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ELECTION 2006

Governor declares for second term

EAGAN, Minn., May 31, 2006 -- Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced his candidacy for re-election, as expected, just ahead of the Republican Party state convention. Pawlenty, 45, is winding up his first term. He vowed to serve the full four years if re-elected, quelling speculation that he's been eyed by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and others as a runningmate in the 2008 presidential campaign. Also seeking the GOP gubernatorial nomination at the state party convention is Minneapolis bar owner Sue Jeffers.

Tim Pawlenty

TIM
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False fire alarm sounds at SMU

WINONA, Minn., May 31, 2006 -- Firefighters scrambled at a fire alarm from St. Mary's University at 9:39 a.m., but found no fire. An alarm had sounded for no reason that firefighters could ascertain. They rest the alarm.

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COMMENT
RAMALEY REPORT CARD

WSU PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL RATING

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The Winona State University campus, once park-like and the most beautiful place in Winona, has lost vibrancy and color. President Judith Ramaley has ratcheted down the priority for groundskeeping. The effect is starting to show with fewer colorful beds. Nobody who's in the know will say exactly where Ramaley has shifted resources. One guess, from her student critics, is that she has been scrounging every nook and cranny to fund her Learning for the 21st Century pet project -- including the campus bautification budget. L21 may be worthwhile, but where have he flowers gone? It's a bad trade-off.

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Observers with a psychoanalytical bent theorize that Ramaley is in overgear to establish an identity distinct from her popular predecessor, Darrell Krueger. He made groundskeeping and beautification one of his signature priorities. If the analysis is correct, Ramaley should be not be casting aside the Krueger beautification legacy but seeking to ratchet it up a notch, maybe two. Never too many flowers.

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R.I.P.: William Edward Hostettler

ORMOND BEACH, Fla., May 31, 2006 -- A Winona State University business grad, Bill Hostettler, 69, died after a career as a securities trader in Minneapolis. He had retired to Florida.

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ELECTION 2006

Lib-comedian Al Franken to join Walz

WINONA, Minn., May 30, 2006 -- Minnesota-born comedian Al Franken, who spares no barbs at the right wing on his Air America radio show, will host a Winona fundraiser for southern Minnesota congressional candidate Tim Walz. Anne Norse, county Democratic chair, called the event the biggest that Winona Democrats have ever taken on. Morse invited party members to a planning meeting at 5 p.m., Tuesday, June 6, at the party office. Lynn Wilson, Olmsted County party chair, will help with planning, Morse said.
Date: Tuesday, July 18
Time: To be announced
Place: To be announced
Cost: To be announced
Contact: Anne Morse


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Tim Walz

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July 18 in Winona

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Speaker to list Winona crime "hot spots"

WINONA, Minn., May 30, 2006 -- A Saint Mary's University senior, Liam Sorensen, will present his research findings on "hot spots" for Winona crime and predictions on future high crime areas. Sorenson has conducted a geographical study on crimes in the city over four years. The presentation will be at St. Mary's. Sorensen's title: "A Spatiotemporal Trend Analysis between Crime and Environment."
Date: Wednesday, May 31
Time: 11 a.m.
Place: Hoffman 238
Cost: Free


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Feds relax eligibility rule for new grants

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2006 -- The U.S. Department of Education announced that dual-enrollment students, who take college courses while still in high school, will indeed be eligible for a new federal grant program. Earlier the department excluded dual-enrollment students because the law didn't allow the grants for a student "previously enrolled in a program of undergraduate education." Now, says the department, students who take college courses will be eligible as long as they were not enrolled in a formal degree or certificate program. Under the Academic Competitiveness program, freshmen and sophomores who are eligible for Pell Grants can qualify for additional awards of $750 to $1,300 for taking rigorous high school courses.

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23 WSU athletes on league academic list

ST. PAUL, Minn., May 30, 2006 -- -- The Northern Sun conference included 23 Winona State University athletes on its spring all-academic team:
  • Baseball (men's): Jay Horner, Andrew Kes, Josh Maggert, Brett Maxwell and Benjamin Samuelson
  • Softball (women's):Jennifer Dobbertin, Abby Kacena, Jamie Kettwig, Kristen Noble, Kristen Fossell and Chelsea Rosenow
  • Tennis (women's): Megan Hertz and Maggie Lindquist
  • Outdoor track: Heidi Inabnit, Deidra Faber, Brittany Reinbolt, Gretchen Harty, Nicole Lonning, Adi Luedtke, Bria Magnuson, Elizabeth Bauman, Jessica Devine and Nicole Olson.


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    Oklahoma on NCAA probation list for phone calls

    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 30, 2006 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association placed the University of Oklahoma on probation for two years for nearly 600 impermissible telephone calls to basketball recruits over a five-year period. Former coach Kelvin Sampson showed "complete disregard" for recruiting rules and "created and encouraged an atmosphere among his staff of deliberate noncompliance," the report said. The NCAA also placed strict limits on the recruiting privileges of Sampson, who now is coach at Indiana University. The report said that Sampson and assistant failed to keep complete logs of recruiting calls. The 577 impermissible calls, which were placed to 17 recruits, were cheating, the report said.

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    Northern Illinois hires SMU soccer coach

    DEKALB, Ill., May 30, 2006 -- The men's soccer coach at St. Mary's University, Eric Luzzi, has accepted the lead assistant coach position at Northern Illinois University. From 1993 to 1997 Luzzi was a Cardinal goaltender. As coach for five years he amassed a 21-29-8 record. At Northern Illinois he will be with an NCAA Division I team. St. Mary's is Division III.

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    SMU poet included in Food Story show

    WINONA, Minn., May 29, 2006 -- A St. Mary's University prof, Steve Schild, is one of nine Minnesota poets whose work will be featured in a statewide traveling exhibition highlighting Minnesota's main crops and ethnic food specialties. Schild's "Sandwiches after the Service," included in a limited-edition book that will be published in conjunction the "America's 'Food Story" exhibit. Schild holds a master's in English from Winona State.

    Steve Schild

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    Gophers to have 50,000-seat stadium

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 30, 2006 -- Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed legislation for a 50,000-seat football stadium to be built at the University of Minnesota. The bill calls for the state to pay for 55 percent of the $248 million cost. The university will pay for the rest from a $35 million naming-rights deal with TCF Financial, through private donations, and through student fees. The construction schedule calls for first game in 2009.

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    WSU seek alum-student links for homecoming

    WINONA, Minn., May 30, 2006 -- The alumni director at Winona State, Kim Zeiher, called on faculty to invite alumni to their classrooms the Thursday and Friday before the university's homecoming. Zeiher said the process is under way to select this year's outstanding alumni for honoring. These distinguished alumni would be outstanding as guest lecturers, Zeiher said. One homecoming goal, she said, "is to build stronger relationships for alumni and current students." The homecoming game will be Oct. 7 against MSU-Moorhead.

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    Report: Expand UW-Waukesha to four-year status

    MADISON, Wis., May 29, 2006 --A task force recommended against a controversial plan to merge the Milwaukee and Waukesha campuses of the University of Wisconsin. The task force recommended instead that the two-year campus in Waukesha be turned over to several existing universities, including UW-Milwaukee, to operate four-year programs jointly.

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    Court: Religion not issue in chaplain firing

    PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 29, 2006 -- A federal appeals court ruled that a former chaplain at Gannon University may continue with law suit that complains she was discriminated against based on her gender. Lynette Petruska claims that she was forced out of her job at Gannon because she is a woman and because she objected to sexual harassment. Gannon, a Roman Catholic college in Erie, Pa., had claimed that the government cannot interfere employment disputes based on "the ministerial exception" that allows church institutions to free exercise of religion under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The appeals court ruled, however, that employment discrimination "unconnected to religious belief, religious doctrine, or the internal regulations of a church is simply the exercise of intolerance, not the free exercise of religion."

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    Hillman Foundation reneges on book award

    NEW YORK, May 28, 2006 -- The Sidney Hillman Foundation changed its mind about honoring two Yale University professors with a 2006 Hillman Award for their book on the repeal of the estate tax "Death by a Thousand Cuts." Bruce Raynor, foundation president, said it had been learned that co-author Ian Shapiro once discouraged Yale grad students from trying to unionize. Sidney Hillman, for whom the awards are named, founded the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The awards, first presented in 1950, are intended to honor "journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good." Raynor said it would be mockery of Sidney Hillman's beliefs to honor someone who had resisted union-organization attempts.

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    Shapiro said he got Raynor's call abut the change of mind as he was leaving home for New York to pick up the award. The book, by Shapiro and Michael Graetz, published by Princeton University Press, has nothing to do with labor organizing. About opposing grad students' organizing, Shapiro said he recalls in the 1990s that he once told a group of grad students that he thought they had the right to form a union but that in his opinion it would not be a good use of their time. Shapiro added that he generally supports unions.

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    The Hillman Foundation announced Shapiro and Graetz as winners two weeks ago. Raynor said dozens of complaints came in from current and former grad assistants

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    School learning center may go to airport

    WINONA, Minn., May 28, 2006 -- A citizens task force recommended the Winona Area Learning Center be relocated to the Southeast Tech building at the airport. Twenty-five sites were considered, with Tech's Aviation Training Center emerging as the best and most economical, said School Board Chairman Larry Laber. The learning center is losing is present home in domino-effect relocations of school district programs. The Tech building was the only place that could accept the learning center in time for fall classes, Laber said.

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    COMMENT
    MEMORIAL DAY

    BLOOD AND CONSCIENCE

    In a dangerous world every society needs its warriors. Memorial Day is when we Americans honor our fallen warriors. Their sacrifice has been great:


    Revolutionary War
    War of 1812
    Mexican War
    Civil War
    Spanish-American War
    World War I
    World War II
    Korean War
    Vietnam War
    Persian Gulf War
    Iraq War


    KILLED
    4,435
    2,260
    1,733
    214,983
    385
    53,513
    292,131
    33,551
    47,369
    148
    2,645**


    MAIMED
    6,188
    4,505
    4,152
    281,881*
    1,682
    204,002
    670,846
    103,284
    163,303
    467
    9,000**
    * Confederacy casualties never tallied
    ** Still counting

    In our Memorial Day reflections on the valor of our nation's soldiers, we cannot avoid the question of whether all these wars, and their staggering tolls, were necessary.

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    REVOLUTIONARY WAR. The work of recent historians Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Bernard Bailyn and Ian Williams raises questions about whether the Revolution really was driven by a freedom-craving ideology. The case can be made that an independent and free country could have evolved naturally. Canada is a handy case study.

    WAR OF 1812. Had there been no Revolution, this follow-up war wouldn't have been fought.


    MEXICAN WAR. Historians mostly agree that President Polk, pressed for war by the nation's financial leaders, exaggerated a mere skirmish involving a tiny patrol in disputed territory into pure fiction as a Mexican assault on the nation's honor. The fiction was the basis for declaring war.

    CIVIL WAR. Although bloodier than any earlier war in the nation's history, the Civil War doesn't enter into a discussion on wars premised on foreign policy. Here, we were our own enemy.

    SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. Spurred on by Yellow Press accounts of Spanish troops raping Cuban maidens, President McKinley thought Cuba needed saving. Then the U.S. warship Maine exploded in Havana harbor. Instantly the explosion was blamed on Spain. Now we know the ship's boiler exploded on its own.

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    WORLD WAR I. President Woodrow Wilson baited German u-boats with the decision to take sides in a European war. Otherwise, the Atlantic would have been a sufficient buffer against these winds of war.

    WORLD WAR II. Despite intriguing scholarship that President Roosevelt baited the Japanese, the fact is that Japanese imperialism led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. This was the only defensive war in U.S. history.

    WARS FOR COMMUNIST CONTAINMENT. Phobia about communism as an international threat fueled the Korean and Vietnam wars. For Vietnam, President Johnson took a leaf from Polk and concocted a story about an enemy attack on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. We know now the attack never occurred.

    RECENT WARS OF "DEFENSE." President Reagan and both Bushes have been quick to employ the mythical magic of the word "defense" from World War II for their wars. But does anybody believe the nation was threatened by Grenada? Panama? Or Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?

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    The real question to ask this Memorial Day is not whether fallen heroes deserve our gratitude. Unquestionably they do. They did duty and sacrificed with honor. We instead should be assessing whether we as a nation have been remiss in allowing our leadership, time and again, to put our warriors in harm's way for insufficient cause. Or in some cases, with fabricated cause. Our soldiers' blood is on all our hands.

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    ELECTION 2006

    Krage to re-seek Council seat one last time

    WINONA, Minn., May 28, 2006 -- After 21 years on the City Council, Second Ward representative Gerry Krage said he's not about to give up his seat, but that, if re-elected in November, it will be his last term. Krage won re-election in 2002 uncontested. Earlier he was challenged by Tess Kruger, who then was Winona State UniversityŐs personnel director, but won handily. Krage's service on the Council has twice been interrupted by Army activation, most recently for duty in Iraq. Krage is reservist sergeant major.

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    Sixth Barton college coach pleads guilty

    GREAT BEND, Kan., May 28, 2006 -- Another former Barton County Community College basketball coach, Ryan Cross, 33, pleaded guilty to falsifying records of a student athlete. Court records show that Cross, after leaving for a Florida coaching job, arranged with his Barton successor to enroll one of his Florida players at Barton County to earn enough credits to play basketball at the University of Cincinnati. Cross is the sixth coach to be convicted in a series of athletic scandals at Barton. Meanwhile, other cases are pending against a former athletic director and a track coach. A second charge against Cross, that he helped provide test answers to another player to obtain enough credits to play at the University of Missouri, was dropped in a plea agreement. Cross faces up to 20 years in prison. Other Barton defendants all have gotten off with probation.

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    WSU pole-vaulter makes 12-feet, 2-1/2 inches

    EMPORIA, Kan., May 27, 2007 -- Winona State University vaulter Bria Magnuson, a junior, cleared 12 feet, 2-1/2 inches in the NCAA Division II nationals for a school record. Six vaulters tied at 12, 2-1/2, but some had fewer misses at lower heights so Mangnuson was given eighth place. She was awarded all-American status.

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    WSU SECURITY REPORT
    WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 2006

    May 24, 2006: A student reported the theft of his unlocked bike from a bike rack outside of Minne classroom buulding sometime earlier in the day.

    May 21, 2006: An alarm wasactivated in the Quad dorms at 2:15 p.m. due to a power outage.



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    Weinmann takes all-America in shot put

    LISLE, Ill., May 27, 2007 -- A St. Mary's University athlete, Amanda Weinmann, heaved the shot 44 feet, 7 inches for eighth in the NCAA Divison III outdoor championships. It was Weinmann's career best, which gave her all-American status. In the javelin, Ashley Luehmann of St. Mary's was 10th at 188 feet, 11 inches and in the shot put 15th at 41 feet, 8-1/2 inches.

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    COURT CONVICTIONS
    WEEK ENDING MAY 27, 2006
    IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT


    UNDERAGE BOOZING
    Joshua Thomas Alameida, LaCrescent, Minn., $177.
    Brandon Michael Emmons, 19, 924 Seventh St., $277.
    Chelsea Ray Ringler, 18, 1382 Conrad, $177.
    Ambe Lydia Salo, 18, Oak Grove, Minn., $177.
    Patricia Lindsay Sheehan, 19, 1647 W. Fifth, $554.
    Danielle Marie Wychgram, 20, 168 Harriet, $177.

    NOISY PARTYING
    Jason Michael Cieminski, 24, 1116 Sugar Loaf 307, $277.
    Keith Del Berstler, 24, 160 E. Third St., four days and $177.
    Thomas Lucine Hagen, 20, Minnesota City, Minn., $166.

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    Presque Isle faculty unhappy with president

    PRESQUE ISLE, Maine, May 26, 2006 -- The faculty at the University of Maine at Presque Isle unanimously called for the ouster of campus President Karl Burgher after months of complaints that he had failed to communicate well with faculty members, students or community groups. There was one abstention in the "no confidence" vote. The president of the faculty, Kim-Anne Perkins, said that profs have limited options for voicing displeasure with administrators. Perkins declined to release the letter that she sent to the university system's chancellor, but one report said it ran three pages and listed 14 complaints. Burgher, meanwhile, said he is conversing with campus people and is confident of a resolution. Burgher, a mining engineer and economist, came to Presque Isle from Fairmont State University in West Virginia, where he was vice president for research, contracts and technology.

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    ELECTION 2006

    Kelley to quit governor race unless endorsed

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 26, 2006 -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Kelley said he would quit the race if he doesn't win the party's endorsement. Kelley, now in a wide field in the Democratic endorsement campaigns, was asked his plans in a debate. Neither of the other major candidates, Mike Hatch and Becky Lourey, said they would drop out before the September primary. Hatch denied Capitol gossip that he might quit and run instead for re-election as attorney general. In the debate the candidates were gentle on each but not on incumbent republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is expected to seek re-election. Hatch accused Pawlenty of focusing on "stadiums and casinos and baubles" when the state's future in the global economy is in jeopardy.

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    Lewiston hires WSU grad as city clerk

    LEWISTON, Minn., May 25, 2006 -- The new city clerk, Deb Spitzer, was hired after telling City Council members that she had learned government fund management as part of her Winona State University accounting degree. Spitzer's hiring ended a running feud with her city Administrator Barry Kramer and Deputy Clerk Mary Jane Vogel, who resigned after City Council members complained they weren't getting monthly financial reports. Kramer and Vogel explained that they didn't know the city's accounting software. No problem, Spitzer told Council members. Not only does she have a Winona State accounting degree but she's done accounting for the St. Charles, Minn., city government. Her husband Bill is the St. Charles mayor.

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    NEWS AND COMMENT
    WINONA MEDIA WATCH

    THE UNDER-REPORTED DEPARTURE
    OF MARK HAUCK

    Town boosterism has trumped good journalism, again. The Daily News, Winona Radio and the Post all reported the departure of Mark Hauck, the energetic organizer of the Great River Shakespeare Festival. Although the Winona newsrooms have a Pollyannaish record of only upbeat news about the festival going back to the beginning three years ago, Hauck's departure could not go unnoted. Hauck had been the centrifugal force that created the high-profile festival and generated big bucks from the community to actualize his vision. But aside from questions that Daily News reporter Brian Voerding put to Hauck, which generated superficial answers, the right questions went unasked. Not even the usually thorough Voerding, judging from what ended up in print, asked the right follow-up questions or tapped additional sources to get the real story. As a result, Winona people are clueless about why Hauck really left and whether the festival still merits their support.

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    A second Daily News piece by Kari Knutson didn't add any more light. The Post? Winona Radio? Well, their journalism would have nothing slow the curtain on its way up. The show must go on. And when an interim successor to Hauck was named, the news folks merely regurgitated publicity pap from Gary Evans, the festival board chair.

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    Local newsrooms failed a Journalism 101 fundamental -- to ask why. And to keep asking until they know the truth. The closest to a satisfactory answer was Hauck's acknowledgement to Voerding that a schism had widened with his partners, Paul Barnes aned Alex Wild. But what was it? A petty backstage flap over the timing of Romeo's entry? Or something conceptual that goes to heart of the Hauck vision that whole town bought into?

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    So what do we know? Not much aside from an oily rehearsed statement from as festival board chair that everything will be all right and that everyone wishes Hauck well in new adventures. Everyone hopes, of course, that everything is all right, but, due to a journalistic failure, people don't have enough information to come to a conclusion beyond Evans "trust me."

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    All this is the public's business. The community has put immeasurable energy and money into the festival. This year the town invested its limited political capital to bring home $250,000 from the Legislature to explore building a permanent theater. The festival's management should be transparent. That it's not leaves the enterprise tainted in public doubts: Might the festival be so troubled that it shouldn't get another dime? People need information, indeed deserve information, that the powers-who-be in Winona newsrooms haven't pursued.

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    Where is Sinclair Lewis when we need him for a new expose? Sadly, it seems, Babbit is alive and well in Winona. Lewis is dead. That's sad too.

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    WSU hammer-thrower King passes 181 feet

    EMPORIA, Kan., May 25, 2006 -- Winona State University's Emily King earned all-America honors in the first day of the NCAA Division II track and field nationals. King came up with her best effort of the year in the hammer throw on her last throw -- 181 feet, 6 inches. She placed third. King had qualified for the finals by placing fifth in the first flight of the event. King then fouled on her next two throws before busting out with a school record. That record was held by King and bested her earlier career best by 6 feet, 1 inch. By placing in the top eight King earned her all-America honors, the second time she earned all-American status this season. In the March at the NCAA Division II indoor championships, King finished second in the 20-pound weight throw.

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    Nicole Lonning of Winona State placed 12th in the hammer throw at 160 feet, 2 inches. The Warriors' Deidra Faber ran in the preliminaries of the 400-meter intermediate hurdles but, at 13th, failed to advance to the finals. Faber ranb 1:01.99 in the third heat . Last year Faber garnered all-American status by placing fourth in the event.

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    FREE INQUIRY / FREE EXPRESSION

    Report: "Little Eichmanns" abound on campuses

    WASHINGTON, May 25, 2006 -- The American Council of Trustees and Alumni says politically biased profs who use their courses to transmit their personal political agendas are more common than might be believed. In a study of faculty web sites, the council cited examples of courses are "platforms for propaganda, sites of sensitivity training, and launching pads for political activism." Anne Neal, the council's president, said the council doesn't advocate punishing or silencing professors for what they say. Rather, the report said, universities should expose course-based partisanship and invite profs to "debate ideas." Students deserve access to a wide range of "intellectual diversity" from their faculty, the report said. The report's title, "How Many Ward Churchills?" refers to the University of Colorado professor who likened some victims of the World Trade Center attack to "little Eichmanns" and who just last week was found to have committed research misconduct. The Churchill case is not an anomaly of fringe views being promulgated from the professoriate, the report said.<

    Background: Horowitz dismisses attack on book: "Stupid"
    Background: Committee adds to Colorado prof's woes
    Background: Comment: WSU conservatives not in closet

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    Tire-slashing reported at WSU

    WINONA, Minn., May 25, 2006 -- A man reported that someone slashed a tire on his car parked at Winona State University, police said. The report was turned in about 4 p.m.

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    Cost of Massachusetts chief's inaugural: $512,000

    BOSTON, Mass., May 25, 2006 -- The price tag for the inauguration of the new chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Michael Collins, has raised eyebrows in the state Capitol. The celebration, which lasted a week, cost $512,000. Although the funds were mostly from donations, some key legislators say the party may have come at the expense of donations for more pressing needs, according to the newspaper the Boston Globe. Legislators noted that the university needs to raise private funds for student services and facilities. The inauguration included a concert by the hip-hop artist Kanye West. A banquet menu featured seared sea scallops and roasted filet of beef. The total bill was triple that of the 2002 inauguration of Collins' predecessor and double the 2003 inauguration of the chancellor of the main University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst.

    Background: WSU inaugural budget reaches $50,000

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    R.I.P.: Mary Louise (Dean) Pelowski

    RED WING, Minn., May 24, 2005 -- A Winona State College grad, Mary Pelowski, 84, died at a Rochester, Minn., hospital. As a student at Winona State she worked as a secretary for the university president. Among her three children is State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona. She also was the mother-in-law of Deb Pelowski at the Winona State bookstore. Deb Pelowski said that although Mary and her husband Gene Sr. grew up in Winona they did not meet until they attended Winona State. "Mary selected golf instead of badminton or bowling. Since Gene Sr. was the captain of the golf team and a gracious gentleman, he asked fellow team members to assist the new women golfers. The rest was history," she said. Mary and Gene their 55th wedding anniversary this year

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    WSU employee donations pass $53,000

    WINONA, Minn., May 24, 2005 -- The annual Winona State University fund drive has exceeded $53,000 en route top a $90,000 goal, said project chief Dan Schumacher. On average, more than half of the faculty and staff participate, Schumacher said. The deadline is June 30. Last year more than $80,000 was raised.

    Background: WSU All-University Fund Drive hits $41,800

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    Researchers: Crack down on animal-rights activists

    WASHINGGTON, May 24, 2006 -- A bill in Congress to classify animal-rights activists who harass scientists as terrorists has support from a University of Wisconsin researcher. Prof Michele Basso testified to a House subcommittee that she has received threatening telephone messages. Even after transferring the deed to her house to another name to hide her address, the threatening telephone calls still came, Basso said. She also testified to receiving more than 50 unwanted magazine subscriptions. Basso's lab work involves nonhuman primates to study brain disorders. Other researchers told the subcommittee of vandalized cars and homes and harassment of their families.

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    The bill, sponsored by Rep. Thomas E. Petri, R-Wis., has drawn criticism from Democrats for going too far and confusing dissent with terrorism. Robert Scott, D-Va., said the bill might violate the First Amendment by outlawing picketing and other protests that affect research only indirectly. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., said that many offenses identified in the Petri bill already are state crimes that don't need to be federalized.

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    High-school leadership sessions at WSU

    WINONA, Minn., May 24, 3006 -- Two one-week leadership programs for high school students will be held at Winona State this summer, the university announced. Lisa Swanson, coordinator, said the programs focus on leadership, team-building and communication skills. Partial scholarships are available, Swanson said.
    Date: June 25-30 and July 9-14
    Time: Registration deadline June 9, first session; June 23, July session
    Place: Winona State
    Cost: $400 includes dorm lodging, meals
    Contact: Lisa Swanson at (507) 457-2911


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    Family wins $1 million for campus beatin death

    GALESBURG, Ill., May 24, 2006 -- Knox College has been ordered to pay $1 million to the family of a student who was beaten to death in a dorm in 1998. The jury found the college negligent for failing to provide adequate light and security. Andrea Racibozynski, 19, was knocked down in a stairway late at night and beaten with a brick by fellow Knox freshman. The assailant, Clyde Best, is serving 60 years in prison.

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    Racibozynski's family claimwd that the college had provided inadequate training for security guards. Also, the family noted, a number of light bulbs in the stairwell had burned out and some had been manually switched off. The college responded that tyhe assailant suffered from a personality disorder and was in a narcissistic rage. "Lighting or any other features would not have affected his anger," a colege attorney said. The jury sided with the family.

    Background: Mugging victim who blamed poor lghting wins $300,000
    Background: 145 of 399 WSU fixtures not illuminated

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    Colleges in gear with motorsports programs

    CHARLOLTTE, N.C., May 24, 2006 -- Dozens of colleges have created motorsports programs with degrees in mechanics, engineering and management, all in response to the growing popularity of auto racing. An Associated Press report listed programs at Clemson, Indiana/Purdue in Indianapolis, Indiana State, Belmont Abbey, and East Tennessee State. The programs emerged in the mid-1990s as NASCAR popularity soared, the AP reported. In 2002, NASCAR joined forces with Universal Technical Institute to open the $12 million NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresville, N.C., to train automotive technicians. The chairman of the business department at Belmont Abbey College in Charlotte, N.C., Philip Bayster, is quoted: "It's evolved from just a group of guys racing cars on an oval to an enormously large business that's generating billions of dollars in revenue." This fall Belmont Abbey College is launching a bachelor's degree in business management focused on motorsports.

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    Somsen mural

    SOMSEN WORK
    OF JOHN MARTIN SOCHA

    The artist was a Minnesota native and teacher who reportedly studied under famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.
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    WSU restores historic Winona mural

    WINONA, Minn., May 23, 2006 -- A $25,000 project to restore a Depression-era mural by John Martin Socha in Winona State University's landmark Somsen Hall has begun. Restorative artist James Horn if Minneapolis, has done work on Merchants National Bank artworks, has been contracted for the project, which will be completed in mid-June said organizer Cathie Logan. The mural was painted under a Work Progress Administration program by Socha (pronounced "so-SHAY"), who prided himself on portrayals based on interviewing pioneers, as well as his knowledge of the region's history. The mural covers three walls in the entryway to Somsen. One wall depicts the legend of the Sioux princess Wenonah. Another wall depicts early settlers taming the wilderness and forming a new community. A third wall shows the frontiersmen and Indians coming together in peace. Prominent are two figures, the Indian chief and the riverboat captain.

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    Even though Somsen Hall, constructed in 1924, has been remodeled several times, the mural has never been tampered with and is surprisingly well-preserved, said Logan. However, it is slowly beginning to show signs of deterioration and should be restored for the enjoyment of future generations, she said. Student backpacks rubbing against the mural walls have caused the greatest damage. Logan and Horn discussed several different protective measures for the restored mural, including applying a protective coating or covering the walls with plexiglass. Logan, however, wasn't satisfied. A coating, she said, would prevent future restoration. Plexiglass would intrude upon the aesthetics, she said. The plan now, she said, is to install rounded bumpers around the upper corners of the stairway to steer passersby a reasonable distance away from the walls without obscuring the mural.

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    Preliminary work began began May 22. For the duration of the project, the main entrance to Somsen Hall will be closed.

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    Logan, until recently an academic affairs assistant at the university, had passed the murals every day walking up the Somsen front stairs. In spring 2005 she applied to the WSU Foundation grants committee for restoration funds. She called the Socha mural a gateway piece that welcomed visitors to the main campus building. "It deserves proper conservation," she said. The Foundation awarded $6,300, about 25 percent of the restoration budget. Horn originaly estimated the project at $8,000, but additonal costs later surfaced. A donation campaign is being organized to raise the remaining funds, Logan said.


