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Mubarak rebuffs calls to resign, Egyptians plan for continued protests

By Scott Girard and Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal

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The Student Services Finance Committee denied WISPIRG funding once again Thursday. After they were deemed ineligible in the fall, WISPIRG appealed to have their case reheard.

SSFC denies WISPIRG funding for second time

By Alison Bauter the daily cardinal

Four months after rejecting their first eligibility application, the Student Service Finance Committee once again denied the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group funding Thursday.

WISPIRG lost eligibility for funding in September when the SSFC ruled the number of the

group’s direct service beneficiaries did not meet SSFC requirements.

When WISPIRG appealed to the Student Judiciary, the judiciary overturned the SSFC’s ruling, citing an inconsistent definition of “beneficiaries.”

In his last night as SSFC secretary, Jason Smathers outlined the committee’s reasoning, saying that WISPIRG’s direct service, “expe-

Professors discuss WikiLeaks founder’s role in media Exposing classified information has made Assange a divisive figure

By Erin McGlynn the daily cardinal

UW-Madison English professor Anne McClintock, journalism professor Lewis Friedland and communication arts professor Robert Howard discussed WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, who Howard described as a “computer wielding modern day Batman” Thursday.

The professors’ discussion was hosted by the UW Madison Center for the Humanities and moderated by Wisconsin Public Radio’s Steve Paulson. Paulson introduced the topic by posing the question “Is Julian Assange a

journalist, or is he simply a source?

Is Assange a hero or a villain?”

The professors agreed that WikiLeaks has influenced political situations such as those in Egypt and Iraq by making classified knowledge public.

Friedland said the evolution of WikiLeaks is “the beginning of a major rupture in the world system of information.”

Howard said he encourages the public to “consider the incredible privilege” it has enjoyed given its ignorance of war crimes, and challenged Americans to perhaps see WikiLeaks as the robber of the public’s blissful ignorance.

Later the discussion turned from the role of WikiLeaks in the media today to its founder Julian Assange, and the moral problem of one person having the power to decide what should become public knowledge. wikileaks page 3

riential learning,” did not meet the requirement that 75 percent of a group’s beneficiaries must be UW-Madison students.

“I understand the frustrations of the group, but there’s nothing that can be done,” Smathers said.

“This committee has very specific bylaws, very specific criteria.” wispirg page 3

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak shocked the world when he announced Thursday he would not step down after weeks of protests by the Egyptian people.

The announcement enraged protesters listening in Tahrir Square in the capital Cairo.

Ramy Tadros, a sophomore at the American University in Cairo, said Mubarak’s decision was disheartening.

“What we want is never going to be met, at least in this situation,” Tadros said. “The guy is too powerful.”

Mubarak said he would transfer some power to Vice President Omar Suleiman but that he would not immediately step down.

Mubarak said the issue is bigger than himself.

“The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench,” Mubarak said, according to a translation by the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

Tadros said he, like many analysts, expected Mubarak to announce his resignation today and did not understand why he decided to stay in power.

“I don’t know why he’s staying,” Tadros said. “If it’s honor, you don’t really have any now.”

The campaign against Mubarak

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Students sampled Nepalese food and learned about the Himalayan nation’s culture at “Taste of Customs: Discover Nepal!” Thursday.

took off on Jan. 25 after similar protests brought down the government in Tunisia.

After seven and a half hours of peaceful protesting on the first night, police responded with smoke bombs, water cannons and armored cars, according to Haytham Magdy, a 25-year-old pharmacist from Cairo.

“Most of the soldiers started to run to the protestors and started hitting them with their sticks and stuff,” Magdy said. “Most of us ran away in the same direction to keep the volume of the protest there, and they kept running behind us until 3 a.m. when we got all dispersed really wide.”

As protests grew larger in the ensuing days the demonstrations against Mubarak remained peaceful, according to Nehad Heliel, associate professor and director at the Middlebury School in Alexandria, which partners with UW-Madison in a study abroad program.

Although the millions of protesters have encountered resistance, and in some cases violence, Tadros said the protests have made young Egyptians more politically aware.

“I think it’s crucial for us to have something like that,” Tadros said. “Even if Mubarak stays, it’s still good, just giving him the wake up call and giving Egypt as a whole the wake up call.” egypt page 3

Madison’s trash diversion passes national average Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced the city of Madison diverted over 66 percent of its waste in 2010 through recycling, composting and reusing.

The national waste diversion rate is approximately 34 percent, according Cieslewicz’s spokesperson Rachel Strauch-Nelson.

The city set a goal of 65 percent waste diversion for 2010.

Recycling Coordinator George Dreckmann said the implementation of new programs for plastic bags and one for construction and demolition waste were important in reaching the city’s goal for 2010.

Madison is set to start a pilot program in June for the collection and composting of household organics. Through the use of this program Cieslewicz said there is the potential to drive the city’s waste diversion rate as high as 80 percent.

“While we are proud of our success, we have more work to do,” he said in a statement.

“…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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andrew lahr spare me the lahrcasm

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o last weekend I was violated. There I was, nestled on my couch haphazardly watching the Packers beat the tar out of the Steelers. The first half was nothing special, and the commercials were OK, but about halfway through the show, pandemonium broke. It was like “Schindler’s List,” “Saw” and some deranged form of “Tron” all mixed together in one big devastatingly depressing event. I am speaking, of course, about the Black Eyed Peas’ halftime show.

I don’t even know where to begin. I wholeheartedly believe that I’m suffering from some degree of post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of viewing that shameful excuse for entertainment. There’s no doubt in my mind that from here on out every time I hear “Where is the Love,” I’m going to cringe and run sobbing into a corner. Fergie’s

“singing” of the Guns and Roses’ hit “Sweet Child of Mine” was not only horrendous, it was downright disrespectful. This, in combination with some sick and twisted form of live auto-tune, a re-hashed electronica-style dance routine, and Usher’s brief lip-synch followed by an unnecessary display of the splits truly shows the dire situation facing the mainstream music industry of today.

This devastatingly low point in musical form reminds me of something I studied just last semester. I was in a class called the history of music. It’s an easy A and is actually pretty interesting stuff, though that is beside the point. The point is, a few hundred years ago there was this point in human history appropriately labeled “The Dark Ages. In a nutshell, it was a period of time when mankind was basically busy killing each other over religious holy sites, and said “to hell with art” for a few centuries. All creativity essentially ceased to exist and the music scene was probably even worse than it is now.

