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The Red Cross reeeaaally wants your donation

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Todd Stevens todd bless us, every one

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odd: Hello?

Red Cross: Hi, this is Linda, from the American Red Cross. I’m calling today to let you know that our blood supply often tends to run low during the holiday season, and because demand is so high, we could really use your help. I see in our records that you are a type-O donor and your last contribution was over eight weeks ago. Would you mind if we schedule you for an appointment this week to help contribute to our donor supply?

Todd: Sure, I’d be happy to. I’ll find out when I’m available and schedule an appointment then.

Red Cross: Thank you, sir. We greatly appreciate your generosity.

We look forward to your donation in the coming days.

TWO DAYS LATER Todd: Hello?

Red Cross: Hi, this is Linda from

the American Red Cross. I’m calling today to let you know that our blood supply often tends to run low during the holiday season, and because demand is so high— Todd: Yes, you called earlier this week. I said I’d get around to scheduling an appointment later.

Red Cross: Well now that you’ve had some time to think about it, do you think you could schedule an appointment this Thursday? How about 2:30 p.m., does that work for you Mr. Stevens?

Todd: Er, I actually have a really busy schedule. It’s hard to tell when I’ll have the time. Tell you what, I’ll figure it out and schedule an appointment online, OK? Red Cross: That sounds great Mr. Stevens. We look forward to your donation in the coming days.

THE NEXT DAY Todd: Hello?

Red Cross: WHERE ARE YOU? Todd: Er… who is this?

Red Cross: THIS IS LINDA FROM THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. WE NEED YOUR BLOOD. DONATE WILLINGLY OR WE WILL TAKE IT BY FORCE. Todd: Uh…

The Dirty Bird

Red Cross: CAN WE SCHEDULE YOU FOR A DONATION APPOINTMENT THIS FRIDAY AT NOON? Todd: I actually have class then…

Red Cross: BULLSHIT. GIVE US YOUR DELICIOUS TYPE-O BLOOD NOW. (Todd hangs up)

LATER THAT DAY ON FACEBOOK Messages (1) The American Red Cross sent you a message: Listen, you lapsed blood donor heathen. Your donation could save three lives. We even have those lives picked out for you: Little Jimmy Aberkowski, age 5; Mrs. Kristin Sanders, age 37 and mother of 2; and Minnesota Twins all-star catcher Joe Mauer. Don’t ask how we know these people will need your blood, just know that if you fail to donate Joe Mauer will die, and that is a promise. We look forward to your donation in the coming days.

(Todd blocks American Red Cross on Facebook, sends dire message telling Joe Mauer to hire extra security)

THE NEXT MORNING

(Todd wakes up tethered to a steel slab) Todd: What… where am I? Red Cross: You’re in our special Maximum Security Donation Center, Mr. Stevens. Please get comfortable as we prepare you for your donation. I’m Linda, and I’m— Todd:… from the American Red Cross. Got it.

Red Cross: Would you be willing to perform a double platelet donation today, sir?

Todd: Wait, what if I don’t make the donor requirements?

Red Cross: Such as?

Todd: Well, I’ve, er… spent over three months in Africa in the past year.

Red Cross: You look healthy.

Todd: I solicited prostitutes while I was there.

Red Cross: I’m sure you took the utmost safety precautions.

Todd: They had the ebola virus.

Red Cross: We have a cure.

Todd: Dammit.

For the record, Todd has never been to Africa, nor has he ever solicited prostitutes infected with the ebola virus. If you have a better excuse he can use to get out of donating blood, send them to ststevens@ wisc.edu.

Farewell editors! Beauty job.

the elusive orgasm Erica andrist sex columnist

The first time I had an orgasm occurred approximately three years after the first time I had sex.

The purpose of this column is not to embarrass or excoriate any of my former lovers. Nor is it a gratuitous airing of my dirty laundry for all to see—quite the contrary, actually, this column is one of those rare ones in which I find myself unsteady on my feet, unsure where to go, how to proceed, or where to make jokes.

Writing this column requires me to recall a time in the development of my own sexuality during which I was not nearly as confident, during which I faked orgasms because I was so embarrassed and frustrated, during which I secretly wondered if I even had a clitoris, during which my afterglow consisted of tears streaming down my face in the dark because I felt so defeated and, literally, broken.

I tried everything. I had a lot of sex. I tried to masturbate. I read female anatomy books by the truckload. I awkwardly asked my gynecologist why I wasn’t having orgasms. She looked at me for a moment and just said, “It will come.” Ouch.

But I digress. The purpose of this column is you: I’m a female-bodied grad student in my mid-twenties and I’ve never had an orgasm. I’ve tried masturbation, vibrators, and experimenting with partners, but so far no luck. I know that big part of the problem is in my head so I’m working on that... but I’m relatively certain that a big part is also technique and not being able to figure out what works for me. In talking with friends I know I’m not the only one, so from all of us...could you give us some explicit tips? We know we need

to find out what works for us, but we’d all love some ideas as to what, exactly, might work.

—Needs Other Potential Excitatory Actions Kthx (NO PEAK) This year, I concluded a three-year tenure with Sex Out Loud. I have written dozens of sex advice columns for both campus newspapers. I have done hundreds of programs and events and talked with thousands of students.

And I can tell you without a doubt that NO PEAK is exactly right; they are not the only ones. Not even close.

Additionally, there are a whole bunch of partners out there who wonder what they can do, what they’re doing wrong, why their female partners don’t have orgasms.

In some ways, the commonness of the question is almost beside the point. I am also writing this column because I see the looks in your eyes when I answer these questions. Too often, I fail to truly ease anyone’s sense of doubt or discouragement. “Oh, what does she know?” you think. “She works for Sex Out Loud. She writes the sex column. She probably has mad crazy sex all the time. She doesn’t understand what it’s like.”

But I do understand. And because this topic is so vast, and so near and dear to my heart, we will be spending the next two weeks on it. This is the last sex column before break, but when we come back, you will hear from a whole group of fabulous ladies of varying ages, relationship statuses, sexual identities, etc. offering personal perspectives and tips on orgasms. The week after that, you’ll hear from another group of fabulous folks offering personal perspectives and tips on helping a female partner achieve orgasm.

So have a wonderful break and stay tuned, folks. I assure you, there is so much more to come.

Sex questions? Comments? Interested in contributing to the female orgasm series? E-mail sex@dailycardinal.com.

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Monona robbery ends in suspect’s shooting

By Scott Girard the daily cardinal

The UW Credit Union in Monona was the site of a kidnapping and robbery Wednesday, resulting in the suspect being shot after ramming into a cop car.

The incident occurred around 2 P.M., according to a witness cited in the Wisconsin State Journal.

“The vehicle rammed head-on into one of our police cars and shots were fired,” Monona Police Lt. Sara Deuman said in a video on Madison.com.

According to Deuman, the suspect was shot and taken to a hospital, and the police were unsure of his condition at the time of the video.

Police believe the suspect was attempting

to take money from the victim’s bank account.

“We’ve learned at this point that the victim was taken at gunpoint from an unknown location somewhere in the Madison Metropolitan area,” Deuman said in the video.

The streets in the area of the Credit Union and the shopping mall were also closed by police.

“The Monona Police Department is at our Monona UW Credit Union branch responding to an incident that occurred at our drive- up. The Monona branch location has been closed for the day and is expected to reopen Thursday at regular business hours. We have no additional comments to share at this time,” the UW Credit Union said in a statement to the WSJ.

ASM asks for input in proposed Badger Partnership, administrators respond at meeting

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The new three-year contract for Madison Metro drivers will be up for approval at the Common Council meeting Tuesday.

Madison Metro reaches agreement on new contract Contract would restructure overtime system if passed by Common Council

By Maggie DeGroot the daily cardinal

After months of negotiations, Madison and the union representing Madison Metro bus drivers came up with a new three-year contract that would better distribute overtime hours.

Mick Rusch of Metro Transit said the old contract had a complicated process for distributing work assignments to bus drivers. Part of the old contract included a

process in which drivers were able to “pick work” where overtime hours would result.

“In this new contract, the rules by which drivers can pick work and the process by how we distribute the work has been simplified,” Rusch said.

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Athletic Department produces 10th highest revenue in U.S.

By Molly Reppen The Daily Cardinal

The UW-Madison Athletic Department was ranked No. 10 in the country for the most revenue generated among college athletic departments nationwide in 2009-’10.

UW-Madison’s athletic department brought in $93.9 million in earnings to the university.

This is a 4.5 percent increase in athletic department revenue from the $89.8 million revenue it gathered in the 2008-’09 school year.

The Ohio State University (No. 3), the University of Michigan (No. 6) and Penn State University (No. 7) were three other Big Ten schools ranked in the nation’s top 10 list, earning $123.2 million, $106.7 mil-

Vice Chancellor of Admissions Darrell Bazzell, Assistant to Chancellor Don Nelson and Dean of Students Lori Berquam responded to an ASM request to have input on the Badger Partnership at the open forum section of the Associated Students of Madison meeting Wednesday night.

The Badger Partnership is a proposal from Chancellor Biddy Martin to gain more autonomy for the university from other UW schools in the state.

Bazzell said the Badger Partnership would allow the university to have more control over tuition prices, construction, salaries and procurement of goods and services.

The Resolution for a Democratic Badger Partnership states that ASM wants to be included and informed on what happens between the state government and the university administration with relation to the Badger Partnership.

ASM Representative Jonah Zinn, who proposed this resolution, said he thinks university administration should have given students more concrete details regarding the Badger Partnership before now.

“Frankly, it’s not fair to keep students in the dark for this long,” Zinn said.

Nelson said students have not been included in the conversation before now because specifics have not yet been discussed.

