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Data contradict claimed link of porn shop, crime WINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 -- Despite claims by opponents of the Third Street porn shop that it would spawn crime, the number of crimes in Winona has decreased dramatically since 1999, when the shop opened. A review of annual police summaries show that overall crime has decreased by 32 percent and the overall number of arrests by 41 percent in the past seven years, compared to the seven years prior to the establishment of Downtown Book and Video. The numbers:
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Mark Zimmerman, spokesperson for Standing Together Opposing Pornography, a group organized shortly after the shop opened, said that the numbers don't tell the whole story. "The police don't find out about a lot of the crimes that are directly correlated with the porn shop," Zimmerman said. "They certainly donÕt find out about a lot of the molestations of children, the domestic abuse cases or other sexual crimes. The porn shop attracts pedophiles, it attracts men who assault women, and it's going to cause people to go out and rape and everything else because those kinds of materials are, basically, instructions to do so."
The crime data summaries are compiled by Police Chief Frank Pomeroy and forwarded annually to the FBI for national compilations. The summaries do show that rapes have increased by 11 percent since the shop opened. There were 17 rapes from 1992 through 1998, and 19 from 1999 through 2005. Pomeroy said, however, there is no direct correlation between the porn shop and sex crimes. "There is no correlation at all," Pomeroy said. "That building used to be a pool hall before it became a porn shop, and we had many more calls when it was a pool hall for loitering, fights, disturbances and all kinds of other things." Pomeroy said there has been only one call regarding the porn shop. That was from an employee who was leaving at night and was the victim of an attempted robbery, he said.
In the last 16 years there has been one prostitution arrest in Winona, in 2000, but Pomeroy ruled out the porn shop as a factor. "That was just a case of a woman who came over here from a strip joint across the river and hooked up with somebody," Pomeroy said. Most Winona sex crimes, he said, involve college-aged people "who might go out and drink too much and end up in a situation that they wouldnÕt be in if they werenÕt drinking."
Reporter: Matt Huss
Background: STOP vows to renew fight against porn shop |
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WSU narrows marketing exec search to threeWINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 -- The search for an assistant vice president for marketing and communication at Winona State has been narrowed to three candidates, including a Winona banker whose father once held similar duties at the university. The banker, Greg Evans, a marketing vice president at Merchants Bank, is the son of former university Vice President Gary Evans, now chief executive at Hiawatha Broadband Communciations in Winona. Evans is the only local candidate. The new position is among several in university President Judith Ramaley's overhaul and expansion of the university's administrative structure. The salary, listed as "commensurate with experience," is reported in the $110,000 to $130,000 range.
Here are the candidates and the schedule of open forums:
GREG EVANS. Bachelor's degree in journalism and political science from Valparaiso University in 1985, then sports reporter and editor at the Mason City, Iowa, Globe-Gazette. Joined Mechants Bank in Winona 1989. Currently senior vice president and director of marketing. Current WSU Warrior Club board member and past president. Fund-raising executive with Winona Family YMCA. Past president of Minnesota Bank Marketing Association.
Forum: 3 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 18, Maxwell Tee;confernceCenter.
ROBERT OTTERSON. Bachelor's in communications from Augustana College, grad studies in masscom at South Dakota State. Began career as sports broadcaster, then as an editor at the Albert Lea, Minn, Evening Tribune and the Owatonna, Minn., People's Press. Sports information director for Southwest State University for eight years. Director of communications for SchwanÕs Sales Enterprises for four years. Currently marketing and communications director at North Dakota State College of Science.
Forum: 3:15 p.m., Monday, Oct. 23, Somsen 213A
BRUCE SMITH. Bachelor's in writing and master's from Johns Hopkins University. Responsibilities have included health marketing for Johns Hopkins Medical and Baltimore city Housing Authority. Later executive director of marketing and communications at Millikin University, then associate marketing dean at the Alexandria, Minn., technical college. Currently director of university relations and marketing at Dakota State University.
Forum: 3 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24, Maxwell Teleconference Center. |
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Primary responsibility for the vision, development, implementation and leadership of marketing and communications for both the Winona and Rochester campuses. These responsibilities include advancing the institution's objectives and core values to local, state, regional and national audiences.
Areas of responsibility include media relations, image advertising, strategic communication planning and management, publications and printing, external web site image and message, internal communications, and market research, assessment and planning.
Reports to the vice president for university advancement and is a member of the university's Council of Administrators.
Qualfications: Bachelor's Degree. Three to five years experience in management of higher education communication, marketing, advertising, or related field. Creativity, experience and skill in oral and written communication and graphic design. Budget development and administration experience. Knowledge of and experience in print and web communication processes and strategies as well as media relations management and strategies. Experience in in-plant print shop and publications management. Experience in conducting strategic marketing and communications projects and programs. Knowledge of marketing and advertising strategies and principles, including integrated marketing communication and experience in leading a higher education advertising campaign.
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They got the goods on Judith Ramaley's legal adviser. Local political gadfly Ken Chupita has gone public with correspondence from Tess Kruger, a lawyer carrying the title of associate university vice president at Winona State. In the correspondence Kruger admits, apparently not realizing what she was getting into, that the university played favorites by allowing partisans, acting outside their university roles, to use Somsen auditorium for political purposes. Chupita's charge, to which Kruger admitted in the letters: The university gave free access the Somsen auditorium to supporters of a school tax increase last fall, contrary to state policy, while charging other groups. The exchange of corresondence was in July.
Ostrich-like, head burrowed somewhere, university President Judith Ramaley has been publicly oblivious to the charges. Ramaley has offered no clarifications, no apologies. To a call for an investigation to clear the air, Ramaley has been silent. The silence speaks volumes about her blind spots in representing the institution on public policy issues.
Ramaley's silence also bespeaks an increasingly apparent insensitivity to the essential role of media relations in managing a modern insitution. There are other signs of this insensivity, dare we call it contempt, for media relations. Ramaley has no one at an executive level with a public relations portfolio. Nor in her administrative restructuring, which doubles the number of individuals with executive titles, does she intend to add one. At the middle-management level she has eliminated the communications director position that she inherited from her predecessor. When she desperately needs sound advice on utilizing the mass media to get out the university's message, as in unscrambling the Somesen auditorium policy mess, Ramaley has no one to whom to turn for expert advice. Plainly, her background as a scientist ill-suits her for media relations in dealing with public policy crises. Instead, we see her either groping amateurishly or, oblivious to options, doing nothing.
The Somsen mess also raises questions on whether Tess Kruger had done her homework before responding to Chupita's queries. Did Kruger understand the seriousness or his queries? In a kind of lawyerly contempt for Little People, did she underrate the earnestness of Chupita's passion for fair play and figure that, not knowing what to do next, he would just go away. Or is it that university policy has become such a mismanaged hodge-podge that managers are stumbling around blindly in applying it? Whatever the truth, it isn't a pretty picture. Ramaley's public inattention to the issue lets public doubts about the institution's integrity to grow and fester, These are doubts that, left to linger, will erupt worse again.
The CyberIndee invites reader input for periodic updates of the Ramaley presidential approval rating. Brief comments on Ramaley's latest performance will be shared with readers. Anonynmity is assured if requested.
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Background: Previous Ramaley report cards
Background: Charge: WSU gave space free for political rally
Gender-studies class seeks end to biasWINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 -- Students in a Winona State University gender studies class plan to present a resolution to the City Council on working toward an inclusive community. The resolution is aimed against crimes based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and disability, said prof Cindy Killion.
