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How to enjoy Mifflin without being arrested City officials explain how new rules, more police will affect this year’s party By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal
After months of town halls and city meetings, the Mifflin Street Block Party is now less than two weeks away. It is clear the rules have changed, but how? City officials cleared up Sunday how a party attendee can enjoy the annual block party without running into trouble with the police. A major change from last year’s party is that open intoxicants are not allowed on the public street, which extends from sidewalk to sidewalk. If party attendants leave their property with alcohol, they will be arrested or given a ticket without warning, according to Madison Police Department Chief of Police Noble Wray. If party attendants are caught drinking underage, they will be
fined $177, and residents will be fined $366 for allowing underage drinking on their property, according to the Madison Police Department. Residents who sell alcohol will be fined $681. Only residents and their invited guests can drink on the front or back yard. Police can also ticket people on private property who are not guests of the resident. “Police are taking a zero tolerance approach to any infractions,” Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said. While police have always enforced city ordinances, students can expect additional ticketing because more officers will be on duty, according to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8. Underage drinking, drinking on public property, providing alcohol to minors, glass bottles on the street and selling alcohol are also prohibited. Resnick said police will also ticket for public displays of intoxication, disorderly conduct, public urination and trespassing. In addition to the standard rules, a nuisance party ordinance aimed to restrict out-of-control house parties is now in effect. A party is classified as a nuisance if
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The UW Marching Band celebrated its annual Spring Concert with three shows over the weekend, including the usual dramatic entrance from Professor Mike Leckrone. + Photo by Mark Kauzlarich
SSFC chair freezes MCSC funds for alleged policy violations By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal
Student Services Finance Committee Chair Sarah Neibart froze the Multicultural Student Coalition’s funding Thursday after learning the group allegedly violated university policy, in turn breaking student government bylaws. According to an e-mail Neibart sent to MCSC, the group allegedly violated the same university and state purchasing policy four times through contracts they brought to Dean of Students Lori Berquam Wednesday. The Associated Students of Madison bylaws state that four violations of the same rule result
in a 52-week freeze in funding, which could carry over into the next fiscal year. SSFC members declined to comment on the specific nature of the violations until their meeting Monday. Neibart said SSFC could overrule her decision to freeze the group’s funding with a threefourths majority vote. SSFC will decide Monday if the alleged policy violations were intentional, which would render MCSC ineligible for funding through student fees for the next two years. Student council is set to determine if MCSC is eligible for funding for the next fiscal year early
this week. SSFC ruled the group ineligible last fall, saying it does not spend more than half its time directly serving students. After the Student Judiciary upheld the decision, MCSC appealed to Chancellor David Ward, who sent the final decision to student council. While ASM was originally set to decide on the group’s budget after hearing its eligibility pitch last Wednesday, council pushed off the ruling after learning “new developments” had arisen that could influence MCSC’s eligibility. The Daily Cardinal was unable to reach MCSC members for comment.
Planned Parenthood no longer providing abortion pill after new law takes effect By Tyler Nickerson The Daily Cardinal
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A major change for this year’s block party is that open intoxicants are not allowed on public streets.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin stopped providing abortion-inducing pills Friday amidst concerns about a new law that requires additional steps for women seeking abortions and imposes criminal penalties for doctors who fail to adhere to new guidelines. Clinics throughout the state will still provide surgical abortions and emergency contracep-
tion, also know as the morningafter pill. But Planned Parenthood decided to stop providing abortion pills, which are only available from a doctor for women within the first nine weeks of pregnancy, because the language in the law is “vague” and puts doctors at risk of criminal charges. Act 217, which went into effect Friday, creates felony penalties for physicians who do not perform an in-person examination
