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Big Ten poll shows big leads for Obama in Midwest states Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leads his Republican opponent, John McCain, in all Big Ten states, according to results from the second Big Ten Battleground Poll released Thursday.

The poll, which was led by UW-Madison political science professors Charles Franklin and Ken Goldstein, surveyed more than 550 individuals from each of the eight Big Ten states. Poll participants were either registered voters or those likely to register to vote before Election Day. The first poll was conducted the week U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced news of a necessary Wall Street bailout in September. Results from that poll showed a tight race in all Big Ten states, expect for Obama’s representative state of Illinois.

The second poll was conducted Oct. 19-22, after the economy worsened and the debates took place.

“One of the most interesting points is how the onset of the financial crisis changed the numbers from what we saw in September, which was really the high point of John McCain’s success coming out of the convention ... over to Barack Obama,” Franklin said during a 90-minute Big Ten Network special Thursday.

Results from the second poll show Obama’s largest lead in Illinois.

He also leads by 10 percentage points in Indiana, where McCain led in the first battleground poll and

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Chancellor Biddy Martin speaks to university community members about the importance of need-based financial aid at her welcome celebration at the Kohl Center Thursday.

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UW-Madison students and faculty gathered at the Kohl Center Thursday with the Wisconsin Alumni Association to officially welcome Chancellor Biddy Martin to the university.

In her keynote address, Martin identified tuition costs, faculty salaries and diversity issues as specific concerns.

According to Martin, costs are becoming a problem for universities across the nation.

“We can try to keep the rates of increase as low as possible, and I’m sure we will, but it’s unrealistic to think that tuition will stay the same or go down,” she said.

Martin said she wants UWMadison to consider other Big Ten schools’ tuitions to stay competitive.

“Tuition at UW-Madison is at the bottom of our peer group,” she said. “Tuition support is the sticker price of an education ...

It’s fair to say that every single student at this university, whether paying full tuition or getting aid, is being subsidized.”

She emphasized the importance of need-based scholarships, adding students should pay for their education based on financial status.

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A Dane County Circuit Court judge said Thursday state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen does not have the power to enforce federal election law and dismissed his lawsuit against the state’s election board.

In the law- VAN HOLLEN suit, Van Hollen asked the court to enforce the Help America Vote Act. HAVA is a federal law that requires states to verify voter registration information against other state databases starting Jan. 1, 2006.

The Government Accountability Board did not begin HAVA checks until Aug. 6, 2006.

Judge Maryann Sumi said in her decision that Wisconsin has always strongly protected citizens’ right to vote. She said mistakes by election officials should not prevent people from voting.

Sumi said one requirement of HAVA was that states set up a complaint procedure. In Wisconsin, all complaints about voting procedures go to the GAB, which then holds a hearing.

According to Sumi, Van Hollen should have gone directly to the GAB with his complaint before filing a lawsuit.

“This is exactly the kind of discretionary decision-making the GAB was created to do,” she said.

Attorney Lester Pines, who

represented the GAB, called Van Hollen’s lawsuit “a breathtaking assertion of power.” He praised Sumi for having a “scholarly” and “well-reasoned” opinion.

“This is an absolute vindication of the position of the board, and it should stand up very well in any DOYLE court,” he said.

Gov. Jim Doyle agreed with the decision and said Sumi made it clear the attorney general and the Republican Party of Wisconsin had no authority to sue the GAB. “The Government Accountability Board, not the Republican Attorney General, has the responsibility to supervise elections,” he said.

Doyle said he is confident the rest of the election process will go well and called the decision an “important step forward.”

“With today’s decision, we can all move forward with a smooth, successful election,” he said. “On Nov. 4, each qualified voter will be able to go to the polls and exercise this right.”

Van Hollen said in a statement he was disappointed with the court’s decision.

“I believe today’s decision was an erroneous interpretation of the law,” he said. “When a lower court gets the law wrong, parties appeal to a higher court, and that’s what I will do.”

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Despite a rainy forecast for Friday, the UW Homecoming Parade will still make its way through the streets of downtown Madison rain or shine.

UW Homecoming Committee co-chair Megan Halverson said the parade will go on as planned unless the stormy weather causes a safety issue. Drivers in the area can expect a number of closed streets and bus detours before and during the event.

The parade will begin at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Langdon Street and continue down Wisconsin Avenue for one block before turning onto Gilman Street.

It will continue down Gilman until hitting State Street and travel down State before turning onto Lake Street and ending at the intersection of Lake and Langdon.

Halverson said Langdon Street will act as a staging area for the parade and, as a result, the street will be closed from 2 to 8 p.m.

Wisconsin Avenue, Lake Street and Gilman Street will be closed from 4:30 p.m. until the parade is over.

Madison Metro spokesperson Mick Rusch said there will also be changes to bus routes in the downtown area to accommodate the parade.

Beginning at 3 p.m., Route 85 will use Park Street between University Avenue and Langdon Street. Service to the 400 and 600 blocks of State Street will also end at 3 p.m., so Routes 3, 6 and 29 will enter and exit State Street using Johnson and Gorham Streets instead.

Rusch said buses should be running on their normal schedules by 7 p.m.

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ditorial Note: David is out sick with lung issues. Davis Scrottinger has graciously agreed to fill in.

Dear Davis, I’ve watched all the campaign ads, but now I’m just confused! I wish I could vote for both—who’s my pick in November?

-Irene, College Court Important inquiry, Irene. Because we’ve lost our religion in America, we need to lean on things like voting and football all the more. Although some idiots might tell you that it’s not important who you vote for just so long as you vote, since they are idiots it probably means they’re wrong about that. Voting is like a math problem, Irene—there’s a right answer and a wrong one. The whole point of an election is to see which Americans are right and which are wrong, even if it takes four to eight years to figure it out. It keeps us competitive, and competition,

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By Grace Kim THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Conservation and Recycling Efforts campaign within the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group will hold the annual “Trash Sort” campaign Friday in Library Mall from 12 to 3:30 p.m.

Members of CARE will collect trash bags from several university buildings, including residence halls, libraries, cafeterias, unions and classrooms to sort out recyclable materials.

“Recycling is one of the best [things] that we can do to help out the environment.”

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“Recycling is one of the best [things] that we can do to help out the environment ... It’s a really simple step that makes a really big difference,” WISPIRG Chair Tony Uhl said.

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along with Hooters, is what makes America great. Now, since it’s a test of sorts, that makes you, Irene, my civic opponent in the struggle to see who is right and who is dumb. So I can’t just give away the right answer; that’d ruin the grading curve. And be dumb. But that doesn’t mean I can’t point you in the right direction.

The first step in deciding who to vote for is to get to know the candidates. Just like you wouldn’t buy an apple at the fruit stand without taking a bite first to see if it was mushy, you wouldn’t want to tell someone to go be president until you’ve played 18 holes of golf with the guy and had a drunken wrestling match (after you’ve friended him on Facebook, of course). Now ever since the United States passed over 200 on the population bar graph, that first part has gotten pretty difficult to schedule in, plus I don’t think McCain’s arms were made to swing a golf club, and Obama’s been known to pull the hate-crime card after a friendly scrum. So we have to improvise.

Watching campaign ads is a great way to get a handle on the issues, but just like you said, Irene, you come away from them thinking both the candidates are so darn

likeable. And evil. So instead I like to forget about the men themselves and focus on the ideologies—and pocketbooks—behind them. And to do that, Reeny, you need to know a thing or two about what I like to call “Politics in America.”

In the middle school mixer known as Partisan Politicking, there are two super fat kids hogging the entire dance floor. The awkward partners in this intricate dance have gone by many names: Democrat and Republican, Liberal and Conservative, Idiot and Asshole. But it’ll simplify things a whole lot if I just refer to them by what they’re each after: Big Government and Big Business. They may step on each other’s toes every once in a while and it’s not always clear who’s taking the lead, but these two have been grinding on each other for most of the dance.