    Somsen mural

    RIVER CAPTAIN
    Socha's enduring, heroic portrayal of Winona's past

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    Somsen mural

    SIOUX CHIEF
    Winona's Indian heritage is dominant on east wall




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    Minor remains in jail in Schyde's stabbing

    WINONA, Minn., May 23, 2006 -- The man accused in the Schyde's drinkery stabbing, Jonathan Hanz Minor, remain in jail with his latest plea for release denied. Minor's attorney, Rich McCluer, asked in April that the 21-year-old man be released to an inpatient treatment facility after completing a chemical dependency assessment. Judge Margaret Johnson turned down the request after prosecuting attorney Chuck MacLean pointed to Minor's "lengthy criminal record" of two drunken-driving convictions along with seven other minor consumption and assault-related convictions. Also, Maclean argued, Minor has yet to attend even one Alcoholics Anonymous meeting offered to incarcerated inmates. McCluer rebutted the MacLean's emphasis on Minor's criminal record. Circumstances have changed since those convictions, McCluer said. Even so, said Judge Johnson, Minor is "a risk to public safety." Johnson urged for Minor to take advantages of opportunities at dependency treatment offered in the Winona County jail.

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    Minor is charged with stabbing a Schyde's bouncer, Steve Adams, in February -- after hours of heavy drinking the night before his 21st birthday. Adams survived five wounds in his lower back. MacLean says Minor, from Anoka, Minn., was in town intent on trouble and even brandished his knife earlier in the day and talked about slicing up anybody who got in his way. Minor has been held on $100,000 bail. Miknor has failed in attempts at release by having bis bail reduced. The judge turned down a request from Minor's father to take him home with him to Arizona for counseling and treatment. Minor next is schedule in court June 7.


    Jonathan Hanz Minor

    JONATHAN
    HANZ
    MINOR

    Has passed up Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in jail

    Reporter: Kai Oehler
    Background: Bar stabbing victim better, back working
    Background: Judge: No Arizona sun man in stabbing case
    Background: Bail set at $100,000 in stabbing
    Background: Victim, others recount what happened

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    News report: It pays to be chancellor's kinfolk

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 23, 2006 -- The Alabama community college system chancellor, Roy Johnson, and his immediate family received more than $560,000 for jobs and contracts last year from the state's two-year colleges, accoridng to the newspaper the Birmingham News. A son and daughter held jobs at a college in Tuscaloosa. A son-in-law held three contracts totaling $6,000 a month. Johnson's wife earned $90,000 as executive assistant to the Opelika community college. A daughter earned $47,000 as a recruiter for the college. The newspaper built its report around payroll and other public records. Johnson, who himself earns $237,000 as chancellor, defended having so many family members on the payroll: "We are a family of educators."

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    Stephanie Bell, a member of the state Board of Education, expressed concern: "tt sends a very bad message. It's a poor example." Bell said that she received a complaint in 1996 that Johnson's daughter-in-law was on the Opelika campus but did not work. Said Bell: "I was concerned then about this and I'm concerned now." Bell said she had been told that the Opelika complaint would be investigated but nothing hoppened.

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    Barrone, Magee to region baseball team

    WAYNE, Neb., May 23, 2006 -- Winona State University outfielder Ben Barrone and catcher and relief pic ther Joe Magee have been named to the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings all-Central Region second basbelal team. Magee, a senior, hit .374 for the Warriors. Magee finished with eight doubles, five triples, six home runs, 36 runs batted in, and a .575 slugging percentage. He had an on base percentage of .415. Barrone, a junior, batted .372 with a team-high 16 home runs, 10 doubles and a team-high 46 RBI. Barrone had an .851 slugging percentage and .458 on base percentage. Barrone also pitched in 14 games of relief and totaled a team-high five saves in 12.2 innings pitched.

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    Lady Vols coach passes $1 million mark

    KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 22, 2006 -- The Lady Vols basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, Pat Summitt, cracked the million-dollar women's coaching ceiling with a $1.1 million contract for this coming year and an average of $1.3 million for the next five years. After 32 seasons as the Lady Vols coach, Summitt has more victories, 913, than any other Division I coach. The second best compensated women's basketball coach in the nation, Geno Auriemma at Connecticut, is at $975,000 this fall, passing $1 millon the year after.

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    Savannah State football on ice

    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 22, 2006 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association placed Savannah State University on probation for unethical conduct, recruiting violations, impermissible summer workouts and free housing for recruits. Early in the NCAA investigation, the university reprimanded head football coach Richard Basil for his involvement in violations. Basil resigned in March. Before he resigned, however, Basil fired assistant coach Jerome Pope. Later, Athletic Director Tony O'Neal placed coaching staff members Edwin Bailey, C. Tony High and Ivy Williamson paid administrative leave. Among the most serious violations was in a tape-recording of an assistant coach encouraging NCAA-banned drugs. The assistant was not named in the NCAA report. A tipster contacted the NCAA, which promoted an investigation that widened as it progressed.

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    Maxwell library
    MAXWELL
    DUE FOR REFIT

    Will $11 million
    get the elevator fixed?
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    Legislature: Yes to WSU Maxwell renovation

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 21, 2006 -- The Legislature approved $11.1 million to remodel the old Maxwell library at Winona State University, ending a long, sometimes comical saga for the building's post-library history. The project took on new urgency in January 2005, when Juidth Ramaley was being interviewed for the university presidency. "What," she wondered," was that thumping?" It was weight-lifters in an upstairs work-out gym doing their thing. Then there was the January 2006 tour for legislators, on campus to assess the need for funding. The elevator got stuck, trapping House Speaker Steve Sviggum and others for 20 minutes. "Quite effective lobbying," Sviggum joked later. With $11.1 million, the university plans renovations to the structure, which was built on the cheap in the 1960s. With another $400,000 that the Legislature approved for Memorial Hall renovations, the university hopes for a running start on a multi-million expansion that will include a state-of-the-art workout gym to replace the third-floor Maxwell facility. Somehow in the total, $11.5 million, the university plans to find ways to make the Maxwell elevator work.

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    These are Winona higher-ed projects in the Legislature's final $1 billion borrowing bill to finance state construction projects statewide:

  • $11.1 million: Maxwell Hall renovations at Winona State.
  • $2.6 million: General renovations at Winona State.
  • $400,000: Memorial Hall renovations at Winona State.
  • $400,000: Science labs at Southeast Tech.
  • $250,000: Site studies for a theater for the Great River Shakespeare Festival, which has a temporary home at Winona State.


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    Senate Democrats choke Republican social agenda

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 21, 2006 -- Republican conservatives in the Minnesota Legislature will have to wait for another day to pursue their social agenda. A bill to prohibit public funds for abortions for women on welfare didn't make it in the 2006 session. Nor did a proposal for an anti-gay marriage amendment to the state constitution. Defeated too was a bill to crack down on illegal immigrants. It was the majority Democratic caucus in the Senate that headed off the anti-abortion bill. The anti-gay marriage referendum movement was stalled in committee, also by Senate Democrats. On immigration, both Democrats and Republicans had agendas, but it became obvious that compromise was not possible. The Republicans lost their bid to require police and social workers to turn over illegal immigrants to federal authorities for deportation. The Republicans also had wanted to deputize state officers to enforce federal immigration laws. Also lost was a Democratic proposal, the so-called DREAM bill, to give in-state tuition to the children of illegal immigrants who earn diplomas from a Minnesota high school.

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    Also failing was a proposal to reduce the role of teacher-preparation programs in the state's colleges with in the alternative teacher licensure bill. Gov. Tim Pawlenty had supported alternative licensing. A bill that would have allowed professors to be removed in certain circumstances if they could not "speak clear English" also was lost along the way.

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    A ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY

    Rochester U gets startup funding

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 21, 2006-- The Legislature approved $5 million for the University of Minnesota to build a university in Rochester that will bear the city's name. The funding had been pushed by Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty and opposed by Winona legislators, who argued that Rochester's higher-ed needs are sufficiently served by Winona State and other colleges with Rochester programs.

    Background: McCauley: Opt for less expansive plan

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    Vermont says no to Montpelier campus

    BURLINGTON, Vt., May 21, 2006 Ę--University of Vermont trustees rejected the proposed purchase of the former Vermont College campus in Montpelier. Financially troubled Union Institute, a Cincinnati-based nontraditional school, had bought the 32-acre Montpelier campus in 2001 but have been trying unload it.

    Background: Union abandons bricks-and-mortar foray

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    WSU offers high-school entrepreneurship camp

    WINONA, Minn., May 21, 2006 -- An entrepreneurship mini-camp for high school juniors and seniors will be offered at Winona State by econ prof Don Salyaqrds, himself an entrepreneur. This camp will cover product selection, marketing, sales, finance and business plans, Salyards said. Students will tour Codabow, Badger Foundry and We-no-nah Canoe and meet the founders and chief executives.
    Date: June 25-27
    Time: Registration deadline June 9
    Place: Winona State
    Cost: $200 includes dorm lodging, meals
    Contact: Tracy Rahim at (507) 474-3902


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    MSU-Mankato dorm student dies of meningitis

    MANKATO, Minn., May 21, 2006 -- A Minnesota State University, Mankato, freshman died of the dread dorm disease meningitis after leaving the campus sick for home in River Falls, Wis., after , the university confirmed. Katlyn Feriancek, 19, went home May 12, after spring exams. Her ailment was diagnosed the next day as bacterial meningitis. She died May 18 at a Twin Cities hospital. Health officials said Feriancek's case probably was isolated. The university quoted her father that she had been vaccinated against meningitis but not against the strain with which she was infected.

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    RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
    POSTED MAY 21, 2006

    PEERLESS CHAIN. Old-time Winona manufacturer Peerless Chain bought the chain line of British-owned ACCO, which manufactures in York, Pa. Peerless will move the York factory to Winona and add 50 jobs to its 200-person payroll, President Gilman King said. The new jobs will pay $18 an hour.

    EARLIER NEWS IN THE CITY


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    COURT CONVICTIONS
    WEEK ENDING MAY 20, 2006
    IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT


    UNDERAGE CONSUMPTION
    Daniel Robert Bohnstengel, 18, Rollingstone, Minn., $177.
    Kyle James Troople, 20, 1450 4th St., $177.

    ALL BOOZING CONVICTIONS
    ALL NOISY PARTY CONVICTIONS


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    WSU athlete, other tenant escape house fire

    AWINONA, Wis., May 20, 2006 -- Two tenants escaped a smoky fire at a three-story, four-unit rental house at 267 E. Ninth St. early Saturday evening. A dog in the house died. Alex Weise, a Winona State University football player, said he spotted the smoke coming from a wall when he returned home to his second-floor unit a little before 6 p.m. Weise said he shouted to a downstairs neighbor, Bill Kreidermacher, to get out. By then, Weise said, the apartment was filling with smoke. Four other tenants were not at home. Firefighters spent two hours fighting the fire as neighbors, probably about a hundred, gathered in the street to watch. Kreidermacher, who had lived at the address 12 years, said he, like Weise, had just returned home.

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    WSU prof wins Walton fellow prize

    WINONA, Minn., May 20, 2006 -- A Winona State University prof, Kim Snyder, was named a Walton Free Enterprise fellow, which carries a $1,000 prize. Snyder, who teaches information system management, was honored for a student community outreach project.

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    North Dakota basketball search passes WSU's Brown

    GRAND FORKS, N.D., May 20, 2006 -- The basketball operations director at the University of Iowa, Brian Jones, has been named head basketball coach at the University of North Dakota. Among finalists had been Tom Brown, assistant coach at Winona State.

    Background: WSU assistant basketball coach on UND list

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    ELECTION 2006

    Borzyskowski on Council again? Count me in

    WINONA, Minn., May 20, 2006 -- Two-term City Council member George Borzyskowski, who represents the Fourth Ward, isn't ready for a formal announcement but said he will file papers for re-election by the July 5 deadline. Borzyskowski confirmed his intents after at-large Council member Tim Breza announced for re-election. In 2002 Borzyskowski defeated Dave McNally.

    Background: Races campus people are watching

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    MSU-Moorhead requires booze course for frosh

    MOORHEAD, Minn., May 20, 2006 -- Minnesota State University-Moorhead has created a one-credit course, "Alcohol and College Life," which will be required for freshmen this fall. The course's creators say advice and statistics are interspersed with interactive video and personal testimonials. The course was developed at the University of Minnesota. Although in use at several colleges, MSU-Moorhead is the first Minnesota school to require it of incoming freshmen.

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    A ROCHESTER UNIVERSITY

    McCauley: Opt for less expansive plan

    WINONA, Minn., May 20, 2006 -- Retired Winona State University physics prof Mac McCauley called for the public to rally behind a Minnesota Senate version of the bill for a new Rochester university as the lesser of two evils. McCauley noted that the Senate bill, unlike the House version, would preclude the new university from duplicating programs currently offered in Rochester by Winona State and other colleges. On the larger issue, McCauley said there is no need for a new four-year college because Rochester already has plenty of higher-ed options and because taxpayers cannot afford yet another state college. McCauley, who wrote his views in a newspaper opinion-page letter, is a former Winona County commissioner.

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    WSU logo
    GOLF (MEN'S)

    NCAA Division II National (final day): South Carolina-Aiken 1,148 (1st), Columbus State 1,160 (2nd), California State-Bakersfield 1,169 (3rd), Lynn University 1,178 (4th), California State-Stanislaus 1179 (5th), Florida Southern 1,180 (6th), Cameron 1,189, California State-San Bernardino 1,189 (7th) (tie), Pfeiffer 1,193 (9th), St. Mary's of Texas 1,194 (10th), Coker 1,203 (11th), Grand Canyon 1,204 (12th), WSU 1,214 (13th), North Alabama 1,216 (14th), Saginaw Valley State 1,221 (15th), Concord 1,224 (16th), St. Cloud State 1,226 (17th), St. Martin's 1,228 (18th), Barton 1,230 (19th), Goldey Beacom 1,283 (20th)

    WSU men's golfers finish 13th in nationals

    DANIELS, W.Va., May 19, 2006 -- Winona State University improved on its team score, but it was not enough to move up in the standings on the final day of the NCAA Division II men's golf championships. The Warriors cut off five strokes from the round, scoring 307, from the previous day to finish at 1,214. But that effort could not move the Warriors out of the 13th spot in the 20-team event. Bret Toftness had the Warrior medalist round of the day with a four-over par 74. Troy Merritt shot a seven-over 77, Kevin Loeffler and Matt Horel each posted rounds of eight-over par 78. Chad Bischoff had 89. For the tournament Merritt led the Warriors with 296, while Toftness came up with 297, Loeffler totaled 309, and Horel 312 and Bischoff 324.

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    WSU assistant basketball coach on UND short list

    GRAND FORKS, N.D., May 19, 2006 -- The assistant basketball coach at Winona State University for eight years, Tom Brown, is among candidates for the head coaching job at the University of North Dakota. Brown was at Grand Forks for interviews on Thursday, the university confirmed. The North Dakota vacancy was created when Rich Glas left for the associate coach position at Northern Iowa. Glas' chief assistant, Randall Herbst, who played at Winona State in the early 1990s, has left for Florida Southern. Besides Brown, the finalists for the North Dakota head coaching position include Brian Jones, operations director at Iowa, and Steve Weemer, former assistant coach at Eastern Illinois.

    Tom Brown

    TOM
    BROWN

    Assistant WSU basketball coach


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    R.I.P.: Bruce W. Keil

    ALMA, Wis., May 19, 2006 -- A 1959 Winona State University grad, Bruce Keil, 70, died at home. He had spent most of his career with American Motors, then DaimlerChrysler in Milwaukee, Wis. He retired in 1989.

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    THE SUGAR LOAF MURDERS

    Plea deal on Gordon cocaine case

    WINONA, Minn., May 19, 2006 -- In a plea bargain Paul Allen Gordon agreed to plead guilty in a cocaine case, which precludes the evidence from being used against him in his trial for the Sugar Loaf murders. The guilty plea, entered before Judge Jeff Thompson, means the next step for Gordon in the cocaine case will be sentencing. The case involved a Halloween 2004 arrest in which police say Gordon pulled a toy gun on them and pulled the trigger, which activated a machine-gun sound. Officers testified earlier that in the dark alley behind Third Street they had no idea whether the gun was real. Officers confiscated bags of cocaine after arresting Gordon. The plea deal includes a provision that Gordon may serve prison time concurrently for the cocaine arrest and for a pistol-whipping conviction on April 14. Judge Thompson scheduled sentencing for June 1.

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    Gordon, 23, meanwhile, faces hearings as a prelude to a September trial for the grisly murders of Winona State University psychology student Stacy Smith, 29; her unborn child, sired by Gordon; and he 10-year-old daughter Taylor. Their bodies were found in their apartment on Sarnia Street in December 2004, a few hours before Gordon left town. The 10-year-old girl had been raped, the apartment torched.

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    About the plea agreement for the Halloween cocaine bust, which occurred 6-1/2 weeks before the murders, prosecutor Chuck MacLean said he was pleased. The conviction, he said, had taken 1-1/2 years. Justice can take time, MacLean said. "Achieving justice is sometimes a long journey," he said. "This is a critically important step on that path." In the plea-bargaining, Gordon was represented by Rich McCluer of Winona, who is in private practice. Gordon has public defenders for the murder cases.

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    In considering the plea agreement, Judge Thompson said there was sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to support a conviction. The charges were one count of a second-degree controlled substance crime and two counts of terroristic threats with a replica firearm.


    Paul Allen Gordon

    PAUL
    ALLEN
    GORDON

    Bargain includes concurrent prison time

    Background: Jury finds Gordon guilty in assault trial
    Background: Gordon murder-arson trial in September
    Background: Jury finds Gordon guilty in assault trial
    Background: Judge: Impartial local jury possible
    Background: The night they died

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    WSU loses leading basketball scorer

    WINONA, Minn., May 18, 2006 -- The leading Winona State University women's basketball scorer, Liz Buttke, is leaving the Warriors to play for rival University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The UW-La Crosse athletic department made the announcement. A freshman last season, Buttke, a 5-foot-9 guard, started all 28 games. She averaged 12.9 points, 2.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and had a team-best 49 steals. Buttke came from the Marshfield, Wis., high school, where she shot 39.6 percent (53 of 134) from 3-point range and 84.8 percent (39 of 46) from the free-throw line. The last season was not kind to Winona State. The Warriors finished 10-18 overall and 3-11 in the Northern Sun conference.

    Liz Buttke

    LIZ
    BUTTKE

    Bye, bye to Warriors


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    Iowa prof targeted for provoking race labels

    IOWA CITY, Iowa, May 18, 2006 -- The Black Law Students Association has protested racial slurs recited by a law school prof in a class on negotiations. One passages, read by Gerald Wetlaufer, were from Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of President Lyndon Johnson. The other was from a 1964 speech by black sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer. The black law students, who number 27, said the class was a symptom of "a much larger problem" at the law school. Some complained of a hostile environment. Wetlaufer has defended the passages as germane to his course but apologized for not alerting students that his presentation would include quotations with racial slurs.

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    Interim WSU student affairs exec at $100,000

    WINONA, Minn., May 18, 2006 -- The recently appointed interim student affairs vice president at Winona State University, Ruth Schroeder, will earn $100,000 in her one-year appointment, records show. Schroeder is serving while a national search is organized for a permanent successor to Cal Winbush, who retired. Winbush's salary was $120,000 his final year. Schroeder had been at $47,000 in her former position as campus health educator.

    Background: Health educator to vice presidency

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    Clark profs to president: Please leave

    VANCOUVER, Wash., May 18, 2006 -- Faculty at Clark College have told the college president, Wayne Branch, that he must go. The vote of "no confidence," usually a death knell for a college president, followed ongoing criticism of Branch's leadership style. There has been high faculty turnover at the college, which critics blamed on Branch, whom they say lacks a commitment to shared governance. Meanwhile, college trustees have contracted for an outside review of Branch's three years in office.

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    Good stuff in WSU good riddance

    WINONA, Minn., May 18, 2006 -- The Dumpster Diversion project at Winona State University, which gave departing students an option for disposing of unwanted goods, generated 25 pieces of usable furniture, accoridng to volunteer Nick Teff at the Restore Store. Teff said volunteers also picked up 166 bags of groceries and 25 bags of clothing

    Background: WSU readies Dumpster Diversion project

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    GOP boots Horowitz-backing legislator

    LANCASTER, Pa., May 18, 2006 -- Two-term state legisdlator Gibson Armstrong, who backed an investigation into what he claimed was left-wing political bias in college classrooms, lost a bid for nomination to another term. Armstrong was defeated by a law student who works part-time as X-ray technologist to raise his fanmily and pay tuition. Lancaster Republicans were decisive: 59 percent for upstart Bryan Cutler. Cutler, 31, attributed his victory to a scandal over legislative pay raise, perks and per diems. Referring to the state's capital city, Cutler said: "For too long, Harrisburg has abused tax dollars." Armstrong had voted against legislator pay raise but accepted unvouchered expenses, which he later gave back. On college liberalism, Armstrong had favored the so-called Academic Bill of Rights from conservative crusader David Horowitz, which several state legisatures are considering. Horowitz has touted the bill as an antidote what he calls liberal indoctrination of impressionale young people.



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    NCAA to McMurray: Let Kaw go

    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 18, 2006 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association rejected an appeal by McMurry University of Texas to continue the use of its Indians nickname. McMurray had claimed its first president, James Winford Hunt, selected the name out of "respect for the Kaw Indian Nation." The NCAA responded: "Well-intentioned motives are not sufficient to overcome the harm done by stereotypical nicknames that can create hostile or abusive environments." Other colleges with Indian mascots and nicknames continue under NCAA pressure to also change.

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    Mississippi crusader cleared of 1960 hate conviction

    HATTIEBSURG, Miss., May 18, 2006 -- A black war Korean War veteran who went to jail on trumped-up burglary charges in 1960 nafter seeking admission to the all-white University of Southern Mississippi has been exonerated posthumously. In declaring Clyde Kennard innocent, Judge Bob Helfrich said: "I'm compelled to do the right thing." The newspaper the Clarion-Ledger had conducted a three-month investigation into a charge that Kennard, a decorated war veteran, had stolen $25 worth of chicken feed. His sole accuser, Johnny Roberts, told the newspaper that he had been threatened to make the false accusatuion against Kennard because of thye black man's persistence to break the Southern Miss segregation. Kennard died of cancer in 1963 after serving prison time. Said Judge Helfrich, who did the sentencing in 1960 and presided now over the exoneration: "It did begin here, and, yes, it should end here."
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    Science, tech enrollment not keeping pace

    WASHINGTON, May 18, 2006 -- Even though college enrollment has been growing, the proportion of students obtaining degrees in science, technology, engineering and math has declined over the past 10 years, acording to the Government Accountability Office . Only 27 percent of students received degrees in the so-called STEM disciplines in 2004, compared with 32 percent a decade earlier. The federal government put $2.8 billion into more than 200 programs to increase the number of students and employees in STEM fields in 2004, the GAO said.

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    Ohio hacker patch didn't work; data out

    COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 18, 2006 -- Computer records with personal information on 300,000 Ohio University donors were unprotected on a server for more than a year after a break-in, the university confirmed. Accessible informatuion included Social Security numbers, and the names and addresses. Credit-card or bank data were not. The breach was discovered April 24 after two people reported that their personal information was used illegally. The university set up a toll-free hot line for donors to learn more about the breach how to place a fraud alert on their credit report. Hackers both in the United States and abroad had gained access to a server in March 2005, and the fix-up patch, it turned out, did not do the job.

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    Liquor store posters stolen

    WINONA, Minn., May 17, 2006 -- A downtown liquor store, Third Street Liquors, reported seven two-foot by four-foot posters advertising alcohol were stolen from outside of the store, police said.

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    WSU SECURITY REPORT
    WEEK ENDING MAY 20, 2006

    May 17, 2006: The security office was notified that a student had reported the theft of her laptop computer from outside the Lourdes cafeteria. The theft took place April 6 between 12:30 and 1:15 p.m.



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    NCAA Division II National (third day): South Carolina-Aiken 868 (1st), CSU-Bakersfield 871 (2nd), Columbus State 876 (3rd), Lynn University 878 (4th), Florida Southern Col 885 (5th), CSU-Stanislaus 892 (6th), Pfeiffer University 894 (7th), Cameron University 895, California State-San Bernardino 895 (8th) (tie), Grand Canyon and St. Mary's of Texas 900 (10th) (tie), Coker College 903 (12th), WSU 907 (13th), St. Martin's 909 (14th) North Alabama, 912 (15th), Saginaw Valley State 913 (16th), Barton College (17th), Concord University 922 (18th), St. Cloud State 922 (19th), Goldey Beacom College 963 (20th)

    Warriors fall to 13th in golf nationals

    DANIELS, W.Va., May 18, 2006 -- Winona State University struggled to a team total 312 and fell to 13th place in the NCAA Division II national men's golf championships. The third day of the four-day, 72-hole tournmaent left the Warriors with at 907 -- 22 strokes from the top five and 39 strokes off the pace. Bret Toffness had the team medalist honors with a seven-over par 77 and dropped from a tie for 31st to a tie for 41st. Troy Merritt also had his difficulities as he shot an eight-over par to tumble from a tie in fourth place to a tie in 15th with a 219 total, 10 strokes behind the leader. Matt Horel also carded a 78 and imporved form a tie in 77th to a tie in 73rd. Chad Bischoff posted an 82 for a three-day total of 239 and fell from a tie at 84th to a tie at 89th.

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    Boehner on college loan critics: "Hollow stunt"

    WASHINGTON, May 17, 2006 -- The House majority leader, John Boehner, R-Ohio, has downplayed a march on his office by two dozen college graduates as a lame stunt. A Boehner spokesperson said the sponsor, Campaign for America's Future, was a liberal advocacy group acting on a false premise that Republicans don't favor quality education. The students, donned in caps and gowns, were not addressing quality, however, but cuts in the federal student-loan programs that Boehner supported. The graduates delivered a petition with 15,000 signatures urging Boehner to change his position and to support a Democratic plan to cut the interest rates on college loans in half. The Boehner spokesperson called the demonstration "a hollow political stunt."

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    NCAA Division II National (second day): WSU 595 (10th)

    Warriors advance to 10th in national golf meet

    DANIELS, W.Va., May 17, 2006 -- -- Winona State University shot one stroke better and moved up one place to 10th by the completion of the second day to the 2006 NCAA Division II national men's golf championships. The Warriors turned 297 for the second day. Sophomore Troy Merritt turned in one of the top rounds of the day as he shot a two-under par 68 to move from a tie in 23rd to a tie for fourth place, two strokes out of third and four strokes off the lead. Merritt's 68 was one of only three rounds under 70 and the second best of the day. Bret Toftness also made a move with a one-over par 71 to move up from a tie for 23rd to a tie for 31st. For the rest of the Warriors, Kevin Loeffler faultered with a nine-over par 79, Matt Horel struggled to an 11-over par 81 and Chad Bischoff recorded a nine-over par 79.

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    New WSU academic chief starts Aug. 1

    WINONA, Minn., May 16, 2006 -- The new academic vice president at Winona State University, Sally Johnstone, will join the payroll Aug. 1, university President Judith Ramaley confirmed. The office will continue to be occupied in the interim by former business Dean Ken Gorman, who has held the position on an acting basuis since September. Johnstone has been with the Colorado-based Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education, where she served 17 years as director of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications. As academic vice president at Winona State her salary will be $140,000.

    Background: New WSU chief academic officer named

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    College-entrance exams firms face new pressure

    ALBANY, May 16, 2006 -- A powerful state senator, Ken LaValle, called for legislation requiring college admissions testing comopanies to disclose all questions and answers after the exams without charge. LaValle, a Long Island Republican, criticized recent mistakes in correcting SAT exams.

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    WSU sends four to NCAA track nationals

    WINONA, Minn., May 16, 2006 -- Four Winona State University athletes, including senior hurdler Deidra Faber, have been chosen to compete in the NCAA Division II women's outdoor track and field championships May 25-27 in Emporia, Kan. Faber will be making a return trip in the 400-meter intermedite hurdles. Faber earned all-American status in the event by placing fourth in last year. Also heading to Emporia is junior Bria Magnuson in the pole vault and juniors Emily King and Nicole Lonning in the hammer throw. King advanced to the indoor nationals this season and became an all-American when she placed second in the 20-pound weight throw event. Faber has the 16th best time (1:01.66) out of a field of 18 in the 400 hurdles. Magnuson is tied with the sixth best height (12-5 1/2) in the field of 17 in the pole vault. There is a field of 16 in the hammer throw. King's throw of 175-5 3/4 is the seventh best. Lonning ranks 15th with a throw of 166-11 3/4.

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    Committee adds to Colorado prof's woes

    BOULDER, Colo., May 16, 2006 -- An investigative committee at the University of Colorado has concluded that controversial prof Ward Churchill plagiarized, falsified and fabricated material in his research. The committee's report, which runs 125 pages, faults Churchill for "recurrent refusal to take responsibility for errors." The five-member committee was unanimous that the misconduct it alleged was serious, but only one panel member recomended firing. Others cautioned that dismissal could adversely affect academic freedom in general. Churchill's woes began with talk-show criticism of his observation that the 9/11 World Trade Center attack took out a lot of "little Eichmans," a reference to a Hitler aide that touched a nerve. After a wave of talk-show attacks on Chruchill, critics began to look at Churchill as a scholar, including his claim to be of American Indian descent, and the quiality of research that supported his writing.

