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Series of downtown attacks spark concern By Sam Garigliano The Daily Cardinal
Within mere minutes of one another, three individuals were separately robbed and assaulted in the downtown area early Saturday morning, despite the city’s recent efforts to improve safety around campus. The first robbery occurred at 3:10 a.m. on the 600 block of University Avenue and involved an attempted theft of the victim’s bicycle, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain. The suspect also hit the
victim numerous times in the face. The next two incidents took place near the 200 block of Langdon Street. At 3:26 a.m., three suspects left a 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student with a bloody face after they attacked and robbed him of his wallet. In the second incident at 3:34 a.m., two suspects pushed another 20-year-old student up against a parked car by the throat and robbed him. DeSpain said although police cannot say with absolute certainty, the three crimes, particularly the
two on Langdon Street, are “likely connected” because of their close proximity in time and location. Additionally, the suspects of the two Langdon Street crimes appeared to be singling out people who were by themselves, DeSpain said. Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said Langdon Steeet is a target for criminals especially late on weekend nights. “Students, particularly when they are intoxicated, are put in
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Campus mourns loss of John “Vietnam” First Wave scholar inspires future activism By Sam Cusick The Daily Cardinal
Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison community are working to honor student and First Wave scholar John “Vietnam” Nguyen by continuing his activism efforts after his death. Nguyen was pronounced dead Thursday after divers found his body in Lake Mendota near the Memorial
Union. He was swim- a theatre ensemble out of ming with friends when he Chicago. drowned. “John did it all, he was so Nguyen was a member multifaceted, and so he was of the Vietnamese Students a shoe-in for First Wave,” Association, Asian American Edwards said. “He was an allStudent Union and around artist, so it was First Wave Spoken perfect that he would Word and Hip Hop join the First Wave famArts Learning ily.” Community on camEdwards also said pus. Nguyen was consistently Nguyen was an pursuing further knowlactive and incrededge and success in his ibly talented member work. NGUYEN of the fifth cohort of “The way he led his First Wave according life was an example,” to member Cydney Edwards. Edwards said. “He was conEdwards was also involved nguyen page 4 with Nguyen in Kuumba Lynx,
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First Lady Michelle Obama speaks about President Barack Obama’s personal side at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday.
Baldwin addresses LGBT caucus at DNC By Adam Wollner The Daily Cardinal
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Democrats officially convened in Charlotte for their national convention Tuesday, primarily defending President Barack Obama’s policies in the midst of his re-election battle against GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and urging greater economic fairness in an appeal to the middle class. While U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee, briefly addressed the convention alongside her fellow female House Democrats Tuesday night, the political spotlight was placed squarely on Wisconsin yet again earlier in the day during a meeting of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Democratic caucus. The caucus greeted U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, who is running against former Gov. Tommy Thompson for a seat in the U.S. Senate, with a standing ovation as she entered the room. In her address to the caucus, the openly lesbian Baldwin praised the progress the LGBT community has made within the Democratic Party since she first started in Congress. But Baldwin largely focused on her broader general election message, arguing people are “furious” about the disconnection between Washington and the rest of the country. “It used to be that you could work hard and play by the rules and get ahead,” Baldwin said. “But that’s not happening as much and people are struggling and they want their case to be taken to the U.S. House and the Senate.” She vowed to do the latter if
elected to the upper chamber. Introducing Baldwin to the LGBT caucus was the man hoping to replace her in the House of Representatives, state Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, who is also openly gay. Pocan assured the caucus-goers that Wisconsin is still a purple state, saying Baldwin’s race will be among the three most competitive in the country this fall. Baldwin will address the entire convention at Bank of America Stadium Thursday night in prime time. The keynote speaker, First Lady Michelle Obama, provided the personal side to her husband’s first term in office, saying to the crowd at the Time Warner Cable Arena that the president’s personal upbringing provides him with the ability to empathize with and solve the average American’s problems. “Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it,” she said. “He wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we’re from, or what we look like, or who we love.” Prior to Obama’s speech, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro focused on his own humble roots while delivering the DNC keynote address, telling the audience the story of his grandmother’s emigration from Mexico. The rising Democratic star also called for greater investment in education at all levels, which he argued is the key to ensuring long-term economic prosperity for all regardless of this or her background. “The dream is universal, but America makes it possible and out investment in opportunity makes it a reality,” Castro said.
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MiCHAEL VOLOSHIN Voloshin’s commotion Let’s get this straight. This isn’t a love for the Food Network where I watch a couple shows and call it a night. Oh no, it goes much deeper than that. I live the Food Network. I follow Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay on Twitter. I vote for the Next Food Network Star. I don’t cheer for certain contestants in Chopped but rather Geoffrey Zakarian giving a snarky comment on how well-done the beef was. And I might be the only guy in America that loves Guy Fieri unironically (seriously, the dude is hilarious). If you don’t watch the channel then you probably don’t understand my addiction, but if you do could you please schedule my intervention ahead of time so I know when to miss it? Because here’s the thing: I don’t care if I can’t cook. I can tell you what a mirepoix is, but I have no idea how to make onions sweat. I know all about Cuban food even though I’ve never tried it. I sit down to watch “Iron Chef ” while eating a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich and feel nothing but envy and jealousy toward the judges. What I’m watching is food porn and I’m consistently giving myself food blue balls (I was going to make the joke that it sounded like blueberries but I believe I am above that).
Food Truck Race” when Tyler Florence gives a roadblock of selling everything for only a dollar (oh no!). And I could just see myself giving Giada a recipe for a cheesy corn bread only to hear her say “mozzarella” and “parmesan” in her Italian accent that is definitely overdone for
I can tell you what a mirepoix is, but I have no idea how to make onions sweat.
