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UW professor to testify in genocide case UW-Madison Professor Scott Straus’ extensive knowledge of genocide and African politics has landed him as an expert witness in the trial of Lazare Kobagaya who is charged with ordering mass murders during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The trial will take place in Kansas, where 84-year-old Kobagaya now resides, marking the first criminal prosecution in the United States to require proof of genocide, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Prosecutors allege Kobagaya illegally obtained United States citizenship by lying on his citizenship application, where he denied participating in the genocide.

The U.S. Justice Department alleges Kobagaya directed mass burnings of Tutsi homes and killings of hundreds of Tutsis, in addition to ordering the murder of any Hutu women married to Tutsi men.

Prosecutors are bringing in over 20 Rwandans to serve as witnesses for the case.

Political Science Associate Professor Straus would not comment on the specifics of the case, but said he expects to testify sometime next week.

According to the United Human Rights Council, 800,000 people died in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

If convicted, Kobagaya faces deportation and up to 10 years in prison.

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GAB requests to hold recalls in July The Government Accountability Board requested Wednesday to extend the time needed to certify recall signatures due to an unprecedented number of petitions filed against lawmakers in recent weeks.

According to Wisconsin state law, the GAB has 31 days to examine and certify a recall petition. The certification deadline for Sen. Dan Kapanke, R-La Crosse, the first senator to have a recall petition filed against him, would be May 2. The dates for the remaining seven senators facing recall elections would soon follow.

However, the GAB has never before had to simultaneously review eight recall petitions in addition to the Supreme Court race recount which started Wednesday.

The GAB reported their resources were being taxed when they needed to begin the recall certification process.

For those reasons, the GAB has proposed a revised schedule which would extend the certification dates to May 31 and hold many of the recall elections July 12.

Dane County Circuit Judge John Markson will examine the motion in a hearing Friday.

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Local fashionistas visited Bop Thursday night for an event hosted by College Fashionista, Groupon and BOP cloithing store.

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Wisconsin may soon join the list of 33 other states that allow citizens to carry a concealed handgun with a permit. Republicans are moving to introduce a bill that would allow permits to be granted based solely on the person meeting certain criteria laid out by the law.

State Sen. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau, is drafting a concealed-carry bill to be introduced within the next couple weeks, according to The Journal Times.

“Concealed carry has been pretty high on the GOP agenda for a while,” UW political science professor Charles Franklin said.

“The big question is what are the provisions by which you obtain a concealed weapon permit.”

Concealed-carry legislation made it through the legislature twice under Gov. Jim Doyle, but he vetoed it both times.

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CBS correspondent, UW alumnus talks future of journalism

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“The bill does not create a single job, help a single Wisconsin citizen, afford health care, or improve schools for a single Wisconsin child,” Doyle said in a 2006 statement addressing his veto of concealed-carry in the Personal Protection Act. “The Legislature should spend more time trying to get jobs into our communities instead of more guns.”

“It’s an odd situation with law enforcement and Democrats opposing Republicans on a gun issue,” Franklin said. “The serious side would be law enforcement in the Milwaukee area, but those sorts of concerns don’t seem to matter very much for proponents.”

Wisconsin, Illinois and Washington D.C. are the only states to not allow any private citizen to carry a concealed handgun under any circumstances, although Wisconsin does allow open carry.

UW-Madison alumnus and CBS Senior Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield spoke about the state of “the business and the craft” of modern journalism and his hopes for its future Thursday.

A 1964 School of Journalism graduate and former editor in chief of The Daily Cardinal, Greenfield drew on his experience as a speechwriter for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his positions as news analyst and commentator with CBS and CNN. “Thanks to technology, we’ve been diverted,” explained Greenfield, saying rather than being limited to a single newspaper or a few news networks, consumers today can seek out what interests them and then view it for free.

“There are three thing all news media know you can get money for: sports, sex and finance,” he summed up.

Greenfield said the news consumption of this generation and former generations has fulfilled the old adage, “you won’t pay for the cow if the milk is free,” because readers can select the news content they want for free without paying for the rest of a paper.

Overcoming this attitude,

“is going to be the challenge of our times,” Greenfield asserted.

Greenfield said he sees hope in new forms of online journalism using traditional reporting and the potential for “new, emerging forms of journalism that will attract younger people.”

One way to attract this audience, Greenfield said, is addressing the sense of urgency many young people feel facing an uncertain economic future.

“Maybe it will help if we tell them, ‘You’re screwed!’”

Greenfield suggested. “There’s too many of us getting old and too few who are young and the burden is going to be on you.

Are you listening now?”

Nonetheless, two School of Journalism students in attendance, Ian McCue and Andria Casey, said Greenfield’s speech was “a little less dire” than many they had heard.

“I came here for the extra credit, but I appreciated the speech,” McCue said. “I thought he had a lot of really insightful ideas about where the media is going.”

For his part, Greenfield said, “my hope is that there will be good, meaningful journalism … that we’ve survived this revolution in good shape.”

Central Library plans proceed without threatening city finances

By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal

Mayor Paul Soglin and the Madison Public Library Foundation reached an agreement to keep the Central Library’s construction plans on schedule without jeopardizing the city’s finances.

Soglin, who said he agrees the Central Library project is a high pri-

ority, met with the foundation and library officials Tuesday to discuss a new plan that calls for aggressive private fundraising goals.

“We have a plan now that allows the city to assess the progress of fundraising in concert with key points of the project and adjust course if needed,” Soglin said in a statement.

