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TAA and UW-Madison find common ground By Ellie Herman THE DAILY CARDINAL

When he arrived on campus in 1968, graduate student David Newby found himself amid campus-wide riots and protests in which he desired to take a more active role. Concerns with a lack of representation in educational policy led teaching assistants like Newby to question how they could gain influence within the educational system two years prior. These students formed the Teaching Assistants’ Association in 1966 to address such concerns in a cohesive manner, making the TAA the first of the nation’s current 31 graduate student employee unions. Founding members were primarily concerned with wage bargaining and the state Legislature’s proposal to remove “tuition remission,” which would require teaching assistants to pay full tuition. “The dispute was over whether teaching assistants were ‘in training’ to become teachers, and they were doing this as part of their education, but they were also providing a service for the university,” UW-Madison professor of history William P. Jones said. In 1969, former UW-Madison Chancellor Hugh Young proposed an agreement with the TAA continuing the discussion of tuition remission that added a stipulation removing teaching assistants’ ability to bargain wages. In response, TAA members and undergraduate students launched a campus-wide pro-

test a few months later, shutting down various campus services and the bus system with support from “Teamsters,” members of a blue-collar union. After three weeks, the strike ended with the TAA conceding and voting to sign a contract with university administration. Ten years following that first protest, TAA members went on strike once again. The primary issue was that university administration felt many of their grievances infringed on faculty control over educational issues, according to Newby. “From the beginning it was very obviously a strike for the survival of the union,” Newby said. TAA members eventually acknowledged the administration would not give in, and the strike ended after five weeks of unpaid protest. A lifetime member of the TAA, Newby said the relationship between the TAA and faculty and administration improved significantly following the reacquisition of wage bargaining rights in 1985. “From a number of discussions with current TAA folks, they have been developing ... much closer relationships with the faculty,” Newby said. According to TAA member and history Ph.D Sergio M. González, the university acknowledged the union as a representative voice of graduate students during 2011 collective bargaining demonstrations despite not generally rec-

ognizing other public unions. The TAA has adjusted its own focus since the 1970s under the more recent leadership from people like current co-presidents Michael Billeaux and Eleni Schirmer. The TAA started a new campaign to grant graduate employees who are new parents with paid parental leave. “As it stands right now, there’s currently no paid time for graduate employees who become parents, so we’re looking to get that passed,” Billeaux said. Schirmer said the majority of graduate student employees are between the ages of 25 and 45 and typically work for three to nine years during a time when people often contemplate starting families, which could suggest potential gender implications. “A lot of women in particular feel like their academic potential is thwarted by the fact that they want to have kids and there’s not a way to take time off from work,” Schirmer said. “Without a paid leave, women disproportionately have to make those types of sacrifices that men don’t.” This past fall, TAA members intended to remind administration that many of them are parents as well as graduate students by holding a “play-in” in Bascom Hall, where members and their families spent the afternoon together. Members held conversa-

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UW-Madison’s Sigma Chi fraternity chapter faces suspension for violations including serving hard alcohol while under probation.

Sigma Chi fraternity suspended after code of conduct violations The Committee on Student Organizations suspended UW-Madison’s chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity until May 8 after numerous conduct violations, according to a university release. A report last month alleged members of the fraternity served alcohol at an unmonitored event in January that resulted in an underage student being sent to detox, which goes against the Registered Student Organizations Code of Conduct. At that time, the fraternity was barred from hosting events in its house due to a suspension that ended last fall. Fraternity members can-

not attend or host any chapter activities, other than required weekly meetings, because of the new suspension. Sigma Chi will now face probation with alcohol restrictions through Dec. 31, which means it cannot host or co-host events with alcohol. The fraternity can end the restrictions early if it submits an “extensive” risk management plan detailing how it will educate members to avoid future issues, according to the release. Assistant Dean and Director of the Center for Leadership and

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U.S. Supreme Court declines to rule on voter ID appeal By Andrew Hahn THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Members of the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants’ Association protest outside the Union Theater in September 1980, voicing their concerns over a lack of say in educational policy.

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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up a case Monday that alleged Wisconsin’s 2011 law requiring an ID to vote is unconstitutional. The decision will allow the law to go into effect for future elections. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the state soon after the law was enacted, arguing it put an undue burden on minority and low-income voters. A long legal battle prevented voter ID from going into effect, as the suit jumped from court to court. Last year a federal appeals court in Chicago ruled the law was constitutional. The U.S.

Supreme Court let that ruling stand Monday, but did not give its reasons for denying the case. State Attorney General Brad Schimel said the law was a victory for Wisconsin’s elections, but the April 7 spring elections were too soon for voter ID to be implemented. “Our legal team did an outstanding job defending Wisconsin law, from the trial court to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Schimel said in a Monday statement. “Absentee ballots are already in the hands of voters, therefore, the law cannot be implemented for the April

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I Lived Here Hello Earth! I remember this place. Continents with vast plains Where rivers run To the blue oceans that surround With yet another realm within. Where green forests murmur Quiet words of love. Where the crisp alpine air drifts Down the craggy mountains, Snow-capped for all time, Scraping the white off the clouds That swim in the realm above Seeking temperate climes. Hello Earth! I remember you. I once lived here. —Sina Siahpoosh

here is just something inexplicable about our relationship with this place. I’m not sure if it’s something affected by our transient physical existence here or something so esoteric we can’t even articulate it ourselves. I don’t know—I guess that’s Madison’s secret to keep. But it’s expressed in every return, past and future. It’s in that feeling when you’re in a cab or in your friend’s car or in your own, and your body begins to grin because it knows you’re getting close. Every inch of you appears to come to life and crack a smile. Then that feeling thereafter which intuitively causes you to roll the windows down, slow your speed and embrace its embrace. And you seem to do this even when its fucking freezing, because there’s something warm about the cold here. It’s like your entire awareness and body silently shout in solidarity: “We’re back.” This, I look forward to for the rest of my life. — You have shaped all of us in a way that tuition never covered, and never could. Your cold carved a depth deep within us, and filled it with an infinite warmth that exists only because you commenced it. Your warmth ingrained in us an appreciation for everything that carries a bit of sunshine, and now we hold it wherever we may go. The appropriate expression of gratitude that we owe you does not exist in this language, but we know you know what we mean. —Dre Smith, Class of 2014