The sad thing is I dream of one day being on the Food Network. I could see myself being on “Chopped” and seeing grenadine, borscht, starfruit and octopus in my basket (in which I would create an acidic ceviche with the octopus and grenadine, reduce the borscht into a sauce with honey and caramelize the starfruit to put on top…also I have no idea how to do any one of those things). I could see myself selling Korean taquitos for $8 in Salt Lake City in my food truck on “The Great
the cameras. I don’t want to own a restaurant, I don’t want to create the next best dish and I don’t want to ever cook for my friends or family; I just want to be on these shows and kick ass. I’m so deeply in love with Food Network that I don’t even care that they’re selling the same goddamn shows to me. Two years after Robert Irvine’s “Restaurant Impossible” about fixing failing restaurants, they introduced Bobby Flay’s “3 Days to Open” which is about fixing restaurants that haven’t
opened yet. Mystery Diners and Restaurant Stakeout are about what goes on in a restaurant when the owner is away. Chef Wanted and Chef Hunter were made months from each other and both deal with chefs auditioning for the job of head chef at a fancy restaurant. I know all this, and I still don’t care; I’m entertained by Food Network. So here’s my plea, Food Network: bring me on your channel, for the hell of it. I’ll eat butter with Paula Deen, I’ll count how many teeth Giada De Laurentiis has (I’m guessing 142…) and I’ll eat foie gras doughnuts with Justin Warner. And I’ll pretend to cook! I can toss the spices into the pot! No? Okay, I’ll show you the recipe to the perfect Tostinos Pizza Rolls (really, it’s more of an art). Ugh, fine. I’ll give you all of my gold. Please, Food Network, I’m begging you, I just want to eat amazing food and leave my mediocre foodscene of my kitchen for once. Please help me. Get hot and bothered when you watch Food Network? The History Channel? C-SPAN? Tell Michael at MVoloshin@Wisc.edu
Move-in day is a huge pain and needs to change day. My immediate response to this was, “Where am I going to stay the night of the 14th?” To which someone might suggest a hotel, but I have a
ANDY HOLSTEEN A Hol lot to say Well, the literally sophomoric time of year, midaugust, when a clusterfuck of U-Hauls, flat-beds, creeper vans and concerned (albeit sardonic) parents descend upon our eclectic city to simultaneously move thousands of students is finally behind us. Anyone involved knows it was no cakewalk. This was my first year partaking in Madison’s apartment exodus. Here are my three major life lessons of the past week: lifting with your back is unavoidable; being a professional mover would send you spiraling into a fiery debt of acupuncture and chiropractic bills; and most importantly, having every lease in the city end on August 14th and begin on the 15th is a tragically inefficient system. I think my first two points explain themselves. But I want to investigate this allencompassing lease schedule, because something about it really irks me. Assuming the August 14-15 void was designed to make things easier for people, it likely made a lot of sense on the drawing board. Obviously nobody wants to prolong their move. Having everyone’s lease end at the same time means the moving process will take the least amount of days. Think of it this way: if someone’s lease ends on August 12th, but the lease on their next apartment doesn’t start for another
week, moving will become an ever l a r g e r economic and temporal pain. And if the dates are far enough apart, it might even require two separate trips, which nobody wants. So the solution is to have everyone move out and in on the same
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Madison. The gas to drive my parents’ mid-’90s conversion van from Chicago to Madison was bad enough. By this point I think we’ve all been programmed to sleep on any given floor or futon, so crashing at a friend’s house on the 14th seemed like my best option. The problem is when everyone moves at the same time, your friends all need a place to stay too. Setting up a campsite in Vilas Park for the night was a serious consideration. The day before moving, a friend thankfully said they could house my future roommates and me. Maybe this system isn’t actually that bad and I’m just being a bit narcissistic, but after seeing people sitting outside for hours next to all of their possessions with nowhere to go, I feel there has to be a better way of going about this. Even if it’s just having leases end on two sequential days instead of just one, so only half as many people will be without a place to stay and parking in handicap spaces at any given time. Clearly it won’t happen this year, since leases have already been signed, but rethinking this system may be a good idea sometime soon. Move-in day giving you the blues? Wish there was a way you could have avoided the traffic jams? E-mail Andy at Andy@Holsteens.com and commiserate.
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Soglin addresses social issues in Madison Mayor says lack of housing is threat to city By David Jones
all levels of society. Soglin said lack of housing impairs the city’s goal of creating and maintaining successful households for people throughout the city, particularly lower income individuals.
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Mayor Paul Soglin told a campus learning community at Gordon Commons Tuesday afternoon, among various social justice issues affecting Madison residents and University of Wisconsin-Madison students, lack of housing poses the biggest threat to the area. Soglin discussed various social issues including lack of housing and pollution, with students from the Multicultural Learning Community, a campus learning community focused on social justice and diversity at
“The cost of the Mifflin street block party could be subsidized housing for 50 families.” Paul Soglin mayor City of Madison
He said access to transportation, education, job training, high quality child care and personal health care are necessary to create a strong household are contingent on having access to housing.
