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Kouba alone favoring smoking banWINONA, Minn., Oct. 31, 2004 -- Smokers, beware. City council candidates on the Nov. 2 ballot are likely to be voting on a smoking ban for bars and eateries sometime after the election. Only one City Council candidate has given clear support to a ban -- at-large candidate Dave Kouba. Kouba, a non-smoker, said he would support a smoking ban but wants it countywide so in-city taverns and restaurants arenŐt disadvantaged. "I know a lot of people say that they have a right to smoke wherever they want to, but so do those who don't smoke that are concerned about their health." Kouba, who has 14 grandchildren, said he is especially concerned about the health of children exposed to cigarette smoke. "When we take the grandchildren out, we try to stay out of places that allow smoking.
Mayor Jerry Miller, who is up against Paul Double for re-election, said the issue hasn't been put out on the table yet, but he knows that the Council have to deal with it soon. "The question is, is it up to the government or up to the individual?" Miller said. Miller said the city should work with the county on the issue, because if the city bans smoking on it own, the businesses -- especially bars -- will lose business to neighboring areas. Double said he does not support a smoking ban: "People have the right to be stupid." As he sees it: "People have the right to smoke just like they have the right to over eat and drive automobiles. I don't think a ban is a solution."
"Education about the effects of smoking is the best thing we can do," Double said: "Most people don't want the government telling them that their dumb and that we need to be protected from ourselves." Double recommends that restraints and bars put signs at the front door to tell customers if they are a smoking or non-smoking establishment. "The greatest power of all is the dollar," Double said. "We'll find out if smoking is really that popular."
At-large candidate Debbie White sees both the pros and cons: "A ban is good for those that don't smoke and are bothered by it when they go to area bars and restaurants. But a smoking ban could take away business from Winona's bars." White called for discourse between the city and the bars: This is their livelihood and we don't want them to be surprised." White said she has "a good feeling" that a ban will happen and bar owners need to be prepared.
Third Ward candidate Deb Salyards, noting that she is not already on the Council, said she does not have the data to know whether she would support a ban. "Personally, I will not go to a business that is smoke-filled," Salyards said. "Every county is going with a smoking ban," Salyards said. "If we have one, it should be countywide." Third Ward incumbent Chris Arnold said there haven't been any formal proposals yet: "I'd reserve my commitment on a vote until then." Arnold said, however, he would prefer the discussion at the county level: "If the whole county adopted the ban, it would be fair and equal across the board." The Third Ward includes the Winona State University main campus and Winona's downtown bar district.
County commissioners could well have their hands in the ban. Incumbent commissioner, Dave Stoltman, who is seeking re-election, said he is against a countywide ban. His opponent, Steve Delano, however, favors a ban. Said Delano: "A ban would be more of a health issue than a freedom of choice issue. Bartenders and wait staff shouldn't have to deal with smoke is their work environment." Said Stoltman: "It's your choice to work in a bar. People don't need a big brother looking over their shoulders, telling them whether they can smoke or not."
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Background: Races campus people are tracking
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WSU profs take to road campaigningWINONA, Minn., Oct. 31, 2004 -- Many Winona State University profs will be voting Tuesday, taking with suggestions from their union into their polling places. The government relations committee for the union, the Inter-Faculty Organization, has worked for weeks to inform faculty statewide on legislative issues. According to Russ Stanton, the union's director of government relations, important issues to faculty include votes in the Legislature on the public employee labor contacts, a proposed wage freeze on public employees, and a bonding bill for state building projects.
Stanton noted that the union is bipartisan and does not support one party or the other but does favor candidates who support higher-ed funding. Although the union does not endorse candidates, it has positions, Stanton said: "We are a union. Our goal is to further the economic welfare of the faculty," said Stanton. The IFO has listed candidate voting records on its website, matching each candidate with union posirtions.
