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Optimistic Gore calls for more work on climate

Al Gore spoke in Madison Friday, saying that although he is pleased with recent action on climate change, further steps need to be taken.

By Sarah Zipperle The Daily Cardinal

Former Vice President Al Gore applauded recent measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and highlighted the need for stronger climate legislation at an event held in Madison Friday by the Society of Environmental Journalism.

Gore said he is “very optimistic” about current and upcoming changes being made to address climate issues.

He cited the passage of cap-andtrade legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year and admitted that although the bill is

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not as aggressive as he would like, he thinks the legislation will accomplish meaningful carbon emission reduction. He said compromises had to be made to pass the bill.

Gore said he thinks passing capand-trade legislation in the U.S. Senate is essential to battle climate change and said he is optimistic a bill will pass before world leaders meet at the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December.

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DA: Officer justified in shooting, killing suspect

By Caitlin Gath The Daily Cardinal

The Madison Police Department officer who shot and killed a suspected robber last week was justified in doing so, the chief of police and the district attorney said at a news conference Friday.

“There is no question that this was justified in using deadly force,” Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard said at the news conference. “This was a face-to-face presentation with a gun.”

On Wednesday around 4:45 p.m., Officer David Retlick, 33, responded to an armed robbery reported at Cousins Subs at 1124 S. Park St. Several minutes later, he located a suspect now identi-

fied as Gregory Bickford, 26, who was similar in appearance to the suspect’s description.

Retlick made voice contact with Bickford at the corner of Whittier and Lakeside Streets, but Bickford did not acknowledge him, which made Retlick suspicious, according to MPD Chief Noble Wray. Once Retlick got Bickford to stop, he then attempted to frisk him, but Bickford resisted and a physical struggle ensued, according to Wray.

Bickford then pointed a .22 caliber revolver at Retlick, Wray said.

According to Blanchard, the officer had to assume the worst, so Retlick then fired five shots at Bickford.

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Madison Police Department Chief Noble Wray spoke at a news conference Friday where he defended Officer David Retlick’s use of deadly force against a suspected armed robber.

UW-Madison Homecoming events celebrate Badger pride Runners in Sunday’s 24th Annual Homecoming 5K Run/Walk raised money for the Dean of Students Crisis Fund.

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By Lydia Statz The Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison Homecoming held several events around campus this weekend, kicking off a week filled with school spirit and events and culminating in the Homecoming game against Iowa Saturday.

Campus groups such as the Wisconsin Singers, the Madhatters and UW Hypnotiq greeted students passing through Library Mall Friday afternoon with free pizza and entertainment.

Bucky’s Cross-Campus Quest, an “Amazing Race”-style competition, took place Saturday. Teams raced through campus showing off their knowledge of Badger culture, completing physical tasks, answering trivia

questions and taking pictures.

The 24th Annual Homecoming 5K Run/Walk rounded out the weekend’s events on Sunday.

Homecoming encourages alumni to return to campus and gives community members the chance to learn more about UW-Madison and its students.

Whitney Bauer, UW Homecoming Committee co-chair, said this week is about celebrating what it means to be a Badger.

“A lot of students have passed through UW-Madison, and they’ve done some really great things, and the students that are here now have the opportunity to do so many great things,” she said. “It’s a good way homecoming 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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alking out of my apartment, I’m instantly hit with whirls of leaves, the crisp scent of the air and a cool breeze teeming with flu particles: yep, it’s Fall.

The new season, with its orange, red and brown hues, signals a number of changes: -The Fall of leaves from the trees -Falling on your butt as you trudge through the rain to class -Falling in love with apple-picking, the color orange and the cute person you’ve been sitting next to for a month in lecture Oh, what joy this season brings.

But as we move from October to December and the leaves change, so do we. Fall brings about changes in ourselves that are even greater than the ones we faced in our puberty days—just when you thought it wasn’t possible.

Here are the three symptoms of Fall: Change #1: We want the crap scared out of us Once that first leaf falls, we morph into thrill-seeking zombies.

The occasional scare induced by a pop quiz or the realization you’ve had four drinks too many is no longer enough. Now, we seek greater thrills in the form of movies and television.

A trip to the video store becomes a full-on manhunt for the goriest, can’t-catch-my-breath, supernatural thriller in the store; so gory that it’s practically dripping with blood as you take it off the shelf.

A movie with a title such as, “Chopped Up and Delicious,” “I Want to Saw Off Your Neck and Cook-It-For-Dinner” or “Everyone Dies Very Slowly and Morbidly” suddenly sounds like the perfect accompaniment to an evening at home during Fall.

Holding the TV remote, we surf for even greater scares. News watching takes a backseat as we consume some of the eeriest (and frighteningly awful) horror films of the century on cable television. Suddenly, “Gingerdead Man,” “A Night to Dismember” and “Final Destination 3” are devoured faster than a bowl of Reese’s and Snickers.

But our appetite for fear doesn’t just start and end at our TV. We even take this perverse desire to the streets; knocking on doorbells, we show up at the front door of strangers’ homes, in clothing that resembles monsters, aliens

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and Paris Hilton and actually ask for candy. No—we don’t just ask for it; we expect it! And guess what? These strangers hand the saccharine, chewy, addictive goodness right over to us. Oh, what a beautiful world.

Change #2: We want to hurl ourselves out the window As the leaves fall and the temperature drops, so may our grades.

Midterm exams appear and multiply with the coming weeks, like little colonies of bacteria. They attack our social lives, deplete our general level of happiness and leave us feeling like death. Even sleep is not a possible antidote.

Papers are slammed on us right before Halloween weekend and Thanksgiving break because, well, we just can’t get to the finish line without huffing, puffing and nearly passing out. You’ve got to earn your turkey, baby!

