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Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will run for four more

By Maggie DeGroot The Daily Cardinal

On the steps of the CityCouncil Building Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced he will run for re-election Monday.

Cieslewicz started off his campaign for his third four-year term with the announcement.

Cieslewicz has been in office since 2003, when he defeated former Mayor Paul Soglin.

In 2007, Cieslewicz defeated Republican candidate Ray Allen to continue as mayor of Madison.

Cieslewicz was able to earn 68 percent of the UW-Madison student vote in the election.

“I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing with my life than serving as mayor of Madison,” Cieslewicz said at the press conference.

During his speech Cieslewicz outlined his efforts over the past eight years to make tough decisions when necessary.

“My case is based on my record of taking care of the basics while pursu-

ing a broader vision for the community’s future,” Cieslewicz said.

Cieslewicz gave the example of his decision to gate and ticket Halloween on State Street, which he said was “met with predications of disaster.”

“I can’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing with my life than serving as mayor of Madison.”

Dave Cieslewicz mayor Madison

“When I inherited Halloween on State Street, it was a national nightmare,” Cieslewicz said in a statement.

“Today, it has been transformed into Freakfest … Arrests are down 94 percent from their worst year in 2004.”

For more than a year Cieslewicz and the Common Council have dealt with ongoing major city projects such as the Edgewater Hotel and

Central Library developments.

“When negotiations on the new Central Library broke down, I quickly won approval of a new plan amid heavy criticism for moving too fast,” Cieslewicz said.

Cieslewicz said even though Madison is “doing well,” he wants to do more than just try to maintain the status quo.

“I believe I’ve demonstrated the practical ability to move the city forward and the vision to see where we need to go,” Cieslewicz said. “So I’m going to ask the voters for another four years to see what else we can accomplish together.”

Cieslewicz is expected to face several candidates in the spring election including former alders Ken Golden and Noel Radomski. Golden, 62, served on the Common Council representing District 10 from 1989-2007.

The spring primaries are set for Feb. 15 with the general election on April 5.

Radomski will formally announce his candidacy today.

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Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced his candidacy for mayor on Monday. Cieslewicz has served as Madison’s mayor since 2003.

Enrollment in the UW System reaches all-time high Enrollment in the UW System hit a new high this semester, reaching almost 182,000 students, according to new numbers released Monday.

The new record represents an increase of 1.6 percent, or 2,873 students, over last year’s total, which was also a record.

Total enrollment over the last

decade has increased by 11 percent, according to the statement, which may strain the system during the recession.

“Our success in this area is particularly noteworthy during a time of tight resources,” UW System President Kevin Reilly said in a statement. “We’re more productive and more efficient

than ever before, but we’re also more challenged.”

The enrollment increase represents part of the Growth Agenda for Wisconsin, a plan to increase the number of degrees awarded by 30 percent over the next 15 years. It would result in 80,000 additional UW System graduates each year.

Badger Herald names ticket scalpers ‘worst people on campus,’ receives national attention

By Kayla Johnson The Daily Cardinal

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The Faculty Senate discussed the importance of the Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate Monday.

Faculty Senate discuss recreational facilities, public representation org

By Molly Reppen The Daily Cardinal

The UW-Madison Faculty Senate discussed the 2009’10 annual reports for Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate (PROFS INC.) and the Recreational Sports Board Monday.

President of PROFS Steering Committee and Faculty Senate member Joseph Salmons

said PROFS is important to UW-Madison and its faculty.

During the past year, PROFS has advocated for the “Smart Furlough,” which would allow the state to furlough state employees if doing so would result in net savings for the state.

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By publishing a list of 38 names in a 100-word anonymous opinion piece, The Badger Herald garnered national media attention and over 1,0000 website comments Monday.

The article told the 38 students there is a “special place in Hell” for them and originally asked fellow students to “ridicule the ever-loving shit out of the above people.”

All 5,800 available student Rose Bowl tickets sold within 20 minutes of going on sale Sunday night.

Within a few hours, students began selling tickets above face value on Facebook Marketplace, from which Badger Herald authors compiled their list.

A UW-Madison student, who wished to remain anonymous because she was harassed, said she received angry phone calls and e-mails Monday, because she was confused for someone on the list.

“They just publish what they want.”

Alex Benedict junior UW-Madison

“It’s pretty ridiculous. I’m not a season ticket holder. Some people I don’t even know that well in classes are like ‘How could you do this?’” she said. “Essentially

what’s happened is people are making a big deal out of it and making me out to be a terrible person and I didn’t even buy tickets.”

Kevin Bargnes, The Badger Herald Editor in Chief and primary author of the article, said he does not regret printing the article.

Bargnes said the newspaper staff feels bad for students who have been offended, but did not realize “people would take it so seriously.”

Some students listed said the Badger Herald did not do enough research on the intentions of student’s Facebook advertisements.

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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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s Muggles of the United States, we must accept the sad truth that we’re all susceptible to being screwed over by the long arm of the law.

It’s a sad reality that upon committing serious crimes in our society, iron barred squad cars and the county jail await us, as opposed to somewhere cool like Azkaban or Professor Umbridge’s chambers. Honestly, I sometimes wish I was a fucking wizard. I’d much rather have a dementor as a cell-mate than some cracked-out scrub with a gas problem. But, such is life.

What you may find interesting is that wizards and witches are just as accountable for heinous crimes as we are, and boy is there an opportunity to cause some serious mayhem when you’ve got a wand in your mischievous hands.

So, just what are the types

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of crimes the magically gifted are prohibited from committing?

