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The Madison City Council voted Tuesday to temporarily suspend the vending license of the operator of Jin’s Chicken & Fish, a popular downtown food vendor catering to the late-night crowd. The council suspended operator Jeff Okafo’s vending license for six months after Okafo amassed 29 parking tickets and became confrontational with parking enforcement officers, according to a complaint filed with the city’s Vending Oversight Committee in July. At the meeting, Okafo said all his tickets were paid for and pleaded for council members to allow him to keep his vending

license for the successful vendor’s truck on North Frances Street. “This is what I do for a living ... I deal with the late-night college crowd, I deal with the students and that’s my job and I enjoy it,” Okafo said. “It’s my business, it’s my life, it’s what I do.” Despite Okafo’s statements, city ordinances allow for the suspension of a vendor’s operating license if parking tickets and other violations become problematic to their duties as a vendor. VOC member Rosemary Lee said in addition to parking violations, Okafo has a history of being caught driving with a revoked driver’s license, further warranting his suspension. jin’s page 4

Three-time candidate Nader says U.S. politics under ‘corporate domination’ By Hannah McClung THE DAILY CARDINAL

Ralph Nader, a 2008 independent presidential candidate, said Tuesday he is focusing on the mobilization of young voters and the reestablishment of democratic principles in his third ofﬁcial bid for the presidency. In a phone interview from Washington, D.C., Nader said he hopes as a third-party candidate to encourage people to demand a return of public accountability in government. According to Nader, the two main parties have turned the government in Washington, department by depart-

ment, into “corporate domination.” “[Corporate domination] is a violation of democratic principles and has become of the GM, for the Exxons and by the DuPonts,” Nader said. Nader said he is trying to connect with the perceived concerns of young people coming out of college who are hit with huge student loan debts and interest rates. He said students need to realize how much political signiﬁcance they have because students turn out to vote less than non-students. “We want to expand the spec-

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City suspends Jin’s Chicken & Fish operator’s vending license By Abby Sears

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UW-Madison senior Sol Grosskopf (left), an alternate delegate, and Scott Southworth (right), a delegate from District 3, are representing Wisconsin at this week’s Republican National Convention.

Wisconsin RNC delegates say McCain-Palin ticket best for state By Devin Rose THE DAILY CARDINAL

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Wisconsin delegates to the Republican National Convention said Tuesday the party’s presumptive presidential candidate, John McCain, is a great leader who will uphold ideals and values that the state’s residents cherish most.

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“Wisconsin voters don’t like egotistical politicians,” said Scott Southworth, a delegate from the 3rd Congressional district. “Wisconsinites want people with ideas, but they want to be talked to, not at,” he said. Southworth stressed the election of McCain would benefit the Dairy State by “ensuring that Wisconsin families can raise their kids the way they see fit, worship God the way they see fit and buy the things they want and need without extraordinary taxes.” Sol Grosskopf, an alternate delegate from the 8th district, said he agreed and added the country has historically been shaped by its “oddball” politicians like Democratic U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl. “I honestly think Wisconsin wants to have an interesting pol-

itician that’s not always polished and defined,” Grosskopf said. Grosskopf, a UW-Madison senior from Shawano, Wis., said he believes McCain understands that government should be limited in people’s lives and may often be a problem rather than a solution.

“Wisconsinites want people with ideas, but they want to be talked to, not at.” Scott Southworth delegate Republican National Convention

“In reality, the individuals should be making choices for their lives and not some delegates page 3

Arrested RNC protesters charged for actions By Devin Rose THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said students have the ability to play a bigger role in government.

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Over 100 people arrested while protesting in St. Paul, Minn., on the Republican National Convention’s opening day were formally charged with felonies in court Tuesday, police said. According to St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington, 120 protesters were charged with felonies, which included aggravated criminal damage to property and assault. Another 103 were charged with misdemeanors for actions such as unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct, and 51

were charged with gross misdemeanors, Harrington said. Police arrested 283 people after protesters smashed windows at Macy’s and a downtown bank building, and dozens were pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed in 90-degree heat, according to CNN. An estimated 10,000 people marched from the Minnesota State Capitol to the hosting Xcel Energy Center. “We are here ... in solidarity to say ‘no’ to the Republican agenda,” said Angel Buechner, a member of the Coalition to March on the RNC and the Welfare Rights

Committee of Minnesota. “We’re going hungry, we’re losing housing, we need jobs.” Most attendees said they do not approve of the job President George Bush has done in ofﬁce. “There are so many issues on which the Bush administration is wrong,” said Mary Jo Nissen, 58, of St. Louis Park, Minn. Nissen said she is especially concerned about ending the war in Iraq and the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Janine Wahrendorf, 23, of Germany said she thought it was protesters page 3

“…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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ASHLEY SPENCER back that ash up

hen I was in high school, I remember mentally tallying the days until I would be free from the death grip of my parents and move into my dorm. I salivated at the thought of living two and a half hours away—away from all of the annoyances that come with living at home with your family—the ﬁghts about having to eat the dry chicken mom slaved all day cooking, who will pick up the dog shit, whose turn it was to drive grandma to get her hair done and listen to her whine about the appliances that don’t work in her condo (all of which really do). Here I am four years later and, against everyone’s advice and my own sensibility, I am moving in with a member of my family as a senior. I can wave goodbye to opposite-sex sleepovers, cooking in my favorite boy shorts and peeing with the door wide open. But I can blame only myself, since it was actually my idea. Thankfully, my roommate will not be my mood-swinging mother or my extremely money-conscious father, but my own little brother. My brother, who I lovingly call by his nickname Boof, (a moniker which is now tattooed in Old English lettering on his back) is attending MATC and living with me so he too can escape the death grip of the ‘rents. Part of me is scared. It’s not that I don’t love my brother, because I do. After all, he is literally a piece of me, and we all know how I feel about myself. It’s just that I never expected my brother to come into adulthood with me. I never thought that my little brother would one day grow up to be a man, a man who douses his hairy armpits with Axe, a man who surfs the internet for porn, a man who wants nothing more than to one day become a world renowned rapper. Now this man is moving into my windowless basement, and I am not sure how to see him. I only recently realized Boof was an actual person and not just a childhood plaything frozen at age 5. It’s hard to grasp that he is no longer a perpetual annoyance who I can regress back into childhood with and dress him up as a girl or play video games with until I throw a controller at his head. Now, I can no longer protect him, as I have no upper-body strength. I can no longer beat him up, as I have no upper-body strength. I can no longer boss him around, make him hide for hours in a laundry hamper for no apparent reason, or force him to play Let’s Pee in a Bucket and Pour it on the Neighbors. But now we will be playing a game we are very much familiar with, one of my personal childhood favorites: House. When we were little, my cousins, Boof and I would compete for each different role in the house. I wanted to be the cool daughter expecting a baby, that would pop out later that