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Foundation agreed to accumulate $8 million in cash and pledges by increasing its private fundraising efforts to meet the project’s financial and construction deadlines.

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CBS Political Correspondent and Cardinal alum Jeff Greenfield educates undergrads on the state of journalism today.

“…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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pril is a sexually exhausting month. I hope you’ve had the chance to enjoy some of the important and inspiring events that have gone on for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Out and About Month, National Day of Silence, Break the Silence Wisconsin and Sexual Health Week. And before April comes to a close, I want to plug one more event that’s near and dear to my heart: STD Awareness Month.

The Centers for Disease Control describes STD Awareness Month as “an annual observance to raise awareness about the impact of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) on the health of Americans and the importance of individuals discussing sexual health with their healthcare providers and, if sexually active, their partners.”

Awareness means knowing our own STI status.

The individual and public health impacts of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and STDs are pretty significant. There’s really no difference between the terms “STD” and “STI”—personally, I prefer the “infection” phrasing, since most of them are caused by specific pathogens and are easily cured or treated, and are not chronic conditions that disrupt normal functioning.

But there’s really no difference other than terminology.

At any rate, according to the CDC, the U.S. spends around $13 billion every year on the diagnosis and treatment of STIs. Nearly two million cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea were diagnosed in 2009.

Up to 15 percent of women who do not receive chlamydia treatment will develop pelvic inflammatory disease, which can lead to chronic pelvic pain or infertility.

Blah, blah, blah. While the real and potential health impacts of STIs can’t be overstated, a pile of big numbers and scary facts isn’t that helpful for most of us. So what does it really mean to be “aware” this STD Awareness Month?

Awareness means knowing our own STI status. One in six Americans has genital herpes, according to the CDC—but most (up to 90 percent) don’t know they have it. Check yourself and get checked. Get to know your down-theres so you can tell if any new lumps or bumps crop up.

Free urine screenings for chlamydia and gonorrhea are available at University Health Services. Vaginal pap smears can be obtained for HPV screening. Regardless of one’s risk factors, the CDC recommends routine HIV screening for all adults, and blood testing is free for students at UHS. Awareness means knowing our partner’s STI status. While most of us know asking about STIs is a healthy, responsible thing to do, it can still feel awkward, invasive, accusatory or just plain unsexy. Ask anyway, and try to do it confidently and with a smile. To paraphrase Charles Swindoll, I believe that STI conversations are 10 percent what comes out of your mouth and 90 percent how it comes out of your mouth. And if a potential partner wigs out, it’s probably best not to have sex with them anyway.

Awareness means knowing how STIs are spread. Not all STIs are created equal. If we know the most common routes of transmission for the most common STIs here on campus (HPV, chlamydia and herpes; skin-to-skin contact, genital secretions and skinto-skin contact, respectively) then we can have a better idea of what our risks are and how we can minimize them.

Awareness means knowing ways to protect ourselves and our partners from STIs and

their sequelae. While many STIs are curable and all are treatable, they are also preventable. It’s important to think about what methods of prevention will work best for us.

Awareness means knowing ways to protect ourselves and our partners from STIs and their sequelae.

Perhaps we don’t have sex, or we only have sex with one person, or we only engage in certain sexual activities.

Perhaps we use condoms, sex dams or other barriers that we can get for free from many campus orgs like Sex Out Loud, the LGBT Campus Center, PAVE or the Campus Women’s Center. Perhaps we get vaccinated for things like HPV or hepatitis. Perhaps we get tested regularly and obtain

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expedited partner therapy (EPT) for our partners if we test positive. EPT has been legal in Wisconsin since last year, and it allows physicians to give two antibiotic prescriptions to a person who tests positive for chlamydia, gonorrhea or trichomoniasis: One for the person who tests positive, and one for that person to give to their partner.

Awareness means knowing it’s OK not to have all the answers. Despite the abundance of resources on campus, misinformation—much of it hateful—about STIs is everywhere.

If we don’t know, or if we think we know but we’re not quite sure, it’s important to ask.

UHS and Planned Parenthood are just a phone call away.

The CDC has a fantastic, easily accessible website detailing facts and statistics on STIs. Other helpful websites include Go Ask Alice!, Scarleteen and RHReality Check. And of course, you can always drop me a line at sex@dailycardinal.com.

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Plan could place all UW dorms in District 8

By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal

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Despite Resnick’s proclamation, moving Smith Hall from District 4 to District 8 poses a problem for the census bureau.

The census district would not allow the businesses on the

Tentative Madison redistricting plans were presented to Common Council for discussion Thursday, where it was agreed the Lakeshore dorms and Smith Hall should join the rest of the UW-Madison dormitories in Aldermanic District 8.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District “We have a lot of students that 8, said moving Smith Hall into are here for a few year, we want District 8 is win, and all under- to make it as simple for them graduates living in university as possible.” dorms can now vote in the Brian Grady same place. member “We have a lot of students that Reappointment and Redistricting are here for a few years, we want to Ad Hoc Committee make it as simple for them as possible,” said Reapportionment and Redistricting Ad Hoc Committee far end of the proposed plan’s Member Brian Grady.

District 8, such as U-Haul, to All Lakeshore dorms will actually move into the district tentatively move from District along with Smith Hall.

5 to District 8. However, Eagle To accommodate this, the Heights will remain in District committee is looking to split

Murray Street, which runs behind Smith Hall, so that everything but Smith Hall will remain District 4.

The proposed plan would also re-zone a part of State Street, which has always been split between District 4 and District 8, into District 2.

