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Report: graduate school restructuring may be unnecessary
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An academic staff committee released a report Wednesday stating their belief that the proposed restructuring of the graduate school is unnecessary. The ad hoc committee was created to review a plan submitted by Provost Paul DeLuca that would create a new office to manage UW-Madison’s research operations. Currently, research grants and procedures are managed within the graduate school. The report concluded that while some changes may be necessary, the proposed restructuring would not solve the current problems in the system. The official report states, “While the Committee recognizes that there are problematic areas of the research enterprise that are not functioning optimally… the current consensus of the Committee is that this is not due to the organizational structure per se.” Committee member Jenny Dahlberg of the UW-Madison Neuroscience Training Program said the current system has been successful in promoting both quality graduate education and a successful research enterprise. She said she feared the proposal would weaken that aspect of the university. “I fear the Provost either neglected to articulate, or to consider, the potential negative conse-
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USDA says UW animal research facilities compliant in new report “Specifically, the visit was to look at … an issue of where there was a gerbil and several dogs, and [the USDA] wanted to make certain that the laboratory veterinarians were informed when animals were displaying any evidence of disease.” The inspector also asked for an update to all 20 violations. According to the ten-page detailed
quences a restructuring could have on both our national research and graduate school rankings,” she said. The report also voiced concerns over the cost of the proposed plan. The committee said the cost of adding a Vice Chancellor-level position to oversee the research program would not necessarily address the current shortcomings in the system. The committee’s report recommends to UW-Madison administrators that more assessment is needed before making any decisions regarding the future of the research program. Dahlberg said she stresses the importance of strategic planning and increased transparency in funding UW-Madison’s extensive research enterprise. “Too often a crisis request was made and funds were allocated to bridge the gap but no long-term plans were made to deal with the root of the problem,” she said. The committee said that this lack of future planning may have negative consequences for the research program and the campus as a whole in the long run. Some staff have previously stated that the proposal appeared to be fast-tracked through the system, however, administrators have said the proposed changes are necessary to deal with the complexity and the scope of the university’s research.
Committee ranks Madison Initiative funding proposals By Kelsey Gunderson
The U.S. Department of Agriculture cleared UW-Madison’s Research Animal Resources Center as compliant with animal welfare standards according to a report released last week. A representative to the USDA visited UW-Madison to meet with the Center’s associate director and several veterinarians to follow up an inspection in December 2009, according to Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research.
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The Madison Initiative Student Oversight Board ranked the second round of proposals for the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates funding Saturday and Sunday. The MIU, which Chancellor Biddy Martin proposed last spring, is an additional tuition fee for all students. The initiative aims to increase needbased financial aid, open up high-demand courses and to increase the quality of all practices at UW-Madison. According to Associate Students of Madison Chair Tyler Junger, various
schools and colleges within UW-Madison, like the political science department and the Office of the Dean of Students, submitted proposals for the funding. He said most of the proposals asked for more teaching assistants or professors, and some were for specific services like the McBurney Disability Resource Center. Junger said the board, which consists of several members of ASM, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and five UW-Madison students from across campus, read a total of 114 proposals submitted in late November, and gave each of them a ranking from one asm page 3
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New Planned Parenthood facility opens on South Park Street on anniversary of Roe v. Wade decision By Allison Geyer The Daily Cardinal
On the 37th anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, Madison community members gathered to celebrate the grand opening of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin’s new health center located at 2222 S. Park St. “The center opened on Dec.1, and we have been busy ever since,” center manager Jessie Letarte said. Located in the Villager Shopping Center, near the MTU South Transfer Point, the new center is a consolida-
tion of the former West Mifflin Street and Madison South Planned Parenthood locations. “We had been trying to move for the last 15 years,” said Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin CEO Teri Huyck. “The West Mifflin site was literally falling apart, and the Madison South site did not have a restroom,” she said. “Now with this new state of the art health center we have a great place to care for our patients.” Each year, Planned Parenthood profacility page 3
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A committee met to rank the second round of MIU funding proposals Saturday.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
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Breaking the ice with the world’s worst TA cool with everyone? (Silence, broken only by a girl texting directly in front of the TA ) TA: You know? Cool! Because it’s an ice breaker? Get it?!?! Haha! “That Guy”: HAHAHA hilarious Stace! It’s ok if I call you Stace, right Stace? TA: Of course you can! You can call me Stace, Stacy, Stacerino, whatever makes you feel comfortable! Heck, I’ll probably even respond to “hey you, teacher lady!” (The class laughs unenthusiastically. The girl directly in front of the TA has her Blackberry on the desk and is actively texting.) TA: Ok then! When I call your name, why don’t you say your name, where you’re from, and something interesting about you! Let’s start with... Marcus... Antod-... Antodooki-... Marcus: ...Antadoukian TA: Sorry! I’m the worst at names, haha! It’s always been a weakness of mine, along with Comm. Arts, grading and the English language! Marcus: Uh... Well anyways, I’m Marcus, I’m from Milwaukee, and... there’s nothing really interesting about me... um... well, I really like dogs, I guess. TA: Oh wow, you like dogs? I love dogs, absolutely adore them. I have six of them at the apartment I share with
