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Past emergencies, including last fall’s UW Hospital scare and lockdowns near Park Street, have exercised UW-Madison’s crisis response.

UWPD explores campus lockdown alternatives

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After a gunman burst into a lecture hall and opened fire at Northern Illinois University last month, many students have asked if universities should lock down their campuses during emergencies.

But at UW-Madison, where the student body is close to double NIU’s, campus security officials have deemed a lockdown policy infeasible and instead stress the importance of prevention, education and threat assessment.

“There’s a rush to assume that locking doors is the right approach to every scenario,” UW System spokesperson David Giroux said.

“But, if you have a shooter out in the open and you lock the doors, you may actually block people from seeking safety.”

In April 2007, a month after the tragedy at Virginia Tech University, UW System President Kevin Reilly formed a security commission to review and make recommendations for security policies of campuses across Wisconsin. UW Police Chief Susan Riseling chaired the commission and presented the report at a Board of Regents meeting in July 2007.

The commission’s final plan outlined 17 major recommendations for UW campuses. The recommendations called for awareness campaigns, more advanced training for intervention, better distribution of campus safety information and improved monitoring of suspicious behavior.

“We’ve put into place a system-wide approach that addresses security issues at a broad level,” Giroux said.

“We do require each UW campus to have in place a general plan, but the actual procedures to respond to a given emergency are to be enacted at a local level.”

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New text message system aims to shorten alert time

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An emergency alert e-mail takes almost 20 minutes to reach the thousands of UW-Madison students and faculty. A text message could shorten that to a few minutes.

Factor in police investigation and the decisionmaking process to employ a mass alert, and it could be nearing a half hour before students know about a gunshot or toxic gas leak, according to University of Wisconsin Police Chief Susan Riseling.

When UW-Madison’s mass text messaging system launches in upcoming months, it will add the quickest layer to the emergency response plan, but university police say any alerting tool will be far from instant.

“Even in the unbelievable magic world of high technology, from the point of a gun fire … it’s going to be at least 20, to 30, to 40 minutes to get a message out, realistically,” Riseling said.

The new text alerts could be the fastest way to reach the nearly 60,000 people in the university community.

The opt-in text service will act as one prong of the entire emergency response plan—called WiscAlerts—which includes e-mail, voicemail and Dane County’s Reverse 911 program that calls area landlines in an emergency.

UW-Madison students, faculty, staff and possibly outside employers near campus will be able to submit their cell phone numbers in a confidential module at MyUW once the service debuts.

Why use text messaging?

John Lucas, a university spokesperson and member of a team to implement emergency response systems, said a mass text message system is unique because it can quickly reach mobile students.

“The service is so timely, so we can get a message out with pretty much confidence in a matter of min-

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The presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, DN.Y., might be decided by primaries in the delegate-rich states of Ohio and Texas Tuesday.

However, the Wisconsin primary’s trends could show how the upcoming contests will be determined.

Ohio, like Wisconsin, has mostly white voters. Around 85 percent of voters are white in both states, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, DIll., won among white men in Wisconsin, with Clinton and Obama tied for support among white women, according to CNN exit polls.

Wisconsin has almost twice as many voters aged 65 and older than Ohio, a demographic that voted for Clinton over Obama by 58 to 41 percent.

Texas’ population is 35 percent Hispanic and Latino, and polls have shown Clinton garnering more Latino votes than Obama in states like Wisconsin and Nevada.

Yet, Obama increased his level of support in Wisconsin among voting blocs that had previously supported Clinton, including those without a college education and women.

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U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns in Texas. Primaries in Ohio and Texas could determine whether Clinton stays in the race.

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

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Megan’s Squad warns Madison to bewere adies and gentlemen, please remain calm. Although the following announcement may be rather shocking, I ask you not to panic. Unless panicking is the best way for you to unleash the angry villager within, because we will need that mob-like mentality for the hunt.

UW-Madison has a werewolf on campus.

I know such an important finding should be announced in a scientific journal or at least on the Cardinal’s front page, but as my research is just beginning, I chose to share it with my loyal readers first. All seven of you.

Some may call me crazy. Others will laugh. Still others may blame my hunch on my weekend spent glued to the TV watching Discovery Channel’s “A Haunting” and the “Wisconsin Werewolves” special on the Travel Channel. But all you have to do is look at the signs, and you

will understand.

Wisconsin has had numerous werewolf sightings across the state, and Madison provides an especially werewolf-friendly environment: wooded areas, a dismally low production rate of silver bullets and little or no vampire competition for resources. And when there is a full moon, the whole campus goes crazy—at least when the full moon coincides with a weekend. Who is going to notice if one student in a group of drunken partygoers is slightly hairier and more bloodthirsty than the rest?

Not only are the conditions right, but I have begun seeing evidence of the werewolf on campus.

In the fall, I saw birds with their heads missing lying on the sidewalk. I knew it was not the act of some psychotic raccoon, but no one would believe me then.

Around Winter Break there was a howling outside my window that some claimed was simply a drunk guy running around the parking lot, but I knew better. And although my dorm blames it on the good and noble Cookie Fairy, my entire bag of chocolate chip cookies could not

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have disappeared before I even ate one without some sort of evil, paranormal presence.

For the good of campus safety and vengeance for my cookies, I have taken it upon myself to find and trap this werewolf. I have assembled some of the best werewolf hunters in the state. Conveniently, they all live in my dorm.

