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Recalls could be historic turning point for state

By Tyler Nickerson The Daily Cardinal

The June 5 recall election between Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett may grab the most attention, but the lieutenant governor and four state Senate recall elections could also decide Wisconsin’s political leaning for years to come.

The Democratic candidates for governor who lost in Tuesday’s primary quickly got behind Barrett, who received 58 percent of the vote. The four candidates got together Wednesday morning at Barrett’s Milwaukee home in a display of unity But all five Democratic candidates, including protest candidate Gladys Huber, received about as many combined votes as Walker, who had an essentially uncontested primary. UW-Madison College Republicans Chair Jeff Snow said such a huge turn out for Walker is “significant.”

“It shows the base is definitely excited to support Walker,” Snow said.

June’s election will be a rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial election, which Walker defeated Barrett 52 to 47 percent. The two candidates were tied in a recent Marquette Law School poll.

While the gubernatorial race has grabbed the most attention, the lieutanant governor and four Republican state Senators are also facing recall elections June

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5, the outcomes of which could decide whether Democrats or Republicans are in control.

If Democrats win just one of the four recall elections, they will take control of the state Senate, which is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, with one empty seat.

Republican Senate Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, will face protestor Lori Compas, Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, will face

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Mayor Paul Soglin said city officials will analyze the outcome of this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party before deciding how to plan for the future of the event.

Soglin: Too soon to decide Mifflin’s future

By David Jones The Daily Cardinal

City officials met with Mayor Paul Soglin at a closed meeting Wednesday to determine how the results of this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party will affect the event in the future.

Soglin told The Daily Cardinal the city cannot make any longterm decisions about the future of the Mifflin block party only four days after the event.

“It’s too early to really make all these decisions, make all these judgments,” Soglin said.

The mayor said city officials will need to have several meetings to analyze specific details about the party like police enforcement and costs to the city.

Madison Police Department Lt. Dave McCaw said the MPD will evaluate the number of

arrests and citations from this weekend before calculating the final crime statistics.

“I’m satisfied with the reduction in violence and assaults but we need to do an evaluation of the expenses.”

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Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said he believed the environment was safer than prior years because of the police department’s zero-tolerance attitude toward ordinance violations like open intoxicants on the street, which resulted in a large number of tickets and citations.

McCaw also said this year’s party was significantly less violent than last year’s event, particularly since there had been no reported sexual assaults as of Wednesday afternoon.

“We’ll wait a little bit until we say we haven’t had any [sexual assaults],” McCaw said. “If we maintain this, I’ll be very pleased.”

In addition to three sexual assaults at the 2011 block party, there were two stabbings and three injured police officers.

McCaw said police did not use the new Nuisance Party Ordinance to break up any parties on Saturday.

The ordinance, passed in late February, provides a set of guidelines police can use to use

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Sixteen-year-old student prepares for graduation

By Shannon Kelly The Daily Cardinal

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Members of the state task force on UW restructuring heard testimonies from UW System representatives Wednesday.

State task force, students explore future of UW System

By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

Students, faculty and staff from throughout the UW System presented to a state legislative task force on UW restructuring Wednesday, outlining their hopes for the future of the system.

Outgoing United Council Vice President Dylan Jambrek, a UW-Eau Claire senior, told the task force raising tuition to boost financial aid and help deal with budget cuts would be detrimental

to system schools.

Jambrek said first-generation and underrepresented students are less likely to attend institutions with such policies because of the shock of seeing high tuition costs before aid.

When task force members noted UW-Madison’s tuition is lower than tuition at some other Big Ten institutions, Jambrek said other system schools are not

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Late next week, thousands of seniors will graduate from UW-Madison. But for Serra Crawford, this is an especially big triumph as she walks across stage to receive her diploma at only 16 years old.

By the time she was ten years old, Crawford had completed high school through home schooling and online curriculum. Her college journey began when a college advisor who knew of her accomplishments approached her at the library and invited her to take a practice exam.

After passing the exam, the 10-year-old Crawford decided to attend a two-year college.

“It was hard because I stuck out. I was obviously a very small child,” Crawford said of her early college years. “It was just sort of hard to blend in, but I think that once people got to

know me it was totally fine.”

Four years later, she became a full-time student at UW-Madison.

“I think that once people got to know me it was totally fine.”

Serra Crawford 16-year-old senior UW-Madison

Despite her young age, Crawford is similar to any other UW-Madison senior in many ways. She is graduating with a major in International Studies and a certificate in Global Health. Next fall, she will undertake a research project in Zambia before returning to UW-Madison in the spring to pursue a Master’s Degree in Nutrition. Crawford said she

hopes to one day become a trauma surgeon.

Although she is several years younger than the typical student, Crawford said she has had no problem making friends at UW-Madison. In fact, she said most of her older classmates have been supportive.

“A lot of people are really surprised, definitely,” she said. “I guess they just sort of want to know how this happened and what my story is.”

Crawford said unlike her peers who are surprised by her age, her professors usually have no idea that there is a 16-year-old in their midst.

“There’s no reason to tell them,” she explained.

Although unconventional, Serra said her time as a Badger has been positive.

“It’s been great to be here, everyone has been really nice and supportive,” she said. “It’s just been a really good experience.”

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Disadvantaged students graduate from UW program

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Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin President Mahlon Mitchell was a leader throughout the protests at the Capitol last year. He will face incumbent Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch in a recall election.

recalls from page 3 John Lehman, Terry Moulton, R-Chippewa Falls, will go against Kristen Dexter, and Republican Jerry Petrowski and Democrat Donna Seidel will challenge each other for the 29th Senate district.

Republican Pam Galloway was originally targeted for recall in the that district, but later decided

to resign for personal reasons.

The latest Public Policy Polling polls show the Republicans with double-digit leads over Democratic candidates in all state Senate races except the one between Wanggaard and Lehman.

Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin President Mahlon Mitchell will face current Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.

“Every day I serve, I’ll make sure that the people will have a say in our policy decisions, because Wisconsin’s citizens deserve no less,” Mitchell said following his win in the primary election.

Mitchell was a leader during the protests that consumed the Capitol last year following the passage of controversial Republicanbacked legislation.

What you need to know about absentee voting

Students can vote absentee if they are going to be gone for the summer How do I get a ballott?

Requests for an absentee ballot can be sent to your local municipal clerk.

When should I get my ballott?

Voters who want to cast absentee ballots by mail must submit a written request by 5 p.m. the Thursday before the election.

When is my ballott due?

Absentee ballots must be postmarked by election day and received by 4 p.m., Friday, May 11, in order to be counted.

Hannah Somers, co-founder of the Madison Student Vote Coalition, said that it’s important for students to know that they can vote, even if they are going home for the summer or from out of state.

Students from a UW-Madison program designed to kick-start higher education for economically disadvantaged adults gathered at the Memorial Union Wednesday to celebrate their graduation with a full room of family and friends.

The Odyssey program has helped students from as young as 18 years old to as old as 70 years old to earn six free English literature credits from the university. Students meet once a week to learn writing and critical thinking skills by discussing literature, history, philosophy and art, reading works ranging from Plato’s “Republic” to poetry

by Langston Hughes.

Project Director Emily Auerbach started the program to help nontraditional students get a start in college.

To be eligible for the Odyssey project, applicants must demonstrate financial need and have a high school diploma.

“It’s part of the Wisconsin Idea of making the university experience accessible to all,” Auerbach said.

Apart from the academic challenges Odyssey students face throughout the year, some also come from tough

life circumstances. These include homelessness, mental illness, teen parenthood and drug addiction.

Auerbach said the program creates an “amazing transformation” in its graduates. Twothirds of Odyssey graduates continue their higher education. Fifteen of the program’s alumni have gone on to earn an undergraduate degree since the first class graduated in 2003.

“Some of them have gone from being homeless to having UW-Madison degrees, or from being incarcerated to working as police officers,” she said.

Josephine Lorya-Ozulamoi, a 2008 Odyssey project graduate, is a refugee from Sudan with two children. LoryaOzulamoi will graduate with bachelor’s degrees in legal studies and sociology this May, with hopes of applying to law school to become an immigration lawyer. She said the Odyssey program “played a big part” in that accomplishment.

“It’s a stepping stone,” she said.

But the project did more than jumpstart her education.

Lorya-Ozulamoi said it helped pay for her books as well as childcare, making the program feel like more than a class.

She said, “It’s a family.”

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Chancellor David Ward speaks at a special graduation ceremony for students in the Odyssey Program.

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Despite welcoming the safer environment, Soglin said the financial costs of the event were high because of additional police staffing and the number of citations police issued to people.

“I’m satisfied with the reduction in violence and assaults,” Soglin said. “But

we need to do an evaluation of the expenses.”

But Resnick said the city will discuss how the event should continue in the future.

“I still believe that there is still merit to the event and to having a safe event toward the end of the year,” Resnick said.

“Whether that’s the Mifflin Street Block Party or something new, those are conversations that we’re going to be having for the next year.”

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Crime in brief Rap battle spins out of control, leads to fight early Sunday A spontaneous rap battle on North Broom Street turned violent early Sunday morning when the two rappers got into an argument over lyrics.

Witnesses said two strangers who met on the 300 block of North Broom Street allegedly started arguing over lyrics in the middle of a rap session, according to Madison Police

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Union South has been named the top Wisconsin building project by a state construction industry periodical. The building is one of three UW-Madison projects ranked in the top 30.

Union South named 2012 ‘Best in Show’ among Wisconsin building projects One year after opening, Union South was named “Best in Show” of 30 top Wisconsin building projects at an annual awards show for the state’s construction industry Wednesday.

The Daily Reporter, a Wisconsin construction industry periodical, honored the 276,664-square-foot building for its design and multipurpose spaces. It shares the award with Marquette University’s

Engineering Hall.

The honor also recognized Union South for student involvement in planning its design.

“I am thrilled that Union South was recognized by the construction industry not only for creating a beautiful, timeless building but also for the community-building process which focused on student involvement,” Shayna Hetzel, former Union

president and Union South project manager, said in a statement.

The periodical honored 30 projects throughout the state, including two other UW-Madison buildings—the Chazen Museum and the Biochemistry building.

Union South features four restaurants, a coffeehouse, movie theater, art gallery and various recreation areas including a climbing wall and bowling allies.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will speak on the Memorial Union Terrace at 3 p.m. Thursday for the first-ever Senior Day. The event is open to the public.

Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain.

The fight escalated around 2 a.m. as friends of each vocalist joined in the fight, according to police.

DeSpain said in a statement one of the rappers who was visiting from New Jersey, was punched in the face and knocked out. The man was treated at a local hospital.

Woman reports prowler at West Dayton Street apartment A woman living near campus called police last Tuesday after she heard a man whispering through her window.

The 21-year-old woman reported the man came to her residence on the 400 block of West Dayton Street around 9 p.m., according to Madison Police Department spokesper-

son Joel DeSpain.

