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i 'r ww MetroState INDEX Faces Places Page B4 Sunday NOVEMBER 26, 2000 SECTION www.startrtbune.commetro Obituaries Pages B6, B7 Weather Page B10 CN-ov-R-il-w Trouble doiscl aqiiar llign Inside Suspect sought Minneapolis police are still investigating the shooting death of a man. Turn to B3. Yuletide revelation The Guthrie's production of "A Christmas Carol" is "lovely." Turn to B4. The columnists The departure of an environmental educator who wrote unfavorably about a backer of theDuluth aquarium has stirred upa maelstrom. people say the smell is similar.

The apparent termination of an educator because of his stand on an environmental issue and the abrupt switch of chief executives have led to a debate about academic integrity, corporate responsibility and public accountability. Last month, aquarium education director Andrew Slade signed a resignation agreement about three weeks after writing a newspaper column that questioned the actions of one of the operation's biggest corporate By Larry Oakes Star Tribune Northern Minnesota Correspondent DULUTH By the numbers, the Great Lakes Aquarium is off to a great start: more than 202,000 visitors since opening July 29. That puts Duluth's newest attraction halfway toward its first-year visitation goal in less than four months of operation. But in the middle of the aquarium's debut, a prickly public-relations problem has surfaced like an eelpout in a punch bowl, and a number of towns tained inaccuracies and ignored scientific evidence, Allete complained to the aquarium's chief executive at the time, David Lonsdale, and asked that Allele's name be removed from learning labs it had sponsored. Russell complained that even though Slade had written the column as an individual and was not identified as an aquarium employee, he was known to be one.

The column hurt the aquarium's reputation, he contended. AQUARIUM continues on B9: Information on the facility. Allete, parent company of Minnesota Power, has been a longtime booster of the $33 million nonprofit aquarium, and company CEO Ed Russell sits on the aquarium's board of directors. Allete is in the middle of an effort to build public support for a proposed 250-mile power line from Duluth to Wausau, Wis. Slade, who has written a monthly environmental-issues column in the Duluth News Tribune since 1997, came out against the power line in his Sept 10 column.

Saying Slade's column con Doug Grow A state agency won't pay for fruit. Turn to B2. CJ. Her column isn't running today. James Lileks Xtreeme sports.

Turn to BACKFENCE on B3. FYI As it celebrates its centenary, St. Paul's William Mitchell College of Law is looking ahead to its next set of challenges. years stron A vote for Countryman The naming game for a new downtown library had begun even before Minneapolis voters approved the referendum. South Minneapolis resident Jan Del Calzo is lobbying for it to be the Gratia Countryman Library.

trl rT vi, AW1 1 rlir-lS, Countryman, bom in Hastings in 1866, was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Minnesota and headed the public libraries of Minneapolis Gratia Countryman Prejudice alleged at St. Cloud State While the school says it has made progress addressing prejudice, a complaint claims that there is an anti-Semitic climate on campus. By Robert Franklin Star Tribune Staff Writer ST. CLOUD, MINN. To Israeli immigrant Arie Zmora, teaching history for two years at St.

Cloud State University looked like a career move toward a permanent position. But by the time he left in July, he said, the school looked instead "like a twilight zone." He was denied an interview for a permanent job despite glowing reviews, Zmora said. In addition, he said, he was subjected to anti-Semitic slurs by faculty colleagues, questioned about his patriotism despite his U.S. citizenship, discouraged from speaking about the Holocaust and had his personnel file tampered with. While the facts of his case are in dispute and a St.

Cloud State official said progress has been made in addressing prejudice on campus Zmora has filed a federal discrimination complaint naming the university and seven History Department colleagues as contributing to a hostile, anti-Semitic environment 1 i. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will review his complaint, which could be the first step in a process leading to a class-action lawsuit, Zmora said. ST. CLOUD continues on B2: School had other complaints. I -Mil and Hennepin County.

She was chief librarian for 32 years in Minneapolis and is credited with early innovations such as a separate children's department She died in 1953. Perhaps this eulogy from library files best captures her spirit "In her youth, a library was a sacred precinct for guarding the treasures of thought to be entered only by the scholar and the student Her crusading zeal carried the book to every part of her city and county, to the little child, the factory worker, the farmer, the business man, the hospital patient, the blind and the old." Steve Brandt Staff Photo by Richard Semott William Mitchell College of Law, which has had many names and locations In Its 100-year history, has Its present-day campus at 875 Summit Av. In St PauL ByAllleShah Star Tribune Staff Writer It's been a long, bumpy road to the 100th anniversary of a small, independent St. Paul law school. i Having weathered world wars, the Great Depression, near-mergers with larger schools and a multitude of real mergers that gave it its present form, William Mitchell College of Law is still standing proud.

Today it is one of four law schools serving the Twin Cities and a rarity because it is not affiliated with another university. In honor 0f the school's 100th birthday on Thanksgiving Day, Gov. Jesse Ventura proclaimed last week William Mitchell Centennial Week. The past 100 years have provided a strong foundation for the school, but the next century promises new challenges as technology and learning modes evolve. The law school needs to make careful choices in the future, says Prof.

