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UW students victims of separate sexual assaults in downtown Madison By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

Two female UW-Madison students were the victims of recent sexual assaults in the downtown Madison area, police said Tuesday.

“Students and others should be alert to those who look suspicious and to let us know.” Joel DeSpain public information ofﬁcer Madison Police Department

The ﬁrst incident occurred Saturday evening on Langdon Street. A 36-year-old graduate student reported that a stranger followed her into her apartment building and grabbed her buttocks while she was checking her mail at 5:23 p.m.,

according to a police report. Police patrolling the area spotted a man matching the victim’s description of the perpetrator and arrested Daniel M. Coffee, 21, of Madison. Coffee is tentatively charged with fourth-degree sexual assault. The second assault happened Monday morning in a parking lot on the 120 block of East Gorham Street. According to a police report, a 20year-old sophomore said she was getting into her car when a strange man approached her and grabbed her clothing. He then made a sexual gesture with his hips while hugging the victim’s chest area before running off. Police describe the perpetrator as a white male, 19 to 24 years old, 5'8" to 5'10" with short blond or light brown hair, blue or green eyes and acne. He was last seen wearing a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, shiny blue nylon assaults page 3

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The athletic department announced it will revert to last season’s ticket voucher system and abandon the wristband policy in order to correct the congestion problem that plagued the Marshall game.

Assigned seats back for rest of football season By Erin Banco THE DAILY CARDINAL

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The UW-Madison Athletic Department will revert to the previous football ticketing system for the remainder of the season, beginning with the game this Saturday against Ohio State. Similar to past years, students will exchange validated vouchers for reserved seating tickets. Students will no longer receive colored wristbands, which were used at the first two home football games this season. Vince Sweeney, senior associate athletic director for external relations, said officials decided to return to the old procedure after reading survey responses from student season-ticket holders.

“We really do care about the students, and we value their input,” he said. “[Their input] is what led us to this decision … so we are hoping that it will be well-received.” Sweeney said students should be able to find their seats more easily with portals marked to enter either the upper half or lower half of each student section. Students had complained about congestion caused by the wristband policy. “We think we can deal with some of that migration if we try and provide a bit more information as [students] are trying to decide what portal they should enter,” Sweeney said. The next two home games,

against Ohio State and Penn State, start at 7 p.m., which contributed to the switch from wristbands to assigned seating. “I am nervous because this week is a night game and people are going to be trying to get better seats and may be a little more out of control,” said Kayla Haag, a UW-Madison sophomore and football volunteer for Per Mar. Haag said it was difficult to work last year’s games because volunteers could not identify students sitting in the wrong section. “At least with the wristbands you could tell who was in the tickets page 3

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Matt Wessale, a UW-Madison junior and a coordinator for WISPIRG’s ‘Big Red, Go Green’ campaign, argues against the construction of a new coal plant at a Portage city council meeting Tuesday. Opponents of the plant said the money should instead be invested in a clean-energy economy.

Students invited to offer feedback at ASM constitution listening sessions By Rory Linnane THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison students and faculty can participate in listening sessions Wednesday to offer feedback on a recently created draft of the Associated Students of Madison constitution. According to Jeffrey Wright, chair of the Constitutional Committee, each hour-long session will be open for university community members to ask

questions and supply feedback. “We want people to take ownership of what could become the new student government,” Wright said. According to Wright, the goal of the constitution is to create a greater separation of roles between the legislative body and the executive body, with the ﬁrst major asm page 3

By Hannah McClung THE DAILY CARDINAL

The watchdog group One Wisconsin Now ﬁled a complaint Tuesday with the Government Accountability Board claiming Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce failed to report lobbying activity involving the University of Wisconsin budget. WMC, a pro-business interest group, commented on its lobbying activities in response to former UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley’s article in Madison Magazine, in which he said WMC is not acting in the best interests of the University of Wisconsin. In a statement released Aug. 20, WMC said they played a part in the final passage of the entire Wisconsin state budget.

However, according to OWN, that statement was revised from one released earlier the same day that read, “WMC actively lobbied for ﬁnal passage of the UW budget.”

“The law says that if you lobby, you have to report that activity.” Scot Ross executive director One Wisconsin Now

“This public reversal on WMC’s previous claim is even more reason why a full investigation by the GAB is warranted,” Scot Ross, executive director of OWN, said.

WMC is confident the complaint will be dismissed by the GAB because the complaints are without merit, according to Jim Pugh, director of public relations for WMC. “[This complaint] is part of an ongoing harassment campaign by One Wisconsin Now,” Pugh said. According to Pugh, WMC supported the final passage of the entire state budget, which included massive funding increases for the University of Wisconsin, but did not lobby for the UW budget itself. Under Wisconsin law, if a group lobbies for a particular part of the budget, it must report that activity. According to Ross, WMC is wmc page 3

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Ode to the “Large-and-in-Charge”

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ost Ann Arbor trip, I’m sitting on my couch in my underwear, waiting for “Desperate Housewives” to come on and feeling completely uninspired and too tired to write anything worth reading. That’s about all the energy I have to type right now, reader, as I feel as useless as Charter. But I thought I would share with you something that I read recently that I loved from a new up-coming literary talent. Whitney Newman, one of my best friends, just wrote a poem, documenting our great nights in Madison and the only stable thing in our collegiate lives: post-night out runs to McDonalds for a Large-andin-Charge Diet Coke, a remedy I am quite sure cures hangovers. So please, dear reader, accept this as a token of my appreciation and expect bigger and better things from me next week after a quiet weekend in Madison, keeping