Then, on top of it all, there’s the rain—drenching, chills-youto-the-bone rain that starts right when you wake up for class and ends right when you get home, appropriately. All you want to do is curl up on your couch and watch “Hocus Pocus” with one hand in the candy bowl. But no—college calls and just keeps on hollering.

Change #3: We become five-yearolds again Give us a pile of leaves, and we will jump, swim and play in them.

Heck, we’ll even sleep in them!

With the arrival of Fall, our attention turns to nature and the simpler things in life, things we lose touch with amid the flurry of exams and papers. Nostalgia surges through us as we remember the homemade pies baked around Thanksgiving, the trips to the apple orchards we went to as kids and the carving of pumpkins into spooky designs.

Now in college, we recreate these moments; gathering our friends, we pick five times as many apples as we did at five years old and bake pies in our cramped dorm kitchens and apartments.

We even buy tiny pumpkins and do our best to carve them without our parents help.

We make time to watch “Halloweentown” on the Disney channel at six o’clock and ransack the aisles of Walgreens for copious amounts of orange and green wrapped candy. A hot beverage and some candy corn are as essential as a pencil during our nights in the library—and they’ve never been sweeter.

Want to watch a scary movie and eat endless amounts of pie and candy? Yes? I’m so there! E-mail me at gleicher@wisc.edu.

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el mes hispano invita a valorar la cultura

By Andrea Parins y José Bracho THE DAILY CARDINAL

Una vez llegado al fin del mes del patrimonio hispano, debemos reflexionar sobre los valores de la comunidad hispana como la familia, la fe y una gran ética de trabajo. Todos estos valores han sido integrados en nuestro país poco a poco. Para honrar la cultura y las tradiciones hispanas en los Estados Unidos, celebramos, durante del 15 de Septiembre al 15 de Octubre, el aniversario de la independencia de varios países centroamericanos. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua, junto con México y Chile, conmemoran el día 16 y el 18 de Septiembre, respectivamente.

La historia de los hispanos en Estados Unidos es larga e importante y continúa influyendo tremendamente a éste país hoy en día.

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En 1968 el Congreso autorizó al presidente Lyndon B. Johnson que proclamara siete días en el mes de septiembre como la Semana Nacional del patrimonio Hispano. En 1988, ésta conmemoración se alargó hasta un mes.

La historia de los hispanos en Estados Unidos es larga e importante y continúa influyendo tremendamente a éste país hoy en día. Por ejemplo, si repasamos algunos puntos del censo de los años 2007 y 2008, veremos una gran atribución por parte de la comunidad hispana a Estados Unidos.

El mayor avance de la comunidad hispana se demuestra en los números de habitantes en Estados Unidos. En el 2008 se estimó que la presencia de hispanos en Estados Unidos era de 46.9 millones, siendo México quien representa la mayoría con 110 millones de personas. Sin embargo, los números no paran de crecer. Se espera que para el año 2050 la presencia hispana en el país aumente hasta la cifra de 132.8 millones de personas. El 67 por ciento de este número será de descendientes mexicanos. Un crecimiento notable de la población hispana en los Estados Unidos se produjo en el periodo del año 2007 al 2008 con un aumento del 3.2 por ciento, siendo el crecimiento más significativo de un grupo minoritario dentro de los Estados Unidos.

Examinando los estados individualmente, la mitad de la población en dieciséis estados norteamericanos es de origen hispano. En California por ejemplo, el 48 por ciento o 13.7 millones de sus residentes son latinos. De éstos, 4.7 millones de latinos viven en Los Ángeles.

Pero la cosa no acaba ahí, los residentes de origen hispano contribuyen a la economía positivamente. 1.6 millones de negocios en los Estados Unidos pertenecen a gente de origen hispano, con un ingreso total de $222 mil millones de dólares. La familia hispana también puede servir de ejemplo en valores familiares.

De diez millones y medio de familias hispanas viven en Estados Unidos, un 70 por ciento de los niños que las integran conviven con sus dos padres. Dentro de éstas familias, 35 millones de hispanos hablan español en su hogar, promoviendo el bilingüismo en éste país.

La comunidad latina en Madison,

como muchas otras comunidades a lo largo de Estados Unidos, está creciendo.

Durante éste mes del patrimonio hispano se han llevado acabo en Madison varios eventos, que incluyen la participación de Barnes & Noble en planear actividades que motivan la lectura de cuentos bilingües. También el museo de Veteranos de Wisconsin celebró un evento que contó con la película “Los Borinqueños” así como una discusión con los veteranos hispanos llamado Servicios a América.

Es muy importante darle a los hispanos un sentido de pertenencia y orgullo.

Los Estados Unidos es un país compuesto por inmigrantes de una gran cantidad de países en el mundo; ingleses, irlandeses, alemanes, italianos, asiáticos, hispanos y muchos más. La cultura americana es la suma de la cultura de todos éstos orígenes. Dicho esto, es muy importante darle a los hispanos un sentido de pertenencia y orgullo. Es también importante darle a los otros grupos inmigrantes la posibilidad de recordar su origen y de celebrar aquellos eventos que los unen y que los hacen sentir llenos de orgullo, como la celebración de la independencia de sus países de origen.

Si estas interesado en escribir en la sección en español de The Daily Cardinal, mándanos un e-mail a edit@dailycardinal.com.

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Officials reassure residents after shooting of suspect

By Caitlin Gath The Daily Cardinal

Only days after a deadly shooting in their community, residents of the Bay Creek neighborhood came together to try to understand how the events unfolded.

“South Madison has a lot of wonderful things ... It’s not some dangerous, crime-filled area,” Ald. Julia Kerr, District 13, said at a neighborhood meeting she hosted Sunday night on East Lakeside Street.

Yet several attendees were left feeling vulnerable after Officer David Retlick of the Madison Police Department shot and killed Gregory Bickford last week after Bickford allegedly robbed Cousins Subs at 1124 S. Park St.

