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Reported sexual assaults up During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this threepart Daily Cardinal series delves into the numbers, spotlights available resources and expands the conversation to reflect the real impact of sexual assault at UW-Madison.
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Since 2009, the number of sexual assaults reported by UW-Madison students nearly tripled. According to Assistant Dean of Students Tonya Schmidt, that increase is a good thing. “It means that the victims are getting help for themselves, and that’s the most important thing,” Schmidt said, but added the numbers do not necessarily tell the “real story.” As Schmidt explained, increased reports instances of sexual assault, dating violence do not mean more sexual and stalking on campus. “This isn’t assaults are occurring, but that EVOC works with campus more students are disclosing a about numbers, groups to dispel myths pretypically underreported crime. this is about vic- venting students from report“This isn’t about numbers, tims getting the ing sexual assault, including this is about victims getting the support they need the misconception that they support they need after a very after a very trau- could be charged for underage traumatic incident,” she said. and the tendency for matic incident” drinking Schmidt credits the victims to blame themselves, increased reporting to the Tonya Schmidt, rather than the perpetrator. assistant dean of efforts of campus groups When the initiative began students in 2009, students reported 45 working in coalition with Ending Violence On Campus, an initiative sexual assaults on campus. In 2010, that designed to combine local resources to end number more than doubled to 112. In the past
year, the Dean of Students Office said there have been 123 instances of sexual assault reported by UW-Madison students. Still, Val Kowis, chair of student group Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment, agreed the increased reports do not tell the whole story of sexual assault at UW-Madison. “When I look at it, I think about the fact that one in four women will experience sexual assault during her time at college,” Kowis said. “We’re not seeing nearly close to those numbers being reported.”
The state Supreme Court said Monday it will not review two court cases invalidating the state’s controversial voter ID law, likely meaning voters will not need to provide identification at polling places for the spring recall elections. Two Dane County Circuit Judges blocked portions of the voter ID law in March, ruling it violated the state constitution by disenfranchising some Wisconsin voters. The Department of Justice appealed the cases in two different appeals courts, both of which deferred the decision to the state Supreme Court saying both cases involved important issues and required a timely decision. The High Court’s decision
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Mayor opposes extending Occupy Madison permit By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal
Mayor Paul Soglin remained adamant that the Occupy Madison encampment on East Washington Avenue disperse on April 30 despite a proposal to extend the deadline. At a press conference Monday, Soglin said there is “no reason” not to follow through with plans to shut down the site, as previously agreed upon with Occupy Madison. The Occupy encampment is currently located on the 800 block of East Washington Avenue near the former Don Miller auto dealership. Ald. Lisa Subeck, District 1, said she and other city council members are proposing a resolution at Tuesday’s Common Council meeting to extend the Occupy encampment’s deadline to June 30. Sponsored by Subeck, Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, and Ald. Brian Solomon, District 10, the extra two months the resolution calls for would allow the city to develop long-term solutions for the encampment. The resolution will also form a committee with Madison-area
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Occupy Madison members voiced their displeasure after Mayor Paul Soglin said he is against letting the encampment stay on East Washington Avenue past April 30. Urban Ministries to develop options for the site beyond June 30 and an additional joint city-county committee addressing homelessness. Occupy member William Gruber said he is disappointed in the mayor’s decision and supports
the resolution. “[Soglin] doesn’t have all the answers,” Gruber said. “If he chooses to veto [the resolution], he and a number of people in power these days don’t care what people want.” While the meeting started as a
conversation on the Occupy site’s upcoming deadline, it quickly turned into a discussion on homelessness in Madison. Although the city council recently recognized the Occupy
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Court decision to impact student voters
Students will likely not need to show a valid form of identification when at a polling place or registering to vote absentee for the recall elections May 8 and June 5. University officials developed a new identification card that students could vote with, after the voter ID law passed last summer. It was one of many campus drives to educate students of the changes to voting after the law ruled current student IDs insufficient. Danny Umhoefer from the UW-Madison Student Vote Coalition, an organization dedicated to educating students about elections, said the decision makes the registration and education process easier for students. “But we are trying to tell students that they still might need them in the future,” Umhoefer said.
