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ince I’ve been cursed with a desire to be a writer, I’ve always tried not to care too much about material objects, knowing that one day I’d probably have to give up most of them.

However, when my family moved from Milwaukee to Nashville last summer, they left a big pile of boxes in the basement. I waited until I was alone, which incidentally took several days in my family of five, before I began my search.

My original incentive—to prove I am in fact British royalty accidentally plucked from my birthplace and cruelly shipped to the United States—quickly changed when I realized how much about me my parents have stored in our basement.

It all started with the dress-up box.

One cardboard box filled with sequiney renditions of the Little Mermaid’s brassiere and tail, a bride’s veil that looked more like a lunch lady’s hairnet than a new wife’s trademark and a cowboy hat that my brother used to wear around with nothing else on in his early childhood.

They all whisked me back to the several future cult classics that have infiltrated my parents’ home videos over the years. There was the one where my 5-year-old brother played the typical American kid unfortunate enough to come across an evil magnet possessed by the devil, played by me.

I portrayed Satan in a red flapper dress I’d had since kindergarten, a red bandana and wooden shoes. Clearly, I was well versed in sexy even when I was 10.

“You have unleashed the evil!” I screamed at my brother when he discovered the magnet.

“Oh crap!” he yelled.

“It will swim through your veins and when you scream out in agony, all will fade and you will be left with

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nothing except the demon that will grow inside of you.”

“That can’t be good.”

“And when the demon is ready to emerge, it will fly out of your belly with blood and guts and stuff like that.”

That was taped right after I mustered up the courage to ask where babies came from. The answer disturbed me greatly.

Moving on, the boxes soon represented my maturity into early adolescence when I stumbled across a karaoke machine I played with during my New Year’s party sophomore year of high school.

I recalled a friend of mine singing a song on the karaoke machine from “Fiddler on the Roof” as the clock struck midnight while the rest of the party watched from the couch.

“I wish I were a rich man,” he sang.

I’m cool, right? I thought to myself while I watched. This is fun, right?

“Ya-ha-deedle-feedle, bubba-bubba deedle-deedle-dum.”

The popular kids are probably doing this exact same thing right now.

“All day long I’d biddy-biddy- bum.”

Shouldn’t I be kissing someone right now?

“If I were a wealthy man.”

Isn’t anyone kissing right now?

“If I were biddy-biddy rich.”

Oh my God. I’m a loser.

Once I got “Fiddler on the Roof” out of my head, I realized that my entire childhood lay in front of me in a bunch of cardboard boxes. I always tried to take on the attitude that material things don’t matter, but I realize now I would have forgotten so many things about my past if my new basement hadn’t come with some memorabilia to remind me of it.

I thought about continuing to look for my certificate of royalty, or at least a tiara or something, but decided against it in case I were to come across anything even more incriminating, like the cot we stored in our last basement.

Instead I grabbed a regal looking bookend, hoped no one would miss it, and went upstairs.

If you have any magnets that have been acting up lately, e-mail Kiera at wiatrak@wisc.edu.

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Race for the states Wisconsin’s February primary still up for grabs

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The lack of a clear frontrunner in either party means Wisconsin’s Feb. 19 primary might still matter, though it will depend on the outcome of “Super Tuesday” Feb. 5.

On Feb. 5 over 20 states hold primaries or caucuses, including states with large populations like California, New York and Illinois.

Emeritus Professor of Political Science Charles Jones said it is possible U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., might win his home state, while U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., could win her home state and still have no clear winner decided, but said it is impossible to predict the outcome right now.

Political activity related to the Wisconsin primary has been increasing recently. On Jan. 16, Obama’s campaign opened its Wisconsin headquarters, with Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle having endorsed Obama earlier in the month.

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A volunteer organizer for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., instructs supporters on caucus proceeders on Jan. 3 in Dyersville, Iowa during the Iowa Presidential caucuses. Obama won the caucus among Democrats.

Youth vote helps determine winners in Iowa, New Hampshire

By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL

In Iowa, New Hampshire and beyond, the youth vote in Presidential politics has proven itself the margin of victory.

According to CNN entrance polls, 22 percent of Democratic Iowa caucus goers were age 17 to 29. This is a larger percentage than 30 to 44-year-old caucus goers among Democrats and equal to the amount of voters age 65 and over—age groups often focused on more by candidates.

Among Republicans, 11 percent of caucus goers were age 17 to 29. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the eventual winner of the Republican Iowa caucuses, led among young voters with 40 percent, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney followed

distantly with 22 percent.

For Democrats the effect of the youth vote was even more apparent. Iowa winner U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., received 57 percent of the votes from caucus goers age 17 to 29. Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., received 14 percent and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., received 11 percent.

UW-Madison Students for Barack Obama Chair Ami ElShareif said Obama received the most youth votes because he can best relate to student issues.

“He was against the war from the very beginning, which is an issue very close and very important to students today,” ElShareif said.

Peter Rickman, UW-Madison Students

for John Edwards Chair, said Edwards appeals to young voters because he has a message of “transformational change.”

Rickman said Edwards was able to perform well in Iowa despite being outspent by his rivals and he expects the Wisconsin primary to play an important role in the election, despite it being after multiple primaries on Feb. 5.

In New Hampshire, Obama led among 18 to 24-year-old voters with 60 percent to Clinton’s 22 percent in New Hampshire, but saw his support among 25 to 29year-olds crumble in comparison to support in Iowa, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic youth vote page 4

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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at an event in Madison. Wisconsin’s Feb. 19 primary may yet draw candidates to the state as no frontrunner has emerged.

Federal judge again rules in Catholic group’s favor

By Amanda Hoffstrom THE DAILY CARDINAL

For the second time, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Roman Catholic Foundation-UW-Madison saying the university cannot refuse to fund certain student religious-based activities.

During a preliminary injunction hearing Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge John Shabaz said the university’s policy of denying funding requests for prayer, worship or proselytizing activities is unconstitutional.

Shabaz issued a similar ruling in March 2007, after the university denied funds to RCF-UW because it did not meet the requirements of a registered student organization.

In an out-of-court settlement in May 2007, the university agreed to fund the group with more than $250,000 in student fees. However, the RCF-UW filed a second lawsuit in September 2007 against UW-Madison, citing violations of their previous agreement.

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UW System president names search committee for next UW chancellor Two UW-Madison students will have the opportunity to be part of the search committee to look for a new UWMadison chancellor. Chancellor John Wiley announced in late December his intent to step down in September 2008.

UW System President Kevin Reilly announced Monday the appointment of 21 members to the search committee. Student representatives will be named by Jan. 25, the date of the committee’s first meeting.

Students interested must compose a one-page essay addressing why they should be selected to represent the student body on the committee, and what qualities the new chancellor must have. Applications are due to Associated Students of Madison

Shared Governance Committee representatives Jeff Wright and Travis Weller by noon on Jan. 18.

ASM sent an e-mail Monday to UW-Madison students, informing them of the application requirements and process.

The committee will recommend at least five candidates to Reilly and a Regents committee chaired by Regent David Walsh.

Other Regents on the committee include Regent President Mark J. Bradley, Regent Vice President Chuck Pruitt, Tom Loftus and UW-Madison senior Colleene Thomas.

Members of the committee are as follows:

Faculty Paul J. Bertics Molly Carnes William Cronon Mary Louise Gomez Robert Mathieu Anne Miner Regina Murphy Dan Schaefer Marsha Mailick Seltzer— Chair of the Search Committee Aliko Songolo Sean Teuton Amy Wendt Academic Staff Carla Love Tori Richardson Classified Staff Gary Mitchell

Administrators Debbie Durcan—UW System vice president of finance Bob Golden—UW School of Medicine and Public Health dean Community Members Paula Bonner—president and CEO of the Wisconsin Alumni Association John Morgridge—Cisco Systems Inc. chair emeritus and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Board of Trustees Winslow Sargent—Venture Investors, LLC managing director and WARF Board of Trustees Jay Smith—Teel Plastics president and former president of the UW System Board of Regents

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Students to analyze 2008 presidential advertisements

By Devin Rose THE DAILY CARDINAL

With the 2008 presidential election drawing closer, UW-Madison students working with the Wisconsin Advertising Project will attempt to analyze all federal and gubernatorial political advertisements aired on television this year.

UW-Madison political science professor Ken Goldstein directs the project, which began in 2000.

According to a statement, a nearly $300,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation, an organization that aims to strengthen democracy and promote fair elections, will fund the program.

The project is considered the most important and credible source of information on broadcast campaign advertising, according to a statement.

“We’re known as a really incredible place to get information on political advertising,” Goldstein said.

He said data regarding the target of an ad is purchased for the project from the TNS Media Intelligence Campaign Media Analysis Group in Washington, D.C. A new technological system marketed by CMAG monitors local advertising in the country’s top 100

media markets, and is able to recognize the unique sound patterns of ads. According to the project’s website, once an ad is aired, the system downloads it and creates a storyboard the students are then able to code from.

“It’s gratifying to see an undergrad at the UW helping to put together something which is the next day on the front of the New York Times.”

Ken Goldstein project director/professor UW-Madison

After watching each ad, students answer a series of questions about what they have seen, Goldstein said. They are asked to identify the focus of the ad, characterizations made of the favored or opposing candidate and whether endorsements are mentioned, among other things.

“Following the money spent on television advertising in 2008 will enable voters to see who is spending money to influence election out-

comes and what they are saying,” Lawrence Hansen, Joyce Foundation vice president, said in a statement.

Joel Rivlin, the project’s deputy director, said President George Bush’s presence in an ad is also coded for, and the project’s research from earlier years makes his declining popularity noticeable.

“By the time you get to 2006 you have a lot of Republicans criticizing George Bush, and the Democrats that mention [Bush] universally do it in a negative way,” Rivlin said.

Additionally, Rivlin said the 2004 presidential election highlighted how few people saw political ads, which were much more prominent in swing states like Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida.

He noted the number of ads shown for political races with a safe incumbent was nowhere near the amount shown in more competitive races.

According to Goldstein, the project provides a “tremendous opportunity for undergrads to do research.”

Rivlin agreed. “It’s gratifying to see an undergrad at the UW helping to put together something which is the next day on the front of the New York Times.”

Bill seeks to ban same-day voter registration Legislation likely to pass in Assembly, stall in Senate

By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL

A bill that would ban same-day voter registration passed out of committee in the state Legislature recently, which if law would dramatically affect young voters.

Assembly Bill 158 would force residents to register 14 days before an election. It passed out of the Assembly Committee on Elections and Constitutional Law 5-3 along party lines, with all Republicans voting for the bill and all Democrats voting against it.

State Rep. Frederick Kessler, D-Milwaukee, a member of the committee, said he was opposed

to the bill because it would negatively affect poor people and students. Kessler said he questioned the authors’ motives since students often vote Democratic.

Bill supporters stated they were concerned about voter fraud and protecting the integrity of elections, according to Kessler, but he said he was skeptical.

State Rep. Louis Molepske, D-Stevens Point, also on the committee, said more than 20 percent of voters use same day registration. He also said same-day voter registration has shown increased voter turnout in Wisconsin and since he represents a college town his constituents would be negatively affected by the bill.

Molepske said bill supporters could “not offer a shred of evidence” of pervasive voter fraud in the state.

Kyle Richmond, spokesperson for the Government Accountability Board that oversees elections in the state, said there have been no widespread problems with voter fraud in Wisconsin.

Richmond said many state are now considering same day registration as it typically increases voter participation and the current system has been working since the 1970s.

Kessler said it was likely that AB 158 would pass out of the Republican-controlled Assembly this legislative session, but it was unlikely to be acted upon by the Democrat-controlled state Senate.

The lead author of AB 158, state Rep. Suzanne Jeskewitz, RMenomonee Falls, was unavailable for comment as of presstime.

doyle from page 3 Barbara Lawton having endorsed Clinton and Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Joe Wineke endorsing former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., in recent months. Former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson, who dropped out the Presidential race in the fall, has endorsed former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wineke said he expects Wisconsin’s primary to still be important after Feb. 5 and said the top three Democratic candidates will campaign Feb. 16 at a Milwaukee fundraiser.

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The CIRCLE survey showed Clinton beating Obama 37 percent to 35 among 25 to 29year-olds in New Hampshire. Of the 51,218 primary voters aged 18 to 29, Clinton’s lead among 25 to 29-year-olds translates into roughly 9,500 votes. Clinton won the primary by less than 8,000 votes.

According to UW-Madison Students for Hillary Chair Pasha Sternberg, the results in New Hampshire show Clinton could appeal to student voters despite not often being portrayed as the “youth candidate”. He said the New Hampshire primary also

Jones said the Wisconsin primary might still be important on the Republican side because the field currently has four or five leading candidates. He said because there are more candidates it is more likely that none will have a clear lead after Feb. 5.

The candidates are most focused right now on winning the upcoming contests in Nevada and South Carolina, according to Jones.

“Right now the candidates are not thinking a lot about Wisconsin,” Jones said, but that could change because the current fast moving primary schedule is “unprecedented”. shows young voters can decide elections.

