The Winonan - 2000S

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Volume 86 Issue ■ Remodeling in Maxwell and Somsen halls progress • Freshmen divulge first week terrors and triumphs 'well' place for body and mind Arts A preliminary drawing shows that the Wellness Center will be joined with the existing Memorial Hall at the south end of McCown Gym. ■ Area organiza- Shanthal Perera that would be represented in the new the new center after the final building tions preserve WINONAN building, including the fitness center, plans are approved by the Minnesota State intramurals, athletics, counseling center, Colleges and Universities. Winona's his- After years of simply being an idea, health services and the Health Exercise Schuler was uncertain about how long tory the materialization of Winona State and Rehabilitative Sciences and Physical students will be paying for the building University's wellness and fitness project, Education and Recreation departments. but noted that they are looking into other a combination of services dedicated to The committee also has student avenues besides student tuition to cover 1111 Roberts re- mental and physical health, is gathering representation. the costs. momentum. The building is expected to cost $18 While the designs are not fully views two The 78,000 square foot Wellness to $20 million of which the university confirmed, Reinardy said the group has a summer flicks Center, which will be added onto the hopes to raise $3 million through private good idea on how the final product will south end of Memorial Hall, could be up donors. look. and running by spring 2010, according The state legislature will be approached "There are preliminary drawings on to Jeffr Reinardy, director of fitness and with a request for almost $8 million the table that everyone is pretty agreeable a New to the wellness. toward the center. with," Reinardy said. "We are just honing Winonan: The idea for a center housing all the Winona State student senate has already in the details." different elements of physical and mental passed a motion showing support for the music review wellbeing has been circulating for at least Wellness Center by donating more than column seven years, Reinardy said. $7 million through student tuition. 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The space that will be left on classrooms" and include round WINONAN will be made sometime this The project has already first floor Somsen will be made tables to facilitate teamwork. spring, and offices being received state funding and the into more classrooms, mostly With a steady increase of relocated include the registar, renovations meet the necessary for the business depai tment, business students from 1,191 It was the original library. admissions, cashier, advising Minnesota State Colleges and although no final decisions in 2000 to 1,380 this fall, class When the new library was built and retention, financial aid and Universities requirements, such have been released yet. sizes are growing, something in 2000, health services moved the business office. as room sizes. Stange, who is unaware Murphy and other faculty in and an addition provided "By having all these student DARS Coordinator Lori of the classroom plans for worry will have an impact on space for classrooms, the services in one area, students Beseler, whose office is in the Somsen, said that the university the personal attention smaller child care center and a fitness won't have to go from one registrar's office, will be part of will "do what we can without classes have to offer. center. building to another all the the move to Maxwell. spending much money." Next, Winona State way across campus to get one "It's going to be a little bit College of Business Dean University's Maxwell Hall particular thing done," Stange scary moving to a different Bill-Murphy is looking forward will be a "one-stop shop" for said. building, but I think it will to more classrooms being Stephanie can be reached at students, transforming the old According to Stange, benefit the students in the end," built, especially those that he [email protected] building into a place where construction on the project is she said. calls "designated business students can get all of their business done at one place. Carl Stange, director of admissions, describes the new look as a tree. "What I envision is a place that grows upwards, like a tree, and much like a student's educational growth, where, depending on where they are in that stage of college, they can find the service that will provide to their needs," Stange said. For example, services that are often needed starting out in V IC a student's college career, such as the financial aid and registrar offices, would be placed on the first floor. As the building climbs, services that students generally use in the middle of their college careers, such as the advising and retention and graduation offices, will be on the second floor. Third floor space will be used for classrooms, tutoring services and the National Child Protection Training Center. New to the center is a simulation courtroom and Andy Link/ WINONAN "disruptive home," which Wabasha Hall is the temporary home to Winona State's fitness center as it transitions from Maxwell Hall to the newly would be used for training developed Wellness Center.

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