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City Council disagrees on higher wages, budget issues By Dana Kampa THE DAILY CARDINAL

Mayor Paul Soglin said in a City Council meeting Tuesday that Madison is facing serious budgetary issues. “When I made the decision that I wanted to be mayor of this city, I was deeply concerned about the trends [of solvency, poverty and equity],” Soglin said. “When I got here, I found out the situation was far worse than I thought or understood.” City officials considered amending the operating budget to include higher city

worker wage increases. Soglin sponsored adjusting the pay increase for employees from 1.5 percent to 2 percent to move toward pay equity. General municipal employees, including Jeff Barrett, a city of Madison fleet services employee for 32 years, said they see inequity in city worker raises. “I feel my job has as much value as any other city employee, and I would like to see that value recognized,” Barrett said.

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UW alumnus Jason Cohen speaks to “Facing Fear” screening attendees at UW Hillel Tuesday.

Documentary director, subjects explore forgiveness through film By Bri Maas THE DAILY CARDINAL

Matthew Boger and Tim Zaal worked together for eight months before realizing they had drastically changed each other’s lives 26 years earlier. Boger and Zaal, subjects of the Academy Award-nominated documentary “Facing Fear,” visited campus Tuesday alongside UW-Madison alumnus and director Jason Cohen to screen and discuss the film’s themes of hatred and forgiveness with students and community members. As detailed by the documentary, Boger’s mother kicked him out of his home for being gay at age 13, forcing him to live on the streets of Hollywood. There, Zaal and a group of neo-Nazis attacked Boger, beating him nearly to death. Zaal’s boot, with razor blades glued to the toe, delivered the kick to Boger’s head that knocked him unconscious and made the

group believe he was dead. However, “Facing Fear” is not a film about violence. Zaal and Boger said they trusted Cohen to tell their story because he, unlike some other journalists, did not want to sensationalize the attack, instead focusing on their unlikely companionship. “The point of the film was to show the process of forgiveness,” Cohen said. Zaal explained Tuesday that, at the time, he used violence like a drug, needing to commit more aggressive hate crimes to experience a high. Eventually, the effects wore off and Zaal, realizing the horror of his crimes, decided to leave the white supremacist movement. Serendipitously, victim and offender met again decades later when both worked at the Museum of Tolerance. Before the duo could collaborate, however, they needed forgiveness. “I don’t know if I could forgive

someone the way he has been able to,” Zaal said. For Boger, the process of reconciliation helped him face judgment without letting it affect him. “I used to live my life worrying about what others thought of me, mainly my sexuality,” Boger said. “I was limiting my life by other people’s thoughts.” Boger said after letting go of that fear, he found a new “driving force” in volunteering at the museum and spreading messages about tolerance and forgiveness. The trio is working to bring the film to middle and high schools, where they hope it can teach students about conflict resolution and change behavioral education. “People who have lived through something have the unique opportunity, ability and responsibility to share that with others, especially if it helps create change,” Boger said.

State Street store robbed at gunpoint Tuesday Police are searching for the suspect behind an armed robbery of the Life is good store Tuesday night, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. The incident took place at 7:28 p.m., when the male suspect entered the store carrying a

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handgun and ordered the female clerk to the ground, according to the report. The victim was not injured during the incident. After taking an undisclosed amount of money, the suspect fled the scene in an unknown direction and still remains at large, Lt. Amy Schwartz wrote in

the report. The store clerk described the suspect as black with a chubby build, approximately 5 feet 7 inches and in his thirties. At the time of the incident, the suspect wore a dark coat, dark jeans and dark shoes, with a scarf covering his face.

Gov. Scott Walker says timeliness of Wisconsin’s budget passing will affect presidential run Gov. Scott Walker is considering a 2016 presidential run, according to the Associated Press. “My personal process is I have to feel like it’s a calling,” Walker said in an interview

with AP. “It’s not something you should yearn for.” Walker was recently reelected to a second term as governor, but he said it was “pretty obvious” he should con-

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template running for president if “the state’s performing at the best possible level.” “I spend a lot of time not just talking with people but praying about, thinking about with

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my family as well whether or not eventually that might be a call to run for the presidency,” Walker said. Right now, Walker said he is focused on implementing

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his second-term agenda and passing a new two-year state budget. Walker said the time needed to pass the budget will affect when he makes his decision.

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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

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Sean Reichard quip pro quo The first house party I had dipped into had been a bust. No clues, no oranges even. But I had to suck it up and muscle ahead. I had a few other parties to go to that night, to look for clues toward the Tenny Bros. I made my way to the front of the house I had just ducked out of, the smell of gas still heavy in my nose. The university was still all glow and bustle to my right, and I had to make my way left, further down Mills. When I came to the address, the house front was strangely quiet. To be sure, there were plenty of “private parties” that went down on Mills, but from what Schlep’s Directory had told me, this place should have been jumping. I stepped onto the porch and listened a bit through the door, like I was Antonie Buddenbrook. There was music playing, but it sounded weirdly quiet. And it didn’t sound like any party anthem I knew. I had my suspicions, but I kept them wrapped tight in my coat as I walked through the door. If there had been any bumping and grinding in my absence, it ceased immediately as I stepped in. There were eight people, most-

