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Anniversary of fatal ﬁre brings alarm initiative

Martin aims to improve relationship with WMC

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One year after a house fire on Bedford Street killed a UW-La Crosse student and injured three UW-Madison students, city officials are taking action in the form of a new fire-safety ordinance that would create stricter fire-alarm regulations in downtown housing. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, will introduce the Peter Talen Memorial Ordinance to Common Council members Tuesday night in honor of the 23-year-old Plymouth, Wis., native who lost his life in the Nov. 18, 2007, fire at 123 N. Bedford St. while visiting his brother in Madison. “This ordinance is very personal to me,” Verveer said. “I believe very strongly in this measure to avoid the anguish and tragedy I saw a year ago.” According to Madison Fire Department public information officer Lori Wirth, there was a mass amount of support and discussion about how smoke detectors are used and maintained in student and downtown housing following Talen’s death. In Madison, landlords are required to install working fire alarms, but it is the tenants’ responsibility to notify them if they stop working. The smoke detectors in the Bedford Street house were not working properly, a problem Wirth said is not uncommon. People disable their fire alarms if they go off randomly, or they forget to replace the batteries. “Nobody ever expects a fire at their home, so they can’t really say, ‘I’ll just take the batteries out for a little while, or I’ll go to the store later.’ We see a lot of smoke alarms

not working properly,” Wirth said. The ordinance, which would take effect in August 2009, demands the use of new tamper-resistant smoke detectors with lithium batteries that last 10 years and would require landlords to place fire alarms in every bedroom. The alarms would also feature a silence button, rather than taking out the batteries. Verveer said the ordinance benefits students living in houses built before 2002, as houses built since then have stricter safety codes. “There are so many students living in old houses downtown, so this is a major safety improvement,” he said. Although the ordinance will raise costs for property owners, Verveer said he has been working with landlords to move beyond the monetary increase. “What’s important is to avoid another tragedy. If the ordinance saves one life, it’s worth it,” he said. “There is no price tag on a life.” University Communications spokesperson John Lucas said fire safety has become a top priority for Dean of Students Lori Berquam after fires at a Carroll Street apartment complex last November and another blaze at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on Langdon Street in May. “Last year was a huge wake-up call for not only students, but also staff on campus,” Lucas said. Although UW-Madison doesn’t own or control safety in much of the downtown housing, Lucas said the university is working to establish a relationship with the MFD to stress the importance of safety to students. “It’s something you have to take really seriously,” he said.

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Steve Pogorzelski, the keynote speaker for the Global Entrepreneur Week kickoff, said he is optimistic about the future job market. He encouraged students to look for jobs they are passionate about.

Entrepreneur Week speaker advises job-seeking students By Beth Pickhard THE DAILY CARDINAL

The continuing economic crisis drove UW-Madison students and faculty to the Global Entrepreneurship Week campus kickoff Monday. Keynote speaker Steve Pogorzelski, former president of Monster North America and 2006 recipient of the UWMadison journalism school’s Distinguished Service to Journalism Award, spoke about the effects of the crisis on young university students. Pogorzelski said because of the national economic crisis, corporations have cut back on the hiring of college graduates. However, Pogorzelski remained positive, saying the conditions of the economy will get better

for people currently entering the job market. “There’s going to be some short-term gain, but I am going to guarantee that there will be some long-term gain for you folks. You just have to weather the storm,” he said. Pogorzelski encouraged students who are undecided on a major to avoid financial incentives and to focus on finding a job based on their interests. “If you are money-oriented and you haven’t figured out what you really want to do or what you love to do, don’t look at the starting salary, look at your career [as a whole],” he said. “I can guarantee you if that’s what you are going by, entrepreneurs page 3

Obama transition team did not discuss possibility of cabinet post with Doyle

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On Nov. 18, 2007, a late-night ﬁre at 123 Bedford St. killed 23year-old Peter Talen and injured three UW-Madison students.

Gov. Jim Doyle has spoken with the transition team for President-elect Obama, but Doyle announced Monday the conversation was not about a possible cabinet position. Because he was an early supporter of Obama and was active in campaign efforts for him, speculation arose that Doyle might be offered a post in the Obama administration, especially after knowledge of communication between Doyle and the transition team became public. Doyle spokesperson Lee

Sensenbrenner told the Associated Press he does not know what the dialogue between Doyle and the transition team was about, but Doyle continues to emphasize he wishes to remain governor of Wisconsin. “The job he really feels the strongest about is being governor of the state of Wisconsin,” Sensenbrenner said in an interview Friday. Doyle has not yet announced if he is running for re-election as governor, a race that will be decided in 2010.

Chancellor Biddy Martin said Monday she will aim to develop a relationship between the university and Wisconsin’s largest business interest group that will benefit the state. Although former Chancellor John Wiley has been an open critic of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, Martin said her goal is not to provide an analysis or opinion of the group. “What I want to do, however, is not so much form a view of the WMC … so much as I want to build a relationship I think will be beneficial to the university,” Martin said. Martin and WMC President Jim Haney met shortly after she took office and shared their visions for UW-Madison. She said her desire to improve relations with WMC does not necessarily stem from a difference of opinion between her and Wiley, but from her desire to build “positive relationships with any and everybody who has the well-being of the university and the state at heart.” Martin said she hopes relations between the university and WMC will help the state increase the economic benefits it receives from the “economic engine” of UW-Madison. “I think that the university is an economic engine in its own right,” Haney said. “Some of the research that comes out of the university is very good for the economic development of the state.” Haney said he is “inspired” by what he has heard from Martin but also thought he had a good working relationship with Wiley, contrary to Wiley’s comments in the September issue of Madison Magazine. In his article, Wiley criticized WMC for promoting deregulation and not supporting higher wages, saying these measures have not moved Wisconsin toward the goal of economic competitiveness. “Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to closely examine the strategies … WMC employs to pursue that goal,” Wiley wrote. “Apparently, the organization’s definition of being competitive is being among those states with the lowest taxes, lowest wages and least regulation in the nation.” However, Martin remains much less critical of the group and said she hopes to continue to meet with WMC to develop shared goals.

