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State supreme court votes to close some meetings to public By Adam Wollner The Daily Cardinal

The Wisconsin state Supreme Court voted Monday to close its discussions over administrative and procedural matters to the public, reversing an open meeting policy that had been in place for over a decade. In a sharply divided decision, court’s the three liberalleaning justices voted to keep administrative discussions open, while the four conservative-leaning justices voted to

end the practice. Under the new policy, a majority vote from the court is now required on to open conferences on most administrative matters to the public, except for meetings to hear proposals on changing court policies. The state’s highest court became the first in the nation to open its administrative conferences to the public in 1999, when former Justice William

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$2.5 million renovations open at College, Wendt libraries By Carolyn Gasiorowski The Daily Cardinal

College Library and Wendt Commons Library, debuted $2.5 million in renovations designed to centralize technological resources for students Tuesday. The Wisconsin Collaboratory for Enhanced Learning Centers are made up of tables equipped with laptops and television monitors that allow students to display documents. The centers also have tutors

and teaching assistants available to help students, as well as software to provide immediate feedback on homework. Wendt, an engineering library, currently offers tutors and TAs for engineering courses, while College Library offers pre-calculus and calculus assistance. “The things that we are doing focus on individualized learning. Our hope was that by bringing formal instruction into a

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The city council passed the nuisance party ordinance Tuesday, which attempts to curb the number of house parties in Madison and will be in effect by the Mifflin Street Block Party.

City ordinance targets outof-control house parties By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal

After four revisions and an ongoing debate since July, the city unanimously approved an ordinance to help reduce the number of out-of-control house parties Monday. Under the ordinance, a party is classified as a nuisance if it violates one of 17 criteria including noise complaints, underage drinking or fire-code

regulations. Only Madison Police Department captains can decide whether or not an event is a nuisance party. If classified as a nuisance party, tenants may be fined in addition to attending mandatory meetings with their landlord and police. After the third violation, residents may receive citations or fines. Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the combination of alco-

Understanding the Ordinance:

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Students study in the newly renovated top floor of Wendt Commons Library Tuesday.

A party is classified as a nuisance party if it violates one of 17 criteria including excessive noise or underage drinking. Only a Madison Police Department police captain can determine whether or not an event is a “nuisance party.” Tenants who violate this ordinance will be fined and are required to meet with their landlord and police. Common Council will review the ordinance every six months using information regarding the number of house parties broken up, the average and maximum fines given, the number of citations and the number of repeat offenders. After two years, the city council will vote whether or not to keep the ordinance in place.

hol, breaking one of the criteria and essentially any event that goes “above and beyond your standard house party” would lead to a nuisance party classification. City Alcohol Policy Coordinator Mark Woulf said the ordinance gives the police department another tool in keeping house parties under control. “If the party-goers in that situation do not disperse when a nuisance party is determined, then they can start citing people,” Woulf said. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said significant improvements made to the ordinance since its first draft include taking away eviction as a possible punishment and removing any additional fines a tenant would owe after violating the ordinance. “My comfort level has increased substantially from the original proposal,” Verveer said. “This ordinance mandates communication and education and face-to-face meetings.” Included in the ordinance are regular surveys of how well police are implementing the ordinance and will include information about house parties broken up by police, the number of nuisance party citations and the amount of fines

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Ariel ventures down to the den of men that is the SERF weight room Ariel Shapiro little shapiro

fter exploring the dainty side of life—a meal on proper dinner etiquette—in my last column, this week is all about the wacky and wonderful world of testosterone. That’s right kids: I got juiced at the SERF. Veni, vidi, vici. Or, you know, something like that. First, let me tell you about my guns, or rather, their lack of existence. If you were a kid in the ’90s, you saw that episode of “SpongeBob Squarepants” where our yellow friend tries to be buff but can really only lift, like, two stuffed animals. Now subtract one of those stuffed animals, and you have some idea of where my upper-body

strength stands. SpongeBob got himself some fake, inflatable arms. I, dear readers, was not so fortunate. When I said I would go on an epic quest to Mordor, otherwise known as the weight room at the SERF, a friend suggested I go dressed as a dude. As there are few things in this world I love more than gender-bending wacky romantic comedies, I considered it. H owe ve r, any intimid a t i n g qualities I possess as a 5-foot-3-

inch female would immediately be invalidated if I transformed into a guy who looks more like Frodo than your average weight lifting bro. So I went forth on my journey, lady workout gear and all. That said, I did choose to wear my “Star Wars” T-shirt because I know how much guys just love “Star Wars!” I was totally going to blend, right? Wrong. I might as well have worn a shirt that said “wimpy nerd” in big, bold letters. These dudes were either wearing sports logos, Wisconsin shirts or more sports logos. Whomp. I also had a problem blending in because I was not a guy willing to explore other guys’ bod-

ies. You see, I did not realize that showing up at the weight room at 5 p.m. on a Wednesday would be like going stag to the seventh grade “Under the Sea” dance. You just stand by the wall alone while the cool kids g r o p e e a c h Graphic by dylan Moriarty other

and drink strange concoctions out of Nalgenes. So while these bros were feeling each others’ biceps or making others feel their sweet biceps, I stood there struggling with my baby bell weights while slowly coming to the realization that the puny lifting devices are just an excuse for people to stare at themselves in the mirror. There was the girl who casually held a 10-pound weight at her side while simultaneously ogling herself in the mirror to make sure her butt was still flat. There was also the breed of bros who would casually raise their arms straight over their heads to get a glimpse of their feh Adonis-esque physiques. There was a lot of posing, a lot of pursing of the lips and, dare I say it, quite a bit of smizing. Tyra would have definitely approved. Once one of the machines was free, I tepidly approached it, like the weakest hyena to the pickedover antelope carcass. But so did a massive, sweat-drenched brobeast. He played the gentleman and let me have it first but gave me a look that said, “Seriously?” After a few reps of a mighty impressive 30 pounds, I scampered out of not just the weight room but the SERF as a whole, promising myself I would never return to the grunt-filled land of testosterone. Next time I will stick with the janky elliptical at my apartment complex. At least it will not think I am a sissy.

