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Health-care amendment faces long road

By Adam Wollner The Daily Cardinal

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The UW Horticultural Society presented a lecture to students about benefits of medical marijuana and its current position in state politics.

Speakers discuss benefits, cultivation of medical marijuana at presentation

By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal

Members of the UW community attended a lecture to learn about the legal, medical and physical environment of medical marijuana at an event sponsored by the UW Horticultural Society.

Gary Storck, president of the Madison chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, spoke about the historical and scientific backgrounds of medical cannabis before delving into recent medical and legal developments.

Storck said using marijuana for medical purposes is not a recent development.

“A Chinese emperor’s stash was recently discovered in his tomb: two pounds of herbal cannabis that still contained THC,” Storck said.

Storck described various conditions that medical cannabis can treat, such as multiple sclerosis and post-traumatic stress disorder. A 40-year user of medical marijuana, he reflected on his own experiences.

“I’ve had glaucoma my entire life, and although my vision has greatly decreased, I can still see, and that’s a tribute to the medicinal power of cannabis,” Storck said.

“The common misconception of growing is that it’s easy to do.”

Troy Sedlak author ‘Anarco Grow’

Present local policy has its origins in Madison City Ordinance 2320, which, in 1977, decriminalized possession and allowed for marijuana use with proper certification.

Storck said Republicans have frustrated recent attempts to forward marijuana legislation in the state Legislature but also mentioned the success of the cannabis referendum on November ballots in Dane County and River Falls.

“Medical marijuana is something that residents support,” Storck said, “Unfortunately, with the legislative changes, people in control could care less about medical marijuana.”

Troy Sedlak, the author of “Anarco Grow,” a fiction novel about a Costa Rican-American marijuana pipeline, spoke about the basics of indoor marijuana cultivation.

Sedlak took the audience through the basics of growing, identifying ideal conditions and practices employed during stages of cultivation. He described the process from planting through the vegetation, flowering and drying stages.

After debating the merits of various light sources and growing techniques, Sedlak said growing marijuana is more difficult than is commonly thought.

“The common misconception of growing is that it’s easy to do,” Sedlak said. “People think, ‘Cool, I’m going to grow and have pounds and pounds of pot.’ It’s not that easy. It takes a lot of time to learn how to do it the right way. It’s really an art form.”

DA asks to continue injunction on repair bill A Dane County District Attorney filed a brief Tuesday asking to continue the injunction on the Budget Repair Bill following an appeal by the State Department of Justice.

In the brief, Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Dane County Judge Maryann Sumi’s restraining order on publishing the bill responds to a violation of the Open Meetings Law, not the content of the bill itself.

Ozanne said the court case cited by the DOJ in its appeal does not apply to this case because that case attempted to stop the publication of a bill due to

the its unconstitutionality, unlike the current case.

“The District Attorney here does not seek to block publication simply to prevent an allegedly unconstitutional bill from becoming law,” Ozanne wrote in the brief. “Rather, he seeks to redress past violations of the rights of the public to sufficient prior notice of and meaningful access to the March 9, 2011 Joint Committee of Conference meeting.”

The current injunction delays Secretary of State Doug LaFollette’s ability to publish the bill.

The bill passed on March 10, and LaFollette originally said he would take the full 10 business days allowed before he published it.

Before LaFollette published, and Sumi found on March 18 that the Joint Committee violated the law.

In the DOJ appeal, state lawyers said Sumi does not have the authority to issue such an injunction and argued the open meetings law is a legislative rule and therefore not in the jurisdiction of the courts.

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One year after President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, state Sen. Joe Leibham, R-Sheboygan, and state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, proposed a constitutional amendment to make Wisconsin exempt from the law.

Leibham and Vos introduced the Health Care Freedom Amendment Monday, saying there are still “serious questions” remaining about the constitutionality of the law.

In a joint statement, Leibham and Vos said the amendment would protect the rights of individuals to decide what kind of health care they want.

They said it would also prohibit the government from requiring individuals to partici-

pate in any health-care program, public or private.

“The Health Care Freedom Amendment will protect citizens from the unconstitutional takeover of health care,” Vos said in a statement. “ObamaCare is an assault on our precious freedom to choose the right doctor and health insurance.”

The amendment must be adopted by two successive legislatures and approved by the citizens of Wisconsin through referendum to take effect.

