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Nass offers alternative to Badger Partnership

By Patrick Tricker The Daily Cardinal

State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, proposed an alternative to the New Badger Partnership Tuesday that would delay any decisions from being made until after the biennial budget passed.

The plan, which is starkly similar to the Wisconsin Idea Partnership, would keep UW-Madison in the UW System and allow flexibility for operations and finances for all UW campuses.

It would also would maintain legislative oversight for miniNASS mum faculty teaching loads and tuition and fee increases.

“The current functional relationship between UW-Madison and the UW System Administration must be altered in a manner that prioritizes enhanced efficiencies and limited autonomy for administrators at our flagship campuses,” Nass said in a letter.

“I am committed to a com-

prehensive bill that achieves all of these goals for the effective administration of the UW System in exchange for real accountability measures that protect the students, families and taxpayers of Wisconsin.”

Vice Chancellor Vince Sweeney said the proposal would not affect the Badger Partnership plan, which is already a part of Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011-’13 biennial budget. Sweeney defended the original Badger Partnership plan as necessary for UW-Madison to cope with $125 million budget reduction and stay competitive with other higher education institutions.

“We will always listen to and be engaged in other discussions, but at least from where we stand, the language in the current budget proposal is the language that best suits UW-Madison,” Sweeney said.

David Giroux, spokesperson for the UW System, applauded Nass’ plan because of its similarity to the Board of Regents’ proposed Wisconsin Idea Partnership. Giroux said the key difference between nass page 3

GAB affirms Prosser victory after investigation After unreported votes were discovered in Brookfield, the Government Accountability Board determined Tuesday there were no major discrepancies found in Waukesha County for the Supreme Court race, confirming Justice David Prosser’s 7,316 vote lead.

An very close race, Kloppenburg was ahead by 200 votes after all precincts reported two weeks ago. However, when Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus made known April 7 she had missed Brookfield’s 14,000 votes, the election fell in Prosser’s favor. waukesha page 4 Andy Lindgren/the daily cardinal

Paul Soglin takes the oath of office being sworn in as Madison mayor Tuesday afternoon.

Soglin sworn in for third time

By Maggie DeGroot The Daily Cardinal

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The UW Madhatters performed at the inaugural Service Travel Symposium at the new Union South Tuesday evening.

Service organizations detail missions The Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Alternative Breaks Program hosted the first-ever Service Travel Symposium at Union South Tuesday.

WUD Alternative Breaks held the event in recognition of the group’s twentieth anniversary and invited other community and travel service groups to take part

in the symposium.

WUD Alternative Breaks Director Ali Loker said the symposium served as “a way for student to see all of their service options in one room and for the different organizations to have a chance to collaborate.” travel page 3

Mayor Paul Soglin and newly elected alders were sworn in Tuesday afternoon before holding their first city council meeting as elected officials later that night.

Before Soglin was sworn in, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz said he appreciated his family and council members as he stepped down after serving eight years as Madison mayor.

“I loved being mayor of Madison, but before that I loved being a citizen of Madison,” Cieslewicz said.

Soglin, who has already served 14 years in office, was sworn in as Madison mayor for the third time.

Bryon Eagon, who represented District 8 on city council, was among the six alders who did not seek reelection for Common Council.

Eagon, who represented a majority of UW-Madison students, did not seek re-election because he will be working for Teach For America in New York City next year.

Julia Kerr, District 13, Jed Sanborn, District 1, Judy Compton, District 17, Michael Schumacher, District 18, and Thuy PhamRemmele, District 20, are also not returning to serve on the council.

During her departing remarks, Pham-Remmele said she appreciates city staff, but purposely left the plaque given to outgoing alders after her speech.

Alders Lisa Subeck, Scott Resnick, Sue Ellingson, Jill Johnson, Anita Weier and Matt Phair were sworn in to Common Council to replace the outgoing alders.

Resnick, a recent UW-Madison graduate, took over Eagon’s seat on council to represent the heavily student-populated District 8.

Ald. Lauren Cnare, District 3, was unanimously elected to replace Ald. Mark Clear, District 19, as President of the city council. Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, was sworn in to take over Cnare’s previous seat as the President Pro Tem. At the evening meeting, council members unanimously accepted the feasibility study for a rooftop community garden or green roof at the renovated Madison Central Public Library.

An extensive green roof would help divert rain water and protect the roof.

However, several Madison residents spoke out against the study, saying an intensive garden roof may be feasible and urged council members to reject the study.

An intensive green roof is more complex than an extensive roof, and can serve as a community garden.

City Facilities and Sustainability Manager Jeanne Hoffman, who worked on the study, said the team worked with a design team on cost estimates soglin page 3

Academy of Arts, Sciences elects four UW faculty What do Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and four UW-Madison faculty members have in common?

They are all fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

UW-Madison Engineering Professor Juan J. de Pablo, Archaeologist J. Mark Kenoyer, Biochemistry Professor Marvin Wickens and Economics Professor Steven Durlauf were among the newest 212 members to be elected to the Academy Tuesday.

John Adams, James Bowdoin and John Hancock, as well as other revolutionary leaders, founded the Academy 230 years ago during the American Revolution.

The Academy aims to bring together “men and women of exceptional achievement, drawn from science, scholarship, business, public affairs, and the arts” to “anticipate, examine, and confront the critical challenges facing our society.”

Kenoyer, the current president of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and director of the UW-Madison Center for South Asia, has excavated in Pakistan and India for more than 30 years.

De Pablo is the Howard Curler Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Wickens is the Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biology.

Durlauf is an expert in economic growth, inequality and poverty and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

“…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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ost people have an open-mouthed smile.

Others smile with their eyes. Some people, like me, smile with their chin—their double chin to be exact. With a good number of college students owning cameras and with many of them attempting to capture every moment of their time spent at UW-Madison, the double chin has become an epidemic for not just myself, but many people on campus. Luckily, Facebook has so graciously been the easy means for this epidemic to shine in all of its awkward and unflattering glory.

The inconsiderate friend There’s the case when your friend tags you in a picture where you look like total crap and she, of course, looks mighty fine. It was her birthday and you were out for dinner celebrating; she’s all smiley, her makeup looks Victoria’s Secret-ish, her hair is curly and all that other good shit.

But you, by god. Get your act together! In your defense, you

didn’t even know someone was taking a picture to begin with.

You’re busy straining your neck just so you can get a better look at the other table to see what kind of bacon this joint serves. Crispy?

Soggy? Canadian? Then BOOM, there goes the flash and then BOOM, you’re in your friend’s new profile picture. You get the notification, look at the picture, say “woof ” and then untag.

Whatever. You’re over it. It’s just another ugly picture floating in the Facebook abyss. Then, you run into the jerk that tagged you.

She cocks her head to the side and says in an annoying, whiney voice, “Why’d you untag that picture?”

You might just utter, “I didn’t like it,” and walk away. But, I can bet this is what you really want to say: “Uggggg shut up. Why are you monitoring my pictures, you freak?

You want to know why I untagged?

Oh, I don’t know, maybe because that angle gave me a double chin that looks like I eat Ben and Jerry’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

GET OFF MY BACK!” Who’s that guy?

What may be worse than having your friend tag a hideous picture of you is when you’re just some average Joe with a double chin looking grotesque in someone else’s Facebook album. I honestly don’t want to know how many pictures I’m randomly in the background of picking a wedgie or stuffing my face with food.

Totally defenseless.

It’s funny when someone else is caught off guard—not so funny when it’s you. But then again, if this is some stranger’s album, then you’ll never see the picture, and what you don’t know can’t hurt you. Right? Wrong.

True story while sitting next to

an acquaintance on the first day of classes this semester: Acquaintance: “Kathleen, did you have a good time at the Rose Bowl?”

Me: “Yeah, I did. It was a tough loss but still a great experience…

Wait, how’d you know I went?”

Acquaintance: “I saw a picture of you in the stands at the game. You were behind my friend.”

Me: “Well how about that. I actually don’t have any pictures inside the stadium, can I see it?”

