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WSU grads foresee downtown restaurantWINONA, Minn., Nov. 26, 2004 -- Two recent Winona State University grads, Nicholas Hefko and William Prate, have prepared a $855,000 bid for the downtown Plaza Square, a mostly abandoned retail center, to create a restaurant. Hefko and Prate are offering no upfront money and ask the county, which owns the building, a propose paying off the acquisition contract with a balloon payment in seven years. Meanwhile, another bidder, Twin Cities developer Stuart Morgan, has withdrawn his $327,000 bid to raze the building and put up retail storefronts with upstairs apartments.
Open house at WSU's Minne HallWINONA, Minn., Nov. 26, 2004 -- The English and philosophy departments at Winona State University plan an open house to show off the renovations in the third floor of the Minne classroom building, including new artwork and the relocated Writing Center.
Date: Thursday, Dec. 2
Time: 2 to 4 p.m.
Place: Minne Hall
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WSU ready to graduate 500WINONA, Minn., Nov. 26, 2004 -- Almost 500 Winona State students will cross the stage, to be greeted by university President Darrell Krueger and to accept their degrees at mid-year commencement. The ceremony will be broadcast live over Hiawatha cable channel 20 Charter channel 20 in Rochester. Hiawatha channel 25 will repeat the ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 18, and Sunday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m. Videotape copies will be available through HBC Productions at $20 each.
Date: Friday, Dec. 17
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: McCown Gym
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WSU theater remodeling on track WINONA, Minn., Nov. 26, 2004 -- Remodeling of Winona State University's music and theater building, due for completion for spring classes, is long overdue, said liberal arts Dean Troy Paino. For years, he said, the Performing Arts Center, has been neglected. Each building has had to wait for the right time, and with the building now host for the Great River Shakespeare Festival, there was impetus to bring it up-to-date, Paino said: "We wouldn't want to have a group of people coming to our beautiful campus for the first time, only to see the PAC looking the way it does now." The festival, designed as a tourist attraction, opens its second season in July.
The remodeling committee includes representatives of tenant departments -- Kathy Schmidt of music, Gretchen Cohenour of theater and dance, Amy Hermodson of communication studies, and Ajit Daniel of radio station KQAL. The committee was given a $300,000 budget. "This still is not enough money for the way we use the building," said Paino, adding, though, that every project has a budget cap. Already the music department office has new carpeting, paint and furniture. Over the December break, renovations will include hallways, stairs, the Magnus black-box theater, restrooms and the communication studies office. With the renovations the Performing Arts Center will "look the way it is supposed to," Paino said.
Reporter: Liz Wagner
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BEAR SIGHTING. Motorists spotted a black bear, probably a dislocated male wandering down from the North Woods, in a field near Utica in western Winona County. He rambled into the woods.
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Prof discusses Spanish musicWINONA, Minn., Nov. 26, 2004 -- A Winona State University music prof, Suzanne Draayer, presented a lecture-recital on 19th-century Spanish song for the Southern Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. The recital was attended by 150 voice teachers and 500 students.
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BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S): South Dakota 70, WSU 55. SMU 84, California Lutheran 65.
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Dietician: Reconsider your role modelsWINONA, Minn., Nov. 25, 2004 -- Eating disorders are like a fear of spiders, a clinicial dietician told a Winona State University audience. Just as some people can't grab a spider, some people can't get themselves to eat, said Christine Stoltman of the Winona hospital. Are there warning signs about eating disorders? Stoltman said that physical problems, like thinning hair, are health issues but so are cognitive issues. These include depression, social isolation, difficulty thinking and a distorted body image, she said. Eating-related behavioral issues, she said, include excessive dieting and exercising, denial, lying, irritability, and wearing many layers of clothing.
Stoltman blamed eating disorders partly on celebrity role models. The average woman in the United States is 140 pounds and 5-foot-4, but the average female celebrity in the is 100 pounds and 5-9, said Stoltman. Stoltman suggests alternative role models like Rosa Parks and Laura Bush or, for students, their parents or their boss.