The woman said the prowler was moaning and whispering lewd comments through her broken window, according to DeSpain.

“She ran from the room and called police,” DeSpain said in a statement.

Police did not provide a description of the suspect.

iPhone stolen from UW-Madison student on West Gorham Street A trend in iPhone robberies continued early Sunday morning when a UW-Madison student had an iPhone stolen from him while he was texting.

In the latest report, a 6-foot-tall African American man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and jeans approached a UW-Madison student sitting on the steps of an apartment

on the 400 block of West Gorham Street, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain.

Police say the student was texting when the man approached him, pushed him and stole his iPhone.

This is the third iPhone robbery in the past month and the fifth since March, according to the MPD crime database.

Man attacked on West Mifflin Only one blow was needed to knock out a Madison man in a fight on West Mifflin Street Saturday night.

Witnesses said the victim and the suspect, a 20- to 25-year-old African American man, were fighting on the 500 block of West Mifflin Street around 9 p.m.,

task force from page 3 necessarily comparable to other Big Ten schools.

He said even at UW-Madison, tuition increases to match similar institutions is inappropriate.

“I don’t think we should think about how much we can raise tuition to get away with,” Jambrek said. “I don’t think there should be an arms race to raise tuition.”

Associated Students of Madison Rep. Libby WickBander told the task force that boards at each institution composed of students, faculty, staff, regents and community members could benefit the schools through advising them and facilitating communication throughout the state.

But giving such boards governing powers, such as the ability to set tuition, could be “add bureaucracy in an already highly bureaucratic system,” WickBander said.

according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain. The witnesses said they did not know about what the two men were fighting.

Police said the victim fell to the ground, hit his head on the pavement and needed stitches to close the wound.

But task force member David Olien said UW-Madison has different needs than other UW System schools and needs its own board with governing powers.

Outgoing chair of the Faculty Senate’s University Committee Brad Barham urged the task force to consider clearly defining the relationship between the system and the state.

Barham said while increased flexibilities for institutions are necessary for the future, the flexibilities will not be sufficient replacements for state support of higher education.

UW System faculty and leaders are criticized for the outcomes of budget cuts when they are doing the best they can to keep the quality of institutions high in light of such cuts, Barham said.

“They’re labeled as the bad guys,” Barham said. “But the vast majority of us are bleeding Badger red, working hard every day to do the best we can with less.”

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Jacqueline O’Reilly o’really?!

Warning: What you are about to read is the cheesiest thing you will ever encounter in the state of Wisconsin. This is the last column—the last anything—I will write for The Daily Cardinal, and if you think it will be anything other than a sappy, emotional breakdown, you might be dumber than our governor. Also, if you could sing Vitamin C’s “Graduation (Friends Forever)” to yourself whilst reading this, that would be tremendous. Thanks!

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n so many ways, I am ready to graduate. I started my senior year with debilitating burnout, thus climbing Bascom Hill was not the only uphill battle I encountered on campus. I did not care to write 20-page papers on the Cold War’s end. I did not see the merit in designing yet another advertising campaign only my professor would see.

What I did have, however, was a desire to show up in 2142 Vilas

It’s time to play. .

are like Rainbow Road: perpetually beautiful but not without some challenging turns. The Cardinal is no exception. Each position presented its own series of challenges, and though my sanity sometimes wavered, my love and commitment to this institution never did. Hard work was part of the job, and the job was freaking awesome.

At the Cardinal, we are not paid for the work we do, neither are we offered credit for the extra hours we spend in Vilas Hall.

We show up every day because we know what we are doing is important and because we love it, and you best believe that is motivation enough.

Everyone on staff is a teacher and everyone is a student. This university is filled to the brim with brilliant professors, but the people who have taught me the most are my Cardinal colleagues. Thanks to them, I have both the professional and personal skills to leave my little corner of the universe and enter the dreaded Real World.

Through this experience I have made friends I can only hope will last a lifetime. They are

the type of people who challenge you, inspire you and refrain from judging you when you dance like a mad woman to “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”

Two months ago, after hearing of the passing of his Cardinal colleague, New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid, ESPN’s Andy Katz tweeted the following: “To all those aspiring college journalists.

Value the time at the campus newspaper. We had an amazing Cardinal staff. Lifetime of memories.”

To the Cardinalistas who made my college experience the adventure I dreamed it would be, I offer my most gracious admiration and love. I hope I have touched your lives in the same way you have mine, and though I am ready to see what the next chapter of my life holds, I doubt I will ever find a group of people as clever and kind as you guys and gals. Thank you all so much, and keep on sifting and winnowing.

Jacqueline is off to New York City for what can only be described as the dream internship.

Send words of wisdom as well as final questions and comments to jgoreilly@dailycardinal.com.

Two truths and a lie!

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1. I am a never nude.

2. I have never been skinny-dipping.

3. I spent the first 18 years of my life takin’ tubs.

1. I stuck a dryer sheet up my nose.

2. I was a performing clown in the Shrine Circus.

3. A tree branch fell on me whilst I was peeing.

1. TRUTH: That is right folks, you have before you a real life Tobias Funke (for those of you who have never seen “Arrested Development,” get your shit together). No waltzing around the house in my birthday suit when the roomie’s M.I.A., no venturing to the infamous nude beaches of Europe and definitely no sleeping without, at the very least, a loin cloth and sports bra. Nudity does not equal liberation for this gal.

2. LIE: Remember how I said I am a never nude? It’s funny how a glass or two of Pinot Grigio can suddenly make your friends’ entreaties so much more convincing. Another fun fact about my skinny-dipping venture (for those interested in trying it out some day): bare asses make the ride down the lakeside slide infinitely more fun.

3. TRUTH: For those faithful followers, this one was a freebie.

For 18 horrible years of my life, I was forced to take tubs—a reality that has rendered tubs one of my most formidable foes.

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daily to craft the best newspaper I could. For that reason, I will never be truly ready to graduate.

Thanks to my strong belief in the power of the written word and a likeness to Rory Gilmore, I came to UW-Madison knowing I would be involved with the college newspaper. Because of its century-plus legacy and a stroke of good fortune that I picked up it and not The Badger Herald, I landed myself in the Cardinal office, a room filled with likeminded individuals, individuals who over the past four years have proven themselves to be the most passionate, intelligent people at this university.

I remember the first time I walked through its door more vividly than I do any other college experience. Upon seeing me come in, Editor in Chief Al Morrell immediately rose from his seat, shook my hand and welcomed me to The Daily Cardinal. From that moment on, I called that office home. I went on to hold three editorships, each shaping who I was as a journalist and, more importantly, who I was as a person.

Of course, all good journeys

1. LIE: This is my lie, but it DID happen to a neighbor girl while we were playing at my house. She was a year older than me and even I knew she was dumb. She stuck it so deeply in her nose because she thought it smelt so good she had to go to the emergency room.

2. TRUTH: Hell yeah I was. I told a joke on the radio to win a contest and got to get my face painted and everything. I did not get to squish into a small car though, and it only lasted for about 10 minutes.

3. TRUTH: After a debacle with a tree in 5th grade, I now serve as a living example of how not to pee outside while camping at the beloved Girl Scout camp of my youth, Camp Ehawee. We were told that, as females, the best way to relieve ourselves outside without accidentally getting pee on our clothes was to hold onto a tree around its middle and lean back.

I picked what appeared to be a sturdy, young sapling and—midsquat—it proceeded to snap in half and fall on top of me.

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Riley 1. I ate a rat.

2. I puked on my professor’s shoes.

3. I broke a 2000-yearold stalactite.

1. TRUTH: When in Guatemala, do as the Guatemalan’s do— although I highly doubt that rat is a thoroughfare of Guatemalan cuisine, as I was told it was. And there’s no way I’ll ever pass up the option of trying a new food, even if it used to live in the sewers or co-starred in “Ratatouille.”

2. LIE: Nope, that was my roommate. After over sleeping the deadline to a paper that was worth 70 percent of her grade, she panicked while pleading for mercy and ended up throwing up on her professor’s shoes. Needless to say, he let her turn it in late.

3. TRUTH: That shit is real. I was granted the opportunity to go swimming in an underground pond in Mexico—something they would never let us do in the U.S. because it’s way less fun up here. Turns out the over-sensitive national parks are on the right track though, because I bumped into a stalactite and it came crumbling down. Luckily, the cave didn’t follow, but it really solidified the fact that I’m a terrible person.

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Jenna 1. I flashed 40 people.

2. I shattered a pyramid of mugs at a gift shop.

3. I’ve been in the audience of “Family Feud” three times.

1. TRUTH: Let me preface this by saying I am no exhibitionist— far from it actually. The ocean just hates me a lot. The exposure went down when I was competing in my camp’s skimboarding competition (yeah…) when I was 15. I thought I could catch a monstrous wave and beat the 7-year-olds I was competing with, but the ocean had other plans. Needless to say, I spent a good 15 seconds gasping for air before I realized my bathing suit top was nowhere to be found.

2. TRUTH: Something that can be detrimental to a fifth-grader’s psyche: getting yelled at by a crotchety old museum docent for breaking 80+ “Spy Museum” mugs. I still shudder thinking about it.

3. LIE: Survey says...nope. I’ve only seen it taped twice. I don’t really have a good explanation for why I’ve seen them filmed at all but I can tell you eight things “an old man would take 30 minutes to do.”

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Summer programs offer science and perspective

By Nia Sathiamoorthi the daily cardinal

Cockroaches and cabbies with driving skills rivaling those in “Fast and Furious” are two of the things that come to Kevin King’s mind as he recalled one of the greatest experiences of his life­—his last summer educating elementary school and university students on cancer prevention in India.

King, a senior with majors in Neurobiology and Life Sciences Communication, traveled to India last summer as part of the Khorana program offered through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at UW–Madison.

The Khorana Program for Scientific Exchange, founded by CALS professors Aseem Ansari and Kenneth Shapiro in 2007, promotes scientific cooperation between America and India, bringing Indian undergraduates to work in UW-Madison labs and sending Badgers abroad to work with renowned Indian scientists. Students with scientific backgrounds from agriculture to engineering apply to the program each year.

King, along with his mentor Dr. Neeta Sinnappah-Kang, worked on promoting cancer education and awareness to students in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Using

age-specific presentations King and Sinnappah-Kang taught students how to live a healthier life and procedures for self-examinations. To evaluate the success of the curriculum, the researchers administered pre- and post-tests.

“Eleven percent knew how to do a self examination [before the presentation]. At the end, we had 99 percent leaving knowing how to do it,” King said. “These kids became the agents of change. If you want to make a difference, you need to start young. That’s information that can be extended everywhere.”

Whether it is for a semester or only a couple weeks in the summer, spending time abroad can be one of the most enriching and rewarding experiences for undergraduates. Students bring their own culture and perceptions with them into foreign countries.

Returning home, they bring newer perspectives, understandings and appreciation of the world.

