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Wage issue haunts Chartwells stillWINONA, Minn., Dec. 31, 2004 -- A crusader for equal wages for Winona State University kitchen workers, Sachin Padhye, said he hopes inequites will be righted next school year. Kitchen contractor Chartwells, whose contract is up for renewal, has suggested it might issues raises of 2 to 4 percent based on longevity and performance. But that, said Padhye, wouldn't be enough. Also, Chartwells hasn't guaranteed it'll follow through, which Padhye finds discouraging.
Padhye, himself a former Chartwells kitchen worker, said a staggered pay schedule wouldn't fit the McDonald's team-like work environment that Chartwells promotes. Also, he said, even a top-end 4 percent increase would not match student wages elsewhere on campus. "Even if some receive 4 percent the pay would only be $8.32, eight cents below the campus minimum wage," said Padhye. When working in a team environment everyone should receive the same pay, said Padhye.
Padhye, a student senator elected from the sciences, pressed Chartwells last fall to match the state minumum wage of $8.40 for student workers elsewhere in campus, but Chartwells said it wasn't financially possible to go beyond its existing $8 an hour. The Student Senate then called on university administrators to install language in future contracts for all university contractors to pay the state minimum wage. He said that Chartwells has until the end of the year to decide if it wants to renew its food service contract at Winona State.
Reporter:
Meghan Frain
Was Gordon a tipster in big drug bust?WINONA, Minn., Dec. 30, 2004 -- The man wanted for questioning in the double homicide at Sugar Loaf Apartments in mid-December, Paul Allen Gordon, gave police the names of Winona drug dealers in early November when he was in custody for a cocaine charge himself. Not known is whether the information figured into 15 warrants and 10 arrests Nov. 12 in the biggest drug bust in Winona history. Gordon, 21, was arrested Oct. 31, a couple weeks before the big bust. He was held until Nov. 3, when he posted $15,000 bond and was released pending another court appearance.
In the meantime, Gordon hired prominent local defense attorney Rich McCluer to represent him. At Gordon's next hearing, on Nov. 22, McCluer asked for another hearing at which he could challenge the evidence against Gordon. That hearing was set for Feb. 3. McCluer also asked on Gordon's behalf for the return of $435 cash that police had confiscated in making the Oct. 31 arrest.
Background: Gordon's hometown a mystery
Where's Paul Allen Gordon's home:
Detroit? Bentonville? Winona?
WINONA, Minn., Dec. 30, 2004 -- As more information surfaces about the man whom police want to question about the Sugar Loaf Apartments murder case, more questions arise too. Paul Allen Gordon, 21, had been in Winona only since mid-October, according to what he told police after being arrested on Halloween in a back-alley downtown drug bust. He had an Arkansas driver's license, although in related court documents he said he lived on Main Street in Winona. But in a Dec. 3 police report on a minor accident in Gordon was involved, he had a Michigan driver's license. Where Gordon considered home is uncertain, although he has a Detroit police record as a juvenile and an Arkansas record in two 2004 rape cases.
Background: Families confident in justice
175 die trapped in nightclub fireBUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. 30, 2004 -- The death toll from a fire at nightclub jammed with music fans rose to 175. Seven-hundred were injured. Police said four exits had been locked and wired shut, apparently to prevent people from slipping in without paying. The club owner was arrested. Police estimate 4,000 people weere in the club, triple the fire marshal's capacity max.
R.I.P.: Irene Genevieve BellmanWINONA, Minn., Dec. 30, 2004 -- A Winona State University master's grad in education, Irene Bellman, 75, died at a nursing home. She was retired from the Dade County, Fla., schools.