Clouds Knurly pearly silvery clouds, Floating in unison. Giant starships Migrating to new fronts. They shapeshift playfully, In each other’s company. Passing silently above me To overlook new grounds. Ignoring me totally. —Sina Siahpoosh

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taa from page 1 tions with administrators this past January to follow up on the play-in. Since then, various sociology teaching assistants within the College of Letters and Science brought the issue forward to department heads. The College of Letters and Science has also adopted a policy in response that grants six days per semester of paid leave for new-parent graduate students, which could allow a domino effect to spread to the other colleges [at UW-Madison],” Schirmer said. Although some of the projects on the TAA’s agenda have been “side-stepped,” according

sigma chi from page 1 Involvement Eric Knueve, who served on the committee, said underage drinking cases like this one are more common than hazing cases like the March 18 Chi Phi fraternity termination. He added last week’s case was treated more seriously because of the imminent danger presented by the violations, but suspen-

voter id from page 1 7 election. The Voter ID law will be in place for future elections– this decision is final.”

“Our legal team did an outstanding job defending Wisconsin law.” Brad Schimel attorney general Wisconsin

The Government Accountability Board, responsible for overseeing and regulating Wisconsin’s elections, announced it would work to implement the law before the

to Schirmer, members are hopeful that the working relationship between the university and its graduate students has improved as the university has recognized a significant shared interest. “Graduate assistants play an important role in the educational and research mission at UW-Madison,” Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Darrell Bazzell said in a March 17 statement. “We are committed to providing them with competitive compensation, and have made adjustments in recent years to bring UW-Madison graduate assistant pay more in line with our peers.” sions like Sigma Chi’s case are generally successful in refocusing student groups. “The majority of groups that have been on suspension come back stronger and more committed to the values of who they are as an organization,” Knueve said. Members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity declined to comment for this article. —Bri Maas next statewide primary election in February 2016. Many state Republicans heralded the decision as a victory for the integrity of Wisconsin’s elections. “It’s a great day in Wisconsin; voter ID will finally be the law of the land,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said in a statement. “The common sense law will help ensure honest and fair elections in our state and I look forward to the full implementation of voter ID in the coming months.” Monday’s order does not mean the High Court will not rule on voter ID. The justices have yet to decide whether to take up appeals on similar laws from three other states: Ohio, North Carolina and Texas.

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Plan Commission approves ‘Uncommon’ apartment plans By Michael Frett THE DAILY CARDINAL

The proposed development of a new apartment building found support among Madison’s Plan Commission after presenting updated plans to the commission’s members during a meeting Monday. Uncommon, the proposed apartment structure, will replace an old corrugated boxes warehouse on the corner of West Mifflin Street and North Bedford Street. According to designers, it will house close to 400 students and young professionals. “I think it’s a great project,” Commissioner Eric Sundquist said. “Having worked with the downtown plan and seeing the

evolution over the decade or so in that area, [I can tell] that this is going to be great.” The commission’s support came with several conditions, largely relating to the availability of moped parking. Its members called for more moped parking at the site, saying the originally specified 17 spaces weren’t enough to accommodate for a building that could house nearly 400 residents. According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, cluttered moped parking has been a problem for the city in the past. “There’ll be more than 17 people living in this building in any given year that have mopeds with them, and they need a place to park them without blocking

the sidewalk,” Verveer said. Uncommon is part of a new wave of apartment projects in the area, which Verveer says is in response to an increased demand for downtown housing. While the housing industry usually considers 5 percent a normal vacancy rate, the rates downtown hover between 1 and 2 percent, Verveer said. New apartments like Uncommon could also help address the high prices students face for apartments. “The rents downtown are … ridiculously high,” Verveer said. “There just is not enough competition for apartments. The hope is that, as we add more and more apartments downtown, the rents will stabilize.”

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Representatives from the development company present updates to the North Bedford Street 117-unit apartment plan, expected to house nearly 400 students and young professionals.

MPD officers recover phone, backpack after College Court break-in, robbery A College Court robbery ended in a relatively successful sting operation over the weekend, in which a Madison Police Department officer posed as a victim’s boyfriend in order to recover what was stolen, according to an MPD incident report. The burglar allegedly gained entry to the College Court residence around 4 a.m. Saturday through an unlocked door, MPD Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain wrote in the report. The 21-year-old and 20-year-old female

victims reported that the two backpacks the burglar stole contained a laptop, textbooks, an iPod and a cell phone. The investigating officer called the cell phone, leaving a message pretending be the victim’s boyfriend, and offered a $100 reward for the phone’s safe return. A man returned the phone call to set up a time and place to meet at a Regent Street fast food facility, DeSpain wrote. Two men, Andrew Adams, 21, and Jeramie Sullivan, 18,

arrived carrying one of backpacks, expecting to meet only the concerned boyfriend. When additional officers confronted Adams and Sullivan, the two men reported having found the backpack and claimed not to know the second backpack and the laptop’s whereabouts. Police arrested Adams and Sullivan, citing them for receiving stolen property, and successfully returned one of the backpacks to its owner. —Irene Burski

SSFC limits funding eligibility application to once per year

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Flutist Erin Lesser performs Monday with Due East of the Chicago Composers’ Consortium as part of the School of Music’s Honoring George Crumb at 85 event this week. + Photo by Dana Kampa

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The Student Services Finance Committee passed clarifying legislation Monday regarding rules for student groups applying for funding eligibility, closing a loophole that could potentially cause unfairness. Representative Todd Garon sponsored the legislation that clarifies groups can only apply once per fiscal year for funding eligibility. Under the old rules, a group

that applied in the spring and was denied eligibility could reapply in the fall. SSFC Chair Devon Maier said it is now clear those groups cannot reapply until next spring, which makes the process clear and fair for all groups involved. Maier said that although no group has ever taken advantage of the rule gap, the committee aims to prevent any future ambiguity.

