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WSU faculty leader: Displeasure is deepWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2004 -- The faculty president at Winona State University, Mary Kesler, said that profs statewide are displeased with the new two-year contract with the state even though only Winona State profs voted to eject it. "We all felt the same way," Kesler said in an interview. "We were just the only ones that voted against it." One factor that led to profs at six of seven MnSCU campuses to accept the contract was that they had entered their second year without a contract. The focus now, Kesler said, is the contract to replace the new one, which expires in June. A lot of issues need to be worked on before then, Kessler said: "Minnesota professors are lagging behind in salaries and services are also being cut." Kesler said many people underrate the work of professors: "People don't realize that being a professor is not just working 12 hours a day. It's student advising, volunteering in the Winona community, letters of recommendation, research and much more."
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Kesler said many of the professors are still unhappy about the decision to give state Chancellor Jim McCormick a 5 percent pay raise over two years while faculty pay raises average only 2.4 percent for the same period.
In his State of the System address last week, Chancellor McCormick did not mention the faculty contract strife but spoke extensively about the system's budget problems and asked listeners to encourage their state representatives to invest in Minnesota's higher education. "If I have one hope for this powerful system, it is that the leaders of today, like the leaders of the past, do not lose sight of the public good higher education provides. The state's future depends
on it," said McCormick.
Reporter: Brianne Gallett
Background: Trustees OK contract
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WSU SECURITY
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ALCOHOL-RELATED CONVICTIONS
WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
Shane Michael Haag, 19, Lewiston, $100.
Justin Ray Hein, 20, Madison, Wis., 30 days.
Amanda E. Lanzel 20, Omalaska, Wis., $105.
Ryan Matthew McGregor, 20, Lewiston, Minn., $100.
Heidi Ahna Thoe, 20, Cumberland, Wis., $100.
Earlier alcohol-related convictions
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Maytag provider: WSU machines OKWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2004 -- None of the Maytag washers and dryers in Winona State University dorms are involved in a class-action suit that alleges mold and smelliness result in some Maytag models because of defective design, said Sally Benson, Midwest manager for Mac-Gray, which provided and services the machines. "We have only MAH21PDAWW commercial grade washers at WSU," Benson said. Last April the CyberIndee carried a report that Winona State machines were high-end consumer models, carrying the Neptune name, that are the subject of the class-action suit. The models in the suit are MLE2000AWW, MLE2000AZW, MAH3000BGW, MAH3400AWW, MAH4000AWW, MAH4000BWW, MAH4000AWQ, MAH4000BWQ, MAH5500AWW, MAH5500BWW, MAH5500BWQ, MAH55FLBWW, MAH55FLBWQ, MAH6500AWW, MAH6500AWQ, MAH7500AWW, MAH7500AWQ, MAH7550AA, MAH7550AGW
and MAH7550AWW, according to the law firm that filed the action
Background: Undies smell moldy? Check the Maytag
WSU SECURITY
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SEPT. 29, 2004 |
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ALCOHOL-RELATED CONVICTIONS
WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
Ria Ann Billeck, 19, 456 Sarnia St. $100.
Phillip Daniel Capuzzi, 19, Cumberland, Wis., $165.
Daniel Fohrman, 20, Dover, Minn., $300 and one year.
Timothy Lee Weber, 20, Elkhorn, Wis., $95.
Brett D. Adams, 20, 103 W. Wabasha St. 7, four days and $265.
Earlier alcohol-related convictions
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Students delay action on kitchen wagesWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2004 -- Action on the decision of university contractor to ignore the campus minimum wage for kitchen workers was postponed by the Winona State Student Senate. The Senate unanimously tabled a motion to encourage Chartwells strongly to honor the 40-cent an hour pay increase for other student jobs on campus, now $8.40 an hour. Junior Sen. Craig Pearson said the delay will give senators time to talk with their constituens about dealing with the situation.
