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Walker, others take on Trump in GOP debate

By Lucas Sczygelski The daily cardinal

Gov. Scott Walker focused on reasserting himself as a contender in the Republican field at the second presidential debate Wednesday, after his poll numbers have plummeted in Iowa.

Leading up to the CNN debate at the Reagan Library in California, Walker repositioned himself as the field’s premier union-buster, with proposals to apply right-to-work nationally and eliminate the federal agency that investigates unfair labor practices.

Before being able to expound on his new policy proposals, Walker drew the ire of Donald Trump by criticizing the businessman’s inexperience in government.

“We don’t need an apprentice in the White House,” Walker said. “We have one right now.”

Trump promptly cut Walker off by challenging his record of growth and deficit reduction in Wisconsin, an attack Walker brushed off as a “Democratic point.”

“When the folks of Iowa found out the true facts of the job that you’ve done in Wisconsin, all of a sudden you

went down the tubes,” Trump said. “You have right now, a huge budget deficit. That’s not a Democratic point. That’s a fact.”

Other candidates pointed to their own records of balancing state budgets, like Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.

“It was legitimate, it was real and we negotiated it,” Kasich said, subtly jabbing the lack of dialogue between Walker and public sector unions in the lead up to 2011’s Act 10.

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Rematch of the century Feingold and Johnson fight for Wisconsin

By Leo Vartorella the daily cardinal

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Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposal would increase fees for sidewalk space for businesses.

Downtown business owners formulate alternative proposal to sidewalk fee hike

By Johanna Lepro-Green the daily cardinal

Some downtown restaurant and retail owners voiced their opposition to Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposal to increase license fees for downtown sidewalk patios in recent weeks.

Currently, the annual license fee for sidewalk cafes is based on the number of chairs seated in the space, with the cost ranging from $35 to $45 per chair. The total cost is between $400 and $750 per year.

Under the new ordinance, restaurant owners would instead be charged according to the size of their patio rising incrementally to $13 per square foot in 2018.

This surpasses the price for owners in other Midwestern cities, such as Milwaukee and Minneapolis.

George Frank is the managing partner of Food Fight Inc., which operates The Coopers Tavern, DLUX and Cento in downtown Madison. In August, Frank formed and other restaurant owners formed a group to create an alternative to the patio proposal, which they introduced to the mayor last Friday.

“Although I don’t have any philosophical issue with a fee increase, I have a problem with the pricing structure,” Frank said.

Instead of $13 per square foot, Frank’s group suggested an incremental increase to $5.50.

Frank noted not all owners agreed with him, but that Soglin “seemed to be open to our suggestions.”

In July, Soglin introduced the ordinance as an attempt to create a more fair market for retailers, according to a city staff report.

Tipsy Cow owner Michael Banas also opposes the proposed increase. Banas stated he and other restaurant operators are working together to decide if they agree with a fee increase at all.

“It is very difficult to go back on a decision like this, so patience and time is a must,” Banas said.

“We hope that the city officials see the need to come up with a wellthought out solution.”

Next year, former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., will attempt to win back the Senate seat he lost to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., six years ago.

After establishing himself as a progressive voice in the Senate for 18 years, Feingold lost his seat to the conservative Johnson in 2010, just as the Tea Party’s momentum was reaching its peak.

Heading into what will be a very busy year on the campaign trail, here is a broad policy comparison between the two candidates as informed by past statements and their extensive Senate voting records.

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Feingold has often said affordable higher education is one of his top legislative priorities and has visited UW-Madison multiple times in recent months to talk to students about this issue.

He is an advocate of greater federal support for student loans and believes that funding for Pell Grants should be increased.

While both Feingold and Johnson agree the government should not profit from student loans, Johnson has said that loans should not be controlled by government at all.

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Study abroad fair attracts thousands

By Mitch Wrobel the daily cardinal

UW-Madison students took a break from classes this afternoon to visit Union South for the annual study abroad fair. Hosted by International Academic Programs, the fair welcomed over 2,500 students with wanderlust.

Gabriela Cristobal, a senior studying political science and international studies, realized at the fair how studying abroad can uniquely impact not only one’s education, but life views as well.

“I think that there are a lot

of different things you can learn from people of different countries and different backgrounds,” Cristobal said. “I’ve sort of always had wanderlust and I’m always looking to see something new and someplace new.”

Over 200 different study abroad and internship programs were represented at the fair. While IAP offers the most study abroad options through UW-Madison, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the School of Business and the

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Walker aimed to increase his recently dropped polls at the debate.

debate from page 1 throughout the night as he showed no restraint criticizing Rand Paul’s looks, evading questions about his comments on Carly Fiorina’s face and defending his assertion that vaccines contribute to increased rates of autism.

Candidates looked to attack Trump on his conservative credentials, due to his proposal to raise taxes on hedge fund managers.

Retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has recently surged in national polls, suggested scrapping the current progressive taxation system in favor

of a 10 percent flat tax.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee went a step further, calling for the end of taxation on earnings and transitioning toward a consumption tax, asking, “why should we penalize productivity?”

Trump defended his taxation proposal, calling it a “major reduction for the middle class,” while acknowledging that he won’t win any fans among hedge fund managers.