“Housing is basic,” Soglin said. “Without housing, the [basic elements that support a household] cannot be met.” Soglin also said UW-Madison students are connected to the city’s housing challenges, pointing to costs associated with the Mifflin Street Block Party as an example. “The cost of the Mifflin street block party is a minimum of 5,000 visits to a health care center,” Soglin said. “The cost of the Mifflin street block party could be subsidized housing for 50 families.” Larry Davis, a current Residence Life director and founder of the MLC, said the purpose of Soglin’s visit was to inspire them to get involved with campus, like he did when he was a student at
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Mayor proposes fire station, skate park in 2013 budget
an ‘at risk’ position and essentially criminals are very well aware of that,” Resnick said. Resnick also said there is a definite pattern of crime at the start of the school year. In an effort to avoid more incidents like these, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4 said the city increased lighting and police presence on University Avenue and North Frances Street to help improve safety. He said pedestrian lighting is a major crime deterrent. “We’ve had one too many incidents down there, so it was long overdue,” Verveer said. The city has implemented more lights and replaced old lights with brighter ones, costing around $100,000, according to Verveer. The city also implemented the Downtown Safety Initiative, which is a program the city funded to increase police presence downtown to deter crime. According to Verveer, the program has been effective in curbing crime in the downtown area. This effectiveness was exemplified during an incident early Sunday morning where the arresting officer was part of the initiative, according to Verveer.
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Mayor Paul Soglin introduced his $192.1 million capital budget proposal for 2013 to the city council Tuesday, which includes funding for a new fire station and skate park. The city of Madison works from both a capital budget and an operating budget. The capital budget includes expenses that will last for more than ten years, while the operating budget includes funding for shortterm expenses, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. In the 2013 capital budget, which goes into effect Jan. 1, Mayor Paul Soglin introduced funding for a 13th fire station on the far east side, a new skate park on South Ingersoll Street and continued construction on the Central Library. Also included in the proposed budget is $550,000 to pay for consultants to rede-
sign Library Mall. The actual construction will cost approximately $4.9 million in 2014, according to the budget. Soglin’s budget also calls for funding new vehicles including 16 Madison metro buses, one fire truck and two ambulances. While still under review, both Verveer and Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said they think the capital budget is a strong and “responsible” budget. “I think it’s a solid plan that the mayor has developed,” Verveer said. “I think most council members will be pleased.” The budget will be referred to the city’s finance committee for review at its next meeting. Resnick and the 5th district Dane County Board of Supervisors representative and UW-Madison junior Leland Pan will also host a listening session for students early in October.
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Fresh Market owner ‘disappointed’ after redevelopment cancellation
Madison Fresh Market owner Jeff Maurer said he was “disappointed” after the city of Madison and private developer Urban Land Interests announced Tuesday they no longer plan to move forward with redevelopment plans for a property on the 800 block of East Washington Avenue. Maurer, who planned to expand his grocery store to that neighborhood, said Fresh Market conducted two studies that showed the store would thrive in the neighborhood and that the area “is in need of a grocery store.” The store also would have created around 100 part-time and full-time jobs in the neighborhood, according to a statement released by Madison Fresh Market. “I’m disappointed on two fronts,” Maurer said. “One that I can’t expand our company and secondly that the neighbors and
community surrounding [that neighborhood] are still going to be driving outside their market area to go get groceries.” The city and ULI, the private developer who collaborated with the city on the project, mutually agreed the development’s financial model would not generate sufficient incremental taxes to justify the project, according to a statement released by the city. The project plan included developing of two commercial buildings, an apartment building and a parking ramp where Occupy Madison staged its protest this past year. “We’re going to talk to the city,” Maurer said. “There are a lot of development plans for that East Washington corridor, so I hope we can be part of a future development [there].” —Taylor Harvey
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Police arrest alleged gang member for fight, drugs Madison police arrested a man early Sunday morning who they say is involved in a gang for disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana on the 400 block of North Frances Street. Taron M. Randle, 23, allegedly shouted “gang language” and tried to start a fight with a pedestrian around 2:30 a.m., according to Madison Police Department
spokesperson Joel DeSpain. DeSpain said the disturbance drew a crowd, with many people yelling at the police as they attempted to keep the peace. Randle threatened to harm the officers as they arrested him. The officer on duty was one of the additional officers working as part of the city’s
Downtown Safety Initiative, which doubled funding to $100,000 for a greater police presence in the downtown area on weekend nights, according to DeSpain. The MPD will continue to deploy additional police officers in targeted Isthmus areas as a part of the initiative, according to DeSpain.
Man puts victim in headlock, resists arrest Madison police arrested a Madison man for starting a fight and resisting officers early Monday morning on the 300 block of State Street. Peter D. Robbins, 28, put a 22-year-old man in a headlock because he claimed the victim called him a derogatory name, according to Madison Police Department
spokesperson Joel DeSpain. The victim denied using the derogatory word, and he told Robbins to “put some clothes on” after observing Robbins walking around in his “whitey tidies,” according to DeSpain. The officer used pepper spray in Robbins’ face when he continued to put pressure on the victim’s
neck, according to the report. DeSpain said the victim told the officer, “if you had not helped me out, he would have killed me.” Robbins put up a struggle as officers took him to jail, and witnesses heard him say, “I wanted to kill that guy,” according to DeSpain.
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“He played such a huge role in our organization and not just by the work that he did physically like volunteering and fundraising and performing,” Pahn said. “He made people feel good in the organization and that’s what completed us.” According to Pahn, Nguyen centered his life around his spoken word and hip hop work, which often focused on his heritage and
fighting for civil rights and social justice. “For people who didn’t know him, he was very out there, very loud and outgoing,” Pahn said. “And he would take any opportunity to go up to someone and talk about his pride in his culture and the things that he is passionate about and his work.” A funeral was held Tuesday for Nguyen in his home city of Chicago.
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Mayor Paul Soglin speaks to the Multicultural Learning Community in Gordon Commons Tuesday afternoon.