Observing the world with rose-colored glasses Emily Lindeman lin-da-mania

was told recently that my past columns have been “complain-y,” and while it sucks to hear that you sound like a sore loser, I am going to take the criticism and run with it. This time around, I am going for a spin on the happy side and we will see what happens. I have noticed that it actually is the small things in life that make me the happiest (cliché, I know, but it is only the first of this column). Recently, a random stranger on the street shot me a smile, and another day I was given a free cup of coffee at Starbucks because their machines were down. It is happenstances like these—the stuff I sometimes pass off as run of the mill—that make me happy. You see, while the things you work hard and plan for definitely come with a sense of reward once they are achieved, that happiness quickly passes once you realize you have to get right back to work and accomplish your next goal. Perhaps this is the plight of an over-

achiever, but I take more enjoyment out of seeing random, unsolicited loveliness. For instance, while crossing Linden at Babcock the other day, I witnessed two people run toward each other and meet in the middle of the street. Was this love at first sight I was witnessing, or maybe some kind of unorthodox attack? Before I could analyze further, the pair engaged in some sort of awkward but awesomely complicated hand-foot shake (I would try to explain it, but there is no way I can do it justice).

l often catch myself geeking out with a huge smile on my face whenever I see people doing something out of the ordinary. Seconds later, the two parted ways, and as haphazardly as it had started, the encounter ended. And while I am sure the moment was great for these two people’s friendship, their over-the-top

handshake, unbeknownst to them, had just made my day. Little events like that one mean a lot to me. I often catch myself geeking out with a huge smile on my face whenever I see people do something out of the ordinary. This sometimes leads to people looking at me with an expression that implies, “What the hell is her problem? Did anyone invite her to get in on this moment? No.” Still, I do not mind if people think I am crazy: The point is that it does not take much to make me smile, and if others conduct genuine moments of fun or goodness, I am going to bum a few giggles off of it. This frequently happens during my dutiful browsing of the UW-Memes page when I catch a meme that is actually funny or when I hear a rap lyric that is surprisingly hilarious (ex. “I be going ham / Shorty upgrade from bologna” from Roscoe Dash’s “No Hands”). I get a sort of odd, fuzzy feeling (Roscoe would probably be disgusted) indicative of minor moments of glee. The truth is, as routine as the world may seem on a day-today basis, people—rappers and otherwise—are still full of culture, wit, charm, cleverness and brilliance. Somehow, though,

this always surprises me. It is like when you find a new band, listen to just one song on their album but immediately know it going to be your favorite: You are so excited and happy to be part of the world. This happened to me when I was 10. While innocently jamming to the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” I suddenly began to cry. It was brilliant! Listening to it now while I am writing, I cannot quite remember why, but the truth remains that I am emotionally moved rather easily and by anything, and I think everyone else should be as well. At the most basic level, this is about appreciating your day being brightened by small acts, things that are hard to recognize when it all gets muddled up with the everyday chaos. I try to stop and smell the roses occasionally (here is cliché number two) just to ensure I am not missing too much. Sure enough, every once in a while, I catch something truly great. Are you a pessimist who thinks Emily needs to remember people are sucky, smelly fools? Well, you may want to talk out your problems with someone, but until then e-mail Emily at elindeman@wisc.edu and try to destroy her peachy view of humanity.

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Dane County Board candidate outlines goals By Abby Becker

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UW-Madison student and Dane County Board candidate Leland Pan announced his platform Monday designed to strengthen the student voice in local government. His goals include improving communication between the county and campus by updating the county’s website to make it more accessible to students. He also plans to help students participate in local government by organizing campaigns and protests. Pan, who announced his candidacy for the Dane County Board of Supervisors in November, is running against UW-Madison student John Magnino.

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Police arrested a Madison man late Saturday night for allegedly punching a volunteer safety patrol officer in the face. Joe Oakland, the Madison chapter leader of the Guardian Angels, a volunteer organization dedicated to promoting safe communities, said he and another volunteer were patrolling State Street when they saw Ralph K. Cohen, 33, fighting with two other men on the 500 block of State Street. After moving in to break up the fight, the Guardian Angels moved Cohen to the other side of the street, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain. Cohen then shouted obscenities and derogatory statements at the Guardian Angel volunteers, according to police. Oakland said Cohen struck his fellow patrol officer twice in the face. DeSpain said the two Guardian Angels held the suspect on the ground until the MPD arrived. Cohen told the arresting officer “he was drunk and didn’t know what happened, but that he ended up with a bunch of Guardian Angels on top of him,” according to police.

library from page 1 place where students always hang out anyway that we can make a well-rounded experience for the learners,” said Suzanne Smith, WiscCEL coordinator. “It will all be right there in one place.” The vice chancellor for administration’s office footed the cost of building the new learning centers. The Madison Initiative for Undergraduates, the College of Engineering, the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Student Information Technology Initiative funded the operating costs for the two centers. Students studying at Wendt Tuesday gave the new center an overall positive review. “I really enjoy it. It’s really cool the way they have different types of media,” said Jeffrey Seaton, a freshman engineering major. “I think that the sight is a useful area to go to if you want to get work done and actually discuss things.”

ordinance from page 1 issued. If, in two years, the council decides the ordinance is not fulfilling its objective to reduce the amount of nuisance house parties, council members “have the power not to bring it back” and can vote to discontinue it, according to Resnick. The nuisance party ordinance will go into effect in March, meaning it will be active during the Mifflin Street Block Party. “I’m sure [the ordinance] will be used by the cops not only to try to convince residents to scale down parties, but to encourage landlords to take an active role,” Verveer said.