“…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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cannot adequately express my affinity for day drinking. Now let me stave off the accusations of alcoholism by articulating how one of the aspects that makes day drinking such a gem is its rarity. Okay, semi-rarity. (Drinking is not a problem until I graduate.) It may also have to do with the conditions under which day drinking takes place. Game days are the most obvious circumstance. Awash with school spirit and the camaraderie of my fellow Badgers, my naturally enthusiastic disposition is magnified tenfold with the encouraging words of friends to do JUST ONE MORE threestory beer bong. Then there is the merit of the unexpected day drunkeness. One time last summer, a new friend invited me to an afternoon pig roast (don’t ask, I don’t know), and I ended up deeply entrenched in a game of flip cup before 3 p.m. As the hazy lens of keg beer set in over my 20/20 vision, it soon became time for us to leave. Naturally, my next move was to go for some ice cream, one of man’s greatest culinary creations. Traipsing down State Street, mothers likely shielded their children from my uncontrollable spasms of seemingly random giggles as my two companions and I tried to maintain our poker faces for the sober surrounding world. After what I’m sure was a delicious encounter with some Banana Bread or Zanzibar Chocolate ice cream (my only regret of that day is that I don’t better remember the taste), my friends and I quickly realized, even after all that fun, we still had the whole day ahead of us. This is, by far, the best part about pre-nighttime drinking. Instead of counting down until everyone finally decides to go to the bar at 11 p.m. and staying out until an ungodly hour (the stupidest thing ever, in my opinion. Let’s start
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a revolution, y’all. Drinks at five, bed by 11, wake up feeling refreshed and ready to seize the day, “Newsies” style. It could be a thing.), you suddenly find yourself with daylight to burn. During this sudden free time you have an overwhelming amount of options: sober up and do something productive (HA), watch a movie, get food, continue drinking—the list goes on. You’re already drunk, so you essentially have a free pass not to worry about doing real work because you actually cannot. Oops. You can also make everyday tasks more fun, since businesses normally closed during party time are still in full operation. Like grocery shopping, for instance. This past Saturday when most of Madison went buck wild for the surprising wave of April sunshine, my roommate and I decided to join in on the celebration and head to The Vintage for a brew. Somehow we had both neglected to eat our usual regimen of snacks
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in the several hours prior, and one pint later, we most definitely had a slight buzz (yes we are lightweights, leave us alone). Not anticipating this level of intoxication at the still fairly early hour of 7 p.m., we still had a few things to accomplish so we could follow through on plans to make dinner. I gotta say, picking out a ripe eggplant and searching for the bread aisle has never been so entertaining. And as a side note, I am also still perplexed by the man behind me in line whose only purchase was 10 cold cuts of steak, to which I proclaimed, “That’s a lot of
cold cuts.” Drunk and blunt are clearly synonyms in my book. Upon returning home, the hilarity continued when we discovered the “repairs” done on our toilet earlier that day had rendered it incapable of actually flushing things. I’m not going to get into it, but let that be your background information before we cut to our next scene at Walgreens (with a pit stop at Fresh Market to ease our busting bladders) where we went to seek out a plunger. I take back what I said earlier. The single best thing about day drinking is the dinosaur poster now hanging in our living room. Yes, as we made our way to the cash register, plunger in hand, still giddy with sunshine and Fat Tire ale, I paused in my tracks. “Holy balls, Becca, look at this poster,” I said. “We’re buying it,” was Becca’s succinct and natural response. The poster in question now hangs proudly in our living room and features roaming long-neck dinosaurs and a meteor shooting across the starry night sky over the words “NEVER FORGET.” I love this poster. And being the symmetry freaks that we are, the accompanying poster of The Dude now hanging parallel to the dinosaur wall art was also a totally necessary buy. Yes, this bout of day drinking may or may not have led to $21 in poster and plunger purchases, but whatever, YOLO— am I right? Were you entrapped by The Vintage’s Bloody Mary Bar and the 73 degree weather this past Saturday as well? E-mail Jaime your drunken shenanigans at jbrackeen@wisc.edu. She’d love to feel like she was not the only alcoholic on campus.