“The days where candidates don’t pay attention to younger voters are no longer around,” Sternberg said.

New Hampshire Republican winner U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who was not even third among young voters in Iowa, beat Romney by 10 percent among 18 to 24-year-old voters and beat Huckabee by over 30 percent among 25 to 29-year-olds.

Increased turnout also shows the importance of the youth voting bloc. The CIRCLE survey said in the 2004 New Hampshire primaries 30,770 under 30 years old voters participated. In 2008 it was 84,232.

Wisconsin Primary Information Important Dates Jan. 30 - Last day to register to vote by mail Feb. 18 - Last day to register to vote at the municipal clerks office Feb. 19 - Date of the Primary Election Registering to Vote - Madison residents need to provide proof of residency and a valid form of identification to register.

- Same day voter registration is only available at the polling place designated for your address.

Polling Locations - Open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day - To find out where your designated polling location is, visit: www.cityofmadison.com/clerk/voterWhere.cfm

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UW coal plants face separate lawsuits EPA says Charter St. plant must specify clean up plan

By Amanda Hoffstrom THE DAILY CARDINAL

The United States Environmental Protection Agency filed an objection to a settlement Monday between the state and the Sierra Club regarding the clean up of emissions from UWMadison’s Charter Street Heating Plant.

The objection said the Nov. 26, 2007 agreement does not ensure compliance with the Clean Air Act “within a reasonable time.”

Additionally, the EPA said the agreement “allows for the possibility” that deadlines for compliance would pass before Clean Air Act requirements are fully met. The agreement is currently set to end on July 31, 2011.

District Judge John Shabaz ruled in early November the plant violated the Clean Air Act for modifying coal boilers without obtaining proper permits between 1999 and 2004.

In addition to reducing the plant’s emissions by 15 percent, Wisconsin’s Department of Administration and UW-Madison agreed to complete a feasibility study by the end of July

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed an objection Monday to a November agreement between the state and the Sierra Club to clean up emissions at the UW-Madison Charter Street Heating Plant.

2008, which the EPA said was “vaguely defined.” After completing the study, the DOA and UW-Madison would apply for any permits needed to modify existing boilers.

The EPA said the application “should assure that specific control technology … will actually be installed,” and the agreement should not be terminated until Clean Air Act

requirements are met.

According to the objection, the federal government is working with both parties to review settlement revisions.

Sierra Club attorney Bruce Nilles said via e-mail EPA’s objection “provides further clarity on the precise steps” to clean up the plant.

“We expect to file a joint proposal

with the state to respond to the EPA’s motion,” Nilles said.

He added the Sierra Club is still working on a second lawsuit filed in August 2007 against Charter Street plant administrators for clean water violations at the facility, alleging coalcontaminated storm water is being dumped in Lake Monona. coal plant page 7

UW ranks 2nd nationally in number of Peace Corps volunteers

By Whitney Newman THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison ranked No. 2 for most alumni volunteers in the Peace Corps for the second consecutive year, according to the annual list of “Top Peace Corps Volunteer Producing Colleges and Universities.”

According to the rankings, which were released Monday, UW-Madison had 99 alumni volunteers in 2007.

Only the University of Washington had more volunteers in 2007.

UW-Madison fell to the No. 2 spot in the large-school category in

2006 after being the top schools for Peace Corps volunteers for 20 straight years from 1986-2005.

Colleen O’Dell, a Peace Corps recruitment coordinator for the fivestate Midwest area, said the application process to become a volunteer is “extremely competitive.” Of the 10-12,000 applicants each year, only 4,500 are selected to go overseas.

“It’s hard for us to find qualified, motivated candidates,” O’Dell said. “[UW-Madison’s history of high rankings] demonstrates the commitment that UW-Madison has

to public service and cross-cultural understanding.”

She said Peace Corps recruiters also look for people who have commitment to public service, live to help others, and have a sense of adventure.

“We’re just thrilled to see Madison up there again,” she said.

Erin McGillivray, UW-Madison regional recruiter for the Peace Corps, said she has noticed a higher number of qualified applicants from UWMadison.

“Being one of the best schools in the regional Midwest, natu-

rally the applicants [from UWMadison] are more qualified and have leadership and service experience,” McGillivray said.

“It’s just neat to see all of the positive spin that we always get from Peace Corps at UW-Madison.”

According to McGillivray, UWMadison also has one of largest and most active returning Peace Corps volunteer groups in the country. She said there are numerous returning Peace Corps volunteers that are apart of the UW faculty and staff, which help to uphold the “very strong tradition” of volunteers.

The Peace Corps is celebrating 46 years of service in the United States and abroad, and is experiencing a 37-year high for volunteers in the field.

Since its inception, 5,224 Wisconsin residents have served in the Peace Corps.

Wisconsin had 268 serving volunteers as of September 2007.

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Men’s basketball player gets fourth drinking citation UW-Madison men’s basketball player Kevin Gullikson was cited for his fourth underage drinking violation on Jan. 8 in Madison.

Court officials agreed to dismiss Gullikson’s lone Minnesota citation, which he received on April 16, 2006, as part of a May 2006 court agreement that required him to perform community service and not receive another citation for one year.

Gullikson received his first Madison citations on Sept. 9, 2006, violating his court agreement. The Minnesota citation, however, was still dismissed in May 2007.

He received his third underage drinking citation in Madison on Aug. 25, 2007. Gullikson is scheduled to appear in court in January and again in March for his two most recent citations.

Brian Lucas, UW’s Assistant Director of Athletic Communications, said incidents like Gullikson’s are not addressed by the school’s studentathlete discipline policy.

“It’s being handled internally in the men’s basketball program,” Lucas said.

RCF-UW from page 3 to not use religious criteria to exclude [RCF-UW] or other religious student groups for consideration with student fees,” said Jordan Lorence, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, RCF-UW’s legal representative.

“To say that religious groups can’t get money that’s available to all [student groups], would be like saying that if a synagogue catches on fire, the city fire department can’t put it out because that would be government aide to religion,” Lorence said.

The second lawsuit also asked UWMadison to reimburse $39,000 to the RCF for past expenses.

“The university is not required to pay RCF’s past reimbursement requests at this time, as that will be determined at [a June] trial,” John Lucas, a University Communications spokesperson, said via e-mail, but the university cannot deny future reimbursement requests for religious activities made prior to trial.

UW-Madison has previously denied all allegations of religious discrimination and “the university will continue its strong defense,” Lucas said.

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FBI announces fall in violent crime levels nationwide Statistics also show decrease in Madison crime

By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released statistics early in January that showed a decrease in violent crime nationwide as well as in the city of Madison for the first six months of 2007.

According to the FBI data, violent crime rates fell 1.8 percent nationwide from January to June.

Comparatively, Madison saw a 15.6 percent drop in violent crime throughout the city.

The FBI classifies violent crime into four categories: murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

The national data was compiled from regional statistics submitted to the FBI from across the country.

“Violent crime is down significantly in the city overall, which is good news for our community,”

said Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in statement regarding the data.

“That said, we can’t rest on our laurels or pretend that we have solved this issue. Improving public safety is a long-term commitment and we can’t relax based upon good results for a single year,” Cieslewicz said.

The 2008 city budget will continue to address the issue of safety by adding an additional 30 police officers to patrol the community in the new year.

According to Madison police

spokesperson Joel DeSpain, the new officers will begin training at the police academy in the near future.

Most of the officers will be on the streets in 2009, but some could be active as early as this year.

“The police department here has always prided itself on being proactive and progressive and really trying to get at the root of things before things get out of control,” DeSpain said.

DeSpain added the new officers will help strengthen community police teams that address specific

issues in each district of the city.

“In the central district we’ve had the community police team working a lot with the level of intoxication in the downtown area,” DeSpain said of policing efforts around the university. He said he hopes that the community and police department can work together to continue to lower crime throughout Madison in 2008.

“We’re very pleased to see low serious crime numbers, but I never like to base everything on numbers,” DeSpain said.

UW leaps ahead in ’07 ‘bestvalue’ public colleges ranking

By Shira Nanus THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison made a huge jump this year on Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s list of the 100 best-value public colleges, ranking 19th for in-state students and 23rd for out-of-state students.

In 2007, Kiplinger’s ranked UW-Madison the 25th best value for in-state students and No. 41 for students who reside out of state.

The rankings reflected schools that were both academically strong and affordable.

Director of UW-Madison Financial Aid Susan Fischer said she is surprised by the university’s huge jump on the list. According to Fischer, aside from a small additional number of grants averaging $400 to in-state students, there have been no significant changes in the last year to make UW-Madison universially more affordable.

However, Fischer said over the next few years UW-Madison plans to do more private fundraising for grants and scholarships, specifically focusing on in-state students.

“It’s very important for a public university to be affordable,” Fischer said, emphasizing how education is the key to a student’s future. “To raise the conscious and awareness, that is the focus for this year, but it takes time and is a few years out.”

Connie Hutchison, executive secretary of the Wisconsin Higher Educational Aid Board, agreed that financial aid has become a big part of what attracts in-state students to UW-Madison.

Hutchison said the university also wants to make itself affordable not only for lower-income students, but “make sure that people who are more the middle income are also able to afford college.”

According to Kiplinger’s data, total in-state undergraduate costs for UW-Madison were $15,510 and $11,681 after financial aid.

About 3,000 students received financial aid this past year, most of whom were in-state students.

Hutchinson added most outof-state students receive private scholarships from alumni associations from their respective states.

She attributed the huge jump in out-of-state rankings to UWMadison being a “top-quality university” and the out-of-state tuition “being a reasonable cost for people who are looking to come here verses other schools they might choose in their home state.”

UW-Madison ranked second highest in the Big Ten behind Michigan, which came in at No. 16 for in-state and No. 14 for outof-state.

Texas couple funds music scholarships Scholarships called ‘best’ in history of music school

By Erin Banco THE DAILY CARDINAL

In late December, the UWMadison School of Music announced Glen and Winifred Skillrud of San Antonio would fully fund two students starting in the fall of 2008.

“The Skillrud’s goal was to fund students at the level that allows them the opportunity for total immersion into their studies without concern for the need to work,” said John Schaffer, director of UW-Madison School of Music.

The gifts are called the two best undergraduate scholarships in the history of the UW-Madison School of Music. The scholarships will be granted to one student interested in theatrical or classical piano and one student interested in soprano voice.

Interested students will have to undergo rigorous auditions in order to obtain the scholarships.

According to Schaffer, the faculty has already auditioned some of the best undergraduate sopranos they’ve heard in years.

The two students chosen to

receive gifts will have all school expenses covered, including tuition, textbooks and room and board. As a bonus, the two students will also receive additional funding to purchase proper recital wear.

According to the School of Music statement, the Skillruds donated out of Winifred’s passion for music.

During her career, Winifred has sung for soldiers during World War II and has performed for President Reagan.

“These scholarships are in honor of all the hard work she did to develop her musical talents,” Glen said in a statement.

Even though the UWMadison School of Music ranks in the top 5 percent in the nation, music school officials said the Glen and Wendy Skillrud Music Scholarships would help boost the school’s overall popularity.

According to Schaffer, the Skillruds’ donation will help him recruit top Wisconsin high school musicians to UW-Madison instead of other top music schools like Juliard.

The funding for next semester’s scholarships is already in place and auditions will continue through the beginning of the spring of 2008.

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STATE IN BRIEF Gov. Doyle signs, modifies cable bill Gov. Jim Doyle signed the Video Competition Act over Winter Break, but vetoed some portions that infringed on greater consumer protections.

Assembly Bill 207 will update many state telecommunications laws and let companies apply for video franchises on a statewide basis.

Previously, companies had to apply to local governments for the right to do business at the local level.

Some vetoes included portions of the bill that awarded permanent franchises, along with forcing companies to pay local governments for building

on public land.

“People can … be assured that Wisconsin’s strong consumer protection laws will continue to cover them when it comes to issues like billing errors and service interruptions,” Doyle said in a statement.

Assembly Bill 207 opponent state Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, said in a release that Doyle vetoed the “worst parts of the bill,” and said he was still concerned about how public access channels might be affected by the bill.

—The Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.

Frankenstein veto ban goes to voters The Frankenstein Veto ban is now in the hands of Wisconsin voters following a sweeping 941 vote in support of the bill in the state Assembly.

A referendum to ban the Frankenstein Veto will appear on the April 2008 ballot, allowing voters to eliminate the ability of Wisconsin governors to stitch sentences together within a bill to create new laws without legislative approval.

The Assembly created the referendum following Governor Doyle’s use of the

coal plant from page 5 Walnut Street Coal Plant lawsuit A former employee of the Walnut Street Coal Plant filed a federal lawsuit Jan. 7 against the UW System Board of Regents and three former supervisors, alleging sexual harassment during her employment.

Amy Gabel, the only female employee of the plant when she was hired in 2004, said a supervisor made unsolicited sexual advances toward her and subjected her to unfavorable working conditions after rejecting his advances.

The lawsuit also said she was subjected to sexual verbal and physical conduct from her male co-workers.

During her employment, Gabel filed three complaints with the

Frankenstein Veto in the past to restructure finance and budget legislation without approval.