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Wray stressed Retlick’s justification in using deadly force, saying the incident occurred in a residential neighborhood and there was an immediate threat.

Officers later recovered a large amount of cash and a handwritten note from the robbery on Bickford,

MPD Lt. Joe Balles said the string of strong-armed robberies in recent weeks has primarily been motivated by heroin abuse.

“Heroin is at an all-time high in terms of presence in our community … which has been leading to robberies and burglaries,” he said. “They want money and then want to get away from the area as fast as possible.”

However, he also said he was 100 percent confident Bickford did not plan on being at the corner of Lakeside and Whittier Streets after allegedly robbing Cousins.

“There is no heroin house in the area he was looking to get to,” he said. “It was just happenstance.”

Officer Dave Dexheimer told residents that although

some of the robberies have been limited to a certain area, it does not make the Bay Creek area any less safe.

“Cousins just happened to be close to where you live,” he said.

Kerr echoed this statement by stressing that her neighborhood is still safe and crime is generally down.

Joel Plant, executive assistant to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, said Madison is exceptionally safe, more so than it was 10 years ago.

He also said the bad economy is not generating more crime and that crime rates are down.

Still, the majority of residents said some type of neighborhood watch program would benefit the area.

according to Wray.

According to Joel DeSpain, MPD public information officer, Bickford may have been involved in several of the downtown robberies in recent weeks.

DeSpain also said Bickford had a criminal history, but that it included no serious crimes.

Retlick is currently on administrative leave and has the option to

return to work whenever he feels ready, Wray said.

Wray also emphasized Retlick’s service to his community.

“He is a brave man, make no mistake about it,” he said. “To keep his cool to a point where he is able to protect himself and the community ... he did what he was supposed to. I feel strongly about that.”

Students join D.C. march for LGBT rights

By Brandice Altfillisch The Daily Cardinal

Over 150 UW-Madison students and community members traveled to Washington, D.C., this weekend to attend the National Equality March for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.

Buses left Memorial Union Saturday after a rally in Library Mall.

According to UW-Madison student Paul Pryse, the rally was meant to “kick things off and get people excited” for the event.

The march began at noon Sunday as people from all over the country gathered in downtown Washington, D.C., to begin the walk to the Capitol lawn. “[The March included] people from all walks of life,” Pryse said.

“But there was a large student con-

tingent, and in fact the student contingent led the march as a whole. It kind of represents how much work young people did on this march.”

Emily Wickenhauser, another UW-Madison student, said the goal of the march was much more than just supporting the LGBT movement. “[The goal] was uniting all the grassroots organizations across the U.S. and kind of just letting it be known that normal, everyday people feel this strongly about an issue and we’re going to come back and keep fighting for it.”

Pryse also said he hopes the march will revolutionize the LGBT movement.

“The second goal is to say to the LGBT community ... that we need a new strategy,” he said. “We need to … really demand the only thing [the government] can guarantee

Baldwin confident about public option U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who represents the Madison area, discussed health care and LGBT issues with The Daily Cardinal staff Friday.

Baldwin said she was “almost certain” the House of Representatives will pass a healthcare bill containBALDWIN ing a public insurance option to compete with private insurers.

Although she said she was confident a final bill would be voted on in the next two to three weeks, she said there is entrenched opposition to reform from groups benefiting from the current system.

“We’ve been trying to do this for 70 years. The odds are against us,” Baldwin said.

She said some conservative Democrats from more rural districts have weakened the bill that passed out

of the House Energy and Commerce Committee she sits on. However, she said those members were likely only representing the views of their districts, though they had considerable leverage on the committee.

Baldwin said she encountered a wide range of sentiments at recent town hall meetings, with some residents distrustful of government intervention in the health-care system.

“Health care is deeply personal.

I’m not at all offended if people are passionate about it,” she said.

Baldwin, an openly gay lawmaker, said she heard some backlash against President Barack Obama from some residents concerned over the pace of LGBT rights at a national level.

She said supporters of LGBT rights need to have some patience with the slow process of government at the federal level, but also said Obama has a duty to use his “bully pulpit” to draw focus on such issues.

—Charles Brace and The Daily Cardinal staff contributed to this report.

for LGBT rights, which is federal equality under the law.”

After the march, LGBT activists such as Cleve Jones, Lady Gaga and Perez Hilton spoke on the Capitol lawn.

Several religious groups from around the country also spoke in favor of equal rights.

UW-Madison student Mara Lazer said she was encouraged by the religious groups’ support.

“They were really nice to hear, just because the whole religious problem is people who have religious conflicts with it,” she said.

This year’s march was the largest national LGBT civil rights march since 1993.

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gore from page 1 the U.S. Senate than is presently publicly visible,” he said.

According to Gore, stimulus money will help fund the construction of a “super grid” capable of producing large amounts of energy from solar, wind and geothermal sources. This grid will respond to much higher levels of demand and encourage efficiency and conservation, he said.

Gore announced that as of Jan. 1, 2010, all major carbon dioxide emitters will be required to publicly report their carbon emissions. Once media outlets produce lists of major carbon emitters, Gore said he thinks there will be a huge effort to reduce emissions and avoid public criticism.

He said he believes climate change cannot be fully resolved until dependence on carbonbased fuels is reduced.

“We are still borrowing money from China to buy oil from the

homecoming from page 1 to celebrate all that the university has to offer and sort of get back together with everyone.”

Many of the events also raise money for the Dean of Students Crisis Loan Fund, which helps to assistant UW-Madison students in financial emergencies.

“This is your chance to celebrate being a Badger now, because you might be a student here for four or five years, but you’ll always be an alumni. You’ll always be a Badger no matter what,” Bauer said.

Homecoming events will continue throughout this week, leading up to Saturday’s football game.

The McClain Athletic Center will be open to all students for the Badger Games Monday night, with events including tug-of-war and the Dizzy Izzy race.

