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UW to cut Nike contract over labor violations By Kelsey Gunderson The Daily Cardinal

The Labor Licensing Policy Committee announced its plan to end UW-Madison’s contract with Nike Friday, saying the company failed to address several alleged labor violations in Honduras. In December, Chancellor Biddy Martin gave Nike 120 days to address its alleged failure to pay over 1,600 workers severance pay after the sudden closure of two Nike-contracted factories in Honduras. Nike allegedly owes these workers $2.2 million in severance pay, which is equivalent to about seven months of wages. “The chancellor made a really great move ... I think we should support her and help her reach out to other universities.” Daniel Cox Student Labor Action Coalition

Nike has also been cited for its alleged failure to pay into Honduras’ national health-care system, resulting in the workers’

inability to access health care when needed. Dawn Crim, special assistant to the chancellor and member of the LLPC, said Martin monitored Nike’s progress over the past four months and felt the company had not made significant progress by the April 7 deadline. She said although Nike has offered these workers job training and priority jobs in other factories, Martin believes their efforts were inadequate, and that they failed to present a clear plan to prevent similar situations from occurring in the future. “The real solution is better conditions and workers working,” Crim said. UW-Madison is the first university to end its relationship with Nike over the issue, and members of the LLPC are working to encourage other universities to cut their contracts as well. “The chancellor made a really great, move and I’m really happy she showed this leadership. I think we should support her and help her reach out to other universities,” Daniel Cox, a UW-Madison student nike page 2

WISPIRG fasts to raise over $10,000 to help fight hunger, homelessness By Anna Discher The Daily Cardinal

Members of the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group announced Saturday that WISPIRG’s monthlong Hunger Cleanup raised over $10,000 to help fight hunger and homelessness. The Hunger Cleanup is held to address hunger and homelessness both in the area and nationwide and involves volunteers painting, working at local shelters, planting gardens and raising money for charities. As of Saturday morning, WISPIRG surpassed their goal of $10,000 with a total of $10,238 raised. UW-Madison student and Hunger and Homelessness Coordinator Mariana Berbert said she expects the final total to be near $11,000. “We’ve really seen this year how much students do care about their community and how much power we actually have to make a change,” Berbert said. Berbert also addressed WISPIRG’s Haiti Relief and Hunger Strike and said UW-Madison students have made enormous contributions. Vijay Pai, WISPIRG Hunger and Homelessness intern, said 50 percent

of the money raised for the Hunger Cleanup will go to the Community Action Coalition in Madison, 15 percent will go to Haiti relief funds and 35 percent will go to the National Student Campaign against Hunger and Homelessness. Chris Brockel of the Community Action Coalition for south central Wisconsin said the organization’s goal is to purchase food, alleviate poverty and better the lives of people in the Madison and south central Wisconsin area. Brockel said the approximately $5,000 donated by the Hunger Cleanup will be converted into about 20,000 meals. “Two years ago in Dane County there were 85,000 households that visited food pantries,” Brockel said. “Last year in Dane County there were 170,000 families that visited food pantries.” Brockel said he was appreciative of the volunteers who helped with the event, particularly UW-Madison students. “Our food pantry relies on about 17,000 hours of volunteer hours every year, so the things that we do are not possible without volunteers like [UW-Madison students]” Brockel said.

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Students, faculty and Madison community members gathered Saturday at the capitol to mourn the Polish President and the other 95 victims involved in Saturday’s plan crash.

Madison community gathers to mourn Polish president and victims By Ryan Hebel The Daily Cardinal

Members of Madison’s Polish community held a vigil at the Capitol on Saturday afternoon in memory of the 96 people, including the Polish president, killed in a plane crash earlier in the day. The plane’s passengers, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other national military, church and government officials, were headed to Katyn to commemorate the 70th anniversary of a Soviet massacre in the same location when their plane crashed, according to the Associated Press. Former student Patrick Peczerski organized the memorial with UW’s Polish Student Association and Madison Polish

Heritage Club, and said most of his Polish friends were “just in complete shock.” “Everyone just poured out into the streets [in Poland]. Even though it was raining they went to light candles at the Presidential building. Most of my friends are liberals and even though Kaczynski … was a conservative, everyone just sort of forgot about politics.” Peczerski the event he helped organized will hopefully help others in his community cope with such a major loss. Former UW student Marek Rogal described the vigil’s atmosphere as “surreal.” “With the kind of high-profile people on the plane, it’s like a tragedy in a small town, so every-

body to some extend knew them.” Rogal said he was shocked to see that one of the victims was someone he had grown up with in Poland, Sebastian Karpiniuk. Rogal said their parents knew each other and Karpiniuk had once rented a room in his grandmother’s house before moving on to his deputy position in the Polish Parliament. UW-Madison Junior and President of the Polish Students Association Magdalena Bojda could not attend Saturday’s vigil, but said she was glad others had a chance to “show a collective expression of sorrow and solidarity.” “A lot of people here right now have a lot of family in Poland and everyone is kind of feeling it altogether,” Bojda said.