Background: WSU diversity chief: Race hate notes need attention
WSU diversity chief: Race hate notes need attentionWINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 -- The director of cultural diversity at Winona State University, Alex Hines, said that two racial hate notes reported to police two weeks ago could lead to bigger problems if left unaddressed. Hines noted incidents at other universities with nooses laid on vehicles and racial slurs scribbled on dorm walls. The lastest Winona incidents, both off campus, might not seem like a big deal, but a small incident could lead to big issues if not controlled, said Hines. One of the notes was reported by a 22-year-old black Winona State University student, who said she found the note at her residence. The student's manfriend, who is white, had found a similar note on his nightstand five days earlier.
Racism is a problem because individuals don't talk about it, said Hines. More students need to open up to different cultures, he said. Hines lamented that attendance at campus cultural diversity programs is not high. "We are fearful to step outside our comfort zones to see other cultures," he said. Asked about racial hate notes at an East End home last spring, Hines expressed doubt about any relationship to the recent notes.
Reporter: Stacy Brogan
Background: Anonymous hate note uses N-word "nigga"
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WSU prof discusses Thai medical tourismWINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 -- A Winona State University geographer, Jerry Gerlach, presented a paper, "Sun, Sea, Sand and Scalpel: Medical Tourism in Thailand," at a regional meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
New poll: Gutknecht, Walz neck and neckWASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2006 -- A poll on the nationally watched Gutknecht-Walz congressional campaigns in southern Minensota shows a 48 to 47 percent advantage for Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht of Rochester, but the race is too close to call. The polling organization Majority Watch, which is tracking close congressional races nationwide, said the poll, conducted Oct. 8 through 10, had a 3 percent margin of error, which means that Mankato Democrat Tim Walz could in fact have been ahead 50 to 45 percent or Gutknecht ahead 51 to 44. An earlier poll, which also showed the race was close, elevated Walz as a vuable challenger and resukted in major new campaign funding, mostly going into television ads.
Background: Races that campus people are watching
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Sutton goals led Warriors to victoryWINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 -- Junior forward Holly Sutton knocked in a pair of goals to lead Winona State University to a 3-1 soccer victoryu over Bemidji State University and helped secure a Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference regular-season title for the Warriors on Maxwell Field at Midwest Wireless Stadium. The win leaves the Warriors with a two and a half game lead in the title race with one conference match to play. It was the sixth straight win for the Warriors, who are now 7-0-1 in league play and 10-4-2 overall for the season.
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Among significant enterprise Winona journalism in recent days:
SUGAR LOAF MURDERS. Jeff Dankert, courts reporter for the Daily News, offered a superb assessment of the plea bargain that ended the case against Paul Allen Gordon in the 2004 slaying of an ex-womanfriend, who was pregnant, and her 10-year-old daughter. Dankert cast his net widely for sources. Some wanted blood, including one anonymous source -- or at least more time than the possibility of parole in 2037. Dankert tapped explanations and views from several experienced criminal attorneys, some involved in the case, some not. The article raised excellent questions. And Dankert, a skillful interviewer, extracted a high level of candor from sources. Prosecutor Chuck MacLean, whose position is elected, said: "People who believe Gordon got off light are uninformed and are incorrect. I say that at risk of offending people, but I'm sorry, you're not informed." Candace Rasmussen, who defended Gordon, was frank in making the same point. Plea-bargaining, Rasmussen said, is much more complex than comes acoss on Fox News. The article also included perspectives from the families of the victims.The whole story
WSU HOMECOMING. Reporters loathe covering community festivals. If you've been to one, you've been to all. What is there that's fresh to report? As journalism, homecomings are just as routine, predictable and dull, yet, like community festivals, people expect coverage. Sarah Brechtl of the Winonan broke the bounds of convention with eclectic verbal snapshots of the weekend, taking a tad of colorful license with asides, in offering a must-read in the Winonan. Brechtl's was the only homecoming account that included the very public, drunken ass-slap assault in the football stands on university President Judith Ramaley. It was an incident missed by the Daily News, which staffed the game, and also by the scent of CyberIndee reporters whose usually keen noses for news were not wholly in gear. The whole story
THE WILKIE MESS. The murky management of the Wilkie steamboat replica on the levee is even murkier with new questions raised by Sarah Elmquist in an article in the Post. What did the Wilkie board of directors do with the gift of a $265,000 chapel from the Wilkie family? Where are the artifacts that the Winona Historical Society loaned for display in the Wilkie steamboat replica? Is Winona State Uiversity really pondering a purchase of the Wilkie? And, again, who are the members of the mysterious board that local business operator Paul Sweazy, chair of the Wilkie board, refuses to identify. We wish only that Elmquist had gone further and named the board member who, according to a source she didn't identify, paid a reported $1 million for the chapel even while the Wilkie steamboat itself was falling into disrepair. That, we hope, is another story for another day in the sad saga of the now-condemned tourist attraction. The whole story
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Cotter's St. Teresa acquisitions: $2.4 millionWINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 -- The Winona State University lease-to-buy deal for the old Cotter school facility on East Wabasha Street was a key in financing the Cotter acquisition of four buildings at old St. Teresa campus on the West End. Craig Junker, president of Cotter schools, said that $2.4 million is being paid to St. Mary's University, which earlier had acquired the buildings that Cotter is buying. The price is almost identical to what Winona State will pay Cotter if it purchases the East Wabasha facility now being leased. Junker said a donor also has put up some money. In effect, the deal means that Winona State lease-purchase payments to Cotter will end up with St. Mary's.
For years the Cotter schools, operated by the Winona Catholic Diocese, had been just east of the main Winona State campus on Wabsaha Street. The Cotter high school moved to the vacant St. Teresa campus several years ago, the junior high this fall. The diocese plans to consolidate all of its remaining parochial schools at the St. Teresa buildings, perhaps as early as 2008.
Background: SMU sells St. Teresa buildings
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NORTHERN SUN: THE WEEK AHEAD
Winona State (4-0, 6-1) at Bemidji State (4-0, 5-2)
Wayne State (3-2, 3-4) at Upper Iowa (3-2, 3-4)
Concordia of St, Paul (2-3, 2-5) at Southwest Minnesota State (3-2, 4-3)
UM-Crookston (0-4, 0-7) at Northern State (1-4, 2-5)
MSU-Moorhead (1-4, 3-6) at Mary (0-0, 3-4)
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Might WSU rescue Wilkie steamboat replica?WINONA, Minn., Oct, 15, 2006 -- The director of the Winona Historical Society, Mark Peterson, said he has been told that Winona State University would take over the now-shuttered Wilkie tourist attraction on the riverfront. Peterson told the Post that the information came from Paul Sweazy, chair of the board that had operated the steamboat replica. Asked about the reopoirt that the university is interested in acquiringing the Wilkie, Vice President Jim Schmidt at Winona State said it was the first he had heard about it. Peterson told the Post that the Sweazy's reference to Winona State was in an awkward telephone conversation with Sweazy. Peterson saud that Sweazy hung up on him when he pressed for elaboration on a Winona State deal.
The Post article focused on Peterson's attempts to recover a steamboat light and other artifacts that the Historical Society had loaned to the Wilkie. The Post article also raised questions about a wedding chapel that the Wilkie family had given to Sweazy's board of directors. The Post said the chapel, reportedly valued at $265,000, had disappeared. Sweazy, according to the Post, told a reporter that the chapel had been sold but he couldn't remember to whom or for how much. The article cited "sources close to the Post" that the chapel went for $1 million to a Wilkie board member. Sweazy has declined to disclose a roster of his board members.
