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UW-Madison accounts for students in Paris following Friday’s attacks By Miller Jozwiak THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Members of the Madison and campus community joined together Thursday night to march in solidarity with Mizzou students.
Madison shows support for Mizzou students By Bri Maas THE DAILY CARDINAL
Students and campus community members flooded State Street Thursday evening in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri surrounding protests that recently led to the university system president’s resignation. In the past two months, Mizzou students have begun protesting and speaking out against hate crimes and other raciallycharged events that happened over the last five years at the mostly white university. The protests, including a boycott by black members of the football team, sparked a nationwide response that found its way to the top of Bascom Hill this week, where UW-Madison students and community members huddled in support. “I’m here because I believe in fighting the injustices we see at Missouri and here on campus,”
said UW-Madison fifth-year senior Tiffany Merritt-Brown. “As a black student, I believe in fighting and taking a stand against the things we see going on.” Hundreds of demonstrators gathered atop the hill, where leaders of the Black Liberation Movement—an alliance of the Young, Gifted & Black Coalition, the Black Student Union and Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán—called for action and led “black lives matter” chants. The crowd then marched down the hill to State Street, where it gained momentum, at one point totaling up to 1,000 people, UW-Madison Police Department Lieutenant Aaron Chapin estimated. He added there were no issues with the large, but peaceful, crowd. “I think it’s a fantastic thing when people in the United States are able to exercise their First
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Friday’s Paris attacks started at 2:20 p.m. Central Standard Time and were ended by a raid four hours later. By 9:48 p.m., UW-Madison confirmed on its Facebook page that all 13 Madison students studying abroad in Paris were safe. The six separate, but coordinated, attacks left 129 dead and hundreds wounded. The investigation is ongoing and a manhunt has begun for one suspect, according to The New York Times. UW-Madison senior Julia Cullen is studying abroad in Paris and was in her apartment preparing to go out with a friend when she received a text saying “Are you okay? There was this shooting in Paris.” International Academics Programs Director Dan Gold sent her and the other students in
Paris an email within three hours of the first explosion. “They just wanted me to respond saying that I was safe,” Cullen said. “They also sent me another email asking if I had heard from some other students that are studying here.” Senior Ben Winding was closer to the shootings and the last to respond to UW-Madison. Unable to sleep, Winding answered a call at 3:33 a.m. his time from IAP Assistant Director Matthew Geisler. Winding was in a bar in Paris’ 3rd district, which is between the 10th and 11th districts where several of the attacks happened. “When we heard that the death toll was going up and up and up and that the attacks were in different spots and it was really calculated, we started getting really freaked out,” Winding said. “People started gradually finding out and then the bar closed the
doors and locked them. Everyone moved away from the windows and we went to the back of the bar. And we just hung out for three hours until we felt like it was safer.” Winding thought UW-Madison did a good job reporting the condition of the students. “I do feel like UW has done a good job utilizing their Facebook page, letting everyone know that all of its study abroad students were safe,” he said. University Communications Executive Director John Lucas said the university will not currently change any students’ plans in France. “We’ll continue to monitor the situation, but no changes are planned for our students in France at this time,” Lucas said in an email. He also noted the university has offered assistance to all French students on campus if needed.
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UW-Madison held a candlelight vigil Saturday night for the victims of the attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and hundreds wounded after six separate, but coordinated, assaults.
Madison police arrest local man after attempted thefts on State Street Madison police arrested a 42-yearold man after he attempted to steal money from cash registers at a slew of State Street restaurants last week. The unnamed suspect identified himself as “Tim” from a
security firm to the manager of Which Wich Sandwich Shop on the 400 block of State Street last Monday, according to a Friday incident report by Madison Police Department Joel DeSpain.
After convincing the manager to let him inspect the restaurant’s freezer, the suspect unsuccessfully attempted to open a safe and cash register. Before the staff could call him out, police said the suspect ran,
telling the staff everything was OK. Tim then used the same strategy at Forage Kitchen, a new restaurant on the corner of State Street and North Lake Street. Police said a Forage Kitchen employee ques-
tioned the suspect’s credentials and asked for a business card. Police put “Tim” on ice the next day on a charge of attempted theft after spotting him in the State Street area.
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MadHatters shine at the Overture stage By Owen Desai THE DAILY CARDINAL
The Overture Center for the Arts was sold-out Friday for The MadHatter’s fall concert. This a cappella group is most well-known for their classy red blazers, whimsy on stage and inconceivable solos. I attended their spring show last semester and was completely blown away by how perfected and professional this group sounded. Their performance this past weekend did not disappoint. I’ve met a majority of these guys before and after getting to know their personalities I was eager to see what type of show they had crafted for us this evening.
Varying in the speed of his beat boxing, mixing both bass and lyrics, mimicking synthesized sounds and trying out different genres such as trap and hip-hop, he may be one of the best vocal percussionists I’ve heard.