before prescribing the drug, are not in the room when the woman receives the drug, or do not tell patients to schedule a follow-up visit after taking the drug. Teri Huyck, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, said in a statement Friday the new law is vague and unnecessarily interferes with the patient-physician relationship,
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a jerk!” Besides the fact that we were in our creeper of a math teacher’s classroom, the context of this comment escapes me. I do know, however, this would not be the only time I called him a name, and Nick would prove to have numerous retorts up his sleeve. Still, the bulk of our rela-
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nd so the countdown begins. In less than one month, I will graduate from my beloved University of WisconsinMadison. This reality has lead to a comprehensive slew of emotions, among them being displeasure with life’s general fleetingness. I have found the best way to deal with these circumstances is to live in the moment tionship 004 circa 2 as best I can and was actually filled focus on why I have with mutual respect and support. loved UW so much: the people. Take for instance a Super Please allow me to tell you about Bowl party we both attended as one in particular. teens. Held in the basement of a There is that one boy. The friend’s house, there was a male one boy you grow up with, grow there whose heart apparently mature(ish) with. The one boy went pitter-patter at the site of you can always depend on to have my baby-blue braces and insuffiyour back. He is the boy your ciently supported triangle boobs. parents want you to marry, the Now, said boy was very nice, boy whose parents want you to but incredibly awkward and not marry their son. really my 13-year-old self’s type For me, this boy is one Nick (which is to say he was not Jess Kohler, and if it were not for our from “Gilmore Girls”). When I incompatible sexual orientations, could not get him quite off my perhaps our parents’ wishes could back, Nick swooped in to save have come true. Instead, he is just the day: He became my “peckone of the greatest friends a gal can ing partner.” We went around hope to have in her life, and for the the party kissing each other past decade we have partaken in on the cheek and announcing our fair share of shenanigans. our “attraction” to one anothNick moved to my hometown er. Perhaps it was not the most from a neighboring suburb in intricate or mature of ruses, but seventh grade, and the first thing it worked, and I was endlessly I ever said to him was, “You’re grateful to him for helping me
out of that sticky situation. Nick and I also bonded over the confusion all teens suffer with but few outwardly discuss: The logistics of sex baffled us. On the flight back home from a school trip in Washington, D.C., we pondered how everything could possibly measure up. Using oh-so clever euphemisms, we asked each other, “How long is the ‘hallway?’ Would the ‘stick’ bump into the ‘baby room?’” Luckily, our friend and now pre-med student Sarah was there to throw whatever 14-year-old wisdom she had into our enlightening conversation. And then there was high school. Along with our circle of friends, the two of us embraced emo culture, spending our weekends at The Academy Is… shows and listening to music for hours in the dark. Obviously, we were a very deep group. While I challenged myself to wear even more black eyeliner, Nick allowed me to do his hair in the style of Pete Wentz (I would have included do c u m e ntation of this if I did not circa 2012 genuinely believe it would lead to my death). Come Labor Day of our senior year, Nick and I traveled North to visit the UW-Madison campus. One of those beautiful late-sum-
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mer days, we ate the first of what would become many lackluster meals at Gordon Commons. When he chose to be a Badger instead of spending his college career in the steaming pile of feces that is Champaign, Ill., I liked to think I had a little something to do with it (He can contest this point all he wants. I am no stranger to his stubbornness). Our years spent in Madison were equally colorful. From general Witte debauchery to evenings spent on the terrace to fellas of mine Nick gleefully and thoroughly evaluated, we have had an absolutely tremendous time. When Nick and I walk across the Kohl Center stage on May 20, it will be the end of an era. No longer will we be able to grab old fashioneds on a moment’s notice, frequent one of Madison’s delicious ethnic restaurants or prove our stupidity at the City’s M o n d ay night trivia. Still, there is no shaking each other at this point. Eventually there will be a new dude in the picture, and when that happens, I know Nick will be there to pass irrational judgment. Do you want Jacqueline to stop talking about this sentimental bullcrap and get back to discussing boobs and other Madison oddities? Tell her so at jgoreilly@ dailycardinal.com.
