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UW reacts to sexual assault task force

By Adelina Yankova THE DAILY CARDINAL

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The Mifflin Street Block Party has progressively lost support from students as a result of increased police involvement.

Officials plan for smallscale Mifflin celebration City staff predict alternate campuswide festivities

By Patricia Johnson THE DAILY CARDINAL

City officials anticipate a different pre-finals celebration this year as they expect the Mifflin Street Block Party to fade further into the past.

Issues surrounding the block party became severe in 2011 when Madison police recorded two stabbings and several other dangerous incidents including police injuries, according to the Isthmus.

Madison Police Department Sgt. Sarah Shimko said police took special measures after the 2011 block party took place.

“It’s been pretty well-known in terms of what we’ve done,” Shimko said. “We’ve cordoned off streets and made rules and contacts with numerous students in the housing over there.”

In 2012, police implemented the House Party Protection Plan, which allowed residents on

Mifflin Street to register with and accept police assistance in case a house party became too dangerous for a resident to handle.

Shimko said during this time of year, police “remind [residents] of what the expectations are based on city ordinances and laws” for Mifflin Street.

Shimko said she was not involved in the formal operations planning for this year’s celebration but did not consider the block party to be an event.

The last days of April marked the end of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but it is only the beginning of an ongoing conversation about combatting sexual violence on college campuses and beyond.

The federal government issued a report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault Tuesday, which outlines various recommendations to prevent assault, as well as methods to recognize and respond to assault cases.

The Task Force is an initiative President Barack Obama established in January. It was

created partly in response to added is “alive and well” on data showing only 13 percent college campuses. of all college rape incidents get “I think a lot of it is [due reported, according to to] the victim-blaming a government release. attitude,” Jarocki said.

Sexual assault “A question about ‘well, victims often forgo how much did she reporting to the drink?’ can seem really police because they well-intentioned, but fear retribution or it’s still inferring that have feelings of guilt how much a woman and shame, according drinks has to do with to the release. whether or not she gets BERQUAM Aly Jarocki, a assaulted.”

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Panel talks future of ethnic studies units

By Scott Bembenek THE DAILY CARDINAL

Representatives from each of the ethnic studies programs at the University of WisconsinMadison held a town hall meeting Wednesday to discuss the future of their respective programs.

Multiple panels consisting of both faculty members and students in each department presented about the past, present and future of ethnic studies at UW-Madison.

They also responded to ques-

tions and comments about the various programs.

Discussion focused mainly on the proposed consolidation of the four programs—the Department of Afro-American Studies, the American Indian Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Program and the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Programs—into one Ethnic Studies Department.

Members of the four programs said that each is too significant to be compacted into

one department with the other three. Many argued that while the programs are related and can collaborate, it does not mean they could be consolidated into one department.

Professor Michael Thornton, among others who spoke at the event, suggested the proposal came about mainly for budgetary purposes and suggested the programs need to be recognized as a “family,”

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“I hope students do enjoy this last time before finals and do it responsibly.”

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Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the Madison Police Department plans to manage student activity with more patrolling officers throughout the city.

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Armed man robs Pizza Extreme Tuesday A man armed with a handgun robbed Pizza Extreme Tuesday night and stole an undisclosed amount of money, according to a Madison Police Department report.

The suspect entered the restaurant located at 1614 Monroe St. while the employee was in the kitchen preparing to close, Lt. Eric Tripke said in the report.

The employee heard a noise and discovered the suspect inside, according to the statement. The armed man then pointed a handgun at him.

The armed man demanded money and directed the employee to the front of the store, according to the report. The worker then handed him cash.

The worker told police the armed man walked him to the back of the store, told him to lie down on the floor and then fled through the back door.

Police described the suspect as a black male in his late teens who was last seen in a gray hoodie, according to the statement.

Police are continuing the investigation.

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Columbia University history professor Casey Nelson Blake discusses the role of art in public experience with UW-Madison students and community members at the Chazen Museum Wednesday. + Photo by Emily Buck

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EMA talks sci-fi and Cold War

By Cameron Graff The Daily Cardinal

Erika M. Anderson, former co-frontwoman of the apocalyptic noise-folk duo Gowns and current mastermind of EMA, is much less reserved than her music would suggest. Between her former work and her newer endeavors, patterns and motifs have emerged: isolation, alienation, violence, discomfort and so on. Over the phone, however, Anderson is talkative and forthcoming, eager about her art and the forces that mold it—even joking about Portlandia.

Her sophomore solo album, nihilistically titled The Future’s Void, doesn’t quite match her flippancy—but not for lack of trying. On cuts like “So Blonde,” Anderson eschews abstracted song structure for a more deliberate pop format, punctuating each verse with a shriek of “[he/she]’s so blonde!”

“That’s kinda the one thing I thought I’d try to do on the record,” Anderson explained, “to try out this verse/chorus/verse thing, three and a half to four minute song length things.”

She did voice some reservations over the new approach, though. “To be honest, I don’t know if it’s the best way for me to totally express my ideas. But I like that there are some—I think it was actually musically easier to write them, but lyrically more

difficult. Because you have to fit things into this weird, you know, these couplets and things.”

Despite the more rigid structuring of the songs, Anderson still managed to maintain a poet’s grip over her material, infusing the record with as much neurotic energy as her 2010 debut, Past Life Martyred Saints.

Speaking of her influences, she noted, “I think I was mostly reading a lot and seeing a lot of art, contemporary art, you know … sometimes I think it resulted in songs that were more complex lyrically, and about subject matter that I think isn’t maybe in typical music, or not really following the trends musically.

Despite the critical laudation of [The Future’s Void,] Anderson seemed restless, eager to pursue new ventures of sound.