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ith the beginning of the semester upon us, most people are easing back into classes, cursing their sudden lack of free time and pining for the carefree days of winter break. While I hardly call myself a fan of school, I will say that the beginning of the semester is my favorite two weeks of the school year, by far. Not only are there very few academic commitments, but every discussion section begins with the same awkward introduction by the TA. For those of you who are extending your vacations by an extra week and claiming that you “just switched sections,” here’s a relatively accurate transcript of what you missed. TA: Uh, hey guys, how’s it going? Everyone’s here for Comm. Arts 250, right? (Silence.) TA: Haha, ok then! Well anyways, I’m Stacy, and I’ll be your TA this semester. Now, I know that ice breakers are totally lame, but just so I can start to learn your guys’ names, we’re going to do a few ice breakers! Is that
my boyfriend, who is definitely not the professor of this course! Class: ... TA: Moving on! Let’s see, is it... Ariel Berkowitz? Ariel: Yup, but just call me Ari. TA: Oh wow, not Ariel, like “The Little Mermaid”? Ariel: Maybe if I wasn’t a dude. TA: (singing) Under the sea! Haha, that movie was great! Not one of the ones we’re studying this semester, unfortunately! (The girl directly in front of the TA plays a YouTube video of “Under the Sea” on her Blackberry with the volume on) Ari: Right... Well I’m Ari, I’m from New York, and... um... I like cats. TA: Sweet merciful Christ! CATS?!?! I LOVE CATS! I WOULD GLADLY SACRIFICE MY FIRSTBORN CHILD WITH PROFESSOR FABER FOR A CAT! DO YOU HAVE ANY CATS?!?! Ari: Uh, no. TA: Cool! Great! Well, do you want to get any later on? Ari: Uh, no. TA: Wow! That’s unbelievably fascinating! Well, nice to meet you Ariel! (singing) Under the seeeeeea, haha! Let’s see, who’s next... (15 minutes later) TA: Well, I guess that’s all of you! I can already tell this is going to be
an awesome class! Now, let’s go over the syllabus... (One guy in the back is already asleep. Several other guys are discreetly checking out the hottest girl in the class and awkwardly pulling their hoodies down to hide their boners. The girl in the front is having a phone conversation with someone named Rocco.) TA: Now, that 10 percent for participation isn’t a gimme, you know! You need to raise your hand at least three times per class, because, let’s be honest, I’ll be way too hungover to actually teach you guys anything most Friday mornings. Thirsty Thursdays, am I right?!?! You guys know what I’m talking about! “That Guy”: HAHAHA Thirsty Thursday! Did you come up with that yourself Stace? TA: Well, it’s almost time to go. Does anyone have any questions for me before we leave? (Everyone is silent. “That guy” is raising his hand, but the TA is ignoring him. Even the girl directly in front has put her Blackberry away and is waiting on the edge of her seat.) TA: Well, I’ll see you guys next week! I can already tell, this is going to be a great semester! E-mail Kevin your TA horror stories at kevslane@gmail.com.
A mi manera propósitos para el nuevo año ISABEL ÁLVAREZ mona isa
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ada 31 de diciembre miles de personas deciden empezar el año nuevo con una lista de propósitos que les ayudarán a mejorar como individuos. Dietas para adelgazar, hacer ejercicio, beber menos...etc. Yo, como todos estos ilusos, también me plantee mejorar personalmente en el 2010: quiero dejar de fumar. Sin embargo mi propósito no se me planteó el 31 de diciembre. Es más, en la fiesta de nochevieja debí fumar más que en toda mi vida. Creo que sufrí las consecuencias del humo y el alcohol durante más de una semana. Mi planteamiento llegó el 18 de
enero de este año, cuando viajaba de Madrid a Chicago en avión. Yo como siempre, para poder pasar el semestre en Madison sin gastarme todo mi dinero en tabaco americano, había comprado unos cartones de tabaco en el aeropuerto de Madrid. Cual es mi sorpresa cuando llego a la parte de aduanas del aeropuerto de Chicago, y me doy cuenta que no tengo la mítica bolsita amarilla del duty free conmigo. ¿Dónde leches está? Inmediatamente me di cuenta que me la había dejado en el avión. La había metido en un compartimiento diferente y por supuesto cuando aterricé, entre que había bebido dos mini-botellas de vino y tomado dos pastillas para dormir, no sabía si estaba en Chicago o en el quinto sueño. Después de haber maldecido a todos los santos posibles, me di cuenta de que esto que me
había pasado no tenía que ser horrible. Es más, podía considerarlo como una señal para que en este 2010, dejara de fumar completamente. Y así lo hice. Llevo una semana sin fumar y debo decir que aunque no ha sido fácil, vivir en Estados Unidos lo hace mucho más simple. El hecho de que no se pueda fumar en ningún lado hace que los fumadores sociales como yo no tengamos tentaciones tan frecuentes. Obviamente, ha habido momentos claves en los que me moría por un cigarro. Por ejemplo, esperando la cola del “power tour” del Nitty Gritty casi me da un ataque. En esos momentos es donde todos los fumadores aprovechan para intoxicarse primero y luego entrar a un lugar cerrado. También después de un concierto el sábado, todo el mundo
sale y ¡zas!, cigarro que te crió. He durado una semana sin fumar y lo seguiré intentando, pero ¿sabéis lo que me costaría hacer esto en España? Es imposible. En España tu te levantas, y estás en una ola de humo, ya directamente. La gente fuma desde por la mañana hasta que se acuesta. Mis hermanos fuman, todas mis amigas fuman, mi abuela y mi tía fuman...¡estoy rodeada! Por eso este ultimo semestre en Madison no solo me va a servir para destrozarme el hígado a base de bebidas baratas, pero también intentaré rejuvenecer mis pulmones aprovechándome del ambiente no fumador de este nuestro gran campus. ¿Crees que Isabel no debería dejar de fumar? ¿Tienes algunos trucos para ayudarla a dejarlo? Envíaselos a alvarezvalca@dailyc ardinal.com.
