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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Harley to stay in Milwaukee, unions accept By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal

Harley Davidson Inc., the iconic motorcycle company, will remain in Milwaukee following the unions’ ratification of a seven-year contract Monday after the company threatened to take their business to another state. “Today’s vote by Harley employees is a good news, but this was a tough decision for Harley and for hundreds of workers.” Tom Barrett mayor Milwaukee

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After threatening to relocate, Harley-Davidson Inc. announced Monday that it will stay in Milwaukee. A seven-year contract between Harley and IAM enforces a wage freeze as of 2012.

SSFC starts eligibility reviews with PAVE and SLP programs By Andrew Kasper The Daily Cardinal

Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment (PAVE), and Student Leadership Program (SLP), looked to renew their eligibility for General Student Services Fund at a Student Services Finance Committee hearing Monday. Both groups previously received money from the fund, which allocated $1.4 million in 2010-11, and are hoping to extend their eligibilities for another two years. According to SSFC Chair Matthew Manes, the amount of money the committee plans on allocating this year has “yet to be decided.” “We have tax-and-spend power, it is as much as we care to assess,” Manes said. The meeting was the first

of many to come in an eligibility season that will review the current budgets of all of the 14 student groups receiving funds. SSFC will grant or deny the eligibility of eight groups up for re-assessment, and review the eligibility petition for Badger Aviators—a group seeking funds for the first time. At the hearing, the relatively new SSFC, of which there are only three returning members, asked the two student groups various questions regarding amount of time the groups spend providing direct services to UW students and the nature of the services they intend to provide—both criteria required to receive General Student Services Funds, which are allocated by the SSFC. PAVE, a student group that provides services to sexual assault and domestic violence victims and

aims to educate students about those issues, received $80,000 in funding last year. PAVE Chair Claire Peterson stressed the importance of the student group on campus. “Personally, one of my best friends was a victim of rape our freshmen year.” Peterson said. “I had no idea what to do, no idea what to say,and no resources to give her. I do not think this is an uncommon situation—one of the many reasons PAVE is a vital part of this university.” SLP, a student organization that offers leadership development programs for students, received $66,000 the last year. The SSFC will make its decisions Thursday, though a monetary amount will not be granted to the groups, should they be deemed eligible, until a later date.

2010 Wisconsin high school graduates score high on SAT Wisconsin’s 2010 high school graduates performed far above the national average on the SAT college admissions exam, according to a report by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Graduates who took the SAT on average scored 595 on critical reading, 604 on math, and 579 for the writing section. The scores

by section ranged from 87 to 94 points above the national average. Students of color represented nearly 17 percent of the 3,002 graduates who took the SAT. The non-white population of the state is 10.6 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The results show a significant gap in the scores based on family income. Higher-income

students tested 75 points higher on average than those from lowincome families. The 2010 class also had a higher participation rate in Advanced Placement exams, according to the report. About 68.9 percent of those scored between a three and five, 11 percentage points higher than the national average. —Ariel Shapiro

The contract will enforce a sevenyear wage freeze as of 2012. “We’re gonna be tied up for nine years,” said Scott Parr, a representative of the International Association of

Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Harley-Davidson released a statement confirming the two Milwaukee-area unions, including the IAM, accepted the contract, but they are still waiting on the decision from the Tomahawk factory employees. “Today’s outcome in Milwaukee is a significant step toward creating the competitive, flexible operations that are essential to the company’s future,” the company said in a statement. Parr said the IAM ultimately ratified the contract because they took the company’s threat of moving seriously, but the terms were not what they hoped for. “The membership did what they had to do to keep the jobs here in Milwaukee, but none of them were happy with this contract or what we needed to do,” he said. harley page 3