Differential tuition plans to require student input By Hannah Furfaro The Daily Cardinal

The UW System Board of Regents unanimously approved a measure Friday that requires state universities to seek student input when raising differential tuition costs. The measure does not require student approval on differential tuition initiatives but gives elected student bodies at UW System universities power to periodically review increases. Elected student bodies will now be consulted on differential tuition increases like those already passed at UW-Madison, UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire. Prior to approval of the measure, students’ role in the differential tuition process was unclear. According to Regent Aaron Wingad, a senior at UW-Eau Claire, the policy is “meant to empower

students.” “The underlying concern is that the students want to make it a little more concrete and a little more clear how they fit into the differential tuition process,” he said at the meeting. Regent Brent Smith said the committee that initially discussed the policy “did not want to do a onesize-fits-all” approach for campuses and wanted to give students more opportunity to submit input. “Many restrictions were not in place for limiting the amount of differential tuition … or a prescribed process for student input,” he said. “We wanted to provide some opportunity for campuses to come up with their own procedures in those particular areas.” Tyler Junger, chair of the Associated Students of Madison, said he is skeptical of the policy and

said student input is not the same as decision-making power. “I think the reality is that the system is very hesitant to give up any authority over whether or not they can charge students money,” he said. He said he thinks it will be very difficult for any chancellor to propose increases students oppose and said he hopes chancellors “don’t even consider moving forward” with increases “students are blatantly against.” “I wish the policy would state that students would have that authority. It really would be a good thing for students to take the reins and decide whether or not we are going to be charged more to go here,” he said. In 2009, a four-year differential tuition increase was approved at UW-Madison. UW-Eau Claire recently approved a four-year $1,200 differential tuition hike.

“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

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ALRC members tour downtown area bars, check for violations By Allison Geyer The Daily Cardinal

Friday night’s Alcohol License Review Committee “bar walkalong” revealed no major problems with downtown and campus establishments. According to Cpt. Carl Gloede of the Madison Police Department, the purpose of the walk-along was to expose ALRC members to bars they would not normally visit and make sure the bars are in compliance with their license. The ALRC inspected 13 bars in total, spanning over two miles of downtown territory from Williamson Street to University Avenue. The bars that were selected included new businesses, places that feature

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the issue of managing the long lines outside popular spots such as Logan’s, Gloede said. Lines outside the bars are still the responsibility of the establishment and need to be kept under control, he said. Underage drinking is always an issue for the ALRC. Although the purpose of Friday’s walkalong was not to bust underage drinkers, committee members did express concerns over what they described as “babies drinking alcohol” during a Greek event at Zander’s Capitol Grill. According to Verveer, the next ALRC bar walk-along is tentatively planned as a two-night event starting June 2 and will include a tour of nondowntown establishments.

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nike from page 1 and Student Labor Action Coalition member, said. Several members of SLAC, which has been encouraging Martin to cut the contract with Nike throughout the past several months, said they were thrilled with her decision. “We should absolutely support the chancellor 100 percent she definitely made the right decision,” Jonah Zinn, a UW-Madison sophomore and SLAC member, said. LLPC members also held a conference call Friday to speak with several Honduran workers who lost their jobs when the factories closed. These workers will visit UW-Madison Friday as a part of a nationwide tour to encourage other universities to cut their contracts with Nike as well.

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live entertainment and establishments that have had issues in the past, said Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. “I didn’t see anything surprising or disturbing tonight,” Verveer said. “There aren’t many issues to fix.” Friday’s event had a fairly low turnout of committee members compared to the last walk-along that took place on Homecoming weekend, Gloede said. Those who did attend were surprised at how low-key the bars were on Friday. “This night seems very tame compared to last time we did this,” said ALRC member Pam Bean. “But I think everyone is on good behavior when they see us coming.” ALRC members did mention

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FANática total Isabel Álvarez la mona isa

e me está yendo de las manos…no puedo dejar de hacerlo. Ese botón, ese botón en el Facebook que te deja “hacerte fan” va a acabar con mi existencia. Actualmente soy fan de ciento cuarenta cosas en Facebook, y probablemente un 90% son cosas que solamente un español o un amigo mío intimo entendería. ¿Por qué me divierte tanto hacerme fan de estas cosas? Pues es una incógnita que aún he de descubrir. Yo me meto en el Facebook, y cuando me pongo a mirar la portada de inicio, os debo decir que lo único que han hecho mis amigos en esas dos o tres horas es hacerse fan de gilipolleces. ¿Pero son o no son gilipolleces? Vale, puede que ser fan de “el UOH de la abuela del Titanic al tirar el collar al mar” sea una tontería que te hace gracia una vez y ya…pero lo que verdaderamente me hace gracia y me rio sola ante el ordenador es

