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MPD, MFD request more staff in budget By Maggie DeGroot The Daily Cardinal
Representatives from over 30 citywide departments deliberated for their fair share of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s 2010 Executive Operating Budget during the second half of the Board of Estimates meeting Tuesday night. Much of the meeting focused on funding of public safety measures within the budget. Members of the Madison Police Department, including Chief of Police Noble Wray and Assistant Chief John Davenport, were present to discuss the possibility of adding more
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Wisconsin’s economy is on the upswing, Assembly Democrats reported Tuesday, though questions remain on the long-term prospects for growth. With state employment levels stabilizing and reports of continued economic growth throughout the state, Democratic members of the Assembly Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Small Business said they believe the state is recovering. “[Reports] show that what-
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The Associated Students of Madison held a town hall meeting Tuesday to provide UW-Madison students with information regarding possible future redevelopment of the Mifflin Street area. According to ASM Legislative Affairs Committee Chair Adam Johnson, there are two prima-
ry options students can support: conserving Mifflin Street or the supporting the Common Council’s proposed Downtown Plan to renovate the area. “The [Downtown Plan] is to [give Mifflin Street] more of a downtown feel—Mifflin Street is only a block away from the Capitol and where most of the high-powered business in the city
takes place,” he said. The area which the Downtown Plan would most affect if passed are the two blocks of residential homes on Mifflin Street between Broom Street and Bedford Street. However, Johnson said some areas of Mifflin Street will be redeveloped regardless of what Madison’s Common Council decides. Josh Molter, ASM Legislative Affairs Committee member, said the Downtown Plan would be a long-term, gradual project. “It’s not like the city’s going to come in and say, ‘hey we’re tearing this down,’” he said. “It’s going to be a case-by-case basis of a developer coming and saying, ‘hey I’m buying these two houses, I’m going to put up a new apartment building.’” Although a few students in attendance did support the Downtown Plan, the majority of students advocated conserving Mifflin Street. Alyson Manthei, a UW-Madison student who lives on Mifflin Street, said she feels
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police officers to the department. The MPD said they would like to include the authorization to add 11 police officers. Four of the 11 positions would be combined with existing crime prevention and gang officers. The gang officers would potentially be used to create a new Crime Prevention and Gang Unit in the city. Currently, the city of Madison has only two gang officers. Wray said that for a city of Madison’s size, it is necessary for the addition of more crime and gang
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ever we’re doing, we’re doing it right,” Committee Chair Rep. Louis Molepske, D-Stevens Point, said. “While people have obviously lost their jobs, the fact that we’re getting the economy to grow again and accelerate is key to continuing our climb out of the bottom of the recession.” The lawmakers’ announcement follows a special Assembly committee meeting held Tuesday with John Koskinen, chief economist for the Wisconsin economy page 3
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H1N1 cases continue to decrease among UW students University Health Services released statistics Tuesday revealing a decrease in the number of H1N1 cases on campus during the week of Oct. 4-10. The release said UHS evaluated 43 UW-Madison students last week with flu-like symptoms, defined as a fever above 100 degrees and a sore throat and cough.
These visits made up 4.6 percent of the total visits to the UHS primary care clinic, which according to the report is still slightly higher than average for this time of year. According to the release, this number is down slightly from week five (Sep. 27- Oct. 3), where UHS evaluated 58 UW-Madison students with flu-like symptoms.
UHS currently provides a free seasonal flu vaccine for all UW-Madison students, and the H1N1 vaccine is predicted to be available in late October or early November. Any UW-Madison student with flu-like symptoms can call UHS at 608-265-5800 to make an appointment.
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A student shows off his best air-shredding skills during the air band competition at the Rathskeller Tuesday, part of Homecoming week.
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ne of the biggest perks of being an upperclassman is no longer needing to take classes in crowded lecture halls with 200 other students three days a week with an additional 50-minute discussion. Senior year means seminars and classes of no more than 15 students: in my eyes, the ideal classroom. So I’m thrilled that of my three classes this semester—another beautiful thing about having fulfilled all my general education requirements—two courses are held only once a week with around 10 other students. My contempt for large lectures stems almost entirely from two things: The bigger the classroom the more overheated it tends to be, and class interrupters. For those unfamiliar with class interrupters, it’s either because you haven’t experienced one yet (and should consider yourself blessed) or probably because you are one—in which case, I hate you.
Without fail, every semester within the first week or two of any large(ish) class, class interrupters will emerge. Normally they are older, perhaps returning students or graduate students who have found themselves out of place in a predominately undergraduate class. They always sit in the front row, never out of the professor’s sight, and often, their backpacks have wheels... which is both ridiculous and awesome at once, but that’s beside the point. During lecture, they start off with at least some trepidation; they’ll raise their hand and ask the professor a question that at least somewhat pertains to the material currently being discussed. But as time goes on, they grow bolder. All of a sudden they’re cracking jokes that no one finds funny (including the professor), challenging the professor’s opinion or questioning their explanation of a problem; often they begin their sentences with, “Well, I’ve found...” or “I’m not sure if I agree with...” Usually the professors take it in stride because, well, they have very little choice and approximately 0.7 percent of their 250 students will ever speak up in class, even after directly being asked a question.
