WSU artist wins headwaters logo contest
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WINONA, Minn., July 31, 2009 -- A Winona State University grahics arts student won the Friends of the Refuge Headwaters logo contest and $100 cash. Michelle Duncan's logo will become the official Friends logo for correspondence and merchandise. Dunkin described her logo as "producing an all-encompassing feeling of closeness with nature." Entries will be on display at the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, 51 E 4th St. |  MICHELLE DUNKIN Refuge logo |
Student must pay $675,000 for illegal downloads
BOSTON, July 31, 2009 -- A federal jury ordered a Boston University grad student to pay $675,000 for downloadingd and distributing 30 songs without permision from the record companies that held rights to the music.The recording companies had sought $4.5 million.
The student, Joel Tannenbaum, 25, admitted to the downloads but claimed what he did fell under "fair use" provivons of U.S. copyright law.
The jury decided otherwise.
R.I.P.: Kenneth George Stellpflug
WHITEHALL, Wis., July 31, 2009 -- A Winona State University grad. Ken Stellpflug, who taught high school and coached sports 30 years, died at a La Crosse, Wis., hospital.He was 74.
In 1993 he was inducted into the Wisconsin Basetball Coaching Associatin Hall of Fame.
His teaching career included stints iat the hippewa Fals McDonnell, Durand, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempeleau, Minnesota Lake and Whitehall high schools.
He held a master's degree from Winona State.
Court upholds firing of ex-chancellor
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 30, 2009 -- The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that former Indiana University Chancellor Dan Cohen had been fired with sufficent cause after a series of sexual abuse allegations.Cohen was removed as chancellor in 1995 after a former employee accused him of groping and kissing her against her will.
The employee won a jury trial.
Even so, the university allowed Cohen to return to the physics faculty with a warning that "any future act of sexual harassment or retaliation" would get him fired.
After further accusations, Cohen was fired but claimed the proviso about "any future act" was ambuguous.
The three-judge appeals court disagreed.
| COURT CONVICTONS WEEK ENDING JULY 30, 2009 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT UNDERAGE BOOZING Rachel M. Tepe, 18, 1288 Wincrest Drive, $505. |
R.I.P.: Karen D. (Schafer) Holz
WINONA, Minn., July 29, 2009 -- A Winona Tech grad, Karen Holz, 55, died on a cruise vacation in Alaska. Her Tech certificte was in sales and management. She worked as a teaching assustant in the Winona schools| COURT CONVICTONS WEEK ENDING JULY 28, 2009 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT UNDERAGE BOOZING Jenny M. Kraling, 19, Kenyon, Minn., $180. |
| COURT CONVICTONS WEEK ENDING JULY 27, 2009 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT UNDERAGE BOOZING Colin L. Boettcher, 18, 552 E. Second St., $230. Luke B. Larkin, 20, 153 W. Fourth St., $230. |
Services scheduled for WSU j-grad
| EVELETH, Minn., July 27, 2009 -- Services for a 2003 Winona State University journalism grad, Dean Johnson, who was killed in a traffic accident, will be Thursday, Aug. 6, the family announced. Services will be at 1 p.m., at the Range Funeral Home, 911 16th St. in Virginia. Survivors include his parents, Alan and Louise Johnson of Eveleth. Background: Collision claims radio news reporter |
 DEAN JOHNSON At KNIA-KRLS microphone |
R.I.P.: Fred J. Becker
WINONA, Minn, July 29, 2909 -- A Southeast Tech grad, Fred Becker, died of cancer at home. He was 60.His Tech certificate was in truck driving.
X-box, game reported stolen
WINONA, Minn., July 23, 2009 -- An X-Box 360 game machine and a new game, valued at $400, were reported stolen in a burglary in the 50 block of West 10th Street, police said.| WSU SECURITY REPORT JULY 22, 2009 A suspicious person was reported near the motor pool at 5 a.m. but was was gone upon guards arrived. Security guards responded to the East Lake dorm at 12:18 p.m. for a medical situation. |
| COURT CONVICTONS WEEK ENDING JULY 22, 2009 IN WINONA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT UNDERAGE BOOZING Justin W. Chastanet, 19, 171 W. Fourth St., $180. Timothy D. Czaja, 19, Waterford, Wis., $180.
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Cal State tuition up 20%
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 21, 2009 -- Tuition at California State University will go up 20 percent this fall, trustees decided.The new tuition revenue is intended to narrow the system's $584 million deficit.
Trustees made the decision tit-for-tat in response to a 20 percent state cut in higher-ed funding.
The tuition hike outs Cal State tuition at $4,800 a year, 32 percent more than a year ago.
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Funeral scheduled for SMU senior
BIG LAKE, Minn., July 21, 2009 -- A funeral Mass for St. Mary's University senior Joseph Kritzeck, who died Monday in a car wreck, will be Friday at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Big Lake, the family announced.Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m., Thursday, at Peterson-Grimsmo Chapel in Monticello, Minn. A prayer service will be at 7 p.m..
Further visitation will be at 10 a.m., Friday. prior to the funeral. Mass will be at 11.