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Pastor opposes gay fraternity By Jeffrey P. Caulum of the Cardinal staff
A Madison pastor said Tuesday he is concerned a proposed gay fraternity on the UW campus would “legitimize homosexuality as a lifestyle,” and linked “lifestyle” to the associated danger of AIDS. The Rev. Richard Pritchard, pastor of a Congregationalist church and an outspoken conservative activist, said gays on campus already have several student organizations to help them, and that forming a gay fraternity would go one step too far. “Pushing for this fraternity is pushing for this [gay] lifestyle to be
legitimately recognized,” Pritchard said in a Cardinal interview today. “It’s to the extent that they’re pushing for acceptance.” Pritchard said accepting the gay “lifestyle” would destroy the family as an institution and would be an acceptance of a lifestyle he linked directly with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. “This way of living is a factor that tears down the family [and] I see 91 percent of the AIDS epidemic coming from the homosexual lifestyle,” he said. But Michael Thornell, who helped establish a chapter of the Delta Lambda fraternity in San Francisco and is organizing the
Madison chapter, said Pritchard’s remarks are nothing new to him. “This happens everywhere,” Thornell said. “These are people who are lacking education, who just don’t know gays and lesbians aren’t out to get them.” Thornell said Pritchard’s worries are irrelevant. “Gay relations are already legal in Wisconsin,” Thornell said. “A gay fraternity isn’t going to legitimize homosexuality; it has already been legitimized.” Thornell plans to file Delta Lambda as a Registered Student Organization by Friday, and said he expects to go before the Inter-Fraternity Council within
two weeks. Thornell added he is optimistic the fraternity will be in operation in the fall. “So far, the feedback I’ve received from the IFC and the fraternities has been positive,” he said. “Right now I have five people, and the most I want is eight.” But according to Pritchard, homosexuality is a disease which should be overcome. “I believe it’s environmentally, not genetically, caused, and it’s treatable and recoverable,” he said. “It’s like alcoholism.” However, Thornell said Pritchard would not affect the fraternity’s chances. “Reverend Pritchard is not on the IFC.”
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Annual UW Suicide Prevention Walk attracts hundreds, raises record donations More than 600 people gathered at Library Mall Saturday to share stories and walk in unity for the UW Suicide Prevention Committee’s second Suicide Prevention Walk. Through the walk and the yearlong efforts to raise money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the committee has raised $28,000, making it the nation’s most successful walk, according to the event’s Facebook page. The committee was created last year to educate students about suicide and depression and to teach them how to create a safe environment for students with depression.
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SPC Member and UW-Madison freshman Maddy Flynn said she and her friends joined the group after one of their best friends, Lindsay Huenink, committed suicide her senior year of high school at Brookfield Central. According to the Brookfield Patch, Huenink was hit by a train March 30, 2011. “After losing a best friend to suicide, you just kind of view things a little bit differently,” Flynn said. But through her friend’s death, Flynn said she and her friends saw an opportunity with the SPC to educate other students about depression and suicide. “We decided we were going
to stay and share Lindsey’s story and hope it can help save lives, because we don’t want anybody to ever have to go through what we did or what our community had to go through last year,” she said. While suicide is depressing by nature, Flynn said she was happy the walk focused on the committee’s mission and remained upbeat. “Even though suicide is a really hard topic to talk about and it’s something difficult to discuss with people, I liked how positive it was and how it was more about educating people and making them more aware of it,” she said. —Alex DiTullio
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Academy to induct three UW scholars Three UW-Madison scholars have been selected for induction into the 2012 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Among other goals, the Academy promotes service and study by analyzing critical social and intellectual issues as well as engaging with the public to exchange ideas. It elects members who are leaders in academic disciplines including the arts, business and public affairs. The three UW inductees are Behavioral and Neural Science
Professor Robert Fettiplace, Medical Microbiology and Immunology Professor Margaret J. McFall-Ngai and History Professor Steve Stern. Fettiplace is renowned for his research to help prevent deafness caused by malfunctioning hair cells in the inner ear. McFall-Ngai preformed groundbreaking research on bacterial relationships. Stern is a prizewinning historian, known for his research that focuses on human rights after the 20th century wars in Chile, known as the “dirty wars.” stephanie daher/the daily cardinal
mifflin from page 1 it violates one of 17 criteria such as throwing objects from balconies or amplified noise. If residents hosting a house party play music too loudly from speakers, police can issue noise citations without warning, according to Wray. People also need to be able to move freely through house parties to “maintain a safe environment,” according to Wray. If police or fire department officials see overcrowded houses, balconies or porches, they will break up the party and cite anyone violating city
parenthood from page 1 placing an “unprecedented burden” on Wisconsin physicians and women. Supporters of the bill say it provides a minimum standard for abortions in Wisconsin and will ensure women will not be coerced into having abortions. State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, who authored the bill, said Planned Parenthood’s decision is an “attention-seeking flawed characterization of the bill” because the law does not ban the use of chemicals to induce abortions. “Ultimately, its decision today has nothing to do with the law,” Lazich said in a statement Friday. “It is a thinly veiled attempt to manufacture evidence of a fabricated war on women. It is a poor fabrication at best.” But opponents argue the bill is an attempt to make abortions
ordinances attending that party. One way to avoid house party violations is to voluntarily sign an agreement with the police where residents can request police assistance without being punished for violating city ordinances. A Mifflin planning group and police are drafting the House Party Protection Plan. “If you invite the cops into your house, they won’t be looking for ordinance violations of the resident that day,” Verveer said. Resnick said while city ordinances will likely be violated at the block party, he encourages students to maintain a safe environment. more difficult and advance a conservative ideology. Collective members from the Campus Women’s Center, a prowomen’s rights group that educates and serves as a referral center for students said it is unfortunate to live in a place where women’s rights can be violated. “Now that the law is in place it will definitely make it harder for women to have access to all of their choices and that includes abortion if that’s what they feel is necessary,” members of the Center said Sunday. Friday’s decision has also become a political tool for Democrats against Republicans, who face recall elections for Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four state senators in June. Democrats have termed the series of women’s health related bills passed this winter and spring Walker’s “War on Women.”
