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Parade fall yields weeks in hospital A student seriously injured after falling from a Homecoming float Friday will remain hospitalized for “several weeks,” according to an e-mail sent to College of Engineering students Monday.

The undergraduate woman, 22, was hospitalized Friday after falling from the Society of Women Engineers’ parade float and getting run over by a doubleaxle trailer, according to police.

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Center for Equal Opportunity President Roger Clegg explained the group’s findings about the UW-Madison admissions process at a public hearing Monday. Student groups responded by abstaining from attending the hearing.

Admissions policy revisited Clegg explains CEO findings

By Samy Moskol The Daily Cardinal

Center for Equal Opportunity President Roger Clegg said UW-Madison’s holistic admissions policy engages in racial and ethnic discrimination during a state committee hearing Monday.

In September, conservative think tank CEO released a study alleging UW-Madison favors black and Latino applicants over white and Asian applicants

in the undergraduate and law school admissions process.

Committee on Colleges and Universities Chair Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, raised concerns about UW’s admissions policy following the study’s publication in September and called for the public hearing.

Although the hearing was public, speakers from

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Student groups take new approach

By Kelly Kallien The Daily Cardinal

During a hearing at the Capitol discussing UW-Madison’s holistic admissions policy Monday, some student and teaching assistant groups abstained and held a press conference to discuss “more important” issues facing the university.

In September, controversy erupted after the Center for Equal Opportunity said the uni-

versity discriminates against white and Asian students in its admissions policy.

Originally, many student groups engaged in protests throughout campus but recently chose not to give CEO further attention.

“We all agreed that the CEO claims are not important,” Associated Students of Madison Rep. Tia Nowack

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“We all wish a speedy recovery to the student injured.”

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The student was then transported to UW Hospital with serious injuries, according to Madison Police Department Sergeant Paul Jacobsen.

An e-mail sent by Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and College of Engineering professor Steven M. Cramer Monday said the woman will remain in the hospital for several weeks.

“We all wish a speedy recovery to the student injured,” Cramer’s e-mail said.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said Sunday the injured student is expected to make a full recovery.

SJ upholds ruling to remove student leaders

By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

The Student Judiciary upheld its decision to remove two student leaders from their seats Monday.

The SJ removed former Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Beth Huang and Nominations Board Chair Nico Magallon in September after it ruled the leaders failed to turn in required service hours on time.

SJ Chief Justice Kate Fifield said the body upheld its original decision to remove the leaders because Huang and Magallon would not have submitted their service hours had they not been reminded on the Sept. 15 deadline.

Since they “forgot,” the SJ ruled

the hours they submitted were not completed with the requirement in mind and were thus invalid.

But Huang said they chose to submit hours spent working at the ASM Textbook Swap and Recruitment Drive because the original offense for which the service hours were required, canvassing for the spring elections in the dorms, was against the student body.

She said although they did not consider working for ASM to be punishment for the offense, she thought it was most appropriate for the service hours they completed to be for the benefit of the student body.

“Although I would never feel

punished to volunteer in the ASM textbook swap or recruitment drive, I think that it’s been a process that has been thoroughly punitive,” Huang said.

Fifield said Huang and Magallon cannot appeal the SJ’s ruling.

The ASM Nominations Board is scheduled to fill the vacant seats within two weeks. Huang said she plans to apply for the vice chair position through the board and is confident she will be reinstated.

“I think that I served ASM in a very full capacity in the past year and a half and I think Noms Board will recognize that,” Huang said.

ASM is currently soliciting students to fill the now-vacant positions.

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Former ASM Vice Chair Beth Huang said she plans to go through the ASM Nominations Board to return to her position.

“…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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ow depressing it is to be 22 years old and feel that your best years are behind you. As a senior I am sick of hearing that we should all relish this last year of what will undeniably be “the best time in our lives.” It’s not that I don’t enjoy college or living out the stereotypes that go along with it. I just think that for most people, it is defeatist to admit they peak so early. However, what irks me most about this statement is I know it is certifiably false—I hit my prime in the sixth grade.

I’d barely, if at all, hit puberty and couldn’t have been producing many pheromones. Yet, I exuded an animal magnetism that was irresistible to preteen girls. I couldn’t go a mall, movie theatre or little league game without getting hit on. Something about me made those sixth grade girls throw out their slyness and

years of social reinforcement that dictate it is the man who should court the woman.

At first I relished in the attention, as any chubby boy who’d just managed to outgrow his baby fat and ice cream for breakfast addiction would, but eventually I began to dread going out in public and having to face the burden of unwanted advances. I would appease any girl in polite conversation, but this became nearly impossible because of the sheer magnitude.

Not to mention many of the girls had the conversational skills of a drunk bro with a bachelor’s degree in fantasy football.

Girls would often approach me and say things such as “you’re hot” or even worse “can I get your number?” and then go silent, leaving the responsibility of interesting dialogue solely on me. Never once did they have the competence to inquire about my passions, hopes and dreams.

Although, at 12 years old such things generally fell into the category of being either trivial or entirely implausible.

Eventually this dehumaniza-

tion caused me to become much more forthright and vicious in my rejections.

Then—all of a sudden—girls stopped approaching me. I wondered: “Am I no longer attractive? Has my harsh rejections created a lurking cloud of bad Karma?” Sure I found their methods tiresome, but I’d enjoyed the validation. Few celebrities enjoy having their lives invaded by paparazzi, but surely they revel in the thought that they are important enough to have paparazzi in the first place.

