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Ward’s term extended, will serve another year

By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward will remain leader of the university for one more year, putting off the search for his replacement until 2012, UW System leaders announced Tuesday.

Ward agreed to step in as Chancellor in June after former Chancellor Biddy Martin announced she was leaving the university. His term was scheduled to last until the summer of 2012, when a new chancellor would step in.

UW System President Kevin Reilly said faculty, staff and students have spoken in favor of extending Ward’s chancellorship.

“This is a great testament to Chancellor Ward’s leadership capabilities,” Reilly said in a UW System press release. “He’s clearly made a very positive impression in a short amount of time.”

In m i d- S e p t e mb e r, UW-Madison faculty leaders asked Reilly to extend Ward’s chancellorship.

Brad Barham, chair of the com-

mittee that made the initial request, said the university is in the midst of changes resulting from flexibilities granted to the UW System by the state. Barham felt it made sense to have consistent leadership during the changes.

“We’re at a time of historic changes, we’re considering a wide range of reforms and improvements at the university and we need continuity of leadership and trust to make the changes work,” he said.

After learning about the request, Ward said he would consider staying another year if governing bodies within the university and the system felt it was in UW-Madison’s best interest.

“I think the arguments being made make sense to me, but I am a patient person and think decisions like this need time to mature,” Ward said in September.

Shortly after faculty submitted the initial request, several UW-Madison governing bodies, including the Associated Students of Madison, Academic Staff Committee

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and Non-Represented Classified Staff, endorsed it.

“I think it’s a pretty good opportunity for the chancellor’s office to put efforts forward to strengthen communications between the chancellor and students,” ASM Chair Allie Gardner said after learning of Ward’s term extension.

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said Reilly’s decision to extend Ward’s term was motivated by multiple groups’ endorsements, adding he did not hear any opposition to extending Ward’s term.

According to a UW System statement, the search for a new chancellor will resume next fall and be completed by the spring of 2013. Barham said by putting off the search, Ward will be able to fulfill his duties without being overshadowed by discussion of the chancellor search.

“I think that would have really slowed a lot of important conversations down at a time when we need to really roll up our sleeves and get to work, not wait another year,” Barham said.

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UW System leaders agreed to extend Chancellor David Ward’s term by one more year. He will stay on until the summer of 2013.

Legislators raise record-breaking amounts for non-election year Twelve Wisconsin legislators raised a record-breaking $6.8 million-plus during the first half of 2011, two thirds of which came from recall efforts, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign reported Tuesday.

The money raised from campaign contributors and four legislative campaign committees broke fundraising records from 2001, the last comparable year. The 2011 amount of money raised starkly contrasts with typical odd years, which traditionally see lower fundraising numbers because of the lack of campaigns.

Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, who won her summer

recall election, raised the most: $958,418. Former Republican Sen. Dan Kapanke raised $725,913, but lost his recall election. State Rep.

Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay, who challenged Darling, ranked

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Top five legislative fundraisers 1. Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills: $958,418 2. Former Sen. Dan Kapanke, R-La Crosse: $725,913 3. Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay: $431,301 4. Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Conover: $336,602 5. Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls: $327,732

Mayor releases budget, cuts for Overture

By Kimberly Goldman The Daily Cardinal

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Lucking out with balmy October temperatures, the UW sailing team brought in its boats after practice Tuesday.

Mayor Paul Soglin significantly reduced financing for the Overture Center in Madison’s 2012 budget and allotted funding to tackle a “dramatic” city-wide increase in opiate and heroin use.

“I feel that the result is a budget that is a balance between … tough decisions and moving the city for-

ward in the manner that our citizens expect,” Soglin said Tuesday.

Although former Mayor Dave Cieslewicz promised the Overture Center $2 million, Soglin’s 2012 budget reduced the center’s financing to $1.3 million.

“It is not a surprise whatsoever,” Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said. “Everybody involved … expected the mayor to propose

less than $2 million.”

Parisi said he plans to introduce an amendment in the coming months to grant the center an additional $500,000.

Soglin also allotted $45,000 of the city’s operation budget to fund a task force on heroin and opiates, in addition to $33,276 in funding from

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have aspired to be a disc jockey ever since I was a young kid. Local LA radio personalities like KRTH 101’s “Real” Don Steel and 95.5 KLOS’ Uncle Joe Benson were consistently on the family radio during my childhood.

Growing up, I began to develop an admiration for such on-air personalities: they just sounded so smooth, so cool as they talked about music. These guys, Shotgun Tom and Uncle Joe, were all about keeping the oldies alive during the 1990s. Because of my youthful exposure to the FM throwback stations, it became my prime objective in life to be heard on the airwaves.

While my friends would cruise around listening to their iPods, my car radio was (and still is) firmly set to 93.5 KDAYLA’s prime source for back in the day hip hop jams. I’m talking Run DMC. Dr. Dre. Naughty By Nature. LL Cool J. TLC. It really goes without saying that the bass of my tiny Honda is permanently cranked all the way up. Socialite mothers on their power-walks shake their heads in disgust as I roll by in the Civic.

When going through the ponderous decision-making process of college selection, I discovered that the University of Wisconsin had a student-run radio station.

