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Underage patron bill goes to Walker’s desk A bill that would allow alcohol retailers in Wisconsin to sue underage patrons passed the state Legislature Tuesday after the Senate approved the Assembly bill. If Gov. Scott Walker signs the bill on its next step in the legislative process, bars and other retailers could sue underage patrons who are violating underage drinking laws, such as using a fake ID, in the retailer’s establishment. If a court finds the

underage person committed the violation, the bill mandates the person pay a $1,000 fine, a boost from the previous latitude the court had to issue a fine between $250 and $1,000. The legislation, which first passed the state Assembly in June, has been somewhat controversial since its introduction last year, but gained traction as a way to discourage underage students and citizens from going to bars.

Democratic state senators brought up several concerns over the bill during Tuesday’s Senate floor session. State Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, said the $1,000 fine could be more than 200 percent higher than what an establishment in Wisconsin would be cited under local ordinances if an underage patron was caught on its premises.

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State Senate approves tenant bill

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Bracelet yourselves Students made jewelry at “Art ala Carte” Tuesday evening in

Union South, one of the Union’s non-credit courses that are offered on a variety of subjects. + Photo by Jessie Gallimore

The state Senate passed the divisive landlord-tenant bill that seeks to standardize rental regulations across the state Tuesday with limited discussion. The bill has garnered debate in both houses of the state Legislature as well as on the University of WisconsinMadison campus for the effect it could have on renters across the state, including students. The bill would give landlords more power in the rental process, such as allowing landlords to dispose of an

bill and sent it back for the Senate’s Tuesday consideration. State Sen. Frank Lasee, R-De Pere, who authored the Senate bill, made a passionate speech on the Senate floor Tuesday after Democratic senators began further discussion of the bill. Lasee said the bill would not “open a whole can of worms” and was really a “simple question” of passing a bill that helped “good” tenants.

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New mascot complaint procedure moves to Senate

Students to ‘Make Bo Pay’ at cancer fundraising event University of WisconsinMadison men’s basketball head coach Bo Ryan will donate money to cancer research for every shot made at his Shooting Down Cancer event at the Kohl Center Thursday. Ryan and his wife will donate $1 for every UW-Madison student who attends, $10 for every free throw made and $1,000 for every half-court shot made. Their goal is to top the $41,279 they raised last year, according to a UW-Madison men’s basketball news release. Admission is free, and beverages, pizza and other food will be provided courtesy of Fresh Madison Market and Dr. Pepper/ Snapple. There will also be chances to win gift cards, autographed items and other prizes, according to the release. Doors will open at 3 p.m. and the event will go until 7 p.m., at which point Ryan and his wife will present a check containing the final donation amount to Coaches vs. Cancer.

evicted tenant’s belongings without notifying the tenant, and exempting landlords from providing an itemized list of the deductions from a security deposit. Instead, the landlord would only be required to provide a list of the costs to renters. The state Assembly originally passed a similar bill, but the state Senate rewrote portions of the bill and sent it back to the Assembly for consideration. The Assembly then discussed and approved of the reformed

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More than 1,600 University of Wisconsin-Madison students participated in last year’s Make Bo Pay event, which raised $41,279 for cancer research.

The state Assembly passed controversial legislation Tuesday that would make filing complaints of racism against school mascots more difficult. Under current legislation, school district residents can raise a complaint with the state superintendent about a school’s racebased mascot, nickname, logo or team if they believe it promotes discrimination, pupil harassment or stereotyping. If the superintendent finds the complaint is valid, the school must change its mascot within 12 months of the decision. If the school does not comply with the decision the school can be fined up to $1,000 a day. The new bill, which has the greatest effect on American Indian mascots, proposes that in order to file a complaint, residents must first collect 10 percent of the adult population’s signatures. The legislation takes enforcement power from the state superintendent and gives it to the Department of Administration.

Republican legislators said the bill would “strike a reasonable compromise” between both the accusers and accused. State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, who authored the bill, said it puts “the burden of proof on people who file complaints.” Democratic legislators condemned the bill, saying it would institutionalize racism and teach children to adopt stereotypes. State Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, drew comparisons to the national stage where the decision to change the Washington Redskins name is gaining popularity. Shankland said the nation is moving forward while this bill leaves Wisconsin behind. The bill would “reduce a group of people to less than human,” said Rep. Chris Danou, D-Trempealeau. The bill will now move to the state Senate where legislators are discussing their own bill on the subject. —Eoin Cottrell

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Wednesday Morning T ribute Avery’s wolves would go crazy for. A-WHOO.

michael voloshin voloshin’s commotion

s you will recall if you read Page Two week to week, semester to semester, a columnist named Adam Wolf and I shared the page each Wednesday last year. While I tried to change my subject matter week to week with interesting and funny observations about life and media, Adam had a consistent set up in which he could write his article in 15 minutes and reap all the rewards that a successful Page Two columnist deserves: girls, money, fame, delusion. Now that Adam is presumably dead or graduated, I thought I would write my tribute to him and his infallible column. This is my Wednesday Morning Hangover.

