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Administrators have released their own data on WSU student attitudes about the New University reforms
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1,416
2,526
3,962 |
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2,392
1,929
3,962 |
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60.4%
33.5%
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New data introduced in New U debateWINONA, Minn., April 24, 2005 -- Three out of five Winona State students see benefits in the New University project that university administrators have been pushing for 1-1/2 years, according to data from a February survey that New U advocates are circulating on campus. Of the 3,900-plus students who completed annual Assessment Day questionnaires, almost 2,400 see "some benefit in the New University." Although New U advocates are using the data to discredit a student referendum that went overwhelmingly against the New U, a fact sheet distributed by the advocates does not indicate whether the Assessment Day survey asked student views on the $1,000 tuition surcharge that would be phased in to pay for New U changes.
Student senators, who have conducted two referndums on the New U, say students object less to the New U than to their bearing the cost -- after years of double-digit tuition increases. There also have been student objections to administration tactics to win support for the reforms. Student Presdient-elect Ryan Flynn has used the words "atrocious" and "ridiculous" to decribe how administrators treated students in the process for developing New U details. The dissension has been at the heart of a disintegration of administration-student relations, which have been in shambles in recent months.
The release of the Assessment Day survey results coincide with an elaborate public relations campaign generated by administrators, including New University on posters around the campus and on the university and local radio stations. To distance the New U project from its problems with students, the project's Student Communication Committee has even renamed the New University the "Winona Experience."
Despite the PR blitz, 2,526 students, or 64 percent of those who completed the Assessment Day survey said they had little or no information about the New University. Although that be read as a failure of communication, it also fits into the argument by New U advocates, including project honchos Carol Anderson and Joan Francioni, that the student referendum in February reflected student ignorance about how students would benefit from the project.
The university's assessment director, Susan Hatfield, who designed the survey, said students will again be asked about their sentiment toward the New University in next year's assessment survey. The results of the wide-ranging assessment survey are compiled by Hatfield's assessment and research staff, and then broken down into components that are distributed selectively to faculty and staff with a presumed interest in particular data. | |
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Reporter: Chandler MacLean
Background: Charge: New U lies about support
Background: Officialdom still vague on New U dollars
Samp to Packers, Wrobel to Seahawks| WINONA, Minn., April 24, 2005 -- Winona State University football grads Chris Samp and Brian Wrobel got their calls after the NFL draft. Samp, a wide receiver with the Warriors, will go with his hometown Green Bay packers. Wrobel, a quarterback, will go with the Seattle Seahawks. |
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Reporter: Brian Olson
Background: Packers scout checks out Wrobel
Background: Anxiety builds over Samp's fate
Canada aims to lure foreign studentsOTTAWA, April 24, 2005 -- The Canadian government has relaxed its immigration policy to attract more foreign students to the nation's colleges. The students will be allowed to work off campus and to transfer change colleges easily. Also, they will also be able to work in Canada for two years after graduation any place other than Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. The policy capitalizes on tough post-9/11 U.S. policies that have discouraged foreign students from U.S. studies
QUICK SPORTS
APRIL 24, 2005
BASEBALL (MEN'S)
Upper Iowa 4, WSU 3; WSU 7, Upper Iowa 2.
GOLF (WOMEN'S)
WSU (5th).
GOLF (WOMEN'S)
Minnesota Women's Golf Association Tournament: WSU (7th), SMU (12th).
TENNIS (MEN'S)
SMU 5, Hamline 4.
TENNIS (WOMEN'S)
SMU 6, Hamline 3.
Gustavus Adolphus 9, SMU 0.
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S)
WSU 10, Northern State 0.
WSU 8, Bemidji State 0.
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A tree struck by Kris VanDalen's BMW caved in the roof. One backseat passenger was killed. Two other passengers were injured. |
Ex-WSU baseball player back in courtANTIGO, Wis., April 24, 2005 -- A former Winona State University baseball player accused of drunken-driving and vehicular homcide, Kris VanDalen, 25, has another hearing scheduled for June. VanDalen has pleaded innocent to charges in the death of a friend after a night of partying in the northern Wisconsin lake country. He has been free on $5,000 bond since the accident. VanDalen entered the plea on Jan. 6. On Jan. 31, he asked that the judge in the case be changed. The request was granted on Feb. 8. His next hearing will be on at 9 a.m., June 24, at the Langlade County Courthouse in Antigo.
VanDalen also is facing a civil action from Langlade Memorial Hospital for treatment of Joel Hintz, 24, and Eric Stanelle, 25, who were also in the car. The hospital seeks $3,605. The criminal charges against VanDalen include four counts of the vehicular homicide, two them felonies.
VanDalen was graduated from Winona State in 2003. He played varsity baseball team for three seasons.
The accident occurred Nov. 7 when VanDalen missed a sharp curve and hit a tree. Killed was Kevin Kendall, 23, of Appleton, Wis,, who was in the back seat. The other two passengers in the car, Hintz and Stanelle were injured. According to police, VanDalen's blood-alcohol level was .139 percent, more than the .08 legal limit.
VanDalen has given up his new job with Fastenal in Chicago and moved back to Appleton, Wis., his hometwn. A Winona State baseball friend, Andrew Polehna, said VanDalen went back home to get his legal problems settled. "Obviously he has been in better situations than he is in right now," said Palehna. "This could not have happened to a nicer kid," VanDalen's attorney, Mark McGinnis could not be reached for comment.
