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The City of Madison’s Planning Department met with residents and Common Council members Thursday to discuss possible changes to the West Mifflin and West Dayton Street neighborhood.

Mifﬂin Street may receive huge face-lift By Callie Rathburn THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Mifﬂin and Dayton neighborhood could see some major changes in the future, with Madison’s Planning Department considering redevelopment of the historic area. Madison city planners met with residents and Common Council members Thursday at the Madison Senior Center to discuss future development plans and concerns about possible changes to the West Mifﬂin and West Dayton neighborhood. Bill Fruhling, principal planner

for Madison’s Planning Department, shared ideas for the city’s Downtown Plan, a comprehensive agenda for Madison’s downtown area. “The Madison Downtown Plan is a very critical document … because it will literally guide development for several years to come,” Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said. “Mifﬂin Street, that’s an area we get a lot of input, a lot of attention … It is split down the middle of what people would like to see,” Fruhling said. The Downtown Plan’s two alternatives for the West Mifﬂin area are

Campus organizations unite to remember 9/11 victims By Melanie Teachout THE DAILY CARDINAL

In honor of those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the College Democrats and the College Republicans are collaborating to hold a memorial ceremony on Bascom Hill Friday. Both the College Democrats and the College Republicans feel their annual ceremony represents the country’s need to unite after such a tragic event. “The event just shows there are some things that go beyond politics and even students that are actively involved in their separate political parties can work together,” Molly Rivera, chair of the College Democrats, said. According to Crystal Lee, chair of the College Republicans, terrorism and the war on terror are issues that affect both parties. “Attacks made on the United States’ soil represent attacks on the U.S. itself,” Lee said. “We

need to band together and remember the innocent lives lost because of these tragic attacks.” Students will be able to view ﬂags scattered on Bascom Hill representing the lives lost in the Sept. 11 attacks before the actual ceremony. The ceremony will begin at 7:30 p.m. with a short introductory speech from the chairs of the College Democrats and College Republicans, which will be followed by a spoken prayer, the national anthem, a moment of silence and a candle-lighting ceremony. “It was such a significant day ... Most people can remember the place they were when the event occurred,” Stephen Duerst, public relations chair of the College Republicans, said. “We are hoping that most students will just pause and reflect on the freedoms that we have and perhaps sometimes take for granted.” memorial page 3

to restore the area or to redevelop it with new buildings, such as fourto-six-story warehouse apartments. The alternatives, however, are cause for controversy. Bob Holloway, a Capitol neighborhood resident, opposed the possible redevelopment project. “I really enjoy walking our neighborhood ... I like the character of the buildings. Why can’t we preserve what we’ve got until there really is a strongly demonstrated need to build mifﬂin page 3

Over $74,400 in inappropriate purchases made by state employees on items, including a vacation package to Las Vegas, a personal laptop and expensive tickets to a theater production, were identiﬁed by the Legislative Audit Bureau Wednesday in an audit of purchasing card use. Out of over 600,000 purchases made by state employees, 3,071 were reviewed. According to the report, the assessed purchases were not chosen randomly, but selected because they showed risk of abuse. “High-risk” purchases were those made during holidays and weekends or at luxury retailers. The report did not say if there were other potentially high-risk purchases that were not reviewed. UW System purchases represented 73.7 percent of all purchasing card expenditures. Irresponsible purchasing varied across UW System schools. At UW-Milwaukee, only 35.7 percent of purchases explicitly stated a business-related purpose when submitted for review. At UWMadison, 47.1 percent were explicitly reported as business-related. The report found $52,463 in “excessive or unnecessary” purchases made in agencies statewide. According to UW System spokesperson David Giroux, UW System

employees made 10 percent of the total irresponsible purchases. A $695 fox-fur stole was purchased by a UW-Milwaukee cardholder, a UW-Superior cardholder used $292 for veterinary services for her sister’s horse, and an unknown $1,003 Wal-Mart purchase was made by a UW-Oshkosh employee. UWOshkosh indicated the record for the Wal-Mart purchase was destroyed in a flood. The LAB report said UW System schools are given discretion and ﬂexibility regarding oversight. Giroux said the UW System has a set of controls in place to prevent inappropriate spending. “We already have a number of checks and balances. These purchasing cards are routinely looked at on a department basis and on a campus basis. There are multiple signatures that need to be provided to authorize these purchases,” he said. Giroux said the UW System is looking to improve the process with more standardized training for individuals who administer and use purchasing cards. He said a web-based training program is currently in the works. The report suggested the spending limit on many purchasing cards was set too high and could make the funds page 3

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Students take bags of chips at the Helen C. House Party at College Library Thursday night.

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ANDREW LAHR spare me the lahrcasm

here is an invisible menace on the doorstep of the UWMadison campus, one that will undoubtedly harm you quicker than a bath with a couple of highvoltage toasters. I am speaking of course about H1N1, or as my medically challenged brethren and I call it, the swine flu. Incredibly, I happened to attend a lecture last week and was formally warned by my professor of the peril that lies ahead for students here in Madison. I’ve always been a sickly bastard (my grade school nurse and I frequently enjoyed lunch together), so naturally my timid immune system and I were upset by this news. After scrubbing down my hands on account of a day of doorknob onslaught, I decided it would be prudent to seek the infinite wisdom of the Internet for ways to avoid becoming just another statistic. After a few solid hours of hardcore Googling, I felt confident that I was

ready to do battle with this modernday black plague, and in my goodnatured way, will pass on this wisdom to the some 13 or 14 projected readers who will make it this far into my column. So without further ado, I give the keys to surviving the swine flu, in my Official Swine Flu Survival Guide... (patent pending). 1. Restrict Breathing: This one may seem a bit outlandish at first, but every source I checked assured me that most cases of swine flu will be inhaled through the lungs. At the very least, abstain from open-air breathing when other students are within sight around campus. Exercising should be avoided altogether as it goes hand-in-hand with heavy breathing. 2. Cover Coughs: Everyone knows that when a person coughs it’s a tell-tale sign they’ve caught some sort of shit, so it’s only logical to keep it out of the air you’re breathing. If some asshole in chemistry class is revving up for a hack session, place your hand in front of his or her mouth to prevent the spread of an infectious viral disease. If the