In the course of a few years I faced a rapid ascent and subsequent descent in my social status. How could I go from a preteen heartthrob to an average teenager? I’d not even finished puberty when I was forced to go through a dreary reexamination of my significance in the world—an arduous proposition that perhaps only female Chinese gymnasts and Danny Bonaduce can relate to.

Nonetheless, I am thankful for the experiences of my adolescence. For one, they’ve given me an uncanny ability to understand all the things an

attractive girl has to go through whenever she is in public.

That’s why whenever I see a young female that interests me, I make it a point to communicate that I know what she’s going though.

“Hey sorry to bother you, I know as a very attractive young woman you probably get hit on multiple times a day by a bunch of pathetic dorks or douche bags. Guys who just don’t understand you; who can’t see you as anything more than a pretty face with an ass that belongs in a Flo Rida video. I know you’ll appreciate this sincerity because I know how valuable your time is; I wouldn’t want to waste any of it. I just wanted to say you’re totally hot, and I relate to that because I’ve been there too.”

Girls are often taken aback and flattered from my insightful remarks. However, for some reason, I still find it difficult to recreate the magic I had in sixth grade when I was in my prime.

Gone from stud muffin to desperate wannabe? E-mail Elliot at eignasiak@wisc.edu to relive your glory days.

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Ask Bascom:

advice from a Wisconsinite Dear Bascom,

that I would only do these things if my roommate I’m a freshman living in the weren’t in the room (…or dorms and I have a terrible passed out drunk). roommate. There isn’t a The main thing to moment in the day when she keep in mind is that isn’t chewing with her mouth you’re both in the same open, texting maniacally, boat. While all of the skyping at full volume or sitting things your roommate on MY BED with her shoes does are bothersome, on! I thought I could just grin just remember that she is and bear it but she is nuts, and likely thinking the same slowly my mind and GPA are thing about some of your dying. Help me out. habits (like waking up every morning at 6:45 —On the verge of a nervous to shower and straighten breakdown. your hair, and demanding that all of the DVDs Dear girl on the verge, remain alphabetized).

College, especially Tell your roommate I’m freshman year, is a time sorry she has to share her for change and finding room with such an uptight out who you really are. and uncompassionate If your roommate person! Sheesh! decides this is the person Alright, I’m only she wants to be, she will slightly kidding here, but gravitate toward people like actually, you’re roommate herself, in which case you’re sounds exactly like me, stuck with an inconvenient with the minor exception roommate. On the other

hand, if she receives the rude awakening that I reckon is on its way, she will gradually change her habits and you may find cohabitation to be less of a burden and more of an experience, for both of you.

At any rate, you shouldn’t expect her to change unless you endlessly blackmail or threaten her. What we know for sure in this situation is that you are the one inconvenienced, so do something about it: when she decides to nuke some Ramen in the microwave, head down to the dining hall with friends to avoid her slurping and chomping; when she’s skyping, take a study break and head to the SERF; and the next time she tries to sit on your bed, slap her in the face.

If it really comes down to it, the only thing you really

need to do in your room is sleep, so find places on campus to accomplish all of your daily tasks (e.g. library, a friend’s room, any building or room labeled “off limits” and guarded with a giant threeheaded dog).

And if nothing else, get a boyfriend and stay in his dorm, though I expect you might, in turn, run back to your roommate.

Oh, also, retaliate.

—M. Wendt

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Businesses react to State Street plan

By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal

Construction proposed for a State Street project that would generate revenue for the Overture Center at the more immediate expense of closing State Street establishments like Frida’s Mexican Grill for up to 15 months was presented to the community Monday.

The proposal calls for renovating and demolishing various properties on State Street’s 100 block to revitalize the Overture Center and Central Library area with reconfigured retail and office spaces, according to project manager George Austin.

Madison philanthropists Jerry and Pleasant Frautschi, whose $205 million contribution funded the Overture Center’s creation, own all properties involved. In addition to footing the renovations’ entire $10 million budget, the Frautschis would donate all annual net revenue generated to the Overture Center.

“We’re facing a move, and [the project] is going to cost us tens of thousands of dollars to find a [new] location that we can afford,” owner of Vic’s Corn Popper Lubna Azad said.

Sam Lambert, a manager at neighboring Frida’s, was more optimistic, saying the restaurant’s lease allows them to return to the premises once construction ends.

In a press release, the Block 100 Foundation overseeing the project said it was “doubtful” businesses would return after the interruptive 15-month construction period.

Austin said Monday the foundation would “engage in discussion” with leaseholders about future occupancy.

One Overture Center usher applauded the project’s atheistic potential.

“I wear a suit and I seat people for $85 shows, and they look out of this beautiful glass window at a back alley,” he said.

Some of the project’s buildings are designated city landmarks, an added complication that may push completion back further than anticipated.

“These buildings are among the oldest in the city,” Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said. His district encompasses the proposed project site. “Historic preservation is definitely an issue that I think is number one in most people’s minds.”

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MIU Advising Working Group Chair Annette McDaniel said the university can improve advising by helping advisers across campus better coordinate with each other.

Group recommends changes to advising

By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

A group created by the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates outlined recommendations it said would improve advising at UW-Madison Monday, including better connecting students to advisers and adding about 20 new advising positions.

The MIU set aside $1.5 million to “transform the undergraduate advising experience.” The MIU Advising Working Group was formed to determine the best ways to make the improvements, Chair Annette McDaniel said.