describir que la gente ha creado un grupo describiendo cosas que ¡me han pasado a mi! Por ejemplo, “Domingo a las 11 de la noche, Mamá: necesito una cartulina para mañana.” No hay cosa más mítica de mi infancia. Lo más normal, era decírselo a tu madre el día antes por la noche justo antes de irte a la cama…y tu madre, que era una santa, se levantaba pronto e iba a la tienda a comprártelo antes del colegio. ¡Benditas madres! No sé por qué, pero a las profesoras les encantaba encargarnos comprar cosas estúpidas durante el fin de semana. Yo creo que tenían un convenio con la tienda de manualidades. Me acuerdo una vez, para el día del padre, nos mandaron traer 12 cáscaras de huevos blancos para pegar alrededor de una cajita de madera. Pero vamos a ver, profesora de clase de plástica, ¿cómo le pido yo a mi madre unos huevos blancos si en mi casa se comieron huevos morenos de toda la vida? ¿Tú crees que mi madre, terca ella como una mula, va a cambiar sus hábitos de compra por este trabajo de mierda? ¡Pero si todo el mundo sabe que esa cajita se va a ir a la basura en

cuanto no esté yo mirando! Otra cosa que siempre me he preguntado y que soy fan en Facebook es “¿Por qué no ponen la fecha de caducidad donde pone “mirar al dorso”?.¿Pero vosotros os dais cuenta, que millones y millones de españoles, se pasan una media de 5 segundos al día mirando el lado incorrecto del producto que han comprado solo para encontrarse con “mirar al dorso” y tener que darle la vuelta? Pero por el amor de Dios, ¿a quién se le ocurrió esta idea? Y lo peor de todo, ¿para que leches sirve? Es que yo me imagino ahí en la edad medieval, al lechero diciendo… ”oye, voy a poner aquí una fecha de expiración, porque ya se nos han muerto unos cuantos por beber leche pasada…vamos a ver si así ya saben que no se puede beber” Y seguro que apareció un gilipollas y dijo “si, sí, hazlo… pero ya verás que divertido…pon mejor “fecha de caducidad: mirar al dorso,” y que luego tengan que mirar por el otro lado…¡jaja qué bueno!” Y se va. También soy fan de “Yo también he dicho, ahora vengo, y no he aparecido más.” Es algo básico en mi comportamiento

de fin de semana. Mítico que estás en un bar con tus colegas, y de repente te entra el bajón y te apetece tele transportarte a casa y comerte un bocadillo de lomo y queso. Sin que se den cuenta, coges el bolso y la chaqueta y dices, “¡voy al baño!” Y claro, dado el pedo que tus amigos llevan, no se pispan que mientras dices esto te estás montando en un taxi y camino a tu casa. Obviamente, no vuelves mas. Estos son solo unos cuantos ejemplos. Como siempre, lo llevo todo al extremismo y me he hecho fan hasta de “cantar mientras conduces” o algo al mismo nivel de estupidez. ¿Qué pasa? Sí, ¿vale? Es necesario que cuando alguien entre en mi perfil vea que soy fan de “cantar mientras conduces” porque eso dice mucho de mi y quiero que la gente vea como soy de verdad…y ¡obviamente el Facebook es el mejor sitio para eso!ente de los partidos universitarios con nuestros eventos deportivos, América gana. ¿Crees que el ambiente de los eventos deportivos europeos son mejores que los de Estados Unidos? Diselo a Isa enviandole un e-mail a alvarezvalca@dailycardinal.com

Sex Out Loud’s 7 Sexiest Sex Out Loud’s 7 Sexiest seeks to showcase a number of sexy students in a variety of different settings. These students have been nominated by their peers as exemplars of the wide range of attractive qualities present in the student body. Kelsey Foster is a sophomore majoring in theater and gender & women’s studies. She also works as a house fellow in Witte. Her status as “Hottest Housing Employee,” according to her anonymous nominator, is cemented by her “dedication to her residents in planning fun and varied activities, as well as her continued efforts to improve Residence Life by serving as an LGBT resource coordinator next year.” When presented with the “Hottest Housing Employee” honors, Kelsey blushed a bit and fluttered her eyelashes. Actually, she laughed and said, “Yeah, you know it!” During her reign, Kelsey vows to continue to work to “make our campus more inclusive… and hot. Don’t forget hot.”