Thankfully, a little thing called the Renaissance took place, and

a group of guys banded together and decided to fix the atrocity that was the dismal musical situation of their time. Think of it as a time period equivalent to the 1960s Rock and Roll revolution, just with fewer amplifiers and more violins.

Just look at the Billboard Top 100 and you have to agree—we need another Renaissance. It’s hard for a guy to even go to the bars anymore without some form or another of audio rape occurring. I have roommates who play this modern day synthesized garbage, and am literally forced to leave the room until the noise pollution stops.

It’s hard for a guy to even go to the bars anymore without some form or another of audio rape occuring.

If you’re like me, and are nearly brought to tears when Ke$ha or Katy Perry comes on the radio,

just imagine what it’s going to be like in 10 or 20 years. It’s a scary thought indeed, and action needs to be taken.

Basically, we can sit around and play the denial card, hoping something will change, and we all know how well that worked for Europe when Hitler reared his head. No, someone needs to play the part of Great Britain before we’re all turned into the French and are forced to surrender to the underground for good. I don’t know how this modern day Renaissance is going to take place, but I do know that there is strength in numbers.

There needs to be some sort of coalition formed right here in Madison with one goal—purge the world of all the nonsense that the mainstream music industry is throwing our way in one great musical revival of our time. I know there are other like-minded people out there, hiding and waiting. Let’s do it for Page, Lennon, Simon and even Garfunkel. Let’s do it for Beethoven and Mozart. Let’s do it for ourselves.

Want to join the Coalition?

E-mail Andrew at aplahr@wisc. edu. I’m serious.

The Dirty Bird sex and the student body vibrator reinstatement Erica andrist sex columnist My boyfriend dumped me last year. I’m over it; it’s fine.

The real problem is, he bought me a REALLY nice, REALLY expensive ($100+) vibrator when we were dating. Since the dumpage I’ve tried using it, but it only brings up bad memories about my ex. How can I use the vibrator without feeling weird every time?

—Feeling Bad Vibes A dilemma to be sure, FBV! When our brains are bothered, a good sack session (solo or partnered) can be diminished by even seemingly minute details and bad memories of an ex are definitely not a minute detail.

In this case, the solution is to re-train your brain. You need to break this association of Fancy Vibe (FV from here out) with your ex in order for FV to give you the buzz you deserve.

How to do this? Start by distraction. Conjure up a steamy fantasy, put on your favorite baby-making music, pull up your favorite porn website.

Spend a few moments getting yourself to focus on the sexy visual or imaginative stimuli you’ve got going, and then fire up FV. If your focus crumbles like Ben Roethlisberger in a Super Bowl, then stop. Regroup.

Tweak your fantasy so it holds your attention better. Turn up the volume on your stereo. Fast forward to your favorite scene.

Once you’ve gotten back into your mental groove, bring FV

back. If necessary, stop again and repeat.

If you’re still struggling to use FV without your ex bringing things to a grinding halt, try giving yourself an alternative tactile focus. Masturbate with your hands, or bring out another vibrator or toy. Keep FV close by. When you find yourself thoroughly aroused, perhaps even close to orgasm, sneak FV into the action.

Perhaps switch solely to FV, or keep masturbating with your hands in conjunction with FV, or use two vibrators at once.

Eventually, the goal is to have a pleasurable masturbatory session that incorporates FV. This will solidify your association of FV with pleasure instead of with your ex.

Additionally, perhaps incorporating FV into partner sex will help you to break its association with one person.

Ask a new partner to use FV on you (maybe don’t mention that it was given to you by an ex). See if you can focus on New Partner, or on a fantasy as discussed above. If it’s not working out, simply flash a seductive smile at New Partner and say, “I think it would be even hotter if we did——— —” in order to segue to something else.

No matter what method is most successful, the ultimate goal is to make this vibrator yours. Even though it came from someone else, FV is about your pleasure and your happiness; hopefully, with a bit of effort and mental reconditioning, you will associate your fancy vibrator not with your ex, but with epic orgasms. Good luck and good vibes.

My roommate has horrible body odor. I can’t stand to be in the same room with him, but it doesn’t even matter whether he’s around or not around because the smell always is… How should I tell him that he needs to take a shower more often?

—Grossed Out Um, while it’s not immediately clear to me why the sex column was the best place to direct this particular concern; I guess I can have a go—GO. I would frame the problem as a concern for your roommate rather than as a gross-

out issue for you. For example, you could say, “Hey, I’ve noticed lately that you don’t seem to be taking care of yourself like you used to,” or something to that effect. Improper self-care can be a red flag for depression, substance abuse, or other health issues, so while it’s possible your roommate just falls on the lower end of the hygiene curve, it’s also possible there’s something more serious going on. So try to be sensitive.

And maybe get some Febreze.

Have sex questions? E-mail sex@dailycardinal for some quality advice.

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Board of Regents hear from experts on tuition and student alcohol consumption

By Samy Moskol the daily cardinal

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A panel of experts said the university should be prepared for major funding cuts when Gov. Scott Walker announces his budget.

‘State Budget 101’ addresses Walker’s plans for university Speakers warn UW system could face major cuts

By Nick Graetz the daily cardinal

Several campus groups hosted a state budget roundtable Thursday to discuss Gov. Scott Walker’s upcoming budget and the impact it will have on the UW system.

The panel of experts included state Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, lawyer and lobbyist Peter Christiansen and Assistant to the Chancellor Don Nelson, who sought to provide the university community with a general understanding of Wisconsin’s budget process.

“This year, high impact for higher education and public employees could be very harsh,” Pocan said.

The lawmaker seemed hopeful about university’s ability to cope with the upcoming budget cuts.

“This chancellor has done the best for outreach to state government,” Pocan said of Chancellor Biddy Martin.

However, Pocan said he thinks this year’s cuts will be much worse than any the university has faced in previous years.

Nelson stressed the importance understanding the budget process has on helping to

egypt from page 1 Heliel said now that the younger generation has gotten involved in politics, the protesting will not stop.

“Even if he doesn’t step down, it’s going to go on like this. It’s going to be a lifetime,” Heliel said.

“It’s going to be people go to their work, they will join the protests, go back again, go to the protests.

The younger ones will stay in, will sit in.”

Heliel said operations for the study abroad program will be on

advocate for the university. He also expressed concerns that new legislators may want to budget by “policy grievance,” and attack specific UW programs.

