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Bill would tax wealthy to fund tech programs

By Tyler Nickerson The Daily Cardinal

A new bill proposed Wednesday would increase funding for Wisconsin’s technical schools by raising income taxes for Wisconsin’s wealthiest, prompting further discourse over the state’s fiscal future.

State Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, and state Sen. Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, the authors of the bill, said the Wisconsin Jobs Initiative aims to replace the $34.2 million cut from Wisconsin Technical Colleges’ biennial budget to fund grants that would educate at least 35,000 students at technical colleges statewide.

Mason and Larson proMASON posed to raise the top income tax rate from 7.75 percent to 8.75 percent for people making more than $1 million a year to fund the initiative. The estimated 2,900 Wisconsin taxpayers who would be impacted by this tax increase would generate at least $70 million in new revenue in its first year, according to Larson.

Larson emphasized the need for “shared sacrifice” to take the

financial burden off of those with lower incomes.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said he strongly doubts the bill will gain bipartisan support because it raises taxes.

“We don’t think higher taxes on anyone is the right answer,” Fitzgerald said. “More tax hikes and more spending is a road we’ve been down before, and it didn’t work.”

If it does pass, Larson said each technical college would decide where among their own programs to allocate the grants.

Wi s c o n s i n Technical Colleges System President Dan Clancy said the bill would allow Wi s c o n s i n’s technical colleges to “educate LARSON more highlyskilled workers in industries that will create and sustain jobs.”

“Skill acquisition is one of the biggest challenges facing workers and employers in today’s hightech and fast-changing economy,” Clancy said in a statement.

Mason and Larson introduced the bill a week after Gov. Scott Walker called a special legislative session focused on job creation.

WISCONSIN JOBS INITIATIVE According to Sen. Larson and Rep. Mason

• Replace $34.2 million in cuts from Wisconsin technical colleges

• Provide job training to at least 35,000 workers • Raise the income tax by 1 percent for the 2,900

Wisconsinites who make more than $1 million a year

• Provide $35.8 million in grants to technical schools • The tax increase would generate $70 million in its first year

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Students on West Johnson Street enjoyed the warm fall weather Wednesday. Warm temperatures are expected to continue through the weekend.

City issues fewer free Freakfest tickets for State Street businesses

By David Jones The Daily Cardinal

State Street business owners and residents raised concerns about changes made to Madison’s annual Freakfest event at an informational meeting held

by Madison’s Central Business Improvement District Wednesday.

Businesses open past 6 p.m. will receive the same number of tickets they received last year, but businesses that close before 6 p.m. Saturday will only receive three complimentary tickets, down from the four provided last year.

Mayor Paul Soglin’s assistant Astra Iheukumere said cost concerns were the reason the city is reducing the number of tickets they allot to businesses.

“We assume that when we send out [complimentary] tickets, they’re used,” Iheukumere said. “If they’re not used,

which is what we’ve heard in previous years, that’s driving our logic to cut down where we can.”

Businesses initially limited to three tickets can request more from the city. State Street private residents, who are initially provided two tickets by the city, can also request additional tickets.

Still, some businesses said they might shorten their business hours due to Freakfest and expressed concern about having to go out of their way to obtain additional tickets when they did not have to in the past.

“These aren’t a replacement for tickets that people would buy to go to the event,” Executive Director of Madison’s Central Business Improvement District Mary Carbine said.

“These are tickets for people who are trying to either give employees access or monitor

the safety of their business.”

Ticket prices will also increase slightly from last year due to cost concerns. The cost of tickets purchased in advance will increase from $7 to $8, and the cost of tickets purchased at the event will increase from $10 to $12.

Frank Productions, the concert promoter for Freakfest, confirmed that the location of the entertainment venues will remain unchanged from last year. There will be a stage on the Capitol Square, a stage on Frances and State, and third state on Gilman and State.

No major changes are scheduled in regard to safety or crowd control.

A mobile cellular phone tower will be located in the Buckeye parking lot in an attempt to boost cellular phone coverage during the festival.

Madison police target heroin ‘hot spots’

By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal

In response to a series of heroin-related incidents along East Washington Avenue, the Madison Police Department plans to launch a “high visibility, high profile enforcement campaign” along the busy street.

Officers will focus on gas stations, fast food restaurants, grocery stores and shopping malls, which MPD crime analysts determined to be “hot spots,” or places where addicts often ingest heroin immediately after purchase when they are desperate for a “fix.”

Various police teams and officers will be giving East

Washington Avenue extra attention through “a full spectrum of law enforcement strategies.”

East Washington Avenue is a high-density street where many innocent people work and live, and an even greater number commute, according to police.

“Citizens can expect to see uniformed officers, squad cars in parking lots and there will be tactics utilized that are less apparent,” Madison Police Department Spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

DeSpain said the heroin epidemic in Madison has resulted in people driving under the influence, overdosing and having accidents.

Police said it is not uncommon to find users not breathing when they arrive at the scene, which is usually in a public bathroom or a parked car.

DeSpain said heroin also provides the motivation for a host of crimes, including retail thefts, burglaries and thefts from cars.

Users usually resell these stolen items at resale shops, which gives them access to “quick money” to fuel their heroin addictions.

“The epidemic gripping Madison … is a public health crisis which cannot be solved through law enforcement actions alone,” DeSpain said in a statement.

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Madison police launched a campaign Wednesday to combat Madison’s heroin issue that targets problem areas.

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Dem. bill would waive ID card replacement fee

By Jacob Riederer The Daily Cardinal

State Rep. Gary Hebl, D-Sun Prairie, and state Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, proposed a revision to the voter ID law Wednesday that would allow citizens to obtain a replacement identification card for free.

The bill requiring Wisconsinites to show photo ID in order to vote was signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker last May in an attempt to limit voter fraud.

Opponents say the law disenfranchises the elderly, students and minorities.