Maier also updated the committee on his report to Chancellor Rebecca Blank, in which he detailed SSFC’s recommendations for the 2015-’16 budgets of non-allocable groups like Rec Sports and the Wisconsin Union, whose budgets are determined by the Chancellor. He said Blank seemed responsive to SSFC’s recommendations, especially those concerning raising student wages.

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By Henry Solotaroff-Webber THe Daily Cardinal

In his collection of three novellas, last year’s Nobel Prize Winner Patrick Modiano gives his readers a hauntingly beautiful reminder of the power and resonance memory has on our daily lives. Though the three novellas “Afterimage,” “Suspended Sentences” and “Flowers of Ruin” tell three different narratives, they all feel connected not only because of their common location of pre- and post-occupation Paris or their narrator, different versions of Modiano himself, but because they all center themselves as an homage to how much nostalgia can affect our lives. If I had to pick a least favorite out of the novellas it would probably be “Afterimage,” however that is more due to the strengths of the other two, as “Afterimage” is still an incredibly moving work in its own right. Its story is one in which a middle-aged man suddenly encounters a relic from his forgotten past, a photo on a stamp of himself with his girlfriend from many years ago, taken by a photographer named Francis Jansen. The man then continues to flash back to the summer he spent indexing the photographs of this Jansen and the time he spent with him doing so. While the premise of the plot seems simple and boring enough, it is. However, the plot is not the point of this novella rather it is the narrator coming to terms with how someone can simply slip out of our lives completely, only to then come roaring back many years later without so much aid as a stamp. This is a phenomenon. This something we have all dealt with in our lives, and it is this commonality that Modiano not only recognizes but embraces in “Afterimage.” The second novella, “Suspended Sentences,” was my personal favorite of the bunch. This one tells a much different story, as it is set in a small town outside of a Paris on the cusp of occupation. Its narrator is a small boy who has recently moved in with his brother to a new home. They were sent there by their parents to live with an elusive woman named Annie, her mother and a curious excircus performer name Hélène,

presumably due to France’s fast approaching occupation. Throughout the book the boy and his little brother adapt to their new school, home, friends and every other factor that make up their new home. In describing this process. Modiano captures the wonderful quality that only children have to process change as whimsical and adventurous as opposed to a loss and it is sure to provoke a sense of nostalgia both happy and sad in the reader similarly to Patoche and his brother. Modiano leaves the reader with the final novella “Flowers of Ruin,” and while it is not the most beautiful of the three, it is the most interesting. In this novella, Modiano is at his most postmodern in that he offers two narratives within the novella that constantly interweave and even crash into one another. The first is simply an anonymous man experiencing life in Paris. However, he soon becomes enraptured by the story of a gripping and mysterious double suicide between a young couple that happened long ago and long faded into Paris’s subconscious. Throughout the main narrative, Modiano then splices in accounts of that young couple’s fateful night in which they decide to take each other’s lives to form this second narrative. Through the narrator’s investigation, he soon realized he was becoming more tied to the fateful event than he ever thought possible. This book grapples with a similar phenomenon as “Afterimage” in which something from the past suddenly creeps into our present daily lives without warning. This time, however, it is something more abstract such as words, stories, images, experiences all suddenly manifesting themselves in the mind of the main narrator and it is the narrator who must find a way to sort them out. Overall, “Suspended Sentences” is a brilliant collection of three novellas and they prove that Patrick Modiano is the reigning recipient for the Nobel Prize in literature for a reason. He is a masterful writer, storyteller and philosopher all rolled into one and “Suspended Sentences” confirms it.

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Members of the Revelry staff DJ outside Memorial Union after the lineup’s release this weekend.

Revelry attracts all crowds with lineup Jake Witz We Gettin’ It

lright. It’s here. Every year Revelry Music and Arts Festival becomes bigger and bigger. This year there’s expected to be around 10,000 students mobbing the streets of Langdon to watch the festival, and the new lineup is sure to make those projected numbers become reality. So enough squabbling, let’s dive right into this lineup and see just how big this year’s Revelry is going to be. It was only two years ago that Chance The Rapper appeared at the then-infantile Revelry festival, though he wasn’t headlining. Since then he’s exploded at an alarming rate into the mainstream, touring with Kanye and headlining a number of festivals himself. With his new album Surf on the horizon, Chance will have no problem inspiring the crowd this year at Revelry. One potential caveat is the inclusion of The Social Experiment, which could potentially mean a more intimate and melodic set instead of an ignorant hip-hop concert. Either way, Chance is sure to have an incredible set in a city that he has a lot of history with. It wouldn’t be a Revelry set without the headlining EDM act, and The Chainsmokers are filling the position for 2015. Rising from one-hit-wonder status from their culturally relevant single “#SELFIE,” The Chainsmokers have been steadily putting out tracks for the last two years, mostly remixing the songs you would

