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New WSU registrar from Metro StateWINONA, Minn., May 23, 2004 -- The registrar at Metro State University, Glenn Peterson, has been named to the similar position at Winona State. He begins June 7. Academic Vice President Steve Richardson, who announced the appointment, said there had been "a pool of talented candidates." Richard also said he was relieved that the search was successful. He himself has been doing double duty acting registrar since the retirement of Stuart Shaw in July. "On a personal note, I am looking forward to putting the registrar's office once again in the hands of an accomplished, full-time professional," Richardson said. Peterson has been Metro StateÕs registrar for the three years and has taken a leadership role among registrars in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Earlier he served in a variety of roles in the registrar's office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 10 years. He holds a bachelor's in education from UW-Madison with some graduate work.
Background: Registrar finalists visit WSU
Pell cuts in trouble in CongressWASHINGTON, May 23, 2004 -- Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have delayed a vote on a final budget plan for Fiscal 2005 until June, perhaps later, because they have been unable to persuade some moderates in their party to support it. The draft includes little new money for college student loans and grants. The House narrowly passed the bill last week. In the Senate, majority leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he wouild resume the drive for passage after senators return from their Memorial Day recess.
Background: GOP leaders in aid accord
GOP endorses GutknechtAUSTIN, Minn., May 22, 2004 -- As expected, southern Minnesota Republicans endorsed Gil Gutknecht for a sixth term in Congress. Gutknecht represents the 1st District, which includes 22 counties across the state's south.
Background: Gutknecht declares new bid
Background: Intern keen on Gutknecht
Background: Democrat for Congress
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COMMENT: PUBLIC EDUCATION
NEAT TRICK
IF YOU CAN DO IT
President Bush's public schools reform policy suffers from his more-with-less doctrine. He wants a magic trick -- more performance with fewer dollars. The No Child Left Behind Act, the centerpiece of the Bush education policy, requires costly testing of pupil achievement, but the President fails to include enough funding. Budget-pressed schools will have to siphon the funds from other activities, like quality instruction. This makes no sense.
Under the law, schools that don't measure up will lose finding. Hey, these are the schools that desperately need more help. This makes no sense.
Just as bad is Bush's coercive rhetorical tactic in the "No Child Left Behind" title of the law. By definition, anyone who criticizes the plan favors leaving children behind. This is the Joseph Goebbels propaganda trick that is absolutely unbecoming in an intelligent, democratic society.
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On-duty Guard members studying onlineWINONA, Minn., May 21, 2004 -- By the dozen, activated Minnesota National Guard members have enrolled in online college courses through a new program, Guard Online, offered through the MnSCU state colleges stystem. In fall semester 160 soldiers completed courses. About the same number are finishing classes this spring. MnSCU spokesperson Nancy Connor said there are two academic calendars -- one for soldiers in Kosovo, the other for soldiers in Bosnia. The demand is there, said Connor, noting that about 2,400 Guard members were deployed this year. Most of the enrolled soldiers take a single course. "We encourage soldiers to take two or less classes from Guard Online because the soldiers have a priority to their station," said Maj. Barbara O'Reilly, the Guard's education services officer. To enroll, students don't have to be part of a MnSCU program because, O'Reilly said, the Minnesota transfer curriculum allows students to transfer credits among institutions. Soldiers are encouraged to talk to their school advisers about what classes they to take, she said. Not all Guard members can participate, said O'Reilly: "Soldiers in places like Iraq don't have the benefits of classes."
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Connor said that for the first semester, MnSCU tried shipping books through Amazon.com or faxing chapters of text to the abroad Guard members. "Now most students know what classes they are going to take ahead of time so they bring the books with them," she said. "Professors have been really understanding of the Guard members who didn't have time to inform a professor that they had to leave for missions," said Connor.