I was seated in Row R, and for those who aren’t familiar with the venue’s seating chart, these are the highest seats in the Capitol Theater. At first I was worried they’d be typical nose-bleed seats, but in fact I was able to see the stage clearly and experience their concert unlike ever before. The walls were impressively decorated with enormous red drapes, the corners hung elegant chandeliers and the lobby and staircases were illuminated red and blue; the entire evening had a lot of panache. An anonymous welldressed man kicked off the evening by telling jokes and playing games with the audience. While he was charming and appeared to be trying his best, in his attempts at doing so I couldn’t help but feel awkward and uncomfortable when his jokes fell flat. I really appreciated his dry stand-up style and it was a fine act, but it wasn’t received by the audience as expected. Typically openers for these shows hype the crowd up for the main act and I don’t think this goal was properly achieved. This could be due to the fact that I was seated furthest from the stage and couldn’t catch all of his facial expressions and body language, but nonetheless, everything turned out alright and I was ready for the Hatters. Kolby McConville started their show with an arrange-
ment of “Señorita” by Justin Timberlake. When I had interviewed group president Jayden Cline weeks prior, he had mentioned that the show would include more ballads, and kicking off the show with an R&B song was an interesting choice. In fact, I was delightedly in awe of the entire set list. I can say this over and over but the soloists were amazing, amazing, amazing. I was speechless every time a new guy grabbed the microphone and took control of the stage. Not once did they falter during a song and they demonstrated that they belonged on that stage. Every semester auditions are held for new members and the three guys who joined this past September rightfully earned their place. After being spotlighted with solos throughout the show we were all enamored. I wanted to pause, rewind and play them over and over again. This group really shines when they sing together, but they undeniably stand out when each guy performs individually. “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse, “Hello” by Adele, “Let The Road” by Rixton and “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye are just a few that really impressed me. And this wouldn’t be a MadHatters review if I didn’t mention Tyler Livingston. Varying in the speed of his beat boxing, mixing both bass and lyrics, mimicking synthesized sounds and trying out different genres such as trap and hiphop, he may be one of the best vocal percussionists I’ve heard. In the middle of the second half of their show, Livingston spent a few minutes showing everyone what he could do and the amount of phones recording, people cheering and jaws dropping were innumerable. Within the set were video clips of an #AskTheHatters which was a fun way to get to know the members a little bit more.
After being spotlighted with solos throughout the show we were all enamored. I wanted to pause, rewind and play them over and over again.
The MadHatters are one of seven a cappella groups on campus and their fall show was extremely gratifying. They continue to surprise me time and time again and I’d be a fool if I didn’t suggest that everyone invest time in listening to the talent that resides at UW-Madison.
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Books can help restore your faith in humanity MAHAM HASAN lit columnist
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t is said that the real tragedy is not when one man has the courage to be truly evil, but when millions lack the courage to be good. We all deal with tragedy in ways that make sense to us. Anger and a bitter disappointment at what man is capable of doing to man is always at the forefront. But we fail even as we profess to be better representatives of humanity. We fail when we allow tragedies to define us as a mob of angry and bitterly disappointed people. We fail when our own disenchantment reduces that tragedy to just oil that keeps the anger burning and the hatred spreading. Out of tragedy then should rise a better version of us. Out of tragedy there should be an even fiercer raging of hope. Out of tragedy should rise a world those lost to us would have welcomed and rejoiced in. Though no large feat is accomplished overnight. Not the burning fire of hope, and not the road to redemption for humanity either. We must heal first as individuals, find reasons that give us hope for the world and hope for humanity. These reasons do not come to us as a barrage of epiphanies either. We must search for them, laboriously, one by one. This week, I do my very small part by giving you books penned by those who seemed to understand the world much more than we perhaps ever will, to look for reasons. Or maybe just one reason left behind in words: One by one. “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah quite simply captures the strength of France and its people in the face of war. When war of any magnitude rolls around, it touches upon every soul in some way. The roles of people and how war would come to affect them was set in stone during the time of World War II; men would fight for their lives in battle, and women would be left behind, striving everyday to keep together the remnants of their life and humanity. Hannah spins the tale of those women left behind: the ones with every cell inside of them screaming to wage a war too, ones that are pretending everyday that they’re not ter-
rified, ones that are forgetting every day a little bit of what it means to be human in wartime. Out of the stories of all those women rises a belief for hope and hearts that are strong, despite everything they have seen. “In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are.” Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption,” is a true testament to everything the title purports it to be: The true story of Louis Zamperini surviving the crash of a plane that bombed the Japanese during World War II, of drifting in an endless war-ridden sea for months, staying alive purely because of an undying desire to stay alive and then finally being taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese. The horrors described in this book that are inflicted on Zamperini make you truly question why he even wanted to live anymore. And it makes you see that war distorts those who are brothers, fathers and sons without it. Don the face of the war, pick up your weapon and it changes us all into something less than human. The anger within us might find some solace with Hillenbrand’s words though, “The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.” There are times when one simply needs to remember that one life, one person, can make a difference. “The Power of One,” by Bryce Courtenay reminds us all of that. Explore the struggles of 1930s and ’40s South Africa, where a boy, Peekay, grows up in a world that hasn’t allowed him to be a boy. With World War II raging across the world, the growing racial tensions and the birth of Apartheid around this child, one would think that coming of age with any semblance of hope would be a lost dream. But to Peekay it matters not that the odds are stacked against him or that the world fails him everyday. His faith in the goodness of people never wavers. It is all of humanity’s triumph when in the face of all desolation and lack of hope, one can still rise with a belief in the good. “When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.” What books restore your faith in humanity? Let Maham know at mhasan4@wisc.edu.
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The three remaining Democratic candidates for president challenged each other on international politics at a second debate in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday.