Alders said they fear this would complicate city processes for businesses on State Street.

The purpose of redistricting the aldermanic zones is to equalize the population within each district. Boundaries are adjusted based on population changes that have occurred over the last decade.

Madison’s population as of April 2010 is 233,209, making the target aldermanic district population 11,660.

The downtown redistricting plans will be presented to the community for their input May 11.

Man arrested for having weapons, drugs in Peace Park A Madison Police officer found a loaded handgun, knives and many potentially stolen items in the backpack of a 29-year-old man at Peace Park on State Street Monday afternoon.

The officer inspected the man’s backpack after finding the man using a marijuana grinder at the park.

In addition to the weapons,

police said they found women’s jewelry, sports trading cards and electronics in the man’s backpack.

The MPD is investigating to see if these items might be stolen, according to the police report.

Police said the man also had a knife and a bag of marijuana in his pockets.

The man was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, jargon

and disorderly conduct, according to the police report.

“He resisted officers and shouted profanities while being arrested,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

The man was also cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana, according to the incident report.

Mobil clerk hit by fleeing car after suspecting gas theft A 58-year-old Mobil gas station clerk, female, 58, was hit by an escaping car Wednesday afternoon while attempting to get the vehicle’s license plate number.

According to the report, the clerk said she suspected the two men in the vehicle were leaving the East Washington Avenue Mobil gas station without paying their $53.02 bill.

Police said after she successfully

gathered the license plate information, the driver of the dark blue, late 90’s, 4-door car hit the gas and hit her as they sped away.

According to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain, the clerk was not significantly injured despite projecting over the car’s hood and rolling a couple of times after she hit the ground.

The clerk told a responding offi-

cer that because this Mobil is one of few area gas stations where customers do not need to pre-pay, the number of drive offs is increasing, especially with rising gas prices.

“The Madison Police Department continues to urge purveyors of gasoline to use a pre-pay or credit/debit card system, as this type of theft is preventable,” DeSpain said in a statement.

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Six UW professors discussed the relationship between neuroscience and religion at a symposium Thursday evening.

Professors explain ‘brain on religion’

By Corinne Burgermeister The Daily Cardinal

Professors from UW-Madison and around the country hosted a public panel on the connection between religion and neuroscience Thursday, focusing around the idea that meditation has the power to make dramatic changes to physical and psychological health.

The panel discussed whether UW-Madison’s Dr. Richard Davidson’s pioneer work with Tibetan Buddhist meditation, which found that meditation is good for health, could be applicable to include Abrahamic Faiths such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. According to Davidson, it will take time to gather the right evidence to prove this, but he remains hopeful.

“I would not invest time and energy if I didn’t believe there is a lot of progress to be made,” Davidson said.

According to Davidson, with practice one may be able to change systems in the brain, including systems of behavior.

“Well-being, happiness and compassion are the product of skills nurtured through training,” Davidson said.

He said they have shown that the brain has much plasticity and flexibility, and with education those skills can be trained. The brain was previously thought to be fixed at adolescence.

Each panel member spoke about their studies and acknowledged areas where different religions do or do not intersect. They concluded that compassion, the relief of suffering and ethics of restraint are common within all religions.

“Not all religions are the same, [but] compassion is a common ground,” said John Dunne, Associate Professor of Religion at Emory University

“Not all religions are the same, [but] compassion is a common ground.”

John Dunne associate professor of religion Emory University

According to Davidson, the studying of Abrahamic religions in connection to neuroscience was brought on after the Dalai Lama hosted a “terribly successful” meeting in which he brought together all Indian religions.

The event Thursday was hosted by the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, a center funded partially by the Dalai Lama, in partnership with the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions and the Isthmus Society.

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Wisconsin Hillel sponsored the “Challah for Hunger Hillel Block Party” Thursday. Students could sample and purchase different flavors of Challah as part of the hunger-awareness event.

library from page 1 million,” Soglin said in a statement.

The city agreed to contribute $17 million to the capital project through bonds, and $4.5 million will come from pending new mar-

ket tax credits.

“These benchmarks are very ambitious, but this is an important project for the city of Madison to complete now for many reasons,” Library Board Chair and Central Campaign

Chair Tripp Wilder said in a statement. “It will be critical to our success that the Madison community demonstrates its love of libraries by coming forward with generous contributions. I believe it will.”

State Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, is claiming new security measures at the Capitol limit access to those with disabilities and is seeking help from Wisconsin’s United States Attorney to restore access.

“Wisconsin has always taken pride in its open government,” Risser said in a statement. “I fear that the current security policies are leading to the disenfranchisement of a segment of our citizenry.”

In his letter to U.S. Attorney John Vaudreuil, Risser said the limitations go against the Americans with Disabilities Act. People with disabilities who have had trouble entering the Capitol proposed Gov. Scott Walker’s administration open up another ground floor entrance, but Risser said the Department of Administration has only complied with that request for one day since the security measures began.

