Feature: SaveWCAL to file Petition for Review with Minnesota Supreme Court

This past weekend, the board of SaveWCAL met to review and discuss the recent decision by the Minnesota Court of Appeals regarding SaveWCAL's Petition To Redress Breach Of Trust.
The board has decided to file a Petition to Review with the Minnesota Supreme Court.Related Posts:Minnesota Court of Appeals issues WCAL decisionMN Court of Appeals changes venue [...]

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St. Olaf names two new "WCAL" Distinguished Professors

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St. Olaf College has announced two appointees to the Distinguished Professorships created with the "repurposing" of the funds they obtained through the sale of WCAL charitable trust assets.
Wendell Arneson of the Art and Art History department has been named Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Distinguished Professor and Gary Stansell of the Religion Department has been [...]

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St. Olaf refuses Christmas Fest tickets to SaveWCAL board AGAIN (Updated)

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Once again, just as in 2008, St. Olaf College is refusing to issue Christmas Festival tickets to members of the SaveWCAL board. This decision was announced just prior to the oral arguments that will be made by SaveWCAL, St. Olaf College and Minnesota Public Radio before the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday,October 27, 2009, [...]

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Massachusetts AG investigating Brandeis for violating donor intent; Judge denies BU's motion and issues injunction

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The Brandeis University student newspaper, The Hoot, is reporting that a Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Court judge has denied the University's motion to dismiss a lawsuit by three of the Rose Art Museum directors.
In addition, he has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the University from selling any art donated by those directors — 500 of [...]

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Brandeis University president resigns

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The Wall Street Journal and other sources report that Brandeis University president Jehuda Reinharz has resigned from a contract that was not set to expire until 2014. The WSJ article said:
Brandeis said the resignation wasn't connected with the Rose Art Museum flap, which has drawn international criticism and a lawsuit from members of the museum's [...]

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Article in Current.org: Fans of two…stations claim progress…to wrest licenses from APMG/MPR

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On June 18, the national public TV and radio broadcasting publication, Current [not to be confused with Minnesota Public Radio's (MPR) The Current], published a portion of an article by editor Steve Behrens that will appear in full in its June 23 edition. The article is titled "Fans of two defunct stations claim progress in [...]

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Commentary: Tears of an 87-year-old Ole

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On March 17 at 7:30 p.m., someone posted to the following heartbreaking comment to the SaveWCAL blog:
With tears of sadness, an 87 year old Ole remembers getting up Sunday mornings at 4 a.m. to practice the hymns to be sung by the choir at the Norwegian and Swedish worship services. He regrets the day St. [...]

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Where are WCAL's 2004 employees now?

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SaveWCAL has had a number of requests asking about former WCAL employees. In this posting, we report on the whereabouts of former WCAL employees of which we are aware. There were approximately two dozen WCAL non-student employees at the time of the sale of WCAL assets in 2004.
So where are they now? We have not [...]

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February 21, 2008: St. Olaf announces new name for Science Center

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On February 21, 2008, St. Olaf College announced that it had "had met its goal of raising $33 million for new science and mathematics facilities." The article appeared on the St. Olaf College web site article titled "St. Olaf College reaches science campaign goal, names building".
SaveWCAL is happy that the College has reportedly had a [...]

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December 5, 2007: St. Olaf denies SaveWCAL access to college archives

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On December 5, 2007, St. Olaf College refused SaveWCAL unrestricted access to the college archives in an attempt to obstruct information from reaching the Special Master investigating the WCAL charitable trust assets. This is the college's second attempt to obstruct unrestricted public access to these records and the first where they actually deny unrestricted access [...]

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October 4, 2007: St. Olaf announces new Board of Regents members

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On October 4, 2007, St. Olaf College announced new members to the Board of Regents. Three are new Regents for six-year terms:

Eric Hanson '76
Philip Milne '81
Mary Rand Taylor (daughter of late St. Olaf President Sidney Rand).

Two Regents

Kevin Bethke '78
Larry Stranghoener '76

were formally elected to serve through June 2013.
While the St. Olaf Regents are technically [...]

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Amy Gage takes new job at St. Kate's

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On August 2, 2007, the College of Saint Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota, made an official announcement to their community of new staff and faculty who had been hired in June and July.
Amy Gage appeared on the list as joining the St. Kate's staff in July as the new Director of Marketing and Communications. [...]

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