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WINONA, Minn, Sept. 15, 2006 -- The president of Winona State University, Judith Ramaley, defended the rightness of students voting in local elections. In a newspaper opinion piece Ramaley was unequivocal: The university encourages students to vote. "Students are members of the Winona community, so why shouldn't we encourage them to exercise their rights as citizens? While they live here, we ask them to consider themselves to be citizens and neighbors and responsible contributors to the community. Part of that responsibility includes becoming informed about public issues and expressing their opinions at the ballot box." Ramaley did not mention Daily News columnist Jim Galewski, who last week suggested that university resources were used to "manipulate" student voters to favor a school-tax increase last November. Ramaley did, however, did say she had "picked up a sense that some people in our town are concened that a growing number of young voters could begin to influence the outcome of elections."
Ramaley noted that Minnesota leads the nation with young voters. In 2004, 69 percent of the state's 18- to 24-year-olds voted, compared to 47 percent nationally, she said. "Why then are some people so angry about the fact that we are successfully doing what responsible communities all over the country are doing? Ramaley asked. "After all, we live in a state that prides itself on citizen participation in government. Don't we want out young people to embrace these same values?"
To Galewski's serious charge about on-campus "manipulation" of student voters on issues, Ramaley was silent. She did, however, list campus activities to encourage student participation. These included nonpartisan voter registration drives, Student Senate-sponsored candidate fairs, and faculty presentations on the election process.
Picking up a Hillary Clinton line about the African sense of community responsibility to nurture children, "It Takes a Village," Ramaley said: "It takes a whole town to raise a voter." She called on townspeople to "help our young people get off to a good start." |
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Background: Verbatim: Ramaley on student voting
Background: Columnist: Election swayed by manipulated students
Background: Comment: "Those damn college interlopers"
SMU's Winona enrollment approaches 1,300WINONA, Minn., Sept. 15, 2006 -- After several ears of stagnant undegrad enrollment, St. Mary's University reported a 3 percent increase at its Winona campus. In a report to a state tracking ageny, St. Mary's listed 1,292 students. the total, checked on the 10th day of fall classes. included 1,233 full-time undergardss and 59 part-time and nondegree-seeking students. The report showed a dramatic 22 percent increase in freshmen -- 378 this fall. With transfers and readmitted students, new students totaled 441. Enrollment in the university's graduate and professional programs in the Twin Cities will be released later, the university said.
Tennessee plan: Free college if you're smartKNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 15, 2006 -- An ACT college-preparedness score of 19 would qualify Tennessee students free tuition at the state's community colleges under a plan that Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat. Bredesen saifd he wants to improive the high-school graduation rate and create an incentive for high-school grads to go to college.
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WSU president defends student voting WINONA, Minn., Sept. 15, 2006 -- In an opinion article sent to local news media, Judith Ramaley, president of Winona State University, addressed criticism of student participation in local elections:
During the past couple of weeks, I drove past a growing forest of yard signs as primary day neared. Those sprouting signs aroused my curiosity. What proportion of young Minnesotans, I wondered, turn out to vote?
In 2004, we led the nation with 69 percent of our 18- to 24-year-olds voting in the presidential election. The national average was 47 percent. In 1998, only 19 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds exercised their right to vote.
In the intervening years, there have been some important nationwide efforts to encourage young people to become active in their communities and to participate in our democratic way of life. Congress, the states and universities and colleges have worked together to increase the percentage of young people who take an interest in their communities and who turn out to vote. Why then are some people in our town so angry about the fact that we are successfully doing what responsible communities all over the country are trying to do? After all, we live in a state that prides itself on citizen participation in government. DonÕt we want our young people to embrace these same values?
Winona State University has been an active contributor to several national efforts to draw students into the practice of democracy.
One of these programs is called The American Democracy Project. The project was initiated by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (to which we belong) and The New York Times in 1996 in response to national concerns about the low turn out of young voters in national, state and local elections, as well as their lack of interest in civic issues.
To quote the explanation on The American Democracy project Web site, "The project grows out of a concern about decreasing rates of participation in the civic life of America in voting, in advocacy, in local grassroots associations, and in other forms of civic engagement that are necessary for the vitality of our democracy."
From our perspective, the best way to turn this around is to encourage our students to become active citizens where they spend the bulk of their time, right here in Winona.
We work hard to get our students registered to vote. The National Voter Registration Act requires all colleges and universities to make voter registration forms available to all their students and to encourage everyone to register to vote. We take that directive seriously.
At WSU, our own efforts to promote student participation in democracy include a nonpartisan voter registration drive; an Election Day fair sponsored by our student association, in which candidates for public office provide information on their campaign platforms; and talks by members of our faculty on topics such as the democratic process, local media coverage of campaign issues and free speech.
Starting last year, Congress inserted language into the 2005 federal spending bill declaring Sept. 17 to be Constitution Day and requiring all higher education institutions that receive federal funds -- that includes WSU -- to offer an educational program on the U.S. Constitution on that day. Last year, we sponsored a panel discussion on the Supreme Court nomination process.
This year, we have invited community leaders to join us on campus for a public reading of the Constitution. I will be doing my share of the reading, as will many other people you know. The public reading will be followed by a panel discussion on terrorism, crime and the Constitution.
Why do I tell you all of this, you ask? The answer is that we are very serious about encouraging our students to be informed, get involved and vote. Over the past year, I have picked up a sense that some people in our town are concerned that a growing number of young voters could begin to influence the outcome of elections.
Let's examine that question. Students are members of the Winona community, so why shouldn't we encourage them to exercise their rights as citizens?
While they live here, we ask them to consider themselves to be citizens and neighbors and responsible contributors to the community. Part of that responsibility includes becoming informed about public issues and expressing their opinions at the ballot box.
One of our most precious responsibilities as citizens of this country is the right to vote.
Some of our students are Democrats, some are Republicans, some are independents, but all of them are in an environment where they are encouraged to take their civic responsibility seriously and think critically about important issues.
It takes a whole town to raise a voter, and we hope you will help us in any way that you can. There is nothing more important to all of us than to help our young people get off to a good start. |
Background: Ramaley: "Let's rock the vote"
Background: Verbatim: Ramaley on student voting
Background: Columnist: Election swayed by manipulated students
Background: Comment: "Those damn college interlopers"
U.S. Hispanic enrollment projection: Up 42%WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2006 -- Minority college enrollment will grow faster than white enrollmenet through at least 2015, according to a report released by the government's National Center for Education Statistics. Hispanic enrollment is expected to increase 42 percent for Hispanic students; Indian, 30 percent; Asian, 28 percent; and black, 27 percent. White enrollment will be up 6 percent, accoridng to the project. Nonresident-alien enrollment is expected to rise 34 percent.
SMU names grad, professional programs deanWINONA, Minn., Sept. 15, 2006 -- The academic dean aty Hesser College in New Hampshire, Paul Tero,named vice president for graduate and professional programs at St. Mary's University in the Twin Cities campus. Tero's responsibiities include operations, budget, enrollment, marketing, and strategic planning for both the Twin Cities and Winona campuses.
Feminist group eyes anti-porn shop movesWINONA, Minn., Sept. 15, 2006-- The Women's Resource Center, an organization that vocally opposed the opening of Downtown Book and Video in 1999, is getting back in the the fight against the porn shop. Lori Woodward, who began as director of the center this summer, was not around when the shop first opened, but many leaders of the center were. "Some members of the board have been around and will have the facts of what happened, and they will decide how they want to respond to this." The first step she said, would be to get the City Council to hear the case against Downtown Book and Video staying in its downtown location. Since Sept.7 the shop has been out of compliance with city zoning laws.
