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View: War training, war support not same

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 22, 2005 -- Questions about cost, space and faculty for a proposed military science curriculum at Winona State need to be assessed, said freshman Sen. Ron Kezeske, but there is no issue for him about the appropriateness of an Army-run program at the university. Having an Army ROTC program does not mean that Winona State supports war, Kezeske said in an interview. A campus-wide task force, including students, is being assembled to examine feasibility and positive and negative effects, he said. Generally he is favorable to the plan, proposed by the Army. Picking up on a line from the university mission statement, Kesezke said that an officer-training program would better serve "a community of learners dedicated to improving our world." Students are interested in the program, which is why it is being discussed, said Kezeske, not because Winona State supports war. MORE Kezeske said an Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps program would result in more intelligent, better trained officers. Kezeske said that an Army ROTC program might encourage more people to attend college rather than go straight into the Army. If students enroll in the Army ROTC program and go to college, they will be an officer in the Army right away, said Kezeske. The U.S. Army will be a more intelligent group and able to fight better if they obtain higher education, he said. MORE The Student Senate has taken no position on the Army proposal. The Senate was briefed on the plan by the comamander of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse ROTC unit last week. MORE Kezeske said some people dream of protecting the freedoms of the American people, and, he said, if they want to study at Winona State, an Army ROTC program would benefit them. Kezeske said he usunsure when there would be future discussion on the Army proposal.

RON KEZESKE Freshman senator ROTC PATCH For uniform shoulder

VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S) WSU 3, UM-Crookston

Flynn: Student Senate had all the facts

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 22, 2005 -- The student president at Winona State University, Ryan Flynn, said the Student Senate went into the Winona school referendum issue with its eyes wide open. Numbers involved in the referendum, including tax increases that will translate into student rent increases, were announced at the meeting at which the Senate voted to support the referendum. Flynn, who met recently with the landlord group Winona Housing Association, said the Senate did not overlook costs involving the referendum. He noted, too, that single-family homes will bear most of the brunt of the referendum costs than would students in rental usits. MORE The proposed school tax levies seek to preserve Winona public school operation standards without downsizing offerings. To Flynn, the issues goes to the heart of what a community is about: "A school is often the soul of a community, a city." A lack of support for recent school referendums has allowed Winona schools "to fall into disarray," he said. MORE As student president, Flynn takes pride in emphasizing community involvement, hoping to push students into equal-status with non-student residents, many of whom do not think of students as"official" community members. In an interview Flynn said he's received nothing but e-mails and words of thanks from the Senate's stance on the school referendum. However, Flynn has not pushed to mobilize the Senate into action on the referendum. Rather he has been encouraging individual senators to conduct their own campaigns. A Senate full press could go into overdrive to the point that no one listens anymore, he said. Also, he said, the Senate posture "is still open to change." MORE Flynn expressed surprise when he learned from a reporter that some student renters would be entitled to tax breaks if the school levy triggers rents increases. He said he needs to get up-to-speed on the tax provisions. A state-issued refund is available for tax-triggered property tax increases that fall disproportionate on renters below a certain income levels.

SCHOOL ELECTION ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? RYAN FLYNN Student president

SOCCER (MEN'S) St. John 2, SMU 0

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WSU cadet: ROTC push originated locally

