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Presidential candidates debate war, economy

By Rebecca Autrey THE DAILY CARDINAL

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UW-Madison students participated in an Iraq-war protest march following a panel discussion. Directors of the event told students not to be scared of protesting the war because soldiers and veterans would participate too.

Soldiers protest Iraq war

By Alyssa Connolly THE DAILY CARDINAL

University students and Madison residents joined members of Iraq Veterans Against the War for a panel discussion and protest march from Memorial Union to Brittingham Park Saturday.

IVAW organized the “Madison Winter Soldier” rally in reference to Thomas Paine’s “summer soldier”— one who shrinks from the service of his country in times of crisis.

IVAW-Central Ill. member Jason Wallace and IVAW-Madison President Christina Taber emceed the event.

They introduced panel speakers who spoke about war terrors such as torture, dehumanization and death.

Veterans of the wars in Iraq and

Afghanistan, including Wallace, spoke about their experiences and stressed the need for the United States to pull troops out of Iraq.

“I think the occupation is illegal, immoral and the right thing to do is to give the country back to the people,” Wallace said. “We’ve taken away their sovereignty.”

According to Wallace, the three unity points of IVAW are to bring troops home immediately, to instill reparations for the Iraqi people and to fight for better veteran care.

Taber said she joined IVAW after serving time as a mental-health specialist in the U.S. Army Reserves.

“The war stories really opened my eyes and opinions to the occupation,” she said.

Benjamin Thompson, who served as a prison guard at Abu Ghraib, talked about the media attention the prison received as a result of the 2004 accounts of abuse and torture.

“I served with great people and I served with some people who did horrible things,” Thompson said. “You see these things and you become a broken person ... I want people to know that it happened.”

Following the panel, directors invited all attendees to participate in a protest march toward Brittingham Park. Wallace said people should not be afraid to speak out against the war because veterans were participating as well. protest page 2

Second annual Geek.Kon convention registers record turnout

By Nick Dmytrenko THE DAILY CARDINAL

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UW-Madison undergraduate David Fisher participates in Geek.Kon activities. The two-day-long event expanded to Vilas Hall this year.

Hundreds of UW-Madison students and community members participated in the second annual Geek.

Kon convention this weekend, dressing up in costumes to play video games and attend geek-themed panels.

Robert Laib, convention chair of Geek.Kon, said Saturday and Sunday’s events aimed to entertain the geek population in the area, especially those interested in science fiction and video games.

“It is supposed to be an allencompassing convention for all things geek,” Laib said. “If we can attach the word geek to it … we try to encompass that as best as we can.”

The UW-Madison Anime and Sci-Fi Clubs collaborated to organize the two-day convention. Last year, it attracted more than 1,800 people to the Humanities building and therefore had to expand to Vilas Hall this year.

“This year we [had] anime and sci-fi viewings for board games, video games, card games, vendors, costume

playing, ‘Rock Band,’ live-action role-playing and demonstrations from the UW Belegarth Medieval Combat Society,” Laib said.

The event also hosted a “Super Smash Bros.” tournament, a cosplay costume competition and panel discussions.

More than 40 volunteers and staff members helped run the event.

The university and student groups donated the equipment, but the event received a large amount of money from university grants, guest donations and T-shirt sales.

According to Laib, directors of No Brand Con, an annual anime convention held in Eau Claire, Wis., also helped organize Geek.Kon. Dana Ponce, a volunteer who helped run the convention’s masquerade party, has attended both years of Geek.Kon. “My favorite part is the costumes,” Ponce said. “You don’t get a lot of that every day, so it’s fun to go to conventions like that.”

Laib said he hopes to assemble more music and gain an even larger crowd for next year’s event.

Students crowded into the Rathskeller at Memorial Union Friday to watch the first presidential debate.

The debate between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain focused mainly on the economy and foreign policy.

Both candidates agreed that the current economic crisis is one of the most important problems facing the nation and vowed to get spending in Washington under control if elected.

The candidates differed greatly on the war in Iraq. McCain said the war may have been mishandled in the beginning but the United States has made strides in Iraq with the troop surge.

“This strategy has succeeded, and we are winning in Iraq,” he said. “We will come home with victory and with honor.”

Obama, on the other hand, said Iraq has taken U.S. attention away from the threat of Afghanistan. He said as president he would never hesitate to use military force to keep the country safe, but it must be used intelligently.

“We have to use our military wisely,” Obama said. “And we did not use our military wisely in Iraq.”

McCain and Obama agreed an alliance with Russia is important, but said Russia must understand military action against Georgia was wrong.

