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WSU grads encouraged to rake risksWINONA, Minn., May 6, 2005 --Students need to take risks in their lives and not be afraid of the consequences, a former president of Truman State University told nearly a thousand graduates, at the Winona State Univerity spring commencement. Charles McClain told grads a story of a sculptor who could have made a wonderful sculpture if he would just do it. But, McClain said, the sculptor never picked up his chisel. McClain's point was that the graduates need to pick up their chisels and take risks. McClain reminded the graduates to be ready for any consequences they may face after taking a risk but still, he said, take the risk: "Remember to pick up the chisel."
McClain offered Winona State President Darrell Krueger as an example of a risk-taker with innovations that have made for important changes. McClain said that Krueger had taken a risk 16 years ago in taking on the presidency at Winona State. Krueger took risks to get a new library, to acquire more dorms and build better ones, to become a laptop university, and to come up with the New University plan. He congratulated Krueger on his pending retirement.
McClain was the Truman State administrator who gave Krueger huis first professorshbip. When asked by Krueger to be the commencement speaker, , McClain said, his wife told all their friends back in Missouri they were going to Minnesota to visit his best friend.
Reporter: Scotty Ryan
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Editorial: Rochester college plan an ego tripWINONA, Minn., May 6, 2005 -- The Daily News expressed editorial dismay at the plan of Gov, Tim Pawlenty to create a new university in Rochester. The editorial said the state is finding difficulty financing existing colleges. The editorial suggested the plan was "a clever GOP political ploy" for Rochester's favor. An independent Rochester university would be a "status symbol" for Rochester for which there has been no demonstrable need, the editorial said. Already four universities, including Winona State, offer degree programs in Rochester. If Rochester truly needs its own university, the two institutions that would most benefit, IBM and Mayo Clinic, could endow one, the editorial said. Neither IBM nor Mayo has institutionally endorsed the Pawlenty plan.
House overwhelmingly favors Perkins aidWASHINGTON, May 6, 2005 -- The U.S. House voted 416-9 to renew the Perkins law that channels $1.3 billion to technical colleges. President Bush had wanted to kill the Perkins program, whch he called ineffective. Bush wanted to rechannel the funds elsewhere. The Perkins program, however, has been popualr in Congress. The next step is for the House bill to be melded with similar legislation in the Senate. Bush officials hope to amend the legislation during the House-Senate negotiations.
Background: Congress ready to up Pell maximum
Senate OKs funds for state employee wagesST. PAUL, Minn., May 6, 2005 -- Happy days may be here again. The AFSCME public employees union heralded Minnesota Senate approval of a salary-supplement bill that would help set the pattern for pay increases for the union's members in contract negotiations at counties, cities and school districts. The bill would allow $21 million for a pay increase for state employees, including campus workers in upcoming contract negotiations. The bill is the first salary supplement the State Senate has passed in years. Senate pasage was 37-27. The increase still needs House approval. Even approved by the House, the supplement does not guarantee a pay increase in contract negotiations. It does mean there would be money on the table without lots and lots of union pressure.
QUICK SPORTS
MAY 6, 2005
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S)
Northern Sun Tournament (quarterfinals): WSU 12, UM-Crookston 3; Concordia of St. Paul 8, Bemidji State 0; MSU-Moorhead 5, Northern State 1; Wayne State 4, Southwest Minnesota State 4.
Northern State Tournmanent: (semifinals): WSU 7, Wayne State 1; Concordia of St. Paul; 5, MSU-Moorhead 0.
MIAC Tournament (first round): SMU 3, Gustavus Adolphus 0; St. Thomas 2, Hamline 1.
MIAC Tournament (second round): St. Thomas 6, SMU 1.
Named Northern Sun player of year was WSU catcher Sarah Carlson. Named coach of the year was WSU's Greg Jones
TENNIS (MEN'S)
St. Benedict 5, WSU 0. Division II Central Regionals: Southwest Baptist 5, WSU 0.
TRACK (WOMEN'S)
Northern Sun Championship (first day): MSU-Moorhead 74 (1st), WSU 66 (2nd), Northern State 52 (3rd).
RECORD
SMU's Ashley Dingels broke her own conference record of 4,668 in the decathalon.
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Arkansas matches $300 million Wal-Mart giftFAYETTEVILLE, Ark., May 5, 2005 -- The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has matched the $300 million donation given three years ago by the Walton Family Foundation, qualifying for the $300 million pledge. The gift, from the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, is the largest ever to a public university. One-third of the $300 million has been earmarked to support graduate programs and the rest to endow the undergraduate honors program. "
R.I.P.: David Russell (Buckwheat) GaustadSAN DIEGO, Calif., May 5, 2005 -- A Winona Tech and Winona State University alum, Dave Russell, 54, who went by the nickname Buckwheat, died of a heart attack at home. He grew up in Houston, Minn., and studied auto body repair at Winona Technical School and business at Winona State University. In San Diego he managed a tavern.
NCAA banishes MacMurray from tennisINDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 5, 2005 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the MacMurray College men's tennis team from competition for two years and from postseason tournaments for another two years because of improper scholarships. Coach Neal Hart had set up a scholarship fund for foreign athletes using his father's money. The fund paid out $162,000 to 10 players over the past five years. Division III colleges are not allowed to give scholarships based on athletic ability, whuich the NCAA said was what Hart had done.
Congress ready to up Pell maximumWASHINGTON, May 5, 2005 -- Leaders of the Republican majority in Congress have agreement on a budget that includes a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant and saves the Perkins Loan Program. Final passage by the House and Senate is expected. The agreement forgives a $4.3 billion shortfall in the Pell program budget that has resulted from growing college enrollment nationwide. The agreement saves the Perkins program, which President Bush administration had wanted to eliminate. The plan, however, calls for possible cuts on other federal student-loan programs.
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Parking unit frets over WSU ramp aesetheticsWINONA, Minn., May 4, 2005 -- The city's new parking task force concluded not much new in its first meeting on finding a solution to Winona State University neighborhood congestion. Discussed was a parking ramp or a permit system, for on-street parking or a shuttle system. The only consensus was that a solution is needed fast. Mayor Jerry Miller, who ran the meeting at City Hall, called on townspeople and campus people to cooperate and use reason and patience. Townspeople seemed to like some type of new parking structure but fretted about aesthetics. Said one Winona resdient: "We want the chaos on weekday afternoons to cease but we don't want an eyesore instead." Cal Winbush, the university's facilities vice president, told the task force that a parking ramp is still in the works. The aesthetics of aramp is on the next task force agenda.
