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Michelle Obama rallies young Dems By Andrew Hahn THE DAILY CARDINAL
First Lady Michelle Obama visited Madison Tuesday to encourage students to turn out on Election Day and volunteer for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. The first lady, flanked by UW-Madison students clad in their school colors, lauded Burke’s position on education, women’s rights and the economy. Obama said the margin of victory of a close election, as she expects Wisconsin’s to be, can come down to a majority of just 10 votes per ward. Last week’s Marquette Law School poll found that 50 percent of likely voters favor current Gov. Scott Walker while 45 percent will vote for Burke. Among registered voters Walker received 46 percent to Burke’s 45. Obama said turnout could be the deciding factor in the race. “If women and minorities and young people show up, Mary wins,” Obama said. “She wins.” Mary Burke made her case to voters and volunteers when she took the podium, attacking Gov. Scott Walker for his jobs record. “I am a business person,” Burke told the crowd of 1,250 at the Overture Center. “I know
that tax cuts to those at the top and special interests, they do not create jobs. Neither do cuts to public education that are strangling our schools.” Burke reiterated her plan to raise the minimum wage and balance the budget, to standing applause from those in attendance. Susan Happ, running for state attorney general, and U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., also spoke at the event. Pocan echoed Obama’s sentiment that increased voter turnout among students would ensure Burke’s victory on Nov. 4. “Wisconsin is not a purple state,” Pocan said. “When people vote, we are a beautiful shade of indigo blue.” State Republicans attacked Burke in a statement Monday for favoring the policies of President Barack Obama’s administration, but the first lady used her husband’s track record to energize attendees Tuesday. “By almost every economic measure, we are better off today than when Barack Obama took office,” Obama said. The president is scheduled to campaign with Burke in Wisconsin before the Nov. 4 election, Burke’s Communications Director Joe Zepecki told the Associated Press.
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Michelle Obama visits Madison to encourage young voters to register and vote for Mary Burke.
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UWPD intends to find Terrace chairs The UW-Madison Police Department announced a new retrieval program Tuesday to crack down on the theft of sunburst chairs from the Memorial Union Terrace. Thieves steal an “excessive” number of chairs each year from the terrace, approximately 250, according to a UWPD brief. Beginning in 2013, an overnight security guard began patrolling the area to combat the thefts. Each chair is reported to cost $250 each to replace and fines for being caught with a stolen chair can be approximately $500. Stolen chairs cost approximately $62,500 per year to replace. These chairs are colored blue, orange, yellow and green. Students can purchase a red or white starburst chair through the Wisconsin Union. UWPD urges all members of the UW-Madison community to look out for stolen chairs and to file a report if any stolen chair is seen around campus. UWPD assures those who report stolen chairs will remain anonymous.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin pledged continued support to public employees, denouncing the Wisconsin State Legislature during his introduction of the 2015 Operating Budget at a press conference Tuesday. “The short-sighted policies of the State Legislature have set up a two-tier labor-management system for public employees,” Soglin said. “Despite these politically motivated changes to long-standing state law and basic employee
rights, I have made it a priority to ensure that compensation for all our hard-working employees is as equitable as possible.” The Operating Budget includes provisions for a 3 percent pay increase for police and firefighters, as well as a 1.5 percent pay increase for all other city employees, according to Soglin. However, apart from the
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Food disparity, Public Market project cause heated debate By Irene Burski THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Fall has arrived in Wisconsin and trees are changing color in the UW Arboretum—home to more than 20 miles of trails open year-round. + Photo by Wil Gibb
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Terry ‘T.A.’ Oliver: Private Eye What you never knew about your T.A. in the trenchcoat
Testimony on food disparity and debate on Madison’s Public Market project triggered a broader discussion regarding existing citywide inequalities at Tuesday’s Common Council meeting. During a public hearing, members of the Allied Community Co-op called for the creation of a grocery store
in the Allied Dunn’s Marsh Neighborhood, which currently does not have one. Members of the Council consider the neighborhood a “food desert.” “We need a grocery store in our community,” Madisonian and Allied Dunn’s Marsh resident Sina Davis said. “You’re the ones who can make a dif-
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Sean Reichard quid quo pro Terrance Olivier. But people call me Terry Oliver. My parents used to call me Terryble. Someone once called me Mango Sullivan, but that was on a lark. Probably. Few jobs come through my bureau. Private eyes of the classical temperament (dark, skittish, invariably wearing overcoats) like me are as anachronistic as the telegram. Incidentally, that’s how I got my latest case. It was a balmy Wednesday (the kind that gets you sweet Thursdays, the kind John Steinbeck liked) and I had just run down to the Italian market on Regent Street for a tub of mozzarella pearls and giardiniera. I go through those like most men go through drink. Normally I’d have sent Schlep to fetch them, but he was busy reading medieval travelogues for me and I was in the mood to get out of Humanities for a while. It’s a hard business running a detective bureau from a teaching assistant’s office, but someone has to do it. And I’d be out like a damn spot if I let anyone from the Law School do it. And, short of aping “Bored to Death,” I was the man to do it. I stepped into my fifth floor office to see Schlep eating a hot dog; the scrunched, white wrapper told me he hadn’t made it with the agency microwave. “What the hell are you doing?” I snarled. “Eating.” “Who told you to? Who gave you permission to?” “I-I finished your travelogues for the day,” Schlep said. I was about to bop him on the head when I saw the cards lying on the table. “What are those?” “They came for you when they were out.” “Why the hell didn’t you
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It seems Private Eye Terrance Olivier, A.K.A. Terry Oliver, has received yet another case. His college students will have to deal with his incompetent side-kick, Schlep, for the forseeable future. open with that?” “You didn’t let me!” I took the cards from him. On the corner of each was a stain. The stain was mustard. “Did you read these?” “No’m,” Schlep said. I read the first card. It took me a minute to realize it was a telegram, since I had never seen one before in my life. The company was based out of Finland, though the text was in English mostly. The address read “To Terry Oliver, Room 5162 Humanities.” HIRING PRIVATE EYE STOP TERRY STOP FIND TENNY BROTHERS STOP MONEY FOLLOWS STOP I read the second telegram: WAIT I FORGOT STOP IT’S NOT PRONOUNCED TENNY IT’S LIKE TEN-E STOP IT’S THE TENNY LIKE TENNYSON STOP DOES THIS MAKE SENSE AT ALL STOP
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1777—Americans beat the British in the second Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights. Keep tuning into Almanac to find out whether or not these scrappy Americans win their independence! 1816—The first double-decked steamboat, The Washington, arrives in New Orleans. But the vessel quickly sinks after failing to support the weight of the 8,000 old-timey gamblers that clamber aboard. 1856—Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents a folding machine that folds books and newspapers. Popular folds include origami swans and sailor hats.