McCain said the United States wants to work with the Russians but has the right to expect Russia to respect “international boundaries and the norms of international behavior.”

Student groups were on hand Friday night registering students to vote. UW-Madison student Hangatu Omar from the advocacy group Progressive Future said 15 to debate page 3

Four UW System chancellors may receive salary increases Four UW System chancellors may receive pay increases, pending the outcome of a UW System Board of Regents meeting Oct. 3 at UWStevens Point.

The review is part of a periodic assessment of individual senior leaders’ salaries relative to peer institutions’ salaries for

leaders of similar caliber.

According to the regents’ meeting agenda, Wisconsin statutes allow the board to increase employees’ salaries to make them more competitive in comparison to other universities.

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If you can’t stand the Threet...

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Junior linebacker Elijah Hodge walks off the field at Michigan Stadium Saturday after a 27-25 defeat at the hands of the unranked Michigan Wolverines and freshman quarterback Steven Threet. See the Sports section for complete coverage of the game.

“…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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ind going numb... eyelids dropping... saliva collecting at the corner of your mouth about to spill out and form a puddle of drool to the disgust of your neighbors. For the love of Bucky, when will it end?!

Now that the newness and nostalgia of starting classes has faded away, you are left with the grave realization that this absolutely sucks. Nothing drains the body of all desire to function like a boring class. It happens to everyone. There is just one subject matter, one professor and one oddly comforting and sleep-inducing PowerPoint background color that is the downfall of your entire semester.

But, like hundreds before you, you must find a way to trudge on. There are ways to make it through that boring class of yours. You and I, we can do this together.

One way to beat the boring class blues while at least pretending to be intellectual is reading a newspaper.

You may know that The New York Times under your arm is only for looks/sports/confirming that the vague rumor you heard about our economy circling the proverbial toilet bowl, but other people will see you as a man or woman of the world.

That is if you are lucky enough to

chancellors from page 1 raises are UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago, UW Colleges and UW Extension Chancellor David Wilson, UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Linda Bunnell and UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich.

The salary increases would range from about 3.5 to 5 percent.

“Where they are now is consistently toward the bottom, and where they will be with these adjustments is still usually, in most cases, at or near the middle,” UW System spokesperson David Giroux said.

This review comes just months after three chancellors left the UW System for better-paying jobs. According to Giroux, salary adjustments are done on a rotating basis to ensure UW salaries remain competitive.

“We know in Wisconsin that none of our salaries, none—faculty, staff, chancellors—are ever going to be the highest salaries around. What we’d like them to be is somewhere close to the middle,” Giroux said.

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“We remember things we would rather forget, but when we speak up and share our stories we open up the possibility of healing,” Taber said. “We are here, and we are not merely survivors … we are winter soldiers.”

Taber spoke about the importance for students to learn about the veterans’ cause.

“They’re your classmates, they’re people’s family members, and it’s important to engage young people, especially because it is our generation,” Taber said.

She encouraged students to get involved in the UW-Madison Campus Antiwar Network because it supports the IVAW movement.

get the Times. Or you could be like me and randomly receive a bill for three weeks of papers you haven’t gotten.

Instead of reading the news, should I ever get my paper, I will take out my revenge by drawing mustaches and blacking out teeth on the columnist photos. They will feel my wrath and I will be entertained in class.

But should you not be seeking revenge on one of the world’s foremost news corporations, the next best inclass activity is probably people-watching. Who’s hot, who’s not and from who or what is that rotten egg smell coming from? Be sure to avoid him or her, smells like that will stick on your clothes for days.

Also be sure to note who seems to be taking good notes—they could be important allies when finals time arrives and you realize your only notes are the aforementioned drool stains.

People-watching can also lead to screen-watching. Should you be lucky enough to sit behind someone with a

laptop, you will soon realize that his screen will entrance you, making it even harder to focus on anything class related. It is a well-known fact that absolutely no one in a lecture using his laptop is actually paying attention. He is more likely chatting, playing online games or hacking into a military database and encoding rockets to launch, spelling his name over western Oregon and destroying his ex-girlfriend from high school who didn’t think a long distance relationship would work.

No matter how entertaining this may become, do not lean over to tell him about the double letter score he could get on “squirm” for online Scrabble.

Scrabble is not a team game and you will lose your screen-watching privileges. You don’t want him sending those rockets your way instead of Oregon’s.