Acquaintance: “Ohhhhh well, uh, it might take me awhile to find it.

Me: “Can you just try?”

Acquaintance: “Suuuuuuure.”

With hesitation, he goes to his friend’s Facebook page. Fifteen seconds later I’m saying, “Goooooo!” and really regretting that I ever asked. Before my eyes, I see what might possibly be the worst picture of me ever. I have nacho cheese spilled on my jersey, and I’m craning my neck back to look at something in the air, giving a clear shot up my nostrils. But the real gem is that I have toilet paper stuck to my shoe. Momentarily, I thought the most embarrassing part of this massacre was the fact that I was actually identifiable while in such an unfavorable state, but nope.

The most embarrassing part was the comments that strangers left.

My “favorite” was, “Dude, that chick behind you looks like she got hit by a bus.”

Getting snubbed Sometimes your shoulder is good enough to be in a friend’s profile picture, but your face is just too ugly. Getting cropped out of a picture can be harsh, but just take it with a grain of salt. You win some; you lose some.

Did I miss doppelganger week this year?

Seriously, did it pass? I’m going to be pissed if it did.

In direct contrast to the double chin epidemic, there’s the epidemic called, “I’m so hot, and I’m gonna let the whole world know it.” Doppelganger week was my favorite Facebook holiday for this very reason; I loved to hate all the peoplewho thought they were so smoking hot. Nothing screams “I’m conceited” like putting your look-a-like as Jennifer Aniston and then writing the caption as, “I get this all the time.” OK, buddy, just because you have the same hair color as America’s sweetheart, it doesn’t mean you look like her. Or, just because you have big boobs, it doesn’t mean you look like Kim Kardashian.

Fortunately, for every five times someone compared themselves to a hottie long shot, I thoroughly enjoyed when people were able to poke fun at themselves.

My friend Colleen went through a short-hair phase. You know, like, boy short. If she had fallen victim to the epidemic, she would have used Natalie Portman during her short-hair heyday. But, no, she’s too good for that crap.

Who was her doppelganger? The one and only—Kevin Arnold from “The Wonder Years.”

I was a little late on the doppelganger uptake, but once I realized what was going on, I went full force. I was a very large baby, the bulldozer type. And I am proud to say that I had an uncanny resemblance to Madison’s finest—Chris Farley. Hey, if you got it, flaunt it. And by “it,” I mean a double chin.

Share your embarrassing photo stories with Kathleen at kqbrosnan@wisc.edu.

IN HONOR OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS MARY JANE we present your half-baked memories of bowls, bongs and blunts:

I was interning at a newspaper in Santa Barbara and a friend and I needed sweet Fourth of July plans. My friend knew someone interning with Google, so we stayed in San Jose for the weekend with computer nerds and smoked a lot of weed. There was a two-day period when I smoked so much weed I didn’t say a word. This is what I remember: There was a fire in Chinatown, a bowl of clam chowder in a bread bowl and we couldn’t see the fireworks through the fog.

I decided to smoke with a friend who has a pale complexion and pointy canine teeth. None of our friends were in town so we were like, “Let’s go smoke by the library!” We ate Pringles and Oreo Cakesters. She also convinced me she was a vampire and chased me around the library lawn.

The first time I was high was during a family Thanksgiving dinner.

My mom and I were going to drive to Oshkosh to surprise my dad and sister who were already in town. Then my mom said, “I have to tell you something. Tonight when we’re up north, we’re going to get high together as a family.” So once we arrived in Oshkosh, we sat in a circle and smoked weed together. That’s when I realized I’m the least pothead of my whole family.

The first time I got high, my friend and I were driving back from the park where we’d been hanging out all day. He got pulled over. He and I commenced to freak out as the police officer walked up next to the car with a flashlight. My friend rolled down his window and said, “What seems to be the problem, officer?” This caused me to cringe uncontrollably. The police officer, after peering into the car and staring at me for what seemed like 10 minutes, said, “Your headlights aren’t on.”

I almost got pulled over with a contact high once because my friends had smoked three bowls in the car. I thought three was a little unnecessary, but according to them they smoked “two for survival and one for style.” As I pulled to the side of the road the cop passed by on his way to pull someone else over—a very good thing because we had another ounce of weed with us.

I once got high in the back of a bus that yodels when you press the horn.

My roommates were high with one of our friends. She was reading an instruction manual and started to freak out because she thought she’d forgotten how to read. Later she realized she was reading the German instructions.

One of my roommates’ friends was over and we were all high.

The friend started laughing uncontrollably and told the rest of us in between laughs that we had to stop talking or looking at him so he could move again.

One time in high school we were driving around in a car at night trying to find a good place to park and smoke. We had tried several places and settled on none of them because we were already high and paranoid. We finally found a spot and were about to light up when silhouetted in the window was an old man with binoculars. So we sped away, but in doing so ran over what we thought was a baby. Upon getting out to check we discovered it was a log. We got back in the car but mistook a streetlight for headlights so we didn’t end up moving for 10 minutes. Then we went to a burger joint and the fire department was there, so we had a burger with them.

The first time I got high was in the bathroom of the NYC hotel we were staying in for confirmation—we were there touring synagogues. It was tricky because the rabbi was in the room next door.

Once we ordered Wendy’s at the drive-thru and it took five minutes to realize we were talking to nobody.

While I was in Boston once my friends and I got really high and decided to go to New York City. We made the brilliant decision to take the ultrasketchy $15 Chinatown bus there.

Once I passed out in a lazy river when I was high. I didn’t even fall off the tube. Apparently I just kept going around for about an hour.

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Assistant News Director for WYTDY Madison 1670 Dusty Weis, far right, asked panelists about their personal definitions of journalistic objectivity at the Union South Marquee Tuesday night.

National, local journalists discuss what news bias means today

By Ellen Molina The Daily Cardinal

New York Times White House Correspondent Jeff Zeleny, UW-Madison Journalism Professor James Baughman, Isthmus News Editor Bill Lueders and the Editors-in-Chief from both The Daily Cardinal and The Badger Herald shared their opinions on the idea of objectivity and what it means to be “biased” at a panel Tuesday.

The panel was moderated by UW-Madison graduate and Assistant News Director for WTDY Madison 1670 Dusty Weis, who has been active in covering the controversial budget repair law.

Baughman said defining “bias” is complicated, explaining it “involves deliberately misstating facts and stating something that is not true.”

“It occurs when one gets calls and corrections, yet continues to say it,” he said.

Zeleny added bias is also evident in what we don’t cover.

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State Rep. Evan Wynn,

“It is ignoring people or not covering essential parts of the story,” he said.

Zeleny said he strives to be a “down-the-middle newspaper reporter.” He said he encourages writers to cover both sides and to not assume that one side is right and the other wrong.

Bargnes said The Badger Herald’s attitude toward political opinions in the newsroom has changed dramatically since his first days working at the newspaper.

“When I first started it was incredibly taboo in the news department to even mention the kind of views you held politically,” Bargnes

said. “We have changed since then.

Today, you are almost even better off knowing every individual’s opinion.”

Lueders, author of “Watchdog: 25 Years of Muckraking and Rabblerousing,” agreed and said fairness is essential to quality reporting, yet it is possible to have an opinion and still be balanced.

“It’s appropriate for journalists to have a sense of perspective,” Lueders said. “You can pass judgment and still be fair.”

Zeleny said it is not enough for journalists to provide balanced news.

The public must also be active participants in news by consuming and criticizing it, he said.

“For now, it’s all about personal responsibility. People have to be interested in what’s going on in their society,” Zeleny said. “We could make news accessible and available, but at some point there’s a limit to what newspeople can do.”

The panel was part of the first annual Madison Lit Fest, a week of events celebrating literature.

R-Whitewater, also voiced opposition to the New Badger Partnership plan, disliking the fact that it would remove UW-Madison from the authority of Wisconsin’s GI Bill, which provides Wisconsin veterans with

free tuition.

