The private Wellstone (who was a hail-fellow-well-met kind of guy) would be grieved as we all are. The politician Wellstone would probably seek to apply some kind of government grant as a band-aid panacea.
I am an Ole (St. Olaf graduate). For me, Northfield is the real Lake Wobegone — all the truth without the liberal spin. I agree Olaf has become far too PC, and Carlton was always the odd side of town. But it saddens me to here this is going on in the town I recall so fondly...