Search on for student ballot glitchesWINONA, Minn., Dec. 30, 2004 -- The Student Senate vice president at Winona State University, Tim Donahue, still is looking into why computer errors occurred during fall Senate election. Donahue and Bill Soranno, The University technician responsible for supporting the election process, have been reviewing the hypertext markup language for the online site to identify errors. Write-in candidates were not showing up for the nursing-health sciences, education and graduate positions, even though write-in for the junior class position did show. On Feb. 21, on the eve of the next election, Donahue said he and Soranno will go through the HTML again and double check to make sure that everything is correct. Other than the error, Donahue said he was pleased with the fall election. About the February election, he said: "I just hope that we have as much voter participation as the last supplemental election, with about 9.1 percent."
Reporter: Heather Howard
Background: Senate has seven ballot vacancies
QUICK
SPORTS
DEC. 30, 2004 |
BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S): WSU 66, Upper Iowa 56.
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Charges filed in Lourdes gunman scareWINONA, Minn., Dec. 29, 2004 -- A false scare about a gunman in the St. Teresa neighborhood resulted in charges against Joshua Gorman, 20, of falsely reporting a crime and of obstructing the legal process. Gorman called police at 9:47 p.m. that a gunman had been pounding at his door at 550 W. King St. and then ran to Winona State University's Lourdes dorm. Police, on high alert after the yet-unsolved murders of Winona State student Stacy Smith and her daughter two weeks ago, called in an emergency team and sealed off Lourdes, but found nothing unusual in the huge, dark dorm whose tenants mostly are away for the university's holiday break. The team was dismissed at 12:15 a.m. In the meantime, Gorman had called police twice more. Pressed for details in an interview, Gorman admitted the calls were false, said Deputy Chief Tom Williams.
Background: Police seek gunman at Lourdes
Background: The Sugar Loaf murders
VanDalen friend: Death a heavy burdenWINONA, Minn., Dec. 29, 2004 -- A former Winona State University baseball teammate of Kris VanDalen, now accused of vehicular homicide in Wisconsin, said VanDalen can suffer no worse punishment from the court than knowing he killed his friend. Andrew Polehna called VanDalen a good guy, adding that s mistake like drunk-driving can ruin good peoples' lives. VanDalen missed a bend on a rural road and hit a tree early in November in the northern Wisconsin lake country. Three people escaped with their lives. One did not.
Polehna said that VanDalen had a lot going for him and had a start at a good job with Winona-based Fastenal in Chicago. Polehna and VanDalen, both pitchers, played baseball together at Winona State for three years. VanDalen was the typical college student, said Polehna. He liked to go out and party, said Polehna, but he was responsible. He said VanDalen had a lot of friends and was the type of guy everyone liked.
Polehna said that VanDalen was a good pitcher but had a major obstacle. "He is what you would call a bullpen pitcher," said Polehna. VanDalen always pitched well in the bullpen and in practice, but when it came to the game he would struggle, Polehna said: "VanDalen had what we call Tommy John surgery on his arm. Most players don't come back from that."
Polehna said that everyone he's talked with about the Wisconsin accident has the same feelings toward VanDalen, that he was a good guy and the accident was unfortunate. The weekend of the accident VanDalen had driven home to Appleton, Wis., from Chicago to attend the funeral of a friend who had committed suicide. Polehna said he understood that the night after the funeral four guys were coming back from a friend's cabin when the accident occurred.
Reporter: Meghann Frain
Background: One funeral, then another
Background: VanDalen a motivated player
Background: Bond posted in death
Florida defends Moore speaking roleGAINESVILLE, Fla., Dec. 29, 2004 -- The general counsel at the University of Florida, Pamela Bernard, said the complaint about film-maker Michael Moore's campaign appearance at the campus is misplaced. "There is a difference between supporting a particular viewpoint and exposing members of the university community to that viewpoint," Bernard said. "I don't think Michael Moore was an inappropriate speaker." Florida is among campuses being investigated after a complaint that Moore's $30,000 speaker fee amounted to a campaign contribution for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. In 60-some campus speeches on his Slacker Uorising Tour, Moore advocated the election of t John Kerry and denounced President Bush in the spirit of his top-grossing although controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 911."
