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Solarium dream nearer for Joe ReedWINONA, Minn., March 7, 2004 -- For eight years Joe Reed has had a dream. As director of the Winona State University student union, Reed has wanted to expand the Smaug, a campus hangout, by covering a sunken outdoor patio that, Minnesota being Minnesota, doesn't get much used six months a year. On Monday he is scheduled to lay out a $2.4 million plan to university President Darrell Krueger to build a solarium over "the pit," as he calls it. "It's neat to have a dream and have it come to life," Reed said. He already has sketches. If Krueger OKs the project, blueprints will come next. The 7,000-square foot solarium will add 40 percent more seating to the student union. There would be more dining space, study space, an elevator, a new conference room, a mechanical room, more storage and another stage that will stick out 12 feet. The Student Senate has endorsed the project.
Reporter: Kate Stater
Handcuffed party-goer flees copsWINONA, Minn., March 7, 2004 -- Police caught a fleeing party-goer, handcuffed him and locked him in a squad car -- only to have him flee again. Responding to another party complaint an hour later, the cops spotted the guy, still handcuffed, and arrested him again. They knew they had the right guy not only because of the cuffs but because he was shoeless. He had left his shoes n the squad car. Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack said the episode began at 11:23 p.m., Saturday, when cops were called to 470 W. Fourth St. Partiers fled, but the cops caught one, an 18-year-old Prescott, Wis., man, handcuffed him, took him back to the squad car and locked him in, and then went back to make more arrests. Returning to car, the offices found the window smashed and the man gone. In all, five party-goers were cited on a range of charges, including, underage consumption, obstructing the legal process, criminal damage to property, noisy partying, interfering with an arrest, disorderly conduct and having an unregistered keg.
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BASKBALL (MEN'S): WSU 17, Indianaoplis 15; WSU 6, Indianapolis 4.
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S): WSU 12, Bentley 2; WSU 9, Assumption 2.
TENNIS (MEN'S): SMU 6, Bethel 3.
TENNIS (MEN'S): Carleton 9, SMU 0.
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| ST. PAUL, Minn., March 6, 2004 -- Although ahead as much as 11 points in the second half, Winona State gave it all up -- all of it -- in losing a Northern Sun tounament semifinal game 83-80 to Northern State of Iowa. In the overtime, the Wolves outscored Winona State 10-7. John Hopf led Warrior scoring with 14. Chad Barfknecht had 13, Justin Redetzke 10.
Background: WSU to semifinals |
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BASKETBALL (MEN'S): Northern Sun Tournament: Northern State 83, WSU 80 (overtime).
BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S): Named to the all-Northern Sun conference first team were WSU junior Tanisha Gilbert, senior Jenny Johnson, and sophomore Anne Straate.
TENNIS (MEN'S): SMU 6, Bethel 3.
TENNIS (WOMEN'S): Bethel 5, SMU 4; Catleton 9, SMU 0.
TRACK (MEN'S): MIAC Indoor Championships: St. Thomas 203.5 (1st), St. Olaf 77.5 (3rd), SMU 6.0 (11th).
TRACK (WOMEN'S): MIAC Indoor Championships: St. Thomas (1st), 146.0, Gustavus Adolphus 96.0 (2nd), SMU 42.0 (10th).
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| WINONA, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- A prominent student Republican at Winona State University, Jake Larow, paid a fine of $265 for driving after his driver's license had been revoked -- the latest in a series of police run-ins. In December LaRow was punched in the face in a pool-hall dispute in the downtown bar district. At Winona State, Larow has edited the College Republicans web site and has written a conservative column for the Winonan student newspaper.
Background: Police hunt for Larow assailant |
WSU student delegates to WashingtonWINONA, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- Student Sens. Nick Hartlep and Tristan Pruesse left Winona State University to join representatives from other Minnesota state universities on a six-day trip to lobby members of Congress. Meetings are scheduled with 14 senators and representatives. Hartlep said he hopes to make the case against a ban on federal grants to students who have been convicted of drug offenses. He called the law "punitive." Hartlep and Pruesse were appointed to make the trip by student President Michael Hofland, who made a similar trip last fall. Sunday is an open day, but the rest of the time is scheduled with meetings, said Pruesse. An MSUSA group dinner is planned for Thursday.
Reporter: Katie Pillsbury
| The trip is funded mostly by MSUSA, whose budget is underwritten by a mandatory $12.50 assessment on every student. MSUSUA covers lodging and two meals.
Airfare is covered by Winona State student activities fees.
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Rochester Democrat declares for CongressROCHESTER, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- Former Rochester City Council member Joe Mayer announced he will seek the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent Gil Gutknecht for the southern Minnesota seat in Congress. "We need a leader in Washington who will fight for the people of the First District instead of catering to demands of the current administration and big business, Mayer said. Mayer, a long--time Rochester resident, is a retired teacher and coach. He promised a campaign that focuses on developing jobs, solving health-care issues and promoting world peace. Mayer said that he and his wife "have the time and energy to travel our district and get to know the basic concerns of its people."
Against Gutknecht, Mayer would be facing a five-term Republican who has handily fended off Democratic challengers in the past. Winona State University econ prof Mary Rieder lost twice to him.
Mayer promised a Three Ps campaign -- peace, prosperity and progress. "Minnesota needs a foreign policy that promotes peace and security, an economic policy that promotes jobs in the U.S., and a healthcare system that is efficient, viable and provides coverage for all. he said. Mayer said he favors legislation that requires all government contracts to be performed only in the United States, that eliminates all governmental subsidies to corporations that continue to send jobs overseas, and to eliminate tax advantages to corporations that continue to send jobs overseas.
Reporters:
Lindsay Bauer and B.J. Puttbrese
Background: Gutknecht's challenger?
