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City Council approves new union contract

By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal

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Ian’s pizza holds a timed eating contest in Library Mall hosted by emcees from the Comedy Club on State and special musical guest The Mighty Short Bus + Photo by Grey Satterfield

Voter ID law unlikely to take effect before November election

By Tyler Nickerson The Daily Cardinal

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court said Thursday it will not immediately rule on lower courts’ decisions blocking the state’s Voter ID law, further suggesting the law will likely not be in place for the Nov. 6 presidential election.

Earlier this year, two Dane County judges ruled the law unconstitutional in two different cases. The law, which requires voters to present a valid photo ID at polling places before voting, has not taken effect since the rulings.

Republicans argue the law will ensure the integrity of the voting process, but Democrats say it is unconstitutional and disproportionately affects minority, low-income and young voters.

The League of Women Voters

and the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People brought on the two cases.

State Attorney General JB Van Hollen, representing Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators, filed appeals to the Dane County judges’ decision and asked for a stay on the ruling, so the law would remain in effect until an appeals court or the state Supreme Court hears the case.

Van Hollen tried to extradite the case to the Supreme Court rather than going through appeals courts, intending for a decision to be made before the November election.

But Thursday the court said it is “not feasible” to hear either case because it would like to

consolidate the two cases into one, and necessary documentation has not yet been filed in the NAACP case.

“This court recognizes the importance of the issues raised in [the LWV] and NAACP [cases],” the Supreme Court said in Thursday’s order. “The two cases share a commonality of subject matter, and if we were to grant review, we would hear oral argument in both cases on the same day and would take both matters under advisement at the same time.”

Van Hollen said in a statement Thursday he is “very disappointed” the Supreme Court failed to act, especially because it means the injunction “will, in all likelihood, be in effect for the upcoming November elections.”

Local union members cheered from city hall’s meeting room after Madison’s city Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve a contract that will cut wages but likely avoid layoffs.

Although the new contract reduces pay by three percent, it protects members of the American Federal of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 60 from from further cuts or layoffs that the state could take away.

The contract, which will begin when the current one expires in March 2014, will run for an additional year, prevents further

cuts to union workers and saves the city approximately $900,000, according to Mayor Paul Soglin.

Despite the wage cuts, AFSCME Local 60 Vice President Tim Birkley said the union was more than willing to agree to the city’s stipulations because it “[maintains] services and [keeps] Madison efficient and one of the greatest cities in the country.”

Local unions have been rushing to finalize new contracts since a Dane County judge ruled Sept. 14 that parts of Act 10, a law limiting collective bargaining for most public employees, were unconstitutional.

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Edgewater cuts jobs due to mid-November renovation Employees at the Edgewater Hotel will be forced to find alternate jobs starting Nov. 19 when developers begin to move forward with renovations.

The renovation project involves workers tearing down all ballroom and restaurant space in the hotel, making it impossible for the hotel to stay open and function during construction, according to Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2.

“We are moving into the stage now where shovels are going into the ground and it is going to be

a lengthy construction process,” Maniaci said.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said developers will host a groundbreaking ceremony over the University of WisconsinMadison’s homecoming weekend on Oct. 26.

The Edgewater Hotel will close in mid-November, according to Verveer, after many years of Madison’s city Council deliberating how the project would be funded.

The project is now completely

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Police arrest suspect in Sellery, Cole Hall burglaries University police identified the suspect in the Sellery and Cole residence hall theft investigations Wednesday.

Investigators questioned Nicholas Suarez, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, as a person of interest in the early evening of Sept.

26. Shortly after questioning, Suarez confessed he committed the crimes.

The investigation began in

the late evening of Sept. 20 when several thefts occurred in Sellery Hall. Residents reported a strange man had been breaking in and stealing items from dorm rooms in which the residents were sleeping. Police also reported similar thefts in Cole Hall.

The UW-Madison Police Department took Suarez to the Dane County Jail and requested charges for burglary, theft

and disorderly conduct.

While Suarez is a UW-Madison student, he is not a resident of UW-Madison Housing, according to the police report.

Based on the evidence found in the investigation, UWPD Sgt. Aaron Chapin said UWPD does not have any information to suggest there

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The Edgewater Hotel renovation project, beginning in midNovember, will terminate about 65 current employee jobs.

“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

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Drake reincarnated as Common’s canine

By Jake Murray Fake News Friday

Aubrey Drake Graham was reincarnated in the form of award-winning rapper/actor/ activist, Common’s, 47-pound female bulldog, named Heidi, after he suddenly died last week from a severe allergic reaction to the grass on his front lawn while absent-mindedly walking barefoot outside his home in Ontario.

Drake, while still a human, was primarily known for his role as a supporting actor on the TV teen-drama “Degrassi” but also dabbled in the art of songwriting, making a popular, but ultimately, regrettable stint in the rap-music scene.

During his time in the limelight, Drake did manage to elevate his crew’s catchphrase/acronym, YOLO (“You only live once”), to a level of national recognition and circulation. This expression may very well have been Drake’s artistic masterpiece, and its hyper-explosive acceptance in popular culture brought him to a previously unknown level of celebrity status.