“I know people that are making a tremendous amount of money and paying virtually no tax, and I think it’s unfair,” said Trump.

Homeless man arrested for destruction of property Madison police arrested a 43-year-old homeless man early Saturday morning after he damaged multiple properties on State Street, including Jamba Juice and A Room of One’s Own bookstore.

The suspect, Nathan W. Revercomb, recklessly damaged three separate buildings on State Street with a wooden walking stick, Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain said in a Tuesday statement.

Revercomb also broke the window of a local 37-year-old woman’s

SUV with the stick, leaving her “scared and crying,” according to the report. Police later determined the suspect also shattered the window of a car parked near State Street.

Police were alerted to the incident by calls from pedestrians near Jamba Juice, located on the 400 block of State Street, and A Room of One’s Own bookstore, located on the 300 block of West Gorham Street.

Police arrested Revercomb on five counts of criminal damage to property and one count of disorderly conduct.

State supreme court justice announces retirement, will step down in July 2016 State Supreme Court Justice N. Patrick Crooks announced in a statement Wednesday that he will not seek re-election when his term ends July 31, 2016.

His retirement announcement comes on the 38th anniversary of his swearing in as a Brown County judge in 1977, a year before he was elected a Brown County Circuit Court judge. Crooks has served on the Supreme Court since 1996.

Over time, Crooks established a reputation as a moderate justice and a crucial swing vote, especially as the court has grown more conservative in recent years.

The election to replace Crooks will take place April 5, with State Appeals Court Judges JoAnne Kloppenburg and Rebecca Bradley and Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Joe Donald having already announced their candidacies.

Kloppenburg ran unsuccessfully against Justice David Prosser in 2011, and is backed by state liber-

als. Bradley, on the other hand, has the support of conservatives.

Donald commended Crooks’ record in his statement, hoping to follow in the judge’s footsteps if elected.

“He is an independent judge,” Donald said in the statement. “That legacy is what I hope to carry on.”

Crooks’ announcement comes at a time of turmoil for the court, which is gridlocked over the pending federal appeal of former Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson.

In April, the state constitution was amended to allow the court to choose its own chief justice instead of the position going to the most senior justice, which removed Abrahamson from the position.

The liberal Abrahamson filed a lawsuit to maintain the role of chief justice until the end of her term in 2019, but it was dismissed by U.S. District Judge James Peterson this July. Undeterred, Abrahamson filed an appeal earlier this month.

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UW-Madison, along with the City of Madison, received a $1 million grant to launch a program to coordinate efforts of research and funding between the two institutions.

Carnegie Mellon and the city of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the Obama administration, initiated this program in order to solve public problems such as crime, traffic issues and achievement gaps involving public schools in the most efficient way possible, Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service, said.

UW-Madison is one of 22 universities that will participate in this nationwide networking program developed to share cutting edge research and information about technology

fair from page 1 College of Engineering have study abroad programs that were represented at the fair as well.

Julie Lindsey, associate director of IAP, stressed the importance of providing a chance for students to explore their study abroad possibilities in a single place.

“The study abroad fair provides an opportunity to showcase every study abroad program at UW-Madison in one location,” Lindsey said. “So it’s a little bit unique in the sense that people can actually come, browse the different program opportunities, talk to faculty that lead the programs and return study abroad students all in one quick location.”

While this is the only study abroad fair hosted throughout the year, IAP provides additional resources to explore study abroad options, Lindsey explained. IAP also hosts open houses and different information sessions each semester.

More than just the students at Wednesday’s fair know about UW-Madison’s study abroad presence. In 2014, UW-Madison was ranked ninth among U.S. colleges and universities in the amount of students earning credit

rematch from page 1 ment never should have gotten involved in student loan programs,” Johnson said during a town hall meeting in May, Max Croes, communications advisor for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, told Politifact.

Johnson voted to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and three other departments in 2013 and supports local control of schools. Feingold has called for an overhaul of programs such as No Child Left Behind, but still believes the federal government plays an important role in K-12 education.

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Johnson and Feingold also have very different positions when it comes to the minimum wage.

Feingold has been one of the

between similar sources.

The nature of collaborating with the university and the city offers challenges yet also provides opportunities a program such as this one, Cramer explained.

“A notable challenge facing this program is the communication and coordinating of the enormous variety of people involved,” Cramer said. “The

alignment of different perspectives between people coming from different disciplines on campus as well as members of the city government.”

On the other hand, this extensive network provides a “fantastic opportunity” for students to work directly with the city, Cramer elaborated.

Students can get involved through coursework, volunteerism or research via Active Learning Experience programs.

This program also satisfies the city’s desires to work more closely with the university.

Although the details of exactly how the program will work are still being sorted out, Cramer said, excitement has been generated about utilizing the creativity and knowledge of many sectors together.

abroad by the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. This ranking marked the eighth straight year that UW-Madison has placed in the top 10.

Rachel Baldwin, a junior gender and women’s studies major, said that while she hasn’t studied abroad through the univer-

sity, her past international experiences piqued her interest and brought her to the fair.

“I just want to broaden my worldview,” Baldwin said. “I think that there are a lot of other things to do outside of UW, and studying abroad would be a great opportunity to meet new people and find new opportunities.”

“The alignment of different perspectives between people coming from different disciplines on campus as well as members of the city government.”