The Air Band Competition will take place Tuesday at Memorial Union, where teams of students will showcase their lip-syncing talents as they perform their favorite songs without any of their own musical instruments or vocals.

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Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet, and that has to change,” he said.

Many countries are starting to see a connection between climate change and other global issues, he said.

“There has been a very powerful recognition in many countries that there is a linkage in the climate crisis, economic crisis and security crisis that is in part derivative of the world’s ridiculous overdependence on carbon-based fuels and in particular overdependence on oil,” he said.

Gore said he believes climate change is so complex that it will ultimately require all nations to cooperate to make major decisions. He said the Copenhagen Climate Summit is every nation’s chance to combat climate change on a global scale.

Gore commended recent progress on climate issues and said many difficult decisions will have to be made to help future generation succeed. He said despite our current challenges with nonrenewable resources, “political will is a renewable resource” that can bring progress. just going and watching is really entertaining,” Bauer said.

New to this year’s lineup is the A.V. Club’s Jarringly Obscure Trivia contest Wednesday, presented by The Onion.

The Spirit Parade takes place Thursday night, with the UW Marching Band, the dance team, cheerleaders and Bucky invading residence hall dining areas. The parade ends at Library Mall, where the Yell Like Hell competition will follow.

Events culminate Friday night with the Homecoming Parade running down Gilman and State Streets, ending at Memorial Union for a pep rally.

All of this year’s events are available without preregistration to encourage as many students as possible to get involved.

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Creativity required to solve issues of diversity QI GU opinion columnist

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he word “diversity” has always drawn crowds and sparked discussions.

Last Thursday, the UW community held a conference on campus diversity. Hundreds of people shared their opinions on the idea of “Inclusive Excellence.”

The heated exchange lasted all day long, but most of the talks were limited to racial and ethnic diversity. Even though this is the centerpiece of the whole diversity ideal, such a narrow interpretation might compromise UW’s efforts to diversify itself.

Besides increasing the sheer number of minority students, Plan 2008 offered no concrete solutions to the issue.

Granted, the university has recently made some progress in increasing diversity. UW-Madison now offers over 80 modern and ancient languages. The department of Scandinavian Studies, for example, offers four languages alone. This is good evidence of cultural diversity on campus.

Also, after years of endeavoring, UW finally gained the authority to provide domestic partner benefits to faculty and staff. Yet despite these improvements, UW’s overall climate of diversity hasn’t improved much. Even on the “focal point” of race and ethnicity, the current ratio of minority students remains almost the same as it was four years ago.

A key reason for the status quo is Plan 2008. Ten years ago, UW administrators passed this ambitious blueprint to boost diversity on campus. But besides increasing the sheer number of minority

students, Plan 2008 offered no concrete solutions to the issue.

A decade later we are still doing the simple calculation made by Plan 2008: diversity equals more students of color. This simplification is understandable, especially when “statistical diversity” has become more popular as an indicator of a college’s quality.

Comfortable in her own community, my Hispanic friend wouldn’t go the extra mile to apply for this school if she felt it was not diverse enough.

Now we all know Plan 2008, in the end, is just a plan.

Materializing diversity needs diverse answers. More minorities on campus is certainly a good start, but we can also offer more varied academic program choices so everyone could benefit from “diversity.”

The School of Journalism, for example, doesn’t allow its students to double major in programs outside of the College of Letters and Science. So what if a prospective journalist wants to expand his horizon by going for a finance major? While L&S offers a wide array of courses, finance is the speciality of the Business School.

Even if you try to make do with economics classes, the huge size of L&S limits the personal attention you normally enjoy in a small professional school. If schools and departments could work together to offer students more choices, that would be another significant stride toward diversity.

In terms of student profile, UW has several options besides simply beefing up the presence of minorities. Recent legislation plays a key role in diversifying the campus by allowing undocumented immigrants to pay instate tuition so long as they meet certain requirements. This is a blessing for young students whose dreams could be easily crushed by harsh realities. Although each year the number of these students is not more than 1,000, their educational experiences could largely reflect how dedicated the UW is to our diversity enterprise.

Another approach is boosting the geographical diversity of UW’s student body. Currently, 60 percent of students at UW-Madison are from Wisconsin, with another 10 percent coming from Minnesota. Students from different states and even different countries bring diverse perspectives to the campus. Increasing the interaction between residents and nonresidents has proven mutually beneficial. But tuition is a big hurdle, especially for out-of-state students. Paying three times the in-state tuition, many of them find private institutions more attractive.

Materializing diversity needs diverse answers.

Our Big Ten counterpart, the University of Minnesota, used to have a similar tuition gap. In the 2007-2008 academic year, in-state tuition at Minnesota was about $4,000 per semester, while for nonresidents it was $9,800. The school took a dramatic turn a year later. In 2008, Minnesota announced that for every nonresident entering in fall 2008 or later, the tuition was reduced to $6,250 a semester. With a 40 percent discount, Minnesota is now truly bent on the diversity cause. Even if copying Minnesota looks way out of reality, the UW could at least get some inspiration from the Golden Gophers, such as offering more incentives to talented outof-state students and decreasing the quota for in-state students.

Diversity means more choices for community members and more ease to make choices for those outside of the community.

UW’s efforts today are certainly encouraging. But before it gets more diverse, the UW needs to think inclusively first.

Qi Gu is a junior majoring in journalism. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

he Alcohol License Review Committee is one of the most important bodies in Madison’s government, tasked with coordinating and implementing all alcohol related policies in the city.

From approving the liquor licenses of new bars to coordinating with police, the ALRC has a lasting effect on how city residents use alcohol. And when a city loves its alcohol as much as Madison, there will always be a wealth of issues to deal with. Yet until recently the voices of students have been comparatively absent on the committee, with a non-voting student advisory position added only last semester.