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SSFC approves WISPIRG staff contracts By David Klein The Daily Cardinal
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the Wisconsin contract eligibility of WISPIRG, qualifying the group for university funding to pay for its professional staff. The decision marks the first approved student group contract of the coming fiscal year. During the meeting, WISPIRG chair Matt Kozlowski spoke on the importance of the group’s non-university professional staff. “WISPRIG fulfills a deep, substantial need on campus and part of
that comes through our professional staff,” Kozlowski said. “They help us match the mission of the university.” Before approving the group’s eligibility, SSFC members discussed the value of the group’s services to UW’s student body. “Services must provide a substantial need to the university,” SSFC Rep. Cale Plamann said. “I think that its handson experience and having campaigns that [students] can be slotted into is the sort of thing I don’t believe the group could efficiently get without some sort of professional staff.”
SSFC also approved a wage exemption for the Student Leadership Program. The group requested additional hours for members of its staff in order to better provide direct services to students. SSFC Vice Chair Chase Wilson said the group clearly proved why the change was needed. “Students can work twenty hours maximum per week generally and SLP was asking for twenty hours extra over one pay period,” Wilson said. “SLP was able to justify the request for specific tasks since it was only for a limited period of time.”
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SSFC Rep. Cale Planmann said Monday the hands-on training WISPIRG provides would be nearly impossible if the group did not have non-university professional staff members.
occupy from page 1 encampment as a model the city should use in its efforts to combat homelessness, the mayor said Madison already takes care of the homeless, citing the millions of dollars the city puts into housing programs. Nonetheless, the city’s Community Development Division reported about 2,000
people were turned away from shelters in 2011. The mayor also said the Occupy site has evolved from a group of protestors to a community where the homeless tend to congregate, without many of the original Occupy protestors. “Let’s be blunt about this, Madison is a magnet for the homeless,” Soglin said. The mayor paralleled the home-
less situation in Madison to a lifeboat with the capacity for 16, holding 20 people with an additional 20 people drowning in the water. “I think it’s got to be understood with clarity that Madison, Wisconsin, despite all the good intentions of the progressive people in this community, does not have the resources to serve the homeless from our city, the rest of the state,” Soglin said.
UW-Madison administrators said Monday the possibility of offering courses during winter break, which could happen as soon as next January, would give students more flexibility in their college educations. A Sunday survey e-mailed to the student body under the subject heading “Classes during break?” gauged students’ potential reasons and motivations for taking classes between the university’s fall and spring semesters. The prospect of one-tothree credit winter break classes is one way the university is hoping to adapt the school’s education to declining financial resources under Chancellor David Ward’s “Educational Innovation” initiative. “Educational innovation is about trying to think as best we can about ways to find the capacity for the kind of education that we want,” said Professor Aaron Brower, also the associate vice-chancellor for General Educational Administration. “Part of that is using the whole calendar
year in a better way.” Roughly 1,800 students responded to the survey after the first day, according to Dean of Continuing Studies and Educational Innovation co-chair Jeff Russell. He also emphasized the benefits of offering additional classes. “If this…can reduce the time to degree, that’s a plus,” he said. “If there [seems to be] sufficient demand, it does provide some scheduling flexibility to students and also utilizes some of our facilities during that period.” More than student interest factors in to any eventual decision made on winter break classes by the university, Russell said. “Some of the deans on campus are interested in trying to pilot something this January assuming that there’s [student] interest,” he said. “We have not reached out in a formal sense to the faculty, we haven’t broached it with housing…there’s a whole series of things.” The university hopes to send out another e-mail and establish a student consensus from the responses by next week, Russell added.
Madison mayors endorse Barrett Madison Mayor Paul Soglin announced Sunday he will endorse Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker. Joining Soglin in his endorsement are Madison’s four previous mayors, Dave Cieslewicz, Sue Bauman, Joe Sensenbrenner and Joel Skornicka. Additionally, U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., held a press conference today at the Milwaukee Public Market to announce that she would also endorse Barrett in the upcoming June 5 th election.
Barrett, who was defeated by Walker in a close 2010 election, is currently leading all other candidates in the recall primary, based on the latest Public Policy Polling survey. Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, who has received many endorsements from many large Wisconsin unions, trails Barrett in the poll. The poll shows Walker still leads the Democratic challengers with 50 percent of those polled supporting the Governor, as opposed to Barrett’s 45 percent.