Reporter: Amanda Knowles
Background: For VanDalen, one funeral, then another
WSU SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING APRIL 23, 2005
April 22: A student was arrested for minor consumption of alcohol and obstructing the legal process at 10:40 p.m.
April 22: A non-student was arrested for minor consumption of alcohol at Memorial Hall at 10:29 p.m. during the Guster concert.
April 22: An individual was arrested for obsructing the legal process an d trespassing at Memorial Hall at 10:04 p.m.
April 22: A student was arrested for criminal damage to property near Memorial Hall at 9:51 a.m.
April 22: A student was arrested for minor consumption of alcohol at Memorial Hall at 9:35 p.m. during the Guster concert.
April 22: A second student was arrested for minor consumption of alcohol at Memorial Hall at 9:35 p.m. during the Guster concert.
April 22: at 9:15 p.m. A non-student was arrested for minor consumption of alcohol at the Guster concert.
April 22: A student was arrested for trespassing in Memorial Hall at 8:50 p.m. after being told to leave.
April 22: A student was cited at Lourdes dorm for an alcohol violation at 6:35 p.m.
April 20: A dorm supervisor called for security guards for a drug violation in the Quad dorm at 2:10 p.m.
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Governor due at WSU library ceremony| ST. PAUL, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- Gov. Tim Pawlenty will attend the dedication of the Winona State library in the name of university President Darrell Krueger, who is retiring, the governor's scheduler said. The ceremony will be at 11 a.m., Friday. Earlier, state college Chancellor Jim McCormick said he will attend. At the ceremony, a portrait of Krueger adn his wife Nancy will be unveiled. A picnic lunch will follow in the campus courtyard. |
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Grams bows from U.S. Senate raceISANTI, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- Former Sen. Rod Grams, R-Minn., quit his bid for his party's nomination for the U.S. seat being vacated by Democrat Mark Dayton. Grams, 57, said he didn't want to be part of a contest that could divide the party. The decision leaves U.s. Rep. Mark Kennedy, who represents the north side of the Twin Cities, as the front-runner for the Republican nomination. Kennedy has endorsements from Sen. Norm Coleman, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and state Republican Chair Ron Eibensteiner.
While calling for unity, Grams said he will work to oust Eibensteiner as state party chair. Eibensteiner, said Grams, has been out of line as a "cheerleader" for Kennedy before the party has made a choice. Animosity runs deep. Eibensteiner has accused Grams of abdicating his role in the party since losing the U.S. Senate to Dayton in 2000 and not pitched in with any GOP campaigning. "Missing in action," Eibensteiner said of Grams.
Background: Races that campus people are watching
IS THERE LIFE AFTER LIFE?
ASK NEW WSU SECURITY GUARD
WINONA, Minn., April 24, 2005 -- Kings and presidents were at home on the cover of the grand old weekly photo magazine Life. But a Winona State University security guard? Steve Baumgart, new on the Winona State payroll, made Life's cover twice. Eat you heart out, Ronald Reagan. In 1983 Baumgart and his Chicago rescue team used a new cold-water drowning protocol to revive victims. A young boy was saved. The story made a dramatic Life cover photo. In 1984 six children and their mother were killed in a devasting fire. Another Life cover photo showed Baumgart with one of the children, Baumgart calls the covers a tremendous honor: "I'm very humbled," he said. "Most people in this field never get the praise or recognition that they deserve, and I was one out of many in the group that helped out in the incidents that appeared on the cover, but it was really a group effort."
Baumgart was a paramedic and firefighter in Chicago for 10 years before moving to Winona. Recently retired, he's joined the Winona State security staff -- the first full-time officer under chief Don Walski, who has run security for the 7,800-student university with only part-time student guards. Baumgart started April 18. In an interview, Baumgart called the campus "pretty safe." His goal, he said, is for students and everyone else to "feel comfortable to come here."
Baumgart holds a Winona State degree in sociology and psychology. Baumgart retired after 20 years in law enforcement, since 1989 with the Winona County sheriff's department. Baumgart met campus security chief Don Walski when Walski was working his way up to deputy Winona police chief. Baumgart served as a military paramedic during the Vietnam War in 1967.
In an interview Baumgart said he has maintained connections with Winona State through the years, even after he was graduated. He helped with internships for criminal justice students. He said he enjoyed student ride-alongs. "My father, who was a juvenile officer, always said to listen to what kids had to say and never discount them," he said. Baumgart said he has good friends on the criminal justice faculty staff.
Although he had known Walski for years, Baumgart said he was no shoo-in for the full-time security position. "I couldn't even sleep the night before because I was so nervous," he said. He hadn't done any interviewing in 20 years. The full-time position is one of two created recently, the second still to be filled.
Baumgart has two children. Erik, 25, is a Winona County sheriff's deputy. Daughter Julie will begin at Winona State as a freshman next year. "I keep an eye on her now," he said with a chuckle. His wife has worked as a nurse, mid-wife and has taught nursing part-time at Winona State.
"I just hope that Don and I can have an influence on the students' lives here and that they will feel comfortable coming to us about security issues because I really want this to be the safest campus it can be," he said.
Walski said that the second full-time security position has not been taken and he hopes that it will be soon. He said he has no information on when. Right now the interviewing process is under way, he said.