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    Churchill called the new report "a travesty." Although the committee had two faculty members from elsewhere, Arizona State and Texas at Austin, Churchill charged that the committee was dominated by "CU insiders." Said Churchill: "The entire procedure appears to be little more than a carefully orchestrated effort to cast an aura of legitimacy over an entirely illegitimate set of predetermined outcomes."

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    The committee said that Churchill misrepresentated federal laws regarding American Indians and fabricated material regarding an 1837 smallpox epidemic. The report listed instances of plagiarism.


    Ward Churchill

    WARD
    CHURCHILL

    Tenured ethnic studies prof


    Background: New Colorado charges against Ward Churchill

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    NCAA Division II National (first day): California State-Bakersfield , Florida Southern,Columbus State , South Carolina-Aiken 288 (1st) (tie), Pfeiffer 293 (5th), California State-Stanislaus, Lynn (6th) 294 (tie), St. Mary's of Texas, Cameron 296 (8th) (tie), California State-San Bernandino 296 (10th), WSU 298 (11th), Coker 300 (12th), North Alabama 305 (13th), Saginaw Valley 306 (14th), St. Martin's 310 (15th), Barton, Grand Canyon (16th) (tie), St. Cloud State (18th), Concord (19th), Goldey-Beacom (20th).

    Warriors 11th in national men's golf tournament

    DANIELS, W.Va., May 16, 2006 -- Winona State University stood in 11th place after the first day of the NCAA Division II men's golf championship at the Resort at Glade Springs. The Warriors toured the course in 298 strokes, 18-over par. and 13 strokes off the lead. WSU's Kevin Loeffler and Troy Merritt each carded three-over par rounds of 73 to be in a tie for 23rd. Matt Horel was two strokes further back in a tie for 50th. Bret Toftness shot a 77 and was tied for 64th. Chad Bischoff came in with a 78 and was tied for 71st. Three more rounds remain.

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    Sprint cuts last Winona phone operators

    WINONA, Minn., May 16, 2006 -- The Sprint long-distance telephone call center in Winona, once with 230 employees, many of them college students who liked the relatively high wages, is being eliminated. The last 28 employees will leave in June, according Sprint Nextel, Sprint's successor company. A new sales division without 100 employees is being put together at the Sprint building at Third and Johnson, a spokesperson said.

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    Northwestern investigates "bad jocks" photos

    EVANSTON, Ill., May 16, 2006 -- Northwestern University suspended its women's soccer team after a photograph appeared on the web that looked like hazing. Meanwile, the university is investigating. In the photos, soccer players are disrobed to their underwear and blindfolded with their hands bound behind their backs. Two images show athletes performing lap dances for the men's soccer team, according to captions. At least two women appear to be kissing. The photos appeared on the Web site Bad Jocks. The Chicago newspaper the Sun-Times quopted one team member that no one was forced to do anything against her will. The player, who asked not to be named, said everyone was "just having fun."
    Northwestern bad jocks

    "JUST HAVING FUN"
    The site Bad Jocks says its photo record of the Northwestern women's soccer team affair includes 46 images.


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    An end to dorm telephones?

    WASHINGTON, May 16, 2006 -- Colleges may yank telephones out of dorm rooms if the Federal Communications Commission switches to a flat rate for every phone line, according to a coalition that opposes the change. The Keep USF Fair Coalition issued a report, "Flunking Numbers," which argues that colleges would see its Universal Service Fee skyrocket 10-fold on average. The proposed flat rate would be $1 or $1.50 for every phone line and web access point. The current system charges by long-distance call, not by phone line. The coalition says eliminating dorm-room phones would disadvantage students without cell phones.

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    WINONA MEDIA WATCH

    A DIRTY DISH RAG, ANYONE?

    Your newspaper looking like a dirty dish rag? It's not your eyes. The Winona Daily News, like many other U.S. newspapers, has switched to cheaper newsprint that's grayish, with less heft and, well, generally unpleasant. It's partly a question of weight. The average grams per square meter of newsprint has dropped from 48.04 in 2000 nationwide to 47.12. Some newsoprint is down to 45 grams. Photos are mushier. Type stands out less. No redesign can offset the new grubby limpness.

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    The Winonan and Bravura, student publications at Winona State University, are suffering too. They come off the same press as the Daily News with the same el-cheapo paper.

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    Why cheaper paper? Desperate to maintain profit margins of 20 to 30 percent amid continuing circulation and advertising declines, the giant newspaper chains have gone into cost-cutting with unprecedented fervor. This includes Iowa-based Lee Enterprises, owner of the Daily News, which buys newsprint in bulk for all its properties. All Lee papers feel like they're disintegrating at your touch.

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    At least superficially there is a contradiction in corporate-directed cost-cutting for the Daily News. After years of declines, the newspaper's circulation has leveled off. For the six-month period ending in March, the Daily News reported to auditors that circulation averaged 11,348 weekdays, up 0.9 percent; 11,896 Saturdays, up 0.8 percent; and 12,429 Sundays, up 0.3 percent. This is against a background of a 2.6 percent decline in newspaper circulation nationwide. The corporate bean-counters at Lee Enterprises' far-away headquarters, however, obsess on shareholder satisfaction -- not that Winona readers feel gipped when they turn pages that wilt. Anything to swell profits.

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    Those bean-counters must be all smiles at the Daily News website, however. Whiteness on the web comes cheap with bgcolor=#fffff html coding. The Daily News claims the number of web visitors averaged 9,424 per day in April, up 46 percent from a year earlier.

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    IRS revokes credit agencies tax-exemption

    WASHINTON, May 16, 2006 -- The Internal Revenue Service revoked the tax-exempt status of 41 nonprofit credit-counseling agencies that borrowers, including college students and grads with college loans, go to for help to get out of debt. The IRS said an audit found the agencies either were not providing enough financial education to their clients, were compensating their chief executives too highly, or were channeling too much revenue into sibling for-profit entities. The 41 agencies account for some $410 million of the $1 billion the credit-counseling industry, according to the IRS. Federal revenue Commissioner Mark Everson said: "These organizations have not been operating for the public good and donŐt deserve tax-exempt status. They have poisoned an entire sector of the charitable community."

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    La Crosse arts fund-raiser to bardfest job

    WINONA, Minn., May 16, 2006 -- A volunteer fund-raiser for the La Crosse, Wis., Symphony Orchestra, Jeff Severson, has been named interim general manager for the Great River Shakespeare Festival at Winona State University. Severson begins next week -- six weeks ahead of the launch of the Winona festival's third season. The appointment was announced by Gary Evans, the festival's board chairman. Severson is a former vice president at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse. He succeeds festival founder Mark Hauck, who resigned last week.

    Background: Shakespearefest pioneer Mark Hauk leaves




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    WSU nursing student examines role of union

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- A Winona State University nursing grad student Jennifer Pittman, presented her research, "Registered Nurse Job Satisfaction and Collective Bargaining Unit Membership Status" at the Research Forum.

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    AAUP faults prof's dismissal in religion spat

    WWASHINGTON, May 16, 2006 -- The American Association of University Professors reported that Greenville College, a church school in Illinois, demonstrated "an unacceptably low toleration for dissent" in dismissing a tenured computer professor. The prof, Gerald Eichhoefer, who also is a lay minister, had accused profs in the religion department of encouraging students to lose their Christian faith. The AAUP said the college's explanatiion that financial problems led to the dismissal were tranparently false. The AAUP also said that criticism of Eichhoefer's teaching were cooked up. Meanwhile, Eichhoefer and the colgee have reached a settlement. Greenville College is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church.

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    WSU nursing grads write on competency outcomes

    WINONA, Minn., May 16, 2006 -- Two Winona State University nursing grad alums, Beth Sievers and Sherry Wolf, wrote an article, "Achieving Clinical Nurse Specialist Competencies and Outcomes Through Interdisciplinary Education" in the journal Clinical Nurse Specialist.

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    Nudity's power: UCal tackles sweatshop sourcing

    BERKELEY, Calif., May 16, 2006 -- The University of California will begin working to identify logo apparel coming from overseas sweatshops. President Robert Dynes announced. Suppliers will be required to buy at least 25 percent of logo apparel from factories that pay a living wage and respect employee unions, Dynes said. The program could be expanded if it indeed improves foreign working conditions, he said. Dynes' decision follows several protests, including at least three in the nude, at Berkeley and other campuses. In April, 18 students were arrested at a sit-in at the office of the Berkeley chancellor.

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    Editorial: Winona's summer quiet has downside

    WINONA, Minn., May 16, 2006 -- Summer quiet has arrived in Winona, but with the college students largely gone it'll be lonely, bemoaned a Daily News editorial. Chief editorialist Jerome Christenson, writing for the newspaper's management, said:

    "Something -- or somebody -- seems to be missing. There was plenty of room in the pew at church. The crowd at your favorite restaurant is smaller and older, and "Help Wanted" signs are sprouting in display windows all around town. We suddenly have plenty of places to park, but thereŐs an unusual amount of living room furniture "free to a good home" set on the curbside. The colleges have held their spring commencements. For the most part, the students are gone.

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    "For a few days, we townies will luxuriate in shortened checkout lines, quiet nights and a shorter line of cars backed up at Huff and Sarnia, but fortunately for all of us -- before long -- they'll be back. Bringing their wallets, checkbooks and Social Security cards along with them. Because, frankly, without Saint MaryŐs, Winona State, and Southeast Technical, Winona wouldn't be much of a town."


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    Christenson made the point that Winona relies on the colleges for thousands of employees, many aprt-time, to staff local businesses Also, he noted, college payrolls have 1,000 well-paid people, many of whom would likely be living and spending somewhere else if Winona weren't college town. He credited the colleges too for Winona's high concentration of educated people. Twenty-five percent of the populatuion has at least a bachelor's degree, he said.

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    "So, while we enjoy a few quiet nights, convenient parking and fast moving checkout lines, we should be grateful that the lull is only temporary. They will be back. Thank goodness for that."


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    Prof walks out on Hampton j-program

    HAMPTON, Va., May 16, 2006 -- The retired Washington bureu chief of Time magazine, Jack White, resigned from the faculty at Hampton University because the dean, he said, has a "repressive attitude" toward freedom of speech. "The atmosphere in Hampton is in contradiction to the goals of a journalism program," White said. Incidents at the primarily black college include administrators confiscating copies of the student newspaper after editors ran a letter by the provost on Page Three rather than on Page One, as she had requested. In another incident a student was threatened with explusion for fliers about the Bush administration, genocide in Sudan, AIDS awareness and homophobia. The Hampton School of Journalism and Mass Communications was founded in 2002 with $10 million from the Scripps Howard newspaper chain foundation. Said White: "I don't believe that Hampton thought through what it means to have a journalism school on its campus."

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    Code violations found in UConn construction

    STORRS, Conn., May 16, 2006 -- Construction inspectors have found dozens more code violations in new buildings at the University of Connecitcut, according to the newspaper the Hartford Courant. The newspaper said problems include fire hazards and centilation problems that allow a build-up of deadly carbon-monoxide fumes. The Courant said that code violations were found in 37 buildings erected in a $2.3 billion construction program begun nine years ago. According to the newspaper, the inspectors have found multiple code violations in every building. The inspections were ordered by the Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican, after other deficiencies were identified earlier. Nine more buildings remain to be inspected. Problems include too little space for water heaters in dorms. One water heater caused a fire in September. Carbon-monoxide fumes were found in a dorm basement. Twenty-eight violations were found in oceanography building, 38 in an agricultural biotech building.

    Background: Construction, spending flaws plague UConn

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    Pelowski: Rochester would sap other colleges

    WINONA, Minn., May 16, 2006 -- The existing Minnesotapublic universities and colleges will be sapped even this coming year by Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposal for a new university in Rochester, State Rep. Gene Pelowski said. For first-year startup costs for Rochester, the higher-ed budget has been stripped of all other spending. This means that the MnSCU system, which includes all the colleges except the University of Minnesota, has been forced to cannibalize internal budgets to fund technology needed to meet an explosive demand for online learning, said Pelowski, D-Winona. The MnSCU system, which had requested $15 million from the Legislature for technology upgrades, now is instead taking $6 million from its budget and charging back another $6 million to individual campuses -- all because the Rochester project has squeezed out all other higher-ed appropriations.

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    Pelowski said the MnSCU chargeback means campuses will have to cut their budgets. He gave this breakdown for southern Minnesota:

  • Minnesota State-Mankato, $623,000
  • Winona State, $350,000
  • Rochester Community and Technical, $179,000
  • South Central, $121,000
  • Minnesota West Community and Technical, $115,000
  • Riverland Community, $113,000
  • Southeast Tech, $73,000


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    Diverting funds to the Rochester project will have a negative effect on existing coleges for eyars to come. Earlier he has noted the proposed Rochester campus has been projected by supporters to haved a $44,000 per student cost to opperate -- roughly triple existing colleges. Pelowski also has argued that as much as the Rochester community may want a state university bearing the city's name,there has been no demonstrated need for a curriculum that now is not being offered in Rochester by Wnona State, the community college and other colleges with operations in the city.


    Gene Pelowski

    GENE
    PELOWSKI

    Rochester self-absorption would pinch other campuses financially


    Background: Comment: Rochester's great budget heist

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    ROCHESTER'S
    GREAT BUDGET HEIST

    BY GENE PELOWSKI
    State Representative, District 31-A


    When the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system submitted its 2006 budget request to the Legislature, it certainly believed that some of their budget request would be funded. Instead, MnSCU's requests were totally ignored in the supplemental budget that was passed last week. A meager $5 million makes up the higher education funding package this session -- all of it designated for the expansion of the University of Minnesota in Rochester.

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    The expansion of UM-Rochester is touted as good for the entire state and promoted as having no ill-effect on schools in close proximity. Yet what is the effect of this diversion of funding away from existing schools, especially those located in southern Minnesota?

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    Let's consider just the information technology budget, the largest portion of MnSCUŐs overall request. In response to the recommendation from a consultant to invest more in IT, MnSCU requested one-time funding of $15 million. Even though this request was denied, MnSCU recognized its importance and was left with the dilemma of not providing these critical services to its campuses or coming up with the money from somewhere else. They made the decision to move forward by taking $6 million from the MnSCU central budget and charging back another $6 million to individual campuses across the state in order to fund IT.

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    Basically, this will be felt at the campus level as a cut all along I-90. For example, Winona State will have to take more than $350,000 out of its operating budget to finance IT; Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical will be short by almost $73,000. The existing Rochester Community and Technical College will take a $179,000 hit.

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    The operating budget of the two South Central College campuses will be short by $121,000 and Minnesota State University, Mankato, will see a decline in its budget of almost $623,000, diverted instead to IT. Minnesota West Community and Technical College, with campuses in Jackson, Pipestone and Worthington, will see its operating budget cut by $115,000; Riverland Community College in Austin and Albert Lea will be short by more than $113,000.

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    It's difficult to fault MnSCU for this funding shift. Growth in online learning has exploded Ń with more than 30,000 students taking online courses each year. Security of information is also a concern, leading MnSCU to recognize that the need for a stable and secure technology infrastructure is critical.

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    Which makes the total lack of funding from the state even more contentious. If the state Legislature had funded even a portion of MnSCUŐs IT request, these drastic cuts in campus funding would not be necessary. The question begs to be asked: At whose expense are we funding a new university in Rochester? Clearly, it is at the expense of college students at every campus in the state.

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    Pelowski, of Winona, is the lead Democrat on the House Higher Education Finance Committee. He also serves on the Capital Investment and Education Policy and Reform committees.


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    California moves to shield college press

    SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 16, 2006 -- The California House voted 76-0 to strictly limit the ability of college administrators to censor student-run newspapers. The bill's main author, Assemblyman Leland Yee, a Democrat, predicted the State Senate would also approve the protection for student journalists. Lee said the bill is in response to a federal appeals court decision in Hosty v. Carter, an Illinois case, that opens the way for censorship at campuses in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Lee said the California law would address the concerns raised by the Hosty case by enhancing the free-speech rights for students under the First Amendment and also proscribing campus administrators from interferring with college-funded student publications. College newspapers' facuilty advisers and editors had requested the legislation, he said. Alarm over the Hosty decision among college newsapper advisers and editors was heightened in June when Christine Helwick, the general counsel for the California State University System, advised campus presidents that the Histy decision may give them more latitude "to censor the content of subsidized student newspapers."

    Background: Student press adviser foresees rocky road
    Background: Supreme Court passes on student media case

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    SMU trustees put off football decision

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- The possibility of resurrecting varsity football at St. Mary's remaine on the table, the chair of the university's trustees confirmed. Rob Figliulo said the issue was discussed last week by trustees, who considered a 15-month feasibility study by the university staff. Figliulo acknowledged interest in reinstating football, including by university recruiters, but, he said, more study is needed on fiscal implications. Among unanswered questions: Where would games be played. The university has no stadium. The issue, Figiulo said, will be on the trustees' agenda Sept. 29. For budget reasons St. Mary's discontinued football in 1955.

    Background: SMU football again? Being discussed
    Background: Fan: SMU football? Don't be silly

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    New Jersey governor cracks ethics whip

    NEWARK, N.J., May 15. 2006 -- After investigators concluded that members of the governing board of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey were doing business with the school, Gov. Jon Corzine ordered all state colleges to list all their vendors for public review. Under the Corsine order, every trustee of a state college will need to certify not to be doing business with the college. At the University of Medicine and Dentistry, millions of dollars in no-bid contracts went to politically connected individuals and companies. Corzine, a Democrat, has removed the president of the university and replaced the chairman of its governing board.

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    WSU team reports on interdisciplinary prep

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- A resarchr eport on clinic nursing was presented by a Winona State University team at the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Salt Lake City. The report, "Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Education: The Role of CNS Students," was delivered by prof Julie Ponto and students Beth Sievers and Sherry Wolf.

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    Third Duke lacrosse player indicted for rape

    DURHAM, N.C., May 15, 2005 -- A third lacrosse player at Duke University was indicted on charges of raping a North Carolina Central University student at a team party in March. David F. Evans, a team captain, was accused of rape, first-degree sexual assault, and kidnapping. Two teammates were indicted earlier. Evans called the charges "fantastic lies." He has been released on $400,000 bail. Attorneys for the players claim that two rounds of DNA testing have found no conclusive with any team member.

    Background: Report faults Duke for lacrosse team excesses

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    WSU hurlder named league athlete of year

    WAYNE, Neb., May 15, 2006 -- Winona State University hurdler Deidra Faber has been Northern Sun conference outdoor track and field female athlete of the year. Faber helped Winona State to a second-place finish in the conference championships by winning the heptathlon, 400-meter intermediate hurdles and 800-meter run and also anchoring the winning 4 x 400 relay and 4 x 800 relay teams. The Warriors made it a clean sweep of the relay events by winning the 4 x 100 event. Samantha Lisowski won the 100-meter dash. Nicole Lonning won the hammer throw competition. All individual winners and runnersup and the members of the winning relay teams were named All-Conference. Third-place finishers received All-Conference honorable mention. Winona State's all-conference members:

  • Kathryn McElroy: 4 x 800 relay
  • Adi Luedtke: 4 x 400 relay, 4 x 800 relay
  • Theresa Pawelko: 4 x 800 relay
  • Deidra Faber: 400-meter hurdles, 800-meter run, 4 x 400 relay, 4 x 800 relay, high jump
  • Gretchen Harty: Long jump, triple jump, 4 x 100 relay
  • Bria Magnuson: Pole vault
  • Nicole Lonning: Hammer throw
  • Marissa Girolamo: Hammer throw (HM)
  • Nicci Johnson: 4 x 400 relay, 200-meter dash (HM), 400-meter dash (HM)
  • Samantha Lisowski: 100-meter dash, 4 x 100 relay
  • Liz Bauman: Discus (HM)
  • Brittany Reinbolt: 4 x 100 relay
  • Nikki Olson: 4 x 100 relay
  • Lisa Meyer: 4 x 400 relay


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    College applications increasing nationwide

    WASHINGTON, May 15, 2006 -- Most colleges, 73 percent, experienced an increase in applications for this fall, accoridng to the National Association for College Admission Counseling. The association attributed the increase to a surge high-school grads this spring. Also, the association said, more students are to several colleges. The association said the numbers sugegst that students who applied late and are on waiting lists run a higher risk than usual of not being admitted.

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    Factoids from the National Association for College Admission Counseling:

  • Colleges average $442 to recruit each applicant.
  • Counselors at public high schools spend about 25 percent of their time on college counseling, at private high schools 58 percent.
  • Women submit 55 percent of all college applications
  • The ratio of applications to admissions officers is 683 to 1 at public institutions, 279 to 1 at privates.
  • Top factors in admissions: first, grades in college-prep courses; second, standardized test scores; third, high-school grade-point average; fourth, class rank; fifth, application essays; sixth teacher recommendations.


  • Background: WSU ups standards for late frosh applicants

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    WSU students make nursing reports

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- Two Winona State University nursing students, Kevin Elker and Mark Outzen, preesented a paper, "Pressure Ulcer Prevention: Do Nurses Learn?" at Franciscan Skemp Health System Research Day. Other Winona State presentgers:
  • Erin Anderson, Denise Rollmann and Rebekah Zinnecker, "Function,Quality of Life, and Health Perception Among Religious Sisters"
  • Connie Schuh, "Lymphedema Patient Education--How Valuable Is It?"


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    New WSU chief academic officer named

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- The executive director of a multi-state college telecommunication association, Sally Johnstone, has been appointed to the second most important position at Winona State University -- academic vice president. University President Judith Ramaley announced the appointment. Johnstone has been with the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education since 1989. She founded the commission's Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications to foster higher-ed technology. At Winona State, Johnstone succeeds Steve Richardson, who resigned in September to give Ramaley, new as president, a clear shot at assembling her own administrative team.

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    As executive director of Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, Johnstone has been a resource for state governing boards, legislators, governors and college administrators on integrating technology into teaching and learning. Johnstone has served as a contributing editor for Change magazine. She is on the editorial board of the journal Open Learning. Johnstone has served on the boards of American Association of Higher Education and the U.S. Open University. She has written broadly on distance and distributed learning, leads workshops, and gives about a dozen invited addresses a year to higher-ed organizations.


    Sally Johnstone

    SALLY
    JOHNSTONE

    From Boulder, Colo.-based college telcom organization


    Background: WSU narrows academic chief search to three
    Background: Johnstone's curriculum vita

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    New WSU exec started career at Maryland

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- This biogaphy has been extracted from information providced by Sally Johnstone, the incoming academic vice president at Winona State University, when she applied for the position:

    SALLY JOHNSTONE
    BIOGRAPHY


    Sally Johnstone began her academic career in 1982 as an instructor for the University of Maryland University College, European Division. In 1986, she was named assistant den for undergraduate Faculty, University of Maryland University College, College Park, where she served for two years. She was then promoted to director of the Center for Instructional Telecommunications at College Park.

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    In 1989, Johnstone was chosen by the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education to serve as the founding director of the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications an organization to advance commission's efforts to use of technology in higher education effectively. Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications is a self-supporting unit of the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education in Boulder, Colo.

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    As executive director, Johnstone is a national resource for state governing boards, legislators, governors as well as college and university administrators on higher education technology issues. The Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education's 245 members are located in 43 U.S. states and seven countries. Members are primarily public colleges and universities but also include private institutions, government agencies and corporations. The the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education staff develop research projects focusing on the integration of technology into the teaching and learning processes, consult with higher education institutions, hold professional development institutes for practitioners, publish reports and generally support their members in the planning for and implementation of e-learning. Johnstone's special areas of expertise include the effects of the integration of technology on higher education institutions and system organizations; collaborations; quality assurance issues; project development and evaluation; international projects; and generally supporting the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education members in the planning for and implementing of e-learning. Through the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education, Johnstone has assisted multiple campuses, state systems, policy-makers, faculty, and students to reach their self-defined goals.

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    Johnstone served as a contributing editor for Change magazine and is on the editorial board for the journal Open Learning. Johnstone has served on the boards of American Association of Higher Education and the U.S. Open University. She has authored dozens of publications on distance and distributed learning, leads workshops, and gives about a dozen invited addresses each year to higher education organizations.


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    WSU nursing students report on research

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- A team of Winona State University students presented session at the Midwest Nursing Research Society Research Conference in Milwaukee:

  • Nurgul Dubanaeva, "Evaluation of the Outcomes for the Child Advocacy Studies Program"
  • Kristi Theede, "Genetic Education in Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum"
  • Erika Beetcher and Erika Halverson, "Minnesota Nurses' Perception of Nursing Diagnoses"
  • Madeleine Miller and Holly Wright, "Braden Scale and Nursing Documentation: A Secondary Analysis."


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    Judge: Cop dorm patrols unconstitutional

    PULLMAN, Wash., May 15, 2006 -- A judge ruled that campus police cannot walk through Washington State University dorms listening for parties or sniffing for marijuana. County Court Judge David Frazier said that police patrols violate student privacy. The county plans to appeal. The patrols became an issue after a student was arrested in a friend's dorm room. A campus cop had smelled marijuana from the hallway, obtained a search warrant, and gained access to the room. The cops had brought a drug-sniffing dog that found cocaine in the woman's purse. The student argued that the cop's presence in the dorm violated the Fourth Amendment and the evidence should be suppressed. Judge Frazier agreed.

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    ELECTION 2006

    Breza to seek new City Council term

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- Veteran City Council member, Tim Breza, whose constituency as an at-large member is the entire city, announced his candidacy for a sixth term. No one else has announced for the position. The deadline for filing candidacy papers is July 5. Breza made his announcement at a Council meeting. To voters, Breza said, he would emphasize his experience. The city needs to continue working to help local companies compete in a global economy, he said. Breza also said more efficiency needs to be sought in offering municipal services.

    Background: Races campus people are watching

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    AAUP gigs Highlands for dismissing prof

    WASHINGTON, May 15, 2006 -- The American Association of University Professors said that a prof at New Mexico Highlands University was wrongfully fired after criticizing the adminsitration. The dismissal of tenured math prof Gregg Turner violated the AAUP's principles on academic freedom and tenure, the association said. The AAUP also concluded that a separate tenure denial had violated the associationŐs procedural standards. Top administrators at Highlands had acted "in disregard of the principles of shared governance," the AAUP said. Such findings can lead to an institution going on the dreadded AAUP censure list.

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    The Turner case is among numerous issues at Highlands, located in Las Vegas, N.M., since Manny Aragon, a powerful state legislator, was named president in 2004. Non-Hispanic profs have claimed discrimination under Aragon.

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    FREE INQUIRY / FREE EXPRESSION

    Horowitz dismisses attack on book: "Stupid"

    CHICAGO, Ill., May 15, 2006 -- Conservative crusader David Horowitz, whose book "The Professors" argues that colleges lean left politically and indoctrinate students, responded to a report that's critical of his book. "Stupid," he called the report. Horowitz said the source of the criticism must be considered. It's a leftist civil liberties coalition that includes faculty union activitists, he said. "It's a political campaign," he said. "It's really inappropriate for an academic discussion." About the report's charge of factual errors, Horowitz responded that any 400-page book inevitably has errors.

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    The recently published book, whose subtitle is "The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America," draws largely on interviews with the academics. Horowiotz argues that profs promulgate leftist views on students rather than promote the free exchange of ideas. His ideas are the core of laws that have been proposed in 20 states to require colleges to take steps to assure that counter ideas be offered. The proposals, going under the title of the Academic Bill of Rights, have prompted fiery legislative hearings, notably in Pennsylvania, and stirred a largely negative reaction, as Horowirtz would predict, on campuses.

    Background: Civil liberties group assauls Horowitz book
    Background: Comment: WSU conservatives not in closet

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    COMMENT
    INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY

    CAMPUS CONSERVATIVES
    NOT IN HIDING

    Lots of nonsense gets said about colleges as hotbeds of liberalism where innocent and open-minded frosh have their values perverted by devilishly leftist profs. It just isn't so. Ask any Winona State University senior if there was a political slant back in basic algebra. Or frosh composition. Or bowling. Most classes don't come close to lending themselves to a political perspective.

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    What about classes that almost have to be taught from a perspective? It's not as if Winona State students aren't exposed to a diversity. Leftists and rightists both abound. For years econ prof Don Salyards has required students in his mega-section introductory course to read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." She was Ronald Reagan's favorite author, if that tells you anything about Salyards' righter than right politics. In masscom, right-winger John Weis teaches the university's biggest class, 450 students, mostly frosh, every semester.

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    Political conservatives are everywhere -- Paul Grawe in English, Barry Peratt in math, Linda Seppanen in nursing. Liberals are everywhere too. Such diversity is what a university should be about. It's not about brain-washing frosh, who aren't the blank slates they sometimes are made out to be. It's about the pursuit of information, knowledge and eventually wisdom through exploration of all the ideas from all the premises and perspectives that a university can marshal.

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    At Winona State the intellectual cauldron is in a healthy boil, although not in frosh math, frosh comp or bowling and the great majority of courses where politics just isn't a neat fit.