There are many. Of course we all know about big ones, like the Avada Kedavra killing curse and Crucio torture spell that the Death Eaters are all gungho about. But what about all the other illegal acts that can be committed by everyday witches and wizards, crimes comparable to public urination or running a red light? It just so happens I’ve got a scroll full of wizard crimes, descriptions and corresponding punishments from the Ministry of Magic and I found these beauties written within it: Indecent Patronus: All creatures capable of magic are hereby banned from tampering with their patronus charms for means of amusement and/or sexual harassment. Any patronus representing unclothed witches or wizards, genitalia, acts of fornication or heavy petting will be immediately charged and summoned to the Ministry to answer for this inexplicable offense.However, charges may be dropped if such a patronus is used in self-

defense or defense of others from Dementors, as they are deathly afraid of sexual organs.

I’d much rather have a dementor as a cell-mate than some cracked-out scrub with a gas problem. But, such is my life.

Broom Riding While Intoxicated: Any witch or wizard found to be riding a broomstick with a blood alcohol content of .10 or over shall be grounded immediately and have their broomstick confiscated indefinitely. This applies to quidditch games, joy rides and any other form of broom transportation.

Any rider who is unwilling to undertake a sobriety measurement spell will be fined extra galleons. Thinking of getting on that Firebolt after a few butterbeers? Think again.

Potion Abuse: Under no circumstances should someone slip one (or many) of the following

into the drink of any member of the opposite sex without their consent. These potions include Liquid Lay, Brewed Blackout, or the infamous Horny Goat Elixir.

Also, there will be no tolerance for potion use as an illicit means of getting high. Banned potions include Voldemort’s Choice, The Shapeshifter and of course the substance which nearly ruined Hagrid’s life, The Shitfaced Centaur.

Owl Fighting: This gruesome crime involves the exploitation of messenger owls and their uncanny knack for clawing the living hell out of each other for a reward of various dead rodents. Any witch or wizard seen entering their owl into a fight to the death (no matter how tough his or her feathers), will be stripped of their postal rights and forced to use e-mail until further notice.

Want to hear about more magical misdemeanors? Worried you might be guilty? Send Andrew an Owl at aplahr@wisc.edu. Responses may take a few days, as he will probably have to search through the tomb first.

Professor in Vilas Hall:

I Googled “embedded penis” and it turns out that’s a medical condition.

Student in lecture in Vilas Hall: Fuck this, no one’s gonna hire me.

Girl in Vilas Hall:

You know it’s a problematic sandwich when you can’t tell which part is spoiled.

Little kid in the University Bookstore screaming: I don’t want Bucky Badger clothes!

Guy in the Stiftskellar:

Are you going to the Rose Bowl?

Guy 2: I mean, Florida is pretty far away...

Girl walking by Humanities to her friend: Didn’t you say you hated this building so much you hoped it would get bombed over Thanksgiving break?

Professor in Social Sciences: I don’t want to live in Hawaii—I’ll commute.

Girl in Chipotle: I should not have smoked Friday night.

Girl 2: I shouldn’t have smoked this morning.

Guy on State Street: Oh God, now I have to pee on it to make it smell better.

Guy at a party on West Washington Avenue: Dude, she’s ugly and she’s pregnant. Don’t do it.

Professor in Vilas Hall: —My cats have more Facebook friends than I do.

—I could wreck this university in two minutes.

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City Council members give input on Downtown Plan New possible student housing on Mifflin Street proposed in the Downtown Plan continued to be a topic of debate among City Council members at the Plan Commission meeting Monday.

“We want to have a place where people live, work, recreate and learn.”

Susan Schmitz president Downtown Madison Inc.

The proposed concept for Mifflin Street involves the demolishion of some existing structures in order to build new student housing, which may include high-rise apartments.

Urban Design Commission member Richard Wagner said he would like to see more of a focus on ingenuity and “an integration of … cooperative housing” in regard to the reconstruction plans of Mifflin Street.

Ald. Brian Solomon, District 10, said he was pleased with the level of urbanism the committee

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year that emphasized the ways to continue financing higher education in the future, said Salmons.

The budget cut throughout Wisconsin will affect all state agencies, including the University of Wisconsin System.

UW-Madison has been instructed to prepare for the future budget cuts.

Salmons said the recent republican shift in Wisconsin will alter UW-Madison faculty salaries and benefits, but PROFS will protect faculty interests.

“PROFS will do everything it can and we urge you to help us to defend competitive faculty compensation,” Salmons said.

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with eight friends, but when his friends were unable to get tickets, he decided to sell his.

“The way we went about it was to garner the subject more attention ... We have accomplished that.”

Kevin Bargnes editor in chief The Badger Herald

“They just assumed everyone on the list went out to just buy tickets for profit, but I didn’t go out for profit and I know other people who didn’t go out to buy them for profit that I heard,” Benedict said. “[The Badger Herald] didn’t even go out and research. They just publish what they want.”

Luke Schroeder, one of the people listed, said he also was misrepresented on the list.

Schroeder posted a fake list-

proposed for the Mifflin Street area and felt it was “very important that we embrace change in the downtown area.”

Susan Schmitz, president of Downtown Madison Inc. said she was enthusiastic about the project.

“We’re ready to move forward,” Schmitz said. “We want to have a place where people live, work, recreate and learn.”

Schmitz said the goal was to revamp the Madison downtown and create a “gathering place for the city and its visitors.”

Ald. Julia Kerr, District 13, said she felt the Downtown Plan needs “more work on West Washington” and hoped to see designers “thinking bigger.”

Kerr also said she felt the West Washington area “can support higher density and still preserve the things that are important to the city of Madison.”

Wagner had positive comments about the plans and said there were “many good things” about the plan.

