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Whitehead’s research in Guyana shaped life Professor found that violence is universal By Samy Moskol The Daily Cardinal

Neil Whitehead, professor and chair of the Anthropology Department, died Thursday, March 22 after an illness. He was 56 years old. This story is a product of the last interviews he had with the Daily Cardinal, Jan.

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Students gathered at Library Mall Tuesday in protest of the recent shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Bo Morrison.

Student protest reflects national, state outcry over recent shootings By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal

While a larger tide of public outcry focuses on the killing of African-American teen Trayvon Martin in Florida, a “SpeakOut” on Library Mall Tuesday focused on the less-publicized killing of Bo Morrison in Wisconsin and the state law that protects his killer. An unarmed Martin was killed Feb. 27 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who was released after questioning under a Florida law that allows a person to use deadly force in self-defense if there is reasonable belief of threat. Both the shooting and the legal benefit of the doubt Zimmerman received have propelled the incident into the national spotlight. In a similar incident, 20-yearold Morrison was killed the night of March 3 after leaving a house party in Slinger, Wis. A neighbor shot Morrison after finding him on his porch. He claims he is protected by the recently expanded Castle Doctrine, a law that defines the use of his handgun on his property as self-defense. Some in the crowd wore hooded sweatshirts, which have become a symbol of the movement protesting Martin’s death. Attendees also

heard from Morrison’s friends and current UW-Madison students who described the friend they knew and lost. “It was really sad hearing from the girls [that were friends with Morrison]… your heart goes out to them, that they lost their friend like that,” said sociology graduate student Jenn Sims. Organizers and some in attendance also connected the killings with racial incidents on campus, pointing to the recent alleged verbal harassment of two female African-American students. “This event came out of the idea that there’s been these attacks on black men and blacks not only across the country but on the UW-Madison campus as well,” said event organizer and International Socialist Organization member Dan Suarez. “We need to provide a space for people to be able to express themselves, and this is already a hard enough place for students of color to go to school anyway.” When asked about the reported harassment that took place during a Delta Upsilon Fraternity party, Sims agreed. “It’s just scary for the undergrads,” she said. “I see black women and men in my classroom, and that could have been one of my students.”

31 and Feb. 7, 2012. While Anthropology students knew Neil Whitehead as the “quirky English professor” whose expertise ranged from sexuality to terrorism, scholars around the world recognized him mostly for his groundbreaking work on how groups use violence to make sense of the world around them. Though the setting of his research was among the Patamuna people of Guyana, he emphasized how their violence is telling of our own. On his first trip to the Guyana highlands in 1992, he did not to

expect to encounter the violent Shamans that call themselves Kanaima. But after he learned they were more than myth, and after falling victim to a Kanaima attack himself, they became the center of his research. Patamuna, with training, can obtain three shamanistic qualifications, of which Kanaima is one. While the other two qualifications involve charming and healing, the Kanaimas are known for violently killing and

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Fraternity member, multicultural leader look to end racist incidents on Langdon By Alex DiTullio The Daily Cardinal

In 1988, UW-Madison’s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was accused of sponsoring a slave auction party that included members of the fraternity wearing blackface and Afro wigs. The incident sparked a small, but passionate, student-led protest on ZBT’s property, at which eight students were eventually arrested. Twenty-four years later, Multicultural Student Coalition

Executive Member Althea Miller said Langdon Street continues to be a hotbed for racist incidents, pointing to a recent report of students yelling racial slurs from a fraternity balcony and throwing a bottle at two African American students. The most recent incident at Delta Upsilon came eight months after residents of a Langdon Street apartment hung a black SpiderMan doll from a balcony, an act some students said resembled a

lynching. Miller said she sees the two incidents as part of a trend. “There’s a really huge issue with Langdon Street because things keep happening on Langdon Street,” Miller said. “Quite frankly I’m getting sick of it.” While former interfraternity council vice president and Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity member Tom Templeton recognizes a pattern of racial issues within Greek

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Mayor Paul Soglin helped set off construction on the Madison Central Library branch at 201 W. Mifflin St. Tuesday. The city hopes to finish the $18-million renovation by 2013. + Photo byDylan Moriarty

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Time to stop discussing Snooki Michael Voloshin little shapiro

e get it. Snooki’s due date is right around the end of the world as predicted by the Mayans. Justin Bieber looks like a lesbian. Lady Gaga wears weird clothing. We get it. We get the fact that you want to make fun of these people, that you want to suggest another athlete Kim Kardashian should date, that you cannot believe Lindsay Lohan can do lines of cocaine but not lines on “Saturday Night Live,” that you think the cast of “Jersey Shore” must have herpes by now. We get it. Think before you slander someone or something. No, this is not me appealing to your moral side and asking you not to make fun of people. This is a plea for everyone to stop making fun of easy targets. What constitutes an easy target? Anything in the media that has been beaten to death—twice. You might have an awesome quip about Charlie Sheen’s drug habits and “winning” mantra, but just stop— we get it. Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen and anyone who is a fool enough to be on reality TV are easy targets (Seriously, people on “Road Rules/ Real World Challenge,” I love your show, but all of you—especially you Johnny Bananas—need to get real jobs). They have shamed themselves so much at this point that picking on them is just mean.