Nelson said the university must cooperate with Republican leadership sympathetic to higher education, who can keep legislation that would cut its budget under control.

“All it takes is one legislator pushing for something, and that can cost the university $10 million, easily,” Pocan added.

Christiansen spoke with optimism of the New Badger Partnership, and said he believes it can potentially address finance issues over time. Currently, the university has to follow the same bureaucratic processes of other state agencies, and Christiansen hopes the program could distance the university from state government and work more efficiently for higher education.

The panelists remained resigned about the budget outlook, however.

“Ugly things are coming, we can’t stop them,” Nelson said.

“We’re hopeful, because that’s all that we can do.”

“My prediction is this will be the worst budget the university has seen since I’ve been around,” Pocan said.

All three panelists agreed that the UW and Martin need to prepare strategies for the worst, and plan for large budget cuts across all schools and within UW-Madison. hold for four to five months, but that the changes in government may provide greater stability in the long run.

Magdy, Tadros and Heliel all stressed that above all else the protests are a struggle for democracy.

“This is a people’s revolution, and we are one hand,” Heliel said.

Mubarak’s refusal to leave office will only provide more fuel for the protests and Tadros said the biggest protests are yet to come.

“There’s been a lot of talk today that [Friday] is going to be crazy,” Tadros said.

The Wisconsin Board of Regents met Thursday to hear from experts on two of the most pressing issues in college life: Tuition and alcohol.

Sandy Baum, a higher education policy analyst from Skidmore College said although the face value for public universities has risen at a rate of 5.6 percent in the last decade, students often do not realize that the net price for college is relatively low and steady.

However, Baum said there is often unequal distribution of financial aid within the system.

“When we think about the problem and why [college] is perceived as unaffordable, we have to think about something other than how much people are paying for tuition,” Baum said. “Over half of the grant aid that is given out ... [goes] to students who could

afford to pay without it.”

She said it is necessary to question the purposes of aid and whether it is appropriately targeted. The federal government now spends $28 billion on Pell Grants, which are based on financial need, but the amount of students that qualify for aid often do not receive an adequate amount because of high demand.

“We have to think about something other than how much people are paying for tuition.”

Sandy Baum policy analyst Skidmore College

After Baum discussed students’ difficulties paying for college, Brandon Busteed, CEO of alcohol education program

Outside the Classroom, talked about students’ difficulties staying in it.

Busteed said Wisconsin as a state still ranks No. 1 in binge drinking, with that reputation associated with its flagship university. He urged the Board of Regents and other campus leaders to get involved in addressing the problem.

Statistics show that of students who drink, 50 percent of them spend more time drinking than they spend studying each week, Busteed said. Although there is an increase of nondrinkers coming to college, he said many can feel alienated on campus if they have an exaggerated perception that drinking is the social norm. “[They could] leave not because they have an alcohol issue, but perceive that the campus has an alcohol issue,” Busteed said.

West Mifflin project continues to face heavy criticism

By Maggie DeGroot the daily cardinal

Capitol Neighborhood Inc. continued to debate the proposed West Mifflin Street apartment complex development at its meeting Thursday.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said he wants the entire building to be pushed to the north, toward another property owned by developer Pat McCaughey.

Such a change would push the bulk of the building away from the sidewalk and help to maximize green space, Verveer said.

Verveer also said another major issue he has with the current design is the choice to have a four story building, and recommended a three or three-and-ahalf story building.

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Committee members said they counted the time spent training volunteers as a direct service, but campaigning did not fit that designation. Moreover, the committee did not consider campaigning to be completely “tailorable” to student requests, as required under SSFC bylaws.

“If the group does not prove that they meet eligibility then we do not grant them eligibility,” Smathers said.

But when the committee’s vote

LeMahieu said the project needs to enhance the neighborhood, and that there are a number of concerns from students and Madison residents alike.

“Because of the history [of the neighborhood] this deserves another really good look at it,” LeMahieu said.

She said it is important the integrity of those two blocks of West Mifflin Street stay consistent from an architectural perspective. The building would not match the neighborhood’s environment, according to LaMahieu.

Committee member Rick Broughman argued the structures on West Mifflin Street are “barely existing.” A property McCaughey owns would be torn down, but Broughman said the area would gain many more in

the new complex.

Mifflin West Neighborhood Steering Committee Chair Scott Kolar said the comments submitted at a Jan. 24 neighborhood meeting revolved around parking and the cost of rent, but mostly the change of character in the neighborhood.

According to Kolar, commenters said the building’s size and height were wrong for the neighborhood.

McCaughey is looking to get final approval from Urban Design Commission Feb. 16, final approval from Plan Commission Feb. 21 and final approval from Common Council Feb. 22.

Verveer said although he would like to see his recommendations implemented into the design, he wants McCaughey to stay on schedule.

came down—with five members against and two abstaining— WISPIRG members in the room were smiling.

“We’ll appeal,” WISPIRG Secretary Allie Gardner said. “All of their arguments … the whole thing was just ridiculous.”

Gardner said WISPIRG plans to file their appeal as soon as the SSFC decision is processed.

Although WISPIRG received student segregated funding for the past several years, SSFC Chair Matt Manes said this year’s committee was not required to follow

that precedent.

“The criteria have not changed, but we are not bound by the decisions of that [past] SSFC,” Manes said. “It is our duty to evaluate every group as they come in front of us.”

Smathers stepped down in order to pursue a job with the Associated Press.

The committee will hear non-allocable budget presentations from the Memorial Union, Recreational Sports, University Health Services and WSUM student radio Monday.

wikileaks from page 1 Panel members addressed Assange’s culpability in the case of a U.S. Army private who leaked information to Assange and was arrested. Pfc. Bradley Manning gave Assange information that revealed the number of Iraqi civilian deaths are thousands higher than the U.S. government let on.

Despite the professors’ knowledge on the topic, they said it is still uncertain whether Assange’s controversial role in the media will prove beneficial to the public or detract from the validity of the mainstream media.

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UW-Madison professors discussed whether WikiLeaks has a positive or negative impact on society at a panel Thursday night.

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Record Of The Year

Who Should Win: “F*** You”—Cee Lo Green The newest of the five songs nominated, “F*** You” is still stuck in everyone’s heads.