“I believe that it is fundamental to the integrity of the legislative process that we don’t create entirely new laws simply by veto,” state Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, said in a statement Jan. 15.

State Sen. and co-author of the legislation Shelia Harsdorf, D-River Falls, said in a statement she was pleased to see the overwhelming bipartisan support for the reform.

Wisconsin Equal Rights Division alleging sexual discrimination and retaliation for opposing discrimination in the workplace.

Last summer, Gabel was transferred to a different position at the university without her request, which was seen as further discrimination and retaliation. Gabel rejected the transfer and later resigned.

Gabel has demanded compensatory and punitive damages, among other requests.

University Communications spokesman Brian Mattmiller said via e-mail the university will defend against the allegations.

Mattmiller added Gabel filed a complaint with UW-Madison’s Office of Equity and Diversity in July 2006, but did not respond after several requests for additional information, which halted a possible internal investigation.

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The house located at 16 Langdon Street is currently occupied by Sigma Pi but is still the legal property of Phi Gamma Delta and will eventually be re-occupied by the fraternity once it returns to campus.

Fraternity announces plan to return to UW

By Jillian Levy THE DAILY CARDINAL

Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, also known as “Fiji,” announced it would begin recruitment of new members at the end of January after a more than 10-year absence from the UWMadison campus.

Fraternity headquarters staff will begin recruitment of Founding Fathers in Madison from Jan. 30 to March 13, according to Fiji Field Secretary Justin Burns. The fraternity will begin pledge class recruitment during the traditional rush period in the fall.

Burns said the fraternity, which originally began in Madison in 1893, left campus in 1995 following several years of sub-par performance.

“We had fallen into a period of mediocrity. We are an organization that really prides itself on excellence,” Burns said. “It was time to take a few steps back and re-energize.”

According to a May 1987 Daily Cardinal report, the fraternity suffered

harsh criticism following an incident in which the house was accused of using a racist caricature to advertise for an island-themed party.

As a result of the advertisement, the fraternity was suspended from campus activity for a five-month period, according to the report.

Former Interfraternity Council president Drew Willert said although Fiji’s history on the Madison campus cannot be ignored, he does not anticipate the new members will have any of the problems associated with the fraternity in the late 1980s and has high expectations for the new chapter.

“It’s always great to add more chapters to our community, as long as it is a chapter that supports what our community stands for and will help us promote the good image that we’re trying to get out there,” Willert said.

Burns said Phi Gamma Delta hopes to create a positive image among the student body and build relation-

ships with the university, professors and sorority members in addition to the men on campus.

“It’ll be a time for the campus to celebrate us finally being back,” he said.

According to Burns, once re-established, Fiji plans on renovating and eventually reoccupying their former house at 16 Langdon St., which is currently occupied by the fraternity Sigma Pi. “They hold all legal control over the house,” Joe Braga, member of Sigma Pi said. “Whether they claim the house immediately is up to them.”

Phi Gamma Delta will be seeking members of all class years, according to Burns, and will provide several information meetings for any men that are interested.

“The Founding Father experience is an opportunity for students that may not have explored Greek life before to research a brand new opportunity and build a fraternity that they want to be a part of,” Burns said.

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Dane County Airport design work approved

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Prominent Youth, a Kansas Citybased business mentorship program providing high school and college students the opportunity to start their own businesses, is expanding to Madison in 2008.

Prominent Youth enables students with plans for businesses to go through an eight-week training program designed to educate them on a variety of business practices and help them create a portfolio.

Students in the program then give presentations to the organization’s senior management team for approval and spend the next four months in a business incubator program to prepare their business for opening.

“It is our goal to make sure we give them enough strategies and equip them to be successful business owners and entrepreneurs,” Nicole Hodge, vice president of business development at Prominent Youth said.

When the organization decided to expand to other parts of the country, Hodge felt Madison would be an ideal location because of the number of college students and the thriving business community.

“Our goal is to really tap in more to colleges. We’d like to get some more intern programs started up,” Hodge said.

Nathan Thwing, Prominent Youth’s Madison regional manager, hopes students from UW-Madison, Edgewood College and Madison Area Technical College will become involved in the program.

“We hire students to work inside the student businesses we already have,” Thwing said, noting that the organization helps students carry out their business plans even after the incubation period.

Jessica Savage, student president of Prominent Youth and a first-year student at Parkville University in Parkville, Mo., first became involved with the organization when she produced a Christmas CD. Now involved in several other businesses through Prominent Youth, she hopes that the new Madison office will help even more students accomplish their personal goals.

“If you have any sort of passion at all to do what you want and to get something done with your life, I would go for it,” Savage said. “Just taking opportunities is exactly what will help you in the future.”

By Abby Sears The Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced Monday that Gov. Jim Doyle approved a $900,000 project for design work at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison.

The approved design will expand the west apron area and create a more environmentally friendly airport.

“We always have a lot of stuff going,” Mike Kirchner, director of engineering at the Dane County Regional Airport said. “Most of our work is resurfacing existing runways or taxiways or expand-

ing from smaller general aviation aircrafts.”

David Montesinos, airport development engineer at the WDT, said increasing the size of the west apron is necessary due to the increasing number of travelers and aircrafts at the airport. All terminal gates, aircraft parking and maintenance sites are located on the west apron where most expansion will occur.

“Right now it gets pretty full at night and during the mornings, so we’re expanding the apron because they need more room,” Montesinos said.

According to the WDT, there are

currently 11 airlines that operate at the airport. Kirchner said the design plans will better accommodate the existing airplanes.

“We’re designing a good, environmentally sound system for the area.”

David Montesinos development engineer Dane County Regional Airport

Also addressed in the new design is a system for storage of

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A UW Badgers fan picks up a piece of cake at the UW women’s basketball game Thursday, which marked the 10th anniversary of the first game at UW-Madison’s Kohl Center Jan. 17, 1998. U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis. donated $25 million to name the facility. The first game played at the Kohl Center was a 56-33 UW men’s basketball defeat over Northwestern University.

UW-Madison receives $175 million donation for financial aid Morgridge family also helping to fund Institute for Discovery Two prominent UW-Madison supporters recently donated $175 million for need based financial aid programs on campus.

Chancellor John Wiley said the gift from John and Tashia Morgridge was “nothing short of magnificent.”

“Supporting need-based scholarships at this level will make the dream of a college degree a solid reality for thousands of Wisconsin families,” Wiley said in a statement.

The donation helps create the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars.

The Morgridge family has previously supported campus resources like the Morgridge Center for Public Service and the upcoming Wisconsin Institute for Discovery/Morgridge Institute.

the chemical glycol, which de-ices the aircrafts and makes them safe for flight. The airport currently uses a man-made pond on airport grounds to collect glycol runoff, but this space is needed for other expansions.

Montesinos said plans for a new and improved glycol recovery system will use multi-million gallon tanks to collect the glycol runoff in another area of the airport.

“We’re designing a good, environmentally sound system for the area,” Montesinos said.

According to the WDT, expectations are for design work to be completed by spring.

“The Fund for Wisconsin Scholars will provide access for low-income Wisconsin residents to a higher education in a meaningful and solid way,” Susan Fischer said, UW-Madison director of financial aid.

Programs that deal with access to higher education have been the recipients of many multimillion dollar donations recently, with the Wisconsin Covenant Program receiving $40 million in early November.

UW-Madison’s Division of Information Technology will launch an initiative this semester to educate students about the consequences of illegal file sharing.

UW-Madison students will have to watch a video warning about the dangers of file sharing programs before they can gain access to the campus network. “[The video will] help educate the student body to help protect themselves,” said Meg McCall, a DoIT communications representative.

The video, written and produced by the DoIT office, UWMadison student housing, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and UWMadison students, aims to address the misconceptions students have about file sharing and downloading, according to McCall.

“We wanted to get across the message to understand file sharing in a fun, new, creative way,” McCall said. “It lets students know if they’re not sure about a particular activity that they’re doing, they better look into it before they continue and that they could be targeted by the [Recording Industry Association of America].”

McCall said the DoIT office receives thousands of cease and desist letters from RIAA that suggest a UW-Madison student is participating in an illegal activity while using the university’s network and needs to be contacted to stop.

However, the most recent round of RIAA complaints have gone a step further as pre-settlement offers to students because of their continuing illegal activity, McCall said.

Yet, McCall insists the video is not meant to stop the letters, but to educate students to help protect themselves.

DoIT plans to distribute the video through various ways across campus, including an e-mail sent to UW students Thursday.

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hat do African pottery, baby squid and cartoon characters have in common? They are all key elements of one of Kurt Yaeger’s dreams.

“In my dream, the first floor of my house was turned into a museum for African pottery,” the senior zoology major said. “I was locked inside, and the house was full of cartoon characters. I tried to lock them in the basement, but they broke out with an axe.

“Later on, I ended up at a friend’s house. Inside they had a strange pet store with hamsters in a carnival setting [and] a fishtank of baby squid.

The dream ended when I tried to fix his television, and when I reached behind the TV, instead of cables there were sausages.”

Entertaining, bizarre and sometimes frightening, dreams have fascinated humanity for centuries. While current research has made many advances in the field of sleep studies, dreams themselves remain shrouded in mystery.

Since the discovery of Rapid Eye Movement sleep in 1953, many researchers have focused on the physiological basis of dreams. Experts now know that dreams can occur in all stages of sleep, however the dreams that occur during REM sleep are often more vivid and more easily remembered than those experienced at other times.

The purpose of dreaming is still unclear but Dr. Dennis L. Merritt, psychologist at the Integral Psychology Center at 1619 Monroe St., has one explanation.

“Dreams seem to be connected with putting things into long-term memory and sorting out the many impressions you get during the day,” Merritt said.

Psychological explanations of dreaming emphasize the images and narratives within dreams and try to connect the content of dreams to the psyche of the dreamer. The form of this connection, however, is a point of contention. Freud thought dreams were a form of unconscious wish fulfillment; Jung saw dreams as a form of psychological compensation—a way for the mind to come to terms with its “dark side.”

“Dreams are a form of communication between your unconscious and your conscious self,” said Tina Ruffolo, intuitive counselor and owner of the Chakra House at 201 West Lakeside St. “Every particular dream has a different reason, but their purpose is to help you learn about yourself so you can grow and change.”

Merritt, a practicing Jungian psy-

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choanalyst, agrees.

“Dreams deal with a lot of unfinished business, things which you have difficulty relating to in waking life,” he said. “What often comes up in dreams are the most difficult things, the things that you don’t really want to know about yourself.”

Jungian psychology, Merritt added, recognizes the importance of the unconscious mind and views dreams as an important form of expression for the mind, with their content reflecting on the individual psyche of the dreamer.

For many, the most mysterious parts of dreams are the strange images that appear in them.

“During REM sleep, the parts of the brain that control emotional response and fear are more active,” Dr. Michael Stephenson, a sleep researcher at the UW Sleep Center, said. “That facilitates having strange or bizarre elements in dreams.”

Because dreams are a universal human experience, dream interpretation has long been a topic of interest—and a thriving business.

The rise of the Internet has resulted in dream blogs and forums, where people gather online to share and analyze their dreams.

Likewise, dream groups and psychotherapists offer to help a person discover the meaning and psychological significance behind their dreams.

Some, however, are skeptical about the value of dream interpretation.

“Historically, Freudian psychology put a lot of weight on the content of dreams. However, the purpose of dreaming is not completely clear,” Stephenson said. “Dreams often have fragments of memories within them. They are valuable for the kinds of memories which they bring up in the individual.”

Others have made studying the content of dreams their life work.

During the late 1940s, Calvin S. Hall, a researcher at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, compiled over 1,000 dreams and analyzed their content. Out of those dreams he found anxiety to be the most common emotion, with negative emotions reported more frequently than positive ones.

Most dreams, it would seem, are bad dreams.

“Anything that’s challenging your self-image or presents emotional difficulties to you is probably going to occur in your dreams,” Merritt said.

Certain nightmares seem to be more common than others. According to Dr. Patricia Garfield of Montréal, Canada, dream expert and author of

“Creative Dreaming,” dreams of being chased are experienced by 80 percent of the population, while over 60 percent dream of falling. Other common nightmares concern being naked in public or late for a test.

Laurel Schmidt, a UW-Madison sophomore, regularly has dreams of being chased.

“Most of my dreams involve being chased by strangers. I’m often in places that I know, but they’re not completely familiar,” Schmidt said. “Sometimes I’ll be in Madison, but it doesn’t quite look like Madison. In the end, I always get cornered and caught.”

While undoubtedly unpleasant, these nightmares are not necessarily a bad thing, according to Ann Veilleux, a therapist at Harmónia Madison Center for Psychotherapy at 406 North Pickney St. “A nightmare exposes things that perhaps you haven’t expressed in your life—perhaps fears you didn’t know you had,” Veilleux said. “It’s

an outlet and also a way of learning about yourself.”