“I think a new era for advising is beginning and is really taking shape and form at UW-Madison, partly because of this work and the opportunity

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Members of MCSC told SSFC their staff spends a majority of its time providing students direct services.

SSFC hears MCSC funding eligibility

By David Klein The Daily Cardinal

The Multicultural Student Coalition told the Student Government Finance Committee Monday it is eligible to receive funding.

MCSC Diversity Educator Rebecca Pons said the group benefits the UW-Madison community in many ways, such as acting as first responders to incidents of racism and sexism on campus.

SSFC Rep. Cale Plamann asked how much of MCSC’s time is devoted to providing students on campus services. To be eligible for funding, the MCSC’s staff must spend at least 60 percent of its time directly serving students.

After the group listed how each of its staff members directly serves the student body, Plamann said he was still uncertain whether MCSC fulfilled the requirement.

“I didn’t get a lot of very key questions answered,” Plamann said. “I’m in limbo at the moment.”

SSFC will determine if MCSC is eligible for funding Thursday.

Aside from its eligibility hearing, MCSC Diversity Educator Nneka Akubeze spoke against

SSFC’s decision to deny MCSC a budget alteration last week.

Akubeze said the group needed the alteration to pay alumni to come from out of town to train MCSC members.

“These people have families and jobs,” Akubeze said. “It’s unreasonable to expect MCSC alumni to fly to Madison on their own time and do it for free.”

SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart denied the request for the budget alteration last week because if the request had been granted, the group would not have finished its budget outline by their eligibility hearing.

Plamann said the group could find people to train members at a lower price.

“We have to remember we’re using student funds here,” Plamann said. “Because of that, we should be looking at reasonable amounts of funds.”

Akubeze said SSFC should not inhibit the group from functioning at its fullest capacity.

“It’s important for you all to provide the most resources possible for students on campus,” Akubeze said.

UW-Madison were selected from a list submitted to Nass by the university.

“It is simply untenable for our government institutions, including our state universities, to treat some people better and other people worse depending on skin color and what country their ancestors came from,” Clegg told the committee Monday.

Of the public schools studied across the country, Clegg said UW-Madison has the most discriminatory admissions policies.

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Although they deemed CEO’s claims “unimportant,” the groups did not completely ignore them. Following the conference, the students marched down State Street chanting, “Education is a right, not just for the rich and white.”

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that we have,” McDaniel said.

From the results of the 14-month study, the committee recommended the chancellor and provost “improve access to advisors, create a system for campuswide advising leadership and coordination, improve advisingrelated technology and improve advisor training and assessment” at UW-Madison with the money allotted through the MIU to improve advising.

McDaniel said the group asked students, officials from other campuses, advisers and administrators how they could best develop UW-Madison advising.

“We had a lot of really hard decisions to make,” McDaniel said. “It was a long, reflective process bringing in a lot of stakeholders and synthesizing as a

group what we had learned.”

Of the $1.5 million, the committee recommended the university use just over $1 million to improve access to advisers, $340,000 to create a system for campus-wide advising leadership and $150,000 to improve advising-related technology.

To improve access to advisers, the group recommended adding 20-24 new full-time advising positions.

McDaniel said she was excited students recognized the need for a group that would help coordinate communication among advisers throughout the campus.

“Our presupposing that they wouldn’t understand the importance of building a strong infrastructure for advising was not lost on them,” McDaniel said.

Clegg said UW-Madison should be considering socioeconomic disadvantage instead of skin color when considering enrollment.

There is a “big difference between saying that you’re going to give special consideration to students in the face of poverty [and giving] special consideration to students because of their skin color,” Clegg said.

The group based its findings on ACT and SAT scores, as well as retention rates.

State Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, critiqued Clegg for exaggerating how “divisive” the

issue is in Wisconsin.

“You’ve determined the problem but you’ve also enhanced what that problem is,” Berceau said.

UW-Madison Vice Provost Paul De Luca said CEO’s analysis “disturbed” him by focusing on “quantitative variables” in admissions decisions.

“No student is accepted solely because of race or ethnicity or any other non-academic factor for that matter,” De Luca said.

The UW Board of Regents may take up the UW admissions policy at its next meeting in December.

nized the press conference, which included student government, the Multicultural Student Coalition, the Teaching Assistants’ Association and several other groups. When planning the press conference, she said the groups decided it should focus on issues facing the university that they deemed more important than the hearing.

“The legislators [should] focus on increasing accessibility in college rather than wasting their

time listening to these out-ofstate corporate interests complain about how there aren’t enough white people at our school,” ASM Rep. David Vines said.

Other problems discussed at the press conference included making higher education more affordable, creating a better job climate for students during and after college and combating voting restrictions caused by a voter ID law passed in May.

Recalled senator arrested driving under the influence Recently recalled Former state Sen. Randy Hopper was arrested for drunken driving Sunday in Fond du Lac. At 5:30 p.m. Sunday, a citizen reported to the Fond du Lac Police Department that a car was being driven “all over the road” on U.S. 151. The driver, Hopper, purportedly

refused a breathalyzer test before being arrested for operating while intoxicated.

Hopper eventually submitted to a breath test in jail to determine his blood alcohol content, which was above the Wisconsin legal limit of .08.

Hopper was released from jail Monday.

Chief Deputy Mark Strand told The Fond du Lac Reporter the Hopper case will be handled like any other.

