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9-11 observance planned at WSUWINONA, Minn., Aug. 15, 2002 -- A campus observance of the Sept. 11 tragedy is being planned at Winona State University on the first anniversary of the terrorism attack, campus Lutherans said. The observance will be nondeminational. University President Darrell Krueger will speak.Date: Sept. 11
Time: 9:11 p.m.
Place: Main courtyard
Cost: None |
WSU SECURITY
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Aug. 15, 2002 | A mother phoned the security office at 3:07 p.m. for help to locate her daughter, who hadn't contacted her for approximately one week. The mother indicated that the daughter was moving to Winona and attended Winona State. Shortly after the initial notification the mother called back and made contact with the daughter.
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Cops break down door to quash partyWINONA, Minn., Aug. 14, 2002 -- After being refused entrance to investigate a loud partying complaint, the police got a judge's signature on a search warrant and broke down the door. That put an end to the party at 135 Lafayette St. Two 20-year-old men were cited for obstructing the cops and having an unregistered keg. Fifteen minors were ticketed for illegal consumption.
Clown claims self-defense in parade incidentWINONA, Minn., Aug. 12, 2002 -- A parade clown who bopped a 12-year-old girl with a stick after she sprayed him with silly string during the Steamboat Days parade appeared in court on his motion to dismiss an assault charge. Judge Jeffrey Thompson said he would review the facts of the case and decide whether the clown, Winona State University prof Gene Lundak, 58, will go on trial. Lundak claims self-defense. He presented a clinic report that he suffered a corneal abrasion from the silly string. He was trying only to take the silly string away from the girl, he said.
WSU senior in brain modeling projectWINONA, Minn., Aug. 12, 2002 -- A Winona State University senior, Steve Nelson, spent the summer in a University of Minnesota research project in which the cerebellum structure in the human brain was digitally mapped. Nelson worked under neurosurgeon Timothy Ebner. At Winona State, Nelson studies psychology and math.
Police gear up for college boozers| Police chief: "Alcohol has a direct effect on the number of crimes committed within the city. Assaults, criminal damage disorderly conduct, public nuisance and loud parties are all influenced by alcohol." |
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| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 12, 2002 -- Cops will be walking the streets in the Winona State University neighborhood and the downtown bar district when students return for fall classes, Chief Frank Pomeroy said. Street patrols during evening, night-time and weekend heavy-partying periods resulted in dramatic increases in arrests last year, especially for underage drinking. Pomeroy said the patrols are funded partly from a state grant and also a $3,000 donation from Winona State University. Enforcement, he said, will be increased this fall. |
R.I.P.: Bernetta M. BillPIGEON FALLS, Wis., Aug. 12, 2002 -- A Winona State teaching grad, Bernetta Bill, who taught many years in Arcadia, Wis., schools, died at age 87. She held both a bachelor's and master's degree from Winona State.
WSU SECURITY
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Aug. 12, 2002 | INCIDENT NO. 1: A fire alarm was activated in the Lourdes dorm at 10:02 a.m. No fire was found.
INCIDENT NO. 2: A student fainted in the entry way of the
library at 9:55 a.m. The student was taken to the hospital. |
WSU religious groups plan kioskWINONA, Minn., Aug. 11, 2002 -- Campus pastor John Carrier announced plans for an interfaith information kiosk in the student center building at Winona State University. Information about community spiritual organizations will be posted, Carrier said at a planning meeting at the Lutheran-sponsored Blue Heron Coffeehouse. Represented were Christians and Muslims. Planners said the kiosk would be available to all spiritual groups. Buddhists, Taoists and pagans were mentioned.
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Aug. 12, 2002 | Janitors found a gumball machine in the men's bathroom off Baldwin Lounge in the Kryzski student cente at 2:36 a.m. The money was gone. The machine had been removed from the student affairs area. |
Another chow mein chowdown placeWINONA, Minn., Aug. 10, 2002 -- Collegians will have yet another place to pick up chop sticks when classes start. Ding Hoang, who operated the Great Hunan on Third Street from 1990 to 1998, said he will come out of retirement to open the Winona Garden in the old Hallmark shop at 62 E. Third St. Hoang plans to open Sept. 1. Winona Garden will be Winona's fourth Chinese restaurant. Hoang, who learned the business in Vietnam before escaping by boat, plans Mandarin, Hunan and Szechuan dishes with Vietnamese weekend specials. The restaurant will seat 110. Carryout will be available, he said.
