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Wis. election policies commended in study

By Hannah Furfaro THE DAILY CARDINAL

Common Cause, a nonpartisan political advocacy group, released a report Monday examining the election laws of 10 swing states and gave Wisconsin the most positive review.

Sam Oliker-Friedland, a coauthor of the study, said the group researched news articles and government reports, and interviewed election officials to find out how states handle elections and how they can prevent problems from happening in November.

Wisconsin was rated highest for its law regarding voting machine allocation, which sets standards for the number of voting machines at each voting locality. This law helps prevent voters from waiting in long lines before they reach the polls.

Debby Anderson Meyer, the outreach director of the watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, said the last couple of elections have seen an increase in voter turnout and Wisconsin’s turnout is “historically very high.”

Meyer said Wisconsin’s same day voter registration law is beneficial. “[Citizens] can walk in and vote the same day … most states don’t have that,” Meyer said.

The report gave Wisconsin an “exemplary” rating in voter identifi-

cation and mixed reviews in registration by mail, and it found statewide compliance with the Help America Vote Act “inconclusive.”

HAVA requires a series of checks to ensure new voter information matches information provided in public databases and to prevent voter fraud and unlawful voting.

This report was released just seven days after Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed a lawsuit against the Government Accountability Board for its failure to comply with the HAVA. Despite Wisconsin’s high rating from Common Cause, Kristen Kukowski, communications director for the Republican party of Wisconsin, said there are problems of voter credibility in the state.

“Because we have seen so much voter fraud activity in our state, we need to see some progress on the voter ID aspect of things to make sure our election results are correct,” Kukowski said.

Meyer said confusion, not voter fraud, was what caused problems during the 2000 presidential election.

“The solution shouldn’t cause more problems,” Meyer said. “To institute a program of checks seems like taking a sledge hammer to a problem that only needs a tap.”

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Wisconsin’s election laws received positive reviews in a new study

by Common Cause, a nonpartisan political advocacy group.

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Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin cuts a ribbon Wednesday, signifying the launch of UW-Madison’s new fermentation lab. The $100,000 brewing equipment was donated by MillerCoors.

New UW fermentation lab equipment unveiled

By Melanie Teachout THE DAILY CARDINAL

University officials unveiled MillerCoors’ $100,000 brewing equipment donation to the UWMadison bacteriology department at the Microbial Sciences Building Wednesday.

The brewing equipment will be used in a new bacteriology lab for a beer fermentation course.

UW-Madison undergraduate and graduate students can participate in the course in the 2009 spring semester. Directors hope to create another course for students and community members to learn the practical uses of fermentation.

Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin spoke during a ribboncutting ceremony Wednesday

By Callie Rathburn THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Madison Police Department has been selected as one of seven finalists for the international Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem Oriented Policing for its work during Halloween.

All seven finalists will present their problem solving strategies Sept. 22 at the 19th annual Problem-Oriented Policing Conference in Bellevue, Wash. The MPD joins the Washington State Patrol and police departments from Boston; Arlington, Texas; and the United Kingdom as finalists.

“The ability to say that [our

presentation is] good enough to go share, the whole thing about being a finalist, is a huge compliment for our department, the city and our community,” MPD Central District Captain Mary Schauf said.

Joel Plant, aide to Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, said being a finalist is a testament to not only MPD, but everyone involved in making Halloween in Madison safer, including UWMadison students.

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“We certainly have talked about the legal requirements, but for tasting you must be 21.”

Jon Roll faculty associate UW-Madison

According to Brandy Day, a senior majoring in microbiology, prerequisites for the new course include organic chemistry, bio-

chemistry and introduction to microbiology.

With the implementation of a fermentation course, professors and directors in the bacteriology department said there were initial concerns about legal issues.

Jon Roll, future professor of the fermentation course, as well as Day eliminated legal controversy over the brewing equipment by obtaining brewing permits.

“We certainly have talked about the legal requirements, but for tasting you must be 21, and we have received proper alcohol permits,” Roll said.

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Committee approves sidewalk cafe for bar

By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

MPD named international award finalist

about the outcome of the donation.

“This collaboration is made to benefit, first and foremost, the students,” she said.

As months of construction on State Street come to an end, the owner of a popular downtown bar might get the chance to utilize the revamped area for a sidewalk café.

The Madison Alcohol License Review Committee voted Wednesday to recommend a

change in the liquor license premise of Mondays, located at 523 State St., to include a sidewalk café.

Mondays owner Gary Garten said the end of construction gave him an opportunity to provide patrons with outdoor seating.

“I’ve always had a loading zone [in front] for the last 23 years, so I’ve never had the opportunity to

have a sidewalk café,” Garten said.

“Now that they just finished reconstructing the 500 block, I don’t have the loading zone anymore.”

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UW starting linebacker to appear in court for DUI citation Wisconsin Badgers’ starting linebacker Jonathan Casillas will appear in Dane County court Friday to face charges of drunken driving.

According to court records, Casillas was cited for a first-time drunken driving offense on Aug. 24 while driving a moped on the UW-Madison campus. Casillas was also cited for operating a vehi-

cle with a blood alcohol level over .10 and for driving with an illegal passenger.

UW-Madison football head coach Bret Bielema told the Wisconsin State Journal Tuesday

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that the incident has been discussed internally and the linebacker will not be disciplined further.

“We handled that the same way as any alcohol or drug [violation],” Bielema said, adding the case does not fall under the UW-Madison student-athlete discipline policy. “The biggest thing I was concerned about was his overall safety.”

“…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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very fall, it takes time to adjust to being back in school. For students who spent their break in an exciting new place or working a great summer job, the transition is even harder. Since I fit into both categories, you’ll have to forgive me if I spend a bit of time reminiscing about my dream internship in hell.

You might think hell would just let anybody in, but the competition for internships is incredibly intense. When I got a letter back in May welcoming me to the Department of Infernal Resources for the summer, I felt like I’d died and gone to heaven.

Of course, I had all the usual nerves about the new people I’d be meeting. Fortunately, if there’s one lesson I learned over the summer, it’s that people in hell are just like you and me!

Mr. Screwtape, my internship

director, was really cool and let me try out all kinds of different jobs. Some days I worked as a Tempter (although they call them “Caseworkers” now).

As an “Acolyte-in-Training,” I only got assigned to people that other Caseworkers had already been handling for months. As such, I was usually stuck with the same sins they’d already been working on. Tempting the larcenous is fine—that is, if you enjoy standing behind a group of teenagers at Hot Topic whispering, “Steal it now! While the cashier is adjusting her nose ring,” and just generally looking like an idiot.

