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Football ticket lottery unveiled

By Devin Rose THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison’s Athletic Department announced Monday several changes to the allocation process for student season football tickets, as well as new procedures to be implemented at the games during the 2008 season.

According to Vince Sweeney, senior associate athletic director for external relations, football season tickets will move to a weighted lottery system for all students instead of only freshmen.

Interested students can apply for the lottery from June 15 to June 30 online at uwbadgers.com. The athletic department will look at applicants’ class standings as of June 1, and each applicant will receive a number of chances corresponding to their standing. Graduate students and seniors will get four, while incoming freshmen will get one.

The lottery will be held the first

week of July, Sweeney said, and students will be notified by e-mail July 7.

According to uwbadgers.com, each undergraduate class is guaranteed 2,000 lottery winners, with 500 for graduate students.

Sweeney said changes came as a result of feedback from a focus group of randomly selected students and from an online survey e-mailed to students.

“The survey said that people are worried about the decline in time to get tickets,” said Logan Hulick, a student representative on the UW Athletic Board. He said the sellout time went from three weeks four years ago to two and a half days last year.

UW-Madison junior C.J. Smith said he was angered by the change because of the uncertainty of whether he would receive tickets. tickets page 3

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UW Athletics announced Monday changes to the allocation policies and gameday procedures for the upcoming football season, including a lottery for all students and colored wristbands for seating assignments.

No suspects in killing, forensic tests continue

UW Athletes in Action aims to show AIDS statistic with orange T-shirts

By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

By Shira Nanus THE DAILY CARDINAL

About 2,000 UW-Madison students and staff will wear orange “orphan” T-shirts Tuesday as part of a campus-wide “Orphan Campaign” hosted by UWMadison student group Athletes in Action.

The goal of the campaign is to spread awareness of the impact AIDS is having on sub-Saharan Africa, where one out of every 20 children is orphaned as a result of AIDS. Athletes in Action hopes to visually demonstrate the AIDS statistic by having 5 percent of UW-Madison’s campus wear bright orange.

“Our goal is to saturate the campus with these shirts to raise the awareness and give students and faculty an opportunity to take the next step,” UW-Madison senior and Orphan Campaign cochair Tyler Turner said.

Fellow campaign co-chair and former UW-Madison football player Luke Swan hopes the campaign will help put the issue of AIDS on “the forefront of people’s minds.”

“People who know about it can do something about it. If they don’t know about it, they can’t do anything about it,” Swan said. “Our goal is just to

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Students and staff will wear orange T-shirts Tuesday to support UWMadison’s Athletes in Action campaign to raise AIDS awareness. really make something happen with this pandemic that is going on.”

For the past three years, Athletes in Action has raised money to build clean water wells in parts of Africa heavily affected by AIDS with its “48 Hour Practice” event, which has been postponed to fall.

“If they don’t know about it, they can’t do anything about it.”

Luke Swan campaign co-chair Athletes in Action

The campaign originated from Acting On Aids, a movement to create awareness about AIDS

globally. UW-Madison and Ohio State University are the first large public universities participating in the campaign.

Athletes in Action will try to get 4,000 students to wear the orange T-shirts Friday to represent the statistic projected if nothing changes in the next 10 years—one in 10 children will be orphaned due to AIDS. For all students wearing the Tshirts, there will be a five-minute “swarm” on Bascom Hill.

“We hear numbers all the time, but the numbers don’t always mean that much to us, so this is a visual representation,” Scott Mottice, chair of Athletes in Action, said. “Getting one in 20 students on this campus to wear an orange shirt that says ‘orphan’ on it kind of gives people a picture of how much that actually is.”

Although several arrests have been made during the homicide investigation of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann, there are still no suspects in the case, police said Monday.

Zimmermann, 21, was killed in her West Doty Street apartment Wednesday.

As investigators continued to comb the Bassett neighborhood for clues, police arrested several people after questioning them about the events leading up to Zimmermann’s death.

Madison Police Department public information officer Joel DeSpain said the arrests were for probation holds or other crimes unrelated to the

homicide. One of the arrests included a man who reportedly asked for money and entered a home on nearby West Washington Avenue. Police arrested him for a probation hold.

Police are hopeful evidence collected at DeSPAIN Zimmermann’s apartment will provide a DNA sample of her killer.

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Berquam asks faculty to help mourners

By Amanda Hoffstrom THE DAILY CARDINAL

Dean of Students Lori Berquam asked Faculty Senate members Monday to speak with any students or colleagues about the death of Brittany Zimmermann, and university police said they are working to keep the campus and city safe.

“Her death certainly impacted many of our students and our faculty and our staff,” said Berquam, who had just returned from Zimmermann’s funeral. “I hope that you will continue to join our efforts with the police departments in solving this horrendous murder, as well as the others that we are aware of in our city.”

