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Freakfest 2011: trend persists, arrests down were often punctuated by rioting, looting and police using tear gas Although police reported across State Street—most recently more arrests from Saturday in 2005. night’s Freakfest on Monday, The 2011 event was a far cry bringing the total from that. The to 32, statistics 32 arrests made Arrests only confirmed Saturday night, 25 2009: that Freakfest 2011 offenders were cited was one of the most and released, while 4 arrested subdued Madison were sent to jail. The 2010: Halloween in incident report listed recent memory. 3 people as being arrested P o l i c e sent to either the 2011: Department Public hospital or a detoxiInformation fication center. arrested, Officer Joel Revised citacitations issued tion figures put DeSpain said authorities were the total numskeptical that ber of Freakfest arrest figures citations at 46. Attendance would decrease According to 2009: further from 2010’s DeSpain, citations total of 43, but the can surpass the number of citanumber of arrests 2010: tions Saturday left made, as individuofficials surprised. als can be issued “[The 32 arrests] more than one 2011: really, I think, speaks citation. volumes about how “Our arrests this event has really were behaviorturned around,” said based. It really has to DeSpain. do with how people Before the rebranding of fes- are conducting themselves on the tivities in Madison as the officially- street,” DeSpain said. “The majority sanctioned Freakfest event in 2006, freakfest page 3 Halloween celebrations in Madison

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Senate decides to allow weapons on floor, prohibit in gallery The state Senate approved rules Tuesday that allow concealed weapons on the Senate floor but prohibit them from being carried into the gallery during session. Individuals with permits will also be allowed to carry concealed weapons into Senate offices unless senators post signs on their doors saying otherwise. Mark Kauzlarich/the daily cardinal The Senate Committee on Concealed weapons will be allowed on Senate Organization approved the the Wisconsin state Senate floor. rules along party lines, with three Republicans voting for and two Democrats voting against the rules. which would allow concealed weapons The Department of Administrain both the Assembly floor and gallery, tion announced Oct. 28 that conceaif approved by the Assembly Commitled weapons would be allowed inside tee on Assembly Organization. state buildings including the Capitol DOA Secretary Mike Huebsch after Gov. Scott Walker said execusaid concealed weapons would be tive offices within the Capitol would prohibited in the Supreme Courpermit concealed weapons inside. thouse and the Capitol police station The state Assembly is also in the within the Capitol because of existing process of approving their own rules, state law.

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Curriculum specialist Yuntong Yan leads a Greater University Tutoring Services’ Conversational English group Monday. Yan said the program needs more English tutors.

Need for English tutors not met By Aarushi Agni The Daily Cardinal

Last year, Hannah Goodno showed her Conversational English class episodes of “How I Met Your Mother,” “Modern Family” and sketches from “Saturday Night Live.” Afterward, the group discussed the shows and talked about idiomatic expressions the characters used, among other exercises. “They’d ask questions about why a certain joke was funny,” Goodno said. “It makes you think about what you consider normal, and what you think is something everyone could just ‘get,’ and you realize it’s more influenced by culture than you ever realized.” Goodno, a lessons instructor for the Greater

University Tutoring Services’ Conversational English program, said the experience gave her an opportunity to step outside her comfort zone. “You have to think more about your culture in a different way because you’re teaching it to someone else,” Goodno said. Despite attempts to reach out to students, GUTS’ CE program faces a chronic shortage of English tutors. The organization has tried sending mass e-mails to the student body, to people within the GUTS organization and to high-level language students, but all attempts proved ineffective, according to Yuntong Yan, GUTS’ Conversational English Curriculum Specialist. The only requirement to become a tutor is to be a native

English speaker. Yan has led the CE program, which has trained international students in the cultural aspects of conversation in English-speaking culture since 2010.

“You have to think more about your culture in a different way because you’re teaching it to someone else.” Hannah Goodno lessons instructor GUTS Conversational English

The international student population has grown steadily in the past five years, explained

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Student Judiciary: SSFC waiver invalid By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

In a mostly symbolic decision, the Student Judiciary ruled Monday a student government committee’s process for student groups to apply for over $250,000 in funding is invalid. The waiver groups were required to submit sparked controversy when the Multicultural Student Coalition turned it in past deadline, making the group ineligible for its requested $1.27 million in funding. SJ Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield said the SJ ruled the waiver invalid because the Student Services Finance Committee did not implement it properly.