    Background: Study on academe as leftist challenged
    Background: Study: Rightists need not apply
    Background: Critcs fault "Dan gerous Profs" book


    YOUR COMMENTARY TOO IS INVITED
    TRY TO STAY WITHIN 300 WORDS


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    Shakespearefest pioneer Mark Hauk leaves

    WINONA, Minn., May 15, 2006 -- The promoter who got the Great River Shakespeare Festival started in Winona, Mark Hauck, resigned for a theater job in the Twin Cities. Hauck had served as day-to-day operations manager for the first two seasons. He set up the third season that starts at the end of June. The directors of this season's "Twelfth Night" and "Romeo and Juliet," Alec Wild and Paul Barnes, credit Hauge with leaving the organization in good shape. A search is under way for an interim successor. Meanwhile, the company for this summer's productions is arriving at the East Lake apartment dorms at Winona State University next week for the season. The plays will be at the Performing Arts Center at Winona State.

    Background: Season extended to six weeks




    "ROMEO AND JULIET"

    "TWELFTH NIGHT"


    June 30-Aug. 6


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    R.I.P.: Florence M. (Honsey) Ronnenberg

    WINONA, Minn, May 14, 2006 -- A Winona State College grad, Florence Ronnenberg, 96, died at a nursing home.She taught in rural Houston and Winona county schools, retiring from the Pickwick grade school in 1974. She later substituted in Winona schools.

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    R.I.P.: L. Dolores (Pesch) Evens

    LEWISTON, Minn., May 14, 2006 -- A Winona State college grad, Dolores Evens, died at a nursing home at age 89. She taught at the Washington-Kosciusko grade school in Winona. Earlier she taught at the suburban Minnesota City grade school.

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    WSU grad publishes nursing article

    WINONA, Minn., May 14, 2006 -- A Winona State University nursing grad, Kara Mangold, wrote an article, "Educating A New Generation: Teaching Baby Boomer Faculty About Millennial Students," in the journal Nurse Educator.

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    Florida OKs extra dollars for first-generation collegians

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 14, 2006 --- The Florida Legislature approved $6.5 million for extra financial aid for in-state students who are the first in their family to attend college. The state's colleges will need to match the state funds from private donations.

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    WSU eating disorder events start slow

    WINONA, Minn., May 14, 2006 -- A Winona State University counselor, Lynda Brzezinski, hopes for more student participation in National Eating Disorder Awareness Week next year. In March she organized meetings for students to come together to feel "comfortable in their genes." Six showed up the first day for screening. "Many students do not want to come to the screening because the students are ashamed and afraid to talk about it with people," said Brzezinski. The screening was designed to encourage students to talk about their disorders so counselors couild classify how intense their situations were and help them from there. For mild cases, Brzezinski advised students to set goals and eat healthy foods -- instead of not eating. For severe cases, Brzezinski recommended help from a medical group, group counseling, or the hospital. The week of campus activities included videos, discussions and also, activities in the courtyard.

    Reporter: Ashley Schultz

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    COURT CONVICTIONS
    WEEK ENDING MAY 13, 2006
    IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT


    UNDERAGE CONSUMPTION
    Elisha Brooke Feehan, 19, 4735 W. Fifth, $177.
    Jack Thomas McCoy, 19, Rochester, Minn/. $177.
    Ashley Sue House, 19, 11 Superior Lane, $177.

    ALL BOOZING CONVICTIONS
    ALL NOISY PARTY CONVICTIONS


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    TRACK AND FIELD

    Northern Sun Championship: MSU-Moorhead 181 (1st), WSU 171 (2nd), Wayne State 150 (3rd), Northern State 73 (4th), Bemidji State 64 (5th), Concordia of St. Paul 43 (6th)

    Warriors second in league meet

    WAYNE, Neb., May 13, 2006 -- Winona State University won five events on the second day of the Northern Sun conference field and track championships and placed second in the final team standings. Senior all-American Deidra Faber led the Warrior effort by winning both the 800-meter run and the 400-meter hurdle events and anchoring the winning 4 x 400 relay team that set a Warrior record in 4:01.76. Faber won the 800 in 2:22.21 and the 400 hurdles in 1:02.94. The Warriors picked up a first place from Samantha Lisowski who turned in a time of :12.38 seconds in the 100-meter dash and ran the anchor leg in WSU's winning 4 x 100 relay team (:48.98). vAdding to the Warrior efforts was:

  • Gretchen Harty in triple jump (38-1 1/2), second.
  • Nicci Johnson in 200-meter dash (:26.02), third, and in 400-meter dash (1:00.63), third.
  • Liz Bauman in discus (140-3), third.


  • Statistics: Results and standings

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    SMU twin ceremonies graduate 789

    WINONA, Minn., May 13, 2006 -- St. Mary's University graduated 225 undergrads from the Winona campus in a morning commencement ceremony. In an afternoon ceremony, the names of an additional 564 students in professional and graduate programs, most from the university's Twin Cities operation, were graduated.

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    WSU SECURITY REPORT
    WEEK ENDING MAY 13, 2006

    May 11, 2006: Security guards responded to a trouble alarm at the Lourdes dorm at 1:"09 a.m. It was a false alarm.

    May 11, 2006: Security responded to a fire alarm at the Lourdes dorm at 0:50 a.m. It was a false alse alarm.

    May 1, 2006: At 5:14 p.m. security guards responded to the Smaug, where a student was feeling faint. An ambulance took the student to the hospital.




    WSU places two on ESPN softball team

    WINONA, Minn., May 12, 2006 -- Winona State University placed two players, Jenny Dobbertin and Kristen Fossell, on the ESPN magazine all-District V softball team. Jenny Dobbertin, a senior first-base player, made second team. Fossell, a sophomore pitcher, made the third team. The Warriors completed their season with a 41-15 record. Dobbertin batted .339 (42-124) with 26 scoring runs, eight doubles, two triples, five home runs and 34 runs batted in. She finished with a .556 slugging percentage, .370 on base percentage and finished off the year by not committing an error in 261 total chances. Fossell finished the year with a 12-4 record and 2.01 earned run average. She hurled one no-hitter in her 27 appearances and led the team with 123 strikeouts in 111.1 innings of work. Opponents earned only 36 walks and a .205 batting average.

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    NCAA gigs St. John's on player payments

    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 12, 2006 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association has placed St. John's University of New York on probation after an investigation concluded that former basketball director Alex Evans issued cash regularly to a player. Although the player, Abraham Keita from Ivory Coast, did not qualify for a scholarship Evans gave him $2,400 toward his freshman tuition, investigators said. The next year, according to investigators, Evans helped negotiate a $500 monthly deduction from his off-campus room-and-board stipend to pay overdue tuition. Evans also gave monthly payments to Keita of as much as $300, much of his own money but some from a petty-cash athletics fund. The probation is for two years.

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    THE SUGAR LOAF MURDERS

    Gordon murder-arson trial set for September

    WINONA, Minn., May 12, 2006 -- Nearly 17 months after firefighters entered a burning apartment at 358 E. Sarnia St., finding the bodies of a 29-year-old pregnant woman and her 10-year-old daughter, the man charged with murdering the mother, raping and murdering the daughter, then setting their apartment ablaze plead not guilty to all criminal charges during an arraignment hearing. Judge Jeff Thompson read each of the 10 felony charges, which included four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder for the strangulation deaths of Stacy Smith, Taylor Swanson and Smith's unborn child, one count of criminal sexual misconduct for the rape of Swanson, and one count of arson. Paul Allen Gordon, 23, stated that he understood the charges against him and pled not guilty to each count. The victims' family members, including Smith's mother Cheryl Hodge, Smith's stepfather, aunts and uncles and other friends of the family, and Swanson's father and paternal grandparents attended the hearing. Hodge and other family members shed tears while Judge Thompson read the charges, and shook their heads as Gordon replied, "Not guilty."

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    Prosecutor Chuck MacLean and assistant prosecutors Tom Gort and Kevin O'Laughlin represented the prosecution. MacLean was the only member of the prosecution team to address the judge. Assistant Public Defender Candice Rasmussen was the sole attorney representing Gordon in court. Rasmussen informed the judge that due to the caseload of other murder trials in Rochester, public defender Rick Smith would no longer be representing Gordon. Gordon's other public defender, Julie Maxwell, although not at Friday's hearing, would continue to represent Gordon for the duration of the trial, Rasmussen said. Two other public defender attorneys, Christine Funk and Robert Fogerty, who were out of town attending a DNA seminar, will be joining the defense team during the DNA portion of Gordon's trial, Rasmussen said.

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    Jail chaplain Ryan O'Gara, who has attended Gordon's previous hearings for moral support for Gordon, was not at Friday's hearing.

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    Citing the 104 witnesses, each with "something valuable" to contribute to the case, DNA issues and changes in defense representation, MacLean requested scheduling a pre-trial hearing on July 31, and an actual trial commencement date of Sept. 11. Rasmussen agreed with the timeline. Judge Thompson scheduled pre-trial on July 27 and, if necessary, July 28. The trial, which begins with jury selection, is set to begin Sept.11 and last "as long as we need." Said Thompson: "This ought to give everybody plenty of time to address issues that need to be addressed and proceed in a timely -- theoretically -- fashion."

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    MacLean also petitioned the judge to require potential jurors to answer a juror questionnaire. Rasmussen agreed that it is a "good idea to have a questionnaire." She added that the jurors should respond to the questionnaire while under oath and that the prosecution and defense attorneys should be allowed adequate time to review juror answers prior to jury selection. Thompson called a jury questionnaire an "efficient" and "appropriate" approach and ordered that the jury panel assemble Sept. 7 to complete the questionnaire, allowing both the prosecution and defense a few days to review juror responses before jury selection on Sept. 11.

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    During the 40-minute hearing, MacLean also requested permission to obtain the testimony of two critical out-of-town witnesses in sworn oaths prior to the trial. There is a "reasonable likelihood," MacLean said, that the witnesses, both in detroit, would fail to attend the trial. MacLean argued that Jonathan Jackson, a known drug dealer and friend of Gordon, has a history of failing to appear in court, and that Leonard Gordon, Paul Gordon's father, has health issues that might prevent him from attending and testifying at his son's trial.

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    Rasmussen objected. Citing the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Rasmussen said that obtaining witness testimony against Gordon outside of the trial would "deny Mr. Gordon his constitutional right to confrontation." Rasmussen said that during a prior conversation with an FBI agent, Jackson had agreed to testify if subpoenaed. Additionally, the FBI and Michigan police are "keeping track of Mr. Jackson" and will "secure his appearance," she said. MacLean countered that Gordon could be present at the witness depositions, along with attorneys from both sides, thus upholding Gordon's right to confront his accusers. MacLean added that the depositions would be audio and video taped for the jury to view during the trial.

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    Rasmussen said she had a problem with pre-trial depositions because junors should have the opportunity to evaluate the witnesses' character. Because Jackson's testimony is "so damning and central to the prosecution's case," Rasmussen said, it is :vital for the 12 jurors to see Mr. Jackson so they'll know, in my opinion, that he is not believable." She said that viewing a taped testimony is not the same as jurors evaluating witness credibility face-to-face. Judge Thompson postponed ruling on the request for witness testimony and chose to take time to consider MacLean's and Rasmussen's arguments. Thompson gave attorneys from both sides until May 19 to submit written arguments about the depositions, DNA or any other issue.


    Paul Allen Gordon

    PAUL
    ALLEN
    GORDON

    Main event starts Sept. 11


    KEY
    PLAYERS


    Paul Allen Gordon
    Defendant

    Jeff Thompson
    Judge

    Chuck MacLean
    Prosecutor

    Kevin O'Laughlin
    Assistant prosecutor

    Tom Gort
    Assistant prosecutor

    Candace Rasmussen
    Public defender

    Julie Maxwell
    Public defender

    Jurors
    To be selected

    Jonathan Jackson
    Prosecution witness

    Leonard Gordon
    Defendant's father

    102 other witnesses
    Listed so far by attorneys




    Reporter: Mollee Sheehan
    Background: Jury finds Gordon guilty in assault trial
    Background: Judge: Impartial local jury possible
    Background: The night they died

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    BASEBALL (MEN'S)

    Southwest Minnesota State, WSU 8


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    FREE INQUIRY / FREE EXPRESSION

    "101 Most Dangerous Profs"? Critics: Read carefully

    CHICAGO, Ill., May 12, 2006 -- A book that energetically attacks colleges as hotbeds of liberalism, by conservative David Horowitz, has been criticized as loaded with errors, misrepresentations and distortions. A civil liberaties coalition, Free Exchange on Campus, issued a report, "Facts Count," which cites "problems of argumentation." Horowitz has taken quotations out of context, misstated professors' intended meanings, and ignoreed facts that don't support his position, according to the report. The book, "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America," is part of Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights campaign in several state legislatures, including Minnesota, for laws to end what he calls liberal indoctrination in college classrooms.

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    Free Exchange announced its report at a news conference at the University of Chicago, where Hororitz was scheduled to speak. Jamie Horwitz, of the American Federation of Teachers, a coalition member, said it would be a mistake to write off the book as mere rantings of a political ideologue. Horowitz, he noted, is the source of the so-called academic-rights legislation. At the news conference, Free Exchange promised to distribute its report wherever Horowitz is scheduled to speak.

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    Horowitz's research is "sloppy in the extreme" and "manipulated to fit his arguments," according to Free Exchange report. The report faults a Horowitz premise that colleges are failing to ensure students' academic freedom. Also, according to the report, Horowitz assumes incorrectely and in insultingly that students lack the critical-thinking skills to work through controversial ideas and come to their own conclusions.

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    WSU speaker sees ruin ahead from overfarming

    WINONA, Minn., May 12, 2006 -- The loss of native grasses across the United States' midsection worries David Kline, a farmer from Elgin, Minn., who spoke recently at Winona State University. According to Kline, wonderfully fertile land is being ruined by large-scale farm operations that rely on chemicals and pesticides and repeated annual crops that don't allow soil restoration. "As we talk about native grasses and that there is not much left, it is quite true and quite sad to see," he said. Kline and his family practice sustainable farming. Mostly they raise livestock that graze on native grasses. He doesn't use chemicals or overgraze. Kline carefully watches the grassland that he farms and leaves some areas untouched for a season to enrich the soil.

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    Kline and his family are known for their success in direct marketing. Their Hidden Stream Farm brand offers beef, pork, chicken and dairy products free of chemicals and hormones. Hidden Stream Farm products can be found at Winona's Bluff Country Co-op at 121 West Second St. or online.

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    Among his neighbors, Kline is known as the guy with 180 acres of grass in the middle of farming country -- an odd sight in this day or big-scale monocultural farming. Kline, who spurns pesticide sprays, wonders what kind of reaction he will get this year when he will use an all-natural fish oil spray to feed the soil" "I think it will throw my neighbors off a little bit."

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    Kline spoke as part of a three-part program sponsored by Winona State biology prof Bruno Borsari with a $2,000 grant from the universityŐs Learning for the 21st Century initiative. Borsari said hed wanted to develop awareness of farm and agricultural issues in southeast Minnesota.

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    The series began with a history of the tall grass prairie, which once stretched from Minnesota into most of Texas. A movie covered the long-running Native American era, when the prairie flourished, through the present day, with prairie existing only in restoration sites. Since the large-scale European settlement after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the tall grass prairie has been turned into America's most fertile farm land. But for how long? Those who believe in sustainability worry about how long the land can be milked at the current rate.

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    The Winona State series began after Borsari conducted a survey on campus enthusiasm for buying local foods. The survey received about 1,000 responses. Another survey will be available online to see if his series generated new interest in local foods. This fall Borsari would like to seek additional funding to measure the intensity of student and community demand for local food products. Borsari said, "We need to learn about food production, and we need to support local food production for sustainability."

    Reporter: Sam Molter

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    Brooklyn College art show closed: "Inappropriate"

    NEW YORK, March 12, 2006 -- The city parks supervisor, Julius Spiegel, shut down an exhibit by 18 Brooklyn College artists at the Brooklyn War Memorial, declaring that their show was inappropriate. Exhbits inbcluded a live rat, watercolors depicting gay sex and sculpted male genitalia illuminated in a box. A supervisor showed up with a locksmith, who changed the locks, and ordered the artists out. Students are worried that the rat, Daisy, is going hungry. They planned a rally outside the memorial to protest the censorship.

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    RAMALEY JOB PERFORMANCE

    WSU PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL RATING

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    In her first nine months at Winona State, university President Judith Ramaley managed to alienate two of the three most powerful student groups on campus. And the jocks don't count. Although powerful on the field and in the court, the athletes largely are apolitical. It is significant, however, that Ramaley wrote off two student groups that matter -- the student political leadership and the journalists.

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    With the political leadership, whom she snubbed by ignoring the agreed-upon consultation process, Ramaley has started making amends. It was a good sign in late April that Ramaley went to the Styudent Senate and introduced her finalists for student affairs vice president. This brings up Ramaley's score in our periodic job performance rating. It's now B-, up from C+ a month ago.

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    But how about amends with the journalists? Ramaley has a ways to go. Two interviews in nine months does not bespeak a deep commitment to communciation with students. And Ramaley's attack on standard journalistic practices after the second interview does not bespeak a recognition of the reality that at a campus of 8,000 students the press is essential for communicating with students.

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    Recomendation: Ramaley lean on the expertise and media-savviness of her communciations staff to repair press relations. Periodic news conferences would be a good starter.

    The CyberIndee invites reader input for periodic updates of the Ramaley presidential approval rating. Brief comments on Ramaley's latest performance will be shared with readers. Anonynmity is assured if requested. Your input




    Background: Two make cut for interim WSU veep
    Background: How Somsen-Senate meltdown was averted
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    SMU veteran named Cardinal softball coach

    WINONA, Minn., May 11, 2006 -- With experience being coached and helping coach at St. Mary's University, Jen Miller has been named head softball coach. Miller, 26, succeeds Nikki Fennern, who has been named athletic director. Miller was on the all-conference 2002 team as a senior. She also was staring pitcher on the 2000 team that won the NCAA Division II national title. The past four years she has been an assistant coach at St. Mary's.

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    Concordia of St. Paul, 19, WSU 4

    Warriors falter in Northern Sun tournament

    WAYNE, Neb., May 11, 2006 -- Winona State University could not contain the bats of Conoordia of St. Paul and lost 19-4 in the opening game of the Northern Sun conference baseball tournament. The Warriors used four pitchers, who gave up 25 hits. Josh Maggertm who came up with a solo home run in the third inning for Winona State, finished the game with two hits. Ryan Manske also chipped in two hits. Tony Lubarsky drove in a pair of runs for the Warriors. Winona State fell into the loser's bracket of the double-elimination tournament.

    Statistics: Opening game

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    300 Southeast Tech students receive diplomas

    WINONA, Minn., May 11, 2006 -- More than 300 Southeast Tech students in 48 fields were graduated in a ceremony at a Winona State University gym. The largest group was in nursing, 43 as registered nurses and 75 as practical nurses. The number of registered nurses graduated from Tech is approaching the number from Winona State's more broadly based four-year program, 55 this spring, although Winona State's nursing college is expanding its enrollment cap from 120 to 200 this fall to help meet a growing shortage.

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    Hacker pleads guilty in 2004 bot attack

    SEATTLE, Wash., May 11, 2006 -- A 20-year-old Vacaville, Calif., man, Christopher Maxwell, has pleaded guilty to using high-power university computers to launch a bot network that attacked computers at a Seattle hospital and several universities. At Northwest Hospital, according to the criminal complaint, the bots downloaded so much data that a surgical team lost communication. Fixes cost almost $150,000, the hospital said. Prosecutors claim that Maxwell used computers at California State-Northridge, the University of Michigan and the UCLA to launch the automated porgrams, called "bots," and then commandeered 13,000 computers as zombies to install adware on compromised computers. Maxwell is charged with fraud. His commissions from the adware reaped $100,000 for himself and co-conspirators, accoridng to the prosecution. The attacks occurred in 2004.

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    ESPN tabs two Warriors to district baseball team

    WINONA, Minn., May 11, 2006 -- Winona State University has had two players, seniors Josh Maggert and Jay Horner, named to the ESPN magazine all-District V academic baseball team. Maggert, an outfielder, made the fist team. He now be placed on the ballot for all-American consideration. Maggert came into the final week of the season with a .389 batting average, .580 slugging percentage and .454 on base percentage. Maggert was 61-of-157 with 43 runs scored, 15 doubles, three triples, three home runs and 24 runs batted in. He has also stolen 14 bases in 19 attempts. Horner, a designated hitter, was picked to the second team. M Horner was hitting .291 on the season (34-117) with a .496 slugging percentage and .382 on base percentage. He collected 28 runs scored, nine doubles and five home runs to go along with 23 runs batted in.

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    Smith drops Sudan-related investments

    NORTHAMPTON, Mass., May 11, 2006 -- The governing board at Smith College withdrew investments that directly or indirectly support the Sudanese government, which is under international criticism for genocide in the country's Darfur. The college's Committee on Investor Responsibility, which made the recommendation, said that the Sudanese government has equipped militias to carry out the genocide. Other colleges, including Brown Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Brown, and the University of California have also instructed their investment teams to stay clear of companies deadling with the Sudan government.

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    Steinquist has jail pass for job

    WINONA, Minn., May 10, 2006 -- A 19-year-old man accused in the pool-cue beating of a Winona couple, Drew Steinquist, has been granted permission to leave jail for a job at ColorWare on the far West End. Steinquist's attorney, Rich McCluer, made the request. Judge Margaret Shaw approved. Steinquist, 19, will remain in jail in lieu of $200,000 bond when he's not at ColorWare. Steinquist and a Winona State University student, John Michael Fitzgerald, 21, face multiple felony counts for breaking into a home on West Fourth Street about 1:30 a.m., March 28, in search of a stolen security box containing cash and marijuana. The couple, the husband 57 and and the wife 55, were bound and beaten. Fitzgerald is free on $250,000 bond pending an evidentiary hearing June 8.

    Drew Steinquist

    DREW
    STEINQUIST

    Work all day, jail all night

    Reporter: Megan Buesgens
    Background: What happened that night
    Background:
    Mom mum on Steinquist assault case
    Background: Friends, Facebook paint Fitzy as likeable guy
    Background: Fitzy, 'Quist both had earlier petty offenses
    Background: Beating victims' son still in Texas jail

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    Students object to bounties for marijuana rally

    BOULDER, Colo., May 11, 2006 -- Campus police at the University of Colorado are harassing students who participated in a pro-marijuana rally by posting their photos online and offering $50 for their names, according to an attorney for three students. Photos of 150 students, some smoking, some not, have been posted. Attorney Perry Sanders said he will file suit in federal court to force the university to remove the photographs, expunge whatever information has come in response to the online request, and stop harassing the students. The rally was part of the annual April 20 event at many campuses nationwide, sponsored by the National Organization for Reform of Marjuana Laws. There was no violence at the rally. A university spokesperson said police had paid out $2,000 in reward money to callers responding to the online photos. The rally was on a field that the university had closed off in anticipation of the event. About 40 signs stated that the field was closed and under photo surveillance.

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    Gallaudet profs say no to new president

    WASHINGTON, May 11, 2006 -- Faculty at Gallaudet University, which emphasizes programs for deaf students, voted "no confidence" in President-designate Jane Fernandes, who has been criticized as insufficiently strong as an advocate for deaf people. Earlier students demonstrated against the appointment of Fernandes, objecting to her leadership style and how the university's governng board wenbt about her selection. At the "no confidence" meeting, more than 140 of the university's 240 faculty members turned out. Two-thirds voted no confidence.


    Background: Gallaudet students upset at new president

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    Texas campus drops all flags rather than one

    ARLINGTON, Texas, May 11, 2006 -- Because of objections to a Vietnamese communist flag among 122 other foreign flags in a display at the University of Texas at Arlington, all the flags have been removed. The decision was msde by university President James Spaniolo after some state legislators threatened to cut off funding to the Arlington campus. Earlier Spaniolo had said the Vietnamese flag would remain in the display.

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    Study: 6 percent of college men pop Viagara

    CHICAGO, Ill., May 10, 2006 -- About one in 30 college men take erectile dysfunction medication to "have more fun" and other non-medical reasons, according to a study by Children's Memorial Hospital. Researcher Najah Musacchio said that another one in 30 college men take the medication, like Viagara, Cialis and Levitra, for lame penises. The non-medical uses to which the medications are put include less wait-time for additional bouts. In almost all cases, Musacchio said, men buy pills without prescription, mostly online. The study, of 234 sexually active men at three campuses, sound that 64 pecent simultaneously use the medication with alcohol or illicit drugs, which can lead to severe reactions and death. Also, in an altered mental state, judgment about partners and safe sex can be compromised.

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    WSU has new infield, outfield softball signees

    WINONA, Minn., May 10, 2006 -- A shortstop and third base player who has 18 career home runs, Annie Stuedemann of Mattawan, Mich., has signed a national letters of intent to play softball for Winona State University, coach Greg Jones announced. Stuedeman has a career batting average of .400, slugging percentage of .767 and an on base percentage of .509. "Annie is an incredibly gifted athlete who can play in any post in the outfield," Jones said.. "We look for her to make an immediate impact with her bat and defensive play as soon as she steps onto campus next fall. Jones also announced a new leter of intent from infielder Katie Maultra of Stevens Point, Wis., whose team won state championships the past two years. Maultra has set the school record with 12 home runs and 43 runs batted in. Her career batting average is .408. "Katie is capable of playing anywhere on the field," stated Jones. The Warriors completed this p0ast season with a 41-15-1 record.

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    The new signees:

  • Annie Stuedemann, Bats left, throws right, Outfield, Mattawan, Mich. In High school: B'nai B'rith Award winner, Magna Cum Laude graduate, member of Finesse Gold travel team, all-district, all-conference.
  • Katie Maultra, Bats right, throws right, infielder, Stevens Point, Wis. In high school: Member of 2003 and 2004 state championship team, two-time All-State, two-time all-district, two-time all-conference.


  • Early signees:

  • Kelly Ward, Bats left, throws right, shortstop-third base, Orland Park, Ill. In high school: All-area, all-conference, most valuable player.
  • Jenny Wilmes, Bats right, throws right, Ppitcher-third base, Aurora, Ill. In high school: Three-time scholar-athlete, member of Elite Softball Showcase Team, two-time all-area, two-time all-conference.
  • Amy Hahn, Bats Left, Throws Right, First Base, Savage, Minn. In high school: member of state championship teams for 2004 and 2005, all-conference, team captain.


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    Brandeis takes down Palestinian kids' art

    WALTHAM, Mass., Mass., 10, 2006 -- Paintings intended to represent Palestinian perspectives were removed from an exhibit at the Brndeis University library after complaints that the works depicted only one side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Administrators at the laghely jewish university ordered the removal. Palestinian teenagers had painted those images at the request of an Israeli Jewish student at Brandeis, Lior Halperin, who accused the university censorship an alternative view. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Halperin said:

    "This is outrageous.This an educational institution that is supposed to promote debate and dialogue. Let's talk about what it is: 12-year-olds from a Palestinian refugee camp. Obviously it's not going to be about flowers and balloons."


    A university spokesperson said that the university would consider displaying the artwork again in the fall, alongside pieces showing the Israeli point of view.

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    Editorial blames elders for grads' debt level

    WINONA, Minn., May 10, 2006 -- The new crop of college grads has been failed by their elders, who have decided to go cheap on the historic Minnesota commitment to higher education, according to a Daily News editorial. "As members of Winona State's class of 2006 are packing away their gowns and mortarboards, most are looking at a future shadowed by significant debt," the editorial noted. "For some, earning the degree that qualifies them to apply for a $23,000-a-year job as an elementary school teacher meant accumulating nearly twice that figure in debt." Why? The editorial, written by Jerome Christenson for the Daily News management, blamed "self-centered public parsimony." Christenson said state college system data that MnSCU grads now carry an average debt that will take more than 6 percent of their income to service. "This is a burden our children can ill afford," he wrote.

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    Citing history, Christenson noted that in its first year of statehood, Minnesota created tuition-free teacher colleges. It wsa, he said, a recognition of the value of investing public resources in the minds and talents of the coming generation. Now, he said, legislators are voting for measures that reduce funding to state colleges and push up tuition and fees -- and student debt. The state is failing in its commitkment to the future of its people, he said.

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    The state has systematically reneged on a commitment as old as the state itself -- leaving students of modest means with no alternative but to shoulder ever increasing burdens of debt, Christenson said. "As, year after year, tuition and fees have increased by double-digit percentages, student aid has shrunk, wages for part-time work have stagnated, and the cost of housing and other necessities has gone up and up," he said. "While a generation ago, a debt-free state university education was affordable to an ambitious young person with a part-time job and a willingness to put in a few hours of overtime during the summer, nowadays that job running the cafeteria dishwasher, shelving books in the library or pulling beers at the corner tap isn't likely to cover rent and groceries, much less tuition, books and other expenses. For most, the only way to obtain the education they believe to be the key to a better future is to mortgage that future."

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    The saving in the state higher-ed budget is short-sighted, Christenson said: "As it is, we can only wish this year's graduates good fortune as they struggle to begin careers, buy homes and start families. The taxes not paid by their parents' generation will be coming due, as will student loan payments." He concluded:

    "As a state, as a people, we can do better. We have reneged on commitments our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents honored through years of war and depression. They recognized that a collective investment in higher education yielded dividends in teachers, nurses, engineers and other professionals. Their success would be reflected in stronger, more prosperous communities and in due time their taxes would directly return the dollars invested in them.

    "We need to give serious thought to the legacy we are leaving our children -- a heavy burden of debt before their adult lives really begin."


