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LATEST NEWS WSU STUDENT ELECTIONS Flynn: Grades matter, no second term WINONA, Minn., Nov. 30, 2005 -- The energetic student president at Winona State University, junior Ryan Flynn, said he will not seek a second term. In an interview, Flynn said the job has taken too much time from his studies. Even his current 13-credit class load, one class short of a normal load, is a strain with the press of his duties as Student Senate president, Flynn said. Seeking a second term could mean going into a six-year or seven-year program to graduate, he said. MORE "I thought about it a great deal and I decided I’m not going to seek re-election because of the workload it brings," said Flynn in the interview. He needs next academic year, he said, to focus on school. "If I was president for another year I'd be going to school here for another two or three years because I could only take so many credits. "If I took 16 credits while I was student senate president, I wouldn’t be able to do as well in my schoolwork and my performance as president would also suffer." MORE Flynn said that he has enjoyed being student president. MORE Flynn said that he plans on graduate school immediately after he graduates from Winona State. Now that Flynn has said that he will not be seeking reelection as the Student Senate president, a door has opened for other senators to step up as possible candidates in the spring election. "It's going to be interesting to see who stands up as a leader next semester," said Flynn. "It will be exciting." Flynn also said that although he will not be on the Student Senate next year he will still be involved in issues surrounding the senate. "Next year will be unique because there will be a former Student Senate president that will still be around," said Flynn, noting that most of his predecessors finished their term at the same time they graduated and were gone the next year the next year. "You'll still see me around," said Flynn RYAN FLYNN To call it quits after spring Reporter: Scott Swanson TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE UPCOMING EVENTS ST. MARY'S SOUTHEAST TECH WINONA STATE TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE WSU ponders adopt-a-block plan WINONA, Minn., Nov. 30, 2005 -- Inspired by adopt-a-highway programs, a committee at Winona State University is working on a plan to involve students in clean-up, repair and maintainence in residential blocks around the main campus. The idea, floated by student President Ryan Flynn at an Oct. 27 meeting between students and administrators, is ready to take off as soon as a few more students join, according to Cal Winbush, the university's student affairs vice president. Winbush sees the project as a counter to growing neighborhood concern over student alcohol abuse and rowdyism. The program is way to become positively involved in the community, Winbush said. MORE The idea orginated with Flynn a few months ago in talks with Kevin Brady, co-chair of the Winona Housing Association landlord group. Flynn said he wanted to demonstrate that students wanted to be proactive against booze-related liter and destruction in campus neighborhoods. Students could, for example, pick up furniture left curbside by vacating renters. MORE Student clubs will be able to post signs on the streets for which they will be responsible to clean up, similar to the ownership signs on adopted highways. The program will not only involve student clubs but also possibly be used as a way to reform the university's judicial conduct system by assigning wayward students to work physically at neighborhood clean-up and maintenance. Currently students serve punishments on-campus. MORE Winbush denied that the program is a direct response to city moves to cut down on student rental units near the main campus. The proposal, he added, might help curb high-risk alcohol abuse among students in ways the current capus judicial system does not. Reporter: Zack Stogenson TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE False alarm caught as firefighters on way WINONA, Minn., Nov. 30, 2005 -- Firefighters started out on an alarm from St. Mary's University at 5:37 a.m. The alarm was cancelled by campus security guards, who determined it was a false alarm when the firefighters were en route. TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE COURT CONVICTIONS WEEK ENDING NOV. 30, 2005 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT UNDERAGE CONSUMPTION Matthew Jon Christensen, 18, 307 W. Howard, $227. Benjamin Scott Doblar, 19, 712 E. Ninth, $277. Joseph Christopher Carillo, 20, Minneapolis, $177. Kevin Joseph Schouweiler, 20, 706 E. 10th, $277 ALL BOOZING CONVICTIONS ALL NOISY PARTY CONVICTIONS TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S) St. Catherine 64, SMU 6 TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY POSTED NOV. 30, 2005 SCHOOL BOARD VACANCY. School Board member Jennifer Woodward resigned resignation after two years of her three-year term because she has moved outside the district. The Board may either appoint an interim succesoror leave the seat vacant until next November.s election. GARVIN LEAK. An Ellingson Draining crew drilled into a water main Wednesday, draining a 100,000-gallon water tower on Garvin Heights. Water backed up into sanitary drainage line, sending a mix of water and sewage down the steep road up Garvin Heights. City crews applied sand on salt on the road. It took several hours to pump water back into the tank and restore pressure. SCHOOL SECRECY. A School Board committee met in closed session to discuss its earlier decisions to bypass a currently on-staff teacher to coach soccer and hire an outsider. Board attorney Pat Maloney said matters covered by statev privacy provisions were discussed. The Daily News, objecting to the closure, said its counsekl viewed the closure as an overly expansive interpretation of the state law tat requried open meetings. EARLIER NEWS IN THE CITY TO EARLIER ITEMS TO TOP TO HOME TO NEWS ARCHIVE BASKETBALL (MEN'S) WSU 77, St. Mary's 64 Double-double sparks WSU victory WINONA, Minn., Nov. 30, 2005 -- A double-double by John Smith keyed Winona State University to a 77-64 men's nonconference basketball victory over Saint Mary's University. Smith and the Warriors dominated the boards. Winona State outrebounded St. May's 44-29. Smith came up with 14 rebounds. Smith added 16 points and tallied three blocked shots to go along with two assists and two steals. The Warriors scored the last six points of the first half for a 38-32 lead at the break and then outscored the Cardinals 39-32 in the second half. David Zellmann led the Warriors in scoring with 22 points. Zach Malvik netted 15. the first eight of thosed points made alvik the 28th Winona State men's basketball player to score 1,000 career points. Statistics