“It’s a negotiation to find which public goals are going to be met; we have to think about the process for the future,” Wagner said.

––Jourdan Miller said the committee is concerned with the development, programming, maintainence and financing of the recreational sports facilities on UW-Madison’s campus.

Malter said when students voted down the recent referendum to expand the Natatorium facility, the committee was not able to continue with the proposed project to expand the unfit recreational facilities.

“If we look around the Big Ten, you will see that our facilities are inadequate and we would like to do something about that,” Malter said.

According to Malter, the use of indoor recreational facilities has increased 35 percent over the past 10 years and the increased use is proof of the need for new facilities. ing for a $1,500 ticket, because he was not able to get a ticket and was mad that people were selling tickets for inflated prices.

In response, Shroeder posted a fake listing for a $1,500 ticket.

“It was pretty clear it was a joke for anyone who read the listing, a lot of funny comments,” said Shroeder. “Anyway, the Badger Herald went ahead and put my name on the list without reading the post.”

Although the article said the paper would continue to print names of alleged scalpers, Bargnes said they will not be adding to the list because they do not have the resources to check the credibility of all submitted names.

As for drawing more attention to the scalping issue, Bargnes said the article was a success.

“The way we went about it was to garner the subject more attention and obviously given the fact that it has been picked up by half a dozen national media outlets, we have accomplished that,” Bargnes said.

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The Student Services Finance Committee heard budget proposals from the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary and its’ own budget proposals Monday. Decisions will be made Thursday.

SSFC hears student judiciary’s, own budget proposals

By Alison Bauter The Daily Cardinal

The Student Services Finance Committee heard budget proposals for the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary and for the SSFC itself Monday.

Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield presented the 2011-’12 SJ budget at $49,470, a decrease from the $52,055 allocated for 2010-2011.

Fifield requested funding for a new public relations position, SJ’s “outreach consultant” and the maintenance of the judiciary’s software and computer funding.

Although some members ques-

tioned the software budget allocation, Fifield said it was necessary in case the SJ needed to hold run-off elections.

“We don’t need this money every year, but it would be a catastrophe if we needed it and didn’t have it,” Fifield said.

Chair Matt Manes presented SSFC’s 2011-’12 budget, requesting $226,997, an increase over this year’s $168,346 allocation.

The biggest changes proposed included $12,000 to fund three SSFC Accountability Liaison positions and the creation of a Legal Information Center at $50,000.

According to Manes, SSFC Accountability Liaisons would facilitate biannual audits that would both hold student groups accountable and facilitate a less “painful” eligibility application process.

The LIC would replace a former registered student organization to provide legal resources to students through ASM. “If something bad happens to students on campus and they don’t have money for an attorney, they’re basically screwed,” Manes said.

Both the budget for SSFC and SJ will be decided Thursday.

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Apple iPad - $469-$825 “It’s like a bigger iPhone, an iPhone on steroids,” DoIT Tech Store Product Manager for Apple Products Ross Yahnke explains as he holds up an iPad. “There’s an extended amount of real estate [compared to an iPhone], which opens up the possibility for greater interaction with a touch-base system.”

I enjoyed using the Flipboard application, a compilation of news publications and social media of your choice into a formatted and personalized magazine.

Another application that is academicworthy of noting is the iPad’s virtual Flashcards—you use a series of swipes and taps to signal right or wrong and you can save ‘writing’ time by importing content from your computer. There are also numerous, nonsensical games, such as Angry

Birds, which involves the use of a slingshot to propel cardinals to knock down a tower in order to redeem points.

The iPad warrants praise for its usability and overall design; however, it doesn’t replace a regular laptop. It has an easyto-use interface and the web browsing is relatively good, but incomplete because the iPad does not support Flash.

The DoIT Tech Store provides iPad accessories including covers, casings, docks, stands, chargers, headphones and even remote keyboards. Currently, all models are $30 off until Dec. 18.

Price range depends on memory, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB, $469-$825, 1-year warranty.

—Anna Jeon

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Targus iPad Stylus - $12 Compared to the pogo stylus, which features a foam tip, the Targus Stylus’ rubber tip is much more durable and has a much faster reaction time when interacting with

an iPad or iPhone.

The Targus is also great for page turning and taking notes, and the price is pretty reasonable.

—Anna Jeon

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen 2GB $130

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But they cost $199.95.

The quality of sound on these headphones is fantastic, and they truly are worth the cost. But I’m sure a Lamborghini Gallardo is worth the cost too – that doesn’t mean I can buy it, and it’s the same story with these headphones.

—Nico Savidge

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There is one important question you must ask yourself before buying a pair of Dr. Dre’s Beats headphones: How much can you spend on sound quality?

Because here’s the thing about the Beats Solo HD headphones – they are fantastic. The quality of sound coming out of these headphones is beyond-words amazing on some songs (listen to Kanye West’s version of “Lost in the World” with these and you’ll know what I’m talking about).

Technology Gloves - $30 Danny Marchewka/the daily cardinal

Skullcandy Pipe iPod Stereo $60 Anybody who is willing to hook up an iPod to a set of speakers is willing to settle to a certain extent. A good set of iPod speakers provides the listener with a solid amount of power along with a great deal of portability–with decent sound quality being an afterthought.

Thankfully, the Skullcandy Pipe speakers for iPod cover all three bases, but not to an exceptional degree. Though the sound quality is far from professional, it

Want to be able to take notes without the worry of missing a word or phrase your professor says? How about an audio soundtrack of lectures to refer back to when it comes time to study for your finals? The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen has a built-in recorder that not only records everything said, but also syncs up with your notes; making it great for students and journalists alike.