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the rhythm on your left. This is a departure from earlier records I was 13 years old the first time where the guitar was muddy I heard the Swingin' Utters— because of the way the songs their single “Glad” was featured were mixed. This soundscape is on a compilation from Warped repeated in the drums, as the Tour. The speed of the song com- sharp rap of the snare is heard on bined with the punchy delivery of the right with the steady pulse of the lead vocals and melodic guitar the hi hat and the crash cymbals drew me in, and from there I was ringing loud and clear on the left. hooked. Returning from an eight The album slows down when year recording break with Here, it hits the third track, but retains Under Protest, the band still man- the melodic qualities of the first ages that pull, even as their sound track, relying on raspy vocals and is further refined. a catchy guitar part to drive the The Swingin' Utters have been song forward. By no means is this described as “hot-rod-cow-punk,” a throw away track, like I initially and I must say thought. "Bent CD REVIEW that it is a fitting Collector of 1,000 description. With a Limbs" is sonically little twang and a different, but it has lot of attitude, this some interesting band has moved guitar work that from sounding like make it worth a they belong in the second listen when punk scene of the juxtaposed with Here, Under Protest 1970s to a more the dry delivery of Swingin’ Utters contemporary and the vocals. melodic outfit.

One thing to Their seventh full-length album is note as the album spins is that the most mature-sounding record the vocals often sound a little bit the band has released to date. different between tracks. This is “Brand New Lungs” opens the because there is a revolving cast album with a bang, as the stac- of vocalists, with Johnny Bonnel, cato, crunchy guitar cuts through Darius Koski, Jack Dalrymple the end of a voice-over. New and Spike Slawson all sharing production techniques are imme- vocal duties. “Kick It Over” is diately apparent, as the guitar the first track where this switch can be heard in perfect stereo, is extremely noticeable, with the with the lead on your right and honey-smooth vocals replacing The daily Cardinal

UW-based DJ drops his fifth album in four years today

By Riley Beggin Senior arts writer

For those of you who attended—or at least wanted to attend—Girl Talk’s show last month, you may be interested in a local alternative: DJ Jewboy.

Despite the quirky name, DJ Jewboy, also known as Andrew Heisler, is a Badger with chutzpah. A UW-Madison freshman, Heisler has gathered an online following for his creative cross-genre mashups. A Chicago native, Heisler has been mixing urban beats with indie rock, country and Top 40 music since his beginnings, when he was inspired by the mind-blowing mixes on Girl Talk’s Night Ripper to obtain his own audio editor.

He has since brought his passion to UW-Madison, where he has performed live at ZBT house parties and continued to provide free albums for his fans online.

Heisler brings great potential to the table—he started mashing back in the fall of 2007 and has been honing his skills ever since. When asked what has helped him become a better artist, Heisler mentioned it required “a lot of patience … once I got used to the program I was using, I was able to adapt and create more intricate and creative mixes that sounded pretty sick.”

From his humble beginnings with a computer-based audio editor, Heisler is learning to expand his skills to live-perfor-

mance venues. As for his hopes for the future, he says, “Livemixing is something I want to master and eventually get paid to do.” This hope for a more popular future in live mixing is only exacerbated by his love of music and his all-encompassing tastes.

“New music is never-ending, the sky is the limit for how many mixes I can make,” said Heisler.

Of course, to have an ear for musical layers and intricacies, Heisler has to stay on his toes with new music. But when asked who inspires him musically, his responses were far from Top 40: He says “If I’m not listening to Girl Talk, I’ll be listening to Cat Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Pink Floyd. I’ve got a relatively eclectic taste in music and that’s where a lot of my mashup ideas come from.”

For those who are interested in hearing more from DJ Jewboy, his albums available for download online include such gems as Keepin’ It Is-Real (Vol. 1 and 2), Chrome Kippur and Israeli Hip-Hop Mashups at http://djjewboy.blogspot.com/.

Another long-awaited release dropping today, entitled Let My People Flow, dutifully follows the Jewish-themed trend. Heisler is intending to turn more to live-mixing performances rather than just continuous albums, so local listeners should look forward to jamming with Jewboy more in the future.

the grit heard on the third cut. “(You've Got To) Give It All To The Man” is the shortest, simplest song on the album, but it shows a real diversity to their sound.

With a classic feel this song almost sounds like it could have been on a Bad Religion album in the early 90s. Its simplicity makes it a quick, effortless listen, with enough of a guitar hook to hold you captive.

The final track, “Effortless Amnesiac,” opens with discordant lead guitar pulsing from the left side before the rhythm guitar comes in with a harmonizing part, playing nicely underneath the crooned vocals. This is probably the most adventurous track on the album, sounding different from almost everything else the band has released. A great closer, this song doesn't entirely fit with the rest of the album, but it is certainly a welcome digression.

The second half of the album shows a great maturation of their sound, with more of their songs relying on melody to carry them rather than the old stand by palm muting and tight vocals. The guys are really letting loose on this record, displaying the musicality they've cultivated in the last 24 years as a band. With the superb mixing and great songwriting, I'd chalk this one up as a win for the band, with shoo-ins for future live-set staples in “Time On My Own,” “Lepers, Thieves and Whores,” “Brand New Lungs” and “Blindness is Kind.”

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After 24 years as a band, including an eight year break from recording, the Swingin’ Utters return with their most polished record to date.

The year is winding down, finals are around the corner and we just want to party. We’ve got big plans for the summer though, so keep watching for website coverage from Bonnaroo and Soundset, plus updates on your favorite local musicians!

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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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ACROSS 1 Bag style 5 Round molded dessert 10 Mama with the Mamas and the Papas 14 Newspaper section 15 Think-tank offerings 16 TV newsman Brit 17 Unkind 18 Portrays in words 19 ___ Mountains (Europe-Asia divider) 20 Place for memorable clippings 22 Place ___ to (phone) 23 Written debt acknowledgment 24 Units of small change 26 Greek letter or geometric symbol 30 One who can’t keep off the grass?