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Each online class offers special chat session times that will best fit the group of soldiers taking the class, said Connor. O'Reilly said that a soldier's tuition is covered by the G.I. Bill and state grants. The classes weren't just limited to the undergrad level but some grad-level classes were offered as well through the program, said O'Reilly. Pfc. Dustin Carpenter said, "I like to exercise my mind as well as my body." He began his class in Kosovo but finished it from Iraq. "Completing this course from Iraq is yet another way that the Army National Guard helps me to reach my career goals," he said. His Guard Online class in American history was from Hibbing Community College. As a civilian, Carpenter is a student at the University of Minnesota.
Reporter: Joanna Chinquist
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MAY 21, 2004 | RECORD: SMU runner Ellen Koranda set a school record in the women's 800-meter of 2:18.84.
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ECONOFOODS. Ten Econofoods will be shut down by owner Nash Finch by mid-June, but not the Winona store, the company said. Also closing are 11 other Nash Finch stores in several states.
WI-FI NOW. Just like Starbucks in the big cities, Acoustic Cafe on Third Street and Wellington's Pub at Westgate Mall installed wi-fi technology so customers can tap into the Internet with wireless palm devices and laptops. The service is free.
WOMAN OF YEAR. Fran Edstrom, editor of the Winona Post, was named Woman of the Year by Women in Business.
CITY ENGINEER. Steve McBurney, city engineer, resigned and will look elsewhere for a job. He said administrative tasks were taking too much time from his first love -- civil engineering.
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Jail time for WSU football playerWINONA, Minn., May 20, 2004 -- A Winona State University football player, Carey Rottman, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $730 on a series of charges, including attacking a cop. Rottman, now 19, was arrested at a party in January and originally faced eight counts that could have sent him to jail for 129 months. His attorney, Mark Merchlewitz, challenged the most serious felony counts, and in plea-bargaining the charges were reduced. On April 8 Rottman pleaded guilty to the reduced charges -- fourth-degree assault, obstructing the legal process with force, giving police a false name and birthdate, and underage consumption of alcohol. At that hearing, befor Judge Jeff Thomspon, Rottman admitted he had head-butted one of the arresting officers. The sentencing by Judge Margaret Shaw Johnson.
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The case was the most serious in history against a Winona State football player. The case drew special attention because it occurred on a weekend of university-sanctioned recruiting visits by high school football players. Some of the visiting 18-year-olds were with Rottman when cops busted the party at 252 E. Mark St. Other football players, estimated variously at 10 to 12, were also at the party.
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Rottman's status on the football team is unclear. The university's athletic department did not acknowledge the arrest publicly until almost two weeks after the incident -- after student journalist Brian Krans, checking police and coury records, connected the name "Rottman" with the Winona State football program. The Athletic Department, typically secretive about player misdeeds, did acknowledge through Athletic Director Larry Holstad that "appropriate actions" were being taken. Although never announced, Rottman was suspended two weeks after the arrest for the rest of spring semester. Being off season, this meant that Rottman could not work out with fellow team members -- although he remained part of the football clique and, in interviews, said his teammates were exceptionally supportive.
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Unclear is whether Rottman, who was redshirted as a freshman, will be permanently barred from varsity football. Insiders said in January that Rottman was on Coach Tom Sawyer's shortlist for the starting lineup for 2004 to try to repeat last season's conference championship and movement into NCAA Division II playoffs. In high school, Rottman was a standout player in a suburban school north of Milwaukee, Wis. Also in high school, he had a police record. He paid a $225 fine in Ozaukee County court the summer before enrolling at Winona State for underage drinking and resisting an officer.
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Rottman wants to return to the team. "I really love football. I really love it," he said in an April interview. Rottman lived his freshman year in the dorms. Rather thango home to Mequon, Wis., for the summer, Rottman moved in at 365 W. Howard St., which puts him in town for the start of football activities in August. He will be out of jail by then. In an April interview he said he might leave Winona State if he isn't restored to the team.
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Under the university student-athlete code of conduct, Rottman could not only be suspended permanently from the team but also expelled from the university. Sawyer, however, has rarely applied the sanctions listed in the conduct code for athletes caught in misconduct. This includes the 33 players on last fall's football team who, all together, had 47 documented police run-ins.