At-large City Council member Allyn Thurley said the shop's status has been talked about by Council members but hasn't been on the agenda. "Most of the agenda items are driven by requests from citizens or from staff issues," Thurley said.
If the Council wants to force the shop to move or close, it will likely have to do so by proving "adverse secondary effects" -- a feat that Woodward admits coul be difficult. "Anytime you talk about secondary anything, itÕs hard to find any rock-solid evidence," Woodward said. "But we do know there are always secondary pieces related to everything we look at. And pornography is a violence against women. It's a violation of what we feel are women's right and safety. We donÕt support the pornography at all."
The Women's Resource Center is the latest group to make noise against porn-shop owners Dennis and Tammy Buchanan. Earlier the citizen group Standing Together Opposing Pornography began reorganziing after a five-year hiatus. The issue has come up because the five-year zoning-law exception yothe Buchanans for the downtown location has expired. The law forbids adult businesses except in remote nonresidenial sections. Through an attorney the Buchanans have said they don't intend to relocate.
Reporter: Matt Huss
Background: STOP vows to renew fight against porn shop |
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Stabbing victim sued Alabama fratTUSCALOOSA, Ala., Sept. 15, 2006 -- A student at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa sued the fraternity that sponsored a party at which he was stabbed in the head. The student, Richard Wilder, has permanent brain damage and impairments. Wilder's suit claims that the frat failed to provide adequate security to keep out party crashers. Wilder wss stabbed in a fight while trying to kick out interlopers, including the attacker, Kenneth Gipson, who now is in prison.
North Dakota Science College president quitsWAHPETON, N.D., Sept. 15, 2006 -- The president of the North Dakota College of Science, Sharon Hart, resigned amid criticism of her fund-raising. Hart, president of the two-year college since 2000, will have an interim job in the state university system office in Bismarck.
Pageant winners aren't getting scholarshipsSPARTANBURG, S.C., Sept. 15, 2006 -- Winners in the Miss South Carolina Pageant has been awarding less than half of te promised college scholarships, prompting a state investigation into the finances of the non0profit sponsoring organization. aThe Miss South Carolina Organization offered $731,900 in scholarships over nine years but paid out only $309,700.
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Kentucky considers domestic-partner benefitsLEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 15, 2006 -- The University of Kentucky is considering employee health benefits for unmarried domestic partners, President Lee Todd said. The university must remaincompetitive in benefits with other top research universities, Todd said.
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Phoenix widens recruiting net with lib-artsPHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 15, 2006 -- The University of Phoenix, which has focused on professional degrees for nontrad professionals, mosty through night courses, nay move ino traditional liberal arts programs to attract younger students. Brian Mueller, president of the universityÕs parent company, said too many curent students are inexpeienced with college-level and need a liberal-arts foundation. Phoenix already has parts of a liberal arts infrastructure in place with about 120,000 taking some lib-arts sources.
Frozen River filmfest backers seeking $3,000WINONA, Minn, Sept. 12, 2006 -- The Winona State University UPAC student amusements committee listened to a request for $3,000 to help fund the Frozen River Film Festival for a second year but put off a decision. A decision was scheduled for this coming week. Although supportive of the festival, board members hesitated at $3,000, 6 percent of their budget for the whole year. The Frozen River fest, an environmental awareness series of films, seminars and speakers, was funded at $3,000 by UPAC last season. Doing so again would save students $10 to $45 in participation fees, according to festival staff members Ezra Firkins, a Winona State student, and Will Kitchen. Firks and Kitchen said they hope to attract more interest than the first festval last January, which they said drew about 100 Winona State students among 1,200 participants. This time organizers plan a more comprehensive lineup of speakers and activities, including polar explorer Will Steger and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Neil Rettig.
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Primaries failed to stir WSU-neighborhood votersWINONA, Minn., Sept. 14, 2006 -- The Kryszko Commons building at Winona State University was hardly buzzing with student voters Tuesday. Of 1,479 registered voters in the Third Ward's First Precinct, at the heart of the Winona State neighborhood, only 101 showed up at Kryzsko to vote in the primaries. County Auditor Cheryl MacLennan, who supervises elections, was disappointed: "With this many people registered it was a terrible turnout for this precinct." In the county overall, the turnout exceeded MacLennan's expectations. She had expected 6,000 voters. More than 6,700 turned out.
The paucity of campus-area voters may not be a sign of what can be expected for Nov. 7 general elections, MacLennan said. It's possible that more students will register to vote before November, she said, noting that the race between Republican Mark Kennedy and Democrat Amy Klobuchar for the U.S. Senate is expected to be hot. Many students did not come out for the primaries either because they were not yet registered or had no interest until the general election rolls around. The low primary turnout should not be used to predict what will happen in November, MacLennan said. Also, she said, many students may have voted in their home cities with absentee ballots.
Reporter: Jessica Pluth
Background: Races that campus people are watching
League applauds WSU golfer| ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 14, 2006 -- Winona State University senior Matt Horel has been named Northern Sun onference men's golfer of the week. Horel led the Warriors in winning their opening match of the season with an incredible nine-under-par 135 at the Oakes Country Club. Horel then followed up by placing 17th in the Bemidji State Invitational. |
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UN-Nebraska president quits as fiscal doubts growOMAHA, Neb., Sept. 14, 2006 -- The chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nancy Belck, resigned amid new allegations of financial irregularities. The latest report, over the weekend in the newspaper the Omaha World-Herald, was that Belck had altered an expense record for a restaurant dinner that took place two years ago. The dinner, which cost $1,263, was at a National Collegiate Athletic Association meeting in Nashville, Tenn. Originally the paperwork said that eight UN-Omaha people had attended, the World-Herald reported, but that Belck had intercepted the document before giving it to the newspaper and added that "select NCAA Division II staff" had joined the Omaha group at the dinner. At issue was whether eight people had averaged $158 apiece for dinner at the university's expense.
Asked about changing the document, Belck told the Chronicle of Higher Education that she hadn't been trying to hide anything. She noted that the dinner had taken place more than two years ago and that her recollection, even though she was there, was fuzzy, but that, considering that the bill was so large, she believed that more eight people must have been there -- so, she said, she changed the record. She only wanted to enhance the accuracy of the document, she said.
Belck, chancellor for nine years, said her resignation would be in the best interest of the university: "Because of the environment created by events of the past several weeks, I can no longer provide effective leadership." She said that her departure might help end an ongoing controversy over the athletic budgets and salaries. An investigation is in progress involving athletics boosters. One allegation is that Belck's longtime aide, Vice Chancellor Jim Buck, spent booster money at fancy restaurants and expensive golf outings. Being investigated also is whether Buck was given a vehicle and a country-club membership from athletic funds.
Cops bust Harriet Street partyWINONA, Minn., Sept. 14, 2006 -- A Winona State University student, age 20, was ticketed at 12:50 a.m. for a loud party, police said. The party was at 419 Harriet St.
Reporter: Sarah Dotta
Stranded San Francisco prof gets visa, coming homeTORONTO, Ont., Sept. 14, 2006 -- A San Francisco State University prof has been given U.S. State Departent approval to return to his job after being locked out of the United States for almost three months. Mohammad Ramadan Hassan Salama was issued a visa through the U.S. embassy in Toronto. The Egypytian-born Salama, who had been in the United States seven years, had his visa as scholar confiscated early in the summer when he applied for an upgrade at the Toronto embassy. There was no explanation other than that a security check was needed. Since then, Salama has been stranded in Canada. He had planned only on a quick truip to Toronto but ened up in limbo, his wife and two small chuldren still back at their home in San Francisco. Salama believes that news media coverage of his plight this week prompted the State Department to act.