However, not everyone can remember dreams. According to 1996 research by Swiss researchers Dr. Inge Strauch and Dr. Barbara Meier, less than 30 percent of 18 to 22-yearolds say that they frequently remember their dreams, and this number decreases with age. Even the most prolific dreamers remember only a portion of their dreams, and 5 percent of people can remember none at all.

Nevertheless, nearly everyone can learn to improve dream recall.

Sleep researchers have found that awakening subjects from REM sleep makes them far more likely to remember their dreams. In sleep laboratories, researchers monitor the sleep stages of participants and awaken them once they enter REM sleep, an event that happens three to four times a night.

However, for those who prefer a full night’s sleep, there are other ways to remember dreams.

One common method is to keep a dream diary.

“Write down your feelings or even one word, if that’s all you remember,” Ruffolo said. “Write everything down.”

Merritt also believes in the effectiveness of dream diaries. Dreams are difficult to remember but not impossible, he said, adding that it’s important to write dreams down first thing in the morning, since dreams are stored in short-term memory. Otherwise, the mind is likely to forget the past night’s dreams—dreams that might be important to remember.

For instance, focusing on dreams and imagination is a way of developing a more complete worldview, Merritt added.

“Your dreams and unconscious can show you your complexes and hangups, but they can also give you a real sense of meaning,” he said.

Veilleux agreed.

“What a person comes up with in their dreams speaks to who they are.”

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THE YOUTH VOTE SPEAKS

John McCain demonstrates unparalleled integrity and experience

By Jeff Healy MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT

As the campaign season intensifies, Arizona Senator John McCain remains the person best-suited to take over the presidency in 2009.

There is certainly a lot to like about Senator McCain.

After serving our country with distinction in the Vietnam War, McCain returned home and eventually won a seat in the U.S. Senate. Ever since, he has been a vocal leader in Washington for an efficient and competent government. However, what draws many people to McCain is that he is no ordinary Republican.

Through the years, McCain has expressed positions

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that are at odds with the base of the Republican Party. For example, McCain has been vilified by fellow conservatives for working with Senator Ted Kennedy on a responsible and comprehensive immigration bill.

In regard to global warming, McCain is one of only a few leading Republicans that views global warming as an issue that should be taken seriously. McCain is an independent thinker. It is this quality, along with his character and integrity, that separates McCain from most other political leaders.

While politicians like Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney seem to base their positions on what will get them the most

votes, McCain has shown time and again that he is different.

Last year, during the run up to the primary campaign, McCain was one of the most visible supporters of the troop surge in Iraq. Despite the obvious political risks of this position, McCain remained steadfast. The fact is, McCain has credibility on Iraq. Even before it was popular to do so, McCain criticized the handling of the war by President Bush and his advisers. As president, McCain will aim to resolve the war in a manner that will not harm the United States long term. McCain’s appeal is simple. More than any other candidate, McCain has the integrity and experience necessary to be a successful president.

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Rudy Giuliani worthy of nonpartisan support Nick Novak STUDENTS FOR RUDY

This upcoming election is going to be a very important decision for all registered voters of the United States. America needs someone who can accomplish many tasks in Washington and be willing to include Democrats and Republicans.

We need many changes in this country and Rudy Giuliani is the person who can bring this change to Washington. America needs to reform its tax system and health care system so U.S. citizens can all afford health care. Lowering taxes and cutting wasteful spending in Washington will help to boost America’s economy and create change for the better. We also need to stay on the offense in the War on Terror to protect this country.

Rudy Giuliani is willing to do all of these things and that is why I decided when it is Election Day, Rudy Giuliani has earned my vote.

the woman Hillary Clinton’s record unmatched by competitors

By Pasha Sternberg STUDENTS 4 HILLARY

We are now entering the end of the longest campaign of U.S. history.

Through it we have seen a lot of things: 30-point leads, comeback kids, themes of experience and change, the economy, Iraq, Iran and a lot, and I mean a lot, of debates. But in the end, the most important factor in deciding the next president of the United States is simply who will be the best at the job.

In the midst of going to school, earning a living and enjoying life, most people cannot possibly keep track of, and have an opinion on, every issue that the president faces. The whole point of electing people into office is to trust them to act wisely in whatever situation they encounter.

The population of every state in the country now has its chance to tell the rest of the country who they think the next leader of the country should be. And for Wisconsin, after months of hearing about Iowa, it’s finally our turn!

This is an exciting choice. But it is also one that needs to be thought carefully about. After years of mismanagement and poor leadership, the challenges that the next president will face are enormous. His or her job will be an incredibly hard one; they will have to mend fences with the rest of the world while at the same time fighting colossal problems at home. The candidates are the first to admit that the Democratic pool of choices is a strong one.

However, for me, Hillary Clinton stands out. All you have to do is look at her record. A president’s words are powerful not because they say them but because people believe that they can be achieved. For 35 years Hillary Clinton has been making promises, and for 35 years she has been backing up her words with actions. From helping investigate Richard Nixon to fighting for underprivileged youth during law school, and into tackling health care problems from positions of power, such as U.S. Senator, she has proven that when there is something that is not working she can help fix it.

The next president is going to have to make difficult choices, and Hillary Clinton has proven that she has the wisdom to make the right choices and the know-how to execute her decisions.

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As one of the three frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination this year, John Edwards appears poised to act as one of the most progressive candidates in several decades. Unfortunately, his appeal may be too radical for the moderate left.

Edwards’ firm belief in economic justice and discontent for corporate power have led him to take very drastic changes in his outlook since campaigning in the 2004 election. When running for the nomination in 2004, Edwards defended the war in Iraq and has since denounced his vote as a “mistake.”

He currently calls for the removal of all troops within nine to 10 months of initiating his plan. Further, with regard to health care, Edwards has altered his proposition for a $50 billion dollar plan insuring health care to all children to a $120 billion dollarplan insuring universal health care.

Though Edwards, who claims that “corporate greed has infiltrated everything happening in our democracy” values working- and middle-class United States citizens, it appears his approach may be too far left, or too progressive for the common democratic voter. As Edwards campaigned heavily through rural Iowa to get his message out and appeal to voters of the working class, he still trailed Barack Obama by two delegates in Iowa and has fallen behind both Obama and Hillary

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Mike Huckabee fails to fulfill conservative values

Barack Obama offers a real plan to revitalize the nation

By Maggie Raiken STUDENTS FOR OBAMA

On Jan. 3, 239,000 Iowans participated in the Democratic caucus, almost doubling the amount from 2004. After spending months spreading his message of change and hope throughout the state, 38 percent of those caucus-goers stood with Illinois Senator Barack Obama— they stood for change.

But change is more than just a slogan, it’s an act. It’s about finally bringing America together after years of political division and derision. It’s about realizing that there are no red states and blue states but the United States of America.

And it’s about fundamental changes when it comes to policy and the way the system works in this country.

As the only leading candidate who was against the war from the start, Obama showed the superior judgment necessary to take a step back and really look at the facts. Now Obama wants to refocus the war on terrorism away from Iraq and back to Afghanistan so we can finally finish the job against Al Qaeda.

John Edwards alienates Democratic base

Clinton nationwide thus far.

The basis of Edwards’ deficit is stated in the Des Moines Register, claiming, “Edwards was our pick for the 2004 nomination. But this is a different race ... His harsh anti-corporate rhetoric would make it difficult to work with the business community to forge change.” Further, Edwards’ complete disdain for corporate society has created a “classic conflict between corporate media sensibilities and left-leaning populism.” Thus, Edwards’ stance may be too extreme to appeal to the masses as Obama and Clinton have.

Edwards states that “[he] has never taken a dime from a Washington lobbyist or a special interest PAC.” As spending on political advertising rose from $9 million in 2004 to $50 million this year, fundraising obviously will play a large part in these primaries. Edwards’ radical stance, while refreshing, will alienate many avenues his competition will use to reach the masses, and his deficit will continue to grow.

By Adam K. Schmidt THE DAILY CARDINAL

On health care, instead of focusing on a mandate like some of the other candidates, Obama’s plan looks first to lower costs by $2,500 per year for the average family.

After all, there are 47 million uninsured people in this country not because they don’t want it, but because they can’t afford it.

Obama would also bring a new era of openness to rebuild trust in Washington. With steps such as creating a searchable database of lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign finance filings as well as increasing transparency in pork barrel spending, Americans can finally feel like their government is working for them again.

Supporters know Obama can finally bring change to this country, and they know it because they trust him.

He’s genuine, he’s honest and he’s straightforward, which is something he learned while working on the ground as a community organizer in Chicago. With Obama as president you can count on him to create change from the topdown, but he’ll be counting on you to make it happen from the ground-up too. It’s time for change we can believe in.

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the mormon Mitt Romney’s past leadership indicates strong presidential potential

By Brad Engle STUDENTS FOR ROMNEY

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has spent his life turning around organizations and institutions and it is time for him to have a chance to fix Washington. Gov. Romney has far more executive experience of actually running organizations. From turning around large corporations, reforming taxes in the state of Massachusetts to bailing out the Olympics, Mitt has nearly done it all. At such a crucial time in our country’s history, the next president will not have time for on the job training. Everything Romney has done has brought change for the better and now more than ever we need a President with strong values, leadership, an optimistic vision for America and one who will bring people together to get things accomplished.

In the private sector, Romney founded Bain Capital, a venture capital firm that turned around and helped start hundreds of businesses such as Dominos and

Staples. He then went on to become CEO of the Salt Lake City Olympic games, inheriting an organization ripe with corruption and a $379 million operating deficit. By cutting waste, eliminating corruption and with the will of his strong leadership and vision, Romney saved the 2002 winter games and made it the most successful Olympics in our country’s history.

In 2002, Mitt Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts where he erased a $3 billion budget deficit, dramatically improved education and created a private market-based health care reform bill that gave every citizen health insurance without implementing socialized health care. He accomplished this all through strong leadership, by cutting waste and providing economic stimulus packages while never once raising taxes.

Romney has already solved the very problems our country is facing today once before, making him the only candidate who will strengthen America.

While the Democrats quarrel over race and gender, the Republican Party is desperately searching for its “Ronald Reagan” candidate.

After three major primary events in Iowa, New Hampshire and Michigan, five candidates remain active on the campaign trail. At the same time, national polls have seen dynamic fluctuations—indicating that GOP voters are not satisfied with their slate of potential Commanders-in-Chief.

Mike Huckabee, the little known former governor of Arkansas, jumped to the head of the pack in Iowa with the help of socially conservative Evangelical voters. The former Baptist preacher is considered to be charming and folksy—he even “rocks” on his guitar at campaign events. Huckabee’s demeanor and overt Christian rhetoric is appealing to some conservative voters, but Republicans should look beyond his Ned Flanders-meets-James Taylor persona and focus on the greatest potential problem the Huckabee candidacy presents: religious isolation in the general election.

Certainly, strong personal faith is a good characteristic in the eyes of most voters, regardless of party affiliation—and voters are accustomed to politicians invoking God in their rhetoric—but how often do we hear the phrase “taking back this nation for Christ” from a presidential candidate? Not often, and for good measure—we are electing a chief executive, not a preacher-in-chief.

In recent days, Huckabee has been charming South Carolinians by proposing an anti-abortion amendment to the Constitution. Some conservatives might be willing to consider this option in order to correct what many consider a flawed Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.

However, Huckabee’s sales pitch is not based on Constitutional law, but rather on his belief we must “amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

This kind of unequivocal religious argument could cause a significant fracture in the Republican Party between religiously conservative evangelical Christians and others—not to mention cast off moderates and independents in the general election.

While the founders did acknowledge the role of our Creator in the Declaration of Independence, impetus to alter the Constitution ought not come from the doctrine of any one church or religion, just as the Constitution bars us from establishing a religious test for elected officials. There are better arguments that make a strong case against legal abortion than the knee-jerk “because my God says so” that has come to tarnish the GOP’s reputation with young and independent voters.

If Republicans want a shot at keeping the White House this year, they must nominate a candidate who will bring the party together and appeal to a broad base of voters in November. For as long as Huckabee continues to wave the cross and campaign as the Christian Candidate, he is not that man.

Adam Schmidt is a senior studying geography and political science. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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“Charlie Wilson’s War” “Charlie Wilson’s War” depicts the Texan congressman who used all his political savvy to bolster covert U.S. involvement in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded in the late 1980s.

Featuring a great cast with some memorable performances, the film falters in its finale, stretching its modern political overtones too thin.

Wilson (Tom Hanks) is a compassionate leader who hides behind the façade of a corrupt and vice-ridden politician inches from indictment. Joining him is the no-nonsense CIA operative Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who steals the show with his no-bullshit one-liners and razor-sharp sarcasm.

The exchanges between Hoffman and Hanks provide comedic rhythm and also insight, especially when Gust questions the future ramifications of arming Afghanis with rocket launchers.

Still, the film is far from perfect. Julia Roberts plays a Southern belle with influence, Christian idealism and none of the screen presence to make either believable.

And, while it hits a serious issue, the plea for nation-building after military involvement draws dubious connections to the current situation in Iraq that aren’t supported by the film’s final two minutes.