Other times, it was tricky. How, exactly, do you drive someone to a life of usury? (“I want you to enroll in some FIIIIINANCE CLASSES at the COMMUUUUNITY COLLEGE...”)

Most sinners are a lot more fun, though. I fell into a bit of an attendance problem dealing with the “intemperate” (never try to out-drink a 260-pound dockworker on a weeknight), but every time I saw someone fall down and prostrate themselves before the altar of a false god, I knew

New Beer Thursday Michelob Brewing Co. white ale There’s a tidbit of informa- but the most dedicated Belgian tion that most faux beer snobs White fans. of Madison don’t know: Blue The question remains: Will Moon—you know, the one with Shock Top shock the palette as the orange Blue Moon does? The answer is a slice—is made relieving and moderately satisfying

by Coors. It’s “no.” Although that citrusy taste not a microbrew, is still apparent, it is much more but made by subtle and really an afterthought Coors Brewing after half the beer is consumed.

Co. (now You won’t even need a citrus fruit MillerCoors) as to drink it with a straight face, a mass produced although one may enhance the product. Well, drinking experience. The flavors Anheuser-Busch associated with a Belgian White, has come up citrus and spice, are apparent albewith a mass pro- it smooth and mild. duced challenger, For the actual beer snob, and Shock Top this witbier (that’s snobbish for Belgian White white beer) pales in comparison Ale is its name. to the full and authentic bodNow, the aver- ied Hoegaarden, whose abundant age beer drinker spice would make most novice raises their nose beer drinkers vomit. If you’re to no beer, will looking for a Belgian White that’s drink the swilli- less intense than a Blue Moon, est of swill if need be and can also Shock Top is the way to go. appreciate a sophisticated beer if the opportunity arrives. That being said, one entire bottle of Blue Moon, whose intense citrus flavor is wildly overwhelming after all 12 ounces, even with Michelob Brewing • St. Louis, MO every fruit imaginable thrown $6.99 at Riley’s Wines of the World into the pint glass, can put off all

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that I was making a difference.

Most of the time, I worked as a greeter. Every day, I’d meet a new group of simonists, blasphemers and gluttons, direct them aboard the ferry and then welcome their reprobate souls into hell with some informal remarks and a brief Q&A session. The script they had me read from was kind of dreary, but I always tried to liven it up by ad-libbing and thinking up some good questions to break the ice.

“So, what brings everyone here today?” I’d ask. On most days, about half of the group would just keep on shaking and muttering to themselves while everybody else stared up at the sky—which, as always, was on fire.

“Why don’t we go around the boat and have everyone say what they’re most excited to do while they’re in hell?”

It could get a little dull explaining the same things to every group, but I had to remind myself that with all the new things to see and experience in hell, these people were probably feeling a little self-conscious, maybe even a little frightened. I’m sure I was just as nervous on my first day of work as they were the first time they saw a man

painfully morph into a snake and then savage another man’s abdomen.

Of course, hell does have its imperfections, just like any other workplace.

They’re really particular about titles (always “Lord Mammon,” and never “Mr.” or “CFO and Co-Founder”), and there’s a company incantation that I had to memorize, even though I don’t know any Latin. Also, the staff retreat to the Outer Darkness seemed like it was going to last forever until one of the other interns got ripped apart by a pack of jackals. (Later, during reflection time, we agreed that that part did teach us all a little something about teamwork.) I suppose if I could change just one thing, though, it would be the blood.

Now that I’m back in class and staying up late to study once again, it’s hard to find time to stay in touch with all the friends I made over the summer. But even if I get an internship somewhere else next year, I’m sure that we’ll all see each other again before too long, and I can’t wait to go back!

What are you planning to do in hell? Tell Matt by e-mailing him at hunziker@wisc.edu.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Big 10 Battleground Poll to reveal voter sentiment The results of the Big Ten Battleground Poll, a survey of voters’ views on the presidential election, will be broadcast Thursday on the Big Ten Network.

The 90-minute show, entitled “Big Ten Battleground: Campaign 2008,” will air at 3 p.m.

UW-Madison political science professors Charles Franklin and Ken Goldstein co-authored the study, which is based on responses from 600 individuals from each of the states with a Big Ten school.

The poll compares voting patterns in each of the Big Ten states.

“The states of the Big Ten are among the most competitive in the country and likely to be pivotal in determining the election outcome,” Franklin said in a statement.

According to a statement, the BTN is providing students with important information beyond sporting events by broadcasting the program.

Former Ireland president to speak on campus Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson will speak at the Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture at the Microbial Sciences Building Sept. 26.

Robinson’s speech, “Human Rights in the 21st Century,” will officially mark the start of the Division of International Studies’ Human Rights Initiative, a program formed to include economic, social and cultural rights in the traditional definition of human rights.

Florence Chenoweth, United Nations representative and international visitor to UW-Madison, said she is honored to have Robinson speak.

“She has shaped the course of human rights in our lifetime,” Chenoweth said in a statement.

The former president has been president of Oxfam International since 2002 and is chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Robinson is also chair of the Council of Women World Leaders and member of the Trilateral Commission.

mondays from page 1 whether they could allow Mondays, an establishment that makes 100 percent of its profit from alcohol, to have a sidewalk café.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said other bars that don’t sell food like the Irish Pub and Genna’s have sidewalk cafés. Committee members also expressed concern over having patrons drinking outside in an area with a high bar density, but Garten said the sidewalk café would be for afternoon patrons and agreed to close the area by 10 p.m.

Barbara Mercer, president of the Madison-Dane County Tavern League, also pointed out that sidewalk cafés allow patrons to smoke, which has been an issue for the business since the city enacted a smoking ban in all restaurants and bars in 2005.

“When we went through the city smoking ban, this was one of the areas that was going to be allowed so that businesses could apply for café areas … where there was an area for their customers to smoke,” Mercer said.

The ALRC’s recommendation to approve the sidewalk café at Mondays will now go to the Common Council for a final vote.

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Campus officials seek to improve student veteran academic services

By Kelsey Gunderson THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison is working to improve services provided to current ROTC students and student veterans returning to campus through the creation of a new position: assistant dean of veterans and ombuds services.

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. John Bechtol, who began his new role Sept. 15, worked with UW-Madison’s Army ROTC and served 21 years active duty and three years in the National Guard before accepting the position.

According to Kevin Helmkamp, assistant dean of students, the university’s primary focus is to reach out to over 500 student veterans in an effort to ensure smooth transitions to and from campus.

Bechtol said he wants to provide service by working with campus departments interested in helping student veterans.