Background: City issues final plea for Wilkie solution
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WINONA MEDIA WATCH |
APPEARANCES LESS PURE
THAN CAESAR'S WIFE
Although unlikely, you might find a newsroom editor somewhere who would allow a reporter to moonlight on the payroll of local Democrats or Republicans. Among mainstream media, however, it would be rare. Since 1923 when the American Society of Newspaper Editors drafted the industry's first ethics code, the virtue of avoiding a conflict of interest has been at heart of U.S. newsroom practices.
Incredibly, the Daily News has allowed Winona State President Judith Ramaley to place three editors, all with day-to-day newsroom responsibilities, on the university payroll. The editors, Darrell Ehrlick, Chris Hubbuch and Jim Bowey, are intellectually sophisticated individuals who, we believe, are fully capable of compartmentalizing their obligations as university employees and their obligations as newsroom managers. Yet, by letting Ramaley sign their paychecks, they have been finessed into a situation that journalistic ethics codes guard against -- the possible perception that they've been bought.
As we understand it, the ethics implications slipped under the editors' radar. But it shouldn't have happened, particularly at the dominant local newspaper. Winona State is a huge and powerful institition in the community. It is financed largely with public moneys. The public good necessitates that the university be subject to continuing and intensive journalistic scrutiny. The Daily News now is in an unenviable position of explaining why it's been soft these recent months in covering the university. In fact, there has not any enterprise coverage of the university outside of pollyannish features. This, of course, is just as Ramaley would like it.
Certainly, the lapse is less visible than if the editors had allowed themselves to be hired by Mike Hatch or Tim Pawlenty, but the issue is no less serious. Everybody involved should review the current ethics code of the Associated Press Managing Editors (italics added):
"Journalists must avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety as well as any conflict of interest or the appearance of conflict. They should neither accept anything nor pursue any actvity that night compromise or seem to comprise their integrity."
What to do? As a practical matter, the editors, all of whom teach journalism courses, should complete their contractual obligation through the semester. Resigning now, at mid-semester, would create havoc for their students. Immediately they should direct further Winona State paychecks to a charity of their choice. Payments already received should be turned over to a charity. In their classes the editors, with appropriate humility, should engage students in a discussion of lessons learned. These discussions should occur also among the entire Winona State masscom faculty, where the university's journalism program is housed. It was masscom department Chair John Weis, whom the faculty had given a free hand in hiring part-time faculty, who proposed to Ehrlick, Hubbach and Bowey that they join the payroll. Weis also brought on the advertising manager of the Daily News, although, because teh ad manager has no newsroom responsibilities, his hiring is less problematic. Weis, of course, did not act alone. Liberal arts Dean Troy Paino signed off on the deals. Then a delighted Judith Ramaley put her signature on the paperwork.
Yes, everybody involved will tell you that it seemed like a good idea at the time. It wasn't. With lessons learned, the Daily News can elevate itself above suspicion in its coverage of the university. Also, the editors, all of whom have much to offer to students, should make themselves available as classroom guest lecturers from time to time, uncompensated, of course -- as they were in their pre-payroll days. That wouldn't put them under a cloud about whether their newspaper's news content and editorial policy are for sale.
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SMU sells four St. Teresa campus buildingsWINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 -- St. Mary's University is selling four buildings at the old College of St. Teresa campus on the West End to the Cotter Catholic junior and high school. Cotter has been using the buildings. The purchase includes St. Teresa, Cecelia, Roger Bacon and Loretto halls. Loretto once was leased by Winona State University as a dorm. Financial details were not released, but St. Mary's spent $4 million in 2002 to buy St. Teresa buildings that had not already been sold at the former women's college. Cotter has had a rent-free arrangement with St. Mary's.
Meanwhile, the biggest tenant at the campus will remain Winona State, which owns the giant central building, Lourdes Hall, and the Tau Center. Both are used as dorms. At various times Winona State has leased the Loretto and Maria dorms. Winona State has been a significant sideline player in finishing the move of the Cotter schools to the St. Teresa campus. Over the summer Winona State took over former Cotter junior high school on Wabasha Street, near the university's main campus, on a $2.5 million lease-to-buy arrangement. Some unversity operations are moving into the facility, renamed Wabsaha Hall, this fall.
Background: Maxwell tenants to find new digs supersized
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Students of color conference set at WSUWINONA, Minn., Oct. 15, 2006 --A conference to work on a status report on students of color in Minnesota has been scheduled at Winona State University. The report is intended to bring community and campus people together to plan for greater college access of underrepresented populations, particularly low-income, first-generation, and diverse students, according to education prof prof Maudie Williams. Conference participants include Carlos Mariani Rosas, of the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership, and Jennifer Godinez, of the Minnesota College Access Network. The keynote speaker will be Wilson Bradshaw, president of Metropolitan State University.
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WSU 23, Northern State 15
MSU-Moorhead 20, Concordia of St. Paul 18
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WEEK ENDING OCT.14, 2006
Oct. 15, 2006: A supervisor at the Lourdes dorm reported a drug violation at 12:01 a.m. at Lourdes. A student was cited.
Oct. 15, 2006: Security guards found drunken student outside Kryzsko Commons at 2:48 a.m.and and sent to his dorm room.
Oct. 14, 2006: A student reported at 9 a.m. that she had been assaulted at an off-campus location on Oct. 8. Police were notified.
Oct. 14, 2006: Security guards found an intoxicated student at the Lourdes dorm at 1:12 a.m. Police were notified. An ambulance took the student to the hospital.
Oct. 13, 2006: A supervisor at the Sheehan dorm reported an alcohol violation at 11 p.m.. Several students were cited.
Oct. 12, 2006: Several students were cited for alcohol violation in Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 1:46 a.m.
Oct. 11, 2006: A fire alarm was activated at Wabasha Hall at 7:41 a.m. It was a false alarm.
Oct. 10, 2006: A fire alarm pull station was activated in Memorial Hall at 1:50 p.m. Nothing was found.
Oct. 10, 2006: At 8:26 a.m. a student reported leaving her unlocked bike lying on the grass near the Performing Arts Center. When she returned approximately three days later the bike was missing.
Oct. 10, 2006: At 9 a.m. a tree was reported damaged in front of Somsen Hall.
Oct. 10 2006: A student reported at 1:56 p.m. that he hadnÕt seen his roommate for approximately one week. Roommate eventually located.
Oct. 9, 2006: A trouble alarm activated in the Sheehan dorm at 2:30 p.m.
Oct. 9, 2006: A student reported at 5:27 p.m. that her vehicle was scratched while parked at the East Lake Campus.
Oct. 8, 2006: Several students were cited at the dorm Lourdes at 12 a.m. for alcohol.
Oct. 8, 2006: Security guards responded to a noise complaint in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 12:23 a.m. and cited several students for alcohol.
Oct. 8, 2006: A student was cited at 1 a.m. for alcohol in the Sheehan dorm.
Oct. 8, 2006: Several students were cited at 1:02 a.m. for alcohol at the Lourdes dorm.
Oct. 8, 2006: A dorm supervisor requested assistance with a possible drug violation in the Quad dorm at 1:30 a.m. A small amount of marijuana was found.
Oct. 8, 2006: Police called guards to the university boat River Explorer at the levee concerning trespassers. No one as found.