Background: WSU grad may run
Background: Gutknecht on higher-ed |
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Krueger: City flag reaction "unfortunate"WINONA, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- The City Council decision to forbid Winona State from flying alumni reunion banners over Huff and Main streets is "unfortunate," university President Darrell Krueger said. Krueger acknowledged the Council was reacting to delays on a proposal for U.S. flags in campus classroom. The Council concern, he said, is in some ways understandable. "City Council's action showed the university of the community's support of the flag," he said. Emotions are speaking loud right now because of people's absolute respect and love their country and its flag, Krueger said. But, he said, the Council seemed unaware that mandatory processes are under way on campus regarding the classroom flag proposal. Krueger said the city and the university have a great relationship: "We can't let these things get in the way of our long-term relationship." If the classsroom flag issue is not resolved before March 15, the Council's president, Dieter Mielimonka, has promised to request formally that the city take down all purple banners promoting Winona State from city lamp posts.
Reporter: B.J. Puttbrese
Background: GOP welcomes city ultimatum
Warriors' tournament foe: Northern State
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| ST. PAUL, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- The record paints Winona State Univerity as the underdog going into the semifinals of the Northern Sun men's basketball touranment Saturday. The Warriors' draw for the match, Northern State of Iowa, has twice won regular-season games -- one by 13 points, one by 11. Whoever wins, Warriors or Wolves, will meet the winner of a Bemidji State and UM-Duluth game for the championship on Sunday.
Background: WSU advances to semifinals |
WSU cello gathering canceledWINONA, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- The fifth annual Cello Day at Winona State University has been canceled because guest celloist Janet Horvath of Minnesota Orchestra couldn't make it, said faculty coordinator Paul Vance. The event had been planned for Saturday.
Background: Celloist to offer tips
GOP welcomes city ultimatumWINONA, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- The chair of the College Republicans at Winona State, Parker Hjelmberg, welcomed the City Council's sentiment against delays at the university on the club's classroom flag project. "Finally, there's some rational thought," he said. Hjelmberg said he was interested to see how the university was going to deal with the added pressure from the city. Hjelmberg said the College Republicans had not been in contact with the City Council before it voted on Monday to deny a university request to hang two alumni banners over city streets unless U.S. flags are installed in classrooms. Hjelmberg said, however, the College Republicans would be extending a "thank you" to the Council.
Reporter: B.J. Puttbrese
Background: GOP refuses to list flag donors
WSU gymnasts barred from meetsITHACA, N.Y., March 5, 2004 --The Winona State University women's gymnastics team won't be allowed into regional and national competitions because Coach Rob Murray missed paperwork deadlines, the chair of the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association said. Murray and university Athletic Director Larry Holstad were notified and given extended deadlines for required documents, NCGA Chair Rick Suddaby said. The NCGA is the national governing body of the Division III championship competitions. In Winona, Murray was unavailable for comment. Said Suddahy: "The NCGA made every effort to assist Winona State in complying with these standards." When the extended deadline was not met, the executive committee of the NCGA determined that Winona State was ineligible, Suddaby said: "It is unfortunate that this situation has unfolded in the manner in which it has." Suddaby said that Murray appealed to NCGA executive committee for a second extension, but the committee did not change its decision: "When universities like Winona State miss the deadline, it is hard to insure fairness to other universities with repeated extensions." NCGA regionals March 19 in Eau Claire, Wis., nationals April 2 in Denton, Texas.
Reporter: Anne Jungen
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GOP refuses to list flag donorsWINONA, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- The College Republicans chair at Winona State University, Parker Hjelmberg, refused to disclose the names of donors to the club's classroom flags project. The donor list doesn't matter any more because area veterans groups have agreed to donate however much is needed, Hjelmberg said. He said that he thought the club had raised about $1,000, excluding veterans groups' pledges. The money is not an issue nor is the donor list, said former campus GOP chair Nick Ridge, who started the project last fall. "I'll snap my fingers and have all the money ready," Ridge said. Hjelmberg said the project has about 10 donors so far. He also said that since the project made national news, he has received more checks. Although Hjelmberg would not give names, he did say that a Duluth, Minn., man donated a "substantial amount." Among early donors, reportedly for $300, was State Sen. Bob Kierlin, R-Winona.
Reporter: B.J. Puttbrese
Background: Discepency in GOP deposits |
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Discrepency shows in GOP flag depositsWINONA, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- Although the College Republicans club at Winona State has claimed to have raised more than $1,000 for its classroom flag project, only $480 has been deposited in the club account maintained by the university, records show. Asked about the discrepancy, club leaders had no clear answers. The club's finance director, Tim Johnson, said: "That's just wrong. Those numbers aren't right." Like other campus clubs, the College Republicans are required to keep all funds in a university-monitored account. There can be no outside accounts. The club's chair, Parker Hjelmberg, theorized that some checks had not been deposited yet -- although the $1,000-plus claim was made two months ago. Former College Republican Chair Nick Ridge, asked about the apparent missing flag donations, said that he no longer collects or deposits checks into the club's account. Ridge said he would not be surprised if checks had not been deposited yet. Ridge said that the amount of money deposited, $480, did seem low. He promised to check into it.
Reporter: B.J. Puttbrese
Background: WSU tries to set facts straight |
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BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S): Named to the all-conference first team were SMU junior Jamie Rattunde and sophomore Ashley Luehmann.
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WSU struggles to set flag facts straightWINONA, Minn., March 5, 2004 -- Faced with widespread misinformation about how it's dealing with the contentious College Republicans classroom flag plan, Winona State University administrators issued a fact shet. The main point: "Winona State University has not said 'no' to placement of U.S. flags in classrooms." The emphasis was that dialogue is under way and a decision is imminent. The univerity is facing a March 15 city ultimatum to get flags in classrooms. Because of Spring Break, however, a task force being formed to develop recommendations will not meet until March 19.
