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Preachers evoke wrath

The crowd laughs at Mike Leisner after he bellows, “Ghandi is in hell right now!”  Leisner and Jed Smock preached and harassed crowds that gathered to listen on the Atwood Mall Tuesday.  They evoked emotions ranging from severe anger, to disgust, to laughter as they tried to get their message across to those who passed by.
Mike Leisner is a bear of a man, standing 6 feet 5 inches on one of Atwood Mall's concrete benches. Bees swarm around his feet as he shakes his fist in the air.

"God's going to take all the homosexuals by their testicles and thrust them into the rectum of hell," he proclaims.

Signs have smokers puffing

Nick Hanson takes a drag outside Stewart Hall in front of one of the newly erected no-smoking signs on campus.
The Building and Grounds Department has begun designating smoking and non-smoking areas around campus this fall in an effort to get smokers away from doorways.

The goal of this new non-smoking policy is to make sure that non-smokers are able to enter buildings without having to go through dozens of smokers.

Council links SCSU, community

SCSU President Roy Saigo will be getting some extra advice this year from local community members.

Twelve business and community leaders came together in July to form the President’s Community Advisory Council. The council is only advisory in nature, and will have no official role in SCSU policy-making decisions, said Lisa Helmin Foss, SCSU director of marketing and communications.

Student lawsuit settled

Jessica Lishinski, right, seen here with her sister Jaime, was killed in an inline skating accident in Duluth in May, 1999. Her family and the city recently reached a settlement. Jessica enjoyed writing, and was an aviation major.
The family of a former SCSU student, who died after an inline skating accident, has finally reached a settlement with the city of Duluth.

Jessica Ann Lishinski, 21, had been skating along Lake Superior on the city's Lakewalk in May 1999.

When she reached a fork in the path Lishinski chose the one that went behind a stage and closer to the lake.

Wellstone pitching education reform

Sen. Paul Wellstone is emphasizing his dedication to Minnesota schools in his platform for re-election.

“Everybody says they’re for education until it comes to digging in their pockets,” Wellstone said in a conference call to college media Tuesday. “I’m always for investing more resources in education.



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