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More than you may want to knowWINONA, Minn., June 20, 2004 -- The next generation laptops at Winona State University, announced at a news conference on Wednesday, are mid-grade Gateway M275Xe tablets, to be issued before fall semester. Here's the geek talk:
Operating system:
Microsoft Windows¨ XP Tablet Edition
Application software:
Microsoft Office Suite 2003
SPSS Base 12.0 for WIndows
JMP
Anti-virus software:
Norton AntiVirus Software (90 days)
Mobile technology:
Intel Centrino mobile technology
Processor:
Intel Pentium M processor 1.5GHz
Memory:
768MB DDR SDRAM
Hard drive:
40GB 4200rpm Ultra ATA hard drive
External floppy drive:
Floppy drive not included
Floppy drive:
Integrated 4-in-1 memory card reader
Optical drive:
Integrated 24x/10x/24x CD-RW and 8x DVD combo
Expansion slots:
Type II PC card slot
External ports:
USB 2.0
IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
VGA
Screen:
14.1-inch XGA TFT active matrix
Rotating hinge for tablet functionality
Video:
Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2
Keyboard and mouse:
Full-sized keyboard
EZ Pad pointing device
Digitizer pen:
Digitizer Pen for M275
Multimedia Package:
Integrated sound and stereo speakers
Headphone/speaker jack
Mic jacks
Speakers:
External speakers not selected
Battery:
Lithium ion battery with AC pack
One-year limited battery warranty
Modem:
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Integrated Intel 10/100 Ethernet
Wireless networking adapter:
Integrated 802.11b/g wireless networking card
Carrying case:
Targus commuter case
Processor:
Intel Pentium M Processor 1.8GHz
Integrated 1MB SRAM Level 2 Cache
400MHz processor side bus
Intel Centrino mobile technology
Chipset:
Intel 855GME Chipset
Intel MontaraGM+ ICHM4
PCI Bus V2.3
Phoenix NoteBIOS
512K Flash ROM
SMBIOS (DMI) 2.3 Support
Full ACPI support
Memory Slots:
User-accessible memory
Two 200-pin SO-DIMM sockets on motherboard
No interated memory
Display:
14.1" XGA TFT active matrix with rotating hinge for tablet functionality
1024 x 768 resolution
24-bit 16.7 million colors
Spindle:
2 Spindle Fixed Design
Disk controller:
Supports up to Ultra DMA 100 and up to PIO mode 4
Audio:
AC97 2.3 Codec
SoundBlaster Pro, MIDI and Windows¨ Sound System compatible
3D Sound Support
64 channel Wave-table Synthesis
Integrated Stereo Speakers
Integrated microphone
Keyboard controlled volume amd mute
Dimensions:
12.60"(W) x 10.83 inches deep
1.10 inches high
Weight: 5.7 pounds
USB ports:
2 Version 2.0 USB ports
Battery:
Removable 8-cell Li-Ion
3.6 Ah
14.8 V nominal
53.28 Wh
Operating time up to 4 hours
Power supply:
60-watt output external AC adapter
90-132v and 180-264 VAC input voltage
50-60Hz frequency
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Background: Next stage at Laptop U: Tablets
Profs' contract negotiations in stallST. PAUL, Minn., June 20, 2004 -- Faculty negotiators for a new contract with the state college system were disappointed at how the chancellor's negotiators seem to regard a judge's order on health insurance, said Chris Brown of the professors' union. At a June 11 mediation session, Brown said there appeared to be little change from the chancellor's previous proposal. He said the union had hoped for "a genuine effort of movement" by MnSCU Chancellor Jim McCormick's negotiators after being rapped by a judge for a lack of good faith in forcing major health coverage cutbacks on profs outside of contract discussions. About a representative of the state Department of Employee Relations at the session, Brown said: "DOER seems to be weighing in this time to make MnSCU adhere to the current notion of sticking all of the state bargaining units with a 15 percent payment for dependant care health insurance." He said it appears that the chancellor's negotiators and DOER "are still bickering over the health care issue."
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After the last mediation session, the profs' union action coordinator, Chris Brown, said he feels the state college system is pushing for a strike.
Why? To shred the existing contract rather than use it as a starting point to improve working conditions for faculty, he said, Bown referrred to the recent strike by metropolitan bus drivers.
