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Training injury for WSU's Chris SampGREEN BAY, Wis., June 30, 2005 -- Winona State University wide receiver Chris Samp, now grduated and with the Green Bay Packers, pulled a hamstring at a minicamp. Whether Samp can recover from the injury by July 29, when full-squad practice begins, is uncertain.
Background: Samp to Packers, Wrobel to Seahawks
WSU sets stadium grand-opening setWINONA, Minn., June 30, 2005 -- The grand opening of the $1.5 million press box and booster suites at Winona State University's football stadium will be Sept. 10, said athletics fundraiser Dan Schumacher. A sign with the new name, Midwest Wireless Stadium, for the facility's main donor, has been hoisted halfway up two four-story monolith pylons that are the architectural centerpiece of the exterior. The grand opening will be the North Dakota game.
Background: WSU plans 100-year football reunion
County attorney in running for judgeshipWINONA, Minn., June 30, 2005 -- The Winona County attorney since 1996, Chuck MacLean, who is prosecuting the Sugar Loaf Murders case, is one of three finalists for a vacant judgeship in Waseca County. MacLean made the short list of recomendations to Gov. Tim Pawlenty from the state Judicial Selection Commission. Also recommended were Waseca County Attorney Larry Collins and Owatonna lawyer Ross Leuning. Pawlenty is schedueld to interview finalists in July. He is not limited to the commission's recomemndations.
If chosen, MacLean would leave Winona in the middle of the high-profile case against Paul Allen Gordon in the strangulation murders of Winona State student Stacy Smith, her 10-year-daughter and also the death of an unborn child carried by Smith. As county attorney MacLean has five assistants: Nancy Bostrack, Susan Cooper, Thomas Gort, Kevin O'Laughlin and Carmaine Sturino. |
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RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
POSTED JUNE 29, 2005
GOLF RESTAUARANT SIGN. The city agreed to let the Winona Golf Club keep a new, oversize sign for its Signature restaurant on Pleasant Valley Road, but it will have to be on the ground, not atop a pylon. The club had wanted to mount the 10-foot by 7-foot sign 16 feet in the air. Even on the ground, the sign exceeds the 64-square foot max for residential and rural areas.
TOY SHOP CLOSES. The Time Out toy shop at Winona Mall will close because of declining sales. Owner Kathy Becker blamed the new Wal-Mart, which opened across town on the East End last fall.
FLAMING POTTY. Somebody set fire to toilet paper in a portable toilet set up for Steamboat Days at Second and Center streets. The unit was destroyed and two adjacent units damaged.
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Air Force Academy faulted on faith issuesWASHINGTON, June 28, 2005 -- The U.S. Air Force Academy failed to accommodate minority religious beliefs, according to an Air Force investigation of complaints that chaplains had encouraged evangelical Protestant cadets to proselytize classmates and even threatened that anyone not "born again" will "burn in the fires of hell." Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, who headed the investigation, said the academy needs guidelines on acceptable forms of religious expression, Brady called for diversity training regarding religious expression.
Background: Academy beset with religious issues
College leader wary of Pentagon databaseWASHINGTON, June 28, 2005 -- The associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Barmak Nassirian, expressed alarm, that the Pentagon, is trying to collect data on every high school and college students from age 16 to 18 for a massive national file for military recruiting. Nassirian said it seems that are inadequate safeguards on who has access to the data, which icnludes names and Social Security numbers. The access protrocols seem to be "really loosey-goosey," he said. Nassirfian noted that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 sometiems called the Buckley Amendment, prohibits colleges from releasing many kinds of information about students without their consent. The Penatgon has justified its new database through another law, called the Solomon Amendment, which provides for financial sanctions against colleges that don't allow military recruiters on campus.
Background: Pentagon putting student info in database
QUICK SPORTS
JUNE 28, 2005
TRACK (MEN'S)
Named to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coasches Association all-academic team was SMU with a cumulative high-B grade point average of 3.2 on a 4.0 scale.
TRACK (WOMEN'S)
Named to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coasches Association all-academic team was SMU with a cumulative high-B grade point average of 3.492 on a 4.0 scale.