“We arrest hundreds of people a year for [OWI],” Strand said.

“Hopper will just be one of those.”

Hopper lost his Senate seat to Jessica King, D-Oshkosh, in August.

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n recent months, I’ve been forced to come to terms with the fact that somewhere along the line, I became a hipster. For most, “hipster” remains a dirty word, an insult implying shallow self-absorption and a snobbish enslavement to certain ephemeral trends. I prefer to be more optimistic.

Remember that Jack Kerouac and Cosmo Kramer were the proto-typical hipsters of their respective times and places (50s America and 90s television, respectively) and that the Smashing Pumpkins once celebrated the alternative nation with the slogan “Hipsters Unite!”

Like many Pumpkins tracks, though, “Cherub Rock” was ambiguous. It was equally well-taken as a sincere rallying cry or a sarcastic anti-anthemic rant, Billy Corgan’s brutal parody of Nirvana’s already oblique generational angst. But then, that is really the problem with hipsters, isn’t it? You can never be quite sure whether they are being ironic or earnest.

Assuming, of course, that they know themselves.

So, I remain heavily vexed by the “hipster problem.” I am sure that I have become one, and yet I cannot even clearly define “hipster.” No one seems to have an exact definition, though most can offer a few key characteristics. Most popular amongst my highly scientific straw poll were tight pants, ironic facial hair, an irrational love of fixed gear bikes and especially “trying too hard to be cool.”

I find this last description particularly apt as it illuminates the characteristic that so obliviously powers the hipster nation: insecurity. So many hipsters seemed to be fueled by one-ups-manship and the entangled desires to be simultaneously both more like and yet somehow ‘better’ than their fellow hipsters.

Perhaps you too have come across the all too common phenomenon of the very hipster-looking fellow or lady who simply cannot shut up about their undying, vehement hatred for hipsters.

How and why does this happen? I suspect that the same hyper-awareness of the world around them and its supposed divisions into hierarchies of good to worse infect these individuals to their core. Their insecurity compels them to have an almost psychotic need for association with the best possible and most obscure music, clothes and film.

It additionally compels them to disdain all that fails to live up to their “refined” standards.

Since hipsters have been labeled social pariahs in our youth society, hipsters themselves must seek above all else to deny the disease, even while exhibiting symptom after symptom.

In turn, my insecurity coupled

with my awareness of their sad situation compels me to disdain their disdain. It only gets worse from there, as I—and any other particular hipster—struggle for an upper hand in the game of meta-contextualization of each another’s lack of self-awareness.

And yet even as our insecurity and trivial obsessions alienate us from one another, being a hipster inevitably means having even less in common with any non-citizen of hipsterdom.

These strange creatures (the common dude or dudette) often seem dull or uneducated, and in any case have no patience whatsoever for our pretentions and over-calculated interests.

Perhaps it may seem that I am being too hard on myself, that I am a guilt-ridden ‘selfhating hipster.’ Allow me, then, to rescue a portion of the hipster community by dividing it into two categories.

Both categories derive their overly calculated interests largely from the “official sources” (largely critics, the gatekeepers, whom every hipster secretly aspires to be. After all, even more so than the hippest filmmaker, musician or fiction writer, the critic lives and dies by his taste and especially by his ability to contextualize).

Some hipsters, however, differentiate themselves by actually prioritizing the immense joy they find in the consumption of the “official” hip products over the need to use these products as totems against their self-doubt.

The insecurity and the need to be “better,” i.e. continually being more and more discriminating and stylish as well as educated in the obscure hidden gems of their fields of interest, will almost invariably persist. For the better category of hipster, though, the sheer beauty of the art being appreciated will be first and foremost in the mind of the subject.

Hipsterdom should and could be a community dedicated to the celebration of the beauty of humanity and its creations. Instead, it is too-often the realm of the celebration of the self over the other. Really, such a discerning, tasteful group could do much better.

If you are reading this, hipsters, I urge you to not fear your birthright. In the name of Steve Malkmus, Norman Mailer and the Fonz, let us take back the word with which we are scorned and let us be the best possible versions of ourselves by celebrating each other, rather simply tearing each other down. To borrow the words of a man whose early work still holds our favor, “Hipsters Unite!”

Or, if you prefer to forget the self-indulgent epistemological babble I spew and instead pursue a less somber mission, may I recommend, “Stay cool, and be somebody’s fool this year”?

Self-serious pretensions and the Pumpkins’ post-reunion slop be damned; it’s not bad advice.

E-mail questions and comments to seraphin@wisc.edu

dailycardinal.com/arts Just in time for Halloween is the release of “Paranormal Activity 3”, also coming out Oct. 21. However, its attempts at spooky suspense turn out to be more of a yawn-producer than a thriller.

In wide release comes “The Three Musketeers”, a remake of the Alexandre Dumas classic. This action-filled “reimagination,” as producers love to say, is shot entirely in 3D and looks to be an entertaining, non-challenging flick.

In limited release Friday, select audiences can see “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey”. This documentary is about Kevin Clash, the man behind our beloved

Elmo and has so far garnered some praise as a touching (albeit slow) portrayal of a rarely examined profession.

Being released this Tuesday, Oct. 18 through Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is the game “Batman: Arkham City” for Play Station 3 and Xbox 360. Critics have praised the game as a triumph that is much better than previous Batman gaming efforts.

My Brightest Diamond, who performed live at UW last year, is also releasing their album All Things Will Unwind Oct. 18. It’s is getting a good amount of buzz for its honesty and folk-inspired harmonies.

