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UW-La Crosse jock vanishes from bar districtLA CROSSE, Wis., Sept. 30, 2006 -- A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse basketball player, Lucas Homan, 21, disappeared after celebrating the start of the Oktoberfest comunity festival in the bars downtown. Housemates realized that Human was missing when he didn't come home and then failed to show for a golf outing, police said. He was last seen about 2:30 a.m. in the downtown bar dustrict, according to police. Police brought in search dogs in hope of picking up a scent. Volunteers searched Riverfront and Copeland parks. Police said the case is being regarded as a criminal investigation. People with Homan said he had been drinking heavily and earlier in the night was in a fight at the Vibe bar.
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Peters makes three touchdowns to lead WarriorsST. PAUL, Minn., Sep. 30, 2006 -- Scott Peters hauled in three touchdown passes thrown by Drew Aber and the Winona State University Warriors went on to score a 24-17 Northern Sun conferenfe football victory over Concordia. Peters' third scoring reception came late in the fourth quarter to give the Warriors a two-touchdown lead. Peters finished the game with seven receptions for 105 yards. Aber was 19 of 28 for 255 yards. Mike Salerno added a 25-yard field goal in the first quarter to start the scoring for the Warriors. Winona Stste improved to 2-0 in the conference and 4-1 overall. Concordia falls to 1-1e and 2-3.
Defensively the Warriors were all over the Golden Bears offense, recording 12 tackles for loss and five sacks. Dane Clark led the charge with two sacks for losses of 15 yards, and 2.5 tackles for loss of 16 yards. Dave Braun added to the effort with three tackles for loss (11 yards) and a sack (7 yards). Marcus LaBadie was the leading tackler for the Warriors with six solo and six assisted tackles.
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Baltimore University waives frosh tuition, feesBALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 30, 2006 --Tthe University of Baltimore, which will launch a freshman curriculum for the first time in 30 years, has waived tuition and fees for the inaugural year. The first frosh class of 130 freshmen begins next fall. The program will cost $900,000, about $7,000 per student after grants are subtracted. In recent years the university has been only for upper-division and grad students. A donor is underwriting much of the waivers.
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TV, X-box reported stolenWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- A Winona man, Eric Gryzybowski, reported a stolen television set and X-box at 2 a.m. Saturday . Gryzybowski told police he isn't sure if anything else is missing.
Reporter: Danette Gunther
Feds add Upward Bound at-risk quotaWASHINGTON, Sept.30, 2006 -- The U.S. Department of Education announced a plan to require high schools to make students at high risk for academic failure in college as 30 perent of enrollees in federally funded Upward Bound programs. If the plan goes into effect, there will be less funding for financially needy high-school students but more for high-risk students.
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Report: College leader had fingers in foundation potBIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 30, 2006 -- The president of Bishop State Community College, Yvonne Kennedy, controlled a private foundation and told her staff how to spend its money, the newspaper the Birmingham News reported. The report is the latest in scandals that have rocked he Alabama two-year college system. The nonprofit foundation has no record of the money was used, the newspaper reported. Kennedy had claimed publicly that she served ex-officio with the foundation. Meanwhile, the state community college system is investigating allegations that several of Bishop State employees helped relatives obtain financial-aid payments without attending classes, including a disabled 67-year-old grandmother who was signed up for three sports. In anothe development, the U.S. Education Department has put Bishop State into "heightened cash monitoring" catageory and is monitoring studentsÕ eligibility for aid before releasing funds.
Background: Report: Chancellor's son on contractor payroll
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WSU victorious without six boozing froshWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- Winona State University defeated Southwest Minnesota State 4-0 victoryin women's soccer without six players who wer suspended for boozing. Six of the nine freshman players had been celebrating a friend's birhday the night before practice. coach Ali Omar suspended them for one game. The rule prohibits drinking 24 hours before practice or 48 hours before a game. Sophomore Leslie Schumacher was not sympathetic: "Everyone is told the rules the first day of preseason and is known of punishment if they are broken." Schumacher said the six frosh "broke a lot of trust" and "can only blame themselves."
Not having all of the members of the team did not seem to hold the Warriors. The Warrior defense held the Southwest Minnesiota to only three shots with one on goal the entire game. The Warriors had a total of 25 shots with 12 on goal. The three shots for the Mustangs came from senior Liz Schiesl, senior Noelle Bergman and sophomore Jena Termeyer. The goals for Winona were scored by junior Holly Sutton, who had two goals, and senior Christine Beatty and sophomore Heidi Woerle.
Reporter: Amanda Baruch
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Date: Saturday, Oct. 7
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Page Theater, Performance Center
Cost: $9 to $17
Contact: (507) 457-1715 |
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Matt Horel is WSU medalistDETROIT LAKES, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- Winona State University came up with a 36-hole total of 594 and placed second in the NCAA Central fall invitational at Wildflower Golf Course. The Warriors came up with rounds of 293-301 in placing second. Matt Horel was the Warrior medalist with a two-over-par 146 that tied for third. Also in the top 10 was Bret Toftnessm in a tie for fifth with a 147. Ross Jacubucci was ninth at 150.
Dramatist Carlyle Brown to speak
at SMUWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- Minneapolis actor and playwright Carlyle Brown will read at St. Mary's University from his new play, "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: A Fictional Account of the Demons and Dilemmas Faced by Langston Hughes While Attempting to Write a Poem on the Night Before His Appearance Before the U.S. Congressional Investigation Committee on Un-American Activities, Led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.Ó A reception will follow. Brown will be in Winona also as the lead actor in Theatre du Mississippi's "My Children, My Africa" Nov. 3-5 and 10-12 at the Masonic Theatre, 255 Main St. Tickets $5 to $15.
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 11
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Figliulo Recital Hall, Performance Center
Cost: Free
Contact: (507) 459-8090 |
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Children's stories coming to SMU stageWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2006 -- A multiracial trupe, Theatreworks/USA, will perform eight children's tales at St. Mary's University. Stories include "Amazing Grace," If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," "Imogene's Antlers," and "Owen."
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Cambodian genocide recalled, re-enactedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 206 -- A survivor of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, Sobatha Oum, wants to make sure that 1.7 million people who were murdered and buried in mass graves are not forgotten. Oum offered a Winona State University audience a first-hand account of day-to -day life under the extremist Khmer Rouge regime and how he, the only living survivor of eight children, witnessed what's now known as the Cambodian Killing Fields. Oum described the violence ofthe Khmer Rouge, who every day murdered hundreds of people. As a 7-year-old child, Oum said, he was trained to be a sniper with the resistance. For the last 23 years Oum has been living in the jungles of Cambodia, working with other survivors to stabilize his country.
