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Freshman class sees rise in Wisconsinites The UW-Madison freshman class has the second largest number of in-state residents since 2001, with 3,750 of the 6,264 enrolled students coming from Wisconsin. The total class is the third largest in UW’s history, according to numbers released by the university’s registrar. “We strive to get distribution from many parts of the state,” Steve Hahn, interim vice provost for Enrollment Management, said. “We don’t want all urban or all rural students, but students from all walks of life in Wisconsin.”
Of this year’s freshman class, 71.9 percent of residents who applied to UW-Madison were accepted. “We place a high priority on admitting the best and brightest among Wisconsin high school graduates, and these numbers reflect that commitment,” Hahn said. In 2001, there were 3,947 residents enrolled. Last year’s numbers were the highest since, with 3,843 in-state students. “Wisconsin as a whole sends us great students, and we think that every one of them can suc-
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The UW-Madison freshman class of 2014 brings the second largest number of in-state students since 2001, with 3,750 students of the total 6,264 hailing from Wisconsin.
Election officials ask court to throw out ballot lawsuit Officials in charge of running Wisconsin’s elections asked a judge to dismiss a case brought forward by Republican legislators who alleged the state’s new ballots are unfair and will confuse voters. The Government Accountability Board argued in their request to dismiss the case that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and Senate Majority Leader Scott
Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, improperly filed their lawsuit. The GAB said in their motion to Waukesha County Circuit Judge James Kieffer the lawmakers cannot challenge the ballots in all 68 counties because their combined legislative districts only include Racine, Walworth, Columbia and Jefferson counties. Wisconsin Attorney General
J.B. Van Hollen, who is representing the GAB, also contended that lawmakers should have filed complaints with their respective district attorney’s or the Board itself before filing in court. In the original lawsuit, Vos and Fitzgerald argued the new formats of lines and shading could make it difficult for voters distinguish between the different political races.
Last week, Kevin Kennedy, the state’s chief election officer, said in a press conference it would be impractical to redesign and reprint new ballots with fewer than 50 day until the election. “The ballot looks different,” Kennedy said last week. “We’ve made some changes but they’re not significant differences.” —Eoin Cottrell
UW-Madison labs to switch to electronic notebooks
Improved outlet for student voice in UW System, state decisions on the horizon UW System students could soon see a new form of representation across the state, one that is more conducive to sharing and organizing their ideas and initiatives. Currently, UW Student Representatives meet with staff from the UW System Administration five times throughout the year, providing an opportunity for discussion between students and administration. Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Derek Field said the new representative outlet would allow UW students a more direct group to voice their opinions. Field said the current student representation needs more student portrayal than solely the student government president and vice president. “UW Student Representatives is only open to the two highest ranking members at each cam-
“Specifically, GAB’s new ballot design will result in confusion and a failure to understand the ballot and will lead to an increase in what are known as under-voted ballots,” Vos and Fitzgerald said in their original complaint. An under-voted ballot occurs when citizens fail to vote for all the elections listed throughout the ballot.
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ASM Vice Chair Derek Field said a new organization is in the works that will cater to more overall student involvement. pus, which is part of the problem because people who are experts on the issues that they work on can’t actually go, they’re doing work and then there’s no organizing there,” Field said. This student body, titled Wisconsin Student Association, would meet more often with the administration than the UW Student Representatives, and tackle issues with other UW campuses such as voting laws and college affordability.
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In addition to creating the Wisconsin Student Association, Field said higher education institutions across the nation are in the process of sending a letter to the secretary of education, requesting greater transparency on schools’ interactions with financial institutions. Student leadership will meet later in the month to further discuss the new association and letter. —Ellie Herman
UW-Madison researchers soon will have the option to store and organize lab notebooks with a new software service called Electronic Lab Notebook, according to a university release Tuesday. The new software application serves many of the same functions as a paper lab notebook but offers additional searchability, integration with digital data sources and access controls to facilitate collaboration and protect intellectual property, according to the release. Many electronic notebooks on the market do not meet important security, usability and data storage requirements important to UW researchers. A campus ELN team therefore identified a central software solution. Several UW-Madison labs already use electronic notebooks and have participated in software pilots for years. Jean-Michel Ané, a profes-