Who Will Win: “Need You Now”—Lady Antebellum Given the Grammy voters’ recent bent for country music, with T-Swift ruling last year’s festivities, Need You Now takes the cake.

Who Got Snubbed*: “Teenage Dream”—Katy Perry To nominate Perry’s album as one of the year’s best, but not one of her chart-topping singles, is preposterous.

straight up catchiness.

Who Got Snubbed: Sir Lucious Left Foot...The Son Of Chico Dusty— Big Boi The snub comes as no surprise to Big Boi: He’s used to being considered no more than Andre 3000’s sidekick. But this was an undeniably brilliant album from one of hiphop’s elder statesmen.

most bands’ debut albums.

Who Will Win: The Suburbs— Arcade Fire Considering it was the only album from this group nominated for best album of the year overall, the Canadians’ third (and third best) album looks like the favorite.

Who Got Snubbed: Teen Dream—Beach House One of the most universally liked alternative albums of the year, Teen Dream is certainly more deserving than Band of Horses’ Infinite Arms.

—Jon Mitchell

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Best New Artist

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Album of the Year Who Will Win: Recovery— Eminem Flashback to 2001, when Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature beats out Marshall Mathers LP. This might not be Em’s best album, but in a weak field, the Grammy voters will give Recovery the nod in a weak field.

Who Should Win: Teenage Dream—Katy Perry What it lacks in depth it makes up for in ambition and

Who will win: Justin Bieber—I mean, have you heard “Baby?”

Who should win: Mumford & Sons—Following in the Avett Bros. footsteps, Mumford & Sons have wasted little time in becoming folk’s next big thing.

Who got snubbed: Ke$ha— After bursting onto the scene with “Tik Tok,” Ke$ha kept it coming with four more top 10 singles.

Best Alternative Music Album

Who Should Win: Brothers—The Black Keys Despite The Black Keys having nearly a decade of albums behind them, Brothers sounds just as fresh and intriguing as

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Best Short Form Music Video

Who Should Win: “Stylo”— Gorillaz This video is badassery at its finest—car chase plus Bruce Willis with some chill tunes in the background?

Win. Who Will Win: “Bad Romance”— Lady Gaga This isn’t a bad video; it’s actually pretty sweet, but it just isn’t anything fantastic. “Telephone” was so much better.

Who Got Snubbed: “Tighten Up”—The Black Keys

Goin’ out in style without ‘losing edge’ Kyle Sparks totally awesome I’m usually a “glass is half empty” kind of guy. I don’t think that makes me cynical, just pragmatic in that I like to see production where others are contented by stagnancy. That’s exactly why I hate watching soccer games— I can’t bear to watch anything that might not have a clear loser (or winner, whatever). They say ties are like kissing your sister, and though I love my sister dearly I never kiss her unless my glass of Wild Turkey is well past the point where it could be construed as half-anything. But still, in real life, sometimes those polar distinctions are actually one and the same.

And this is where I get to LCD Soundsystem. The widely beloved, unimpeachably awesome troupe led by a man who has enough gray hair to pass for most of our fathers just announced they will perform their final show this coming April 2. It’s heart-rending news for everyone who fashions themselves “fun” these days. Ever since James Murphy got slapped around and name-checked somewhere around 60 bands on their 2002 debut single, “Losing My Edge,” he’s been the foremost producer of hip-hop music that combines enough infectious hooks to appeal to a wide base with enough hipster nut-flexes to retain even the most pretentious of music hacks. He’s written three of our generation’s most powerful records.

And it’s never going to happen again.

But after this past Sunday, even

the most curmudgeonly of us (me, maybe) can find some reason to take solace: If LCD Soundsystem break up now, then they’ll never devolve into the washed-up act singing grossly out of key during halftime at the Super Bowl.

I don’t mean to get carried away here. Bruce Springsteen and Prince both put on high-level halftime performances within recent memory, after all, and it’s perfectly reasonable to think future acts won’t be as aged as the Who were last year. But that Black Eyed Peas disaster was the direct counterpoint to LCD Soundsystem’s very existence.

Let me clear the air. I liked the Peas’ light show, which turned the cheering audience into something like a dumbed-down, anthropomorphized Daft Punk setup. But the rest of it—the actual performance part, that is—was a different story.

The most resonant part came during that song where the Peas sing “futuristically” by rhyming inanimate objects with onomatoepeia when Fergie yelled, “I’m so 2008/ You’re so two-thousand-and-late,” and therein ostensibly admits that her biggest claim to fame is having a supporting role in a 2007 Robert Rodriguez film (that said, “Grindhouse” was the most ballin’ cinematic experience of all time).

Their off-base performance evoked the old and tired “better to burn out than fade away” rhetoric, but I don’t believe everything is so black-andwhite. Case in point: the other popular indie act to call it quits this week, the White Stripes. The ambiguous partners were vastly more popular than LCD Soundsystem ever will be (after all, they were named the best band of the

past decade by this very newspaper), yet they hung up their red-and-whites to no huge dismay because, well, they haven’t done anything together for almost four years. In the grand scheme of things, their delay in productivity isn’t going to have any huge effect on their legacy, but it does deny them their moment. It steals their big opportunity to stride right in to a sold-out Madison Square Garden and captivate the biggest audience in popular music.

Instead, it’s LCD Soundsystem who laid their cards down while they were holding a flush and have taken the mantle as the biggest band in the world at this moment.

Murphy was always too self-aware and cognizant of the scene around him to diffuse into irrelevancy— that would negate the very ground the band stood on. In other words, Murphy was always too smart, too mastered at his craft to lose out in the artist-fan dichotomy. Make no mistake: We are the clear losers, because they’re dictating history while none of us are going to hear another LCD Soundsystem record. But put on Sound of Silver and hear that first tilted piano line of “All My Friends” and it’s hard to feel too defeated.

We’re losers because it’s over, sure; but we’re all winners for it ever having happened. Their big moment in the spotlight was always going to end, and on April 3 it will, while we’re left with their (and the White Stripes’) lasting impact for eternity.

That’s the way media works—we always win. But major kudos to LCD Soundsystem for being able to reach their end while including themselves in the winners’ circle.

This video is pretty great, featuring the age-old battle for a woman’s affections. The song itself is fantastic, and the video is imaginative in comparison to the video from The Johnny Cash Project, although I can admire the effort.