“I don’t see a pathway that allows us to maintain our excellence that does not have tuition as a component.”

Darrell Bazzell vice chancellor of admissions UW-Madison

Bazzell said the administration has to wait until the governor drafts a proposal for funding for the university before discussing it with the governor, and a tuition increase is seemingly inevitable.

“I don’t see a pathway that allows us to maintain our excellence that does not have tuition as a component,” he said.

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lion and $106.6 million dollars respectively.

The University of Texas was ranked No. 1.

The Big Ten Conference ranks second in athletic revenue among conferences, bringing in $905.2 million, while the SEC is first in the rankings with over $1 billion in revenue in 2009-’10.

According to USA Today, head coach Bret Bielema makes at least $1.78 million each year.

Bielema is one of 60 head football coaches to have earned more than $1 million this year.

This number does not include annual bonuses. Bielema will add onto his 2010-’11 earnings for bringing this year’s football team to the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, Cali.

Walker threatens to decertify state employee unions

By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal

Relations between Governor-elect Scott Walker and state employee unions continue to deteriorate with Walker’s latest announcement that he would consider decertifying them to help balance the state budget.

The proposal elicited outrage from Democratic lawmakers and prompted the Wisconsin chapter of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations to write a letter urging the legislature to strike a deal before the new administration takes power.

“We’re exploring every option out there, not

just for the system but looking at next year’s state budget,” Walker said at the Milwaukee Press Club Luncheon, according to Wispolitics. com. “Any spectrum of things out there would be things we would consider—anything from the decertification all the way through modifications to the current laws in place.”

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Administrators responded to the student government’s request to have input on the proposed Badger Partnership at the ASM meeting Wednesday night.

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Political newcomer trounces Wisconsin legend

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Big business faced off against big government in one of the most unexpectedly monumental races of the election season.

Oshkosh businessman and Senator-elect Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, went toe to toe with 18-year incumbent Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, on issues as critical as drilling in the Great Lakes and as trivial as the ramifications of sunspots.

For many, the Wisconsin upset represented Democrats’ “shellacking” by Tea Party activists during the midterm elections. Feingold’s maverick reputation and repeated willingness to defy the Democratic establishment didn’t stop his reelection campaign from being swallowed up in a national trend.

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Obama rallies on campus, but fails to save Wisconsin Democrats Over 26,500 people waited over three hours Sept. 28 to witness the first presidential visit to the UW-Madison campus in nearly 60 years.

Obama’s visit marked the beginning of a campaign run to save the Democrats from Republican nationwide momentum.

Although the “Moving America Forward” rally drew mass student support, it could not prevent the GOP from taking the governorship, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold’s seat and the state Legislature.

Feingold, congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett also attended the event, along

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with musical acts Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, Ben Harper and The National.

Although Obama vouched for the student vote and attempted to dispel the idea of “enthusiasm gap,” he acknowledged people in Madison and across the country were restless for change.

“I understand that people are frustrated,” Obama said. “I understand that people are impatient with the pace of change. Of course they are. But I also know this: now is not the time to lose heart. Now is not the time to give up. We do not quit, and we cannot forget that this nation has been through far worse.”

—Ariel Shapiro

High-speed rail in turmoil during Gov. transition

Although Wisconsin received over $822 million dollars in federal stimulus money in 2010 to build a high-speed rail line between Madison and Milwaukee, the future of the project is uncertain.

The planned line would be an extension of the line already running from Chicago to Milwaukee, and, ultimately the planners would like the line to run from Chicago to St. Paul, Minn.

Governor Jim Doyle has been a strong supporter of the proposal, saying it would create much needed jobs, including 55 permanent ones and many temporary jobs during the construction period.

That, however, is where the good news

seems to end for rail supporters.

Construction was halted on the project Nov. 3, after Republican Governor-elect Scott Walker won the election. Walker said repeatedly during his campaign he would find a way to stop the construction of the train and look for other ways for Wisconsin to use the money, such as road reconstruction.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has said the money cannot be used for any other purpose, and other states, including New York and North Carolina, have put in requests to the federal government to obtain the money if it is not used

by Wisconsin.

—Scott Girard

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“I don’t believe this election is about details,” Johnson said. “I really don’t.”

An election focused on limiting government spending and debt cost a record-shattering $27 million for Johnson, according to OpenSecrets.org.

The final tally showed Johnson defeating Feingold with 52.5 percent of the vote.

Many saw the results as a repudiation of President Obama, who won the state by 14 points in 2008.

Feingold, however, vowed not to let election results stand in the way of Wisconsin’s progress.

“It’s on to the next battle,” Feingold said.

“It’s on to 2012. And, it is on to our next adventure. Forward!”

—Patrick Tricker

Walker wins big, Republicans take the Legislature Republicans won big in the 2010 midterm elections, gaining control of the governorship and the State Legislature.

After winning a contentious primary race against former congressman Mark Neumann, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker claimed victory over Democratic candidate Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett with 52 percent of the vote.

Walker has already requested that Gov. Jim Doyle halts state worker contract negotiations, and has promised to stop the proposed high-speed rail line between Milwaukee and Madison, resulting in Doyle stalling the project.

In the State Senate, Republicans were able to overtake the Democratic majority, and will have 19 seats to the Democrats’ 14 in the next Senate session.

Republicans will also take over the majority in the State Assembly with 60 seats.

The incoming Majority Leader in the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly will be brothers state Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, and state Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau. Scott has been a member of the Senate since 1994, while Jeff has been in the Assembly since 2000.

Both have served as Majority and Minority leader in the past.

—Scott Girard

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City to determine future of the Overture Center for the Arts

The battle over the future of the Overture Center for the Arts has continued to make headlines since Mayor Dave Cieslewicz first announced the city should take ownership of the building in June.

City officials have held meetings and done research in an attempt to find a solution that works best for eliminating the center’s remaining $28 million debt. In one of the many attempts, the city hired an independent consultant for the Overture Center to determine the best model for the center.

Several models outlining how the Overture

should be operated have been proposed. The first model proposed the city of Madison should purchase the Overture Center and have a private non-profit operate the center. Ald. Mark Clear, District 19, proposed an alternative model comprising a completely private operation of the center. The second alternative model would have the Madison Cultural Arts District as the owner and operator of the performing arts center.

The City Council is set to make a final decision Dec. 14.

—Maggie DeGroot

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SSFC denies WISPIRG funds, pushes for Campus Services Fund

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Between being brought before the Student Judiciary and seeing the proposed Campus Services Fund all but defeated, it’s safe to say the Student Services Finance Committee had a busy semester.

As the committee overseeing student group funding approval, the SSFC was brought before the SJ in November after denying eligibility to the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group.

Although the SSFC said WISPIRG was not in accordance with an eligibility bylaw, stating at least 75 percent of a group’s direct beneficiaries must be students, the SJ ruled the committee had unfairly interpreted this bylaw and must rehear WISPIRG’s funding appeal in the spring.

SSFC Chair Matt Manes was dealt an additional blow when the proposed CSF—which would guarantee funding for student services deemed “necessary” by the Associated Students of Madison Student Council—was blocked after going to ASM for approval, relegating the fund to a rules committee for further discussion.

—Alison Bauter

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Calumet Co. DA ‘sexts’ abuse victim, resigns in shame

Former Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz made headlines this fall for “sexting” Stephanie Van Groll, an abuse victim he represented.

“I would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you’d be THE woman! R U that good?” Kratz said in one of the text messages.

Kratz was also accused of abusing his position by bringing a woman on a date to an autopsy. A letter from Kratz’s autopsy date, whose name was withheld, said he requested she come to the autopsy “provided I would be his girlfriend and wear high heels and a skirt.”

Kratz resigned from his position two months ago after the allegations of sexual harassment surfaced against him.

Gov. Jim Doyle selected assistant Manitowoc County District Attorney Jerilyn Dietz to replace Kratz. The UW-Madison alumna will begin her term Dec. 19.

—Maggie DeGroot

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UW-Madison student arrested for mother’s alleged murder

UW-Madison student and Iraq War veteran Chase Boruch was arrested Nov. 29 for allegedly murdering his mother.

The criminal complaint states Boruch was with his mother, 63-year-old Sally Pergolski, in their truck when it drove into Lake Moraine June 6.

Boruch told police he was able to escape from the vehicle, then pull his mother from the sinking truck and dialed 911.

Lincoln County Deputy Jeff Jaeger arrived on the scene and found Pergolski face down on the shoreline. He was unable to BORUCH resuscitate her.

Jaeger said police issued a warrant for Boruch after discovering he had taken out over $800,000 in life insurance policies for his mother a month before the accident.

Jaeger also said the autopsy report stated Pergolski suffered a brain injury at least two hours before police were notified.

Boruch is currently being held on a $2 million bond at the Lincoln County jail on charges of First Degree Intentional Homicide.

Before enrolling at UW-Madison, Boruch attended UW-Marathon County in Wausau.

—Kayla Johnson

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Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery opens, unions protest privatization of food services

The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery opened Dec. 1 amidst protests from the Local 171 branch of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Student Labor Action Coalition.

Spanning the entire block from Campus Drive to Randall, the WID houses integrative research laboratories, public meetings

spaces, shops and restaurants.

While many laud the institute’s innovative, energy-efficient design and commitment to ideals of scientific collaboration, Local 171 and SLAC have been protesting the institute since the beginning of the school year.

The groups began protesting while the WID was still under construction in

September, fighting against the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s decision to privatize food service employment in the building.

During the WID’s grand opening ceremony, protestors interrupted speakers multiple times until the protestors were escorted and barred from the building by police.