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Court says justices can hear cases involving campaign donors Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are now allowed to hear cases involving their campaign contributors after the Court approved new rules on a 4-3 vote Thursday. The new rules, written by a business lobby group that spent money on both Justice Michael Gableman and Justice Annette Ziegler’s campaigns, are criticized for allowing justices to seek and accept campaign funds from companies or individuals with pending cases. Mike McCabe, executive director of the government watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, said an American Viewpoint poll conducted in 2008 showed five percent of Wisconsin residents believe judges’ decisions are not swayed by campaign contributions. Danny marchewka/the daily cardinal
U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, speaks during the grand opening of the new Planned Parenthood facility.
facility from page 1 vides health care to over 10,000 people in the Dane County area, according to Letarte. In addition to providing birth control methods, pregnancy testing, counseling, STD testing and treatment and midlife hormone replacement therapy, PPWI offers education on topics such as family planning and sexual health. “In 2009, we provided education to nearly 4,000 members of the Dane County community,” said Meghan Benson, Dane County Education Programs Manager for PPWI. A $700,000 capital campaign for private donations made the move to the shopping center a reality. The 4,400 square foot facility offers increased parking, a more central location and updated exam rooms. Signs are posted in English as well as Spanish.
asm from page 1 to four. He said at first glance, the board gave only 19 of the proposals a ranking of one, and then later divided the top-ranked proposals out as well. Junger said overall, he felt this round of rankings went much smoother than round one because the board had a longer time period to read over the proposals. He added that he felt the submitted proposals were very well organized. “There were very few problems,” he said. “The proposals were very clear in what they wanted, they seemed to be tailored to be very open as to what it is they were looking for.” Junger said the proposals will be sent to another committee before they present their rankings and make suggestions to Martin on Feb. 16. He said Martin will then decide on which proposals to fund in late February or early March.
The capital campaign was co-chaired by U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, who was present at the grand opening Saturday. “With this new facility, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is improving the wonderful services it already provides for basic health care, family planning and community education,” Baldwin said. In addition to Planned Parenthood, the shopping center houses the Madison Urban League and the new Madison South Branch Public Library. The three organizations will work in partnership to benefit the community, according to Benson. “We have already developed a wonderful partnership with the Urban League, and we are looking forward to building our relationship with the Madison Public Library once they move in downstairs,” she said.
“It is hard to imagine that would not be perceived as a conflict of interest for a judge by many, if not most, citizens. In this way, the proposal falls far short of what is needed to restore public trust and inspire confidence in the integrity of the judiciary,” he said in a statement. Proponents of the new rules say campaign contributions do not necessarily cause a justice to participate in decisions with bids. In Justice David Prosser’s rule amendment proposal, he said requiring justices to involuntarily recuse themselves from cases discourages “the broadest possible participation in financing campaigns by all citizens of the state.” The Court’s decision to adopt the rules comes just days after
a slew of judicial and legislative decisions, on both the national and state level, that affect campaign contributions. “...the proposal falls far short of what is needed to restore public trust and inspire confidence in the integrity of the judiciary...” Mike McCabe executive director of the government watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
In December 2009, Gov. Jim Doyle signed into law the Impartial Justice bill, legislation that provides qualified Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates with full public financing. —Hannah Furfaro
Doyle introduces YoungStar, a new quality rating system for Wisconsin Shares program A quality rating system for child-care providers who receive funding from the Wisconsin Shares program aims to rank child-care quality under a new plan Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday. The new program, YoungStar, comes after a year of turmoil within the Wisconsin Shares program and a recent Department of Children
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report from December, the USDA cited sanitation, ventilation and enclosure concerns within the Center’s facilities. In one case, a pen housing a large pig was constructed with slats that regularly caused the pig to fall when its feet fell through. The report also noted a lack of cleanliness in some facilities. Dried blood, dust and floor stains were cited as deficiencies. Dirty air filters and an “excessive
and Families crackdown on fraudulent child-care providers. The ranking system will be based on the quality of the staff, health of the children and the child-care centers learning environment. In a statement, Doyle said after proposing a quality rating system three times he is “proud that [his] most recent budget allows [the state] to get this pro-
gram in place.” Under YoungStar, providers with the highest rankings will receive a greater share of the $400 million Wisconsin Shares budget than lower ranked providers. According to Doyle’s statement, the Joint Finance Committee will review the YoungStar plan in the coming weeks.
accumulation of flies” were also named as concerns. According to Sandgren, each of the violations has been addressed by fixing the problem immediately, ordering necessary equipment, or removing animals from inadequate space. Sandgren said the Center’s Animal Care and Use Committee also changed several cited protocols to ensure researchers were always searching for the least painful experiments. “Now we’re requiring a narra-
tive. Their concern was that there was no evidence that the investigators had done a search for alternative painful procedures because we didn’t require them to write what they did in the protocol” Sandgren said UW-Madison will also submit a report by April 1 to address 12 comments from the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, a federal agency that conducted its inspection alongside the USDA in December. —Ryan Hebel and Hannah Furfaro contributed to this report
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Ho-Chunk Nation not breaking ground in Madison This letter is a response to Todd Stevens’ article “Pray a dull fall doesn’t become a boring spring.” Your mention of the HoChunk Nation must be clarified. The Ho-Chunk Nation has not considered purchasing and developing Union Corners, let alone build “some museum.” I have been clarifying this to numerous reporters and even bloggers and alderpersons. An individual, who happens to be a Ho-Chunk Nation tribal member, has a vision for the property and he wishes to talk to bring that dream to fruition. So, alas, that news is so dull it’s not even news.
I am available if you ever have any questions concerning the Ho-Chunk Nation. We are an exciting group of people, that just happen to be a part of a sovereign nation. Sorry I can’t make any promises that we’ll make any groundbreaking news in Madison, but we will definitely be quite active throughout our ancestral homelands now known as Wisconsin. Best wishes for a newsworthy year.