ly young men with scrupulous faces (which is to say, marked by scruples) and very short, neat hair. Their clothing was extravagant, like a mockery of party wear. They stood, statuesque, in the living room, which seemed like a theater set, with its burgundy and spinach-green sofas. After a few beats, one of the statue men unfroze and greeted me. “What, is up? My… hellacious, brother?” That was it. Something was very off. As he spoke to me, my eyes glanced around the room and to the kitchen. Like a clutch of emeralds dispersed at the bottom of a sea cave, cans of Rolling Rock glinted before me, in people’s hands, in a neat circle on the kitchen table. I ignored the statue man and made my way to the kitchen. “Ah, Rolling Rock!” I cried in my most American sounding voice. “Extra Pale! Thank you stranger.” I took a can from the circle, which was open and felt about a third full, and held it to my nose. It didn’t smell a thing like beer; it smelled like vintage cognac. I held the can high in the doorway and surveyed the group of statues, who seemed increasingly nervous. “This isn’t a house party,” I told them. “This is an existentialist literature reading group! Isn’t it?!” It was at that point I felt something hard hit me in the back of the head. As I fell into a Raymond

Chandler stupor, I heard a voice quoting Jean-Paul Sartre distantly, like he was at the end of a tunnel: “Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm!”

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I woke up what must have been five minutes later, on the lawn outside. As I eased up and looked at the house I had been ejected from, I saw that the door and windows had been perfectly barricaded with furniture and bric-and-brac. It was admirable work, would make a sansculotte proud. I rapped it once before walking away. As I stalked off, though, I heard a window scratch open and one of the statue men hailed me from the second floor, quoting Sartre once more. “Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal! Hell is other people!” he

cried, before slamming the window and propping a lamp in front of it. I checked the time on my phone—it wasn’t even ten— which emboldened me to trudge away back toward campus. I was gonna have another visit with Professor Rice. I was mad, real mad and I was gonna take it out on him, for being so imperious about this whole thing. He knew who the Tenny Bros. were, and damn it all if I wasn’t gonna figure it out. I made it to Memorial Library without much trouble and found my way to the 4M floor. The automatic lights had long shut off and besides Rice, I was probably the only one there. I made my way to his shelf and pressed the button. Something horrible happened. I saw, as Rice’s makeshift apartment rolled closer to me, that there was a great disorder to his shelves. Books knocked down, canned biscuits lying on the floor. And a terrible, terrible swishing sound. As Rice’s hammock rolled into view, I saw him slumped in it, stiff and alabaster, the hammock swollen and hanging. A blood balloon. His meerschaum pipe of John Barth smoking, the “Infinite Regress” laid split down the middle. He clutched a piece of paper in his hand. And I thought I heard laughter in the stacks, when the shelves stopped moving.

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Students look to UW alumni for advocacy aid

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ASM Vice Chair Derek Field stresses the importance of contacting alumni for further student support in the Biennial Budget at an External Affairs Committee meeting Tuesday.

Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Derek Field introduced an alumni outreach project aimed at increasing student issue awareness at an External Affairs Committee meeting Tuesday. Field began contacting past ASM student members in an effort to find specific alumni who better understand issues like college affordability and student shared governance. Field said they hope to find alumni who could contact their legislators to show their support of student issues in the Biennial Budget. State agencies submit requests for the budget for the governor’s review. “If we just try to get more people talking about college affordability in general that will help our cause,” Field said. “Everybody knows how unaffordable college is right now so more attention to the

issue the better it will be for students.” The External Affairs Committee brainstormed other possible ways to contact alumni including asking for more out-of-state alumni contacts. Field said out-of-state alumni might not have a direct impact with the budget, but they could have connections to others who might be able to help. Committee members also said they hope to involve ASM alumni in the future to help support or prevent changes to the university that might help or hurt students. “Sometimes people view alumni just as a bank account,” said Legislative Affairs Committee Chair Tom Gierok. “I think they are very useful in the fact that they were once students just like us working on issues just like we are.” — Maija Inveiss

Pew poll indicates state undocumented population remains static The number of undocumented workers in Wisconsin has stayed relatively stable since 2007, according to a study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center. The study, which addresses trends in illegal immigration across the country from 2009 to 2012, says that Wisconsin’s 85,000 undocumented workers make up 1.5 percent of the state’s population and 1.8

percent of its labor force, less than the national averages of 3.5 percent and 5.1 percent, respectively. The study also reported 55,000 people work illegally in the state while spouses and minors make up the rest of the undocumented population. The number of undocumented immigrants nationwide was pegged at 11.2 million in the report. Like in

Wisconsin, this number has stayed roughly the same since the last time data was collected in 2007. Gov. Scott Walker has stopped short of supporting pathways for undocumented workers to become citizens but does want them to remain in the country. “If people want to come here and work hard and benefit … I want them here,” he said in a July

2013 interview with the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, acknowledging that many Wisconsin farms benefit from migrant labor. More recently, Walker called the plight of undocumented minors in the U.S. “heartbreaking.” “You think of the trauma these kids are going through to get here, and you think of the trauma before that,” Walker said in July.

