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East High student arrested for alleged sexual assault

By Maggie Degroot

Dance groups from across campus gathered in Memorial Union’s Great Hall to whoop it up as part of the Madison Dance Conference Show Sunday night.

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A Madison East High School student was arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a fellow student Thursday.

The 15-year-old male suspect was taken into custody and faces charges for firstdegree sexual assault, according to a police incident report.

The 15-year-old female victim was walking down a stairway leading to a basement area in East High School with the suspect, police said.

“While still in the stairway, she says she was held against her will and sexually assaulted,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

The victim told police the assault ended when someone opened a hallway door and the suspect left. The victim then immediately reported the incident to a teacher.

Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Daniel Nerad sent out a letter to the parents of East High School

students Friday.

According to the letter, East High administrators and the education resource officer are working with Madison Police on the investigation.

“This incident is deeply disturbing to us.”

Daniel Nerad superintendent Madison Metropolitan School District

East High staff, the district’s security coordinator and building services staff will inspect access to all hallways, corridors and stairwells, according to Nerad. Security cameras and building supervision are also under review.

“This incident is deeply disturbing to us,” Nerad said in a statement.

MATC professor honored with 2010 Wisconsin Professor of the Year award

By Beth Pickhard the daily cardinal

Madison Area Technical College chemistry and engineering professor Kenneth Walz was recognized as the 2010 Wisconsin Professor of the Year.

The award was created in 1981 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and WALZ the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, according to a statement.

Criterion for the U.S. State Professors

of the Year program include dedication to undergraduate teaching, support of students and faculty, student involvement, impact on students and improvements to the institution’s undergraduate program.

Walz is a director for the Consortium for Education in Renewable Energy Technology. In addition to his teaching at MATC, Walz teaches part-time for the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at UW-Madison and the K-12 Energy Program at UW-Stevens Point.

Walz was chosen from over 300 candidates in the United States and is one of 38 state winners across the country, the statement said.

Man charged with sexually assaulting 12-year-old Madison Police arrested a 26-yearold Madison man Friday who has been charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he met on Facebook.

The suspect, Gustavo Garcia-Aguirre, faces charges of first-degree child sexual assault and use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, according to a police report.

Garcia-Aguirre met the victim outside of her home on MacArthur Road Nov. 9, police said. The victim got into the suspect’s car and they drove to a nearby parking lot where they went into the backseat of the man’s car.

“At some point, a concerned friend

of the girl’s mother went looking for the 12-year-old and found her in the car,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

“The windows were completely fogged up.”

The victim told police there had been sexual contact, but Garcia-Aguirre denied the claim.

The 12-year-old “friended” the 26-year-old man on Facebook two months ago because the victim said “he seemed cool,” police said. They sent messages back and forth before starting to talk on the telephone.

Police are still investigating the case.

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Madison police took a 15-year-old Madison East High School student into custody Thursday afternoon. The student was tentatively charged with sexual assault.

Man stabbed outside Buffalo Wild Wings at East Towne Mall Saturday A 24-year-old man was stabbed outside Buffalo Wild Wings at East Towne Mall just before midnight Saturday.

The man was stabbed multiple times during a fight in the East Towne Mall parking lot, Madison Sgt. Linda Covert said in a statement.

According to channel3000.com, the man

was stabbed in the torso.

The man was taken to a local hospital where he is listed as being in critical condition, police said.

The case is still under investigation. No arrests have been made in the case.

A Madison Police Department spokesperson could not be reached for comment on the incident.

“…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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How to deal with a passive-aggressive feline

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ately, my cat Pebbles and I have been in a rut (Don’t be mistaken­—Pebbles is a boy.

I realize there might be confusion).

He’s moody and disconnected and I think our relationship is in danger of falling to pieces.

It all started about two weeks ago when he jumped on the counter and “accidentally” pushed my favorite glass off the edge, leaving a pile of broken shards at my bare feet. Normally he runs away when he knows he’s been bad, but this time he just stared at me with this demonic little twinge in his eye. I knew something was up.

Three days later he escaped out of my apartment door and ran down the hallway towards the elevators in a dead sprint. He just missed an open elevator going to the lobby before I caught up. If he had made that elevator and I ended up chasing a fat, dopey cat through downtown Madison, it would not have been good for our relationship. There would have

been one of those, “Seriously, dude? You tried to escape?!” kind of awkward elephant in the room for a while.

And it wasn’t enough that he had already turned into some sort of Four Loko-infused Linda Blair that tears around my apartment like a psychopath every night spewing green vomit everywhere after eating half the fern hanging in my window, but just to spite me, he’s decided to howl at my front door until 4 a.m. too.

Then, to top things off, he hocked up a hairball on my pillow yesterday. I thought he was having quite a hefty breakfast before I left for work. Little did I know he was noshing on all that food just so he could barf it up later on the one place my face is 50 percent of the time.