Each has trained rigorously and will be key to catching this werewolf. We have re-enacted the “Rocky” workout montage a thousand times, worn out a “Buns of Steel” video and sweated to the oldies with Richard Simmons to train our bodies to compete with that of a werewolf. We have studied every special the Discovery Channel has to offer on the subject to make our minds like that of our prey. This, combined with listening to Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London” on repeat, has turned my team into werewolf-hunting warriors.

Although each member has a special assignment, like designing werewolf-proof armor or packing juice boxes for snack time, the most fundamental team member is the man we use as bait. My friend Kale’s

ridiculous sense of humor makes him perfect—only he could laugh off getting his intestines eaten by a werewolf and not sue me. He is an odd one, that boy.

As our hunt approaches—the next full moon is March 21—the team grows more nervous. What if it is too cloudy and the werewolf doesn’t come out? What if the werewolf musk we found on eBay isn’t strong enough to lure one in? What if Kale isn’t enough to satiate the beast’s appetite?

He is a little on the lanky side...

Some are nervous that we plan to trap the beast instead of killing it. I have a feeling we may take a lot of flak for this expedition, so we will need living proof to rub in everyone’s face.

And what will we do with the werewolf after it has made us all rich and famous? Well, we could make a donation to the Henry Vilas Zoo. I’m sure a werewolf would be a pretty big attraction.

If you would like to join Megan’s Werewolf Hunt Squad or just “Sweat to the Oldies” with her and Richard Simmons, e-mail Megan at mcorbett2@wisc.edu.

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Veterinary School receives $2.5 million addition The UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine will receive a $2.5 million tomotherapy center due to a bill that passed the state Legislature Thursday.

Senate Bill 456 easily passed the state Assembly and Senate, with Gov. Jim Doyle needing to sign it to become law. The bill allows the school of veterinary medicine to accept millions of dollars in grants to build the addition.

The construction will not cost the state government anything because the center is solely funded by gifts to the school. The Legislature’s approval was needed before the school could proceed,

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Four Star Video Heaven, 315 N. Henry St., has been giving condoms to customers in honor of Women’s History Month since the mid-1990s.

Downtown video store to give away condoms to patrons

By Lauren Vettel THE DAILY CARDINAL

In recognition of the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, campus-area video store Four Star Video Heaven is distributing 6,000 condoms to its patrons this month.

The giveaway is celebrating both Women’s History Month and the 35th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court case, which, in the words of store owner Lisa Brennan, “represents more than a woman’s right to an abortion; it celebrates the connection between women’s rights and gender equality.”

FSVH’s free-condom promotion began in the 1990s, when original owner David Smith gave away thousands of condoms to raise awareness for AIDS. Smith moved to New York and sold the store to Lisa Brennan, who continues the tradition.

Brennan and FSVH General Manager Shawn Steen have partnered with Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and the AIDS Network to advocate sex education and birth control awareness.

However, the giveaway has sparked some negative reactions in the community. FSVH lists the condom giveaway as one of the biggest controversies it has sparked in its 23 years of business.

“We’re not going out there telling people to have sex, we’re giving them the opportunity to be safe,” Steen said.

“I can guarantee you that some of our customers probably take [condoms] and do not take them out and use them right away.”

Brennan said the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is more than twice that of many European countries, which have comprehensive sex education and accessible contraceptive services.

Sandy Torkilsen, manager of the feminist bookstore A Room of One’s Own, said, “Birth control is kind of a basic thing.”

A 1970s graduate of UW-Madison, Torkilsen said she remembered when Wisconsin first began its women’s history classes in the 1970s.

“It puts things in perspective,” she said.

WISPIRG to host weeklong clothing drive Beginning Monday, Sellery Hall will be home to Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group’s clothing drive for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Collection bins will be placed on each floor March 3-10 in the residence hall to collect any clothing donations students can make, according to Samantha Meyer, a UWMadison sophomore and WISPIRG intern who organized the event.

Clothing will be collected and distributed by St. Vincent de Paul, a charity organization that operates several thrift stores in Madison as well as a food pantry.

“They donate $15,000 worth of clothing each year [to the needy],

and they also come and pick up the clothes and provide bins,” Meyers said of St. Vincent de Paul. “They’ve been really cooperative and helpful [with the clothing drive].”

WISPIRG interns working on the Hunger and Homelessness campaign each plan an event to help those stricken by poverty, homelessness and hunger, Meyers said.

“Other interns have planned other small events like an art sale, a fast, and we’re going to have an event during Earth Week.”

The clothing drive in Sellery is a “test run” for other drives across campus, said Meyer, and, depending on the success, may lead to other events in residence halls.

Police Captain Debra Hettrick in September 2007.

According to Hettrick, UWMadison already had many of the security recommendations in place, such as armed police officers, mental health counselors and a multidisciplinary review team to track troubled students, faculty and staff.

“Part of the problem at Virginia Tech was that people were scared to share warning signs because they worried about confidentiality codes,” Hettrick said. “We’re educating people that with safety concerns, they should definitely share information.”

To help improve crisis communications, the UWPD has developed a mass e-mail system as well as a Facebook alert program, which were used during last September’s suicide scare at the UW Hospital and during a robbery incident on North Park Street.

In addition, Hettrick said she has helped produce a presentation called

texting from page 1 utes,” Lucas said. “If you happen to be in class or on the bus … hopefully you’ll get the text.”

The idea behind the system is UW-Madison pays a third-party company, Inspiron Logistics, to grant access to send messages to a mass amount of cell phones.

“Even in the unbelievable magic world of high technology ... it’s going to be at least 20, to 30, to 40 minutes to get a message out.”