Chancellor Biddy Martin said in a statement the university would continue to support veterans, but did not deny they would no longer be mandated to provide a free education.

“It’s appropriate for journalists to have a sense of perspective.

You can pass judgment and still be fair.”

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Former state Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, assumed office as Dane County executive Tuesday after winning the office by a landslide two weeks ago.

Parisi beat conservative Dane County Board Executive Eileen Bruskewitz in the spring election with 70 percent of the vote.

Bruskewitz blamed the loss on anger in the county toward Gov. Scott Walker.

Parisi is replacing former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk,

who served in the office for 14 years before announcing in October she would step down.

Complications arose over when Falk would have to resign and whether the special election could be held in April along with the other spring elections. She officially stepped down in December and was allowed to serve as interim county executive between January and April.

Parisi pledged during his campaigning to fiercely oppose Walker’s policies on the county level.

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Peru and Kenya.

MEDLIFE works with community members in Latin American countries to improve the community’s access to medicine, education and community development.

There was also a representative for the proposed Global Health Certificate, which would be a 15-credit program available to undergraduate students in the 2011-2012 school year.

The Travel Symposium included performances by the Madhatters and local bluegrass band Honey Summer and Fall.

Loker said the event was “a celebration of the work of UW students have done through service organizations and of the beautiful new Union South.”

—Erin McGlynn

MEDLIFE, UW Habitat for Humanity, Engineers Without Borders, and the International Internship Program were among the service travel organizations present.

Peace Corps, Learning Enterprises, AIESEC, and Chadborne Residential College Global were also represented by groups of students at the event.

Students that participated in Spring Alternative Breaks this year attended the event to share stories from their service trips across the country, from Yosemite, California to Hubert, North Carolina.

Newly created organizations such as MEDLIFE and Crossing spoke about the service trips offered through their groups to countries like

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Scott Resnick replaces Bryon Eagon for the District 8 seat on City Council. Resnick will represent a large number of UW-Madison students who live in his district.

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The majority of the cost of having an intensive rooftop would come from the addition of a third elevator and getting the building up to code.

“We are working very tirelessly to make sure we bring the project in on budget,” Hoffman said.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4,

who co-sponsored the resolution, said the study is well-researched.

“This study is extremely thorough and I take issue with anybody who says it is not,” Verveer said.

Council members accepting the study differs from them adopting the study. Adoption would be considered the last word on the subject, while accepting the study would acknowledge that there is still a possibility for the intensive garden, Verveer said.

$1,000 for 1,000 words The Daily Cardinal presents our annual $1,000 for 1,000 words essay contest. To be considered in the runnings simply choose from one of the following prompts and submit a 1,000-word essay. Daily Cardinal employees may not apply.

1. What is the dividing line between the public’s right to know and the government’s right to some confidentiality in light of the recent WikiLeaks controversy?

2. How are you coping with the rising costs of tuition for undergraduate and graduate schools, and what are the implications for the country if tuitions keep rising?

3. Is the American Dream dying for our generation? Are you optimistic or pessimistic about your future and the future of the country?

E-mail your essay to edit@dailycardinal.com by Friday, April 29, or if you have any questions about the contest

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Recall petition to be filed against Sen. Holperin by end of week

Teen faces drug charges following arrest

The group organizing the recall campaign against state Sen. Jim Holperin, D - C o n ov e r, said they plan to file their petition with the necesHOLPERIN sary signatures with the Government Accountability

A LaCrosse teenager faces drugrelated charges after Madison police stopped him and a friend for skateboarding on State Street Sunday.

Suspect Tyler Anthony Zink, 18, was arrested on tentative charges for possession of Hydrocodone, possession of drug paraphernalia and for having a skateboard on a city roadway.

Hydrocodone is a schedule II narcotic and a painkiller commonly used in cough medicine.

Madison Police also cited suspect Alexander Mickelson, 17, for having

Board by the end of the week.

If they are able to collect the nearly 16,000 required signatures to set off a recall election and submit it before April 25, Holperin will become the fifth state senator and first Democrat this year to potentially face a recall election.

Petitions against state Sens.

Dan Kapanke, R-La Crosse, and Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, were submitted with the GAB at

the beginning of the month, and recall campaigns against state Sens. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, and Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, filed their papers in the last couple of days.

Kim Simac, founder of Northwood Patriots and organizer of Holperin’s recall, said at the Tea Party rally Saturday that Wisconsin has become a place “where cowards are called heroes.”

Two Madison men arrested for possession of cocaine Madison Police arrested two Madison men after finding small plastic bags containing cocaine on the suspects on the 4600 block of Verona Road Saturday night.

The suspects, Juan Ledezma Gonzalez, 20, and Adan Ramirez Hernandez, 23, were arrested for tentative charges of possession with intent to deliver cocaine, according to the police incident report.

An officer noticed the suspects

move to a vehicle that had no associated registration displayed, Madison Police officer Howard Payne said.

Police said the officer tried to stop the vehicle, but it continued to move. The suspects proceeded to look back at the officer while moving around in the vehicle, Payne said.

The officer then called for backup, believing either evidence of a crime was being manipulated or a weapon was being obtained,

Payne said.

“The occupants were said to be sweating profusely even though it was a mere 32 degrees, and after a search commenced officers located at least six baggies containing more than a half gram each,” Payne said in a statement.

The suspects were then transported to the Dane County Jail.

“It was thought that both subjects previously had and currently maintain gang ties/affiliations,” Payne said in a statement.

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confirming Nickolaus’ admission.

GAB for “bringing an added independent voice to the chorus affirming the results of the election.”

“We are satisfied that the numbers reported by the municipalities were consistent with the numbers certified by the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers,” Nemoir said.

The deadline for Asst. Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg to request a recount is today, though she is not expected to ask for one. After the deadline passes, Prosser’s victory will be official.

— Samy Moskol

The GAB began investigating the county’s vote returns the next day. Even though a few minor changes were identified, the GAB found no major discrepancies between Waukesha County’s official canvass report and documentation from municipalities.

The review, which was conducted over four days, thoroughly examined the total votes cast from voting equipment, ballot documentation, write-in form and certification pages of poll lists

“We are satisfied that the numbers reported by the municipalities were consistent with the numbers certified by the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers.”

Brian Nemoir spokesperson Justice David Prosser

Prosser Campaign spokesperson Brian Nemoir commended the

a skateboard on a city roadway.

While the officers were talking to the suspects, Zink was acting suspicious, police said. Zink was trying to place his hands into his pockets and denied the activity when an officer referenced his behavior, Payne said.

An MPD canine assisted police in the investigation that helped to to discover Zink was in possession of Hydrocodone, Payne said.

Zink was eventually transported to the Dane County Jail, police said.

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Looking forward: Stunning spring staples

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By Margaret Schafer THE daily cardinal

Although Madison’s weather can’t decide if it’s winter or spring, sporadically fluctuating from snow to sunshine, it is eventually going to take a turn for the better. In light of this fact, we must be wardrobe-ready. On these random sunny days, collegians all over town are rejoicing and shedding their layers to show off their spring styles. It seems like years since we’ve been able to walk down State Street without a jacket covering any attempts we have made at being trendy. This spring’s fashion is all about mixing masculine with feminine. Dainty meets tough, which is perfect for festivals, bike rides and barbecues. It’s time to show skin in unexpected yet sexy and sweet ways. For the boys: a casual beachy look gets a touch of sophistication by mixing in timeless, preppy pieces.

On a warm spring day, a collegiettes can’t go wrong with basing her outfit around a girly centerpiece. Key materials such as lace and patterns such as polka dots and dainty florals give your spring look a ladylike flair. Let these materials manifest themselves in your dresses, blouses and accessories. Popular dresses for this season include fitted bodices with fuller skirts. These come with a variety of necklines include, v-neck and scoop neck.

Floral blouses prove to be irresistible with Peter Pan collars, delicate buttons and flowy fabrics.