These spiteful hints were not ignored—I noticed. I played it off, dropped a few hints myself, but this passive aggressive behavior is typical of cats, NOT ME. Not ever. I would NEVER scrub the toilet with my roommate’s toothbrush or pour hairspray in her Listerine in a passive aggressive, vengeful manner. Wait, what? Moving on…

I tried the nice route. I bought

him new toys, I put out a cardboard box because he loves to lounge in them and I would even “accidently” drop my food scraps for him to Hoover off the floor.

It became obvious, though, that he was not going to respond to my amiable approaches. I decided to bring my passive aggressive tendencies out of retirement and fight back.

For the next week I only bought the cheap, off-brand cat food that was probably carved off the rotten end of the cow.

Before I went to class each day, I would deliberately shut my bedroom door so he couldn’t take his afternoon catnaps on my bed. I set aside an hour each night for YouTubing videos of cute kittens in tea cups just to make him jealous. And, I even moved his sunning chair from the window to the dingy, shadowy corner on the opposite side of the room.

Needless to say, he knew I meant business. My plan had worked. I’ve out-passive-aggressive-ised a cat, which means I’m like Ghandi and Jigsaw combined into one. As a result, he became needy as hell. He’s always meowing and always walking all over me like I’m a fucking jungle gym.

When I’m sleeping, I sometimes wake up to him doing the ChaCha on my face.

Now Pebbles follows me everywhere and he’s always sitting next to me, radiating 114 degrees of heat. He thinks that when I’m boiling ramen on the stove it’s some sort of game similar to “‘Rescue’ Fishy From Bowl.” He even developed this new habit where he butts his head into my side every time he wants to be pet, just like a goddamn Billy Goat. It kind of hurts. Give it a rest, pest.

I thought that instead of caving in so quickly to my passive aggressive rebuttal, Pebbles would counter me with more misbehavior. I thought he would be on top of his game, firing on all four cylinders in order to continue the battle. But, I’ve come to realize that there’s not much you can expect from a critter who spent his formative years trying to free his reflection from the confines of the bathroom mirror.

Steph should get a TV series for being this clever with felines.

Fuck that show “Dog Whisperer.”

If you’re interested in her animal relations services, please e-mail your contract stipulations to slindhom@wisc.edu.

news WPRI poll shows little support for rail

Committee nominates new UW-Extension and UW Colleges chancellor

By Ariel Shapiro

The UW-Extension and UW Colleges may receive a new chancellor after the UW Board of Regents announced their recommendation Friday.

Members of the UW Board of Regents special committee chose Raymond Cross, president of Morrisville State College in N.Y., as the new chancellor pending final Board approval.

Cross has CROSS been president of Morrisville State College since 1998, an agriculture and technology college of 3,500 students.

Cross also served as president of Northwestern Technical College in Bemiji, Minn., from 1992 to 1998 and was a professor and department head at Ferris State University in Big

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Conservative polling group Wisconsin Polling Research Institute released findings Sunday that indicate the majority of Wisconsinites do not support the high speed rail project.

WPRI found that 52 percent of the 615 residents polled opposed the construction of the high-speed rail line, and 36 percent were in favor of it.

“High speed rail breaks down along partisan lines,” GOLDSTEIN said UW-Madison political science professor and WPRI consultant Ken Goldstein in a statement. “In the initial question, a slim majority of Democrats supported the train project, but over 75 percent of Republicans opposed it.”

Goldstein also said after receiving more information on the project, republicans remained against it and Independents and Democrats swayed

further to the opposition.

The WPRI poll also found that only one percent of those surveyed thought that stopping the train should be the top priority for the state government, and another one percent thought encouraging the train should be most important.

WPRI and Goldstein came under controversy last March when they were accused by One Wisconsin Now, a liberal advocacy group, of manipulating data in their polls to serve corporate interests. However, as Goldstein noted, nothing ever became of the accusations.

Goldstein said just as with the poll from March, all the information from the poll and the methodology of how it is conducted are publically released.

Although Governor-elect Scott Walker has indicated multiple times that the high-speed rail project in Wisconsin will not move forward, people around the state Sunday rallied to keep the project alive, with hundreds attending rallies in Madison, Milwaukee and Oshkosh, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

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Cross would succeed David Wilson, who resigned his role as chancellor to become president of Morgan State University in Maryland in June.

Cross was one of six candidates in the search, in which the UW-System said it sought a candidate with integrity, communication skills and leadership.

“His experience with the agriculture industry, distance learning, and economic development are clear evidence that he’s already embraced the Wisconsin Idea, even before moving here,” UW-System President Kevin Reilly said in a statement.

Officials will discuss Cross’ appointment at the Board of Regents meeting Dec. 10 at UW-Madison. If approved by the Board of Regents, Cross would start his role in February 2011.