Background: State Department strands Arabic prof in Canada
WSU education prof writes handbook entriesWINONA, Minn., Sept. 14, 2006 -- A Winona State University education prof, Lyelle Palmer, wrote two articles, "Auditory Development and Learning" and "The Prenatal Brain," in the just-released Praeger Handbook of Learning and the Brain.
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WSU has option to buy old Cotter buildingsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 13, 2006 -- Winona State University will have a purchase option for the old Cotter junior high school facilities under a lease arrangement now being finalized, student affairs Vice President Ruth Schroeder told student senators. University administrators, Schroeder said, have a five-year plan to buy the buildings. The price would be $2.5 million, according to the agreement with the Cotter schools. In the meantime, the lease is $700,000 year. Answering a query from lib-arts Sen. Jared Stene about the wisdom of leasing rather than buying, Schroeder cited complexities in the pending renovation of Maxwell Hall. The university needs "swing space" for Maxwell tenants who will be displaced but ran into a state college system policy against constructing temporary quarters. To go for MnSCU funding to buy or erect a building would require going through the bonding process, which could take years, she said. The Cotter purchase option will give the university time to line up funds to buy the facility. In the meantime, the university is renaming the main Cotter building Wabasha Hall, which is at 101 E. Wabasha.
Joe Reed, student activities director, added that leasing the facilities would allow them to be used immediately. Among Maxwell functions to be moved to Wabasha Hall is a student workout gym in the third floor of Maxwell. Students have been concerned about what's to happen to the gym, which is used by 2,300 to 2,700 students a week. Also, the campus nursing station is being moved to Wabasha Hall. To student concerns about facilities going off campus to Wabasha Hall, Schroder said: "Three blocks off campus isn't that far."
Reed said the lease has an advantage because it gives the university time to bring the Wabasha buildings up to code. "Buying a facility would require the university to bring it up to Minnesota state code before it can be used," Reed said. Schroeder said that the Maxwell Hall renovations should be completed in the spring of 2008 at which point the child day-care center and National Child Protection Training Center would return to Maxwell. The Health, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences program would be moved to the third floor of Maxwell, she said. Integrated academic services, which include the admissions, registrar, financial aid, and advising and retention offices, also would be moved to Maxwell, according to Schroeder.
Junior Sen. Theresa Strahota asked if the move would affect the hours that student health services would be open. Schroeder said there has been no discussion about changing the hours. The staff would try to adjust as best as possible, she said: "For sure it will be a semester in transition."
Current planning, she said, is for health services and gym not to move back to Maxwell. Those services will remain at Wabasha Hall until a proposed expansion of Memorial Hall is completed, Schroeder said. The Memorial expansion has been on the drawing board for years. The Memorial project, she predicted, will take one to four years "to get going."
Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: Students pose Cotter gym safety questions
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Rival accused of stabbing Northern Colorado punterGREELEY, Colo., Sept. 13, 2006 -- The backup punter on the University of Northern Colorado football team, Mitch Cozad, 21, was charged with stabbing the first-string punter in the kicking leg. Cozad was arrested, then released on $30,000 bail. Police said it apparently was an attempt to disable first-string punter Rafael Mendoza to take over the starting assignment. Mendoza indeed is out of action with a cut that runs three to five inches deep. Cozad is out of action too, suspended not only from the team but the university. Mendoza was stabbed in an apartment-complex parking lot by someone wearin a hood. Even with hood, police said that witnesses could identify Kozac. There also was the issue of his car, which was seen near teh stabbing, complete with personalized license plates -- 8-KIKR.
"She Captains" in WSU Dancescape line-upWINONA, Minn., Sept. 13, 2006 -- The guest dance artist at Winona State University, Shawn McDonneloug, is teaching an excerpt from "She Captains," which her dance company has performed. An excerpt will be included in the annual Dancescape perromance at the university in February, the theater and dance department announced.
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WINONA MEDIA WATCH |
LOCAL NEWS ON KQAL?
WHAT NEWS?
The fall program guide is out from KQAL, the Winona State University campus radio station. As usual, the guide is elegant. At glance you can see what's on the air when. Curiously, though, the guide talks about local news and does so not once but four times. But there is no local news on KQAL. Take a listen to the news blocks at 6 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. It's rip 'n' read wire stuff with canned reports from Ulan Bator, Pyongyang and Timbuktu. The Winona City Council? Nada. Local crime? Nada, nada. Campus news? Not even that. Despite the claim in the program guide, there is absolutely no attempt at KQAL to offer a continuing, comprehensive report on what's important locally.
The lapse is hard to understand. The station is operated by the Winona State masscom department, which has 400 majors. Students in mascom classes produce a tremendous quantity of campus and local coverage, not infrequently scooping other Winona newsrooms and sometimes with greater depth and thoroughness. Where's the missing link -- a breakdown, really -- between KQAL and the masscom department? And why?
Meanwhile, KQAL is shortchanging its listeners. And also misleading them by claiming to broadcast local news. The false claim is something that the FCC should hear about.
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POSTED SEPT. 13, 2006
PORTERHOUSE AT JEFFERSON'S. Jefferson's Bar & Grill, in an old trackside warehouse on the riverfront, has been purchased by real-estate developers Chase and Wendy Hoffman of Winona. Changes will be gradual, they said. Among plans -- a 14-ounce Porterhouse and maybe a rooftop deck with umbrella-shaded seating. Jefferson's has been in business 12 years under the ownership of Kent Jefferson and management of Paul Goodfellow.
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Gunman shoots 19 students, kills one, then self| MONTREAL, Que., Sept. 13, 2006 -- A gunmen shot and killed a student and wounded 18 others, some critically, at Dawson College in downtown Montreal. The shooting began in a cafeteria. Police roped off the campus and went inside with dogs in a door-to-door search for additional shooters. Earlier, college officials said there were two, perhaps more, shooters, but police concluded there had been only one. Students said that shooting appeared to be random. |
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In the Canadian tradition, a "college" is a transition institution between university enrollment and what is known in the United States as the sophomore year in high school.
Dawson has students beginning at age 16.
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Winona election forums coming in OctoberWINONA, Minn., Sept. 13, 2006 -- Forums for November ballot issues and candidates for public office will begin in October, the League of Women voters announced. The forums will at 7 p.m. in the City Council chambers at Fourth and Lafayette streets. The schedule:
Oct. 4: LegislatureOct. 9: School BoardOct. 12: City sales tax increase and transportationOct. 17: County Board and City Council
Written questions from the audience will be invited, organizer Lynn Theurer said.
Background: Races that campus people are watching
Frozen River filmfest wins $3,000 grantWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- The Winona State University committee that manages student activities voted 23-7 to approve $3,000 for the Frozen River Film Festival, an environmental-awareness series of speakers, films and workshops. Members of the UPAC committee had been hesitant about spending 6 percent of their budget on the festival and tabled the vote at a previous meeting. There was concern too about a lack of student interaction at the first Frozen River festival this past January. To that concern, festival staff member Will Kitchens responded: "We're way ahead of the game this year." Kitchens said he plans to work with student groups and the UPAC committee. Student input in programming, marketing and advertising is welcome, he said.
Reporter: Sam Keane-Rudolph
Background: Frozen River filmfest backers seeking $3,000
Students question Cotter gym safetyWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- Safety issues need to be addressed before Winona State University moves the student workout gym from Maxwell Hall to the old Cotter junior high school 3-1/2 blocks away, said student liberal arts Sen. Jared Stene. "Once you step off campus it is like a black hole," Stene said in an interview. The popular workout gym, on the third floor of Maxwell, will be moved in December to clear way for a two-year renovation project. The university has leased the old Cotter building and the Nett gym on Wabasha Street for offices and functions that will be displaced. The Cotter neighborhood is not well lit, which Stene said is a serious issue considering that many students come and go at night.