Balance overtly feminine styles with blunt and rough details to create a look that is unique yet adorable. Heavy combat boots are a perfect counterpart to light summery styles and do wonders to accentuate bare legs. High waisted cutoff shorts with a leather belt give a casual tomboy edge to an otherwise sophisticated look. Throw a shrunken motorcycle jacket

or denim vest over a floral dresses to add another piece of interest.

Of course, we all know that warmer weather is great for the more risque touch of skin. However, this season designers have begun to focus on unique ways of achieving this look. Although cutouts were originally focused on accenting the sexiness of a dress, this season they lend an edge to dresses femininity.

Another subtle way to show skin is through sheer fabrics. Whether layered over more solid pieces or simply worn over a bandeau, this unique fabric adds a bit of unexpected chic to a look. If you are afraid of going all-out sheer, opt for a shirt with a sheer back, showing just the right amount of skin without being too exposed and out-there.

Girls aren’t the only ones whose fashionable sides rejoice when warm weather emerges. Guys can be just a stylish with a few spring and summer must-haves. The staple for the men is inevitably the cutoff short. These jean shorts (jorts) fit tightly around the thighs and are cut off directly above the knee. For casual days, pair these with a loose fitting tank top in solids or patterns such as stripes. A short sleeve button-down shirt in a light color is a sophisticated option for the warm weather.

Keep this shirt preppy and clean to balance out the casualness of cutoffs. For shoes, skip the dirty flip-flops and gym shoes and instead opt for simple sneakers such as Vans or Keds, boat shoes or, my personal favorite, Oxfords.

A summer look isn’t complete without summer’s most necessary and stylish accessory: sunglasses. There are many different styles that have gained popularity this summer. Whether you opt for cat eyes, small round lenses or clubmasters, the most stylish sunglasses add a vintage cool to your style.

Maharani’s Indian: A Madison gem

By Eamon Hegarty and Matt Payne The Daily Cardinal

For anyone with an affinity for excellent food, especially Indian food, Maharani’s Indian Restaurant will meet your highest expectations. From their attentive service to their mouth-watering lunch buffet, Maharani’s never fails to satisfy. Regardless of one’s sensitivity to spice, familiarity with Indian food or wallet size, there is something for everyone at this Madison gem.

The combination of flavor, experience and cost is what has earned Maharani’s a place amongst Madison’s best restaurants.

Let’s begin with flavor. Think of the first thing that pops into your head when we say the following words: curry, biryani, kebab.

If you’re like most people, we imagine that spice was among the first ideas that came to mind. We understand that for some this may be daunting. You might say, “Spice? You mean like flaming hot habanero hot wings?”

Goodness, no. Spice is but one element of flavor, an essential ingredient of any dish, and Maharani’s food packs a wallop of flavor in each dish.

Here’s the kicker though: Each dish is, more or less, built for the American palate, and thus the flavoring is subtle, not overwhelming. It allows you to appreciate the best of Indian cooking without worrying about reaching for the milk every other bite.

Perhaps the best part of any meal at Maharani’s is chutneys and yogurts. Coconut and mint are crowd-pleasers, each designed separately to be mixed in alongside the dish at the diner’s choosing. The diner is able to decide how much original flavor is present in

the dish while still maintaining the essential base ingredients.

Any new dining experience can be frightening. What if I don’t like the food, or it’s too hot, or there’s not enough meat?

Are all Indian restaurants vegetarian? At Maharani’s you need no prior experience with Indian dining to appreciate the work of Maharani’s chefs. Your experience at Maharani’s is anything you make of it; just dig in. Regardless of your culinary background, whether you are a meat eater or a vegetarian, Maharani’s aims to please with selections for all types of diners. They make everything from North Indian mutton and chicken dishes (try the Rogan Josh, best lamb you’ll ever have) to southern Indian vegetarian staples such as uttapams. Use a fork, use your bread or use your hands, no need to fret. In other words, at Maharani’s it’s “no problem”.

A huge advantage of dining at Maharani’s is the price. Large main course items run on average at $13 per plate and side dishes, drinks, and desserts cost $2-6, including their excellent kheer (rice pudding). On a budget, try the lunch buffet that operates between 11:30 and 3 each day. It is a $10 all-you-can-eat guarantee that you won’t be snacking before dinner.

Maharani’s food is flavorful and enjoyable on its own and it is a welcoming environment for all regardless of familiarity with Indian cooking or wallet size. If you enjoy your meat as much as we do, we encourage you to join us on their outdoor patio as the weather warms up. Grab some chicken 65, naan and coconut chutney and eat away a lazy spring day.

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What’s in the Fridge? Chicken Gyros

By Alec Walker THE DAILY CARDINAL

It is all too often that the process of cooking is cast hastily aside as an excessive means to an end. Take a look, for example, at the vast array of “instant” meals in the dried goods section of your local grocery store. How intolerable must cooking be that we cannot bear to do more than “just add water” in preparation for our nightly repast?

Cooking is about innovation, passion and most importantly it’s about sharing the creative experience with those who surround us on a daily basis. Accordingly, I gladly accepted an opportunity to prepare a Greek meal with a few close friends this past weekend. As the four of us shuffled around the cramped kitchen, bumping elbows as we mixed hummus and toasted pita, we had a rare opportunity to catch up on each others often divergent lives.

Accounts of grueling biology projects, promising summer internships and newly established love interests mingled with the sizzle of chicken on the grill as we prepared our chicken souvlaki gyros. Piled high with marinated olives, feta and a refreshing Tzatziki sauce, these traditional Greek fast-food wraps served as a perfect stand-in for their less sophisticated hamburger cousins and presented us with an unmatched opportunity to explore cooking as a social outlet. Gather a few friends and give them a try.

Chicken Souvlaki 1/4 cup olive oil 1 lemon, juiced 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1/2 tablespoon honey 8 cloves garlic, minced 3 tablespoon dried oregano 1/2 tablespoon black pepper 2 pounds chicken breast Tzatziki Sauce 1/2 cucumber, finely chopped 1 cup plain yogurt 1/4 cup sour cream 1/2 lemon, juiced 1/2 tablespoon rice wine vinegar 1 clove garlic, minced 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill 8 mint leaves, chopped 1 tablespoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon cumin

Roasted Red Bell Pepper Hummus 2 16 ounce cans of garbanzo beans/ chickpeas 5 medium-sized cloves of garlic 3 tbsp. fresh squeezed lemon 2-3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon tahini (sesame seed paste) 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 roasted red bell pepper

Wraps Pita bread, warmed Kalamata olives Pepperoncini peppers Feta cheese 1 red onion, thinly sliced 1 tomato, sliced Fresh dill for garnish Begin preparing your Greek dish by concocting a marinade for the chicken souvlaki. Add all marinade ingredients except the olive oil into to your mixing bowl. Slowly whisk in the olive oil until thoroughly combined. Divide the marinade into two quart-sized sandwich bags. Cut the chicken breasts into strips and add equal amounts to both bags.

Seal the bags and place in the refrigerator for 1-4 hours until fully marinated.

In the meantime, you can prepare the tangy Tzatziki sauce. Simply combine all ingredients in a large glass bowl and adjust the flavors with salt and black pepper as needed. Allow the sauce to chill before serving.

To begin the hummus, slice one-half of a red bell pepper into fourths and brush with olive oil. Place the pepper under the broiler for approximately 10 minutes (five minutes for each side) or until the skin begins to brown and crisp. While the pepper roasts, drain the chickpeas, making sure to save the liquid from one can. Put the chickpeas into the blender along with half of the reserved liquid, the olive oil and the lemon juice, and puree. When the mixture forms a smooth paste, add the garlic, cumin, tahini and bell pepper, and blend until the bell pepper is well combined with the rest of the ingredients. At this point, sample the hummus and adjust the flavors according to your preferences. If you find the hummus too thick, you can add more of the reserved liquid from the chickpeas or additional olive oil.

If you plan to grill the chicken, thread the strips onto wooden or metal skewers and place them on the grill for approximately 10 minutes. You can also sauté the chicken in a skillet over medium-high for 10 minutes in accordance with your preferred tastes.