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MELISSA GRAU opinion columnist

e like, we like to party. Scratch that, Vengaboys, we here in Madison love to party. To be exact, we love a nonstop party, the kind whose fun is not hampered and cut short by the men in blue. Noise complaints from angry neighbors often alert the police of said nonstop joy that occurs at our parties, creating a mess of tickets and fines that make the fiesta almost not worthwhile. Almost. With our pleasurable soirées, the idea of obtaining a noise permit to eliminate the inevitability of an unwanted police intervention seems too good to be true. But to stop the reader from getting too excited, Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, proposed a plan to create a permit to allow Madison parties to be loud and proud. However, it is just too good to be true. At first glance, Maniaci seems like a college kid’s superhero, defending our desires to be as loud and obnoxious as possible on the weekends, saving our world one party at a time. The idea sure sounds good. Under Maniaci’s plan, before hosting an event, we would simply have to apply for a permit and receive permission from 75 percent of our neighbors. For college students, many of our neighbors are fellow partygoers and would likely benefit from an invite to such a raucous extravaganza. Even for other Madison residents looking to celebrate a wed-

ding, retirement or those lazy days of summer in a more boisterous way, the option of obtaining a noise permit instead of a public disturbance ticket seems like a godsend. Unfortunately, Maniaci’s proposal, while created in response to genuine constituent concern and meant to facilitate harmless Madison get-togethers, is shrouded in cumbersome details that will not satisfy the original complaints of party hosts. First of all, the process of applying for a permit requires a hefty amount of advance preparation, including delivering a petition signed by 75 percent of the neighbors within 700 feet of the party residence 10 days prior to the event, which is quite a burden if you live someplace like the Equinox. For larger, more plannedout insanity that occurs maybe once a year, this preparation may seem just. However, for those bashes that tend to be last-minute and thrown by generally lazy people, aka most college parties, the application process alone discourages obtaining the city’s protection. For those who are willing to go through the lengthy process to acquire a permit for their event, it probably isn’t even worth the effort. The permit itself has qualiﬁcations and restrictions that make it a waste of time. According to the Wisconsin State Journal’s report on the policy proposal, the permit would only allow discernable sound from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., with a one-hour extension on weekends. Regretfully, then, this permit will still not apply to college parties, as most do not begin until around that time. For even noncollege bashes, the cut-off at 9 or 10 renders the permit almost completely useless, because most noise

complaints are issued at night while the clamor is depriving neighbors of their sleep. Weddings, cocktail parties or even those particularly rowdy retirement celebrations that do extend past bedtime would still be subject to noise violations at night. It seems that the only type of bash left would be the kind of afternoon barbeque that resembles Mifflin, Lollapalooza and a bit of “The Hangover.” And because we at Madison love to party, the substitute of insured daytime parties could be a possible alternative. The permit might just be worth it for that really special event that does require advanced planning, will inevitably be loud and will take place during the day. But there’s one more catch. A final permit restriction is that noise, even with the permit, cannot be heard from 400 feet away. Ironically, this is how loud a party would probably have to be to elicit a noise complaint in the first place. So loud parties, with or without a noise permit, could still be charged for disturbing the peace. Maniaci, a hopeful hero to good times, finds her kryptonite in the detailed restrictions of her own permit proposal. Nothing will change for our partying ways if this proposal is passed. Still, Maniaci’s intended outcome of facilitating more user-friendly parties are false hopes as well. The application process, time restrictions and noise radius limitations make this permit a pointless proposal. Melissa Grau is a freshman intending to major in secondary education and communication arts. We welcome all feedback. Please send all responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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nat upgrade not worth seg fee hike

lthough Chancellor Biddy Martin declared this the Year of the Humanities, today we vote on the remodeling and expansion of the Natatorium. The Nat is an object of aesthetic scorn among students and faculty for its uninviting exterior and apparent lack of up-todate workout equipment. But during a time of already rising segregated fees and a rough economy, we cannot possibly condone the construction of a replacement athletic facility that will rely on the lopsided blitz of a ﬁnancial plan proposed by NatUp 2010. NatUp 2010, the group leading the charge for the renovations, feels the construction is necessary because of the Nat’s current condition. While the Nat is by no means perfect it still adequately serves its purpose. The Nat’s primary users are Lakeshore residents and people who are tired of dealing with the crowds at the Southeast Recreation Facility, not nearly enough people to warrant the cumbersome ﬁnancial proposal that will cost students about $55 per semester for the next 30 years, starting in 2013.

We should wait for Lakeshore construction to begin and secure another funding source in the meantime.

The only way the Nat renovations make sense is if we take the hypotheticals into consideration. Lakeshore residences are supposed to expand sometime soon, allowing for more students. At that point, we should consider an athletic facility to accommodate those students. But we should wait for Lakeshore construction to begin and secure another funding source in the meantime. The SERF will also need renovations at some point, so the Nat expansion would make

more sense if that plan were in the cards. Rec Sports has a master plan that culminates in the remodeling of both athletic facilities, but on NatUp 2010’s website it appears SERF renovations are just a tepid afterthought to support Nat remodeling. Until we see a full, university-supported master plan it seems rather pointless to move ahead with the Nat reconstruction, especially when considering the funding sources.

We are already raising seg fees for the Madison Initiative, a much more worthwhile endeavor.