—Mark Riechers

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“Atonement” “Atonement” tells the story of the romance between Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley) and Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), a young man who works for the Tallis family. Almost immediately after their feelings are first expressed, the couple is separated because of a false accusation that Robbie raped a cousin of the Tallis family.

It’s actually Cecilia’s younger sister, Briony, who makes the accusations because she can’t understand her sister’s relationship with Robbie at the time. Only when she grows up does she realize the impact she’s made.

While the movie is slow moving at times, the details and various points of view are what make the story so exceptional and unlike other World War II romances. The thought-provoking ending is unexpected and encourages viewers to read the book and explore more of this sorrowful apology.

—Marly Schuman

“The Orphanage” In the opening credits of “The Orphanage,” tiny hands slash the screen, viciously ripping down its wallpaper background. The same could easily have been done to this film, which, at its core, adopts the same clichéd groaning floorboards, creepy playgrounds, cadaverous old women and imaginary playmates lurking down dim hallways as most ghost stories. But the difference between one orphanage of dead children and the next, as any interior decorator knows, is its wallpaper. Or, in this case, style.

Although the film’s plot—an adopting couple’s son mysteriously vanishes, leaving the mother psychologically shattered and prone to visions of ghost children wearing menacing head sacks—seems formulaic, the suspenseful cinematography provides plenty of anxiety, and the score is like spiders skittering across violin strings.

Disturbing enough to keep those neck hairs at attention and smart enough to keep them there, it will trap audiences in a revolving door between reality and perception, never knowing which is which and which is worse.

—Ryan Hebel

“Juno” Juno, a spunky 16-year-old, finds herself pregnant and in search of a suitable home for her unborn child in this A-list coming-of-age comedy.

The eclectic casting—including Ellen Page, “Arrested Development’s” Jason Bateman and Michael Cera, “Alias’” Jennifer Garner, “The West Wing’s” Allison Janney, “Law and Order’s” J.K. Simmons and a cameo from “The Office’s” Rainn Wilson—and eccentric soundtrack create a witty and endearing quality in the film.

Although it unrealistically dismisses the issue of teen pregnancy with a casual two-line lecture, the snappy dialogue and perceptive cast add a dose of reality with a practically universal theme: awkward teenage love. Cera, as an aloof high school track star who “tries really hard to be cool,” is definitely an interesting match for Page, the unconventional girl who loves punk rock and hamburger-shaped phones.

—Katie Foran-McHale

“The Great Debaters” If not for its award-winning cast, “The Great Debaters” could have slipped through the cracks and been branded a typical underdog story. Fortunately, the tale of the Wiley College debate team who went on to face the No. 1 ranked Harvard University is told with such poignancy and precision that it sheds any labeling.

Denzel Washington’s directorial debut weaves the Cinderellastory formula with the beautiful southern landscape marred by brutal racism. The backdrop of fear and danger gives viewers a dose of the harsh reality blacks faced in the 1930s. “The Great Debaters” is a story of overcoming the odds, not just in the debate room but amid oppressive surroundings.

—Eunice Abraham

“Sweeney Todd” It comes as no surprise that when Tim Burton, known for his dark films, tackled Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd,” an eccentric masterpiece of blood, gore and catchy tunes ensued.

Sweeney Todd is the tale of a barber who, after years of wrongful imprisonment, discovers that his wife was poisoned and a villainous judge is holding their daughter captive. Sweeney Todd, hoping the judge will one day need a shave, practices his revenge by slitting unlucky customers’ throats, cleverly disposing of his victims with the help of the downstairs baker, Mrs. Lovett.

Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter give outstanding lead performances, adding sympathy to their characters’ demonic behaviors.

Burton’s London is a menacing place, but just when the film’s intensity is nearly too much, the audience is given a breath of relief by a comic musical number, making the film, if not the meat pies, all the more delicious.

—Meg Anderson

“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” Judd Apatow has proven once again that, any time he gets involved in a movie, every comedy star he has ever worked with comes to the set with him. “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” is a parody of the music biopic genre following a fictional, second-banana Johnny Cash named Dewey Cox and played by John C. Reilly.

The film drips with the one-liners, fantastic performances and drug humor that make Apatow one of the most bankable names in Hollywood. However, the writing seems at its best when it strays from the “Walk the Line” parody concept and ventures into jokes ripping on the rock star lifestyle and the times they’re set in—perhaps Apatow wishes he was writing a sequel to “This is Spinal Tap” instead.

The quality always shines through, with hilarious scenes ripping on the revolving-door rehab real rock stars endure and their odder tendencies, like ripping sinks from walls in anguish. Big names abound, from Apatow regulars to a special scene with guest appearances by Paul Rudd, Justin Long, Jack Black and Jason Schwartzman as John, Paul, George and Ringo.

The film falters when it comes to getting the story told and at times seems to be picking bankable pot jokes in favor of higher brow cultural references. It serves as a fun diversion with some friends, but certainly doesn’t present Apatow at his best.

—Mark Riechers

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The St. Petersburg Ballet Company’s production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ will bring a fresh twist to the old tragedy when it tiptoes onto the Overture Center stage Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

‘Romeo and Juliet’: a tragedy in tutus?

Will a rose seen through any other medium smell as sweet?

By Ryan Hebel THE DAILY CARDINAL

When Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” takes center stage at the Overture Center Tuesday, most audience members will see the bard’s tragedy of star-crossed lovers as they never have before but always wished they had in high

school: without words. Instead, audiences will have the chance to see those eloquent verses, complex wordplay and sexual innuendos translated through dance by the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre Company.

Led by its artistic director and choreographer, Yuri Petukhov, the

distinguished Russian ballet company is internationally known for its performances in over 50 countries and is currently touring the United States for the first time since 2005. This will be their first performance in Madison.

Petukhov—who has been creating his unique brand of “athletic and intense choreography” for nearly 20 years, according to the Overture Center’s website— has done some tweaking to the original ballet produced by the famous Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in 1938, and not just by turning soliloquy’s into dance solos and puns into pirouettes. In fact, some pieces will be totally foreign to audiences.

According to Petukhov, one significant difference between the ballet and play is the addition of an entirely new character— Queen Mab (played by Anastasia Filipcheva)—who is actually billed third on the program behind only the lovebirds themselves (played by Akulov Petrov and Anna Borodulina, respectively).

Shakespeare aficionados may recall a speech by Mercutio to a dreamyeyed Romeo in Act 1, Scene 4 that begins “O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you, she is the fairies’ midwife.”

In the ballet, Queen Mab takes on a unique role. First, by representing a fantasy world where the lovers find refuge from their harsh realities, and second, as a metaphor for villainous fate, since it is Mab, not the Friar, who gives Juliet the sleeping potion and “happy dagger” that precipitates the play’s tragic end.

Mab’s origins in folklore are uncertain, but Petukhov seems to have cast her as a crafty fairy, conjuring up images of meddling,

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Likewise, Mab’s control over the lovers gives the story a greater sense of love’s hopeless futility matched against the power of manipulative gods. At the same time, her appearence with the then-dead Romeo and Juliet in a “world of dreams” during the prologue and epilogue leaves the audience more hopeful than the original.

Another major change made to the original ballet by Petukhov was drastically condensing the perfor-

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mance from three acts to two and from four hours to two. Petukhov said this was done to keep the performance exciting and hold the attention span of today’s viewers. Fortunately, only the artistic preludes and interludes have been cut for the most part, preserving the dramatic plot and harnessing the “best and most emotionally intense pieces” of Prokofiev’s score, according to Petukhov.

The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday and tickets are still available online at www. overturecenter.com, ranging from $15 to $42.

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BILL ANDREWS one in a billion

Humans aren’t alone when it comes to looking for sex when intoxicated

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hortly before 2008 began, while I was picking up last minute New Year’s Eve supplies, I heard something on National Public Radio that surprised me.

According to the report, the Times Square Ball in New York scheduled to drop later that night had spent much of 2007 being renovated and remodeled so that it could now proudly display over 16 million colors.

At the time, I didn’t think much of it, but later on, my thoughts turned not to sex, like so many of my peers (and certain fruit flies I could mention), but back to this magic colorful ball. Really? 16 million colors? After the original three primary colors and their love children the secondary colors, and black and white, what else could there be?

Let’s go nuts and say each of these has a million variations (a million!), that’s still only half of the total colors this ball can display.

As my mind boggled (a state many of us are used to on New Year’s), I came to two conclusions. First, whoever’s job it was to calculate the number of colors on the New Year’s ball must have a pretty crappy job. I mean, who wants to be a professional calculator, someone to turn to when you need an impressive stat?

My second conclusion, though, was that the NPR story demonstrates how sometimes, science (and its own love-child technology) loses its way. It’s nice and all that we have big expensive party favors that are made of Waterford crystal and can make so many colors. But, like, there’s starving kids in Africa; is this really the kind of stuff we should be working on?

What about, for instance, the Large Hadron Collider being built at CERN? (CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Switzerland, is responsible for, among other things, the World Wide Web and the discovery of quarks.) The new LHC researchers hope to get going in May 2008 will be the most powerful particle collider ever, creating conditions close to the big bang that physicists think started off the whole universe.

The LHC might, in short, answer some basic questions about life. And yet, I hear so little about it. How come the press for the LHC isn’t as good as that of the New York Times Square Ball?

Maybe the LHC needs a stats guy of their own.

As I held my liquor while all about me were losing theirs on New Year’s, I realized it’s almost no wonder that people don’t think much of science these days, as if it were just another profession good only for neat toys like the famed billion-color ball, and not the effort to, you know, figure out how everything works. Ever since, I’ve figured we could use more of that sometimes. Especially, say, when it comes to hangovers.

Concerned the LHC may lead to another big bang that ultimately destroys our universe? E-mail Bill at science@dailycardinal.com.

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With six legs, wings and bulging red eyes, it would seem fruit flies have very little in common with humans. Yet, a recent study found that if you get male fruit flies drunk, they go on the prowl for sex—just like humans.

The findings, reported earlier this month in the journal PLoS One, are the first to show that alcohol leads to increased arousal and reduced inhibitions in animals. Researchers hope the findings will help make sense of human behavior under the influence of alcohol and open new areas in addiction research.

“This study provides the first physiological evidence that chronic exposure to alcohol leads to arousal and disinhibition of sexual behavior,” Kyung-An Han, assistant professor of biology at Penn State University, said. “This was always suspected but never before shown.”

The behavior of drunken fruit flies is less than shocking given the documented sexual behavior of intoxicated humans.

“Epidemiological studies show people under the influence of alcohol are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior,” Han said.

“This could be due to arousal or disinhibited cognition.”

Because fruit flies rapidly produce large numbers of offspring and live only a couple of months, they are an ideal model for studying how genes influence behavior.

“The brain is so complex that it is easiest to use a simple system to dissect out how gene[s] affect [the brain],” Han said. The fruit fly provides just the system.

Everyday life for a fruit fly in the laboratory typically involves leisurely walks along the walls of glass-vial homes, eating, sleeping and sex. According to the PLoS One report, to woo a mate, a male

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fruit fly will flutter his wings and tap or mount a desired female until she concedes.

Under the influence of alcohol, Han said the everyday behaviors of a fruit fly begin to change. Previous studies show when a fruit fly is exposed to ethanol—the intoxicating component of alcohol—it will first appear lost, then increase walking speed before stumbling and ultimately landing on its back with legs flailing through the air and passing out.

To test how intoxicated fruit flies interact with members of the same and opposite sex, Han led a team of researchers as they coaxed groups of flies into the “Flypub,” a plastic container where Han treated her guests (all-male, allfemales and co-ed groups) to vaporized ethanol. After the flies passed out, they were returned to their home, where they later sobered up. For six days in a row, researchers sent fruit flies back to the Flypub.

On the second day of exposure to the Flypub, researchers discovered that, in between the alcohol-induced speed walks and passing out, intoxicated male fruit flies were not only more sexually aggressive toward females but

DRINKING AND SEX AT UW-MADISON OF STUDENTS WHO DRANK IN THE PAST YEAR:

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would also engage in courtship with other males. With each new visit to the Flypub, the male fruit flies sought more sex.

Females, who Han said “typically do not chase males for sex,” did not seek sex with males or females when exposed to alcohol.

When given equal access to both male and female flies in the co-ed pub setting, Han said male fruit flies courted females at a higher rate than males. According to Han, the willingness of drunken male fruit flies to court other males does not represent a change in sexual orientation but rather demonstrates the ability of alcohol to increase the disinhibiton of fruit flies.

“What’s interesting about the fruit fly study is that we see the fruit flies expressing very human behaviors,” said Susan Crowley, project director of UW-Madison PACE Project, a project aimed at reducing the dangers of high-risk drinking among college students.

“The [drunken] fruit flies show reduced inhibition and an easier time being part of a group.”

Unlike the drunken male fruit flies, Crowley said male and female students are equally willing to take risks under the influence of alcohol.

“Alcohol continues to be the social lubricant for students on campus,” Crowley said. “Students see alcohol as a way to be more comfortable with the opposite sex.” When alcohol makes students too comfortable, the benefits of momentary pleasure can outweigh perceived risks.