Upon further investigation, it became clear that WSUM doesn’t play by the rules of most radio stations. Whereas big corpo-

Horny ’ broke multiple FCC decency codes and you said ‘shit’ during one of your voice breaks recently. That kind of stuff really just doesn’t fly. Consider this your warning.”

“Right. Sorry. Really. I won’t do it again.”

“We want to keep you around.

Anyway, really enjoy the show, Matt. Funny stuff. Keep it up.”

I consider myself lucky to have not had my DJing privileges revoked due to my crude shenanigans. Cursing on the air just doesn’t happen any more; neither does the airing of bawdy gangsta rap. Thus, there is no Ice Cube or Biggie in my broadcasts, though I would love so much to play them.

Radio-edits are an option, but come on, who the hell wants to hear a radio edit? I’m still reeling over the FCC-friendly version of Cee-Lo Green’s “Fuck You.” After finishing up in Madison, who knows where the career hunt is going to take me.

Unquestionably, There’s going to be a gaping hole in my life without the weekly presence of WSUM. Somehow, I will find a way to hold on to my hobby of broadcasting music, but I seriously doubt anything I come upon will be as exciting and personally liberating as WSUM FM. Until my swan song on 91.7, I’ll be happily funking any takers every Tuesday evening from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Ever dropped profanities live on the radio? Been chased down by the FCC? Drop Matt a line or three at mhonig@wisc.edu.

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They’re warped into a shallow valley, Where whispers haunt the clouds.

Trees crack and crook to sideways bends To make a path never found.

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The items that have aligned Heart to matter.

This place is a river devised to Divide the banks of those hearing and those listening.

Like a gravitational pull, it does not give a gasping care, But still it grounds and holds, What does not— should not matter.

This place is shaped as a clock— Its hands dominating and steering.

Like time, there is no limit— No minutes and years to count.

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energy hour of funk so early in the day, but I like to think “FML” was a lively broadcast. Hopefully, all four of my listeners felt the same.

During one broadcast my sophomore year, I decided to air a lounge-esque cover of 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny”. I was well aware that I was playing with fire here; the FCC would never allow such a lewd song to be aired before 10 p.m. Considering that a portion of my audience was older folks, I should have known better than to play a tune with the lines “Won’t your mama be so sad if she knew I got that ass?” Admittedly, this is probably the most G-rated lyric of the song. In all seriousness though, who is going to make the effort to actually call the FCC and report some small-time college DJ for a decency violation?

The next week‘s broadcast saw management bust into the DJ booth mid-show, just as I was about to cut to a voice break. Dave Black-the General Manager of WSUM and founding father of the station-is a guy known to always have a hearty grin and positive attitude. At this moment, however, he was giving me an ice-cold death stare. I should have been wearing a diaper.

“Matt, I have to speak to you about a couple of on-air incidents that have occurred within the past couple of weeks. Do you know why we need to have this chat?”

“Erm, no, Dave.”

“Well, listeners have been calling in complaints about your broadcasts. Your, uh, ‘Me So

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rate channels (a la CBS’ KROQ or Clear Channel’s KIIS FM) assign a rigid playlist for their disc jockeys, WSUM DJs can air whatever songs they desire. To fulfill such a childhood fantasy would be totally “gnarly”, as I would have put it as a pizza-faced high school senior.

My friends would say things like: “Dude! You’re doing radio at…. Wisconsin? Isn’t that, like, really cold?”, “Wisconsin! Bring a jacket!”, and “West-consin, huh?

You’re gonna get fucking frostbite.” Sure, I wasn’t too concerned about going from a pleasant So-Cal climate to the Midwestern tundra.

The very prospect of being on the air far outweighed any personal grievances about freezing my ass off for the next four years.

Flash forward Fall 2008, and I’m an enrolled freshman at the UW training to be a DJ at 91.7. All of the sessions took place in the DJ booth under the guidance of a broadcasting host. This room is a music junkie’s paradise: there’s a slew of volume controls, massive speakers, mics, a couple of turntables, and an array of mixing gear. The booth’s walls are lined with posters for all kinds of music, from Elvis to the Chili Peppers to Mozart. However, after the training I soon learned that putting on a weekly show isn’t always so invigorating. I can vividly recall having to wake up at the butt-crack of dawn on Tuesday mornings and walking cross the frigid cold campus to do my first show, the aptly titled “Funk My Life”. It was a daunting challenge hosting a high-

No one goes there, but not for lack of want.

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Council officially revokes R Place bar’s liquor license

By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal

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Former ASM Vice Chair Beth Huang and Nominations Board Chair Niko Magallon appealed the Student Judiciary’s ruling to remove them from their positions Tuesday night.

Students appeal ASM removal Two former student government leaders appealed the ruling that removed them from their positions Tuesday.

Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Beth Huang and Nominations Board Chair Niko Magallon were removed from their seats Sept. 20 after the Student Judiciary ruled they did not complete required community service hours on time.

According to Huang, she and Magallon were to submit their hours by Sept. 15, but when they submitted their hours that night, the SJ ruled their sub-

missions late.

In their appeal, Huang and Magallon said while it was unclear whether the hours were to be submitted before or on Sept. 15, their hours were not turned in late according to federal rules and the Webster dictionary’s definition of “by.”

“We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience we may have caused by submitting the hours late at night, but submitting our 20 hours of community service on Sept. 15 ultimately complied with the deadline,” Huang said.

