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JON SPIKE academic misjonduct

s my ﬁnal days as a student at UW-Madison fade into the distant horizon on a Memorial Union Terrace sunset, I can’t help but feel like a part of me is about to die. No, I’m not talking about that part of me I lost to frostbite in my extremities during the Camp Randall Outdoor Classic when I tried to urinate on the opposing team’s mascot (wish it was Goldy Gopher). No, I’m talking about a much more metaphorical type of death—the death of my weekly opportunity to yammer on about trivial topics that vaguely relate to the UW-Madison campus. As a tribute to the death of my column and to that small part of me, I’ve decided to write our obituary to save some time and also to get one ﬁnal jab at my critics. Jon and his weekly column died suddenly this past Thursday from a combination of injuries sustained from unruly readers, numerous spelling errors

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and salmonella poisoning. In their ﬁnal moments, Jon and his column seemed almost euphoric in recalling their fondest memories at UWMadison such as when Jon gave Bucky an open-palm slap on the behind, or when his column earned Jon a permanent ban from buying Penn tennis balls. After discussing at length whether or not “NBA Jam” cost him a shot at med school, Jon and his column ended their lives with an impromptu dance number featuring numerous references to UW-Madison, ﬁst pumping and a 14-minute solo by Piccolo Man. Jon and his column enjoyed discussing if Ian’s Pizza was superior to Toppers Stix while walking down the Lakeshore Path toward Picnic Point. They would often sit out on the Porter Boathouse pier and braid each other’s hair for hours on end, arguing over the proper spelling of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s name. To this day, Jon still swears that there is a “q” in there somewhere. Jon and his column were known for equally offending all races, sexes, creeds, fraternities and Girl Scout troops. Although they were never acknowledged with any journalistic awards, Jon’s parents always said that his columns

were “really neat,” and that he was at the forefront of muckraking and investigative journalism. Jon and his column will be remembered for their lack of a coherent message, plagiarized material and an unnecessarily large obsession with Jon’s ex-girlfriend Sherry, who doesn’t even exist. As it turns out, Jon never actually went to UW-Madison, but he fooled The Daily Cardinal staff into believing he was a student simply so he could incoherently ramble once a week to a wide audience. Hopefully you never attempted to send an e-mail to Jon in response to one of his columns because he completely made up that e-mail address. Jon and his column are preceded in death by Jon’s dignity and selfrespect. Also Billy Mays. Jon and his column are survived by Jon’s very embarrassed family and friends who want nothing to do with the subsequent funeral arrangements. Services for Jon and his column’s funeral will likely not be held, as Jon requested that his ashes be formed into a very sexually suggestive statue and thrust into a very sexually suggestive hole in the ground on Bascom Hill and, frankly, no

one wants to grant his last wishes. Instead, it is more than likely that Jon and his column will be harvested by back-alley organ dealers hoping to make a few quick bucks. In their honor, a Jon Spike and His Subpar Column Memorial Fund has been established to help needy Page two columnists lie about their academic standing in order to keep writing. Donations can be sent to spike@wisc. edu or slipped under the door of Jon’s apartment building. He’ll make sure it gets to the right people. In an ironic and very fitting twist to the sordid chapter that was Jon and his column’s lives, Jon died the day before the recipe for immortality was discovered by scientists. Jon also conveniently died the week before all of his various lawsuits from columns over the past year were to go trial. We can only assume Jon’s last words were a tired catchphrase from a mid-’90s movie or a poorly constructed pun. Are you clinically depressed that your life will have around five less terrible puns each week because Jon’s column is finally over? Don’t tell him about it at spike@wisc.edu because that e-mail will be deactivated in the coming days.

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Tenants lack protections for pest-control problems By Hannah McClung The Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison student Ellie Kahn and her roommates knew they had a problem when they found bedbugs in their downtown apartment. They moved out claiming the apartment was untenantable. They now face a bigger problem. Tenants are not protected under state statute or city ordinance for pest-control problems unless they can prove the infestation is a severe health hazard. According to Brenda Konkel, director of the Tenant Resource Center, landlords are not required to inform tenants of a previous pest problem or compensate tenants for rent during an infestation or treatment. However, Konkel said she believes they should be required under city ordinance to do so.

Bedbugs are wingless insects that feed on humans and have seen a resurgence over the last 10 years because they have become resistant to commonly used pesticides, according to Phillip Pellitteri, extension entomologist at UW-Madison. “A big issue on campus is used furniture and multi-unit apartments [because] they spread easily from one unit to the next,” Pellitteri said. Downtown Madison housing units are particularly susceptible to bedbug infestations because of high tenant turnover and tenants bringing in used furniture, according to Pellitteri. Landlords of multi-unit buildings are responsible for maintaining a pest-free environment, but residents’ rights are not explicitly

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One of the bedbugs a group of UW-Madison students found in their downtown apartment.

covered in current state law. “I can easily foresee this [becoming] a greater and more frequent problem in the next couple of years,” Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said of the increasing problem of bedbugs. The three students lived in a Madison Property Management apartment on the 500 block of West Washington Avenue. The tenants started to notice bedbug bites and reported an infestation at the end of February. In an e-mail, MPM told the tenants it would treat the apartment and that the apartment was previously treated for bedbugs in June 2009. According to Dan Keohane of Alternative Pest Solutions, the pest-control company MPM contracted to treat the girls’ apartment, 95 to 99 percent of bedbugs are killed during the first pesticide treatment, so most tenants choose to move back into their apartments afterward. However, one of the three tenants, Lisi Becker, said she saw bedbugs crawling out of the walls while her roommates were cleaning after the first treatment. “We decided we were not willing to live there anymore and started looking for another place,” Kahn said. The three women moved out about three weeks after reporting the infestation. The tenants are currently asking MPM to be compensated for rent and personal possessions and be allowed to break their lease because one of the tenants had a serious reaction to the bites. According to Patricia Yoedicke, the tenants’ lawyer, MPM has paid for three of the six nights the tenants spent in a hotel during the treatment and $300 for bedbugs page 4

Downtown businesses prepare for effects of UW students leaving for summer vacation By Beth Pickhard The Daily Cardinal

Downtown Madison businesses have to cope with economic consequences when UW-Madison students leave during the summer months, but city events and tourism may help account for losses. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said downtown businesses are likely to experience a drop in overall customers because a large number of student patrons depart during the summer. “When summer rolls around each year and a good chunk of students are not on campus that does make a difference for a lot of downtown businesses,” he said. According to Mary Carbine, executive director of the Central Business Improvement District, businesses on State Street or near the UW-Madison campus lose the most customers. “The closer you are to campus, the more likely you are to have a student base,” Carbine said. “[Businesses] up by the Capitol may not be as reliant

on the student base.” Rachael Stanley, co-owner of Dotty Dumpling’s Dowry, said customers drawn to their Lake Street establishment often come from crowds attending UW-Madison athletic events at the Kohl Center. “Generally for the summer we’ll notice a lot more families and smaller children as well as the business lunch crowd,” she said. Carbine said the loss of UW-Madison patrons and athletic fans during the summer is countered by prospective students visiting campus during the summer months. According to University Book Store President Pat McGowan, his bookstore runs promotions, including a T-shirt giveaway, to attract future students to the store when they attend Student Orientation, Advising and Registration with their families starting in June. Carbine said businesses also aim to attract visitors who travel

to Madison for vacation, conventions, festivals or the farmers market. She said these people will typically spend more money when they are in town because they frequent hotels, restaurants and other establishments. According to Carbine, downtown businesses pay attention to the influence of students in their business plans. She said establishments follow economic trends to gain a better picture of their area. “The businesses that are very attuned to the student market are very attuned to the rhythm [of the city],” Carbine said. “They understand people’s discretionary spending is currently down.” Verveer said establishments know a loss of students is coming and can plan for it. He said some bars and restaurants have opened outdoor cafes and patios and have gained more revenue by doing so. “The majority of downtown businesses know what is happening and make do, some [owners] even go on vacation themselves,” he said.

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Oscar the toy poodle upstages his owner, Chancellor Biddy Martin, at University Health Services’ annual Pet Therapy event on Library Mall Wednesday afternoon.