Dreaming of M83’s latest album

By Jacqueline Schaefer the daily cardinal

With hundreds of albums being released this year, how does one distinguish between the good and the bad? What makes M83’s new album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming float to the top of the music pool?

The hazy beats that encapsulate the mind make listening to this album an experience, a getaway from the stressors of daily life.

That feeling of serenity, paired with equally as engaging lyrics makes this album worth a listen, out of those hundreds released.

French-electronic musician, Anthony Gonzalez, is the man behind M83. He decided to approach this album differently by creating 22 tracks, splitting the album into two parts. This choice marks up the iTunes classic $9.99 price-tag to $14.99. Is this a risky choice in today’s economy? Will the extra five dollars be a deal-breaker?

Signs point to “no,” based on the enthusiastic fan-base surrounding M83. Gonzalez’s previous album, Saturday’=Youth released in 2008, claimed the No. 4 spot on

Billboard’s Dance/Electronic chart, selling over 76,000 copies. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is set to be released on Tuesday, Oct. 18.

CD REVIEW

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83 B+

Unfortunately, M83’s 2011 tour passes over Madison, but hits Minneapolis and Chicago in November. For now, we can use iTunes to pick up the new album, or Spotify for free listens.

The strong point of the album is the recognizability of outside musical influences. This familiarity factor immediately allows the music to sink in a little deeper, hitting all the right emotional chords. While I was listening to it, I noticed apparent connections to a Sigur Ros-style full-sounding

feeling, where the white noise was limited, or non-existent. There was also a dream-like melody within an electronic beat, similar to styles produced by Gayngs.

However, M83 definitely shows a more upbeat inflection throughout their songs, making them unique. Albeit, the relaxed beats provide a time of reflection within the album, which integrates the album and provides a cohesive feel.

Some tracks that stuck out were “Year One, One UFO”, “Where the Boats Go”, “Wait”, and “Splendor.”

If you’ve got a limited amount of time, these are the singles that are most worth listening to.

Overall, the album was a heart-felt flow of lyrics and beats that would be a positive addition to anyone’s music collection.

Of course, no album’s content are purely divine. A few songs became quickly repetitive and cluttered with noise that had no apparent purpose. Considering these factors, the album has earned itself a B+. It will definitely add more to your life than take away­—happy dreaming.

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fighting heroin worth Overture cuts

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mid a growing heroin and opiate problem in the city, Mayor Paul Soglin announced changes to the 2012 budget. Among the changes, he plans to reduce funding to the Overture Center to offset increased spending to deal with the burgeoning drug problem.

Soglin diminished funds to

the Overture Center to $1.3 million from the $2 million Mayor Dave Cieslewicz previously allocated to the venue. Soglin plans to allocate $45,000 of the city’s operating budget to fund a police task force on heroin and opiates.

Although this move comes as no surprise to some legislators the budget cuts are disap-

pointing to others, including Overture President Tom Carto.

“We’re willing to take a proportional hit like everybody else,” said Carto, “but we believe this is disproportional.”

This board understands the frustration coming from the Overture Center offices; however, drug-free streets should take priority in the city budget.

From an economic standpoint, cleaning up our streets is vital to economic success. More people will be willing to come here if our streets are safer, which helps downtown businesses. The point of the Overture Center in the first place was to attract more people to the area, but if downtown becomes a breeding ground for heroin addicts, where’s the appeal? No family is going to want to go downtown to see a show if it means subjecting their kids to the repellent world of drugs.

Furthermore, the Madison police have a thorough plan in place to combat the problem. Soglin isn’t just throwing money at the issue hoping that it will magically fix the problem. Addressing the problem at the source will help the city prevent future drug problems.

Drug-free streets should take priority in the city budget.

Madison police have identified “hot spots” around town that have been determined as popular places addicts ingest heroin. These places include gas stations, fast food restaurants, grocery stores and

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shopping malls. Police officers will be giving extra attention to these places. By patrolling more often and taking a proactive approach to ending this approaching epidemic, the city will have a better chance of solving the problem and do so at a lower cost.

The bottom line is that this heroin problem could snowball out of control, pushing away businesses and families. Being proactive in crushing this problem should be a top priority. This board recognizes the struggles that the Overture Center will face with the change in the budget, which is why we implore potential donors to continue contributing to the Overture Center. By working together, the city and donors can continue to provide Madison residents with a variety of arts and entertainment in a safe environment.

iPad spending spree shows Walker’s wastefulness Ryan waal opinion columnist

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ast February, Gov. Scott Walker became a Republican icon after successfully orchestrating the near complete destruction of union rights in Wisconsin.

Walker and the state GOP managed to strip collective bargaining rights for almost all public workers by separating the ini-

tial budget bill into two portions: one bill that comprises the state budget, and another that solely exists to strip public union rights.

These events were heavily reported and most everyone in the state now has a strong opinion about whether Walker’s practices were morally or practically sound. What’s often forgotten in these discussions is that, before Walker signed the blatantly union-killing bill, he initially argued that the rights had to be taken away in order to balance the state’s bud-

get. “I don’t have anything to negotiate,” Walker declared in February while promoting his budget. “We’re broke.”

However, Walker’s spending spree is emblematic of his lack of credibility on budgetary matters.

That phrase, “we’re broke,” is repeated a lot by Walker.