Now, having had his memory wiped clean by the Samsariccycle of rebirth, Drake spends the entirety of his waking hours waddling around the lush bachelor pad of his lyrical-genius benefactor, waiting for the rapgod to slop foul-smelling food into his bowl, or open the back door so he can use the bathroom.

Currently, Heidi has pooped on the carpet only twice when she was locked in her kennel, for approximately two hours, and pissed all over the kitchen floors a shocking three times.

At first glance, Heidi appears happy to be living under the gracious supervision of such a worldrenowned musical artist, but if one stares at her long enough, a deep sense of existential frustration and ironic confusion permeates her lumpy, flea-ridden body.

At press time, Heidi was showing off her new tricks, ranging from absent-minded high-fives to pathetic, half-completed barrel rolls.

Despite the lackluster performance, Common gave Heidi a large milkbone, which she ate in seconds.

Wando’s introduces “Fish Tank”

By Dylan Moriarty fake news friday

Following the wild success of the Wando’s Fish Bowl, Wando’s began selling the same concoction in a fish tank.

“We saw everyone’s excitement at finishing a fish bowl and decided to up the ante,” Wando’s owner Michael Kline said. “At first we considered other containers such as a barrel, a backpack, or flowerpot. But in the end we thought continuing with the aquatic theme would be best for our customers.”

The eight by four foot tank has been a hit thus far, but there are drawbacks to the overwhelming booze container. To take away the burden of carrying the 236.2 gallons of booze most of the tables have been converted to tanks with lids locked on.

Some members of the downtown community said they were concerned for the thoughts of people drinking 36 gallons in one evening. Those community members are sissies.

Luckily, the danger of alcohol poisoning from the tank appears minimal, as the recipe is the same, just scaled.

“At first we considered other containers such as a barrel, a backpack, or a flowerpot.”

Michael Kline owner Wando’s

Kevin Cleese, part of one of the first groups to finish the beverage, said he thought he was “a little buzzed after drinking it, but we couldn’t really keep up with the 8 feet of ice that diluted the couple of shots they threw in.”

Still, students find Wando’s Fish Tank a smash. Only five Fish Tanks have been finished thus far, giving credit to the theory that the only reason someone would order something so gargantuan is to take a picture of it with their friends.

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Tommy Thompson’s desperate attempts to appeal to the local LGBT community is being ridiculed by supporters and critics alike.

Thompson dresses in drag, applauds LGBT community

By Arnold Arnoldo fake news friday

In a strategic move to appeal to Wisconsin’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community, former Wisconsin Governor and U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson hit the campaign trail dressed in a 1960s bedtime nightie he found in his Aunt Ethel’s closet.

Earlier this month, Brian Nemoir, Thompson’s aide, tweeted a video of openly gay Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin at a gay pride event with a caption criticizing her for her sexual orientation. Although five days later Thompson apologized and said the slip did not represent his campaign, polls showed he lost favor among many demographics. So he is going to “take matters into his own hands,” according to a statement that he later apologized for.

“I love the gays!” said Thompson at a press conference in front of the Capitol Thursday. “And I just want them to love me, too!”

Later Thursday night, Thompson was seen at Madison’s Plan B, slyly slipping a twentydollar bill into the pants pocket of an unsuspecting male patron.

Thompson then winked at the man, but the patron did not wink back, and instead walked to the other corner of the room.

Political science professor Barry Burden said maybe Thompson has gone too far.

“Thompson is slipping in the polls, and I understand why he is doing what he’s doing, but it seems like he is trying a little too hard,” Burden said.

“Many candidates reach out to different groups like the LGBT community through canvassing efforts and speech appearances. Thompson is just wearing a dress.”

Sleep-deprived student mistaken for zombie in campus-wide game

By Jaime Braburner Fake News Friday

Chancellor David Ward and campus police began talks of banning popular campus-wide game Humans vs. Zombies Thursday after a non-playing student fell victim to Nerf-gun fire.

“Human” player, Zac Snuggler, 22, shot 19-year-old Siri Davenport in the eye with his “ammo” early Thursday morning on Bascom Hill after mistaking her for a “Zombie.”

“I mean, she looked like balls; I assumed she was just taking the character really seriously,” Snuggler said.

Davenport said the dark circles under her eyes likely stemmed from waking up for an 8:50 a.m. discussion after

attending beer and shot night at Kollege Klub the evening before.

“Like, could he not see the pumpkin spice soy latte in my hand or what?” Davenport said.

“I was just super tired and forgot to put on mascara. It’s not like I would ever try to play with those fugly [sic] zombie weirdoes.”

This incident of mistaken zombie identity has occurred twice in as many weeks, with both attacks happening to female students on Thursday before 9 a.m.

Campus Police spokesman Humbert Humbert noted both victims have been wearing leggings and a North Face fleece at the time of their attacks. Humbert said they are still looking into the direct relevance of this correlation.

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Zoning changes could impact Mifflin area

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Student Services Finance Committee members discuss funding eligibility for campus groups in a meeting Thursday.

SSFC grants group funding eligibility A student organization moved closer to receiving funding Thursday when the Student Services Finance Committee voted in favor of allowing the group student segregated fee funding eligibility.