At the meeting, Chartwells campus manager Joanne Bradley said that increasing wages from $8 to $8.40 would cost $45,000 to $50,000 this year. Meanwhile, Bradley said, Chartwells faces other financial pressure. Costs are up dramatically, she said, referring to a "tremendous increase in meat and dairy prices." Also, she said, delivery costs of food and supplies has reflected fast-escalating fuel prices. Bradley said the Winona State contract has become marginally profitable for Chartwells. As of August, Chartwells was running $25,000 in the hole, she said. At the end of the fiscal year, in late September, the profit probably will be only 1 to 2 percent, calculated to be roughly $70,000, she said. Also contributing to Chartwells difficulties has been an unexpected 6 point increase in student participation in meal plans at a time when costs are squeezing profits.
To improve kitchen wages would mean cuts in services, Bradley told senators. "We are trying to make the most out of X amount of dollars," Bradley said. "We are capable of doing anything, but everything comes at a price." Alternatives, she said, include closing the Smaug counter service one hour earlier and boosting meals plans by $24 per student. About 2,800 students are on meal plans. Also possible are cuts in quality and the number of employees, she said. "The final decision is student driven." Bradley said.
Bradley noted that Chartwells has matched the minimum wage for state employees until now. She said university administrators and the university food services committee had approved the Chartwells decision to cap kitchen wages at $8. John Ferden, the university executive responsible for food services, defended the decision against increasing kitchen wages. The alternatives to reduce the decrease the variety of food and service hours were less palatable, Ferden said. He said the dining service committee was trying to do the majority students a favor by not raising the wages to avoid raising the cost of meal tickets. Bradley denied reports that any kitchen workers had been promised a raise: "It was never written or said that there would be a wage increase."
Bradley portrayed Chartwells as a good employer. Student employees are eligible a free meal per shift if they average four shifts a week, she said. Students have a lot of flexibility in hours, she said. Also, Bradley said, her employees are paid 20 to 40 percent more than off-campus job in the food industry, which is not coverned by the state minimum wage for state employees. The federal minimum wage for non-state employees is $5.125. She also noted that kitchen workers at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse earn much less, $6 an hour, and at UW-River Falls even less, $5.15.
Bradley expressed regret that she had not explained the decision to her employees to stay with $8 in the beginning of the year. That, she said, could have eliminated confusion and expectations.
Reporters:
Lauren Elizondo, Meghan Frain, Patricia Salisbury, Sarah Ricci, Krista Sieben, Jazmie Sires, and
Julie Welscher
Background: Kitchen workers miss pay raise
Commment: WSU's own sweatshops
COMMENT: CHARTWELLS
THIRD-WORLD SWEATSHOP
IN OUR MIDST
The kitchens at Winona State Univerity are like scenes from a third-rate hotel on the back streets in a Third World country. Amid the heat and steam, young people, mostly with dark skins, browns, yellows and black, toil and slave over sinks and caldrons. The kitchens, managed by concession operator Chartwells, contrast with the manicured campus grounds to which university President Darrell Krueger points with such pride. Chartwells runs the university's dark and sweaty underbelly, hidden from public view.
It's an unsettling picture, those kitchens. The student employees, mostly from foreign countries, are barred by the U.S. government from working off-campus. TheyŐre trapped in the kitchen jobs. Exploiting the situation, Chartwells has refused to honor a 40-cent an hour increase in the state minimum wage this fall for its student workers.
Chartwells management has a legalitic although hardly moral explanation. Chartwells notes that it's a private contractor and that its kitchen workers technically are not state employees. Therefore, says Chartwells, neither its contract with the university nor the law applies to its wage structure. It's a shameful explanation that doesn't come close to excusing what is, at its heart, a socially irresponsible exploitation with racist tinges.
Right out of Steinbeck, Winona State has its own cannery row sweatshops. |
Background: Kitchen workers miss pay raise
QUICK
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SEPT. 29, 2004 |
SOCCER (WOMEN'S): SMU 3, Gustavus Adolphus 2.
VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S): St. Thomas 3, SMU 1.
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RECENT
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EARLIER
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SCHOOLS EMBEZZLEMENT. Police turned their investigation report into funds missing from the Winona Catholic school system to the U.S. Justice Department to pursue criminal charges. Former finance officer Colleen Gardner is accused of embezzling $587,000 over 33 months.