Reporter: Amanda Knowles
QUICK SPORTS
APRIL 23, 2005
BASEBALL (MEN'S)
WSU 7, Upper Iowa 7; WSU 7, Upper Iowa 5.
St. Thomas 6, SMU 1; St. Thomas 8, SMU 5.
GOLF (WOMEN'S)
WSU (7th).
TENNIS (MEN'S)
North Central Conference Tournament: St. Cloud State 35 (1st), WSU 25 (2nd), Augustana 16 (3rd), MSU-Mankato 14 (4th).
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S)
WSU 8, MSU-Moorhead 2.
WSU 9, UM-Crookston 0.
SMU 11, Augsburg 3; SMU 9, Augsburg 1.
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NEWS AND COMMENT
WINONA MEDIA WATCH |
DAILY NEWS ON TARGET THIS TIME
At the risk of offending an advertiser, the Daily News gave front page attention at a decision by a local Target store manager to usher a mother to a closed-door cubicle to continue nursing her baby. The News opted to honor its journalistic obligation to serve its readers no matter how displeased a major advertiser might be. It hasn't always been so. In November the newspaper failed to report a bomb scare at Wal-Mart. This time the Daily News got it right.
Neither of the city's other advertising-based media, the Post and Winona Radio, chose to tell the Target story. The lapse speaks volumes about muddied newsroom priorities and news judgment.
At Target, the mother's baby had become cranky, so she sat on the floor in the lingerie section to let her baby suckle. State law is explicit about breast-feeding. It's OK, wherever. Not everyone may agree with the law, and therein is the journalistic responsibility as a forum for discussion on public issues. Maybe the law should be changed, maybe not. The Daily News coverasge spurred a great amount of community dialogue that will, in time, contribute to stronger public consensus and, given more time, contribute also to public policy that reflects the consensus. This is what democracy is about -- and also journalism of the highest order.
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Background: No bad news on Wal-Mart
WSU bowl sale grosses $550WINONA, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- Student arrists who sold bowls at the Blue Heron coffee ship raised $550 for the Winona State University art department, said prof Anne Plummer. All 74 bowls made for the event by students and professors were sold by 12:30 pm, said Plummer. "Next year we will be better prepared." Twenty students contributed work to "Empty Bowls" project.
WSU narrows search for diversity directorWINONA, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- Four are finalists are being considered for director of cultrual diversity at WInona State University, said search chair Sarah Olcott. She declined to identify the courth candidate until it was convenient, but issued thumbnail biographies of three whose on-campus interviews have been scheduled:
Maria Baxter-Nuamah. Director of African American Affairs at Minnesota State University-Mankato since 1991. Teaches part-time in the womenÕs studies program at MSU-Mankato. Holds master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from Mankato State University and bachelor's in behavioral science from California State Polytech.
J.C. Crane. Directs Commit 2 Action, which provides motivational public speaking and multicultural diversity training, at Crane Enteprises. Earlier associate admissions director at Valparaiso University and at Kentucky Wesleyan College; director of admissions at Mount Marty College; assistant admisisons and operations director at Notre Dame M.B.A. program; assistant director of ddmissions at Midwestern University. Holds bachelor's in journalism and mass communication from Drake.
Alexander Hines. Interim associate director of African American Scholarship Program at the University of Tennessee since 2003. earlier associate director of undergraduate business administration programs at University of Tennessee; senior assistant career xervices director at William and Mary and Georgia Southern University. Holds master's in counseling and guidance Services from Clemson and bachelor's in management studies from the University of Maryland.
Murder victims' family hanging in there| WINONA, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- The family of Stacy Smith and her daughter Taylor Swanson, slain in their apartment in December, are coping well in the four-month-old case, said county prosecutor Chuck MacLean. Family members attended the indictment hearing of Paul Allen Gordon on Thursday, as they have all proceedings. MacLean talked with the family at the hearing. |
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House would hike higher-ed spending 9.1%ST. PAUL, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- The Minnesota House has finished work on its higher-ed spending plan, a 9.1 percent increase next year for the MnSCU system of which Winona State University is part and another 3.9 pecent the year after. The Republican-controlled House would provide additional funding next year, an 11.5 percent increase from this year, if Gov. Tim Pawlenty's racino gambling proposal wins legislative approval. The Senate still has to complete its higher-ed budget bill. The House version would guve MnSCU at least $597.8 million next year, $602.9 million with racino.
Key House provisions include:
$55.3 million for enrollment growth, $77 million if the racino proposal passes. Gov. Pawlenty had proposed $50 million for a somewhat similar general-urpose allocation model.$13.9 million for competitive salaries. Pawlenty had recommended $5 million.$15 million for centers of excellence. Pawlenty had recommended $20 million.$10 million for expanded nursing programs$5 million for Minnesota Online. Pawlenty had recommended $14 million.
Pawlenty's proposal for a new, independent university in Rochester made it into in the House bill. At the urging of the Inter-Faculty Organization, the state faculty unioi, the provision requires planners to consider the contractual rights and benefits of Winona State employees who would be transferred.
The House bill allows state universities to offer applied doctorates in education, nursing, psychology and physical therapy.
Background: GOP carrot: Money for racino support
Background: Solons differ on Rochester U bill
COMMENT:
GOOSES AND GANDERS
WHY NOT PENIS BUTTONS?
