Student leader: More, better monoxide alarmsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2007 -- Students should have been notified immediately that there were levels of carbon monoxide in the Maria dorm that were strong enough after a leak to cause headaches and dizziness, the student services chair for the Winona State University Student Senate said. Josh Martin, a junior senator, said he said that he raised the possibility with the Senate of demanding more carbon monoxide alarms around the dorms. The leak, after midnight on Sept. 15, was from basement boilers in the 240-bed dorm. No one was disabled. Security guards had happened to hear the soft-sounding basement alarm on their rounds and called firefighters. Students sleeping upstairs did not hear the alarm. Said Martin: "What's the point of an alarm if you can't hear it?"
As chair of the Senate Student Services Committee, Martin works on security issues. Martin said he has no problem with firefighters' decision not to evacuate the building. "I trust the judgment of the firemen," said Martin. "If there was a need to evacuate the building, I don't think the firemen would have hesitated to move them out to safety." | |
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Reporter: Stephanie Trask
Background: Two gas leaks at WSU dorms
Background: Dorm leader mum on leak safety
Oktoberfest death: Man leaps from bridgeLA CROSSE, WIs., Sept. 30, 2007 -- A college-age man from the Twin Cities fell off the Cass Street bridge near Pettibone Park on the Mississippi River and drowned early Sunday. His name was not immediately released by police. A witness walking across the bridge said she saw a man jump off the bridge about 1:30. Campers at Pettibone reported hearing a splash about the same time. Divers recovered the body within an hour.
The death was the ninth of a college-age man in the river in 10 years. An FBI study has found none of them to be connected, except by heavy drinking on the notorious downtown La Crosse bar strip. Police said an autopsy would determine whether the latest drowning victim had been drinking. The death occurred on the opening weekend of the La Crosse Oc=Oktoberfest, which draws visitors from a wide regional area and is an especially busy time on the bar strip.
Background: FBI: No La Crosse serial murderer
They had a thief among party guestsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2007 -- Three Winona State University students reported that items were stolen from their place, probably during a party when they were out. Sarah Brechtl, Daniel Burch and Amy Obrakse, of 476 Lafayette St. told police that they had a party the night before but were gone from 10:15 to11:45 p.m. Stolen were leased Winona University Gateway laptops, an MP3 player, backpacks, clothing, phone chargers, a black leather wallet, and a library book, said Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack. The laptops are valued at $2,500 each.
Reporter: Natali Barbera
Too much booze: Cops cite eight revelersWINONA, Minn, Sept. 30, 2007 -- Police on foot patrol issued eight tickets Saturday and Sunday, mostly connected to exuberance, drunkenness and bladders about to burst in the Bar Strip and Winona State University neighborhood. The incidents were mostly spill-over from Winona State homecoming parties and bar-hopping, A freshman was issued a ticket for public urination at 11:10 p.m., Saturday, on the 200 block of W. Seventh Street. A 20-year-old woman was ticketed for minor consumption at 11:50 p.m., Saturday, at the 300 block of W. Seventh Street. A 21-year-old Winona State student was ticketed for a loud party at 11:00 p.m., Saturday, at 379 W. Fourth St. A 22-year-old man was ticketed for public consumption at 10th and Main streets at 10:45 p.m., Saturday. A Winona State University freshman was issued a ticket for minor consumption at 12:10 a.m., Sunday at 10th and Harriet streets. A 24-year-old Wisconsin man was ticketed at 11:03 p.m., Saturday, at Ninth and Lafayette streets for public consumption. A 20-year-old Winona State University was issued a ticket on at 11:42 p.m., Saturday, at Fifth and Wilson streets for minor consumption. A few minutes later at the same comer, a 20-year-old man also was ticketed for minor consumption.
Reporter: Christina Rhein
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Profane headlines? Not in Daily NewsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2007 -- Too often profanities show up in news articles more for effect than to really talk about the issue, according to Winona Daily News editor Darrell Ehrlick. Asked about the "Fuck Bush" headline in a recent editorial in the Colorado State University student newspaper, Ehrlick said he would not have used the headline because the profanity didn't serve the reader. Also, he said, it is important to know your audience and their expectations. Readers of the Winona Daily News are different than those readers of the Colorado State Collegian, he noted.
How does Ehrlick decide what goes into the Daily News? It can be a hard call, he said, because there is no necessary right or wrong answer and no manual on when a profanity can or cannot be used. He said it is important to use good judgment and ask if the word in question makes a compelling statement, if it fits, if it have power, and if it needs to be there.
Ehrlick cautioned about using "red-flag" words, such as profanities, because they are emotional and will cloud and mask the powerfulness of the argument. Many columnists who profanities re counterproductive because people are not talking about the merit of the arguments -- just about the profanities used, said Ehrlick.
At Colorado State Collegian the student editor said it was his First Amendment right to print what he wanted in his newspaper. Ehrlick stressed it is the responsibility of the author of an article or an editorial to use the freedom wisely.
Reporter: Amanda Gliva
Background: WSU editor: F-word lacks eloquence
Background: Displeasure directed at student editor
| SOCCER (WOMEN'S)
SEPT. 30, 2007
Northern State 1, WSU 0 |
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Warrior soccer streak ends at 7WINONA, Minn., Sept. 30, 2007 -- After having its seven-match shutout streak snapped, the Winona State University soccer team gave up another goal, this time in a 1-0 loss to Northern State in Northern Sun conference play. The Warriors gave up the lone goal of the contest with just over six minutes left in the ball game on a shot that ricocheted off the crossbar and into the net. The goal was only the third allowed by Winona State goalie Amanda Diehm this year.
Background: Statistics
Door unlocked, thieves make entryWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007 -- A Winona State University student who left the door unlocked at his his off-campus place told police somebody stole a bunch of gear. Jacob Horstman said thieves git away with an Xbox 360 valued at $400, two XBOX 360 games valued at $60 each, a wireless controller, a regular controller, two leased Winona State Gateway laptops valued at $2500 each, and their power cords. Horstman contacted police at 10:41 p.m. after being away from home for the day. Horstman told authorities that he had left the residence at 216 E. 10th St. at 11 a.m. and left the door unlocked for his roommates, said Deputy Chief Paul Bostrack.
Reporter: Natali Barbera
Cops bust Ninth Street bashWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007 -- Two men, and 22 and 21, of Winona, Minn. were issued tickets for a loud party at 702 W. Ninth St. at 11 p.m., Friday, said police Sgt. Bittle.
Reporter: Christina Rhein
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SEPT. 29, 2007
WSU 28, Concordia-St. Paul 7 |
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Warriors snag seven interceptionsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007 -- Winona State University took a homecoming football victory 28-7 over Concordia of St. Paul after a nearly hour >delay due to the threat of lightning. Kenzie Yewman and Craig Martindale each picked off Concordia quarterback Cole Goodchild twice to lead a strong defensive effort. The Warriors added individual interceptions by Brent Yule, Zachary Voight and Tony Hill to round out the seven interceptions. Offensively for the Warriors, Drew Aber went 12-24 for 209 yards and a touchdown. Alex Wiese had 124 yards on 24 rushes. Scott Peters had another 100 yard receiving day, due mostly to a 73-yard touchdown reception on the second play from scrimmage.
The game was stopped because of lightning near the end of the second quarter with 2:40 on the clock. The delay lasted 57 minutes, during which the persistent rain let up and the second half of the game was under sunny skies. Before the delay, the Warriors had an 18-0 lead with two touchdowns and two safeties. After the delay, Warrior Ryan Abbott made a 23-yard field goal for a 21-0 lead with seven seconds remaining in the second half.
Fifty-five seconds into the game. Peters caught a 73-yard touchdown pass from Drew Aber. Starting the game off with a good play, said Peters, "helps the momentum and gets everyone excited."
Concordia quarterback Kole Goodchild threw seven interceptions. This tied a school record for the Warrior defense, set in 1949 against Mankato State, for most interceptions in one game.
Warrior Alex Wiese scored a nine-yard run early in the second quarter. Wiese finished with 124 yards rushing on 24 carries and scored two touchdowns.
The second half of the game was a struggle for Warrior offense, as they failed to get a first down on their first three possessions. Concordia scored a touchdown on an 11-yard pass from Goodchild to Tyron Ruffin late in the third quarter. Shortly after that, Wiese scored on a three- yard run five seconds into the fourth quarter, the Warriors' only touchdown in the second half.