Occasionally, a professor will even embrace these students. Freshman year I took a nutritional science course with Pete Anderson and instead of telling our front-row friend to shut the eff up, he bonded with her. During class time I used their discussions as an opportunity to catch-up on other important tasks like my daily dose of sudoku. This semester, however, I have the WORST class interrupter of ALL TIME. Not only do I hate her, but so do all of my classmates—particularly the people sitting around her who can feel the evil glares of other students on the backs of their heads as well—and I’m guessing my professor too. Not only does this student, we’ll call her “Abby” for identity protecting purposes, constantly speak out in my class, she no longer raises her hand and will occasionally just shout out (like, legitimately shout, raised voice and out of control) phrases or thoughts that only make sense to her. It wouldn’t be so bad if Abby weren’t in my discussion as well. As bad as lecture is, discussion is even worse. Instead of a TA, our professor leads my section, so the class interrupter views this not as an
opportunity for other students to get a word in, but rather a personal meeting between her and our prof. Clearly, the rest of us are just an audience to her great wit, knowledge and debate skills. It’s gotten to the point where if she opens her mouth, our entire class tenses up in anticipation of the obnoxiousness that is undoubtedly about to ensue. Almost out of instinct I whip around to look at my friend Megan wondering, “What did we do to deserve this?” Luckily, I believe our professor is growing as tired of Abby as we all are. Instead of giving her time to let out her longwinded questions/statements/jokes, he lets her get about 30 seconds in and then swiftly but still politely cuts her off and steers the discussion back to things that we’re actually supposed to be learning. Hopefully something will take the wind out of her sails. I’m sort of hoping that she’ll fail her first midterm or something and realize that there’s probably a pretty good reason that she’s taking the class and not teaching it. That’ll shut her up. If you’re an “Abby” and want to tell Jillian what you think of her and her subpar classroom performance, e-mail her at jlevy2@wisc.edu.
the daily cardinal makes fun of you Emily Amann true religion jeans...another pair? Year: 2011 Hometown: Slinger, WI Political Views: Liberal Religious Views: Live. Laugh. Love. Favorite Movies: Rainman, Back to the Future... Interests: laying out, working out, salsa (the dance and the food), the memorial union terrace (!!!), oatmeal, singing in the car/blaring my music loud in it, driving barefoot
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Favorite music: I’m a gangsta at heart, but pretty much everything ;) Most Embarrassing Item: We’ll start with an insult that you most certainly heard on the elementary school playground: YOUR LAST NAME Hey Emily, director David Lynch called, he wants your casting SOUNDS LIKE “A MAN.” And, judging by your photo back for the upcoming movie “Gothy: Saddest Girl Alive!” picture, you are “a mann” who enjoys wearing what looks like a black singlet along with cryptic writing on your body about how you are so sick of people making that same joke with your last name. Oh, and believe us, the only thing more “gangsta” than your taste in music is that black singlet... or whatever you are passing that off as. Don’t worry, we’re just as embarrassed writing this as you appear to be in your profile picture. Stupid Fact About Your Hometown: Slinger is home to the aptly named Slinger Super Speedway, a track claiming to be “The world’s fastest quarter-mile oval!” A more appropriate title might be “The quarter-mile oval no one would give two craps about if it fell off of the face of the Earth!” Missed Opportunities: Seriously, what does that writing say on the right side of your rib cage? We can only assume it reveals more about your childhood insecurities from being called Emily “A man” so many times.
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Saving Grace: Let’s face it—the woman is a salsa aficionado. Not only does “A man” dance the dance, but she finishes it off with a heaping bowl right after. That’s devotion.
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Speaker offers advice on ways to work successfully in teams By Ian Byrne The Daily Cardinal
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Business school professor Mary Triana spoke to UW-Madison students Tuesday on how to cooperate with others in groups.
The Accenture Leadership Center hosted UW-Madison School of Business associate professor Mary Triana to provide advice for business students on leadership and team cohesion Tuesday, in continuation of their leadership speaker series. Triana’s talk explained the several types of individuals and groups that leaders must work with. Within these specific and diverse personalities that make up groups, Triana said there are several ways of dealing with conflicts that may arise as a leader or group member. Students in the audience brought up personal experiences on dealing with situations such as “people in my group are not showing up” and “no one talks because
JFC passes plan to change early voting policy The Joint Finance Committee approved a five-year election administration plan Tuesday, requiring the Government Accountability Board to study early voting policies and other voting-related issues. The plan would change the date of primary elections and extend Wisconsin’s eligibility for funds from the Help America Vote Act to almost $4 million. According to the plan, Wisconsin became
eligible for HAVA funding in 2008. A controversial provision that would study requiring voters to present photo identification prior to voting was left out of the plan. State Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, motioned to include the study of requiring photo ID, but the motion failed along party lines. In light of the goal of the plan to “ensure integrity of individual ballots,” republicans argued for
the study to ensure honest voting. According to the plan, the GAB will work to train local officials to detect ineligible voters, regularly audit registry records and keep new voter registers updated. The plan also aims to implement “true early voting” in Wisconsin, which would reduce voter waiting lines and election costs. Additionally, the plan seeks to streamline the absentee ballot process.