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Students like freshman Taewee Kahrs said Soglin’s discussion was very relatable to students and provided a nice look at other topics that are not typically discussed. “A lot of the things he talked of were things that in my community aren’t talked about, at least not with kids our age or younger,” Kahrs said.
stantly determined to make this world a better place.” In addition to his involvement in First Wave, Nguyen was an active and passionate member in the Vietnamese Students Association according to VSA member Jessica Pahn. He consistently performed at events, as well as helping to raise funds for the group.
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had two Jameses on my mind this summer who (hopefully) bear no relation by blood and other family fluids. The first I could not escape: E.L. James, the author of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” I didn’t read the book, but I did hear a topnotch live reading by Gilbert Gottfried; it was delightful and bespoke eldritch abominations of the written language. The second I came quite voluntarily to: Henry James, the indomitable (and even to some English majors, a thoroughly frightening) prose maestro. It’s fair to assume somebody who enjoys Henry James wouldn’t stoop to reading “Fifty Shades of Grey,” and a fan of E.L. James would regard Henry James as gilt gibberish. And I’m not comparing their relative merits when I bring them up. Besides, comparing Henry James to E.L. James is like weighing the merits of a Fabergé egg to a rotten chicken egg. No, E.L. James and Henry James are tenuously linked in my mind for one reason: sex. A lot of “sex” happens in “Fifty Shades of Grey.” I use the term loosely because, from what I heard in the Gottfried treatment, E.L. James wouldn’t know sex if it popped up from a manhole cover and slapped
her on the ass. Or at least she doesn’t know how to write about it. “Sex” drips from the pages of “Fifty Shades of Grey” like some puerile liquid ready to stain your clothes and prompt awkward questions from your parental units or your dry cleaners. And what about sex in Henry James? What artful metaphors does The Master employ for the beast with two backs? Actually, the funny thing is that it’s almost nonexistent. Characters in Henry James novels have sex, but it never readily surfaces in the text. Steamy cannot be used to describe Henry James. But at the same time sex is not absent from the works of Henry James, especially in his later novels. “The Golden Bowl” is about adultery that is by all accounts passionate. “The Ambassadors” tells of an American lulled into fragrant and sensual Paris only to have his rose glasses cracked by a personally revolting discovery.
Comparing Henry James to E.L. James is like weighing the merits of a Fabergé egg to a rotten chicken egg. Henry James has gotten some flak over the years for not being “bold” enough to depict sex in his works. Plenty of critics disparaged what they viewed as timorous and squeamish writing, wrapping up
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Over 100 years separate “The Golden Bowl” from “50 Shades of Grey” and their portrayals of sex couldn’t differ more. the juicy bits and the saucy intrigue in endless corridors of suggestion and uncertainty or flat-out omission. And it didn’t help that a lot of his books are about upper class types with names like Fanny Assingham and Baroness Eugenia-CamillaDolores Munster. But there are a few things to consider about Henry James’ approach. First off, sex was hardly the only thing on his mind when he was writing. A lot of forces are in play in a
Henry James story, whether it be avarice, jealousy, apprehension, fear, love, naiveté, etc. Sex was just one of the many tools in his writing kit. Second, all that suggestion and uncertainty wasn’t a weakness on his part. It’s what makes Henry James one of the strongest writers of any epoch, and one of the most enlightening when you dwell upon his books rather than read them. Of course, you may not be interested in dwelling on a
book. And you may be infuriated at the lack of titillating bits in “The Europeans” or “The Spoils of Poynton.” But on the topic of sex, I find Henry James’ treatment—or lack of treatment—a far better alternative than “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the equivalent of a two-by-four with a nail driven through the head, going straight for the eyes. There really is no right way to depict sex in literature, as you may or may not have learned yet. Discounting erotica, do you pull the old “and then they fucked” route or give it the full, painstaking play by play viz. the “Fifty Shades” treatment? Do you hint at it in a character’s expressions or indirect actions? Hide it in euphemisms? Let loose a stream of sweaty, bed-ridden profanities? Is it an act of love? Conquest? Freudian exorcism? Sacred? Profane? Biological offshoot? Distracting? Inconsequential or the sum of everything? That’s the real kicker. I’m not going to lecture you on the significance of sex in literature, nor am I going to try and extrapolate it to the human condition or anything highfalutin like that. That’s your job. I will say that given the very intimate (and sometimes embarrassing) dimensions of sex, it’s usually better to keep it off the page and sort it out for yourself. Spare us stories about your shades of grey. Was “50 Shades of Grey” your favorite summer read? Tell Sean why you enjoyed it so much at sreichard@wisc.edu.
Walkin’ on Sunshine We’re here to put the skip in your step when you’re en route to class with this collection of upbeat, walkerfriendly tunes. Check out and subscribe to Arts Desk custom playlists on our Spotify account (dcartsdesk) for more school year jams!
1. “The Trouble With Candyhands” —Deerhoof 2. “Creepin’ Up The Backstairs” —The Fratellis 3. “You Make My Dreams” —Daryl Hall & John Oates
4. “Don’t Owe You a Thang” —Gary Clark Jr.
8. “Peace and Love” — Cat Power
12 “Midday Moon” — Astronautalis
5. “Tick, Tick, Boom” — The Hives
9. “About to Die” —Dirty Projectors
13. “Go Hard (La.La.La)” —Kreayshawn
6. “Rainbow in the Dark” —Das Racist
10. “Life’s A Beach” — Django Django
14. “Helicopter” —Bloc Party
7. “Savion Glover” —P.O.S.