I read the third one: PASKA STOP FORGOT TO SEND MONEY STOP WILL SEND STOP IN NEXT INFERNAL TELEGRAM STOP PLEASE STOP BE STOP PATIENT STOP Finally I read the fourth one: HERE IS TWENTY DOLLARS STOP PLEASE STOP FIND THE TENNY BROS STOP IT WILL BE STOP STOP STOP STOP WILL BE WORTH YOUR WHILE STOP There was no return address, no name attached. That could have meant a lot of things. But at the time, I thought it meant no problems for me. I looked at Schlep, who was licking the mustard off his fingers. “Where’s the money?” He looked at me with dull eyes. “You owed me for grading all those Calvino essays.” Normally, I’d have called him an
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1870—Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon. But, at 4,000 feet, he dies of helium overexposure.
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impudent wretch, but those telegrams had put me in a good mood. I had a case. I’d begin tomorrow, I told myself, and mentally cleared my schedule. I’d give Schlep the day off too, since he’d be handling all my class work—grading essays, writing my dissertation, handling students—for the foreseeable future. I was going to celebrate. I brought up the tub of mozzarella pearls, bobbing lusciously, cracked off the top and peeled off the plastic. Schlep stood and before I could stop him, he reached in and took a pearl between two fingers. “If there’s any trace of mustard in this,” I snarled, “I’ll forget to remit your next check.” He only smiled, and went back to his seat. I took a mozzarella pearl and popped it in my mouth. It tasted like sunshine, and I rubbed the film between my fingertips. Check out Almanac in two weeks for the next Terry Oliver story.
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Each fall, pink flamingos flock to Bascom Hill as part of UW-Madison’s Annual Campaign which raises money to support education and discovery at UW. The campaign exceeded its goal with the help of more than 800 Badgers. + Photo by Emily Buck
UW-Madison launches new shared governance website UW-Madison is offering a new website to help students get involved in shared governance and make a difference within their campus community, according to a Tuesday press release. Shared governance is a cooperative venture among community members who wish to get involved and voice their opinions on issues con-
cerning the university, according to the release. Badgers can serve on shared governance bodies, committees or provide input to representatives. The new website, www.wisc. edu/governance, provides a resource for all students, faculty and academic staff to get involved with shared governance. Academic staff are professionals, such as scientists
or advisors, who indirectly or directly affect academic programming at UW-Madison. A state statute, Chapter 36, established shared governance after acknowledging the need for students and staff to have a voice on campus. This forum also promotes interaction among students, staff and prominent officials, according to the site.
A UW-Madison virology professor received an award Tuesday for his research in understanding and preventing pandemic influenza. Yoshihiro Kawaoka researches the influenza virus, specifically the mechanics of interspecies transmission of the virus that leads to influenza pandemics in humans. He also studies the Ebola virus and its role in viral proteins and viral replication. Popular Mechanics, a science and technology magazine, selected Kawaoka as a Breakthrough Award recipient for his research in mutations of viruses, similar to Ebola, that could “help protect humanity,” according to a university press release. “We know Ebola is a big issue in Africa right now, but Kawaoka’s investigations into influenza—which is in fact a constant and greater threat to public health in the United States—could help us avoid or beat back the type of flu viruses that have erupt-
ed into deadly pandemics in the past,” Ryan D’Agostino, Popular Mechanics editor-in-chief, said in the release. In the past, Kawaoka had been criticized for his work trying to better understand viruses and create drugs to fight them. Part of his experimentation involved constructing a virus similar to the 1918 pandemic flu virus that killed 50 million people. Despite controversies, Kawaoka said he is grateful for receiving this prestigious award. “I don’t put any awards on the wall,” Kawaoka said. “This one, I will.” The professor accompanies outstanding innovators, engineers and scientists who have made worldchanging contributions in the past decade, including humanitarian engineer Amy Smith and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. Popular Mechanics will feature Kawaoka in an article Oct. 14. — Charlotte Laracy
Wis. high schools see rise in AP scores, racial gaps persist Wisconsin students scored strongly in AP exam testing in 2014, but differences between ethnic groups persist, according to a release from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The AP program, including both classes and exams, is a standardized program run by the College Board, a New-York based nonprofit organization. AP exams are scored from 1 to 5 and most colleges and universities grant credit or placement with a score of 3 or higher. Furthermore, 38,431 of Wisconsin’s juniors and seniors took 64,398 AP exams this year and scored 3 or higher in 68.1 percent of them, which is higher than the national average of 59.1 percent, according to the release.