This is not to say I have not been involved in “easy-pickings” (just thought that up, nice right?), but I think it would be easier for everyone if we all stopped together, as a family, a family of Thundercats. Why do we make fun of these easy-pickings? In the case of reality television, it is because we are astonished and disheartened by the fact that these people, who have no real skills, are becoming millionaires. We are all a little jealous that cameras are not following us around, capturing every stupid thing we do. As for teen celebs, we hate them because teen girls love them. Check out Twitter’s trending topics to see that at any given time Justin Bieber is making the cut. But I am not here to take away your punching bag. So who can we make fun of? Well, I have compiled a list of people of people who have not gotten the disrespect they deserve. Pitbull: He is 5-foot nothing, endorses everything from Dr. Pepper to tampons and is possibly the worst rapper to hit the mainstream (once he rhymed “Kodak” with “Kodak,” I knew he deserved more shit). He is the least taunted person in the world, and that needs to change. Doug Hutchinson: Everyone was quick to judge Courtney Stodden, the 16-yearold bride, for being too risqué, but we need to address her 51-yearold, D-list husband: You, sir, are a pedophile (Side note: If all it

Stressing over spring break Emily Lindeman lin-de-mania

hat are you doing for break? This is the question everyone asks and everyone gets asked, but not everyone has the same response. Here is my take on what constitutes the classic, college spring break. A beach, some big, sandy boobs and lots of beer. If this is indeed the case, you would expect me to have my tickets booked for Panama City Beach, Fla., right? No dice. Instead, I am looking forward to sitting at home for five or six days with my dog and Showtime on-demand. Thrilling, but a boring and completely unproductive spring break is much more my style. As confident as I may sound, I still have some difficulty coming to terms with not partaking in the typical spring break. I am a young, impressionable college student after all. I know myself well and thus realize it is unlikely I would enjoy a big, boob-filled trip like that, but I am not immune to peer pressure and wanting to act normal. Ergo, sometimes I wish that I was having what everyone tells me is the necessary “college experience.” It is difficult, however, to make conversation about spring break plans when you have fully accepted that you will be sitting on your ass at home for a week while the other person is already prepping with self-tanner for her crazy, drunken week in some foreign yet highly bropopulated beach-front resort. You lose any respect they may have had for you once you say, “Oh, I’m just going home and

relaxing, but it will be nice to see my dog.” On the other side of the conversation, I am never sure to ask, so I usually just say, “You will have sooooo much fun!” with my pathetic but hopeful smile. I then avert my eyes as quickly as possible and remind myself that not every beach party involves wet T-shirt contests and keg stands (right?). Having said that, I am no prude, so I think I will start prepping for Spring Break 2013 soon, mostly by collecting white tank tops and doing a crap ton of crunches, which will be beneficial for both parties on the beach as well as sitting up straighter on the couch in my Hanes pajamas. I know there are others out there like me, people too lazy to make plans or simply just do not have the dough (understandable) for a fancy vacation. What do you all do when people ask you what your plans are? Are you honest yet mildly ashamed like me? Or perhaps you lie and say you are visiting three countries in Europe, or maybe you say that you do not believe in “spring break” (using air quotes, of course). Others of you may deny even knowing that break starts next week. Whatever your break plans, make sure to return with one good story so you have something to talk about when everyone asks you that imminent question, “So, how was your spring break?” Do you enjoy lazy, boring spring breaks as well? Tell Emily she is not alone by emailing her at elindeman@wisc.edu.

takes to become a D-list celebrity is to appear in five minutes of “The Green Mile” and six episodes of “Lost,” Kathy Griffin deserves an upgrade to the C-list). The History Channel: I did not know rednecks searching for aliens and alligators constituted history. America’s screwed. Jose Canseco: Browsing Canseco’s Twitter feed is like peering into the mind of a madman. He gave his phone number to Lady Gaga, told Justin Bieber he is just like him and answers questions from fans. Ha, just kidding about that last part—he berates them verbally because everyone hates his guts. Taylor Swift: I am not a T-Swift fan, and people always ask me why. Here is the thing: She always plays the role of a sweet, country girl while the men she dates—and dumps—are written off as terrible. Isn’t it possible that she is just a bad girlfriend or not what she seems? Maybe it is her fault Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer and Joe Jonas broke up with her. NBC: The proverbial fourthbest network has done some stupid things lately, namely putting “Community” on hiatus, keeping “Whitney” on the air, premiering “Are You There, Chelsea?” and not ending “The Office.” This little brother network needs to be kicked in the rear because they have definitely Britta’d it. LMFAO: For starters, Redfoo (lolz) is 11 years older and the uncle

of SkyBlu (double lolz). Next, the duo is only famous because Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records, is their father/grandfather. Have you ever listened to one of their songs and thought, “Man, that was an experience unlike any other. I hope I hear that on the radio over and over again for the next three months!” Of course not, and if you have, then you deserve to be on this list. Duck-face poses: Oh pretty girls on the Internet, why do you make yourselves look like 40-year-old platypuses? Stick with your lovely smiles. TLC: The Learning Channel (seriously?) has taught me more about people with eating plastic, dressing their four-year-old daughters in incredibly inappropriate outfits and hoarding a collection of dust and herpesridden junk than I could ever wish to know. Now that we have the list, I have a contract for us all to sign: I, _________________, will always think before I make fun of a reality star, teen heartthrob or drugged-up celebrity. I will only attack those that deserve to be knocked down a peg on the fame scale. I will be creative and hilarious in my speech. And, if all else fails, I will make fun of my friends like a normal person. Got a celeb or two you would like to add to Michael’s list? Clue him in by sending an e-mail to mvoloshin@wisc.edu.