Tamara Berg revels in pushing the envelope. First, the Winona State University feminist brought us the powerful "Vagina Monologues." Good for her. Now it's the I Love My Vagina button. Berg says the button is an expression of support for female sexuality and a statement against violence on women. Good for her. The button shocks some folks, which compounds the strength of the message.
Either you believe in the constitutional right of free expression or you don't. Whether the message is delivered shockingly is irrelevant. At Winona High, we hope Carrie Rethlefsen has the courage to keep sporting her button.
This is not to say, however, that the feminism of Winona State's Berg is without fault. She balks at the idea of I Love My Penis buttons. The same defense for exalting the penis as a symbol of male sexuality can be made as Berg makes for exalting the vagina. Berg needs to recognize that, in advancing women's causes, she's treaded beyond gender equity into a radicalism of insensivity toward the male of the species.
Berg embraces free expression only when it serves her agenda. True champions of free expression wear no such blinders. |
Background: Herold: Students discover media power
Background: Prof: Supreme Court has tackled issue
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| ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 23, 2005 -- The Northern Sun conference will be represented by Winona and Bemidji state universities in the Central and Great Lake Division II super regionals. Aso, three indiviual players from the University of Minnesota-Crookston qualified. The touranment begins May 2 at the St.Joseph's Country Club. Nations begin May 17 at the Savannah Harbor Club in Savannah, Ga. |
Boettcher scores thrice in spring scrimmageWINONA, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- Transfer quarterback Aaron Boettcher completed nine of 16 passes for 104 yards to lead the annual Winona State University spring football scrimmage. Boettcher scored three times. The defense won 53-41.
WSU grad pefroms prof's sonataWINONA, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- A Winona State University music prof, James Hoch, had his "Sonata Triduum for Pipe organ, Op. 33" performed by a former Winona State student, Greg Bauer, at St. Paul's Church in New Ulm, Minn.
Loan consolidator goes into bookstoresANNAPOLIS, Md., April 23, 3005 -- A company that specializes debt consolidation for college studenrs, Student Trust, arranged with campous bookstore chain Barnes & Noble to set up two-day events at at the University of Michigan , Ohio State, George Mason, and the University of Delaware stores to refinance loans before interest rates rise this summer. Student Trust is paying bookstores $1,000.
The bookstore conslidation marketing is controversial. Eileen K. O'Leary, chair of the National Direct Student Loan Coalition, recommends that students consolidate with the government rather than risk losing advanatges that private company don't offer. O'Leary said too that bookstore booths will cause confusion. "Many consolidation companies use names and logos to make themselves look like they are the direct-loan consolidation," she said.
Student ballot rules changedWINONA, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- A proposed change in Student Senate election rules at Winona State University, to create a deadline for candidate photos and platform statgements, has been aproved by the Senate. The change requires candidates to submit ballot material when they file their candidacy. Vice President Tim Donahue, whose job is to administer elections, said some candidates this year read the rivals' statements on-line and then rebutted them when they filed their own statements for the ballot. Donahue called the situation unfair.
Reporter: Melissa Ferolie
RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
POSTED APRIL 23, 2005
TARGET NURSE-IN. Eleven mothers bared their breasts to nurse their babies in the open at the Winona Target store, protesting an incident a few days earlier in which an employee told a nursing mother to go to a dressing room. Employees did not interfere. The "nurse-in" continued for almost an hour. State law allows public nursing. Earlier item
WILSON ANNEXATION. Property owners in a proposed 1,200-acre subdivision in Wilson Township would have an option become part of the city of Winona sewer and water service, according to city and township asttorneys who hammered out the tentative agreement. About 130 houses are planned.
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Pre-trial meeting set in bar theft caseWINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- A former Brothers bar manager who police say admitted to stealing money from the bar to pay college debts, Nathan Corey Thompson, 23, has a conference with Judge Lawrence Collins scheduled for next Thursday to discuss possible pre-rial resolution of the case. Thompson is accused of stealing $4,800 by manipulating records on liquor sales from October through January. The charges stemmed from a tip by an employee who told owner Marc Fortney that he suspected something amiss. After the tip, Fortney told his supervisors to scrutinize the inventory and ledgers, which led to the charge.
According to court documents, Brothers' inventory system involves hand-written notes that void drinks mistakenly poured by employees to ensure that inventory and the money collected match. Police said this is Thompson worked a scheme: Thompson voided out entire bottles of liquor and then took money from the cash register to match the amount of the liquor that, in reality, had been poured-- usually $50 to $100 at a time. Inventory and the liquor sold would then match, making it appear as if no liquor had been sold. As a manager, Thompson was responsible for checking the voids nightly and correcting any errors.
According to court documents, Thompson was confronted by a Brothers supervisor and admitted to stealing $4,500. The conversation, unbeknown to Thompson, was recorded by police through a wiretap. After the admission, Brothers officials checked its ledger for the previous weekend and found an additional $300 missing, for a total of $4,800.
Brothers filed a complaint on Jan. 24. Thompson was arrested two days later at Brothers. Police said he then made a formal confession. Thompson told police that he had acquired debt from college bills and had recently received got a drunken-driving tricket, which usually incurs several thousand dollars in fines, fees and hiked insurance premiums. Thompson said he felt he couldn't keep up with his bills.
