Minnesota Daily
Bryce Haugen
January 26, 2006
The "U' wants you to care about what happens in St. Paul.
As the University Marching Band prepped the crowd, more than 400 supporters gathered at the McNamara Alumni Center on Wednesday night to push the University's legislative agenda.
President Bob Bruininks said it likely was the largest group to ever gather for this type of event.
"We're really excited to have so many people show up and agree to put their energy and support into building and strengthening the "U,' " he said, walking from table to table before addressing the crowd.
University Alumni Association President Margaret Sughrue Carlson said she was grateful for such a large turnout.
"You are a part of a proud and strong tradition " and we thank you," she said to the audience.
When the Legislature reconvenes in March, it will consider an on-campus football stadium as well as several construction projects.
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Minnesota Daily
By Bryce Haugen
January 20, 2006
It was never even finished. But 44 years after construction crews broke ground on the $1.3 million structure, the Science Classroom Building and its baffling stairwells might soon be demolished. As a part of its bonding bill request to state legislators, the University is asking for $41.3 million to replace the aging facility with a science teaching and student services center on the northeast side of the Washington Avenue Bridge.
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Star Tribune
Editorial
January 18, 2006
The best thing about the capital projects proposal Gov. Tim Pawlenty unveiled Tuesday may have been the tone with which it was delivered. ... Given his thinking on the MnSCU request, it's puzzling that the governor asked only for planning money for a medical biosciences research building at the University of Minnesota. Laboratories of the sort that would be housed in the proposed $60 million structure are crucial to achieving Minnesota's ambition to be a world leader in bioscience industries.
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Star Tribune
January 18, 2006
Patricia Lopez and Dane Smith
Senate DFLers and advocates for universities and parks say it's too stingy; the governor asks for "some attempt to live within reason."
From the state's first commuter rail line to a buffed-up Minnesota Zoo, from a $40 million science building at the University of Minnesota to wastewater and road projects, there's something for everyone in the $897 million public works bill proposed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Tuesday.
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Pioneer Press
January 14, 2006
Gov. Tim Pawlenty toured the state Friday to unveil a few pet building proposals, days before he divulges all his recommendations for a state construction package.
The governor promoted a university science center and a new transportation building in Mankato, renovations at Winona State University, a Rochester bioscience development center and a business-school expansion in Duluth.
He's set to announce the rest of his proposals Tuesday.
The latest proposals include:
• About $32.9 million to renovate and add lab space in Trafton Science Center at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
• About $15.3 million for a new business school building at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
• About $8 million for a bioscience development center in Rochester, a $28.5 million project that already has $20.5 million lined up from the city of Rochester. The center would go up next to a genomics research center jointly operated by the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
January 17, 2006
More classroom and student services space for Winona State University and a science building addition at Minnesota State University Mankato were among the construction funding proposals announced by Gov. Tim Pawlenty at several locations Friday. The bonding initiatives must still win approval from the Legislature, which will probably come up with competing funding plans. Pawlenty's complete bonding proposals, which will address remaining requests of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities systems, will be announced Tuesday.
By Neal St. Anthony
Star Tribune
January 10, 2006
The University of Minnesota is asking the Legislature for $26.6 million, earmarked for more room for undergraduate students.
A $39.9 million expansion of the undergraduate facilities at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management is the priority of the university's two-year capital budget headed to the Legislature.
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Lori Sturdevant
Star Tribune December 31, 2005
The University of Minnesota has a solid feel again and is poised to take its place among top research institutions -- if things go well at the Capitol.
Let's play future state historian. It's 2036. Who did what in 2005 that you'd say shaped the Minnesota you know?
Sorry, politicians, but my guess is that it's none of you. (Come to think of it, the 2005 statehouse crew might not mind the omission. Quite a few legislators and one governor are already trying to fog voters' recollection of the partial government shutdown last July, and of the legal mess they made with their tobacco "fee.")
My guess: The name future historians will associate first with 2005 is Robert Bruininks, and the accomplishments they will laud will be connected with the University of Minnesota reform program dubbed "strategic positioning for the 21st century."
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