Yet, in spite of the dire financial straits which he warns of in speech after speech, it was reported last week that an agency which Walker personally created, spent $60,000 on iPads for a staff technology upgrade. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. purchased 73 iPads and 3G service for half of the tablets purchased with public, tax payer funds. In an article by Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Tom Thielding, a WEDC spokesman explained that the 73 iPads were “cheaper than buying everyone a laptop.”

This assertion is false.

Anyone who even casually travels to commercial electronics stores knows that there are several laptops from brands such as HP, Toshiba and others that retail well below $499, the current retail price for the basic, 16GB model of the iPad2 which Walker’s staff purchased. If you want something cheaper than a laptop, there are netbooks, humble computers to be sure, but their price in the mid $200 region makes them extremely affordable for companies looking to buy computers in bulk.

There are countless options of equally new, perfectly usable computers available for Walker’s staff to buy, and the notion that iPads were a more cost-efficient option for the agency is absurd. Meanwhile, Bice’s article contains another questionable assertion by Walker’s staff. Theilding claims that the iPads were a necessary purchase, saying “The old Department of Commerce…was just lumbering along.” That claim has been refuted by an anonymous employee of the Doyle administration, who Bice quotes as saying he “never” thought the technology department was in need of a technology upgrade.

It’s difficult to get too upset about small scale-business expenses such as this. In 2010, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, attempted to demonstrate fiscal responsibil-

ity by proposing a 5 percent cut to every Congressional office, a meaningless savings of $30 million among a multi-trillion dollar deficit. Just as Boehner and other politicians who practice similar acts of grandstanding deserve no credit for responsible spending, Walker doesn’t necessarily deserve to be labeled an irresponsible spender for the iPad splurge alone.

However, Walker’s spending spree is emblematic of his lack of credibility on budgetary matters. In March, it was reported that Walker had spent nearly $41,000 on travel expenses in his first three months in office, more than twice the amount Jim Doyle had spent in the same time period. Also in March, Walker asked the federal government for $150 million in stimulus money for necessary upgrades the state’s train system after publicly and theatrically rejecting the high speed rail funds during his campaign.

Then, of course, there is the biggest fiscal lie Walker told: that the state was facing a $137 million dollar deficit in the coming year and needed to cut worker’s rights to save it. This artificially created budget crisis was the result of a $140 million special interest tax cut for state businesses.

There are more examples, to be sure. And while the iPad purchase alone doesn’t signify much, the cumulative weight of Walker’s financial irresponsibility is unmistakable.

With the Walker recall effort scheduled to begin Nov. 15, the heated arguments about the success of Walker’s governorship will resume.

When they do, Walker will make many stump speeches and produce endless ads saying that Wisconsin was broke, and that he was merely being fiscally responsible.

Let there be no dispute: our state has never been broke.

And Walker has clearly never been fiscally responsible.

Ryan Waal is a sophomore majoring in English. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Surviving a zombie-worm attack

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

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Eatin’ Cake

By Dylan Moriarty EatinCake@gmail.com

Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Crustaches Classic

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

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SNAP TO IT! ACROSS 1 Longest possible sentence 5 Fungus-to-be 10 Bottoms of columns 14 Ballpark figures?

15 Unlike an ort 16 Aussie gemstone 17 Insolent talk 18 “Oho!” and such 19 Fiddling Roman 20 Demolition compound 21 Kind of artist 23 Periods of duty at sea 25 Finish ahead of 26 Hardly macho 28 ___ different tune (changed one’s mind) 30 “You can say that ____!”

31 Distinctive historical period 32 Cross-referencing word, in crosswords 35 Cuckoo, in Cancun 36 Danish bread?

37 It may be rigged 38 Relic in the first Indiana Jones movie 39 Subtly sarcastic 40 They work in beds 41 Wooden shingle 42 Second cousin?

43 Legally prohibit

45 Thanked the audience, in a way 46 Place to exercise a passing fancy?

49 Rubber ducky’s spot 52 Where Zeno lectured 53 Mimicking 54 Fish-eating raptor 55 Univ. instructor 56 Chocolate-yielding tree 57 Racetrack pace, sometimes 58 Connecticut Ivy League school 59 Funeral sound 60 ___ for (chooses) DOWN 1 “... ___ any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:9) 2 Islamic nation 3 Path for a rapidly rising exec 4 Dangerous road shape 5 Protected from danger 6 Home to Notre Dame 7 Involving the ear 8 Need a bath desperately 9 Fix firmly 10 Beethoven piece 11 Turn topsy-turvy 12 Bette’s “All About Eve” role

1 3 Gin flavorer 21 Agatha Christie’s “The Mysterious Mr. ____” 22 Jackman of film 24 Stew or miscellany 26 Posh party 27 Transylvanian lab assistant 28 Fine china brand 29 Second-to-none rating 31 Ponch portrayer of TV 32 Where a cop might take aim at you 33 Make, as an income 34 Formerly, in olden days 36 Hitchhiker’s load 37 Nonspecific amount 39 Nursery rhyme residence 40 Hockey great Gordie 41 Fighter-plane action 42 Golden Horde member 43 Old paperboy’s cry 44 Thread buy 45 Commonplace 46 See at a distance 47 Airplane wing measure 48 Grown-up nits 50 Hospital ward 51 Pari-mutuel transactions 54 Cause of a power trip

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By Nick Kryshak nkryshak@wisc.edu

Washington and the Bear

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By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

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hockey from page 8 One reason the Badgers have struggled out of the gate is their lack of goal scoring. In four games, Wisconsin has mustered only seven goals. Eaves has said that this season will have to be offense by committee after losing three of last season’s top five scorers over the summer, but that expecting a high-level of production from an inexperienced group right away is a lot to ask.