When the hummus, Tzatziki sauce and chicken are finished, you can prepare the pita wraps. Spread a generous spoonful of hummus on a warmed pita and layer with souvlaki chicken, tomato slices and onions. Top it off with Kalamata olives, chopped pepperoncini peppers and crumbled feta, and serve alongside a ramekin of tzatziki sauce. Pair with a glass of hearty red wine and you are ready to enjoy a lovely meal with good friends and family.

Definitely an experience worth sharing more than once. Opa!

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arts Garbus’ tUnE-yArDs ‘kill’ on latest album dailycardinal.com/arts

Emma Roller The daily cardinal

The much-maligned “sophomore slump” some artists supposedly experience on their second album is more than a cliché at this point; it is a foregone conclusion.

And there was cause for concern that the tUnE-yArDs’ sophomore album would not be able to live up to their scintillatingly raw debut, BiRd-BrAiNs. Merrill Garbus, who fronts the group, recorded her first album entirely on voice recorder out of necessity—she didn’t have a band to play with. Despite her Spartan setup, Garbus was able to draw out the expansive sound of The Dirty Projectors, a group Garbus has toured Europe with and who she has referred to as a personal “hero band.”

After listening to w h o k i l l, however, it is abundantly clear that Garbus, a budding Pitchfork Media sweetheart, is suffering from no such slump. In fact, there isn’t a throw-away song on the album. If anything, Garbus has refined her sound to the perfect amount of pop while maintaining enough rawness to attract explorers of the eccentric.

Garbus has experience with improvisation, both in theater and music, and it is easy to see spontaneity is a characteristic she values highly in her music. Her vocals are

like an aural dance performance—at times they will be constrained and almost meek, only to rip through the track at a moment’s notice with the aplomb of Debbie Harry or Siouxsie Sioux.

And while indie frontwomen are often relegated to roles such as the vulnerable songstress (Feist, Best Coast), the precious artist (Joanna Newsom, Imogen Heap) or the sexed-up Riot Grrl (Karen O, M.I.A.), Garbus eschews these roles by combining them, and the resulting amalgam of personas is refreshing as hell.

On “Es-So,” Garbus alternates old-timey songbird lyrics with a jabbing impersonation of a spoiled, preppy girl that many students on this campus can relate to. It is also a meditation on self-mutilation with lines like, “Sometimes I’ve got the jungle under my skin / Draw back the rib and stick a fucking fork in,” and “I run over my own body with my own car.” It sounds morbid in print, but the airy melody staves off any potential for melodrama.

The most infectious track on the album is “Gangsta,” which combines ska horns and Garbus’ irrepressible swagger to infectious effect. Beneath the disjointed pop of the song there’s an undeniable hardrock sensibility, especially with the line, “Bang bang bang! / He never

moved to my hood / ’Cause danger is crawlin’ out the way.”

After the helter-skelter car chase that is “Gangsta” comes “Powa,” a summery stroll through the thicket of Garbus’ vocal range.

Accompanied by jam-rock guitars and candid confessions about her love life, it is the most thematically straightforward pop song on the album.

Garbus admits she has always been fascinated with the role of music in culture—her interest in world music, especially African music, shows in her songwriting.

She studied in Kenya, knows Swahili and is trained in African dance.

As a result, there is an undeniable Afro-Caribbean influence on songs like “Bizness,” an influence Garbus relates back to her studies in Kenya and interest in the entwined relationship between music and folk culture. Where other groups like Vampire Weekend draw from West African pop to define their punky aesthetic, Garbus succeeds at fusing world beat stylings with pop-punk sensibility in such a way that neither genre is lost in the mix.

Without question, w h o k i l l is already one of the standout albums of 2011, far from conforming to the “sophomore slump” myth. Garbus, after all, obeys few things with her songwriting, most of all convention.

Art is not second-class to research Kyrie Caldwell WUD columnist

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s a UW-Madison student, I hear all about the university’s impressive research record. Billions of dollars in funding, hundreds of talented faculty members, thousands of dedicated graduate students, dozens of fantastic innovations that are indubitably making the world a better, easier place to live. It’s hard not to feel proud when inundated with such strong statistics, but I wonder how that attention to the “hard” sciences affects me.

Don’t get me wrong, I will never underestimate the power and usefulness of scientific research. But occasionally I worry that my fellow humanities cohorts and my contributions will be overlooked in favor of a sea of scientific process. I worry that our programs will be the first things to get cut, without too much remorse, when the budget gets tight. I am generally right to worry, as the news seems to constantly report cuts to the humanities here, the dropping of arts programs there.

The UW, thanks in part to Chancellor Biddy Martin herself, strives constantly to welcome the arts and humanities to our campus.

What is fascinating about our own world-renowned research institution is that I need not fret. The UW, thanks in part to Chancellor Biddy Martin herself, strives constantly to welcome the arts and humanities to our campus. Year-long program series, huge film festivals and

state-matched humanities grants enliven the campus’ art scene and add to Madison’s overall artistic landscape.

But even more thrilling than that is walking into the brand new, sparkling Union South which is a reminder of how much UW-Madison values the arts. The building flows with modern, welcoming, curving architecture and art is built into its walls and partitions. It offers gallery space, a wonderful movie theater that rivals those of Sundance Cinema and fountains that are as lovely as they are environmentally friendly.

Like its neighbor, the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Union South is contemporary, vibrant, classy and fun. Since its grand opening on April 15, it has already hosted big-name concerts, Oscarwinning and nominated movies, even an internationally themed party with bellydancers and a live DJ. But also like its WID neighbor, Union South ably creates a space for everyone, regardless of their major. Even though it lies within the engineering center of campus, the building really offers something for everyone, from a study space, to a fun night out with friends.

I realize I am gushing over the new union, partly due to novelty, I’m sure. As it becomes a normal part of campus, its features will seem obvious and not entirely worth discussion.

What is crucial now, though, is that we show how much we appreciate the fact that the arts and humanities are not lost.

We need to recognize that art is what reenergizes us during a

study break or lets us unwind after a stressful exam. We need to acknowledge that the people in charge of our campus accoutrements recognize that too. We need to note that this school does not merely lead the nation and the world into the scientific discoveries of the future—it also boasts some of the strongest, most involved and incorporated arts resources to be seen. I feel perfectly safe in applying to graduate school in the humanities, even overseas, knowing that I found training and experiences in these buildings.

Like its neighbor, the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Union South is contemporary, vibrant, classy and fun.

Within a month, I have seen nearly a dozen movies on campus screens, explored the Chazen Museum of Art with Fred Wilson and have danced my heart out to music from around the world. On top of this, I know of several talks I couldn’t attend, exhibits I haven’t yet seen and art enthusiasts with whom I couldn’t interact. In spring especially, when people emerge from the warm interior of their homes to enjoy the (albeit inconsistently) warm outdoors, the campus bustles with liveliness and every day a new event begs to be attended and savored. I intend to experience all the energy that the UW gives to its diverse community.

What is truly beautiful about that energy is that it comes from the laboratory and the creative mind alike, and neither is respected less than the other.

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In their latest album, the tUnE-yArDs, led by frontwoman Merrill Garbus, bring together various styles for an altogether unique sound.

Bakin’ Bits

The Daily Cardinal’s compilation of the best movies and music to experience while high on this fine, warm, sunny April afternoon.

“Fo Yo Sorrows” - Big Boi: Whether you’re a shy nerd or have some real street cred, this all-out stoner rap is perfect for those who aim to feel extremely bad-ass, enhanced by the everlastingly eccentric George Clinton.

“My Girls” - Animal Collective: The build up of this song is, simply put, majestic.

Because of its undoubtedly pleasant harmonies and hypnotic influences, it’s a perfect song for “laying” in grass.

“I Am the Walrus” - The Beatles: Your parents probably got high to this trail ‘blazing’ song too. It’s a stoner staple and will be for generations to come. The lyrics make no sense, and that’s exactly why it’s so timeless. Coo-coo-cachoo.