32 Way-overpriced item 34 Touchdown info 35 ___ podrida (spicy Spanish stew) 39 May 15, for example 40 Quite a bit 42 One billion years (Var.) 43 Giggling foursome?

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5 Junior naval officer 4 47 Waste receptacle 50 Sailing among the waves 51 Style of preparing food 54 What a thole supports 56 World traveler’s reference 57 Painter’s protection 63 Dudley Do-Right’s damsel 64 Cursor controller 65 Swabby’s salutation 66 Base times height, for a parallelogram 67 Tenant’s counterpart 68 Like Clark Kent’s manner 69 Tennyson’s title 70 Nervous 71 Firehouse fixture DOWN 1 Male turkeys 2 Oil cartel since 1960 3 Partner of “wear” 4 Tracy Turnblad’s mom, in “Hairspray” 5 “The Hobbit” hero 6 More than offensive 7 Supervisor’s note 8 Legal tender 9 It makes a tale stale?

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1 Saintly glows 1 12 Pint-sized 13 Markets successfully 21 Smoky-voiced singer Edith 22 ___ Ventura (Jim Carrey role) 25 Silly as a goose 26 Calc prerequisite 27 Keep under wraps 28 Type of fencing foil 29 Fix a Caesar, for example 31 Prefix meaning “four” 33 Warm Alpine wind 36 Wearable wreaths 37 Opera-house box 38 “___ and the King of Siam” 41 How most hands are dealt 46 Undercover drug agent 48 Palindromic sibling 49 Gallows sights 51 Panama divider 52 In ___ (in the womb) 53 Not having as favorable a prognosis 55 Impersonator’s skill 58 Pipsqueak 59 Reading light 60 River or state 61 Turnpike fee 62 Jekyll’s alter ego 64 Bygone flightless bird

Washington and the Bear

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President Barack Hussein Obama II released his long-form birth certificate to the American public Wednesday amid relentless scrutiny over his natural-born citizenship.

Thank God. Now I can rest easy, knowing my president was born in Hawaii.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next birther, but I often find myself asking what the end game is for presidential skeptics. I mean, did Donald Trump expect the White House to release a birth certificate indicating our president was born in Kenya?

Did Fox News think Obama would admit he forged his documents? Of course not, they know better.

Well then, what was the real goal here? Surely it wasn’t to reignite the undying flames of xenophobic hatred in the same demographic that didn’t want a black, supposedly Muslim president back in 2008. (Did I mention his middle name is Hussein? And don’t forget, his father was born in Kenya.) Surely taking advantage of American xenophobia to influence the 2012 elections wasn’t the goal here. Surely not.

Well, I’m just glad he put it out there for every American to see. Democracy demands trans-

parency, dammit. I mean, when Obama’s campaign released his birth certificate on the Internet back in 2008, that just wasn’t enough. After all, it could have easily been a fraud. You’ve heard of Photoshop, right?

Now that I’ve got my tinfoil hat on, why not go all the way? Our assumptions couldn’t have been that far off base about the original birth certificate, since Obama was compelled so easily to release another one. This is important stuff, America. Trillions in debt, wars all over the globe, unemployment up the wazoo with the threat of a government shutdown, but so what? None of that matters if our president can’t show us a piece of paper confirming his birth on American soil.

Next thing you know we’ll be living in a socialist world where birth certificates are just pieces of paper given away to anybody.

But wait just a minute. Who can actually verify this certificate isn’t a phony as well?

The 2012 presidential voters, er, I mean American people, need more concrete evidence.

If anything, we need footage of Obama’s mother, mid-thrust, waving a Hawaiian flag with volcanoes erupting in the background—the tapes preferably signed and dated by Ronald Reagan. That should do it.

Come to think of it, what’s so American about Hawaii, anyway? It only became a state in 1959, and Obama allegedly was born there less than two years later. That’s cutting it pretty close if you ask me. If Abraham Lincoln was born in Hawaii, he couldn’t have been president. So why do we make exceptions for Obama?

Take this birth certificate for what it’s worth: a Republican victory. If not for Trump’s persistence, the American people wouldn’t even have this much to believe in. It’s called “getting things done,” America. If Trump can get this much accomplished before he’s even in office, just think of the possibilities.

In his White House address Wednesday, the president continuously referred to the birthcertificate drama as “silly.”

Really, Mr. President? Really?

Is violating the constitution “silly” now? Why did it take two years for you to address this issue again after you addressed this issue two years ago? Is this what America is coming to? Is nothing sacred anymore?

Only time will tell if the American people buy the president’s half-hearted attempt at easing our fears. Next thing you know we’ll be living in a socialist world where birth certificates are just pieces of paper given away to anybody. Obama might have won this birth battle, but the 2012 presidential war has just begun.

Dan Tollefson is a senior majoring in English and Economics.

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Education is key to creating jobs Soren Nieminen

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he new budget proposal

by Gov. Scott Walker provides a $72 million cut to technical schools in Wisconsin. The common argument is that we have to reign in our spending to prove fiscal responsibility. Then we have the GOP budget proposed by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, which reduces top federal income and corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 25 percent.

I can hear Ayn Rand shifting happily in her grave. I always thought of her followers as intellectual snake salesmen, peddling their love of a product that has no proof of actually working. On the state level, Walker should be focused on providing more funding to technical schools instead of his effective deregulation mentality.

