippi for months. Background: Pollution agency: Stop it Background: Fremling: Dredging made sense

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SOLOVYOV ESSAYS Edited, translated by Vladimir Wozniuk

SMU prof reviews works of Russian commentator WINONA, Minn., Feb. 26, 2002 -- A Saint Mary's University historian, Greg Gaut, reviewed a new collection of Vladimir Solovyov's political and social writings on H-Net web service. H-Net is an international consortium of scholars and teachers which has pioneered the use of new technology to facilitate academic exchange.

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