“All of the Lights” - Kanye West: Yeezy’s music video includes a warning for those prone to seizures. Luckily, this mindblowing compilation of horned instruments and a bumpin’ 808 drum make this tune perfect to blast while you’re blasted.

“Planet Earth”: We do recommend that you watch this anytime, not just in a THC stupor. With that said, the earth will never seem as awesome as it does while enjoying one of mother earth’s many green splendors.

“Speed Racer”: This will make you wide-eyed and dizzy when tizzy, with some fast-moving action and trippy neon lights. The movie has few redeeming qualities outside of this pothead holiday; it’s well worth it.

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”: This movie will make you jealous. You’ll sit cross-armed and frustrated as you watch a series of spoiled kids enjoy chocolate and candy bliss. Johnny Depp’s performance is sure to leave your brain even more fried.

“Dazed and Confused”: This ‘tokin’ stoner flick requires minimal brain activity while still maintaining plenty of entertainment value. You might get a hint of nostalgia as you watch teenagers ‘reek’ havoc on their town.

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By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

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Still getting sleep three weeks before finals

Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

Things seem to be working out for them... Both Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins of Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla.

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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.

The Pipesmokers

By Joseph Diedrich jsdiedrich@wisc.edu

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

The Graph Giraffe Classic

By Yosef Lerner graphics@dailycardinal.com

By Angel Lee alee23@wisc.edu

First in Twenty Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com Betting Pool

ACROSS 1 Kanye of music 5 James ___ Garfield (20th U.S. president) 10 Shortening used in recipes?

14 Sound and healthy 15 Preminger suspense classic 16 ___ gin fizz 17 Equitable 19 Sign of saintliness 20 Like marsh grass 21 Words before “date” or “world record” 22 Revered figure 23 Prevents, in legalspeak 25 Casual statement 27 Reporters sniff it out 29 Shopping cart contents 32 Cupid’s Greek counterpart 35 Straighten out, as an iron bar 39 Terrier’s bark 40 Word with “mouse” or “launch” 41 Makes possible 42 Passenger info 43 “___ be an honor” 44 Breakfast container 45 Like burnt briquettes 46 Caravan creature

8 Freeway division 4 50 Take stock of 54 Sirens, e.g.

58 Uncooperative contraction 60 Evokes wonder in 62 Netflix rental 63 ___ vera (lotion ingredient) 64 Colorful, healthy vegetable 66 Speak unclearly 67 African capital until 1991 68 Lifetime exchange for many 69 Boaters and bonnets 70 Ragout and goulash 71 Michael of “Superbad” DOWN 1 Word with “any” or “some” 2 They have a roof above them 3 Winter precipitation 4 Muscle connectors 5 “Mode” lead-in 6 Makes illegal 7 More likely to get slapped 8 Rugged mountain crest 9 My brothel’s keeper?

10 Unisex garb 11 Shiners

2 With no help 1 13 Lowly worker 18 Promote extravagantly 24 Wielded a bat 26 Assists 28 Hitch 30 Class of numbers?

31 Fix, in a sense 32 Big picture 33 Pro ___ (proportionally) 34 Guy not fitting in 36 U.K. television network 37 End of the Jewish calendar 38 Himalayan nation 41 Snaky swimmers 45 Like some heartpumping workouts 47 Fragrant compounds 49 Insensitive to pain 51 Noblemen ranking above viscounts 52 Do a Richard Simmons workout 53 Swamp plant 55 Give the slip to 56 Inflexibility 57 ___ ghost (is spooked) 58 No-loss, no-gain situation 59 Earthen pot 61 Flat-bottomed boat 65 Zebra’s cousin

Washington and the Bear

By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

opinion Cuts to foreign aid won’t solve the deficit 10 Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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very day, the national debt rises by $4 billion. This is an astounding number by any account, and one that is unsustainable for a healthy economy. In response to this spiraling plunge, a number of our nation’s most prominent politicians have put forth plans to single-handily eliminate the deficit and get America back on the “Path to Prosperity.”

Like a peanut gallery playing a game of hot potato, the Democrats and Republicans continue to disagree about the right combination of cuts and tax increases, offering wildly different proposals with little chance of reconciliation.

In the federal budget, one aspect in particular has become a popular source of funding cuts: international affairs and foreign assistance. Indeed, this is a popular notion among Americans; 59 percent of us believe in cutting foreign aid, according to a January Gallup poll. But this is a sentiment fueled in part by ignorance.

According to worldpublicopinion.com, the average American believes that foreign aid comprises 25 percent of the entire U.S. federal budget, and those same Americans felt that, on

average, 10 percent would be more appropriate. Those with a college degree or higher were more cautious, guessing that aid represents 15 percent of the budget.

The real answer? Total foreign aid, including both military and economic spending, amounted to an astounding 1.28 percent of the federal budget in 2009, or, $44.9 billion—pocket change compared to defense and social security.

Ryan wishes to reduce funding for international affairs and foreign assistance by 44 percent.

Now that’s not to suggest that $44 billion is a small number, but when talking about the budget it’s important to think comparatively.

The United States may top the list of foreign aid donors in absolute terms, but when it comes to aid as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, we’re at 19th, right behind Portugal. And a whopping 25 cents of your entire yearly taxes go toward the cause.

Yet it has become a popular target of budget cuts, specifically for U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-wisc., and his high-profile proposal to reduce government spending by $6 trillion

over the next 10 years. Ryan wishes to reduce funding for international affairs and foreign assistance by 44 percent by 2016. That sounds nice at first, but when that same plan calls for a 14 percent increase in defense spending, the savings from foreign aid appear trivial.

So why support foreign aid?

After all, as the common argument among Americans goes, why help other countries when we have problems here at home?

The first and most obvious answer is rooted in altruism. The United States is in a unique position to help developing countries deal with the ramifications of broken economies and war.

But let’s be real: compassion makes for a weak argument. The real benefits of foreign aid and diplomacy are strategic. The progress of developing countries’ economies can have positive benefits domestically. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, our role in such development can have massive military and economic impact. Look toward the post-World War II Marshall Plan, and to a greater extent the entire Cold War, for an early example of foreign aid as a diplomatic tool.

Reducing funding for the State Department’s foreign operations budget undermines peaceful efforts to aid in the continued development of third-world economies and exerting our influence abroad.

Perhaps no country better exemplifies the potential use of foreign aid than Somalia.

When used correctly, foreign aid and international diplomacy can serve as a valuable and preventive diplomacy tool.

Somali pirates continue to threaten international trade along the northeast African coast, prompting heavy joint efforts by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Such military response, known in foreign policy terms as “hard power,” comes with an enormous cost and serves as only a temporary solution. Somali piracy is only one of the many consequences of the failed Somali state, which has operated with no central government since 1991. For 20 years, the United States and our cooperative peers have concentrated efforts on a military response to piracy instead of focusing time and money toward cooperative development in the country, what we might call “soft power.”

Thus, in this case, an early effort toward aiding the development of a peaceful and governed Somali state might have eliminated the need for military response later on. Soft-

power diplomacy, when properly executed, can be a cheaper and more preventive strategy than hard power defense spending.

Proper execution, of course, is easier said than done. A common and often worthy criticism of foreign aid is that it is used inappropriately. One must only look at Egypt as an example. Our long history of military aid to the country, often in the billions of dollars, has supported a dictator in order to maintain American interests. In addition, when it comes to economic aid, grants from the United States often have strings attached; most notably, requiring some developing countries to use aid money only to buy American products. This disrupts the international market and undermines these countries ability to use such aid effectively.

But when used correctly, foreign aid and international diplomacy can serve as a valuable and preventive diplomacy tool. Such tools have the potential to positively exert our influence abroad while aiding the development of the international economy. Our use of military and economic aid is not without its flaws, but massive and broad cuts to the State Department would be irresponsible, and would do little to help reduce our massive deficit.