“If a veteran is calling the university to get information, there is no central entity to go through to get all that information … the university should be doing this and taking responsibility,” Bechtol said.

Dean of Students Lori Berquam held listening sessions with the military community last spring on the importance of providing services for veterans returning to the university from the war.

“Upon [a] student’s return from service, there are numerous benefits available,” Berquam said in a statement.

“This position is designed to approach veterans’ services in a more holistic man-

ner from years past.”

In the past, veterans received services from Vets for Vets, a student organization on campus responsible for dealing with benefits and meeting the needs of these students.

“Vets for Vets has done a great job with the new GI 9/11 bill,” Bechtol said. “But the university expects an even larger amount of veterans on campus seeking these student benefits and that’s just too much for one organization to handle.”

Bechtol said he plans to work hand in hand with Vets for Vets in an effort to provide even more services for student veterans.

“UW Madison as a whole has been very supportive of student veterans and ROTC … this is just a step in the direction of improvement to help this population out.”

2008 DoIT student survey reveals new findings

By Erin Banco THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison’s Division of Information Technology’s 2008 Student Survey results said students are still interested in learning how to use new university technology.

According to Brian Rust, senior administration program specialist at DoIT, the annual survey measures trends in student use of UW-Madison technological programs such as Learn@UW and analyzes demand for new services.

A sample of 1,200 UW-Madison students received the web survey and 355 responded.

According to university officials, the response rate was 30 percent, at a 95 percent level of confidence.

According to Rust, all students pay a 1.5

percent surcharge—an information technology fee—allowing DoIT members to implement new technological services.

“The trend continues to be portability and convenience … students seem [to] want to access things everywhere and anywhere at anytime,” Rust said.

Officials from DoIT try to take notice of changes in student interest as quickly as possible.

Rust said the demand for web-enabled phones doubled from 6 to 12 percent in the last year. DoIT is trying to address the issue before the demand reaches 50 percent of the population.

Directors of DoIT reacted to student demand with the emergence of wireless laptops.

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Agricultural and Life Sciences, emphasized the safety of the course.

“You can assure students this will not be out on the parking lot on the weekend,” he said. “There was some concern that someone could misuse it, but it will be just used only for research.”

Collaborators said the bond between MillerCoors and UWMadison is intended to profit both institutions.

“We wanted to partner with UW-Madison, which we regard as the foremost of research and educational institutes, to help build young scientists for the future,” David Ryder, vice president of brewing and research at MillerCoors, said.

Those involved in the collaboration have great hopes for the future of fermentation at UW-Madison.

“Right now there is just one course being offered, but there is the hope of more curriculum development … the science of fermentation has great ramifications beyond just fermented beverages,” said Doug Bradley, assistant director of marketing and communications for UW office of corporate relations.

work utilized to solve frustration with injury, property damage and costs of Halloween in past years, according to a city news release.

The MPD believes their presentation will be beneficial to conference attendees, especially police forces working on campuses.

Despite the international recognition, both Schauf and Plant said the Halloween celebration, now known as “Freakfest,” is still a work in progress.

“We’re at the point now where we can say ‘Do we still have a problem?’ ‘Do we still need to keep going?’” Schauf said. “We don’t want to slip back. We don’t want to become

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“Two to three years ago we took the data [from the survey] at the same time we wanted to move ahead with implementing wireless Internet around campus,” Rust said. “So we could justify our wanting to move ahead.”

Other findings from the survey include an analysis of student social networking usage, student response on UW-Madison technology and satisfaction ratings for individual campus services.

DoIT is in the process of planning new programs to help students access the campus on a wider scale.

Eventually, students will be able to schedule advisor meetings online and more conveniently view class materials with Class Search through the MyUW Portal. complacent.”

Plant, who is part of the presentation team heading to Washington next week, said the presentation focuses on work from 2002 to 2007.

“We had a real problem in 2002 and made steady progress over the years, and then in ‘06 we had a breakthrough year, in ‘07 we had continued improvement. This is a work in progress, and every year we make adjustments and improvements,” Plant said.

To make improvements, Schauf said police use the Analyze and Response segments of SARA every year. The MPD said policing efforts would be just as diligent at Freakfest 2008 as they have in previous years.

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Madison Police Department’s progress in shifting the atmosphere of Halloween on State Street in recent years has garnered international recognition.

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re women ready to rule the world? Yes,

according to Australian bio-ethicist Dr. Robert Sparrow, who suggested at a medical convention this past July that females could use frozen sperm to procreate and exist without men.

Women have steadily been gaining power over the last few decades, becoming a stronger presence in science and the military, as well as the political scene—seen especially in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the recent nomination of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate.

However, women remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (known as STEM careers), according to UW-Madison professor Janet Hyde’s study in the July 25 issue of Science, fueling the ongoing debate over whether one gender is smarter than the other.

Hyde’s study, “Gender Similarities Characterize Math Performance,” surveyed cognitive testing in mathematics in grades 2-11 across 10 states to analyze the relationship between gender and average performance and score variability. Results indicated girls perform equally well as boys in math, but the study could not explain lopsided gender numbers in most STEM fields.

Although Hyde’s study focused on subjects under the age of 18, a controversial U.K. study in 2005

insisted men beyond the age of 14 score an average of five points higher on IQ tests than women in the same age category.

“Inborn intellectual deficiencies were not holding women back.

It was social predjudice.”

Caitilyn Allen professor UW-Madison

The findings, however, were disputed in the journal Nature later that year, when author Steve Blinkhorn argued the test-taking research used in the study was flawed, and “sex differences in average IQ, if they exist, are too small to be interesting.”

UW-Madison professor of plant pathology Caitilyn Allen said the IQ test has shown “cultural, racial and gender biases,” and scores vary with factors such as “education, income and degree of Westernization,” which suggests score differences between sexes are not necessarily biological.

“Some researchers, and maybe the pop press too, really seem to want to find biological explanations for gender differences in intelligence and science ability,” Allen said. “But the fact that just 50 years ago there were nearly no women professors in the sciences and math suggest that inborn intellectual

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deficiencies were not holding women back. It was social prejudice.”

Allen said most research on intelligence is based on test performance, which is often affected by the testtaker’s expectations. Certain expectations can lead to lower scores, such as the “stereotype threat.”

“If you tell a group of women that females typically score lower than males in math and then give them a math test, those women will score lower on average than a similar group who are just given the test and not told anything,” Allen said. “So if women go into a test thinking ‘Oh, this will be bad, everyone says girls are bad at math,’ they’ll get a lower score than an equally competent male.”