Three remaining Democratic candidates debate in Iowa By Andrew Bahl THE DAILY CARDINAL
The three Democratic candidates for president squared off Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, in the second primary debate dominated by foreign policy issues. The debate was restructured in the wake of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which left at least 129 dead and scores more wounded, to focus more on how former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley would address threats from radical Islamic terrorist groups. Clinton, the frontrunner in the race, broke with President Barack Obama’s statement that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the group which has claimed credit for Friday’s attacks, is “contained” but said that she did agree with the notion that the U.S. alone cannot shoulder the fight against extremist groups. “I think what the president has consistently said—which I agree with—is that we will support those
who take the fight to [the Islamic State],” Clinton said. “But this cannot be an American fight, although American leadership is essential.” Sanders responded by arguing that U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is partly to blame for the rise of extremism there and criticized Clinton for supporting the Iraq War when she served in the U.S. Senate. “I would argue that the disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region completely and led to the rise of Al Qaeda and to ISIS,” Sanders said. As the debate moved into the second hour, shifting to domestic concerns, Clinton found herself under attack from the other two candidates on her purported ties to Wall Street interests. O’Malley called her plan to reign in Wall Street “weak tea,” and Sanders blasted Wall Street business interests, calling its business model “fraud.” Clinton hit back, saying she had the most effective strategies of anyone in the race and that she was not
“This cannot be an American fight, although American leadership is essential.” HIllary Clinton former Secretary of State
“The federal government needs to do more on Pell Grants and … we should lower these outrageous interest rates kids and parents are being charged to go to college,” O’Malley said. The Democratic candidates will square off next in Manchester, N.H., Dec. 19.
New GUTS program helps students succeed in academics THE DAILY CARDINAL
The Greater University Tutoring Service aims to help all UW-Madison students become active and engaged learners by providing opportunities for tutoring and language practice. GUTS provides their services to all students, regardless of major or grade point average and offers three main program areas. The tutoring service is best known for their academic match program, according to Andrew Mangham, one of the program’s co-directors. Academic match helps to connect students with a tutor who can help them and a group of other students in a specific class. UW-Madison students can also take part in drop-in tutoring at College Library for imme-
diate, short-term assistance with popular subjects. Many international students take advantage of the Conversational English program that matches students with other student volunteers for a chance to practice speaking English. This program is also available to students looking to practice a foreign language and Mangham said they facilitate “peer-to-peer interactions with language partners.” The study skills program serves as GUTS’ third main program area and aims to help students overcome common academic challenges, such as time management and study skills. Through an appointment with a tutor, students can work one-on-one or in a group setting to identify what skills they need
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Claire Stamborski, who said even students on a predominantly white campus have an important role in fighting for equality. “I feel like it’s important that white students come out because I think a lot of times if you don’t come out, it gives the impression that you’re not willing to engage in discussion and that you just don’t care. So I think it’s important for white students to be involved because they’re the ones that perpetuate and cause a lot of harm to people of color,” Stamborski said. Through wind and cold, the diverse crowd shared personal stories and chanted, “racism is at Mizzou, it’s on our campus too,” eventually congregating on the Capitol steps, where leaders called upon demonstrators of all backgrounds for action. “It makes me, as a student of color, feel supported and loved to hear people of all races shout, ‘black lives matter’ and to see them come out and stay in the cold,” Merritt-Brown said.
beholden to any special interests. One of the final topics of the evening was college affordability, and Sanders used the opportunity to tout his plan to institute free higher education. Clinton and O’Malley responded by calling that strategy impractical and said the focus should be on alleviating student debt.
SSFC PROFILE By Luisa de Vogel
Amendment rights. The First Amendment is like a muscle; if you don’t flex it and use it, it withers and fails,” Chapin said. “So a rally like this where people get to exercise their First Amendment, be able to put their beliefs out there, be able to talk about it in a safe form, is a fantastic thing.” Vice Provost for Student Life and Dean of Students Lori Berquam, who was among the crowd, said this exercise of student rights is not new to UW-Madison. “I think our campus has a history of activism, and I want to see the students have passion for something they believe in and that they stand for. It’s what will help us, as a nation, be stronger, and certainly help our campus,” Berquam said. “I’m happy to see the support and the number of students who came together tonight to support each other on this chilly night.” One of those students was UW-Madison fifth-year senior
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help improving. GUTS members started the Bonding Undergraduate and Graduate Students program, a mentorship that pairs graduate students with undergraduate students looking for advice on the application process and experience of graduate school. While GUTS offers its programming to all UW-Madison students, almost half of the estimated 3,000 students they serve are freshmen. GUTS proposed their budget for the 2016-’17 year to the Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee Nov. 9. While GUTS received $900 less than members said they had had originally hoped for, ending with a total budget of $149,331.04, Mangham said it shouldn’t be a problem.
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UW-Madison doctoral student Luke Loken collects real-time data on Lake Mendota to study the spatial patterns of the water chemistry.