Huang and Magallon also

questioned if SJ had the authority to remove them from their seats.

“The ASM Constitution vests the sole power of removal of Student Council representatives with their peers through impeachment proceedings,” Huang said. “To remove Mr. Magallon and myself after the certification of results would be to set a precedent that alters the spirit of the ASM constitution.”

The SJ has 10 business days to determine whether to allow Huang and Magallon to return to their positions.

—Anna Duffin

After hours of deliberation, Madison’s Common Council permanently revoked the liquor license of R Place on Park because of a series of violent incidents that occurred outside the bar over the past three years.

“There is absolutely no pleasure in this,” Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said. “[Committees] sat day after day, hour after hour of testimony, but we sadly have no choice but to revoke the license of R Place given the unprecedented amount of violence.”

The bar’s owner, Roderick Flowers, said violence outside the bar was not a result of how R Place was run.

“There’s nothing we’ve done in violation of alcohol laws, underage drinking and to hold us responsible for that activity outside on Park Street when the police refuse to give us any protection,” Flowers said.

R Place workers and customers delivered emotional testimonies to the Council, saying the bar provides a center of culture and community

for Madison’s south side.

“There is no violence, jazz music being played and people enjoying themselves,” said Gabrielle Daniels, an R Place customer.

Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said had Flowers changed R Place’s closing time to 11 p.m., as the Council suggested at previous hearings, there is a chance the establishment’s outcome would have been different.

“Frankly, there’s a lot of positive benefits to this establishment about the community and culture,” Maniaci said.

“What frustrates me most is at the end of the day it falls to business decisions.”

Madison Police Department Chief Noble Wray said an establishment having 166 calls for service and multiple violent incidents involving guns and knives is simply not common for Madison.

“It’s unfortunate,” Ald. Sue Ellingson, District 13, said. “I think Flowers wanted to do the right thing, but he didn’t have a good business plan in place to keep the right kind of customers coming to his bar.”

Proposed bill would alter campaign finance disclosure State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, recently announced plans to introduce a bill that would eliminate the current state requirement for political contributors to disclose their employer information.

The current requirement mandates that all contributors donating more than $100 to state campaigns disclose their occupation and employ-

er. Grothman’s proposed bill would eliminate the need for both businesses and employees donating above $100 to disclose their contributions.

The requirement was originally enacted in 1974 for the purpose of maintaining an informed electorate, according to the Government Accountability Board.

But according to a press release from Grothman’s office, it allows

“Wisconsin’s Totalitarian Left” to target businesses and employees that contribute to Republicans.

“Over the last seven months, mean-spirited public employee unions have tried to use the massive purchasing power of our public workers to make it difficult for businesses that hire Republican employees within our state to continue operating,” Grothman said.

Memorial Union Committee votes to ‘strictly limit’ private functions at proposed theater lounge addition The Memorial Union Committee voted Tuesday to limit private use of the proposed addition to the Union Theater.

Controversy surrounded the intent of the proposed addition, which would extend from the steps of the current theater lobby onto the terrace space overlooking Lake Mendota.

According to ASM Representative Sam Seering, language in the original referendum passed by students in 2006 called for a “student lounge space,” not a

theater lounge space, and therefore should never deny public access.

“From talking with students on this campus, they’ve been excluded from many locations in both unions,” Seering said. “Since this is a brand new space, student and union members [should] always be allowed in that space under any circumstances.”

Although Seering originally opposed any private use of the addition, he eventually sided with the committee, voting with most other members to “strictly

limit” private use of the area.

“There will be the occasion where the governor [or someone important] will call,” Union Director Mark Guthier said. “What are we going to say, that we have a policy?”

Additionally, the committee passed an amendment mandating signs be posted at every entrance of the lounge on days an event denies students access to area.

The committee will convene 12 months from the addition’s opening to reevaluate lounge policy.

—Alex DiTullio

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paign, which at the earliest could start in January of 2012. The amount is substantially more than former Gov. Jim Doyle raised during his 2006 reelection campaign. “[The recall elections are] what drove the fundraising so crazy,” said Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Executive Director Mike McCabe.

Other legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, raised funds despite not being up for election.

“People in leadership positions are magnets for money, and all interest groups want to be on the good side of the senate leader,” McCabe said.

—McKenna Kohlenberg

third with $431,301.

Democrats and Republicans were equally represented among the top 18 fundraisers.

Gov. Scott Walker raised $2.51 million, money the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign suggested was for his potential recall cam-

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R Place owner Roderick Flowers said violence outside the bar was unrealted to how the bar’s business was run.

Man reports prostitute, receives fine Police fined a Madison man Tuesday after he called authorities to report a prostitute’s lack of service despite having paid to receive “everything.”

The man, 22, was fined $681 after he told an officer he knew prostitution was illegal but “felt the police would get his payment back for him,” according to Madison Police Department Spokesperson Joel DeSpain.

The young man explained to the police officer he thought the $200 price for the prostitute would encompass “everything,” according to the report.

“He did get something, but was told ‘everything’ would actually be another $100,” DeSpain said in a statement.

According to the report, the officer said he would not get the man’s money back since it was used to commit a crime, even if he could identify the prostitute.

“In the eyes of a 22-yearold customer, he had just been victimized in a classic baitand-switch, paid for services not rendered, and he reached out to police to make him whole again,” DeSpain said in a statement.

