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Former UW prof. to help lead research center By Ashley Davis THE DAILY CARDINAL

Former UW-Madison professor Sangtae Kim will become executive director of the new Morgridge Institute for Research, the university announced Thursday. Kim, who is currently a chemical and mechanical engineering professor at Purdue University, will assume his new role Oct. 1. The twin Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, set to open in 2010 on the 1300 block of University Avenue, will house the private Morgridge Institute and the public Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. UW alumni John and Tashia Morgridge, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the state of Wisconsin each contributed $50 million for the new research institutes. Kim’s educational qualiﬁcations include a bachelor’s and master’s science degree from the California Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering from Princeton University. The incoming executive director was a member of UW-Madison’s faculty from 1995-’97 and served

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as chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley, who will become the interim director of the public WID on Nov. 1, said he has known Kim since the mid-1980s. Wiley said the two worked closely in the chemical engineering department, and that he is pleased with Kim’s appointment as executive director of the private MIR. “I was disappointed when he didn’t return here after he left the private sector … but we managed to get him back so I’m real happy about that,” Wiley said. “He’s not just adequate for the job, he’s maybe ideally suited for it … I couldn’t think of anyone better.” The Morgridge Institute is expected to furbish cutting-edge technology and yield breakthrough discoveries under Kim’s oversight. “The Morgridge Institute, and the university as a whole, will be well served by Sang Kim’s unique talents and experience,” UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin said in a statement. “We also believe he will prove a major asset as the university works to attract and retain faculty members of the very highest caliber.”

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Rebecca Newman (left) helps place ﬂags on Bascom Hill Thursday. Each ﬂag represented a victim of the 9/11 attacks.

Student groups host 9/11 service By Beth Pickhard THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison student organizations sponsored a memorial service Thursday for the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Guest speaker U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jeremiah Workman spoke of his experience at the

time of the attacks. “I will never forget what I was doing at the time it happened,” Workman recalled. “I was in Marine Corps boot camp for about two weeks, I just turned 18 and was standing outside the barbershop in Pariss Island. “All I heard was there was an attack, there was an attack. It

Campaigning rules outlined for UW groups and employees By Megan Orear THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW System ofﬁcials recently updated the set of guidelines university employees and student organizations must follow for campaigning on campus. According to UW System spokesperson David Giroux, the system has compiled a list of references to policies, statutes and administrative codes about political involvement on campus to make it easier for students

and employees to know what their boundaries are. “We recognize that students and faculty and staff want to be engaged in their communities … but want to make sure that as that civic engagement occurs, it occurs within the boundaries of state laws,” Giroux said. Giroux said the rules are not meant to inhibit free speech or disguidelines page 2

Zimmermann family sues management company alleging lack of proper security County, city and university attorneys met in Dane County Circuit Court Thursday to fight subpoenas against various officials in the latest lawsuit filed by the family of slain UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann, The Capital Times reported. Zimmermann’s parents are suing Wisconsin Management Company Inc.—which manages the property at 517 W. Doty St. where an intruder killed Brittany on April 2—alleging that unsafe living conditions contributed to her death. The Capital Times reported the lawsuit alleges the management company “knowingly failed to provide adequate security to residents” after Zimmermann’s fiancé

Jordan Gonnering complained about the lack of secure doors and locks. The suit claims Wisconsin Management “caused severe and grievous physical and emotional injury and distress to Brittany Zimmermann and caused her death” and seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. According to The Capital Times, officials including Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, and Madison Police Chief Noble Wray were subpoenaed in the suit to disclose documents compiled in the homicide investigation, but attorneys argued to repeal the subpoenas in court Thursday. No decision was reached pending judge reassignment due to a conflict of interest.

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Kelly Nanna (left) and Sean Rao (right) light candles at the vigil ceremony on Bascom Hill following the memorial service.

wasn’t real to me. It was like yes, it had happened, but I wasn’t [in New York] to experience the emotion of everything that was going on. It put fear in our country.” Workman asked attendees to keep the men and women who are overseas, fighting in the war on terror, in their thoughts and prayers. After the service in the Social Sciences building, attendees moved to Bascom Hill for a candlelight vigil. Soldiers posted a large American flag amid the thousands of smaller flags—one for each victim of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Among student groups who participated in the event were UW-Madison College Republicans and College Democrats, and the Association Students of Madison. “I think it’s really important that we remember what happened and we never forget so that hopefully it will never happen again,” said Sara Mikolajczak, chair of the College Republicans.

State ofﬁcials say attorney general lawsuit could hurt voters By Rebecca Autrey THE DAILY CARDINAL

State ofﬁcials reacted Thursday to the lawsuit ﬁled against the Government Accountability Board by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Van Hollen claims the Government Accountability Board has not appropriately verified all information on voter registration forms. Julee Helt, immediate past president for the Wisconsin Municipal Clerks Association, said Van Hollen’s actions could disenfranchise Wisconsin voters whose registration does not match their Department of Transportation records due to simple typos or name changes.