“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

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ast week, I started watching a new reality show— “Enrollment Frenzy”—where five strangers at one university grapple with one incredibly inconvenient timetable. The prize: getting the classes you need to graduate. The five students—Rosie, Lilah, Casco, Coby and Jake—thrust into this course-choosing mania together, seemed to hit it off really well at first. Lilah had a crush on Jake, but Jake had a crush on her best friend Rosie, who had a crush on Casco, who had a crush on Coby, but swore he was straight. But then the second episode premiered with the incestuous bunch receiving Enrollment E-mails, assigning them individual enrollment times. That’s when the backstabbing began. “We designed enrollment as a test of character,” said the advisor, who oversees the show. “Who has the

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inner strength to turn on all of their friends in the name of self-interest? Who copes with their classes ﬁlling up by drinking themselves into a coma, and who will chuck their laptop at the nearest life form?” While the cast was told that the advisor is there to assist with registration, he actually works behind the scenes to further complicate the process by unplugging the internet during enrollment appointments, adding and subtracting classes from the timetable at random and replacing the Student Center with angry clown porn for 10 minutes every half hour. Rosie’s appointment time came ﬁrst. Lilah, her BFF, asked Rosie to hold a class for her since her enrollment time was the last of the group. But Rosie had to say no because she was already at 18 credits—she was trying to choose between “Deconstructionist Political Modernization in a Post-Existential Platonic Society” and “Modernizing a Political Deconstructionist Plato in an Existentialistic Manner.” Overwhelmed with guilt, Rosie promised to sleep with Coby to get his password and hold Lilah’s “No One Loves You and That’s Why You Always Register After Everyone Else”

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(Sucks to be You 433) course. “I slept with Coby because I probably would have anyway,” Rosie said in the confession room. “I have really low self-esteem so I tend to sleep with anyone who asks me. Plus, it’s really, really good for my reality TV career.” But Coby was too quick for her. Having overheard Rosie and Lilah’s conversation, he slept with Casco ﬁrst, stole his password and passed it onto Rosie as his own. “You gotta do what you gotta do to graduate,” Coby said of his conniving antics. “You’re never going to get into the right classes without sleeping with some people you wouldn’t otherwise. I learned that from VH1.” Jake kept to himself through most of the process. “No one understands the dark abyss that consumes my life,” he said. “So I don’t think the others were interested in my classes. I enrolled in ‘My Blood is a River of Feelings (Rich Kids Rebelling Against their Parents by Turning Emo 583),’ ‘My Body is a Jacket of Constraint (Self Loathing 322),’ and bowling.” Once all ﬁve students had registered for classes, the advisor arranged for a get-together to “talk about schedules.”

Jealousy-driven pandemonium ensued. “I knew that if I got them together to compare their schedules, they’d realize they weren’t actually content with their classes,” the advisor said. “This meeting was guaranteed to bring the most drama this network has seen since Pluto chose its replacement in ‘Who Wants to be a Planet?’” Coby and Casco immediately began ﬁghting over the 8:52 comp lit slot, given the two were both enrolled in the 8:49 lecture. As Casco stabbed Coby, Jake sobbed quietly in the corner at the omission of bowling in the timetable. Rosie, afraid she was being outdone with all the blood on Casco and Coby’s end of the room, began making out with Lilah. The show ended with a memorial service for Coby, Rosie giving birth to her third child, Jake sacriﬁcing a goat to Satan, Casco doing time and Lilah, the winner, graduating. “Being on the show was an amazing experience that I wouldn’t trade for anything,” she said, showing off her diploma to the camera. “Be sure to look for me next season in ‘Living Law School!’” If you’d like to audition for next season, e-mail Kiera at wiatrak@wisc.edu.

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New union designers ﬁnalize plans, unveil new additions By Erin Banco THE DAILY CARDINAL

Members of the Wisconsin Union are approaching the ﬁnal months of planning for the new south-campus union construction, which will commence after the demolition of Union South in January. Planning for construction of the new south union began over two years ago with web-based surveys where 17,000 community members offered input to the design committee. According to Mark Guthier, director of the Wisconsin Union, the committee consists of 15 university members, including nine student representatives.

“We want [the exterior] to be timeless and enduring.” Paul Broadhead assistant director for facilities management Wisconsin Union

The project accounts for 40 percent of the university’s overall Master Plan budget. However, Student Union Initiative leader Dan Cornelius said the union project is relatively cheap in comparison to other UW System projects. Former union directors constructed the current Union South in 1971 with timely architecture, which directors are trying to do away with, according to Cornelius. “We want [the exterior] to be timeless and enduring … [We] want to be able to tell when the building was built, but don’t want it to be tied to that era,” said Paul Broadhead,

assistant director for facilities management for the Wisconsin Union. Andrea Bill, a UW-Madison graduate student and member of the design committee, said the exterior of the building will attract visitors with breezeways and terraces. “The new union is about creating multi-use spaces that catch the attention of the 35,000 cars that drive down Campus Drive every day but is also welcoming for pedestrians,” Bill said. Outside features include a motor-transportation hub, a possible light-rail line and a station for grill pick-up. Orchard Street—which lies perpendicular to Union South’s property—will also become a main resource for visitors of the new union. “One of our goals is to treat Orchard Street as a pedestrian mall with farmers markets, music festivals or other outdoor events,” Bill said. According to Bill, the current Wendt Library deck will be restructured to provide space for the UW Marching Band during Badger Bash, which will take place at the current Union South for the last time Nov. 22. Response from environmentally friendly community members forced directors to make an effort to abide by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards. The system ranks sustainability efforts on a scale of 26 to 69. The union project received a 40, placing UWMadison among the top sustainable universities in the nation. According to Cornelius, residents of the current Union South will move out after ﬁnals to make room for the demolition in January, and directors plan for the project to be complete by the spring of 2011.