Susan Riseling police chief UWPD

This cannot be done directly by the university because cell phone carriers read mass messages as spam and block them. With Inspiron, the emergency message should be allowed to travel through the carriers quickly, according to Lucas.

Inspiron will hopefully cut down on delivery delays—like the ones caused during the recent Northern Illinois University shooting and the Minneapolis bridge collapse—because the system’s mass messages should be

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according to Veterinary Medicine Dean Daryl Buss.

Tomotherapy uses precise doses of radiation on cancerous tumors, according to Veterinary Medicine Communications Specialist Tania Banak.

Banak said tomotherapy was initially developed and researched at UW-Madison on tumors in the nasal passages of dogs. The tests were successful and tomotherapy is now used on humans, she said.

The new addition could give veterinary students valuable experience with tomotherapy equipment before they enter the workforce, Banak said.

The bill was authored by state Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, and state Rep. J.A. Hines, R-Oxford.

Hines is a veterinarian.

Hines said in a statement the addition could also lead to advances in treatments used on humans.

“Oftentimes advancements in oncology treatment for animals have a positive effect on the health care of humans because many diseases in animals, including cancer, are analogous in humans,” Hines said.

The new center will be located on the northeast side of the current veterinary medicine building. The school is located at 2015 Linden Dr. —Charles Brace

“Avenger Violence” that teaches about behavioral “red flags” to look for in people. The program, which will be open to the campus community in March 2008, also includes strategies for survival in the presence of an active shooter.

“It’ll be available to buildings, departments and residence halls— basically any group that wants to hear it,” Hettrick said.

“It is definitely something worthwhile for campus awareness.”

The UWPD has also worked with the Madison Police Department to better assess potential threats and coordinate communication.

“I don’t know if we’ll be able to identify all potential threats or people in crisis, but a lot has improved, and we’re now better prepared to identify target people,” MPD Captain Mary Schauf said.

Schauf said that in case of a campus emergency, the UWPD officers would respond first and the MPD would serve to assist them.

Schauf added that in the wake of

the shootings at Virginia Tech and NIU, the MPD has trained officers to switch radio frequencies in order to communicate with police officers in other departments around campus.

“In a time of crisis, this communications coordination is time very well spent,” Schauf said. “From a tactical police response approach, it really helps when we’re all on the same page and sharing information.”

The UWPD stresses that the best way to prevent an emergency situation at UW-Madison is for people to know how to identify troublesome individuals and to feel comfortable reporting their behavior to the proper authorities.

“What we need to do is get the awareness and education out for faculty, staff and students so that they will be prepared personally in the event of an active shooter like we saw at Virginia Tech and NIU,” Hettrick said.

More information on university security procedures and awareness programs can be found at www. uwpd.wisc.edu.

granted first access.

Brian Rust, communications manager for UW-Madison’s Division of Information Technology, said the system will have to be tested once enough people are signed up. A test run will show if area cell phone towers can truly handle a message being sent to thousands at one time.

“There are issues of capacity because you have a very concentrated population and only so many cell towers,” Rust said, adding that because those thousands of messages have to work through the queue, it could take longer for delivery.

Beth Novak, a U of M senior, said she received one e-mail about enrolling in the system when it first came out, but registering has since slipped her mind.

“It really hasn’t been widely publicized, so I don’t even know how to sign up,” she said.

Novak said she was with a friend when the TXT-U system was recently used.

“My friend got this text message that said a robbery had happened in a parking garage,” she said. “We all laughed, thinking OK, now we know about that.”

How many will opt-in?

Even if the technology pulls through, it is still unknown whether UW-Madison students and faculty will sign up for the service. Hundreds of universities use opt-in text services, and for many big schools, registration has been an issue.

The University of Minnesota has been using an Inspiron service called TXT-U since November. The Twin Cities campus has a little over 50,000 students and about 13,000 people are signed up, according to university spokesperson Dan Wolter.

“We’re relatively pleased with the number of people signed up at this point, but would always like to see more,” Wolter said via e-mail.

‘High Level of Emergency’ only Lucas said UW’s text system may notify about a severe crime incident, but would probably be reserved for “a high level of emergency,” such as the suicidal gunman scare last September at UW Hospital or a gas leak in a lab.

Riseling said police would solidify the presence of an emergency before they jump to employing the system.

“It’s really important for us to verify that we have a true emergency,” she said. “If we just put it out the minute we hear a report, ‘there’s a man with a gun,’ or ‘I think I’ve heard gunfire,’ we would have had countless alerts already.”

viously favored Clinton as he pulled ahead in the race.

“Obama has done so well in a few groups that he cannot really add additional support with them,” Shafer said.

If Clinton wins Ohio and

Texas, according to Shafer, both candidates will likely continue to the next decisive state, Pennsylvania. He said if Obama wins both states Tuesday, Clinton would probably withdraw from the race.

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he concept and reasoning behind UW-Madison’s new WiscAlert text messaging alert system are well thought out, but the system has flaws that need to be overcome to be a success.

The immediate need for a mass alert system stems from the tragedies at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech.

There have also been instances at UW-Madison where this system would have been useful.

It is necessary to notify students of a campus emergency in a timely and efficient way.

Informing UW-Madison students, faculty and staff of serious situations in the campus area is very important, and the university should be responsible for reaching the campus community at a time of crisis. It is necessary to notify students of a campus emergency in a timely and

efficient way, and though sending mass text messages may not prove to be the best answer in the long run, it is sufficient for now.

The previously used WiscAlert mass e-mail system was deemed a success after it was used in September 2007.