Proceeds from Zimmermann memorial 5k run/walk to go toward more investigation By Maggie DeGroot The Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann will be commemorated at the first of four memorial 5k run/walks October 2 at 9 a.m. Zimmermann was a thirdyear UW-Madison senior when she was murdered in her downtown Madison apartment in April 2008. During the first year of the race half of the proceeds will go to the Zimmermann family to use toward solving Zimmermann’s murder, according to a statement. The other half of the proceeds from the event, as well as all collected proceeds after the first year, will be donated to Madison Area Crime Stoppers. “Holding this event in her honor will also give members of the university community an opportunity to pay a tribute to one of their fallen students,” South Campus Community Police Officer Erik Pearce said. The Zimmermann family was apprehensive at first about the memorial, Brittany’s mother Jean Zimmermann said. However, a Crime Stoppers meeting persuaded them to get involved in this event. Kevin and Jean Zimmermann,

Brittany’s parents, will attend the memorial run/walk. “It’s the opportunity to support Brittany and her time as a Badger,” UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam said. The police said they have leads, but feel there are more people who have information who have yet to come forward. A more significant reward fund could make a difference, police said. Madison Police Chief ZIMMERMANN Noble Wray said he is confident the case will be solved. The top three overall male and female placers will be given cash prizes according to a statement. There will also be age group awards given out to the top three runners in each age group. The course starts near Library Mall and will take participants up Observatory Drive. The route back will be along the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path. Online registration closes September 30. For more information or to register for the event people can visit madisonareacrimestoppers.org.

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Improve your life: study abroad in North Korea

Volume 120, Issue 10

2142 Vilas Communication Hall 821 University Avenue Madison, Wis., 53706-1497 (608) 262-8000 l fax (608) 262-8100

Andrew Lahr spare me the lahrcasm

re you looking to expand your horizons through an exciting and stimulating change in cultural scenery? Looking to seek out an educational experience without the boringly usual modern-day amenities and personal freedoms we enjoy here in Madison? If so, you’ll be pleased to hear that notoriously reclusive and xenophobic Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea has opened its doors to the outside world, specifically to the UW-Madison study abroad program. The stark cultural difference between our cozy, relaxed university setting and the totalitarian communist state will assuredly create ample opportunity for students to expand their horizons. Lucky candidates who are accepted into the course will quickly enjoy the first of their many adventures, an exciting hike through the “DMZ,” or demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. The journey, overseen by a local guide hired through the program, is a thrilling three-mile walk through a stunningly lush, tree and land-mine covered terrain, with the perfect amount of large electric fences to add a little chal-

lenge and spice to the experience. Danger is generally minimal, but if curiosity gets the best of you and you find yourself straying from the guide to get a good look at some local foliage, don’t expect to be “walking” around in your new home. Do not be alarmed by the shouting and pointed guns greeting you during your arrival into the country, this is the North Korean way of welcoming newcomers and should be taken as a compliment. Program director Steve Staples has partaken in this exhilarating event. “That first shot over my head got my blood pumping like nothing I’ve ever experienced...try getting an adrenaline rush like that on some lame-ass trip to Spain.” Upon entry into North Korea and a comfortable, asexual strip-search, participants will be escorted by military personnel to their quarters, located in the thriving and bustling capital city of Pyongyang. Though cell phones, laptops, and any means of communication with the outside world are prohibited, there are plenty of other ways to stay entertained, and luckily the near-constant lack of electricity makes having such items a pointless endeavor to begin with. Each room comes equipped with a vintage 1965 TV set, and though only one government-run channel airs locally, you can be assured to find well-rounded, intelligent news

and top-notch brain-scrambling entertainment. Tours of local labor camps, military facilities, and giant statues of the Dear Leader will be commonplace (cameras are not allowed). Failure to properly glorify the Lord Of All The Land will result in an immediate termination from the program, and life. The program offers a multitude of challenging and diverse classes, and studying will be strictly enforced. Classes include the “The Great Military History of North Korea,” “The Life of the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il,” “An Introduction to Almighty Communism,” and of course “The Dangers of Free Thinking.” Any failure by a student to meet class expectations will result in losing his or her daily bowl of rice and weekly shower privileges. Thus, lackluster academic performance in conjunction with daily marching offers an excellent opportunity for more heavyset students to shed that American flab. It should be noted that there are certain “criteria” and ground rules for any student hoping to successfully be accepted into the program and cross the border without any complications. Firstly, as this is a researchoriented course, students are required prior to entry to have on their person at least five grams of enriched Uranium-235 which will be taken upon arrival by