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GOP accuses Doyle, Department of Administration of under-reporting deficit

By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal

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Upon the release of the state Department of Administration budget numbers Friday projecting a deficit below what was previously predicted, Republicans are criticizing Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration of ignoring certain costs that would have put the deficit much higher.

The DOA report shows a budget shortfall of $2.2 billion, according to the Associated Press, down

from the previously projected $2.7 billion. Assuming tax revenue growth over the next two years, the report also predicts a budget gap of $1.5 billion by June of 2013.

In addition, it also predicts a $10 million surplus in the state’s general fund by June 2011, again with the assumption of spending cuts and state employee furloughs.

Even though the numbers are lower than expected, Governorelect Scott Walker’s transition director John Hiller criticized the

DOA, saying in a statement that the report contains hidden costs.

Hiller said the report includes $800 million in revenue yet to be approved by Congress and the state Legislature, $200 million to be repaid to the Patient’s Compensation Fund and another $800 million for agency lapses that will have to be dealt with by Walker.

“When all of these measures are fully accounted for, we believe the true budget shortfall to be in excess of $3.3 billion,” Hiller said.

Incoming Speaker of the Assembly Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, criticized the report for being misleading.

“Even on his way out, Jim Doyle continues to use Madison math to manipulate budget numbers,” Fitzgerald said in a statement. “By omitting millions in expected payments and creating federal money out of thin air, these numbers put an exclamation point on eight years of Jim Doyle’s dreadful budgeting style.”

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The darkest “Harry Potter” film yet, the seventh installment aptly sets up this summer’s grand finale.

By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal

It’s about 11:45 p.m. on a Thursday night at a megaplex somewhere on the East side of Madison, and the crowd is getting antsy. By day, one can only assume they are upright citizens and dedicated scholars, but tonight they don capes, wield wands and etch lightning bolts on their foreheads with eyeliner.

One would-be wizard, who in the not-so-distant-future will be more concerned with his mortgage than with what exactly a Hippogriff is, runs wildly around the aisles with a broom between his legs screaming “Wee!” at the top of his lungs. No, this is not

Halloween, this night is much holier. It is, dear readers, the beginning of the end.

As a beginning, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” is a two-and-half hour prelude to the real thing. Like other installments in the franchise, the latest film is darker than its predecessor, but this time without the triumphant payoff in the end.

The seventh installment is somber, unsettling and unsatisfactory.

However, this is everything it must be. It sets the tone and spells out the dangers Harry, Hermione and Ron will face in the finale, and though it is a transition film, David Yates (who directed the last two films) and his cast do the

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Much of the film is centered on Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, who deliver their best performances to date as Harry and Hermione.

best they can with a story cut off at the middle.

We find our three heroes preparing to leave their lives and families behind as they set out on a quest to recover and destroy the six remaining horcuxes, items containing pieces of the evil Lord Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) mangled soul.

Meanwhile Voldemort and his cronies, now including the nasty but ambiguous Severus Snape (played by the incomparable Alan Rickman), infiltrate the Ministry of Magic and begin a reign of terror notso-subtly resembling Nazism. The new Ministry conducts their very own muggle-hunt for those who are not of magical blood, and deems Harry, who has curiously managed to save the wizarding world only 8,000 times, “Undesireable No. 1.”

Although the audience is afforded glimpses into this situation, the focus of the film always remains on the core three.

The audience spends literally hours in the woods hiding out with the three amigos at the expense of almost anything else, and this isolation serves as both the film’s greatest strength and weakness. On one hand, with the limited or nonexistant presence of Hogwarts and some of the best supporting characters (Snape? Lupin? Neville?), the film lacks the magical fun of its predecessors. However, the laser-like focus on our protagonists allows for greater character development and for Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Emma Watson as Hermione and Rupert Grint as Ron to shine in what are undoubtedly their best performances to date.

Taking a page out of the “Twilight” playbook, the film

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With Dumbledore out of his way, Voldemort, as played by Ralph Fiennes, takes Hitler-esque control of the Wizarding world. highlights, if undeservedly, the love triangle between Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Although distracting at times and accentuated far more so than in the book, it provides a lighter side to this otherwise gloomy installment. In the footsteps of “Twilight,” this is per-

The seventh installment is somber, unsettling and unsatisfactory. However, this is everything it must be.

haps the nakedest Harry Potter yet. Whether for practical reasons or not, you see the boy who lived down to his skivvies a lot.

Although it is skillfully crafted and a long way from the medio-

cre first films, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” is undoubtedly a film for the fans.

If you missed out on the last six or can’t tell a Gryffindor from a Slytherin, you should probably sit this one out. fans will be pleased with this new film, or at least appeased until the final installment comes out in summer of 2011.

It is a more mature film for an aging fanbase, with Harry & co. leaving the nurturing towers of Hogwarts behind to take on the tyranny of the adult world––and that may actually be the most unnerving aspect of the movie for the legion of college kids sitting at the Eastgate Cinema and the hundreds of thousands like them elsewhere. As this cultural phenomenon comes to an end, one thing becomes painfully clear: Harry Potter is growing up, and so are you.