Verbatim: WSU administration fact sheet
Background: 123 flags counted on campus
Background: Faculty defends its decisions
Survey finds 123 U.S. flags at WSU| WINONA, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- Just back from several days in flag-bedecked Washington, Dick Lande was surprised to find Winona State University being widely perceived as a flagless if not unpatriotic place. As campus facilities manager, he knew there were flags. At dawn he dispatched his staff of janitors to count every flag in every classroom, every office -- and even every closet for flags in storage. Their tally: 123. |
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University publicist Tom Grier, who's been wrestling with image problems created by the campus flag debate, said he decided against a news release to the media with Lande's numbers because of imprecision in defining a flag. Lande had told janitors to count anything flag-like. There might even have been a refrigerator magnet in the count, Grier said.
Reporters: B.J. Puttrese with Nathan Bortz, Kate Goyette, and Kate Stater
Background: Faculty issues press statement
Background: Comment: Hold your gasket, Dieter
Background: City Council ultimatum
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HOCKEY (MEN'S): Named to the all-conference first team were SMU senior Emily Kearns and frosh Melissa Mondo.
HOCKEY (WOMEN'S): Named to the all-conference first-year team was SMU guartd Jimmy Wajda. Honorable mention was SMU'S Jeff Tendall.
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Not everybody chose to see Gibson filmWINONA, Minn., March 1, 2004 -- The theater chair at Winona State University, David Bratt, hasn't seen the Mel Gibson directed film, "The Passion of the Christ," and doesn't plan to. Bratt said he's already seen movies a lot of Christ films: "There have already been six or eight movies about Jesus in the last 25 years," said Bratt. "We keep revisiting the same things. Everyone asks, how much responsibility will be put on Jews this time?" The controversy, he noted, has boosted ticket sales, which he said Gibson and the producers must have anticipated. Tom Parlin, director of the Catholic Newman Center at Winona State, did not see the show either but more than 30 pastors and ministers went to a screening Wednesday. Parlin noted that Bishop Bernard Harrington has encouraged people to go. Pastor John Carrier, director of the Lutheran Campus Center, said that reviews led him to decide not to go. "The movie is basically two hours of someone being tortured," said Carrier. "The film lacks scholarship. It's just the imagination of the director, and some things did not really happen according to the Bible." Carrier said the Lutheran Center will use club funds for members who want to see it.
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WSU profs: We're not flag-hatersWINONA, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- The Faculty Senate at Winona State University issued a public statment that denies it opposes "the respectful and appropriate honoring" of the U.S. flag on campus. Faculty President Mary Kesler said she hoped the statement would correct "some of the negative publicity faculty have gotten." On Monday the City Council voted against a university request to post an alumni banner at two street corners unless a proposal for a U.S. flag in every classroom, championed by campus Republicans, is accepted by the faculty and administators.
Background: City Council ultimatum
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Celloist offers tips on daily motionWINONA, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- The associate principal cellist of the Minnesota Orchestra, Janet Horvath, will present material from her book, "Playing (Less) Hurt," at Winona State University's fifth annual Cello Day. Music prof Paul Vance, who is coordinating the event, said Horvath's ideas are concerned with all kinds of motion everybody uses in daily life. The ideas can benefit people in sports medicine, rehab therapy, and school administration, he said.Date: Saturday, March 6
Time: 12 p.m.
Place: Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
Cost: $5
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House committee OKs Pasteur projectST. PAUL, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- The House Higher Education Committee has approved a list of campus construction projects for state funding, with the $10.3 million renovation of Winona State University's Pasteur science building at No. 2. The recommendations will now go to the House Capital Investment Committee, which plans hearings.
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WSU vets on fund-raising job short listWINONA, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- The candidate list for a new fund-raising job at Winona State University has been narrowed to three, including former Student Senate President Michael Swenson. All three candidates for major-gifts director have experience as Winona State recruiters. Here are extracts from thumbnail bio-sketches released by search chair Dan Schumacher:
Amber Evans-Dailey. A high school recruiter at Winona State. Holds a public administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Open interview at 2:30 p.m., March 4, Somsen 213.
Bill Matkin. A fund-raiser at Michigan Tech until activated as an Air Force Reserve officer. Earlier a recruiter at Winona State. Holds a master's in political sience from the University of South Dakota. Open interview at 2:30 p.m., March 10, Somsen 213.
Mike Swenson. An admissions counselor and assistant registrar at West Suburban College of Nursing in Oak Park, Ill. Earlier a recruiter at Winona State. Holds a business degree from Winona State. Open interview at 2:30 p.m., March 5, Somsen 213.
WSU deanship deadline April 5WINONA, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- The liberal arts dean search committee at Winona State University will begin reviewing applications April 5, co-chair Ted Reilly said. The advertisement says eight years of higher-ed experience is preferred, including time as an administrator and full-time instructor. The ad specifies an understanding of technology and leadership skills in a team environment. The salary is listed only as competitive with similar institutions. Deans at Winona State are in the $100,000 to $120,000 range. The committee is seeking a successor to Joe Gow, who is leaving in the summer for the provost position at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Teacher licensure bill re-routed?ST. PAUL, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- proposal to allow applicants to be licensed as a teacher without going through a college teacher-training program may be in for a detour. Reps. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, and Doug Stang, R-Cold Spring, are working to refer the bill from Education Policy Committee to the Higher Education Committee to study its impact on teacher preparation programs, including the edication major at Winona State. Observers he proposal, a favorite of Gov. Tim Pawlenty, would have a toughert time before the highe-ed committee.
COMMENT: HOW BALLSY
TASTELESS FEMINISM
Maybe Winona State University feminists think it's cute to call their next campus program "That Takes Ovaries." To those of us less sexually obsessed the term "tasteless" comes to mind. |
Background: Washington bus ovarilysubscribed
Prof pursues sabbatical despite dean WINONA, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- Winona State prof Holly Shi believes that university administrators are letting budget determine who is awarded paid sabbatical leaves -- not the quality of what profs propose to do on their leaves. The tradition in academe is a sabbatical every seventh year, but Shi, now in her ninth year on the English faculty, was turned down last year -- and liberal arts Dean Joe Gow again has recommended her revised proposed not be approved. "We have had faculty members take sabbaticals in the seventh and eighth year," Shi said. "Since budget cuts last year, I believe there might be word from above to tighten the grip." The master contract for faculty says administrators can delay a sabbatical up to 10 years. Said Shi: "This 10-year thing is a something new."