“Thinking about history and politics instead and asking—you know, if you’re looking at contemporary art, you’re sort of using your brain in this extra way and going about art in a historical context and a political context and you make some extra connections, and I think in some ways that’s definitely rubbed off

on the record.”

The songs, especially cuts like “Satellites” and “Neuromancer,” betray this duality; the former conflates the omnipresence of satellites and technology with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the opening of Soviet satellite states, while the latter discusses selfies, postlapsarian love and William Gibson’s venerated “Neuromancer” novel.

Although she’s quick to point out that The Future’s Void isn’t a sci-fi concept record, Anderson does note the role that science fiction gave rise to her songs, as well as Cold War-era politics. “I read everything, I’m a voracious reader,” she explained. “I would read classic sci-fi and totally trashy sci-fi, and I sort of got interested in the Cold War and the Eastern Block and the lives of people living over there and the history of it.

“It was something people my age and younger were born into without understanding what caused it. Or at least, I didn’t— I was like, ‘what’s the Marshall Plan again?’”

The music, meanwhile, keeps pace evenly with Anderson’s frantic wordsmithing. Even if The Future’s Void is a pop record, it’s an uncompromising one, full of blistering noise, manic shrieks and aggressive percussion—all of which is likely to give way at a moment’s notice

in favor of quiet meditation.

“I’m living in Portland right now, so [The Future’s Void has] got this Pacific Northwest vibe,” said Anderson. “But not necessarily the ‘new’ Pacific Northwest, I’m thinking more of like… K Records, or ’90s grunge and punk and DIY stuff that came out of there. It came to me as an influence in a surprising way, because I just really didn’t think that it would have an influence on me.”

Between her former work and her newer endeavors, patterns and motifs have emerged: isolation, alienation, violence, discomfort and so on.

Despite the critical laudation of the record, Anderson seemed restless, eager to pursue new venues of sound. “I kind of want to make this semi-acoustic punk record, and I’m sort of interested in the idea of it being very very very simple and repetitive, like only being—I don’t know, I haven’t really figured it out yet.

But I’d like to lock myself away in a desert or something and work on it.”

Anderson plays as EMA at the High Noon Saloon this Saturday at 9:30 p.m. Downtown Boys and Chants will open.

Beautiful books to get you through the summer

By Maham Hasan

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With the end of semester, quite literally looming ahead of you like a giant honing beacon you can’t hide from, it is perhaps time to look back and reflect. You might have added many accolades to your name this spring, what with having survived the mother of all cold winters and making it halfway through 2014, but I bet you couldn’t name a life-changing book you read.

It’s a crime to have this semester go by and not have read at least one book that changed your life, or at least gave you a tickle. Healthy skepticism is not only tolerated for now, but in fact encouraged because it is possible.

And it does happen, when you know you’re not simply reading letters woven together but actually absorbing the power within them. Or more likely, the brilliantly crazy but slightly pompous sounding literature columnist puts ideas into your head. I am fluent in the art of subliminal messages after all. But that’s when you pick up a book to change your life this summer.

“Hunger” by Knut Hamsun is one of the top books for my summer. From what I’ve heard and read about it—spoilers don’t bother me—it is strangely modern for being published in 1890 but relatively unknown because Hamsun became a Nazi sympathizer in his old age.

“Hunger” explores the toxic and morbidly fascinating tale of a writer who starves himself because he cannot write and the

only way he can eat is by writing.

The self-destructive themes and the conflicting drives for selfpreservation and self-immolation found within this book will hit close to home with many of our secret—or not so secret— narcissistic tendencies.

[Fitzgerald’s] ultimate moment of glory is his fight to recover and eventually climb out of the grave he was determined to dig for himself.

Sinclair Lewis’ “Babbitt” is a forgotten gem from the 1920s.

While we have read about the opulence of that era through “The Great Gatsby” and many others, this book is a critique on conformity and the life of quiet desperation. “Babbitt” was a term that became synonymous with middle-class stolidity and therefore satirically explores the plight of the conformist individual.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is not a strange name to us, but we rarely speak of this brilliant man’s dark and self-destructive side. “The Crack Up” is a starkly honest account of someone stubbornly hell bent on their own annihilation. Fitzgerald lived the “Gatsby” life to some extent and this compilation of letters and essays after his death show his downward spiral to emptiness and despair he embarked upon.

His ultimate moment of glory is his fight to recover and eventually climbing out of the grave he was determined to dig for

himself. My only hope is that a tale of such blatant survival of the mind might just evoke some distant source of inspiration within us, even leading us to—God forbid—come up with an awesome idea or two for the next semester.

I’ll end with famous journalist John Gunther’s memoir about his 17-year-old son dying from a brain tumor, “Death Be Not Proud.” Deeply profound and heart wrenching, this book will leave you with a better appreciation of all the misgivings and doubts in your life.

Because you’ll know that hav-

ing them is always better than the alternative.

It is the tale of a boy who could quite easily be changing the world right now and the poise he displays on the threshold of death. If after encountering what Johnny calls “The Unbeliever’s Prayer” within the book, you are still not prompted to do some much needed summer time soul searching, then dishonor on you and dishonor on your cow.

Have any summer reading you want to recommend to Maham? Send her an email at mhasan4@wisc.edu.

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Advocacy group builds support for ordinance

ASM agrees to altered Diversity Plan framework The Associated Students of Madison released a statement Wednesday announcing its backing of the latest Diversity Plan, in light of clarifications and additions made to the original framework.

During its initial vote on the document at its April 23 Student Council meeting, ASM members unanimously decided the plan did not meet what University of Wisconsin-Madison needed out of a diversity initiative.

“The largest concern was the fact that this is a framework still, and it’s still being viewed as something to guide our institution rather than something to actually implement concrete steps,” said ASM Chair David Gardner.