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afternoon, and worked at the FisherPrice McDonald’s stand I got for my sixth birthday. My brother usually fought me for the same RebelliousPregnant-Teenager role in our makebelieve-already-fucked-up family. This time around our “house” is different. There will be no plastic food items, water babies to breastfeed, and I don’t think at ages 3 and 6 we ever expected to shack up with a gay man

later in life. Although it annoyed me that Boof used to drink the fluid out of my waterbaby, steal my dance recital outfits and declare himself the Cool Knocked-Up Older Sister, I like to think now Boof was looking up to me and wanted to copy everything I did ... even if it required him having to wear my mom’s lipstick, high-heeled shoes and have an inflated balloon for

a pregnant belly. And if that’s the case, my brother really hasn’t changed much since he was 5 years old. He’s still following my path, tugging at the bottom of my play dress and asking if it’s his turn to wear it. If you know anyone who can get Boof a fake ID or a hook-up with some famous rappers, e-mail Ashley at aaspencer@wisc.edu.

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UW Peace Day organizers select faculty member as keynote speaker By Caitlin Gath THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison political science professor Howard Schweber will be the keynote speaker at this fall’s UW Peace Day on Sept. 21. According to Schweber, the idea for Peace Day models the theme of Earth Day: the hope of raising awareness about peace and conflict. “The idea here is to try to call people’s attention to factors that might not be obvious, that allow peace in the world to be a possibility,” Schweber said. Schweber’s own intent SCHWEBER with Peace Day is to address a question of attitude and mentality. “I want to get people to think about what kinds of social attitudes are conducive to the possibility of peace,” he said. “We do our best to the world when we challenge our deepest selves. If peace is to be seriously pursued, people need to be willing to leave behind their authentic self and think in a more universal and cosmopolitan way.” UW-Madison senior and organizer of Peace Day Todd Brogan said he realized the event needed a speaker who could connect with a student audience on an intellectual level.

delegates from page 1 group of people, whether it be a block away or hundreds of miles away,” he said. Both Grosskopf and Southworth praised McCain’s choice for a running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, and said they do not believe the disclosure of her teenage daughter’s pregnancy will negatively affect her. “I would rather have somebody that has gone through

“This is not an anti-war rally. It’s a peace rally … We didn’t want a speaker to show up and make this event a partisan event,” Brogan said. According to Brogan, the UW Peace Day Committee initiated a profiling process to select a keynote speaker, which included polling its members. Schweber won with 60 percent of the vote. “People just read and made their own decisions, and Howard Schweber came out on top,” Brogan said. “Schweber has done a good job of straddling the line and being as non-partisan as possible.” The non-partisan mentality will be valued at the event, considering the wide variety of groups participating. According to Brogan, some of the groups to first get involved with Peace Day were Action in Sudan, Engineers Without Borders, Students for McCain and College Democrats. “There are kind of two levels, the collaborators who help get speakers and supporters, and groups in the community who have expressed support for us and help us get people to turn out at the event,” Brogan said. Schweber said he is excited about speaking and feels a sense of honor in participating with UW Peace Day activities. “I’m looking forward to [Peace Day] tremendously and my hope is to rise to the occasion.” problems in life and overcome them than somebody that has been perfect their entire life,” Grosskopf said. Southworth added Palin, who serves as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard, has executive experience that he believes Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama lacks. “We’ve got a strong woman,” he said, adding the attacks by Democrats about Palin’s lack of experience “don’t stick.”

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WISCareers program now available on MyUW Portal By Andrea Carlson THE DAILY CARDINAL

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An estimated 10,000 protesters marched from the Minnesota State Capitol to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul Monday.

protesters from page 1 “pretty amazing how many people came out” for the rally and supports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama even though she will not be voting. “I’m not a big supporter of war,” she said. “I’m not even from this country, but it affects the whole world.” While many protested against presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain, others have already pledged not to vote for either party. “Rallies kind of depress me and bum me out because of the lack of direct action,” said Greg Schultz,

21, of Duluth, Minn. Schultz, who is part of the anarchist movement, said he still cannot see a difference between Obama and McCain, even though he has read a lot about both of them. Jodin Morey, a Minneapolis resident and co-founder of Impeach for Peace, said he would support Obama over McCain. However, he emphasized the importance of a balance of power between the president and the people because, he said, any president is capable of committing impeachable offenses. “I fully suspect that all future presidents will continue to commit the same crimes that Bush has committed,” Morey said.

Madison mayor announces capital budget $7.3 million under expectations Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz introduced his 2009 capital budget at Tuesday’s Common Council meeting, vowing to maintain a high quality of life while saving money in the city for the upcoming year. Among priorities in the mayor’s $154.7 million capital budget are the construction of new libraries and improvements to city streets, including projects on East Washington Avenue, University Avenue and Campus Drive. “We’ve found significant savings, but we’ve maintained all our commitments to public safety, basic services and promoting the infrastructure that maintains a high quality of life across the city,” Cieslewicz said.

Cieslewicz’s capital budget proposal aims to borrow $57.6 million in a new general fund, falling $7.3 million under the target amount adopted in the 2008 budget as part of a fiveyear capital borrowing plan. “In economic times like these, we’re working hard to not only think about next year, but to also plan for years to come,” Cieslewicz said in a statement. “We don’t have room for new programs this year, but my capital budget helps to position us to take advantage of economic recovery in years to come.” The council will vote on the capital budget, along with the operating budget, scheduled for an Oct. 7 introduction, during the week of Nov. 11.

UW-Madison students can access the WISCareers program online through the MyUW Portal this year. According to the WISCareers website, the program is 32 years old but has never been accessible through UW-Madison webpages. The mission statement of the program is “to facilitate lifelong career development, a meaningful work life and a sound economic future for all Wisconsin residents.” UW-Madison Center on Education and Work Associate Director Scott Solberg said many students have used the service in high school but did not realize they could use it through the university. wiscareers page 4

UW community to join chancellor for ice cream social Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin will host an ice cream social for students and faculty on Bascom Hill Thursday. According to University Communications, Babcock Ice Cream will serve a new flavor called “Strawbiddy Swirl” in recognition of the new chancellor. The ice cream social marks one of the first official university gatherings with Martin. She also spoke with the UW-Madison community at the New Student Convocation Aug. 29. In an interview, Martin said her relationship with students and faculty will be crucial during her time as chancellor. “I hope to interact regularly with the student government leaders, with students, media representatives and University Communications staff,” she said. “I also want to perhaps write a periodic letter or column that will help keep more members of the community informed about the issues we face and our approach to those issues.” All students and faculty are encouraged to attend the event to welcome the new chancellor to the UW-Madison community. The event will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m., with a special appearance by Bucky Badger from 4 to 4:30 p.m.