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Police, residents talk Mifflin safety By David Jones The Daily Cardinal

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Human Resource Development official Harry Webne-Behrman said at a forum Tuesday redesigning the university’s system could improve the UW-Madison campus climate.

Human resources redesign team seeks student input through campus forums By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

University officials are seeking input from throughout the UW-Madison community on the university’s Human Resource redesign, design team members said at a forum Tuesday. Harry Webne-Behrman, team leader of the HR redesign collaboration team, said restructuring the system will help UW-Madison operate more effectively as a university. “The university has long sought flexibilities for treating [UW-Madison] as an academic institution versus an agency in order to really try to meet the needs of an academic institution and the employees, we need some changes in the way the system operates,” Webne-Behrman said. Tuesday’s campus forum was the fifth the design team held to engage with the campus

on the redesign. Webne-Behrman said students should attend forums the HR redesign team is holding and answer questions on the redesign website to become involved. “We’re really trying to get it right, and by engaging the campus community in a timely and meaningful way we have a great trust that we can get it right,” Webne-Behrman said. While the redesign will most directly impact university employees, students could see its impact on the campus atmosphere, he said. A more efficient HR structure could lead to bettertrained managers and more fairly compensated staff, improving overall campus climate. Some students in attendance at the forum said the redesign focuses much attention on being “efficient,” although education is often not time or cost efficient.

The students asked how redesign members were ensuring they treat HR at the university different than that of a corporation, since the university has different goals than a corporation would. Redesign members said “efficiency” does not necessarily mean exploiting workers, but making sure they are connected to the resources they need. “This is a community that is dedicated to learning and service from time to time as we go about organizing ourselves, we may find things that are efficiencies that are not effective and that undermine those values of community,” Webne-Behrman said. Design team members said they are seeking approval from UW-Madison’s faculty senate, academic staff and student council this spring before bringing the proposal before the Board of Regents and state leaders next fall.

Milwaukee Assembly districts to be redrawn by court A federal court said it will redraw the same Milwaukee Assembly District election maps it ruled unconstitutional last week, taking the task out of lawmakers hands. The three-judge panel ruled the eighth and ninth districts were drawn by the Republicancontrolled legislature in a way that violated the rights of Latino voters last week. State legislators declined to redraw maps. The court also ordered the parties involved in the case to meet at least once before April 2 to attempt to reach an agree-

ment on changes to the two districts. If they are unable to, each side can submit their own proposals to the court. The judges said they would only review altercations to the eighth and ninth district maps. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen spokesperson Dana Brueck said the Department of Justice plans to meet with the plaintiffs to exchange alternative map proposals as the court required. “We see it as a positive sign,” Brueck said of the court’s decision. “The court is serious about resolving this issue without

a lot of tolerance for plaintiffs’ attempts to complicate matters.” Additionally, Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, asked for the legal files pertaining to the redistricting case from the lawyers originally hired by Senate Republicans Tuesday. He argued Democrats should have access to sensitive files since the Senate is now split and the lawyers arguing in defense of Republican lawmakers and their maps signed a contract with the state Senate, not only Republican Senators. —Adam Wollner

After sterns words on its direction from Madison’s police chief earlier this week, the Mifflin Street Block Party was discussed at a meeting of local leaders, police and student government representatives Tuesday. Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said the Madison Police Department seeks to downsize the party in the future after the violence that occurred last year in his interview earlier this week with the Wisconsin State Journal. “The challenges that we saw last year, I think, certainly warranted strong messages from the chief,” Sgt. Anthony Fiore said. But ASM representative Maria Giannopoulos said she hopes this year’s theme, “Mifflin Now, Mifflin Forever” will create a safe and successful party that will allow Mifflin to continue into the future. “Last year, Mifflin did not go over so well and we want to rebrand that and make sure that Mifflin is as safe and as positive as possible,” Giannopoulos said. Fiore said residents could create a safe environment by only inviting people they know to parties and securing valu-

langdon from page 1 life, he said such problems are not exclusive to fraternity row. “I think it is easy to target and label Langdon Street and the Greek community because of our self-affiliated labeling and the fact that we are kind of a tight-knit community,” Templeton said. “But at the same time there have been racial issues across campus since the same time outside of the Greek community.” Still, Templeton said he recognizes a need for change. He said he views the recent incident at DU as an opportunity to shed light on the reoccurring issue, hoping it will lead to the Greek community working with programs or initiatives to prevent such problems from happening in the future. With a similar goal in mind, Miller suggested diversity training for Greek life affili-