ASM voted down the framework on the grounds it would reassess its decision if the Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee revised the document considering the implementation of seven elements requested by Student Council.

Among the amendments

made to the framework are plans to devise a Diversity Plan Funding Committee and efforts to strengthen the emphasis placed on the ethnic studies requirement.

While the majority of ASM members felt comfortable with the document’s changes, Gardner said the body is discouraged by “trying to create a plan out of a framework” when students expected to see a solidified, original plan.

Though the framework has yet to gain approval from the other shared governance bodies, unanimous adoption from all bodies could lead to the plan’s implementation beginning as soon as the fall semester.

Gardner said ASM plans to maintain an active role in campus diversity actions and will ensure students’ voices are being heard.

“The committee and campus administrators can certainly expect when implementation comes, we will be watching,” Gardner said.

—Emily Gerber

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“distinct history” that could be lost in a consolidation.

“We are already collaborating,” Adell said. “Collaboration doesn’t need to mean consolidation.”

The Associated Students of Madison took a similar stance in the debate over consolidation by drafting a resolution combining the programs.

The resolution urges university officials to “support the autonomy of these four programs and departments, and support the financial and educational security” of the ethnic studies programs.

Meetings regarding the future of the ethnic studies programs will continue to be held in the coming weeks.

but should be distinguished as having their own merits.

“Money has always been here,” said Jesus Salas, who served as a regent from 2004 to 2007 on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

“It’s a matter of priority, it is a matter of political power,” Salas said, while urging students to voice their opinions on maintaining support for ethnic studies programs.

Also proposed was the notion of forming each program into its own separate department. Professor Sandra Adell emphasized each program’s

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PAVE, a UW student organization, is one of the resources available to help victims of sexual assault on campus.

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Jarocki said this can partly be attributed to an alcohol consumption culture on college campuses.

“I think engaging our students as allies for each other is a continual effort.”

Lori Berquam dean of students UW-Madison

“People are able to look [and say], ‘oh it was just a bad drunk hook-up’ and I think that that definitely contributes to rape culture on a college [campus],” she said.

“It’s expected that bad hookups happen sometimes and there’s definitely a difference between a bad hook-up and someone taking advantage of

another person’s body.”

UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam said one way to counter sexual violence is to make sure all campus community members are engaged and made aware of the dangers of sexual assault.

“I think engaging our students as allies for each other is a continual effort,” Berquam said.

The dean added it is important for UW-Madison to maintain a well-trained arsenal of responders and advocates “from all walks of life” who can offer support throughout the campus, something she said the university is already doing well.

“I think this is an opportunity for us to continue to refine what we do,” Berquam said. “That doesn’t mean it’s still going to stop sexual assault, but my hope is that the more people that talk about this and indicate that it’s unacceptable, the fewer numbers we’ll have.”

UW students, community members volunteer to give books to inmates

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UW-Madison staff and students gathered Wednesday to discuss a proposed consolidation of the ethnic studies departments.

Each week, University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members spend hours in the Dane County jails providing books and other readings for inmates.

The Jail Library Group is a volunteer-run organization where members help distribute donated reading materials to detainees in the Dane County’s Public Safety Building and the City-County Building.

Erin Anthony, a graduate student in the UW-Madison School of Library & Information Studies, is co-president of the group and co-chair of the CityCounty Building library. She said her passion for her work comes from seeing the rewards of giving back to the community.

“In my personal opinion, it really promotes and fulfills the Wisconsin Idea,” Anthony said.

“Taking educational materials and the services in the education of students in the university and helping people access

information, that’s important.”

Anthony said many of the inmates tell her they are trying to implement positive change as well as reconnect with society and their families, and seeking out books is a great step in that process.

“I had an inmate tell me that he’s trying to be a better person and he thinks he can achieve that through reading and through requesting books in the library while he’s in jail,” she said.

One of the most interesting aspects of this work is the wide variety of genres the inmates seek out, Anthony said. The requests range from comic books—so inmates can send drawings home to their children—to almanacs.

The Jail Library Group welcomes all interested students, and encourages them to reach out for involvement through their Twitter and Facebook accounts.

—Daniella Emanuel

Citizens Against Subsidized Hotels, a city advocacy group opposing Madison city alders’ development plans, is gaining support from other organizations to pass an ordinance that requires citizen approval of largescale subsidized city projects.

Andy Olsen, a CASH representative, said the ordinance would require the city to allow voter approval for private development projects receiving financial assistance exceeding $10 million in land contributions and taxpayers’ money.

CASH recently gained support from Progressive Dane and the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin. Madison hotels have also provided local support for the referendum to protect their businesses, according to Olsen.

“It just makes no sense that the city would choose to subsidize a major hotel at a time when the private sector is stepping up and building hotels and is planning to build more hotels,” Olsen said. “It creates the danger of an oversupply of hotel rooms that could put out a business [like] one of our existing hotels.”

The proposal requires a minimum of 16,000 signatures on the “Hotel Boondoggle” petition, on nocashsubsidy.org, in order to include the question asking citizens’ approval of large-scale public projects on the November ballot. Petition signing will begin May 1.

“This approach that we’re using has been used previously in city history,” Olsen said.

Madison citizens were able to pass a referendum in the ’90s demanding citizen approval for construction on city parks after the city attempted to build a pool in Olin Park, according to Olsen.

“It’s been really heartwarming to see the overwhelming support for the referendum from the public,” Olsen said.

—Patricia Johnson

mifflin from page 1 “During this time of year, we do send out additional officers to cover these peak times. This is budgeted for every year,” Resnick said. “I am confident there will be the necessary number of officers to make sure that everybody is safe for this weekend.”