“In college there’s a tendency for students to push the envelope and test how much they can drink while maintaining [the ability to] make willful decisions,” Crowley said. “When they move into another state of inebriation, that’s when dangerous behaviors begin.”

The 2007 PACE Project College Alcohol Study found 24 percent of students at UWMadison who drank reported problems with engaging in

unplanned sexual activity, and 10 percent failed to use protection when having sex. In approximately 80 percent of all sexual assaults on campus either the victim, attacker or both were reported to be intoxicated, Crowley said.

“Alcohol provides an ice-breaker for students and an excuse for risk taking,” Crowley said. “Under the influence of alcohol, students are more willing to engage in activities they otherwise wouldn’t engage in.”

Crowley warns that such behavior often leads students to not make the connection between heavy drinking and health risks.

Injury, sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies and sexual violence may haunt students long after the alcoholinduced high wears off.

“Alcohol continues to be a social lubricant for students on campus. [They] see alcohol as a way to be comfortable with the opposite sex.”

Susan Crowley PACE project director UW-Madison

While drunken fruit flies won’t offer solutions to staying safe when drinking, Han hopes to use fruit flies to better understand how the brain is functioning to support sexual arousal and disinhibiton and how the enhanced pleasure-seeking behaviors displayed by fruit flies may explain alcohol addiction.

Crowley advises students to assign a responsible friend to help moderate an evening of drinking and to step in when decision-making seems compromised.

“If you are going to drink, be with someone who knows you well, someone who can tell you ‘you’ve had enough to drink’ and ‘it’s time to stop,’” Crowley said.

“When students wander off and there is no moderator present— this is when serious issues occur.”

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What is your New Year’s resolution? If you’re like many Americans, you want to lose weight. How do you go about reaching this goal? It’s not going to be easy, and results may not come as quickly as you’ve hoped, but losing weight, eating healthier and exercising can add years to your life, so don’t give up.

Best-selling diet books give the ‘skinny’ on eating healthy, ethically

By Marly Schuman THE DAILY CARDINAL

Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman might not be professional dieticians, but the authors did snag the No.1 and No. 2 spots on the New York Times best-seller list of paperback advice books for “Skinny Bitch” and “Skinny Bitch in the Kitch.”

The widely successful books look like your average chick-lit beach-read from the covers, which are both donned with svelte female sketches and have ridiculously long taglines like “Skinny Bitch: a no-nonsense tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous!” But the first book especially is not an ordinary diet book and delves into issues much more serious than weight loss.

“We knew once people bought the book and they read it cover to cover, it would honestly move them and force them to really take a look at [veganism],” Barnouin said.

After a few humorous and often sardonic chapters like “Carbs: The Truth” and “Sugar is the Devil,” the book shifts focus and illustrates the dangers of eating meat and the hazards of the dairy industry. The authors discuss indepth the mistreatment of animals on factory farms and the health consequences of eating animals and their by-products.

“I know we got a lot of e-mails saying, ‘Oh my god I can’t believe this,’” Barnouin said. “A lot of this was a shock for us as well.”

The authors do not attempt to tiptoe around any major health issue. They condemn the Food and Drug Administration for being corrupted by and siding with the meat industry, and they

reveal the sham of the “Got Milk?” campaign.

Most of these topics are things college students would like to turn a blind eye to, but they should be read nonetheless.

“Skinny Bitch” provides an unfortunate realization for students: “Of course it’s easier to socialize after you’ve had a few drinks. But being a fat pig will hinder you, sober or drunk. And habitual drinking equals fat-pig syndrome. Beer is for frat boys, not skinny bitches.”

Another disadvantage for Wisconsinites is the stance on cheese. The authors disclose the scary truth: “All dairy products contain casein, but cheese has the highest concentration … It also has phenylethylamine (PEA), an amphetaminelike chemical. So when we kid around and say, ‘I am addicted to cheese,’ it’s not a joke— it’s true.

We are chemically addicted to cheese.”

Other unwanted expressions include, “Soda is liquid Satan,” “Coffee is for pussies” and “Sugar is like crack.” The book eliminates many popular foods and drinks, including staples such as ordinary pizza and ice cream, but it also gives many healthier alternatives.

At the end of the book there is a list of substitutes for anything from ordinary cheese and meat to mayonnaise and flour. Barnouin said the book shows you can be a vegan and not just eat lettuce.

“My favorite is the pecan French toast because I’m a breakfast person,” Barnouin said. “The burrito for lunch and the ‘meatloaf’ and mashed potatoes for dinner. And the brownies make my hair want to fall out—they’re just so good.”

These recipes and more are all included in

the vegan cookbook “Skinny Bitch in the Kitch,” which Barnouin said helps people think outside the box. More important than the recipes are the ingredients that go into making them. The authors encourage the use of all organic products and say the cost is entirely worth it.

“For us we just kind of say people can find a way to spend money on clothes, handbags and shoes, but they don’t want to put a lot of extra money into their health,” Barnouin said. “What you put into your body is what you get out of it.

We try to do the best that we can, but we’re not perfect either.”

Vegan ideas aside, Barnouin said the most important thing she wants readers to get out of the book is to start reading ingredient lists and start a healthier way of life.

“We get thousands of e-mails that say ‘I read your book in a day, and it changed my life,’” Barnouin said.

Many of the claims the authors make, while well supported from other sources, are eye opening for even those who allege they are already healthy eaters. And despite the often vulgar language and harshness of the straight facts, the book simply gives readers the information and allows them to make their own choices about food.

Barnouin and Freedman put it best in the last two sentences: “YOU hold the power to change your life, and it’s really so simple. Use your head, lose your ass.”

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Mix exercise with dieting.

To lose one pound in one week, you’d need to take in 3,500 fewer calories. This means 500 less calories each day. Cutting calories alone can be hard to do every single day, so add in some exercise. Simple things make a difference, like walking to school or work or taking the stairs instead of the elevator.

Eat smaller meals more often.

Skipping meals will help you lose weight in the short run, but it will also cause you to overeat. Starving yourself for hours at a time and sitting down to a huge feast isn’t the way to lose weight. Not eating for an extended period of time causes your metabolism to slow down.

This means that the body will burn fewer calories. Eating raises your metabolism, so your body is able to burn more calories. Eating smaller meals and snacking between meals keeps the metabolism at a high level throughout the day.

This is an easy way to aid weight loss without ever feeling excessive hunger or overeating.

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Read labels and watch serving sizes.

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Allow yourself to start over.

Losing weight is not an easy process. You will have your good days, but you will also have bad days. It is OK. Don’t get discouraged. So, you ate an unhealthy lunch. Do not give up on the entire day; just try to eat a healthy dinner. Also, if it seems that you have Create a detailed You say you want to lose weight. But stopped losing weight do not stop eat4 weight-loss plan. how will you do it? How much are you ing right and exercising. You may be going to lose? When are you going to at a standstill with the weight loss, but lose it by? Create a plan that’s attainable for you. Say you’re going to eat a you are still creating a healthier you. certain number of calories each day, or you’re going to exercise four times a week. Be sure your goals are attainable, and try keeping a food log to keep Sources: American Family Physician, Physician & Sports Medicine track of what you have eaten.

Portion control is often a problem in weight gain. The serving size is five crackers, but who honestly eats five crackers? Try to stick to the serving size and eat more nutrient-dense foods with fewer calories. Using a smaller plate can make it seem like a meal is larger. Also, try not to eat food right out of the bag or box. Pour yourself a serving and put the box away.

Gritty curds claim another convert to the cheesier side of life ARIEL KRAUT sweet-n-sour kraut

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o put it plainly and simply, I hate anything cheesy. Ask any of my friends, and they’ll all describe me the same way. I can’t watch romantic comedies, the prospect of a heart-to-heart deep-feeling talk sends me running in the opposite direction, and if anyone drops a bad pick-up line around me I leave the bar immediately. Some might say that this extreme cheese avoidance could make my life somewhat difficult, hindering my chances to fully enjoy some of the finer things in life. But I’ve survived thus far, and it’s really not too bad.

There is one problem with my zero cheese outlook, however. Not only do my anti-cheese sentiments define my

general likes and dislikes, but they also unfortunately apply to the food I eat. I hate grilled cheese sandwiches, I never save room for cheesecake and, dare I say it, I don’t really like pizza all that much. When people hear these fun facts, they go nuts and insist that I’m missing out, but it truly never phased me—at least until recently.

When I chose to attend UWMadison all the way from New Jersey—I’m a coastie, I’ll admit it—I was nervous. Everyone, upon hearing where I had chosen to go to school, would immediately exclaim, “Oh, the cheese state!” And the less knowledgeable would love to ask, “What’s in Wisconsin besides cheese?”

I guess this is a normal reaction to hearing anything about the state of Wisconsin when you’re all the way from the East Coast, but it still sent shivers down my spine. Could I kick my old habits to the curb and grow to love the product on which Wisconsin

prides itself ? Would I be able to finally come to terms with my archenemy?

Despite my incessant fear of all things cheese, I knew that I could not carry this bad attitude with me to college. I had to go to school with an open mind, and I couldn’t think of any other way to do this than to embrace cheese whole-heartedly—trashy romance novels and all.

Even though this would surely be a challenge, there was nothing remotely cheesy about our amazing school itself.

The football games gave me chills, but in a good way. The red and white unity of Camp Randall was inspiring, never corny or artificial. But, I knew that there was bound to be a close encounter sooner or later— a face-to-face sit down with the thing I hated most.

My initial experience with real Wisconsin cheese was at the Nitty Gritty the first week of freshman year.

New friends surrounded me as a basket of cheese curds stared me in the face.

At such a classic Wisconsin institution like the Nitty, I had to go for the gold.

I don’t know what it was about those little pieces of cheese, breaded and deep-fried, smothered in Gritty sauce.

But after one or two, I was hooked. The no-cheese curse was officially over. I had dived into the proverbial pool, and I was never going to come back up for air. Could it be that I had lived without knowing about something this delicious for so long? Was it possible?

I went home that night perplexed by these questions. I know this seems sort of pathetic. It is just cheese after all. But it wasn’t just cheese for me. It was a new way of life. I had actively chosen to walk on the wild side and try something new. And for the first time, I truly liked it. I thought maybe it was just a fluke. Maybe the sweet, delicious Gritty sauce was diluting the flavor and the cheese wasn’t that good. This cloud of doubt kept creeping up behind me, so I knew the only thing I could do was

try more and more curds.

I went everywhere—Amy’s Cafe, The Old Fashioned, Dotty Dumpling’s Dowry, Hawk’s, The Great Dane—officially crossing over to the other, cheesier, side of life. I realized then that all of these new cheesy flavors really weren’t cheesy at all. Each one was unique and delicious in its own way. I was a new and improved girl, even with this new, formerly frownable cheesiness.

I’ll be honest, I realize these cheeses are deep-fried and metaphorically sugarcoated, but I had to start somewhere.

Each bite brought with it a new experience for me and my taste buds. I don’t know if I’ll ever start listening to ’80s hair band music or if “A Walk to Remember” will become my favorite movie, but I think it’s safe to say I’ve begun to more than just live with the cheese. I’ve learned to love it.

If you are also suffering from turophobia, or fear of cheese, and need some moral support, e-mail akraut@wisc.edu.

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Today’s Sudoku

Classic Beeramid

By Ryan Matthes beeramid_comic@yahoo.com

© Puzzles by Pappocom

Classic Rambling Id

By Jennifer Victor chibibirdie@yahoo.com

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.

Mega Dude Squad

By Stephen Guzetta and Ryan Lynch rplynch@wisc.edu

We don’t need no, mathematics.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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By Simon Dick srdick@wisc.edu

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1 Place for a pat 5 Monthly bill, for many 10 ___ of the Apostles 14 Run the realm 15 Bassoons’ little brothers 16 “A Girl Like I’’ author 17 Five or seven, on the links 18 Certain dreadlocked Jamaican, briefly 19 “Hot ___’’ Houlihan of classic TV 20 Some notso- close relatives 23 It comes before beauty 24 “A pocket full of ___’’ 25 Flip one’s lid?

27 Table leg shaper 29 Expressed, as a farewell 32 “Halloween ___: Season of the Witch’’ 33 Become fervid 36 Like inconsequential talk 37 World traveler’s destinations 40 Bow to pressure?

41 Hard to pin down 42 Reproduction necessities

43 Show great joy or sorrow 44 “For Better or For Worse’’ pup 48 Born in Cardiff, e.g.

50 Ten years’ or hundred years’ event 52 Worst kind of campaign promise 53 Some are found in sofas 58 City of the Kings, today 59 “Heads up!’’ e.g.

60 Lake touching four states 61 Beliefs, for short 62 Arctic vehicles 63 That-hay link 64 Overthrown Iranian leader 65 Cat in “Homeward Bound” films 66 Companion of riches DOWN 1 Type of shower where no one gets wet 2 Constellation between Perseus and Gemini 3 Private place, metaphorically 4 Clark with an “S’’ on a garment 5 Like some sorry jokes 6 Quash, in law 7 Anjou kin

8 Jared of “Panic Room’’ 9 Genesis brother 10 Bushed 11 Concur 12 Some types of schooners 13 Fizzle sound 21 Ice Capades locale 22 Apt name for ambulance chaser?