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cougher becomes frustrated, just let them know you’re performing a civic duty. That’ll shut ’em up. 3. Party With Precaution: I don’t go to many parties, but I’ve heard they’re mostly a cesspool of disease. I went to one party this year (some jackass told me it was a Halo party), and multiple people were sharing cups fashioned on a table in a triangular way! Like I said earlier, I’m very good-natured, so I figured I’d do the right thing and sterilize the cups for the party-goers in the form of rubbing my trusty Purell on the rims of the cups. It says right on the bottle it kills 99.9 percent of bacteria so I don’t understand why people became upset. They all started chanting “asshole” at me and I got real nervous so I left, but I know they’ll realize the good I did and encourage you to do the same in the future. 4. Avoid the Following Doorknobs, public restrooms, hospitals (yech), old people, gathering in groups of more than four or five, bacon, large amounts of livestock, Asia, handshaking/high-fiving, wideopen spaces, sharing pencils, ham, the

homeless, farmers, dorms (remember the norovirus?), PETA members, used syringes, the agriculture building, pork, etc. You’ve now got the skills you need to make it through the year with your young lives. I certainly hope I can say the same for myself. I will admit I broke one of my own rules when I ventured to a hospital to swipe a 400-pack of surgical masks, and in fact am wearing one right now at College Library. People may be giving me frightened looks, but I assure you I will have the last laugh. These are undoubtedly the same people who don’t swab their keyboards down with Lysol before every use. If you’re reading this you’ve already overcome the onslaught of SARS and the avian ﬂu, hopefully we all fare just as well with its “hog” of an older brother. Make sure to keep checking the news on the whereabouts of swine ﬂu this year, keeping in mind everything they say has to be true. If you’re feeling a bit under the weather this winter, it’s probably too late and I recommend consulting with next of kin or good friends about your assets. Cheers! Want to borrow some surgical masks? Contact Andrew at aplahr@gmail.com.

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ERICA ANDRIST sex columnist Hi Erica, I really liked your column so far and I wanted to ask you something that I’ve been thinking about a lot with my boyfriend lately. We’ve been together for a few months and the sex is pretty good, but I still masturbate several times a week. Is this normal? He makes me happy in bed, but I just still feel like masturbating sometimes. It’s okay if you don’t think this is interesting enough to put in your column—an e-mail response is ﬁne.

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Thanks, K.C. First off, K.C., every question I get from students gives me a big, giant orgasm, literally, because then I don’t have to worry about what I’m going to write this week—I can go jack off instead. Whether it’s a question, comment, or complaint, if students are interested enough to tell me what’s on their minds, I’m interested in providing a response. So thanks for your e-mail. Speaking of jacking off—yes, it’s totally normal to masturbate while you’re in a relationship. Just because you’re doing it with a partner doesn’t mean doing it with yourself feels any less spectacular. Sometimes our partners are not willing or able to help us keep up with our four-orgasm-a-day quota. Sometimes our partner is at class or asleep. Sometimes, its been a long-ass day and we just want to take 60 seconds to rub one out before bed without going through the whole rigmarole of partner sex. Whatever the reason is, if both of you are satisﬁed with sex you’re having together, a little buttering of the toast on the side is totally normal and healthy. In fact, it can be beneﬁcial to partner sex, as you discover new ways you enjoy being pleasured and communicate them to your partner.

What’s more, even during solo sex, you’re in good company. As certiﬁed sex educator and author Cory Silverberg reports, “Kinsey’s survey found that almost 40 percent of men and 30 percent of women in relationships masturbated. A study of Playboy readers found that 72 percent of married men masturbated, and a study of Redbook readers found that 68 percent of married women masturbated.” Further, whether you’re in a relationship or not, masturbation becomes problematic only when it begins to interfere with your everyday life, e.g. if you are chronically blowing off other obligations to masturbate. So let your ﬁngers do the walking—just make sure you take the time to walk to class, work, the store, etc. every once and again, too.

In fact, [masturbation] can be beneﬁcial to partner sex, as you discover new ways you enjoy being pleasured and communicate them to your partner.

K.C. hasn’t mentioned anything about his/her boyfriend’s thoughts on masturbation, but let’s suppose for a moment that my partner is uncool with the fact that I sometimes schedule a date with reliable old Mrs. Palmer. My partner says she/he’s hurt by the fact that I still masturbate—isn’t the sex good enough? In this scenario, my partner has communicated genuine sexual concerns, which she/he has every right to express; all parties in a relationship deserve to have their sexual boundaries heard and respected by their partners. However, it’s important that I’m satisﬁed in this relationship, too. Therefore, I might ultimately decide I can live without masturbating so much, and cut down out of concern for my partner. Or, I might decide I can’t live without masturbating so much, and tell my partner it’s a good idea for us to start seeing other people. Or, my partner and I might decide to work out a