—Anne Thundercloud Public Relations Officer The Ho-Chunk Nation
SPILL helps deal with mental health issues approach to the mental health of college students. QI GU opinion columnist
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nything bugging you recently? Perhaps it’s too early to ask that question since we’re just one week into the new semester. But even minor stressors may disrupt a well-kept daily schedule and cast a shadow over your bright mood in the long run. Meeting a professional counselor just seems like making a mountain out of a mole hill. Friends, on the other hand, are already too busy riding in the fast lane of college life. That is how SPILL, an e-mail-based peer listening group, came to fill the void. Although SPILL does not provide any forms of counseling services, it offers a novel
Spill is building more mutual care into our community.
Seeking help from SPILL is handy. Students can just send all of their complaints and frustrations in words to SPILL’s e-mail address. Then, according to the organization, volunteer facilitators with similar experiences will respond within 24 hours. So far, SPILL has listened to most common issues that faced by college students: stress at school, alarming relationships, drug abuse, and of course, problems with binge drinking.
All these e-mail contacts are anonymous. Neither SPILL facilitators nor students would know who exactly they are talking to. This allows the issues sent to the facilitators to be the focus of the interaction. Mental health in colleges has become a wide concern in recent years. According to the American College Health Association in 2008, stress was the top health impediment to students’ academic performance. Students may often find it uneasy to share their worries with people they already know, whereas anonymity creates more trust in the conversations between SPILL and UW students. Moreover, e-mail-based communication is much more timely than other, more conventional confideand-suggest dialogues you could have. Since SPILL usually sends your e-mail to three or four matching facilitators at the same time, you could hear feedback from multiple sources. The variety of opinions will
definitely make it easier to come up with informed solutions.
Students need compassionate and informative feedbacks to their specific cases.
Unlike most other listeningand-feedback practices, SPILL fosters invaluable empathy without encroaching upon privacy. Students frustrated with weight loss may offer great suggestions on issues like school performance. Looking at the big picture, the feedback e-mails you receive today might be incorporated into your peer advice for other UW students tomorrow. Beyond listening to daily gripes, SPILL is building more mutual care into our community.
Last fall, just two days into the semester, the organization already received 10 “spillers.” Over 90 students are helping out as facilitators. The popularity of SPILL holds up a mirror to other mental health services available to college students. For example, the UHS provides free counseling services to UW students. But given the size of our student body, this area of the UHS is greatly understaffed. Two weeks’ waiting time for an individual counseling appointment is common, and it only got worse when H1N1 hit the campus, clogging up their services. UHS already had the plan to expand its counseling team in late 2009, but no concrete steps have been taken so far. Even when they are lucky enough to talk with a counselor in time, many students do not find the ease they are struggling for. The official conversation contains much more serious diagnosis than compassion. What about more moderate problems? Sometimes we just feel grumpy about our poor progress in class or earlier fights with best friends. Going to see a psychologist is just making a fuss. There are countless web sites telling people how to better manage their lives. Many of these are tailored for college students. But the sites mostly offer only general information about broad categories of issues. Students need compassionate and informative feedbacks to their specific cases. Who would bother to search through the gigantic lump of instructions on what to do about your mental health? Granted, SPILL still faces the intricate question of how to bridge the gap between merely peer talk and professional counseling. But the refreshing experience it offers may inspire more outreach from mental health services to college students. All in all, we have got to smooth out the rumples in our life every now and then. Qi Gu is a junior majoring in journalism. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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could reach the limelight. But make no mistake: In the two years leading up to Transference is no stint with the the release of Transference—Spoon’s Washington Wizards. seventh studio On record, frontCD REVIEW man Britt Daniel album—Spoon often sounds bored. has been faced The core of his with the lofty task detached vocals often of following up border on disdain, as their own perfection. Their previif he’s annoyed by the ous release, 2007’s pesky task of singing formidable Ga Ga and grudgingly aping Deference Ga Ga Ga, was through the songs Spoon about as concluonly so he can get sive a punctuation back to whatever else mark as it gets, the full-bodied con- he was doing before. But on songs like clusion to the skeletal sketches they’d “Written In Reverse” and “Trouble slowly perfected throughout the pre- Comes Running,” he evokes legiticeding 13 years. If there was any room mate spite. He’s still not happy, but for improvement left in their airtight instead of this being an excuse to creases or minimalist instrumenta- escape to less arduous activities, he tion, they didn’t show it. channels his malice as a reason to stick Michael Jordan faced a similar around for a while. crossroads in 1998 after solidifying himself as the greatest basketball player to ever play the game. Fresh off his unprecedented second “three-peat,” his airness left the sport at the top It’s a listener-defined record of his game. He had accomplished in that listener participation everything he should have and won defines its boundaries. everything he could have. There was no place for him to go but down. And in 2001, that’s exactly what happened. For many, his return attempts with the Those focused events are still the Wizards several years after his championship runs marred his legacy. The exception, but they ultimately provide indomitable super-freak became an the album with incredible pacing. Just insufferable legend, constantly lurking as “Who Makes Your Money” starts in the foreground and stunting the to drift, “Written in Reverse” shoves it growth of several players before they back into line. And just as that starts THE DAILY CARDINAL
to get a little too punchy, “I Saw the Light” takes a step back and calms the scene. And that call-and-response mechanism repeats throughout the album’s duration. “Trouble Comes Running” sounds the alarms, and “Goodnight Laura” puts all wearies to rest before “Out Go the Lights” serves as a soothing wake-up and transition to another rousing dosage in “Got Nuffin.” Transference is an intimidating scope of peaks and valleys, but consider Spoon a pack of mules hired only to make sure your trek is painless. Over the course of their career, Spoon have solidified themselves as the most dependable name in modern indie rock. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga cemented them in the halls of indie rock lore, and it’s hard not to receive the inner tidiness of Transference without thinking the band is gloating. If their victory lap has any potholes, though, it’s that it is a little too passive to demand immediate attention. Although it’s no more minimalist than any of their other albums, its highs and lows are not as pronounced as they once were, making it easy to gloss over without exhausting too much enthusiasm. In that way it’s a background record, sure, but Transference also rewards closer listening. The contrasts are less subtle, but they’re well-defined and pronounced. It’s a listener-defined record in that listener participation defines its boundaries. Where Spoon’s off-handed ambiguity once existed between clearly defined lines of instrumentation, here they blur the lines and let
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Spoon may have hit their peak with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, but Transference is evidence that their signature sound and talent aren’t going anywhere. the obscured presentation morph to qualities and covert hostility will fit its external context. still demand repeated exposure What makes Spoon’s story from the staunchest, most curespecially unique is the way their mudgeonly indie kids as well. It has often been said, “It’s better to fan base has transformed. Once merely a venerable band that every burn out than fade away.” But in some indie kid could agree on, they’ve rare cases, people are given the opportaken on a new audience in adult tunity to shine brightly for years past contempo. But unlike Wilco, their apex. And even if Transference they’ve done so without sacrificing doesn’t open the clouds to reveal a any of their signature sound, and higher ceiling of trumpeting children without losing any of their indie and grazing cattle, the very fact that cred. On the surface, Transference the height of Spoon’s mountain doesn’t is a smooth record that will fit drop off to a heap of hazardous waste snugly between Death Cab for is more than any honest fan could Cutie, the Shins and whatever expect. It’s not like the journey to other indie-gone-adult contempo Transference was all that difficult, but bands frequenting your father’s car as long as we’re here we may as well sit stereo, but its inherent substantive around and enjoy the view.