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This year’s study abroad fair attracted more than 2,500 students and showcased UW-Madison’s numerous international programs. most vocal advocates for a $15 minimum wage, signing a public letter that called for the federal government to gradually raise the rate from $7.25 an hour.

“To me, this is fundamental,” Feingold said at a campaign rally in August, first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal.

“Low wages mean increased reliance on assistance programs and less purchasing power for customers to buy needed goods and services locally.”

Johnson, on the other hand, opposes a federal minimum wage entirely except for specific guest worker programs that would set a minimum wage for migrant workers.

Johnson also supports President Barack Obama’s proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a hotly debated trade agreement that Feingold

has advocated against.

Abortion

While state legislators debate bills restricting circumstances in which abortions may be administered, Feingold and Johnson are both passionate about the issue on a federal level.

Johnson has repeatedly voted to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and was a cosponsor of the bill that would cut off government funding for the organization and divert it to other women’s groups. He also cosponsored the Life at Conception Act, which would have established personhood for fertilized eggs.

Feingold had a consistent pro-choice voting record during his time as a senator, and spoke out this August against Johnson’s proposed Planned Parenthood bill.

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Hippo Campus will perform a free concert Friday with Benjamin Booker and The Hussy.

Hippo Campus to bring free tunes to King Street

By Ellie Herman The Daily Cardinal

If you didn’t know better, you might mistake the band members of Hippo Campus for a group of regular college students. However, while most students are cramming for midterms, this band is opening for Walk The Moon at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.

The young indie-pop Midwestern group, composed of lead singer and guitarist Jake “Turntan” Luppen, guitarist Nathan “Stitches” Stocker, bassist Zach “Espo” Sutton and drummer Whistler “Beans” Allen, formed while still in high school at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists.

Hippo Campus released their first EP “Bashful Creatures” in February 2015, a six-track playlist featuring their top hit “Suicide Saturday.” Since then, the band has toured across the country and in Europe, preparing for their upcoming EP “South” which is set to be released in early October.

“It’s pretty crazy being exposed to the bigger music markets like Chicago, New York and London and other places overseas,” Luppen said. “It’s just different, I guess. Coming from

Minneapolis, me and everybody are like out for the best.

Everyone wants us to succeed and do well, which is awesome.”

Hippo Campus’ latest release from “South,” “The Halocline,” debuted online in late August.

While the word’s actual meaning is a scientific term for the illusion of air experienced by scuba divers in underwater caves, the band uses it as a metaphor for adulthood.

“We were just graduating high school, we were figuring out adulthood and what that meant and what it meant to grow up and go off to college, get a new job, and so on and so forth,” Luppen said. “We kind of discovered it wasn’t that black and white. The Halocline served to us, sort of the illusion of growing up, you just don’t [grow up], you know?”

Luppen said the tracks featured on “South” originate from a collection of eight songs the band wrote before “Bashful Creatures,” when they hoped to put out a full album.

“Some songs are different in the fact that there are some darker themes that play,” Luppen said of the “South” EP. “For sure there are some deeper moments, but I’m really proud of it, I think

it’s fantastic, I’m excited to share it with people.”

While Hippo Campus has performed at top music festivals in the country such as South

by Southwest and Lollapalooza, Luppen said the band always recognizes its hometown crowd.

“It’s always great to play shows back at home, because everybody’s super jazzed about it,” Luppen said. “Being home, there’s just such a strong support net behind us, it’s good to catch up there every now and again.”

Hippo Campus’ danceinducing tunes and catchy lyrics attract a relatively young fan base, which Luppen said has both its pros and cons.

“A large majority of our fan base is 18 or younger, or kind of around there, so we have to play more all ages shows,” Luppen said. “Which is totally cool, and there are venues that will do that, but there’s also a lot of venues that won’t do that. It’s just a matter of finding the right places to play, I guess. We’ve been fortunate so far that people have been so gracious with us.”

Hippo Campus will perform a free concert Friday on King Street with New Orleans singer-songwriter Benjamin Booker and the local band The Hussy.

Madison’s weekend entertainment

By Allison Garcia the daily cardinal

It’s the weekend and that means dancing, singing and entertainment galore.

Popcorn and a movie The Marquee is playing “Furious 7,” “While We’re Young,” “The Warriors” “Topophilia” “7 Chinese Brothers” and “Wild Tales.”

If you want to be a Badger Before the game Saturday (two-and-a-half hours before kickoff) a Badger Bash is held at Union South with UW

Marching Band.

Concerts and festivals Memorial Union is hosting the Madison World Music Festival Friday with music from around the globe. Also, Willy Street Fair takes place Friday and Saturday including eight stages and 35 performances. Behind the Beat Jazz Series at Der Rathskeller features local Americana acts.

Allan Kingdom raps with Me eN You Friday at the Sett.

Get crafty Wheelhouse Studios is hosting a glass fusing and fun with decals

event Thursday, Free Art Friday and a make your own instrument event at the World Music Festival.

A toe-tapping good time Madison Swing is hosting its kickoff Friday at The Crossing.

Pay $5 for a semester of dips, flips and swing.

Looking for a laugh?

All weekend the Comedy Club on State shows Sean Patton.