Incumbent State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, has the union's support. Pelowski voted for the ratification of labor contracts, for the bonding bill, and against the state worker wage freeze. Winona State faculty has also been proclaiming their support for candidates. The self-titled Winona Road Warriors, a small group of faculty, many of them faculty senators, have been traveling the state to hand out campaign literature and show their general support for candidates. Darrell Downs, Faculty Senate Governmental Relations Committee chairman and a Road Warrior, said Winona State faculty are the most active in the state college system. "We have gone as far as Bemidji but we do a lot of our work in Rochester," said Downs. Among candidates that the union supports:
Tina Leibling, in House District 30A.Gene Pelowski, in House District 31A.Peggy Hanson, in House District 31B.Lyndon Carlson, in House District 45B.
Downs said faculty interest in politics is not limited to the political science and history departments. Faculty from the library and psychology departments do a lot of work, he said. Downs also said that chemistry and biology profs have recently become active: "They learned a lot about the legislature after having to lobby pretty hard to get the new science building. Some of them caught the bug after that."
Downs and Stanton agree that the last thing faculty can do before this election is to encourage students to vote. "A lot of the issues that concern us will indirectly affect them," said Stanton. Downs said the students are likely to focus on the presidential contest but they should remember that they can make a big difference in local elections. "Regardless of who students vote for, we encourage them to get out to vote," said Stanton.
Reporter: Brianna Gallett
Background: Profs give Pelowski three stars
Background: Races campus people are tracking
WSU prof shares "just war" thoughtsWINONA, Minn., Oct. 31, 2004 -- A Winona State University philosophy prof, Don Scheid, presented comments on a paper on nonviolence and just-war theory at a meeting of the Minnesota Philosophical Society at Minnesota State University-Mankato.
WSU SECURITY
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INCIDENT NO. 2: Guards assisted the Winona Police with an accident on Seventh th Street by the Lourdes dorm at 12:30 a.m.
INCIDENT NO. 3: Several students were cited for having alcohol in the Lourdes dorm parking lot at 9:30 p.m.
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Daily News endorses school levyWINONA, Minn., Oct. 31, 2004 -- The Daily News endorsed increasing the levy for schools, an issue on the Nov. 2 ballot. Local schools are at a crossroad, the paper said in an editorial. Either get on top of providing the resources needed for the schools or wait, probably in vain, for a restoration of state funding. Don't hold your breath under Gov. Tim Pawlenty for help from the state, the Daily news said, noting that the governor and the Republican majority in the House are under the influence of the Minnesota Taxpayers Association, which has opposed channeling more state revenue to schools. Said the editorial: "With no help from St. Paul we have to help ourselves." The levy, $4.1 million a year, would cost the owner of a typical $150,000 house an additional $134 a year in property taxes for six years beginning in 2006. The News called it an "investment."
Background: CyberIndee endorses levy
Background: Post's Edstrom mellows on schools
COMMENT:
POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT
POMEROY FOR CONGRESS
Intelligence and good humor, sadly in short supply in Washington, set Leigh Pomeroy apart as a candidate for Congress. When nominated, Pomeroy realized he was the underdog against incumbent Gil Gutknecht, whose campaign warchest was bursting with $800,000 from mega corporations and special interests, Pomeroy, who had nothing, said: "Gil, let's make this a fair race. Give me half." Gutknecht, not amused, shared nothing.
Pomeroy, a faculty member at the Mankato state university, is right on the issues where Gutknecht is not. On higher-ed, Pomeroy endorses tuition relief and creating tuition money for students through Americorps. On the Iraq war, which threatens to force a return to conscription, Pomeroy says that Bush has done it wrong. He promises to be in touch with the First Congressional District in ways that Gutknecht, who suffers severe Potomoc Fever, has not.
Our disappointment in Gutknecht cannot be overstated. After five terms, his colleagues have trusted him with nothing more than an agriculture subcommittee chairmanship. He's had 10 years to make himself a leader on cutting-edge issues, but when's the last time you heard anything about Gil Gutknecht in the national news. He's valued by the Bush Administration only as obedient follower whose vote can be counted on. He's a foot-soldier, not a leader.
Addicted to Washington life, Gutknecht doesn't spend much time in the First District -- not even in the campaign season. He skipped a KSTP-sponsored candidate debate because his daughter was getting married that weekend. Nobody can fault Gutknecht for family values, but how could the daughter of a member of Congress be so mindless about her father's obligations as to schedule a wedding for the re-election season?
