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Flynn opens wiggle room for second termWINONA, Minn., Dec. 10, 2005 -- The Winona State Univerity student president Ryan Flynn is waffling about a second term. Flynn, a junior, said two weeks ago he needed to concentrate on his studies to be graduated on time. Now, in a new interview, he may reconsider if he hears a significant student demand. It's unlikely, though, he said. Flynn said he came to his decision against a second term in October. He said he has enjoyed his time serving students, now three years with the Senate.
Flynn's term ends in May when all Senate seats, except those for at-Large and freshmen senators, will go up for grabs.
Close confidants were suprised at the decision, reported first by Scott Swanson on the CyberIndee on Nov. 30. Senate Treasurer Lauren Berens said that Flynn had spoken only recently of his decision. Senators had no prior knowledge. Berens said there has been little discussion about a successor brecause he announcement came on the eve of finals week with everyone concentrating on their studies.
The Senate's adviser, Joseph Reed, also was caught unawares. Reed noted that it is common for senate presidents to serve only one year because of the time required. Reed characterized Flynn as an especially active president. He said Flynn has done a great job leading the senate. Reed cited Flynn's skill as a public speaker, noting a speech to faculty at the beginning of the fall semester. Reed commended Flynn for tackling student issues and working to improve relations with the community. Flynn himself said: "If students' positive attitude towards the Senate speaks to his leadership, he would be satisfied." |
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Now says second term a possibility |
Reporter: Shanthal Perera
Background: Flynn: Grades matter, no second term
Background: Flynn's vision for starting afresh
Verbatim: Complete text of Flynn's speech
Background: Student leader assesses "community"
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SMU 162, Augsburg 39 |
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Hamline 87, SMU 17 |
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WSU 77, Upper Iowa 46 |
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Warriors control boards, humiliate Upper IowaWINONA, Minn., Dec.10, 2005 -- Winona State University held Upper Iowa University under 30 points in each half and posted a 77-46 nonconference men's basketball victory. The Warriors led 40-25 at the break of the first half and then held the Peacocks to 21 points in the final 20 minutes of play. David Zellman led the Warriors with 19 points. John Smith came up with 14 points. Jonte Flowers chipped in 10. The Warriors controlled the boards 49-34 and were 11 of 16 from the free throw line.
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SMU 3, St. Benedict 2 (overtime) |
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St. John's 4, SMU 1 |
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WSU SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING DEC. 10, 2005
Dec. 10, 2005: Several students were cited for an alcohol and noise violation at the East Lake dorm at 11:10 p.m.
Dec. 8, 2005: A student reported at 6:06 p.m. that she felt a roommate took some items from her. It was determined that nothing was missing.
Dec. 8, 2005: Several students were cited for an alcohol violation in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 11:30 p.m.
Dec. 8, 2005: Several students were cited for an alcohol violation in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 11:45 p.m.
Dec. 7, 2005: Several students were cited for an alcohol violation in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 9:20 p.m.
Dec. 7, 2005: Several students were cited for a drug violation in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 1:22 a.m.
Dec. 5, 2005: An emegency medical team responded at 10:14 a.m. to a student who was having a seizure in Maxwell Hall.
Dec. 4, 2005: A fire alarm activated at the Maria dorm at 9:35 p.m. Firefighters unable to determine what set the alarm off.
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Senator: Colleges must "right" themselvesNASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 9, 2005 -- Colllege campuses are liberal hotbeds, which is hurting broader public and financial support for higher eduication, Sen. Lamar Alexander told the government Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Alexaner, R-Tenn., said: "When I go to talk to people about funding for higher education, the single biggest pushback I get is from elected representatives who think that higher education is too one-sided." Alexander, a former U.S. secretary of education, said that as much as he would like to see political diversity of the nation's campuses it should not be forced. He denied favoring the so-called "academic bill of rights" being proposed to numerous state legislatures to counter perceived left-wing teaching. The solution, Alexander said, should come from trustees, deans and professors themselves. The commission, a Bush administration initiative, is conducting public forums with the goal of creating a comprehensive national higher-ed stratgey.
In the Nashville hearings, commission member Robert Mendenhall, president of Western Governors University, urged that federal highe-ed dollars go true research universities. "We should more clearly differentiate between research and teaching institutions, and not allow 'mission creep,' where everyone is both," he said.
COURT CONVICTIONS
WEEK ENDING DEC. 9, 2005
IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
UNDERAGE CONSUMPTION
Natasha Marie Kravanja, 19, 651 HuffSt., $754.
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WSU 104, Mt. Mary 19 |
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Warriors start track season on high noteAMES, Iowa, Dec. 9, 2005 - Winona State Univeristy kicked off its women's track and field season by setting a school record and reaching a provisional qualifier for the NCAA Indoor championships at the Iowa State University Holiday Classic. The quartet of Maria Kiselicka, Gretchen Harty, Lindsey Derby and Nikki Olson set a school record in the 4 x 300 relay at 2:55.48. Emily King led the Warriors in throwing with a weight throw with a toss of 52-feet, 6 and three-quarters-inches to also reach the provisional national qualifier and win the competition. Marissa Girolamo added a third in the event at 45-feet, one-quarter-inch. Nicole Lonning came in third in the shot put at 40 feet. Warrior all-American Deidra Faber placed second in the 800-meter run at 2:19.88. Bria Magnuson was second in the pole vault at 10 feet.Jessica was third in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.25 seconds.
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NSCAA/Addidas team |
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Beatty, Walters to all-American team| WINONA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2005 -- The Winona State University women's soccer team capped off the season with junior defender Christine Beatty and sophomore forward Kayla Walters named to the NSCAA/Adidas Division II all-America second-team. Beatty and Walters are the second and third all-Americans in Warrior soccer history, joining midfielder Elizabeth Narten, who made the second-team in 2001. The Warriors finished the season 19-1-3. |
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GUEST COMMENT
RYAN RICHARDON
PUBLIC RELATIONS SENIOR
WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY
ALEX WHITE IS A PR NIGHTMARE
I do not know nor have I ever met Alex White. He may be the upstanding individual that Jill Redman says he is in a recent opinion-page letter in the Winonan. That, however, is not the point. Redman said that "the ordeal" of White's Halloween party, at which police wrote up 23 individuals, had been dragged out too long in the public press and should be confined to White, his landlord and the police. She is sadly mistaken. Being a masscom junior, Redman, I assume, has taken at least introductory journalism courses in which she should have learned that the public has a right to know what is going on in their community and that the media are charged with fulfilling that right.
As for being dragged out, this ordeal received regional media coverage. I had friends calling me from southeastern Wisconsin telling me they had read blurbs about it in newspapers there.
All students can have an influence on how the police and community perceive Winona State. When White joined the WSU football team and became a student senator he left the ranks of the average student and became a public figure. Public figures are put under the microscope because they serve as ambassadors of the university. They are the most visible aspects of the student population and must act accordingly.