Movie from your childhood that still kicks ass “The Mask” (1994)—I had to re-watch this movie for a class and I forgot how violent it is. To be fair, it’s based on a dark series by Dark Horse Comics. In the comics, Stanley Ipkiss was more of a deranged killing lunatic than crazy superhero. But the movie is still hella fun and a great introduction to Cameron Diaz, who looks exactly like a girl Tex

First-World Hate of the week My first-world hate of the week is the app Sleep Cycle. Sleep Cycle is supposed to wake you up at the point when you’re closest to being awake so you feel refreshed, instead of waking up in the middle of REM sleep and feeling groggy and like Garfield on Mondays. It’s supposed to do that. However, these past few weeks I’ve been using it to give myself enough time to eat breakfast and drink coffee before class while trying to be energetic and ready for the day. Instead, I just snooze through my light alarm, spend the next 30 minutes contemplating how much time a shower would actually take and then rush to my first class with no food and no coffee inside of me. It’s a rough life, I know. Please, Sleep Cycle, do what you said you would do. Make me feel better in the mornings, not worse.

new music. Pusha T released his first solo album My Name Is My Name and it’s undoubtedly great, but the first single from the album really stands out as a song that gets the people going. As a white man who has lived in the suburbs all my life, I feel like I live vicariously through King Push in this song as he details how he makes and sells cocaine (affectionately called Johnson & Johnson in this song). Think about how much Pusha gets through in his first four lines with “20 plus years of selling Johnson & Johnson / I started out as a baby face monster / No wonder there’s diaper rash on my conscience / My teething ring was numbed by the nonsense.” Tough shit, right? And then Kendrick (who we’ve all anointed as the king of hip-hop in the

aughties) leads his verse with “You wanna see a dead body?” Chills. It’s a great song and now I feel like I’m ready to go to the streets of the Bronx and sell cocaine.

Unedited moronic Facebook status from a kid from my high school

None. Why none? Because I unfriend anyone that is idiotic from Facebook. I don’t understand why more people don’t do this. I don’t want everyone to see what I’m doing and I don’t care what they’re doing. Once I graduated high school, I deleted like 200 friends from Facebook. I’m at about 600 friends and they’re still too much. (Protip for unfriending: When Facebook tells you to say happy birthday to someone you don’t know, unfriend that person… happy birthday.) Please do me a favor and remove me before I remove you. This one’s for you Adam, I hope I made you proud. Happy to see Wednesday M o r n i n g Hangover again? Email Michael to tell him at mvoloshin@ graphic by haley henschel wisc.edu.

Song that Never Fails to fire me up “Nosetalgia” (Pusha T ft. Kendrick Lamar, 2013)—Adam and I differ in our choice for pump-up songs; while Adam usually went with classic 1980s flare, I like to keep my iTunes fresh with

Barbie to ‘Brink’: Childhood dreams die hard Rachel schulze rache jam

s college students, we get asked, “What do you want to do with your life?” pretty often. My reaction generally involves a gulp, a cheek-tocheek smile and a confident, “Well, you see, I know, exactly, really, actually, but… OK, I don’t know.” But you know what? When I was a kid I had some pretty specific ideas of what I wanted to do with my life. Maybe I can tell people about those aspirations instead? OK? Cool.

Hair stylist (Barbie expert stylist, that is!)

Dressing up Barbies in pink dresses was fun and all, but you know what was more rewarding? Dunking a doll’s head in a cup of watered-down green food coloring then chopping off half her hair. If I could take an ordinary Barbie with knee-length locks and give her an angled bob spruced up with some teal nail polish highlights, surely I could make it as a real stylist, right?

Stop by a Daily Cardinal recruitment meeting Professional rollerblader Friday, Sept. 13 & 27the Andy Brinker, from movie “Brink,” is a4teenager p.m. who enjoys rollerblading for fun with his2195 friends in southern Vilas Hall. California. Upon realizing his

family is in financial trouble, he begins skating for money. The plot thickens. I won’t give away any more spoilers, but let’s just say it’s a quality film. Anyway, what could be cooler than rollerblading for a living?

Any sort of magical witch

Sabrina. The girl from “Halloweentown.” I’d even be content as one of the halfbloods in Harry Potter. As a kid, I just really wanted was magical powers. Was that so much for a girl to ask for? To make this fantasy seem less impossible, I went as a witch for five Halloweens as a kid (three times during elementary school, then following a hiatus, twice during middle school after I discovered “Charmed” reruns on TNT).

Singer/performer

Ginger Spice. As a young child, I was convinced my life would be better if I had red hair. I wasn’t entirely sure what red hair would do for me, but I knew I wanted it. My red-hair obsession hit its peak around the same time the Spice Girls did. So naturally, when I was six, my plan was to become Ginger Spice when I grew up. However, while I was once willing to challenge any friend who insisted my blond hair and late birthday limited my Spice Girl career possibilities to Baby, as the group’s popularity waned, my interest in becoming the redheaded pop star did too.

Preteen extraordinaire

Either twin from “The Parent Trap.” They were spunky twin sisters collude with each other to reunite their parents? Could a movie be any more awesome? Clearly, it only took one viewing of this VHS tape for me to realize who I wanted to model my preteen years after. At age seven, I didn’t know exactly who this Lindsay Lohan chick was, and I was a little shaky on my understanding of which of the twins she was more like in real life, but either way, she seemed like a role model.

Celebrity twin

Mary-Kate Olsen solved mysteries, hosted awesome

slumber parties, traveled the world and, if my memory serves me right, for some reason they saved a dude ranch? What I’m getting at is these girls led pretty interesting lives. I didn’t just want to watch them on my TV; I wanted to be them. My neighbor also saw an appeal in being an Olsen, so we decided to spend the rest of our childhood pretending to be the twins. She’s three years older than me, so I wasn’t in a position to object when she (age nine) assigned me (age six) the role of Mary-Kate indefinitely. Wanna watch “The Parent Trap” with Rachel while she applies to join “Brink’s” team? Send her an email about it at rmschulze@dailycardinal.com.