Although Gow has not supported her latest proposal, it is academic Vice President and Steve Richardson and university President Darrell Krueger who eventually decide. Shi said that she knows of many people in the past who have been given sabbatical before it was mandatory. But, it seems, that's changed -- although administrators hedge on their criteria for evaluating sabbatical proposals. Shi said that further evidence that decisions are budget-driven is that full-year sabbaticals, for which a prof generally receives partial salary, are awarded more readily than one-semester sabbatical, for which a prof receives full salary. Although administrators shroud sabbatical decision-making in secrecy, Shi said she understands that Gow did not recommend any partial-year sabbaticals in a seventh, eighth or ninth year. "If the dean recommended full-year sabbaticals, it is very clear that what decides sabbaticals is the budget."
Reporter: Mae Schultz
Background: WSU delays sabbaticals
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Pro-choice bus oversubscribed WINONA, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- A Winona State University pro-choice delegation will need an extra bus for all the students who have signed up for the Save Women's Lives march in Washington. Campus organizer Marry Fanning said 60 people have registered for the April 25 event. The bus that was contracted for the trip can carry only 47, she said. Besides students who have put down a $50 deposit for the $120 trip, Fanning said profs in women's studies, psychology and history plan to march. Profs in political science and English are sponsoring a student to go by paying for a seat on the bus. Fanning called the response "incredible."For people who cannot make the trip, a "mock march" is being planned at Winona State, Fanning said. For the trip she expects a Minnesota delegation of 5,000 to 10,000. The nationwide goal is 1 million marchers, she said.
Reporter: Kaylyn Messer
Background: Pro-choice bus planned |
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EARLIER ALMANAC ENTRY
COMMENT: FLAG FLAP
HOLD YOUR GASKET, DIETER
Some fringe folks at Winona State may be against the U.S. flag, but it can't be many. All the campus people we know like the flag and would like to see more. Yes, there are well-founded reservations about specifics of a campus Republican plan for a flag in every classroom, but that doesn't mean the campus is chocked full of flag-haters.
Yet, the City Council has given the university an ultimatum to approve the ill-conceived GOP classroom flag plan or else. Or else what? Yes, the Council will yank down the university's purple banners on Huff Street.
This is overreaction based on misinformation from the out-of-control campus Republican machine. The fact, contrary to GOP propaganda, is that the university is engaged in serious discussion on how best to improve the presence of the U.S. flag on campus.
City Council members like Dieter Mielimonka and Gerry Krage should be applauding, not damning the university for the goal-oriented dialogue that is occurring. |
Background: City: No WSU banner on Huff
Background: Comment: Avoid the chintz
WSU foreign students put on showsWIINONA, Minn., March 4, 2004 -- As part of the Cross Cultural Outreach Program at Winona State University, foreign students will make a series of presentations at Madison Elementary School on April 16. The students are from Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Congo, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrkistan, Latvia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand and Ukraine.
Geo prof: Sugar Loaf prime for fallPHOTOGRAPHER:
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Reporter: Seth Brantner |
Warriors advance in conference meet
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Reporter: Stephanie Magnuson
Background: WSU seeks berth
CAMPUS ALMANAC
POSTED MARCH 4, 2004 |
Winona State University music faculty members listed by the year they were hired:
Harry Mechell
James Hoch
Suzanne Draayer
Catherien Schmidt
Richard MacDonald
Paul Vance
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Students OK 10 percent WSU dorm hikeWASHINGTON, March 3, 2004 -- The Student Senate endorsed a proposed 10 percent increase in Winona State Universuty room and board rates for fall. As explained by university administrators, the additional revenue would go to employee services, food services, operating expenses and repair and replacement. Vice President Dusty Finke was the only senator to vote against the increase. Here is a sampler of the proposed new fees:
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The East Lake dorm would have no increase, but there is a proposal of a 6 to 8 percent increase the year after. There would be a second 10 percent increase for all dorms in 2006, but the Senate did not take a position on it. Nor did the Senate vote on a 4 percent increase to cover delayed dorm maintenance in 2007 and 2008.
Reporter: Angela Wurst
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Winona State University gymnastic team members:
Kristin Crouse
Leah Kindem
Nicole Terbilcox
Emily Brys
Amy Bickler
Sammi Solheid
Jessica VanDenHeuvel
Alisa Patsche
Katie Crouse
Lindsey Greer
Bria Magnuson
Laura Peterson
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Democrats shroud Gutknecht challengerROCHESTER, Minn., March 3, 2004 -- The Democratic chair for Minnesota's First Congressional District, Lori Sellner, said the party's candidate to challenge Republican Gil Gutknecht will be announced at 10 a.m., Friday, in Rochester. Sellner said the candidate's name will not be given out in advance. Previous Democratic challengers to Gutknecht, who is seeking a sixth term, have been retired Winona State University econ prof Mary Reider, but after two tries she said "never again."
Reporter: Lindsay Bauer
Background: WSU grad ponders run
Congressional tuition critic retreatsWASHINGTON, March 3, 2004 -- The chair of the principal U.S. House subcommittee on higher education, Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., is backing off his proposal to deny federal dollars to colleges that raise their tuition too rapidly. McKeon had blamed recent tuition hikes around the nation on "wasteful spending." McKeon had expected the proposal to be useful in deflecting criticism from Bush administration policies that led to higher-ed budget cuts and forced the tuition hikes, but opponents haved pressed him with an argument that college tuition controls would hurt quality.