—Jeremy Gartzke

Moments from a Sensual Evening— Aziz Ansari After perfecting his routine for years, Ansari’s debut comedy album flows perfectly and never misses a beat, but apparently the Grammy nominees just don’t find Ansari’s cousin Harris or his adventures with R. Kelly very funny.

—Todd Stevens

Best Comedy Album Who Will Win: I Told You I Was Freaky—Flight of the Concords Flight of the Concords is a vet in this category, having already won in 2007, and their well-done musical comedy should still play well with Grammy voters.

Who Should Win: I Told You I Was Freaky—Flight of the Concords Even though it’s not as good as their first album, Flight of the Concords at least deserves to beat the ranks of Robin Williams and Lewis Black, both in the twilight of their careers, and Margaret Cho and Kathy Griffin, whose careers have just always sucked.

Who Was Snubbed: Intimate

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*The eligibility dates for the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards are Sept.

1, 2009, through Sept. 30, 2010.

Sorry, Kanye Fans: You’ll have to settle for best 2011 album.

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Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

Multi-Functional: Parts of the Autobahn were constructed so that within 24 hours they could be converted into a makeshift landing strip.

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Hot Sauce

By Oliver Buchino buchino@wisc.edu

Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Eatin’ Cake

By Dylan Moriarty eatincake@gmail.com

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Crustaches

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By Angel Lee alee23@wisc.edu

First in Twenty Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com Wing Ding

ACROSS 1 Soft ground 4 Wash with elbow grease 9 Complain ad nauseam 14 Weather vane dir.

15 Part of many action flicks 16 Singer Neville 17 Thread for needlework 20 Card deck for divining 21 ___ the run (grab something to go) 22 Revise text 23 Some whiskey bottle sizes 26 Gymnast Mary ___ Retton 29 They precede mis, on a music scale 30 Lets (up) 31 Stepladder step 32 Napoleon’s sentence 33 Ab exercise 35 Sheltered span 38 Joan of Arc’s crime 39 Group of chicks 40 Purim’s month 41 Use a roller and brush 42 Floor-washing aid 45 Boeing offering 46 “Scooby-Doo” character 48 Chewable stimulant 49 Wayne Gretzky, once

51 “Plan 9 From ___ Space” 52 Hole-making device 57 Word after “share and share” 58 Expressed wonderment, in a way 59 Contender for your title 60 Harold of silent film 61 Injects with Novocain 62 Where supper is slop DOWN 1 One holding a sign at the airport, e.g.

2 Like a messy bed 3 Razing remains 4 Loch Lomond local 5 Ho ___ Minh City 6 Unit of absorbed energy 7 Employ 8 Tete toppers 9 Floats, as an aroma 10 Something about Mary?

11 Breathing aid 12 Rejections 13 Three out of nineteen?

18 Go to waste 19 Yes, in “Fargo” 23 Kind of tale 24 Tahiti, e.g.

25 What a horse eats from 27 “___ Upon a Time in America”

8 Disgusted reply 2 30 They’re no longer hitched 31 Racer Ricky 32 At any time 33 Sidekick 34 Warden’s fear 35 Surrender, as territory 36 Collection of some Handel bars 37 Windjammer slammer 38 Leon Uris book “The ___” 41 Local clergyman 42 Themes 43 Yellow and black cat 44 Negotiation between enemies 46 Swung around, as on a pivot 47 Drakes and roosters, e.g.

48 Mongrel 50 Stomach-turning 51 Two-to-one, e.g.

52 Trusted friend 53 Wing of a building, perhaps 54 Written debt acknowledgment 55 Resistance unit that sounds like a meditation word 56 Bird’s bill

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By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

opinion Bicycle sharing program not worth the money

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Jaime Brackeen opinion columnist

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ormally I’m a sucker for sustainability initiatives, but something about the $100,000 being pulled from the city of Madison’s reserve fund to install 350 rental bikes has me a bit uneasy.

Last Tuesday, the city council met to discuss a biking initiative proposed by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz that will lock the city in a three-year, $300,000 plan to install rental bikes at 35 kiosks throughout the city with the help of the bike-rental service B-Cycle.

B-Cycle allows travelers to use their credit cards to rent bikes for periods of time ranging from a half hour to a full day and return them to kiosks throughout the city. The company is run in part

by Trek Bicycle, according to the program’s website.

Taxpayer money would be better spent adding more bike lanes and helping further the free bike-sharing program.

Trek Bicycle also coincidentally helped fund Cieslewicz’s trip to Europe this past spring so he and other city and business officials could take a look at successful bicycling communities in Germany and the Netherlands.

Do I smell a quid-pro-quo agreement? After all, the same company that paid for the mayor’s educational trip abroad is

now getting $300,000 from said mayor? Isn’t that ethically questionable? Isn’t there a certain term for that? Yes, lobbying sounds about right.

In fact, just last Monday The Wisconsin State Journal reported that former Madison Alder Brenda Konkel filed a list of complaints discussing a violation of city lobbying laws. But that’s a separate issue. What remains at the forefront of this debacle are the practical reasons for why this bike campaign is a waste of taxpayer money.

First, according to the state journal, Madison has not finalized its rates, but Denver, Colo.—a city already implementing B-Cyle—offers the program at $65 a year while a full day’s use costs $5. And if something breaks on the bike, you may have to pay for it.

Alternatively, Madison’s own Budget Bicycle runs the Red Bike program that allows anyone in Madison to borrow a used, red spray-painted bike and a lock with the mere security deposit of a valid credit card. As long as the bike is returned any time within the six-month loan period, it remains free to the user with the bonus of free maintenance throughout the process, should anything go awry.

Second, with the B-Cycle program you have to return the bike within 24 hours, and if you keep your bike for more than three days, the company considers it lost and you are charged to replace it. These aren’t very userfriendly deadlines, especially for the price.

The 24-hour limit is impractical for bike-riding students who live far off campus. In this case, they benefit more by purchasing or renting their own bicycles.

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Which tailors this program to tourists who want to partake in an activity other than drive through the city.

Third, B-Cycle does not provide locks for users besides the kiosks, so if you’re going anywhere that’s not directly next to a kiosk, you still either have to walk a ways to your destination carry a bike lock at all times, or risk getting the bike stolen, which you will undoubtedly have to pay for.

And if you’re making the effort to travel to a kiosk, why not simply walk to your destination and save yourself the money?

Granted, there are interesting features of the B-Cycle program.