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Dana Priest, a journalist at The Washington Post, spoke on campus Tuesday. She detailed how the U.S. government rapidly expanded in the name of national security after 9/11.

Pulitzer-Prize winner talks post-9/11 government secrecy By Corinne Burgermeister The Daily Cardinal

Two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Dana Priest described her work to uncover the immense expansion—and secrecy-- of the U.S. government following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Tuesday at the Fluno Center. The talk focused on findings from her latest book, co-authored with journalist William Arkin, “Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State.” Just several days after the terrorist attacks, Congress distributed $8 billion to different government agencies. The money was used to increase security, resulting in what became the largest secret action program in the government’s history, Priest said. Priest said the government used the money to create a series of top-secret programs, whose main goals were to find, capture, interrogate and kill al- Qaeda. By keeping the projects clas-

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sified, Priest said the government is “basically saying ‘trust us.’ As a journalist who’s been in this field for 25 years, that never really works.” Following her journalistic instinct, Priest started digging and found the government had created numerous new government organizations and expanded already existing organizations. Arkin also noticed an increase in strange codenames for top-secret jobs, including oddities such as “busy lobster.” Sensing more to the story, the two began mapping the secret world of post-9/11 national intelligence by collecting addresses, registration forms and employee names. Since the projects were even kept secret amongst government agencies themselves, Priest said the drastic government expansion led to project overlaps since the groups were all working toward the same goal: finding al Queda. While researching, Priest said

conferences for just short of 13 years and now to take a step backBablitch and current Justice N. wards and be less transparent, Patrick Crooks first introduced less accountable, less open to the the policy. public,” Crooks said. Crooks said he was proud of Those who voted for the the practice he helped spearhead change argued closed meetings because he believed it upheld the would keep the court focused and state’s commitment to transpar- efficient with its time and focus. ent government. He said the court UW-Madison political science would now seem less accountable professor Donald Downs said the court opting to keep some meetings away from public scrutiny is “At some point, you want appropriate to allow for a “more deliberations to be honest sincere airing of the issues.” “At some point, you want and thorough and those deliberations to be honest and need to be private.” thorough and those need to be private,” Downs said. Donald Downs However, Downs added political science professor UW-Madison that he believes the court needs to make sure it maintains a fair balance between to the citizens that elect them. openness and privacy. “I think that it’s a sad day for “Sometimes privacy makes the Wisconsin Supreme Court, sense, but you have to be careful to have had open administrative about it going to far,” Downs said.

one national intelligence official even admitted the network was “so big that only god knows everything.” Although Priest said she believes Americans today are safer than before the attacks, she does not entirely credit the new programs. Perhaps officials are more prepared to respond to threats thanks to the increased focus on national security, but Priest said it is in fact the programs that existed before 9/11, such as the C.I.A. and F.B.I. that have captured the vast majority of terrorists. When she opened the talk for questions, a few audience members asked Priest to explain the role they believe the U.S. government played in the Sept. 11 attacks. While the room echoed with whispers and groans as well as a few lone claps, Priest fervently denounced any connection between the U.S. government and 9/11. Kayla Johnson contributed to this article.

“I think students have been a force of progressive change in local politics, so that’s the change I want to channel.” Leland Pan candidate Dane County Bourd of Supervisors

He said he approaches his candidacy from the viewpoint of a student organizer and not a politician. “I’ve really been presenting myself as a candidate who wants to get proactive, progressive change done,” Pan said. “I think students have been a force of progressive change in local politics, so that’s the change I wanted to channel.” Magnino, who announced his initiative Sunday, said he also plans to engage students at the local level by creating campus committees to increase communication between students, the city and the county. “I feel I would be a more approachable county supervisor as a whole, one who would be willing to work with all types of students and student organizations,” Magnino said. While the Dane County Board elections take place April 3 during spring break, Pan said he plans to work with Magnino to inform students how to vote. “It’s obviously not the ideal situation for an election...but we’re doing our best to get as much turnout as we can,” Magnino said.

Packers’ Driver will compete on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Green Bay Packers star and fourtime Pro Bowl wide receiver Donald Driver will be a contestant on Season 14 of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.” The celebrity contestants on the show’s season, which starts March 19, were revealed on “Good Morning America” Tuesday morning. Along with Driver, the cast includes such celebrities as musician Gladys Knight, former tennis player Martina Navratilova and actor Jaleel White— known primarily for playing Steve Urkel on “Family Matters.” Driver is not the show’s first wide receiver. Pittsburgh Steelers player Hines Ward’s rug-cutting performance earned him the title on the show’s Season 12;hall-of-fame wide receiver Jerry Rice was a runner up on Season 2.