Background: McKeon: Penalize college tuition hikes
WSU loses Northern Sun round
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Background: WSU seeks berth |
Congress to examine football recruitingWASHINGTON< March 3, 2003 -- A. Congressional subcommittee that has investigated sports scandals in the past will open an investigation into recruiting practices in college sports. Chair Clifforfd Steans, R-Fla., announced. A hearing of the Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee will convene March 11, Stearns said. Referring to charges of criminal football recruiting tactics at the University of Colorado, Stearns said he wants "to determine whether there is an appropriate role for the federal government in addressing these and related issues." Although on not nearly the scale of the Colorado allegations, alcohol has been an element in weekend recruitingparties of 18-year-old high school students for the Winona State football program.
Background: State attorney general investigating
Background: Partying a WSU recruiting tool
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BASKETBALL (MEN'S): Northern Sun Tournament: WSU 71, Southwest Minnesota State 65.
BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S): Northern Sun Tournament: Bemidji State 72, WSU 62.
HOCKEY (MEN'S): Named to the all-conference team were SMU senior Lenny Hofman, junior Chad Damerow and sophomore Marcus Reszka. Honotable mentiosn were SMU's Ryne Ess, Jason Fillipp, Sam Phillips and Al Schumacher.
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WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT
TOO MUCH BOOZE,
TOO MUCH TESTOSTERONE
WINONA, Minn., March 3, 2004 -- Two weeks after a fight in Winona State University's Morey dorm, two students have been evicted. Theirs is a tale of underage boozing, bad judgment, and either a misunderstanding or football-team bravado gone astray. Not even the police have quite figured it out, and their investigation remains under way. One thing that's clear is that there were two victims. John "Fitzy" Fitzgerald, a sophomore, is still recovering from bruises, cuts and head stitches, although he's now off pain-killers. Phil Capuzzi, a freshman redshirt football player, has added to the woes facing the Winona State football program, which has been under scrutiny for drunkenness and other misbehavior for weeks. Too, both Fitzgerald and Capuzzi have been kicked out of the dorms for what happened.
What did happen? It depends on who you ask. Fitzgerald's roommate, Tim Sullivan, said: "It wasn't a fight, it was a beating." Fitzgerald's wounds suggest he got the worst of it, and Capuzzi not only is a football linebacker who prides himself on being in shape but also a champion wrestler from high school. On other side, Capuzzi's friends say it was entirely self-defense.
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It started just before 1 a.m. outside the Morey dorm with an exchange of ugly words. Capuzzi and several others were in a third foor window of the dorm. Fitzgerald and two companions were on a sidewalk below, returning to campus from an off-campus party. Fitzgerald said he was not drunk but had consumed about eight beers over a four-hour period. Fitzgerald, Sullivan and Sullivan's brother -- a high school senior visiting for the weekend -- were standing at King and Huff streets ordering sandwiches from Erbert's and Gerbert's on a cell phone when the yelling match began. Sullivan said that three people, one later identified as Capuzzi, started yelling out of a third floor Morey window at him, his brother and Fitzgerald. Capuzzi, Student Sen. Ryan Flynn and another student were in the Morey window.
Flynn said the fight began as a misunderstanding. "Phil had yelled 'Hey, ladies,' out the window to some girls he knew walking on the sidewalk, and the other men overheard and thought we were calling them ladies," Flynn said. Fitzgerald and Sullivan said it started differently, that Capuzzi, Flynn and the other student were yelling: "You're fat" and "We're in the weight room all the time working out and you sure aren't." The football players, in fact, are in the Maxwell weight room before dawn daily. It's also true that Fitzy, as his friends call him, carries a little more flab than height-weight charts suggest as ideal. Whichever account is correct about who said what, the verbal confrontation escalated.
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A security dispatcher received a complaint at 1 a.m. and guards responded, said Don Walski, campus security director. The guards told Fitzgerald, Sullivan and Sullivan's high school brother to return to their room on the first floor of the Richards dorm. Guards also told Flynn and Capuzzi, up in their Morey suite, which they share with four other men, to stop
yelling.
After returning to their Richards room, Fitzgerald and Sullivan's brother, still upset, decided to go up to Morey's third floor. In an interview days later, Fitzgerald said: "We went up there to calm the situation down. We weren't looking for a fight." On the third floor, Fitzgerald and Sullivan's brother passed Capuzzi in the hallway. No words were exchanged, but both parties recognized each other from the yelling match but continued down the hall in opposite directions, Capuzzi coming back from the bathroom and Fitzgerald and young Sullivan trying to figure out which room their taunters occupied.
Accounts vary slightly on what happened next. Either Capuzzi knocked on the door of Capuzzi and Flynn's room, perhaps banged, or just walked in, or was yanked in. Fitzgerald said he started: "Hey, man, why didn't you say anything when I saw you in the hall?" Flynn, in the room at the time, recalls a saltier version of the first words that Fitzgerald uttered to Capuzzi: "Why ain't you talking shit now?" Flynn said that Capuzzi had not said anything in the hallway encounter moments earlier because he wanted to avoid a confrontation. "When the door knocked, we knew exactly who it was," said Flynn. "I was fearful of what was about to come."
Capuzzi, 6 feet, 220 pounds, and Fitzgerald, who Sullivan said is 5-feet-10, 260 pounds, began pushing each other. Both parties disagree as to who hit first. Flynn said Fitzgerald threw the first punch. Fitzgerald said it was Capuzzi. Later, recounting what happened, Flynn said: "I didn't think there'd be any discrepancies." To him, it was obvious that Fitzgerald started the fight. Capuzzi has declined repeated requests for interviews, saying only that football coach Tom Sawyer instructed him not to talk to reporters.
Although witnesses disagree as to whether Fitzgerald entered the Morey dorm suite, or was dragged in, nobody disputes that he ended up in the suite's common room. Flynn said he locked the door to keep out Sullivan's brother, whom he said had attempted to get involved in the fight. "I wasn't going to leave my roommate," Flynn said. "My primary concern was Sullivan's brother in the hallway." Alarmed at the commotion inside the room, Sullivan's brother ran back to the first floor of the adjoining Richards dorm to tell Sullivan that Fitzgerald was "getting the crap kicked out of him," Sullivan said.