Plan to restructure grad school sparks concern By Erin Banco The Daily Cardinal

Although UW-Madison’s Faculty Senate passed a plan to restructure the graduate school Monday, several research groups are concerned the proposal will create a gulf between research policy and management on campus. Faculty Senate University Committee Chair Bill Tracy said the reorganization of the graduate school will not drastically change the current structure, but he admitted one of the major changes entails the movement of Research and Sponsored Programs, which manages research grants, to the Office of Administration. “The incoming chair of the University Committee said the vice chancellor for administration has had responsibility for the administration process redesign over the past couple years,” Chancellor Biddy Martin said Monday. “He and his office have done a great job in making processes more efficient and effective, so I think [RSP] will benefit from being a part of that shop.” The organization is currently housed in the graduate school and reports to the chief officer for research, Ron Kraemer. With the move, RSP Director Kim Moreland will no longer report to Kraemer, but will report instead to Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell. “We would be a very differ-

ent office from all of the others that report to him,” Moreland said. “Research and Sponsored Programs is about managing research policy so that they work on the behalf of our faculty and about managing the regulation from roughly around 3,000 sponsors that give us research.” According to Judith Burstyn, incoming chair of the University Committee, RSP was under the vice chancellor for administration until 1992, when it moved into the graduate school. “The ad hoc committee felt that many of [RSP’s] functions are administrative in nature and are best situated under this,” Burstyn said at the Faculty Senate meeting Monday. “The vice chancellor for administration also controls the primary budget, so it will put RSP in a more direct connection to the money.” According to Moreland, the proposal concerns research faculty on campus because it creates a gap between the voice of research and the organization that supports the management of research. “You have research policy reporting to the vice chancellor for research, but you have the operational arm of research reporting through administration, and I think that that creates problems,” she said. Part of the initial proposal grad school page 4

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bedbugs from page 3 their inconvenience and have refunded their security deposit. According to state statutes, if the unit is untenantable because of flood, fire or health hazard or requires repairs that impose “undue hardship” on the tenant, they may leave the residence. “I can easily foresee this [becoming] a greater and more frequent problem in the next couple of years.” Bridget Maniaci alder District 2

Tenants are only eligible for rent compensation if a building inspector orders a landlord to eradicate a pest problem and they fail to do so in the allotted time, according to George Hank, director of the Madison Building Inspection Division. Maniaci said she thinks pestcontrol situations are something that needs to be looked at “comprehensively” at the city level. One controversial issue,

Maniaci said, would be whether landlords should tell their tenants about past pest issues. “I don’t see why the city of Madison couldn’t pass a law that says, ‘Yes, we have to have disclosure about [pest-control problems] when you move into an apartment,’” Konkel said. Maniaci said such an ordinance could be unfair to landlords who were not responsible for a particular pest problem of if they treated the problem correctly. According to Dan Seeley, community manager for Steve Brown Apartments, most of their pest-control situations are dealt with based on feedback from their pest-control contractor, Wil-Kil, which also does preventative building treatments monthly with Steve Brown. “Part of the challenge with [bedbugs] is that we as human beings can only see so much,” Wil-Kil regional manager Jim Gilbert said. Wil-Kil uses a trained dog to smell out bedbugs and their eggs before an apartment is heavily infested. If students have problems with or questions about pest control, they can contact the Tenant Resource Center at 608-257-0006.

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Gubernatorial campaigns to heat up over summer months By Hannah Furfaro and Alison Dirr The Daily Cardinal

As the summer months heat up, so too will the gubernatorial campaigns of both the two leading Republican candidates and the Democratic frontrunner, who entered the race just six months ago. After over a year on the campaign trail, both leading Republican candidates, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and former Congressman Mark Neumann, will continue to duke it out as they move at full speed toward the September primary. By that time, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will likely have clinched the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s official endorsement. In the months leading up to the primary election, the candidates said they plan to strengthen their online presence, set up new offices and attend local events. Although the campaigns declined to reveal their summer playbooks, their strategies will likely become more aggressive. “The race just heats up and schedules get very, very tight here from here on out. It’s really nonstop, go go go throughout the summer and into the fall,” Chris Lato, spokesperson for the Neumann campaign, said. Lato said although the campaign trail is busy, Neumann will make an effort to reach out to students. “Rest assured that we’re con-

stantly looking for opportunities to reach out to students on campuses throughout the state and that’s an effort that’s going to continue throughout the summer,” he said. According to Phil Walzak, Barrett campaign spokesperson, the campaign will soon launch a website targeted at students who are interested in getting involved on their campus. “We have seen in the last couple of elections campus voter turnout really being a decisive factor in elections. This campaign takes very seriously the importance of getting on campuses,” he said. Throughout the summer and into next semester, campus organizations like College Democrats and College Republicans will use social networking sites to update students on campaign-related events at UW-Madison. “We’ll certainly be their message ‘relayer,’ I guess you could say,” said Stephen Duerst, the newly elected chair of the UW-Madison College Republicans. “We’ll do both Twitter and Facebook and keep our members updated through press releases.” The Republican Party of Wisconsin also plans to set up a new campaign office this summer in efforts to engage the Madison community. Both leading Republican candidates plan to continue their ad campaigns and participate in community parades and other events. According to UW-Madison political science professor Dennis

Dresang, “it’s going to be hard for Tom Barrett to get a lot of attention when most people who are focusing on the gubernatorial race are going to focus more right now on the contest with the Republican Party.” Both leading Republican candidates have been aggressively placing television, radio and online advertisements over the past few months. Although Barrett has made an effort to tour businesses and communities around the state, he has spent less than either of the leading Republican candidates. According to the January campaign finance report, in the second half of 2009, Barrett spent about $70,000, compared to over $900,000 for Walker. “We have the people, they have the cash,” Graeme Zielinski, spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said. “We’re not going to interfere with their race to the bottom ... If they are going to try to outflank each other on the far right ... why should we interfere?” However, according to Dresang, the campaigns’ efforts to distinguish themselves will not persuade some voting blocs to shift their alliances. “Having a brown bag rather than a caviar lunch is really not going to change [votes] very much,” he said. “But it’s part of campaigning to look like you’re appealing to everybody even if they’re not your natural constituents.”

New arrests made in North Side homicide case Three people have been arrested in connection with the recent homicide of 19-year-old Madison resident Antonio Perez, according to a police report. Billy Wenner-Say, 23, and Ivan Mateo-Lozenzo, 21, both of Madison, have also been charged with intentional homicide but are still at large.

Mateo-Lozenzo, allegedly a member of the Sur 13 street gang, is also known as Arain Gutierrez and Alberto Ramirez. He was last spotted in the Port Arthur, Texas, area. He is also considered the primary suspect and is who police believe pulled the trigger, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

The three arrested suspects are 19-year-old Karen Giron-Cruz of Madison, 16-year-old Victor Prado-Velasquez of Fitchburg and 15-year-old Franklin YanezHernandez of Madison. According to the WSJ, YanezHernandez was arrested Wednesday in West Lafayette, Ind.

Capitol Neighborhoods Inc. supports new Dayton complex By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal

Capitol Neighborhoods Inc. supported plans for the proposed 431 W. Dayton St. building project at a Mifflin Neighborhood Meeting Wednesday. The vacant two-bedroom house currently on the property is planned to be demolished, and a brand-new four-story, fully furnished apartment complex is anticipated to be built in its place. The proposed plans for the building consist of one unit on each of the four floors, with each unit averaging about 2000 square feet. There are expected to be 23 bedrooms throughout the entire complex. “We’ve kind of taken the city’s lead and tried to construct a building that fits the current use for college kids,” Daniel Bohl, who spoke on behalf of the project,

grad school from page 3 to restructure the graduate school was to solve a resource issue in RSP. Moreland said Martin and provost Paul DeLuca wanted to improve the amount of service RSP offers to research faculty. “If part of this was to solve a resource issue in RSP, why not simply move the money [rather] than move the office? It is going to be more expensive to move the office,”

said. “The majority of the neighborhood is college students, too.” The plans also include a green space in the backyard intended to be a grilling area for residents. Twenty-three bike and two moped stalls have also been included in the plan. The building is anticipated to draw in junior and senior undergraduates who want to break away from the possible congestion that comes with living in the downtown high-rises. The proposal is being presented in two weeks in front of the city’s Urban Design Commission. The renovation of the former Planned Parenthood building at 416 W. Mifflin St. was also discussed at the meeting. Capitol Neighborhoods Inc. is taking into consideration the construction of an apartment complex by Connery-

Fedler Building and Design. The proposed plan consists of a four-story complex with an additional underground parking level. The building is anticipated to consist of mostly studios and singles with only three threebedroom apartments. There is planned to be a total of 33 units and 55 bedrooms. However, it was argued that the implementation of an apartment complex on Mifflin Street would inevitably draw an excessive amount of undergraduates, threatening what one opponent of the plan called “a nice kind of balance” achieved with regard to age groups on Mifflin Street. Meeting participants later agreed that smaller units would draw a less party-oriented crowd. A meeting will be held Tuesday to discuss the project further.