Our growing global economy requires graduates to have an international dimension as part of their education. It is now necessary for many professionals to not only be equipped with practical knowledge in their field, but also with knowledge of foreign societies and how to interact cross-culturally.

Majoring in a science often

entails a lock-step curriculum that has to be delivered in a particular, structured sequence. Studying abroad often means forfeiting a semester, as students are unable to obtain credit for science classes taken abroad.

However, there is a solution for UW-Madison science majors looking to leave the country without forsaking their four-year plan. The CALS International Programs Office offers both fieldstudy programs and international internships that are mostly offered during the winter and summer breaks.

Field study programs combine coursework taken in the fall or spring semester with a small group trip abroad to research a topic more closely in an international context. Some of the field studies offered currently include studying industrial dairy processes in Mexico and performing biochemistry laboratory research at Cambridge University in England.

International internships can range in length and are often tailored to the student’s interests and career ambitions. Some current internships include the Khorana program, an ecology program in Iceland and genetics research at Savia Biotech in Spain.

“You get to see a different country’s way of approaching research

The science of studying effectively

By Kasia Manolas the daily cardinal

As finals approach, the amount of work you need to do can feel daunting. But if you take a deep breath and follow some of these scientifically proven pointers, it is possible to accomplish everything you need to.

The first thing you should do is focus on the way you are thinking— cognitive psychologists call this metathinking, or thinking about your thoughts. You can minimalize your stress by eliminating negative self-talk. Telling yourself it’s impossible to accomplish everything is setting yourself up for failure. If you want to do well, you need to believe you can do well.

Another powerful thing to consider is how you let your thoughts wander. If you catch yourself daydreaming instead of reading, allow yourself a five minute break to think about anything you want, but after that break, get back to work.

Before you study, it might be worthwhile to consider what easily distracts you. If it’s your cell phone, you can turn it off for two hours. If it’s Facebook, you can temporarily deactivate, or better yet, leave your computer at home while you study.

While it can be really difficult to not text or use Facebook for a few hours, it is worth it to work for an efficient hour versus distractedly working for five hours.

When everything you have to do gets overwhelming, it’s helpful to create a to-do list and number the tasks in order of priority.

Psychologists believe creating lists is a useful way to visually set aside tasks. When we only think about what we have to do, it can become mentally overwhelming. Writing

each task down and how long it will take will be a mental relief, and will make it easier to tackle what needs to get done. Best of all, by making a schedule you prove to yourself there is time for everything.

When actually studying, it can be helpful to create an outline of major ideas and then branch out smaller ideas beneath them. Psychologists call this method chunking. The ability to chunk, or group, means you can mentally compartmentalize the information, which is help-

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ful for memorizing large amounts of information before an exam.

It may sound like old-fashioned advice, but practice really does make perfect. Psychologists suggest practicing what you need to know until you overlearn that information. What’s tricky about this method is that it is extremely time-consuming. If you’re cramming for an exam, you won’t have time to practice as much as you probably should. Studying for an hour once a day for a week before an exam is better because you’ll be able to repeatedly practice recalling certain information.

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what works for you, but it’s important to avoid places where you know you will be distracted. Moreover, choosing a location you are comfortable with can affect how well you concentrate. Dressing comfortably is also something to consider.

Likewise, on test day, dressing comfortably is important. You may have heard of the phrase “dress well, test well” which is rooted in the idea that dressing well can boost your self-confidence and self-awareness.

State-dependent learning is the idea that learning and information recall are based on a person’s physiological and mental state. For example, if you study caffeinated, the information will come to you more readily if you are also caffeinated during the test.

If you sit in a certain seat or area of the room during lecture, try to sit there when you are taking the exam because you are more likely to recall information from the same context that you learned it in.

Last, and perhaps most importantly, take breaks and give yourself rewards. Rewarding yourself for a job well done makes you want to continue to do well so you can continue to feel good and get rewards; this is known in psychology as operant conditioning. If you work well for an hour, give yourself a 10-minute break and get a snack.

When it comes down to taking your finals, it may seem necessary to cram all night, but it’s important to get enough sleep so you can concentrate for the actual exam.

Managing your stress by exercising and eating right is also very helpful.

Bottom line—you should be taking care of your academic success and your personal well being throughout finals week.

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UW-Madison student Kevin King poses with students he taught in India for a research program last summer. questions. You get to engage with people of a different background, both academically and culturally,” Khorana Program Administrator Karen Lovely said. “It gives you something different; it helps build your own self.”

The applications for summer international programs are typically available in November and are due around January and February. Most applications will require a transcript, a resume and a letter of reference. Some will require prior laboratory experience or intermediate to advanced

coursework. Eligibility is kept broad, however.

There are also many scholarships available to help fund these trips. Approximately 60 students were able to go abroad through these programs last year.

“The times I was the happiest were the times I was teaching in the schools. Because of that, I am joining the Peace Corps in Africa to promote community education,” King said. “Freshman, start early and find a research opportunity—because they are out there.”

Ask Mr. Scientist Dear Mr. Scientist, How does sunscreen work, and what exactly does SPF mean?

—Sasha R. Sunscreens work in one of two ways. The first is by filtering or even completely blocking the ultraviolet rays.

Molecules that absorb UV light are able to release the captured energy as heat. A second way is by reflecting the UV rays so they aren’t able to reach your skin, something achieved by using zinc oxide or titanium oxide.

Regardless of how a product works, what’s important to pay attention to is something called the Sun Protection Factor or SPF. The SPF is a multiplication factor that tells you how much longer you can stay out in the sun before burning. If you normally get a sunburn without using sunscreen after 15 minutes in the sun, using a product with an SPF of 10 will allow you to stay in the sun 10 times longer—150 minutes.

Dear Mr. Scientist, It gets pretty hot here in the summer and I’d like to go swimming, but how come the lakes here in Madison are always full of algae?

—Chris W. As wonderful as Lake Mendota and Monona are, the massive algal blooms make it difficult to have any

fun in the water. The biggest culprit behind these seas of green is element 15—phosphorus. The fertilizers used by farmers and homeowners contain large amounts of phosphorus. When it rains, water carries excess phosphorus farm fields and lawns into the waterways.

The phosphorus, combined with warm summer days and sunlight, creates the perfect environment for algae to grow, oftentimes to uncontrollable proportions.

Dear Mr. Scientist, How do caterpillars turn into butterflies? What sort of magic happens inside its cacoon?

—Andy K. The metamorphosis that occurs inside a caterpillar’s chrysalis is amazing. The caterpillar turns into a sort of cellular mush. The body breaks down into something called imaginal cells which, like stem cells, can become any type of cell. These imaginal cells reassemble themselves into wings, antennae and other body parts, but some parts, like the caterpillar’s legs, remain unchanged.

All together the change from caterpillar to butterfly lasts about two weeks. Although the creature that emerges looks like a completely new insect, researchers have found that a butterfly retains memories of its previous life as a caterpillar.

Mr. Scientist is Michael Leitch. If you have a burning science question you want him to answer, e-mail it to science@dailycardinal.com.

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Spring Semester 2012 After dispute, bird flu report published A study led by a UW-Madison researcher attracted national controversy earlier this year when a government review panel attempted to censor some of the study’s findings on the grounds of national security.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity targeted elements of the study— illustrating the transmission of the avian flu—that described how mammals could become susceptible to the H5N1 influenza and

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In his research, Yoshihiro Kawaoka of UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine indicated that some strains of the flu found in nature need as little as four mutations to become more threatening to humans than previously thought.

The study was eventually published in its entirety May 3. The NSABB reversed their decision on the grounds of the information’s vital importance to public health and security precautions for the strains kept in laboratories in Madison and the Netherlands.

—Ben Siegel

Transportation cuts inspire campus debate Potential changes to transportation on campus for next year sparked heated discussion throughout the university.

Students vocally opposed the Student Services Finance Committee’s decision to eliminate funding for SafeCab, a decision which the committee later overturned.

Still, Transportation Services said it will no longer manage the program, leaving the university to find a way to

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facilitate the program.

Transportation Services also is planning a 10 percent cut to campus bus routes to help it balance its budget, which is currently in a deficit.

Campus community members have also opposed the bussing cuts, saying it could make campus less safe and more difficult for individuals with disabilities to maneuver.

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Equal Pay, abortion-related bills pass Although budgetary and economic issues have largely dominated the discussion in the statehouse since Gov. Scott Walker took office last year, several contentious social issues briefly took center stage during the 2012 session of the state Legislature, resulting in what Democrats labeled a “war on women.”

In March, the Republicancontrolled legislature passed a bill requiring patients seeking drug-induced abortions to individually consult with a doctor

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before receiving the procedure.

Due to uncertainty with the new law, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin decided to stop providing non-surgical abortions.

Walker also signed a bill into law in April that eliminates several key provisions of the state’s Equal Pay Enforcement Act, which was enacted in 2009 in an attempt to prevent workplace discrimination.

Democrats have charged that these measures are part of a larger Republican attack on women’s rights, but the GOP has argued the “war on women” is nothing more than political posturing from the Democrats ahead of the June 5 recall elections.

—Adam Wollner

Courts overturn Voter ID, redistricting Wisconsin courts obstructed two major pieces of Republican legislation, annulling the voter identification law and substantially altering the state’s redistricting map earlier this semester.

This spring, a Wisconsin judge froze parts of the Voter ID law, legislation that Republicans said was necessary to prevent voter fraud and Democrats rebuffed as both unnecessary and an impediment to citizens’ constitutional right to vote.

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would have required voters to show photo identification at the polls, among other stipulations.

T h e c o u r t s also ordered Republicans to alter their second major 2011 legal maneuver, a state redistricting law that Democrats and state judges said unfairly favored Republicans in several Latinodominated Milwaukee districts.

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Ward makes controversial adidas decision The question of how UW-Madison should handle alleged labor violations by its primary licensing partner, adidas, provoked protests, finger pointing and anger among students and administration earlier this semester.

The issue began in January 2011 when a factory contracted by adidas and owned by PT Kizone abruptly shut down without paying its 2,800 unemployed workers $1.8 million in severance fees.

In response, a university committee composed of student representatives, faculty and administration recommended to UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward in December that the university give adidas a 90-day ultimatum to pay the workers.

But Ward surprised and disappointed the committee, called the Labor Licensing Policy

Committee, when he decided to enter a 60-day period of negotiation with the company rather than give it 90 days’ n o t i c e as recommended. Ward said m e d i at i o n would give UW the best opportunity to come to an agreement with adidas and ultimately get the workers paid.

The university is currently in the beginning stages of mediation. While Ward admitted process has not moved as quickly as he would have liked, he said both parties have agreed upon a process for selecting a mediator from a panel of available retired judges.

UW expects mediation to end in mid-June.

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Racial motives suspected in frat incident Individuals on the porch of Delta Upsilon Fraternity yelled racial slurs and threw a glass bottle at two female AfricanAmerican students on March 16.