sor of agronomy, said in the release a large amount of data was being lost before switching to electronic notebooks. He said researchers dealt with confusion between digital and print before switching to electronic notebooks. Mark Meyer, an associate scientist in Wesley Pike’s lab in the Department of Biochemistry, also started using an ELN. “Nearly everything our lab does is digital,” Meyer said in the release. “An ELN was a no-brainer.” The university established the new contract with LabArchives, which will make new software available for use in labs at no cost beginning this month. The software features include basic drawing, image annotation, chemistry tools, a PDF export resembling a traditional lab notebook, calculation tools and integration with Google documents. —Dana Kampa
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The Brickhouse, the bar review By Kane Kaiman The Daily Cardinal
On Satruday night I humored my 20-year-old housemates and went to a childish little apartment party at La Ville. It was worth it to see the smiles on their little faces as they spastically gyrated on the carpeted dance floor with their girlish, baby-faced companions. But I stuck out like a sore thumb, a man among boys. And men go to the bars. What I needed was another nameless, faceless wing man. So I contacted The Original Badass. This maniac had a reputation around town for civil disobedience. And he was a violent thrill-seeker. And, wouldn’t you know it, he was stuck at another juvenile La Ville party on the ninth floor. I made my way to the elevator. The Original Badass had newspaper connections at a YUPPY watering hole, Brickhouse Barbecue. The alumni had rented out the top floor for a highly-sophisticated soiree. There was sure to be top-shelf liquor and stimulating conversation. Finally a little culture! I was excited to rub elbows with professional journalists, agendasetting gate keepers of information, just like me. I couldn’t wait to discuss cutting-edge techniques for spoon feeding information to the ignorant, drooling masses. How important our work is! It was high time to leave the peasantry behind and do a little bourgeois schmoozing, so The Original Badass and I chugged
what was left of an open bottle of Fleischmann’s on the counter and slipped out the apartment door. Brickhouse was truly a sight to behold. Four stories tall, it was a monument to high-society. I could practically see the social ladder leading to the rooftop. Up we went. But the strangest thing happened when The Original Badass and I reached the summit. No one rushed to shake our hands. Waiters offered us no champagne. Surrounded by the best and brightest in their suits and cocktail dresses, we were somehow out of place. Clearly, I had overestimated my social standing, and, in my t-shirt and cargo shorts, I didn’t look the part. We were outsiders yearning for acceptance. I was prepared to perform sexual favors in the bathroom to gain access to these colorful people. Money talks, but when you can afford to rent out an entire floor of Brickhouse Barbecue, sexual currency is worth more than the contents of any wallet. The Original Badass and I decided on a new course of action; we were going to keep a low profile. So we went straight for the free food. Next to the pulled pork sandwiches were three stacks of newspaper fleeces and t-shirts. More freebies! I went digging for my size. Maybe if I threw on their colors I could skip the bathroom antics all together. But before I could slip into something more presentable, I felt a deli-
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cate hand on my shoulder. Finally some female attention. Turns out it was a dude. He asked me if I was going to pay for the clothing. There I was, in a room full of lobster bisque alumni, being propositioned for money. I thought this was an opulent celebration, not some low-brow fundraiser. Sensing my bewilderment, he patted me on the back and told me we could discuss payment in the bathroom. The Original Badass and I ate our food in silence downstairs. Brickhouse Barbecue: Brick shit house. High society had put us in a funk, so it was time to mingle with the common folk at Red Rock Saloon. When we walked in the door, there was a lot of “yee-hawing” and boot stomping going on. The lively atmosphere almost made up for the strong smell of manure. Across the bar, someone puked into a ten gallon hat. The Original Badass and I sat down to high-stakes poker at a corner table. The game was all shifty eyes and twitching handlebar mustaches. It wasn’t long before the broncobuster to my right lunged across the table, took hold of another man’s arm and exposed a spring contraption up the hustler’s sleeve designed to inject aces into his hand. The grifter was lucky I’d left my six-shooter at home! The good people of Red Rock don’t take kindly to card-cheats. They rounded up a posse and lassoed him to the mechanical bull.
Then they turned the knob to “Hog Wild.” It was hard to watch. After the swindler lost consciousness, The Original Badass and I decided it was time to go. Red Rock Saloon: Draconian shit hole. Of course, we couldn’t leave until we’d finished our drinks, no easy task with our livers already operating at peak capacity. The Original Badass never ceases to amaze me. Without hesitation, he reached into his glass, pulled out the ice and threw it on the floor, a technique he called, “Icing Your Drink.” Sheer brilliance. I followed suit. With the cubes out of the way, the chugging was much easier. The image of the card shark’s limp body flailing all over the bullpen was still very much in our heads as we made our way to the next establishment on The Original Badass’ list: Madhatter. But before we could get there, The Original Badass’ fondness for civil disobedience and violent thrillseeking reared its ugly head. The crazy bastard tried to commandeer the Capitol Pedaler. And he would’ve succeeded to if it wasn’t for the heroics of the pedalers, who went into a desperate, booze-fueled overdrive, leaving The Original Badass stumbling in the dust. We never made it to Madhatter. Madhatter: We didn’t go. We ended up watching reruns of Breaking Bad at his apartment and taking turns puking into a cardboard box that had once contained the televsion.
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‘Protect the Mic’ expects to reach beyond hip-hop
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Karen Reece, president of the Urban Community Arts Network, stresses building bridges between hip-hop groups.