New movie ‘Tooth Fairy’ bites, less entertaining than a trip to the dentist By Kevin Slane THE DAILY CARDINAL
Very few people would expect “The Tooth Fairy” to be a great movie. Still, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a bad boy hockey player turned temporary tooth fairy could have made for a breezy 100 minutes of harmless movie fluff for kids. Instead, “The Tooth Fairy” is dragged down to direct-tovideo levels of horribleness by disjointed writing, annoying characters and an overemphasis on its “dreams can come true” message. Johnson plays Derek “The Tooth Fairy” Thompson, an NHL has-been who recently relegated to sideshow status in the minor leagues, only brought on to please fans with bone-crushing hits that literally knock teeth out. Derek’s major problem, however, is that he crushes dreams, telling one
child fan that he will never get into the NHL, and to “lower his expectations.”
One of the most grating aspects about “The Tooth Fairy” is how unlikable and one-dimensional every single character is.
Later on, Derek steals money from under his girlfriend’s daughter’s pillow for a poker game and tries to tell her the Tooth Fairy doesn’t exist, something his girlfriend Carly (Ashley Judd) considers so offensive she kicks him out of the house. That night, Derek is transported to Fairy Land, where he meets his court
worker Tracy (Stephen Merchant) and the head fairy Lily (Julie Andrews), who sentences him to two weeks of tooth fairy community service for his “dissemination of disbelief.” One of the most grating aspects of “The Tooth Fairy” is how unlikable and one-dimensional every single character is. Judd falls completely flat as the divorced mother with kids, Andrews looks worn out as the head fairy, and teen skateboarding dreamboat Ryan Sheckler is a pest as teen hockey phenom Mick Donnelly. Merchant fares the worst, as his sniveling court worker Tracy is so unlikable that audiences may find it tough to sympathize with his dream of becoming a real tooth fairy, even though he doesn’t have wings.
Oh, did I not mention Tracy has wing envy? Well, the movie barely does either, relying on a strange homoerotic montage of glowing wings to fill in the cavity-sized plot holes. “The Tooth Fairy” tends to jump from one plot point to the next, leaving the feeling that each of the five credited writers wrote their own version of the movie, then met up and selected the best scenes from each.
“Tooth” be told, if the writers hadn’t decided to “wing” it, the film could’ve been “fairy” good.
The only consistent theme throughout the film is its exaggerated “follow your dreams” message. Every scene in which Johnson dares speak frankly to a kid about his dreams ends in wild reactions, from his girlfriend throwing him out to her son smashing his electric guitar because Derek tells him he probably won’t be as good as Eric Clapton. Apart from a brief cameo by Billy Crystal and a few laughs involving some Tooth Fairy goodies (shrinking paste and amnesia dust are pretty hard concepts to mess up), “The Tooth Fairy” is terrible. “Tooth” be told, if the writers hadn’t decided to “wing” it, the film could’ve been “fairy” good. Sorry Rock, but like your movie posters say, sometimes the “Tooth” hurts.
Viral Videos of the Week Search terms: The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes of All Time Relive all your sentimentality and/or disgust with the top cliché movie quotes in just nine minutes! Some clips could be interpreted as more disturbing than cheesy, but all are entertaining in a laughable sort of way. They may even complete you, have you at hello or make you feel like you’re the king of the world.
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While the bad performance from “The Rock” isn’t surprising, appearances from Billy Crystal and Julie Andrews are an ache of disappointment.