“Because it wasn’t developed over a long enough period of time and groups were only given a week to complete it, it can’t be considered an established process and is therefore a violation of due process,” Fifield said.

“I feel like SSFC pretty much won except the waiver was invalid.” Sarah Neibart SSFC Chair

But SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart

said the group can not receive funding because the committee ruled it ineligible in October. “I felt like SSFC pretty much won except for the waiver was invalid,” Neibart said. “However, in my opinion, that really doesn’t affect our process.” Fifield said the SJ did not take MCSC’s ineligibility into account when making the ruling. “Because MCSC has been denied eligibility, they’re still ineligible. This decision has no effect on that,” Fifield said. “For all practical purposes, the only things that could be considered in this case were things that happened before

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ear Class, Sorry to trouble you all. I know that getting all these e-mails is, like, getting reaallllly annoying, but I have missed class the last few times. I don’t really have a good excuse, but I could make one up if you would like. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could send me some notes. This will be the last time I ask; I PROMISE! However, I can’t speak for my 298 other inconsiderate classmates who may attempt to waste your time, as I am now. I know the exam is not for another three weeks, and I will be in class on Thursday, but the only way I can communicate today is through text messaging and com-

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Would I start by introducing myself, asking how their day was, making a remark about how this class is such bullshit or by trying to bond over shared stories of drunken mishaps? What if they thought I was secretly trying to hit on them under the radar? What if they then might ask me for my notes in return?

You’ll see that one of my interests is meeting new people (at least on the Internet), so if you are still curious and there is anything more you want to know, just ask. :-)

Truth be told, I don’t actually take notes even when I do go to lecture.

With thanks and some thinly veiled sarcasm, ­­—Elliot Tired of these obnoxious e-mails filling your inbox day in and day out? Then e-mail Elliot at ignasiak@wisc.edu and join him in relentlessly bashing them with biting sarcasm.

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I am not sure how to ask just one student in person if they e-mail me their notes.

Truth be told I don’t actually take notes even when I do go to lecture. And usually I have an excuse not to look at them before the exam as well. (Seriously my life is so busy and stressful right now, uuugh you don’t even know.) But I like to have someone else’s notes on file, just in case. Please understand that I just can’t possibly talk to someone I don’t know in class; however, behind the comfortable semi-anonymity of the Internet, I have no problem asking the entire class. P.S. If you happen to use my e-mail to search for me on Facebook, you will find that I have no privacy setting whatsoever. Feel free to check out my profile and learn about the most intimate details of my life. Sometimes I can be shy, but once you get to know me, I’m really fun! I love to travel, though the furthest away from home I’ve been is Flint, Mich. However, I feel like I traveled around the globe after reading “Eat, Pray, Love.”

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SSFC approves WISPIRG funding of nearly $150,000 By David Klein The Daily Cardinal

The Student Service Finance Committee approved a budget of nearly $150,000 for the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) Monday. The committee cut several items from WISPIRG’s budget proposal, including airfare for organized training as well as funding for a WISPIRG fellow. The SSFC also voted to lower WISPIRG’s membership fees. WISPIRG initially requested over $60,000 in membership fees from SSFC, but the committee lowered fees by around $8,000. Last year, SSFC passed a resolution saying only $10,000 could go to membership fees, but the committee overturned the ruling Monday. SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said overturning the ruling shows a shift in ideology between sessions of the committee. “I think this is significant,” said Chair Sarah Neibart. “This shows a philosophical shift on what this session of SSFC thinks is appropriate to approve.” Rep. Cale Plamann said he felt the lowered membership

fees were reasonable. “I think we cut out enough of the fat without hurting them,” said Plamann. “That’s what we’re trying to do.” Rep. David Vines said while he thinks some overall budget cuts would be appropriate if they did not restrict WISPIRG’s staff development.

“I think we cut enough of the fat without hurting them. That’s what we’re trying to do.” Cale Plamann SSFC Representative

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“If this hurts staff development, this could really end up being a less cost effective measure,” said Vines. SSFC members also WISPIRG’s staff needs to be UW-Madison employees. The committee said they would remove $90,000 from WISPIRG’s budget if the group’s professional staff did not sign contracts with UW-Madison by the end of the fall semester. Currently, some of the group’s professional staff are non-university employees.