Helt said students who moved over the summer should have no problem on Election Day as long as the student’s name on the registration form is identical to the name on their driver’s license. Kyle Richmond, public information ofﬁcer for the Government Accountability Board, said registering to vote in Wisconsin is easier than in most other states. As a result, he said most disciplinary action and voter registration checks are done after election and checking all voter information before the election would be a huge undertaking in an already busy election season. In a statement released Thursday, Government Accountability Board director Kevin Kennedy made a similar

statement. “The Board believes it would be counter-productive to rush this effort and to create a signiﬁcant risk, at best, of unnecessary hardship and confusion at the polls, and at worst, the disenfranchisement of Wisconsin citizens with a clear and legitimate right to vote,” he said. Kennedy said the GAB will not let the lawsuit distract them from preparing for the Nov. 4 election, and that they have requested a special counsel to represent them in court. Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, said the lawsuit is “very timely,” and said the lawsuit page 2

“…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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DAVID HOTTINGER it’s getting hottinger College Questions with Davis Scrottinger! Dear Davis: What does beer taste like? —Carrie, Kronshage Excellent question Carrie, what a bold query for a lil’ Lakeshore gal like yourself! You should know, Carrie, I like to visualize my question-askers before I write back. It helps me get to know you, in an imaginary sort of way. I picture you, Carrie, sitting alone in your dorm room, staring at your Dell desktop screen, patiently waiting to read the online version of this column like you have been for the last five days since you asked it. Your plain face is adorned by thick glasses. The walls of your dorm room with horse posters. But you’re a winner, Carrie, and the swimming medals for participation above your desk make

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it seem that way. Now, for you I had to imagine extra hard, honey, ’cause to be honest I’ve never taken the 20 mile walk to the Lakeshore Compound, so I’m not so sure exactly what sort of humans grow out there. But from what I remember from imagining about it in the past, it’s a quaint little learning commune where people communicate through white erase boards on dorm room doors and socialize with “Star Wars” and Quentin Tarantino-related names in chat rooms. It makes me smile to think of all the little braniacs scurrying hither and thither with their heads down and red wagons ﬁlled with textbooks in tow on their way to Steenbock after a day spent searching for cool bugs in the forest. But I’ll be the ﬁrst to admit that sometimes my imagination strays from reality. I’m pretty sure they feed you guys over there, because you all stay alive, but if I had to be completely honest, I’m not quite sure what sort of an existence transpires between feedings. Maybe you

could start a helpful column where us normals ask you guys questions! On second thought, that’d be really boring. I think its better for you guys if more is left up to the imagination. But hey, you guys do have the lake out there. Well, I guess we do too, but for you guys it’s all you have, so it’s probably easier to appreciate. And if you break your arm or something the hospital is much closer. So it all evens out. In any case, Carrie, I’m sure the best years of your life are passing swimmingly over there in the ’Shore. In any case, it’s fun for me to imagine life in that cloistered corner of the college campus. Even so, it’s too bad I’m stuck imagining what things are like for you guys over there. I wish there were classes that both Lakeshore kids and the rest of the student body could take together, so we could learn about each other and realize that we’re not that different, just like they do with the Coasties. You know what, Carrie? I just added that idea to my list of good ideas. Oh, I almost forgot to answer your question! Here I am blabber-

UW entrepreneurship program ranked 13th on top 50 list By Staci Taustine THE DAILY CARDINAL

Wisconsin School of Business’ entrepreneurship program is one of the best in the country, according to a national survey published recently by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at UW-Madison ranks 13th nationwide in the “Top 50 Entrepreneurial Graduate Colleges in the U.S.” out of more than 2,300 undergraduate and graduate schools surveyed for the list. The center stands seventh among public universities. The survey distinguished the best entrepreneurship programs through an analysis of questions regarding

student and faculty performance. Dan Olszewski, director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship, said the center has a large amount of interaction between students and actual entrepreneurs. “We have entrepreneurs that are often guest speakers, we work on projects with local companies, and have a strong advisory mentoring board,” he said. “All which provide the students with a lot of great feedback and opportunity.” Michael Knetter, dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, said the successes of the entrepreneurship program is spread throughout the entire business school. “The program and the school are doing a lot of great things to spur

entrepreneurship and to spur leadership across the whole campus,” he said. “We try to raise awareness and teach the concepts that allow people to more systematically take an idea into productive action.” Although in their sixth year of rankings, this is the ﬁrst year the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine have ranked UW-Madison. Olizewski said he is conﬁdent it will not be the only time the Weinert Center is a part of the top-50 entrepreneurship programs in the nation. “I think we have a great base and we are continuing to grow and add new features to the program … I think the program itself will continue to get better,” he said.