Something's wrong with this picture. Southern Minnesota needs an independent-thinking and committed representative in Congress. Pomeroy is the clear choice.
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| WINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- Winona State football won the Northern Sun conference football championship Saturday with a 27-14 win over Wayne State. Senior wide receiver Chris Samp led the way with 155 yards and three touchdowns on 10 catches. The victory gave Winona State football its second conference championship in three years. The victory also extended Winona State's home winning streak to 25 games. Senior back-up quarterback Ryan Eversman of Winona State went 16-36 with 293 yards, four touchdowns and one interception. "Ryan did a great job for us today," said Winona State head football coach Tom Sawyer. Winona State starting quarterback Brian Worbel is expected to miss at least two more games with a leg injury, Sawyer said.
Winona State opened up scoring with 4:15 left on the clock in the first quarter with a touchdown pass from Eversman to Samp. The Warriors scored all of their 27 points in the first half while holding Wayne State to 7 points. The only opposition score came in the third quarter when Wayne State defensive end Jeff Rathman intercepted Eversman's pass and returned it to Winona's 14-yard line. Rathman's interception set up a touchdown pass from Wayne State quarterback Brent Edwards to wide receiver Josh Peterson.
Winona State's offense gained 456 yards. The defense held Wayne State to 273 yards.
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Study: WSU students feel safeWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- Students feel safe at Winona State, according to data generated in the annual university Assessment Day project, said director Susan Hatfield. The number of students responding that they feel safe on campus has been in a 94 to 98 percent range every year since 2002, Hatfield said. Men have reported feeling safe at the high end of the range, 97 to 98 percent, according to the study, conducted annually in February. Women have ranged from 94 to 95 percent.
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| WINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- The key to an automatic playoff berth for Winona State University football players is the game against Concordia of St. Paul this coming Saturday in the Metrodome Classic. A victory would put the Warriors in the playoffs, perhaps with the first round at the Midwest Wireless Stadium in Winona. The Warriors will carry a 6-0 conference record to the Metrodome. Concordia is 4-2.
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COMMENT:
POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT
MILLER FOR MAYOR
Any place Winonans congregate, Jerry Miller is there. He listens. He's in tune. For eight years Miller has been a good mayor. He's not just at ribbon-cuttings but at university panels on knotty issues, like the porn shop; at arts events, like the Shakespeare fest; at the Winona State University Student Senate, giving updates on city policy. Night and day he takes calls. Never have we heard a college student complain at being ignored, cut short or treated dismissively.
Miller can be decisive. When questions arose over the suitability of John Edstrom as a member of a city personnel board because of a column in the Post that at best can be described as racially insensitive, the mayor removed him. It was at high cost. At every opportunity since then, the Post has sniped at Miller. But the mayor did the right thing -- promptly, unambiguously.
Miller's challenger, Paul Double has good ideas for building Winona's industrial base. We're confident that Miller, ever the good listener, is incorporating those ideas into the agenda for Winona's future. Double, however, has been amiss in faulting Miller for the arrival of Big Box retailers like Wal-Mart and Menards. Double wants to lure new companies with high-paying jobs, which is fine, but no company will relocate to a place so quaint that it lacks the standard Big Box infrastructure of every 21st century community. As mayor, Miller has participated in building the blocks that are the foundation for where Double proposes going. We are confident that Miller is ready to see the city to the next phase of its future.
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Cops bust party, cite housematesWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- Two Winona State University students were busted at 2:26 a.m. for a party that got out control at 156 E. Fourth St. Both men were cited for the loud party, and one, age 20, was cited for underage consumption.
Dorm thefts in steady state at WSUWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- The security director at Winona State University, Don Walski, says thievery reports on campus are fairly consistent with past years, in contrast to reports nationally of a growing problem. In the past nine months, Winona Sate has had approximately 10 cases of theft, Walksi said. Statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Education show 29,256 on-campus burglaries in 2002, with the value of the loot growing rapidly, according to a USA Today analysis that noted that students can have as much as $3,000 worth of expensive items in their dorm rooms with laptops, digital cameras, DVDs, MP3 players and more.