At Florida, Bernard said the university had no intent to influence the election by Moore's appearance. "We believe that it is our mission to expose our students to the widest range of viewpoints," she said. The University of Florida, she said, has a history of political balance in the speakers brought to campus.
Background: Colleges hit for Michael Moore speeches
Police seek gunman at LourdesWINONA, Minn., Dec. 29, 2004 -- Police sealed off the Lourdes dorm Tuesday night after a neigborhood man reported a gunman had run to the dorm after pounding on his door. A 10-person emergency response team surrounded the dorm, which is largely unoccupied during the Winona State University holiday break. Nothing unusual was found. The emergency team was dismissed 2-1/2 hours later. Police said the incident was reported at 9:47 p.m. in the 500 block of W. King Street.
Families are confident in justiceWINONA, Minn., Dec. 29, 2004 -- The families of Stacy Smith and Taylor Swanson, found murded in their burning apartment, issued a statement that they are confident "that justice will be served." The families thanked the community. Earlier they had asked that television reporters not try to cover the funerals. Stacy Smith, 29, a Winona State psychology student, and her daughter, Taylor Swanson, 10, died Dec. 13. Firefighters found the bodies after a 3:26 a.m. call to Sugar Loaf Apartments in East Sarnia.
Background: Eight investigators on case
QUICK
SPORTS
DEC. 29, 2004 |
BASKETBALL (MEN'S): WSU 75, Augustana 56. Record: WSU guard David Zellman scored his 1,000th career point.
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Campuses spawning sex magazinesBOSTON, Dec, 29, 2004 -- The latest college magazine with naked coeds and lots of sex is due in January at Boston University, joining fleshy mags already produced by students at scattered other colleges. Alecia Oleyourryk, a journalism senior at Boston, said her goal for Boink is plain: "We want it to turn people on, and we're not afraid to call it pornography." At Harvard, editor Katharina Cieplak-von Baldegg, editor of H Bomb, which began last spring, describes her glossy magazine as putting sex in an "artsy, proper and Harvard-esque" context. Pure porn wouldn't work, she said: "Students can get better porn online."
At the University of Washington creative-writing major Michael Ryan said his new Penitalia focuses on collegiate erotica. His motivation? First, to make money, he said. Then too he wants to embarrass the University of Washington -- a kind of middle finger for "a crappy education for a lot of money." Also, he said, Penitalia prose is a response to the perennial required essays on what I did on my summer vacation. Penitalia is issued by an official student organization At Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine, a magazine has flowed from a university-sanctioned a project to take photographs of naked female students. The Naked Body Image Project created an exhibit of photographs of 50 women, all shapes and sizes. Then came the magazine.
Eight investigators on caseWINONA, Minn., Dec. 28, 2004 -- The hunt for Paul Allen Gordon, wanted regarding the slaying of a Winona State University student and her daughter, is the focus of eight investigators, said Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams. An agent from the state crime bureau and an agent from the sheriff's office are supplementing six city police officers, Williams said. Despite about 100 tips, Gordon, 21, has not been located. He has neither been charged with the deaths of Stacy Smith, 29, and Taylor Swanson, 10, nor been named as suspect. Police call him a "person of interest" with whom they want to talk. It is known that Gordon and Stacy Smith knew each other and that he has a record of violence.
Background: Gordon no stranger to cops
WSU SECURITY
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Student Lobby Day resetWINONA, Minn., Dec. 28, 2004 -- The Minnesota State University Student Association rescheduled its annual lobbying trek to St. Paul from Feb. 9 to Feb. 16, the association's Winona State rep, Travis Reese, said. The change avoids a conflict with a University of Minnesota's student Lobby Day, which Winona State student President Dusty Finke said is a good idea. The UM and MnSCU system compete for the Legislature's higher-ed funding, which could put them at cross-purposes on the same day, Finke said.