Dale Burke, assistant chief of the UW Police Department, said although efforts to improve campus safety have

reduced campus crime year after year, “the things that are occurring within the city of Madison right now are extremely disturbing to all of us.”

Burke said officials are doing everything possible to “ensure the safety and security” of students, faculty and campus visitors. $120,000 donation The University Book Store became the first corporate donor to the faculty initiative to fund need-based scholarships Monday. The UW Foundation will match each donation.

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

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s I reached the peak of the mountain and surveyed the surrounding lands, I turned to my faithful traveling companion.

“Kiros! Rivendell has not yet fallen!

We may still be of some use!”

His swarthy face, sweaty and dirty, broke into a wide, toothy grin.

“We must hurry, before Saruman and his White Hands arrive.”

Our strength renewed by the sight of our destination, we hurtled down the steep slope, stumbling slightly on the precarious rocks. My armor glistened in the sun with the blood of my enemies and Kiros’ Sword of Five Hundred Half-Truths (you know, statistics and all that) clanged against his thighs.

But we were too late.

For as we ran, we heard a battle horn ring out from across the plain.

My stomach fell and my heart ached.

tickets from page 1 “I’m going to be a little angry if some little freshman gets tickets and I have been going here for four years and I don’t get them,” he said.

Nicole LeBelle, a UWMadison senior, said waiting until July to know if she got tickets is problematic.

“I’m going to have an internship this summer, I’m not going be checking my WiscMail all the time,” she said, adding that it’s easier to remember to purchase tickets during the spring semester when people are talking about it.

Students who win tickets will now have to pick them up at the Athletic Ticket Office beginning Aug. 18 instead of receiving them in the mail, Sweeney said.

Seats will no longer be individually assigned, but will move to section seating. Students will receive color-coded wristbands assigning them to sit in the lower or upper half of a section. “[Students] thought it was useless to have individual seats at the

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forensic value … anything we believe might have the DNA of the suspect or suspects on it,” DeSpain said.

Items tested in the Jan. 28 homicide of Joel Marino yielded DNA from the person police believe is responsible for the killing. DeSpain said forensic testing could show a connection between the two homicides.

“If we are able to find DNA, it could either provide a very strong link to the Marino case or it may distance us in linking the two cases.”

DeSpain said it could take days or even weeks before the results of the forensic analysis are available. Kevin St. John, special assistant to Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, said the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory will analyze the evidence in a timely fashion.

“The State Crime Lab gives priority to cases involving homicides or other violent crimes … we process evidence as soon as [it] can be done.”

Funeral services took place Monday in Zimmermann’s hometown of Marshfield, Wis. The university offered a free bus ride to the ceremony for students wishing to attend.

The White Hand Army was attacking Rivendell and we would soon be cut off from our goal.

Kiros and I sprinted and reached the gates of Rivendell. We looked into the face of Saruman and his army, clearly outnumbered. My neck tingled; it would soon be free of its role in keeping my body in one piece.

As he and his army laughed at our pitiful few defenders, Saruman plunged his hand into his robes and pulled out his most fearsome weapon: a TI-83 Scientific Calculator.

OK, so, Rivendell wasn’t an ancient elven sanctuary. It was a picnic table with a flag on it. And the White Hand orcs weren’t snarling monsters created by a perversion of nature—they, like ourselves, were merely players in the Ring Game.

The Ring Game is a twice-annual live-action role-playing re-enactment (modifier-noun) of the Battle for the One Ring that takes place across Governor Dodge State Park. Players don armor, are assigned a point value representing their strength in battle and run around the park all afternoon trying to track down those pesky Hobbits football game when no one sits in their seats anyway,” Hulick said.

LeBelle disagreed, saying she thought it would turn into “a mad stampede for the front row.”

Another difference will be the elimination of Section P as an upperclassmen section. Section P will instead be filled on a firstcome, first-served basis, Sweeney said, which rewards people who get to the game on time.

According to UW Police Lt. Bill Larson, the well-being of patrons is the main reason for the changes.

“The bottom line is just safety for all of the people that are there at the football game and that they have a fun experience while they’re watching it.”

and the One Ring. Unlike Tolkien’s story, however, the Ring Game has many possible outcomes, from the standard “Drop it into Mount Doom and watch as Sauron sizzles” to the “Allow Saruman to wrest control of the ring from Sauron and wave it around in a humorous manner” to the classic “The Hobbits get lost and everyone decides to go to A&W for root beer and a burger.”

Most (if not nearly all) of the Ring Game’s players are truly hardcore Tolkien fans. They’ve memorized the family trees of the thirteen mighty dwarves (Thorin, Gloin, Gimli, um, Bimli, and, uh, Jon Stewart?). To them, this is serious business.

