R.I.P.: Joseph Martin SnyderSANTA FE, N.M., July 27, 2007 -- A 1948 St. Mary's College grad, Joe Snyder, died while napping in his favorite chair at home. He was 85. Snyder was a career purchasing manager with IBM.
WSU volleyball lauded for gradeLEXINGTON, Ky., July 24, 2007 -- The Winona State University volleyball team in among 30 NCAA Division II teams to be honored with the GamePlan/AVCA Team Academic Award. The award is four teams that maintain at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade point average. That's a high B-plus by most standards. Four Northern Sun conference teams were given the honor.
Brain-bot exercises at WSU
WSU runner to Northern Sun Hall of Fame
R.I.P.: Sherry Ann (McClure) CalvertMINNESOTA CITY, Minn., July 23, 2007 -- A Winona State University grad, Sherry Calvert, 58, died at hone. She had been a program manager at Riverside Electronics in Lewiston, Minn.
UM-Rochester chief chosen
WSU prof discusses theater pedagogyWINONA, Minn., July 13, 2007 -- A Winona State University theater prof, Vivian Fusillo, will speak about her teaching methods at the Association for Theater in Higher Education national convention July 28 in New Orleans.
College board OKs bi-state tuition dealST. PAUL, Minn., July 18, 2007 -- The state colleges governing board voted to continue interstate tuition reciprocity agreement with Wisconsin, which =, subject to Wisconsin approval, will give in-state tuition to students from the other state. The new agreement would be effective for fall 2008 classes. Minnesota Chancellor Jim McCormick said that continued reciprocity will allow students to choose the college that best fits their needs without paying higher nonresident tuition. More than 13,000 Minnesota students and 11,000 Wisconsin students participate in the reciprocity program.
Opponents of reciprocity had claimed that the program had, in effect, been a Minnesota subsidy for Wisconsin students, This past year Wisconsin residents pay $178 to $1,048 less than Minnesota students to attend Minnesota institutions. McCormick said Wisconsin officials have committed themselves to working out the disparity. A tentative agreement has Wisconsin kicking in the difference with a tuition reciprocity supplement.
Can you trust Facebook postings?AUSTIN, Texas, July 12, 2007 -- Although anyone posting information about themselves on the Facebook social-networking site can create a fanciful personal, most don't. according to a psychologist at the University of Texas. A student of 133 undergrads found that they represented themselves faithfully on MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites. Samuel Gosling used a standard five-point personality test on the students, then checked their Facebook profiles. Correlations were high on extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to new experiences. On emotional stability, there was less of a match up. That's probably because, said Gosling, most people are good at concealing it.
Cops remove man, hard drives from libraryWINONA, Minn., July 11, 2007 -- A man who had been showing up regularly at the Winona State University library to use public-access computers was escorted out by police after a complaint of sexual misconduct. Campus security chief Don Walski confirmed the incident. Police removed the hard drives from several computers. Librarians had been watching the man after a boy told his mother he had seen a man masturbating at a computer a couple days earlier. There also was a recent report of a man at a public comouter flpping through sites with individuals, adult ane child, in diapers.
The university offers public access to librray computers, as required by the legislation that funded construction of the library. University policy is not interfere with anyone accessing pornography, to which adults have access through civil rights provisions in the U.S. Consitution. There is intervention, however, for child porn.
Warriors tracksters garner academic honorsMETAIRIE, La., July 10, 2007 -- Three Winona State athletes, including two seniors, led the university to U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association all-academic honors. Individually leading the Warriors were seniors Bria Magnuson and Nicole Lonning and sophomore Jess Devine. Each met the minimum required 3.25 grade-point average, a B-plus, and also qualified qualifying mark in her event. Magnuson competed in both the NCAA II indoor and outdoor championships in the pole vault, finishing third in the indoor finals. Lonning reached the NCAA outdoor championships and placed third in the hammer throw Devine. had a qualifying timein the 100 hurdles. In all, 44 NCAA Division II teams posted a 3.00 team cumulative grade point average. The Warriors combined for a 3.11 GPA to rank 40th.
R.I.P.: Gwendolyn Chapel (Joseph) DetersSPRING GROVE, Minn., July 10, 2007 -- A Winona State Teachers College grad Gwen Deters, 89, has died. After her two-year WInona State licensure program she had an internship in the Spring Grove Teacher Training Department. She taught three years in Money Creek, Looney Valley and Union Ridge
Scholar-athlete title to WSU golferCORAL SPRINGS, Fla., July 9, 2007 -- A Winona State University golfer, Tara Christensen, has been named to the National Golf Coaches Association all-American scholar list. Christensen, a sophomore studying finance, earlier was named to the Northern Sun conference all-academic team.
Study: Heed those high-school gradesBERKELEY, Calif., July 8, 2007 -- College admissions officers may need to pay more heed to high school grades, according to a study by Saul Geiser and Maria Veronica Santelices at the Universty of Caifornia's Berkeley campus. High-school grades are better predictors of a student's success in college than SAT college entrance exam scores, the researchers said. Geiser and Santelices studied nearly 80,000 students in the University of California system. Standardized-test scores like SATs, they said, add a "small but statistically significant improvement in predicting long-term college outcomes," But, they added, SAT scores can be misleading because they are so intertwined with students' socioeconomic status.