In their eligibility hearing, representatives from Working Class Student Union, a campus organization focused on providing resources for working class and first-generation college students and recognizing and celebrating class diversity, said their group deserved eligibility because it provides important direct services, such as hosting “issue meetings” that give students a space to explore class identities.

An organization must undergo eligibility hearings every two years and demonstrate its ability to perform “direct services,” which are educational services available and tailorable to any University of Wisconsin-Madison student’s needs, to receive funding from student segregated fees.

Student groups must devote 51 percent of their time offering direct services to receive eligibility.

SSFC Rep. Devon Maier said he voted to approve WCSU’s eligibility because no other organization on campus provides the same services.

“The peer-to-peer [advising] is especially important for situations when [they’re] seeking advising for socioeconomics reasons,” Maier said.

Many representatives agreed with Maier, saying even their most conservative calculations were above the 51 percent direct services threshold.

Also at the meeting, Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics and Wisconsin Student Lobby applied for funding eligibility.

According to SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker, while there may be some important points of debate regarding the specific services of the groups, she does not foresee any controversies in the decisions.

“I think the hearings went very well,” Bruecker said. “Both groups seemed very prepared and I think SSFC members asked good questions.”

SSFC will vote on both groups’ eligibility Monday.

— Megan Stoebig

ASM to host UW campus safety forum The Associated Students of Madison will hold a town hall meeting Oct. 10 at 5 p.m. to discuss campus safety issues.

According to ASM Press Director David Gardner, the meeting will attempt to bring all stakeholders into one room for a discussion of current project ideas involving ASM’s Campus Safety campaign and possible collaborations.

The Madison Police Department, city officials, University of WisconsinMadison police and any interested UW-Madison students are invited to attend the meeting.

“We highly encourage [students] to come and be a part of this conversation and explain what trouble they’ve had on campus and what they’re worried about,” Gardner said.

Gardner said a wide variety of issues will be discussed, including campus lighting, cell phone services and nighttime transportation services.

“We’re hoping to have a good conversation with some people who can give us some answers but also hear what people are worried about and develop a campaign from there on,” Gardner said.

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ate 700 construction jobs, between 60 and 70 hotel employees will lose wages and benefits, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

While Edgewater employees will be displaced, Maniaci said she has “talked extensively with developers about the importance of getting [Edgewater] employees placed with employment options as soon as possible.”

—Taylor Harvey and Abby Becker

privately funded and will receive no public funding from city hall, according to Verveer.

“It’s a long tortured history,” Verveer said. “But the bottom line is...it’s moving forward and [the project] is hoping to break ground this year.”

While the $98 million downtown hotel development project will cre-

A city planning commission met Thursday to resolve 17 issues related to a new zoning code that will affect off-campus student housing areas.

The zoning changes, which have not been updated since the 1960s, are included in the city’s comprehensive downtown planning guide.

City officials approved Madison’s Downtown Plan in July, which calls for the renovation of the entire Mifflin neighborhood.

While the zoning code will not significantly affect the University of WisconsinMadison campus, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the

changes will significantly affect the Mifflin neighborhood.

“The zoning codes will allow for the existing housing to be demolished and replaced with denser buildings that could be six stories tall,” Verveer said.

The commission also voted on issues regarding the timing of demolition notices, the classification of rooftop greenhouses as “stories” and the maximum width of buildings in downtown districts.

Additionally, the commission voted unanimously to turn down a proposal by Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, which would have increased

residential density in the James Madison Park Neighborhood.

“I’m trying to find a smart, creative use for this neighborhood,” Maniaci said.

The commission also approved keeping the Langdon-Mansion Hill district and the 400 and 500 blocks of West Washington Avenue between Bedford and Broom Streets primarily residential areas rather than adding more commercial properties.

The commission will vote on a new zoning code and map at its next meeting Oct. 1 before Madison’s city Council votes Oct. 16.

—Stephanie Castillo

Harvard University honors Madison Police initiative Harvard University released a list of government initiatives called “Bright Ideas” Tuesday that recognized Madison Police Department’s program to advocate for cyber safety.

The program, created almost three years ago, aims to raise awareness about cyber crime and injustice and pro-

mote safe internet use among all ages, according to a video created by MPD. In order to be selected to the list of initiatives, programs must be run by some sort of government, must be currently in operation and have sufficient resources for operation. The selected initiatives were chosen

by a panel of policy experts at Harvard’s Ash Center.

“Bright Idea” honorees will be showcased in an online database created by the Ash Center’s Government Innovators Network to allow policymakers the opportunity to share new ideas, according to the center’s website.

Committee extends temporary concealed carry guidelines Wisconsin state legislators extended the expiration date on temporary rules for issuing concealed carry permits at a hearing Thursday. This was the second time the expiration date was extended since August.

The temporary guidelines, which allow the state Justice Department to revoke gun permits and require proof of gun

training, provide a precedent for the state to eventually implement permanent concealed carry rules.

State legislators originally expected the temporary rules to expire Oct. 16, but with many state officials focusing their energy on November election campaigns, it seemed unlikely the permanent rules would pass the legislature by the October date.

Anticipating inaction from the Legislature, the Justice Department asked the Legislature’s rules committee to extend the expiration deadline until Dec. 15.