Furthermore, White is a public relations major. Public relations practitioners are charged with managing the reputation of their employers and clients Š not an easy thing to do when the point person has a questionable history. White has become a PR nightmare for a football program struggling to overcome a reputation created by several players' police records -- and also a nightmare by being associated with the Student Senate, which is fighting for credibility. In the PR world if this happened he would be without a job.
Had White not been a football player and senator this whole situation may have only been a footnote, or if he were a freshman it could have been written off as one of the numerous asinine things freshman do each year, but he is in his second year of college. And because White is in the public realm he is fair game.
College is not real life. It is practice for real life. White did what many students have done. He threw a party with his friends and drank underage. What all students need to realize, is that as they grow older and assume more prominent positions the consequences for their actions become more severe. |
Background: Frosh: Rapist-rights group my brain-child
Background: Senator-jock misses court date
Background: The price of partying
Background: 23 tickets in party stand-off
Background: Writer calls for news moratorium
Why mayor abstained on rental capWINONA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2005 -- Mayor Jerry Miller said he abstained from the City Council vote Monday to reduce student rental housing in the Winona State University neighborhood because he himself is a landlord. Miller has been renting out the upper and lower level of his home near campus for 20 years. Even so, he said in an interview, he sees the Council decision to reduce the number of rental units to 30 percent per block over several years as a step toward solving traffic and other problems in the campus area -- but not the real solution. Also, he noted, the 30 percent cap applies to the whole city, which he said will "prevent what happened around Winona State from happening in other neighborhoods." The goal, he said, is to "maintain the integrity of the neighborhoods." For a diverse neighborhood, Miller emphasized the importance of maintaining the availability of houses in the $110,000 to $120,000 range for low-income families.
The 30 percent cap, championed by Council member Deb Salyards, was promoted for several months as a vehicle to reverse the continuing conversion of single-family homes in central Winona into student rentals. Salyards, a preservationist, argued for reducing student rentals to encourage families back into the neighboorhood. Like Miller, Salyards is a campus-area landlord, but unlike Miller she chose to vote on the 30 percent cap. The cap passed 5-1.
Miller said in an interview that the 30 percent cap and a related requirement for two off-street parking spots per rental unit, does not wholly address neighborhood parking problems. Winona State bears most of the blame, he said, for failing to created enough parking for commuter students and employees, which, he added. has hardly anything to do with student renters and their parking needs, he said. Miller said he is pleased the university has plans to address its lack of parking. Asked if the Salyards Ordinance was the City Council's response to complaints about college students creating problems in area neighborhoods, Miller said that was an issue, but he and the police chief have noticed a drop in problems between residents and students over the past year. |
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Parking solution still to come |
Reporter: Dana Kelly
Background: City caps campus-area rentals at 30%
RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
POSTED DEC. 8, 2005
BIRD FLU. Two-hundred people in Winona County would die of avian flu if an expected global pandemic occurs, said community health director Lynn Theurer. Thousands will be sick, she said, citing federal data. In a typical year the flu claims three or four people in the county.
PELZER CROSSOVER. Parts of Pelzer Street approaching Highway 61 from the river will be closed on and off in coming months for construction of the new viaduct over the Canadian Pacific mainline. The $20 million project is expected to be complete by Drcember 2006.
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NYU to Coca-Cola: Not hereNEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2005 -- New York University has thrown Coca-Cola products off campus in the wake of continuing allegations of human-rights violations and suppression of unions at Coke bottlers in Colombia. The ban, ordered by the campus-wide University Senate, follows a university request to Coca-Cola for an independent investigation of the charges. The company rejected the request, saying a new investigation might unearth evidence that could be used in a pending but unrelated lawsuit against one Colombian bottler. Coca-Cola has denied allegations that the company was complicit in the murder, kidnapping, and illegal detention of union workers by a paramilitary organization. An external audit arranged by Coca-Cola last spring found no human-rights violations.
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WSU 104, Mt. Mary 19 |
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Warriors set records in stomping Mt. MaryWINONA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2005 -- Winona State University ran up an 85-point margin of victory, a record, in a 104-19 nonconference women's basketball victory over Mt. Mary College. The romp outpaced a a 103-28 game over Mt. Senario in 1996. The Warriors also set the record for the fewest points allowed since the 22 they gave up to St. Teresa College in a 1977 game. Against Mt. Mary the Warriors led 69-12 at halftime and outscored the Blue Angels 35-7 in the second half. Winona State finished with six players in double figures, led by the 22 from Liz Buttke, who tied a school record for shooting percentage by going 9-9 from the field. Amanda Reimer, Jamie Majerowicz and Kelsey Ostendorf all scored 14 points. Leslie Ross and Tyra Groth each contributed 10 points. The Warriors held a 39-16 command of the boards.
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GUEST COMMENT
MICHAEL REIS
FORMER BUSINESS STUDENT SENATOR
WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY
TIME FOR WINONAN FRUGALITY
The Student Fee Management Committee, not the Student Senate, cut the Winonan's budget by $4,000. The Senate upheld a recommendation by SFMC to decrease the student-life fee by 10 percent, which did uphold every cut SFMC made to the student-life fee. The Winonan wasn't being singled out.
Last year's editor Adam Crowson ran the Winonan with more than $16,000 less than current editor Kate Weber has under her control. The Winonan has $6,000 rollover this fiscal year. That is, unspent funds from the previous year. Added to a more than $10,000 increase the Winonan received for this fiscal year, this is a substantial difference in budget. As a side note, there is currently $7,000 in the Winonan fundraising account.
Last year, the Winonan requested new funds to create salaried positions, turning one job into eight. However, ad revenue has dropped, not increased, with this change. Perhaps the Winonan should admit that their new positions were not as fruitful as expected and consider the option of opening positions to those willing to work for experience or at least reevaluate their wages.
Weber was quoted on the CyberIndee saying "it costs us $15,000 for printing, and then $19,000 for salaries. That's $34,000 right there, leaving us with no cushion." However, the Winonan is a subsidized, not fully funded, organization. This "cushion" of which Weber speaks should be made from ad revenue.
I don't want to point fingers at one party, but Weber is the face of the Winonan. SFMC asked for fiscal accountability but with a pockmarked budget and PowerPoint that did not even address the budget, Weber was unable to answer. She has not practiced the same frugality as her predecessor. SFMC acted in the interest of many students' checkbooks, and I hope Weber has taken a lesson. |
Background: Senate snubs Winonan budget petition
Tip to WSU students: Guard laptopsWINONA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2005 -- 'Tis the season for laptop thefts, the computer office at Winona State University warned students. Advice: DonÕt leave a laptop in dorm rooms or apartments over the semester break. In a campus-wide e-message, the computer tech office advised students to take their laptops home. Also, the office cautioned against leaving laptops in a car for extended periods because screens will crack from the cold.