Check The Daily Cardinal each Thursday to find out what to do for entertainment in Madison each weekend. Hint: We like things that are free.

his weekend marks the release of “Super Mario Maker,” Nintendo’s celebration of the 30th anniversary of its long-running franchise. The game is primarily a level editor, using accessible yet powerful tools so that anyone from our mothers to expert game designers could design the Mario levels of their dreams. The game pulls in ideas, characters, enemies, obstacles and platforms from four Mario side-scrolling releases, meaning those who “grew up with a different game” will likely see themselves represented in the tools.

“Super Mario Maker” is light on official Nintendo content; there are a collection of sample courses playable in a sort of grab-bag mode, but most of them are simple, serving as proof that it’s possible to design a certain kind of stage. The majority of content for “Mario Maker” has been created by players experimenting with the tools themselves. Nintendo is encouraging this role of the player as maker; when discussing the fact that Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto is going to create levels, it appeared that Miyamoto would simply be uploading an undisclosed number of levels to the server, like the rest of us—they’ll probably appear on the featured page.

Yet “Super Mario Maker” is only the most explicit game in the current shift in gameplay, which focuses on a concept called “emergent” gameplay.

Games like “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” and “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” offer a vast open world and a limited “main” story which can support hundreds of hours of play.

Each was largely buzzed about in regard to how many hours someone managed to play without moving the main story forward, with players focusing primarily on side-quests, or episodic asides unrelated to advancing a grand narrative.

Now, each “Metal Gear Solid V” and “The Witcher 3” offer lengthy, heavily manicured storylines, boasting cinema, tragedy and intense action which feeds its main narrative. In fact, the combined main story content of each game is probably between 20 and 40 hours, about three times the length of games in the “Call of Duty” series. The beginning of “Metal Gear Solid V” is almost two straight hours of cinematic storytelling.

Eight years ago, the mostly linear style of game design was the primary focus of the games with the highest budgets. Criticisms of the top of the games industry centered upon its treasuring of cinematic technique and pacing in place of creating large places for players to explore. “Super Mario Galaxy” abandoned the

sprawling worlds of prior 3-D Mario games and focused upon tiny globe sequences, more like a linear series of platforms than like exploring a world.

In 2008, “Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots,” might be the clearest example of this school of thought, in which the cutscenes approached feature length. The game’s ending is 90 minutes of cutscene, and others throughout the game often extend toward the hour mark.

Multiple sequences involve exiting a cutscene to simply walk through a door, only to begin another lengthy, noninteractive scene.

Of course, then there are games like “Until Dawn,” “Life Is Strange” or “Game of Thrones,” which almost exclusively feature cinematic storytelling in place of gameplay. Yet those games make a marked shift in storytelling; more like choose-your-own-adventure novels than films, the games constantly allow the player to select their protagonist’s dialogue and gives them significant story agency. Characters in these games who might be core figures in episode four or five can die in the second episode, never to return.

So the techniques of the father are passed to the son.

And emergent gameplay has been growing in popularity for years; in fact, its growth and prevalence dates back at least to the release of “Grand Theft Auto III,” and what we’re seeing today largely has grown out of “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” and “Minecraft.” One element which may be new is that the same amount of craft goes into these emergencefocused games as the tighter, more cinematic games. “Metal Gear Solid,” 10 years ago and today, still represents the absolute apex of high-definition gaming and high-intensity cinematic action sequences, and the tools used to create “Super Mario Maker” include brilliant user-interface, crisp visuals, and excellent music in the “create-a-stage” mode.

Is this inherently better?

Games like “Journey” or “P.T.” used linearity to craft wonderful experiences, and the wholly filmic “The Last of Us” is one of the best Cormac McCarthyinspired works around. Yet these linear experiences also open up to intepretation; “Journey” and “P.T.” are largely nonverbal, and what is explicitly told is almost superfluous to the game’s higher points.

“The Last of Us” is perhaps most famous for its vague ending. This emergent design has extended into game narratives, and no medium can suffer from a decrease in didacticism.

What do you think of this video game maker movement? How do you make your own fun when your gaming?

Will you play “Super Mario Maker?” Let Alex know at alexlovendahl@gmail.com.

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Lizzo perfoms powerful set at Majestic

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Tuesday night the Majestic promised a stacked lineup of female hip-hop artists. First up was Denver-born soul hiphop songstress Povi. While she has glistened on the stages of Denver and her current home Oakland, Calif., unfortunately her Madison performance fell slightly short. While the crowd was hyped up on excitement for the acts to follow, no one was really familiar with Povi’s music, so audience engagement and participation was low. While the music itself was relatively unknown, it was still nice to bop around to, and I did marvel at the beauty of Povi’s vocal strength, that is until the peak of awkward concert events occurred.

Seemingly pointlessly, Povi looked out into the audience and asked a girl to come on stage and sing to her. It was weird. It was definitely not comfortable to witness. It also made me want to forget the set as a whole.

Luckily, Lizzo swooped in to save the day with her performance that simply overflowed with confidence and beauty.