A seemingly modest proposal to make October 2015 hip-hop awareness month at Tuesday’s Madison Arts Commission meeting was universally applauded by members and community speakers alike. Karen Reece, president of the Urban Community Arts Network, described the proposal as part of the 2015 “Protect the Mic” initiative developed with the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and spoken word group First Wave, and emphasized the necessity of the Commission’s approval. “In a city where maybe passively, hip-hop has been told it
doesn’t necessarily belong, having an endorsement like this really goes a long way,” Reece said. “Protect the Mic” is intended to connect the current First Wave “Pass the Mic” program with the Madison Hip-Hop Awards, which just celebrated their tenth and fifth anniversaries respectively, according to Reece. “One of the things we really struggled with is creating community.” Reece said “Local artists don’t necessarily know what’s going on at First Wave at UW, and vice versa.” However, Reece stressed that while building bridges between the
Madison hip-hop communities was the short-term goal, the end goal of entertainment equity in Madison across genres is just as critical. Members of the Commission noted in particular the need to reconcile the gap between the disparaging “Race to Equity” report that documented extreme racial disparities with Livability’s naming of Madison as the most livable city, citing that “Protect the Mic” fits in as part of closing the gap. “I think that this [proposal] is fantastic,” Vice Chair Chris Taylor said. “I think that Madison in particular needs that.” —Irene Burski
Researchers receive funding for drug screening studies UW-Madison researchers received funding for their work screening chemicals and developing technology to test the effect of drugs on the body. The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday the multidisciplinary UW-Madison and Morgridge Institute for Research team will receive approximately $7 million for a three-year project, according to a university release. The team and 10 other universities are doing “promising” work for the Tissue Chip for Drug Screening program. Researchers succeeded in getting pre-differentiated human cells from stem cells to grow in a tissue-like environment. These cells are known as pluripotent neural progenitor cells. The cells then differentiate, self-organize and mature into complex neural tissues, according to the release. The cells assemble into a structure about one-fifth the circumference of a dime, mimick-
ing a developing brain. The team is also testing an algorithm that can predict toxic responses to compounds. The system was 100 percent accurate when testing 45 known toxins and non-toxic control compounds. The next phase of the NIH program includes improving ways to predict drug safety and effectiveness. The release said researchers will refine existing 3-D human tissue chips and create an integrated system mimicking the “complex functions of the human body.” Christopher Austin, NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences director, said in the release the technology could be “revolutionary” as a quick and thrifty step in drug testing before human clinical trials. “That is exactly why we are supporting the development of human tissue chip technology,” Austin said in the release. “We aim to get more treatments to more patients more efficiently.” —Dana Kampa
Department of Justice responds to ACLU’s voter ID rehearing request The state accused opposition attorneys of inciting confusion by requesting a federal appeals court reconsider the recent voter ID decision before Wisconsin’s Nov. 4 election. After a three-judge panel reinstated the state’s photo ID voting requirement two weeks ago, attorneys on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union asked the full court to reconsider their decision. State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen called their request irresponsible in his response Tuesday. “There is no good reason to
revisit that decision,” state attorneys wrote. “Wisconsin election officials are already implementing the voter ID law. Plaintiffs are asking this court to pinball state and local election officials between enforcing and not enforcing the law with an election on the horizon.” ACLU attorneys argued in their request the late decision has already caused confusion among officials and voters. Currently the voter ID law is in effect, and voters will be asked to present a Wisconsin photo ID at the polls this fall.
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students during the preceding decade, the percentage of enrolled Wisconsinites remains steady. The 2013 freshman class had the third-highest percentage of residents, at 60.62 percent, behind 2009 and 2004, when 61.47 percent of the freshmen were residents. This year falls directly in the middle of data from the 13-year period, with 59.87 percent of the freshmen hailing from Wisconsin. —Jake Skubish
ceed here,” said Hahn. In 2012, the UW System Board of Regents raised the out-of-state enrollment cap from 25 to 27.5 percent, which had financial benefits for UW-Madison, as out-of-state tuition is nearly double that of Wisconsin residents. Although the 2013 and 2014 freshman classes included the highest numbers of in-state
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Argument over sleeping space turns to battery, robbery Three suspects reportedly beat up and robbed a 33-yearold Madison man following an argument over a sleeping space Sunday night on the 10 block of North Carroll Street, according to MPD Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain. The suspects, two uniden-
tified women and Frederick Burton, 54, told the victim to leave the space after discovering the victim had already claimed it for the night, according to an MPD incident report. When the victim refused to leave, the suspects got physically violent.
DeSpain said the victim then tried to call 911, before the suspects grabbed the victim’s iPhone and ran away. Police arrested Burton, but are still looking for the two women, both of which were identified as African-American, according to the report.
Teenager crashes car into light pole, blaming ‘gunshots’ An 18-year-old Madison teenager crashed into a light pole and traffic standard on South Midvale Boulevard Monday morning, claiming that he lost control after being shot at, according to a MPD incident report. Following the crash, the uninjured driver fled the
car to hide while the car’s only passenger, a 20-yearold Madison man, stayed in the car. The similarly uninjured passenger did not exit the car until police arrived on the scene, MPD Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain said. The passenger denied to
police that he had been in the car, while the driver alleged the gunshots fired were from a dark colored vehicle with strongly tinted windows. Investigators found no shell casings at the scene and reported that interviewed witnesses did not hear gunshots, but did hear the crash.
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Using bacterial genes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were able to identify furan containing fatty acids; compounds that could potentially be replacement components for oil in the fuel industry and chemicals in the pharmaceutical industry.
“That furan ring provides imporant chemical properties to the molecule; either it’s potentially used as a fuel, or it’s potentially used as chemical.”
Tim Donohue professor and research director UW-Madison
Genomics is a branch of molecular genetics that studies genomes or all nucleotide sequencing of an organism. Through this research, a class of fatty acid compounds was discovered. Fatty acids in living organisms have valuable functionality including being an important, permeable and bilayer component of the cell. They are also pertinent in nutritional systems and one common example includes omega-3 fatty acid which people often take as dietary supplements for heart health. Therefore, the discovery of a class of fatty acids poses pos-
sibilities for both the bilayer of living systems on a molecular level and fatty acid utilizing industries on a potentially global level. Professor Tim Donohue, a faculty member in the bacteriology department of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the director of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), said, “This is a different and novel form of fatty acid.” GLBRC, sponsored by the United States Department of Energy, is located at UW-Madison. Research at the GLBRC focuses on using the non-edible part of plant biomass or agricultural waste such as cellulose from corn stalks or corn cobs for research in sustainability, conversion, deconstruction and plants. “Because [the new compound] has an oxygen in the fatty acid chain and something that is chemically called a furan ring…that furan ring provides important chemical properties to the molecule; either it’s potentially used as a fuel or it’s potentially used as a chemical,” Donohue said. The research being done in Donohue’s lab was greatly contributed to by Rachelle Lemke, the lead author of the paper and senior research specialist. Lemke discovered the fatty acid by investigating genomes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, a photosynthetic bacterium known for its ability to make novel hydrocarbons, molecules consisting of the elements
hydrogen and carbon, and the main subject of study in Donohue’s lab. In a motor vehicle, ethanol, an oxygenate or a compound that provides oxygen, is usually added to combust hydrocarbons for fuel. The presence of a hydroxyl group in ethanol is the location of oxygenation that helps create compounds called radicals which burn hydrocarbons. “Those novel properties [of the furan fatty acid] focus around one unique aspect of it…this fatty acid has an oxygen in the middle of the hydrocarbon chain and the preliminary discussion we’ve had with people in the fuel and engine industry [had them] very excited about it because it could be a hydrocarbon that has an oxygen in it and it could therefore substitute for ethanol as an oxygenate in fuel,” said Donohue.