But, don’t rule out games in general from your list of things to do besides learn. Remember those games from middle school, like tic-tac-toe, the true love test or MASH? Those little gems

have kept me conscious through many a lecture. It’s not everyday you marry Allan Evridge, move to Hawaii, have 17 children, drive a Porsche and live in a mansion. And all that on a lunch lady’s salary? That’s the American dream, my friends.

So now, as I sit in my own boring class, the girl behind me getting a sneak peek of next week’s column, I hope I have given you at least some helpful advice on making these classes a little more bearable. But if you still find yourself staring out that second story window wondering if you could survive the fall and escape this allencompassing boredom, think of it this way—at least there aren’t rogue missiles careening toward your class, compliments of your ex.

Megan hates boring classes even more than snotty Scrabble players who say they saw the move you suggested even though they clearly didn’t. If you have a boring class you’d like to discuss, e-mail her at mcorbett2@wisc.edu.

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Former Irish leader stresses human rights

By Kathy Mittelstadt THE DAILY CARDINAL

Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and current U.N. commissioner for human rights, visited campus Friday to discuss the continued struggle for global human rights.

“Our world looks much like the world of 1948,” Robinson said in reference to the year the United Nations created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “In many countries people are attacked, intimidated or imprisoned because they express their opinions or take action to obtain or recover basic political or civil rights.”

Robinson said there are many global justice issues yet to battle and that groups of people are still excluded from social benefits.

“Women continue to suffer from violence, harassment and economic exploitation because of their gender.

Minorities of all kinds continue to face discrimination,” she said. “Coming here on the 60th anniversary [of the declaration], I am very pleased to see … that faculty members and students are coming together to say ‘what are future challenges.’”

UW-Madison’s Human Rights Initiative was launched this year.

“The purpose of our initiative is to coordinate [the] diverse interests in human rights to create new learning opportunities for students and to try to stimulate new research on human rights,” said Scott Straus, a UW-Madison associate professor of political science and international studies, who is the faculty coordinator of the initiative.

UW-Madison senior Whitney Antone said stories from her boyfriend’s childhood in Uganda sparked her interest in the initiative.

“He’s told me stories about how when he was little he went to board-

ing school, and they would wake up in the middle of the night to gun shots and they would have to hide,” she said. “Some of the kids would get taken by rebels and they’d never be seen again.”

According to Straus, UW-Madison is the ideal location for the initiative due to an increasing focus on human rights from both students and faculty.

“We’ll be trying to establish new intellectual agendas, ones that anticipate future human rights challenges and overall expanded thinking and research on this crucial topic,” he said.

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Omar said student interest is at an all-time high because people are very curious to see what the candidates have to say.

“This is a really crucial year, and this is one of the biggest elections we’ll ever see in our lifetime,” she said.

UW-Madison senior Rachel Breck said young people will play an important role in this election.

“I think this election has a lot of impact on what is going to happen in the next four years, and there’s really been a large effort to get the student vote out,” Breck said.

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W- Ma d i s o n i s currently halfway through We Conserve week, a series of events intended to emphasize improving conservation across the university. We Conserve’s target goal is “reduce campus energy consumption per square foot by 20 percent by year 2010.”

We Conserve already has an impressive list of achievements.

Since April of 2006, UWMadison saved $4.6 million in energy costs. The university’s carbon dioxide emissions were reduced by over 37,000 tons during that time. We Conserve has 1,500 students signed up for its

Online classes distort true college experiences

online “pledge” to aid in the effort to conserve energy. However, instead of using extra energy on your computer signing up for this pointless pledge, start conserving right away by turning your computer off for a while. Over 97 percent of students at UW-Madison have a computer, and computers account for over $2 million in energy costs each year.

All students should take an active role in reducing energy emissions, whether this translates to riding your bike or replacing an incandescent bulb with a fluorescent one. Just because you didn’t pledge doesn’t mean you can’t help make We Conserve’s goal a reality.

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RYAN DASHEK opinion columnist ately, on college campuses across the nation a new trend has been emerging, increasing the amount of course material online. Indeed, many colleges are now completely online, allowing people to earn their bachelor degrees from the comfort of their own home. A simple internet search can yield thousands of these online university websites, some promising you a degree in legal studies and the like, while others boast such sketchy offers as allowing you to receive a doctorate in psychology within five years.

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Online lectures are much more impersonal than actually going to a lecture hall and listening to a professor.

Regardless of these universities, the Internet trend has not only spread to, but has rapidly been growing here at the University of Wisconsin for the past few years now. Not only do courses offer notes, worksheets and study guides online, but some offer sound and video recordings of lectures, and others are completely online with no classroom lecture aspect at all.