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BASKETBALL (MEN'S) SMU 86, Crown 72

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BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S) WSU 64, Upper Iowa 53

Warriors topple Upper Iowa

Massed choir readies "Messiah" sing-in

WSU women's tennis team has new coach

WSU names two volleyball signees

Study: Wired kids tapping into democracy

MADISON, Wis., Nov. 29, 2005 -- Use of the Internet as a resource and a forum strongly influences participation in civic affairs, often more than traditional media and even face-to-face communication, according to a study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher. Masscom prof Dhavan Shah's study, in the journal Communication Research, analyzes data from surveys conducted during and after the 2000 presidential election and concludes that the Internet can rival the effects of newspapers in spurring citizens to action. That is a significant finding, Shah sqaid, noting that Internet use tends to be more prevalent among young people -- a wired generation often assumed to be disconnected from civic life. MORE "One hopeful piece of news from this is that young people are taking advantage of the Internet in a way that may be a sign of civic renewal," Shah said. "Everything points to the idea that this may be an important pathway to the involvement of young people in civic life." MORE Shah said his study illustrates how the Internet can be a potent tool not just for community organizers but in promoting the long-term health of democracy itself. "The Internet is something that tends to involve those who are least inclined to be public-spirited -- if they use the Internet in certain ways -- to become very public spirited and very civically engaged," he said. The study's conclusions are also significant, he said, because they show the potential for the Internet to be a dynamic, interactive medium able to build citizen participation in public life. MORE Although some scholars have criticized online communication as eroding social connections and encouraging people to withdraw instead of become engaged, Shah's study found that certain uses of the Internet can actually heighten civic participation. "Although this analysis cannot vindicate the Internet as a cause of social withdrawal, it certainly suggests that when two of the most popular uses of the Internet-- browsing and e-mailing -- are used to gain information and express opinions about public affairs, they have substantial potential to affect the health of a civil society," the study found. That potential has likely increased since the surveys were conducted, with the rise of online phenomena such as blogging, said Shah, who plans to expand on the study by analyzing data from the 2004 elections -- in conjunction with political advertising data from a separate study. MORE The strong correlation between using the Internet as a tool of political expression and engagement in public life underscore its potential to enable civic participation without the traditional limitations of face-to-face communication, Shah said. Additionally, the study concluded that television news -- despite claims that the entire medium has a demobilizing effect -- has some positive, indirect effects on triggering civic participation. The study also found that both online and offline information gathering culminates in civic participation. That tends to discount earlier theories that there are two distinct pathways to civic participation -- one online and the other offline -- and that political uses of the Internet dampen civic action and often lead to a dead end. MORE Shah said that future research needs to probe how people use various media over time, instead of concentrating on how much they use them, when studying their effects on civic activism.

DHAVAN SHAH Media researcher

Student leader faults rental law change

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 29, 2005 -- A proposed ordinance to cut down the number of students living in the Winona State University neighborhood is "a direct shot" at college students, at-large Student Sen. Scott Ryan said in a letter to the Winona Post and the Daily News. Ryan said the ordinance is rooted in a false premise: "For those of you who believe that the college kids are just a bunch of drunks and all we do is drink and party and think that's why Winona is losing a family feel, you're flat out wrong." The ordinance would cap rental units to 30 percent per block. For anyone who accepts the false premise that students all are rowdy lushes, Ryan said the ordinance change makes no sense. Noting that the change would force students to move farther out, he said: "Why in the world would you want to spread us around town?" After months of debate arranged by a task force and the city zoning board, the City Council has approved the new ordinance tentatively. A final vote scheduled for Dec. 19. Ryan, on the Student Senate Legislative Affairs Committee, said: "The college students mean this town no harm whatsoever." Ryan himself is a Winona native.

SCOTTY RYAN At-large student senator

WSU curtain call for "Vagina Monologues"

Fired prof's case still in courts

Party raises $1,000 for Katrina fund

BASKETBALL (MEN'S) NORTHERN SUN PLAYER OF WEEK

Malvik garners conference honors

Wrong message seen in rental law change

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BASKETBALL (MEN'S) UM-Duluth 76, WSU 72

Warriors beat UM-Duluth again

BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S) Metro State 72, WSU 69

R.I.P.: Ruth D. (Dahl) Tolleson

BASKETBALL (MEN'S) St. Cloud State 80, WSU 79

BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S) Adams State 74, WSU 64

R.I.P. Carl H. Fischer

HOCKEY (MEN'S) SMU 6, Northland 1

BASKETBALL (MEN'S) NORTHERN SUN PLAYER OF WEEK

Zellman earns league honor

.483 hitter signs for WSU softball

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Post oppose WSU-area zoning changes

Bishops spurn murder victims' families

OBNOXIOUS PARTIES WHEN GOOD TIMES GET OUT OF HAND CONVICTIONS Winona County District Court

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