“Students love them because they don’t always have to refer back to their notebooks,” DoIT Tech Store Product Manager Patti Havlicek said. “Instead, they can rely on the audio.”

The pen writes the same as a regular ball point, although it is a little bulky on the grip. The biggest difference with this technology is that you can’t write on regular paper—you must write on Livescribe dot paper which uses spatial recognition and coordination with a camera in the pen to take down your notes. There’s also a menu system at the bottom of each page to help you maneuver through features and applications. While you can buy notepaper at the DoIT Tech Store in sets of four notebooks for $19.95, you can also print the dot paper online for free.

This product also features the ability to share notes with others, whether they are audio pencasts or PDF versions of your transcribed notes.

—Anna Jeon

is good enough to make-do in the home or living room and will only take up 8” of space on a coffee table. It even is loud enough to let you DJ a party, so long as you limit it to just a handful of your dearest friends. For $59.95, it isn’t the cheapest option out there, but for the quality and portability it provides, the Pipe isn’t the worst buy either.

—Todd Stevens

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My phone could probably drive my car by itsself, while calling my parents to tell them I will be late for Christmas Eve Dinner, while I watch Clint Eastwood movies on it and file my taxes, but it becomes little more than a small black paperweight when I put on a simple pair of gloves.

One company seems to have a solution— specialized fingertips. New York company Freehands, claims that their product will allow you to “text, email and game without removing your gloves,” and by golly can you. When I tried the Thinsulate lined “Stretch” model I could text as good or better than with my bare hands (shivering fingers are clumsy after all).

This particular model was warm enough to keep my paws toasty while biking in frigid Ithsmus wind.

I was not wowed by the technology, the idea is simple: most freehands gloves come with flip back caps on the thumb and forefinger, leaving you warm and free to text. The price tag,

however, is what makes these mitts so attractive.

Paying $30 for a pair of gloves I can wear all winter is about the going rate, and the fact that I can still use my phone is a big win. Freehands has all sorts of models at all levels of luxury and price, so find a pair that suits your needs and glove up.

I also reviewed the Power Stretch 2 Finger Liner with conductive fingertips. While these fingertips did allow me to do the most basic tasks on my phone, I could not text or do anything that required much dexterity, though skeptical of myself, i found a volunteer to try them out. He could play his game well enough, so it might just be an issue if you have too-small hands like me.

—Ben Pierson

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An early look at Sundance ’11 David Cottrell co-ttrell it on the mountain ast week the films selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah were announced. Relatively little is known about the majority of the films beforehand beyond a brief synopsis released in a press release. This year there is a distinct lack of big Hollywood celebrities promoting their own small projects or forays into indie film. While there are certainly some recognizable names on this year’s list—Kevin Smith, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear and John C. Reilly—the majority isn’t the usual tabloid fodder and as a result even less than usual is known about the films.

This January I’ll be attending the second week of the festival and covering it for the Daily Cardinal, so starting Jan. 25, check back for festival updates, early reviews and more. But in the meantime, I’ve highlighted some of the films that piqued my interest.

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A little known fact about the Madison quintet: their biggest groupies include Mr. Bean impersonators.

Aviary thrashes onward

By Kyle Sparks The Daily cardinal

Sleeping In The Aviary have always had a hard time sitting still. After forming right here in Madison, some seven years ago, the then-foursome released two albums of hyper-active jangly punk songs on Science of Sound records before riding over to Minnesota’s Twin Cities and picking up a fifth member. On their first dispatch from the Land o’ Lakes, Great Vacation, Sleeping In The Aviary ditch their most screeching punk styles for a more flush album that reins back their wild catharsis with dapper production and tidy pop numbers.

They’re loose and dishevelled by nature, but on Great Vacation they make a concerted effort to look nice and clean for the consumer.

If you’ve somehow missed the boat and you’re curious what Sleeping in the Aviary sound like live, listen to their debut, Oh, This Old Thing? But anyone who’s seen them since 2008 can tell you that Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel standouts like “Everybody’s Different, Everybody Dies” take on a similarly frenetic vein in their live interpretations. So I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right— these songs sound quite a bit different live.

That’s symptomatic of the internal disconnect for Sleeping In The

Aviary. Live, they invoke inspiration from punk bands like the Buzzcocks or mid-’80s Hüsker Dü.

On record, they draw more influence from twangy pop acts. They’re loose and dishevelled by nature, but on Great Vacation they make a concerted effort to look nice and clean for the consumer.

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Great Vacation Sleeping In The Aviary In some ways, Great Vacation also marks a graduation process. Instead of desperate thrashings for acceptance or vengeance, Great Vacation offers quaint novellas like “Last Kiss on a Sinking Ship.” They’ve matured past picking fights, and when lead singer Elliott Kozel says, “And I know that you’ve been lonely / By the length of the skirts you wear,” he’s not asking for a second chance.

But I’d be lying if I said everything translated perfectly. “Blackedout Fun” in particular struggles to marry disjointed elements of ’50s doo-wop with angular distorted guitar. Crowd-pleaser “The Very Next Day I Died” doesn’t benefit much from the polished presentation here, and “Maria’s Ghost” doesn’t do enough to turn its fatalist masochism into vaudeville. In each case they try to satisfy two disparate ideas that

end up going in different directions, leaving them stuck in the middle with little to show for themselves.

Full immersion is the key for Sleeping In The Aviary, and their biggest successes come when they tear down the fourth wall and refuse to short-change themselves. On older records, that usually meant kicking-and-screaming rock ’n’ roll, but on Great Vacation it’s noted by more subtle intimacy. Keyboard/ accordion/hacksaw player Celeste Heule takes over lead vocals on “Axes Ground Looth Tooth,” a cozy piano-driven meditation on humility and expectations. Kozel follows it with “Start the Car,” another tamed reflection on vulnerability. It concludes a three-song stretch that sees Sleeping In The Aviary at its most disarming, and it’s the most unlikely of successes in their catalog.