—Alison Bauter

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MTV ‘College Life’ star faces $86,000 in party fines Former MTV “College Life” participant Kevin Tracy and his two roommates faced up to $86,000 in fines for a house party they threw Sept. 11.

Each defendant was cited with 21 counts of procuring alcohol to an underage person, one count of dispensing alco-

hol without a permit and 21 counts of an adult encouraging underage alcohol consumption, according to a police report.

Although Mitchell Klatt, one of the students facing the fines, said the roommates only had 75 to100 people at their that night, the police report states there

were approximately 200 people in attendance.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said he believes the police were making an example of the students and the charges will lowered.

—Kayla Johnson

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Madison police searching for possible suspect in home invasion case The Madison Police Department began a search for a possible home invasion suspect Wednesday.

The suspect, Paul Williams, 24, lives in Madison, according to the police incident report. “ M r .

Williams should WILLIAMS be considered armed and dangerous,” Madison Police Department spokesperson

Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

A Madison detective was looking for Williams in order to speak to him about several recent gun crimes and a home invasion, according to DeSpain.

The suspect is said to be around 6'5" and 240 pounds.

Madison police said anyone with information about Williams should call Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014.

Callers may remain anonymous and could be eligible for up to a $1,000 reward, police said.

UW says goodbye to Chinese athletes After a semester spent experiencing all Madison has to offer, the eight members of the 2010 Chinese Champions program are heading home to Beijing.

Part of a partnership with Beijing University of Sport, the debut program allowed the Olympic-caliber Chinese student-athletes the chance to live and study at UW-Madison.

At a farewell banquet Dec. 5, the student athletes expressed

their gratitude to the Chinese and US student communities.

Division of International Studies Dean Gilles Bousquet presented the champions with mortarboards and tassels to signify their accomplishments as the first group to complete the Champions program.

The students will be honored

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Developers proposed plans at a neighborhood meeting Wednesday that would turn the building that currently houses the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity into an apartment complex.

Fraternity house may be remodeled into student housing

By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal

Joe McCormick, future owner and developer of the building at 640 N. Henry St., and Randy Bruce, a partner in the Knothe & Bruce architecture firm, presented revised renovation plans for the current home of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at a neighborhood meeting Wednesday.

The plan would transform the building into an apartment complex.

The new apartment complex will still house the fraternity.

There will be priority for frat

members to lease rooms first, and half of the lower level would be designated specifically for fraternity functions.

However, there will also be apartments available for other students to lease in the complex, and the other half of the lower level would be for other residents to use.

The new design consists of a range of one- to five-bedroom apartments and can hold up to 41 tenants. According to McCormick, pricing will start at around $550 per bedroom.

In addition to a small parking lot and trash area, there will also be a rooftop deck implemented in the design.

There were concerns about it being used at inconsiderate hours.

It was agreed regulations should be implemented to avoid noise complaints and other disturbances.

“I can’t see many positive uses of that deck at 3:30 a.m.,” President of the State-Langdon Neighborhood Association Scott Resnick said. remodel page 9

Ethics Board dismisses two complaints related to Overture Center buyout plan

By Grace Gleason The Daily Cardinal

The Ethics Board heard three citizen complaints regarding alleged unethical activity surrounding the city of Madison’s potential

buyout of the Overture Center at their meeting Wednesday. All three Overture-related allegations came from Overture Center employee Davin Pickell.

The complaint against Mayor

Dave Cieslewicz stated he advocated to the Common Council a plan regarding possible private ownership of Overture in August. “[Cieslewicz] encouraged the community, the council and the city of Madison to support this proposal, which, if you examine the details of the program, is a legally binding agreement to exchange funds between parties,” Pickell said.

“He’s playing both sides of the negotiation table in this situation.”

Davin Pickell employee Overture Center

After much debate, the board members determined not to hear this case because it did not pertain to city ethics code, as Cieslewicz was not directly soliciting.

Pickell’s next allegation against 201 State Foundation employee Deirdre Garton stated she used city-owned computers, network access and letterhead to send a solicitous e-mail to the Overture Center supporters list. The board members decided they did not have jurisdiction in the complaint ethics page 9

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otherwise would not get overtime work.

Rusch said there is also a new procedure in place under the disciplinary process that help spread the overtime hours more evenly.

In the new contract, if a driver is suspended for disciplinary reasons—such as being late to work—that driver could continue to work for the day.

According to Rusch, in the old contract, the suspended driver would not have been allowed to work for the day and someone else would work the assigned shift on overtime pay.

The contract will be up for approval at the Common Council meeting Tuesday.

Plans were also made for the city engineering department to conduct a thorough review on the construction project to prevent negative impacts on the environment, especially because the building is a waterfront property.

Construction is expected to start in the summer or early fall and is expected to last for six months.

“A huge advantage is that half of the project is already up,” McCormick said, as the foundation is already in place.

“Enclosing the building will be pretty painless compared to a new construction.”

Overall, the attendee’s approval rating of the revised proposal was significantly higher than the original.

“This is a much better plan than we previously saw,” Resnick said.

proposed Open Government Act. This act states that if 100 students sign a petition for a change in ASM bylaws, one member of the petition will be granted the right to debate while the student council is debating the bylaw change.

ASM Representative Sarah Neibart was in favor of the proposal.

“I think that if students come together and think change is important, at least one should have speaking rights,” she said.

SSFC Representative Aliyya Terry said more than 100 students should be required to sign the petition to ensure students are serious about the proposal.

Both the Resolution for a Democratic Badger Partnership and the Open Government Act will be discussed at ASM’s meeting next Wednesday.

unions from page 3 er,” the letter stated.

Walker’s administration defended his statement.

“Governor-elect Walker campaigned for 18 months on controlling state spending, part of which is bringing public sector benefits in line with the private sector,” Walker’s spokesperson Cullen Werwie said in a statement. “He would simply like all options on the table as he works to fulfill the promise he made to taxpayers.”

However, outgoing Joint Finance Committee Co-Chair state Sen. Mark Miller, D-Madison, said in a statement that state workers have already stepped up to the plate.

“Scott Walker is picking an unneeded, unjustified and unproductive fight with workers,” Miller said. “I hope that the Governorelect will step back from his latest campaign to scapegoat state workers and instead focus on what we really need to accomplish, creating well-paying jobs for Wisconsin families and responsibly balancing our budget.”

ethics from page 6 because she, as an employee of 201 State, was not a city official.

In a related allegation, Pickell accused Overture Center CEO Tom Carto of violating code by allowing Garton to conduct this activity using city property.

Pickell was concerned that Carto had a conflict of interest in being employed by both the city and 201 State Foundation.

“I’m not quite sure how anyone could surmise that someone’s employment contract supersedes the ethics code,” Pickell said. “He’s playing both sides of the negotiation table in this situation.”

Board members said Carto’s alleged action was indeed subject to the ethical code and the decision was within their jurisdiction. Carto’s attorney, Rick Petri, requested a minimum of 10 days to prepare for the Ethics Board hearing, however, so the case will not be heard until a later date.

athletes from page 6 before the Board of Regents Thursday before touring the U.S. and then returning home.

While visiting China last November, Martin signed an agreement with Beijing University of Sport that would extend the program for three additional classes.

The next group of Chinese athletes is expected in 2011.

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LCD SOUNDSYSTEM This Is Happening

DEERHUNTER Halcyon Digest

TITUS ANDRONICUS The Monitor

BEACH HOUSE Teen Dream

While the face of rock music has inevitably taken many forms over its 60-some-year history, it’s never strayed too far from that of its audience. In the ’90s, Kurt Cobain was often indistinguishable from the head-banging, selfinflicting teens he crowd-surfed over.

In the ’80s, the only thing separating Bruce Springsteen’s jeans from those of his patriotic devotees was the amount of women that accessed them. But in 2010, the 40-year-old, gray-haired man behind LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy, looks nothing like the “drunk boys” he sings to.

Looks aside, after the great success of This Is Happening, it’s hard to envision a better voice for our generation than Murphy’s. At his simplest (“Drunk Girls”), Murphy provides a catchy, frat-house hit about partiers, for partiers. At his most dense (“You Wanted A Hit”), Murphy builds a modern anthem out of an electronic loop and argues he “doesn’t do hits” all the while. And while Murphy meanders through electro-dance, guitar-punk and other styles, the album maintains an organic consistency.

If the uplifting chorus of the album closer, “Home,” sounds familiar, it should: it’s practically a note-for-note reenactment of “Dance Yrself Clean’s” opening chorus. Yet, this chorus sounds just as killer the second time around. Likewise, this album sounds just as awesome the 30th time around.

––Jon Mitchell

Halcyon Digest is the album where everyone can stop talking about Bradford Cox and start talking about Deerhunter. The enigmatic songwriter Cox has spent more than six LP’s dipping his toes in everything from hard-hitting kraut-rock to ethereal, meandering pop, to mostly successful results. But on last year’s terrific Logos, Cox seemed to finally find his comfort zone by creating unhinged, jangly pop music using abstract, wispy textures for his solitary bedroom-pop outfit Atlas Sound. But on Halcyon Digest he has the force of a full band behind him, and the result is that much more visceral.

Deerhunter will tell you the album aims to detail the tragic way we edit our memories into digest versions that we can easily access and revisit later.

But they don’t use concise narratives or guiding lights to show you where your hippocampus falters. Instead, the most compelling moments are those where the listener gets lost, trapped inside a loop on “Desire Lines” or swept up by the aqueous percussion on “Helicopter.” You get caught up in the tide of “Revival,” the breeze on “Memory Boy” or the subterranean tremors of “Basement Scene,” and you have no choice but to go back and see what you missed. And you will, over and over again, because there’s no way to make a digest version of something as full as Halcyon Digest.