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Senate passes $100 million tax cut plan Property tax plan sparks debate over size, purpose in Senate session The Wisconsin Senate passed a $100 million property tax relief plan in a special session Tuesday despite strained dialogue, claims of blatant electioneering and references to cake. The plan, which Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday, would use the state’s current surplus to finance the $100 million plan that is designed to be facilitated through state school districts. If the plan is approved, the money will go to public school districts, which in turn will cause the property taxes on local residences to decrease, according to the plan. State senators passed the bill 28 to 5 but debated for much of the session on partisan lines about the motives behind the bill.

Democrats said the plan represented a re-election “gimmick” that would only give small benefits to individual state homeowners, approximately $33 over two years. Republicans refuted the claim, saying the plan would help the middle class more than state Democrats have in the past. During a speech on the Senate floor, state Sen. Mike Ellis, R-Neenah, compared the tax cut to “frosting” on top of a cake that represents the tax cuts passed in the most recent state budget. “[Democrats] gave [citizens] a cake tray and forgot to put a cake on it,” Ellis said. “We built a double decker [cake].” State Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, said “no one should be fooled” about the election-based motives behind the Republican bill but that Democrats would support the bill because “nobody wants to be seen voting against a tax cut.” The state Assembly will discuss the bill Thursday. —Jack Casey

State representative sends ‘sexting’ bill to colleagues for co-sponsorship State Rep. John Spiros, Spiros in a statement. R-Marshfield, began circulating The representative also a “sexting” bill for co-sponsor- referred to the effects of techship among fellow legislators last nological change, saying the week and has received bill was “pertinent to bipartisan support. protect a generation The Individual who are a point and Privacy Protection Act, click away from having the official name of the their private moments bill, seeks to make the made public.” non-consensual spreadThe draft is scheding of suggestive photos uled to be introduced online illegal. later this month and SPIROS The proposal comes be heard on the floor after a number of incilater in the fall session, dents of cyber bullying, which according to the release. lead to situations where peo“Posting these images is not ple “have been forced to move, a victimless crime,” Spiros said change their names, and, in in the statement. “These indisome tragic cases, even com- viduals deserve to have a legal mitted suicide,” according to system that protects them.”

sexting

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In Merriam-Webster added to the dictionary: the sending of sexually explicit messages or images by phone

78 percent of

17 States have passed laws that restrict sending or receiving nude or semi-nude photos

Nebraska, Florida and Utah have felony penalties for sexting

college students received sexually suggestive messages

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forwarded them to others without consent from the original sender

percent of adults admitted to sexting

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ASM to request student input on internal budget

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Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the tiny houses project will ideally benefit Madison’s homeless before winter hits.

Madison’s homeless look to ‘tiny homes’ for shelter By Irene Burski the daily cardinal

Madison’s Common Council voted in favor of an affordable housing solution for homeless city residents Tuesday, which amended city ordinances to allow tiny houses on volunteered religious and nonprofit organizational property. Occupy Madison, the organization behind the Tiny Homes Initiative, plans to offer small, economically efficient and eco-friendly portable structures as housing alternatives for those living on the streets. Prospective residents must first pledge to help build other tiny houses, paying for their own future home with their time. “It’s not just a shelter, it’s a commitment to a lifestyle,” said Brenda Konkel, the executive director of the Tenant Resource Center. “It’s a co-op mixed with Habitat for Humanity mixed with ecovillage as the long-term goal.” With the first home 90 percent complete, organizers sought council approval and cooperation to make tiny houses readily accessible and permissible under Madison city zoning laws. Some members of the council expressed concern regarding whether or not the tiny

houses would comply with city building and safety codes. “It sounds like they were sized to circumvent it,” said Ald. Paul Skidmore, District 9. However, as Konkel countered, the tiny house project is so new that there is just no code that covers them. “We can’t build them to a code, but we are building them to meet safety standards,” Konkel said. It was suggested the council refer the motion to its Oct. 29 meeting in order to allow time for further logistical questions to be addressed. However, alders decided against postponing, citing there simply isn’t the time as temperatures continue to drop. “I would remind everybody that it’s already very cold tonight,” said Ald. Lisa Subeck, District 1. Following the council’s favorable passage of the motion, local churches and nonprofits can begin the approximately two-monthlong application process to permit tiny houses on their land, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. “In the case of the tiny houses, it will take some time for individuals to directly benefit, but hopefully it will be sooner rather than later,” Verveer said.

Associated Students of Madison will ask students for feedback on the ASM internal budget at a listening session Wednesday. The session will occur during a Student Council meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the fourth floor Student Activity Center hearing room. The internal budget includes funding for registered student organization grants, advertising, student government representatives’ stipends and staff salaries. ASM representatives will ask students for input on what the budget should include. Suggestions will be incorporated in the first draft of the upcoming internal budget, Chair David Gardner said in an email. The current 2012-’13 ASM internal budget totals $1,241,962.36. Registered Student Organization operations, event and travel grants are allocated $465,000, while $391,407.36 is set for salaried employees. The budget also includes $208,000 for programming ranging from co-sponsorship for the All-Campus Party to staff trainings. According to bylaws, the ASM chair must present a draft of the budget to Student Council by Nov. 1.