But while I know the story (mostly) and I understand the difference between the Uruk-hai—truly nasty creatures who live for pain and misery—and trolls—evil beings who are dim-witted and clumsy and generally match the description of your standard Chicago Bears fan—when the meganerds playing Elrond and Saruman started arguing over the plan of battle for this particular engagement, I got distracted by a bunny.

Sure, it may sound ridiculous (and believe me, it really is), but the Ring Game is a fun way for fans of the Tolkien’s work to go out and get some (well-needed) sun. And, being in Wisconsin, it’s a great opportunity to drink in public parks. At the end of the day there’s almost always a final battle at the Crack of Doom (really a small crevice padded with velvet) where many calculators are sacrificed and no one really knows what is going on.

As for the fates of my traveling companion and me in the glorious battle of Rivendell? Well, the orc army, led by Saruman the White, easily overcame our pitiful defenses (despite our heroic attempts to break their calculators) and we were mercilessly slain and had to suffer the pains of battle—we were forced by the side of the road, unable to participate for the next 20 minutes. And no talking either! For dead men tell no tales.

Keaton is most definitely not a total geek. He totally doesn’t play World of Warcraft. He doesn’t own the Silmarillion or watch re-runs of Quantum Leap on the Sci-Fi channel. Definitely. E-mail him at keatonmiller@wisc.edu.

faculty from page 1 great if we could help,” said Louise Robbins, a member of the store’s board of trustees.

Robbins presented Ann Hoyt of the University Committee, the executive committee of the Faculty Senate, a $50,000 check to establish the University Book Store Board of Trustees Scholarship Fund.

Robbins said Trustee William Buchholz and his wife would donate $10,000, bringing the total donation to $120,000 after UW Foundation’s matching contributions.

“We are really looking forward to working together to help students in a way that the faculty never has before,” Hoyt said.

Snow Removal Alan Fish, associate vice chancellor for facilities, told faculty members that facilities management has met with Chancellor John Wiley’s office and is reviewing all snow removal policies.

“Obviously, this was a tough winter for all of us,” Fish said. “We didn’t do really well on some of those days—we understand that.

“We’re actually benchmarking a couple of schools that are really good at snow removal—Michigan Tech, Buffalo and Syracuse.”

Fish said facilities management will set up a website for feedback and organize meetings with 16 campus organizations to improve next winter.

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MIFFLIN DATE TO BE SET. The Madison City Council will vote Tuesday to set a date for the annual Mifflin Street Block Party. The proposed date for the 2008 event is Saturday, May 3.

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New UW South Campus Union to house climbing wall, bike station The new South Campus Union will feature both a climbing wall and bike station, as voted Monday by the project’s design committee.

Dan Cornelius, incoming vice president for project management, said there was overwhelming support for the climbing wall in a campus-wide survey.

“There were almost 10,000 respondents,” said Jan van den

Kieboom, chief architect of the new union, adding the survey consultants have never had that level of response from any college campus in the country. “I think it really speaks volumes about the campus in Madison and how much people really care about what’s going on.”

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features of the building by the end of the semester.

Cornelius said the best time for students to get involved is within the next month as bigger features in the building are decided.

“It’s a great opportunity for students to have a voice in something that will be affecting the campus community for a long time to come,” he said.

Audit calls on UW System to protect IT data

By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL

Several UW System schools still need better-defined policies to protect sensitive data against computer security breaches, an April 4 audit said.

The audit said UW System schools must create policies on what kind of data needs more protection and must perform periodic checks on vulnerabilities in computer networks.

Other necessary improvements include campuses hiring a full-time information security officer and formalizing a response to security breaches, according to the audit.

UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Whitewater are the only UW System schools that currently have a full-time information security officer, the audit said.

The audit said security breaches often cause significant financial problems for colleges, with lost data forcing

universities to pay insurance costs for affected employees. It said breaches would cost $90 to $100 per affected record in incidents that might involve tens of thousands of records.

Computer security breaches affected more than 4.7 million students and staff around the United States from 2005-’07, according to the audit.

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said the audit would be reported to the Board of Regents at its Thursday or Friday meeting. He said it would not be a contentious issue for discussion, as the incidents in the audit have been previously reported.

Brian Rust, communications manager for the Division of Information Technology, said UW-Madison currently performs checks on the campus networks by using the same scanning maneuvers as hackers.

Rust said if a computer or depart-

mental network is found to have a vulnerability, then it is disconnected from the main campus network until the problem is solved to eliminate the risk.

He said the security checks need constant updates because hackers are continually improving their methods, similar to burglars.

“If you are trying to break into a home, the stronger the locks get, you have to employ different methods to get around [them],” Rust said.