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Limnologist analyzes water chemistry in Lake Mendota
By Kelsey O’Hara THE DAILY CARDINAL
Luke Loken, a doctoral student with UW-Madison’s Center for Limnology, has found a way to convert his passion for being out on the water into an opportunity to understand the hidden chemistry that lies beneath the surface of lakes and rivers. Loken, along with other faculty and grad students, uses a newly developed technology called FLAMe, acronym for “Fast Limnological Automated Measurements,” to gather data while continuously moving through different areas of lakes or rivers. This mobile sensor system pumps water from underneath a boat across a variety of different sensors and then spits the water back into the lake. Loken and other limnologists rely on these sensors to observe separate areas of the lake and contrast the interactions that could affect the water’s chemistry. “Just like a thermometer is a sensor that detects temperature, we have sensors that detect what the pH of the water is, how much dissolved oxygen there is, how much nitrate is in the water, or
other elements like carbon dioxide or methane,” Loken said. The data collected from these sensors helps scientists understand the spatial patterns of the water chemistry in certain aquatic ecosystems. Loken uses his chemistry background along with his curiosity about the operations of aquatic ecosystems, like Lake Mendota, to investigate the variability of these systems throughout time. “We have this method figured out about understanding just how variable these systems are,” Loken said. “And by knowing how much has changed through these continuums, we are opening the door to looking into more than just a few places to fully understand how an aquatic system operates.” Loken emphasized the relatability of limnology, especially with being a research university located on a large lake. Most people have a constant interaction with the lake and are interested how it changes along the shoreline. “You can imagine a fisherman or someone enjoying the beach has action with the water, and they have an investment in it,” Loken said, “The people care if it’s clean and if their children are going to enjoy it.”
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Eliminate Social Security TIM HEINZEL Opinion Columnist
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ocial Security is close to being an untouchable government program. No politician wants to suggest reforming or eliminating it for fear of irritating the masses of older Americans who want to see the money they paid into the system returned to them. However, Social Security will need to be modified at some point. A system based on younger generations paying for the older generations’ retirements only works when the labor force is large enough to foot the bill of retirees. While that may have been true in the past, it won’t be true forever. Consequently, a change in either benefits or the 12.4 percent effective income tax to support Social Security must occur in order to prevent the program from becoming insolvent.
At the very least, Social Security is something you should be able to opt out of.
If Social Security were truly a retirement program where individuals pay into the system while they work and get back during retirement what they paid in, there would be no point in having the program. It is rather redundant to give someone money only for them to give it back to you later. You would be better off keeping the money yourself. Evidently, Social Security doesn’t work that way. The first generation to receive Social Security hardly paid anything and thus received well more than they contributed. Many individuals retiring today, and in the future, can expect to see less money than what they contributed. Because of this imbalance in costs during work and benefits during retirement, Social Security is inherently a welfare program that transfers wealth from one group to another. While I oppose any and all government programs that redistribute wealth, even those who support redistributive programs should be able to come to the same conclusion I do regarding to Social Security—it should be eliminated. As long as it is solvent, Social Security achieves its goal of keeping elderly Americans out of poverty; however, it utterly fails at contributing to the optimal retirement packages of ordinary Americans. This is obvious after analyzing how the system works relative to the alternative that would be possible if Social Security didn’t exist. Currently, 12.4 percent of a worker’s income goes toward Social Security. The employee pays half while the employer pays the other half, but ultimately the employer’s half is com-
ing from income the employee would’ve earned absent a Social Security tax. According to the Social Security “quick calculator,” a 22-year-old who plans on retiring at age 67 after earning an average lifetime salary of $75,000 would see a monthly benefit of $2,310 in 2015. This hypothetical individual would have paid into the system $418,500, calculated by multiplying the fraction of income paid to Social Security (.124) by the average lifetime salary of $75,000 and the 45 years worked. When evaluating whether or not Social Security (as a retirement program, not a welfare program) is beneficial, we should look at an individual’s ability to save on their own and compare it to saving through government. Since saving via a Social Security tax doesn’t take advantage of investing, its value is essentially equivalent to saving for retirement by putting money under your mattress. Investing is better. Over a period of 45 years, it is reasonable to assume a 7 percent return on investment via the stock market. If, instead of paying a 12.4 percent Social Security tax each year, our hypothetical worker invested an amount equivalent to the value of the tax into the stock market, he or she could expect to amass $2.6 million in a retirement account. If the rate of return is 5 percent, the retirement account would yield $1.48 million. All of this additional wealth is foregone under Social Security. Anyone would be better off saving for retirement without the “help” of Social Security. Because of this, everyone should oppose Social Security as a retirement program. Some people are certainly better off taking Social Security if they live much longer than average, and don’t pay much into the system, but these people are using Social Security as a welfare program. I understand if you want to vote for having a welfare program for senior citizens, but why would you vote for a “retirement” program that severely hampers your saving ability? At the very least, Social Security is something you should be able to opt out of. I’d rather have a lump sum of several million dollars available to me at retirement than an annuity that didn’t take advantage of investment growth rates. For those determined to ensure all seniors have a steady income: Advocate for a welfare program that accomplishes such. There is no need to combine a failed retirement program and a welfare program into one. While eliminating Social Security would be ideal, almost anything, including replacing it with a welfare program for the elderly, is better than keeping the system how it is now. Tim is a freshman majoring in finance and economics. Do you agree that we should eliminate Social Security? Please send all comments and questions to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
Corruption is dominating politics BEN MILLER Opinion Columnist
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n our post-Citizens United government, corruption is perfectly legal, and we let politicians get away with it. According to the Sunlight Foundation, from 2007 to 2012, the top 200 most politically active companies in America spent approximately $5.8 billion influencing the legislators who are meant to represent the American public. Those 200 companies received $4.4 trillion in taxpayer support, government benefits and tax breaks for their efforts. While big money special interests laugh all the way to the bank, the American public is left penniless.