––Kyle Sparks

Do you hate your hometown? Do you like getting drunk with your buddies? Do you still despise that girl who broke your heart? Of course you do.

Hell, everyone does—these ideas have inspired rock songs for decades.

But what if, right before a band launches into yet another song about angst and loathing, we heard from Abraham Lincoln? And right after it, an excerpt from William Lloyd Garrrison’s abolitionist newspaper The Liberator?

On The Monitor, Titus Andronicus takes the basic ideas behind any rock ’n’ roll song––good times, rebellion, heartbreak, etc.––and turns them into a war.

Between soaring guitar riffs, earthshaking drum beats and vocals that reek of desperation and hopelessness, Titus Andronicus weave their theme of the Civil War throughout The Monitor. And what that war was to the Union and Confederacy––a battle for one’s very ideals and way of life––is what this war is to Titus Andronicus.

What they are fighting against is never entirely certain, but it’s an epic struggle nonetheless. On The Monitor, hating New Jersey and getting drunk are not just ideas, they are the band’s ammunition in this fight for their way of life. The result is an album that takes those classic themes of heartache and angst, and uses them to create a truly epic sound.

––Nico Savidge

Teen Dream, the third release from Beach House, is one of those rare albums that are immediately accessible. As its title suggests, its sound is dreamy and completely unique to the band. And by God, is it catchy.

But the genius of the album lies not in its inventive grasp of simplicity: Teen Dream is far more complex than that. Working behind the wonderfully elastic and layered intonations of sound that create a haze of precariousness and peculiarity only found in a dream, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally speak deeply and philosophically about the human condition. They examine the mutiny of the individual over the course of time, and how one changes, permanently, with each new experience.

Also like a dream, their lyrics evoke reflective images of past personas, perhaps never more poignantly than on “Used To Be.” Scally sings harmoniously above a rising crescendo of guitar pulses and drum beats, “Don’t forget the nights / When it all felt right / Are you not the same as you used to be.” And some advice for new listeners: do not get swept away by the dreaminess of Beach House’s easygoing sound, for you will miss the brilliance of the album as a piece of art, and how well their memory-inducing lyrics match their ethereal melodies.

––Cole Wenzel

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is essentially the “Mona Lisa” of Kanye West’s career: It will be forever remembered as an album of impeccable quality in terms of its production, instrumentation, featured artists and overall intimate feeling. West’s talent (and ego) shines through the release as he defies the norms of hip-hop, magnifying provocative beats and transforming his feelings into a strong and beautiful collection of songs.

What ultimately makes My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy so different and, more importantly, superior to West’s other albums is that it sounds and feels exactly like we've come to expect a West album should, but the precise production and impeccable contributions makes it unlike anything he has previously produced.

Although this is his fifth release, Kanye sounds as fresh on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as he did during the glory days of “Jesus Walks.” The sheer power of this album makes it one of the best of the year. Despite being a paradox, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has created new opportunities in the world of hiphop, and Kanye West is the one at the helm.

––Aimee Katz

BEST COAST Crazy For You

LOS CAMPESINOS! Romance is Boring

CARIBOU Swim

OWEN PALLETT Heartland

LOCAL NATIVES Gorilla Manor

BEST 15 SONGS OF 2010

1. “Fuck You!” – Cee Lo Green 2. “Monster” – Kanye West 3. “Dance Yrself Clean” – LCD Soundsystem

KANYE WEST My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fanasy

4. "Shutterbugg" – Big Boi fea 5. "O.N.E." – Yeasayer 6. "Our Deal" – Best Coast

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TALLEST MAN ON EARTH The Wild Hunt

JAVELIN No Más

THE BLACK KEYS Brothers

CEE LO GREEN The Lady Killer

JANELLE MONÁE The ArchAndroid

Tallest Man on Earth sounds too much like Bob Dylan. Kristian Matsson’s sweeping guitar and fingerpicking are as mechanically profound as the best folk players were, and his weathered voice strains itself right to the point of evoking, well, you know who.

And like other legendary touchstones, what makes The Wild Hunt the high-water mark for contemporary folk singers is how natural Matsson makes everything sound and how detached he presents himself. The diminutive Swede spins narratives from the fertile dirt and blossoming foliage until they fulfill a life of their own. They’re forces of nature much too grand for any one actor to wrangle, so Matsson lets them flow uninterrupted. All of 5' 7", Matsson would need a sizable boost to dunk a basketball, but with a guitar in his hands he scales buildings and bounds over mountains with ease.

The Wild Hunt is more cosmopolitan than Tallest Man On Earth’s previous offerings, showing depth of personality as much as description; but its vitality is still borne of nature’s life-giving elements. Matsson croaks and moans, he strums and taps, and he writes songs that crumble vibrant landmarks to rivers of tears. It’s entertaining, enlightening and intimate—it’s Dylan-esque. So in a way all of his critics are spot-on: On The Wild Hunt, Tallest Man on Earth sounds an awful lot like the best folk songwriter in the world.

––Kyle Sparks

It seems that anything David Byrne touches lately turns to gold, and it’s no accident that two artists on this list, Javelin and Kings Go Forth, came from his record label Luaka Bop. Javelin’s No Más builds on their debut Jamz n Jemz, and the two albums even share some of the same tracks.

It’s difficult to place Javelin in a specific genre, but they wouldn’t have it any other way. Sythpop tracks like “Vibrationz” and the Nintendo-inspired “Oh Centra” open the album with high energy. The instrumental “Intervales Theme” transitions the album toward samples of old-school hiphop and soul.

No Más borrows from Jamz n Jemz’ original songs, and, in doing so, it loses some of the raw, do-ityourself style Javelin was known for. “Mossy Woodland,” for example, was originally featured as an instrumental on Jamz n Jemz, but is poorly rehashed with lyrics on No Más. It’s one of the only times this album drags.

Nonetheless, No Más is a definite success. A dynamic group whose live shows are usually complete with stacks of colored boomboxes to amplify their sound, Javelin has finally matched the quality of their live shows in the studio with No Más.

––Margaret Raimann

The Black Keys picked a good time to burst onto the blues-rock scene.

After all, they entered the music world on a parallel trajectory with that other blues-rock duo from the shores of Lake Erie, The White Stripes (a band one bird-centric college newspaper deemed the musical act of the last decade). As such, the sub-genre has earned more attention than it ever had before since the release of the Black Keys’ debut album The Big Come Up. But even after a decade of success, The Black Keys’ latest effort, Brothers, showcases the band at new heights and proves they still deserve our utmost attention.

Brothers still features the same wailing electric guitar riffs and raspy blues vocals from vocalist Dan Auerbach that have become the Akron, Ohio duo’s signature sound. But while Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney apply the tried-and-true Black Keys formula, they hardly rest on their laurels.

Any formula that produces topflight songs like “Tighten Up” clearly doesn’t need much tinkering. And when they do add a slight twist to the process, such as the “Rock and Roll Part 2” style beat of “Howlin’ for You,” the result ends up being another quality track with some nostalgic zest. With Brothers, the Black Keys show us again what we already know: that they are pros and they are here to stay.

––Todd Stevens

Following the massive success of his collaboration with Danger Mouse, Gnarls Barkley, Cee Lo Green returned to the studio to record his third solo album, The Lady Killer. Not your typical R&B or soul album, The Lady Killer journeys through the past decades sampling many musical stylings.

The Lady Killer garnered much anticipation after the first single “Fuck You!” leaked months before the official release. “Fuck You!” brings the listener back to 1960s soul, a theme well represented in the official video.

It’s safe to say that most students have probably heard the song––or more likely, had it stuck in their head––a fair amount this semester.

The rest of the album, which is not nearly as pop based as “Fuck You!,” is equally well produced. The second track, “Bright Lights Bigger City” boasts heavy dance beats contrasting background string and horn accompaniments. Other notable tracks include “It’s Okay” and the aptly titled “Old Fashioned,” a slow love song juxtaposed with the rest of the album.

Though it differs greatly from his past solo releases, Green makes a strong return after his six-year stint working with Gnarles Barkley and other side projects. From the composition to the production, the vocals to the instrumental backings, The Lady Killer is an easy and surprisingly refreshing listen.

––Danny Marchewka

Few new artists are lucky enough to enter the music world to as much fanfare as Janelle Monáe. With her debut album The ArchAndroid, Monáe not only received mass critical praise, but praise from every corner of the industry. As odd as that may seem in regard to her sci-fi themed R&B album, The ArchAndroid’s success lies not only in Monáe’s obvious talent, but in her ability to appeal to virtually anybody.

The ArchAndroid encompasses a sprawling 17 tracks segueing from genre to genre, featuring a range of guest artists highlighted by Monáe’s mentor, Big Boi. And the beauty of the album is that none of it feels out of place––standout track “Dance or Die,” featuring collaborator Saul Williams, feels just as at home as Kevin Barnes’ contribution, “Make the Bus.” And it’s hard not to mention the pure hurricane that is “Tightrope,” complete with a verse from the aforementioned Big Boi. Monáe is able to weave in these guest artists just as nimbly as a seasoned veteran like Kanye West, all without subtracting from her solo efforts on the album, such as the big band influenced “Come Alive (The War of the Roses)” or the more popbased “Cold War.” Janelle Monáe doesn’t have crossover apeal––she is crossover appeal.