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released a statement attacking the law Monday after the Court’s decision. “[The] law shouldn’t be in place for any election,” said Barrett. “Yes, real acts of voter fraud should never be tolerated. But Scott Walker’s voter ID bill is a voter disenfranchisement plan that has no place in an open and free democracy.” However, Republicans continue to say the law is necessary to maintain fair elections. Walker Spokesperson Cullen Werwie said the law was important and compared requiring an ID for elections to requiring an ID for things like a “library card” and “cold medicine”. “Ensuring the integrity of our elections is one of the core functions of government. We are confident the state will prevail in its plan to implement photo ID,” Werwie said.
to pass on the review of the cases will send both back to the original appeals courts, likely postponing any ruling that would reinstate the voter ID law until after the recall elections in May and June. Any future decision the appeals courts make could then go on to the Supreme Court if their rulings are appealed. Members of the Court did not comment on the decision. The voter ID law has been a central issue since it was passed last summer, with Democrats arguing it unfairly targets minorities and disenfranchises many traditionally Democratic voters. Republicans say the law will help prevent voter fraud. Milwaukee Mayor and Walker recall candidate Democrat Tom Barrett,
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sexual assault from page 1 Kowis hopes the relative uptick in numbers means students are more aware of campus resources available and are not falling for the “myths” she said prevent many from reporting. “It’s that whole mindset that you could’ve done more,” Kowis said. “All those victim-blaming questions: Why did you drink so much? Why did you walk alone? Why did you go to a party with him? The societal attitudes are some of the biggest barriers by far.” Carmen Hotvedt, a violence prevention specialist for EVOC, has been working to dispel myths like these for over 15 years. According to her, societal attitudes lead victims to blame themselves, rather than their assailant, especially if the perpetrator is an acquaintance. According to the Dean of Students Office, 71 of the 123 victims in 2011 knew their assailant.
While the term “date rape” was once used to describe such assaults, Hotvedt said this generation of college students rarely dates in the traditional sense of the term. “Acquaintances” are usually just that, a friend of a friend or even someone loosely connected to a friend. “’Acquaintance’ is something that’s loosely defined. But there’s still a sense of trust when someone brings you a drink or you have a 20-minute conversation,” she said. EVOC, PAVE and UHS emphasize to victims they should not blame themselves even if the perpetrator was an acquaintance, date, friend or even a significant other or individual with whom they had been sexually intimate previously. Whether or not the victim knew their assailant, students are significantly less likely to report assaults if they had been drinking, Kowis said, calling it a “huge barrier” for victims to overcome. Fifty-six of the reported assaults
in 2011 involved alcohol, according to the Dean of Students Office. Historically, about half of reported cases involve drinking. Both Schmidt and Kowis said many students are wary of using campus resources because they fear retribution for drinking underage. But as Schmidt explained, that assumption is “a misnomer.” According to the university’s Responsible Action Guidelines, if a student discloses drinking underage while reporting an assault to anyone on campus, including the University of Wisconsin Police Department, the drinking ticket and disciplinary process will be waived, and no mention of alcohol-related misconduct will go on the student’s record. “There’s a bigger crime out there, and underage drinking isn’t it,” Hotvedt said. Most importantly, both victims and those in the community commonly misconstrue what the crime of sexual assault actually is, she said. “Sexual assault’s really defined by consent. Did the perpetrator get consent or not?” Hotvedt explained. “It’s not defined by the perpetrator’s use of force, which is how I think our culture wants us to think about it.” Throughout the coming month, PAVE will work to dispel myths and raise awareness about sexual assault on campus. A full calendar of the group’s events can be found on Facebook.