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 22, 2005 -- Army cadet Josh Winkleman, a Winona State University senior, is working with fellow cadets who train at the Univerity of Wisconsin-La Crosse, to reinstate a full officer-training program at Winona State. Fifteen Winona State cadets now make frequent drives between the campuses. Fifteen cadets out of Winona State's 8,000 enrollment may not seem like many, Winkleman acknowledged in an interview, but he said he has met students in the National Guard units who would join if travel were not an issue. MORE Also, he said the 15-cadet detachment at Winona State lacks the recruiting visibility that a full-fledged unit would have. Most students don't know that a Reserve Officers' Training Corps detachment even exists at Winona State, he said. The potential for ROTC at Winona State is significant because of the university's large nursing program and students in National Guard and Army Reserve units. Too, he said, when college students in the Minnesota and Wisconsin National Guard units return from the Iraq war, some will be interested in working toward a commission through ROTC, he said. MORE Winkleman denied that the push for a Winona State unit is part of a broader Army plan to strengthen its officer feeder system or because of a recruiting crisis natiownide with waning public enthusiasm for Iraq war. The reinstatement project came mainly from campus people, including himself, Winkleman said. He described university President Judith Ramaley as inquisitive about the issue. MORE Winkleman said that he and his ROTC acquaintances were unaware that Ramaley had formed a task force to study the issue until a fellow cadets happened to call Student Senate President Ryan Flynn and heard about it from him. Three ROTC cadets, including Winkleman, are working on the task force. MORE In a wide-ranging interview, Winkleman dismissed concern about the Army's discrimination against homosexuals. Winkleman said what's really important is the Army as a team working for the country, not individual sexual proclivities. Military science courses would be open to all Winona State students, including the gay community, he said. The Army, however, does not accept gays who are openm about their sexuality, whuich would make military science courses a career dead-end. MORE Reinstating ROTC would require classroom and office space and scheduling compromises with other extra-curricular activities but would not take any university funds, said Winkleman. The Army provides its own faculty, uniformed seregants and officers. About concerns that weapons, including the cadets' assigned M16 semiautomatic rifles would be stored on campus, Winkleman said: Not so. Even in the 1980s when a full program was in operation at Winona State, weapons were not stored on campus, he said. The closest thing to a weapon that ROTC would ever bring on campus is a "rubber duck," a fake M16 used for physical training. Real weapons would be stored in the National Guard Armory several miles from campus in a secure environment, he said. MORE About Ramaley's skepticism that space can be found for classrooms and offices, Winkleman said that ROTC is flexible and can work around student schedules and is willing to consider every possible compromise. He also mentioned that west campus seemed abundant with available classrooms when he lived there and that once main campus renovations, such as the Pasteur building construction, are finished there should be more space again. MORE Even though Winkleman plans to be graduated this year as a communication arts and literature teaching major, he wants Winona State administratorfs to give "an open and honest look" into reinstating ROTC.

ROTC PATCH For uniform shoulder

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SOCCER (WOMEN'S) WSU 0, Bemidji State 0

Hatch: State needs better governor -- me

ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 22, 2005 -- Attorney Mike Hatch, announcing his candidacy for governor, launched an attack on Gov. Tim Pawlenty for raising college tuition. In a mailed campaign piece, Hatch, a Democrat, said: "Pawlenty taxed students with 45 percent hikes in state college tuition, more than double the 20 percent in private colleges' tuition." Pawlenty, a Republican, is expected to seek a second term. Hatch's mailer arrived in mail boxes on Saturday, two days ahead of his official announcement scheduled for Monday. MORE The mailer faulted Pawlenty on a broad range of issues, including the budget-driven shutdown of state government: "Over the 229-year history, 50 state governments have enacted thousands of budgets. On only one other occasion has a state (Tennessee) been so poorly governed that its government was shut down. In 1973, Time magazines applauded Minnesota as "the state that works." By contrast, after a humilating government shutdown this year, the New York Times highlighted the gridlock of Minnesota government." MORE Hatch said Pawlenty has subordinated the public's interests to the special intersts reresented by the ultra-conservative Taxpayers League, which represents big manufacturers and big business. The "test of true leadership" is standing up to special-interest groups," Hatch said. "The governor has placed his pledge to teh Taxpayers League above his oath to the people."

MIKE HATCH Attorney general seeks Democratic gubernatorial nod

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CROSS COUNTRY (WOMEN'S) Northern Sun championships: MSU-Moorhead 50 (1st), Wayne State 58 (2nd), Northern State 84 (3rd), Concordia of St. Paul 100 (4th), Bemidji Stte 103 (5th), Winona State 105 (6th).