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H5N1 flu debate remains unresolved By Lauren A. Michael The daily cardinal

While the results of two controversial studies on mutated H5N1 (“avian flu”) viruses remain to be published, the multifaceted debate surrounding the research has continued. Recently, multiple events, decisions and new findings have cause more confusion in the avian flu debate. Even within the last few weeks, new information and official decisions have emerged regarding the implications of publishing results, the regulation of future research and even the true danger of the virus to humans. The current debate over H5N1 research reached major media outlets in a ScienceInsider article late last November, and originally began as a discussion of whether to publish two new studies involving mutated forms of the H5N1 virus. While infection by the virus has been lethal for 60 percent of reported human cases, it is rarely transmitted to humans (with less than 600 total known cases) and hasn’t been transmissible between mammals through the air. The new studies, one

carried out by researchers in the Netherlands and the other under UW-Madison professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, examined the behavior of mutated H5N1 viruses in ferrets. In the process, each research group identified specific genetic mutations necessary to achieve airborne infection. A month later, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board on Bioethics (NSABB) met to discuss the research findings, which were previously submitted to the top-tier journals Science and Nature. Following this meeting, the NSABB recommended that certain details of the research should be kept confidential to prevent misuse in the form of potential terrorist activities. The NSABB also suggested that all researchers should temporarily refrain from publishing related research to allow for an international discussion of H5N1 research value and safety measures. The two research groups were somewhat reluctant, but provided newly modified versions of their research reports to Science and Nature, according to another article in ScienceInsider. On Jan. 20 of

this year, Kawaoka and Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, joined 37 additional infuenza researchers in a statement expressing their agreement on a 60-day pause of related H5N1 research. The statement, published on the websites of both journals, also discusses the perceived benefits of continuing related H5N1 research in the future. While Fouchier previously discussed the debate over his group’s results and their future publication, Kawaoka only broke his silence after the voluntary research hiatus was established. In a commentary appearing on Nature’s website, Kawaoka argues for the value of H5N1 transmission studies. “Because H5N1 mutations that confer transmissibility in mammals may emerge in nature, I believe that it would be irresponsible not to study the underlying mechanisms,” Kawaoka wrote. He also said “there is already enough information publicly available to allow someone to make a transmissible H5 HA-possessing virus . . . The redaction of our manuscript, intended to contain risk, will

A tea-time lesson in chemistry You may not remember Gallium from the periodic table, but this unique metal does some pretty amazing things. By Kristen Anderson the daily cardinal

On a bitterly cold afternoon, my friend invited me in for tea. My host provided a piping hot cup and slid the bowl of sugar and a metal spoon towards me. I scooped a liberal helping of sugar into the tea, and began to stir with the spoon. One stir, then two. By three the spoon had disappeared. I stared, perplexed, into the dark abyss of the tea. I just had a spoon in my hand, right? After a careful sniff, I confirmed that the liquid I held was indeed tea, not acid. As the laughter started, I knew I had been treated to a practical joke, courtesy of a chemist. The metallic spoon was made of gallium (Ga), a silvery, soft metal that sits in the third row of the periodic table, with atomic number 31 (indicating that it has 31 protons). Unlike most metals, gallium melts at about 86 °F, low enough to melt in human hands — or in this case, to melt in tea. Only a few other metals, including mercury, caesium and rubidium, can exist as a liquid at or near room temperatures. Of these, gallium is the most friendly to handle, as it is considered non-toxic. Mercury is highly toxic, while caesium and rubidium will react violently with water. As a solid, pure gallium is brittle and a poor electrical conductor. However when gallium is combined with other elements, it becomes a versatile tool for the technology age. Used in electronics, gallium arsenide and gallium nitride

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account for the vast majority of gallium consumption. These gallium compounds are implemented in numerous electronic components, including semiconductors, blue and violet light-emitting diodes (LEDs), diode lasers (like those found in Blu-ray players) and solar panels. Gallium was also added to stabilize the explosive plutonium in the cores of the first and third nuclear bombs. Although not normally found in the human body, gallium has also become an important tool in medicine. Gallium ions are trafficked similarly to iron ions in the body. It accumulates at inflammation sites, where it acts as a marker for diagnosis and disease treatment.

The radioactive isotope of gallium (67Ga) is used for positron emission tomography or PET scanning. As the radioactive element moves through the body under the vision of the PET scanner, it emits energy displayed in three-dimensional images that help doctors spot unusual processes or abnormal tissues. Beyond its uses as a party trick, gallium has become an extremely important element for modern technology and disease diagnosis. In the end, I requested a new cup of tea. When the original tea cooled, the gallium was collected to be remolded into a spoon again, ready to be used on another unsuspecting guest.

make it harder for legitimate scientists to get this information while failing to provide a barrier to those who would do harm.” In a more recent change of events, the World Health Organization (WHO) has challenged the decision of the NSABB, recommending instead that the new results be published in full detail. In a meeting that took place Feb. 16-17, the WHO invited influenza researchers, including Fouchier and Kawaoka, and other authorities from around the world. In addition to the recommendation to publish results, the WHO suggested an extension of the current research hiatus in order to allow for assessment of current safety measures given the increased danger of the strains engineered by the studies in question. Furthermore, the WHO plans to meet more over the next few months to address additional topics including the communication of research benefits and safety measures to educate the public and alleviate anxieties. Yet, it appears that some countries are already taking their own steps to determine

safety measures for newly-created mammalian-transmissible H5N1 strains. Shortly after the announcements from the WHO, Canadian officials announced that any research involving such viruses should be performed at the highest biosafety level, BSL-4, rather than the previously accepted BSL-3 or BSL-3 enhanced levels. BSL-4 labs require the strictest and most expensive measures to contain biohazard materials and are currently available in only a few dozen locations worldwide. Throughout the H5N1 debate, there has been significant disagreement between scientists regarding the necessity of such constraining standards. According to further reporting by ScienceInsider, some attendees of the WHO meeting, including NSABB chair Paul Keim, remain opposed to full disclosure of results but still support future research. Meanwhile, representatives of the journals confirmed that the original plan to publish limited forms of the research articles by mid-March has been delayed until further notice.