Reporter: Will Maravelas
Background: Judge: Brothers theft case may proceed
WSU polymer paper presentedWINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- A Winona State University chemistry prof, Bob Kopitzke, and his research assistanty, Jen Zemke, peented a paper on polymjers at the American Chemical Society convention.
PHOTOGRAPHER: MATT KASPER
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His uncle a "hero"
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Ballad about soldier wins "Idol" showWINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- A man with a guitar and a song about a soldier won the Winona State Universsity Idol competition. Tyler Lueck won over the crowd and judges with "Ballad of an American Man," about his uncle who is serving in the Army Reserve in Iraq. Lueck called his uncle a great man: "He has three kids and a wife here in Winona, and is serving his country in Iraq." He said that second place contestant Christine Tollison was going to help him try to get a recording contract. About 250 people watched the event, which was put on by the Black Cultural Awareness Association. BCAA president Carlton Holland was pleased with the crowd turnout, saying that more people showed up than they had expected. He said that the event certainly would become an annual event.
There were 12 acts, including singing, dancing and a comedy routine. Of 12 acts, only five advanced to the final round. Tollison won second place with her energetic renditions of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" and Reba McEntire's "Why Haven't I Heard from You?" Tollison is an Army Reservist, and is working on auditioning for the Army Field Band. She has appeared on the "Late Night with David Letterman" on CBNS and has sung the national anthem at the Minnesota Lynx home opener and at Minnesota Twins games.
Megan Witake and Jodi Anderson took third place with their original songs, "The Ocean" and "Follow My Heart." The duo released a CD last year. Currently they are working on their second album to be released this fall. The event had three judges, Bruce Ramsdel, the Winona Senior High choir director; Maudi Williams, a Winona State education prof; and Matt Entz, a Winona State assistant football coach.
Reporter: Matt Kasper
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Herold: Students seeing media as toolWINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- The fuss over a I Love My Vagina button worn by a Winona high school senior should be a wake-up call about unanticipated consequences, said School Board member Kelly Herold. "I think this issue is a good lesson for students and faculty," Herold said in an interview. "The media is a very powerful tool and people need to be careful. I think both students and faculty are learning their lesson right now with this recent issue." The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Minenapolis television station WCCO and the Winona Daily News jumped on the story after the Principal Nancy Wondrasch
told senior Carrie Rethlefsen to remove the button. Rethlefsen went public, saying she had a right to wear the button to speak out about violence against women. She said she was inspired after attending the "Vagina Monologues," an explicit play at Winona State University on women and violence at Winona State University.
Herold, who is a Winona State communications prof, besides sitting on the School Board, noted that the schools have used media in the past to accomplish their ends and now savvy students apparently have learned from the example.
"What goes around comes around," he said. The School Board, Herold said, is leaving resolution of issue up to officials at the high school.
Reporter: Christine Nelson
Background: Prof: Supreme Court has tackled issue
QUICK SPORTS
APRIL 22, 2005
TENNIS (MEN'S)
North Central Conference Tournament: St. Cloud State 35 (1st), WSU 25 (2nd), Augustana 16 (3rd), MSU-Mankato 14 (4th).
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Hayfield star commits to WSU basketballWINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- All-state basketball player David Johnson, who scored 2,468 points at the Hayfield, Minn., high school, has signed a letter of intent to play at Winona State University, coach Mike Leaf said. Johnson, 6-foot-2, will start in the fall.Leaf called Johnson "a perfect fit." At Hayfield, Johnson averaged 20 points and 9.2 rebounds per game his senior year. In one game he scored 47 points, a school record.
COURT CONVICTIONS
WEEK ENDING APRIL 22, 2005
IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
UNDERAGE ALCOHOL-RELATED CONVICTIONS
Michael Steven Deluca, 20, Waukesha, Wis., $165.
Travis Floyd Feuerhake, 19, Brooklyn Park, Minn., $165.
Christopher Norman Raymond Lohfink, 20, Boyceville, Minn., $165.
LOUD PARTY CONVICTIONS
Todd Lowell Barkheim, 23, 1074 W. Mark St., $165.
Dustin Garrett Morrow, 27, 1074 W. Mark St., $165.
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Who sent the Arcade game messages? What about the Ouija communications? And the wailing in the night |  |
New ghost encounters add to Lourdes loreWINONA, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- Andrew Judson had heard the tales about Lourdes Hall at Winona State University being haunted. Now he's a believer. Judson, a student supervisor at the dorm, gave this account from October: He was leaving Lourdes through the front by the bus stop in October. He noticed that a racing arcade game near the entrance, which is always unplugged, was active and the steerig wheel spinning violently back and forth. "I figured that someone had put some money in and then left so I thought I would finish their game," he said. As he sat down in the seat and touched the wheel, the entire game went dead. The wheel stopped moving. Judson looked behind the game. It wsasn't even plugged in. "I jumped right up and walked out of the building," he said.
How could the arcade game, which is made by Sega, started up on its own, Ernie Eisenberg from Leiberman Cos. in Bloomington, Minn., which specialize in coin-operated games, said that it depends how old the game is. "Many older arcade games worked by the player activating a mechanism when pushing the coin in. The entire operation was mechanical and worked without any outside source of energy, he said. But Eisenberg also said that if the game was modern, then he had no explanation of how an "electric" machine could work without a source of electricity.