Women also tend to perceive themselves as being less smart than men, according to a 2008 Newsweek article. In the article, British researcher Adrian Furnham explained that men are not any smarter than women but tend to overstate their abilities, creating a false “perceived intelligence.”

“Who gets a job?” Furnham asked.

“A bright woman who doesn’t think she’s smart or a not-so-smart man who believes he’s capable of anything?”

Women are also presented with more tangible obstacles when it comes to entering the STEM fields.

“The field of physics in general has more male professors and scientists, thus there are fewer role models in general for females to seek guidance,” said Jon Brown, UW-Madison senior and president of the Physics Club. He added the physics department has a Climate and Diversity Committee meant to address this and other issues.

Chair of Industrial Systems and Engineering Program Patti Brennan said industrial engineering draws in more women than any other branch of the School of Engineering—most likely because there are women already there.

“I think it’s really important to know that there is a critical mass factor,” Brennan said. “That is, you’re more likely to see women go into fields where they see people like themselves.”

Brennan said industrial engineering requires good social skills and the ability to work with a team, so it may also be “an affinity to interaction” bringing women in. In addition, Brennan found her female students to be more responsive to her highly interactive teaching approach than her male students.

“I have to be careful to think more specifically about how I interact with young men to make sure they

stay engaged in the class,” Brennan said. “I’m persuaded that young people learn differently because of their genders, and they respond to different types of teaching.”

Some high schools, such as Arrowhead High School in Merton, Wis., have begun offering single-sex classes, teaching the same concept to both genders but approaching it in different ways. Such a teaching structure could potentially increase the number of women who pursue science and math in college.

“Young people learn differently because of their genders and they respond to different types of teaching.”

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Brennan explained the examples that draw women in seem different than those that draw in men.

“In describing physics to young men, you would use the velocity of a car or speed of a baseball—very physical analogies presented,” Brennan said.

“Women talk about why light is used

in certain ways or why images show up in a different way based on the amount of backlight.”

At UW-Madison, however, Brown said students in the Physics Club “work together without preconceived notions of ability.”

“We don’t want people to think that the genders are isolated or are in competition with each other,” Brown said, adding that 30 percent of the Physics Club is female, with two of the six officers being women.

The modern debate over gender intelligence seems to be less about IQ and more about what each sex can do, as old methods of testing become dated and inapplicable to today’s ever-changing culture.

Although women may not take over the world as Dr. Sparrow suggested, they seem poised to make a great impact in fields where they are typically underrepresented.

“I think it’s wonderful that women are becoming more common in technical fields as stereotypes and barriers fall,” Allen said. “Our biggest problems, like global warming, food insecurity and emerging diseases, all urgently need technical solutions—in times like these, we can’t afford to ignore the talents of half the human race.”

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By Mark Riechers THE DAILY CARDINAL

School might be back in full swing, but why memorize theorems and formulas when you could memorize the lyrics of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger”? Why surrender to Helen C. White Library when stadiums of screaming fans are clamoring to hear you jam on your plastic Fender guitar? That’s right folks, it’s time for the return of another cherished institution: “Rock Band.”

Assuming you haven’t been to a proper house party in the last year, Harmonix’s “Rock Band” provides a virtual stage for two guitarists, a drummer and a vocalist. “Rock Band 2” provides 84 new tracks— all original master recordings—in addition to backward compatibility with every song from the first game.

In short, “RB2” has an absurd

amount of music to play—500 songs by the end of the year.

The playlist offers something for everyone, from Beastie Boys fans to metal heads. Modest Mouse’s “Float On,” the Who’s “Pinball Wizard” and the Allman Brothers Band’s “Ramblin’ Man” are just a taste of “RB2’s” repertoire. Many of the songs are tougher this time around, but they complement the first game’s easier selections nicely. The diversity also means there will be a few songs that each player would rather skip, but no one is happy all the time.

Plus, it’s a lot of fun to make those metalhead friends sing along to Alanis Morissette.

The game itself really hasn’t changed much, though the developers have opted to clean up the interface a little to make it more user-friendly and intuitive. The

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song selection screen now displays album art and song difficulty by instrument and includes a bevy of sorting options to help navigate the massive playlist. Also, the addition

of a “No Fail” mode means your drunken or less-rhythmic friends can get in on the fun as well without fear of embarrassment.

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the last vestiges of “Guitar Hero” influence—the solo career—in favor of a Band World Tour you can play rock band page 6

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all me crazy, but despite the number of summer-movie classics 2008 has begotten, I am not sad to see moviegoing season go by the wayside. The reason?

Movie audiences are REALLY annoying. Here are four inept moviegoers that have soured my theater enjoyment this summer: 1. The Discreet Texter Despite the hokey ’80s theme at the beginning of the movie reminding you to turn your cell phones off, you seem to take this as meaning merely “no phone calls.” Instead, you sit directly in front of me, bathing my face in the halcyon glow of your Sidekick as you text your “girlzzz” about where you’re going to get smoothies after the show. With the tell-tale snap of your closing cell phone I breathe a sigh of relief, only to find, moments later, that you have received another message. Please, for the sake of my sanity, don’t even touch your phone during the movie, lest you risk me snapping it in two.

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“Rock Band 2” might not be the most innovative, merely padding an already addictive game with an expanding library of songs and a few other tweaks. For once, however, the phrase “more of the same” is a good thing.

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2. The Deadbeat Parent Here I am, ready to see “The Dark Knight,” when suddenly Mr. “I Only Have the Kids for the Weekend Yet Still Have Nothing Constructive to Do With Them” enters the theater with his 6 and 8-year-olds. As the opening scenes begin, I hear a variety of complaints ranging from piteous cries that nobody gets their face blown off in the “Batman” they watch every Saturday on Cartoon Network, to pestering questions like, “Daddy, how did the Joker make that pencil disappear?” Try to do something constructive with your kids, Dad, or I’m going to break the golden rule of the theater by using my phone to contact Child Services.

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By Emma Condon THE DAILY CARDINAL

This weekend, the first ever Forward Music Festival will transform our quiet college town into an indie-rock haven, infusing it with 72 national and local bands rocking seven different venues.

Masterminded by five young professionals, FMF has gained attention from media like Paste Magazine and online indie moderators Pitchfork with its uniquely Madison statement.

“We had very similar ideas of what we wanted to see in the Madison music scene,” said Wyndham Manning, an organizer of Madison Pop Fest, FMF’s predecessor. “So for one weekend a year, we decided to try our hand at doing little festivals we thought kind of celebrated the best that Madison had to offer with the limited budget we had.”