ables during the entire event. Unlike at the last block party, the city will prohibit people from consuming alcohol on city streets or sidewalks this year. “The mantra from the police department will be 100 percent compliance, that’s what we’re expecting from the people who choose to come to the Mifflin street event this year,” Lt. Dave McCaw said. Despite lacking an event sponsor, the city will still have portable restrooms and food vendors located throughout the event area. Fire marshal Edwin Ruckriegel said the city would be encouraging property owners to clear properties of wood, debris or flammable chemicals and enforcing fire codes with crowded buildings and balconies during the event. “Not only look out for your own safety … but look after each other,” Ruckriegel said Giannopoulos said everyone attending the party has to be responsible in order to create a safe environment. “If we’re not safe and we’re not responsible… then I don’t know if Mifflin can continue,” Giannopoulos said. ates, an idea that Templeton said is conceivable. “We do new member education programs for alcohol related issues and sexual assault,” he said. “I think diversity is another one that all new members in the Greek community would benefit from.” African American Studies Professor Michael Thornton also said he sees a trend in racist occurrences on Langdon Street, a trend he attributes to high alcohol consumption within Greek life. “When you have a lot of people in fraternities for example, you have a lot more people in concentrated areas,” Thornton said. “And if there’s drinking, they’re more likely to have the potential for acting inappropriately.” But Templeton said it is unfair to single out Greek life when most students outside of Langdon culture drink as well.

Two former Walker spokespersons investigated in John Doe Prosecutors in the ongoing John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s staff during his time as Milwaukee County Executive have requested more information about two of Walker’s former spokespersons. So far in the investigation, six former staffers have been charged with felonies, including two convictions. The crimes range from

illegal campaigning on county time to embezzling money meant for veterans. Documents released Tuesday show Fran McLaughlin and Jon Myhre, two former spokespersons, now join a group of seven former county employees close to Walker whose personal records have been requested as part of the investigation.

Gov. Walker maintains he is innocent, and has denied any knowledge of wrongdoing throughout the investigation. Democrats have questioned his decision to establish a legal fund to pay for lawyer fees. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin reacted to the new details Tuesday by alleging Walker clearly knew about the illegal activity.

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In 1988, more than 200 students called for administration to respond promptly to Zeta Beta Tau’s mock slave auction.

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professor from page 1 mutilating their victims. They then drink the juices the decomposing body releases, after which they retrieve parts of the body to kill their next victims. The term Kanaima represents the practice itself and the people who use it. They do not choose their victims at random, but stalk victims who they view as threatening for years at a time. Whitehead explained that Kanaima and other kinds of shamanism are spiritual and political systems, like Christianity, through which people deal with their world. “It’s not simply a brutal killing. This act of violence at the heart of it is really sacrifice of a very striking kind,” he said. Whitehead said it is not very different from violence with which Americans are familiar. He explained that westerners justify violence that protects property and liberty, but see violence that is difficult to understand as evil. After years of interviewing family members of victims and Kanaima and living amongst them, he found the lines between their violence and Western violence became more blurred. Kanaima, he said, carry out violence they see as necessary for their society, whereas in the United States, law enforcement and the military are given the same responsibility. Over time, the Patamuna people became more distrusting of Whitehead’s work and thought he was trying to steal Kanaima, or that he was a Kanaima himself. They interpreted him as a Western outsider and thought he

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Neil Whitehead, professor and chair of the Anthropology department, was known for his research of Kanaima shamans in Guyana and how their violence reflected our own. could inflict as much violence on them as they do on others. “To some extent you risk robbing from the cultural force of something by explaining it away but I take great pain in the book as a whole to say this is real,” he said. “There’s something about it that still eludes and escapes any safe easy explanation. That’s a way of respecting that cultural power.” In the midst of his research, his father and his friend from the museum that was funding him both fell ill and died from colorectal cancer, after which Whitehead

said he felt like less of an outsider to the Patamuna community. He was not paranoid about whether the incidents were connected to Kanaima, but reflected once he knew more about Kanaima, he did not doubt they could play a hand in his own life. “[There’s] no reason Kanaima couldn’t entangle people other than Patamuna. It doesn’t matter whether you believe in it or not, it’s real. There’s nothing not to believe,” Whitehead said. “It doesn’t matter whether you believe in it, it doesn’t stop what’s happening from hap-

pening. It’s real when you’re there. It becomes the easiest explanation to adopt. What I’m reporting on is the difficulty of holding those things apart in the light of going there and then those things happening.” In his 2002 book “Dark Shamans,” which chronicles his ethnography of Kanaima, Whitehead notes other anthropologists in the field were baffled by the lengths he was willing to take to understand Kanaima and violence as best he could. “Sticking at something is part folly part courage. You kind of

do what you think you need to do. Nothing ventured nothing gained,” Whitehead said. After the publication of “Dark Shamans,” he said his work on Kanaima found its natural end. “I think I know as much as I ever want to know. Some things I’d rather not have known,” Whitehead reflected. He incorporated his research into one of the most specialized classes he taught, the Anthropology of Shamanism and Occult Experience, which he pointed out was numbered Anthropology 666. Whitehead saw his move to Madison in 1993 from his native England to join the Anthropology department as ethnography in itself. While he said it was difficult to leave his home after 38 years, he eventually found his place in the states. “You have to learn to do things like Thanksgiving and July Fourth, because you come to have your own memories after long enough,” he said. Whitehead joked he was advantaged because Americans tend to like English immigrants. Most recently, he was part of a research team that found clues in Guyana suggesting human settlements in the region were around much earlier than previously thought. More details on the project will be released publicly in May. Whitehead said he decided to conduct his research in Guyana and its neighboring regions partly because Guyana historically limited foreign ethnographers from coming. But he emphasized the conclusions he found there could be made anywhere. “All life is in any place you choose to go,” he said.