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Additionally, the U.S. Dept. of Justice awarded the police department a federal grant of over $700,000, which the department will put toward a newly formed Special Investigations Unit.

According to its leader, Lt. Tom Woodmansee, the unit’s goal is to identify the city’s most violent repeat offenders and change their behavior through a collaborative effort between law enforcement, prosecutors and the community.

“The message to these offenders will be that we care about what happens to them but they will also be scrutinized like never before,” Woodmansee said.

Dane County.

According to the mayor’s office, trends show a “dramatic increase” in heroin and opiate abuse across Madison.

Soglin said although he had to make “tough choices,” he was pleased the budget met his goal of avoiding layoffs in the city police department.

The mayor said this would not have been possible without newly opened negotiations on police union’s contracts that helped save the city $2.5 million.

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By Lauren Bade the daily cardinal

Never Trust a Happy Song, but trust Grouplove to bring the live music magic to the Frequency Thursday night.

The band first met by chance in 2008 at an artist colony on the Greek island of Crete.

“We started playing each other’s songs, we’re like harmonizing each other,” guitarist and vocalist Andrew Wessen explains. “We kind of made our own little group within the larger group of artists there.”

After meeting, the five band members went their separate ways. “The real formation of the band wasn’t until a year later,” Wessen said.

In Oct. 2009, Sean Gadd, Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi joined Ryan Rabin and Wessen in Los Angeles where they recorded an EP for fun.

After the EP started acquiring some attention on the Internet, all five members permanently moved to LA in April 2010 to seriously form the band. “And that’s how it all started,” Wessen explained.

Since the permanent formation of the band, Grouplove has experienced a string of accomplishments. They have opened for Florence + the Machine and Foster the People, as well as performed throughout Australia and the United Kingdom. They also appeared at this year’s Lollapalooza.

Another accomplishment is the Sept. 13th release of their first album, Never Trust a Happy Song. The band prides itself for the fact that all the songs on the

album are unique.

“Every song is different, which is what we try to do. We try to never repeat the formula or the sound of the songs,” Wessen said. “We try to keep every single song something new.”

Wessen said that songs are based on personal situations band members have experienced.

“Christian sometimes says that you don’t write a song, the song writes you. It’s kind of a cheesy line, but it’s kind of true,” Wessen explained.

“There’s no formula at all.”

What has been the highlight of their career?

“We can’t even believe all the stuff that’s happened. We’re just so grateful and couldn’t be happier with the trajectory of the band,” Wessen said. “I do it with my best friends in the world. The team that we have is just absolutely amazing. Every aspect of it has been a highlight.”

The critics are also raving about Grouplove’s success. Spin Magazine declared Grouplove “a band to watch in 2011.” According to NME, Grouplove is “the best new band of 2010” and their music is “wild, thrilling, and above all, joyful noise.”

Despite this early success, the band still has a lot they wish to accomplish.

“We want to be able to travel the world and play our music for a living. We want to release more amazing albums…and just bring some joy to people by doing what we do,” Wessen said. “When we play, it’s totally uplifting and just to be able to do that on a bigger scale. I

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Grouplove is coming to Madison Thursday night, hot off the heels of their new album. Called a band to watch in 2011 by Spin Magazine, the band is looking to rock the Frequency Thursday night. mean, we’ve already got to do such amazing things. To continue the way we’re doing it would be amazing.”

Grouplove is eager for their Madison show. “We’re so excited. We’ve never played Madison,” Wessen explained.

“I don’t think we’ve ever played Wisconsin and we’re really, really excited about it.”

So why should Madison residents be equally excited? For one, the band is aiming to bring back the concept of the live show.

“I think if you want to experience a true, honest show of people who are genuinely happy to be doing what they’re doing and want to share that love, then I think people should come,” Wessen said.

Oh, and there is a promised surprise near the end of the set.

“But you have to come to find out,” Wessen stated.

So gather up some love and head to the Frequency Thursday night for a great show and a very special surprise.

The Skinny Who: Grouplove Where: The Frequency, 121 W. Main St. When: Oct. 6, 10 p.m.

Cost: $10 Check this out before you go: The band’s video for the single “Tongue Tied” is spectacular.

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had to write about Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All at some point. Over the last year, critics and bloggers have written hundreds of articles, think pieces and columns about the already infamous Los Angeles rap “family” led by Hodgy Beats, Frank Ocean and Tyler the Creator. Admittedly, the glut appeared about six months ago, when the crew finally broke into the mainstream in a very large and boisterous way.

By now, many online ‘pop culture’-stalking junkies, having moved on to the greener pastures, may consider the crew old news. Unfortunately, I always tend to bloom a little later than my peers. Though I had heard the name Odd Future kicked around online in the months before its big breakthrough, I had read the reports of the gleefully irreverent bunch of rapping kids passively, intently filing away the information without really ever expecting to need to use it again.

I mean, these were a bunch of snot-nosed teenage felons-

in-waiting even younger than me. Worse, Tyler and the mindnumbingly talented lyricist Earl Sweatshirt seemed to really, really enjoy sketching out feverish rape fantasies on their respective free online albums. Weirdly, the fixation on rape seemed to be more than a half-accidental running gag concocted after the fact by a bunch of hopped-up, whipsmart high school dickheads.