compromise, where OK, I don’t masturbate as much—but we have partner sex at a higher frequency. I’m not going to tell you which option is best; I don’t know you, I don’t know your partners, and I don’t know your relationship. However, if I were a gambling woman and you told me you stopped masturbating because your partner didn’t like it, even if she/he swore up and down that you’d have more partner sex, I’d put money on your relationship going down the fallopian tubes. Sex is important. It’s certainly more important to some people than to others, but if our partner requires that we choke our choking-the-chicken habit, and we’re kind-of-but-not-really OK with that, resentment is going to grow all over. You’ll get antsy because you’re not totally satisﬁed. Your partner will get upset because she/he feels obligated to have sex with you all the time. Compromises have to be realistic and they have to be maintained, and sexual incompatibility is not a shallow or inadequate reason to end a relationship. Finally, I want to address that part of K.C.’s inquiry with the actual question in it: “Is this normal?” This lies at the root of most of our sex questions. In most other areas of our lives, we want to be special, above average, unique—but not in the bedroom. In the bedroom, we want to make sure we’re normal. You’re normal. I’m normal. Your mom is normal. Your questions are normal. The fact that you have questions is normal. Our whole lives and especially our sex lives are one big, vast spectrum, and only a few of us are statistics majors—there is no normal curve when it comes to sex. We don’t justify activities or attitudes based on what everyone else is doing. We justify our activities and our attitudes based on how they make us feel and how they make our consenting partners feel. So, K.C., if you’re happy and your boyfriend is happy, that makes you a normal, happy couple. Good work! If you would like to bring pleasure to Erica’s life, we recommend sending her a question about your sex life at sex@dailycardinal.

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UW Housing providing isolated areas for students with H1N1

UW System committee moves forward on troubled IT project

By Kelsey Gunderson

A UW System Board of Regents committee approved the $33.5 million annual budget to continue a systemwide IT project Thursday, apparently following UW System President Kevin Reilly’s advice to “hold your nose and do what is necessary.” The Board of Regents will officially vote on the project Friday, which Reilly said is necessary to replace the “outdated, vintage1975 system” with an “integrated, flexible, highly secure system” to handle the system’s 67,000 employees. According to Reilly, the project is expected to cost $81.4 million before it is launched in 2012 and will be funded without taxpayer dollars. Twelve million dollars from a Microsoft lawsuit and $45 to $50 million from the system’s operating reserves will be used to help fund the remaining budget.

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Carson Gulley Commons will be serving more than food if swine flu cases continue on campus. UW-Madison housing officials, in conjunction with University Health Services, are providing students who are sick with the H1N1 virus with rooms on campus where they can recover and avoid spreading the virus to others. UHS Executive Director Dr. Sarah Van Orman said although UHS urges students with the flu to go home, she is aware that many students on campus may be unable to leave. She said UW Housing has provided several rooms on campus, like the basement of Carson Gulley Commons, students can use to isolate themselves, especially those who live in residence halls where they are always in close contact with others. “This was all part of the plan

because we knew that there were some students who couldn’t leave,” Van Orman said. “So we knew we had to be able to provide an alternative.” “This was all part of the plan because we knew that there were some students who couldn’t leave.” Sarah Van Orman executive director University Health Services

According to Mary Makarushka, UHS communications manager, housing ofﬁcials provide students in these recovery rooms with a comfortable place to sleep and food and water to prevent dehydration. “I know they have Popsicles, because they knew the students

would be feverish … and they have Jell-O, which feels good when your throat hurts,” she said. “They even have a special food option for students who are vegetarians.” Makarushka said students in the isolation rooms are usually just looking for a quiet place to catch up on sleep and usually leave as soon as their fevers reach normal temperatures. “At UHS, we think of them more as recovery rooms than isolation rooms,” she said. “The students don’t need a luxury hotel, they just want someone to care that they’re sick, and they want a quiet place to sleep and get better.” Van Orman said she urges students who are experiencing ﬂu-like symptoms to stay home from Saturday’s football game against Fresno State to avoid spreading the virus to others. —Beth Pickhard contributed to this article.

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“Implementing this system will be costly, but it’s hardly a luxury. It’s a necessity to be addressed now, not later,” he said. The project raised eyebrows with some lawmakers, such as Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, who encouraged the board to delay the project on Wednesday after learning that the main consulting firm, Huron Consulting, has been under a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation after restating its earnings in early August. Huron CEO Tim Roth told the regents at the meeting no foul play was involved and the project was still on track. The regents also suspended a rule forcing UW System staff to acquire a doctor’s note if they are sick for more than five days at the suggestion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to UW System spokesperson David Giroux.

funds from page 1 state vulnerable to abusive spending. State Rep. Bill Kramer, RWaukesha, a member of the Joint Committee on Audit, said even the small inappropriate purchases accumulated to thousands of dollars. “The problem with small purchases like that is when you do as many as the state of Wisconsin does, that adds up … We are talking about a lot of money,” he said. Kramer said if state employees fail to reimburse the state for their transactions, they should be fired and prosecuted. “You don’t have to be on the committee very long for this to really make you say, ‘What?’ although I have to tell you, I’m really not surprised. Governments are notorious for inefﬁciencies,” he said. A public hearing regarding the report’s ﬁndings will be held in front of the Joint Committee on Audit, according to a statement from the audit committee’s co-chairs.

mifflin from page 1 those places?” Holloway said. Historically, Mifflin Street has been known for its unique character and the Mifflin Street Block Party. “It’s got an existing character to it, an existing identity … and if it’s redeveloped, the idea is still to retain a certain character and quality to it,” Fruhling said. The Downtown Plan is the first large-scale urban design plan for the city in 20 years. The planning staff will hold another meeting with residents in late fall. They hope to eventually put together recommendations for the Common Council to approve. “We’re trying to get input … to develop recommendations that will ultimately be in the plan,” Fruhling said.

memorial from page 1 UW-Madison is one of the only universities where the College Democrats and College Republicans collaborate for the remembrance event, which is part of a national campaign called “9/11: The Never Forget Project.”