Also, said Reese, Feb. 9 already had been scheduled for Winona State's class-free assessment day, when the university conducts a campus-wide self-study. Now that the MSUSA Lobby Day has been moved to Feb. 16, a normal class day, students can go to St. Paul and still participate in campus assessment, Reese said. Two buses are being arranged to transport Winona State students to the Capitol, to join students from other MnSCU system campuses.
Reporter: Patricia Salisbury
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City, WSU renew parking dealWINONA, Minn., Dec. 28, 2004 -- The city government renewed its joint powers agreement with Winona State to allow the university to enforce parking regulations on the side of streets adjacent to the campus. The agreement, renewed yearly since 1992, allows campus security guards, as well as police, to ticket illegally parked cars. The new agreement, effective Jan. 31, expands joint powers to new Winona State properties, including the Lincoln school at Huff and Sarnia.
Shirley Mounce, campus parking chief, said the agreement was put in place in the early 1990s in response to neighborhood complaints that student cars were blocking driveways. Because police were unable to handle the volume of complaints, the university was asked to monitor areas surrounding the campus -- and allowed to keep the parking fines. Alternate-side parking enforcement, however, is left to city police.
According to Mounce, the university issued $47,000 in on-campus and off-campus parking citations last year. Although these tickets are issued by the university, those who get the tickets may still take their case to court. However, so far all disagreements have been settled with the campus parking department, which has an appeals process, Mounce said.
Reporter: Jen Lundberg
NEWS AND COMMENT
WINONA MEDIA WATCH |
MINDLESSNESS ON ANONYMITY
After the October knifepoint kidnapping and carjacking at Winona State University, rumors exaggerated what had happened. The distortions occurred in part because the victim, understandably fearful his abductors would come after him again, asked police not to release his name. With journalistic diligence, reporter Chris Selbitschka tracked down the victim for an interview for the CyberIndee that helped set the record straight. It was a significant interview, even though the victim insisted his name not be used.
The interview would never have appeared in the Winonan student newspaper, which has an absolute ban on stories drawn from unnamed sources.
The Winonan's policy is strange. Ask Woodward and Bernstein, whose Watergate coverage drew heavily on sources who could not allow their names in print. Ask USA Today, which has abandoned a short-lived ban on anonymous sources. Ask Earl Caldwell of the New York Times, whose insightful work on frustration over racial injustice came from Black Panther sources to whom he had pledged confidentiality. Caldwell wouldnÕt name the sources even when a judge ordered him to do so. There are stories that should be told regardless of whether the source can be named.
In December after Winona State senior Emily Crigler was struck by a hit-and-run driver, reporter Adam Krahn obtained a dramatic interview with a friend who was on a cell phone at the moment of impact. The friend granted the interview only if she not be named. Frustrated that the Winonan rejected story, Krahn submitted it to the CyberIndee, whose readers had a new dramatic feel what had happened.
The ideal, of course, is to tie information to sources. Readers have higher confidence in news when they know the source. Also, naming sources is safer. There is no risk of an unworthy reporter concocting information. There is no risk of hassles or of jail time for contempt-of-court to protect a confidential source. But journalism is not about being safe, comfy and risk-free. Journalism is about aggressively seeking truth to tell the whole truth. Sometimes this means telling stories from sources with good reasons not wanting to be identified, especially when the stories are from highly motivated, trustworthy reporters like Chris Selbitschka and Adam Krahn.
Why the Winonan policy? Some editor long ago, it seems, introduced the ban, which has endured in mindless applications since. At the Winonan it's time to rethink. And think.
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Background: Victim froze at pointed knife
Background: Friend heard impact on phone
Campus lawyer harasses web sitePALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 28, 2004 -- An edgy student web site at the University of California at San Diego got an unpleasant e-mail message from university attorney Ann Parode. Their domain name, YouCSD.com, and a picture of the campus library are university trademarks that must be taken off the site. The editors found no coincidence that Parode's demand followed YouCSD's ongoing criticism of the new chancellor's $6,500 monthly housing allowance.The editors have gone to the American Civil Liberties Union for advice.