Lourdes Hall, originally the College of St. T'eresa Nursing School, was built in 1897. The ghosts that supposedly haunt Lourdes are those of a priest, Father Thomas, and a nun, known in the building's lore only as Ruth. As Judson has heard the story, Father Thomas impregnated Ruth and sent her to stay in the fourth floor infirmary during her pregnancy. When the baby was born, Father Thomas threw the baby down the elevator shaft to destroy evidence of his liaison with Ruth. Ruth then killed herself by throwing herself down a flight of stairs and Father Thomas proceeded to hang himself. Most of the ghostly encounters have been reported on the fourth floor, the location of the old infirmary.
Judson says he also had another encounter lasty fall. He and a fellowe supervisor, Trevor Webb were doing room checks ahead of freshmen moving in. Judson said that the two checked one room together and locked the window blinds then went on to the next room, locking the door behind them. "While we were in that room we heard this loud boom and went back to the other room," he said. "When we opened the door the locked blinds were open again."
Judson also has heard about other encounters. Last year a supervisor, Jacob Klingner, who is now studying in Spain, claims to have come in contact with Sister Ruth through an Ouija board, Judson said. On three separate accounts. as Klingner rold the syory , Ruth told him things about the future. In one instance Ruth said she was in Room 437 and that a girl named Jessica resided there. The Ouija communication ended with the word "pink." Klingner went to the room. Therein was a Jessica, who had strung red Christmas lights that made her entire room glow pink.
Ruth supposedly also gave Klingner the exact grave location of another ghost in the building and to go find his grave at 11:30 p.m. and contact her once he got there. Klingner found the grave, but once he discovered it Judson said he was too scared to contact Ruth and left the cemetery.
The most ghostly noise that people report is a woman wailing throughthe halls. Judson said he's also experienced this claim. "I was in a friendâs room one night and I left to go to the bathroom, when I went out into the hall I could hear a woman wailing or crying coming from the bathroom," he said. Judson said when he reached the bathroom he touched the door and wailing stopped immediately. "I went inside but no one was in there, so I went back to my friend's room and when I touched his door the wailing started again and when I told my friend this he said that this happened to him almost every week," he said.
Sarah Olcott, the Lourdes dorm director, said that she has lived in Lourdes for two years and has never experienced any of the "things" that some students have claimed. As far as campus security goes, Don Walski, campus security director said that he doesn't remember getting too many calls pertaining to these happenings, but that he has heard students talk about it ovber the years. Judson said that most campus security guards probably don't want to know the stories because they have to patrol these areas late at night.
Reporter: Amanda Knowles
Who will run this time?WINONA, Minn., April 23, 2005 -- These are the 2006 races that Winona campus people will watching:
Ramaley arrives in town early, quietlyWINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- The incoming Winona State University president, Judith Ramaley, winged her way into Winona on Wednesday, checked out a white university Jeep Grand Cherokee, and went house hunting. It was a low-profile start to two agenda-full days next week, including a one-hour question-answer session Tuesday afternoon with campus people and the news media.
Ramaley, who takes the reins of the university in mid-July, invited student president-elect Ryan Flynn to dinner at the Hillside Fish Ship, six miles across the Mississippi at Marshland, on Thursday night. Over lemon-pepper walleye, Ramaley heard Flynn's take on her first major obstacle in her singular charge from state Chancellor Jim McCormick to get the controversial New University project up and running. Students have been adamant against a phased-in $1,000 tuition surcharge for New University reforms.
The student resistance has been a major factor in the disintegration of relations between the Student Senate and university President Darrell Krueger, who is retiring and sees the New U as a linchpin in his legacy. Those troubled student-adminstration relations are another problem that Ramaley is inheriting. At the Hillside Fish Shop, she picked up the bill. |
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Cops raid bar; patrons flee to basementWINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- Police raided a popular downtown college bar, Bulls-Eye Beer Hall, about midnight Thursday and cited underage drinkers. A witness said some under-21 people ran into the basement to hide when the cops showed up and started checking IDs. It was not known immediately how many under-age drinkers were ticketed.
One Bulls-Eye employee said the raid may have been triggered by a woman who was turned away at the door because her ID looked suspicious. She was irate, the employee said, noting that shortly thereafter the police showed up.
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Gordon team looks for evidence holes| WINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- A public defender for Paul Allen Gordon, who is accused in the Sugar Loaf murders, said that she and fellow public defender Carol Weissenborn will go through the grand jury documents to see if there is anything that can be challenged. Maxwell said will target anything from a questionable search and seizure procedures to dubious DNA evidence. "The possibilities are really endless," said Maxwell. Gordon was indicted Thursday in the brutal slaying of Winona State psych student Stacy Smith and her 10-year-old daughter in December. Maxwell and Weissenborn were given copies of the evidence in a large cardboard box after the indictment hearing. "We just want to make it the best way to represent Mr. Gordon," said Maxwell. |
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Reporter: Katie Carlson
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Prof: Court has tackled button issueWINONA, Minn., April 22, 2005 -- Winona high school officials need look no further than the landmark Tinker v. Des Moines case for guidance in dealing with senior Carrie Rethlefsen and her "I Love My Vagina" button, according to a Winona State University prof who specializes in free expression issues. Matt Bosworth, a political scientist, noted that in the Tinker case the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the 1960s that students could wear anti-war black armbands to school to express their views. There have been other cases on this matter and the court has not changed, Boworth said. Rethlefsen said the button represents her advocacy women's rights, sexual awareness and gender equality. Winona high school Principal Nancy Wondrasch has told Rethlefsen to stop wearing the button to school.