Warriors to Northwoods all-star gameMANKATO, Minn, July 7, 2007 -- Winona State University baseball players Donny Erdall and Bryan Ruff, both right-hand pitchers, have been selected forthe South Division team for the Northwoods League all-star game Wednesday. Erdall has come out of the bullpen, recording 10 saves in 18 games. Ruff is 0-1 in 19.1 innings of work with 24 strikeouts. Ruff, witha 3-1 record in eight games, has a 3.75 earned run average in 36 innings with 34 strikeouts.
Northfield admits prep heroin problemNORTHFIELD, Minn., July 5, 2007 -- Heroin has become such a problem in this college town, home to Carleton and St. Olaf, that Police Chief Gary Smith called in news reporters to discuss what to for. More than 150 young people, mostly high-schoolers but some younger, are hooked, Smith said. Some, he said, have an $800-a-day habit that has led to doubling in burglaries and tripling in thefts from autos from 2005 to 2006. He said that an informal heroin ring at the 1,300-enrollment Northfield high school has made the drug a status symbol. Some students take turns driving to Minneapolis to make buys. Affected too are the colleges, where teenagers wander the dorms and classrooms to steal anything they can sell to support their habit, especially electronic equipment, he said. Smith called on sellers and fencers to back off. "We know who a lot of you are," he said. He called on townspeople to lock their doors and vehicles and report suspicious activity.
November 2008 contests in early startWINONA, Minn., July 3, 2007 -- Races that Winona campus people are watching:U.S. PRESIDENCY 2008 Democratic national convention, Aug. 25-28, DenverJoe Biden (Democrat): Delaware senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat): New York senator Chris Dodd (Democrat): Connecticut senator John Edwards (Democrat): Former North Carolina senator Mike Gravel (Democrat): Former Alaska senator Dennis Kocinch (Democrat): Ohio member of House Barack Obama (Democrat): The Illinois senator Bill Richardson (Democrat): New Mexico governor
Sam Brownback (Republican): Kansas senator Jim Gilmore (Republican): Former Virginia governor Rudy Giuliani (Republican): Former New York mayor Duncan Hunter (Republican): California member of House John McCain (Republican): Arizona senator Mike Hickabee (Republican): Arkansas governor Mitt Romney (Republican): Massachusetts governor Ron Paul (Republican): Texas member of House Tom Tancredo (Republican): Colorado member of House Tommy Thompson (Republican): Former Wisconsin governor
U.S. SENATE Minnesota Norm Coleman (Republican): Seeking second term Mike Ciresi (Democrat): Tobacco Settlement attorney Al Franken (Democrat): Former Air America host U.S. HOUSE District 1 Dick Day (Republican): State senator from Owatonna Randy Demmer (Republican): State representative from Hayfield Mark Meyer(Republican): Crystal Lake Wellcome School Board member Tim Walz (Democrat): Expected to seek second term
MINNESOTA HOUSE Distict 31-A Gene Pelowski (Democrat): Expected to seek 12th term
MAYOR Jerry Miller (incumbent): e to seek re-election Todd Ouellette Former City Council candidate has expressed interest CITY COUNCIL 1st Ward (Far West End) Al Thurley (incumbent): Expected to seek e-election CITY COUNCIL 3rd Ward (Central city, including WSU) Deb Salyards (incumbent): Expected to seek second term CITY COUNCIL At-large Debbie White (incumbent): Expected to seek second term
COUNTY COMMISSION 2nd District Dwayne Voegeli (incumbent): Expected to seek re-election Wayne Valentine: Retirednewscaster has considered running COUNTY COMMISSION 3rd District Jerry Heim (incumbent): Expected to seek re-election COUNTY COMMISSION 4th District Dave Stoltman (incumbent): Expected to seek re-election
SCHOOL BOARD Vicki Englich (incumbent): Expected to seek re-election Kelly Herold (incumbent): Expected to seek re-election Fred Peterson (incumbent): Expected to seek re-election
Walz econokmic summit set for AustinAUSTIN, Minn., July 3, 2007 -- Rep. Tim Walz will host an economic summit JUy 20 to address the changing rural economy in southern Minnesota. Walz sais the program will dakl with renewable energy.Details: Registration form
Brewers missing kegs by the thousandsMILWAUKEE, Wis., July 3, 2007 -- People who don't return beer kegs are costing the industry perhaps %50 million a yaar, accoridng to Jeff Becker, president of the Beer Institute. With rising metal prices, the disappearance of keds is increasing. Why return an empty keg for a $10 oe $30 deposit when it will fetch $s much as $55 as scrap, Becker asked. The Beer Institute is drafting legislation to require scrap-metal recyclers to ask for identification and proof of ownership from would-be sellers. Becker said brwers pay $150 to replace each missing keg.
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