Neither of the aforementioned reasons does anything to let us ignore what is actually going on. We would be voting to raise seg fees for students in the future. Sure, most of us will not get to use the new Nat, but does it make sense that we OK the project and then pass on the bill? We have no vested interest in the rebuilding, especially seeing that the current facility meets most of our needs regularly. First and foremost, we are an academic institution, and prospective students know this is far more important than our workout facilities. We are already raising seg fees for the Madison Initiative, a much more worthwhile endeavor that will impact the overall worth of our current degrees as well as those to come. The idea of raising seg fees for future classes sits awfully with us, even as college students who are used to putting things off. The current Nat plan leaves us with far too many questions and relies too much on hypotheticals to be effective.

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Despite raw recording, TASRU takes listeners on a tantalizing, twisted trip By Jon Mitchell

sampling. Some of the samples—short bits of dialogue from obscure films, comIf an album can serve as a pathway mercials and songs—seem to be simply into an artist’s mind, then El Capitan another weird fragment of the world Del Sol reveals Thomas Grathwol’s brain Grathwol has created. In other cases, to be an extremely warped and psy- however, they are an integral part of the chotic organ. This is Grathwol’s first music. “Friends Obnoxious” is based on album under the moniker TASRU. From a sample from a bluesy, Brazilian song the dreamlike synthesizer by Erasmo Carlos called CD REVIEW on opening track “Rude “Mane Joao,” which Awakening” to the extraGrathwol fleshes out with terrestrial bass that condrums, synth and vocals cludes “Yamanashi Dub,” to create one of the more El Capitan Del Sol sends captivating tunes. its listener on an aural You’d be hard-pressed journey through a strange to find two similar and intriguing world in a songs on the album, El Capitan mere 37 minutes. with each one offering Del Sol Grathwol’s intention, unique instrumentation TASRU however, was only to have and musical flavor. On some fun in recording what he describes “Grapefruit Gun,” Grathwol serves up in the album’s liner notes as “melodies and a chaotic entree of reverse-looped guiideas and smart ass words floating around in tars, melodic whistles and reverb-drained my head that needed to be put to tape”—an vocals. “Harder Than U Think” juxtaposapt description for the odd conglomerate of es sweet acoustic riffs with cymbal-crashsongs that compose El Capitan Del Sol. These ing and electric guitar solos. Title track things “floating around” in Grathwol’s head “El Capitan Del Sol” finds Grathwol were likely born sometime in the early 2000s channeling his inner Radiohead, blendwhen Grathwol bought a pair of drumsticks ing a simple electronic beat with squelchand a couple of Radiohead records. Now ing guitars and moaning vocals. The highlight of the album, though, loaded with a arsenal of instruments that includes ukuleles, borrowed guitars and a is undoubtedly “Hunter/Gatherer,” a Suzuki Omnichord, Grathwol moves from delightful blend of an echoed two-chord one idea to the next without much concern organ refrain, scratchy electronic rhythms for maintaining a consistent sound or feel on and sunny guitar improvisation. Whatever El Capitan Del Sol. Even as Grathwol shifts strange planet TASRU has taken us to, through acoustic ambience, R&B grooves “Hunter/Gatherer” makes it clear that it and dreamy pop bliss, there seems to be some knows happiness. Recorded over the past couple years in sort of unidentifiable cohesion that makes El a number of bedrooms and dormitories Capitan an enjoyable, if absurd, experience. in the Midwest, the sound production on El Capitan is anything but professional: Grathwol himself said, “I should take some recording classes next time.” You’d be hard pressed to find two Indeed, a pair of nice headphones, similar songs on the album, with each speakers and some patience may be necone offering unique instrumentation essary to get full mileage out of TASRU’s and musical flavor. sound, but the genuine creativity and beauty of the songs on El Capitan Del Sol overrides any qualms one may have with Grathwol’s raw recording, especially Like classic albums such as Pink Floyd’s considering this album is available as a Dark Side of the Moon or the Beatles’ Sgt. free online download via Rack & Ruin Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, El Records. If any album of this caliber is Capitan Del Sol seems to bring its listener available for free, it’s best to leave any into some sort of alternative world, this grievances at the door and simply enjoy a one accented by Grathwol’s innovative free trip to TASRU’s strange world.

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‘New Miracle Pale in Drone’ is a new exhibit at the Good Style Shop. It features the work of UW-Madison seniors Ella Bainton and Meg Lord Fransee, whose works go together very well.

