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Court order hits WSU for music downloadsWINONA, Minn., May 2, 2005 -- The recording industry's crackdown on illegal music downloading from the Internet, which has focused on large colleges and showcase lawsuits, has reached Winona State University. The univerity has veen served with a cease and desist order from the Recording Industry Association of America. The association, which represents record-makers, said it had tracked a student downloading music illegally in the Winona State library. Joe Whetstone, the univerity's technology vice president, said the student has been contacted and asked to stop.
The downloading is regarded by RIAA as a copyright infringement, a form of theft. The association has tried making a legal argument that not only are student downloaders liable for civil damages, which can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but so are the colleges who allow their servers to be used for the downloads. Whetstone said the university is working with the state college system to to work out a solution. University policy has been to allow students full access to the Internet. This includes music-sharing sites.Whetstone said that technology has leapfrogged ahead of copyright enforcement, noting that music downloadiung has been an issue since the heyday of Shawn Fanning's original Napster heyday in the 1990s. The recorded-music industry reacted slowly even though its sales plummeted. The industry's legal response has picked up steam, though, and now has reached Winona State.
Whetstone said the university has mechanisms in place to head off illegal music downloads when a lot of activity to a particular site becomes apparent. If all of the sudden his staff people notice a lot of suspicious behavior online, they can block access to a particular site.
A solution may rest in part with legal music downloading services, including a new RealNetwork offer for 25 songs free, Whetstone said. RealNetwork usually $9.99 a month for unlimited downloading and an additional $5 to transfer music to hand-held MP3 playback devices. Some colleges have bought blanket license agreements from legit online music providers to give students free or low-cost downloading privileges, the charges being borne by tuition or fees.
Low-cost music may be the answer, said Whetstone, noting that the movie industry has gone to low-cost movies to disocuarge pirate bootlegging. The cost of movies as become so low that it's not worth people's time to copy them illegally, he said.
Except for peer-to-peer sharing, free music downloads from dubious sources are not really free, Whetstone said. He said that the legal downloading corporations should not have all the spy ware and pop-up ads that computers usually get through illegal downloading systems.
"Nothing's free," he said, noting that annoying popiup ads and spyware that can lead to further annoyances and make the downalders's operating systems unstable come along with ostensibly free downloads. Companies are "getting money from somewhere else" even if they are not getting them from the downloader, he said. Anything that is downloaded whether it be free screensavers or free music is risky, he said. About the dishonesty involved with copyright infringement, Whettsone said: "It's all about personal self worth and integrity," he said. Also, he added, illegal downloading can mean legal trouble. People may think that they are anonymous on the Internet, but they are not, he said.
Reporter: Melissa Ferolie
High Court accepts military recruiting issueWASHINGTON, May 2, 2005 -- The U.S Supmreme Court decided to
consider whether colleges that bar military recruiters from their campuses can be penalized with the loss of federal funds. The justices agreed to hear a case that was brought by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, an association of 25 law schools and several other groups.
Background: Government to resist recruiting ban
QUICK SPORTS
MAY 2, 2005
GOLF (MEN'S)
SNCAA Division II Super Regional (first day): Washburn 298, Missouri Southern 298 (1st) (tie), WSU 299 (3rd).
GOLF (WOMEN'S)
NCAA Division II North Region Championship (first day): Nebraska-Omaha 662, MSU-Mankato 662 (1st) (tie), outhwest Minnesota State 670 (3rd), North Dakota 682 (4th), Truman State 695 (5th), South Dakota 702 (6th).
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S)
Named conference pitcher of the week was SMU's Jenny Shipp.
TRACK (WOMEN'S)
Named conference track athete of the week was SMU hurdler Jenny Folgers..
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WSU author writes new fantasyWINONA, Minn., May 2, 2005 -- A Winona State University librarian, Kathy Sullivan, has written a third book that is being published by Amber Quill Press.Ê "Talking to Trees," a young adult fantasy, is set in the same universe as her first book, "The Crystal Throne," Sullivan said. The book will be released later this year, Amber Quill said.
Underage jock accused of boozing againWINONA, Minn., May 2, 2005 -- Sophomore Phil Capuzzi is emerging as the latest Bad Boy of the Winona State University football. Capuzzi, 20, was ticketed at 1:25 a.m., Saturday, at Broadway and Lafayette streets. The charge: Underage boozing, again. It was Capuzzi's second alcohol-related citation this school year -- a public relations setback for coach Tom Sawyer's campaign of low-key counseling to turn around the team's partying reputation. Earlier this year Capuzzi paid a $165 fine in Winona County District Court for underage consumption charge for a Sept. 17 incident. Repeat offenders usually receive a stiffer penalty.
Whether Sawyer will step up his sanctions was not immediately known. Under athletic department rules, Caopuzzi has 48 hours to notify Sawyer of the incident. According to the university's Athletic Code of Conduct, sanctions can be immediate, including explusion from the team.
Capuzzi's named became a househbold word on campus in February 2004 for a fight in which another student was pummled inside a locked dorm room. No charges were filed because police could not determine whether Capuzzi or the other man was more at fault. Both were frosh. University officials ordered both men to move out the dorms. Capuzzi's family jumped into the issue, defending him as acting in self-defense and objecting that his status as a football player had unfairly made him a target of news media attention. Coach Tom Sawyer also downplayed the incident publicly but quietly took disciplinary steps.
Sawyer has been under pressure to address drunkenness and partying since a Fall 2003 check of court records by student journalist Brian Kranz identified 25 football players with Winona police records. Fourteen offenses were for underage consumption of alcohol and 11 for loud parties. Other convictions included public consumption of alcohol, peeing in public, and underage possession of alcohol. One conviction was for assault.