Although the posting of notes, study guides and other materials online can be extremely beneficial to students, streaming videos and audio recordings of lectures are detrimental to the academic and social aspects that make collegiate life so enriching. The online teaching medium should be discontinued by the University of Wisconsin.

A recent study by the UW E-Business Institute surveyed roughly 30,000 UW-Madison students asking for their opinions on online lecture recordings that would accompany actual class lectures. Over 7,000 replied to the e-mail survey, with an overwhelming percentage (82 percent) indicating that they would prefer courses with lecture material online, and a considerable amount (60 percent) saying that they would even be willing to pay for such online material.

Given this kind of recorded lecture content would be beneficial to students who miss class, or in preparation for exams, the availability of this material online encourages students to skip class.

Although some students are willing to only use the online lecture material as a side resource, many more will undoubtedly use the course content on the internet as their primary source of learning.

This is basically taking a course with only online material.

Courses with content only available on the web are, arguably, effective. According to a study from the Journal of General Internal Medicine from July 2002, medical school students who received only online lectures were able to perform basic diagnostic procedures just as well as those who received actual lectures. However, these classes lose much of the social aspects of actual lectures. It is much harder to meet fellow students online as compared to sitting next to them in a classroom.

Without these interactions, students must rely more heavily on their individual skills to complete assignments and study for exams, whereas forming study groups and getting together with fellow students is much easier in an actual classroom setting.

Although a select few may be able to perform exceedingly well without any help from others, almost all of us learn better when work-

ing in a group, and these kinds of interactions are just easier to accomplish in a classroom.

Online lectures are detrimental to the academic and social aspects that make collegiate life so enriching.

In addition to the lack of social networking among fellow students, online courses also offer other downsides. With online material, though you may learn and understand it, it is much more difficult to become personally vested in it. Online lectures are much more impersonal than actually going to a lecture hall and listening to a professor. Sure, some of our professors can be a tad monotonous and dry, but it is near impossible to connect to the material on a personal level if you are only watching a video streaming onto your computer from the internet.

A lot of the experiences you can only witness in an actual lecture hall are what make college the enriching journey that it is.

These streaming lecture videos may be useful if you miss a class, but that’s what online lecture notes and study guides are for.

Plus, with only lecture notes and other supplemental course materials posted online, students are much less tempted to constantly skip classes, preventing their classes from becoming impersonal, antisocial online courses.

UW-Madison lecturers should avoid posting such video and audio recordings online to stop this internet trend from destroying the social and academic experiences students can only gain by attending an actual lecture.

Ryan Dashek is a junior majoring in biology. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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TV on the Radio build on amazing follow-up

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after Malone builds the song up to the stratosphere with his manThey couldn’t do it. No way. possessed singing. It’s a musical Impossible. Return to Cookie roller coaster. These embellishMountain was too good of an ments give the track a light feel, album. How could TV on The which is a complete 180 from the Radio follow up one of the best thick tones of Cookie Mountain.

Other songs follow suit, like albums of 2006? Better yet, how the opening track the hell could they CD REVIEW “Halfway Home” follow up one of and “Crying.” the best albums “Crying” in parof this decade? ticular teeters on With expectations a peak all the way for Dear Science at impossible through the song, heights, Tunde kept there by an Adebimpe and electronic tick Dear Science company were that is stuck like a TV on the Radio going to let everyfrozen computer. one down... right?

Finally, within Far from it. Like, distance-to- the final minute, it unleashes an the-moon far from it. infectious downward scale that In fact, though it may be blas- comes together with swinging phemous, ridiculous and down- trumpets, ending the song on a right absurd to even think about, cloud. it may actually (deep breath) be That’s not to say Science doesn’t better than Cookie Mountain! have songs with the deepness that The mainstays of Cookie put TVOTR on the map. “Family Mountain—and TVOTR in gen- Tree” has a much darker feel to it, eral—are kept perfectly intact: with mellow strings and a calmAdebimpe’s hypnotizing voice, ing piano echoing as Adebimpe’s Kyp Malone’s just-barely-reach- melancholy tone uncoils softly in ing-the-high-note vocals and a gloomy love song.

David Sitek’s haze of guitar, it’s all “Stork & Owl” has the same there. What puts it a step above classic sound to it, which is espetheir previous work is that, over- cially noticeable after the chaall, it’s catchier; it’s more fun. otic “Dancing Choose,” in which Maybe it’s because of the Adebimpe barks out lyrics as an heavier use of synth, maybe it’s MC, pushing the song to a frenbecause the songs have a quicker zied pace that only allows him tempo (which makes a heck of a to take a breath when the refrain lot of sense given that TVOTR’s comes back.