Moreland said. “Our goal is for faculty members to be able to devote their efforts to the science, not to become little administrators.” Although she did not contact Martin directly, Moreland said she wrote a letter to the provost, the vice chancellor for administration and the vice chancellor for research expressing her concerns. But Martin said she is adamant about implementing the restructuring as soon as possi-

ble. She said she is confident the restructuring will create a more efficient way of managing research oversight. “I think the failure to keep pace with some of the developments in research means that there is some urgency in moving more quickly rather than slowly,” Martin said. “I think people feel positively about the motion that just got passed. It doesn’t seem to have caused controversy.”

featureslife&style Selvedge sparks future designers

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The works showcased at the Selvedge Fashion Show exceeded the expectations of passive viewers, who became active spectators, searching for the inspirations behind nearly 100 pieces from over 20 student designers, modeled by over 20 women and one man. The show at the Monona Terrace on Saturday May 1, explored four themes: “Innocence,” “Rebellion,” “Passion” and “Imagination.” Overall, the different themes did not unify the pieces as much as provide set breaks with narrated poetry, each conveying different moods with varying lighting, songs and attitudes of the models. This allowed for designers to identify with the given theme, but also to have plenty of leeway to style their pieces individually. The first theme, “Innocence,” was the most cohesive and contained some of the most wearable pieces. Designers went with simple

texture contrasts and mellow color choices. Laura Chidester’s Green Dress proved to be one of the more simple, yet fantastically flawless spring additions to the group; Ariel Gold’s two “In the Garden” pieces were light and cute, yet heartbreakingly mature. An absolute favorite of the “Innocence” set was unexpected: Lauralyn Renn’s fantastic Duality modeled by Yer Lee. The piece had a masculine overtone in the pant cut while the top previewed what is sure to be seen [finally] in America for the summer 2010: a classy cropped baggy cut that leaves room for a sophisticated midriff. The “Rebellion” chapter of the show carried an aggressive tone and showcased a higher variety of cuts, colors, overlaying textures and materials. It exhibited a rougher feminine character and varied in levels of complexity. Lauren Peterson modeled a jagged, dark flowing piece that demonstrated how seemingly conflicting extremes can coexist under this rebellious mind-

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Designers from the Textile and Apparel Student Association designed over 100 pieces for the Selvedge Fashion Show last Saturday. set: a short, flowing frontal cut paired with a lengthy train; a patchwork design outlined with sparkling rhinestones; and the neutral grays contrasting sharply with the high leather boots. This “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” piece was bravely designed and well executed by designer Kate Van Asten. One of the more casual yet bold pieces, Grotesque, featured many pieces that were not seen anywhere else in the production. Libby Peterkort designed an oversized red scarf, masking the entire face of model, Prudence Yungerman, as well as a pair of shorts and shredded red-roped tights combination, a style that we Wisconsinites were eager to embrace for the spring season. Tessa Brown’s Exultation set the stage for the “Passion” section of the show, and any dispelled any doubt that sultriness was going to be absent from the afternoon’s presentation. The gown had a gorgeous skeletal fit on top and grew to resemble an overflowing bouquet of roses all the way to the floor. The precise layering mixed with a high vertical slit demonstrated sophistication and precision from the designer. It was clear that the designers took the “Imagination” theme as an opportunity to be creative with their own personal style. While this did not necessarily lend itself to cohesiveness between the pieces, it provided the sort of ‘big bang’ the audience appreciated to end the show. Melissa Farrar dominated this final chapter with her

Anatomy of a Dream series. The most unique set of the series was called Repetition, displaying three models each wearing electric blue turtleneck dresses that covered half of their face. The sleeves flowed down to the floor and dragged as they walked, leading eyes to the next clone-like model. Farrar ended her series, and the show, with a similar blue-hued radial wing-set on the final m o d e l , Melissa Zembrowski. It seemed as if the energy of the show was leading up to these final moments, and viewers forgot they had even witnessed the calmer and simpler attires earlier in the evening. The production ended, and the feelings among viewers were common: the energy and level of creativity was undeniable as exemplified by smiles and eagerness in

conversation. These young designers proved themselves to be competent, skilled and creative. We should take their work as a sign that the future of fashion is in capable and nimble hands. See dailycardinal.com/lifeand-style for a full photo gallery.

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Looking for something to do this summer? Go to a music festival! Here, the Arts desk previws six festivals worth your time.

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Lollapalooza’s, taking place August 6-8, say about festival culture in the Windy City? It says that the big guns aren’t willing to take the big risks. Besides a nifty site design, Lollapalooza prides itself in giving us last year’s top acts (although some may argue that GaGa is timeless). Add some indie-darlings that all the cool people saw last year at Pitchfork, and you’ve got the biggest bust of the summer festival season. Positives? They are definitely there. Any chance to see the Dirty Projectors should be taken without hesitation, and the National have become a force to reckon with (albeit an awkward and alienating one). But Green Day? And why is Devo coming out of hiding to share a stage with Cypress Hill? But perhaps the most egregious breach of trust and taste is the selection of Phoenix as a headliner. Nothing says wistful summer quite like Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, but unfortunately their presence at Lollapalooza is too little too late. Lollapalooza shows us “true and everlasting / didn’t last that long,” especially when it comes to music. It’s not that these acts are bad, the lineup just suffers from anemia caused by musical overexposure. So if you go, take solace in the Arcade Fires and the Frightened Rabbits of the festival, because Lollapalooza also charges way too much for bad beer. —Anthony Cefali

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clearly isn’t deprived in the music department. The embarrassment of riches doesn’t dissipate with music festival season, as not only is Chicago host to the always-hyped Lollapalooza, but the Pitchfork Music Festival calls the Second City home as well. Nestled in cozy Union Park July 16-18, Pitchfork may not have the scope of Lollapalooza, but its narrowband approach deﬁnitely meshes with Pitchfork Media’s target audience of indie music elitists. This year’s headliners include Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem and main draw Pavement, who included Pitchfork as a leg on their reunion tour after a decade spent in band-breakup purgatory. But the full lineup has a solid level of depth this year, with Broken Social Scene, Raekwon, Wolf Parade and Big Boi being supported by some more big names and Daily Cardinal favorites, such as Titus Andronicus, Girls and the Smith Westerns ﬁlling out the roster with their set lists. Though Sunday will garner the most attention thanks to Pavement’s performance, it’s hard to miss any day of the festival, though attending all three will run you a pretty penny as three-day passes sold out faster than Green Day. So if you’re near Chicago and in a festival mood, but don’t want to be stabbed in the eye by a Lady Gaga costume, Pitchfork is the place to go. —Todd Stevens

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all things people long to revisit. Sadly, the opportunity to do so rarely arises for the average college student. Enter Camp Bisco. A three-day outdoor electronic-rock music festival held in Mariaville, NY, 30 miles outside Albany, Camp Bisco is a hybrid of a music festival and summer camp. In its ninth year and hosted by The Disco Biscuits, the event features a color war, one that concert attendees tend to get very into. There will also be volleyball, tetherball and tug-o-war competitions, as well as scavenger hunts, chess matches and a spelling bee. In addition to this fun, the festival boasts a pretty decent lineup, which includes its host, the Disco Biscuits, LCD Soundsystem, Method Man, Ghostface Killah & Raekwon (this year’s Wu Massacre), Caribou and more. These artists will perform on one of the festival’s four stages. In addition to these, Camp Bisco will offer a DJ tent and a late night dance tent, as well as a local artist and performing arts tent, providing a variety of activities for attendees to take part in. With this overzealous persona, Camp Bisco is a music festival unlike any other. Even if the lineup isn’t particularly impressive, the atmosphere and entertainment the event boasts should be enough to convince someone to trek out east. —Jacqueline O’Reilly