In the aftermath of the incident, the fraternity, one of the campus’s largest and most visible, was placed on emergency suspension by the Division of Student Life and

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has lost membership to the Interfraternity Council, the governing body of the university’s Greek system, for the duration of the university’s investigation into the incident.

The incident, which allegedly involved fewer than five members of the fraternity, prompted a reevaluation of the university’s system for receiving and investigating reports of alleged prejudicemotivated incidents.

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Ward’s funding decision leads to debate When Chancellor David Ward sent the final decision on the Multicultural Student Coalition’s funding to student council, many student leaders said he overstepped his bounds in his administrative role.

The Student Services Finance Committee’s denial of funding for the group last fall sparked debates on campus surrounding the student group funding process, and when the group made the final appeal to Ward, group and committee members alike held their breath awaiting a decision.

Ward sent the decision to student council alleging SSFC violated “viewpoint neutrality” in their initial decision, a claim the Student Judiciar y and comm i t t e e members refuted.

Council ultimately granted MCSC funding, although SSFC members alleged the group had intentionally violated university policy.

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Campus officials, including Chancellor David Ward, pledged to reevaluate UW-Madison’s offcampus alcohol policy following an alleged sexual assault by a senior athletic department official during this year’s Rose Bowl.

Former associate athletic director John Chadima put his hands down a male student employee’s pants against the student’s will, according to the alleged victim.

The alleged incident followed a night spent drinking with other athletic department staff in Chadima’s hotel room prior to the Rose Bowl game. The athletic department used donor funds to purchase the drinks that Chadima then offered

freely to student employees, many under 21.

Following the allegations, UW officials began investigating the “lack of clarification” for off-campus alcohol policies and procedures, Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said.

The push to examine policies came at the recommendation of investigators who reported on the allegations and called on the university to consider developing clearer guidelines regarding alcohol service to students.

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Attendance down, arrests up at Mifflin Despite threats from Mayor Paul Soglin to cancel the Mifflin Street Block Party over unprecedented amounts of violence at the 2011 event, the party continued this year with about 300 more arrests.

Although approximately 5,000 people attended the block party this year, about 20,000 fewer people than in 2011, arrests were ten times as common.

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in the streets. Police also took a zero-tolerance approach to party attendees breaking city ordinances.

Additionally, this year’s party was not sponsored. As a result, food vendors, entertainment groups and portable restrooms were not allowed on city sidewalks, and the street was open to traffic.

The May 5 date of the event also led to students adopting the unofficial “Cinco de Mifflin” theme, resulting in custom T-shirts and costumes viewed by some, including newly formed student group “Badgers Against Racism,” as culturally insensitive.

—Abby Becker

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Ground laid for historic recall election While 2012 has proven eventful for Wisconsin and the UW-Madison community, no story has grabbed more headlines or ignited more controversy this year than the historic recall efforts against Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four state Senators.

Activists angry over Walker’s policies, namely the massive cuts to public education and the elimination of collective bargaining for public workers, began collecting signatures late last year calling for the removal of six Republican politicians from office. By Jan. 16, they had gathered around

two million petitions, initiating recall elections.

Tuesday was the beginning of the end for the months-long process, as millions of voters turned out for primaries.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, winner of Tuesday’s primary for the gubernatorial race, will now face Walker June 5 in what is sure to be a heated, and expensive, election.

The general elections are still a month away, but the Walker recall race is already the most expensive election in Wisconsin history; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel estimates $42 million has already been spent.

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May 27 Shakopee, MN There are no words to describe the glory that is the Bonnaroo 2012 lineup. Headliners include Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish and unlikely enough, The Beach Boys.

In addition to that, Bon Iver, The Avett Brothers, The Shins, Foster the People, Azis Ansari, the Roots, Feist, Skrillex and Santigold will be in attendance. Also, Kendrick Lamar, The Antlers and SBTRKT are all artists that have blown up in the past year and will most likely be getting

some attention during Bonnaroo.

Bonnaroo has its own stock of excellent up-and-comers that you would be well-advised to check out if you are attending. Big Freedia is a transgender Bounce artist from New Orleans that graced the Union South’s Sett earlier this semester.

If you missed the show and you’re looking for an opportunity to shake your ass, this is the place to do it.

Alabama Shakes are another artist to watch out for—they

Pitchfork June 13-15 Chicago, IL

Despite the general grumblings of complaint or confusion that often emerge after Summerfest releases its annual lineup, the lakeside festival usually has at least one appealing band to offer enthusiasts of any genre. Its theme often seems to be freedom from a theme; rather, you’ve got a little something for every age and lifestyle.

Without even moving from their seats, indie fans can see Mayer Hawthorne, tUnE-yArDs

and The Head and the Heart in the span of four hours on July 1. The most difficult part of this day might be deciding whether to switch stages to catch Civil Twilight or Trampled by Turtles at 10, since this year’s three headliners play in the same time slot.

Five days later, funktastic Fitz & The Tantrums will bring their magical tambourine powers to the Potawatomi Pavilion.

They rocked Coachella, they will

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With ticket price set at only $38 for the one-day festival, Soundset is a bargain for any underground and indie hip-hop fan. I have attended Soundset for several years now, and the lineup just seems to get better and better.

Fans can count on the classic Minneapolis-based headliner Atmosphere (with Rhymesayers entertainment, the organizers of the event), but should brace them-

selves for the absence of Brother Ali. Luckily, there are several other incredible headliners to look forward to: Lupe Fiasco, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, Kendrick Lamar, P.O.S., Aesop Rock, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Grieves and Budo, Big K.R.I.T… the list goes on.

Soundset is a place to see your favorite hip-hop artists, but it is also an opportunity to hear up-and-coming rappers who

received a ton of attention this year, and will most likely only keep climbing the charts. Their debut album, Boys & Girls, came out this year, and lived up to the hype that followed its release.

With incredible pipes on the lead singer and a down-home blues-y sound that just feels good, you will immediately fall in love.

The list goes on and on of performances I am looking forward to at Bonnaroo this year. —Riley Beggin Break out your best denim staples before heading down to Union Park in Chicago, Ill. for three sweaty, glorious days of all the music everyone else will realize is awesome in about a year. This is not a pretentious statement, but rather a testament to the goals behind PMF (or P4k as the veterans have been known to call it). The online music resource that is Pitchfork.com

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June 7-10 Manchester, TN offers reviews and previews of bands just cresting the music scene and generating buzz, and their music festival lineup is a great reflection of these breaking acts. From hip hop and ambient pop to shred guitar, this year’s attendees are in for the treats of many genres.

Three stages (Red, Green and Blue) span these baseballdiamonds-turned-hip-gathering-grounds and play host to

rock Bonnaroo and they will rock Summerfest for significantly less cost than those other pricey festival day passes.

Other bands also gracing Summerfest with its affordable presence: Death Cab for Cutie, Young the Giant, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, AWOLNATION, Lupe Fiasco and the Dirty Heads. The list goes on, check the Summerfest website for these musical gems. —Marina Oliver If you want to rage in a forest pulsating with electronic happiness, Electric Forest is for you.

Taking place in the conspicuously named “Sherwood Forest” in Western Michigan, Electric Forest boasts some of the most entertaining electronic acts in the U.S. Although the headliners are The String Cheese Incident and Bassnectar (not favorites of mine, but still favorites to many), Santigold, Steve Aoki, STS9,

a fortuitous roster of bands: A$AP Rocky, Dirty Projectors, Sleigh Bells, Hot Chip, Beach House and Vampire Weekend are only a few shows on my list of must-sees. Just remember: Stay hydrated, and don’t be afraid to stick around a stage for an act you’ve never heard of. Some of my favorite shows at last year’s fest came from bands completely new on my radar. — Jaime Brackeen

Summerfest June 27-July 1 Milwaukee, WI

Thievery Corporation and Major Lazer will be making an appearance on the main stages throughout the festival. I know—that right there is enough to buy a ticket, but luckily, there are more acts to look forward to.

I will definitely be checking out Big Gigantic, Beats Antique and Paper Diamond. Big Gigantic has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and has stopped over in Madison several times, but

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Lollapalooza August 3-5 Chicago, IL

To cater to diverse age groups and to the various levels of music immersion in attendance, Lollapalooza’s roster boasts acts as large as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Keys and Jack White as headlining acts, down to mid-level recognition bands like The Temper Trap and Little Dragon and delves all the way into to the up-andphoto courtesy (from top to bottom) rhymesayers entertainment, radiohead, polo grounds, 4ad, downtown records

you might not stumble upon otherwise. With several smaller stages scattered across the campsite, it will be well worth wandering away from the main stage. Astronautalis, who made an appearance on campus this semester, I Self Devine (another Minneapolis-based rapper), The Tribe & Big Cats and Audio Perm are all artists to keep an eye on.

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their high-energy performances have left me wanting more. Beats Antique bring a semi-Eastern sound to their jams, making for an entirely other-wordly listen. Paper Diamond is simultaneously ambient and danceable, intricate and simple, and will also be performing at this year’s festival.

For more information and the complete lineup, go to www. electricforestfestival.com.— Riley Beggin

comers. A recent addition to the Lolla experience, Parry’s, caters specifically to the electronic scene and occasional hip-hop act— you can expect to see it overrun by a lot of people named Molly and shaking with bass reverberations.

Now I’ve only been to Lollapalooza twice before, but when you’re wandering around 319 acres of park, separated from your friends and dehydrated, you learn what can make or break three days of what should be bliss real fast. Here are my tips for a great Lollapalooza: 1.)

Be willing to change plans for what band you want to see. You can waste a lot of time running between stages. 2.) If you’re going with a big group of friends do not, by any means, plan on staying together. 3.) Buy a Camelbak. The lines for water get crazy long and a Camelbak allows you to make one trip to everyone else’s four.

Stay hydrated, don’t take drugs from strangers and have fun. Lollapalooza is one of the most highly anticipated festivals of the summer season for a reason. —Jaime Brackeen

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This phrase is about as pretentious a cliché as there is in music, but here goes: It’s hard to describe what The Antlers sound like to someone who hasn’t heard them before. That also means it’s hard to say what they’ll sound like May 30, when they take the stage at Madison’s High Noon Saloon, but we know it’ll be good.

The Brooklyn-based band has one of the more unique sounds in their genre today, and as a result it’s damn hard to put down in writing exactly what that sound is. Reviewers have gone with “richly atmospheric” and “electro-organic” (the AV Club), “swaddling typically despondent lyrics in gorgeous electronic textures” (the Guardian) and “nocturnal and desolate” (Pitchfork), among others.

Here’s my shot at it: Led by frontman Peter Silberman’s falsetto vocals and backed by guitars that ebb and flow with a song’s emotion, the trio creates songs that are at once deeply personal in themes while oddly mechanical, unfeeling and bordering on sinister. According to Silberman, he wants his music to “imply being disoriented.”

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The raw and emotional sound of The Antlers is a perfect complement to their eventual goal, an intimate, engaging live experience. The band will perform at the High Noon Saloon on May 30.