Thematically, Great Vacation is just as dislocated and lost as any of the group’s previous efforts.

Functionally, though, it portrays a band finally getting comfortable in its own skin. Sleeping In The Aviary are notorious for putting literal blood and sweat into every live performance, but it’s all detached from the band’s true strength—writing terrific, heartsoaked pop songs. Great Vacation offers both a reprieve from the tearsoaked hysteria of yore for a more accomplished and diverse band; and a moment of illumination in which we realize that Sleeping In The Aviary should be getting ready to move somewhere new—somewhere much, much bigger.

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“Cedar Rapids” Ed Helms stars as a Wisconsin businessman attending an insurance conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The film also features John C. Reilly, Anne Heche and Sigourney Weaver. The film sounds to be right in the wheelhouse of Helms, who is best known for his role as Andy on “The Office,” and the director, Miguel Arteta, who has directed several episodes of “The Office.” And to top it off, the script made the 2009 Blacklist.

“Terri” A socially ostracized and bullied orphan develops an unlikely friendship with his school’s vice-principal (John C. Reilly) that helps him gain a new outlook on life. Last year John C. Reilly, a Sundance veteran, starred in my favorite comedy at the festival, “Cyrus,” and he does a great job at playing those weird-but-loveable characters, giving me high hopes for this flick.

“Another Earth” A sci-fi flick in which two strangers become lovers in the wake of a horrible tragedy just as the world discovers another Earth. I have a soft spot for quality, philosophical sci-fi movies like “Moon,” which premiered at Sundance 2009, and I think it’s a tragedy that the genre is as neglected as it is these days in Hollywood. If “Another Earth” is anywhere near as great as “Moon,” I’m on board and ready for launch.

“My Idiot Brother” Ned (Paul Rudd) just got out of jail for selling weed and moves in with each of his three sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer) one after the other while he attempts to put his life back together.

I’ve enjoyed Paul Rudd as the straight

man in his Apatow and Apatow-ish roles, but it will be interesting to see how he plays the loser for once. And Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel on screen can’t hurt either.

“Red State” Kevin Smith takes a stab at the horror genre with this tale of religious fundamentalism gone wrong in Middle America. Kevin Smith is a man who was made at Sundance. The story of Harvey Weinstein negotiating the rights to the original “Clerks” after its first screening at Sundance over a plate of potato skins in a local bar is a festival staple.

Almost two decades later, Smith has returned to the festival with his new indie-horror flick “Red State.”

While some have taken it as a bad sign that the film wasn’t selected to be in competition at the festival, entertainment is guaranteed since Smith has stated that he plans to hold an ad-hoc auction for the film’s distribution rights in the theater immediately following the film’s first screening.

“Abraxas” A Zen monk suffering from depression turns to heavy-metal music to revitalize his spirit. Last year, Joseph Gordon-Levitt played an eccentric heavy-metal drifter in “Hesher” with good, but incredibly weird, results.

“Abraxas” sounds like it could warrant a similar description.

“Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey” A documentary exploring one of our quintessential childhood characters, Elmo, and the man behind him, Kevin Clash. It seems like such an obvious documentary subject that it’s surprising it hasn’t been done before.

Sesame Street has been one of the cornerstones of American Childhood for decades and it’s actually a lot more controversial and interesting than you may think.

“Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same” A lesbian space alien, tracked by government agents, begins a relationship with an unwitting girl working at a greeting card store. I’ll admit it: it’s all about the title. It has that “Snakes On a Plane” vibe of just putting it all out there. It really could go either way but the boldness alone earns a look.

“Bobby Fischer Against the World” He was the 11th World Chess Champion and went on to become an international fugitive. As one classic SNL skit put it, “Bobby Fischer, where is he? I don’t know, I don’t know.” This documentary may not feature Will Ferrell in a male cheerleading outfit, but it still has my interest.

Looking forward to sorting the gems from the clunkers with David?

Send him your early favorites at dcottrell@wisc.edu. Full synopses of all films screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival can be found at sundance.org.

Search terms: WGN Morning News Bridge Fail Here, a local news station tries to do live coverage of a bridge demolition, only to cut away for the four seconds when the bridge collapses. Luckily, watching the live collapse of the two anchors is just as entertaining.

Search terms: Gylne Tider: Let It Be You know those inspirational music videos featuring famous celebrities singing a popular song to promote a charity? This is just like those, without the charity part, and with Carlton from “Fresh Prince” and George from “Seinfeld” instead of real famous people.

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Suneohair stars as a metal guitarist in the Japanese film “Abraxas.”

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Bucky does it better. In the first Rose Bowl game in 1902, Michigan beat Stanford so brutally (49-0) that Stanford gave up and quit in the third quarter.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Being jealos of season ticket holders

Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

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Hot Sauce

By Oliver Buchino buchino@wisc.edu

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

By Dylan Moriarty eatincake@gmail.com

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Crustaches

By Patrick Remington premington@wisc.edu

Hoop Dreams

By Dan Tollefson dtollefson@wisc.edu

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Shake on It

ACROSS 1 “Beetle Bailey” cartoonist Walker 5 1980 Dom DeLuise movie 10 Does some garment work 14 Laptop operator 15 Taken ___ (startled) 16 The U of BTU 17 Regal address 18 Messing or Winger 19 Peak seen from the Ionian Sea 20 Concur 23 Old piano tune 24 Demagnetize, e.g.