Pop Fest ran for three successful years, but the organizers wanted to take the movement one step beyond the campus, creating FMF. “It’s already just exponentially bigger than Pop Fest,” Manning

said. “At Pop Fest, we had maybe 400 to 500 people in a room a day. This one, we are talking like 3,000 people.”

“All of us are really excited about Killdozer, since it’s going to be such a rare performance.”

Wyndham Manning organizer Forward Music Festival

The festival boasts a staggering lineup of local and national artists ranging from Mason Jennings and Dillinger 4 to Dan Deacon and Monotonix. Local favorites the Box Social and Pale Young Gentlemen will also play, along with legendary noise rockers Killdozer, who will be reuniting for the first time in nine years to contribute a set to the nascent festival. Manning attributes part of the list’s prestige to help from local club owners.

“They sort of stepped up right from the beginning and helped us

lock a lot of the bands that we were really looking forward to seeing,” Manning said.

Although Manning and the other organizers chose to include many prominent national acts, they kept a local focus in mind.

“We wanted to put emphasis not just on the local Madison scene but [on] trying to identify what that Midwestern sounds of music is,” Manning said. “Almost all of our bands have at least some sort of connection to the Midwest, whether it be their record label is in Chicago or their drummer lived in Madison.”

As the festival’s first set approaches, Manning already knows what he would most like to see.

“All of us are really excited about Killdozer, since it’s going to be such a rare performance,” Manning said.

“I would be planted in the Majestic the entire weekend.”

The festival begins at the Orpheum this Friday and ends at Project Lodge Saturday. For a schedule, check out the festival’s website at www.forwardmusicfest.com.

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George Clooney demonstrates proper movie theater etiquette in a scene from one of this summer’s monster draws, “Burn After Reading.”

moviegoers from page 5 3. Middle Schoolers Any true summer movie connoisseur will join in my bemoaning the acne-stricken set. They usually enter the theater with the subtlety of a stampeding bull elephant and in extremely disproportionate gender ratios. As the movie starts, they proceed to yell across the row to friends, make fun of the one kid who managed to bring a girl with him (“Stop frenching, you freaks!”) or crack HILARIOUS jokes during the

movie, like making loud flatulence noises in the quieter scenes. I already advocate a three-year boarding school program for the middle school population, but this goes doubly so when it comes to movie viewing.

For the sake of my sanity, don’t touch your phone during the movie, lest you risk me snapping it in two.

4. The Applause-o-meter There is nothing more annoying than sitting in the middle of a movie, hearing a particularly enjoyable line and then having the next three ruined because some mindless drones begin wildly applauding like they’re at a Cirque Du Soleil performance. Plus, the ends of most movies are followed by an obligatory round of applause from the audience, as if they’re expecting Will Ferrell to walk out from behind the moldy velvet cinema curtains and take a bow. Guess what, clueless moviegoers? The director is not waiting behind the movie screen desperately seeking your input! There is no “secret shopper” working for the film industry awaiting a reaction from the audience to gauge the critical success! A hearty chuckle during funny moments in movies is perfectly fine, but smothering any further dialogue by applauding is inexcusable.

So, until cinematic audiences undergo a radical transformation, you’re more likely to hear me talking about what was on-demand last night than what was in the theaters this weekend.

Think Kevin should leave moviehouse crowd control to A.J. Hawk? Let him know at kslane@wisc.edu.

rock band from page 5 by yourself, with friends or online over Xbox Live or PlayStation Network. The feature lets you make one character for yourself with any instrument you choose and send them touring across the globe.

However, some of the baggage from the first game remains. The word detection for vocals is possibly worse than the first game— mumbling without tone will often get you 80 percent accuracy or more on most songs. The Character Creator could also be a little more in-depth—it was weak in the first game, and the addition of a few new facial options is not enough.

Still, the few changes Harmonix didn’t make are far overshadowed by how much fun the polished, overall experience is. For owners of the first game, it’s a must buy, even if “RB2” is only a simple upgrade from the original. This is evolution, not revolution.

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s the presidential candidates continue to duke it out in Wisconsin, a smaller battle will be waged in court this Friday, and its outcome may make it harder for some Wisconsin voters to cast their ballot come Election Day. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board last Wednesday demanding election clerks verify the identities of voters registered since Jan. 1, 2006. After this date, Wisconsin was required by the Help America Vote Act to crosscheck the identity of those registering to vote to ensure eligibility.

Wisconsin election officials did not get the cross-checking software, however, until Aug. 6 of this year.

Due to this delay, hundreds of thousands of voters who have registered have not been cross-checked.

The Justice Department put this number at 240,000 people, while the Government Accountability Board said it was closer to 1 million.

Van Hollen said that in order to prevent voter fraud, it is important these individuals be checked. He stated that “every unlawful vote disenfranchises those entitled to vote.”

However, Van Hollen must also balance this concern with the consequences the daunting. complicated and potentially chaotic charge of attempting to verify this many individuals in such a short period of time presents.

President of the Wisconsin

Municipal Clerks Association Nancy Zastrow said the cross-checking software has kinks that declare an individual ineligible if, for example, they did not put a middle initial on their voter registration form but have one on their driver’s license.

Eligible voters who registered may go to the polls to find themselves ineligible. Wisconsin law allows voters to register on Election Day, but groups such as students and the homeless may find it hard to produce necessary information, like proof of address, which is needed to do so.

Working men and women who only have time to vote during their lunch hour may also have trouble voting if they have to wait to register.

Although Van Hollen’s intentions are respectable—voter fraud is a threat to democracy—he must also be realistic about what the state’s election clerks can accomplish before Nov. 4. His actions are intended to protect the tenets of a fair election, but they may also hinder legally registered voters through unintentional means.

In this tight of an election it is important that every eligible voter be allowed to cast their ballot. Though voter fraud should be a concern, this concern is negated if the process used to detect it leads to greater disenfranchisement. The greatest failure of the Wisconsin government this November will be if it blames voters, instead of itself, for its mistakes in running elections.

Military experience not important qualification DAN JOSEPHSON opinion columnist

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s the presidential election draws closer, I am increasingly thrilled to be a senior at a politically active university in arguably the most crucial American period in the last few decades. I am grateful that I have an active interest in electing one of this election cycle’s presidential candidates, rather than mere excitement toward replacing an incumbent, regardless of who takes over.

I say this because four years ago, when I was 900 miles east of this politically enveloped college town, I found myself having to settle for the lesser of two evils. Perhaps this was simply an unenthused response from a 17year-old who could not vote, or perhaps it truly was a consistent attitude toward the fact that the presidential election was between two individuals who both initially supported waging war on Iraq.