“That has become a goal of ours in writing, and maybe always has been, is to kind of bend reality a little bit with music,” Silberman said. “Just distort it—to feel very human, but also this weird, modulated version of reality that we’re

trying to create.”

No matter what adjectives you land on to describe it, though, The Antlers’ music is as fascinating as it is complex, and will make for an exceptional live experience, especially in the comparatively intimate High

Noon. Though Silberman said he enjoyed playing in front of large audiences on The Antlers’ recent four-city swing through Europe, he said he is excited to get back to smaller crowds that are more connected to the band.

“It’s the kind of show that

we’ll get to play where it feels very personal,” he said. “It feels very intimate, as opposed to as we get into these bigger theaters... you’re naturally a little more removed.”

That intimacy is key for The Antlers, whose music has for a long time played heavily on dark and raw emotion. Their 2009 debut, Hospice, told the story of a hospice worker’s relationship with a terminally ill patient, and though Silberman says the emotional burnout from that album led him to “mellow out” on Burst Apart, it still strikes for the heart in a number of places.

It’s true that Burst Apart’s heartbreakers (“I Don’t Want Love” and “Putting the Dog to Sleep”) are matched by some more aggressive songs (“Parentheses” and “Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out”), but in the smaller confines of the High Noon the emotional ones should make for the most engaging experience.

“We want it to feel like our shows are a shared experience,” Silberman said, “and that we’re all in it together, and going through something together.”

The Antlers will play the High Noon Saloon on East Washington Avenue, with Milwaukee rockers Sat. Nite Duets opening.

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few days ago, Maurice Sendak passed away at the age of 83. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, maybe this will: he was the author and illustrator of “Where The Wild Things Are.” So suddenly this is a big deal, right?

Monumental even.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I owe Maurice Sendak my childhood—all apologies to J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis as well— but I remember reading “Where The Wild Things Are” with my folks, and they were good times.

It was a good book.

In its time, “Where The Wild Things Are” was challenged and even banned because of its illustrations—people thought children would be traumatized by the depiction of monsters with such big claws and teeth. Against all odds (in the minds of concerned parents and sheltering librarians anyway), it was a runaway success with children. It won the Caldecott Medal, the award for the most distinguished picture book children.

For me, “Where The Wild Things Are” exemplifies an approach to kids’ entertainment that is sorely lacking—it succeeds with kids because it’s not trite or condescending.

I’m sure we’ve read bad children’s books and watched bad

children’s shows. These days summer blockbuster kids’ movies likely involve a healthy dose of CGI alien butts voiced by The Rock. And this kind of entertainment has its place. There will always be kids—even adults— who enjoy this sort of thing.

But there is a danger behind such dumbed-down entertainment. Children occupy such a peculiar realm, as small beings who live in such a large world.

There is a remarkable capacity for wonder in children, and Maurice Sendak understood that. It’s not something to discredit or dismiss.

The beauty of good literature, especially kid’s literature, is how much it can engage the reader. A kid’s book doesn’t need to necessarily educate or

inform children (or adults) but when it’s cloyingly condescending it harms the child more than helps it. That’s something else Maurice Sendak understood.

From my own experience, the best children’s entertainment has “childish” elements in it without being exclusively for children. Or, rather, it doesn’t cut any creative corners or box itself into the “children are stupid so we’ll give them a stupid show they’ll like” mentality.

For instance, one of the shows I grew up with was “Animaniacs,” which was insane and off the wall. But there were parts of it— swaths actually—that had jokes no child would have gotten the first time around, or the fourth time around. And it stayed on

air. Hell, it even got away with a “finger Prince” joke.

And today, plenty of college kids all sway and titter uncontrollably at shows like “Adventure Time” and “Regular Show;” even a show like “My Little Pony” has been appropriated by teen/collegiate guys aka “bronies.”

This also addresses another fundamental issue with children’s entertainment: how we define children. It’s an enormous question, and I don’t claim to have any answers, but it’s not enough to say they’re irrational little poop machines which require constant care and sheltering. Nor are children adults in miniature.

Delmore Schwartz, a oncefamous author, has a great quote on the subject: “The child is the mystery of this life.” It’s a beautiful sentiment—it entails a great deal of respect for children and an acknowledgement that adults are not the ultimate authority on childhood.

Perhaps what confounds people—especially people who don’t understand why a child would want to read a book like “Where The Wild Things Are” or watch a show like “Adventure Time”— is that they were once children.

Maybe they still are; there is no absolute demarcation between children and adults.

It’s something we wrestle with, especially regarding what we teach and show our children.

Maurice Sendak knew the struggle and chose to ignore it. He just wrote. And children will always be lucky to have him.

Do you have any questions or comments, cries of outrage?

Direct them at your man Sean at sreichard@wisc.edu.

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The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board knows there are important issues to cover as a newspaper... These aren’t those issues.

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e can only bet the Student Services Finance Committee didn’t anticipate the year-long cluster-cuss of red-hot, councilsplitting, slur-induced debate that ensued when the group made the decision to defund the Multicultural Student Coalition for the 2012-2013 academic year.

After first requesting nearly one-fourth of all funds set aside for registered student organizations, MCSC failed to properly fill out and turn in their application by deadline, resulting in a complete funding cut by ASM. Soon,

complaints were filed, challenges were made, administration was contacted, multiculturally incompetent insults were thrown, MCSC members magically appeared on council, multiculturally incompetent insults were apologized for and the story made headline after headline. And just when we thought the torture was over with council’s final decision, SSFC challenged the winning goal—calling it corrupt and potentially pushing the devil’s match into overtime.

So, what has this editorial board and the rest of campus learned from all this?

Nothing.

Except maybe that the MCSC doesn’t, like literally will not, give up without a full-fledged attack.

From weaseling their own members onto the Associated Student’s of Madison’s student council to illegally contacting university officials for backup to even slandering and swearing at representatives at the start of council meetings, the debacle has left MCSC’s funding decision in a months-long stalemate—a stalemate that has made so many headlines that this board just might vomit.

It’s not that we don’t care about

a multicultural student group’s presence on a campus that severely lacks diversity, it’s that, with one single group in a 40,000 student university, ASM has effectively shown through broken-record headlines that it is an ineffective institution incapable of agreeing on one issue, moving past that issue and focusing on the rest of the student body as a whole.

Seeing a new gridlock headline about the MCSC’s funding status four out of seven days of the week doesn’t inspire much hope for ASM among the student body.

This should-be-meager piece of news has plagued front pages for months. It’s high time ASM take a good look at the purpose of their spotlight and start reevaluating their use of time.

MCSC isn’t UW-Madison.

ASM has a duty to represent UW-Madison. We’ve seen through news story after news story that this hasn't happened. While we would like to say the next headline MCSC and ASM make is a progressive one, it would be more accurate to say we really just don’t give a shit anymore.

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o put it bluntly, Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk’s prominence in the recall campaign was a fluke, and one that should never have gone as far as it did. She was the first to enter the race following her resignation from county government and gained momentum by playing to the unions.

While Wisconsin waited for a major political player like Russ Feingold or Dave Obey to step up and challenge Gov. Scott Walker, Falk embarked on an aggressive campaign that won her

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support among the Democratic base.

Her platform was straightforward and simple: return to Wisconsin what Walker took away.

That meant promising not only to restore collective bargaining rights, but signing a pledge ensuring she would veto any budget that did not include collective bargaining rights. It was a step that showed she possesses the same flaws as Walker. She is focused on the base and she is stubborn. Walker is not the wrong fit for Wisconsin because

he is a Republican; it is because he is unwilling to see the other side and determined to do whatever it takes to carry through his agenda. Falk, for all of her merits as Dane County Executive, would have been the bizzaro Walker.

Mifflin: Don’t go? Yeah right

f we could count on our dean of students for anything this year, it was that she was always there to tell us not to do something. From the controversy surrounding “ES, FU” to her recent “don’t go” to Mifflin fiasco, Lori Berquam has proven herself quite the wet blanket.

We understand it is her job to keep us safe, to make sure we represent the Badger student body well, but when you go from a warning leader to a total buzzkill as she did,

you have crossed a line.

The problem with advocating against “ES, FU” or Mifflin is not that it makes Berquam uncool, but that it alienates her from students. She has an important job, but by focusing on ending what many consider to be staples of campus culture, her perceived authority is lost, and that is not OK. When Berquam tweeted, “My video debut was a disaster, but I’m all about your safety at #mifflin2012. Sorry if my tone

wasn't right. I liked the remix! #dontgo,” we saw a glimpse of what her leadership could and should be: thoughtful and approachable.

Hopefully that is the tone she takes come fall and this editorial board will not have to write any party-pooper columns about her.

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his might be a different story if Madison's branch of the larger Occupy Wall Street movement was actually still a protest movement. Instead, with Occupy Madison now serving a role more equivalent to an emergency shelter for the city's homeless rather than an actual protest, we say it's time the Occupiers packed up and started focusing on real issues.

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Anyone with even a hint of knowledge about homelessness realizes you don't solve a problem like homelessness by putting people in tents. You solve it with comprehensive supportive housing. With job training. With substance abuse counseling. With mental health services. It’s not just the more effective way to fight homelessness, it’s also (by far) the most efficient one.

But months after most national Occupy encampments have shut down, Madison’s is devoting much of its work toward finding a new home for itself, instead of homes for some of its residents.

Occupy Madison needs to drop its search for a new location and spend that time and energy advocating for the kind of supportive housing services our city's homeless need.

Block 100, make a decision already

ommon Council has become a broken record over the last few years.

Projects like the Edgewater Hotel renovation have been mired in committee after committee with no end in sight, agonizing officials and observers alike.

The Block 100 Foundation's plan to redevelop and tear down a handful of unoccupied, dilapidated buildings on State Street has met the same fate.

Wealthy philanthropists Jerome Frautschi and Pleasant Rowland

purchased a block of buildings on State, West Mifflin and Fairchild Streets. They plan to tear down some and renovate others to make way for a new development of retail stores and office space. The proceeds from managing the property will go toward funding the Overture Center across the street, which has had budget problems.

There is no doubt the city would love to have help funding the Overture Center, but the center of the issue is whether it would be right to demolish some of those

buildings that have been given landmark status.

The proposal has bounced from committee to committee with no real action taken, leaving the developers, construction workers and downtown visitors alike in Madison purgatory.

Whether you think the vacant, rundown buildings should be torn down to make way for a new project or you believe the landmark buildings should be protected, we can all get behind this: "Do something!"

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The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board believes these issues impact all students and should be paid close attention to over the coming summer months.

New constitution gives ASM new direction

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ast year, the 17th session of the Associated Students of Madison made the iron-willed decision to defund UW-Madison’s popular grass-

roots organization, WISPIRG, as a viewpoint neutral response to the group’s failure in meeting eligibility requirements. This year, vengeful members of WISPIRG made

the iron-willed, and in our opinion quite loud, decision to secure seats on the ASM and consequently mold the organization into an advocacy institution with an internal struc-

ture and mission peculiarly similar to WISPIRG itself.