Before me on stage were Lizzo, two yellow overall-clad female dancers and a female DJ. Seeing four powerful women onstage was empowering by itself, but what was even better was that all of the women were curvy, beautiful and representing a demographic of women that is not often seen in the forefront. In fact, a few months ago Lizzo specifically sent out a tweet stating that she was looking for backup dancers who were taller than 5’6” and curvy. Lizzo herself was wearing an outfit that was equally exciting as her dancers’:

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Povi was the opening act at the Majestic Tuesday night for an evening of hip-hop. Her set was followed by a stunning performance from Lizzo. a black shirt and shorts covered by a see-through rain jacket; unsurprisingly, she looked totally badass and awesome.

After a few minutes of killer

dance breaks, fantastic vocals and unfettered excitement from both the performers and the audience alike, Lizzo broke into her song “W.E.R.K.,” which

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turned up the audience’s energy by about a million percent. As she sang about thinking like a boss, I remember thinking how incredibly confident she looked, and my mind wandered to an interview I read recently. In it, an interviewer asked Lizzo when she was most confident.

She responded saying she felt most confident while on stage but only if everything was going well and her wardrobe was functioning properly. Simply put, everyone at the show could tell that this was one of those nights when everything was going well and the flow of confidence was unhinged.

Next, Lizzo went into “Paris,” which was so great for two reasons. First, it showcased her vocal strength more than any song previously had. Second, it involved a lot of call-and-response with the audience, which was exciting and demanded everyone’s attention. Following this, there was a dance interlude to the Shamir song “On The Regular” and a few new Lizzo songs that showed off her vocals on a new level.

She sounded incredible. She then went on to perform her hit song “Batches & Cookies” and a song about being in love with herself that exuded the most humble kind of self-love.

Finally, the peak of the entire performance was Lizzo’s speech about how everyone matters, no matter their race, gender or what they look like. She finished her monologue with the powerful statement: “My black life matters.” It seemed that the audience had chills as Lizzo followed this speech with “My Skin,” a song about how she loves her brown skin and who she is.

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Ben Folds’ new album, So There, is essentially two albums in one. The first eight tracks are new material written in collaboration with yMusic, a New Yorkbased chamber ensemble, and the last three tracks consist of Folds’ “Concerto For Piano and Orchestra.” The concerto, co-commissioned by the Nashville Ballet and the Minnesota Orchestra, was performed last year before being recorded for this album.

Many of the first eight tracks on the album can be characterized as cinematic and intriguing instrumentally, with a sadness underneath. The first song, “Capable Of Anything,” is cheerful on the surface, yet it is more an indictment of a past significant other than a motivational piece. The soaring

orchestral melody, including fluttering flute lines, runs contrary to the bitterness of the lyrics. Later on, the track “Yes Man” follows the same formula, with beautiful string melodies obscuring a rather whiny, self-indulgent rumination beginning with the question: “Why didn’t you tell me that I got fat?”

Even “Not A Fan,” the most gentle, delicately executed piece on the album, builds throughout the last minute to the line: “So f--- you.”

The title track of the album, “So There,” is the immature retort it sounds like. It’s jazzy and upbeat, but the lyrics “You taught me nothing/ I owe you nothing/ How could I forget you/ When there’s nothing to forget?” show the songs true intentions. “Long Way To Go” also has a jazzy feel, but delivers much more than “So There” in terms of substance. It has “Bennie and the Jets”-like plodding chords, the lurching feeling and even recorded yelling of a crowded bar anthem, mixed in with well-thought-out and carefully placed orchestral elements. At one point in the song, swells in the string melody combine with drawling voices to create a pretty accurate representation of swaying. Despite some out-ofplace, military-sounding percus-

sion toward the end, “Long Way To Go” is the most artful composition within the first eight tracks.

From the beginning, “Phone In A Pool” is a basic pop piano piece, topped off with a shaker constantly going in the background. Plucked strings add something unique, but in essence this is something we’ve heard before, with the harmonies in the chorus reminiscent of the laid-back, falsetto style of The Beach Boys. Although “Phone In A Pool” is quite light hearted and a little childish, the track “F10D-A” is the epitome of childishness. As could be guessed from the name of the song, it begins as a simplistic recitation of notes that devolves into a vulgar series of innuendoes. The lyrics “Effed in the A/ Effed in the A with a D/ With a D/ With a big, fat D” could only be enjoyable to those stuck in a middle school mindset. At best a dirty music theory lesson, “F10D-A” is undeniably the low point of the album.

The last of the eight new tracks, “I’m Not The Man,” is the most raw vocally, and most vulnerable song Folds gives us. It is one of the few pieces that doesn’t try to disguise its sadness, and in stark contrast to the silliness of “F10-

D-A,” it seems Folds is being sincere, which makes it a deserving lead-in to the “Concerto For Piano and Orchestra.”

The concerto, broken into a separate track for each of the three movements, is the redeeming factor of So There. It is the full-out classical piece longed for throughout the pop teasers presented in the first eight tracks.

Folds’ classical composing is creative and eclectic, bringing in many different styles and complicated rhythmic combinations. ­­All three movements are generally upbeat, but have consistent dark undertones, like thundering percussion rising up from underneath piano and violin runs. Folds has succeeded in creating palatable classical music for those who usually prefer pop, and a more uplifting break for those of us who enjoy listening to more serious classical. The third movement closes with a comical strum of a harp and a percussive thump, reminding us of the common elements between the concerto and other tracks on the album: Folds’ flare for the dramatic and the whimsical.