Taylor and Hebl are troubled by an aspect of the law requiring eligible voters who lose their state-issued ID card to pay a $10 replacement fee.

Hebl said the law will have a negative impact on voter turnout among students because ID replacement fees and requirements are “hurdles and obstacles that limit the amount of students who can vote.”

The law deems student IDs as acceptable voter identification provided they have an issuance date, expiration date within two years of the issuance date and

a student signature. Currently, no UW System campus IDs meet the requirements and changing IDs would be costly.

The Government Accountability Board introduced a less costly option to altering student IDs: putting stickers on the IDs to satisfy the requirements needed to identify voters. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald,R-Juneau, and Assembly Speaker Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, requested the proposal be reviewed to ensure Wisconsin elections are fair.

College Republicans Spokesperson Jeff Snow agreed.

“The distribution of stickers that enable UW identification cards to be accepted at the polls allows for another layer of potential fraud,” Snow said.

Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers said the UW System should take steps to change students IDs themselves to meet the new voting requirements. Somers said if the changes are too costly then the stickers are an “acceptable alternative.”

Taylor and Hebl are currently seeking co-sponsorship for the proposal before it goes to the Legislature.

Planned Parenthood reacts to Lazich’s abstinence education bill, Medicaid cuts Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin responded Wednesday to two Republican proposals, saying the Walker administration is using political power to “limit health-care access and information for the most vulnerable people in Wisconsin.”

State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, authored a bill Friday eliminating the requirement that local school districts with sex education programs have to include information about contraception. The legislation would make it illegal for volunteer-based health-care providers, like Planned Parenthood, to instruct in schools.

On Sept. 30, the state Department of Health Services announced 200,000 Medicaid recipients would be shifted to plans with fewer benefits, in order to close a $554 million deficit in Medicaid funding.

PPAWI responded to both proposals Wednesday.

“Walker and his legislative leaders are instead advancing a plan that will once again, push more working families out of critical health care programs and ultimately send our communities into greater economic turmoil and declining health outcomes,” PPAWI Executive Director Tanya Atkinson said in a statement.

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While ASM Rep. Tito Diaz said more checks need to be put on SSFC, SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said increased oversight would undermine the committee.

Student leader urges UW students involved in attack to come forward

By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal

At a student government meeting Monday, Rep. Karen Scott proposed legislation to urge individuals who violently attacked a Nebraska fan on Saturday to turn themselves in.

According to the legislation, after Saturday’s football game three men dressed in Badger gear kicked a Nebraska fan “repeatedly in the head until he lost consciousness and bled from the nose, mouth, and ears.”

Scott said while she would not recommend similar legislation for every act of violence on campus, she thought the proposal was appropriate since the cause for the attack was based solely on rivalry.

“I think that since the only visible reason for the attack was because the victim was wearing a Nebraska Husker shirt and the attackers were wearing Badger shirts that it’s important to distance ourselves from the violence and to say that it’s unacceptable behavior,” Scott said.

Council will vote on the legislation next Wednesday.

Also at the meeting, past and present student leaders debated legislation that

would put a check on a branch of student government Wednesday.

Student Services Finance Committee Rep. David Vines spoke in favor of legislation to create a new committee that would approve “pertinent legislation,” forms and applications that SSFC proposes before the SSFC is allowed to enact them.

“We’ve been getting a little bit in the habit of giving ourselves more power and not really checking that, and sometimes doing that in slightly illegal ways,” Vines said.

SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart was against the proposal, saying the Student Judiciary already serves as a check to SSFC’s power.

“I think it is a power grab from student council on SSFC, and I think it’s going against our constitution,” Neibart said.

Former SSFC Chair Matt Manes said more oversight is not necessary for SSFC. “I’m really speaking against this bill,” Manes said. “It’s really ridiculous to think SSFC needs chaperoning.”

Student council will vote on the legislation next Wednesday.

crime in brief Police respond to batteries Saturday night

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The pedestrian bridge over University Avenue linking Vilas Hall and Humanities will close for two weeks beginning Monday, Oct. 10, for renovations.

Renovations to close bridge over University Avenue The pedestrian bridge connecting Vilas Hall and Humanities will be closed for renovation starting Oct. 10.

The bridge will be completely shut off from foot traffic as contractors work to clean and waterproof the structure, which spans across University Avenue.

The bridge will remain blocked on nights and weekends for the duration of the project.

The work will take roughly two weeks, weather permitting, with the pedestrian bridge set to reopen Oct. 24.

According to UW-Madison’s department of Facilities Planning & Management, the renovation project will produce “mild noise pollution” during business hours, as well as dust and fumes.

Madison police responded to two batteries Saturday night, police spokesperson Joel DeSpain reported Wednesday.

A 29-year-old from Omaha, Neb., visiting for the football game Saturday told police he was sucker punched outside of a West Gorham Street tavern shortly after midnight by a man “wearing Wisconsin gear,” DeSpain said.

The Nebraska man was taken to a hospital where he was treated for a cut to his nose and a chipped tooth.

In addition, a Racine man was punched in the face and robbed on Langdon Street Saturday.

Police said the man, 21, approached an officer around 11:30 p.m. asking where he could hail a cab when the officer noticed a cut under his eye. “[The man] said it was no big deal, and he just wanted to go home,” DeSpain said in a statement.

Police were unable to identify suspects from either incident.

Student almost robbed at State Street ATM A UW student almost fell victim to a robbery Friday night when a man behind him in line at a State Street ATM attempted to snatch the his $20 bill.

Police said the man bumped the male student, 21, to reach for the cash just as it came out of the machine.

According to the report, there was a brief struggle over the bill, but the student did not lose it.

“The man had been standing directly behind him, as if he was also going to use the ATM,” Madison Police Department Spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

According to the report, the suspect said “excuse me” in attempt to make the contact appear accidental.

“It was a likely attempt to distract the student,” DeSpain said in a statement.