Galloway to challenge Sen. Russ Decker in 2010 election The chairperson of the Republican Party of Marathon County announced her candidacy for the 2010 Senate race Monday, challenging the seat of state Sen. Russ Decker, D-Weston, who is the Senate majority leader. Pam Galloway said she aims to “restore responsibility to our government” through economic and social conservative policies. She said she
mifflin from page 1 the plan would ruin the character of the area. “I live on Mifflin, and the ambiance and the college environment will stick with me a long time after I move away from it, so I feel like building new structures … and not keeping that envi-
estimates from page 1 prevention officers. Madison Fire Chief Debra Amesqua was also present and offered her opinion about the fire department’s budget for 2010. Amesqua highlighted budget goals such as maintaining the opening of Station No. 12 by keeping a staffing level of 72 people. The new addition of Station No. 12 generated new positions for part of 2009, including nine firefighters, five lieutenants and four apparatus engineers. The budget for the fire department also included funding for a spring 2009 recruit class. The prospective class of 20 people would help to fill in for vacancies and the number of anticipated retirements, according to Amesqua.
plans to cut government spending and reduce taxes. “The founding fathers established a system of limited government and prosperity through individual responsibilities and freedoms,” she said in a statement. “Wisconsin has veered off course. It is time to return to the original path.” Galloway, a certified general sur-
geon and practicing physician, said one of her primary goals is to support Wisconsin’s medical community. In a statement, she praised Wisconsin’s medical torte reform and said she hopes to improve Wisconsin’s medicine system. Decker was elected to the state Senate in 1990. He replaced Judy Robson as majority leader in 2007.
ronment or look will completely change Mifflin Street,” she said. Joe Koss, ASM Student Council member, said he hopes more students will get involved and voice their concerns with the issue. “Mifflin … has been a historically vibrant part of the undergraduate campus scene since back
to the Vietnam War,” he said. “For there not to be a student voice in this type of legislation would be really tragic.” Another informational meeting regarding the Downtown Plan is scheduled for 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Memorial Union.
Additional highlights from the meeting involved discussions from such departments like Parking Utility, Traffic Engineering and the City Clerk’s office. The clerk’s department emphasized issues dealing with liquor licenses. These concerns centered on how to make sure client’s licenses are valid. To do so, one or more hourly employees hired to perform compliance inspections of alcohollicensed establishments throughout Madison were requested. Joel Plant, executive assistant to the mayor, also said that civilian inspectors are necessary to check on the validity of alcohollicensed establishments. Plant insisted that by enforcing this, the city would be able to crack down on establishments with faulty licenses.
they don’t want to offend anyone, they are just agreeable.” In tailoring the talk to the students’ specific instances, Triana elaborated on what an effective leader must do to understand why a group is or is not functioning: have a framework for understanding team processes and performance, know something about the individuals and their personalities and know how to manage team conflict. She said there is a “Big Five Model” of five different personality traits that include extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness. According to Triana, some of these traits often lead to conflict. To alleviate potential issues among groups from these per-
economy from page 1 Department of Revenue, and Zach Brandon, executive assistant at the Department of Commerce, to discuss the effectiveness of legislation that issued over $200 million in business incentives. Supplementing Democrats’ statement, Gov. Jim Doyle reported Tuesday on the first quarter impact of federal dollars on Wisconsin’s economy. According to a statement, over 8,000 full-time jobs were created or maintained from the nearly $680 million allotted to Wisconsin through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Republicans challenged Democrats’ “rosy” message of economic improvement in a statement released by state Rep. Rich Zipperer, R-Pewaukee, a Republican in the Assembly Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Small Business. “The rosy message that we heard from these agencies is in stark contrast to what workers and employers in the private sector have been saying,”
sonality conflicts, Triana said leaders should be prepared for conflict resolution, collaborative problem-solving, goal-setting and performance management, communication and planning. Triana also said she encourages students to use constructive confrontation, break down goals and assign specific roles to group members. She said this helps bring on motivation and cohesion. According to Triana, doing this in a positive way in the beginning as an open forum sets a consistent norm on how the group functions and deals with issues. “Never make it personal ... and be constructive.” she said. The ALC will host the next speaker in its series Nov. 17. The discussion will be on business ethics. Zipperer said in a statement. Republicans reported that Forbes magazine cited Wisconsin as the third worst environment for creating jobs in the nation, blaming recent tax increases as the leading cause for the poor ranking. Andrew Reschovsky, UW-Madison professor of public affairs and applied economics, said it is too soon to tell whether the positive economic trend is in response to recent legislation. “The questions of causality are very difficult to answer,” Reschovsky said, asking whether a legislative incentive would really be the reason a firm chose to expand its employment or move to the state. “Unless you can control for all other factors, it’s very hard to attribute causality to any particular policy.” Despite Republican claims, Democratic lawmakers said they plan to move forward with additional legislation. “The next step is continuing what we’ve been doing well with our very aggressive tax credit incentives policies and continuing to evaluate what we can do on the ground,” Molepske said.