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tant to remember that they are humans, each one having some sort of family and emotions.

Many criminals are arrested on minor drug charges with sentences severely disproportional to the severity of their crimes.

It is our moral duty to do what we can to correct their actions and mentalities so that they may become prosperous citizens and members of our society. Not only are we losing massive amounts of financial capital, but we are also losing human capital, the most basic building block of any economy.

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ank Green, a famous blogger and vlogger on Youtube, once stated regarding incarceration, “We send people to prison to be punished, and to prevent them from doing bad things again, and to deter others from breaking the law. Punishment, corrections and deterrence.” Each aspect of this three-fold system must be effective and all aspects must work in unison to create an efficient institution against crime. This does not necessarily mean that each aspect must be equal in how it is emphasized, leading to the question of which should be emphasized and how we go about doing so to provide the maximum level of utility to society.

In America, we are particularly good at punishment. According to PBS, at least 80,000 prisoners in the U.S. are in solitary confinement or separated housing. Research from Human Rights Watch and United Nations shows that solitary confinement causes serious psychological harm and should be considered torture. However, in the U.S., it is perfectly legal.

PBS reports that each prisoner in solitary confinement costs taxpayers an estimated $75,000 per year compared to $25,000 per year for a prisoner outside of solitary.

On top of that, the U.S. has come under serious scrutiny over torture committed at Guantanamo Bay. President Barack Obama has promised that he would shut down Guantanamo Bay once and for all, but he has yet to follow through on his promise. The problem is that punishment does not seem to have a discernable effect on stopping crime. The cruelty must end.

It’s time that the criminal justice system focuses on being tough on crime, not tough on criminals.

The U.S. Department of Justice has published statistics saying 650,000 inmates are released back into society each year. Of those 650,000, approximately two-thirds of them will be re-incarcerated within 3 years of release. Clearly, corrections should be the largest portion of the prison pie, instead of detention or punishment. When thinking of prisoners, we have a tendency to reach an “out of sight, out of mind” mentality in which once a prisoner is locked away, they are no longer an issue for society. However, this belief is contradictory to the fact that so many prisoners are back on the street each year. On top of that, convicted felons have an extremely difficult time finding a job and are ineligible for welfare. In our prisons, we should be focusing on creating a transition and educating these future members of society as to prevent them from being re-incarcerated.

Pursuant to a report published by the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, more than 60

In addition, we seem to forget about the ‘human element’ of the U.S. prison system.

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With a focus on education and rehabilitation, recidivism and incarceration rates will fall. percent of all prison inmates are functionally illiterate. Research also shows prisoners receiving literacy education are over four times less likely to return to prison. Without a doubt, there is a correlation between being educated and one’s likelihood of committing a crime. Statistics such as these should show that we need to ensure we educate the 650,000 citizens who re-enter society each year to prevent them from ending up in prison oncemore.

As stated by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, the current U.S. prison population is over 2.2 million people. Although the U.S. is home to only 4.4 percent of the world’s population, it is home to a massive 22 percent of the world’s prison population.

Thankfully, people are finally coming to the realization that something must be done about this injustice. As a result, deterrence has become a key topic of discussion in recent years. In the past, policymakers have made being tough on crime synonymous with being tough on criminals. The idea was that potential criminals would see the tough punishments brought upon convicts, thus reducing their incentive to commit a crime.

The problem is that this form of rent control hasn’t worked. The research and advocacy group the Sentencing Project has found that increasing the severity of prison sentences does little to nothing in terms of its effects on deterring crime. Instead, we should be focusing on crime deterrence programs that have a much more likely chance to succeed. As stated earlier, there appears to be a correlation between the level of education received and crime. Thus, we should be focusing our time and money on programs that educate people, especially those most in need of an education. Our current programs aren’t working and it’s time to rethink how we treat our prisoners, and how the

system can be changed to cater more to rehabilitation and introducing prisoners back into society more efficiently.

There are two other aspects of mass incarceration that absolutely cannot be forgotten in the debate over prison policy: economic costs and “the human element.” Speaking first on costs, the U.S.’s prison system cost taxpayers a total of $75 billion in

2008. We are dumping money down the drain on what is clearly a failed system. Our incarceration rates are astronomical, and our prisons aren’t effective at preventing further crime. In addition, we seem to forget about “the human element” of the U.S. prison system. Although criminals have committed illegal and generally immoral actions that constitute crimes, it is impor-

It’s time that we finally take a stand against the injustice that is occurring in our prison system.

We must focus on putting an end to crime rather than simply making the lives of prisoners miserable. This is not a partisan issue. It is possible to put an end to mass crime, but our current system is merely taking us the wrong direction. It’s time that the criminal justice system focuses on being tough on crime, not tough on criminals.

Ben is a freshman majoring in political science. Do you agree with Ben on the criminal justice system? Send all comments to opinion@dailcardinal.com.

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Known for their quick starts, the Badgers impressed Saturday as they accelerated and never looked back right from the gate—the tailgate that is. The impressive debut to the 2015 season witnessed a flurry of early action in what amounted to a 22-0 halftime lead over opponent Miami (OH) in arrests.

The Badgers’ home opener has historically been a lopsided affair in favor of UW but this year saw an even more disproportionate score than the past few season openers.