‘Upswing’ highlights weekend celebration of new department

By Marlon Lima The Daily Cardinal

It’s more than just dancing. It’s the feeling of being raised into an unplanned lift. That impromptu moment of suspension when you feel lighter while the world seems heavier. That is what audience members stepped into this weekend when they attended the Dance Department’s annual Fall Faculty concert, aptly labeled “Upswing.”

The two-night event held in the Wisconsin Union Theater was a showcase of students’ physical talent and choreographers’ creative minds. Notably, the production was accentuated by the accompaniment of live music for most dance pieces and a spoken word poetry appearance by First Wave in one performance.

As the annual show expanded this year to the larger venue of the Wisconsin Union Theater, a wider span of resources were allotted to the event. These resources included stage benefits and a larger seating capacity to accommodate the concert’s growing crowd. In fact, the larger number of seats allowed the dance department to offer free tickets to local high school students in a successful outreach effort.

The expansion to larger venues, audiences and communities represents the energy behind the dance department’s current movement. In accordance with

UW-Madison’s “Year of the Arts,” the dance faculty has made the transition from a major program––previously under kinesiology––to an independent department. Chair of the department Jin-Wen Yu explained in an interview how this growing momentum was given a tribute in the event’s name, “Upswing.” He also explained that the department’s transtion has increased its personnel, student base and popularity.

The expansion to larger venues, audiences and communities represents the energy behind the dance department’s current movement.

larger dance weekend that included a new collaboration with the Madison Dance Conference.

“Dancing All Weekend Long” provided a weekend of dance lessons given by student dance organizations and a few dance department professors before the Madison Dance Conference Sunday night.

This weekend was anything but static for the dance department with their role in the Madison Dance Conference and their entertaining performances that ranged in topics and levels of abstraction. Indeed, certain pieces allowed audience members to interpret their own personal

understanding from the works.

Amongst the elements left open to interpretation was a moment in one performance when the dancers barked and growled at the audience. In another performance, a ballerina non-traditionally dressed in a black dress with small white patches impersonated a swan.

Performer Marlene Skog verified this intent of open interpretation in an interview about the meaning of her piece labeled, “The Swan.” She claimed her motivation was “to allow the freedom of the viewer to interpret from their own point of reference what [the dance] means to them.”

Choreographer Karen McShaneHellenbrand explained her intent to appeal to universal experiences of awe, wonder and beauty. By transcending cultural contexts, the show’s performances gave a more inclusive understanding to a larger audience that contained international students as well. However, heavy cultural themes such as the Vietnam War and narratives of immigration to the United States were also portrayed in two performances. Ultimately, the weekend’s variety of themes, artistic media and movements provided audience members with a comprehensive scope of the dance department’s thriving potential.

Viral Videos of the Week The shift from program to department seems subtle to the public eye. However, according to Jin-Wen, this change allowed better efficiency and independence in decision making as well as an identity in the national profile.

Although the name “Upswing” suggests a climax, Jin-Wen stated that the department will continue its activeness “with the hope that we will be able to ‘upswing’ for a longer time.”

The fall concert definitely established a good continuance of this momentum as an enjoyable annual show and as part of a

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magine you were playing a drinking game last week during the Student Council meeting. Let’s say you had to take a shot every time someone mentioned bullying or intimidation. By the end of the night, I bet you would’ve been drunk enough to get the point. Unfortunately, I was sober, so I missed it entirely.

The main topic of debate at Wednesday’s meeting was the proposed Campus Services Fund. Yet accusations of bullying and intimidation were thrown around by a lot of speakers. I didn’t know funding essential services could scare so many students. If that’s the case, CSF would’ve been my best friend in middle school.

Put simply, CSF is meant to act as an alternative funding stream to the General Student Services Fund that currently is responsible for allocating student segregated fees to various registered student organizations every year. Its purpose is to make sure critical services are present on campus regardless of student organizations.

What are these critical services?

Tutoring, legal advice and sexual assault assistance, for starters. But potentially, CSF could fund any number of things. It all depends on what the campus deems critical.

Purely in terms of policy, CSF is

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sound. Not scary. Not threatening.

Not intimidating, but sound.

Under the rules of CSF, each branch of student government would weigh in on the value of a proposed service, including Student Council.

Right now, Council arguably has no tangible responsibilities. CSF would give it some much-needed direction.

If student government jointly decides a service needs to be provided on campus, a Procurement Board would be formed to choose from three potential funding methods. Either ASM could provide the service, student organizations could enter a bidding process to provide the service or it could be provided by an outside group contracted through the university.

From there, the funding method would undergo reevaluation three years later and every two years after that. ASM would then decide if the service is still critical to students and if the current funding method is the best available option. Tedious yearly reports and opportunity for human error would be eliminated.