WSU SECURITY
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Aug. 10, 2002 | A student reported at 12:15 p.m. that some person entered his room and removed two refrigerators sometime between Aug. 3 and Aug. 10. |
"Dead Man Walking" author due at WSUWINONA, Minn., Aug. 9, 2002 -- A death-penalty opponent who inspired the movie "Dead Man Walking," Helen Prejean, will bring her message to Winona State University in the second week of fall classes. Prejean, a Roman Catholic sister, is chair of the Moratorium Campaign to end the death penalty. Prejean has been involved in the issue since she and Louisiana death-row prisoner Patrick Sonnier became friends. After Sonnier's execution, she wrote a book portraying their friendship.Date: Sept.14
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Somsen Auditorium
Cost: $5 to the Moratorium Campaign requested |
CAMPUS READER
What in-the-know Winona college people are reading:
Kirsten Singleton. "WordWork: Japanese High School Students Get Crash Courese in English During Visit," Winona Daily News (Aug. 7, 2002), Pag 1C. Singleton, a news reporter, draws of many interviews to tell about a St. Mary's Universityv summer language camp for Japanese students, most of whom are intent on pursuing college in the United States.
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Background: Campus site offers new service: Reading tips
Earlier reading tips: Spring sex on the beach
Merchant opens bookstore near WSUWINONA, Minn., Aug. 8, 2002 -- The Winona State University neighborhood will have an off-campus bookstore soon. Chris Livingston, a radio sales rep, has given up the microphone to open the Book Shelf in the old Face the Music storefront at Huff and Sarnia. The shop will have 4,800 books when it opens Aug. 15, Livingston said. He plans poetry readings, literacy promotion projects, and avid-reader discounts.
Editorialist: Boozing excesses a city problemWINONA, Minn., Aug. 7, 2002 -- Winonans can't blame all downtown drunken disorderliness on college students, editorialist Jim Galewski said in the Daily News in commenting on a ruckus that left the street cluttered with broken glass outside the Keningston senior-citizen hotel across from Brother's bar. "Had this been during the school year we would have blamed college students in a heart beat," Galewski said. Noting there are few college students around during the summer, he said: "We can't blame all our problems on students." He called for a comprehensive study of boozing as a community problem.
Ambulance picks up ailing SMU manWINONA, Minn., Aug. 6, 2002 -- A rescue team, called at Saint Mary's University at 8:50 a.m., treated an 89-year-old man and took him to the hospital.
One party too many irks City Council
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| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 5, 2002 -- The City Council suspended the rental license for a well-known party house near Winona State University for three police calls for loud and obnoxious partying within a 12-month period. The house, at 854 W. Fifth, is owned by Dean and Ann Molso. The Mulsos also were fined $1,000. |
City rethinks Collegeville, says OKWINONA, Minn., Aug. 5, 2002 -- The City Council changed its mind about the proposed Collegeville housing project across Highway 14 from St. Mary's University and voted 6-1 to approve the high-density development. Collegeville attorney Kent Gernander argued that denying the project, to be built by out-of-towners, would be counter to the spirit of past city zoning decisions for new housing. Thirty-six unit developments have been routinely OK'd in the past, Gernander said. A Collegeville spokesperson, Chris Schellinger, said the cluster housing plan would add $7 million to Winona's tax base. Schillinger said the plan has been modified for better traffic sight lines onto Knopp Valley Drive. People in existing Knopp Valley subdivisions have object to added traffic. One resident, Mary Catherine Fox, a St. Mary's prof, said congested Highway 14, between the campus and Knopp Valley already is congested "corridor of death" that will be made worse by more housing and traffic.