Winona State people testified against a parking permit system or shuttle system. "WSU students do not support a parking permit system or a decrease in rental facilities," said student President Dusty Finke. Business Sen. Mick Reis didn't see the issue about afternoon parking: "Why is the parking and traffic such an issue if it only goes on during weekday afternoons when classes are in session and most Winona residents are at work?"
Reporter: Patrick Carney
Background: Cap may move to three tenants per house
Cap may move to three tenants per houseWINONA, Minn., May 4, 2005 -- A proposed solution to growing Winona State University neigborhood congestion, to only allow three tenants per house, has been endorsed by a new mayoral task force. Current landlords would be exempted. Mayor Jerry Miller convened the task force, which will taie up new issues every week through the late spring to preserve the character of the central city, where the university is located. Miller said he wants to maintain a balance in the community by keeping the permanent residents and the college students happy and hear everyone's concerns. Preservationists and others have objected that the university's rapid growth, now at 7,800 students, is corrupting the historic nature of the community.
The task force discarded another plan to allow only two homes to occupied by renters on each block. The plan was dedcribed as impracticable. "We don't want to limit the number of rental homes in the community because it will cause rent increases and decreased quality of homes," Miller said. In coming weeks, Mayor Miller said the task force wants to look at "all possible scenarios" in a quest for solutions that benefit the community and students. Task force topics include parking, aesthetics and basic improvements.
Reporter: Brittney Richmond
Background: Senate acts against pending limits
Winona smoking ban seen as two years offWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- Although the Minneapolis smoking ban ordinance began in March, Winona is unlikley to go smoke free for a while, said Winona State University health educator Ruth Schroeder. The Winona city or county government can be expected to form a coalition to make decisions on a ban, said Schroder. She deosn't see this occurring for at least two years. Schroeder said a ban would help many non-smokers who are employed by bars and restaurants that allow smoking, whom she said are at significant risk from of second-hand smoke exposure. "It has become more of a health concern versus a 'right' to smoke/make my own choices, etcetera; due to the impact smoking has on non-smokers,"Schroeder said.
Reporter: Mandy Maffei
WHAT A RIDE
OUR YEAR IN REVIEW
A compilation of Winona college news by Winona State University campus journalists:
Readers are invited to nominate additional issues and events for this ranking. Please send nominations to CyberIndee Editor
1. STUDENT POWER. Winona State administrators were shaken by student resistance to their vaunted New University plan to reinvent Winona State with new funding from a variety of sources, including a tuition surcharge that would climb to $1,000 over four years. University President Darrell Krueger, who saw the plan as his final legacy before retiring, lost his cool in conferring with student leaders. Krueger's relations with the Student Senate plummeted. In two student referendums, opposition was clear. After one vote, with a rcord turnout and a 5-1 nay margin to the New University, Krueger vowed to go ahead idespite the opposition. He also ordered a name change for the intiatives, which became the Winona Experience. That only solidified student resistance.Reporter: Kim Kawecki
2. WSU STUDENT, DAUGHTER MURDERED. Winona State University junior Stacy Smith and her 10-year-old daughter were murdered, both by strangulation, the daughter raped, in their apartment in December. Three weeks later drug-dealer Paul Allen Gordon was arrested in California while crossing the border from Mexico. He has been charged with first-degree murder and setting the Smith apartment on fire. A trial has been scheduled. Police say Gordon wanted to silence Smith, who was threatening to go to the cops with inside information on his drug-dealing. unless he paid for an abortion.Reporter: Heidi Draskoci-Johnson
3. WSU MASTER PLAN. A plan developed quietly by top Winona State University administrators for long-term campus expansion shocked campus people and townspeople when a detailed map for the expansion was uncovered in February. The super-detailed map showed the campus doubling to beyond 100 acres. Community concrn focused especially on wiping out a mansion-studded neighborhood in a 10-block swath all the way to Lake Park. Few had seen the plan until student reporter B.J. Puttbrese brought it out into the open. Winona State executives tried to minimize negative reaction by emphasizing that the expansion was long term.Reporter: Jason Staskus
4. KRUEGER RETIRES. After 16 years Darrell Krueger announced his retirement at the end of the school year. He plans to move to his family's sheep ranch in Utah: "My entire professional career I've had my wife out here away from her family." In ceremony after ceremony Krueger was lauded for campus improvements, including a state-of-the-art library that will bear name, a new science building, and the restoration of Friday classes. The state chancellor named scientist Judith Ramaley, from the National Science Foundation, to succeed Krueger and to implement his vision as articualted in the New University project for more experiential learning, community and business link-ups, and a broader funding base to make up for declining state budget support.Reporter: DJ Danielson
5. TUITION FREEZE CRUSADE. Winona State students protested proposed tuition increases in a February rally on the steps of Somsen Hall, within easy earshot of President Darrell Krueger's second-floor office. The rally was the most visible Winona signal of an orchestrated multi-prong statewide student campaign to freeze tuition. The Minnesota State University Student Association pressed the Legislature for funding so a proposed 4.5 percent tuition hike could be averted. As Winona State student President Dusty Finke put it, students don't grow money trees. Alas, the Legislature seemed to turn a deaf ear. At Winona State, meanwhile, administrators added more tuition and fees to the 4.5 percent state-level base increase to push costs in the fall up 9.5 percent to almost $7,000. Students planned a last-ditch appeal to state college system trustees over the summer.Reporter: Eylse Anderson
6. KNIFEPOINT KIDNAPPING. A 19-year-old Winona State student was kidnapped at knifepoint and forced the drive to north outskirts of La Crosse, Wis., where he was robbed of $700. The kidnapping occurred on campus about 11 p.m. near the library as the student was getting into his car to go home after a night of studying. The student, a Saudi Arabian, said he didn't know the assailant, nor a second man who joined them off Interstate 90 near La Crosse. The man said he noramlly didn't so much money but had just mede a wikthdrawal to pay rent. He was shaken but unhurt. Fearing he might be tracked down by his assailants, the man asked pllice not to release his name.The case remains unsolved.