The Justice Department has already drawn up permanent concealed carry rules but the rules will have to pass both the state Assembly and Senate before they can take full effect.

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the residence halls.

“I’d like to…make sure that residents are locking their residence hall rooms even when they are inside the room and asleep at night,” Chapin said.

“That is what happened in

some of these cases, where the doors were left unlocked.”

UWPD also reminded students in the residence halls to ensure anyone unrecognizable is not let into the building.

—Sarah Dobrofsky

services to the city such as policing the downtown and keeping Madison’s streets clear from snow in the winter.

But in order to uphold its end of the agreement, Soglin said the city will use $1 million from its reserve funds that will impact the city’s operating budget. The mayor will his proposed operating budget Oct. 2.

“You never want to dip into [the reserve fund] for your oper-

ating budget unless it’s a one time response,” Soglin said.

By using reserve funds to provide for city services, other items included in the budget such as police coverage and the Downtown Safety Initiative could be affected, according to Resnick.

“This does send a very serious message to the entire city council and the entire community that this is going to be a very rough budgetary season,” Resnick said.

was another suspect involved in the burglaries.

Chapin encouraged students to continue to take necessary safety precautions in

union from page 1 Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the city is supporting more than 2,000 city employees through this agreement.

“We want to go through these financial challenges along side [city workers] and not against them,” he said.

Soglin said the real benefit of this agreement is collaborating with local workers who provide

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Mayor Paul Soglin said the new contract cements the city’s relationships with local unions.

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Staying Sober this whole weekend

Evil Bird

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

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

First in Twenty Classic

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SPEAKING IN CROSSWORDS ACROSS 1 Pretend to be someone you’re not 4 Manhattan Project goal, briefly 9 Quitter’s cry 14 Almost-worthless French coin, once 15 North American flycatcher 16 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Ryan 17 Company picnic competition 20 Apartment costs 21 Flash of reflected light 22 Geometry calculation 23 Filler for some balloons 26 Michael Jackson album 29 Showed the way 30 Lighter in color 31 Cleanse with soap and water 32 Sticky pine stuff 33 Visit very briefly 35 Bedroom luxury 38 It’s all about counting heads 39 Angry 40 Brutal creatures in “The Lord of the Rings” 41 Sales receipts 42 Ballet step 45 Divided by itself, the

result is the same 6 Brief parts in movies 4 48 Sentry’s shout 49 Site of many Chicago touchdowns 51 Poker pool 52 Eisenhower, for one 57 Turn aside, as a gaze 58 Washing machine cycle 59 Bauxite or hematite 60 Brusque 61 Drench 62 A hallucinogen DOWN 1 Having star quality?

2 Stick together 3 Changed color 4 Barbary residents 5 “The Fresh Prince of ___-Air” 6 Be in arrears to 7 Actress Tilly 8 Street corner cupholder 9 Successfully anesthetized 10 “You’ve Got Mail” director Ephron 11 Beach cookout, of a sort 12 Lancelot du ___ (knight of the Round Table) 13 Versailles-to-Paris dir.

18 Greek vowel 19 Wallach of “The Tiger Makes Out” 23 Hinged door fasteners

24 A little of this and a little of that dish 25 Capable of being stretched 27 Enthusiastic 28 ___ mother (Cub Scout leader) 30 Land of the llama 31 Earring spot 32 “Broom- Hilda” creator Myers, familiarly 33 Bounds companion 34 Items at one’s disposal?

35 Flowerless decorative plant 36 Cursory inspection 37 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, e.g.

38 Dove call 41 Vilifies politically 42 Not skip a beat?

43 They have crosses to bear 44 Fashioned 46 Hindu class 47 It’s often left hanging 48 Get one’s rear in gear 50 Towel word 51 Baby-dandling locale 52 Like a cat with clout 53 Johnny Cash’s “___ Been Everywhere” 54 2016 Olympics host 55 Bearded beast 56 Letter with a double twist

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By Aarushi Agni the daily cardinal

The ladies of Dirty Projectors (Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle and newcomer Olga Bell) use their dense interplay of voices to provide the powerful backdrop for frontman David Longstreth to warble and modulate over through precise harmonies. While Longstreth’s

anguished lilt has always characterized Dirty Projectors’ sound, the female vocal section led by Coffman stole the show on the track “Stillness is the Move” off the Projectors’ 2009 breakout record, Bitte Orca.

The track even attracted the attention of Solange Knowles, Beyonce’s more indie-inclined younger sister, who covered

the song shortly thereafter.

Bassist Nat Baldwin stays out of the vocal arena with the band, though he sings on his solo project that also involves an upright bass.

Baldwin has played in iterations of Dirty Projectors since 2005. Longstreth was attending school in New England and the pair met through mutual

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friends. At that point the band’s lineup was unset. Longstreth had released one album, The Glad Fact, under the name Dirty Projectors in 2003 on which his crazy is more free and unbottled as it wavers between tender ballads and edgier noise.

Bitte Orca pulled the Dirty Projectors out of relative obscurity with its tempestuous

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mood-changes, guitar flourishes and occasional arrhythmia.

The album’s feel of orchestrated chaos garnered critical attention and sparked several artful collaborations.

