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FOOTBALL Grand Valley State at WSU 1 p.m. Saturday Cost: $2 to $15

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 12, 2004 -- The Winona State University pep band, usually a fixture at home football games, won't be tooting and drumming at the NCAA playoff game Saturday. Band director Don Lovejoy turned down an athletic department request because his student musicians are deep into rehearsal for earlier commitments. It was only last Saturday that the Warriors won their playoff berth. Lovejoy declined an interview request, saying he didn't have time, but sophomore band member Kelly Ehlenz said the band is busy preparing for its Holiday Concert for the Hungry on Dec. 12 and for commencement on Dec. 17. It would be very difficult to get a large number of people together to practice," Enlenz said. Practice for the games is held during regularly scheduled band practice. MORE The playlist of more than a dozen songs includes "Mustang Sally" and "The Eye of the Tiger, plus the alma mater at the beginning of games and the Warrior rouser every time Winona State scores a touchdown. Though fans will not see or hear the pep band for the remainder of the football season, the group will be back in the stands at seven basketball games, Enlenz said. Reporter: Sarah Brechtl Background: Eversman gets nod to quarterback

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FOOTBALL Grand Valley State at WSU 1 p.m. Saturday Cost: $2 to $15

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 11, 2004 -- The starting Winona State Univerity quarterback against Grand Valley State in the Division II playofs will be senior Ryan Eversman, coach Tom Sawyer said,. Eversman threw six touchdown passes to NFL hopeful Chris Samp in last week's victory over Concordia. Eversman has replaced Brian Wrobel, who has an arm injury, for the past two games. MORE Other starting players include punter Pat Hurley, wside receiver Brian Hynes, and punt receiver David Cruz. Cruz said he is hoping for a victiory against reining national champion Grand Valley State. "It's live or die from now on," said Cruz. Sawyer, who said he cannot wait until the game Saturday, is pleased to be on home turf at Midwest Wireless Stadium. "We haven't been beat at home since 1999," said Sawyer, "That's 25 straight home games." Reporter: Veronica Langel Background: Student tickets discounted

RYAN EVERSMAN Quarterback PAT HURLEY Punter DAVID CRUZ Punt receiver

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Student playoff tickets discounted

FOOTBALL Grand Valley State at WSU 1 p.m. Saturday Cost: $2 to $15

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 10, 2004 -- To encourage student attendance at Winona State's Division II playoff game against Grand Valley State Saturday, the university's student activities director, Joe Reed, decided to subsidize tickets with student activities fee money. Reed set student end-zone bleacher and standing room tickets at $2 for advance purchase. Knowing that Grand Valley State has a large fan following, Reed didn't want Michihgan supporters to outnumber Winona State fans. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, the game sponsor, takes $5 for every student seat. The NCA sets other amounts on other catgeories of seating. Some tickets are as high as $15. Reporter: Jessica Myers Background: Daily News issues playoff edition

Daily News issues playoff edition

FOOTBALL Grand Valley State at WSU 1 p.m. Saturday Cost: $2 to $15

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 10, 2004 -- The Winona Daily News, capitalizing on reader interest in Winona State University hosting the Division II football playoffs, scrambled this week to produce a four-page supplement. By Wednesday three banks had bought best-wishes ads. Said Daily News advertising manager Rick Mueller: "Not only are local businesses publicizing their name by buying advertisements in our paper, they are showing their support of the Winona State football team." The four-page section will wrap around the sport section in Friday's edition as a preview to Saturday's playoff game between the Winona State and Grand Valley State. MORE Advertising space is being sold to businesses based on how much they have spent in advertising over the past year, Mueller said. The more the company spends, the cheaper the rate, he added. Sometimes an ad may even be created by the paper, Mueller said, and advertisers are asked if they want to put their name on it. On Wednesday, Mueller's sales reps were still looking for a sponsor for a second special edition to be handed out at the game itself. The sponsor would buy a bulk of newspapers at a discounted rate, said Muller. A sports wrap featuring the sponsor would be around the Saturday paper and distributed to spectators before the game, he said. MORE Mueller said special section enable the Daily News is able to show its support of the team and at the same time give exposure to the paper to a large number of people. The Daily News did special promotions last year when Winona State also hosted Round One of the Division II playoffs. Reporter: Sarah Ricci Background: WSU-Grand Valley: Size v. speed

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FOOTBALL Grand Valley State at WSU 1 p.m. Saturday Cost: $2 to $15

ALLENDALE, Mich., Nov. 9, 2004 -- The Division II football playoff game between Winona State and Grand Valley State universities will be size versus speed, said Howie Beardsley, who covers Grand Valley State sports for the Grand Rapids Press. Beardsley said that Winona State has more size on the line but that Grand Valley has more speed on offense. Winona State's average player is 6-foot-1 and weighs 222 pounds. Grand Valley State's average is is 6-1 also but weighs less, 218 pounds. Grand Valley State runs a NFL-type of spread offense with no huddle to complement that speed, said Beardsley. MORE Grand Valley State has been plagued with injures all season, the greatedst loss being senior All-American tailback Michael Tennessee. Tennessee has played at 100 percent only the last two games, both of which the Lakers won. In the two games in which Tennessee did not play at all, the Lakers committed nine of their 18 turnovers for this season. Tennessee will be back for the Winona State game. "He is a nice complement to the passing game," said Beardsley. MORE