Background: Traffic concern upends Collegeville plan
Ex-SMU webmaster: Guilty of coercion for sexWINONA, Minn., Aug. 5, 2002 -- The Saint Mary's University webmaster accused of using a massage-lesson ruse to do sex with a student pleaded guilty. Christopher James Heidel, 36, who was fired by the university in October after the charge was filed, was scheduled for sentencing Sept. 9. In the meantime, he's free on his own recognizance. The student, who was 20 at the time, said Hiedel offered him a drink in his Holiday Inn room and then persuaded him to undress for as massage. According to the student, Heidel said he needed to do the massage as part of class he was taking at Southeast Tech, but, investigators concluded, there was no such class. Because the St. Mary's student once was Heidel's high school student, prosecutor Lisa Swenson contended there was coercion.
Background: Did sex occur? Swab samples negative
R.I.P.: Beatrice M. (Munson) LeonhartWINONA, Minn., Aug. 5, 2002 -- A retired chemistry lab assistant at the College of St. Teresa, Beatrice Leonhart, died at a nursing home. She was 100. Shed was St. Teresa 35 years.
WSU fund-raiser search narrowsWINONA, Minn., Aug. 3, 2002 -- Two former student athletes, Joel Akason and Dan Schumacher, comprise the short list of applicants for a new Winona State University fund-raising position. The job includes phonathons, the all-university campaign, direct mail appeals, and working with the athletic director and coaches for major gifts to benefit athletics.Thumbnails:Akason: A1998 business grad with a 2001 master's in business with from Drake. Currently a self-employed remodeling contractor. Earlier a manager with Pella Corp. for four years. At Winona State, he was a games management and marketing assistant.
Schumacher: A 1990 mass com grad. Currently a vice president at Conseco Finance. With Conseco seven years. Earlier with TCF Bank and Mortgage. Before that with Crown Mortgage.
WSU SECURITY
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Aug. 1, 2002 | A male student reported that he was being harassed by another male on campus. Most of the incidents took place off campus, but several took place at Winona State, the complainant said. |
WSU hires 30 profs for fallHere is the number of new full-time Winona State University faculty hired by this point in the summer in recent years:
Forty-six in 2000 was a record. |
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| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 2, 2002 -- Students will see 30 new faces on classroom podiums at Winona State University when classes begin after Labor Day, including five in speech classes. The new speech profs will address a backlog of students waiting to take a required freshman public address class. The English Department, decimated by the retirements of four senior profs last spring, has the second largest contingent of new profs. Tess Kruger, the university's personnel director, said some searches are still under way, but, so far, these are the new full-time faculty:
Accounting: Thomas Ebert.
AIS: Robert Bacchus.
Art: Rodney Nowosielski.
Bio: Michael Alfieri.
Biz-ad: Daniel Sauers, Sohail Subhani.
Comm: Annie Clement, Jeremy McIntyre, Alison McBride, Ed McBride, Wendy Zeitz.
Econ: Chan Wung Kim.
English: Debra Cumberland, Linda Kukowski, Sharon Scholze, Tina Smeby.
Languages: Alicia Reed.
Geography: Stephen Allard, Toby Dogwiler.
Health: Eric Snyder, Peter Sternberg.
History: Aimee Dobbs, Matthew Lindaman.
Math: Christopher Malone, Michael Markegard, Wendy Schneider.
Phys-ed: Matthew Entz, Wynn Fricke.
Polysci: Gaspare Genna.
Theater: Rebecca Foster.
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New stab at boozing: Study circlesWINONA, Minn., Aug. 1, 2002 -- Acknowledging that Winona has an alcohol abuse problem beyond the campuses, community organizer Randy Schenkar called for study circles to explore solutions. Schenkar, of the Winona Council for Quality, addressed 30 people at a City Hall meeting. A steering committee will develop a plan to broaden community discussion of the issue, he said. At the meeting, Police Chief Frank Pomeroy kept the focus on the campuses, asserting that nine college-age young people have died because of alcohol abuse in Winona in the past five years.
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WSU prez: Do better, do more with less| WINONA, Minn., Aug. 1, 2002 -- The president of Winona State, Darrell Krueger, called on faculty and everyone else at the university to give students their money's worth this coming academic year. "The students commit their tuition dollars, as well as their time and talents, to their education. We must reciprocate by continuing to deliver excellent education and first-rate student service," Krueger said. He applauded the Student Senate for endorsing new tuition increases to ease the university's budget this year.Even with the tuition, the university is operating with less than its proposed budget. Krueger said everyone must "find ways to do more with less." |
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