New exhibit stimulates By Dan Sullivan THE DAILY CARDINAL

“Boys draw, girls color”: This is the dubious belief that UW-Madison seniors Ella Bainton and Meg Lord Fransee interrogate through their respective bodies of work. At once visceral and contemplative, their new tandem exhibit at the Good Style Shop on East Washington Avenue, “New Miracle Pale in Drone,” serves as tangible evidence that Madison’s art scene is more challenging and stimulating than most likely realize. “New Miracle Pale in Drone” is both lofty in its intellectual aims and discreetly playful in its polemics about the body and the mind. Bainton and Fransee haven’t merely filled in a form sketched by masculine hands: They’ve created something aesthetically formidable more or less from scratch, evoking the greats of modern painting with a refreshing un-self-consciousness. Fransee’s paintings deal with two of the medium’s most enduring traditions: the portrait and the pastoral. The figure hogs the spotlight in most of the paintings, centered in the frame and placed in sharp relief against a monochromatic, almost nonexistent ground. Fransee’s sometimes terrifying take on the figure recalls Willem de Kooning’s “Woman” paintings of the 1950s, though her subjects are, for the most part, androgynous. Whereas de Kooning forced the figure to tear apart through traumatic eruptions of messy abstraction, Fransee eerily preserves the wholeness of the figure, arriving at a sort of existential primitivism. (The mask-like quality of the figures’ faces suggests an argument against the authenticity of appearances.) Fransee’s tendency toward surrealism bleeds through in these figurative works: Faces give way to gangs of flailing arms, wood-grain cut-outs conceal would-be torsos, and everybody looks as though they’re sleep-deprived and nauseated and haven’t brushed their teeth in many moons. This surrealist vein becomes an artery in her landscape paintings; here the hills literally have eyes, the valleys are covered

in patterns reminiscent of thrift-shop bandannas and emblems of occult iconography drift by in the sky like so many clouds. One maroon canvas contains the words, painted in powder blue, “neurotic energy”: No kidding. If language is a signiﬁcant but ultimately subordinate part of Fransee’s system, it assumes a heightened importance in Bainton’s paintings, which initially present themselves as jagged tornadoes of ideas, colors, allusions and textures. Amorphous ﬁgures dwell in a kind of psychedelic mist, too timid to step into the foreground and assert themselves. One of the more spare works in Bainton’s otherwise dizzying set includes the word “excavations,” calling to mind the de Kooning painting of the same name. De Kooning’s “Excavation” (1950) was a teeming mass of film noir-inflected forms, resembling a mountain of exploded pianos. Bainton’s excavations are similarly chaotic, but they’re also concerned with the order in which we perceive thoughts and sensations. Many of the works have numbers in the centers of their rounded compositions, implying a sequence in which Bainton wants her spectator to approach them—a sequence that she undermines by displaying the works out of order, forcing the spectator to lose track of the breadcrumb trail before even getting a vague sense of where she might be going. Bainton’s corpus features magic-marker mosaics, cave walls loaded up with lumpy, gestural abstractions, and a wealth of interpolated texts: Maps, excerpts from medical guidebooks, names of family members and nuggets of folk wisdom are all quoted in what often feels like a monologue delivered on the eve of the apocalypse. But it isn’t the world that’s ending in Bainton’s work; rather, it’s only sense that’s biting the dust. “New Miracle Pale in Drone” will be at the Good Style Shop, located at 402 E. Washington Ave., for the next month.

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Monday, April 12, 2010

Cakewalk

Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

Ludicrous Linguistics Classic

By Celia Donnelly donnelly.celia@gmail.com

The Graph Giraffe Classic

By Yosef Lerner graphics@dailycardinal.com

Crustaches

By Patrick Remington premington@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.

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

First in Twenty

By Angel Lee alee23@wisc.edu

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

1 5 10 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 23 24 25 28 30 31 33 36 40 41 42 43 44 46 49 51

ACROSS It’s donned Spinnakers, e.g. Narcissist’s concern Brainy output Make paste Reason for a backrub Laughs at, say Make retribution Design problem “Just a moment” Kind of code Pray ground? Portfolio units “Careful there” Where Honolulu is Hollywood production Kind of rally or talk Some fourth-quarter strategies in football Where a telescope is aimed Purebreds’ opposites Proclaim profanely Fill the stomach of Determined in advance Took a mighty cut Tough pill to swallow Time for a mini vacation, for many

57 Post-bout garb 58 Erased, mob-style 59 Facial tissue additive 60 Apple application, once 61 Long-armed ape 62 Chance to play 63 Calligraphy implements 64 Telegraph inventor 65 Some shade providers DOWN 1 Acronymic truism for computers 2 Words before “of thieves” 3 Anatomical network 4 Percussion kit component 5 Parking lot divisions 6 Common carriers 7 “Dead Ringers” star Jeremy 8 Offer temporarily 9 Slowly leak 10 Without mishap 11 Brilliant success 12 Dalai Lama’s city 13 Smaller in number 21 Palindromic preposition 22 Light show beam 25 They’re often wasted

26 Sell with a yell 27 Nautical attentiongetter 28 Festive times 29 Word after “visual” or “hearing” 31 Remote control button 32 Baseball’s Little Giant 33 Sign between numbers, sometimes 34 Ultimatum’s ultimate word 35 Sound from an exam cheater 37 Persona 38 Waldorf salad tidbit 39 One way to enjoy a frozen lake 43 Scornful expressions 44 Promise to PBS 45 Actress McClanahan 46 Camcorder attachment 47 Total 48 Type of legend 49 Over whelmingly 50 1936 Olympic hero 52 Gloom partner 53 Do groomed with a pick 54 Last Jewish month 55 Group standard 56 Poker game locales, often