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Elliot morris the morr, the better

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hate work. I’m a lazy, worthless sack of crap, especially when I haven’t had my morning cup of frosting.

Just the thought of homework some nights is enough to make me consider dropping out and getting a job at McDonald’s, so I wouldn’t have to put in the mental and emotional investment required to actually learn shit.

While the thought of working underneath the Golden Arches for the rest of my life isn’t the most appealing thought in the world (although I do love me some McNuggets), I’m beginning to think there would be some pretty incredible perks.

Sure, it’s probably completely mindless and boring as hell, but think about it: You show up, make a few hundred Big Macs without using your brain, and you’re done. You can go home to your life without one

thought of work for the rest of the day.

School days, on the other hand, last 24 hours. You go to classes, take vigorous notes and do your best to focus on whatever subject your professor seems so fascinated with.

You show up, make a few hundred Big Macs without using your brain, and you’re done.

When your classes for the day are done, you are most definitely not. Instead of calling it a day and rewarding yourself with a cold beer and some delicious cashews, you have to keep on truckin’ with homework. You keep studying until you’re so delirious from sleep deprivation that you keep repeating the same word over and over again until it starts to sound made up. Even sleep is just another thing you have to fit into your schedule, right

between eating four cosmic brownies for stress relief and that cup of frosting everyone needs to get going in the morning (maybe the frosting thing is just me).

After years of dealing with the daily grind and the neverending reality of arduous mental labor, the thought of being able to form a barrier between my work life and normal life is refreshing. So refreshing at times that I seriously think about dropping out. By no means do I plan on dropping out tomorrow to make delicious albeit incredibly unhealthy food, but the lifestyle and mindset that a job like that brings is interesting to consider and surprisingly tempting.

Is this constant workflow never going to end? After my time here, I’ll potentially move on to grad school, and after that, I’m in the real world (!).

I’ll flip shit if I end up with a job that requires 60 hour work weeks and enough stress every day to frazzle even the most collected of souls.

Which brings me to the question: Is all of this work worth

it? The freak-out/hyperventilation moments, eight-hour study marathons and complete lack of a social life save Friday and Saturday nights?

When your classes for the day are done, you are most definitely not.

Of course the answer is yes.

Otherwise, everyone would have abandoned college by now in favor of something a little more easygoing. But sometimes I just can’t help but wonder if my life would be better spent simply getting by flipping burgers instead suffering through the never-ending cycle of hard work and cutthroat competition.

Contemplating joining Elliot and applying at McDonald’s so you can dodge your dreaded midterms? E-mail Elliot at ejmorris2@wisc.edu and fill out an application together.

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Bar Guide 2011

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Wando’s

602 University Ave.

Madison’s finest

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$1 throwback cans, $2.50 Dr./Napalm shots

$2.75 bartender’s choice

$3.75 Jumbo UV $4.50 jumbo Bacardi mixers, $3.75 Goose mixers, $2.75 Island pints Rumplemintz shots

Whiskey Jack’s

Service Industry Night: $2 drinks

$3 Wis. brewed beer, $3 $5 domestic pitchers, $2 Schlitz tall boy, $4 $2 domestic bottles, Crown Royal, Devil’s Cut $5 Captain and rail vodka rockstar, $4 Jager $3 Malibu Black and shots, $5 Crown mix and Jameson mixers pitchers Absolut mixers

552 State St.

Brothers

704 University Ave.

Vintage

529 University Ave.

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319 W. Gorham St.

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$1.50 u-call-it, domestic rails, $2 taps, 2 for 1 Two-for-one everything taps, bottles, rails and $1Jumbo Long Islands select calls $1 PBR and High Life taps, $2 rails, Bloody Mary bar @ 9 a.m.

$1 Wis. taps, $2.50 Vintage brews

3 for 1 rails, 2 for 1 Bacardi, 5 for $6 Keystone Light

$4.50 jumbo Captain mixers, $3 Jameson shots

$5 margaritas, $4 Patron

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$2 u-call-it, $2.50 vodka $2 Jäger/Cherry bombs, $2 Jäger/Cherry bombs, $3 Bacardi mixers, Red Bull, $2 SoCo, $2.50 $3 Bacardi mixers, $3.25 domestic bottles $3.25 domestic bottles Jack mixers

Skirt Night: 50 percent $2 Shorty and a Shot $1 Milwaukee taps, off if you wear a skirt, (High Life and Apple Pie) $2 Russian Standard $2 Bacardi mixers vodka mixers

$4 jumbo screw drivers $2 domestic taps, $3 premium taps, Two and Bloody Marys, $6 $0.50 tap from taps for $5, two-for-one Goose Island pitchers 9 p.m. to close rails and shots

$4 jumbo Long Islands, $3.50 Miller Lite/Bud 2 for 1 Bud Light Light bottles, $ jumbo Smirnoff mixers bottles/pints

$3 tallboys, $5 jumbo you-call-its

$1 off Vintage Brewing Co. beers

$1 off Vintage Brewing Co. beers, Bloody Mary bar @ 9 a.m.

Cheap pitchers, wheel and deal

Buy a shot, get a beer, $3 tallboys, $4 jumbo screw drivers and Bloody Marys

$2 taps, $2 rails, $2 house shot, $4 bomb $3 Pinnacle mixers, $3 $3 Long Island, $4 $3 Svedka mixer, $3 Long Island, $4 Jack mixer, shots, $5 domestic lemon drop shots, “7-12” $2 house shots, $3 Captain, $3.50 Pinnacle mixers pitchers, $3.50 sangria $2 Bud Light pitchers Benchmark Bourbon $3.50 Bacardi mixers

Church Key

none

$2 taps, $2 rails, $2 house shots, $3 Pinnacle mixers

Johnny O’s

none

$5 Johnny O’s mug, $5 Johnny O’s mug, $1 $1 refills rail mixers refills rail mixers and and domestic taps domestic taps

Madhatters

none

$2 micro drafts and bottles, $2 Monster bombs

$1 rails and taps

Half-price rails, bottles and taps

Logan’s

none

$3 you-call-it, $4 Rolling Rock liters, $2 select shots

$2 Long Islands, $4 PBR liters, $2 select shots

$2 domestic pints, $5 Bud $3 bomb shots, $4 PBR/ $3.50 rail mixers, $3 $5.50 rail mixers, $3 Light liters, $3 Malibu Rolling Rock liters, $2 domestic bottles, $2 domestic bottles, mixers, $2 select shots $2 select shots select shots select shots

Brickhouse BBQ 408 W. Gorham St.