25 Had a reason to repay 26 Prior, in poesy 27 Timothy Leary stash 28 Formerly, in wedding columns 31 One of Santa’s reindeer 33 Audiophile’s purchase 36 Does something 37 Agree to 40 List-curtailing abbr.

42 Calm or tranquil 43 Stay

46 Brain scan readout, for short 47 Title of respect in India 50 Brisk knock 51 “Oh dear!”

54 Pungent bulb 56 Ubiquitous verb 57 Compromise 60 Chore list heading 62 Anyone from Ames 63 Instrument in an Italian orchestra 64 Thunderbirds org.

65 Alarm 66 High-schooler 67 Leave a solid state 68 Ethical standards 69 Roll call reply DOWN 1 Freshwater mollusk 2 Twigs for baskets 3 Check the fine print again 4 Kilmer’s classic 5 Lose star status 6 Help badly?

7 Banned from polite conversation 8 Carpenter’s tool 9 Greenlighted 10 Shade or tint 11 Root firmly 12 Tall tower

3 Model home hirees 1 21 Gossipmonger 22 One-time name of the Japanese capital 29 Sushi fish 30 Love child 32 ___ the Great (detective of kids’ books) 33 Songs for one 34 Chemical suffix 35 Storybook brute 37 The “it” in “Step on it!”

38 The ___ early hours 39 Fort Knox bar 40 Printed mistake 41 Big bloom 44 Xmas time 45 Prima donna trait 47 Yes-bob connection 48 “___ Room” (kids’ show) 49 Mad 52 Subsidiary of BP 53 Big name in whiskey 55 Below, to Byron 58 Unloaded truck’s weight 59 Small Federal Reserve Notes 61 Repeatedly, in rhyme

Washington and the Bear

By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

opinion

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view Cardinal View editorials represent The Daily Cardinal’s organizational opinion. Each editorial is crafted independent of news coverage.

worst newspaper on campus?

As soon as the Wisconsin Badgers were officially proclaimed Rose Bowl bound by ESPN on Sunday night, students raced to the athletics website’s 9 p.m. sale—snowballing ticket purchases into a campus-wide controversy. The 5,800 tickets allocated to the university sold out in just 20 minutes, predictably inspiring outrage and frustration among those not lucky enough to gain access. Fueling this frustration was the immediate sale of tickets online through the Facebook marketplace, prompting a flood of hateful comments toward those selling their tickets.

But the most shocking expression of this frustration was The Badger Herald’s article, “The Worst People on Campus,” in which the paper listed the names of over 30 students who, according to the paper, purchased tickets for the “sole intention of profiting from

them.” The paper went a step further by claiming that there is a “special place in Hell” for those selling tickets and asking readers to “ridicule the ever-loving shit out of the above people.” The article led to a massive response of both disappointment and frustration by students listed in the article, and it caught the attention of news organizations at both the state and national level.

The Daily Cardinal aims to express its utmost contempt and disapproval of such an irresponsible publication.

While the negativity toward those selling their tickets online was already present, the Herald’s decision to single out 38 students has greatly magnified the issue. Multiple members of the list have received harassments, verbal attacks and death threats against both them and their families. In response, the Herald edited the online edition of their article and added an editor’s note

clarifying that the article was not a “call to take action,” but the author(s) know full well that by listing the names of a select group of students, repercussions are inevitable. Furthermore, condemning fellow students represents the exact lack of school spirit the article claims to campaign against.

The Herald’s first mistake, however, was to blindly assume that every student selling their ticket bought them solely for profit. After speaking with a few of the listed students, The Daily Cardinal found that many planned on attending the game but had to forfeit their tickets due to a lack of extra tickets for their group members or high costs of travel. The list created by the Herald was a random group of names compiled without contacting those listed, nor providing the decency to research their actual intent. Such laziness is far more fitting of a gossip column than a legitimate news source.

In response to the overwhelming attention toward the article, the Herald added yet another note to their online publication claiming that the list was meant as tongue-incheek humor while bringing attention to the issue of price gouging.

Yet the wording of the article, both in print and online, suggests nothing of the sort. As for the issue at hand, any attention the Herald brought to ticket scalping is not worth a single

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student receiving a death threat. If the view of the paper is to be taken seriously, it must identify itself as such through responsible journalism.

Perhaps the most unfortunate mistake by the Herald is that this was a completely avoidable issue. A student selling Rose Bowl tickets for profit is a legitimate concern, but the Herald’s approach resulted in unnecessary damage. The Cardinal insists that the management of the Herald immediately issue an apology to those listed and take down the article.

Meanwhile, students of UW need

to stop callously threatening their fellow Badgers. Yes, it’s the Rose Bowl, but ultimately they are just football tickets. If you are willing to harass and threaten someone over that, then you better deserve the title of one of the worst people on campus. All of us, particularly the management of The Badger Herald, would do well to remember that.

Emma Roller Hannah Furfaro Samantha Witthuhn Miles Kellerman

Todd Stevens Nico Savidge Dan Tollefson

Obama, take your hands out of the cookie jar Matt beaty opinion columnist

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ince the November elections, lame ducks in Washington have been fighting over highprofile legislation like the START treaty, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and whether or not to increase taxes.

Despite these political scuttles, the House of Representatives managed to pass the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kid Act. When President Obama signs this bill into law, he will set in

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motion a decade-long reform to the public school meal program. This bill restructures the approval process for free meals, increases the number of meals provided to at-risk students and sets nutritional standards for food at schools.