Washington and the Bear

By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

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Softball

Badgers fall to 0-5 in Big Ten after losses to PSU

By Jessica Bell THE DAILY CARDINAL

Wisconsin still winless in the conference The Wisconsin women’s softball team continued to struggle through conference games, falling to the Penn State Nittany Lions 3-1 and 3-0 this weekend. The game Saturday afternoon started with an energetic Badgers’ defense and a first-pitch strike from senior pitcher Letty Olivarez. However, the Nittany Lions continued to hit the gaps, quickly pulling ahead 3-0 by the third inning. Wisconsin did not start hitting until the fourth inning, when freshman second baseman Whitney Massey and Olivarez both punched singles through the infield gaps. However, no runs were scored. An exciting sixth inning restored same hope. Freshman infielder Shannel Blackshear led off with a single. Massey then walked, and a fly out from sophomore infielder Karla Powell advanced pinch run-

analysis from page 8 up with for a full 60 minutes. That is not to say that speed is the be all, end all in hockey, or that it was the only factor in the 5-0 final that ended in disappointment for Wisconsin, but it certainly had a direct impact on UW’s ability to execute its game plan. After Boston College took a two-goal lead early in the third period, it was able to find more space on the wings and succeeded multiple times in carrying the puck deep into the Wisconsin zone. “A little bit of it is that we’re trying to score,” said Wisconsin assistant coach Mark Osiecki, who oversees the defensive corps. “We couldn’t get a lot of offense going, and so you start cheating and trying to generate something in a positive way on the offensive side.” The offensive struggles for Wisconsin started early and continued throughout the contest. For the first two periods momentum swung back and forth, but the Badgers could never find sustained pressure. Their ability to dump the puck into the corners and then

ner Abby Gregory to third. Massey stole second right before Olivarez was walked. Penn State sophomore pitcher Lisa Akamine threw a wild pitch, allowing Gregory to score and make the score 3-1. The Badgers remained in the game for the entire seven innings. Olivarez threw the whole game, her 10th complete game of the season. She struck out seven and allowed no hits after the third inning. But a three up, three down inning of groundouts and fly outs for the Badgers ended the game at 3-1. Wisconsin continued the series against Penn State Sunday afternoon with another loss. The Nittany Lions took the lead over the Badgers in the top of the second inning. After a walk and a hit-by-pitch, senior outfielder Ashley Griffith hit a single to bring in a run, making the score 1-0. The Badgers nearly evened out the score in the bottom of the second with two singles and a stolen base by freshman outfielder Kendall Grimm, but a fly out to center ended the inning with two players left on base. Another two runs were scored off a single in the fifth inning, extenddig it out using physical play was rendered largely ineffective because Boston College regularly beat UW to the puck. When the Badgers did reach the puck, an Eagle defender always seemed to be in position to take it away. “Their defense did a good job of blocking shots and collapsing down low and pressuring us pretty hard and getting turnovers high in the zone,” senior captain Blake Geoffrion said. Geoffrion was named a first-team All-American and also became the school’s first ever Hobey Baker Award winner on Friday. Fellow senior forward John Mitchell took a penalty for making contact with the head of an opponent with his elbow. The penalty followed a stretch of some positive offensive work for the Badgers and led to Boston College’s first goal. Mitchell, who is listed at 6'5" and was by far the tallest player on the ice, received an identical penalty in the Badgers' 8-1 semifinal victory over Rochester Institute of Technology. “It’s a tough penalty,” Osiecki said. “We asked the refs, and they

ing Penn State’s lead to three. Freshman pitcher Meghan McIntosh replaced Olivarez in the top of the seventh inning with two runners on base and one out. She gave away a walk to the first batter she faced, loading the bases. McIntosh then finished the inning without allowing any runs with a strike out and a groundout from the Nittany Lions. Back-to-back doubles from junior outfielder Ashley Hanewich and senior infielder Katie Soderberg gave Wisconsin hope. Massey then swung a grounder off Penn State’s shortstop, but the Nittany Lions’ third baseman picked it up and threw Hanewich out at home for the second out. The next at bat resulted in a groundout back to the pitcher to end the game. The team totaled seven hits, including three doubles, against Penn State’s nine hits. After facing PSU, the Badgers played South Dakota State in a nonconference make-up contest, and blew away the Jackrabbits, 11-2, to pick up their 10th win of the season. The Badgers look to pick up their first Big Ten wins of the season this Wednesday as they host Iowa for a doubleheader. said he can’t even make contact. He’s not running at a guy, he doesn’t have his hands up, he doesn’t have his elbows up, he certainly didn’t hit him blindside. You’re telling him that he can’t hit.” While a no-call would not have cured the Badgers' inability to keep pace with the Eagles' forwards for 60 minutes, it stood as one of many frustrating details in the ﬁnal step for a team that said it expected to compete for a national championship from the ﬁrst day of the season. Next year’s squad will have a very different look, as seven seniors depart. And others, including junior defensemen Ryan McDonagh and Brendan Smith and sophomore forward Derek Stepan, will have to weigh the option of leaving school to sign with their respective NHL teams. Still, Mitchell thinks the weekend in Detroit will help down the road. “I think that this will help a lot of the younger guys as experience for next season,” he said. “They’ll have this under their belt and they’ll be able to bring that strength to their game.”