By the end of that school year, the number of offenses by varsity football players had climbed to 44. The number did not include eight charges against frosh Carey Rottman for a marijuana and whisky incident at a party, with high school football recruits watching on. In the incident, Rottman head-butted one officer. A second officer was injured in a foot chase. In plea-bargaining, four felony charges against Rottman were dismissed, and he spent only a few days in jail for the others.
At the start of the 2004 football season, with some of the worst offenders graduated, the statistics on players with rap sheets had improved. New incidents were down in part because of team counseling on how to party smarter and how to respond when caught. A March 2005 check of court documents found 26 of 108 players on the team had a total of 37 convictions, down 18.8 pecent from a year earlier. |
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From WSU Code of Athletic Conduct:
"With any misconduct, you must immediately notify your head coach or assistant coach. You must notify these individuals within 48 hours after your arrest or charges / complaints have been filed against you. Failure to notify may result in additional disciplinary action against you.
"Your head / assistant coach will notify the Director of Athletics within 24 hours of receiving the information regarding misconduct. The Director of Athletics and your head coach may determine that a meeting needs to be set with all parties involved to discuss possible sanctions. The Director of Athletics will determine whether the President of the University should be notified.
"If your misconduct is severe enough to warrant misdemeanor or felony charges being brought against you or if the alleged crime involved violence or drugs, the Director of Athletics will inform the President of the University.
"The head coach, subject to the review and approval of the Athletic Director, may ban a Student-Athlete from participating in team activities for violations of the Student Athlete Code of Conduct. This sanction may be imposed as soon as the athlete notifies the coach of the violation, the coach gives the Student-Athlete a chance to explain what happened, and detemines that a sanction is justified after consideration of the student-athlete's statement."
"One or more of the following sanctions may be imposed when a student is found to heve violated any rules:
> Expulson from the University
> Permanent suspension from the team
> Temporary suspension from practice or competition
> Loss of athletic aid
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Background: WSU football team betters crime record
Background: Comment: Coddling the punks
Background: Football player placed at assault scene
Background: Recruiting lures: Bare breasts, booze
Background: How Colorado, WSU stack up
Background: Partying has role at WSU
Background: The night Brian Ploessl went down
Background: The night Corey Rottman went down
Background: Football arrest tally
Background: On dorm fight, coach seals player's lips
Profs fret at House anti-abortion billWINONA, Minn., May 2, 2005 -- After the U.S. House passed a bill to make it a crime to take a minor across state lines for an abortion, Winona State University profs Tamara Berg and Susan Sdefkow spoke against the legislation and and the effect on college students could be negative. Berg, who teaches women's studies, said majority Republicans in the House saw the bill as another vehicle for "slowly chipping away" at the Roe vs. Wade court decision that loosened restructions on abortions. Sefkow, a psychology prof, agreed. The bill, if it becomes law, would be a new restraint on the rights of women, Sefkow said. Besides the stateline issue, the bill also would require parental notification for underage women seeking abortions.
Noting that Congress made a law banning partial-birth abortions in 2003, Sefkow said the conservatives in power are slowly trying to make abortions less and less possible. The end result, she said, would force women to go back to coat hangers and perform back-alley abortions. "By putting those restrictions on girls," said Berg, "you are adding to the problem of women getting really late-term abortions, because they wait and wait to tell their parents, and you run the risk of girls trying to perform self-induced abortions."
The legislation would also require a 24-hour waiting period for a minor's abortion. The legislsation, called the Women's Right to Know Law, would
require women to first receive counseling before an abortion and then to wait 24-hours. Minnesota aleady requires a 24-hour waiting period, which Berg said has been a hardship for students for the two years it's been in effect. "WSU students must travel to the cities to get an abortion if they're going to get one that's not a private-payer abortion, which would be $3500 versus $450 if it's under 11 weeks," said Berg. The parental-notification bill wouldn't affect Winona State students directly because they are over 18, but those who have siblings seeking abortions will have no right to consent, she said.
Reporter: Shelli Daniels
WSU hires television instructorWINONA, Minn., May 1, 2005 -- A former La Crosse, Wis., television newscaster, Robin O'Callaghan, has accepted a broadcast faculty position at Winona State University. O'Callaghan has been teaching television courses part-time since Dennis Pack retired two years ago. Most recently she has been in public relations at the Franciscan Skemp hopsital-clinic in La Crosse.
Christians pleased at WSU student interestWINONA, Minn., May 1, 2005 -- A survey by a student Christian group found 300 Winona State University students would like more information about church and other Christian organizations in which they could become involved, said Shelli Daniels, a campus leader of the H2O ministry. "We knew there were more people on campus searching for religion in their lives, but we had no idea it was this many," said Daniels. Somewhere between 800 and 900 students responded to a questionnaire at a booth in the Kryzsko Commons over two days, Daniels said. Among respondents, she said, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, and atheists.
H2O ministry, associated with Pleasant Valley Church, wanted the survey to to get students thinking spiritually, Daniels said. The ministry team didn't care about how many students showed an interest as long, Daniels said. The goal was to reach one person, she said. said Daniels. When the results showed 300 were interested, it was overwhelming, she added.
The response was a lot more than expected, said Brandon Zieske, associate college director at Pleasant Valley Church. Zieske said that many young people lose a church habit once they leave their parents' nest. "We want to wake up the individual relationships with God and show that it's not just about parents," he said. "Christianity is a personal relationship with God." he said.
Zieske acknowledged some controversy over their surveys. "We welcome the controversy," he said. "Jesus raised controversy. He got people to listen and challenge what they believe. We want students to be informed, not ignorant."
