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The Daily Cardinal celebrates 120 years By Alex DiTullio The Daily Cardinal
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Members of the “Shadid Brigade” toast at The Daily Cardinal’s 120th anniversary gala Saturday night at the Orpheum Theater.
One hundred-twenty years of printing a daily newspaper has generated thousands of loyal writers, contributors and editors for The Daily Cardinal. That loyalty showed strong last weekend as nearly 250 alumni returned to their journalistic roots in Madison for the newspaper’s 120th anniversary celebration. Events included a photography exhibit of the Cardinal’s past and present, panelist discussions from Emmy award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Cardinal alumni, a Daily Cardinal office open house and an anniversary gala. Founded in 1892, The Daily Cardinal has seen war, the Great Depression and a shut down in 1995. According to Editor in Chief Kayla Johnson, the weekend helped bond current staff and alumni who have one thing in common: resilience. “The weekend was really
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Shadid’s death reunites former Cardinal colleagues I n the sea of Daily Cardinal alumni who gathered in Madison for the newspaper’s 120th anniversary last weekend, a small group of two dozen, reconnected by hope, comforted each other in a time of tragedy. A group of approximately 50 alumni created the “Shadid Brigade” on Facebook last spring, after their friend, former Cardinal colleague and The New York Times Foreign Correspondent Anthony Shadid was kidnapped in Libya. But tragedy soon struck when Shadid passed away in February from an asthma attack in Syria. During the weekend, alumni introduced an Anthony Shadid scholarship as a fund for his family and a potential future scholarship for students interested in becoming foreign correspondents. The scholarship is spearheaded by the brigade and the
UW-Madison School of Journalism. Brigade Member and Assistant Wisconsin State Journal City Editor Mark Pitsch said the 120th anniversary was the first time any of the members had reunited in person since working at The Daily Cardinal in the late 1980s. “We were holding hands,” he said, reflecting on being with the group as they watched a video tribute to Shadid. “Some of us were crying. We had our arms around each other.” But despite the tragedy, Pitsch said it was “easy” and “comfortable” to reconnect with the friends who he said came to feel like family. “Anthony’s death has sort of brought us back together [and] it’s nice to be able to do that,” he said. —Alex DiTullio
SSFC reps. challenge MCSC funding decision After months of debate, student council made the final ruling to fund the Multicultural Student Coalition. But now, members of the Student Services Finance Committee are asking the Student Judiciary to deem the decision invalid. In their complaint, the representatives said some student council members had “clear biases” in favor of MCSC and took the group’s point of view into account when ruling, violating “viewpoint neutrality.” The complaint alleged ASM Chair Allie Gardner and other student council representatives expressed support for the group’s funding prior to the decision being brought to student council because they are friends with
MCSC members. But Gardner said SSFC representatives are also friends with members of other student groups funded through student fees, and as long as both rule objectively, viewpoint neutrality is upheld. The complaint also said any student council member who ruled that MCSC did not intentionally violate university policy by allegedly sidestepping contracting policies to hire an alumni trainer was either “grossly negligent in considering the evidence” or found the violation unintentional “for the sole purpose of funding the group.” SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart
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MCSC sends ASM apology Members of the Multicultural Student Coalition sent a letter to the Associated Students of Madison, apologizing for profane remarks one member of the group made toward a student council representative at Wednesday’s meeting. One member of the group swore at ASM Rep. Maria Giannopoulos after she asked a question at the meeting.
In the letter, MCSC said members of student council were also disrespectful throughout the eligibility discussion, citing an incident where one representative gave ASM Chair Allie Gardner the middle finger during the session. “This entire process has exposed areas of development in all parties involved, and regardless of the past, MCSC will work hard moving forward to improve in all areas,” the letter said.
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Blue chairs appeared at the Memorial Union Terrace Sunday. The chairs will be sold for $1,000 each to raise funds for the Memorial Union renovation project.
Blue union chairs to raise funds While terrace chairs in their usual colors are a sign of spring, the blue chairs that appeared at Memorial Union yesterday are a sign of ongoing fundraising for renovations to the building. The new “Mendota Blue” terrace chairs are part of a fundraiser to raise money for the union renovation project, which begins this summer. Donors who give $1,000 to the project will receive one of the blue terrace chairs, with incentives for smaller donations as well. The Mendota Blue campaign hopes placing the blue terrace chairs in the public view will pub-
licize the cause. Memorial Union Project Coordinator Jacklyn John said its goal is to raise $500,000 by the end of July, when the novel chairs will leave the terrace. But critics of the renovation project, such as Save the Terrace, say the project could have reduced its need for student segregated fees if it began fundraising when the 2006 referendum approved the project. While Student Council Rep Cale Plamann applauded the campaign’s potential to offset renovation costs, he too said he wished the Mendota Blue Movement began fundraising earlier.