The Warriors finished with 424 yards offense. Concordia-St. Paul finished with 261 yards and just 27 yards on 28 carries.
Reporter: Christian Rhein
Background: Statistics
WSU SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 29, 2007
SEPT. 30, 2007: Security guards warned some residents of the East Lake dorm about noise at 2:59 a.m. and cited several students for alcohol violation.
SEPT. 30, 2007: Several students were cited at 1:20 a.m. for an alcohol in Lourdes dorm.
SEPT. 30, 2007: At 12:30 a.m. a student reported that he had not seen his friend for several hours. The friend eventually came back to the dorm later in the day.
SEPT. 30, 2007: At 9:30 a.m. a student reported the theft of laundry from the Lourdes dorm laundry room. Later it was determined that another student placed the clothes in another location within the laundry room and they were returned to the owner. Matter was unfounded.
SEPT. 29, 2007: Police were called at 11:55 p.m. for a highly intoxicated student in the front of the Lourdes dorm An emergency medical team decided to allow the individual to stayed with a friend for the rest of the night. The individual was ticketed for underage boozing.
SEPT. 29, 2007: At 1:30 p.m. a student reported his wallet was taken from the shower area in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm. It was later learned that he had misplaced his wallet and eventually recovered it.
SEPT. 29, 2007: Firefighters and security guards responded to Prentiss-Lucas dorm on a fire alarm at 5:49 p.m. A student's cooking had set off the alarm
SEPT. 29, 2007: A supervisor at the Prentiss-Lucas called security guards at 2:34 a.m. for a drug violation.
SEPT. 28, 2007: Security guards responded to a trouble alarm at the athletic fields at 5:55 a.m. A false alarm.
SEPT. 28, 2007: Security guards contacted drunken student near the Sheehan dorm at 4:42 a.m.
SEPT. 28, 2007: Security guards cited several students for alcohol in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 9 a.m.
SEPT. 28, 2007: At 7:41 p.m. a student reported the theft of personal items from a bathroom in the Lourdes dorm.
SEPT. 28, 2007: At 3:40 p.m. a ambulance crew and security guards helped a student who had passed out the Science Building. The student declined transported to the hospital.
SEPT. 27, 2007: Several pieces of decorative wood were reported missing from the Gazebo structure at 8:33 p.m.
SEPT. 26, 2007: Tenants reported power out in the majority of the Sheehan Hall dorm at 11:10 p.m.
SEPT. 24, 2007: Security responded at 2 a.m. to a report of a student wishing to cause harm to himself. Police were notified.
SEPT. 24, 2007: A dorm supervisor reported at at 10:51 a.m. that a student reported she was sexually assaulted by an acquaintance in the dorm over the weekend.
SEPT. 23, 2007: A student reported at 4:45 p.m. his vehicle that had been struck by an unknown vehicle. The striking vehicle was eventually located in the parking lot. Police were notified.
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SEPT. 29, 2007
WSU 2, University of Mary 1 |
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Warriors give up first soccer goal at homeWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007 -- Winona State beat the University of Mary 2-1 in the opening game of Northern Sun conference play. Winona State struck first in the 20th minute when Kayla Walters scored off an assist by Holly Sutton but finally gave up their first goal less than three minutes later. The goal snapped goalie Amanda Diehm's streak of scoreless goalkeeping at 653 minutes and 54 seconds. The Warriors then scored the game-winning goal off a shot by Gina Florian with just over seven minutes left in the first half.
Background: Statistics
| VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S)
SEPT. 29, 2007
WSU 3, #4 Southwest Minnesota State 2 |
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Warriors win in volleyball upsetMARSHALL, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007 -- Winona State University fell behind 2-0 against the fourth ranked Southwest Minnesota State University before rallying to take three straight games and the match. The Warriors had a balanced offensive attack. Rudi Balich and Kim Nemcek each recorded 11 kills. Kelsey Penebaker chipped in 11. The victory brings the Warriors to 11-8 overall, and 4-3 in the Northern Sun league. In the conference Winona State is currently fourth behind Concordia of St. Paul, Southwest Minnesota, and Minnesota State-Moorhead.
Background: Statistics
COURT CONVICTIONS
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 29, 2007
IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
UNDERAGE BOOZING
Kayla K. Anderson, 18, Buffalo City, Wis., $177.
Blake W. Berse, 19, 1535 W, Fifth 208, $177.
Dylan S. Besel, 20, 1156 W. Sixth, $177.
Heather L. Boelter, 19, 105 Maple Lane, $177.
Brian K. Conway, 19, White Bear Lake, Minn., $177.
Alisha D. Coppersmith, 19, Plymouth, Wis, $%177.
Keegan K. Drugan, 18, Holmen, Wis., $177.
Taylor E. Freiermuth, 21, Cannin Falls, Minn., $177.
Zachary D. Fricke, 20, 367 Hillview drivem $177.
Ryan P. Guza, 19, Palatine, Ill., $302.
Scott J. Hampton, 19, Long Grove, Ill., $354.
Brandon J. Hornberg, 20, Fountain City, Wis., $177.
Amie K. Hylton, 19, Lexington, Minn., $177.
Andrew James Kelleher, 20, Woodbury, Minn., $177.
Clinton J. McCullough, 19, Walworth, Wis., $354.
Nicholas M. Munoz, 19, 715 E. Broadway, $77.
Joseph J. Ossell, 19, Minneapolis, Minn., $177.
Alyson R. Robertson, 18, 457 Gould 330, WSU, $177.
Carlos F. Ruiz de Chanz, 19, 177 E. Eighth St., $354.
Alexander J. Sazama, 19, 177 E. EIght St., $754.
Matthew B, Scheibel, 19, Farmington, Minn., $531.
Spencer A. Souter, 18, Maria Hall 223, WSU, $177.
Matthew P. Zioljowski, 19, 177 E. Eighth St., $177.
LOUD PARTYING
Matthew P. Zioljowski, 19, $177.
Scott J. Hampton, 19, Long Grove, Ill., $354.
Clinton J. McCullough, 19, Walworth, Wis., $354.
Carlos F. Ruiz de Chanz, 19, 177 E. Eighth St., $354.
Alexander J. Sazama, 19, 177 E. EIghth St., $754.
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A good time was had by all -- untilWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007 -- Police broke up a party at 323 W. 6th St. at 10:41 p.m. and cited five Winona State University students for a noisy gathering. Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack said that a large number of revelers ran when police arrived. One student was cited for a fraudulent driver's license, underage boozing, giving false information to police, fleeing on foot, and resisting arrest. The guy's blood alcohol level was 0.303 percent, 3-1/2 times the legal limit, Bostrack said.
Reporter: Natali Barbera
Appelwick to jail for 30 daysWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2007 -- College sophomore Katie Appelwick, who seriously injured two Winona State University coaches in December 2005, pleaded guilty to violating her probation. Judge Jeff Thompson Appelwick sentenced Appelwick to 30 days in jail for driving with a revoked license. It was possible that Appelwick could have been sent to prison for a year, but Judge Thompson instead ordered her only to visit the Shakopee women's prison. Judge Thompson warned Appelwick that Shakopee may turn out to be the best place for her.
With her guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge of driving with a revoked license in early July, the prosecution agreed to drop an obstructing justice charge.
Appelwick's attorney, Rich McCluer, said he had been disappointed when he heard of his client's probation violation. She made a bad decision, McCluer said, but she avoided a worse one by letting her drunk boyfriend drive.
Judge Thompson told Appelwick, a College of St. Catherine sophomore, that the patience of the community and court is not unlimited. He warned her that he could still impose the prison sentence which would come with a felony record. Thompson wished Appelwick luck.
Reporter: Amanda Gliva
Background: Appelwick facing probation violation issue
SMU plans new outdoor track, soccer pitchWINONA, Minn., Sept. 28, 2007 -- St. Mary's University will build a new track and soccer complex, the first phase costing $2.5 million, west of the boulevard campus entrance. A second phase will follow. The university's governing board approved the project Friday. Construction of the first phase, a track and field and soccer pitch, will begin next summer. The second phase will include more stands, a refreshments plaza, press box and lights.