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here are some songs and bands on my iPod that I won’t readily admit to. Well, in theory. I’m just kind of embarrassed to admit that I like certain artists. There are bands whose albums I will tell you about over and over again until you finally go get them, and then there are bands that I will only begrudingly admit to having listened to. Motion City Soundtrack is one of those bands, but I wish they didn’t have to be. The sharp lyrics and wonderful songwriting are a mainstay on my playlists, often being the most played. Unfortunately the band falls into the pop punk/ emo genre, which earns me the occasional jab from my roommates. My Dinosaur Life, the band’s fourth record and only major label release, was the one that brought them back into my attention, having been produced by blink-182’s Mark Hoppus. After years of writing them off as just another pop-punk act, I decided to check it out, having heard strong reviews. Boy, had I been wrong about them. There was power to this record, crunchy guitar and frantic vocals supplemented with synthesizers and honey-sweet melodies. The band seems to be able to make anything into a great song, with anthems about
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Just because pop-punk outfit Motion City Soundtrack look and sound like they should be a guilty pleasure doesn’t mean they have to be, and they certainly aren’t for Jeremy. Despite the stigma, the band is talented. being a nerd as well as songs about delirium and break-ups. They’re not the most original ideas, but dear God, they manage to make them interesting and witty. The tongue-in-cheek nature of the lyrics to songs like “Pulp Fiction” and “@!#?@!” (the text that appears in Q*bert’s speech bubble) shows the versatility of vocalist Justin Pierre, as well as different facets of the band’s sound. The band is streaming its latest single at RollingStone.com, and it still impresses me that they
have maintained an interesting and unique sound through to this point in their career. But of course they can’t be the only guilty pleasure record I have. Not all of them are actually as impressive as Motion City, but damn, some of these bands deserve less flak than they get. Green Day will unfortunately always be a guilty pleasure band for me. After releasing American Idiot in 2004 the band apparently went off the deep end and left a lot of their fun, punk roots behind. That
doesn’t stop albums like Dookie and Warning from being amazing. I don’t think I’d ever want to see them live now, especially not after the fiasco of an album that was 21st Century Breakdown, but I can’t help but love their back catalog. Not that they were ever the most poetic band, but they managed to have a way with teenage angst that was accessible to more than just the average punk fan. Songs like “Basketcase” and “Poprocks and Coke” are still as exciting today as they were 10
years ago. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I have a not-so-secret love for Taylor Swift. It’s okay to laugh at that, it’s pretty sad. But the girl writes her own songs, which is more than I can say for a lot of country singers. She can also make them appeal to me, pulling in musical influences I wouldn’t expect. Between her powerful vocals and actual music-writing chops, I can’t fault this girl. I just put on my headphones and tap along to the beat, hoping no one else can hear it. As much as I wish T-Swift was the only country artist in my possession, I told myself I would be totally honest in this column, and I must say I have been loving The Band Perry. You should definitely laugh now—it might make me feel better. The band may share less writing credit than Swift, but the melodies and harmonies are great. One of my friends gave me the album for my birthday and told me she didn’t think I could hate it. Unfortunately I don’t. That’s not to say that these are the only guilty pleasure albums I have—there are definitely more—but these are the ones that I think are the most embarrassing, and therefore the most honest. I’m definitely hoping my roommate forgets to pick up the paper today, or I’ll never live this down. It appears Jeremy is really asking for it this time. Send him your questions, comments and suggestions to go back to middle school at jgartzke@wisc.edu.