“One of my largest criticisms of them is that they have been shoveling off on students the money that should have been coming from fundraising,” Plamann said. But according to John, fundraising has been going on for years, generating $5 million. Still, John said she understands why people would not be aware of previous fundraising efforts, since they have been private. “I think that’s just misinformation that hopefully we’ll be able to clear up by launching the public campaign,” she said. —Meghan Chua
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or those of you who read my column on a weekly basis (and I thank all three of you kindly), you may recall my voicing a passionate disdain for physical activity. To directly quote my eloquent self, “Exercising sucks balls. Jogging is for masochists and people who hate themselves.” I am unsure of what this says about me—whether I suffer from self-esteem issues or have simply undergone a change of heart—but this weekend I took part in Madison’s annual Crazylegs Classic. The five-mile race was going to be tough for a number of reasons. The first: I am by no means a runner, and while I have made a point over the last two months to spend more early mornings jogging around town, I have yet to reach the point where running feels effortless, let alone enjoyable, though I am unsure that second possibility exists. Additionally, I woke up on Saturday with a sore throat and stuffy nose. An obnoxiously clingy bug has been making its way around the Cardinal office since the editorial staff ’s return from spring break, and
apparently the morning of my first race was when it decided to slap me across the face. Still, I had paid $35 to essentially get in my day’s workout, so I was not going to let what little money I have go to waste. Having said that, I had a hard time reconciling with the fact that my dollars were not going toward some noble effort like cancer research or hunger relief, but instead the UW Athletic Department. Seriously? Of all the corners of campus, I have to assume the one that has the easiest time getting its hands on some cash is the athletic department. I tried not to dwell on this unfortunate reality for too long. Motivating myself to run five miles was already hard. Motivating myself to run five miles for the benefit of a department whose director publicly doubted the claims of a sexual assault victim was even harder. My friends and I made our way up to the Capitol just before the race’s 10 a.m. start. It was there we learned the worst part of Crazylegs was not the running: It was waiting around for the damn thing to start. As you likely noticed, Madison was cold and rainy on Saturday. While those dreary weather conditions are less than ideal for running five miles, they are even less ideal for waiting in anticipation of running five miles. You know
your circumstances are bad when running five miles seems preferable to standing around. While we joined our heat at 10, we would not hear the words “Your Crazylegs starts now!” until 10:45. When we finally were put in motion, things seemed to be going well. Robyn was singing me on, my friend and fellow runner was setting a doable but challenging pace and running up Observatory did not result in my immediate collapse— always a plus.
It took everything I had not to throw my hands up and proclaim, ‘Forget this. I’m making myself some cocoa!’ But then there was the halfway point. As Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger” blasted through my earbuds, I felt what I assumed was a raindrop of especially noteworthy girth fall onto my sweatshirt sleeve. I looked down to check, and found that it was not water than had fallen from the sky, but feces. Literally, I cannot make
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this shit up. A bird decided while hovering right above me that now was the opportune moment to relieve itself. Perhaps I was drawing too much attention with my bright yellow sweatshirt, but the droppings actually managed to distract me from what a miserable time running is, and for that I am truly grateful. As the markers for miles three and four passed by, the finish line somehow felt further and further away. As I ran past my apartment in the final mile, it took everything I had not to throw my hands up and proclaim, “Forget this. I’m making myself some cocoa!” Still, as I crossed the finish line and felt the Camp Randall grass beneath my feet, my senior nostalgia overrode any type of exhaustion I could muster. It was one more accomplishment I had made throughout my college career, likely one of the last ones I will have. I have yet to fully sway from my position that jogging is the brainchild of Satan, but when you come in 7,612th place, you have to be at least a little proud of yourself. Congratulate Jacqueline on completing Crazylegs by e-mailing her at jgoreilly@dailycardinal. com. Her last column will run in the Cardinal’s final edition of the semester, which will be on newsstands next Thursday, May 10.
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Rally against rape held By Dina Levy of the Cardinal staff
Approximately 175 people gathered at the Capitol Saturday afternoon for a rally and march for “a world against rape,” that members of the Midwest regional chapter of the National Organization for Women, who were in town for their regional conference, attended. In an address to the crowd, Karen Johnson, the regional director of NOW, applauded Men Stopping Rape, which sponsored the rally, for their work. Another member of NOW said they wanted to show respect to the men for their actions. Geared toward changing men’s attitudes toward rape, many of the rally’s speakers expressed their thanks for the women’s support. At the rally, various speakers discussed the goals of the organization, which include increasing community aware-
ness of rape and sexual assault, and expressed hope for change. Issues included coping not only with rape, but with sexual harassment of both men and women. Several speakers also referred positively to the changing attitudes of people, and condemned Gov. Tommy Thompson for vetoing a sexual assault education bill. As bystanders looked on, the group marched, chanting, “No more date rape.” Upon returning to the Capitol, the organizers handed out candles and settled in a circle for the speak-out in which female and male survivors of rape and sexual assault shared their experiences, some shedding tears. Sam Day, a long-time Madison civil rights activist, who attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said things are in fact changing. He added that when he was a student at the UW, rape and sexual harassment were accepted, and not
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Over 150 people march down State Street in Saturday’s rally sponsored by Men Stopping Rape. uncommon between professors and students who wanted “to make the grade.” As the end of the march, par-
ticipants stood in a circle, holding hands, and ending with the line, “We are 50 people working and living to end rape.”
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Barrett, Falk release fundraising numbers By Tyler Nickerson The Daily Cardinal
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The city decided Friday Occupy Madison members can stay at the East Washington Avenue site until 4 p.m. on April 30.