tenant from page 1 “Good tenants suffer when bad tenants fail to pay their bill,” Lasee said. Democrats have criticized the effect the bill could have on students and other first-time renters in their opposition to the bill. The bill will now move back to the Assembly for consideration. —Jack Casey

underage from page 1 State Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, said the bill “puts a thousand-dollar bounty on [students’] backs” and is “not ready for prime time.” Republicans, including the bill’s author, state Rep. Andre Jacque, R-De Pere, have said the bill would help to curb underage drinking and statewide drunk driving. The bill will move to Walker for his consideration. —Jack Casey

City alders seek additional police, arts funding in 2014 The Madison Common Council discussed possible amendments to the proposed 2014 Executive Operating Budget Tuesday night, including increasing funding for the Overture Center for the Arts and downtown safety. Due to community members voicing concern about the transparency of internal budget negotiations, the council scheduled a special meeting to discuss the amendments alders are thinking about adding to Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed operating budget, said Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8. Resnick said there was

a “resounding sentiment” among alders on a few of the key issues discussed. The council was largely in favor of an amendment that would raise the Overture Center’s current funding from $1.5 million to $1.6 million. Alders also talked about how money allotted for police overtime should be distributed. Resnick argued the money should go to the central district, which services the downtown and parts of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. “There’s also quite a bit on campus safety that we were talking about,” Resnick said, including the

Downtown Safety Initiative. The Downtown Safety Initiative started in 2007 when the city allotted $100,000 to place police officers in troublesome areas in the downtown district, such as State Street during bar times, usually 11 p.m. until 3 a.m. from Thursdays through Saturdays. The goal of the initiative was to decrease crimes downtown by increasing police presence. Alders will continue to negotiate amendments before they vote on the capital and operating budgets in the beginning of November. —Morgan Haefner

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By Donald Radcliffe The Daily Cardinal

I spent a month this summer living in a cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Such is the life of a forest scientist. I was there to collect data, going into the forest for 10 hours at a time to identify and tally the diameter and height of thousands of teenage trees. I worked for The Flambeau Experiment, a project on the cutting edge of increasing forest ecosystem diversity on land that is managed for timber. Six years ago, researchers cut 28 groups of three small “gaps” into an area of the Flambeau River State Forest near Winter, Wisconsin. They were setting out to put numbers on this relatively new timber management system called “small group selection.” Small group selection is just what it sounds like —the forester punches a bunch of tiny clearcuts into the forest. Clearcutting is a process in which all the trees in the area are uniformly cut down. But these smaller gaps led to the regeneration of different herb and tree species than was seen with larger clearcuts. “We learn from ecology class how things should look in a gap, but to actually feel the difference while you’re out there, that’s very cool,” said Autumn Sabo, a Ph.D. student in the Forest and Wildlife Ecology Department at the University of Wisconsin-

Madison and the Flambeau Experiment field coordinator.

“We learn from ecology class how things should look in a gap, but to actually feel the difference, that’s very cool.” Autumn Sabo researcher forest and wildlife Ecology department

Sabo was referring to the massive bursts of plant growth that occur as a result of cutting gaps into a closed canopy forest. People can see these growth spurts from afar because most of the floor in the maple-dominated forests of the Flambeau is relatively barren of plant life. Mature sugar maple trees cast a very dense shade in which almost nothing can grow except for a few small understory plants. This is a very clever evolutionary strategy for a tree with higher “shade tolerance” than other trees. In theory, all trees grow best in full sunlight, given the absence of competition. However, some tree species can grow faster in full sunlight than others but cannot survive in the shade. The ones that can survive shade just wait for the faster growing trees with higher rates of metabolism—and thus shorter lives—to die. Due to a number of physi-

ological tradeoffs from branching patterns to leaf Nitrogen content, a given tree species cannot have the best of both worlds—it is constrained to a general position along the shade tolerance-optimal growth rate continuum. This leads to the classic successional model that you probably learned in high school biology class. Cutting down small groups of trees in mature sugar maple forests will increase forest diversity by bringing enough light into the system so that plants other than sugar maples can grow. Researchers like Sabo want to know how the forest ecosystem will change with small group selection and are trying to find an ideal size (or sizes) for the gaps. If one tree falls in the sugar maple forest (and no one is around to hear it?), a sugar maple is likely to replace it because of its high shade tolerance. This is the basis for “single-tree selection,” a widely practiced management system for sustainable harvesting of sugar maple forests. But if five trees in a cluster are sentenced to the chainsaw, there are multiple species with the physiological tools to outgrow the sugar maple. There’s the American Basswood, a tree that often sprouts multiple trunks from which giant heart-shaped leaves grow. The Yellow Birch

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is the deep bronze cousin of the more iconic Paper Birch, and it is a feast for many species of fungi, insects and birds. Yellow-bud Hickory has bright yellow buds, and the hickory nut is one of the most nutritious animal food sources in an ecosystem scarce on nutrients. An Ash Sapling is prime fodder for a hungry animals like deer, and an adult Ash tree has beautiful diamond-shaped grooves in its bark. But if the gap is too big, the shade-intolerant trees will grow—mostly Paper Birch and Quaking Aspen. And of course we want variety. So a number of folks such as Sabo and myself are sent up to the Flambeau River State Forest every summer in order to collect massive amounts of data on which trees are growing, and how fast they’re growing and in which sized gaps. However, trees are only the tip of the iceberg for this ecologically focused experiment.