The Laffer curve (based on the idea that we can still maintain or even improve revenue by reducing taxes) has never been proven. Laissez-faire economics don’t work. Deregulation was a big focal point for Ken Lay and Enron where they took advantage of energy crisis in California to ruthlessly pursue profits. Unregulated industries

lead to disasters like the BP oil spill. Rational objectivism, as proposed by Rand, is something that you will find in a fiction book, but not something that has worldwide applicability.

We need investments in education. Ryan’s budget indicates that by 2021, the unemployment rate will be 2.8 percent. As pointed out by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, the last time the unemployment rate was at that level was briefly during the Korean War in the early 1950s.

Incredibly, the GOP budget makes little mention of education.

Many technical colleges are seeing a boom in attendance, because people are looking to learn new skills that are applicable to business.

Our tech schools are dying.

Where do you think people learn technical skills to go into real world jobs? Many states are facing a shortage of workers. Why is that? It’s because many of the workers who were laid off had not learned skills to be in any other jobs than the industry they were previously working for. Many workers in Detroit are taking advantage of programs that offer classes and hands-on training in computers and technical commu-

nication as well as other applicable skills.

So, if we want to create jobs, why are we cutting the budget for technical schools? Technical colleges are facing a 30 percent decrease in aid this year in Wisconsin. Walker cites a goal of creating 250,000 jobs, but how exactly are you creating jobs when you are providing colleges less money to train the workforce?

Many technical colleges are seeing a boom in attendance, because people are looking to learn new skills that are applicable to businesses.

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College enrolled 7,600 full-time students for the 2010’11 academic year, up nearly 150 students from the previous year.

We should be focusing on things that have proven to be linked to job growth like technical education. Madison College has to face tough decisions in deciding whether to put students on waiting lists, provide a lower quality education or firing teachers.

You can look at Walker not having finished his education at Marquette as a reason why he places little value in schools, but the real evidence is what he’s doing in his latest budget proposal. It shows how little respect he has for education.

Soren Nieminen is a senior majoring in Communication Arts.

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Syrian conflict deserves international attention Mike Kujak opinion columnist

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ollowing a revolution like the Arab spring is difficult. The major conflicts, from a media coverage perspective, seem to be coming in large waves. Tunisia gave birth to the revolution, whose influence made its way toward Egypt and the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak.

The global conversation then switched over to the pending conflict in Yemen for only a brief time before eventually switching over to Libya. The recent protests in Syria, though similar in spirit to other mid-size revolts, are actually a game-changer that initiates a whole new chapter in the Arab Spring.

Syria is currently Iran’s closest ally in the Arab world and has been a state sponsor of terrorism for decades.

According to the Syrian Human Information Rights Group, more than 400 Syrians have been killed since last Monday. Growing numbers of Syrians have been gathering in cities across the country to demand political freedom and the security forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad have responded by open firing on them. In response, many people have criticized the Obama administration, most notably The Washington Post, which called Obama’s lack of action “shameful.”

These voices do have a point but seem to miss the bigger picture. Asking why we’re not in Syria is a good question.

However, asking why we’re in Libya but not in Syria is an infinitely better one that really starts to reveal the darker side of U.S. foreign policy. Arguments for invading Libya and Syria, which I’ll get into in a second, are almost always stronger for Syria. When you combine that with the fact that Libya is a major oil exporter and Syria is not, you start to see just how just how incoherent our military interventions truly are.

Now let’s do a little comparison between Libya and Syria.

Just about every argument that led to intervention in Libya applies even more to Syria. First, there’s the theoretical danger of genocidal repression. It’s true that a major factor for entering Libya was due to its leader Col. Qaddafi foaming at the mouth with rage. But when it comes to lunatics, al-Assad takes the cake.

We know this because in 1982 the Assad government committed one of the worst incidents of violence in the bloody history of the Middle East. Forty thousand people were murdered to crush demonstrations against the dic-

tatorship.

If the humanitarian case was appealing, wait untill you hear about the national interest argument for intervention. Syria is currently Iran’s closest ally in the Arab world and has been a state sponsor of terrorism for decades. Plus, with Syria’s regime out of the picture, the IsraeliPalestinian conflict becomes a bit easier to deal with. Saudi Arabia has made its disapproval of Obama’s foreign policy clear and this could be a way to patch things up.

So when supporters of the Libyan intervention like Sen. .John McCain, R-Ariz., oppose intervention in Syria, I get a bit confused. Why would McCain oppose an intervention that is even more likely to cause bloodshed than Libya? Perhaps McCain knows that Syria is a slippery slope that might not be worth the risk (especially since there’s no oil to be lost). If we do choose to intervene, an even scarier slew of possibilities presents itself. What if the conflict spills over into Lebanon? What if Iran get’s involved? You start to see the domino effect that these wars in the Middle East tend to have. You can also probably see why I’m a bit cautious about whipping out the war drums just yet.

Unfortunately, McCain’s hypocritical objections won’t matter much if the violence in Syria remains. The Obama administration will soon be forced to play its hand. Either way the president knows by now that he’s stepped in some shit. He’s going to catch some harsh criticisms regardless of his decision. Let’s hope it forces his administration to take a deep breath before making any big decisions regarding the Syrian conflict.

Regime change is not a smooth process and entering a fourth war will come with a hefty price.

I hope people understand that I don’t take this anti-interventionist stance lightly. I’ve seen the Syrian protest footage on YouTube. One video featured a man whose jaw was simply gone because he wondered into the sight of a sniper. In that same video there’s footage of a child missing the back part of his skull, as he dies in his father’s arms. I know what those horrific kinds of images inspire in us to act. We want to be Superman.