Jim Lowe, chief information security officer on campus, said officials are focused on protecting restricted data like health insurance information and other data hackers would use for identity theft.

Campus officials must protect certain types of data because of federal laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Lowe said.

UW-Madison graduates win Pulitzer Prizes in journalism Two UW-Madison graduates were awarded Pulitzer Prizes Monday for their work in journalism.

David Umhoefer was awarded the Pulitzer for reporting work at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Walt Bogdanich was chosen for investigative work at the New York Times, according to university spokesperson Dennis Chaptman.

Umhoefer covered Milwaukee

County worker pension deals for the MJS and won the award for local reporting. His writing showed tax laws were intentionally written to benefit county workers, according to a university statement.

Bogdanich was previously awarded two Pulitzers for investigative journalism. His 2008 win is his third and was given to him for a report on toxins found in medicine

and other products imported from China.

Umhoefer graduated from UWMadison in 1983 with a degree in journalism and Bogdanich received his bachelor’s degree in political science in 1975.

Both Umhoefer and Bogdanich worked for The Daily Cardinal during their undergraduate years at UW-Madison.

Sex education speaker kicks off National Sexual Health Week

By Jillian Levy THE DAILY CARDINAL

Sexual health educator Jay Friedman met with UW-Madison students Monday to discuss safe sex practices and disease prevention, as well as to offer some comedic relief on serious sexual topics.

“Every year we bring in one pretty big speaker during our sex health week.

This year we wanted to do something different,” said Paula Tran, events coordinator for Sex Out Loud, the student group that sponsored the event.

She said the event kicked off SOL’s National Sexual Health week, which runs April 7-12.

Friedman told students he became involved in sex education after he experienced an unplanned pregnancy with

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Sexual health educator Jay Friedman stressed the importance of college students being aware of all contraceptive methods available.

his girlfriend in college. He said after realizing how sexually ignorant he was, he became active in educating college students.

“My audiences demand, desire, deserve quality information about sex,” he said.

Friedman focused his speech on the lack of adequate sexual education in the United States and also addressed why society has negative attitudes toward masturbation, female sexuality and homosexuality.

He said the American sex education system is far behind those of other countries.

“Americans have conservative Victorian attitudes related to sex,” he said.

According to Friedman, young adults should be presented realistic information about sexual behavior beginning in their early teen years. He said the extremely high teen-pregnancy rates in the United States indicate the failure of abstinence-only sexual education programs.

He said all young adults should follow a three-step process before having sex: “Affirm that you know the other person, accept responsibility and assure there is mutual pleasure,” Friedman said.

He said it is especially important for both partners to obtain contraceptives and consent from one another.

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Members of the Ultimate Madison Flash Mob group staged a slow-motion brawl Monday on Library Mall at noon. A flash mob occurs when a group of individuals gathers and partakes in some extraordinary behavior without any previous announcement.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Meeting and Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement New Museum Building for the Chazen Museum of Art UW – Madison, DSF Project #06F1Z UW System Administration, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Administration have retained Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Associates, Inc. to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed construction of a new museum building for the Chazen Museum of Art. The new facility will be constructed on the east side of North Murray Street at 750 University Avenue in the City of Madison, adjacent to the existing Elvehjem Building on the UW-Madison campus. The proposed 78,650 gross square feet facility will include a basement and three stories, with a connection at the third level that will link the new and existing galleries. The surrounding landscape and extension of the East Campus Mall from University Avenue north to the State Street mall will be developed, and a climate controlled loading dock on the north side of the facility will also be included.

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) is available for public review at the UW-Madison College Library located at 600 N. Park Street in the City of Madison and the Madison Public Library located at 2001 W. Mifflin Street in the City of Madison, and online beginning April 10, 2008 at: http://www.gasai.com/public/. A DEIS public meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, to summarize the EIS process and to discuss and identify the potential impacts of the project. That meeting will occur in Room 132 of the WARF Building, which is located at 610 Walnut Street on the UW Madison campus. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot after 5 p.m..

Opportunities for both written and oral comments will be provided at that meeting. Comments received will be considered in preparation of the final EIS. Written comments related to the proposed project must be received by Thursday, May 8, 2008, and should be sent to: Brian Schneider 125 South 84th Street, Suite 401 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53214 Email address: brian.schneider@gasai.com http://www.gasai.com http://ww

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he UW Athletic Department sent an email Monday notifying students of changes to the football season ticket policy.

The changes include a lottery system for ticket purchase, general admission for each section, tickets that can only be picked up at the ticket office (as opposed to being mailed out) and an open-admission section P, which is now accessible to all students despite its history as an upperclassmen-only section.

The Athletic Department listened to student concerns about ticket availability and created a lottery similar to those used for hockey and basketball tickets—except previous ownership of season tickets will not be considered and half season ticket packages will not exist.