MAGNESIUM OXIDE. Powdery magnesium oxide, being unloaded from a barge at the East End, was whipped by wind into a cloud that settled in the nearby residential neigbborhood. Although an eye ande skin irritant and a factor in respiratory problems, nobody reported problems. The incident was about 5 p.m., Wednesday.
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Adventurers camp atop Sugar LoafWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2004 -- Eight Winona State University students climbed to top of Sugar Loaf mountain and camped out to help promote travel study program Pacific Challenge. The students, along with their instructor, Dave Wright, drove 200 feet up the bluff, hiked more than 200 feet to the base, then used ropes and harnesses to rock climb the remaining 85 feet to the top. "The view was beautiful," said Wright, "not to mention the gorgeous sunset and sunrise."
The climbers took precautions to ensure a safe ascent, said Wright. While they slept, the campers wore harnesses that attached to an anchor point at the center of the campsite. The group also experienced evening temperatures that fell to 38 degrees with constant winds. Before anyone set foot on the mountain, Wright contacted the police for permission to climb and camp on the mountain.
The adventure program Pacific Challenge has been available to Winona State students for 12 years since Wright, the founder and director, brought the program from his home in Australia. Students spend a semester traveling in Australia and New Zealand while earning as much as a semester of academic credit. The students participate in sky diving, rock climbing, kayaking, scuba diving and other activities as well as experiencing the culture. "The program fulfills the requirements for a normal class, except it's a class on the move," said Wright. Each year about 100 students participate in the $6,250 trip.
Reporter: Sarah Brechtl
NEW WSU DORM. This is the revised plan from the Twin Cities architectural firm Collaborative Design Group for a 400-bed luxo-dorm on Main Street. The Student Senate has endorsed the $20 million plan.
State OKs WSU dorm designST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 28, 2004 -- Minnesota State Colleges and Universities granted Winona State University a preliminary approval to construct a 400-bed dorm on Main Street. The next step for the $20 million project is up to the university. In Winona, university Vice President Cal Winbush, whose responsibilities include facilities, said his staff will draft a detailed description with predesign information from Bill Hickey of Collaboration Design Group of Minneapolis, which developed the preliminary design. The detailed decription from 30 to 60 days, said Winbush. Bids will then be sought for any architect to come up with infrastructure system details and construction blueprints, said Winbush. "The architects have to follow the design proposal while they place their bids," he said. "It's not just a free for all. The bidding process will be open about two weeks, said Winbush. "Whoever submits the best prices and brings the best value will be considered," said Winbush.
Then will come bids for actual construction. One rule is that the dorm be a "century building," which means that the building has to be constructed to last at least 100 years, said Winbush.
Reporter: Kristie Rossi
Background: Why WSU scrapped "Gateway" name
Background: Students OK revised plan
QUICK
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SEPT. 28, 2004 |
FOOTBALL (MEN'S): Named Northern Sun special teams player of the week was WSU ssenior Bounthavy Khamratthanome.
GOLF (MEN'S): Central Fall Regional Invitational (second day): Missouri Western 604 (1st), Central Missouri 609 (2nd) Bemidji State 617 (3rd), WSU 618 (4th).
GOLF (WOMEN'S): Named conferencve golfer of the week was SMU junior Andrea Hanke.
SOCCER (MEN'S): Gustavus Adolphus 3, SMU 0.
SOCCER (WOMEN'S): Named Northern Sun offensive player of the week was WSU forward Abbey Bollig.
VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S): UW-La Crosse 3, WSU 1.
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Skinny-dipping has a price: $315WINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2004 -- Two of your young people caught frolicking nude on the Princess Wenonah fountain in Windom Park have paid fines in Winona District Court that total $630. They were stopped, dripping wet, after a brief police chase about 3 a.m. on Sept. 2. The first to pay fines:
Rachel J. Arndt, 23, Wanamingo, Minn., $315, for indecent exposure and trespassing Irene D. Wood, 21, 328 West Fifth St., Winona, $315, for trespassing and indecent exposure
Also arrested were housemates Kenneth S. Schorpen, 22, and Frank R. Markson, 21, of 465 West Fifth St.