––Todd Stevens

TORO Y MOI Causers of This

KINGS GO FORTH The Outsiders Are Back

WOLF PARADE Expo 86

FOUR TET There is Love In You

SURFER BLOOD Astro Coast

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7. "A More Perfect Union" – Titus Andronicus 8. “Wait So Long” – Trampled By Turtles 9. “Bang Pop” – Free Energy

10. “Country Shit” – Big K.R.I.T. 11. "Helicopter" – Deerhunter 12. "Cinco" – The Ruby Suns

13. "Tighten Up" – The Black Keys 14. "Airplanes" – Local Natives 15. "Collector" – Here We Go Magic

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Student loans: Debt sucks

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Story by Yifei Liu At 23 years old, a UW-Madison senior faces $30,000 in college debt.

The student, who asked to remain unidentified, used Federal Direct Subsidized and Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans, formerly known as Federal Stafford Loans, to help pay tuition over the past five years.

“I am very happy that I was able to have the opportunity to be here at this university, and meet the people that I’ve met here and be able to do the work and be in the program and the classes,” she said. “It’s been a great experience.”

According to the data from the Office of Student Financial Aid, 5,550 college students graduated in the 1998-1999 academic year, 45.9 percent of them with debt. The rate rose to 48.1 percent of the 6,537 undergraduates in 2008-2009, the latest data available.

“I already have this huge amount of debt”

“I didn’t read any of the literature before I took out my loans, just because everyone’s going to college. They tell you, ‘everyone has to take out loans. You need this degree, so don’t worry about it’,” the student said.

“We try to discourage people from borrowing too much, and we ask them to consider living on less money.”

Susan Fischer director Office of Student Financial Aid

Her father took care of everything. He talked to the banks, he did the research, and he put a financial package in front of her, telling her it was her best option.

With her father’s help, the application process went smoothly. She filled out and signed FAFSA without carefully reading the form, and quickly forgot the details.

The application automatically transferred to the next academic year, so she did not see the necessity of figuring out the details.

She did not think about repaying her debts and instead spent all of the money she earned through a part-time job. She opened a credit card and racked up more debt. With graduation less than a year away, she has finally come to understand her debt; she must pay $200 per month for the federal loans in addition to her credit card debt.

“I am really scared, honestly. I didn’t realize, and I think a lot of kids didn’t really realize, that this is a huge deal,” she said. “I can’t believe that I already have this huge amount of debt attached to my name when I am going to be 23 years old.

And it does go to my credit report.”

Now she is trying to pay off the credit card debt as much as possible before she gets out of the school in May 2011. She is working 20 hours per week but is just able to cover basic living expenses.

“We try to discourage people from borrowing too much, and we ask them to consider living on less money,” Susan Fischer, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said.

The Department of Education reported a national cohort default rate of 7 percent in fiscal year 2008. In comparison, the cohort default rate at UW-Madison was 0.6 percent that year, according to the Office of Student Financial Aid. “Our students are doing a very good job of paying back [their loans],” Fischer said.

At $850 billion, the total student loan debt has exceeded the total credit card debt in the United States, according to USA Today.

“It’s debt you owe”

“I think the most important thing for students to understand is this is debt; it’s debt you owe and it’s not going to go away,” Michael Collins, faculty director of the Center for Financial Security at

UW-Madison, said.

“You can file bankruptcy and you can get rid of credit card debt, but you cannot get rid of student loan debt. It is with you,” he said.

“If there is a first-year student who has loans but hasn’t thought about this and done the math of how much it is going to add up by the time they graduate, they need to do that right away. You can’t just ignore it.”

“I think the most important thing for students to understand is this is debt; it’s debt you owe and it’s not going to go away.”

Michael Collins faculty director Center for Financial Security

The Office of Student Financial Aid offers assistance for students with limited financial literacy. The university’s plans to further inform students do not end there, however.

Heidi Freymiller, the president of the Working Class Student Union, transferred from Madison Area Technical College. She said when she applied for her loans at MATC, the college’s financial aid application workshop helped a lot.

In the workshop, Freymiller and other students each had access to a computer so they could do their financial aid application online. A financial aid counselor traveled from one computer to another to answer students’ application questions.

“Just having someone there who can answer questions as I was filling out the form, and knowing that I can take care of this form right here and now, is really helpful,” Freymiller said. “It’s not something that I have to come back to and worry about over the next three weeks, because there is someone here telling me how to do it, helping me with all the information I need.”

Fischer is trying to jumpstart a cam-

pus-wide strategic plan for financial literacy, incorporating various departments and offices, to help students understand and manage their debts as well.

“I think it will take at least five years to get that all together,” Fischer said.

“It’s one of my dreams.”

“I am just scared for this era to end”

“I have more debts than the average student who lives here, mostly because I have been in school so long; I’ve been moving forward slowly but surely,” Freymiller said.

Now at the age of 30, as the mother of an 8-year-old daughter, Freymiller has more responsibilities than traditional college students in their 20s. However, life experience makes her confident in her ability to manage her debt when she gets out of the school and get a highpaying job that will allow her to repay the loan.

For younger students, however, facing debt payments after graduation may be more daunting.

“Looking back, I am not sure I would be able to advocate for myself if I had been in this place at 22 years old. I feel like my ability to do that has a little bit to do with my own life experience,” Freymiller said.

In thinking about the future, the 23-yearold student is both ambivalent and cautiously optimistic.

“I have more debts than the average student who lives here, mostly because I have been in school so long.”

Heidi Freymiller president Working Class Student Union

“I am just scared for this era to end and to actually become an adult,” she said. “When one door closes, another one always opens.

That’s what my mom’s told me. I think I will work that out. I think I will.”

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‘Beer Professor’ retires after 40 years Botany professor Timothy Allen is known for unconventional teaching style, challenging students

By Alicia Goldfine The Daily Cardinal

Students visiting professor Timothy Allen’s office are greeted with the quote: “Pride and vanity are greater obstructions to learning than stupidity.” From cooking bananas foster for his students to calling Christianity a myth during lecture, Allen brings this attitude to each of his classes.

Allen, professor of the infamous “Botany 240: Plants and Man,” known to most students as the “beer course,” is retiring at the end of this semester.

After teaching at UW-Madison for 40 years, Allen said at 68 he’s ready to retire from the demanding life of a professor. He plans to begin a lecture circuit where he can speak to various businesses.

“I have an exciting new life waiting

for me,” Allen said. “So I’m enthusiastic to do that. It’ll be nice not to have the grinding pressure of being a professor.”

Originally from Great Britain, Allen attended the University College of North Wales. He taught in Africa before coming to the University of WisconsinMadison in 1970.

Allen, despite his self-proclaimed aggressive teaching style, is a favorite among many students.

Jonah Egermeier, one of Allen’s former students, said, “Somehow he makes a big lecture room feel like a 20-person classroom … It’s a phenomenal class, probably the best class that this campus has ever had.”

Allen said he is not only assertive but works to challenge his students’ worldview in an attempt to get past their pride and vanity.

“I mock them in the first lecture …

I have to get past that self-importance,” Allen said. “And so I joke. I challenge. I upset. I make angry. I get people on an emotional front one way or another.”

Through Allen’s unique teaching approach, he attempts to apply realworld skills to his course. He often cooks for his class and discusses the science and history behind what he is doing as he works.

Most noted by students is Allen’s project that gives them the option between baking bread, making a meal for the TAs or brewing beer. This assignment teaches students how to perform tasks their ancestors have been performing for years, according to Egermeier.

Allen said not only does he get applause after each Plants and Man

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lecture, but also students will repeatedly praise him on his interesting lectures, sometimes even years after they have graduated.

“I’m going to miss the absolutely,

totally brilliant undergraduates who I have worked with over the years,” Allen said. “And there’s always a new class in there and they’re always absolutely marvelous.”

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TOP TEN: MADISON’S MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board lists its most influential figures within Madison’s 77 square miles surrounded by reality (apologies to Scott Walker and Tammy Baldwin—you’ll have to wait for our state list).

1. Mayor Dave Cieslewicz makes Madison mainstream Let’s face it, Madison just wouldn’t be the same without our old pal Mayor Dave. Whether he’s busy biking with Lance Armstrong or adding a new post to his blog, Cieslewicz has found a way to connect with the liberal Madison crowd he serves. His reputation as a cool-headed leader stems from practical budget proposals and a strong commitment to neighborhood development.

But it’s not all leaf collectors and bike boxes for Mayor Dave. As of late, he’s trended more and more toward the political center. His heavy emphasis on capital investment is a tough sell in times of economic hardship, but Cieslewicz has proven to be a good salesman. Between plans for a $98 mil-

lion Edgewater hotel renovation and a completely revamped Central Library, Cieslewicz has shown he’s willing to spend the big bucks to make Madison more mainstream.

Yet it seems his biggest financial test still awaits him. With only a few weeks remaining to settle the Overture Center’s $29 million debt, the city is scrambling to find a solution before the performing arts center threatens to “go dark.” After several proposals ranging from city ownership to a multi-million dollar subsidy failed to find approval, Mayor Dave and the Common Council are under growing pressure to come up with a plan to save the Overture.

And although a Republican take-

over of the Governor’s office and Wisconsin legislature has threatened to put an end to high-speed rail in Madison, we were always proud to have such a staunch supporter of smart transit. Cieslewicz knows what investing in infrastructure means for our city and the entire state of Wisconsin.

We’ll see how much staying power Mayor Dave has as he battles for reelection next year. Cieslewicz announced earlier this week that he will seek a third term as Madison mayor and if all goes well, that might mean another opportunity to hold the title of Madison’s most influential.

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—Dan Tollefson

2. Chancellor moves UW forward Mayor Dave Cieslewicz might control all 77 square miles of Madison, but around campus one woman’s influence might be even greater.

As UW-Madison’s chancellor, Biddy Martin is at the head of one of Wisconsin’s biggest employers and the university that made Madison the city it is today. Between the students and employees of UW-Madison, Martin’s decisions likely influence more people than Cieslewicz—both within the city limits and beyond.