Politicians no longer represent their constituents; they represent Wall Street.
Perhaps the worst part of this issue is the fact that we, the American public, continue to vote these corrupt politicians into office. A quick look at Hillary Clinton’s top donors over the course of her career paints a frightening picture. Her top donors include Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley; all of which, obviously, do not try to promote what is in the best interest of the American public. On the other hand, Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders has received almost all of his donations from labor unions and trade associations.
Although I disagree with Sanders on most issues, he certainly is right when it comes to his position on money in politics. As a strong opponent of political corruption, Sanders has refused to start a super PAC affiliated with his campaign. According to PolitiFact, Sanders’ campaign also sent a cease and desist letter to an unaffiliated PAC that had pledged its support to Sanders. It’s about time someone stood up against big money interests in politics. Not helping the matter is the fact that this isn’t a partisan issue. Both Democrats and Republicans accept millions of dollars to beef up their campaigns. For every David Koch, there is a George Soros. Politics is an expensive business, and someone has to fork over the big bucks. According to nonpartisan advocacy group United Republic, the political candidate with the most funds wins the election 91 percent of the time. In order to win, candidates running for a Senate seat in 2014 needed to raise over $14,000 per day. With the increasing cost of running a campaign, it’s no wonder why politicians are turning to elites for help. The question is, what can we do to fix it? We have to pass legislation that limits the power of these elites. The elites are the ones in control of the process to pass legislation and don’t want to hurt themselves. It seems like quite the conundrum. There are politicians who are starting to stand up against money in politics, but they are few and far between. Although we don’t yet have the support, we do have
a framework. The American AntiCorruption Act is a model piece of legislation that is designed to end corruption at all levels. Created by former Federal Election Comission Chair Trevor Potter and a team of constitutional attorneys, the legislation aims to stop bribery, end secret donations and put the power of government back into the hands of the American public. The American Anti-Corruption Act is our answer to this evil, but it can’t work if it’s never passed. Without the backing of Congress, Americans are taking a stand to create reform from the ground up. Across the U.S., citizens are starting local initiatives to defeat corruption. From there, they are working up to the state level and finally to the national level. These local initiatives have been passing with enormous supermajorities. The goal is to replace every corrupt politician with one that supports reform from the lowest level of government to the federal level. We are in a pivotal moment in American politics. Money and elite power have increased exponentially. Politicians no longer represent their constituents; they represent Wall Street. It’s time that we take a stand to end this elite-run legislative tyranny. The American AntiCorruption Act is the solution, but we must first elect politicians who put the people first. Let’s take back our country. Ben is a freshman majoring in political science. What do you think about corruption in politics? Do you think it affects our current elections? Please send all comments, questions and concerns to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. # 77
6 7 4 1 8 9 5 3 2
9 2 3 6 5 7 4 1 8
8 5 1 4 2 3 9 6 7
2 3 7 5 9 1 8 4 6
5 8 6 2 3 4 7 9 1
4 1 9 8 7 6 2 5 3
3 4 8 7 6 5 1 2 9
1 6 2 9 4 8 3 7 5
7 9 5 3 1 2 6 8 4
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4 7 2 8 6 5 1 3 9
5 6 1 4 9 3 2 7 8
9 8 3 7 1 2 6 4 5
2 5 7 9 3 6 4 8 1
3 9 8 5 4 1 7 6 2
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6 1 4 2 7 8 9 5 3
1 4 6 3 5 9 8 2 7
8 3 9 6 2 7 5 1 4
7 2 5 1 8 4 3 9 6
# 79
5 9 7 4 2 8 6 3 1
2 8 6 9 3 1 4 7 5
4 1 3 5 6 7 8 2 9
9 5 4 3 7 6 2 1 8
7 6 2 1 8 4 9 5 3
8 3 1 2 5 9 7 6 4
6 7 9 8 1 3 5 4 2
3 4 5 7 9 2 1 8 6
1 2 8 6 4 5 3 9 7
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4 6 2 1 5 9 3 7 8
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Today’s Crossword Puzzle
Subversion
ACROSS 1 Brewery equipment 5 Current craze 9 Home run in Idaho? 14 Genesis twin 15 Oath of old 16 Peaceful branch? 17 Little brook 18 Scrabble piece 19 Festive celebrations 20 Three different seats 23 Fixes, as a carnival game 24 Butterfly snare 25 “Friends” female 29 Alone (with “by”) 33 Bushed 34 Czech-German river 36 Nero’s zero 37 Three different seats 41 “Caught in the act!” 42 Be upwardly mobile? 43 Cold-water shorebirds 4 4 Scammed 47 Toastmaster’s preparation 48 Fond du ___, Wisc. 49 Hope-Crosby’s “Road to ___”
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Three different seats Spinachlike plant Claim to be true Doing nothing “Slowly” in music Snub-nosed dog, briefly Coke, for one Fertile loam Winter vehicle Venetian-blind component
DOWN 1 Word of action 2 Large section of an atlas 3 Nursery powder 4 Stew in one’s own juices 5 Kind of outlet 6 Curing, in a way 7 Fancy parties 8 Where Adam lived 9 Molasses candy 10 Advisories 11 A Jackson 5 member 12 Entering overtime 13 Conclude one’s case 21 Sportscaster Musburger 22 Architect’s afterthought
25 Capital near Casablanca 26 Hawaiian greeting 27 Dagger companion 28 “To each ___ own” 29 Pastoral woodwind 30 Follow 31 Lavender flower 32 Bones’ partner 34 “___ Brockovich” 35 Abbreviated wts. 38 “Fanny” novelist Jong 39 Jelly used in molds 40 ’50s campaign button name 45 Chooses by voting 46 Salsa go-with 47 Turned on a pivot 49 Feature of a miter joint 50 “Is this some kind of ___?” 51 Laze around 52 Lunchbox treat 53 Barn-topping device 54 Knocks firmly 55 Random muscle movements 56 An object of worship 57 Paella pot 58 Nicely arranged