Ald. Bryon Eagon, District 8, a UW-Madison student, has proposed for a full voting position to be added to the committee. We feel this is a reasonable step toward giving a voice to student residents who are directly affected by city alcohol policies. The initial proposal Eagon brought to the Common Council Organizational Committee was rejected, but we believe that the subsequent changes to the proposal have not weakened it.

Any enrolled student at UWMadison, Edgewood College or the Madison Area Technical College would be eligible for the seat if they are 18 years old, bypassing the criticism of the earlier proposal that it was only concerned with UW-Madison. Some opponents are concerned that 18-year-old students should not vote on policies pertaining to drinking, but this is unfounded as residents can run for Common Council seats when they are 18 and thus may already be able to influence alcohol policy.

Underage students might also bring a different or more fresh perspective than 21-year-old students.

Students could be nominated by their student government to apply for the seat or they could apply directly to the Mayor’s office, who would then make a candidate nomination for approval by the full Common Council.

The seat would also have a two year term as opposed to the three years for other voting seats on the ALRC, a compromise that takes into account the reality of students graduating or studying abroad. It also allows for the possibility that a student would be able to start and finish their term during a typical four-year college career.

We feel this is a reasonable step toward giving a voice to student residents who are directly affected by city alcohol policies.

When the proposed Badger Hall of Fame Grill failed to convince the ALRC of its viability in University Square, concerns for students were frequently cited. But it is far from clear if a student member would have rejected the proposal or the benefits it might have brought to Madison’s economy, including a place for underage students to mingle with upperclassmen. The ALRC could benefit from having a member that deals with this issue on a regular basis, as opposed to spending Friday nights watching “Dora the Explorer” with the kids. It is important to acknowledge that students are intelligent and mature enough to advocate for themselves.

We urge both the ALRC and the full Common Council to support the student voting seat, with the Organizational Committee already giving their approval. A student perspective would help the ALRC craft policies that reflect student safety concerns and the realities of UW-Madison student life, being neither a rubber stamp nor an impediment to practical solutions for a thriving downtown.

Thousands of students use alcohol legally and responsibly in Madison every week, it is long past time for their views to be fully heard.

Numbers Don’t Lie: The Student Voice on Alcohol 223,389 Madison’s population (2006 Census Bureau estimate)

44,580 Combined enrollment of UW-Madison and Edgewood

7 Number of voting members on the Alcohol License Review Committee, Madison’s main governing body for liquor issues (soon to be increased to nine)

0 Current number of student voting members on ALRC

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Worthless counseling

By Mark Riechers THE DAILY CARDINAL

PHOTO COURTESY GREEN OWL

The Very Best conquered the globe and turned in a delightfully impressive debut effort.

Very Best in all worlds

By Kyle Sparks THE DAILY CARDINAL

A shamelessly no-holds-barred grandiosity, Warm Heart of Africa isn’t the kind of debut we expect these days. The Very Best make no claims toward authenticity, but their keen devotion to sincerity makes for a refreshingly pure album dutifully laying the groundwork for impressively realized innovation.

Album opener “Yalira” isn’t a call to arms so much as it is a call to life. It doesn’t introduce a new morning; it creates one, grabbing the sun by its arm and dragging it over our heads. The rest of Warm Heart does its best to make you feel at home, smothering you with nothing but pure and unbridled joy as if the Very Best have something to prove as hospitable hosts.

In fact, the Very Best do embody some amount of escape, if not outright holiday. There are fragments of western influence scattered throughout, but Warm Heart is especially rich in east-ofthe-Atlantic appeal. It’s an optimistic view of Africa that would be unsettlingly Lion King-esque if it wasn’t so overpoweringly joyous. Enough has been said about Africa’s political dissolutions and indeterminate standards of living; Warm Heart is about the bright souls that get washed out in the murky perceptions.

The most fascinating track on the album is also the riskiest, a zerosum gamble employing the singer of one of the most divisive bands of the decade (Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig) to fill the gaps on one of the year’s most universally enjoyable records. But even the cynics who

contend that Vampire Weekend are nothing but pretentious hacks whose summery dispositions are all too contrived and their plagiarized afropop bordered on slander can’t help but succumb to the gleefully assured Ezra backed by the Very Best.

It’ll probably take until next summer for an eco-friendly car commercial to exhaust “Warm Heart of Africa,” but Vampire Weekend’s notoriety means it probably won’t take a Seth Rogen film to make “Warm Heart of Africa” the most overplayed party song of the winter. But, like “Paper Planes” before it, the real heartbreak isn’t its enervating overexposure but that the song’s unforgiving hooks were ever so innocent and righteously catchy to begin with.

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Warm Heart of Africa The Very Best There’s enough on Warm Heart to go around, though. On the equally glowing “Kamphopo” they prove they don’t need Ezra Koenig, they’re just not the kind of band to exclude anyone. Likewise, the appearance of M.I.A. on “Rain Dance” doesn’t give the impression that she brings anything to the song they couldn’t have provided themselves, but the sense of comraderie is the same thing breaking down barriers and making Warm Heart such a success.

For an album so comfortable, there’s an amazing amount of experimentation. The Very Best know very well performing a song in a different key isn’t innovation, and as warm and homely as it sounds, Warm Heart of Africa is incredibly imaginative, running away from comfort zones to foster greener pastures in assimilating genres. Warm Heart’s true standout, the soothingly thunderous “Julia,” tags a piercing dub-step romp underneath Esau Mwamwaya’s yearning cries.

“Ntende Uli” takes a more reserved approach to grime, tempering both Mwamwaya’s effervescent vocals and the quivering bass-line to induce a more expansive depth.

In “White Men Can’t Jump,” Wesley Snipes ridiculed Woody Harrelson for not being able to hear Jimi Hendrix, and that he could only listen because he was deprived of a common ground on which to process the legend’s message. The beauty of the Very Best is that they operate in the exact opposite fashion. The majority of the lyrics are sung in foreign language, but their meaning is evident. If anything, the indecipherable words rid the songs of extraneous expressions, providing a clearer picture of the song’s meaning.