Background:
Player suspended for cop attack
Original criminal complaint
House, Senate leaders in aid accordWASHINGTON, May 19, 2004 -- Republican leaders in both the U.S. Senate and House have reached agreement on a final Fiscal 2005 budget plan whose higher-ed provisions include little new money for student-aid. The House approved the plan Wednesday in largely a party-line vote. Required next procedurally is Senate approval. There has been more sentiment in the Senate for expanding student aid. In March a Senate committee proposed almost $9 billion in additional spending for the aid programs. The new Senate-House resolution cobbled together by the Republican leadership, however, does not include any money proposed earlier on the Senayte side to pay for Pell grant shortfalls not any of the Senate plan $5 billion to expand loan programs. In fact, the new resolution allows new funds only if other loan programs are cut by corresponding amounts.
Background: Loan policy on House agenda
History, law prof named WSU deanWINONA, Minn., May 19, 2004 -- The director of the paralegal and the law and society programs at Winona State University, Troy Paino, was named dean of liberal arts. Paino, whose academic background is law and history, was the only internal candidate from a field of finalists that included administators from Hamline University, Ripon College and the College of St. Scholastica. He has been at Winona State since 1997. In announcing the appointment, academic Vice President Steve Richardson said there had been "a very large field of excellent candidates." The appointment ended an unusually brief search. It was only in January that liberal arts Dean Joe Gow announced he was leaving for a position of greater responsibility at Wesleyan Nebraska. Rather than appoint an interim replacement and conduct a usual full-year search, the Facuty Senate recommended a truncated process to fill the position by fall. Richardson went along. At Winona State, the liberal arts dean manages the largest of the university's five colleges with, all together, about half of the university's faculty and students.
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Paino holds a law degree from Indiana University, a master's and doctorate in history from Michigan State, and a bachelor's from Evangel College in Missouri. At Winona State, Paino was first hired in the history department, which operates the paralegal program. He was instrumental in creating the university's interdisciplinary law and society program and has been its co-director. Paino has been involved in the Faculty Senate and the Inter-Faculty Organization, which is the collective-bargaining agent for profs. He was tenured on the history faculty in 2001. As a tenured facuty member, Paino has the contractual security of being able to return to teaching if he leaves the deanship.
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Among liberal arts profs, Paino is known for a series of afternoon get-togethers under the presumptuous and tongue-in-cheeck title Consortium for Liberal Arts Promotion. At consortium get-togethers prof make informal presentations on research and other work. There also have been occasional CLAP hootenannies.
Background: Search whittled to four
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CAMPUS READER
What in-the-know Winona college people are reading
The Winona State University visit of Eugene Hickok, U.S. education undersecretary, has stirred campus interest in the No Child Left Behind law he was championing. Here's what in-the-know Winona college people are reading
David Benson and six other school superintendents. "CPR for the 'No Child' Law," Education Week (May 22, 2004), Pages 32-35. Benson, of Overland Park, Kan., and fellow superintendents argue that the centerpiece of Bush Administration education policy is redundant to "the work we've been doing in our districts for years." Their focus for 15 years has been "universal achievement," which they say will be served best by "civil and collaborative" debate, not the Administration's "strident and adversarial" approach.
Lewis H. Lapham. "Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy." Penguin, 2004. Lapham, editor of Harper's, blames the news media in part for what he sees as uncritical public acquiescence on an erosion of individual liberties under the Bush Administration. He is especially critical of the Patriot Act and deceptions in justifying the Iraq war. Lapham also blames schools and textbooks for letting young people conclude that civic affairs is boring.