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Women’s Hockey
Shutout streak snaps, but Badgers still undefeated By Ryan Weinkauf THE DAILY CARDINAL
For the first time since Oct. 3, No. 1 Wisconsin (10-0-0 WCHA, 12-0-0 overall) allowed a goal, finally bringing an end to its incredible, NCAA-record shutout streak. Fortunately for the Badgers, their perfect start to the season remains intact, as they handled Minnesota Duluth (2-6-0, 4-8-0) by the score of 4-2 Saturday, completing their sixth consecutive series sweep of the year. After taking most of the first period to get on the board in game one, the Badgers struck early in the first Saturday afternoon, as senior forward Erika Sowchuk grabbed her second goal of the series, assisted by sophomore forward Annie Pankowski and junior defenseman Jenny Ryan, who continued to solidify her position as top point scorer for defenseman in the NCAA. The story of the rest of the game was Wisconsin taking advantage of its power-play opportunities, as all three of its following goals came when they had a man advantage. The second goal came a few
minutes later in the first, when Pankowski received a great feed from junior forward Sarah Nurse and put it away to give Wisconsin some breathing room early in the game. Pankowski continued her fantastic performance by assisting senior captain Courtney Burke’s goal that put the team up 3-0 with just seconds left in the second period. Pankowski’s goal and two assists extended her streak of games with at least one point to 15 games, and Burke’s goal gave her 86 career points, putting her in sole possession of fourth on Wisconsin’s alltime point leaders for defenseman. “It feels good,” Pankowski said. “Everyone enjoys winning and it’s fun on the ice, it’s fun in the locker room. This team just has it.” The final goal came on the power play early in the third, as Burke was involved again, this time assisting sophomore forward Emily Clark as the Badgers stretched their lead to 4-0. But the Bulldogs came alive in the third, becoming the first conference opponent to break the UW defense, as sophomore forward Maria Lindh
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Sophomore Annie Pankowski provided a goal and a pair of assists Saturday in Duluth, Minn. fired a shot past junior goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens not long after Clark’s goal, ending Wisconsin’s historic shutout streak. Desbiens, however, didn’t seem phased by the streak ending, and even sees it as somewhat of a positive. “I just take the games one at a time. I think what we did is amazing but it’s also nice as people will talk more about our team instead of the streak,” she said. And with just a few minutes
left in the game, sophomore defenseman Lynn Astrup tacked on another to make it 4-2, but the late push from UMD wasn’t enough as Wisconsin took home the win and the sweep. Despite the late goals, head coach Mark Johnson was happy with the team’s overall performance tonight. “It was a good win,” Johnson said. “We put ourselves in a good position tonight, we capitalized on some of
the power plays. They played better than they did [Friday] night, so it was a good test and I thought we played a better overall game. We’re a little banged up so it’s good to come out of here with a sweep.” The Badgers return home next weekend for a nonconference series against Lindenwood, with the games taking place Friday and Sunday. UWBadgers.com contributed to this report.
Women’s Basketball
Second-half offensive outburst powers UW in regular season opener By Ben Pickman THE DAILY CARDINAL
Playing just one day after the men’s basketball team suffered a stunning loss at the hands of Western Illinois, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team got off to a slow start in its regular-season opener against Louisiana Tech, the second-winningest program in the history of NCAA Division I women’s basketball. But unlike their male counterparts, the Badgers were able to rebound to upend the Lady Techsters, 79-65. “I think some of it is just first game jitters. They know this one counts,” UW head coach Bobbie Kelsey said of her team’s slow start. “Our men unfortunately found that out last night. You’ve got to come out and play and play on the defensive end.” Part of the slow start can be credited to the lack of film on the Lady Techsters, a team that returned only
25 percent of their scholarship players, the second-lowest mark in the NCAA. Nevertheless when the Lady Techsters first pressed the Badgers, something they did throughout game, Kelsey was not surprised. “I thought we did a good job of breaking it, a little sloppy, a little disjointed, but for the most part we didn’t turn it over, so that was good,” she said. The Badgers trailed by two points after one quarter of play and even after settling in the second quarter, still trailed at halftime 36-35. Wisconsin closed the second quarter on a 6-0 run which it continued in the third quarter scoring the first three baskets of the period to regain the lead. Two of those baskets were from redshirt senior Michala Johnson, who made her season debut after missing most of last season with a torn ACL. “I was a little nervous in the beginning,” Johnson said. “I was
happy to be out there with my teammates, being able to play again.” Johnson looked crisp for most of the game except for one moment in the third quarter, in which she fell to the ground untouched while running back on defense, a moment that led to laughter on the part of both Johnson and her teammates. She finished the game with 13 points and five rebounds in only 20 minutes of action. After the game, Kelsey told reporters that Johnson is on a strict 20-minute limit, which was why the six-year senior sat almost all of the fourth quarter. But with just over three minutes to go in the fourth quarter, when the Badgers’ lead fell to only nine points, Kelsey checked Johnson in the game, a move that immediately result in two straight Johnson baskets and a 13-point lead. As a result of Johnson’s minutes limit, the Badgers relied heavily on seniors Dakota Whyte, Nicole Bauman and Tessa Cichy.