Background: Prancing nude under her silent eyes
Jinxes plague WSU student electionsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2004 -- About 3.5 percent of the Winona State student body voted for Student Senate candidates during the fall elections, which Senate Vice President Tim Donahue acknowledged was a disappointment. Donahue, whose responsibilities include running elections, noted that fewer frosh voted than in the April election -- even though freshmen enrollment has swollen. Good news, Donahue said, is more upper-class students voted this fall. Donahue speculated that fewer freshmen voted because there was no voting link on the troubled Student Senate website, which, a month into the new school year, has not been updated.
Donahue said that he felt good about the candidate pool this fall. There were twice as many candidates as seats for both at-large and freshmen. Donahue said that he was disappointed but not shocked that no candidates for graduate or educations seats. Graduate students tend not to apply because of their demanding schedules, said Senate academic affairs Chair Craig Pearson. Grad students' perspective would be beneficial, Pearson said: "The more opinions the better." Why no candidates for College of Education vacanies? Pearson faulted the Senate for not doing more to inform education majors. The Senate public relations committee, which has been slow to organize this fall, is working on developing new strategies besides e-mails and posters, said Pearson.
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For both the supplemental and the Spring 2005 elections, the Senate will focus a great deal on filling the empty seats, said Donahue. Donahue said that the public relations committee is working on newsletters, press releases, and radio promos.
Everything did not go as planned with the online voting process, Donahue acknowledged. Donahue said that there was a one-hour delay on Sept. 21, the first day of the elections. On Sept. 23 the election site was down, but the university technician responsible for supporting the election process, Bill Soranno, was able to restore the site within 15 minutes. Donahue said that Soranno has been a tremendous help and gone above and beyond the call of duty.
Because of a mistake in election planning, votes cast by grad students were disqualified. Somebody forgot to tag ballots from grad students, which meant that anyone could cast a write-in ballot for the open grad seats. There were no graduate candidates, so this was not a tremendous setback, said Donahue. Donahue said he will debrief with Soranno this week concerning the computer glitches.
Reporter: Heather Howard
Background: Student voter turnout a fizzle
R.I.P.: Charlotte Mary (Shira) WichersWINONA, Minn. Sept. 27, 2004 -- A Winona State Teachers College grad, Charlotte Wichers, 88, died at a nursing home. She taught in Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. After retiring, she volunteered as a teacher's aide in Winona. Besides her Winona State degree, she held a master's from Ball State University.
College prez quits over vanishing giftsMORAGA, Calif., Sept. 27, 2004 -- The president of St. Mary's College of California, Craig Franz, resigned in a scandal over $112 million in pledges for campus construction and remodeling. Franz, of the Christian Brothers order, which operates the college, said that new leadership was needed to rebuild donor confidence. Franz had assumed that a college regent, Conrad Colbrandt, would deliver on a series of anonymous pledged and had authorized borrowing $15 million for a new science building that opened in 2000. Colbrandt said he lost the pledged money in an investment scam.
NOTE: Winona-based St. Mary's University of Minensota is corporately separate from St. Mary's College of California, although both are Christian Brothers institutions. Franz is, however, on the board of trustees of St. Mary's in Winona and served as executuve assistant the Louis DeThomasis, the president, from 1994 to 1997.
Redo, revamp MnSCU? Chancellor: NoST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 27, 2004 -- The restructuring of Minnesota Higher Education, begin considered by the Citizens League, would costly and disruptive, said Chancellor Jim McCormick of the Minnesota State Universities and Colleges system. In an opinion piece distributed to the state's newspapers, McCormick said the current system, created in 1995, is working well.