Another epic night in Madison, done. / The morning after is here. / Wake up with a headache, still wearing last night’s clothes, / Immediately regret drinking all that beer. Cell phone rings, it’s all the girls. / “I feel like shit,” we all say. / The consequences of last night are now clearly evident; / It’s going to be one hell of a hung-over day. No words are needed, Court gets the car / And drives around to pick us all up. / Our feelings of nausea and “what happened last night” will soon be cured / By the magic of a “Largeand-in-Charge” cup. “How can I help you?” says the woman at McDonald’s / And we order up some Large-and-in-Charge Diet Cokes. / “That’s it?” she says, “Is there anything... else?” / As if she knows our lives are all jokes. We pull ahead to the window for the drinks, / The attendant says, “Have a nice day!” / We all roll our eyes and mumble as we drive off, / It’s not pos-

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sible to feel “nice” today. Break open the straws, take the first sip, / The reality of our life sinks in. / “I fucking passed out on a pizza,” Ash blurts out, / And discussions of last night’s craziness begin. Whit made-out with a random, / Court made-out with three, / Megan let some old man grope her, / And soon all her drinks were free. We drunk-dialed Bielema multiple times, / And went to go look for him at the KK, / But why did we think that sexting everyone in our cell phones / Was even remotely okay? The lights turn on, the bar is closing / And we’re scattered all over the bar. / Wando’s might seem like a pretty small place, / But we’ve managed to travel pretty far. Ash just peed in the men’s bathroom / Whit’s playing air guitar on the dance floor / Court’s looking for an outlet so she can plug in her dead phone / Megan starts fighting with some skank girl, as we get thrown out the door. Finally meet up, it’s time to go home / Ready to pass out from a “classy” night of fun. / We’re all so tired

we don’t even stop for food, / It’s pretty clear we are done and done. “We weren’t that drunk, were we?” asks Whit, / “I thought we just had enough to get loose.” / “Whit, we were smashed,” Courtney says to clarify, / “Fuck, we accidently did a shot of pure cranberry juice.” We conclude our morning drive with a necessary stop / At the traditional place, Bagels Forever. / Outside, people are going for runs or to work. / When will we be real people? Probably never. But I wouldn’t change it for a million bucks, / I love our weekends more than words can say. / And I know we’ll long for these days in the future, / When we have to man-up and have real jobs someday. So here’s to life, happiness, and a whole lot of fun, / Even if our lives sometimes seem like jokes. / And wherever you go, whatever you do, / Don’t forget the “Large-and-inCharge” Diet Cokes. If you’d like to tell Ashley she’s lame, e-mail aaspencer@wisc.edu. If you’d like to ﬁnd out more exciting facts about her friend Whitney, look though Ashley’s Facebook photos for incriminating evi-

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Cieslewicz responds to ﬁnancial woes with reduced budget plan By Jack Zeller THE DAILY CARDINAL

Responding to the continuing ﬁnancial crisis on Wall Street, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz announced Tuesday that he has once again reduced projections for Madison’s 2009 investment income, this time by $500,000. Tu e s d a y ’ s reduction, nearly 10 percent of the city’s earlier projection for 2009 investment returns, comes after the CIESLEWICZ original draft of the 2009 budget was already reduced by $750,000 from 2008. Cieslewicz said the market’s instability in the past week means

his office must act with responsibility when considering numbers for the 2009 budget. The current projection is at $4.75 million, down from $6 million in 2008.

“With the continuing volatility on Wall Street ... we need to be ﬁscally prudent.” Dave Cieslewicz mayor City of Madison

“With the continuing volatility on Wall Street and uncertainty as we look to the future, we need to be ﬁscally prudent,” he said in a statement. “There is

no way we can tell today what the investment environment will be like in three or four months. It’s only prudent to ratchet down expectations.” City Treasurer Dave Gawenda said the downturn in projected profits comes from a prediction that excess money the city has invested in money-market funds and other liquid assets will return less interest than in previous years. “The mayor’s adjustment there is based on the assumption that interest rates will go lower next year than what they are now,” Gawenda said. “If you’re willing to assume the economy will be slower next year, it’s kind of a corollary of that that interest rates will be lower also.” The current draft of the 2009 budget is due to be released by the mayor’s ofﬁce next week.

New Payback Calculator aims to decrease student hesitation about cost of UW degree By Grace Kim THE DAILY CARDINAL

The newly developed UWMadison Payback Calculator now allows students and families to find the financial benefit of earning a UWMadison degree. By simply plugging in personal information, the website gives the estimated financial payback after graduating UW-Madison. According to Robert Haveman, the designer of the site and professor emeritus of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Payback Calculator targets high school students who fail to pursue education because of the fear of paying college tuition. “If [potential students] really understood what’s paying off for college, [they] will be more likely to say ‘I have to do things necessary to go to college and graduate,’” Haveman said.

“The hope here is that it will encourage people, largely from lower-income families, who have trouble affording the up-front cost to say it’s worthwhile for me to do it.”