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verything is coming to an end: The semester, the school year, the spring, and my tenure as the Daily Cardinal’s film columnist. With finals right around the corner and, for some of us, graduation just down the hall, now seems as good a time as any to reflect upon the cinematic year that was. What better way to wrap things up than with a list of the top ten films of the past school year? I should clarify what did and didn’t qualify for the list that follows. First, I’ve only included films that screened in Madison more than once during the last two semesters. Second, I’ve only included films that made their Madison debut at some point during the fall or the spring. (This then excludes all the wonderful films that were shown by the Cinematheque.) 10. “Summer Hours” For my money, “Summer Hours” director Olivier Assayas is one of the brightest and most talented filmmakers working in today’s French mainstream. This film is a far-cry from his more aggressively attitudinal offerings (like 2007’s “Boarding Gate”). “Summer Hours” explores family ties and the phenomenon of mourning without relying upon clichéd forms of sentimentality; it flows as steadily and smoothly as any film I saw all year. 9. “A Serious Man” With this film, Joel and Ethan Coen managed to marry their self-con-

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sciously postmodern tendencies with a story and subject originating from the heart. Whether you’re a cinephilic schmendrick (like yours truly) or an uncommonly curious goy, the slick narration and precise compositional touch of “A Serious Man” makes it utterly irresistible. 8. “A Prophet” This film legitimately surprised me in that I typically have little interest in gritty crime movies, no matter how well-made or cleverly written they might be. Jacques Audiard’s fifth feature is relentlessly sticky, bloody without being too repulsive, sporadically selfaware and magnetic in its ability to convey a genuinely engrossing narrative. It was perhaps the most absorbing of the lengthier films that I saw in Madison during the past nine months. 7. “The Beaches of Agnès” 81-year-old Agnès Varda is such an institution of international art cinema that this film—an autobiographical documentary conducted in both the past and present tenses—is not only a memoir of its maker but a memoir of cinema itself. “The Beaches of Agnès” abounds with Varda’s singular visual sensibility, her dame-like sense of humor and her tendency to tap into cinema’s essence as if by accident. 6. “The White Ribbon” Michael Haneke’s 11th feature is anything but subtle; it’s as elliptical as any self-respecting “art” film we’ve seen since “Rashomon” and as unsmilingly self-serious as any “philosophical” film we’ve seen since the Holocaust. Despite this humorless handicap, “The White Ribbon” is too acute in its insights and too visually bold to deny.

5. “The Hurt Locker” I haven’t seen this year’s big Oscar winner since last summer but I trust that its portrayal of unstable men thrown headfirst into exceedingly dangerous situations is as complete and honest an image of war as any that we’ve been presented with in recent memory. 4. “Daddy Longlegs” My favorite narrative feature from this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival, Josh and Benny Safdie’s film is at once adorable and mortifying, a tale of fatherly love punctuated with flourishes of urban violence and parental neglect. The graininess of the film’s images mirrors the philosophical graininess of its statements about the painfulness of growing up, for both children and adults. 3. “Police, Adjective” I was extremely pleased that Corneliu Porumboiu’s second feature screened so many times in Madison this spring. The ideas that it explicitly articulates are as palpably potent as those that it expresses through its nearly static, often undramatic long takes. “Police, Adjective” is undeniable proof that the tried-and-true arthouse formula of “long and slow” still has some serious mileage left in it. 2. “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson’s sixth feature is adorable, hilarious and aesthetically challenging. Like all of Anderson’s post-“Rushmore” output, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is star-powered and quirky to a fault; even so, it never relinquishes its combination of poignancy and wryness. Of course, it’s also endlessly rewatchable. 1. “Greenberg” Noah Baumbach’s masterpiece cap-

tures the charms and neuroses of Ben Stiller’s 40-something former mental patient with a wealth of sardonic wit and a penchant for staging scenes in the most uncomfortable fashion imaginable. “Greenberg” will likely be remembered as the ﬁlm that afﬁrmed Stiller’s place as one of our era’s most dynamic performers (career missteps notwithstanding) and Greta Gerwig’s

position as one of its most alluringly enigmatic onscreen presences. Hopefully the opinions and ideas I’ve expressed in this space each week have left enough of an impression on you that you’ll feel inspired to watch some movies this summer that you otherwise wouldn’t have. If not, my feelings won’t be hurt. I promise. You’ve been a great audience. Never change.

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Old leaders move on today... and new leaders enter tomorrow By Charles Brace EDITOR IN CHIEF

I am incredibly proud of the four years I have spent working at The Daily Cardinal. It is something that has impacted my life in innumerable ways, and I am sincerely grateful for the opportunities I have been given. I am particularly proud of the accomplishments and strides the paper has made in the past year, including earning 25 awards, releasing over a dozen special editions, continuing investigative coverage and unveiling a revamped website, to name a few. But all of those things are not necessarily what I remember most about working here or what I think is most important. If a freshman asked me, “Why should I work at a student newspaper?,” peripheral benefits like awards would not be the first thing on my list to convince them to sign up for long hours, deadlines, unresponsive sources and the stress of taking on a demanding job. In fact, all of those things contribute to the real and lasting benefit of the experience, the ability to take on more responsibility and face more pressure than one would normally encounter as a student. It is one thing to say you had an internship, but they didn’t let you do a lot or go after the big stories, and when your six months ended and all you had was something on your resume. It is entirely different to have the opportunity to cover a politically charged rally in sweltering heat, get spit on by protestors and then find out you have to take the photos of the event because the photographer was held up at another assignment. If being a student journalist does anything, it empowers people to realize that they do not have to accept the status quo, either in themselves or the community they report on. When you realize that powerful people

will angrily demand that you resign over something you wrote, that the relative of a murder victim is a real person whom you are asking for details about their loved one and that maybe, hopefully, your article may have an impact that is longer than 24 hours, you step through a door and become a changed person. There’s no turning back after that. Perhaps most importantly, the experience allows you to make mistakes. I think it is easy to think about successes and big, gaudy accomplishments, but I have learned more from the decisions where I was wrong, the kind that are made at 2:00 a.m. when no one else was around, than I have from any other. I will remember for the rest of my life some of the mistakes I’ve made here, the kind that continue to inﬂuence my decision making and leave an imprint on my mind that is not easily erased. I also have immense admiration for the competitive spirit that develops on this campus between two competing newspapers. I have an incredible amount of respect for The Badger Herald staff and the commitment they have to their newspaper. The Daily Cardinal is a better paper for having to compete against them, and I am grateful for their impressive tenacity and dedication. And so if there is anyone reading this who wants to get that same sort of experience, the kind where you may get a call at midnight when it’s snowing and police sirens are going off and there is no one else around to cover the story but you, stop by our ofﬁce next year. It changed my life and I know it can do the same for yours. Charles Brace will be walking across the stage at graduation in two weeks. He plans to apply to law schools this coming fall. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

By Emma Roller INCOMING EDITOR IN CHIEF

Hey guys. My name is Emma Roller and I’ll be taking over as editor in chief of The Daily Cardinal next semester. I have five main goals for improving the Cardinal in the upcoming school year. 1. Relevance. Aside from the educational value for the staff, there would be little reason to produce a student newspaper if it did not relate to student interests. One fatal flaw we often make is forgetting that not all students pore over local news every day. Issues like the Central Library renovations and ASM elections need explanation as well as contextualization. Rather than simply reporting “this meeting occurred,” it is crucial to explain what actually happened there, what was decided and what the significance of that decision is for students. News does not consist of isolated, sporadically important issues, but of ever-developing stories outside of meetings and press releases. More explanatory news content will cultivate interest in student body about politics on campus, in the city and throughout the state. 2. Advocacy. As journalists we try to approach issues as objectively as possible, but we cannot reject the inherent solidarity we have with the student body. To promote this, I hope to continue our investigative role on campus. By informing students on deeper issues, from corrupt landlord practices to irresponsible spending of segregated fees, we can advocate for the well being of the students we represent. 3. Accountability. Apart from holding politicians, professors and other local officials accountable, journalists must also hold themselves accountable. To accomplish this, I hope to implement management and ombudsman columns. Incoming managing editor Todd Stevens and I are currently recruiting a Cardinal alum to be our ombudsman, a third party who can more objectively and critically