Spectators and members alike are worried that Student Council doesn’t have the capacity to recognize what services are critical to campus. They feel like CSF would crush some romantic ideal of the grassroots campaigns that initially begin a GSSF group. However, CSF overcomes this by providing an avenue for anyone on campus to introduce a service idea if they gather enough signatures.

So, you can see why I’m not willing to buy into the growing theory that SSFC Chair Matt Manes and other members of ASM are strongarming the student body through CSF. But I’ll give the opposition a freebie and follow up with this: Even if it is too scary to speak to the big bad bullies of ASM, does that mean the CSF is a bad policy to adopt? If you’re still wondering, the answer is no.

Here’s the thing, politics and policy rarely make for good partners.

Just because a hundred students fill a room in dissent and snap their fingers doesn’t mean the policy under fire is a bad one. Actually, in the case of CSF, it doesn’t even mean the students understand what they’re fighting against.

For ASM, outreach, transparency and CSF are three completely separate topics. They should be treated as such. Yes, members of Student Council could use a little work connecting with their constituents and shady backroom intimidation needs to end. But ASM members should realize their constituents are the entire student body, not just groups with a monopoly on funding or students pushing back against ASM “elites.”

In the end, CSF is more practical than GSSF. All politics aside, it’s simply better policy. Plus, it won’t infringe on the way current GSSF groups operate. There’s no downside to guaranteeing funding for critical campus services.

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Many students spoke out against CSF, bullying last Wednesday. opposed to CSF are scared that if it were to pass, it would eventually come at the expense of current GSSF groups’ funding.

There’s another group that dislikes the way CSF has been introduced.

Neither is concerned with the policy itself.

Ultimately with CSF, critical services would be provided for without the threat of human error. A regular Nelson Muntz if I’ve ever seen one.

Last week, the Student Council meeting ended before members could

cast a vote on CSF due to a fourhour-long open forum. Therefore, it will automatically be referred to the next Student Council meeting Wednesday, Dec. 1 for further debate. Thanksgiving break should be enough time for ASM members to take a long, hard look at this proposal for what it truly is. Otherwise, I hope they provide the alcohol at Council meetings from now on.

Dan Tollefson is a senior majoring in English. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

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Graph Giraffe Classic

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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.

Eatin’ Cake

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Crustaches

By Patrick Remington premington@wisc.edu

By Angel Lee alee23@wisc.edu

First in Twenty Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com HIGHER LEARNING

ACROSS 1 Rash protection 5 One way to go to a party 9 Bean and Shepard 14 Kind of tradition 15 Bullring figure 16 It may follow a benchclearing 17 Bean used in a Japanese sauce (Var.) 18 Sea shade 19 It gives a little hoot 20 Like 38-Across, perhaps 23 ___ for Africa (“We Are the World” group) 24 Loaf for reubens 25 “Don’t be fuelish,” for one 26 Burning 29 Pound bits 31 Actor George C. ___ 33 Vase relative 34 Greek “H” 36 Andiron coating 37 Hilarious fellow 38 Commencement speaker, often 42 Aretha Franklin’s genre 43 It’s stranded in your body 44 Glass or Silver 45 Peach stone

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Washington and the Bear

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Badgers run down by Rebels

By Max Sternberg the daily cardinal

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Junior Jordan Taylor led the Badgers in scoring Saturday against UNLV with 19 points, while adding three rebounds and three assists.

In the season’s first road match, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team ran into a buzz in the form of UNLV junior guard Chace Stanback. In a game that was back and forth throughout, Stanback’s 25 points put the Rebels on top 68-65 as the final buzzer sounded at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.

While Wisconsin once again had the rebounding advantage, the miscues that were but a side note in the first two games became crucial, as UNLV took advantage of 15 UW turnovers and converted them into 13 points.

“We had some mental breakdowns tonight that cost us,” junior guard Jordan Taylor said after the game. “We had something like 15 turnovers and you can’t do that against a good team on the road, especially when they convert them into points.”

Despite missing two crucial shots in the final minute of play, Taylor kept the Badgers in the game with the likes of seniors Keaton Nankivil, sophomore Mike Bruesewitz and

senior Jon Leuer in foul trouble.

Taylor’s 19 points led the way for UW, while the junior added three rebounds and three assists to complement the scoring performance.

The Runnin’ Rebels became the first team this season to largely neutralize senior Leuer. After averaging 23 points in the first two games, UNLV held the preseason all-Big Ten forward to just 10 points on three of 11 shooting, also benefiting from Leuer only playing 26 minutes due to foul trouble.

Leuer wasn’t alone in his poor shooting night. In a performance reminiscent of last year’s NCAA tournament exit against Cornell, the Badgers couldn’t seem to find the bottom of the net the entire night.

Wisconsin shot just over 36 percent as a team, with the starting five just managing a 29 percent effort.

Despite Wisconsin’s struggles, the game was close for nearly the entire four quarters. With less than a minute left, Stanback’s midrange jumper gave UNLV a 66-65 lead.