QUICK
SPORTS
DEC. 28, 2004 |
BASKETBALL (MEN'S): WSU 71, Souith Dakota 70.
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Warrior coach: Still rebuildingWINONA, Minn., Dec. 28, 2004 -- After losing 23 seniors a year ago, the Winona State University football team's 10-2 season surprised a lot of folks. Even coach Tom Sawyer says that with such a young team there remains room for improvement. But what challenge is left after a season with the No. 1 defense and offense in the league? Special teams, said Sawyer: "We will make plans for improving the team in January or February," Sawyer said. "Recruiting is the only thing being done for next season right now."
Sawyer said he will have 16 returning starters next season. The player to look out for next year will be incoming freshman defensive back Shawn Cunningham, Sawyer said. He conceded that the loss of wide receiver Chris Samp, quarterback Brian Wrobel, defensive tackle Jim Stanek defensive end Ben Turnquist and other graduating seniors leaves major voids.
What about Carey Rottman? He's the freshman who last year was convicted after a night of marijuana and whisky partying that ended up with an assault on two cops. It was all the worse from a public relations standpoint for Winona State athletics because high school recruits were in town, and Rottman was showing the high-schoolers the ropes. Rottman could be back on the team, Sawyer said. Rottman, not currently enrolled at Winona State, was suspended from football after pleading guilty to four misdemeanor counts. But now, said Sawyer, things are different: "He has done everything that was asked of him so far." Sawyer said he will make a decision on whether to allow Rottman to return in January. |
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Reporter: Patricia Salisbury
Senate has seven ballot vacanciesWINONA, Minn., Dec. 27, 2004 -- An election to fill vacant positions on Winona State University Student Senate will take place in late February. Open are two College of Education seats, two graduate student seats, two junior class seats, and one College of Nursing and Health Sciences seat -- although Senate resignations in coming weeks could create more openings. Senate Vice President Tim Donahue announced the open positions at the Alliance of Student Organizations meeting in December. The election, called a "supplemental" under the new Senate constitution, will begin at noon, Feb. 22, and end at noon, Feb. 25, Donahue said,
Donahue is trying to schedule a winter club fair during at which students can apply for Senate positions. Also, Donahue said he will also make another announcement at another Alliance of Student Organizations meeting before the elections. Too, specific groups of students will be targeted about the vacancies, said Donahue.
Reporter: Heather Howard
Background: Senate's revolving door spins slower
COMMENT: A DORM APART
LET'S NOT GHETTOIZE WSU
The great American cultural achievement has been our racially integrated society. We're better for it, albeit the struggle is not yet over. We have even further to go to bridge the equal rights gap between straights and gays. If our American past as prologue, this struggle too will succeed as testimony to the promise of the nation's founders for equality and fairness.
To be sure, there will be setbacks. One is in progress, sadly, at Winona State University in a dubious proposal championed by Student Sen. Mick Reis to set up a segregated dorm for students who see themselves as racially, ethnically, sexually and culturally distinctive. It's a bad idea. The role of a university never should be to encourage ghettoizing. But that precisely is what has been proposed -- a housing unit apart.
The future of Winona State and our culture as a whole should be melding our differences, integrating our values and traditions, and making a stronger whole -- not the divisiveness at the heart of the misguided Reis proposal. |
Background: Diversity Dorm still in review
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| WINONA, Minn., Dec. 28, 2004 -- Finishing on top in the conference is the goal of the Winona State University's baseball team, said coach Kyle Poock. The team perennially finishes in the top three, but this year, Poock said, he would like to take the conference title. Poock, head coach the past three years, said he confident that this year's team will beat last year's 33-23-1 record. There are a lot of players returning this year, said Poock. Also, 33 freshmen tried out this year, although a little fewer than past years, but, said Poock, nine of them made the team -- close to average. |
The Warriors were second in the conference last year, behind Wayne State. Poock said he regards Wayne State and Southwest State as two biggest competitors. Both teams, Poock said, have a good coaching staff, great baseball programs, and a good team history. Last season the Warriors had four shut-outs, which Poock said is hard to do at the college level.