Fitzgerald said that once he was in the dorm room he hit his head against the wall and remembers very little of what went on. In the room, Flynn said, he was the only witness to what happened. At one point in reconstructing what happened, Fitzgerald said he remembered several guys chanting, "Get him, Phil. Get him, Phil." Whatever those facts, everybody agrees the fight lasted less than 10 minutes and that both Capuzzi and Fitzgerald threw punches. Fitzgerald said he acted in self-defense. According to Flynn, Capuzzi was acting in self-defense. Both punched and hit each other and rolled on the floor. "There was blood everywhere from rolling around," said Flynn. "The entire side of the trash can was covered in blood." At one point, Flynn said Fitzgerald had two of Capuzzi's fingers in his mouth and was biting down and wouldn't release. Capuzzi used his free hand to choke Fitzgerald into releasing
his hand, Flynn said.
Guards ran up the stairs at 1:17 a.m., Walski said. Deputy Winona Police Chief Tom Williams said the city police dispatcher got a call also at 1:17. "Basically the whole police night shift responded to the scene," said fellow Deputy Chief Paul Bostrack. Fitzgerald's roommate, Tom Sullivan, himself a Winona State student security guard, off duty at the time, counted seven city police officers at the scene. But it was campus security guards who had arrived first. They escorted
Fitzgerald to the bathroom down the hall. Then both police and paramedics arrived. The cops took statements from witnesses. Paramedics attended to Fitzgerald's injuries.
Concerned that Fitzgerald may have had a serious neck injury, paramedics set his head in an immobilizer. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Capuzzi refused treatment for his
injuries, which included cuts in his mouth, a sore leg and swollen
fingers, Flynn said.
Flynn, Sullivan and Fitzgerald agree that campus security guards, all students, handled the situation well. "Security did an excellent job," Fitzgerald said. For the city police, Fitzgerald and Sullivan give a poor rating. Police did not take statements from Flynn or Fitzgerald, nor did they take pictures at the scene. "As fast as they came, it was all over," Sullivan said.
At the hospital emegency room a doctor stitched Fitzgerald's skull, prescribed the painkiller Demerol, and gave him 15 pills. He was there about five hours, until approximately 7 a.m.
Fitzgerald and roommate Tim Sullivan went to the police station the next day, Sunday, and spoke to a day-shift officer who said he couldn't help them because he wasn't on the night shift. After seeing Fitzgerald's injuries the officer took pictures of Fitzgerald. "Woah, you really did get smoked," he told Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's cuts were beginning the scab, his mouth and face distorted by swelling.
Ten days after the fight, police had not decided whether criminal charges were in order. Said Deputy Chief Tom Williams: "We're talking to other people and some witnesses. It's an open investigation at this point." Flynn, who had been in the room during the fight, said he was never asked for a statement from police, and as of last Friday had not yet given a statement.
Last Tuesday Nicci Port, director of the Quad complex, whch includes both Morey and Richards dorms, met with Capuzzi and told him he had to move out. Capuzzi had three days to appeal the eviction but did not. A relative in his hometown, Cumberland, Wis., said: "Phil can't return to the dorms after Spring Break. We have less than three weeks to find somewhere else for him to live." On Monday, Port told Fitzgerald that he also had to move out. Fitzgerald too has three days from Monday to appeal the decision.
Lessons learned? "Alcohol did play a role," Fitzgerald said. "I should've realized going up there wasn't the best idea."
Reporters: Emily Finley and Aubrey Shermock with Joanna Chinquist and Kate Stater
Related stories:
What kind of place is Morey hall?
Janitor had never seen so much blood
Dorm boozing: How they do it
Witness: Capuzzi acted in self-defense
Caucusing Democrats blame ills on GOPWINONA, Minn., March 2, 2004 -- Minnesotans' quality of life is in jeopardy due to Republican leadership, State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, told more than 50 DFLers at the Winona Democratic caucus. Pelowski said Minnesota Republicans balanced the budget in the wrong places. "The things that make our way of life so great are being taken away from us," Pelowski said. "Our higher education was cut more than any other state in the nation." Pelowski said. Minnesota's higher education cuts were the single highest in 150 years, according to Pelowski. About the caucus turnout, county party chair Alexander Yard "excellent." In the presidential contest, John Kerry received 230 votes, followed by John Edwards, 152; Dennis Kucinich, 71; Howard Dean, 13; Al Sharpton, 6; and Hillary Clinton, 1.
Reporter: B.J. Puttbrese and Lindsay Bauer
Background: Caucuses scheduled
WSU Republicans show at party caucusWINONA, Minn., March 2, 2004 -- College students were well represented at the county Republcian caucus. "One in six of caucus-goers were WSU students," said campus College Republicans leader Nick Ridge. In all 193 party loyalists attended, more than the 125 two years ago but less, said county Chair Jaye Fritz, than the 500 who showed back in the Regan era. State Sen. Bob Kierlin, R-WInona, pumped the crowd: "This is the year we re-elect George W. Bush." Ridge read a letter from Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., that extolled the Bush tax cuts and the capture of Saddam Hussein. Among resolution adopted by the caucus was opposition to expanded state gambling, support of traditional marriage between a man and woman, and curtailment of illegal immigration.
Reporter: Lindsay Bauer
Background: Caucuses scheduled
WSU lib-arts dean search beginsWINONA, Minn., March 3, 2004 -- A committee that will search for a new liberal arts dean at Winona State University has drafted a job description that will be advertised nationally. Co-chair Ted Riley said a second meeting this week will focus on drafting interview questions. The goal, Tiley said, is to review candidates during the first two weeks in April. Candidates will be interviewed and recommendations will be made to Krueger at the end of April. The dean the past three years, Joe Gow, is leaving in June for Nebraska Wesleyan University as provost and dean of arts and sciences.