Ask Mr. Scientist: Dear Mr. Scientist, Vampires are all the rage these days and it got me thinking. Could humans survive by only drinking blood? Is it safe? —Bridget L. In theory this sounds possible, right? Blood is full of nutrients, and vampire bats can live solely on blood, so certainly other animals should be able to as well. Ignoring the difficulty your body would have in absorbing enough nutrients from blood, there’s one major issue: because of its high iron content, blood is toxic to humans. The human body has a difficult time excreting excess iron, and too much iron causes a condition called haemochromatosis. This leads to problems like liver damage, a buildup of fluid in the lungs, low blood pressure and nervous disorders. Vampire bats have developed a mucous membrane along their intestinal tracts that prevents the absorption of too much iron, but you are not a vampire bat and should not be drinking blood.

Dear Mr. Scientist, I read an article about a Japanese company that plans to build an elevator to space by 2050. Is this really necessary? What’s wrong with rocket ships? —Brad E. Sending things to outer space is really expensive. Depending on how far you want to go, the price can range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars per pound. The construction costs of an elevator may be high, but with operating costs being up to a thousand times lower, the elevator would quickly pay for itself. On top of that, there are no rocket engines involved, so there would no longer be a risk of having another tragedy like the Challenger disaster. There is a small road block though. The cable for the elevator is planed to be over 60,000 miles long and made out of carbon nanotubes, according to the Japanese company proposing the plan. However, the current record for the longest carbon nanotube array is less than 20 cm.

Ask Mr. Scientist is written by Michael Leitch. If you have a science question you want him to answer, e-mail it to science@dailycardinal.com

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This site is great for a large variety of indie hits and remixes. Signing up for their “RCRD of the Day” daily e-mail newsletter will routinely provide subscribers with fresh, downloadable singles from breakthrough artists. If signing up for yet another e-mail blast is not for some, the site still offers fresh content five days a week, rounding things off on Friday with a weekend playlist that, again, contains a handful of kickass tracks just waiting to make their way into iTunes libraries everywhere. They showcase a ton of artists many have likely never heard of but will definitely want to know in the midst of the fastapproaching music festival season. With genres from electro to soul, RCRDLBL.com may be one of the best free-music finds for music appreciators and trendsetters of the online domain.

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The name of the three-piece, Michigan folk group Breathe Owl Breathe came about after lead singer Micah Middaugh had what cellist Andréa Moreno-Beals described as a “vision-quest dream.” By Cameron Graff The Daily Cardinal

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This Madison-based music aggregator takes a slightly different approach to sharing music on the web. Each day they post a new song from the Internet they think site visitors should hear, putting out a great variety of tunes that far-surpasses any of today’s other mentioned go-tos for tunes. This site does not provide free downloads, but rather encourages the Internet-trolling population of music solicitors to purchase the highlighted singles from various resources such as iTunes and Amazon.com, to offer better financial support for musicians. Possibly the best feature of this site is its in-depth album and song reviews. The facilitators of Jonk Music really take the time to listen to not only the single they’re reviewing, but the whole album, and give recommendations accordingly.

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Breathe Owl Breathe are, in this recent and frankly bizarre folk resurgence, a genuine diamond in the rough. Cleverer than their cleverest contemporaries and more sprightly than their genre would imply, the band mixes youthful whimsy with disarmingly complex instrumentals for wondrous results. This Friday the band brings their starry-eyed charm back in full force to the Project Lodge for their third visit to Madison. “It’s an awesome town,” Andréa Moreno-Beals, resident cellist, said of the city. “It’s great for me because I grew up in Ann Arbor, Mich. and I love it. They’re constantly being compared, both are university towns and they’ve got the same kind of culture.” Folk music’s sudden resurgence amongst the college crowd (who would have ever thought The Tallest Man on Earth would be a powerhouse 10 years ago?) prompts the inevitable question; what’s it like to play a college town? “There’s such a range, and it’s so different from region to region,” Moreno-Beals said. “But yeah, I would say it generally helps to play a college town because the young people come up.”