Wisconsin is one of 26 states currently suing the federal government over the constitutionality of the health-care law.

Eight states have already passed legislation against it.

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ASM candidates shared opinions on diversity, segregated fees and student government outreach at a Q&A session Wednesday.

ASM candidates share positions on student issues in Q&A session

By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

Students gathered to ask the Associated Students of Madison’s spring electoral candidates questions regarding their vision for the university and the student government Wednesday night.

Candidates are running for 29 seats on student council and five seats on the Student Services

Finance Committee.

Some candidates agreed that while issues such as finances and safety are important for ASM members to address, it is equally as important to inform students that these problems exist.

Letters and Sciences candidate Dan Shanahan said student awareq&a page 3

“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

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am often astounded by the things people do in public. This is not to say I myself do not partake in questionable activities from time to time before the eyes of hundreds of strangers, but I try to keep it to a minimum. Every time I venture outside my apartment, though, I never fail to witness some borderline inappropriate behavior by my fellow pedestrians or classmates.

One of the behaviors I have the pleasure of spotting almost daily is a twenty-something-year-old picking their nose. Occasionally, the culprit will at least attempt to be stealth about it by pretending they have an itch that has crept up into their schnoz, but more often than not the said nose picker just digs like there is no tomorrow without even realizing the horrified looks on surrounding faces. Picking your nose was totally normal behavior in preschool and

the early years of elementary school when teachers and friends commonly referred to it as “digging for gold.”

Once you’re old enough to vote and pick up a bottle of Pinot Noir after work, though, I think it’s time to call it quits and learn a new strategy for taking care of those pesky boogers. Like a Kleenex.

Behold the next all too common behavior: The crotch itch. I can’t say I’ve witnessed many females performing this behavior while takin’ a stroll down University Ave, but the men on this campus and everywhere else on the planet have this move down pat.

Granted I do not know what it is like to have all that junk chillin’ in the front (I’m only familiar with a lil junk in my trunk). But when I am face-to-face talking to a person of the opposite sex, especially when we do not know each other too well, and he blatantly readjusts his groin I am unfailingly shocked.

I wonder if he notices my eyes bug out of my head, or if this is just such a common behavior for him it’s like second nature. Maybe it’s unconscious, and he doesn’t even realize he keeps reaching down under and thinks I have some kind of tic that makes my eyes bulge

every two minutes.

Hands down the most uncanny behavior I observe almost weekly is the person I am next to in the bathroom at Grainger or what have you going number two on the pot and then casually walking out of the stall without washing their hands. Which is why I carry around a Purell wherever I go and detest holding hands and/or being touched by someone if I don’t know for certain that they exercise normal hygiene. God forbid I shake hands with someone who has just wiped their rump.

On the other hand, there are certain things I witness that just put me in the peachiest mood ever. For example, I absolutely love when I observe people singing and/or dancing to whatever is playing on their iPod while struttin’ to class. It kills me every time. Sometimes I try to discern the words they are mouthing or actually singing so I can rock out in my head along with them (as long as it isn’t Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, or Katy Perry). And I must give them props for being able to bust a move in the middle of the street because I typically cannot reveal my, let’s call them peculiar, dance moves

without a few Sam Adams first.

I also love when I see little munchkins who are skipping down the streets with their parents for the day suddenly bolt away from them. Those damn seven-year-olds cannot be restrained and I can’t get enough of watching their poor parents scramble after them even though there is no way a 40-something with a hernia and/or arthritis in their knees is going to catch up to that spry little nugget. What makes the situation even better is if the little tot is wearing a T-shirt and shorts in 30 degree weather. It takes me back to the days when I had so much energy myself that I swear cold never scathed my body. Damn I wish I was seven again.

People watching is pretty darn entertaining. You never know what you’re going to observe. It could be a little whipper-snapper fleeing their parents, or a 22-year-old finance major perusing their pelvic region. The pleasure lies in the anticipation, even though the observations can sometimes be mildly traumatizing.

What crazy antics have you observed while people watching?

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Athletic board says criminal background checks are unfair

By Kelly Kallien The Daily Cardinal

The Academics and Compliance Committee of the UW Athletic Board discussed the ethics of running criminal background checks when considering the recruitment of a student athlete Wednesday.

Discussion began in early March after Sports Illustrated and CBS conducted criminal background checks on student athletes and found athletes across the country with criminal records.