The additions will bring St. Mary's more on par with fellow members of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. St. Mary's is the only league member without an outdoor track. Chris Kendall, dean of students, said the new facilities will complement new baseball and softball fields that were built recently along the boulevard -- and will help recruit students to the university.
The St. Mary's decision to go it alone with the new track is a setback for the winona schools project to find renters, including Winona State University, for a proposed $1 million outdoor track at Paul Giel Field. The Paul Giel track would replace the track at the high school,the only outdoor track in Winona. The joint-usage track would pose too many scheduling problems, St. Mary's said.
Suspense ends with crowns to Obray, OlsonWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007 -- Junior David Obray and senior Dana Olson were crowned homecoming king and queen at coronation ceremony complete with Academy Award-style suspense. Both expressed surprised when the crowns were placed on their heads. Obray, who is studying law and communications, was sponsored by the Student Senate. Olson, a special-ed major, was sponsored by the Intervarsity faith group.The two were crowned after a 40-minute program hosted by last year's King Mike Majerowicz and Queen Megan Dwyer that included a skit by the Wenonah Players, a game of Winona State trivia, and a performance by the university dance team.
Coronation was planned by the homecoming co-chairs Anna Nelson and Katie Zieba.
Other nominees for king were junior Anthony Fiorello, sponsored by the Prentiss-Lucas dorm; senior Kyle Miller, sponsored by the Quad dorm; junior Peter Schumeman sponsored by the UPAC activities group; and senior Mike Thornton sponsored by Intervarsity. Queen nominees, besides Olson, were junior Samantha Klien, sponsored by Prentiss-Lucas; junior Amanda Schmick. sponsored by Black Cultural Awareness; senior August Whipple, sponsored by the dance team, and junior Emily Yellen
Reporter: Hayley Fast
Cops cite pair for loud partyWINONA, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007 -- Two men, age 22 and 21, were issued tickets for a loud party at 702 W. Ninth St. on Friday at 11 p.m. They will have a mandatory court appearance, police said.
Reporter: Christina Rhein
| VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN'S)
SEPT. 28, 2007
WSU 3, Wayne State of Nebraska 1 |
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Warriors snap volleyball losing streakWAYNE, Neb., Sept. 28, 2007 -- Winona State University lost the first game but came back to win the next three and snap a four-game volleyball losing streak against Wayne State. The Warriors had four players with double figure kills. Jenna Padley led the attack with 18 kills. Carmen Stankowski and Kim Nemcek each had 11. Lisa Dobie had 55 assists for the Warriors. Rudi Balich led the defense with 25 digs.
Background: Statistics
Tech seeks national nursing accreditationWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2007 -- Southeast Tech is working toward an additional accreditation that will help ease grads into advanced Winona State University nursing programs, Tech's nursing dean said. Laurie Becker said the National League of Nursing Accreditation already has made a preliminary review and instructed Tech to set up more detailed data on students and grads. Also, said Becker, Tech will need more faculty with master's degrees. With NLNA accreditation, Tech grads can be admitted at Winona Stat without a currently required competency exam.
Becker said the 400-student Tech nursing program has established a strong record. All grads in the registered nurses program get jobs,she said. Also, she said, nine in 10 practical-nursing grads get jobs. The program already is accredited by Minnesota Board of Nursing, and Tech holds accreditation as an institution from the Higher Learning Commission. Becker said she hopes for NLNA accreditation by 2010.
Scientists: Creationist movie-makers duped usNEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2007 -- Several prominent scientists, including Richard Dawkins, the University of Oxford biologist, claim they were manipulated by false pretenses to appearing in a movie that supports the intelligent design alternative to Darwinian evolution. The scientists, in an article in the New York Times, said they were told that the documentary film "Crossroads" would examine the intersection of science and religion. The film, however, has been retitled "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" and argues that "university professors unmercifully crush" anyone who challenges Darwinian evolution. The film cites the case of Guillermo Gonzalez, an astronomer who was denied tenure recently at Iowa State University. At the University of Minnesota-Morris, biology prof PZ Myers calls movie's producers dishonest in representing the film's premise to him. The film, it turns out, is a product of Discovery Institute, a leading supporter of intelligent design. Distribution is scheduled in February.
Bad idea: Letting drunk buddy driveWINONA, MInn., Sept. 23, 2007 -- It will be a night to remember, albeit perhaps a bit fuzzy, for a 22-year-old man. The other night a Hei-N Low bartender called the cops and reported that a customer, too drunk to drive, was getting into a black Pontiac, said Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack. The cops arrived. A friend offered to take the car keys and keep them. An hour later, about 2:05 a.m. police spotted the car at Walgreen's and found the drunk at the wheel. The man refused a sobriety tests. Officers arrested him any way -- as well as the friend. The driver was was bailed out the following day. The friend was released on his own recognizance.
Reporter: Sarah Faga
Neighbors to revelers: Don't pee on rosesWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2007 -- Homecoming began early and noisily at 127 E. Howard St. near the main Winona State STate University campus. Police responded to neighbors' complaints about 11 p.m. that revelers were pissing on their lawns. Police busted the party, which was attended by about 50 people by the time the cops rolled up. A tenant was cited for the noise.
Stolen debit card puts student in courtWINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2007 -- A WInona State University student, Lauren Lynne Anderson, 22, of Bloomington, Minn., was charged with felony charge-card fraud. Anderson has been scheduled to appear before a judge Oct. 10. Police said that Anderson stole the Visa debit card from a co-worker's purse in a back room at the Acoustic Cafe on April 27. The card was used to buy a $285 DVD/VCR machine at Wal-Mart. The machine later was returned for credit. Police quoted Anderson that she needed the money. Police said Anderson was linked to the Wal-Mart transactions through a store video surveillance system. Anderson's boss at the Acoustic Cafe identified her on the video, police said.
R.I.P.: Daniel R. ChickRIDGEWAY, MInn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- A Winona State University grad with a master's in education, Dan Chick, 46, died at home. Chick had taught at University Center, Rochester; Southeast Tech; and Lewiston, Minn.
Students riled at bike ticketing schemeWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- The parking director at Winona State University wants to ticket bikes that students chain to lamp posts and trees. Whoa, the Student Senate has responded. Not enough bike racks available, said senior Sen. AJ Schuler. It's in desperation, he said, that students have taken to locking their bikes to whatever is convenient. After spirited discussion a Senate meeting, junior Sen. Josh Martin, who chairs the Senate's Student Services Committee, said the Mounce proposal plainly has flaws. Martin said he would take these up with Mounce. Mounce has wanted to start
chaining bikes that are locked to trees and leaving tickets.
Reporter: Rebecca Erdmann
I'm a cop, give me pizza freeWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- A customer demanded a free pizza at Little Caesars, saying he had recently bought two and found a fly on one. Backing up his demand te customer claimed he was a cop and showed a police badge tattooed on his arm. An hour later at Sixth and Zumbro streets, police picked up a 22-year-old man. He was wearing a LAPD blue t-shirt. Tattoo too? Yup. A court date is set for Oct. 15 on misdemeanor charges of impersonating a police officer.
Deputy Police Chief Paul Bostrack said a manager at Little Caesars called around 6:20 p.m. after an employees denied the customer a free pizza unless he brought in the one with fly. The man answered that he would never tell a lie and that he was a Winona County police officer. That's when he showed the badge tattoo, Bostrack said.
Reporter: Chelsey Swanson
USA Today starts free copies at WSUWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- The national daily newspaper USA Today workers will be delivered at doors of WInona State University dorms beginning Thursday, student President Jared Stene said. USA Today had agreed some time ago to provide newspapers free as part of the Student Senate's collegiate leadership project but somehow the start-date was delayed, Stene said.
Reporter: Sarah Faga
Trucker ticketed for Main Street slopWINONA, MInn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- A Fairfax, Minn., truck driver has been ticketed for the awful-smelling chicken slaughter remnants that sloshed out of his trailer on an eight-block stretch of Main Street three weeks ago. Gordon Wayne Totman, 49, is charged with failing to secure his load. Totman was mailed the ticket, said Deputy Police CHief Paul Bostrack. Totman was told to show up for a court appearance in Winona on Sept. 15.