By the time “Zam’dziko” closes the album, the sun practically needs to be coaxed into sitting back down in the West. In 13 songs, the Very Best effectively synthesized the two life-bloods of the motherland, the sun’s omnipotent rays finally bonding with unwavering personalities.

The only thing conflating Warm Heart’s empowering energy is the sense that this is the most fruitful template for expansion for years.

A stein of Capital Brewery’s Oktoberfest brew, a bag of dark chocolate chips, chunks of sliced pineapple and ranch dressing are each a wonderful thing in their own right. But just being delicious doesn’t mean mixing them all together in one big bowl will make for the world’s greatest snack. In fact, the resulting sludge will probably be a hell of a lot worse than any of the original components on their own.

This is a pretty good summary of what’s going on in “Couples Retreat.” A comedy set on a sexy island packed to the gills with A-list funnymen and beautiful women must have sounded like a studio executive’s wet dream on paper, but the cast lacks the chemistry to make the film escape a sludgy, brown mess of dull sight gags and sloppy screenwriting.

It might not be so bad if any of the couples in the massive cast had ANY chemistry at all.

Inches from divorce, Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell) propose to their friends that the four couples head on a vacation to Eden, an all-inclusive island resort with the best couples therapy program in the world. Jason promises that the therapy is optional, leaving the other couples free to enjoy the island at the reduced group rate they can all share. Reluctantly (and based on their reactions, inexplicably), the group agrees, and they all head off for some fun in the sun. When they arrive, they find out the entire program is mandatory, forcing each couple to face their own unique problems head on.

The exposition of the film is overly elaborate and forced for the simple premise, filled with excessive explanation of

the characters and their lives.

And yet, it remains without nuance—giving Ronnie (Malin Akerman, “Watchmen”) and Dave (Vince Vaughn) badges that say “I’m a bored soccer mom” and “I’m a workaholic everyman” on their foreheads would have been subtler.

The longwinded 45-minute exposition leaves about 62 minutes for shenanigans to ensue. The movie remains safe and predictable throughout, leaving the audience halfasleep waiting for the cast to happily get back together in the end.

It might not be so bad if any of the couples in the massive cast had ANY chemistry at all.

Kristin Davis and Jon Favreau may not have even been on set together; the few shots where they can be caught interacting with one another could have been more convincing with plastic stand-ins. At one point, I found myself forgetting whom Malin Akerman was supposed to be married to, aided only by Vince Vaughn’s matching outfit.

With a shaky premise and little natural chemistry to rely on, the entire back-half of the film relies on poorly written and executed sight gags.

Vaughn challenges the resort employees to a Guitar Hero contest, Shane (Faizon Love) is run ragged by his more nimble twenty-something mistress and Favreau hits on all the single ladies hidden away on the opposite side of the resort. It’s a series of semifunny vignettes that don’t work together to do anything but fill screen time.

The whole affair seems to be written on top of broad assumptions on what the audience wants to see—all the young people ridiculously sexy, all the main characters are confused by Twitter and all marriages can work themselves out with enough work.

If you have a mature understanding of the world, you’re likely to feel more insulted than appeased.

Grade: D

Viral Videos of the Week Search terms: WTF Collective (Jon Lajoie) Anyone with a passing knowledge of Internet video knows Jon Lajoie. The Canadian musical comedian has taken the web by storm in the last year, with hits like “Everyday Normal Guy,” “High as Fuck” and “Show me Your Genitals.” Lajoie is the rare YouTube talent who is simultaneously popular (his channel is one of the most subscribed) and funny. “WTF Collective” is no different, as he brings 12 rapping characters to life.

Search terms: BBC Funny Talking Animals 3 Those television executives across the pond are bloody clever. BBC understands the world’s love of cute, talking animals, and has developed an entire show of animals dubbed with British comedy.

“Walk on the Wild Side” isn’t shown in America yet, but the trailers for the show are readily available on BBC’s YouTube page, and are unbelievably awesome. From a bird playing hide and seek to a pair of monkeys at the dentist, the wildlife is wildly entertaining.

PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSAL PICTURES

“Couples Retreat” was a mess, but his hair was perfect; and reasons to see the film are about as plentiful as his Speedo.

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Like a sophomore

Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

Angel Hair Pasta

By Todd Stevens ststevens@wisc.edu

Sid and Phil

By Alex Lewein alex@sidandphil.com

© Puzzles by Pappocom

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.

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

The Graph Giraffe

Charlie and Boomer

By Yosef Lerner ilerner@wisc.edu

By Natasha Soglin soglin@wisc.edu

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com

MILES TO GO ACROSS 1 Joint for clothing 5 Spherical hammer part 9 Barbecue feature 14 The case of the seamstress?

15 Ancient alphabetic symbol 16 Retired general Powell 17 Bible book after the Gospels 18 Parts of joules 19 “Aida” premiere city 20 Set high goals 23 Is in possession of 24 Zebra’s cousin 25 Tropical tree with a thick trunk 29 Barbershop quartet voice 31 Damage the surface 34 Skiing mecca 35 Multinational agreement 36 “Bet ya can’t!” e.g.

37 “There is no ceiling!”

40 Frequently embroidered pronoun 41 “Ah, yes” 42 Apter for polar bears 43 Period in a historian’s book 44 Team with a bridge in its logo

45 Hard and cold 46 Capitol Hill figure, briefly 47 Dijon water 48 Positive mantra 57 Carved entree 58 Awkward brute 59 Hardly ___ (rarely) 60 Model airplane material 61 “An American Tail” critters 62 Grape’s place 63 Like many a negligee 64 Battle- minded deity 65 Swirl in the stream DOWN 1 Beaufort and Bering 2 Create a permanent impression 3 Manual alternative, briefly 4 Japanese soup 5 Built ahead of time 6 100-cent coins 7 Tech school grad 8 Swift production?