“I put them on my own personal prayer list.” On the national level, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders have recently sparred over the possibility of unilateral executive action that would prevent the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants. —Andrew Bahl

UW-Madison graduate program wins national neuroscience award A UW-Madison neuroscience program recently won a national annual award, earning the title of top graduate program in the country for 2014. The Society for Neuroscience selects both graduate and undergraduate programs for its Neuroscience Program Achievement Award, which highlights a school’s work to promote neuroscience education throughout its university and surrounding community, according to the society’s website. UW-Madison’s winning program, the Neuroscience and Public Policy Program, began in 2005 as a means to address a lack of science knowledge in the field of federal law. The program offers students a doctorate in neuroscience, in addition to a complementary degree

from either the La Follette School of Public Affairs or law school. Ron Kalil, director of the program and a neuroscientist himself, will head to Washington D.C. Sunday to accept the award, according to a university statement released Tuesday. “It’s gratifying that the work our students and faculty have done since the program was established in 2005 will be recognized this way,” Kalil said in the release. “They have a lot to be proud of.” The program has added two to three students a year since its establishment. The program also expanded to include specializations in international policy and neuroscience law relations, according to the release. —Emily Gerber

December policy change to allow taxpayers easier payment options The city of Madison has increased the number of tax installments for property owners from two to four, with the new policy set to begin in December. The new due dates will be Jan. 31, March 31, May 31 and July 31. Taxpayers can pay any amount throughout the year as long as they meet the minimum required payment by each date, according to a city of Madison release. Studies have shown the easier budgeting possibilities will also lower the delinquency rate. “At the height of the recession the city’s delinquency rate was over twice the historical average,” Mayor Paul Soglin said in the release.

“Even today, delinquencies are 30 percent more than what we would expect. We hope offering the four installment option will help some of our property owners avoid the considerable penalties incurred when you go delinquent on their taxes.” The revised tax policy will not affect most taxpayers who pay taxes in December, because they will be able to itemize the deduction on their federal income tax. The taxes will now be paid entirely to the city treasurer, instead of splitting payments between the city and county. Taxpayers can visit the city treasurer’s website for additional information on the policy. —Jake Skubish

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Madison Mayor Paul Soglin proposed increasing city workers’ wages in a Tuesday meeting.

council from page 1 Soglin also said the net income for city employees has declined over the past four years. Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, and other alders objected to the proposal because the mayor did not discuss the 2 percent increase in the months spent developing the operating budget. “It’s no way to make a political decision,” Resnick said. “It’s no way to run a city.” Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, said she felt disrespected by the mayor for not

bringing up the increase in the first budget meeting. “When you ask for an example of what went wrong, I point to you,” Rummel said. “Lack of communication seems like a real problem here.” The Council voted 13-5 against amending the operating budget to grant the 2 percent wage increase. At the end of the meeting, the alders voted whether or not to reopen the 2015 capital budget. The alders largely agreed this budget is not perfect but there were too many complex issues to resolve in

the next few weeks. “We’re still getting used to how to pass budgets in a post-Act 10 world,” Ald. Larry Palm, District 12, said. The Council decided to not reconsider the 2015 capital budget. “At this point, we have to make serious decisions about the capital budget, which the Mayor’s office hasn’t been willing to come to the table on,” Resnick said. “Attempting to reopen it with amendments presented to council members the day of the meeting shows failed top down leadership.”

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By Suma Samudrala The Daily Cardinal

University of WisconsinMadison professor of chemistry, Shannon Stahl, received one of the five Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for his work with aerobic oxidations. Green chemistry concerns the reduction or elimination of hazardous wastes through specifically researched products or processes. It represents an effort toward providing environmental benefit via cleaner air and water through toxic waste elimination. The award was created by the EPA to recognize novel green chemistry. One of the classic organic chemistry reactions is the oxidation reaction where one atom loses electrons and simultaneously increases its valence number. Oxidation is one of the core chemical reactions taught to students taking organic chemistry. Chromium oxide, as most students recognize and what most labs utilize, is the reagent used for alcohol oxidation. “Well it’s a great pedagogical tool but the problem with that method is that you can’t scale that method and still be environmentally sound because the amount of chromium waste that you generate in the process is just too large…I think it is quite striking that when you take sophomore organic chemistry and you learn about oxidation, you never learn a single oxidation reaction that uses oxygen as the oxidant,” Stahl said. Oxygen is the most green and abundant oxidant available, but has been selected against for its poor reactivity and possible safety issues. And, the main reason for its lack of use as an oxidant is because methods which can use oxygen selectively have not been developed until now.

Stahl discusses two examples of how oxidation is used. One is how humans do this process naturally when we metabolize food. We combine oxygen with sugars and generate energy to conduct our life processes. In the automobile industry, as another example, gasoline is oxidized, resulting in a combustion reaction that forms carbon dioxide and water. “In the pharmaceutical industry and the chemical industry, if you want to do an oxidation reac-

tion, you don’t want carbon dioxide and water unless you are trying to generate the energy or the electricity that runs in your plant,” Stahl said. The idea is to do selective oxidation, so the process can be stopped before carbon dioxide and water are generated. The method by which to do this is developing and using catalysts. Catalysts are substances that lower the activation

energy or the energy needs for a reaction to occur. A catalyst does not get consumed in the reaction. “The idea is to develop a catalyst that will allow the combination of oxygen and the organic molecule, say a pharmaceutical precursor, to combine and do something selective where the only byproduct is water,” Stahl said. With over 15 years of research, Stahl and his collaborators have been working to develop new methods to use oxygen from the