Last year’s weekend before final exams resulted in a more dispersed celebration without as much concentration on Mifflin Street. Resnick said Madison had “a relatively safe weekend last year.”

In response to how he believes this year will turn out, Resnick said, “It’s hard to say, but we will not see the crowds or the traditional issues related to the Mifflin Street Block Party.”

Despite the fact that the Mifflin Street Block Party is no longer a formal event, city officials still anticipate an entertaining weekend for students.

“I hope students do enjoy this last time before finals and do it responsibly,” Resnick said.

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Summer is almost upon us. If you’re going home to live with your parents, we are so sorry. For the lucky ones out there staying for summer, congratulations! Madison has been empirically proven to be the best city in the entire world from May to August. Here’s your guide to all things Madison summer:

Devil’s Lake: Turn off your TV, dammit, and embrace the great outdoors at Wisconsin’s largest state park, located less than an hour’s drive from Madison. While day trips are entirely possible, opt to camp out in the park for a few days to experience all Devil’s Lake has to offer, like hiking or climbing the crimson 500-foot quartzite bluffs, trekking through the woods on 29 miles of trails, renting a kayak and/or spending the day fishing and swimming at the beach. The Brat Fest: May 23-26. An entire weekend dedicated to one of Wisconsin’s finest wilderness must be explored. foods. Snag a sausage (or four) and a cold brew and spend the day feasting upon sevGoodman Community Pool: Are you deathly afraid of algae blooms in Lake Mendota, eral stages of live music. If you’re super hardcore, you can even rent a campsite on the but for some reason, not afraid of diaper-clad children? Then check out Goodman grounds for the weekend. All hail the brat.

Community Pool. Make the most of the few bucks it costs to enter by staying all day.

Ride the Drive: June 1 and Aug. 24. A bike enthusiast’s fantasy. On two days the city Madison Mallards: Part of the Northwoords League, the Mallards are the closest closes an area of the city to cars—downtown and the east side respectively—and thing to a professional Madison baseball team. But who needs the Brewers everyone else gets the right of way for a change. Walkers and skaters welcome when you can pay either $10 for a grandstand ticket or around $25 for alltoo. This is not to be confused with the Naked Bike Ride. you-can-eat and drink brats and beer? Season runs from late May to La Fete de Marquette: June 7-8. Love all things French? Then check mid-August. Games held at Warner Park. out this France-themed festival, now in its ninth year. Hear musicians Madison Ultimate Frisbee Association: Like Ultimate Frisbee? from all over the French-speaking world. Historically, each day has a Then consider forming a team with your favorite friends or acquaindifferent theme: Night of the Stars, Louisiana day, and World Day. On tences in one of MUFAs summer leagues. All skill levels welcome.

South Dickinson and East Washington Streets.

And a plus? The Great Dane gives each team a complimentary Cars on State: June 7. On this day, State Street turns into an auto pitcher post-game. museum as 100 classic cars and trucks line up from the Capitol to Library Olbrich Botanical Gardens: The most beautiful outdoor Mall. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. spot in the city. In the summer months take a stroll through Cows on the Concourse: June 7. Do you love cows? Do you love the 16 acres of display gardens and the year-round tropical Bolz Capitol Square? Would you like to see those two combined? Cows on the Conservatory.

Concourse is a celebration of the dairy industry, and probably the only opporOutdoor Rentals: Not a Hoofer member? No problem. As a student tunity you will ever have to give thanks to the cow for all they give to this state. you can still rent Hoofer’s equipmen—canoes, kayaks and paddleboards(Until 2015, that is.) 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at discounted rates to use on Lake Mendota. Tent rentals also available.

Waterfront Festival: June 7-8. At Yahara Place Park on the Lake Monona UW Arboretum: If you love the outdoors but are transportationShores, the Waterfront Festival is a lax alternative to some of the other more limited, the Arboretum is your new best friend. With tons of trails to hectic festivals. Free admission, enjoy food, music and an array of activities. hike through, it’s like an outdoor museum. Every section is its own Make Music Madison: June 21: Just in its second year, Make Music exhibit. Check out the horticultural gardens, deciduous and conifer Madison is a city-wide music festival that takes place on the summer solstice. forests, wetlands, prairies and savannahs representative of Wisconsin’s The goal is that, wherever you are, whether it be on the far north side or the native landscapes. You’ll probably run into some wild turkeys as well. far south side, you’ll hear some music as venues last year ranged from metro Wingra Boats: Rent a boat—any kind of boat—and enjoy quaint and transfer points to the Overture Center loading dock and the Gap store on adorable Lake Wingra, Mendota and Monona’s baby sister. Rowboat?

State Street. Any musicically inclined Madisonian is encouraged to apply to Stand-up Paddleboard? Canoe? Kayak? Paddleboat? Sure. Also check play. Sign-up ends May 15. out Brittingham Boats on Monona Bay. Concerts on the Square: Every Wednesday from June 25 through July 30.

Your (friend’s) porch: A porch, according to dictionary.com, is a Affectionately referred to as COTS by some, this Wednesday afternoon covered shelter projecting in front of the entrance of a building. event fills the square with symphony music, free for all to hear. COTS If you take a look around, you will realize that many buildings is the best excuse you will ever have to drink wine and eat an entire in Madison have porches! Your house might even have one, emily buck/the daily cardinal spread of summer sausage in one sitting. Bring some cards, maybe a too! Some are first-story, some are second. Some are enclosed, board game… COTS is the direct inspiration for the Portlandia sketch some are open. Some are big, some are small. But all are where Kath and Dave go to an outdoor movie. Google it. prized! If you do not have any friends that have porches, and Rhythm and Booms: June 28. At this Madison summer staple— you lack one yourself, it’s about time you made some new friends. revamped and moved downtown since last year—spend the afternoon enjoying food, arts and live music on John Nolen Drive. Then head to the shore of Lake Monona as the sun sets to watch a fireworks display set to music and shot from barges offshore. Food! Explosions! America! Hooray!