Occupy Madison group files lawsuit against city By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal
As the Occupy Madison eviction date approaches for its East Washington Avenue encampment, tension between the group and the city of Madison rose Friday as lawyers filed a lawsuit asking the city to allow Occupy to stay. The lawsuit could prevent the city from closing down the Occupy camp and evicting its current residents, according to Occupy supporter Allen Barkoff. The city agreed to let members of Occupy stay on the site until 4 p.m. Monday, in addition to allowing larger structures to remain until Wednesday, according to UW-Madison sophomore and Occupy supporter Noah Phillips. In their initial agreement with the city, Occupy members agreed to leave 802 E. Washington Ave. by April 30. On April 17, the city council denied granting a two-month extension to Occupy’s permit, and Mayor Paul Soglin previously said there is “no reason” not to follow through with plans to shut down the site. The current site is also slated for development, which a city’s planning committee will review June 4.
“I really feel very strongly that the city should be working with the people at Occupy to find a site that isn’t going to be developed,” Barkoff said. While Occupy Madison began as a political movement, the national protest’s local outpost has evolved into a community for the city’s homeless. “Homelessness is invisible everywhere, and that’s really convenient for the powers that be,” Phillips said. “All we want, all the people want, is a place to be and a place to take care of themselves. That’s not too much to ask.” Without this encampment, many Occupy residents will be forced to find another place to stay, which has the same effect as a “death sentence,” according to the motion printed in a Wisconsin State Journal article, which was written by Occupy members and lawyers working pro bono. “This is a serious consequence for persons who have a permanent residence, but it is even more significant for a homeless person, all of whose belongings may be on site, and may be literally essential to the person’s survival in the absence of a permanent residence,” the motion states.
With only nine days until the Democratic primary for the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker, leading candidates Tom Barrett and Kathleen Falk released their campaign finance figures Friday, showing Falk has raised $250,000 more since announcing her candidacy. Milwaukee Mayor Barrett raised $750,000 in just 28 days of official campaigning, while former Dane County Executive Falk raised about $1 million since she entered the race Jan. 18. Barrett for Wisconsin Communications Director Phil Walzak said in a statement Friday that 99 percent of the contributions are from individual donors who live within the state. “In a little more than three weeks, thousands of people, the vast majority from Wisconsin, have rallied around Tom Barrett’s vision of bringing our state together, focusing on jobs instead of ideology, and ending the political turmoil caused by Scott Walker’s partisan warfare,” said Walzak. Barrett had about $500,000 on hand when he entered the race, giving his campaign a total of about $1.25 million.
complaint from page 1 said the alleged violations illustrate that student council is uninformed on how to properly make viewpoint neutral decisions. “I think that this holistic lack
unions throughout the state, including Wisconsin State AFLCIO, the state’s largest teachers’ union WEAC and Emily’s List. In an effort to give Falk a boost going into the primary, Wisconsin For Falk, an independent, unionbacked group announced last week it would spend an additional $1 million on advertisements leading up to the May 8 election. The same group has already spent over $2 million throughout the primary season for Falk. Official campaign finance reports are due Monday.
Walker gets boost from ads he state’s largest business lobby T will spend $2 million on advertising to support embattled Gov. Scott Walker in the June 5 recall election.
negative attack” on Barrett’s record as Milwaukee mayor.
According to its website, the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce represents business interests of large and small manufacturers, service companies, local chambers of commerce and specialized trade associations throughout the state.
“This is a clear indication that Scott Walker and his right-wing allies are trying to prevent Tom Barrett from winning the Democratic primary, because they know he’s the candidate that will beat Scott Walker on June 5th,” said Barrett for Wisconsin Communications Director Phil Walzak in a statement Friday.
But leading Democratic candidate Tom Barrett’s campaign said the ads are a “false,
Walker will campaign in Milwaukee and Green Bay Tuesday with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
of knowledge of student council members is really detrimental for ASM,” Neibart said. But Gardner said although the eligibility process was inherently different in student council than in SSFC, representatives ruled in a viewpoint
neutral manner. “They’re trying to charge people with viewpoint neutrality violations, which is a really serious charge, and I think it’s being thrown around a little bit carelessly,” Gardner said. —Anna Duffin
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Police arrest Madison man for graffiti
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A Madison man admitted Wednesday morning to defacing four buildings with obscenities in orange and hot pink spray paint near Mifflin and East Dayton streets. Madison police arrested 20-year-old Paul Jones after he spray painted profanities on a home on the 900 block of East Mifflin Street, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain. Police said officers were able to identify Jones by his cell phone the East Mifflin Street resident found and turned in
about bringing together the past and present of the Cardinal and celebrating our triumphs and the fact that not only have we not gone under in the face of serious difficulties, we flourished,” Johnson said. Daily Cardinal Alumni Association President Tony Sansone said alumni continue to be involved with the Cardinal because they remember how the newspaper affected their college experience. “Working at the Cardinal has a powerful effect on somebody,” Sansone said. “The ability to learn and to discover new things
to police. After denying the charges, he eventually admitted to the property damage on East Mifflin Street, according to DeSpain. Police said Jones also admitted to spray painting a stone wall at Breese Stevens stadium, a home on the 800 block of East Dayton Street and a large warehouse building on the corner of Livingston and East Dayton streets. Although police arrested Jones, he was cited and released for damaging property, according to DeSpain.