11. “Meantime” —The Futureheads
15. “Sidewalk Safari” —Chairlift
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eil Newhouse, a pollster for Mitt Romney's campaign, was quoted saying, "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” Newhouse's quote is an understatement the size of the Grand Canyon; every step of Romney's campaign has been mired in dishonesty. Many political campaigns run into problems with factcheckers because advertisements are an imperfect vessel for the complicated truths of the political process. However, the Romney-Ryan campaign doesn't deal in half-truths or accidental deceptions; their campaign has been wildly and irresponsibly dishonest in speeches and advertisements. One of the most widely disputed advertisements Romney has run states President Barack Obama robbed $716 billion from medicare in order to fund his own programs. The Pulitzer Prize-winning site PolitiFact, a branch of the Tampa Bay Times, rates this claim "mostly false." Obama's health care law does seek to cut down on Medicare spending, but the figure of $716 billion is the estimated money being saved by forcing healthcare providers to become more efficient over the next 10 years. The law was passed under totally normal congressional conditions and openly debated. The smash-and-grab that Romney was attempting to pin on Obama is a complete fabrication. Another deceitful ad claims Obama stripped the work requirement from welfare. What actually transpired is that the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services released a memo with the intention of helping states fulfill the work requirement specifications for welfare by giving them more flexibility. The structure and complexity of the welfare work-requirments impaired the job-training and jobseeking processes. The memo is an attempt to help states get more welfare recipients back to work; Romney's campaign asserts the exact opposite about the memo. The advertisement was given PolitiFact's worst ranking, "pants on fire." For the past few days, the political presses have been abuzz with news from the Re p ub l i c a n National Convention in Tampa because the Democratic National Convention started M o n d a y. Among the most popular topics are Romney's uninspired p e r f o r mance, Clint Eastwood's slightly surreal 12 minutes on stage and Paul Ryan's enthusiastic, wellrecieved and misleading speech. Fox News writer Sally Kohn described Ryan's speech as "Dazzling," "Deceiving" and "Distracting" in an article that has been
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2008 to attack Obama's policies has been widely called out for being dishonest because the Janesville plant was already closing before Obama even took office. Besides the chronological impossibilities of Ryan's attack, there are also philosophical contradic-
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tions in Ryan's approach to this particular factory. Ryan is a small goverment advocate, but if Obama did save that factory in Janesville, he would have done it through a plan similar to the auto bailout, the same auto bailout that Romney felt so strongly against he wrote an opinion piece that was published in the New York Times. Since the publication of that piece, Romney has been gracious enough to take part in the success of the auto bailout, saying, “I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back.” The article of his New York Times op-ed was "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." The lies go on and on. Steve Benen, a blog writer for the Washington M o n t h l y, has been documenting Mitt Romney's deceits for nine months now. His list has documented 533 lies from Romney's campaign. If he picks up his pace, perhaps Romney can hit a clean thousand lies before the election. This amount of lies suggests Romney's campaign has totally abandoned his side of the issues in favor for whatever his audience wants to hear. This is the opposite of integrity. Interested in writing about the presidential candidates? Email us at opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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New committee’s future rests on student’s shoulders Nick Fritz opinion columnist
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ew Legislation has recently been proposed to the UW-Madison student government concerning the creation of a new committee. The Sustainability Committee of the Associated Students of Madison would focus of issues concerning sustainability on campus.
Our school should be recognized for things other than our academics and what better way than through increased sustainability.
There are four areas of focus that this committee plans to address while in existence. These are campus water use, energy use, land use and food sourcing. Solutions to these important issues will come through policy mechanisms in student government and working with UW-Madison faculty and administration. Personally, I have always had a problem with the energy use on campus, especially when it comes to heating and cooling campus buildings. Why is almost every building hooked up to a single, central system? Every building should be heated and cooled differently. It makes no sense economically or environmentally. But I digress. Anyway, there is only one problem with this committee and that is that it does not yet exist. Legislation has been proposed,
but the likelihood of its creation is not looking good. There are basically two areas of concern. One is that there is not enough money in the budget to add another position that will, at some point, need to be paid. Second is that there is not enough interest to sustain this committee. Firstly, there is definitely room in the budget to support a group like this. I have seen the ASM budget and believe me there is plenty of useless spending that can be spread out more efficiently. Not only that, but this should be something that ASM supports. All of last year The Daily Cardinal scolded ASM for basically not doing anything. This is a chance for them to break the pattern and actually make a significant difference on our campus. Which brings us to the second issue of a lack of interest. Why wouldn’t you rally behind a cause like this? Our school should be recognized for things other than our academics and what better way than through increased sustainability? As Badgers, we should have an unwavering pride in our campus. Would making UW-Madison more sustainable not elevate that pride to a whole new level?
Visible support is a vital ingredient to the successful creation of this committee.
Being a person who has never labeled himself as an environmentalist or somebody who is a fan of slow-moving and indecisive committees, I still believe that the
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ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky listens to an open forum at a student council meeting. The Sustainability Committee will be discussed and voted on next Wednesday. creation of this group is extremely important to our campus. Its focus is specific and well planned and could make a significantly positive influence on campus if successful. Quite frankly, I am a bit surprised and a little disappointed that there is opposition to this idea. So what does the future hold for the Sustainability Committee of the Associated Students of Madison? There is an open forum Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 6:30 p.m.