Student President Carl Soderberg said he too is concerned about safety. Soderberg said the Cotter building is less than an optimal solution for the university's space problem during the Maxwell project. But, he said, there are no viable alternatives on campus. At least leasing Cotter keeps most Maxwell services in the same building, Soderberg said. "It gives us a centralized location for everything."
Soderberg and Stene said a shuttle service to the temporary gym might be considered. Also, Don Walski, campus security chief, is drafting a security plan, according to Soderberg. Roving security guards or guards at strategic locations are being discussed, he said. Stene said that installing a Code Blue emergency-call pole near the Cotter buildings might help.
Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: WSU's Cotter lease is $700,000 a year |
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Cunningham lauded for WSU defensive jobST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- Winona State University junior cornerback Shawn Cunningham has been named the Northern Sun conference defensive player of the week. Cunningham came up with an interception with 1:30 left in the game to help the Warriors preserve a 21-18 nonconference victory over Emporia State over the weekend. Cunningham added nine solo tackles two pass breakups and a number of special teams tackles.
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WSU prof conducts Spanish song workshopWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- A Winona State University music prof, Suzanne Draayer, presented a Spanish song workshop for the Southern Arizona chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in Tucson, Ariz. Castilian Spanish lyric diction was presented in the morning session and a master class, featuring the songs of Obradors, Turina and Falla, in the afternoon.
WSU's Cotter lease is $700,000 a yearWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- The not-yet-sealed deal for Winona State Unversity to lease the former Cotter Junior High School and an adjacent gym for the coming two years, as temporary quarters during the remodeling of Maxwell Hall on campus, will cost $700,000 a year. The university's finance vice president, Scott Ellinghuysen, confirmed the sum. He called it a favorable deal. The lease is a done deed pending review by state attorneys in St. Paul, Ellinghuysen said. The Cotter building, at 101 E. Wabasha St., two blocks from the main Winona State campus, will be renamed Wabasha Hall to avoid confusion with the Cotter junior high school, which has been relocated to the old College of St. Teresa campus. The money for the lease, Ellinghuysen said, is from the university's facilities budget. The deal, including the Nett gym, includes approximately 70,000 square feet, he said.
Vacating Maxwell, the former Winona State library, will be a motley group of campus functions, including the campus nursing station, the child day-care center, a workout gym and meeting and conference rooms. The move will be at the end of fall semester, Ellinghuysen said. The National Child Protection Center will be relocated to the Tau Center at the old St. Teresa campus.
No tenants will be left at Maxwell Hall during the renovation, which is scheduled to begin the spring. The renovation funding was part of the Legislature's $1 billion bonding bill to finance state construction this year. Besides $11.2 million for Maxwell, the bonding bill included $2.3 million for repair and betterment at Winona State and $400,000 for planning Memorial Hall renovations.
Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: WSU moving into leased Cotter buildings
No surprise: Endorsed candidates win primariesST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- There was no midstream changing of horses among southern Minensota Republicans, who gave six-term incumbent Congressman Gil Gutknecht an overwhelming victory in the primary election over intra-party challenger Greg Mikkelson. With almost half the precincts accounted for, Gutknecht was ahead by a 6-1 margin. Gutknecht's Democratic challenger, Tim Walz, was unopposed in the primary. Both Gutknecht and Walz had their party's endorsement from caucuses last spring and district conventions over the summer. They face off in November.
In other races that Winona campus people are watching, here are primary-election winners who will be on the November ballot:
U.S. Senate: Mark Kennedy (Republican) and Amy Klobuchar (Democrat).
Governor: Robert Fitzgerald (Independence), Mike Hatch (Democrat), Peter Hutchinson (Independence), and incumbent Tim Pawlenty (Republican).
State Senate District 31: Brenda Johnson (Republican), Kevin Kellerer (independent), and Sharon Ropes (Democrat).
State House District 31-A: Gene Pelowski (Democrat) and Lewie Reiman (Republican).
There was no primary-election run-offs for City Council. On the November ballot:
2nd Ward: Incumbent Gerry Krage and Todd Oullette
4th Ward: Incumbent George Borzyskowski (unopposed)
At-large: Incumbent Tim Breza (unopposed)
Reporters: Jessica Pluth
Background: Results of county, school board races
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Eco-green? Mad?
You can't steal newspapers in CaliforniaSACAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 12, 2006 -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger approved a law against taking free-distribution newspapers from racks to recycle or to keep other people from reading them. On campuses and elsewhere, people have been wiping newsracks bare. In one case, several thousand copies of a college newspaper were removed by a group that didn't like an article. The law makes it illegal to take more than 25 copies and specifies small fines and brief jail terms.
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Warriors improve non-league record to 8-6WINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- The Winona State volleyball team stood strong against the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse with a 3-1 nonconference victory. The two squads split the first two matches. Winona State won a hard-fought 33-31 Game One. UW-La Crosse followed up with a 30-25 decision. From there the Warriors stayed pretty much in control, winning Game Three 30-13 and Game Four 30-26.
Junior setter Lisa Dobie had 10 kills, 52 assists and 10 digs for the Warriors. Rudi Balich had a match-high 24 digs. The victory gave the Warriors an overall record of 8-6. In conference games they are 1-3.
The Warriors started strong in the first game, building a 22-14 lead at the second timeout. But by the third timeout UW-La Crosse came back to have a three point lead, 24-27. Megan Pulvermacher scored the winning point in the first game after the Warriors came back from behind. Winona State looked strong scoring the first point of the second game, but La Crosse dominated the rest of the game with a 10-point lead most of the time. Winona caught up at the end but still lost 25-30. The Warriors held off La Crosse from taking the lead during most of the third game, which ended in seven-point lead. Winona State won the third game with Crystal Otte scoring the winning point to end the game 30-13. La Crosse started the fourth game scoring first, but Winona State came back right away and dominated most of the game. By the first timeout Winona State was up 27-25. In the final moments Kiersten Arende scored the winning point to give the Warriors three out of four wins.
Reporter: Laura Faschingbauer
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Utah Supreme Court: Guns OK on campus SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 12, 2006 -- The state Supreme Court ruled 4-1 that a University of Utah ban on guns on campus is a violation of the state gun-rights law. The university said it will comply but also go into the federal courts to reinstate the ban. The university says that student safety is paramount.
Egads! Men at Randolph-Macon CollegeLYNCHBURG, Va., Sept. 12, 2006 -- Despite protests from students, alumni and some faculty, trustees of Randolph-Macon Woman's College voted 25-2 to end a 115-year tradition and admit men. About 400 students and alums, organized by the Coalition to Preserve Women's Education, gathered to protest the decision. The president of the Board of Trustees, Jolley Bruce Christman, sympathized: "This announcement resonates with both loss and hope, tears and anticipation." Going coed is part of a strategic plan to emphasize a global honors curriculum. Actually male students have been around awhile, dropping over from classes from nearby from Lynchburg College. Noe they can also get a Randolph-Macon degree.
No, the MIT dome is not on fireCAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 12, 2006 -- Pranksters mounted a fire truck, a fake one, on top of the landmark 150-foot-high Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- the latest in a ritual of dome tricks. Past pranks have included turning the dome into a roundish Star Wars robot R2-D2. Once it was made a beanie.