Other notable songs are “Red live shows have more energy and speed than Cookie Mountain and Dress,” “Shout Me Out,” and Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty “Lover’s Day.” That actually Babes ever had), or maybe it’s accounts for almost every song because Malone’s ghostly voice on the album, so throw “DLZ” plays a bigger role in the vocals, in there, too. This is one of those but the point is it’s a refreshing albums that is amazing when listweak to an already magnificent tened to from beginning to end, but each song can stand perfectly sound.

Take, for example, the album’s fine on its own as well.

For Dear Science, there is only first single, “Golden Age.” TVOTR’s distinctive style is this to say: If you love TVOTR, infused with a heavy bass blasting listen to it. If you hate TVOTR, in the background with horns and listen to it. If you have no idea a choir that crash the chorus to who TVOTR is, listen to it. You earth-shattering valleys—but only will not be let down.

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Young stars Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan lend much needed emotion and character development to D.J. Caruso’s latest heart-pounding and action-packed thriller.

Thrilling but brainless “Eagle Eye” makes up for generic plot with intense action

By Danny Gottleib THE DAILY CARDINAL

Although the plot is hard to believe, “Eagle Eye” delivers with intense action and entertaining characters.

The most important rule to remember when seeing “Eagle Eye” is to turn off your brain.

Yes, technology is sentient and killing people. Yes, Shia LaBeouf is playing both twin brothers.

Yes, the U.S. government does have a talking golden orb 36 floors below the Pentagon. Just get over it already and enjoy the movie, will you?

Reuniting the team of Steven Spielberg, director D.J. Caruso and Shia LaBeouf, who worked together on the 2007 hit “Disturbia,” “Eagle Eye” tells the story of college dropout Jerry (LaBeouf ) and single mother Rachel (Michelle Monaghan), two strangers who are forced together by a mysterious female caller who seems to know everything about their lives and has control over every single piece of technology. The two are framed as terrorists and are pursued by FBI Agent Thomas Morgan (Billy Bob Thornton) and Air Force investigator Zoe Perez (Rosario Dawson).

Sound silly? It kind of is.

But if you are able to get past the absurd plot and the occasionally questionable character motives, it really is enjoyable.

The movie is carried on the backs of LaBeouf and Monaghan, who inject the film with some muchneeded emotion. Without them, the movie would be a standard Michael Bay blow-crap-up-andthen-blow-more-crap-up flick.

Instead, the viewer actually cares about the main characters, and therefore becomes more invested in the action.

The most important rule to remember when seeing “Eagle Eye” is to turn off your brain.

Don’t worry, though, guys.

It’s not all wimpy stuff like “emotions” and “caring.” The action sequences in “Eagle Eye” are intense, to say the least. Caruso’s obsessive need to involve as few CGI effects as possible really pays off. The action feels real

because it is real, and it is all the more enjoyable to experience as a result.

In addition to the great performances given by the two stars, Thornton, Dawson and Michael Chiklis (as the secretary of defense) are all excellent in their supporting roles. The believability the actors imbue in their roles makes up for the questionable storyline, saving the movie from losing the attention of its audience.

One glaring problem is that the plot is not very original.

Technology killing humans has already been done in everything from “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “I, Robot” and “Battlestar Galactica,” but in today’s technology-addicted world, the overall theme is more relevant than ever. The movie will make you look differently at ordinary traffic lights on the drive home from the theater.

For the most part, “Eagle Eye” is an enjoyable thrill ride of an action flick, with enough character development to keep you interested. Just don’t think about it too hard, or you might have an aneurysm.

Grade: BC

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com START IT UP ACROSS 1 Betty of cartoons 5 Synagogue stage (Var.) 9 Antony, for one 14 Ecto’s opposite 15 Baba and MacGraw 16 Schedule of events 17 Top-flight individuals?

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Knight leads Badgers past Bobcats in two-game series

By Brandon Storlie THE DAILY CARDINAL

It was another record-setting weekend for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team.

Opening the season at the Kohl Center against the Quinnipiac Bobcats, senior goaltender Jessie Vetter recorded the 26th shutout of her career in a 10-0 win Friday. Saturday, sophomore forward Hilary Knight rewrote the offensive record books, scoring a schoolrecord five goals in a 7-3 victory.

“We’ve got kids on our team who are excellent passers, and fortunately for me, [the puck] went through.”