Both outlets wrote an article questioning the ethics of allowing student athletes to play football for a university despite having a criminal background.

Among those with criminal

records is UW-Madison linebacker Kevin Claxton, who was charged with home burglary in November 2007.

Wisconsin football head coach Bret Bielema decided to allow Claxton to play on the team, and since being admitted to the university, Claxton has adhered to Wisconsin’s academic and behavioral requirements.

Dale Bjorling, an ACC committee member who ran the meeting, said he opposed requiring background checks on student athletes.

“On the surface, it makes a lot of sense,” Bjorling said. “No one wants a felon to be on campus.

But at the same time, to make a

hard and fast rule that says, ‘OK, we’re going to run a criminal background checks,’ is that fair? Does that mean we have to run a background check on every applicant to the university?”

The committee unanimously agreed that requiring background checks for athletes should be left to the discretion of the coaching staff. This is the way the policy currently stands.

Committee members said they felt it unfair to require criminal background checks for student athletes while non-athletes are exempt.

Bjorling said a vote regarding the implementation of a required criminal background check on student athletes will not occur in the near future.

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City unveils new cultural arts plan, seeks public input

By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal

The Madison Arts Commission unveiled a brand new Madison Cultural Plan Wednesday to promote the city’s cultural identity.

The event’s purpose was to collect ideas from the public to progress Madison culturally in order to establish a more vibrant center of creativity and innovation.

“This plan gives us the opportunity to connect businesses and families to arts and culture,” said.

Steven Goldberg, member of the Madison Cultural Plan Steering Committee. “We will have that brand engrained in all of us.”

According to MAC members, Madison’s cultural identity will allow institutions to experiment

with new ideas to advance capacity and earn income.

“The business community is waiting for this kind of alignment that says if you invest in the culture of this community, your dollar will go much further because there is alignment and a sense of purpose,” Goldberg said.

Five themes of the cultural plan were introduced as a platform in an effort to create a brand for Madison. The themes are community identity, connectivity, voice, place and sustainability, all of which offer avenues to enhance the city’s unique qualities.

“We can protect and enhance the unique character of the place in which we live, we can give voice to creative issues and we can move more intentionally towards sustainability,” said Mary.

Berryman Agard, a MAC consultant, about the presented themes.

MAC used various roundtable discussions, surveys, interviews, and focus groups to further understand the public’s current perspective of Madison’s culture and to construct the themes of the city’s cultural plan.

According to Agard, Madison’s community identity is not clearly defined, and as a result, there is nothing to help shape or drive a community spirit.

“This is a kickoff of a long, fruitful, rich discussion about where we want to take culture and to broadly define it in our community,” Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said. “This is a living, breathing document, not something set in stone, just as creativity is not set in stone.”

UW-Madison signs contract with Huron Consulting Group In an effort to cut departmental costs, UW-Madison has signed a contract with Huron Consulting group to examine the university’s financial productivity.

To help offset the $125 million cut in state funding, Chancellor Biddy Martin said the university would increase efficiencies, tuition and budget cuts.

The university hopes with Huron’s help, it can develop organizational structures, business processes and staff competencies to foster efficiency.

UW-Madison will aim to improve administrative structure, accounting and financial reporting, human resources, facilities, construction management, information technology, internal auditing and budgeting and procurement, among other areas, according to a statement.

To ensure Huron meets UW-Madison’s expectations of organization and operation, three groups will advise the project.

According to the university, a

steering committee including Martin, Provost Paul M. DeLuca Jr. and Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell, and will oversee the effort on behalf of UW-Madison.

An advisory committee with representatives from shared governance and labor will offer perspectives to inform Huron’s analysis and test the consultant’s recommendations.

Faculty, staff, students and other stakeholders will collect data and work through potential solutions with Huron.

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UW chancellors ask legislators to keep UW-Madison in system Chancellors from 13 UW System schools sent a letter Wednesday to state legislators asking for support on the Wisconsin Idea Partnership in the 2011-’13 biennial budget.

The proposed partnership would include keeping UW-Madison in the UW System.

That goes against Chancellor Biddy Martin’s proposed New Badger Partnership, which Gov. Scott Walker included in his budget proposal.

A summary of the bill, attached to the letter, said UW-Madison

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UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said

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ness needs to be addressed.