9 Get to, as the Web 10 Goes here, there and everywhere 11 Dish with some of this and some of that 12 “The Tilled Field” painter Joan 13 Untraceable author,

for short 21 “___ God!” 22 Possible cause of errors 25 One way to come clean 26 “My Name Is ___ Lev” 27 One of four in Wagner’s Ring Cycle 28 Mrs. H.S.T. 29 Kathy of “Misery” 30 Have pains 31 Mrs. D.D.E. 32 Ursula’s nemesis in “The Little Mermaid” 33 Attempt again 35 Subtle alert 36 Bones that are rolled 38 Knuckle under 39 Like Disneyland at night 44 Pestle’s partner 45 Browns 46 No longer de rigueur 47 Draw out 48 Spheres 49 Captain for 40 days and nights 50 Cloth ridge 51 ___ mater 52 Certain type of film 53 “ ___ Only Just Begun” 54 All fired up 55 Split with violence 56 Squirrel’s place

You Can Run

By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

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Scott Tolzien: 27-45, 2 INT. Ohio State defense: 6 sacks.

Wisconsin: allows three non-offensive touchdowns.

After playing the Buckeyes tough in a hard-fought first half, the Badgers let the game get away from them in the second. Scott Tolzien found little protection from his normally-stellar offensive line, and Wisconsin suffered its first loss of the year in Columbus.

Quote of the Game: “If you want to be considered a player in this league you’ve got to beat Ohio State, and it’s something that I’ll ... think about for another year.”

Bret Bielema

recap from page 8 Buckeye defenders, thus making Tolzien’s job that much harder.

“I think the big thing was not finishing,” Moffitt said. “We need to finish drives and put as many yards up on the board, but what it all comes down to is putting points up on the board too and I think that was the issue today.”

Tolzien’s struggles were also compounded by seven penalties setting the offense back 60 yards, often halting momentum and putting them out of scoring position more than once. The Badgers only penetrated the Ohio State 35-yard line five times the entire game and, with the exception of junior defensive back Chris Maragos’ 9-yard touchdown scamper on a fake field

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goal, came out with just six points on two Phillip Welch field goals.

The defense, led by senior defensive end O’Brien Schofield, succeeded in containing Buckeye quarterback Terrelle Pryor both on the ground and through the air. But because the unit was on the field for less than a third of the game, it’s hard to say it had a substantial impact on the outcome of the game.

The loss was Bielema’s third straight versus Ohio State, and he remains winless against the Buckeyes in his four-year tenure as head coach.

Bielema and the Badgers will need to have a short memory this week, as Kirk Ferentz and the undefeated no. 11 Iowa Hawkeyes visit Camp Randall Stadium for a homecoming showdown Saturday.

Loss brings fans back to Earth, but team’s response will be key BEN BREINER boom goes the breinamite

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efore Saturday, the mindset in Madison was, “Why can’t it happen?”

Why can’t this Badger team shock the Buckeyes and send the message that Wisconsin is a conference title contender? Why can’t they turn an expected rebuilding season into something special?

The team was 5-0, with one of best rushers in the nation, statistically great pass protection, an opportunistic defense and a quarterback who overcame his few mistakes with big plays.

But Saturday brought a hard dose of reality.

The Buckeye pass rush made its mark, harassing junior quarterback Scott Tolzien, and the mistakes mounted until they buried the Badgers.

The message at the end of the day was clear: this team is still young and not, at this point, ready to catapult its way into the elite tier of the Big Ten. Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said as much in his post game press conference, where it was clear how hard he was taking his third loss to Ohio State.

“If you want to be considered a player in this league you’ve got to beat Ohio State, and it’s something that I’ll definitely be able to personally think

about for another year,” Bielema said.

After this game, it becomes clear that this group of players is probably closer to the team most expected them to be at the start of the year, a 9-3 or 8-4 team rebounding from a very difficult 2008 season.

Winning in Columbus would have been like found money, a bit fluky and requiring almost everything to line up in the Badgers’ favor.

All week, Badger fans scoffed at the idea that Las Vegas installed the Buckeyes as 16-point favorites over a 5-0 team. At day’s end, OSU covered with an 18-point margin.

And don’t be fooled by the fact that so much of the Buckeye success came at the hands of Wisconsin miscues. Sure, Ohio State scored three times on interception and kickoff returns, but the pressure they brought was important in forcing both picks a slew of drive-halting penalties at inopportune times.

The OSU defense simply shut down the UW running game, which averaged 2.7 yards per carry, stifled the passing game with six sacks and two interceptions and closed the door whenever the Badgers made it near the red zone—the only UW touchdown came on a fake field goal.

The Badgers would have had a tough game had they avoided mistakes, and the Buckeyes did a great job forcing them.

There were some positives in the loss, such as the defense, the running backs getting more involved in

the passing game and freshman back Montee Ball, who had 40 yards on five touches. Those are things the team will have to learn from and build on for the rest of the year.

With the fall from potential conference contender back to merely a solid Big Ten team, the biggest challenge is what comes next.

Over the last two seasons, the Badgers have failed spectacularly in responding to the first loss of the year. In 2008, Wisconsin followed its first defeat with three more, plummeting from a No. 9 ranking into a nightmarish season.

The year before, UW fell by five to Illinois (after a 5-0 start) and the next weekend got crushed 38-7 by a Penn State team that finished fifth in the league.

Next weekend brings No.11 Iowa into Camp Randall Stadium, and that will be another litmus test for the Badgers. Can this team bounce back, or will they let the hangover of one loss lead to another?

Losing to a very talented Ohio State team in “The Horseshoe” is somewhat expected, but this year, Bielema’s creed had been, “It’s not what happens, it’s how you react to what happens.”