“It’s a huge endeavor, running a project like this. It’s not just setup day, it’s all the maintenance and sampling.” Autumn Sabo researcher forest and wildlife Ecology department

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research team went through two full herbaceous vegetation surveys, three soil moisture sampling surveys, a soil compaction survey, an earthworm survey, a stump sprout survey, a seedling survey and a sapling survey, as well as regular checks on trail cameras. The team also took fisheye lens photographs of the sky in every gap in the experiment. Another team measured soil nutrient content, soil Nitrogen flow and soil temperature. “It’s a huge endeavor, running a project like this. It’s not just setup day, it’s all the maintenance and sampling,” Sabo said. Every one of those variables has to be measured in 34 plots (28 gap plots, six controls) of three gaps scattered over a couple of square miles of forested, mosquito-infested land. In order to get the data, the experiment requires a large amount of land, set-up labor, a cabin for field workers to stay in, a vehicle to get people and samples from Madison to Winter and from Winter to the actual field site, gas money and field workers (at least four in a week, up to eight). This has happened for multiple summers over the years. In other words, the Flambeau Experiment requires lot of time, money and effort. Ecological studies usually don’t have this kind of time and money available, which is what makes the Flambeau Experiment so special.

The AAAS Annual Meeting will bring to Chicago thousands of the world’s leading scientists, engineers, policymakers, educators, and journalists to discuss recent developments in science and technology. Poster sessions are an opportunity for students, post-docs, and faculty to meet and discuss research with the diverse community of meeting attendees. Prizes for the Student Poster Competition include recognition in the journal Science and a cash award. Poster abstract submission deadline: 24 October

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How noble is the Nobel Prize, really? Sean Reichard quip quo pro

t is to my ultimate chagrin that I never checked out Alice Munro before she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Now my interest feels petty, or feigned; the bandwagon wobbles with my desperate hop aboard. Better late than never? In the long run, yes. Although it will be later, instead of never. Though I strive to do plenty of “for fun” reading in my life, I don’t know where to start with Munro. Her career doesn’t really have any shape for me—rather, I’ve never looked for it, always running towards other horizons in other climes. There is no obvious starting point. There is a paucity of material behind my opinions on Alice Munro. Perhaps what I can talk about is what the Nobel Prize means and what it means for it to go to Alice Munro. I wrote a column about the Prize last year, when Chinese

author Mo Yan received it. Like with Munro, I rushed to the library to try and find some succinct example of this author’s genius. The book I found, “Explosions and Other Stories,” was good (and parts of it were riotously funny), but I’ve been rather derelict in that I haven’t read anything else of his since that one October. At this point, I see that rush for validation in and of itself short shrifts Mo Yan, Alice Munro or anyone who would have won the award. Though I’ll still take the Prize as “a sterling recommendation,” (my words) for Munro and Yan, I’ve had a bit of time to mull over the whole prize business. One of the biggest grievances aired against the Nobel Prize in Literature is that it doesn’t seem to give the award to the people who “deserve” it. Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy and Thomas Pynchon form a quadrumvirate of American contenders for the prize, who will be tirelessly championed until they all respectively croak—or perhaps even after that. Ngugi wa Thiong’o merits consideration. A personal favorite of mine, Haruki

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The Dismemberment Plan’s flawed return

Uncanney Valley The Dismemberment Plan

By Conor Murphy The Daily Cardinal

After a ten-year, on-and-off, hiatus, The Dismemberment Plan have released their first studio album in ten years. This hiatus was speckled with a one-off reunion show and then a subsequent tour through Japan and the United States four years later in 2011.

The lyrical imagination and progressive guitar and percussion are highlights of this comeback album, bringing The Dismemberment Plan back into the spotlight.

After releasing a live album in 2011 from their trans-Pacific tour, The Dismemberment Plan began working on the recently released Uncanny Valley. The album has a quality to it that allows for the band to reconnect with the style that popularized them in the mid to late 1990s, while allowing them to show persistent relevance and produce intriguing music. Bringing in post-punk guitar composition and thumping percussive beats, lead singer and

guitarist Travis Morrison sings lyrics that are reminiscent of his late ‘90s style and laden with the distinct yearnings of his early 2000s writing. “Invisible,” the album’s third track, has images of the anxietyridden wait for a job and being lost in the crowd of a big city. The lyrics and instrumentation fit together perfectly. “Lookin’” brings The Dismemberment Plan back to their roots and highlights slower moving guitar and bass lines. Later in the album, “Go And Get It” and “Mexico City Christmas” likewise have perfectly coordinated lyrics to match the instrumentation and tempo. “Go And Get It” has one of the most seamless transition between tempos in a song, allowing for a shift of mood and tone when playing. Sometimes, however, the album gets bogged down with tracks that have solid instrumentation but rather dull lyrics. Both “Let’s Just Go to the Dogs Tonight” and “White Collar White Teeth” have monotonous and slow-moving lyrics, and “Let’s Just Go…” has annoying bits of elementary rhyming sprinkled throughout the song. The lyrical imagination and progressive guitar and percussion are highlights on this comeback album, bringing The Dismemberment Plan back into the spotlight. With this solid album, they’ve shown how to slowly, yet surely, ease your way back into the scene.