Landlords straddle school tax issue

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FOOTBALL (MEN'S) WSU 54, MSU-Moorhead 17

Two women arrested in party bust

(WOMEN'S) WSU 3, Bemidji State 0

(WOMEN'S) Carleton 3, SMU 1

Herold: Colleges key to school's future

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 20, 2005 -- School board member Kelly Herold, also a communication prof at Winona State, said that he asked university's Student Senate to support the upcoming school referendum to spur student interest and create a campus spirit of community. Herold noted that students can swing the election. Winona State and St. Mary's university have 13,000 students in a city of 27,000. The student voice could make or break the referendum, Herold noted, even though not all of students live within the Winona school district. MORE Herold said his pitch to the Student Senate followed a $1,000 Faculty Senate donation to support the referendum. Contacting the Student Senate was the next logical step in gain support, he said. The Senate support has generated campus interest on the plight of Winona schools if the referendum fails, Herold said. The College of Education is sponsoring a symposium Nov. 1, a week ahead of the referendum vote, to discuss the referendum's possible effects, negative or positive. The symposium will be open to the public. MORE At stake, said Herold, is the quality of education for 4,051 students in 13 K-12 Winona-area schools. There have been setbacks in safety and education standards because a referendum failed last year, he said. Kindergarten has been cut to four days a week, If the new referendum doesn't pass, some elementary schools may have to cut their school week as well, said Herold. Noting that 85 percent of the district's budget is salaries and benefits, Herold said that teachers would be laid off and class sizes increase. Supporting the referendum will help the schools maintain safe and comfortable learning environments and keep valuable extra-curricular opportunities, elective courses, and special education services, said Herold.

SCHOOL ELECTION ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? KELLY HEROLD Winona School Board member and WSU prof

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Landlord: Students to pay if taxes rise

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 19, 2005 -- College students will pay more rent if a school referendum passes in November, accordiong to a manager of 100-plus rental units. If property taxes go up, as the referendum proposses, Mike Alexander said he likely will need to raise monthly rents $5 per head. Alexander, a landlord since 1972, doubts the referendum will pass. "The referendum did not pass last year, so I highly doubt it's going to pass this year," he said, adding that the School Board lacks credibility for crying "the sky is falling," Chicken Little-like, in past. "In a similar referendum years ago, they said they were going to close some schools that were't fully being occupied," he said. "They failed to do so and the community knows better than to vote for it now." MORE Not all of Alexander's tenants agree. Winona State phys-ed major Megan Hertz, for example, said Winona schools aren't in any shape to lose anything. "Winona Senior High can't afford to give up anything else," Hertz said. "They hardly have anything as it is." MORE Alexander acknowledged in an interview that many college students may favor more school spending, but he doubts the student turnout at the polls Nov. 8 will be high. "Although students occupy a major portion of the community here, the majority don't vote," Alexander said. "I know there are some exceptions, but most college kids would rather watch Tommy Boy than vote for a referendum in a community that they're only partial residents to," said Alexander, himself a Winona State alum.

MIKE ALEXANDER Winona landlord

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Prof going non-stop for school money

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 19, 2005 -- As a Winona school board member, Winona State University speech prof Kelly Herold is working hard for the school district’s upcoming referendum. In nine days he's been to 27 meetings, gone on the radio three times, and written numerous letters to the editor. Herold's not letting up: "I have a meeting scheduled every day until Nov. 8." On that date Winona voters will be asked to make decisions that Herold sees as crucial. The referendum includes three requests: increasing the operating budget, building improvements, and improving technology, However, the first issue, the operating budget, must pass in order for the others to make it. "We can't fix up buildings if there are no teachers to fill them," said Herold. MORE The School Board, which has cut more than $7 million from the school budget in the past five years, will be forced to cut teaching positions and athletic and music programs, and even drop the five-day school week, if the upcoming referendum does not pass, he said. Herold, elected to the board last year, said there are currently 87 school districts in Minnesota facing the same trouble as Winona. MORE Herold said if the referendum doesn't pass, the School Board will be forced to draw up another referendum for next year. "We can only propose one referendum a year," he said. "They will keep coming until one passes." He doesn't see a satte bail-out coming: "Not much is happening up in St. Paul to help us with our situation," said Herold. Asked what he would like to say to voters Kelly said, "Be a good neighbor. We are one big community, and we need to help each other out. The elderly need my tax money to help fund their Social Security, their Medicare, and their retirements. The middle class has been carrying their load, and now it’s time for them to give back. We're all in this together."

