WINONA, Minn. – The Winona State security chief, Chris Cichosz, said the university’s abandoned Lourdes dorm on the West End remains a secure facility despite a break-in last week. Cichosz didn’t say so, but there is no resident night watchman stationed at the massive four-story 217,000-square foot structure on the former Teresa campus. Cichosz did say his overnight student guards in a marked vehicle regularly swing by Lourdes, which is on a residential neighborhood 1-1/2 miles across town from the main campus. City police were tipped to the break-in at 12:58 a.m. and responded promptly to the scene and simultaneously notified the understaffed overnight campus security staff, all part-time students, at the main campus. They drove over and joined police to learn what was happening.