7. PRIVILEGED JOCKS. Winona State faculty and students were rankled when they learned that varsity athletes had been allowed to go to the front of line to register for spring classes. It was athletics Director Larry Holstad and academic Vice President Steve Richardson who had quietly given the athletes preferential treatment. They said their goal was to avoid scheduling conflicts. Profs called Richardson on the carpet. Saving face, Holstad said that it had been merely an experiment, that it hadn't gone well, and that it would never be done again. For fall, 400 varsity athletes will take their place in queue like everybody else.Reporter: Amanda Finley
8. NEW WSU SCIENCE BUILDING. Winona State's $30 million new wet-lab science building was completed on schedule and on budget. The building features a 55-foot, three-story atrium, the latest projector technology for teaching, a plasma television to show science news and laboratory experiments, and almost 1,900 computer ports. Connected to the Stark engineering and nursing building and the soon-to-be updated Pasteur Hall, the science complex comprises a $60 million-plus campus upgrade.Reporter: Emily Lueth
9. NEW ST. MARY'S PRESIDENT. A Christian Brother, Craig Franz, was named president of St. Mary's. Franz' appointment keeps the university's top administrative post with a member of the religious order that founded the institution. Franz had earlier administrative roles at the university. Most recently Franz has been president of St. Mary's College of California. He resigned from the California college as it was recovering from the embarrassment of proceeding with a multi-million construction programs on the assumption that funds that had been pledged by a donor would be forthcoming. The pledge was all a fraud. At Winona's St. Mary's Franz succeeds Louis DeThomasis.
10. WSU SPORTS. The Winona State University football team once again showed why it is a conference powerhouse. The Warriors won the Northern Sun championship after finishing the conference season undefeated at 8-0. For the second straight year the Warriors hosted a first round NCAA tournament game at Maxwell Field. Unlike 2003, however, the Warriors lost. Two-time defending national champ Grand Valley State won the game. The Wiona State men's basketball team lost the Northern Sun championship game to Iowa's Northern State but landed a berth in the hosted the NCAA regionals. The Warriors upset the University of Nebraska-Omaha but lost to the University South Dakotas.Reporter: Scotty Ryan
11. RAMALEY TO WSU HELM. All eyes at Winona State are on Judith Ramaley, who assumes the university presidency in July. Ramaley was the first choice of a campus search commitee and the state chancellor despite a rocky record as president of the University of Vermont, where she had been asked to resign. Ramaley supporters said she had walked into an impossible situation at Vermont. Earlier she had been president of Portland State in Oregon. At Winona Sate, Ramaley vowed to continue the New Univerity initative of her predecessor, Darrell Krueger. She also began early discussions with student President-elect Ryan Flynn to repair bad blood between the Student Senate and Krueger over procedures and processes in New University planning and an attendant $1,000 tuition surcharge.Reporter: Shelli Daniels
12. STUDENT SENATOR BUSTED. Despite a pending conviction for drunken driving, student Sen. Adam Fredrickson won re-election to the Winona State Student Senate. Fredrickson, who will still be a junior next year, finished second in a five-way race for three junior seats. Despite calls for Fredrickson to resign, Senate President Dusty Finke said that a senator's personal life has nothing to do with work inside of Senate. Reporter: DJ Danielson
13. DORM PLAN BEING PARED. Plans for a new Winona State luxury dorm with suites and retail shops, to be built at the intersection of Main and Howard, were slowed due to budget concerns. Revised projections in April put construction at $35 million, $7 million more than the original budget. The three-story, 400-bed dorm, which will take 15 months to build, will somehow be built albeit trimmed of some nicer touches, according to university facilities vice president Cal Winbush. The plan will be tweaked, not discarded, he said. Winbush promised that construction would begin during the fall of 2006. Not to be tweaked out of the plans is a 300-car parking ramp to address growing City Council about parking congestion, Winbush said.Reporter: DJ Danielson
14. WINONA STATE FACEBOOK. By the dozen Winona State students posted photos and witticisms on the national Facebook web site. Some student leaders wished they hadn't. Junior Sens. Adam Fredrickson and Elizabeth Jones and frosh Sen. Nate Glynn yanked their partying photos off the site when their judgment became a campaign issue. Perhaps most damaged was Senate Vice President Tim Donahue, who was shown drunken and rolling on the floor with Fredrickson in a photo that Fredrickson posted. Donahue had been the front-runner for president but ended up a distant second. Ryan Flynn, who won the presidency, had a Facebook page himself but nothing incriminating. Senior Sen. Rotney O'Shea was unfazed by his partying shots. "It's me, take it or leave it," he said. O'Shea was handily re-elected.Reporter: Emily Lueth
15. WSU KITCHEN WAGES. The Winona State Student Senate endorsed upping room and board expenses by 10.5 percent in hopes that campus caterer Chartwells would raise wages for kitchen workers to the same level as other student jobs. Chartwells had resisted matching the state employee minimum wage of $8.40 an hour, saying the raise, by 40 cents an hour, would cut into its slim profit margins. The issue gave rise to questions of racism because most of Chartwells employees are dark-skin foreign students whose visas prohibit them from looking for work off campus.Reporter: Jason Staskus
16. CHRISTA MATTER SUICIDE. A former Winona State University woman's coach, Christa Matter, 35, committed suicide by hanging herself. Her life partner, Michelle Dedin, found Matter bleeding on the floor of their basement in La Crosse, Wis. Dedin had told police that she and Matter had been arguing and also that Matter had been depressed since a miscarriage. Matter was teaching a women's studies course at Winona State.Reporter: Jason Staskus
17. NOT A FLOP, BUT. The soft rock band Guster agreed to headline the Winona State University spring concert in a $30,000 deal. Student tickets were $20. The UPAC student amusements committee hoped to sell at least 3,000 tickets, but the total was only 2,000. McCown Gym was only a bit more than half filled. Even so, concert-goers had a good time. For some it was too good a time. Cops made 10 arrests, mostly alcohol-related.Reporter: Shelli Daniels
18. CAR WRECK CLAIMS STUDENT. A Winona State University sophomore, Amy Jo Green, 21, was killed in an automobile collision. Green, who was dead on the scene, was returning to campus from an Easter weekend at her family's Winnebago, Minn., home. Two other Winona State students, in the other car, suffered minor injuries.Reporter: Elyse Anderson
19. A Winona State University junior en route to be a groomsman in a cousin's wedding in Two Rivers, Wis., was killed in a two-vehicle accident at an intersection in eastern Wisconsin. Mark Wall, 20, was only 10 miles from his destination. He was dead at the scene. Police said Wall missed a stop sign and was hit broadside by a pickup truck.