often hear echoing through fraternities on Saturday night. You might have seen AlunaGeorge’s name as a feature on a multitude of projects from the U.K., including Rustie’s “After Light” and Disclosure’s “White Noise,” but the duo has developed quite the solo career over last year. Producer George Reid has done an excellent job of fusing U.K, Drum and Bass with the iconic SoundCloud beat style the mainstream population has become accustomed to, and Aluna Francis lends her unique voice to tie the project together. It’s unsure whether AlunaGeorge’s Londongrown sound will resonate with the Madison population, but definitely don’t skip out on this show if you’re unfamiliar with them. It’s sure to bang just as hard as The Chainsmokers, if not harder. We’ve now reached the point of the lineup with slightly smaller font, but don’t let tinier text dissuade you from skipping out on some of these artists. Yet another British band, Until The Ribbon Breaks is an R&B group that will serve as the perfect transition point between the more mellow smaller bands and the crazier headliners. With such romantic songs as “Persia” and “Romeo,” you might not expect such a band to collab with Run the Jewels, but that’s exactly what they did for their track “Revolution Indifference.” One can only hope for a surprise cameo, but chances are we’re going to get a solid set of grooving beats with crisp R&B male vocals to top it off. Out of the lesser-known acts, Mick Jenkins stands out as a great up-and-comer. The Chicago rapper has made all the right con-

nections, collaborating with fellow lyrically conscious rappers such as the headlining Chance and Vic Mensa, while also having tracks produced by KAYTRANADA. He consistently uses the metaphor of water on his new mixtape “The Water[s],” which is convenient because his raps are so fire that you’ll have trouble not feeling sweaty and parched at this show. Jenkins has such a connection to Madison that he’s even collaborated with UW-Madison student Lord of The Fly. With his still rising-star status and connection to Madison, Jenkins is sure to have a genuine and energy-filled set. Stopping in Madison on his first ever tour, Nick Hakim takes a sharp turn in style from the rest of the lineup. If you want to stop by Revelry but somehow have too much work to stay for the wilder acts, it might be worth stopping by this festival opener for a more easygoing concert. His mix of jazz and folk won’t incite any crowdsurfing, but his silky smooth voice will be enough to make audience members swoon. It’s difficult to assemble a lineup for a festival that has to appeal to the entire student body of UW-Madison, but the Revelry crew has brought together a group of artists that represent a surprising amount of musical diversity. Two years ago, Revelry was the stage for Chance right before he blew up to national stardom. While Revelry will undoubtedly be an amazing day, it might even be more exciting to see where these blooming artists go after the day is over. What are you most excited for this year’s Revelry? Let Jake know at jakey.witz@gmail.com.

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Laura Marling seemlessly melds the old with the new in new album ALBUM REVIEW

By Katy Lang The daily cardinal

Short Movie Laura Marling

The queen of the British folkrock scene has returned from her two-year retreat. Laura Marling’s latest release, Short Movie, stays true to her folk roots but this time with some added electric elements. Since Marling’s first release at the age of 16, her growth as an artist has been incredibly evident.

While Short Movie is not quite the masterpiece that 2013’s Once I Was an Eagle was (it’s hard to beat a good old-fashioned breakup album), it continues to function as a window into Marling’s soul. Short Movie serves as Marling’s diary. The album is the product of her two-year retreat into the California desert for some extended self-reflec-

tion. During this time, Marling read, did yoga and participated in some intense inward exploration, asking herself questions that almost all 20-somethings ask at some point. Short Movie addresses many of these rhetorical ideas in an extremely honest way. “False Hope” opens with the question “Is it still okay that I don’t know how to be alone?” and

“Walk Alone” addresses the same types of issues, while in “Warrior” she refers to herself as a “horse with no name.” These conflicts, the competition between independence and the need for affection, are representative of most people her age, which makes Short Movie painfully honest and real.

Grade: A-

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Top five Twitter pages to follow for arts enjoyment Abbie Ruckdashel Ab-solute Truth

his week I’ve decided to count down my top five favorite artsy Twitter accounts that if you aren’t already following you should. Twitter is my favorite social media site. That said, it was hard for me to keep it to five. I could write a dissertation on what things I like on Twitter. I also struggled because a lot of the accounts I follow on Twitter are funny to me because as a female the tweets are relatable. However I want my column to be readable and useful to both genders and everyone in between. These accounts I picked are mostly funny, but some are inspirational or just generally

useful to brighten up your day and diversify your timeline. 5. @MusicsTexts is just what it sounds like, an account that tweets song lyrics both popular and unknown. I really like this account because a lot of times I find that I can’t say what I’m thinking. I would have made this account higher on the list, but I realize not everyone enjoys picking apart song lyrics as much as I do, but either way I think it’s a pretty awesome account, and I’m not the only one seeing as it has more than a million followers. 4. @wordsporn Although it sounds like something not suitable for children, Word Porn is an account that tweets some of the most beautiful phrases ever spoken or written down. It’s really inspiring and is useful when you just need a boost of positivity to get you through your day. I find most of the

phrases to be useful in my own life and say what I’m sometimes feeling. Sometimes it’s song lyrics or just a regular quote. If you are an English nerd like I am, or even if you just need some positivity to boost your spirit, Word Porn is a must follow. 3. @TheEllenShow Now I know that not everyone likes Ellen DeGeneres, let alone her show. However, her Twitter feed is absolutely amazing. She doesn’t have a press staff that tweets for her, they are actually her. She tweets segments from her show that generally include amazing musical acts that are a must see, along with the most epic selfies to break the Internet, and a play by play of what’s going on when she gets stuck in the pantry. She’s hilarious and I would highly recommend following her. 2. @HoldThisBeer is an account that tweets short videos of people

whose expectations way exceeded the results. Of the accounts listed, this one is hands down the funniest. I laugh out loud—waking up my roommates in the process—at just about every single one. Some of them I can’t even believe happened they’re that insane. I’d like to say no one was hurt in the making of the videos, but people were definitely physically hurt along with their pride. It’s like watching “Ridiculousness” with Rob Dyrdek but without his annoying commentary. If you enjoy “Ridiculousness” or just videos of people narrowly escaping death, then go give HoldThisBeer a follow. 1. @SixSecCover is hands down my favorite account on Twitter. It shows six-second videos (Vines) of people with insane talent covering popular songs. I know it sounds stupid, but you won’t think that if

you go watch some of the videos. The people showcased are actually amazing and make the songs their own. Due to SixSecCover I’ve actually wasted entire days finding the full versions on YouTube. Maybe I like this account so much because I’m obsessed with cover music, but the videos are worth a listen and for sure a follow. I hope you enjoyed this short countdown of things that I like to waste my time looking at on Twitter. Now that we are almost out of the midterm woods, I thought it was appropriate to talk about things that suck my time and pass them along to suck time from your lives. If you have an account you like to follow tweet it to me @ ARuckdashel. Lastly, be sure to follow @dailycardinal for live updates on news and other things happening on campus.