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local authorities. In order to preserve the unique cultural atmosphere of North Korea, students are restricted from any conversation regarding current events occurring anywhere outside of the country. Doing so will warrant expulsion from the program, though as a consolation, an exciting trip to one of North Korea’s mysterious labor camps will be scheduled. Also, as a lingual prerequisite, candidates must be able to, in Korean, state their undying gratitude and loyalty to the “Great Leader of all the World,” Kim Jong Il. This will be the only Korean needed to go about daily life in North Korea, but if the student wants to go above and beyond the expectations of the program, learning the terms “American pigs,” “imperialist swine” and “death to the West” will certainly impress local teachers and other authority figures. This rare opportunity for adventure begins this spring and slots are filling up fast! Be sure to visit the study abroad website at wisc.edu and to fill out an application as soon as possible for the experience of a lifetime. Due to the exchange rate, cost will be minimal, and at $26.50, this will be the cheapest study abroad opportunity available on campus! Email Andrew at aplahr@wisc. edu to learn more about the program, or to ask him why the hell he knows so much about North Korea.

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Collected snippets from professor in Birge Hall: —Babies are hopeless. —Monkeys are tyrannized by reality. —Have you noticed any planes going backward lately? —Please don’t come asking me about the exams because I shut up like a clam and your face becomes an unpleasant memory for me. Girl in Vilas Hall: Is “vagina enthusiast” hyphenated? Girl 2: What? Are you working on your resume? Girl 3: It’s more like “hymenated,” am I right?

Same Professor on Nixon/Kennedy debates: How could I take such a momentous event and make it dull? I’m a professor, that’s my job. Girl 1: I wish I were a guy, then I could eat pizza for lunch. Girl 2: Girlfriend, gender has nothing to do with your stupidity. Girl in Potbelly’s: So do you live in University Housing? Girl 2: Yeah, I live in Towers.

Girl outside of American Apparel: Guy on University Avenue: How do you say “Buddha”? Is that Korean? Why are all those girls wearing white? Are they going to some Collected snippets from professor group baptism or something? in Vilas Hall: —Some of the faculty here wish People say the darndest shit, they were doing something besides so submit your Overheards teaching. I’d rather be drinking, but to vstatz@dailycardinal.com that’s another matter. or at dailycardinal.com/page—What are my grading criteria? two by commenting on this First, cash. weeks’ submissions.

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TIME is on our side

Gubernatorial hope fuls Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker both celebrated the compromise. “Harley-Davidson has played an important role in Milwaukee’s history and I’m confident the company will continue to play a significant role in our future as well,”

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TIME Magazine’s Joe Klein stopped by the School of Journalism and Mass Communications as part of his cross-country tour. His discussion with students, faculty, and community members touched upon everything from Afghanistan to job outsourcing to Glen Beck.

Council members deny TID expansion Members of the Madison Common Council shot down a motion to include more of the Mansion Hill district in Tax Incremental District 32 at its Board of Estimates meeting Monday. A Tax Incremental Financing district is an area deemed appropriate for a specific type of development. Projects within the district are identified to facilitate development, according to the Wisconsin Tax Incremental Finance Manual. One such project is the Edgewater Hotel, which stands to gain $16 in Tax Incremental Financing for redevelopment. However, the city’s TIF Review Board has yet to approve the proposed funding for the project. The review board is expected to vote sometime this month. If the TIF is approved for the Edgewater, the surrounding district will also reap these tax benefits. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4 and Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, sponsored the substi-

tute second amendment, which would expand the TIF district to include more of the Mansion Hill neighborhood.