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Today’s Sudoku
Evil Bird
By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu
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Ludicrous Linguistics
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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
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Charlie and Boomer
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Washington and the Bear
By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com
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Postseason chances uncertain after UW splits series By Nico Savidge THE DAILY CARDINAL
After the Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s 4-3 loss to St. Cloud State Saturday, reality set in for sophomore forward Brooke Ammerman. Coming into the series the Badgers sat at No. 7 in the national rankings, placing them on the bubble for a berth in the eightteam NCAA tournament. But with another split series against a supposedly inferior opponent, Wisconsin could drop further in the rankings, and the team that romped to an NCAA title one year ago could miss the tournament entirely this season. “We should be peaking right now,” Ammerman said. “Now we just really have to run the table and just get ourselves in the top eight ... we really have to bear down.” Yet the bounces the Badgers did not get against the Huskies Saturday went their way Friday as Wisconsin benefitted from a hat trick by sopho-
hockey from page 8 Badgers answered with three goals in just over four minutes. Then even after Denver tied the game, the Badgers generated a number of good chances to answer again. On Saturday, Wisconsin twice had an answer on both occasions when the Pioneers tied the game, with the second one being the difference between a series win and a two-tie split. The experience of matching a top team play for play can only help the team down the road. The Badgers also did well in not allowing the late momentum Friday night dissipate before the next game. They came out strong with the opening goal Saturday and scored three times in the first 30 minutes. Retaining momentum during the week-to-week grind of the next few months would go a long way in securing Wisconsin’s NCAA tournament aspirations. “Obviously we need to carry
tennis from page 8 Bertha and junior Marek Michalicka at No. 3, the Badgers collected the remaining singles points. The squad only improved on the morning’s victory in mid-afternoon play, beating Division III, in-state rival UW-Whitewater 7-0. In doubles play, the Badgers swept all three matches, a stat that doesn’t accurately reflect the fight waged at No. 1 by the Warhawks against sophomore Patrick Pohlmann and Freeman, who finally pulled out the win, 8-6. Whitewater forced three first-set tiebreaks in singles play, but lost steam quickly, winning only 10 second set games across all six positions and surrendering the remaining points to the Badgers. Among the Badgers who got a chance to shine in Saturday’s series was a January addition, freshman Ricardo Martin. Martin picked up three straight-set singles wins and an 8-2 doubles victory with Bertha. “My first two [matches] were OK, and then I started to play so much better,” Martin, who could hardly have had a better debut, said. “I had hoped to win all my games, and I did.” After more than five hours on the court, the men maintained their pace in a singles only contest against UWGreen Bay. Putting down any possible questions of fitness, Michalicka, Dierberger, Bertha, Freeman and Martin dismissed their opponents,
more forward Carolyne Prevost in a 5-3 win over St. Cloud State. For an offense that has struggled—the Badgers had scored five or more goals against an opponent just four times prior to Friday’s series opener—Prevost said it was important for them to have a strong performance. “It’s a relief, one, to get five goals in a game, it hasn’t happened for us in a little while,” she said. Prevost and Wisconsin seemed to have a response whenever St. Cloud threatened. The Badgers took a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the Huskies refused to go away, cutting the Wisconsin lead to one on three occasions. Whenever they threatened, however, the Badgers did not let the game get away from them—each time St. Cloud cut the lead to one, Prevost scored to give Wisconsin some insurance. “Everyone really had their mind set on fighting the whole game and the momentum going into Duluth. That’s going to be a huge weekend too, they’re a pretty hot team,” senior captain Ben Street said. “We just gotta keep that going, hopefully we can build on this little bit of confidence we have going, keep that going for the rest of the season.” That series will mean facing another strong team in No. 4 Duluth, which sits atop the WCHA two points ahead of the Badgers. One week after his team imploded in the first period of the Saturday game against Colorado College, Eaves saw this weekend’s success as an experience his team could take forward. “There is no better way to reward yourself at the end of the season by winning these types of games,” Eaves said. “It’s good to see our kids win tough games. It gives us confidence. We understand from the inside-out the types of things we need to do to win these games.” In the big picture, that understanding may be a crucial factor when March rolls around. each dropping no more than five games. The Badgers suffered their only loss at No. 3 as Pohlmann fell to Phoenix sophomore Paul Swanson after cramping up in a super tiebreak for the third set. Pohlmann may have felt the consequences of a difficult day, participating in five matches and contesting tiebreaks in all three of his singles matches. Even with the loss, the Badgers won 5-1. Saturday’s sweep was exactly the result sought by the Badgers, who entered the dual season this spring five places ahead of last year’s No. 37 finish. On the roster, No. 6 senior Moritz Baumann and No. 20 Michalicka started the season with their highest career rankings yet, and the Badgers welcome freshmen Bertha, Martin and Freeman to the squad. “When they came in, we knew they could play, and they just fit in right away,” the veteran Dierberger said of the newcomers. “Which has been great on and off the court, so that always helps the team chemistry.” According to Van Emburgh, the team still has plenty of experience to go around, balancing youthful additions and talented veterans. “I don’t think we’re going to have too many guys who are really green underneath the collar,” Van Emburgh said. “We’ve got some experienced tennis players, and I think they know what’s at stake, and they’re going to be up for the challenge.”
I think we accomplished that,” said junior forward/defenseman Geena Prough, who also scored. Although she was pleased with the win, head coach Tracey DeKeyser said the penalties the Badgers took, especially against a Husky team that is strong on the power play, were unnecessary and frustrating. “We have to be more disciplined, stay out of the box, we have to be better on the penalty kill, we have to fight,” Ammerman said. “We let so many pucks in today because we just weren’t fighting, we have to be better.” The Badgers did a good job pressuring the Husky goal, especially in the game’s dying minutes, but could not convert, and despite a number of good chances, lost the series finale. “That’s frustrating,” DeKeyser said. “Especially when you’re outshooting your opponent, you’re winning great faceoffs, you’re getting scoring chances [but] come up short.”
penn state from page 8 ing an overtime where Wisconsin finally seemed to take control. The final dagger came when Hughes pulled up and released a long, fading two pointer as the shot clock read two. The arena went quiet for a moment and the only sound was the faint tweet of a whistle. Then the ball slid through the net and the crowd exploded. Hughes dropped in the free
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Sophomore forward Brooke Ammerman and Wisconsin face an uphill battle to NCAA tournament qualification.