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Senior guard Tessa Cichy will continue to be an integral part of Wisconsin’s experienced backcourt.
“The usual suspects did a great job,” Kelsey said. Saturday afternoon Cichy scored 14 points but more impressively grabbed career-high 16 rebounds. “A lot of them kind of came my way. It’s effort, but it’s a team effort as well. Just cause everyone needs to box out in order for me to get the ball,” Cichy said. Whyte served as the tone-setter for much of the afternoon, finishing with 16 points and four assists in 30 minutes of play. She pushed the pace throughout the game and her play especially in transition seemed to give Louisiana Tech more and more trouble as the game progressed. “I think Dakota really gets them going, off that high ball screen, in transition. We really tried to slow
her down and could not slow her down,” Louisiana Tech head coach Tyler Summitt said. Senior guard Nicole Bauman chipped in with 14 points, four rebounds and four assists, including a crucial four-point play midway through the third quarter that extended the Badgers’ lead to 12. Junior Brooke Pumroy, a transfer from Maquette, as well as Brandi Wingate, the daughter of former NBA player David Wingate, led Louisiana Tech with 16 points and 14 points, respectively. Wingate led the Lady Techsters with eight rebounds as well. The Badgers try to pick up win No. 2 Wednesday evening against Drake University. Tip-off is at 7 p.m. at the Kohl Center.
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Men’s Basketball
Wisconsin recovers after stunning defeat By Zach Rastall and Matt Tragesser THE DAILY CARDINAL ALAYNA TRUTTMANN/THE DAILY CARDINAL
Kelli Bates paced UW with a .556 hitting percentage and 13 kills.
Bates’ crisp play caps off home sweep of Iowa By Sam Karp THE DAILY CARDINAL
No. 9 Wisconsin (12-4 Big Ten, 20-6 overall) extended its win streak to eight games Saturday after it defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes (2-14, 12-17) in straight sets (25-20, 25-11, 25-14). The Badgers put up astounding numbers as a team and individually to cruise to the three-set victory. “I think anytime that you’re siding out at 86 percent for a match against a Big Ten opponent, you’re probably doing a lot of great things,” Badger head coach Kelly Sheffield said. “Thought this kid right here [sophomore outside hitter Kelli Bates] was fantastic tonight.” The player coach Sheffield was referring to, Bates, was one of many Badgers who had a strong game. Her attack percentage was .556 for the game and she led the team with 13 kills and only had two errors. “I was kind of anxious to get after this game to kind of redeem myself from getting benched against them last time,” Bates said. Besides Bates, Wisconsin got strong performances from junior middle blocker Haleigh Nelson, freshman middle blocker Tionna Williams and sophomore outside hitter Lauren Gillis, among others. Nelson was second on the team with 11 kills and recorded three aces, Gillis recorded 11 kills and Williams recorded nine with a .818 attack percentage. As a team the Badgers hit .424 percent on their attacks with only 10
team errors. On the other side of the net, Iowa hit .106 percent as a team with 15 total errors. The Badgers also out-blocked the Hawkeyes 7-2 in the game while also out-digging them 44-30. Based on how the rest of the sets unfolded, the first was uncharacteristically close. The two teams battled back and forth in the set until a 4-1 run by UW helped separate them from Iowa. Williams ended the set with a strong kill to give Wisconsin the firstset victory. In the second set, UW began to flex its muscle. They jumped out to an early 8-1 lead, forcing the Hawkeyes to call a timeout. Unfortunately for Iowa, the timeout couldn’t slow down the Badger’s momentum, as they extended their lead to 16-6. Iowa wasn’t able to make up any ground in the set, falling 25-11 after junior setter Lauren Carlini sealed the deal with a kill. After Iowa kept it close in the beginning of the set, the third set was dominated by Wisconsin. With the score 11-9, the Badgers went on a 4-0 run that would ultimately prove to be the tipping point for the Hawkeyes. Iowa managed to score only five more points in the set falling 25-14. The Badgers will return to the road this week when they travel to Huff Hall in Champaign, Ill., to take on No. 17 Illinois before closing out the week at home against No. 11 Ohio State, a team the Badgers lost a close five-set match to earlier this year.