Immediately after his presentation, Oum led his audience outside for a simulation of the war. Knowing the re-enactment has been be disturbing to earlier participants, Oum required everybody to sign a release form. From there, particpants assigned to a group that served as their family, and they were given an overview of the boundaries of the simulation. The goal was to reach a base camp without being captured by one of four individuals who were impersonating the Khmer Rouge. Only 6 percent of the participants escaped capture.
Reporter: Alex White
SMU regents nix football proposalWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2006 -- The cost of reviving football as a varsity sport at St. Mary's University, probably $10 million for starters, would be too much. After considering information from a task force, the university's regents unanimously rejected a proposal to resume football. A program would require a stadium, more coaches and support facilities, the report said. Proponents had argued that football would draw more students to St. Mary's, whose Winona enrollment has plateaued at 1,200. A universuty statement saud that regents felt that "as responsible stewards of university resources," reinstating football at this time wpuld not be in the best interests of the university and its students. The reasons for reinstating football could be achieved by upgrading existing athletic programs, the statement said.
Craig Franz, university president, said that more than money figured into the decision. "There was no single factor," he said. Brother Craig Franz, university president, Information collected on tge issue will be useful in future discussions on improvements existing athletic programs and facilities, Brother Franz said. Former Athletic Director Chris Kendall, now student development vice president, who co-chaired the task force, said the concept was to make a full commitment-- nothing halfway. A shoestring approach was not an option, he said. There was no comment on whether the cross-town presence of Winona State, which has become a regional Division II football powerhouse, had pre-empted a local following for a second collegiate local team.
St. Mary's fielded a football until 1955 when budget issues forced its cancelation. Restoring the program was considered in 1988 and rejected. Kendall said he expects the issue will come up in the future. In the meantime, St. Mary's continues as the only member of the Minnesota Intercollegaite Atheltic Association without a football team.
The task force was headed by Chris Kendall and Tony Piscitiello, the university's chief recruiter. Members included administrators, faculty, students, staff, alumni, and people fromthe Winona community.
Background: SMU trustees put off football decision
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Ceremonial shovelsful to mark Maxwell projectWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2006 -- Winona State University announced an all-star line-up, a political photo-op if Winona ever had one, for the ground-breaking next week for the remodeling of Maxwell Hall. On the program: U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn.; U.S. Rep. Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn.; State Sen. Kierlin, R-Winona; State Rep. Greg Davids, R-Preston; State Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona; and State Rep. Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon. Jim Gelbmann, from the office of U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., and Dawn Wilsey, from the American Prosecutors Research Institute in Washington, are scheduled to speak. The Maxwell renovation, an $11.2 million state-funded project, will include mock courtrooms, interview rooms, magistrate classrooms, and a mock house for training child advocates and child protection personnel and first-line reporters. Afterward, dignataries will proceed around a corner to the recently remodeled Pasteur science building for a dedication ceremony. Tours of the entire science complex will be offered, said acting sciences Dean Jeff Anderson.
Date: Monday, Oct. 2
Time: 1 p.m.
Place: Maxwell Hall
Cost: Free
Contact: Ann Kohner at (507) 457-5870 |
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WEEK ENDING SEPT.30, 2006
Sept. 30, 2006: A cigarette-disposal receptacle was found damaged between Richards and Prentiss-Lucas dorms at 6 a.m.
Sept. 30, 2006: Several students were cited for an alcohol violation at the Lourdes dorm at 10:15 p.m.
Sept. 30, 2006: Security guards and police Department responded to a noise complaint outside of the Conway dorm 12:40 a.m. A student was arrested for minor consuming and warned about the noise.
Sept. 30, 2006: At 5:15 p.m. a student reported damage done to a vehicle parked at the East Lake dorm .
Sept. 28, 2006: A Lourdes dorm supervisor called security guards at 11:25 p.m. for a drug violation in the residence hall guards found nothing.
Sep. 28, 2006: At 5:10 p.m. A ChartwellÕs employee reporetd a problem with a student. Security guards spoke with both parties. The matter wasresolved.
Sep. 28, 2006: A student was cited for an alcohol violation at the Lourdes dorm at 11:35 p.m.
Sep. 27, 2006: The parking staff repported a vehiclular accident.
Sep. 27, 2006: At 1 p.m. damage apparently caused by firewroks was reported to a gassy area between the Minne classrook building and and the Krueger Library.
Sep. 7, 2006: A student fell near the front of Lourdes at 7:45 a.m. and was helped to the campus nursing station.
Sep. 27, 2006: A non-student was removed from campus for disorderly behavior st 7:40 p.m.
Sep. 26, 2006: At 1 p.m. pillars were reproted tipped over near Phelps Hall.
Sept. 25, 2006: A student reported at 1:30 p.m. that somebody walked over her vehicle just off campus and caused damage.
Sept. 24, 2006: Security guards responded to an report at 3:05 a.m. of an unescorted man in the Conway dorm but couldn't find him.
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WSU house boat has 22 September bookingsWINONA, Minn., Sdpt. 29, 2006 -- The WInona State University launch River Explorer began fall semester with 20 Sotember bookings, according tio porf Drake HOkanson of the Mississippi River Studies steering committee. Hokanson said bookings have included a three-day class session with a two-night sandbar camping. For instructional purposes, the commitete charges $60 per hour. For non-instructional use: $90 running time; $22.50 standing.
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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER? The cops arrested a Wayzata, Minn., yachtsman, Scott Emmet Leiferman, 35, after a taxi was damaged returning him and a buddy to his 54-foot yacht. Lieferman was sent to detox. Police had found the cab, its lights and horn in emergency mode, at the Winona Yacht Club at 1:42 a.m. The driver said two passengers had disabled his radio. Then, police said, Leiferman popped out of the dark and tossed a vial into the brush. The vial was being tested, but police believed it contained 1.42 grams of cocaine. Lieferman, also, was carrying the prescription drug Xanax, police said. En route to jail, police said, they were threatened. They quoted Leiferman: "I can't wait to bury you guys," They also quoted Leiferman that he would never return to Winona. He was enroute downriver to the Gulf and Florida Keys.
At the jail, police found $730 in cash on Leiferman, which he offered them to forget the whole thing, the report said. Leiferman refused a test for the alcohol content of his blood. The buddy, John Edward Fresonke, 27, Stillwater, Minn., tested at 0.24 percent, triple the breakpoint for being impaired under Minnesota law, police said.