Morals, God are issues in club constitutionsWINONA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2005 -- Two club constitutions at Winona State University have gotten caught in a Student Senate review of membership requirements that suggest gratuitous criteria to bar some students from joining. At issue with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a leadership section in the constitution that says members must live by the purposes of the organization, including believing that there is only one God. Senate Vice President Kari Winter, in charge of club issues for the Senate, called the requirement discriminatory against students who believe in spirits or several other gods. Winter also is questioning the Sigma Sigma Sigma requirement that "members shall be chosen for moral, social and intellectual worth." The requirement is vague and could lead to petty blackballing, Winter said.
Tri-Sig members, 27 currently, are bound by terms of the sorority's constitution upon their initiation. "The Senate wants know what gives someone the qualities to be worthy enough to be in the sorority and what it means to have social, moral and intellectual worth," Winter said. The Christian athletes group is among 11 campus religious clubs. The issues raised by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes constitution may be a little more deeper, Winter said, adding that it is unfortunate if the religious issues get controversial. Discriminating and offending people is that last thing the Senate wants to do, Winter said. |
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Wants to head off discriminatory, offending blackballing |
Reporter: Maggie Lindquist
Background: What does Tri-Sig mean by "moral integrity"?
Prof discusses kids, brain stimulationWINONA, Minn., Dec. 8,2005 -- A retired Winona State University special-ed prof, Lyelle Palmer, conducted an interactive 65-minute telephone conference presentation, "Super-Kindergarten through SMART Brain Stimulation," at the International Alliance for Learning Conference in Arlington, Va. Palmer is a research scientist at the Minnesota Learning Resource Center.
Senator: "Loophole" used against newspaperWINONA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2005 -- The Winona State University Student Senate was accused by liberal arts Sen. Jon Jacob of exploiting a constitutional loophole to squash a 284-student petition to restore funds for the Winonan student newspaper. In a statement issued to news media, Jacob accused the Senate of an "error" to save face. Last month the Senate had slashed 12.2 percent from the Winonan's budget request for next year. Winonan editor Kate Weber responded with a petition, which 284 students signed, for the Senate to reverse itself. Some senators were enraged that the Winonan would challenge their authority. Also, the petition, had it been recognized by the Senate, could have led to a student body referendum that, if successful, could have embarrassed the Senate.
In his news release, Jacob said:
"Senate, by a nearly unanimous vote, voted to postpone indefinitely (effectively killing) a student petition, signed by approximately 284 students of all years and majors due to the petition's interpreted lack of resolution. It is my opinion, as a Senator, that Senate merely found a loophole to exploit in order to delay the efforts of the Winonan, and to crush the spirits of the members of the Winonan who have worked hard over the last 10ish days to correct what they believed to be a wrong." |
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Background: Senate snubs Winonan budget petition
WSU seniors in gallery exhibitWINONA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2005 -- Two Winona State art seniors, Rachel Salisbury and Beth Poirier, are featured in an exhibit at the university's Watkins Hall gallery. Salisbury's focus is ceramics. Poirier is exhibiting abstract oil paintings.
Date: Through Friday, Dec. 9
Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Place: Weber Gallery at Watkins Hall
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WSU football grad waits Steeler wordWINONA, Minn., Dec. 8, 2005 -- Former Winona State wide receiver Chris Samp, who recently joined the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad, said he hopes to be recalled by the Steelers soon. Samp, in Winona visiting friends this week, said his backup option is to play in the National Football League in Europe from February to June. These recent months have had disappointments, being dropped by his hometown Green Bay Packers after a hamstring injury and then being picked up by Philadelphia Eagles and passed over before getting on with the Steelers. Switching teams, Samp said, has made things easier in some ways. The nostalgia he first felt for the Packers, for example, is past, he said. Samp said that he isn't concerned about the team he will end up representing, just that he gets his chance to make good.
The leap from college to Green Bay after graduation last spring, Samp admits, left him awestruck. Then on the second day of practice came the hamstring injury. The injury, Samp said, was reminiscent of a knee injury that ended his father's future in football. Samp called his father a role model and his parents both his greatest fans, which he said inspired him to work harder to overcome the discouragement.
Out of high school Samp chose Winona State. Both of his parents were alumni, his father an ex-wide receiver. Over five years as a Warrior, Chris Samp worked with five different wide-receiver coaches. In a wide-ranging interview, Samp admitted that despite his achievements at Winona State he wasn't a naturally gifted player and had to work hard to obtain the fitness and skills required. That was a point reinforced by Winona State coach Tom Sawyer, who has been a strong supporter. Sawyer called him "the kid you want in the club house." |
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Steelers or Europe? |
Reporter: Shanthal Perera
Background: Philadelphia Eagles grab WSU's Samp
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Concordia 53, SMU 47 |
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Concordia 70, SMU 58 |
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Warriors roll past AugustanaWINONA, Minn., Dec. 7, 2005 -- Winona State University scored the first 12 points and never looked back in rolling to a 96-60 men's basketball victory over Augustana in a nonconference game. The Warriors finished the first half with a 49-21 lead and then outscored the Vikings 47-39 in the second half. Josh Korth came off the bench and hit all five of his three-point field goal shots for 15 points. David Zellmann added another 15 points. Quincy Henderson came up with 12 points. John Smith totaled 11. Zach Malvik registered 10 assists. The Warriors were 11 of 18 from three-point range and 9 of 10 from the free throw line.
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Student-loan debtors, bewareWASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2005 -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the federal government can deduct money from Social Security checks to recover overdue student-loan debts. At issue specifically was a 67-year-old disabled man whose $874 a month Social Security check, in effect, had been garnisheed by the government. The government had been taking out $93 a month against an $85,000 student loan from the 1980s, denying the man money he said he needed for food and medicine. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the Court's opinion to support the government action. The decision was a victory for the Bush administration, which has gone after overdue student loans with new vigor.
Med school pays $500,000 in cadaver caseLOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 7, 2005 -- The University of California agreed to pay $500,000 to the family of a woman whose donated cadaver disappeared from the Irvine campus medical school. The family of Anneliese Yuenger had discovering that the ashes returned to the family by the medical school were not those of their relative but miscellaneous body parts that had been cremated before Ms. Yuenger's death. The family sued in 1999 during an investigation into whether the director of the school's willed body program had been selling body parts. The investigation found that more than 300 bodies donated from over four years could not be located.
Senate snubs Winonan budget petitionWINONA, Minn., Dec. 7, 2005 -- The Student Senate voted 20-1 to ignore a petition signed by 284 students to restore a $4,000 cut to next year's budget request from the Winonan student newspaper. The vote climaxed high-tension debate that ended with Winonan editor Kate Weber storming out of the meeting. The issue, in part, was whether the petition was drafted in the right form. Petitions are supposed to be in a question form, but the petition created by the Winonan staff was not:
"Student Senate voted to cut the Winonan budget by $4,000 for the 2006-2007 school year. By signing this petition, you agree that the Winonan budget should not be cut."
In an interview after the meeting Weber said that the petition may be redrafted in the required interrogatory form, even if it means getting all the signatures again.
Addressing the Senate, Weber recited familiar facts on the issue -- that this year's Winonan budget is $38,036 but with the cut it will drop to $34,036 next year. "It costs us $15,000 for printing, and then $19,000 for salaries. That's $34,000 right there, leaving us with no cushion," Weber said.