“Preliminary discussions we had with the fuel and engine industry [had them] very excited about it.”
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By doing experimentation on enzymatic reactions of the fatty acid pathways, they found the compound and realized the lack of scientific literature on
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this topic. Preceeding this paper, there were some reports of furan fatty acids in really low levels from plant seeds and fish oils that were commercialized later after proven health benefits were found from their antioxidant properties. This is the first time, however, these compounds could be identified as chemicals possible outside of laboratory environments. Authors of the paper also include Joshua Coon, professor of biomolecular chemistry and Amelia Peterson, a graduate student under Coon, who provided their analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry capabilities to identify the 19 carbon
furan-containing fatty acid. This discovery is also a collaborative effort of researchers in the disciplines of the UWMadison genomics, microbiology and chemistry departments, and the plant biology lab at Michigan State University. “[Having] elucidated the pathway we can move the genes into other industrial bacteria as well and make the fatty acids there,” Donohue said. Future studies can help identify other bacteria which also have the ability to make furan containing fatty acids. There lies now a high possibility of mining these bacteria for industrial purposes further down the road.
Climate change research considers land use an important variable of ecological impact By Michael Frett THE DAILY CARDINAL
As climate change descends on the habitats of North America and the rest of the world, another force presses against ecosystems and forces them to adapt; the way we divide and use land also impacts ecosystems across the entire country. While these two factors were often looked at individually when considering ecological impact, a recent study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison brought together the two approaches for the first time. The study combines the changing rates of land use along with the rates of climate change to address the need for integrated assessments and planning when dealing with ecosystems and their changing environments. Support for the study came from the Bryson Interdisciplinary Climate, People and Environment Program; the Aarhus University’s HISTFUNC program; the National Science
Foundation; and NASA’s Land Cover and Land Use Program. By bringing together these two seemingly disparate influences, the research claims to set up a basis for policy discussion regarding land use, habitat preservation and ecological conservation that will be relevant until 2051. When deliberation brings into account the effects of both changing climates and land usage, policy makers hear a different perspective than when individually considering land use and climate change. According to the study, certain areas are more susceptible to higher rates of climate change than land use, while other regions may experience the opposite. The Midwest and New England are examples of this. The flatter lands of the Midwest experience a higher rate of climate change, while the mountainous region of New England is more likely to experience a higher rate of land use. Because of that, the land use policies in each region might have to be addressed dif-
ferently in regards to habitat preservation or conservation. Jack Williams, a professor in the geography department at UW-Madison and the director of the Center for Climatic Research and one of the lead researchers of the study, said, “Various parks and management areas are always a scarce resource. You always have to prioritize that sort of effort carefully.”
“The faster the rate of change, the more difficult it is for species to adapt to or keep up with those rates of changes.” Jack Williams professor and research director UW-Madison
Regions affected by higher rates of climate change might require their protected areas to be connected to facilitate species movement, while areas of high land use would need heavier investments in protected lands and in preserving habitat types, according to Williams.
Therefore, according to the example, policy makers in the Midwest would be inclined to focus on species movement while New England policy makers would want to set aside more lands for preservation. Williams worked with Professor Volker Radeloff of the UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology on a team led by Alejandro Ordonez, a post-docterate at Denmark’s Aarhus University. Williams worked on discerning rates of climate change, while Radeloff handled land use models. The different rates for climate change and land use were the primary focus of this research, according to Williams. “It’s not the magnitude of change that matters but the rates of change,” Williams said. “The faster the rate of change, the more difficult it is for species to adapt to or keep up with those rates of change.” When looking at rates of climate change, Williams and company looked at a plethora of variables like regional annual temperatures and
water deficits taken from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. The rates of land use came from looking at changing land covers (such as crop-to-urban or forestto-pasture) courtesy of information from census data and land inventory data collected by the government. In researching different rates of land use, Professor Radeloff also developed economic scenarios for the study. The team would like to extend to research to other regions beyond North America and explore the integration of land use and climate change, since some scenarios might be “internally inconsistent with each other,” said Williams. “It’s hard to get all possible combinations of all the climate and land use. Some of them are just logically inconsistent,” said Williams. Williams would also like expand the research to include the rates of species’ response to the changing environments to further expand research on the topic.