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MAKE SOME SENSE OF IT ACROSS 1 A no-win situation? 5 Do that Sly Stone sported 9 Distinctive doctrines 13 Not in contact 16 Awl or auger 17 Resisting discovery 19 Big mfr. of point-ofsale terminals 20 “.” follower 21 Add as a bonus 22 The Bee ___ 24 Took a snooze 27 Knight of TV 28 Chief city of the Ruhr valley 30 Black, sticky stuff 31 ___, mi, fa, sol 32 Pooh pal 34 Handyman, at times 37 Might be spoiled 39 Indebted 41 Alumni magazine word 42 Auth. of many quotations 43 Affectionate family name 45 Prepares, as leftovers 49 “I ___ a puddy tat!” 50 Having stiff, coarse hairs 53 “I’m a Ramblin’ Wreck

From Georgia ___” 54 “The ___ Cometh” 56 Adult elver 58 What identical twins have in common 59 Person on the battleﬁeld 63 Abound 64 Sound enhancer 65 Corm of the taro 66 “Aw, heck!” 67 Birds with binocular vision DOWN 1 Airport VIP section 2 Cup divisions 3 Prolonged looks 4 “Mayday!” cousin 5 Used, as a dining table 6 Arrange data 7 Dirt road depression 8 “L’___ del Cairo” (Mozart opera) 9 Take ___ a blessing 10 It may elicit sympathy 11 Pseudonym of JeanBaptiste Poquelin 12 Having a trim ﬁgure 14 Broadcast regulatory org. 15 Sexologist Shere 18 Use your head positively? 23 One was given on the

mount 25 Carrot cousin 26 Paper or plastic, e.g. (Abbr.) 29 “Away in a Manger,” for one 31 Patronize, as a restaurant 33 Something ___ (bride’s need) 35 Play on words 36 Again from the top 37 Bestowed lavishly 38 Discounted by 39 Plain-weave fabric 40 Passed, as a bill 44 ___ Club (conservation group) 46 Change, as boundaries 47 Don of “The Breakfast Club” of old radio 48 Some dig ﬁnds 50 “The Cat in the ___” 51 Rainfall measure 52 “Credit or ___?” 55 Interofﬁce communique 57 “Billion Dollar Brain” novelist Deighton 60 Pronominal contraction 61 Ability to discern good music 62 Long ___ (the distant past)

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Cinematheque doublefeature wins again

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Brooding indie quartet Wild Beasts’ second LP is a more subtle attack than their earlier material.

‘Beasts’ emit subtle roar By David Reed THE DAILY CARDINAL

Nipping at the heels of last year’s debut album Limbo, Panto, Wild Beasts continue their strange and bombastic odyssey into music’s darker fathoms with Two Dancers, a decidedly more mature album that advances the band’s already extraordinary talents and pushes them into new territory. Wild Beasts are nothing if not unique. Lead singer Hayden Thorpe’s ever-present, bawdy-yet-aristocratic falsetto spews epithets and vulgar insinuations as though they were lofty hymns, and bassist Tom Fleming (whose vocal talents are much more prominent this time around) offers a down-to-earth deadpan ring that subtly implicates his narrators in what amount to nothing more than everyday atrocities, all while following tense, galloping rhythms and vast, far-reaching melodies. This combination of musical and lyrical oddity separate Wild Beasts fully from the safety of the norm; these soulful, lilting tracks belie a sinister core bordering on the psychotic. “Hooting and Howling” espouses the adolescent torments of the underrepresented street brute, as the narrator describes his violent actions as “a crude art, a bovver boot ballet / equally elegant

and ugly” and declares, “I was as thrilled as I was appalled / courting him in ﬁsticufﬁng waltz.”

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Two Dancers Wild Beasts “All the King’s Men” sounds at ﬁrst to be nothing but a catchy lure with which to coax women into bed, and yet while this is not a rare rock ’n’ roll trope, there is a menacing undertone to the narrator’s words: “And we are the boys / Who’ll drape you in jewels / Cut off your hair, and throw out your shoes / Cause baby, you won’t need them ... You’re birthing machines / And let me show my darling what that means.” This song excels on both the level of a memorable single as well as to decry the absurdity of a courting process whose purpose is to ensnare beauty and conﬁne it to servitude, all with incredible style and wit. The two part title track, “Two Dancers,” is also replete with understated horror as it chronicles

the narrator’s emotional and mental state while being physically tortured by an unknown entity as the song moves from ghostly desperation to funk-laden fear and regret and back again. The album as a whole attempts to contrast, and ultimately harmonize, the beautiful and horrible, as both criminal and victim are handled with the same exalted deference. Rare for a rock album, Two Dancers is thematically rich, attempting to explore as well as explain “How we have an underbelly / bitten by brutality.” Compared to Wild Beasts’ previous entry, Two Dancers is a far more subdued album. Gone are the up tempo and overtly angry tracks such as “The Club of Fathomless Love.” Instead, the album acts more as a coherent whole, with a continuous mood and tone ﬁnely interwoven between each track, making up with subtlety and consistency what it lacks in intensity. While some may be disappointed by the choice to eschew the ambivalent, emotionally raw facet Wild Beasts seemed poised to elaborate upon, Two Dancers represents a fascinating evolution for a band too bizarre to qualify, and afﬁrms their position as one of the best and most interesting indie bands today.