Every election day, it’s our job to imagine that things went well for them that night. Maybe a little too well, because one thing has led to another and a little ways down the road we find Big Government and Big Business ensnared in a nasty drawn-out divorce, and it’s time to decide who gets custody of the children.

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afford to pay more, should pay more. Those who can afford to pay less should pay less. Those who can afford to pay nothing should not pay anything,” Martin said.

Martin said the salaries of the faculty come second to recognizing members for their value in educating students.

“Our goal is not to offer the biggest or largest salaries in the country, even if we could. Our goal is only to reach the median of our peer group and to reach it by awarding merit and performance,” she said.

A large portion of Martin’s speech addressed the future of the diversity campaign after Plan 2008.

“We should focus our resources on the [programs that work] and

Trash Sort is CARE’s first campaign in a year-long recycling initiative and is a part of a larger national effort. “RecycleMania” will take place next semester as a 10-week competition among colleges across the nation for the highest recycling rates.

“Only 23 percent of water bottles are getting recycled out of all the billions of water bottles out there,” CARE member Sarah Bartlett said.

According to Devin Trezise, cocoordinator of CARE, Trash Sort occurs twice a year and the majority of collected trash from last semester was recyclable.

“The results were pretty surprising actually,” Trezise said. “We calculated the weight of recyclables that were still on the way; it was over 50 percent.

Fifty-eight percent of the trash that we sorted was either recyclable materials or [compost] materials.”

According to Trezise, many students are confused about what materials can be recycled.

Uhl said the group organized Trash Sort to educate students and staff on recycling and to give them a visual of how much trash create new ones where old ones have failed,” she said.

After taking over for former Chancellor John Wiley Sept. 1, Martin has provided some students and faculty with new excitement for the future of the university.

“I hope that she can continue on with the fine example that Wiley did as well as [David] Ward,” said James Hess, director of the Monona Terrace Convention Center. “I’m very confident and hopeful that she can carry on that tradition.”

Jill Watson, an external relations director for UW Foundation, said she is optimistic about the upcoming years she will share with the new chancellor.

“We certainly have great hopes for the chancellor … to bring campus together, to advance research [and] celebrate diversity.”

is thrown away every day.

“Students can come take part and talk to us and learn what is actually being thrown away and why we need to make sure we know what can be recycled,” Uhl said.

Bartlett said the goal of CARE is to increase student awareness of recycling and to implement new strategies on the UW-Madison campus and throughout the Madison area.

“Overall, it’s just to make a greener Earth ... It’s time to go green.”

Sarah Bartlett member CARE

“I think [recycling] is an easy step that we can do to help not only our community, but also to help carbon emissions and to save some money,” she said. “Overall, it’s just to make a greener Earth ... It’s time to go green.”

themselves and therefore they’re both desperate to get the kids, but for all the wrong reasons. Big Business is a demanding scrooge—he wants the children to go to work, for him, and for cheap. Big Government is a controlling wench—she thinks she has to do everything for her kids, including managing their money. Poppa B wants to get fatter off the sweat of the children, Mama G by making them hand the allowance dad doles out over to her. If only they could work things out, they could really have us by the balls, slaving away at the shop for Pop so we could pay Ma to do all the things we could do better ourselves.

Our only hope is to vote into office a family court judge who will be so blind and unfair that no matter how the case is decided, the two will hate each other enough to never speak again.

And that, Reenster, is what we look for in the next president: blindness and partiality. If all goes well and Americans like you do your homework, we’ll have four more years of deadlock and two hauls every Christmas to look forward to!

Davis will return to answer more College Questions as needed. E-mail dhottinger@wisc.edu if you’ve got one.

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Obama is leading McCain 53 to 40 percent in Wisconsin and by nine percentage points nationally, according to the poll.

According to Michigan State University economics professor Charley Ballard, who joined Goldstein and Franklin during the BTN show, 63 percent of voters named the economy as the most important issue in this election.

“The war in Iraq and terrorism haven’t dropped completely off the radar screen, but [voters] are really swamped by economic issues, and that is something that favors Barack Obama,” he said. “By a margin of about 3 to 2, voters say that they trust Obama more than McCain to help with the economic issues.”

Ballard said 91 percent of voters say the economy has gotten worse in the last year.

“When the party in power faces those kinds of numbers of dissatisfaction, it makes it really difficult for their candidate—in this case, John McCain,” he said.

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Global affairs topic of Congressional candidates’ debate

By Jen Winter THE DAILY CARDINAL

U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, DWis., the incumbent representative of the 2nd Congressional District, and Republican challenger Peter Theron participated in the 2008 Global Affairs Forum Thursday.

The debate was sponsored by the Dane County Chapter of the United Nations Association and 20 other area civic groups.

Melanie Ramey, president of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, moderated the event as Baldwin and Theron answered questions from the audience on foreign policy and international affairs.

“We are having this election at times of great consequence …

The focus has been primarily on economic and domestic issues of great importance, but that does not mean that we are having this election at a time when our role in the world is not equally important,” Baldwin said in her opening statement.

Theron and Baldwin covered a number of topics throughout the 90-minute debate, including U.S. exceptionalism, approaches to ending the war in Afghanistan and whether to engage in discussions with Cuba.

When asked how the United States could maintain military supremacy and balance the federal budget, Theron said non-defense military spending should be cut. Baldwin said it is possible to maintain military might and still make rational cuts, pointing to billions of dollars of wasteful spending on no-bid contractors in Iraq.

Theron said he is willing to support policies to fight climate change, including nuclear energy.

He said climate change is a secondary issue and the Kyoto Accords are “outdated.”

“People come before polar bears,” Theron said.

Baldwin spoke of the work done by Congress during her time as a representative, such as raising standards for the auto industry and a mandate for increased use of biofuels. We have to take action immediately, Baldwin said, to avert a catastrophe in years to come.

Megan Miglautsch, a sophomore at UW-Madison who identifies with conservative values, said the event was her first time at a live political debate. She watched the presidential debates on television.

Miglautsch said the candidates “were respectful of each other and there were really stark contrasts.”

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Doyle promotes Wisconsin bioenergy at campus summit

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U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, DWis., and her opponent, Peter Theron, debate Thursday at UWMadison’s Psychology Building.

Gov. Jim Doyle addressed Wisconsin’s clean-energy initiatives and abilities at the opening session of the Bioenergy Summit Thursday.

Doyle stressed the importance of clean-energy development as a way of freeing the nation from its addiction to oil and securing its economy.

“As long as we continue on our old energy course, we will be pouring money out of Wisconsin and into big oil companies and foreign nations,” Doyle said.

He said he believes Wisconsin can become the leading state in cleanenergy technology.

“We must work together to achieve the energy independence that will save us money, clean our air and water, and create good jobs for hard-working families,” Doyle said. “Wisconsin has the talent and resources to become the clean energy state, and now is the time for us to commit to it.”

Doyle compared Wisconsin’s anticipated shift in energy industries to the state’s successful switch from wheat production to dairy a century ago.

“The good news is that here in Wisconsin, we know how to get it done, and we are not daunted by this big transformation,” he said.

The governor detailed his comprehensive Clean Energy Wisconsin plan. Its goals are to generate 25 percent of the state’s energy from renewable sources by 2025, to capture

10 percent of the market share for renewable energy and to use research capabilities to become a leader in clean-energy technology.

Doyle said he has already seen the effects of this plan in many recent industrial innovations around Wisconsin.

“It doesn’t get much better than this, to imagine [building] a major part of our economy around helping clean up the environment of the world.”

“The good news is that here in Wisconsin, we know how to get it done, and we are not daunted by this big transformation.”