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Murakami, seems like a shoe-in, though it hasn’t been his year yet. I can think of plenty past authors who, I guess, deserved it but didn’t get it: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Thornton Wilder, Wallace Stegner, James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Berryman… The list goes on. A common theme of all these picks (as you’ve probably noticed) is they’re all old. Maybe the Nobel Committee thinks by waiting they’ll get a better vintage. Or they may end up with bottles of ruddy vinegar. That’s the Academy’s gamble though. At any rate, therein lies some of the rationale behind the Nobel Prize in Literature: It’s given out for a career, not for individual works… per se. Sinclair Lewis, the first American recipient, was given the award in 1930, after a pretty heady string of great books in the 1920s (“Main Street,” “Babbitt,” “Elmer Gantry”). That spree, I might add, was bookended by a pretty solid career before 1920 and a pretty unremarkable one after 1930. Another considerate grievance (besides the long, long,

long list of unacknowledged, merited writers) lies behind the aim of the award itself. Alfred Nobel set up the award with the intentions of giving it to “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.” Those are some pretty rigid criteria, and most of the Nobel Laureates to date wouldn’t fit that criteria, in a social science sense. But what is “ideal direction” though? An aesthetic ideal? A moral ideal? A political ideal? If you read the list of laureates who’ve won the prize, you’d be amazed at their diversity. Writers as antipodal as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway have won the prize. Some prizes capped the careers of their recipients (Andre Gide, 1947, who died in 1951, after a 60-year career). Others came at their seeming beginnings (Albert Camus, 1957, who died in 1960 at the age of 46). Therein lies much of the appeal for the Nobel Prize, despite whatever grievance you may have. Its diversity. Its range. Its transnational reach. And, perhaps most importantly, its gaps. Because the award is only given out once a year, there’s a great deal of pres-

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Alice Munro recently won the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. tige attached to it. Winning the prize can mean anything from affirmation to validation to recognition. And there is so much literature to affirm or validate or recognize in the world that the Prize necessarily falls short. But it’s still worth trying. What do you think of Nobel’s intentions? Let Sean know at sreichard@wisc.edu.

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ast week, Mary Burke officially declared her candidacy in the 2014 gubernatorial election, and the announcement, while anticipated, left Wisconsin Democrats invigorated as she’s proven her ability to compensate for Gov. Scott Walker’s incredible political advantage. Burke not only has consummate experience making jobs in the private sector—allowing her to overcome Walker’s failed 250,000 jobs promise from 2010 and capturing the essence of the economic message Democrats always struggle with—but she also displays a certain level of authenticity. Unlike Walker, she isn’t a career politician jockeying for the next seat, only having served in a minor elected office since 2012. However, what excites me most about Burke isn’t that she can tout a true job creation record or that she comes from outside the sharp partisan divide in Madison. It’s not that she might be able to unseat the formidable

autocratic takeover that is Gov. Walker and the Republican Party of Wisconsin. One of the strongest reasons I stand with Mary Burke is because she is a woman. It’s simple. We need more women in government. In the 21st century, the era of forward thinkers and social innovators, women in politics are far too rare. While females constitute half of the country’s population, only 98—that is, 18.3 percent— of the 535 seats in Congress belong to women. And while female representation is significantly disproportionate in the legislative branch, it’s not surprising that women legislators face less discrimination than do their executive counterparts. Executive roles, like governorships, require more than votes. Executives manage the operations and set the political and economic agendas. They are the bosses of their states, and prevailing stereotypes certainly prevent them from assuming such esteemed roles. Considering this gender bias they face, it’s no surprise that this year, of the 50 governorships, females control just five. If elected, Burke would be

the first woman in Wisconsin to break this glass ceiling and join the good ol’ boys’ club. Still, unequal representation itself is hardly the most important issue women in politics face. What’s much more pressing across the nation and in our state are the consequential policy choices affecting women that these male-dominated political institutions make. In Wisconsin, Walker and the Republican-controlled legislature have made it a priority to restrict women’s rights. This summer, Wisconsin Republicans made it mandatory that abortion doctors have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics, essentially closing one of the only four abortion facilities in the state. They’ve also eliminated women’s access to economic opportunity, repealing the Equal Pay Enforcement Act, which deterred employers from discriminating against their female employees. Shouldn’t women, like men, be free to make their own health decisions without the consent of their male-controlled gov-

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ernment? Shouldn’t women expect to be treated equally for equal work? Until our male leaders catch up with the social realities of today, we need more female leaders like Mary Burke to protect us from these archaic, Draconian laws that effectively separate women into a distinct, inferior class. Getting figures like Mary Burke elected to office in the upcoming election cycle won’t be an easy task. In Wisconsin, Walker has an almost insurmountable political advantage. He wasn’t just elected once, but twice in the gubernatorial recall of 2012 and has virtually unlimited monetary resources from right-wing special interest groups. In other states, women like Wendy Davis of Texas, Alison Lundergan Grimes of Kentucky, and Michelle Nunn of Georgia, while all inspiring, promising candidates, face tough statewide races in red states during a year expected to be difficult for Democrats. In addition to the steep gender bias the American people hold, these electoral conditions make their chances less than desirable.