point out ﬂaws in our coverage. Unfortunately, these types of columns can quickly devolve into masturbatory ruminations on topics that only interest the staffs of the two student newspapers. However, when done right they can add a layer of accountability to the student press and suggest ways we can improve our content. 4. Entertainment. Despite how professional we try to be in our practices, we cannot deny our status as a college newspaper. Students usually pick up the papers and visit our websites to seek out some respite from the monotony of school, and for this reason I hope to bring more lighthearted content into the paper. Some ways to achieve this is to add more innovative Page 2 content, create more fun, quippy videos, and run more student personal interest stories. This is where you come in. Let us know if one of your friends is writing an erotic novel, starting a UW record label, organizing a charity for baby narwhals or founding an amateur Bocce ball league. Which leads me to my ﬁnal goal... 5. Balls. Most importantly, I want to return something to the Cardinal it’s sorely lacked for awhile. Something that can easily be overused but, when used responsibly, can galvanize the intellect, activism, debate, humor and overall investment of UW students in their campus community. What I’m talking about, of course, is a healthy pair of cojones. Without the necessary moxie to ask tough questions to people twice our age, run confrontational columns and raunchy photos, we cannot feel out the proper boundaries for our coverage. Without balls, we cannot survive as a legitimate publication. So look for that big, warm package hitting the racks come August—I look forward to seeing you then. Emma Roller is a junior majoring in journalism and political science. Please send all feedback and advice for the incoming EIC to editor@dailycardinal.com.

Step back, take time to recognize the earth By Anthony Cefali THE GREEN ROOM

Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” seems to pride itself in being unapologetically divisive. Leopold wrote, “A thing is right when it tends to preserve integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” This is as bold a statement now as it was back then, even after decades of environmentalism and green consciousness.

We cannot continue deferring responsibility for the earth’s well being.

The Green Room has existed for about six months now, and it began by highlighting what individuals could do for their community and for their environment. In the beginning, we tried to capture the energy and idealism associated with modern environmentalism. Since then, we’ve featured debates on nuclear energy, celebrated earth Day, raised awareness about environmental health hazard and it all will culminate with a panel on social responsibility and sustainability in the Madison community. But the new environmentalism encompasses more than just these things. One of

our goals for starting this section at The Daily Cardinal was to provide a philosophical framework for the future of environmentalism and eradicate the “us versus them” mentality associated with the movement. We’ve strived to provide readers with the knowledge to see why statements like Leopold’s land ethics are not universally good for the environment. More importantly, we’ve strived to show that environmentalism and good science is primarily about good narratives. There are multiple ways to look at every situation, and there are no silver bullets for environmental cleanup. Many historians credit Leopold’s “Almanac,” along with the American transcendentalist movement for our current views of environmentalism. The transcendentalists believed the natural beauty of our earth was something to be restored. Modernism took this idea farther. By tarnishing the natural world with our industrial tendencies, we were wandering farther away from our “Edenic” past. This transcendental philosophy explains the national park movement. We preserved nature by closing it off from industrialization. Although effective, it is a very romantic way of approaching environmental stewardship. In preservation, we separate ourselves entirely from nature. The parts of it that we do embrace, we embrace behind human boundaries. As artists wrestled with industrialization and consumerism, ecology became a selfaware discipline. It’s amazing, but the idea of

observing nature as a dynamic system did not become relevant until 1935. British botanist Sir Arthur Tansley coined the term “ecosystem,” finally providing a framework for studying natural systems. Ecosystem studies are about monitoring nutrient movement through a landscape, be it through animals, water cycling or some other source. Around this time, UW-Madison annexed what is now the Arboretum for study and preservation. Leopold worked there, helping to establish the prairie and some communities resembling Door County systems, replete with delicate Canada Mayflower. Seventy years into this restoration experiment, we have to ask the question: What about the Arboretum is natural? Nothing, really, and that’s not a bad thing. The Arboretum represents the next step in environmentalism. Leopold’s idea of wilderness no longer exists, as humans have exerted their influence over pretty much everything. Looking at things this way, environmentalism becomes a game of system dynamics. Our stewardship isn’t so much about bringing us back to some elusive and harmonious time zero, but about building a sustainable and resilient community. To do this, we must recognize that the earth spins on its own terms. This makes phenomena like global warming especially disconcerting (and its deniers even moreso). Perhaps we’ve taken things too far and the planet is compensating? Regardless, we cannot continue deferring responsibility for the earth’s well being. A strong community takes

responsibility and ensures sustainability for everyone’s benefit. For me, most things come back to either the failed experiment Biosphere 2 or the Talking Heads. As far as new environmentalism goes, it’s both. Biosphere 2 taught us that natural systems have their own plans. Nature dances, and it is our responsibility to learn the dance and continue along in stride. And as David Byrne once sang, “There was a shopping mall / now it’s all covered with flowers,” an ode to flux, flow and the impermanence of it all.

Our stewardship isn’t so much about bringing us back to some elusive and harmonious time zero, but about building a sustainable and resilient community.

So how do we make sense of it all, knowing that even nature is under our control? We take a step back and recontextualize. We pour our energy into little things, understanding the importance of green space and reusing resources. In stepping back, we can see how we’re supposed to dance, because we need the earth much more than it needs us. Anthony Cefali is a senior majoring in biology and English. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Remembering Neha Suri THE DAILY CARDINAL

We always said we’d catch up, Neha. After the months I was gone, I was so delighted to see your smiling face come around the corner of your kitchen wall, before you squealed and ran over to grab me out of my chair. You threw me into a huge hug; the kind of warm hug after a long absence that you never want to leave; the kind of hug that leaves you helpless to do anything but close your eyes and surrender; a hug between good friends. No words, just a hug, and we shelved months of life stories for the night. Then we did it again the next few times we passed one another. It kills me that I let you slip by and never got that chance again. I know that for many friends both on staff here, on campus and around the world, the experience was similar. To lose someone so close and so young shakes you to the core. Almost none of us has known someone in our short lives who died so young. It pushed all of us to a place we had never been, and to which we hope never to return. Another semester concludes here but it would be wrong of me to say it was one like any other. We all lost a friend this semester. A partner in mischief. A class-

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mate. A family member. At this point I guess it doesn’t really matter what I say, but that I say it. The lingering grief is the one thing that I find truly difficult to put into words in my overly articulate, journalistic existence, so I’ll just say it as a friend. Although, between the beautiful words exchanged in the confidence of friends and the touching sentiments shared publicly, maybe it’s all been said already by people much more eloquent than I. We miss you, dear. Every day. The wounds have begun to heal, but you are still very much in our hearts as we close a semester without you. Rest in peace, sweetie. And I owe you one monster of a hug when we meet again. We’ll have a lot to share. To honor Neha’s memory, the UW-Madison Department of Political Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, in partnership with The Daily Cardinal Alumni Association, have established The Neha Suri Scholarship Fund for UW-Madison students majoring in journalism and/or political science. If you would like to donate to the fund, contact Jennifer Karlson at the UW Foundation, (608) 262-7225, or donate online at www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu.

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his decade UW-Madison has taken a lot of flak from students, alumni and other frequently frustrated persons for its track record with commencement speakers. And it’s not without reason, as the recent list of speakers hasn’t really had much of a “wow” factor. Last year, the bane of baseball fans, Bud Selig, spoke at spring commencement. The year before it was state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, who despite being a perfectly lovely woman isn’t exactly a sexy name. Prior to her it was André De Shields, whom I had to look up to discover is an accomplished dancer and theater actor. As a music critic, I was ashamed. But the average lay student could be forgiven for not recognizing De Shields’ resume. So it’s understandable that much rejoicing greeted the announcement of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as this year’s commencement speaker––or at least the commencement speaker for the School of Education. We got a cabinet member! And not just any cabinet member, we got the cabinet member who deals with education, which is supposedly why most of us are here. But I wasn’t celebrating with the rest of the secretary of education groupies. Granted, I still admire that UWMadison had enough pull to draw Duncan into flyover country for a day and get him to speak to the intrepid education majors. As far as prestige goes, he is clearly a step up from Abrahamson and the douchebag who tried to contract the Minnesota Twins. But based on Duncan’s job performance so far, it’s hard for me to entirely get behind his speaking engagement. Ever since his confirmation, Duncan and President Barack Obama

have focused most of their Department of Education efforts on Race to the Top, an initiative that provides federal funds to states that have shown a commitment to improving education. In theory, it sounds like a beneﬁcial idea. It rewards those who are making an effort to improve, and that should encourage schools all across the country to improve, right? However, as occurred with President George W. Bush’s loathsome No Child Left Behind, good intentions from the federal government often don’t result in beneﬁts for America’s students. So far when put into practice, Race to the Top has done little to actually promote improved educational methods. Instead, Race to the Top echoes No Child Left Behind, with most school districts doing everything except better educating their students to get ahead.