Academic Freedom and the University The independent Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights is a group of 25 University of Wisconsin faculty members who span the ideological spectrum. Since 1996, CAFAR has defended individuals and the principles of freedom and due process at the University of Wisconsin and other campuses in the state. We are dedicated to the Universityʼs famous commitment to “the continuous and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found,” and have shown by our past actions that we are willing and able to defend the academic freedom rights of individuals and groups in the face of campus pressures.

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Two men, one armed, rob Falbo Bros. Pizzeria Two masked men, one wielding a handgun, robbed Falbo Bros. Pizzeria on South Park Street early Tuesday morning, according to the Madison Police Department. MPD Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain said there were two employees present when the men entered the restaurant at 406 S. Park St. around

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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke in Milwaukee about Hurricane Gustav and the importance of unity.

Obama: Hurricane brings out nation’s ‘spirit of unity’ By Megan Orear THE DAILY CARDINAL

MILWAUKEE—Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a stop in Milwaukee Monday to speak about unions and labor, but dedicated a large portion of his speech to Hurricane Gustav and the need to focus on relief efforts instead of politics. Obama said unions have made gains for American workers, such as the 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, health care and worker safety laws. “Even if you’re not a member of a union, you beneﬁted from a union,” Obama said. Obama said he intended to speak more about the middle class and workers, but it was not the appropriate time for political speeches because of the hurricane in the Gulf Coast. “It’s a day for all of us to come together as Americans and send our thoughts and prayers to our brothers and sisters who worry in this hour about their homes and their livelihoods and their loved ones,” he said. Obama said times of tragedy bring out the unity in the country because people can put their partisan beliefs aside to help those Americans who are in need. He said there was a connection between this spirit of unity and the union movement and it should not be restricted to times of catastrophe. “That spirit of looking out for one another, that core value that

jin’s from page 1 “The vendors have to fulfill the responsibilities of their license,” Lee said. Jin’s Chicken & Fish has come under fire from the city before. In 2004, the council passed an ordinance banning vending in residential neighborhoods in the evening hours after complaints surfaced about Okafo’s business on Langdon Street, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. “The bottom line is that this sort of behavior on the part of this vendor has gone on for many, many years, unfortunately,” he said.

says I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, that spirit is most evident during times of great tragedy,” Obama said. Obama said, if elected, he would bring this feeling of unity to the White House. Before Obama took the stage, Gov. Jim Doyle, U.S. Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, DMilwaukee, spoke and promoted Obama’s presidential campaign.

“That spirit of looking out for one another ... is most evident during times of great tragedy.” Barack Obama democratic candidate U.S. Presidency

“[People] have been looking and hoping for someone to come forward who will say we can do this, we can turn this country around, we can restore the American dream,” Doyle said. Obama was introduced by Andy Nirschl, the president of a workers’ union at the New Page Paper Mill in Kimberly, Wis. Nirschl said the small town of Kimberly depends on the mill, which will soon close down. He said Obama would look out for the welfare of workers. “Let me tell you: Barack Obama cares about us,” Nirschl said. —Erin Banco contributed to this report

Verveer said Jin’s Chicken & Fish is still allowed to do business, but without Okafo as part of the operation during the period of his suspension. Ald. Eli Judge, District 8, alluded to the huge following of Jin’s Chicken & Fish among his constituents. A self-described “weekly patron” of the vendor, Judge said he doubted Okafo’s suspension would stand in the way of the business’s long-term success. “I personally have ... little worry that the success of the cart will continue for decades to come,” Judge said.

“We’re a subscription service, and whoever is in the university can be using it,” he said. “It just so happens that the right people were excited about it and decided it needed to be a more visible place within the university.” According to Solberg, the website is set up to identify the different majors and learning experiences needed to successfully enter a given career. “It provides support to write résumés and cover letters,” he said.

nader from page 1 trum of subject matter and issues where [students] have a deﬁnite stake and where they can do something about [the issues] by becoming more politically and civically active,” Nader said. According to Nader, the NaderGonzalez campaign has 17 issues of interest that are not part of the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain. In addition to full health insurance for everyone, solar energy, electoral reforms and the globalization of trade, Nader said his campaign focuses on cracking down on consumer rip-offs for students.

2:40 a.m. The perpetrators, one armed with a handgun, demanded money and fled the pizzeria with an undisclosed amount. DeSpain said the employees were emotionally shaken but did not suffer any physical injuries as a result of the robbery. Police describe the armed perpetrator as a six-foot black male with a slender build and

possibly braided hair, wearing a black baseball cap and a black bandana over his face. The other man is described as a six-foot black male with a slender build wearing a long white T-shirt, a dark-colored hat and a bandana over his face. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (608) 266-6014.

“It navigates the world of business.” WISCareers Special Projects Manager Ann Fillback-Watt said the website helps undecided students complete assessments based on interests and skills to help focus their direction. “We look to incoming freshmen who do not know what they want to do specifically,” she said. “The site can help you figure out a specific job under a major such as sociology.” According to Watt, students can gain access to the website before entering the university.

High school students can create “e-portfolios” to compile projects and papers to send to an employer or school. Solberg said he wants people to use the website as early as middle school so they can access it for rest of their lives. “When you’re no longer a student at UW-Madison you can get access through an individual, inexpensive subscription,” Solberg said. Students can visit www.wiscareers. wisc.edu for more information on how to set up personal e-portfolios.

Students are a prime target for credit card, auto insurance and bank penalties before they even get “gouged” on student loan payments, Nader said. Another issue Nader said he concentrates on is setting up a dynamic curriculum within universities. He said the current curricula at many universities are heavily commercialized and corporatized. Nader said one of his main issues is opening up the debates to third parties. “They are controlled by the two parties, and the debate commission is a private company,” Nader said. A third party cannot reach the number of people a national debate reaches, no matter how large the campaign, he said.

“It strips the voters of their choices. If they are just left with two because the national TV is engaged in a blackout, then [voters] ﬁgure they will have to drudge to the polls … and vote for the least worst,” Nader said. He said his campaign is trying to provide a third force with progressive policies. As a thirdparty candidate, Nader said he hopes to push the Republican and Democratic candidates to take better stands for the people. According to Nader, as the pressure builds, the changes will come, but it is up to the citizenry. He said third parties could have a chance at the presidency with the right candidate in four, eight or 12 years.