The Daily News identified Leiferman as the owner of Harmon AutoGlass, a 23-store franchise headquartered in Golden Valley, Minn. He bought the franchise in 2004 after operating a job-recruiting company in Arizona. The Daily news also reported this background: Leiferman was convicted of drunken driving in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2003, went to jail, and completed addiction treatment. He holds a 1994 marketing degree from Mankato State University. Last year he was named a distinguished young alum by the University of Minnesota.
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Committee pursues rappers Crest for WSU showWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2008 -- The Winona State University student activities committee has voted to pursue the Midwest hip-hop act Crest for a campus concert in early Npvember. Preliminary committee discussion with Crest has been that a show would cost $600 max -- "a bargain," said the UPAC concert subcommittee -- because the band would already be in town for a performance at Rascals bar downtown. Some UPAC committee members noted that Crest had failed to attract much attention at Winona gigs. Concert subcommittee chair Mike Paul responded that the turnouts for over-21 performances have been weak but that over-18 nights have been full houses. The Crest, a Midwest group, comprises emcees Jack Cracker and AD, producer and disc jockey Skrabble, and beat producer Jason Blare. They will be on tour with disc jockey DJ Abilities from Nov. 1 to Nov. 4. The Rascals show is Nov. 2.
Reporter: Sam Keane-Rudolph
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WSU student discovers car was sideswipedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2006-- A Winona State University student, Tera Ann Haas, told police that her car was sideswiped at 520 Harriet St. From scrathes it appears that the second vehicle was white, police said. The incident was reported at 6:11 p.m.
Reporter: Nicole Swenson
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Congressional hopeful: College loan debt must be cutWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2006 -- Rising higher education costs that leave college students with no means to pay for it is an "absolute tragedy," the Democrat running for Minnesota's First District seat in Congress said at a news conference at Winona State University. If elected, Tim Walz said, he would work to cut interest rates on student loans. "We need to make education more affordable," he said. Walz charged that Republican incumbent Gil Gutknect with voting against policies that would reduce student loan interest rates. Many students are left with only two options for college, Walz said -- joining the military for eventual tuition benefits, or borrowing more money. Those, Walz said, shouldn't be the only options for tuition, which he noted has soared 44 percent at state colleges and universities in the last five years. Walz said that the government should be willing to offer more aid to those who volunteer for "national service," including humanitarian work in organizations like AmeriCorp and jobs in the national parks. "We need to have a new way of looking at this," he said. "If they work for us, they should be able to go to school free." Walz, a retired National Guard command sergeant major, said the Army should also count as national service but should not be the only option and absolutely should not be required. Walz said he opposes the draft.
Walz came down hard on Gutknecht on education. He accused the six-term Congress member of failing to address college costs as an issue. Gutknecht's focus, he said, has been charging that there is a a liberal bias on campuses and calling for something to be done about it. Gutknecht's position on higher-ed is political ideology, Walz said, contrasting the Gutknecht record with his own goal of making education more available to future generations. "Effectiveness and principle always trump political ideology," he said. "It is ethically the right thing to do."
Noting that he is a school teacher, Walz said he believes in public education for altruistic reasons, because it's good for the individual. But also, he said, he wants students to graduate and get jobs and pay taxes for selfish reasons. "I want you to do this so that I can one day retire," he said in an oblique reference to the prospects for the national Social Security pension program.
At the news conference Walz was addressing mostly student journalists. He said he worries about the effect of higher-ed costs. The American Dream, he said, can be defined as owning a home, making a living wage, and your children being able to do the same or better. But he cited a survey that most Americans no longer believe the American Dream is possible. As a parent, Walz said that he too is questioning whether the American Dream is possible. He talked about he and his wife sitting down recently with a financial adviser and figuring out that it would take 40 percent of their income -- they're both school teachers -- to put their 5-year-old daughter through college. Walz said he is "terrified" by the numbers. Too, he added, a second child is due in a couple of weeks.
Walz said he is the only K-12 public school teacher nationwide who is running for Congress. He said he should be at the table in Congress for fresh input on national educational policy. His experience at Mankato West High School for 20 years, he said, "gives me a unique perspective."
While U.S. higher-ed policy now is making it more difficult for young people to go to college, China is in the final stages of building 800 universities and making it easier for their young people to go on, Walz said. The Chinese are investing in a 50-year vision with a massive commitment to education, he said. Walz, who has taught in Chinese high schools, said he doesn't favor the stratified Chinese system, which limits education to an elite, but, he said, the Chinese system nonetheless is a threat. In the long term, he said, he favors the U.S.model of open accessibility to higher education.
Walz related the cost of higher education to the war in Iraq: "If we quit spending what we spend daily in Iraq for 2-1/2 months, you would all go to school for free." Walz criticized President Bush for the Iraq war. "Iraq is a mess and needs to be separated from the war on terror," Walz said. As issues, Iraq and 9/11 and the war on terror should never have been connected, he said. Al-Qaeda, he said, was virtually nonexistent in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion and occupation and now the country has become a global center for spreading world terrorism. "The world is less safe because of the situation in Iraq, and we must start from the ground up to improve this situation," he said. What to do? "We need to begin with a sound infrastructure and provide Iraqis with their basic needs to survive," he said, citing electricity, water and sewage systems -- and jobs. "Without this only more violence will result," Walz said. He said that U.S. policy in the Bosnia war in the 1990s was a model of infrastructure-building as a priority. There was less violence, he said.
Walz said that President Bush and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld were told before the attack on Iraq that the lessons from military history were that 350,000 soldiers would be needed. The advice, he said, was ignored with only 120,000 soldiers committed. Pressed on whether he would favor sending more troops now, Walz said: "Nothing should be taken off the table." He added, though, that immediate withdrawal should begin unless there is hope for Iraq emerging from the "mess."
Asked about a new poll that shows him leading Gutknecht 46 percent to 40 percent, Walz said he has come a long ways from "Tim, who?" in 21 months of campaigning. He added that he didn't know details of the survey, including margin of error. Even so, favorable polls are good news, he said: "I'll probably get more money and run a few more television ads. But I enjoy being the underdog. It suits me." Whatever polls report, he said, he won't be changing campaign strategies. On average, he said, he travels 250 miles a day starting at 6 a.m. and often returning around midnight. He has gone through three sets of tires and countless oil changes, he said, all to listen to the voters: "People are smart. I don't need to tell them what the issues are. I need to listen and find what they want from me in Washington."