$5 bloody cows, $5.75 Bud Light pitchers

State Street Brats

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626 University Ave.

622 University Ave.

322 W. Gorham St.

322 W. Johnson St.

603 State St.

High Life/PBR night

Four rails for $5

$2.50 PBR tallboys, two-for-one rum mixers

$1 domestic taps, $2 micro taps

$1.25 rails, $2 Pabst cans

Half-price taps and $2.50 Bacardi mixers

off bottled beer

$2.50 margaritas

Red Shed

406 N. Frances St.

$1.25 rails, $2 Pabst cans

$1.75 top shelf

Half-price taps and $4 bomb shots

The Plaza

none

Hawk’s

$3 Long Isands

$7 pitchers, $2 Jameson shots

Lucky’s

$3 vodka Monster mixers, $10 buckets of 16-oz cans

$13 domestic silos, $3 Svedka mixers, $4 bomb shots

City

636 State St.

$2 vodka mixers, $3 mimosas, $7 bucket of imports ($6 domestic)

$1 rail mixers

Echo Tap

Hospitality night

554 W. Main St.

Ladies Night: $2 domestic bottles

New Glarus Night

1330 Regent St.

1421 Regent St.

$6 Leinie’s pitcher

Flip night (75 percent off) $2.50 cosmos, $1 bottles (PBR and Busch), $1 cans

425 State St.

$3 Pinnacle Vodka

$2.25 rails mixers, $3.50 $3.50 Captain mixers, mixers, $3 rail vodka, $2.50 SoCo Lime shots, off all pitchers $6 Leinie’s pitcher $3 double Three Olives mixers

$3 double Three Olives mixers

Stag Party: $4 singles, $4 singles, $7.50 doubles, Long Island Hump Day $3 single Captain, $3.50 Jameson shot, $10 Bud Light buckets, $7.50 doubles, $2.50 $3 Lake Louie pints, $10 $4 double Long Islands, Malibu or Bacardi, $5.50 $2.50 New Glarus taps, $5.50 vodka and Monster Rehab Capital Brewery pints buckets PBR tallboys Upland/Potosy $3 pints doubles, $3 Ale Asylum $4 Absolut singles

$2.50 mimosas, $2 $2 Corona and Negra Jordan’s Big 10 Pub vodka mixers, $0.50 Models, $1 mixers,

319 N. Henry St.

Beer pong, 1/2 off all taps and pitchers

$1 off 1/2 pitcher, $2 $3 Jack or Stoli mixers, $2 $2 Long Islands, $2.50 $2 rails, $1.50 PBR off pitcher, $2.50 rum microbrew (Capital/Blue Spaten and Red Hook Moon/Rolling Rock) drinks pints Buy a beer, get a shot

$1 off rails, taps and wine

$3 Long Islands

$4 double Jameson

$4 Long Islands and Rose Bowls

Two-for-one Long $5 Bud Light pitchers, $5 Islands and Bud Light Redbull pints, $5 and $6 bucket of shorties taps, $3 martinis none

none

$2.50 rail drinks

$2.50 domestic bottles (Bud, Miller, Leinie’s and Rolling Rock)

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none

$2 Bud Light bottles, $3 Bacardi mixers, $3 Two-for-one High Life, $10 microbrew $2 Miller Lite, $3 Captain Mixers, $3 Smirnoff mixers, SoCo lime shots, $1 High $3.50 Absolut mixers, pitchers, $4 cow pie shots $3 lemon drop shots $2.50 Rumplemintz shots Life and McGolden $2 McGillicuddy shots $1 PBR bottles, $1 Busch Light bottles

$3 14 oz. rum mixers, $1 PBR 16oz. taps

$1 PBR, Coors Light or Bud Light taps, $2.50 micro taps

$5 High Life/Berghoff Bartender’s choice pitchers

$3 microbrew pints

$4 Captain mixers

$3 martini of the week $3 mimosas, $5 Bud or Long Island, two- Light pitchers, $6 for-one Bud Light taps bucket of domestics none

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The best of the Madison bar scene It’s far from the coolest or hippest bar in town, the specials—for the most part—aren’t spectacular and the food is mediocre at best.

But holy crap is State Street Brats a great place to watch a game.

With what seems like hundreds of TVs all tuned to one game or another, it seems impossible to imagine a line of sight at Brats that doesn’t include sports.

The bar has earned plenty of hype for its atmosphere, and the praise is well deserved. If you can’t be there in person, the next best place is State Street Brats.

Genna’s is the kind of place you go to thinking you’ve finally found that bar where all the cool grad students go, even if in reality the crowd is mostly made up of your Intro to Anthropology class.

Genna’s is relatively cheap for a Capitol bar, has a good selection of booze and is practically too cute for its own good. It may not be the most hipster bar in Madison (that award goes to the Plaza on Thursday nights), but it is definitely the best one in town—with a dangerously high volume of ironic facial hair, to boot.

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What was once the infamous shit-hole of the Madison bar scene, the Echo Tap has transformed into a modern masterpiece. The original plans called for the elimination of the patio and expansion of the building, but budgeting costs and complaints from neighboring residents canceled plans. This was a blessing in disguise as the outdoor beer garden perfectly complements the newly designed interior space.

Those used to drinking away their troubles in the dive that once was Echo Tap will find a revamped and highly improved watering hole.