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POSTED OCT. 15, 2006
COCAINE SEIZURE. A Wayzarta, Minn., business executive, Scott Emet Leiferman, has asked a judge to review the legality of a police search that led to a cocaine charge. Leiferman was arrested near his 54-foot yacht, which he docked at Winona on trip down the Mississippi.
FASTENAL EARNINGS. Winona-based Fastenal, a magnet for Wall Street investment dollars for several years, reported higher earnings for the third quarter in a row, up 17.8 percent to $54 million, compared to a year earlier. The report triggered a 3.3 rise in share value on Wall Street.
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New poll: Hatch breaks ahead in governor raceMINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 14, 2006 -- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Hatch said he was buoyed by a new poll that put him ahead of incumbent Republican Tim Pawlenty. The poll, by the Star Tribune newspapers, gave Hatch 46 percent to Pawlenty's 37. Hatch said the poll is the first to give him the lead beyond the margin of error. With a statistical 3.4 percent error margin, the race could be as close as 43 to 40 percent, according to the poll. Even so, the poll was the first to break the dead heat found in earlier polls. Independence candidate Peter Hutchinson was at 7 percent. Ten percent of the sample was undecided.
Background: Races that campus people are watching
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Two Moreland touchdowns give game to WSUABERDEEN, S.D. -- Wide receiver Justin Moreland scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns to help lead Winona State University to a 23-15 Northern Sun conference football victory over Northern State . Moreland scored on passes of 18 and 20 yards from Aaron Boettcher to improve a two-point, 9-7, Winona State lead to a 23-7 lead with 7:58 left to play. Moreland finished the game with five catches for 71 yards.
The Warriors had taken a 9-0 lead in the first quarter when Colin Charlson recorded a safety and quarterback Drew Aber scampered into paydirt from 11 yards out. Wnona State held that lead until Northern State scored with 1:09 left in the third quarter. But Winona State took the ensuing series and carried it over into the fourth period where Moreland and Boettcher did their scoring act from 18 yards out with 10:56 left to play.The Warriors then got a pass interception from Brent Yule on the following Northern Sttr series and converted the turnover into a Boettcher-to-Moreland scoring play of 20 yards. Boettcher, who came in for an injured Aber in the second quarter, completed 8 of 17 passes for 96 yards. Northern State made one final pitch in the waneing seconds of the game, scoring with nine seconds left and then recovering the onsides kick with five seconds left. The final play was a pass with a couple of laterals involved but the Northern State effort to tie the contest fell short.
Warrior senior John Tackmann had a solid contest with 12 total tackles on 11 solos and 1 assisted tackles. Tackmann added two sacks and tackles for loss of 22 yards and also blocked a field goal attempt. Tackmann's effort helped the Warriors hold the Wolves to 15 yards rushing. The game kept the Warriors undefeated, 4-0, in the conferece and 6-1 overall for the season.
Background: Statistics
Report: College boards, presidents need to synchronizeWASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2006 -- A call for college presidents and their governing boards to improve their relationships was issued by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Otherwise, the association said in a report, there is no hope for coleges to attract high-caliber leaders. The 50-page report, "The Leadership Imperative," noted a growing number of college presidents reisgning under fire after no-confidence votes. The report said:
"Presidents receive uneven guidance, support, and oversight from their governing boards. Failure to address these issues will diminish the strength of our colleges and universities and undermine the public's trust in higher education."
The report recommended "integral leadership." with presidents in close touch wth their internal constituencies, including faculty and students, and with their external constituencies, including alumni, donors and business leaders. Governing boards, the report also said, need to give presidents support on contentious issues.
SMU launches summer theater seriesWINONA, Minn., Oct. 14, 2006 -- Two St. Mary's University drama profs, Judy Myers ad Gary Diomandes, lifted the curtain on a new summer theater project to coincide with the Great River Shakespeare Festival. A new St. Mary's-based group, the Gilmore Creek Summer Theater Co., is planning light summer fare runing six weeks beginning in June, according to an announcement. The plays have not been selected yet, they said. Tentatively four of five shows a week are planned. The arts dean at St. Mary's, Larry Gorrell, called the project "a winning combination" with the four-year-old Shakespeare company, which has found success in productions at Winona State. Gorrell said he has heard ongoing requests to bring back summer theater at St. Mary's after a lapse of more than 10 years. The new theater will not displace the annual summer musical put on by Home and Community Options at the campus, he said.
Background: Shakespeare fest goes with "Macbeth," As You Like it"
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A FACADE
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University President Judith Ramaley went through the motions of consultation with the Winona State student leadership this week when she laid out her plans for a tuition hike next fall. But the fact is that the plan was already a done deed. It was an ambush presentation. The student senators whom Ramaley addressed had no opportunity to frame the right questions or to offer meaningful input. In a technical sense perhaps, Ramaley's presentation put her in compliance with a state college system requirement to consult with students on matters that affect them. The spirit of the requirement, however, is to fold student feedback into important decisions. The idea is to listen, not just tell. Ramaley was not listening in any meaningful way. For all practical purposes, the Ramaley recommendation was already en route to St. Paul.
Ramaley and the stuent leadership need to work out a structure for dialogue at early points on major issues. How can fait accompli ÒconsultationÓ be corrected?
First, senators must learn the rhythms of a university. Ask senators now about the university's budget-planning calendar. You'll hear a big "duh."
Second, because budgeting is complex with variables and unknowns about the future, a high level of expertise is needed to understand all the numbers and also the possibilities. The Student Senate needs to hire someone conversant with state budgeting and with higher-ed policy as an adviser to track the Ramaley budget-building process and translate the intricacies along the way. Otherwise, there is no way that student senator can engage in meaningful dialogue in behalf of their constituents. A professional budget adviser would be a major budget commitment of student fees, but a consultant need not be full-time nor year-round. There is no choice but to make the investment. The alternative is for the state-mandated consultation process is to be a one-way conversation. Also, there is no alternative if the Senate is serious about gaining student confidnce that it is looking out for their educational and financial interests.
In fairness, it must be noted that both to Ramaley and the Student Senate have inherited a tradition of weak and generally meaningless dialogue. That, however, does not obviate the need for correcting the facade of "consultation." |
Background: Ramaley's tuition plan: Up 4% for fall
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COURT
CONVICTIONS
WEEK ENDING OCT. 13,
2006
IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
UNDERAGE BOOZING
Rachel Faye Johnson, 20, Wells, Minn., $177.
Cassandra Marie Moner, 18, 700 Terrace Heights 1103, SMU, $177/.>
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WSU creates sports management curriculumWINONA, Minn., Oct. 13, 2006 -- A new online graduate program in sports management is on the books at Winona State University for next fall. The program, housed in the educational leadership department, is geared for students seeking careers as athletic directors, recreational and sports directors, sports business managers, media-community relations and sports-event planning. Students will develop expertise in facility management, sports marketing, finance, and sports law and ethics, said prof Steve Juaire. Stduents can enroll either in an 18-credit certificate program or in a specialized component of the educational leadership master's program, Juair said. Also, he said, courses can be added as supplemental credits to an existing bachelor's curriculum, Juaire said.
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WSU homecoming king denies quotationWINONA, Minn., Oct. 13, 206 -- The homecoming king at Winona State University, Mike Majerowicz, said he was not drinking the day of the homecoming parade and, in fact, does not imbibe at all. Majerowicz denied a quotation attributed to him in a CyberIndee article about the parade. A student reporter said she may have misheard what Majerowicz was shouting from a float to the parade crowd. The reporter is trying to arrange an interview with Majerowicz for clarification. John Vivian, CyberIndee editor, said the quotation was promptly removed from the news site until the interview can be arranged.