Comedic rapper Lil Dicky provides entertainment for Majestic crowd By Collin Schmidt The daily cardinal

Professional Rapper Tour was not something to be overlooked. This past Friday Lil Dicky was watching the Badger game while preparing for a sold-out crowd at the Majestic Theatre. They played the Badger game with an open bar before the concert. They have a nice screen that proved to be useful later in the night. My best friend was downtown and ready to see his first show ever at the venue. I was pretty impressed by how hyped the crowd was when arriving. Charles Grant, probably a face you’ve all seen walking around downtown was on stage rocking it. This guy has been around here for years collaborating with local rappers such as CRASHprez and Lord of The Fly. All of them are great openers in every venue and are very ingrained in the Madison rap scene. Charles was just coming off his second album 924, which was released after 22 not too long ago. Some of the memorable tracks were “WhiteTrash” and “Hive.” It’s always wonderful seeing local rappers getting a piece of the stage in front of bigger acts like Lil Dicky. After Charles came a man by the name of Saint Millie with DJ Juggernaut. This rapper was obviously from Chicago where rap always has and will be huge. The city basically breeds rappers like we breed cows. Now maybe these

don’t seem to be similar at all. Saint Millie was coming off his most recent release GLORY. This album was perfect for the crowd as he got really hyped up. Some tracks are dark and slow like “Sirens,” while others were perfect for the rowdy crowd of Badger fans. I actually watched as he remixed Kanye, Jay-Z and others to create “Smoke Wit Me,” using the instrumental from J. Cole’s “Rich Ni**az.” When the lights went up I didn’t think the concert would be as wild. Looking around I counted about as many girls at the concert as there are on UW-Platteville’s entire campus (about 10). It was about to get hot and sweaty when I noticed a young guy was sleeping on the floor. Now this isn’t just any floor, it has character to it and to this guy it was all he ever wanted in life. Soon the guy was taken out of the venue and the show was about to start up again. I knew that Lil Dicky was going to be entertaining, he is a comedian and rapper based out of Philadelphia. Now if you haven’t heard of Lil Dicky his name gives it away already. He was originally out to test rapping and has slowly molded himself into a force to be reckoned with. He came to be after the viral release of his song “Ex-Boyfriend.” Also, even more wild is the fact that he’s Jewish and posted a rap battle against Hitler. He released a mixtape “So Hard,” in 2013 and quickly began working on

what elevated him onto the pedestal he now stands upon at his concerts. Lil Dicky had a basketball warmup video to introduce himself and started off real strong. Opening the show with “Club Night,” he then moved to some new stuff off the album Professional Rapper released March 2015. Lil Dicky was an interesting guy who seems to be pained and may have had his confidence shot by some of his past relationships with girls. He exposes himself and really tells people how he feels without hiding anything. All of his songs seem to be about how he wasn’t able to get girls. The songs are so catchy though it’s hard not to love the guy. He stopped the show to give us a small presentation on his business background, which consisted of facts all about women. He then moved on to his jam “Lemme Freak.” The confidence he has gained seems to be growing and growing as he pulled this guy’s girlfriend on stage. You can assume that he sang to her and all, but I was not expecting him to give her a mid song lap dance. Besides this, her boyfriend was just laughing and taking videos of it. Lil Dicky pulled his hype man Gata GED for the next couple songs and really dropped the bass like he’s good at. He got the crowd jumping with a cover of “Whoomp There it is,” originally by Tag Team. Lil Dicky was a sight to see.

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Lil Dicky gets the crowd involved at the Majestic Friday.

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Liturgy’s new album The Ark Work feels complacent compared to past work ALBUM REVIEW

The Ark Work Liturgy By Michael Frett The daily cardinal

And lo, the trumpets blared their fanfare to signal the arrival of Liturgy. A band that’s black metal only with poorly defined semantics, Liturgy’s announcing trumpets build to a noodled

finale. In a matter of minutes, they’ve once again inspired the aggression of the metal boards and shown how ridiculous it is to ascribe to a band the simple titles we try to define them by. The Ark Work, the awaited follow up to the still-divisive Aesthethica , plays its hand early on. “Fanfare” introduces The Ark Work as another destructive jab at metal purists; MIDI horns call forth ensuing noise and chaos. It’s a jumbled mess robbed of rhyme and order, but it stirs the ashes with an eager sense of deconstruction. Those horns are later joined by bagpipes and rattling

guitars as The Ark Work continues its campaign, tossing through black metal’s pits with self-alienating gusto. This isn’t new to Liturgy; they crossed these same fields in 2011 when their sophomore album, Aesthethica , turned the black metal community on itself. Purists declared war on the band, whom they saw as a group of defilers. Decried as a transcendental gang of posers in blue jeans, Liturgy ignited the black metal world. And now that that flame crackles to ash, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix has decided tend to that fire once more.

Liturgy doesn’t strictly adhere to rhythms and time signatures; those are changed at a moment’s notice. Instead, sprawling noise sputters across playtimes and breaks into bursts before settling for something more standard. HuntHendrix growls in monotone over these structured breakdowns, which pulsate with organs and thunder with guitar chords. The most conventional track on The Ark Work is decidedly anti-metal; structured as a black metal standard, the nonsensical “Vitriol” turns to electronic ruminations and monotonous cadences.