Dunkin’ Donuts announces Madison-area expansion plan By Jack Zeller

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Popular breakfast franchise Dunkin’ Donuts announced Wednesday their intention to extend the arms of their “every day, all day” coffee and doughnuts operation to the Madison area. According to a statement, the chain is currently seeking experienced restaurateurs to manage a minimum of ﬁve locations in Madison and Dane County, part of a plan to open a projected 32 new locations across southwest Wisconsin. “Dunkin’ Donuts will satisfy a growing demand in Madison

guidelines from page 1 courage political involvement, and that there have not been many incidents where people have not followed the rules. The rules prohibit university employees from wearing apparel demonstrating support for a candidate or using university resources to assist in political campaigns. They can only contribute to campaigns outside of work hours. Student organizations, according

for high-quality coffee and baked goods that are available all day,” Dunkin’ Donuts’ Vice President of Franchising Lynette McKee said in a statement. Dunkin’ Donuts, popular in many of the country’s metropolitan areas, is the nation’s leading coffee-bythe-cup retailer and is known for serving donuts, coffee and an expanded breakfast menu 24 hours a day. Some UW-Madison students say they are excited for a taste of home. “I’m from the East Coast where we have them on every block,” said UW-Madison graduate student Melissa Tully. “So I kind of miss their

iced coffee.” Tully said she would be happy to see a Dunkin’ Donuts open in Madison, but that it would not replace the more relaxed experience of local coffee houses. “I enjoy their coffee very much,” she said. “But I don’t think I would hang out there to study because they don’t have the same environment as many of the smaller, local coffee shops.” The chain has not announced speciﬁc plans for location openings, but said it hopes to have its business plan completed over the next several years.

to the guidelines, cannot use segregated fees or university resources to make contributions to a campaign, or to fund posters or T-shirts that indicate their support of a speciﬁc candidate. However, students groups are free to encourage other students to vote for a candidate and to express their views on issues as long as they do not use university funds. Lavilla Capener, UW-Madison junior and communications director for College Democrats, said the lack

of university funding for political groups on campus is somewhat hindering to groups just starting up. However, she said it is probably better for the university to provide no funding for any political groups on campus rather than raise controversy by giving more to groups of one political afﬁliation or the other. “I think it just brings up a lot of issues that we just don’t want to deal with, so I think it’s easier just to not give any money to anyone,” Capener said.

ing like a fool and you’re probably about to cry over there because I forgot to tell you what beer tastes like and now you’re worried you’ll never know! Of course I’m just kidding there, I’m sure you Lakeshorers are a thick-skinned bunch. No crybabies in Kronshage, that’s what they always say! (But not ’til after the ﬁrst two weeks!) Thanks for putting up with my joshin’, Care-Bear. You Lakeshorers are a patient bunch. By the way, I’m guessing you wrote in with a fake name so that your community over there wouldn’t know you were even thinking about good old Vitamin B. So don’t worry, person with NetID “cmurray4,” your identity is safe with me! For your information though, beer tastes like different shades of ﬁzzy brown heaven. I wouldn’t recommended it for someone with your sort of lifestyle, you may grow discontented, but if you ever feel like talking to a boy, or if your turtle dies, I think a frosty glass of suds would do you good. Got a college question? Send it to hottinger@wisc.edu.

UW Libraries await ‘Digital Commons’ The UW System Board of Regents has added a proposal to include a UW System Libraries “digital commons” in its biennial state budget request for 2010-’11. The “UW Digital Commons” would allow 170,000 students and 30,000 faculty in the UW System to access databases for collaborative research and communication. The project would require an annual $6 million state investment, according to a university statement. According to UW-Madison Libraries Director Ken Frazier, the university has covered journal subscriptions independently in the past, and the cost has risen 700 percent in the last 19 years. To help alleviate rising costs, the libraries have used other resource funds such as Big Ten Network revenues to pay for subscriptions. UW-Madison professor William Cronon said he supports the project because Google contributes to the decline of students’ research skills. “The reason this project is so important is that so much of our knowledge today is tied up in these commercial databases,” Cronon said in a statement. UW-Madison faculty and staff will be able to access the digital commons from campus, home and while traveling abroad.

lawsuit from page 1 Republican Party is concerned the Government Accountability Board is not taking the issue of voter fraud seriously. He said he wants it to be easier for citizens to vote, but harder for them to cheat by casting unlawful votes. According to Jefferson, Wisconsin has some of the least restrictive election laws in the nation, and it is important to enforce restrictions prior to elections. “We think that anyone interested in clean and fair elections in Wisconsin should be very pleased with the courage that it took and the courage that the Attorney General has shown by moving forward with this suit,” he said.