on doing green chemistry. “The question was how can we do what nature does but make it practical and useful to solve many of the environmentally damaging by-products…How do we harness oxygen as an oxidant just like nature does but do it in a way that’s really useful for the pharmaceutical industry, the agrochemical industry or the biochemical or the commodity chemicals industry. Nature does it all the time, why can’t we?” Stahl said. Students that take the UW-Madison course Chemistry 344, which is the organic chemistry lab, will encounter an alcohol oxidation, similar to Stahl’s work with the pharmaceutical industries. The next step in the process is to make this reaction a commonly used one so that it becomes a typically taught textbook reaction. Starting with just fundamental research which created new knowledge without any industrial relevance, the research team has arrived at this significant breakthrough which brought their work to fruition. Stahl’s research team first collaborated with a pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly and Company, where they began attempting to solve the real-word practical green chemistry problems. From then, the team collaborated with Thatcher Root, profesgraphic by Cameron Graff sor of chemical and biological engineering at air for selective oxidation so that UW Madison. The two have now this process can be transferred into expanded to include collaborathe pharmaceutical, agrochemi- tion with Eli Lilly and Company, cal and biochemical industries. Merck & Co. and Pfizer to impleComponent parts of these indus- ment aerobic oxidation into phartries such as creating polymers can maceutical synthesis. be prepared via an oxidation. This research has been Since Stahl’s post-doctoral funded in part by the National research is concerned with oxy- Institutes of Health with gen-specific enzymes used for the stimulus package, U.S. selective oxidation, the researcher Department of Energy and from has placed part of his lab’s efforts the collaborative companies.

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Ask Ms. Scientist: Physical retina stimulation causes geometric hallucinations Dear Ms. Scientist, Why do I see bright geometric shapes when I rub my eyes? —Haley W. Waking up from your power nap, you rub your eyes and see bright geometric shapes as if there’s a kaleidoscope on your eyelid. The colorful shapes are called phosphenes and this effect is called an entopic phenomenon, meaning that the hallucinations are coming from inside your eye. Putting pressure on your eyes stimulates your retina, the part of the eye that transforms what you see into brain waves. The retina is thus very metabolically active and sensitive in order to account for all the visual changes you see and send them to your brain quickly and accurately. As a result of physical instead of light stimulation, the retina’s photoreceptors start to fire abnormally, making your brain think that it is seeing images, a.k.a. phosphenes. Ask Ms. Scientist is written by Corinne Thornton. If you have a burning science question you want her to answer, email it to science@dailycardinal.com.

Communicating bacteria use quorum sensing before attack of the host By Brita Larson The Daily Cardinal

One of the great mysteries of modern science has been how when bacteria congregate in small numbers, they are relatively innocuous. However, when the amount of bacteria grows, it is as if a switch goes on and they go from being a clump of innocuous bacteria to synchronized, lethal killers. In recent years, chemists and bacteriologists have begun to solve the riddle. Bacteria, despite their obvious lack of vocal communication capabilities, have a highly evolved form of communication called quorum sensing. Dr. Helen Blackwell of the chemistry department and the members of her team at the Blackwell Lab study quorum sensing. I ventured into the Shane Research Tower to interview her and naturally lost my way in the maze of the upper floors. I wandered through something that looked like a room full

of giant freezers, when I, quite by accident though it was my intended target, stumbled upon Dr. Blackwell’s office. When I asked her to define quorum sensing, she described it as a type of chemical signaling process used by bacteria and microorganisms at large. Bacteria “use small molecules and they send these out into the environment. The bacteria can sense these molecules and it allows them to know how many neighbors they have nearby,” Blackwell said. From an evolutionary perspective, quorum sensing is extremely advantageous for bacteria, specifically human pathogens. In some ways, bacteria act like a pack of wolves. When there is a single wolf, it cannot successfully hunt and bring down a moose alone. However, when there’s a pack of wolves, it’s far easier for them to work together to bring down a beast much larger than their individual selves. Similarly, with quorum sens-

ing, bacteria reproduce in their host silently without notifying the host of their presence; when “they amass a certain density,” Blackwell said, quorum sensing allows the bacteria to determine the number of individuals around them and if it’s enough to infect the host they become virulent.

“The thrill of discovery never goes away.”

Helen Blackwell chemistry professor UW-Madison

There are some interesting implications of research on quorum sensing for modern medicine. One of the major issues facing modern medicine today is the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. However,

quorum sensing may provide a new tool for antibiotics. If scientists can effectively block bacteria from communicating with each other, the bacteria won’t become virulent and the host won’t become sick. Even better, “You aren’t seeing resistance development like with regular antibiotics,” Blackwell said. Quorum sensing isn’t always associated with virulent microorganisms and they certainly don’t always use quorum sensing to become lethal killers, as I stated previously. In fact, there has been research on blocking biofilms. Bacteria use quorum sensing to form biofilms and the only way to remove biofilms is to cut them out. Biofilms occur in such glorious places as the plaque on your teeth, inner ear infections and in many industrial settings, specifically in dairy. Once again, if scientists can block the bacteria from communicating, making them unable to form a biofilm they would save you and

your dentist a lot of hassle. Another example of harnessing quorum sensing could have environmental applications. “Certain symbiotic bacteria, such as nitrogen-fixing rhizobia help process nitrogen and fix nitrogen from the environment for plants,” Blackwell said. The implication of this is that it could be a very efficient way of fertilizing plants. When I asked her the usual question I ask of all researchers, if she had any advice for undergrads, she paused a moment and then said, “Follow what you love, something you would do for free and it wouldn’t matter if you would be paid or not. Something that you really love so it’s not work. The thrill of discovery never goes away.” And thus our conversation ended on a rather philosophical note and I walked away with more knowledge about how extraordinary bacteria is and how great the view is from the top floors of the Shane Research Tower.