District court judge to take on Chief Justice Abrahamson in spring election By Emma Roller THE DAILY CARDINAL

Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Randy Koschnick announced his candidacy for the state Supreme Court Monday at the Capitol. Koschnick will run against incumbent state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson in the spring election to be held April 7. Abrahamson, who has served on the court for 32 years and has been chief justice since 1996, welcomed KOSCHNICK Koschnick to the campaign trail in a statement. Koschnick called for Abrahamson to agree to a cleancampaign pledge outlining standards of conduct in an effort to lessen the inﬂuence of specialinterest groups on the election. “This race should focus only on our records and our philosophies, not on lies and personal attacks funded by third-party groups,” Koschnick said. Despite the candidates’ endorsement of a more independent election, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Executive Director Mike McCabe said interest groups will likely play a large role in this spring’s

election as in past elections. According to McCabe, four interest groups paid for 90 percent of the attack ads in the race between state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and former Justice Louis Butler this past spring. Likewise, the contest between state Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler and Linda Clifford in 2007 set records for spending by outside interest groups. “Unless there are major reforms that are put in ABRAHAMSON place that get at the poisons that are seeping into our judicial elections, I think what’s happened in the last two races is going to be replicated in the spring,” McCabe said. One of the problems with Supreme Court elections, according to McCabe, is they are becoming more and more partisan. Abrahamson said in a statement it is “essential” for judicial candidates to be nonpartisan and for judges not to make decisions based on political beliefs. “People need to know that when it’s their day in court, the judge will be a fair, even-handed and independent decision-maker of justice,” she said.

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UW-Madison student organizations ,such as Student Progressive Dane and the Black Student Union, rallied down State Street Monday night to protest the Dane County sheriff’s policies toward undocumented immigrants.

Student organizations march in support of immigrant rights By Jack Zeller THE DAILY CARDINAL

About 75 students from various UW-Madison student groups gathered Monday night to protest the Dane County Sheriff ’s Department’s practice of reporting undocumented immigrants detained in the county to the federal government. The protestors marched up State Street to the Madison CityCounty Building, where members of Progressive Dane were presenting an amendment to the county budget that would deny the sheriff ’s department’s request for increased funds and divert the funds into area workers’ rights programs. Despite the efforts of Progressive Dane and its supporters, the amendment did not pass and the sheriff ’s department received its requested funding for 2009. Protesters said Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney reports all non-U.S. citizens detained in Dane County to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a feder-

al agency. According to Student Progressive Dane member Adam Porton, Mahoney is not obliged to do so by law and has “gone rogue.” Porton said Mahoney’s policies are used to target and intimidate immigrant communities.

“There’s really nothing that truly affects only one community; we’re all affected by this.” Danez Smith public relations coordinator Black Student Union

“The policy has resulted in a number of long-term prison holds and deportations of individuals convicted of no crimes, but rather [who] simply have been arrested by Dane County authorities,” he said. “It’s causing an extreme culture of fear and mistrust of law enforcement in Dane County’s immigrant community.”

Porton said Mahoney’s policy also causes crimes in immigrant communities to go unreported, as fearful community members are reluctant to interact with police. The protest included members of several UW-Madison student groups, including Student Progressive Dane, the Campus Antiwar Network, the Black Student Union, the Multicultural Student Coalition and others. Danez Smith, public relations coordinator for the Black Student Union, said it was important that his organization be present at the protest because of the necessity for communities of color to stand in solidarity to make their voices heard. “There’s really nothing that truly affects only one community; we’re all affected by this,” he said. “Today we’re fighting for immigration, but tomorrow we might have to fight for something that’s affecting the black community.” The Dane County Sheriff ’s Ofﬁce was unavailable for comment Monday night.

UW study-abroad participation increases over two-year span UW-Madison ranked 10th among U.S. research universities for studyabroad participation during the 2006’07 academic year, jumping from 17th the year before, according to the Open Doors report released Monday by the Institute of International Education. According to the annual report, the number of students studying abroad for credit increased 14 percent, from 1,616 students in 2005-’06 to 1,846

entrepreneurs from page 1 you are probably better off in the long run.” According to Pogorzelski, the Internet has changed how companies are able to find and recruit candidates. “The Internet has brought multidimensional recruiting, so now you can look at jobs from all over the world. Now, rather than waiting to acquire a job, people can ﬁnd you and gauge your interest to apply to the company,” he said.

a year later. UW-Madison’s percentage increase is above the national average of 8 percent. For college students nationwide and at UW-Madison, European countries are among the top-four most popular study-abroad locations. China was the ﬁfth most popular destination both nationally and for UW-Madison students. The report ranked the campus sec-

ond in 2006-’07 for yearlong program participation and fourth for semesterlong program participation. University ofﬁcials said they expect the number of students studying abroad to continue to increase. According to a university release, more than 20,000 UW-Madison students have studied abroad since 1959, the year the school offered its ﬁrst study-abroad program.

According to Pogozelski, gestures such as dressing nicely and sending thank you notes can make a difference in clinching jobs. “Eighty-five percent of employers expect a [thank you note],” he said. “A little thank you makes a big difference.” As students continue to struggle to find a job with a decent salary, Pogorzelski suggested nonprofit internships or professional jobs as suitable for gaining knowledge. “You may not get paid, but

you will gain real-world experience, and you will get great referrals and recommendations,” he said. “Don’t let this economic crisis affect your confidence in your future, in your ability to find meaningful work that you are passionate about.” Global Entrepreneurship Week continues Tuesday with a technology entrepreneurship seminar at 3:30 p.m. in 1180 Grainger Hall and at 6 p.m. in the Entrepreneurial Deli in the Pyle Center’s Alumni Lounge.