This year, the 18th session of the ASM decided yet again to defund another popular student organization, the Multicultural Student Coalition, as a viewpoint neutral response to the organization’s failure to accurately fill out and turn in application materials. Classic. And as a brow-raising result, MCSC not only took great strides to place some members in student council seats this year, but the group has been so hot-headed and annoyingly persistent, the ASM has found itself trapped in gridlock between members for the majority of the year.

After close examination of these two happenstances, this board has come to a shocking conclusion: a trend is surfacing. A pattern is arising between agitated student organizations and the manipulation of the ASM’s composition and purpose—a trend that, as evidenced by council this year, will only result in a pathetic and intransigent 19th session.

That’s why we see merit in continuing the conversation over instituting a new ASM constitution. As we’ve said in previous editorials, ASM has been nothing but ineffectual and internally focused over the last year. And

while we’re certainly sick of reading about their brawls over student organization financing, we believe it’s important the campus community read and discuss the benefits of a complete student government restructuring.

This year, the ASM Constitution Committee, a committee the Daily Cardinal Editorial Board played a significant role in, worked to spearhead an effort that rewrote the current ASM constitution. While the initiative failed to pass council this year, we strongly encourage students to keep the debate hot and spicy next fall. With greater student input comes greater potential for real, successful changes in student government that hopefully will ripple across campus for years to come.

As ASM keeps its vain eye on itself and obliviously falls into more creeping organizational funding feuds, the rest of the student population needs to remind council that, basically, the rest of the student population exists.

Next year, we can only hope newsstands tout town halls and committee meetings centered around the advancement of ASM rather than read the same headlines we’ve been plagued with this year that only reveal to campus ASM’s internal demise.

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Where o’ where is Wis. bipartisanship?

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ver the past decade, political discourse has become less and less civil. From Congress to municipal governments, the debate has become increasingly partisan and more polarizing.

The climate has been especially bad in Wisconsin since Gov. Scott Walker pushed his controversial budget and bargaining legislation through the Republican-led legislature last year. Violent rhetoric, partisan lawsuits and shouts of “Shame!” have echoed through the state Capitol in Madison and in statehouses around the country.

Recall campaigns targeting the governor, lieutenant governor and over a dozen state senators have turned friends and neighbors into foes and split families along party lines.

On the national stage, groups

like the tea party have refused to budge from their dogmatic, radical positions. The national Republican Party has been hijacked by wing nuts.

Attempts of bipartisanship and compromise have been met with punishment.

Wisconsin state Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, who was the only Senate Republican to vote against the collective bargaining legislation, was the target of a recall campaign from members of his own party.

In Congress, moderate senators with track records of compromise like Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have announced they will not seek reelection later this year.

Other established senators are facing primary challenges because of their refusal to be dictated to by

conservative purists.

Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., who has been in the Senate for 35 years, lost his primary May 8 to a more radical Republican.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who joined the Senate the same year as Lugar, is under a similar primary threat.

Politicians like Schultz, Snowe and Lugar are good for our government and allow it to effectively serve the people.

Voters should be electing more like them to office, instead of purging them.

Wisconsin politics needs to get back to its roots.

Compromise and camaraderie was once common, even across party lines. This board wants to see a resurgence of Wisconsin bipartisanship in the coming months.

Outside money needs to stay outside

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ne of the most important consequences of Gov. Scott Walker's push to limit collective bargaining for public-sector workers has been Wisconsin's new role on the national political stage, the result of which has been a massive influx of political contributions from beyond our borders.

Whether it's from Americans

for Prosperity or the AFL-CIO, the money that has flowed into Wisconsin over the past year has contributed to a heated political climate. With a recall fight well underway, and national groups on the right and left poised to fill campaign coffers of both candidates, there are no signs of tempers cooling.

We as Wisconsinites have to remember that our state became a piece on the national chessboard last year. Watch where campaign money comes from—and make sure our representatives are our own, and not just there because a donor somewhere else decided they should be.

arious policies targeting students were introduced at the city and state level this year. The “Nuisance Party” Ordinance, passed by the city council in February, aims to curb large house parties. Under the ordinance, a party is classified as a nuisance if it violates one of 17 criteria including excessive noise, underage drinking or being too crowded. If classified as a nuisance party, tenants may be fined and must attend meetings with their landlord and police. This ordinance may create tension between landlords and their tenants as landlords crack down harder on parties to avoid such measures.

A state bill, passed in March, allows landlords to show a property at any point during the lease, rather than during a designated

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viewing period, and to charge more than a month’s rent for a security deposit. Keep your bongs hidden. This means your landlord can come into your house without any prior notice, and can charge as much as they please for that window you broke on Halloween.

Also, if your landlord is caught for including any illegal provisions in your lease, you no longer have the right to terminate the lease. The only requirement is that they remove the provision without any consequences, meaning they have no real incentive not to try to rip you off.

Students must keep a close eye on legislation this next year, and speak out to protect their rights, because apparently, they are on the chopping block.

War on human rights needs a hero

he “War on Women” is an inherently flawed phrase because it implies it is solely the job of females to address and combat the infringements on rights they have played witness to over the past year. A more appropriate phrase would be the War on Equality, the War on Reason or the War on Human Rights. Because of that, because these injustices affect not just women but all cultural inequalities, it is important we refuse to let this issue fall by the wayside.

This year, we have seen Gov. Scott Walker repeal pay equality legislation. A law limiting women’s access to abortion was put in place,

moving Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to stop providing abortion-inducing pills. State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, spearheaded an attempt to repeal Wisconsin’s Healthy Youth Act, a bill ensuring Wisconsin teens receive comprehensive sex education.

Each part of this story is unfortunate, but that it has all happened in such a short period of time is what is most horrifying. If momentum keeps going in this direction, this “war” on human rights could see even more fatalities than it already has. That cannot happen, and Wisconsinites need to make sure it does not.

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Editor in chief leaves tiger suit for the real world Kayla Johnson outgoing Editor in Chief

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’ve written many letters this year about how The Daily Cardinal is an institution with a 120-year tradition of excellence in student journalism. While that is true, focusing only on this enduring tradition excludes what I will miss the very most as I leave behind my big red chair in the Cardinal office.

Yes, the Cardinal is a living school of journalism. Yes, this newspaper has a rich history of fine news coverage through depression, protest and war. Yes, I can list off the 18 Pulitzer Prizes won by former Cardinalistas. But let’s not lose sight of what truly defines this paper: We are students.

Our daily production of a 10,000 circulation newspaper may mask our true identity, but we are students. We are often making up the rules as we go. Sometimes we get it right.

Sometimes we get it wrong. And we deal with both as the young people we are. We cheer. We yell.

We cry. And, of course, we drink.

Next semester I will be working for a U.S. Senate campaign

in Minnesota. While I will miss the news scoops and journalistic integrity of the Cardinal, what I will miss most is the youthful passion and goofiness that our staff express everyday.

The unrelenting and mostly witty banter in the office.

Shotgunning beers over copies of The Badger Herald.

Throwing eggs at the State editor. Dancing on office tables to Kanye West’s “Monster” when the chancellor declares a snow day.

And teaching a freshman not just how to write a snappy lead, but also how to excel in flip cup.

It’s not all fun and games.

Putting out a daily newspaper is hard work and when things go wrong, we try to handle it like mature adults. But we also understand each other when we don’t.

Here’s an example of what I mean. When some conservative blobs noticed the term “public masturbation” in a Cardinal article about Occupy Madison in late October, the story went viral, and it was twisted disgustingly. My e-mail was flooded, my voicemail was full, the mayor was on the phone, and there was an online petition calling for the resignation of the editor in chief (me!). I felt like I was on the verge of insanity. Maybe I was closer than the verge. I wore a full-body tiger suit to all my classes the next day. Yes, it was Halloween. But I was the only person in costume.

One sad tiger carrying her tail.

When I got to the Cardinal office later in the day, I started to cry. I stood in the middle of the office with tears ruining the carefullydrawn whiskers on my cheeks.

Slowly, I began thrusting my hips with my arms jutting out

at my sides, dancing and sobbing my way around the room. At that moment, more than my whiskers could have been in ruin. But not at the Cardinal. As the staff noticed my precarious mental state, our managing editor said with a compassionate laugh, “You need to go home. The Cardinal broke you today.” In no condition to argue, I took his advice, went home and watched the St. Bernard-starring ’90s hit “Beethoven’s Third” while stuffing my face with chocolate.

Now I don’t know how the executive editor of The New York Times handles a crisis, but I will venture to guess that an animal costume is not involved. Nor is it likely that the NYT staff rallies in universal support and understanding. For that, you need to work at the Cardinal.

I’m not saying we don’t take ourselves seriously. We put our responsibility to inform the student body above all else.

We are not afraid to push each other to do better, to challenge each other to think harder, to call each other out when we’ve made a mistake. But somehow we always manage to sort it

out and be back cracking poop jokes by our 2 a.m. deadline.

As I leave the Cardinal staff to face the grown-up world, I know it is in good hands with next year’s management. Our incoming editor in chief, Scott Girard, has a clear vision for improving the Cardinal’s future and institutionalizing its past.

Our incoming managing editor, Alex DiTullio, has a dogged work ethic accompanied by great news judgment. They will be a terrific duo.

So as I wave goodbye to this red birdie, I will miss the student energy of the newspaper. I will miss spending hours late into the night with the paper’s staff, whether the time is spent making a newspaper or baking post-party cookies. They are my family away from home.

And, I will miss you, the reader, whose loyalty keeps us in business and whose feedback makes us better.

If I mess up on the campaign trail next fall, I am sad to admit wearing a tiger suit is probably not in order. But, I will take solace in that there is a place where such behavior continues to be acceptable. As the Cardinal grows older each year, the staff does not.

Farewell to our outgoing editors!

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These Daily Cardinal editors are either moving on to new positions in the newspaper or entering the job market in the real world.

Top row, left to right: Scott Girard, Nico Savidge, Mark Kauzlarich, Ryan Evans, Matt Beaty, Matt Kleist.

Middle row, left to right: Sam Witthuhn, Lauren Michael, Kayla Johnson, Alison Bauter, Anna Duffin, Jacqueline O’Reilly. Bottom row, left to right: Jenna Bushnell, Riley Beggin, Becca Alt, Steven Rosenbaum.

Incoming editor in chief embraces past, outlines plans for future Scott Girard incoming editor in chief

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i there, Badgers! I’m Scott Girard, and I will be the 2012-’13 editor in chief of your 120-year-old student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal.

Less than one month ago, our staff had the honor of meeting over 250 Cardinal alumni at our 120th anniversary celebration.

It was a great reminder of the successes former Cardinalistas have achieved in the world of

journalism and beyond. But it was a greater reminder of how much pride those who have worked at the Cardinal still take in the paper, traveling from all over the country to meet up with old friends and give advice to current staff members.