That students are loaded up with expensive electronic gadgetry is true too at Winona State, Walski said. None of this equipment is necessary, he added. About thefts, he said 90 percent could be eliminated if students would just lock their doors at all times, even if they are leaving for just a few minutes. While laptops are the most common items stolen on many campuses, Walski said that DVDs and game systems, like Playstation and Game Cube, are the most common items stolen at Winona State. "Things like DVDs are easy to steal, easy to sell and almost impossible to track down," said Walski. There were six recorded burglaries of DVDs and game systems from Winona State dorm rooms last spring.
Walski suggested that students write their names on their DVDs and game systems so that "if these things are stolen, students can prove that the items are theirs." Some colleges have resorted to purchasing safes, laptop locks, and even steel footlockers.
Reporter: Danielle Sotir
Going into next week's Metrodome Classic, only one Northern Sun team, Winona State, is undefeated in conference games:
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Judge puts roadblock to piracy queriesPHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 30, 2004 -- In a setback for the recording industry, a federal judge ruled that Internet service providers and colleges must inform clients, including students, of their legal rights before turning their names over to record companies accusing them of illegal song swapping. The decision is expected to slow the growing number of "John Doe" suits against being filed in the record industry frenzy to curtail online music piracy. Under Judge Cynthia Rufe's ruling, the John Doe targets must be provided with details of the charges against them before an ISP or college provides recording industry attorneys with their names. The John Does also must be told how to challenge subpoenas for their names.
Panelists at WSU wary of Iraq warWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- The key global issue facing the United States in the upcoming election is the war in Iraq, said former Rep. Arlen Erdahl, R-Minnesota, at a Winona State University forum last week. Erdahl cited a Gallup Poll conducted Oct. 22 that found about 47 percent of the people believed sending troops to Iraq was a mistake. Another panelist, global studies prof Michael Bowler, said that campaigning this year has had a global focus, which is unusual in U.S. politics. said. "This election is described by many as the most important election in our lives," Bowler said.
A former Minneapolis Star Tribune Washington bureau chief, Frank Wright, said a major issue is whether the United States has correctly used or misused its military and economic power abroad. Voters must make a choice to go along with Bush's mostly unilateral plan to stay in Iraq or take a more international approach to attack only those who pose as a clear and present danger, Wright said. He said the issue is being defined in terms of the Bush decision to divert at least $700 million from Afghanistan, a hotbed for terrorist planning and training, to the invasion of Iraq, where the terrorist issue was more abstract. Because the original issue in Iraq was not so much terrorism, those who support the Iraq must acknowledge that they favor U.S. armed forces for disposing of dangerous regimes everywhere, Wright said.
A former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Arvonne Fraser, cautioned that wielding military might can never be seen as more than a step toward a goal. The United States needed to have a plan after the use of force was successful, Fraser said. Erdahl described the war as one "not of necessity but of choice." Erdahl was clear in his position: "We are involved in the wrong war at the wrong place for the wrong reasons." Fraser said the current situation will affect students for a long time. That, she said, is why being informed and voting is crucial.
Reporter: Patricia Salisbury
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Cops send drunk to hospital, write ticketWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- Police found a 20-year-old man passed out at Fourth and Walnut at 5:30 a.m. He was sent by for underage drinking and loitering.
Scores from the weekend:
Bemidji State 42, MSU-Moorhead 0
Northern State 22, UM-Crookston 12
Concordia of St. Paul 63, Southwest Minnesota 21
Winona State 27, Wayne State 14
Speaker: Why Jews back to GermanyWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- The Jewish people are returning to Germany despite the Holocaust suffering, a British journalist told a Winona State University audience last week. "Many Jews have tried to come to terms with their past," said John Francis Docherty, from Wincester, England. "These people are overcoming the hard times and are proud of the fact that they are German." Docherty found that many Jews returned to Germany for love, education, or because they were born there and wanted to be with their families.