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s part of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s ﬁrstyear parents weekend, UWMadison Psychology Professor Kevin Strang presented “The Science of Alcohol” on Friday. After his presentation, which emphasized education on alcohol-related issues rather than a simply vilifying drinking altogether, many parents responded positively to a suggested mandate of a drinking education course for all incoming students. According to Strang, the course itself is not entirely new to the university, either. Several years ago, such a course was offered as an interdisciplinary Letters & Sciences course that sought to educate students in various facets of drinking culture, from the possible scientiﬁc effects of drinking before the brain is fully developed to the strategies employed in alcohol advertising. In an age where UW’s drinking culture is frequently under scrutiny and underage students are bombarded by a horde of messages warning them not to drink, many simply ignore the issue altogether. Unfortunately, this leads to a general body of students participating in potentially dangerous activities without proper education on moderation or the effects of binge drinking. Though offering such a course and mandating it may not solve the problem of underage

drinking altogether, it would serve as a proactive measure to counter a generally uninformed drinking culture that many students subscribe to. Furthermore, mandating such a course would not disrupt progress toward graduation. Offering a course that deals with both the scientific and social climate of drinking would offer all students an opportunity to fulfill general education requirements while presenting information that is both useful and applicable to their everyday life as opposed to a random class scheduled solely to fulfill necessary graduation requirements. If coalitions like UW Health’s All Wisconsin Alcohol Risk Education group are any indication, UWMadison is serious about the drinking culture on campus. Getting administration on board and enacting policy that both revives such a course and makes it mandatory for all incoming students is one of the most practical, straightforward ways to address an issue surrounded by negative press with few viable solutions available. The drinking culture at UWMadison will never go away. However, for a university that will soon offer fermentation courses sponsored by MillerCoors, education of the effects of consuming these products should be a no-brainer.

Aesthetically pleasing downtown beneﬁts all By Tom Hart THE DAILY CARDINAL

It was a cold fall afternoon in 2004 when I happened to overhear the conversation of two alumni who sat down next to me in the Main Lounge of the Memorial Union. The husband and wife had flown in from Boston to visit the university they attended during the early 1950s. “I hardly recognize it,” the old man commented to his wife. Thirty years, six presidents and multiple renovations had passed since their last visit to Madison. “Even the Union has changed,” the husband continued, as he cast a glance in the direction of his old studying spot. “I used to study right there in that corner. I don’t remember the place ever looking so nice.” Although my time here at the university has totaled less than five years, the sentiments expressed by the aging couple are becoming more relevant to me sooner than I would have expected. As an alumnus of the Southeast dorms, the most notable transformation has taken place through the East Campus Gateway development. The old University Square only lives on in memory. Gone is the movie theatre where I watched the original “Saw” in an empty room. Gone is the bar where I bought my first drink in college and spent multiple Fridays after class. But while those establishments have closed down, the East Campus Gateway area has never looked so nice.

The seven-block pedestrian mall that had been long forgotten since it was proposed a century ago in the campus’ 1908 master plan is transforming the heart of UW-Madison’s campus. The cost of these building and redevelopment programs exceed $400 million. Nearly one third of that total will be put towards the improvement of arts facilities on campus. The Chazen Museum of Art will undergo an expansion that will add more than 60,000 square feet to the building. A new music performance facility to the east of the Murray Street will undoubtedly be the punctuation mark to a revitalized promenade.

This campus will be reborn by the time this year’s freshmen class prepares for commencement.

The George L. Mosse Humanities building, the UWExtension building and storefronts along the 700 block of University Avenue will be leveled in order to make way for the project. Brothers Bar and Grill will be allowed to keep their alcohol license, but the owners will have to go before the Alcohol License Review Committee in order to obtain a license transfer. Patrons of the popular downtown bar may be upset with the decision to shut down the University Avenue fixture, but sacrifice is needed in order to create a more aesthetically pleasing downtown. I was personally upset when Madhatter’s closed down to make way for the Lucky complex several years ago, but the new bar is

far better than the old one ever was. I assume this will be the case with Brothers as well. An arts and humanities “district” will improve the downtown area of Madison immensely. New buildings for the history, art and music departments will frame a tree-lined walkway that will stretch from the Kohl Center to Library Mall. Art galleries, an outdoor sculpture garden and the new music performance center will serve as a complement to the already vibrant State Street scene. “The East Campus Mall, 20 or 30 years from now, will be the part of the campus that alumni and visitors to campus will remember as being the visually most appealing, most breathtaking part of the campus,” former chancellor John Wiley said. Change has been continuous since I first set foot on this campus just over four years ago. Grainger was expanded, the capitol building was restored, Ogg Hall moved across the street and State Street underwent major improvements. The Morgridge Center, The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery and new Union South facility will help transform the community even further. If the past four years are any indicator, this campus will be reborn by the time this year’s freshman class prepares for commencement. Fifty years from now, when I return to visit Madison with my wife to reminisce about my years in college, I will be reminded of the conversation I overheard on that cold November afternoon and the experience will come full circle. Tom Hart is a senior majoring in political science and history. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONDOR infrastructure not harmful After reading Friday’s Letter to the Editor titled “CONDOR threatens to destroy all mankind,” I feel compelled to respond and inform everyone that we do not need to worry about CONDOR turning on us and laying waste to all human kind. CONDOR is nothing but an infrastructure to coordinate the computing power of many computers to solve computationally intensive problems. CONDOR does not get “smarter” based on what is run on it. All these worries about something going wrong is perpetuated by an inaccurate portrayal of computers and what they are capable of in sci-fi movies. It is these “crappy TV series” and movies that are damaging the perception the general public has of computer science. Computer science is nothing like what you see on TV. Artificial intelligence is exactly that: artificial. Despite our best efforts to make programs act like humans or make smart decisions given a set of information, they’re ultimately limited by their inabil-

ity to learn and represent things abstractly like humans do. It may seem like they’re able to learn, but it’s usually because it sees some correlation between what is given and what is expected. At the end of the day, programs written are just a bunch of ones and zeros. If you’re really worried about computers turning on us and doing damage, I think it’s important to raise awareness about malware— viruses, worms, botnets—and the best practices to keep your computer safe. Again, this is not something you see in the movies as a sentient being who’s bent on taking over the world, but the threat exists and can do real damage. Those are the things you should be worried about. So next time you hear about a new technology (or in this case an existing technology), do some research before drawing any conclusions about what is possible and what isn’t. —Michael Griepentrog UW Junior majoring in Computer Sciences

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By Mark Riechers THE DAILY CARDINAL

It’s safe to say that Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer of “Gears of War 2,” mostly stayed true to his proclamation earlier this year—that “Gears 2” is “bigger, better and more badass.” Indeed, the shooter delivers bigger environments, a vastly improved story and enough male power fantasies to keep your testosterone level elevated for weeks.

