WSU makes fall computer decision: Gateway, Apple| Winona State University will order between 3,500 and 4,000 Gateways, 340 Apple iBooks and 78 titanium Apple PowerBooks for fall. Ten to 12 percent of current students leas Apples, while the remaining students use an IBM or Gateway. The percentage of profs using Apples is higher. |
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| WINONA, Minn., April 29, 2002 -- Winona State has chosen three new laptop computer models for the fall. Two Apple models,and one Gateway model will replace five models that are being retired. "A benefit to this is that we will now only have contracts with two vendors, Gateway and Apple," said Robin Honken, project coordinator. The three models chosen are the Apple iBook, the titanium PowerBook, and the Gateway 450. Students can lease either the Apple iBook or Gateway 450. The Apple titanium model will go only no the profs. The Apple iBook will have a DVD CD-ROM drive and rewritable CD drive combo. The iBook comes with a 600-megahertz processor, which, said Honken, "pretty fast on the Mac side." The Gateway does not include the three-package combo included in the iBook model, but does have a swappable CD-ROM and disk drive. The Gateway screen Gateway is 14 inches, larger than the 12.1-inch iBook screens. The titaniums Apples will have 15.2-inch screen, which 'is huge for a laptop," said Honken. The Titaniums are approximately $600 more than the iBook model."
Reporter: Ann Nolin |
New Chuckers owners aim for wider clientele
| Nathan Schott Corey Hyde, new owners of Chuckers bar at Johnson and Second streets, do not own either Za Za's on Huff Street nor the Blackhorse in suburban Homer. Not true, and they don't know where the rumor started. "One of us gets that at least once a week," Schott said. |
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| WINONA, Minn., April 29, 2002 -- A downtown bar with a troubled past, Chuckers, is in for a number of changes, according to new owners Nathan Schott and Corey Hyde. The plan: Attract a diverse crowd. Chuckers has been notorious for appealing to underage college students and football players, but Schott and Hyde say they want to draw everyone from college students to older people. Schott said that they will be strict about underage drinking. Schott was reluctant to give out too much information about plans for so the changes will be a surprise when everything is finished next fall. Remodeling and a name change are planned, he said. Schott did say live music will be a feature, perhaps with a permanent stage. So far, Schott and Hyde have redone Chucker's basement underage lounge, the Underground, and changed its name to Liquid Motion.The renovations were finished Friday, and a Mardi Gras party was held for anyone over 18. A spring break trip was given away. Since acquiring Chucker's lquor license April 1, business has been steady, Schott said. Schott has managed a bar in Minneapolis twice the size of Chuckers and said that he never had problems with underage drinking.
Reporter: Shane Hawley |
SMU goes with mandatory direct depositWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2002 -- The payroll at Saint Mary's University is entering the e-world 100 percent. Brother Louis DeThomasis, president, announced that all paychecks will be issued direct deposit to employee bank accounts starting June 1. About 75 percent of employees already were using direct deposit. One option remains: Payroll vouchers either on paper or by e-mail to campus or home addresses.
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April 29, 2002 | INCIDENT NO. 1: A city rescue was summoned at 10:55 p.m. to the Conway dorm for astudent suffering from medical problems. The student was taken to the hospital.
INCIDENT NO. 2: A vehicle struck a parked vehicle near the Prentice-Lucas turnaround at 11:10 p.m. Very minor damage.
INCIDENT NO. 3: Somebody stuck a cherry bomb in a toilet in the Prentiss dorm at 10:09 p.m.. Toilet was damaged.
INCIDENT NO. 4: Somebody stuck a cherry bomb in a toilet in the Prentiss dorm at 10:09 p.m.. Toilet was damaged.
INCIDENT NO. 5: A student reported at 7:10 p.m. that his unattended bookbag was taken from the Kryzsko student building between 5:20 and 5:40 p.m.