Bosworth said he's not taking sides on the Winona matter nor is saying the school wouldn't have a case. School authorities, however, need to take many things into consideration, he said: "Courts will take into account if the school is allowing other messages or slogans on T-shirts because singling this one out is constitutionally problematic." He said that in order for the school to have a case, it will have to show how this button is more disruptive any buttons students are wearing.
The buttons, with the word "love" indicated with a heart, began appearing around Winona after a speech at Winona State by feminist author Susan Faludi.
Reporter: Katie Moses
Just in case, security beefed up for concertWINONA, Minn., April 21, 2005 -- The security chief at Winona State University, Don Walski, isn't worried about anything getting out of hand at Friday night's Guster concert. "We've always had our students behave very well," Walski said. Even so, it won't be a usual night on campus with people flocking to the 3,000-seat McCown Gym, many of them outsiders.. Walski said there will be six police officers on duty plus campus security guards, about 10 police reservists, and "muscle" men guarding the stage. "We decide on how much security we need by the type of band and the day of the week the concert is on," Walski said.
Walski said every person coming into McCown will be searched along with any bags or belongings they are bringing in with them. "Anyone who is intoxicated will be turned away and not permitted in," Walski said. In the years that Walski has been involved with Winona State concert security he has never had a major incident or had to arrest a Winona State student. "Last year we had four arrests at the concert, but they were all non- students," Walski said.
Reporter: Jenn Baechle
Background: Know where to find odwalla slurp?
WSU takes on Earth Day celebrationWINONA, Minn., April 21, 2005 -- The third annual Winona Earth Day celebration, organized this year by a Winona State University recreational programming class, will begin with a procession of species outside Maxwell Hall. Phy-ed prof Jim Reidy invited to come dressed as their favorite species in masks and costumes made from recycled products. "The procession of species is really awesome to see," he said. "The participants put a lot of work into the costumes." The event is at 11 aq.m., Saturday. Other ev ents include musicians, activities, speakers, environmental workshops and free food.
Event coordinator Bucky Flores noted that this is the first year that Winona State has headed up the celebration. "We are working with several groups like science and engineering to make this a big, successful event," said Flores. "This is the only big Earth Day celebration around, so we draw people from all over like Rochester and Red Wing. Reidysaid the project is a good activity for students through experiential learning with service and cooperation.
According to Flores, the class has planned multi-generational water resource, recycling, and planting activities. Among the activities 12 Energy Alley speakers and a Green Living Fair with more than 100 vendors and workshops, all free.
Reporter: Andrew Liebetrau
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Second wave named for j-awardsWINONA, Minn., April 21, 2005 -- A second round on nominees for the Bremer and Corrigan student journalism awards, each a $500 prize, includes two major contributors to the CyberIndee, faculty publisher John Vivian announced. In all, there are 10 nominees. The presentation will be announced April 29 at the Winona State University masscom banquet.
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Speaker: Cubans healthy, well-schooledWINONA, Minn., APril 21, 20p05 -- Americans have tremendous misconceptions about life in Cuba, a peace activist told a Winona State audience. Audrey Thayer, a member of Witness for Peace who spent 10 days in Cuba in January, said that Cubans are healthy. HIV is lower than 1 percent, Thayer said. Children are welll educated, she said: "Elementary students are able to recite Shakespeare and sing opera." Thayer said that before the fall of the Soviet Union, 80 percent of Cuba's economy came from the soviets. Since the Soviet Union broke up, however, trade has been difficult due to a U.S. trade embargo. "Buildings cannot be maintained because it's hard for Cubans cannot acquire lumber or steel," she said. "Lots of cars are old; many from the 1950s, because they cannot import them from America."
Getting goods from other countries has been difficult because many incoming ships are hijacked, said Thayer. "Many Cubans blame America for the hijackings," she said. According to Thayer, many Cubans still look up to revolutionary Che Guevara. "I asked one young boy when we were visiting schools, and I asked him what his first word was, and he said, "revolutionâ" she said.
Thayer encouraged the audience members to fight against the embargo. "There is no legitimate reason we should have a blockade," Thayer said. "You should all write your representatives and let them know your displeasure with the embargo." Thayer stated that countries negotiate for goods, and when America negotiates with any country, there are stipulations. "These are the types of stipulation that destroy Native American culture," Said Thayer, who is half native herself. "Cuba does not want to deal with stipulations, therefore America has made a blockade."
Reporter: DJ Danielson
Bush chooses Calvin, not WSU, SMUWINONA, Minn., April 21, 2005 -- President Bush will speak at two commencement ceremonies, at Calvin College and at the U.S. Naval Academy, the White House announced. Calvin College, in Grand RApids, Mich., advertises itself as offering" a life-shaping education within the context of a Christ-centered, academically challenging, socially enriching environment." The president will address graduating seniors on May 21. He will be the commencement speaker at the Naval Academy on May 27. By tradition, presidents speak at a different military-service academy each spring.
