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Winona State University OpenRiver The Winonan - 2010s The Winonan – Student Newspaper 11-30-2016 The Winonan Winona State University Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan2010s Recommended Citation Winona State University, "The Winonan" (2016). The Winonan - 2010s. 52. https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan2010s/52 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The Winonan – Student Newspaper at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Winonan - 2010s by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 97, No. 13 / Nov. 30, 2016 THE EDUCATION VILLAGE BILL FAILURE STALLS FUNDING PAGE 2 GARVIN GOATS ANIMALS EAT INVASIVE PLANTS PAGE 8 INONAN WOMEN’S RUGBY BLACK KATTS SEE SIXTH VISIT TO FINAL 4 W thewinonan.winonastateu.com PAGE 19 A LOOK AT WINTER BREAK PLANS PAGE 10 Senior Brienne Reischl’s winter break plans include, “Catching up with friends and family, applying for grad school programs, wrapping Christmas presents, reading good books and finishing the Netflix shows I Winona State University Student Newspaper / Since 1919 haven’t been able to watch because of finals.” NEWS Education Village plans on hold Funding for project on pause after Minnesota bonding bill fails to pass unding for Winona State University’s located outside of campus and hopefully the first allow some of the most vocal individuals, the FEducation Village is currently stalled after the of many. residents of Watkins, to voice their thoughts and Minnesota Legislature failed to pass a bonding “Winona State is a big player in Winona,” hear new information. bill. Dempsey said. “When Winona State does According to Dempsey, these meetings are The university hosted a community meeting on something, it has permeations throughout the integral to the development of Winona State. Nov. 9 to discuss the project’s development as it entire city. So I think if we can get ahead of that, The lack of communication between the awaits more funding. be up front, hear what people are talking about, university and the public caused the spread of Education Village is a project by Winona State hear what their concerns are, I think that will be a misinformation, Dempsey said, so these meetings and the College of Education to bring all of the better thing.” were formed to provide clarifications. university’s education branches under one facility. “(The goal) is to answer questions and fill the This facility will renovate and enhance Wabasha vacuum of information that is created,” Dempsey Hall and the Cathedral School to create a vast “There’s nothing about this project said. “We want to make sure it gets filled with multi-faceted campus that will allow education correct information, not hearsay.” students to interact with K—12 students and get that doesn’t relate to good things Part of this need to reconnect comes from the experience in a school environment, according to for children in Minnesota... they are stalled construction of the Education Village College of Education Dean Tarrell Portman. project, Dempsey said, after last year’s bonding “The goal of Education Village is to serve trying to do what’s right in their eyes bill failed to pass. southeastern Minnesota and the Midwest in The first phase of production was funded by preparing educators to go into the school system for their areas and their education.” a bonding bill in 2014, allotting the university that are prepared for 21st century learning,” $5.9 million to begin development. According Portman said. -Tarrell Portman, College of Education dean to Portman, this money was put primarily into Ron Dempsey, vice president for University architectural design, early renovations and Advancement at Winona State, is in charge of project planning. community outreach for projects like Education The meeting was held at Watkins Manor, which Village. According to Dempsey, the Nov. 9 is located near the future location of the village. meeting was one of the first community meetings Dempsey said the meeting was held there to Continued on page 3, see Village. 2 - NEWS NEWS Nov. 30, 2016 Village, continued from page 2. The second phase, Portman said, requires an said she has heard support from people all over schoolrooms, STEM classrooms, physical additional $25.3 million. This money will go into the state, including in a chance encounter with labs, architectural artwork, a coffee shop the rest of construction, landscaping and faculty a teacher in Bemidji, Minn. Not only that, she and an auditorium. Everything will be built preparation. Second phase funding will come added, but the legislators she communicated with around education, Portman said, including the from the state bonding bill, which covers all were equally positive. landscaping itself. university project funding across Minnesota. The Portman added the City of Winona has also “If you were a teacher in training, you could funding was on the table for the 2016 session, but always been a staple of the education community take students out and you could do a lesson on according to Portman, a last minute change kept in Minnesota. an apple tree,” Portman said. “And you would be the bill from being passed. “The Winona community has influenced under an apple tree.” “They had reached an agreement until three education tremendously, from being the first Portman said she hopes the bill will go back on minutes to midnight when, in the senate, there home of the National Education Association to the table in January, but since it is not a bonding was a motion put on the floor to add money for having Theda Gildemeister, who wrote the first year, there is no guarantee. That said, she added, light rail systems in the Twin Cities,” Portman Minnesota curriculum which spread across the she is highly optimistic about the future of the said. “That passed, which meant the bills were no nation,” Portman said. “I think Winona is an project and added that even if it does not go longer in agreement. There was no time to get a ideal spot for this.” through this year, she will continue to push for runner from the Senate over to the House.” Portman is in charge of the development of the project’s creation. According to Dempsey, the state government Education Village. She has been working on the “There’s nothing about this project that doesn’t has been enthusiastic about the project, with project for the last few years, attempting to not relate to good things for children in Minnesota,” bipartisan support. While the bill itself can go only bring the department under one roof, but Portman said. “I have faith in the process, and back and forth, the project itself has never been a also to expand teaching capabilities. I think that the legislators that I have met and problem. The project began development in 2011, before talked with are really good people, and they are “There has been no opposition to education Portman joined Winona State. Aside from a full trying to do what’s right in their eyes for their village as a concept,” Dempsey said. “There was renovation of the current buildings, Portman areas and for education.” obviously partisan opposition to the bonding said the project also involves a widespread bill, largely the size and a couple of items in the design update and new buildings to create a bonding bill, but Education Village has not been campus specifically for teaching and community one of those items.” engagement. BY NATHANIEL NELSON news reporter It’s not only about Winona, either. Portman The new campus will contain playgrounds, [email protected] Have a burning opinion about Education Village or funding? Let us know! Email a letter to the editor to [email protected] Winona State hosts active shooter simulation im Parlow, a Winona State University Nov. 17. on the second floor of Minné Hall, simulator, students in the police operations class Jinstructor and retired police officer, led an and attendance to observe the process was used simulators at Gander Mountain Academy active shooter simulation for criminal justice encouraged. in Onalaska, Wis., but it eventually became too students on Winona State’s campus to provide According to Parlow, the simulation is used expensive. adequate training for the students and give other to train future police officers and occasionally “We got help from other agencies and the members of the university a chance to watch current officers on active shooter events. sociology department,” Parlow said. “But officers’ decision-making processes. “The unique thing about it is that it’s portable, unfortunately that money has dried up.” The simulation, hosted in partnership and so I knew the value of bringing it over and with Rochester Community and Technical offering it up to my students,” Parlow said. College and Winona State, was held Thursday, Parlow explained that before this portable Continued on page 5, see simulation. 3 - NEWS NEWS Nov. 30, 2016 Sheriff, county attorney host forum at Winona State pproximately a dozen Winona State Students and other members of the Winona there criminally, we’re going to take action.” AUniversity students and faculty members community were able to ask questions during of He added that safety of students is important to shared safety and post-election concerns within the forum. him and his officers. the Winona area in an open forum Thursday, Numerous questions were focused on the safety “We all need to be concerned about personal Nov. 17. and possible biases students may face if they are safety,” Ganrude said. “Too many people don’t Winona County Sheriff Ron Ganrude and of a different ethnicity or identify themselves as a call [911] when they see something suspicious.

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