Participation in AP classes and exams also increased over the last year from 36,829 to 38,431. However, both the average participation and performance of black students was significantly lower than students of other races. The total amount of black students who took the AP exam this year went down from 1,122 last year to 1,086 this year. It is the only ethnic group that experienced a decrease in the number of participants, according to the release. Only 30.2 percent of Black students who have taken the AP exams this year earned a score of 3 or higher, compared to the percentage of White and Asian students, which is 70.3 percent and 68.9 percent, respectively. —Xiaofei Xu
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budget increasing the number of public safety employees, there’s not many new citywide programs that can be financed, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. “The budget that the mayor proposed today is in large a status quo budget that the community has come to expect and enjoy,” Verveer said. “I think the mayor overall did a very good job in dealing with the difficult cards he’s been dealt from the state [regarding spending regulations].” Soglin stressed the high livability ratings of Madison, but acknowledged that “there is more to do” to make Madison more equitable and stressed the challenges posed by a lack of funding, while Verveer agreed. “There really is not a lot of wiggle room for the city,” Verveer said. Madison’s Common Council will vote on both the Operating and Capital Budgets at the Nov. 11 meeting. —Irene Burski
ference in our lives and in our children’s lives and we’re here and we’re asking for help.” The area, located south of the West Beltline and east of Verona Road, is one of the more diverse neighborhoods in Madison, according to the city’s website, and residents stressed that the building of a grocery store will counter existing disparity in the neighborhood. “The grocery store is something that’s been on the back burner for many, many years,” community member Barry Hayes said. “I don’t think we’re asking for the sun, the moon and the stars.” Single mother Cassandra Sonko emphasized that living somewhere without immediate access to local grocery stores or nearby elementary and middle schools for children can be an issue of socioeconomic status. “It can happen to anybody sitting in this room,” Sonko said. While the Council declined to commit to the creation of a
grocery store during the night, alders were receptive to what the speakers had to say, seeing the issue as something for future council meetings. “I do hope I speak for the Council in thanking all the registrants for presenting tonight and reminding us why we serve,” Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said. Alders then unanimously approved giving the go-ahead to let the permanent Public Market move forward to the next stage of development, which will involve acquiring a site and creating a business plan, according to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8. However, Council decided once again not to choose between the East Johnson and South Park Street options, instead continuing to explore options regarding how to use the public market to address disparity. “Race and income in this city are unfortunately correlated, which is really our problem,” Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, said.
Advocacy groups file voter ID rehearing request The voter ID law was called into question Tuesday as advocacy groups filed an emergency appeal on the grounds of racial inequality. The League of United Latin American Citizens of Wisconsin and the American Civil Liberties Union pushed for an emergency motion of a rehearing in front of all of the judges of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in order to
halt voter ID regulations for the upcoming statewide election. The groups cited the impossibility of organizing the new regulation, detailing the time before the election was not enough to train poll workers, manufacture IDs and publicize the need for an ID, according to the appeal. The coalition highlighted the discriminatory factor of the
law by explaining the difficulties racial minorities could face obtaining proper identification. Minorities’ lack of IDs combined with the new legislation requirement violate people’s constitutional rights to vote, according to the appeal. An earlier appeal’s decision is expected to come out later in the week, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Just as Madison makes its annual seasonal transition from fall to winter it also enters a season of a different type; the flu season. Every year starting in early October and lasting until the end of May, the contagious seasonal influenza virus spreads across the United States causing widespread illness and sometimes severe, lifethreatening complications. While regular hand washing, not sharing food and avoiding touching your hands to your face have been shown to decrease the likelihood of getting infected with the virus, the single most effective way to prevent getting the virus is to get the seasonal flu shot at the start of the flu season each year. Fortunately for University of Wisconsin- Madison students and employees, you do not have to go far to receive the flu vaccination as they are available at all UW-Health primary care clinics as well as at UW-Health pharmacies. Appointments usually take about ten minutes and afterwards the vaccine is effective for up to one year. Seasonal influenza, or the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness which infects 5-20 percent of the U.S. population every year. Common symptoms of the flu include fever, sore throat, dry
cough, runny nose, head and body aches as well as general fatigue. Dr. James Conway, fellowship director of UW-Madison’s Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, explains that “while most people with the flu do okay and are able to manage the symptoms, it is still a miserable illness that can keep you from being productive for a week.” Each year complications of the flu send over 200,000 Americans to the hospital and even kill thousands. While the majority of children and the elderly in the U.S. received the flu shot last year, only about one third of adults aged 18-64 received the vaccine. High risk individuals, including young children, the elderly and people with chronic health problems, are more likely to develop serious complications. “If you get enough people to become socially conscious about not spreading the virus by getting vaccinated, we can make it hard for the virus to spread to populations that have a higher chance for serious complications to occur,” Conway said. The flu vaccination stimulates an individual’s immune systems to create antibodies for the flu virus that recognize and eliminate it without having the have the person to become infected first. The main component of the vaccine is antigenic material which
is either a weakened or killed form of the flu virus that is not infectious. The immune system recognizes this material as foreign so it creates antibodies that will destroy any agent similar to it such as the actual live flu virus that is able to infect humans. There are two types of flu vaccines; the inactivated or recombinant form, and the Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV). The inactivated form is the most common flu vaccine which is injected with a shot. This form does not contain the live influenza virus. LAIV contains a live version of the virus but it is attenuated, or weakened, so that it will only allow the body to produce the antibodies for the virus without actually infecting you. This vaccine is given in the form of a spray into the nose. Since it does contain a live version of the flu virus, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that pregnant women or people with a weakened immune system receive the inactivated form instead. The vaccine is recommended yearly due to the fact that the flu virus can change its genetic makeup causing the previous year’s vaccine to become ineffective. This virus is able to undergo two distinct antigenic changes which allow it to become “hidden” from the antibodies your body may have