The system put four-year colleges, community colleges and tech schools under the same umbrella, called MnSCU for short. "It has greatly improved the ability of students to transfer smoothly from one institution to another and has established an infrastructure and a culture that encourages collaboration by state colleges and universities with each and with the University of Minnesota," McCormick said. "Undoing or redoing the 1995 restructuring would be expensive and disruptive and would cause instability to a higher education model that needs continuity to meet the challenges ahead." These challenges, he said, include increasing access to low-income and first-generation college students. |
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The Citizens League, a special-interest group representing mostly business and industry, was appointed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty in Janaury to study the structure of the state's higher education system. Educators were barred from the Citizens League panel that conducted months of hearings on grounds they would contaminate the examination by seeking the status quo, Critics have noted the League's record favoring job training over broad education and a bias toward metro programs over outstate programs. The League's recommendations to the governor are expected soon.
Background: MSUSA awaits League invitation
QUICK
SPORTS
SEPT. 27, 2004 |
GOLF (MEN'S): Central Regional Fall Invitataional (first day): Missouri Western 311 (1st), Bemidji State 313 (2nd), Central Missouri 315 (3rd), WSU 322 (4th).
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COMMENT: STUDENT SENATE
A TIME FOR MENTORING
To be expected, frosh candidates for the Student Senate at Winona State University said a lot of incredibly stupid things in campaigning. Maybe "naive" would be more a charitable word. They are but freshmen, after all.
Evincing no sense of public service, some candidates explained their bid for office as merely for personal growth. How egocentric. Are there no issues? What about a passion for the common good? Some talked about their high school student governing experience, as if choosing a theme for the junior prom is somehow on par with sorting through university President Darrell Krueger's proposed $1,000 tuition surcharge.
Through the mist of their naivete, some candidates had a sense, albeit vague, of what was going on. About the New University proposals, one candidate warned about guarding against profs "lining their own pockets." At least the candidate had heard of the New University. But, come on, the New University proposals are wobbly enough without polluting the dialogue with chatter suggesting greed. Despite the wobbliness, nothing in the New University proposals bespeaks anything but good intentions for the institution and its students.
The lesson from all this is that the incumbent senators, seasoned that they are, have a major mentoring job ahead. The newcomers need guidance in identifying issues and developing the skills to articulate positions that contribute to intelligent and meaningful dialogue. |
Bush, Kerry differ on higher-ed tacksWASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2004 -- The higher-ed proposals of President George Bush and challenger John Kerry are drastically different. Here is a side-by-side comparison on higher-ed issues:
BUSH V. KERRY
PELL GRANTS
BUSH: During his 2004 presidential campaign, Bush promised to increase the maximum Pell grants for students from low-income families. Once in office, his proposal to Congress was to keep the maximum grants at $4,050. He opposed a $300 increase in the max approved by Congress in 2002.
Bush has asked Congress to increase Pell spending by 47 percent, to meet a funding shortfall resulting from the growing number of out-of-work people heading to college. The value of the maximum $4,050 grant, however, is being eroded by inflation. |
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BUSH V. KERRY
PUBLIC SERVICE
| BUSH: AmeriCorps, a Clinton Administration inititaive, has withered in the Bush years. |
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Also, 300,000 AmeriCorps participants would be college students serving part time to pay earn college grants. Most volunteers would be in education-related activities such as preschool programs, tutoring for elementary-school students, and programs to encourage more high-school students to go to college. |
BUSH V. KERRY
TUITION TAX CREDITS
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BUSH V. KERRY
TUITION RELIEF
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BUSH V. KERRY
COLLEGE WORK-STUDY
BUSH: Bush has not asked for any additional funding in 3-1/2 years as president. |
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BUSH V. KERRY
SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY GRANTS
BUSH: Bush has not asked for any additional SEOP funding in 3-1/2 years as president.
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BUSH V. KERRY
LEVERAGING EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
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BUSH V. KERRY
STUDENT LOAN GUARANTEES
BUSH: Bush has supported the bank industry, which wants to retain the federal 9-1/2 percent federal guaranteed interest rate on student loans.