While Bitte Orca is filled with tight, rich compositions that form a cohesive whole, this year’s recently released album, Swing Lo Magellan , focuses more on individual songs in one of the band’s arguably most relatable works to date. The new album is generally mellower and more intimate.

“For Swing Lo Magellan, a lot of the recording was actually done live in a way,” said Baldwin. “The rhythm section, all that stuff, was done while we were playing together as well as the singing, done separately but the parts were sung together.”

“Some of it was totally mapped out compositionally, other parts left more room for interpretation.”

Nat Baldwin bassist Dirty Projectors

It shows on the record, too.

The personality of the record reflects that of a campfire jam session. The recordings on Swing Lo Magellan feature smatterings of conversation and sounds of laughter between band members.

Baldwin said that this difference makes the album more translatable to a live setting.

While it preserves the rhythmic irregularities, the frilliness of Longstreth’s guitar parts and the cryptic-yet-ingenious lyrics, its intensity is reduced by several orders of magnitude. “[During the writing process,] Dave was living in upstate New York,” said Baldwin.

“He was living alone or with Coffman sometimes. He would send us songs in their various stages of development. We did a few weekends when it was just bass and drums. Dave wrote all the stuff, and we’d come and try to put it together.”

“Some of it was totally mapped out compositionally, other parts left more room for interpretation,” Baldwin continued. “That’s sort of always how it goes with the way Dave writes.”

Baldwin had just come off a tour of his own album, People Changes, before going into production on Swing Lo Magellan.

He took a hiatus from the band during the early production of Bitte Orca, but came back to tour for that album. He said he enjoys working on both projects and does not feel like solo work takes away from his part in Dirty Projectors whatsoever and actually stimulates creativity in both accounts.

Catch the show at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday and see Dirty Projectors translate their distinctive studio sound to a live audience. The doors open at 10 p.m. and the show starts at 11 p.m. with opener Night Moves.

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Fifth birthdays usually aren’t a big deal in Madison (you can’t drink when you turn five, so why bother?), but there’s always the exception to the rule. The Majestic Theatre, one of Madison’s premiere live entertainment venues, will celebrate five stellar years this weekend with a tremendous blowout, featuring The Hold Steady, Hannibal Buress, Greensky Bluegrass and the Dirty Projectors.

“For the five year anniversary we wanted to do a big show on King Street,” said Matt Gerding, co-owner of the Majestic, “and the Hold Steady have always been a favorite band of both [coowner] Scott [Leslie] and myself, and they’ve always really kind of encompassed everything that it is that we love about live music.

We decided to do a comedy show, a bluegrass show, and then Dirty Projectors, a big kind of indie buzz band, so we knew they would fit.”

And if any venue deserves this kind of attention for its birthday it’s certainly the Majestic. The current incarnation of the venue rose from the ashes of the now defunct Club Majestic in 2007, a hip-hop hotspot plagued in its later days by violence and hostility.

Gerding and Leslie’s vision, however, has flourished where Club Majestic failed, despite all the odds being stacked against them.

“We definitely opened in a tricky economic time for the opening of a small business, and we’ve survived five years,” Gerding said. “Things are really going good. We’ve grown quite a bit and we’re really happy with what we’ve accomplished.”

“We’ve definitely gone through some pretty turbulent times, financially and otherwise,” Gerding continued.

“Through all of that we’ve made

a conscious decision to fight through it, to do what we wanted to and to be who we wanted to be.”

For every golden moment, though, there’s bound to be a dour flipside.

“We win more than we lose, and to some degree it feels like legalized gambling,” Gerding said. “Sometimes [the bands] win and sometimes they don’t and it’s definitely a depressing thing to look at when you’re here and there’s 80 people for a 600 person venue, and the band’s depressed and your staff’s depressed, but you know, it’s just part of the business.”

Part of Gerding and Leslie’s success can be traced back to their uniform love of the music, pure and simple.

“Both Scott and I share relatively similar musical tastes; he’s a Bruce Springsteen freak and he’s been playing the keys since he was like 9 years old, and I kind of discovered music starting with punk rock in high school,” Gerding recalled.

“There’s a lot of similarities between the two, really, so we both really have this rock and roll aesthetic that we share about live music.”

When asked about what the future holds for the Majestic, Gerding provided a clear manifesto: “The Majestic is the Majestic and it will always be what it is—a live music venue that also does dance parties and brew and views and all that kind of stuff.”

“We want to do more creative things outside of the Majestic too, like on King Street, the big outdoor shows.” Gerding mused.

“We want to play with those things, but our bread and butter will always be the Majestic.”

The Hold Steady will take the stage (for free) on Friday, and gates open at 5 p.m. Check the Majestic Theatre’s website for information on the rest of the birthday weekend lineup.

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The Hold Steady will kick off the birthday celebration with a free King Street show on Friday.

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Jacob Riederer opinion columnist

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atinos are the fastestgrowing ethnic group in the United States, accounting for half of the nation's total growth in the past decade. Thus, this evergrowing voting block will undoubtedly have a significant impact in the upcoming presidential election, especially in key swing states like Florida, Colorado and Nevada.

Historically, Latinos have voted Democratically, with 67 percent of all Hispanics voting for Barack Obama in 2008.