where students can come and show their support. Visible support is a vital ingredient to the successful creation of this committee and I implore students to show up. Furthermore, get in contact with the members of the student council. Email or call them and show how important this sustainability committee is to our campus. The Sustainability Committee
of the Associated Students of Madison has good intentions, good ideas and a focused mission. I fully support this committee as should every student at UW-Madison. Nick is a senior majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship. Do you think that the creation of the Sustainability Committee Students of Madison is a good idea? Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
Iranian threat does not represent the Muslim population as a whole Zac Pestine The Daily Cardinal Guest Columnist
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t is no secret that Iran is currently developing nuclear capabilities. Their program
was actually given a head start by none other than the United States in the 1950’s in the Atoms for Peace program. Obviously, a nuclear-powered Iran has not always been a threat to the world, or else the United States wouldn’t have supported their program in the first place. In fact, under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic opted to disband its nuclear developments as they served as a hindrance to peaceful Islamic values. Unfortunately, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s sentiments are not shared by the regime currently in power in Iran, and with the nation’s present advancement within the realm of nuclear power, the entire world is threatened by an Iran armed with nuclear weapons. Of course, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current president of Iran, will never admit that the country’s nuclear program is being enhanced for destructive purposes. His claim is that their facilities will serve only to benefit the country for clean energy resources. Stringent sanctions have been set in place by both the United Nations and the United States over the past few years in order to stifle Iran’s nuclear program, though through loopholes and aid provided by allies, these sanctions have not
provided the detriment that their creators hoped they would achieve. Iran is on the verge of a major breakthrough in its quest to become a major world player in terms of nuclear facilities. The questions on the table are, “because there is no undeniable evidence that Iran is developing nuclear energy for hostile purposes, although valid suspicions exist for a plethora of reasons, what can the world do to prevent the success of their nuclear facility within the realm of international law, and what are the implications of a nuclear-armed Iran?” Firstly, years of sanctions and inspections have failed. Iran and their allies are shrewd and have afforded themselves ample time to clean up their facilities whenever inspections loom in the near future. I must admit that I cannot properly and justifiably answer the first question because I do not possess the same degree of information that the U.N., U.S. and Israeli governments do; however, I can tell you that if Iran successfully attains weapons of mass destruction, we are headed for at the very least another Cold War, and an extremely parlous one at that. The greatest and gravest consequences stemming from their developments will be that the U.S. is in imminent danger, Israel could possibly be
obliterated and other allies in the region could be put into jeopardy as well. The signs of Iran’s hostility and maliciousness are ubiquitous. Firstly, they are the biggest supporters of the Assad regime in Syria, a corrupt government that has annihilated some 11,000 of its own citizens over the last year and a half. As he does frequently, President Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of Israel and its people, promoting the ideology of erasing the Jewish state from the maps and putting it into the history books. Furthermore, Ahmadinejad has routinely threatened the United States, this last time advertising his loaded arsenal of missiles that can precisely reach long distances. So what does this mean for us? Because both Israel and the
U.S. possess a large scale of nuclear weapons, a Cold War is more likely than a nuclear one. But regionally speaking, it means that we as Americans, who stand for justice in the world, need to be vigilant and well-informed as to the goingson of the international community. Moreover, we need to remember that the Iranian regime, and many other governments of Islamic nations, are run by extremists who do not represent the Muslim population at large. We need to band together to stand up for what is right and help facilitate democracy in extremist countries for the good of global health. This is Zac’s first time writing for The Daily Cardinal. Let him know how he did by sending all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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Head coach views close win over UNI as learning experience for Badgers By Peter Geppert the daily caradinal
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Redshirt junior quarterback Danny O’Brien completed all but four passes and thew for two touchdowns in his Wisconsin debut, but the Badgers put up just 26 points against UNI.
Wisconsin offense shows promise, torpor in victory By Parker Gabriel the daily cardinal
At first-year offensive coordinator Matt Canada’s introductory press conference in January, he said his philosophy would be to continue running “a Wisconsin offense.” This implication is well known in Badger country as a powerful rushing attack behind a big, talented offensive line. Recently, the “Wisconsin offense” also means putting up a ton of points. Elements of that tradition percolated through the Badgers’ 26-21 victory over Football Conference Subdivision opponent Northern Iowa Saturday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium. After all, UW ran the ball 47 times against just 23 passing attempts. Still, this is the first time Canada and the offensive staff have been able to direct an offense described all along as a mixture of the existing philosophy and the ideas of the incoming coaches. Like the offense itself, the results Saturday chalked up to be a mixed bag.