Based on Duncan’s job performance so far, it’s hard for me to entirely get behind his speaking engagement.

What most of Race to the Top has resulted in is change simply for the sake of change. I get that Obama asked for change constantly during his campaign, but I think he meant for there to be a reason behind it. Instead, most states have completely revamped their school districts not in a productive way, but using methods that are backed up with little to no evidence that they will work. For an example, just look 80 miles to the east where everything short of assassination was attempted to remove power from Milwaukee Public Schools’ board and give more power to the mayor. Theoretically, this would make it easier and more efﬁcient to institute reforms and streamline funding. Realistically, it likely won’t change a thing. It doesn’t get rid of bad teachers. It doesn’t make Milwaukee Public

Schools a safer environment for learning. And it likely wouldn’t have raised the almighty test scores of students by a single point. The idea was just change for change’s sake. Politicians across the country enacted numerous proposals like the MPS endeavor, with districts reshufﬂing and reorganizing just to make it look like they were trying to improve. And therein lies the biggest problem with Race to the Top: It rewards states at the least opportune time possible. It doesn’t wait for the results to come in on these reforms that schools have instituted. Nor does it send money to the school districts that need it most before they institute these changes, so they might actually have the resources to make worthwhile reforms. No, Race to the Top says do something with what little you have, and regardless of how well it works, we’ll give you points for effort. What would be better is if Duncan actually had some faith in school districts. Poor districts like Milwaukee, other urban districts and especially poor rural districts just do not have enough disposable funds to provide students with the educational materials they need, be it textbooks, smaller class sizes or after-school programs. If Race to the Top funds were actually distributed to needy districts instead of entire states, some of the money might actually do some good. Instead, Duncan has just thrown money haphazardly instead of in targeted, beneﬁcial fashion. While I still have a year at UW ahead of me, I plan on checking out Duncan’s speech as soon as it’s online. But I don’t expect to be as moved by his words of wisdom as my graduating peers. Instead, I’ll be hoping UWMadison can build on this speech next year––hopefully with somebody who isn’t as ineffective an educational leader as Arne Duncan. Todd Stevens is a junior majoring in history and psychology. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Games to remember From Madison to Orlando, there was no shortage of great games this year. These were the ﬁve best.

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Men’s Hockey

One was college hockey’s biggest story of the year, the small school in one of its first seasons at the Division I level that made it all the way to the Frozen Four. The other was a powerhouse with six titles that was looking for its seventh. One boasted a goalie on a hot streak who silenced the Denver and New Hampshire offenses, allowing just three goals in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. The other was led by a prolific scoring attack that posted more goals per game than nearly every other team in the country. One was just happy to make it to Detroit for the Frozen Four, the other knew making it that far would mean little if they left without a championship. One was Cinderella, but the other was a clock striking midnight. Wisconsin fans may have been nervous

Football

With head coach Bret Bielema and the No. 25 Badgers on a two-year bowlgame losing streak, Wisconsin entered the 2009 Champs Sports Bowl against No. 15 Miami looking to end its season for the first time since 2006. The game could not have started worse for UW, as Miami kick returner Graig Cooper took the game’s opening boot into the Wisconsin red zone, then ran the ball into the endzone the next play to fire the Hurricanes an early 7-0 lead. But the game was all downhill from there for Miami, as the Badgers would use their patented methodical offense to cruise to a 20-14 victory and claim the Champs Sports Bowl title. Junior quarterback Scott Tolzien was efficient, completing 19 of 26 passes for 260 yards. And Badger running backs John Clay and Montee Ball combined for 182 rushing yards

Badgers end RIT’s Cinderella run with rout in Frozen Four about facing college hockey’s postseason darling, the second straight No. 4 seed to reach the Frozen Four, especially with the Tigers’ strong goaltender, Jared DeMichiel. Those fears subsided early, however, as the Badgers scored 1:27 into the ﬁrst period and never looked back. “They put us on our heels right from the beginning,” RIT head coach Wayne Wilson said. DeMichiel and the Tigers were simply overmatched, as the 8-1 ﬁnal score indicated the difference in talent between the two squads. Wisconsin’s 5-0 loss in the NCAA championship game may have tarnished fans’ memories of the Frozen Four, but this dominant win was the high point of the Badgers’ season. —Nico Savidge

Wisconsin overpowers No. 15 ’Canes to win bowl appearance on 37 carries. The six-point margin of victory did not do the game justice, as the Badgers entered halftime with a 10-point lead, and kept the Hurricane offense at bay for the entire second half before a late Miami touchdown with under two minutes in regulation narrowed the gap. UM sophomore quarterback Jacory Harris had frustrated defenses with his speed all season, but the Badgers turned him into a non-factor, holding him to minus-1 rushing yards on nine attempts. Perhaps the lasting image of the bowl game for Wisconsin fans is the Miami players and fans huddled up in sweatshirts during the unusually brisk night in Florida. Of course Wisconsin felt right at home with the cool weather on their way to pulling the upset. —Scott Kellogg

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It was the ﬁrst time Duke lost in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. It was a clinching game and the Big Ten’s ﬁrst victory in the challenge. It was one of the loudest games in the history of the Kohl Center. It was revenge for the 8258 beat down in Cameron two years earlier. Whichever memory from Wisconsin’s 7369 upset of No. 5 Duke Dec. 2 sticks in your head it was the most surprising and exciting sporting event of the school year. Badgers fans were still unsure if a successful season was to come or if shades of last year’s team would show up again when Duke came to the Kohl Center. But led by senior guard Trevon Hughes’ 26 points and junior forward Jon Leuer’s 17 points and seven rebounds, the underdog Badgers never trailed against the Blue Devils.

UW shocks No. 5 Duke in front of raucous Kohl Center

Wisconsin stormed out of the gates hitting eight of its first 10 shots, and just five minutes in the Badgers held a 19-9 lead. Duke clawed away at the lead and by half tailed 38-32. It was a back and forth game. The Badgers would open up a healthy lead only to have the Blue Devils sneak within a possession or two. Most of Duke’s success was thanks to junior forward Kyle Singler; he had a game high 28 points including a tip-in with five seconds remaining to cut Wisconsin’s lead to one. The Badgers secured the victory by hitting six free throws in the last 25 seconds. Sophomore guard Jordan Taylor’s free throw following a turnover by Singler clinched the victory and kicked off the celebration for Wisconsin fans and Big Ten fans. —Nick Schmitt

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This series represented college hockey at its ﬁnest. Two dynamic teams, two title contenders, two powerhouse programs, locked in a weekend-long battle for supremacy in the most talented conference in the country. After earning a tie Friday night, Wisconsin struck ﬁrst on Saturday, getting a goal from senior tri-captain Ben Street. Senior forward Michael Davies provided the assist on the play with a perfect centering pass from the corner. Denver tied the game, but UW answered less than 30 seconds later and took a two goal lead in the second period on goals from freshman forward Craig Smith and sophomore winger Jordy Murray. The Pioneers staged a comeback of their own, turning to its explosive top line for goals. Senior forward Rhett Rakhshani, who earned First Team AllAmerican honors after the season, closed the lead to one before fellow senior and

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Wisconsin had a clear home field advantage over ASU, with the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament being played in their own backyard at the McClimon complex. Fans came out in masses to show their support for the Badgers and the team did not disappoint, toppling ASU 4-3 in an epic penalty kick shootout. In the first two minutes of the game, Wisconsin had already established a 1-0 lead over ASU after freshman defenseman Lindsey Johnson placed the ball into the back of the Sun Devils’ net off a flip thrown-in from sophomore Leigh Williams. The half concluded with Wisconsin maintaining its 1-0 lead, but the Sun Devils took control of