20. $1 MILLION GIFT. An anonymous gift of $1 million was donated to Winona State to rename the campus library after university President Darrell Krueger. A portrait of Krueger and his wife Nancy was reviled at a christening ceremony attended by Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The donation, the largest in WInona State history, was earmarked for library acquisitions.Reporter: Emily Welker
21. SOPHOMORE TO PRESIDENT. Student Sen. Ryan Flynn, who represented liberal arts on the Winona State Student Senate his sophomore year, was elected president of the Senate by nearly 100 votes. Senate Vice President Tim Donahue, who had a year of seniority over Flynn, was second. Flynn campaigned adamantly against the implementation of the New University plan for curricular and other changes championed by university President Darrell Krueger. Flynn said that the changes would cost students too much and weren't worth the extra money. Flynn argued for a balance between affordability and quality.Reporter: Emily Welker
22. UNIVERSITY IN ROCHESTER. Gov. Tim Palenty proposed creating a four-year university in Rochester, getting rid of the programs currently offered by Winona State but keeping some of the University of Minnesota's Rochester programs. Funding ran into problems in the waning days of the Legislature despite strong support from the Rochester delegation. Pawlenty wanted $3.2 million to develop programs including engineering, physics, math, and health sciences.Reporter: Heidi Draskoci-Johnson
23. FOOTBALL PLAYERS BOOZING LESS? Winona State University football players have a reputation for partying, although police records now show that the number of players with rap sheets is down 18.8 percent from a year earlier. Football coach Tom Sawyer may have something to do with it. Sawyer pledged at the start of the year to educate the players about alcohol and alcohol-related convictions. Still, 37 of 108 players on the roster have convictions. Not all players, however, are showing improvement. Alas, only days ago sophomore Phil Capuzzi was ticketed for under-age drinking, his second alcohol-related citation of the school year. This is the guy who was tossed out of the dorms a year ago for beating another student to a bloody pulp inside a locked dorm room. Reporter: Heidi Draskoci-Johnson
24. ROTTMAN REINSTATED. Sophomore Corey Rottman, who says football is his life, was reinstated to the Winona State team after sitting out a few months and spending a few days in jail. Coach Tom Sawyer said Rottman had been on good behavior. He was arrested when police raided a party in Janaujry 2004 while showing high school recruits what the life of a Warrior football player is like. Two cops were injured in making the arrest. After months of legal haggling, Rottman pleaded guilty to reduced charges, all misdemeanors. Felony charges were dropped.
25. VAGINA PINS. It all started at a Winona State production of the "Vagina Monbologues." A high school senior picked up a button proclaiming I Love My Vagina and wore it to school. The student, Carrie Rethlefsen, was suspended, which spawned a free expression v. appropriateness debate that became a national news story. Winona State women's studies prof Tamara Berg showed full support for Rethlefsen. Berg said that the issue was not only about women's rights and gender equality but also about free speech. Rethlefsen came to Berg for advice when she was first suspended. Berg is helping Rethlefsen start a women's issue club.Reporter: Heidi Draskoci-Johnson
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QUICK SPORTS
MAY 4, 2005
BASEBALL (MEN'S)
WSU 13, Viterbo 8
Concordia of Moorhead 9, SMU 6; Concordia of Moorhead 6, SMU 4.
GOLF (MEN'S)
SNCAA Division II Super Regional (third day): Washburn 890 (1st), Missouri Southern 906 (2nd), WSU 907 (3rd).
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Report: Flux ahead for college credit ratingsNEW YORK, MAY 4, 2005 -- Public universities may find top-notch credit ratings harder to achieve as they become more like private institutions, according to the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor's. The trend toward privatization, accelerated by sharp drops in state support, could hurt public university credit ratings, which have historically been higher and more stable than those of private universities. The greatest risk is for among smaller, non-flagship institutions, said Standard & Poor's. Large flagship universities, which would include the University of Minnesota, will be least affected, the report said.
Neighbor slept through murder upstairsWINONA, Minn., May 4, 2005 -- A Winona State University student living below Stacy Smith the night she was murdered said he didn't hear anything unusual. Eric Leibundguth said he often heard heavy walking and stomping from the apartment above, usually in the evenings and often late into the night. "After a while we just stopped paying attention to the noise," Leibundguth said. Leibundguth said he and his housemate had gotten home late the night of Dec. 15 and Leibundguth went into his room to go to bed with his headphones on. "I didn't hear anything until my roommate woke me up to tell me the fire alarm was going off," Leibundguth said. That was about 3:20 a.m. When Leibundguth opened the door to the hallway, he was confronted with thick smoke. "It was a pretty shocking evening," Leibundguth said.
Leibundguth and other tenants of Sugar Loaf Apartments, 358 E. Sarnia, didn't know what had happened until paramedics brought out the bodies of Smith and her 10 year-old daughter Taylor Swanson. Police questioned neighbors about whether they had any information. Leibundguth and his housemate, who had been living in their Sugar Loaf apartment only two weeks, didn't have much information to tell. "We had heard yelling and shouting a week previously, mostly a female voice who then stormed out of the house, but that was it," Leibundguth said.
Leibundguth said he had met Smith but only in passing. Smith always seemed friendly whenever he saw her in the parking lot or passing in the hallway, Leibundguth said. Leibundguth said he had never seen Paul Allen Gordon, the man charged with strangling Smith and Swanson and then setting their apartment on fire. Gordon is currently in jail on first-degree murder indictments.