A poll released by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling earlier this month shows Barrett has the support of 38 percent of likely primary voters compared to 24 percent for Falk. The other candidates in the race, state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, and Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette, lag far behind Barrett and Falk. But Falk has raised more money than Barrett since declaring candidacy and has received endorsements from influential
… and to have the opportunity to try without somebody hanging over your shoulder telling you whether it’s right or wrong is fairly powerful.” Cardinal alum and Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Abigail Goldman is a living example of this “powerful effect.” She does not credit her reporting skills to the Columbia School of Journalism or the LA Times city desk, but to the Cardinal. “There is something about the Cardinal, and it’s tradition,” Goldman said. “It’s tradition of muckraking, it’s tradition of not taking things at face value,
it’s tradition of questioning authority that are so particularly appropriate for the kind of journalism that I ended up doing and the kind of journalism I still love.” While the current staff spends countless hours in the office each week, Johnson said it was incredible for them to see journalists, such as Goldman, exhibit ongoing dedication to the paper. “When all these people are coming back, you see that you are part of some sort of … tradition, some sort of fraternity of brothers and sisters that are equally committed to this newspaper,” she said.
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he movie theater is an odd, unique place if you think about it, a remnant of a bygone era. Not just in the way they get us out of our house to take in a form of entertainment that could be readily consumed in the privacy and comfort of our own abode, but in the way that they are one of the last places where we willingly and voluntarily rest so much of our enjoyment upon the social courtesy of those around us. In the words of Scarlett O’Hara, it’s a matter of relying “upon the kindness of strangers.” At a Badger football game, or any sporting even for that matter, a rowdy fan bellowing his support is rarely considered a nuisance and usually seen as contributing to the passionate game-day atmosphere. Even fans around you in the stands talking to each other about biology class TAs, post-game party plans or really any subjects other than the contest at hand, are hardly con-
sidered rude or disruptive. And attendees tapping out texts on their cell phones probably aren’t even considered anything at all—who would notice such a subtle act under the blazing afternoon sun and amidst the roar of the arena. But in the dark tranquility of the movie theater these actions take on completely different consequences and perceptions. In his quintessential work “Leviathan” political philosopher Thomas Hobbes set out his concept of the social contract between humans that serves as the bedrock for society. The general idea is that humans all tacitly agree, or have been born into the agreement, to give away some of our freedoms in order to rise out of the unpleasant state of nature and gain some sense of comfort, peace and safety. And the movie theater is the perfect manifestation of just such a modern day social contract. When you walk into a theater you are agreeing to act a certain way and refrain from certain behaviors—in other words, to give up some of your freedoms—with the unspoken agreement that everyone else will do the same, for the utilitarian goal of maximizing everyone’s enjoy-
ment of the film. But it turns out that when Baby Boomers and Gen Xers and Millennials intermingle in these darkened melting pots, they are all bringing with them different versions of just what our movie theater social contract should be. At CinemaCon in Las Vegas last week, a panel of theater chain executives spoke about their business and touched on an interesting topic, one that they did not all agree on: cellphones. Amy Miles, CEO of the Regal theater chain, said her company is “trying to figure out if there’s something you can offer in the theater that I would not find appealing but my 18-year-old son might.” And by that she means openly condoning texting, web surfing, and otherwise engaging with your cell phone rather than with the movie on screen. Greg Foster of IMAX related, saying his teenage son “constantly has his phone with him.” He continued, “We want them to pay $12 to $14 to come into an auditorium and watch a movie. But they’ve become accustomed to controlling their own existence.” Foster concluded that strictly enforcing a ban on cell phone use may make kids “feel a little handcuffed.” The implication here being that if kids feel at
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all restricted by a trip to the movies, they simply won’t come. But perhaps that’s just because they don’t understand the functioning of the movie theater social contract, or maybe they haven’t experienced the benefits it does offer. Thankfully there remains at least one guardian bent on keeping the noise and light from cell phones out of the movies—the Alamo Drafthouse. The theater chain, centered in Austin, would best be described as outright militant against cellphone usage along with any other uncouth distraction. Before each movie they play one of at least two dozen humorous, but quite serious, warnings against texting or talking, almost all of which include the phrase “or we’ll throw your ass out.” And they are not kidding. Several of their PSAs feature recorded phone calls with real (and unbelievably self-entitled and obnoxious) patrons who have called to complain about being ejected from the theater for various crimes against the cinematic space. And let me tell you, having visited these theaters at least a dozen times during my tenure at the South By Southwest Film Festival this year, I have never
experienced better movie theater audiences anywhere. At the panel, Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse responded to the musings of his peers by proclaiming, “Over my dead body will I introduce texting into the movie theater. I love the idea of playing around with a new concept. But that is the scourge of our industry… It’s our job to understand that this is a sacred space and we have to teach manners.” And I guess that’s true. If neither their parents nor their peers are willing to teach kids how to respect the movie theater—both the work of art being performed before them and patrons around them—then it might as well fall to the movie theaters. While the fear of alienating swaths of texting-addicted teens with $14 burning holes in their pockets may tantalize theater chains into caving and putting up with such distractions, they will only be digging their own grave as serious fans starting getting fed up and such teens realize they aren’t actually watching the movie anyway and everyone stops showing up. R U like “OMG I cn’t watch a movie w/o txting”? E-mail David at dcottrell@wisc.edu.