As an angry juvenile, I overlooked the fact that Sen. Kerry, D-Mass., voted for the Iraq Resolution under the impression that it was a last resort. This is not by any means undermining the level of irrationality in his judgment, for last resort or not, when senators such as our own Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., were able to see through this fam-

ily-tied, war-hungry resolution, there is no excuse for others not to. However, when thinking seriously about this topic and how it was treated in the months leading up to November 2004, I cannot help but recall the infamous “flipflopping” accusations, namely in regard to Kerry’s morphed views toward the war that he voted for. In fairness, as Kerry stated, he voted based on the belief that war would only be utilized in a complete emergency where Iraq posed an imminent threat.

Understandably, though, his original decision molded itself into a prime target for Republican criticism. After all, this was the main reason why I was not the slightest bit elated when he sealed the Democratic nomination.

People are putting trust in McCain as a commander in chief because he spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

It was while floating through my depressingly nostalgic memories of the 2004 election that I remembered how others regarded Kerry’s military experience. I thought hard about this, considering how much press McCain’s experience is getting for the 2008 election. People are putting trust in McCain as a commander in

chief because he spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Military experience should not be taken lightly and of course should be honored and possibly work in a candidate’s favor.

However, when I think of how negatively viewed Kerry’s experience was in comparison to McCain’s, there is an uneven level of ex-military hype.

Looking back on my early wartime high school days, Republicans did not only succeed in downplaying Sen. Kerry’s service to our country, they succeeded in demoralizing everything he did for America. Kerry was labeled a communist who committed treason by reporting unjust, torturous war crimes that he witnessed from some of his own soldiers.

It is because of this unfair “flip -flopping” with regard to when and where military honor should be granted that I do not have any room for people asking me “how I feel” about the fact that McCain served his country and Obama did not. Aside from the fact that honoring one’s military background and feeling that they are ready to lead a country are two completely separate beliefs, this was not a decision-making factor in 2004, so why should it be now?

Dan Josephson is a senior majoring in political science and legal studies. We welcome your feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Vote in favor of improving education system on Nov. ballot

By Lavilla Capener COLLEGE DEMOCRATS

The idea of using education as a tool for advancement has been around since the founding of America, but our current education system is broken. The quality of our public education in the

United States. has stagnated and needs a change. The unrealistic and unfair standards of the No Child Left Behind Act have not worked.

Privatization and school vouchers may provide short-term patches, but in the long run they will only further decay public education.

What can we do as students and activists to make real improvements to our education system?

Let’s start with merit pay for teachers. Teachers are in charge of educating every generation of Americans. I think they deserve the six-figure pay of doctors and

lawyers. Although that may not be realistic, we can reasonably raise teacher salaries without breaking the budget. If we can attract our most talented college graduates to teaching, we can inject a new vitality into our schools.

But higher pay alone will not solve the problem. Along with higher salaries, we need to hold our teachers accountable, but standardized test scores are not the correct path. Policy makers also need to develop new standards that measure the improvement of individual students over the course of the entire school year rather than using the results of a single multiple-choice test. Working with teachers to assess student improvement will be much more beneficial than forcing a top down “solution” from Congress.

We also need to guarantee smaller class sizes, especially in elementary schools. Students need specialized, individual attention to learn the essential reading and writing skills.

Without these basic skills, students will struggle for the rest of their lives. A cliché, albeit a true one, says many states determine their future prison construction based on the results of the third-grade reading test. A good elementary education is the foundation on which we all build our lives. We need to guarantee every child has the opportunity to succeed in life, regardless of economic status.

Finally, we need to increase

access to higher education. Cost should never have to be a factor for students deciding whether or not to attend college. However, for many people the price tag often determines whether they continue on to college. We need to experiment with new and creative ways to increase access—by increasing financial aid, work study grants and programs encouraging first-generation college students.

Although these long-term solutions are a great goal to have in mind, there is something all students can do to have a positive impact on the Madison school districts this fall.

On Election Day 2008, I encourage you to help out the Madison Metropolitan School District by supporting their referendum.

The Madison Board of Education has unanimously approved putting a referendum question on the Nov. 4 ballot. The question will ask the Madison community to exceed the revenue caps the state has placed on all Wisconsin school districts by $13 million. The revenue caps often do not allow districts to raise taxes enough to even allow for increased operating expenses and often forces schools to cut programs and staff.

The average tax increase for the median-priced $250,000 home would be about $90, spread out over three years.

Lavilla Capener is a junior majoring in journalism and political science. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Finding the time

Today’s Sudoku

Anthro-Apology

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© Puzzles by Pappocom

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

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

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The Graph Giraffe

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com IN YOUR ELEMENT ACROSS 1 What the devil wears?

6 A bit more than two pct. of a cup 9 Wedge-shaped bones 14 Use, as china 15 Place for a plug 16 Devout 17 Bun net 18 It may be colossal 19 Get at 20 Oz visitor 23 This makes ink pink 24 They grow when fertilized 25 Most passe 27 Scatter, as a crowd 32 Budget Rent ___ 33 “Polloi” preceder 34 Holders of many frames 36 Alternative to Twinkies 39 Some are horned 41 You may leave them with cuts 43 Heidi Klum’s husband 44 Have second thoughts 46 Some campaign expenses 48 “A clue!”

49 They make history 51 Got fit 53 Luther was one 56 Aficionado

57 Times to call, in some classifieds 58 Post-WWII barrier 64 ___ voce (softly) 66 Sturgeon yield 67 One way to remove marginalia 68 Wedding dress feature 69 Stenographer’s need 70 Friable soils 71 Lew of Dr. Kildare films 72 “Ain’t ___ Sweet” 73 “Shakespeare in Love” weapons DOWN 1 Adamant ant?

2 Indian princess 3 “... like ___ of bricks!”

4 “Duke of Earl,” stylistically 5 School town in Massachusetts 6 Ready to be hit, as a golf ball 7 Is swaybacked 8 They may provide senior moments 9 One of the eight vegetables in V8 10 Marksman’s must 11 American pit viper 12 Game essentials 13 Heretofore 21 Used one’s scull 22 Words with “standstill” or “distance”

26 A Ho Chi Minh Trail locale 27 Arab ship 28 Waterloo setting 29 U.S. military decoration 30 Takes out often 31 Island of immigrants 35 World-weary sound 37 Diamond Head’s home 38 “Fresh!” follow-up 40 All dried up 42 Muddled situation 45 Foot soldier’s food 47 “Don’t bother explaining” 50 Address for Isaac Newton 52 Lure into committing a crime 53 “___ la vista, baby!”