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Today’s Sudoku

Anthro-Apology

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1 Club alternatives, briefly 5 Exclamation of sorrow 9 Island off Manhattan 14 Abrupt transition 15 Barberturned- singer Perry 16 Suppress completely 17 Act like a wolf 18 CD high over a field? 20 CD in a liquor store? 22 Hang it up 23 Ryder Cup side 24 According to 25 Mexico’s leader? 26 Snitch 30 Accessory for Wonder Woman 32 Collection 33 CD filled with kisses? 37 Courtroom outburst 38 Mover’s supply 39 “Dies ___” (Mass hymn) 40 CD in Maryland? 42 Casual attire 43 Small and medium 44 Establishes 45 Scandal sheet 48 Rental for someone on the move? 49 Architect I.M. 50 Spain’s peninsula 52 CDs on sticks?

57 CD ﬁlled with money? 59 Side by side? 60 Fashionable Lauder 61 Flyspeck 62 Custard concoction 63 Take off a wool coat 64 Hissed nudge 65 Phoenician trading center of old DOWN

1 Political coalition 2 Small construction company? 3 Dark and handsome companion? 4 Went over the limit 5 Point the ﬁnger at 6 Poet Federico Garcia 7 Uncontrolled way to run 8 Mollifying concession 9 Tender of the prince’s horses 10 Deadly sin 11 Cato’s tongue 12 French ship that transported the Statue of Liberty 13 Molelike mammal 19 Is apprehensive about 21 In a proper manner 24 Yearned 26 Softest mineral 27 Verdi’s “Caro nome,” e.g. 28 Coal porter?

29 They’re saved for a rainy day 30 Prepares for takeoff 31 “Au revoir!” relative 33 Witch’s group 34 Country in “rain” 35 It may cover a lot 36 Dame of the piano 38 Place to buy a hookah 41 Partition 42 Fall in with 44 Domesticated polecat 45 Prepares potatoes, in a way 46 Embarrass 47 Heroic story 49 They’re well-versed 51 Earthbound bird 52 Some USN ranks 53 Off one’s trolley 54 Air France airport 55 Trucker’s selection 56 On one’s trolley? 58 Roadie’s tote

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Baez saves her classic folk sound, loses edge By Ben Pierson

It is perfect for a lazy day around the house or in the hybrid, but In the ’60s and ’70s Joan Baez not for those times when you just was a folk empress, leader in the want to stick it to the man. As a anti-war movement and all that folk album, Day After Tomorrow jib-jab. She still speaks and sings at is fine, but it does not invigorate protests and does the whole aging- or pull on heart strings the way a hippie thing wonderfully, but like great folk album should. As a rule, most generally lend many other old peaceniks, she has kind of lost her edge. Her new skepticism toward any album with album, Day After Tomorrow, still phrases like “day after tomorrow,” features Baez’s and that holds CD REVIEW fantastic voice, true here. Any but the album album that places fails to replicate such low emphasis on its title, the the fantastic first contact most drama of her listeners will have earlier work. with the piece, usuUnlike great ally turns out to songs “Silver Day After be lazily compiled. Dagger” or Tomorrow Baez spent a lot of “SONG” the Joan Baez this album covering instrumentation plays a much smaller role, acting the work of her collaborators, but as a frame for Baez’s vocals. Day rather than taking the songs to a After Tomorrow features some great new or higher level she simply puts collaborators like Elvis Costello, them into folk format. With Day After Tomorrow Steve Earle and Tom Waits, but their presence is subtle, and listen- Joan Baez seems to say “I am still ers have to stretch their ears just around, working with popular, to pick out the help. Taken as a talented, relevant people, listen to whole, almost every song blends me.” It is a fine album, but only into the next in a way an inatten- in the sense that Baez has a beautive listener would barely know it tiful voice even with Steve Earle had changed. producing, the instrumentation is The album is pleasant and easy a behind the scenes character. It listening, great for the people that is lackluster, still up to par, good grew up at the same time as Baez. but not great. THE DAILY CARDINAL

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In a quirky web of twisted and intertwined story lines, Brad Pitt and the star-studded cast of “Burn After Reading” remind fans that before the thrillers, the Coen brothers were masters of comedy.