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Bill Bryson charms union audience MILLER JOZWIAK Opinion Columnist

he Distinguished Lecture Series is an entirely student-run organization committed to bringing influential speakers with powerful ideas to campus to give free lectures to students. On Monday, Nov. 17, the committee brought The New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson to Shannon Hall in Memorial Union. Bryson is a unique author in that every book he writes has a completely different topic from the last. In 1998 he published “A Walk in the Woods,” a non-fiction narrative on his unsuccessful attempt to walk the Appalachian Trails. In 2003 he radically shifted to a

guide to science for the layman titled “A Short History of Nearly Everything,” with a litter of books in between on a variety of topics. One would think this constant changing of genre would make it difficult for Bryson to develop a distinct, loyal fan following. On the contrary, Bryson has sold over 15 million books worldwide and they have been translated into over 30 languages. Last year he also became the first non-Briton to become a fellow of the British Royal Society. Bryson’s mass popularity comes from his ability to make the mundane seem astonishing. As the Chicago Sun-Times claims, “Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud.” His newest book, “One Summer: America, 1927,” is a historical piece on

the events of the summer of 1927. Seemingly simplistic and tedious stories and topics such as this are the material on which Bryson thrives. This material is exactly what Bryson used during his lecture on Monday night. The Distinguished Lecture Series is not ticketed and admittance is based on a first come, first serve basis. Those who arrived 25 minutes early, including myself, were not able to enter the hall. Even more surprising was those who were locked out were willing to stay outside and listen to the broadcasted lecture. The crowd of Bryson fans, most with journals and pens in hand, waited attentively for Bryson to begin speaking. After being introduced Bryson came out and told a story of a talk he gave in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The

talk was attended by only five people. Such an event would be deemed irrelevant by most, but Bryson elaborated on it and told a narrative that made the Union erupt in laughter. Following this he recited passages from a few of his books, each one funnier than the last.

Seemingly simplistic and tedious stories and topics such as this are the material on which Bryson thrives.

The lecture was far from traditional. Bryson had no thesis, nor did he speak of any broad, over-arching idea. He simply told stories that he found significant in. This distinct style

is what has allowed Bryson to captivate millions of readers. The Distinguished Lecture Series did the Madison community a great service by organizing Monday night’s event. The series’ next lecturer, Peabody Award-winning Radiolab host Jad Abumrad, is due to speak on Dec. 8 in Shannon Hall. I strongly encourage those who have not attended any of the lectures yet to do so. They are truly thought-provoking events that are so diverse in topic everyone is likely to be interested in at least one speaker’s topic. The exciting and humorous talk from Bryson was just one piece of this brilliant ongoing series. Miller is a freshman columnist for The Daily Cardinal. Did you attend Bill Bryson’s talk? What was your take on it? We’d like to hear your view. Please send all feedback to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

Celebrate Universal Children’s Day: End child labor LAURA FINELY Letter to the Editor

ovember 20 is Universal Children’s Day, a day devoted to observing the welfare of the world’s children. Unfortunately, in the U.S. and elsewhere, children are still denied fundamental human rights. Children worldwide suffer from corporal punishment in homes and schools, are denied access to schooling, are forced to join violent militias, and endure a host of other atrocities that clearly violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international human rights treaties. One issue that has received attention in the past few months is that of child labor. According to the International Labor Office, there are about 168 million child laborers globally, which accounts for approximately one in 10 of the world’s children. Albeit a onethird reduction since 2000, the problem remains acute. An estimated 13 million children work in India alone, despite laws prohibiting child labor and mandating school attendance. About four percent of child laborers are in forced or bonded labor, prostitution, or fighting in armed conflict. The remainder of the world’s child laborers work in family businesses or on family farms, where they often toil as much as 27 hours per week and are, like the child tobacco laborers, exposed to a variety of dangerous chemicals and pesticides. In a report from May 2014, Human Rights Watch found that child laborers in the U.S. were routinely exposed to nicotine, toxic pesticides, extreme heat, and other dangers. Interviews with these children found widespread reports of headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting whole working, which is suggestive of acute nicotine poisoning. In the US, there is no minimum age for children to work on small farms, and children as young as 12 can work on tobacco

farms with no regulations to protect them from the hazards of the work. Thankfully, there does seem to be some movement on these issues. Kailash Satyarthi, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prizes (with Malala Yousefzi), founded the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude, which has raided factories across India, freeing more than 40,000 bonded laborers. Many of the workers were children who lived under armed guard. On October 14, 2014, labor ministers and representatives of 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries signed a declaration launching an initiative to rid the region of child labor. And, while I have never been a smoker and am not a fan of the tobacco industry. I want to applaud tobacco giant Philip Morris International, however, for its initiative to reduce the harmful exploitation of child laborers in the U.S. On November 5, 2014, Philip Morris International announced that it will begin buying US-grown tobacco only through thirdparty leaf supply companies. Previously, the company purchased tobacco directly from tobacco farmers. According to Human Rights Watch, of the world’s 10 largest tobacco companies, Philip Morris International has the most rigorous standards related to child labor. It prohibits children under the age of 18 from many of the most hazardous tasks on tobacco farms. According to researchers at Human Rights Watch (HRW), this decision will now mean that thousands of tobacco farms will now have to meet much higher child labor standards. Still more can and should be done. In the U.S., we should move to ratify the CRC. Only the U.S and Somalia have not done so. While ratification of a human rights treaty by no means ensures that all human rights violations will cease, if

nothing else it is a powerful symbol that the rights of children are important and it can be a much-needed prompt to address some of our inadequate protections for children. Globally, one of the obvious primary reasons that children work is because their families need the income. As Charles Kenny wrote recently in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, passing laws alone sometimes makes the situation worse. Economists Prashant Bharadwaj and Leah Lakdawala studied the impact of India’s