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produced for previous flu viruses. The first is called antigenic drift which occurs when small changes in the genes of the flu virus happen over time as the virus replicates itself. If these small changes from antigenic drift accumulate enough over time, it can result in an antigenically different virus that your immune system will not be able to recognize. This is why the CDC updates the vaccine formula each year to keep up with the changing virus. The second, less common way the virus is able to undergo antigenic changes is through a process called antigenic shift where a rapid change of the genetic makeup of the influenza virus occurs that produces new proteins in the virus that are able to infect humans. Since this shift is so extreme compared to antigenic drift, most people will not have immunity to the new virus which allows for the possibility of a pandemic. An example of this occurred in the spring of 2009 with the spread of the H1N1 flu virus. The flu vaccines given at this time did not allow the immune system to produce antibodies for this drastically different virus and a pandemic occurred throughout the world. While there are potential side effects to the vaccine, they are
all minimal and only temporary. These side effects include dizziness, itchy eyes, cough, fatigue and soreness or swelling in the area you received the shot. While the flu vaccine has been shown to be an effective method in flu prevention, it is only, on average, 70-90 percent effective. However, “the beauty of these vaccinations is that they have been around for decades. The flu vaccine is one of the most researched vaccines on the face of the earth. They are incredibly safe and the companies that produce them are always coming up with ways to make them safer and more efficient,” Conway said.
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Ask Ms. Scientist: yawns and star twinkles Dear Ms. Scientist, Why do we yawn?
Dear Ms. Scientist, Why do stars twinkle?
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One recent theory attempts to unify many of them: Yawning helps chill the brain and prevent overheating. The movements involved in yawning increase blood flow around the brain as well as allow cool air to pass through the sinuses next to brain, allowing heat to escape. Cooler brains also help people focus which may be why yawns are contagious. If a group needs to concentrate on something, yawning could be a mechanism to get everyone to become more alert. This theory has yet to be experimentally tested, but other studies reveal that people yawn more when the room is warmer as body temperatures rise right before yawning.
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Twinkling stars, or astronomical scintillation, is caused when the light from a star refracts many times through many thick layers of gases in the atmosphere. By the time the star’s light approaches our eyes, it is hard to see any details that make all the stars in the universe different and they all appear as small shiny lights. Not only are we as observers moving, but the atmospheric layers are also moving around. As a result, the star’s light changes its refractions and a twinkling appearance results. Ask Ms. Scientist is written by Corinne Thornton. If you have a burning science question you want her to answer, tweet @DC_Science or email it to science@dailycardinal.com.
Feminist biology provides a new scientific perspective By Brita Larson The Daily Cardinal
Caroline VanSickle’s office was exactly what I would expect the office of an anthropologist to look like with a handkerchiefsized cloth printed with hominid skulls laying draped over a bookshelf and a tiny replica of a pelvis resting on top of the cloth. VanSickle herself sat in front of a computer that flicked through pictures of animals in their natural habitats. When I sat down and we started to chat, it was like I had known her for years, even though this was only the second time we had conversed. VanSickle is the first recipient of the Wittig Postdoctoral Fellowship in Feminist Biology, a position offered through the Center for Research on Gender and Women. I asked VanSickle to give me a brief history of the position and she explained that “Gertrude Wittig was a biologist who experienced sexism in biology.” Although she had no ties to the University of WisconsinMadison, “she wanted to leave
money to an institution that would try and change that.” The University of WisconsinMadison’s Center for Research on Gender and Women fit the bill. Wittig left an endowment to the research center and a committee from the research center developed the Wittig Postdoctoral Fellowship in Feminist Biology. And this is where VanSickle enters the story. At the time, UW-Madison posted the position VanSickle was finishing up her Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Michigan. The crux of VanSickle’s research was, and still is, researching the biology of human evolution by looking at fossilized skeletons from various hominid species. However, her work has a strong gender component. “I try to look at questions in human evolution about what sex differences do we see in the past, and can we relate that to behavioral differences?” VanSickle said. The project that she spoke most about in her application was
her research on Neanderthals. This project entailed looking at the evolution of childbirth in Neanderthals as a way to analyze what female Neanderthals were doing during this time in hominid history. Additionally, VanSickle compared the female human pelvis to the female Neanderthal pelvis to determine whether there were quantifiable differences between the two. These differences, or lack thereof, also would provide extremely important clues to the evolution of childbirth. The strong biological and gender components of VanSickle’s research embodied the mission of the feminist biology position and she received the position in April of 2014. So, what is feminist biology? “Feminist biology is an idea the evolved out of feminist critiques of biology. Biologists were doing things that were sexist and affected their results,” said VanSickle. She continued to explain that feminist biology has two primary goals. The first goal is to get
more women involved in biology. “As far as the sciences go, biology comes closest to having more women, but they are still far from equal,” VanSickle said. The second goal of feminist biology is critically looking at what kind of questions biologists are asking and what kind of hypotheses they are testing. Caroline’s example of a success in the feminist biology field is that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are now requiring anybody applying for funding to specify how they’re going to do clinical studies on both genders. “In the past, it has been very common for medical procedures and drug tests performed on samples that are just males. However, when they’re approved, they’re applied to females without testing if females would have reacted differently,” said VanSickle. VanSickle’s research at UW-Madison will work to embody and further feminist biology. Her upcoming project will look at how scientists assess sex in the fossil record and if
scientists can use the same criteria for identifying sex in modern humans and apply that to the fossil record. VanSickle will only have two years at UW-Madison, but she plans on continuing this line of research after her time is over. “My overarching research program is really to look at sex differences in human evolution. A lot of the time in the past when people have developed theories, there is more focus on the males, and less focus on the females and how evolution was affecting them directly,” VanSickle said.1 Additionally, she also will be teaching a course both semesters. In the spring, she will be teaching Gender and Women’s Studies 533: Human Evolution and Feminism. For more information about feminist biology, the Center for Research on Gender and Women is hosting The Wisconsin Symposium on Feminist Biology October 10th through 11th in the Red Gym. Caroline VanSickle will be speaking as well Anne Fausto-Sterling from Brown.