Art Fair on the Square: July 12-13: Visit the square this weekend and see pieces Monday at 9 p.m.: “You Always August 4: “Jaws” of fine art from over 450 vendors. Pieces range from jewelry to sculpture, paintings, Remember the First” movie August 11: “Grease” prints, photography, anything you can imagine. Go with the mindset that you’re there to look and not buy, however, unless you want a serious dent in your wallet. festival—highlighting great first August 18: “Bill and Ted’s Dane County Fair: July 16-20: At the Alliant Energy Center. Doesn’t need much movies from series we love.

Excellent Adventure” explanation. Ferris wheels and scary rides too! Deep fried burgers and the cows they May 26: “Ghostbusters” August 26: “Back to the Future came from! Last year one of our staff members had a very spiritual moment with a sheep. This could be you.

June 2: “Jurassic Park” September 1: Animal House” Maxwell Street Days: July 18-20. This state-wide shopping extravaganza hits State June 9: “Shrek” Wednesday: Open Mic, 7:45Street mid-July. If there is something you have your eye on, buy it then. You won’t find better deals. Most State Street stores participate and some restaurants as well. Urban June 16: “Batman” 11 p.m.

Outfitters, which looks more like Dig ‘N’ Save this weekend, takes up an entire block.

June 23: “The Karate Kid” Thursday: Bluegrass & Paddle and Portage: July 19. This is the strangest canoe race you will ever see!

Watch as participants paddle a portion of Lake Mendota, portage across the isthmus June 30: “Toy Story” Americana Series, 5-7 p.m. and paddle again in Lake Monona to Olin Park. Only in Madison, right?

July 7: “Austin Powers” Friday: Behind the Beat, 5-7 p.m.

Blacklight Run 5k: Aug. 7: Don’t know what to do with all of the neon leggings and fanny packs accumulated in your closet from highlighter frat parties freshman July 14: “Rush Hour” Thursday, Friday and year? Throw on a white shirt and some running shoes and give that radiant ensemble July 21: “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Saturday night: headliners one last hurrah for “the brightest 5k on the planet.” Basically, it’s the Color Run on shrooms in the dark. If you sign up by May 14, you’ll cut your registration fee in half.

July 28: “Spy Kids” until 12 a.m.

Held at the Alliant Energy Center.

Orton Park Festival: Aug. 21-24.

Orton Park is, empirically speaking, one of the most beautiful parks in Madison.

So venture to the Orton Park Festival at summer’s twilight, and enjoy local crafts, music and food, and surely a lovely day.

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y one piece of advice for University of Wisconsin-Madison students: go abroad. And don’t just go abroad for three weeks in the summer and pretend you’re doing charity work in Costa Rica. Don’t just go abroad for a semester and take an introductory language course where you’ll forget everything, because you’re drunk the entire time. Go. Abroad. Find a place you think seems interesting and go there for an entire academic year. Go abroad and really commit to being abroad.

Don’t worry about time.

Don’t worry about your major. Don’t worry about money. Don’t fear change and don’t fear cultural barriers. Go abroad.

This is the best advice I can give to any student not graduating this May. Studying abroad is possibly one of the best experiences one can have as a college student. Living in a world dramatically different from the one we’re familiar with is fulfilling in so many ways and it’s rare that the opportunity to take advantage of this is so accessible. We’re lucky to have an impressive college of study abroad opportunities too. Take advantage: go abroad.

The amount of time people spend abroad makes a huge difference in how their experience will shape them. Based on personal experiences I can say that studying abroad for a year has an undeniable impact, and I know the full impact of my experience would have been thoroughly diminished had I returned after only one semester. When people leave the country and go abroad, they have to make inevitable and typically bigger adjustments than they initially expect. Culture shock, linguistic change, jet lag, new systems of government, banking and education. are all things they contend with when they’re out of the American element. Acclimation easily takes a full semester’s worth of time. Leave when that semester is done and people are leaving just as they’re adjusted and ready to get going into society.

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abroad gives people the chance to dive head first into a new way of life.

They’re acclimated to the differences they discovered throughout the first half of the year abroad and the second semester is time to bloom.

If people are in a place where the local language is something other than English, they’re more adept at speaking it, even if they came in fluent. Students will make friends more easily, possibly find a job or internship and move about more like a local rather than a tourist.

Go abroad for a year and not just a semester and you gain not just new experiences, but also a new home. Living abroad is not just about taking advantage of new things to improve yourself, but also to become part of a new community and learn to love it for all its positive and negative qualities.

But there is clearly a resistance to going abroad among students.

One of the most common arguments I hear from people who choose not to go abroad is they have neither money nor time. Lies, I say!

Lies! Here’s the thing—there is a program for every individual based on interests, major, linguistic abilities and so on. It doesn’t matter if you’re majoring in business and are interested in medieval cathedrals or art history with a focus on modern Korean art. There is something for you whoever you are.

Just go for a year.

To hell with the money. If students are going to go into debt for anything, go into debt for education and make living abroad a part of that debt. At some point you will be out of debt. You’ll forget the money.

You’ll get jobs and make that money back. The experiences and the life changes you will make going abroad will stay with you forever. They’ll change your perspectives on the world, how you move through space, think about life and go into the future. The money can be brought together, somehow and trust me, it will be worth it however it’s collected.

Don’t worry about time. Don’t worry about your major. Don’t worry about money. Don’t fear change and don’t fear cultural barriers. Go abroad. Force yourself to experience life from the perspective of others. Try your best to learn a new language.