Digitally, B-Cycle keeps track of your duration of travel, number

of calories burned and carbon footprint through your B-Cycle account online, but it is still not worth the money and hassle for short travel.

Maybe bike-sharing programs that cost money are good for heavy-tourist areas of Europe, but I don’t think Madison truly has enough tourism traffic to make back the funds spent on this project. Most people who make the effort to obtain a bike are traveling farther and to unique distances, meaning the chances of reaching another kiosk could be slight for the average rider.

And I didn’t even mention that this program would probably remain dormant for four to six months out of each year as winter weather deters those unwilling to brave Wisconsin’s

frigid conditions. Naturally, the program will not make nearly as much money during this half of the year and is yet another reason to avoid the investment altogether.

Taxpayer money would be better spent adding more bike lanes and helping further the free bike-sharing program, increasing bike traffic and making traveling easier for motorists and bicyclists alike.

I’m all for biking; it’s cheap, it saves fossil fuels and it’s good for the environment, but there are other ways to take advantage of this alternative mode of transportation that don’t require a vacation overseas.

Jaime Brackeen is a sophomore majoring in journalism. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Serious reform needed to elimi nate judicial partisanship Matt beaty opinion columnist

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he judicial branch of our government is supposed to be the impartial and logical branch of government.

But in recent years, it has simply become pawns in the sad, dirty game of politics.

Lawyers cherry pick which judges to try their cases based on who appointed them to the bench.

This past month has highlighted the seeming failure of judges to make consistent rulings at all levels of government.

Clearly these judges used different sets of precedents, and probably prejudices, to hand down these rulings.

In a major decision, Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida ruled to completely overturn ObamaCare, citing the indi-

vidual mandate as unconstitutional.

However, three other judges either called the law constitutional or simply removed the mandate from the law. Clearly these judges used different sets of precedents, and probably different prejudices, to hand down their rulings.

Without missing a beat, the White House singled out Vinson’s decision as “judicial activism,” the same term also used by Republicans to describe the previous rulings that upheld ObamaCare.

So which judge made the right ruling? According to Democratappointed judges, precedent says they remove just the mandate, if it is in fact unconstitutional.

However, Vinson, a Republican appointee, found precedent for overturning the entire law when a severability clause for the provision was purposefully omitted, which the mandate’s clause was.

The question that needs to be asked: Is it the precedent the judge uses, or is the party he or she affiliates with that determines how a judge makes final rulings? With so many different legal opinions available, there is not only one correct answer.

But my frustration extends beyond the high-profile federal cases. For us Illinois folk, the Chicago mayoral elections are

coming up soon, and it has been receiving plenty of attention. The biggest topic has been the lawsuits disputing Rahm Emanuel’s residency and eligibility to run for mayor.

The question that needs to be asked: Is it the precedent the judge uses, or is it the party?

Emanuel’s eligibility was denied until the Supreme Court, a group of elected judges, finally declared him as eligible for the ballot. According to the law, a candidate must be able to vote in and reside in the municipality for at least one year before Feb. 22 elections.

The case should be simple enough, right? Emanuel has clearly not lived in Chicago for a year, therefore he does not meet the eligibility requirement for being a candidate. But the final decision from the Illinois’ Supreme Court said that residing does not only mean to live in a location, but also to intend to live in an area. If that is not judicial activism, then I do not know what is.

Even though the case is settled now, the whole debacle led to more wasted time, wasted money on ballots without Emanuel’s name and has made me even less confident of my home state’s system of government.

But maybe the blame for all my confusion does not belong solely on the judges. Maybe the problem is that some laws are out-dated or just plain confusing. Maybe the judges are trying to appease their electorate for the next election. Most likely, it is a little bit of both that are affecting the judges.

I think it is clear that judicial election and appointment procedures need to change. Though judges are generally efficient, they often falter on controversial and high-profile cases, such as ObamaCare, Emanuel’s eligibility and even human embryonic stemcell research earlier this year.

The best way to do this is using a non-partisan, expert committee to select judges based on merit. By no means will this eliminate all partisan judges, but it is more reasonable than having voters pick judges based mainly on the letter next to their name on the ballot.

Furthermore, the way legislation is written needs to change to eliminate confusion and uncertainty.

People, namely branding icon Alan

Siegel, have been proposing solutions to simplifying legal language.

Siegel did so successfully for many businesses, best illustrated in his 2010 Technology Entertainment Design Conference talk. His ideas should be adopted throughout our nation’s congresses to begin clarifying the laws of the land.

The best way to do this is using non-partisan, expert committee to select judges based on merit.

These reforms will definitely not make everything easier right off the bat. Committees will have to spend time picking a valid set of judges, and legislators will have to spend an equally long amount of time simplifying their ideas. But hopefully with some reform, rulings in the future will become more consistent and less partisan. And heck, maybe we will have judges and lawyers who can finally agree on the definition of other complex phrases like “reside.”

Matt Beaty is a sophomore majoring in math and computer sciences. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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With WCHA title under its belt Wisconsin looks to build resumé

By Nico Savidge the daily cardinal

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Justin Schultz, along with teammate Craig Smith, leads Wisconsin with 15 goals.

Schultz, however has taken 80 shots, while Smith has 109 shots this season.

Maturing Badgers hit the road to visit No. 16 UNO

By Ryan Evans the daily cardinal

The young No. 7 Wisconsin men’s hockey team (11-7-2 WCHA, 19-8-3 overall) has been forced to grow up in a hurry this season amidst a very tight race in the WCHA. During their current stretch the Badgers have rattled off 12 wins in their past 13 games and are shooting up the national polls.

As the Badgers go on the road to face off with WCHA newcomer No. 16 NebraskaOmaha (12-6-2, 16-10-2) in a match-up that will go a long way in shaping the conference standings, it will also give us a chance to see just how much this young group of Badgers has grown.

A telltale sign of experience and maturity in hockey is how your team responds in the close games. Wisconsin struggled mightily early in the year in winning those tight contests, at one point losing five straight one-goal games. Recently, however, the team has made winning the close games a habit, prevailing in five straight one-goal contests.

“We have a young team here and we’ve had to mature,” sophomore defenseman Justin Schultz said. “Early this season we didn’t know how to win those one-goal games, but we’ve learned now how to go out there, grind it out and find ways to win each night.”

“I’ve said it before: our freshmen have really come together and stepped up their game,” senior goaltender Scott Gudmandson added.

