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ARCHIVED COVERAGE Daily News endorses St. Teresa revival WINONA, Minn., Oct. 12, 2003 -- Plans to reopen College of St. Teresa as a kind of women's college were endorsed by the Daily News in an editorial. The plan would be good for women, the editorial said, noting that women still lag in equality with men in business and need access to leadership training. Also, the newspaper said, the plan would be good for Winona by attracting female students who may remain in the city after graduation. The plan is being developed by St. Mary's, which says it believes it can attract 200 women to a program at the under-used St. Teresa campus, which it owns. The women would live at St. Teresa and take leadership-oriented courses there. Most of their classes, however, would be at Terrace Heights and their degrees would be from St. Mary's. Background: St. Teresa to reopen Background: Comment: SMU's gender misfocus TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE UPCOMING CAMPUS EVENTS AND SCHEDULES ST. MARY'S SOUTHEAST TECH WINONA STATE TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE Unions take wage freeze, health cuts Together AFSCME and MAPE represent more than half of the state employees in Minnesota. This includes about 180 employees, mostly clerical and janitorial, at Winona State University. ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 11, 2003 -- Contract negotiations between the two largest state employee unions and the state ended in a tentative deal that union negotiators said they would recommend that their members accept. Terms were not announced except that the deal would freeze wages for two years and that workers would pay a greater share of their health insurance costs. The tentative settlement came after 13 hours of bargaining on Thursday and 32 straight hours on Friday and Saturday. The contract will go to 27,000 state employes represented by the AFSCME and MAPE unions in November for acceptance or rejection. The members had voted overwhelmingly to strike at Gov. Tim Pawlenty's initial insistence on a wage freeze and health insurtance cutbacks. After an all-night negotiation session, Pawlenty's personnel officer, Cal Ludeman, called the tentative agreement "fair." Union negotiators were less enthusiastic. Said MAPE staff officer Jim Monroe: "It's not where we sould have been. It's wrong." Background: Unions take wage freeze, health cuts TO EARLIER NEWS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE WSU SECURITY REPORT OCT. 11, 2003 INCIDENT NO. 1: Guards discovered alcohol at the East Lake dorm at 6:38 p.m. INCIDENT NO. 2: Supervisors at the Maria dorm called guards with a suspected drug issue at 11:30 p.m. Alcohol and a small amount of marijuana was found. TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE QUICK SPORTS OCT. 11, 2003 CROSS COUNTRY (MEN'S): University of Chicago (1st), SMU (2nd). CROSS COUNTRY (WOMEN'S): Carthage (1st), SMU (2nd). FOOTBALL (MEN'S): WSU 40, Bemidji State 21. SOCCER (WOMEN'S): SMU 3, Bethel 0. VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S): Northern State 3, WSU 0. TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE Got a new credit card? Listen up WINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2003 -- A representative of Minnesota attorney general's office, Rachel Berg, is scheduled to discuss credit cards and college students in a presentation at Winona State University. Berg said he hopes first-time credit card users will attend. She noted that Attorney General Mike Hatch has proposed legislation to protect students from aggressive credit card marketing on campuses. Date: Tuesday, Oct. 14 Time: 7 p.m. Place: Stark Auditorium Cost: Free TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE COMMENT: YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING NO DRUNKS ON WSU BENCH? How ironic it is that Winona State would seek funding from the National Collegiate Athletics Association for an anti-alcohol project and to say simultaneously that there is no problem. Yes, that's what Ruth Schroeder, director of a new NCAA-funded campus alcohol-awareness project, said in an announcement: "Winona State wasn't awarded the grant because of any alcohol abuse problem among current students or athletes." Schroeder must be the only person on campus who doesn't know that varsity athletics is subumed in a booze culture. Worse is the public posture of coaches, who turn a blind eye and thus contribute to the problem. Yes, Winona State varsity sports has an alcohol problem. Big time. Well intended though it may be, the NCAA project is too meek too late. The solution: Throw the drunks out. Background: $30,000 alcohol-awareness grant Background: Football player pays party fine Background: Varsity golfer pays boozing fine Background: Comment: Zero tolerance Background: Comment: Asking too much YOUR COMMENTARY TOO IS INVITED FOR THE CYBERINDEE TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE SMU drunken driver fined $565 WINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2003 -- WINONA, Minn., Oct. 11, 2003 -- A St. Mary's University student, Benjamin P. Andeson, 20, paid a $565 fine in District Court for driving while intoxicated. Police said 0.11 percenty of his blood was alcolhol when they stopped him. TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE Temp-help shop issues scholarships WINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2003 -- The Winona office of Express Personnel, a tem-help agency, awards $250 scholarships to Dustin Evenson, Nathan Setterland and Alison Campbell, at Winona State University and to Rachel Rislow at the University of Minnesota. Students qualified for the scholarships for workinh 440 hours and completiung all work assignments over the summer.