Wisconsin 92, Siena 65
It won’t erase the memory of Friday’s stunning loss to Western Illinois, but Wisconsin’s dominating 92-65 win over Siena (0-2) Sunday night should have fans feeling a little better about the prospects of this young Badgers team moving forward. Junior guard Bronson Koenig and junior forward Vitto Brown each finished with career highs in points, scoring 23 and 16, respectively. Brown also grabbed a gamehigh seven rebounds and seemed to build off of the end of the Western Illinois game, where he scored eight points in the second half. “[Brown] seemed a little more focused. He was a little more under control. That’s what he’s gonna have to do. Sometimes he just gets sped up and struggles,” UW head coach Bo Ryan said. “Just go the speed limit. He thinks that because they raised it to 70 on some of these highways that he’s gotta go faster at times. Stay at 65.” Junior forward Nigel Hayes added 14 points as well for the Badgers (1-1), who once again suffered through their fair share of struggles in the early stages of the game. Though Wisconsin jumped out to a quick 8-2 lead to start, the Saints fought back and held the lead midway through the first half. Siena started out 7-of-11 from the field and only trailed 20-18 with 9:27 to play in the half, but from there it was all Badgers. Wisconsin proceeded to go on a 23-10 run to finish the half, which ended with an emphatic putback dunk from redshirt junior guard Zak Showalter off a missed 3-pointer by Koenig in the closing seconds of the half. Unlike Friday night, the Badgers came out of the locker room firing on all cylinders, putting together a 10-0 run in the first 3:05 of the second half. They never slowed down from there, continuing to extend their lead and never allowing Siena to have the opportunity to get within striking range and making a run at pulling off a second consecutive upset at the Kohl Center. It was a solid bounce-back win for the Badgers after Friday’s shocking loss, something that didn’t come as a surprise to Siena head coach Jimmy Patsos. “I sensed trouble brewing
Friday night about two minutes after the loss to Western Illinois,” Patsos said. “Bo Ryan’s teams are too good. They’re going to do that once a year maybe.” For the players, being able to get back on the court just a couple of days after the season-opening loss was a major positive. “One of the first thoughts that went through my head after that game was ‘thank god we have another game in two days to prove ourselves,’” Showalter said. “Obviously that was pretty embarrassing, but we know what we’ve got and what we’re capable of and I think we responded pretty well.” The Badgers improved from Friday night in just about every facet of the game. They went 25-0f30 from the free throw line after going 16-25 in their regular-season opener, while also shooting 58.5 percent from the field, including 41.7 percent from 3-point range. Siena, on the other hand, struggled mightily on offense after its hot start. The Saints shot just 39.3 percent overall, including a dismal 18.8 percent from beyond the arc. They also didn’t have much success in quickening the tempo of the game, which Patsos attributed at least in part to Wisconsin’s deliberate style of play. “When we don’t run, we’re not so good, and that really hurt us,” Patsos said. “You look up tempo in the dictionary, you see Bo Ryan’s picture. That starts playing right into their hands.”
WIU 69, Wisconsin 67
Despite starting its season opener with an energized ceremonial tribute to last years men’s basketball squad, the No. 17 Wisconsin Badgers (0-1) received the misfortunes associated with Friday the 13th and fell 69-67 to the Western Illinois Leathernecks (1-0). With the return of juniors Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig and a matchup against an opponent that was predicted to finish last in one of the NCAA’s weakest conferences, it seemed almost inconceivable that the Badgers would end falling in their home opener, but the loss will serve as a wake-up call for the the team as it faces a much tougher road ahead. One of the most glaring weaknesses shown by Wisconsin was its ineffective defense. The Badgers allowed the Leathernecks to shoot 54 percent from the field for the game and were simply not making enough stops on the defensive side of the ball.
“I just don’t think we moved our feet well enough and that’s something we’re gonna have to keep working on,” Koenig said. By the end of the first half, the Badgers had showcased an exciting offense as Hayes led Wisconsin to a 44-37 lead with 17 points with an additional 18 points coming from Bronson Koenig, Zak Showalter and Khalil Iverson. However, the second half would be a major struggle for Wisconsin. With an abysmal 25 percent team shooting percentage and a combined 0-10 field goal shooting from starters Hayes and Showalter, the Badgers simply could not find their offensive rhythm that they had in the first half and failed to make enough adjustments on defense, which allowed the Leathernecks to outscore the Badgers 32-23 in the second half. Followed by a reenergized Kohl Center crowd, Wisconsin made one last run in the last six minutes of the game after falling behind by eight points, but the Leathernecks held off the Badgers as Bronson Koenig’s jumper rimmed out as time expired. Aside from porous defense and offensive shooting, free throws also plagued the Badgers as they finished the game 16 of 25 from the charity stripe. “In a two-point game how huge do all those [free throws] look? They look pretty big,” head coach Bo Ryan said. After receiving much praise from teammates and performing exceptionally well in the Badgers’ exhibition game against UW-Riverside last Thursday, redshirt freshman Ethan Happ struggled mightily against Western Illinois, as he finished off the night with only four points after receiving two early fouls in the first half. Freshman standouts Charlie Thomas and Khalil Iverson also had growing pains on the offensive side of the ball, as they finished the night shooting a combined 3-of-13 from the field and a combined 4-of-9 from the free throw line. The loss was a complete shocker for fans and served as a stark reminder that this young Wisconsin squad will endure some growing pains this season. “We got a long way to go,” Ryan said. “We play again Sunday, we play again Tuesday, we’ll see what we can find.” The Badgers return to action Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Kohl Center, where they’ll welcome in North Dakota.
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Bronson Koenig took back control Sunday, scoring 23 points and picking up four assists.