KELLY HEROLD School board member

Flynn: Student Senate has done its part

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 19, 2005 -- Although the Winona State University Student Senate is supporting a Winona school tax increase, student President Ryan Flynn said the Senate has no plans for major participation in the campaign for new school funding. Flynn said the Senate does not want to overlap get-out-the-vote and information projects by student clubs and other organizations. "Senate is not going to be out door-knocking," said Flynn. Senate support, however, has helped generate publicity for the Nov. 6 election, he said. Campus organizations, including the club for education majors, are working informational booths to inform students of the referendum, said Flynn: "I don't know if I want to step on their toes and cause a conflict." Flynn complimented the College of Education on its efforts. MORE To critics who argue that student are transient and shouldn't vote because they have no long-term interest in Winona, Flynn said hogwash: "Students are part of the Winona community. We pay rent. We pay sales tax. We should be able to have our opinion be heard." He encouraged Winona State students to support this referendum.

RYAN FLYNN Student president

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Warriors reverse course, blank St. Cloud

Highway 14 restriping completed

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WSU wins student-support grant renewal

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Sutton, Beatty win Northern Sun nods

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Mascot draws out WSU Democrats

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 17, 2005 -- College Democrats at Winona State University have swelled their membership through the recruiting efforts of Libby the party mascot at events beginning at last spring's Earth Day on campus. Libby returned to campus for the recent Club Fair. The party's county newsletter says that Libby's close friend and confidant, Jean Mueller, with whom she spends a good deal of time, describes her as serving selflessly and without complaint. Libby has "the most comforting and peace-loving character," Mueller said. "Because of Libby's apparently effortless ability to draw people to our cause, we were able to introduce our issues to a wide audience, to generate enthusiasm, and to attract new volunteers," Mueller said.

LIBBY She prefers to be known by her first name only Campus Republicans have asked for a volujnteer elephant to counter Libby's success at Winona State

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Grand jury finds dental school embezzling

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State moves 55-mph Highway 14 sign

Tentative faculty contract accord reached

WSU been pondering ROTC since summer

WINONA, Minn., Oct. 16, 2005 -- A decision on whether to allow the Army to teach officer-training courses at Winona State University could come as early as December, said university President Judith Ramaley. She confirmed that officers at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse contacted her over he summer about re-establishing a Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit that the Army removed in 1990. Ramaley had not divulged the contact until after the Army made a pitch last week to the Student Senate. She said a task force is examining possibilities. MORE The ROTC program, which prepares college students for commissioning as Army second lieutenants on graduation, was disassembled at Winona State in a nationwide consolidation of campus units in 1990. Winona State students were sent instead to UW-La Crosse classes, where a unit has remained in operation. In informing the Student Senate of its plans to come back to Winona State, Lt. Col. Stewart Fearon of UW-La Crosse said Winona cadets would save tuition. They now pay $250 extra per credit for their UW-LaCrosse classes, about $5,000 for a four-year program, Fearon said. Also, he said, commuting from Winona is an expense. MORE Ramaley said the greatest obstacle she sees to bringing ROTC back is facilities. The program, formerly in the basement of Phelps Hall, where it stored M16 semiautomatic rifles, one per cadet, would need space that now doesn't exist. Facilities at Winona State are especially tight with the Pasteur science operations relocated during remodeling and the pending demolition of the Howell classroom and offices building adjacent to Phelps.

JUDITH RAMALEY She learned of Army plan last summer but didn't tell ROTC PATCH For uniform shoulder

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SOCCER (WOMEN'S) WSU 3, Wayne State 0

Warriors score 11th shutout of season

Democrats favor Winona school tax hike