Bo down: Burnham to perform at the Majestic Theatre By Michael Penn II The Daily Cardinal
Adolf Hitler was a dictator-tot. Jesus hates you for masturbating. We can fix Africa through laughter. By this point, you are either laughing or nodding disapprovingly at the comedic styling of 21-year-old Robert Burnham. Known affectionately to the world as “Burnham”, he singlehandedly placed the world of comedy into a chokehold from his bedroom piano five years ago. Equipped with a tie-dye T-shirt, a happy disposition and a post-Catholic-school allure that would make any humor-seeker uncomfortable, Burnham has transitioned from viral video phenomenon to beloved comedian for his well-tuned satire. “There are parts that don’t feel like 21,” Burnham said. “There are parts that just don’t feel real, I don’t know what age it is. Getting on stage and performing weird songs for people or telling dick jokes doesn’t really feel like any age… I feel like a kid.” His early foray into the Internet was no surprise or stroke of luck; Burnham was heavily involved in the theatre and campus ministry of his high school. He was accepted to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2008, but deferred his admission for a year. After graduating high school, he went on tour to the revere of critics and audiences alike. Extrapolate to the end of this semester, and Burnham may very well have been graduating from NYU this year if he didn’t defer. Would he have been the loveable figure we know him as today? “I was studying experimental theatre, so I don’t know,” Burnham said. “I don’t know if I would’ve made it there, gotten antsy there or not. I have no idea if I hadn’t deferred. I never could’ve predicted this, so I don’t think I could predict the other side either.” Burnham’s lyrics have the capacity to offend and appease listeners in the same breath. He was noted
early on in his career for his shocking-yet-smug content that was scathing enough to raise eyebrows, yet clever enough to keep listeners engaged. In a media landscape where shock value reigns supreme, Burnham sees no problem in such a rebellious nature in entertainment. “I think entertainment is pretty cyclical and people get bored of it pretty soon,” Burnham said. “A change of pace is always important, for someone to challenge the status quo. And if that means young kids yelling obscene things to challenge our ideas about language, that’s important.” “And it might be something sweet and gentle that challenges that,” Burnham said. “And then people are like ‘Oh wait, there’s this part of me that I like being stimulated.’ It’s exciting to bounce around world views as long as you keep moving.” Though he does not consider himself a hip-hop artist, Burnham is revered for his lyrical ability. His uncanny wordplay and fine-tuned melodies can pit him against 95% of hip-hop artists today. But in a world where a white rapper is pigeonholed into a snapback or thickrimmed black glasses to be successful, Burnham wants no place in the scene of frat rap and suburb-hop. “I think the problem is when white kids try to make a rap career and are engaging a culture that they have no fucking business engaging,” Burnham said. “Hiphop started as a beautiful thing for a certain subculture to have a voice when they didn’t, and all their imagery that was violent and angry, coming from a reflection of a place that was real and society needed to acknowledge.” “For little old suburban me to come out of the woodwork and imitate that because I think it’s cool is just fucking lame and really dumb.” Burnham said. “I can rap about the things that are true about me, but
to engage the hip-hop scene as a hip-hop artist doesn’t feel genuine to me. I don’t want to ever imitate the aesthetic of a background that I didn’t come from just to be cool. I think that’s really disrespectful to the people that actually lived it and are trying to tell their stories
through this medium.” Burnham’s rise to success through YouTube has made some detractors quip about his illegitimacy as a comedian. But three albums, two Comedy Central stand-up specials and over 70 million views later, the Catholic-schoolboy-turned-
comedy prodigy has won in all his youthful bliss. At age 21, Burnham reflects on the infancy of his career and what he would say now about his younger self. “I’d say ‘Change your shirt.’ And then I’d say ‘Good luck, you little weirdo.’”