“If you look at the map, not much of the Mansion Hill District is included.” Mike Verveer alder District 4

Verveer said after the Edgewater proposal he had hoped more of the Mansion Hill District would be involved in TID 32. “If you look at the map, not much of the Mansion Hill District is included,” Verveer said. Despite Verveer and Maniaci’s lack of support, the first version of the amendment was passed. —Maggie DeGroot

UW-Madison rankings vary U.S. corporate recruiters said public universities are more popular with recruiters than Ivy League or other private schools since the public university graduates are “among the most prepared and well-rounded academically,” according to a recent Wall Street Journal survey. UW-Madison ranked 16th in the survey out of 25 schools where companies said they are focusing the majority of their recruitment. Nineteen of the 25 schools ranked were public universities. The U.S. News and World report’s 2011 edition ranked UW-Madison 13th among public universities. However, the university dropped from 39th to 45th overall, and from 9th to 13th in public school rnakings from 2009 to 2010. The Washington Monthly ranked the school 23rd this year,

and Parade magazine included it in its “College A-List.” UW-Madison ranked 17th among universities worldwide by Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University based on criteria such as number of Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals received by faculty and research success. In addition, UW-Madison ranked 25th last week among the most desirable large schools based on criteria such as, admissions, test scores, endowment, student-to-faculty ration, climate and quality of facilities in the Kaplan/Newsweek “Finding the Right College for You” guide. Poets and Writers Magazine, the nation’s largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers, ranked UW-Madison’s master of fine arts program third in the U.S. in addition to ranking the poetry program second and the fiction program third. —Kayla Johnson

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Barrett said. Walker said this decision is a good sign for the state and local economy. “We want them to stay for another 107 years—and this vote is a good sign that they will,” he said. Gov. Jim Doyle also praised the decision but noted its drawbacks. “Today’s vote by Harley employees is good news, but this was a tough decision for Harley and for hundreds of workers.”

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Doyle said. Parr said although it was necessary to keep Harley and its employees in Milwaukee, this situation is representative of a troubling competition between states to attract industry. “What these states are doing is using stimulus money, calling it ‘job creation,’ and in my opinion it’s job theft from another state,” Parr said.

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“It makes me smarter.” Albert Einstein’s brain was kept “for future study.” Supposedly, parts of the brain were stolen at his autopsy and then “stored in three jars under the sink in a tiny apartment of a doctor.” dailycardinal.com/comics

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Lemon Squeezy

Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

Branching Out

By Brendan Sullivan bsullivan3@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.

The Graph Giraffe Classic

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Crustaches

By Patrick Remington premington@wisc.edu

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Dookingham Palace

By Natasha Soglin soglin@wisc.edu

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WITCH HUNT? 1 6 9 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 23 24 25 27 32 33 34 36 39 41 43 44 46 48 49 51

ACROSS Fraternity letter Superman’s insignia Potato holders Songs for prima donnas Watson and Crick’s lab material Southern Slav Part of an orchestra ___ segno (from the repeat sign, in music) Put on, as makeup “Dallas” star Wriggly catch ___ of Good Feelings Like extreme emotions Not out of the question Pt. of MIT “That’s so gross!” Garlic mayonnaise Olive ___ (Army uniforms) “Fall” attachment Banjo sound “The exotic tangelo from Jamaica” Breastplate for Zeus or Athena Abdicated a seat 1,000,000,000 years “Red” coin Dig in

53 56 57 58 64 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73

Battle call Brew dispenser Rowing necessity Some Japanese entertainers Remove, as linen from a clothesline Bit of baby babble Be a sore winner Cause for complaint Holbrook or Linden Wingless parasite “Poly” add-on “You’ll never know unless you ___” Antonym for “absorb”

DOWN 1 “The Communist Manifesto” author Marx 2 “Code” lead-in 3 “... walk off a short ___” 4 Losers of the 1998 World Series 5 Ancient empire along the Tigris 6 Classic Icelandic poetry 7 A reel problem 8 Highly seasoned ragout 9 Restricted 10 Dada artist Jean 11 Danish seaport