They also outlined the dates to sign up for the lottery and for the distribution of tickets.

We embrace this change and hope those who did not have the opportunity to buy tickets last year will now find the process equitable.

We question which students the Athletic Department questioned while coming to this conclusion.

In past football seasons, students frequently struggled to stand in their assigned seat. We thank the Athletic Department for realizing the futility of this system and welcome general admission for each section.

‘Freeganism’ new way to show political views

The decision to stop mailing out tickets has a solid foundation, since tickets were sometimes lost in the mail, creating a litany of problems. Students have to pick up tickets for basketball and hockey, so this action is hardly groundbreaking.

We have no problem with this decision.

The tradition associated with having an exclusively upperclassmen section is now gone.

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Our main concern with the Athletic Department’s new rules is the new designation of section P. According to the Athletic Department, “students who arrive the earliest, regardless of class standing, will have first crack at the most desirable seats.”

We question which students the Athletic Department questioned while coming to the conclusion that promptness is paramount to seniority—they were most likely underclassmen.

The tradition associated with having an exclusively upperclassmen section is now gone. Now we must entrust the duty of starting the famous wave at Camp Randall to inexperienced fans.

The enmity between section O and section P is now gone.

On the whole, the Athletic Department did well in instituting these new changes. If they could only reverse their section P decision, upperclassmen and the student section in general would be better off.

EMILY HOUTLER opinion columnist

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tate Street is a wonderful place. But today, this famous campus road became even better—Goodwill opened a location.

Goodwill, of course, is a company that accepts donated used or new clothing, furniture and other items that are then resold in their stores at extremely low prices. Not only does Goodwill offer those of lower economic classes access to high quality items at reasonable prices, it also provides jobs to the disadvantaged.

It is amazing what kind of treasures one can find while thrift shopping at places like Goodwill. In addition to being environmentally friendly, thrift shopping fits nicely into the freegan lifestyle, a way of living everyone should be embracing in some way.

What is freeganism? Freegan is a combination of the words “free” and “vegan.” It is a philosophy that boycotts the entire economic system, a scheme where profit margins trump avoiding the horrific toll that capitalism takes on the public and the environment. To avoid adding to the destruction of the world, freegans strictly limit their participation in the conventional economy and embrace the idea of practical living by their own principles.

Becoming a fully practicing freegan is a drastic change in lifestyle for many and, I admit, not right for every person. But by adopting some of their strategic tactics, the world would become healthier in many ways.

Companies bombard consumers with advertisements explaining in concerned voices that people should replace their current commodities with something newer and greater. This is a ploy to fool consumers into buying more, thereby raising the profits of major corporations.

Freegans know that constantly replacing hardly used items creates waste and uses far too many natural resources. So they use a strategy called “urban foraging.” Freegans rummage through the trash discarded by society and find items in perfect condition on which they can live. Items found can be everything from food to appliances to artwork.

By using the castoffs from others in society, freegans are not supporting corporations and they are saving the ever-decreasing space in landfills.

Before getting rid of anything, ask yourself whether it can be used longer or for another purpose. Or go through the refuse of others and find items, for free, which may be of use to you. Also, shopping at places like Goodwill reduces waste and supports disadvantaged people.

Freegans usually do not believe in using a pollution-creating automobile for transportation. Rather, they prefer eco-friendly transportation methods such as walking, hitchhiking or skating. UW-Madison is a pedestrian-friendly campus. Walk, bike or take the bus whenever you need to go somewhere.

The food eaten in Wisconsin is often not grown in this state or even the United States. Processing and shipping food worldwide is ecologically taxing and expensive.

Freegans plant community gardens instead and forage through their own backyards. Not only does this provide clean, fresh and environmentally friendly food, it also allows the community to come together over a common goal of maintaining the garden. Here in Madison, we can follow the same principles by shopping at the Dane County Farmers Market or even growing our vegetables inside our own apartments—not to mention the Eagle Heights Community garden.

Other aspects of the freegan lifestyle, such as squatting and voluntary joblessness, may be highly unreasonable for college students.

But there are steps that one can take to obtain a freer, more environmentally friendly and rewarding life. I dare you to become a freegan for a day. Chances are you will like it.

Emily Houtler is a sophomore majoring in environmental science and math. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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The Rolling Stones ‘Shine’ on, and on

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Playing alongside Buddy Guy, Keith Richards and the Stones are definitely getting old (left), but “Shine a Light” proves their music is not, portraying the Stones as, well, a band again (right).

By Dan Wohl THE DAILY CARDINAL

The satirical music group the Capitol Steps released a song in 1995 called “Rolling Kidney Stones,” a medley of Rolling Stones parodies with titles like “Get Off of My Lawn.” That was 13 years ago, and it remains a staple of their live show—which is constantly updated to reflect current events.