According to John Lucas, a university spokesperson, the text alerts will be used sparingly, but those who sign up for the program will have to pay for the alerts if their cell phone plan does not include text messaging.

At this point in the program’s infancy, paying for perceived safety seems reasonable.

The main problem this program faces is getting the vast majority of UW-Madison community members to sign up and receive the messages. This program is already in use at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and less than half of the campus population has registered for the program.

UW-Madison will most likely face similar registration issues, but if the university makes a concerted effort to inform students and faculty, the potential for majority participation is great.

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Proposed conduct rules infringe students’ rights

Action must be taken against Union I read with disappointment and scorn today’s Daily Cardinal article “Union officials deny loss of ‘student voice.’” The tone of the upper management was clearly to belittle the concerns of their student employees. Casting these legitimate concerns as “gripes” and insinuating that at least one of the student signees was charged with embezzlement (“If someone got fired for theft, their opinion I don’t think has much validity”) is a sad reflection of a management that has gone awry.

Two points that I feel deserve special consideration include: 1) That only a “few unhappy employees” signed the letter.

This miscasts these students as outliers and implies that their opinions should be dismissed. I think rather to the fact, it takes an enormous amount of courage to risk losing their jobs by speaking out. I also think that much more than 33 people out of 700 workers are dissatisfied with their working conditions, but due to the fears that are associated with speaking out, declined to do so.

This of course is not even considered in upper management’s attempt at spin.

2) That the objectives of the Union are aligned toward satisfying customer needs. I am disgusted by this attitude. The Union is not simply about the bottom line. It is a part of our university’s heritage and goes

beyond “customer” satisfaction.

This is even more to the point by the fact that both the Union and upper management’s salaries are financed in part by student segregated fees. This unusual arrangement further solidifies the notion that the Union is no typical forprofit institution. Moreover, fair business practice demands that employees satisfy the explicit conditions of their employment.

In abusing these rights by forcing and intimidating students to do unassigned activities, upper management is clearly acting in the wrong.

The Union is financed by students just like me, and I think the more we hear of these practices, the greater the public opinion will go against these antics and rhetorical games of upper management.

I applaud The Daily Cardinal for bringing this sad situation to light and hope the university administration will take an active role in either penalizing upper management, or negotiate new terms in the management structure of this important cultural touchstone. Once the very student employees of the Union speak out about their treatment, I think immediate rectifying actions must commence.

—Vasu Sunkara third-year medical student UW-Madison

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he UW System revealed a new code of conduct Feb. 26 that allows its universities to expand their punishment of students for their off-campus behavior.

Presently, university officials are restricted to disciplining students mainly for on-campus behavior, behavior that interferes with the university’s offcampus activities and for assaults against university employees and students.

The university should not concern itself with minor law violations committed by students.

However, under this new set of rules, administrators are able to punish students for crimes that occur off campus grounds, regardless of whether the victim is an employee or student of the university.

Some of the newly added rules are necessary, but a few of them are not only unfair to students, but also an invasion of their privacy.

Several of the new policies

included with the new code of conduct were understandable additions. After all, if a student assaults a university staff member, another student or anyone for that matter, on or off campus, then the student should be punished.

Under the pre-existing code of conduct, if a student assaulted a university employee or another student off campus, he or she would be punished by the school, but if that student attacked someone from outside the university he or she would not. Clearly, this expansion of policy is not only understandable but also sensible.

Also, included in the proposed conduct set for students are rules against forgery and falsification and a new rule governing the use of computing resources. These revisions to the code of conduct are necessary, but some of the revisions violate students’ rights.

In particular, the biggest concern for the new conduct set is the idea that municipal law violations are now punishable by university administrators. So not only would students be ticketed and fined, but they may also have to face school officials. The punishment administered from the university could range from a simple written warning, to denial of certain school privileges, to suspension or even expulsion.

Technically, under the proposed rule set, a student could face expulsion as a result of repeated noise violations. This is ridiculous.

Not only should the university not concern itself with minor

law violations committed by students, but to do so is an invasion of students’ privacy.

Some of the newly added rules are necessary, but a few are unfair to students and violate their privacy.

Imposing on what a student can do off campus is not right, with the exception of instances involving university employees, or students or when a serious crime is committed. But if you happen to be a little too loud at night and the neighbors get pissed at you, is it really OK for the university to step in and punish the students involved after they have already been ticketed and fined by the police?

The main reasoning behind these sort of additions was the added pressure neighborhoods around the UW–Milwaukee campus had been giving the school for years about unruly college students.

Several neighborhood groups around that campus have demanded stricter rules so the university may place tighter control on disruptive students. Unfortunately, all UW System students could end up paying the price.

Ryan Dashek is a sophomore majoring in biology. We welcome your feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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By Oren Rosenberg THE DAILY CARDINAL

This Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., University Opera will conclude its 2007-’08 season with the final performance of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” in Music Hall. For many students, opera might not be a normal part of Tuesday night’s festivities. However, with an open-minded approach, they may find a change of pace is exactly what their Tuesday night needs.

“Don Pasquale” is the last of Donizetti’s comic operas, all in the bel canto style—literally meaning “beautiful singing”—and serves as an excellent introduction to classical Italian opera.

The story centers on a wealthy, old man named Don Pasquale (played

by Matthew Tintes) who, though he is supposed to look 70, looks more like a 45-year-old Grandpa Munster.

Meanwhile, his nephew, Ernesto (played

by James N. Kryshak), is enjoying the spread at his rich uncle’s place and has fallen in love with a girl named Norina.