Hundreds of participants register for the second annual Suicide Prevention Walk. Teams included ‘Team Lindsay,’ representing Lindsay Huenink, who committed suicide in March 2011.
Man allegedly beats, strangles girlfriend Madison police arrested a 42-year-old man at gunpoint Thursday following a “very violent, rolling domestic battery” where authorities say he punched and strangled a Madison woman inside a car. According to a police incident report, the man repeatedly beat his girlfriend inside the car while parked on East Washington Avenue. He drove to Cherokee Marsh, about eight miles north of Madison, “where [the victim] feared she would be killed.”
Police said a family hiking in the area saw the man beating the woman and grew concerned after she got out of the car and asked the family for a ride home. Before the family could respond, the suspect drove into their vehicle, “side-swiping it while demanding the victim get back in the car,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement. After the woman and suspect
drove away, the family followed them back to Madison and alerted the police because they were worried for the woman’s safety, according to DeSpain. Police caught and arrested the man at gunpoint in a private East Dayton Street driveway, according to police. The victim told police her boyfriend became angry after she refused to give him the money he claimed she owed him. She was not seriously injured. —Taylor Harvey
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ASM ensures that student voice is heard
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n the midst of endless internal debates concerning contested disagreements ranging from election violations to authority over student org funding, last week the Associated Students of Madison actually did something progressive, for a change. In partnership with United Council, ASM Chair Allie Gardner and United Council Vice Chair Dylan Jambrek suggested to the
Board of Regents something this editorial board thought was a complete no-brainer. In an attempt to increase shared governance and the general student voice across the entire UW System, Gardner and Jambrek asked the regents to consider increasing communication channels with students on a statewide scale. The two simply asked the Board of Regents to add an open forum to its meetings, release an
agenda and reach out to student groups on a regular basis—allowing for more student participation and input in the Board of Regent’s most basic functions. Although it seems obvious to operate under a transparent and approachable governing body, this is the first time this editorial board has seen an actual attempt to cultivate such a communicative student-regent relationship. As we see it, the majority of students across the state have little knowledge of the regents’ purpose and function as a system-wide governing body. But in actuality the Board of Regents has such far-reaching and bureaucratic authority it was the basis for former Chancellor Biddy Martin’s attempt to separate from the UW System in her New Badger Partnership. From delegation of funds to staffing to even having the final say in the Multi-Cultural Student Coalition’s financial debacle, the Board of Regents has the power to shape the college experience, making
Monday, April 23, 2012 it incredibly important students have an avenue to provide their own perspective and input. That said, the university can’t tout its deep belief in shared governance without providing access for interaction across all facets of the UW System. Last week, ASM stepped up and recognized the value shared governance has in the Wisconsin Idea and took initiative to progress it. If UW prides itself on its ability to operate with and for students, it only seems obvious the UW System play a role in this communication. The only problem is getting students to use it. While regents welcome meetings and conversations with students across the state, students have little knowledge of these opportunities, let alone time to utilize them. Creating a more accessible route to the regents has the potential to increase the number of students interested in communicating with the Board of Regents and, ultimately, a larger student
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impact. With funding cut after funding cut, tuition hike after tuition hike and a new Chancellor on the horizon, the weight shared governance has on core financial and educational decisions will continue to soar. Allowing discussions and conversations to expand presents a wider-range of opportunities for students to step up and make their voice heard. With that, we applaud ASM for untangling itself from its twisted web of domestic disputes and doing the job it was elected to do: promote the student voice. And while the Board of Regents may not be at the forefront of the majority of student’s minds, the fact is they are the individuals instilled with the most power to govern and oversee the entire UW System. UW’s value in sharing this governance must continue to be recognized as the piece that holds us together—something students can’t afford to forget. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