Reporters: Rebekka Buck, Sheila Goodlund, Jennifer Irish, Lydia Oglesby, Jessica Pluth, Kelsey O'Neal, Brittney Richmond and Emily Schlough
Background: Races that campus people are watching
Metro State speaker to tackle disparitiesWINONA Minn, Sept. 28, 2006 -- The vice president for student affairs at Metro State University , Esther Peralez, will speak at Winona State on disparities in higher education. Her title: "Educational Disparities: Substituting the Presumptions of our System with Respect and Dignity." Peralez' visit is part of Winona State's Hispanic Heritage Month activities.
Date: Monday, Oct. 2
Time: 4 p.m.
Place: Purple Rooms 104, Kryzsko Commons
Cost: Free
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Grad rate for Division I jocks now 77%INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 28, 2006 -- At the nation's universities with big-time athletic programs, 77 percent of athletes arere graduating within six years, according to a new report from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The percentage, for NCCAA Divison I universities, is 1 percentage point higher than a year earlier. Critics were quick to point out, however, that a switch from federal data to NCAA data between the two reporting periods muddies up any comparison. The new NCAA report tracked 93,000 athletes on 5,000 Division I teams.
Missing WSU computer traced to WashingtonWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2006 -- A Winona State University student, Anthony Kristinen, 19, of 367 W. 7th St., told police that his Gateway laptop, leased from the university, had been stolen. Kristinen, who filed the report at 1:20 p.m., Wednesday, said he had delayed making the report because he suspected that he had misplaced the computer, said Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams. Meanwhile, the computer-support office at Winona State has received a call from Gateway saying that computer had been traced in Washington, William said.
Reporter: Rob Thoresen
Iowa State hires ex-Colorado presidentAMES, Iowa, Sept. 28, 2006 -- The president of the University of Colorado System, Elizabeth Hoffman, who resigned amid criticism of a football sex and booze scandal, has been hired by Iowa State as executive vice president and provost. Hoffman is a former Iowa State econ prof. She had been at Colorado.
Speaker: The land is watching usWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- We are not as big as the land we live on, an American Indian author told a Winona State University audience OF 300. Kent Nerburn, author of "Neither Wolf nor Dog," called the land "aimated." Nerurn said the theme of his book, winner of the 1955 Minnesiota Book Award, is the Indian concept of the land being alive and with spiritual value. "The land was bigger than us, and we are the observed, he said. Nerburn said that he tried to bring readers to an unfamiliar setting, to take them in to a new place to experience new things. He tried, he said, to make non-Indian readers see out of two sets of eyes -- one theirs, the other of the native people. Asked if he were frustrated living on the Red Lake Reservation in north central Minnesota and writing the book, Nerburn said: Every day. "No one said they appreciated what I was doing for them," said Nerburn. At Winona State the book is part of projet tio give students a common refence point It is being read by more than 1,000 Winona Statestudents in over a dozen classes.
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Emergency contraception usage up at WSUWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- The number of students using emergency contraception at Winona State University has increased over the past two years, according to a survey. Of the 754 students surveyed last spring, 14.6 percent reported that they or their partner used the "morning-after pill," compared to just eight percent two years earlier. The number is also higher than the 10.3 percent average in a national compilation by the American College Health Association in 2005. Winona State used the ACHA questionnaire for the campus survey.
The Winona State survey also found that the number of students reporting that they used a condom or some other form of contraception before sex has decreased by five percent since 2004. However, campus health director Diane Palm rejects the idea that students are relying wholly on emergency contraception. Rare are individuals who use emergency contraception as their only means of contraception, Palm said. She noted, though, that Winona State does make emergency contraception available. "Some universities don't," she said. Also, Winona State publicizes the fact that morning-after pills are available on campus, she noted.
In the latest Winona State survey, students who had not had sex within the past year were excluded from the analysis on contraceptive usage. The number who had not been active sexually for a year was up -- from 22 percent in 2004 to 30 percent in 2006.
Palm said that Winona State will continue to poll students every two years. "We're going to do the assessment every two years to see what kinds of programming we need to focus our health promotion and illness prevention on," she said. "It's how the health education department learns what kind of things the WSU campus seems to be struggling with." The survey, which cost $5,000, is funded from Palm's health services budget, which comes from student health fees.
Reporter: Matt Huss
Library map thief to jail for 3-1Ú2 yearsNEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2006 -- An antiquities dealer was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in federal prison for stealing dozens of rare maps from academic libraries in the United States and Britain. E. Forbes Smiley III was caught in a Yale University library with a razor blade after cutting maps out of the collection. Smiley admitted also to thefts at Harvard; the New York and Boston public libraries; the Newberry Library, in Chicago; and the British Library, in London. Smiley helped investigators track down most of the stolen maps. The sengecning judge said Smiley's cooperation after being caught persuaded him not to throw the book at him, which could have been seven years.
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WAR PROTEST ARRESTS. Police hauled three war-protesters to jail after they went into a National Guard armory, 1303 Homer Road, with a declaration of peace and started a sit-down protests. After an hour, a Guard worker called the police. Arrested were Diane Catherine Leutgeb-Munson, 24, Michael Timothy Munson, 24, and Eileen Clarice Hanson, 32, all of the Catholic Worker movement. A judge ordered their release pending a court hearing next week. Outside the armory, other protestors hoisted a banner and recited the names of people killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars. They were not arrested.
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Woe-beleagured Gambling faces new suitGRAMBLING, La., sept. 28, 2006 -- Grambling State University continues to be embroiled in questions of financial and managment problems. The alumni association, with support of the town mayor, filed a fedral lawsuit alleging 40 legal and civil rights violation against employees in "personal vendettas." The suit also says that financial records have been maintained improperly. Futher, according to the suit, university officials illegally used the alumni association's nonprofit status to collect sponsorship revenues from the Bayou Classic football game. It was only a few months ago that a state audit found that the university appeared to have largely dealt with the fiscal and managerial problems. Earlier the university was put on probation for books that were called unauditable.
Car tampering? Well, boozing for sureWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2006 -- Two Winona State University rugby players, both men, age 20 and 19, were cited for under consumption at 1:26 a.m. after police were called to check on somebody tampering with a parked car in the 400 block of Lafayette Street. Officers confronted the pair and discovered they had been drinking, said Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams. One man's blood alcohol level was .167 pecent, the other's .064 percent, Williams said. The legally drunk level in Minnesota is .08.