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Tragedy personified in ‘Forbidden Art’ By Michael Frett The Daily Cardinal
It’s weirdly affecting; it demands silent reverence as much as invested conversation, walled in by stained, hardwood frames, images of sketches and figures telling a story of humanity during one of history’s greatest tragedies. The space closes in around the exhibit, fostering intimacy with the portraits and figures as one makes their way around the room. Plaques tell their stories, while glass encases two recreations in the center of the room. A scroll faces the front room, messages of remembrance and reaction scrawled across it. In the back, a sketched selfportrait of a man dressed in rags with a suited business man standing over his shoulder, is a fleeting reminder of a long-ago time. A gate in its background reveals where he is, its arch delivering stern philosophy: Arbeit Macht Frei—Work sets you free. With that, the room takes shape; its hardwood and orientation coming together into the confines of an empty barracks. The images take life, some as reflection and others as escape. Tucked into the Porter Butts Gallery on the second floor of the Memorial Union, Forbidden Art showcases 20 images of artwork recovered from the land around Auschwitz-Birkenau, ranging from comedic caricatures of Nazi captors to a hand-crafted sarcophagus. The 20 pieces were selected to represent to full spectrum of art found at the concentration camp, part of a collection
of roughly 2000 pieces currently kept at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Organizing Forbidden Art and bringing it to the United States was the work of the Polish Mission of Orchard Lakes Schools and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The tour found a surprise home in Madison’s Memorial Union thanks to WUD Art and the Polish Heritage Club of Madison. “The Polish Heritage Club of Madison reached out to us because they really wanted to bring this exhibit to Madison,” WUD Art Committee Director Kelsey Burnham said of the effort. “By happenstance, we had a gallery open because of the delay of a year of the Memorial Union renovations.” The collaboration behind Forbidden Art’s stay in Madison underscores what Burnham describes as a great start to WUD Art’s year. “We’re really focused on collaboration, and these are some pretty great people to collaborate with,” Burnham said of the exhibit. “It really sets the tone for what I want the committee to do this year.” The exhibit opened with two speakers, both of whom praised Forbidden Art’s ability to speak for the unspeakable and preserve the history of one of humanity’s greatest crimes. “[The artists] reveal the most intimate aspects of camp life,” J.J. Przewozniak, assistant to the Polish mission director and one of those responsible for Forbidden Art’s tour, said of the exhibit during his presentation.
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Forbidden Art will be on display at the Memorial Union’s Porter Butts Gallery until Oct. 5. Przewozniak specifically referenced a book of sketches from an artist known only by his initials “M. M.,” whose sketchbook provides some of the only glimpses of Nazi atrocities committed at the camp due to a ban on photography. In the exhibit’s excerpt of M. M.’s records, a family is being broken apart by a stoic-faced SS officer; a father reaches out to his child as they’re pulled apart. “[Forbidden Art] speaks in voices we weren’t supposed to hear,” Dr. Rachel Brenner, professor of Hebrew and Semitic Studies at UW-Madison, said when she took to the podium after Przewozniak, praising those whom she called
“chroniclers” that presented a terrible history that “transcends the powers of imagination.” “It’s an extreme testament to humanity,” Przewozniak said after the reception. “When you see the artwork, you see a very rare glimpse into the prisoners themselves. Into a very personal and a very honest thing that’s just as real as you and I talking right now.” Surrounded by the images of camp life and its escapes, a large scroll lies outstretched on a table. Written across it are emotion-rich reactions to Forbidden Art’s story, gathered as it has traveled the country. It’s to be presented at the United Nations
when Forbidden Art stops there to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. “I want everyone in Madison who comes to Forbidden Art to sign the scroll,” Przewoniak said of the centerpiece. “This scroll, it’s the voice of the United States, the voice of the people who have seen Forbidden Art. And I want people to contribute to that. I want people to make their mark and fill it up as much as possible.” Forbidden Art will be in Madison until October 5, after which it’ll travel to the Polish Museum of America in Chicago and then the United Nations in New York City for its last American stop.
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of betrayals, from the cops of the Major Crimes Unit to the gangsters of the Falcone family. The most interesting thing about “Gotham” is that it does not totally steep itself in the Batman mythos. Bruce Wayne and (an unnecessarily abrasive) Alfred Pennyworth have minor roles, but the episode really plays out as a cop drama. Much like an episode of “NCIS,” “Gotham” is about a good cop in a bad-cop town and his quest to bring a murderer to justice. This is an admirable quality in a show centered around Batman culture. The fact that the villains Gordon goes up against eventually become part of Batman’s menagerie of enemies seems almost incidental. Just because The Riddler gives Gordon and Bullock their crime scene results does not make the results more sinister (even though he tries to give the information to them in riddles). The Penguin gives information to the police, but that does not make the information more or less helpful. The Dark Knight’s nemeses are around, but not all-encompassing. “Gotham” even adds an original character, Jada Pinkett Smith’s crime boss Fish Mooney, into the mix. However, while “Gotham” focuses on just being a crime show, it can’t help but throw a little Batmania in to spice things up. I mean, when you
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otham City is dark. It has always been dark, and “Gotham,” Fox’s new drama that has basically been billed as Gotham City before Batman, is not about to lighten it up. The pilot opens with a sequence of what can only be a young Catwoman climbing about and eventually witnessing that most heinous of crimes, the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Soon the future commissioner James Gordon and his corrupt partner Harvey Bullock are on the case. As Bullock says, “This isn’t a job for nice people.” This pretty much sums up “Gotham.” It is not a show about nice people. Catwoman, obviously, is a thief. A little less than halfway through the pilot, the detectives show up at the door of the Pepper household, where a young Poison Ivy opens the door and warns our heroes about her clearly abusive father. Pepper and the cops fight, and this ends in Pepper’s death. Gordon finds that Pepper was framed and, hero that he is, takes steps to remedy this situation—a task that takes the rest of the episode. This is predictably difficult, and “Gotham” quickly asserts itself as a spiral
are operating within a universe as legendary as Gotham City, it would be a crime not to use your source material. As mentioned above, a fair amount of regular characters from the many Batman sagas have already been given roles, some more important than others (The Penguin and Carmine Falcone seem to be the main antagonists thus far). The problem is that the show struggles with subtly introducing these characters. If I did not know any better, after watching “Gotham” I would probably say that Oswald Cobblepot’s real name was just Penguin, not an embarrassing pet name given to him by his fellow gangsters. And if the word “riddle” had been repeated just one more time in Edward Nigma’s scene, I may have actually vomited. The pilot was written for people who have little idea of the content of Batman’s universe, but it does not seem to me that those types of people are the ones who were excited for “Gotham.” Overall, “Gotham” exhibits a poise that I certainly did not expect from it. Much like any pilot, it has its struggles, but I am tentatively excited to see where it goes and whether or not it can overcome the mantle of Gotham City to become a wholly original product. Hate “Gotham” and Miss “Smallville”? Let Jake know at smasal@wisc.edu.