How the Badgers react next weekend will go a long way in defining what kind of group he is fielding this season.

How do you think the Badgers will respond to this loss? E-mail Ben at breiner@wisc.edu.

Men’s Soccer

Offense returns in double-overtime victory

By Parker Gabriel THE DAILY CARDINAL

Senior forward Scott Lorenz scored two goals for the Wisconsin men’s soccer team, including the game-winner in double overtime, helping the Badgers end a four game winless skid with a 2-1 victory over the Michigan State Spartans Sunday at the McClimon Soccer Complex.

After the Badgers allowed an early Spartan goal, Lorenz evened the game in the fifteenth minute. Ninety minutes later he ended it, as the Badgers improved to 3-5-2 overall this season.

With the loss, Michigan State fell to 6-4-1 overall and remained winless in the Big Ten at 0-3-0.

Wisconsin came out and set the tone with aggressive offense from the start. However the Spartans struck first when junior midfielder

Jeff Ricondo found the back of the net on an unassisted twentyyard strike in the sixth minute.

The early goal, combined with the Badgers recent scoring troubles, could have doomed the squad, but Lorenz and the offense hit back just eight minutes later.

Redshirt freshman defenseman Danny Ahlering, making his first start, initiated the play with a clear out from the behind the mid-line. The clear found senior midfielder Brandon Miller, who found Lorenz streaking down the middle of the field. Lorenz got behind the defense and slipped a shot by the keeper to the upper right corner, ending the Badgers’ scoreless streak at 313 minutes.

“Scoring a goal is always a good feeling,” Lorenz said after the game. “But there was a little special

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Scott Lorenz helped the Badgers break their long scoreless streak with a pair of goals against Michigan State, including a game-winner.

feeling with that, just getting the weight off everyone’s back, especially the defense’s back because it’s hard to keep shutouts.”

The defense performed admirably for the remainder of the contest, turning away a Michigan State offense that had a good number of scoring opportunities. One shot, a rocket from the top of the box, got by senior goalkeeper Alex Horwath, only to be stopped on the goal line by fellow senior defenseman Brian Bultman.

“We talk about that every week in practice,” said Horwath. “Be ready on the posts. It shows that willingness and that discipline to stay in your position in the right time, and it saved the game.”

Wisconsin appeared to tally the game winner with just under ten minutes remaining in regulation, but an offside call negated the goal.

After a scoreless first overtime period, Lorenz again made a run down the middle of the field, gathered in a pass and beat the keeper for the game winner.

“I got an unbelievable service from [junior midfielder] Johnny [Rzepka], and was fortunate enough to get a toe on it,” said Lorenz.

Wisconsin jumps right back into action on Wednesday night, with a road game against UW-Green Bay. With the season now more than half over, Lorenz noted the importance of finishing strong.

“The whole week we’ve been talking the start of the second half of the season,” he said. “Nothing in the past means anything and we’re trying to win every game we play in the second half.”

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Kelly Nash helped replace the scoring from injured freshman Brianna Decker, who is out six to eight weeks with an arm injury.

Women’s Hockey

Badgers split road series with Beavers

By Nico Savidge THE DAILY CARDINAL

For the second straight weekend, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team dropped the first game of a weekend series against a supposedly weaker WCHA opponent, only to come back in the second game and take a victory.

This weekend, Bemidji State—a team picked in WCHA preseason polls to finish last in the conference— topped the Badgers 1-0 behind a 35save shutout effort from sophomore goaltender Zuzana Tomcikova Friday night, before Wisconsin salvaged a split with a 3-1 victory Sunday.

In their opening two series, the defending national champions have faced two teams predicted to finish in the WCHA cellar, North Dakota and Bemidji, and come away with a

2-2 record.

Coming into Friday’s matchup with the Beavers, Wisconsin knew Tomcikova would be hard to beat, and the goaltender lived up to that expectation. A second-period goal from Bemidji’s Annie Bauerfield was all the offense the Beavers would need as they took the series opener.

Two days later, Wisconsin rebounded from their disappointing loss and earned a victory behind goals from forwards Kelly Nash, Mallory Deluce and Breann Frykas.

The Badgers’ goaltender competition continued at Bemidji, with freshman Becca Ruegsegger and senior Alannah McCready starting on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

—uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.

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Turnovers doom Badgers in first loss of season RECAP

Buckeyes swarm Tolzien, force big plays on defense

By Justin Dean THE DAILY CARDINAL

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John Clay struggled for 66 rushing yards on 20 carries against Ohio State Saturday as the overmatched Wisconsin offensive line could not open up space for him against the tough Ohio State defense.

Points off of turnovers have been a key cog in Wisconsin’s formula for success this season. But in Saturday’s 31-13 shellacking at the hands of Ohio State, it was their bane.

The Buckeyes returned two interceptions from junior quarterback Scott Tolzien for touchdowns and added a 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to dominate a Wisconsin team that only allowed 10 points on defense.

“Anytime you give Ohio State at Columbus 21 points without our defense being on the field, you don’t have a very good chance at winning the football game,” said head coach Bret Bielema.

Although Wisconsin outgained Ohio State 368-184 and had posses-

sion of the ball for nearly 43 minutes to Ohio State’s 17, poor blocking and costly penalties ultimately killed the Badgers’ chances of starting 6-0 for the first time since 2004.

Tolzien was sacked six times, four more times than he had been all season prior to Saturdays’ game, and struggled to find any consistency under the constant pressure of the tenacious Ohio State defense.

However, it was Tolzien’s two interceptions, both of which he threw with Buckeye defenders in his face, that put Wisconsin in a hole it was never able to climb out of.

After the game, the junior quarterback refused to make excuses for the first poor performance of his young collegiate career.

“The easy thing would be to say is the line could have been more solid, but what I can control is making better decisions, being better in the pocket and being better with the reads,” Tolzien said.

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