12 Cabbagelike vegetables 13 Fashionista’s concern 21 Convent attire 22 Bug on a farm 26 Raw linen hue 27 Cocoon’s contents 28 “Puss in Boots” beast 29 Plush ﬂoor covering 30 Highs’ opposites 31 Buoy one’s spirits 35 Aiding and abetting, say 37 Coalition of politicians 38 Hyperbolic function 40 A bride and groom may be on the top one 42 Must, colloquially 45 Derisive laugh 47 Follow slowly 50 Bunion’s place 52 Afterword (Var.) 53 Four-door alternative 54 Drivers often change them 55 “’Twas the ___ before Christmas ...” 59 Ascend dramatically 60 “Monty Python and the ___ Grail” 61 Dissolute man 62 Lad’s date 63 “Keep it” notation 65 Holiday prelude

Washington and the Bear

By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

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Indecisive politics threatens UW research MILES KELLERMAN opinion columnist

ast Thursday, the Obama administration formally challenged a court order by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to suspend the federal funding of stem-cell research. Lamberth’s injunction, issued on Aug. 23, blocked President Obama’s push for public endowment on the basis that such funding violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. The amendment was a “rider” to a 1995 bill, meaning that it would never have passed as its own legislation, and thus was added onto a distantly related proposal. Dickey-Wicker speciﬁcally bars public funding for the creation and endangerment of embryonic cells for research purposes. Lamberth’s injunction shocked the national research community, which was expecting $54 million of renewed funding; just the tip of a $546 million iceberg that the National Institutes of Health have invested since 2001 in ongoing projects. UW-Madison, one of the foremost leaders in stem cell research and the site of the ﬁrst ever isolation of embryonic cells, stands to receive $7.2 million in 2010.

Because of the sensitivity of stemcell research, such interruptions can be devastating to progress. The Obama administration’s challenge has provided much-needed ﬁnancial relief, but until a ﬁnal court ruling is made, the future of stem-cell research remains in limbo. The consequences of political uncertainty threaten the university, the state and the nation on a number of different levels. UWMadison employs 22 researchers with a supporting cast of over 150 lab employees and graduate students. The Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center has done an incredible job of competing and innovating on the national level despite a far smaller endowment of private donations in comparison to the elites of the east and west coasts.

When politics strangles our ﬁnancial support system, scientists take their research elsewhere.

But because UW-Madison relies so heavily on public funding, any restrictions of such support greatly damage its ability to make progress in research, and to keep the world’s brightest minds in Madison.

At the state level, consistent funding of advanced scientific research attracts workers and stimulates the economy, making the decision to provide a constant stream of funds all the more important for the sake of continual research on campus. However, although the issue may be important to the University and state, its greatest economic implications are on our research progress as a nation. The United States faces stiff competition from Europe and Asia in medical research, and when politics strangles our financial support system, scientists take their research elsewhere. Of course, to focus only on the economic aspects of public funding for stem cell research is avoiding the elephant in the room, and quite a big one at that. The cultivation and isolation of stem cells has become one of the most heated moral issues of the last few decades and raises the question: when does life truly begin? To delve into the positions of either side would only serve to oversimplify what for many is a very complicated and personal issue. Far less subject to personal belief, however, is the role of public funding for such research. Researchers desperately need consistent financial support in order to continue their work. Stem-cell research is an extremely complicated and time-sensitive field, and because projects often require

long-term development, interruptions in funding can ruin progress. Furthermore, disruption of funding endangers research in its ﬁnal stage, wasting an enormous amount of time, effort and previously invested tax dollars.

To extend their suffering with political disagreement is a crime.