That’s how long the Stones have been around: Songs making fun of how long they’ve been around have been around a while now.

“Shine a Light,” Martin Scorsese’s new Stones concert film, brings up their freakish longevity frequently.

However, to the band’s credit, this close look at their performance, filmed at New York’s Beacon Theater in 2006, leaves the viewer thinking of them less as a band of 60-year-olds

and more as just a band. It doesn’t try to deny their age, but it transforms the subject away from a punch line into something more thoughtful.

When Mick Jagger does his patented ankle-breaking seizure dance the same way today as he did in 1962, it can easily be assumed to be some kind of obscene self-parody. Yet, Scorsese’s swooping close-up camera reveals something quite different.

Not once after a jerky head-bob on “Shattered” or a frenetic sprint during “Start Me Up” is there a self-deprecating laugh or “I-can’t-believe-I’m-stillhere” expression.

Ronnie Wood is a similarly jarring combination of youth and age. Richards, on the other hand, seems the only band member who actually grows into his grizzled old swashbuckler skin (and away from his distant, pre-drugs origin as the

band dork) as he gets older and older.

“Shine a Light” might not completely succeed as a film, but as a filmed concert it has plenty of great moments.

The most fascinating portrait Scorsese paints, though, is of the most unassuming Stone: drummer Charlie Watts. “Shine a Light” gives the audience a good sense of how this man can drum for the Rolling Stones for almost a half-century and still say he’s not much into rock (he prefers jazz). He’s the only one with white hair and the only one to look

into the camera and admit exhaustion. In other words, he’s the only one who isn’t an iconoclast, willing to give his talents to the band without demanding an outsized persona in return.

Scorsese runs into some trouble, though, struggling to differentiate a Scorsese concert film from a John Q. Filmmaker one. His primary strategy is to insist “Shine a Light” is a documentary too, mostly by interweaving old interview footage into the performance. At least half the clips involve the young Stones talking about their future: a 25-year-old Mick, on a talk show, saying he can imagine doing what he does now at age 60 and the audience laughing, for example. These unenlightening segments are good for little but snarky irony and get old quickly.

Scorsese also tries to generate

some suspense with an awkward prologue when he, in front of the camera, worries about not knowing what songs the band will play. He also tacks on a confusing and disorienting coda at the end. These overly cinematic parts are obtrusive, but thankfully they disappear completely during the show.

“Shine a Light” might not completely succeed as a film, but as a filmed concert it has plenty of great moments. The absolute highlight comes as Buddy Guy joins for a rendition of Muddy Waters’ “Champagne and Reefer.” Like Guy—an icon from an even earlier era—the Stones will undoubtedly continue. Perhaps “Shine a Light” is not particularly special, since it’s hardly the first Stones concert film. Still, it’s impressive to see that, in all likelihood, it won’t be their last either.

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here I was, paging through a CD booklet for the umpteenth time in my life, when it hit me: Song lyrics almost never read as well when staring back at you from a page.

Decades ago, popular music emerged out of lyrically driven genres like blues, country and folk, becoming more preoccupied with craft and style than good old-fashioned storytelling.

Since then, lyrics have occupied a somewhat peculiar position in the pop music pantheon: They’re generally the most apparent and readily accessible element of a song, but upon dissection of their meaning, they’re often the most dismissible.

Distinguishing the vapid from the visionary depends largely on the success of a vocalist’s delivery—it’s not so much what they’re saying but how they’re saying it that counts. Still, there’s a world of difference between good song lyrics and actual poetry, and only seldom do the two coexist when words are removed from their musical context.

Quite often, lyrics seem primarily chosen for how they sound within the framework of a song or at least for the melody they’re able to carry.

For instance, Paul McCartney originally wrote “Yesterday” with the lyrics: “Scrambled Eggs / Oh baby how I love your legs,” only replacing that charming sentiment with the song’s now well-known lyrics about existential nostalgia as an afterthought.

Lyrics that are overwrought with “meaning” usually end up getting at nothing at all in their grabs at profundity.

There’s just a handful of bona fide poets in rock music, and they’ve earned that title by willingly placing poetic vision over musical utility. Accordingly, we can count Leonard Cohen’s languid musings, Lou Reed’s street cadence and the sprawling, narratively dense lyrics of folks like Bruce Springsteen and Jarvis Cocker as signs of true poets at work. Nick Cave should also be considered one of rock’s premiere poets for his ability to juxtapose beauty and darkness in endlessly imaginative (and

macabre) ways. The majority of the wannabe-poets pack can otherwise be succinctly summed up by a line from Morrissey, a vocalist who has come up with more than a few admirable turns of phrase: “I didn’t realize that you wrote poetry / I didn’t realize you wrote such bloody awful poetry.”