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Brass ensemble scheduled at WSU

WSU choir to greet steamboat

AMERICAN QUEEN Largest riverboat

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2003 -- The Winona State University concert choir, directed by Harry Mechell, and a musical group Dixie Midnight Runners, directed by Rich MacDonald, will greet the American Queen steamboat when it docks next in Winona -- the boat's last scheduled Winona stop until 2005. University President Darrell Krueger will welcome Capt. Richard Karnath, a Winona State alum. Date: Monday, Oct. 20 Time: 2:15 p.m. Place: Levee Park Cost: Free

Background: SMU's St. Teresa plan

NCAA funds WSU anti-alcohol project

SCHROEDER Campus health educator

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2003 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association awarded $30,000 to Winona State University to devise programs to prevent student alcohol abuse. The university's health educator, Ruth Schroeder, said the project is not limited to athletes. "Winona State wasn't awarded the grant because of any alcohol abuse problem among current students or athletes," said Schroeder, project director. Even so, Schroeder has lined up several athletes for a 12-hour training program to become "peer health educators." Said Schroeder: "These student-athletes will encourage healthy behavior, lifestyle choices and lead discussions about the team's expected behavior and guidelines, self-monitoring and the school's policies and sanctions." The NCAA's funding will sustain the program through three years, Schroeder said. Schroeder credited the university's athletic department for helping get the project started. Thirty-five students, many of them varsity athletes, have signed on for peer training, she said. "I was really hoping for a dozen to 20 students involved, so to have 35 is wonderful," she said.

SMU hosts Midwest photo exhibit

UM clerks post strike notice

MAPE: Governor playing with plutonium

St. Teresa to reopen as women's college

DETHOMASIS Enrollment goal: 200

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 9, 2003 -- The College of St. Teresa, which closed in 1989 with fewer than 200 students, will reopen as a women's college again, this time under new auspices. St. Mary's University, a coed Winona college that acquired most of the West End campus last year, hopes to attract 200 women to a program designed to develop leadership skills. The program tentatively is titled the St. Teresa Leadership and Service Institute for Women. Although there will be a core of courses offered at the old St. Teresa campus, the curriculum will piggyback on existing programs 1-1/2 miles away at the St. Mary's main undergrad campus at Terrace Heights. Louis DeThomasis, St. Mary's president, said that students will live in a St. Teresa dorm but not at the Lourdes or Tau dorms, which Winona State owns, nor at the Maria dorm, which Winona State leases. Plans are only now coming together, DeThomasis said. Background: SMU buys St. Teresa campus

			OWNER			TENANT
Alverna Center			SMU			SMU
Chapel of St. Mary's of the Angels			SMU			---
CSTea House			SMU			CST alumni
Loretto Hall			SMU			Cotter-related
Lourdes Hall			WSU			WSU
Maria Hall			SMU			WSU
Roger Bacon Hall			SMU			Cotter-related
St. Cecilia Hall			SMU			Cotter-related
St. Mike's athletic fields			SMU			Cotter-related
St. Teresa Hall			SMU			Cotter-related
Former St. T's Tennis & Sports			SMU			SMU
Tau Center			WSU			WSU
Valencia Performing Arts Center			SMU			Cotter-related

Speaker: Disabled becoming an American saga

HOCKEN- BERRY NBC "Dateline" correspondent

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 8, 2003 -- Network television correspondent John Hockenberry told a Winona State University audience that disabled people are gaining more attention in society, which he praised as agood step. Hockenberry, himself paraplegic, said the disabled are an emerging culture that Americans need to be aware of. He said the disabled, like any culture in America, want to advance their culture. "America is a theme park for social adaptation," said Hockenberry. Hockenberry said major tension exsists between American culture and the disabled, and that effort is need from all people to receive the benefits of diversity. Americans must also overcome political correctness, said Hockenberry. "Disability is an American story," Hockenberry said. "It is a human story." Reporter: Heather Stanek Background: Wheelchair hasn't stopped him