“The thing that separates everyone is who can take the issues and make students aware of what’s going on,” Shanahan said.

During the Q&A session, candidates also discussed how they would incorporate diversity into the university.

While some candidates said the media could be useful in promoting diversity, others, including Nikolas Magallon, said faceto-face communication is more important.

“I think that ASM needs to get out of 333 East Campus Mall and go into spaces of diversity,” Magallon said.

All candidates who were asked what changes need to be implemented said outreach needs to be increased. Many candidates also said ASM needs to push for more student power in shared governance.

Letters and Sciences candidate Olivia Wick-Bander said ASM needs to work harder to let students know what they do.

“I saw e-mails from ASM, but I didn’t see people from ASM. I didn’t

would still get the flexibilities Martin seeks, but within the framework of the UW System.

The chancellors said Wisconsin universities will need to deal with $250 million in proposed cuts to funding in Walker’s budget.

“More than ever, that flexibility is needed to preserve broad access to a high-quality UW education,” the chancellors said in the letter.

The UW System Board of Regents passed a resolution in support of the Idea Partnership at their meeting March 10. this is another example of how polarized the country still is over the controversial health-care law.

“A year later, we are at least as divided as we were when it passed,” Franklin said. know what they did, and I had to do a lot of reading to figure that out. I don’t think there’s enough outreach,” Wick-Bander said.

Some SSFC candidates said they want to be on SSFC so they can better educate students on how their segregated fees are allocated.

Current SSFC Chair Matt Manes and SSFC candidates Daniel Gibbs and Joe Vanden Avond said educating students is not as important as lowering fees.

“Unlike the rest of these candidates, I don’t really care if campus knows about segregated fees,” Manes said. “My job is to keep the amount people pay as low as possible.”

Many SSFC candidates also said that while maintaining the mindset that they want to lower segregated fees is important, actually accomplishing this is not always realistic.

The candidates noted that with segregated fees funding ongoing construction projects, lowering segregated fees within the next school year is unlikely.

Other candidates said although it would be difficult, they would try to lower segregated fees by looking at what students use least and cutting those services.

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WEEKEND MUST-SEES American Psycho Fri. Feb. 25 at 10:00 p.m. Chicago Afrobeat Project The Frequency Fri. March 25, 9:30 p.m.

The Smith Westerns caught on Derwith Rathskeller their light, poppy lo-fi sound in 2009Dropping with the by to visit Madison in celself-titled debut LP. Now that they’ve ebration released of the Peace Corps’ 50th annitheir sophomore album Dye It Blond versary, to critithe Chicago Afrobeat Project cal acclaim, it would be a crime brings to misstheir themeclectic sound to the Memorial when their tour stops in Madison.

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Showdown at High Noon

By Cole Wenzel The Daily Cardinal

At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the ever warm and welcoming High Noon Saloon will host three acts, each distinctive in their own right. The soulful Irish soul singer/songwriter James Vincent McMorrow and eclectic Midwesterner Erik Hall’s solo “band,” In Tall Buildings, will open on the bill for prairie rocking Canadians, The Rural Alberta Advantage.

I had the privilege of speaking with Hall via conference call to discuss In Tall Buildings, side project His Name Is Alive and the self-titled album. In Tall Buildings manifests as a project and album that is completely esoteric and different from, for instance, Hall’s afro-beat band NOMO. “There wasn’t really a specific plan for this album, it was really just kind of a natural output as solo musician. This is actually the kind of music that I end up coming up with when it’s my thing entirely,” Hall said of In Tall Buildings.

“It’s just a more honest output for me because I play drums as well as the guitar and whatever other instruments end up on the album. That’s the music I want to create. For this album I didn’t want to have a big, giant cast of different personalities. I really wanted this particular album to be a reflection of me as a musician. As a writer, a recorder, and a recording engineer,” Hall said.

Hall recorded the album when he had a break and returned to Chicago.

Roots play a significant role in the way

Hall sees life and formulates his music.

Continuing on notes of inspiration, we moved to lyrics and I asked him of one song in particular, “Good Fences,” in which he alludes to Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” and sings in near whisper that “Good fences make good neighbors /So misunderstood”.

“I’m not really trying to say anything more than what I think Robert Frost is saying,” Hall said, “What I’m talking about or specifically thinking about when I was writing the lyrics was how segregated the city of Chicago can feel, sometimes, with regard to the neighborhoods and the people who live in those neighborhoods.”