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n Monday, it was revealed that David Lynch’s acclaimed psycho-drama “Twin Peaks” would come back after more than 20 years for a third season on Showtime. Lynch’s sprawling vision of a northern town and its seedy (and mostly psychotic) underbelly failed to live up to lofty ratings expectations in its second season and has since become a cult classic, gathering legions of new fans as the years have gone by. This news is a continuation of a trend started by Netflix when it brought back Arrested Development for a fourth season last year. These two shows already come with a built-in fan base and have been publicized enough over the years that Netflix and now Showtime know that there will be huge viewership for the revivals. “Twin Peaks,” however, is a little different by virtue of David Lynch’s involvement. It represents the mercurial director’s first and only foray into the realm of (network) television—it originally aired on ABC. Known mostly for his surreal films like “Mulholland Drive” and “Blue Velvet,” his going to television was a landmark moment. While he sort of
lost control of “Twin Peaks“ to the network late during the second season, the first season and beginning of the second season were strong enough that a third season is as hyped as it (deservedly) is.
It’s hard for me to come up with another TV show that people are as devoted to as ‘Twin Peaks’ ...
The problem with “Twin Peaks” is that the quality of the show went swiftly downhill after its vaunted “Who killed Laura Palmer?” storyline wrapped up about a third of the way through the second season. Lynch and cocreator Mark Frost clearly had problems coming up with stories as engrossing as the murder of Twin Peaks High School’s most popular student. The characters and their various quests and quirks spread like scattershot in any and all directions, from Officer Andy’s demon child and Benjamin Horne’s sudden obsession with Civil War figurines to Maureen developing superstrength and going back to high school. While the plot ostensibly proceeds to thwarting a mass murder and an ancient Indian spirit-ground called “The White Lodge,” neither is remotely as
compelling as Laura’s death. Therefore, the question that has to be asked is which “Twin Peaks” we are going to get? Will we get the calm, controlled lunacy of the show’s inception or the maniac stupidity of its end? The third season announcement made it very clear that Lynch and Frost will have full creative control and that Lynch will direct the entire season, but it’s hard not to wonder if they can coax more sympathy out of the characters that we loved, or, like stupid freakin’ James, characters we tolerated because they were essential to the plot. While it will help that Showtime is a premium cable channel and affords more freedom, will “Twin Peaks” be able to take advantage of its new freedoms? My guess is yes, because some parts of the original “Twin Peaks” were pretty graphic for their time—but you never know with David Lynch. “Twin Peaks” definitely deserves your attention, and it might even deserve your love. It’s hard for me to come up with another TV show that people are as devoted to as “Twin Peaks,” and there’s definitely some convincing reasoning for that devotion in season one and the beginning of season two. Myself, I will take a wait-and-see approach and see if Lynch and company can wow me once again. Really like “Twin Peaks?” Think season two was better than season one? Let Jake have it at smasal@wisc.edu.
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Field Report stand out from indie crowd By Michael Frett The Daily Cardinal
ALBUM REVIEW
Marigolden Field Report How long has it been since the first indie artist turned toward a troubadour’s drawl and a Western backdrop? While the answer may be a little ambiguous with some answers tracing back to the early 2000s and others even farther, it’s hard to argue that indie folk as a genre has seen itself withered down over the years. Now the troubadour writes bad pop songs, their acoustic guitars strumming a few poorly mixed chords and their lyrics playing with uninspired—or maybe overinspired?—hooks, blending them into songs more indulgent than impressive. And that isn’t to say that Chris Porterfield’s band isn’t guilty of indie folk’s more mundane cli-
ches—he still strums the same chords and sings of torn hearts. But Field Report’s Marigolden lets those folk cliches breathe into open air. The indie sheen that confines so much of indie folk’s more renowned songwriting is either stripped back completely (“Ambrosia”) or cast into a canyon to echo across the ravines (“Wings”).
Their sounds roll off the cliffsides, fading into some permeable distance where echoes grow beyond their songs.
Taking an approach similar to their fellow Wisconsinite Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Field Report recorded their sophomore album atmospherically—often, the most striking moments are those that break structure and expand into points of ambiance. A dancing slide guitar and bellowing synthesizer build up the album’s highest moments, with “Wings” taking center stage with its layered synths
and “Michelle’s” Wisconsin romance—the only place where “I love you like a lamprey” can really make sense—glows with its subtle groove. Similarly, Field Report can strip back their larger sound to Chris Porterfield playing solo; on “Ambrosia,” Porterfield plays a somber set of simple piano chords and sings. Elsewhere, their instrumentation shines individually, with chimed guitars blending through the title track and expansive synthesizers dueting with a somber slide guitar on “Pale Rider.” Field Report stands out in the ether; not for abandoning the same tropes plaguing the modern troubadour (backwoods love songs seem inescapable at this point), but for building onto those tropes with expansive soundscapes. Marigolden’s album cover sums up its ten songs pretty well– Porterfield and company sit atop a canyon, shining folk-singer headlights into its winding abyss. Their sounds roll off the cliff sides, fading into some permeable distance where echoes grow beyond their songs.