Reporter: Katie Moses
RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
POSTED MAY 2, 2005
NO-KING BURGERS. First king-siz sodas disappeared, then Burger King-label sandwich wraps, then lids from large sodas. Now the Winona Burger King has posted signs that Burger King franchise items are being replaced with "similar products." The store franchise has been revoked after monts of dispute between owner Girish Dharod, who is resisting the Burger King corporate claim= to a right to first refusal when franchisees sell their store. Dharod has insisted he be able to sell the busienss to whomever he wants.
WINCRAFT GROWING. A company that marketsschool triunkets and memoriabilia, Wincraft, bough a Watlow building at 1265 E. Sanborn St. for $1.2 million to expand its operations. It will be Wincraft's fourth building in greater Winiona. Wincraft had been leasing half the building.
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WSU literary magazines makes deadlineWINONA, Minn., May 1, 2003 -- The advisor of Satori, the student-produced Winona State University literary magazine, made it out on time and under budget, said faculty adviser Gary Eddy. The 35th annual digest-sze edition, 72 pages, carried 26 poems andfive prose pieces., The 25 pieces of artwork inside, all black and white, included 21 photographs, three dawings and one comic strip. Of the drawings two were by Samuel Ng Tong.The cover photo was by by Allana Gacke. The 56 entries were selected from 225 pieces submissions, said co-editor Jayne Zeller.
The magazine is produced through a 300-level English class that Eddy teaches. Eddy sacalled the issue a great success, noting that this was the first time to hisnknowledge that the magazines was our before finals week. "Last year," he said, "the magazine wasn't finished until the school year was over, so they were handing the Satori out at the graduation ceremony to anyone who would take it." Eddy shas been working with the magazine five years.
The magazine is funded with student-activity fee money. The press run was 1,000. The budget was $1,800, not all which was spent, Eddy said.
School counselors win awardsWINONA, Minn., May 1, 2005 -- The Southeast Minnesota Counselor Association, hosted by Winona State University, named Jeanne Poppe of Riverland Community College in Albert Lea, Minn., as the post-secondary counselor of the year. Carl Stange, Winona Satte admissions dirtector and the counselor association awards chair, announced these other awards:
Angela Hutchins of Riverside Elementary in Rochester as elementary school counselor of the year.Scott Mahle of Kellogg Middle Schoool in Rochester as the middle-junior school counselor of the year.Shannon Brown of Byron High School in Byron as the secondary school counselor of the year.Sara Groven of Lourdes High School in Rochester as the administrator of the year.
QUICK SPORTS
MAY 1, 2005
BASEBALL (MEN'S)
Southwest Minnesota State 10, WSU 3; Southwest Minnesota State 11, WSU 4.
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S)
WSU vs. Missouri Western, canceled.
WSU vs. Nebraska-Omaha, cancelled.
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Gordon a mystery birthday guestWINONA, Minn., May 1, 2005 -- The man indicted in the Sugar Loaf murders, Paul Allen Gordon, moved easily among socializing college students over the fall months, accrording to accounts in a growing number of interviews. But a murderer? Senior Colleen Harer, who first met Gordon at a friend's birthday party on Oct. 8, called him "sociable without being talkative." He left the party and came back later with a present -- a $42 bottle of champagne. Other students recall him as a generous tipper, as likeable, and he was a frequent night-life chartacter at college bars, including Bulls-Eye and ZaZa's. Some were suspcicious, though, at frequent calls coming in on his cell phones. On one night he was carrying three phones.
Harer and some of her friends were uneasy about Gordon at the start, but most students who have been interviewed accepted him as an acceptable if not slighhty shadowy character on their social life. It was a shock to all in December when police announced they wanted to talk him about the murder of 29-year-old Stacy Smith, a Winona native who although an occassional Winona State student was more at home in townie circles than on the campus partying circle. Eventually Gordon, 21 at the time, was charged with murder in the death of Smith anf her 10-year-old daughter.
Harer said she Gordon at a party at 408 Main St, the same apartment complex as Gordon's girlfriend. "He just walked down into the basement by himself and introduced himself as X," Harer said. Harer said she thought he had let himself into the apartment and wandered down into the basement where partiers had gathered. However, Harer's friend, Meredith Bocian,who was hosting the party, said she was waiting for some other people to arrive upstairs and had had the door open when Gordon walked by. "He poked his head in the door and asked what I was doing," Bocian said. Bocian said she had met Gordon about a month earlier at Bulls-Eye's Beer Hall when Gordon was out with his girlfriend who lived upstairs at 408 Main St.
He was waiting for his girlfriend to come home when he happened by the open door, Bocian said. "I told him we were having a party for my birthday and he came in to talk for a few minutes before he went downstairs to see who else was there," Bocian said.
Harer said when Gordon walked down the stairs they were all a little curious about who he was because they had never met him before. "He didn't share any information about himself but laughed at other people's jokes," Harer said. After 15 or 20 minutes Gordon left saying he would be back soon. When Gordon returned he had a hug and a bottle of champagne for Bocian's birthday present, he said. "My suspicions were immediately raised," Harer said. "I didn't know if he was trying to be nice or get my friend drunk." Bocian said she thought it was just a nice gesture and did not think anything of it until her friends expressed their concerns after Gordon had left. During the time Gordon remained at Bocian's apartment he received quite a few calls, Bocian said. She joked that he must be a drug dealer because he was also carrying three cell telephones. According to Bocian, Gordon responded, "Everyone thinks I'm a dealer because I'm black."