But on the other hand, how much has their lack of taste really hurt these kids?

Instead, the group chose to incorporate its morbid fascination with sexual violence into the complex semi-mythic iconography of the group, which also involves a penchant for inverted crosses, pictures of kittens with their eyes erased and dozens of surrealistic anti-social slogans, my favorites being “F*** Steve Harvey!” and “Swag, Swag, Swag.”

On the track “Pidgeons,” Earl Sweatshirt contributes another faux-revolutionary slogan, which goes, “F*** rules, skate

life, rape, write, repeat twice.”

Of course, one word excepted, a former mall-punk, liberal arts major like me could hardly imagine a more appealing life philosophy. Then again, that word has been from the onset something of a powder keg for Odd Future, attracting a lot of attention and damaging its reputation.

But on the other hand, how much has their lack of taste really hurt these kids? Sure, when I first read about Odd Future, I had been immediately repelled by its reputation for cruel misogyny and its tendency to carelessly toss-out hard f-bombs (and I mean the six-letter word, because honestly who cares anymore about the other kind?).

I thought to myself, how the hell could anything like that actually catch on with any more than a handful of hateful, weirdo slouches hiding behind their computer monitors? And, perhaps more importantly, why the hell would I ever want to listen to a group with such a clearly distasteful fixation on sexual violence? But then the video for Tyler the Creator’s “Yonkers” dropped, and everything changed.

I couldn’t ignore Tyler any longer, so I watched the video,

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This week has a lot of interesting new releases that dropped yesterday, with albums from New Found Glory, Feist, DJ Shadow and Zola Jesus, among others.

New Found Glory released Radiosurgery , another straight-up pop-punk record. A catchy single and a music video that is reminiscent of Simple Plan in the early ’00s make this an album that stirs up just a little nostalgia.

Metals, the latest from Feist, is a laid back outing, but still maintains her signature sound. Her first record in four years, Feist explores some new territory on this album.

Wisconsin native Zola Jesus released Conatus, a foray into the darker side of her operatic indie tunes. Her gorgeous vocals really shine through on her latest, with instrumentation that makes her operatic vocals stand out even more.

American Idol winner Scotty McCreery released his album yesterday as well. Not as well received critically as the others on this list, Clear As Day is his first outing, and there’s an outside possibility that trying his hand at writing his own songs could help.

On DVD and Blu-ray this week are “Fast Five” and “Scream 4.” Both of these movies are getting up there as far as the number of sequels go, but surprisingly garnered a number of positive critical reviews.

Finding their way into theaters this weekend are “The Ides of March” and “Real Steel,” starring George Clooney and Hugh Jackman, respectively.

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lyricism from page 4 and there was this aggressive black kid, clearly a former high school nerd, throwing out references to Rugrats, goofing on demonic possession and for some inscrutable reason shouting out “pregnant gold retrievers.”

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compelled me to publish my underground jokey anarchist ‘zine The Aussie Avenger in high school, the same impulse that compelled me to buy Hank Williams’ Greatest Hits and Big Black’s Songs About F***ing on the same record store CD run my freshman year. That impulse was going crazy when it first heard “Yonkers.”

I mean, sure, the “Yonkers”

video flirts with a little satanic imagery and a death threat directed towards pretty boy Hawaiian pop singer Bruno Mars, but for a kid just then getting into some of the more hipster-friendly corners of black metal (Burzum, 4eva!), that was really more of a draw than a turn-off. The worse excesses of Tyler’s work were notably absent, thus making “Yonkers”

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the perfect gateway into Odd Future’s world.

Before you could say “swag,” I was knee-deep in the crazy funhouse mirror Odd Future cosmology, reveling in their lunaticon-the-lam willingness to give the finger to anyone and everyone, including those who didn’t deserve it. Somehow, despite my well-cultivated self-image as a progressive liberal softie, I loved

it, and I still love it. So where the hell do I get off getting a kick out of these immature, deliberately button-pushing rants? Why am I in love with what I know I should hate?

Do you think Odd Future is totally clean for the public consumption? Is Alex being way too hard on Tyler and the group? Tell him what you think at seraphin@ wisc.edu.

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Take-home exams

Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

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Eatin’ Cake

By Dylan Moriarty EatinCake@gmail.com

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

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

Crustaches Classic

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

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PLAYING SECOND BASE ACROSS 1 Atkins Diet no-no 5 “Homo,” for humans 10 Alphabetize, e.g.

14 Lot measurement 15 “J’Accuse” author Zola 16 “Hey, what’s the big ___?”

17 Thing sent to Santa 18 Passover month 19 Toss of the dice 20 Classic Salinger novel (with “The”) 23 ___ Royal Highness 24 Lithium ___ battery 25 “Ah, I see!”