After much debate on whether the Senate should take a stance on the petition, student President Ryan Flynn passed the gravel. "I barely ever pass the gravel, but on such an important issue I can't sit back and not say anything," Flynn said. "I don't think Senate should take a stance on this issue." The Senate followed Ryan's lead, voting 21-0 with one abstenstion to drop the discussion of the petition entirely.
There were constitutional issues. The Student Association constitution requires that any petition brought to the Senate to have a resolution. Also, the constitution specifies that a petition opposed by the Senate will trigger a referendum election. A referendum, rare in Winona State history, would require 10 percent of the student body to vote to be be valid, with a majority needed to carry the issue.
Joining Weber in storming out of the meeting was liberal arts Sen. Jon Jacob, who said the Senate was ignoring the 284 students who signed the petition. |
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RYAN
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Influential in anti-Winonan decision |
Reporter: Lauren Ashby
Background: Senate cuts Winonan budget $4,000
Why did Boston College axe gay event?BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 7, 2005 -- Administrators of Boston College cancelled a dance, billed as an AIDS Benefit Gala, in an act of discrimination against its gay student sponsors, according to a leader of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Leadership Council on campus. Veronica Joseph said her group had hoped to sell around 400 tickets at $10 apiece and contribute $3 from each ticket to a community center for people with AIDS. A spokesperson for the Roman Catholic college, John Dunn, said the college could not approve the dance because it was promoted as "by and for gay students," which suggested, he said, that it was closed to many students. Joseph denied Dunn's statement. The event would have been open to anyone of any sexual orientation, she said.
Joseph accused the college of bending to the recent Vatican policy for a tougher stance on homosexuality. "Boston College is coming out and saying we can no longer support the gay lifestyle on campus," she said. Dunn denied that too: "Gay students have always been welcomed and accepted at Boston College." A dance that is open to the entire community would be welcome, Dunn said. "But," he added, "as a Catholic university we will not sanction an event that excludes students and promotes a specific lifestyle that is in conflict with church teaching."
Caribbean travel course spots going fastWINONA, Minn., Dec. 7, 2005 -- Half of 19 spots on a Winona State University travel- study course at St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands have been taken, said faculty sponsor Tamara Berg. She said she expects remaining spots to be taken after an informational meeting on Dec. 7. Berg said students on earlier St. Croix visits have described the experience as amazing. The syllabus has students investigating the intersections of gender, race and class on the island with grassroots community organizations, social service providers and members of the judicial and educational systems. The course, with six credits, twice that of a typical course, is scheduled May 12 to 28. The cost: $2,775 for most expenses. Each day will include field trips and other opportunities for interaction with people from a diverse cross- section of the local society, Berg said. There will be guided sessions for analysis and reflection as well as study assignments that will be completed before and during the travel experience, she added.
Reporter: Jon Rescheke
Jury renders Patriot Act a setbackTAMPA, Fla., Dec. 7, 2005 -- A University of South Florida prof accused of terrorism, Sami Al-Arian, was found not guilty on eight charges by a federal jury. The jury, however, deadlocked on nine other counts. Whether the government will seek a second trial on the remaining charges is unclear. Al-Arian was accused of conspiring with a terror group to incite suicide bombings in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. The much-followed trial went five months with 13 days of jury deliberations. The acquittal included one of the major charges: conspiracy to murder and maim. Two co-defendants were acquitted on all charges. A fourth co-defendant was acquitted on 24 counts, but the jury deadlocked on eight counts.
The verdict was a major setback for the 2001 Patriot Act. In going after Al-Arian, the government had relied largely on evidence allowed under the Patriot Act, including wiretapped telephone calls, faxes, bank statements, and Internet traffic. Government attorneys admitted, however, that the evidence was largely circumstantial.
An Al-Arian attorney, William Moffitt, called the verdict a victory for free expression without government interference. Referring to the jury, Moffitt said: "People still believe in the First Amendment in these times only a few years away from 9/11." Americans should be able to express themselves without government eavesdropping, Moffitt said: "That says a great deal about who we are as a people. I feel safer today as a result of what that jury did."
What does Tri-Sig mean by "moral integrity"?WINONA, Minn., Dec. 5, 2005 -- The Winona State University Student Senate voted last week to delay approval of social sorority Sigma Sigma Sigma's constitution until a suggestion of bias is corrected in the first paragraph. The phrasing suggests selective restrictions based on moral integrity that could be discriminatory, said Senate Vice President Kari Winters. The Senate tries to make sure that clubs retain impartial entry into their groups, excluding grade point average requirements for academic organizations, she said. No one from Tri Sigma showed up at the Senate meeting to defend the passage. In a later interview, however, sorority President Jessica Stevens called the issue "a simple misunderstanding that we hope to have resolved." Stevens didn't want to elaborate, saying she sees the issue as a private matter between Senate and her organization.
Bruised prof: "And this is Christian?"LAWRENCE, Kan., Dec. 7, 2005 -- Police launched a hunt for two men whom a University of Kansas religion professor said beat him up in the simmering controversy over his proposed course on intelligent design theory as mythology. Paul Mirecki said two white men between 30 and 40 tailgated him in a large pickup truck, then hit him with their fists and possibly a metal object. Mirecki has been critical of intelligent design, a theory that some Christian traditionalists have offered in response to Darwin creationism. Since proposing his course, Mirecki said, he has received hundreds of e-mail messages, some of them angry and threatening. The title of the proposed course, Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism, and Other Religious Mythologies, touched off the objections by putting intelligent design into a category of "other religious mythologies."
Students stage WSU textbook funeralWINONA, Minn., Dec. 7, 2005 -- Students whose fall semester textbooks were not on the Winona State University bookstore buy-back list for spring have been invited to a textbook funeral to bury the books in a mass ceremony. Sophomore Sen. Jared Stene, chair of the Senate Student Services Committee, called the funeral a protest against publishers and inflated textbook prices. The funeral will be in January as part of a statewide stunt sponsored by the Minnesota State University Student Association. Stene said the books will be dug up after the ceremony and donated to charity. Stene said that some profs have objected to textbook costs and that he hopes he in participating.
Reporter: Coral Brevig
Justices raise brows at campus Army bansWASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2005 -- Attorneys for universities whose law schools have banned military recruiters were shaken after their oral arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court seemed not to go over well with a majority. The issue is whether colleges can bar recruiters from their campuses without jeopardizing their federal funds. Questions from the justices indicated a majority favor the government's arguments. About whether the bans constitute free expression, as the colleges argue, drew a cool response. Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy said that denying access is not speech simply because a college decides to call it speech. The new chief justice, John Roberts, took the same view: "This is conduct." The Supreme Court long has held that the First Amendment protects expression but not conduct.
Justice David Souter, however, said the law that's being challenged by the colleges, the so-called Solomon Amendment, which allows the government to withhold funds from colleges that limit military recruiting, appears to be directed at speech -- not conduct. "If we're going to address the Solomon Amendment, we're addressing exclusively a First Amendment speech issue," Souter said.