1986 child labor law and found that it drove wages for children down and the number of hours they worked up, with the biggest impact felt in poor families. Instead, we must support the education of children and help cover the costs of schooling for families who cannot afford it. Some countries have begun paying families to keep their kids in school. Mexico’s Opportunidades program gives mothers two-thirds of what their daughters would earn in the labor force if they keep the girls in school through the

ninth grade, which has reduced that country’s child labor rates by as much as a quarter. Other efforts include covering some of the expenses associated with schooling in the developing world, like school meals and uniforms. As Whitney Houston sang, “the children are our future. We must teach them well and let them lead the way.” Laura Finley teaches in the Barry University Department of Sociology & Criminology. What is your take on child labor? Please send all feedback to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

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Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

FACT OF THE DAY: More than 75 percent of people will try to lick their elbow

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Watsky electrifies Barrymore audience By Robert Vanderwist The Daily Cardinal

The first time I heard the eccentric whirlwind of words that defines San Fransisco native George Watsky’s flow, I was a sophomore in high school and his YouTube video “Pale kid raps fast” had just gone viral. As millions of views rolled in, I strayed to the related videos and became enamored with a few singles from his first EP. Followed by his collaborative EP with Kush Mody and full-length albums Cardboard Castles and All You Can Do, this odd sampling of homemade music videos and novelty fast raps was more than enough to keep me hooked. Over the last four years, Watsky has grown from humble bedroom recordings to an artist with a monumentally wide appeal, spanning from spoken-word poetry slams to the 2014 Vans Warped Tour. On Sunday the Barrymore Theatre was home to his All You Can Do Tour, named for his most recent album and biggest release. KYLE, a rapper from Ventura, California who lets his bubbly personality and sense of showmanship shine onstage just as brightly as his lyricism and technical skill, supported Watsky on the bill. The music behind his vocals catered to the eclectic crowd, alternating between laid-back funky hip-hop instrumentals to heavy trap beats

and everything in between. A few of his songs even had some melodic, driving electronic breaks that catered to the eager audience’s ever-present urge to jump up and down with their fists in the air for a few minutes at a time. To me, KYLE was a very fitting artist to serve as direct support to Watsky on his biggest headlining tour yet. He shared Watsky’s poetic style, his affinity for clever word play and above all, his unbridled stage presence. KYLE kept the stage dives coming, culminating with a ride across the crowd while standing up on a boogie board during his final song.

As millions of views rolled in, I strayed to the related videos and became enamored with a few singles from his first EP.

Almost immediately after KYLE left the stage, the crowd began chanting Watsky’s name in anticipation, continuing to do so periodically for about 20 minutes until the lights dimmed and his band took the stage. The band that backs Watsky features Kush Mody, who has been a frequent contributor on Watsky’s releases since his early days, as well as extremely

talented singer Anderson Paak, among others. The band ripped into the intro of “Bet Against Me,” a rowdy anthem from All You Can Do, as Watsky stormed onto the stage to join them, showing off his bright red “Drink Wisconsinibly” hoodie. The opening song was followed by “Moral of the Story” from 2013’s Cardboard Castles, and then “Seizure Boy,” an old song written about Watsky’s stuggle with Epilepsy from his 2009 self-titled EP. Watsky continued to play a set that highlighted songs from his new album, including “Never Let It Die,” while also drawing from his earlier work. After Watsky and most of his band took a break while their drummer played a long, impressive solo, Watsky took down the tempo to perform a powerful spoken-word delivery of the main verse from “Stupidass,” a single from his days as a young YouTube sensation. Watsky took a moment to note his love for Wisconsin, mentioning that he had a long history with many UW schools he visited to perform slam poetry before his rap career took off. The set, along with the crowd, really took off when Watsky played another crowd favorite, “Ninjas in Paris” (which he aptly renamed “Ninjas in Wisconsin”). The

band played a face-melting rendition of the classic Kanye West/Jay Z instrumental, and the Barrymore Theatre was alive. The live instrumentals are a crucial element of what makes his show so energetic, and the tight wall of sound they put out reminded me of the groovy sounds that Chance The Rapper and The Social Experiment have been bringing over the last couple months. “Ninjas in Wisconsin” drove right into “Sloppy Seconds,” arguably the most popular song off of Cardboard Castles. This was followed by an awesome medley that pulled hooks, verses and melodies from throughout Watsky’s discography, including “Strong As an Oak,” “Hey, Asshole,” “Cardboard Castles” and my personal favorite, “4AM Monday.” The deadly medley was followed by “Sarajevo” and “Cannonball,” two of the most emotionally and melodically deep songs on All You Can Do. “Cannonball” showcased Watsky’s talent as a spoken word poet as well as the talent of his band vocalist Paak. Watsky’s delivery sent chills down my spine that hung around into the next song, “Whoa Whoa Whoa,” the final song of his set and possibly biggest single to date. When Watsky returned

Superhero TV shows leave much to be desired JAKE SMASAL smasaltov!

his month, both Marvel and DC revealed their predicted movie schedules through 2020. The second “Avengers” movie comes out in May, and superheroes and their ilk continue to invade our television screens. We’ve seen everything from prequels (“Gotham”), to companion shows (“Agents of

S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and everything in between (literally everything else). We know now that the superhero model is a popular, insanely highgrossing construct with universes and story lines expansive enough to continue going on forever. The real question is whether or not we’ll continue to watch week in, week out after the thrill is gone. The rebirth of superheroes in popular culture has been beaten to death, and since I have nothing new to add to the conversation, I’ll just say, superheroes are really popular again. Comics