MCSC diminishes its efforts to create a diverse campus David Ruiz opinion columnist
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he Multicultural Student Coalition's budget appeal was given new life by Interim Chancellor David Ward last week. MCSC's actions and Ward's decision damage campus in two different ways: Ward has unfairly stuck his thumb in the pie of segregated fees, and MCSC continues to hurt this campus' overall conversation on diversity through its general ineptitude. When an uninitiated student navigates the mess of student bodies that dispense segregated fees, it is extremely easy to forget why the entire structure exists— allowing students to collectively control their segregated fees. The approved budget for segregated fee expenditure was roughly $41 million for the 2011-12 school year. The majority of seg fees is nonallocable funding that adds up to $33 million. The rest is divided among allocable funds and the General Student Services Fund. The Student Services Finance Committee decides how the GSSF is allocated. Last fall, SSFC rejected MCSC's inflated budget of over one million dollars after a waiver form was turned in late, and separately rejected a revised MCSC budget on the basis that MCSC no longer meets eligibility requirements for serving the entire student body. MCSC appealed to the Student Judiciary, but MCSC did little to prove it deserved the money and it was denied access to the GSSF. When MCSC sent a 14-page letter of appeal with to Ward, I thought that the group had finally grasped its last straw and would be forced to accept a school year with no funding from the GSSF. Unfortunately, Ward decided to send MCSC's budgetary fate into the hands of the ASM student council. Whether or not MCSC deserves funding next year—it does not, more on that in a moment—Ward's decision to negate the student judiciary and hand the decision back
to the student council infringes on the student control over segregated fees. By remanding the decision of MCSC's budget to the ASM student council, Ward has subverted the structure of ASM and the ideal of student-controlled distribution of seg fees. Ward's move is laudable for its savvy. It avoids conflict by balking on his decision to de-fund a multicultural student org and gives him the ability to meddle in affairs where his influence should be carefully limited. The Student Judiciary placed an injunction on Ward's directive but the injunction is a thin protection against the loss of students’ rights. Ward's directive has unfortunately conflated two issues: student control of seg fees and the future of MCSC. But this conflation makes me wonder how separate these issues are. Since MCSC lost out on access to the GSSF, it has slowly turned diversity into a monetary issue. Not only has its behavior been erratic and unorganized, but MCSC's careless and desperate rhetoric is beginning to hurt this campus as a whole. MCSC forced its appeal all the way to Ward. He used the pretense of MCSC's budget appeal to conceal a sly powergrab. Although Ward's decision could not have been predicted by MCSC, it was the group’s racial status that enabled Ward's directive. Second, the desperate arguments put forth by MCSC have damaged the campus-wide discussion of diversity more than a years worth of programming would have helped. MCSC cloaked its own institutional naivete in a veneer of race-consciousness that eventually devolved into ugly cries of “white privilege.” MCSC represents multiculturalism in general on this campus—perhaps unfairly—so when it ineptly files forms late or is fined by ASM, negative judgements don't stop at MCSC. But the biggest issue I have with MCSC's recent actions is that it has made diversity and funding one in the same. Of course, programming and events that promote diversity need money, but
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The Multicultural Student Coalition has been fighting for funding since being denied by the Student Services Finance Committee in October. MCSC has taken it beyond that. MCSC has inextricably linked the removal of its funding with racist, or at least nonrace-conscious, logic, but that is hardly the case. Their funding was removed because MCSC simply couldn't follow the rules. The group’s leadership let them down. Yes, ASM is an institution mired in white privilege, but that same white institution has given MCSC over $400,000 in the last two years alone. MCSC has linked diversity with funding because only through that logic can it be sensible to spend more than $200,000 a year towards diver-
sity. If diversity means having people of color around, then MCSC's logic assigns nonwhites monetary value. MCSC needs to put forward a serious effort to define diversity, and how it can go out and measurably increase diversity on campus. MCSC's equation of diversity spending with actual diversity perpetrates racedivisions on campus. Without a strenuous redefinition and reorganization, MCSC's overall effect on campus will continue to be negative. MCSC should also overhaul its public relations. Talking about race and the concept of diversity is