For the best live music in town, in an intimate bar setting at least, look no further than the High Noon Saloon. Located on East Washington Avenue it’s only a short jaunt past the Capitol and the caliber of music that comes through there is second only to the major venues in town. With great weekly features like Rock Star Gomeroke (Karaoke backed by a live band) on Tuesdays and big shows on the weekends, this is definitely a place to look for your watering and live entertainment needs, should they happen fall on the same night.

Be honest. You are going to claim you’re far too cool and/or alternative for Wando’s in the future, so take advantage of that oh-so important birthday and get yourself a neon-colored fishbowl. Wander up to the third floor and see how many athletes’ phone numbers you can nab. Wait in line with 20 other coeds for a bathroom dripping with alcohol-saturated urine. Because on your 21st birthday, Wando’s will live up to all the hype you heard as a sad under-ager. After that, it will be fun, but never the fun of your 21st birthday. Don’t waste the opportunity.

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Technically it’s a club, and technically the club’s patrons are hoping for guests a bit less vagina-having, but when it’s time for a girls night out, look no further than Plan B. It is not out of the question to need a night(s) off from the beerguzzling men of the dairy state, so take advantage of Ladies Night, held the first Friday of every month and get into the venue for free.

So throw on the slightly too tight mini-skirt, make cocktails a color reserved for the covers of MGMT and MIA albums then get your ass over to Willy Street, because it’s dancing time.

We are all either born-andraised or adopted Wisconsinites, which means nothing brings us closer together better than an Old Fashioned. Ergo, when you’re looking for a place to get better acquainted with the witty brunette from your political science discussion, look no further than the Old Fashioned on the Capitol Square.

The perfect combination of bar and restaurant, the Old Fashioned is the ideal spot for a dinner-date or a quick grabbing of drinks.

Apart from the food and drink, the setting is quintessential Wisconsin, plus some decorative paper lanterns.

Cooper’s Tavern is the new kid on the square. It doesn’t bring in the same crowds as standards like The Great Dane or The Old Fashioned, but in the two years since its establishment, Cooper’s has become a local favorite thanks to its incomparable beer selection.

It has everything from the

kitschy (Monty Python’s Holy Grail—yes, that’s a real beer, and it’s awesome) to the decadent (Young’s Chocolate Stout) to the disconcertingly foreign (The Golden Pheasant from the ever-strange Slovak Republic).

In keeping with the season, they’re also serving pumpkin ale. And if you demand ingesting beer in some other form, go for the beer-cheese pretzels.

They will take you that much closer to a triple bypass, but what a way to go.

The walk away from a bar that’s just taken your fake ID is a long and frustrating one.

You ask yourself what gave it away—did you not answer the bouncer’s questions convincingly or quickly enough? Or did you not look confident like a 21-year-old when you handed him the ID?

But if you’re like me, the real answer to why you don’t have a fake ID anymore is simple: You went to Whiskey Jack’s.

The shiny new bar on State Street is more than willing to not only deny you at the door, but also take away that fake ID that was once your pass at Madison’s best drinking establishments.

Now you’re left to walk home and wonder if it trying to get in to Whiskey Jack’s was worth losing that golden ticket (hint—it wasn’t).

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Your ID says you’re 21, but he’s the one you have to convince. Jbob Immel on life in front of Wando’s.

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t’s a Saturday night and your big moment has finally come.

You’ve been growing your scrubby facial hair out for the last two weeks, and you’re wearing shades to cover up your bright blue eyes, even though your fake ID says they’re brown. Yes, tonight is the night you finally get into Wando’s bar in Madison, and now there’s only one obstacle standing in your way. His name: Jbob Immel. His

job: Experienced bouncer, the guy keeping you the fuck out.

Daily Cardinal: How many years have you been a bouncer?

Jbob Immel: Since I was 19, 7 years.

DC: How many bars have you worked at?

JI: [Wando’s] and the old Madhatters when it was at University Square.

DC: What would you say

an average weeknight is like at Wando’s? And what’s a weekend night like?

JI: On the average weeknight, I’m just checking IDs. There are very rarely fights; there’s very rarely anything that goes on unless there’s a random really drunk person.

The weekends are different.

More people are from out of town; people from all over the city are coming downtown to party and

that’s when there’s more altercations and incidents.

DC: What is the craziest experience you’ve ever had as a bouncer?

JI: More recently, one of my bouncers got bit. I’m the bouncer manager so I’m in charge of all that stuff. As we’re kicking the guy out, it was his birthday, he was too drunk and he took a swing at my face … he was taking the other guy down because he was attacking me again, and [the guy] bit him in the leg.

South Dakota’s used to be really big for fake IDs. California’s have always been faked. Every year it’s a new fake ID. Jbob Immel

Wando’s bouncer

[Another time] I got kicked in the face this summer and got 16 stitches in my eye. It wasn’t actually part of bouncing, we were out for the night [next to Wando’s]. The four of us got jumped by 30 guys; they stabbed a guy, one of the other [Wando’s] bouncers that was working that night came to break it up and he got his cheek fractured and I got kicked in the face and got 16 stitches. Lately the crowd outside has been a lot worse and more people are coming downtown just to cause trouble. The violence downtown is getting pretty crazy.

DC: How’d the fight go? Did you hold your own?

JI: We were winning battles but we couldn’t win the war. At that point, you’re going to get punched and kicked from every angle. You punch one of them and two would take their place. It was like “300” and it wasn’t going good. They ran off by the time the cops came. It was a bad night.

DC: How many fake IDs do you turn away on an average

weekend night?

JI: It depends; we turn away and take IDs. For years, [Wando’s] has been notorious for taking a lot of fake IDs. On a random weekend night we probably take a couple and turn away a couple. We take the ones that are for sure really fake and we turn away people that we’re not sure [about] rather than create a huge incident about it and possibly calling the cops.