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Background: Races campus people are tracking
CAMPUS READER
What in-the-know Winona college people are reading
Tom Bentley and Paul Miller. "When the Party's Over," Financial Times (Sept. 26, 2004), Pages W1, W2. Bentley and Miller, of the British political think-tank Demos, make a strong case that the political parties as the engine of democracies in Australia, Britain, Canada, Finlandm, Germany and the United States are fading rapidly. What's ahead? Celebrity-driven politics? Single-issue special interest groups replacing the parties that, by definition, were vehicles of compromise to amass majorities? There is evidence we're heading in both directions.
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Mikkelson, other indies stay on ballot| ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 27, 2004 -- The Minnesota Supreme Court ignored an obscure provision in election law and ordered that Independence Party candidates, including Greg Mikkelson in the First Congressional District, ne allowed on the Nov. 2 ballot. The ruling affects about two dozen candidates, none of whom met a requirement to they get 1.6 percent of the vote of Gov. Jesse Ventura in the 1998 primary elections. The Court offered no explanation for its ruling, but it had been argued that the law was a convoluted requirement rhat undermined public confidence in the election process. |
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COMMENT: WARRIOR FOOTBALL
WHY CODDLE
THE PUNKS?
Football coach Tom Sawyer is running Coddle Central with his Winona State University team. Yes, Phil Capuzzi still suits up -- even after a horrendous fight that badly injured another dorm tenant last spring and got him evicted. And now, even after an underage boozing conviction.
How many incidents of bad judgment and violence does it take for Sawyer to recognize when a player has lost any moral claim to be an athlete role model carrying the university banner? Sawyer continues to flaunt the spirit of the athletic department's own code of athlete conduct, which allows the severest penalties for player misdeeds. At one point last year his roster had pl;ayers with 44 local convictions and who knows how many elsewhere.
In only one case, that of Carey Rottman, did Sawyer throw a player off the team. And that, he has said begrudgingly, was only because of news coverage. And he dallied months to do it. In the case of Rottman, 18 at the time, he was accused of assaulting two cops, head-butting one, after leading high-school football recruits from one booze and marijuana party to another.
The threshold of tolerance for player misdeeds must be raised before Warrior football players, fans too, can carry their heads high again.
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Background: Capuzzi in trouble again
Background: Judge went lightly on Rottman
Going into next week's first conference games, four Northern Sun teams are undefeated in confernce games:
Bemidji State
Winona State
Northern State
UM-Crookston
Concordia of St. Paul
Southwest Minnesota
Wayne State
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NORTHERN SUN WEEKEND SCORES
Colleges remiss on vote registrationWASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2004 -- A majority of colleges are not in strict compliance with a federal law that requires them to make a "good-faith effort" to provide students with voter-registration materials, according to a survey by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Of the 249 colleges that responded to the survey, only 48 percent had procedures for requesting voter-registration forms from election officials. About colleges that are not in compliance, David King, director of research at the Harvard institute, said: "They're clearly failing their students, the communities in which they live, and failing the next generation of political voters." A lot is at stake. A 1998 amendment to the Higher Education Act requires colleges to obtain voter-registration forms 120 days before the local registration deadline and distribute them to students or jeopardize their federal student-aid funds.
Background: WSU voter law compliance in doubt
Scores from the weekend:
Bemidji State 47, Concordia of St. Paul 27
Northern State 37, MSU-Moorhead 10
UM-Crookston 24, Wayne State 0
Winona State 24, Southwest Minnesota State 17
QUICK
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GOLF (MEN'S): Carleton Fall Invitational (second day): , Gustavus Adolphus Black 621 (1st), St. John's Blue 624 (2nd), SMU and Concordia of Moorhead 636 (3rd) (tie).
GOLF (WOMEN'S): Whitewater Invitational (second day): UW-Eau Claire 645 (1st), Illinois Wesleyan 657 (2nd), SMU 726 (6th). Mustang Invitational (second day): North Dakota 645 (1st), Southwest Minnesota State 653 (2nd), WSU 683 (5th).