Take advantage of experiences you’ll never, ever get otherwise.

My advice to you all: skip Mifflin. Go abroad.

Michael is a senior graduating May 2014 and majoring in history and German. He studied abroad in Freidburg, Germany for one year. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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he time has come for me to bid farewell to this wonderful university, to The Daily Cardinal, and perhaps to writing opinion pieces. Before I embark upon my final call to action, I just want to thank all the people who have made it possible for me to do this for the past six years: all of my editors, past and present, my parents, my readers and my high school journalism teacher Mr. Matt Johnson. It has been a strange and remarkable journey that I have thoroughly enjoyed and it will always be special to me. I have chosen my final topic with great care.

Franklin Roosevelt is among my favorite politicians in American history, so it is only appropriate that I turn to him for one last call to advance the rights of mankind. In his 1944 State of the Union, Roosevelt made his greatest, but often overlooked, contribution to American political thought as he called for a second Bill of Rights to secure the economic rights of every American citizen.

These are not absurd promises that we cannot fulfill. According to The World Bank, we are the richest nation on the earth and we ought to treat our citizens with basic respect and dignity.

These economic rights have become central debates in our political discourse, and we must recognize the merit in them. We must make an effort to implement this second Bill of Rights to ensure that all American citizens are treated with the basic respect to live their life as they see fit. A second Bill of Rights is needed because, as Roosevelt argues, the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution have “proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.”

We are a nation founded on the premise of individual rights (although it hasn’t always been

legal doctrine). The Declaration of Independence centers on the idea that all men are “endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed this commitment to individual rights in his inaugural address stating that “the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.” If America is about anything, it is this commitment to individual freedom and civil liberties.

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Today, certain rights stand compromised by an absurd concentration of wealth among the wealthiest individuals.

In the richest nation on earth how can it be that some citizens must work two full time jobs to put food on the table, and other citizens must suffer from long term unemployment?

Why must people go homeless when we are perfectly capable of housing them?

People are entitled to certain economic liberties so that they be treated with the basic dignity that every human being deserves. This includes the

rights to an education, to health care, to retirement, to housing, to employment with a living wage, to food, clothing and leisure.

Today, American society is regressing into the gilded era of robber barons and worker exploitation. Americans are working more and getting paid less. Wealth is being crystallized in the hands of a select few who are willing to exploit the public to keep their fortunes. They are a powerful few, but together we can, as we did in the time of Teddy Roosevelt, conquer this insane capitalist colonization of our lives. Capitalism is great so long as it does not result in the exploitation of the general public. We are moving toward a society in which our commitment to an ideological form of capitalism is hindering our lives. We must act to reclaim what we have lost.

Demanding a second Bill of Rights is not as radical as it may seem. Every major Democratic politician holds a commitment to at least some of these ideals. President Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act and has tirelessly tried to increase minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. I bring this up because we must realize what it is we are fighting for. The world is changing into something terrifying and if we do not act to protect our rights from exploitation they will be slowly eroded. However, if we stop all of this bickering and unite together to protect these fundamental rights, our voices together will drown out those of the powerful few who wish to exploit us. In the words of Bob Dylan, “like Pharaoh’s tribe/They’ll be drownded in the tide/And like Goliath/ they’ll be conquered.”

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Clinical studies and nationwide surveys have revealed that, contrary to popular belief, hmen would like to be the little spoon every once in a while.

These reports deliver a consensus that opposes centuries-old scientific theories and fallacious assertions of human sexuality, countering the notion that men are always meant to be in the dominant big spoon position while cuddling with a partner.

Across the nation, boyfriends, husbands and cuddle-buddies alike have voiced their support for these new findings.

“It’s just so liberating,” said local 36-year-old Don Propst. “I’ve gone damn near two decades thinking it was wrong and it’s very comforting to learn that science supports the voice in the back of my head telling me to be the one getting spooned when I feel the need.”

“You know, it’s not for all the time,” Matthew Zeier, 43, told The Daily Cardinal. “But, every so often, I want to be the one who’s held. I want to feel that special warmth

By Brett Klinkner The Daily Cardinal

Sources close to the matter have disclosed that the University of Wisconsin-Madison office of admissions is just fucking with Bradley Tompkins, Mukwonago High School Class of 2014.

What began as a sincere waitlisting of the eager 18-year-old has become something of a sadistic prank for the bored admissions officers, who have already formally accepted or rejected the vast majority of 2014 applicants and are beginning to really enjoy the practice of stringing this kid along.

Findings thus far have exposed that across one week in March they sent him 36 letters simply reiterating his wait list status, reserving the following two-week

and protection.”

These reports align with many recent sociological studies which found that single, cuddle-active women are generally selfish spooners, negligent with their male counterparts in automatically assuming the little spoon position.

Additional studies have found the problem is largely alleviated in relationship contexts. While only 5 percent of these men indicated that they have acted as little spoon in “hook-up” scenarios, this statistic rises to 25 percent in relationships, where the women tend to be more responsible in catering to their partners’ needs.

“If just one in every five spooning sessions sees a male small spoon, we will reach the goal set by the majority of health experts and inch ever closer to a truly egalitarian society,” said marriage counselor and certified sexpert Angela Gustafson.

At press time, a rally to promote greater equality in spooning was taking place, with many male attendees chanting, “We’re here!

We like to be spooned every once in a while! Get used to it!”

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The entirety of the UW-Madison student body has elected to participate in a sobriety pledge in order to have Madison officials restore the annual Mifflin Street Block party to its former status.

The pledge was announced Wednesday through a YouTube video entitled “Save Mifflin” which was also emailed to UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam. It will consist of absolutely no consumption of alcohol or any other intoxicant by all students and will last indefinitely—or at least until Mifflin comes back.