throw to put his team up eight, and they never looked back. The Badger attack, usually known for using post play as a central principle, had to shift to more of a driveand-kick style which was apparent during the comeback. Ryan played four guards along with Nankivil for the last 15 minutes of the game, when the offense finally got going. “You just have to keep searching. You just have to understand that sometimes things aren’t going
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Junior forward Keaton Nankivil scored scored 17 against PSU.
taylor from page 8 the Purdue game, and the Nittany Lion’s lead was cut down to five. “I finally got one to go down,” Taylor said with a smile. “I hadn’t hit a shot in three halves, so I figured one had to go down eventually. Then one went down and I kept shooting, and fortunately, I started to get hot a little bit.” Taylor got hot enough not to miss for the rest of the game. Following a travel by Penn State’s junior forward Andrew Ott, he hit another 3. And when Ott gave it away again on Penn State’s next possession, Taylor slipped into the lane and dropped in a shot to pull the Badgers into a tie. The layup capped off Taylor’s 8-0 run to clinch overtime.
“On the drive, I knew we were down two and I was just trying to make a play and get in the lane,” he said. “I was trying to make a play, and if they collapsed on me, then find an open guy, but they didn’t so I was just trying to make something happen.” In extra time, Taylor’s heroism continued. He hit his third 3 of the game and followed it up with a steal and a layup. Taylor would finish with 20 points on 6-of-14 shooting. In his explosive run he scored 18 of the team’s last 24 points and was rewarded with continuous applause from the sold-out Kohl Center. “We knew shots would fall. It didn’t look like it at the time, but there were stretches where we got hot, and Jordan [Taylor] started
to fit,” Ryan said. “[UW’s players] just stayed within themselves. We needed to attack the lanes a little better, attack the block ... When people take away one thing, you have to find another, and we did.” The Badgers hit five 3-pointers in the last ten minutes of regulation, but for much of the game were forced to contend with a defense that threw out multiple zone and man-to-man looks to keep the Badgers off rhythm. “They were taking us off the dribble late, driving, kicking and playing, and we didn’t contain the ball,” Penn State head coach Ed DeChellis said. “We can’t let 3 [Hughes] and 11 [Taylor] penetrate and find 12 [Bohannon] ... The first 35 minutes we did kind of what we wanted to do, and the last five we just didn’t do it.” That offense has struggled early in contests recently and Wisconsin has shot a lower percentage than its opponents in each of the last six games. The players and coaches noted that the team has been doing other things, like offensive rebounding against Northwestern or forcing a high number of turnovers Sunday afternoon, to compensate for off shooting nights. “We should get the ball in the paint a little more through penetration, but we’ve been getting good looks. Maybe we’re forcing too many 3s, but the majority of those are good shots, we just haven’t been hitting them,” Bohannon said. “It’s just a matter of us hitting them. We just have to keep grinding it out and doing whatever we need to do to get a victory.” So much for living dangerously. to lead us towards the end of the game and that really propelled us to the victory,” senior guard Jason Bohannon said. It was Taylor’s second 20-point game of the season, and thanks to his run, the Badgers completed the second-largest second-half deficit comeback against a Big Ten team. The 16-point comeback is topped by only an 18-point comeback against Ohio State in 1976. “Jordan Taylor got it going there the last couple minutes and made a big basket to tie the game,” Penn State’s head coach Ed DeChellis said. “That’s kind of been the story of our season. We’ve been one play away from winning several of these games. We just haven’t made that one play.”
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Men’s Hockey
Wisconsin takes series against No. 1 Denver RECAP
By Parker Gabriel THE DAILY CARDINAL
If there was any question as to what a series between two premier college hockey teams should look like, the No. 3 Wisconsin Badgers and No. 1 Denver Pioneers provided a clear answer at the Kohl Center this weekend. After battling back from a two-goal deficit in a frantic third period to force a tie on Friday night, Wisconsin took to the ice on Saturday in front of a sell-out crowd and grabbed an early lead. Denver clawed back into the game late, but senior forward Michael Davies notched the game winner for the Badgers with less than seven minutes to play, earning UW a three-point weekend while solidifying a spot in the thick of the conference championship race. “Everything is elevated when the rankings are so high and there is a little bit more on the line,” senior forward and captain Ben Street said. Wisconsin looked like the more aggressive team in the opening moments on Friday, but failed to capitalize due to some stingy defense from the Pioneers. After scoring a goal late in the first period and skating scoreless through the second, Denver extended its lead to two goals in the
first two minutes of the third. The Badgers, however, got an answer from senior forward and captain Blake Geoffrion. After failing to convert on five straight powerplay chances, Wisconsin broke into the scorebooks when Geoffrion re-directed a shot from Davies and found the back of the net. The goal snapped a 183-minute scoreless streak against the Pioneers and sparked a ferocious comeback. Davies tied the game at the 7:15 mark of the third and Geoffrion tallied his second goal of the period just a minute and half later, giving Wisconsin the lead and threatening to blow the roof off the Kohl Center. “I’m happy with the way we battled back and stayed with it,” Davies said. “Everything just started going in.” Denver came back and tied the game with less than two minutes left, forcing an overtime that presented scoring opportunities for both teams, but ultimately resulted in a 3-3 draw. Saturday, the script flipped as the Badgers drew first blood. Street scored from the middle of the ice off of a pass through traffic from Davies, who had the puck below the left goal line extended. Davies, who would later add the game winner, drew high praise from head coach Mike Eaves after the game.