However, this could change if Republicans adopt smart, modern, pro-immigration policies.

While it’s true that not all immigrants are Hispanic, Latinos do make up more than 30 percent of immigrants with permanent residency status and account for 78 percent of

the total illegal immigrants in the United States. As a result, immigration is an important issue to many Latinos.

At its convention in August, the Republican Party revealed another anti-immigration platform requiring employers to verify workers’ legal status, better securing our borders and denying federal aid to universities that allow illegal immigrant students to enroll at reduced rates. This crackdown on immigrants will not bode well for the Republicans in the upcoming election and does little to address the more than 12 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney feebly tried to address this issue by proposing a plan of selfdeportation. In other words, if employers can make job conditions extremely unfavorable for illegal immigrants in the U.S.,

then these immigrants will have no choice but to willingly deport themselves in hopes they will find a better job market in their home country. This is not an effective solution and is a poor substitute for true immigration reform.

The Republican Party is starting to realize immigration is an issue that needs to be addressed beyond merely securing our borders.

Republicans need to change their image and adopt immigration policies that work to help the millions of illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S. One way to accomplish this is by supporting the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act would allow illegal immigrants who

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entered the United States as minors to obtain permanent residency only after completing two years at an institute for higher education or serving two years in the military. Since its introduction in 2001, however, the DREAM Act has faced opposition from many Republicans who say the bill rewards illegal immigration and will have a negative impact on the economy. These accusations aren’t entirely true as the bill targets immigrants who were brought to the U.S. before the age of 16 often without full knowledge of their actions. In addition, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimate that the DREAM Act could potentially reduce deficits by about $1.4 billion and increase government revenues by $2.3 billion over the next 10 years.

Originally, Romney said he would veto the DREAM Act if

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elected president, but he has recently reconsidered elements of the act. Whether Romney is sincere in his beliefs or is just flip-flopping in an attempt to pander to Latinos, his stance is a step in the right direction, not just for Latinos, but for the sake of the Republican Party that will need Latino voters in future elections.

The Republican Party is starting to realize immigration is an issue that needs to be addressed beyond merely securing our borders. If, however, Republicans refuse to address the issue and continue to ignore the needs of the Hispanic community, then I strongly question the Republican Party’s ability to stay alive and relevant in a nation where the Latin-American voice is continually growing.

This is Jacob’s first article. Let him know how he did by sending all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

YouTube video embarrassing and disgraceful to America michael Penn guest columnist

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mericans are messed up with privilege. There is no other way to begin this. This is the initial thought I conjured as I rattle through my pop culture-bred membrane as we discover detail after detail of the production of “Innocence of

Muslims,” a film that has incited riots and a U.S. embassy attack which left an ambassador dead and three others wounded.

Our privilege is hemorrhaging, and we effectively Kanye shrug in the other direction while people die in the name of “free” speech. (The quotations are present because it is obvious that premiums are paid upon “freedom.”)

As the details unravel themselves, the classic case of religious duality rises from the ashes of the phoenix for many of us. As far as I

am concerned, I tend to find issue in the hypocrisy of those who practice religion for personal or political gain, but never the principles of religion itself. In your case, this overdubbed, underdeveloped façade is the exact breed of hateful excrement that makes me embarrassed to my core. True enough, one thing America can never take from you (for more than one reason) is that beautiful, paradoxical free speech.

God forbid we refuse to allow your low-budget blasphemy to serve no real purpose or critique to any

debate in anything. God forbid that Google swipes the link and every copycat following. God forbid you deface someone else’s God. Actually, yes. Forbid the last part.

I honestly wonder how close to God’s cheat code you thought you were. How “revolutionary” or “avant garde” you felt in doing this bidding. Having the prophet Mohammed, played by a white guy, gettin’ some head in the desert must have some sort of artistic merit. It’s not like extremists aren’t scouring for reasons to proliferate hatred or anything. I’m sure you have heard several hundred variations of rhetorical questions by the time this hits press, so I shall spare you the ounces of creativity.

But then it hit me like a meme on my timeline… Does America ever react so vehemently over art? Better yet, does that even matter here?

This film, in the sense of American release, would receive harsh condemnation from the Muslim community as well as a large majority of other groups that are, dare I say, conscious of politically correct representations. There will be armchair activism and passive-aggressive tweets, but would much come of it? No. I don’t see murderous riots or burning effigies in this scenery. We shrug it off as pisspoor satire by an artistic failure, but the discussion would become archaic within the next 24-hour news cycle.

But with this film serving as a minimal catalyst in the grand scheme of these recent attacks rooted in anti-American sentiment, I then began to ponder whether or not I was justified in said assumption. If you get Americans angry enough about something, bloodshed is a possibility. The Onion proved me correct: in response to this, they published a drawing on Sept. 13 with the caption “No One Murdered Because Of This Image.” Do you know what it was? It was, to quote directly, “the Hebrew prophet Moses high-fiving Jesus Christ as both are having their erect penises vigorously masturbated by Ganesha, all while the

Hindu deity anally penetrates Buddha with his fist.”

And, like expected, no one did a thing. Yet. (Right?)

I tweeted it around 2 a.m. One of my friends called it ridiculous and then presumably went to sleep.