After Taylor missed an attempt, the Badgers remained hopeful after UNLV junior Oscar Bellfield missed

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Overtime bug bites Wisconsin in high-scoring loss to Jayhawks

By Mark Bennett the daily cardinal

Following a tough defeat in Green Bay last Thursday, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team bounced back in dramatic fashion, taking the Kansas Jayhawks to overtime, and eventually falling 93-86.

The loss came despite a heated effort from senior guard Alyssa Karel, who returned to the court for the first time this season, following an injury suffered in the team’s opening exhibition match. Karel came out determined from the beginning, taking 25 shots from the floor and finishing with 27 points.

“I knew I wasn’t going to come back until I could be 100 percent, so I was really happy to be back today and help my teammates,” Karel said.

Following a tight match the entire

first period, the Badgers entered the locker room at halftime with a narrow 31-30 lead, thanks to a late 3-pointer by junior Emily Neal. Neal finished the match with 14 points overall.

As one key player returned for the Badgers though, another went down Sunday evening. Just over four minutes into the second half, forward Lin Zastrow, taking on two Jayhawks for a rebound, fell hard to the ground immediately grabbing her knee. The senior was helped off the floor and taken to the locker room. Head coach Lisa Stone could not say when she expects Zastrow to return.

Following the injury, the team seemed to lose its air, as Kansas took off en route to a lead which ballooned to as many as 11 points with 10:40 remaining in the game.

From that point, the Badgers re-

discovered their swagger and put up nine unanswered, closing the gap at 57-55 with just over seven minutes remaining.

Both teams battled hard for the final third of the half with the Badgers finally taking their first lead at the 1:01 mark, following an electrifying four-point play courtesy of Neal.

“Our energy was up, our emotions were up,” Karel said. “I know that every single person on our team down the stretch knew we were going to win that game, we thought we were going to win that game, confidently.”

The Jayhawks tied the game though with a free-throw apiece on their final two possessions, though, and the Badgers had to settle for an extra five minutes of play.

Kansas came out hot in overtime, taking a quick six point lead, and

although the Badgers came within two of the Jayhawks late, Kansas was simply too good in the paint and too good at the line.

The Jayhawks out-rebounded the Badgers 48-28 on the night, leading to 22 second chance points.

Additionally, the Badgers committed an astonishing 27 fouls, and Kansas, while not phenomenal, took advantage of the opportunities, sinking 33 free throws.

Pre-season All-Big 12 selection, sophomore Carolyn Davis led all scorers with 29 points, while her scrappy Kansas teammate, sophomore Monica Engelman added 17.

“It was a great response to the other night,” Stone said. “This game is going to help us. We’re going to get better [and] a lot of growth happened today.”

Women’s Volleyball

UW falls to Minnesota, rises to the occassion on Senior Night, downing Iowa

By Stephanie Richter the daily cardinal

It was a bittersweet weekend for the Wisconsin volleyball team (5-13 Big Ten, 16-13 overall), losing to No. 19 Minnesota (12-6 Big Ten, 22-8 overall) and then beating Iowa (2-16 Big Ten, 7-20 overall) on Senior Night.

It was only fitting that senior outside hitter Allison Wack led the Badgers against Iowa on Saturday night, as she recorded 17 kills and 10 digs for a double-double. Senior libero Kim Kuzma also concluded her final home season in good fashion, as she extended her double-digit dig streak to 13 matches, with a match-high 16 digs.

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the pass.

Besides that, Tolzien was—quite literally—perfect. He threw the ballover the middle against zone coverage. He checked down to runningbacks when the coverage dictated.

He put an absolute frozen rope right

the front end of a 1-1.

However, Leuer could not hit his chance at the lead on the next possession, and UNLV stole the ensuing inbound pass with less than 10 seconds left. After UNLV converted two free throws, Taylor’s last-ditch attempt at a tying three clanked off the rim and sent the Badgers home without the victory they had flown out west to claim.

Now 2-1, Wisconsin faces an opportunity to put this loss behind them as they head down to Orlando to begin the Old Spice Classic Thursday against Manhattan.

With the likes of California, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Temple and Boston College, the tournament will give UW three chances to shed the remaining cobwebs.

Although this first loss of the young season is no doubt a disappointment, especially given the chances Wisconsin had to scratch out a victory, three wins and a tournament title this weekend in Orlando should be able to wipe away these regrets.

-UWBadgers.com contributed to this report.

In the border- battle Friday night, the Badgers couldn’t quite get their passing on cue, as they fell to the Golden Gophers in three sets.

In the first set, the Badgers stayed with Minnesota to get the score to 11-11. After the Gophers went on two big runs, taking a relatively easy first set, 25-18.

Following a 25-11 second set defeat, Wisconsin stormed out in the third set, with Badgers taking a 9-5 lead. The match remained tight throughout, but in the end, the Gophers proved why they were the No. 19 squad in the country, pulling out the 25-22 win.