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Too Bright Perfume Genius By Conor Murphy The Daily Cardinal
There’s an ethereal beauty to an album focused on suffering. While certain efforts might not work, Mike Hadreas, under the stage name Perfume Genius, has crafted a darkly magnificent opus that allows him to paint a canvas of his internal and external suffering. This formula of projecting suffering onto the listener isn’t new, but the way in which Hadreas chooses to express them is what makes him unique. Choosing to juxtapose tone and lyrical content with soft piano and stark electronic beats, Hadreas fashions a melancholy self-examination of his development as a gay man living in America. Perfume Genius’ third studio album, Too Bright, opens with “I Decline,” staking out a clear position in life: when life hands you lemons, you say no thanks and keep walking. This is what separates this album from his two previ-
ous works; extroversion allows for Hadreas to both reveal himself and to show how he lives his life. “Queen” recognizes certain deplorable stereotypes of gay men, “broken / riddled with disease,” and warning that “no family is safe when I sashay.” The brash acknowledgment of contentious issues in darkly humorous ways, along with his chamber pop grandiose, shows off the influence of David Bowie’s alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, on Hadreas’ musical development. Through changing tonality from song to song, Hadreas keeps the listener on the edge of their seat, wondering what will come next. His use of cacophony allows for his effective practice of changing the tenor and timbre of each song. “I’m a Mother” exemplifies this, with Hadreas digitally manipulating his pitch, creating a haunting effect with the soft backing music. Capping off the album is “All Along,” a fantastic expression of the artist as a public figure, declaring “I don’t want your love / I don’t need you to understand / I need you to listen.” These three lines succinctly sum up the themes from the album: we all have problems, and sometimes we just need someone to listen. It’s a tried and true expression, but Hadreas has found away to make it seem revolutionary.
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Selling arms to rebels: History should guide policy CULLEN VOSS Opinion Editor
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arly on Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama made a statement in which he confirmed the United States, along with a coalition of five other Middle East countries, had begun to attack the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) headquarters in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said the United States used “a mix of fighter, bomber, and Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles.” This use of military force made good on President Obama’s promise to take the fight to ISIL in the Middle East. Unfortunately, President Obama also declared the U.S. would train and equip Syrian rebels to be able to fight the growing ISIL threat. In his press conference Tuesday, the president also said America would “train and equip Iraqi and Syrian opposition fighters.” This remark by Obama makes it sound like the arms being supplied are going directly to the “good guys” in this conflict and will only be used to destroy ISIL.
Sadly, we have already seen something contradictory taking place in Syria and Iraq. The Internet is teeming with pictures of ISIL militants carrying around American-made weapons. There is even a Buzzfeed article depicting 11 pictures of American weapons taken from ISIL fighters. The arms include many M16A4 assault rifles which are standard issue weapons for American service members.
We’re supposed to hold disdain for war and we claim to yearn for peace yet we propagate its continuation time and time again.
Supplying weapons to foreign countries is no new feat for the U.S. government. The U.S. leads the world in exporting weapons of war. We’re supposed to hold disdain for war and we claim to yearn for peace yet we propagate its continuation time and time again. Even worse, according to the Arms Trade Resource Center, a majority of U.S. arms sales go to countries which the U.S. State
Department deems “undemocratic.” What better way to spread our values across the globe than to arm the world with weapons of war? The Arms Trade Resource Center also stated that between 1992 and 2003 the U.S. government sold $177.5 billion worth of arms to foreign countries. This incredible volume of arms traffic has unforeseeable consequences for American foreign policy down the road. This example is most poignantly illustrated by the U.S. government’s decision to arm Afghan rebels in the 1980s to rout out the invading Russians. The U.S. was short sighted in its decisionmaking and only focused on the threat directly in front of them in the form of the Soviet Union. At the time, the weapons we sent to the Afghan rebels were hailed as a success and forced the Soviet Union to retreat out of Afghanistan. Yet, unbeknownst to the U.S. government at the time, they empowered one of the most well-known terrorists of all time, Osama Bin Laden. Observing the success Bin Laden had against one of the world’s super powers, the Afghan rebel victory became a beacon for fellow freedom fighters across the globe to turn to. Not long
after he kicked the Soviets out of Afghanistan, Bin Laden created Al Qaeda and used U.S.-supplied weapons and tactics against us.
What better way to spread our values across the globe than to arm the world with weapons of war.
The U.S. government, apparently opposed to learning from history, has already begun the steps to provide arms to Syrian rebel groups whom we know little about. The situation in Syria is so clouded that U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have stated multiple times, as far back as February 2012, the American government ought to supply arms to a group of “moderate” Syrian rebels so they can dispose of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Together they claimed the Assad regime was a friend of Iran and therefore a threat to American security. If successful, the senators said, the rebels could instill a Syrian government opposed to Iran.