And while some of Martin’s power comes from determining university policy, her decisions about what to do with millions of dollars of university

funding is even more important. With revenue from tuition, donations and taxes coming into the university system each year, Martin has the power to decide where to allocate this money.

Over the next few years, Martin will need to increase her influence as she battles a Republican legislature that will likely look to decrease funding for the university. With Governorelect Scott Walker’s administration set to take over and Republicans controlling the legislature, Martin’s influence in Madison and beyond will be put to the test.

—Nico Savidge

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3. Alvarez turns Wisconsin into athletic powerhouse It hasn’t been a bad year to be the Director of Athletics at UW-Madison. Barry Alvarez oversees an Athletics Department that has experienced widespread success, as revenue increases, facility enhancement and stronger competition against other schools brought the UW Athletic Department to the national forefront.

A national championship appearance in men’s hockey and a return trip to the Rose Bowl not only boosts UW’s profile, but also adds value to the university’s pocketbook.

Alvarez delayed approval on a new women’s hockey facility in March due to a lack

of funding, but has since found the $27.9 million necessary to break ground in the spring of 2011.

This past week brought even more good news for Alvarez. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, UW’s athletic department ranked tenth in earnings at $93.9 million. That marks a 4.5 percent increase from a year ago and was announced the same day Alvarez was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame—forever immortalizing him as one of Madison’s most influential.

—Parker Gabriel

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5. Mark Pocan As District 78’s assemblyman and one of few Democrats securing office after the Republican takeover, Mark Pocan’s progressive voice gains the title of one of Madison’s most influential figures.

Representing downtown Madison and the capitol area, Pocan will remain one of the loudest democratic voices in the legislature. His new position as a minority in office will give him a dissenting voice among the Republican majority throughout his upcoming term.

Through his tenure, Pocan has been the Assembly Chair of the Joint Finance

Committee and been an active member of the Legislative Council. His strides in office have given him a leftist reputation for state budget and correctional reform, making him a strong advocate for the allocation of stimulus money toward criminal justice programs.

Pocan’s progressive work in office has successfully filled the shoes his predecessor, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin D-Wisconsin, left for him. And while Pocan will not hold the majority seat throughout his next term, the opportunity to speak out against the Republican legislature and stand up for Democratic policy lays ahead of him.

—Samantha Witthuhn

7. Noble Wray Think football games, Freakfest and Friday night bar fights.

Now pretend you’re Madison’s chief of police. To say the very least, Noble Wray does not have an easy job.

Wray has been the city’s head honcho at the Madison Police Department since 2004. During his six-year tenure as chief, a stunted economy has left the police department with little financial wiggle room. Faced with constant media scrutiny and an overextended police force,

Wray has had to fight hard to bring a sense of security to Madison.

Over the past decade, one of the easiest measurements of police success has been Freakfest. Since taking over as chief, Wray—along with some help from the city’s Planning Commission— has exceeded expectations in keeping Freakfest safe, with only 43 citations issued this Halloween.

Wray makes our list for stepping up to the challenge year after year. Madison would be a lot scarier without him.

—Dan Tollefson

9. Brenda Konkel If anyone truly cares about Madison, it’s Brenda Konkel. After serving four terms as alder for Madison’s 2nd district, Konkel lost her bid for re-election to Bridget Maniaci in 2009. Today she is currently the executive director of Madison’s Tenant Resource Center.

With spring elections on the horizon, it would be interesting to see Konkel take her criticisms of Cieslewicz to the next level and run for mayor.

While she was on the council, Konkel was known as Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’ big-

gest critic. Since then, Konkel’s continued this role through her blog, Forward Lookout.

Besides covering nearly ever city-sponsored meeting or event, Konkel also investigates Madison’s behind-the-scenes action through continual open records requests to various public officials.

In perhaps her most revealing story, Konkel took aim at Mayor Dave’s 2010 European bike trip. Six months and many city ethics discussions later, Konkel is still hard at work.

With spring elections on the horizon, it would be interesting to see Konkel take her criticisms of Cieslewicz to the next level and run for mayor. Either way, she deserves a spot on our list.

—Dan Tollefson

The Common Council can be a dangerous place to tread. Meetings covering topics like the Edgewater Hotel and the Overture Center can run all night, angry citizens constantly harp at alders and the inquiring eyes of council critic Brenda Konkel are always watching over.

But anybody who can effectively manage the council holds the legislative agenda of Madison as a priority, and that is just what Mark Clear has done as Council President. Thanks in no small part to his close ties to Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Clear has been able to direct the council without

serious opposition. This is most recently shown through the deliberations on the Overture Center proposal, where his 201 State ownership model seems to have the most traction. More so than any other alder, Clear can push Madison where he wants it to go.

—Todd Stevens

6. Ken Goldstein As a national leader for political research and one of UW-Madison’s most prominent political science professors, Ken Goldstein warrants recognition among the city of Madison’s most influential figures. Goldstein is a wellrespected and liked professor throughout the campus community, not only for his spicy one-liners but also for his extensive background in politics.

Goldstein’s career has gained political stride as a correspondent to ABC’s political unit and as a consultant for CBS and CNN—making his non-partisan opinion a valuable asset to UW-Madison. His work in

political advertising and campaign finance research make him a credible expert who UW-Madison is lucky to have. Goldstein’s prominence is highlighted through his participation on the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project team along with his Big Ten Network show “Office Hours.”

Despite his national recognition, Goldstein continues to connect with students through his strong teaching style, while capturing the interest of students by relaying his knowledge. Goldstein weaves in jokes and never fails to lay the smack down on students dozing off in class. But through it all, his accomplishments and continued research grant him the respect he deserves throughout campus and the political community as a whole.

—Samantha Witthuhn

8. John Nichols John Nichols has become both a household name for Madisonians and an esteemed political blogger on a national scale. As both an associate editor for The Capital Times and a beat writer for The Nation, Nichols has opined on topics ranging from WikiLeaks to Sarah Palin.

As the author of eight books and contributor to The New York Times and The Progressive, Nichols has come into the national spotlight as an authority on the future of print journalism and new media.

However, Nichols makes our list because of his loyalty to reporting on local issues Madisonians care about. Nichols constantly

reminds his readers of the history behind the stories making headlines and often uses his columns to act as the sole watchdog on issues many journalists avoid. Nichols’ commitment to taking a tempered liberal stance on both local and national issues has made him one of the most notable voices of reason in Madison and the national political sphere.

—Hannah Furfaro

10. Ann Althouse In Madison, Ann Althouse is known primarily as a constitutional law professor who has taught at the UW Law School for 26 years.

Outside Madison’s city limits, however, Althouse is largely known as the smugly inscrutable blogger with a platinum bob.

She founded Althouse, her eponymous and nationally popular blog, in 2004.

Today, the blog garners an average of 500,000 readers each month. On her blog, she opines on everything from consti-

tutional law to her repulsion for men who wear shorts. Last year she married a regular commenter on her blog after four years of Internet courtship.

Althouse is regularly featured on bloggingheads.tv, which pairs up bloggers for debate, and has written for The New York Times along with prominent law journals. Rush Limbaugh even blamed her for the “chickification” of society on his radio show.

Although she supported President George Bush and the War on Terror in 2004, she voted for President Barack Obama in 2008. She is still a moderate conservative in Madison, which is to say she is still a stranger in a strange land.

—Emma Roller

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Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

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By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

© Puzzles by Pappocom

Hot Sauce

By Oliver Buchino buchino@wisc.edu

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.

Eatin’ Cake

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Crustaches

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ATTACK OF THE MUNCHIES

ACROSS 1 Not healthy-looking 4 Violin string material, once 10 Punching tools 14 Pale brew 15 Not behind closed doors 16 Three-toed bird of the pampas 17 Bare-chested fans in freezing weather, e.g.

19 Military fare 20 Prominent 21 Worry compulsively 23 Game similar to bridge 25 Where Jesus turned water into wine 27 Capital of Zambia?

28 Take the cuffs off?

29 Turndown words 30 Jacket material 32 Oolong or darjeeling 33 “Tell the truth!”

35 Crescent-shaped snacks 40 They get the lead out 41 Swarm 43 Largest artery 46 Highlander’s cap 47 Collection of lions 49 Type of cube or chest

50 Wrench or screwdriver, e.g.

52 Covered with fescue 53 Alternative to mono 55 Euphoria 56 Cut with light 57 Computer components 62 Type of odds 63 Speak highly of 64 Rock with potential 65 Only average 66 Reason for excommunication 67 “What’s ___ to like?”

DOWN 1 Verb in a retrospective 2 Lofty peak 3 Hospital unit for newborns 4 ___ pin (fastening device) 5 Church altar areas 6 Have a proclivity 7 Bearded grassland dweller 8 Farthest or highest (Abbr.)

9 Cicely in “Roots” 10 Supplies with guns 11 Suffer from asthma 12 Apartment occupant 13 Mouthed off 18 Went on horseback, e.g.

22 Fabric dyeing technique 23 Prepared to play the cello 24 Statement of guilt or innocence 25 Camouflage 26 “Any port in ___” 29 Greets aloofly 31 Chinese river or dynasty 33 Paternity determiner 34 ___ Alamos, N.M. 36 Came face to face with 37 Talk from the soapbox 38 Carbon monoxide from an engine, e.g.

39 Covers a bald spot?

42 Turkish chieftain 43 Wide-body’s pair 44 6 x 9 in. book 45 Peanut-butter treat brand 47 Dear 48 Poison ivy result 51 Pizzazz 52 Lip cosmetic 54 Where you can bet on getting a good deal 55 Cheese enjoyed with Chardonnay 58 Extreme anger 59 Garage item 60 Quid ___ quo 61 “Ready, ___ go!”