LEGAL NOTICE Public Meeting Proposed School of Human Ecology Addition and Renovation Project University of Wisconsin - Madison A public scoping meeting to present the proposed UW-Madison School of Human Ecology Add Ad dition and Renovation project will be held at 5:00 PM on Thursday, September 18, 2008, in Room 132 of the WARF Building at 610 N. Walnut Street on the UW-Madison campus. Free parking is available after 5:00 pm in the adjacent parking lot. A description of the project will be presented, and all persons will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to identify both orally and in writing any support, issues, or concerns they believe should be addressed during the EIS process for this proposed project. The EIS will be prepared in accordance with the Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act (WEPA), Wisconsin Statutes 1.11, and University of Wisconsin System Administration (UWSA) guidelines. The project manager is the state Department of Administrationʼs Division of State Facilities (DSF). Ayres Associates has been retained to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on behalf of the UW System for this proposal which includes demolition of the existing Pree school Laboratory and the Human Development and Family Studies building. These programs will be relocated within the new SoHE building. An initial requirement of the EIS is the scoping process, with the intent of identifying at an early stage any potential impacts of the project on the physical, biological, social, and economic enn vironments. Impacts that are identified during this process are incorporated into a draft EIS which is made available to the public for a 45-day review period and is circulated to approprii ate federal, state, and local agencies. A public meeting is held on the draft EIS. Comments and inquiries raised on the draft EIS are used to develop the final EIS, which is circulated to the public and commenting agencies for a subsequent 30-day review period. A public hearing is then held on the final EIS for additional comment. Following the public hearing, the University of Wisconsin System develops a conclusion on the findings of the EIS. This Record of Decision is circulated to key individuals and agencies involved in the EIS process. If you are interested in this project or have any information relevant to it, we welcome your comments, suggestions, or other input. Please submit your comments in writing by October 1, 2008, for incorporation into the draft EIS to: Kathleen Melland Ayres Associates 1802 Pankratz Street Madison, WI 53704-4069 mellandk@ayresassociates.com Comments received after October 1, 2008, will be considered in preparation of the final EIS. Comment forms can also be obtained via the project website at http://www.ayresprojectinfo.com/UW-SoHE

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revise on-street parking permits

riving around a residential block in Madison several times in search of a parking space has become the norm for UW students with cars, and many exceed the two-hour street parking limit without a permit and get away without receiving a written violation for it. Unfortunately, the Madison Police Department’s lackluster parking enforcement is catching up with it. Recently, the MPD announced that it is $500,000 short of the $5.5 million in projected revenue from parking violations for 2008. This amount accounts for 17 percent of the anticipated $2.98 million shortfall projected by the MPD this year.. Officials have found it difficult to determine the exact cause of this decrease. City Council board members claim a “marked reduction” in violations—20 percent fewer than in the four years preceding 2007— while the MPD cites staffing problems and increased civil compliance with parking laws. The inability to account for this shortfall is the product of attempting to pay for governance with money that is not guaranteed. Attempting to project an amount of people who will

be ticketed has proved unpredictable and unreliable in supplying a ﬁnancially-starved budget, evidenced by the last two years of missing revenue projections from parking violations. Regardless of the exact problem, the city would be wise to improve the overall appeal of their street parking permit program. The Madison Parking Utility can easily increase the miniscule cost of $21 while increasing public knowledge of this permit as a viable parking option. The increased revenue would support the cost of improved regulation of onstreet meter, two-hour and alternateside parking zones. Increased regulation would create a greater guarantee of on-street parking and would surely attract students paying upward of $100 per month for private parking. This would generate more money for the city as a whole and allow more ﬂexibility in allocating guaranteed and up front money—rather than projected—to its various departments. Although this is only a small step in addressing Madison’s parking dilemma, the city must take a practical step its governance with actual money to improve the enforcement and availability of on-street parking.

Passenger trains ensure long term sustainability JOSEPH KOSS opinion columnist

ometime during the last 60 years we lost something vital to the overall stability of the United States: passenger trains. Since Eisenhower’s great highway expansion program of the 1950s, ridership has suffered and railroad lines have closed. In 1971, faced with these major declines in the passenger rail services, Congress created the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, commonly known as Amtrak, to operate the nation’s intercity passenger rail services. Amtrak was set up as a private corporation that received subsidies from the federal government. Amtrak created a national system under a single company. Although, the creation of Amtrak stabilized the passenger rail system, the creation of a national system also meant the final discontinuance of many routes, including several in Wisconsin. One of the most important discontinued lines was one that connected Madison to Milwaukee, and for over 10 years there has been ongoing talk of

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reopening these lines. On Oct. 30, 2007, the U.S. Senate passed the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007, which authorizes $10.1 billion to reauthorize Amtrak to take on new capital projects, among other things. One of the new capital projects would be reopening of a line of service connecting the Twin Cities to Madison to Milwaukee to Chicago. Never more so than now has reinvestment in our public transportation system been needed. Gas prices have soared from $1.20 a gallon in 2003 to over $4 in 2008. We have seen the collapse

of one major bridge and the closing of numerous other structural failures. Recently, we have seen Mother Nature close major highways and debilitate a state’s infrastructure because of flooding. Anybody who has traveled through Europe or Asia has seen the beneﬁts of a robust passengertrain and subway commuter system. Imagine jumping on a train on a beautiful Friday afternoon, heading to Milwaukee to visit friends and take in a ball game. Imagine visiting the Museum of Modern Art, or spending hours trains page 7

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trains from page 6 at the Lakeside brewery. Now imagine being able to do all that without having to worry about traffic, finding a place to park downtown and, maybe most important of all, without having to have a designated driver. Imagine being worryfree, knowing that every two hours you can catch a train from downtown Milwaukee and, in an hour and a half, get back to Madison, ready to take in a beautiful evening at the Terrace. And all for $10 to $20, round trip. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Besides the obvious public benefits, there are also enormous economic benefits. Connecting Madison to the two major financial cities in the lower Great Lakes region can only increase the opportunities for mutually beneficial relations between and among the cities. Creating easily accessible lines of public transportation between cities necessarily fosters growth, cooperation and interdependence among those cities by opening more opportunities and more potentialities for the exchange of the goods and services each individual city has to offer. Commuter trains offer those living in suburbs greater opportunities to find and sustain work. Trams and subways offer alternative access to intercity regions usually too congested by highway traffic, increasing the use of city centers. High-speed

