The Winonan - 1990S

Winona State University OpenRiver The inonW an - 1990s The inonW an – Student Newspaper 1-15-1992 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" (1992). The Winonan - 1990s. 55. https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan1990s/55 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]. oWinona State's Student Newspaper WINONA11 STATE11111 UNIVERSITY L BRARY 3 0106 00366 111 584011 Winona MN 55987 nonaVolume LXIX Issuel3 n Wednesday, January 15, 1992 Gay Bashing hits Winona Full- By STUART JOHNSON ates and now attend Winona State Paul Rader, owner of Great those accused is currently in the News Editor University. Rivers Managment, maintains "I military, stationed in Georgia and In a separate, but related, in- did not rent to them because they he is not sure what is going to be EDITOR'S NOTE: cident a man was assaulted across are or are not gay and I am not done with that individual as of Time Because of the sensitive the street from Hardee's only evicting them because they are yet. nature of this article, the days after the first incident by or are not gay." At a meeting of the Winona names that appear are individuals who may have been Rader continues by explaining Human Rights Commission on pseudonyms for those actu- from the same group with the that he feels sorry for what hap- Monday Jan. 6, some in atten- status ally involved. We feel this perpetrators shouting similar pened and actually postponed the dance believed that the police is necessary to protect the exclamations. eviction because of the recent could be doing more to eradicate victims in this incident as The victim was unable to iden- events and intends to give them the gang from Hardee's and charge disputed well as potentially future tify the assailants. more time to move as a result. those involved. victims of the same crime. Coupled with the increased fear Many are also concerned that There is a curfew currently in Mob violence that has been de- that homosexuals now face in the police are not moving fast affect for those under the age of scribed as "Gay Bashing" hit terms of their physical safety, enough in prosecuting the perpe- 18 at 11:00 p.m. which some say Winona when 30 youths armed they are also disturbed by how trators. is not being enforced. with clubs surrounded a house the community, police and media Winona Police Chief Frank Dan said, "On any given week- By LANA SWANCUTT near downtown on Dec. 20. have treated the issue. Pomeroy said that there is an end night, after the bars are Assistant News Editor The high school students "The reaction by the commu- investigator on the case who has closed at 1:00 a.m. you can see Top stories from the seven nity is lame. It is obvious that other cases as well to work on 10-20 of them hanging out inside Full-time students throughout shouted anti-homosexual slogans the Minnesota state university sys- such as "Die Faggot!" in addition this issue does not concern them but has worked 30 hours of over- Hardee's and in the parking lot Minnesota state universities tem will lose their financial aid next to vandalizing the property. and that they would rather sweep time to solve the matter. too, its ridiculous." it under the rug," said Jane. He said, "It is difficult to in- Pomeroy said that the reason fall if they fail to carry 15 credit Bemidji: Originating at Hardee's, where course loads. the youth gang can be commonly The residents of the house have vestigate. Most of them were recently been served an eviction juveniles and they must be inter- The Minnesota state legislature ARA food service at Bemidji seen congregating on weekend passed a bill, introduced by Repre- nights, they proceeded to the notice requiring them to move viewed after school in the pres- State University is letting go of all sentative Lyndon Carlson (D), re- house whose inhabitants are re- out of thier home before the lease ence of a parent." See Gay Bashing, page 2. student employees to hire handi- quiring students to take 15 or more cent Winona High School gradu- is scheduled to end in May. Pomeroy added that one of capped persons through the Dis- credits in order to be eligible for abled Rehabilitation Center. Many state aid grants and scholarships. students at the university are upset The new full-time student require- by this policy. ment proportionately reduces the amount of state financial aid a student receives if he or she fail to carry a 15 credit coarse load. The new requirement could ef- Mankato: fect as many as 47 percent of Winona State University students, Another fire was set inside a the percentage of students who took Mankato State Universityacadernic under 15 course credits for fall building. The fire that occurred quarter according to Winona State Jan. 2 is the thirteenth in a series of Financial Director Robert Lietzau. arson fires that began last summer Winona State President Darrell and the third fire occurring between Krueger said that the new require- the University's Christmas break. ment is meant to "try to encourage The fire was set inside a paint people to get done sooner." storage room of the art building Krueger speculates the around 7-8 p.m., causing $120,000 legislature's motive behind the bill is that "it would be better for sod- in damage. Many students paint- ety.,, ings were destroyed. Investigator do not know how it was set. The According to Lietzau, the 15- fires have all been set in academic credit requirement isn't going to buildings and teachers offices. In- save the state money because state vestigators have said that the doors grants are only available to stud cuts of those areas that the fires all were for 12 quarters. found have all been locked and "I think the way the state is investigators have their suspicions. looking at it is that they're costing the taxpayers money... The state has more of an investment in aid Moorhead: other than just the grant program," such as instructors' salaries, Moorhead State University will building costs and supplies, he said. no longer be granting tuition de- Students enrolled in 15 or more ferments to students for personal credits are dispursed 100 percent reasons. An audit by the Minnesota of their financial aid award. Stu- State University System revealed a dents carrying 12 or more credits high default rate by the students. receive 80 percent, nine or more The business office had no means credits; 60 percent and those stu- of forcing students to pay past tu- dent carrying eight credits receive ition costs. The president's com- 40 percent of their awarded finan- Deb Benedett/Co-Photo Editor cial aid. mittee has set up a $200,000 emer- WSU security battled to keep a mob of eager fans from pushing their way to the stage during a Gear Daddies concert held In Talbot gym gency loan fund to helps students on Saturday. If a student drops a class, stu in a financial crisis. dents will not have to reimburse the university for the aid, nor will - it affect the other quarters' financial Artificial Seasonal Affective aid, but students will be required Disorder (SAD) lamps have been to makeup those credits by the end installed in the university's coun- oncert crowd proves overwhelming of the year, Lietzau said. seling center. The lamps are used Minnesota State University to help people who suffer from Student Association Executive Di- I depression and fatigue caused by rector Frank Viggiano opposes the lack of sunlight during the winter By RANDAL McDOWELL said "it could have been much worse. The crowd was quite rowdy" requirement. "It's going to hurt months. Counselors must recom- Reporter Stevens added "there were 14 security guards working the concert, more non-traditional students and it's mend that students use the lamp. than we've had at any other event in the past." going to penalize students at pub- The sessions are 30 minutes long The recent Gear Daddies concert held last Saturday in Talbot gym was Stevens pointed to the "slam dancers" as the biggest problem. lic universities because right now, and allow the students to sit and eemed an overall success by most of those in attendance, but many problems "We had to have the majority of the security forces in the middle of the since we're not getting enough ere cited. study under the lamps. crowd. That's where the most problems were. Overall security did a great job money from the state legislature, Dave Reynolds, the president of U-PAC, cited the size of the crowd as the considering what they were up against." Stevens said. we don't have the core sections ajor problem. Maren Longfellow, a freshman Mass Communications major, broke her that we need for our students to Senate Reynolds said "it was a much bigger crowd than we expected,bigger than wrist at the concert. take 15 or 16 credits. So they're 1 st year's BoDeans concert." "There was nothing I could do. I was up against the bars and the crowd being penalized for something this week Reynolds said that "we should have made the concert open only to those kept pushing forward in big rushes.

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