At first no one knew the source of the slippery gook, called "skimmings" in the poultry production business. Firefighters scooped up and then blotted up the stuff with sand. A witness later identified the truck, and police put this scenario together: Totman had picked up a load of chicken skimmings from Central Byproducts in Wisconsin for delivery to a Minnesota plant. Where the spill started isn't certain, but Main Street from Second almost to Sarnia -- right past WInona State University -- became a slippery mess. Two cars slid into each other. A scooter driver lost control.
Background: Mess on Main Street was chicken offal
Malvik lands Kentucky basketball spotALBANY, N.Y, Sept. 26, 2007 -- A guard on the Winona State University national championship team, Zach Malvik, was drafted by the Kentucky Miners of the Continental basketball Association. Malvik, who was graduated in May, was the 23rd pick. Meanwhile, Malvik has signed a two-year contract for the Lasko, Slovenia, team to play in Europe. Malvik's options were not immediately clear. At WInona State his senior year Malvik averaged 16.8 points, 4.7 assists and 3.2 rebounds. The Continental league conducted its second annual draft Tuesday in Albany.
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23 Florida State jocks accused of cheatingTALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 26, 2007 -- An internal investigation has found that 23 varsity athletes at Florida State University have cheated over the Internet, which has prompted two athletics department employees to resign. University's President T.K. Wetherell, who ordered the investigation, said the findings will be reported to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The inquiry, meanwhile, is continuing. The accused athletes could lose their eligibility to compete. Also, the NCAA also could sanction the university. Details on the cheating have not been released, but one report says a learning specialist employed by the athletics department had directed one athlete to take an online quiz for another. Also, it has been reported that a tutor provided answers to 23 student-athletes.
Second Supper hits WSU third timeWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- A proposal to put a time limit on a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student newspaper for delivery at Winona State remains on the Winona State Student agenda. The chair of the Senate's Student Services Committee, junior Sen., Josh Martin, said the committee has yet to examine the issue. The editor of the Winonan, junior Paul Solberg, has complained about Second Supper on campus ad pointed out that the paper has been dropped off on campus for three consecutive weeks. Both the Senate and Solberg, who is a masscom major, have been criticized for ignoring First Amendment proscriptions against limiting the distribution of any publication in considering any restrictions at all.
Reporter: Rebecca Erdmann
Background: La Crosse newspaper eyes WSU readers
Background: Comment: Bozos dominate Senate vote
Prof: Cops too quick to shoot tasersWINONA, MInn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- Taser guns are a dangerous, potentially ;lethal tool of police work that tend to be overused, according to a criminal justice prof at Winona State University. Helen Dachelet said that when police use a taser, 50,000 volts of electricity are shot into a person's body. It's enough to shut down the body and even cause death, Dachelet said. It's not just the electricity, said. When cops threaten to taser, a person may reach a point of "excited delirium," an immense psychological pressure that also can cause death, she said.
Dachelet acknowledged tgart not all her colleagues share her views against tasers and that she herself sees a role for them in rare situations, like taking down a sniper. Or, think Virginia Tech. The only people who need to be tasered are the mentally ill who cannot listen to commands and resist authority.
Campus cops overdid it when they tasered a student at the University of Florida two weeks ago after his microphone was shut off during a question-answer period at a speech and he shouted questions at a speaker. What the cops did was inappropriate, she said. The student was already pinned to the floor by a half-dozen coops when he was tasered. "If the five or six people who tackled him to the ground couldn't handle one unarmed person, then there are serious problems with that situation," Dachelet said.
At Winona State, Dachelet hopes that tasers will never issued to Winona State's $10-an-hour security guards, most of whom are students, many of them studying criminal justice. Winona city police, however, have tasers and last year used the weapon on a fleeing student after pinning him to the ground. The student survived. Said Dachelet: "I don't think that one student here can possibly do something harmful enough to be tasered."
Reporter: Stephanie Trask
Background: Cops taser, disable Florida student
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WSU student editor: F-word lacks eloquenceWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- A newspaper is free under the First Amendment to print vulgarities, which is sometimes warranted, according to the editor of the Winonan student newspaper at Winona State University. Paul Solberg said that all speech should be protected, no matter how controversial. Solberg ,asked to comment on the reaction at Colorado State University, where an editor shocked some readers with headline "Fuck Bush," Solberg said that undoubtedly there were more "eloquent ways" to have made the point. body's hemoglobin to be converted to carboxy-hemoglobin. Results can be fatal.
Would Solberg have chosen those word to head an opinion piece like that the Colorado State Collegian? No, he said. But such a headline such as this is not completely out of the question for the Winonan but only under extreme circumstances, he said.
Solberg faulted the Colorado State editors for not seeking professional advice on the issue. In fact, he noted, the newspaper's advisers had been kept in the dark/ Solberg said that he would have contacted the advisers for input -- although not permission. Over the years advisers to the Winonan have included faculty, some with strong journalism backgrounds, some not. The new adviser is prof Tom Grier, former public relations chief for the university. |
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Winonan editor
COLORADO STATE
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Campus divided on vulgarity in headline |
Reporter: Claudia Cappiello
Background: Displeasure directed at student editor
Dorm leader mum on leak safetyWINONA, Minn., Sept. 26, 2007 -- The president of the Resident Housing Association at Winona State, which represents student tenants in the dorms, said she has not pursued information or explanations from the university officials about a carbon monoxide leak in the Maria dorm two weeks ago, Kristen Buckingham said that she doesn't know any more than anyone else about the potentially fatal leak in the 240-bed dorm. Asked whether her dorm organization planned to investigate and demand prevention steps against further carbon monoxide leaks, Buckingham declined to comment.
Reporter: Natoli Barbera
Background: Two gas leaks at WSU dorms |
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The Resident Housing Association this fall has replaced the former Inter Hall Residence Council. Dorms councils at Winona State have been largely tools of university administrators for organizing projects, like dorm decorating contests, and social activities -- not a student voice on substantive issues like safety. The university dorms' chief, Paula Scheevel, regularly sits in on dorm council meetings an steers activities in benign directions. |
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R.I.P.: Daniel Joseph WagnerLEWISTON, Minn., Sept. 27, 2007 -- A recent Winona State University accounting grad, Danny Wagner, 25, died at home in the Arches community. He worked at Bay State Milling.
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Promo gimmick: Condoms with your saladWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- To promote the campus premiere of the movie "Knocked Up" the WInona State University student activities committee passed out condoms at dinner inside the Kryzsko Commons cafeteria. Publicity is important, said Emily Carlson, the committee's public relations chair.
Reporter: Alicia Werdel
Backgroud: "Knocked Up" chosen for WSU showing
GAS LEAK AT MARIA DORM
NOT FIRST
CARBON MONOXIDE DREW FIREFIGHTERS
DURING YOUTH HOCKEY CAMP IN JULY
WINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- A carbon monoxide leak Sept. 15 in the Maria dorm at Winona State University was not the first to occur there this year. Last July there was a leak while young participants in a university-sponsored hockey camp were staying the aging four-story structure on the West Campus, said Winona fire Capt. Larry Vogen. Responding to a report of a strong odor, firefighters tracked the leak to the boiler room where carbon monoxide was detected at approximately 300 parts per million, said Vogen.
Federal safety requirements limit workplace concentrations to 35 parts per million. People begin experiencing headaches and dizziness at concentrations less than 100 parts per million. Concentrations of 667 ppm can cause up to 50 percent of the body's hemoglobin to be converted to carboxy-hemoglobin. Results can be fatal.
In the leak over the summer, carbon monoxide was discovered coming from rust holes in the exhaust pipes of the hot water heaters, Vogen said. There was no carbon monoxide detector in the boiler room, so no alarm was sounded, Vogen said. Carbon monoxide itself is odorless. The coincidental odor of something else, which luckily brought firefighters, was caused by other leakage from holes in the exhaust pipes, Vogen said.
After the incident the university installed a Nighthawk carbon monoxide detector in the boiler room. That was the the detector that sounded when the second carbon monoxide leak occurred Sept. 15 in the boiler room, Vogen said. This time, he said, the carbon monoxide leak came from small rust holes in the boilers.
There were discrepancies between the Winona State security report and the fire department's report of the concentration of carbon monoxide in the air. The security report recorded levels in the boiler room at 150 parts per million, while the fire department recorded only 80 parts per million, said Vogen. At 80 parts per million there was no danger to the students whatsoever, he said.