Finances and investment aside, there are countless people suffering from disability, disease and paralysis that may ﬁnd medical relief in stem cells. To extend their suffering with political disagreement is a crime. Researchers in both embryonic and adult stem cells are making progress that may lead to the advancement of crucial medical technology for the future, and one must look no further than our own campus for examples. Tim Kamp, one of UWMadison’s most acclaimed stem cell researchers, created working heart muscles in 2009. Just this summer, Su-Chun Zhang and a team of Wisconsin scientists discovered the role of a speciﬁc gene as a master regulator of brain development, which may aid to the understand-

ing of how cells are directed to act and why human brains are more advanced than those of other animals. Research is also taking place on cancer, blood stem and neural cells, all of which may aid the treatment of disease in the future. Is this the type of advancement we want to uphold with legal battles? Could anything be more important and worthy of federal funding? The possibilities for stem cells in medicine are limitless. Regeneration, cell creation, nanotechnology, spinal cord injury, cancer and Lou Gehrig’s disease are just a few examples of what future research may be able to explain, help treat or even cure. Unfortunately, this temporary relief of funding is hardly reassuring, and more permanent solutions must be made. The DickeyWicker Amendment has led to confusion over the role of the federal government in funding stem cell research. Congress desperately needs to clarify the meaning of the amendment and consider repealing it to ensure a consistent stream of financial support that is free from the constraints of an ever-changing political landscape. UW-Madison, the state of Wisconsin and the advancement of medicine throughout the country depends upon it. Miles Kellerman is a sophomore with an undeclared major. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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David offers his opinions on the best 2010 has to offer in his early-bird Best Picture predictions

DAVID COTTRELL co-ttrell it on the mountain

ilms with Oscar aspirations like to plan for an end-ofthe-year release in the hopes of remaining fresh in Academy voters’ minds while still meeting the December 31 release deadline. This leads to an ‘award season’ jampacked with quality ﬁlms. However, every year there are a few contenders that sneak in before fall. Remember “The Hurt Locker,” “Up” and “District 9”? All three were summer releases, which have the added challenge of maintaining a place in voters’ hearts for a few extra months. On October 1 the more ‘serious’ award-seeking movies will start hitting theaters. But let’s take a look at some best picture contenders that you may have already seen.

Toy Story 3 Released June 18 Last year, “Up” took advantage of the extra Best Picture slots to become the second animated feature ever nominated for Best Picture (the other was “Beauty and the Beast”). While “Toy Story 3” lacks the originality “Up” had, it manages to be both hilarious and touching enough to compensate. “Toy Story 3” is a lock for best animated picture and I can’t see it being left out of the Best Picture race either. The Kids Are All Right July 9 Coming out of Sundance and with a mid-summer theatrical release, “The Kids Are All Right” is a dramedy following a lesbian couple (played by Julianne Moore and Annette Bening) who each have a child from the same anonymous sperm donor. When their daughter and her younger brother ﬁnd their biological father (Mark Ruffalo) and build a relationship with him, major mama drama ensues. “Kids” is well acted and will probably elicit a few acting Oscar nods. The film explores the dynamics of the modern American family with honesty, insight and humor. The Academy loves to think of itself as a progressive group (see: George Clooney’s acceptance speech for “Syriana”). While “Kids” is no “Milk,” it does carry a message the Academy can get behind—families with samesex parents are just like every other family. Inception July 15 This one is a shoe-in. One of the suspected catalysts for the increase in best-picture nominations from five to ten last year was the snubbing of “The Dark Knight.” The Academy wanted to make room for ‘popular’ films and draw in a wider audience. They have a Groundhog Day situation with “Inception,” and the Academy isn’t going to wait for another Christopher Nolan film to give him a Best Picture nomination. Just like “The Dark Knight,” “Inception” was a popular seat-filler, a critical favorite and a giant nerdgasm all rolled into one. A nomination is in the

