Monday, April 27, 2009 - The Daily Cardinal

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Monday, April 27, 2009

Record number participate in 28th Crazylegs By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

Despite the thunderstorm and heavy rains at the Crazylegs Classic Saturday, UW-Madison senior Evan Wettengal managed to stay relatively dry during the race. His secret? Wettengal ran wearing a banana costume for the second year in a row.

“It’s just funny how miserable it was, but everyone was really positive still the entire time.” Julie Chou sophomore UW-Madison

“It got a little soggy, but it wasn’t too bad,” Wettengal said of his get-up. “I just wanted to … be out with the people and run with some of my friends and hopefully make some people smile with that costume.”

The weather did not stop a record number of participants from running or walking through downtown Madison in the 28th annual Crazylegs. Nearly 19,000 people took part in the eight-kilometer race and two-mile walk from the Capitol Square to Camp Randall Stadium, with all proceeds going to Badger Athletics. First-time Crazylegs participants took home the top honors in both the men’s and women’s races. Tinley Park, Ill., resident Jeff Jonaitis won the men’s race with a time of 24 minutes, 17 seconds, and former UW-Madison cross country runner Katrina Rundhaug won the women’s title with a time of 27 minutes, 46 seconds. Competitive runners were not the only ones hitting the pavement on the Crazylegs route. UW-Madison sophomore Sarah Limper decided to run with a friend “just for fun” and said the rain actually helped in her first Crazylegs experience. “It was cool running with a

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Over 18,500 people ran down Observatory Drive near the Natatorium Saturday to participate in the 28th annual Crazylegs Classic despite continuous thunderstorms and rain. huge crowd of people the whole time, and the rain made it all interesting,” Limper said. “I think that made it better because it wasn’t 80 degrees and [I wasn’t] dying of heat.”

UW-Madison sophomore and Tri Delta sorority president Julie Chou said she started the race in a “torrential downpour,” but finishing on the 50-yard line of the football field at Camp Randall—

not the weather—defined her first Crazylegs. “It’s just funny how miserable it was, but everyone was really positive still the entire time,” Chou said.

STUDENT FINANCE

Flame on

UW graduates face bleak employment outlook, disappointed by job prospects By Steven Rosenbaum THE DAILY CARDINAL

Recent UW-Madison graduate Marissa Arnold works as a public relations associate for a small firm in New York City, and like many other recent grads looking for work in a tough economy, she feels underwhelmed and disappointed by employment prospects. Arnold said her job, which she found through a family friend and UW alumnus, is less glamorous than it seems. The position was initially created because the CEO sprained her wrist and needed someone to type for her.

Her other duties include booking travel arrangements and bringing

THE ECONOMY AND YOU mail to the post office. She feels she is overqualified for the job.

“Since I was initially hired as a personal assistant for our CEO, I definitely felt like I did not need a college degree to book travel, fetch coffee and enter expense reports,” Arnold said. “I could be doing a lot more challenging things.” Unfortunately, many of Arnold’s peers are stuck in the same situation: entry-level jobs with little hope of promotion. Many graduates have been forced to take jobs that they feel they are overqualified for, if they are lucky enough to receive job offers at all. grads page 3

U.S. Secretary of Education stresses college affordability, increase in funding for loans By Sarah Zipperle THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Juggler Marcus Monroe performs atop a unicycle at the annual Madhatters concert for the third year in a row Saturday night.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stressed the importance of President Obama’s proposal to make college more affordable for students by creating new loan opportunities Friday. Obama’s current plan includes eliminating the Federal Family

Education Loan Program, a program that Duncan argues provides wasteful subsidies to banks issuing student loans, and requires all federal student loans to be directly lent by the government. Hard-working students deserve the opportunity to receive higher education, Duncan said. One step toward achieving this goal is to

increase funding for loans by “tens of billions of dollars.” Duncan is concerned the state of the economy could cause many students to choose not to go to college. The new proposal will make sure families know this money will be guaranteed and loans page 3

“…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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