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ast week, Common Council members requested several amendments on Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s capital budget including hangups for two of the largest price tags. First, they challenged the tax incremental finance contributions to the Edgewater Hotel remodeling project, which could total up to $16 million in funding. Second, it was requested that the central library project, totaling $37 million, be put to a public vote. Underlying both referendum proposals is not only the possibility of political power plays, but also an unnecessary demand to put major spending decisions on the shoulders of the average citizen. Luckily, these proposals were both defeated on Monday night, preventing what could have been prolonged stalls on two of the larger development projects for the city this decade. The central library referendum was kept on file, so although it’s unlikely, it could come up again in the Common Council in November. The Edgewater Hotel carries the heftiest price tag on the mayor’s budget, taking up a sizeable chunk of the $185 million. And while it is true the TIF funds involved would come from citizens’ wallets—seemingly giving them an inherent right to weigh in—the budget does not even require or demand the certain use of those funds. It only provides for the opportunity to use up to the full $16 million ceiling. And if the funding were pulled out of the budget, requiring three-fourths council support to gain approval, the project supporters would have large hurdles to overcome to find another sufficient source of funding.
Attacking the use of tax dollars to potentially prevent large spending in harsh economic times would have been the theme of the referendum, as the building of a new central library would have been entirely placed before the voters. This tactic is significantly more transparent than the Edgewater request, as its subtle agenda comes from opponents looking to squash it.
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The popular nightclub Madison Avenue will undergo an interior makeover as soon as January.
Segredo’s potential beyond bowling It is also not the job of referendums to pose as a last stand for opponents of largescale spending.
Aside from our previous endorsement of the project, this move also brings forth our view that we elect our public officials to do the research to make the educated decisions we tasked them to make. Along with their job to thoroughly research and familiarize themselves with these decisions, it is also not the job of referendums to pose as a last stand for opponents of largescale spending. Although the public has a right to voice their opinion on such expensive projects, we should remember that we are not a direct democracy and that our elected officials are already responsible for projecting the voice of their communities. Especially considering the delicate economic situation and track record of referendums squashing any and all challengers (see California), we feel in these specific cases it is appropriate for officials to do what they were elected to do.
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s students, we face our fair share of academic adversity. In the face of this adversity, I feel it’s best to follow one simple rule: When things get tough, just go bowling. Hopefully this is exactly what Michael Hierl was thinking when he proposed his plan to remodel the puzzlingly popular nightclub Madison Avenue as a very trendy restaurant and bowling alley. Emphatically defined mostly by hearsay, Mad Ave is known as that place where your affable but nocturnal roommate would spend most of his Saturday nights. With its dance floor lit solely by glow sticks and no real enforcement of an alcohol policy, Mad Ave had its license suspended in July, and it’s amazing that the city hasn’t forced the nightclub to close its doors sooner because of underage drinking concerns. While I am skeptical of Hierl’s ambition to build an acceptably tacky bowling alley, the whole project holds a lot of promise for student nightlife in Madison. Don’t get me wrong, Hierl’s project, suavely titled “Segredo,” definite-
ly sounds like it will be way kitschier than a great bowling alley is tacky. The name means “secret” in Portuguese and leeches off Madison’s cosmopolitan reputation with its proposed menu of crispy rock shrimp tacos and ice-cream based “mocktails.” It also is only slightly a bowling alley, complete with four scaled-down lanes that put most of the restaurant’s focus on the trendy atmosphere rather than official lane length. This is disappointing because there is still a ten-pin void left over from the demolition of Union South, and the new Union doesn’t appear to have bowling in its long-term plans. Most headlines have stated that Mad Ave will be replaced by bowling, which is a bit misleading. The fact that Segredo will not be strictly a bowling alley immediately takes the excitement out of it, but did you really think that someone wanted to build just a normal bowling alley downtown with a name like Segredo? Bowling alleys have names like “Rolling Lanes” and “Lucky Strike.” They are attached to smoky diners with wood paneling, Christmas lights that they never take down and burnt coffee. But still, try to look past that and think of it as a revolution in how entertainment is marketed in Madison. Hierl could have just as quickly presented an idea for Segredo that would have kept Mad Ave’s reputation as an underage drinking hotspot. But he
chose to try something new that will also help to curb some underage drinking issues on campus. The focus of Segredo seems to be on an intimate setting, a laid-back place to connect for students who aren’t easily swayed by the glamour of two-dollar rail mixers. And also, Segredo will have drinks available for those who do want to drink. The ALRC will hear Segredo’s case soon, and both Alds. Bryon Eagon and Mike Verveer are optimistic about its chances of getting a liquor license. Eagon also pointed out that Segredo would help fill the void inherent to the student population between the ages of 18 and 20. Truth be told, I’m not really as concerned with the 18-to-20 year old age group as I am with the fact that Madison does not really have a suitable movie theater within walking distance (if you can stand wobbly projectors and sticky floors, the Orpheum rules). It’s not Segredo itself that is so promising, but what Segredo represents. Perhaps it can open up the doors for some more interesting alternatives to the current Madison nightlife. If successful, it could really raise some eyebrows and get other developers thinking of new forms of entertainment that cater to smaller, more dedicated demographics. Anthony Cefali is a senior majoring in biology. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
Community service should follow passions By Dana Sitar YOUR CAUSE THIS WEEK
Today’s Student Organization Neighborhood guest editorial comes courtesy of Your Cause This Week. The Student Organization Neighborhood is a biweekly column dedicated to giving a voice to student groups across campus.