26 Apple or peach, e.g.

28 Animal group 29 Purchase what’s left 30 “Antony and Cleopatra’’ props 31 Bagel source, often 34 Dainty in Devon 35 In the pink 36 Assured, as victory 37 At 102 degrees, e.g.

38 Solar path 39 Turn away or aside 40 Fiddler’s handful 43 Journalist’s question 45 Singer Estefan 46 Under par 47 Corrects, as a clock 49 Flop’s antithesis 50 An argument 51 Inclined to fidget 54 Cold War news agency 55 “Enchanted’’ girl in a 2004 film 56 Civic boundaries?

57 Position of Hitchcock’s window

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4th-and-two decision comes back to haunt UW

By Ryan Reszel THE DAILY CARDINAL

TAMPA, Fla.—The stage was set for a storybook ending to the Wisconsin Badgers’ 2007 season, but the Tennessee Volunteers made sure the 2008 Outback Bowl would not help ring in a happy new year for UW. Trailing 21-17, the Badgers (94) marched 50 yards in just five plays and stood on the Tennessee 36-yard line with less than a minute remaining in the game. But when Volunteer sophomore defensive back Antonio Wardlow intercepted senior Tyler Donovan’s pass in the end zone, he sealed the victory for Tennessee (10-4) New Year’s Day at Raymond James Stadium.

The defeat ended the Badgers’ hopes for a third consecutive bowl victory and a third consecutive season with at least 10 wins.

“It was a really tough loss,” junior offensive lineman Kraig Urbik said. “We were able to do things offensively, but also we were killing ourselves. Dropped passes, missed assignments—you’re not going to win doing that kind of stuff.”

After falling behind 21-14 at

halftime, the Badger defense stiffened and did not surrender a point in the second half. However the Wisconsin offense failed to take advantage of good field position and potential scoring opportunities.

The Badgers recorded only two first downs in their first three possessions of the second half and scored only three points during two second-half drives inside the red zone.

Although UW head coach Bret Bielema said “little things” spelled the difference between victory and defeat, a big decision to go for the first down on a 4th-and-2 from the Tennessee 10-yard line prevented Wisconsin from climbing closer late in the game.

On the pivotal play, Donovan rolled to his right but reversed field when he could not find an open receiver. As the Volunteers pressured him, Donovan lofted a pass out of the endzone.

“On third down we had made the decision that if it was 4thand-2 or less we were going for it,” Bielema said. “Obviously it was 4th-and-2, so we went for it.

We weren’t able to execute and Tennessee did a good job.”

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However, the difference of little things led to big trouble for Wisconsin, as Tennessee senior quarterback Erik Ainge was able to pick apart the Badger defense for most of the game.

In the first quarter, Ainge hit freshman wide receiver Denarius Moore for a 40-yard gain on the first scoring drive of the day and later hit sophomore wideout Quintin Hancock for a 25-yard pass. A rush of 26 yards by sophomore tailback Montario Hardesty also set up the Vols with great field position, but a fumble recovered

by UW junior linebacker Jonathan Casillas stymied the drive.

“I hate losing. That’s one of the worst feelings that I have,” Casillas said. “I’m very disappointed, especially in the way the defense played in the first half, and I didn’t play very well in the first half, I gave up that touchdown.”

Overall, the Badgers gave up eight plays of over 19 yards in the first half, three of which either

xactly one year ago, I started this same column with these words: Please, let me state the obvious. If UW head coach Bret Bielema thought that taking over a program left behind

by Barry Alvarez was too much pressure, then wait until he has to top the best record ever in Wisconsin football history when his team returns next fall.

If you missed the sarcasm in that sentence, then I apologize, but even with all the expectations coming into this past season, I don’t think anyone expected the guy to go 13-0. Beating Illinois, Penn State and Ohio State would have been nice, but even when the team was 5-0 and ranked No. 5 in the country, it was obvious the Badgers were not as good as we thought.

With that said, they should have beaten Tennessee in the Outback Bowl, and while we didn’t expect you to go 13-0, Bret, we expected you to give your potential NFL and senior kicker Taylor Mehlhaff a shot to get his first game-winner.

We expected you to run at least a few times on 3rd-and-short. We expected you to take some of the blame for the loss, not pin it on the officials who were from the Mountain West, not the WAC. From the point the Badgers secured the axe at Minnesota all the way to what seemed like 200 days later at the Outback Bowl, the one thing I gave Bielema credit for was that he would get the boys ready to play Tennessee.

No one gave his defense a chance two years prior against Auburn in the Capital One Bowl and it shocked the country by stopping the Tigers. Last year against Arkansas, the defense stopped Darren McFadden and held Felix Jones in check enough to preserve a close victory.

But Jan. 1 this season, it was clear that the boys just weren’t on the same page. Four timeouts were burned because of confusion on offense. Getting the ball to Travis Beckum was just as likely as getting a stop on 3rd-and-long—it happened just twice.

But despite all of that, Wisconsin was only down 21-17 and had the

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Sophomore running back P.J. Hill ran for 132 yards against the Volunteers, including a 50-yard run in the fourth quarter.

Defensive lapse in first half leaves Badgers with loss

By Nate Carey THE DAILY CARDINAL

TAMPA, Fla.—Coming into the 2007 season, the Wisconsin Badger football team was considered one of the top teams in the nation with one of the most stifling defenses ever to don the Badger cardinal and white.

After a year of ups and downs, the Badgers (9-4) lost in the 2008 Outback Bowl to the Tennessee Volunteers (10-4) 21-17 mainly because of the inconsistent play of their defense.

The UW squad gave up a total of 11 plays over 19 yards—a paltry performance for any team.

“It’s a difference of little things along the way, from the opening snap to the final snap,” UW head coach Bret Bielema stated after his first postseason loss.

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Junior linebacker Jonathan Casillas makes a tackle during Wisconsin’s 21-17 loss to the Tennessee Volunteers in the 2008 Outback Bowl.

Casillas led the Badgers with 10 total tackles.

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Palcic, Hankwitz leave UW staff, Ikegwuonu to enter draft

By Tom Lea THE DAILY CARDINAL

It is not ill conceived that a season where UW was ranked in the top 10 of most major polls to start the year but finished with four losses after failing to live up to high expectations, is followed with a tumultuous offseason.

A bevy of coaching turnovers has seen offensive line coach Bob Palcic bolt for UCLA and defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz join forces with Northwestern, after head coach Bret Bielema decided to

relieve him of his duties.

However, it might have been Jack Ikegwuonu’s decision to skip his senior year and declare himself eligible for the NFL draft that was most shocking, especially following a 21-17 loss to Tennessee in the Outback Bowl.

“It sucks to go out on a losing note and that will be weighing heavily on my mind,” Ikegwuonu said shortly following the final game of the season regarding his future.

Ikegwuonu, a red-shirt junior, was arguably the best defensive

player on the UW roster and expected by many to return to the team next season.

Struggles off the field stemming from a burglary incident in Illinois and a personal roller coaster on the field ensued for Ikegwuonu, leaving many to ponder if leaving for the NFL was indeed the best decision for the two-time first-team all Big Ten performer.

“I’ll probably look at my personal play and see where I can improve,” the junior claimed before he made his decision. “If I have a

lot of room for improvement then I will definitely come back.”

At times Ikegwuonu would live up to his ability and shut down some of the Big Ten’s and nation’s top receivers, as he did against Indiana’s James Hardy and Michigan’s Mario Manningham.

Perhaps it was those shut down performances that influenced his final decision to pass on his final year of eligibility.

But there were other performances that were the exact opposite for the UW standout corner.

Minnesota sophomore wide-out Eric Decker finished the Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe with 125 yards receiving, most of which came with Ikegwuonu lining up on the other side of the ball. Still, ESPN’s draft expert Todd McShay has Ikegwuonu projected as a second- or third-round pick.

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UW men’s basketball shines over winter break

By Adam Hoge THE DAILY CARDINAL

The No. 17 Wisconsin men’s basketball team won all seven of its games over the Winter Break and has an early

lead in the Big Ten standings.

Behind hot shooting and a number of players who have reached double figures, Wisconsin (4-0 Big Ten, 14-2 overall) is on an eight-game winning

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Sophomore point guard Trevon Hughes has been the staple of the Badgers’ offense, averaging 13.7 points per game.

decisions from page 17 ball in the red zone late in the fourth quarter.

That’s when the coaching fell apart.

On 4th-and-2 Bielema could have let Mehlhaff make it a one point game. Yeah, the same kicker he has been hyping up to NFL scouts. The same kicker who in four years never got an opportunity to kick a game-winning field goal.

Instead, Bielema opts to go for the first down and instead of handing the ball to P.J. Hill, who only had two of his 16 carries go for less than 2 yards, the Badgers roll Tyler Donovan to his left where he throws it away on fourth down. Okay, he was “trying” to get the ball to Beckum, but let’s face it, he threw the ball away on fourth down.

Sure enough, the Badgers found themselves at the Tennessee 36-yard line on the next drive—still down four. Had they kicked the field goal on the last drive, Mehlhaff would have been warming up on the sideline for the perfect collegiate career ending field goal—one that all those NFL scouts would have loved to see.

But instead of Donovan look-

changes from page 17 showings in the NFL combine and individual workouts. Many scouts see the former Badger playing safety or corner in the NFL. If Ikegwuonu has a strong 40-yard dash and displays good football instincts at the combine, the potential to raise his draft stock could become a reality.

The Madison native tallied 16 solo tackles this season and successfully deflected eight pass attempts while hauling in one interception.

streak, including its first road win over a top-10 team since 1980.

In six games on the winning streak, UW has shot better than 48 percent and averaged 56 percent over its last two games. Four different players have scored 21 or more points in the last five games, making it impossible for opposing defenses to key in on one player—much like Big Ten teams were able to do on Alando Tucker late last season.

The winning streak started Dec. 12 at UW-Milwaukee and the Badgers added two home wins against UWGreen Bay and Valparaiso before heading to then-No. 9 Texas Dec. 29.

Wisconsin 67, Texas 66 After a blow-out loss at Duke in November and tough loss at home against Marquette earlier in December, no one gave the Badgers a chance in Austin, Texas. When sophomore guard Trevon Hughes injured his ankle the night before the game, it seemed as if the Badgers were well on their way to their third loss of the season even before tip off.

Who knew that an ankle injury to UW’s leading scorer might be the best thing that could have happened to the Badgers that weekend and for the rest of the season?

Without Hughes, Wisconsin hung with Texas for much of the game, but when the Longhorns jumped out to an eight-point lead with 14:50 remaining, it seemed the Badgers just did not have enough offense. But that was when a number of different players came to the rescue at exactly the right times.

Sophomore guard Jason Bohannon,

ing for another 10 yards, Bielema saw his quarterback going for it all with an under thrown pass to Paul Hubbard in the end zone, which was picked off to end the game.

Of course, it was the referees’ fault. The WAC officials who didn’t even call the game were to blame.

“I guarantee you I’m never going to schedule a game that is officiated by WAC officials,” Bielema said. “That’s for sure.”

Well that seems a little harsh, seeing as how the officials were from the Mountain West. And guess what, Bret? Your Badgers play at Fresno State next season, a Mountain West team.

Meanwhile, Phillip Fulmer took the blame for leaving freshman wide receiver Gerald Jones at quarterback on 3rd-and-7 from the Wisconsin 12-yard line earlier in the fourth quarter. Jones only gained a yard and the Badgers blocked the subsequent field goal.

You might say it’s easy to take the blame for a bad decision when you won the game.

But the striking part of Fulmer’s comment was that he wasn’t even asked about the decision. He was asked about something completely different and brought it up himself. Most people had

forgotten about the questionable call, but he took the blame for it anyway.

Meanwhile, Bielema was already on the phone with a very confused WAC commissioner.

And what did Wisconsin’s head coach have to say about the 4thand-2 call?

“On third down we had made a decision that if it was 4th-and2 or less we were going for it,” Bielema said. “We weren’t able to execute and Tennessee did a good job.”

Sitting there listening to Fulmer glowing while Bielema criticized referees that were on the other side of the country, it was natural to think about how much things can change in a year.

We didn’t expect Bielema to top his 12-1 rookie record. We didn’t even expect him to make the right decision on 4th-andshort every time this season. But we did expect him to take the blame every once in a while when a gamble didn’t work out.

And with 17 starters returning next season, I’m sure fans expect him to top his 9-4 sophomore record next season.

E-mail Adam at hoge@wisc.edu to discuss your thoughts on the Badgers’ loss to Tennessee.

Though statistically his worst season, it could have been a case of other teams respecting his abilities and their decisions to stay away from him.

In 2006, perhaps the cornerback’s most complete season, he amassed 35 solo tackles, two interceptions, a fumble recovery that he returned for a touchdown and 13 pass deflections. His ability to chase down Arkansas’ coveted running back Darren McFadden in the 2007 Capital One Bowl may have been one of

his signature career highlights.