I showed multiple people around me the image, they shrugged with slight giggles and continued onward with the rest of the day. It has been “liked” over 155,000 times on Facebook. And not a single shot was fired in the name of animated blasphemy. Are we simply accustomed to let issues like this glide across our conscience because we’ve heard a million and one Jesus satires and Family Guy jokes? Not caring comes easy to us.

The same cannot be assumed for the rest of the world. The way you manipulated scripting, cast, crew and funding to accomplish this glistening disgrace justifies the non-negotiable hatred sent our way on a normal basis. This is pure Islamophobic hate speech under the rouge of Hollywood that accomplishes nothing. Better yet, the way our media shucks and jives past these realities as if it isn’t our problem and does absolutely nothing to absolve the problem, in a sense, proves their hatred unjustified.

Don’t take this the wrong way. No one deserved to die over this. This does not justify any injustice here or abroad.

Yet the perpetual wheel on the playground spins where people with horrible senses of morality utilize their religious beliefs in a political advancement to provoke a response, any response, from “the enemy.” Whoever “the enemy” may be in this instance.

An intolerant filmmaker, that’s what I don’t like.

It’s saddening how this is playing out. The world will forget by next week. An ambassador is still dead. And you will probably fraud another bank in that amount of time. I just hope you one day come to grips with the monster you’ve breastfed through your ignorance.

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NCAA penalties miss mark

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Redshirt freshman running back Melvin Gordon amassed 112 yards on just eight carries against UTEP. He could see a larger role against Nebraska with senior Montee Ball’s status uncertain.

Big Ten slate begins Wisconsin opens 2012 campaign at No. 22 Nebraska

By Parker Gabriel the daily cardinal

Saturday night’s tilt at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb. will feature two of the best running backs in the country.

Each is still looking to get in a real groove for the first time in 2012.

Wisconsin’s senior AllAmerican Montee Ball (393 yards, 3.9 yards per carry, 3 TDs) carried the ball more than 30 times two of the first three weeks, but a head injury limited him to just nine carries a week ago.

Nebraska senior Rex Burkhead sprained his knee in the No. 22 Huskers’ (3-1 overall) opener Sept. 1 and only returned last week. He has just 11 carries so far this season but has averaged a whopping 17 yards per carry to rack up 187 yards and three scores. “[Burkhead] has all the attributes of a good running back plus power on top of that,” UW linebackers coach Andy Buh said. “The minute you think you have good leverage and you’ve got your feet in the ground and you’re going to tackle him, now he packs a punch.”

The Badgers (3-1 overall) are one of just three teams in the nation that has not allowed a running play of more than 20 yards so far this season. A year ago, the unit kept Burkhead and explosive junior quarterback Taylor Martinez in check and limited Nebraska to just 3.7 yards per carry in a 45-17 win.

Against Nebraska’s potent option attack, discipline is paramount.

“If one person isn’t fitting in

the right spot, there’s a gap and obviously, so we’re going to try they’re hitting it,” Badgers red- to keep him in the pocket,” UW shirt junior linebacker Ethan junior defensive tackle Beau Armstrong said. “They’ve got the Allen said. speed that can really get away For the Wisconsin offense, the from you.” task will be to continue the improveThe Wisconsin linebacking ments seen a week ago against corps is one of the most productive Texas-El Paso despite a step up in in the nation this year. Armstrong competition. Early against UTEP, plays alongside bigger names in first-time starting quarterback Joel junior Chris Borland—the reign- Stave took two third-down sacks ing Big Ten co-defensive player where pass rushers came free. of the week—and senior Nebraska’s defense Mike Taylor. leads the NCAA in sacks Still, Armstrong’s so far with 16. strong-side position often “He is very aware of Wisconsin’s leaves him in charge of where people are in the avgerage manning the wide side of pocket,” redshirt junior rushing yards per the field in Wisconsin’s Travis Frederick said. game base 4-3 defense. Against “He got hit a couple the dynamic Nebraska times last week, but I attack of Martinez, think he knew those Nebraska’s Burkhead and sophomore guys were coming.” avgerage running back Ameer Still, the Huskers rushing Abdullah, covering all that are giving up 177 rushyards per space is a tall task for the ing yards per game, game Ottawa, Ill. native. something the Badgers “It kind of puts me in will have to take advana pickle there,” said Armstrong, tage of in a hostile environment. the team’s third-leading tackler If Ball is at full strength, he (26). “But I’ve been coached well will likely see a heavy dose of on it and hopefully I can go out carries. If not, redshirt freshand execute the techniques.” man Melvin Gordon and junior The Badgers forced Martinez James White will be asked to to throw the ball last year and carry the load. Either way, found success, as he threw three Frederick does not believe the interceptions at Camp Randall. game plan will change much.

Through four games, the signal“I don’t think it’s much difcaller is completing over 70 per- ferent [who’s running],” he said. cent of his passes and has nine “Those guys all have their own touchdowns and just one inter- styles, their own strengths and ception. Still, his legs are what weaknesses, but they are all good make him so dangerous. at one thing, and that’s running “He’s a really gifted runner the ball.”

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enn State more than deserved the punishments that were handed down upon its beloved football program. The NCAA needed to come down strong on PSU to show that nothing is right with a culture and a football program that values winning over the protection of children’s safety.