Rating: B+
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Seattle-based rapper Grieves will play Madison’s High Noon Saloon Oct. 12.
Grieves hails return to Madison stage By Edgar Sanchez The Daily Cardinal
Benjamin Laub, better known as Seattle-based rapper Grieves for his poetic style of hip-hop, is on tour following his fourth album. With Winter & the Wolves covering topics of heartache, addiction and raw emotion it would appear the rapper would make for a serious interview. But over the phone Grieves was comical and engaging, bringing a sense of excitement and even mentioning Madison as a place of solace. Being no stranger to the city, Grieves has mainly performed as a supporting act here but is now looking forward to giving his second headlining show. Grieves explained with excitement that his “upcoming show has already sold more tickets than the past venue could hold” and that he looks forward to “connecting to the people again.” Additionally, the question came up of what new fans experiencing a Grieves concert for the first time should come to expect. He explained that both current and new fans are going to get a very unique show with more of a “band setup with guitars and keys and a much more developed performance.” The two openers, K. Flay and Sol—both of which Grieves describes as “dear friends”—offer enticing sets. Grieves describes K. Flay as someone who puts on an “amazing badass show featuring a live drummer that has a very catchy flow that remains smart.” As for Sol: “he is up and coming and looking to go for the throat as a very hungry performer.” As for the Madison scene Grieves described it as a “piece of home” thanks to a friend who lives here, making it a place where he can feel like he is “not on tour and can get a good home cooked meal while talking to a familiar face.” Speaking of relaxing and a laid back scene,
Grieves’ latest music video for the song “Recluse” covers that very topic. “It simulates this long day where life is just continually nuts and you decided to not let it in,” Grieves said. When asked if he could have made a video before being signed under Rhymesayers Entertainment he did acknowledge that Video Director Maria Juranic, whom he met through Rhymesayers, is a “crazy genius that comes up with the coolest ideas and is someone who I let her just run with it.” Grieves says he would have felt his career would have been different had he never signed with them. “I don’t know we got hit up by some smaller labels early on and at that point we didn’t really know what we wanted to do, but when we started talking to Rhymesayers that’s something that we knew we always wanted it to do. It was part of our business plan to create something in a Rhymesayers theme with a cult fan base. The big thing was that it was something that we could use to put out pure and honest solid music.” On a different note Grieves extrapolated on how music was his outlet that he says saved his life. “We all need an outlet and a lot of people struggle with that and we find negative escapes. I was definitely one of those people. In submerging myself with music when I get something down, it has settled for me.” As for advice, Grieves recently started writing for City Pages answering fan’s questions with the aim to connect with fans on a personal level. “I look forward to the process of doing this and it’s a very eye-opening process for me, but this is meant to be something fun and answer genuine questions not teach someone how to get a record deal.” Grieves will be returning to Madison at the High Noon Saloon come Oct. 12 at 8 p.m.
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Looking at celebrities’ nudes is callous CULLEN VOSS Opinion Editor
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oday, Vanity Fair released an interview with Jennifer Lawrence where she spoke about the celebrity nude photo leak. This is the first time she has responded publicly to the situation involving an Internet hack that published revealing photos of her and hundreds of other female celebrities Aug. 31 of this year. The victims of the hack were all female with the exception of one male’s photos who were revealed just days ago in the fourth round of hacks. Lawrence spoke with Vanity Fair’s Sam Kashner where she said, “Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this.” She went on to say, “It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe that we even live in that kind of world. ” A common critique of this entire situation has been “if you didn’t want anyone to see those pictures you shouldn’t have
taken them in the first place.” I’m here to tell you that blaming the victims of this sexual violation (because that’s precisely what it is) is unequivocally callous. By that logic I should not have been enraged when my Internet password and credit card information was stolen and posted all over the Internet during the Heartbleed hack earlier this year, right?
I’m here to tell you blaming the victims of this sexual violation (because that’s precisely what it is) is unequivocally callous.
It is incredulous to me that as a society we are more willing to blame the victims of these hacks than we are to blame those who violate our privacy. If you go out and slunk around someone’s bedroom taking naked pictures of them, is it also that person’s fault for getting naked or is it the photographers fault for invading personal privacy? That answer should be self-explanatory. Let’s bring this scenario closer to home. If you took a
revealing photo of yourself and left it in your home and a few weeks later you saw that photo floating around the Internet on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Imgur and Instagram being shared without your consent, are you going to blame yourself because someone else broke into your house? You shouldn’t. We’ve become too accustomed to blaming victims and just accepting the fact that our privacy ends where technology begins. This is not how we should react to situations such as these. There are certain levels of expectation regarding privacy and cyber security that should be no different.
These hundreds of women did not consent to their photos being released to the public and you went ahead and violated their privacy just as the hacker(s) did. Lawrence called on lawmakers and society saying “The law needs to be changed, and we need to change.” This computer hack is a symptom of a larger problem in America and there is a necessity for
us to change our behavior towards sexual offenses. You can no longer sit there and say “she should have known this would happen and never have taken those pictures in the first place.” This is no different than saying a woman dressed in a short skirt out late at night was “asking for it” when she was sexually assaulted while walking home.