Coens back for laughs By Danny Gottleib THE DAILY CARDINAL

As a follow-up to their Best Picture-winning “No Country For Old Men,” Joel and Ethan Coen did the only thing that made sense: make a movie that is completely the opposite. Sure, “Burn After Reading” explores the same dark themes as “Old Men”—murder, blackmail, intense games of cat-andmouse—but where their previous movie was filled with eerie thrills and suspense, this latest film substitutes satire, absurd humor and good old-fashioned idiocy. The plot is fairly complex: Dimwitted gym employees Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) discover a disc in the women’s locker room that contains the secret-filled memoir of a former CIA agent, Osborne Cox (John Malkovich). Naturally, Feldheimer and Litzke try to outsmart and blackmail Cox. Cox’s wife (Tilda Swinton) is having an affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a federal marshal, but Pfarrer is having several other affairs of his own. The attempted blackmail and various entangled relationships make the entire movie, as J.K. Simmons’ character sums it up, a “clusterfuck.” The movie is basically a satire

of typical CIA espionage thrillers, in which all of the usual characters seem too stupid to be able to do their jobs, but the real fun of the ﬁlm is watching the A-list cast try to out-idiot each other. Frances McDormand is at her best as Litzke; you can almost see her wheels turning as she tries to outsmart the CIA. When the documents are found, she immediately recognizes the ﬁnancial potential to pay for all of her desired cosmetic surgeries and reasons, “You either slip on the ice outside a fancy restaurant, or there’s this.”

Yes, better than Anton Chigurh, even The Dude or any of the other hundreds of memorable characters the brothers created.

Pitt’s Feldheimer is the ultimate Coen brothers character. Yes, better than Anton Chigurh, even The Dude or any of the other hundreds of memorable characters they have created. The role is also possibly Pitt’s best performance to date. Dancing carelessly through the movie to his iPod only he can

hear, he has far too few scenes but runs away with every one of them. Paired with McDormand, the duo steamroll through the movie, providing some of the most memorable and hilarious scenes. Of course, something must be said for the rest of the ensemble: Clooney appears to have had way too much fun playing a caricature of his tabloid, dreamy self, and he is extremely entertaining in his despicably womanizing ways. Swinton perfectly captures a woman who seems to hate everyone and everything, particularly in one scene in which she berates a toddler. Malkovich goes blow-for-blow with the intimidating team of Pitt and McDormand in several scenes, and the amount of swear words, insults and threats he manages to scream in only a few minutes is commendable. Meanwhile J.K. Simmons says everything the audience is thinking with his trademark deadpan delivery that kills in every scene. That being said, this movie is definitely not for everyone. Don’t be surprised if you laugh uproariously throughout the whole thing while the person next to you, who can’t understand why anyone would find this crap funny, stares you down. Grade: 4 out of 5 classified CIA documents... B

World Music Festival showcases diverse acts By Ryan Hebel THE DAILY CARDINAL

For the next nine days, we’ve got the world on a string. Well, an isthmus at least. Madison’s 5th annual World Music Festival begins Friday, turning our campus into the musical equivalent of Epcot as 14 world-renowned musicians from 13 countries spice up our local venues. Plus, unlike Disney World, the festival is free. “This is their [students’] chance to experience the world ... from their union,” Rose Gear, the festival’s coordinator, said, pointing out that many performances will take place on the Terrace. The World Festival has ballooned since 2003. This year, it will stretch two weekends and include two new venues: the Willy St. Fair (Sept. 20)

and the Annex (Sept. 14). “We’re hoping that’s going to reach a whole new audience ... that might not be interested in traditional music otherwise,” Gear said. Students might be skeptical about the quality of music for a large festival funded entirely by donations from student orgs and a few corporate sponsors. After all, just think how much UW spends on live music at Freakfest and All-Campus Party. Gear said she had similar reservations before attending last year. “It sort of blew my mind. I wasn’t expecting the high quality of performance... Some of these acts are really famous in their home countries, but they don’t have much of a fan base here so they’re interested in coming to festivals like this even though they don’t pay as well,” Gear said.

On the bill are musicians the Plastic People of America, Chiwaniso and Maraca, all famous acts in Prague, Zimbabwe and Cuba respectively. Other bands, like Nation Beat, bring the same foreign ﬂavor to their music, although half of the Brazilian/ American band calls Brooklyn, NY, home. Drummer Scott Kettner described their music as “Brazilian honky-tonk”—a perfect metaphor for a festival that fuses together unexpected sounds in people’s ears. Gear said the fest’s goal is to “not only educate them [students] about the world and try to create a curiosity, but to bring students and the community together over this event.” The fest’s schedule can be found at http://uniontheater.wisc.edu/worldmusicfest.

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Although Baez retains the easy acoustic sound she built years ago, her latest effort lacks the emotional edge she once had.