“It should give you a pretty good idea of what your degree is going to be worth.” John Wiley former chancellor UW-Madison

Haveman said the site also aids high school counselors who talk to prospective college students about career planning and ﬁnancial facts about college. Former chancellor John Wiley,

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shorts and white tennis shoes. Madison Police Department public information ofﬁcer Joel DeSpain said it is easy for students to think they are surrounded by their peers, but warned downtown residents to constantly be leery of criminal behavior. “Certainly we know that there are numbers of people in the downtown area who are not students,” DeSpain said. “Students and others should be alert to those who look suspicious and to let us know.” Ally Cruickshank, chair of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment, a student organization aimed at preventing sexual violence, said details of the incidents show that many students typically fear “stranger danger” and late-night assaults. “What these crimes highlight is the fact that we deﬁnitely do have perceptions of what [sexual assaults] look like, and they’re kind of stereotyped,” Cruickshank said. She noted that 93 percent of Wisconsin women who reported being sexually assaulted knew their assailant and that assaults can happen at any time of day. Cruickshank said it is vital for victims to receive the help and support they need. Students who need help dealing with a sexual assault or rape can call the Dane County Rape Crisis Center’s 24-hour hotline at (608) 251-RAPE.

change being the addition of a student body president. “We hope to foster greater accountability with the student body president, as well as give student government a real face to the organization,” Wright said. The student body president would replace the ASM chair position, currently held by UW-Madison senior Brittany Wiegand. The second major change is the establishment of student senate committees. Currently, ASM consists of several grassroots committees that tackle both the legislative and executive sides of policy-making. “They serve a dual purpose right now ... We think it’s impor-

wmc from page 1 violating this law by failing to disclose lobbying information. “WMC, big business’ corporate mouthpiece, is not above the law, and the law says that if you lobby, you have to report that activity,” Ross said. WMC was not listed on a lobbying activity report as a group that lobbied for the UW System, said UW System spokesperson David Giroux. “Regardless of what did or did not happen in the past, the businesses in our state have a vested interest in a

who helped to launch the site, said the Payback Calculator is a good assessment of the returnable investment and shows the value of a UWMadison degree. Wiley said the site gives “discounted net present value,” which is all the costs and returns from the college years. The discounted net present value considers many components, including the annual increases in earnings, the costs of attendance and financial aid gain. “It will help anybody to figure out what you are going to get for whatever you pay ... There are quite sophisticated analyses, and it’s not just back-of-theenvelope estimates,” he said. “It should give you a pretty good idea of what your degree is going to be worth.” To use the calculator and find the economic payoff of your college education, visit www.payback.wisc.edu. tant to enable the senate just to legislate and give direction to ASM,” Wright said. As proposed in the constitution’s draft, the executive committee would approve senate committee policy and offer legislation to the senate. Listening sessions Wednesday night will be from 5 to 6 p.m. at Memorial Union and from 7 to 8 p.m. at Union South. Check “Today in the Union” for exact room locations. A third listening session will be Oct. 14 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Health Sciences Learning Center. According to ASM officials, the group plans to release a second version of the constitution in October or early November and plan to vote on a final version in February. healthy UW System,” he said. According to Giroux, the UW System would be open to collaborating with WMC in the future. Mike McCabe, executive director of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, said he thinks WMC has some explaining to do. “Either they haven’t been honest in their lobbying disclosure or they weren’t honest in making claims about their activity in public statements,” McCabe said. “Obviously they’ve been caught in some untruthfulness of one kind or another.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF Doyle announces joint effort with Germany against climate change Gov. Jim Doyle and top German ofﬁcials made an agreement Tuesday to jointly combat climate change. Doyle, German Minister for the Environment Sigmar Gabriel and German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the announcement at a conference on climate and energy in Berlin. During the conference, the Transatlantic Climate and Energy Initiative was launched. The initiative supports partnerships that enable the exchange of expertise about clean-energy technology. The agreement acknowledged that climate change and dependence on fossil fuels necessitate immediate action and international cooperation. “Taking on the challenge of climate change, improving our

energy security and growing jobs in a clean-energy economy are all closely linked, and it is imperative that we build the partnerships necessary to advance this work,” Doyle said in a statement. “Germany and Wisconsin have strong bonds, and we look forward to strengthening our combined efforts to confront climate change and our energy policies.” Doyle spokesperson Lee Sensenbrenner said Wisconsin industries and German cleanenergy companies are taking the issue of global warming into their own hands. “In the last few years, states haven’t waited for the federal government to act. They’ve pursued agreements and strategies to meet [climate] goals through agreements like this,” Sensenbrenner said. —Cathy Martin

UW student-hosted, reported show to premiere on Big Ten Network A 30-minute television show featuring UW-Madison reporters and hosts will premiere Thursday on the Big Ten Network. “The Wheel” is a magazinestyle show with stories about university research and programs. At the beginning of each episode, two student hosts will spin a wheel to determine which story will air. Story topics include “First Wave,” the ﬁrst university spoken-word program on campus, the Langdon Street Neighborhood Watch and UW-Madison nanotechnology research. According to Peter Kleppin, the UW-Madison Big Ten project manager, the wheel gives

tickets from page 1 wrong section … I think it is hard to see the [section] letters on people’s tickets as they pass by.” Kelsey Padrutt, a UWMadison sophomore and football ticket holder, said she had to wait 15 minutes before getting through her assigned portal for the game against Marshall.

the show a unique style. “We didn’t want to take the students and make them look like little anchor people,” Kleppin said in a statement. “We wanted them to have fun and be themselves and reﬂect the intelligence and the attitude that’s here at Madison.” “The Wheel” is part of UWMadison’s allotted 60 hours of non-athletic programming, which is given to each Big Ten school annually. Thursday’s premiere at 4 p.m. is produced by University Communications and video production company John Roach Projects. The second episode airs Nov. 6 at 3 p.m.