Analysts estimate that had the Badgers opposed the other Miami— also known as “The U”—the score would have been much closer.

“These levels of production, well I haven’t seen them, probably not since the Ron Dayne era.

Maybe earlier,” head coach Paul Chryst commented.

While the second half was not

nearly as dynamic offensively as the first, the Badgers did not allow the RedHawks a single arrest and came away with the sought-after donut.

“We’ve had people preparing on Breese Terrace all last night. All morning.”

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“We’ve been training all summer for this moment. No, fuck that.

Our whole lives!” proud defensive coordinator Dave Aranda said.

“That 22-0 lead at half has been a lifetime in the making for many young Badgers. I only hope that the fire still burns and we come back next week even stronger.”

“Coach, Coach, they say the separation is in the preparation.

How do you think that applies to today’s win?” a reporter particularly well-versed in coaching lingo asked.

Chryst responded with the usual nondescript empty statement.“We’ve had people preparing on Breese Terrace all last night. All morning. Jesus, we’ve got guys preparing during the game. That’s the Badger Way,” Chryst revealed.

Fans exulted each successful arrest and truly provided a unique atmosphere to Camp Randall this past Saturday. The entire student section erupted as Asher Alvarez, of no relation to athletic director Barry Alvarez, scored the 22nd unanswered point and was taken away by the men in blue with a game high .32 blood alcohol content just before the first half ended.

The Badgers will face off with the Troy Trojans this Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

Upperclassman puts freshman in place, achieves fulfillment

By Noah Mack the daily cardinal

Late Friday night senior Brian Milton stumbled out of McKinley’s Irish Pub and let out a hoarse yell of “freshman!” at recent high school grad Liam Hamill with a look of deep satisfaction bordering on Zenlike peace.

“When I was a freshman I sacrificed my mother to a senior out of complete fear.”

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Cardinal reporters enjoying a drink at the local pub took the opportunity to interview the upperclassman who was swelling with pride at his recent assertion of alpha dominance.

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Fetus tricks parents, hides male genitalia in ultrasound Dylan Anderson the daily cardinal

By covering up his male genitalia, a 12-week-old unborn fetus successfully tricked his parents into believing he was a female during an ultrasonic examination Tuesday.

Though existent, the youngster’s private parts were small enough for him to be able to completely and utterly conceal them in a response to hearing the ultrasonic waves.

Ultrasound technician Kathy Green had seen the trick before and knew just what was going on, but decided not to ruin the parents’ jubilation with the truth.

“Kid’s a freakin’ genius,” Green said. “I thought about dropping the

ball to his parents, but they’ll find out eventually.”

The child—who may eventully be named Madison or maybe Azaliyah—would be the seventh child in the Elliott family, and the first female according to parents Scott and Janet.

“I told you we could do it,” Janet Elliott screamed from her reclined position. “I’m finally going to have a daughter!”

Though equally as convinced as his wife, Scott was noticeably less enthused.

“I can’t wait to see the look on their faces when they come back next time,” Green told Cardinal reporters with a wink.

“This needed to be done, it was inevitable the moment he didn’t avert his eyes and lick my feet when we crossed paths. The lack of respect with these freshman lately is disgusting,” slurred Milton. “When I was a freshman I sacrificed my mother to a senior out of complete fear.”

When reporters finally coaxed the trembling Liam out from under a nearby Jeep, he apologized for his blatant arrogance and lack of reverence he showed to the venerable senior and received a punishment of 50lanyard lashes to be carried out at a time of Milton’s choosing.

At press time, Milton had cooled off enough to tell reporters that “this new wave of incoming students was a nuisance and needed to be pruned with the shears of seniority” bestowed upon him from three years of inferiority.

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New-look offense hones in on Trojans

By Andrew Tucker The Daily Cardinal

Last week, head coach Paul Chryst stressed that even though the team lost its opener to Alabama, it would be more prepared for game two, saying that the biggest improvement comes from Week 1 to Week 2. After the Badgers smoked Miami (OH), Chryst sang a different tune this week.

“But like we’re going to tell the team … the biggest improvement will be from Week 2 to Week 3,” Chryst said at a Monday press conference, laughing.

Chryst may have been joking at the time, but the Badgers (1-1) certainly have room to improve Saturday against Troy (1-1).

The most glaring area for improvement is certainly Wisconsin’s slow start running the ball. By the end of its game against Miami, Wisconsin’s running statistics looked formidable, but the vast majority of rushing success came in the second half. UW’s 62 rushing yards in the first half are underwhelming when compared to the Melvin Gordon-centered offense of the last few seasons.

Redshirt junior running back Dare Ogunbowale felt that the slow start might have been due to a lack of preparation and only going off one game of tape to study. He ventured

this week that “being more prepared for what the defense is going to give us” will allow the running game to start off with a bang.

Many Badger fans have been surprised by the new look of the offense this seasons given its solid start in the passing game. With a new coaching staff, there’s been a lot of speculation if this is a permanent change, but the internal consensus is that it’s just a product of opportunity.

“You go in with a plan, and you run, pass, and kinda play to what’s going well,” offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph said. “It’s a group where we’ve gotta play to their strengths sometimes and we’ve gotta mix it up sometimes.”