Reporters: Anne Pilmonas and Rob Thoresen
Capital University alleges fiscal misdeeds by ex-execsCOLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 28, 2006 -- Two former executives at Capital University have been sued by the university for real-estate and building-renovation deals that, according to the suit, cheated the institution out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Accused are a former university treasurer and a former facilities manager. The university, which is in financial difficulty, suggests through the suit that its problems are at least partly the fault of the real-estate and renovation schemes. This year several Capital programs have been shut down staff laid off.
Cops now OK inside dorms in emergenciesPULLMAN, Wash., Sept. 28, 3006 -- The Washington State University governing board voted to authorize firefighters, police and other emergency personnel to enter dormitories without restrictions. The measure addresses a ban by a judge, who found that police were violating student privacy rights by roaming the dorms to look for infradtions. The judge ordered a permissions-only policy. The regent's intention now is to make emergencies an exception.
Background: Judge: Cop dorm patrols unconstitutional
Senators agree to hear arguments for outside accounts WINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- The Winona State University Student Senate voted to delay a revocation decision on the club status of the Tri-Sigma sorority for having an unauthorized off-campus bank account. A decision was put off until the Friday after next. Tri-Sigma had been notified earlier that its off-campus account violated Student Activity Funds Committee policy. At a Senate meeting Wednesday, Tri-Sigma members defended their outside account, saying the club could have quicker access to its funds than going through university rigmorole. A Tri-Sigma statement distributed to senators said, also, that having an off campus account helps clubs "learn the practices and responsibility for their own financials, builds character through learning proper money management, and allows for a faster flow of money to make for a more fluid and effective organization."
Most clubs comply with the no-outside-accounts policy. In exchange, clubs have access to free envelopes, postage, printing, color copies, state owned vehicles, and grants from student fees. Tri-Sigma asked for time before the Senate next week to make a case for an off-campus account.
Meanwhile, the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity has aceded to a Senate demand to close its off-campus account or lose club status.
Reporter: Paul Solberg
PHOTOGRAPHER: PAUL SOLBERG
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Even before the lease-buy contract was signed,
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Maxwell tenants to find new digs supersizedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2006 -- Winona State University will spend $654,000 to remodel the old Cotter school buildings at 101 E. Wabasha, St. before relocating programs from Maxwell Hall, according to a building permit issued by the city. The $645,000 will come from the Winona State facilities budget, said Scott Ellinghuysen, the university's finance vice president. The facilities budget is used to maintain facilities and grounds. In anticipation of the move to Cotter, the remodeling expenses were "taken into account" when the budget was put together last spring, Ellinghuysen said. Substantial upgrades were needed for student health services and the child-care center, both of which be must meet state codes, Ellinghuysen said. Keller Construction of Winona will perform the construction, described in the permit application as "remodel for office space."
Steve Ronkowski, the university's facilities coordinator, said the remodeling project will include protective matting for the floor in the lower level that will house the workout gym now in Maxwell. Also, new floor matting will be installed in the child care center, Ronowski said. In the health services area on the second floor, exam rooms will be built. There are plans to renovate the third floor for a future art department relocation but that area will remain undeveloped for now, Ronkowski said.
Preliminary design plans were drawn up by the Holabird & Root architectural firm of Rochester, Minn. The plans show a large free-weight gym area and a separate area for cardio fitness in the lower level. The first floor will feature a spacious child-care center with one room for infants, an infant napping room, one room for 1- and 2-year-old toddlers with an adjacent napping room, a room for 2- and 3-year-old toddlers, two rooms for 3- and 4-year-old preschoolers and a room for 4- and 5-year-old preschool children. The second floor student health services facility will include rooms for offices, medical records and at least seven exam rooms, according to the architectural drawings. The drawings for the proposed third floor art department include three large sculpting studios, a drawing studio and two design studios. Only half of the third floor is taken up by the art department in the drawings. "There will be space on the third floor for future expansion," Ronkowski said.
Ronkowski said the construction would start immediately and Keller Construction would have until Dec. 22 to complete the project. On Dec. 22 Rochester Moving & Transfer of Rochester, Minn., will begin packing and moving all programs out of Maxwell Hall. The move will be completed by Jan. 15, Ronkowski said. The programs being relocated into the new facility, which the universuty has renamed Wabasha Hall, are being moved in order to accommodate the $11.2 million renovation of Maxwell Hall. The state Legislature included the Maxwell project in the state construction bonding bill that was passed last spring. The Maxwell renovation is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2008, Ronkowski said.
Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: WSU art studios to move to Wabasha
Loyola profs: Top university leaders must goNEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 28, 2006 -- Faculty in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences at Loyola University registered no confidence in the university's top two administrators. The profs voted 61-19 that Kevin Wildes, a Jesuit priest had failed to provide competent leadership before, during and after Hurricane Katrina; did not follow proper guidelines for terminating tenured faculty members as the university sought to cope after the hurricane; and failed to foster faculty trust and confidence. A separate motion passed 70-10 that there was a lack of confidence in Provost Walter Harris Jr. After the hurricane Wildes and Harris had devised a restructuring plan to pare down the faculty, eliminate 14 academic programs, and suspend 12 programs
PHOTOGRAPHER: PAUL SOLBERG
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Warriors pick up pace, defeat St. Cloud StateWINONA, Minn, Sept. 28, 2006 -- Outside hitter Megan Pulvermacher led the Winona State University volleyball team to a 3-1 nonconference victory over St. Cloud State University. Pulvermacher had 19 kills and scored 22.5 points. Winona State lost the first match 30-19, but the won three consecutive matches, never letting St Cloud State score more than 23. Winona State now has a season record of 11-8.
Match Three was the Warrior peak with a .393 hitting percentage. The Warriors followed up with .294 in Match Four. Coach Connie Mettille, said that the women were nervous and tight in the first match because of an earlier defeat at the hands of St. Cloud State. That loss was blamed by Mettille on a struggle with blocking. Since then, she said, there has been a definite improvement in team communication.
On Wednesday night, Winona State had 11 blocks to St. Cloud State's four. Mettille named Pulvermacher the game's key player. Pulvermacher exemplified senior leadership particularly in the last three matches, said Mettille. Outside hitter Carmen Stankowski scored 13. Middle blocker Kiersten Arendt had 11.5. After a rough start spiking, setter, Lisa Dobie had 44 assists and 12 digs.