54 University in Atlanta 55 Word with “press” or “Peace” 59 Shipmate of ship mates?

60 Surrender, as land 61 Alpine river 62 “... here on Gilligan’s ___” 63 Tourist-drawing loch 65 Sudden death can end it

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Wisconsin soccer gears up for its first Big Ten game

By Emily Hendricks THE DAILY CARDINAL

Coming off its first loss of the season, the Wisconsin men’s soccer team is poised and ready for a competitive match against the No. 14 Indiana Hoosiers.

The Binghamton Bearcats put an end to the Badgers’ undefeated season last Sunday in a 1-0 final that ended their five-game winning streak, dropping the team to 4-1-1 on the season.

Inclement weather greatly impacted the condition of the field, which made it increasingly difficult for the Badgers to perform and execute against the Bearcats.

“The rain and waterlogged field really leveled the playing field, giving Binghamton a greater opportunity to compete,” head coach Jeff Rohrman said.

In addition to bad weather, the Badgers also ran into a bit of bad luck when Binghamton scored the only goal of the game. It was in the 36th minute when Binghamton freshman forward Andy Tiedt

scored from three yards out off a pass that bounced over Wisconsin junior goalkeeper Alex Horwath.

“We were unlucky in the goal,” junior midfielder/forward Pablo Delgado said. “I think we worked hard, but it just wasn’t our day.

Sometimes you try hard and you do your best, but the ball just doesn’t go in the goal.”

However, before Sunday’s defeat, as in previous years, the Badgers have posted strong opening season performances, defeating such teams as Santa Clara in a hard fought 1-0 overtime battle on Sept. 5.

Moving forward into the conference portion of their season, the Badgers will look to bounce back from their loss while continuing the high caliber of play they exhibited in their opening matches, viewing Indiana as the perfect opportunity to do so.

“Indiana is going to be a huge test for us,” Rohrman said.

“However, we met a very talented Santa Clara team, and we were able to prevail in that game and show a lot of talent and character.

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Wisconsin senior midfielder Kenny Dix has scored one goal this season and has the fourth-most points on his team with three.

“One of the things about this team is that they recognize that they have started out well in the past and

then struggled in the Big Ten portion of the season,” he added. “Although this is an older, more mature and

Wisconsin tennis teams prepare for Milwaukee Tennis Classic

By Jake Langbecker THE DAILY CARDINAL

After advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament in back-to-back years and finishing runner-up in the Big Ten last season, expectations are at an all-time high for the Wisconsin Badgers men’s tennis team. Just take it from fourth-year head coach Greg Van Emburgh.

“I think every year with our program we try to continually have success,” Van Emburgh said.

“This year we want to challenge for a Big Ten title, try to make the round of 16 as a team and try to produce the first All-American in the program.”

The fall season kicks off Friday when the 33rd annual Milwaukee Tennis Classic begins at the Western Racquet Club in Elm Grove.

The Badgers will square off against Marquette, Northwestern and Ball State University in the tournament this weekend.

Wisconsin will be without its two top players, junior Moritz Baumann and reigning Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Marek Michalicka. Both

will begin their season the following week in a tournament at Baylor U n i v e r s i t y.

Baumann and Michalicka are ranked 28th and 72nd, respectively, in singles nationally, and are also the 39thranked doubles BAUMANN team.

Van Emburgh said he hopes this tournament and the fall season are the first steps on the long road to a Big Ten title.

“We want to work hard and train hard in the fall,” Van Emburgh said. “[We also want to] get some match play experience and hopefully have a lot of success and take that momentum into our spring season.”

Last season, the Badgers thrived in front of Wisconsin fans and finished 11-0 at home. They hope to achieve that impressive record again this season.

Women’s Tennis The women’s tennis team has

had trouble remaining competitive in previous seasons, but secondyear head coach Brian Fleishman is trying to change that attitude.

“Last year we didn’t have a lot of options, but this year we have a lot of options, which is great,” Fleishman said. “We added five new players, so we kind of changed the culture and the personnel quickly.”

With new faces and a new mentality in place, Fleishman has set out some goals for the team this season that he hopes they not only meet, but also exceed.

“I think our goals for this year [are:] We want to be top-five in the Big Ten, top-40 nationally if not higher, and we want to be that team people hate playing against,” Fleishman said.

The women’s tennis team also starts its season Friday at the Milwaukee Tennis Classic, where it will face Marquette, Alabama and Texas A&M. The team returns to the tournament again after a successful showing last season, especially

Player of the week: DEANDRE LEVY

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casillas from page 12 “Casillas brought experience and leadership, as well as his speed, to the team,” defensive coordinator Dave Doeren said.

“Last week he was still trying to knock the rust off, and now he’s back.”

Casillas is still wearing a brace on his left knee, but he expects to shed it for practice next week to get used to not wearing it. He said he had normal soreness after the game but expects to be back in full force for the rest of the season. He’s looking forward to the bye week.

“You got a week to basically heal,” Casillas said. “It’s great,

DeAndre Levy had an interception and four tackles for a loss in Wisconsin’s win over Fresno State on Saturday. He also earned National Defensive Player of the Week honors.

especially heading right into our Big Ten schedule.”

Taking over in Casillas’ absence has been senior linebacker DeAndre Levy, who earned the honor of national defensive Player of the Week by accumulating nine tackles—four for losses—along with a sack and interception against Fresno State.

“It was good, for the first two weeks, to see the guys perform well,” Casillas said. “Levy did a good job of leading the team.

When I came back, he had the performance of his career. I’m probably his No. 1 fan.”

Levy, Casillas and junior linebacker Jaevery McFadden, who injured his hand last weekend

from sophomore Jessica Seyferth.

As a freshman playing in her first collegiate matches last year, Seyferth finished runner-up in women’s singles at the Classic and is hoping to get off to a good start again this season.

“It was a good start to the year, kind of got things rolling, so hopefully I can do that again this year,” Seyferth said.

The Badgers will rely heavily on senior captains Elizabeth Carpenter and Erin Jobe as they look to improve on last season’s 10-14 record.

“They’ve already done a great job in two weeks, and they’ve got everybody together and on the same page,” Fleishman said about his experienced captains. “Liz [Carpenter] right now is playing by far the best tennis CARPENTER out of anybody.

She will start out playing as our No. 1. This is her year.”

Player of the week: NIKKI KLINGSPORN

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but will be back in practice next week with a cast, form a formidable team of linebackers.

“Casillas brought experience and leadership, as well as his speed, to the team.”