After the fire, police posted a guard outside the Sugar Loaf apartment complex, Leibundguth said. Leibundguth said there was a guard posted 24 hours a day, which helped ensure other tenants' safety as well as to protect the crime scene. When the Minnesota State Crime Scene was searching Smith's apartment, Leibundguth said, he heard them moving around but they were not as loud as Smith had been. |
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Reporter: Jenn Baechle
Background: Gordon a mystery birthday guest
City aims to curb bar Happy HoursWINONA, Minn., May 4, 2005 -- Bar specials will probably be seeing an end around June. Mayor Jerry Miller and Police Chief Frank Pomeroy have met to discuss asking bar owners to drop specials before college students return in the fall. "Our goal is to have a happy hour where drinks are cheap for a couple of hours but not all night," said Pomeroy. "Specials promotes binge drinking." His discussion with the mayor, said Pomeroy, was wide-ranging and included plans for fall on attacking not only special-pricing inducements to drink but also underage drinking and capacity limits. The mayor and the chief intend to meet with bar owners to come up with a solution that is beneficial to the community, students and bar owners. "There is no money in bar specials," said Pomeropy. "It just drags students to the bars when they should be studying."
Bars can expect more police pressure to curb practices that press or violate the law, Pomeroy said: "We are going to be doing compliance checks to make sure there is no overcrowding in the bars or underage drinking."
Miller said the Booze Bus, which provides no-cost transport for college students to the bars and back, is also on the agenda. "State funding might be cut for the Safe Ride bus, and there will be a 7 to 15 percent shortage of funds starting as early as next month," said Miller. Miller said possibilities for funding the bus include cutting back on other expenses, taking money from the city's general fund and working with Winona State and Saint Mary's universities to see if they would help fund the program a little more. "Since the Safe Ride bus, vandalism has gone from 841 incidents to 385 incidents in a two-year period," said Pomeroy. The bus program as well as the new elimination of bar specials will help with responsible drinking and we have come far and serious crimes have gone down 63 percent in recent years, but there is more we can do," said Pomeroy. The main goal, said Miller, is to have quiet and safe neighborhoods.
Reporter: Brittney Richmond
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COMMENT:
FACULTY POWERPLAY
LET VAGINAS REIGN
Back in February high school senior Carrie Rethlefsen picked up a I Support My Vagina button at a Winona State University production of the "Vagina Monologues." She wore it to school for weeks. It was a quiet statement in her own way for women's rights. If there was any tittering, we didn't hear it. Certainly it didn't interfere with classroom learning.
Then one day an office worker pointed out the button to Principal Nancy Wondrasch. The principal told Rethlefsen to take it off -- a big mistake. The error was compounded when Wondrasch started offering insulting rationales, like: "People wll see it as an open invitation." Not to be bullied, Rethlefsen stood her ground on her citizen right to free expression.
Wondrasch had created a pointless confrontation that goes to the core of our citizen rights as guaranteed in the constitution of the Republic. Make no mistake, it was Wondrasch the principal who created the problem. Now she has found herself flailing for defenses of the indefensible.
It's become a power struggle pitting faculty against students. After a demonstration outside the school on Tuesday, Wondrasch lined up her teachers in a gauntlet at the school door and ordered students to turn their Vagina t-shirts inside out. With two exceptions, the students did as they were told. Wondrasch had a face-saving victory of sorts. But the Vagina messages showed through the shirts, as obvious as if they were right side out. The Wondrasch victory was superficial at best. The students won the day -- and for the best cause, liberty of expression.
Unless the Victorian silliness of the high school dress code is changed, there will be more energy-sapping confrontations, which run a high risk of a costly and probably doomed constitutional battle that could take years to litigate. This is something the despersately cash-strapped School Board can ill afford. And for what purpose? Supressing free expression that isn't interferring with either instruction or learning? The School Board must act immediately to rescind the dress code. The problem is that the dress code impedes something sacred in a free society -- the right to express onesself no matter how obscure or how potent the expression. This, after all, is what America is about. |
Background: Two students suspended for vagina shirts
Firefighters respond to Tau alarmWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- Firefighters responded to an alarm at that Tau dorm of Winona State Univerity but found no problems. A smoke detector had been activated in the second floor of the west wing just before midnight.
WSU employee fund drive at $62,000WINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- The Winona State University All-University Campaign has raised $62,000 in donations from faculty and staff so far this year. Ann Kohner, who helps coordinate the campaign, said this year's $75,000 goal is in sight. Kohner listed offices and academic departments with every employee contributing: accounting, advancement office, business office, chemistry, institutional research office, and registrar's office. One employee away from 100 percent participation, she said, are the financial aid office, continuing Education office, advising and retention office, and student support services. Within two or three are the Council of Administrators, health services office, library, counseling center, counselor education, career services, bookstore, student union, and the mass communication department. The committee raises money for campus activities and scholarships.
Reporter: Melissa Ferolie
NEWS AND COMMENT
WINONA MEDIA WATCH |
SO THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW
How badly have teachers abused students at the Cochrane-Fountain City high school across the river in Wisconsin? Or have they at all? The grapevine is abuzz about kids being slapped around, being locked in closets, and being duct-taped to their seats. Then too are charges that alcohol was served at parties and that students were insufficently supervised on school trips.
All we know for sure is that the School Board has disciplined some teachers. Who? We don't know. For what? We don't know. How seriously? We don't know that either. We should know. These are our kids in our schools supported with our taxes.
Wisconsin law allows school boards to consider personnel issues behind closed doors. The law, however, doesn't shield the outcome of those closed sessions. To its credit, the Winona Daily News has filed a formal request for documents on the Board investigation. This is the right thing for a newspaper to do. If truth isn't pursued it can't be told. And we're all the worse to be floundering in ignorance as the rumor mill keeps churning.
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Two students suspended for vagina shirtsWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- Two Winona high school students were dismissed for wearing t-shirts expressing women's rights statements in the escalating free expression crisis at the school. Carrie Rethlefsen, a senior, who organized the silent protest, was one of the two sent home. So was Katelyn Delvaux. In the demonstration, girls wore t-shirts that proclaimed I Love My Vagina. Boys wore shirts that said I Support Your Vagina. The back of the shirts read "I'm wearing this t-shirt to support gender equality, sexual awareness, women's rights, and freedom of speech" More than 35 students joined in the protest around a flag pole outside the school before morning classes =. Students carried posters and distributed information on their cause. Extra t-shirts were on sale.