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Epic Games Xbox 360 For those who missed out the first time around, “Gears” follows the humans of Sera in their ongoing war with the Locust, a mole-like race that attacks humanity. “Gears of War 2” picks up as they begin a new offensive, sinking entire cities underground. Although the story is an improvement over the first game, it still doesn’t stray far from the spacemarine, sci-fi boilerplate that we’re already used to (one man against an army of freaks to save the planet—one bullet at a time).

The game is, for the most part, still running a 3-year-old game under the hood.

The major advancement in “Gears 2” is its increase in scale. Some battles include hundreds of

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The latest “Gears of War” installment elevates the sci-ﬁ carnage to a new level. Its epic battles, vast landscapes of destruction and ﬂamethrowing weapons specially made for subduing armies of menacing Locusts will satiate anyone looking for a save-the-world simulator. Locust drones at a time, and foes that were previously only seen in the distance—like the massive Brumak walking tank and flying Reavers—are now seen frequently in battle, eventually even becoming drivable vehicles. The surrounding environments match this scope, ranging from gigantic underground caverns—complete with a bestiary of local, disgusting cave fauna—to snowy mountains full of icy lakes

and scenic vistas. We even get to see how worm anatomy can be useful in combat situations. The graphics have obviously improved to accommodate the shift from gray buildings to exotic locales, but there have definitely been growing pains. Occasionally, the textures won’t load for a few seconds after a new game loads, and every surface looks like its made from Play-Doh for the first five to 10 seconds of game play.

Not a huge deal, but a reminder that the game is, for the most part, still running a 3-year-old game engine under the hood. The online modes are still a blast, with some fun new additions. Horde mode will keep you busy for weeks, sending waves of enemies after your ﬁve-man squad as you ﬁght to survive as many as possible. Not all the changes are for the better, though. The new party system is sluggish when matching

single players to groups, so playing online on your own is nigh impossible. Make sure your Xbox Live friends list is stocked with fellow “Gears” fans before you hop on. Fans of the original have likely bought, beaten and are already playing “Gears 2” fiercely online, but if you are looking to toe into the bloody world of chainsaw bayonets and lasers from space, the game gives plenty of reasons to join up.

Scrobbling spells order, OCD for Dale’s musical scrabble DALE MUNDT croco-dale rock

d iscovered scrobbling a few months ago. For those of you who aren’t familiar, scrobbling is the process by which the gnomes that live inside my computer tell the gnomes that live at Last.fm all the music I am listening to. Last.fm compiles charts about which artists, albums and songs are played most frequently. It organizes this info into weekly, monthly and yearly charts and then publishes this information—along with a running list of your most recently played tracks—on your profile page. You can also find your friends provided they, too, are one of the 21 million—according to Guardian.co.uk—who have also instructed their computer gnomes to publish their listening habits. Then you can keep up with what they are listening to, analyze their selections and

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Do you stress out just counting the number times you’ve played Feist’s “One, Two, Three, Four” this month? You may be a victim of scrobbling. feel superior because of your friends’ great musical tastes. Sounds like a great idea, right? It’s not. At least not after you check your first monthly chart and realize that, apparently, the only music you listened to for an entire month has been Enter the Wu-Tang and Feist’s

The Reminder. Embarrassed, you check your friend’s page, hoping that will distract you from your apparent bi-polar fanboy status. Instead, you discover that your friend is even sadder than you. He is the top listener, for several months running, for Saves the Day. Remember Saves the Day?

They made some good albums... in 2003. And this friend wasn’t just the top listener. He doubled up the second-biggest fan. So the next month, I decided to keep variety in mind. Every time I opened iTunes, I thought about how each choice would translate to my listening charts. I passed on the lovely Leslie Feist for Aesop Rock or Joy Division. I searched the cobwebby corners of my iTunes for gems like Electric President and Beirut to listen to, instead of skipping straight to “Bring da Ruckus.” That is when the second problem emerged. If I didn’t pay close attention, my iTunes would end up sending songs to Last.fm that I didn’t remember listening to. For instance, after starting to listen to Pharoahe Monch, I walked away from my computer and promptly forgot about my still-scrobbling computer. This left my excellent taste in underground rap buried by 30 songs worth of what, according to iTunes, is Phil Collins “Greatest Hits.” Another day, I fell asleep to Regina Spektor and accidentally scrobbled the entire Queen

discography. After a blissful listen to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, I had to be careful not to let the next three artists in my music library—Panic At The Disco, Pantera and Pat Benatar—sully the music chart I was working so hard to perfect.

If I didn’t pay close attention, my iTunes would end up sending songs to Last.fm that I didn’t remember listening to.

It’s official. Scrobbling has ruined my once relaxing listening sessions with my computer. Randomly listening to whatever catches my attention is a thing of the past. Now, all I can do is obsess about my listening charts, constantly worrying about their variety and making sure no stray songs throw off the accuracy of my listening identity. Want to help Dale diversify his musical portfolio? Send your scrobbling suggestions to dpmundt@wisc.edu.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Finishing that Chipotle burrito

Today’s Sudoku

Anthro-apology

By Eric Wigdahl wigdahl@wisc.edu

Classic Angel Hair Pasta

By Todd Stevens ststevens@wisc.edu

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. The Daily Code

bob your apple

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Sid and Phil

By Alex Lewein lewein@wisc.edu

The Graph Giraffe

By Yosef Lerner ilerner@wisc.edu

“Zi bar erterg va yvsr vf gung V nz abg fbzrbar ryfr.” Woody Allen quote Yesterday’s Code:

“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.”