State might bypass strike-threatening unions

LUDMAN Governor's guy at negotiating table

ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 8, 2003 -- The chief state negotiator in stalled contract talks with the AFSCME and MAPE state employee unions, Cal Ludeman, again raised the specter of bypassing the unions and imposing the state's proposed contract package on workers. The wokers' contracts expired last summer. Ludeman said the state cannot continue honoring the terms of the old contract, especially costly health-care provisions. Although Ludeman says the state can legally impose a non-negotiated settlement on workers, which, in effect, would break the unions, he said he is reluctant although prepared to go that route. The unions have authority to strike from their members, who number about 29,000 state employees, many of them at college campuses. Background: Union stocks food shelf for strike

Urge to go costs $330

City official scotches Middle School talk

GROWING UP AT WINONA STATE Before your very eyes Michael Hofland Elected student president 2003

WSU prof examines "false recall"

Hofland: More student role in reform dialogue

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 8, 2003 -- The student president at Winona State University, Michael Hofland, is worried that students may not have enough voice in reshaping the university. Discussion committees assigned by university President Darrell Krueger to assess budgets and student support services as part of the New University dialogue should have a majority of students, Hofland said. "Because there is no form to the plan right now, we can shape it to a student-friendly model," Hofland said, referring to the fact that the structure for dialiogue is only now being put together. Hofland is on a steering committee that will coordinate the study groups. In a meeting with leaders of the Alliance of Student Organizations, Hofland said that Krueger's New University concept at this point is "both complex and vague." The idea, he said, is for Winona State to get on top of the gradual privatization of public universities, which is a national phenomenon driven in part by the changing financial climate for national and state governments. Reporter: Ruth Bailey Background: Krueger: We need to reinvent WSU			HOFLAND Student president

Students: Governor snubbed us in Despins pick

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 8, 2003 -- The appointment of Winona State University senior Tyler Despins to the state colleges board of trustees was a slap in face at students, leaders of the Minnesota State University Student Association said. In an article by Paul Sloth in the Winonan student newspaper, the association's president, Rhys Gaffer, said that Gov. Tim Pawlenty passed over MSUSA's two recommendations for the board seat: grad students Linda Palmer of Metro State and Becky Rothmeier of St. Cloud State. By law, the governor is required to seek recommendations from MSUSA for trustee vacancies. Said Gaffer: "You just don't snub your nose at a recognized organization." Although Despins had expressed interest in a trustee slot to MSUSA, the association did not include him on its list for the governor. Despins then went directly to the governor's staff with his statement of interest. Now, after a 3-1 vote, MSUSA's leadership group has called on Gov. Pawlenty to explain himself. Becky Rothmeier, one of the two MSUSA-endorsed candidates for the position, said the students specifically did not recommend Despins: "He applied but they said no." Background: Despins: That was long, long ago Comment: Governor just doesn't care

DESPINS Governor's choice despite MSUSA recommendation Governor unaware Despins had been impeached as student president at the Rochester college What does governor do now?

WSU English prof edits writing book

Student leaders lining up against Metro ban

Background: The gazebo: A long wait over

SMU student charged as drunken at wheel

Author addresses awards luncheon

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 8, 2003 -- Mystery author Marge Dorner, a retired Winona State University prof, will be the keynote speaker at the Outstanding Women's Award luncheon next week. Dorner holds two Minnesota Book Awards. Date: Thursday, Oct. 16 Time: 11:30 a.m. Place: Westfield Golf Course Cost: $12 Contact: (507) 452-2272

DORNER Whodunit master

More opposition to dorm tax exemption

PRESENTATION Kathy Sullivan Russ Dennison Christine Clements Joe Mount Suzanne Draayer Mark Eriksen Vernon Leighton

Draayer makes anthology gift to WSU librray

Cops find probation violator at fight

FIGHT SITE 528 Center St.

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 8, 2003 -- Police responding to a fight at Shorty's, a campus and blue-collar bar near Winona State University, arrested Joseph Erickson, 23, on a probation violation. Also, Erickson was charged with obstructing the legal process. This happened about 1:30 a.m.

KQAL TOWER VIEW
	Not many folks get this view of Lake Winona and the city behind it with the Mississippi flowing from west to east. The chief engineer at the Winona State University radio station KQAL, Mike Martin, shot the panorama three-quarters up the 400-foot tower from which KQ transmits.

Botany prof: Expect muted fall colors

MSU-Mankato riots: Did cops ask for it?

Secular humanists organize at WSU

State to campuses: Obey hazardous waste rules

PAVILION Four years after the architect's rendering was released, jack-hammers have begun taking out a concrete Winona State University flower bed at the former King and Washington intersection to build a gazebo.

Facing north, Phelps Hall to the right, Pasteur to the left.