Prof charges WSU with age discriminationWINONA, Minn, Oct. 13, 2006 -- A discrimination complaint against Winona State will be filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunties Commission by university prof John Vivian. He said the university violated federal law in replacing him as an instructor with someone cheaper and younger. Vivian, who is 61, said he was told he was "too expensive" to teach a summer journalism course and that someone cheaper had been found. "My salary is a function of my age and my seniority," he said. "This was a violation of federal law, which is especially egregious with an institution that promotes itself as an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer." Vivian called the action "outright age discrimination." In his complaint Vivian said that fellow prof John Weis, who schedules journalism courses, told him he was "too expensive." Vivian quoted Weis as saying that he that he was acting at the direction of Troy Paino, dean of liberal arts.
Vivian said that faculty were solicited early in 2005 for summer teaching assignments and that he volunteered. It is the masscom department's custom, he said, to schedule faculty for summer courses if they are interested and have appropriate competence. According to the department practice, if several faculty express interest, the senior-most member of the faculty prevails, he said. Weis accepted his proposal and scheduled him to teach the introductory journalism course, Vivian said: "No one else expressed interest." The course, Vivian said, is one he has taught more than 100 times over almost 35 years. "In April, Weis told me he had gone out and found someone cheaper, not even a member of the faculty, to teach the course," Vivian said.
Vivian said he is not seeking financial compensation. He cast the issue as part of a larger national problem in higher education. "It undermines the quality of education to replace full-time faculty who have deep, ongoing and full-time commitments -- and I emphasize 'full time' -- to the institution," he said. "This growing practice of a staffing courses as cheaply as possible reflects a bargain-basement, night-school mentality in running a university. We need to resist."
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Lacrosse, rowing clubs seek student feesWINONA, Minn., Oct. 12, 2006 -- Two Winona State University athletic clubs, rowing and lacrosse, hope to become part of the student-life budget, which could trigger an increase in the mandatory student-life fee for all students. Student Senate Treasurer Lindsay Stelpflug, a member of the committee. said the fee is "up in the air right now until we know for sure what the other organizations under the fee will be doing as far as their budgets go," Clearly, though, the student-life budget cannot accommodate all requests. Jon Beach, lacrosse coach, is hoping for $4,000 for league fees, jerseys, nets, helmets and travel. Paal Haddal, rowing coach, said "a good $10,000" would really make things happen for his club, particularly for equipment. "We do not expect to get that much from the SFMC. but anything would help," said Haddal. Right now the rowing borrows competitors' boats at competitions.
The Student Fee Management Committee, comprising three student senators, three other students and six university staff members, decides what a reasonable subsidy is for campus clubs. Sports clubs can receive $1,000 plus an option to apply for two additonal allocations of $200 each. Said Stelpflug: "The $1,400 will not cover the budgets of the lacrosse and rowing club."
The dance and cheer teams and the men's and women's ultimate Frisbee, men's and women's rugby, men's volleyball, snowboarding clubs all included in the student life budget. Currently the cheer team receives $5,000, most other sports clubs $3,500, and snowboarding $3,000. A common factor in determining allocations is membership. The male and female rowing club consists of 24 members who compete and 60 who do not. Each member pays dues of $30 a semester. Lacrosse club members participate in a fundraiser and raise $200 each. Members who fall short must pay the remaining balance individually. The all-male lacrosse club consists of 28 members. Costs are a deterrent to participation, Beach said: "We had a sign up of 60 people, but the fundraising and out-of-pocket fees turn people away."
Reporter: Jenn Irish
Ramaley's WSU tuition plan: Up 4% for fallWINONA, Minn., Oct. 12, 2006 -- Tuition at Winona State would go up 4 percent under a plan unveiled by university President Judith Ramaley. For most full-time students from Minnesota, the increase would put tuition at $5,600 a year. Appearing before the Student Senate, Ramaley said she would forward her 4 percent proposal to state Chancellor Jim McCormick, who will make a consolidated recommendation for campuses statewide to the MnSCU board of trustees, probably within two weeks. Under Ramaley's Winona State plan for fall, non-resident tuition would go to $8,600 a year, except for students from neighboring states who, because of reciprocity agreements, would pay more or less the same $5,600 as Minnesotans. Tuition does not include fees, which begin at $1,715 a year for a leased laptop, student activities and other mandatory add-ons. Two campus committees, in a separate process from tuition approvals, will begin hearings soon on fee hikes.
A year ago Ramaley recommended a 9-1/2 percent Winona State increase, which McCormick trimmed to the 9 percent that the trustees rubber-stamped.
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WSU student in vote fraud case: I'm innocentWINONA, Minn., Oct. 12, 2006 -- A Winona State University sophomore, Abigail Anne-Mariee Kremer, pleaded innocent to committing voter fraud a year ago. Kremer, 19, has been charged with voting by absentee ballot in Worthington, her hometown, and in Winona. Kremer entered a pleas at a hearing Thursday. The judge set a pretrial hearing for Nov. 16. The case has become a rallying cry for a group of townspeople who argue that college students should not be barred from voting on local issues. In the November 2005 election, students were instrumental in the narrow passage of a major property tax increase for local schools. The allegation against Kremer, a felony, is the only case of its sort that's been filed against against a Winona college student.
Background: Writer alleges WSU election abuses, raps Ramaley
Leap off deck ends in arrestWINONA, Minn., Oct. 12, 2006 -- A 21-year-old Winona man fled down a hallway to a deck and leaped to the ground after police showed up at his place to see why he had failed to appear in court on a drunken-driving charge. The man injured an ankle in the leap, said Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack. Police called an ambulance and charged him with fleeing, Bostrack said. The incident began about 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, at 229 E. Third St.
Reporter: Rob Thoresen
WSU workshop: ID'ing, helping killer-childrenWINONA, Minn., Oct. 12, 2006 -- A University of Minnesota social-work prof, Jane Gilgun, will conduct a workshop, "Children Who Are at Risk to Kill in Their Community," at Winona State University. Gilgun will discuss lowering risks.
Date: Thursday, Oct. 19
Time: 1 p.m.
Place: Maxwell Leadership Center
Cost: Free
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WSU president promotes town-gown alliancesBROOKLYN CENTER, Minn., Oct. 12, 2006 -- Winona State University President Judith Ramaley, delivering the keynote address at a regional meeting of college officials, stressed the importance of building relationships between universities and their communities. Engagement between universities and communities benefit students, Ranaley said. Partnerships "prepare students to be good citizens by providing them ways to help the institution itself be a good citizen," she said. Developing leadership opportunities and enhancing employability by resume building would enhance the student's investment in learning, she said. Scholarly engagement by the university, she said, helps students on a personal level. "A refreshed sense of community and democracy" comes from this engagement and can help make the lives of those involved to become whole, she said.
Ramaley told the Upper Midwest Campus Compact Consortium how affiliations help universities as a whole: "An engaged institution is also a learning organization." The experimentation of learning will lead people to work on more effective replacements for their old ways of thinking, she said. Partnerships between universities and neighborhoods will lead to "public good to be interpreted and pursued in a collaborative mode with the community." she said.