Bob Dylan is most often cited as rock’s poet laureate, and he’s probably the only one whose lyrics are the subject of university courses and bathroom wall-writing alike. Dylan must be getting a good laugh out of those professors furrowing their brows over lyrics like “I stood there and hummed / I tapped on her drum and asked her how come.” Many of his best songs are admittedly eloquent, often absurdly nuanced songs couched in beautiful metaphor, but don’t forget, the guy was usually just singing about girls.

Back in middle school, I remember sitting around with people and plundering the philosophical depths of Goo Goo Dolls lyrics like “When everything’s made to be broken / I just want you to know who I am.”

Apparently, I was somehow moved by this lyric back then, but now I guess I’m glad I don’t remember why.

Lyrics that are overwrought with “meaning” usually end up getting at nothing at all in their grabs at profundity. Michael Stipe said it best:

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The Goo Goo Dolls’ lyrics might satisfy some philosophical cravings, but, like most pop music, it tends to lose its depth after middle school.

“Speakin’ in tongues / It’s worth a broken lip.” Of course, that’s exactly what Stipe did in R.E.M.’s best songs, but his voice was always mixed low enough to make his nonsensical lyrics indistinguishable, like just another instrument along for the ride.

Made-up word phrases, like the “lye-la-lyes” in Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” or the “Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom” from Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti,” are just as effective as the most meaningful Doorsian rock poetry. Sure, those phrases are blatantly meaningless, but they also exude a whole mess of emotions, proving you don’t even need real words to evoke

meaning. Similarly, I’ve never quite understood Can’s lyrical mishmash of German, Japanese, English and gibberish, but the Krautrock group has rocked me to my core more than most other bands.

Bottom line, when it comes to deciphering and analyzing lyrics, I agree with Fats Domino and Lester Bangs that it’s better to just figure out lyrics for yourself than read them off a sheet. This way they remain part of a song, rather than becoming detached “poetry” lacking a musical anchor.

Think Jim Morrison is the undisputed master of lyrics? Has Ben ‘lit your fire?’ Let him know at bpeterson1@wisc.edu.

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Today’s Sudoku

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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.

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Dwarfhead and Narwhal

By James Dietrich jbdietrich@wisc.edu

Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.

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47 React to spilled milk 48 Russian pancakes 50 Least incompetent 54 Get one’s juices flowing 56 Attend 58 Ring letters 59 Had in mind 60 Basking layabout 62 Selma and Patty’s kin 63 European capital 64 Potato protuberances 65 Gavelbanger’s cry 66 Netherworld river 67 Certain female voice DOWN

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Fifth-place finish preps Wisconsin for Big Ten Championships

By Adam Loferski THE DAILY CARDINAL

With just over two weeks until the Big Ten Championships, the Badger women golfers took their talent south to Norman, Okla., Sunday to compete in the threeround Susie Maxwell Berning Classic. Wisconsin finished fifth out of 16 teams.

The tournament consisted of 88 competitors divided among the 16 teams, one of which, Arkansas-Little Rock, had already bested the Badgers once this spring at the Rio Verde Invitational in Arizona. However, after one round of phenomenal golf, the Badgers sat in second place, leading Arkansas-Little

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Junior Jeana Dahl finished with an overall score of 231 for the Badgers. She ranked fourth on her team and tied for 40th overall.

Rock by one stroke but trailing the team from the University of Oklahoma by six.

Freshman Carly Werwie came out on top for the Badgers in the first round, finishing with a career-best score of 72, matching par. Sophomore Kelsey Verbeten followed closely with a score of 74. Senior Katie Elliott completed the first round in a tie for 31st, shooting a 77, five over par.

Juniors Natasha Lopez and Jeana Dahl rounded out the first round for the Badgers, shooting solid scores of 78 and 80 respectively.

Despite dropping to third place after completing the second round of play, the Badgers bettered their first round total by four strokes.

Werwie continued her magnificent play and improved upon her first round score by one stroke, finishing with 71—a new career low for her.

However, stealing the show in the second round for the Badgers was Dahl, who improved upon her first round score by seven strokes, completing the second round with a score of 73. Elliott finished the second round in an overall tie with Dahl with a score of 153, shooting a 77 in the first round and a 76 in the second.

Wisconsin completed the third round of play Monday and captured the fifth-place spot, its best finish since the Iowa Invitational in October, when it finished second. Elliott led the Badgers in the third round with a score of 76, four over par, and finished with a score of 229. However, she could not top Werwie’s inspiring play.

Werwie led the Badgers overall, completing three rounds of the best golf of her college career and finishing with a score of 225, nine over par. With that score, Werwie improved upon her personal best, a score of 233 achieved at the Iowa Invitational, by eight strokes. She finished in a tie for 17th.