“The games I went to were not big games, so people did not come early, but I think students might get to the game a little earlier for night games,” she said. To avoid waiting in line, athletic officials ask students to sit in their assigned section and to arrive at least 20 minutes before Saturday’s kickoff.

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ecently, the Walgreens located in University Square featured a display with plastic cups and ping-pong balls located suspiciously close together. Although the products were packaged separately, a parent voiced concern to UW Dean of Students Lori Berquam, arguing the display condoned binge drinking, as plastic cups and ping-pong balls are the main components of beer pong, a popular drinking game. Berquam called the establishment, and the manager quickly removed the display and has since taken full responsibility for the incident. However, Rep. Kathleen Falk, D-Wis., who recently proposed a $250,000 budget toward curbing alcoholism in the state of Wisconsin, has thrust this somewhat small incident into the limelight through public criticism. While Berquam’s response to the matter is understandable and falls under her jurisdiction, Kathleen Falk’s involvement is politcally convenient but unnecessary. Walgreens sells neither alcohol nor liquor, so the censure and criticism of a company just capitalizing on its customers’ interests is an unnecessary attack. Yes,

this particular Walgreens is located near University Housing dorms, which is a predominantly under-21 crowd, so the display perhaps unjustly encourages a drinking game that is illegal for many of its customers. But the cups don’t ﬁll themselves up with beer—and Walgreens doesn’t offer any. Illegal drinking is a two-way street, and the purveyors of the cups and the ping-pong balls are not creating the alcohol problem, just responding to consumer desires that stem from it. The display and its surreptitious encouragement of drinking culture could be perpetuating a larger endemic problem in Wisconsin, but for Falk to publicly denounce the display is overkill. In the great sea of drinking establishments in Wisconsin, Walgreens is a very small ﬁsh. It would be in the best interest of Falk and her $250,000 budget proposal to focus their efforts on bars or liquor stores where underage, binge and excessive drinking are more prevalent, and address how to actually change the current state of alcoholism as a tradition in Wisconsin’s culture.

Homelessness deserves policy, not temporary fix DAN JOSEPHSON opinion columnist omelessness is inevitable in a capitalist society. It is the unfortunate product of an unequal country in any major city, and is one of the most tragic, troubling elements of the world that I have had to witness in my 21 years. Perhaps the most frustrating part of this problem is its seemingly unbreakable pattern. How do people sporadically obtain jobs and housing to escape from the depressing, povertystricken street corners? What specifically can bring an end to homelessness is a deep discussion for a different day, but when it comes to Madison and its politics, there needs to be a different attitude toward addressing homelessness and its presence. As I mentioned, it is extremely difficult to completely extinguish homelessness, but we can certainly agree on methods that are going to minimally decrease its strength and consistency. We must assist both sides in dealing with the current downtown circumstances: the homeless, and those being affected by the homeless. Unfortunately, the recent proposal passed by Madison Ald. Brenda Konkel, District 2, does

not help either side. Konkel originally rejected the mayor ofﬁce’s solution to place cameras in areas to deter inappropriate or illegal activity, as well as increasing police presence, speciﬁcally in Brittingham Park. She opposed it because it strips rights from the homeless population. In response, Konkel then created a proposal to allow homeless people to urinate and sleep in public places. This will do nothing more than feed an injurious cycle of the homeless suffering through the same standard of living and the students being bothered by them. The actions of Konkel and others only continue the cycle of issues. This merely opens more doors for people to live the homeless life. I am not saying that I have a problem with the legal tolerance of the homeless urinating and sleeping in public. I understand that if they are homeless, they obviously have limited options to complete a large bulk of everyday actions. But to implement this as only a substitution to a mayoral plan that would have disciplined many homeless people, a move that may prompt them to pursue a lifestyle outside of panhandling, is an opportunity wasted. Konkel’s attitude is linked to the same belief that any restrictions on panhandling violate the right to free speech. Becoming a strong propo-

nent of negative liberty since the political theory class I took my sophomore year, and living so close to the Peace Park neighborhood this year, I am fed up with the annoyance and stigma of panhandling while walking down the street. By continuing day-to-day without any changes in the downtown panhandling situation, each time I walk I am stripped of my constitutional right to linger freely without being summoned, harassed or attacked. This same consistency of liberty to panhandle will continue to move the homeless in the wrong direction rather than encourage them to seek legitimate assistance, as well as protect the panhandlers who actually have housing, something difﬁcult to track. Cities like Atlanta have gone so far as to completely outlaw panhandling in the downtown sector and have in turn substituted “donations” that will go directly into homeless funding centers. While that may seem like a giant leap for downtown Madison, passing a proposal that negates any hope of change will do nothing but promote the homeless to drag themselves down, as well as endanger the safety of our students. Dan Josephson is a senior majoring in political science and legal studies. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com

arts Racially-fueled ‘St. Anna’ not a ‘Miracle’ ADAM BRODY TO APPEAR AT UNION TODAY. The actor, who became famous for his role as Seth Coen on the O.C., will campaign for Barack Obama Wednesday at 2:45 p.m in Memorial Union.