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R.I.P.: Lucille Ida BurkeST. CHARLES, Minn., Sept. 27, 2004 --A Winona State College grad, with both bachelor's and a master's degrees in education, Lucille Burke, 92, died in a hospital after a brief illness. Earlier she had earned a certificate from Winona Normal School. Until retiring she taught high school in Elgin, Minn., and before that at the East Burns Valley and other rurqal schools in Houston County, Minn.
COMMENT: ATHLETICS
THE SHAME
OF THE NORTHERN SUN
The presidents of Northern Sun colleges, including Darrell Krueger at Winona State, have shielded themselves from public accountability by participating in secret votes. This must end.
By anonymous vote, the presidents blackballed Upper Iowa University from the conference. The presidents may have hd good reasons. We can't know. In a throwback to medieval and Star Chamber times, there was not even a public announcement that there had been a decision.
The presidents of public schools in the Northern Sun have a moral responsibility to be fully accountable not only to fans but to the taxpayers. It's also in the confernce's interest to conduct its business openly. People can have no confidence in an organization that hides behind closed doors to do its business. |
Background: Northern Sun mum on Upper Iowa
Background: Northern Sun: No to Upper Iowa
Bush a unifier? Prof: He liedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2004 -- A Winona State University prof, Cindy Killion, said George Bush misrepresented himself when he said he would end the mean divisiveness in Washington that dated to the Newt Gingrich period. In a letter to the Daily News opinion page, Killion listed behavior that contradicts Bush's claim to be "a unifier, not a divider." She cited Bush's with-us or against-us ultimatum to other nations on Iraq and dismissing U.S. citizen dissenters as providing "comfort to the enemy." Killion's message: You can't trust Bush rhetoric. Look to his record.
Cops: Weekend quiet for a homecomingWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2004 -- Police responded to seven complaints of noisy parties on Winona State University's homecoming weekend, fewer than expected, said Police Sgt. Glen Erdman. A year ago there were 14 calls. At the parties, eight tickets were issued. Charges included noise violations, underage drinking, resisting officers, and a Keg Law violation. Police used homecoming weekend to beef up their numbers with nine sheriff's deputies, two state troopers and a Goodview and Lewiston officer in the annual Operation Nightcap crackdown. There were 47 citations including 24 for underage drinking at a keg party in the woods west of Dresbach, Minn.
WSU sports auction raises $40,000WINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2004 -- The Warrior Club, which raises scholarship money for Winona State University athletics, outdid itself with its annual homecoming auction. The auction raised an estimated $40,000, compared to $32,000 last year, said chair Greg Evans. The highest bid was for $2,500 on a dinner prepared by football coach Tom Sawyer and basketball coach Mike Leaf at the bidder's home. The bid was almost $2,000 for university publicist Tom Grier to cut off his lengthy ponytail. On the block were 325 items, all donated.
Reporter: Heather Lindner
QUICK
SPORTS
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CROSS COUNTRY (MEN'S): St. Mary's Invitational: UW-Superior 22 (1st), WSU 109 (4th), SMU 118 (6th).
CROSS COUNTRY (WOMEN'S): St. Mary's Invitational: UW-Eau Claire 39 (1st), SMU 72 (3rd), WSU 94 (4th).
GOLF (MEN'S): Carleton Fall Invitational (first day): Concordia 313 (1st), Gustavus Adolphus Black 318 (2nd), SMU and St. John's Blue 321 (3rd) (tie).
GOLF (WOMEN'S): Whitewater Invitational (first day): SMU 361 (6th). Mustang Invitational (first day): North Dakota 315 (1st), Southwest Minnesota State326 (2nd), WSU 339 (6th).
FOOTBALL (MEN'S): WSU 24, Southwest MinnesotaS tate 17 (homecoming).
SOCCER (MEN'S): Marian 2, SMU 3.
SOCCER (WOMEN'S): WSU 2, Missouri-Rolla 1.
VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S): Southwest Minnesota State 3, WSU 1. Concordia 3, SMU 0.