We want to fly in there with our weapons and take care of the “bad guys.” However, history has shown that it’s just not that simple. Regime change is not a smooth process and entering a fourth war will come with a hefty price.

Mike Kujak is a sophomore with an undeclared major. The Daily Cardinal welcomes all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com

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Sophomore Shannel Blackshear has 32 hits with nine home runs and 26 RBI for the Badgers this season, holding a .274 average.

setback from page 8 this past January. Red shirt freshman Joe Brennan has kept pressure on Budmayr throughout spring, but his progress has plateaued.

After Budmayr and Brennan, though, the Badgers have just two quarterbacks left on the roster: Red shirt senior Nate Tice and true freshman Joel Stave.

Fans might remember Nate Tice from last season—he appeared in just two games and never threw a single pass, but made a memorable 17-yard touchdown run in the third quarter to put the Badgers up 82-20 against Indiana Nov. 13.

In Saturday’s Spring Game,

however, Tice managed just one pass completion in six attempts for nine yards, and two rushing attempts tacked on another nine for the Edina, Minn., native. Fans shouldn’t expect Tice to be in competition for the starting job come fall, but his chances at a backup role have, at the very least, increased slightly with the Phillips injury.

Joel Stave, however, might have been one of the biggest surprises in the spring for Wisconsin.

Stave, a Greenfield, Wis. native who left Whitnall High School early to join the Badgers for spring practices, has shown a tremendous amount of growth in

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homer in the second game of the doubleheader against Iowa, and the Badgers will look for her to continue to provide an offensive spark from the top of the lineup.

“The way that our offense creates opportunities to score gives us a chance against anyone,” Healy said.

Michigan has won 16 games in a row against the Badgers and has never lost a game in Madison. Even one victory over Michigan this weekend could be a program-changing victory for Wisconsin “I think it would be huge for our program,” Massey said. “I think we’d get a whole different look from everybody across the country. We’d be talked about for sure.”

First pitch of game one in the weekend series with Michigan will be Saturday at noon at Goodman Diamond. The second game will be Sunday at 3 p.m.

Baseball has the whole issue down as best as a professional organization can. Rather than going down the NFL path, high school players have a choice: Enter the draft if you are ready or go to college and stay three years.

However, baseball is different. Not a single one of those high school players entering the draft is doing so with the expectation that they would be making their major league debut in the near future. Even the highly-touted Bryce Harper remains in Class A ball nearly a year after being selected.

The reason baseball can effectively take in standout high school players is because they have a wellorganized player development system. Turning pro is one route offered, but either way players are expected to spend a few years in development, paid or amateur.

This is where the NBDL comes in. If the NBA is going to ensure that high school players are ready when they hit the big leagues, they need to make the NBDL a viable option for the young stars. So here’s the solution I propose: Introduce the same policy as baseball has in place: You can leave out of high school or choose to go to college and commit to three years.

However, there is a catch: You are not eligible for an NBA roster until the age of 19. That does not mean that you cannot be drafted and cannot sign an NBA contract out of high school, but you cannot be on the active roster of an NBA team until your 19th birthday.

This would allow high school stars to get the signing bonuses they are looking for but still require them to work their way up. Plus, many players would turn 19 during the year, at which point they would be eligible to come off their NBDL club and be placed on the active NBA roster.

Even if their time in the NBDL is only a few weeks, the humbling nature of playing basketball for the pure love of the game would be an invaluable experience in player development, both on and off the court.

Experiencing the NBDL even for a brief period would greatly improve the transition from high school to the pros.

For example, Lebron would only have had to spend two months in the NBDL before he would have been eligible for call-up. He turned 19 on Dec. 30 and under this rule, he and others could suit up that night.

But imagine the impact those two

the past few months.

More importantly, Stave put in,debatably the best performance of any quarterback Saturday.

The 6'-5" Stave went 8-for-15, passing for 77 yards, including an 18-yard strike.

And while Stave might not yet be ready mentally or physically to take over a Wisconsin team by September, a lot can happen over the summer and into fall camp. If nothing else, with Phillips’ newest injury and his performance in the Spring Game, Stave has at least been pushed into quiet conversation.

Time will only tell if conversation turns into contention.

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months could have. Instead of suddenly being thrust from poverty (excluding the escalade) into immense wealth, he would have been taken care of with a generous signing bonus and then sent packing for Erie, Penn., for two months of playing in old, tight, empty arenas and traveling from city to city on buses.

Instead of hitting the hottest clubs of New York City, they could spend their free time looking for a 24-hour Perkins.

This is what baseball provides for its draft picks: A taste of the real world.

That is why baseball has it right.

College is not always the right place to get this type of real world education. The way that college basketball has evolved­—the presence of AAU coaches willing to deal their players out to schools is not only damaging to the integrity of the college game, but also proof that college is not the place to learn how to be a professional athlete.

The best place to learn how to be a professional athlete is in a minor league. By giving these guys an appreciation of what it is like to struggle toward your dreams, they will enter the NBA on a much more level footing.

Furthermore, the NBDL might actually give some of these players a chance to identify and correct their weaknesses before they are subject to the scrutiny of NBA life.

I think it is pretty clear that any gains in terms of talent for the college game are more than canceled out by the loss of integrity. There is nothing worse than watching a team like Kentucky or UCONN cut down the nets and go to a Final Four while knowing that in all likelihood at least one of them will have to tear the banner down just as soon as it goes up.

NCAA violations used to be an anomaly and now they are unfortunately getting close to everyday occurrences.