Your Cause This Week was founded in 2009 to facilitate simple, direct community service. We understand that students care about various causes in their community, but not everyone has the time or interest in making an ongoing commitment to a project or an organization. Many simply don’t know what opportunities exist to work on the issues they care about. Your
Cause This Week offers a nostrings-attached opportunity for everyone to make a difference in their community.
Many simply don’t know what opportunities exist to work on the issues they care about.
Students can tell us what they care about and how they’re interested in getting involved, and we will either help connect them with a local organization where they can volunteer or we can help them plan an event or volunteer opportunity to meet their interests. In this way, we are able to offer a great service not only to fulfill the needs in our community, but also to help the volunteers
who want to meet those needs. You don’t have to make a commitment to make a difference; you just have to care about your cause. If you are interested in serving your community, Your Cause This Week can help you plan a volunteer opportunity that works for you and serves the cause that you care about. Don’t underestimate the impact of that single act; every step you take will make a difference to your community and the causes you want to serve. And always be aware that as you take that step to serve your cause, there are others taking steps in the same direction. The combined impact of these single acts can make a great difference to your community. To see the impact your act can make when combined with others, join Your Cause This Week for Make a Difference Day on Oct. 24. Do one nice thing for your community on that day—hold a
door for a stranger, pick up a piece of trash on your walk to class, drop money or food in a donation bin—and share your story with us at yourcausethisweek.org. Fill out the form at the “Make a Difference Day” link, then follow the “We Made a Difference” link to see the list of your acts combined with others.
You don’t have to make a committment to make a difference; you just have to care about your cuase.
Your Cause This Week is currently involved with the Red and White Hunger Fight and with Project Grow’s Family Volunteer Day. These partnerships allow us to offer a wider variety of opportunities to our volunteers, and we’re
always looking for opportunities to work with new organizations and projects. To learn about the other events Your Cause This Week has planned for the semester, join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 20, or just check us out online at yourcausethisweek.org. On the website, you can sign up for our upcoming volunteer opportunities, submit an Opportunity Request to tell us how you want to get involved, and get updates on our activities. Whatever you care about, there is always a way to help. Your Cause This Week can connect you with the issues that you care about through simple, direct service to our community. Dana Sitar is the coordinator for the student organization Your Cause This Week. If you have any questions or would like to contribute, please contact the organization at coordinator@yourcausethisweek.org.
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Be a rebel with a cause: Check out a banned book today ALEX KUSKOWSKI the big bookowski his week I was twiddling my thumbs and thinking of new ways to make reading exciting for all of my very favorite people in the world (read: the two of you who pick up the Wednesday paper for the arts section and not the Graph Giraffe) when yet another one of my brilliant ideas occurred to me. What do college students like to do more than sitting, eating free unhealthy food and/or watching TV? Nothing, you say? My friend, everyone knows what people really love to do more than anything else is break the rules they’re told not to. Usually, when it comes to Madison, that involves some underage imbibing of an aqueous solution made through distillation (beer for the slow ones among you) or smoking of questionable substances, but I’ve got a new way for everyone on campus to thwart The Man.
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“Catcher in the Rye,” “Harry Potter,” even “The Perks of Being a Wallflower, were all banned somewhere in the U.S. in the past two years.
Lucky for you guys it doesn’t involve protesting or erecting a sunken Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota in December (it’s too cold out there for that). What I’m thinking will get everyone excited about both exercising their rights and reading is...banned books! These books, for one reason or another, are disliked by a certain amount of entirely insane people so incensed by the subject matter that if they find you reading they might hunt you down and do the
unthinkable. No, not bust up your Saturday night kegger (though I bet being the downers they are, they’d do that too), but they’d TAKE YOUR BOOK! Anyway, since we all know telling people not to do something automatically means they want to go out and do it, I’m going to tell you NOT to go read a banned book. There I go again telling you not to read, but wait! Too late. You probably already have. Basically everything you ever read in middle school, in class or under the bleachers, was a banned book somewhere. Sure, you say, but that stuff all happened forever ago, in, like, the ’60s right? Wrong, my naive friends. “Catcher in the Rye,” “Harry Potter,” even “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” were all banned somewhere in the U.S. in the past two years. If that doesn’t send you on a trip then perhaps you’d better start applying the drug-induced descriptions of the “Perks of Being a Wallflower” to your daily life. After that, try using your newfound love for illicit reading material by getting into some grownup books. “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini is a recently banned book that’s a great place to start, or even try a classic revolt against The Man and one of my personal favorites, “1984” by George Orwell. If you’d rather go younger, pictures and all, “And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell has been the most challenged book three years running, and get this, the subject matter? Baby penguins and adoption. Still don’t think book banning is a bad idea or that you’ve even read a banned book? Then I’m challenging you to go out and find out what all the fuss is about. Rather spend your time reading banned books than doing banned substances? Tell Alex what’s up at kuskowski@wisc.edu. She really loves e-mails. Seriously.