After Gordon left, Harer and others at the party expressed concerns about the man they knew as X. "There was an unspoken agreement that we weren't going to leave her alone with him nor were we going to drink the champagne he bought," Hare said.
Once Bocian heard her friends' reactions, she recognized a strain of legitimacy their concerns. She said didn't have much contact with Gordon after that except to say hi in the hall -- until a few weeks later when Gordon showed up unexpectedly again. "This time one of my guy friends was over to watch movies," Bocian said. When Bocian got up to get something from her room in the basement, Gordon made the motion to follow her down there, Bocian's friend later told her. "My friend asked what Gordon was doing and when he said he was going down to see what I was doing. My friend told Gordon he was my boyfriend," Bocian said. Gordon apologized to the friend and left soon after that, Bocian said.
Bocian said the police suspected Gordon might have been in her apartment after the Sugar Loaf murders on dedc. 16 since it was the only ground floor apartment accessible to the outside. "It was scary knowing he could have been in there," Bocian said. |
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Accused in Winona strangulation murders
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Reporter: Jenn Baechle
Background: Gordon remembered as nice guy, big tipper
WSU SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING APRIL 30, 2005
April 30: A Quad dorm supervisor called for security guards at 2:10 p.m. for help with a drug violation.
April 29: at 10:38 p.m. Security guards cited a student for an alcohol violation in the the Lourdes parking lot at 10:38 p.m.
April 27: Security guards assisted the dorm staff with an alcohol violation at the East Lake dorm at 11:15 p.m.
April 27: A student fell in the science lab building at 11:06 a.m. An emergency team transported the student to the hospital.
April 26: A student reported at 5:45 p.m. that her purse was taken from her vehicle in a parking lot. Security guards eventually located the purse in Stark Hall, where the student said she had forgotten she left it.
April 25: Security guards assisted the dorm staff with an alcohol violation in Maria at 11:50 p.m.
April 25: A maintenance worker accidentally set off a fire alarm at the Physical Plant at 10:15 a.m.
April 24: A fire alarm was activated in in the Prentiss-Lucas form at 9:11 p.m. Smoke on the fourth floor was traced to food on the stove. The building was cleared and security guards extinguished the fire. City firefighters also responded. Two security guards were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
April 24: A fire alarm was activated in the Lourdes dorm at 4:19 a.m. because someone discharged a fire extinguisher.
April 24: Security guards called police at 1:30 a.m. regarding a student being disruptive. The student was arrested and transported to the hospital.
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Senate would rob profs for excellence projectsST. PAUL, Minn., April 30, 2005 -- The proposal of Gov. Tim Pawlenty to put $20 million into what he called "centers of excellence," at state colleges, on which Winona State had pegged major funding for the New University, has hit a bad patch in the Legislagture. The Senate higher-ed bill, which came out of committee last week, dropped the Pawlenty plan. Earlier the House, its higher-ed bill, cut the governor's proposal to $15 million. To do it, the House dropped funds to start restoring faculy salaries to be nationally competitive again. The House and Senate bills need reconciliation. The next step will be floor debate in the Senate on the whole higher-ed funding bill. A joint House-Senate committee then would resolve differences and turn its joint recommendation over to Pawlenty.
The House bill says the competitive salary money should be spent first at Centers of Excellence. The Senate bill does not link the salary competitiveness money to the Centers of Excellence. The Governor proposed $20 million for Centers of Excellence. The House bill cut this amount to $15 million and the Senate bill cut this amount to $0.
The whole higher-ed bill, mostly for funding the University of Minesota and the MnSCU sysytem, For MnSCU, which includes Winona State, the governor proposed a $107.5 million increase for the next two years, up 8.5 percent increase over last biennium. The Republican-controlled House proposed a $102 million increase, a 8.0 percent increase. The Democrat-controlled Senate proposed a $125.5 million increase, 10.1 percent.
The Senate bill would funded the $72 million base increase for MnSCU to meet new expenses from enrollment growth. The House would appropriate $55.3 million for an allocation formula that somewhat parallels the House base funding plan, albeit at a lower level.
The governor had recommended $5 million to improve salary competitiveness. The Senate voted to increase this amount to $13.8 million. The House voted to increase this amount to $13.9 million.
Both the House and Senate bills authorize the state universities to offer applied doctoral degrees. The Senate bill grants general authority. The House bill names specific fields for applied doctorates, including nursing, education, psychology.
The Senate bill would allow the children of undocumented aliens who attended and graduated from Minnesota high schools to attend Minnesota post secondary institutions at resident tuition rates. The House bill does not contain such a provision.
Background: House would hike higher-ed spending
News reporting prize to Puttbrese| WINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- Student journalist B.J. Puttbrese, whose become dreaded in the halls of power at Winona State for his investigative journalism, was awarded the 2005 Slug Award for news reporting. Puttbrese was cited at the masscom spring banquet for reporting on a top-level, under-the-radar plan to expand the campus all the way to Lake Park. Puttbrese also was cited for using state open-record laws to force administratos to release the first information on the costs of the controversial New University initative -- $716,000 so far. The award, a $200 cash prize, was presented by Winonan co-news editors Emily Finley and Anne Jungen. The award is funded from an endowment estalished by former Winonan news editor Brian Krans, now with the Rock Island, Ill., Argus-Dispatch-Leader. |
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Puttbrese portfolio:
WSU has spent $716,000 on New U
WSU's new Manifest DestinyBackground: Krahn, Stanek win CyberIndee prizes
Student loan changes go to Supreme CourtWASHINGTON, May 1, 2005 -- The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider a case on whether the government can deduct money from Social Security checks to cover long-overdue student-loan debts. At issue are amendments to the Debt Collection Act of 1982 that give federal agencies the right to use "administrative offsets" to collect money owed to the government. The main plaintiff, James Lockhart, said that docking his Social Security has created a financial hardship. Lockhart still owed more than $80,000 on student loans from the mid- to late-1980s when, in 2001, he was disabled. He was tying to survive on $874 a montgh in Social Security benefits and $10 in food stamps when the governmntg began withholding $93 a month from his Social Security payments.