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    WSU College For Kids registration opens

    WINONA, Minn., May 10, 2006 -- Registration opens Monday for Winona State University's 19th annual College For Kids program for students who have completed Grades 3 through 8. Courses include journalism, foreign languages, computer programming, statistics, forensic science, music, photography and art. In a robotics course, students will learn about artificial intelligence and build their own robotic device. In aviation, students will study aerodynamics and build a small model airplane.
    Dates: July 10-14 and July 17-21
    Cost: $100 per session
    Contact: (507) 457-5084


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    CUT WSU ADMINISTRATORS
    AS CLUB ADVISERS

    The first crisis facing the new student affairs vice president at Winona State University is the mess in the Cultural Diversity Office. Ruth Schroeder should not even try to sort through the murk but decisively act to bar mid-level administrators as advisers to student clubs. The risk is too high for collisions between what administrators see as best for the university and what clubs see as best for their members. It's a miracle there was not a train wreck earlier. But now we have a generation of black students, sadly a scarce commodity at Winona State, torn in a confrontation that will take another generation to heal. It's been a tragedy -- and an avoidable one.

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    The new student affairs vice president must also cut loose financial subsidies to the Black Cultural Awareness club. The reliance of a club on administrative benevolence is unhealthy. In the case of Black Cultural Awareness, the purse strings became an administrative tool to control the club and was a major component in the club's unraveling.

    Background: Health educator to WSU vice presidency
    Background: Club leader faults WSU diversity chiefs
    Background: Black club needs special stopgap financing


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    Beating victims' son still in Texas jail

    WINONA, Minn., May 10, 2006 -- A son of a couple who were beaten mercilessly in their home in March, who was catalytic to what happened, remains in jail in Texas, Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams confirmed. Williams declined to release the man's name, consistent with the police decision to shield the name of the couple. The son, believed to be 19 or 20, had stolen a security box containing cash and marijuana from a party, according to police accounts. As police have pieced togetehr what happened, the men accused in the beatings, John Michael Fitzgerald, 21, and Drew Steinquist, 19, went to the home of the parents on West Fourth Street to recover the box even though the son had been kicked out of the home and was en route top Texas by bus.

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    The son was arrested as soon as he got off the bus in Texas, Williams said: "He had a warrant in Texas." Williams was not sure why the man was arrested, but he thought it was for assault or possessing a controlled substance apparently from eralier time in Texas. Questioned about the Winona beating, the son told Texas police where he had stashed the security box. Investigators then found the box -- empty. No one has asked that charges be filed for the theft of the security box, and the son has not been charged with any Winona crime.

    Reporter: Megan Buesgens
    Background: What happened that night
    Background:
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    Health educator to WSU vice presidency

    WINONA, Minn., March 10, 2006 -- The campus health educator at Winona State, Ruth Schroeder, who has crusaded against irresponsible student boozing over the past three years, has been named acting vice president for student affairs. University President Judith Ramaley made the announcement. Schroeder will serve one year, replacing Cal Winbush, who is retiring. Her responsibilities will include dorms, campus catering, counseling, cultural diversity, financial aid, international student recruting and support, job placement for grads, and student activities. Meanwhile, a national search will be launched for a permanent successor to Winbush with a new title that Ramaley has created -- vice president of student life and development. Schroeder holds a bachelor's degree in recreational Leadership from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, a master's in community counseling from Winona State, and a doctorate in human services from Walden University.

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    Schroeder was among two in-house finalists chosen by Ramaley. The other was Dawn Anderson of the health and human performance faculty.

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    As a vice president, Schroeder joins Ken Gorman, acting academic affairs vice president; Tess Kruger, vice president of administrative affairs; and Jim Schmidt, vice president for fund-raising, lobbying and public relations. A search is under way for a permanent successor to Gorman.

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    Schroeder joined Winona State in 2003 after Diane Palm, campus health diretcor, campaigned vigorously for funds for a new health educator position. Schroeder almost immediately landed a grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for a multi-year peer-based outreach program to discourage binge drinking and address an endemic student booze culture. Schroeder lined up athletes as peer counselors, although none from the football team, which had a long record of partying excesses and arrests. In the past year Schroeder has worked at projects to break that myth that everybody does it, which she says has led to false perceptions among many students that alcohol is at the core of the college experience.


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    Background: Two make cut for interim WSU veep
    Background: Comment: Not a man among them

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    Schism decimates Christian college faculty

    PURCEVILLE, Va., May 12, 2006 -- Five of the 16 professors at Patrick Henry College have resigned, signaling a schism in the vision of its founder, Michael Farris, over the supremacy of the Bible as the core of a liberal arts education. The departing profs expressed concern at Farris for intervening in lectures and classes to denigrate the value of Homer, Aristotle, Machiavelli and Marx in instruction. The departures are a setback for Patrick Henry College, which, although with only 300 students, mostly home-schooled, has become a darling of right-wing Washington leadership. Students have interned for top Republican luminaries, including Bill Frist, Tom DeLay and Karl Rove -- a far greater percentage than from big-name East Coast colleges.

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    The schism began when rhetoric prof Todd Bates was asked to submit a speech to Farris in advance. Farris declared that the speech, onj St. Augustine's pursuit of truth, did not sufficiently reflect the college's Christian mission and didn't mention the Bible. Further, according to Bates, Farris asserted that St. Augustine was burning in hell. Bates said that the president threatened to cancel the lecture, which was to be part of a student warm-up for the fall semester. Bates plugged in a mention of "scripture." The speech was allowed to be delivered.

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    Bates is among the profs who are resigning, citing other instances of what they call heavy-handed interference with academic freedom. One incident began when the father of a student complained to Farris that government prof Erik Root had not allowed the Bible sufficient deference in a class discussion on the philosopher Hobbes. Farris demanded an explanation and said he would withhold Root's teaching contract for next year unless the response were satisfactory.

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    When classics prof David Noe and history and literature prof Kevin Culberson wrote an article for the student magazine that challenged whether the Bible is the sole source of truth and asserted that Parmenides, Plato, Machiavelli and Marx have much to offer, the college chaplain sent a rebuttal to profs. Farri said he endorsed the rebittal.

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    Then, as the academic freedom issue boiled, government prof Robert Stacey got fired for reading the college's statements of faith and biblical worldview in class and inviting students who disagreed with his interpretation to leave. One did. Farris fired Stacey, saying he had forced the student to leave the classroom because she disagreed.

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    Among those leaving in an absolute sense is the affairs dean, who hs used the words "absurd" and "horrific" to describe how profs have beenn treated. Farris, meanwhile, is resigning as president but is believed to be planning to remain intimately involved in college affairs.

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    Lande: WSU tunnel work could start by fall

    WINONA, Minn., March 10, 2006 -- Dick Lande sees himself as a hustler. So far Lande, the facilities manager at Winona State University, has hustled $3.5 million in commitments toward construction of three tunnels under the Canadian Pacific train tracks that run parallel to Belleview Street. He needs $10 million. Now Lande is fresh back from Washington, where he was working to patch together additional federal funding for the project. He hopes the trip pays off with an additional $5 million. "It is a complicated and time-consuming process, but I have been working hard to get what we need,Ó said Lande. Once the money is Ňhustled,Ó as Lande calls it, the federal government will send it to the state of Minnesota. The state then will transfer the funds to the Minnesota Department of Transportation in Rochester, which will channel it to the city of Winona.

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    The money will be set aside for the construction of three tunnels. Lande hopes the tunnels will make life much easier for everyone at Winona State. "Winona State is growing," he said. "There is a definite need for this." Two pedestrian tunnels would pass under the tracks -- one near Belleview and Johnson streets and one close to Winona and Belleview streets. Open to the public, these pedestrian underpasses would accommodate individuals on foot or in nsmall four-wheelers like golf carts. "The two pedestrian tunnels are basically going to be shaped like long square boxes, just big enough for people or Gators," said Lande. Gators are small four-wheelers used used by campus maintenance crews.

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    The most controversial tunnel would carry Huff Street motor traffic under the tracks. This tunnel proposal has created a stir. "I get phone calls every day from people who are against it, but I just tell them to call the mayor," said Lande. The project is a joint city-university endeavor. Lande acknowledges that businesses near the tracks on Huff would be affected: "When cars that usually pass by a store are now going underground, accessibility to those businesses is limited in a way that it never was before." Huff Street businesses that would potentially be affected include those in the strip mall on the corner of Sarnia and Huff. The frequented Zaza's Pizzeria and Electric Beach Tanning facility are also located on Huff near the tracks.

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    A variable in financing the tunnels is whether voters approve a municipal sales tax increase for traffic improvements this fall. The Huff Street tunnel, which would eliminate the current Canadian Pacific crossing, is on a city priority lists for projects.

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    Once the entire $10 million is secured, the university would use a portion of the money to for an engineering company to design the tunnels. Currently Winona State is considering a couple of companies, both based out of Minneapolis. Lande hopes to have a design soon. "We are definitely going to make this happen," he said. If all goes as planned, construction on the tunnels would begin as early as fall, he said.


    Dick Lande

    DICK
    LANDE

    WSU's Washington go-getter

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    Friends, Facebook paint Fitzy as normal, likeable guy,
    then again, there was that Morey fight

    WINONA, Minn., May 10, 2006 -- A man accused in a brutal assault on a Winona couple in their home in March, Winona State University junior John Michael Fitzgerald, is described by campus friends and fellow students as a nice guy. They call him "Fitzy." Except for a bloody altercation in the Morey dorm two years ago, Fitzgeralds record had looked like that of a typical college student. On Facebook.com, Fitzgerald calls himself a liberal who likes all kinds of music. He likes women, especially good-looking women and smart women, he said on his Facebook page. Fitzgerald described himself as an assistant chef. Most recently he had been at the Cedar Valley golf course restaurant a couple weeks. Before that he was Putnam Grey's burger place at Winona Mall and some pizza joints. On Facebook he said he and likes sports. At Winona State he had completed his junior year in business.

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    In 2004 after the Morey fight Fitzgerald was evicted from Winona State dorms, as was football player Phil Capuzzi, with whom he had fought. Capuzzi's friends said Fitzgerald was at fault, but Fitzy's friends said Capuzzi was part of a group that started it by taunting Fitzgerald. There were no criminal charges because, police said, it was impossible to determine who was more at fault. Fitzgerald's Winona County court record, until the March assault, included only a step sign violation, not having his insurance papers in his car, and having open alcohol in a motor vehicle. After he was arrested in March the day after a protracted pool-cue beating of the Winona couple, age 57 and 55, Fitzgerald's family arranged $250,000 bond for to get him out of jail poending further court dates. Fitzgerald pesumably is with his parents in the St. Paul, Minn., suburb of Oakdale. Attempts to reach Fitzgerld for an interview were unsuccessful. His attorney is Richard Bowen of St. Paul.


    CONTRASTING
    PORTRAITS
    John Fitzgerald

    2004
    Dripping
    blood
    after
    dorm fight
    John Fitzgerald

    2005
    Yes, Fitzy
    liked his
    good times
    John Fitzgerald

    2006
    Police mug
    shot after
    March
    assault


    Reporter: Megan Buesgens
    Background: Mom mum on Steinquist assault case

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    ELECTION 2006

    County moves to upgrade polling places

    WINONA, Minn., May 9, 2006 -- Winona County commissioners tentatively approved an extra $25,000 toward the purchase of two new election machines for each of the 39 county precincts for the September and November elections. The county ended up short of enough for the machines from $468,000 federal and sgtate grants. County Auditor Cherie MacLennon said that each precinct will receive one machine for sight-impaired and hearing-impaired voters. A second machine will automatically scan and count the completed ballots to hasten reporting, she said.

    Background: Races campus people are watching

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    FREE INQUIRY / FREE EXPRESSION

    Judge irked at FCC in college intranet case

    WASHINGTON, May 9, 2006 -- A government plan to facilitate federal eavesdropping of internal organizational networks, like college intranets, drew a sharp rebuke from U.S. District COurt Judge Harry Edwards during recent oral arguments. Edwards told a Federal Communications Commission attorney that he was speaking "utter nonsense" in arguing that the FCC has the legal authority to require colleges and commercial Internet providers to re-engineer their networks so that the government can easily eavesdrop on online communications. At issue is a Bush Administration plan can use the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to monitor online conversations that use Internet-based phone and instant-messaging services. The Bush plan is to beef up anti-terorism law enforcement, but opponents are concerned over protecting citizen conversations from government scrutiny. Also, colleges have objected to costs, estimated at $9 billion to $15 billion, to remake their intranets to facilitate government monitoring. A legal issue is that the law, called CALEA for short, was written to cover "telecommunications carriers," which the colleges say does not extend to the broadband Internet services they operate on campuses, which the colleges claim fall under the rubric "information services." A three-judge panel is reviewing the colleges' objections to the FCC's effort to expand government surveillance.

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    ELECTION 2006

    GOP endorses Wilson for Senate 28 race

    RED WING, Minn., May 9, 2006 -- Reublicans in State Senate District 28 have endorsed Steve Wilson of Lake City, who is a nonprofit agency executuive, to challenge incumbent Steve Murphy, D-Red Wing, in November. Wilson defeated Steve Drazkowski of Wabasha and Meg Walch of Red Wing, who both threw their support behind Wilson. The district includes parts of Goodview, Lewiston and St. Charles in Winona County.

    Background: Candidate acquitted on child abuse charge

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    Army opposes "West Point" in anti-war group name

    WEST POINT, N.Y.ĘMay 9, 2006Ę-- ĘThe Army has sent a stern letter to an anti-war group of former U.S. Military Academy cadets to change their name to delete "West Point." The Army claims a trademark violation. An academy spokesperson said that est Point Graduates Against the War never sought a license to use the words "West Point." The spokesperson denied that the grads' anti-war stance motivated the letter. A co-founder of West Point Graduates Against the War countered Friday that his organization is simply following the cadets' code. A group oprganizer, William Cross, a 1962 West Point grad, said the academy position raises First Amendment issues. ALso, Cross said, the Army is being selective in targeting teh antyi-wat group, noting that the Army has ignored widespread commercial use of the words "West Point" by local businesses in their names.

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    July jazz workshop set at WSU

    WINONA, Minn., May 9, 2006 -- An all-day jazz workshop sponsored by the Winona State University music faculty and the Upper Mississippi Jazz Society is planned for July for middle-school and high-school students. The workshop will culminate in a Saturday morning concert in Lake Park. Scheduled performers include the Turkey River All-Stars, Gate City Jazz Band, and Rev. Al Townsend. Instructors: Chip Schreader of Longfellow Middle School, clarinet and saxophone; Gary Urness of Winona Middle School, trumpet; George Von Arx of Holmen, Wis., High School, trombone; Larry Price of Winona State, piano; Mike James of Winona State and Leithold Music, guitar and bass; Gerry Gleason, retired La Crosse, Wis., band director, tuba; and Rich MacDonald of Winona State, drums.
    Date: Friday, July 7
    Time: 8 a.m. registration
    Place: Performing Arts Center
    Cost: $70
    Contact: Jenny Lamberson at 457-2963


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    Cathie Logan: Her last WSU commencement

    WINONA, Minn., May 9, 2006 -- The chair of the Winona State University academic committee that coordinates commencement, Cathie Logan, is moving on after 10 years. Logan has been named director of the university's new retiree center. "It's a wonderful opportunity," said Logan, adding, though, that she enjoyed working with commencement. "I'll miss it," she said. During her time working on commencement, the number of ceremonies has grown from one a year to three -- the December ceremony and two in the spring. It's never become routine, however. In an interview as grads were lining up on Friday, Logan said: "I'm getting butterflies and goose bumps." Beth Sass, an administrative assistant to the academic vice president, will take onLogan's commencement duties.

    Reporter: Susan Nicol

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    Mom mum on Steinquist assault case

    WINONA, Minn., May 8, 2006 -- A 19-year-old Winona man, Drew Steinquist, accused with a buddy of assaulting a mid-50s couple in their home in March, remains in jail on $200,000 bail. Asked about the case, Steinquist's mother, Gayle Steinquist, said: "There's nothing to say, he hasn't even gone to court yet." She added: "Our lawyers told us not to talk about it." Gayle and her husband Dave live at 921 Birch Boulevard in Winona. Steinquist, a Winona High School grad, is believed to have had the first physical contact with the victims by pushing the woman to the floor, according to prosecutor Chuck MacLean. The second man accused in the case, Winona State University junior John Michael Fitzgerald, 21, was released March 31 on $250,000 bail. The couple who were asaulted have returned home. They had been hospitalized with severe injuries after beung tied up and beaten with a pool cue.

    Drew Steinquist

    DREW
    STEINQUIST

    Held for $200,000 still

    Background: Megan Buesgens
    Background: Fitzy, 'Quist both had earlier petty offenses

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    Now North Carolina grads don't need to swim

    CHAPEL HILL, N.C., May 8, 2006 -- The University of North Carolina has dropped a graduation requirement that students swim 50 yards and tread water for five minutes. The requirement dated back more than 50 years. It's believed that Chapel Hill was among the last universities with a swimming requirement, although they once were common. The idea was to promote safety and socializing. Northern Iowa prof Larry Hensley, a phys-ed historian, said as recently as 1977, 42 percent of institutions had a swimming requirement of some sort.

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    WSU v. Viterbo, postponsed by rain


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    After 30 years WSU English prof says good-bye

    WINONA, Minn., May 8, 2006 -- With retirement imminent, Winona State University English prof Sandra Bennett says she doesn't know where the 30 years went. A lot has changed, she said, pointing to the quality of the students. When she joined the faculty in 1976 Bennett taught journalism and editing and served as faculty adviser for the Winonan campus newspaper. In late years she's focused on Indian literature. She was one of the founders of the Winona Women's Resource Center. She also had a hand in developing the Winona State gender studies curriculum. Bennett served on the board of members for the county Historical Society. "I'm going to be leaving Winona, which makes me very sad," Bennett said. "I've been involved with this community." She said that she plans to move to Arizona, where her parents and sister live.

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    Other retirees recognized at commencement:

  • Carol Blumberg, math and stats
  • James Bromeland, political science
  • Mary Gander, usiness administration
  • Carol Jefferson,iology
  • Jean Leicester, education
  • Randy Miller, health education
  • Bill Palzer, library
  • Steve Richardson, special projects vice president
  • Dave Robinson, English
  • Susanne Smith, nursing
  • Gary Stroebel, computer and information systems
  • Cal Winbush, student affairs and facilities vice president


  • Reporter: Susan Nicol


    Sandra Bennett

    SANDRA
    BENNETT

    Arizona bound


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    Post-audit UW-Whitewater call: Fire the guy

    EAU CLAIRE, Wis., May 8, 2006 -- The University of Wisconsin at Whitewater should fire former Dean Howard Ross and demand that $300,000 be reimbursed, said State Rep. Robin Kreibich, R-Eau Claire. An internal audit found that Ross had spent $310,000 on his university credit card over a six-year period without providing receipts or proper documentation, inclujding $15,220 for a personal cellphone use, $45,000 oforeign-language lessons, and $270 for an online dating service. After the audit, Ross was reassigned to the phuilosphy and religious studies faculty. Kreibich, in a letter to the regents, accused the university of rewarding Ross with a "backup" job after bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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    Tech plans $32,000 update

    WINONA, Minn., May 8, 2006 -- A building permit was filed by Southeast Tech for Winona plukmbing contractor O'Laughlin to erect a screening wall and do some plumbing work. Tech listed the project at $32,000.

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    WSU All-University Fund Drive passes $41,800

    WINONA, Minn., May 8, 2006 -- The annual Winona State University employee fund drive is beyond $41,800 and still counting, said Ann Kohner in the university advancement office. The chemistry department was the first to reach the 100 percent participation mark, Kohner said.

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    WORTH READING

    Mortimer Zuckerman. "The Cambridge Question," U.S. News & World Report (April 10, 2006), Page 76. Zuckerman, the magazine's editor, blames faculty absortion in research for the growing disappointment of Harvard grads in their undergaduate preparation. Reform will be difficult, he says. Lamenting the search ahead for a new university president after Larry Summers was run out of office, Zuckerman asks: "How can Harvard expect to rectuit a genuine reformer now that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has tasted blood?"

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    WSU j-prof co-authors journalism text

    WINONA, Minn., May 8, 2006 -- A new journalism textbook, "Editing the News," has been written bt j-profs John Vivian of Winona State University and Gene Murray of Grambling State. The publisher, Pearson Education's Allyn & Bacon, said the book would be available in January for spring adoptions. Vivian and Murray began their collaboration as Army officers on the Defense Information School faculty at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.

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    WSU plans nanotechnology workshop

    WINONA, Minn., Mayb 8, 2006 -- A two-day workshop, "Nanotechnology: Science and Applications," geared for scientists, engineers, science teachers, and graduate and undergraduate students, will be conducted at Winona State University. Nine profs, from biology, chemistry, engineering and physics, will provide instruction. Participants will learn basic concepts of quantum mechanics, the basic bonding/intermolecular forces, and the structure and properties of materials at nanoscale level, organizers said.
    Date: Thursday, June 8, and Friday, June 9
    Time: 6:30 p.m.
    Place: Science Lab Center
    Cost: $75 to $350
    Contact: Tracy Rahim at 474-3902


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    WSU plans new pre-school at Madison School

    WINONA, Minn., May 8, 2006 -- The Winona State University Maxwell Children's Center is opening a toddler and preschool program this fall at Madison Elementary School. An informational meeting Thursday will describe the program, staffing, planned facilities, and enrollment procedures, organizers said. Informational meeting:
    Date: Thursday, May 11
    Time: 6:30 p.m.
    Place: Madison Elementary School
    Cost: Free informational meeting
    Contact: (507) 457-2300


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    Proposal would stymie Indian nickname ban

    WASHINGTON, May 7, 2006 -- A law to keep the National Collegiate Athletic Association from barring offensive American Indian mascots and nicknames at member colleges has been proposed in Congress. The bill was introduced by Reps. Dennis Hastert and Tim Johnson, R-Ill., where the University of illinois uses the Chief Illiniwek mascot. Co-sponsors Rep. Dan Boren, D-Olka., Rep. Allen Boyd, D-Fla., where Florida State uses the Seminoles; and Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Ill. Johnson said the NCAA should "go back to scheduling ballgames and leave the social engineering to others." The bill would limit sanctions against colleges "by reason of a team name, symbol, emblem or mascot."

    Background: NCAA firm on Indian nicknames, mascots

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    Keg missing after weekend party

    WINONA, Minn., May 7, 2006 -- A half-empty keg was stolen from a house near Fifth and Winona streets, the tenant told police Sunday afternoon. The tenant said the keg was in the livingroom when he left.

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    WSU hitter to league all-tourney team

    CROOKSTON, Minn., May 7, 2006 -- Winona State University designated hitter Terra Halron was named to the Northern Sun conference all-tournament softball team. The Warriors went 2-2 in four tournament games. Halron hit .308 with a grand slam home run and five runs driven in.

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    Judge to Christian frat: Enuf's enuf

    GREENSBORO, N.C., May 7, 2006 --A Christian fraternity that sued the University of North Carolina to be recognized as a campus club even though its membership policies discriminated against nin-Christians as lost its suit. Federal Judge Frank Bullock ruled that the suit was moot because the university has changed its policy to allowing groups to select members on the basis of beliefs." The fraternity, Alpha Iota Omega, had continued its suit despite the policy change because it wanted more explicit protection

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    WSU 7, Southwest Minnesota State 6
    WSU 15, Southwest Minnesota State 9

    Warrior hitting sweeps Southwest

    WINONA, Minn., May 7, 2006 -- Winona State University put its hitting clothes on and swept a Northern Sun conference basbeball doubleheader from Southwest Minnesota State. The Warriors held on for a 7-6 win in the first game, then banged out 15 hits for 15 runs in a 15-9 victory in the nightrcap. Reggie Stevens and Ben Barrone slugged home runs for the Warriors in the second game, driving in three runs each. Tony Lubarsky also drove in three runs. Joe Magee, Barrone, Jay Horner, Andrew Kes and Lubarsky all had two hits apiece. Kyle Rodenkirk's two-out, two-run single gave the Warriors a three-run lead in the fifth inning and with a solo home run by Maggert in the sixth, the Warriors took a 7-3 lead going into the final inning of play of Game One. Maggert and Magee each had three hits. Stevens and Rodenkirk each drove in two runs.

    Statistics: First game
    Statistics: Second game

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    One last bash for WSU party crowd

    WINONA, Minn., May 7, 2006 -- A perfect storm of merriment hit downtown over the weekend. Revelers flooded the streets and bars after the Winona State University graduation, the end of the academic school year and the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo. All fell on the same weekend. A noticeable police presence patrolled the downtown bar district. Officers on foot and in squad cars kept a watchful eye on the bustling masses. Anticipating the revelry, Police Chief Frank Pomeroy put foot patrols on overtime to patrol the downtown district and the area around the main Winona State campus. The Police Department and Winona State each put up $3,000 a year to fund the Ňwalking beats."

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    "We've had officers on walking beats the past four or five years," Pomeroy said. "They're sent out on weekends we think they'll be needed, particularly around graduation." Pomeroy said the police department typically dispatches four or five Ň"walking beats." However, this past weekend, two extra officers and a supervisor were added to the foot patrol. Between Thursday and Sunday, Pomeroy said the foot patrols issued citations for three minor consumptions and four public urinations. Officers also made ID checks at the college bars Brothers, Gabbys and Stingers, and sent one person to detox. Two of the minor consumption citations were issued at Stingers. All of the public urination citations were issued outside of Stingers and Schyde's Drinks and Whatnot.

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    An assistant manager at Brothers Bar, Torey Olstad, said business was booming . "On Thursday and Friday," he said, "we had more of the student population, and on Saturday it was a lot more of an older crowd, maybe parents sticking around after graduation."Olstad said Brothers beefed up staffing with an extra bartender and bouncer. Olstad said the hectic weekend marked the unofficial conclusion of the college crowd's omnipresence in the downtown bar district. Now business will be off. "Typically we notice a fall in the first few weeks after the school year," Olstad said. Ň"But we have a local crowd that usually comes in and takes their place."

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    Cinco de Mayo, or "Fifth of May" in Spanish, marks the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle of Puebla in 1862. ItŐs doubtful that more than a few bar-goers knew this history, although a few took the liberty of sporting Mexican sombreros. Cinco de Mayo fell on a Friday this year, and Winona bars posted their specials accordingly. Stingers offered $2.50 bottles of Corona and $2 shots of Jose Cuervo tequila. Brothers countered with specials on Dos Equis Imported Mexican beer and Jose Cuervo tequila. Partiers were amused by the potpourri of rationale to drink, but ultimately a farewell to Winona sentiment reigned supreme. "I'm going home to the real world on Monday,Ó graduating senior Derek Armbruster said. "This is basically my last chance to get wasted in Winona."

    Reporter: Chandler MacLean

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    RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
    POSTED MAY 7, 2006

    MUMPS HERE. The Midwest mumps epidemic apparently has reached Winona. A 70-year-woman was quarantined pending tests to confirm what's suspected, said county nurse Pat Thomas. About 1,000 cases have been diagnosed in Iowa, largely among college students. Background

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    R.I.P.: Florence Ruth Schroth

    WINONA, Minn., May 7, 2006 -- A 1934 Winona State college grad, Florence Schroth, died at a nursing home at age 93. She taught 30 years at the Jefferson grade school in Winona. Earlier she taught at Viroqua, Wis.

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    WSU SECURITY REPORT
    WEEK ENDING MAY 6, 2006

    May 4, 2006: Someone reported at 1:18 p.m.that his unlocked bike was removed from the Minne bike rack.

    May 4, 2006: At 8:30 a.m. a faculty member reported a broken window in her Somsen office. It appears a pellet caused the damage.

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    May 3, 2006: At 9:05 p.m. a student reported the theft of a clothing item from the Lourdes dorm laundry room.

    May 3, 2006: A astudent reported at 10 p.m.that her locked bike had been taken sometime within the past week from outside of the Maria dorm.

    May 3, 2006: At 8 p.m. Security and the fire department responded to the Quad dorms, where a student was stuck in the elevator.

    May 3, 2006: A student reported at 1:08 a.m. that her purse was taken in Kryzsko Commons between 11 p.m. and midnight.

    May 1, 2006: A staff member reported at 1 p.m. that she struck another vehicle on Ninth Street near the Prentiss-Lucas dorm.

    May 1, 2006: A student hurt her ankle walking down the steps in Somsen about 9:30 a.m. Security guards helped the student to the campus nursing station.

    May 1, 2006: At 5:14 p.m. security guards responded to the Smaug, where a student was feeling faint. An ambulance took the student to the hospital.



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    WSU 4, Southwest Minnesota State 0
    WSU 10, Southwest Minnesota State 6

    Warriors split doubleheader with Southwest

    WINONA, Minn., May 6, 2006 -- Winona State University came back in the second game for a Northern Sun conference basbeall doubleheader split with Southwest Minnesota State. The Warriors gave up three home runs in the opener and lost 9-4, but came back and hit four home runs, two by Reggie Stevens, to win the nightcap 10-6. Stevens hit a three-run home run in the fourth inning and then added two insurance runs for the Warriors with a two-run blast in the sixth. Stevens finished the game with two his and five runs batted in. Josh Maggert collected three hits. Ben Barrone and Andrew Kes each hit solo home runs. Barrone also hit a solo home run for the Warriors in the second inning of the first game and finished with two hits, while Stevens added two hits to the WSU effort.