"While striking is not out of the question, we need to use other means to show our displeasure with the status of negotiations," said Brown. |
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WHO FORGOT? Word didn't get around that the theme of this year's Steamboat Days was the ferris wheel, to which there is a dubious Winiona claim as its birthplace. The traveling carnival didn't bring a ferris wheel. "Nobody told us," said carnival manager Todd Merriam.
A local gossip columnist, the rage in newspapers, about 10 years old now, has arrived at the Daily News. In the inaugural column, the Nosy Neighbor, such a clever nom de plume, reported that Mayor and Mrs. Miller hosted a party for theater benefactors, that cancer survivor Beth Moe is wearing a different color bandana from CBS' "Survivor" every day, that Gabe Manrique turned 50, and that Bub's dropped its Wednesday 2-for-1 but added steak and ribs for $8.95.
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R.I.P.: Dorothy (weinandy) KorteFOUNTAIN CITY, Wis., June 20, 2004 -- A Winona State Teachers College alum, Dorothy Korte, 85, died at home. She worked many years at the Hentges insurance agency in Fountain City as an agent, secretary and bookkeeper.
SMU honors Nebraska ex-governorWINONA Minn., June 19, 2004 -- Former Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, a 1971 St. Mary's grad, was presented the university's award as distinguished alum of the year. The annual appreciaton award was presented to Roger Laven, class of 1954, and the religious service award to Steven Judd, class of 1953.
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STABBING. Sean Emmons, 20, Winona, was hospitalized in fair condition with stab wounds in his torso and one leg. Police said a carniaal worker, in town for Steamboat Days, used a four-inch knife during a fight on Wednesday night.
BAND SHELL. The Lake Park band shell is celebrating its 80th birthday this summer.
HBC newcaster Wayne Valentine was named grand marshal for the Steamboat Days parade.
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WSU frosh fined for wild, violent nightWINONA, Minn., June 17, 2004 -- The Winona State University frosh who trashed his girlfriend's East Lake dorm room and vandalized a parked car, Eric. J. Turner, was fined $462 in Winona County District Court. The fine was for fifth-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal damage to property, and underage consumption of alcohol. Turner, 18, was arrested about 5 a.m., March 23, at his off-campus apartment at 422 Center St. after a ruckus involving the girlfriend and either one or two men who accompanied her to confront Turner about the damage to her dorm room and the car. In the confrontation, police said, Turner was carrying what he called a 9mm handgun although, in turned out, to be an Daisy BB gun. There was a fight in which, according to one report, Turner's head was smashed into a redwood fence.
Background:
Boyfriend had key
New charges against Turner
New door at apartment |
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$462 penalty
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R.I.P.: Anthony Lee MasepohlLA CROSSE, Wis., June 17, 2004 -- A Winona State Univerity alum, Tony Masepohl, 43, died at a hospital. He was maintenance chief at the Winona YMCA.
WSU SECURITY
REPORT
JUNE 17, 2004 | INCIDENT NO. 1: An individual became stuck in the Pasteur elevator at 9:37 p.m. Firefighters helped with the rescue
INCIDENT NO. 2: A fire alarm sounded in Kryzsko Commons at 3:33 a.m. No fire; alarm reset.
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WSU's next stage as Laptop U: TabletsWINONA, Minn., June 16, 2004 -- Winona State University is buying a record number of Gateway M275 tablet computers, almost 4,000, for students this fall. "This is the largest deployment of tablet PCs in higher education in North America," said Gateway executive Dave Garcia at a campus news conference. A parade of speakers waxed enthusiastically about the tablets. Academic Vice President Steve Richardson proclaimed Winona State "probably the most enviable of any campus in the country." The M275s have a swivel screen on which students can make electronic notes -- as if it were a tablet notepad. The notes can be added on-screen on top of handouts and other study documents.
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The tablets can store digital textbooks that publishers McGraw-Hill, Pearson and Thomson are introducing this fall, with students able to insert their own highlights and notes. The news conference was included in the agenda for incoming students and parents on campus for early orientation. Students pay $1,000 a year, as part of their tuition bill, to lease computers -- which is a requirement. After two years, students get a replacement model. On graduation, they option to buy their unit,
Baclground:
WSU calls news conference
McGraw unveils discount texts
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> Frosh, expected to number about 1,650
> Current students and faculty whose laptops are two years old, with the exception of some Macs that are on a three-year replace-
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Regular PC Mac laptops remain an option. |
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Fellow athletic directors laud HolstadWINONA, Minn., June 15, 2004 -- Winona State University's athletic director since 1997, Larry Holstad, has been named Division II athletic director for the Central States by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. The award us for "commitment and positive contributions to campuses and their surrounding communities," the association said in making the announcement. The award comes at the end of an especially difficult year for Holstad and the Winona State athletic department. In October it was reported that a required reporting link on player misconduct from football coach Tom Sawyer to Holstad to university President Darrell Krueger had been ignored routinely. Krueger had been kept in the dark about 25 players with police run-ins. As the year unfolded, more charges of excessive partying and carousing by football players brought the total to 33 -- with a toal of 45 offenses. In January police busts revealed that high school football recruits. brought in expenses-paid for weekend visits, were regularly boozing and partying with varsity players. In April, gymnasts went public with gripes about coach Rob Murray fouling up their schedules and, through negligence, costing them places in regionals and nationals. Two months after Murray's lapses became public, Holstad announced Murray's departures.