Reporter: Jena Pearson
Highway 14 solution: UnderpassWINONA, Nov 24, 2004 -- A Winona man, Dick Losinski, has called for an interchange on Highway 14 at St. Mary's University to address the series of dangerous intersections. In a letter to the Post opinion page, Losinski said an underpass and service roads on both sides with exit and entrance ramps is the only answer for the "fatal area." The area, at the foot of Knopp and Gilmore valleys and entrances to Living Light Church and St. Mary's University. has long been recognized as dangerous. In June a college student, John Thrune, was killed when he pulled out of Knopp Valley into the path of a grain truck on Highway 14.
Background: SMU petitioning to lower speed limits
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| At 10:50 a.m. a student reported some inappropriate behavior in a dorm by a male student in mid October. The student chose against pursuing charges.
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BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S): MSU-Mankato 80, WSU 57.
HOCKEY (MEN'S): SMU 1, Northland 1.
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Top cop: More bar crowding raids comingWINONA, Minn., Nov. 23, 2004 -- A recent grant to beef up Winona law enforcement helped finance police overtime for the Oct. 7 raid on Schyde's for a fire code violation, said Police Chief Frank Pomeroy. More bar raids can be expected to discourage ovecrowding that violates fire marshal capacity limits, he said. A bar raid takes at least 11 officers, seven more than on a normal night, Pomeroy said. The overtime for extra officers runs up quickly, he said. Police had been unable to do as many bar capacity compliance checks as they would like because of lack of funding. However, Pomeroy said, the deparmtent has just received a large grant and will proceed to use the money for raids as he sees necessary.
In the Schyde's raid, about 90 more people were in the bar than the fire marshal's posted max of 171. Pomeroy said he understands the financial pressure on bar owners to pack in customers, but, he said, the more important issue is safety. Pomeroy said enforement of booze-related rules has been more strict after nine deaths, all involving alcohol excesses, within three years starting in 1997. Winona State University President Darrell Krueger contacted him about what he saw as a crisis -- too many bright young students dying to individuals to alcohol. Pomeroy said there has not been an alcohol-related student death since 1999. Also, he said, the crime rate has decreased 48 percent and felony rates have decreased more than 50 percent.
Reporter: Katie Carlson
Background: Bouncer: Bulls-Eye true to cap limit
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BASKETBALL (MEN'S): Named Northern Sun player of the week was WSU guard David Zellmann.
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Senator seeks textbook tax breakWASHINGTON, Nov, 23, 2004 -- A $1,000 tax deduction for college textbooks has been proposed by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "This means real dollars and real savings for middle-class families who have to beg and borrow to send their kids to college," Schumer said. The proposal is modeled on a 2003 law that allows a $3,000 federal deducation for college tuition. This tuition deduction increases to $4,000 for 2004 taxes.
Schumer, also, urged the U.S. Department of Education to work with colleges and book publishers to find incentives to lower textbook costs. Specifically, Schumer proposed that colleges put multiple copies of textbooks in libraries for free circulation. He also called for textbooks to be available as stand-alone purchases rather than in a bundle with "unneeded extras."
He also said professors should not be allowed to take advantage of students by assigning books they wrote. Schumer noted, however, that colleges boast scholars who are the experts in their fields and who have written defining works in the subjects they teach, making their books the best choices for required reading. Rather than prohibit profs from assigning works they wrote, Schumer urged the Department of Education to set up a panel to examine egregious cases in which profs appear to be exploiting students.
In announcing his proposal, Schumer released a study of more than 130 New York colleges that found freshmen and sophomores average $922 for books. The study also found that students typically pay more than $100 for biology texts, plus lab fees.Economics also require textbooks in the $100 range, he said. Humanities courses like English typically have lower costs for books, but, Schumer said, the cost is still stiff, noting that required texts for English 200 at SUNY-Cortland total $86.05.
Schumer quoted the National Association of College Stores that the wholesale price of texts has gone up 41 percent since 1998, which, he said, is more than double ordinary books. The average annual increase was 5.9 percent for college texts, compared to an average annual increase of 3.1 percent for other books, he said.
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NOV. 22,
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Dalen Andrew Johnson, 19, 1385 29th Ave., $165.
Eric Jan Lundstrom, 18, 457 Gould St., WSU, $265.
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| A student reported tat 2:15 p.m. that she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance on campus in mid-October.
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Darrell
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WSU president
2004: $214,094
Louis
DeThomasis
SMU president
2001: $155,245
Jim Johnson
Tech president
2001:
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