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Sometimes doing what you love takes work, and there might not be a better example of the pursuit of happiness than lead guitarist for The Features, Matt Pelham. Between bouts of touring in the United States and the UK, raising twin daughters Edith and Mabel, and making The Features’ latest album, Wilderness, Pelham has added an interesting additional commitment to his busy schedule. “I was a screen printer for a long time and then uh, recently I’ve picked up a job at a Starbucks,” Pelham said in an interview with The Daily Cardinal. It is difficult to picture this Tennessean rocker, whose voice croons lyrics like “I was born screaming” over slam-

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ming, rock riffs, whipping up a Frappuccino, but Pelham insisted even working at chain restaurants is worth it to pur-

“Wilderness as a record sounds more like I think how everyone in the band expects or wants a record of ours to sound.” Matt Pelham lead singer and guitarist The Features

sue his career in music. “It’s not been easy by any means, and I can’t say that it’s really gotten much easier over 15-plus years,” he explained, “but it’s what I like to do so I feel like it’s worth … the sacrifice.” Pelham said he has always loved music, even before he picked up his first instrument,

the banjo, at age eight and soon transitioned to guitar. “I feel like the guitar is a harder instrument to play,” he said. “They’re both completely different beasts, but the banjo’s really fun. “I’ve never spent enough time with either [instrument] to become really good at them,” he continued, though he might convince those listening to Wilderness otherwise. Perhaps the album lacks a complicated shred-fest of guitar, but Wilderness makes up for it in galloping snare beats, handclaps and vintage organs blaring right in time with Pelham’s every strum. He said the band is fairly pleased with this latest effort, its fourth album. “Wilderness as a records sounds more like I think how everyone in the band expects

or wants a record of ours to sound, you know?” he said. “We accomplished more of what we’re going for as a band and I feel like it translates better.”

“[Pursuing music] has not been easy by any means, and I can’t say that it’s really gotten much easier over 15-plus years.” Matt Pelham lead singer and guitarist The Features

So how would you classify this successful sound? “I don’t know that I particularly care what genre we’re in,” he mused, allowing his slight southern drawl to temporarily intensify. “We do what we do and however it’s classified, that’s fine. I just consider it

rock music.” Call it what you will, but drawing on the classics of their youth like Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, The Features promise to bring a raucous show to the High Noon Saloon Wednesday night as they open for J. Roddy Walston & The Business with a Madison band, Little Legend. Pelham said The Features are excited to play this small venue and he encouraged people to break up their week by heading to the show. “I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be disappointed if you were to come out,” he chuckled. “I don’t know; I feel like it’s a good deal. “ Wednesday’s show begins at 8:30 p.m. at the High Noon Saloon on 701 E. Washington Ave. Tickets cost $10 in advance or $12 at the door.

YouTube generation comes under scrutiny in ‘King Kelly’ David Cottrell Co-ttrell it on the mountain

ndrew Neel’s “King Kelly” is a scorching, entertaining portrait of the YouTube generation. This debut narrative feature is scathingly insightful, downright disturbing, and reprehensibly entertaining, all packaged in a uniquely executed foundfootage format. Neel is better known for his

documentary work, such as 2006’s “Darkon,” which explored LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) culture. With “King Kelly,” the writer/director demonstrated his cinematic talents aren’t constrained to documenting reality. Given the chance to roam free, unburdened by the need to convey absolute factual truth, his social commentary has been refined to a razor’s edge, this time taking the decadent and depraved culture of the Millennial “YouTube” generation as its subject for dissection. Premiering at South by Southwest this year, the film provoked thoughtful, engaging dis-

cussions that extended beyond the post-screening Q&A, bleeding out into the lobby as Neel hung around conversing with intrigued audience members. “King Kelly” follows Louisa Krause (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”) as Kelly, a young, attractive, middle class girl living with her parents in American suburbia. Unbeknownst to most of her family and friends, she has funneled the American entrepreneurial spirit into generating a fan base of thousands online who pay for live webcam sex shows and homemade amateur porn from her alternate digital persona, King Kelly. On the