But while the NCAA certainly did its job by effectively rendering Penn State football irrelevant for at least the next decade, the TV powers have diminished the penalty by keeping the Nittany Lions in the national spotlight.

The NCAA felt the four-year bowl ban and unprecedented loss of scholarships was designed to take Penn State’s football program out of the national spotlight. In turn, the NCAA felt, the program would feel the pain where it hurt most: in the pocketbook.

Sure, the NCAA could have done the job itself. There is a precedent for television bans to be used as punishment for violations, but only in the case where a school is hit with the proverbial “death penalty.”

But in the absence of this additional NCAA mandate, those in charge of national television scheduling had a responsibility to get the job done. Thus far, they have completely failed.

Take away history (history that, per NCAA mandate, has been partially erased) and Penn State is not a team worthy of national coverage at this point.

The open transfer mandate has led to an exodus of players from State College, with the sanctions making it impossible for the program to replenish.

Despite an 0-2 start, the Nittany Lions have been on national television all four weeks.

In fact, they have been on the network channel, ABC—as opposed to the cable channel, ESPN—for the past three (and it certainly isn’t for want of covering the Nittany Lions’ opponents).

If this elite treatment continues, Penn State will feel none of the pain the NCAA intended to impart upon the football program.

Sure, it hurts from an excitement standpoint to not have the opportunity to compete in a postseason game. But from a strictly financial standpoint, this could ironically help Penn State.

Nearly all non-BCS bowl pay-

outs do not even come close to covering a school’s expenses when it comes to financing a bowl trip.

In short, teams LOSE money by playing in the postseason.

So the bowl ban does nothing to the bottom line of Penn State athletics. It is a punishment without an effective backbone.

Except, that is, if the team ends up losing national television exposure because of this imposed irrelevance. Not only does the loss of exposure hurt recruiting, but more importantly, it reduces the television payout the school receives each week of the season.

Without national TV contracts, college football programs don’t make money. This is why non-BCS teams have to take pay games and serve as sacrificial lambs in the non-conference.

The BCS teams profit almost exclusively from the money they receive in television rights contracts. By shutting Penn State out of the Big Ten’s national rights contract and prohibiting the Nittany Lions from being spotlighted on ABC, the punishment handed down on PSU would potentially be damaging enough to leave the school with no option other than to shut down football for a season or two.

This is what the NCAA hoped would come from the punishments it handed down over the summer. It hoped executives at ESPN, Big Ten Network and elsewhere would recognize the obvious issues in having PSU placed in primetime. You would hope executives at the ad agencies responsible for buying airtime during these games would see much of the same.

Unfortunately, they haven’t and for that we should all be worried. Even a scandal with this degree of indecency has been unable to overcome the power of the almighty game that is football.

The game is quickly becoming too powerful for its own good.

It is a sad statement about where we are as a people when we cannot forget our incessant desire for financial gain, not even when it smacks the face of a constitutional right as basic and fundamental as that of having a childhood free of violence and abuse.

It was sad enough to see that “win at all costs” attitude play out in State College under Joe Paterno.

It is perhaps even more worrisome to see it played out even in the scandal’s aftermath.

This is a massively cut-down version of Max’s column. Visit dailycardinal.com to read it in its entirety.

Volleyball

Badgers face tough tests at conference home opener

By Taylor Valentine the daily cardinal

The Wisconsin volleyball team (1-1 Big Ten, 13-2 overall) is slated for what may prove to be its toughest weekend of the season as it takes on No. 1 Penn State Friday and No. 22 Ohio State on Saturday night at the UW Field House.

It’s not every weekend that a squad faces the nation’s top team and turns around to play a team like Ohio State. Head coach Pete

Waite says it is simply a factor of playing in the Big Ten. “I don’t think we prepare any differently [for the high level of competition] because that’s how most of the Big Ten is,” Waite said.

“There aren’t many sports that do that back-to-back nights so often, so it’s tough, but you have to put one behind you and move on to the next.”

With a handful of athletic girls crowding the net at 6-foot-3 and above, perennial power Penn State

boasts more height than any team the Badgers have faced thus far.

Senior middle blocker Alexis Mitchell downplayed Penn State’s height, citing that she has always been shorter than her counterparts.

“I’m the smallest middle [blocker] in the Big Ten, so I’m always playing against somebody bigger than me,” said Mitchell, who earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention honors the past two seasons. “[Penn State’s]

middle [blocker] is 6-foot-6 and I’m 5-foot-11, so it’s a pretty big mismatch, but I think that we just have to play our game.”

Ohio State does not feature the same height as Penn State, but OSU senior outside hitter Mari Hole poses a world of her own challenges. All-Big Ten last year, Hole is on a tear again this season and looks to create havoc for the Badgers’ defense. Coach Waite tries to replicate players such as Hole in practice as often

as possible.

“We have some of the male practice players come in, and there’s some bigger players who are more physical, jump higher,” Waite said.

One thing is for certain: This UW team does not lack confidence.

“We know these teams are really good,” said junior defensive specialist Annemarie Hickey.

“We’ve shown this past weekend that we’re a whole different team than we were last year.”