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linemate Tyler Ruegsegger evened the score with less than 15 minutes to go. Davies became the hero with less than seven minutes to play when he re-directed a shot off the stick of freshman defenseman Justin Schultz past the Pioneers’ First Team All-American goaltender, junior Marc Cheverie. Wisconsin held on to the lead for the ﬁnal minutes, and earned three points in the most hotly contested series that they played all year. The level of play was tremendous, the amount of talent on the ice rivaled any college contest all year and the electric atmosphere in a packedto-the-roof Kohl Center led this series to live up to all the hype. For the ﬁrst half of the season, it was clear that Wisconsin had all kinds of talent on the roster, but it was not until this night that the Badger’s run to the Frozen Four seemed like a real possibility. —Parker Gabriel

Penalty kick victory over ASU puts UW on path to Sweet Sixteen the game coming out of the break. ASU finally got its break with just under twenty minutes remaining as Aissa Sanchez tucked the ball into the far right corner of the net from 15 yards out. The 1-1 tie held all the way through the rest of regulation and two 10minute overtimes, leaving the fate of both teams to penalty kicks. After neither goalkeeper managed to stop one of the first three shots, Dalton made two incredible saves to lift the Badgers to a 4-3 shootout victory over the Sun Devils, prompting the student fans in attendance to rush the field. —Jack Doyle

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Player of the Year With a Hobey Baker to his credit and after having led his team to title game, who else but Geoffrion?

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Team of the year: Men’s Hockey Run to Frozen Four most impressive accomplishment in Wisconsin sports this year By Parker Gabriel THE DAILY CARDINAL

The record books will list Mike Eaves as head coach of the men’s hockey team during its recent run to the national title game, but make no mistake about it: This team belonged to the senior class. That is not to say Eaves’ evenkeeled mantra did not help the team through the trials and tribulations of the season, or that no underclassmen played important roles on the team, but the success of the Badgers this year started and ended with the seven men in their ﬁnal year of eligibility in Madison. Hobey Baker winner and First Team All-American center Blake Geoffrion anchored the senior class, tallying 28 goals, one more than his previous three years combined. Fellow senior

Aaron Bendickson accomplished the same feat, as he racked up 12 goals after entering the year with eight in his career. The rest of the squad combined to form one of the most feared offensive attacks in the country. Four players ﬁnished with 50 points or more, and the team averaged an impressive 4.0 goals per game. Junior defenseman and First Team All-American Brendan Smith led the nation in scoring from the blue line, while fellow junior Ryan McDonagh established himself as one of the best pure defensemen in the nation. The Badgers compiled a 28-114 record overall, finished second in the ultra-competitive WCHA, earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and came within three periods of bringing home

the program’s seventh national championship. Maybe most impressively, Wisconsin never lost back-to-back games this season. Given the strength and length of the Badgers’ schedule, that alone is worth high praise. In addition to losing seven seniors, Smith and fellow junior defenseman Cody Goloubef have already bolted for the NHL, while McDonagh and sophomore center Derek Stepan, who led the team in scoring with 54 points, still have decisions to make. However, if those two return and the incoming group of highly touted recruits can begin to ﬁll the gaping void left behind by the departing talent, Eaves has a chance to defend this spot as The Daily Cardinal’s team of the year.

It’s not often a Player of the ty killer, center of the power play, Year is discouraged from taking monster in the face-off circle), slapshots or told by his coach Geoffrion reﬂected his team’s sucto emulate the most grunt- cess, and in some ways symbolish of NHL role players, Tomas ized their run to the title game. Holmstrom. Few top scorers For the three previous seasons, describe themselves as lighting the men’s hockey team had been the lamp almost exclusively via abundantly talented but could not “ugly goals.” bring everything together while That was the story of senior Geoffrion was simply a nice playforward Blake Geoffrion, who er. In 2009-’10, he was great. delivered on his potential He did not have the while leading his team to complete offensive game a majestic season. The he referred to only as “the senior captain earned goal-scoring gene,” but his sport’s highest instead accepted the individual honor, role of a player who the Hobey Baker fought around award, and the crease and deserves the title ﬁnished plays of top male athstarted by othlete for this year. ers. That was No Badger had the way the ever before hoisted team was, none the Hobey, with of the playgreats like Gary ers having Shuchuk, Steve earth-shattering Re i n p re c h t individual games and Brian (though many Elliott fallwere exceptionally ing short of talented) but all the honor. willing to accept Looking roles in formbeyond the ing a balanced numbers (an powerhouse impressive team. 28 goals and 22 —Ben assists) or Breiner the allaround impact DANNY MARCHEWKA on the ice CARDINAL FILE PHOTO (great penal-

Team of the year: Women’s Soccer Program made huge strides in 2009 campaign, highlighted by Sweet Sixteen appearance By Jack Doyle THE DAILY CARDINAL

A third-place ﬁnish in the Big Ten standings; their ﬁrst Sweet Sixteen appearance since 1993.

These are the moments that deﬁned the 2009-’10 Wisconsin women’s soccer team, and these are the moments that earned them the title of UW women’s team of the year.

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Sophomore forward Laurie Nosbusch and the Badgers returned to the Sweet Sixteen last season for the ﬁrst time since 1993.

Having achieved their most successful season in over 15 years, it is fair to say they deserve this honor, which is no small feat considering the Badgers had 13 freshmen and only two seniors. The regular season was full of highlights for Wisconsin. Whether it was sophomore forward Laurie Nosbusch’s hat trick in a thrilling 3-2 victory over then-No. 19 Indiana or tying perennial Big Ten power Penn State 3-3 after being down two goals with little time to play, the Badgers gave fans plenty to cheer about. However, the year was not without its hiccups. Without a doubt, the lowest point of the season came during the Stanford Invitational, in which the Badgers were outscored by a combined 8-1 by eventual national runner-up Stanford and then-No. 12 Santa Clara. Wisconsin rebounded and went unbeaten through nine of the next 10 games, finishing with a regular season record of 9-5-5 and claiming the third spot in the Big Ten standings. These accomplishments led to the Badgers’ first NCAA tournament berth since 2005, where they defeated Arizona State and Central Florida before ending their season with a loss to No. 7 Boston College in the Sweet Sixteen.

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Andy Katz weighs in on the past, present and future of UW basketball ESPN analyst and Daily Cardinal alumnus Andy Katz was on campus Tuesday and stopped by the office where he got his start to answer a few questions about the Wisconsin basketball team. The Daily Cardinal: What impressed you and maybe didn’t impress you about the Badgers this year? Andy Katz: They were picked ninth and once again exceeded expectations, which no one should be surprised by. Bo consistently maximizes the talent, he consistently finds the guys to take that next step even though it’s this appearance that they don’t have talent when they clearly do. Losing Leuer for a couple weeks obviously was a hit, the way they finished against Cornell didn’t help, but I thought it was another solid season and I would expect

something similar next year. DC: That’s a pretty big difference from when you were here? AK: Oh yeah, basketball was such an afterthought—it was there, people went because of the sport, because it was in the Big Ten at the time—but it was just a different era. They just didn’t have the history. DC: You mentioned Jon Leuer, was he the player who most impressed you from last year or was it someone else? AK: He’s developed to be a leader and an elite player. Once again, guys like Leuer, like Nankivil, guys that suddenly become major players for this program. DC: How do you see the Badgers fairing next year? AK: The Big Ten’s going to be very good again, but I think they’re going to be an NCAA Tournament team and somewhere in the mix.