INCIDENT NO. 6:Guards responded to the exterior of Lourdes dorm at 1:04 a.m. concerning a noise complaint. No one was around. |
Ex-Warrior lauds retiring baseball coachWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2002 -- The co-captain of the Winona State University baseball team 30 years ago, Steve Krinke, publicly thanked retiring Coach Gary grob for instilling the work ethic in generations of Warrior players. "On behalf of the more than 400 current and former players, thanks, coach, for the leadership and life lessons," Krinke said in a letter to the Daily News opinion page. He said Grob's emphasis on fundamentals "is still a viable strategy."
Landlords softening posture on noise ordinanceWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2002 -- Landlords, once antagonistic at city efforts to curb noise from college tenants, now are willing to help. A leader of the Winona Area Landlord Association, Scott Abramson, said the landlords are going to approach the City Council as supportive. To be sure, the landlords still oppose the city's original three-strikes you're-out ordinance that can mean revocation of a rental license for a multi-unit bulding even if the offenses are from only one tenant. A modification of the ordinance, with a sliding scale for large apartment buildings, is on the Council agenda. "No one's talked about what the sliding scale would be," Abramson said, adding that the landlords are willing to work through details with City Council members. Although landlords don't feel they should be accountable for tenant misbehavior, Abramson said the sliding scale would be an improvement. Whatever, he believes the issue is destined to disappear.With police cracking down on the parties, the culture of student partying is going to change. Large, loud parties will be shifted to small quiet gatherings, he said.
Reporter: Angie Anderson
Birthright speaker: Improving your lifeWINONA, Minn., April 30, 2002 -- Author and motivational speaker Michelle Neujahr will present a program on "Choice, Consequence and Challenge" at Saint MaryÕs University. Sponsored by Birthright of Winona and the SMU Collegians for Life, NeujahrÕs talk will cover personal and professional development, image and self-esteem, and work-life balance, sponsors said.Date: April 30
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Saint MaryÕs Hall
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WSU making Phelps toilets easier to get toWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2002 -- Two lavatories in Phelps Hall at Winona State University will become handicap accessible this summer. One men's room and one women's room on the main floor will be remodeled to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, said Steve Ronkowski, campus facilities coordinator. The project, Ronkowski said, will cost about $8,700. Currently wheelchair-bound persons in Phelps must to go to a different building for a toilet. The construction, by TCI of La Crosse, Wis., is funded from general repair and betterment moneys allocated to Winona State from the state college chancellor. Ronkowski hopes to start the project May 6. He expects completion in two to three weeks. A toilet will be eliminated in each room to create wheelchair access space. Toilets will be elevated to be accessible for everyone, Ronkowski said.
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WSU generator installation: Like clockworkWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2002 -- The installation of three new generators at Winona State University went perfectly, said Dick Lande, facilities services manager. The university now is equipped to produce all of its own power if it needs to. Testing of the generators happened over the university's spring break, March 2 through 9, and also went well "Backup generators were on hand but, it turned out, even needed, Lande said. A feature of the generators is that they can provide power in a city-wide outage. "When we have an outage here, and everybody in Winona is down, at Winona State you won't even know we're down," Lande said. "It'll drop off for maybe 15 seconds for emergencies, and then all three generators will kick on, and it'll takes about 15 seconds to get them up to full power." If Winona State needed to, Lande said, it could support the entire city from campus. "We could feed them, give them a warm place to sleep, give them a shower," he said. "They'll be living in the gymnasium, but they'll be alive." The entire unit -- generators, control panels, and the sheds it's all housed in -- cost approximately $3 million."It's a heck of a deal," Lande said. The old campus generators were not connected to the boilers, so if there had been a power outage during the winter, there would have been no way to heat the buildings around campus. "We kind of ran at a risk for 30, 40 years here," Lande said. Now, however, Winona State can produce 100 percent of its own power, including heat.
Reporter: Stacy Booth
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April 29, 2002 | BASEBALL (MEN'S): WSU 9, UM-Morris 1; WSU 7, UM-Morris 0. SMU 3, Carleton 2; SMU 2, Carleton 1.
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S): St. Thomas 5, SMU 1. St. Thomas 5, SMU 0.
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