“We’re excited to introduce little kids, like that person who might never know what [a record player] is, to what vinyls are.” Andréa Moreno-Beals cellist Breathe Owl Breathe

The band has recently set out across the country to push their latest release—a combination 7” vinyl and children’s book detailing the misadventures of various characters in the band’s traditionally off-kilter style. “I’m still really excited about this,” Moreno-Beals said of the

project, titled, “The Listeners/ These Train Tracks.” “[Lead singer] Micah’s a real visual thinker, and he studied printmaking in college—in art school—and the idea just kind of came to him of these two stories. There’s a daytime story and a bed time story,

“He woke up and said ‘Breathe Owl Breathe.’ ... we were looking for a name, and there it was.” Andréa Moreno-Beals cellist Breathe Owl Breathe

and these great characters.” It’s not purely an aesthetic thing, either. Breathe Owl Breathe most certainly have a message in mind for the children. “Micah remembered having picture books that came with vinyls when he was a kid,” Moreno-Beals continued. “You know, they would make a ‘ding’ when you turned the page and everything. But since we’re a band and we make records, we’re excited to introduce little kids, like that person who might never know what [a record player] is, to what vinyls are.” Though the project may be primarily aimed at children, the band has the utmost faith in the material. Moreno-Beals said they do not eschew any of their exotic vibes for an easy hit, as the jointly bizarre and involving tracks are quick to reveal. “I’m just as excited about them [artistically] and musically as anything off our last full length,” she said. “We took them just as seriously.” The songs easily fit in among a catalog home to songs about Sabre Tooth Tigers and Sylvia Plath, so it is fair to say that the band has succeeded. The band’s songwriting, a predominant part of the group’s appeal, takes heavy inspiration from the more whimsical of Aesop’s fables. A Magic Central

highlight, “Dragon,” was concerned primarily with a pen pal exchange between the titular beast and a princess, and the considerably more upsetting notion of how to stop loving someone. “Micah’s the one who writes all the lyrics,” Moreno-Beals explained. “He’s very inspired by stories and old folklore.” Even the name of the band is indebted to a sort of magic. “It comes from a dream Micah had that, as he described it, sounds like a Native American visionquest kind of dream,” she said. “He says he doesn’t usually have that type of dream, so this was a really special one that stood out. He woke up and said ‘Breathe Owl Breathe.’ At that point we were just a duo, me and Micah, and we were looking for a name, and there it was.”

The Skinny Who: Breathe Owl Breathe with Cedarwell and Pioneer Where: The Project Lodge, 817 E Johnson St. When: Friday, March 2. Doors at 7:30 p.m., music at 8 p.m. Cost: $10 Why you should care: Folk is making a comeback.

Check this out before you go: Breathe Owl Breathe’s video for “Own Stunts” off of their album Magic Central may start out mellow, but stick around until the end to witness an arctic throwdown, Michigan style. If you don’t have a lot of time to preview this band during the week, try turning them on as bedtime music to help soothe you to sleep.

opinion Finding better democracy over dinner 6

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Zach Thomae opinion columnist

ver the next few weeks, I’m going to be attending a series of guided discussions entitled “The Promise of Our Democracy.” Presented by the Wisconsin Union Directorate and the Interactivity Foundation, it features two nights of discussing ways to improve our democracy over dinner. Before I go, I want to bring together a few thoughts on what makes these events such a good idea. In particular, guided discussions help bring the policy agenda back to the public. The Interactivity Foundation hosts events like these to bring together small groups of people to have guided public-policy discussions. Its mission is to bring citizens together to have productive discussions on issues that matter. As they put it: “The health of our democracy depends greatly on how well citizens discuss, explore and develop public policy.” It would be great if this happened, but as they say, “increasingly, in the real world, however, policy choices are made in response to crisis and/or highly-charged political contexts.”

In particular, guided discussions help bring the policy agenda back to the public.

The first part is simple enough. Responding to a crisis leaves little time for skepticism and care, and worse policies result from it. I’d like to focus on the results coming from highly-charged contexts, which are more interesting. Why is it bad that policies come out of politics? First of all, most people—myself included—do not know enough about the details of public policy and legislating to write good policy. Besides, most political debates are run by philosophers and not by policy wonks, and the details of policy proposals are almost never accurately portrayed. That should pretty much make the case for keeping citizens out, right? Well, not quite. It’s probably true that, for the most part, the public is not capable of writing actual public policy. However, this isn’t all that citizens can do. Besides setting policy, they can also set the policy agenda— the list of things that we want to get done. Currently, the pub-

lic does not really do either of these things. Right now, politics follows a master narrative—the story behind all other stories—that treats politics as a competition, as a race. And in a way, it is—that’s what politicians do in a democracy. But this is a distorted picture of what is happening. Things happen at two different levels in a democracy. At one level, politicians try to solve collective-action problems. In the next layer politicians fight for votes. In a healthy democracy, we treat the competition as a means of getting things done. However, our master narrative is all about the competition—the game. And for the most part, the press helps portray that narrative by acting as professional stenographers for politicians and lobbyists. Even if someone is wrong, it’s not the press’s job to correct them—unless you’re a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking organization like Politifact—because that would be “editorializing.” For any benefits there might be to this deliberately evenhanded reporting, it also has the unfortunate—and unnecessary—side effect of letting political actors set the policy agenda based on what they want to talk about. Actually, it’s worse than that. Now that campaigning is the perpetual-motion machine of the political press, the policy agenda is set based on what campaigns want, which isn’t necessarily the same as what people actually want. And when press stenography makes campaigning a question of making good television, the political echo chamber just becomes louder. It doesn’t have to be like this. A long time ago, someone (Walter Lippmann, to be specific) “decided” since the public was clearly not qualified to make or even think about policy, citizens only job could be waiting for politicians to make proposals and align themselves behind certain politicians they agreed with. We can decide to change that. That would mean looking to what people want to hear about as a basis for campaigns for legislative focus. And it would mean having more public discussions about policy, because a policy agenda without any policy at all is meaningless. The facilitated discussion on public policy isn’t a new idea, but it’s an underused one—especially in the media. As these discussions happen, I’ll be using my column to report and reflect on the ways we can improve our democracy—and how the discussions themselves might be the best way to do that. Zach Thomae is a freshman majoring in computer science. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Today’s Sudoku