“To us Badgers, Mifflin was never really about the booze,” sixth- year senior and former binge drinker Chad Stevens said. “Mifflin represents a crossroads between seasons as well as phases of our lives, as we finish each school year looking forward to our summer pursuits and the future. It’s more of a rite of passage than a party.”

The Mifflin Street Block Party originated in 1969 as a peaceful protest, but gradually gained notoriety for its increasingly large crowds, excessive binge drinking and criminal activity. The all-day gathering occurred on the first Saturday each May up until 2013 when it was unofficially cancelled after the 2012

event saw over 500 citations issued

by Madison police.

Starting in 2013, Madison installed “Revelry,” an annual Music and Arts festival on the same date as Mifflin in order to offer students an alternative. The 2014 show’s headliners include Dillon Francis and Waka Flocka Flame.

“2012 Mifflin was nuts, man,” three-year West Mifflin Street resident Samuel “Sober Sam” DiSalvatore said with slurred speech while struggling to maintain balance. DiSalvatore had many more incomprehensible quotes to offer on the issue while face-down and on the verge of passing out.

The “Save Mifflin” video went viral soon after its release and has now become the second fastest video to ever reach 50 million views, trailing only “KONY 2012.”

The 17-minute film—which was collectively produced by all 30,000 undergraduate students— details the importance of Mifflin to UW culture and informs viewers that should the event be restored, no drinking will occur during its future installments.

At press time, #SoberMifflin was trending on Twitter and the majority of the student body was considering offering another sobriety pledge to increase the size of the student section at football games.

span to mail him nothing and let him just stew in it.

It is being reported that the native Wisconsinite has wanted to be a Badger ever since he was a child, leading him to apply exclusively to the state’s flagship university, who—unbeknownst to him—are just maliciously yanking his chain at this point.

The Daily Cardinal got in touch with Mukwonago High School counselor Peggy Williamson, the main advisor to Tompkins who claims she is “becoming worried for Bradley’s chances.”

“Bradley has a great attitude and is super excited for college,” Williamson said. She also claims to regret that Tompkins only applied to one school, adding that he only has a “dece” GPA, “less-

than-solid” ACT score, no “real sports” or volunteer work, nor any impressive extra-curriculars.

The UW-Madison admissions officers at the helm of this possibly illegal, genuinely meanspirited operation apparently have no end in sight, recently fulfilling their bi-monthly practice of mailing Tompkins an envelope much larger than all the others, manipulating him to believe for a moment that the contents will include orientation materials.

At press time, Tompkins was anxiously waiting for the mail carrier to arrive only a few short hours after a particularly cruel admissions officer sent him a picture containing all of his friends who have already been accepted to his dream college.

Dean Lothar denies existence of ‘Pillage Culture’ at Viking University

By Kane Kaiman The Daily Cardinal

In what many are calling a complete public relations disaster, Magnus Lothar, dean of Warriors, explicitly denied the existence of a ‘Pillage Culture’ at Viking University during a press conference Monday.

“Pillaging may occasionally occur at this university, but no more frequently than on any other campus in our realm,” Lothar told reporters, pounding a massive hammer into his fist for emphasis. “Furthermore, pillaging is not permitted or encouraged at this institution by long-

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standing Viking tradition. Pillage Culture simply does not exist at this university.”

The Viking University administration sounded the ram’s horn to call together a press conference of their own mere hours after Lothar’s statements were made.

“We want to make clear that Dean Lothar is alone in his thinking,” Chancellor Svan Ragnar said. “The administration not only acknowledges the existence of Pillage Culture on campus, but also believes that it poses a monumental problem to Viking students and must be dealt with immediately.”

Pillage prevention groups across campus have called for Lothar’s head, literally.

“We want it lopped off and put on a spike,” said Hjort Ludin, president of The Pillage Prevention Coalition. “Let him express his views in Helheim.

By denying Pillage Culture’s very existence, he contributes directly to its perpetuation.”

At press time, Lothar claimed his statements “should not be taken seriously,” as he made them only hours after indulging in a grand feast, one that included “extensive merrymaking and copious amounts of mead.”

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Debunking the postseason perception For years, people have been saying Bo Ryan can’t win in March. Why?

By Jim Dayton THE DAILY CARDINAL

Prior to this season, it seemed impossible to discuss Wisconsin basketball without somebody criticizing head coach Bo Ryan’s apparent inability to win in the NCAA tournament.

From the pseudo-analytical “He’s only a regular season coach” to the delightfully ignorant “Badgers will never win anything under him,” remarks like these seemed to personify the negative public perceptions regarding Ryan’s postseason resume.

However, these were merely perceptions, by definition lacking evidence. Looking at the numbers, Ryan has one of the most successful NCAA tournament careers among major college coaches since he came to Wisconsin during the 2001-’02 season.

There are nine other coaches of power conference programs that have held continuous tenure at the same school since Ryan took the job at UW. The list includes Texas’ Rick Barnes, Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, Notre Dame’s Mike Brey, Florida’s Billy Donovan,

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Head coach Bo Ryan has one of the most decorated resumes in the country, making the NCAA tournament for 13 straight years.

Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Louisville’s Rick Pitino, Vanderbilt’s Kevin Stallings and Villanova’s Jay Wright.

First off, to be among this group is an accomplishment in itself. With college sports gaining more of the national spotlight and the demand for success hitting an all-time high, it is impressive for a coach to hold his position for 13 straight years at a major institution.

Comparing these 10 coaches since Ryan’s first UW season in 2001-’02, only Izzo, Krzyzewski and Ryan have made the NCAA tourna-

ment in all 13 seasons. Even at the most consistently solid programs, teams often fall victim to a bad year or two every now and then.