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The Badgers dominated time of possession (39:05 to 20:55) and displayed good balance in compiling 191 rushing yards and 219 passing yards. They also stalled on each of the first two productive drives, leading to field goals instead of touchdowns, a result the Badgers largely avoided in 2010 and 2011 and a part of the game head coach Bret Bielema stresses. Wisconsin also suffered a relative lack of big plays. The Badgers registered four 20-plus
yard gains on offense, including backfield look. Ball motioned to a 53-yard fourth quarter touch- the left and Northern Iowa took a down pass from redshirt junior timeout. Wisconsin ran the same quarterback Danny O’Brien (19- motion when play resumed, but 23, 219 yards, two TDs) to red- Canada had actually made changshirt junior wide receiver Jared es to the route combination. Abbrederis (six receptions, 84 “Matt made some corrections yards, two TDs). down there on the … first touch“There were some down pass,” Bielema said. times when we did try “That was some good, to stretch it a little bit,” quick thinking. Guys get Bielema said. “Any time excited because they see you can stretch the field what’s going to happen vertically, it opens up and it obviously did.” the underneath game.” Still, the producThe underneath game tion was inconsistent. is nothing new, but the The offense could not CANADA way Canada goes about sustain drives at times, it, utilizing a wide variincluding in the fourth ety of formations and a good quarter while nursing a fivenumber of concepts from his point lead. Other times, the days running the spread progress was slow. offense at Northern Illinois and “They didn’t shift as much Indiana, is different. sometimes when we would “One of the things I love about shift, so it was a little different,” what [Canada] has brought to the White said. “We have to get offense is some of the quick pass- in and watch the film because ing and quick hits,” Bielema said. other teams may take that and “We have a lot of different for- use that.” mations and a lot of different perAs much as the Badgers tried sonnel to try to keep the defense to use formation and personnel off balance, so everybody has to changes to combat the Panthers’ be locked in and everybody has will to stop the run, UNI was to know what they’re doing so we largely successful in keeping can run all those plays,” junior UW’s stable of backs in the running back James White (nine starting gates. carries, 49 yards) added. “We didn’t get the vertical The Badgers used all of the push that we needed to get,” traditional power formations redshirt junior center Travis and sprinkled in new wrinkles. Frederick said. “There were Included in them was a power a lot of things today that we formation that split fullbacks were really close on, but obviDerek Watt (redshirt freshman) ously close isn’t where we and junior Sherard Cadogan need to be. We need to be right in front of the tailback. Also, on those things.” at one point an empty shot“They were putting a lot of gun set included both senior people down in there,” Bielema running back Montee Ball (32 added. “They did a lot of things carries 129 yards, TD, 31 rec. on the perimeter to make sure yards) and White and at anoth- we couldn’t get our outside run er included redshirt freshman game going. If I was playing wide receiver Jordan Fredrick ourselves, I wouldn’t let us run bunched with redshirt junior the ball either. I’d put 12 in the tight ends Brian Wozniak and box if they’d let us.” Jacob Pederson. It was by no means a daz“Any time you have [White] zling offensive performance. in there and [Ball] and they’re However, it did provide a look at out wide and running around how Bielema and Canada will go and motioning, it creates some about reconciling spread offense matchup issues,” Bielema said. themes with the traditional The Badgers’ first touch- Wisconsin meat-grinding. There down, a 10-yard corner route to were flashes, but in between Abbrederis, came from the empty- there was also lethargy.
Expectations can often be deceiving. For Wisconsin football (1-0 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) and head coach Bret Bielema, the team’s high expectations proved to be a little misleading this past weekend as the Badgers pulled out a 26-21 nail biter over Northern Iowa (0-1 overall, 0-0 Missouri Valley Conference). With many projecting the preseason No. 12 Badgers to roll to their 15th consecutive season-opening win, it took a timely fourth quarter pass deflection by redshirt junior defensive lineman Ethan Hemer on a fourth-andone to pull out the win. “On Sunday I emphasized to the guys that every weekend of college football half of the teams lose,” Bielema said at his Monday press conference. “For us to be able to get into that situation and win, it was huge and something we can build on in the future.” Offensively the Badgers were powered by senior running back Montee Ball. The 2011 Heisman Trophy finalist led Wisconsin with 120 rushing yards and a touchdown. He also recorded 31 receiving yards. “I found it amazing that after a day like that people would call that a bad day for him,” Bielema said. “We will take those bad days any day of the week.” Redshirt junior quarterback Danny O’Brien relieved any doubts about his ability to transition to a new offense, turning in a quality performance in his debut with
the Badgers. The Maryland transfer finished 19-for-23 with 219 yards and two touchdown passes. His 191.3 pass efficiency mark was the second-best ever by a Wisconsin quarterback in his first start, surpassed only by Russell Wilson in his season debut last season. “I let him know after the game that I was proud of him and appreciated the effort, but we have to keep moving forward,” Bielema said. “On the sideline I liked how he was engaged and positive, working to improve on things that he missed.” Up next for Wisconsin will be its first road test of the season, as it heads west to Corvallis, Ore., to take on the Oregon State Beavers. The Badgers will be facing an opponent in Oregon State that has yet to play a game, as its scheduled season opener was postponed because of inclement weather. “The strength of their team is in their wide receiver corps,” Bielema said. “They have three to four players that you have to account and look out for.” Even with a close call in their season opener, Bielema was optimistic that the Badgers will rise to the challenge against the Beavers. “A team with as much coaching transition as we’ve had can make a huge jump early on in the season,” Bielema said. “I’m very confident that there will be a noticeable improvement from week one to week two.”
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Wisconsin narrowly escaped FCS opponent Northern Iowa Saturday at Camp Randall despite being heavily favored.
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It took senior running back Montee Ball 32 carries to amass 120 rushing yards Saturday. That 3.8 yards-per-carry mark is lower than any of Ball’s single-game averages from last season.
Debut down to the wire Wisconsin needs late-game stop to sink Northern Iowa By Ryan Hill the daily cardinal
A win is a win. Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema and numerous Badger players echoed this cliché following Wisconsin’s (1-0 overall, 0-0 Big Ten) 26-21 victory over FCS opponent Northern Iowa (0-1 overall, 0-0 Missouri Valley Conference) Saturday afternoon in the first game of the 2012 season. However, the Camp Randall crowd wasn’t necessarily pleased with that type of mentality. The usually raucous crowd essentially stood in disbelief when UNI pulled within five points midway through the fourth quarter. Fans appeared lifeless when the Wisconsin offense responded to UNI’s surge with a three-and-out, giving the Panthers the ball back with 5:17 left to play, still only behind by five. The anxiety was felt in the crowd most when UNI went for a fourthand-one on Wisconsin’s 41-yard line with just under three minutes remaining. The Panthers had converted on their two previous fourth down attempts, but redshirt junior defensive lineman Ethan Hemer deflected Northern Iowa redshirt freshman quarterback Sawyer Kollmorgen’s pass across the middle, ridding the crowd of its unexpected restlessness.