Yet in spite of these troubles, it’s essential that we do our best to elect them. To truly understand why, look to Hillary Clinton. She’s not just the most successful female politician in the world, but she’s also the most significant global leader of her generation. Two years ago at the International Crisis Group, she said, “Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” And she’s right. Throughout our history as a nation, women have been forced in the circles of the home and the family and haven’t been allowed out. In those nearly 250 years, we’ve become the first world democracy; we’ve ended slavery and given all citizens the right to vote; we’ve emerged as the world’s greatest military, economic, and political power—all this mostly due to the leadership of men. Imagine what can happen if we double our leadership’s potential. Imagine what we can do if we include more women. And we can start by supporting Mary Burke. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Legislated civil rights for gays will minimize hate crimes Alex Swanson opinion columnist

here are far too many issues happening in the world today for us to concern ourselves with who loves whom, and why. There is terrorism, nuclear warfare, global climate change, mass shootings, poverty and hunger, and yet we still have politicians spending their time arguing against gay marriage. The fact is that some men fall in love with other men, and some women fall in love with other women. Why concern ourselves with who people want to love? Love is love. As a nation and a world, we are making progress in the area of gay rights. But we still have a

long way to go. There are currently 35 states that have antimarriage laws or constitutional amendments against same-sex couples in the United States. There are many places in the world where homosexuality is illegal, and the punishment is often imprisonment. In Sudan there is even a death penalty for homosexual activity. In their 2012 platform, the GOP stated under a section entitled “A Sacred Contract: Defense of Marriage,” “We reaffirm our support for a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.” I don’t mean to generalize that all Republicans are anti-gay marriage, or that all those who are anti-gay marriage are Republican, because that is clearly not the case. But, this

view is listed on the GOP 2012 platform. It maintains wideenough support across the GOP to include their platform. According to an Oct. 13th article published in The Guardian, “One in six gay or bisexual [persons]—about 630,000 individuals—has been victim of a homophobic hate crime or incident in the past three years.” I believe that much of this bias against homosexuality comes from the fact that in many places homosexuals cannot enjoy the same rights as heterosexuals. They are not equal in the eyes of many governments, and that incites hate crime. Russia has recently been in the news for the controversial legislation that was signed into law in June. The law defines distributing homosexual propagan-

da to minors as a federal crime. There were activists that protested the legislation, and consequently there has been an outbreak of anti-gay violence in the past year or so in Russia. On Oct. 12, 67 people were arrested in St. Petersburg after a fight broke out between gay activists and those critical of their lifestyle. And why all the controversy? The world is becoming more liberal about homosexuality. In 1962, Illinois decriminalized homosexuality. In 1973, homosexuality was removed as a mental illness from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. In 1977, Harvey Milk won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. In 1982, Wisconsin outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In 2009, the Matthew

Shepard Act was passed, which extended the hate crime law to include discrimination on a basis of sexual orientation. And just this year, the Supreme Court ruled that Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. We are moving toward a world where gay men and women will hold equal rights, be allowed to marry who they please and be protected from hate crimes. But today, legislation is still being passed to inhibit gay rights, such as the gay propaganda law in Russia. I argue that supporters of such legislation are on the wrong side of history. I believe that equality will come. But, we need to do everything in our power to bring that era of peace quickly into being. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Maybe some of the old college habits are harder to shake than we thought

The national debt limit must be raised before the ever-approaching Oct. 17 deadline. If the limit isn’t raised, the government could fail to make interest payments on its debt, resulting in a default. A default in our credit could mean anything, but since this has never really happened before, all of the potential outcomes are pure speculation. Still, we can only hope that Congress will act in time. The old “dog ate my budget” excuse won’t be enough to cover us this time. + Graphic by Ravi Pathare

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Redshirt sophomore Melvin Gordon caught his first pass of the season Saturday, while still putting up 172 yards rushing.

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Although he played just one quarter Saturday, redshirt senior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis led Wisconsin in receiving yards.

Offense looks to roll at Illinois By Rushad Machhi The Daily Cardinal

The next stop for No. 25 Wisconsin’s offensive machine is Champaign, Ill., where it will face Illinois this Saturday. The team is coming off an explosive performance over Northwestern at Camp Randall, where it put up 35 points in a rout of the then No. 19 Wildcats. The Badgers’ biggest question mark coming out of the weekend is the health of star redshirt senior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis. Abbrederis, who had already scored on a 63-yard pass, was on his way to another huge game against the Wildcats before leaving the game in the first half with a head injury. However, the early prognosis looks good. “Jared’s running around good and all indications are that he’ll be with us on Saturday,” offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig said. Losing Abbrederis leaves a huge hole in the offense, as redshirt sophomore quarterback Joel Stave has targeted the Wautoma, Wis., native with almost 40 per-

cent of his passes thus far this season, especially in the vertical passing game. Saturday’s 63 yarder marked the ninth time the two have hooked up for a pass play greater than 40 yards, five of which have gone for touchdowns. Abbrederis also had a solid game against the Illini last season, finishing his day with 117 yards and a touchdown. Even without his top target, Stave found a way to shine against Northwestern. The first drive after Abbrederis was injured Stave ended up going 5-for-5 with 52 yards passing before senior running back James White punched it in for a 1-yard score. Stave finished the game with 241 yards and three touchdowns. This season he has been phenomenal in the red zone, maintaining a 70 percent completion rate while throwing for seven touchdowns with no interceptions. For the first time all year sophomore running back Melvin Gordon also got involved in the passing game, recording a five-

yard reception. “I’m definitely looking forward to getting some more receiving yards,” Gordon said. “I do it in practice, it might be new to people, but I’ve been doing it since camp. (It was) just my opportunity to actually showcase it during the game.” When Gordon is split out wide, he occasionally comes into motion for the jet sweep, a play that has seen huge success this season. Last Saturday Gordon ran the play for a 71-yard score, his fourth rush of more than 60 yards this season. “Hopefully I get a crease so I can hit it, and if not you always got to make something happen,” said Gordon. “You don’t always get big holes and big creases, if you get a little crease, you try to make the best out of it.” The dynamic duo of Gordon and White has been making the most out of every run this season. The two have already combined for nine 100-yard rushing games, and both rank in the top 30 nationally for rushing, the only in-team tandem to have that distinction