In total, Ikegwuonu finished his UW career with 74 solo tackles, six interceptions and 27 pass break-ups, nonetheless leaving an empty void for next season that will be tough to fill.

The void will be filled by junior Allen Langford and freshman Aaron Henry, who both suffered ACL injuries this season. In turn, with such devastating injuries it remains questionable how capable those two projected starters will be when fall camp begins.

who started in place of Hughes, hit two critical three pointers in the second half. Butch stayed aggressive and consistent the entire game en route to a game-high 21 points. Junior forward Kevin Gullikson added nine points of his own in the victory.

Still down three with a 1:14 to go, the Badgers proved they wanted it more. Off a Bohannon miss, senior guard Michael Flowers pulled down a key offensive rebound and after a 30-second timeout, junior forward Marcus Landry brought UW within one with a tough turnaround jumper with 18 seconds left. A foul sent A.J. Abrams to the line where he split his two free throws, leaving Wisconsin down 66-64 with 11 seconds left.

That’s when Flowers, who had only made one field goal in the game, used a screen from Butch at the top of the key and drained a three with two seconds left. As if that were not enough, the senior did not waste a nano-second celebrating. Instead, he stole the inbound pass and threw it high in the air right before flying out of bounds as the clock ran out.

For UW, it was a statement win.

It was a huge non-conference victory right before the Big Ten season started, and the Badgers have not looked back.

Wisconsin 70, Michigan 54 Winning back-to-back road games is never an easy thing to do, but UW certainly made it look that way.

Proving they had put their win over Texas to bed, the Badgers jumped out to a 10-0 lead and never looked back.

They led by 16 at the half behind a

barrage of 3-pointers by Jon Leuer.

The freshman forward went 5-for-5 from beyond the arc and finished with a career-high 25 points.

No one seemed surprised on the Wisconsin bench, however. For Bo Ryan’s squad, it was just another instance of another option stepping up. Hughes returned to the lineup, but did not start, scoring five points in 28 minutes.

Wisconsin 64, Iowa 51 This one was by no means a pretty win, but UW went back to their bread and butter, pounding the ball downlow to Butch, who scored a game-high 22 points.

The Badgers held a 28-22 halftime lead despite the Hawkeyes shooting 53 percent, mainly because Wisconsin kept possession of the ball and limited the amount of shots Iowa was able to take. Only one Hawkeye, senior Justin Johnson, reached double figures (13 points) and Wisconsin improved to 2-0 in Big Ten play.

“We really could have been effective in the first half if we would have had both guys [Butch and Landry] firing on all cylinders, but Brian got it done,” head coach Bo Ryan said. “We just have to make sure we are consistent with the other guys in there too.”

Landry was only 1-for-8 while finishing with 5 points.

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Freshman forward Kyle Turris scored two goals, including a shorthander, in Wisconsin’s 7-2 win at Denver Saturday.

UW men’s hockey experienced highs and lows during break

By Jon Bortin THE DAILY CARDINAL

Western Collegiate Hockey Association games matter most to the Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey team. On that basis, the Badgers’ results over the past three weekends have been less than ideal.

After a tie and a win at the Badger Hockey Showdown in late December 2007, the Badgers faced off against two of the powerhouses in their conference, going 1-3 over that stretch. With those games in the books, they sit in a three-way tie for sixth place in the league, albeit with a favorable schedule on the horizon.

The Badgers (5-8-1 WCHA, 910-3 overall) would have been content with this portion of their schedule if they had not played Colorado College. A week after tying Colgate and defeating Bowling Green in the

third-place game at the 19th annual Showdown at the Kohl Center, the Badgers seemingly had momentum.

Conference play picked up again on Jan. 4 at the Kohl Center, when the Badgers were looking for payback after being swept in Colorado Springs, Co., in November 2007.

UW had a chance to get to .500 in the WCHA, but playing against the No. 4 team in the country without freshman forward Kyle Turris, sophomore forward Blake Geoffrion and sophomore defenseman Jamie McBain—all three were skating in the IIHF World Junior Championship in the Czech Republic—the Badgers began a three-game slide.

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Anderson breaks scoring record at Wisconsin

By Jay Messar THE DAILY CARDINAL

Iowa fans “Packed the House” Sunday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Wisconsin senior guard Jolene Anderson didn’t disappoint as the 4,800-plus fans—an Iowa season high—saw quite a show.

After a 42-point barrage in which she shot a blistering 48 percent from the floor and a perfect 13-13 from the free throw line, Anderson dethroned Barb Franke to become the Wisconsin women’s basketball all-time scoring leader.

But Anderson’s salvo against Iowa is nothing out of the ordinary for the Port Wing, Wis., native. Since her high school days, breaking records has come naturally for Anderson.

In an Indianhead Conference game as a senior at South Shore High, she set a state record 58 points in a blowout victory over Bayfield.

That same year, she wowed the Madison media by setting a state tournament game record 46 points against Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah in the Division IV semifinals.

After four years at a public high school with an enrollment of just 95 students, Anderson destroyed the Wisconsin girls’ state scoring record with 2,881 points—280 more than

bball from page 18 straight games—all at home, and junior guard Chester Frazier was not expected to play.

Frazier did play, however, and the Illini gave the Badgers a gutsy performance that fell short in part to Hughes having a career night on ESPN. Hughes scored 22 points on 8of-13 shooting and added five assists and six steals. Hughes had been playing slower on purpose since his ankle injury, playing under control while being more selective with his shots. On this night, he was able to score while

Niagara’s Anna DeForge.

Many critics thought Anderson would have a difficult time adjusting to life in the Big Ten, where the athletes are a bit bigger, faster and stronger than those in the Indianhead Conference in northwestern Wisconsin.

Anderson, now with 2,006 points in her collegiate career, has proven those critics wrong. She needs just 212 points to pass Alando Tucker as the highest scoring athlete, male or female, to ever sport the cardinal and white.

“It’s an amazing feat. It truly is,” Wisconsin head coach Lisa Stone said in Monday’s press conference. “You can’t say enough about her. She’s started every game since she’s been here. She’s defied all obstacles, avoided all criticism, overcome people that say she can’t do certain X, Y and Z, and she’s done it.”

While Anderson has fallen in stride with her game, the Badgers have struggled as a team to keep their heads afloat in the unfriendly waters of conference play.

After jumping out to a 7-3 start, Wisconsin has since sputtered to an 8-7 overall record and just a 1-4 record in the Big Ten. Here is what you may have missed over the break. being selective.

“I know at times Coach Ryan, just listening to TV comments while we’re watching tape, he gets maybe a little frustrated because [Hughes] tries to do too much,” Illinois head coach Bruce Weber said. “But I thought today he was solid and just stayed within their system and took the shots that he earned.”

Wisconsin 80, Penn State 55 This was just not the Nittany Lions’ day. Penn State missed their first seven shots and lost their best player, senior forward Geary Claxton, for the season

UW 66, South Dakota State 62 Senior guard Janese Banks led the Badgers with 20 points and sophomore guard Teah Gant chipped in 11 in Wisconsin’s final non-conference tune up before the break. Wisconsin snagged a season-high 15 steals and squeaked out a four point home win over the Jackrabbits.

Purdue 65, UW 48 Though down just five points at the half, Wisconsin shot a dismal 31 percent from the field at Mackey Arena en route to a 17-point thrashing by the Boilermakers.

Purdue held Anderson to a season low six points on the night.

The Badgers had no answer for Purdue center Danielle Campbell, who scored a game high 19.

Sophomore guard Rae Lin D’Alie led Wisconsin with 14 points and senior forward Danielle Ward picked up her third career double-double with 13 points and 11 boards.

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with a torn ACL. However, it was Flowers’ day.

The senior guard was hot from the start and finished with a gamehigh 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting. He shot 5-of-6 from 3-point range and added five assists and six rebounds.

Senior forward Greg Steimsma also looked good, hitting all four shots he took in just 11 minutes of action. He finished with 10 points and blocked three shots.

The Badgers now return home for two straight games, starting Saturday night against Northwestern.

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Junior forward Marcus Landry throws down a dunk against Illinois.

Junior goaltender Shane Connelly makes a stick-save against Colorado College.

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“A lot of the stuff that we saw in the first half we had practiced a lot so it wasn’t like they were giving us something that he hadn’t seen before,” junior cornerback Jack Ikegwuonu said. “Maybe we were a little sluggish in the beginning, not paying enough attention to detail.”

That sluggishness left Wisconsin down 21-14 at the half, a lead they would not be able to overcome.

While the Badgers always seemed to be one step behind in the first half, the second half was a very different story. UW was able to shut-out the Volunteers in the final 30 minutes of the game, a valiant effort considering its first half play.

Ainge’s longest pass in the third quarter went for 13 yards, a favorable statistic after first half completions of 40, 25, 19, 21, 20, 29 and 31 yards.

Heading into the fourth quarter, UW was only down 21-17 with momentum in its favor. But Ainge, who would eventually win Outback Bowl MVP honors, would not be denied.

The Hillsboro, Ore., native completed passes of 21, 24 and 25 yards to put Tennessee in great position to add to its lead, but the Badgers responded with a blocked

hockey from page 18 .500 in the conference and to a tie for eighth place. The only goal of that weekend came from freshman forward Sean Dolan, his third of the season. Dolan’s rebound score came just 13 seconds into the game, four seconds away from the UW record.

Last weekend the Badgers traveled to Denver to take on the No. 3 Pioneers, and Friday’s finish will go down as the most controversial in recent memory.

With Turris, Geoffrion and McBain all back in the lineup, the Badgers fell down 3-0 before mounting a comeback. Sophomore forward Aaron Bendickson redirected a shot by Turris for his third goal of the year in the second period. Early in the third period, sophomore forward Ben Grotting netted his first goal of the season to cut the lead to 3-2.

Controversy began after a faceoff with 3.7 seconds showing on the clock at Magness Arena, where issues with the clock that night were commonplace, according to uwbadgers.com. Senior forward Matthew Ford collected the puck off the draw and let loose on a shot that television replays showed beat Denver’s goaltender before time expired.

After reviewing the play, the referee disallowed the goal, giving the Badgers their third straight loss.

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Sophomore linebacker Elijah Hodge (52) blocks a field goal against Tennessee in Wisconsin’s 21-17 Outback Bowl loss.

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Senior guard Jolene Anderson set a points record against Iowa.

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Despite throwing the interception to end the game, Donovan had a characteristically gutsy performance in his last game in a Badger uniform.

He finished 14-of-24 for 155 yards and a touchdown and also rushed for another score in the first quarter, taking a helmet-tohelmet hit in the process.

“He took a couple of hits where there was a question if he was going to come back in the game,” freshman offensive lineman Gabe Carimi said. “He played hard and he ran

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field goal and punt on each of the Vols’ fourth quarter possessions.

Wisconsin’s offense was unable to rise to the challenge as senior quarterback Tyler Donovan was intercepted in the endzone by sophomore defensive back Antonio Wardlow to ice the game for the Volunteers.

“We just let it slip away.

Tennessee is a great team, but I really don’t think that they did anything that we couldn’t handle,” Ikegwuonu added. “I really think that we gave them a lot of the plays that they had, and obviously that’s not playing well.”

While the defense’s response in the second half gave a positive spin to the loss, the Badgers’ first half let down may have cost them the game.

“Unless you start fast it doesn’t matter if you finish strong,” Casillas said.

“We weren’t awake in the first half and it killed us,” Ikegwuonu echoed.

But from any dark moment there is eventually light, and the 2008 Outback Bowl loss should give plenty of motivation for next year’s squad.

“I’m about to be a senior,” Casillas said. “I am going to work as hard as I have ever worked in my life this offseason to make sure that this doesn’t ever happen again.”

In a news release on Saturday, the WCHA acknowledged that the goal should have counted, saying the league “regrets” the error. Earlier this week UW head coach Mike Eaves said the team was “seeing what our options are.”

Nevertheless, he said the WCHA considered the game to be final, and his comments seemed pointed toward putting in place a better system for the future.

After the emotional conclusion to Friday’s game, the Badgers came back strong Saturday, earning their first road win of the season, 7-2. Denver scored first, but the Badgers struck back with three first-period goals from freshmen forwards Patrick Johnson, Podge Turnbull and Turris.

Both junior forward Ben Street and sophomore forward Michael Davies scored in the second period to put the Badgers up 5-1. In the third, freshman defenseman Ryan McDonagh and Turris scored to give the Badgers seven goals, the third time they have scored at least that many this season.

Now, behind a conference win, the Badgers continue their league schedule on the road against Alaska-Anchorage.

The series gives UW a chance to gain points in the standings against the league’s lowest-ranking team.

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Sophomore running back P.J. Hill replaced freshman starter Zach Brown, and ran for 132 yards on 16 carries.

Several seniors made big plays in their final games as Badgers. Cornerback Ben Strickland made key tackles for the defense and tight end Andy Crooks caught a touchdown pass in the second quarter.

Tennessee senior quarterback Erik Ainge was named the game’s MVP. He passed for 365 yards and two touchdowns.

Wisconsin finished the season ranked No. 21/24 in the nation.

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