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| WINONA, Minn., May 18, 2004 -- An all-state right-hand catcher, Chelsea Rosenow of Chippewa Falls, Wis., has signed on for the Winona State University softball team, coach Greg Jones announced. Jones called her an "elite player" who will have immediate impact on the Warrior team. Rosenow has been an all-conference and all-district player. The Chippewa Falls team this past season amassed a 37-15 record. |
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| WINONA, Minn., May 18, 2004 -- A record-setting Winona State University hitter in the late 1980s, Scott Wanshura, will be inducted into the Northern Sun Hall of Fame, the conference announced. Wanshura averaged .590 hits in 1987, still a Northern Sun record. During Wanshura's time at Winona State, the team amassed a 103-58 overall record and 41-12 Northern Sun record. The next year the Warriors went to the NAIA World Series and Wanshura was named to the all-tournament team. |
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COP KILLER. Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams called for letters to the state Parole Board to deny the release of John Kirch, who was sentenced to life for shooting of Deputy John Schneider in 1980. Schneider was shot and killed entering a trailer house where Kirch had holed up.
PELZER OVERPASS. The ramp up the proposed Pelzer Street overpass on the West End, to take traffic over the railroad tracks, will take out part of the Red Top trailer court and Key Apartments at Fifth Street, said project engineer Terry Ragan. In all, 55 parcels need to be acquired, he said.
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Press box funding: One gift at a timeWINONA, Minn., May 17, 2004 -- Money to build a new football stadium press box, complete with skybox suites, is being cobbled together by Winona State University fundraisers. Dan Schumacher, the university's director of sustained development, said almost $200,000 has been promised already by alumni. To get the third-floor skyboxes and fourth-floor press box furnished will take an estimated $700,000 to $800,000, then double that to complete the structure with athletic offices and a couple classrooms. Schumacher said that the roof or electrical wiring for the press box may be donated by a friendly contractor. Also, there will be revenue from leasing the skyboxes. "We are hoping the costs of luxury suites and a possible corporate sponsor will help," Schumacher said.
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The luxury boxes are priced at $10,000 to $15,000 a year, with the university aiming for five-year contracts. For the first year all eight boxes have been spoken for, although Schuacher declined to list the leasees. Schumacher also said the university is willing to name the stadium after a major donor, if one comes forward. Reportedly the university is close to inking a deal to name the stadium after a local company, but Schumacher wouldn't offer details. The idea would be to keep the current name, Maxwell Field, but add a corporate sponsor's name -- like:
Schott Distributing Stadium at Maxwell FieldRiverport Inn Stadium at Maxwell FieldMidwest Wireless Stadium at Maxwell FieldWinona Post Stadium at Maxwell FieldMerchants Bank Stadium at Maxwell Field
It is believed the stadium namesake is one of the companies that's already committed to a skybox. If so, the skybox would be thrown in free in exchange for a 10-year commitment to place the company'ss name on the stadium. "There is a company interested in making a donation in return for the advertising," a knowledgable source confirmed. President Darrell Krueger will make the final decision on the deal, including the terms. The university's largest corporate sponsor to date has been Pepsi Distributing of La Crosse, Wis., which gave $1.1 million for exclusive soda-pop rights on campus for 10 years. The university is looking for more than that for the stadium, a source said.
Reporter: Kate Goyette
Prof researches sex-abuse effectsWINONA, Minn., May 17, 2004 -- A Winona State University nursing prof will spend a sabbatical leave this coming year on a research project on women who were sexually abused as children. Jacqueline Hatlevig plans to interview the women about "what life is like now." Hatlevig is interested in investigating how these women go about developing a new sense of self after being through devastating events. Hatlevig's goal is to develop a theory about how a person's sense of self is affected by sexual abuse. The project continues Hatlevig's dissertation work, which drew on interviews with 6- to 12-year-old children six months to three years after they had been sexually abused: "I interviewed them about how life was at that moment." Her new interviews will be with women 18 to 25 years old who were sexually abused as children.
Although the majority of Hatlevig's sabbatical will be spent on the project, she has other plans too. Among them is a yet-to-be-funded early intervention project for at-risk families. The proposal has made it through the first couple of rounds for funding from the Health Research Science Association, she said. The project would have senior nursing students visit an at-risk family once a week to get involved in positive programs such as Head Start. By definition, high-risk families are those with problems with chemical dependency, single-parent families, and families that have members with developmental disabilities. Hatlevig said that this program helps both the nursing students and the families. "The students are doing something that a lot of nursing students haven't had the opportunity to do," she said. "The students are also dealing with complicated families and situations. It can be pretty intense." Hatlevig said that she will also work on an article on using children's art projects in research.