Some of those former staffers covered JFK’s assassination, and others were around for the declaration of war on Japan in 1941. We are reminded daily of our newspaper’s coverage of those events with old newspapers hung up around the office, and we do our best to be ready for the next major event.

However, the sixth-oldest

student newspaper in the country must also adapt to the changing world of journalism. There is a growing importance placed on immediacy, through Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets. I will work to make sure our staff knows how to best use these resources to provide the student body with important, immediate news, while ensuring we do not sacrifice accuracy in our reporting.

An ongoing problem for our paper has been a lack of diversity in the office. This not only harms our product, because we miss stories and perspectives this campus needs to know about, but also as

staff because we do not get to share in those same perspectives. I hope to reach out to campus groups dedicated to improving diversity to discuss how we can improve the climate in our office to make it welcoming for everyone.

Finally, we couldn’t put out a newspaper five days a week without you, the readers, picking it up. So please give us feedback as we work to give you the most important news happening around the campus, city and state. We will face exciting challenges over the next year covering a presidential election, a search for a new chancellor, another success-

ful Badger football season and much more, and I hope you will follow along in our paper or through our website.

If you have an interest in sports, music, movies, photography, writing, science, business, news, politics or just want to meet a ton of awesome people, we have a place for you in our office and would love for you to join us. Be ready for our recruitment meeting in the fall, or just stop by 2142 Vilas Hall. Until then, have a great summer!

If you have any interest in working for The Daily Cardinal under Scott Girard’s leadership, email opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Not too merry during Easter. David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board.

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Today’s Sudoku

Kickin’ ass since 1892!

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

© Puzzles by Pappocom

Eatin’ Cake

By Dylan Moriarty EatinCake@gmail.com

Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Caved In

By Nick Kryshak nkryshak@wisc.edu

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

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ASK AWAY ACROSS 1 Six-Day War hero Moshe 6 Bit of shut-eye 9 Love very much 14 Lagoon formation 15 “Now ___ seen everything!”

16 Missouri, Arkansas or Ohio, e.g.

17 Slacker’s motto 19 At pique’s peak?

20 “Bad call!”

21 “Dead Poets Society” director 22 Many a delivery 23 Watson of the Harry Potter movies 25 Budweiser horse 30 Boxer’s measurement 32 ‘60s-’70s space missions 33 Classic Aretha Franklin song 37 Tidbit for 60-Across 38 Memorable fast-food ad question 42 “Just as I suspected!”

43 Annulled, as a legal order 44 Prim and proper 47 Authoritative proclamation 51 Shirley MacLaine film title word 55 Olden days 56 Was a consumer?

57 Adult tadpole 59 Armchair quarterback’s room, perhaps

0 What 25-Across is 6 63 Some mystery stories 65 “For Sale by ___” 66 Successor to the PanAmerican Union 67 ___ Hawkins Day 68 No rest for them 69 Number of hits that ruins a perfect game 70 Adult wannabes DOWN 1 “Mork & Mindy” co-star Pam 2 Feeling comfy 3 One cello virtuoso 4 Vestry vestment 5 Sweet’___ (sugar substitute) 6 “Nothing,” in legal phrases 7 Animation legend Tex 8 “As ___ your instructions” 9 Light musical piece 10 Dress with a tight bodice 11 Eggs, to a biologist 12 Abbr. after some generals’ names 13 Byron’s “before” 18 Gumshoe, for short 22 Group of seven 24 A bit of land 26 Russian country home 27 Healing houseplant 28 Where to find a couple of heels 29 Suffix for “fast” or “slow” 31 Feminine pronoun

34 Like some reprimands or thunderstorms 35 Creation of King David 36 “And that sort of thing” (Abbr.)

38 Question not asked in this puzzle’s theme words 39 “Cool ___ Luke” 40 Akeelah’s spelling contest 41 “Electric Avenue” singer Grant 42 21, for many new drinkers 45 “Coming up next” ad 46 Greasy spoon, e.g.

48 Potassium ___ (photography compound ) 49 Hardly a brainiac 50 Grammar topics 52 ___ Hunt (Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible” role) 53 “Hang ‘Em High” prop 54 Abraham Lincoln’s boy 58 “Bunnies” under the bed 60 Question not asked in this puzzle’s theme words 61 Be shy, poker potwise 62 Virus innards, briefly 63 Charm with flowers and candy 64 “Fat chance, laddie!”

By Steven Wishau wishau@wisc.edu

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Washington and the Bear

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Badgers’ postseason hopes on the line

By Peter Geppert The Daily Cardinal

Important wouldn’t really give credit to the magnitude of the situation. Epic wouldn’t really be a fair assessment either. Neither would crucial, which downplays the timeliness of the upcoming weekend.

The Wisconsin softball team (12-8 Big Ten, 33-17 overall) begins a monster weekend three-game series Saturday against Nebraska (12-8, 31-21) that will most likely determine the postseason futures of both teams. By dropping two games against the likely Big Ten champion Michigan last weekend, Wisconsin was knocked out of the conference title race.

“You learn a lot about how a team will bounce back,” sophomore shortstop Stephanie Peace said.

“We won’t see our true spirit until we come out against Nebraska.”

As the Badgers hit the road they will be entering a tough road environment in Lincoln, Neb., where the

Badgers were swept in two games the last time they played there in 2010. The Cornhuskers have a perfect 13-0 record at home this season and have been a completely different team playing at home.

The Cornhuskers’ inaugural Big Ten season had its ups and downs. That trend continued last weekend as Nebraska was swept by an average Indiana squad, so they will undoubtedly be hungry to get some conference wins against the Badgers. Taking the series in Lincoln will be no small task for a Badger team that has struggled at times on the road this season.

“We’re going to try and mix up our approach by doing some small ball, show our power,” sophomore outfielder Mary Massei said. “It would be a great feeling to take that undefeated record away.”

The Wisconsin lineup will be running into a tough right-handed senior in Nebraska’s Ashley Hagemann. The Elkhorn, Neb.,

native is sporting a 12-6 record this season and an impressive 2.66 earned run average.

Hagemann has been consistently tough against lineups, racking up 301 strikeouts this season. “[Hagemann] has a low screw against that goes away from leftys,” Massei said. “She can be pretty dominant on that pitch so it will be really important to be aggressive.”

This weekend has more implications than most softball games around the nation. Both teams are considered to be on the bubble for the NCAA tournament. Similar to the format of college basketball, softball features a 64-team field composed of 30 conference champions and 34 at-large berths. Already eliminated from conference contention and sitting with identical conference records, the winner of the upcoming series between the Badgers and Cornhuskers this weekend will undoubtedly have an edge over the other in the selection committee’s eyes.

“There are a lot of teams that will do things this weekend that will affect us that are out of our control,” head coach Yvette Healy said. “But the Nebraska series is the one thing we can control so that’s what we’re focused on.”

Still, even with the uncer-

tainty of the Badgers’ postseason hopes, the players and coaches insist that there is no other position they would rather be in heading towards the postseason.

The Badges have been a team that has thrived off of chemistry and momentum all season long. With a chance to prove their place in the tournament on the field this

weekend, Healy’s tight bunch is embracing the opportunity.

“We have great team camaraderie,” Massei said. “These girls are my best friends and there isn’t anyone else I would rather be on the field with for what we have coming up.”

Steven Rosenbaum contributed to his report

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This weekend’s series with Nebraska is crucial for the NCAA Tournament hopes of Mary Massei and the Badgers.

Lessons from four years at UW Nico Savidge savidge nation

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he college newspaper farewell column—recognizable by the 800 words it spends saying goodbye to people readers have never met and reminiscing over an office where they’ve never been—is a pointless beast. And yet, each spring, we find ourselves at this point as graduating seniors get ready to move on.

Want to read someone who says goodbye and does it well?

Read Michael Wilbon’s farewell to The Washington Post, or Joe Posnanski’s “Home in Capital Letters” ode to Kansas City. Don’t read someone who’s written the equivalent of “I [sob] can’t [sob] believe [sob] it’s over!”

So in my last column in this great newspaper, I’ll try to avoid falling into that pit of pointless selfcongratulation, and instead share three things Wisconsin has taught me. If that sounds like it’s toeing the line of the “farewell column” go for it. I frankly don’t care, because I’ve got to go face the real world in a few weeks. Bigger fish.

Don’t say “we” if you’re not on the team

This is a mandatory lesson for anyone calling themselves a journalist, but it holds true for fans and just about anyone talking about sports. Do you play for the Badgers? Do you run out of the Camp Randall Stadium tunnel with Bret Bielema before every home football game? Does Bo Ryan yell at you during practices?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, then congratulations, you get to say “we beat Ohio State,” or “the refs screwed us over.”

If you didn’t, the team is “they.”

It sounds like a pretty insignificant debate over pronouns, but the problem with saying “we” and “us” when you love a sports team is that it takes you down a path that ends in blind homerism. When you think you’re a part of a team you’re less able to take a critical eye to it; when you appraise that same team from an admitted outsider’s perspective, your view is less tainted.

Fans are important to teams, sure. But they’re not part of them.

Don’t talk like you are.

I don’t care if the student section says ‘fuck’ and you shouldn’t either

Way back in the summer of 2008, as I was waiting for the day I could break out of my hometown and finally move to Madison, ESPN the Magazine put out an issue in which it named Wisconsin’s “profanity-filled, beer-marinated north end zone” the “Nastiest” student section in college football.

Did I drop the magazine in shock, and phone the university to say I would not be partaking in their obscene institution? No, I said, “Wow, this makes Wisconsin sound even cooler.”

Wisconsin fans are passionate, of course, but they’re also the kind of students who want to have some fun. And sometimes, that fun takes the form of telling one another to “eat shit” and responding with a hearty “fuck you”—it’s an example of being goofy with “bad words,” and using them in the most innocuous and harmless context.

Anyone from our athletic department or administration who tells you they pose a grave threat to the quality of our stadium atmosphere needs to accept a simple fact: Dirty words are fun to say, and we’re going to keep saying them, because that’s become one part who we are.

If that gets us a little more (positive) ink from the likes of ESPN, well,

that’s fine by me.

Ryan Braun might have taken steroids, but that’s OK

If there was a substance that caused no negative health effects, had no addicting qualities and did nothing other than make a person stronger, faster and better able to crush the bejeesus out of a baseball, would you be OK with someone taking it? That’s the question Will Leitch poses in his book, “God Save the Fan,” and I have no doubt science will bring us to that point very soon.

Four years ago, I was vehemently anti-steroid. Now though?

Beyond the health effects of taking them (which are probably less severe than the ones NFL players suffer regularly, just by the nature of their game), I frankly don’t care any more.

Do steroids make baseball players better? Sure, but I bet wearing wool jerseys and smoking five packs a day slowed other players down in the day. Science advances, technology moves forward and records fall—that’s how the world works, and baseball isn’t any different.