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Evil Bird

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Eatin’ Cake

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

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MAPLE LEAF RAG ACROSS 1 Brief periods, briefly 5 Box-office failure 9 Beverage with a marshmallow 14 “Sack” attachment 15 It’s not a good thing 16 Got word of 17 Leave the engine running 18 “I changed my mind” on a computer 19 Made a misstep 20 Exert one’s influence 23 Improve, as cheese 24 Prefix with “plasm” or “type” 25 Broom accompanier 27 Archery bow wood 28 Decomposed 32 Card collection 33 “Significant” person 34 River to the Rio Grande 35 Ironic event 38 Commemorative pillar (Var.) 40 “Blue Velvet” actress Dern 41 Broken on the ranch 42 Deli cold cut 44 Be inquisitive 47 Less popular, as a

restaurant 9 Achieve harmony 4 51 Blood classification letters 52 Star transport 56 Beyond the suburbs 58 Asian nursemaid 59 TV Batman West 60 About to blow 61 “Quo Vadis” meanie 62 Give up claim to 63 Allays 64 Homer’s besieged city 65 “East of ___” DOWN 1 Peanut butter brand 2 Abide 3 Wet behind the ears 4 Hardy kind of wheat 5 “Sesame Street” straight man 6 Of higher rank than 7 Conservative skirt 8 A gentleman might prefer one 9 Activity requiring four bishops 10 “Above,” in an anthem 11 Crab or turtle shell 12 A spice 13 Math problem numbers

21 Aerial combat mission 22 Big bang maker 26 Eighth Greek letter 29 Cries of understanding 30 Asian new year celebration 31 “The Lord of the Rings” beast 33 Avian baby 34 Persona non grata 35 Fleeting 36 Air traffic control agcy. 37 “Fee, fi, fo, ___” 38 Kind of acid used in cosmetics 39 Indian lute (var.) 42 “Quiet on the___!” 43 Downright 44 ___ oneself on (had an ego about) 45 Filmed a new version of 46 Palace workers 48 Archipelago units 50 Candied, as fruits 53 Spud bud remover 54 Edible root 55 Bok ___ (Chinese vegetable) 57 “Fast cash” site

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Men’s Basketball

Offensive? basketball Badgers overcome poor shooting performance, crack 50-point barrier to sweep rival Golden Gophers By Max Sternberg the daily cardinal

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Senior guard Jordan Taylor powered Wisconsin’s second-half comeback. He finished with 22 of the Badgers’ 52 points.

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Junior forward Ryan Evans drained a pair of jump shots in the second half to help put his team back on top of the Gophers.

Just when it seemed that Wisconsin men’s basketball had turned a corner with the upset win Sunday at Ohio State, UW got cold yet again at home, somehow surviving a 30 percent shooting effort from the field en route to a 52-45 win over struggling Minnesota. The first half Tuesday night can best be described as ugly. After making three of their first four shots, the Badgers (11-6 Big Ten, 22-8 overall) were just 1-for17 from the field over the final 16:26 of the half, their only field goal in that span coming on a three-point shot by senior guard Jordan Taylor with 12:34 remaining. Neither team cracked the 25 percent mark from the field, with the two teams combining for just nine made baskets as the Gophers (5-12, 17-13) took a 23-16 lead into the locker room. “You just have to go back to thinking of ways to score,” Taylor said. “We were trying to get more movement in the offense. I was able to get a post touch and from there it’s all about being aggressive and trying to make the play.” To their credit, the Badgers came out strong in the second half. Finally getting a jumper by Taylor to go just over a minute and a half in, UW scored nine of the first 11 points of the half. Wisconsin was finally about to knot the game at 25 after a controversial three-point play by junior forward Mike Bruesewitz that was initially ruled a charge only to be overturned following a lengthy conference amongst the officials. “An official can make the call and if he is not sure, he can go ask

the other official,” head coach Bo Ryan said after the game. “That’s what they did.” “I thought I got there,” Bruesewitz said. “I thought he was in the circle, that’s why I went up.” Sparked by their good fortune, the Badgers took control of the game from there. Taylor was back to his usual self after a tough first half, finishing with a game-high 22 points on 4-of-9 shooting and 11-of-12 from the free-throw line. Taylor’s 17 second-half points (out of UW’s 36) got the Minnesotan to the twenty-point mark for just the third time this season, with two of them coming against the Gophers. On the other end it was once again freshman guard Andre Hollins giving the Badgers fits on the defensive end. After coming off the bench to score 20 against UW in Minneapolis, the Memphis, Tenn. native again led the Gophers in scoring, this time with 18 points, 13 of those in the first half alone. “He took more shots than anyone in the game so I thought he was pretty aggressive,” Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith said of Hollins. “Unfortunately he couldn’t make any of them [in the second half].” Wisconsin was able to adjust at the half and ultimately that was enough to get them the win they needed to clinch a spot in the top four in the Big Ten standings and thus clinch a first-round bye in next weekend’s Big Ten Tournament. “We didn’t do a good job of throwing the first blow or getting out to a good start,” Taylor said. “But we did a good job in the second half of turning things around.” One thing that allowed the