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Illini UW’s ﬁrst test in NCAAs By Emma Condon THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin men’s tennis team will travel to Illinois next weekend on an at-large bid to participate in the first round of the NCAA tournament. This is the fourth consecutive bid the Badgers (19-8 overall) have earned in head coach Greg Van Emburgh’s five years with the squad. It is an impressive improvement, considering the Badgers had received only two berths in program history before his tenure. For both coaches and players it’s all about steady improvement. “We’ve made strides year to year,” Van Emburgh said. “Not only have we made a fourth-straight bid this year, I feel like we’ve beaten some great teams and positioned ourselves really well, finishing fourth in the conference. Our record stands alone this year.” That record included seven Big Ten victories, three losses that all

came down to the last point, three ranked individuals and a team that settled in at No. 27 nationally. In the first round, the Badgers find themselves opposite Notre Dame (15-12) in the bracket, a team that edged the Badgers 4-3, when the then-No. 41 Fighting Irish came back from an early 0-2 deficit. “Against Notre Dame we had a tough day and we didn’t come out on top,” freshman Chris Freeman said. “We’re focusing on Notre Dame, we’re not looking past them.” “They fight really hard, their team chemistry is really good ... they return a lot of balls,” senior Moritz Baumann said. “They’re definitely going to be close matches, but we’ve just got to get four points.” Even so, the team believes that its prospects are good this year, and its spot in the 64-team draw, coupled with the team’s seasonal success, puts them in a position to go far. “It’s a good draw for us because I think we all know we can win,”

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Freshman Chris Freeman and Wisconsin will play in the NCAAs for the fourth consecutive season.

Freeman said, pointing out that they avoided the sort of top-five teams that can squander tournament dreams. After Notre Dame, Wisconsin could possibly run into the No. 13seeded Illini (19-10), a team that also stifled the Badgers by a 1-point margin, 4-3. The Badgers last beat the Illini in 2008 at home. “Illinois had a great year,” Van Emburgh said. “At the end of the day, it’s who wants it a little more, who digs a little deeper, who competes a little harder and hopefully that’s going to be us.” Both Illinois and Notre Dame have reached the Sweet Sixteen in the past, but the Badgers have not. To get to Georgia this year, they will have to one-up their best finish to date, a second-round appearance in 2007. Last year Louisville ousted them in the first round, but the Badgers will approach the challenge with the same steady measure as always. “The main goal is to try to get to the final 16 and then go from there,” Van Emburgh said. “We’re still taking it one match at a time.” “We’ve worked so hard this year as a team, and as a freshman I’ve put in a lot of time like everyone else has,” Freeman said. “We’re all just pumped to have our last tournament and go out with a bang for our seniors. I think it’s important that we all get together and really try and win this thing.” Although singles selections have not been released yet, Van Emburgh is expected to send seasoned No. 22 Baumann and No. 28 junior Marek Michalicka to both the 64-man singles bracket and 32-pair doubles to represent the Badgers. If selected, this will be Baumann’s third appearance and Michalicka’s second as individuals, and their first as a pair. Wisconsin is up first in Champaign with the first serve dropping at noon Friday. The winner of their duel will take on the victor of the Illinois/ Xavier match in a contest the following afternoon.

Stay level headed: Badger fans have little to complain about BEN BREINER the breinal countdown

ive fucking years. It’s been a quintet of seasons for every team, strewn with disappointment, surprising moments, memorable players and those rare instances when everything just seemed to come together for the Badgers. The experience of those five years has informed this column space, usually employed to display some kind of contrarian complaint or rant. But today it ends, and the hope is to leave by delivering one last piece of advice. A lesson on perspective. Columnist’s note: Yes, this could easily be a standard farewell column in which I thank people you don’t know, talk about experiences in an office you’ve never been to and generally focus on myself. But that sucks... because you, the readers, don’t get much out of it and it seems pretty pointless for a column that lasted a mere two years to have a drawn-out personal goodbye. Too often the attention of those who follow sports is splintered, expending energy toward the unquantifiable aspects and complaints. Real accomplishments and achievements are given scant notice, while illusory

topics like national respect or how great a team will be next year will be debated and salivated over. This is not to say there isn’t something special about looking forward, as hope springs eternal and even Cubs fans have reason to be excited for next year. People just let it get the better of them. Not every defeat needs to be met with howling rage and bitter blame ﬁred off at the players or refs. Think back to last spring when more than a few UW fans called recruit Vander Blue an “asshole” or worse after he decommitted from the school. And that’s a 16 year old kid, who did nothing wrong beyond not becoming a Badger. As fans prepare for football’s September commencement, much will be made of the team’s potential spot in the preseason top 25. Sure, the team failed to meet their high expectations in 2007 and 2008, but with all the returning offensive starters, it already makes sense to turn the impressive bounce-back season of 2009 into a mere footnote. And next year they’ll wonder why teams like football and basketball—which only recently turned from doormats into constant contenders—still haven’t become forces on a national level. We know these things, we know the history, we know it all and yet we ignore it to hold onto fantasy. It’s

a way to go through sports fandom perpetually disappointed and angry. This is why perspective is necessary. The lesson here is to not let the lows get too low and to savor the highs. Years like the 2006 football season, or hockey campaigns ending in 2006 and 2010 are special. Moments like the Duke game in the Kohl Center or John Stocco’s dramatic game-winning sneak against Michigan in 2005 were special. UW fans are blessed—really, truly blessed—to know that every football season will end in a bowl game and every basketball season ends in the tournament. Few fanbases are so lucky. It’s almost disrespectful to take those as a given and always be hyping a future that rarely can meet its lofty expectations. That’s the perspective that hopefully can be passed on, the evenkeeled viewpoint learned through ﬁve years of up-and-down Badger sports, a journey that has just about reached its end. It was worth the trip. See, now wasn’t that much better than Ben ranting about himself for 700 words? If for some reason you’d like to know about his odyssey through Madison and this newspaper or just reminisce about the last ﬁve years, Ben can be reached at breiner@wisc. edu. He hopes you’ve had the Brein of your life.

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After a largely frustrating season, freshman outﬁelder Molly Spence and the Badgers have won eight of their last 12.

Wisconsin taking momentum into ﬁnal stretch of season By Ryan Evans THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin Badgers softball looks to continue its recent winning ways this weekend when it travels to Evansville, Ill., to take on Big Ten rival Northwestern. The Badgers are coming off a weekend at home that saw the team earn a series sweep of the Indiana Hoosiers. With that sweep, Wisconsin has won eight of its past 12 games. “Everything is finally coming together for us: pitching, hitting and fielding,” freshman utility player Whitney Massey said. “We’re all playing together and everything is going smoothly. Our chemistry has clicked and we’re playing really well.” During this hot streak, the Badgers’ offense has really been clicking. Over this stretch, the Badgers have averaged about 5 runs per game. For Wisconsin to ﬁnish out this season strong they will look to continue that production.

“Everything is ﬁnally coming together for us: pitching, hitting and ﬁelding.” Whitney Massey freshman utility player UW softball

Freshmen infielder Molly Spence commented on how the Badgers have been able to find success at the plate. “Hitting is contagious with this team, just like with any team,” Spence said. “When someone is able to spark our offense, we all start hitting; and that is where the production comes from.” Massey said she believes the team’s mentality in the box has helped contribute to their production. “We’re more relaxed at the plate,” she said. “We’re starting to hit the ball where it is pitched instead of trying to do to much with everything. We’ve also been moving our runners around and getting our bunts down.” Wisconsin has also been able to lean on the pitching of senior

Letty Olivarez and freshman Meghan McIntosh. The performance of the two pitchers has been critical to Wisconsin’s winning ways. “The two of them compliment each other really well, so they have been a great combination for us this year,” junior outfielder Ashley Hanewich said. “Letty has been our ace all year, and Meghan has really been coming around lately now that she is finally back at 100 percent after her ACL injury.” The Badgers were one of the youngest teams in the conference this season, with freshmen making up half the team. Those young players have the future of Wisconsin softball looking bright. Two of the freshmen, Massey and Spence, talked about how the younger players have been able to blend with the rest of the team, and how that bodes well for next year. “I think we’re just going to get better,” Massey said. “Since the beginning, all eight of us freshmen have been able to click with the older girls, and we’re only going to get stronger next year. We’re already getting stronger.” “Every game brings more experience. Every game we’re looking to get a little better.” Spence added. “Next year we have that year under our belts and next year it is going to look really good. The Wisconsin Badgers are on their way up.” Wisconsin looks to build on its recent success this weekend when they hit the road to face Northwestern. The players talked about what it is going to take to come away with two wins in Evansville. “We need to be able to keep their runners off base,” Massey said. “They have a few slappers and a couple big hitters that we need to keep off the bases. If we can do that and keep hitting like we’ve been hitting we’ll pull it off.” “Delaney is a bit of a wild pitcher,” Hanewich said of Wildcat senior pitcher Lauren Delaney, whom the Badgers will face this weekend. “But she throws really hard, so we need to attack her good pitches and lay off her wild ones.”

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