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Senior pitcher Letty Olivarez started both games this weekend and despite allowing only four earned runs, took two losses.

recap from page 8 0 a lot this year. It’s not anything different,” senior forward and captain Ben Street said. “We kept the same mentality. I thought the last half of the first period and on into the second period we had pretty good momentum going. We just never found the back of the net.” To make matters worse, the Badgers struggled at both blue lines, struggling to hold the offensive zone or clear the puck defensively to relieve the pressure on their goaltender. In the third that finally cost the Badgers when sophomore forward Cam Atkinson chased down a chipped-out puck and threw a backhand shot through Gudmandson’s leg pads. The Eagles scored twice more in the next six minutes to fully dash the Badgers’ title hopes. Wisconsin generated only 20 shots on goal, down from their season average of 38, making Muse’s job in net easier. After Saturday he was 8-0 in NCAA Tournament games. “I think that we needed to get more rubber at him. It would have made his job more difficult,” Eaves

said. “I thought the BC forwards and defensemen got in shooting lanes and blocked shots. To me that was one of the keys to the game.” The game signaled a bitter end to what was a remarkable season. The Badgers won 28 games, played in front of over 55,000 people in Camp Randall and advanced to the season’s final game. On an individual level, Geoffrion became the first Wisconsin player to earn the Hobey Baker trophy, college hockey’s player of the year award. “It’s pretty disappointing the way the game turned out,” Street said. “But I’m sure when we have time to look back and reflect on it, we did some special things.” “We had a great journey, great run with these guys. Developed great relationships with everyone that’s on the team, and obviously right now we’re pretty disappointed in our play today, and they’re a better team on the ice,” Geoffrion said. “We’ll go back and reflect on the past couple of days here and look back on it, and we should be proud of ourselves.” In the end, that’s something to take away from a job almost finished.

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Season ends on a cold note

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Wisconsin’s Frozen Four run came up short Saturday night by falling to BC, 5-0. The Golden Eagles (top right) celebrate their status as the national champions as junior defenseman Justin Schultz (left) and UW could not score on BC. In a silver lining, however, senior forward Blake Geoffrion (right) earned college hockey’s greatest honor with the Hober Baker Award. DANNY MARCHEWKA/THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Wisconsin shut out in national title game RECAP By Ben Breiner THE DAILY CARDINAL

DETROIT—During Wisconsin’s NCAA Tournament run, senior forward Blake Geoffrion several times responded to positive moments for his team by looking forward and say-

ing, “job’s not done yet.” And Saturday night they left that job of winning a seventh national title in school history unﬁnished. The No. 2 Badgers suffered a 50 loss at the hands of No. 3 Boston College at Ford Field, ending the season a win short of their ultimate goal. The Eagles hamstrung

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Senior forward John Mitchell and Wisconsin could not create any scoring chances against Boston College’s defense Saturday.

the UW attack, and their junior goaltender John Muse made sure any good Wisconsin chances went for naught. “I just didn’t think we had our best effort in terms of being sharp,” Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves said. “It just didn’t seem to be our day, but that doesn’t take away from what Boston College did.” The opening was reminiscent of the 2006 title game matchup between the two teams, as BC took a first-period 1-0 lead. Senior center Ben Smith received a pass in the slot on the power play, faced Wisconsin netminder Scott Gudmandson and snapped a wrist shot through the five hole. Wisconsin won that previous title game, scoring one in the third and one in the fourth to take a 2-1 lead. But this time, the Badgers got grade-A scoring chances, Muse was there to shut the door. In the first he stonewalled senior forward Michael Davies early, and in the second, when the Badgers got nine shots, he turned away a wraparound from junior forward Podge Turnbull, and his defense saved him, denying Davies when Muse left him a near-open net. Davies missed one more golden opportunity when he had a clean breakaway but lost control of the puck as he closed on the goal. “You know, we’ve been down 1recap page 7

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Junior goalie Scott Gudmandson and junior forward Podge Turnbull console one another after falling 5-0 to BC.

Boston College’s speed overwhelms Wisconsin ANALYSIS By Parker Gabriel THE DAILY CARDINAL

DETROIT—Between bowl games against the SEC and basketball matchups with Michigan State, Wisconsin fans grow tired of the comparison and the notion that Badger sports are more “grind” than

“go.” But the men’s hockey team has been an exception this year, combining a physical style of play with dynamic athletes and top-tier talent. In Saturday night’s national championship contest, however, Boston College put a level of speed on display that UW just could not keep analysis page 7