28 Fashionable Yves Saint 32 Word with “sheet” or “music” 35 “Antiques Roadshow” item, sometimes 37 Beyond dry 38 Brine-cured Greek cheese 39 It may surround a charged particle 42 Hand-lotion additive 43 “The Dukes of Hazzard” deputy sheriff 44 Direct attention (to) 45 Words on many park signs 46 “X-Men” character

48 “Come ___ About Me” (Supremes hit) 49 A sniggler snares it 50 Where Mary and Joseph sought refuge 52 Call it quits 61 Tries to win the affection of 62 Ellipsoid flattened at the poles 63 Creep like lava 64 “Climactic” intro 65 Dumb bunny 66 “... ___ lender be” 67 Spotted 68 Base stealer’s tactic 69 Stylish elegance DOWN 1 Advanced math course, briefly 2 “Carmen” solo 3 Seventh-day activity 4 Cookie quantity 5 Plural of 5-Across 6 Ruler in Abu Dhabi 7 Decree ___ (legal term) 8 ___ Bator (Mongolian capital) 9 Soldier on guard duty 10 Warning wailer 11 What wavy lines signify in the comics 12 Depend (on) 13 Story that may be tall 21 Feudal slave 22 Scorching 25 The Atlantic, e.g.

6 Brit’s greeting 2 27 Triple-layer cookies 29 “That’s ___ your head!”

30 Military drone’s job, for short 31 Answering machine button 32 Coral assemblies 33 Noted seed salesman W. ___ Burpee 34 Southern California ballplayer 36 Bartender’s “rocks” 38 “Fee, ___, foe, fum” 40 Gets back to true 41 Disguise for illegal activities 46 Cat cry 47 Decorate fabric, ‘60s-style 49 Rose-red substance 51 “... tree falls in the forest and ___ ...”

52 “Jabberwocky” beginning 53 Apply to a whetstone 54 Mechanical learning method 55 “Chapter Two” playwright Simon 56 “Beloved” author Morrison 57 Buck’s mate 58 Blanket choice 59 Old Testament book before Nehemiah 60 Without much fat

Caved In

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First in Twenty

By Angel Lee alee23@wisc.edu

Washington and the Bear

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Straw polls not a determining factor in race Zach Thomae opinion columnist

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he Republican primaries have been very exciting lately. Herman Cain, a relatively unknown candidate, won the Florida straw poll last week following a debate the night before.

Ron Paul, R-Texas, continues to poll well and collect lots of money from individual donors. Texas Governor Rick Perry, in a matter of weeks, has become a frontrunner (if not the frontrunner), outpolling the significantly more established Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts.

When it comes to primaries, poll results are generally not the most important factor.

Yet, despite that the Republican primaries have been very exciting, they are not very important. When it comes to primaries, poll results generally are not the most important factor.

But why not? Candidates who win straw polls usually do well in elections, too. It also seems counterintuitive—if the Republican Party wants to nominate people that are reasonably popular, wouldn't they do best to ask people directly, say, by having them vote? It seems almost unfathomable that voters would not have the final say.

There are, however, some questions regarding this process. How do primary voters eventually settle on a single candidate? Why is this candidate almost always acceptable to the mainstream?

The answer lies in the unseen. Before the primaries, party insiders hold a metaphorical "conversation" about which candidate is most likely to win the general election. Insiders have to consider two things: on the one hand, they have their own preferred candidates; on the other hand, they want the group to choose a single, hopefully best candidate. Given their preferred candidate, these insiders signal their support, mainly through endorsements, in order to influence the preferences of other insiders. At the same time, by observing which candidates seem to be attracting the most endorsements, they can guess which candidate would be most acceptable to the broadest number of actual

voters, and align themselves accordingly. This process, the "invisible primary," is the subject matter of an important book in political science, “The Party Decides.”

Republican voters will rally behind the Republican candidate, no matter who wins.

But shouldn't the party insiders try to pick the candidates based on the input of voters? In reality, no—most voters don't come up with their own political positions. Instead, they follow "opinion leaders," or influential individuals who have opinions that people trust enough to use as their own.

It's easy to see why this happens. A high knowledge of the political process is something that most people don't have time for. Yet most people do care about politics. So, people look for leaders they can trust and "outsource" their opinions to them. This allows less knowledgeable voters to participate in the political process through their respective “opinion leaders.” In fact, given the ability of opinion leaders to steer public will towards poli-

cies that are relatively reasonable, this arrangement might be the best possible option.

We know that voters follow opinion leaders. For example, the public usually rallies behind the president during times of war, except when the opposing party does not. This difference can be seen when comparing the Iraq War consensus to the fight over the Libyan intervention. Lately, however, Republican primary voters are not supporting the preferences of Republican party insiders.

Should this disprove the theory that primary voters will blindly follow opinion leaders? Again, the answer is no—voters that are relatively uninformed and uninterested, but very willing to follow the advice of others, are very easy to persuade.

Republican voters will rally behind the Republican candidate, no matter who wins.

Let's look at the polls again.

According to the Ames Straw Poll, Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota is the best candidate. However, in a poll of party activists (known as "power outsiders") by Pollster, Bachmann is hardly worth mentioning.

A majority of those polled think she can't win the election and would not make a good president. Rick Perry has had double-digit leads over Mitt Romney in recent polls.

However, the power outsiders

have something else to say: 57 percent have a worse opinion of him now than they did before the commencement of primary debates. A poll of political insiders done by the National Journal in late August agrees with this result: only 31 percent of those polled believed he had a better chance of beating Obama in 2012 than Romney.

As for the other candidates?

They have almost no presence amongst the party insiders.

Why is [the selected] candidate almost always acceptable to the mainstream?

These are the polls that matter, and they tell us that Mitt Romney will get the nomination. In fact, at this point, there's hardly a contest.