Badgers to quickly regain control of the game was their ability to finally get to the free throw line. With Minnesota committing seven fouls in the first 5:35 of the second half, Wisconsin had the benefit of being in the bonus for the majority of the backstretch. The Badgers took advantage, hitting 15-of-20 free throws in the second half en route to a comparatively explosive 36-point output. “Getting to the free throw line was definitely huge in this game,” junior forward Ryan Evans said. “There were a lot of free throws and that’s where a lot of the points were scored.” Due in large part to the multitude of free throws, there was never any flow to the game. Neither team seemed comfortable on the offensive end and neither team was able to pull away when they had the chance. Ultimately, Wisconsin was able to cut down on turnovers and make their free throws, the formula necessary to win in these low-scoring games Badger fans should be well accustomed to by now. While hopes of a Big Ten title were washed away with the Badgers’ 67-66 defeat at Iowa last week, they continue to have plenty at stake with just one game remaining on their regular season schedule. With Illinois coming to town Sunday for senior day, the Badgers still have an outside shot to overtake either Michigan or Ohio State in the standings, in turn avoiding a quarterfinal matchup in the Big Ten Tournament with No. 20 Indiana down in Indianapolis. More importantly, the Badgers have a chance to finally head into the postseason with momentum.

Minnesota or Ohio State: are Wisconsin’s rivals changing? Parker Gabriel parks and rec Before the Wisconsin men’s basketball team played Minnesota at the Kohl Center, I was sitting in the media section looking through game notes, and a replay from Wisconsin’s football matchup against Ohio State in late October was playing on Big Ten Network. I just saw the final minute or so, where sophomore quarterback Braxton Miller heaved the gamewinning touchdown to Devin Smith and then the Badgers were stopped and lost 33-29. Turns out, it was the most intense rivalry action I witnessed Tuesday night. In recent years, the rivalry with Ohio State has blossomed and, against seemingly all odds, it feels like the storied hatred for Wisconsin’s westerly neighbors has waned. Take the last three days, for example. That 63-60 victory in Columbus probably feels a lot sweeter to Badgers fans than Tuesday’s seven-point triumph

(if you want to call it that) over the Gophers. Now, obviously, quality of opponent has something to do with this, as does quality of play. But both are undeniably part of what makes a rivalry tick. So does atmosphere. Both the Kohl Center and Value City Arena rocked this year when the Badgers and Buckeyes squared off. Sure, Williams Arena had its moments as the Gophers staged a late comeback earlier this month, but the Grateful Red was awfully tame in the early going Tuesday. When it did come to full throat, it came more in protest of the officiating—though rightfully so—than of the opponent. A technical foul on UW head coach Bo Ryan late in the first half finally put some semblance of a charge in the building. “It definitely got the crowd into the game,” senior point guard Jordan Taylor said. “I don’t know if (Ryan) does that on purpose or not,” he added. Either way, an energy boost shouldn’t have been necessary at all. Not when the opponent is one that’s been there for a century, that’s been on the opposite bench 191 times.

Yes, the exceedingly poor quality of play in the first half exacerbates the overarching sentiment here, but it’s hard to argue UW and OSU hasn’t been a more compelling watch lately. Both basketball games this season, only one of which was actually competitive, had the respective arenas roiling. Each of the last two times the schools have played in football, the atmosphere has been absolutely electric. In football and basketball both, the Badgers and Buckeyes have played more meaningful games against each other over the last four years than just about any other two schools in the conference. At least one of the two has earned parts of every Big Ten football championship since 2005. Obviously, Ohio State earns the lion’s share there, with the Badgers joining the party in the last two years. One of the two teams has claimed at least part of the Big Ten men’s basketball regular season title in seven of the past 10 years (OSU four, UW three). The Buckeyes and Badgers have the two longest streaks of 20-win regular seasons (seven and six, respectively) in the Big Ten by

far—Purdue is next at three. Just as important, when weighing rivalries, it’s more obvious that Wisconsin and Ohio State don’t like each other. In basketball, there’s Satch and Jared Sullinger taking issue with the way the Badgers (and, in one case, their fans’ saliva glands) operate. In football, there’s OSU president E. Gordon Gee taking exception to Bret Bielema shaking down the Buckeyes’ new head coach Urban Meyer. Terrelle Pryor said after Ohio State lost in Madison that OSU beats UW “nine out of 10 times” in football. Bielema said a kid originally who committed to UW and will now go to school in Columbus, “was never really committed to us.” When was the last time you heard any sort of trash talk or felt any bad blood between Wisconsin and Minnesota? There was the two-point conversion controversy in 2010. Maybe Badger-turnedGopher safety Kim Royston talking about how he hates Wisconsin, but that could partially be because he never beat them. That’s really at the heart of things here. Ryan is now 15-4 against

Minnesota in his career. He’s now 11-1 at the Kohl Center. Three of his losses have come against current Gophers’ coach Tubby Smith, so there’s a pulse of competitiveness, at least. Each of the last four years, Ohio State and Wisconsin have split two matchups, seven in the regular season and one Big Ten tournament game in March 2009. In football, it’s worse. Wisconsin has kept possession of Paul Bunyan’s Axe for eight straight years now. Really, hockey is the only saving grace for UW and Minnesota. And what do you know? The Badgers will get to try to keep the Gophers from winning the MacNaughton cup this weekend in Minneapolis. Soon enough, UW will have regular matchups with the Buckeyes on the rink too, with the Big Ten hockey conference coming to life. Hopefully that won’t ruin the last vestiges of hatred between UW-Madison and its safety school. Is the Wisconsin-Minnesota rivalry still the best? Do you think Ohio State has taken over that spot? Let Parker know at pgabriel15@gmail.com.