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‘Wave your hands and scream’

Ludacris performed at AMSOIL Arena April 11 SARAH STARK/SUBMITTED

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014

Tutoring Center recognized with national award Association lauds UMD’s Supportive Services Program BY BRETT DEVINE Statesman Correspondent

Alyssa Lommel (right) sometimes gets a piggy back ride from friend Amy Bechtold, who helps to take care of Alyssa when Alyssa’s mother, Teri, needs a break. KIMM ANDERSON, ST. CLOUD TIMES/SUBMITTED Photos reprinted with permission from the St. Cloud Times.

Nearing normalcy

Healing and adjusting, Lommel eyes return to campus in fall

Four months after she was found unconscious on a neighbor’s porch in subzero temperatures, Alyssa Lommel told the St. Cloud Times she intends to return to UMD in the fall. A sophomore at UMD, Lommel was experiencing hypothermia and severe swelling from frostbite when she was found by passersby on Woodland Avenue the morning of Dec. 7. She was airlifted to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, where she had parts of her hands and feet surgically removed during a two-month stay.

With the help of specially-made prosthetic devices, Alyssa Lommel can now apply her own makeup. KIMM ANDERSON, ST. CLOUD TIMES/SUBMITTED

Lommel spent three weeks in a coma and much of her first month in the hospital resting. Doctors put Lommel on a physical therapy regimen in late Decem-

ber, and she underwent surgery on her hands and feet in January. Skin grafts for the surgeries were taken from Lommel’s thigh. On Feb. 3 Lommel was

BY KYLE FARRIS News Editor

I still wake up some mornings and have to think for a minute … did this really happen, or was it just a horrible dream?

UMD’s Supportive Services Program was named outstanding program of the year at an annual conference put on by the Association for the Tutoring Profession on March 23. Paul Treuer, the interim director for the Supportive Services Program (SSP), said UMD’s program is “a national model for credit-based tutoring.” At UMD, tutors are awarded college credits rather than monetary payment for their work. In addition to being highly cost-effective, a creditbased model allows the program to help students who become tutors by having a set curriculum for tutors to follow. “The whole system is based on training,” Treuer said. Students who have the academic credentials and the desire to become a tutor must go through courses that prepare them for the job. Treuer said one of the first things students do when becoming a tutor is a “pencil test,” where “the tutor can’t hold a pencil; the student has to do all the work.” see TUTORING, A3

-Teri Lommel

transferred to St. Cloud Hospital, and on Feb. 11 she was released and able to stay at her family’s house in St. Cloud. see LOMMEL, A4

Tutor Daniel Gala (right) works with a student at the Learning Commons in the UMD Library. BRETT GROEHLER/SUBMITTED

With student input, a Ven Den renovation An empty Ven Den on April 15. The area is set for a $250,000 renovation based on a winning student design. JOE FRASER/ STATESMAN

BY GRAHAM HAKALA Staff Reporter

Walking into the Ven Den can sometimes feel like going through a time machine, and somehow ending up in a Brady Bunch-era lunch room. With fluorescent lights shining on orange-

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checkered linoleum flooring, it doesn’t look like much has changed since the 1970s. But things may change soon. UMD has plans to redesign the space, located on the lower level of Bohannon Hall, through student input. The Office for Student Life

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is holding a competition in which students can submit design ideas for the space and possibly win cash prizes. “I anticipate we’ll get a lot of good ideas,” said Student Life Director Pat Keenan. “We want to bring in a lot of ideas and incorporate the best ideas into the project. The competition is just

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a fun way to get students involved.” Students are able to form groups of up to five people, and are asked to create a 10- to 15-minute presentation showcasing their ideas. The top group’s ideas will be incorporated into the final see VEN DEN, A3


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