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By Mark Riechers THE DAILY CARDINAL

The “watch test” is the simple critical technique we are all guilty of in the post-“Lord of the Rings” three-hour filmmaking era. If you check your watch before a movie reaches the climax of its story arc, the film isn’t engaging enough for you to immerse yourself in the story, characters and cinematic imagery. For all its beauty and detail, Spike Lee’s World War II opus “The Miracle at St. Anna” cannot escape this snap judgment, leaving audiences with a pile of detailed characters, heavy racial themes and excess running time that provokes some thought but never gels together to form the grand epic Lee wanted. Perhaps the problem is that the story Lee tries to tell is just too big. He begins in the 1980s as Hector Negron (Laz Alonso) shoots a strange man in cold blood with a Nazi-era Luger pistol. Pressed for a motive, or a reason why he has a severed head of an Italian statue in his closet, Hector finally mutters, “I know the Sleeping Man.” The film flashes back to Hector’s platoon, a rag-tag group of black soldiers who saved a young Italian boy from the frontlines between German and American troops. They get separated from their regiment, Buffalo Squad, and trapped behind enemy lines in an Italian village. After about two hours of plot-free characterization, the soldiers eventually have to fight their way out. Explaining what this “Saving Private Ryan” soldier’s tale has to do with Negron’s murder, the sleeping man and the severed head would take another 2000 words. There is no economy in this story—every detail, however trivial and irrelevant to the central narrative, gets 20 minutes of screen time. The sheer amount of back-story required to

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Acclaimed director Spike Lee tries his hand at a World War II epic laced with tense racial themes but loses the characters in the confusion. make the huge cast of characters seem relevant numbs the audience until they lose any concern whether the characters live or die.

The sheer amount of backstory required to make the huge cast of characters seem relevant numbs the audience.

There are definitely some standout scenes. Our first encounter with Buffalo Squad has them slowly creeping across a quiet field toward an invisible enemy. The silence is broken by Axis Sally, a Nazi woman blasting rhetoric of racial hatred across the battlefield to raise the troops to riot against

their white commanders. “The white man is safe at home, sleeping with your wives and sisters while you fight his war.” Unshaken, the soldiers fight bravely through fire lines, only to have their calls for artillery ignored. The film is steeped in this racial tension, heavy-handed but definitely noteworthy. Black soldiers, like Italians fearing for their families, are just people caught up in the middle of a war whose instigators seem detached from the blood on their hands. Their disillusionment would be the ignition of the civil rights movement, their frustration a drive for change. It’s a hard film to recommend because the story is so convoluted, but if you are a fan of Spike Lee, you may enjoy the racial politics of war that he brings to light. Grade: C

‘The Ofﬁce’ returns to comedic glory ALI ROTHSCHILD seaon ﬁn-ali

hit television show reaches a certain, crucial point in its lifetime that separates the “Seinfelds” from the “O.C.s”—the point at which a program popular with both ratings and critics proves if it has real staying power. A show like “Seinfeld” proved so flawless in its execution that it was able to stick around as long as the cast and production crew could stand. Same went for “Friends,” resulting in the cast’s million-dollar-per-episode last season. “The O.C.” however, showed amazing promise in its first season but fizzled just as quickly, with a mixed, but overall disappointing last three seasons. I had a theory that “The Office” was destined to be the latter. Sure, “The Office” has been imbedded in our culture—enough that “That’s what she said” and “Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica” get chanted with the same enthusiasm that Seinfeld’s “Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” used to a decade earlier, but it seemed to me “The Office” was on its last legs. Last season, its season cut in half

by the writers’ strike, “The Office” was beginning to show signs of age and desperation. After mutilating my favorite character, Jan Levinson, by turning her from a smart, savvy business woman who contrasted with Michael hilariously into a desperate, crazy woman, the writers seemed to back themselves into a corner, unsure of what to do with her or Michael. The same went for Jim and Pam. Now that they’re together, what’s keeping us watching? I found most of the episodes last year to be desperate and disconnected, each trying to find a new twist and then starting over the next week. To my surprise, not everyone agreed with me. People still seemed to think it was funny, referring to something Dwight said, adding to a long list of moderately funny “Office quotables.” Nothing makes me want to scream more than hearing people over-quote a moment that was half-funny on the show. This lead me to believe that “The Office” was running on autopilot, relying on standard, predictable one-liners from Michael and Dwight, and skimping on plotlines, season arcs and characters. Knowing the season premiere of “The Office” would air this past Thursday, and that people might still welcome the dying

show, I was prepared to write my article about how the once flawless “Office” was now on death’s door, and how people need to wake up to the fact. Of course, I was proven totally wrong. “The Office” premiere ruled! It seemed like the show found some good plotlines to focus on again. They made a good move last season in finding a new HR person to replace Toby. She’s a lady named Holly, and she actually likes Michael. Jim and Pam’s relationship will be put under stress with her graphic design internship in New York, and Ryan is back in Scranton, working Pam’s old job. So the news is good. “The Office” may yet prevail. But people, I promise “Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica” is not funny. Please stop quoting it. It was sort of funny once, when Jim said it while imitating Dwight. Holly thinking Kevin is mentally retarded is funny. Dwight dumping Phyllis in the middle of nowhere to force her to walk back or lose weight is funny. If as an audience we want more from “The Office” than the over-repeated oneliners, then maybe the people at NBC will give it to us. And this past Thursday, they did. To share kudos for “The Office” season premiere, e-mail Ali at rothschild@wisc.edu.

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In my mind and in my car, we can’t rewind we’ve gone too far.

The ﬁrst MTV video was “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by the Buggles.