Under a sabbatical provision in the faculty contract with the state college system, profs may apply for a leave with partial to full salary at least every 10 years for professional development.
Reporter: Mae Schultz
Background: 13 new sabbaticals approved
Profs' leader sees centralization riskST. CLOUD, Minn., May 17, 2004 -- The outgoing president of the state university faculty union, Jim Pehler, is worried about continued concentration of control of the state universities in St. Paul. Listing the biggest challenges facing faculty, Pehler said: "I am very concerned about what appears to be a continuing attempt to centralize and control the ability of our campuses to meet the needs of our students." Quality programs, he said, will come only through cooperative responsibility-sharing environment between faculty and local administrators. Other challenges, he said, include protecting the academic freedom of faculty and ensuring the equitable treatment of faculty. Pehler specifically cited the salary equity and government relations committees. Pehler, from St. Cloud State University, served four years as president of the Inter-Faculty Organization.
Background: Metro prof heads faculty union
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College stores to reward loyalty| OBERLIN, Ohio, May 17, 2004 -- The National Association of College Stores is testing a loyalty program that rewards customers at member stores with points based on how much they spend. The points are redeemable online for clothing and food coupons. Ten stores are part of the test. Neither the Winona State nor St. Mary's stores are in the test. Marianne Wascak, marketing vice president at NACS, said many students already know about loyalty programs with their credit cards. Points may be available for selling used texts in bookstore buy-back periods. Participants can check constantly updated account information online from each store's site. It will be NACS, however -- not the stores -- that operates the program, Wascak said, noting that loyalty programs are too expensive for stores to do on their own. |
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MAY 17, 2004 | BASEBALL (MEN'S) Named to the All-NCAA Division II Central team were WSU pitcher Brandon Hellenbrand and outfielder Ben Vazqurz.
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S) Named to the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Divsion II All-American team was WSU catcher Sarah Carlson.
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Fire marshal rarely checks bar crowdingWINONA, Minn., May 17, 2004 -- Drinkers pressing through the crowd to get the bar for a drink may be surprised to hear it, but Fire Inspector Jim Multhaup says he receives only rare complaints that downtown college bars are exceeding posted capacity limits. The last time fire inspectors checked a bar was three years ago, Multhaup said. There was no problem. In fact, Multhaup said, he has not seen any bar fined in his nine years. Still, Multhaup says that if a bar was found to be over its limit, the owner would first be warned. For a repeat violation, or if the bar was grossly over-occupied, the fine would be $171. Here are some posted capacity limits:
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It is the local fire marshal who determines the occupancy as determined by many factors. "The kind of space is the most important factor, whether it will be a dance floor, or occupied by tables and chairs," Multhaup said. In a large open area, such as a dance floor, the rule is one person for every seven square feet. When the space is occupied by tables and chairs the rule is one person for every 15 square feet. Other factors, such as length of booths and tables, are also taken into consideration. Inspector Steve Carson says that the occupancy levels are mainly checked when a new bar opens. "The only time I deal with occupancy levels is when I have to put up the sign. Otherwise it is the fire department's responsibility," Carson said. Multhaup said checking for violations is problematic: "It's real difficult to determine the exact number of people in a bar at one time. We have to actually go in and count heads." But the fire inspectors do go in to bars on occasion and count heads. "If we are notified of a bar that might be over-occupied we go and check it out," Multhap said.
Reporter: Jen Powless
CAMPUS NEWS QUIZ
1. How many students were graduated from Winona State University this spring?
(a) 120
(b) 420
(c) 850
(d) 1,290
(e) 8,400
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2. Who was the primary advocate of the student Republican plan for a U.S. flag in every Winona State University classroom?