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The National Association of Collegiate Diretcors of Athletics cited the good news from 2003-2004 in announcing the award:
"HolstadÕs tenure has witnessed unprecedented success for Winona football, as the Warriors have appeared in regional playoff competition in two of the last three years. The athletics facilities landscape under Holstad has also realized significant improvement with the addition of a new weight room and womenÕs locker room. As a result of HolstadÕs efforts, Warrior student-athletes in football, soccer, softball and baseball are no longer limited by the constraints of daylight to dictate practice and competition schedules thanks to the addition of lights to their respective facilities"
Holstad currently serves on the NCAA Management Council and as chair of the Athletics Administrators Committee for the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. He is a member of the Minnesota State Title IX Task Force Committee. He is a former regional chair of the NCAA National Football Committee and member of the NCAA Midwest Regional Football Committee.
McGraw unveils discount textsNEW YORK, June 15, 2004 -- E-textbooks at "significantly reduced prices," some half price, are being rolled out by McGraw-Hill for the college market, the company announced. The program, apparently put together in haste in response to dramatic declines in sales, is drawing on McGraw's existing Primis program that has been built up over the years to allow profs to mix and match segments of McGraw texts and fold in their own material. In the new program, 900 textbooks in the Primis system will be available intact as e-books. The Primis database holds 1.5 million pages of textbook content. The 900 Primis e-books also will remain available in print format.
The McGraw announcement came as a surprise. Only a few weeks earlier. the company's chair, Terry McGraw, said that electronic textbooks have "interesting potential" but the market didn't seem ready. Why the turn-around? In recent weeks, college textbook sales have plummeted, apparently because of growing student pressure on professors about the price of textbooks. Stores have returned millions of unsold copies to publisher warehouses. Through April, college sales were off 26.4 percent for the year. In the past month, Pearson and Thomson also have introduced discount versions of many of their books.
Background:
Pearson texts half-price online
Textbook sales in cellar |
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WSU to explain laptop planWINONA, Minn., June 15, 2004 -- A news conference on the next era in Winona State's evolution as a laptop campus has been scheduled by university technology executives and representatives of Gateway, which provides lost student leased computers, and Microsoft, which provides the core software. A new laptop computing initiative will be described, the university said in announcing the news conference. Among presenyers will be student President Dusty Finke. Business prof Pat Paulson will talk about how he incorporates laptops in his courses.Date: Wednesday, June 16
Time: 10 a.m.
Place: Student Activity Center, Kryzsko Commons
Cost: $30 to $110 enrollment
Contact: (507) 457-5608 |
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HIGH WATER. Unless high water recedes, the huge paddle-wheelers Mississippi Queen and Celebration Belle may drop out of the Grand Excursion flotilla up the Mississippi from June 25 to July 5. The boats' superstructures may not be able to clear bridges.
BEHIND BARS. The state Parole Bord denied cop-killer John Kirch, 57, a request for release after 24 yhears in prison. The family of the Winiona County deputy who was shot generated more than 50 lettes against parole. Kitrch is serving a life term.
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City to persist on roads, theater requestsWINONA, Minn., June 14, 2004 -- The city requests for a local sales tax referendum to improve streets and for money to design a Shakespeare festival theater will be back when the state Legislature convenes again, City Manager Eric Sorensen said. Both requests were lost in the partisan breakdown in the recent legislative session. For streets, the city needs aproval for an election on a proposed one-half cent sales tax increase to raise money for a package of projects. These include relocating the railroad switching yard, now adjacent to Winona State, and digging a Huff Street underpass at the current Canadian Pacific crossing and also pedestrian tunnels under the tracks at Johnson and Winona streets. For a permanent home for the Great River Shakespeare Festival, the city seeks $125,000 for site selection, feasibility and predesign. This summer the inaugural festival is using the Winona State theater.