We’ve become too accustomed to blaming victims and just accepting the fact that our privacy ends where technology begins.
The default response to sexual offenses should never be to blame the victim. We’ve fallen back on this idea of “Don’t get sexually assaulted” rather than “Don’t sexually assault” and it’s about damn time we change that. We can’t go on perpetuating this trope of denying responsibility because that’s just the way it is. Lawrence has more advice for our conscious deprived society saying “That’s why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact
that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside.” Now I’d like to talk to those of you out there who have looked at these actresses’ photos. You’re low. Really low. It doesn’t matter to me how you did it. Whether you saw your roommate looking and you leaned over to check it out or you willingly sought them out. These hundreds women did not consent to their photos being released to the public and you went ahead and violated their privacy just as the hacker(s) did. Lawrence said it best: “Anybody who looked at those pictures, you’re perpetuating a sexual offense. You should cower with shame.” I can’t say that I disagree with her. Cullen is a senior majoring in history and political science. What do you think about the celebrity photo hack? Is Cullen not mentioning a different perspective? We want to hear from you. Please e-mail all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
Appreciate all good music but listen to what you love OWEN DESAI Opinion columnist
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fter receiving my first CD player and a gift card to a local music store, I was the definition of both a “lost puppy” and a “kid in a candy shop.” There was so much music at my fingertips and I didn’t know what to do with any of it. I went into this music store without any idea of what I wanted and about an hour later, eight-year-old Owen walked out with a Louis Prima CD, still not knowing if he wanted it.
For a solid month I really tried to get myself to love rap, but what I concluded is that I like rap when it’s mixed with hip-hop.
About a year later I was given a MP3 player for my birthday and that’s when my music taste
had a bit of a jump start. My dad had a huge stack of CDs that we burned on to our Dell computer and suddenly I had a bunch of music from the 70s and 80s. This included the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pink Floyd, Queen, Eagles and many other rock bands. I remember that in the five minutes it took my dad to drive my brother and I to school we would have listened to the entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody. For the next few years I continued listening to my dad’s music and asking for iTunes gift cards for my birthday and Christmas. I would wait until I heard a song on the radio that I really liked and then buy it, but I slowly stopped purchasing music on iTunes when I was introduced to Pandora, which changed my life. I actually started to cultivate my own music taste and figure out other bands that I liked. I love that there are sites out there that expose you to new music, such as Spotify, another application that curates playlists of music that are similar to what you like to listen to. I almost always have Spotify playing off of my computer; I have become a die-hard
Spotify super fan. I am really into Indie/Alternative music with a few Pop songs streaming their way through my ear buds.
That being said, I will listen to anyone’s music and spend hours and hours sitting at my computer trying to memorize lyrics.
While I am mostly a lover of all music and I don’t try to be that person, I can’t get myself to love or even casually listen to country or rap. I think these two genres sometimes have a very specific audience. Last summer I spent time with a bunch of Texans for an entire week and country music was playing non-stop. By the end of those long seven days, I tried to convince myself that maybe I was a changed person. Maybe country music was my thing now. But that was a complete lie. I appreciate every artist and their craft
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and I acknowledge the work that goes into writing each and every song, but I can’t get past the country twang and story lines just about beer, girls, God and trucks. Now what about rap? I have mixed feelings. For a solid month I really tried to get myself to love rap but what I concluded was that I like rap only when it’s mixed with hip-hop. Disregarding the few singles that really get me pumped for the night, I am not a fan of this genre. I applaud clever lyrics but recently all I am hearing is endless lists of provocative ways to have sex, do drugs and drink alcohol. I think artists should be allowed to sing and rap about whatever
they want, but these recent rap lyrics won’t be anything I am screaming out loud at parties with my friends. That being said, I will listen to anyone’s music and spend hours and hours sitting at my computer trying to memorize lyrics. I love music because there is a memory associated with almost every single song. I live for that nostalgic feeling when I hear a song that was played at my sixth grade Spring Fling dance. Owen is a freshman and a new columnist for The Daily Cardinal. How do you feel about his take on music taste and preference? Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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UW’s QB race: a rock and a hard place By Jim Dayton the daily cardinal
It’s hard to fathom that the Badgers (0-1 Big Ten, 3-2 overall) could be this weak at football’s most important position, yet here they are, sitting with a disappointing record largely because of inept quarterback play from redshirt juniors Tanner McEvoy and Joel Stave. Inconsistency under center is certainly not the sole reason for Wisconsin’s slow start. The defense has missed its share of tackles, the offensive line has occasionally had issues opening up running lanes and Alex Erickson and Sam Arneson have been the only reliable receivers at all this season. But quarterbacks are under a perpetual microscope, and the Badgers’ weaknesses in the passing game have been the team’s most glaring issue all year. With seven games left in the regular season, it’s time to examine possible short-term adjustments as Wisconsin tries to salvage 2014. Expectations needed to be tempered to begin the year, as McEvoy was a converted safety seeing his first action at quarterback since 2012 when he was in junior college. McEvoy deservedly had a longer leash after his horrible debut against LSU, and he followed that up with a fantastic outing against Western Illinois. At that point, the passing game seemed to have stabilized. But McEvoy’s performance quickly went south. Even in wins over Bowling Green and South Florida, he was shaky, combining to go 20-of-34 for 272 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. His numbers in the box score may have been OK, but McEvoy failed the eye test. He missed wide-open receivers, short-armed his throws and had