I also had the privilege of speaking with keyboardist Amy Cole from Rural Alberta Advantage to discuss the story behind the band and their new album, Departing. Cole moved from a small town to a big city, a mutiny to mirror the transitive period of growing up.

“It was, for me, a daunting experience. I moved to Toronto for university and for me it was a bit of culture shock. It made me nervous moving to the big city for school. In terms of music, I wasn’t really exposed to ‘cool’ music growing up. You could find it but you really had to seek it out,” Cole said. For her, as for many of us, college was training for the better things to come.

“Of course, coming to Toronto, I made all these friends who were in bands, who were the coolest people, and I always had something to do,

to go out and watch my friends play music. Eventually, to myself, I said ‘why not play music’ and that’s how I got into playing in a band and in The RAA,” Cole said.

From a small town girl who played and sung classical numbers to a big-city music admirer, Cole landed in a highly successful band that is touring worldwide.

“We’ve all been in bands and have tried to make things happen, but sometimes they just don’t,” she said, “With us, it’s been connecting from almost the start and we’ve been extremely lucky.”

Connection and trust is a verity of the band’s success. The RAA signed to Saddle Creek Records following the release of their debut, Hometowns. “[Saddle Creek is] very supportive and really cool and have given us the freedom to really do what we wanted. They released Hometowns without editing anything from our initial self-release and with Departing, it was the same thing. We would send them demos and they’re not the kind of label that is going to give you a lot of notes,” Cole said. What The RAA does so well is connect emotionally, which is the essence of quality art.

“Nils always said that when he’s writing a song he has to feel it emotionally because, if he doesn’t, if we don’t, then no one else is going to,” Cole said, “So I guess it’s just trying to evoke these emotions and these sentiments through our music, hopefully the way it makes us feel when we’re playing it.”

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Today’s Sudoku

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The Sounds of Silence: The 1976 comedy ‘Silent Movie’ by Mel Brooks has exactly one WORD of dialog—“NO!”—spoken by the famous mime Marcel Marceau.

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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.

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he Capitol hasn’t exactly been the most friendly place lately. Gov. Scott Walker has made it his mission to go after Wisconsin’s ferociously greedy teachers and prison guards, the Fitzgerald brothers struck a decisive blow against Democratic senate staffers by taking away their copy machine privileges and state Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, apparently feels that she can compare Wisconsin’s Republicans to gang rapists. With all the vitriol flying around, it makes the latest proposal from state Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, all the more refreshing.

Cullen proposed to rewrite the state Senate’s quorum rules for budgetary matters. Instead of the supermajority needed for a quorum, Cullen’s proposal would require only a simple majority, effectively stripping the state Senate of its form of the filibuster.

Under these new requirements, tactics like the Senate Democrats’ recent odyssey to northern Illinois would be rendered moot.

In light of these recent events, we applaud Cullen for his willingness to reach across the aisle.

It is hard to find some ulterior motive for Cullen’s proposal, seeing as he is not eligible for recall and he won his latest election by a comfortable margin in a strong year for Republicans. It is possible there may be some underlying interest, but considering his role as a mediator during the Capitol crisis, for all we can tell

he seems to genuinely believe in the legislation.

We stand with Cullen in favor of the rule change. As policy, it takes away a legislative technicality that has too much opportunity for abuse. But just as importantly, such a proposal can act as an olive branch in a starkly divided Senate chamber. Now, people like state Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, and the Fitzgeralds are about as likely to accept that olive branch as they are to accept public unions’ concessions. But moderate Republicans may now see Cullen as a man they can work with. And in a Senate with only 33 members, a mere handful of senators from different parties working together can make a huge impact.

With this in mind, we call on the members of the state Assembly, remaining members of the Senate and people of Wisconsin to join Cullen in a showing of bipartisanship. With the state as divided as it is, this is just the occasion where we would expect Democrats in the legislature to dig their heels in the opposition.

However, this is not the time to be shortsighted. One day the Democrats will be back in the majority, and at that point this sort of proposal will look very appealing to them. This is the time to look to the future, and look toward it together.

Or we can just continue to call one another Hitler. Your choice, legislators.