Hilary Knight sophomore forward UW Women’s Hockey

The Badgers (2-0-0) scored early and often Friday night. Senior forward Angie Keseley redirected a pass from senior defender Alycia Matthews to give UW a 1-0 lead four minutes into the first period. Goals from junior forward Meghan Duggan and sophomore forward Mallory Deluce propelled Wisconsin to a 3-0 advantage going into the second.

The underclassmen stepped up offensively in the third. With Wisconsin leading 4-0, sophomore forward Maria Evans and freshman forward Carolyne Prevost each scored their first goals in a Badger uniform. A power play goal from sophomore forward Kelly Nash pushed the UW advantage to 7-0. “[The freshmen] all played awesome, and I wouldn’t expect anything less from them because they have all come in and picked up huge roles on the team,” senior captain Erika Lawler said. “They’re such a huge asset for us this year.”

With 6:31 left in the game, Quinnipiac’s Breana Burton took a five-minute major penalty and game misconduct for checking from behind.

Deluce, Knight and Prevost all added power play goals in the game’s final minutes. Vetter made 20 saves in the victory.

“If you’ve made it to the last minute, you kind of want to hold it out,” Vetter said. “[Shutouts] really help the team out.”

Freshman forward Brooke Ammerman scored her first collegiate goal giving UW a 1-0 lead Saturday night. With the game tied 1-1, Knight gave Wisconsin the lead again. Lawler fired a shot from the left side and Knight knocked in the rebound, putting the Badgers up 2-1 at the end of

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Wisconsin sophomore Hilary Knight scored a school-record five goals against Quinnipiac Saturday at the Kohl Center. the first period.

Knight lit the lamp again 42 seconds into the second period. Skating

Volleyball drops first two conference games

By Andy Van Sistine THE DAILY CARDINAL

The No. 18 Wisconsin volleyball team (0-2 Big Ten, 10-4 overall) started off on the wrong foot to start this year’s conference season, as it was upset in a 25-23, 25-19, 25-10 sweep by Iowa (1-0 Big Ten, 9-4 overall) and suffered a 25-23, 10-25, 24-26, 20-25 defeat to No. 12 Minnesota (2-0 Big Ten, 12-2 overall) the following night.

With their first conference win Friday night, the Hawkeyes matched the number of conference wins they had during the 2007 season and defeated the Badgers for the first time in 13 years.

The bout with Iowa was Wisconsin’s worst performance of the season to date. The team was held to 32 kills, .100 hitting and 4.5 blocks, failing for the first time this year to record a service ace.

On the other side of the net, Iowa put up better numbers in nearly every statistical category, including nine service aces in the three sets. Wisconsin did get a nine-kill, .353-hitting performance from junior opposite hitter Katherine Dykstra, but Iowa’s senior outside hitter Catherine Smale led all players with 12 kills on the night.

Set One started off poorly for the Badgers, who trailed 7-1 early and struggled to catch up. Iowa would never relinquish the lead in the first, despite a late surge by Wisconsin to pull within one at 23-22. The second set was closer, with teams knotted up at 10-10 early on, but a string of unforced errors gave Iowa a 14-10 lead that Wisconsin could not catch up with again.

The final set ended in a similar fashion, with an early 4-4 tie that was broken by seven consecutive Hawkeye points to make the score 11-4, and again, the Badgers could not make a comeback.

Saturday’s match in Minneapolis showed more tenacity on Wisconsin’s part, but it was not enough to pull off the win.

Though the Badgers were once

again outperformed in nearly every facet, they did accumulate 49 kills, nine blocks, 72 digs and a service ace to improve from the previous night. Junior outside hitter Caity DuPont earned her first doubledouble of her career, scoring a team high 14 kills and racking up 11 digs.

But it was Minnesota’s sophomore middle blocker Lauren Gibbemeyer who stole the show, leading all players with 10 blocks and throwing down 16 kills for a .364 hitting percentage.

To start the night, Wisconsin kept the first set close, tying the Golden Gophers at 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 and 23 before being finished off with two straight kills.

After a second set that was all Minnesota, Wisconsin came out strong in the third, taking a 6-3 lead before the Gophers came back to reclaim it at 18-14 and held on to win despite a strong

comeback by the Badgers.

A tight fourth set was eventually broken open by the Gophers as well, as the Badgers fell behind 18-15 late and stayed behind for the remainder of the round.

“We’re just looking at really improving every time we get on the court and this was much better than last night,” head coach Pete Waite said. “We like what we saw, we changed the lineup a little bit, DuPont was playing back row a lot and that was great. She was passing well and scoring well for us. I think they just have to keep gaining confidence, keep improving and we go at it at home next time and get the win.”