Meanwhile, Ryan’s six berths in the Sweet 16 put him on par with Boeheim, Donovan and Pitino.

Only Krzyzewski (nine) and Izzo (eight) have more.

Additionally, Ryan has lost to a lower seed only six times.

Krzyzewski has done that 10 times in this 13-year window, while Barnes, Boeheim and Donovan have all done so seven times.

This season, Ryan became the

eighth coach in this group of 10 to reach the Final Four, excluding Brey and Stallings. It may have taken him 13 seasons, but he did get there. To put it in perspective, it took Boeheim 11 years to get to the Final Four and Wright eight years.

Two of Ryan’s most high profile tournament losses came in 2008 against Davidson in the Sweet 16 and in 2010 against Cornell in the second round. Davidson was a No. 10 seed to Wisconsin’s No. 3, and Cornell was a No. 12 seed to the Badgers’ No. 4.

Future National Basketball Association superstar Stephen Curry led that Davidson team, torching Wisconsin with 33 points on 11-of-22 shooting. In that tournament, the Wildcats also defeated No. 2 Georgetown in the second round and lost to No. 1 seed and eventual champion Kansas by just two points in the Elite Eight.

In their loss to Cornell, the Badgers shot 49 percent from the field, better than their season average of 44 percent. However, the Big Red shot a ridiculous 61 percent while hitting more than half of its 3-pointers. Sure, the UW defense clearly was ineffective that day, but when a team’s shooting is on, there is not much its opponent can do.

Even excluding Ryan’s run to the Final Four, his tournament record was already a respectable 16-12. Now with a record of 20-13, his .606 winning percentage is better than Barnes, Brey, Stallings and

Wright among this group of 10.

It seems the only legitimate knock against Ryan is that he has yet to win a championship. However, only four of these 10 coaches have won a title in the past 13 seasons.

Winning six in a row during March is no easy task.

The biggest pitfall of success is that it increases demands and leaves everyone involved wanting more. It is easy to forget how pitiful the Wisconsin basketball program was before Ryan, making just seven NCAA tournaments and going, at its worst, an absurd 47 years between appearances.

Ryan’s predecessor Dick Bennett helped start the turnaround, but Ryan affirmed it.

Relatively speaking, the Badgers’ status as a prominent college basketball program is relatively new compared to longtime powerhouses like Duke and Syracuse. It takes time to join the elite and consistently contend for championships.

The Bo Ryan era is not over at Wisconsin. Next year, the Badgers return every key contributor other than Ben Brust.

After a run to the Final Four, UW has a good chance to make another and Ryan could perhaps capture his elusive championship.

If it does happen, a championship would officially put an end to a silly misconception which never really had any merit in the first place.

Softball

Nebraska snaps Badgers’ record tying 13-game win streak

By Jake Powers THE DAILY CARDINAL

Wisconsin had its recordtying win streak snapped at the hands of Nebraska Wednesday at Goodman Diamond, but the Badgers did not allow the loss to loom over them for long.

No. 19 Nebraska ended UW’s 13-game win streak by beating

the Badgers 12-0 in a mercy ruleshortened game one, but Wisconsin rebounded quickly to steal the second half of the doubleheader by a score of 6-4.

“When you’re facing a team that’s ranked, if you get one [win] it’s a big deal,” head coach Yvette Healy said.

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Freshman catcher Chloe Miller got UW on the board first with an RBI double in the first inning.

Nebraska (15-5, 37-14) plated two runs in the top of the second inning against sophomore pitcher TaylorPaige Stewart, but Wisconsin answered right back in its half of the inning. With the bases loaded, senior left fielder Mary Massei struck a line shot to center that just evaded Nebraska center fielder Kiki Stokes’ glove and allowed two runs to score. Three batters later, Miller walked with the bases loaded, putting UW up 4-2.

Nebraska tied the game at 4-4 on senior pitcher Tatum Edwards’ two-run home run in the fifth inning, but Miller responded in the bottom of the inning with a two-run shot of her own that bounced off the scoreboard in center field. Stewart blanked the Huskers in their final two at bats to preserve the 6-4 lead.

Stewart allowed 10 hits over seven innings in the circle, but Healy was impressed with her performance given Nebraska’s highpowered offensive display in the first game.

“You can’t go into the offense that we just faced and think that you’re going to shut them out,” Healy said. “You just try to contain them and that’s what Taylor did in that game.”

The long ball doomed Wisconsin in its first game. With the bases loaded in the top of the second inning,

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Senior infielder Michelle Mueller played in her last game at Goodman Diamond Wednesday along with three other seniors. senior catcher Taylor Edwards fouled off numerous pitches from senior pitcher Cassandra Darrah before sending a home run over the left field wall to put Nebraska up, 4-0.

After Nebraska notched another run in the top of the fourth, Tatum Edwards launched a two-run home run of her own in the same inning. Up 8-0 in the top of the fifth, sophomore second baseman Hailey Decker hit another grand slam to round out the Huskers’ scoring.

Sophomore pitcher Emily Lockman held the Badgers to just four hits and recorded five strikeouts in her five-inning outing.

“She was just on that first game,” Massei said of Lockman’s performance. “I don’t think that we were swinging at too many bad pitches.”

Healy echoed Massei’s attitude, praising her team’s ability to move past the game one loss.

“I’m so proud because we’re not a top 25 team, they are a top 20 team, so if you can just be tough and stay the course even when you give up hits or home runs, that’s what life’s about,” Healy said.

Wednesday’s doubleheader was the final appearance that Wisconsin will make at Goodman Diamond this season. Massei said the impact of playing her final home game as a Badger did not sink in until after the second game.

“That’s where it kind of hit me that I’m not going to play another game on this field,” Massei said.

“But it’s been a great four years and I’m lucky.”