Background: Consensus eludes legislators
New dean: WSU knows what it's gettingWINONA, Minn., June 14, 2004 -- The new liberal arts dean at Winona State University, Troy Paino, said he is especially flattered with his appointment because, as an internal candidate, campus people already knew him. "It means a lot that the president and the search committee has the faith in me to do the job," Paino told the Daily News. "I am taking this as a vote of confidence, so that's very gratifying." Among almost 40 applicants, there were several already on the Winona State faculty. Only Paino made the short list. Why did he want the position? "I saw it as an opportunity to promote the values of the liberal arts and a liberal arts education at Winona State, which I believe in deeply." Paino, who holds a law degree, has been on the history faculty for seven years and directed the paralegal program and helped created a new law and society program.
Background: History prof to deanship
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COMMENT:
DANGEROUS PASSAGE
SMU AND HIGHWAY 14
The death of collegian John Thrune in a grain truck collision is yet another signal of how dangerous Highway 14 is at the entrances to Knopp and Gilmore valleys and St. Mary's University. Within a few hundred feet, with much of the traffic at 55 mph, are 10 driveways and intersections.
With its bustling activities, St. Mary's is a major part of the problem. Along with city and state highway planners, the university needs to look to solutions. the curreny entrance must be closed. How about a scenic sweep up the creek from Gilmore Avenue. It would be a grand and fitting entrance -- and safer. The university also should consider boring a tunnel under Highway 14 for intracampus traffic.
The growing congregation of the Living Light Church has also added to the congestion. It too must relocate its entrance off Highway 14.
The entrance to Knopp Valley would be safer from Highway 61 at 44th Avenue and across Bollier's Lake and curving around the bluff. |
Background: Collision claims college student
College textbook sales in cellarNEW YORK, June 14, 2004 -- College publishing sales witnessed heavy losses in April for the second month in a row, the Association of American Publishers reported. Why so? Stores returned many more books to publishers than expected. In AAP's latets monthly data, for April 2003, sales ran a deficit of 6.9 million. For the year, college sales are down 26.4 percent. Here is the year-to-date data for genres in which college people have special interest, as extrapolated from 92 reporting publishers:
Professional, scholarly books
University press (hard cover)
University press (soft cover)
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Background: Pearson texts half-price online
CAMPUS NEWS QUIZ
13. Which is the largest college at Winona State University?
(a) Liberal Arts
(b) Education
(c) Business
(d) Human Performance and Nursing
(e) Science and Engineering
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14. Who is the direct supervisor of the president of Winona State University?
(a) Faculty Senate
(b) Board of Regents
(c) Governor
(d) Alumni Society
(e) Chancellor
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15. When will the new Winona State Univerity science building open for its fist classes?
(a) July 2004
(b) August 2004
(c) January 2005
(d) September 2005
(e) September 2006
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Earlier quizzes
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WSU fund-raising golf outing setWINONA, Minn., June 15, 2004 -- The Winoan State University boosters organization has scheduled iy annial Warrior Club Golf Classic to raise athletic scholarship money. Space is limited to the first 120 golfers per session. Date: Monday, July 19
Time: Shotgun starts at 7:45 a.m., 12:45 p.m.
Place: Cedar Valley Golf Course
Cost: $30 to $110 enrollment
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CAMPUS READER
Jesse Rothstein, "College Performance Predictions and the SAT," Journal of Econometrics (July-August). Rothstein, of Princeton University, concludes that race, family income and other demographic data need to be folded into college admissions criteria, not SAT entrance exams alone, to predict a student's college perfromance.
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Jazz workshop set at WSUWINONA, Minn., June 15, 2004 -- A two-day Dixieland jazz workshop for middle school and high school students is planned at Winona State University on July 9 and 10. Faculty include Richard Hammergren, Gerald Gleason, Eric Heukeshoven, James Wheat and Rich MacDonald from Winona State andthe Upper Mississippi Jazz Society.The workshop finale is a performance at the Lake Winona Jazz Festival on Saturday:Date: Saturday, July 10
Time: 11 a.m.
Place: Lake Winona
Cost: $55 to $70 enrollment
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Tech to install new officesWINONA, Minn., June 14, 2004 -- A building permit was filed by Southeast Tech to add office spaces. The was project as listed at $20,000.