Dave Doeren defensive coordinator UW Football

The Badgers will play Michigan Sept. 27 in their Big Ten debut, and Casillas said the team will take the game seri-

Wisconsin setter Nikki Klingsporn averaged 10.18 assists and .64 service aces per set en route to being named MVP of the InnTowner Invitational last weekend at home.

ously despite the talk that 1-2 Michigan is no longer a threat after losing 35-17 to Notre Dame last weekend.

“You don’t want to underestimate those guys because, put everything aside, they’re still Michigan, they’re still one of the best all-around teams to ever play college football, so you have to respect them,” Casillas said.

For now, Casillas is healthy and ready for the Big Ten. “Fresno State was a great situation for me to come back,” Casillas said. “I go out there and bang it up a little more, and then I get to rest for a whole week and a half. I can’t really ask for a better situation to come to.”

more experienced group, really poised to do well in the conference portion of the season this year.”

The Hoosiers, now 3-1-2 heading into their first conference game against the Badgers, have always posed a tough matchup for Wisconsin—last year’s 0-0 tie marked the first game since 1995 the Badgers did not lose to Indiana. The Hoosiers had won the previous 14 matchups.

Although the Hoosiers lay claim to the majority of wins in the series—29 in total to Wisconsin’s three—the Badgers do not see it as a factor in their upcoming match.

“It’s a new season,” senior midfielder Kenny Dix said. “Indiana is obviously a good program perennially—they are always top-25—but our coach has prepared us well and we feel that we are ready. All the players are excited about the match-up, and if we play our game, it will be a really good game.”

Kickoff will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Bloomington, Ind. The game will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network.

wac official from page 12 Benson said that the WAC uses its review system as a learning tool as well as an evaluation process, giving each official a grade at the end of the season which determines whether they are considered for the postseason as well as whether they are retained. But depending on the severity of the error, immediate action can be taken, though Benson said he did not expect that to be the case in the Wisconsin-Fresno State controversy. “[The play in question] didn’t have an impact on the outcome of the game,” Benson said.

Whether that is the right attitude to bring to this situation is uncertain.

What if the play had made a drastic impact in the game? Four plays after the overturned call, Fresno hit Wisconsin with a 61-yard screen pass, bringing the ball down to UW’s 9yard line.

If Fresno had scored a touchdown and taken the lead, or even made a field goal to tie the game, wouldn’t that warrant a stricter approach than the more laid-back, almost laissez-faire position the WAC is currently taking?

The answer to the question is: Yes. On a play that could have named the winner and loser of the game, obviously the WAC needs to do something about it. While it is impossible to go back and change the call made during the game, a suspension at least seems to be in order.

Wednesday the WAC announced the replay official made an error and the play should not have been overturned.

“The WAC holds officials accountable for their performance,” said Benson in a press release. “And when errors are made, especially those that may have an impact on the outcome of a game, it is necessary to hold an official accountable for the mistake.”

It takes a big man to admit he is wrong, though Benson’s apology seems more of defeat than actual regret. The replay official at fault will only receive a point deduction in his overall grade and there will be no suspension—which seems to be a small fine for how drastic the crime could have been.

The old saying goes that “hindsight is 20/20” and this case is no different, except that everyone other than the replay official was seeing clearly the first time around.

If you think the WAC official was out of “WhACk”, e-mail Nate at ncarey@wisc.edu.

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By Scott Allen THE DAILY CARDINAL

Determined to be in top form for the Fresno State battle, senior linebacker Jonathan Casillas pushed himself hard during practice last week to overcome a knee injury and ultimately make some key plays that allowed the Wisconsin defense to hold the Bulldogs to their lowest score at home since 1986.

“Jonathan Casillas didn’t miss a rep last week. I know after Tuesday’s practice he was really sore,” head coach Bret Bielema said at a press conference Monday. “[He] persevered through some pains on Wednesday and practiced lights out, and I think that got him to where he was on Saturday.”

Casillas missed the first two games of the season after spraining

his left knee during a scrimmage two weeks before the opening game and could not start practicing until the week before Saturday’s game against Fresno State.

But he played like he had much more than a week of practice under his belt.

“Last week [Casillas] was still trying to knock the rust off, and now he’s back.”

Dave Doeren defensive coordinator UW Football

Against Fresno State, Casillas brought speed and energy reminiscent of last year, when his 96

tackles led the team. He earned seven tackles and prevented the Bulldogs from scoring a touchdown at the end of the third quarter when he charged from the opposite side of the field to take down Bulldog running back Ryan Mathews at the 9-yard line.

“I was coming from the back side, and I saw him running and I had a good angle on him,” Casillas said. “I was running as fast as I could. I didn’t know if I could get him.”

The UW defense came through to stop the Bulldogs before the end zone, forcing a field goal.

The Badgers went on to hold a 13-10 lead through the game’s end, successfully beating a ranked team in its own backyard. casillas page 11

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Senior linebacker Jonathan Casillas (2) sat out the first two games of the season because of a knee injury. He excelled last weekend, however, when he returned to battle Fresno State.

WAC official should pay the price for poor call against Badgers NATE CAREY sports magnate

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t is not that big of a deal... but it could have been huge. Near the end of the third quarter in Wisconsin’s 13-10 victory over Fresno State Saturday, it seemed obvious that Fresno wideout Devon Wylie fumbled the ball after being hit by Wisconsin

safety Shane Carter.

However, what seemed like a sure thing was anything but, as Fresno head coach Pat Hill challenged the ruling on the field and the original call of a fumble was overturned. In the end, while the play provided a huge momentum shift and kept Wisconsin on its heels the rest of the game, it did not affect the outcome.

There has been much debate this week over Saturday’s game.

How did the replay official

interpret something that seemed so apparent to most to be the complete opposite?

It is an interesting story. To tell it properly, a flashback to January is needed. After Wisconsin’s 21-17 defeat to the Tennessee Volunteers in the 2008 Outback Bowl, UW head coach Bret Bielema stated in his postgame press conference that he would never coach a game with Western Athletic Conference officials again—the WAC being the conference in which Fresno State resides.

Bielema took a lot of flack for his comment, mainly because it was actually referees from the Mountain West Conference that officiated the game. Perhaps Saturday’s reversal was payback for an unwarranted shot nine months ago? While the conspiracy theorists are drooling over the paranoia, no one else is buying it.

The national media has been hot on the heels of the WAC to do something about this play, as it is hard for anyone to truly believe that Wylie did not fumble the ball ... everyone

except the replay official, that is. To everyone chanting and ranting about the WAC needing to do something, your prayers have been answered.

The WAC reviews every play of every game during the following week, and the Wisconsin-Fresno State game is no different.

“We’re reviewing this just like we review any game,” WAC commissioner Karl Benson said in a phone conversation Monday. wac official page 11