Reporter: Jeff Grier
Background: WSU president to discuss civic engagement
NEWS AND COMMENT
WINONA MEDIA WATCH |
PLEASE,
SKIP THE DRUM ROLL
Attempting as close to fanfare and drum roll as is possible with the printed word, campus theater publicists for years have begun their news releases: "Winona State University presents .... (fill in the blank)." It's a tolerable although amateurish cliche attempt to capture the feverish P.T. Barnum ambiance of "David Merrick presents .... (fill in the blank)" or "MGM presents ... (full in the blank)." Unfortunately, cliches are horribly contagious. They spread into mindless applications. Now we have Winona State news releases being cranked out endlessly that proclaim -- drum roll, please -- that the university is "presenting" anything and everything that anybody brings to campus. St. Mary's publicists do the same thing. Worse, local newsroom people, who should know better, slavishly pass on whatever wording they're fed.
The implication of the "presents" cliche is that the university is sponsoring an event. Of course, that hardly ever is the case. There is no institution-level board or czar awarding imprimaturs. This is as it should be. The authority to award an imprimatur implicitly means also the authority to deny an imprimatur. Think censorship. No intelligent person wants censorship, especially at a university.
The "presents" cliche misses a fundamental truth about the important role of a university as a forum. Ideas of all sorts should be welcome regardless of whether the intitution sponsors them. This includes causes that have wide support in the society, like child-abuse prevention. This also includes causes those that don't, like antidisestablishmentarianism. Causes that sharply divide people, like pro-life and pro-choice, both have a place in the university forum. But suggesting the university is a presenter or sponsor is not only misleading but problematic. People can take the wording literally to think that "presenting or "sponsoring" means endorsing.
Stop the drum roll, please. As a textbook might prescribe:
CLICHE:
Winona State University presents the neo-Nazi play "Our Glorious Fuhrer."
ACCURATE:
The neo-Nazi play "Our Glorious Fuhrer" opens Tuesday at Winona State University.
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War casualties exhibit due at WSUWINONA, Minn., Oct. 12, 2006 -- A traveling exhibit honoring U.S. military personnel and Iraqi civilians, "Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Minnesota," will move on to the central courtyard at Winona State Univetsity the week after next. The exhibit focuses on the costs of war to Minnesota. Thirty-nine pairs of army boots represent the Minnesotans killed in Iraq. Sandals represent some of the Iraqis who have been killed. Names of soldiers are displayed on each pair of boots. On the tour so far, family members have left remembrances with the boots. A book giving an account of the lives of the soldiers will also be available, organizers said, Names of those who have died will be read in both English and Arabic during a moment of reflection at noon.
A Winona organizer of the national Eyes Wide Open organization, Jim Lenarz, said the display has been well received in other parts of the state. The intent of the exhibit is to allow an understanding of how Americans and Iraqis are suffering. The exhibit moves on to Windom Park, at Huff and Broadway streets, the next day.
Background: Exhibit also at Windom Park
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Catholic Diocese
Catholic Worker
Islamic Center
Lutheran Campus Center
St. Mary's Social Justice Committee
Peacemakers
Quakers
Unitarian Universalists Fellowship
Veterans Against the War |
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Hearing delayed for SteinquistWINONA, Minn, Oct. 12, 2006 -- A court hearing for one of the men accused in the March pool-cue beating of a Winona couple, Drew Steinquist, has been postponed. At a hearing Thursday, Steinquist's attorney requested more time to prepare the case. The judge set the hearing, an arraignment, for Nov. 2. Steinquist, 19, was arrested the day after two men broke into a house on Fourth Street and tied up a husband and wife, both in their 50s, and proceeded to beat them for more than an hour. The victims were hospitalized in critical condition. A Winona State student, John Michael Fitzgerald, 21 at the time, also has been charged. Police said the pair had wanted to recover marijuana and money from a lockbox that they thought the couple's son had stolen. Steinquist and Fitgerald faces charges of kidnapping, assault and burglary.
Background: Arguments in Fitzy case being drafted |
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Construction dust sets off Wabasha alarmWINONA, Minn., Oct. 11, 2006 -- Construction dust that had accuulated in a fire alarm's mechanism at Winona State Uiversity's Wabasha Hall caused the alarm to go off. Firefighters received th call at 7:34 a.m. In the meantime, a campus crew was summoned and the alarm reset. The building is the former Cotter Junior High School, which the university is remodeling as a multi-purpose facility with a workout gym, art studios and a nursing station.
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Gutknecht: Union's pro-Walz ads are liesROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- The Gutknecht for Congress campaign called on television stations to yank a political advertisement that criticizes six-term incumbent Gil Gutknecht. The ads, placed by the AFSCME public-employees union, claim that Gutknecht has supported a pay raise for himself and fellow members of Congress. Gutknecht attorney Jim Ohly says in a letter to station managers that the ad is factually inaccurate. In three up-or-down House votes on Congressional pay in his 12 years in office, Gutknecht has voted to block the raise each time, Ohly said. A Walz spokesperson said the candidate would have no response to the Gutknecht charge because the ads in question did not originate with the campaign but with AFSCME. In his own ads, Walz faults Gutknecht for voting twice for pay raises for himself, bringing his salary to $168,000.
Background: Races that campus people are watching
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Bad alarm draws firefightersWINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- Firefighers scrambled to 117 W. Sanborn at 1:57 p.m. after an alarm sounded. The alarm had malfunctioned.
Walz, Cleland urge health, school benefits for vetsWINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- Congressional candidate Tim Walz, campaigning with Vietnam war hero Max Cleland at his side, called for free health care for soldiers who have paid their dues in service to their country. Cleland a former U.S. senator from Georgia, who lost both legs and an arm in battle, made the same point to an audience, largely veterans, at the American Legion Hall. Walz told the veterans that he favors a new G.I. bill that would provide benefits for schooling and job training for current soldiers and vets to help them get settled and back on their feet. On the Mid-East war itself, Walz said he would like to see the Army Reserve and the National Guard brought home. Walz, himself a 24-year National Guard vet, is a retired command sergeant major. A Democrat, Walz is running for the First Congressional District seat held by 12-year Republican incumbent Gil Gutknecht.
Cleland said the Iraq war is costing $8 billion dollars a month. Nine days of that money, he said, would eliminate five years of co-pays and prescription drug charges for veterans. "We have got a problem in Washington, D.C.," said Cleland, "It's time to clean house."
Reporter: Steve Lang
Background: Races that campus people are watching
WSU speaker to tackle post-Civil War feminismWINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- Feminist author Marge Piercy will speak at Winona State University about her new novel, "Sex Wars" with a focus on the post Civil War feminism Piercy is the author of 17 novels, including bestseller "Gone to Soldiers." She has written 17 volumes of poetry. Her causes have included the anti-Vietnam war movement and women's movements and more recently the resistance to the war in Iraq.
WSU dorms to be open for trick-or-treatsWINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006-- Winona State University dorm tenants will sponsor a trick-or-treat event for townspeople and their children. Prentiss-Lucas dorm supervisor Mic Nauman said particapting dorms will be Lourdes, Morey, Prentiss-Lucas and Sheehan.
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 31
Time: 6 to 8 p.m.
Contact: < href="mailto:mnauman@winona.edu">Mic Nauman at (507) 457-5320 |
WSU panel looks at value of prairie gardensWINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- Two Winona State University biologists, Bruno Borsari and Robin Richardson, will discuss prairie gardens as an environmental benefit. Their panel is part of the campus series "Does Science Matter?"