Miles Kellerman is a sophomore majoring in political science. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Walker’s job plan not enough for growth in Wisconsin mATT Beaty opinion columnist

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ov. Scott Walker won last November’s election with a promise to make Wisconsin “Open for Business.” He has continued to articulate this idea in public speeches as well as in his new Internet “Brown Bag Lunch” videos. Through a combination of tax cuts, tort reform and a public relations campaign, Walker and his administration are hoping to attract a quarter of a million jobs over the next four years. Surely this is a lofty goal, but it’s also one that everyone in Wisconsin can get behind.

Fortunately for Wisconsin, our neighbor to the south is failing to promote such business-friendly policies. While Walker has made jobs his top priority, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has presided over tax hikes that are already driving jobs away from his state.

For a short while, it looked like Walker was going to have the same problems as Quinn.

When Walker’s first major decision was to turn down high-speed rail funding, losing thousands of temporary jobs and a little over 100 permanent ones, jobs hardly looked like Walker’s priority.

But since this controversial decision to turn down federal funding, Walker’s policies have seen 13,000 new private sector jobs and have convinced at least two Illinois companies to locate in Wiconsin, bringing in an estimated 159 jobs to Wisconsin.

One company, FatWallet, is an

online retail company and the other, Catalyst Inc., makes trade show exhibits.

FatWallet left specifically because of the new “Amazon” tax on online retailers that Quinn signed into law last month. Another major company, Caterpillar, has even explored the idea of relocating to Wisconsin, though this appears to be a rumor.

While these new businesses should be celebrated in Wisconsin, they should also serve as a reminder to state legislators of the volatility of business. With the mobile nature of commerce, especially e-commerce, any new tax can be avoided, any new regulation can be circumvented and any business could be on the way out.

Walker’s new corporate tax policies will be of major importance to retaining businesses in the state. Most important is a measure that requires a threefourths majority to raise taxes, a move that is sure to attract many businesses in the future.

But as usual, we need a reality check. Lower taxes, government grants and favorable tort laws will not be the sole reason that companies move to, and stay, in Wisconsin. There is an element of luck. If an entrepeneurial business owner just happens to live in Wisconsin, chances are he is going to set up shop in the state.

There is also an element of talent. Companies are not going to leave a high-talent pool like Chicago to relocate to a city with citizens who are unskilled or uneducated. This trend is evidenced by companies like Google, who have campuses in Austin, Ann Arbor and even Madison.

What do these cities have in common? Mainly, they are all college towns. These areas produce tal-

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Gov. Scott Walker’s “Open For Business” campaign aims to attract businesses from Illinois to Wisconsin. ented, motivated and innovative people, which are important to the business community. Walker must continue to work with UW-Madison and other universities to ensure that Wisconsin’s higher education system continues to produce well-qualified members of the work force.

Another element that contributes to a good business climate is a sound transportation infrastructure. In 2008, MillerCoors left Milwaukee and decided to move to either Chicago or Texas. The final decision came down to Chicago because of its “base of talent, transportation and business resources.”

At the time, taxes played little part,

at least according to public statements, in its decision.

Walker’s dedication to improving Wisconsin’s existing infrastructure, especially highways and the Hiawatha line to Chicago, is an important policy to attract businesses to Wisconsin.

Lower taxes alone do not make a good business climate. Without a qualified work force and a solid infrastructure, Wisconsin will fall far short of creating a quarter of a million jobs. Walker needs to continue to invest in Wisconsin’s highways, and he needs to continue to work with Chancellor Biddy Martin to ensure UW-Madison remains a top-ranked university

despite budget cuts.

So while Walker may be touting new private sector jobs— some of which came from Illinois­—only time will tell if his reforms are able to help or hurt this trend. To meet his goal of a quarter million jobs, Walker will need to continue investing in key areas, as well as keeping taxes low.

If Wisconsin’s infrastructure and higher education fall apart, lower taxes will be a useless mantra for the Republican governor.

Matt Beaty is a sophomore majoring in Math and Computer Science. We welcome all feedback.

Please send responses to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

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softball from page 12 “She’s doing a nice job. We’re just working on seeing how we can call the best pitches for her at every count,” Healy said.

One player who has stepped up her game in Big Ten competition is junior designated hitter Karla Powell, who is hitting for a .391 average and has three home runs in eight Big Ten games.

this year, having a run differential of negative 11 in the first eight Big Ten games.

The Badgers gave secondplace Indiana a run for its money this past weekend, forcing extra innings in Saturday’s game and coming within three outs of a victory on Sunday. But with only a 2-6 conference record, Wisconsin is trying to find a way to translate how well it’s competed with other

Big Ten teams into more conference wins.

“We just need to pull through as a team in the clutch situations to actually come out with some victories,” Grimm said.

Due to inclement weather conditions, the first pitch of Wednesday’s doubleheader with Minnesota has been moved up an hour, The new start time will be 3 p.m.

“We’re pretty evenly matched.

They’re doing a good job.

Obviously they are ahead of us in conference, but we can make a move if we play well.”

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The Badgers currently lead the all-time series against Minnesota 15 to 14—a statistic that reflects how exciting the games in this series have been over the years.

Last season’s game between the two clubs in Minnesota was an instant classic. Wisconsin forced extra innings with a run in the seventh to tie the game at four, and then the Badgers piled on five runs in the top of the tenth.

Unfortunately, the Gophers responded with six runs in the bottom of the frame to take a 10-9 victory in the only game between the two teams last season.

“We definitely had a pretty thrilling game against them last year, and this time we want to come out on top,” sophomore outfielder Kendall Grimm said.

Wisconsin has not been an easy team to beat in Big Ten play

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Karla Powell has been key for Wisconsin’s offense this year. In eight Big Ten games she is batting .391 to go with eight homeruns.

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sternberg from page 12 How can Joe Lunardi look me in the eye and say that Quinnipiac is any more likely to come out of the Northeast Conference than Farleigh Dickinson? Even if they were, how does he know that they are any more likely to be sent to the First Four than his projected Atlantic Sun Champions Lipscomb?

There is nothing behind these projections. They are simply guesses;,not educated guesses, but guesses.

Between draft projections that start the minute the previous year’s final picks are made and the preseason polls that come about the morning after a title game, the world of sport speculation has grown too big for its own good.

Lunardi can only be taken seriously during college basketball season, when games have been and are continuing to be played. Similarly, guys like Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay shouldn’t be on the air until at least after the NFL combine.

And I think that the cases of Jared Sullinger and Harrison Barnes are good enough examples of why NBA draft talk isn’t worth anything until April 24, the day players can actually declare for said draft.

To put it bluntly, speculation is the stuff of water cooler talk, not legitimate journalism. I might even go so far as to say speculation of this sort is acceptable on talk radio, but ESPN is certainly not the forum.

When you and I talk after class about our expectations for Badger basketball next year, we know there is nothing more than intuition in what we argue. But when socalled “experts” speculate on ESPN and elsewhere, there is an implicit assumption that what they say is

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backed by more than mere intuition.

Lunardi’s early bracket, NBA draft projections that included Sullinger and Barnes, and even NFL draft projections with Andrew Luck at the top, all of these prove that the reality is this “professional speculation” isn’t backed by anything more than the intuition you and I use in casual discussion. Putting the stamp of professional journalism on this speculation is irresponsible.

There is nothing behind these projections. They are simply guesses, not educated guesses, but guesses

Instead of wasting time with useless speculation, let’s start focusing on the sports we have going on now. Enough with the NFL draft talk, the NBA draft speculation and especially college football and basketball season previews.

There is plenty of action in the sports world, from MLB games to the NBA and NHL playoffs.

Focus on that. There will be plenty of time to talk college football and college basketball later. For now, lets take a break.

Do you find use for way too early projections in sports? E-mail Max at max.sternberg@yahoo.com

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Wisconsin quarterbacks: Part 1 of 3

Badgers’ ‘Bud’-ding star Sophomore quarterback Jon Budmayr looks ready to replace Scott Tolzien at the helm of Wisconsin’s offense

By Ryan Evans The Daily Cardinal

Quarterback is one of the most demanding positions in all of sports. In no other sport does one position have as strong an influence on the team’s success than the field general on the gridiron. Quarterbacks constantly live under a heavy spotlight of scrutiny.