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SCHOOL BOARD. The School Board will lose incumbent Susan Brown, who was left in the dust in a seven-way primary election for four at-large spots on the November ballot. Voters favored newcomers Stacy Mounce Arnold and John Goplen, both with 2,300 votes in the preliminary tally, and Greg Fellman, at 1,200. Incumbent Natalie Siderius made the cut but barely with 1,100 votes.
SHERIFF RACE County Sheriff Dave Brand, of exurban Lewiston, won 3,500 votes in the primary election for a place on the November ballot for a third term. With 2,100 votes, Winona city police Sgt. Chris Nelson also will be on the November ballot. Sheriff's Deputy Rod Hansen was eliminated.
5TH DISTRICT. Incumbent County Commissioner Marcia Ward, of the 5th District, who has voted to license huge feedlots, took 35 percent of the vote in a five-way primary-election run-off for two November ballot spots. Greg Erickson, an organic dairy farmer who had been opposed by feed-lot interests, also won a ballot spot with 28 percent.
OTHER BOARD RACES. In November former Winona City Clerk Jim Pomeroy will face incumbent Duane Bell to represent the 1st District on the County Board. In the 2nd District, a state job-services manager, Mike Haney, will face incumbent Dwayne Voegeli.
DRAZKOWSKI VICTORY. Reoublican Steve Drazkowski won the party's primary for the District 28 State Senate seat that extends south into Winona County. Drazkowski took 52.7 percent of the vote, defeating Steve Wilson. It was an uphill campaign for Drazkowski, who earlier had been denied the party's endorsement and was couraged by state-level GOP leaders to drop out. The campaign got messy when the state Republican Caucus tried to smear Drazkowski over a child-abuse claim by his teen-age daughter that she had been slapped -- even though Drazkowski had been cleared in a jury trial. Drazkowski goes against incumbent Democrat Steve Murphy of Red Wing in November.
STALLED TRAIN. A Canadian Pacfic freight train that seemed miles and miles long blocked crossings at Mankato, Hamilton and Franklin streets Tuesday afternoon. The railroad blamed a broken brake hose. No emergency vehicles were caught in the 30-minute tarffic backups.
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18 WSU donors to be honoredWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- The WSU Foudnation, a fund-raising arm of Winona State University, will induct donors of $20,000 or more into its Cornerstone Society. The inductees, to be recognized a a banquet Oct. 20 include former academic Vice Presient Steve Richardson and retired profs Cal Fremling and Dave Rislove:
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Ace Telephone Association
Bay State Milling
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciersi Public Foundation
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James Clark
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State Department strands Arabic prof in CanadaSAN FRANCICO, Calif., Sept. 12, 2006 -- The U.S. State Department ahs kept a San Francisco State University professor of Arabic languages from re-entering the United States from Canada for three months. Mohammad Salama has been denied a secutity clearnace but offered no explanation other than taht his case is in review and that the process will not be rushed. He has a feeling that the State Department may be confusing him with a Mohammed Salameh, who was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, but who knows? Anyway, says the San Francsco State prof, the terrorist is no relation, not even the same spelling. Salama had traveled to the U.S. embassy in Toronto for a routine upgrade of his scholar visa in June. His visa was confiscated, leaving hom stranded. Salama is an Egyptian citizen who had been in the United States seven years. Meanwhile, San Francisco State has scrambled to staff Salamah's courses.
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WSU historian examines sordid use of bloodhoundsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- Using bloodhounds for their keen scent abilities in modern search-and-rescue missions has an unsavory history in the racist past of the United States, says Winona State University prof John Campbell. In a recent aricle, Campbell discusses how military strategists and slave-owners employed bloodhouds two centuries ago to propagate racial dominance by hunting and viciously attacking, sometimes killing, Indians and runaway slaves. John Campbell says his article, "The Seminoles, the Bloodhound War, and Abolitionism, 1796-1865," in the Journal of Southern History, focuses on how abolitionists used the vivid imagery of bloodhounds' ruthless human-hunting to symbolize the ill treatment of Indians, the inhumanity of slavery, and to mobilize the anti-slavery movement.
The article is part of a larger book project on which Campbell is working. Tentatively titled "The Dogs of Slavery," the book will explores the role of dogs in slavery and the anti-slavery movement, he said. Campbell's interest in dogs and slavery began almost 20 years ago while writing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Minnesota. Since 1992, Campbell's research has taken him to Washington, D.C.; Florida; New York; and England, but he did much of his research for the article at Winona State.
Campbell said his topic has present-day applications, citing the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal in which U.S. soldiers used dogs to intimidate Iraqi prisoners.
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Soderberg details loveseat purchase sagaWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- This is the text of a message sent to student senators by Carl Soderberg, student president at Winona State University, in response to mounting criticism of his purchase of furniture for the Senate office without consultation:
Hello Everyone,
I wish to write to you all about an important matter. I made a decision during the summer concerning expenditure of senate funds for office furniture. I would like my fellow students to know that I made the decision that I felt was right. I believe that I made a good faith decision keeping mind the benefit of students and not anything else.
After the senate meeting last Wednesday, the new cabinet comprised of committee chairs, the executive board, and the MSUSA campus rep, met. Out of the meeting came two cabinet recommendations that will be brought forth to the Senate next week. Both deal with an issue that arose this summer from the purchase of two new couches that I'm sure you all have seen in the office. At the beginning of the summer, Joe Reed, the Student Union/Activities Director and one of our advisors, approached me about the extra 5900 dollars that was left over from the FY '06 Student Senate budget. He asked me if there was anything in the office that I thought could be purchased to enhance the office or office equipment. Initially, I said that it was too bad that the previous senate did not have the opportunity to use that money, but I didn't feel comfortable spending senate funds without proper authorization. After that Director Reed told me that the funds were there to spend and if they were not spent they would be lost to the reserve. Around the middle of June, probably the 13th or 14th, I decided that if we had the money then, we should buy things for improvements for our office, something that we may not be able to do down the road. I went to Director Reed and told him that we should move forward on this and purchase a sofa and loveseat combo for the office in order to get rid of the old furniture that needed to be laid to rest.
After that, we learned from the Business Office that they had stopped departmental spending for that fiscal year to shore up budgets and prepare for the switch to FY '07 that was going to begin on July 1st. At this point I was disappointed that we had lost the money, but was accepting of that fact. And then on June 27th, I received an email ccd to me from Director Reed to Joanne Lanik in the Business Office, saying that through conversations he had with Dr. Ruth Schroeder, the VP for Student Life and Development, he received authorization to rollover the remaining FY '06 budget of 5900 dollars to the FY '07 Student Senate account for the purchase of office furniture. After this email, I met with Director Reed and decided to continue to pursue the purchase. I did this with the understanding that during the summer when the senate wasn't around, a decision had to be made and I made it. I went to Slumberland and placed a purchase order there and with the Business Office to acquire the sofa/loveseat combo. The total cost of the combo came to around 1240 dollars and the furniture arrived at the end of July in the office. The furniture in question was a special order and before it was delivered I did have second thoughts about my decision and decided to cancel the order but was told it was too late to do so.
The cabinet, in the recommendation that will come forth, decided to put the remaining 4660 dollars into the Special Request fund of the Student Senate. I am open for any questions or comments that you may have about this matter. I only hope that this issue will be dealt with shortly so that we may continue to focus on student matters of immense importance. I just wish to make it very clear as emphatically as I can that my initial decision to buy furniture for our office was based on the knowledge that our funds would lapse if they were not spent. I also assumed, perhaps prematurely, that situations like this arose every summer and the funds were spent down to obtain necessary things and that it was no big deal. In retrospect I realize that I should have waited and tried to obtain formal senate approval. This experience is a part of my learning curve, and I believe that I have learned something valuable from this episode. Please direct any media to me on this matter for I alone am responsible for my action. However, I also wish to emphasize that we have very little time and lots to do, and I hope we will begin addressing the issues we promised we would address last spring.