Pasquale, who already had another girl lined up for Ernesto, is upset and tries to change Ernesto’s mind, but it’s no use. Don Pasquale puts Ernesto out on the street and enlists the help of a friend,

‘Don Pasquale’ where: Music Hall when: 7:30 p.m. who: UW music students how much: $10 at Vilas Hall box office or door

Dr. Malatesta, to find a wife for himself, ensuring everyone that, though he is old, he is still full of passion and vigor.

However, the good doctor devises a plan in which Norina (the girl Ernesto loves) pretends to be the doctor’s sister, Sofronia—fresh from the convent herself. When Pasquale and Sofronia are introduced, Sofronia acts meek and unassuming. When the Don asks her if she goes to the theater, she says “no,” to which Pasquale, of course, replies “that’s commendable.” After all, the nineteenth-century Italian dinner did not cook itself.

After Pasquale marries her, it becomes clear she is not the woman he thought she was. She spends frivolously, belittles the servants and (gasp) leaves the house without Pasquale’s permission, all in an effort to get Pasquale to demand a divorce. Of course, by the final scene, Norina’s true identity is revealed and everyone is happy and/or befuddled.

Although the play’s moral may seem ridiculous, it sounds convincing when sung in three-part harmony by trained opera singers.

Morals aside, the story is completely founded in operatic convention, with each character an archetype that would have been familiar to contemporary Italian audiences. The director, William Farlow, has attempted to “modernize” the production by setting it in 1920s Italy and explaining the character’s attitudes through the lens of the interwar years, but it seems like this was done only to make the costumes and scenery easier to produce. Either that or the setting was chosen as an

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Although opera tends to be disregarded as flowery, ornate and over the top, ‘Don Pasquale’ takes a more comedic route, making it accessible to opera buffs as well as students searching for a diversion. excuse to have Ernesto dress like a sadistically colorblind golfer.

That said, tenor Kryshak makes up for his wardrobe eyesores with a soaring voice, and though the scenery and costuming are weak and inconsistent, Farlow and the UW Chamber Orchestra bring their A-game to this performance. It is a perfect retreat from papers, midterms or even the drudgery of late nights spent killing brain cells. This Tuesday, step outside your comfort zone. At $10, its cheaper than most dinner dates.

‘Nose’cret: ‘Penelope’ not for critics

By Brad Boron THE DAILY CARDINAL

“Penelope” is not a movie for the jaded and the cynical. If you walk into this modern fairy tale with an ounce of sarcasm, you may find yourself checking your watch more than you’d like. The film may have its fair share of issues, but when approached with the kind of innocence a fairy tale requires, “Penelope” is a nice enough movie to see while waiting for the summer blockbuster season.

Christina Ricci plays the eponymous character, born with the nose of a pig because of a century-old curse on her wealthy family. It’s said that her curse will be broken when “one of her own says he can love her

until death do they part.” Naturally, this leads to a montage as Penelope’s mother, played by Catherine O’Hara, imports society’s finest blue-blooded bachelors in hopes that one doesn’t run from her daughter. One day, one of the candidates—played by James McAvoy—doesn’t because he’s been hired by a sleazy paparazzo to get a picture of Penelope. After escaping her estate, Penelope meets a delivery girl (played by Reese Witherspoon) who exposes her to the wonders of the world outside her attic. What ensues is a story of betrayal, discovery and self acceptance, as Penelope tries to break the spell on her own.

There’s nothing great about “Penelope,” but there’s definitely enough to keep the film entertain-

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Like its main, big-schnozzed character, played by Christina Ricci, ‘Penelope’ can only mask its faults if you’re willing to look the other way.

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ing. The script, written by an “Everybody Loves Raymond” alum, is cute without being edgy, but has some plot holes. The setting of the film, for instance, is still something of a mystery, Penelope and her family speak with American dialects and the film gives several well-known European actors, like McAvoy and Nick Frost, American accents. However, it also seems like most of the extras and townspeople around “Anonymous City” speak with British accents.

Ricci, McAvoy and Witherspoon are all too talented to look visibly bored on film, but to say they look inspired is overstating it a bit. Each turns in a credible performance, but each has done better in the past.

O’Hara, most well-known for her work in Christopher Guest’s “Best in Show” and “Waiting for Guffman,” tries to play her character for laughs, but in the context of the film comes off as more than a little cruel.

Director Mark Palansky, in his first major release, gives the film an interesting look. The film is beautiful to watch, and he makes even the most ordinary spaces look vibrant.

Palansky makes the film accessible for younger and older audiences alike, taking the fairy tale trope and giving it a modern spin that will keep adults interested, though it is clearly aimed at a younger audience.

Is “Penelope” a perfect film? Is it for everyone? No and no. But it’s a great diversion and a cute film in a season that is so often a dumping ground for awful films. “Penelope” is some pig in a time when a lot of its competition is already burnt bacon.

The St. Francis Xavier Foreign Mission Society (The Xaverian Missionaries) can help any Catholic young man to answer the Mission Call.

Phone or write to Fr. Joe Matteucig, SX101 Summer Street, Holliston MA 01746. Phone (508) 429.2144 E-mail pino.ma@gmail.com Or contact Fr. Victor Mosele, SX at the St. Paulsʼs University Catholic Center here in Madison, cell phone (414) 397.8470.

Email vmosele@hotmail.com He may give you a pointer or two.

See us on-line www.xaviermissionaries.org and check out our Mission Life Direction Program at: www.missionlifedirections.org

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POWERBARS!!

Today’s Sudoku

Beeramid

By Ryan Matthes beeramid_comic@yahoo.com

© Puzzles by Pappocom

Mega Dude Squad

By Stephen Guzetta and Ryan Lynch rplynch@wisc.edu

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

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

Too many octabongs.