That scrutiny is all the more intense when a young quarterback is attempting to replace a predecessor that was extremely successful in his time under center. Just ask Aaron Rodgers. While Scott Tolzien may not be Brett Favre, Wisconsin sophomore quarterback Jon Budmayr still has some big shoes to fill as he tries to step up to be the Badgers’ next quarterback.

The Woodstock, Illinois native served as Tolzien’s back up during the Badgers’ run to the Rose Bowl last season, appearing in three games and completing 8 of 10 passes for 134 yards and a 74 yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Jared Abbrederis during the Badgers 83-20 blowout win over Indiana.

He now appears ready to step into the spotlight and take the reins of the Wisconsin offense.

Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Bryan Bulaga, a former teammate of Budmayr’s at Marian Central Catholic High School, offered Budmayr praise on his Twitter. He tweeted, “Badger fans watch out this spring for your QB and my good friend and former high school QB Jon Budmayr,” on March 22. By all accounts Bulaga isn’t the only one who has been impressed with the ability Budmayr has shown so far this spring.

“He is getting a lot better as practices have gone on and he is progress-

ing really well,” Abbrederis said. “He’s learning to read the defense better and get the ball out on time and has a lot of trust in us receivers right now that we’ll be in the right spot.”

Great quarterbacks have ususally been great leaders both on and off the field, and according to Abbrederis, Budmayr has quickly stepped into that role.

“He leads by example,” Abbrederis said. “He is the kind of guy that is never going to quit; he’s not going to cheat on a rep and will always give all he has. But he has also become more of a vocal leader in the huddle.”

Leadership is something that has always come naturally to Budmayr, which will certainly serve him well on Saturday’s at Camp Randall.

“Since I was younger, I have always been a leader by example; that’s the person I am,” he said. “But at the same time, there are certain times when I need to step up and say something and then I’ll do that.”

Teammates and coaches alike have raved about Budmayr’s work ethic, something he says he learned from watching his predecessor.

“Scott [Tolzien] always prepared very well,” he said. “I learned from him to put the work in Sunday through Friday and that makes things that much easier on Saturday. He came out for practice every day ready to work; he had something he was focused on working on each and every day, and I have tried to emulate that.”

That work ethic was instilled during Budmayr’s senior year of high school. After a huge junior season where he threw for 2,033 yards and 15 touchdowns Budmayr came into his senior year as a highly

touted quarterback prospect, but in the first game of the season, he suffered a broken collarbone that required season-ending surgery.

“It was tough, but it helps you realize what a blessing God has given you to play this sport and that it can be taken away real quick,” Budmayr said of the injury.

“I learned you have to take advantage of each day, come out, get better and work and embrace it.”

Tolzien was able to have success during his two seasons as the Badgers’ quarterback because he was a brilliant game manager. With the running game Wisconsin has historically had, the quarterback has never been expected to win games, he just can’t lose them. Tolzien fit that mold perfectly, rarely making mistakes and ran the UW offense to a tee.

Budmayr says that Badger fans shouldn’t expect anything different from him, though he said he isn’t afraid to air it our every once in awhile, something Tolzien didn’t do very often.

“Scott and I have a similar game,” Budmayr said. “The only difference being I stretch the field and throw the ball deep a little bit more.”

Though, as Abbrederis points out, just because Budmayr isn’t afraid to show off his arm, that doesn’t mean he is a gunslinger type quarterback that is careless with the football.

“He’s got a really good arm, and isn’t afraid to throw the ball up,” Abbrederis said. “He gives the receiver a shot to make a play on the ball and has a good concept of the defense so he knows where to go with the ball so he’s not throwing into double coverage.”

Budmayr was labeled by many as the favorite to emerge from

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Wisconsin set to renew rivalry with Gophers in border battle doubleheader

By Adam Tupitza The Daily Cardinal

When the Wisconsin softball team steps on the field at Goodman Diamond Wednesday to

take on border rival Minnesota in a doubleheader, they will be taking on a rival that in many ways is a mirror image of themselves.

Wisconsin (2-6 Big Ten,

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Cassandra Darrah has been a revelation for the Badgers pitching staff this season with a 12-6 record and 2.86 ERA on the season.

22-17 overall) is led by first-year head coach Yvette Healy, while Minnesota (3-5, 25-18) also has a first year head coach, Jessica Allister. Both coaches took over programs that had losing records in 2010 and have their programs on pace to finish with winning records this season.

“We’re pretty evenly matched,” Healy said. “They’re doing a good job. Obviously, they’re ahead of us in the conference, but we can make a move if we can play well.”

Both the Badgers and Gophers have freshmen pitchers headlining their staffs who have far exceeded expectations to this point of the season.

Wisconsin has Cassandra Darrah, who is 12-6 with a 2.86 ERA this season, while Minnesota’s Sara Moulton sports a 22-11 record and has won three Big Ten freshman of the week awards.

However, Darrah has not had much success on the mound against Big Ten opponents. Her record in Big Ten games is 0-4 with a 7.26 ERA. She also gave up a game-winning grand slam home run in Sunday’s 6-3 loss to Indiana. softball page 11

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Scott Tolzien’s departure leaves a big hole in the Wisconsin offense, but Jon Budmayr’s strong work ethic should help ease the transition for UW. Wisconsin’s quarterback competition between himself, junior Curt Phillips and freshman Joe Brennan as the starter for the Badgers opener Sept.

1, but as he said, he doesn’t listen to that type of talk, instead focusing on improving his game.

“The competition resides in yourself,” he said. “That is the approach I have taken since I got here. I have to come out here each day, get better and prove to my teammates that I can get better because the better play

the quarterback has, then the better the team plays.”

Most of UW’s most potent offensive weapons will be back next season, which should help Budmayr make a smooth transistion. But by all indications, with Budmayr under center Wisconsin should be in good hands. Replacing a quarterback that led the team to the Rose Bowl is no easy task, but it seems that the Badgers just may have the perfect man for the job.

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f you don’t already know, I am a huge college basketball fan. I cover the Badgers, but beyond that I love following college basketball across the conferences and across the nation. My passion for the sport is a year-round event, not just your typical March obsession. I’ve even got a countdown going on my phone until the first official day of practice (176 days). It is always college basketball season in my little world.

But a bracket in April? You’ve got to be kidding me.

Unfortunately, its not a joke, nor do I think it was intended to be one.

Yes, Joe Lunardi is back on ESPN. Or at least on their webpage.

Just two weeks after UConn cut down the nets in Houston, Lunardi has come out with a bracket for the 2012 tournament.

Not a far-fetched, clearly preliminary “top 10” list, a full-fledged 68 team bracket. Complete with a First Four In, a First Four Out, a Next Four In, and a Next Four Out. I realize that Lunardi and others need to justify their yearly salary, but this isn’t sports journalism.

You can start to look at recruits

and returning players in the spring and put together a very rough list of potential contenders, but there is no way you can possibly have any way to come up with an educated guess as to the at-large teams sent to Dayton for the First Four (Indiana, Georgetown, UAB and Virginia according to Lunardi).

With the first games over six months away, there is absolutely nothing logic-wise behind a bracket at this point.

All this type of “journalism” does is denigrate the work of legitimate bracket speculation. Regardless of how accurate Lunardi ends up being (considering the fact his November bracket this year had Michigan State as a No. 1 seed, his chances aren’t great), the fact that he seriously thinks about an April bracket ruins his credibility as a true “expert” in the socalled field of “bracketology.”

Lunardi is proving what I have always believed: These bracketologists are nothing more than expert talkers. There is no science behind these speculative brackets, no formulas, no experimental factors considered. Simply put, bracketologists are just college basketball geeks who are paid to sound intelligent and have opinions that sound somewhat more scientific than the average fan’s. sternberg page 11