Reporter: Sarah Dotta
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NAIL-BITING TIME. After being drubbed earlier in the season by St. Cloud State, Warrior coach Connie Mettille contemplates the rematch ahead as the starting line-up is announced. |
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Wisconsin declines to recognize Catholic clubMADISON, Wis., Sept. 27, 2006 -- The battle of a group called UW Roman Catholic Foundation to be recognized as a student club at the Uiversity of Wisconsin hit a new roadblock. Yvonne Fangmeyer, director of the universityÕs Student Organization Office, cited rules against granting funds from student revenue to groups that are not "controlled and directed" by students. Fangmeyer noted that only three of the Catholic group's board members are students. Chancellor John Wiley weighed in too. Wiley said that the $145,000 he approved in student fees for the group last spring after a year-long dispute would be wihheld unless the group could restructure its governing board. His decision, Wiley said, was based on rules governing all student organizations -- not on religion.
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WSU names temporary library headWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- After a failed search for a university librarian, Winona State has hired Larry Hardesty from the Universty of Nebrasaka at Kearny to fill in for a year while the search starts anew. University President Judith Ramaley, who announced the appointment, said that Hardesty would assist in the new search. Before Nebraska-Kearney, Hardesty held library assignments at Austin College and Eckerd College. His doctorate is from Indiana University in library science. He also holds master's degrees, one in library science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one in history education from Nebraska-Kearney.
His publications include "Books, Bytes and Bridges, which he edited; "Bibliographic Instruction in Practice," which he edited; and "Faculty and the Library." His article "Faculty Attitudes towards the Library," published in Library Trends, received a publication of the year award in 1995. Hardesty has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Academic Librarianship and also of Collection Management. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Portal and Library Issues. He has written numerous journal articles on computer center and library relations, collection development, accreditation, the future of academic libraries, library instruction, and faculty and administrator attitudes toward libraries. |
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Evangelicals create college as Penn State feederSTATE COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 27, 2006 -- A Christian college will be established near Pennsylvania State University with a curriculum to feed ito Penn State requirements, clergyman Paul Grabill said. Grabill, of the Assembly of God denomination, described the program as orthodox Christianity with an evangelical Protestant leaning. The curriculum, he said, would be under the aupices of Eastern University of St. Davids, Pa., , a nondenominational Christian college. Eastern holds accreditation from the same association that accredits Penn State. Whether Penn State will accept the articulated curriculum has not been determined, but accredited institutions generally recognize each other's courses.
WSU players take league offense, defense titlesST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- Winona State University's Aaron Boettcher and Kenzie Yewman captured Northern Sun conference offensive and defensive football player of the week honors. Boettcher threw for four touchdowns and ran for another in the Warriors' 48-7 con erence victory over Upper Iowa University. Yewman led a quartet of defensive players, who intercepted six Upper Iowa passes with three interceptions.
American University gives up Sudan investmentsWASHINGTON, Sept. 27 2007-- American University became the latest U.S. institution to pull out of ivestments in companies that do business in the oil and gas sector in Sudan. The decision is a protest against human-rights atrocities.
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Rushford nanotech project to be profiledWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2006 -- The operations manager at PlastiCert, Craig Porter, profile the Rushford Institute for Nanotechnology at a meeting at Winona State Univeisty by the Composites Consortium. Also presenting will be Kevin Klungtvedt, program coordinator for institute engineering prof Beckry Abdel-Magid and engineerng student Jared Gardner.
Date: Friday, Sept. 29
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Place: Maxwell Hal
Cost: Free
Contact: Beckry Abdel-Magid at (507) 457-5658 |
Panel to discuss, assess campaign coverageWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Five journalists will participate in a panel at Winona State University on local election coverage. The panelists:
Rusty Cunningham, La Crosse, Wis.-based publisher of the Winona Daily News. Dave Dicke, anchor for HBC cable television. Darrell Ehrlick, editor of the Winona Daily News. Rebekah Ibisch, a reporter for television station WKBT in La Crosse, Wis. . Cynthia Porter, news editor of the Winona Post
Masscom prof Tom Grier, who organized the panel, said the event is geared to masscom students but is open to everybody. The panel is part of the university's American Democracy Project.
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 10
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Maxwell Leadership Center
Cost: Free
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Background: Races that campus people are watching
Small ballot slate yields only winnersWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 --Here is results of the Winona State University Student Senate fall election:
AT-LARGE
(three vacancies) | | Kaleb Lindsey |
| 311 | | Che Wang |
| 235 | | Phasuthorn Viryasiri |
| 220 |
SOPHOMORE
(two vacancies) | | Charles Moburg |
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FRESHMAN
(three vacancies) | | Colin Smith |
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| (write-in) | | Leon Durivage |
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Mugby shop awaits city inspectionWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- The Mugby Junction coffee shop under construction in Winona State University's Somsen Hall should be open no later Monday. Bruce Bechtle, director of campus food vendor Chartwells, said that one small adjustment is needed to bring the coffee shop into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Last week the contractor made two small adjustments to bring the plumbing into code, Bechtle said. Now, once the facility complies with disablities requirements, Chartwells will schedule a final city inspection. Once the inspectors are satisfied, Chartwells will bring in the coffee beans and perform a pre-opening run-through, Bechtle said.
Reporter: Chad Larimer
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Dare they use a racial slur? WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Sept. 26, 2006 -- A shake-up has ocurred at Wilkes University over a diversity trainer who utteredm, even shouted, racial slurs in a cultural sensitivity class. Ron Feldhun, said that he used the slurs, and encouraged his students to do likewise, with the idea of wringing the sting out of words like "chunk." Now Feldun's boss, Andita Parker-Lloyd, the university's multicultural-affairs coordinator, has been fired. Feldhun says that it's not right and that the univerity merely wanted to get rid of Parker-Lloyd because she's been vocal in fighting a traffic ticket, which he says has embarrassed the univerity. The university denied the cgarge.
Yale endowment grows 23%NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- The endowment of Yale University earned 22.9 percent in the latest fiscal year, probably the highest of any U.S. university. The income, said univerity President Richard Levin, "will allow the university to achieve new levels of education and research excellence." The endowment now stands at $29.2-billion.
Background: Earnings off, but Harvard endowment nears $30 billion
RECENT DAYS IN THE CITY
POSTED SEPT. 26, 2006
SCHOOL TAXES. School budget-planners will recommend a 19 percent increase in school taxes to the School Board, mostly to pay for fire sprinkler, heating and ventilation projects. The increase would raise $1.9 million.
BOX-ELDER INVASION. Box elder buygs are showing up in doors and windows with cooler weather and in unusually heavy numbers. University of Minnesota insect expert Jeff Hahn blames a warm spring and dry summer.