Dwarfhead and Narwhal

By James Dietrich jbdietrich@wisc.edu

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

The Crackles

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!!

Carla!!

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com PEDAL TO THE METAL ACROSS

1 Peacekeeping skill 5 Makes java 10 Cooks in a microwave 14 River of Germany’s steel-making region 15 Children’s song refrain 16 Perry and Della’s creator 17 Opera highlight 18 James Bond foe 20 Beatles craze, e.g.

22 Country singer McGraw 23 Lummox 24 Result of a dye job, maybe 29 Comfy spots 30 David of “The Pink Panther’’ 34 Safety shoe feature 38 Cut into small cubes 39 Rugs 40 Removes the wrinkles from 43 Fairy tale fiend 44 Fast driver 45 Went acourting 47 Poke fun at 48 What a great orator may have 54 Neighbor of Miss.

57 Belonging to Mrs. Kettle

58 Desmond of “Sunset Boulevard’’ 59 Dangerous snake 64 Beaks 65 At any time 66 Fashion magazine 67 Feel concern 68 Alluringly attractive 69 Came to 70 Abbr. used to avoid a long list DOWN

1 “Lady and the ___’’ 2 Of hearing 3 Expensive dishes 4 Character part 5 Canine command 6 Popular cruise port, briefly 7 Slippery swimmer 8 Room measurements 9 Bulgaria’s capital 10 Kind of Buddhism 11 Jason’s ship 12 “Not guilty,’’ for example 13 One who does the lord’s work 19 Poker player’s declaration 21 Bridal path 25 Post-it, e.g.

26 ET transports 27 West of Hollywood 28 No longer plagued by

31 The head Corleone 32 Canyon comeback 33 Robin’s home 34 Put in the hold 35 Like some restaurant orders 36 Continental currency 37 Fencing blades 40 Burn intensely 41 Sailboat need 42 Classic theater 44 “Inside Man’’ director 46 Word with “store’’ or “novel’’ 47 Network offering 49 Baby bug 50 The time being 51 “Awesome!’’

52 Eclipse shadow 53 Artist’s support 54 They’re unbeatable in war?

55 Zilch, on a court 56 Tippy-top 60 Nose into 61 Freudian concern 62 Northern diving bird 63 Low grade

Anthro-apology

By Simon Dick srdick@wisc.edu

What!? What is it?

I had a dream I was in a pinball machine! It was horrible!

By Eric Wigdahl wigdahl@wisc.edu

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No fond farewell: UW falls to Hawkeyes on Senior Day

By Jay Messar THE DAILY CARDINAL

A season-high 13,320 fans packed the Kohl Center to celebrate Senior Day Sunday afternoon as the Wisconsin women’s basketball team hosted Iowa in its season finale.

The huge Iowa contingent saw their visiting Hawkeyes stop the Badgers’ five-game win streak and beat Wisconsin 87-78 to grab its first Big Ten crown since 1990.

“I thought the intensity in this game was incredible,” Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder said. “I thought we came out incredibly focused and kept that focus even when Wisconsin got to within one point.”

On a day honoring the seniors, it was the freshmen who played like veterans for Wisconsin (9-9 Big Ten, 16-12 overall). Forward Lin Zastrow led the Badgers with 17 points and guard Alyssa Karel added 15. Forward Tara Steinbauer also chipped in 11.

“They played fantastic and they just show our depth,” said senior guard Janese Banks, who scored 10 points against Iowa (13-5, 20-9).

“They’re not afraid to do anything.

They’re not freshmen anymore— they’re just basketball players.”

Senior guard Jolene Anderson, who scored 42 points the first time the teams played at CarverHawkeye Arena, worked hard for just 10 Sunday.

“She schooled us the first time we played them,” Bluder said of Anderson. “That was a little embarrassing. We wanted to make sure that she didn’t have another career night against us.”

Bluder’s team set the tone early with stifling man-to-man defense, limiting anything inside for the Badgers. Offensively, Iowa jumped out to a 27-7 lead on 11-for-14 shooting and stayed hot, shooting a school record 74 percent in the first half.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, shot a chilly 32 percent from the floor in the first half. Zastrow and Steinbauer kept the Badgers in the game, combining for 19 of the team’s 30 points in the first half.

“They got some early rhythm and that took us out,” Wisconsin head coach Lisa Stone said. “We weren’t getting stops, and then we were rushing shots. Our shot selection was quick and a bit erratic to start the game. Once we settled in we shot the ball better.”

Iowa’s 6'2'' swing Johanna Solverson took full advantage of matchup troubles for Wisconsin in the first half, scoring 17 points in the first 11 minutes of the game.

“Johanna is a big guard and causes an issue that way because of her size,” Stone said. “Secondly, she’s a six-year senior. She’s been around a long time. She’s endured some injuries and come back with a lot of gusto.

Her game has really skyrocketed since the last time we played her.

“She wanted this one a lot,” Stone added. “I could see it in her face at the end of the game.”

The Badgers hung around, and Anderson hit her first jumper with 24 seconds left in the half to pull the Badgers to within nine. But a Solverson lay-up at the buzzer gave her 23 points and put the Hawkeyes

up 41-30 at the break.

“It was kind of a one-woman wrecking crew there in the first half,” Stone said of Solverson.

The Badgers were able to work the ball through the post and draw fouls in the second half. Defensively, the Badgers were able to set up full-court pressure to slow Iowa down, but every attack the Badgers could muster was countered by the Hawkeyes.