According to federal laws it is safe to have continuous exposure for up to eight hours of carbon monoxide levels between 35 parts per million to 100 parts per million, he said. Carbon monoxide levels in the hallways accessible to students were at about 20 parts per million, he said.
Firefighters chose not to evacuate the building because the levels of carbon monoxide were too low to cause harm to students unless exposed for more than eight hours, Vogen said. "If levels would have gotten over 100, then we would have taken considerably different measures and probably would have evacuated the building."
Reporter: Christina Rhein
Background: WSU exec: Students never in gas-leak danger
Background: Dorm tenants left to sleep through gas leak
JUDITH RANLEY
In purple Warrior getup | SECURITY DETAIL
THIS TIME?
As homecoming weekend nears, the big question is whether Winona State President Judith Ramaley will have body guards when she attends the Concordia football game. Last year she was twirled and jostled, inappropriately, as she circulated among students at Maxwell Field.
Background:
Stadium assaults mar WSU homecoming
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SEPT. 25, 2007
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Warriors lose 3rd straight matchWINONA, Minn., 25, 2007 -- The Winona State University volleyball team couldn't take advantage of a first game victory, falling to Minnesota State-Mankato in four games. The Warriors opened against No. 16-ranked Mankato with an emotionally charged 30-28 victory, only to see the Mavericks take the next three games and the match at 28-30, 30-25, 31-29, 30-14. For Minnesota State- Mankato it was the 13th victory on the season to go along with three loses. Winona State dropped to 9-7.
The third game was tightly contested, and ultimately led to deciding the winner of the match. Winona State rallied from a 16-21 deficit to even the game at 25-25. The Warriors even served at game point 29-28, but Mankato rallied for the 31-29 victory.
Carmen Stankowski led Winona State with 14 kills. Kiersten Arendt followed with 12. Ashley Nachreiner and Amanda Beekman, who notched 19 and 17 kills, led the Mavericks. Mankato senior Stef Sandstrom filled up the stat sheet with 47 assists during the four-game match.
Winona State captain Lisa Dobie was on the sideline with a brace on her right knee. She had played with the brace in previous matches. The loss was the Warriors third during a 3-game homestead.
Reporter: Jack Chandler
Background: Statistics
New WSU bands booker: No shortageWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- More than 150 bands are available for campus performances this year, the new Winona State University assistant student activities director, Kelly Clark, told members of the UPAC students events planning committee. Clark, new in her job, said she had brought a list of bands from her previous job at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nev. Clark said that she had passed the list on to UPAC concert director Gretchen Corey. Besides her work at House of Blues, Clark was at the University of Chicago as activities director. She that experience bringing in bands like Method Man, Redman, and Billy Joel.
Clark said that the University of Chicago's activities committee is similar to Winona State's. The only difference, she said, f is University of Chicago's committee has two groups that work together to on concerts, while Winona State has one.
Clark, originally from the Chicago suburb of Palatine, was graduated from Winona State in 2000 with a degree in recreation and leisure studies. She went to work for the University of Chicago after graduation, then worked for the House of Blues for three years.
Clark said she is not concerned that the Winona State UPAC student amusements committee has dig so deeply into its budget. Future concerts. she said, will restore money back into its budget, which is at $47,659 -- much lower than its starting budget of $80,000.
Reporter: Justin Magill
Background: WSU hires student entertainment assistant
Appelwick facing probation violation issueWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- The saga of 19 year-old Katie Appelwick, the teenager who injured two University of Winona State coaches in a December 2005 drunken-driving accident, will continue Friday. Appelwick, now a sophomore at the College of St. Catherine, is on the docket at 3 p.m. for July charges of driving with a revoked license and obstructing the legal justice. Appelwick's attorney, Rich McCluer, said he is ready to challenge the prosecutions case arguing about the grounds the traffic stop. McCluer said he will inquire, also about the questioning that took place while Appelwick was in custody after her arrest and whether there is sufficient evidence.
Nancy Bostrack, who is prosecuting the case, did not respond to phone calls from a reporter.
Early the morning of July 1, a trooper pulled over a vehicle carrying Appelwick and a manfriend for weaving on U.S. Highway 61. The trooper said it appeared the two had switched places after stopping for his red lights. Walking up to the car, the trooper said, he found the man at the steering wheel and Appelwick in the back seat. After some fumbled explanations, the man admitted that Appelwick had been driving but she didn't want to be accused of driving because of a probation condition that she not drive, the trooper said.
The trooper found the man had 0.107 percent blood-alcohol, more than legally allowed. He was arrested. Appelwick a sober. Court documents say she later admitted that she had been driving. She said, too, according to the documents that it was her friend's idea to switch places. |
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Attorney to seek dismissal |
Reporter: Amanda Gliva
Background: Appelwick facing more jail
Prof examines engagement, normingWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- A communication prof at Winona State University, Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest, Communication Studies, wrote an article entitled "Designing, Directing and Developing Community Engagement through Social Norming Campaigns" in the Journal of the Communication, Speech and Theatre Association.
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Irked, dean removes journalism chairLONG BEACH, Calif., Sept. 25, 2007 -- The chair of the Cal State-Long Beach journalism department was removed after criticizing a scheme by the college dean to replace the campus newspaper with a less costly web site. WIlliam Babcock will remain on the faculty, a spokesperson for dean said. The spokesperson attributed the removal to a lack of progress toward accreditation and the inability to meet budget. The dean, Gerry Riposa, has no academic or professional background in journalism. Babcock said his dismissal caught him unawares: "At no time has Gerry Riposa ever indicated to me that my leadership has in any way been ineffective."
Riposa had ordered a study on the feasibility of eliminating most printed editions of the Daily Forty-Niner newspaper and focus on its electronic edition to save budget. Revenue shortfalls at the Forty-Niner have been picked up fro several years from Riposa's College of Liberal Arts budget. In an interview published in the Long beach Press-Telegram, Babcock had criticized Riposa's proposal, saying the print edition is needed for advertising revenue to keep the news operation alive.
Learning of his dismissal, Babcock defended his record. he said that enrollment has grown, tat more faculty members have doctoral degrees, and that faculty scholarship has increased.
Babcock said, too, that the dean was annoyed that student journalists had shown up at the faculty meeting at which Riposa planned to lay out his vision for a virtual newspaper to replace the ink-on-paper Forty-Niner. Faculty meetings, appropriate for a journalism endeavor, are open to anyone, Babcock said. But, he added, the dean was "embarrassed" to unexpectedly be at a public forum and departed when he saw students there. Babcock said the dean wrongly blamed him for an open meeting.
At the Forty-Niner, student editor Bradley Zint called a strong advocate for the paper and for students. About Dean Riposa and the aborted faculty meeting, Zint said: "It seemed like he was avoiding talking to the paper."
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WSU committee discounts tickets to itselfWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- The student-events planning committee at Winona State's University is giving itself a discount on tickets to the Minnesota Wild home opener game Oct. 4. The committee, UPAC, bought 55 tickets at $46 each and will sell them to Winona State students for $40 and to UPAC committee members for $35.
Reporter: Hayley Fast
Maryland, UM-Duluth head new gay indexWASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2007 -- The gay organization Campus Pride has created a ranking of campuses by "gay friendliness." Called t he LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index, the ranking is based on a 50-item survey. Campus Pride said nearly 100 colleges have submitted data that constitutes a benchmarking tool for evaluating hay programming and that help high-school students shop around hospitable campuses. Heading the initial initial ranking: University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Minnesota at Duluth, both with a "gay-point average" of 4.5 out of 5.
Prof offers Latina education research tipsWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- A Winona State University education prof, Stace Rierson, presented a paper, "Latino Critical Thinking Theory and La Frontera: New Perspectives for Researchers," at a Latin American Studies Association international conference.
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REPUBLICANS SEEK TO OUST
STUDENT EDITOR
FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept, 25, 207 -- Campus Republicans at Colorado State University launched a petition to remove the editor of the campus newspaper for an opinion piece with the headline: "Taser This: Fuck Bush." The column, by David McSwane, dealt with the police-tasering of a student who had put barb-laden questions in Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry at an open forum at University of Florida.
Chelsey Penoyer, chair of the College Republicans at Colorado State, promised to present the petition Wednesday at meeting called by a campus publications board, which has authority to remove McSwane as editor of the Rocky Mountain Collegian. By late Monday the Republicans claimed 425 signatures at the 23,000-enrollment university. Said Penoyer: "We're petitioning that he should resign on his own. The petition also urges students to think twice before going to businesses who continue advertising with the Collegian."