(a) Darrell Krueger
(b) Nick Ridge
(c) Brad Krasaway
(d) Karl Marx
(e) Colette Hyman
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3. In what direction do university planners see the long-term expansion of main Winona State campus?
(a) North
(b) South
(c) West
(d) East
(e) Cattywampus
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Amy Etheridge
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Crystal Otte
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Jackson, Wis.
Fremont, Wis.
Maplewood, Minn.
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New Hall of Fame honor to SMU gradWINONA, Minn., May 17, 2004 -- High school basketball coach Mary Schultz, many of whose records still stand at St. Mary's University, was inducted into the Winona High School athletic Hall of Fame. Schultz led Winona High to regional semifinals in 1982, a season in which she averaged 18 points a game. When she was at St. Mary's, the team twice won its conference and went to Dision III regionals. The Redmen's record was 79-19 in Schultz's four years. She was graduated in 1986. For 15 years she has coached at East Troy High. Schultz already is in the St. Mary's Hall of Fame.
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A ranking of the biggest Winona campus news of this past academic year
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| OLD GLORY STILL FLYING. Winona State University garnered unwanted publicity, some from national media, when a proposal for a U.S. flag in every classroom hit the fan. It began when student Republicans, claiming patriotism as their goal, proceeded with their plan while university President Darrell Krueger was away. There had been miscommunication, it turned out. Under faculty pressure over procedural missteps, Krueger nixed the classroom plan, which gave rise to challenges to the Americanism of Winona State people. The issue calmed down after a task force was created to come up with a plan on how the flag should be displayed on campus. Look for more flag poles around campus and also flags on lamp posts on patriotic occasions. |
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| VIOLENCE IN DORMS. Alcohol-fueled violence marked dorm incidents that led to criminal charges. In one case frosh Phil Capuzzi and soph John Fitzgerald got into a take-down confrontation in a Morey dorm room. Fitzgy ended up needing face and skull stitches. To demonstrate to other tenants that such incidences would not be tolerated, dorm authorities evicted both Capuzzi and Fitzgerald. But the alcohol culture that so permeates the dorms was impossible to break. In another alcohol incident, frosh Eric J. Turner was charged with trashing his girlfriend's place at the East Lake dorm and then, at his place, threatening to use of a handgun, which turned out actually to be a BB gun, when the girlfriend and two others showed up to settle up. Turner was banned from dormitories as well as school parking lots. |
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| GYMNASTICS FIASCO. Negligence by gymnastics Coach Rob Murray kept the Winona State University team out of regional and national competitions. Murray forgot to turn in the paper work. Even when given an extension, Murray missed the new deadline too. This mistake was the last straw for senior Leah Kindem: "I have regrets of even coming to this school." Said upset sophomore gymnast Jessica VanDenHouvel: "There are a lot of people who are considering to come to school here, and I would have told them not to come if there wasn't a new gymnastics coach put in place for next year." In May, two months after Murray's lapse became front-page news, reported by Winona State j-student Anne Jungen, Murray resigned. He said he had been too busy with outside interests to continue coaching. |
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| BREAKING THE RULES. With the arrest of Carey Rottman in late January the Winona State University football team had scored 38 police violations for the 110 players on the roster. Even worse, proportionally, was the baseball with 20 violations for 40 players. It was Rottman however, who came to epitomize much that is wrong in Winona State athletics. Rottman was charged with eight offenses, the most of any other player -- including socking it to a police officer. The number of charges was later reduced to four, still startling for someone who the university's athletic code specifies must be a role model. More incredibly, the incident, which police said involved whisky and marijuana, took place during a football recruitment weekend. Standing there, outside the party house with the drunken and belligerent Rottman, were 18-year-old jocks in town for an official campus weekend visit to see if Winona State was their kind of school. President Darrell Krueger got involved in the case, and Rottman was suspended from team activities for 90 days. Critics wondered why he wasn't tossed off for good. |
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Jailhouse mugs |