DC: How easy is it to spot a fake ID? JI: Well I’ve been doing this for six years and at this point it’s pretty easy. There’s a lot of really good fakes going around right now like Pennsylvania. Every now and then there’s a new rise of a good fake ID that doesn’t get caught for a while until the bouncers figure out how to spot it and they take all of them.

Idaho’s used to be really big and South Dakota’s used to be really big for fake IDs. California’s have always been faked. Every year it’s a new fake ID, and apparently a lot of them are coming from China now. I was surprised to hear that.

DC: What’s the worst fake ID you’ve ever seen?

JI: Some really bad ones where it’s actually a fake ID and it’s not even their picture. Some of them where it’s clearly just a photocopied ID with just regular laminate over it where you can tell someone just made it at home or in their dorm. It’s clearly a fake ID with no hologram.

When I started when I was a freshman, a girl I was in the dorms with got into a bar with an Asian guy’s ID, and she was a white girl.

The bouncer just said “nice try” and let them in.

DC: What’s your favorite thing about being a bouncer?

JI: You get to work at a bar and get to hang out with your friends, but you don’t have a hangover the next day and you get paid. You get to work with good people, cute girls and you get to meet so many people.

DC: Any message from Jbob to those who are trying to get past you?

JI: Wait until you’re 21.

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Ballin’ on a Budget Going out to the bars is fun, but checking your bank account after a night out can be as scary as the Red Shed’s bathroom. So how can you get the most out of your dollar, without assaulting your stomach with Everclear each weekend? The Cardinal has these tips.

Broke cocktails You’re broke. Too broke. These are the drinks you make on that night your wallet’s empty, you’re cupboard’s bare and, out of necessity and lack of other options, Fleischmann’s is starting to taste a little less like paint thinner and a lot more like Grey Goose.

The Flatbush

1 part vodka 1 part Aunt Jemima’s Maple Syrup The Flatbush is a lot like unexpectedly ending up in its namesake Brooklyn neighborhood: It’s cool to talk about, but once you’ve experienced it you wonder how the hell you let yourself end up there.

Roy Loko

1 part Blue Mountain Dew 3 parts Gordon’s Vodka With its full body and taste, Roy Loko embodies the motto of its creator, Roy: No pain, no gain.

Related Drinking Game: Edward Lokohands Need: 2 Roy Loko’s, 1 roll of duct tape

The Diesel Rocket

Jim Beam Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup Monster Energy Drink Simply put, this is the crappy jet fuel that powers crappier nights. Caution: May cause permanent liver damage.

Andes Mint Shot

1 shot peppermint schnapps 1 liberal drizzle of chocolate syrup Mix well This is one of those shots that sounds pretty awful (not unlike basically everything else above it on this list) but actually isn’t bad.

The chocolate syrup is a bit counterintuitive in a shot, but with even the cheapest peppermint schnapps, they make for a good pair.

Be warned, though—clean out your shot glasses quickly, lest you be left with a caked-on layer of syrup the next day.

The Minty Beast

1 McDonald’s Shamrock Shake 1 Milwaukee’s Best This is the kind of drink that comes from an unwell mind.

Not to be attempted under any circumstances.

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The best of the worst Let’s be clear: If you’re drinking something on this list you’re not exactly living the high life, so word’s like “Best” and “Good” are relative terms that should be taken with a grain of salt. But for those of us drinking for economy who still want some taste, here’s the best booze for your money?

Vodka

Best Smirnoff Good Svedka Passable Burnett’s Bad Fleischmann’s Paint Thinner Mr. Boston’s

Rum

Tequila

Whiskey

Best Captain Morgan Good Bacardi Passable Ron Diaz Bad Admiral Nelson Paint Thinner

Best Jose Cuervo Gold Good Montezuma Gold Passable Juarez Gold Bad McCormick Paint Thinner

Best Seagram’s Good Canadian Club Passable Kessler Bad Old Crow Paint Thinner Old

Black Beard

Durango

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10/6

Old Tin Can String Band will be playing at Brocach Irish Pub starting at 9 p.m. Get your Bluegrass on.

If theater is more your schtick, you can catch the local production of “Z-Town: The Zombie Musical” at the Bartell Theatre at 8 p.m.

Digital Tape Machine will be playing at the Majestic Theatre at 9 p.m.

10/7

The Head and the Heart is sold out at Majestic, so if you don’t have tickets you should check out Sweet Honey in the Rock at the Wisconsin Union Theater.

If a cappella isn’t your thing you can try your own pipes out with the Gomers at the High Noon Saloon’s Rockstar Gomeroke at 5 p.m. for $5

10/8

Icarus Himself’s LP release party is happening at Memorial Union at 9:30 p.m.

If you’re more of the movie type, the Market Square Cinema is hosting Madison’s Horror Film Festival, featuring independent horror films from 11 a.m. until midnight. Regent Street Retreat is hosting the pre-party Friday starting at 7:45 p.m.

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Wednesday night is packed with live music next week all across town. Dessa will be playing at the High Noon Saloon, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad at the Frequency and Brett Dennen at the Overture Center.

Also, local gal Ida Jo will be performing an acoustic duo with Scott Lamps at the Merchant Cafe at 9 p.m.

Back in Black: Comedy at the Overture

By Matt Honig the daily cardinal

Lewis Black hates a lot of people. He hates Scientologists.

He hates Republicans (though he would rather be a Republican than a Scientologist) and Democrats alike—minus U.S. Senators Russ Feingold, Ted Kennedy, and Bernie Sanders, “the guy from Vermont.” The biggest asshole he has ever met, though? That award goes to Donald Trump. “[He’s a] total jerk off!”

Black said. “I’ve also met Dick Cheney but he’s in a whole other realm.”

There’s little wonder as to why the comedian has gained so much notoriety: “Back In

Black,” his segment on “The Daily Show,” is the longest running in the 15-year history of the program. Last week, he released his ninth CD, The Prophet. Madison will get a piece of Black’s mind Saturday, when his acclaimed national tour, In God We Rust, makes a stop at the Overture Center.