We’re grateful for Maps & Atlases’ sophomore album By Andy Holsteen The Daily Cardinal
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Beware and Be Grateful Maps & Atlases Grade: AThey’ve done it again. Beware and Be Grateful , the most recent LP by indie-rock quartet Maps & Atlases, is set to release in the U.S. Tuesday, April 17, and affirms the group’s unparalleled musical creativity. Map & Atlases’ unique sound has evolved with each album they have put out, but Beware and Be Grateful may mark their most significant leap to date. After recording several EPs, most notably Tree, Swallows, Houses (2006), followed by You and Me and the Mountain (2008), Maps & Atlases released their first full-length album, Perch Patchwork , in 2010. While the musicianship in all of their work is captivating, it’s hard to believe how much Maps & Atlases have changed stylistically over the years. The band was conceived in Chicago
by Dave Davison (lead guitars/ vocals), Shiraz Dada (bass), Chris Hainey (drums) and Erin Elders (guitar), in an attempt to mesh technical instrumentation with folk-rock. This was obvious in Maps & Atlases’ early work, which revolved around elaborate guitar tapping melodies and polyrhythmic feels, mixed with Davison’s nasally, oh-so-folky voice. With Perch Patchwork however, the band began to move away from their intentionally complicated riffing to a more layered sound. The album’s title track ends with Davison looping his voice over itself, sort of like in Bon Iver’s earthy track “Woods.” Maps & Atlases’ sound has become so thick and textured: Even after listening to Perch Patchwork for two years I still hear something new almost every time. There are countless aspects to Beware and Be Grateful that exemplify Maps & Atlases’ maturation as a group. The most obvious is their continuation towards using layers of sound, instead of playing as many notes as possible. One of the most interesting ways Maps & Atlases accomplished this layering was by using electronic elements like programmed beats and synthesized sounds. This was something they hadn’t experimented
with extensively, but incorporated seamlessly into the album without compromising their organic feel. Additionally, they use piano for the first time to create a more diverse texture. “Important,” the final song of the album, features an ethereal piano part that adds to the tune’s dreamy nature. Maps & Atlases didn’t entirely abandon their melodic complexity though. More so, the difficult instrumental parts have become a nuance rather than the focus of their music. Maybe the best example of this is in the song “Silver Self,” in which Davison reminds us that he’s one of the most talented guitarists around. The song ends with Davison taking an extended solo unlike anything else he has done with Maps & Atlases. Davison, who traditionally sticks to a cleaner tone in order to make his parts discernible, uses heavy distortion that sounds like it came straight from the amp of Jack White, and then all out shreds for about two minutes straight. Even though the technical lines of past Maps & Atlases albums are not in every song, they still exist in Beware and Be Grateful. In fact, they have just been refined. Possibly the most significant aspect about Beware and Be Grateful is that it manages
to be simultaneously musically stimulating and accessible. There are very few groups that have bridged this alwaysdaunting gap as well as Maps & Atlases. With this album, it’s fair to put Maps & Atlases on the same level as the likes of Battles, The Dirty Projectors and Fleet Foxes, who also know the secret to creating
music that is both compelling and easy to listen to. After listening through the album several times, I highly recommend checking out Maps & Atlases newest work. Beware and Be Grateful is an album that you will not get tired of. In fact, with so much layering, this album will get better every time you listen to it.
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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
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Tuesday april 17, 2012 DailyCardinal.com
Wrestling
Six Badgers chasing U.S. Olympic spot By Ryan Evans The Daily CaRdinal
Six current and former members of the Wisconsin wrestling team and coaching staff hope to earn a spot on the U.S. team for the 2012 Olympic Games in London at the Olympic Team Trials in Iowa City, Iowa. Juniors Andrew Howe and Travis Rutt, redshirt sophomore Tyler Graff, incoming freshman Jesse Thielke, assistant coach Ryan Morningstar and volunteer assistant coach Trevor Brandvold will wrestle April 21-22 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Rutt and Thielke will take part in the Greco-Roman competition and Howe, Graff, Morningstar and Brandvold will compete in the men’s freestyle. “I’m not sure many other universitites can say they have that many guys competing,” Wisconsin wrestling head coach Barry Davis said. “It shows that our program is moving in the right direction with the right athletes and coaches.” Davis added that the chance to wrestle in the Olympics is a special opportunity for members of his team.