Based on their early season performance, the Trojans will likely struggle against the run, but will have solid protection against the pass. Against North Carolina State, the Trojans allowed two touchdowns through the air, and five on the ground. NC State is not as strong of a team as Wisconsin, but is a Power Five team all the same.

Troy’s offense features a spread attack that is unlike what the Badgers will face throughout the conference season.

“They’re a real effective screen team, they’re a gadget team. They make you nervous, the pace is fast,

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In the absence of Corey Clement, running back Dare Ogunbowale has 121 rushing yards on 19 carries. they’ve got athletes at receiver.

[Redshirt sophomore quarterback Brandon Silvers] has settled into his role and I think they trust him and depend on him now,” defensive coordinator Dave Aranda said.

Silvers set a record for highest completion percentage for a freshman last season, completing 70.5 percent of his passes. The numbers don’t lie,

Conference play opens with tough tests at Penn State, Ohio State

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Tight turnaround not a problem for Wisconsin The Daily Cardinal

Last weekend, Wisconsin (6-1) dominated the Badger Classic, sweeping both Georgia and Kent State in three sets at UW Field House.

UW has won six straight matches and hopes to extend its winning streak as it prepares for the Creighton classic in Omaha, Neb. this weekend.

There, they will face Kansas State (8-1), Creighton (4-5) and Arkansas (8-1) before beginning conference play next week.

The Badgers will have a jampacked weekend, playing three matches in two days. UW head coach Kelly Sheffield believes his team is up to the challenge.

“This weekend it’s a pretty hefty duty tournament,” Sheffield said.“We open up with Kansas State, who might slide into the top 25 this weekend. Creighton, who might have played the toughest schedule in the country or one of them up to this point, and really good and well-coached Arkansas team. We are excited to get back to work. We have a couple days

into a budding strength for a Badger defense that had three interceptions last week. The lack of turnovers was something the coaching staff stressed as an issue with last year’s squad, and in the offseason there was a great deal of talk about bettering the team this year in that aspect.

The Badgers will take on the Trojans at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.

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and Wisconsin linebacker Joe Schobert had a great deal of praise for his opponent.

“He just makes good decisions, he doesn’t try to force the ball in places where you may need a perfect throw all the time. He’s got the arm to make great throws but he’s smart,” Schobert said.

If Troy does rely on the arm of its heralded quarterback, it could play

off away from the gym just in lifting, and we are going to get after it this afternoon.”

Since the Badgers are facing a heavy workload this weekend, theywill only be able to do a complete scouting report for one of the teams they face and then will have to operate using condensed scouting reports for the other two teams.

Despite less time to get ready for this weekend, UW is confident that it will be adequately prepared.

“We’ll give a full scouting report on our first match, who happens to be Kansas State, and the last two matches, you really shrink that down and you give them a lot less information because there’s just a lot less time to get ready,” Sheffield said. “We would like to think that our preparation is one of the advantages we have.

I’m sure just not every team in the country feels that way, but we really believe it.”

UW starts off the weekend against Kansas State Friday at 3:30 p.m., then will take on Creighton at 1:00 p.m Saturday and Arkansas later that day at 8:00 p.m.

Coming off a weekend in which the Badgers (3-3-1) tied both Milwaukee and Kentucky, they will have their toughest test of the season in their Big Ten opener Friday against No. 4 Penn State (5-1-1).

Wisconsin will continue a tough opening Big Ten schedule as they play No. 20 Ohio State (5-1-1) later in the weekend. The Nittany Lions and the Buckeyes are on a different level of competition than the teams Wisconsin has seen previously, having jumped out to a strong start in their 2015 campaigns.

UW’s defense will have a huge challenge containing Penn State’s team captain Mallory Weber. Weber leads the team in both goals and assists and already has one gamewinning goal. Along with getting the opportunities to score with 15

shots this season, Weber puts nearly half her shots on goal.

Wisconsin’s offense won’t have it any easier against redshirt senior goalkeeper Britt Eckerstrom. She has only given up four goals on the season and in her seven starts has three shutouts, and has an impressive 83 percent save percentage. If there is one player on the Badgers that can break through the impressive Nittany Lion defense, it is junior Rose Lavelle, who leads the team with four goals and two assists, and has an impressive 32 shots and puts half of those shots on goal. Lavelle, who is one of the top players in the nation, will be hard-pressed to find the net against Penn State, which has permitted just six goals this season.

Wisconsin’s defense has been solid this year as well, giving up only nine goals on the season. In the

net, redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Caitlyn Clem has saved nearly 75 percent of the shots on goal. Clem and the defense will be put to the test against a Penn State offense that has scored 13 goals.

The Badgers’ defense will have another tough test Sunday against offensive powerhouse Ohio State.

The Buckeyes have scored 14 goals this season by way of a very balanced attack, as nine players have scored goals this season. The Buckeyes have over 50 percent of their shots on goal and average two goals per game.

The Buckeyes not only have a strong offense, but also have a strong defense, giving up just six goals on the season.

The Badgers will take on Penn State Thursday at 6 p.m. in University Park, Pa. and Ohio State at 11 a.m. in Columbus, Ohio.

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Rose Lavelle already has four goals and two assists through Wisconsin’s first seven games.