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WSU-Concordia football to be live on broadbandWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26 2006 -- This weekend's football game between Winona State and Concordia of St Paul will be broadcast on the Internet. The company College Sports Television has a three-year contract with the National Collegiate Athletic Association for television and broadcast play-by-play of Division II football and basketball games. Winona State and Concordia tied last season for the Northern Sun conferene championship. The game will be at 6 p.m., Saturday, at Concordia.
Former trustee raises $31,000 on bike tourST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- The cycling trustee, Robert Erickson, a former member of the state college system's governing baord, raised $31,000 on his fifth annual pedaling tour of system campuses. The money is for scholarships for part-time students. Over the five eyars Erickson has raised more than $290,000. Erickson, 60, rode through Winona State and Southeast Tech on Sept. 19 on his 53-campus odyssey.
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U.S. to Swiss Muslim scholar: Nyet, againWASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2006 -- The U.S. State Department again denied a visa to Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, who had to give a faculty position at Notre Dame University two years ago because the government wouldn't let him back in the country. To support its new denial, the State Department said that it had learned that Ramadan had donated $700 over a five-year period to French and Swiss charities that provided humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The Bush administration says the donations ended up going to the Hamas organization, which the President calls terrorist. Ramadan's defenders point out, however, that Ramadan has not supported terrorism and in fact has been a vocal critic of terrorism and radical Islamism. The visa denial, they say, is because of Ramadan's criticism U.S. Middle East policies.
The American Civil Liberties Union took up Ramadan's cause when he first was denied a visa in 2004. The ACLU says the denial is example of Bush administration suppression of people whose views differ from the administration's. The ACLU has used the term "political censorship" and is expected to continue its federal-court case on Ramadan's behalf.
Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies and philosophy, now is a visiting fellow at Oxford. Ironically, Ramadan has the confidence of Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, a close Bush ally who has named the scholar a British commission to combat terrorism.
Background: Judge: Visa delay needs timely resolution
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Cops called to Lourdes dorm, ticket boozerWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Police ticketed a 19-year-old man for underage drinking at the Lourdes dorm at o State Univerity at 1:51 a.m.
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The John Martin Socha murals on Winona history in a Somsen Hall staircase are being restpred |
WSU prof to discuss 1930s public works projectsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- A Winona State University history prof, Colette Hyman, will discuss the role of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration in public art and public higher education. Hyman said she will draw on her research on arts programs and the history of Winona to highlight salient features of the John Martin Socha mural currently being restored in the foyer of Somsen Hall on campus.
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 27
Time: 1 p.m.
Place: Second floor, Krueger Library
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Background: WSU restores historic Winona mural |
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New president for University of PhoenixNEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2006 -- After a nationwide search for a new president, the governing board of the University of Phoenix chose one of its own, corporate insider William Pepicello. Pepicelo earlier was president of another for-profit college, the University of Sarasota. Since 1995 he has been with the Phoenix parent company, the Apollo Group, except two yers at Sarasota. Pepicello replaces Laura Palmer Noone, who retired in May as president of the 250,000-enrollment Phoenix program, which operates mostly night schools in major U.S. cities.
Lawsuit: Minority journalism program discriminatoryALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept 26, 2006 -- The advocacy group Center for Individual Rights filed a discrimination lawsuit against a program for minority student journalists operated by Virginia Commonwealth University. The suit alleges that the university engages in illegal racial discrimination by excluding white students. The program is one of at least 20 for minority high-school students operated by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund at U.S. colleges to encourage minority students into newspaper careers. The basis for the suit is the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law, and civil-rights statutes, which prohibit racial and ethnic discrimination by colleges that receive federal funds.
Cops bust Olmstead Street partyWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Police ticketed a man and a awoman for loud party at a house near Olmstead and Mill streets at 11:34 p.m.
WSU art studios to move to WabashaWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- The Winona State University art department, now in crowded Watkins Hall, will have a new home in the old Cotter junior high school, according to university documents for the Cotter remodeling. Design plans show the third floor of the building, which is being renamed Wabasha Hall, with three large sculpting studios, a drawing studio and two design studios. Only half of the third floor is taken up by the art department in the drawings. The university's construction coordinator, Steve Ronkowski, said there will be space on the third floor for future expansion.
The art department's home has been in Watkins, which was designed for the department with an exhibition gallery at the entrance on King Street. Over the years Watkins also has been shared with other academic departments that have come and gone, including computer science and the College of Education's now-defunct industrial arts unit.
The Cotter building was acquired on a lease-buy contract to accommodate the campus nursing station, a workout gym and other facilities being displaced by the remodeling of Maxwell Hall on the main campus. The Maxwell tenants are expected to move to Wabasha Hall, two blocks off the main campus, over the break before spring semester so crews can begin gutting Mawell in $11.2 million make-over. |
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Reporter: Chad Larimer
Background: WSU has option to buy old Cotter buildings
Cops bust party, find illegal beer kegsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Two Winona State University students were ticketed for noise and possession of more then one keg of beer at a party early Monday. The cops found three kegs. Police busted the party at 12:01 a.m. at 270 Sioux St. The students, age 21 and 20, did not have a city permit that is required for beer kegs. Police discovered the kegs while investigating a noise complaint.
Reporter: Anne Pilmonas
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WSU goes to attorneys on election rulesWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2006 -- Amid continuing criticism about the role of Winona State University in the 2005 local school-tax referendum, the university circulated a document from the state college system's legal office on applicable statues:
Faculty upset at bypass in dean choice| WINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- University President Judith Ramaley has ruffled the feathers of the Winona State Faculty Senate by appointing an education dean without consultation. The Senate voted Monday to protest to Ramaley at the next scheduled meet-and-confer showdown meeting with administrators on campus issues. Sen. Bruce Svingen noted that Ramaley had promised to include the Senate in administrative appointments. At issue is the sudden departure of Education Dean Cecilia Rokusek last week and the immediate appoitment of recreation prof Lorene Olson as acting dean for nine months. The issue has raised all kinds of questions, not the least of which was why Rokusek left. A week after Rokusek cleared out her office, Ramaley said the dean, on the job only a bit more than a year, had left for "pesonal reasons." It was unusual that it was Ramaley, rather than academic Vice President Sally Johnstone, who would announce personnel decisions involving academic deans. |
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Reporter: Ruanna Hayes
Background: Ramaley: WSU dean's departure temporary
Who authorized WSU anti-bacterial dispensers?Sept. 25, 2006 -- The Faculty Senate voted to press university administrators for information on who authorized anti-bacteial hand-sanitizer dispensers to be installed in Winona State University hallways . Concern was expressed that antibacterial sanitizers actually damage the body's natural immunities. Authorities were quoted that sanitizers strip away the outer layer of oil on the skin, which usually keeps bacteria from contact with the flesh itself. Also, recent studies were cited that challenge the oft-repeated advertising claim that hand sanitizers kill 99.9 percent of germs. Senate President Mary Kesler said she would add the issue to a growing agenda for the next contractually mandated sit-down meeting with administrators. Several senators said the campus Wellness Committee never met regarding the issue. Sen. Cindy Killion was curious as to where the money came from to install the dispensers and keep them running. The dispensers have been installed in several campus buildings, including Memorial, Minne, Performing Arts , Phelps and Somsen.