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and the like were part of a lessthan-thriving industry before “Iron Man” reintroduced us to one of Marvel’s signature characters and opened Pandora’s Box. What I will say, however, is that their transition to the small screen has been relatively recent. Starting last year, “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “The Flash” and “Gotham” have all premiered and “Arrow” continues to have a following on the CW. Netflix also plans on getting in on the action in the near future, greenlighting multiple shows about some of Marvel’s lesser luminaries to come in the near future. But does anyone care? “Gotham’s” ratings aren’t anything to write home about, and neither are “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s.” “The Flash’s” have been fine, but certainly not high enough to carry the genre. They’re certainly alright. There are worse shows in pretty much every corner of television. Yet, if they’re not bad programs, then why aren’t people watching? Could it be that they don’t care? Actually, that’s probably it, and there are multiple reasons for this lack of interest. First of all, there will never be as much buzz for superhero television if they don’t get the actors from the movies onto the small screen. However, when those actors include Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson it’s obviously very difficult to corral them all (and pay them enough) for the amount of time it would take to film an extended series. You can’t really hold it against TV networks if they can’t get that

done. However, it’s hard to root for the dregs of both Marvel and DC universes when the real thing is so accessible. I don’t know why ABC thinks I care about a bunch of low-end characters and that guy who died in the first “Avengers” movie when I can pull up Netflix and watch the movie itself.

Yet, if they’re not bad programs, then why aren’t people watching? Could it be that they don’t care?

In my opinion, the biggest reason people don’t watch superhero TV is not as many people want to devote their time to these characters. One of the reasons “Smallville” was so big was it focused on Superman, who might be the most popular superhero ever; he kind of defines the genre. Green Arrow and the Flash, while popular, are not even close to that level. Batman definitely is, but Gotham isn’t really about him. It’s about Jim Gordon, an auxiliary character, and a bunch of origin stories all congealing at once. It’s easy to go to a theater and spend two hours or so immersed in the Marvel universe, but I’m not about to devote time every week to it. Maybe I’m just not a big enough fan, but it seems like TV is just getting the scraps. Do you think superhero TV can be saved? Tell Jake how at smasal@wisc.edu.

to the stage for his inevitable encore, he left Madison with an electrifying performance of “All You Can Do,” the title track of his most recent album.

The deadly medley was folllowed by ... two of the most emotionally and melodically deep songs...

The crowd sang along to every word and Watsky did some swan dives off of the stage. Seeing him bounce and roll across the sea of fans reminded me of his set at Freakfest in 2013. I was a little bit upset that he hadn’t played “I.D.G.A.F.,” because it was during this song at his Freakfest performance that he crowd surfed his way to a house on Gilman Street, climbed onto the roof and jumped off into the crowd as the song’s last chorus kicked in. Of course, he needed to make room for a lot of great new material that he didn’t have at this time last year, and the absence of one song from the setlist is a small price to pay for one of the most unique albums, and one of the most memorable live shows I have seen all year.

PLAYLIST Here are some great tunes to get ready for Thanksgiving.

Led Zeppelin “Thank You” A classic Zeppelin song to put you in a thankful mood.

Rod Stewart “The Thanks I Get” While the Wilco cover might be better, Stewart’s version is still a classic.

Fall Out Boy “Thnks Fr th Mmrs” Listen to this throwback from junior high and be thankful you’re not still there.

John Denver “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” Thanksgiving is just about the most American holiday. John Denver is just about the most American artist.

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Men’s Hockey

Winning a fight tougher than hockey By Haley Henschel the daily cardinal

Every player on the UW-Madison men’s hockey team comes with a particular set of battle wounds: constellations of bumps, bruises, black eyes, scrapes, sores and scars; concussions, sprains, cuts, broken bones and missing teeth that helmets and padding couldn’t prevent. If they’re not collected while the clock is running during a game, they can accumulate quickly when fistfights break out with rival teams. Badger hockey is not a sport for the docile, but the athletes know that even the grittiest of the bunch is no match for the strength of Lucy Cunningham. The 6-year-old and the rest of her hockey-loving family are the muse, the inspiration, for the team to make the most of their skills and energy every time they step on the ice rink. Lucy, who has Down syndrome, was three and a half years old when

she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, in August 2012. According to Lucy’s mother, Clarissa, Lucy’s bone marrow was 95 percent cancerous when the illness was discovered. She was given aggressive chemotherapy treatment immediately, suffering serious side effects with every dose. “Chemo works really well, but [patients with Down syndrome] usually have a lot more side effects that beat them up pretty bad. Lucy had everything you could imagine,” Clarissa said. “She got high blood pressure for a while…there’s been times where she hasn’t eaten, she hasn’t slept, she’s had probably five different allergic reactions to medications. One of them was a full anaphylactic shock.” A few months after she began chemotherapy, Lucy was very sick and stayed at UW Children’s Hospital for several days. She refused to look at any doctors or nurses, shunned food and had a

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Lucy tested negative for cancer 15 days after completing chemo.

