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Winona State University OpenRiver The inonW an - 1990s The inonW an – Student Newspaper 4-15-1998 The inonW an Winona State University Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan1990s Recommended Citation Winona State University, "The inonW an" (1998). The Winonan - 1990s. 199. https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan1990s/199 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The inonW an – Student Newspaper at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in The inonW an - 1990s by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. News Campus Forum Sports Sexual assault on the rise in How do you feel about a band on Women's tennis team takes roar out Winona. tuition? of Cougars. See page 2 See page 5 See page 7 INSIDE Reader believes Lawrence Lyman right on with opinion column. See pi W inOrlan Established in 1922 3 0106 00366 7002 Wednesday, April 15, 1998 Winona State University's First Student Newspaper Volume 76, Issue 17 Promoting disability awareness National WSU club makes name in Winona community with Children's Fair act to play By Anna L. Derocher Everyone teaches differences than simi- ago that left him a quadriplegic. So disabilities have been regarded nega- Managing Editor larities," Adochio said. "Why not fo- Herold recognizes the problems with tively by students, faculty and admin- at WSU cus on the similarities?" lack of education about disabilities. istration, not necessarily on this cam- By Anna L. Derocher Mike Adochio wears a hearing aid My little philoso- On Saturday, Adochio and the club As a professor, Herold sees the prob- pus, but nation wide." Managing Editor in his right ear — he lost 75 percent of will focus on the similarities while phy is this . Every- lems with unawareness, and that prob- Club president Emily Eichhorn has his hearing in that ear by age three. He holding the "Children's Disability one teaches differ- lem could get worse soon without the same sentiments. There is a rumor going around is completely deaf in his left ear. It is Awareness Fair: A 3-Ring Circus of ences than similari- groups like the Disability Awareness "I'm just very excited about the campus — that the Violent the only life he has known, but Adochio Fun to Learn About Disability" out- Femmes concert Saturday at ties. Why not focus Club. club," she said. "It is an effective club believes that doesn't make him any side the WSU Performing Arts Center "Soon, about 10 percent of the popu- on campus because it is so needed." McCown Field House sponsored on the similarities? different than someone without a dis- from 10:30 a.m.-noon for parents and lation at WSU will have a disability," Of the 15 regular members, only by Winona State University's hbility. children in the Winona community. It Herold said. "Statistics seem to show four have recognized disabilities. Two UPAC is sold out — the rumor is And that is what he is out to pro- simply not true. will focus on the three rings of learn- —Mike Adochio people with disabilities will become have learning disabilities, one is deaf mote. ing: disability and employment, dis- But IJPAC advisor Joe Reed Disability Awareness one of the largest or be the largest and Adochio has a hearing loss disabil- "Having a disability doesn't pre- ability and education and disability minority groups on campuses in the hopes the rumor becomes a reality Club member ity. vent me from doing what I want," and recreation. nation." "We are going to continue to grow," by Saturday's 7:30 p.m. show. Adochio said, "except maybe from Communications Studies professor Statistics state that in the mid '80s, Herold said. "Any student, regardless There are still approximately 1,000 being in the Navy or FBI." Kelly Herold got the Disability Aware- 3 percent of the college/university if they have a disability or not, can tickets remaining — 3,000 tickets With little holding him back, ness Club started at Winona State in population had a disability. Today, that join." sold would make McCown a full Adochio realized he could be an active October 1997, and recently the group and has initiated similar clubs at each number has risen to 8 percent at 1/2 to Everyone is welcome to attend the house. part of a new club at Winona State became an official club in February of school. Each club dealt with getting I percent a year increase. By 2005, the "Disabilities Awareness Fair" on Sat- Just getting to the concert date University — the Disabilities Aware- this year. faculty, administration and commu- disability population on the nation's