Hunt-Hendrix recently said he founded Liturgy to “make people feel uncomfortable.” As the dissonant fade out of “Total War” signals the end of this crusade, it seems that Liturgy leaves a burning countryside of discomfort. Four years after declaring war on conventional metal, amid chaos and deformation, Liturgy’s war seems to have ground to a complacent persistence. In all its fanfare, The Ark Work thunders below its predecessors’ intensity. Yet, it still has enough vitriol to scorch metal’s traveled earths.

Grade: B

opinion Bus passes provide insight to city life 6

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Michael Penn II Guest Columnist

obility is a privilege that the majority of us take advantage of in every waking moment of our lives right now. Strolling the streets with pumpkin spice something, jogging in winters that seem inappropriate, even running through the six (or to catch the six) with our collective woes. Attending UW-Madison means our segregated fees allot a bus pass per student for the entire year as long as that student is enrolled in the university. That means unlimited access to every bus in Metro Transit, which can be replaced for $20 if it gets lost. Of our segregated fees for the 2015 fiscal year, $4,252,700 was allocated for the ASM Bus Pass Program. For the 43,193 students enrolled in the Fall 2014 semester, the numbers average out to roughly $98.46 per student. The normal Metro Transit Bus Pass fares for residents accentuate our privilege even further; it costs $58 for a 31-Day Pass and $150 for an EZ Rider Semester Youth Pass for Madison Metropolitan

School District students to have unlimited rides throughout the school year. For $98.46 (per fiscal year), a UW-Madison student gets more value to utilize public transit than an adult resident or a public school student. I now ask you, the reader, to count how many of your friends didn’t claim their pass from East Campus Mall, a process that takes less than 30 seconds to complete. The origin of this malaise is near impossible to trace, but the notions of exploration and discovery that are constantly shoved into an idealistic college experience should be encouraged across our campus for students to claim and use their bus passes to explore the city of Madison in a frame otherwise unseen in the brochure. As we know, a college campus environment is designed in a context of leisure and convenience to give us ease. Though our campus in particular is rather expansive, we can take the 80, 81 and 82 to get us to our destinations. State Street’s food and entertainment options can easily give the impression that our collegiate bubble is appeasing enough to satisfy any desire a student may need. With these ideas intact, I remember many evenings spent alone traversing the wild ter-

rain for McNuggets … a journey consuming all of 20 minutes of my time that no one on my floor wanted to spare. The familiar golden glow of the McDonald’s on Regent Street was too far from Park Street’s comforts, yet Mifflin Street was never too far for the trappings of suspicious free alcohol. Dietary failings aside, I’ve been taking the 4 bus from the border of the South Side since last semester; a transition I found unbelievably easy given the fact I could claim a bus pass I already paid for and download BusRadar to use in tandem with Google Maps to get literally anywhere in the city. I’m still routinely questioned about why I chose to live “so far” from everything, when my “so far” equates to 15 minutes travel time in one direction.

Trivial as it may seem, my bus pass led to finally discovering an alternative to the cemented gauntlet of a dorm or the sky-high condo prices we’re being swallowed by. Those 15 minutes led to me finding rent at a fraction of the prices in a more diverse area, with a neighborhood feel and an amazing breakfast spot right next to a tattoo parlor

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down the street from a Famous Dave’s I didn’t know existed. When I added another 10 minutes to the trip, I found the public library where I began teaching music workshops, which is another five minutes walking from the studio where I finished my first album. Not to mention I finally saw black and brown people in abundance after spending four semesters wondering where everyone was, only to find them a transfer point away. Trivial as it may seem, my bus pass led to finally discovering an alternative to the cemented gauntlet of a dorm or the sky-high condo prices we’re being swallowed by. Furthermore, it helped me find a piece of this place to call home when I didn’t find it on North Park Street. We funnel more than $4 million dollars a year into a bus pass program that should be an essential key to unlocking the potential for what you can get out of your Madison experience beyond the textbook. Not claiming what’s already paid for is an avoidable tactic that cheats oneself out of a more enriching experience the city as a whole can offer no matter what your interests may be. The collegiate bubble nurtured me like a security blanket; this mentality sheds faster from some students than others. But from a position of privilege to

even walk around this campus, let alone attend classes here, why not surrender one if one has no plans to utilize it in the first place? I think of the underprivileged Madison citizens who scrape up their ends to use Metro Transit to get through life every time I try to plan an evening move only to find that someone I know never claimed their bus pass. If we can obtain the data on how many passes are left unclaimed every semester, it could prove very resourceful to provide an option to donate one’s pass to Madison residents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds if a student finds no use for the bus pass or has other reliable means of transportation to be a functional student. This is not to strip a student of a pass they pay for; it creates an opportunity for a small act of generosity to potentially change the lives of others. No matter where you stand on that suggestion, I encourage everyone who hasn’t claimed their bus pass to do that and go somewhere they’ve never been in the city. It’s a small step to deconstructing what people conceive as “too far” while discovering the joy of what another 15 minutes can bring to change a whole experience in Madison. What’s your take on utilizing university bus passes? Do you agree or disagree with Michael? We’d like to hear from you. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Can’t spell bracket without racket: NCAA’s non-profit problem Sergey Fedossov Opinion Columnist

ith NCAA March Madness at a lull until Sweet 16 play begins Thursday, now is as good a time as ever to discuss the state of NCAA athletics. Setting aside the human factor of student-athletes and coaches engaging in acts of misconduct, we can look toward the root of the problem lying in the broken structure of collegiate athletics today. The problem runs the entire gamut of college athletics, whether it is from the bottom in the arbitrary rules and regulations that student-athletes are subject to, all the way up to how the NCAA works as a cartel, but I see most of the controversy bubbling to the surface in student-athletes. The issue starts from the legal groundwork the NCAA is built upon. Something smells fishy when you realize the NCAA is a tax-exempt nonprofit that is in charge of wrangling the massive operation that is United States’ collegiate athletics. For its troubles, the NCAA pulls in approximately $11 billion in revenue, which makes me scratch my head at the term ‘non-profit.’ I can feel the sneer crawling up on the face of an armchair legal professional as I write this out. Classification aside, it’s hard to imagine that with $11 billion floating around, the NCAA