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 intercity trains offer affordable alternatives to air travel for business travelers. And short to medium lines (such as a line between Madison and Milwaukee) offer both the business and leisure rider the chance to work, read, socialize and relax while alleviating congestion on our highways. Not to mention the boost in all jobs related to the construction and operation of a robust train system. The call to start reinvesting in the long term development and stability of the U.S. has started. Investing in public works projects like passenger trains is a great place to start. For too long the United States has ignored the realities of continuing our dependence on the automobile, and it is time we all started demanding changes. Triangulating Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago via a state-of-the-art passenger train service makes too much sense for too many reasons for it not to become a reality. Although the bill has passed both the House and Senate, it has yet to become law and is but one small step in the direction we need to be going. A robust, modern public transportation system, reconnecting the major metropolitan cities of the United States and providing commuter options intracity should and must become part of our future. Joseph Koss is a junior majoring in secondary education in social studies. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

In upcoming election, College Republicans stand for change Kristen Wall COLLEGE REPUBLICANS

Change. That is a word we have been hearing a lot lately, especially in regard to the upcoming presidential election. It is a word that is normally associated with Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama, though it can also be used to describe what is happening to the political climate at this university. When I stepped on campus almost two years ago to the day, I was warned by everyone from my grandmother to the Badger Buddies that helped me move in, that this campus proudly considered itself the “Berkeley of the Midwest.” While I found this to be somewhat true—most students and professors are far-left on the political spectrum—I also found a group that not only accepted my political views, they embraced them. I found the College Republicans. As a freshman, I was naturally nervous going into any new experience. But I punched down my nerves and went to the first College Republicans meeting. What I found there was a group of genuinely nice, down-to-earth people, who were concerned with getting Republicans elected to office and spreading the Conservative Movement. It was through the College Republicans that I found the courage to stand up for my beliefs, even though I

knew that the majority of people would not agree with me. But back to that all important word. Change. The political climate of this university is changing. I am not saying we will wake up tomorrow morning and all of a sudden people will be singing praises of President Bush and erecting statues to Ronald Reagan and Joseph McCarthy, but there is a growing contingency of people that are questioning the liberal rhetoric that so many accept without blinking an eye. So I invite everyone to come and see what the College Republicans are all about.

The political climate of this university is changing.

We have many exciting events planned for this year, our kick-off is a non-partisan, non-political event honoring those who perished in the Sept. 11 attacks seven years ago. We will be setting up a memorial on Bascom Hill in the morning, and our evening events include speakers and a non-denominational service with a message delivered by Pastor Rick

Lund. Other activities will include campaign trips around the state to assist in State Assembly and Senate races, celebrating Freedom Week,and participating in Get Out the Vote. We have regular meetings where we host a variety of speakers, and we also are planning a fall social and election party. I encourage everyone to get involved in this upcoming election. This is an exciting time for our country as we look to the election this November. We must remember, however, that John McCain and Barack Obama are not the only people running for office this election cycle. There are many hotly-contested races at the state level, including state Assembly and Senate races, and Congressional races. Whether or not you want to believe it, the outcome of this election cycle will affect you, and the way to influence it is to get out and participate in campaigns, whether it is by making phone calls, doing literature drops, or simply showing up to vote on Nov. 4. It is our civic duty as American citizens to participate in the political process, and I beseech everyone to do so. Kristen Wall is a junior majoring in economics and political science and is the current Vice Chair of the UW-Madison College Republicans. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Steve Coogan plays a desperate theatre teacher in “Hamlet 2,” bringing sexy back to the Bard’s tale of a vengeful son the only way he knows how: adding the son of God to the marquee. To see or not to see? Yes is the answer.

‘Ham’ming up Shakespeare By Katie Foran-McHale THE DAILY CARDINAL

“Hamlet 2” explores the life of failed-actor-turned-teacher Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan) and his quest to save his high school drama program by writing a sequel to the Shakespearean play. When every other elective is cut from their struggling school system, the troublesome kids are sent to Coogan’s drama class, which is next on the chopping block. Coogan struggles to get through to the students and must single-handedly save his department. Despite his unsupportive wife (Catherine Keener), Coogan decides to write a sequel to “Hamlet,” arguing that the Danish prince could have gone back in time, picked up Jesus, asked for guidance and prevented the deaths of everyone else in the play. After discovering that his star (Joseph Julian Soria) actually possesses talent, Coogan attempts to make the show a reality. At first glance, it appears to be a clichéd “let’s put on a show” inspirational teacher movie (Coogan even references “Dead Poets Society” and “Mr. Holland’s

Opus” in an early scene), but the audience quickly makes an important discovery: No one, besides Coogan and his two creepy brownnosers, wants the play to be made. Comedy ensues. In between the explicit banter and spastically offensive observations, Coogan generates a bizarre, yet amusing charm. He gets his most serious advice from a 10-yearold who belittles his plays—unedited and awkward scenes from blockbuster movies—in the school paper. Its charisma makes the punch lines soar, especially with such one-liners as Jesus exclaiming “If Dad finds out about what I’ve been up to, he’s gonna crucify me!”

The ﬁlm doesn’t leave a soul unscathed by its mockery.

The parallels between the film and its co-writers’ past creations— “South Park: Bigger Longer &

Uncut” and “Team America: World Police”—are clearly visible. Yolanda (Natalie Amenula)—a quiet and innocent girl styled after “South Park’s” Kenny—is constantly being pelted with flying objects and thrown against walls. In addition, the play’s big musical number, “Rock Me Sexy Jesus,” and its lyrics (“Turn the other cheek is really showing class / But I really think it’s sexy when he kicks Satan’s ass”) is reminiscent of “Team America’s” crude musical interludes. The faint of heart and easily offended might not appreciate “Hamlet 2,” but naysayers should at least note that the film doesn’t leave a soul unscathed by its mockery. Not only does it satirize the inspirational-teacher subgenre, it pokes fun at conservatism, stereotypes about minorities and the American Civil Liberties Union. While by no means a cinematic work of art, “Hamlet 2” is undoubtedly an entertaining movie and might just inspire someone to get moving on that “Romeo and Juliet 2” draft that’s been stashed in a sock drawer. Grade: AB

