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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Lawton out of the 2010 race for governor By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal
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Dave Maynard of Frank Productions announced Freakfest 2009 details Monday, stressing that event collaborators hope to keep the celebration successful and moving forward.
Officials announce Freakfest details, prepare for popular annual event By Callie Rathburn The Daily Cardinal
Frank Productions and Madison city officials announced details Monday for Madison’s fourthannual Freakfest celebration. The city is prepared for a large crowd of 30,000 to 40,000 people. According to Dave Maynard of Frank Productions, the collaborators have come up with a successful formula for Freakfest over the past three years and want to keep moving forward. “The focus of the event is now entertainment, essentially a very large street party in our central district of State Street,” said mayoral aide Joel Plant,
who supervises the organization of Freakfest. Third Eye Blind will headline the Z104 Amp Stage late Saturday night, with other acts along State Street occurring throughout the evening. “We try and find something for everybody, that’s our goal,” Maynard said. The costume contest will return to Freakfest this year with even bigger prizes, including a STA Travel trip to New Zealand. Budweiser will be working with Union Cab to offer cab rides home. People can go to the Freakfest website ahead of time and print off vouchers for a cab
ride home up to an hour after the event. Plant said although Freakfest has become safer in recent years, all necessary measures are being taken, including police, fire department, paramedics and 110 private event staff. Buses to transport detained citizens will be in place around the event area. A rest process center in the city council building will be ready if needed. “We are preparing for an event like we’ve had in the past year, a safe, fun event,” Plant said. “We are prepared if things go wrong.” freakfest page 3
Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton dropped out of the 2010 gubernatorial race Monday, citing “very personal” reasons for her decision. “My deep commitment to our state is second only to my commitment to my family,” Lawton said in a letter to supporters. “For very personal reasons, I will not pursue the Democratic nomination for governor in 2010.” Prior to this announcement, Lawton was the only declared Democratic candidate in the race. However, UW- Mad is on political science professor emeritus Dennis Dresang said her absence will not change the race drastically. LAWTON “I don’t think anybody thought that the lieutenant governor had it locked up,” he said. Dresang said this news will not necessarily have much of an effect on the declared Republican candidates, including Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker and former congressman Mark Neumann. “It’s hard to say whether the Republicans should be celebrating or whether or not this is pretty much a non-story for them.” Jill Bader, communications director for Walker’s campaign,
said they “were surprised this morning,” but that they are “continuing to focus on November just as we always have.” Although Lawton cited family reasons for her decision, the Republican Party of Wisconsin released a statement Monday suggesting they believe the cause was political. “Governor Doyle and the White House were successful in derailing Lawton’s candidacy, no doubt paving the way for their handpicked successor in the Democrats’ primary,” the statement said. The RPW would not point to any one person in particular as the “handpicked successor,” but Kristin Ruesch, communications director of the WALKER RPW, said she “wouldn’t be surprised if it was Barrett.” Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has yet to announce whether he will run for the Democratic nomination, but according to Barrett’s Finance Chair, Stephen Chernof, he will make his decision in one or two weeks. Dresang said that it is not yet clear that Barrett will run. “I think the real question from the start has been ‘What is Tom Barrett going to do?,’” he said. “It has always been wide open for the Democrats, and it still is.”
Officials, students encourage hip-hop studies By Kayla Torgerson The Daily Cardinal
Damon Williams, UW-Madison vice provost for diversity and climate, encouraged students and faculty to consider the creation of a hip-hop studies program during his discussion Monday. The panel asked such questions as what is hip-hop studies, and what would a hip-hop studies program offer that is not already available on campus? Williams said the study of hiphop includes not only listening to or performing hip-hop but also analyzing and discussing the culture as well. He said the audience could show this themselves, asking about their hip-hop participation and experiences and citing that those who have engaged in hip-hop culture and have analyzed it are already playing a part in hip-hop studies.
Katrina Flores, arts and education director for First Wave, a student organization that focuses on involving students in hip-hop culture on campus, said hip-hop studies allows for an interdisciplinary connection between departments because students can study hiphop from a sociological, anthropological or scientific perspective. “You can’t just come in and study somebody’s culture. You have to live it, you have to breathe it and you have to be doing it.” Katrina Flores arts and education director First Wave
“You can’t just come in and study somebody’s culture. You have to live it, you have to breathe it and
you have to be doing it,” she said. Flores added that she is currently working with the UW-Madison physics department to encourage them to do more interdisciplinary research between science and culture. “I struggled with physics ... but if it can relate to my world and if we can be interdisciplinary in that way then there are so many more possibilities for engagement,” she said. Gethsemane Herron, a UW-Madison freshman, said she does not see why UW-Madison wouldn’t have a hip-hop studies program, highlighting its importance in today’s society. “How can we ignore something that has permeated American culture,” Merron said. “I feel like to not have hip-hop studies is to offer hip hop page 3
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Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Damon Williams emphasized the importance of participating in and analyzing hip-hop culture at a disucussion Thursday, which focused on the future of hip-hop studies.
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”