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ver the course of the past several weeks this campus has been witness to many events and media pieces addressing the topic of sexual assault. The conversation about this pervasive problem has been constructive and enlightening, and it would be a shame to see this open kind of discussion go away once the issue is out of the limelight. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but dedicating one month to sex-
ual assault is not enough to mitigate the problem, and this campus needs to find a way to keep the conversation going year round. Local and student organizations like Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment have done an amazing job at educating students on sexual assault, but that responsibility should not be left entirely up to them. The university has an obligation to address sexual and gendered issues as well, and on a
broader scale than they have thus far. It is for this reason this Editorial Board is in favor of a Gender and Women’s Studies course requirement for all UW-Madison undergraduates. Some time ago, the university decided rightly that a wellrounded education would be incomplete without the study of minority and underrepresented groups and the challenges they face in society. The ethnic studies requirement has certainly not eliminated the problems of discrimination on campus, but it was a proactive step forward in bringing race into the conversation and exposing students to groups and issues they would not have otherwise considered within disciplines they already study. Our hope is that a Gender and Women’s Studies requirement would function in the same way. Like the ethnic studies requirement, we hope that the university will use this as a first step rather than an end in itself. This campus has a wealth of resources for the study of
Monday, April 30 2012 gender and race in society and some of the top scholars on those subjects. It would be a shame to limit that educational experience to a few departments. Each academic department should also take it upon itself to incorporate diverse perspectives into their curriculums when it is possible. The university never fails to react to issues of sexual assault or discrimination on this campus when there is an incident;
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where it lacks is in the prevention of such occurrences from happening in the first place. It may not eliminate these issues in our community, but one course can make the difference in enlightening undergraduates on gendered issues and changing the perspectives of otherwise apathetic students. What do you think of adding a gender and women’s studies requirement? Send feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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Refocus on Wisconsin Idea to boost UW image within state david ruiz opinion columnist
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atherine Walsh is an associate professor of political science at UW-Madison. Since 2007 she has gathered information about how the state perceives the university. Walsh’s research, published in her paper “The Distance from Public Institutions of Higher Education,” has exposed a rift between Wisconsinites and the university and the university’s failure to live up to the high expectations of the Wisconsin idea. By taking an innovative approach to the problems Walsh has highlighted, Wisconsin could join the forefront of the national conversation on how to restructure higher education. When Walsh asked Wisconsinites what the university did not do well, responses were very diverse. Admissions policies, tuition costs, the party-school label and a perceived liberal bias were all mentioned. But when asked what UW-Madison should be doing, many people responded vaguely with little idea of how a state university should be interacting with the state at large. Considering Wisconsin has declared 2011-12 the year of the Wisconsin Idea—which is “the principle that the university should improve people’s lives beyond the classroom”—the fact that most citizens could not suggest how the university should or could serve them shows a failure on UW-Madison’s part. Citizens feel distant from UW-Madison because of a failure to listen and respond to taxpaying communities. Walsh’s data and her conclusions show multiple sides to this disconnect, but I will focus on two: political rhetoric and university policy. In the conclusions section of her report Walsh connects political ideology with how people view UW-Madison but also notes a
solely-political explanation would be deficient. Walsh elaborates on her research in a post on themonkeycage.org, where she paraphrased the beliefs she encountered: “Government employees are lazy. If they do work hard, they get great benefits, so that doesn’t really count as hard work. In other words, they aren’t really like those of us who have struggled to make ends meet, and done so with our hands, ever since we can remember.” This paraphrase could be lifted straight out of a pro-Walker rally. Conservatives have been tapping into feelings of distrust of the public sector in Wisconsin and across the nation. Although this distrust is not exclusively conservative, it is the conservative establishment that has been using these feelings to manipulate discourse. Since Obama’s inauguration and the birth of the tea party, American conservatism has been in a state of flux. Unfortunately the rapidly shifting rhetoric has arguably unfairly targeted certain areas including public universities. If the people of Wisconsin were more familiar with the work that is or could be done to serve their communities the conservative agenda would not be as well-received. UW-Madison needs to act quickly to increase its connections with the state’s population. Walsh suggests UW adopt a model of public relations where listening is crucial, as opposed to focusing on expert knowledge and one-directional communication. Budgetary restraints and red tape will slow down any large institutional response to Walsh’s prodding but UW-Madison must reorient itself now towards an ethos of community involvement. In Walsh’s report the UWExtension system was praised, so I think the first step is expanding UW-Extension’s scope and visibility. Extension programs should be tailored to their communities’ wants and needs, but the extensions should also explicitly connect to Madison. Encouraging professors not only to guest-lecture at