ast time on television: the Writers Guild of America strike! Fourteen-week freeze of television and film writing! If anyone remembers anything about the 2007-’08 television season, it’s that there wasn’t much of one. But by February 2008, negotiations were made and TV dramas/comedies are back and better than ever, right? Well, not exactly. The past summer’s crop of television shows could probably be best described as “Writer’s Strike Fallout” with a few standouts. Since summer is usually a time when people take a break from the tube, opting for physical activity or whoring themselves out at their minimum-wage college job, here’s what you missed, or didn’t miss this summer: 1. MTV Realivision Besides no new episodes of “The Office,” the writer’s strike meant a reality TV gold mine. No writers, no script, no problem. This opened the door for a slew of MTV reality shows, some decent (“America’s Best Dance Crew”) and some laughable (“From G’s to Gents”). But perhaps the most abominable of all was “A Shot at Love 2 with Tila Tequila.” Ms. Tequila—a model, entertainer and singer—won her own TV show as a reward for having the most MySpace friends in the world. So for those of you who actually accept all those random creepy friend requests, your efforts have not been in vain. Anyway, this gal swings both ways and had girls and guys competing for her love—like “The Bachelor,” but more LBGT friendly. So a group of young hopefuls competed in a series of disgusting and mortifying challenges to prove they were willing to win over the girl who’s biggest film credit was a Hooters girl in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.” The end result? The lucky girl that Tila picked (over a dude, by the way) decided last minute that she wasn’t sure if the lesbian thing was

for her. So beware, “Shot at Love 3” is just around the corner. Before you get the idea that I’m too good for MTV or something, my favorite guilty-pleasure show this summer by far came in the form of “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods.” Perhaps it was because the ﬁnal prize was a lead in a Broadway musical and not love with a Vietnamese bisexual stripper, but that’s just an opinion. After a slow ﬁrst few episodes, “LBTM: TSFEW” made for a show that showcased talent and minimized behind-the-scenes drama. If anyone remembers anything from the 2007-’08 television season, it’s that there wasn’t much of one.

2. AMC is the new HBO I relish the fact that “can-do-noevil-we’re-not-TV-we’re” HBO is kicking itself for rejecting Matthew Weiner’s ’60’s drama “Mad Men” and passing it to the much-less watched AMC network. After a ﬁrst season cut short by the writers’ strike, “Mad Men” was back this summer in full force with a Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination to show for it. The show’s lack of known actors, its visual style and mysterious narratives make the show feel surprisingly fresh, and it was by far the best thing on television this summer. “Mad Men’s” success gave way to another AMC series, “Breaking Bad,” about a high school teacher whose terrible home life gets even worse when he is diagnosed with lung cancer. This leads him to open a meth lab to support the fam. Sounds awesome, right? It is. So you can save on the premium channels this fall and just watch AMC. Speaking of premium channels and parents selling drugs to support a family, “Weeds” began its fourth season this June, and Silas got really hot. That is all. Want to catapult Ali to reality stardom? Have everyone you know Facebook friend or e-mail her at rothschild@wisc.edu.

‘College’ director breaks through gender, gag-reﬂex barriers By Ryan Hebel THE DAILY CARDINAL

Director Deb Hagan just shattered another glass ceiling for rising feminists: the gross-out comedy. Hagan, who joked about having a 14-year-old boy’s sense of humor, wasn’t the most likely candidate to direct “College”—the new comedy starring three “Superbad”-look-alikes trying to survive a college visit and featuring a cast that includes womanizing frat boys, an “Assless Chaps Guy” and anonymous “Penthouse Pets.” Still, Hagan defied the odds, and by her final interview with the film’s writer, Adam Ellison, Hagan had just one more gender barrier to leap. That conversation, Hagan recalled, went like this: Producer: “You have to make sure you don’t short me on boobs.” Deb: “Adam, you can have all the tits you want.” A few hours later, the deal was done and a pioneer was born. Okay, so she’s not exactly Betty Friedan, but Hagan doesn’t seem to care whether her fellow females shower

her with praise or make her their pariah. Taking a cue from the feminists themselves, she’s doing what makes her happy, to hell with gender stereotypes. “I think guys in general are just given permission to be a bit raunchier than women, and maybe that’s not fair,” said Hagan, who experienced the male sense of humor ﬁrst-hand growing up with a younger brother. “I think guys in general are just given permission to be a bit raunchier than women, and maybe that’s not fair.” Deb Hagan director ‘College’

While she admitted movies aimed strictly at men under 25 can be a bit low-brow—critics have already stained “College” with the label—Hagan said the character relationships and stories in those movies are usually more hon-

est, relatable and real than movies aimed at young women. “One of the problems that I have with female-driven movies is, I don’t see the female characters as being super relatable—they’re not the chicks I’d hang out with,” Hagan said. To keep her dialogue as authentic as possible, Hagan said she rewrote the film’s original script extensively, drawing from her own freshman-year experience at the University of Delaware as “research for this film.” Hagan, who is making her directorial debut with “College” and has a background in marketing, has a firm grip on the business side of her industry and knows how to write for her audience. “I think I have a handle on what makes guys giggle,” she said. When that wasn’t enough, Hagan said she leaned heavily on her three stars—Andrew Caldwell, Kevin Covais (of “American Idol” fame) and Drake Bell (most remembered as the kid who flipped off Tom Cruise in “Jerry Maguire”) for touches of realism.

Hagan may know what makes her audience tick, but she’s certainly not oblivious to her unique influence over a film that’s been pitched as this generation’s “Animal House” and “American Pie”—films often shunned as chauvinistic. “One thing I tried to do was protect the female characters a little bit. I tried

to make them a little bit more grounded,” Hagan said. She also pointed out that, while she held up her end of the “boob” bargain, she “tried to use it in a way where it feels like it comes from the growth of the characters, so it’s not completely gratuitous.” Feminists may get ripped off on that deal, but “College” is in theaters now.

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With crass jokes featuring statue hazing and hairy body shots, feminists may be shocked to ﬁnd one of their own behind the camera in “College.”