The case was brought by the Defense Department against a coalition of 38 law schools that have made an issue of the 10-year-old Solomon Amendment. Millions of federal dollars to the colleges is at stake. The Defense Department argues that recruiting bans hinder the recruiting of lawyers to handle legal affairs for the military. The colleges say the law forces them to "disseminate, carry, and host" the military's message and associate with an employer whose policy on hiring gay men and lesbians conflicts with their own antidiscrimination policies.
Government attorney Paul Clement said colleges are free to deny access to military recruiters -- just that they would lose federal funds. Any benefactor can attach strings routinely attached to gifts and bequests, Clement said. Even if colleges allow recruiters on campus, they would remain free as institutions to criticize military policies on gays and other issues. Chief Justice Roberts chimed in, with a comment directed at attorneys for the colleges: "What you're saying is that here is a message we believe in strongly, but we don't believe in it enough to give up $100 million."
An attorney for the colleges, Joshua Rosenkranz, responded that the government wants to use money coercively and violated the right of colleges to free expression. "You cannot put a speaker to that crisis of conscience," he said.
The justices will take the arguments under advisement. A decision could take several weeks. The Defense Department brought the case to the Supreme Court after an appeals court in Philadelphia ruled that the military had failed to show that its recruiting needs justified the intrusion on law schools' First Amendment rights. That decision reversed a 2003 opinion by a federal judge who said that law schools were unlikely to prevail at trial proceedings.
WSU clubs invited to web contestWINONA, Minn., Dec. 7, 2005 -- The Student Senate Technology Committee is setting up a competition for Winona State University clubs to update their existing sites or for new clubs to create sites. The winning club gets $50 added to its budget, said committee Chair Maggie Bambenek. Details will be announced at the start of spring classes, she said. The main categories will be content for 20 points, design for 15 points, and navigation for 10 points, she said.
Reporter: Coral Brevig
WSU student's family home after KatrinaWINONA, Minn., Dec. 7, 2005 -- Three months after Hurricane Katrina, Rachel Hammer's little cousins are back in school in the Gulf port of Mobile, Ala., but Hammer, a Winona State University student, said there were indelibly harrowing moments. The family was holding a "hurricane party," as the locals call boarding up houses ahead of a storm, when they heard how devastating Katrina might be. They abandoned their house, a half hour from the coast, and drove five hours inland to stay with relatives in Montgomery. A week later, the family headed back. "They were one of the lucky ones," said Hammer. Other than three feet of water in the basement, the house overall was in good condition, Hammer said. In the immediate wake of the storm, neighbors' houses were all boarded up. "My aunt said their neighborhood looked like a ghost town," Hammer said. There were, however, moments of levity. "All the neighbor kids went and played in the flooded streets and had mud fights," Hammer said. Her three cousins, who started junior high and high school this year, were back to class within a couple weeks and looking forward to having their basement play area back in order, she said. "They are still waiting to get the final estimate for their damages," said Hammer.
Reporter: Kailyn Zilliox
Response fast, large to WSU landlord surveyWINONA, Minn., Dec. 6, 2005 -- Winona State University students beat their way to the new Rate Your Landlord online site to weigh in on their experiences. Within 24 hours of the site's launch, 300 students had responded, said sophomore Sen. Jared Stone, chair of the Student Senate committee that created the site. "This was a big surprise," Stene said, noting that he had expected 300 responses by the end of fall semester. The response, he said, confirmed "a need for this survey." Now the responses exceed 390, he said.
Most have been positive, Stene said: "This means that landlords are doing a good job." The online questionnaire is based on a 1 to 5 scale, 1 being bad. 5 good. Most landlords have 5 out of 5, Stene said. Complaints have been about timeliness in repairs and about landlords showing up unannounced, Stene said.
The committee is unsure of how it will publish the results. Stene said options are online, either through the Winona State portal or a non-university site, and in print form. Publishing the results online works the best because the committee would be able to keep updating with new comments, Stene said. Also, he said, libel is a legal issue that remains to be resolved.
Reporter: Kathleen Kulkay
Report: College bookstore profits less than 5%ANTIOCH, Ohio, Dec. 7, 2005 -- College stores clear less than 5 percent of the price they charge for new textbooks, according to the latest data from the National Association of College Stores. The rate of return is far less than most other retailers, the association said. This is the latest data, from 2003-2004 that NACS has acquired from its member stores and estimates that NACS acquired from the Association of American Publishers:
32.3 cents
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SMU 69, Macalester 64 |
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City caps campus-area rentals at 30%WINONA, Minn., Dec. 5, 2005 -- The City Council voted, as expected, to slash the availability of student housing in the Winona State University neighborhood in coming years. The new ordinance, which limits the number of rental certificates issued in the future to 30 percent per block, was passed 5-1 with Council member Gerry Krage dissenting and Mayor Jerry Miller abstaining. The ordinance had been opposed by college students, who, led by Winona State student President Ryan Flynn, articulated vigorous objections at public hearings. Also, some property owners had spoken against the 30 percent cap because they claimed it could hurt property values.
The Council action was a victory for Deb Salyards, a newly elected Council member whose legislative agenda has been to restore central Winona's historical residential character. Ironically, Salyards' ward includes Winona State and most of her constituents are students. She was elected by only 21 votes in November 2004. In campaign appearances she was openly critical of students, asserting more than once that students had been asking dumb questions of her as a Council candidate. At other points she has said she liked students when they're sober.
Krage said he voted against the ordinance Monday because he didnÕt completely agree with the concept. Also, Krage said, he had problems with length that current rental certificates would be allowed to remain in effect. At a Nov. 21 public hearing Krage had proposed allowing properties to be grandfathered only after they are re-certified, a process that usually happens ever five years. Under the new grandfather ordinance, landlords will retain their rental licenses no matter what the rental percentage is on that block, or even if the property is sold, unless the license is taken away for violations. Mayor Miller has appeared luke warm on the Salyards plan in recent weeks.
One property owner, Todd Papenfuss, expressed his concern at the Nov. 21 meeting that a property he purchased for his children, which doesnÕt have rental certification, could take as much as a $25,000 hit when he tries to sell the property because it is on a block already over the 30 percent mark. At the same public hearing, Flynn argued that a tightening of available rental units near campus would allow landlords to raise rents to premium levels.
The Salyards Ordinance had wended its ways through countless hearings in recent months. The final version had come through a task force and won support from the city Planning Commission. In related action Monday the Council approved other recommendations from the task force, whose mandate originally was to address crowded on-street parking around the university and the gradual displacement single-family housing near the main Winona State campus with apartments and conversions. Other provisions approved Monday to go into city ordinances include:
Reducing the number of unrelated adults allowed to live together from five to three.Increasing the number of required off-street parking spaces for a dwelling from 1.5 to two.Limiting the amount of a backyard that is allowed to be converted into a parking lot to no more than 50 percent of a backyard. A parking lot will be big enough to accommodate at least three vehicles no matter how big it is.Allowing gravel parking lots for residential properties as long as the gravel is an aggregate rock mixture at least six inches deep.Requiring that a minimum of a four-foot high fence be built for parking lots containing more than three cars.