Verbeten completed the outing a mere three strokes behind Werwie and tied for 25th with a score of 228, 12 over par. She

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Wisconsin senior Katie Elliott led the Badgers in the third round of the Susie Maxwell Berning Classic on Monday with a score of 76. She finished with a total score of 229. finished the final two rounds of the tournament with a pair of solid 77 scores. In doing so, she continued to establish herself as a model of consistency and highly competitive play.

Dahl finished fourth among the Badgers and tied for 40th overall with a score of 231, 15 over par. Lopez rounded out the

Badger golfers and tied for 63rd with a score of 240.

Wisconsin’s last outing of the year is the Lady Buckeye Invitational in Columbus, Ohio, which runs April 19-20. Last year, the Badgers finished ninth in Columbus behind Elliott’s score of 232 and 13th place finish. Verbeten tied for 26th with a

score of 239.

After capturing their highest finish of the spring season, the Badgers are primed for the upcoming Big Ten Championships April 25-27 in University Park, Penn. The team hopes to maintain their high level of play in Ohio and ride it all the way to Pennsylvania in the next few weeks.

Tales from Miller Park and why kids don’t listen to their parents RYAN RESZEL high reszel-ution

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s limy stream of orange vomit slides slowly down a staircase. Slurred fourletter words fight out of drunken mouths and hang in the air among indecipherable shouts and groans.

An inebriated man in handcuffs yells something about bovine manure as policemen drag his bulky, bumbling body through a crowd of dazed onlookers.

I’m at the largest house party in Wisconsin, or, as most people would say, “I’m at Opening Day at Miller Park.”

Thanks to the generosity of my uncle, my roommate and I sit within sunflower-seed-spitting distance of home plate. On the field, the game is essentially over after one inning.

Bill Hall hits a three-run and a two-run home run and the

Brewers cruise to a 13-4 victory over the Barry Bonds-less San Francisco Giants.

But on this sunny spring day, the real story is the throng of 45,212 crazed lunatics paying $7 for 12-ounce bottles of great tasting and less filling beverages. Between innings and frequently during the middle of the game, they are the actors in this comic tragedy of peanuts and Crackerjacks.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, two 50-year-old women dressed like 20-year-olds stumble into our row. “Is there a lap we can sit on?” one of the fair maidens asks the older gentlemen to my left.

The women are obviously not in the right seats. I doubt they know which teams are playing. And I doubt the men they’re flirting with are their husbands, but who knows?

The laps must not be that comfortable because less than an inning later the women are gone, presumably making a deposit in the nearest porcelain bowl or adding to the ever-expanding

orange stream on the stairs.

Sometime in the fourth inning an extremely tall white man— with a gray mustache rivaled in crookedness only by the jagged caterpillar below the nose of Dave Wannstedt—stumbles down the stairs of section 113 and hugs a rather startled black Sports Service employee distributing assorted Miller products.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen this many drunks over the age of 30.

I’m not sure who Mr. Mustache is planning on voting for in the 2008 election, but his kind, drunk gesture showed me change I could believe in.

Can he stomach another beer? Say it with me. Yes he can. Yes he can...

During the top of the third inning, a gentleman on his cell

phone in the row in front of me stands and begins waving his arm at some other lush in the sea of humanity. Despite shouts of “down in front,” “sit down [censored] hole,” and finally the inevitable “what the [censored],” the man does not waver. Only after a barrage of peanuts rains down upon him does he relinquish his quest to find his friend on the other side of the stadium.

Throughout the game, the drunk man behind me continually asks my roommate and I why we are standing up when fly balls are hit to the warning track or deep into the outfield.

“Are you seriously standing up for a flyball?” he questions time and again. He is either extremely jealous that we can stand and he cannot or merely fulfilling an ageold tradition of remaining seated at Brewer games.

True story—last year my completely sober friend and I were told to sit down by a bunch of fogies when there were two strikes and two outs on a Brewer batter in

the ninth inning.

Back to the game. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen this many drunks over the age of 30.

How many of these model citizens will tell their little children never to swear in public or to drink in excess is unknown, but I really wish I had a microphone and camera to document some of these moments—for YouTube if not for blackmail.

During the seventh-inning stretch the crowd sings a stirring rendition of “God Bless America.”

By now my hands are sticky from excess Secret Stadium Sauce and lightly coated with peanut shell dust. I am stuffed with brats and hot dogs. The Brewers are winning 13-4, and I am surrounded by the greatest cast of characters ever assembled at a venue of this magnitude.

Yes, God bless America. God bless baseball. And God bless Opening Day at Miller Park.

If you were drunk at Opening Day, e-mail Ryan at reszel@dailycardinal.com.