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The romantic poetry of John Keats is on display in ‘Bright Star,’ an achievement not only in bringing an elegant love story to the screen, but also in featuring a character legitimately named Fanny.
Film makes Keats ‘Star’ By Lauren Fuller THE DAILY CARDINAL
“Bright Star” satisfies a hunger we may not have known we had: a hunger for an elegantly done, emotional love story. The passion on screen is burning and heatwarming and continues after you leave the theater. The affections in question are between John Keats, perhaps the greatest of England’s 19thcentury Romantics, and Fanny Brawne, literally the girl next door. They met in 1818, when Keats was 23 and Brawne 18, a little more than two years before his tragic death from tuberculosis. The intensity of their connection brought forth some of Keats’ greatest work. Essential in this was the superb work of Australia’s Abbie Cornish (Brawne) and Britain’s Ben Whishaw (Keats), whom writer and director Jane Campion (“The Piano”) boldly cast as inseparable lovers before they even met each other. The chemistry between the two scorches on the screen. This potential romance
makes no one happy, not Brawne’s mother, who worries that the penniless Keats cannot marry without funds, and not Scotsman Charles Brown, a friend and colleague of Keats, who is frankly jealous. But Fanny is feisty enough to follow her heart. Keats draws inspiration from Fanny; his delicate health improves when she is around.
“Bright Star” is a tale of hope in its finest form.
Nothing, aside from Keats’ increasingly severe illness, can keep these two apart, especially when circumstances have them sharing the same house and, in a classic moment, simultaneously touching the thin bedroom wall that keeps them apart. The film acknowledges the evolution of affection between
two characters with not much more than youth in common. Fanny reads Keats’ poetry “to see if he’s an idiot” but can’t puzzle out its subtleties. Keats is mystified by her announcement that her ball gown boasts the only triple-tiered mushroom collar in all of Hampstead. Still, their mutual attraction is undeniable. True to the norms and morality of the day, the lovers sublimate their passion into longing and passionate correspondence. The film delights in its literary heritage, using quotations from Keats’ work throughout, including passages from the poignant letters he wrote to Fanny when they were apart. “Bright Star” is a tale of hope in its finest form. The love between Fanny and Keats crosses seasons, stands the test of time and lives on through Keats’ powerful poems. This film is one to see for poetry fans as well as those who appreciate love. “Bright Star” enlivens the soul and undoubtedly conjures emotion. Grade: A
New Albums of the Week Even though The Daily Cardinal reviews tons of albums each week, there are still many new releases that slip through the cracks. Here are some of the best new albums coming out this week, including our editors’ pick of the week. New Releases The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Songs From Lonely Avenue The Flaming Lips - Embryonic Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & Tame One - Parallel Uni-Verses Think About Life - Family
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It’s ridiculous that there are places in the U.S. that would ban ‘Harry Potter,’ it’s perfectly appr—Ron! Where’s that hand going?!?
Editor’s Pick: The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa A shamelessly no-holds-barred grandiosity, Warm Heart of Africa isn’t the kind of world music debut we expect these days. The Very Best make no claims of authenticity, but their keen devotion to sincerity makes for a refreshingly pure album dutifully laying the groundwork for impressively realized innovation. The most fascinating track on the album is also the riskiest, a zero-sum gamble employing the singer of one of the most divisive bands of the decade (Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig) to fill the gaps on one of the year’s most universally enjoyable records. But even the cynics who contend that Vampire Weekend are nothing but pretentious hacks whose summery dispositions are all too contrived and their plagiarized afro-pop bordered on slander can’t help but succumb to the gleefully assured Ezra backed by the Very Best.
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Today’s Sudoku
Evil Bird
By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu
Angel Hair Pasta
By Todd Stevens ststevens@wisc.edu
Sid and Phil
By Alex Lewein alex@sidandphil.com
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Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
Today’s Crossword Puzzle
The Graph Giraffe
By Yosef Lerner ilerner@wisc.edu
Charlie and Boomer
By Natasha Soglin soglin@wisc.edu
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ACROSS 1 Runs for health 5 White lies 9 Exploded 14 Give off 15 Heavy metal 16 The best and the brightest 17 Throw for a loop 18 Entertainer Minnelli 19 Impressionist Edgar 20 Italy’s patron saint 23 Caveman in Moo 24 GI show sponsor 25 “Diff’rent Strokes” actress Charlotte 28 Bread for gyros 31 Words after “just” 36 Shrek, for one 38 Vintner’s valley 40 Billy Crystal’s character on “Soap” 41 Kindred spirits 44 “Maria ___” (Dorsey tune) 45 Lazy Susan, essentially 46 Boo Boo’s buddy 47 Family cars 49 Small diamond? 51 Capital of Colorado? 52 Homophone for “two” 54 Amorous murmur 56 Hot times
65 Director Kurosawa 66 Yemen port 67 Bond film with Ursula Andress 68 Parlor piece 69 Benevolent 70 Prima donna problems 71 “Later!” 72 Tennis star Roddick 73 Nightly broadcast DOWN 1 NASCAR racer Gordon 2 General Bradley 3 City near the Sphinx 4 Shorthand pro 5 Man from Manila 6 Fleur-de-lis 7 Classic clown 8 State of confusion 9 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger film 10 Porter and stout 11 1958 film that won nine Oscars 12 Guesstimates from the cockpit 13 He loved Lucy 21 Flatfoot 22 “___ was saying ...” 25 Cover-ups in the courtroom? 26 Twinkle-toed 27 Missed the mark 29 President who served
on the Supreme Court 30 Not together 32 Former annual fashion award 33 Type of committee 34 Military assault 35 Spine- tingling 37 John’s role in “Hairspray” 39 At some distance 42 Orange County seat 43 Nice things to look at 48 Tofu base 50 Second- person person 53 Japanese metropolis 55 Poet Nash 56 Many Little League coaches 57 Dust Bowl migrant 58 Bestow 59 Heavy cart 60 Scandinavian god of war 61 Repel (with “off”) 62 Exhort 63 Kind of goose or leopard 64 Deep-six
You Can Run
By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com
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NFL’s parity a myth: Any given Sunday no longer true SCOTT KELLOGG the cereal box
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Scott Lorenz scored twice against Michigan State, including a game-winning goal in double overtime. Wisconsin will need him to continue that strong play Wednesday against Green Bay.