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Chris Farley movie quote Start with one-letter words and words with apostrophes, ﬁnd out how many places the alphabet has shifted, then use that knowledge to decipher the code. Yesterday’s Example:

“Axzt p gdaaxcv hidct” “Like a rolling stone”

Hint: The one-letter word “a” moved 15 places to “p”

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43 Searched for water, in a way 44 1950s teen idol Paul 45 Use Ameslan 46 Dear 49 Nursery purchase, perhaps 50 Warning issuer at the start of a DVD 53 Make a knot not a knot 54 Clingy critters 56 Double’s job, often 57 Where one’s goose is cooked 58 Clout 59 Berlin products 60 Pyramid part 61 Up to scratch DOWN

1 Subtle attention getter 2 “The Godfather” composer Nino 3 Agate variety 4 Apportionment word 5 Gun mechanism 6 Boat sections 7 Honest-togoodness 8 Tropical root 9 Make a valiant effort 10 Baseball player’s dream home 11 Having a bird’s-eye view of 12 How procrastinators run

13 Otherwise 18 Bypasses 22 Return, of a sort 23 Piercing 24 Roll out the red carpet for 25 Partner of burn 26 “___ Rock” (Bob Seger hit) 27 Correct misspellings, e.g. 28 Prepares to store, as a sail 29 Becomes worthy of 30 Dunne of “I Remember Mama” 31 Baring more than one’s soul 33 Casualty of 1997 36 Dubious 40 Canon fodder 42 Arms on big bodies? 43 Feinstein of politics 45 Saddle woes 46 Emulate a sailor, stereotypically 47 Aware of 48 Dumbfound 49 Hot issue? 50 Botch 51 Carillon component 52 Idyllic getaway 54 Short hairdo 55 Yr.-end advisor

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dailycardinal.com/sports Wisconsin sophomore defender Roxanne Carlson keeps the ball away from Western Michigan’s junior defender Michele Roffey Friday at the McClimon Soccer Complex. ANNA STONEHOUSE THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Badgers break past Broncos By Erica Barts THE DAILY CARDINAL

The UW women’s soccer team (2-1-0) proved too much for Western Michigan to handle Friday night at the McClimon Soccer Complex, as the Badgers soundly defeated the Broncos 3-0. The Badgers kept control the entire game by keeping constant pressure on the Broncos. In the 24th minute, sophomore defender Taryn Facel connected with freshman forward Laurie Nosbusch inside the box for the ﬁrst goal. Wisconsin’s intensity only increased thereafter, and in the 61st minute, after a trip in the penalty box caused by Western Michigan freshman defender Victoria Slavin, freshman midﬁelder Erin Jacobsen made the Broncos pay by scoring the second point off a penalty kick.

Senior forward Taylor Walsh scored the third goal in the 85th minute. Western Michigan did threaten the Badgers by applying ball pressure in the midﬁeld. Late in the second half, the Broncos threatened senior goalkeeper Jamie Klages with two attempts at goal, both hitting the cross bar. The Broncos were able to control both rebounds but were called offsides, ending the threats. Western Michigan sophomore goalkeeper Julia Francy had three saves on the night while Klages had four. Both goalkeepers played 90 minutes. Wisconsin head coach Paula Wilkins was pleased with her team’s performance. Wilkins said she believes the Broncos exposed Wisconsin’s weaknesses, which will help better prepare them for the Big Ten. She also said the team needs to work on little touches on the ball because of the speed of the Big Ten conference. “Our positioning needs to be better, and our anticipation to close down space,” Wilkins said. The Badgers outshot the

Broncos 15-11 and ultimately proved the better team by taking care of the little things, such as crisp passes and first touches on the ball. “We were all over [Western Michigan],” Jacobsen said. “We kept running at them and constantly getting people forward.” Wisconsin had multiple opportunities to score, with offensive threats appearing from all angles. The team had many opportunities off crosses from the outside toward the goal to keep Western Michigan on its toes. The Badgers’ speed off the ball and constant pressure were two main ingredients in their second victory of the season. With each player doing something different and making sure the little things are done right on the field, Wisconsin should be a threat once conference games come around in late September. The Badgers won’t play again until this weekend, when they will head to Bloomington, Ind., to participate in the Hoosier Classic. Their first match is Friday at 5 p.m. against Cal Poly (0-0-3).

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have a friend who sold me her tickets for face value at $143. I know of other fans purchasing their tickets for more than $500. This really is a lose-lose situation for the ticket ofﬁce and the true fans who needed to work out deals with the middlemen. If you can think of other fair ways to distribute student season tickets in the future, e-mail Crystal at crowns@wisc.edu.

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occurred. The bottom line is, seniors should never take the back seat to underclassmen in situations like this. I just ﬁgured this university, which prides itself on tradition, would never leave this many upperclassmen emptyhanded. Is it so wrong to have people wait their turn? I guess so. Lucky for me, I

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The No. 11 Wisconsin football team showcased its rushing prowess against Akron Saturday, as P.J. Hill, Zach Brown and John Clay each surpassed the Zips’ total yards on the ground. The trio accumulated 404 total yards and four touchdowns while Hill broke the 200-yard mark for the second time in his career. After UW put up an early 17-0 lead, Akron responded with 10 points in the second quarter. The Badgers got it together in the second half to win 38-17. “That’s Badger football. We play physical football straight at you,” Hill said. “Eventually it’s going to wear you down.” Hill carried the ball 26 times for 210 total yards and two touchdowns. Brown and Clay ran for 87 and 71 yards, respectively, and each made it into the end zone once. “I’d probably give a game ball to our offensive line—just the way they controlled the line of scrimmage,” head coach Bret Bielema said. “They love a day like this. They relish in it. It is a personality that I like to set because I do think we’re a physical football team.” About once every seven plays, senior quarterback Allan Evridge changed it up and passed the ball. He went 7-for-10 for 75 yards with one interception and one touchdown in his debut as starter. Notably absent from the game was sophomore right end Kirk DeCremer, who is unlikely to play for the rest of the season due to a back injury, Bielema said, though no final decision has been made. “He’s a tremendous young man that has done a lot of good things here, so that’s a tough one for us,” Bielema said. “It’s something that’s difficult to swallow because you see someone that wants it so bad.” The Badgers held possession of the football for nearly 36 minutes—over 10 minutes more than the Zips. The UW offense dominated the first quarter with two touchdowns and controlled the ball for 11:33. They began with a series of runs on the opening drive until junior tight end Garrett Graham snagged a 20-yard pass from Evridge while in between two Akron defenders. Two plays later, Graham caught a threeyard toss to put up the first six points of the game. “It felt good to score right away,”

One thing was certain at the end of the Wisconsin Badger football team’s 38-17 victory against the Akron Zips: Wisconsin decided to run the ball, and nothing was going to stop them. As UW celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its 1998 Rose Bowl Championship team in front of 80,910 at Camp Randall, it seemed fitting for Wisconsin to throw its passing plays out the window and pay the ’98 team homage by returning to the smashmouth style of football that helped build the program in the first place. “I’m sure the AD [Barry Alvarez] liked it,” UW head coach Bret Bielema said during his post-game press conference. Alvarez brought Wisconsin’s program back from the brink of extinction and surely enjoyed watching the Badgers rack up 404 rushing yards on 63 carries, as junior tailback P.J. Hill led the charge with 210 yards and two touchdowns. Hill, along with sophomore Zach Brown—who rushed for 87 yards and a touchdown—and redshirt freshman John Clay—71 yards and a touchdown—have cemented themselves as the top three running backs on the team, and perhaps one of the best trios in the country. Brown, however, has his own nickname for the talented group of runners. “We always talk about this threeheaded monster going in, but this was our first time seeing it,” he said. “So for us to just go out there and actually experience it was great.” While Hill, Brown and Clay earn the acclaim, it is the men up front who bring about much of their success.