Reporter: Anne Jungen
Background: Head-hunter lured Gow |
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WSU evicts second Morey fighterWINONA, Minn., March 3, 2004 -- A Winona State sophomore, John "Fitzy" Fitzgerald, has been evicted from university housing as investigations continue into a dorm fight in which he was severely injured. Nicci Port, director of the Quad dorm complex, told Fitzgerald he cannot return after Spring Break, which begins this weekend. He has three days to appeal. A second student, Phil Capuzzi, was told earlier to move out. It was unclear why the notifications were not simultaneous. Port, who won't discuss the case or even acknowledge publicly that the fight occurred, had been away from campus for several days after the Capuzzi decision. She had just returned before informing Fitzgerald. Capuzzi lives on the third floor of the Morey dorm, where the fight occurred, and Fitzgerald on the first floor of the adjoining Richards dorm.
Reporter: Emily Finley
Background: WSU evicts Capuzzi |
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Head-hunter lured WSU dean awayWINONA, Minn., March 3, 2004 -- The departing liberal arts dean at Winona State University, Joe Gow, said he learned about his new job at Nebraska from a national search consultant who contacted him. Gow applied to get experience in consultant-coordinated searches. He went to an Omaha, Neb., meeting in December to learn about the job, then traveled to the campus for interviews. The search consultant contacted Gow and told him he was one of two finalists. In mid-February Gow was offered the job as provost and dean of liberal arts and sciences. He accepted, and on Feb. 13 he told university President Darrell Krueger he would be leaving Winona State in June. In an interview Gow said he felt things were going well at Winona State but could not resist the job opportunity. Gow said that he would help the search committee find his successor in any way possible. "I really think it's important that I spend some time with the person who is chosen," Gow said. Gow said he will miss Winona State people: "The commitment to undergraduate education is so strong here and it is a privilege to work with people who are that invested in students."
Reporter: Anne Jungen
Background: WSU organizes search |
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Community relations unit loses agendaWINONA, Minn., March 3, 2004 -- The student-community relations committee, created when the city was in an uproar over collegiate drunkenness and disruptive behavior, has shifted into low gear. City Council member Chris Arnold, a committee member, said the focus has shifted mainly from alcohol-related issues to an opportunity for town and gown communication. The committee has become "an informational body, Arnold said. Until last year, the committee met monthly during the academic year. Now the committee meets two to four times year.
According to Al Thurley, another City Council member, also a representative to the committee, the committee was so successful with the original issues on its agenda that it doesn't need to meet on a regular basis any more. He said that the committee will know to change its meeting policy "when we come to a meeting where people will say, 'Gee, I wish I'd known about that earlier.'" Arnold agrees. Communication between the colleges and the community is stable because colleges have been responsive and open to looking for solutions and actively enacting those solutions, Arnold said. He said the committee's role in achieving the Safe Ride Bus to transport students to and from the downtown bars was a major success. Now fewer raucous students wander home vandalizing property along the way. Arnold also credited the committee fro a role in phasing out Springfest, the annual Winona State University-sponsored springtime party at East Lake. The university killed the party in 1996 in response to community complaints.
Arnold said that a problem with communication between citizens and students is because the "college experience is its own community." He said that when he attended Iowa State the college was his area of influence and didn't extend to the surrounding community. Thurley said that there is a similar situation for students in Winona because they have an attitude that they'll only be here four years, so they don't need to get involved.
Thurley added that he thinks Winona is a step ahead of other college towns and cities in communication because Winona State has a long history of as a campus that's open to townspeople. At Winona State sociology prof Carole Madland said the focus of the university since Darrell Krueger became president in 1989 has been to give to the community, but, she added, the community isn't aware of the extent of student involvement in Winona. Madland said the responsibility of enhancing student-community relations falls mainly to the students. To really involve the community, according to Madland, students need to head out into the neighborhoods and meet citizens, whom she calls "stakeholders" in the student-community relationship.
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WSU bus to "Romeo and Juliet"WINONA, Minn. March 3, 2004 -- This year's final trip Winona State University bus trip to the Guthrie Theater will head to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." The deadline for tickets is Thursday, March 4, said prof Dave Bratt.Date: Saturday, April 10
Time: 10 a.m. departure
Place: Performing Arts Center
Cost: $20 to $25
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Bar bouncers run risk of violenceWINONA, Minn., March 3, 2004 -- Bar bouncers are faced with violent customers from time to time, said a two-year veteran. Rob Venz, a part-timer at Bulls-Eye Beer Hall, said he hasn't had much experience with violent bar-goers himself but has seen incidents and heard many stories. On a recent Saturday a woman was not allowed to enter Bulls-Eye because, although she claimed to have just turned 21, she did not have her papers or a new ID. She proceeded to throw the bouncer against the wall and wrestle him for her old ID back, said Venz. Brad Schroeder, a bouncer at Brother's for about two years, said bouncers risk a violent reaction when they confiscate a fake ID that may have cost $30 or more. Another cause of violence is simply intoxication, said Schroeder. "I've had incidents of people punching me and pinching me when they were denied to enter," he said. "I confiscated a guy's ID, and a few minutes later he ran in and tried to steal it back." Later Schroeder learned that the fake cost $100. By law bouncers can confiscate a fake ID. In fact, they get detailed training on what to look for on an ID and what to do. Among options is to call the police. Most of the time, Schroeder said, underage people who get stopped just take off running if they think a police officer is coming. Is there a penalty for violence toward bouncers? Yes, said, Schroeder, it's usually disorderly conduct and assault charge.
Reporter: Allison Ethen
CAMPUS ALMANAC
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Winona State University accounting faculty members listed by the year they were hired:
Brian Briggs
Richard Schneider
Lawrence Bergin
Fred Ihrke
Jim Hurley
Larry Sallee
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WSU dorm had 300 lockout callsWINONA, Minn., March 3, 2004 -- The decision by the Quad dorm staff at Winona State University to quintuple the charge to unlock doors for locked-out students came after about 300 lockout calls last semester, said Nicci Port, the chief supevisor. The price went from $1 to $5. Fliers were posted around the dorm a week and a half before the change. One floor supervisor, Scott Taylor, said he knew of a colleagued who was rousted from bed up at 3 a.m. to let a tenant in. The penalty charge goes into a dorm supervisors' party fund.