Fourth of July, as she plots to launch a new website and dreams of life once she has “blown up” as a professional Internet pornstar, Kelly loses a shipment of drugs she had been paid to mule to a party when an ex-boyfriend repossesses the car he bought for her. So Kelly, her poly-drug-indulging BFFL Jordan (Libby Woodbridge), and an unstable state trooper (Roderick Hill) that is King Kelly’s self-professed number one fan under the online name “Poo Bare,” set out to reclaim the delivery by any means necessary. And to add yet another nuance to the story, the entire film is presented as found footage, ostensibly from iPhone video recordings shot by the main characters themselves. While in truth the entire film was not shot solely using iPhones, the reality is no less impressive. The other hardware Neel and company used was a custom-made rig pairing a consumer point-and-shoot Canon ELPH with an iPhone, so that the actors could record themselves with the ELPH, but see it played back live on the iPhone. The sense of fidelity to reality this style of filmmaking imbues “King Kelly” with amply demonstrates just how far the found-footage style has come since the days of “The Blair Witch Project.” There was noir, then neo-noir. Last year Nicolas Winding Refn even gave us a unique aesthetic take on the genre with his sunshine noir “Drive.” But “King Kelly” represents the demarcation of a new facet to the genre—Internet noir. Even leaving aside matters of social commentary for a moment, “King Kelly” is a thoroughly entertaining cinematic story. The hand-held first-person camera work by the actors collapses the narrative distance between the viewer and the characters, luring you into their footsteps. As Kelly’s Fourth of July escapade escalates from self-indulgent adolescent hijinks to a dark, selfdestructive ride into reckless abandon, you can’t help but find your attention entirely encapsulated by the events unfolding on screen. The story is deftly plotted, with a tight script that meanders only when that’s exactly the intent. The thing about this movie is that its entertaining nature feels outright reprehensible, because engrained

throughout the thrilling noir-ish tale is a disturbingly acute critique of the values of the YouTube generation, leaving the viewer in a constant limbo between entertainment and revulsion. Neel uses Kelly to explore a new generation’s fixation with technology and that technology’s effects on our culture. She records everything she does in order to repost it online to garner further attention and gratification from her peers. Feeding off the incessant ego-boost from seeing herself and her antics fawned over and immortalized online, Kelly allows her invented Internet-self “King Kelly” to supplant her realworld personality, as every person in her life, from her parents to her friends, become nothing more than sources of attention and validation, throwing further fuel on the blinding, rampant, all-consuming fire that is King Kelly. “King Kelly” is a thesis statement about how, if we’re not careful, the Internet can cut us off from the real world and deprive us of empathy for our fellow human beings, despite seemingly connecting us to everyone around the world, instantly. Kelly carves out her own universe online at which she is the center, providing her with a perpetual source of indulgent self-importance, shaping her into a vapid, self-obsessed narcissist. Kelly may be an extreme case of the ideas Neel is getting at, but even at much smaller scales they are still relevant. By giving everyone a voice, does the Internet lead us all into believing we deserve to be heard? Is it making our culture inherently more self-involved? Is it bringing us together, only to drive us further apart? What separates our digital self from our physical self? More existentially, is something real anymore if it isn’t documented online? As one Internet meme famously put it: Pics or it didn’t happen. The questions Neel asks in “King Kelly” seem to be core issues of our culture at this moment in time—questions not enough other filmmakers are asking, but they certainly should be. Do you have something to say about the web fame of America’s “YouTube generation”? Share your insights and concerns with David at dcottrell@wisc.edu.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

ethan safran opinion columnist

s many Wisconsin residents and UW-Madison students are aware of by now, U.S. representative and presidential hopeful Ron Paul will visit the Madison community this Thursday for a town hallstyle event at the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion. Given the congressman’s libertarian-leaning viewpoints, it is no surprise that he is the first Republican presidential candidate to visit before Wisconsin’s April 3 primary. Apart from his particular policies and ideologies, Paul’s Thursday visit to UW-Madison stresses the need for politicians, especially presidential candidates, to consider the values of the younger generation of voters. Whether one agrees with his ideologies or not, Paul’s visit to UW-Madison is notable on its own merits. The visit should remind candidates of the importance of connecting with the country’s younger voters. While he has the least number of delegates of the four Republican candidates, Paul

has unquestionably been able to capture the mindset of the younger, collegiate generation of voters. Considering his stances on foreign policy, economics and marijuana, Paul’s ideals clearly resonate with the independently minded young voters who reject the “mainstream” ideologies shared by many political figures in Washington and the other three Republican candidates. And in my opinion, a candidate who connects with the younger generation of voters is a candidate worthy of any political office. During the 2008 election cycle, the county’s younger people had an enormous impact on the outcome of the election. In fact, over 20 million people in the 18-29 age range voted in the 2008 election, with more than two-thirds of those voters voting for President Obama. Obviously, Obama’s campaign was revolutionary in both how Obama connected with younger voters through social media and his ability to collect many small, $20 donations rather than solely relying on campaign funds from spotty, epic fundraising events. With the recognition that the young vote matters, there have been numerous GOP debates at different colleges over the past six or so months, including those at Dartmouth College, Oakland

MCSC letter to Chancellor David Ward Here is the first paragraph of the letter the MultiCultural Student Coalition sent to Chancellor Ward last Friday. Please read the full letter at dailycardinal.com. Dear Chancellor Ward, The MultiCultural Student Coalition (MCSC) would like to thank you for the listening ear you provided at the ASM Coordinating Council meeting on Wednesday, March 7th in the Student Activity Center. This letter contains pertinent information which we hope you will weigh heavily as you have been asked to make decisions regarding the SUFAC budget that was presented to your office last week. To add, MCSC’s budget and pursuit of eligibility was neither addressed nor included. In fact, MCSC has not even been informed of the

appeal policy or procedures. This letter is an official request for MCSC eligibility, and also a request for a 2 hour meeting with you during the week of March 26 - March 30th, 2012 to discuss that appeal request as well as the additional concerns addressed in this letter. In lieu of not being given a formal appeal process, this letter is MCSC’s best understanding of how to proceed in the search for MCSC eligibility for fee funding in fiscal year 2012-2013 (as advised by the ASM Chair)... Respectfully Submitted, The MultiCultural Student Coalition