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s our country faces its worst economy in decades, as our national debt surpasses the entire GDP of India, as worldwide turmoil threatens our energy security and as a horrific tragedy in Japan claimed the lives of the thousands, the leader of the free world found time to pick Kansas as the champion of his 2011 March Madness bracket.

It’s not that president Barack Obama picked Kansas as the national champion that has myself and many other Americans perplexed. It’s the fact that during a time when a leader is supposed to be leading, Obama seems to be doing anything but. Instead, as The Los Angeles Times recently put it, it appears as though the president is already in “campaign mode.” How? Nearly a week after the tragedy in Japan took place, the president addressed the nation on the disaster. But not before he found time to address two posh Democratic National Committee fundraisers, one of which, Politico reports, cost each attendee $30,800. Moreover, the president has been spending more and more time in key

battleground states, giving interviews to local TV stations in Pennsylvania and Florida.

What Obama fails to see is the fact that both the nation and the world need a leader who is willing to take a stand, not a campaigner who is able to give a speech.

Even before the crisis in Libya began, the world seemed in chaos.

The price of oil was skyrocketing, while a tsunami devastated one of our strongest allies and trade partners—Japan. Additionally, our own government was facing the threat of a shutdown if Congress didn’t agree on a budget.

Then came Libya.

It seems as though the most egregious demonstration of our president’s lack of leadership is his response to the current crisis in Libya. Before it began, Obama offered little direction to the international community on what should be done. Instead, he allowed Britain and France to determine the best course of action.

Now, American airmen and sailors are risking their lives executing a mission ordered by Obama and authorized by no one but the United Nations.

Once a consensus in the international community seemed to have been reached, instead of seeking authorization from Congress, the president considered authorization from the UN reason enough to send American forces into harm’s way.

Since when does the inter-

national legislative body in New York trump the authority of the one in Washington?

Furthermore, why hasn’t Obama sat down with the American people to discuss his rationale behind the use of force?

Any time an American president sends American forces into battle, an address to the nation from the oval office explaining both the action and the mission are usually in order. Instead, after a brief statement on the issue at 2 p.m. Friday, the President boarded Air Force One for a fiveday trip to South America.

Based on the President’s lack of leadership, it seems as though “American Exceptionalism” is being replaced by “American Acceptionalism.” That is, the United States accepts the will of the international community and becomes just one country among the many.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

America needs to provide solid leadership in times of turmoil and in times of peace. We cannot afford to have a president who wants to vote ‘present’ in a world where action is demanded.

Obama must stand up and do the job he was elected to do.

He needs to lead, not offer an analysis of the NCAA basketball tournament in a time of crisis.

Matt Payne is a junior majoring in Chinese and economics. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Spring baseball spurs October dreams

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After instrumental performances in the Badgers’ first two NCAA contests, Mike Bruesewitz will look to contribute further in the Sweet 16.

Sweet feelings in the ‘Big Easy’ Badgers, Bulldogs ready to dance in New Orleans Thursday evening

By Jeremy Wodajo the daily cardinal

The city of New Orleans is known for its infamous Mardi Gras celebration each year, and although head coach Bo Ryan and his players are still dancing in this year’s NCAA Tournament, don’t expect any early celebrations.

The Badgers are preparing to take on No. 8 seed Butler Thursday night in the Southeast Regional Semifinals in the Big Easy. Despite the Bulldogs’ lower seeding and Horizon League roots, Wisconsin is not taking victory over last year’s national runner-up for granted.

“I think Butler has won not because people have underestimated them,” Ryan said. “I disagree with that because coaches and players are pretty astute when it comes to recognizing success and what people do to get there.

So I really don’t think they’ve been underestimated.”

Butler, who finished second in the Horizon, is a team similar to Wisconsin in that they both focus on defense and taking care of the ball. Bulldog head coach Brad Stevens has built his team around recruiting average athletes, much like Ryan, and creating chemistry to produce success.

Despite competing in a midmajor conference, Butler has separated itself once again as a national power this year. But after dominating the Horizon League in 2010 they struggled this season, going 13-5, and had to defeat UW-Milwaukee in the conference championship to earn their fifth consecutive NCAA

tournament bid.

“Obviously they’re a team that was here in this position last year,” senior forward Keaton Nankivil said. “You just get the feeling that nothing is going to rattle them so we’re going to have to play a pretty solid game and do whatever we do well in order to win this one.”