Principal Nancy Wonrasch earlier said a demonstration would be permitted outside but not inside the school. After the demonstration most students either removed or covered their shirts and turned them inside out. "Only two of us decided to be dismissed," Rethlefsen said. Both were dismissed for the day.
The inspiration for the protest came from a Winona State University presentation of Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" in February. Rethlefsen was sent home last month for wearing a I Love My Vagina button. The protest at the flagpole was a continuation of Rethlefsen's earlier attempt to make a statement against violence on women, which has polarized the community on appropriateness versus free expression. Despite her latest suspension, Rethlefsen said she will not give up: "We will try to set up a women's rights club at the school."
Reporter: Mandy Maffei
Background: Prof: Let high-schoolers push the limits
QUICK SPORTS
MAY 3, 2005
BASEBALL (MEN'S)
WSU 6, UW-Platteville 3.
SMU 18, Vitbero 3
GOLF (MEN'S)
SNCAA Division II Super Regional (second day): Washburn 592 (1st) , Missouri Western 599 (2nd), Central Missouri State 604 (3rd), Missouri Southern 605 (4th), WSU 606 (5th).
GOLF (WOMEN'S)
North Regional Championships (second day): Nebraska-Omaha 992 (1st) (best four-of-five playoff round), MSU-Mankato 992 (2nd), North Dakota 1,009 (3rd), Southwest Minnesota State 1,011 (4th), South Dakota 1,046 (5th), Truman State 1,050 (6th).
SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S)
WSU 4, UW-Stevens Point 3; WSU 4, UW-Stevens Point 0.
SMU 10, UW-Eau Claire 2; SMU 4, UW-Eau Claire 2.
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Fed up with pig pen, janitor quits LourdesWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- The hallways and bathroom stalls at Lourdes dorm are just as messy as they were the days when janitor Tim Reed decided enough was enough. Urine on the bathroom floors and stall doors, even sometimes on hallway floors, turds smeared on the walls in the bathroom, and clogged and flooded toilets were just some of the issues Reed had to deal with while working the cleaning rounds on the first north floor of Lourdes last fall. "More than anything I think it was a lack of respect issue," Reed said. "There were probably just one group of guys who ruined it for the rest of the floor." About 60 men live on the floor.
Reed said he is pleased with his decision at the end of December to transfer to the Prentiss-Lucas dorms. "It is like a night and day difference over here," he said. "I don't see any of the same issues that were present on 1-N Lourdes. Those guys acted worse than kindergarteners, and it didn't make a difference either way to me. They were the ones who had to live in the mess they made."
The east bathroom of first north Lourdes was locked up during first semester last fall after a tenant decided to clog the toilets and flood the bathroom. "That stunt ended up costing thousands of dollars of damage," Reed said. The water spread through the floor, destroying the third-floor ceiling below. The ceiling had to be replaced. "I hated to lock that bathroom up. It just wasn't fair to the honest kids of the floor. But something had to be done. Every morning there was something: Number 2 on the walls, or flooded floors. Something had to be done," Reed said. He considered calling a group meeting to let the tenants, all men, know that the abuse had to stop. But then," he said, "I figured it would just really make whoever was doing this really act up."
Reed said he was afraid that garbage cans would be knocked over and other problems would arise if he pressed the issue. "It's hard because you can't find out who is doing this stuff. We can't put cameras in the bathrooms to see who is causing all of the destruction," he said.
Asked about the problem, Sarah Olcott, the Lourdes hall director, said that it has been a really great year. "This year is so much better than last year. It was awful on first floor last year. This year we have had the east bathroom open for almost an entire semester now, so in comparison, things are going pretty darn good," Olcott said.
"What went on that floor you wouldn't see anywhere else in the building," Reed said. "It was only on that north hallway of first floor."
Reporter: Tom Wilder
R.I.P.: John Theodore WachsGULFPORT, Miss., May 3, 2005 -- A Winona State Teachers College grad, John Wachs, died at age 89. He held a bachelor's degree from Winona State and a master's from Northern Colorado State.
Whew: Flu bypassed WSUWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- Despite the shortages of flu vaccine nationwide, a Winona State nurse said the university's students and faculty survived the flu season better than in an average year. "We had initially thought it was going to be a bad season," Peggy Meyers said. Because of the shortage, the campus Health Services staff was unable to give any vaccinations. Most years about 700 students, staff and faculty are inculated on a first-come first-served basis, she said. This year, she said, anyone who felt especially vulnerable was directed to the city's public health office.
Right before Christmas, Meyers and her colleagues began seeing influenza. "We had a lot of students coming in sick," she said. "I'm not sure if people were sick over break or not, but when classes resumed, we didn't have any major activity." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved Minnesota to the second most severe status for an outbreak the week of Dec. 18 based based on the number of patient visits. The ranking was raised to the most severe status the week of Jan. 15. Meyers said that Winona State was "very lucky" to have made it through the flu season as healthy as it did.
Reporter: Tom Wilder
Promoter: Concert success hinges on studentsWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- Economics and scheduling are to blame for weak attendance at concerts, including the recent performance by Guster at Winona State University, said freelance promoter Ronnie Williams. "The college students are very important for attendance purposes," Williams said. "You have to be careful about scheduling for when they will be here and when they will have money to spend." Final and mid-term exam periods can be killers, he said: "I need to make sure they don't have too much homework to worry about." said Williams. The latest catastrophe was Winona State's Guster concert. Only 1,900 people showed up in the 3,500-capacity McCown Gymn.
Williams, himself a musician, described the local music scene as "less than ideal." Winona is a small city with few diehard music fans, he said: "Most people will just drive to the Twin Cities to see a band they like," said Williams. Billboard magazine recently published a study showing concert attendance overall is on a downward slide across the nation. The one exception is Christian concerts, where artists rang up record sales last year of $747 million, which is not as big as country music but double the sales of Latin music and bigger than classical, jazz and new age combined. "In Winona," Williams said, jam bands like Moondawg and Trampled by Turtles draw the best. Hip hop acts like Eyedea have also drawn well recently, he said: "Eyedea is from the Twin Cities and hasn't been touring much lately, though, which might have helped that show out as far as attendance."