urday. In case of bad weather, the fair has been a hassle for those in- ness Club. Adochio teamed up with 14 Herold has taught at St. Olaf nity involvement through awareness. campuses could be 10 percent or more. will be held in Talbot Gymnasium in volved with UPAC. The organi- other members to discuss and promote (Northfield, Minn.), Trident (Charles- For Herold, disability awareness is "We want to get awareness out that Memorial Hall. zation originally tried to book the disability awareness. ton, S.C.), the University of Southern close to his heart. His brother Kenny people with disabilities are coming to Mighty Mighty Bosstones, but "My little philosophy is this .. Mississippi and Iowa State University was in a truck-train accident 20 years college," Herold said. "People with because the band considered the hottest among the college crowd, their agents raised the asking price. AIDS Quilt on This led Reed and UPAC mem- bers to look into getting the Vio- lent Femmes, the Milwaukee based band. display at WSU "It's not easy getting bands," Reed said. "It's a timing thing .. By Michelle Wolf there, and it is increasing most rapidly to get the bands while they are on News Editor in young women. their routes ... it is basically a time Eighty panels, 10 squares, a life- Brown said displaying a portion of and money thing." time of memories. the quilt at WSU would be able to Winona State has played host Tuesday and today a small part of reach more people. to other popular bands — the Goo the AIDS Memorial Quilt is on display "People have been streaming in all Goo Dolls and BoDeans the fall of in the Fast Cafeteria in Kryzsko Com- day," Brown said. 1996, the Freddy Jones Band and mons. Many of the panels were of people Joan Jett 10 years ago. Cindy Brown and Christa Erickson who died from AIDS in the Iowa area. The Violent Femmes practice of the university's Vivian Betts is a a formula of acoustic guitar, bass STD/HIV prevention volunteer from the and drums was unplugged before project, helped orga- NAMES Project, the it became hip and commercial. nize the event. As organization that They were spotted by the late part of their jobs, handles the quilt and James Honeyman Scott of The Brown and Erickson fund raising activi- Pretenders in front of the theater plan prevention pro- ties. She represents a in which they were performing. grams for Winona • 4 3 , 0 7 7 panels branch from the Wa- They soon opened for The Pre- Statt University stu- • 78,656 names terloo/Cedar Falls, tenders and that started it all for dents Brown thought *Measures 16 Iowa area. the Femmes. bringing part of the Betts is an attor- "Blister In The Sun," debuted football fields Todd Martin/Photo Editor quilt to Winona State ney who takes time in 1982 launching the group's ca- Senior Stacy Bubany, community health education major, reads off the names of the AIDS quilt would act as a model *Weighs 50 to help out with the reer and giving them national sta- following the opening ceremony Tuesday. for prevention. tons NAMES project. She tus. "I wanted some- calls herself a child Betts thinks the quilt is a good way panel displays a brief personality pro- tulips and pennies scattered on his Other songs like "Kiss Off' thing that was more of the '60s who was to show that AIDS is everywhere and file. Pictures, clothes, quotes and sig- panel. Jon's mother, also from and "Add It Up" just added to powerful than hand- impacted by the Viet- can happen to anyone. natures decorate most of the panels. Winona, came to WSU Tuesday their success. ing cut condoms," Brown said. nam Memorial, and she sees a resem- "It's important to humanize AIDS," One panel, that of a former Winona morning to place these items on his Fifteen years and eight albums Brown wanted students, faculty and blance between the quilt and the Viet- Betts said. man, stood out more than the others. panel. later, Gordon Gano, Brian Ritchie staff to recognize that AIDS is still out nam Memorial. Each panel has a story, and each Jon, who died from AIDS, had red See Quilt, page 3 and Guy Hoffman make up the band. Hoffman an original mem- ber of the BoDeans replaced Vic- tor DeLorenzo, the original drum- WSU senior elected as vice mer in 1993. "We haven't changed so much as we've expanded. We started chair of state student senate out with a certain idea, which we still have the nucleus of our Kurowski acts as consisting of student body presidents Colleges and Universities. sound," Ritchie said. "But around from the seven state colleges in Min- Kurowski said he will go up to St. that we've gathered a lot of new liaison between nesota.