Now Playing Madison This week The Daily Cardinal talks to Madison native and folk artist John Statz. Sounds like: Ryan Adams, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen You prefer camping to hotels when you’re on tour. What’s that like?: Camping by myself is always a little scary... I camped on a Sunday night in Arkansas in the Ozarks once ... I was the only person in the entire park, so that’s when you start thinking about “Deliverance” or something. What was it like to win a MAMA in 2007 for Best Folk Album?: There were some more established acts so I was a little bit surprised and I remember going up on stage and just having nothing to say to the people there except thanks. If you could have a Super power? Maybe it’d just be cool to punch through walls like Cyclops, so I think I’ll go with that one. You can catch John Statz 10 p.m. this Saturday at Crystal Corner Bar. Tickets are $5. www.thecrystalcornerbar.com

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drive smart needs to show results Madison area police tallied record numbers of driving-related infractions during the month of August, due in large part to their new Drive SMART (sober, moderate speed, alert, restrained and thoughtful) campaign, a program designed to crack down on dangerous vehicular behaviors. In August alone, police issued 347 citations and warnings, up 50 from July and 85 from June. Although these arrests indicate a commitment to the Drive SMART objectives, they don’t seem to accomplish its principal goal, given the spike in August trafﬁc deaths. With 83 trafﬁc-related deaths.

on Wisconsin roads, August 2008 eclipsed the 2007 fatality rate by 17. The five-year average for August is 72 traffic deaths, noticeably lower than this year’s total. Although fatality rates oscillate because of various factors, Madison area police should not trumpet their Drive SMART as a public relations success when their goal of safer roads does not reflect the statistics. The Drive SMART intentions are good, but until the statistics validate the Drive SMART initiative, Police should keep their eyes and ears on the road rather than at the press podium.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Senior class president offers apology for theft, loss of faith To the Graduating Class of 2009: It is with utmost sincerity that I publicly apologize for my lapse in judgment that resulted in the highly-publicized event last semester. My inconsiderate actions have been a disservice to University administrators, the Van Galder Bus Company and our venerable judicial system. Most of all, I disappointed the very people that believed in my goals, trusted my credentials and elected me as class president— the student body. It is at this moment that I humbly ask for your forgiveness. Contrary to popular publication and blog claims, all par-

ties involved in the incident have come to an amicable agreement that is just and fair. Although I am unable to disclose the details of the agreement, rest assured that it includes both academic and legal restitution. Just as I intend to serve my punishment honorably, the same holds true for my decision to serve out the remainder of my term in its entirety. I will not be resigning my position as class president. This was a difficult decision to make, but ultimately, I wanted to prove that your votes were not in vain. I plan to restore your faith in my potential and deliver on the platforms that garnered your initial support during my campaign last April.

While the torrent of publicity the Union incident received has been distracting, I have not strayed away from my core responsibilities. I have continuously worked with my fellow class officers to select your commencement speakers and plan other graduation details accordingly. In addition, the ASM initiative to reorganize and re-brand the class ofﬁcer titles for the class of 2010 has my full, undivided attention and support. I have nothing but positive things to say about the hardworking students spearheading this project and wish them nothing but the best in this endeavor. Finally, I would like to graciously thank the University/legal ofﬁcials, friends and family that have been incredibly supportive throughout this ordeal. I wish all of you much success and fortitude this school year and hope that we can move forward from this experience together. Genuinely, Oliver N. DelGado

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Women’s soccer bound for New England Erica Barts THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin women’s soccer team (4-1-0) is riding high on conﬁdence after winning the Hoosier Classic last weekend and is ready to face the Boston University Terriers (33-0) and the Harvard Crimson (1-2-0) this weekend in Boston. The Badgers will ﬁrst face the Terriers Friday night at Nickerson Field which is expected to be an intense game, considering the Terriers just came off a big win over No. 19 Connecticut last Sunday. “Boston just beat UConn, so [the Terriers] are coming off a big emotional win for them and we will have to deal with their energy and what they bring,” head coach Paula Wilkins said. Wisconsin has done a nice job

hype from page 8 of the year. In the end, the Longhorns were staying close to home at the Alamo Bowl and the game came in only as the second most hyped game on OSU’s slate. That is because the 2006 MichiganOhio State game was blown up to such mythic proportions one could swear all college football before had been played only as a precursor to that game. Both teams were undefeated and a trip to college football’s title game was at stake.

getting themselves in scoring positions and keeping other teams from threatening senior goalkeeper Jamie Klages. Sophomore defender Taryn Francel said that the defense has been working on technical skills for keeping a strong defensive line. “We [Wisconsin] are going to close up the space early, not let the forwards turn, be tougher than our opponents and stay aggressive,” Francel said. Not only has Wisconsin’s defense been strong, but the midﬁeld and the offense has been a very big threat to other teams. The Badgers have scored 11 goals thus far in the season and have had a total of 85 shots on goal (16 per game). Wilkins attributes this success to people moving off the ball and being able to get into the box. “[They] are being a little bit fearless

and having faith in their teammates,” Wilkins said. Senior Taylor Walsh leads the Badgers with a total of six goals for the season with freshman forward Laurie Nosbusch ranking second with three goals. Wisconsin looks stronger every week and is only getting more conﬁdent and more determined to keep winning games. “One thing we are getting through our heads is that we are not OK with losing. Losing is not an option right now. Our determination is our biggest strength and we are scoring goals, which is something we struggled a little with last year,” Francel said. Even with the continued improvements, Wilkins is not quite satisﬁed. “I think with a younger team it is easy to get excited about two wins [in the Hoosier Tournament] and I’m