Docherty's interest in the immigration back began during a 1987 trip to Berlin, when he learned that 300,000 Jews were living in West Germany. By talking with his Jewish friends, Docherty was able to find some reasons as to why Jews returned to Germany after the Holocaust, in which nearly 6 million people were exterminated in Nazi concentration camps. He has traveled to Germany to speak with Jews for more than 14 years.
Docherty told the stories of three Jewish men whom he interviewed. Gad Beck, who survived the Holocaust, told Docherty that he felt it was his mission to save as many people as he could. By finding homes for many young Jews during the Holocaust, Beck saved more than 300 lives. Jacob Altras, who returned after the Holocaust, built a synagogue in Giesen, Germany, where he had lived. "He who builds intends to stay. [The Jewish people] are staying," Altras told Docherty. Abraham Meneham was unable to practice law during the Holocaust because of his religion and culture, said Docherty. Meneham returned in 1960 to honor two of his law professors by creating a scholarship in their names. Docherty said. Through Meneham's experiences and speeches, he wants to teach people that "this feeling of anti-Semitism has to be fought."
Reporter: Danielle Sotir
Background: Prof: How fascism changed Spain
Background: WSU lectures explore fascism
Probation for Mississippi State footballINDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct, 30, 2004 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association found Mississippi State University guilty of football recruiting violations and ordered probation for four years. The NCAA infractions committee found violations from 1998 to 2002 that included giving cash and other gifts to recruits. The committee said there had been an active program to impede its investigation with "rumors and innuendo fueled by media reports and Internet chat boards." The committee commended Mississippi State or recent personnel changes and said "a new atmosphere" at Mississippi State meant the penalties are less severe than they would have been otherwise.
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EDSTROM MELLOWS, SLIGHTLY
The Winona Post, which doesn't run editorials, only opinion columns by its co-owners, John and Frances Edstrom, has softened its long-standing opposition to tax levies to support the public schools. John Edstrom's latest column falls short of endorsing the current levy proposal, but he doesn't oppose it either. This is progress. Edstrom seems to suggest, without quite saying it, that new Superintendent Paul Durand deserves some fiscal "breathing room" to overcome what Edstrom calls community distrust of school management.
Although parents with kids in school and everyone committed to the public good may value Edstrom's shift of view, it's hard to appreciate where he's coming from. Edstrom's thinking comes through as disjointed in the latest column, which he uses mostly as a podium to deride public education. Edstrom called the schools "a government monopoly run by a union." He said that past levies were promoted as needed for smaller classes and "other nebulous improvements," but the money then was diverted to teacher salaries. About school facilities, he said they've been neglected, also to pump up salaries demanded by the teacher union.
Anti-unionism is part of Edstrom's worldview. So is a distrust of government that goes beyond healthy skepticism to knee-jerk cynicism. Then there's his implicit preference for parochial schools, which he sees as non-government and therefore pristine or close to it. Edstrom likes too that parochial school teachers aren't unionized.
Maybe he'll also soften on his worldview eventually. If not, we'll keep hearing him argue that teachers are a subspecies best kept hungry.
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Expert: Think AIDS, think safe sexWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- Too many Winona State University students believe AIDS doesn't concern them, a speaker from the Minnesota Department of Health said. They're wrong, Jim Rothenberger was quick to add in a campus speech last week. Of 800 Winona State students surveyed on sexual health, 88 percent think that HIV/AIDS is a small problem or not a problem at all at the university, Rothenberger said. He was shocked: "How can nearly 700 students not realize that AIDS is a problem everywhere?"
In 2002, Minnesota had 4,076 cumulative cases of HIV and AIDS, which Rothenberger blamed mostly on unsafe sex. "AIDS can be prevented by simply using a condom," said Rothenberger. According to the survey done at Winona State, 48 percent of students, about 384 of 800 students, didn't use a condom the last time they had sex. The university sells condoms, $1 a dozen. "If that isn't a reason to buy them, I don't know what is," said Rothenberger.