So let Barry Bonds into the Hall of Fame, and let him take Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa with him. And stop speculating about Ryan Braun like a failed drug test invalidates everything he’s done for the Brewers and their fans for years.

At this point, it doesn’t matter.

I know I railed against the selfindulgent farewell columns earlier but this is something I have to say.

To everyone in this incredible city, at this inspiring university and on this life-changing newspaper whom I have had the privilege of knowing over the past four years: From the bottom of my heart, and with more sincerity than two words could ever convey, thank you. E-mail Nico at nicosavidge@gmail.com.

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In the first season featuring 12 Big Ten teams and two divisions, one team stood out in each. In the Leaders, Wisconsin built talk of a national title run before losing in stunning fashion to Michigan State, the best team on the Legends side. Then, after an equally devastating trip to Ohio State, the Badgers needed help to wind up in the inaugural conference title game in Indianapolis. That help gave the Badgers a shot at redemption against the Spartans and, ultimately, delivered Wisconsin to its second straight Rose Bowl thanks to a karmic final blow.

Montee Ball rushed for 96 yards and

two scores as the Badgers raced to a 21-7 first quarter lead. The Spartans dominated in the second quarter, as they’ve become accustomed to doing against Bret Bielema and Co. The teams traded scores through the night set in an electric stadium in the middle of an incredible host city. UW didn’t quite hail Mary, but when Jeff Duckworth flagged down Russell Wilson’s desperation heave on 4th and 6 in the closing moments, the Badgers put the finishing touches on a Big Ten season of resilience and offensive firepower.

They were rewarded with a trip to Southern California.

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Rob Wilson goes off at the Big Ten Tournament

Badgers beat Spartans in inaugural Big Ten Title Game December 3, 2011

Spring Farewell Issue 2012

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March 9, 2012

Senior forward Rob Wilson was the perfect Badger to go for 30 points in a 79-71 win over Indiana in the Big Ten men’s basketball conference tournament.

The moment wouldn’t have made this list if senior guard Jordan Taylor had dropped a 30-spot. Heck, Russell Wilson could have suited up and scored 10, and that still wouldn’t have made for a better moment than Rob Wilson’s.

The thing was, nobody saw it coming. Wilson had been in head coach Bo Ryan’s doghouse for much of his junior year and—despite increased minutes down the stretch his senior year—was

regarded as the seventh or eighth man in Ryan’s rotation. Wilson’s season-high up to that point had been an 11-point showing in a 67-66 loss at Iowa. If opponents prepared for Wilson, his scouting report was pretty simple: He can make open three-pointers, so don’t give him too much space on the perimeter.

But none of it mattered that afternoon in Indianapolis. Wilson blew his 11-point night out of the water with 11 field goals and finishing 7-of-10 from behind the arc against the Hoosiers. Despite Wilson splashing a couple early three-point shots, Indiana’s defense couldn’t contain him.

—Vince Huth

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Top Wisconsin Badger moments of 2011-’12 Men’s cross country team claims fifth national title

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November 21, 2011

2011 was a banner season for the Badgers’ men’s cross country team as their Big Ten Championship only served as an appetizer for the squad’s ultimate goal—a national championship.

Wisconsin began a cold, damp day in Terre Haute, Ind., as the No. 1 ranked team in the country and left with the program’s fifth national title, and first since 2005.

The Badgers fielded an impressive roster, including four All Americans— seniors Ryan Collins and Elliot Krause, and juniors Reed Connor and Mohammad Ahmed—as well as junior Maverick Darling.

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Wisconsin typically ran in a tight pack, but Ahmed, the Big Ten’s overall champion, broke away from his teammates early and finished the 10-kilometer race fifth overall with a time of 29:06—good for All-American honors for the third straight year.

Krause and Collins also broke the 30-minute mark, finishing 17th and 23rd overall respectively, with times of 29:41 and 29:52.

Wisconsin finished with just 97 overall points, putting them miles ahead of second place Oklahoma State (139) and third place Colorado (144).

—Matt Masterson

12,402 fans ‘Fill the Bowl’ for women’s hockey

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January 28, 2012

The Wisconsin women’s hockey team set the NCAA women’s hockey single-game attendance record for the third year in a row at the 2012 “Fill the Bowl” game when 12,402 fans saw the Badgers defeat Bemidji State 1-0.

It would take almost the full 60 minutes to determine the winner in the game as the Badgers could not find a way to put the puck past the Bemidji State goaltender.

Wisconsin found the break they needed just past the 12-minute mark of the third period when junior forward and team captain Hilary Knight received a

pass from behind the Beaver net and buried it for the game’s only goal.

The over 12,000 people that filled the Kohl Center that night speak to the quick rise that the Wisconsin women’s hockey program has experienced. The program played its inaugural season in 1999-’00 and since then it has claimed four national championships, four WCHA playoff championships, four WCHA regular season championships and four Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winners.

After 13 years of success, the Badgers will play next season at their new home in LaBahn Arena.

—Matthew Kleist Mark Kauzlarich/cardinal File photo

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2011-’12 Badger Athletes of the Year No. 1: Montee Ball Football junior running back No. 28

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It’s easy to forget that Montee Ball wasn’t the Badgers’ featured back at the beginning of the 2011 season. Heck, more fans probably saw him as a true No. 2 than a true No. 1. To be fair, the lightning-quick James White—reigning Big Ten freshman of the year—was a pretty good bet in August.

But nobody had seen what Ball did in the offseason. Nobody had seen the transformation, the weight lost and the muscle built and the mindset hardened. By

the time the Rose Bowl ended late Jan. 2, though, 14 opponents— the whole nation, really—had gotten a pretty good look.

The Wentzville, Mo. native scored touchdowns like his offensive linemen eat dinner: two, three and four helpings at a time.

He scored multiple touchdowns in every game but the Rose Bowl. He finished with 33 on the ground and 39 in total.

Since scoring the game-winning touchdown against Iowa Oct.

23, 2010 (19 games), Ball has amassed 2,700 rushing yards and 54 total touchdowns. Yes, that’s 142.1 yards and 2.8 trips to the end zone per contest.

He went from being a thirdstring option to a Heisman finalist. He went from being a talented guy in a talented backfield to the best in the nation.

He went from unknown to having a legitimate NFL future.

But that will have to wait. He’s coming back for his senior year.

—Parker Gabriel

No. 2: Justin Schultz Men’s hockey junior defenseman #6

No. 3: Brianna Decker

There was arguably no Wisconsin with 16 goals—the first time a blue liner has led Wisconsin in goal-scorathlete more important to his ing—and his 44 points paced the team this year than Justin Schultz nation’s defensemen. In return he was for the men’s hockey team.

As the junior defenseman went, was a top-10 Hobey Baker finalist, so did the Badgers. The assistant WCHA Defensive Player of the captain was a team-leading plusYear, First Team All-WCHA and a 11 and was on the ice for 69 of First-Team All-American.

Wisconsin’s 101 goals, 27 of its 33 It’s not hard to see why power play goals and 10 of its 17 Schultz’s teammates voted him the SCHULTZ game-winning tallies on the season.

Badgers’ Most Valuable Player. He After a spectacular sophomore was Wisconsin’s best player, and year he decided to come back for his compared to the rest of the college hockey junior season and again made playing col- landscape he was a man amongst boys. lege hockey look easy. He led the Badgers —Ryan Evans

Junior forward Brianna Decker won a production standpoint—between he the Patty Kazmaier award this and Decker. season. That’s the Heisman troTebow won two national phy of women’s hockey, if you championships and one Heisman aren’t familiar. The forward led trophy during his four years at the nation in goals and total Florida. In addition to Decker’s points scored, and she also led aforementioned Patty Kazmaier the Badgers in assists. award, she also was part of Regardless of how you feel Wisconsin’s national championabout Tim Tebow, he was one of ship team two seasons ago.

DECKER the most productive players in Decker was clearly one of college football history. I bring the top Badgers this season, but the quarterback into this not to hype don’t be surprised if she goes down as him up more than he’s already been, but one of the all-time greats. rather to show the comparison—from —Vince Huth

No. 4: Russell Wilson Football senior quarterback #16

No. 5: Mark Zengerle Men’s

The murmurs spread before Russell throwing the record book out the window Wilson even stepped on campus. A look just as easy. The one-year dambuzz grew all through fall camp. By age: 3,175 yards, 33 TDs, four INTs the time they turned the lights on and a 72.8 percent completion rate. at Camp Randall Stadium Sept. 1, Wilson made UW so dangernobody knew quite what to expect, ous that a Rose Bowl appearance but still the crescendo continued. felt like a consolation. From the Finally, that night, in a 51-17 blowdays he spent going through his out of UNLV, the North Carolina progressions in the dark at Camp State transfer gave Badger nation a Randall to the nights he spent WILSON glimpse. He finished 10-13 for 255 in the exact same spot, illumiyards and two scores and added a nated for the entire country to see, 46-yard TD run to his dazzling debut.

Wilson brought RussellMania to Madison It was only the start. Wilson seemingly like nobody could have expected. absorbed UW’s playbook and then made —Parker Gabriel

In his freshman season, Mark became just the fourth Badger ever to Zengerle amassed just five goals record at least 30 assists in his in 41 games for the Wisconsin first two seasons. men’s hockey team. It only took The Rochester, N.Y., native the sophomore forward 11 games put together an impressive run to match that goal output this down the stretch in 2012, as he season as he took his game to scored nine points over a seasonnew heights in 2011-2012. high four-game winning streak, Zengerle led the Badgers and which included wins over Denver was tied for seventh nationaland archrival Minnesota. ly in points with 50 (13 goals, ZENGERLE After the season, Zengerle 37 assists). His 37 assists were was named to both the Allalso the third most in the country, and WCHA Third team as well as the WCHA he was tied for second overall in total All-Academic team. points by a sophomore. Zengerle also —Matt Masterson

Women’s hockey junior forward #18

hockey sophomore forward #9

Honorable Mention: Ryan Evans Men’s basketball junior forward #5 Yes, Jordan Taylor was returning for his senior year. And yes, the guard was expected to have another All-American season and lead the Wisconsin men’s basketball team to a solid finish in the Big Ten and maybe even a little run in the NCAA Tournament.

But junior forward Ryan Evans? Well, he was expected to once again be the guy everyone knew had potential but for whatever reason could not translate it onto the floor.

Instead, Evans had a breakout season, starting all 36 games for the Badgers and living up to all that promise en route to season averages of 11.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.

With Taylor struggling at times to recapture the magic he had in his 2010-’11 junior campaign, it was Evans who plugged the gap, finishing in double digits in 14 of the Badgers’ final 15 games.

During that stretch, Evans notched

his first two double-doubles when UW most needed them. A 17-point, 11-rebound effort against Minnesota and 10-point, 10-rebound game at Ohio State played major roles in two of the Badgers’ biggest wins of the season.

After coming into the season as a player Wisconsin hoped to get production from, Evans will head into his senior season as a player the Badgers will count on. ­—Max Sternberg

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