I would gladly take away the joys of watching Derrick Rose and OJ Mayo in college if I could have a game with integrity. That isn’t to say those guys are responsible, just that they didn’t belong in college. OJ Mayo is another story, but Derrick Rose has turned out to be a great player and more importantly a great person.

This system would be better for the college game, for the NBA, and most importantly, for the players involved. Lets put aside the status quo and work toward the genuine betterment of the sport.

Is the NBDL the right solution for the NCAA’s problems? Let Max know at max.sternberg@yahoo.com.

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Badgers look to take down mighty Michigan at home

By Adam Tupitza the daily cardinal

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s much as Kentucky Head Coach John Calipari hates to hear it, there is a growing consensus among the college basketball community that something needs to be done to get rid of the “one and done.” In fact, if the NCAA had the power to do anything about the matter, it would have been resolved long ago.

The problem is that it’s the NBA’s decision.

It is their policy change—the 2005 addition of a 19-year-old age requirement—that led to the creation of the “one and done.” While on one hand this rule has brought an influx of talent into college basketball, it has had disastrous effects for the integrity of the sport at the collegiate level as a bastion of amateur athletics.

But ultimately it’s still the NBA’s decision and there is no way they will follow in the NFL’s footsteps and keep their future stars in college for at least three years. Just imagine this: If a three-year rule had been in place, Derrick Rose would have played his rookie season this year, as would have Kevin Love and OJ Mayo.

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Another knee injury will sideline junior Curt Phillips again for the 2011 season.

Setback and Surprise As Curt Phillips exits quarterback race, one freshman enters the conversation.

By Mark Bennett the daily cardinal

The best place to learn how to be a professional athlete is in a minor league.

Oh, and Lebron James would have just finished up his rookie contract.

The financial consequences for the NBA of losing their young stars to the college game outweigh any potential benefits.

But the sensible solution is actually sitting right in front of our eyes: The NBA Development League (NBDL). Currently the NBDL allows 18-year-olds to play. But the fact that the draft is only open to those 19 and up means that a high school player choosing that route would have to sign an NBDL contract— probably worth less than the food stipend afforded by a college scholarship. Its not a viable choice and the fact that it is used in defense of the current rule is unfair to the debate.

But the NBDL does have a role in this.

Things change quickly—in life, and in football.

Two weeks ago, Curt Phillips was making a steady recovery following a November ACL injury, his second such setback suffered in a year. He was still somewhat of a long shot to grab the starting quarterback position for the Badgers this season, but was healing faster than expected.

Last Thursday, head coach Bret Bielema announced Phillips would undergo a somewhat minor knee procedure—this time to “clean some things up.”

“It shouldn’t be anything major, hopefully,” Bielema said at the time. “Curt’s a pretty tough kid and as soon as he can go, he’ll go.”

Following the team’s annual Spring Game Saturday, Bielema announced Phillips will not

be going for at least another year. The surgery, as described by Bielema, did not go the way the team had expected and an additional procedure will be necessary in the near future.

This latest setback will put Phillips out of play for the 2011 season, and after having used one red shirt season already, the junior will be forced to apply for a potential sixth season of eligibility.

A highly touted quarterback out of high school who was Tennessee Gatorade Player of the Year his senior season, Phillips faces a murky future with Wisconsin. The only thing certain now is that Phillips will not be under center for the Badgers this fall.

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Former Wisconsin defensive end J.J. Watt was selected 11th overall by the Houston Texans in the NFL Draft Thursday, while offensive lineman Gabe Carimi went 29th to the Chicago Bears. See full story online at dailycardinal.com/sports.

The Wisconsin softball team secured a huge road doubleheader sweep over Iowa Wednesday, and the Badgers return home for another tough test with No. 2 Michigan this weekend.

Wisconsin (6-8 Big Ten, 26-19 overall) opened some eyes around the Big Ten with the sweep of Iowa, who was previously unbeaten at home this year.

“I think we’re in the back of everybody’s mind,” sophomore infielder Whitney Massey said. “If they get a lead, they know that we can very well possibly come back like we’ve done all season.”

The Badgers have been successful when trailing this season. Both of the victories against Iowa were comeback victories, and the team has racked up a total of 14 comeback wins this season. Just one more comefrom-behind victory this season would give this year’s team the school record for comeback wins in a season.

“You just don’t feel like you’re ever out of a game, so I’m really proud of that tenacity,” head coach Yvette Healy said.

With a high-powered Michigan (10-2, 42-4) offense coming into town this weekend, the Badgers may again have to dig deep. The Wolverines have three sluggers with 10 or more home runs this season and five players with a batting average of .300 or higher. Michigan junior Amanda Chidester has had an especially strong season at the dish, hitting for a .399 average and 10 homers on the year.

Wisconsin will need great pitching this weekend out of the freshman duo of Amanda Najdek and Cassandra Darrah.

Both pitchers recorded wins in Iowa City and have had solid seasons in their first year as Badgers.

“I’ve been hitting my spots, running my lanes and trusting my defense,” Najdek said.

It will be up to the Badger hitters to keep the game close, but the Wolverines also have two solid pitchers in Jordan Taylor and Stephanie Speierman. The senior Taylor is 21-3 on the year with a 1.49 ERA while Speierman, a sophomore, is 18-1 with a 1.78 ERA. The Badger offense has been sparked by the return of freshman outfielder Mary Massei, who has hit for a .458 average and two home runs in seven games since returning from an injury. Massei had a three-run

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