Chemistry prof present spectroscopy reportWINONA, Minn., April 30, 2005 -- A Winona State University chemistry prof, Tom Nalli,presented a poster at the American Chemical Society convention on using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in an undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Four of Nalli's research students, Desiree Bonsack, Amanda K. Meier, Tyler Morin and Missy Jo Studler, easch presented sessionson their work.
Krahn, Stanek win CyberIndee j-prizesWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- The Adolph Bremer Prize for the best journalism on the CyberIndee was awarded to both Adam Kranz and Heather Stanek. Each received $500 from the endowed fund that supports the award. Krahn was cited for investigative work in the 2004 municipal elections. Krahn used court documents to alert readers to undercurrents in an acrimonious race between Chris Arnold, the incumbent City Council member from the Winona State ward, and challenger Mara Rukavina, which included an unplesant spat over a dental chair at the downtown dental practice of Arnold's wife Stacy Mounce. John Vivian, faculty editor of tgeh CyberIndee, called Krahn's wok "remarkable in helping voters better understand what was happening in the campaign."
Heather Stanek won the second Bremer Prize for reporting on drugs as a campus issue. Stanek has tracked the lessening of official concern over marijuana use in general as police shift their focus to cocaine. "Heather Stanek has an intervieiwing gift that draws out sources, plus extraordinary talents for seeing story possibilities," said Vivian, who nominated Stanek as well as Krahn. The Bremer award, named after a long-time Winona journalism instructor, is awarded by the Winona State masscom faculty.
The Paul Corrigan Prize, named for a photojournalism student who died in his sophomore year, was presentde to Winona State junior Doug Sundin for spot photography that has appeared on the CyberIndee. It too is a $500 prize. "Doug Sundin catches those instants in spontaneous events that themselves speak volumes beyond mere words," Vivian said.
Runners-up for the CyberIndee awards were B.J. Puttbrese, for uncovering a Winona State master plan to double the size of the campus all the way to Lake Park; Amber Dulek, for moving stories on the accident that paralyzed Winona State football player Joe Delagrave; and Chris Warrington, for his photographic work at the scene of the Sugar Load murders. |
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Background: Second wave of nominees
Background: History of Indee prizes
Prof: Let high-schoolers push the limitsWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- WINONA, Minn., April 30, 2005 -- The chair of the Winona State University education department, Lee Gray, favors students pushing the politically correct envelope in schools. Gray said the Winona high school senior who was tolde to remove a I Love My Vagina button should exercise her constitutional right for a court review of whbat happened. "If I was in charge of handing this situation, I would also have told the student to remove the button, and inform her of all the rights she is entitled to as a citizen," said Gray, who once was a principal himself. In the end, Gray believes, the courts will respect the students First Amendment rights to free expression but also will side with the need of schools to maintain an appropriate environment for study. School administrators, he said, "must be able to maintain order in the school as well as create an appropriate environment."
Asked if high school kids are becoming more rebellious with their clothes and causes, Gray said it's great to see students thinking outside of the box and pushing the appropriate boundaries to their limits. It shows they are becoming more intellectual as students and human beings, he said.
Reporter:Mark Monn
Background: Feminist: Keep wearing those buttons
WSU prof: Long-term Murrah effect nilWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- Although shocked 10 years after when Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City Ameicans have not not much fazed in the long term about their personal security, said Winona State University criminal justice prof Helen Dachelet. The bombing was such an isolated case and other than possibly the residents of Oklahoma City, citizens in the United States have not felt threatened that similar incidences could occur, Dachelet said "It was 10 years ago," she said. "Do you remember and worry about things that happened 10 years ago?"
Dachelet said, however, that the Murrah bombing did change how Americans think about criminals. "McVeigh was an ordinary person and it left us all feeling uncomfortable about who could be out on the streets and who could be capable of committing these types of crimes," she said. Dachelet also said the case and the execution of McVeigh has left an important lesson about the death penalty, which she opposes. "If he lived," Dachelet said, "who would it have hurt?" She recognizes the anger against McBeigh, especially with victims' families, but, she added, they will never find peace if they don't forgive him and move on with their lives.
Asked if the bombing is taught in classrooms, Dachelet said it is not significant enough to be teaching, but it is mentioned in some criminology textbooks. She said most textbooks sensationalize the events like the bombing but don't show a way to prevent them.
Reporter: Emily Lueth
QUICK SPORTS
APRIL 30, 2005
BASEBALL (MEN'S)
Southwest Minnesota State 11, WSU 5; WSU 19, Southwest Minnesota State 12.
Augsburg 10, SMU 0; Augsburg 3, SMU 2.
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S)
WSU 6, St. Cloud State 5.
WSU 45, South Dakota 3.
SMU 1, Concordia of Moorhead 0; Concordia of Moorhead 45, SMU 2.
TENNIS (MEN'S)
MIAC Championships: St. Olaf 5, SMU 4; Hamline 8, SMU 1. SMU 8th.
TENNIS (WOMEN'S)
MIAC Championships: St. Olaf 6, SMU 3; Bwethel 6, SMU 3. SMU 8th.
TRACK (MEN'S)
UW-La Crosse Classic: UW-La Crosse 227.5 (1st), UW-Stout 156 (2nd), WSU 146.5 (3rd).