| DREAM OR REALITY? The New University project at Winona State has eaten up $450,000 in travel, speakers, research and discussions -- lots of discussion -- on reinventing Winona State, including new teaching techniques. Not much has come of it. Low student interest in the brown-bag lunches offered for discussion left officials with fewer ideas than they were hoping for. Project honcho Carol Anderson tried to put an upbeat spin on it, saying 800 ideas came out of focus groups. What Anderson didn't say was that nothing truly transformational was among the 800. The whole project was set in motion in September when university President Darrell Krueger pronounced that he had a dream, but he wouldn't say what it was and set up the talkathon under Anderson to make it a grassroots project. It didn't work. Now the question is whether Krueger will reveal his dream about where the university should be heading. |
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800, count 'em |
| THINNING THE HERD. Winona State University had to limit its frosh enrollment of incoming freshmen for 2004 -- not enough profs, not enough dorm space. It's not a bad problem to have, applicants banging on the doors to get in, noted chief recruiter Doug Schackle. The university has capitalized on being listed eight year years straight on the America's 100 Best College Buys list. This list ranks quality with affordability. Being in demand, the university has raised admissions standards. Last year frosh averaged 23 on ACT admissions exams. |
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The price of success |
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EXPANDING CAMPUS. Alums coming back to Winona State in a few years will hardly recognize the place The new science building, a $30 million adjunct to Stark and Pasteur halls, already has classes book for the second summer term. Architects, meanwhile, are fine-tuning specs for a solarium over the outside dining area behind the Smaug. An $8 million workout gym and a hodge-podge of health-related facilities is planned as an addition to McCown Gym. Across the street will be the Gateway dorm to replace the aging Quad. Maxwell Feild is due for a new press box, complete with luxo-skyboxes for lease at up to $15,000 a year. Three tunnels under the railroad tracks are planned -- one dipping Huff Street under the trains and two for pedestrians. Beyond the main campus there are plans to expand five blocks eastward all the way to the East Lake dorm beyond Franklin Street. Land acqusition is under way, one piece of property at a time.
| CRAMMED CARS. Plans are under way to decongest Winona State parking. The purchase of the old Lincoln school at 654 Huff St. for $700,000 for a new parking lot has been finalized. The building will be demolished at an additional cost of $600,00 and the site paved to accommodate 150 to 200 cars. Also planned is the reassignment of existing parking lots to different permits. Also, parking will become costlier for premium gold lots, to $205, the year after next. Meanwhile, more houses are being raised in the Maxwell-Conrad athletic fields areas for parking. A prposed eastward extension of Winona State property along the railroad tracks to the East Lake apartments may also be given over to parking. One parking plan was scuttled as too costly -- a parking ramp inside the proposed Gateway dorm was canceled as too costly. |
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Back to drawing board |
BOOZE BUS SHENANIGANS. The Booze Bus, as it is called, or more officially and officiously the Safe Ride shuttle, which runs between local bars and the Winona State and Saint Mary's campuses, offering students a safe option after a night on the town. Or it's supposed to. But after several overly rowdy nights the future of the two-year-old bus service came under doubt. One incident involved a Rock the Bus game, with riders shifting their weight back and forth in unison. Somebody broke out a window in one shift Tighter restrictions were instituted to limit the number of riders. Also, an extra run was added at bart-closing time. The question now: Will the shuttle be continued when the city-campus contract is up for renewal in December?
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| GIRL POWER. Feminist groups, inextricably tied to the women's studies program under crusader Tamara Berg, were in full power and full glory through the year. They sponsored a four-day commemoration of the abortion-friendly Roe v. Wade court decision in late January. Then they followed up with the play "Vagina Monologues" in February; another play, "That Takes Ovaries," in April; and a bus trip to the Pro-Choice March in Washington, D.C. , in March. Most students watched the activities from afar, but there were measures that indicated the ongoing potency of the feminist movement at Winona State. "The Vagina Monologues" sold out. About 60 students participated in the Pro-Choice March, which was the largest pro-choice demonstration in history. |
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Yes, Sarah, we can hear you |
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