Reporter: Zack Stogenson
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A University of Pennsylvania student didn't appreciate her carnal antics in a high-rise dorm window being posted on the web. The university went after the photographer. What is wrong with this picture?
Penn's sex-in-dorm-window case overPHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 5, 2005 -- The University of Pennsylvania dropped charges against a student who had posted pictures online of a nude couple having sex against a dorm window. The student, whose name was not released, had been charged with sexual harassment and misuse of university electronic resources. The charges were filed after the woman in the pictures complained. After being besieged by angry e-mails and blogger criticism for trying to punish the photographer, university officials released this statement: "The University has decided not to pursue disciplinary proceedings. We are disturbed by the photographer's conduct in this matter. We are concerned about the wide dissemination of the intimate photos in a manner and to the extent that subjected another member of the Penn community to embarrassment and ridicule."
Andrew Geier, a spokesperson for the photographer, said there would be no apology. Grier said that in negotiations the university offered to drop the charges but asked the photographer, an engineering junior, to apologize for posting the pictures online. Said Grier: "I responded, 'There's only going to be one apology, and that's going to be from you to the student.'"
The couple had had sex in the window of their high-rise dorm room on at least three separate days, Grier said, adding that several students had photographed them. Neither taking pictures of such a public an event nor posting the pictures on the Internet could not be considered harassment, Grier said. The pictures at issue were posted on the engineering student's personal web page, which is housed on a university server.
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Northern Conference weekly standout: John SmithST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 5, 2005 -- Winona State University forward John Smith has been named Northern Sun conference basketball player of the week. Smith recorded a double-double in games this past week. Against St. Mary's, Smith came up with 16 points and 14 rebounds. In the victory over Minnesota State-Mankato Smith totaled 15 points and 16 rebounds. Forf the week he average of 15.5 points and 15.0 rebounds.
Who will run for Student Senate?WINONA, Minn., Dec. 5, 2005 -- This is the status of key contests in the Winona State University spring student elections:
Ad-psych major heads WSU sororityWINONA, Minn., Dec. 5, 2005 -- The Winona State University chapter of the Phi Theta Chi sorority, whose projects are women's welfare and Special Olympics, elected Cassie Simon, an advertising and psychology major, as president. Other new officers: Nicole Steinert, vice president; Laura Cossette, secretary; Tessa Thorpe, treasurer; Andrea Wischer; Hypothetes; and Kristen Rasmussen, Aerta.
Buzzards circling Massachusetts bayBUZZARDS BAY, Minn., Dec. 5, 2005 -- The president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Adm. Richard Gurnon, was fired in a hastily called meeting of academy trustees. No explanation was given, but some trustees said the admiral was too rigid when the board wanted rules to be bent. The vote was 9-1, sources said. Gurnon was quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education that he had an indication about three weeks ago that something had gone seriously wrong: "I turned into dead man walking. People wouldn't return my phone calls. People wouldn't return my e-mails." Will he fight the firing? "In life you have to take a stand," he said. "I chose to take a stand and I accept the consequences." According to a past president of the academy's parents association, Wendie Howland, who is organizing support for the admiral, one issue was that he had resisted pressure to keep the campus pub to stay open until 2 a.m. Also, she said, some wanted punishments for alcohol-related students offenses to be handled by a student-run board, not academic administrators. Also, she said, he had resisted trustee pressure to hire certain people.
Dorm lunch goes up in smokeWINONA, Minn., Dec. 4, 2005 -- Smoke in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm was caused by burned meal on the fourth floor, firefighters said. The ventilation system has spread the smoke to other floors. The alarm sounded at 12:34 p.m..
Winter to seek No. 2 student job againWINONA, Minn., Dec. 4, 2005 -- The student vice president at Winona State University, junior Kari Winter, dismissed aspirations for a presidential run this spring but confirmed she probably will seek a second term as vice president. "It's been a lot of work, but I really enjoy this job," Winter said in an interview. "I like working with students and dealing with clubs." Incumbent president Ryan Flynn has said he will not seek re-election. Winter said the presidency requires a lot of administrative work and meetings that she wouldn't find as satisfying as working with students: "I would rather be one on one with the students."
Depending on how spring semester goes, Winter said, she might reconsider but so far she is fully planning to run again for vice president. Winter rejected the possibility that she would run on a combined ticket, as did Flynn and vice presidential hopeful Erin Feger last spring. "People just get confused," said Winter. "Two-ticket candidates might not be equal, and I want the best person to get office." |
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Reporter: Scott Swanson
Background: Flynn: This my only term
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Warriors Fall To Cardinal StritchMILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 3, 2005 -- Winona State University could not overcome Cardinal Stritch University and lost 80-69 in the finals of the Stritch women's basketball tournament. The Warriors trailed 38-30 at halftime and were outscored 42-39 in the second half. Liz Buttke paced the Warriors with 17 points. Leslie Ross came up with 14 points. Shelby Krueger chipped in 12.
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Warriors hold off MavericksMANKATO, Minn., Dec. 3, 2005 -- Winona State University scored the lastŹsix points of the game in defeating Minnesota State-Mankato 75-68 in a nonconference men's basketball game. The Warriors led by four, 44-40, at the half and were up six, 65-59, with 2:23 left to play. But the Mankato Mavericks came back to trim the deficit to 69-68, with 38 seconds left. From there Jonte Flowers sank a pair of free throws and threw down a dunk and Quincy Henderson converted two more free throws to give the Warriors their final seven-point margin. Henderson finished with a game-high 21 points, Flowers totaled 18 points. John Smith added a double-double for the Warriors with 15 points and 16 rebounds. Zach Malvik tallied 12 points. The Warriors completed the game by going 17 of 20 from the free throw line.
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Rap expert: No more fun and partiesWINONA, Minn., Dec. 3, 2005 -- The director of multicultural affairs at Millikin University, Bryant Smith, told a Winona State University audience recently that rap has moved from its fun and party origins into a gangsta phase and seems stalled. Smith, who DJ'd his way through college, recalled the rap of the 1970s and 1980s with Queen Latifah getting closest to issues in calling for respect for women and proclaiming that women are not objects. Rap then morphed into a gangsta stage, Smith said, with the likes of Dr. Dre and Tu Pac rapping about hardships, the ghetto, and how life isn't fair. The language has changed too, he said: "Who has the right to use the infamous N-word now that rap music and popular culture has mainstreamed its use?"
Reporter: Lauren Ashby
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Augsburg 4, SMU 3 (overtime) |
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Korean senator sees self adding diversity WINONA, Minn., Dec. 3, 2005 -- A South Korean freshman recently elected to the Winona State University Student Senate, Jong Ha Jeon, said that his cultural background will be a positive influence to the Senate. Jeon said that he will focus on the needs of international students. "Every semester many international students get in this school and they contribute to the cultural diversity of WSU and Winona through being involved in many cultural programs," he said in an interview. "I hope to listen more to the needs of the international students."