In four seasons, the 35 year-old Stevens has compiled a 114-24 record and took Butler to its first Final Four.

“There’s a guy that got an opportunity and he’s putting the pedal to the metal,” Ryan said.

“The important thing as a coach is you see the game a certain way, your players have to see it that way.

And he’s done that with his teams.”

On the other hand, Ryan has advanced to his fourth Sweet 16 since becoming head coach for the Badgers in 2001.

Ryan has never battled with Butler since joining UW, but is still familiar with the Bulldog program. Ryan went 0-5 against Butler during his two seasons as head coach at UW-Milwaukee, and the Butler program was under a different coach then, Ryan has gained mutual respect for Butler. “[Stevens] is in a program where assistants took over the head job because they were successful,” Ryan said. “That’s a pretty good thing to have at an institution where you have that trust factor in the so‑called family of coaches. It’s a good situation where basketball is extremely important at Butler ... and it’s a great environment.”

Despite the comfort of being one of a handful of teams still competing, Ryan’s ultimate goal lies in Houston and the Final Four, a stage he has yet to obtain in his career.

“There’s 16 of us left, we’ll see what four end up there,” Ryan said. “Obviously that’s what everybody is trying to do. It would be nice to get there.”

pring training is filled with hope, and hope is a wonderful feeling. I say that as someone who identifies as the most hardcore cynic this side of Snake Plissken. In 2008, I would listen to President Barack Obama talk about hope and change, and it would go in one ear, out the other, then get crushed to death by a panda-killing oil tycoon.

But generally, that cynicism only applies to real life­—you know, things that matter. Like who will be our next president or whether I will get into a good law school or if anybody besides my editor will ever read this column.

That’s where baseball comes in.

In the grand scheme of things, sports don’t mean anything. And that is spectacular, because you can then make them mean everything with no repercussions. It’s what makes this time of the year great.

Because right now, hope springs eternal, and there is nothing anybody can say to change that.

Let’s take my designated baseball allegiance, the Minnesota Twins, and use them for an example.

Right now, their ace is Carl Pavano.

That sounds like a joke that Tony Kornheiser would use in a “Pardon the Interruption” cold open. Second

in the rotation is Francisco Liriano, a pitcher with an absolutely mindbending slider, but who can be a similarly mindbending head case.

The Twins’ biggest offseason acquisition was Japanese infielder Tsuyoshi Nishioka, who, granted, has a pretty good stat line for the Chiba Lotte Marines. But the last infielder the Twins signed from a Japanese league was Tony Batista, who spent two whole months with the team before being designated for assignment.

Then there are questions about whether third baseman Danny Valencia can continue his Rookie of the Year-caliber play from last year, if Joe Mauer’s knees will suddenly explode in the middle of a game and how Justin Morneau will recover from the infinite concussion he suffered last summer I care about none of this, because right now, I am 100 percent convinced that the Twins will lock up the American League Central in their September homestand against the Chicago White Sox, face the Yankees in the ALDS and sweep them for a change, roll through whatever unfortunate opponent wins the AL West and bring home the World Series trophy a week later.

It’s the same kind of anticipation people feel when watching the NFL Draft, only less nerdy and with considerably less Mel Kiper Jr. At the

beginning of every baseball season every team (excluding the Pirates) is an unproven commodity with infinite upside, as teams like the Rays and the Marlins have proven.

Of course, this is true for many sports, but baseball allows fans to tap into a child-like sense of wonder that no other sport captures nearly as well. Football will never have its own “Field of Dreams,” because baseball is the only sport where its fans’ affection provides something matching the level of mysticism.

This is what life is for every team at spring training. Brewers fans can hope Zack Greinke’s rib heals quickly and that he never plays pickup basketball ever again. Phillies fans currently believe they have the greatest pitching staff in the history of man.

And for a brief moment, Cubs fans can think that maybe, just maybe, God won’t hate them this year.

Meanwhile, I will be spending the next week playing out my ideal storybook ending for the Twins over and over in my head, as Jim Thome nails a 3-2 pitch over the Target Field fence for a walk-off game seven home run in the World Series.

Because every time Thome hits a homer for the Twins, a White Sox fan screams in agony, which is just as good as an angel getting its wings.

God loving the Cubs? The Twins beating the Yankees? Is Todd delusional? E-mail him with your thoughts at ststevens@dailycardinal.com.

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