McSwane has confirmed a report that local businesses have yanked $30,000 in advertising with the Collegian. The paper relies completely on external revenue to operate, not student fees. McSwane also confirmed that the newspaper's student employees have taken a 10 percent wage cut because of advertising losses.
The headline polarized campus partisans. Alesia Gifford, vice president of the Young Democrats, supported McSwane. "In this society we are taking a step backwards, especially with the free speech debate," Gifford said. "President Bush has lost our respect as a country. At some point we have to stand up for our rights." She said that speech, even when explicit, should always be protected by the First Amendment.
McSwane himself has been unrepentant. Hd called the headline an effort to exercise free-speech rights. The statement was a group decision by top editors on he Collegian's editorial board. he said. "Our judgment is certainly being challenged, but if standing by quietly while free speech is scorned on a college campus is a step in the right direction, you'll find the editorial board and me skipping in the opposite direction."
The president of the university, Larry Penley, was quick to issue a statement:
"While student journalists enjoy all the privileges and protections of the First Amendment, they must also accept full responsibility for the choices they make, Members of a university community ought to be expected to communicate civilly and rationally and to make thoughtful arguments in support of even unpopular viewpoints. I am disappointed that the Collegian's recent editorial choices do not reflect the expectations we have of our student journalists nor the standards that are clearly articulated by student media policies. I also have every expectation that the readers of the Collegian will make their viewpoints known to the editor and the Board of Student Communications, which serves as the newspaper's publisher, and that ultimately, the newspaper will answer to its readers."
"Colorado State, as a state institution, is prohibited by law from censoring or regulating the content of its student media publication. The university encourages readers to express their concerns to the student editor ... and the Board of Student Communications, which hires and, if necessary, removes student editors from office....
"The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution precludes a state institution like Colorado State from exercising prior restraint on expression with regard to public areas such as student newspapers, based on the content of the messages or ideas expressed therein. For that reason, the university may not, under clearly established legal principles, attempt to control or dictate the content of what the Collegian has published or may publish in the future."
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Lead-off opinion piece in the Rocky Mountain Collegian
WHO IS
DAVID MCSWANE?
He interned before his junior year at the Denver Post.
Last spring he was named editor of the Rocky Mountain Collegian at Colorado State. Former editor Brandon Lowrey has been quoted that "Top professionals approved -- the bigwigs, the 'powers that be' in journalism."
In high school student, McSwane teamed up with journalists at television station KCNC-TV in Denver and posed as a dropout pot-head to expose military recruiting practices. The station won a prestigious Peabody award. |
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Background: WSU students copasetic on tasering
Background: Florida cops suspended during probe
Background: Kerry: Taser arrest unnecessary
Background: Cops taser, disable Florida student
WSU policy allows taser-armed cops WINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- Winona State University does not have restrictions against police using tasers or other weapons on campus. Lori Mikl, who handles legal issues for the university, said that the university trusts the police to do is necessary on campus. The issue has arisen because of the tasering at the University of FLorida speech this months and the tasering at Winona State student lat year. In each cases, police fired a disabling electrical into the student after cops already were holding him down. There was also a tasering ay UCLA last year, which has resulted in a multimillion dollar civil suit against the university. At Florida and UCLA, unlike Winona State, the taser was fired by campus cops, not city cops.
The Winona State policy statement on violence prevention states: :"The possession of any dangerous weapon, including firearms, on university property is, by other than a law enforcement officer, strictly prohibited."
Tasers are controversial. A Chicago Sun-Times news group poll found 54 percent of respondents favoring a ban on tasers from universities. Seven states, including Wisconsin, ban citizens from owning tasers -- although not police,. Tasers are used in 11,000 of the nation;s 18,000 law enforcement agencies.
Reporter: Claudia Cappiello
WSU STUDENT
ELECTIONS
CANDIDATE
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OBRAY,
Candidate for WSU Student Senate senior vacancy
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WINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- A candidate for a senior seat on the Winona State University Student Senate, David Obray, was invited, as were all candidates, to submit a 300-word statement. Verbatim:
With two other brothers, three sisters, Mom and Dad, my family was much like the "Brady Bunch" without an Alice to clean after us. My father's job with the federal government required my family to move, presenting the opportunity to live around the world, including Utah, Alaska, and Germany for several years. In effect, I changed schools more frequently than President Bush invents words. After my parents divorced, my mother and the rest of the "Obray Six" moved to Fairmont, Minnesota, where I kept with my migrant learning patterns. I attended Fairmont Junior High School, then a small private school where I was the only student in my seventh grade, and finally graduated from Granada Huntley East-Chain with my class of nineteen students in 2004.
Winona State found me. In a small school, inside of a village surrounded by cornstalks and hog barns, Winona State found me. However, I was the only student from Granada Huntley East-Chain that Winona State found that year; I arrived at Winona state, a community of over 8000 students, friendless. Nevertheless, I heeded the advice of my orientation leader and countless other faculty and staff members by immersing myself into clubs, organizations, and functions of Winona State University. I am glad that I did, because I am no longer friendless and still meeting new people.
After my brother was deployed to Afghanistan, I joined the Army to be a part of his unit. I spent a semester away from Winona State University for basic training where I learned the seven army values: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. Stumbling a few times along the way, I have striven to continually develop these attributes in myself.
Throughout my life travels I have met new people, made new friends, and learned to appreciate the diversity that people offer as learning and growing opportunities. Furthermore, I have developed an understanding that members of society share similar problems. My obsession of the law's pervasive entanglement in society guided me to declare a major in Law & Society. I quickly learned that there was never a great man or woman in history, only ordinary men and women whom were able to accomplish great deeds for the benefit those around them and generations beyond their own.
I am an ordinary college student; however, I am a highly motivated, fully dedicated college student that wants to serve those around me and the generations beyond my own at Winona State University. Vote for me, Dave Obray, to be your At-Large Senator, and let me benefit you. |
Contact: David Obray
Background: Obray to seek senior class vacancy
Background: Call goes out for candidate statements
Background: Election mess: How it came to this
WSU prof publishes syllabus, exercisesWINONA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- A Winona State University sociology prof, Aurea Osgood, wrote four articles in the American Sociological Association's Teaching Demography Guide. The articles are titled "Population and Society Syllabus," "The Age of AIDS Exercise," "Demographic Transition Theory Exercise" and "Final Demography Group Project."
Court date set for ex-WSU student senatorWABASHA, Minn., Sept. 25, 2007 -- A hearing for broadcast journalism senior Jon Jacob at Winona State University, who is accused of possessing child-porn, is on the Wabasha County District Court docket for 3 p.m., Oct. 8, before Judge Jodi Williamson. Jacob's attorney is expected to ask that the accusation be dropped, Jacob, a former two-term student senator at Winona State, was charged July 22 with possession of pornography involving minors. Conviction could mean as much as five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
In a court document, sheriff's Deputy Joe Schneider stated that Jacob said in an interview July 25 that he had visited the Limewire on the Internet and downloaded items. The items include children as young as 10, Schneider said. Deputy Schneider said he had conducted a preliminary scan of Jacob's computer, which was seized during the search of his home in Plainview, Minn., and found a video captioned "11 year old kids having sex." Schneider said he showed the video to Jacob, who he said he downloaded the item but had not watched it. Schneider said he then showed Jacob the properties screen on his computer, which showed the video had been downloaded in early July and watched in mid-July.
Reporter: Kristin Johnson
Background: Judge: Yes, you may cover Iowa game
Bars beef up bouncer crewsSept. 27, 2007 -- Security at popular bars around Winona will be upped this weekend for Winona State University's homecoming weekend. Matt Kiefer, manager of Schyde's, said two to three extra bouncers will be on duty Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. Extra security also has been scheduled for on Friday, he said. Capacity limits will be strictly enforced, says Keifer. Once the max capacity of 171 is reached, Schyde's will to a one-in, one-out basis. People will then only be allowed into the bar when others leave.
Mulligan's will also have extra bouncers on, said bartender Heidi Miller. for Saturday four more bouncers have been scheduled than usual with one on call. Friday will also have extra security but not as much, Miller said. Crowds are expected to be heavier Saturday, Miller said. Other bars, including Zaza's, Stingers and Gabby;'s, also are beefing up for the weekend.