“Michael is really playing well,” Eaves said. “He’s playing with a great deal of confidence right now, doing a lot of little things that you like to see a senior do, and its becoming very effective for us.” After Denver tied the game at 1-1, Wisconsin took a two-goal lead in the second period with goals from freshman forward Craig Smith and sophomore forward Jordy Murray. The Pioneers mounted another comeback, tying the game 6:36 into the third period. “Every game has momentum swings, it’s just how you manage them,” Street said. “With us being up and them coming back to tie it, I thought we did a pretty good job of managing that.” Davies’ game-winning goal came off of a faceoff in the Wisconsin offensive zone. After winning the faceoff, the puck slid to freshman defenseman Justin Schultz, who ripped a shot to the far side, where Davies re-directed it past Denver junior goalie Marc Cheverie, igniting the crowd and capping off a satisfying weekend of hockey for the Badgers.“Taking three out of four points from Denver is always a good weekend,” Street said. “To win the game like that is huge for our team.” “That’s championship-level material,” Eaves said.
Weekend results solidify Badgers’ elite status ANALYSIS By Ben Breiner THE DAILY CARDINAL
After a series like the battle between No. 3 Wisconsin and No. 1 Denver this weekend, there is a temptation to focus on the immediate themes like the massive momentum swings and how the Badgers took the final swing to get a three point weekend. But to do that would mean missing the larger picture. The three points and confidence in closing out a top team, as the Badgers did Saturday with a late goal to secure the series win, could pay gross dividends down the road as Wisconsin enters its stretch run to the tournament. “The best thing about this weekend is the fact, when you play at that level, that’s championship hockey,” Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves said. “The intensity, the battle of two teams that have skill, that have strong will, have a strong work ethic, good goaltending. What better way to prepare yourselves for the end of the year than playing these type of games?”
In those high-level games, the Badgers seemed to have an answer for everything the topranked Pioneers could throw at them. Down 2-0 early in the third
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The Wisconsin men’s tennis team opened dual season play Saturday with three overwhelming victories over non-conference foes Butler, UW-Whitewater and Green Bay. “All the teams that we played today were definitely competitive,” Wisconsin head coach Greg
Badgers survive scare at the hands of Penn State RECAP By Ben Breiner THE DAILY CARDINAL
For the previous three games, the Badgers had been living dangerously. They recovered after falling behind Northwestern in the second half and survived a disastrous start against Michigan, but on Sunday it looked like that lifestyle had caught up to them. Down 16 with 11 minutes left in the game against Penn State, it appeared the Badgers were finished against the worst team in the Big Ten. But in the Kohl Center, the gap between appearing finished and actually being finished is pretty wide. No. 18 Wisconsin (6-2 Big Ten, 16-4 overall) roared back against the Nittany Lions (0-7, 8-11), pulling out a thrilling 7971 overtime victory. The Badgers needed two big runs after the break to earn the largest second half comeback since 1982. “We have tough young men that will just go toe to toe with you for 40 and go another five if you have to,” Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan said. “It’s just the young men that we have that can make something like that happen when it seems like everything is going the other way.” A jumper from junior forward David Jackson gave Penn State a 52-36 lead, and it seemed like the Badgers, who had struggled offen-
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Senior forward Michael Davies notched the game-winning goal Saturday to ensure a three-point weekend for Wisconsin.
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Sophomore guard Jordan Taylor overcame a shaky start against Penn State to finish the game with 20 points.
sively to that point, would see an end to their home court perfection against unranked teams under Ryan. And then the Badgers found their rhythm. First, senior point guard Trevon Hughes hit a shot from beyond the arc, and then senior guard Jason Bohannon forced a turnover and took it down court himself for a lay-up. Wisconsin’s roll kept going, and finally junior forward Keaton Nankivil capped off the 15-0 run with a long jump shot off a kick out from sophomore guard Jordan Taylor. Turnovers were key to the Badgers’ resurgence as they forced 18, the second most by a Wisconsin opponent this year. “We were playing some good defense and we forced them into some things they didn’t want to do,” Bohannon said. “I thought we did a good job of forcing them to areas that they didn’t want to be at and it led to a turnover.” But Penn State answered as junior guard Talor Battle ripped off six of his game-high 28 points and a dunk by junior forward Andrew Ott silenced a crowd that was raucous moments earlier. The Badgers were down eight with two minutes left, but Taylor, who had been ice cold for the last four games, brought the crowd back to life. He scored the next eight, forcpenn state page 7
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Van Emburgh said after match play wound down Saturday. “We’re going to have a long season, so we want to start out by getting matched tough, and we were able to do that right here at Nielsen.” The No. 32 Badgers made quick work of Butler (0-2), downing the unranked opponent 6-1 overall. Junior Brandon Bayliss was the only
Bulldog to come up with a singles win for the day, beating Wisconsin freshman Chris Freeman 6-4, 6-4, and earning Butler its first point of the season in dual play. With wins from seniors Michael Dierberger and Luke Rassow-Kantor in the No. 1 doubles position and freshman Billy tennis page 7
By Nick Schmitt THE DAILY CARDINAL
When thinking of some words to describe the performance of sophomore guard Jordan Taylor in the win against Penn State, resilient and incredible come to mind first, especially considering his recent struggles. The Minnesota native started 0of-8 from the field, missing badly on a few open opportunities, even on a fast-break layup, and with the Badgers down eight with just over two minutes to go, he was the last player anyone expected to carry Wisconsin to the win. Since his 23-point outburst in the Badgers’ upset of Purdue back on Jan. 9, Taylor had been stuck in
a disappointing funk. At Ohio State he struggled, going 3-of-11 from the field, including 0-of-5 from behind the arc. And against Michigan last Wednesday Taylor was nowhere to be found, failing to connect on any of his seven shots. “He never changed expression, never got down on himself,” head coach Bo Ryan said about Taylor’s performance. “You just have to keep searching. You just have to understand that sometimes things aren’t going to fit.” But something clicked during Sunday’s game, and everything fit for Taylor after that. He finally found the bottom of the net on a huge 3-pointer, his first since taylor page 7