Many of the rebel groups McCain and Graham had advocated funding, training, and arming with American weapons have since defected to join ISIL and would have taken all of our resources with them had we listened to their advice. While the new bill, which President Obama signed into law last Friday, does require the recipients of aid to be “vetted thoroughly,” there is no mechanism to control what the rebels do with the arms after they receive them. It’s frustrating to sit back and watch history repeat itself. President Obama’s statement that the U.S. will indeed provide weapons and training to the Syrian rebels combined with his signature on the bill have all but assured that this calamity will take place. America has seen the disastrous consequences when our own weaponry is used against us on the battlefield. We shouldn’t let Syria become the same mistake Afghanistan was. Cullen is a senior majoring in History and Political Science. Do you agree with the U.S. policy of providing military arms to foreign countries? Do you see an acceptable benefit to providing arms? We’d like to hear your view. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com
Full-time employees deserve a living income, raise in the minimum wage TONY CASTAGNOLI Opinion Columnist
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he recent occurrences of fast food employees striking across the nation to raise their wages to $15 an hour brings to the forefront of political discourse the real value of a worker, a topic of discussion that has been missing in mainstream media for far too long. This discourse can get ugly sometimes, though, when people who are against raising the minimum wage use personally charged arguments in an attempt to validate their points. They might say, “I worked for $7.25 an hour, and if I can do that so can others!” or “Why should we pay McDonald’s workers $15 an hour? Their jobs are so easy; half of them don’t speak English anyway, and sometimes they get my order wrong!” These sorts of statements, or others displaying similar animosity toward fast food employees, are nothing more than loud, condescending, and useless noise. They tend to come from right-wing political commentators, but in
all fairness, what else can you expect from them anymore? The fact that most Americans still don’t see the benefits to raising the minimum wage for full-time employees (not just fast food employees, either) is a sad one indeed. We’re a massive country of 300 million people, but we underestimate our potential all the time these days. It’s probably because we’re often so prejudiced toward people who don’t look, dress or talk exactly like us. Still, if we put our biases aside for just a moment and consider what might come about if the minimum wage was increased to $15 an hour for every worker, we might discover that our priorities are more similar than they are different.
Anyway, the argument that raising the minimum wage would hurt the economy is outdated and misguided.
Americans don’t like to see too many people living on government assistance, and it’s a shared value among conserva-
tives and liberals that “hard work pays off.” If this is so agreed upon, then what is the deal with full-time minimum wage workers not being adequately paid? Does it make any sense that they need government assistance to supplement their lack of a living income? No, it really doesn’t. What does make sense, though, is for their employers; most notably multinational chains such as Walmart and McDonald’s, to pay them living wages of $15 an hour so they wouldn’t need to rely on revenue from taxpayers to support themselves (and often times, their families). Want to know how much the taxpayers are subsidizing the wages of low-income workers? Between welfare, food stamps, and government-backed health care, nearly $7 billion (according to a 2013 report released by the University of Illinois and University of California-Berkeley Labor Center). No, the “b” is not a typo; we actually are spending that much on people being screwed over by their bosses. Considering how this could all be fixed by having companies pay their workers living wages, it’s worth brainstorm-
ing for just a second what else the government could use that $7 billion for instead. Oh, I’ve got it. How about an interstate high-speed rail system? That infrastructure could appropriately stimulate the economy through job creation and innovative commerce.
These sorts of statements, or others displaying similar animosity toward fast food empoyees, are nothing more than loud, condescending, and useless noise.
Anyway, the argument that raising the minimum wage would hurt the economy is outdated and misguided. There is no proof that this will happen; unemployment rates have never increased when the minimum wage was increased in the past. This is because instituting a greater cash flow for low-income workers results in higher rates of consumer spending in local economies, thus allowing more opportunities for businesses to hire because of an
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increase in customers. That is basic economics. So basic, in fact, that a student majoring in landscape architecture can understand it. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report in February of this year stating that roughly 900,000 people would be lifted out of poverty by raising the minimum wage to the level President Obama has advocated for at $10.10 an hour. That’s great, but in my opinion, it’s a conservative rate for a minimum wage hike. Still, it is better than no increase at all. While I will continue advocating for $15 an hour, I can imagine it’ll take some time for the average politician to grow up and do so, as well. But, I am willing to find middle ground and support any candidate who promises to raise the minimum wage. And how wonderful would it be for the puppet politicians against raising the minimum wage to find themselves unemployed this upcoming November? I’m talking to you, Scott Walker. Tony is a junior majoring in Landscape Architecture. Do you agree that it is time to raise the minimum wage? Is $15 an hour too high? Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com
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The emergence of Lauren Carlini was a key factor on the road that brought UW to the finals. By Sam Karp The daily cardinal
The No. 5 Badgers (9-1) start Big Ten play Wednesday the way their season ended last year, when they welcome the defending national champion and third ranked Penn State Nittany Lions (12-1) to the UW Field House. However, while everyone
around them seems to be building this game up as an great opportunity for the Badgers to avenge their loss in the championship last year, the team seems excited just to start Big Ten Play. “Yeah, pre-season is great and we got to play great opponents but at the same time there’s nothing like Big Ten play,” sophomore
setter Lauren Carlini said. For fans though, this game could not get much more exciting. Even though the Badgers went 0-3 against the Nittany Lions last year, most notably losing 3-1 in the national championship, the team is off to one of its best starts ever and seems more than ready to take on Penn State.