By no means will this be inconsequential legislation. This bill makes several changes to the administrative process for authorizing free meals to students who would go hungry without them—making it easier for low-income students to receive the meals they need during school. It’s encouraging that the lame ducks were able to even scrape enough votes to pass legislation that will help those truly in need.

But like many of the major pieces of legislation passed in the last two years—including Obamacare and the credit card reform act—there are provisions that allow the federal government to overstep their proper role by regulating things that should be decided by local school boards, states or parents.

The federal government has been slowly encroaching on many aspects of peoples’ lives, especially in the last two years. If signed, the bill would continue this invasion by regulating what schools can sell for fundraisers, the type of milk schools can serve and where they should be buying their food.

Parents and school districts, not

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Washington bureaucrats, should be making decisions about what food schools can serve because they understand the needs of their schools better than distant administrators.

If a school does not have an obesity problem and students are satisfied with their meal choices, there is no reason the federal government should have the authority to step in and mandate what food school districts serve their students. Just like “No Child Left Behind,” this bill unnecessarily infringes on school districts’ responsibility to determine how to best serve their students.

To me, the portion of this bill dictating what schools can and cannot serve is the straw breaking the camel’s back when it comes to the federal government overstepping its bounds. The Obama administration has passed steep regulations on who can own credit cards, who insurance companies must insure and now it is saying that schools cannot sell “non-nutritious” food at a charity bake sale.

Banning unhealthy food from schools isn’t the worst thing this administration has done, but it is just another example of how the federal government is weaseling its way into nearly every facet of peoples’ lives.

Over the last few years, people have finally begun speaking out against the federal government’s rampant growth at infamous townhall meetings and Tea Party rallies.

And in November, they magnified their voices by voting for many Republican candidates who advocated a limited federal government.

Hopefully when these newly elected representatives take office, they listen to the voters who gave them their seat and start slowing the federal government’s continual expansion.

In general, the Healthy, HungerFree Kids law will be beneficial to many students who are in need.

President Obama should sign it into law despite some of its overarching provisions. America is too great of a country to allow children to go hungry, and major portions of this bill work toward ending that problem.

However, when the Republicans assume control of the House next year, they need to ensure that they pass legislation that does not allow the federal government to step beyond its limits of power. This law just takes away the normal milk and “junk” food lunch, but I would hate to see what they try to take away next.

Matt Beaty is a sophomore majoring in math and computer science. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Football, basketball lockouts could provide NHL chance to shine

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Free safety Jason Doering (8) and linebacker Bob Adamov (29) celebrate a Wisconsin Rose Bowl victory in 1999. The win was the second for the program and first in a set of back-to-back titles for the Badgers.

Badgers set to rewrite long Rose Bowl history

By Mark Bennett the daily cardinal

Twelve years after the Tournament of Roses was born in Pasadena, Ca., in 1890, event organizers decided to host a football match as a part of the festivities. On New Year’s Day 1902, the University of Michigan defeated Stanford 49-0 in the “Tournament of East-West Game.”

The match was so lopsided, however, that the Cardinal of Stanford quit after just three quarters.

The game was ultimately seen as a failure, and no football was played as part of the tournament for the next 16 years. In its place, the event organizers held ostrich and chariot races, among other activities.

In 1916, the Rose Bowl Game was reborn, and since Washington beat Brown that Jan. 1, the game has been an uninterrupted, annual event.

In 1923 the Tournament of Roses completed the Rose Bowl Stadium to stand as the permanent home of the annual football match.

Only once since then has the game been hosted in a venue other than the Rose Bowl Stadium. In 1942, only a few weeks following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, civil-

ian and military leaders alike feared subsequent attacks, with West Coast targets the most at risk.

The game was originally to be cancelled until Duke University stepped in and invited the game to be held in Durham, N.C., on the opposite side of the country. Oregon State crashed the Blue Devils party, though, downing Duke 20-16 in the only Rose Bowl game ever played outside of Pasadena.

1947 welcomed the most recent addition to the current Rose Bowl format. In that season, the Big Nine Conference and the Pacific Coast Conference (today the Big Ten and the Pac-10) signed an agreement to become the permanent opponents in the annual contest.

The University of Southern California has both appeared in the most Rose Bowl games (33) and has also won the most (20). The University of Michigan is second in both categories (20, 8).

Wisconsin’s personal Rose Bowl history began Jan. 1, 1953 when the Badgers fell to USC in a defensive showdown, 7-0. Wisconsin again found themselves in the game in 1960 but didn’t fare much better, losing to Washington 44-8. In 1963,

Tolzien wins Unitas Golden Arm Award Monday afternoon, Wisconsin senior quarterback Scott Tolzien was announced as the recipient of the 2010 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given each year to the nation’s top senior quarterback.

At the helm of one of the nation’s most potent offenses, Tolzien finished the regular season with 2,300 yards and 16 touchdowns through the air. His 74.3 completion percentage was tops in the country and has him on pace to break the Big Ten record, currently held by former Wisconsin quarterback Darrell Bevell, who set the record with a 67.8 mark in 1993. Tolzien was also fourth in the nation with a quarterback rating of 169.8, which will shatter the school record of 155.2, also set by Bevell in 1993.

Tolzien beat out TCU’s Andy Dalton, Nevada’s Colin Kaepernick, Florida State’s Christian Ponder, and Iowa’s Ricky Stanzi for the award.

—Ryan Evans

the Badgers finally made their first legitimate effort in the contest, when USC just barely edged out the men in cardinal 42-37.

It would be 31 seasons before Donna Shalala, Pat Richter and Barry Alvarez finally brought the roses back to Wisconsin. In 1994, analysts Craig James labeled the Badgers as the worst team ever to play in the Rose Bowl. Following a 21-6 victory over the hometown UCLA Bruins, though, then head coach Alvarez joked, “Well, I know we’re at least the second worst.”