Fire department Capt. Kurt Lossen said that he is not more concerned about homecoming weekend than any other. Lossen added, however, that emergency calls related to the bars likely will start around noon on Saturday. On other weekends, he said, dispatchers usually begin receiving calls around 11 p.m. Rmergency calls include obnoxious drunks, medical emergencies, assaults, overdoses, and asthma attacks. A typical night, Lossen said, is a couple drunks.
Reporter: Chelsey Swanson
| CLOISSONE LAPEL PINS University president Judith Ramaley sports her susquicentennial lapel pin at a faculty and staff ceremony to mark the 150th birthday commemoration. |
Photographer: Spencer King
THE 150TH BIRTHDAY
KETTLECORN, ANYONE?
WINONA, Minn., Sept. 27, 2007 -- The history of Winona State University will have a group portrait of faculty posed in front of Phelps Hall, the oldest building on campus. Sixty-two profs were carefully composed to achieve a "vintage feel," said Beth Halleck, coordinator of the university's 150th anniversary events. Although most faculty didn't make the event, university President Judith Ramaley exuded good feelings about the start of a year-long sesquicentennial celebration. "There's a wonderful spirit infused in everything," Ramaley said. "It's recognition of the energy and wonderful relationships that have brought us here. And it's hope for the future, all in one wonderful celebration."
In all, 175 faculty and staff were on hand at a related ceremony in the Science Laboratory atrium. They munched on kettlecorn, a fashionable treat from earlier times, and viewed additional commemorative items. For sale were a notecards illustrated by the late Winona artist Jim Heinlen, a commemorative scrapbook, and a calendar with a distinctive vintage look. Guests also previewed of history prof Peter Henderson's forthcoming chronicle of the university, "Her Star Shall Not Dim."
Brightly enameled lapel pins depicting the Winona State sesquicentennial logo, outlined in gold and set on a white field, were distributed. Halleck said that 1,500 pins had been ordered -- far exceeding the turnout. The university's advancement vice president, James Schmidt, excused the absence of hundreds of employees by noting schedule conflicts, "If recipients still want one but couldn't come because of class reasons or conflicts, they can still swing by the university advancement office for the next two weeks." After that, he added, pins will be on sale in the bookstore. Asked about the cost of the pins, Schmidt said, "I think they're five bucks. Pretty reasonable!" Asked about the revenue, Schmidt said that proceeds would go to need-based scholarships. The pins were produced by WinCraft, a local manufacturer.
About the turnout, far short of the university's 1,100 employees and hardly any students, organizers blamed Inclement weather. Rain began to fall on the originally planned outdoor event in front of Phelps Hall at 3 p.m. The rain forced a hasty relocation inside the Stark nursing and engineering building. |
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Extras for sale at WSU bookstore |
Reporter: Spencer King
Background: 150th bash starts Saturday
WSU exec: Students never in gas-leak dangerWINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2007 -- Students were never in jeopardy from a carbon monoxide leak from boilers in the basement of the Maria dorm Sept. 15, according to the Winona State University vice president responsible for facilities. Scott Ellinghuysen said that the carbon monoxide level was at 150 parts per million in the boiler rooms, much higher than the limit of 35 ppm max allowed by law, but that the dorm floors, where 440 students live, were at normal levels.
In an interview, Ellinghuysen acknowledged that carbon-monoxide alarms in the basement were not heard in student living quarters because they were not intended to be heard beyond the boiler-room area. Campus security guards on patrol heard the alarm and a maintenance person, who responded and checked all four boilers. Two of the four were leaking, Ellinghuysen said. He said that
security guards normally walk by the boiler rooms every so often during the day to listen for carbon monoxide alarms.
Because the levels of carbon monoxide were not high in living areas of Maria, the firefighters decided not to evacuate but instead to shut off the leaky boiler, Ellinghuysen said. |
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Reporter: Claudia Cappiello
Background: Dorm tenants left to sleep through gas leak
Background: Engineer: WSU's Maria boiler fixed
Student arrested in Delaware State shootingDOVER. Del., Sept. 24, 2007 -- Police arrested a Delaware State University student shooting of two undergraduates on the campus early Friday. Details were not immediately available. Meanwhile, the campus reopened and classes resumed, three days after the two students were wounded.
Background: Shooter wounds two Delaware students
Obray to seek senior class vacancyWINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2007 -- A Winona State University junior, David Obray, announced he will seek a senior vacancy in the new Student Senate elections in October. Obray had sought an at-large seat in the election that was canceled last week because of manifold errors by the election committee Obray said he is not quite officially a senior but with 84 credits is within eight credits needed for eligibility.
Background: Yet more problems in election
Engineer: WSU's Maria boiler fixedWINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2007 -- A carbon monoxide leak in the basement of the Maria dorm at Winona State two weeks ago was caused a faulty exhaust component on two rusted, leaky boilers, according to Scott Kluver, the university's chief engineer. The boiler, which had been turned on the weekend of the 15th due to a cold front that hit Winona, had not yet been checked for their worthiness, Kluver aid. Nor, he said, had any maintenance been done since the past year. Kluver did not know the age of the boilers.
After the leak, the four Maria boilers were taken apart, checked and cleaned. New panels were made for the four boilers, he said.
Does the campus have other boiler problems? Kluver said that only the East Lake dorm on Franklin Street and the West Campus, where Maria is located, rely on boilers for heat. Heat at the main campus is all controlled by the power plant, with heat pumped through underground tunnels to where it needs to go. The chance of carbon monoxide problems, like in Maria, much less likely to occur, Kluver said.
Reporter: Claudia Cappiello
Background: Dorm tenants left to sleep through gas leak
Yet another problem in canceled electionWINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2007 -- A candidate for an at-large Student Senate seat in the aborted Winona State University student elections last week, junior David Obray, said he submitted a biographical statement and photo for the ballot, but the photo never appeared on the ballot web site. Obray said the failure of election officials to upload all submitted material for some candidates and not others "signifies additional errors of the ballot." The Senate called off the election three days online balloting amid all kinds of problems stemming from inattentiveness to planning and detail by Senate Vice President Emily Feehan and her election committee.
Obray, who regarded himself as a serious candidate, is campus representative to the Minnesota State University Student Association and a member of the campus Legal Society and the Veterans Club. |
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Background: Messed-up student election aborted
Red Cross sets 900-unit WSU blood goalWinona, MINN., Sept. 23, 2007 -- The Winona State University Student Senate, which sponsors campus blood drives, is looking to maintain leadership in contributed donations among colleges in the area. Last year 909 units were collected at Winona State. The Red Cross goal for Winona State is 135 units a day, said liberal arts Sen. Ian Galchutt, project coordinator. Galchutt said the Senate plans three drives this year. The first drive will be
Oct. 9 to 11.
"Any persons with rare blood types or with double red cells are strongly encouraged to donate," Galchutt said. Appointments are recommended. Galchutt said an incentive will be a raffle for three $15 iTunes gift cards.
Appointments: 507-457-5316
GUEST COMMENT
NOTHING PARTISAN
ABOUT 9/11 FLAGS
BY EVAN BARTLETT
BLAINE, MINN.
RECENT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DESIGN GRAD
In rantings in the CyberIndee about the 9/11 flag demonstration at Winona State University, are you trying to say that the demonstration was political because it was organized by campus Republicans? How is setting up flags in memory of lives lost is political? Whether or not taps was played, I don't see how this is politically incorrect.
You commented, "Conspicuously absent from the day's events were 9/11 Truth movement protesters, anti-war demonstrators, or even a college Democrat or two." If you ask me, these things would have made this memorial a political event. The flags symbolize to me the need to remember the lives lost, similar to the bell tolls at the site of the
Murrah building in Oklahoma. There is no push to say the war is right,
nor a sign that says you have to like the president and his decisions.
If anything, it was a pro-American statement.