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Junior tailback P.J. Hill led the Badgers with 210 total yards and two touchdowns against the Akron Zips Saturday at home. Evridge said. “I was dropping back, thinking, ‘Don’t yack the thing, don’t overthrow it,’ but it was a great catch by Garrett.” The UW defense then shut out Akron, and the offense responded with another touchdown after Hill used a stiff arm to break away from an Akron linebacker for a 46-yard gain. Hill finished the drive with a two-yard dash into the end zone, and racked up 108 rushing yards in the first quarter. Freshman placekicker Philip Welch made a 32-yard field goal early into the second quarter to make the game 17-0. Things fell apart for UW after that, however, when Akron quarterback Chris Jacquemain put together a 72-yard drive that ended in a threeyard touchdown pass. Then a potential Badger touchdown turned into an Akron possession when Hill fumbled on the goal line and the ball went out of bounds in the end zone. UW moved the ball all the way to the one-yard line again on the next drive, but Akron defensive back Brian Williams intercepted Evridge’s pass and ran 63 yards down field, which set up a successful 26yard field goal for the Zips in the final seconds of the first half. “That gave us a little wake-up call,” sophomore strong safety Jay

Valai said. “We got a little relaxed in the second quarter and that hurt us a little bit. But in the second half, we really picked it up.” Wisconsin responded to the second quarter frustration with an unyielding running game and two touchdowns by tailbacks Hill and Brown in the third quarter to put UW up 31-10. “It felt good moving the ball down the ﬁeld,” Hill said. “I love hearing my number called.” Hill and Brown rested during the fourth quarter, allowing Clay, a freshman, to continue the Badgers’ dominance on the ground. Clay ran it in for a touchdown early on in the fourth quarter to make the score 38-10. The ﬁnal score of the game came during the last minute of play when Jacquemain got one more passing touchdown for Akron. Jacquemain threw for 227 yards while the Zips earned 70 total rushing yards. The Badgers set out to run the football and ease Evridge into his role as starting quarterback. “In this game, kind of our motto was—I heard [offensive coordinator] Paul Chryst say it over and over—‘the better we run the football the more we’ll be able to throw,’” Bielema said.

Bielema awarded the entire offensive line the game ball, naming sophomore left tackle Gabe Carimi, senior guards Andy Kemp and Kraig Urbik, sophomore center John Mofﬁtt and senior right tackle Eric Vandenhuevel the game MVPs. “I just can’t thank them enough for the job they did today,” Brown said. “They did an amazing job making holes and we just kept taking advantage of them.” “It’s nice to rack up the yards for P.J. and the running backs, and it’s kind of cool to hear how many yards they got at the end of the game,” Vandenhuevel said. “It’s a fun game because you don’t have to worry about pass protection. It’s also real tiring, but you know [the opposition] are getting more tired than you are.” With 63 plays devoted to the run, not much was left for senior quarterback Allan Evridge in his ﬁrst start in the cardinal and white. But the Badgers’ signal-caller knows that his time in the spotlight will come, and that winning comes before personal gain. “We obviously got the win, that is the most important thing,” Evridge said. “Any time you can sit back and watch the O-linemen just dominate the way that they did, and we didn’t get to show a lot offensively as well, which is a good thing as well.” The days of the Wisconsin football glory days may have returned, and if Bielema has his way, they will continue for the rest of the season. “I would say that we will run the football until someone says we can’t,” Bielema said at his weekly press conference Monday. For Badger fans who grew up during the Rose Bowl seasons of the late ’90s, that can never be a bad thing.

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Wisconsin’s offensive line prepares to protect senior quarterback Allan Evridge in Saturday’s game against Akron at Camp Randall Stadium.

Lottery system should never have left seniors empty-handed CRYSTAL CROWNS the crystal ball

hen I received an e-mail from the Wisconsin Athletic Ticket Ofﬁce on July 7 telling me that I was not selected as a football ticket holder for this season, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. My initial reaction was to re-read the entire e-mail, which I actually did get right the ﬁrst time. Was this some kind of joke? How could I, a senior who has purchased season tickets every year, not be selected as a ticket holder while several underclassmen, who are not familiar with the university’s tradi-

tions, were? Aside from calling several other senior fans who were also denied, I placed a very angry phone call to the ticket office. Not to my surprise, the lady I talked to had no real answer for me other than, “the freshmen believe they should have a chance at season tickets, too.” I agree. Freshmen should have a chance at the tickets, but only after all of the upperclassmen have been taken care of first. Does seniority mean anything anymore? The ticket office lady explained that the e-mail notifications sent out last year caused a lot of problems because some students did not receive information about when to apply for the tickets. Whose fault is that? Should the upperclassmen be penalized for the

ticket ofﬁce’s mistake? The truth is, if you are a dedicated fan, you would not need an e-mail to remind you to register because that special day would be already highlighted on your calendar.

The bottom line is, seniors should never take the back seat to underclassmen in situations like this.

The athletic ticket ofﬁce said it would like to reward dedicated fans; I do not think, however, the policy they used this year did anything to help that situation. Since money seems to always be a

factor these days, reward the upperclassmen who have spent tens of thousands of dollars at the university already. Reward the upperclassmen who know what Wisconsin Badgers football is all about. Reward the upperclassmen who have been a part of UW tradition for years. After hearing my complaints, the lady on the phone asked me one question. “How would you have done the football ticket distribution differently?” I took a deep breath and rattled off my thoughts. To identify and track true Badgers fans, have the students swipe their WisCards at each game, along with their student tickets. This way, the athletic department will be able to track who is actually coming to the games, who is selling their tickets (based on

which tickets and which WisCards do not match up) and determine what time ticket holders are entering the gate. Second, a red card system that will reward students who attend the less popular sporting events could be put into effect. Fans should be able to gain “fan” points toward the more popular sports by showing their support for other UW teams. Here again, WisCard swiping would be the answer. All in all, students with the most points as well as seniors should have the rights to hold tickets for the major Badgers sports. Maybe if UW would have spent more time exploring various options for student ticket distribution and tried harder to reward its loyal fans, this problem never would have lottery page 11