Following the 1998 season, running back Ron Dayne led the Badgers to their second Rose Bowl title, defeating UCLA once again on Jan. 1, 1999. The following season, Wisconsin became the first Big Ten team ever to win back-to-back Rose Bowl titles by defeating Stanford 17-9 in the 2000 game.

Now, with head coach Bret Bielema at the helm and debatably the country’s best rushing attack on the field, the 2010 Wisconsin Badgers will have the chance to rewrite the already packed history books when they take on TCU Jan. 1 in the 97th Rose Bowl game.

hile watching the Packers beat up on San Francisco this weekend, I began to wonder: What are Sundays going to be like next year if there isn’t any NFL football to watch?

Certainly that is one of the biggest potential news stories of the upcoming year: the looming threat of an NFL lockout come this spring. This would have a huge effect on the American sports landscape. I have a very difficult time envisioning my weekends without having the Packers to watch on Sunday afternoons. It’s borderline disturbing to imagine, and with a lockout looking like more and more of a possibility with each passing week, a world without football in the fall comes closer to reality.

But hey, even if the NFL isn’t playing, fans will have the NBA to watch, right? Well, actually it appears they too are going to have a work stoppage during the 2011-2012 season.

What are sports fans supposed to do? Give up on sports? Take up a hobby? Spend more time with their families? Please, there has to be some sort of answer.

Enter the National Hockey League. Lockouts in the NFL and NBA could finally provide the NHL with its time to shine.

The NHL has always been the little brother to all the other major professional sports league, laboring in ratings and fan interest for years, even behind NASCAR. (You know, that “sport” of never-ending left turns?) Since the NHL had its own lockout a few years ago, the game has seen some growth, but it is still nowhere near the other major sports leagues.

The NFL’s television deals are worth more than the NHL’s total profits every year, and in terms of viewership in this country, hockey doesn’t even come close to any other sport. But next year could finally be the year that the NHL steps out from the shadows and into the forefront of American sports.

Hockey could really stand to benefit from the lack of football and basketball next year if it plays its cards right. From November to April, it will be the only major sports league playing games. It will be the phenom-

enon of, “well there is nothing else to watch.” I mean what are sports fans going to do, just take the year off?

The NHL needs to recognize that they can capitalize on this though, milk it if you will. First off: go out and get a TV-deal with ESPN. The NHL’s current TV contract with Versus expires after this season, and ESPN has expressed interest in returning hockey to their network (we’ll all just have to live with the increase of Barry Melrose that will come along with that).

Having NHL games broadcast each week on the biggest sports network in the world will certainly go a long way to helping the NHL gain exposure throughout this country, and without the NBA to talk about constantly, ESPN could fill a lot of time next year with hockey.

The league already has a TV deal with NBC, and they quite possibly will not have Sunday Night Football next year. Dare I dream of the possibility of Sunday Night Hockey next year? Or even Monday Night Hockey on ESPN? The NHL has young, marketable stars. The established players, like Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, and Washington’s Alexander Ovechkin, that the casual sports fan probably knows anyway, and the exciting up and comers like Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos or Chicago’s Patrick Kane, could really benefit a league with more publicity. Even America’s goaltending hero from the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, Buffalo’s Ryan Miller, could be used to help bring in fans in the United States right?

If recent trends are any indication, lockouts in the NFL and NBA are imminent next year. While that may be a scary thought for the American sports population, fear not, sports fans—there is another sport that is more than capable of filling your time, its fast paced, hard hitting, and exciting, everything this country likes to watch.

The stars are certainly aligning for the NHL to join elite status among the other major North American sports leagues. If the league seizes this opportunity it will be a significant step in the growth of the game of hockey, something that the NHL has striven toward for decades and definitely deserves.

Is the prospect of a more prosperous NHL worth the loss of the NFL and NBA? E-mail Ryan at rmevans@wisc.edu.

Students launch contest for Rose Bowl ticket

By Mark Bennett the daily cardinal

Most students have probably had moments of extended boredom at College Library. Very few have likely ever translated that boredom into an idea quite like the one seniors Laurel Berkowitz, Alexa Bernstein, and Ariel Cohen had Monday evening.

Bernstein already successfully purchased two tickets—one for herself and the other in case another friend could not get one—when Cohen had an idea. She tossed around the thought of giving away the extra ticket that Bernstein now had to someone who could show the three of them the best display of Badger fandom.

The three students, all loyal Badger football fans themselves, had been

viewing the exorbitant prices students were already selling their tickets for on Facebook marketplace and other sites. Bernstein realized she easily could make a profit by selling the ticket. Spurred on by the suggestion of Cohen, however, they instead listed the ticket online under the description of a giveaway challenge.

“I put it on Facebook initially as a joke, just to see what kind of responses there would be,” Cohen said. “So we felt that rather than stealing from other students by raising the prices… we could put a positive spin on the quest for tickets by making it a fun challenge.”

Within the first hour of the posting on Facebook marketplace, the listing had already received over 600 hits.

And while Bernstein couldn’t afford to give away the ticket for free, the three decided to offer the student who demonstrated the best show of loyalty and spirit the opportunity purchase it at face value.

And the best idea thus far?

“I personally really like the guy who is going to wear the mini red micro shorts and grow out a mustache and paint it red,” Cohen said.

All ideas must be demonstrated to the three students before the announcement of the winner on Dec. 15. The challenge can be found on Facebook Marketplace under “2010 Rose Bowl Extreme Fandom Challenge” The three are looking forward to discovering how creative students can get, but they haven’t seen it yet.