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extremely tricky and an organization purporting to champion these causes should be extremely disciplined in its public interactions. I've recently read that naivete is the only sin left in American eyes. Greed, sloth and rage can all be excused, but the naïve get whatever is coming for them. After this whole debacle, I can only see MCSC as naïve: naïve in its dealing with ASM, naïve in choosing its leadership and worst of all naïve in its approach to race relations. David is a senior majoring in English. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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Wisconsin Film Festival 2012
“Compliance” is not an easy film to watch, as evidenced by the numerous walkouts during its showing Saturday at the Wisconsin Film Festival. The film, based upon accounts of actual events, features a fast food restaurant that is hampered by a prank caller who, with only a telephone, coerces numerous individuals at the restaurant to follow through with heinous acts directed at an employee after the caller informs the restaurant’s manager that a theft has occurred at the restaurant. Thus ensue some fairly disturbing sequences that are not exactly pleasant to watch. Craig Zobel’s film is an intelligent thriller that, while disturbing, is a smartly made and well-intended film. The film quickly creates an atmosphere of uncertainty with a foreboding undercurrent. It is a film that provokes discussion and emotions, and, while uncomfortable to watch, is yet another example of a movie that is dependent upon an audience that is willing to stick it out and have the tenacity to understand the issues that the filmmaker is attempting to grapple and understand for himself. Trust me, it’s definitely worth it. —Ethan Safran
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The Wisconsin Film Festival screened films in theaters around the city from April 18-22. Read more reviews at www. dailycardinal.com/entertainment.
WISCONSIN’S OWN AND SHORT FILMS The composite experience of shorts from Wisconsin’s Own brought new talent to light and celebrated the good in independent film making, but also showed how far the film making industry has gotten into it’s own ego. “Pass the Salt, Please” belongs in the former category, a testament to the power of quality cinematography and skillful screenwriting. Starring Fionnula Flanagan and Seymour Cassel, the film follows the x-rated dinner conversation of an elderly couple that only degenerates into an anti-climatic finish—the merits of it’s hilarious commentary on relationships, aging and sex far exceeded the 13 minutes it ran. Similarly witty and well-made, “Christmas Tree: A Story in Five Parts” concerned the mysterious inner strife of a family preparing for the holiday season. Although the true reason behind their discord was never brought to light, the witty banter between characters, excellent acting and unique camera angles made me proud to see it in the Wisconsin’s Own category. Conversely, the other two shorts, “Curtain Call” and “Cornerman,” were less than thrilling. Both films had their quirky moments and touching shots, but overall reminded me of a filmmaker striving to fit an expected “indie” niche. The longest of the films, “Wid Winner and the Slipstream” was an awkward mixture of unique and blasé. It tells the story of the lonely young mechanic filled with regret and reeling from the death of his beloved uncle who meets a dancing-on-the-verge-of-crazy wanderer in search of parts for his time machine. Their cross-country road trip leaves Wid (played by James Sheldon) with the reminder to live life in the moment and to cast off regret. Although the film was touching at times and got its share of laughs, it’s teachable moments and introspective looking out of windows got hackneyed after a while. —Riley Beggin
‘FILTHY THEATER: A FILM ABOUT JOEL GERSMANN’
‘THE DAY HE ARRIVES’
This film offers a look inside the creative process and undisputed intelligence of Joel Gersmann, the director of Madison’s Broom Street Theater. The documentary, crafted by Dan Levin, a professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, sheds some light on the peculiar and ingenious plays that Gersmann created across several decades. Many of these plays were controversial and raunchy, as Gersmann wrote and adapted 114 plays throughout his career. The film effectively makes use of the footage Levin captured during several interviews in the summer of 1993 and the 1994, as the documentary cuts back and forth between archive footage of Gersmann, photographs and other footage from some of his plays’ performances and interviews with some of Broom Street Theater’s ex-cast members. Ex-actors of Gersmann’s theater described the process as a sort of “second job,” as the amount of time and effort into putting on any particular Gersmann play was enormous. On a whole, Levin succeeds at capturing the nostalgia of the environment that Gersmann constructed and his personality, which appears to have been at times entrancing and other times cold. However, the documentary has its flaws. Certain segments drag on a bit too long, and perhaps tighter editing would strengthen the film. Nonetheless, the documentary is a solid tribute to Gersmann and the experimental theater that he created. As someone said within the documentary, Gersmann didn’t care so much about the plays as much as he cared about “the experience of making the play.” And that fact is fairly evident within Levin’s film. —ES