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Molly Jahn, dean of the UWMadison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, introduced Doyle, calling him “a champion who has played an essential role in so many ways toward bringing us to this point, a champion who … will lead us toward that revolutionary energy future.”

The Bioenergy Summit, sponsored by the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative, also featured panel discussions with Doyle cabinet members and private-sector leaders. The conference will continue until noon Friday at Microbial Sciences.

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njoy that brisk, “clean” October air this Saturday at Camp Randall, Badger fans. UW officials are publicizing the homecoming game as the Big Ten’s first “carbon neutral” football game ever. The event aims to raise awareness about the problematic dependence on carbon-emitting energy, as well as encouraging recycling and conservation.

In addition, the Athletic Department plans to use the event to promote its own recycling and sustainability plan to be implemented over the next five years.

Officials from both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the UW Athletic Department have a number of strategies in place to create a “carbon-neutral” atmosphere. Earlier this month, officials planted thousands of trees at a local tree farm in Cambridge, Wisconsin. CALS and UW Athletic Department officials also plan to buy the equivalent number of carbon credits to match the amount of emissions during game day. Carbon credits pay other carbon-spouting companies to reduce their emissions to lower America’s daily carbon output.

The efforts put forth by CALS and Athletic Department officials are obviously good starting points, but much of this first Big Ten “carbon-neutral” game seems to be overshadowed by some clear hypocrisy, reducing these actions to mere publicity stunts.

For starters, the carbon credits used to offset the game’s emissions

were not even funded by CALS or the Athletic Department themselves, but instead by an anonymous donor.

At least the Athletic Department could have humbled themselves enough to donate some of their massive revenue (gathered during these carbon-spouting football games) to purchase the carbon credits without funding from an outside source.

Also, a Badger home football game is not exactly the best venue for promoting a “carbon-neutral” event, as the thousands of motorists traveling to and from Madison easily cancel out any chance of a difference being made.

If anything, Badger home games are antithesis to reducing carbon emissions, regardless of how many carbon credits are purchased or on-campus hybrid vehicles are used within the city limits.

It is also quite hypocritical to applaud university officials for their carbon-clearing efforts when a massive coal plant looms only a few blocks away from Camp Randall as the CALS and UW Athletic Department officials rave about the pioneering work they have done.

CALS and UW Athletic Department officials’ hearts are in the right place, but their message is clouded in the medium through which they are promoting this event. Schedule an event on the public stage when you have actually proven the difference you are supposedly making. Do not herald a victory when the battle against carbon emissions is being lost every day.

Stadium Bar’s violations demand city compromise

By Jon Spike THE DAILY CARDINAL

As if Bucky’s struggles on the football field were not enough, it appears a local bar and its loyal patrons are taking a media hit of their own.

The Stadium Bar came under heavy scrutiny earlier this week for posting the numbers of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Ald. Julia Kerr, District 13, and Ald. Robbie Webber, District 5, on their large TV screen in the outdoor bar area following Saturday’s Penn State football game. The Stadium Bar posted the numbers as an opportunity for their concerned patrons to call their local officials if they were upset about the city mandate that outdoor beer gardens close by 10 p.m.

The Stadium Bar’s outdoor beer garden permit dates back to 2006, according to reports compiled by the Madison Police Department. The time deadline for the outdoor bar is said to reduce noise for surrounding residential areas.

Whether Webber or Cieslewicz found the calls appropriate, they must respect their constituents.

Jim Luedtke, head manager and operator of Stadium Bar, claimed the bar decided to post the number following numerous complaints and problems stemming from the early closing of the outdoor beer gardens. In police reports from both 2006 and 2007, the bar was reported

as having serious issues moving the large amount of outdoor beer garden patrons—often between 150-250 people—into the building or out of the area by closing time.

Loosening the restrictions on outdoor beer gardens wouldn’t hurt, especially since Badger games are so infrequent.

City officials had already planned to meet with Stadium Bar owners regarding their understanding of the outdoor bar activities in relation to the city’s plan commission and their approved activities, and last weekend’s phone calls only served to exacerbate an already contentious issue. According to Webber, she received a number of bitter calls from likely intoxicated Stadium Bar patrons.

“I personally think it doesn’t matter what the occasion is unless it’s an emergency or the person is a friend, it’s not OK to call me late at night,” Webber said.

Webber also believed Mayor Cieslewicz was upset over the calls. Joel Plant, assistant to the mayor, did state that though Cieslewicz did not personally receive any of the calls, they were inappropriate in nature.

Although the Stadium Bar should have thought twice before inciting a large contingency of intoxicated fans to call their local politician, one cannot forget the basic tenets of representation.

Whether Webber or Cieslewicz

found the calls appropriate, they must respect the voice of their constituents, drunken or not. If anything, Stadium Bar brought a new group into the political dialogue of the city’s plan commission’s requirements on outdoor beer garden permits, albeit in a less-than-professional manner.

However, the city has to consider what they are mandating within the scope of reality. Home Badger football games occur six to seven times per year. Often times, games starting at 11 a.m. do not cause significant problems for police or Stadium Bar officials in clearing out the gardens before 10 p.m. For some perspective: In 2006, five out of the seven UW home games started at 11 a.m. and the other two started at 2:30 p.m. In 2007, four out of the seven home games started at 11 a.m. and only one game was later than 2:30 p.m. This year, all games except the Ohio State and Penn State games started at 11 a.m., and two more games’ start times are to be determined.

Area residents understood Stadium Bar would be loud on game days well before they signed a lease to live nearby.

With around half the games each year unlikely to cause any major issue with Stadium Bar’s outdoor beer garden, city officials should reconsider the permit restrictions on outdoor beer venues. Additionally, games that do start at 7 p.m. on game days often last longer than the 10 p.m. deadline, forcing Stadium Bar owners to shut down their outdoor scene to patrons who came to see the game in the Stadium Bar’s signature outdoor venue. Loosening the time restrictions on Stadium Bar and other outdoor beer gardens wouldn’t hurt, especially since outdoor events each year for badger home games are so infrequent. And, with November quickly approaching, fewer and fewer patrons will be willing to stay outside past 10 p.m. anyway.

Madison officials such as Webber and Cieslewicz have a right to complain about being harassed by calls, but they also need to take note when their constituents are upset over an issue, even if it is something as trivial as outdoor beer consumption. With the infrequency of home games and the small list of downsides, Madison officials should advise the city’s plan commission to reconsider the outdoor beer garden permits. Badger games are a part of the culture, and area residents understand that Stadium Bar will be loud on game days well before they signed a lease to live nearby. If anything, change the time stipulations for the ailing Badger fans this year.

Jon Spike is a junior majoring in secondary education in English. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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By Josh Rae THE DAILY CARDINAL

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In the University Theater’s production of “The Love of the Nightingale,” the sisters Philomena and Procne endure numerous hardships and tragedies but keep their love for each other throughout.

Greek ‘Night’ of tragedy

By Caissa Casarez THE DAILY CARDINAL

People tend to associate Greek tragedies with harsh descriptions like “boring,” “hard to understand” and “a waste of time.” The University Theater’s new production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play, “The Love of the Nightingale,” may be a Greek tragedy, but it certainly doesn’t mesh with those negative stereotypes.

Directed by Talish Barrow, “Nightingale” is a modern, feminist adaptation of a Greek tragedy. Its intimate, 15-member cast tackles several controversial themes that require mature acting from a relatively young cast. Throughout the play, the main character, Philomena (Katie Olsen), endures rape, betrayal and oppression by her brother-in-law King Tereus of Thrace (Andy Talen). Although these controversial themes aren’t nearly as prevalent today as they are in the play, the characters do an exceptional job relating the themes to today’s society.

The plot starts after Tereus and

King Pandion of Athens (Charles Askenaizer) have won a war and Pandion allows Tereus to marry Procne (Chelsea Stockhaus), Philomena’s sister.