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Carlos Marmol’s Bender

Today’s Sudoku

Anthro-Apology

By Eric Wigdahl wigdahl@wisc.edu

By Todd Stevens ststevens@wisc.edu

Angel Hair Pasta

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.

Help plan the future of the Daily Cardinal! Join the newspaper’s board of directors and its work of charting a course for this 116-year-old campus institution. Candidates must commit 5 hours a month for at least one academic year to the paper. Those with a background in media and business, especially sophomores and juniors and candidates of diverse backgrounds, are encouraged to send a resume and short statement of interest to Jason Stein at jstein@madison.com.

Sid and Phil

By Alex Lewein lewein@wisc.edu

The Graph Giraffe

By Yosef Lerner ilerner@wisc.edu

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com A TIDY PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Barbecue chef’s implement 6 Sufﬁx that takes things to the extreme 9 Nathanael and Mae 14 Be crazy about 15 Wonder-ful feeling? 16 Woman of Paradise, in Islam 17 Access a computer network 18 Was printed 19 “The ___ Sanctum” 20 Some small planes 23 Akeelah’s event 24 “Don’t be fuelish,” e.g. 25 Double duos 27 Distribute troops anew 32 Act the butterﬂy 33 Bobby Hockey 34 Lorelei, for one 36 Upper region of space 39 Willie of baseball fame 41 Mongol invader 43 Greek sleeper’s letter? 44 Where to see a derby win, or a tie 46 Largest human gland 48 Comb-over alternative 49 The euro replaced it 51 Compact summary 53 Sunburn aftermath

56 Superman’s inscription 57 Sawbones’ org. 58 Certain marine vessel 64 It’s in overalls 66 Brave face, sometimes 67 Beast of burden 68 Four-time Kent portrayer 69 Captain’s pronoun 70 “Beggars can’t be choosers,” e.g. 71 Acted humanly 72 Start of a triple jump 73 Toys that can be made to walk

DOWN 1 After-shower sprinkle 2 Cause for opening a window 3 Not ready, in NASA-speak 4 Inﬂuenza 5 “Saturday Night Live” specialties 6 What the walls have 7 Hit the buzzer? 8 Words to live by 9 One thing to blow 10 1,000,000,000 years 11 Some are nude 12 Trapped by the hounds 13 Begets 21 Not illuminated 22 One who may cry foul 26 Name in luxury hotels 27 Capital south of Venezia

28 Big Band and Gaslight 29 Person an errand runner may visit 30 By word of mouth 31 Elusive ﬁgures in the mountains, supposedly 35 Admiral’s service 37 A case of pins and needles 38 Syncopated tunes 40 Bedrock’s covering, perhaps 42 Agree to more issues 45 Neat, as a beard 47 Rhododendron 50 “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” boy 52 Preﬁx applied to poseurs 53 Man on a mission 54 Muslim chieftain (Var.) 55 Grind grinders 59 Return from the cave? 60 Word repeated by a drill sergeant 61 Seek divine guidance 62 “Cogito ___ sum” 63 Agile deer 65 It may be added to impress

A Fine Dutch Hobby

By Matt Riley matt.paul.riley@gmail.com

The Daily Code

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“Civ Ifhb xk Bxdib” Miller song The Steve Beatles - TheBand White Album Start with one-letter words and words with apostrophes, ﬁnd out how many places the alphabet has shifted, then use that knowledge to decipher the code. Yesterday’s Code:

“Has anyone ever been engulfed in ﬁre? It’s gotta be so hot.”

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Men’s golf ﬁnishes second at St. Mary’s Invitational By Jake Langbecker THE DAILY CARDINAL

While the temperature was dropping in Madison, the UW

men’s golf team started to heat up at the St. Mary’s Invitational this week on the par-71, 6,639yard Poppy Hills Golf Course in

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Wisconsin junior Jordan Elsen ﬁnished in a three-way tie for third place at the St. Mary’s Invitational, which wrapped up Tuesday afternoon.

football from page 8 Senior tight end Travis Beckum, who missed practice last week due to a hamstring injury, made the mistake of being downfield for a 2-point conversion at game’s end when he shouldn’t have been, forcing Wisconsin to redo what seemed like a successful attempt. UW went on to fail another 2point try to lose the game. “The reason for the failures are multiple,” Chryst said. “It’s not just one guy, and you’ve just got to use them as teaching moments and go forward.” The team is looking forward to having both junior tight end Garrett Graham, who missed the game against Michigan because of a foot injury, and Beckum on the ﬁeld together Saturday. Evridge said that while Graham and Beckum are favorite targets of his, he likes to spread the ball as well. “Garrett’s always good to have around and Travis does some very good things,” Evridge said. “There’s a lot of guys, and the more we play the more I get comfortable with different guys.” Ohio State is next up for the Badgers, who are eager to put Michigan behind them and

brewers from page 8 lost the little momentum they had and took the back seat to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. By the sound of how that game was going, I am actually pleased that I did not have to watch that disaster unfold in front of my eyes. My imagination is much more optimistic. At this point, I was actually a bit nervous when the Brewers game was turned back on, hoping the bad luck would not travel from one Wisconsin sports team to the other. To my surprise, the Brewers did not give up any more runs to the Cubs. But the game was still 1-0, meaning Milwaukee did not do anything exciting with its bats, either. Eventually, Milwaukee’s second baseman Ray Durham scored the first run for the Brewers in the seventh inning to tie things up. As awesome as that was, there were still two innings left in the game and a lot of room for Milwaukee to throw it one away. In the bottom of the eighth, Milwaukee left fielder Ryan

return to the atmosphere of Camp Randall. Evridge, along with the rest of the team, continually men-