The UW Cinematheque kicked off its schedule for the fall semester this past weekend with two films generally regarded as cinematic masterpieces, though of very different species: Vincente Minnelli’s iconic musical “Meet Me in St. Louis” (1944) and the Harold Lloyd silent comedy “The Kid Brother” (1927). Friday night’s screening of “Meet Me in St. Louis” was the first in a nine-film series devoted to the work of Minnelli, a legendary director best-known for his crayon-box musicals and his star-powered melodramas. This retrospective will feature some of Minnelli’s most highly-regarded films, including “The Bad and the Beautiful” (1952), a glossy yet brooding critique of the Hollywood money machine (screens on September 26th), and the Technicolor classic “Some Came Running” (1958), a vaguely literary drama starring the duo of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin (screens on November 14th). “Meet Me in St. Louis” contains much of what is most distinctive and endearing about Minnelli’s style: the freewheeling camera movements, the vibrant and polychromatic color schemes, the pithy one-liners and the lingering sense that the film is a small world onto itself. Sure, the film’s sentiments are awfully sappy at times, and the 35mm print that the Cinematheque used for the screening occasionally lapsed into irksome graininess; but overall, “Meet Me in St. Louis” was a lot of cinematic fun. Minnelli was the sort of director who could never settle for constructing a cute, modest little flick—he insisted on creating cinematic worlds composed of compelling personas and lavish locales. “Meet Me in St. Louis” is exactly that: A world whose social structure is utterly confused and barely existent; a world in which an entire milieu can be stuffed into a single mansion without losing any crucial details; a world where every room

of every home is stocked with bowls of fruit. Nobody in the audience on Friday night seemed to mind being transported to this world, nor did they seem to want to leave. This movie, which the great film critic James Agee once called “a musical that even the deaf should enjoy,” certainly did not disappoint. Saturday night’s screening was the film that many consider to be the best work of silent comedy legend Harold Lloyd: “The Kid Brother.” The screening featured live musical accompaniment by local piano player David Drazin, who did a remarkable job keeping pace with the unrelenting momentum of Lloyd’s comic chaos. In “The Kid Brother” Lloyd flies all over the screen like a flabbergasted pinball, accidentally dragging everybody he encounters into his strange world of semi-conscious absurdity. Throughout the film, Lloyd’s self-confidence is alternately inflated and deflated, yielding a balloon-like figure whose wildly expressive eyes nearly replace him as the central protagonist. Agee wrote that Harold Lloyd “was outstanding even among the master craftsmen at setting up a gag clearly, culminating and getting out of it deftly, and linking it smoothly to the next,” and anybody who attended Saturday night’s screening would agree with this assessment. Nearly every element of “The Kid Brother” scores in one sense or another: the masterfully expressive faces, the hilarious novelty of having a monkey dress as a sailor and serve as a pivotal character, the bumbling and bickering villains, a pair of fraudulent medicine men who closely resemble the duo of Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare in “Fargo,” and so on. “The Kid Brother” is nothing if not a beautifully and logically constructed work, a master lesson in the sacred art of provoking chuckles. The Cinematheque holds its screenings every Friday and Saturday night all semester long.

Renowned CGI short becomes disappointingly bad when put in longform By Katie Foran-McHale THE DAILY CARDINAL

Humankind has been destroyed by the very technology intended to maintain peace, but nine burlap sack dolls (coined “stitchpunks”) survive the destruction in Shane Acker’s post-apocalyptic CGI animated ﬁlm, “9.” Together, the stitchpunks must avoid the clutches of the soulless machines that annihilated human civilization. #9 (voiced by Elijah Wood), curious and loyal, is the last to wake from the dolls’ previously eternal slumber. Among the group are # 7 (voiced by Jennifer Connolly), a fearless and compassionate ﬁghter, # 5 (voiced by John C. Reilly), a kind and trusting mechanic and # 1 (voiced by Christopher Plummer), a skeptical and manipulative curmudgeon. Other vocal talents include Martin Landau, Crispin Glover and Fred Tatasciore. The animation is visually stunning, providing the audience with a unique variety of textures, extreme detail and myriad explo-

sions. With its PG-13 rating, perhaps it is best suited for younger teens who have outgrown Pixar charm but aren’t quite ready for live-action graphic violence, or adults who want to be impressed by the more visual aspects and befuddled with the ﬁlm’s failure to tell a complete story. “9” was originally an 11minute short film by then-student Acker, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2005. With producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of “Wanted”), Acker elongated the short by 70 minutes. Knowing this information is important in identifying the film for what it is: a somewhat interesting premise with amazing graphics (which could have been established in say, 11 minutes), but with a storyline that is sloppily thrown together and severely lacking substance. The film, with a few exceptions, is essentially a series of intense action scenes with little

to no real connections between them. Flat, repetitive dialogue tends to mask narrative voids, and the eye-popping visuals can function as a distraction from plot insignificance. Character development of non-human heroes in a post-apocalyptic world was much more successful in “WALL-E,” whose nonverbal cues had much more to say than most of the lifeless dialogue spoken by the stitchpunks. And just as the nine are made of recycled material (burlap sacks, thread and zippers), many of the ﬁlm’s characters and themes seem to have been borrowed from movies of years past. The Seamstress is a menacing burlap monster with a hybrid body of the boogeyman and toy snake from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and a face reminiscent of the spider doll from “Toy Story.” An explanation to a big mystery throughout the movie seems as if it was straight out of the most recent “Harry Potter” installment. The presented themes are hardly new

concepts either—questioning authority, sticking together and hating communists are among the many—but the dark overtones could have made them more evocative (or less trite) with a little narrative substance. What could have been a powerful conclusion was almost laughable due to this

unfortunate lack of meaning. The Scientist (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer), creator of the nine stitchpunks, concludes that society’s “blind pursuit of technology only sped us quicker to our doom.” Let’s hope he wasn’t also referring to the narrative future of CGI animated film.