“I think that it was just that we were being passive and a little

hesitant on our shots and not taking a smart shot like if we were out of system,” Wack said.

Senior Night was a much better match for the Badgers, as they knocked off Iowa, 3-1. The key to Wisconsin’s success was their passing, which allowed them to have a better WACK offense.

“We talked about our blocking improving and hitting a goal of a certain number of blocks per set before the match, and we pretty much hit it head-on

what we wanted to do,” head coach Pete Waite said. “And that makes a big difference.”

The first set was all Badgers, as an early 10-2 run set the team up for an easy 25-11 win.

In the second set, Wisconsin and Iowa began close, at 12-12, before a 5-1 run sparked the Badgers to a 25-20 win.

Iowa wasn’t going down without a fight, as they came back in the third set to win 25-22. However, Wisconsin closed out senior night with an unbelievable 25-9 win.

Wisconsin wraps up their season on the road next weekend, playing Purdue Friday and Indiana Saturday.

between Kendricks’ numbers down the sideline.

“He’s a great leader out there,” junior cornerback Devin Smith said.

“Even when made a mistake with the interception, he came back out andjust kept playing. He didn’t hesitate and all and didn’t flinch atall.That was a key.”

Dating back to Saturday’s win over Indiana, in which Tolzien completed his final 11 pass attempts, he had completed 24 straight at the time of Rogers’ interception. For the season, he has completed 73.9 percen tof his passes—a mark that would not only shatter a school record, but also set a Big Ten record.

As good as the running game has been this year, Bielema has not had to rely on the passing game to keep Wisconsin in games.

However, in the event it happens against Northwestern or in a bowl game, Badger fansshould feel reassured that their signal-caller can get the job done.

downs. This effectiveness on the ground allowed the Badgers to keep the ball in their hands and Michigan’s offense off the field.

Though the shootout continued as both sides continued to trade scores, junior JJ Watt’s interception with 12 minutes left sent many of the 112,276 that packed into Michigan Stadium heading for the exits.

“It was a great play,” Watt said. “It had to have gone about 75, 80 yards in the air because it felt like forever and I was just standing there waiting for it to come down.”

Although the Big House demons may be behind this Badger team for now, the dream of a conference title has yet to be fulfilled. With Michigan State’s victory in the final seconds over Purdue maintaining the tie, victory next Saturday over Northwestern is a must to keep UW’s BCS hopes alive.

“Northwestern is the next opportunity on our plate,” Bielema said.

“As I told the guys in our break, its in your hands.”

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working, didn’t stop trying, and those are good qualities that we can build on,” Eaves said.

As well as the Badgers played this weekend, the harsh reality is that they weren’t able to take a point from this series, and now find themselves on a four game losing streak.

“We’re close. We’re not a winning team yet and we’re finding ways to lose right now,” Bennett said. “We just have to keep working hard, keep grinding and just find ways to win the one-goal games.”

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Tolzien’s composure key to team’s success

Football

ANALYSIS

By Parker Gabriel the daily cardinal

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Freshman running back James White carries the ball Saturday en route to a career high 189 yards.

Big House, huge win RECAP

Wisconsn snaps losing streak at Michigan Stadium

By Max Sternberg the aily cardinl

While Wisconsin may have been the better team on paper, there is no such thing as a sure victory in the Big House. But after having gone winless in Michigan Stadium since 1994, UW was on a mission and stayed focused throughout 60 minutes of play. The Badgers’ 48-28 win over the Wolverines now puts Wisconsin at 10-1 with a 6-1 record in the Big Ten, good for a share of first place in the Big Ten. Though Wisconsin failed to score on the opening possession for just the third time this season, the drought was short-lived as a 20-yard touchdown run by sophomore running back Montee Ball put Wisconsin on the board with three minutes left in the opening quarter.

“I was very excited the way they started things off in the first half, offensively and defensively,”

head coach Bret Bielema said after the game.

Though all three first-half touchdowns for the Badgers came on the ground, it was the consistency of senior quarterback Scott Tolzien that allowed Wisconsin to gradually build a comfortable 24-0 lead at halftime.

With Ball and freshman James White combining for 194 yards and three touchdowns just in that first half, the added bonus of Tolzien’s 13/14 for 196 yards gave Badger fans very little to worry about at the half.

Except, of course, history.

Having quite infamously blown a 19-point halftime lead in their last trip to the Big House in 2008, this team was fully aware that 30 minutes of play remained.

“I didn’t rest easy until I knew [Michigan was] out of timeouts and I could call victory [formation],” Bielema said. “[But] anytime you can do that in a place like this, that’s very special.”

Early in the third quarter, it seemed like history just might be coming back to rear its ugly head. Off the opening kickoff sophomore quarterback Denard Robinson led Michigan on a 71-yard drive capped off by a touchdown catch by Darryl Stonum.