TENNIS (MEN'S)
Awarded the conference Arthur Ashe Award for sportsmanship, academics, tennis achievement humanitarian concerns was SMU's Mark leeder.
TENNIS (WOMEN'S)
MIAC Championships: SMU 8, Hamline 1.
Carleton 9, SMU 0.
RECORDS
An SMU relay team of Becky Baron, Megan Moran, Kelly Tank and Autumn Valk set an 800-meeter school women's record of 1:47.90.
An SMU relay team of Emily Bartusek, Ashley Dingels, Maria Roche sprint medley school women's record of 4:08.44.
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WSU feminist: Keep wearing those buttonsWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- Winona State University students, unlike high-schoolers in town, can wear I Love My Vagina buttons without worrying about administrators requiring them to take the buttons off because the college is less conservative, said student feminist leader Sarah Gobverville.. In fact, Winona State students have sporting the buttons since the campus production of "Vagina Monbolgues" in february, when he buttons were handed out by the dozen. Goberville, co-representative fon canmpus for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, commended the university for a great job of allowing fair freedom of expression without biases. Goberville high school Principal Nancy Wondrasch, who asked senior Carrie Rethlefsen to remove her button, did so because vaginas have been cultured within society to be embarrassing to talk about and therefore the word is shocking to see on a button. "It's society's natural instinct, through society's molding over the years, to be embarrassed, offended and outraged at the idea of someone feeling comfortable and empowered by using the word avoided by the majority," she said. Goberville said Rethlefsen should be allowed to wear her button because it is an appropriate way to express herself.
Goberville said Winona State women's activist groups probably would not get involved with this issue because the school year is coming to an end. About Rethlefsen, Goberville said, "She should continue to wear her button, write petitions, hold informational meetings and training sessions educating students on women's rights and the phenomenon of quieting students using the medical term for their reproductive parts--not even slang that can be interpreted as vulgar." Goberville, also a member of Women Involved in Living and Learning, an activist group focused on education on women's rights issues, said she thinks
Reporter:Amanda Finley
Background: Ed prof defends button ban
Gordon remembered as nice guy, big tipperWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- A Winona State University junior, Carly Johnson, who lived in the same apartment as Paul Allen Gordon for a period of time, said that she was shocked when the FBI first questioned her in December about the Sugar Loaf murders and suggested that Gordon was a suspect. Johnson said that the picture the FBI painted of Gordon seemed "unreal," compared to the Gordon she had gotten to know at the beginning of fall semester through her roommate, Heather Tweeten, who was Gordon's womanfriend at the time. Johnson was subpoenaed to testify in before the grand jury that indicted Gordon last week on 10 counts, including first-degree murder, in the gruesome strangulation of Winona State junior Stacy Smith and her 10-year-old daughter. Johnson spoke freely about Gordon in an interview but declined to discuss anything she testified to before the grand jury.
"I was shocked the FBI could think that Xavier was capable of doing the things they were saying," Johnson said. She had always found him "very polite." Gordon had even ordered her food once after he had heard her casually mention she was hungry. Johnson said that the Xavier she knew was "respecting of women, polite and chivalrous." Johnson said she never heard Gordon raise his voice or saw any hint of violence.Although police say Gordon went by many aliases. Johnson said that he introduced himself to her by his real name but said that most people called him Xavier. She called him Xavier. Gordon had a place of his own, Johnson said but he spent "most of his nights" at her apartment with his housemate, Tweeten. "When he was around he made me feel safe," Johnson said of Gordon. She said that he was strong and used to do one-handed pull-ups on the ledge of the apartment. Gordon also used to do the dishes a lot for Johnson and Tweeten, according to Johnson. "He said that we were messy girls," she added.
Johnson admitted she suspected Gordon did not make his money legitimately but she said she never saw Gordon in possession of drugs or selling any drugs. The only thing the FBI brought up that didn't surprise Johnson was the drug dealing, she said. Johnson said that Tweeten was pregnant by Gordon the last time she saw her. Tweeten moved out of the apartment after Gordon's arrest. Johnson said she is unsure what has become of Tweeten since she left because the two were not close friends. "I thought I knew the real Xavier -- the nice, polite, good one. But it turns out he is someone totally different," Johnson said.
Gordon was also well known at ZaZa's pizzeria near campus, where Gordon sometimes treated Johnson and her friends ito meals. A ZaZa waitress, Tracey Thompson, said she remembers Gordon as a fequent patron and a big tipper. Thompson said she can remember one particular Wing Night where Gordon gave $25 to the doorman as they were closing and instructed the money be split among because they had been working hard. "Even if you were the worst waitress in the world, if you had Xavier at your table, you were going to get a $15 tip," Thompson said. Thomson also said she remembers Gordon bringing flowers to another waitress for days on end.
Thompson also remembers a night in November where Gordon came into the restaurant upset and crying because his father had just died. Some of the waittresses said they noticed a change in Gordon's demeanor after his father's death, according to Thompson. |
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PAUL
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Accused in Winona strangulation murders
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Reporter: Zack Stogenson
Background: Police comb duffel bag for clues
Pawlenty at WSU: Libraries are keyWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty reflected fondly on his colleges days and the importance of tghe campus library to his studies in praising Winona State President Darrell Krueger at the chistening ceremony for the univerity library in Krueger's name. Pawlenty said he worries about libraries are becoming less important than when he was a Univerity of Minnesota undegrad. Even so, he said he believes that learning experiences in libraries are much better than learning off of the Internet. At the outdoor dedication ceremony, the governor said he was pleased to be in a great town, on a great day, at a great university, to honor a great man. He pointed to changes at Winona State under Krueger, who is retiring about 16 years as universtyt president. Pawlenty said that Krueger understood that the world is a changing place and brought a vision to Winona State taht has changed the university for the better. "We need more people like Darrell Krueger in our society," Pawlenty said.