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com MR. PRESIDENT ACROSS

1 Puddies, to Tweety 5 Doppelganger 10 Touches with a live wire 14 Stair-step measure 15 Anti-social type 16 Opponent of Jimmy and Arthur 17 Prominent male feature 19 Insanity, at times 20 Class day division 21 Brewery specialty, perhaps 22 Wd. components 23 Puncture sound 24 Kind of mother or child 26 Homer’s lament 27 Certain home cleaning tool 32 Thalia’s sister 35 Walking tall 36 Kingston Trio hit 37 Memorial ﬂip side 40 Tractor hitch 42 CPR pro 43 Like life on the street 45 “Off the Court” autobiographer 46 Big ride since 1991 50 Hugs but not kisses 51 Latin catch-all (Abbr.)

52 Negative preﬁx 55 Avoid unconditionally 57 “The Piano” heroine 59 Cry of disappointment 61 Bass line provider 62 Some small craft operators 64 Long-distance call? 65 Clay brick structure 66 Villain with a base on Crab Key 67 Appraised 68 Hispanic title 69 The United States has a great one DOWN

1 Mouse catchers 2 Seconds 3 “The ___ Bride” (Rimsky-Korsakov opera) 4 Vehicle seen at a roadside diner 5 “With pleasure” 6 Twist event 7 Theoretically 8 Cut one’s losses, in a way 9 Support for some houses 10 Freezer bag brand 11 Accident-prone 12 Wharf 13 Waters numbering seven

18 Neither great nor awful 25 Bring into balance 26 It’s sometimes mined 27 Ad ___ committee 28 Wanted by many 29 Certain old TV accessory 30 1941 Pearl Harbor ship 31 Stable occupant 32 It’s usually ﬁrst on the staff 33 Wheels of fortune? 34 Between a rock and a hard place 38 Three-tiered treat 39 Brine-cured salmon 41 Mars’ thing 44 Joe the Bartender player 47 Date for Daisy 48 50 Cent, e.g. 49 Grades 1-12 for short 52 MTM word 53 Met-Life competitor 54 Disinfectant brand 55 Ocular irritation 56 Relative of 47-Down 57 Arab garments 58 Surfer’s sobriquet 60 Automobile pioneer R.E. 63 “Deadwood”network

Awkward Turtle

By Meg Anderson anderson4@wisc.edu

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Badgers split home matches against Iowa, Minnesota Wisconsin now sits alone in sixth place in Big Ten By Jay Messar THE DAILY CARDINAL

The UW volleyball team (7-9 Big Ten, 17-11 overall) picked up a much-needed Big Ten win over visiting Iowa Sunday afternoon, sweeping the Hawkeyes 25-16, 2523, 25-16. “I’m happy that we came off an emotional match Friday night and played some solid volleyball,” head coach Pete Waite said. “It was nice to get the win over Iowa after we went to their place and played poorly in the ﬁrst match of Big Ten play. I think we showed that we’re very much improved as a team and headed in the right direction.” Senior middle blocker Audra Jeffers led Wisconsin with 10 kills, and sophomore outside hitter Allison Wack dug a career-high 14 attacks in the Iowa sweep. Although the Badgers outdug, out-hit and out-blocked the Hawkeyes (6-10, 14-14), they experienced the loss of junior AllAmerican outside hitter Brittany Dolgner, who was out before the match started and appeared with crutches midway through the second set. Trainers said after the game she had an ankle sprain, but there is still no word on how long she will

be out. Filling in for Dolgner was the outside hitting tandem of junior Caity DuPont and Wack, who together tallied 16 kills. “I thought it was great that everyone else stepped up,” Waite said. “I think Allison and Caity DuPont stepped up well and everyone filled in … That’s what being a team is all about, you never know when somebody’s going to be hurt or be sick on a day and everyone else has to be ready to play at any given notice.” DuPont and Wack had quite the void to fill after Dolgner’s numbers Friday night in a disappointing border battle loss to archrival No. 15 Minnesota (11-4, 21-6) with scores of 18-25, WACK 25-18, 27-25, 3129, 19-17. “It was certainly an exciting match. Our kids played hard, played with all their hearts,” Waite said. “I wish they would have come out on top so they could have been rewarded for their effort and gotten a win here tonight, because that was a big one against a very good team.” UW jumped out to an energetic 9-5 lead in set one, before the Gophers came roaring back to take a 16-13 lead. After a UW timeout, the Badgers finished off Minnesota with a 12-2 run to take the first

set. The Badgers hit .391 while the Gophers hit -.083 in the first set. Minnesota’s defense, behind libero Christine Tan’s seven digs, picked up in the second set. Tan finished with a team-high 23 digs on the night, while the Gophers continued to serve UW tough, getting the Badgers out of sync early. The teams went back and forth for the final three sets, with the Badgers eking out the win in set three on a Dolgner tool off the block on their third set point. Jeffers, who finished with 12 kills on the night, hit .500 in the first three sets right over the Minnesota block. “The coaches did a nice job of letting us know that their blockers were leaving us one on one there and jumping in,” Jeffers said, “so I just knew that that half of the court would be open.” As the match wound tighter in sets three through five, Wisconsin’s 16 service errors became more costly. Wisconsin owned four match points in the fourth set, but failed to put the ball away as Minnesota stole the set to pull even at 2-2. “It’s a matter of them staying composed and staying with the correct technique that we teach them; sometimes they’re going with too much adrenaline,” Waite said of the service errors. “If we’re going to get that many, we need a lot more service aces.” Minnesota kept up the momentum and took advantage of

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Senior captain Audra Jeffers had 24 kills over the weekend to help Wisconsin sweep the Hawkeyes, moving the team’s record to 17-11. Wisconsin’s tentativeness, sneaking out the win in set five. “The way they battled tonight, it shows that they’re playing with more fire than they have all season, and that’s great—we wanted to be building to this point,” Waite said. “One play here or there and that’s our match … we’re not done by far.” Overall, Wisconsin converted on only two of nine set points and none of its five match points against the Gophers.