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Defining "consensus" eludes legislatorsST. PAUL, Minn., June 14, 2004 -- Divided in acrimonious partisanship, legislators have been unable to agree on a package of "consensus issues" for a special of the Legislature to be convned to approve pressing issues quickly. House Speaker Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon said everything should be taken off the table about which there can't be consensus but then insisted on taking up contentious issues like extended prison terms for sexual predators and a proposed new anti-meth lab law. The governor wants action on Twin Cities professional-sports stadiums. Democrats have lists too. Without peliminary agreement, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he will not call a special session. All parties are agreed that a bonding bill for state constuction projects is needed, but both sides ae insisting that the agenda be longer.
Background: Hope dims for special session
UNDER-AGE
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Darrell
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WSU president
2003: $211,836
Louis
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SMU president
2001: $155,245
Jim Johnson
Tech president
2001:
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WSU'S NEW SHAPE
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WSU adopts friendlier acquisition modeWINONA, Minn., June 14, 2004 -- The expansion plans of Winona State University is proceeding with a friendly policy of one lot at a time, no condemnation through the state's power of eminent domain, the Daily News reported. Dick Lande, campus facilities manager, said no owners are being pressured. When owners want to sell, the university is has a kitty to make the purchase: "I try to out enough aside to buy one or two houses a year." In the past the university occasionally has commandeered property for expansion, with owners of stately houses north of campus especially threatened. Now, a spokesperson for university President Darrell Krueger, Tom Grier said, "Dr. Krueger wants to be a better neighbor." The Daily News interest in university land acquisition policy was triggered by recent purchases between Huff and Main streets to create parking at Maxwell Field. In one block, only the Wunderlich insurance building and four houses remain. The rest have been razed. Also, the old Lincoln School at Huff and Sarnia is scheduled to be razed, also for parking.
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"The once-threatened area north of campus, home to several mansions, seems spared in the university's expansion planning. A long-term plan put together by Lande shows acquisitions eastward along Belleview, on the south side of the Canadian Pacific tracks, all the way to the new East Lake dorm on Franklin. In the strip are two major structures -- the old Kelly Furniture warehouse, recently acquired by Winona industrialist Hugh Miller; and the Daily News plant, which is largely unused and which Lee Enterprises, owner of the newspaper, has tried to unload from time to time?
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In interviews, Lande emphsizes that the aerial maps he commissioned, with pirple boundaries showing the expanded campus, have no official status. Even so, acquisition patterns point to Lande's vision as a de facto acquisition program. Lande notes the awkwardness of the eastward strip along the Canadian Pacific tracks as not lending itself to major new campus buildings. He foresees a kind of Dinkytown, a la the University of Minnesota, with merchants serving a student population. In the meantime, as indiviudal parcels are acquired, the area would be used for overflow parking. Firm in university plans are two pedestrian tunnels under the Canaian Pacific tracks to connect the main campus with the already-growing parking and sports complex south of the tracks.
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HISTORICAL NOTES
Daily News columnist Jim Galewski:
"The founders of the Winona Normal School couldn't have known more than 100 years ago that placing the state's forst teacher's college in the center of the city would be a problem. At the time, much of the outskirts of Winona was swamp. It made sense to put the campus on high ground.
"With a student census in excess of 7,000 last year, Winona State University has become the most concentrated campus in the state university system. Much of Winona State's growth has come one city block at a time, deliberately and sometimes oppressively. É
"What's changed about WSU's growing pains is the university's approach to acquiring property. The most recent purchases of homes along Main Street were done in a much friendlier manner." |
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With the acquisition of the old Lincoln School, Huff Street will be entirely Winona State University's the six blocks from Mill Street to Sanborn.
Exceptions would be Kwik Trip and Gordie's auto service station.
Houses behind Kwik Trip and Gordie's on Winona Street are on the university acqusition list. |
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The so-called Wunderlich block is on the Winona State University wish list -- and already coming true.
Except for the Wunderlich insurance building and four houses, the block bounded by Main, Belleview, Johnson and Sarnia streets has been razed for weekday student parking and stadium Maxwell Field parking for games. |
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NEW WSU: EASTWARD STRIP
ALL THE WAY TO EAST LAKE. Winona State University eastward expansion would grow the campus on the south side of the Canadian Pacific tracks to Center Street, then Lafayette, then Walnut, then the old Kelly Furinture warehouse, then the Daily News building. Already across Franklin Street is the East Lake dorm. The strip would be parking and then perhaps converted into a retail area oriented to students. |
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