While Tereus and Procne are in Thrace, she has a hard time without her sister. Procne asks Tereus to go to Athens and get Philomena. On the boat back to Thrace, Philomena endures the previously mentioned hardships, especially after she confesses her love for the captain of the boat, whom Tereus then kills.

Despite the tragic tone throughout “Nightingale,” there are a few times when the audience is relieved from all of the sadness. Although these scenes provide some guilty laughter, the play also incorporates comic relief through Tereus’ servant (Danielle Waxtan), who follows Philomena around throughout most of the play.

In general, “Nightingale” is intense and action packed. There is never a dull moment, especially with fight scenes as realistic as can be

expected on a university stage. When not fighting, the characters’ interactions with each other make it easy to pay attention to the play. Barrow and company did an amazing job weaving the action scenes in with the other parts of the play.

Although University Theater’s production of “The Love of the Nightingale” may not be for the faint of heart, it is for anyone who enjoys action, unrequited romance, comedy and revenge.

The Love of the Nightingale where: Vilas Hall when: Thursday to Sunday Oct. 24 to Nov. 1 7:30 p.m. cost: $14 for students Visit UT box office in Vilas Hall for more information.

How does 12 hours of bloody, suspenseful and terrifying movies sound? Yep, you heard right, 12 hours from noon to midnight on Oct. 25 at the Orpheum. If you’re into horror or just a film fan in general, get pumped because the first ever Madison Horror Film Festival is sneaking up on us.

The festival’s director, Rich Peterson, became interested in horror as a kid, staying home on Friday nights and watching shows like “Lenny’s Inferno.” However, since he’s been behind Madison’s music scene, producing and booking shows for years, Peterson has not had a chance to get involved in horror until now.

With Madison’s tradition of supporting the arts, Peterson thought a horror festival would fit right in. He added that, though WisKino and the Wisconsin Film Festival show many independent films, “Nobody’s really hitting on the horror films.”

To solve this problem, Peterson decided to organize a horror film festival exclusively for local filmmakers. However, after receiving only a few films this July from local artists, Peterson opened up the event for anyone to submit. Hometown filmmakers include Ben Wydeven, Trevor Murray and Will Gartside, though filmmakers from all over the world—Italy, Spain, Australia and Canada, to name a few—helped diversify the festival.

Of the 24 films considered, 17 made the cut. To pare them down, Peterson and a few friends judged the entries based on film quality, special effects, length and content.

Peterson, who doesn’t consider himself an expert, said, “If the film was decent, it made it in ... [I] mainly wanted the content and exposure for the filmmakers.”

Don’t let his modesty deceive you, however. Almost all the films have been official selections at other festivals. Two of them, “Porque

Hay Cosas que Nunca se Olvidan” (produced in Spain) and “Blood on the Highway” have already won awards, including Best Short (Madrid International Film Festival) and Best Feature (“B-Movie Film Festival”), respectively.

The films in the Madison Horror Film Festival will be battling it out for Best Feature, Best Short, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography and Audience Choice. The winners of Best Feature and Best Short—judged by independent filmmakers and journalists—will receive distribution deals to further advertise their films.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a film festival without guest speakers. Kenneth J. Hall (“Puppet Master” screenwriter and CEO of BV Entertainment), and John Sveum (host of the horror/science fiction show “Lenny’s Inferno”) will be appearing during the festival to talk about what they do best: horror.

With Madison’s tradition of supporting the arts, Peterson thought a horror festival would fit right in.

B-movie scream queen Elske McCain also plans to make an appearance along with a new Madison scare group, “Freakshow and the Harlots of Terror,” which will soon premiere a late night horror show on the Internet. The “Harlots of Terror” will also give one randomly chosen audience member the chance for a role in an upcoming horror film “Incest Death Squad,” which will be shot here in Madison.

So if you’re looking for ways to piss your pants from fright, check out the horror film festival this Saturday. Nothing gets you ready for Halloween like some terror-ific movies.

Madison’s first horror festival provides wealth of local, international gore, terror

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Madison Horror Film Festival, a daylong marathon of independent horror films from around the country, will inspire nightmares this Saturday at the Orpheum Theatre. The Daily Cardinal spoke to the local filmmakers featured in the festival to get some insight into what drives these Wisconsinites to horrify.

Marquette graduate Will Gartside learned some valuable lessons during the shooting of “Knife Fight,” one of his entries in the festival.

“If we did it over again, I don’t think we’d use real knives,” Gartside said, describing the piece as a “live action cartoon with realistic effects.”

The horrifying “Knife Fight” centers on two men’s epic struggle for the last soda in the fridge.

Will is glad to get some exposure for the film, which began as a project for the Marquette graduate program and was shot in Milwaukee.

“This is a validation of sorts for ‘Knife Fight,’” Gartside said. The film hasn’t been screened for an audience before this weekend’s festival.

Gartside’s other entry, “Massacre

(the Musical),” debuted last January in Madison to the glee of musicalgore fans. An adaptation of the stage play by Rob Matsushita and Morey Burnard, the film follows an adorable prude named Discordia as she resolves to slay her sinning, hedonistic friends.

“Massacre” takes a decidedly tonguein-cheek approach to murder and mayhem, Gartside explains. “With comedy, you can make an audience feel comfortable and then pull the rug out from under them.”

A daylong marathon of independent horror films from around the country, will inspire nightmares this Saturday.

Another film academic, Trevor Murray, shot “Valentine’s Massacre” as a student project for a Madison Area Technical College film production class, but the film grew as his co-workers at a McFarland restaurant got involved.

“The chef ended up playing the main villain,” Murray said, “We mostly shot on location at the restaurant.”

The murder tale follows a detective as he seeks his missing daughter, only to uncover a maniacal cook who has been using slaughtered victims in dishes for his diner patrons.

Always seeking to learn from his work, Murray is eager to hear new audience reactions to his 2006 film.

“The first time I screened it, it came off a lot more comical than I expected, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing,” Murray said. “Watching how people react to it is one of the best experiences for understanding my work.”

Ben Wydeven derived his film “The Medium” from naturally occurring paranoia. An abandoned theater in Wausau drew Wydeven’s attention and eventually served as the set for the film.

“I was actually obsessed with the place from the get-go,” Wydeven said. “The place was supposed to be haunted.”

The film follows Raven James, a man whose paranormal sensitivity leads him to a downtown theater, where the owner seems very uncom-

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Will Gartside’s “Massacre (the Musical)” is one of the several local films being featured at the Madison Horror Film Festival Saturday. fortable at the mention of ghosts.

Sensing a secret in the theater’s basement, Raven prods the owner about the ancient building.

Preferring psychological terrors to buckets of blood, the UW-Stevens Point graduate drew inspiration from classic Hitchcock films in his work, going as far as to make an openingscene cameo in the vein of his idol.

“When I was a kid, we would

have film-a-night movie night and we went on an Alfred Hitchcock streak,” he explained.

Looking forward to the festival, Wydeven too seeks the thrill of audience reaction and feedback to his work. “No drug can compare to it. It is an absolute, unbelievable feeling.

Your movie is not finished until you see it with an audience. That’s all there is to it.”

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Wisconsin goaltender Shane Connelly has taken on more of a leadership role in guiding the young defense through a difficult start to the season.

Team leans on Connelly for experience

By Nick Schmitt POWERPLAY

Senior goalie Shane Connelly has witnessed many things in his three seasons as a Badger. He backed up the sensational Brian Elliot for two seasons, including the 20052006 national championship season when Elliot had a goals-against average of 1.55. It was certainly a unique opportunity for a freshman to be able to watch one of the premier goalies in the nation. He has seen many talented players come and go and has acquired crucial experience as well as the leadership skills that are essential for a successful season.