Date:2:30-7:30 p. m, Tuesday, Oct. 10
11 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11
7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 12Place: Stark Auditorium
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Gay and cultural-diversity activists laid out literature at Winona State University as part of National Come Out Day. Events included the film "Touch of Pink"; speaker Deidre McCalla, a self identified African American lesbian feminist; and a colorful flag display hung between trees | |
D2Football.com honor to WSU kicker| LIBERTY, Mo., Oct. 10, 2006 -- Winona State University sophomore place kicker and punter Mike Salerno has been named the D2Fotball.com special teams player of the week. In last weekend's Warrior victory over Minnesota State-Moorhead, Salerno came up with a field goal and three extra points for nine total points. He punted four times for a 48.8 average. He converted his field goal from 37 yards out and placed two of his punts inside the Mooorhead 20-yard line. |
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Diehm wins league honors third time| ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- Amanda Diehm ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- After pair of weekend shutouts, Winona State University sophomore goal keeper Amanda Diehm was named the Northern Sun conference defensive soccer player of the week. In matches against Minnesota State-Moorhead and Concordia University St. Paul, Diehm had five shots. Diehm now has not given up a goal in her last 389 minutes and 53 seconds of play. It is the third time this year thatbDiehm has been named the Northern Sun defensive player of the week. |
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Marijuana, paraphernalia found on SMU driverWINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- A St. Mary's University student was ticketed for drug paraphernalia and marijuana after police pulled her over at Grand and Sarnia streets at 2:05 a.m. She had been stopped for a traffic violation.
Reporter: Rob Thoresen
Van's paint ruined in Sarnia vandalismWINONA, Minn., Oct. 10, 2006 -- Police are trying to figure out who poured paint thinner on the roof of a van parked in the 450 block of Sarnia Street between 1:30 and 2 a.m. on Sunday. Deputy Police Chief Tom Williams said that Kyle Hauser, 21, reported the damage Monday night. Three windows on the driver's side were broken. Also, said Williams, it appears that somebody tampered with the engine or fuel. Williams said that one suspect was questioned but that she denied everything.
Reporter: Anne Pilomonas and Rob Thoresen
Volunteers sought for WSU blood driveWINONA, Minn., Oct. 9, 2006 -- A Red Cross blood drive, sponsored through the Winona State University Student Senate, is running through Thursday. A Senate spokesperson said that all blood types are needed, especially those with Type O.
Date:2:30-7:30 p. m, Tuesday, Oct. 10
11 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 11
11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 12
Place: East Hall, Kryzsko Commons
Contact: DJ Danielson at (507) 457-5316 |
Oppose same-sex wedlock? Author: Bug offWINONA, Minn., Oct. 9 , 2006 -- Same sex marriages don't affect anyone except the couple involved, author Evan Gerstmann of Loyola Marymount University told a Winona audience. It's time, Gerstmann said, to rethink traditional concepts. Now with men and women holding equal rights, old definitions about relationships don't easily apply, he said. Too, Gertmann said, the definition of marriage historically has never been static but in continuing flux. He was critical of court decisions against same-sex marriage, saying that interpretations of the Constitution against same-sex marriage go against common sense: "Common sense may be common, but it often lacks sense." Gerstmann, a constitutional scholar, is the author of the 2004 book "Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution," which carries the marketing line "We All Deserve the Right to Marry" on the cover.
Gerstmann dismissed the argument that same sex marriage wrecks the institution of marriage. In Massachusetts and Canada, where same-sex marriage is allowed, marriage rates have risen, he said. In Japan and Ireland, where same-sex marriage is not allowed, marriage rates have fallen, he said. To his audience, mostly college students, Gerstmann said: "It's hard to see the future, but your generation is the first non-homophobic generation in history, once you take off to make a difference in today's world gays and lesbians will be in much better shape."
Reporter: Bekka Buck
Weekend campus security incidents up 41.2%WINONA, Minn., Oct. 9, 2006 - The campus security dispatcher at Winona State University, Bryan Dvorak, said that Saturday night of homecoming weekend was one of the busiest he's experienced. There were alcohol and drug busts both on the main and the west campuses. Dvork's office recorded 17 weekend incidents beginning Thursday night, compared with seven the previous weekend, a 41.2 percent increase. In the dorms, supervisor Amy Ramick said that on a normal night she is done making rounds by 1:30 a.m. but it took until 5 a.m. on Sunday. "Worst night I've ever had on duty," Ramick said. Her complaint, she said, is that that of a spoilsport about the Warrior football victory: "People want to celebrate, which I am fine with as long as it's not in the dorms."
Reporter: Charlie Moburg
Backgrond: Campus security logbook
WSU sophomore named to league offense honorsST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 9, 2006 -- Winona State University sophomore running back Carey Rottman has been named the Northern Sun conference offensive football player of the week. Rottman rushed for 68 yards and three touchdowns in helping lead the Warriors to a conference victiry over Minnesota State University Moorhead over the weekend. Rottman scored on runs of 2, 6 and 25 yards. Rottman also had three receptions for 41 yards to total 109 all-purpose yards.
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Challenge to legality of plagiarism-check sweepsMCLEAN, Va., Oct. 9, 2006 -- More than 1,100 students at McLean High School signed a pettion against the online plagiarism-detection service Turnitin ("Turn It In," get it?), alleging that their intellectual property rights are violated when teachers check research papers against the Turnitin database. The petition says thet Turnitin keeps their papers to check against all future submissions. The petition also argues that teachers, by sbmitting all papers for a plagiariam check, assume that students are guilty of plagiariam unless proved innocent by Turnitit. In an interview with the Washington Post, Ben Donovan said: "It's like if you searched every car in the parking lot or drug-tested every student."
Bill high for plagiarism-detectionTUCSON, Ariz., Oct., 9, 20096 -- University subscriptions to the Turnitin plagiarism-detection service can run easily into five figures. The University of Arizona spent $36,000 for Turnitin, the student newspqper the Arizona Daily Wildcat reported. At the University of Kansas, the $22,000-a-year subscription has been allowed to lapse for budget reasons.
COMMENT
THE EARLY
SODERBERG FAILURE
For three years, strong student presidents have added credibility to the Student Senate claim to be the voice of Winona State University students. The momentum has been lost. The claim rings hollow. In the recent Senate elections, a paltry 2.6 percent of students voted. Not one freshman filed for the ballot. For nine Senate vacancies, there were only four candidates, none of whom campaigned. Without challengers, they didn't need to.
The election was far from the robust, growing turnouts under the energetic, focused recent student presidencies of Michael Hofland, Dusty Finke and Ryan Flynn. The tuurnout marks a major failure of their successor, the current president, Carl Soderberg, to excite students on issues -- something he promised to do in campaigning for office last spring. Apathy, he said then, was the enemy. Perhaps he was right, but at least there was significant progress being made by Ryan Flynn, continuing the Hofland and Finke momentum, to build credibility for the Senate as in tune with students. Now, hard data from the electuion suggest that the enemy, apathy, is on the gain.
For Soderberg, time is short to get his act together. Calendar realities give campus leadership a short window to establish a mark, roughly three months. Unless Soderberg finds a way by Thanksgiving to engage students at large, his legacy will be having squandered the nascent crescendo of student power earned by the hard sweat of his immediate predecessors. |
Background: Voter turnout lowest in four years
Dobie named league setter of weekST. PAUL, Minn, Oct. 9, 2006 -- Winona State University's Lisa Dobie has been named Northern Sun conference volleyball setter of the seek. Dobie helped lead the Warriors to a four-match sweep in recent conference srossover matchesin Moorhead, Minn. Dobie averaged 12.93 assists per game and added 7 service aces and 53 digs. Dobie finished up the four matches with double-doubles in both assists and digs for each match.