Also, your aside concerning the placement of pink flamingos on campus has no bearing on the 9/11 demonstration at all! Are you mad that you couldn't plant pink flamingos for a a reason completely unspecified reason and someone else was allowed to plant American flags in memory of people who lost their lives? Explain to me how you are not attempting to exasperate the 9/11 demonstration into being a politically inclined act. Using a political argument such as gay rights in a situation that is seemingly completely non-partisan is wrong. |
Background: Comment: Taps only part of problem
Indee carries WSU candidate statements| WINONA, Minn., Sept. 24, 2007 -- Candidates for the Winona State University Student Senate vacancies have been invited to submit position statements for verbatim publication on the CyberIndee. A photograph also has been invited. Position statements are limited to 300 words, said CyberIndee editor John Vivian. Photos should be digital, preferably as jpeg attachments, he said. The election has been re-scheduled for online voting for Oct. 8 to Oct. 11. |
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Background: Messed-up student election aborted
150th WSU birthday bash starts SaturdayWinona, MInn., Sept. 23, 2007 -- The Winona State University sesquicentennial celebration will kick off with a community picnic after the Homecoming parade and before the football game Saturday. The Faculty Jazz Quintet is scheduled to perform. Promoter Beth Halleck promised "a high-flying surprise, weather permitting." No clues, she said.
Date: Saturday, Sept. 29
Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Place: Main courtyard
Cost: Free
GUEST COMMENT: GOP GRANDSTANDING
TAPS ONLY PART OF PROBLEM
BY SPENCER KING
WSU JOURNALISM JUNIOR
The silent pall that hung about Winona State University on Sept. 11 was due mainly to the unending blare of taps -- the traditional military bugle cry signaling a soldier's last farewell. Usually sounded once, taps has impact. This farewell, however, was digitally prerecorded and looped to play over and over from a single loudspeaker, beginning at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and lasting until 9 p.m.
That's almost 14 hours of continuous taps, folks.
If Bryon Pavelka, outgoing president of the campus Republicans and chief organizer of the event, meant for the campus to "never forget" -- well, he succeeded.
If the perpetual assault on our eardrums wasn't enough, a display of 2,977 tiny American flags, neatly arranged in little rows reminiscent of the tomb-stoned graves at Arlington Cemetery, dotted the main lawn that fronts the entire campus. This carpet of red, white and blue served as a dramatic, if somewhat morbid, visual reminder of the lives lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Conspicuously absent from the day's events were 9/11 Truth movement protesters, anti-war demonstrators, or even a college Democrat or two. One prof, pausing at the loudspeaker to study the equipment that blasted the unending dirge, arched his eyebrows. "Are you a Republican?" he asked a passerby. He frowned, shook his head, and abruptly, brusquely walked away.
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EARLY RISER
The outgoing College Republicans president, Bryon Pavelka, plants one of 2,977 flags in the main lawn at Winona State University. He began at dawn. |
At 6:30 a.m., gingerly placing flags in the dewy, chilly lawn between the student union and the library, Pavelka said, "We are the college Republicans, but we've disassociated our names with this event, because this isn't supposed to be something political. To protesters I would say, whether you believe in it or not, people did lose their lives."
Added Pavelka: "I mean, this is a memorial, it's not a political statement."
Huh?
According to Pavelka, the college Republicans have partnered with the Young America's Foundation, a right-wing activist organization that assists conservative young Americans by providing them with a variety of ideas to help to advance their conservative, political agendas. In fact, the 9/11: Never Forget Project, of which Pavelka had adopted for the Winona campus on Sept. 11, comes straight off the foundation's Web site.
"Each year Young America's Foundation helps students across the country properly remember the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks through our 9/11: Never Forget Project," the Young America Foundation's Web site states. The foundation began the program in 2003, "when we discovered that most college campuses were either completely ignoring the anniversary of the terrorist attacks or scheduling a politically-correct activity instead."
God forbid we stage an intelligent, politically correct activity in memoriam of the event instead of planting miniature flags and drumming taps into everyone's heads.
Not politically motivated? Hardly, Mr. Pavelka.
Last year the university's gay students' club had difficulty in obtaining permission from the people who run campus facilities to plant less than a dozen pink flamingos in various locations -- some quite remote -- about campus. Yet the permission to plant nearly 3,000 flags in the campus's main yard seemed to fly right through the offices of facilities management and student affairs with nary a ripple.
The campus Republicans did run into a few snags along the campaign, however. They were denied their original plan of sending out a campuswide email promoting the event, having to instead comply with University Communications' rules of a single announcement made through the campus Update. The group was also flat-out turned down by the administration after requesting faculty devote a moment out of their class time for silence, at 9:11 a.m.
"I thought that was not the best move by the school," said a critical Pavelka.
Rules for demonstrations, protests and gatherings are covered in the Winona State regulations. Among the many regulations protecting nonparticipant's freedoms from being violated, Regulation No. 4-4 states: "That the event take place at a campus location where there is minimal disruption to normal professor, staff and student functions and activities."
That blaring of taps could be heard all the way at Stark Hall -- and beyond. A quick survey of profs whose windows fronted the lawn where the nonstop requiem played wearily agreed that the music was indeed, distracting. And students were routinely intimidated into silence when passing by the kitschy display to get to class -- on a main part of campus lawn that is unavoidable.
Yet no one complained.
Oh, and where did the money to buy the flags and rent the university's audio/visual equipment come from? A media services insider, when questioned about permission and funding, refused to divulge any information. Pavelka said quite simply: "We purchased the flags." Which, if true, according to Winona State Senate club financing rules, means that we -- yep, you and I -- paid for it.
Originally taps was played in American military camps to signal "lights-out." Perhaps its initial meaning would have been slightly more appropriate, that chilly Tuesday morning. |
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Background: Flag remembrance began before sun-up
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SEPT. 23, 2007
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Warriors' shutout streak now 6WINONA, Minn., Sept. 23, 2007 -- Winona State University got a single goal from Holly Sutton in the 19th minute and allowed only two shots on goal to beat Southwest Minnesota State 1-0 in non-conference soccer. The Warriors' defense at home has been suffocating opponents so far this season. The Warriors have yet to allow a goal and have not allowed more than five shots on goal at home match-ups .
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WSU hires student entertainment assistantWINONA, Minn., Sept. 23, 2007 -- Once a recreational and leisure graduate at Winona State, Kelly Clark is starting now as the university's new assistant director of student activities. She started last week. Most recently Clark has lived in Las Vegas, Nev., in events planning. She also has been with House of Blues, the second largest music promoter in the country. Her supervisor at Winona State, Joe Reed, said her job will be to expand the budget used for student activities to bring in more entertainers.
Reporter: Alicia Werdel
WSU SECURITY REPORT
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 22, 2007
SEPT. 22, 2007: A student reported at 3:35 p.m. that she conducted some on line conversations with an individual who indicated he was coming to Winona to see her. Police were also notified.
SEPT. 22, 2007: A student was found passed out in the Quad dorm at 3:45 a.m. When security guards tried to wake the student he became belligerent and abusive. Police were called. The student was arrested for underage boozing.
SEPT. 22, 2007: An alarm was activated in the Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 3:31 p.m. False alarm.
SEPT. 22, 2007:Security guards cited several students for alcohol at the Maria dorm at 11:11 p.m. One individual became abusive and uncooperative. Police were notified and the individual arrested.
SEPT. 22, 2007: At 11:50 p.m. several non-students were removed from the Sheehan dorm for violation of the visitation policy and for alcohol. Individuals were removed from the dorm.
SEPT. 22, 2007: Security guards icited several tenants of the Sheehan dorm for alcohol violation at 12:06 a.m.
SEPT. 21, 2007: Firefighters and security guards responded to the Lourdes dorm for a fire alarm at 12:30 p.m. in the kitchen.
SEPT. 21, 2007: Security guards responded to a trouble alarm in Memorial at 1:32 a.m. False Alarm.
SEPT. 21, 2007: A parent phoned at 1:45 a.m. in an attempt to locate her daughter. Police were also contacted. The daughter was eventually located in her room later. She had been with a friend.
SEPT. 21, 2007: Security guards checked on a drunk student in the Sheehan dorm at 2:55 a.m. Police were contacted. Am ambulance took the student was taken to the hospital.
SEPT. 20, 2007: Security guards and firefighters responded to a fire alarm was reported in Memorial Hall at 10:15 a.m. False Alarm.
SEPT. 19, 2007: An auto accident occurred in the East Lake dorm parking lot at 3:35 p.m. Drivers exchanged information.
SEPT. 19, 2007:Security guards responded to the main campus cafeteria at 5:37 p.m. for a student feeling faint. First aid was administered.
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