Carl Soderberg
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Background: Soderberg OK'd $1,200 for Senate furniture
Beleaguered Allegheny president resigns earlyPITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept.12, 206 -- The president of Allegheny County Community College, Stewart Sutin, is leaving a year before the end of his contract amid criticism for his expense-account spending and problems with faculty and county officials. Sutin said he had made changes at the financially struggling college that brought out critics. Sutin said he had underestimated the resistance to his reforms. Sutin is a former executive at Mellon Financial Corp., had brought in a new college management team. The announcement pre-empted a college faculty vote scheduled on whether to express no-confidence in Sutin's leadership.
Background: Report: College leadership lavish on expense accounts
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Toftness at par to lead WSU golf teamBEMIDJI, Minn., Sept. 11, 2006 -- Led by Bret Toftness, Winona State University finished third-place in the Bemidji State University men's golf invitational. Toftness finished with an even-par 142 for the two-day, 36-hole event. The Warriors totaled 588 strokes, 10 strokes off the winning pace. The Warriors finished with four of its five players in the top 17. Ross Jacobucci followed in a tie for 13th with rounds of 78-70 for a 148. Brady Strangstalien and Ryan Peavey each were a stroke further behind with 149s to tie for 17th. Matt Horel had 151 for 21st.
WSU journalism book adapted for IndiaWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- The textbook "Reporting and Writing News," co-authored by Winona State University prof John Vivian and Loyola New Orleans prof Larry Lorenz, has been issued in an edition for college students in India. The book, originally published by Allyn & Bacon in 1996, is widely used in journalism courses in the United States. The India edition is under the Pearson Education imprint.
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Brigham Young prof sidelined for 9/11 viewsPROVO, Utah, Sept. 12, 2006 -- A Brigham Young University physics prof, Steven E. Jones, has been placed on paid leave for an article that says the U.S. government permitted and may have even orchestrated the September 2001 terrorist attacks. A university spokesperson called Jones's views "increasingly speculative and accusatory." While Jones is on leave, his work will be reviewed to determine if it meets the university's standards of academic freedom, the spokesperson said. Jones, at Brigham Young since 1985, will continue to have the use of campus research facilities , the university said. His two introductory physics courses, however, have been assigned to other instructors. Jones's views on the 2001 attack became an issue because of his article, "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?" in the book "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out" from Olive Branch Press.
Soderberg OK'd $1,200 for Senate furniture | WINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- The new president of the Winona State University Student Senate, Carl Soderberg, spent more than $1,200 on a plum loveseat and sofa for the Senate office over the summer, records show. Soderberg placed the order in person at the Winona Slumberland store without consulting members of the Senate or fellow members of the elected Senate cabinet. The money was from a fund generated from fees assessed on students. The matching pieces of furniture, ordered in July, were not in the store's stock but a special order. The invoice authorizing payment was signed by student activities Director Joe Reed, who oversees Senate funds. |
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Laptop missing from WSU dorm roomWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 2006 -- A Winona State University freshman, Hans Keith Steckenbach, reported that his laptop computer had been stolen from his Richards dorm room on Monday afternoon. Steckenbach told police that he returned at 7:11 p.m. to see his roommate in the room and his laptop missing. The roommate said he had been in the room most of the day and left only from 1 to 1:50 p.m. and again from 2 to 3:15 p.m.. The roommate told police he locked the door. There was no sign of a forced entry, police said. The laptop was a Gateway valued at $1,500.
Reporters: Sarah Botzek Kirsten Freeman and Sheila Goodlund
WSU student finds his car keyedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 12, 206 -- A 20-year-old Winona State University student, Andrew Mark O'Neill, 20, reported that his vehicle was keyed from front to back fender and on the hood Monday on the 450 block of Lafayette Street. O'Neill told police he had parked his vehicle outside of his house Friday night and noticed damage the next morning. He reported the damage at 2:40 p.m., Monday.
Reporter: Sarah Botzek
Shakespeare fest goes with "Macbeth," As You Like it"| WINONA, Minn., June 4, 2006 -- Thi coming season the Great River Shakespeare festival will produce "Macbeth" and "As You Like It" at Winona State University, organizers said. "Macbeth," on the morality of power, will be directed by Doug Scholz-Carlson. "As You Like It," a comic meditation on love, will be directed by Paul Barnes. Organizers said the season will run six weeks, an extension for this summer's five weeks. Ticket sales this summer were at record, 15 percent ahead of the year before, organizers said. |
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Log-jam course at WSU Tiki NightÓWINONA, Minn., Sept. 11, 2006 -- A welcome-back-to-campus Tiki Night is being sponsored by the Black Cultural Awareness Association at Winona State University. An inflatable log-jam course will be set up, organizer said.
Date: Thursday, Sept. 14
Time: 5 p.m.
Place: Sheehan dorm lawn
Cost: $1 includes burger
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WSU hosts academic Slovak delegationWINONA, Minn., Sept. 11, 2006 -- An academic delegation from Catholic University in northern Slovakia, is expected to arrive at Winona State University on Wednesday to explore possibilities for student and faculty exchanges. The delegation includes university President Boris Banary. A reception:
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 13
Time: 3:15 p.m.
Place: Maxwell Center
Cost: Free
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Injured WSU journalism student recoveringEAGAN, Minn., Sept. 11, 2006 -- A Winona State University senior injured in a one-car accident two weeks ago, Laura Gossman, is recovering at her family home in Eagan. Gossman is on crutches. "Everything is healing like it should," she said. Gossman has more doctor appointments to check for possible internal injuries. She hopes to return to classes spring semester.
Background: WSU masscom senior injured in car wreck
Cancer claims St. Teresa music profWINONA, Minn., Sept. 10, 2006 -- A music prof at the College of St. Teresa, Don Echelard, who was widely known in Winona music circles, died of cancer at a nursing home. He was 73. Echelard taught part-time at St. Mary's University in his retirement. He played in the municipal band and the symphony. He founded the Musica Docle Ensemble and was its director for 18 years. He played in the Winona Brass Band. At St. Mary's Catholic Church he directed the choir for 27 years. Echelard joined the St. Teresa faculty in 1968 with a doctoral degree in education from Montana State. He held bachelor's and master's in music from the University of Montana.
Nightcap cops called to WSU, SMU dormsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 10, 2006 -- Extra police on back-to-school weekend foot patrol the Winona State neighborhood and downtown were summoned to a campus dorm, where a drunk student had gone berserk. The student, 19, was found tearing a fire extinguisher off the wall at Lourdes Hall at 12:15 a.m. Officers cited the student for minor consumption. He was taken to the hospital to begin detoxification.
An hour later, at 1:10 a.m., were called to the St. Joseph dorm at St. Mary's University where a drunk 19-year-old was punching walls and telling officers that he was going to kill himself. Officers quoted that the student telling them to "shoot me in the head." The student was taken to the hospital for a 74-hour hold.
About the same time, 1:10 a.m., officers were called to the Sheehan dorm at Winona State where 20-year-old woman was lying druk in a hallway. She was cited with a minor consumption.
Most officers were on the street Saturday night as part of the annual Operation Nightcap Junior to address the fall ritual of public drunkenness near campus. Thirty-five citations were issued, mostly to college students, in addiition to 40-some the night before.
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A 20-year-old student was cited for underage consumption when police broke up a party at 502 Grand St. Also cited at the party were four other students, all 20 or 21.
Walking patrols cited a group on nin students with underage consumption at 373 W. Sandborn St. They ranged in ahge from 18 to 20.