Reporter: Scotty Ryan
Background: Krueger emotional at naming ceremony
WSU ed prof defends button banWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- Winona high school administrators balanced hard-to-measure decency standards held by the local and national community in deciding to force senior Carrie Rethlefsen to remove her I Love My Vagina button, said Winona State University education leadership prof Lee Gray. In an interview, Gray, a former principal himself, said he would have done the samed thing. He acknowledged, though, that the issue was complicated by the issues of the civil rights of students and teed to to preserve order at the school. Gray said that despite flourishing plurality and liberalism in the United States, the state of local and national morality is increasingly compliant with a conservative school of thought. It's aa shift in values, he said, that has gained momentum with the conservative Bush administration and a national trend toward religious affirmation.
Gray conceded that infringing upon a student's civil rights on the basis of morality is a precarious practice, but he added that as a high school administrator he too would have prohibited students the button. According to Gray, the fact that the button was not intended to be offensive or lewd should be of no concern to a high school administrator. The school administrators, he said, rightfully devalued the intent of the button. Gray said the age and maturity of huigh schoolers further eroded a rationale for the button, whatgever the intended positive message of empowering women and promoting dialogue about violence against women.
Although he sides with the course of action taken by the high school administration, Gray said as a principal he would welcome such expressiveness to facilitate meaningful dialogue and a social consciousness among students. Gray also said the right of high school students to lawfully protest should be protected and supported, adding that he would encourage the student to continue her protest by contacting the American Civil Liberties Union. In fact, the ACLU has already contacted Rethlefsen. Last week, Chris Samuelson, executive director of the Minnesota ACLU, offered to help.
With the inclusion of the ACLU, the battle between free speech and moral code has reached a critical juncture and could go any number of directions. State law permits school officials to inhibit speech considered dangerous or damaging, but in a similar case, Tinker v. Des Moines 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court awarded students full First Amendment rights and discredited school administrator concerns over the possible reaction to black armbands worn in protest of the Vietnam War. Gray said that as minors, students forfeit many of their civil rights. Rethlefsen, however, is 18.
Reporter:Chandler MacLean
Background: In wake of vagina button flap, book club planned
PHOTOGRAPHER: MATT KASPER
A TEARY PRESIDENT
Overwhelmed at testimnials at the dedication of the WSU library in his name, retiring university President Darrell Krueger takes a break to regain his composure. |
WSU's Krueger emotional at naming ceremonyWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- In a finale marking his 16 years as Winona State president before retiring, Darrell Krueger responded emotionally when a purple drape was pulled away to reveal the new name of the campus library -- the Darrell W. Krueger Library. "I am overwhelmed by this honor," he told a crowd, including Gov. Tim Pawlenty, gathered on the crisp April morning in front of the library. "I cannot imagine a greater honor than having a library named after me, especially this library that I worked so hard for," Krueger said. Krueger regards the library, a state-of-the-art, technologically equipped facility geared to the Laptop University legacy that Krueger is leaving. Community and campus leaders joined Pawlenty taking turns thanking Krueger.
The event was both a dedication ceremony and a makeshift going-away party for Krueger, who officially retires at the end of June. Gary Evans, who served as emcee, started the ceremony by saying, "We are here to honor a great person and his 16-year presidency." Evans, once a vice president under Krueger, called this library "a bright and shining jewel, which will serve the campus for decades to come." Gov. Pawlenty presented Krueger with a certificate of recognition. Said Pawlenty" "President Krueger has an appetite for change and a heart for giving people a life with meaning. President Krueger has chartered a bright future for this institution."
The dedication ceremony became possible after an anonymous couple donated $1 million to the university to honor Krueger.
Reporter: Steven Kuzenski
Background: Chancellor lauds outgoing president
READER COMMENT
NO ROOM
FOR BLIND CRITICISM
BY MICK REIS
Student Senator Representing Business
Winona State Univerity
Next year I plan to seek office in Habitat for Humanity. I think I should become president of Habitat for Humanity because they are obviously not doing their job. They aren't building houses. I know this because Habitat for Humanity has not built me a house. It's true I've never attended their meetings. It's true I've never participated in their events. I may or may not know where and when they meet, but I do know they're not doing their job. This is why you should elect me and even though I'm not sure what Habitat for Humanity does, I know they're not doing it, and I know I can fix it.
This may sound illogical, but it happens every year in Student Senate, in particular the last two elections. Without a doubt, every election has someone run on an anti-Senate platform. They claim Student Senate isn't doing its job and they will be the one to fix it. No one disagrees that there are problems with Senate but I think these claims would be more substantial if these dedicated candidates actually took time to attend a Student Senate meeting or if they could say exactly what their problem with Student Senate is. Instead they just point to vague notions and assumptions. Lack of student representation is a problem these candidates tout but they fail to explain how and why this happens. They say they will fix it by talking to students and holding town hall-style meetings. They indicate these ideas are new and different and have never been done before. News flash: They have.
I've been involved with student governments at two MnSCU schools for three years now. In this time I've talked to many students I've represented. I will openly admit I do not know every constituent's opinion on every issue, but I know a lot on a lot. As for town hall meetings, I've seen tremendous student interest and turnout at things like election debates and rallies and by tremendous turnout, I mean 20 students. Please note about 15 of them are newswriting students.