Karel closed the gap with a couple of 3-pointers, and a pair of Banks free throws brought the game to within one with 4:30 to go. But the Wisconsin run was answered by a Solverson isolation step-back trey to put the Hawks back up by four.

Up two with 2:45 left, Iowa’s junior forward Wendy Ausdemore hit a 3-pointer from the baseline to stop the Wisconsin momentum and put the Badgers away for good.

Solverson finished with a careerhigh 31 points for the Hawkeyes.

Wisconsin will assume the No. 8 seed going into the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis next weekend, where they will face Illinois Thursday evening.

“The Big Ten Tournament is just another season really. Everyone is going to start off with square one,” Anderson said. “I think our team is determined in whoever we play and we’ve just got to put our mind to it.”

“I like the fact that our team right now is believers,” Stone said. “They have obviously demonstrated how to overcome [adversity] and be courageous and I feel good with that strength going into the Big Ten Tournament.”

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Freshman David Grzesiak won the high jump in the heptathlon.

champs from page 8 The distance medley relay consisting of Miller, Luke Hoenecke, Joe Pierre and Bolas went 9:54 to beat out Minnesota by two seconds.

Groce took the lead just before the final lap in the 600 meters to run 1:18 and finish a half second ahead of Ohio State’s Elon Simms.

“You get a lot of juice seeing the same faces you see on campus and alumni coming back. It really gets you going,” Groce said. “I knew I just had to score. They knew I could win, so I had to get the 10 points for the team.”

Groce anchored Wisconsin’s 4-by400-meter relay to a second-place finish. Teammates Andrew Milenkovski, Quinn Evans and Hoenecke kept UW in third, putting Groce in position to get into second and nearly make up for Ohio State’s massive lead, but he

fell just short. Wisconsin finished in 3:13.35 behind OSU’s 3:13.22.

Sophomore Rayme Mackinson earned runner-up in the long jump, hitting 24 feet 5 3⁄4 inches on his best attempt.

In the heptathlon, freshman David Grzesiak put up six points for Wisconsin by placing third with 5318 points. He won the high jump and placed consistently in the top eight in most other events.

Freshmen Zach Beth and Luke Rucks placed fourth and fifth in the 800 meters, each running 1:53. Other significant contributions came from senior Derek Thiel, who placed fourth in the pole vault, and senior Adam Pischke, who took sixth in the 60 meter hurdles.

“To be honest with you, I thought maybe 100 or 105 points would win it,” Nuttycombe said. “I didn’t think we could score 127 points.”

the Wisconsin goal, and put it past senior goalie Jesse Vetter. The next goal came from senior wing Brittany Mackley, who put in a centering pass from sophomore wing Kala Buganski.

Wisconsin senior wing Jinelle Zaugg tipped in an Anne Dronen slap shot from the point to close the scoring.

UW head coach Mark Johnson tweaked his lineup again Saturday, moving sophomore wing Meghan Duggan to Deluce’s center spot and playing freshman forward Kelly Nash on the wing.

“I haven’t played center since I was a senior in high school and hadn’t taken faceoffs game after game for awhile, but you’ve got to make adjustments,” Duggan said.

“Obviously it was difficult ... but you get used to it.”

The Badgers got on the board

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The Badgers (11-12-5 WCHA, 15-14-7) ended up one win shy of assuring home ice. They got the first half of the equation right in a comeback victory on Friday.

Down 1-0 after a St. Cloud State power-play goal in the first period, the Badgers scored two goals within 1:01 in the second period, during which they outshot the Huskies 16-3.

Just 17 seconds into the period, senior captain Davis Drewiske scored on the power play, with assists from sophomores Michael

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Freshman guard Alyssa Karel scored 15 points for the Badgers. Senior guard Jolene Anderson managed only 10 in her final home game.

first when Knight moved the puck around her defender, regained control of it and scored.

“I guess they were trying to break it out,” Knight said. “[We] caught them a man down and just went right around the D, put the puck underneath her stick, shot it five hole and it ended up going in.”

Duggan scored on a wraparound that bounced off the stick of a defender seven minutes into the second period.

Vetter stopped 16 shots on the day and earned the 25th shutout of her career, good for second on the all-time career list. She has lost seven shutouts in the third period this season.

“You can’t play too cautious because that’s when you make mistakes, but [getting the shutout] is definitely always in the back of the mind,” Hanson said. “It’s nice to get [Vetter] a shutout. She

deserves it.”

Duggan scored her second of the day when Nash found her in the slot and she slapped it in.

Lawler got the puck to junior forward Angie Keseley as she cut to the net on the rush for Wisconsin’s fourth goal.

With less than three minutes left in the game, MSU’s Stohr hit Sanders in the face and was thrown out of her final college game.

Over 3,000 people attended both games over the weekend and helped Wisconsin set several attendance records. The team drew 33,480 fans over the course of the season and averaged 1,860 per game. Both of those attendance figures are new women’s college hockey records.

Wisconsin will face Minnesota on Saturday and, if they advance, will play the winner of Duluth-St. Cloud. Johnson said that Deluce will probably play next weekend.

Davies and Jamie McBain. Then, at 1:18 into the second, junior Ben Street tipped a Davies shot into the net for the lead. Davies and McBain were again credited with assists.

Behind junior goaltender Shane Connelly’s modest 14-save effort, the Badgers held on to give themselves a significant opportunity Saturday.

Again the Badgers found themselves down 1-0, but they quickly responded. Sophomore Ben Grotting put a wrist shot into the net to tie the game less than a minute later. UW took hold of the lead early in the second period on a deflected powerplay goal by Davies.