    Statistics: First game
    Statistics: Second game

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    Bike reported stolen at Maxwell Field

    WINONA, Minn., May 6, 2006 -- A man reported his bicycle was stoloen from a rack at Maxwell Field at Winona State University. The reportv was filed Saturday morning.

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    Northern Sun softball coaches tap 8 Warriors

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 6, 2006 -- Winona State University had eight players receive all-conference honors from Northern Sun coaches. Selected were outfielders Jamie Kettwig, Chelsea Rosenow and Lindasy Rosicky, catcher Sarah Carlson, firstbase player Jenny Dobbertin, third-base player Abby Kacena and designated player Terra Halron. Pitcher Jenny Stannis received honorable mention.

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    Southwest Minnesota State 3, WSU 1
    WSU 6, Wayne State 1
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    King snaps WSU hammer throw record

    MADISON, Wis., May 6, 2006 -- All-American Emily King snapped the Winona State University hammer throw record during the Wisconsin Twilight Meet. King won the hammer throw competition with a toss of 175-feet and 5-inches, breaking her own Winona State record by mroe than four feet. The other top efforts for the Warriors were a third place by All-American Deidra Faber, 1:02.03 in the 400-meter hurdles, and third place by Bria Magnuson, 11-7 3/4 in the pole vault.

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    Gustavus Adolphus 2, SMU 0


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    COURT CONVICTIONS
    WEEK ENDING MAY 6, 2006
    IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT


    UNDERAGE CONSUMPTION
    Daniel Gustaf, Beckstrom 19, Watertown, Minn., $177.

    ALL BOOZING CONVICTIONS
    ALL NOISY PARTY CONVICTIONS


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    Concordia of St. Paul 3, WSU 2

    Warriors split league softball tourney openers

    CROOKSTON, Minn., May 5, 2006 -- No. 2-seeded Winona State University split a pair of games in the double-elimination Northern Sun conference softball tournament. The Warriors opened with an 8-0 victory over Northern State, then dropped a 3-2 decision to Concordia of St. Paul.

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    The Warriors won the contest with Northern State in five innings. Chelesa Rosenow hit a three-run home run in Winona State's four-run third inning. Sarah Carlson banged out a two-run round tripper in Winona State's four-run fourth. Elissa Wisniewski tossed five innings and allowed only three hits and struck out three.

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    Against Concordia, the Warriors came back with two runs in the bottom of the seventh after beginning the frame trailing 3-0. But Warriors left the tying and winning runs on base and fell to the loser's bracket. Kristin Noble drove in the Warriors' runs with a two-run home run in the seventh. Abby Kacena had three of the Warriors's five hits.

    Statistics: Northern State game
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    ELECTION 2006

    Dayton faults Republicans on railroad upgrade

    WASHINGTON, May 5, 2006 -- Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., faulted southern Minnesota's member of the U.S. House, Republican Gil Gutknecht, for silence on allowing the Dakota, Minensota & Eastern Railroad to add more trains through the outskirts of downtown Rochester near the Mayo Clinic. Dayton also faulted Sen. Nick Coleman, R-Minn., and Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Dayton accused railroad President Kevin Schieffer of "incredible arrogance" in ramming through a railroad upgrade without consent from Rochester people. The upgrade, the laregst U.S. railroad project in a century, would bring Wyoming coal through Rochester to Winona for loading on barges. Dayton, who revels in calling Republicans mindlessly pro-business, said: "It's time the governor, Sen. Coleman and Rep. Gutknecht to stand up and tell one businessman he's not going to ramrod a project through a vital sector of Minnesota."

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    Dayton, a lame duck in the Senate, said he's alone in Congress against the project: "I've done about all I can. I'll continue to try, but I've eight more months here, I'm in the minority caucus, and Im not close to this administration."


    Mark Dayton

    MARK
    DAYTON

    Their silence speaks volumes

    Background: Wyoming coal trains won't pass WSU
    Background: Rochester continues resistance to rail upgrade
    Background: Races campus people are watching

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    WSU men fall To Washburn in tennis

    TOPEKA, Kan., May 5, 2006 -- Winona State University scored a win only in singles play and fell 6-1 to Washburn University in the opening round of 2006 NCAA Division II regional men's tennis t ournament. The Warriors' Josh Malwitz was awarded the win at No. 3 singles when his opponent was forced to default the match. The Warriors conclude their season with a 15-9 record.

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    Gustavus Adolphus 2, SMU 1
    SMU 7, St. Benedict 0


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    Bar stabbing victim better, back working

    WINONA, Minn., May 5, 2006 -- The Winona bar bouncer who was stabbed outside of Schyde's Drinks and Whatnot in February, Steve Adams, 24, is now working in Chippewa Falls, Wis., his hometown. In a phone interview, Adams said he now lives in an Eau Claire, Wis. and is working full-time in nearby Chippewa Falls as an outside sales rep for the Winona-based industrial distributor Fastenal. After living with his parents in Chippewa Falls for a month after the stabbing, Adams moved out on his own and got the Fastenal job. He is not receiving medical treatment anymore, and the recovery is going well, he said. "My back is not too bad," Adams said. "There are some problems, lots of scarring, but I'm doing well." Fatigue, mostly in his lower back where he was stabbed, is what bothers Adams most. "It doesn't get sore, it gets weak," said Adams, a former varsity football player at Winona State. "When I'm out trying to be active like I used to, I have to tell myself to slow down."

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    Along with tiredness, Adams is having problems with scar tissue building up around the wounds in his lower back. Adams said doctors encouraged him to get deep tissue massages and work out to alleviate the scar tissue. He has yet to have a deep tissue massage but is working out.

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    On the legal side, delays and postponements have slowed the process. "Everything keeps getting pushed back," Adams said, "but it doesn't bother me." Court dates for the man accused in the stabbing, Jonathan Hanz Minor, 21, have been rescheduled twice in the last six weeks.

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    Adams said living a normal life and moving on is what he wants most, but the process has been difficult. "I want to move on and put it behind me, but it's not easy," Adams said. "I try to keep it out of my mind and get back to normal, but I see the scars. I'm not normal."

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    Jonathan Hanz Minor, meanwhile, remains in custody in Winona under $100,000 bail. Before the stabbing Minor held two part-time jobs, as a painter and pizza delivery man in his hometown of Anoka. In interviews his employers spoke highly of him. Minor worked at MansettiŐs Pizza for two months up until the stabbing. "Everyone liked him, and I never had any problems with him," manager Joe Johnson said. "He seemed like a nice guy, very friendly." Minor painted houses for Gary Grinde, owner of Infinity Painting, for nearly two years. "I thought he was a great kid," Grinde said. "Actually, I was ready to give him a raise." Grinde said Minor was outgoing and bright. He said he could not imagine that Minor acted so irrationally. "He must have been in fear for his life," Grinde said in speculation. Minor's next court appearance is set for 3 p.m., June 7, before Judge Margaret Johnson.


    Steve Adams

    STEVE
    ADAMS

    Ex-WSU football player: "I see the scars. I'm not normal."



    Jonathan Hanz Minor

    JONATHAN
    HANZ
    MINOR

    Jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail

    Reporter: Chandler MacLean
    Background: Schyde's beefs up post-stabbing security
    Background: Judge: No Arizona sun man in stabbing case
    Background: Bail set at $100,000 in stabbing
    Background: Victim, others recount what happened

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    Pelowski: Anybody scanned UM-Rochester budget?

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 4, 2006 -- The leading House opponent of the proposed stand-alone University of Minnesota campus in Rochester, State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, said the new campus would cost almost 3-1/2 times to operate per student than the average for existing state colleges. Pelowski drew on data provided by supporters of the UM-Rochester proposal in arguing that there would be no cost-effectiveness. Further, he said, a projected revenue shortfall worsens the sccenario: "They have only identified funding sources of $36.7 million, leaving a funding gap of almost $27 million," Pelowski said. "In other words, UM-Rochester is in the red almost from the beginning." Pelowski's comments were on the Minneapolis Star Tribune opinion page.

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    Rep. Gene Pelowski is the lead Democrat on the House Higher Education Finance Committee. He also serves on the House Capital Investment and Education Policy and Reform Committees.

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    Pelowski said the proposed Rochester campus, a potential rival to Winona State programs in Rochester, is projected to cost $44,000 per student to operate. Universities in the MnSCU system of which Winona State is part average of $13,000 per student, he said.


    Gene Pelowski

    GENE
    PELOWSKI

    Winona legislator

    Where would dollars come from?

    Background: Verbatim: Pelowski's op-ed piece

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    Pelowski sees U-Rochester as fiscal quicksand

    MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 4, 2006 -- This is the text of an opinion piece by State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, in the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

    An editorial in Tuesday's Minneapolis Star Tribune opines that the state legislature should not go home this session without making a down payment of $5 million on the future University of Minnesota in Rochester. A research firm in Pittsburgh has concluded that the $60 million yearly budget that will be needed for the new campus -- one that is projected to serve approximately 1,400 students -- is a good investment. What value are we really getting for that $60 million? Just to compare, in 2005, UM-Duluth spent an average of $10,500 on each of its 10,496 students; UM-Morris spent $15,680 on each of its 1,684 students, and UM-Crookston spent $7,175 for each of the 2,134 students enrolled. MnSCU schools spend an average of $13,000 per student. Projections for the UM-Rochester, however, show they will spend approximately $44,000 on every student. It is hard to believe there will be an adequate return on this investment.

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    To seek further clarification, go to the same report on UM-Rochester that was used for the editorial in the Star Tribune. Here's what you will find: By the year 2015, the grand total for operating and facility costs for UM-Rochester is $63.3 million. However, they have only identified funding sources of $36.7 million, leaving a funding gap of almost $27 million. In other words, UM-Rochester is in the red almost from the beginning.

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    To add to this budgeting dilemma, no new source of money has been identified for higher education.

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    The obvious conclusion to be made is that the UM-Rochester will be paid for at the expense of students at every other college and university in our state. Are the supporters of a new college in Rochester so dazzled by the idea that they are overlooking the facts? These are big questions that need answering, before any investment of public funds is made in Rochester. Budgeting decisions such as these belong in state budgeting years -- not passed as part of a Deficiency and Supplemental Budget Bill as a "good investment" without competing against the other real needs of MnSCU, the University of Minnesota and the private colleges.

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    In a perfect world, where we spend as much money as we want on our colleges and universities, the UM-Rochester is a good idea. But, we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a world that has significantly cut state funding to higher education since 2003, a world where more and more of our students cannot afford higher education, and those who do, pay double-digit tuition increases and leave with record high debt.

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    Here is the message to those of you who want a new college in Rochester: we no longer fund wants with regard to higher education in Minnesota. The challenge now is to fund our needs; they are great, and I'm not convinced they include a new University in Rochester.


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    WSU soccer player wins scholar-athlete award

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 4, 2006 -- A Winona State University varsity soccer player, Kathryn Kramer has been named thed winner of the Willis Kelly Award as a standout athlete and scholar. Kramer received all-conference, all-region and all-America honors as a goal keeper for the Warrior soccer team that was finished the season ranked 11th in the nation. Kramer recently was named to the Kappa Mu Sigma Theta Tau nursing scholars organization. The Kelly Award, in its 21st year, is presented to the Northern Sun conference's top woman student-athlete. The award is named for the late athletic director at the University of Minnesota-Morris.

    Kathryn Kramer

    KATHRYN
    KRAMER

    Soccer-playing nursing student


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    WSU sending bus on art museum tour

    WINONA, Minn., May 4, 2006 -- A Winona State University bus trip to Minneapolis museums will include the recently expanded Asian art collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, art prof An ne Plummer announced. Stops also will include the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the Northern Clay Center, and the Weisman Art Museum. Reservations are required, Plummer said.
    Date: Sunday, May 21
    Time: 8:30 a.m. departure
    Place: Watkins Hall
    Cost: $17 to $22
    Contact: Anne Plummer at (507) 457-5393

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    House dilutes proposed pork-barrel disclosures

    WASHINGTON, May 4, 206 -- The U.S. House narrowly passed a watered-down lobbying reform bill that requires more public disclosure about pork-barrel earmarks like Rep. Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn., used for $3 million toward an underpass on Huff Street at Winona State University. The House bill would require earmark budget items buried in giant spending legislation to list the lawmakers who plugged them into the bill. Massive funding for local funding was included in the 2005 federal transportation bill without debate -- the items called "noncompetitive, directed appropriations or, more commonly, "pork-barrel." The House bill does not include a provision that would have required elaboration in the record to explain a project's essential governmental purpose. Nor does the House bill require a member sponsoring a project to, if challenged, stand before fellow House members for 10 minutes to state the case for a project before a vote. The House legislation was approved largely along party lines with the Republican majority prevailing.

    Background: Gutknecht denies pork in Huff Street money

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    WORTH READING

    Sean Wilentz. "The Worst President in History?" Rolling Stone (May 4, 2006), Pages 32-37. Wilentz, a Princeton historian, assesses how fellow historians are coming down on the current president. Hint: George W. Bush isn't on the same list as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. This is a wide-reaching and provocative analysis of the first six Bush years, which included the highest voter approval ratings since Gallup began serious polling in the 1930s and now some of the lowest ratings.

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    Pedestian hurt in intersection accident

    WINONA, Minn., May 4, 2006 -- A 23-year-old woman, Amy Johnson, was struck by a car and injured in the Fifth and Winona street crosswalk about 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, police said. An ambulance took Johnson to the hospital. Police said that Johnson was walking north on Fifth and that the westbound driver was blinded by the sun.

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    WSU's Faber named league's track-field best

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 4, 2006 -- Winona State University's senior All-America trackster, Deidra Faber, has been named Northern Sun conference women's field athlete of the week. Faber won the conference heptathlon with a Winona State record 4,414 points last week. Her winning effort included firsts in the 200-meter dash and 800-meter run and seconds in the 100-meter hurdles and high jump. Faber completed the Northern Sun multi-event sweep, winning the indoor pentathlon and the outdoor heptathlon competitions this season.

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    PHOTOGRAPHER: MEGAN BUESGENS
    58 W. Mark St.

    John Fitzgerald

    JOHN
    FITZ-
    GERALD

    58 W. Mark
    his former
    rented house




    PHOTOGRAPHER: MEGAN BUESGENS
    855 W. Fifth St.

    Drew Steinquist

    DREW
    STEIN-
    QUIST

    855 W. Fifth,
    his former
    rented house

    Fitzy, 'Quist both had earlier petty offenses

    WINONA, Minn., March 4, 2006 -- The two men accused of assaulting an elderly couple in late March both have records of earlier police run-ins, all relatively petty traffic tickets, according to court records. Court records, hwoever, don't show a brutal 2004 dorm fight at Winona State between John Michael Fitzgerald, now 21, when he was a freshman. Police decided against pressing charges after investiagting the fight at the Morey dorm because, investigators said, they couldn't determine whether Fitzgerald or football player Phil Capuzzi was more at fault. Both were kicked out of the dorm. About the March assault, which prosecutors say was unprovoked, Fitzgerald, 21, now a Winona State junior, has been released on $250,000 bail pending further courtr apearances. Drew Steinquist, 19, a Winona High grad, remains in the Winona Jail in lieu of $200,000 bail.

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    The current charges involve the tying up and beating a Winona couple because of a drug-related dispute with the couple's son. The husband and wife survived after being flwon to a La Crosse, Wis., hospital for intensive-care treatment. Fitzgerald and Steinquist face nine counts each, which each carry a maximum sentence of 40 years behind bars. Their next hearinhg is scheduled for May 10 at 1:30 p.m. before Judge Margaret Johnson.

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    Here are charges in Winona County court records against Fitzgerald:

    April 28, 2005No proof of insurance
    June 16, 2005Vehicle passenger with open pottle
    Jan. 5, 2006Failure to stop at stop signs or stop lines closed
    March 29, 2006 Kidnapping (to facilitate felony or fight)
    Kidnapping (to facilitate felony or fight)
    Kidnapping (to commit great bodily harm/terrorize)
    Kidnapping (to commit great bodily harm/terrorize)
    First-degree burglary (assault person in building/on property)
    First-degree burglary (assault person in occupied dwelling; non-accomplice; present)
    First-degree burglary (assault person in occupied dwelling; non-accomplice; present
    Second-degree assault (dangerous weapon)
    Second-degree assault (dangerous weapon)

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    Here are charges in Winona County court records against Steinquist:

    April 28, 2004Speeding (44 mph in 30 zone)
    Feb. 16, 2005Speeding (65 mph in 55 zone)
    Sept. 29, 2005Traffic regulation (driver must carry proof of insurance)
    Feb. 16, 2006Careless driving
    March 30, 2006Kidnapping (to facilitate felony or fight)
    Kidnapping (to facilitate felony or fight)
    Kidnapping (to commit great bodily harm/terrorize)
    Kidnapping (to commit great bodily harm/terrorize)
    First-degree burglary (assault person in building/on property)
    First-degree burglary (assault person in occupied dwelling; non-accomplice; present
    First-degree burglary (assault person in occupied dwelling; non-accomplice; present
    Second-degree assault (dangerous weapon)
    Second-degree assault (angerous weapon)

    Reporter: Megan Buesgens
    Background: Expert: Variables will affect sentencing
    Background: What happened that night

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    WSU student reports bike stolen

    WINONA, Minn., May 4, 2006 -- A Winona State University student, Travis Odegard, reported to police that his bike had been stolen last week off the front porch at 400 W. Sarnia St. The bike, a Trek Bruiser valued at $377, was taken sometime before April 29, Odegaard told police.

    Reporter: Adam Stanek

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    Houston offers tuition rebate for timely graduation

    HOUSTON, Texas, May 4, 2006 -- To encourage undegrads to finisn college in four years, the University of Houston is offering as much as $3,000 in tuition breaks. The university's governing baord approved the four-year incentive for next fall's freshmen who complete 30 credit hours per year. The reward is a $500 tuition rebate for the sophomore year, $1,000 for their junior year, and $1,500 for their senior year.

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    WSU jumper ponders drug-case plea bargain

    WINONA, Minn., May 4, 2006 -- A Winona State track jumper accused of possessing drugs is unsure whether she will be returning to the university in the fall. "I might transfer," Maria Helene Kiselicka said in an interview. Kiselick said she is looking at the Twin Cities, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Oshkosh. Kiselicka, 20, said she would decide this summer. She said the reason she might transfer has nothing to do with track or the drug charge but a sparsity of Winona State course in Spanish, one of her two majors. Kiselicka said her $500-a-year athletic scholarship for track and field hasnŐt suspended even though she didn't participate.

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    Kiselicka said she didnŐt practice with the track team at all after the arrest and that she didn't really talk to the coach that much. "I started backing off from it," said Kiselicka. "I like working out on my own."

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    Kiselicka last appeared in court April 27, when the judge set her pre-trial date. Kiselicka said her best bet would be to enter a bargain with the prosecution, agreeing to plead guilty and being placed on probation. As long as she doesn't mess up, the charges would be dropped, she said. "It's such a good deal," said Kiselicka. "I know I'm not guilty." Kiselicka said it's hard to prove she wasn't in possession of somebody else's prescription drugs no matter how complicated the situation was: "I technically had possession."

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    Kiselicka called the whole situation frustrating. "I didn't really do anything," she said. "It's a pain in the ass, and I shouldn't be dealing with it." Kiselicka said she wasn't drinking the night of her arrest and that she didn't know what the pills were at the time. Police claim her blood alcohol content was .019 on the night of the arrest. Asked about pictures she has posted on her on Facebook.com page with beer in hand and at a bar, Kiselicka, 20, admitted: "I obviously drink."

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    Kiselicka has hired Winona attorney Kurt Knuesel to represent her. Her next court appearance will be June 8.


    Maria Kiselicka

    MARIA
    KISELICKA

    Scholarship athlete may depart WSU


    Reporter: Megan Buesgens
    Background: Athlete in drug case: Didn't know WSU rules

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    Profs oppose honor for U.S. foreign policy chief

    BOSTON, Mass., March 4, 2006 -- Two theologians called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice morally unfit to receive an honorary degree from Boston College because of her role in the Iraq war and in Bush Administration foreign policy. Kenneth Himes and David Hollenbach, of the college faculty, said 150 fellow faculty immediately joined their protest by adding their names to a letter of protest. Said the letter: "On the levels of both moral principle and practical moral judgment, Secretary Rice's approach to international affairs is in fundamental conflict with Boston College's commitment to the values of the Catholic and Jesuit traditions and is inconsistent with the humanistic values that inspire the university's work." The letter noted that Pope John Paul II and U.S. Catholic bishops opposed the Iraq war. The protest is not against Rice as commencement speaker, which Himes and Hollednbach said is consistent with academic freedom. "It is not our intent to disrupt the commencement," he said. Honoring her the degree, though, is something else, they said.

    Background: Verbatim: Letter of protest

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    Boston faculty letter targets secretary of state

    BOSTON, Mass., May 4, 2006 -- This is the text of a letter by Boston College theology profs Kenneth Himes and David Hollenbach against the presentation of an honorary degree to Secretary of State Condelesa Rice:

    We, the undersigned members of the faculty at Boston College, strongly disagree with the decision of the university's leadership to grant Condoleezza Rice an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and to invite her to address the 2006 commencement. On the levels of both moral principle and practical moral judgment, Secretary Rice's approach to international affairs is in fundamental conflict with Boston College's commitment to the values of the Catholic and Jesuit traditions and is inconsistent with the humanistic values that inspire the university's work.

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    As a matter of moral principle, Rice maintains that U.S. foreign policy should be based on U.S. national interest and not on what she calls the interests of an "illusory international community." This stands in disturbing contrast with the Catholic and humanistic conviction that all people are linked together in a single human family and that all nations in our interdependent world have a duty to protect "the common good of the entire human family."

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    On the level of practical judgment, Rice has helped develop and implement the strategic policies that have guided the United States in the tragic war in Iraq. Pope John Paul II and the United States Catholic bishops opposed initiating this war on ethical grounds. We also believe the policies that have shaped the war's ongoing conduct cannot be justified in light of the moral values of the Catholic tradition or the norms of international law.

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    For these reasons, we object to Boston College honoring Condoleezza Rice at its 2006 commencement. Doing so contradicts the university's Catholic, Jesuit, and humanistic identity.


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    Student leader: Too busy to discuss MSUSA

    WINONA, Minn., May 3, 2006 -- The student president-elect at Winona State University, Carl Soderberg, denied a request for an interview on the troubled Minnesota State University Student Association proposal for a fee increase on students. After three e-mnail requests, Soderberg responded that he was too busy. The reporter had asked for 10 minutes. As incoming student president at Winona State, Soderberg will move onto the governing board of St. Paul-based MSUSA. The association has been under fire for running up $400,000 in legal bills and concealing the expenses from students at member campuses, including Winona State, who pay $12 a year on average to fund the organization. The association, meanwhile, is seeking roughly an additional $1 levy per student to stay afloat.

    Carl Soderberg

    CARL
    SODERBERG

    WSU student presdient-elect

    Reporter: Laura Spielmann

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    SOFTBALL (WOMEN'S)

    SMU 1, UW-River Falls 0
    SMU 2, UW-River Falls 2 (tie) (called for darkness)


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    Halron named league softball player of week

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 3, 2006 -- Winona State University outfielder Terra Halron has been named the Northern Sun conference softball player of the week. Halron hit .533 in the four games last week and came up with six doubles and one home run for a 1.133 slugging percentage. Halron also scored seven runs and drove in seven runs and posted a .533 on base percentage.

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    GOLF (MEN'S)

    NCAA Division II Regional (third day): WSU 865 (1st), Washburn 872 (2nd), Central Missouri State 881 (3rd), Missouri Western State 886 (4th), Missouri Southern State 896 (5th), UM-Crookston 918 (6th), Bemidji State 923 (7th), Truman State 924 (8th)

    Warrior golfers capture regional championship

    CREST HILL, Ill., May 3, 2006n -- -- Winona State University shot a tournament team low and went on to capture the NCAA Division II Men's Central Region championship. The Warriors now advance to the Division II national championships at Daniels, W.Va. At the rehionals, Winona State trailed by two strokes going into the final 18 holes of the three-day 54-hole event and rallied by posting a 279 total, nine-under par as a team, and won the team championship by seven strokes over Washburn. Winona State opened the tournament with a even-par total total of 288 and a seven-stroke lead but slipped the second day and combined for a 10-over par total to trail Washburn by two strokes. Winona State put three players in the top four and four in the top 15. Troy Merritt led Winona State with medalist honors. Merritt started tournament play with a five-under par 67 and followed that up with a one-over par 73 and a two-under par 70 for a winning total of six-under par 210. Kevin Loeffler shot a tournament low round of 65 on the final day to finish third. Loeffler started with a 77 and followed that up with a 74 before the impressive round of 65. In a tie for fourth for the Warriors was Bret Toftness with a 217 on scores of 71-73-73. Matt Horel tied for 15th with a 73-80-81-224 effort. Chad Bischoff rounded out the winning Winona State effort with 77-78-75-230 to tie for 27 out of 45 players.

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    WSU class to continue cranberry tests

    WINONA, Minn., May 3, 2006 -- Can drinking cranberry juice cure your aches and pains? Well, not exactly according to research in two senior-Level courses at Winona State University taught by Gary Kastello. But, says Kastello, who teaches health exercise and rehab, more research is needed concerning muscle soreness and the ingestion of anti-oxidants like those in cranberry juice. The results that his students are getting show that simply drinking some Ocean Spray cranberry juice from the grocery store doesn't ease soreness after strenuous activity. However, the research has people at Winona-based vitamin and supplement marketer Watkins interested to the point that Winona State and Watkins will be working together on new tests this fall. Brenda Koth, a Watkins nutritionist, said that Watkins will supply a formula for students to test. Neither Koth nor Kastello would reveal the formula but said it will contain a mixture of anti-oxidants. They hope that the many anti-oxidants taken together will produce the results they are looking for. Watkins will produce a supplement for sale "if the results are favorable," Koth said.

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    This cranberry project has been characterized as a textbook example of how Winona State's Learning for the 21st Century initiative is intended to work. The L21 budget provided $10,000, shared among three Winona State aacdemic departments -- health, biology and chemistry. Students in each department examined aspects of health benefit of the cranberry. Watkins put $2,200 into the project.

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    The hypothesis that health-rehab students tested was whether the ingestion of cranberry juice before a strenuous activity helps delay muscle soreness. Test participants drank either a cranberry juice or a placebo before doing bicep curls. The participants were tested 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours afterward for signs of soreness and muscle damage. The students concluded that typical store-bought cranberry juice did not leave test participants any less sore. They also did not see a significant difference in creatine kinase, which is the blood marker that appears when muscles are damaged, which is the cause of soreness. They did find, however, those drinking store-bought juice showed decreased inflammation of muscles compared to those who drank the placebo drink, but did not affect pain.

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    After testing regular cranberry juice, the class doubled the concentration of the cranberry juice from 27 percent, the average in a store bought juice, to 54 percent, Kastello said. The students just finished doing the tests at double the concentration and haven't yet come to a sound conclusion, he said.

    Reporter: Sam Molter
    Background: Might cranberries harbor miracles?

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    ELECTION 2006

    Gutknecht, students at odds on higher-ed law

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- The College Access and Opportunities Act, which Congress has approved despite being widely assailed as anti-student, was supported by southern Minnesota's member of Congress. Rep. Gil Gutknecht did not respond to repeated requests for an interview to explain his vote, although his publicist, Jon Yarian, forward what he said Gutknecht regards as positive aspects of the law. These include a government requirement for colleges to explain tuition increases and to come up with strategies to hold tuition down. Critics, however, argue that the law will make attending college more difficult for low-income families. Gutknecht voted with the Republican majority to pass the law. Critics included student government associations that argued that the law would make the single largest cut to federal financial aid in 40 years.

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    Chief among student objections were that the law would:

  • Freeze student loan interest at 8.25 percent, reversing a 2001 decision to lower interest to 6.8 percent.
  • Freeze the maximum federal Pell grant at $5,800.
  • Eliminate Pells for 81,000 low-income students, and reduce Pells for 35 percent more.
  • Freeze federal work-study spending.
  • Freeze aid to LEAP, a program that helps states send low-income students to college.
  • Cut the Student Aid Reward Act, which would have made $17.3 billion available to students at no additional cost to taxpayers.
  • Eliminate the fixed consolidation rate, preventing student borrowers from locking in low interest rates on their loans.
  • Increase lon consolidation costs for current students.
  • Bar students from paying off their loans at once.
  • Require students to pay a new fee for borrowing.


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    In an e-mail, Yarian as Gutnknect's communicatiions director listed these points that he said were positive components of the law:

  • The law establishes a so-called academic bill of rights. House Republicans, members of the higher education community, and defenders of student freedom of speech struck an accord last year to strengthen protections for student speech and association rights under the federal Higher Education Act. The stronger protections -- incorporated in an "Academic Bill of Rights" -- strike a balance between ensuring students are not discriminated against because of their political or ideological perspectives, while also protecting the fundamental rights of institutions to maintain their unique character and identity. The protections also ensure the federal government will not influence the curriculum being taught in colleges.