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By Parker Gabriel the daily cardinal

This matchup may not have the classic Big Ten-Pac 10 feel a la the UW Rose Bowls of the 1990s, but make no mistake: These two teams are explosive.

No. 4 Wisconsin (7-1 Big Ten, 11-1 overall) and No. 3 TCU (8-0 MWC, 12-0) stack up very similarly, boasting high scoring offenses, veteran quarterbacks, dynamic running

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and athletic defenses. As if the show down was not compelling enough on paper, a chance to finish the season with a win in Pasadena and No. 2 in the final rankings makes this one of the best games of the bowl schedule.

“I’m very excited because we get to play the only other undefeated team in the country,” said head coach Bret Bielema, who is 2-2 in bowl games as a head coach.

The Horned Frogs put up impressive statistics on both sides of the ball en route to their second consecutive undefeated regular season under head coach Gary Patterson. TCU finished the regular season tied for fourth in the nation (with Wisconsin) in scoring offense at a whopping 43.3 points per game.

Senior Horned Frogs quarterback Andy Dalton is the driving force behind TCU’s potent offense. He threw for 26 touchdowns against just six interceptions this season, and added 481 rushing yards and five more scores on the ground. He garnered some fringe Heisman consideration and was a finalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, given to the top senior quarterback each year and awarded to Wisconsin signal caller Scott Tolzien this week.

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simply overwhelmed opponents this season, but after 12 games and a full conference schedule, UW senior linebacker Culmer St. Jean said even a balanced, complex offense should not take the Badgers by surprise.

“We played against Michigan, they’ve got a lot of speed,” St. Jean said. “Ohio State has a lot of speed, we’ve seen it all.”

As talented as Dalton is, Wisconsin will have to keep the Horned Frogs’ other rushing threats under control on New Year’s Day. TCU finished eighth in the nation in team rushing at 261.2 yards per game—13.9 yards per game more than UW. Three Horned Frogs running backs finished the regular season with 500 yards or more this season. Impressive as that is, UW currently has three backs over eight hundred yards and all three have at least 12 touchdowns.

If junior running back John Clay—who should be fully healthy

by Jan. 1—runs for 48 yards and sophomore Montee Ball manages 119, the Badgers could finish with three 1000-yard rushers. Only last year’s Nevada squad has accomplished the feat in NCAA history.

That will not come easy, though, as the Horned Frogs boast the nation’s top scoring defense (11.3 points per game allowed) and thirdranked rushing defense (89.2 yards per game).

“We’ve faced great guys up front,” UW senior left guard John

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11-1 (7-1 Big Ten) Total Offense: Scoring offense: Rush yds/game: Pass yds/game: Leading rusher: Rushing Touchdowns: Points allowed per game: Yards allowed per game:

Moffitt said. “To us it’s nothing new and nothing unfamiliar but it’ll definitely be a good challenge. We need a good challenge.”

There is lack of talent in the Badger backfield, but Wisconsin’s mammoth offensive line made Big Ten defensive fronts look helpless for much of the conference slate.

It showed in the postseason awards, as senior left tackle Gabe Carimi earned the Big Ten’s award for best offensive lineman.

Wisconsin had six offensive linemen earn some form of all-conference award despite the fact that there are only five positions.

“I would want to argue second team or first team for all of them,” said Moffitt, who earned consensus firstteam honors. “I just have so much confidence in all of them and the way that they play.”

Tolzien’s performance might get lost amidst the gaudy rushing statistics, but he quietly put together one of the most effective seasons in program history. Tolzien amassed 2,300 yards and 16 touchdowns despite attempting just two second-half passes in Wisconsin’s last two games.

The Rolling Meadows, Ill. native has compiled a 21-4 record in his two years of starting and enters his final collegiate game ranked fourth in the nation in passing efficiency (169.8). Bielema does not think it will be the last football his quarterback plays.

“The thing that’s going to be nice for Scott [is], after this game, he’s going to have an opportunity to go on to the NFL, by everything that everybody is telling me,” Bielema said.

For a group of seniors that came to Madison as a relatively unheralded class of recruits, a Rose Bowl title would be a capstone befitting of the leadership, work ethic and character put on display this year.

Senior strong safety Jay Valai said he has an ending in mind, but would not give it away.

“Tune in January first,” he said.

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TCU Horned Frogs

12-0 (8-0 Mountain West Conference) 450.2 yds/g 43.3 pts/g 247.3 yds/g 209.5 yds/g James White- 1,029 yds Montee Ball- 17 TDs 20.5 323.5

(17th NCAA) (T4th NCAA) (12th NCAA) (79th NCAA)

(29th NCAA) (22nd NCAA)

Total Offense: Scoring offense: Rush yds/game: Pass yds/game: Leading rusher: Rushing Touchdowns: Points allowed per game: Yards allowed per game:

491.5 yds/g 43.3 pts/g 261.2 yds/g 235.7 yds/g Ed Wesley- 1,065 yds Ed Wesley- 11 TDs 11.4 215. 4

(9th NCAA) (T4th NCAA) (8th NCAA) (58th NCAA)

(1st NCAA) (1st NCAA)

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Football

2010 Players of the Year The Badgers who make it all happen Offense:

Scott Tolzien

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Honorable Mention:

Offensive Line After every game he played in this season, John Clay, a man usually of few words, took very little credit for most of his performances. Instead, he chose to defer the praise to his offensive line for their efforts. And as the wins piled up for this Wisconsin squad, It became more and more apparent that this praise was not just kind rhetoric.

Anchored by NFL prospect, senior lineman Gabe Carimi, this season’s offensive line regularly opened up holes just about large enough for a freight train to plow through. (Or in this case, Clay). Combined with Clay’s 952 yards for 13 touchdowns, sophomore Montee Ball piled up 881 yards of 17 touchdowns, while freshman James White led the team with 1,061 yards on the ground and 14 scores of his own. The offensive line represents an interesting group statistically wherein their performance is based largely on the success of the players they protect. In addition to the phenomenal numbers compiled by the Wisconsin triple-threat run game, the O-line only allowed a dozen sacks the entire season, allowing Tolzien the time to find the open receiver and rack up his own impressive figures.

No Badger at a defensive position has achieved such celebrity status in recent memory as junior defensive end J.J. Watt. And no one has deserved the credit so much either.

While Watt is one tackle behind season leader Blake Sorensen at 59, no other player comes close to matching Watt’s tackles for a loss count.

The Pewaukee, Wis., native’s 21— including seven sacks—are the third most in the nation. Watt’s legend has gown almost as large as his wingspan and that reputation has seemed to rattle more than a few quarterback’s this season.

Although Watt might be most deserving of this recognition for the constant chaos he creates for opposing offenses every down, two individual efforts in particular stand out this season. A late-game sack against then No. 1 Ohio State helped the Badgers seal a victory over the Buckeyes in October, while a blocked extra point the next week against Iowa made all the difference in that eventual one-point contest.

Watt must now contemplate leaving the team early for the NFL draft next season, a decision every Big Ten quarterback would certainly be in favor of.

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The Wisconsin Badgers have always been a run-heavy football team, and it can be tough for a quarterback in Madison to make his mark. But, the success of this 2010 Wisconsin team has been due in large part to senior Scott Tolzien for his performance on the field and his leadership every day. While Tolzien’s pass attempt total of 245 falls over 420 short of the top mark in the nation this year, no one was more efficient.

Tolzien’s completion percentage of 74.2 percent beat out Boise State slinger Kellen Moore by more than three percentage points. Tolzien is also on pace to demolish the old UW record, 67.8 percent, set by Darrell Bevell in 1993.

And while 2,300 yards and 16 touchdowns through the air are nothing to scoff at, Tolzien’s abilities on the field as both a sharp mind and an effective passer was most important in setting up that dominant Badger rushing game. Tolzien, a player who threw just one pass in the entire second half against Michigan, recently received the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award as the top senior quarterback in the country. This Badger proved in 2010 that the best quarterback isn’t always the one with the biggest stat sheet, but the one who wins games.

Defense:

J.J. Watt

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Men’s Basketball

Leuer’s 20 points power Badgers to 60-41 victory over in-state rival Panthers

By Sam Sussman the daily cardinal

The Badgers’ men’s basketball team soundly defeated in-state foe, the UW-Milwaukee Panthers, by a score of 61-40 Wednesday night.

Keeping with the tradition of the young season, the Badgers got off to a slow start. So far this season,

the difference between Wisconsin’s shooting percentages from first half to second has been striking.

In the first half, the Badgers have shot a lackluster 40 percent from the field and 27.2 percent from downtown in comparison to a scintillating 50.2 percent from the field and 45.7 per-

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cent from three-point range in the second half. The Panthers ‘defense kept UW at bay early, as the Badgers scored only 24 points in the first 17 minutes of action.

Against Milwaukee’s Horizon League-worst defense, Wisconsin was not able to excel in areas that

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Freshman guard Josh Gasser chipped in eight points against UW-Milwaukee Wednesday night, while senior forward Jon Leuer led the team with 20 points. Wisconsin led the Panthers 34-15 at the half.

are usually its bread and butter.

The Badgers lead not only the Big Ten, but the nation as well, in assist-to-turnover ratio at a mark of 1.8 assists for every turnover and in turnovers per game with 8.8. For a team that prides itself on their mistake-free persona, 13 turnovers and only 11 assists Wednesday night does not bode well.

Even with all the offensive difficulties the Badgers encountered, they managed to solidify a victory thanks to a 20-6 run, over the six minutes from the first half ’s late moments to the beginning of the second half.