South Korean film “The Day He Arrives,” directed by Hong Sang-soo, defies convention by exploring characters through their cyclical and somewhat self-destructive tendencies. Shot entirely in black and white, the viewer can’t help but focus on the intricacies of each character’s persona. The main character, Sungjoon Yoo, is a retired director visiting his long-time friend Youngho in Seoul. Over the course of this stay, which is three days (though each day is so similar they can almost be interpreted as one), Sungjoon finds himself learning about others, and himself, more than he could have expected. The characters in “The Day He Arrives” drink and smoke cigarettes constantly. There are very few scenes where Sungjoon isn’t drunk. Each night Sungjoon, Youngho, and Boram, Youngho’s female friend from college, go to a bar called “Novel,” which is clearly an ironic play on their unchanging nightly ritual. This film is filled with subtle, clever ideas that can easily go unnoticed. Sungjoon and Youngho are both blatantly sarcastic at times, but at other points the intention of their dialogue is ambiguous—either as a result of drunkenness or because, despite their routine lives, they have extremely complex self understandings. Throughout the film several women show clear interest in Sungjoon, and he is equally attracted to them. Regardless, Sungjoon refrains from becoming too involved with them for he fears hurting the people he cares about. Overall, “The Day He Arrives” has a lot going for it. The character development, although hard to catch, and cinematography are both intriguing. That being said, I wouldn’t recommend this movie to anyone who despises slow movies, because it is very static at times. —Andy Holsteen
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Badgers stay hot, sweep Penn State By Ryan Hill The Daily Cardinal
Just after having its schoolrecord nine-game win streak snapped by Illinois last Sunday, the Wisconsin softball team (11-4 Big Ten, 27-13 overall) has already started another notable streak after sweeping Penn State to push its winning streak to four. The Badgers won by scores of 4-1 and 8-0 (five innings) on Saturday and 9-0 (five innings) on Sunday. Wisconsin’s sweep came against a Penn State program it has historically struggled against. Coming into the series the Nittany Lions held a 25-12 all-time series advantage over the Badgers. “Penn State is a great program and I think historically they really had our number,” UW head coach Yvette Healy said. “To come in and take three games at home is always exciting, especially when it is a team like Penn State who was in the NCAA tournament last year.” Attention for Wisconsin softball seems to be growing with the recent success of the program this year, as Sunday’s attendance of 1,002 was the fourth-largest in school history. Sophomore pitchers Cassandra
Darrah and Amanda Najdek held the Nittany Lions’ lineup in check the entire weekend. Darrah threw complete games in the first and final games and only allowed 10 hits—eight of which came in the first game— and allowed only one earned run. Najdek allowed only two hits in the five-inning complete game in the second game Saturday. With both pitchers having their off-speed pitches clicking, the Nittany Lions stood no chance of coming back against the pesky Wisconsin offense. “Our pitching coach Tracie [Adix] has been working on [off speed pitching] with them this week for the home stretch of the season and I think they both did a great job of executing that today,” Healy said. “I definitely kept the ball down and tweaked [the off speed pitches] here and there,” Najdek said. “I kept the hitters off balance and that’s a really key thing with a good hitting team.” The Badgers’ performance in the circle wasn’t the only thing clicking during the series. They utilized big innings on offense and committed
only one error the entire weekend. “You can hear them communicating a lot more [on defense] so I think they’re having better approaches to balls and getting better jumps off of pitches,” Healy said. “Absolutely spectacular,” Najdek said of the defense behind her in the second game on Saturday. “I just always know that I can count on them and that they have my back.” The Badgers scored three quick runs off of Penn State’s Marissa Diescher, who struggled mightily with control in her 1 1/3 innings of work. Despite being outhit 8-4 by the Nittany Lions, the Badgers still maintained control throughout, as the opposing pitchers were inconsistent with finding the strike zone. In the second game Saturday, the Badgers took a while to figure out Penn State pitcher Jordan Wheatley, but when they did they exploded for six runs in the fourth. Sophomore outfielder Mary Massei and sophomore shortstop Stephanie Peace paced the Badgers at the plate over the weekend. Massei went 4-for8 with four RBI and four runs while Peace went 3-for-7 with two RBI and three runs.