this season. A lot of that success has been due to the outstanding play of the offensive line, who will have their hands full Saturday dealing with Illinois’ 2012 Butkus award finalist senior linebacker Jonathan Brown and All-American sophomore linebacker Mason Monheim. The duo make their living in opponents’ backfields, recording 10.5 tackles for losses already this year. “They just have a nose for the ball. They are quick to react to the plays,” offensive line coach T.J. Woods said. “We have to keep our eyes on them, they are definitely tremendous players.” The Badgers’ offense is definitely not short on tremendous players, but Coach Ludwig always thinks there is room for improvement. “We need to improve on every aspect of offensive play,” Ludwig said. “We’ve got to run the ball with more efficiency. We’ve got to complete more passes, protect the passer better, so every area needs to improve.”

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Second-half goal seals victory for Wisconsin By Jason Braverman The Daily Cardinal

The Wisconsin men’s soccer team (1-1-0 Big Ten, 9-2-1 overall) won their fourth straight game Tuesday night, beating Western Illinois 1-0 on a second-half penalty kick. In a game the Badgers dominated by outshooting the Leathernecks 27-3, it took until the closing minutes to finally convert. After controlling the pace in the first half, the Badgers came out in the second half with 20 shots and eight corner kicks. “We were playing, not poorly in the first half, but not probably up to our level,” head coach John Trask said. “I thought we picked it up after halftime.” Before the Badgers scored, the game was characterized by

close calls and missed opportunities. Early in the second half, senior midfielder Paul Yonga had a shot go too high and bounce off the crossbar. The Badgers hit the crossbar yet again a few minutes later. Then, in the 69th minute on a corner kick the Badgers appeared to get their first goal, but the referees determined the ball did not fully cross the goal line. “Ref said he had a good view of it, I don’t question him,” Trask said. “[Redshirt senior midfielder Tomislav] Zadro bent it, looked like he caught the goalkeeper kind of off guard or unaware, the way he kind of pinned it to the post I thought maybe it had gone in. You argue for those, bottom line is the ref-

eree was in a good spot, he’s a good referee and he didn’t think it had crossed over the line.” After continually applying pressure, the Badgers eventually broke through. In the 81st minute Zadro took a rebound from his penalty kick attempt and knocked it in the back of the net. “It was a bad penalty kick, the goalie saved it,” Zadro said, “but I was lucky it bounced back.” It was the third goal of the year for Zadro in just his second game back from an injury. The Toronto native had been named Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week earlier in the season. Despite having possession most of the game, this marks the Badgers’ fourth consecutive win by just one goal, and it appeared for a while they might not be

able to get the one they needed. “We’ve all been involved in games in the game of soccer where you’re the dominant team on the field, no one questions that,” Trask said. “Both teams know it, and you just can’t find a goal.” Tonight was the third shutout of the season for Wisconsin. The Badgers played well defensively, limiting Western Illinois to just one shot on goal. “We played good, we haven’t had many shutouts on the year, so getting one tonight was obviously a big confidence booster,” junior defender A.J. Cochran said. “It was one of those games where we needed to find a goal, and we couldn’t give up a goal. If we gave up a goal that game, anything could have happened.”

his weekend, Camp Randall played host to a great college football upset. Yes, the Northwestern Wildcats, the then No. 19 team in the country traveled to Wisconsin and lost. But here’s the weird part: It didn’t feel like an upset. It didn’t feel like a big deal. It felt like just another home win for the Badgers. An interesting phenomenon happens when I’m in Camp Randall Stadium. The blinders go on and the rest of the college football landscape disappears. 123 other teams are seemingly insignificant; the only two that matter are the Badgers and their opponent. Why does this happen? Gameday culture at Madison goes something like this: wake up, pre-game, game, fifth quarter, party. Everything else is obsolete, especially in the student section. Wisconsin also has this tendency to win just about every game at home. On Saturday, seven teams in the AP Top 25 lost. Seven. Not to mention that Texas A&M needed a lastsecond field goal to avoid becoming the eighth Top-25 team to take a loss. That’s crazy, and for some reason it just felt like another gameday. By being absorbed into the fabric of Badger gameday, it’s so easy to lose track of the national outlook. The atmosphere leaves you almost no time to keep tabs on other games, especially considering the God-awful cell reception inside the stadium. To die-hard college football fans, this is sometimes too much to handle. It is very difficult to watch the world of college football whiz by while watching the Badgers run around while up 20 points. College football gains its magic because there is so much going on at once. The game is best enjoyed at a sports bar watching five games at the same time. When this goes away, it’s hard. The Badger game was exciting, but I didn’t feel right knowing Penn State and Michigan were plunging into their third overtime period at the same time the No. 5 team in the country was get overthrown by Utah. I really hate having to pick between enjoying Badger gameday or watching the full slate of college games. To others, this solidifies Camp Randall as one of the magical places in college football landscape. Where else can you go to make it seem like the whole world stops for four hours? All the worries about life, school and work dissipate and what’s left is a football game between your alma mater and some other team who’s probably going to get drummed. The ability to lose yourself in a Badger game is great quality that not many other schools can boast. Have you found a way to help Grey keep up to speed with college football on gamedays? Email sports@dailycardinal.com and let him know.