A man and a woman, both 19, were both cited for underage consumption when police stopped them at King and Harriet streets.
Police cited four students, all 19 or 20, with underage consumption at Eighth and Wilson streets about 11 p.m.
Two men, 19 and 18, were cited with underage consumption at 10th and Olmsted streets about 10:15 p.m. Friday night.
Eleven other Winona State students cited with underage consumption in scattered incidents.
Three St. Mary's students, age 18, 19, and 20, were cited with underage consumption.
Reporters: Elizabeth Adams and Stacy Brogan
Background: Forty-plus booze-related tickets on Friday
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Second Missouri roadtrip loss for WarriorsKIRKSVILLE, MOo., Sept. 10, 2006 -- Winona State University was handed a 2-0 soccer shutout by Truman State University in nonconfernece play. It was the second straight loss for the Warriors in a two-game trip to Missouri. The Winona State offense failed to click, coming up with 11 shots with three going on goal. The defense held Truman State scoreless in the first half, but the Bulldogs finally found the back of the net 20 minutes and 29 seconds into the second half and again at the 76:01 mark. Truman State finished with just seven shots, of which four were on goal.
Background: WSU comes from behind twice but loses
Hatfields defend survey methodology, conclusionsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 10, 2006 -- Two Winona State University profs say that critics of their survey on school Superintendent Paul Durand's job performance have mistaken apples for oranges. Prof Susan Hatfield, who with husband Tim Hatfield, conducted the survey for the Winona teachers' union, told the Daily News that the survey was never intended to meet the research standards of academic journals. Even so, she said, the survey was wholly reliable for tapping teacher perceptions of Durand's performance. "We did all the stuff we would do for a serious piece of research," Hatfield said. In summarizing data from the survey the Hatfields were harsh on Durand. That made them a focal point in an explosion of criticism directed at the Board for rehiring Durand.
School Board member Kelly Herold, ironically a speech department colleague of Susan Hatfield at Winona State, was among critics of the methodology. To that, Hatfield told the Daily News: "It wasn't requested that we had to meet published academic research standards. We didn't pretend it was anything but what it was -- a survey of teachers' perceptions." The methodology was not sloppy and the results were accurate, Hatfield said. Of 264 members of the union, the Winona Education Assopciation, 70.1 percent responded. The sample size was statistically valid to support the conclusions, Hatfield said. Also, she denied that questions were stacked.
Background: Doubts cast on school study by WSU profs
Background: Comment: Let's move on
WSU jobs chief on philanthropy panelWINONA, Minn., Sept. 10, 2006 -- The job-placement director at Winona State University, Vicki Decker, was a panelist for a St. MaryÕs University philanthropy panel. Topics included expectations of staff fund-raisers and consultants.ÊDecker has served on several capital campaigns.
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Danny Lee Hanson 19, 256 W. King $177.
Jessica R. Klinkhammer, 19, 303 W. Eighth, $177.
Elizabeth M. Krueger, 20, Shoreview, Minn., $177.
Jamie Rose Mrockzkoski, 19, 515 Center 2, $177.
Jacob D. Nelson, 19, St. James, Minn., 15 days and $277.
Deanadrea Nigel Lamar Noble, 19, St. Paul, Minn., $177.
Andrew John Peters, 19, Dover, Minn., $177.
Daniel Ray Shriver, 18, 411 Dacota, $177.
Nicholas C. Taverna, 20, Maplewood, Minn., $177.
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Jason Michael Cieminski, 25, 1116 Sugarloaf Rad, $177.
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Police step up boozing crackdown: 40-plus ticketsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 9, 2006 -- Police on foot patrols issued more than 40 tickets for minor consumption, almost all to boozing college students. In one incident, the driver of a pickup truck hit the accelerator while being questioned. The officer, who was holding onto the side-view mirror, was 10 feet down the street, police Sgt. Chris Nelson said at the daily police briefing. The officer was unhurt, Nelson said. The driver, a 20-year-old student, was spotted at his house later, at 11:35 p.m., and taken into custody. He was charged with fleeing an officer, obstructing an officer, minor consumption, under-21 drinking and driving, running a red light, and reckless driving.
Nelson said that officers had approached the pickup on foot at an alley near Sixth and Washington after hearing loud noises. The truck, Nelson said, was surrounded by seven people. Officers noticed a shinny container inside and asked the driver if he had been drinking. It was then that the driver took off, dragging the officers 10 feet, Nelson said. The officer repeatedly yelled for the man to stop, but he did not, Nelson said. Officers spotted the vehicle later near Fifth and Kansas streets. The driver admitted to being the driver and was taken into custody. Four other individuals in the truck were cited for minor consumption.
The pickup arrest was among a wave of incidents Friday night and Saturday morning as part of Operation Nightcap Junior, an annual police project early every fall semester. The goal: To discourage the underage drinking and rowdyism that have contributed to town-and-gown community tensions. Four teams of three police officers, on overtime pay, walked the streets in the Winona State University neigborhood and the downtown bar district. The project is federally funded.
Among other incidents:
Patrolling near 303 W. Eighth St. at 9:40 p.m., cops spotted three loud women carrying yellow cups and appeared to being under 21. When officers approached, the women ran into a nearby house. Officers were able to coax the women out of the house. Two them, both 19, were cited with minor consumption. A third, age 20, was ticketed for both minor consumption and fleeing.
At 9:02 p.m. officers were dispatched to Mankato Avenue. There they arrested a 19-year-old man for possession of marijuana after discovering that a warrant had been issued for him for a probation violation.
A man was charged at 9:30 p.m. for drunken driving after running his car into a ditch on County 17. The man, who admitted to having "a few drinks," blew a .208 blood-alcohol percentage in a breath test, 2-1/2 times the allowable limit. Officers reported finding a bag of green leafy substance in the man's pocket too.
A man was charged at 10:15 p.m. for minor consumption after an officer noted him carrying a beer can at Seventh and Center streets. About the same time a woman came out of a house carrying a plastic cup. She too was charged with minor consumption. Police approached another man, who surrendered his alcohol without a problem. He also was ticketed for minor consumption. A friend in public holding an open beverage was ticketed too.
A man was spotted at 10:50 p.m. at Seventh and Main streets carrying a silver container. He was asked for the alcoholic beverage. Yes, it was beer. The man was ticketed for public consumption.
On East Ninth Street a man was charged with domestic assault at 1:15 a.m. after his womanfriend, who recently had severed their relationship, called that he had shown up to her house unannounced and pounded on a window, police said. The window swung in and hit the woman in the face. She suffered a swollen lip and possibly fractured nose. The man was taken into custody.
A man was charged for obstructing justice at 1:36 a.m. at a house party at 373 W. Sanborn. Police said the man was mouthing off to officers and eventually lunged at one. Officers forced the man to the ground and cuffed him.
At 1:50 a.m., officers on foot spotted a woman stumbling out of the Erberts and Gerberts sandwich shop, next to Stinger's bar. She was leaning on a friend's shoulder for support, police said. Reeking alcohol, she was ticketed for minor consumption.
Reporter: Stacy Brogan and Paul Solberg
Background: Boozing arrests mark new semester
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Warriors hold off Emporia State 21-18EMPORIA, Kan., Sept. 9, 2006 -- Winona State University scored 21 first-half points and then held off a second-half comeback by Emporia State University to record a 21-18 nonconference football victory. The Warriors led 21-7 at halftime, but Emporia State was able to put 11 points on the scoreboard in the second half. Emporia had one more series with less than two minutes left to take the lead, but Winona State cornerback Shawn Cunningham picked off a pass with one minute to go to ice the contest for the Warriors.