A lot of this can be attributed to the Badgers competition this past weekend in the Pac-12/Big Ten Showcase in Seattle, Washington. Wisconsin played two Top 10 opponents in No. 9 Southern California (7-3) and No. 4 Washington (11-0). Despite splitting the games 1-1, losing 3-2 to Washington in their last game of the tournament, the Badgers know the lessons learned are immeasurable. “We did lose to Washington, but there’s things that came out of that, that we needed to learn that would have been overlooked if we had won that game,” Carlini said. “When we get in situations a the end of the year with close sets and fifth sets were going to have the advantage because we’ve gone through that.” Penn State is also off to a strong start. The Nittany Lions’ lone loss came on the road to No. 1 Stanford. However, just like the Badgers against the Huskies, Penn State kept it close until Stanford pulled away to win the fifth and decisive set 15-10. Following the loss, Penn State has been lights out, going 9-0 while only giving up two sets. Most recently, they swept all four teams in their home tournament, the Penn. State Alumni Classic in University Park, Pennsylvania. No matter how good Penn State looks coming in, head
coach Kelly Sheffield knows his team won’t get wrapped up in the moment. “What we try to do is to treat every match the same and prep the same way,” Sheffield said. “My experience has been, when you don’t go about it that way that’s when the emotions get out of control and you ride the rollercoaster of a season.” It almost seems like Sheffield and his players can read each others minds. There is no doubting that he has them fully invested in the process of the season and believing nothing else matters besides what is going on in their locker room. When asked about being picked to finish third in the Big Ten this year, Carlini barely batted an eye. “We don’t really worry about rankings. We worry about getting better, worry about where we want to be at the end of the year and the game ahead of us,” Carlini said. “I mean hey if people think we’re going to end up three, were thinking two spots higher,” she said with a smile. Whether you read into the downplay coming from the Badger locker room or the hype up from the media more, there is no denying that there couldn’t be a much better way for Badger fans to see their team open Big Ten play than the game on Wednesday.
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Badgers begin season ranked next to the top By Zach Rastall the daily cardinal
Coming off their seventh Frozen Four appearance in program history, head coach Mark Johnson and the Wisconsin Badgers are eyeing their first national championship since 2011. The Badgers, who open up the season in Missouri this weekend against the Lindenwood Lady Lions, are ranked second in the USCHO.com Division I preseason poll, behind only rival Minnesota. This marks the 10th time in the last 11 seasons that they’ve been ranked in the preseason top five. Wisconsin has dropped its last 11 games against the Gophers, but the Badgers are hopeful that this is the year they reclaim their spot on top of the WCHA. Considering how many players are returning from last season’s team, this goal certainly isn’t far-fetched. UW is bringing back 18 letterwinners that made up for 86 percent of the team’s scoring last season. This includes redshirt senior Brittany Ammerman, who led Wisconsin with 23 goals and 44 points during the 2013-’14 season. Ammerman will likely be a contender for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the country’s top female hockey player. Other returnees include senior forwards Blayre Turnbull (the team’s new captain), Karley Sylvester and
Katy Josephs, along with senior defender Katarina Zgraja, sophomore forward Sarah Nurse, sophomore defender Mellissa Channell, junior defender Courtney Burke and sophomore forward Sydney McKibbon. Turnbull, Nurse and Josephs all joined Ammerman as doubledigit goal scorers last year. “I think leadership in our business is extremely important, and I’m very excited about Blayre Turnbull as our captain this year, and Karley Sylvester and Katarina Zgraja as assistant captains,” Johnson said. “They’ve learned from some of our past captains, and I think they’ll do a great job of providing leadership with this team this year.” While the Badgers have plenty of experienced players returning to anchor the team, they also will have several new players that could make their presences known, including freshman forwards Annie Pankowski, Baylee Wellhausen and Emily Clark, plus freshman defenders Maddie Rolfes and Lauren Williams. Junior Megan Miller is also new to UW, having transferred from Boston College after two years. All of these new faces have a chance to make an impact for Wisconsin, but it’s Pankowski that is generating the most excitement around Madison. In fact, she was recently voted as the WCHA Preseason Rookie of the
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Brittany Ammerman is set to star on a loaded team that might finally take down Minnesota. Year by the league’s coaches. “The big thing for (Pankowski) is to try to get off to a good start here this weekend, try to build some confidence and continue,” Johnson said. “The nice thing is she’s got a pretty good supporting cast that will be able to help her.” The most significant departure from last year’s team was goaltender and team captain Alex Rigsby, the winningest netminder in program history. Replacing her between the pipes will be sophomore goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens, who saw time as the starter last season when Rigsby was out with an injury.
Desbiens started 11 games and played in 12 contests total for Wisconsin during the 201314 campaign, during which she was outstanding. Desbiens went 11-1 and posted a 1.06 goals against average and a .957 save percentage. The unexpected playing time she got last year could very well help ease the transition for her from backup to full-time starter. “I think it helped out,” Johnson said. “I mean, last year as we started the season, we didn’t know how much playing time she would get, but obviously that game up in Duluth where Alex got hurt and she jumped
right in and ended up winning and played the next 10 games certainly helped her.” It would appear that all the pieces are in place for the Badgers to make a run for their fifth national title. Whether or not they will remains to be seen, but it certainly helps that they have so many leaders returning from last season’s team. “We’ve got a lot of good pieces starting with our goaltender Ann-Renée,” Johnson said. “We’ve got some seniors that have been around, they’ve tasted the Frozen Four. I think those pieces will certainly help as we move forward in the season.”