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Panel: Engineering programs need rethinkingWASHINGTON, June 27, 2005 -- College engineering curriculums should be strong in the humanities and training in analytical, communication, and foreign-language skills, according to a National Academy of Engineering panel's report. The report recommended the creation of more graduate programs as a requirement for engineers. Grads with bachelor's degrees should be regarded as "engineers in training," the report said. The report, "Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century," says engineers need broader interdisciplinary training to adapt to the increasing pace of technological innovation and global competition in industries driven by engineering. The report also called for more engineering profs to have practical experience from working in industry.
R.I.P.: Eleanor Angelina SiegelWINONA, Minn., June 27, 2005 -- A Winona Sate Univerity grad who began her college studies at age 50, Eleanor Siegel, died at a hospice. She was 88. At Winona State she majored both in elemntary education and business education. She was graduated in 1967 in the same ceremony as her daughter Ginnee. She spent her teaching career in fourth grade at Cathedral School.
$60-a-pound beef nips college prezTRENTON, N.J., June 27, 2005 -- The president of Mercer County Community College, Robert R. Rose, has been placed on paid leave amid disputed charges on a college credit card and purchase orders that appear to have been fabricated to get around bidding requirements. Critics have cited lavishness, including a function that featured $60-a-pound Kobe beef. At the time tuition was being raised.
Trustees plan hearing on WSU tuitionWINONA, Minn., June 27, 2005 -- The state colleges board of trustees will accept testimony on tuition rates for fall at a Winona State University hearing in mid-July. The hearing is one of two, the other in northern Minnesota, on the MnSCU statewide tuition increase proposal and variations proposed by various campuses. The Winona hearing will be a final chance for Winona State President Darrell Krueger to pitch his New University plan before he retires at the end of that week. The New University initative would put the tuition at $6,620, including a mandatory laptop computer fee -- the highest among MnSCU unversities. Southest State is seeking a raise to $5,693, which would make it a distant second. The Winona State total includes the first of four $250 increases to be phased in for Krueger's New University experiential learning package.
The New University has been the most divisive Winona State issue since 20 years when the faculty ousted acting President Helen Popovich after she shut down three academic departments and tried retrenching several tenured profs. Students have been overwhelmingly opposed in two referendums with record turnouts. Krueger's intransigence manifested itself in an angry outburst at a showdown meeting in March when student leaders felt insulted at being called ignorant and petty. All eyes are on Krueger's successor, Judith Ramaley, who takes over July 18. Ramaley has embraced the New University concept but also has commited herself to extending an olive-branch to thoroughly piqued Student Senate.
Bad blood over the issue promoted New University advocates to drop the New U moniker, which Krueger created two years when he launched the process he said would "reinvent" Winona State. The initatives now are called the Winona Experience.
Date: Wednesday, July 13
Time:1 p.m.
Place: Science Lab Center 120
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Background: Legislators agree on more higher-ed money
Background: Ramaley pays courtesy call on mayor
Background: Paying for excellence projects
Background: Students' New U anger in boil at rally
WORTH READING
JUNE 27, 2005
Hanna Rosin. "God and Country," New Yorker (June 27, 2005), Pages 44-49. Rosin, a Washington Post reporter, in the usual, detached journalistic way, lets students, almost all home-schooled, present a frightening portrait of tiny Patrick Henry College as an incubator for Christian right-wingers to take their place in the Washington power structure. The college already has planted interns in the White House and key Congressional offices.
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Study: Demographics of trustees changingWASHINGTON, June 27, 2005 -- College trustees are older and more business-oriented today, according to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. At private institutions trustees over age 50 now comprise 80 percent, compared to 72 percent 20 years ago. At private colleges 13.3 percent are over 70, at public institutions 11.4 percent. About half of trustees have backgrounds in business, an increase of roughly 5 percent. Explaining the shifts, Richard Ingram, president of association, said many colleges count increasingly on the philanthropy of their trustees so they seek out big donors as trustees, many of whom are older or retired.
Fight outside Third Street bar after closing| WINONA, Minn., June 26, 2005 -- A 29-year-old man suffered a knee injury in a fight outside Brothers bar about 1:30 a.m. The man was taken to the hospital. |
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WSU SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING JUNE 25, 2005
June 22: It was reported at 9:20 a.m. that an inflatable mattress was punctured at the Lourdes dorm between 5 and 10 p.m., June 19.