Jeon, who will fill out an open term as a freshman senator, stressed that the Senate experience will accelerate his coming to know American society. "This is my first year in America," he said. "In this position, I might be able to understand lots of American customs and culture through trying to hear the voice of the students and improve the school."
Typically about two members of the 28-member Senate are from other countries. According to student President Ryan Flynn, there is great opportunity for international students who want to be involved in the Senate. "International students are a very visibly active group on campus and extremely involved in organizations," said Flynn. "It is a necessity that we have the international students represented on the Senate and it is great to see it happen." Last year it was international students who pressed the Senate to force Chartwell, the campus cafeteria operator, to raise student wage in its kitchens to the state minimum wage. Most kitchen workers are on student visas that limit them to campus jobs.
Reporter: Scott Swanson
Background: Election returns
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COURT CONVICTIONS
WEEK ENDING DEC. 2, 2005
IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
UNDERAGE CONSUMPTION
Bridget Anne McCormick, 19, Mequon, Wis., $177.
Joshua Patrick Pagel, 20, St. Charles, Minn., $154.
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R.I.P.: Alfred HajicekWINONA, Minn., Dec. 2, 2005 -- A retired Winona State University janitor in the old Maxwell Library, Alfred Hajicek, 88, died in the hospital emergency room. He an Army anti-aircraft gunner in World War II and saw action in the Battle of the Bulge. The family scheduled a memorial services for 11 a.m., Wednesday, at Fawcett-Junker Funeral Home. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.
Dean fired amid misspending chargesWHITEWATER, Wis., Dec. 2, 2005 -- The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater demoted a dean, who is black, citing a lack of confidence that he "could appropriately conduct the duties of the job." The dean, Lee Jones, is a founder of Brothers of the Academy, a national organization working to increase the number of black men with doctorates in higher education. University Provost Richard Telfer did not elaborate on demoting Jones but said a process has begun, also, to terminate him as a tenured prof. An audit reportedly found that Jones had spent $54,000 for an all-expenses-paid conference in May for 30 members of Brothers of the Academy -- more than the $4,000 that his supervisors say had been authorized. Also. the audit reportedly found $3,200 in credit-card charges for airport parking, postage and food for which Jones didn't submit receipts. Jones' attorney, David Lasker, said the audit blew "niggling and inconsequential stuff" out of proportion." Lasker denied any dishonesty or wrongful behavior.
WSU SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING DEC. 3, 2005
Dec. 3, 2005: Several students were cited for an alcohol violation in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 8:30 p.m.
Dec. 3, 2005: Several students were cited for an alcohol violation in the Lourdes dorm at 9:15 p.m.
Dec. 2, 2005: A fire alarm was activated at the East Lake dorm at 9:15 p.m. after a resident left some items on a hot stove. Firefighters and cleared the smoke from the room.
Dec. 2, 2005: Police requested assistance at 1 a.m. to locate several suspects concerning an assault off campus. Security guards located two individuals and detained them until the police arrived.
Nov. 30, 2005: A student reported at 1 p.m. that some money had been removed from his wallet in the Maxwell workout gym on Nov. 29.
Nov. 30, 2005: A student reported at 10:45 p.m. that another student had made threats against her.
Nov. 29, 2005: Vandalism sometime between Friday, Nov. 25, and Monday, Nov. 28, was reported at 1 p.m. in the Pasteur science building, which is undergoing remodeling. No damage was found.
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Gordon attorneys: Fair trial impossible hereWINONA, Minn, Dec., 2, 2005 -- Attorneys representing the drug-dealer accused on three murder counts, including the death of Winona State University student Stacy Smith, asked for the trial to be moved to another county. A fair trial is impossible becasue Paul Allen Gordon, 22, is black and a newcomer to largely white Winona, public defender Richard Smith told Judge Jeff Thompson. Smith also said there has been prejudice in the intense community interest in the case. Thompson said he would consider the request.
Gordon is accused in the strangulation deaths of Smith, her third-grade daughter and her unborn child. Grand jury documents in the case are sealed, but police and other sources have reported grisly sexual assault details. Whoever committed the murders torched the apartment apparently to cover up the crime, investigators have said. Gordon and Smith earlier had a relationship, which had soured. Gordon left town on the next train after the murders. Two weeks later he was arrested returning from Mexico at the U.S. border at Tijuana.
At the hearing on Friday, Smith said a survey of 100 eligible Winona County voters found 82 were prejudiced in the case. Generally in prominent cases the rate is in the upper 60-percenty range, he said. Smith asked that the trial be moved to Twin Cities, where the jury pool would have more racial diversity than Winona. Also, there has been less news coverage of the murders in teh Cities, Smith said. Judge Thompson seemed cool to the proposal, noting that trials rarely are moved outside a judicial district. Winona is in the state's Third Judicial District, comprised of southeast Minnesota counties. The dsitrict's most racially mixed county is Olmsted, which has Rochester as its county seat. Assistant prosecutor Tom Gort opposed changing venue: "The defendant chose WInona County as his venue." Locally imposed justice is the best justice, he said.
Thompson gave the defense until Jan. 13 to file written arguments supporting their case. The prosecution will have until Feb. 10 to file its arguments. A trial probably will be during the summer. Meanwhile, Gordon is in maximum security at the Winona jail.
For the hearing Gordon was dressed in baggy orange jail gear. He was not shackled but escorted in and out of court by deputies ujsing a side door. His hair had been cut short. He was attentive to proceedings and whispered with his attorneys, Smith and Julie Maxwell, in response to testimony from police about their tactics in early interrogations in San Diego, Calif., after the arrest. The officers, Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams and Susan Linkenmeyer of the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, were pressed on whether they had committed procedural irregularities.
A recording of the interrogation, on Jan. 5 and 6, began with Gordon being read his Miranda rights, a constitutionally required formal notification of a right to remain silent and to have an attorney, Linkenmeyer said. Gordon chose to talk, she said, until the second day when he was told the police had found his cell phone in Stacy Smith's bedroom. He then refused to continue the questioning, she said. Referring to a recording of the session, she said Gordon was silent for 3 minutes and 44 seconds. The criminal complaint gave this account: "Gordon dropped his head into his hands for an extended period, rubbed the top of his head, sighed, and terminated the interview." |
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Background: Evidentiary hearing still set for Friday
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Ropes starts fund appeal for Senate bidWINONA, Minn., Dec. 3, 2005 -- Former School Board chair Sharon Ropes called for financial help in her bid for the Democratic state senate nomination in a letter to Democrats in Winona, Houston and Fillmore counties. Ropes expressed confidence, saying she had a strategic advantage in taking the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Bob Kierlin. She was defeated by Kierlin in 2004 by only 900 votes. "This time around I am starting many months earlier with a district-wide network and a solid base of support," she said. "My children or grown or off the college, so I a able to devote 100 percent of my time to campaigning." Ropes noted that eight of 13 new Democrats elected to the House in 2004 were women running for the second time.