Reporter: Aubrey Shermock
Background: Locked out? Now $5 to get in
Charge: Favors given Colorado playersBOULDER, Colo., March 3, 2004 -- University of Colorado football coaches had a cozy relationship with police that gave players an advantage when they were caught on the wrong side of law, according to depositions in a rape case. Coaches were tipped routinely when players got in trouble, so coaches could get a friendly cop and a lawyer to tutor them on how to respond to investigators. According to the depositions, strengthening coach Doc Kreis steered players to a Boulder police officer and a local lawyer. In return, the depositions say, the officer and lawyer were allowed to work out in the team's weight room. Further, players sentenced by a judge to perform community service were assigned to the weight room under Kreis' supervision.
Background: Colorado steps up football probe
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WSU administration's flag fact sheetThis is the full text of a campuswide announcement issued March 4 by Darrell Krueger, president of Winona State, and his cabinet. The statement is in response to growing criticism of the university's response to a student Republican proposal to install U.S. flags in every classroom.
TO THE NEWS STORY
The "Flags at WSU" issue has been the topic of much recent discussion both on and off campus. President Darrell Krueger and the WSU Council of Administrators requested a university-wide message to clarify the facts and the next steps to hopefully avoid misinformation or misunderstanding.
BACKGROUND
Winona State University has not said "no" to placement of U.S. flags in classrooms. A final decision has not yet been made, but is imminent. (Many flags are currently displayed on WSU campus grounds, in gymnasiums, buildings, offices, etc.)Local groups, including veteran's organizations donated funds toward the WSU College Republicans project to purchase and place the flags. Initially, the plan to place flags in each of WSU's 120 classrooms was approved. The WSU faculty association said they would have liked to be consulted before the decision was made.Dr. Krueger, noting WSU's culture of collegiality, collaboration and civility, chose to convene a Task Force with representation from all campusconstituents (students, faculty, and staff) to consider how to best displaythe American flag at WSU and make a recommendation by April 1. (The chargeof the Task Force is copied below).
NEXT STEPS
V.P. Jim Schmidt contacts constituent groups requesting Task Force
representatives; meeting is planned for March 19.
CALL FOR A TASK FORCE ON DISPLAY OF THE AMERICAN FLAG
Winona State University has a tradition of respect for civic engagement -- for maintaining meaningful connections that tie its students, faculty, and staff to the greater society. As a community of learners, we engage in intellectual discourse about matters of importance as a means of improving our world. In keeping with that spirit, therefore, the administration calls
for the creation of a task force to consider how to acknowledge our collective role in society by respectful display of the American flag on campus.
In creating this task force, it is the administrationÕs hope that the campus community can foster a dialogue that welcomes and respects all voices at WSU, and that searches for suggestions that will build consensus.
The task force is asked to take into account ideas expressed by members of the WSU community and other sources of information as it deems appropriate to provide thoughtful advice to the WSU President, by April 1, 2004.
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WSU faculty statement to news mediaThis is the full text of a statement issued March 4 by the Winona State University faculty leadership. The faculty has has been criticized, wrongly it says, for filing a grievance against university President Darrel Krueger over procedures in early stages of devising a policy on U.S. flags in campus classrooms.
TO THE NEWS STORY
There have been a number of misstatements about and distorted descriptions of the position and actions of the Winona State University Faculty Association regarding the College RepublicansÕ proposal to place an American flag in every WSU classroom. We would like to correct some of these perceptions and also intend to add educational value to the discourse.
A number of these distortions have to do with the fact that the WSU Faculty Association grieved the university administration. Some have taken this action to mean that the Association opposes the respectful and appropriate honoring of the flag.
This is not true. The Faculty Association was objecting to the process by which the administration was coming to a decision, not the decision itself. WSU President Darrell Krueger had told the faculty in November that he would bring his decision on the issue to the faculty before implementing it, even though he has the right to make the decision in whatever way he believes is in the best interests of the university. When the Faculty Senate learned some months later that this step was being omitted, it objected; in response, President Krueger brought the issue back to the faculty.
When he did so, he proposed that a task force be formed to make a recommendation to him on how best to display and honor the American flag on WSUÕs campuses. The faculty are pleased to be participating in this discussion, together with constituent groups on the Winona and Rochester campuses of WSU. We anticipate that the groupÕs open, respectful, and civil deliberations will result in a clear recommendation to the president that all of the university's constituencies can support.
Some have questioned the patriotism of WSU faculty. This sort of attack does not contribute to a respectful debate. The faculty of Winona State University are patriots who proudly support and defend the ideals on which this country was founded. We understand that the veteransÕ groups that donated to this project love this country which they served. WSU faculty members have also honorably served in the armed forces of our country, as have members of their families.
Some have said that the faculty's call for discussion of this issue is merely an attempt to prevent a decision from being made. This reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of a university. It is the job of university faculty to encourage students to think and express views on a variety of issues, even when that thinking runs counter to prevalent or popular positions. In order for free inquiry to exist, university faculty must also be free to hold and express a variety of views on controversial subjects. In this environment, we believe that a university community must acknowledge that patriotism and honoring the flag cannot be limited to a single form of expression.
To this end, the WSU Faculty Senate unanimously approved a motion calling for establishment of a campus forum on civility, citizenship, and cooperation. This forum would "promote community-wide discussion of how we handle differences in a community of learners dedicated to improving our world."
The faculty of Winona State University are joining with students, staff, and members of the universityÕs administration to determine how to display the flag with honor. We believe this is the way a university ought to behave.
Executive Committee
Winona State University Faculty Association | Mary Kesler, President
Bruce Svingen, Vice President
Bill Ng, Secretary
Darrell Downs, Treasurer
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Sara Barbor, Past Negotiator
David Bratt, IFO Board Member
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