Last season, Connelly took over as the starting goalie for a young Badger team that welcomed a staggering nine freshmen. The team had some growing pains but caught fire going into the tournament and almost made it to the Frozen Four.

Connelly finished the year with a 2.44 goals-against average and a .913 save percentage, which was good enough to rank him around the middle of the pack in the WCHA. This season is strangely similar for Connelly as Wisconsin is joined by seven new freshmen, including three NHL picks. Since he went through this situation last year, Shane realizes that there are going to be ups and downs as the season gets under way. The Badgers’ 0-4 start is hopefully as low as they are going to get, and Connelly remains confident as the team continues to adjust. He also knows that as one of the few seniors on the team, he needs to take on more of a leadership role and help the young Badgers.

“It’s been a learning experience for all of us. It’s a little bit more on me to have to speak up more to

them,” Connelly said. “I’ve seen a lot through my three years here and obviously I don’t know too many details of the defense, but I can lead them in the right direction, and they have to get used to me and my tendencies of playing the puck.”

Team chemistry has always been an important factor in any successful team, and hockey is no different. Wisconsin has lacked continuity in the first four games, as the veterans and new players are still getting used to each other. The Badgers need to learn how each of their teammates play and be able to depend on each other on the ice.

“The main thing is developing trust,” Connelly said. “Each game we gotta get better. I understand there [are] going to be mistakes that are made and my job is to make sure the other team doesn’t capitalize on it and they understand that I’m going to give out rebounds sometimes and just play the puck.”

“I can lead them in the right direction and they have to get used to me and my tendencies of playing the puck.”

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“I just think the more trust we get with each other and recognize that we’ve got each other’s backs, I think it’s going to get better every weekend.”

Wisconsin started off the season at full speed—maybe a little too fast. They have already played three of the top 10 teams in the nation on the road: Boston College, New Hampshire and Denver. When asked about the tough schedule to

begin the season, Connelly thinks it will be an advantage for the Badgers instead of hurting them.

“We’ve kind of went out right into the fire and I think it’s going to benefit us for our mindset against other teams,” he said. “We’ve been in tough games, we’ve been in three tough places to play and there should be no surprises anymore.

There’s not many places to play that get harder than Boston College opening night when they have their banner raising, or Denver at altitude, or against a really good team in New Hampshire in a big rink.”

“So I definitely think it’s a positive, even though we didn’t get through with a win, we still hung around with three of the best teams in the country and it’s going to help us in the long run.”

Connelly has started two of those games, the Friday night game against Boston College and the first game in the series at Denver.

Although his stats haven’t been the greatest, he has however accumulated an impressive 78 saves and has kept the Badgers in each game. In fact, the Badgers have had a lead in three of their four games, including a 4-1 lead against Denver.

Wisconsin has come very close to upsetting some of the top teams in the nation, and they will get another chance against No. 6 Minnesota.

Playing at the Kohl Center has always given the Badgers a boost, and this weekend the team is looking to break their losing steak, bringing back winning ways.

“I think once we get the confidence up and everything like that [we’re] going to be a fun team to watch,” Connelly said. “[We’re] young and energetic and it’s just hard to factor when we’re going to mesh together and put it all on the ice at the same time.”

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On the night when the university will be honoring the 25th year anniversary of the 1982-83 team’s national championship, this year’s young Badger team will take the ice for their first home game of the year. Sixteen of the 28 roster spots are sophomores or freshmen, with six of those being NHL picks. They are very talented but still need to gain some experience to survive the long season. Last year coach Mike Eaves brought in nine freshmen, and by the end of the year, the team was on a hot streak, just missing out on the Frozen Four with a loss to North Dakota 2-3.

The freshman class this year totals seven, and saying they are talented may be an understatement. Three of the freshman Badgers, Jake Gardiner, Chris Hickey and Derek Stepan, were drafted by NHL teams. Gardiner and Stepan were taken in the 2008 draft, and Hickey was taken in 2006.

Gardiner was drafted the highest at 17th overall by the Anaheim Ducks, and as a defenseman already has five points this year, all assists. The other four freshmen, Eric Springer, Matt Thurber, Jordy Murray and Ryan Little, have accumulated seven points combined.

Most of the freshmen have seen ice time in the first four games this year and with the majority of the team being underclassmen, the early struggles were expected. The defense has given up the most goals in a

“As an entire unit we feel like we can be one of the best in the country.”

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“[The] WCHA is pretty sweet— everyone is pretty good. Playing Denver, No. 4 in the country, was definitely an eye-opener. There’s some

tion helped the Badgers determine where they are as a team.

“Yeah, it’s a tough test to start out the year, we kind of gauged where we’re at. Our overall results didn’t do that well but at times we saw that we could play with BC and we were right there with them to the end,” he said.

“There were stretches against Denver where we were right there, we were playing well and outplaying them. We’re kind of seeing that if we learn how to put it all together we certainly have the talent to be right up there with the elite teams, so it’s good for us.”

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Wisconsin’s veteran offense displayed plenty of firepower in scoring nine goals last weekend in two games against now No. 2 ranked Denver and four goals against Boston College.

Minnesota’s talented but inexperienced offense needs more time to develop but could rank near the top of the WCHA by seasons’ end.

Led by gritty senior R.J. Anderson and sophomore Cade Fairchild, Minnesota held a potent St. Cloud offense to three goals and killed 15 of 16 power plays last weekend in sweeping the Huskies.

Wisconsin poses more of an offensive threat but has a hard time getting back on defense to take pressure off goalie Shane Connelly.

Connelly has played exceptionally well given the surplus of shots he has faced this year, but Minnesota sophomore goalie Alex Kangas has been arguably the best goalie in all of college hockey dating back to last year’s playoff push.

Advantage: Wisconsin

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Coach Mike Eaves has had remarkable success in his five-year tenure at Wisconsin, but Don Lucia has led Minnesota to two national titles in the last nine years and ranks fifth in career victories among active NCAA Division I coaches.

The raucous Wisconsin crowd will be especially revved up for this heated rivalry on opening weekend and should energize the Badgers from the opening face-off. Add in the need for a win and the buzz of homecoming weekend, the crowd will do everything they can to push the team to their first wins.

Wisconsin desperately needs wins and should get them with the help of a rowdy crowd and energy boost from the first home series. It should be a high scoring weekend of physical hockey that will remind fans just how intense this rivalry still is.

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fast guys on their team that are pretty good, so I’m just looking forward to the rest of the season,” Gardiner said.

The difference between last year and this year for the new freshmen is the rough early schedule. The Badgers started off the 2007-08 season at the Lefty McFadden Invite where they went 1-1. Then they came back to the Kohl Center and hammered Robert Morris twice to start out the WCHA season 3-1. Now, coming into the WCHA season, the team is under a significant amount of pressure to pull out their first win.

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ONE YEAR AGO: Wisconsin took on Robert Morris to open their season at the Kohl Center. They easily swept the series winning 7-2 and 8-2.

four-game span since 1997, and it is the first time since the 1932-33 season that Wisconsin has started 0-4.

Freshman defensemen Eric Springer still has high goals.

“Just [working on] becoming more solid as a unit,” Springer said.

“As an entire unit we feel like we can be one of the best in the country. So there’s kind of some pressure on us to do well but we’ll come together.”

Breaking into WCHA play last weekend at Denver was a new experience for the young Badgers.

Wisconsin stormed out to a 4-1 lead but was unable to maintain it as the defense gave up four goals in the third period. In game two, the Badgers gave up seven goals, the most they have surrendered since the 2005-06 season against Minnesota State. Freshmen defensemen Jake Gardiner was surprised how fast the players in the WCHA were.

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After two tough losses to start the WCHA season last weekend in Denver, the Badgers return home to the Kohl Center to face off against an old foe in the Minnesota Gophers.