Ropes did not mention Winona State University communications prof Kelly Herold, her only announced challenger for the Democratic nomination, but there were veiled comparisons. Herold, for example, has an infant child. Ropes also listed her record of public service, including her current presidency of the state Parent teacher Association and a place on the attorney general's health-care task force. The only issues she mentioned in the letter were "challenges our schools and colleges face" and "quality, affordable health care and services." Ropes noted her experience as a U.S. Navy officer in the Nurse Corps, school nurse, and disaster relief volunteer.
Background: Races campus people are watching
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ESPN taps WSU soccer player| WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 2, 2005 -- Winona State University senior soccer goal-keeper Kathryn Kramer has been named to the ESPN magazine academic all-America first team. Kramer is the first Winona State female athlete to attain first-team all-America status by the College Sports Information Directors of American, which made the ESPN selection. Requirements include a B-plus grade-point-average, 3.2 minimum. As an athlete Kramer wrapped her collegiate career by leading the Warriors to a 20-1-2 record and the Northern Sun conference championship. |
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Warriors roll past FinlandiaMILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 2, 2005 -- Winona State University scored 40 points in each half and rolled to an 81-47 win over Finlandia in the opening round play of the Stritch woen's basketball tournament. The Warriors put 40 points on the board in the opening half and then added another 41 in the second half. The Warrior defense allowed only 24 points in the opening 20 minutes and 23 in the second half. Jamie Majerowicz paced the Warriors with 15 points. Leslie Ross followed with 12. Liz Buttke and Kayleigh Lutz scored 11 and 10 points. The Warriors dominated the boards 50-28.
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WSU wind concert debuts Gorb pieceWINONA, Minn., Dec. 2, 2005 -- The Winona State University wind quintets, directed by prof Don Lovejoy, are rehearsing "Dance Variations" by Luigi Zaninelli and "Three Sea Sketches" by George Frederick McKay for a concert Sunday. Also on the program are Adam Gorb's new "French Dances Revisited," the second in a series of five commissioned works with which the Winona State band is involved.
Date: Sunday, Dec. 4
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center
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COMMENT:
BEER ON THE TABLE
NOW IS THE TIME
TO LEAVE SOME THINGS UNSAID
In this sensitive moment in town-campus relations, nobody does any good by inserting redundant anecdotes about student misbehavior into the dialogue. But that's what usually sensitive Daily News columnist Jim Galewiski has done. Here's his gratuitous first-person tale from his column on Saturday:
"I recall knocking on the door of an apartment near the WSU campus. I was impressed with how many empty beer bottles one kitchen table could hold. It dawned on me that I could smell them. That's when I realized there was no glass in the back door -- in December!"
Galewski's is one of those indelible tales with a half-life that runs decades, doing more incendiary misrepresentation than can possibly be offset all that's good about college students, like athletes raking leaves and doing yard work for older neighbors who need a hand. The fact is that most of Winona State's 8,000 students, includijng 5,500 or some who live on or near the main campus, pile empty beer bottles on the kitchen table and leave doro windows unrepaired.
Student leaders at Winona State, led by student President Ryan Flynn with adininistrator support, are working to mend neighborhood relations. It's not just talk. Flynn's adapt-a-block plan has promise. The idea that rowdy college drunks be punished with chain-gang neighborhood maintenance projects is attracting attention. To Galewski, we say: Give these initatives a chance rather than further poisoning public dialogue with little personal horror tales.
Galewski's main point in his sad bottles-on-the-table story was a swipe at the new Winona State student rate-a-landlord project. He suggested that landlords rate students, missing entirely that the power dynamic in landlord-stuident relations is that landlords have the upper hand. Tongue in cheek or not, the suggestion, unfortunately, bespeaks where Galewski falls in the polarization to which he has contributed. |
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Writer calls for news moratorium on partyWINONA, Minn., Dec. 1, 2005 -- A Winona State University junior, Jill Redman, called for the news media to lay off the case of at-large Student Sen. Alex White, who is facing charges in a Halloween party that turned into a four-hour police stand-off. In a letter to the Winonan editorial page, Redman called "one of the nicest, sweetest and most genuine people that I have met during my three years of college." About criminal charges facing White, Redman said: "This whole ordeal has been dragged out for way to long. This is a matter that should just be between the landlords, the police, and the tenants." White, 20, is a student senator and a varsity football player.
Redman, a masscom major, called it unfair that "Alex be the one that all the fingers are pointed at." Other Winona State students have had bigger parties, she noted, arguing that it is only because the police had to wait outside for four hours to get a search warrant that "Alex is the one that is being portrayed as the bad guy." She called news coverage a low blow. "Alex has done a lot of good for this university," she said, although she did not elaborate. White transferred to Winona State this fall after two semesters at South Dakota State.
About the Halloween party, Redman accused the police of needless rude and abusive behavior: "To me, that is not part of an officer's duty, but maybe the Winona Police Department has different priorities, I don't know." Redman did not say whether she was at the party. She was not among the 23 of an estimated 75 to 100 parties who were arrested or ticketed once police gained access to the White house.
Background: Frosh: Rapist-rights group my brain-child
Background: Senator-jock misses court date
Background: The price of partying
Background: 23 tickets in party stand-off
Background: Authorities ponder new charges
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Daktronics taps seven WarriorsMANKATO, Minn., Dec. 1, 2005 -- Seven Winona State University football players, including senior wide receiver Brian Hynes, have been named to the Daktronics All-Northwest Region Team. Hynes received the most votes at the wide receiver position and was named to the Daktronics first team. Also named to the first team was senior center Nate Daniels, senior tackle Dave Krystowiak and junior linebacker John Tackmann. Named to the second team were senior defensive lineman Roy Kratt, senior safety Luke Lokanc and freshman place kicker Mike Salerno.
Who will run this time?WINONA, Minn., Dec. 1, 2005 -- These are the 2006 races that Winona campus people will watching:
Evidentiary hearing still set for Friday| WINONA, Minn, Dec., 1, 2005 -- The 22-year-old man accused of triple murder at the Sugar Loaf Apartments a year ago, Paul Allen Gordon, will be in court on Friday for his attorneys to challenge the evidence amassed against him. Judge Jeff Thompson, new to the case, will preside. Gordon is accused of killing former Winona State University student Stacy Lee Ziegler Smith, 29, and her 10-year-old daughter Taylor. Smith's unborn child also died. The hearing, technically called an omnibus hearing, gives the defense a chance to object to evidence on his murder charges and to challenge the grand jury indictment. Besides the homicide case, Gordon also faces charges of felony forgery for using a false name on his Winona apartment lease in September 2004 and on his utility bills. The forgery charges will also be an issue at the omnibus hearing. |
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PAUL
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Accused in Winona strangulation murders |
Reporter: Leticia Graf
Background: Security loosened at Gordon appearance
Background: New judge assigned in triple deaths
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