“When you lose Craig Smith

and Jordy Murray you’re trying to replace some offense,” Eaves said. “[Assistant coach Bill Butters] and I were talking and it’s like we want our first semester freshman to play like second semester juniors and that’s just not going to happen.”

However, Eaves said that the veteran players can’t try to do too much on the ice to try and overcome the struggles that come with playing on an inexperienced team that is very much still coming into its own.

“With the captains today we

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Mike Eaves said that veteran players like Justin Schultz can’t try to do too much in order to compensate for Wisconsin’s youth.

talked about the fact that one of the challenges is not to be super captains,” Eaves said. “They need to do their part. Less is more.”

Eaves made specific example of junior defenseman Justin Schultz in that regard.

“You can see it on the ice, [Justin] wants so badly for the team to do well that he’s stepping outside of what he would normally do, which is the most effective,” Eaves said. “He’s got to strike that balance with the type of team that we have, and understand that. He’s learning.”

Ahead for Wisconsin is a huge test against the No. 6 Fighting Sioux at home this weekend. Eaves said that the Badgers need to put last weekend’s disappointing results out of their minds and focus on preparing for what is sure toe be a tough series with UND. “No matter what happened over this past weekend our job here is to get back to practice and get ready for North Dakota,” Eaves said. “North Dakota is going to be fun to get up for, you don’t have to worry about the emotional.”

“We have to, during the course of the week, make sure we are getting better in all areas so that helps us be successful on Friday-Saturday,” he added.

Ball earns Big Ten honors following Indiana game Wisconsin football junior running back Montee Ball has been named the Big Ten Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts in the Badgers’ 59-7 victory over Indiana Saturday.

Against the Hoosiers Ball accounted for 213 yards of total offense and four touchdowns. He had three scores and 142 yards on 14 carries on the ground, but his most memorable play was the 25-yard touchdown pass he threw to UW senior quarterback Russell Wilson. For the Badgers Ball’s touchdown pass was the first for a non-quarterback since 1982.

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Ball leads the Badgers with 653 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns this season. This is his first career conference player of the week honor.

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Athletic department is misguided in its attempts to end ‘ES-FU’ chants Nico Savidge savidge nation

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uck you. Eat shit.

Look at those words, at how innocuous they are in their black on white. The ones people care about are four letters apiece and, let’s be honest here, are pretty harmless in the grand scheme of things. I didn’t lead off with those words purely for the sake of shock value (well, maybe a little) but because I genuinely don’t consider them a big deal.

To hear this university’s Athletic Department and administrators talk about them, though, they appear to be the great scourge of UW-Madison.

They’re the things that will tarnish our national reputation, part of The Cheer That Must Not Be Named, referenced only in the sanitized initials “ES-FU.” “We believe you want to represent yourselves, your university and the football program in a classier manner than this,” Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and head coach Bret Bielema wrote in a joint letter to student season ticket holders. “We believe you can have a great time at Camp Randall without chanting four-letter words.”

With Wisconsin in the national spotlight as a football power, the Athletic Department and university administration don’t want ESPN mics picking up “vulgar” chants and young children in the stands hearing obscenities.

To get students to stop the cheer, the Athletic Department has tried e-mail pleas and the laughable prize incentive of a bowl package for two of the student section’s 14,000 members. And you have to imagine that these carrot incentives will, at some point, have a stick behind them—a gameday tradition the administration can take away if students don’t change their behavior.

Here’s the thing, though: Those cheers aren’t the boogey man Wisconsin administration is making them out to be.

I get that parents don’t want their kids exposed to bad language, and that plenty of people see swear words like the ones in that cheer as truly bad and threatening things.

Parents should be able to control what their kids hear, and shouldn’t have to worry about them coming across something truly offensive without a proper explanation.

[ES-FU] cheers aren’t the boogey man Wisconsin administration is making them out to be.

So why don’t they take that cheer as an opportunity to talk with their kids about bad words, and why they shouldn’t use them?

Every child will, whether they’re at a Badger game or not, come across swear words. Parents

should explain to their children why some words aren’t OK to say, and why they don’t want their kids saying them, instead of just writing angry letters and wishing the bad stuff away.

And before we go after students let’s take a look at the adults who complain about the bad language to which their kids are subject.

Each gameday, we see plenty of alumni pregaming and binge drinking—some of them with kids. I wonder if the people who wrote in to complain about the chants are the same people who show up to parking lots at 8 a.m., drink until 11 and then drive their family home after the game. I wonder if they tell their kids not to use bad words before they tell them to pass over a seventh beer before noon.

Students are an easy target; they’re loud and obscene and like to swear. And except for the money they will doubtlessly dole out for season tickets each summer, they aren’t making any donations to the university.

I wonder if [parents] tell their kids not to use bad words before they tell them to pass over a seventh beer before noon.

After they uncover their ears, however, alumni are a lot more likely to use their hands to write a fat check for a new weight room or arena. God forbid you go after them, or dare to tell them to act more mature and stop pregaming like they didn’t graduate 40 years ago.

You shouldn’t ever change that aspect of gameday culture—so let’s just make sure nobody hears any bad words.

And here’s a suggestion for our Athletic Department, if it wants to create an inclusive atmosphere at Wisconsin events.