Douglas Hei-denreich, author of "With Satisfaction and Honor," a new history of the institution. The law school was founded by five St. Paul attorneys in 1900. First known as the St. Paul College of Law, it had about 20 students.

The founders wanted to train young people who could not otherwise pursue a law career. Dubbed "a lawyer's law school," the college held classes every weeknight for working students, many of whom were second-generation Americans. There were black graduates, the first of whom was James P. Anderson in 1903. The former mail carrier became the only black member of the Ramsey County Bar Association when he joined.

A law education put graduates on the path to financial security and social acceptance, Heidenreich writes. Early on, the St. Paul College of Law occupied a series of buildings in St. Paul. COLLEGE continues on School has 12,000 graduates.

HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS tifi 'I, Diary PhotoMinnesota Historical Society St Paul College of Law met In the old St Paul courthouse. 1955: Talk of merging the law schools continues. The Minneapolis-Minnesota school moves to the Metropolitan Building. 1956: The St Paul and Minneapolis-Minnesota colleges merge to create William Mitchell. 1958: Fall classes open in a new building at 2100 Summit Av.

1970: Size of student body exceeds 500 for first time. Some classes begin earlier than 6:30 p.m. for first time. 1976: The college moves to the former Our Lady of Peace girls' high school at 875 Summit Av. 1978: College admits its first full-time students on an experimental basis.

The experiment is successful. 1981: On-campus child-care center is established. 1990: Warren Burger Library is dedicated. 1998: William Mitchell establishes three centers for law and leadership and joins four other law schools in a consortium. 2000: Celebration of centenary.

1900: St Paul College of Law is founded. 1902: First class graduates. 1903: Graduating class includes first black graduate. 1904: Graduating class includes first female graduates. 1912: Northwestern College of Law founded in Minneapolis.

1913: Minnesota College of Law founded in Minneapolis. 1921: St Paul College of Law moves to old mansion on 6th St and College Av. 1925: Northwestern College of Law ceases activity. The Minneapolis College of Law, founded in 1912 but hitherto inactive, begins to offer classes. 1940: The Minnesota College of Law and the Minneapolis College of Law merge to form the Minneapolis-Minnesota College of Law, which then is the sole night law school in Minneapolis.

1941: Fire seriously damages the St Paul College of Law building, requiring the college to hold classes in the nearby Mechanic Arts High School building. i ni 1 St. Paul Mayor Coleman won't seek 3rd term By Mfoe Meyers Star Tribune'Staff Writer Norm Coleman said Saturday that he won't run for office again PhotoMmnesota Historical Society In 1921, the St Paul College of Law moved Into the old Berkey mansion at 6th St and College Av. near downtown. Kind strangers On a recent chilly day, my fishing vehicle, a 1990 Ford Escort, broke a timing belt on busy Hwy.

61 about 6 miles from my home near Lake City, Minn. I raised the hood, put on the flashers and perched on a guardrail post, figuring I'd ask someone to alert a tow truck in Lake City. Motorists whizzed by, many talking on cellular phones. The first traveler to stop was a young man with long, blond curls. In another day, I might have referred to him as a hippie.

He kindly agreed to alert a tow truck in town. As 1 waited, several other good Samaritans stopped. I noticed a pattern most were from out of the area, and of humble background. After the long-haired man was a black couple in an old station wagon. Third was a man in a battered pickup who turned around in heavy traffic to offer help.

In addition to a new truck, he could have used a shave, a haircut, a set of teeth and some new clothes. But there was nothing wrong with his heart. So much for appearances; good souls come in all colors, clothes and from all walks of life. Elmer Sprick, Lake City, Minn. Have a Diary item? Write Diary, Star Tribune, 425 Portland Av.

Minneapolis, MN 55488, ore-mail diarystartribune.com. SOME OFTHE ALUMI Rosalie Wahl Susanne Sedgwick James P. Anderson Esther Tomljanovich Warren Burger Peter Popovich 7 at least not for mayor of St. Paul. "I've loved to cheer for the city," he said at a City Hall news conference.

"In doing so, I think we have created a sense of QJ in'mnitou Norm Coleman momentum and enthusiasm that will live on." He called the mayor's job, next to the experience of having children, "the greatest thrill, the most joy I've ever had." But Coleman said the time has come to move on. He said he will defer a decision on whether to run in 2002 for governor. COLEMAN continues on 68: Background on themayor. Class of '67: Rosalie WaN he bed develop the college's cftiical program in the 1970s. She became the first female justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Class of '56: Susanne Sedgwick sat on the Minneapolis Municipal Court and Hennepin County District Court before joining the first state Court of Appeals. Class of '47: Peter Popovich served in the Legislature, and he became the state Court of Appeals' first chief judge when that court was created in 1981 Class of '55: Esther Tomljanovich joined the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1990. She had been Minnesota revisor of statutes and a longtime district Class of '31: Warren Burger, perhaps the most famous graduate, became the 15th chief justice of the United States. He served in the position for 17 years. Class of '03: James P.

Anderson was a mail carrier who became the St Paul College of Law's frst black graduate. He set up a law office In St PauL 3 drift.