Reporter: Ruanna Hayes and Nicole Swenson
WSU profs buy bench to honor Alex YardWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- The Faculty Senate at Winona State University voted unanimously to buy a bench on campus for the late history prof Alex Yard, a former Senate president. The Senate earmarked $1,500 for the bench. A location has yet to be decided. Yard taught nearly 20 years at Winona State. He died in 2005 of cancer.
Reporter: Nicole Swenson
Background: Cancer claims WSU faculty leader
Author to discuss Lakota insightsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- Author Kent Nerburn will discuss his work, "Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder," at Winona State Uiverity. The book chronicles a road trip with a Lakota Indian, which leads to revelations about the white manÕs invasion of the Americas.
Ramaley: WSU dean's departure temporaryWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- The Winona State education dean, Cecilia Rokusek, is on a leave of absence for personal reasons, university President Judith Ramaley said. In an announcement released campuswide, Ramaley did not elaborate on Rokusek's unexpected departure last week. Ramaley said the leave is for nine months, which puts its expiry at July 1. Ramaley confirmed that Lorene Olsen of the recreation faculty has agreed to interrupt a sabbatical to serve as acting dean beginning Oct. 1. In the meantime, liberal-arts Dean Troy Paino is handling College of Education matters.
Olson started her college studies at Winona State. Later she was graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She holds a doctorate from the University of New Mexico. Olson has been on Winoa State faculty since 1989 and served nine years as a chair within the College of Education. She is known mostly for travel-study projects, including the
Pacific Challenge and Costa Rica programs.
Background: WSU education dean quits at mid-semester
Profs' lobbyist profiles Hatch, Pawlenty higher-ed stancesST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 25, 2006 -- The director of government relations for the state faculty union, Russ Stanton, issued these side-by-side reports on proposals from the major gubernatorial candidates to improve Minnesota higher-ed :
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In June, Pawlenty put forth a Òfree tuitionÓ proposal. The proposal is a sharply scaled back version of the Georgia "Hope Scholarship" program.
Under PawlentyÕs proposal, only students in the top 25 percent of their high-school graduating class would receive two years of free tuition at a Minnesota public postsecondary institution, although students in math, science, technology and engineering could receive an additional two years. Students from households earning more than $150,000 (about 10 percent of households) would be ineligible for grants. On the other end of the spectrum, students from low-income to moderate-income families who receive student financial aid would have their financial aid subtracted from the amount of free tuition.
The Pawlenty proposal would only affect about 16,000 of the approximately 250,000 students in higher education in Minnesota. Current students would not realize any benefit from the proposal, which would take effect starting fall of 2007. Even then, it would apply only to recent high school graduates and not benefit students previously enrolled or non-traditional students.
Pawlenty's proposal would cost an estimated $112 million. He said he would pay for it out of future "budget surpluses." The problem is that if the governor funds inflation adjustments for higher education and other state programs, there won't be a budget surplus. The fear is that colleges and universities might have to eat the cost of providing free tuition.
Pawlenty says his plan is designed to create an incentive for high school students to become better prepared for college, and to stimulate interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
Critics of the governor quickly contrasted PawlentyÕs promise with his record on higher education funding. When the governor took office four years ago, he balanced the state budget by cutting appropriations to higher education and other programs rather than raising taxes. This action meant cutting the MnSCU budget by $204 million and the U of M budget by $185 million. The colleges and universities then raised tuition sharply to fill in the shortfall of state appropriations. State university students saw their tuition raised by approximately 45 percent during the four years of the Pawlenty administration.
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Democrat congressional candidate Tim Walz dropped in at a coffee house on the periphery of the main Winona State University campus to rally supporters to get out of vote. |
Congressional candidate: Time is shortWINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2006 -- Congressional hopeful Tim Walz reminded supporters at the Blue Heron Coffee House that they only have 45 more days to mobilize friends and neighbors for the Nov. 7 election. "It's about the people," Walz told the friendly gathering of about 100, many of them waring yellow Walz campaign T-shirts. Walz, the Democrat challenging 1st Congressional District Rep. Gil Gutknecht, arrived and walked through the crowd greeting people individually, some by name, and shaking hands. "It is no secret that we love coming down to Winona," he said. "I appreciate your enthusiasm and your care for the issues." Then he struck his people theme: "What we need is the voice of the people." Walz said that he's ready to become the voice of the people and that the country is ready for positive change.
On issues, Walz called it "an absolute disgrace" that 47 million people do not have health insurance. On college issues he expressed concern about rising interest on student loans: "Why are we making it more difficult for our children to get an education?"
Reporter: Jennifer Irish
Background: Races that campus people are watching
PHOTOGRAPHER: ALEX WHITE
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Sponsors called it the Healing Field, a fund-raising project in suburban Goodview for a proposed place for children to recover right after abuse incidents -- other than the police station and hospital. |
Flags commemorate Winona child-abuse victimsGOODVIEW, Minn., Sept. 24, 2006 -- The National Child Protection Training Center, based at Winona State University, wound up its four-day Healing Field event to raise money for a local facility for abused children. Fourteen-hundred flags fluttered at La Canne Park, one flag for every child-abuse case reported in Winona County in a typical year. For a $30 donation, community members sponsored a flag to build a center for children who now are shuffled back and forth between police stations and hospitals. In an opening ceremony, organizer Robyn Kieffer called on college students, especially those in education, nursing and social services, to volunteer at the Child Protection Training Center on campus. Speakers at the Healing Field included State Sen. Bob Kierlin. Winona Mayor Jerry Miller and Goodview Mayor Jack Weimerskirch. The Child Protection Training Center director, Victor Vieth, also spoke. The 2005 Mrs. Minnesota spoke about her own child-abuse experience.
Reporter: Alex White
Background: Display to honors child-abuse victims
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