Pebble Beach, Calif.. The No. 51 Badgers thrived under the sun, finishing in second place just five strokes behind the University of San Francisco. Wisconsin junior Jordan Elsen, who finished 2-under par with a 211 over the three-round tournament, led the way for Wisconsin. The 54-hole total was a career-best for Elsen, who shot the best round of his career with a 69 in the second round. He also finished with a tournament-best 3.89 scoring average on par-4 holes. The Badgers also received strong play from seniors Tyler Obermueller and Dan Woltman, who ﬁnished the WOLTMAN tournament tied for ninth and 11th place, respectively. Obermueller finished 1-over

par with a 214 for the tournament, one stroke shy of his career best. Woltman finished one stroke back of Obermueller with a 2over par 215, and shot a teambest 69 in the final round. With three players finishing in the top 11, it is no surprise this was the best result for the team since the OBERMUELLER VCU Shootout last season. Elsen, Obermueller and Woltman all shot at least one round underpar with Obermueller posting a team best round of 68 in the second round. Rounding out the five-man team was senior Dan Zimmerman and sophomore Craig Cerbins. Zimmerman shot an 8-over par 221 and finished tied for 42nd. Cerbins shot a career best 72 in

the third round and finished 18over par with a 231 in his first collegiate tournament. The invitational began Monday, and after two rounds the Badgers were in third place. They got off to a slow start posting a 12-over score at 296 in the first round but followed it up with their best round of the season, a 3-under par 281. Wisconsin trailed San Francisco by five strokes heading into the third and final round of the tournament Tuesday. The Badgers left it all out on the course shooting a 1-under par score of 283, their second consecutive underpar round. Unfortunately for Wisconsin, the Dons from San Francisco kept pace and shot 283 for the round. Next, the Badgers head to Memphis, Tenn. for the Memphis Intercollegiate Oct. 6. —uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.

tion the 1-0 philosophy and will put all of their energy looking forward to Saturday.

“It’s football weather, and it’s time,” Evridge said. “We’re in the thick of it now. It’s Big Ten season,

we dropped the ﬁrst one and now we’re just really looking forward to this week.”

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Wisconsin senior quarterback Allan Evridge said he prefers the shotgun formation because it gives him better field vision.

Braun stepped up to the plate for the Brewers with two outs on the board and a duck on the pond. Even with the massive amount of pressure on him, he crushed the first pitch over the fence, giving Milwaukee a 3-1 lead.

Let’s just hope the taste of the playoffs doesn’t leave a sour one in Milwaukee’s mouth, or those of its fans.

After the eighth inning retired, Brewers pitcher CC Sabathia pulled off the win and only allowed Chicago four singles on the game, giving him his seventh complete game with Milwaukee. I waited anxiously to find out how the Mets did in their final game, knowing that if they won we would have to play them in a one-game tiebreaker to decide who earned a spot in the playoffs. My palms were sweaty and my heart was pumping blood a mile

a minute as I listened cautiously to the radio announcer explain that the Mets lost to the Marlins and the Brewers were moving on to the playoffs. The last time I was that excited was when the Packers won the Super Bowl more than 10 years ago. The truth is, I have never seen the Brewers make the playoffs. How could I? I am only 21 years old and the last time Milwaukee qualified was almost five years before I was born. That does not mean, however, that the Brewers’ hunger for postseason action is any less than teams who have made it that far in the last two decades. Let’s just hope the taste of the playoffs doesn’t leave a sour one in Milwaukee’s mouth, or those of its fans. Maybe this is the perfect time for an underdog to prevail. I think Milwaukee has what it takes to claim the World Series title, just as long as they have fun with it and stay on their A-game. If you believe the Brewers have what it takes to win the World Series this year, e-mail Crystal at crowns@wisc.edu.

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HAPPY BREWER DAY! In honor of the Brewers’ ﬁrst playoff appearance since 1982, Gov. Jim Doyle proclaimed Wednesday “Milwaukee Brewer Day.” He also made a friendly wager with PA Gov. Ed Rendell over the Brewers-Phillies series, offering up Miller products and Klement Sausages on Wisconsin’s end.

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Brewers give Wisconsin fans hope CRYSTAL CROWNS the crystal ball

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Senior quarterback Allan Evridge and the Badgers’ offense struggled against Michigan Saturday after starting the second half with a 19-0 lead. By Scott Allen THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin offense was not quite the same against Michigan Saturday. Junior running back P.J. Hill rushed for 3.2 yards per carry and the Badgers had six straight possessions that ended in punts or turnovers in the second half. The offense is moving on, though. “It wasn’t fun walking off the ﬁeld, and it was deﬁnitely frustrating,” senior quarterback Allan Evridge said. “We’re just going to continue with that 1-0 philosophy.” Evridge took a lot more snaps from the shotgun position than

usual, and the offensive utilized the option frequently in hopes of keeping the Wolverines off guard. “I enjoy the shotgun,” Evridge said. “I feel like I can see better.” While offensive coordinator Paul Chryst may keep the shotgun in his playbook, it appears the option will get tossed. Michigan pounced on a UW option late in the third quarter that led to a 12-yard loss, with Evridge recovering his own fumble. “There’s not one fan that’s beating me to the punch, you know, like ‘What the hell are you calling that for?’” Chryst said. “At the time it sure seemed like it was a