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University, Wofford College and Drake University. Like any presidential election cycle, actual presidential debates at other colleges will occur in the fall, and I hope that these venues will stress the importance of connecting and reaching out to the younger voices in this country. It may be nearly inevitable that the GOP race has become a Romney-Santorum showdown with Romney probably coming out on top by the time of the Republican

National Convention this August. Yet, there is no excuse for candidates not to connect to and to reach out to the 18-29 age demographic of voters by speaking with younger voters, hosting town hall meetings, and becoming more aware about the collective political and financial concerns of college students. Though their political ideologies maybe different from much of the college crowd and campaign staff members may think otherwise, I believe that the Republican candi-

dates across the board must do a more effective job at spreading their message to the country’s younger voters. After all, college students are the individuals investing thousands of dollars into an education that should idealistically help spur economic growth, an issue that lies at the forefront of this presidential election cycle. Ethan Safran is a freshman with an undeclared major. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Evil Bird

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

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

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KAMAKAZI WATERMELON ACROSS 1 Attacks verbally (with “into”) 5 Flower near a mill? 11 “Up, up and away” defunct flier 14 At the crest of 15 Beginning with “dynamic” or “nuclear” 16 Actor McShane of “Deadwood” 17 Christmas carols may put one in this 19 Cold War aircraft 20 Civil War soldier in gray (Abbr.) 21 Put together, as a model 23 Hedgehog mascot of Sega 26 January, in some dates 27 Closer to raw, as a steak 28 1986 Oliver Stone movie 30 Indiana NBA team 31 Beat one’s gums 32 Card game like rummy 35 Residence visited in summer, perhaps 40 Lazy person’s state 41 Flossing-endorsing org. 43 Decorative necktie

6 Arrogant attitude 4 49 1980s Mideast envoy Philip 50 “... a pocket full of ___” 52 Antique-car starter 53 Similar version 55 Spoon-bender Geller 56 “___ only money!” 57 1970s fashion statement 62 “What’d I tell you?” 63 Field hockey positions 64 Cantina munchie 65 Make a mistake 66 Corporate jet maker 67 “... bad as they ___” DOWN 1 “Let’s go, team!” 2 “How was ___ know?” 3 Capitol Hill figure, briefly 4 “Guest of honor” at a seance 5 Attack with a dagger 6 “___ will be done” 7 Furnish with new personnel 8 Having an irregularly gnawed edge 9 Andy’s partner in old radio 10 In a medium tempo 11 Quality of a singing voice 12 Bob Marley backup 13 Arouses wrath in

18 Art ___ (1920s-’30s style) 22 Former Portuguese territory in China 23 “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ___” 24 Any of several kings of Norway 25 California wine valley 26 Broadcasting now 29 Certain chamber music group 30 “Fiddle-faddle!” 33 “Believe it or ___!” 34 Absinthe flavor 36 Type of servant or engineer 37 Like some steroids 38 “The Thorn Birds,” for one 39 First lady’s residence? 42 40 days and 40 nights boat 43 “Longue” chair 44 Blusterer 45 Badmouther 47 Land measurement 48 Batches of grain for the mill 50 Acropolis attractions 51 “For” words 54 Trait determiner 55 Celestial bear 58 Banquet coffeepot 59 Abu Dhabi’s federation (Abbr.) 60 “Cool” target for a yegg? 61 Rocker Petty

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Men’s Hockey

Schultz honored again By Ryan Evans THE DAILY CARDINAL

The postseason accolades continue to pile up for Wisconsin men’s hockey junior defenseman Justin Schultz as CollegeHockeyNews. com named the West Kelowna, British Colombia native to its 2012 All-CHN First Team Tuesday. Schultz had another dominating offensive season from the blue line in 2011-’12, recording 16 goals and 44 points, marks that make him the highest scoring rear guard in the nation. Schultz’s 16 goals this season also made him the only defenseman in Badger men’s hockey program history to lead the team in goal scoring. He is the first Wisconsin player since Robbie Earl and Joe Pavelski did so from 2004-’06 to record backto-back 40-point seasons.

Schultz ranks as the third highest scoring defenseman in UW history with 40 career goals. His 113 points in three seasons are tied for eighth in program history for blue liners. Following his outstanding sea-

2012 All-CHN First Team F: Jack Connolly, Sr., MinnesotaDuluth F: Spencer Abbott, Sr., Maine F: Austin Smith, Sr., Colgate D: Justin Schultz, Jr., Wisconsin D: Brian Dumoulin, Jr., Boston College G: Shawn Hunwick, Sr., Michigan

son Schultz was awarded with his second straight WCHA Player of the Year Award, becoming only the third player to ever take home the award twice, as well his second First Team All-WCHA honor and was named a top-10 finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award—given to the top player in college hockey—for the second consecutive season. Schultz is hoping to become only the second player in Wisconsin history to win the Hobey Baker Award after former teammate Blake Geoffrion, who took home the award in 2010. The Hobey Hat Trick (top-three vote getters) will be announced March 29 and the winner will be revealed April 6 from the 2012 Frozen Four in Tampa, Fla. Schultz was a second round

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Junior defenseman Justin Schultz added All-CHN First Team honors to his already impressive list of postseason awards. draft pick of the Anaheim Ducks in 2008 and it is widely believed that he will forfeit his senior year of eligibility with Wisconsin and turn pro after this season. Schultz can

either sign with the Ducks or he can opt to become an unrestricted free agent on June 1 and have the ability to explore his options and pick the landing spot of his choosing.