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  • The law provides parents and students information currently sent to the U.S. Department of Education about college costs, student/faculty ratios, graduation rates, and average amount of financial aid being received by students. Furthermore, institutions that increase tuition and fees at more than twice the rate of inflation over a three-year interval will be publicly identified and asked to provide information to the public about the causes of tuition increases, as well as strategies to help hold down tuition in the future.


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  • The law makes college access easier for members of the military and for veterans . The legislation ensures the eligibility of all veterans to participate in the TRIO college access programs. The bill also classifies members of the Armed Forces as independent students, which could increase access to financial aid. These reforms build on important education benefits for military personnel enacted in February 2006 under the Deficit Reduction Act. That measure provided that active duty members of the military may receive loan deferment -- meaning payments are not required and interest will not accrue -- when serving the nation.


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  • The law demands accountability in federal college access programs. The bill establishes performance measures for the TRIO federal college access programs. This system of increased accountability will foster more competition and allow quality TRIO programs to demonstrate and be rewarded for their success.

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  • The law encourages students to make progress toward degree completion. The College Access & Opportunity Act will provide year-round Pell Grant funding for students accelerating their coursework and encourage students to complete their studies in a timely fashion by limiting Pell Grant eligibility to 18 semesters, or 27 quarters.


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    Students have been unimpressed with such observations. At Winona State student President Ryan Flynn said that while in Washington in September he lobbied against the College Access and Opportunities Act and tried to sit down with Gutknecht to discuss provision. The closest the Winona State student delegation got, said Flynn was a Gutknecht staffer who "asked us if we knew how many zeroes were in $35 billion."

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    Tim Walz, the Democrat challenging Gutknecht in November, also is critical of the College Access and Opportunities Act, whose title he regards as a misnomer. "This bill represents a major missed opportunity to make college more affordable, to boost America's economic competitiveness, and to invest in America's continued prosperity," Walz said in an interview. Walz noted that he was able to attend college only because of the GI Bill he earned while serving in the National Guard. His younger brother, Walz said, received Social Security survivor benefits for college after their father. "Today we are both contributing members of society and have paid back the federal government many times over," Walz said. "Pell Grants and federal loans serve the same purpose as the GI Bill and Social Security survivor's benefits. They help our children become contributing members of society."

    Reporter: Chad Larimer


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    Dance Trajectory
    "TRAJECTORY
    SLIGHTLY
    ALTERED"

    Allison Engelsma
    Michelle Berth
    Susie Soukaseume
    Katie Moses
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    Four WSU grads taking dance triumph with them

    WINONA, Minn., May 3, 2006 -- As the Class of 2006 is graduated at Winona State University on Friday, four dancers will take with them the memory not only of a valuable experience but also of a great honor. In March the four seniors, along with 14 other members of the university's dance program, participated in the American College Dance Festival-North Central Regional Conference at the University of Iowa. Three pieces were performed, and the judges chose one dance, "Trajectory Altered Slightly," for festival's fianle concert. The selection, said faculty cheoreographer Sharon Mansur, was "testament to the strong commitment, talent and energy of wonderful dancers." The performers were seniors Michelle Berth, Allison Engelsma, Katie Moses and Susie Soukaseume.

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    Berth, an education major, said: "I honestly couldn't think of a better way to end the year." Moses, a social work major, agreed: "It was the perfect way to end my senior year." Engelsma, a theater major, is still breathless. "Performing in front of so many people was an experience I'll never forget," said Engelsma. "I don't think I took a breath during the whole piece." Soukaseume, whose studies have focused on choreography and dance management, remembered the moments before the curtain opened. "All we kept saying backstage was 'Guess what? We're in the Gala!'"

    Reporter: Courtney Kish

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    Search warrant's validity is issue in White case

    WINONA, Minn., May 3, 2006 -- Whether Winona State University student Sen. Alex White gets off the hook for the police bust of his Halloween house party may hinge on whether the cops had sufficient reasons to seek a search warrant to get inside the house. White's attorney, Rich McCluer, says that the warrant that police obtained from Judge Jeff Thompson at 4 a.m., Oct. 28, was not legally justified. Therefore, McCluer says, the evidence obtained in the search cannot be used against White and charges should be dismissed. The information that the cops provided the judge in seeking the middle-of-the-night warrant was insufficient, McCluer says. The cops, he says, had only suspicions of illegal activity at the house. The search warrant application, he says, lacked sufficient detail for "probable cause," a legal term for whether a warrant should be issued. McCluer's argument, in a brief field in February, has been under advisement by Judge Margaret Johnson. The judge is expected to rule on the issue any day.

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    After police entered the house, ending a four-hour standoff, White, 20, was cited with underage liquor consumption, possession of more than one keg of beer, and possession of unregistered kegs. Another charge, violation of a city noise ordinance, is not related to the search warrant.

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    It was police Sgt. David Allen who, after several attempts to contact the tenants of the party house, signed the application to Judge Thompson for a search warrant Allen's two-page document, sworn under oath, describes the events as he saw them from the time that he arrived at the scene to the time that he left to get Judge Thompson out of bed. Allen said that he and another officer, responding to a noise complaint, sighted three women in the alley behind the house and ticketed them for underage liquor consumption. A little later, after the doors of the house were locked to keep them out, Allen said the police detained a young man who was trying to regain entrance to the house. The man, he said, lied about his age and identity. Allen said too that officers had seen a half barrel of Busch Lite in the backyard, along with orange cups, some with beer. Allen said his observations suggested that White's house was being used as means of committing a crime. Allen told Judge Thompson that the search warrant was needed on the spot. Immediacy was important, he said, to preserve evidence within the house.

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    Upon entering the house, Allen said in a court document, he gave White a copy of the original warrant before pursuing the search. Taken in the search was the half barrel of Busch Lite in the backyard, one keg tap, and two 1.75-liter bottles of vodka. Other empty keg barrels were found at the house during the investigation but were not taken as evidence.

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    On White's behalf, McCluer says that none of the information in the application for a search warrant was sufficiently detailed. Mere suspicion does not lead to probable cause, he said. McCluer's brief argues that Minnesota law requires more facts than they did in order to link illegal activity to the house.


    Alex White

    ALEX
    WHITE

    Did underage boozers around the house, a backyard keg, and beer cups strewn around constitute probable cause?

    Reporter: Marissa Block
    Background: Decision near in Halloween party case
    Background: Rival WSU Student Senate candidate defends White

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    R.I.P.: Barbara E (Bryn) Schaefer

    HARTLAND, Wis., May 2, 2006 -- A 1963 Winona State Universityv grad, Barbara Schaefer, died at a nursing home at age 65. She was a school librarian in Oconomoc, Wis., and earlier in Mayville.

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    Maintaining trees and grounds has been a trial through recent construction
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    Construction has complicated WSU landscaping

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- Winona State UniversityŐs senior groundskeeper, Bill Meyer, has been hard at work over the last couple of weeks to keep the campus spruced up for graduation and the rush of summer visitors. "It's a beautiful campus, and I just want to keep it that way so that everyone can admire it," Meyer said. According to Meyer, it often becomes difficult to work around campus construction because the areas around the buildings are constantly changing and in need of replanting. Many trees such as the ones near the most southern entrance of the Pasteur science building needed to be protected or moved during construction projects. "We made sure there were fences around them but we were ready to transplant them if necessary," said Meyer.

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    The three Donald Wyman crabapples outside Pasteur, unscathed by construction, and are actually in bloom. Showing their characteristic white flowers, other Wyman crabapples also are in bloom between the Minne classroom building and the Baldwin Lounge of the Kryzsko Commons.

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    The campus has a tree plan that includes red pine, magnolia, American yellowwood, river birch, and northern catalpas. In fact, every species indigenous to Minnesota is growing onb campus. As the main designer of the plan, Meyer is in charge of species selection, placement and maintenance.

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    Meyer said that the spring season is most crucial. Grass and trees need plenty of nutrients that they did not have during the winter, he said. "With all the construction and activity on campus, it is sometimes hard to fertilize grass or keep certain trees in good health," said Meyer.

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    Meyer began his work at Winona State in 1988 and carried out his tree plan under former university President Darrell Krueger. Sixty new tree species planted on main campus during those years, said Meyer. With the Kryzsko solarium and Pasteur construction projects nearly complete, Meyer has some landscape designing to do. He will begin planting this summer in preparation for the solarium's fall grand opening. "I have a few ideas, but nothing is final yet." he said.

    Reporter: Carrie Frillman


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    House lifts limits on UM Rochester plan

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- The Minnesota House has opened the way for the University of Minnesota to go into direct competition with Winona State and other colleges offering programs in Rochester. A bill for $88 million to start a University of Minensota operation in Rochester originally prohibited duplication of existing programs, including bachelor's and master's programs that Winona State offers in Rochester -- and also a new doctortal degree in nursing. But the House by a wide margin now has deleted those restrictions. State Rep. Gene Pelwoski, D-Winona, who has opposed the University of Minesota Rochester initiative, tried to get the non-duplication provision restored in the bill but failed. The plan for a new Rochester university orignated in January 2005 with Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The governor has pressed Republican legislators, who dominate the House, to support the plan.

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    Catholic club wins round in bid for student fees

    MADISON, Wis., May 2, 2006 -- The University of Wisconsin chancellor, John Wiley, approved $145,000 in student fees for a Catholic club to print religious booklets and support religious activities -- if the state university regents gon along. Wiley acknowledged concerns that separation of church and state issues are involved. In requesting student fee money, the UW Roman Catholic Foundation cited a U.S. Supreme Court decision that public universities must award mandatory student fees to student groups without regard to their viewpoints. Opponents, however, have pointed to the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits public money to support religion. In its budget request, the Catholic group said the money would help run an evangelical ministry, support prayer groups and print Lenten booklets. The group had threatened to sue if denied the money. Now, if the regents endorse Wiley's decision, the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has vowed to sue.

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    Hamline 9, SMU 4
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    Revenge-seeking Chapel Hill driver indicted

    HILLSBOROUGH, N.C., May 2, 2006 -- A grand jury indicted Mohammed Taheri-Azar on charges of driving a Jeep through the University of North Carolina campus, hitting nine people and trying to kill them. After the March 3 incident, Taheri-Azar was quoted that he was seeking retaliation for the deaths of Muslims throughout the world by the U.S. government. Taheri-Azar is a graduate of the university.

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    Underage alcohol cases may be easing

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- Underage boozing convictions in Winona, mostly of college students, may be declining. This school year has seen 237 convictions in Winona District Court so far, compared to 327 last year -- a 27.5 percent decline. This year's tally, however, covers only eight months begining in September, while the tally for the previous year covers a full 12 months. Summer, however, is relatively fallow for underage alcohol cases with the city largely devoid of college students.

    Reporter: Megan Buesgens
    Background: Underage boozing convictions

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    Rival WSU Student Senate candidate defends White

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- A candidate for the Winona State University Student Senate, Theresa Stahota, who came in fourth behind Alex White in April elections, said that White's legal problems shouldn't be held against him. "As long as behaviors don't give a bad image to the Senate they shouldnŐt hurt the eligibility of the senator," Strahota said in an interview. Strahota minimizes the significance of multiple charges against White from a Halloween house party, including possession of more than one keg of beer, possession of unregistered kegs, drinking under the legal age and a noise ordinance violation. "There could be worse things," said Strahota.

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    In the election for three seats to represent the junior class next year, Jared Stene led with 191 votes, followed by A.J. Schuler, 181; White, 155; and Strahota, 126. Only because Stene was also elected to a liberal seats and opted not to take a junior seat did Strahota move into third place and win re-election to the Senate. She has been an at-large senator this year.

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    Strahota said that White has done good deeds for the Senate. "He's a good resource for information and knows a lot about the university," said Strahota. "He's always able to discuss what's going on and give feedback." Strahota, a public relations major, as is White, noted that he has been active on the public relations committee and is good at getting people to help out and get involved.

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    Although White generally has turned away questions about the legal aftermath of the Halloween party, he defended his Senate accomoplishments in a recent interview. "Just last week," he said, "I went around and got over 43 people to sign up for the blood drive."

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    In a separate interview Strahota called White focused and dedicated to the students as any senator. She said the party issue has not affected White's performance. About the recent elections, Strahota said that although she and White were rivals they campaigned together. "It's not about winning or losing," she said. "It's about having the best people represent the school." Did the attention White's received for the party hurt his candidacy" "It might have increased his name recognition," Strahota said.


    Theresa Strahota

    THERESA
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    Now a junior senator, barely



    Alex White

    ALEX
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    Now also a junior senator

    Reporter: Marissa Block
    Background: Decision near in Halloween party case

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    WSU lit mag Satori just in time

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- One-thousand copies of the Satori, the annual Winona State University student literary magazine showed up scattered around campus as students were slogging through exam week -- just in time before the place turns tomb-quiet. Editor Chris Waldron said the issue, produced in an English class taught by Gary Eddy, includes six prose pieces, 19 poems and 19 photos and art pieces. Maggie Bambenek contributed the cover and back cover photos of the CLiffs of Maher in County Clare and other shots from the British isles. Poetry editor Lauren Elizono included five of her poems, including the issue's briefest item:

    GOLDEN

    A pea-sized heart
    Beats like raindrops
    On a rhubarb leaf


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    Illinois college honors Southeast Tech president

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- The president of Southeast Tech, Jim Johnson, has been inducted into his alma mater's Alumni Hall of Fame. Jim Johnson and three other grads of Rock Valley Community College in Rockford, Ill., were honored in a weekend ceremony. Johnson is a 1974 grad remembered for football prowess that led to a full-ride scholarship at the University of Idaho. Johnson has been at Southeast Tech for 26 years. He was named president in 1995.

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    NCAA Division II Regional: Washburn 584 (1st), WSU 586 (2nd), Missouri Western State 588 (3rd), Central Missouri State 589 (4th), Missouri Southern State 603 (5th), Truman State 611 (6th), UM-Crookston 614 (7th), Bedmidji State 622 (8th)


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    Bush plan: Use college dorms for flu quarantine

    WASHINGTON, May 2, 2006 -- In anticipation of a massive bird flue epidemic, President Bush is expected to call for colleges to decide now which dorms can be used as overflow facilities to quarantine stricken people. The recommendation is in a 228-page draft document prepared for the President, according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy. The document, also, calls for employers to keep workers at least three feet apart and that airliners be stocked with surgical masks for coughing travelers. The report predicts massive disruptions if the bird flu or some other potent new influenza hits the nation. As much as 40 percent of the work force could be off the job, the report says.

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    Since 2003 the Asian bird flu, called the H5N1 strain, has struck more than 200 people, killing about half, although none in the United States. The cases so far almost all came from close contact with infected poultry or droppings. The United States, population 300 million, is stockpiling but so far has only 4 million doses.

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    Decision near in Halloween party case

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- The case against a Winona State University football player and student senator, stemming from a Halloween party seven months ago, may be only days away from being settled. Judge Maragret Johnson is expected to rule within a week whether to dismiss the case against Alex White or set a further court date for the next step toward trial. Shaw has briefs under advisement from the city attorney and from White's attorney. At the party, which was at White's house, he was was cited for noise ordinance violation, underage liquor consumption, possession of more than one keg of beer, and possession of unregistered kegs. There were also 22 other arrests or citations issued after partiers locked police out, leading to a four-hour standoff that polarized students, many of whom argued they had a right to party, and townspeople, who saw the incident as an escalation in unruly and lawless college partying. Of the 23 cases, only White's case remains unsettled. The other partiers have paid fines totaling more than $4,000.

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    White, 20, meanwhile, has been suspended from football pending the outcome of the case. He was, however, re-elected to the Student Senate in April -- a distant third in a four-way race for three seats from the junior class.

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    Rich McCluer, the attorney representing White, made a case to dismiss the charges in documents filed with Judge Shaw on Feb. 8. Judges typically have 90 days to consider such briefs and assess reports, documents and evidence. It is not known how McCluer framed the issues for the judge. White, although avoiding interview questions on the legalities, has claimed on numerous occasions that the police were rude to him and his friends. That, he said, is why the door to the house was locked in the first place. That the police called in reserve officers, surrounded the house in a four-hour stand-off, and then obtained the search warrant could have been avoided, he said. "The whole thing just got out of hand," said White.


    Alex White

    ALEX
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    Judge pondering his dismissal motion

    Reporter: Marissa Block
    Background: White's football suspension into seventh month

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    Global expert: Amnesty needed for illegal aliens

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- A global studies prof at Winona State University, Michael Bowler, says illegal immigrants into the United States should be granted amnesty. The option is deporting millions of people already living and working in the country, Bowler said, citing logistical and other problems that would arise from trying to kick so many people out. These people, he said, are contributing to the workforce and to the economy. Although Bowler favors amnesty for existing immigrants, he called for tougher measures to prevent more illegal immigration. "We need immigration," he said. "It is a part of what this country is. But we need to make it very difficult so that we don't see this problem again."

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    In an interview Bowler said the nation needs clear laws and regulations so that so that legal immigration can continue. He noted that only recently has the have Hispanics become the largest than other group of illegal aliens. Until five years ago the largest group was from Ireland, he said, Ireland had been the second poorest country in Europe, he said, but now is the second wealthiest. Helping Mexico's economy would be a great step in deterring illegal immigration, Bowler said. Bowler pointed out that it would not be easy for Mexico to make the drastic transition that Ireland did, but, he said, it could be done. "Ireland made higher education free for its entire population. It increased healthcare and gave tax breaks to other countries that invest there," Bowler said. If Mexico could follow Ireland's example it could become a thriving country and people would no longer need to leave to find work, he said.

    Reporter: Mark Chryst
    Background: Immigration protests largely bypass campuses


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    Tighter borders also needed


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    RAMALEY AND THE PRESS

    Journalist: How's seeking answers unethical?

    ITHACA, N.Y., May 2, 2006 -- It's not unethical for a reporter to ask probing questions, according to the vice chair of campus affairs of the national Society of Professional Journalists. "It's the reporter's job to ask them," said Mead Loop, when asked about recent criticism by Winona State University President Judith Ramaley's at being asked questions in an interview that she hadn't expected. Ramaley called surprise questions "unethical" and "unprofessional." She had similar words for student reporters who flagged her in various places around campus to put questions to her. Said Loop, who is a journalism prof at Ithaca College. "It's appropriate to make an appointment, but sometimes that just isn't possible and a reporter has to find other means to meet with the person." Ramaley has granted only two sit-down interviews with campus journalists in nine months.

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    On what's ethical and what isn't, Loop said it usually is more or less the attitude of the student conducting the interview. "How do the students conduct themselves?" said Loop. "Are they polite?"

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    Loop said that Ramaley needs to expect that student reporters will try to ask her questions. It is something she should have been prepared for before becoming a university president, he said. "Presidents are public figures," said Loop. "They have to know that they this is going to happen." Before his faculty aapointment at Ithaca College in 1995, Loop was national editor of the Nashville, Tenn., Banner newspaper. Earlier he was a copy editor at the Lancaster, Pa., Intelligencer Journal and at the Kansas City, Mo., Times and Star. He holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.


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    Campus issues vice president for national journalism society

    Reporter: Marissa BLock
    Background: WSU president: J-students not learning ethics

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    WSU ready for Dumpster Diversion at dorms

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- The Habitat for Humanity ReStore will collect items that Winona State University dorm tenants want to discard in packing up to move out for the summer. Dorms chief Paul Scheevel said ReStore personnel will be looking for reusable furniture, clothing, non-perishable food, and cleaning supplies at huge trash containers that have been moved into place at the Quad, Prentiss-Lucas, Sheehan, Lourdes and East Lake dorms. The ReStore staffing will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Scheevel said. She encouraged student living off-campus to donate to:

  • Habitat for Humanity, 77 Laird St.
  • Winona Volunteer Services, 416 E. Second St.
  • Catholic Worker Bethany House, 832 W. Broadway.


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    Mumps epidemic misses WSU

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- Winona State University, now into final exams, has little to be concerned about regarding the recent mumps outbreak, said campus health services chief Diane Palm. There have been no confirmed cases of mumps in Winona and only eight in the southern half of Minnesota as of April 20, Palm said. Initial cases showed up in Iowa six to eight weeks. Because of a three-week incubation period, if there was going to be an outbreak in the Winona it would have happened already, Palm said. If there were any confirmed cases in Winona. Palm said she would be proactive and inform the student body.

    Reporter: Mark Chryst

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    Report faults Duke for lacrosse team excesses

    DURHAM, N.C., May 2, 2006 -- Two internal reports on the Duke University men's lacrosse rape case cast lots of blame. The Student Affairs Committee of the university's Academic Council said the university is tolerates "large-scale violations of its alcohol policy" through inconsistently enforcement of student conduct codes. The second report, by an ad-hoc faculty committee, concluded that Duke lacrosse players are "academically and athletically responsible students" but "socially irresponsible consumers of alcohol." In short, they're good kids who drink too much. The faculty report characterized team members as polite and engaged students who volunteer at local elementary schools and for the Special Olympics. Paradoxically, the report said they they drink excessively; urinate publicly; destroy property, for example by firing golf balls at a campus building; and disrupt thed peace with loud music and noise. The report lists misconduct since 2000, including some obscure references to sophomoric games -- "theft of pizza," "playing drinking game," "suspicion of throwing water." Team members have no history of racist behavior or sexual assault, the report said.

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    The rape stems from a team prty at which a female dancer was hired. She later reported that she was raped. Three team members have been charged. The case has set off issues of racism tat have divided Durham. The lacrosse players are white from elitist Duke, the dancer from primarily black North Carolina Central University across town.

    Background: WSU lacrosse players doubtful over Duke case

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    House kills restoring statutory college funding level

    ST. PAUL, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- The Minnesota House scrubbed a proposal to restore the state's statutory funding obligation for higher-education at twice the level of tuition. The so-called Pelowski Amendment, bearing the name of Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, was killed on a 65-65 procedural vote on the House floor. The Pelowski Amendment was in a mega-supplemental bill that would have restored the portions of the higher education funding formula to 67 percent state money and 33 percent tuition. The Legislature has slipped grdually to a 50:50 ratio. On the floor House Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon, ruled the Pelowski Amendment out of order. Pelowski appealed the ruling but lost on the closest possible margin--a 65-65 tie vote. It was a party line vote. The only Republican to side was Pelowski was Rep. Dan Dorman of Albert Lea.

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    WSU speaker recounts near-death experience

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- About a near-death experience, speaker Sondra Abrahams told a Winona State University audience over the weekend that she saw God and heaven, hell and everything in between. It had happened during surgery in 1970. "I saw myself on the table, and then I saw everyone else on their tables," she said. Abrahams was undergoing a routine hysterectomy when she went into a reaction from the pain medication and ended up almost suffocating. Abrahams said that she heard the doctor say "'I'm losing her,' and that's when I saw the white light." She was announced legally dead by the doctors. Abrahams, a devout Catholic, said she remembers arriving in heaven and God said, "Watch and tell me what you think," as her life flash before her eyes. Now 66, Abrahams has spoken to many churches, schools and colleges about the experience. She was the subject of the documentary "Her Life After Death." The Winona State audience, about 120 people, was mostly townspeole.

    Reporter: Amy Vergin

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    Gallaudet students upset at new president

    WASHINGTON, May 2, 2006 -- Hundreds of students protested the naming of Jane K. Fernandes as Gallaudet University's president. Students blocked the main campus gates of the university, which focuses on deaf stduents, and climbed onto the stone fences and one another's shoulders to sign messages of protest. They scrawled angry words on bare stomachs in thick paint. The issue was mostly that the board of trustees, in choosing Fenandes, had ignored the student preference. Protesters called Fernandes cold, aloof and condescending. One poster read: "She doesn't say 'hi.' As president Fernandes replaces King Jordan, who has been president for 18 years. Fernandes has been at Gallaudet for 11 years and provost since 2000. All the finalists were deaf.

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    Immigration protests largely bypass campuses

    LOS ANGELES, Calif., KMay 2, 2006 -- A national day of boycott organized by advocates for illegal immigrant rights included scattered campus demonstrations nothing disruptive. Campuses with rallies inckluded Humboldt State, Stanford and Valparaiso. The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, based in Washington, had recomemnded to member colleges to prepare for massive job walk-offs and boycotts, but nothing like that materialized. Hundreds of thousands of people marched throughs treets in Los Angeles, Chicago and other major cities with significant communities of illegal immigrants. The protests were aimed at legislation in Congress to deport or criminalize illegal immigrants.

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    Diversity recognition ceremony at WSU

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2007-- An awards program recognizing diversity at Winona State, the first ever at the university, has been scheduled for students with outstanding academic achievement, leadership, campus or community service, and commitment to diversity. Alex Hines, the university's cultural diversity director, said that Cal Winbush, the university's vice president of student affairs, who is retiring, will be recognized.
    Date: Tuesday, May 2
    Time: 5:30 p.m.
    Place: Student Activity Center, Kryzsko Commons
    Cost: Free
    Contact: Alex Hines

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    COMMENT
    MSUSA FINANCES

    WHY SO MUCH?

    The Minnesota State University Student Association has three staff people in St. Paul. To run the operation, the typical student at Winona State and other state universities is taxed $12.49 a year. The tax is added to the activity fee. The Arizona Student Association, whose mission also is lobbying for student interests, has a three-person staff too. But Arizona students pay only $2 a year. What is wrong with this picture?

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    And now the MSUSA leadership has engineered a plan to hike the levy on Minnesota students to $13.76 -- up more than 10 percent. Sadly, the Winona State Student Senate has endorsed the hike with nary a glance at the MSUSA balance sheet, which the association's Executive Board has intentionally tried to shield from public scrutiny. Winona State students need to press their student senators with tough questions. Also for transparent governance and openness and honesty at MSUSA.

    Background: Arizona student exec charged with embezzlement
    Background: New revelation: MSUSA legal bills top $400,000
    Background: MSUSA seeks 10% student fee hike


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    WSU lacrosse players doubtful over Duke case

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- Media coverage of the Duke University lacrosse team rape case is bad publicity for the sport in general, said Winona State lacrosse team captain Jon Beach. Beach says lacrosse had been an obscure sport in the Midwest but now is associated with evil. Beach said that if parents hear about the sport having bad role models, they're less likely to sign their kids up for the sport. When Beach talks with teammates about the Duke court case, in which three players are charged with rape, nobody sees the prosecution as havinga good case. "From what I've heard, it doesn't sound like there's DNA evidence," said Beach. The woman may have been abused, wich isn't right, but abuse can stop short of the crime of rape, he said.

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    At Winona State, lacrosse is a club, not varsity sport. This is Winona State's second year with a team. It's been a struggle to get started, Beach said, noting that last year the team didn't get a club constitution to Student Senate on time and therefore didn't receive funding. The Winona State lacrosse team is playing with the cross-town St. Mary's team. Next year, Beach hopes, Winona State will have its own team. On the joint team this year Winona State has 15 players and St. Mary's seven.

    Reporter: Lydia Oglesby
    Background: Two arrests made in Duke lacrosse case



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    WSU economist: Gas price hikes have upside

    WINONA, Minn., May 2, 2006 -- As difficult as rising gas prices are, now reaching $3 a gallon, Wnona State University econ prof Don Salyards sees a silver lining. Rising prices will make the cost of extracting oil in the United States and Canada more appealing, which ultimately will reduce U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil, Salyards said in an interview. "If we reduce our dependence on the Middle East for oil they won't be able to blackmail the U.S. anymore, and the Saudis won't be able to talk out of both sides of their mouths by supporting terrorists and radical Muslims while at the same time pretending to be our friends," he said. Salyards said that the United States has needed Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers not because they have oil but because they have cheap oil. He noted that Saudi oil reserves are estimated at 240 billion barrels -- less than the 280 to 300 billion barrels estimated in Canadian oil sands, said Salyards. He said thjat some geologists estimate that the U.S. oil shale reserve also is roughly as large as the reserve in Saudi Arabia, albeit more expensive to recover. "Higher oil prices will change the geo-political landscape forever, and to our advantage," said Salyards.

    Reporter: Katy Smithson

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    COMMENT
    RAP MUSIC

    THE PERVERSION
    OF IMAGE TRUMPING FREEDOM

    After all his decades in college you would think Cal Winbush would know something about academic freedom. Apparently not. In a sad episode in his finale semester, the outgoing student affairs vice president at Winona State University shut down the Soul Food Dinner, an annual celebration of blcck culture sponsored by a student club. He didn't like the students' choice of rap music as the theme. This wasn't the fist time that Winbush imposed his cultural values to deny students the freedom to explore and examine what interests them and to express themselves. Two years ago he pulled the plug on National College Television monitors in cafeterias because performers in music videos weren't wearing enough clothes to suit him. Last fall he tried to ban beer-theme t-shirts at homecoming.

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    In every case, Winbush has proclaimed himself a guardian of the university's image. Uhh? This guy has a perverted view of what the image of a university should be. A university is a sacred place for students to be free to inquire about all questions and to express themselves. The best image of the best universities is that of nurturing robust exploration and examanation of values. This includes the big and profound questions -- and rap, music videos and t-shirts too.

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    We wish Cal Winbush well in his pending retirement. The fact is, however, that Winona State will be a better without his misplaced attempts to protect the place's image. What he's done over and over has undermined the core academic freedom premises on which the image of a truly great university must be based.