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2010 National Champion Andrew Howe will compete for a spot on the U.S. Wrestling Team for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
“I think wrestling in the Olympics means you’ve made it to the highest level,” he said. “There is no better country than this country, and to represent your team, country and family all at one time is unbelievable.” Howe, Rutt and Graff all took Olympic redshirts this season in preparation for the Olympic Trials. Howe was the 2010 NCAA Division I Champion at 165 pounds and is a three-time AllAmerican at that weight. Rutt was a 2011 All-American after taking seventh place at 184 pounds at the 2011 NCAA Division I Championship. Graff is a two-time AllAmerican at 133 pounds and has been nationally ranked in freestyle since high school. Ten wrestlers with ties to the University of Wisconsin have competed in the Olympics including four former Badger wrestlers and six that have served on the coaching staff. Former assistant coaches Ben Peterson, John Peterson and Dave Schultz all took home gold. Ben Peterson won the freestyle 90 kg competition in 1972, John Peterson won freestyle at 82 kg in 1976 and Schultz won Freestyle at 74 kg in 1984. UWBadgers.com contrbuted to this report
Increased violence in postseason not a good thing for NHL Ryan Evans not that one
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ew would argue that the National Hockey League’s postseason isn’t one of the best spectacles in sports. Two full months of all-out, emotionally charged hockey and an uptick in the quality of play certainly makes the games fun to watch, but so far during this year’s playoffs the physical intensity has been amped up even higher. Through the first 19 games of the 2011-’12 NHL playoffs there has been an abnormally high number of cases of questionable physical play. It seems that after every game some new player has a date with NHL head disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan. But is the NHL just giving the fans what they want to see? It’s no secret that hockey fans love the violent side of the sport. Nothing in hockey elicits bigger cheers from those in attendance than when two players drop the gloves or when a big hit is delivered, and so far this year’s playoffs haven’t disappointed in that regard. Let’s just say that Shanahan and the NHL Department of Player Safety are going to be busy over the next couple of days with all the scheduled disciplinary hearings that have come out of the first few days of the playoffs. The NHL hoped that this year’s postseason would bring big television ratings. The most important media markets in the U.S. (New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles) all have teams in the postseason, and for the first time in league history every playoff game will be broadcast nationally on either NBC, NBC Sports Network or CNBC—networks that are available in 80 percent of homes with cable TV. In the early going it seems that the NHL is achieving the ratings bonanza it was hoping for. It was reported that through the first two days of the postseason, the NHL’s TV ratings were up 50 percent compared to this time last year, including the biggest opening night ever, ratings wise, last Wednesday for the NHL playoffs on the NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus). The NHL has been hoping to generate this type of fan interest ever since the 2004-’05 season was cancelled due to a lockout, resulting in many fans losing interest in the sport. Sure, ratings on the NBC Sports Network are at all-time highs during this postseason, but if those ratings are coming with an increase in dangerous on-ice play, is it really good for the league and the sport? Coming into the playoffs, no series was more highly anticipated than the Philadelphia Flyers vs. the Pittsburgh Penguins, two teams that are known to have a less than cordial relationship and make up arguably the NHL’s
most bitter rivalry. Combine that with a league that showed leniency on violence already and you get game three of that series, a game pulled in the best ratings for a NHL playoff game in 10 years and totaled 158 penalty minutes, featured six fighting majors and resulted in four ejections—three in the first period alone. That game featured cheap shots like Arron Asham crosschecking Brayden Schenn in the throat and then punching him as he lay on the ice, as well as two separate dangerous hits delivered by James Neal—one where he leveled Sean Couturier with the puck nowhere in sight, and another where he went high on a hit to the head of Claude Giroux. All three of those instances left the victim of the play shaken up, yet I’d be willing to bet that makes it into the TV promos for game four. Think about it, what better tool does the NHL have to promote its nationally televised postseason to the general public than hard-hitting, violent hockey? The league loves to play up intense rivalries like Pittsburgh-Philadelphia, so I’m sure they love that after game three that series is about to reach a fever pitch of intensity. The league certainly isn’t doing much to curb the violence either. Shea Weber, who bashed Henrik Zetterberg’s head against the boards, was fined only $2,500—pocket change for a guy making $7.5 million this season. The harshest the NHL has come down on offenders this postseason has been in the form of one-game suspensions, and even then it was only because an injury was sustained on the play. What a great precedent for the NHL to set: It’s OK as long as no one gets hurt. As a result of its leniency on violence, the NHL is quickly losing control of its postseason as it has turned into an open season for violent play and players are at a huge risk for major injuries, like Ottawa’s Daniel Alfredsson, who suffered a concussion after taking an elbow to the head courtesy of the Rangers’ Carl Hagelin. Well-played hockey is among one of the most entertaining sports to watch. Those who watch the Olympics or the playoffs during any other year can attest to that. But fans love the violence and they always will. However when hockey is played with the type of brutality that is being exhibited during the playoffs right now it cheapens the game and takes away from what the sport can be. So is it worth it? Are the TV ratings worth the violence, the increased risk to player safety and the transformation of hockey into a glorified MMA match? Count me in among those that say no. Is the increase in violent play good for the sport of hockey? Let Ryan know your thoughts via e-mail at rmevans2@dailycardinal.com or hit him up on Twitter @ryanmevans.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Steven Nemcek Daily Cardinal Opinion Columnist