Zach Thomae is a freshman majoring in computer science. Do you disagree that the results of straw polls are irrelevant? Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Rick Perry is personable, but he certainly should not be president Ethan Safran opinion columnist

The combination of his performance at last week’s Republican debate and the recent Florida “President 5” straw poll exhibited the problems facing Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry. This challenge comes despite the early promises of an energetic campaign that began, essentially, with a 30,000-person prayer rally at Reliant Stadium in Houston.

Perry would be a step backward in a country already suffering from a fragile economy and two bickering, divided political parties.

There is no denying, however, that Rick Perry has the presidential “swagger” and that he still remains ahead in certain Gallop polls. Perry’s face graced the cover of last week’s Time Magazine, and in comparison to

the heat that Newsweek took following its particularly unsettling cover photo of rival GOP candidate Michele Bachmann two months ago, Perry comes across as the sort of political figure who has, with a graying hairline and wrinkles of age, “been there” before.

Perry would be a step backward in a country suffering from a fragile economy and two bickering, divided parties.

His 11 years in office as governor of the state of Texas and personality is proof that as much as he wants voters to see him as the ultimate “Washington outsider,” he is certainly an insider to the

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political system.

From the onset, one of the most interesting aspects of Perry’s campaign thus far has been his approach to the economy, specifically jobs. Consider the quote on his campaign web page, which states, as widely reported, “Since June ‘09, more than 40 percent of all net new jobs in America have been created in Texas.”

Perry’s Texan economy has, however, been the centerpiece of minimum wage jobs that most often lack health care benefits to employees. During a GOP Tea Party debate earlier this month, Perry asserted that Ben Bernanke should be effectively tried for treason because of Perry’s belief that the Federal Reserve has masqueraded bad fiscal policy by the Obama administration.

Popular economist Ben Stein, who acknowledged that he agrees with Perry on most of his social

ideologies, called out Perry for his statement, saying that printing more money is an “orthodox, classic move” in a weak economy that would allow businesses to “borrow and then invest.”

Perry is no newcomer to false statements.

Perry is no newcomer to false statements, either. Most recently, Perry stated that the United State’s poverty rating hit an “alltime high,” and while the rating is the highest since 1993, this is still 7.3 percentage points lower than it was in 1959, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Likewise, in a grossly inaccurate statement, Perry articulated that the federal government “has not engaged in” putting border security agents along the border, and yet research from the Congressional Research Service concludes that the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations have seen a rise in border agents.

Considering Texas borders more Mexican territory than any other U.S. state, Perry’s statement is oddly terrifying.

Coming from an individual

who believes Social Security to be nothing more than a “Ponzi Scheme,” it is not a surprise that Tea Party sympathizers and many Southerners favor the candidate.

A man who has overseen the executions of hundreds of Texas prisoners (234 to be exact) and even administered a delay on an ongoing investigation following the possible innocence of an executed man should not be the President of the United States. Perry has also advocated for the repeal of the 16th and 17th amendments, as he wants to end both Federal income tax and the direct election of Senators by the American people.

There is no denying that Rick Perry has the presidential “swagger.”

Don’t get me wrong: Rick Perry isn’t a bad guy. He’s the kind of guy one would want to get a beer with, but not the guy one would want as president of the United States.

Ethan Safran is a freshman with an undeclared major. Are you a Rick Perry fan and want to prove Ethan wrong? Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Badgers face off with No. 5 Creighton Wisconsin hosts their second tough opponent in as many games as the Blue Jays come to Madison

By Dylan Flaks the daily cardinal

The UW Men’s soccer team (1-0-0 Big Ten, 5-3-2 overall) will face its second straight tough game Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. when the No. 5 Creighton Blue Jays (0-0-0 Missouri Valley, 8-1-0 overall) come to McClimon.

The Badgers are no strangers to tough games as they took down an extremely well-rounded opponent Sunday when they faced Indiana. Much like IU, the Blue Jays have been scoring a lot of goals and giving up very few. In fact, the ratio by which Creighton is out scoring their opponents is insane.

The Creighton defense has only given up one goal so far this season. That one goal came against a very good Maryland Terrapins team. The Blue Jays has scored 17 goals to their one surrendered.

The Badgers have a strong resume thus far and are starting to look as though they could be a contender for the Big Ten crown.

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The test for Wisconsin will be their ability to beat the staunch Creighton defense and score some goals of their own, while still worrying about the Creighton attack, which has been very potent thus far.

This won’t be the first time that the Badgers have faced an opponent who has not given up many goals. Wisconsin was able to solve the riddle

The Badgers will need to play at the height of their ability if they wish to knock off another ranked team this week.

that was Indiana’s goalie, Luis Soffner, who had earned Big Ten player of the week honors just before coming to Madison.

Wisconsin will have to be wary of at least two players on the Blue Jays who both have point totals in the double digits. Senior forward Ethan Finlay and sophomore midfielder Bruno Castro, with 16 points and 12 points respectively, will be a handful for the Badgers just as they have been for every FINLAY other team Creighton has faced.

The pairing of Finlay and Castro have scored nine of the Blue Jays’ 17 team goals and have been responsible for four assists each. This is not to say the Badgers cannot contain them.

The challenge for Creighton will be utilizing the two aforementioned stud players to break through the recently stingy Wisconsin defense and the team’s ever-improving and impressive goalie Max Jentsch, who just this Sunday recorded a shutout against Indiana. However, CASTRO Jentsch will have his hands full, literally, as Creighton has outshot their opponents 129 to 76 this season.