Players to watch this year are senior outfielders Josh Maggert, Ben Vazquez and junior Joe Magee, said Poock. Vazquez and Magee have been starters for the past two years, said Poock. Senior pitcher Brandon Hellenbrand should also have a good season, said Poock.
Within the last few years baseball has become a year-round sport, said Poock. The team practices six weeks in the fall. Weight-lifting begins for six weeks before winter break. After winter break the team will practice Monday through Friday until the season begins. The home opener is March 25 against Northern State.
Reporter: Kris Petrasek
PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES
2004 CAMPUS PASSAGES
DEATHS
| Hugh Capron, 86, retired industrial education professor at Winona State University, died in Winona after a lengthy illness. |
| Burnell Manley, 63, who taught speech at Winona High, Winona State and St. Mary's, died of a heart attack. |
| Helen McGrath, 90, who taught at the Phelps Lab School from 1955 to 1975, died in Rochester, Minn., after declining with Alzheimer's. |
| Stacy Smith, 29, a Winona State psychology student, and her 10-year-old daughter, were murdered at their apartment. |
| Mark Wall, 20, a Winona State junior, died in a traffic accident en route to a cousin's wedding in eastern Wisconsin. |
| Jack Williams, 84, retired comptroller at St. Mary's University, died in Winona. |
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| John Fitzgerald was pummeled in a Winona State dorm fracus with football player Phil Capuzzi. Both were expelled from the dorm. |
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| Eric Turner, tanked up and out of conrol, trashed his girlfriend's East Lake dorm room, before getting beat up in retaliation. |
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| Carey Rottman, 19, Winona State football player, 30 days for head-butting cop, other offenses as police were busting a party. |
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| Eric Turner, 19, Winona State frosh, for multiple charges following the trashing of his girlfriend's place at the East lake dorm. |
| Eric Springmier, 23, Southeast Tech student, on multiple charges for dealing marijuana out of his Fingal dorm room. |
| Dave Midtovne, 20, Southeast Tech student, on multiple charges for dealing marijuana and cocaine out of his rented unit at 453 E. Second St. |
PROMOTIONS
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| Craig Franz to president, St. Mary's University. |
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| Troy Paino to liberal arts dean, Winona State, from the history faculty. |
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| Carl Stange to admissions director at Winona State. |
RETIREMENTS
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| Louis DeThomasis, president, St. Mary's University, in May 2005. |
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| Darrell Krueger, president, Winona State, in June 2005. |
ATHLETICS
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| Tom Sawyer coached the Winona State Warriors to the Northern Sun football championship, again, and into the Division II playoffs, again. |
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| Chris Samp finished his Winona State football career with 52 touchdowns and 4,337 receiving yards. |
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| Rob Murray, Wimona State women's gymnastics coach, resigned under pressure after missing deadlines for post-season events. |
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Prof's lobbyist: Funding prospects a mixST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 27, 2004 -- The state profs' union, the Inter-Faculty Organization, stands ready to support the MnSCU system requests in the 2005 Legislature for money to goose enrollment and to compensate for inflation erosion. Russ Stanton, the union's lobbyist, said, however, more funding will not come easily. "Monthly revenue collections have been falling short of expectations, and coupled with the deficit already projected, it spells trouble," he said. Also, three of state universities, including Winona State, are dropping or flat, he noted. "How much of a role demographics, the economy, and-or tuition increases play in this drop are difficult to sort out, but as enrollment falls so does our primary source of revenue," Stanton said.