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his past Saturday a coalition of angry tea party members and fiscal conservatives gathered en masse at the Capitol to protest Tax Day, the day in which American income tax returns are due. The event was organized by Americans for Prosperity, whose selfdescribed mission is to educate the public on economic policy and to enable citizens to become involved in the public policy process. The group was founded with the support of the conservative Koch brothers, the wealthy owners of Koch industries, known for their generous philanthropic involvement in medical research, the arts and education. Jocelyn Webster, spokesperson for the State Department of Administration, estimated that around 2,000 individuals attended the rally. Today, April 17, 2012, is both Tax Day and Tax Freedom Day, the latter of which is when the average American earns enough money to pay off his combined 29.2% federal, state and local tax bill. What this means is that from January 1 through April 17, the average American worker is not making money for himself. He is working to pay off his annual debt to the government. To put this into perspective, Americans will spend more in taxes in 2012 than they will on food, clothing and housing combined. It is understandable then, that the common working
individual would seek to lift some of this heavy tax burden from his or her shoulders. While I did not attend the rally on Saturday, I will attempt to articulate some of the arguments which I presume were espoused by the tea partiers. I think this is important for two reasons. First, angry mobs are often unintelligible, as shown in the absurdities entertained at the Capitol during the protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s Budget Repair Bill: protestors who chained themselves to the state Senate railings with bike locks, protestors who incessantly beat on overturned plastic buckets and the occasional rainbow-clad neohippy protestors who could be found smoking on the Capitol steps. Second, Dane County and Madison in particular are very leftist, and I believe it is important to vanquish the myths surrounding tax breaks. First, tax cuts do not prolong recessions. To me, this seems to be the greatest fallacy of the left. I hear arguments all the time that follow the line of reasoning that spending is a form of investment and we need to invest to grow the economy. This is a logical argument, as most businesses invest in capital with the intent of producing profit. Where the fallacy arises is the notion that if the government doesn’t spend money, somehow this means nobody will spend it. What happens in reality is that when taxes are cut and the government spends less money, that money goes back into the
hands of the people. It doesn’t simply disappear. I’m referring to “the people” in the affectionate, abstract sense that is loved by the left, because a decrease in government spending necessarily empowers the people to make economic decisions for themselves. It gives the people freedom to spend their money as they wish and to invest in things that most directly benefit them. In a word, tax cuts can be thought of as charitable. Next, tax cuts do not only benefit the rich. I often hear those on the left argue that the rich should “pay their fair share” when they argue for a more progressive tax system. Ignoring the glaring problem of the relativity of fairness, this argument is emotionally derived and perhaps not necessarily logical. Assuming that tax breaks are evenly distributed across the tax-paying base, the average worker now has more money in his pocket to spend on himself or his family. The relatively larger gross revenue decrease induced by the same percentage tax cut to the wealthy simply means that those individuals can further invest in business, which in turn means an increase in jobs and in the economy. Or, those individuals can invest in personal projects or charities, such as James Cameron’s submarine adventure or Bill Gates’ famous charity foundation. All of these economic activities benefit society. Finally, income taxation is theft. As an individual, I cannot waltz into someone’s house and steal his property. A gov-
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Protestors gather at the Capitol for the Tax Day Rally to elicit reform in the United States tax code. ernment, whether state or federal, is constructed to protect the rights of the individual. If a property owner has a right to his property, then the government must protect that right by stopping me as an individual from stealing. It follows by extension then that what the individual cannot do, the government cannot do. If the government is allowed to tax an individual’s income, it is say-
ing that it owns that income, and only allows the individual to keep some set amount. Taxation of income is a moral hazard that says, at threat of forcible arrest, a citizen must give up the fruits of his labor to the government, because the government owns that fruit. Steven is a sophomore majoring in Biochemistry and Political Science. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.