“A lot of older guys have done the same, and I think that has been the difference in being just short or coming out on top.”

The Badgers’ new-found maturity will be tested this weekend by a UNO team that has taken the WCHA by storm in the program’s first season in the conference.

The Mavericks are fourth in the standings with 26 points, only two points ahead of Wisconsin, so the players know how much

money from page 8 ber (or future member) of the Big East conference is certainly no exception. If the goal of an athletic program is to be the best, then you have to be willing to play the best. You may be a Rose Bowl champion, but as long as you have a Mountain West patch on your jersey, you have to accept whatever terms necessary to build the type of non-conference schedule required to get yourself into the national title conversation.

To answer my earlier question: Yes, Boise wouldn’t have hesitated to play the Badgers at Camp Randall. In fact, I would venture to say that Chris Petersen’s program would have accepted an offer to play next week if given

weight this series carries.

“It’s a huge weekend, and everyone knows what is at stake,” senior captain Sean Dolan said. “We’re close to every team left on the schedule, but its starts this weekend in Omaha.”

“I think it’s the biggest series of the year,” Schultz said.

The Mavericks have found success this season with a balanced offensive attack that has seen six players reach the 20-point plateau. Omaha will test the Badgers’ defense, which ranks as the stingiest in the country only giving up an average of two goals per game.

“They have a lot of skilled forwards that can skate,” Schultz said. “We have to take time and space away from their top players because if you give them room they will make you pay.”

Dolan said that he and the rest of the forwards are focusing on putting pressure on UNO’s defensive core.

“They have big defensemen that can move the puck,” he said. “We have to get on those defensemen as forwards and force them into mistakes with the puck.”

One key to this series will be whether or not the Badgers will have to shake off any rust coming off their bye week. Wisconsin hasn’t played since its 4-1 win over Michigan Tech on Jan. 29.

“We haven’t played in a couple weeks so there will probably be some rust to shake off,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “We’re planning on keeping it simple in the first period on Friday to help get our legs underneath us again.”

“We feel refreshed; our bodies are in good shape now and we’re excited to get back out there,” Gudmandson said. “This is a big series for us and we’re excited to get going.” the opportunity.

Fair or not, these up and coming programs still need to play on the terms of the BCS schools. It’s no doubt wrong and no doubt in need of significant change, but that is the way it is.

I have no problem with TCU’s refusal to participate in a rematch, but I do have a problem with it doing so while still maintaining their eligibility for a BCS title.

On the other hand, at least TCU is the mantra of a successful BCS program: When money and competition collide, cash is king.

Is Boise State just desperate for attention?

Does anyone know yet what a Horned Frog is?

E-mail Max at max.sternberg@yahoo.com.

In theory the Wisconsin women’s hockey team does not have much to play for this weekend, while its opponent, North Dakota, has a lot at stake in the series.

The top-ranked Badgers locked up the WCHA regular season title last weekend against Bemidji State, meanwhile North Dakota sits on the NCAA tournament bubble and will be fighting to keep its season going in the weeks ahead. Given that context, it seems one team might be more motivated than the other when they face off Friday night.

In reality, however, as Wisconsin enters its second to last series of the regular season the team is just as energized as it would be for any other. According to senior forward Meghan Duggan the Badgers were proud of taking the WCHA crown in Bemidji, but do not plan to dwell on that accomplishment.

“We kind of enjoy that for a little bit and move on,” she said. “We can’t have any letdowns in the last four games of the regular season just because we clinched it.”

The Sioux are No. 8 in both the national poll and USCHO.com’s predictor of the PairWise rankings, which determine tournament seeding. With eight teams advancing to the NCAA tournament and four games left in the regular season, North Dakota needs to perform from here on out to secure a playoff spot.

Helping them in that task is a pair of U.S. Olympic team members, Jocelyne Lamoureux and Monique Lamoureux-Knolls, who have played a major part in making North Dakota the contender it is today.

The Lamoureuxs lead the Sioux with 47 points each, while their closest teammate has 28 points. Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson,

who coached the sisters on the Olympic team last year, said they have had a massive impact on the program.

“You look at their point production—if you took them out of the lineup, where would the team be?” Johnson said. “They create opportunities, they score goals, they make the power play better, they make the penalty kill better, they make the other kids around them better.”

Wisconsin swept North Dakota the last time the teams met, claiming a 4-3 victory in the opener and a 6-2 win to close the series out.

Two of Wisconsin’s biggest producers, Duggan and sophomore forward Brianna Decker, scored in each of those games and will try to replicate that success this weekend.

Decker and Duggan are both coming off of point streaks of 20 and a program-best 25 games, respectively. While Duggan said having the record is a nice accomplishment, she was happier that her success came along with that of the team.

“It’s cool to get your name on the record books and stuff like that,” she said. “I’m just glad that during those however many games it was, our team was successful and we were winning.”

When the Badgers and Sioux face off Friday at 7 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m., it could be the last games in the Kohl Center for Wisconsin’s class of seven seniors. The Badgers will play the first round of the WCHA playoffs in Verona, and although they will likely return to Madison for an NCAA tournament game such an outcome is not guaranteed.

Decker said for Wisconsin’s younger players the chance to send the class of 2011 out with a bang is a source of motivation.

“It’s their last weekend, and we want to make it special for them,” she said.

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Sophomore forward Brianna Decker has 23 goals and 30 assists for the Badgers this year. The recent U.S. national team selection ranks third in the WCHA with 53 points.

déjà vu from page 8 brother J.J., a former Buckeye standout himself, the 6'9" freshman has quickly made a name for himself by averaging 18 points and just over 10 rebounds a game while also becoming the first OSU freshman to score 40 points in a game posting that number in a tough win over IUPUI earlier in the season.

“His skill set, the number of things he can do on the court: He can shoot a little bit and his footwork is so good,” senior forward Keaton Nankivil said. “Defense, offense, rebounding: everything about him is impressive.”

Though it will be crucial that Nankivil, Leuer and others limit Sullinger’s production, the Buckeyes are more than just a single superstar. Veterans David Lighty, Jon Diebler and William Buford are all averaging in double figures scoring, and freshmen DeShaun Thomas and Aaron Craft have

made significant contributions as well, especially in key situations.

But just as it was with Bret Bielema’s team back in October, the key to success for the Badgers ultimately falls squarely on their ability to do what they do best. Ohio State’s athleticism will make it difficult for UW to slow the pace of the game to the level they would prefer.