Williams regularly books and promotes shows for Rascal's bar. He expects the months ahead will be slow with so many of the typical concert-goers heading back back to their hometowns.
Reporter: Steven Kuzenski
Stolen WSU laptops so far this year: 48WINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- At Winona State University, where every student has a laptop computer, 48 have been reported stolen this school year, compared to 36 a year earlier. Robin Honken, laptop project coordinator, exepects the total to go up with two more months to go in the 12-month tracking period on losses. Honken said a lot of the thefts, 21, have occurred since March 1.
In some ways laptops are not worth the risk to steal noting that serial numbers of stolen machines are reported quickly to pawn dealers and authorities: "The fact that it's almost impossible to get rid of a WSU laptop in this area should be a deterrent to anyone wanting to take them, but we don't know where they are being shipped off to."
Meanwhile, the university technical support staff has been working with campus security chief Don Walski to provide more information to students on theft prevention. Most thefts have been the result of students leaving their dorm door unlocked or their laptops unattended, Honken said. Honken could not provide information on how many thefts have occurred on-campus versus off-campus or how many thefts were the result of forced entry, saying that theft reports aren't logged that way. Honken did say that any student who has a laptop stolen should report the incident within 48 hours to either the campus security office if the student is living on-campus or to the Winona police.
To receive a replacement laptop, students are required to provide a copy of the police report, a notice of loss form and $500 to cover the insurance deductible, Honken said. The notice of loss form was implemented in February after the university's insurance carrier took note of the number of laptops stolen. Honken said the form provides the insurance company with information to process a claim. The university is charged the $500 deductible, which is passed on to the student. "If a student had to pay for the price of the laptop they would be looking at $1,500 for the tablet PCs if the theft would have occurred between September and October," Honken said. As the laptop model becomes older it depreciates but it would still be more than $500, Honken said.
Honken suggests locking down laptops. "You can buy a laptop lock if you're afraid it might get stolen while you're in the bathroom at the library for instance," Honken said. A laptop lock works in much the same way as a bicycle lock. It attaches to the laptop and can then be wrapped around a table leg or another sturdy device, Honken said. "I leave sunglasses lying around all the time, which is why I buy them at the dollar store now, but I wouldnt leave an expensive machine in an unsecured place."
Reporter: Jenn Beachle
Census Bureau awards internship to WSU studentWINONA, Minn., Masy 3, 2005 -- A Winona State University statistics sophomore, Danielle Sullivan, has been accepted as one of 40 summer research assistants by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for a survey on health and welfare. Sullivan will be in Joint Program in Survey Methodology Junior Fellow Internship program.
Reporter: Courtney Kish
Prof disses notion of campus liberal biasWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- People may talk about a liberal bias in higher education, but one Winona State University prof is not among them. Chris Cook, a political scientist, thinks that the so-called bias is just a myth. "This is a non-issue blown out of proportion by right-wing radio and television pundits," Cook said.
Results of studies, such as one in 2004 by the University of Santa Clara in California, have fueled speculation that there may be a bias. In the Santa Clara study, Democratic profs outnumbered Republicans by a seven-to-one margin. While Cook realizes there is a vast majority of left-leaning professors, he says this causes no concern for those looking for an education free of bias. "The political leanings of a professor do not change the information you receive at a university," Cook said. "A liberal professor still teaches he same science, mathematics and history as a conservative professor would."
Asked why there are so many more left-leaning professors than right-leaning ones, Cook says he thinks it is the nature of the beast: "Conservatives tend to want to get out into the field and make money by working or starting their own businesses, while liberals tend to stick around academia longer," he said. "We do not see scandals in the media about too many CEOs being conservative." Specifically at Winona State, Cook does not think there is a bias either. "I have heard comments from certain professors that would suggest they lean toward the left but have also heard comments from those that are right leaning," he said. Chris Cook is leaving Winona State zx after one year of replacing Karen Csajko, who is on sabbatical. Cook will teach courses at Williams College in Massachusetts in the fall.
Reporter: DJ Danielson
Cops cite WSU soccer pair for noiseWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- Police cited two Winona State University varsity soccer players, Christine Beatty and Erin McDowell, for a loud party at the upscale Washington Crossing apartments after neighbors complained about the volume of music. What happened isn't altogether clear. Police Chief Frank Pomeroy said the women, who live Apartment 312, a two-bedoom unit, did not answer the door when police knocked about 11:15 p.m., Thursday. "We are assuming it was their party," he said, adding that citations were therefore mailed. Soccer Coach Ali Omar said, however, that the women told him there was no party, just a few friends. When the cops came and asked who lived there, the women came out and were issued tickets, Omar said.
Consistent with Winona State athletic policy Beatty and McDowell reported the incident to Omar, as their coach, within 48 hours. Because now is off season, Omar said, sanctions will be decided next season. Beatty, a junior defender, and McDowell, a sophomore midfielder, both 20, have been on the team for one semester, he said. "This hasn't been a pattern with the two girls, but we take these issues very seriously in the athletic department," said Omar. Athletic department policy requires Omar to notify athletics director Larry Holstad within 24 hours of learning of misconduct. Together, according to policy, Holstad and Omar would set up a meeting to discuss possible sanctions. Holstad must decide whether the president of the university should be notified, although that would be unlikely over an initial charge for a noisy party.
Pomeroy said neighbors had called and complained of noise. A man in a neighboring apartment said in an interview Monday that he heard the loud noise but did not complain. He said he didn't even know that Beatty and McDowell were busted with a noise citation. Another neighbor said that he didn't think the music was that loud but the hallways in the building echo a lot, so echoes in the hallway when the apartment door is open. If the people in the apartment were coming and going, then the noise would probably be loud in the hall, he said. One neighbor also said that tenants in apartments surrounding their area don't get along with the students and surmised that one of them probably called the police.
Neither Beatty nor McDowell responded to reporter knocks on their door or telephone or e-mail messages Monday morning.
The university's chief discipline officer, Shirley Mounce, said that off-campus noise violations are handled by the city. It is only underage alcohol cases in which the university, in a controversial double jeopardy policy, metes out punishment in addition to court fines -- and send letters home to mom and dad.