extension campuses but also sit and listen to why people were drawn to that extension in the first place will help link extensions with UW-Madison, and will serve to keep researchers in touch with instate communities. When anyone affiliated with UW ventures into “outstate” Wisconsin—defined by Walsh as areas outside of the Madison and Milwaukee metro areas—they should make a conscious effort to represent UW-Madison as personable and friendly first, then knowledgeable. By doing that, people will be more likely to see UW as a collection of individuals, not as an inaccessible bureaucracy. Long-term changes also need to be enacted. UW must continue Walsh’s research, which will serve two purposes: increasing the data pool and putting people in contact with UW-Madison representatives. Secondly, UW-Madison should establish a statewide program that can quickly highlight needs and enlist academics to address the issues—an academic SWAT team, basically. Whether people want to be more knowledgeable of linear algebra or second-language acquisition, there should be a system where people can enlist help directly from the university. Not only will this vastly better the public opinion of UW-Madison, but will also help foster an attitude of service at UW. By realigning itself with the Wisconsin Idea, UW-Madison could become an example of how public universities deserve their massive budgets. The recent and justified political fixations on debt and government spending will not end until the public sphere has changed. With student debt passing the $1 trillion mark, more Americans consider higher education a risky investment. If UW-Madison can benefit communities across the state it will be able to garner wide appreciation that crosses political and community boundaries. David is a senior majoring in English. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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Today’s Sudoku
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Evil Bird
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Eatin’ Cake Classic
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Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
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Today’s Crossword Puzzle
Crustaches Classic
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R-RIGHT YOU R ACROSS 1 Complete, as a crossword 6 Tinseltown award 11 Decay 14 “In an ___ world …” 15 Knee-high, bearded figure 16 Middle of the “Able... Elba” palindrome 17 It came bob-bobbobbin’ along 19 It helps Tiger Woods drive off 20 Guards in a slammer 21 “The Ten Commandments” role 23 Mischievous spirits 26 Raise in relief 27 Baby’s foot 28 Comparatively neat 30 A friend in need 31 Screen legend Sophia 32 Dining table scrap 35 0, in soccer terms 36 What excessive violence may lead to 38 Country legend David Allan 39 A couple in Mexico? 40 Abates 41 Polar gull relative 42 Form of intolerance 44 Not punctual for 46 Geometric figure with equal angles
8 Steel worker of sorts 4 49 Louisiana backwater 50 More tightly stretched 52 “And all that jazz” 53 Stir the public 58 “Absolutely, Admiral!” 59 Fine-grained sedimentary rock 60 Four-footed fathers 61 Post-nuptial title 62 Dog-___ (well-worn, as pages) 63 A famous one was issued at Nantes DOWN 1 “___ Charles” (Barkley’s nickname) 2 Literature class reading 3 Played the first card 4 A-team 5 Appoints democratically 6 Bedtime story baddies 7 Chilly powder? 8 Corn leftovers 9 “Who ___ to judge?” 10 Attaching a new handle to 11 Auxiliary engine in space 12 Best-selling cookies 13 Winter temps, perhaps
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1 8 Squirrel’s nest 22 “Fish” star Vigoda 23 Concessionaire’s place 24 Salk foe 25 Some very high-end automobiles 26 Where the snake lost its legs 28 Carved pole emblem 29 Writer Murdoch 31 Scottish girl 33 A deliveryman may have one 34 “Coffee, ___ Me” (1973) 36 Contingency plan 37 Wet forecast 41 Banned body builder 43 “Star Wars” prologue word 44 Adspeak for “less caloric” 45 ___ to (not in favor of) 46 Construction girder 47 Goat-legged deity 48 Having parallel lines, as paper 50 Alternative to a chairlift 51 “... ___ to leap tall buildings” 54 “Caught ya!” 55 The mysterious Mr. Geller 56 Triple ___ (liqueur variety) 57 “To the max” suffix
Washington and the Bear
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Softball
Badgers fall one spot in Big Ten with series loss By Ryan Hill the daily cardinal
Despite earning its schoolrecord 12th Big Ten win of the season, the Wisconsin Badgers softball team (12-6 Big Ten, 30-15 overall) fell to the second-place Purdue Boilermakers (12-5 Big Ten, 30-17 overall) in a crucial series that carried a lot of weight in the Big Ten standings this past weekend. The Badgers fell 7-2 in the first game on Saturday and won the second 7-1 while losing 6-5 Sunday afternoon. Wisconsin now find itself in a tie for fourth place in the Big Ten, sharing the spot with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Michigan holds the top spot with a 13-5 record, while Nebraska and the Boilermakers are a half game back. The Badgers uncharacteristically committed six errors in the losses that unsurprisingly played a big part in the outcome.
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The Badgers committed six errors in the series, ultimately leading to their two losses. Sophomore pitcher Amanda Najdek (right) was also needed for early relief in game one Saturday. Wisconsin tied the game twice late Sunday, but sophomore pitcher Cassandra Darrah failed to shut things down. The Badgers knotted things up at three runs apiece in the fourth but surrendered two runs in the bottom of the frame. Wisconsin answered right back in the fifth with
two more runs off Purdue senior pitcher Katie Hackney but let up the game-winning run in the bottom of the sixth from Purdue junior designated player Erika Petruzzi’s double to left. Darrah pitched her 20th complete game of the season and sur-
rendered seven hits in six innings. She struck out four Boilermakers, walked three and gave up six runs (four earned). The loss puts her record at 20-9 on the season. Leading the way offensively for the Badgers Sunday were sophomore first basemen Michelle Mueller and junior leftfielder Kendall Grimm. Mueller went 2-for-3 with an RBI while Grimm went 2-for-4 with a pair of runs. It didn’t take the Boilermakers long to figure out Darrah in game one Saturday, as they roughed her up for four runs (two earned), on five hits in just 2 1/3 innings. Sophomore pitcher Amanda Najdek relieved her and went 3 2/3 innings, giving up six hits and three earned runs. She struck out three. Purdue centerfielder Lindsey Rains did most of the damage against the Badgers Saturday, going a perfect 3-for-3 with a run and two RBI in game one. Junior sec-
ond baseman Whitney Massey and junior catcher Maggie Strange were the two Badgers with multiple hits in the first game. The Badgers put their potent offense on display in the nightcap Saturday against Hackney, as the Badgers chased her out of the circle after 4 1/3 innings. The Badgers collected seven hits and scored five runs (four earned) against Hackney, who is 5-3 on the season. Darrah got much more help from her defense in this game, as the Badgers committed only one error. She went 6 2/3 innings and struck out six. Sophomore rightfielder Mary Massei and junior third baseman Shannel Blackshear paced the Badgers at the plate in the second game Saturday. Massei was 2-for-3 with a pair of runs and Blackshear went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run. UWBadgers.com contributed to this report.