Legendary OSU and Michigan coaches Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler respectively were splashed across SportsCenter as the contest was hailed as “the real national title game.” All the history was dug up and Schembechler’s death before the game added more to the aura of the game. When Ohio State came away with a close victory, the rest of the season became just a waiting period when teams bickered for the right to be crushed by the Buckeyes for the title. Except that it wasn’t. Florida destroyed Ohio State, Michigan

lost the Rose Bowl and all the words written and spoken about the game suddenly seemed so pointless in retrospect. As you gather before your televisions to watch this historic face off, remember to just enjoy the game. Don’t expect the world because it’s only September for goodness sake, and there is much more football to be played. Think the Buckeyes will annihilate USC and bring glory back to the Big Ten or add to their resume of big-time ﬂops? Share your bold predictions with Ben at breiner@wisc.edu

just not satisfied. I want to keep pushing them to get better and better,” Wilkins said. The Badgers will have to face another Friday/Sunday schedule, an arrangement that gave Wisconsin a little trouble last weekend in Bloomington. “Sunday games [are] a little more tiring,” Francel said. “We could kind of see it last week with players on the field, a little worn down from Friday’s game. Overall, our fitness is good and I really think that we will be able to stay strong for both games.” With morale high, the team is ready for Boston and Harvard on Friday and Saturday respectively. “I think that this [winning] is exciting and I want to continue to build on that this weekend and ride that momentum,” Wilkins said.

volleyball from page 8 Jaguars finished as runners-up last weekend at the Tiger Invitational in Memphis, Tenn., and defeated Ball State on Tuesday to move to 6-2 on the year. Saturday night, Wisconsin will play BYU, a team that dealt the Badgers its first loss of the season in a thrilling five-set match last year in Provo, Utah. While the Cougars average a tournament field low 10.5 kills per set, BYU will look to win the tournament title in its first ever

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trip to Madison. “For us, we look at every match and each opponent brings a different style and some excellent coaching on the sidelines,” Waite said. “Obviously BYU we played last year when we went to their place, so we have a more recent history with them. BYU deﬁnitely is the ranked team coming in and that’s going to be an exciting match.” The tournament ﬁeld also includes Boise State (0-6), who Wisconsin will not play.

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Don’t believe the hype

By Nate Carey THE DAILY CARDINAL

The No. 10 Wisconsin football team (2-0) heads to Fresno, Calif., for its first road game of the season against the No. 21 Fresno State Bulldogs (1-0). After last season’s dismal record on the road—Wisconsin went 2-4 away from Camp Randall Stadium in ’07—there is a new emphasis on winning away from the state of Wisconsin. “We’ve definitely got a lot of guys who know how it feels to lose on the road ... so we definitely take it to heart,” junior middle linebacker Jaevery McFadden said. “This is definitely more of a business trip. We are going to be all about business come Saturday night.” The Badgers only won one Big Ten road game last year and are looking to change that trend this season. They will have a tough task at hand against the Bulldogs. Wisconsin joins the very small fraternity of five teams who will play a non-conference game on the road against a Top-25 ranked team. “We are one of only five teams in college football this year that is going on the road to play a ranked team in their own house,” UW head coach Bret Bielema said. “I think [it] speaks volumes about the program.” The Bulldogs sport the top return man in the nation in junior cornerback A.J. Jefferson. Bielema emphasized the Badgers’ need to extinguish any big returns and set the tone early while on the road. “As anyone knows when you are on the road any type of momentum that starts out in the favor of the home team can have an overwhelming effect so we have to start off fast,” he said. “We have to be able to execute.”

ning the Country Inn and Suites Championship in Chattanooga, Tenn. CMU’s freshman middle blocker Kaitlyn Shultz earned the tournament MVP honor. The Chippewas (5-1) have not played Wisconsin in 25 years, but CMU owns a 5-4 record against the Badgers, including a 2-1 record in Madison. Wisconsin returns to the Field House Saturday at noon against IUPUI—a team averaging an NCAA second-best 20.04 digs per set. The