The Badgers will return home for the first time since Sept. 14 to host their Big Ten home opener against Michigan Friday and against Ohio State Sunday.

—uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.

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Sophomore libero Kim Kuzma leads Wisconsin with 180 digs this season, almost twice as many digs as any other Badger.

in on a wrap-around, the New Hampshire native snuck a backhanded shot past the glove of Bobcat goalie

recap from page 8 Michigan was able to use its spread-option offense effectively in the second half, scoring on a run of 34-yards by junior running back Brandon Minor—which was set up by a 56-yard scamper by freshman quarterback Steven Threet—and a three-yard run by freshman running back Sam McGuffie.

However, Michigan’s biggest play of the day came on defense.

With 10:24 left in the fourth quarter and Wisconsin looking up at the scoreboard wondering where its 19-point lead had gone, Evridge threw a pass that was tipped into the

analysis from page 8 Michigan sputtered on its first drive in the third quarter, but got going the next time it touched the ball. Freshman quarterback Steven Threet completed passes of 13, 16 and finally 22 yards to freshman tight end Kevin Koger to break the Wisconsin shutout.

Earlier on the drive the Badgers had a chance to stop Michigan on a 4th-and-1, but junior running back Kevin Grady powered his way for five yards and the conversion.

The defense’s difficulties in getting off the field continued on the next Wolverine possession when it forced a pair of 3rd-and-long plays.

The first time, Threet found junior receiver Greg Mathews for 14 yards on 3rd-and-9.

Minutes later senior defensive end Matt Shaughnessy again extended the drive, earning a penalty for leveling Threet after an incompletion and turning a 3rd-and-15 into a Michigan first down.

The drive ended with another big play for Michigan when two Badger linebackers blitzed up the middle, leaving an open lane outside for junior running back Brandon Minor to take 34 yards for the score.

The final crushing play, however, was yet to come.

With eight minutes remaining, Michigan held a one-point lead and the ball at their own 23-yard line. Threet appeared to hand the

Nann Holm-Glaas, giving Wisconsin a 3-1 advantage.

With the score 4-2 late in the second period, Wisconsin found itself in a potentially dangerous 5-on-3 situation.

However, the penalty kill was successful, and Knight took all the momentum back for UW, scoring her third goal of the night with nine seconds left in the second period.

“All of a sudden you’re down on a 5on-3 for 1:40, I thought we responded pretty well,” head coach Mark Johnson said. “We did a good job killing it off, and it’s nice to see how the kids responded to a little bit of adversity.”

After scoring her fourth goal of the night 61 seconds into the third, Knight’s record-breaker came with just under two minutes left. Keseley put a shot on net, and Knight fired in a rebound to make the score 7-2.

Quinnipiac added another in the closing minutes.

With her fifth goal, Knight broke a school record previously held by Meghan Hunter and Cyndy Kenyon.

“I just stayed patient,” Knight said.

“We’ve got kids on our team who are excellent passers, and fortunately for me, [the puck] went through.”

The Badgers will look to build on their early-season momentum as they host Syracuse next weekend at the Kohl Center. air by wide receiver Kyle Jefferson and intercepted by Michigan linebacker John Thompson.

“My first goal was to get to the end zone,” Thompson said. “The ball popped up … so I ran to the football and got my hands on it, and as soon as I did I was thinking end zone.”

Thompson followed the lead of his blockers downfield and scored the game-changing touchdown on a 25-yard run. Just one play after Minor’s 34-yard touchdown run, the Wolverines were back in the end zone.

That play seemed to suck the life out of Wisconsin, and the team was never able to recover. ball to freshman running back Sam McGuffie, who the Badgers swarmed to.

The ball was still in Threet’s hands, and with the help of a timely block, he ran 58 yards with it before being pulled down from behind.

The second half defense looked less crisp than it had in the first.

Threet got more time to throw and the Badger defenders, who had been so disruptive early on, failed to either upset or contain Michigan’s plays. “[The momentum swing] shows how fragile emotions can be,” Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said. “I think defensively after that first touchdown, they came over they had good eyes on the sidelines, but when that second one hit, then I think their confidence level really went down.”

The players refused to blame their troubles on an offense that scored zero points in the first 29 minutes of the second half—at one point the Badgers went four drives without a first down and gave Michigan its first lead with an interception that was run back for a score.

“We know that it’s our goal and our job is to give the offense the best field position, whatever they do after that, that’s their responsibility,” Casillas said. “We just got to go out there and stop them, stop their offense, you know Michigan’s offense or who ever we’re playing and do that. And we failed to do that in the second half.”