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Although Shane Acker’s “9” featured stunning graphics, its plot was as used as its characters’ clothing.

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new central library will enlighten city

he city of Madison is one built around education and lifelong learning. Unfortunately, the city does not have a central library to match the overall vision of the city. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s capital budget has made room for the renovation of Madison’s Central Library on Mifﬂin Street, and it’s about time. As long as some functional concessions are made in order to turn the library into a multi-purpose piece of property, there is no reason that the library should not be upgraded to better blend with its scholarly surroundings. Libraries are supposed to serve as the cultural and educational center of a city, places that promote knowledge and reach out to the community, whether that be through encyclopedias, a Lincoln biography or the latest awful Dan Brown novel. The current Central Library has done its best, but it needs to be so much more. According to Literacy Network, 17,000 residents of Dane County lack the functional literary skills needed to read common literature (labels, letters, doctors instructions, etc.) and half of the adults who qualify for literary aid do not receive it. Again, in a city that prides itself on its relationship to the university, this is unacceptable. These concerns need to be addressed at the source, and a library must be constructed with resolving these issues in mind. The new library would help to erase problems with illiteracy in the Dane County area while complementing the already robust UW library system. The current plans show the library will be more reminiscent of a collegiate library in design, addressing both the sonic and spatial concerns that were apparent in the old library. The plans show

designated quiet rooms as well as ample resources. While the current Central Library boasts an abundant collection, it is still lacking in other resources. The current computer situation at the Central Library is inconvenient at best, and it is issues like this keeping the library from adequately complementing the city and the university. But again, the new library has to be so much more to the community in order to justify its budget. The $37 million for Cieslewicz’s plan is a hefty chunk of change. Much of that will supposedly be gathered through private fundraising, though the city’s ability to secure that funding is questionable. More community outreach is needed for the literacy aspect of the project, but it also needs to prove economically useful beyond its means. Of the proposed plans for the library, two include building another structure (a hotel and a condo structure) to help develop the city. Adding something like a hotel or condos may obscure the purpose of the library, but at the same time it will alleviate the economic stress of the project and, along with the proposed Edgewater building, help alleviate the hotel room shortage downtown. But ﬁrst and foremost, the library project is about literacy and the community. Speaking about the new library plans, Cieslewicz stated, “Madison’s Central Library should be the intellectual ground zero of a community whose economy and culture is largely built on education.” The city of Madison needs to set its own academic example, and renovating the library is a laudable goal for a growing city. Any other development associated with the construction of the library is a bonus.

UW College Republicans taking a new direction By Stephen Duerst COLLEGE REPUBLICANS

Mention Madison, Wisconsin to any conservative in the Midwest and it’s sure to elicit a reaction. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in how liberal the UW campus is, and unfortunately it’s been difﬁcult to combat it. In the past, it’s been a struggle to locate the conservative presence anywhere in Madison. Fortunately, this year has been a totally fresh start for the College Republicans with the election of senior Crystal Lee as chairman of the organization. This past summer, Lee interned with the College Republican National Committee, where she gained extensive information on how to effectively organize, recruit and govern the organization. Membership retention through heavy freshman recruiting and an effective communications network will be a key focus of Lee and the College Republicans this fall. If you are a freshman, we encourage you to become

Numbers Don’t Lie: The Capital Budget $37 million - Total cost of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s proposed plan for the new central library spread out over three years, including borrowing, tax credits and private fundraising $16 million - Tax Incremental Financing for the Edgewater Hotel renovation project (total cost $107 million) $2 Million - Amount designated for a new permanent police training facility to replace the training center at Madison Area Technical College $950,000 - Entire operational commitment for the Madison Police Department $205,000 - Capital commitment for the Madison Police Department $35 Million - Transportation funding for street repair, expansion and road reconstruction $12 Million - Water utility infrastructure funding Source: Ofﬁce of the Mayor

involved in the organization. You will not regret the numerous volunteer, internship and political involvement opportunities we have to offer. The College Republicans have also agreed to shift the political focus away from social issues that were predominantly highlighted in the past by the organization to an agenda that generates more awareness about the current economic issues facing the U.S. The Executive Board has agreed that now, more than ever, students need to be aware of ﬁscally responsible ideas and why they are a better ﬁt for the nation. Look for a College Republican organization that will appeal more to the ‘Center-Right’ mainstream conservative, a position much more in line with many of the conservatives on campus. We will begin to do this by talking about the economic issues facing this great nation and how GOP ideals will help solve it. The UW College Republicans believe in lower taxes for all Wisconsin families and lower government spending to assist this goal. This request has never been more needed. Governor Doyle and state Democrats are proposing to spend $3.64 billion more in the new budget, which represents a 6.2 percent increase in spending over the base budget and a total of $62.24 billion in 2009-2011. To offset this, Doyle is taxing everything from phone calls to hospital stays. In addition, families that are already having trouble keeping their homes can expect an additional 3.3 percent to 4.1 percent increase in property taxes because of Doyle’s budget. UW College Republicans also believe in lower taxes for businesses, small and large alike, which would provide for more capital for them to work with and more jobs. All across the nation, but particularly in Wisconsin, this is much needed. Forbes magazine recently released the states with the best and worst climates for business growth. Wisconsin, with Doyle at the helm, has managed to slip to number 43. Wages are now 85 percent that of the national average. The unemployment rate is near 9 percent and is continuing to rise, with companies like Harley-Davidson laying off hundreds of workers this past