still relies heavily on donors, taxpayers and students who do the heavy lifting in the cost of athletic facilities, as well as costs associated with funding major athletic programs, which made me balk at the figures I discovered online. Even if you manage to swallow the pill that is the NCAA’s seemingly ridiculous profit margin, the next fact bowled me over. In 40 states, the highest paid public position is the head football or basketball coach of a public university. While I have realized it’s a matter of paying wages to hold on to the most elite of coaches and dissuade the coaches from leaving their universities, it’s a ridiculous thing to have the cost of a couple of coaches run the costs up for an entire team of athletes while a head coach can earn millions of dollars, but NCAA athletes must jump through hoops to receive anything beyond their tuition. Ultimately, collegiate athletics wouldn’t exist without the student-athletes themselves. Getting an education paid for in return for participating in a sport these students love enough to train for all their lives seems like an equivalent exchange on paper. Looking deeper, however, it’s clear athletes are nowhere near adequately compensated for their time and effort. They practice in elite facilities and receive physical rehabilitation that regular students don’t have access to, but have to tread extremely lightly when doing

seemingly trivial things such as signing memorabilia (even for free), receiving gifts from fans or even taking out loans. I can’t fathom how students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds can go to bed hungry and have their housing hang in the balance based on their family’s monetary situation, all the while their tuition is completely paid for by their university. The struggle of athletes in college goes even deeper when they commit up to 40 hours a week to their sport and still are given these arbitrary restrictions on privileges they can receive from the university. I’ve read dozens of stories and events on athletes in college struggling with finances because of NCAA rules. At best, student-athletes flock to majors with lax requirements at the price of job prospects out of college, and at worst, flock to classes notorious for handing out “easy A’s” and commit acts of academic dishonesty. While the NCAA has cracked down on such behaviors in recent years, the problem remains, and the root cause lies in how student-athletes in programs that require so much of their time must sacrifice academics to perfect their craft as athletes, or vice versa. I don’t know how the problem might be remedied. Paying student-athletes won’t make them study harder, and would likely further divide the football and basketball elite that most universities’ athletic programs focus on. While every

school is different, at Madison there is definitely a media bias toward our winning football and basketball teams. All I see is the NCAA earning beaucoup bucks while student-athletes bleed themselves dry just to earn the shot at what could hardly be called an education, and taxpayers and fellow uni-

versity students feel the pain in their wallets. Sergey is a freshman at UW-Madison majoring in economics. Do you agree or disagree with his stance on the NCAA? What do you think could be done to better reward studentathletes? Send all feedback to opinon@dailycardinal.com.

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Nigel Hayes signed on to a lawsuit against the NCAA in an effort to force them to appropriately compensate student-athletes.

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Today’s Sudoku

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PSA: Bloodborne comes out today

Future Freaks

By Joel Cryer jcryer@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.

Dwarfhead and Narwhal Classic

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Cat and Mouse Classic

Yourmomeater Classic

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ACROSS 1 More than simmers 6 Old map abbr. 10 Stinging comment 14 Breathing problem 15 Humble request 16 Wheeling’s river 17 Cowboy store offerings 20 “___ as directed” 21 Eject, as lava 22 Black furs 23 Slow traveler 25 Pea places 26 Astronaut’s insignia, often 28 Not far from 32 Cremona artisan 34 One of Kelsey’s co-stars 35 Undergrad degs. 38 Soundly defeat 42 Paintings, e.g. 43 Avoid a collision 44 Famous cinematic falcon’s home 45 “Just married” car decorations 48 One of the deadly sins 49 “Beetle Bailey” creator Walker 51 Sahara stop, hopefully 53 Lion handlers, in a circus

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___ cap (mushroom) Common beverage Indicate immediacy “___ and the King of Siam” 63 29-Down solo 64 Body trunks 65 Cause of a game delay 66 One may be checkered 67 Popular landscaping plant DOWN 1 Hindu Mr. 2 Magnum chaser? 3 Nonstop 4 100 qintars 5 Taco condiment 6 Persuade a customer to buy more 7 Deli side 8 D.C. employee, briefly 9 Physics units 10 Yogi’s cartoon sidekick 11 “Get ___ of yourself!” 12 Marriage and 19-Down 13 Office bigwig 18 “Roots,” for one 19 Ceremonial immersion 24 Alliance formed in

1949 Valley of vines Gulf VIP (Var.) “Aida” or “Carmen” Caribbean, e.g. “To ___ is human ...” Fertilization type Staircase railings ___ of the Apostles Three-handed card game 39 Late-October suffix 40 Dry, as wine 41 Indonesian island 45 Mine shaft borer 46 Like skim milk 47 Pseudonym of H.H. Munro 49 Miraculous food, in the Bible 50 Mideasterner 52 Moog-made machine, briefly 53 Alexandra’s husband was one 54 ___, Crackle and Pop 55 Wife of Osiris 57 Before now, before now 58 China setting? 60 Big Band, for one 61 Sentimentality, to some 6 2 27 29 30 31 33 35 36 37

Apathetic and Unambitious Classic

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Sports

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Men’s Basketball

Gearing up for a Sweet second weekend MIDWEST No. 1 Kentucky vs. No. 5 West Virginia

All year long, media and fans have theorized what it will take to bring down the jet-fueled bulldozer that is Kentucky. Stretch forwards, pack-line defense, force them into isolation offense—many things have been tried. With West Virginia, another theory will be tested: push a full-court press on the Wildcats’ less talented guards, speed the game up and don’t get destroyed on the boards. West Virginia leads the NCAA in steal rate thanks to that press and is in the Top 5 for offensive rebounding percentage. When playing a better team, you want to create chaos, maximize possessions and try to negate talent, and the Mountaineers are equipped to do just that. Oh, who am I kidding? Kentucky’s winning by 30.