Rothenberger said that AIDS and HIV infections are increasing in the United States even as public fear is diminishing. "Nearly one-third of the people who are HIV positive don't even know they are infected," said Rothenberger. No one actually believes that AIDS or HIV could ever happen to them, so they don't worry about it, said Rothenberger. At Winona State , only 21 percent of the 800 students surveyed, 168 students, said that they had ever been tested for HIV and AIDS "Young people feel invincible, like nothing could ever get them," said Rothenberger. He urged students to practice safe sex and think before they act.
Reporter: Danielle Sotir
COMMENT:
POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT
ARNOLD FOR THIRD WARD
Campaigning for a second term on the City Council from the Third Ward, Chris Arnold has promised to take university and student issues more seriously. We hope, if re-elected, that Arnold will be true to his word. His record is uneven, and he has cast some votes in appalling ignorance of whatŐs going on at Winona State University, the largest institution in the ward. But he promises to do better.
As a campus person, itŐs hard to be enthusiastic about Arnold. ItŐs even harder to be enthusiastic about Deb Salyards, his opponent. On key issues, Salyards recognizes they exist but offers few solutions. On parking, for example, she wrings her hands and says the university should have been built on he outskirts of town. The problem is that this is 2004, not 1854. We need a Third Ward representative with 21st century ideas to solve problems.
Will Arnold provide leadership on key issues? At least he has a record over the past four years, albeit it flawed from a campus perspective. At least he's promised to be more sensitive on campus issues. We haven't heard that kind of commitment from Salyards.
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WSU's University Studies not at riskWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- Rumors that the University Studies program at Winona State will be abolished are untrue, said program director J. Paul Johnson. The program, required of all undergrads to expose them to the whole range of human knowledge, is safe until at least 2011, Johnson said. The North Central Association of the Higher Learning Commission, which accredits Winona State, gave its last endorsement after a 2001 review in which Winona State showed the centrality of University Studies to its degree programs, said Johnson. Accreditation visits come only every 10 years.
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Even if some students donŐt see the purpose of every gen-ed course, as they're sometiems called, the program has benefits, Johnson said. "Courses are designed to provide students with multiple skills and expose them to various career options," said Johnson, noting that many students need introductions to a variety of disciplines to find a focus for their college work. Even students who come start college with a declared major, University Studies courses help create well-rounded individuals: "We don't want to create a language arts teacher that can't do math or graduate an engineer that can't write a literature paper."
Another advantage University Studies, said Johnson, is that the sometimes-dreaded courses take students out of their comfort zones and challenge them. Winona State requires students to have taken at least 46 credits University Studies courses in a wide range of programs.
Rumors about the University Studies program's demise may have begun with the Academic Experiences Work Group, part of New University project discussions to start an alternative approach. The Academic Experiences proposal, if approved, would allow students simultabeously to take two, three or four University Studies courses under a common theme, like gender and culture. The thematically connected courses would share common professors. This packaged theme idea, said Johnson, is already underway in the Residential College, with several students sharing common classes. "This new idea creates a learning community of like-minded students and teachers, which creates better learning environments,"
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Reporter: Danielle Sotir
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Lots of waffling about Keg LawWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- Whether to tighten the city Keg Law, which has severe penalties for parties with more than one keg, is something that City Council candidates are hesitant to address during the election season. Incumbent Chris Arnold of the Third Ward, which includes Winona State University, a locus of collegiate partying, sees a kind of hopelessness in legislating against parties. "Students are creative," he said. "When I was a student there were regulations too, but we managed to get past them." Arnold, who owns rental property, ducked the question in a candidate forum on whether he would vote to beef up the Keg Law.
In 2000, the City Council passed an ordinance that required people purchasing a keg to provide their local address and the address of their party. The idea was to make it easier for police to bust house parties that attract hundreds of roving collegians and to keep student rowdyism at bay. Soon liquor storeowners and students found a way around the ordinance -- the party ball, an easily portable, plastic personal mini-keg that boozers could buy without registration and carry from party to party. Now the police want the Council to modify the Keg Law to include the 2-1/2-gallon party balls.