But in a span of a minute, the Huskies regained the lead, scoring two power-play goals before the second period was over. The third

period went scoreless, and, as a result, the Badgers are now forced to play the waiting game.

St. Cloud State travels to North Dakota for their last series, while Minnesota State will play at home against Michigan Tech. In the event of ties in the standings, the determining factor would be head-tohead play. UW has the advantage in the season series only against St. Cloud State.

After Saturday’s loss, Badgers head coach Mike Eaves evaluated his team’s uncertain future.

“It’s out of our control, so we sit and watch now,” he said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“I don’t know if frustrating is the word. That may be part of the emotion, but it’s not the whole emotion.”

—uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.

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Elite Eighth

Men’s track team wins Big Ten Conference Indoor Championships for eighth consecutive time

By Scott Allen THE DAILY CARDINAL

Exceptional strength from underclassmen and the distance crew propelled the Wisconsin men’s track team to a record eighth straight Big Ten championship with 127 points, winning four events in front of a home crowd over the weekend.

Sophomore Brandon Bethke took away two Big Ten titles, winning the distance double—the 3,000- and 5,000-meter races. Junior James Groce won the 600-meter run, and the distance medley relay also came out on top.

“I don’t think at the beginning of the year anyone would have picked us to win because of all the people we graduated last year,” head coach Ed Nuttycombe said. “That was just a tremendous team effort, and I do think we were helped by being at home.”

Wisconsin scored seven more points than last year’s national championship team with freshmen and sophomores more than replacing graduating seniors by scoring 76 points, more than 60 percent of the team’s total.

In just four distance events—the mile, 3,000, 5,000 and distance medley—the Badgers put up 76 points.

In the second-to-last race, the 5,000-meter run, UW scored 25 points to clinch the team title, keeping second-place finisher Purdue, which ended with 102 points, out of range. The Wisconsin runners banded together in the last half mile, and Bethke broke away on the final lap to win his first-ever collegiate 5k in 14 minutes 23 seconds.

Junior Matt Withrow drifted back into the chase pack to sixth place in the final quarter mile and let out an incredible kick in the final 150 meters to capture third place in 14:29.

Freshman Landon Peacock and junior Stuart Eagon finished right behind Withrow at 14:30 for fourth and fifth, respectively.

“Within each event we had a little rivalry going with each other, and we saw the milers throw up 23, and we knew the only way we would beat them is one of us would have to win, and the rest could only lose to one other guy,” Withrow said.

Freshman Evan Jager earned runner-up in the mile in his Big Ten debut,

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Head coach Ed Nuttycombe, sophomore Brandon Bethke and the Wisconsin men’s track team celebrate their championship Sunday afternoon. after his final-stretch kick could not get him past Ohio State’s Jeff See. Jager lost to See by three-tenths of a second, going 4:22. In the final 400, junior Craig Miller, sophomore Ryan Gasper and sophomore Jack Bolas were right on the heels of Jager and See. The runners basically jogged the first 800 in 2:27, but the field turned

it on right at the halfway point, with See and Jager finishing the second half-mile in 1:55. Miller, Gasper and Bolas finished third through fifth in 4:23 to 4:24.

“It was an awesome experience— the crowd just screaming the whole time,” Jager said. “It just gets you so pumped up. It helped having a lot

of Wisconsin fans out here cheering you on.”

The 3,000 meters brought in 18 points for Wisconsin as Bethke unleashed a last quarter-mile surge to win in 8:10. Sophomore Andrew Lacy took fourth, going 8:18, and Eagon went 8:21 for sixth.

“It was awesome, when I took the

Women’s hockey team glides into Final Faceoff

By Ben Breiner THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin women’s hockey team swept the Minnesota State Mavericks 4-2, 5-0 over the weekend to advance to the WCHA Final Faceoff at the DECC in Duluth, Minn.

The Badgers scored first Friday when junior center Erika Lawler forced a turnover in the Maverick zone and got the puck ahead to sophomore wing Meghan Duggan, who was cutting toward the net with only the goalie to beat.

Duggan deked to get MSU netminder Britni Kehler out of position and scored on a backhand wrist shot.

The offense, however, had trouble establishing a rhythm in the first period, mostly because of the absence of freshman forward Mallory Deluce (11 goals, 14

assists). The Ontario native suffered a knee injury against Minnesota last week and did not see the ice versus the Mavericks despite suiting up for both games.

Junior wing Tia Hanson pushed the lead to 2-0 when she got control of a pass from sophomore wing Kyla Sanders just feet from the crease and slapped the puck in. Wisconsin’s advantage grew to three as freshman wing Hilary Knight’s shot went top shelf off a feed from sophomore center Jasmine Giles.

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lead with about 250 or 300 to go, the whole entire stands stood up and just went crazy,” Bethke said. “I knew I could take it all the way. I didn’t know if that would be good enough, but I just had to put myself out there and go for it.” champs page 7

UW begins waiting game after split

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Sophomore Meghan Duggan scored three goals in the Badgers’ two games against Minnesota State this weekend.

Had the Wisconsin men’s hockey team swept St. Cloud State in its final series of the regular season, the Badgers would have been assured two games at the Kohl Center in the first round of the WCHA Playoffs.

After their split against the Huskies on the road this weekend, though, things become a bit more complicated.

A 2-1 win and 3-2 loss at the National Hockey Center meant the Badgers ended up with 27 points in the WCHA standings. Meanwhile, St. Cloud State and Minnesota State are within striking distance, each one point behind.

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