Survivors include Jerry and Colleen Kritzeck, his parents.
Background: Collision claims SMU theater student
| WSU SECURITY REPORT JULY 21, 2009 An ambulance crew was called the to Prentiss-Lucas dorm at 1:34 p.m. and trasported a football camp attendee to the hospital. |
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Collision claims WSU j-grad
RED WING, Minn., July 26, 2009 -- A recent Winona State University grad, Dean Johnson, who was putting together a journalism career, died in a two-car collision.Johnson was 28.
The accident, which police pegged at 5:36 p.m., was 10 miles east of Red Wing on Hghway 61 near Wacouta Road.
Police said Johnson's Chevrolet Cobalt, a light car, and a Chevrolet Suburban, which is built on a truck chassis, collided, police said.
The Suburban occupants, Timothy and Michelle Bragg, both 42, of Savage Minn., escaped serious injury.
Johnson was eastbound, heading toward Winona, when he lost control, police said.
Johnson, who was graduated from Winona State in 2003, had been news director at radio stations KNIA and KRLS in Pella, Iowa. He had been at the stations three years.
Recently he moved to Viroqua, Wis., for a reporting job with the Viroqua Broadcaster.
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SMU plans to raise new campus barn
WINONA, Minn., July 20, 2009 -- Papers for permission to build a pole barn on the St. Mary's campus were filed with the city. The university listed the project at $20,000 with Tim Carrels Construction as the contractor.| TO EARLIER ITEMS | TO TOP | TO NEWS ARCHIVE |
Collision claims SMU theater student
| BIG LAKE, Minn., July 20, 2009 -- A St. Mary's University senior, Joe Kritzeck, of nearby Elk River, Minn, was killed in a two-vehice smashup just south of Big Lake. He was 21. Kritzeck's sedan crossed the median and went head on into a pickup truck. Sheriff's deputies listed the time of the accident as 10:18 a.m. Kritzek was dead at the scene, Sheriff Joel Brott said. The collision occurred on Highway 10 near 172nd Street Northwest. The driver of the pickup, Patricia Hoheisel, 27, of Becker, was hositalized in critical condition. Her passenger, Katelyn Hoheisel, 7, of Becker, as less severely injured. |  JOSEPH KRITZECK 1988-2009 Kritzek was intent in a teaching career. At St. Mary's he majored in theater and minored in English. Last March he had a part in the campus production of Swedish playwright August Stringberg's "Ghost Sonata." |
In case you don't know you're in Winona
| WINONA, Minn., July 13, 2009 -- New artificial turf, with an inlaid Warrior logo, has been installed at the Winona State University football field for the fall season. The new surface, manufactured by Field Turf USA, includes purple end zoned with Winona State in the south end zone and Warriors in the north end zone. Intallation began June 18. Season openers: • Football Aug. 27 against Carson Newman of Tennessee. |  ANOTHER FLAMING "W" Maxwell Field fanicied the university's cliche logo embedded in new-generation fake turf W. Winona. Get it? Get it? |
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WSU student dies after swim accident
ROCHESTER, Minn., July 17, 2009 -- A Winona State University student, Ma Le, who was studying the English langauge to get a head start on fall classes, died at a hospital after neary drowning at La Kain park in the Winona suburb of Goodview three days earlier.A cousin from Ma's native China was with him when he died. So were campus friends.
Ma Le had been in Winona only a week
Earlier hestudied at Hebei University of Technology in Tianjen.
| WSU SECURITY REPORT JULY 11, 2009 At 11:40 a.m. a janitor reported scratches in the Memorial Gym floor that appeared to be intentional. |
| WSU SECURITY REPORT JULY 10, 2009 A theft of a portable power washer was reported at 12:45 p.m. by the construction company at the new workout gym. |
| WSU SECURITY REPORT JULY 7, 2009 A 2 p.m. some computers were reported stolen from Somsen Hall. |
| WSU SECURITY REPORT JULY 6, 2009 Two juveniles were arrested about 6:45 p.m. for skateboarding on walkways and jumping onto ledges near Memorial Hall, Both had been warned previously to stay off campus. Two others were warned. |
BETWEEN NOW AND THEN
BALLOT MOSTLY BLANK
WINONA, Minn., July 1, 2009 -- Candidates are testing waters for the November 2010 elections:
GOVERNOR
Minnesota
Tom Bakk (Democrat): State senator
Matt Entenza (Democrat): Former state representative
Mark Dayton (Democrat): Former U.S. senator
Susan Gaertner (Democrat): Ramsey County attorney
Steve Kelly (Democrat): Former state senator
Margaret Anderson Kelliher (Democrat): Speaker of the Minnesota House
John Marty (Democrat): Minnesota Farmers Union president, former state senator
Tim Pawlenty (incumbent) (Republican): Not seeking third term
Doug Peterson (Democrat): Former state representative
State Sviggum (Democrat): Speaker of the Minnesota House
Paul Thissen (Democrat): Former speaker of the Minnesota House
STATE AUDITOR
Minnesota
Rebecca Otto (incumbent) (Democrat): Seeking second term
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