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Badgers hope to build on solid weekend in road trip to UWGB Defense must contain highpowered Phoenix offense to earn win By Caitlin Furin THE DAILY CARDINAL
After a huge overtime win against Michigan State Sunday, the Wisconsin men’s soccer team hits the road to face UW-Green Bay at Aldo Santaga Stadium Wednesday. Coming off their big win, the Badgers (3-5-2) have picked up momentum as they continue into the second half of the season. Head coach Todd Yeagley said Green Bay will be a tough opponent, and the Phoenix (9-1-2) are ranked second in the nation in scoring offense.
football from page 8 That all changed Saturday when junior running back Zach Brown went down with a concussion, forcing Clay and Ball to take on an increased role in the passing game to make up for losing Brown. “The way Ohio State was playing us, some of the stuff wasn’t open downfield, and we just had to take the checkdowns,” junior quarterback Scott Tolzien said. “Sometimes it’s just a dink pass, but sometimes a missed tackle here or there and those can break into big plays.” While Clay caught three passes for 11 yards and Ball finished with two catches for 22 yards, both looked comfortable blocking and
Senior defender Brian Bultman, who stopped a shot that got by senior goalkeeper Alex Horwath during the game against Michigan State, said he and his fellow defenders are fully prepared for Green Bay’s strong offensive attack. When asked what strategy the defense would use against the Phoenix, Bultman said they would have to play strong and aim for a shutout if they want to earn the victory Wednesday. On the offensive end, the Badgers will have to continue to create opportunities. Senior forward Scott Lorenz says the strategy for the offense will be to make good crosses and capitalize on corner kicks. Yeagley said the team’s win over Michigan State was surely a confidence booster for the Badgers and that Green Bay’s record will be irrelevant. He
added that Wisconsin’s in-state rivalry with the Phoenix adds more fuel to that fire. Yeagley added that the Badgers have been a confident team from the start and they are very capable of walking away from Green Bay with a victory. When asked about what the team needs to improve on in the game, Yeagley said he is focusing more on what the team is doing well. He said he hopes to BULTMAN keep those positives going for a strong finish to the year. The Badgers’ road trip continues with a weekend game against Northwestern Oct. 17 before they return to Madison Oct. 21 to face Marquette.
receiving out of the backfield on passing plays. According to running backs coach John Settle, that alone is an accomplishment, particularly for Clay, who struggled early in his career learning pass-blocking schemes. But Settle added that the benefits of getting Clay involved in the passing game were too great to allow him to fail. “If he gets the ball in the secondary one-on-one with a linebacker or a defensive back, we feel like we have a chance to win that match up, the later in the game the better,” Settle said. Ball’s success on Saturday came as no surprise to Settle, who said the freshman impressed coaches with his receiving abilities as soon as he arrived on campus.
“All of the drill stuff we do, all of the things that he did throughout the summer by getting here early, it proved to us that he can catch the ball and that he can definitely be a threat in the passing game,” Settle said. “When John’s not available, Montee’s able to go in there and get us what we need.” Ball and Clay may see more dump-off passes this Saturday as the Badger’s face an undefeated Iowa team ranked first in the Big Ten in passing defense. That doesn’t bother Tolzien, who said he’s more than happy to drop it down to his running backs when nothing is open downfield. “Those guys are dangerous with the ball,” he said. “I’m confident they can break tackles and turn it into a big play.”
he NFL is the country’s most popular sport for several reasons, and somehow the perceived parity of the league is one of them. Loads of NFL fans will tell you that their league’s the best because they think there’s more balance in it than there is in baseball. But the reality is the NFL is just as unbalanced as any other league, if not more. Ask a Buffalo Bills fan if he thinks there’s a lot of parity in the league; their team hasn’t made the playoffs since 2000. How about the St. Louis Rams? They have won five of their last 37 games. The Kansas City Chiefs are a little better, but not by much. They’ve won six of their last 37. The easiest target has to be the Detroit Lions, who have lost 27 of their last 29 contests. Sure, every year a team or two in the NFL surprises some people and makes a playoff run, but that happens in every sport, especially baseball. In 2008 the Rays earned a place in the World Series. And in 2007 it was the Colorado Rockies making the shocking trip to the Fall Classic. Think the NFL’s wild because the Arizona Cardinals went 9-7 but still played in the Super Bowl? How about in 2006 when the St. Louis Cardinals went 83-79 (51.6 winning percentage, worse than Arizona’s) and actually won the title?