The Badgers will be looking forward to this next challenge as they finish out their home stand. With a win, Wisconsin could enter the national discussion and may become a ranked team. The Badgers have a strong resume thus far and are starting to look as though they could be a contender for the Big Ten crown.

National attention deserved, but the season is not over yet Parker Gabriel parks and rec

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’ve been on this campus for a while now, and like all of the older students here, I have had the privilege of seeing several special sports campaigns put together by multiple teams.

Among all the success, there have, of course been disappointing Badgers teams. In 2008—my freshman year—the football team started the season ranked No. 13 in the Associated Press poll.

Marquee night games and conference championship talk dominated Welcome Week and the buzz around the team had many penciling in trips to Pasadena.

Sound familiar?

That team finished the year 7-6, featured four conference losses in a row to start the year, beat Cal Poly by one thanks to three missed extra points and saw starting quarterback Allen Evridge lose his job to Dustin Scherer in the middle of the year.

Needless to say, the pain of

mediocrity was amplified by our premature expectations.

You can probably see where this is going.

There’s one factor here that’s so abundantly obvious it almost doesn’t need addressing, but I’ll cover it anyways: Russell Wilson is not Allen Evridge.

To take that line of thinking further, 2011 Bret Bielema is not 2008 Bret Bielema. His ability to react, adapt, handle attention— both positive and negative—and recruit all speak to that.

The talent on the starting line and among the secondstringers and freshmen that he and his coaches have developed is matched only by the quality of character the coaches demand.

It is hard to pinpoint exactly what put an end to the days when the Badgers played onepoint games with Cal Poly and get antsy about The Citadel hanging 40 points on the Camp Randall Stadium scoreboard— an overly broad word like “maturity” will have to suffice.

Bielema’s teams have not looked past over-matched opponents these last two years. They’ve

obviously taken great pride in pulverizing them beyond generally-recognizable football scores.

Really, beyond the fact that both the 2008 and 2011 Badgers started the year with high expectations, there is not much at all in common between the two.

One ever-present, and only semi-controllable, factor remains as significant today, though, as it did then.

Crazy shit happens in Big Ten league play.

It seems like this point is lost on people sometimes. It’s easy to look down the schedule and pick out the obviously difficult games. It’s equally inviting to think that cruising to a conference championship is easy when one team—current legal quandaries aside—has done it six of the last seven years.

Beyond Ohio State, though, the Big Ten is rife with examples of teams that have stumbled late in the season when their destinies were perfectly in their own hands.

In 2008, Penn State entered Iowa City undefeated and primed for a Bowl Championship Series berth

before an average Hawkeyes squad (2-3 Big Ten, 5-4 overall at that point) beat them with a game-winning field goal.

In 2004, Wisconsin took an unblemished record and No. 4 ranking into East Lansing, Mich. and got their lunch money taken by the Spartans in a 49-14 drubbing. Two years later, they gave up 51 points to Northwestern, and that was before the Pat Fitzgerald era.

Since 1996 (15 seasons), 26 teams have won at least a share of a Big Ten title. Only three of them sported undefeated conference records.

All of that is fine and dandy, and I’m not trying to put the brakes on the excitement building around this year’s squad.

I’ve been impressed with the way they prepare, the significance they seem to genuinely put on every opponent and the perspective with which they view their opportunities.

The only point I am trying to make is that it is very, very difficult to run the table through an entire college football season.

Get through road games (the

first true ones of the season) against Michigan State (a house of horrors) and Ohio State (who may have nothing left to play for except to avenge last year’s loss)? Great, have fun going to Champaign, Ill. and taking on an Illini team that could very well still be in the hunt for a conference title at that point.

Still healthy come Thanksgiving? Penn State is young, played well at the end of last year, and will be plenty battle tested by the time the university asks all the students to cut their breaks short and come back Saturday the 24th.

The Badgers deserve the topfive ranking and the national attention they’re getting. I have not seen every college football team play this year, but as far as I can tell, Alabama and Louisiana State might be the only two teams as complete.

Does that mean an unbeaten season is in the works? Call me conservative, but I’ll wait eight weeks before I speculate on that.

Let Parker know you thoughts on the rest of Wisconsin’s schedule at pgarbriel@gmail.com.

Russell Wilson near the top in latest ESPN Heisman Watch poll Senior quarterback Russell Wilson’s performance Saturday night against Nebraska solidified his position as a Heisman candidate. Before that night, many knew of his abilities, yet did not consider him as a legitimate contender due to Wisconsin’s low strength of schedule.

ESPN’s Heisman Watch, considered the top Heisman “leader board,” has listed Wilson at number two after this weekend’s round of college football games.

Wilson, who leads the Big Ten in passer efficiency with 216.9, passing yards per game with 278.2 yards and total

offense per game with 306.2 yards, finds himself only behind Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck.

Despite being ahead of Wilson in the poll, Luck trails the UW quarterback is almost all categories including passer rating, passing yards, touchdowns, completion percentage, rushing yards, and rushing touchdowns.

If Wilson is able to keep up these numbers as the Badgers go deeper into the season and Big Ten play, he should continue to find his name near, or even, at the top of the Heisman Watch list.

—Matthew Kleist

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