    Background: Club leader faults WSU diversity chiefs
    Background: Winbush thrice vetoed rap theme


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    Illini editor bypassed consultation, fired

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill., May 2, 2006 -- The editor of the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois, Acton Gorton, was fired for not discussing his decision to publish the controversial Dutch cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have infuriated Muslims around the world. The page containing the cartoons had been shown to some editors but too late for discussion, according to the baord of directors of the company that publishes the Illini. Gorton is a senior communications major. The newspaper's bylaws require that inflammatory material must be discussed in the newsroom before publication. Gorton argued, unsuiccessfully, that the policy was intended to to apply only to outside advertisements and letters to the editor.

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    WSU prof sees duplicity in kids' TV promos

    WINONA, Minn, May 2, 2006 -- Young children and babies shouldn't watch DVDs like Sesame Street's "New Beginnings" because children should be moving around and learning from their environment, not siting at a television set,according to a Winona State University education prof. Celeste Miller objects to DVDs targeted at children 2 and under because, despite a professed goal of encouraging parents to watch them with their children, they are being marketed "to keep babies quiet and out of parents' hair." Miller doesn't accept the Sesame Street slaim that the programs offer parenting tips and ideas for how to turn everyday moments into opportunities for bonding and learning. "Although parents say it keeps their children quiet and they seem to love the programs, they shows just don't contain good information," she said.

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    Most shows targeted at children today are used for babysitting children rather than educating or stimulating them, said Miller. Miller said she has studied programs with the same goals as the new DVDs, including "Teletubbies" and "Mozart for Babies": "The shows are based on an unrealistic reality, which is bad for children so young because they are exploring their environments and learning about them. They will have a hard time separating what is real and what is reality." Shows that are based around unrealistic characters like big blue fuzzy eight-foot monsters is going to give children an unrealistic view of what the world is like and what people look like, said Miller. TV shows that show a separation between fantasy and real life, like Mr. Rogers and his trolley are OK, she said, because children are able to make the connection.

    Reporter: Katy SMithson

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    Student group exec accused of embezzling

    PHOENIX, Ariz., May 1, 2006 -- The Arizona Students Association sued its former executive director, alleging that he embezzled nearly $210,000. The official, Maceo Brown, abruptly resigned by e-mail in Janaury after 4-1/2 years. The suit alleges that Brown had been paying personal bills with student funds. The budget of the Arizona Students Association comes from a $1 a semester fee levied on all students at Arizona state universities.

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    COMMENT
    WSU CLUB AUTONOMY

    BLACK CULTURAL AWARENESS CLUB
    NEEDS FINANCIAL SUPPORT

    To jumpstart the floundering Black Cultural Awareness Association at Winona State University, the Student Senate must step forward with funding to jumpstart the club's recovery. We see this as a one-time Senate commitment to replace administration subsidies that, no matter how well-intended at one point, left the club financially dependent on the administration. The result, in effect, was university administrators, ever conscious of university image, dictating club policy on a matter that to outsiders looks so petty -- whether the annual Soul Food Dinner should have a rap music theme. The larger issue, however, is not petty -- club autonomy. Black Cultural Awareness needs financial help to start afresh as a student-governed entity and get the Soul Food Dinner going after what we hope is only a one-year hiatus and to do it with whatever theme the club membership chooses.

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    The key to the recovery of Black Cultural Awareness is Kari Winter. As vice president of the Student Senate, Winter is responsible for the Alliance of Student Organizations. Through her power of persuasion, Winter can convince other clubs to sacrifice a bit of their subsidies from activity fees, over which the Senate has significant control, to help their troubled sibling clubthrough a rough strecth.

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    Students report laptop, bike burglary

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- Two Winona State University students reported two laptop computers and a black Trek mountain bike stolen from their home at 420 W. Sarnia St. The laptops had been leased from the university. One of the students, Jonathon Paige, said the burglary took place sometime between 4 a.m. and noon on Saturday.

    Reporter: Ryan Wolf

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    NCAA firm on Indian nicknames, mascots

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association told three universities to drop their "hostile and abusive" American Indian mascots and nicknames. The NCAA's governing baord issued the ruling in response to appeals from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois and the University of North Dakota. The three universities had sought an exemption from a new NCAA policy so they could continue with their mascots and team names for NCAA postseason tournaments. At issue:

  • Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Indians nickname and mascot
  • University of Illinois: Chief Illiniwek mascot
  • University of North Dakota: Fighting Sioux nickname and mascot


  • A fourth college, Bradley University, was allowed by NCAA to continue to call its teams the Braves. Bradley dropped its Indian theme more than a decade ago and now uses "Braves" generically. Last fall the NCAA ordered 18 colleges to stop using Indian nicknames during postseason competition. After the new ruling, seven colleges remain banned from hosting postseason games because they have not changed their nicknames.

    Background: Comment: And this is public relations?
    Background: Comment: Giving football a bad name
    Background: UND ponders appeal on "Sioux" nickname
    Background: Florida State to keep Seminole nickname
    Background: NCAA tightens Indian nickname rules

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    Angry thugs kick, dent cars at Dunsany dorm

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- Three cars belonging to Winona State University students were kicked and dented in the Dunsany Manor parking lot across Huff Street from the main campus about 2 a.m. Police arrested two men. Police said the men were angry at a womanfriend of one of them. Police said they had no reason to think the woman lived at Dunsany and didn't know why the cars were targeted. The men were not believed to be Winona State students. As best as police could determine in the dark, three cars were damaged, all belonging to college students living in the privately operated Dunsany dorm. Witnesses had called the cops after seeing the guys kicking cars and even jumping on the top of one.

    Reporter: Katy Smithson

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    WSU stadium skyboxes ready

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- The newest structure at Winona State University, the multi-purpose sky box at Maxwsell Field, is officially finished -- complete with a faulty elevator. "They must be having some trouble with the mechanisms in the panel," said campus facilities manager Dick Lande when, giving a reporter a tour, he pushed the button for Level Two and the elevator remained at Level One. "These are the kinds of quirks we still have to work out," said Lande. The elevator seems to work when it wants to. Ging up, it won't take passengers to their selected floor. Or sometimes not move at all. Going down, it's OK. Well, there's always the stairs. Along with fixing the elevator, some phone lines and Internet cables still need to be installed.

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    The narrow, four-story structure, on the east end of the football field, just behind the bleachers. is for athletes, coaches, big-buck donors and players' families. The building is complete with classrooms, offices, press boxes, and bird's-eye views from the skyboxes. The purple decor would make any Winonan can be proud. The entrance is decorated with a purple Warrior tile in-lay and purple carpets. Each level has two restrooms. The first floor consists of offices for coaches. Offices are fully furnished and equipped with flat-screen television monitors and leather chairs with Warrior embellishments. The walls? You guessed it, purple.

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    Also on the first floor is a locker room with two showers so that referees can prepare for games. When not being used by athletic officials, the locker room can be utilized by the coaching staff, said Lande.

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    The second floor has classrooms and conference rooms for coaching. "The classrooms are nice because we really can use them for anything we need to," Lande said. Lande said he has already used the conference room for meetings. On the third and fourth levels, press and sponsor boxes can be found. Each box has seating for 15 people, a bar area for refreshments, a flat-screen television monitor, and purple and white Warrior decorations. Boxes are adorned with lights near the doors with the sponsors' names engraved, provided by Winona Lighting. Sponsors with boxes include Merchants Bank, Midwest Wireless and Winona Lighting, among others. "They are going to have lots of fun up here," Lande said.

    Reporter: Carrie Frillman

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    Study calls for simpler federal aid forms

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 1, 2006 -- The federal student-aid application form works against the families with the least ability to pay for college and should be simplified, according to two Harvard University researchers. Susan Dynarski and Judith Scott-Clayton concluded that the form can be significantly shortened. The scholars said the complex federal-aid system was designed for elite private colleges, which process requests fore students -- not for families of less privileged high-school seniors who struggle with the forms on their own.

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    MIT withdraws website with atrocity graphic

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 1, 2006 -- Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology profs shut down a web site after Chinese students complained about a 19th-century wood-block print that shows Japanese soldiers lining up and beheading Chinese prisoners during the 1894-1995 Sino-Japanese War. Historican John Dower and linguist Shigeru Miyagawa withdrew the site, which was used for educational purposes, to give themselves time to decide what to do. The print had been online without complaint for six months as an award-winning project called "Visualizing Cultures." MIT Chancellor Phillip Clay said revisions to the site could make the image's context

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    BLACK CULTURAL AWARENESS
    New charge: Gossipy intrusions
    into black club members' private lives

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- The Office of Cultural Diversity at Winona State University was a hotbed of vile gossip about the home life and sex life of Kamau Wilkins, president of the Black Cultural Awareness club, during the time that his proposal for a rap theme for the club's annual Soul Food Dinner was being undermined, according to Heidi-Mae Hardy, who has had a long-term, live-in relationship with Wilkins. Hardy quoted from an e-mail she received from Alex Hines, the university's director of cultural diversty: "My advice is to question your own values and morals. I don't know what goes on in your home except for what students say and what one of you have written in the face book in regards to your open relationship. My house is in order, is yours?" Hardy, who is white, said she remains offended at the e-mail, which she received Feb. 18. She acknowledged that Hines later apologized but said the apology was forced. Hines is black, as is Wilkins. Wilkins, in criticizing Hines, has accused the university's Cultural Diversity office of trying "to run Black Cultural Awareness "like a Christian youth group."

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    The latest revelations, released by Heidi-Mae Hardy, are from Hines in response to a lengthy message from Hardy that charged him, as club adviser, with "hasty, vindictive and belligerent" comments at club meetings and also door-slamming. Hardy said she had joined the club last year because she found "love and the family-type atmosphere." The "joyous" feelings dissipated after a later club meetings at which, she said, Hines walked in and without hearing what had happened at the meeting lambasted members, most of whom were black, for knowing nothing about where they came from or their history. "This continued on for many meetings" she said. Hardy blamed Hines for a drop in club membership. Most estimates are that membership has fallen from about 50 to 10 or 12.

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    Hines has declined to discuss specifics of accusations like those of Hardy. To a reporter last week, he criticized news coverage for "negativity" to which he would not contribute. There would be no interviews until the negativity subsided, he said.

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    What set off campus-wide concern about the mindset of the Cultural Diversity Office was the cancellation of the annual Soul Food Dinner. Asked about it, Hines blamed scheduling problems. Some club members, however, countered that the cancellation was due to Hines' refusal to accept rap music as the dinner theme. Also, they said, Hines refused to provide the usual financial support from his office unless club members chose an "uplifting" theme. A broader campus-wide issue then emerged about the role of club advisers, most of whom are faculty, with students clubs. The question: Do students control their clubs or do advisers? The role of university administrators in club affairs also became an issue because the university's student affairs vice president, Cal Winbush, participated at three times in vetoing rap as a Soul Food Dinner theme.

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    Heidi-Mae Hardy, in releasing her February correspondence with Hines, said she could not be silent about the blame that Hines and his office staff have put on Wilkins for the demise of the dinner and the nosedrive in Black Cultural Awareness membership: "I can no longer be quiet about the 'Kamau bashing' that has been going on in the last few days." She noted that Wilkins in an interview last week had made a passing reference to an e-mail exchange that she had with Hines in February. Hardy said her decision to release the correspondence was to respond specifically to comments in interviews and prepared statements released by Hines and one of his employees, Felicia Alexander, who also had been the club's vice president. "I feel I have no choice but to make public the highly offending email I received from Mr. Hines," Hardy said. She called the message "cruel." Hardy saiod shje objected to Hines' e-message. He came back with "a forced apology that 'I may have misunderstood' what this email was trying to say," Hardy said. "He questioned values and morals. There is no way to misunderstand that."

    Background: Verbatim: The Hardy-Hines February exchange
    Background: Black club leader worries about club autonomy
    Background: Verbatim: Message to WSU administators, faculty
    Background: Club veep disputes Wilkins' Soul Food account
    Background: Club leader faults WSU diversity chiefs

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    E-messages between Hardy, Hines

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- This is correspondence was released by Heidi-May Hardy, partner of outgoing President Kamau Wilkins of the Black Cultural Awarenss CLub at Winona State University, about issues that splintered the club. The letter, dated Feb. 17, was addressed to Alex Hines, the university administrator whose duties are to promote cultural diversity:


    I am writing this email with a sad and angry heart. The problem is, I have felt disrespected for way to long, and I hate to pass anymore disrespect along on the karmic plane, but I have sat idly by for far to long. I believe that too many other people have as well.

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    I started attending BCAA events at the end of last year. I wasn't yet a student, but had plans to enroll. The BCAA was thriving and healthy. I came with Kamau and being one of the only white people involved with the BCAA at this time; I was a bit nervous at how I would be received. My fears were quelled quickly when I saw the love, and the family type atmosphere that surrounded the group. I was welcomed and accepted. I made friends within the BCAA that I still continue to surround myself with. The BCAA put on amazing events last year. The Soul Food Dinner was a hit, and the Winona State Idol was even a bigger hit. The word on campus was that the BCAA put on fun, well planned events, and everyone was welcome. It really felt like family.

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    In our first meeting this year at least 50 people showed up. The feeling in the air was joyous and full of excitement. This was shot down quickly. In one of the first meetings, Mr. Alexander Hines walked in and without hearing what had happened at the meeting lambasted everyone about their knowledge. He stated that they knew nothing about where they came from or their history. Bottom line, he called the group ignorant and truthfully implied it in his demeanor that we were all stupid. This continued on for many meetings. He would show up at the tail end of a productive meeting, make a hasty, vindictive, and belligerent speech, then walk out and slam the door. The group quickly went from 50 odd members to a lowly 20. People specifically told me, I don't show up anymore because Alex walks in and makes me feel bad.

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    There was one meeting in particular in which everyone went around the room and stated their reason for being there. The most popular reasons were, "I was looking for a place to go to make friends," "I heard the BCAA was fun," "I heard the BCAA was like a big family etc".

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    Everyone was feeling good at the end of this meeting, people had bonded, and we were about to walk away feeling good about the group. Once again Mr. Hines walked in, made an angry speech, and people walked out with their heads down looking defeated.

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    When planning for the Soul Food Dinner he walked in on many occasions and stated that Cultural Diversity wouldn't support what the group was working on. After much planning and work on the Soul Food Dinner people got scared and changed the theme a month before the show. Unfortunately now Ms.Carmen Mahlum made the statement that she thought it was going to be boring to a group member. Whether there will be a Soul Food Dinner at all this year is up in the air as of today.

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    There are now about 10 people that show up to BCAA meetings. No one else cares to partake in all the drama that Mr. Hines has created. Yes, I blame this solely on you Alex. Your job as an administrator and leader is to support the students in the decisions they make. Let me say that again, your job is to SUPPORT the students in the decisions they make. There has been no support from the Culture Diversity office in any of the decisions that have been made by this group. For this I am angry.

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    Not only has this effected the group, but it has effected my home. There have been statements made about what happens in my home. How things are "run". The fact of the matter is that none of you have any idea of what goes on in my home. The fact that this statement was even made infuriates me. The fact that I have corrected people in that office on numerous occasions that Kamau is not my husband, (due to our belief in the corruption of the term "marriage") yet everyone there insists on calling him my husband. My home is full of much love, and mutual respect, although no one in that office would know because no one has cared to ask before making unfair, and blasphemous judgments. Ms. Maudi Williams is the only person that has constantly shown my family and I respect.

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    I am disgusted that Kamau has been pigeon holed as a bad leader when no one in that office has given him the opportunity to show his leadership abilities. I am also disgusted that your judgments about him are based mostly on a few select peoples opinions about him. I am offended that there have been statements made to myself and other members that "because we are white we just don't understand." I am frustrated that the woman of the BCAA have been told by administration in the Culture Diversity office to steer clear of black men. I see so many forms of discrimination, hypocrisy, and disrespect coming out of that office it makes me sick.

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    I hope that in the future the Cultural Diversity staff take on the duty of supporting students, instead of creating drama between a once tight knit group. As of right now I have no desire to attend any "culturally diverse" activities through the school, and sadly enough I am not the only one."


    Hardy said she received this response the next day from Hines:

    I will not lower myself by responding in-depth to this email. I question the cowardice of this email this late in the year in regards to your issues. My advice is to question your own values and morals. I don't know what goes on in your home except for what students say and what one of you have written in the face book in regards to your open relationship. My house is in order, is yours? One more piece of advice, Black Culture is not Hip-Hop; read other books related to Black Culture, there's more to Black History than what you learned in High School.

    Alex

    (Links to articles discussing hip hop and single-parent homes, as well as black students who are failing to succeed. The links were not clickable)


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    NCAA cracking down on diploma mills

    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 1, 2006 -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association's governing board adopted a policy to stop diploma-mill high schools from giving fake grades to athletes with otherwise low grades so they can get into college. Schools that lack state bor regional acccreditation will be subject to NCAA review. The NCAA decision follows revelations in the New York Times that a correspondence high school based in Miami had remarkable "success" in raising the grade average of high-school football players. There are dozens of such operations. Some offer diplomas for a flat fee with no course work required.

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    RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
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    'TWAS A WOLF. A canine struck and killed by a car on near suburban Homer last week was an 80-pound male gray wolf, wildlife officials confirmed. State experts speculate that the wolf either was a pet or had been kicked out of a pack n central and northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the animals are more common. The Minnesota wolf population is thought to be about 3,000 but none normally this far south.

    Mayor Jerry Miller has asked members of the Wilkie family if they have an interest in fixing up the deteriorating riverfront landmark, the mock steamboat Wilkie that bears the family name. Miller said he is casting about for solutions after the failure of the existing board for the site to keep it going. Among possibilities, Miller said, would be a Southeast Tech student project to make repairs. An estimated $200,000 is needed.

    BANK PARKING. Merchants Bank wants to raze the storefronts adjacent to its main building on Third Street for a 49-slot employee parking lot. The eight buildings, all one or two stories, all date to the 1890s. The bank plans a decorative wall to shield the lot from pedestians. Vehicle entry would be from the alley.

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    Kentucky ponders fund cut for anti-gay college

    LEXINGTON, Ky., May 1, 2006 -- Gov. Ernie Fletcher has asked a state court to examine the constitutionality state funds going to University of the Cumberlands, a Baptist institution in Williamsburg, Ky., that suspended a student because he was gay. At issue is $11 million that the Legislature had approved for the college to build a pharmacy school. Fletcher said he wants a court reading on the issue to help him decide whether to veto the money.

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    ELECTION 2006

    Gutknecht rapped on "changing tune"

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- Congressman Gil Gutknecht has voted for every one of President Bush's unbalanced budgets despite his vow never to vote for an unbaloanced budget when he was first elected from southern Minnesota, a letter-writer to the Daily News opinion page charged. The letter, by Marc Fredrickson of Rochester, Minn., noted too that Gutknecht was firm on term limits back then but no more. "Sometimes staying in Congress too long changes the tune a person marches to," Fredrickson said. Gutknecht has announced for a seventh term.

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    Background: Gutknecht denies pork in Huff Street moneyBackground: Races campus people are watching

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    Georgia adds same-sex benefits

    ATLANTA, Ga., May 1, 2006 -- The University of Georgia will offer some benefits, including the use of university facilities, to domestic partners of employees, President Michael Adams announced. More-extensive benefits, including health insurance, would continue uncovered under the plan.

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    Three WSU athletes to league honor roll

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D., May 1, 2006 -- Winona State University has three players named to the North Central Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll -- senior Josh Malwitz and juniors Scott Hessian and Kyle Savelkoul, all with a grade point average of 3.20 or better. This is the first year the conference has released ancademic Honor Roll.

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    Court: College office not a changeroom

    SALEM, Mass., May 1, 2006 -- A secretary at Salem State College caught on a secret video camera changing her clothes in her office had no "reasonable expectation" of privacy, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled. The employee claimed invasion of privacy, but the court ruled that the office was a public space. The college had installed the camera to monitor after-hours crime.

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    Gutknecht defends Huff underpass funds

    WASHINGTON, May 1, 2006 -- Aware that the federal transportation bill is under scrutiny for pork-bill projects, Congressman Gilm Gutknecht said the $3 million for a Huff Street underpass at Winona State University would have survived on its merits had it been subjected to debate on the floor of the House. The Huff money was tucked into the massive 10-year transportation bill passed by Congress last year. In an interview with the Winona Daily News, Gutknecht commented for the first time on the project as pork-barreling. The transportation bill, larded with payback projects for loyal Republican membersof the House, came under scrutiny in September after the federal government was obviously short of funds to deal long term with Hurricane Katrina disaster. Some communities volunteered to turn back pork-barrel money to help with disaster relief. Most, including Winona, did not.

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    In the Daily News interview, Gutknecht said lobbyists today are not only from well-heeled industries and trade groups. With a passing reference to super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, now disgraced and headed for prison, Gutknecht said: "We've created quite a cottage industry. It's not Abramoff. It's the cities, the counties and the universities and all the folks who employ the lobbyists." In the case of the Huff Street project, it was Winona State facilities manager Dick Lande who trekked repeatedly to Washington for the $3 million. About the Huff Street project, Gutknecht said: "My hands are not clean. I have earmarked funds for Winona and Winona State University, but those earmarks should be able to stand on their own right on the floor." Gutknecht called for reform. Earmarks, he said, should not be tucked into bills, as is current practice, to shield them from careful review of their merits.

    Background: Tainted money in Gutknecht coffers
    Background: Races campus people are watching

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    AAUP leaders arrested at demonstration

    NEW YORK, May 1, 2006 -- Two leaders of the American Association of University Professors, in a new surge of activism, joined a rally to support striking graduate teaching assistants at New York University. The association's departing president, Jane Buck, and the president-elect, Cary Nelson, were arrested with 55 other protesters in a sit-down in the middle of a city street. For years Nelson, from the University of Illinois, has been a firm advocate for the collective-bargaining rights of grad students. He has promised a new activism for the traditonally stolid AAUP.

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    ELECTION 2006

    Who will run this time?

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- These are the 2006 races that Winona campus people are watching:

    U.S. SENATE
    Ford Bell (Democrat): Seeking nomination
    Mark Dayton (Democrat): Not seeking second term
    Mark Kennedy (Republican): Seeking nomination
    Amy Klobuchar (Democrat): Seeking nomination

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    GOVERNOR
    Kelly Doran (Democrat): Seeking nomination with Sheila Kiscaden as runningmate
    Mike Hatch (Democrat): Leader from party's precinct caucuses
    Peter Hutchinson (Independence): Has announced his candidacy
    Steve Kelley (Democrat): Has announced his candidacy
    Tim Pawlenty (Republican): Expected to seek second term
    Bud Philbrook (Democrat): Has announced his candidacy

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    U.S. HOUSE
    Gil Gutknecht (Republican): Announced for seventh term
    Tim Walz (Democrat): Announced candidacy

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    MINNESOTA SENATE
    Brenda Johnson (Republican): Has announced candidacy
    Kevin Kelleher (independent): Has announced candidacy
    Bob Kierlin (Republican): Not seeking re-election
    Lewis Relman (Republican): Has announced candidacy
    Sharon Ropes (Democrat): Has won the party endorsement.
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    MINNESOTA HOUSE
    Gene Pelowski (Democrat): Has won the party endorsement for an 11th term

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    CITY COUNCIL (2nd Ward)
    Gerry Krage: Expected to seek re-election

    CITY COUNCIL (4th Ward)
    George Borzyskowski: Expected to seek re-election

    CITY COUNCIL (At-large)
    Tim Breza: Expected to seek re-election

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    California audit: Payments to execs hidden

    SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nay 1, 2006 -- Senior managers at the University of California were paid excess compensation without proper disclosures over the past deacde, according to an independent audit. The compensation and benefits exceeded caps set by university policies, the audit found. The university's regents had requested the audit after revelation in the San Francisco Chronicle that top employees were receiving hidden compensation. The audit covered 64 individuals in 32 senior-management positions, including the university president and the chancellors of 10 campuses. The chair of the Board of Regents, Gerald Parsky, said the task ahead is to restore public confidence in the university and its compensation policies.

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    Magnuson sets WSU pole-vault mark

    ST. PETER, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- Winona State University athlete Bria Magnuson broke the Warrior pole vault mark in the 2006 Drake Alternative Meet at Gustavus Adolphus over the weekend. Magnuson reached 12-feet, 3 and 1/2-inches, almost a foot more than the old Winona State mark. She placed second in the competition, good for an NCAA nationals provisional mark. Nicole Lonning took first for the Warriors with a 157-7 toss in the hammer throw. Taking second for the Warriors was Nicci Johnson with :27.92 in the 200-meter dash and Liz Bauman with 131 feet in the discus.

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    Duke adjusts free iPod policy

    DURHAM, N.C., May 1, 2006 -- After two years Duke University is dropping its iPod give-away. Freshmen had been issued the handheld gizmos free for courses that made use of the devices. This fall Duke will offer two options to students enrolled in a course that requires the device -- borrow an iPod at no cost for the course or purchase an iPod at a discounted $99.

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    COMMENT
    THE NEW FACE OF WSU

    MALES NEED NOT APPLY

    We hope we're wrong, but there are signs that Winona State may be posting a sign at the university employment office: "Males need not apply." A pattern is emerging. The first three vice presidents to depart under new President Judith Ramaley, either fired, moved aside or retired, were men. The finalists for the academic vice president vacancy, including one with long Ramaley connections, are all women. Ramaley's finalists for the student affairs vice president vacancy both are women. Two men have departed jobs closely tied to the president's office. The powerful position of running Ramaley's pet project, L21, has gone to a woman. The only student journalists to whom Ramaley has granted interviews have been women. To interview requests from male journalists, the answer uniformly has been no.

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    Our observation reflects not at all on the quality of candidates for the vacant executive positions. They all look good on paper. But not a man among them?

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    Ramaley had a record at the University of Vermont, where she was president, of shepherding women up through the ranks. She did the same at the National Science Foundation. Winona State also has a proud record of actively righting historic wrongs to be sure that women have equal career opportunities and, when all other things be equal, giving female candidates the edge. What we fear now is the possibility of wholesale gender preference the other way.


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    Penn State students alleges hazing injuries

    PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 1, 2006 -- A University of Pennsylvania student has sued fellow frat brothers for scars and bruises he says were suffered in hazing at the Alpha Phi Alpha house. Martyn Griffen said a rubber band was placed on his upper arm and "snapped repeatedly," resulting in a cut and a serious and permanent scar. Griffen said too that he was "violently" punched in the thighs again and again. The university, which is not named in the suit, concluded earlier Alpha Phi Alpha had violated anti-hazing regulations. The frat has been suspended.

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    SMU plans $550,000 dorm upgrade

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- The aging St. Benilde dorm at St. Mary's University, built in 1960s, will receive an overhaul this summer. University trustees approved $550,000 for remodeling and refuirnishing. A new heating system will be installed.

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    Army cadets riot after drug search

    WEST POINT, N.Y., May 1, 2006 -- Army cadets at the U.S. Military Acadeemy, angry at a drug search, rioted for more than an hour and threw fireworks and garbage from their barracks and yelled obscenities from their windows. Firefighters responded after cadets ignited objects that they were throwing out their windows. An academy spokesperson confirmed the events but downplayed their significance. The cadets were "blowing off a little steam," the spokesperson said. Aside from one cadet, who was hit in the head with a peanut-butter jar, no one was injured. Earlier in the day there had been an unannounced drug and weapons search of the barracks. Cadets were rousted from the building at 6 a.m. and forced to stand outside while drug-sniffing canine units went room to room. No narcotics were found.

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    Leahy sworn in as Winona judge

    WINONA, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- A new judge is on the bench in Winona County District Court, where all cases end up being heard from the Winona campuses and the rest of the county. Mary Leahy of Rochester was sworn in last week. Leahy replaces Larry Collins, also of Rochester, who who retired in December after 24 years. Leahy joins Margaret Johnson and Jeff Thompson on the Winona court.

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    Gay-rights activists cited at West Point

    WEST POINT, N.Y., May 1, 2006 -- Army guards arrested 21 gay-rights activists who stopped at the U.S. Military Academy on a 20-stop tour to protest the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. None of the demonstrators outside the academy gate were arrested, but those who made forays through the gate were detained by military police, issued citations, and escorted off the grounda. The West Point stop was the last on a demonstration tour called the Soulforce Equality Ride. The stops were at conservative Christian and military colleges Soulforce Equality Riders had been arrested previously at five campuses, including the U.S. Air Force Academy

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    Wyoming coal trains won't pass WSU

    STOCKTON, Minn., May 1, 2006 -- Lingering concern that the expansion of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad into Wyoming coal fields would have dozens more trains rumbling by Winona State University every day can be put to rest, said railroad President Lynn Anderson. Additional trains will deliver their coal to the barge fleeting harbor upstream from downtown -- not on the Canadian Pacific tracks at the campus. Other Wyoming coal, Anderson said, would be sent south via Mason City, Iowa, not Winona, to Chicago area power-generating plants. Long-term studies project continuing traffic increases on the Winnepeg-Chicago route of the Canadian Pacific, which goes by Winona State, but not due to the DM&E expansion.

    Background: Rochester continues resistance to rail upgrade

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    Report criticizes hiring of donor's son

    IRVINE, Calif., May 1, 2006 -- An investigation at the University of California at Irvine found the hiring of the donorŐs son as a resident at the medical school may have looked bad but really wasn't There was no connection between a $250,000 donation to Irvine's medical school radiology department and the hiring, the investigators concluded. Investigators said, however, that a number of allegations of nepotism in hiring suggest a need for tighter policies in appointing med-school residents.

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