New stadium could lure an NHL team back to Quebec City market teams have done well, I won’t deny that, but others— such as the Phoenix Coyotes RYAN EVANS and Columbus Blue Jackets—are not that one bleeding money and are in desperate need of help. The Coyotes unday, the mayor of Quebec are without an owner (they are City announced the con- currently owned by the league) struction of a $400 million, and the Blue Jackets are without 18,000-seat, NHL-caliber arena fans, both of which are problemwill begin this September. This atic for the future of those frannews was hardly more than a blip chises in their current cities. As on the sports news radar, but it has it looks right now both of those the potential to have major rami- teams are going to need to be relofications for the National Hockey cated at some point in the not too League in the coming months. distant future, meaning Bettman You see, Quebec City is building and the NHL are going to have the state of the art facility—which some decisions to make. will be comparable to the CONSOL The majority of NHL relocaEnergy Center, home of the tion chatter at the moment focuses Pittsburgh Penguins—in hopes of on the American cities of Seattle luring an NHL franchise back to the and Kansas City—once again, two Quebec capital city, whether by relo- major U.S. population centers with cation or future league expansion. little history of interest in profesQuebecer’s are hoping that the sional hockey—and for the most promise of a new arena will deliver part ignores Canadian destinaa team back to their tions like Quebec city more than City, whose 16 years after metropolitanthe Quebec area population Nordiques is just under moved to Denver 766,000 people. to become the But here is my Colorado Avalanche, thought; I bet and based on all availof those 766,000 able evidence there is people there are a no reason that commislot more who would sioner Gary Bettman line up right now to and the rest of the league buy hockey tickets should overlook Quebec than there would be in as a future landing spot Seattle or Kansas City. for an NHL franchise. Case and point: Bettman had this Nordiques Nation is grand plan of building a group of Quebecers his legacy as the comwhose goal is mobilize missioner who would and bring attention to the grow hockey in the GRAPHIC BY DYLAN MORIARTY fans’ rabid enthusiasm United States, specififor another NHL francally in the American south in cit- chise. And mobilize they have. ies like Dallas, Raleigh, Nashville, 1,100 of them invaded a New York Miami, Anaheim, Columbus, Islanders-Atalanta Thrashers Atlanta and Phoenix. game in Dec. 2010. Later that seaAs Bettman saw it, despite the son 1,600 of them took 32 buses lack of any hockey history, these from Quebec to Newark, N.J. for a cities were major U.S. population New Jersey Devils-Boston Bruins centers and big markets should game. They took over Scotiabank equal a big fan base, which should Place in Ottawa, Ontario on translate to big money. Maybe Hockey Day in Canada 2011 to the when he concocted this plan tune of 22 busloads of Nordiques Bettman had just finished watch- fans. 1,600 of them bused the 12 ing “Field of Dreams” and really hours from Quebec to hold a pep bought into the whole “if you build rally in Times Square complete it, they will come” idea, but unfor- with a video message on one of tunately, they didn’t. the television screens, all of which Now some of those southern were solely to demonstrate how

devoted the Quebec fan base is to putting another NHL team in their city. The problem is that Bettman doesn’t want to admit failure in any of his southern market cases, and moving any of them back north would be the ultimate slap in the face. He has fought tooth and nail to keep the Coyotes in Glendale, Ariz., and I can only assume watching the Atlanta Thrashers pack up and head to Winnipeg, Manitoba (population 730,018) last summer was torture to him. He even issued a seemingly sarcastic challenge to Jets fans to prove the cities’ viability as a hockey market

to sell 13,000 season tickets. Once that sale opened to general public, that goal was reached in 17 minutes and the season ticket waiting list had to be shut down after 8,000 people signed up in two hours. There exists an equally fervent fan base waiting in Quebec City and my hunch is that something very similar would happen there should the Nordiques return. In January 2011, the Toronto Star reported that J’ai ma, a non-profit group in Quebec, claimed it had sold 70 corporate boxes for a then non-existent, unannounced rink. Sooner or later, like it or not, Bettman is going to have to do

something about the fledgling NHL franchises in Phoenix and Columbus and relocation remains probably the best option, and if it comes to that hockey hot bed Quebec City should not be ignored. The city has a commitment to a state of the art arena and an avid fan base ready to welcome a team home and fill those 18,000 seats on a nightly basis. So forgive me Gary, but I don’t see how you could do better than Quebec. Which cities are the best candidates for NHL relocation? Let Ryan know your thoughts via e-mail at rmevans2@dailycardinal.com or hit him up on Twitter @ryanmevans.