How about you don’t put students in racist Halloween outfits on the video board at the Kohl Center, or bring them out onto the ice in a “best costumes” competition like you did last year?

That’s a whole lot more offensive than some four-letter words.

Used in the context of that cheer, “fuck” and “shit” have no discriminatory meaning behind them, no connotations of homophobia or racism. They’re just bad words being used because they’re bad words, obscenity for the sake of obscenity without any malice. They are, in a way, stripped of their power by being rendered meaningless; they become silly words people can yell at each other because they’re fun to say.

Before you go after students, let’s look at a few other areas where we could improve Wisconsin’s gameday culture.

Drop this foolish crusade and realize that alumni and this athletic department aren’t free from blame.

What do you think of the cheer?

E-mail Nico at nicosavidge@ gmail.com.

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Football

Badgers face big test in East Lansing

By Max Sternberg The Daily Cardinal

Fresh off their 59-7 disposal of Indiana, the No. 6 Wisconsin football team hit the road for their first true road test against No. 16 Michigan State Saturday night.

Having beaten each of their first six opponents by at least 30 points, the Badgers and senior quarterback Russell Wilson are looking forward to a new challenge. Not only is Michigan State the lone Big Ten team to have beaten UW over the past two seasons, but the Spartans also come into Saturday having the conference’s top ranked defense.

“When you watch Michigan State, they have a lot of speed,” Wilson said. “That’s the reason why I came here, to play great games, to play in big time venues like Michigan State.”

On the defensive side of the ball, the Badgers are going to have to hold the Spartans in check on third down, a year after MSU finished 9-for-18 on third down and 2-for-3 on fourth down in a 34-24 win over the Badgers in the Big Ten conference opener.

“Michigan State offensively is

a lot like us,” UW head coach Bret Bielema said. “It all starts with the quarterback.”

Spartan senior quarterback Kirk Cousins has been efficient almost all season, passing for 1173 yards in his first six contests, throwing eight touchdowns to just four picks for a 140.5 pass efficiency rating. Last year Cousins burned the Badgers for 269 yards and three touchdowns on 20-for-29.

Beyond the challenge of facing a far more talented roster than last week, Wisconsin will have to handle an environment at Spartan Stadium that will be, at the very least, a bit less friendly than the friendly confines of Camp Randall.

But while the hostility of a road night game is something many teams—even those with the talent level of this year’s Badgers—shy away from, Wisconsin is committed to taking the challenge head-on.

“It’s the moment that we’re in,” Bielema said. “We’ve got seven days to hone in on it here and I think our guys will really buy into it.”

Despite having blown through the season thus far, Bielema and crew know that

their play has been anything but perfect. Even in the 52-point victory over Indiana on Saturday, there were plenty of mistakes the coaching staff will be sure to emphasize in practice this week leading up to the matchup with Michigan State.

“After watching the Indiana game, I thought there was a lot of things positive,” Bielema said. “[But] a lot of things we need to clean up.”

But one area in which the Badgers have played near perfect is on the line. The line has protected Wilson all season and will look to continue that trend in East Lansing.

The Spartans, however, have thrived upon putting pressure on opposing quarterbacks all season. Having already notched 21 sacks thus far this season, MSU is already chomping at the bit to get after Wilson, with defensive back Isaiah Lewis going so far as to say that “our lineman are getting after the quarterback. And they’re going to hurt him.”

“I like Michigan State’s approach,” Bielema said. “To me, when I was a defensive coordina-

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Russell Wilson leads Wisconsin into East Lansing in search of what would be a huge road victory over the No. 16 Spartans. tor, the one thing you could do was you could mentally or physically challenge a quarterback and that’s exactly what they’re doing obviously on film and maybe even in the papers.”

While Saturday presents per-

haps the biggest threat to the Badgers thus far unblemished season, it also offers Wisconsin an opportunity to silence the critics with a big road win. Oh, and there’s always that little thing called revenge.

Men’s Hockey

Wisconsin focused on improvement ahead of UND series

By Ryan Evans The Daily Cardinal

With an inexperienced team every situation—good or bad—is an opportunity to learn and grow. That is the challenge for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team (0-2 WCHA, 1-3 overall) as it tries to regroup after being swept by Michigan Tech and prepares for its looming matchup with No. 6 North Dakota.

The Badgers’ three losses this

season have all come in overtime. You would expect such a rough start to wear on the confidence of such a young team, but UW head coach Mike Eaves says he isn’t worried because his team has already shown they are capable of handling adversity.

“We’re so young and naïve, they’ll just comeback and be fine,” Eaves said. “It’s just like how we’ve played our games, we’ve fallen behind and

fought back and they just keep playOne young player that Eaves speing so I think they’ll be fine.” cifically pointed out for his efforts Eaves said that despite was freshman forward the disappointing start he Brad Navin. likes what he has seen from “I thought Brad Navin his team so far this season. had his best game so far,” “These young men Eaves said. “He showed have stepped in and done his skating ability and he a nice job,” he said. “In snapped the puck and was all the games we have involved in a goal for us.” played they have given us “It was really encourNAVIN a chance to be victorious.” aging to us as a coaching

staff to see the type of game he played Saturday night because he took a step, he didn’t look like a freshman,” Eaves added. “That big body of his was skating, he was shooting the puck and he played with some confidence and that is what he needs to feel […] if he keeps doing that he’s going to be on the score sheet more often.”

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