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Serving SCSU and the St. Cloud Community
Monday, October 3, 2011
Volume 88, Number 18
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Union protests MnSCU bonuses John Russett ASST. MARQUEE EDITOR
For the third year in a row, union members protested outside the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities annual retreat. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 5, the Minnesota branch of AFSC, protested outside MnSCU headquarters in St. Paul on Sept. 20, while new MnSCU chancellor Steve Rosenstone addressed the board of trustees inside. The purpose of the protest was to try to stop bonuses being paid to MnSCU bosses, according to afscmemn.org. June Clark, an AFSCME member who works at the Fergus Falls campus of Minnesota State Community Technical College, said, “Trustees are passing out bonuses with one hand; pink slips and tuition hikes with the other hand. We need to put a stop to that.” Kimberly Johnson, an AFSCME member who works at SCSU, said if everyone is supposed to be sharing QV \PM [IKZQÅKM VMKM[[IZa L]ZQVO these times of economic tension the presidents and vice-presidents should not be accepting any sort of bonus or reward. “They’re saying it’s not a bonus, that it’s performance pay,” Johnson said. “But their performance pay is based on the goals that they set. And the administrators are the ones that delegate that down so the people that are actually doing the work are giving them the bonus.” <PM KWVÆQK\ 2WPV[WV [IQL Q[ not the fact that these bonuses are written into the contracts of certain administrators. <PM KWVÆQK\ [\MU[ NZWU \PM belief that while everyone is suffering -- students are paying more for tuition and AFSCME members
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Celebrate! implements pride events Kyra Loch ASST. NEWS EDITOR
SCSU announced a new program for events called Celebrate! St. Cloud State. Celebrate! St. Cloud State will be a yearlong series of events with the goal of planning events for students, alumni, and families. “Celebrate! St. Cloud State gives alumni more opportunities to come back and visit,” said Terri Mische from the Alumni Association. “We want people to come back more frequently.” The program kicked off this XI[\ _MMSMVL _Q\P Q\[ ÅZ[\ M^MV\
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Each shirt hung on the clothesline had a handwritten message to deliver.
Take Back the Night promotes awareness Brenna Casey STAFF WRITER
Hundreds of battered t-shirts swung in the autumn breeze throughout Barden Park as community members, sexual and domestic abuse advocates came together in a united front against violence. “Take Back the Night is a national event which helps to raise awareness against women and honor the victims of domestic violence,” said Tamara Hennes-Vix, client services coordinator of the Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center. “The purpose is to bring together community in a united front against violence, but it is also a place where survivors
KIV KWVNZWV\ \PMQZ XI[\[ IVL ÅVL []XXWZ\ IVL understanding amongst other survivors.” It is an annual event sponsored by Anna Marie’s Alliance, the Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center, Kappa Phi Omega and Delta Phi Epsilon Sororities, the Corner Bean, KVSC and the St. Cloud State Community Counseling Graduate Student Association. In addition, several other student clubs and organizations, such as Students for Sexual Consent, participated in the event. The Kappa Phi Omega Sorority played a major role in this year’s Take Back the Night event as Brianna Flood, treasurer and Anna Marie’s Volunteer; Mandie Mischler, president of Kappa Phi; and Katie Bolen and Bethany
Shevich took on the responsibility helping to organize the event. Throughout the year, Kappa Phi has held fundraisers such as the dunk tank and annual rose sale in order to raise money for the aid of battered women and survivors. “This is a community issue … we all know someone affected,” said Brianna Flood when asked about the inspiration for the sorority’s involvement. The night began with a social hour where individuals had the opportunity to read the personal and “powerful” stories told by victims of sexual and domestic abuse through The
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SCSU bike shop recycles, redistributes Hannah Swift ASSOCIATE EDITOR
With the cost of gas at well over $3 a gallon, more people are looking for alternative modes of transportation. 7]\LWWZ -VLMI^WZ[ IV WNÅKM run through the Department of Sports Facilities and Campus Recreation, provides students and St. Cloud community members the opportunity to embrace a cheap, eco-friendly way to get around. “Everything else we do usually involves reusing old parts,” said
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Evan Parkhouse, an SCSU student and the rental center manager at Outdoor Endeavors. “We do all major and minor repairs on bicycles, but we don’t really have a stock of inventory or parts other than tubes and tires.” All the metal parts that are unusable get put in a metal recycling bin on campus, which then gets sent to a larger metal recycling station. Tubes and tires are more LQNÅK]T\ \W ZMKaKTM IKKWZLQVO \W
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Page 16 The Huskies’ football team wins at home over the Northern State Wolves 27-14.
HANNAH SWIFT / ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Any unusable metal bicycle parts are recycled via campus maintenance.
Grill-outs and Sodexo
Page 4 Learn more about SCSU’s contract with Sodexo and how it effects the student grill-outs.