Southwest State in Marshall, Minn., was on the brink of shutdown years ago. Now it's rebounded to the point that it was named the best regional college in the Midwest on the U.S. News and World Report rankings. We look at how it turned around. -- Raised in Minneota, MN Bill Holm, is a professor of English Department at Southwestern State University who has written poetry, essays on the grandness and history of the southwestern prairie and its settlers in books such as �The Music of Failure.� Marshall, MN.11/22/99.
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