No. 3 Notre Dame vs. No. 7 Wichita State

After an extraordinarily cathartic upset over intrastate rival, too-good-for-you Kansas, Wichita State will now take on Notre Dame, one of the offensively elite teams in the country. The Shockers’ 7-seed may go down as one of the committee’s worst decisions, as WSU is more than experienced in the Madness that is March and is extremely balanced and well coached. The Shockers rank in the Top 20 for both offense and defense in kenpom.com. Notre Dame, meanwhile, ranks outside the Top 100 in defense, but makes up for that with a truly ridiculous interior scoring attack. This matchup features what has got to be the best backcourt combination in any game this round, with Notre Dame’s likely All-American Jerian Grant taking on Wichita State’s Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet, two players who have been among the nation’s best at their positions for years. As far as Sweet 16 matchups go, this could easily be one of the most entertaining. —Jack Baer

WEST No. 1 Wisconsin vs. No. 4 North Carolina

Wisconsin survived a major scare from Oregon to advance to its fourth Sweet 16 in the last five years, thanks largely to the efforts of its starting frontcourt of Frank Kaminsky, Sam Dekker and Nigel Hayes. The trio has shouldered the load for the offense through the first two games, scoring 109 of the team’s 158 points. Meanwhile, the Tar Heels are coming off a win against Arkansas, but could be without forward Kennedy Meeks, who suffered a sprained left knee against the Razorbacks and is doubtful. Without the 6-foot-9, 280-pound Meeks, North Carolina’s already daunting task of trying to slow down the UW frontcourt could be made that much more difficult.

No. 2 Arizona vs. No. 6 Xavier

The Wildcats are one of just two teams in the country, the

1 Kentucky

MIDWEST

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NC State 8

5 West Virginia

Louisville 4

3 Notre Dame

Oklahoma 3

7 Wichita State

Michigan St. 7

1 Wisconsin

Duke 1

4 N. Carolina

Utah 5

6 Xavier 2 Arizona

UCLA 11

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other being Kentucky, that rank in the Top 10 of Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency ratings. Led by stars Stanley Johnson and senior guard T.J. McConnell, Arizona is a trendy pick to reach the Final Four for the first time since 2001. Meanwhile, the Musketeers are anchored by senior center Matt Stainbrook, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder. He had just nine points and six rebounds in Xavier’s win over Georgia State in the Round of 32, and will need to play far better if the Musketeers are going to keep Arizona from a potential Elite Eight rematch with Wisconsin. —Zach Rastall

EAST No. 4 Louisville vs. No. 8 NC State

NC State has played two of the tournament’s best games to get to the Sweet 16. In their opener, the Wolfpack came back from a 16-point deficit to beat LSU on a buzzer beater, then beat top-seeded Villanova thanks to frigid shooting by the Wildcats. Louisville squeaked out a victory over the Anteaters of UC Irvine and then coasted against Northern Iowa to reach the Sweet 16 for the fourth straight year. Players to watch here include Montrezl Harrell and Terry Rozier for Louisville, and Anthony “Cat” Barber and Trevor Lacey for NC State. One never really knows what they’re going to get out of the Wolfpack, but I think they will survive and advance.

No. 3 Oklahoma vs. No. 7 Michigan State

UW fans should know just how good Michigan State can be after watching the Big Ten Tournament final. After taking care of Georgia, the Spartans stayed composed and beat Virginia thanks to timely shots by Travis Trice. Oklahoma struggled with Albany in the opening round and went the distance with Dayton before delivering the knockout blow to a team that was playing its sixth game in 10 days. Players to watch for the Sooners include Big 12 Player of the Year Buddy Hield and Ryan Spangler, who is one of the conference’s best defenders and rebounders. For the Spartans,

Trice and Branden Dawson both have the ability to change a game. If Trice is hitting shots and Dawson is engaged, then the Spartans will be moving on. —Brian Weidy

SOUTH No. 1 Duke vs. No. 5 Utah

This game features a critical matchup between a pair of freshman centers. You may have already heard of Duke’s big man,

the much celebrated Jahlil Okafor, but Utah’s less heralded Jakob Poeltl is certainly no scrub either, leading the Utes in rebounds while shooting over 67 percent to score nearly 10 points per game. However, the real leader of the Utes is standout senior guard Delon Wright. He serves as the team’s primary scorer and facilitator, leading Utah with almost 15 points and over five assists per game. Shockingly, the Blue Devils also

have some talent on hand besides Okafor. Freshmen Justise Winslow and Tyus Jones and senior Quinn Cook have all had standout years. When Duke has it going, they might be the best team in the nation. However, the Blue Devils have shown in boneheaded losses to Miami and NC State that they do not always perform at their talent level, leaving the door ajar for the Utes to score an unlikely upset.

No. 2 Gonzaga vs. No. 11 UCLA

Gonzaga will face a resurgent Bruins team in a rematch that UCLA hopes is a little closer this time. Seriously, otherwise they are out. The teams played each other back in December at UCLA, and Gonzaga coasted to victory. The Bruins are fortunate to even have the opportunity for this rematch. After barely making the tournament, the Bruins eked out a 60-59 win over SMU on a 3-pointer called good thanks to a controversial goaltending violation. Meanwhile, the Bulldogs, led by an on-fire stretch forward in Kyle Wiltjer and their point guard Kevin Pangos, are arguably the best team of the Mark Few era as they look to earn the longtime coach his first Elite Eight appearance. —Rushad Machhi