The Badgers had a two goal lead with six minutes to play in last Friday’s game, but couldn’t stop a late Pioneer comeback and lost 6-5. Denver out shot the Badgers 52-31.

In Saturday’s game, Denver got off to a hot start and led 3-0 after the first period, but the Badgers fought back to tie it at three on a redirection by junior forward Blake Geoffrion with just under four minutes left in the second. The tie was short lived, however, as the Pioneers responded with two goals in the next minute and added one more in the third to take the series with a 7-4 victory.

Wisconsin now has the difficult task of playing a rejuvenated Minnesota team looking to bury its fiercest rival even further into the WCHA cellar. But the Badgers have the advantage of playing in front of raucous homecoming crowd for their home opener, something senior goalie Shane Connelly calls a welcome sight after two weeks on the road.

“We need this home series, I think one more week on the road and we’d tear each other up,” Connelly said. “Everyone has been waiting to get here in the Kohl Center. Homecoming weekend, Minnesota, it’s awesome.”

The Wisconsin-Minnesota hockey rivalry is a rich one, dat-

ing back to 1922 when the two teams met for the first time.

College Hockey News rated the rivalry the second best in all of collegiate hockey in 2006, mainly because of the annual Beanpot Tournament that fuels the topranked Boston-Boston College feud. But ask any WCHA fan around the country and most will agree that Wisconsin-Minnesota takes the cake.

“Everyone has been waiting to get here in the Kohl Center, Homecoming weekend, Minnesota, It’s awesome.”

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After suffering from the desertion of the Wisconsin program from 1934-1963, the rivalry intensified again in the 1970’s as the Bob Johnson-led Badgers captured two national titles in ’73 and ’77, but were bested by Herb Brooks’ Gopher teams that won in ’74, ’76, and ’79. Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves, who played under Johnson from 1974-78 and was a key member of the championship team in ’77, commented on the rivalry when he addressed the media on Monday.

“My first game in Minnesota against the Gophers, I had never seen such a competitive and fierce rivalry,” Eaves said. “I played some junior hockey and been in some playoffs, but this just blew it right out of the water.”

The legendary coaches finally clashed in the 1981 championship

game, when the underdog Badgers scraped their way to Duluth and crushed the Gophers 6-3 in their home state. The Badgers went on to win again in 1983 and 2006, giving them a total of six national championships, good for fourth best in all of college hockey and more importantly, one better than the Gopher’s five. Although, as Gopher fans are quick to point out, Minnesota leads Wisconsin 14-11 in WCHA championships and 12-3 in regular season championships.

In recent years, the rivalry has been defined by close games and physical play. The Badgers and the Gophers racked up a combined 72 penalty minutes in two games in Minneapolis last February, and the last eight games between the two teams have been decided by two goals or less. Some say that the series has lost its luster as each team imports more players from out of state, but freshman defender and Minnesota native Jake Gardiner is looking forward to seeing some familiar faces on the ice.

“I played with all those guys on Minnesota, a lot of those guys.

So it will be fun to play them again,” Gardiner said.

This weekend’s series marks the 110th and 111th games played between the two teams in Madison, and the 19th and 20th games at the Kohl Center. In total, Wisconsin and Minnesota have squared off 247 times since 1922, with the gophers leading the series 150-80-17, though at the Kohl Center the teams are tied at 8-8-2.

—uwbadgers.com contributed to this report

Lady Badgers continue domination

By Caissa Casarez POWERPLAY

While the media goes on and on about how the Wisconsin football and men’s hockey teams have disappointed their fans by going winless in conference play when they were destined to be conference champions, their female hockey counterparts have been flying under the radar while winning every game so far this year.

The Lady Badgers haven’t just won all eight games they’ve played— they’ve outscored their opponents 52-7.

The 2008 national runner-ups are currently ranked No. 1 in the nation, capturing all first-place votes in both the USA Today/ USA Hockey Magazine and the USCHO.com polls. They also share the top spot in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) standings with No. 2 Minnesota. Both teams are 4-0-0 in conference play with eight points each heading into this weekend’s doubleheader at the Kohl Center, the first home conference series for the Lady Badgers.

Wisconsin started out their season with a doubleheader vs.

Quinnipiac (CT), beating them 10-0 and 7-3, respectively, on Sept.

26 and 27. After shutout wins against Syracuse the next weekend, they had their first WCHA matches at Ohio State, beating them 7-4 and 4-0 on Oct. 10 and 11. The doubleheader between the Badgers and the Buckeyes was Ohio State’s home and conference opener, and because they lost, Ohio State is currently at the bottom of the Women’s WCHA

standings, with only two non-conference wins under their belts.

The Lady Badgers’ last sweep was at Bemidji State (MN) this past weekend. Although both games were considered conference play, Saturday night’s game was the first ever Women’s U.S. Hockey Hall-of-Fame game, held in nearby Eveleth, Minn. The Beavers, scoreless against Wisconsin since November of 2006, lost 4-0 and 9-0.

“They get excited whether we’re playing here or up in Riddler.”

a fight.

“I’m sure you know, when I played and coached against Minnesota, those are weekends that, from a coaching perspective, you don’t need to motivate your players that much,” Johnson said.

“They know the meaning of the game. They get excited whether we’re playing here or up in Ridder.

And so from that standpoint, you know the kids are going to be ready to play.”

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Wisconsin has never been ranked lower than second in either poll since the season started five weeks ago. They were ranked second in the preseason poll and in two consecutive polls after that but were pushed to the top spot in both polls last week when thenthird-ranked Minnesota pulled an upset and swept then-top-ranked National Champion MinnesotaDuluth. The Badgers received 17 of 19 first-place votes in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll and 14 of 15 first-place votes in the USCHO.com poll.

Although head coach Mark Johnson said that Minnesota will be a harder opponent than those in their past eight games, the Lady Badgers won’t go down without

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The Lady Badgers have been unstoppable, outscoring their opponents 52-7 this year.

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Scott Gudmandson/So./G Jamie McBain/Jr./D Craig Johnson/So./D Eric Springer/Fr./D Blake Geoffrion/Jr./F Tom Bardis/So./F Brendan Smith/So./D Podge Turnbull/So./F Michael Davies/Jr./F Patrick Johnson/So./F Andy Bohmbach/Jr./F Matt Thurber/Fr./F Aaron Bendickson/Jr./F Ben Grotting/Jr./F Tom Gorowsky/Sr./F Sean Dolan/So./F Ryan McDonagh/So./D Jordy Murry/Fr./F Jake Gardiner/Fr./D Ryan Little/Fr./D Derek Stepan/Fr./F Ben Street/Sr./F John Mitchell/Jr./F Chris Hickey/Fr./F Cody Goloubef/So./D Jeff Henderson/Sr./G Ryan Jeffery/Sr./G Shane Connelly/Sr./G

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Statistical Leaders Scoring leaders Wisconsin: Jake Gardiner 5 Minnesota: Three tied with three points each

Save percentage Wisconsin: Shane Connelly Minnesota: Alex Kangas

Goals Wisconsin: Three tied with two goals each Minnesota: Mike Carman

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Assists Wisconsin: Jake Gardiner Minnesota: Jordan Schroeder

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Penalty minute leaders Wisconsin: Podge Turnbull Minnesota: Mike Carman

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Name/Yr./Pos. Kevin Wehrs/So./D Sam Lofquist/Fr./D R.J. Anderson/Sr./D Eric Springer/Fr./D Patrick White/So./F Taylor Matson/Fr./F Aaron Ness/Fr./D Mike Hoeffel/So./F Tony Lucia/Jr./F Nico Sacchetti/Fr./F Justin Bostrom/Sr./F Joe Miller/Fr./F Mike Carman/Jr./F Nick Larson/Fr./F Jordan Schroeder/Fr./F David Fischer/Jr./D Jake Hansen/Fr./F Ryan Flynn/Jr./F Michael Dorr/Fr./F Drew Fisher/So./F Jay Barriball/Jr./F Brian Schack/Jr./D Cade Fairchild/So./D Ryan Stoa/Jr./F Jake Kremer/Fr./G Grant Scott/Fr./D Alex Kangas/So./G Kent Patterson/Fr./G