bag—let’s give them the editing award right now too. And though none of the following movies have gotten wide releases yet, a few have had festival premieres, and all of them are heavily buzzed as best picture nominees. The Social Network Oct. 1 David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin team up for this ‘based-ona-true-story’ film about the birth of Facebook, with Jesse Eisenberg as creator Mark Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake as Napster designer Sean Parker. With a wellput-together trailer, an incredibly relevant subject and Fincher and Sorkin behind the scenes, “The Social Network” is certainly one of the most buzzed-about releases this fall. Black Swan Dec. 1 Darren Aronofsky, director of “The Wrestler,” is back with “Black Swan,” the story of a ballet dancer (Natalie Portman) in the midst of a psycholagical breakdown. Portman’s character, whose plays the lead role in a production of Swan Lake, begins to imagine she herself is turning into a swan as she finds herself in increasingly aggressive competition with her own understudy (Mila Kunis). Considering the early buzz from its premier in Venice and the director’s previous snubbing for “The Wrestler,” “Black Swan” looks like a good shot. Somewhere Dec. 22 Sofia Coppola wrote and directed “Somewhere” as her fourth feature film. The movie follows Stephen Dorff, a detached movie star living out of hotels who tries to forge a better relationship with his young daughter (Elle Fanning). It was inspired by Sofia’s own experience following her father, Francis Ford Coppola, around the world. The movie opened at the Venice Film Festival and took the prestigious Golden Lion for best picture. Although Quentin Tarantino, president of the Venice festival judges, is also a close friend of Sofia Coppola and has been accused of bias, the committee vote for “Somewhere” was unanimous. Clearly, there’s something to “Somewhere.” True Grit Dec. 25 In “True Grit,” the Coen brothers remake a classic John Wayne Western about a tough, alcoholic U.S. Marshal helping a stubborn young woman track down her father’s killer. Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin stack the cast with Oscar potential. Come award season, never count the Coen brothers out. The expansion to ten Best Picture nominees has shaken up the world of Oscar predictions quite a bit. These days, you can’t safely count out any film until the names are read in February. Think David’s predictions are accurate and insightful, or have his Oscar musings left you completely grouchy? Whatever your thougts, let David know by e-mailing him at dcottrell@wisc.edu.

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While preeminent Oscar favorite Leonardo DiCaprio has high hopes for “Inception,” any ﬁlm that features the eclectic duo of Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake, as “The Social Network” does, shouldn’t be overlooked.

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Pete Waite, the winningest coach in Wisconsin volleyball history, will return Tuesday to NIU, where he spent 11 years as head coach.

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After starting the season 9-0, the Wisconsin volleyball team will look to continue its perfect streak as the team faces Northern Illinois tonight. Although the game stands seemingly as just another contest on the schedule, when the team rolls into DeKalb, Ill., Tuesday, the night will mean a bit more for head coach Pete Waite. Waite began his head coaching career at NIU and spent 11 seasons with the Huskies, becoming the school’s all-time winningest coach before coming to Wisconsin. As head coach at NIU, Waite went 266-102, claiming eight regular season conference titles, six conference tournament titles and made four NCAA tournament appearances. Tuesday will be Waite’s first return to DeKalb to compete against the Huskies since leaving NIU in 1998. “To a certain extent, I didn’t want to go back right away, especially when my own players were there, so we waited a while,” Waite said. Even as Waite’s seasons at Wisconsin passed, scheduling conflicts always prevented the two teams from facing each other. This season though, both squads were available for a mid-week match, and Waite took the opportunity to return to his old school. “Going back there now, it’s obviously 12 years later and it’s a much different team we have here on the court,” Waite said. “When you think about even how old our current players were when I left that program, it’s very different.” In fact, Waite’s old stomping grounds, the Chick Evans Field