Court fines for loud parties are typically $265 per tenant. The first citation that tenants receive does not call for a court appearance, but a a citation can be appealed.
Washington Crossing Historical Apartments, remodeled from the old Winona middle schbool on Broadway, has 33 newly renovated units. Rents range from $474 to $725.
Although the party was the same night as an annual dorm block party at Winona State, there is likely no connection with the Beatty and McDowell, said campus security chief Don Walski. He said the weekend is usually what influences students to throw loud parties, not campus celebrations. There were four security guards present at the block party but none noticed unruly behavior or drinking, said Walski. "It's a pretty laid-back thing," he said. "We don't have too many problems with it." No alcohol is served at the campus event.
Reporter: Katie Carlson, Brian Olson, Brittney Richmond, Heather Stanek, and Angela Wurst
Background: Cops halt party, issue two tickets
TRIPLET
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Three WSU sisters, three 2005 degreesWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- Identical smiles. Identical triplets. Identical degrees. Amy, Jan and Laura Domeyer have shared much in their lives, and on Friday during the three sisters will celebrate together as they are graduated together from Winona State Univerity with degrees in business administration. All three sisters, who belong to the Delta Sigma Pi the business fraternity, share many of the same classes. Also, all work for Fastenal.
With so much in common it's easy for others to overlook what makes them unique. "A lot of people who know us simply refer to us as The Triplets," Laura said. "I think it's easy to forget we're individuals," Amy added. "We even try to wear our hair differently so people can tell us apart." Said Jan: "It's our personalities that are really different. We're not as identical as everyone thinks."
Each has made a particular point of highlighting her own individuality. Amy said she's more social. Laura said she's more direct and likes to take initiative. Jan said she's probably more laid back.
Business prof Judith Bovinet, who's taught each of the Domeyes, remembers they worried they were being confused with each other. "Sometimes I'd be talking to Amy and sheĠd look at me a little funny and say, 'I'm Amy,' as if worried I had forgotten. And I'd say, 'I know.' It didn't take long to see how unique they were. It was so much fun having them in class," Bovinet said. "They're such wonderful girls."
Although all three sister are all business administration majors, they don't plan threesome careers. Amy and Laura are eyeing careers at Winona-based Fastenal, but Jan plans to go job-hunting in the Twin Cities. Amy mentioned that their father had a significant influence on their plans , which helped lead them to Winona State. "Our dad is in banking at Wells Fargo and he suggested a business degree would help all of us in almost any job we wanted," Amy said. "We're also from Winona and Winona State is a good university," Jan said. "So it was smart for all of us to get our business degrees here. Even our mom went to WSU."
The girls mentioned advantages to being triplets in college. "We have many of the same classes," Amy said, "so if one us is sick, another can take notes and get assignments." They also share textbooks. "We've saved a lot of money sharing books," Laura said.
Reporter: Mark Johnson
Weddings to be a WSU gazebo tradition?WINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- With two weddings scheduled at the year-old camnpus gazebo, Anne Kohner figures a tradition is being born. Kohner, assistant to university Vice President Jim Schmidt, does the booking. Two weddings are scheduled for this summer and she gets inquiries regularly, said Kohner. The flower-landscaped 20-foot gazebo, built to the middle of campus in the fall of 2003, saw its first wedding last summer when two recent grads tied their knot.
One wedding this summer is from someone oither than an alumni. "There is a University of Lacrosse-Wisconsin student who loves the campus and wants to get married here," said Kohner. The cost? Free, said Kohner. "I checked with facilities and they will even set-up chairs for the ceremony," she said.
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FIRST GAZEBO NUPTUALS
May 2004
Gazebo was built in 2003 as an alumni gift from the classes of 1954, 1958 and 1959. |
Places with similar settings charge for weddings. The cost of an outdoor wedding at the Windom Park gazebo, at Broadway and Huff Street, is $40 for two hours. Renting chairs from Winona Rental ranges from $1 to $1.50 per chair and the customer has to pick them up. The Lake Park bandshell rents for $65. Another wedding is scheduled in the landscaped campus courtyard.
Reporter: Meghan Frain
Ramaley endorses Maria dorm planWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- A plan to buy the Maria dorm at the old St. Teresa campus has been approved by incoming Winona State University President Judith Ramaley, according to Vice President Cal Winbush. Winbush said he talked to Ramaley about buying the dorm, which is now leased, after retiring President Darrell Krueger was hesitant to make any big decisions so close to transition to Ramaley. Ramaley approved of the plan, Winbush said . The current lease expires in July, so no final decision needs to be made until then.
An engineering evaluation of the dorm is under way to assess the value of the building now that its owner, St. Mary's University, has expessed an interest in selling. Winbush said that after the inspections, there is a good chance that Winona State could buy Maria for less than the $2 million asking price. Maria was first leased in the fall of 2002. It is part of the Winona State west campus along with the Lourdes and Tau dorms. The four-floor building houses up to 239 students.
Winona State leases the building year to year. This year the lease ran $330,000. Winbush said he expects lease to increase into the future. If the university were to pay $2 million over five year, it might just as well just buy the building. With Winona State enrollment growing, there will be an ongoing need for more housing, he said.
Reporter: Matt Kasper
Background: Student Senate OKs Maria purchase
Nurse: Counseling needed on Plan B pillsWINONA, Minn., May 3, 2005 -- Women should be counseled before using morning-after contraceptive pills to be sure they use them safely, said Pat Przybylski at the Winona State University nursing station. Przyblski has doubts whether the pills should be available over-the-counter, which would bypass counseling on their use. If the morning-after pill is handed out it should be done if a safe manner, Przyblski said. The issue of whether to limit legal distribution to prescription has arisen anew with Canadian approval of morning-after pillswithout prescription in Canada. In the United States the Federal Drug Administration has yet to approve Plan B. If FDA agrees with medical researchers and approves the pill for over-the-counter distribution, women will be able to pick up this emergency contraceptive for around $20 to $30. Even without the pill going over the counter, it is readily available online and at pro-abortion clinics. The morning-after pill prevents pregnancy approximately 75 percent of the time.
Reporter: Kim Kawecki
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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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