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2014 Tanner McEvoy
55-of-96 passing (57.3 percent) 6.6 yards/pass attempt 5 TD’s, 5 INT’s 119.1 passer rating 8.6 yards/rush, 2 rush TD’s choppy footwork in the pocket. After the South Florida win, head coach Gary Andersen said he did not feel comfortable with his passing attack, a statement that foreshadowed the week to come. McEvoy lasted four scoreless drives against Northwestern before he was taken out. Those drives resulted in three punts and an interception, and McEvoy was just 4-of-10 for 24 yards. Ideally, Stave would have come in, performed capably and given the Badgers a solution to the unreliable passing game that had plagued the offense to that point. But in his first action since the Capital One Bowl against South Carolina, Stave was
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2013 Joel Stave
208-of-336 passing (61.9 percent) 7.4 yards/pass attempt 22 TD’s, 13 INT’s 138.1 passer rating -0.7 yards/rush, 1 rush TD
equally as bad as McEvoy, tossing three picks while going 8-19 for 114 yards and a touchdown. This was the first week Stave was available to play as he worked through psychological issues that prevented him from making simple throws. Andersen said before the game he expected Stave to play if the situation called for it. Because of that, it’s hard to say McEvoy was benched in the traditional sense of the term. Even before the season began, Andersen said he wanted to incorporate both McEvoy and Stave into the offense. “We’ve got two quarterbacks that I think are going to help this football team throughout the year,”
Andersen said in a preseason press conference. “Whoever takes the first snap doesn’t necessarily say he’s going to be the guy for the whole season.” We’ll never know if the original two-quarterback plan indicated a lack of comfort using just one player full-time or if Andersen truly felt this was the best strategy for the offense. The Badgers were certainly not ready for its implementation against Northwestern, however. There was plenty to secondguess regarding offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig’s playcalling, especially when a running quarterback like McEvoy rushed just once on a tuck-and-run
scramble. The offense suddenly departed from creative wrinkles like the jet sweep and read option, forcing McEvoy to be something he wasn’t. Though the Badgers are 0-1 in the Big Ten, they’re still in a position to win the West division thanks to a weak conference. Because of this, Wisconsin must play the quarterbacks that give it the best chance to win, rather than try unproven Bart Houston or true freshman D.J. Gillins. The depth chart for this weekend’s game against Illinois lists McEvoy or Stave as the starter. The Badgers can be successful using a two-quarterback system, but must utilize the strengths of both players. McEvoy needs to be used as a read-option quarterback who primarily hands the ball off or keeps it himself. Wisconsin cannot afford to pigeonhole him into a pocket passer role. Meanwhile, Stave, with his powerful arm, needs to threaten the defense vertically, something he showed in spurts last year. Theoretically, Wisconsin could also occasionally use both quarterbacks simultaneously, though this is not a sustainable, full-time approach. To avoid predictability, the Badgers can still run jet sweeps with Stave under center like they successfully did last season. Likewise, play action could become a strength with McEvoy if he sets it up with a few option plays and handoffs to Melvin Gordon or Corey Clement. But if Wisconsin loses another game or two, there’s no reason to not play Houston or Gillins, if he doesn’t redshirt. Until then, however, this is what the Badgers have. Wisconsin won’t overpower defenses with McEvoy and Stave, but getting creative and using them both is currently the best option.
Men’s Soccer
Badgers get second win in shutout By Jason Braverman the daily cardinal
Following a stretch of tightly contested overtime games and close losses, the Badgers (0-3-0 Big Ten, 2-7-1 overall) were able to get back into the win column with a 1-0 victory over Green Bay (0-1-1 Horizon, 3-4-4). The win and shutout was the second of the year for Wisconsin, who struggled through a rough September in which they failed to win any of their five matches. As has been the case throughout the entire season thus far, the freshmen once again led the way for the Badgers. Freshman forwards Mark Segbers and Tom Barlow connected on the lone goal of the night and freshman goalkeeper Adrian Remeniuk capped the shutout with three saves. “I thought Adrian kept us in the game, which is the job of the goalkeeper,” coach John Trask said. “Compliment to him, because there were a couple of tough situations for him to deal
with in the first half and he made the saves and gave us a chance.” After a few missed opportunities by the Phoenix, the Badgers opened up the scoring in the 22nd minute on Barlow’s third goal of the season.
“I wasn’t pleased with the first half and I told them so ... It’s nice to see they responded to some motivation.” John Trask head coach Wisconsin men’s soccer
“It wasn’t the best goal, but you know, it finally rolled our way,” Barlow said. “Mark did a good job, he’s so fast, so he beat a couple guys and he took it inside, and I went to the outside and tried to cut back in, and he slid a nice ball in. I kind of got lucky on the shot, the deflection, so, but I’ll take it.” Despite going into the half with the 1-0 lead, Wisconsin was out-
shot through the first 45 minutes eight to two, with the Phoenix controlling most of the play. “That’s the nature of soccer, you can win a game when you’re not playing well, and I think, at least in the first half, we were winning a game where we were not playing well,” Trask said. The Badgers picked up their play in the second half, outshooting Green Bay the rest of the way and taking five of the game’s corner kicks in the last 45 minutes. “I wasn’t pleased with the first half and I told them so in plenty of words. And I thought the guys picked it up, so it’s nice to see they responded to some motivation,” Trask said. The Phoenix had some chances for the equalizer, but the Badger defense was able to clamp down to preserve the shutout and win. Wisconsin will return to Big Ten conference play traveling to take on Michigan State Saturday, with kickoff scheduled for 1 PM.
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Adrian Remeniuk got the Badgers’ second shutout of the season in, not coincidentally, the Badgers’ second win of the season.