Wisconsin alone in boasting trifecta of sports dominance

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By Mark Bennett

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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House, is no longer even the home of NIU’s volleyball program. Since 2002, the team has played at the new Convocation Center on a smaller court which seats just under 800 spectators. Waite hopes students and other Badger fans will make the two-hour trip down to DeKalb Tuesday to fill the limited-capacity venue with Wisconsin cheers. And while most of them will likely be unaware of the circumstances, they will all be witnesses to a homecoming of sorts for Waite. In a literal sense however, Waite’s true homecoming was when the former Big Ten coach of the year left NIU for Wisconsin. Waite is a Madison native and grew up in the city, attending Monona Grove High School. The collegiate volleyball standout always kept close ties to UW-Madison, even at a young age. “For me personally, I came to Wisconsin basketball camps growing up. So through eighth grade, I had been on the Field House floor,” Waite said. “So coming here was great and growing up here everything was just bigger than life as far as the athletic department.” Now, Waite has become one of the most successful coaches in that same department’s history and has the best seat in the house for every Badger home volleyball game. So far this season, the coach has seen plenty of wins from that position at the edge of the court. Waite’s Badgers will certainly have to work hard to earn their coach a win in his return to NIU. The Huskies enter tomorrow night with an equally unblemished 11-0 record, losing just four sets this entire season.

ariler this week, i n s i d e c o l l e g e h o c k e y. com repor ted that Penn State is set to announce the addition of a Division I men’s hockey program this Friday. This news got me thinking about how many large programs one school can adequately support and maintain. These days, it seems like every university wants to rave about their reputation of being a “two-sport school.” That phrase usually refers to a university which can boast both lucrative basketball and football programs. These schools can claim larger revenues and relevance in the collegiate sports world from August until March. A few of the most notable two-sport programs in the nation include Texas, Florida, Notre Dame, Tennessee, West Virginia and, of course, Wisconsin. The Gators arguably have the rightful claim to the most prolific two-sport program in the nation. In the past five years, Florida has won two national titles each in both football and basketball, including a sweep of both in 2006. Wisconsin, however, can lay claim to a title that very few schools will ever approach, and most will never have to the chance to achieve. UW-Madison is, without a doubt, a three-sport school.

On top of a football program that regularly sells out the 80,321seat Camp Randall Stadium and has made a bowl game in 15 of the past 17 seasons, the Badgers can boast two blockbuster teams who call the Kohl Center home. The basketball program, coached by one of the most respected men in the game, Bo Ryan, packs in a crowd of over 17,000 fans every home game and has made 12 straight NCAA Tournament appearances, including two trips to the Elite Eight and one to the Final Four in that same span. While there is a select handful of schools that also boast numbers similar to and slightly better than those, none of them come close to carrying a third sport which provides the same popularity, attendance and prestige. The Badger hockey team has appeared in the Frozen Four 12 times, including the 2010 tournament, and holds bragging rights to six national championships. What really elevates the hockey program to a “third-sport” status, though, is its attendance draw. Last season, the Badgers averaged nearly 14,000 fans per game at the Kohl Center, which essentially is a hockey arena designed to also accommodate basketball. To put things in perspective, if the Wisconsin hockey team were an NHL franchise, it would have better attendance figures than three professional teams. Sure, there are a few schools who you could argue classify as a threesport school. Michigan is probably the first university that comes to

mind, but the lack of extraordinary performance from their basketball program for the better part of the last decade knocks them down a few notches in this argument. The same goes for Minnesota, Ohio State and Boston College. While all three schools have had very successful seasons in all three sports, none are consistently powerhouses at the same time. Although the Buckeyes can boast post-season teams in all three sports in 2009, hockey success is somewhat of a recent trend for Ohio State. The distinction of Wisconsin as a three-sport school means various benefits for the school. First and foremost, it’s all about the money. Adding the revenue of over 300,000 men’s hockey tickets sold every season allows the athletic department to better fund smaller sports, build better facilities and maintain and expand student athlete services. But perhaps above all, attending a three-sport school is quite simply, pretty damn awesome. No other school can brag about three student sections with such distinctly thrilling, diverse atmospheres and cultures. So the next time you hear an LSU or Oklahoma fan ranting about their powerhouse basketball and football programs, let them gloat. Wisconsin takes it a step further as the country’s only legitimate three-sport school. You think any other schools can equal the Badgers’ threesport dominance? E-mail Mark at mdbennett2@dailycardinal.com.

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