Drew Aber and Scott Peters hooked up for two Winona State scores. The duo combined for the first score of the game on a 23-yard play with 13:37 left in the opening quarter. Emporia came right back to tie the score at 7-all, but the Warriors got the ball back after a missed Emporia field goal in the second quarter and marched 71 yards in 10 plays. Aber scampered in for the score.
On the ensuing series the Warrior forced a fumble at the Empria 9. Dan Link came up with the ball and set up a two-play, two-yard drive that was capped by a Aber-to-Peters 16-yard pass to give Winona State at 21-7 lead with 1:36 left in the half.
On the game Aber was 16 of 29 for 152 yards and the two scores. Peters caught seven passes for 68 yards. Alex Wiese rushed the ball 16 times for 76 yards. Defensively, Cunningham led the Warriors nine tackles and the crucial interception.
Iowa candidates woo Iraq-era vetsDES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 9, 2006-- A Republican candidate for governor, Jim Nussle, proposed free tuition at state colleges for decorated veterans who have served since the September 2001 terrorist attacks. Tuition also would be waived for surviving spouses. Nussle, curently a member of Congress, said that Iowa should encourage veterans to remain in the state. Responding, Democratic candidate Chet Culver proposed $10,000 in job-training benefits for vets.
COMMENT:
WINONA SCHOOLS
LET'S MOVE ON
A year ago the superintendent of Winona schools, Paul Durand, campaigned tirelessly for a desperately needed school tax increase. A majority of voters agreed to the new tax. For that, Durand deserves bouquets, not the brickbats being hurled by sore losers on the tax issue. Now, months later, the messy residue of the tax issue has sucked in a pair of respected academicians at Winona State who conducted a free-of-charge survey of Winona teachers on Durand's job performance. Although the Hatfields allowed themselves to get into the fray, the attempts to discredit their work border on hysterical. The bottom line is that Durand did the right thing on the school tax and did it well. And, contract now renewed, he's here to stay for a while. It's true too, as the Hatfields found and reported, the superintendent has some communciation problems with teachers. He's working on that. Let's move on. |
Report: Illiniwek mascot to go to alumniCHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 9, 2006 -- University of Illinois officials have talked of turning over the controversial Indian mascot Illiniwek to an alumni group to sidestep sanctions from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for perpetuatig racist stereotypes with the mascot, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The newspaper cited inside sources but did not name them. In Champaign-Urbana, the university denied the story. A decision about Illiniwek has not been made, the university said. The Sun-Times said the plan has the ownership of the chief going to 30-some alumni who have performed as the chief over the years. The mascot would perform off the playing field.
Background: Illinois trustees delay Illiniwek decision
WSU academic chief talks on expanding knowledgeWINONA, Minn., Sept. 9, 2006 -- The new academic vice president at Winona State, Sally Johnstone, wil discuss possibiities for projects in the United Nations=sponsored Open Education Resources project, which is designed to share knowledge worldwide to increase human intellectual capacity. Last week Johnstone was in Xi'an and briefed the China Open Resources for Education on projects.
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WSU places two runners in top 11RIVER FALLS, Wis., Sept. 9, 2006 -- Winona State University came in fourth out of five teams in the 6K University of Wisconsin-River Falls Invitational. The Warriors placed two runners in the top 11 to total 94 points. Steph Smith led the Warriors, finishing fifth in 23:15.3. Allie Glasbrenner was 1th at 24:01.1. WSU had a solid pack-running meet with five runners in the 25th through 29th.
Colorado plan: Put class rank on transcriptsBOULDER, Colo., Sept. 9, 2006 -- The president of the University of Colorado system, Hank Brown, is proposing that student transcripts include class rank. Brown sees listing a student's class rank as a vehicle to address grade inflation that gives more students higher GPAs than ever in history. Class ranks are better than grades for evaluating academic achievement, Brown said.
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UW-River Falls Invitational
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Three WSU runners in top 15RIVER FALLS, Wis, Sept. 9, 2006 -- Winona State University placed fourth in the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Invitational. The Warriors placed fourth out of four teams with 79 points, just two points out of third place. Winona State finished the 8K race with three runners in the top 15. Neil Skoog paced the way with a tenth-place time of 27:47.7. Chet Heacox was13th at 27:51.9. Dan Gibbons was 15th at 28:09.8.
Auditor: Probe at Florida A&M unwarrantedTALLAHASSEE, Fla. Sept. 9, 2006 -- An inspector general examining accusations about financial mismanagement at Florida A&M University, Michael E. Brown, was fired for druming up the accusations. An outside auditor said that not only were the accusations untrue but that they had originted with Brown. Allegations of mismanagement have plagued the university for years, leading to the resignation of one president and impugning current interim President Castell Bryant. A recent audit concluded, however , that Bryant is correcting problems she inherited.
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Northern State 3, WSU 0
WSU 3, UM-Crookston 0 |
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Georgia college offocial guilty of timber fraudMOUNT BERRY, Ga., Sept. 9, 2006 -- A former Berry College official, Robert Lee Parker, pleaded guilty to selling timber on college land and pocketimng the money. Parker got away with $2.5 million over seven years. As part of his guilty plea, Parker agreed to forfeit his $400,000 home. He faces 15 years in prison.
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SMU 3, Wartburg 2
St. Scholastica 3, SMU 1 |
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Massachusetts governor ousts trusteesBOSTON, Mass., Septy. 7, 2006 -- Three University of Massachusetts trustees, all of whom opposed Gov. Mitt Romney's proposal to create a state law school, have been passed over by the governor for reappointment. Romney is a Republican.
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Hepatitis scare at Kent StateKENT, Ohio, Sept. 9, 2006 -- After a student cafeteria worker was diagnosed with hepatitis A, Kent State University went into high gear to immunize students against the highly contagious disease. About 500 people who may have come in contact with the infected student were tracked down. The student did not work in food-prep but delivered food to catered events on campus. Hepatitis A, a viral liver infection, causes fever and nausea. Seldom is it fatal.
Cast-iron sculptures in WSU exhibitWINONA, Minn., Sept. 8, 2006 -- A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse artist, Cam Choy, has assembled a cast-iron sculpture exhibit, "Mix-Plate Special," at Winona State Univertsity. Included are works by Jack Gron, Wayne Potratz, Garrett Krueger, Molly Moran, John Ready, Jim Swartz, Karl Unnasch and Melanie Van Houten.
Date: Through Wednesday, Sept. 20
Time: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. wekdays, to 8 p.m. Wednesdays
Place: Watkins Gallery
Cost: Free
Contact: Anne Plummer at (507) 457-5393 |
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WSU comes from behind twice but losesWARRENSBURG, Mo . Sept. 8, 2006 -- Central Missouri State University came up with a goal at 3:20 in a second overtime period for a 3-2 nonconference soccer victory over Winona State. The Winona State Warriors had battled back twice to tie the game in regulation and then fought through the first overtime period to keep the game tied. But then Central Missouri made good on a penalty kick for the victory. Heidi Woerle tied the match at 1-1 for the Warriors on a shot off a turnover at 39:01. Holly Sutton then tied the match again for the Warriors when she made it 2-2 on her shot from the side at 76:05. The Warriors offense had its difficulty getting shots off, coming up with just eight with three on goal. Central Missouri had 22 shots with 10 on goal. Amanda Diehm suffered the loss in the nets for the Warriors.
TIAA-CREF hires, fires securities-fraud convictCHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 8, 2006 -- The giant TIAA-CREF pension company, which holds billions of dollars for college employees nationwide, hired a woman who had recently been convicted of seuritties fraud and gave her access to |