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COURT CONVICTIONS
WEEK ENDING JUNE 24, 2005
IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
UNDERAGE CONSUMPTION
Tyler Thomas Banicki, 20, 507 E. Wabasha St., $165
Daniel Allen Englett, 20, Mabel, Minn., $165.
Jolene Rose Ewald Fischer, 19, 423 E. Mark St., $165.
Gunnar Harris Zollinger, 19, Stillwater, Minn., $165.
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House moves to close student loan leakageWASHINGTON, June 24, 2005 -- The U.S. House approved a change in student-loan lending rules to temporarily close a loophole that has provided billions of dollars in subsidies to lenders. The provision, approved 224-178, would bar lenders from financing new student loans with tax-exempt bonds for Fiscal 2006. The loophole was created in the 1980s to encourage nonprofit lenders by guaranteeuing a 9.5 percent rate of return. With interest rates now much lower, lenders recycle the loans by borrowing at lower rates. It's estimated that the payments could cost the U.S. treasury $500 million a year.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who sponsored the measure. said that closing the loophole would make $5 billion available for more loans to more students. House Republicans opposed the Van Hollen plan, arguing that nonprofit student-loan providers need good proft margins to provide generous rebates to students, like discounts on loan fees for students.
The student-loan provision was in a larger appropriations bill, which was
approved 250-151 and that saved several higher-ed programs that President Bush had proposed eliminating. These included three popular college-prep programs for students from low-income families and a program of vocational and technical education that provides $400 million annually to community colleges. The bill would also increase the maximum Pell Grant by $50, to $4,100, although that falls short of the $100 requested by the president. The Senate is still grappling with these issues.
Pentagon putting student info in databaseWASHINGTON, June 24, 2005 -- The Department of Defense has begun collecting personal information about high school and college students for a database to aid military recruiting. The database includes student birth dates, Social Security numbers, ethnicities, grade-point averages, fields of study, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. Defense Department protocols say the student information accessible to only "those who require the records in the performance of their official duties," but those individuals are not identified. The Defense Department claims it has authorization to create the database under the so-called Solomon Amendment, in Congress allowed federal dollars to be withheld from colleges that do not allow military recruiting on campus.
Fix elusive for Highway 14 problemWINONA, Minn., June 23, 2005 -- A new proposal will be put together to solve growing congestion at the myriad intersections and driveways on Highway 14 through the St. Mary's University area, said City Coubncil member Al Thurley. Thurley, who conducted a hearing on the problem, said that new striping and designated turn lanes, as proposed by state engineers, are stopgap solutions at best. No enduring solution came from the hearing, which was attended by about two dozen people. Floated were possibilities for radar to flash their speeds at motorists as a warning to slow down, a median into the Knopp Valley exits, and better weed control on the shoulder. The state has turned down a plan to reduce the speed limit to 35 mph as ineffectual and creating new dangers.
Background: SMU speed options on agenda
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WSU retireee liaison job still openWINONA, Minn., June 20, 2005 -- The search for a director for the new Winona State University Retiree and Emeriti Center has been extended. The position now begins Aug. 22, coionciding with fall semester. Retired sociology profs Jim Reynolds and Ron Stevens, chairs of the search committee, are looking for candidates to create "institutional connections between the university and retirees who may wish to continue their intellectual and social participation in collegial life and service to the university." The job is for one year but renewable.
Schlawin art in SMU exhibitWINONA, Minn., June 20, 2005 -- A retired Winona State University art prof, Judy Schlawin, has works exhibited through July at St. Mary's University as part of the "From Gifted Hands" exhibit in the Lillian Davas Hogan Galleries. Other exhibitors: Mary Eischen, Korelle Hendee, Monta Gael May, Joan McNeil,Diana Swim, Marcia Thompson, Mary Anne Wise
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UNDER-AGE
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Darrell
Krueger
WSU president
2003: $211,836
Louis
DeThomasis
SMU president
2001: $155,245
Jim Johnson
Tech president
2001:
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