Though it may seem on paper that OSU is unbeatable, the sixth man impact that an electrified Kohl Center crowd will no doubt provide is sure to even things out and is why many see Saturday as the date the Buckeyes are destined to finally fall.

For Wisconsin though, its just another game.

“Its just business as usual,” Leuer said.

“We know they’re a tough team, we know they’re talented, they’re well coached. But we’ve faced a lot of tough competition over the past four years so its nothing different for us.”

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Badgers slam Wildcats at Kohl Center, climb to second in Big Ten

By Stephanie Richter the daily cardinal

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In his freshman season, Josh Gasser is averaging 5.3 points and over 2.4 assists per game with 19 starts.

UW to host perfect OSU Wisconsin prepares for undefeated, No. 1 Buckeyes

By Max Sternberg the daily cardinal

After surviving a crucial road test at Iowa on Wednesday night, Wisconsin (8-3 Big Ten, 18-5 overall) has finally set its sights on taking down No. 1. With the anticipation as high as ever, the undefeated Buckeyes will try to win in Madison for the first time since Bo Ryan took over as UW’s head coach in 2001.

In addition to possessing a perfect record of 24-0 (11-0 in the Big Ten), Ohio State has what many consider to be a perfect ros-

ter, seemingly devoid of any glaring weakness. But despite bringing a mix of veteran experience and freshman talent unparalleled in college basketball, the Buckeyes face a Wisconsin team that is dominant at home.

“We know our fans are going to come out and support us,” senior forward Jon Leuer said. “We’re just going to go out here and prepare as well as we can and stick to what we do well.”

After losing National Player of the Year Evan Turner to the NBA following last season, the Buckeyes

Money will be the death of competitive spirit in NCAA Max Sternberg stern words

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ollege football has come under attack for many things in recent years: From its poor postseason system to the involvement of agents. But one issue generally thrown under the rug is the gradual loss of competitive spirit in major college football programs. As the BCS system continues to put money ahead of competition, we risk losing that spirit which has, over the years, made college football the spectacle it is today.

While many of the so-called “little sisters of the poor” do indeed remain as last bastions of this spirit, our beloved TCU Horned Frogs are certainly not among them.

Despite using the majority of their post-Rose Bowl spotlight to claim victorious leadership over a group of underappreciated non-BCS programs, TCU is not the “Cinderella story” it would like everyone to believe it is.

And while I personally felt there was little doubt about this matter when the Texas school decided to ditch the growing Mountain West conference for greener (pun fully intended) pastures in the Big East, its recent rejection of an offer to visit Camp Randall should sway

those who remain unconvinced.

As I steamed from head to toe reading this sudden “mini-controversy,” all I could think was: What would Boise do?

TCU is all that is wrong with college football. It’s a program that shuns the notion of pitting itself against the best—keep in mind that the Big East is a weaker conference than a Mountain West which was to feature Boise State, Nevada, Hawaii, and the Horned Frogs themselves— and uses its recent fortunes for no other purpose than to cash in and cash in big.

On the other hand, poor old Boise goes out of its way to play bigtime programs in their non-conference slate, all on “neutral fields” thousands of miles closer to their opponents’ campus than to their own. Better yet, Boise wins those games more often than not.

If TCU really wants to make the argument that it deserved a shot at the national title last season, then it cannot reject an offer for a big time non-conference game. I realize that TCU opposed the concept of a onetime deal rather than a home-andhome, but that smacks of arrogance completely uncharacteristic of the type of “Cinderella” program that TCU wants to bill itself as.

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have turned to a plethora of freshman talent to keep them not only competitive in the conference, but downright dominant thus far.

“You don’t expect them to produce right away, but Ohio State has three great freshman,” UW freshman guard Josh Gasser said Thursday. “They take their team to the next level.”

Chief among these “Diaper Dandies” is a candidate to succeed Turner as POY, Jared Sullinger.

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The Wisconsin women’s basketball team (9-3 Big Ten, 14-10 overall) dominated Northwestern (5-7, 16-9) on Thursday night. Frustrating a highpowered Wildcat offensive all night, the Badgers held the Wildcats to only 41 points on just 17/53 from the field in a 62-41 victory.

Wisconsin’s seniors led the charge once again as guard Alyssa Karel and forward Lin Zastrow combined for 36 points on 13 of 19 shooting.

Karel had a game-high 19 points and Zastrow added 17 points, 14 coming in the second half. Sophomore guard Taylor Wurtz also contributed 13 points including three three-pointers as part of a first half run that saw the Badgers go on a 13-0 stretch at one point.

But the ultimate key to the Badger win was holding Northwestern’s leader, senior center Amy Jaeschke, in check. Coming into the game averaging 22.7 points and nine rebounds a game, Jaeschke was held to just 15 and eight and was frustrated by a physical Wisconsin defensive effort.

“For Kendall [Hackney] to go 2-for-11 and Brittany [Orban] 1-for5, who have both shot the ball really well all year, and they play off of Amy,” Northwestern head coach Joe McKeown said after the game. “[Jaeschke’s] a great player. She’s going to get double-teamed the rest of year, so we need to do a better job of that.”

Wisconsin came out strong in the first half, shooting an impressive

63.6 percent from the three-point line. With two threes a piece from Karel and Wurtz, the Badgers built an impressive lead as they went up 29-13 with 3:49 left in the first half.

“The fact that our guards are knocking shots down really helps our inside game,” UW head coach Lisa Stone said.

However, Northwestern finished the half on a 10-4 run, capped off by a buzzer-beater three-pointer from senior guard Beth Marshall. Seemingly out of the game early on, the Wildcats went into the locker room with plenty of momentum.

The second half started out a little slow for the Badgers, as Northwestern worked its way within six points as the Badger lead shrunk to as little as 33-27. But after Stone took a timeout, the team woke up and never looked back. After struggling with just three points in the first half, Zastrow put the team on her back as she scored the first 10 UW points of the half, including a highlight-worthy four-point play.

“I tell you what I am really proud of the team, they responded,” Stone said. “Northwestern is a good team, since the last time we played them they are 2-0. They swept Ohio State, they went 2-0 against Ohio State who beat Purdue tonight pretty handily, and that is a significant win for them.”

Now sitting aside Penn State at the second position in the Big Ten race, the Badgers have the weekend off, with their next game, a huge road match against No. 20 Iowa Wednesday night.