During this run, senior forward Jon Leuer, the reigning Big Ten Player of the Week, led the way for the Badgers. On the night, he scored a game-high 20 points and grabbed seven rebounds, while junior guard Jordan Taylor added 14 points and six assists.

“With Leuer being as long as he is, he catches it in the post and just turns and shoots,” UW-Milwaukee head coach Rob Jeter said. “I am not sure what else we can do, maybe tickle him or something.”

As poorly as the Badgers played with the ball in their hands, they made up for it with a relentless defensive effort.

“We had certain things we were trying to do to take away their tendencies, just like they were doing to us,” Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan said.

Going into the game, senior

forward Anthony Hill led the Panthers with 14.9 points and 7.6 rebounds per game and was fresh off the performance of his life against Youngstown State, in which he totaled 30 points and 12 boards. The Badgers werefixed on Hill the entire game, suffocating him to a frustrating 0-8 shooting night. “Hill’s going to hurt a lot of people and he already has, he just had a rough night,” Ryan said.

This game marked the 12th consecutive year that the Badgers will play all three Division I Wisconsin schools in the same season. Next up on the schedule is long-time rival Marquette.

On Saturday, the Badgers will travel east to challenge the Golden Eagles at the Bradley Center in the battle for Dairy State bragging rights.

While this isn’t last year’s Marquette squad, it remains one of the top teams in the nation; both senior forward Jimmy Butler and junior guard Darius Johnson-Odom average over 14 points per game.

“It’s fun for us to see the other in-state teams. It is a big rivalry between us and there is a little extra incentive,” Leuer said.

The Badgers will need all the incentive they can get their hands on and a better performance offensively, as the 141-11 record that the Badgers covet at the cozy Kohl Center will not do them much good in downtown Milwaukee.

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By Ryan Evans the daily cardinal

With a roster full of young, inexperienced players its not much of a surprise the No.16 Wisconsin men’s hockey teams season has gone the way it has.

The Badgers have led their fans on a roller coaster like ride this year and as they head into the break after this weekend’s series with new WCHA rival Bemidji State, there is still a lot to improve on. However, with the youth on the roster growing with each passing series, this team is beginning to head in the right direction.

Head coach Mike Eaves and senior goaltender Scott Gudmandson believe that the upcoming two-week break will really benefit this young team.

“We have to find consistency in our play, but that is typical of a young team,” Eaves said. “In my mind we’re not quite there yet, but after the break they will have that first semester behind them and they will come back older, wiser, and better hockey players.”

“It is nice to have the little

part of the season where we can focus on hockey and not have to worry about too much else,” Gudmandson said.

The biggest question mark for the Badgers coming into this season was how they would fare with a very inexperienced team. Those younger players have had to learn on the fly this season, but some of the team’s veterans really like what they have seen from them.

added. “There may have been a couple of times when they looked like freshmen, but overall they have looked older than they are and are playing really well.”

One of the freshmen, forward Mark Zengerle, assessed where he is as he approaches the halfway point of his first season as a Badger.

“We have played better than people expected, and I feel like I have improved over the course of the season,” Zengerle said. “I’m listening to the coaches, and have been practicing shooting more, but I need to be able to carry that over to the games.”

While their record isn’t quite where they would like it to be at this point in the season, veteran players like Jordy Murray seem to like the direction that this team is heading.

“If you look at our record we’re doing alright, not superb, but for a young team that came in with not that high expectations, we’re playing pretty good hockey,” Murray said.

“We know we can improve on certain things though, like creating more offense when we are playing 5-on-5.

We want to end on a good note here this weekend and carry that into the second half of the season.”

“After break they will have that first semester behind them and they will come back older, wiser and better hockey players.”

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“The younger guys are really starting to find their niche on this team,” junior forward Jordy Murray said. “They’re trying to grow, not trying to do too much, and really starting to play within our system.”

“They have done a great job, they came in and played well right from the get go,” Gudmandson

It needs to fucking stop.

Before I launch into this rant, I first want to say I know that for many of the people who made these songs, their music is very important to them. And I’m probably going to come off as some sort of haterjackass heckling from the crowd with no respect for what they do.

I have to admit that is partially true, in that I am going to make fun of some songs and be kind of a dick about it. But I respect any musician and fan who is puts in the amount of work those artists did, I just want to see them do it for something other than football. Moving on.

Obviously, the most successful (and best) example of one of these songs is Zooniversity’s “Teach Me How to Bucky,” which worked because it was funny, original and made fun of a truly mindless top-40 song. Although hearing it approximately 7,000 times since the Minnesota game has taken its toll on the song, it set the gold standard of acceptability in this genre. (And those

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While students take a break from their studies for the holidays, UW Men’s Basketball doesn’t skip a beat. Already facing a fairly weak non-conference slate, the Badgers added losses to UNLV and Notre Dame, leaving Saturday’s game against Marquette as the last hope for a marquee non-conference victory.

Regardless of Saturday’s outcome, Wisconsin will have to rely upon its conference play if it hopes to get to March with a resume good enough for a 13th consecutive tournament appearance.

Despite dates with UW-Green Bay and Coppin State still on the slate, the Big Ten season is creeping closer by the day.

Beginning with a home date against Minnesota on Dec. 28, Wisconsin will have five conference games under their belt before classes resume, with four of those featuring teams projected in the top half of the conference.

After the conference opener

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While the strength of the Big Ten in all honesty makes a conference title perhaps a bit of a reach, the formula for another NCAA tournament appearance is simple: Take care of business at home. With all four conference title contenders (Purdue, Ohio State, Michigan State and Illinois) set to visit the Kohl Center, UW has an opportunity to essentially escape the bubble simply by maintaining the high level of play at home that has given Wisconsin a 68-6 conference home record during Bo Ryan’s tenure, including a record of 15-5 against ranked Big Ten teams over that span.

While victories at East Lansing, West Lafayette, Champaign, or Columbus would really be a bonus, the Badgers have to take care of business on the road when favored.

Match-ups against Iowa, Penn State, Northwestern, Michigan, and Indiana provide UW with their best opportunities to notch a few road wins.

With nearly a third of the Big Ten slate set to be complete before classes resume, we should have a much better picture of what 2011 will bring by the time the spring semester rolls around.

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against the Gophers, UW faces a date in Champaign with an Illini team thought by many to be the most talented in the conference.

After that, Wisconsin will have Michigan at the Kohl Center before heading to the Breslin Center for a bellwether game against the perennial conference favorite Spartans. The winter break slate then closes out with the final match-up against Illinois.

Though many are disappointed at the winter break timing of this game, the Jan. 15 date will hopefully mean enough students will be back to get the Kohl Center rocking. After Illinois ended the Badgers’ 51-game home winning streak against unranked conference foes in their last Kohl Center appearance, this is a game Wisconsin has certainly had circled for some time.

These final games, especially the three against Illinois and MSU, will play a large part in the direction this season heads, with nothing thus far in the non-conference slate hinting toward disaster nor toward the type of magical season Badger football has had in 2010.

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sequins, I mean come on.)

Sadly, there are plenty of songs that don’t reach that level, and “We’re Smelling Roses” is one of them.

Another was Bakerseis’ “Gatorade Shower,” a gameday song that seems to have been written so as to mention as many traditions and clichés as possible. I counted about 15 over the course of the song, including “it ain’t over until after fifth quarter,” “win or lose we hit the booze” and some that don’t have anything to do with Camp Randall Stadium like “we get down to the Nitty Gritty power hour.”

This trend of horrible music isn’t limited to Madison, either. Our friends at the University of Oregon have unleashed some of the worst atrocities in just the past year.

Most recently there was the “Teach Me How to Duckie” video, whose YouTube description tells Wisconsin “go DUCK YOURSELF!!!!!” (Get it? Like “fuck” but they said “duck”!

What a riot.)

Last year’s “I Love My Ducks (I Smell Roses)” by the bro-tastic group Supwitchugirl was by far the worst.

Included in its priceless one-liners: “Holy moly, is that my bro [former quarterback and alleged laptop thief Jeremiah] Masoli / Cookin’ up the offense like he’s cookin’ ravioli,” “He can run, he can pass / He’s sicker than e coli” and “Jeremiah ain’t no bullfrog / More explosive than the Gaza Strip.”

Do these songs and ones like them really add to the fan experience of watching your team? Of course not, and they have little musical value as well. It seems like some of these artists are just hoping the success of their team will propel them to viral fame as people across campus spread the videos.

A lot of hard work went in to making many of these songs and their subsequent music videos, but the result is something that makes sports fans and music lovers alike cringe.

So I make this plea to Badgers everywhere: If you love your team, show up to the games and cheer, be a fan. Don’t be a musician too. And to musicians – your talents have a place elsewhere; don’t waste them on meaningless sports songs. Let’s all come together to make these awful songs a thing of the past, starting here at UW. We can hope for a world without “I Love My Ducks,” but as noted football song hater Ghandi said, we have to be the change we wish to see in the world. It all starts with us, Badgers.

Fell the need to correct Nico’s misinterpretation of Ghandi? Let him know at savidgewilki@dailycardinal.com

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Badger freshman forward Mark Zengerle

iven the Wisconsin football team’s incredibly successful season this year, it comes as no surprise that a number of Wisconsin fans want to express their support in song.

The most recent of these debuted this week with “We’re Smelling Roses,” and it’s clear to see why people make these songs. After all, writing a rap about your football team seems like a great idea on the surface. You get to show how much you love the Badgers, you can come up with some funny one-liners to make your fellow students laugh, you can get Professor Michael Leckrone in a sequin jacket, etc.

In theory, these are all great things (especially Leckrone in that bit of sparkly genius).

But here’s the thing with making songs and music videos dedicated to the Badgers, or any team for that matter: It needs to fucking stop.

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