Black, famous for his political rants, will almost certainly tear the government a new one at this Saturday’s show.

When asked about his thoughts regarding the 2012 presidential field, the funny-man responded without hesitation.

“I think it’s appalling. Every four years I think, could it get worse?” Black said. “[President

Obama] couldn’t have done worse if he tried. I don’t know if he could have done worse than anybody else, but this is much worse than I expected. The Democrats given the opportunity to lead don’t lead. They don’t know how to lead! Clinton did it, but he’s really a Republican, a moderate Republican.”

As for his take on Scott Walker, Black had some advice for the governor that was surprisingly expletive-free: “Try to remember that it was unions who gave us the middle class. It’s that simple.”

Another burning political issue for Black is marijuana legalization. For him, legalization would be the ultimate

Baby Boomer legacy.

“We don’t have a legacy … our legacy right now is that we destroyed education,” Black said. “We really couldn’t put together a proper health-care system. We allowed corporations to run amok. Basically all we gotta do [is] pass the planet on to you and just make sure things aren’t worse, and they’ve gotten worse. We’ve got to make sure we leave something behind.”

Given his overtly bitter persona, it’s hard to believe that Black actually enjoys some things in life. Black loves both music (lately he’s been rocking out to “Flo’ + the Machine”) and cinema. He’s been a movie buff

since childhood and was happy to name off his favorite flicks, old and new. “‘Paths of Glory,’ ‘Dr. Strangleove,’ ‘ Truff aut,’ ‘The Inlaws,’ but I really fucking enjoyed ‘Pineapple Express’ and I just watched ‘Bridesmaids’ last night.

[Kirsten Wiig] is great.”

“You could make more money as a crack whore.”

Lewis Black Comedian

In addition to film, Black knows all about the stage world. Before becoming a comedian he worked as a playwright in Hell’s Kitchen.

“You could make more money as a crack whore,” he quipped.

Black has fond memories of recording his first live CD, The White Album, here in Madtown.

“Madison used to have a great comedy club [Laugh Lines] where I’ve played for a number of years. [The White Album] was recorded in that club,” Black reminisced. “The waitresses all wore plaid skirts and white shirts kinda like the Catholic school outfits.”

As a man who unabashedly loves alcohol, Black is definitely down with the way of Wisconsin.

“No one else had Ketel vodka [in America],” he said.

“You guys had Ketel two years before anyone else. Wisconsin had Jäger before anyone else.

Goldschläger before everybody else. You guys are crazy.”

Lewis Black is performing at The Overture Center on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. with tickets starting at $39.50.

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Don’t skimp on sex education

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isconsin Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, is currently circulating a bill that would remove the requirements for schools that offer a sexual health education program to teach about topics such as contraception and body image.

Instead, it promotes abstinence-only sexual education.

We feel that this bill will be a disservice to the children in Wisconsin public schools.

Lazich’s bill alters the 2009 Healthy Youth Act, which sets sensible requirements for sexual education classes. Among other things, the Healthy Youth Act requires teaching about FDA-

approved contraceptives, body image and other things that make socially conservative Wisconsin legislators squirm awkwardly in their seats. If Lazich’s bill passes, it would remove some important curriculum requirements and instead “recommend” teaching abstinence as the “only reliable way” to avoid pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.

Lazich’s bill would present local school districts with the option to refrain from teaching about any contraception. We think this is an undesirable option to give school districts. Sexual education is as important as any

other part of education, and our public schools have a duty to prepare students for their futures. Many students will make the choice to engage in sexual activity. It is important to teach students about all of the safe and proven options to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

Because of this, we believe schools across Wisconsin should continue to provide a comprehensive sexual education, at age-appropriate times.

This should includes teaching about contraception.

It is important to teach students about all of the safe and proven options to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

Another misguided part of Lazich’s bill would forbid community volunteers, namely Planned Parenthood, from teaching lessons in public schools. Lazich tries to frame

her bill as a way to give more control to individual school districts, but this restriction goes directly against her narrative. Planned Parenthood provides important family planning lessons to students, and Lazich and her bill’s supporters do not see this—they only see a place that provides abortions. However, banning an organization that specializes in sexual health and family planning from teaching about their expertise denies students a valuable education.

That said, we believe that parents should have the option to take their students out of these lessons. The Healthy Youth Act, which allows parents to file a request with a school’s principal to exempt their student from sexual education lessons, already gives parents this option. Current law already mixes the ideal of having comprehensive sexual education lessons in Wisconsin’s schools with the right of parents to exempt their children from these sensitive topics.

If parents are willing to go through the trouble of contacting the principal, we

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believe they are already active in their children’s lives. Other parents, however, may not teach their children about sex.

If schools do not offer comprehensive sexual education lessons, which could happen if Lazich’s bill passes, then some students may never receive this information in an appropriate setting.

We hope the legislature does not pass Lazich’s bill and preserves the current requirements for teaching these valuable lessons

Lazich’s bill would remove valuable requirements in public school sexual education. We feel that the current Healthy Youth Act provides students with a well-rounded sexual education and provides parents with the option to remove their children from these lessons. We hope the state legislature does not pass Lazich’s bill and preserves the current requirements for teaching these valuable lessons.

Students should take a different look at Israel

By Natanya Russek Opinion contributor

What did you do this summer?

I’ve heard and asked this question innumerably in my first month back at UW-Madison. People responded with “I worked,” “I volunteered” or “I took classes.”

So, what do I answer to the most popular ice-breaker? I went to Israel. In response, I frequently am asked, “Didn’t you feel unsafe?” “Weren’t you scared?”

The truth is, I felt safe in Israel. My trip to Israel was, in general, similar to experiences in other countries: days packed with traveling, visiting historical sites, eating delicious food, learning a foreign language and diving into another culture.