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Line Chart 18 Jordy Murray, FR 24 John Mitchell, JR 5 Blake Geoffrion, JR 11 Andy Bohmbach, JR

22 Ryan Flynn, JR 26 Jay Barriball, JR 7 Patrick White, SO 14 Justin Bostrom, SR

7 Brendan Smith, SO 17 Ryan McDonagh, SO 19 Jake Gardiner, FR

20 David Fischer, JR 6 R.J. Anderson, SR 27 Brian Schack, JR

16 Mike Carman, JR 19 Jordan Schroeder, FR 13 Nico Sacchetti, FR 9 Taylor Matson, FR

35 Shane Connelly, SR 1 Scott Gudmandson, SO

16 Sean Dolan, SO 21 Derek Stepan, FR 12 Matt Thurber, FR 13 Aaron Bendickson, JR

27 Cody Goloubef, SO 2 Jamie McBain, JR 20 Ryan Little, FR

10 Patrick Johnson, SO 14 Ben Grotting, JR 9 Michael Davies, JR 8 Podge Turnbull, SO

33 Alex Kangas, SO 35 Kent Patterson, FR

28 Cade Fairchild, SO 10 Aaron Ness, FR 2 Kevin Wehrs, SO

12 Tony Lucia, JR 29 Ryan Stoa, JR 11 Mike Hoeffel, SO 21 Jake Hansen, FR

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Women’s hockey to play Gophers in 1-vs-2 series

By Rebecca Autrey THE DAILY CARDINAL

The No. 1 Wisconsin women’s hockey team will look to continue its undefeated season against No. 2 Minnesota this weekend at the Kohl Center.

The Badgers (8-0-0) are coming off a dominating performance at the first U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game where they beat Bemidji State 9-0. Although players have been happy with the team’s performance so far, they are quick to point out that this weekend will bring some of the hardest hockey the team will play all season.

Senior captain Erika Lawler said the Gophers and MinnesotaDuluth, who come to the Kohl Center next weekend, are much faster teams than anyone the Badgers have played so far.

“Everything is going to have to go at a completely new level, all the way from communication to energy, to puck movement to support, to everything,” she said.

Junior forward Kyla Sanders, the only Badger to score multiple goals during the Hall of Fame game, said this series will be much more physical than past games.

“We’re just going to have to

keep competing and battling,” she said. “I think those are our main points that we need to focus on.”

Competing should not be a problem for the Badgers. So far they are 4-0-0 in conference play and every member of the team has contributed to the success.

Sanders said the freshmen have especially had an impact.

“They fit in perfectly,” she said. “They fit right into the mix so everything’s working out.”

Lawler said the freshmen have contributed not only on the ice, but in the locker room as well.

“I think they’re all really good kids and really fun to be around, and I think that that’s very important,” she said. “They’re awesome hockey players to say the least, and I think their personalities even make them that much more important to the team.”

Another important aspect of the Badgers’ success so far this season has been senior goalie Jessie Vetter. She enters this weekend with a 0.63 goals against average, which is first in the nation. She has four shutouts on the season.

Her teammates definitely appreciate having Vetter in the net.

“She’s an awesome goalie. She is the best,” Sanders said.

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Senior center and captain Erika Lawler (13) is tied for the team lead with nine assists. She believes the Badgers will have to take their play to another level, as the team faces two top-10 teams in the coming weeks.

Even with all the success so far, Lawler said it is still early in the season and the Badgers cannot focus on past games if they want to be successful.

“It’s important for us to not really think of the games we’ve had in the past and our high

scoring games and stuff because it’s going to be completely different,” she said. “A whole new realm for us.”

Though the games this weekend may be the hardest of the season, according to Sanders, the team’s goal is simple.

“We obviously just want to keep winning. Just playing hard every single game and competing every time we step onto the ice,” she said.

The Badgers will face off with Minnesota Friday and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Volleyball will play host to undefeated Lions

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Wisconsin fell in five sets to Penn State at the Field House last season. The Nittany Lions only lost two matches last season.

gameday from page 8 the idea of having a cold frosty adult beverage before a game. In fact, I have nothing against having a few cold frosty adult beverages before the game.

That is just a facet of Wisconsin gameday, and there’s no way to get around it.

The problem comes when the drinking turns into a multi-hour journey that starts early and cuts into the game. All of a sudden, a three-hour game, which itself is a pretty big investment of time for a busy college student, becomes an Odyssey of alcoholism that consumes a massive part of a day.

That amount of time committed has to affect attendance, as there is not much incentive to wake up at 7 a.m. to watch a team that is not that successful.

That leads to the other important factor that is driving this rise

in fan apathy: the fact that the Badgers are just not very good. A 43 record is a long way from the top10 spot that most fans and experts predicted, and that no doubt will keep fans away.

Why can’t fans enjoy going to the stadium to watch a mediocre team?

Illinois brings in one of the most entertaining talents in the Big Ten. Quarterback Juice Williams is a talented runner and his development as a passer has made the Illini offense formidable.

Spectators need to learn to watch the game and appreciate the football played in front of them.

The games are not just about big plays that Wisconsin made.

There are plenty of opportunities to watch Wisconsin sports this weekend with two volleyball matches, two men’s hockey games and two women’s hockey games.

That means many chances to go watch the pure spectacle of sport.

The No. 21 Wisconsin volleyball team will face some stiff competition this weekend, as it hosts top-ranked Penn State and Indiana at the UW Field House.

Wisconsin (4-4 Big Ten, 14-6) will take on the Nittany Lions Friday night.

PSU was the last Big Ten opponent to defeat the Badgers at home, taking a thrilling 3-2 victory home last season.

Penn State (8-0, 20-0) returns all seven starters from its 2007 National Championship squad and has yet to lose a single set in its 2008 campaign.

Defense will be the top focus for Wisconsin, which has struggled with its passing at times this season.

“No team can have a shot against Penn State if they don’t pass,” head coach Pete Waite said. “Penn State brings some tough jump servers, some tough floaters; they just come at you hard. And if you’re passing off the net, you can’t run your offense. If you’re setting to one person, they’re going to have a monster block. So if we can pass So here is an interesting idea for tomorrow. Just go to the game.

Don’t wake up early for kegstands and beer bongs. Rise at a leisurely hour, have some breakfast and just go to the game.

It will only take three hours.

Don’t give away your ticket because the team isn’t good or the game is a bit early.

Try to find whatever it is that makes Badger games, at their root, enjoyable and strip away all the trappings that have come to characterize Madison’s Saturdays in fall.

Look for the subtleties and strategies of the game and appreciate the game going on in front of you.

Maybe it will pass your test and be a great part of your day, maybe it will fail. In the end however, you’ll likely end up learning something.

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well and keep our setters in system, we’ve got a shot.”

Penn State as a team hits at a .398 clip and claims four of the top five hitters in the Big Ten. The Nittany Lions hold opponents to a league-best .062 hitting percentage while leading the conference in blocks with 3.22.

Senior Christa Harmotto leads the nation with a .512 hitting percentage while adding 2.58 kills per set.

Wisconsin’s senior middle blocker Audra Jeffers ranks 10th in the Big Ten in both hitting percentage at .323 and blocks per set with 1.07.

Sophomore libero Kim Kuzma averages 4.24 digs per set, and will need to step up again if the Badgers wish to steal a win from the heavily favored Lions.