summer. Large companies such as General Motors continue to leave the state for places like Michigan, which offers a 5.5 percent tax on corporate income. This is in comparison to Wisconsin’s high 8 percent tax. Federal ﬁscal policy will be on the agenda as well. As new versions of the national health-care bill are released during the new session of Congress in the coming weeks, our organization will present information students should know before making their decision on whether the program is in their best interests or not. And of course, lower federal spending and taxes are something students need to rise in support of. A projected $10 trillion budget deﬁcit, not only the debt, should not sit well with anyone on this campus.

Look for a College Republican organization that will appeal more to the ‘Center-Right’ mainstream conservative.

The College Republicans will attempt to educate the UW with speakers, rallies and literature on facts you should know about our nation’s ﬁnancial problems and why heavy government and deﬁcit spending are not in the best interest of this nation. With the election of Obama in 2008 and the upcoming competitive Wisconsin gubernatorial race in 2010, 2009 will be an off year for politics on most campuses. Fortunately, the College Republicans are working endlessly to place a focus on the two most daunting problems facing the U.S. as a whole: fiscal issues and health care. Whoever said that the Republican Party is dead obviously hasn’t met the UW College Republicans, their new leadership and their new direction. Stephen Duerst is the public relations chair for the College Republicans. We welcome all feedback. Please send all responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Paulus goes from Duke hardwood to Syracuse grass, shows his versatility

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Senior goalie Alex Howath has no allowed a goal yet in the regular season, earning him Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors. He will look to keep that strong play going in San Diego.

Badgers head west for out-ofconference weekend series Offense looks to step it up, take pressure off strong goaltending By Parker Gabriel THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin men’s soccer team will travel to San Diego this weekend to participate in a fourteam tournament hosted by the University of San Diego and San Diego State University. The Badgers will play San Diego (2-0) Friday at 9 p.m. central time and then face San Diego State (3-2) on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. The University of Pennsylvania rounds out the four-team ﬁeld, but the Badgers will not face the Quakers. “If they continue to bring the passion, energy and the discipline, we know that we’ll create our chances.” Todd Yeagley head coach UW Men’s Soccer

Wisconsin enters the second weekend of the season with a 1-0-1 record after ﬁghting to a draw with Virginia Tech and winning 1-0 on a dramatic last-second goal against Western Illinois last weekend. This early in the season, most teams are still trying to ﬁnd their stride, and the Badgers are no different.

They have generated several very good scoring opportunities, but did not convert until the ninetieth minute of their second game. Finishing scoring chances will not be the only challenge Wisconsin faces this weekend, as the Badgers have not played on the west coast for the last two years. “(This weekend) brings a whole new set of challenges, with the travel and different opponents,” head coach Todd Yeagley said. “But if they continue to bring the passion, energy and the discipline, we know that we’ll create our chances. Echoing Coach Yeagley’s hardworking attitude, senior forward Scott Lorenz made it clear that this is trip is no vacation. “We don’t head out there just to enjoy the warm weather, we’re going out there with the purpose of coming out with two victories,” Lorenz said. Victories are easier to come by when the team is pouring in goals, but from their first games it’s clear that the Badgers feature a stout defense. They did not allow a goal in either of the first two matches, and senior goalkeeper Alex Horwath posted two shutouts and earned a Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week award. As a team, Wisconsin limited Western Illinois to two shots on goal. Senior midfielder Brandon Miller played a big role in that effort, pressuring the ball in the middle of the ﬁeld and putting pressure on Western’s passing efforts. “It’s a team defending thing, that’s one of the things coach Yeagley has really preached is

team defending and always getting in the right position,” Miller said. “I think that’s really helped us out.” “We don’t head out there just to enjoy the warm weather, we’re going out there with a purpose.” Scott Lorenz senior forward UW Men’s Soccer

Despite the long trip, unfamiliar opponents and threat of emotional drain after such a dramatic win last Sunday, Wisconsin has a chance to go to San Diego and take some positive strides leading up to the beginning of Big Ten play on September 25. The Badgers will open the confrence campaign at home against Indiana. As Scott Lorenz sees it, the Badgers need to work on putting all of the different facets of the game together into one package. “We’re really looking to put a lot behind the net, make it easy on our goal-keeper, Al, so he doesn’t have to post a shutout for us to win every game,” he said. With the way Horwath and the Badger defense has played through the ﬁrst two games, an offense that puts a lot behind the net would make this a very dangerous team. After the weekend road trip, the Badgers will return to Wisconsin and play in the UW-Milwaukee Panther Invitational, where they will face Oakland and UC-Santa Barbara Sept. 18 and 20.