high fever—she looked “lifeless,” Clarissa recalled. At one point, the Cunninghams were asked if they wanted to meet members of the Badger hockey team who were participating in Badgers Give Back, the Wisconsin Athletics’ community outreach program. They were thrilled. “[My husband and I] have been dating since we were 15…and so we would go [to a Badger hockey game] like one time a year as a fun date way back then,” Clarissa said. “The older we got, we would start taking our kids.” As a result, both of Lucy’s brothers, Kip, 14, and Kade, 11, play hockey. Lucy basically grew up on the ice rink. So when then-Badger hockey players Tyler Barnes and Mark Zengerle strolled into the hospital room clad in their cardinal and white jerseys, Lucy, immediately recognizing their uniforms, donned a huge smile and threw her hands up in the air with joy. When word of Lucy’s fight against cancer and her family’s love of hockey reached Kayla Gross, the UW Athletics community relations coordinator, she invited the family to a men’s hockey practice and game. “We were like little kids – my husband all the way down to Lucy. I don’t know who’s the dorkiest,” Clarissa said. “And ‘Luce’ just went right in like she knew the guys, what was going on, and just was really comfortable right away.” At one point, Lucy and goalkeeper Joel Rumpel, who had never met before, blew kisses to each other during the practice. Members of the team, including Barnes, Zengerle and later Rumpel, began showing up for every single one of Lucy’s treatments at the children’s hospital, bringing presents with them. As

photo courtesy of Joel Rumpel

Joel Rumpel formed one of UW’s closest relationships with Lucy. they spent more time with Lucy, watching her progress, the players grew very close with her entire family and discovered newfound motivation to play their hardest when they were on the ice. “We kind of see how tough and how strong she is and everything she’s been through. It kind of makes us realize our sport isn’t as tough as people think,” Rumpel said. “I just look up to her, how brave and strong she is.” On Oct. 29, 2014, Lucy completed her final chemotherapy treatment alongside Rumpel. A blood test 15 days later came back negative—Lucy beat cancer. “To have [Lucy’s blood count] in the normal range—we haven’t been there for half of her life,” Clarissa said. “It’s amazing to be there. I know it’s early yet, but it’s a really great way to start.” Though Lucy’s chemotherapy is complete, and members of the hockey team close to her go off to play for professional hockey leagues, the Cunninghams’ bond with the Badger hockey team doesn’t seem to be fading anytime soon. “We keep up on Facebook with everybody … We keep

threatening that, as they go on and become famous, we are gonna track them down and watch them,” Clarissa said. They make sure the team is playing to the family’s high standards, too: When she was being interviewed for this article, Clarissa brought up the team’s 0-6 record, saying she’d love for Lucy to go into their locker room before a game and ask, “Really, dudes? I can beat cancer at six years old with Down syndrome and you guys can’t get a game going?” Looking back on less lighthearted times, Clarissa believes the hockey team was a driving force in Lucy’s recovery, and the rest of the family’s strength, too. They not only exchanged gifts—they shared courage and resilience. “There are days where you’re so angry and you’re so sad because you feel like nobody understands where you have been, just like the rest of the world is going on their merry way. Then there are days where people do such special things,” she said. “There are the most wonderful people all over the place and you don’t even know them until you go through something like this.”

Men’s Basketball

Dukan returns against Green Bay By Zach Rastall the daily cardinal

Following a pair of convincing victories last weekend, No. 3 Wisconsin will get its toughest test of the young season when it welcomes in intrastate rival Green Bay and its star player, senior point guard Keifer Sykes. The Badgers (2-0) and the Phoenix (1-0) will face off Wednesday night at 8 p.m. at the Kohl Center in what will be the 21st meeting between the two programs. Though Wisconsin has dominated the all-time series, Green Bay has been more competitive in the last five years. The Phoenix stunned the Badgers in 2009 with an overtime win, and nearly upset UW again when the two teams met last season. Wisconsin erased a sevenpoint deficit in the second half, overcoming a 32-point performance by Sykes to defeat Green Bay 69-66. Sykes, the reigning Horizon League Player of the Year, was an AP All-American honorable mention selection last year, averaging 20.3 points, 4.9 assists and 4.4 rebounds per game during his junior campaign. Sykes was also

one of 50 players named to the Wooden Award preseason watch list this season. “(Sykes) is kind of their guy. He’s involved in every single play offensively,” redshirt senior guard Josh Gasser said. “Pretty much everything they do offensively runs through him. That’s what makes him even better. Though the Phoenix lost standout center Alec Brown to graduation, head coach Brian Wardle still has four of his team’s top five leading scorers from last year. Green Bay is the odds-on favorite to finish on top of the Horizon League standings and reach the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1996. Meanwhile, the Badgers have gotten off to a solid start, handily defeating Northern Kentucky and Chattanooga in their first two contests of the season. Four starters (Sam Dekker, Frank Kaminsky, Traevon Jackson and Nigel Hayes) have double-digit scoring averages, but the Badgers have been getting contributions off the bench as well. Sophomore forward Vitto Brown, who played just 44 min-

utes total as a freshman, has scored 13 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in 34 minutes so far this season. However, Brown could see a little competition for minutes in the forward rotation with the return of redshirt senior forward Duje Dukan. Dukan missed UW’s first two regular-season games, along with a scrimmage and exhibition game, as a result of an NCAA penalty that stemmed from the his decision to redshirt two years ago. Dukan opted to sit out the 201213 season as a redshirt after deciding that he hadn’t fully recovered from a bout of mononucleosis that he contracted over the summer. However, since Dukan had played in two exhibition games, the NCAA determined that he needed to miss time this season to regain his fourth year of eligibility since his illness didn’t qualify him for a medical redshirt. “It was tough. Obviously very frustrating having to sit those two games out,” Dukan said. “I can’t even put into words how excited I am to put the jersey back on and get ready to get out with the guys on Wednesday.”

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Duje Dukan figures to work his way into Wisconsin’s stacked frontcourt rotation thanks to his diversity on offense.