This is not, however, the Israel portrayed in the news—a place wrought with constant violence. Politicians, newscasters, pundits and many college students draw conclusions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without developing a comprehensive

understanding of the issues.

With the “Arab Spring” influencing world politics and garnering endless international attention, many UW-Madison students have been skeptical about my experiences in Israel.

I challenge students to develop an understanding of IsraeliPalestinian relations and conflicts before blindly believing media spins and myths.

Israel longs for peace as much as any other nation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the US Congress in May stated, “all six Israeli prime ministers since the signing of the Oslo accords [in 1993] agreed to establish a Palestinian state, myself included.”

The peace process in the Middle East is dependent on the cooperation of both Israelis and Palestinians. Israel has invited leaders of the Palestinian Authority to peace negotiations and made many generous offers. However, even when offered complete mili-

tary control of the Gaza Strip and 97 percent of the West Bank, the Palestinians consistently refuse to recognize Israel. Last week, the Palestinian Authority began seeking unilateral statehood recognition at United Nations. Their hope is to delegitimize Israel as a country by attempting to isolate it on an international stage. With no intent to enter into any conversations with Israel, the Palestinians are undermining all Israeli efforts toward peace.

“Palestinians and Israelis should sit down together and negotiate an agreement of mutual recognition and security,” said Netanyahu in a bilateral meeting with President Barack Obama on Sept. 21. “This is the only way to get to a stable and endurable peace.”

Since its foundation, the State of Israel has offered an outstretched hand to achieve peace with its neighbors. Supporting peace through direct negotiations is the only way to obtain true and

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lasting peace in the Middle East.

So take a minute and educate yourself on the issues facing Israelis and Palestinians. And, if you have the chance, visit Israel.

The country’s natural and cultural beauty may inspire you, as it did to me, to learn the truth in pursuit of peace.

Natanya Russek is a sophomore majoring in biolog y-neurobiolog y and modern Hebrew.

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Badger defenseman Justin Schultz returns this season determined to lead his team back to national prominience Story by Ryan Evans

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hen the name Justin Schultz comes up in conversation, it is usually in regards to the best players in college hockey today.

The Wisconsin men’s hockey junior defenseman had a year for the ages last season but, as he would tell you, he was far more concerned with the disappointing results of the Badgers 2010-’11 campaign.

Schultz returns this season for UW, and is ready to elevate his game to a new level, motivated by his desire to return Wisconsin hockey to its accustomed level of success.

The native of West Kelowna, British Colombia, would be hard pressed to replicate his numbers from a season ago. His 47 points not only made him the Badgers’ leading scorer, but the nation’s highest scoring defenseman as well. His 18 goals were the most by a collegiate blue liner since 2002-’03.

As a result, the awards and honors piled up for Schultz: First team All-American, First-team All-WCHA, WCHA Defensive Player of the Year, Inside College Hockey National Defenseman of the Year, College Hockey News First Team Defenseman, and he was one of the 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given annually to the nation’s best collegiate hockey player.

This past offseason, Schultz watched as teammates Jake Gardiner (Toronto), Craig Smith (Nashville) and Jordy Murray (Rapperswil-Swiss League) left school early for the greener pastures of professional hockey. After the season he had—and as a 2008 second round pick of the Anaheim Ducks—Schultz surely had the same option but elected to remain at Wisconsin.

He made the decision almost immediately after the Badgers’ first-round WCHA playoff loss

to Colorado College and reiterated it throughout the summer.

Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves is happy to have Schultz back. Earlier this week he said there is a “sense of peace” in getting one of the nation’s best college hockey players back on your blue line—specifically mentioning his role running the Badgers’ power play. Schultz led the country with 27 points on the man advantage last year.

“I want to have a better year than last year as a team; that’s number one on my list of goals.”

Justin Schultz junior defenseman UW men’s hockey

Schultz said his decision to come back was, in part, fueled by a desire to improve on his personal game, but was more about getting what he described as the “sour taste” left by Wisconsin’s lackluster end to the 2010-’11 season out of his mouth.

“I wasn’t at all happy with how the team did [last season],” Schultz said. “I want to have a better year than last year as a team; that’s number one on my list of goals.”

According to Schultz, memories of his freshman year, when the Badgers reached the national title game only to fall to Boston College, still rings fresh in his mind and serves as his motivation to stick with college hockey.

“Going all the way and losing in the national championship game, that was a heartbreaker,” Schultz said. “I really want to win and hopefully we can do that this year.”

“The goal is always to win the last game of the season,” he added. “That’s the reason you

come to play every season.”

As one of the elder statesmen on a young and inexperienced Badgers team this year, Schultz—who is serving as an assistant captain this season— has found himself stepping up as a leader, working to improve his vocal presence as opposed to just leading by example.

“I’ve always been a guy that goes out there, does my thing and hopefully [my teammates] watch me and learn what I do,” Schultz said. “This year I’m trying to improve my vocal stuff; talking to the younger guys and being more of a vocal leader in the dressing room.”

The young members of Wisconsin’s roster could do a lot worse than to emulate Schultz this season. He was a unanimous selection for the preseason All-WCHA team as a defenseman, and is being called a preseason favorite for the Hobey Baker.

“A lot of good players have won the award and have been up for it,” Schultz said of the Hobey Baker. “It’s definitely an honor to be mentioned in that category of player.”

“I had a great year last year, I’m not expecting to have an even better year, it could be unrealistic,” he said. “I’m going to go out there and play the game like I always have and we’ll see what happens.”

Schultz is the consummate team-first player, always putting team success ahead of personal accolades. He is fueled by a deep desire to win and comes into this season ready to lead his team’s renaissance.

If he is successful in bringing Wisconsin men’s hockey back to national prominience and if he puts up the numbers he is more than capable of, Schultz just might find that college hockey’s ultimate personal honor will be waiting for him at the end of the year.