Iwo Jima hero corrects U.S. flag taleWINONA, Minn., April 21, 2005 -- The last surviving member of the World War II American flag-raising mission on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima, Chuck Lindberg, told a Winona State University audience recently that contrary to a common notion there was no enemy opposition once he and fellow Marines were on the mountain. There were 6,825 American soldiers killed and 16,000 wounded, including Lindberg, on Iwo Jima, but his team was mostly out of range of Japanese soldiers by the time the order was issued to post the flag. About 21,000 Japanese soldiers were killed in the battle. Lindberg, 84, now of Richfield, Minn., showed slides of combat when the Marines landed on the shore of Iwo Jima in a one-hour Winona State presentation.
Lindberg, a Marine corporal, received the Silver Star Medal for gallantry as a flamethrower operator on Iwo Jima. In addition, Lindberg was awarded the Purple Heart Medal for his injuries, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. He spent two years and four months overseas.
A famous photograph and innumerable statues of the Iwo Jima flag-raising actually are of the second U.S. flag to be posted on Mount Suribachi. Not until Lindberg began telling his story many years ago did it become recognized that another flag had gone up first. The second, larger flag was raised in place of the original e to be more visible and to keep the original from being looted.
Reporter: Matt Kroulik
Solons differ on Rochester U billST. PAUL, Minn., April 21, 2005 -- The proposal of Gov. Tim Pawlenty to shut down University of Minnesota and Winona State operations in Rochester and create a new, independent university have made progress in the Legislature, but unsettled issues remain. The House bill includes no funding to get the project going. The Senate version includes $200,000 for a feasibility study and $3.2 million to proceed with the new university. A compromise would have to be worked out by a House-Senate committee before the bill would go to governor to be finalized.
RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
POSTED APRIL 21, 2005
SCHOOL EMBEZZELEMENT. Bookkeeper Collen Gardner pleaded guilty to embezzling $787,000 from the Winona Catholic Schools over a five-year period. She said she loved playing casino slots at Treasure Island.
BYE, ERIC? Answering a question at a City Council meeting, City Manager Eric Sorensen said he has no plans to retire for two or three years. Sorenson said he wantgs to see several large projects to completion. He has had the job 17 years.
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WSU expert dubious on Bolton for U.N.WINONA, Minn., April 21, 2005 -- United Nations ambassador candidate John Bolton is not the best person for the job, acording to Winona State University political science prof Chris Cook. "My opinion of Bolton is mixed," said Cook. "but some of his strengths make him a poor diplomat." Bolton, a Republican who served in the Bush administration in the 1990s, was appointed for the the U.N. position by the second President Bush in March, but the required Senate confirmation is in trouble. Cook said that the delay in confirmation is not based in partisanship. "The Democrats are not going to give him a free ride, but it is important to note that the Republicans hold a majority and they easily could have sent Bolton's name to the Senate if they had their act together."
Despite his reservations, Cook expects that the Bolton is likely to be confirmed. He said that the only factor that may have an effect of on the confirmation would be new evidence about Bolton's personality. "The Democrats are making a symbolic stand," he said. Bolton has been critical of the United Nations in the past, and Cook said that he has been prone to saying undiplomatic things.
Cook said that the biggest problem facing the United Nations in the coming years will be efficiency. "The U.N. needs to tighten its belt and become more useful," he said. Cook stressed compromise as the key to success in the United Nations. "If Bolton thinks that the U.S. will dictate the sole answers to the problems in the U.N. he is wrong." Cook's teaching load this year focused classes, including the United Nations in World Affairs."His dissertation included international diplomacy and U.S. intervention in humanitarian interests.
Reporter: Erin Feger
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Ever heard of odwalla slurp?WINONA, Minn., April 21, 2005 -- Students go-fers for Friday night's Winona State University rock concert have bizarre items to find to satisfy the band Guster's quirky tastes. The contract calls for Odwalla juice in flavors c-monster and blueberry monster. Nobody in Winona has ever heard of the stuff, but concert organizer Joe Reed said the quest is on. Guster also has specified a bag of pita bread and one container of hummus or tahini or babagagnovj or taboulen. Less exotic is a requirement for any combination of two local hockey team jerseys. Reed said that touring bands are notorious for oddball contract details, whether playing Winona or Carnegie Hall. The bigger the name, the bigger request, he said.
A second band, Carbon Leaf, asked for nothing oujlandish. Carbon Leaf is a laid-back young group of guys who are just looking for a few hot meals, Reed said. It's not uncommon for contracts to list alcohol, but Winona State, legally a dry camopus, overlooks the requirement, Reed said.
The assistant director of the UPAC student amusements committee, Emily Forde, remembers being a runner herself for the Counting Crows concert two years ago. They told her to do their laundry. "That was the most disgusting thing that I ever heard had to be done," Forde said.
What about Guster's odwalla thirst? Hy-Vee doesn't stock it. Maybe some Mississippi slough slurp will have to do.
Reporter: Katie Warman
Background: Guster concert ticket sales lag
Background: Guster prep takes WSU parking space
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Darrell
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WSU president
2003: $211,836
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SMU president
2001: $155,245
Jim Johnson
Tech president
2001:
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Lauren Elizondo
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Brian Olson
Sarah Ricci
Brittney Richmond
Michael Reis
Maegen Satka
Megan Schroeder
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Jamie Sires
Heather Stanek
Jason Staskus
Doug Sundin
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