Knight dominates as women’s hockey sweeps Fighting Sioux Freshmen key in Friday win, Vetter earns 30th career shutout Jake Langbecker THE DAILY CARDINAL

Three was a magic number for Hilary Knight and the No. 1 Wisconsin women’s hockey team over the weekend against North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D. Knight, a sophomore forward, recorded three assists in the Badgers’ 5-1 victory Saturday and followed it up Sunday with a natural hat trick, three consecutive goals, in a 4-0 shutout. Even though Knight was shining brightly, the Badgers remained unbeaten thanks to a team effort. That was evident in the scoring column Saturday with four different Badgers combining for the five goals and seven Badgers contributing with assists. Freshman forward Brooke Ammerman was the first to light the lamp, recording a goal late in the first period with a shot from the blue line. Forward Carolyne Prevost, also a freshman, continued the youth movement by scoring the second goal of the game early in the second period. Senior forward Angie Keseley extended the lead to 3-0 with a shot from just outside the crease in the middle of the second period. No team effort is complete without strong goaltending, and that is exactly what senior goalie Jessie Vetter has been providing all season. Vetter recorded 24 saves, including a few big stops on Sioux breakaways. Junior forward Jasmine Giles rounded out the balanced offensive

The Badgers’ 1-1 record on the weekend puts them alone in sixth place in the Big Ten and assures them an over-.500 record overall—two qualities the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee will look at in December. The Badgers have just two weekends left of regular season competition and will face four tough teams they have yet to defeat this season in Indiana, No. 1 Penn State, No. 17 Illinois and No. 18 Purdue.

bielema from page 8 Although they will not play in as prestigious a bowl as many thought they would at the start of the season, Bielema says bowl eligibility “means a lot.” “We deﬁnitely had expectations coming into this year to have more victories than we do at this point in the season,” he said. “But [the] bottom line is we scraped and put ourselves in a position to be bowl-eligible, and what we do this Saturday has a lot to do with what we can do in the future.”

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Sophomore forward Hilary Knight recorded three assists and three goals against North Dakota. Knight is the leading goal-scorer in the country and has led the Badgers to an undefeated record. attack with two power play goals in the third period. The Fighting Sioux recorded their only goal of the weekend late in the third period with a power play goal by senior defender Susanne Fellner. That ﬁnal stanza turned out to be a testy one as six penalties were assessed. Although the scoring wasn’t as distributed Sunday, it was another strong game as a team for Wisconsin. En route to the 4-0 victory, Wisconsin dominated all aspects of the game. On the offensive end the Badgers controlled the puck for most

of the game, outshooting North Dakota 46-11. On the defensive end the Badgers surrendered few scoring opportunities and Vetter only needed 11 saves to record her fifth shutout of the season and 30th of her career. For the second straight day, Ammerman was the first Badger on the board with a goal late in the first period. It was the 14th goal of the season for the freshman from River Vale, N. J., and gave her the second highest goal total in the nation. The rest of the game belonged to Knight whose first goal came

on a power play the second period. Knight completed her second hat trick of the season and added two more goals within two minutes of each other early in the third period. The weekend sweep of North Dakota pushed the team’s unbeaten record to 12-0-2 and 8-0-2 in WCHA conference play. Next up for the Badgers is a two game set against New Hampshire November 21-22 at Fort Myers Skatium in Fort Myers, Fla. —uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.

nent that long, they sure as heck ought to hold them off at least one more time if they think they are worthy of snagging the win. The beauty of the NFL suddendeath policy is that if two teams are really deadlocked after 15 minutes of on-the-edge play, only then is it really indeterminable who played the better game, and therefore both teams should be credited with a tie. After all, ties should not be done away with completely if in fact neither team can come out as the clear winner in the end. The sudden-death overtime was certainly a procedure the NFL needed to adopt. It sets the bar for making the playoffs much higher and deﬁnes true winners in a highstakes scenario. And, let’s be honest, when sudden-death overtime does not settle the score between two teams, it makes for a “once in a blue moon” kind of conversation among football enthusiasts the following week. Hope the NFL adopts the crazy overtime rules the NCAA employs? Send your thoughts to Andy at avansistine@wisc.edu.

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Calls Mustang’s top wide receiver ‘phenomenal’ Nico Savidge THE DAILY CARDINAL

Wisconsin football head coach Bret Bielema said Monday he was impressed by his team’s second-half play against Minnesota, but added Wisconsin will not underestimate its next opponent, Cal Poly. “There were some good examples of guys thinking and reacting the right way to get us a ‘W,’” Bielema said of the win, which secured Paul Bunyan’s Axe for another year. “[Cal Poly tries] to keep everything fast-paced and [go] a million different directions at any given time.” Bret Bielema head coach UW fottball

He pointed out the team’s response at halftime, when the Badgers trailed 21-7, and complimented their effort. “To have the resiliency that they did, to come out the way they did and ultimately win the game says a lot about who they

are,” he said. Although the Badgers’ Big Ten conference schedule is complete, Bielema said they are expecting a tough matchup against the Cal Poly Mustangs, currently ranked No. 3 in the Football Championship Subdivision, whom he called “a tremendous football team.” Bielema believes the Mustangs’ unique play will be hard to contain. “Their offense is not similar to anything we’ve seen,” he said. “It’s the speed they attack you with. They try to keep everything fastpaced and [go] a million different directions at any given time.” The Cal Poly style is so foreign that Bielema admitted he “YouTubed them, because I didn’t know a lot about their offense.” Senior wide receiver Ramses Barden helps lead the Mustang offense and could go in the ﬁrst round in the NFL draft. “He is thick, he is aggressive, he goes up and gets the football ... [he is] a phenomenal football player,” Bielema said of Barden. Bielema read a quote from Barden, who said earlier in the week that the Wisconsin-Cal Poly matchup was “our Appalachian State,” referring to the FCS team’s 2007 upset of Michigan. The Badgers will be especially eager to avoid such an upset Saturday, as it is the ﬁnal college home game for Wisconsin’s seniors. Nine starters, including defensive linemen Mike Newkirk and