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ROCHESTER'S 150TH. Winona State University celebrated RochesterŐs 150th birthday by participating in the Streets and Stories Expo. Among more than 100 historical displays was information about Winona State in Rochester for display at the Mayo Civic Center. The display included historical news stories. |
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WINONA MEDIA WATCH |
THE STEINBACH DIFFERENCE
In four years as editor of the Daily News, Chris Steinbach did what so seldom occurs with the transient management of chain-owned newspapers. He made community connections that moved the Daily News in a personality-driven vein that resonated with the community.
Now he's been named managing editor of Lee Enterprises' Twin Falls, Idaho, Times-News to work his magic there.
How's the Daily News changed under Steinbach? He was no anonymous, green eye-shade type who locked himself in the newsroom. He was everywhere about town, giving Daily News management a face in the community. A glad-hander? Kinda, but more important he was a journalist first. Reporters looked to Steinbach for tips to stories, even on their own beats. He worked at being in tune and also at picking up vibes and tips to make good stories.
Even readers who donŐt get out much came to feel they knew Steinbach. A bulky man, one of his first series of columns was on the ordeal of a diet. He lost dozens of pounds, readers following his progress on the scale. It was not pancakes he ordered at his morning stops at Shorty's, the workingman's bar and grill near Winona State University, where he listened to the town gossip with the odd but rich mix of regulars that included Mayor Jerry Miller and former City Council member Dieter Mielimonka.
Under Steinbach's direction, a bevy of rotating columnists was added to the opinion page. He recognized the importance of Jerome Christenson's columns and encouraged reporter Kari Knutson to develop as a columnist. Then came the Nosy Neighbor, instantly a must-read column to which Steinbach himself was the major contributor with juicy tidbits that wouldn't fit a standard news format but that illustrated slices of Winona Life worth reporting. He also was always scouting for talent, bringing dozens of Winona State j-students into the newsroom in internships and part-time jobs.
There has been solid reporting too. The series on the impact that could be expected from the new Wal-Mart, for which Steinbach fielded multiple reporters far and wide, was the definitive journalistic work on the subject.
Steinbach's agenda for Winona journalism is, alas, cut short by his departure. Unfinished is improving the the paper's business and labor coverage, which he acknowledged was weak. There are those who would argue, correctly, that he pushed too hard on softish stories at the expense of hard news. This is not to say hard news was ignored, but it took a back seat some days. Police news, for example, almost always ran several days late.
The bottom line, though, is that Chris Steinbach has been good for Winona journalism, which means he was good for the community. His are big shoes of as big guy to fill.
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WSU student elections fizzle in turnoutWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2004 -- High expectations for Winona State University student elections, with 17 candidates for nine seats, vaporized in a disappointing turnout. Despite spirited campaigning, only 3.5 percent of the students cast ballots -- and two seats for graduate students, for which there were no candidates, remain vacant. The results:
FRESHMAN SENATORS
Nychole Stawinoga
Nate Glynn
Lindsay Stelpflug
AT-LARGE SENATORSHester Chen
Matthew Swanson
Ryan Predmore
Erin Feger
GRADUATE SENATORS
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105
105
95
95 |
Reporter: Heather Howard
WSU SECURITY
REPORT
SEPT.25, 2004 | INCIDENT NO. 1: Guards assisted a student who was stung by a bee near Maxwell.at 1:45 p.m.
INCIDENT NO. 2: At 2:30 p.m. a portable radio was reported taken from a maintenance vehicles near the football field.
INCIDENT NO. 3: A student reported at 2:30 p.m. that his vehicle was damaged by another vehicle in the Sheehan south parking lot. Police were notified
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Small businesses to Kierlin: ThanksST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 25, 2004 -- The Minnesota chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business gave Sen. Bob Kierlin, R-Winona, its Guardian of Small Business Award for supporting legislation favoable to its interests.
UNDER-AGE
BOOZERS
WHO GOT
CAUGHT
BEING
STUPID
DON'T
TELL
THEIR
MOTHERS
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CAMPUS
SALARIES
Darrell
Krueger
WSU president
2003: $211,836
Louis
DeThomasis
SMU president
2001: $155,245
Jim Johnson
Tech president
2001:
$125,000
OTHER
SALARIES
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