“We’ve been really focusing last week and this week on defense,” Kuzma said. “Even when people are bombing balls, just to get a hand on it—once you get a hand on balls, the more you do it, the more you are able to get them up later. I think our defense is going to be a lot better than

illini from page 8 “We didn’t force their quarterback into throwing,” Doeren said.

“When we did we stopped them.”

Junior quarterback Dustin Sherer will start for his second game, head coach Bret Bielema said Monday. Allan Evridge, the former starter, is listed as the second-string quarterback along with sophomore Scott Tolzien, who saw some playing time toward the end of the game against Iowa.

Tolzien has been getting more playing time than before at practice, Bielema said.

An unimpressive running game has forced Wisconsin to throw the ball over the past four games, but no quarterback has stepped up to the task yet. As a result, UW’s offense has flopped in clutch situations and has struggled to get in the end zone even when able to gain decent yardage.

it has been.”

The PSU matchup will be rebroadcast on tape delay Sunday afternoon on ESPN2.

The Badgers will then host Indiana (2-6, 10-10) in a Sunday matinee.

Indiana boasts senior Erica Short, who leads the conference in kills with 4.78 per set, and sophomore Ashley Benson, fourth in the Big Ten with 1.48 blocks in conference games this season.

“They’re a very athletic team,” Waite said. “They are playing with a lot of confidence. Ashley Benson is extremely athletic—she flies. So she is one of many weapons they have that we are going to have to deal with. We certainly can’t think that Penn state is the team to focus on, because these are two really good teams coming in.”

Wisconsin volleyball alumnae will also be introduced during Sunday’s match against Indiana.

Wisconsin, which ranks third in the nation in attendance, will host just its third weekend of competition at the Field House. The Badgers are 5-0 thus far at home.

Junior tailback P.J. Hill reaggravated a foot injury that he struggled with a year ago in last week’s game and missed a couple practices early last week. His status for Saturday is questionable.

Freshman John Clay was the top UW tailback against Iowa with 89 yards on the ground and will likely replace Hill as the top rusher if he doesn’t play.

Chapman said the team isn’t focusing on the recent string of losses and is hoping this week’s focus on fundamentals will sharpen UW’s performance.

“With a simpler game plan, it’s not too much thinking, and we can execute better,” Chapman said. “Anybody that’s going through this span that’s not used to losing would be frustrated, but we just got to come in each week and work hard to try to get a win. We need this win.”

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Sherer will keep starting role against the Illini

By Scott Allen THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Senior defensive tackle Jason Chapman (91) and the UW defense have struggled in recent games, allowing 86 total points to Penn State and Iowa. The will face a challenge in Illinois’ offense, which ranks atop the Big Ten.

After a week of Football 101 in practice, the 3-4 Badgers will look to get out of their Big Ten rut in Saturday’s homecoming game against Illinois.

“We’re going back to basics this week,” said defensive coordinator Dave Doeren, who has been focusing on simple things like keeping knees bent. “All those little things add up to bad things if you do them wrong.”

Illinois (2-2 Big Ten, 4-3 overall) trounced Indiana 55-13 last weekend with an especially explosive performance from freshman tailback Jason Ford, who scored three touchdowns and netted 172 yards on 19 carriers. Known for his physical nature and ability to break tackles, Ford will be a challenge for a defense that had trouble stopping Iowa’s running game last weekend.

“A big problem last week was tackling,” senior defensive lineman Jason Chapman said. “We missed a lot of tackles last week and we need to make up for it this week because Illinois has great running backs.”

Chapman, who is playing with a cast on his right hand after dislocating the base of his thumb early in the season, said that putting pressure on the quarterback will be key to UW’s success.

Fighting Illini quarterback Isaiah “Juice” Williams is one of the best in the Big Ten, leading the conference in total offense and passing efficiency. Against Indiana last weekend, Williams completed 16-of-22 passes for 271 yards and ran the ball himself for 30 yards. The quick and powerful quarterback has rushed for 475 yards this season.

Forcing passes is another goal of the UW defense, Doeren said. The Badgers let Hawkeye running back Shonn Greene run for 217 yards last weekend, giving little incentive for the Iowa to toss the ball. The defense was largely successful on third downs, preventing conversions on 9-of-10. illini page 7

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fter the 0-4 start in Big Ten play, now comes the real test.

Saturday will be the first morning home football game for Wisconsin in over a month and a half. The last time the Badgers played before noon in Camp Randall only 5,000 fans were through the gates at kickoff, and that was when the team was in the top-10 and had a promising season ahead.

Now what?

The lack of excitement for this game is already apparent as the scalping price for tickets has fallen and some fans have even given away their tickets. With such an undercurrent of apathy, how many students will be in the stands at kickoff?

It seems like the experience of Wisconsin football games has somehow been cheapened for those who attend. No one turns down Packer tickets and says, “Noon is just too early.” No one declines a chance to watch the Brewers because “they are only playing the Marlins.”

We go to those games because they are fun. There is something carefree and enjoyable about losing one’s self as an athletic spectator.

Even when the Pack and Brew Crew are mediocre or bad, there is some appeal in attending those games.

But this does not hold true for UW football. A sense of innocence has been lost, and that trend could be linked to the drinking culture that surrounds the games.

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As the Wisconsin men’s hockey team welcomes the Minnesota Golden Gophers to the Kohl Center this weekend for the first home series of the year, one cannot help but notice that the rivalry is not quite what it used to be.

The Badgers and Gophers still have one of the most heated rivalries in the history of college hockey, but things have changed a little over the years.

After being swept in Denver last weekend, Wisconsin is 0-4 for the first time since its modern era began in 1963. The Badgers have allowed at least five goals in every game thus far, ranking 51st in the nation in scoring defense.

Minnesota is 2-0 on the year after sweeping St. Cloud State last weekend, but the Gophers are not contending for the top spot in the country just yet, coming in seventh in this week’s USCHO. com poll.

With stats like that, the glory days of the Border Battle seem like a distant memory.

Beginning with Wisconsin’s first national championship in 1973, the Badgers and Gophers combined to win seven of the next 11 titles. Names like Chelios, Micheletti, Johnson, Eaves, Broten, Verchota, Janaszak and Suter still echo in the ears of hockey fans around the world.

The blind hatred the schools had for each other in past decades has often been replaced by friendship on today’s benches, thanks to larger recruiting bases and an increased number of players playing together on national teams.

“It’s just another game,” freshman defenseman Jake Gardiner said. “I’m from Minnesota, and

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I know a lot of the guys on the team, but we’re trying to focus on the game.”

This year, even the game itself is different. After receiving input from the NHL, WCHA officials are calling contests tighter this season, cracking down on penalties and hoping to facilitate play that is both cleaner and more offensive-minded.

“Obviously, the fans love to see the goals. I love to see the goals too, as a player and as a fan of the game,” junior forward Blake Geoffrion said.

While Wisconsin’s forwards have the opportunity to thrive under the new rules, players on the defensive end may have to get used to seeing their stats falter a bit.

“My stats aren’t going to be as top-quality as in years past, [but] the only thing that matters to me is if we win,” senior goaltender Shane Connelly said. “We need wins, and that’s all I’m really concerned about.”

The rivalry between Wisconsin and Minnesota might not be the same as it was 30 years ago, but this weekend, all bets are off.

“Everyone gets a little more jacked up for this,” Connelly said. “The rivalry’s gone down a little bit, [but] I like to always think that we don’t like each other very much.”

For the coaching staff, keeping the players’ emotions in check this weekend is key.

“Sometimes guys get overexcited or over-emotional and they don’t perform as well as they can,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “That’s probably our greatest concern as a coaching staff.”

Regardless of the records, rule changes and rivalries, fans can bet the Badgers will be ready to play when they step on the ice at the Kohl Center Friday night.

“Friday night’s the biggest game of the season so far,” Connelly said. “We don’t plan to go 0-5.”

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