One can forecast the participants in the NFL postseason just as easily as in the MLB.
The truth is the competition in the NFL is ultimately as predictable as in baseball. Who’s going to be good this year in the NFL? It will probably by the Patriots, Colts, Steelers and Chargers. One can forecast the participants in the NFL postseason just as easily as in the MLB. And if anyone needs recent proof of the gross unbalance in the NFL, look no further than the slate of games in week five of the 2009 NFL season. The now 5-0 Minnesota Viking
beat the 0-5 St. Louis Rams by four touchdowns, the 4-1 Eagles defeated the 0-5 Bucs, 33-14, the 5-0 Colts beat the 0-5 Titans by 22 points and the 5-0 Giants were victorious over Oakland, 44-7. The old phrase “any given Sunday” doesn’t make much sense anymore, because nearly a third of the teams in the league are flat-out miserable. Right now there are nine teams with one or no wins five weeks into the season, a little over 28 percent. The bottom tier of the NFL is not only miserable, it’s full. And these teams aren’t even competing. St. Louis has a point differential of minus-112, meaning the Rams are losing by an average of 22.4 points per week, and only once have they been within 18 of their opponent.
The bottom tier of the NFL is not only miserable, it’s full. And these teams aren’t even competing.
The Raiders have won a game but have still managed to have a minus-81 point differential, averaging 16.2-point losses per game. In addition, Kansas City, Tampa Bay, Detroit, Tennessee and Cleveland are all losing games by an average of double digits. And on the top of the league, there are seven clubs averaging double-digit victories. Over a third of the teams in the league are averaging double-digit point margins; doesn’t sound like much balance to me. People complain about the haves and the have-nots in baseball. They say it’s unfair how the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Angels are always good and how the Pirates and the Royals are always bad. Well, it’s the same way in football. Barring any drastic changes in the near future, you’ll still have your Lions, and your Browns, and your Raiders losing. It’s pretty easy to predict who’s not going to the playoffs in the NFL, even before the season’s a third done. The NFL’s great on so many levels, but, despite popular opinions, you can’t say parity’s one of them. You’re always going to have your perennial powerhouses and your loser franchises. That’s how it is in baseball, and it’s the same way in football. Do you think there is parity in the NFL? E-mail Scott at kellogg2@wisc.edu.
Red and White Hunger Fight seeking food, monetary donations in second year By Nico Savidge THE DAILY CARDINAL
For the second straight year, Wisconsin student-athletes will participate in the “Red and White Hunger Fight,” hoping to raise food and monetary donations for needy families. The drive began last Thursday and will run until Oct. 29. Donors can drop off canned food in green barrels, which have been placed around campus and surrounding neighborhoods or give monetary donations that will go to the Community Action Coalition. This is the Hunger Fight’s second year, after the drive collected
over $2,000 and four tons of food in 2008. This year, organizer and senior women’s soccer goaltender Michele Dalton said the goal is to raise at least $1,250. Dalton said Monday the event helps student-athletes be more active in Madison. “This is an opportunity for us to put our names DALTON out there and be seen in the community,” she said. “And I think we’re going to be successful with that.”
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Running backs take bigger role in passing game
John Clay did not worry much about passes in high school. But Clay could see that change as he and Montee Ball compete for catches.
Clay, Ball duel for catches as injured Brown misses time
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Clay, on the other hand, was more blunt when asked if he ever caught the ball for Washington Park High School in Racine. “No, we just ran the ball in high school,” he said.
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Freshman Montee Ball has seen more playing time recently as the offense has integrated running backs into its passing game.
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Wisconsin running backs John Clay and Montee Ball have much in common when it comes to their high school careers. Both were stud running backs who averaged over eight yards-percarry, posted over 30 touchdowns in a season and won player of the year awards in their respective states. But the two had very different roles in their teams’ passing games. Ball, a true freshman, said that while he didn’t catch a lot of passes his senior year, he still put up solid receiving numbers over his four years at Timberland High School in Wentzville, Mo. “My high school coach saw that I had some hands, so he made a lot of plays for me coming out of the backfield to catch the ball,” Ball said.
“Those guys are dangerous with the ball. I’m confident they can break tackles and turn it into a big play.” Scott Tolzien junior quarterback UW football
That would explain why, heading into Saturday’s game against Ohio State, Clay had one career reception for two yards that came in garbage time of a blowout loss to Iowa last year. However, that was one more than Ball, who had only seen sporadic playing time in two games this season because of a battle with pneumonia and the death of his grandfather. football page 7