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RECAP

By Nate Carey THE DAILY CARDINAL

ANN ARBOR, MICH.—The No. 18 Wisconsin football team made history Saturday against Michigan; it’s just that the history will go down in the Wolverines’ books, not UW’s.

With a 19-point lead to begin the second half, the Badgers (0-1 Big 2-2 27 Ten, 3-1 overall) seemed well on their 25 3-1 way to another Big Ten season-opening win at the unfriendly confines of Michigan Stadium, also known as the Big House. Instead, the Badgers allowed Michigan (1-0 Big Ten, 2-2 overall) to record the biggest comeback at Michigan Stadium, and the second biggest comeback all-time in the school’s history.

“I didn’t know how to react. It was embarrassing,” senior linebacker DeAndre Levy said. “Other than that, I didn’t know how to react. I couldn’t believe it just happened.”

The Wolverines used a 155yard, 20-point fourth quarter to take an eight-point lead, and the deficit would prove too much for Wisconsin to overcome.

Considering the amount of missed opportunities for Wisconsin, the loss is even more bitter.

“I think it came back to bite us in this one,” sophomore wide receiver David Gilreath said. “We had a lot of field goals and couldn’t execute and couldn’t get into the end zone. I’ve always heard that field goals beat you, and that’s the

case here.”

Michigan committed five firsthalf turnovers, four of which the Badgers had a chance to turn into points. Of those four, Wisconsin had three field goals and one, lone touchdown—coming from the legs of freshman running back John Clay. If Wisconsin had been able to turn one, or even two of those field goals into six points, things could have been very different. Throw in the missed field goal (1-0 Big Ten) on the opening drive, and the Badgers could (0-1 Big Ten) have ended the half up much more than 19.

But even with the missed opportunities, the Badgers still had a chance. With 13 seconds left in the game, senior quarterback Allan Evridge threw a touchdown pass to Gilreath on a hitch pattern, bringing the Badgers within two points.

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By Ben Breiner THE DAILY CARDINAL

man running back John Clay.

Midway through the second quarter with UW on its own 49yard line, Clay took a handoff and bounced the play outside, running free down the right sideline after breaking a few would-be tackles. He was dragged out of bounds at the Michigan 5-yard line, and scored on the next play after again bouncing the play outside.

But unfortunately for the Badgers, that marked the end of the team’s scoring until Evridge’s pass to Gilreath with 13 seconds left.

ANN ARBOR, MICH.—For the first half, Wisconsin did everything right.

The Badgers’ defense corralled and frustrated Michigan’s offense for the first 30 minutes of their game Saturday. After halftime, however, it all came apart.

“We just basically gave the game away in the second half,” senior linebacker DeAndre Levy said.

The Wolverines scored 27 unanswered points after the intermission, wiping out a 19-0 Wisconsin lead and providing the winning margin in their 27-25 victory.

The Badgers’ stifling of Michigan was nearly complete in the first half.

Wisconsin players were shooting into the Wolverine backfield with regularity and rarely missing tackles.

The Wolverine offense only gained 21 yards, failed to convert on seven third-downs and turned the ball over five times.

The final turnover, an interception by Wisconsin senior linebacker Jonathan Casillas, was almost returned for a score, adding emphasis to the dominant one-half performance.

“We didn’t give up any big plays, you know,” Wisconsin senior defensive tackle Mike Newkirk said. “Even on the screens and stuff, we were getting everything down for short gains, minimal gains. And in the second half we gave up big plays.”

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Michigan freshman quarterback Steven Threet pulls away from Wisconsin senior defensive end Matt Shaughnessy in Ann Arbor Saturday.

“I didn’t know how to react. It was embarrassing.”

DeAndre Levy senior linebacker Wisconsin football team

The two-point attempt had Evridge throw a bullet to senior tight end Travis Beckum, as the Wisconsin sideline jumped for joy at the thought of being able to right the wrong they had committed. However, an ineligible man downfield penalty was called, and Evridge was unable to complete the

following play, giving Michigan the Big Ten opener victory, as well as a spot in the history books.

“This one is really tough. It’s definitely a hard loss,” senior cornerback Allen Langford said. “We got up, but we didn’t play four quarters. We didn’t play like we were supposed to.”

After missing a 34-yard field goal on the opening drive, freshman place kicker Phillip Welch did his part, making field goals of 21, 42, 41 and 52 yards. All of his field goals came in the first half, and they were complimented by an impressive touchdown drive led by fresh-