Men’s Hockey

When Isaac Anderson’s fumble on the ensuing drive left Michigan with a short field and a two-play, 38-yard drive, the comfortable 24-point lead was down to a tenuous 10.

Though Michigan’s run out of the half may have put a scare in the minds of Badger fans, the team was able to keep history out of the way.

“I think the good thing was, you know, I don’t even hear [2008] mentioned once,” Tolzien said. “I think that’s the way its gotta be because this is a different year.”

As the Wolverine offense awoke, Wisconsin changed its approach, relying on a powerful rushing attack to maintain possession. The balanced offense of the first half transformed into a ground blitz as Wisconsin ran the ball on every play after the Anderson fumble.

“I knew we ran the ball a lot, I didn’t even realize how much we ran it until everyone was saying they passed the ball one time,” senior lineman Gabe Carimi said. “If it’s working, there’s no reason to fix it.”

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It would be hard to give the Badger running backs and offensivelinemen too much credit for No. 5 Wisconsin’s 10-1 record and position as the current favorite to represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl.

After all, UW has racked up 668 rushing yards and 11 rushingtouchdowns in the last two weeks alone. Not only that, but those numbers came with last year’s Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year, junior running back John Clay, sidelined with an injury.

Since an Oct. 2 loss to Michigan State, the front five has consistently opened gaping holes in the defense and the ball carriers have taken full advantage. The program’s history is rich with dynamic rushing attacks, but this year’s team now has 41 rushing touchdowns, surpassing a 1974 school record of 38.

Senior quarterback Scott Tolzien will be the first to emphasize theimportance of succeeding in the ground game and the first to hand outcompliments to the guys responsible for its production.

All of that is well and good, but the Rolling Meadows, Ill. native deserves the same type of credit.

“If there is anybody in the country playing better than him, I wouldlike to see who it is,” head coach Bret Bielema said. “[He has] unbelievable composure, ability to manage.”

In the second half—when Wisconsin ran the ball 28 consecutive timesand Tolzien attempted one pass—yes, he did a nice job managing the game.

In the first two quarters, though, when the Badgers jumped out to a 24-0 lead and buried the Wolverines in their own ‘Big’ house, Tolzien did not manage the game—he shredded Michigan’s secondary.

Tolzien completed his first 13 passing attempts of the game andfinished the first half 13-14 for 196 yards and a touchdown. His lone mistake came with 30 seconds remaining in the half and the Badgers poised to add to their 24-0 lead. Tolzien apparently did not see Wolverines cornerback James Rogers, who jumped an out-route intended for senior tight-end Lance Kendricks, and Rogers intercepted tolzien page 7

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Senior Scott Tolzien talks with his running backs, Montee Ball and James White, during Saturday’s game in Michigan.

Badgers suffer double shot of heartbreak

By Ryan Evans the daily cardinal

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Scott Gudmandson allowed three of the Bulldog’s nine goals this weekend.

It is a frustrating feeling, but in sports there are times when a team’s good play goes unrewarded. This was the case for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team this weekend in their series against top ranked Minnesota Duluth, falling to the Bulldogs in back to back overtime games, 6-5 and 3-2.

In the series opener Friday night, the Badgers put their offensive woes from the last weekend against North Dakota behind them.

“Scoring five goals is a positive we can take,” head coach Mike Eaves said.

“If you take a look at all the positives that happened across the board, that was one of the good ones.”

After the Badgers stormed to an early 3-1 lead, Duluth showed the offensive firepower that makes them one of the nation’s top teams, rattling off four unanswered goals in the sec-

ond period.

“We had a down second period and we came together,” freshman forward Tyler Barnes said. “We are a team of fighters, we don’t want to give up the win.”

The Badgers found a way to tie the game in its waning minutes when Barnes tipped a Craig Smith shot on the doorstep with an empty net on the other end, his second goal of the night.

Wisconsin, as it would all weekend, showed great resiliency coming back from a two-goal deficit, but Duluth was able to benefit from a brutal non-call at the end of overtime to steal the win.

In overtime, junior defender Jake Gardiner was the victim of a hook at the blue line, which directly led to the game winner as the loose puck was picked up by Duluth and fed to the front of the net, where forward Travis Oleksuk slipped it by Wisconsin

goalie, senior Brett Bennett, handing the Badgers the 6-5 OT loss.

“The call at the end wasn’t very fortunate for us,” Gardiner said. “But this was a positive for our team. It shows that we can play against anybody.”

The Badgers again showed great resiliency Saturday, overcoming twoone goal deficits to again force overtime. But for the second time, the team came up just short when Duluth junior forward Jack Connolly collected a rebound off an odd man rush and put it past Bennett for their second OT win of the weekend.

“We showed resilience coming back at the end, but we need to find ways to get that last goal and win games,” junior forward Jordy Murray said. “We just have to play a complete game.”

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