good idea.” Wisconsin’s stunning 27-25 defeat after being up 19-0 against Michigan could have been won in the first half, as the Badger offense failed to take full advantage of five Michigan turnovers. The offense moved past fieldgoal range once, when freshman running back John Clay ran in a 5-yarder after gaining 46 yards down the sideline the play before. Besides that, freshman kicker Philip Welch got a lot of playing time, tying the UW school record with four successful field goals, all in the first half. If the ﬁrst half was marked by

missed opportunities, the second half will be remembered for mistakes. Evridge threw two interceptions, including a game-changing play early in the fourth quarter when the ball ﬂew out of sophomore wide receiver Kyle Jefferson’s hands into Wolverine linebacker John Thompson’s. Thompson returned the interception for a 25yard touchdown. “That’s never fun as a quarterback,” Evridge said. “The biggest thing you need to have about that is amnesia. Forget about the play and go onto the next one.” football page 7

Men’s soccer team hosts Western Illinois tonight By Mariah Asher THE DAILY CARDINAL

The men’s soccer team will take a break from conference play to host Western Illinois Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the McClimon Soccer Complex.

Despite a tough overtime loss against Indiana and a tie against Michigan last week, the Badgers’ busy October schedule leaves them no time to hang their heads. “As I tell a lot of the guys, it’s important to have a short

memory sometimes because the sting of a tie from Saturday, you want to try to erase as quickly as you can,” Wisconsin head coach Jeff Rohrman said. Wisconsin will seek to improve its 4-1-1 non-conference record, which includes a 1-0-1 mark in non-conference home games. More importantly, however, the Badgers are in pursuit of their first victory since defeating Cal State Northridge 2-0 on Sept. 12. In their three games since, the Badgers are 0-2-1.

“We have the capability to do well, and we’ve just got to keep moving forward.” Jeff Rohrman head coach Wisconsin Men’s Soccer

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Wisconsin junior forward Scott Lorenz leads the Badgers in scoring this season with three goals. He also has one assist.

Although Western Illinois University began its season with six consecutive wins, it is currently in a three game losing streak after going 0-1-1 in UW-Green Bay’s Nike Classic two weeks ago, followed by a loss to Oakland on Saturday. WIU has outscored its opponents 12-6 and is averaging 1.33 goals per game. Martin Browne, Jr. leads the Leathernecks with four goals and four assists, while three other players have tallied two goals each. The Badgers are 4-1 all-time

against WIU in games played in Madison, including a 1-0 mark at the McClimon Complex, but that does not mean Coach Rohrman and his team will be taking this game lightly. “I think on Wednesday, with Western coming in, it’s a quality opponent, a regional opponent for us, and, you know, they’re going to be one of the top teams in the Summit conference, so it’s going to be important for us to play well,” Rohrman said. “And then ahead to the weekend, we’re at Michigan State, who is coming off a great win at Penn State 4-3.” The Badgers’ next chance at their ﬁrst Big Ten win since Oct. 15, 2006, comes Sunday at Michigan State (4-4-0, 1-1-0 Big Ten). Wisconsin has split its last nine meetings with the Spartans, including a 3-0 loss last year in Madison. “The one thing I always say about men’s soccer in the Big Ten is there’s a ton of parity,” Rohrman said. “Any team on any given day can beat another team. You know, we don’t have any weak teams in this conference. I think that’s what makes it special and makes it one of the most competitive, if not the most competitive, conference in the country for men’s soccer. We have the capability to do well, and we’ve just got to keep moving forward.” —uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.

his weekend, I took the opportunity to escape from Madison and go up north. Although I was staying with my family in a nice cottage on the lake where the weather was friendly and the bugs weren’t biting, there is one thing that I could not escape from: the wonderful world of sports. Instead of sitting out by the campfire and enjoying nature at its finest, I spent Friday evening sitting in front of the tiny television set in the cottage watching the Milwaukee Brewers squeeze out a win against the Chicago Cubs, giving themselves a onegame lead in the National League wildcard race over the New York Mets. I fell asleep with a smile on my face that night, keeping my fingers crossed that my Brewers weren’t going to let me down for yet another year. Saturday was not such a fortunate day for fans of Wisconsin teams. As for the Wisconsin football team, I’m pretty sure we all know how that story ended. For those of you who don’t, let’s just say the Badgers blew a 19-0 lead at the half and lost 25-27 to Michigan, one of our more popular Big Ten rivals. What hurt the most about this game was the Badgers gave up 20 of the Wolverines’ 27 points in the fourth quarter alone. Wisconsin was not the only team ranked in the nation’s top-10 to fall victim of an upset over the weekend, as three of the top ﬁve teams also lost, which would have given the Badgers a great chance of advancing in the rankings.

Maybe this is the perfect time for an underdog to prevail.

On top of that, the Brewers dropped their game Saturday to the Cubs after showing brief glimpses of hope near the end. The Mets, of course, won their game against the Florida Marlins and tied the Brewers with one game left in the regular season. All I hoped for was that the next day would bring better results for Wisconsin sports, considering the Brewers could not afford another loss in the last game of the regular season, and neither could the Green Bay Packers. I caught the beginning of both games before heading back to Madison, enough to see the Packers get off to a decent start and the Cubs take a quick 1-0 lead over the Brewers in the second inning. The drive back required a lot of switching between both games on the radio. The Packers eventually brewers page 7