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FOOTBALL Grand Valley State at WSU 1 p.m. Saturday Cost: $2 to $15

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 9, 2004 -- The Winona State University football team has been relaxing, scouting the opponent and getting sound sleep to prepare for the upcoming NCAA playoff game on Saturday against Grand Valley State. The Warriors are going to be fresh for game day because practice time has been reduced and weight lifting requirements are not as strenuous as normal for the week, said defensive back Peter Schlitz. Practices are usually from 4 to 6:15 p.m., but have been slightly reduced to give players time to relax. Although practice times have been shorter, Schlitz said "intensity is always kept high at practice." MORE Guard Gabe Vargas said players are treating this game just like any other, but with more sleep and "energy food." The team has been working extremely hard, said Vargas, noting that the only loss has been a nonconference game at South Dakota State. Although Grand Valley State is a two-time defending NCAA Division 2 champion, Winona State plans to eliminate them from the playoffs with a solid performance, said Schlitz. Vargas said the team is "pumped" and ready for all their hard work to pay off in the playoffs. MORE The team feels the undefeated streak at Maxwell Field will be an incentive to win the game, said Schlitz. Also. he said, the Warriors have figured out from watching film who the key Grand Valley playmakers are. "We are confident that we will be able to play with them." The team has been focusing on Grand Valley weaknesses, as well as predicting reactions to certain formations, said Schlitz. Schlitz said the team is ready after weeks of hard practices, physical and mental. The Warriors have played teams similar to Grand Valley State this season and as long as the team plays fundamentally, a win will be achieved, said Vargas. Reporter: Julie Welscher Background: Playoff foe: Grand Valley

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WINONA, Minn., Nov. 8, 2004 -- A 21-year-old drunk, stumbling hopelessly outside Brothers Bar, was picked up by police about 12:40 a.m. and sent to Rochester, Minn., for detox. Police measured his blood-alcohol level at 0.27 percent -- almost 3-1/2 time the federal legally drunk level.

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GOP prof: Press misleads on Iraq

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 8, 2004 -- Republicans have a great deal to be pleased about in last week's election, said English prof Paul Grawe, a prominent Winona State University Republican. But that, Grawe said, doesn’t mean that failed Democratic challenger John Kerry didn't have some good points. Grawe said he agreed with Kerry's argument that the United States needs to improve its international relations, to "work at being at good relations with people." MORE Grawe, who ran for Congress in 1986, called Iraq "a messy situation," but he criticized the news media. The press, he said has not done a good job of showing the progress that has been made in Iraq, but instead shows deaths and losses. Grawe said that every casualty in Iraq is greatly regretted, but, he added, casualty counts miss much of what is happening. Grawe called the Iraq war something that would be a difficult job for any president. Grawe has been on the faculty government relations committee at Winona State for 30 years.

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WSU prof: Neitzsche was no Nazi

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 8, 2004 -- Nineteenth century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a controversial man but, contrary to what many people say, he clearly was not a Nazi, Winona State University philosophy prof Ed Slowik told 85 people in a lecture last week. A lot of Nietzsche's statements can be interpreted as prejudiced against the Jewish population, but "there was never a philosopher who stated more fervently that he was not an anti-Semite," said Slowik. Though Nietzsche died 30 years before the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, his sister Elisabeth, a devout anti-Semite and operator of his literary estate, twisted his philosophical ideas into support for the Nazi regime, said Slowik. Hitler even distributed Nietzsche's book "Thus Spoke Zarathusta" to every soldier in the German army, said Slowik. MORE Slowik acknowledged that Nietzsche believed in the existence of a master morality and a slave morality. The slave morality, he said, was the morality of resentment, comprising people who were constantly envious of others. Nietzsche blamed this resentment on both Christianity and Judaism, which he felt promoted an unrealistic belief that everything must be good, noble and happy, said Slowik. Nietzsche described the master morality as a race that cared about self-improvement, living virtuously, ethics and morality rather than personal, economic or political power, said Slowik. MORE When Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, many Nazi officers tried to label Nietzsche as a pre-modern Nazi prototype, but in reality, Nietzsche believed "Christianity can be understood only in terms of the soil out of which it grew," which was Judaism -- contrary to the Nazi belief of Christian-Aryan superiority, said Slowik. MORE Nietzsche, who loved to insult and criticize modern Germany, believed mixed races were more gifted than the Aryan race, which the Nazis considered "racially pure," Slowik said. "Friedrich Nietzsche may be the most famous philosopher known" today, but most of all, he is a self-proclaimed anti-anti-Semite," said Slowik. Slowik was one of many speakers featured in tyhe six-week s lectures and films series "In the Wake of Fascism" at Winona State. Reporter: Sarah Brechtl Background: Why Jews went back