Football
Bielema stresses importance of improving consistency on offense By Ryan Evans The Daily Cardinal
With one week and four practices to go for the Wisconsin football team before its spring game next Saturday the Badger coaches are getting a look at the players competing for playing time on offense. Once Danny O’Brien graduates from Maryland and is free to join the Badgers he will be the heavy favorite to assume the starting quarterback position, but in the meantime Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema and company are getting a look at the signal callers they do have. With redshirt junior Jon Budmayr having been ruled out for spring practice and redshirt senior
Curt Phillips limited to non-contact drills, Wisconsin’s only available quarterbacks this spring are redshirt freshman Joel Stave and redshirt sophomore Joe Brennan. Stave took all the snaps Saturday with the Badgers No. 1 offense Saturday during a 70-play full-pads scrimmage, something Bielema credits to the composure he showed in practice last week. “I thought Stave has really done a nice job this week controlling the huddle and making some good decisions down the field,” Bielema said. “Stave has impressed me from day one, just his composure, his presence. He’s got that little bit of ‘it’ to him and does a nice job of just taking the big picture.”
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Jeff Duckworth is among a group of inexperienced receivers that will have to make up for the loss of NFL-bound Nick Toon.
But according to Bielema, Stave hasn’t necessarily moved ahead of Brennan in what will likely become the race to be O’Brien’s back-up. “Want to stress to Joey to keep moving forward,” Bielema said. “He has to be consistency in his play, in his throws, his reads, his reactions. He’s got a nice arm, he’s just got to be more consistent.” One of the biggest holes the Badgers will have to fill on offense this season is at wide receiver where they will rely on a group of young and inexperienced wide outs to replace the departed Nick Toon and his 926 yards and 10 touchdowns from last season Redshirt junior Jeff Duckworth is one of the more experienced receivers on the team fighting for playing time, and Bielema said he’s hoping Duckworth can take his game to the next level. “Duck obviously made some good plays for us a year ago and kind of came into his own,” Bielema said. “He’s a guy that I kind of urged during practice to take it a step forward.” Outside of Duckworth, Bielema said that he needs to see improved consistency from young receivers like redshirt sophomores Chase Hammond and Marquis Mason. “Chase Hammond looks really, really good at times, Marquis makes a nice play and then wants to take a play off,” Bielema said. “Those guys have to understand it’s part of what we do here is make the next play. Make one good play, but make the next one.” “Need to see our wide receivers moving forward,” he added. “Certain guys are beginning to make plays, I just want them to make them with more consistency.”
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Mary Massei went 4-for-8 with four RBI against Penn State, including a walk-off hit in Wisconsin’s 8-0 win Saturday.
UW commit Kerdiles leads Team USA to U-18 gold medal The U.S. Men’s National the gold medal game. Under-18 Ice Hockey Team The 6-foot-1-inch forward has won its fourth straight spent the past two seasons gold medal at the playing for the U.S. Natio2012 IIHF World Men’s nal Development Team in Under-18 Championsthe USHL and has registehip Sunday, thanks in red 16 goals and 33 points large part to the offenin 50 career games. sive contributions of The NHL Central Wisconsin men’s hocScouting Agency ranked key incoming freshman Kerdiles No. 29 among KERDILES forward Nic Kerdiles. North American skater Kerdiles, a native prospects for the 2012 of Irvine, Calif., registered four NHL Draft, making him a potengoals and nine points in six tial late-first round pick. Kerdigames in the tournament, inclules will join the Badgers this fall ding two goals and five points in for the 2012-’13 season. By Ryan Evans / The Daily Cardinal Team USA’s 7-0 over Sweden in