Like Arnold, his challenger for the Third Ward Council seat, Deb Salyards, hasn't taken a position on party balls. In fact, she admitted in an interview that she had only recently learned about party balls -- when she found a ball after one of her tenants was busted for a loud party. Salyards sees student drunkenness as a problem: "Perfectly good kids can get ugly when drinking." Salyards said she has had to deal with intoxicated students in her own backyard: "One young man got right up in my face when I came out and told him he needed to go home. I'm sure if I had met him on the street any other time he would have been a pleasant person." Her general approach about partying is that it's a landlord-tenant issue: Salyards, "It's up to landlord to ride their kids about partying."
At-large candidate Debbie White acknowledges pressure from long-term residents in student rental areas to beef up the Keg Law, but she defers on discussing specifics to cast the issue in larger terms. White said the problem is that people are not being respectful of each other: "We need to be more neighborhood friendly. Students need to get out and meet their neighbors." She said students are likely to be less disrespectful if they've actually gotten to know the families who live around them.
The second at-large candidate, Dave Kouba, has a different take on the keg ordinance. "I'm not sure if the Keg Law is even needed," Kouba said. Students can go and buy cases of beer for a cheaper price anyway, he said. On the issue of underage boozing, Kouba said he favors dropping the state drinking age to 18: "You can vote when you're 18, you can go to college when you're 18 and you can get married when you are 18."
Reporters: Laura Gossman
Background: Races campus people are tracking
WSU prof cited for short storyWINONA, Minn., Oct. 30, 2004 -- A Winona State University English prof, Michael Fahy, received honorable mention for his short story, "Three Hots and a Cot," in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. There were 847 entries.
Voters face contests on campus issuesWINONA, Minn., Oct. 25, 2004 -- These are the candidates in races that Winona campus people are watching:
Expert: Shot wouldn't stop tummy fluWINONA, Oct. 30, 2004 -- Contrary to what many people think, the flu shot does not prevent the stomach flu, said Winona State University health educator Ruth Schroeder. Upper respiratory flu, which is targeted by vaccine, is longer lasting and can have severe symptoms, said Schroeder. Concern about the current vaccine shortage in the United States should be directed at upper respiratory flu, whose symptoms include fever, body aches, chills, severe headaches and can keep people in bed for three to five days, she said. Stomach flu, on the other hand, lasts only 24 to 48 hours and is less severe, she said.
Schroeder cautioned students against panicking at the vaccine shortage: "Healthy young adults typically can fight off the flu." College students who live in dorms can have a higher risk of getting the flu because of the close contact, Schroeder said. Most students have not built up immunity to the type of viruses and bacteria that they can be exposed to living in a dorm, she said. Winona State has cancelled its flu shot clinic this year due to vaccine shortage. However, health services director Diane Palm is working with students in high-risk categories to be sure they get a shot.
Reporter: Sarah Hovey
Background: Winona has emergency vaccine supply
Background: Single-supplier system set up flu crisis
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SPORTS
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CROSS COUNTRY (MEN'S): St.Olaf 43 (1st), Carleton 56 (2nd), St. Thomas 115 (3rd), Macalester 118 (4th), Maline 121 (5th), St. John's 155 (6th), Gustavus Adolphus 183 (7th), Augsburg 206 (8th), Concordia 218 (9th), Bethel 233 (10th), SMU 341 (11th).
CROSS COUNTRY (WOMEN'S): Carleton 71 (1st), Gustavus Adolphus 100 (2nd), St. Thomas 104 (3rd), St. Olaf 123 (4th), Macalester 132 (5th), Augsburg 175 (6th), St. Benedict 183 (7th), Concordia 197 (8th), Hamline 204 (9th), Bethel 212 (10th), St. Catherine 267 (11th), SMU 297(12th).
FOOTBALL (MEN'S): WSU 27, Wayne State 14.
SOCCER (MEN'S): SMU 3, Hamline 1.
SOCCER (WOMEN'S): SMU 2, Concordia of St. Paul 2 (tie) (two overtimes). SMU 2, Hamline 1.
VOLLEYBALL (MEN'S): Wayne State 3, WSU 1.
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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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