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“There’s a lot of credit that should go to UNI,” Bielema said. “I thought they were probably the best FCS team we’ve ever faced. I could see that before we even played them.” Senior running back Montee Ball capped things off for Wisconsin following Hemer’s play, as he rushed for 24 yards during the last drive to run the clock out.
“I don’t care if that was UNI or Nebraska, or anyone else that’s left on our schedule,” Bielema said. “[Ball] was going to secure that win and you could tell that.” Redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Rob Havenstein felt the Wisconsin offense brought a bit more life and intensity during that drive. “We definitely picked it up a bit,” he said of the drive. “[But] the intensity has got to be there every play, every snap, every down.” The Badgers’ defense looked like an almost entirely different squad in the second half, as Kollmorgen completed clutch passes at will. After holding the Panthers to just three first downs and 47 yards in the first half, Wisconsin gave up 10 first downs in the second. All 13 Panthers’ first downs came off passes. UNI’s scoring plays in the fourth quarter mirrored those of UW’s heartbreaking losses that occurred last season, as many of UNI’s long plays were the result of a botched play by one or two Wisconsin players. “It’s just a great lesson for our defense that every play matters,” Bielema said. “I’m gonna hear it tomorrow in the staff meeting: ‘You take away these five plays and we played a great game.’ Well you can’t. That doesn’t happen in college football so we’ll take the positives and move forward.” UNI scored 14 of its points in the second half, and it would have been held scoreless in the first if not for a two-yard touchdown pass by Kollmorgen to redshirt wide receiver Chad Owens to cap off a 13-play, 75-yard drive. The two other touchdowns UNI scored, both of which came in the fourth, were 55- and 31-yard passes, respectively. “They executed well,” junior linebacker Chris Borland said, also mentioning he was a bit disappointed with the overall defensive performance. “We were doing the same thing in the second half as we did in the first, so we’ll have to check out the film.” Wisconsin didn’t display the raw power that it did game-in and game-out last season, but it limited mistakes and seemed to embrace
the slightly different offensive scheme of new offensive coordinator Matt Canada. The Badgers used an empty backfield a handful of times and bunched two tight ends with either redshirt junior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis or redshirt freshman wide receiver Jordan Fredrick every so often. The Badgers didn’t put the ball in the endzone until a minute left in the first quarter, when redshirt junior quarterback O’Brien hit Abbrederis on a corner route with an empty backfield for a 10-yard score. Abbrederis also caught a 53-yard pass from O’Brien early in the fourth quarter.
“I thought [Northern Iowa was] probably the best FCS team we’ve ever faced. I could see that before we even played them.” Bret Bielema Head coach Wisconsin football
“I think there are some things that I have to clean up, but for the most part I think we did a pretty good job in the passing game and the running game,” O’Brien said, who finished 19-of-23 for 219 yards and a pair of touchdowns in his Badger debut. “Like I said, you take a win anytime you can,” he added. Ball scored his lone touchdown from one yard out early in the third quarter and didn’t pass the century mark until the final drive of the game. He finished with 120 yards on the ground off of 32 carries. He caught three passes for 31 yards as well. “We started off a little rusty, a little slow,” Ball said. Bielema said after the game he would rather have an outcome like this than a blowout early in the season, citing that it’s easier to pick out the weaknesses, and Ball couldn’t agree more. “I believe that we didn’t make the statement that we wanted to, but I believe that it was a great learning experience for us all,” Ball said. “It’s a lot easier to correct your mistakes after a win [rather] than a loss.”
ow far apart are the Big Ten and the SEC? When Alabama and Michigan took to the field in Dallas on Saturday night, it was more than just a matchup between two teams; it was a matchup between two conferences. And if Alabama’s 41-14 victory showed us anything, it’s how far apart the two conferences really are. Big Ten teams have been embroiled in controversy in recent years—from Terrelle Pryor and Jim Tressel’s tattoo fiasco at Ohio State, to Joe Pa and Jerry Sandusky at Penn State—and they have struggled on the national stage against marquee teams. The SEC on the other hand, has dominated, reloaded and dominated again for each of the last five years. It has had its own controversies, yes, but you can hardly say that they have affected any team’s on-the-field play. Since 2007, a Southeastern Conference team has won every National Championship, while also producing three different No. 1 overall draft picks in the NFL. In a matchup between the highest-ranked teams in each conference, the talent gap on the field identified what many already knew: the Big Ten still isn’t ready to compete with the SEC. It wasn’t a game as much as it was a beat down—a physical manhandling from start to finish. Michigan senior quarterback Denard Robinson, a Heisman contender with three years of starting experience, looked like a skittish freshman and had his worst rushing performance since 2009.
Alabama’s offensive line had its way with Michigan’s defense, its secondary didn’t give Wolverine receivers an inch of space and its front seven kept Robinson from ever catching a glimpse of daylight. Put simply, Alabama made Michigan—the then-No. 8 team in the nation—look like a cupcake. Not since Ohio State upset Miami for the title in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl has a Big Ten team finished the year holding a Waterford crystal football. The Big Ten has held its own in BCS games recently, winning at least one in each of the past three years (although Ohio State’s 2011 Sugar Bowl win has since been vacated), but it hasn’t been able to put together the top talent needed to win it all.
Put simply, Alabama made Michigan—the then-No. 8 team in the nation—look like a cupcake.
Reputation is everything in the NCAA, and marquee non-conference wins are what earn you respect. In a couple years, the fate of the National Championship will lie in the hands of a selection committee. If it doesn’t respect you, then have fun playing in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl because you won’t be making a trip to Pasadena or Miami. If the Big Ten wants to add another national title to its collective mantle it’s going to have to be able to hold its own against the top teams in the country. If Saturday night was any indication, it is simply not ready yet.
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