Multi-sport athletes at the collegiate and professional levels have always been rare when each game requires so much devotion of time and effort in order to become the best. The critics reason that individuals can’t possibly reach maximum potential in a particular sport if they’re trying to juggle two games at a time. But then again, there are unique individuals who defy all the standards set in place and keep us in awe of their skills in more than a single sport. Jim Thorpe was an Olympian with pro careers in both baseball and football. Bo Jackson was the ﬁrst athlete to make an all-star team in both baseball and football. And Jim Brown is considered to be not only one of the greatest football players of all time but also one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time. Greg Paulus’s achievements are nowhere near the level of these legends. But his quick transition from point guard at Duke to the current starting quarterback at Syracuse demonstrates superb athletic ability. It might be early, but what Paulus has already achieved is quite remarkable. Over a span of just six months, Paulus has gone from riding the bench at Duke his senior year to leading an offense at Syracuse, this despite being away from the game of football for four years. Paulus was a phenomenal high school athlete in both basketball and football in New York. In addition to coach Mike Krzyzewski’s basketball scholarship offer from Duke, Paulus received football scholarship offers from top schools including the University of Miami and Notre Dame. When it came time to make a decision, Paulus chose hoops. Maybe his smaller build (6 foor 1 inch and 180 lbs) led him to believe that a pro career in basketball was much more realistic. After all, former Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward of Florida State chose basketball after graduation and enjoyed a fairly successful NBA career. Paulus made his presence known right away as his 5.2 assists per game as a freshman were tops in the Atlantic Coast Conference. His

football from page 8 the Bulldogs have redshirt freshman Ebahn Feathers backing up Colburn to match Wisconsin’s Curt Phillips as a ﬂeet-footed changeof-pace quarterback with oodles of potential. Also, Derek Carr of Fresno State and Jon Budmayr of Wisconsin are both true freshman quarterbacks that represent the future for the two programs. But Saturday all eyes will be on the present as the Wisconsin defense faces the tall task of shutting down a powerful running team in Fresno State. According to Doeren, the key to stopping the Fresno State offensive attack is containing the Bulldogs’ stable of fast and powerful skill position players, highlighted by electric junior running back Ryan Matthews. “They have great speed, they have three really talented receivers and they have two or three run-

sophomore and junior seasons were also impressive, as he continued to develop as a playmaker and averaged double figures in scoring. But as successful as Paulus was in his first three seasons, his senior year was marred by utter disappointment. He started five games and averaged just 16 minutes per contest. Duke elected to go with younger talent and that resulted in the end of Paulus’s future as an NBA prospect. The former star’s steep decline made him an easy target for criticism.

It might be early, but what Greg Paulus has already achieved is quite remarkable.

Paulus could have been satisfied with his college degree and a disappointing end to his athletic career at Duke, but instead he revived his aspirations in football, contacting schools and beating out several candidates to become the starting QB at Syracuse. To me, this shows not only tremendous athletic ability but also great courage and determination to put his reputation on the line. Despite a hot start in his first game against Minnesota last Saturday, Paulus showed plenty of growing pains in his return to football. He led the Orangemen to a 20-14 lead at halftime and finished with 167 yards passing and a touchdown. But his crucial interception on third down in overtime led to a defeat for Syracuse. However, it isn’t Paulus’ statistics that make his comeback worth watching. It’s witnessing the leadership that comes naturally to him and manifests itself in Paulus’s demeanor on the field. During last Saturday’s telecast, ESPN aired many shots of him trying to rally his teammates on the sideline and showing emotion on each drive. Paulus may have little to no future in the NFL. But nonetheless, he has accepted an almost unthinkable athletic challenge and performed very well so far. And with each win for Syracuse, he builds his confidence back up while defying critics along the way—a powerful story. What do you think about Greg Paulus? E-mail mfox2@wisc.edu. ning backs that can go,” Doeren said. “They’re fast, you got to keep them inside and in front and don’t let them get away from you.” On the Wisconsin side of the ball, all the attention will once again be on Tolzien and Phillips as they continue to split time as conductors of the offense. Bielema said Monday that he has no plans to use the two any differently Saturday than he did against Northern Illinois after coming away impressed with the play of both quarterbacks. “Tolzien really handled and managed the game well, and I like the way Curt came off the bench,” Bielema said. “So we’re going to stick with the same game plan.” Quarterback battles aside, Saturday’s game is once again a pivotal one for two programs vying to regain respect on the national stage. —Ben Breiner contributed to this report.

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QBs, defense will face tougher challenge Saturday By Justin Dean THE DAILY CARDINAL

Just a year after clinging on to a three-point lead in front of a record crowd in Fresno, Calif., Wisconsin will look to replicate last year’s result with a different attack when they square off against Fresno State Saturday. Last year, the No. 21 Bulldogs

outgained the No. 10 Badgers by nearly 40 yards and would likely have won the game had Fresno State kicker Kevin Goessling not captured the heart of Badger fans everywhere by missing three field goals. The two programs once again find themselves in similar situations this year. Both teams are coming off underwhelming 7-6 seasons that fell well shy of lofty preseason expectations, and this season neither has sniffed the national rankings. More significantly, both teams run basically the same pro style offense that

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relies heavily on power running and solid blocking. “We are similar [offensively], our kids all said this is like playing against ourselves,” defensive coordinator Dave Doeren said. “And that’s good they have those similarities, especially in a week like this.”

“We are similar [offensively], our kids all said this is like playing against ourselves.” Dave Doeren defensive coordinator UW Football

The two offenses are also both in the process of integrating junior quarterbacks that had little to no collegiate experience coming into this season. Fresno State’s Ryan Colburn, who played sparingly as a freshman in 2007 and didn’t play at all last year, led the Bulldogs to a 51-0 victory last week over UCDavis by passing for 161 yards and a touchdown. Similarly, Wisconsin’s Scott Tolzien threw for 257 yards and a touchdown in Wisconsin’s 2820 nail-biter victory over Northern Illinois last Saturday. Starters aside, Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema and his Fresno State counterpart Pat Hill must be using the same ingredients in cooking up recruiting classes. After all, football page 7