WSU hosts forensics meet

Planning spring trip? Be wary

STRANDED IN PARADISE? Don't let it happen to you.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6, 2003 -- College students thinking about a spring break in the sunshine should be wary of mailings and calls touting group trips, the American Society of Travel Agents said. Look carefully at the fine print and think through questions you need answered, the society said: "Avoid booking a trip with a company That sells directly through student representatives." At the very least, compare mail, phone and e-mail offers with packages available from reputable travel agents, the society said.

Campus union stocks food shelf for strike

AFSCME THEME Lapel button Unions claim Gov. Pawlenty is "simply wrong" to want to cut health benefits

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 7, 2003 -- The Winona unit of the AFSCME public employee union is setting up a hardship committee to assess emergency financial needs of its members and provide assistance during strike, said local president Pat Shaughnessy. "If somebody has a kid get hurt, gets hurt themselves, or if their gas is going to get turned off in the middle of winter, things like that, the hardship committee can give them some money to get by," Shaughnessy said. "It may not always be much but it is enough to help them out." Also, the union is stocking food shelves for strikers. "When we went through this two years ago people were so generous," Shaughnessy said. "Students were always bringing us food on the picket lines, and the food shelf held enough for everyone who needed it." Reporter: Patrick Walsh Background: Union plans marches

Campus journalists organizing

Students urged to get flu poke

Solon: Punish rioters in pocketbook

Strike-ready union plans info marches

AFSCME THEME Lapel button Unions claim Gov. Pawlenty is "simply wrong" to want to cut health benefits

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 7, 2003 -- Union workers at Southeast Tech and Winona State University will take up placards to march at high-traffic campus areas next week and pass out informational brochures and talk with passersby, local AFSCME President Pat Shaughnessy said. These will not be picket lines, he empahsized. The goal is to raise sensitivity to strike issues -- mostly proposed health insurance cutbacks, Shaughnessy said. "This is a good time to explain things," he said. "People may not understand what we are fighting for." Reporter: Patrick Walsh Background: Strike ready on 10-day notice

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Strike ready to go on 10-day notice

SCHAUGH- NESSY Winona union chief "I've already talked to my bank about making house payments and explained that I could be not working for a while. They are willing to work with me so that I don’t lose my home because of the strike."

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 6, 2003 -- Strike-threatening state employees at Winona State University and elsewhere in the state are gearing up to walk out. Pat Shaughnessy, local AFSCME union president, said picket signs and information forms have been printed at state headquarters and await shipment. The strike could be called on 10 days notice any time in the next 30 days. he said. Local AFSCME chapters are scouting for buildings to rent for strike headquarters, deciding on picket line sites, and forming strike committees. "We need people to form a hardship committee, news committees, volunteers to walk lines and a good place to base our strike out of," Shaughnessy said. "The earlier we can lay this out the easier that 10 days will be for everyone. We can use that time to get our personal issues taken care of," he said. His recommendations: Talk to banks about house or car payments, start a savings account, and talk to your family about what to expect. Start saving now, he advises: "Instead of going out to eat this week. put that money in a savings account." AFSCME members will forfeit an average $673 a week by striking, said Shaughnessy. Reporter: Patrick Walsh Background: National Guard on strike alert

Injuries lighter on WSU football team

National Guard on strike alert

Online voting: Wait 'til next time

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Winona state workers: 73% for strike

AFSCME THEME Lapel button A tracking poll of Winona State Univerity AFSCME members on the eve of the vote from 70.7 percent for authorizing a strike. Journalism students conducted the poll.

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 6, 2003 -- Winona members of the AFCME union, including many campus employees, overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike against the state unless negotiations prove more fruitful. Chaz Martin of the statewide union said the Winona vote was 117-43, a 73 percent margin. The Winona tally was consistent with 19,600-member union's 80 percent statewide margin to authorize a strike. Reporter: Patrick Walsh Background: Vote counted at headquarters

Thief takes laptop from backpack

Prof pens foreward to book

ACE REPORTER CITATION BRIAN KRANS WSU JOURNALISM STUDENT RECENT COVERAGE WSU records subpoenaed in sex case [WINONAN SCOOP] Where Under-Age Kids Booze False alarm: What really happened that night Watkins window damage tops $1,200 Professor-clown due for trial on assault Ugly Winonan exchanges continue; security warning issued Sex offender back in town Krans' work also appears in the Daily News and the Winonan OTHER ACE REPORTERS IN GOOD COMPANY

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UNDER-AGE BOOZERS WHO GOT CAUGHT BEING STUPID DON'T TELL THEIR MOTHERS

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