BEN BREINER all about the benjamins an you hear it? That audible hum of the media hype machine going into overdrive and promising us the greatest exhibition of college football that has ever been seen by human eyes. A game played with such a high level of skill that tears will simply well up in the eyes of anyone viewing the sheer majestic beauty of it all. In case you haven’t heard, Ohio State is playing at USC Saturday. It seems like every year a few of these games come up. Games that are billed as battles of titans where the losers’ national championship hopes are surely dashed and the winner has the inside track for that elusive title. The problem with these fantasies of grandeur is that they just don’t reflect reality. The last few years were littered with examples where games like this just don’t meet the hype. The first fallacy is that two very good teams playing each other will yield a good game. This just isn’t true. Often bad teams can provide just as much entertainment. Lets think back for a moment to the 2005 title game between USC and Oklahoma. The game had everything one could want: Heisman winners, big names and boatloads of talent. The only problem was that USC destroyed the Sooners 55-19 in an utter snooze fest. SEC games likewise are usually hyped because of the strength of the conference from top to bottom, but they tend to be defined by good defense. It’s not that a 17-13 game is always unpleasant to watch, but offensive ineptitude (or excellent physical defense) often is. The hype also fails for early season games because there are so many games left in the schedule. The 2007 Trojans-Cornhuskers game was billed as the gem of the non-conference season. Had the 1997 Huskers been playing maybe it would have been a game. In reality USC stomped all over an overhyped middling Big-12 school whose glory days were quickly shrinking in the rearview mirror. The Buckeyes’ duel with Texas in ’06 was hailed as one of the top games

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The Badgers will rely heavily on Junior running back P.J. Hill and a strong corps running attack Saturday to earn a win in Fresno. Hill leads the team with 267 yards this year. Against Marshall last Saturday, Wisconsin faced the nation’s No. 2 and No. 3 return men from last year, and with Jefferson this week the Badgers have ran the gauntlet in terms of playing against the nation’s best in the return game. “We’ve got our hands full on the special teams phase once again, and it has got to be a great day for all three phases,” Bielema said. Offensively, UW proved it can run the ball—as seen by 404 yards against Akron—as well as throw the ball—with 329 yards against Marshall. The key against Fresno State will be to ﬁnd a balance between the two early in the game and use

the success of one to fuel the other. Senior quarterback Allan Evridge has proven to be more than capable of shouldering the load, while junior running back P.J. Hill (267 yards), sophomore Zach Brown (123) and freshman John Clay (125) form a backﬁeld that was quickly named the “Three-Headed Monster.” Defensively, the play of McFadden has been tough to miss, with a team-high 20 total tackles. On the defensive line, senior Matt Shaughnessy may not have a sack, but has two pass breakups and ﬁve quarterback hurries. But to have a truly productive day, the defense will have to stop Bulldogs’ sopho-

more running back Ryan Mathews. Mathews is currently third in the NCAA in rushing, with a 163 yards per game. His ability to break the game open on the outside as well as grind it up the middle will make him a formidable opponent. “They have a really good running back [Ryan Mathews]. He has good balance, you deﬁnitely have to wrap him up when you get him,” McFadden said. “We watched the Rutgers game on ﬁlm and a lot of the yards he got were after contact. We [the defense] are going to have to be on our A-game to stop him.” The game is at 9:30 p.m. Saturday and will be broadcast on ESPN 2.

Badgers home for ﬁrst time as Waite goes for 500 home crowd and we’re going to have our families and friends all here cheering for us,” Dykstra said. “It’s going to be our atmosphere and I think that’s going to help propel us. We want to get out there and just attack.” The Badgers (5-1) open with Central Michigan, who is coming off a 3-0 weekend after win-

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Wisconsin volleyball head coach Pete Waite is looking for his 500th career win as the No. 14 Badgers return to the Field House this weekend to host the InnTowner Invitational. “For me it’s just another number,” Waite said. “We’ve got a lot of high goals for this year and in the future. It’s a number that just makes me think about the assistant coaches that have been with me since 1988 and the players that have all put in the time and worked hard and trained hard in the offseason. We really battled for a lot of those wins—they don’t come easily. You really have to do some things right to get those wins.” Waite, with 499 wins in 21 years of coaching, ranks 15th among active Division I coaches in overall winning percentage and looks to join Penn State’s Russ Rose and Minnesota’s Mike Hebert as one of three Big Ten coaches to reach the 500-win plateau. “Those guys are another generation ahead of me and they’ve done great things with their programs,” Waite said. “That says a lot for consistency, endurance and just being able to hang in there. There are a lot of coaches that come in, burn out early and burn out fast, so I’m pretty proud of the fact that we’ve had winning seasons on a regular basis.” One reason for this season’s success has been the stellar preseason play of junior opposite hitter Katherine

Dykstra, who leads the team with 3.43 kills per set and was named to both all-tournament teams. Dykstra and company will look to take home Wisconsin’s seventh straight InnTowner Invitational championship Friday and Saturday as they take on Central Michigan, IUPUI and No. 23 BYU. “We’re at home, we have our

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