There are problems with Student Senate. I won't deny this. Friendships, lack of constituent consultation, blindly following administration. These are real problems. If you want to get involved and change it, that's great. I respect that and I wish you great luck. However, informed participants with a good grasp of why what is wrong is wrong and how to fix it will be the ones to change it and attending a meeting before you declare candidacy is a good place to start.
DISCLAIMER: Habitat for Humanity is a wonderful service organization that does a stellar job. I am using them as an example and have no intent to seek office. |
Chancellor lauds outgoing WSU presidentWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- During the ceremony dedicating the Winona State library in the name of retiring university President Darrell Krueger, the state colleges chancellor, Jim McCormick, thanked Krueger for everything he has done for both Winona and the state of Minnesota. The chancellor said Krueger "has maintained a commitment to raising the bar for the university." McCormick assured his audience that Winona State alumni appreciate their university more because of Krueger: "His principles have guided him and have instilled a love for learning in students."
McCormick said that he had just spoken with nine alumni and that the one thing all of them had in common was how they enjoyed the beauty the campus -- a major Krueger goal. He noted thaty a book has been written about the trees on campus. Landscaping includes every species of trees native to the state.
About the library, which was Krueger's first major project when he began his presidency 16 years ago, McCormick thanked legislators for investing in Minnesota higher education. McCormick also thanked the people of Minnesota for investing in both the new library and the more recent Winona State science building. Private benefactors deserve credit too, he said.
Reporter: Tom Wilder
Background: Legislature keeps Pelowski in St. Paul
In wake of vagina button flap, book club plannedWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 --Due to controversy of the I Love My Vagina button worn to school by a Winona high school senior, the woman's studies director at Winona State has decided to start a women's issues book club. Tamra Berg said this the best time to start the book club because many people support and encourage the student, Carrier Rethlefsen, for her commitment to woman's rights. Berg said in the past couple of weeks she has gotten feedback from many women who believe there should be some kind of a women's rights support group. The other day, Berg received a call from a 60-year-old lady indicating that she wants to be part of a support group so that younger girls understand that women of all ages have the same issues.
In an interview, Berg said she hopes the book club would attract a spectrum of women. Men would be encouraged to join, she said.
Winona State English prof Debra Cumberland would assist Berg in forming the book club. Berg and Cumberland will begin to promote the book club at the high school if allowed. Berg said she is confident the high school will let her promote her book club because it is a non-profit-organization and it deals with issues pertaining to students and faculty. Berg said she hopes to have an organizational meetuing for the book club at the start of June. The book the club will be reading "Vagina Warriors" by Eve Ensler, whose play the "Vagina Monologues" that was produced at Winona State in February and sparked the issue at the high school. Once school starts in the fall, Berg said she plans to send out a massive email to all the students to inform them of the club.
Berg said she hopes the controversy at the senior high has opened the eyes of many woman and men.
Reporter: Ashley Yoss
Background: ACLU pursues button issue
Pelowski's wife subs at Krueger ceremonyWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, canceled his appearance at his alma mater for the christening of Darrell W. Krueger Library at Winona State University because finance bills were being voted on in the House. Speaking on Pelowski's behalf was his wife Deb. She presented Krueger with a congratulatory certificate that recognized his work and dedication with the Lourdes residential college. The certificate also rcognized Krueger for the Winona State laptop computer program.
Pelowski said the certificate was signed by her husband, a Winona State alumnus, as well as by his father Gene Pelowski Sr., a former coach of Winona State's golf team and a member of the university's Sports Hall of Fame, and also by her son, Ryan Pelowski, a current Winona State student. Darrell Krueger said it was a "sorrowful moment" when Rep. Pelowski called to tell him that he was unable able to make the ceremony. Krueger said in a humorous tone that the Pelowskis were "three generations of golfers and they all tried to teach me, and it's very hard to take."
State Sen. Bob Kierlin, R-Winona, also was unable to make the event because of Senate business.
Reporter: Melissa Ferolie
Background: Security beefed up for Pawlenty
Bar fights ends in assault chargeWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005 -- Police charged a 21-year-old man with fifth-degree assault at Bulls-Eye Beer Hall. Police were called about 12:30 a.m.
WSU security beefed up for PawlentyWINONA, Minn., April 29, 2005-- Extra campus security guards were put on dutgy at Winona State for the visit of Gov. Tim Pawlenty for the dedication of the campus library in the name of retiring universityPresident Darrell Krueger, campus security chief Don Walski confirmed. Walski said no probems were expected, noting too that it's job of the state to protect Pawlenty. Walski said Pawlenty probably would have two State Patrol vehicles with him.
George Bolon, director of Winona State aviation program at Max Conrad Field, said that he was unsure what time the governor would be flying in Friday morning but that he would be on board a state-owned Raytheon King Air B200 aircraft. This aircraft is very common for "jump visits" or short stops, Bolon said. Flying conditions were partly cloudy with light with variable winds and no precipitation.
Pawlenty is a less controversial governor than Gov. Jesse Ventura, who visited campus twice during his time in office. The crowd for Pawlenty will be smaller, Walski said. Walski, now retired as a city deputy police chief, has dealt with security for Ventura both at Winona State and with the Winona Police Department.
Reporter: Heather Andersen
Background: Democrats tracking Pawlenty to WSU
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UNDER-AGE
BOOZERS
WHO GOT
CAUGHT
BEING
STUPID
DON'T
TELL
THEIR
MOTHERS
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CAMPUS
SALARIES
Darrell
Krueger
WSU president
2003: $211,836
Louis
DeThomasis
SMU president
2001: $155,245
Jim Johnson
Tech president
2001:
$125,000
OTHER
SALARIES
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