ED SLOWIK WSU philosophy prof

Pomeroy unsure whether he'll run again

MANKATO, Minn., Nov. 8, 2004 -- After losing his bid for Congress, Democrat Leigh Pomeroy said that he's undecided if he will run again. "I will do what's best for the district, whether that's me or someone else," Pomeroy said in an interview. Pomeroy lost in a lanslide to Rep. Gil Gutknecht of Rochester, who has represented the First Congressional District 10 years. Pomeroy said if someone else runs as the Democratic candidate, he would share what he has learned from the experience: "If it's not me, I will do my best to help the next candidate." MORE Pomeroy was pleased that the contest had no negative advertising. "Negative advertising is so despicable," he said. "We are exemplary down here in southern Minnesota." Pomeroy said that he would like to know which issues or reasons the voters had for voting for the other side, whether it was moral issues, name recognition, or another reason. What is next for Pomeroy? "I plan to open my mail from the last few months, and I will be teaching some courses at MSU-Mankato," he said.

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Coors loss bothers WSU GOP leader

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 8, 2004 -- The president of the College Republicans at Winona State University, Parker Hjelmberg, said that other than Pete Coors, the loser in the Colorado U.S. Senate race, the elections couldn't have gone much better for Republicans. Hjelmberg was even nonplussed that Minnesota went to Democrat John Kerry for president.Minnesota is Democratic territory, Hjelmberg said, pointing to 1984 when Ronald Reagan won 49 of the 50 states but not Minnesota. Last week Kerry carried 51 percent of Minnesota and 52 percent of Winona County. MORE Hjelmberg hopes that Bush can get the budget deficit under control in his next four years. He also hopes that Bush will choose strong justices for the U.S. Supreme Court, make his tax cuts permanent and continue to fight what he called an effective war on terror. Hjelmberg could hardly contain his satisfaction at the Bush victory: "Kerry was an absolutely horrible candidate." Many of the Democratic candidates in the primaries would have been better, he said. MORE Many Winona Republicans, including Hjelmberg, partied at Betty Jo's restaurant and bar election night, watching the elections live until they were kicked out when the place closed about 2 a.m. With the election over, the Winona State Republicans' main focus has turned to the club's Adopt a Solider program. "We will send letters and boxes of miscellaneous stuff overseas to U.S. soldiers," said Hjelmberg.

PARKER HJELMBERG WSU student Republican president

Sviggum back as House leader

Savings plans slight needy families

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WSU prof: Levy failure was Round One

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 8, 2004 -- Winona State University education prof Jean Leiscaster calls last week's Winona school levy failure a rehearsal. Leicester believes within a year there will be another attempt to pass a school levy. In the meantime, she said, the campaign for the levy that failed has helped people understand what needs to be done. When there has been time to efficiently advertise and Winona residents see the major teacher and class cuts in Winona schools, then people will see the levy is needed, said Leicester. MORE She said that although new schools Superintendent Paul Durand went to more than 100 city groups and meetings to endorse the levy, Leicester said there was not enough time to effectively advertise. After the levy was proposed by Durand last summer, he worked with the school board to keep the tax increase reasonable, said Leicester. On average, if the levy would have passed, residents of Winona would be paying almost double the levy tax. The new levy would have produced $1.5 million more than the current levy, which generates $2.4 million per year. The levy would have enabled smaller class sizes, a reinstatement of music and art classes and more staff at schools. MORE Leicester said there are two principals heading six schools in Winona because there is not enough school funding. Leicester said the aging population in Winona was another challenge in passing the levy. "The older residents have no children in the district anymore so they don't see any value in the levy," said Leicester. Leicester said older residents live on a fixed income and they feel they cannot afford anymore taxes. Leicester, who voted in favor of the levy, said she sees education as an investment. "These students are going to be making decisions about my life, and my taxes, and I want them to be well educated," said Leicester. Leicester said without the levy, there will be a $3.6 million deficit by 2006.

JEAN LEICESTER WSU education prof

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Background: How the WSU neighborhood voted

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Campus Democrat: GOP defaulted

WINONA, Minn., Nov. 8, 2004 -- The president of the Winona State University Democrats, Ryan Flynn, credited the victory of the party's candidates in the Winona in part to an implosion of the College Republicans on campus. Flynn said that College Republicans did not do nearly as much to support their candidates. Referring to Republican gain nationally, Flynn said: "While the national results were disappointing, the Democrats did very well on a state level." He pointed to the 2:1 victory of Gene Pelwoski for the Minnesota over the Republican candidate, recent Winona State alum Nick Ridge. In the main campus precinct, Ridge took only 34 percent of the vote. Flynn was not surprised, saying that Ridge held only the Republican base that votes a straight ticket. MORE The College Democrats were active campaigning for weeks, including their Voter ID project to poll students in the dorms and checking to make sure that they voted. Flynn said that the group spent a lot of time at tables in the student union as well as volunteering with the county Democratic Party. Now that the election is over, Flynn said that the College Democrats will spend the rest of the year educating their peers about party positions and holding social events to build cohesion.

RYAN FLYNN WSU Democrat leader