Stanton sees a possibility that the Legislature might respond to student pressure to freeze tuition and kill a 2.4 percent increase that the state college semester is seeking to fund its budget. That, coupled with Gov. Tim Pawlenty's intransigence on tax increase leaves open the possibility that the governor will veto whatever higher-ed gains come from the Legislature.
Foreign student enrollment slipsWASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2004 -- Foreign enrollment at U.S. colleges declined 2.4 percent last year, the first drop since 1971-72, according to study by Institute of International Education. Peggy Blumenthal, vice president for educational services at the institute, is unsure whether the drop is a short-term blip or "a wake-up call" for a long-term slide. There are signs the drop continued into 2004, she said. New government impediments that create visa delays are part of the problem, Blumenthal said. She sees a growing perception abroad that the United States no longer welcomes foreign students.
COMMENT: WINONA AIRTIME
COSTLY GIFT TO WSU
For years Winona State University administrators have fawned over Jerry Papenfuss, an alum who owns all five Winona commercial radio stations. The latest praise unto him is for what they're calling a gift -- $34,000 toward air time on his stations for ads, news and interviews promoting the university. It would be a generous gift, if it were so.
The fact is that Papenfuss has thousands upon thousands of unsold advertising spots at his KAGE-centered radio empire. Had Papenfuss donated all the time, as could be expected of a loyal alum in his position, it would have been a sweet deal for the university. It's not.
The fact is that Papenfuss, ever the salesman, pitched a package of airtime to university President Darrell Krueger, pegging its value for discussion purposes at $68,000. Papenfuss then offered to toss in half, $34,000, if the university would pay the other $34,000. The deal was sealed. What's this all mean? Papenfuss walked away with $34,000 for airtime he never would otherwise have sold. His $34,000? Let's call it phantom money. The bottom line: Papenfuss is out nothing and $34,000 richer.
The Papenfuss record of loyalty to Winona State is spotty at best. Several years ago when he plucked down $1 million to acquire competitor KWNO, he immediately tripled the rent for KWNO tower space for the transmitter of campus radio station KQAL. When he proposed play-by-play coverage of Warrior sports, Papenfuss not only wanted exclusive rights to the broadcasts, squeezing out the KQAL student lab, he also wanted all the advertising revenue plus payments from the university for the favor.
Papenfuss may love his alma mater. He also loves wringing money from the place. |
Background:
Broadcaster gets WSU thanks
KQAL's tower rent tripled
Comment: Protecting the franchise
Church? School? Either way: "Nyet"PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 27, 2004 -- The president of Stanford University, John Hennessy, ruled that a 22-foot high schulture, "Device to Root Out Evil," will not be added to the outdoor campus art collection. The steel-and-glass piece is an inverted building, some say a church, with its steeple piercing the ground. Hennessy objected to the sculpture, by Stanford alum Dennis Oppenheim, because of a possible "emotional impact on the community."
Oppenheim called the rejection "ignorant." The work, he said, is a "highly pedigreed piece of sculpture that has been coveted and used to describe American art history right at this very point." In Italy, where Oppenheim earlier presented the piece, people thought he was showing a schoolhouse, he said: "People can really get tangled up when they start projecting into things." At Stanford, an art committee had recommended the addition. It was the committee that Hennessy overruled.
ALCOHOL-
RELATED
CONVICTIONS
Winona
County
District
Court
DEC. 27,
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Jodi Marie Balow, 19, Wabasha, Minn., $165.
Katie Lynn Hunt, 20, Shoreview, Minn., 30 days and $265.
Bret Gorden Toltness, 20, Cumberland, Wis., $165.
LOUD PARTY CONVICTION
Matthew John Frommelt, 20, Dubuque, Iowa, $265.
Complete court log
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UNDER-AGE
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WHO GOT
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BEING
STUPID
DON'T
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THEIR
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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
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