Background: Moorhead crossover tournament |
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No more poker in cafeteria backroomRALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 9, 2006 -- A cafeteria supervisor at North Carolina State University has been ordered to stop playing several online poker tournaments on campus computers. State auditors, acting on a hotline tip, reproetd that the employee violated a rule against using public computers for personal gain. Also, there is a state law that bans betting on games of chance. It all may be just as well for geh employee. His comouter records show that although he ran up $5,000 in winnings in one free tournament, he then lost it all.
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Warriors blank SMU with .347 percentage
WINONA, Minn., Oct. 9, 2006 -- With only 11 errors in 101 total attacks, Winona State University rolled to a three-game volleyball victory over crosstown rival St. Mary's University in a nonconference match. The Wariors won on counts of 30-13, 30-15 and 30-21. The Warriors finished with a .347 hitting percentage. The Cardinals hit .036 hit. Lisa Dobie paced the Warriors with 35 assists and 14 digs. Rudi Balich totaled 13 digs. In all, 13 different Warriors got into play.
Background: Statistics
Diverse artists display
work at SMCWINONA, Minn., Oct. 9, 2006 -- An diverse exhibit from Minnesota and Wisconsin artists, "Drawing the Line," is on display at St. Mary's University. Among the artists is Julia Crozier of Fountain City, Wis., whose work reflects in prairies and marshes and history.
Date: Through Nov. 9
Time: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily
Place: Hogan Galleries
Cost: Free
Contact: (507) 457-1652 |
WSU speaker sees Australia rivers in stressWINONA, Minn., Oct. 9,2006 -- An Australian environmentalist, Martin Thoms, will speak at Winona State University on the stresses that Australia river systems are facing. Thoms is from the Riverine Landscape Research Lab faculty at the University of Canberra.
Auburn research lab accused of animal abuseNORFOK, Va., Oct. 9, 2006-- Auburn University has provided inadequate care for research animals, including ineffective pain medication to dogs, according to the organziation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The PETA manager of investigations, said undercover video shot from February to October 2005 show violations of federal rules for several dozen animals, some of which PETA claims died unnecessarily. PETA asid the violations were in veterinary labs. A complaint has been filed with the government. At Auburn a spojsperson said the allegations are unsubstantiated.
Prof seeks boycott for false arrestAKRON, Ohio, Oct. 9, 2006 -- A University of Akron professor has called for a boycott of Israeli colleges and meetings for his arrest last summer on suspicion that he was a spy. Ghazi Falah, a tenured geography prof with both Israeli and Canadian citizenship, was held three weeks, then released without being charged. Falah has demanded an apology from the Israeli government. In the mentime, he wants his colleagues at U.S. and Canadian institutions to boycott Israeli academic institutions and meetings. When he was in jail, there was a gag order on Israeli news media against reprotinh his arrest. He was deniedcontact his family or a lawyer for several days.
Plagiary marks paper-mill productsNEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2006 -- Research papers sold by term-paper mills often are brazenly plagiarized, the New York Times reported. The newspaper conducted a field test with the oline company called Term Paper Relief, asking for an essay comparing Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and George Orwell's "1984." The result was a clunky meld from Monarch Notes and a United Press International news story, complete with the original grammatical and typographical errors.
Voter turnout merely 2.6%, lowest in four yearsWINONA, Minn., Oct. 9, 2006 -- Of 8,307 students this fall at Winona State University, only 216 voted in the fall elections. Student Vice President Kari Winter, who supervises Senate elections, blamed inadequate public relations and incumbent senators themselves for not getting out the vote. The turnout, at 2.6 percent, was less than one-third of last year's 8 percent. In fall 2004 elections, 3.6 percent voted; in fall 2003, 5.5 percent; in fall 2003, 5.5 percent. More disappointing to Winter was that not enough candidates were on the ballot for contested elections or even to fill all nine Senate vacancies. Winter said that the vacancies worry her because student constituencies are going unrepresented on issues that affect the entire student body.
Winter issued a corrected tally from the election, fixing an addition problem in her original release:
| AT-LARGE | |
Kaleb Lindsey |
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| 163 | |
Che Wang |
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| 122 | |
Phasuthorn Viryasiri |
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| 113 |
SOPHOMORE | | Charles Moburg |
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| 109 |
Reporter: Lydia Oglesby
Background: Small ballot slate yields only winners
Background: Follow-up ballot ballot being assembled
Background: Small ballot slate yields only winners
Wedding chapel float takes parade prizeWINONA, Minn., Oct. 9, 2006 -- The Wenonah Players float, featuring a wedding chpel and a moving slot machine, won the $200 fisrt place in the Winona State University homecoming parade, the homecoming committee announced. The Pi Lamda Phi palace float won $150 for second. Tied for third and splitting $100 were the UPAC student amusements committee for its Las Vegas rootbeer float and Black Cultural Awareness for its slot machine and blackjack float.
GUEST COMMENT
WSU CLUBS
STUDENT SENATE
SPINELESS AGAINST CLUB PRESSURE
BY JONATHON JACOB
Winona State University Broadcasting Senior
Former Student Senator
As a former Winona State University student senator and as former vice chair of the Student Activities Fee Committee, I have first-hand knowledge of the situation involving Sigma Sigma Sigma and their off-campus account. In a decision reached by SAFC last year, and passed as a committee recommendation UNANIMOUSLY through the Student Senate in the last meeting of Spring Semester 2006, the status of Sigma Sigma Sigma is now revoked. There should be no question about that, but the Senate has decided that the issue needs to be revisited. Their solution: To change the SAFC rules to allow clubs to have an off-campus account under the stipulation that the club provide the business office with bank statements on a regular basis.
I can see two problems that exist with this solution.
1: Student Senate cannot require a club with an off-campus account to provide any information. Given this apparent lack of power, Student Senate is basically making empty threats. Given their acquiescence when under pressure from only two clubs, I don't see S Senate being willing or able to hand out punishment to any club with an off-campus account if they fail to provide the required statements.
2: The decision was already made. The motion that was passed in the last Student Senate meeting of the last academic year states simply that if Sigma Sigma Sigma, among other clubs, failed to comply with the SAFC then their club status would be revoked, period, end of discussion. I am a little disappointed that this year's Student Senate does not have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the club, even though it has a position on the issue already defined. And now, facing more pressure, they fold like a cheap card table. Can the student body really count on people who would rather change their minds then stick to a decision? Can we count on people who say they want to fight the good fight, fight for what's right, but can't even tell one club no?
I don't know about everyone else, but the prospect of that scares the hell out of me. |
Background: Senators OK off-campus club bank accounts
Scott Hornberg
Business authors to address ethics in shrinking worldWINONA, Minn., Oct. 8, 2006 -- A panel of business leaders and the co-authors of a new bsiness ethics book, Louis DeThomasis and Neal St. Anthony will address ethics and business on a global scale in a panel at St. Mary's University. The panelists: Bernie Brenner, pchief executive of Knitcraft Corp.; Louis DeThomasis, retired president of St. Mary's; Mark Jacobs, president of Watkins; and Will Oberton, chief executive of Fastenal Co.; and Neal St. Anthony, a business columnist for Minneapolis Star Tribune. DeThomasis and St. Anthony recently wrote "Doing Right in a Shrinking World."
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 10
Time: 4 p.m.
Place: Page Theater, Performance Center
Cost: Free |
Background: Ethics book released in August |
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DETHOMASIS
SMU former president
NEAL
ST. ANTHONY
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Mary (0-0, 2-4) at UM-Crookston (0-4, 0-6)
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