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Senior linebacker Jonathan Casillas (2) will play his ﬁnal game in cardinal and white Saturday after starting for the last three seasons. Matt Shaughnessy and linebackers DeAndre Levy and Jonathan Casillas, will play for the last time in Camp Randall Stadium. Bielema said it will be hard to see them go. “You miss all seniors,” he said. “All these guys have stories within stories, personally with me and then also obviously the things

you’ve seen out there on gameday. So they’ll be missed.” Saturday’s win against Minnesota means Wisconsin’s seniors will most likely have at least one more game to play at the college level, as the Badgers are now eligible for a postseason bowl game. bielema page 7

Women’s basketball suffers ﬁrst loss in Brookings Turnovers and hot Jackrabbit shooting doom Badgers By Alex Lugo THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin women’s basketball team faced a frustrating struggle Monday against South Dakota State, falling 64-44 in its season opener. “That’s a really good team,” UW coach Lisa Stone said of SDSU. “It’s a team we’re going to face in a similar talent level within

our league.” After defeating Missouri last week, the Jackrabbits are now 2-0 while the Badgers begin the season 0-1. The Badgers started off the game with an 8-0 lead as junior guard Rae Lin D’Alie hit a 2-pointer to open the ﬁrst half and sophomore forward Tara Steinbauer, who added seven points on the game, scored another three. Yet the Jackrabbits jump-started a 20-2 run over the next seven minutes as senior forward Stacie Oistad sunk two consecutive 3-pointers. Their lead grew to 31-15 with 6:12

left in the first half, but the Badgers answered back with a 9-2 run. SDSU then answered right back with a 9-2 run and went into the second half leading Wisconsin 42-26. South Dakota State outrebounded Wisconsin 18-9 in the first half. Both teams struggled offensively in the second half. Junior guard Teah Grant ended an offensive drought with a free throw as both teams combined for only 19 points in the first 10 minutes of the half. “We had a little trouble defending the three in the first half,”

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Freshman forward Anya Covington (left) scored eight points and corralled four rebounds in Monday’s loss. Sophomore point guard Alyssa Karel (right) hit only four of her 11 shots but led Wisconsin with 11 points.

Stone said. “From a defensive standpoint, we did a better job in the second half. I thought we showed a little more energy and we only got outscored 22-18 in the second half.” While SDSU slowed down in the second half and held Wisconsin to 18 points, they forced 14 turnovers in the half and 23 for the game. The Badgers shot 34 percent from the ﬂoor and struggled at the line, only shooting 33 percent. “Offensively, we had 23 turnovers and only five assists,” Stone said. “They really denied us hard when we tried to put it on the floor and take it to the basket instead of making that extra pass. We can’t have our perimeter players turning the ball over as many times as they did. We can’t get a post touch if we cough it up on the perimeter.” Sophomore guard Alyssa Karel added a game-high 11 points for the Badgers, while freshman forward Anya Covington came off the bench to tally eight points and four rebounds. Oistad and sophomore guard Macie Michelson led SDSU with 11 points each as Michelson went 4-of-4 from the ﬁeld. “We’ve got to make some better decisions, take higher percentage shots, try to get the ball inside more and be a little tougher,” Stone said. “This team here showed us what toughness is all about. Wisconsin faces Drake in the Badgers’ home opener Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Kohl Center. —uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.

n Sunday’s matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cincinnati Bengals, the NFL had its first tie game since 2002 and only its sixth in the past two decades. The frequency of tie games in the NFL is so minimal that Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb said after the game, “I’ve never been part of a tie. I never even knew it was in the rule book.” Although the novelty of such a phenomenon is fun for fans and analysts alike to discuss in the ensuing week, the rarity of a tie actually happening in the NFL is a blessing for the league, and a sign that sudden-death overtime works. Looking back to the final standings in the NFL in 1973, the year before sudden death overtime was instituted, there were a total of seven tie games in the league, leaving 10 of the 26 teams in the league with at least one tie on their record. All four teams in the AFC West had at least one during that season, as did three of the five teams in the NFC East. It may not sound like a big deal, but when winning percentages are tallied up right before playoff time, those ties lead to ambiguities in terms of who are the best teams in each conference and each division. For instance, the 1973 Oakland Raiders were AFC West division champions with a record of 9-4-1, but the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos were next in line with 7-5-2 records. If these teams would have taken their tie games into overtime, it is quite likely that a different division champion could have been crowned—especially since Oakland’s lone tie game was against Denver.

Perhaps the ﬁnest part of sudden-death overtime play is the balls-to-the-wall mentality that it instills in teams.

Furthermore, if the playoffs at that time would have included six teams from each conference instead of four, the final AFC wild-card spot would have been tied up between Denver, Kansas City and the Cleveland Browns. Each had a 7-5-2 record. However, Cleveland and Denver tied in their game during the regular season. A sudden-death overtime win for either team in that matchup would have meant locking up a playoff spot at the end of the year. Perhaps the finest part of suddendeath overtime play is the balls-to-thewall mentality that it instills in teams once “OT 15:00” shows on the clock. The favored team knows it is only one field goal away from an unexpected loss, while the underdog knows it has the opponent running scared, unable to put the game away in four quarters. Some argue that the first team to get the ball has an unfair advantage in winning the game. But let’s face it, if the first team to defend in suddendeath overtime has held off its oppoties page 7