Football
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The second-team defense had a strong game against the firstteam offense Saturday despite giving up a pair of touchdowns.
Spring Game showcases impressive defensive corps By Vince Huth the daily cardinal
Most of the headlines from Saturday’s spring game will go to redshirt freshman running back Melvin Gordon, but a Wisconsin defense without redshirt junior linebacker Chris Borland and redshirt senior linebacker Mike Taylor, was equally impressive. The Badgers’ number-one defense gave up just four first downs in eight possessions to the number-two offense quarterbacked by redshirt sophomore Joe Brennan. The defensive line was especially dominant, led by redshirt senior lineman Brendan Kelly and junior lineman Beau Allen. Kelly said he has been impressed with Allen’s improved ability to penetrate into the backfield, pointing to his size and strength as clear contributors. “Beau Allen has a presence about him, as you can probably see—he’s one of the bigger kids,” Kelly said. “You look at that dude’s lower body, it’s the size of my whole body. One of his calves is like my thigh.” While Wisconsin’s number-two defense gave up two touchdowns to the number-one offense, there were certainly some bright spots: Namely, the performance of redshirt freshman linebacker Jake Keefer. Whether it was stopping ball carriers in the backfield or holding them to short gains, the
Woodville, Wis., native was in on a number of plays Saturday. “It’s just sticking to everything we’ve been coached throughout the spring,” Keefer said. “Big thing playing linebacker is if you see a hole, you got to hit it.” Head coach Bret Bielema also offered an easy explanation for Keefer’s success. “He runs, he hits,” Bielema said. “He goes harder than most people go and has an opportunity to make more plays.” Kelly was not surprised by Keefer’s play, noting the redshirt freshman has the work ethic and desire necessary to be a young contributor to Wisconsin’s defense. “We heard about that kid in high school coming in—he was a hardworking kid from Wisconsin,” Kelly said. “Had a dream to be a Badger, so you can never doubt kids like that. They’ve got all the things in the world pointing them to have success here.” Wisconsin’s linebacker corps is perhaps the team’s most experienced unit, and Keefer ultimately hopes to crack the rotation. “Spring is cool—You get to learn a lot of things and it’s fun to play with the guys, but fall is when it matters,” he said. “We’ve got to win some games, and I really want to be a part of that.” Saturday was a step in the right direction.
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Offense yields mixed results Saturday By Matt Masterson the daily cardinal
Redshirt freshman running back Melvin Gordon’s big day propelled team Cardinal to a 21-10 victory over team White in the Wisconsin Badgers’ annual Spring Game. Gordon, who appeared in three games last fall before being redshirted, carried the ball 30 times for 159 yards and a touchdown. While both offenses had their ups and downs on Saturday, Gordon provided a sense of consistency. “Melvin was impressive,” head coach Bret Bielema said. “He almost got stronger as the day went on in my opinion.” Senior running back Montee Ball and junior running back James White sat out of the game, so running back duties fell to Gordon and redshirt sophomore running back Jeffrey Lewis, who had 12 carries for 18 yards. “We knew we were going to have to get them and we took full advantage of them.” Gordon said of his carries. “I didn’t look at it as ‘I got this—James is down, Montee is not going.’ I just looked at it as more reps and more opportunities to get better.” While the running game was strong, the Badgers’ passing game left something to be desired.
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Freshman running back Melvin Gordon is expected to be the third-string running back this Fall. An impressive showing in the Spring Game proved he could compete with Wisconsin’s starters. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Joe Brennan went just 2-11 for 24 yards for the White team, while redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave completed 14-25 passes for 135 yards and a touchdown, but also threw a goal-line interception in the fourth quarter. “Joel continues to impress me
[with] his maturity, the way he handles it,” Bielema said. “Obviously, I wish we had that last throw back from the red zone.” The quarterback position is in an odd state right now for the Badgers, as redshirt junior quarterback Jon Budmayr and redshirt senior Curt Phillips are
both recovering from injuries, and transfer Danny O’Brien is not yet on campus. Many believe O’Brien is the presumptive starter for Wisconsin this fall, but this hasn’t stopped the other quarterbacks on the roster from continuing to fight for the job. “When I told [them] Danny
was coming on his visit, they said, ‘Coach, you have to do what you have to do, and I have to do what I have to do. I’m going to train to be the starting quarterback here,’ and I don’t think either of them have looked back,” Bielema said. On the receiving end of Stave’s touchdown pass was redshirt sophomore wide receiver Chase Hammond. Hammond missed all of last season with an ankle injury, but he made his presence known on Saturday with four catches for 48 yards and the score. “Its good to know you can still play football, having not played in so long.” Hammond said. “I get out there and make a few catches and I’m like ‘alright, now I’m getting more comfortable.’” Hammond is expected to be a part of the group of receivers who are fighting for the team’s number two spot behind redshirt junior Jared Abbrederis. “There’s a big opportunity for all of us,” Hammond said “Me personally—yes [I have an opportunity], but it’s the whole group though.” There are still a lot of questions left unanswered about the Badger offense this spring, but once the injuries have healed and all the pieces are put together, we should get a much clearer view of this team’s potential.