Redistricting amendment proves divisive By Tyler Nickerson The Daily Cardinal

State Senators debated an amendment to Wisconsin’s new redistricting law Monday that would move up a year the date new district lines would apply to elections. State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, who authored the amendment, said during a Senate Committee on Transportation and Elections hearing she was concerned possible recall elections of odd-numbered state senators held before Nov. 6, 2012 would be conducted in old districts, not the new districts that took effect in August. On Nov. 6, 2012, senators from even-numbered districts will have general elections. But senators from odd-numbered districts will not have general elections until 2014. Constituents from old district

guts from page 1 Yan, who describes the problem as a failure to catch up with the growing demand. “I feel like there’s a misconception about our program,” said Yan. “We are not an [English as a Second Language] program.” The goal of the program, she said, is not to teach English grammar or sentence structure, but cultural norms of American

freakfest from page 1 of people were arrested for underage drinking or open intoxicants.” Along with the number of reported incidents, DeSpain said the kind of the quality of these violations was also indicative of Saturday’s relatively

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SSFC Rep. David Vines said he favor WISPIRG budget cuts if they don’t harm the group’s development

the hearing three weeks ago.” MCSC members said they appealed SSFC’s decision to prove the committee was dysfunctional. Group members said SSFC broke bylaws when it created the

lines would vote in a recall election of a senator from an odd-numbered district if it is held before Nov. 6, 2012, the date the Government Accountability Board determined new district lines would go into effect for elections. But State Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said he thinks it is wrong the people who voted in a candidate would not be able to vote out a candidate. “How is it fair that a municipality can vote in a recall election that didn’t have the opportunity to vote in the general election in the first place?” Erpenbach said. “You are essentially treating these like general elections, not recall elections.” State Sen. Spencer Coggs, D-Milwaukee, said new voting lines should not be made official until senators have general elections.

“Just put it back to the way the law has always been in the state of Wisconsin … that we represent the districts we were elected to until there are regular elections,” Coggs said. But supporters of the amendment argued if people are not allowed to recall legislators from the new district lines, many would be stuck with an unwanted senator until general elections in 2014. “This recall landscape is a whole new world for us,” Lazich said. “If we do [what Coggs suggested] we are disenfranchising those odd numbered districts.” State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend argued the amendment is a “common sense, automatic, technical change that we should whip through the committee and the state Senate.”

society like how to tip, how to order or how to book hotels. CE offers both one-on-one conversation tutoring and group sessions. The group lessons are generally team-taught by two volunteers—this is where the need for tutors is greatest, Yan said. “A lot of international students find it easier to hang out with other international students because there is less of a

language and culture barrier,” Yan explained. “We want them to have the chance to get as comfortable as they can.” She said teaching the lessons is rewarding for student volunteers, yielding experience, letters of recommendation, friendship and new perspectives. “I’m sure a lot of people are interested but just haven’t found us yet,” said Yan.

tame festivities. No significant incidents of battery, sexual assault or property damage were reported to authorities. Frank Productions, the event promotions company contracted to administrate Freakfest, reported the sale of approximately 25,000-30,000

tickets for Saturday, down from 35,000 in 2010 and 44,000 in 2009. “From a police perspective, that was a success. But the numbers were down, and that probably says something to Frank Productions,” DeSpain said.

waiver in the summer session by amending the committee’s rules, and said Neibart did not have the authority to unilaterally decide MCSC’s waiver was invalid since the group turned it in late. The SJ ruled that, while SSFC was not supposed to amend the rules,

the committee did not intentionally break bylaws. Fifield said the ruling will impact future SSFC sessions by making it clear rules cannot be amended in the summer session. The body also said Neibart did have the authority to deem MCSC’s waiver invalid.


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hen I first heard the Gaslight Anthem’s gorgeous second album The ’59 Sound way back in 2008, it immediately struck a chord. The lyrics were powerful, fearlessly ham-fisted and cliché-ridden, floating on ethereal and soft-spoken working-class punk rock. Lead singer and guitarist Brian Fallon is the kind of foolish romantic trying hard to be a “real man” in a modern America where “real” men mostly work at desks, not on their hot rods or in the auto body shop. That prideful, wounded heart comes through strong in lines like, “For 10 long years I’ve been hustling around / trying to wash the sins and sweat from this brow.” The album became very special to me for all sorts of reasons. It rewarded my fetishistic obsession with ‘60s and ‘70s black music, name-dropping an overwhelming litany of jazz and soul veterans. It referenced tracks as dissimilar as Otis Redding’s “Mr. Pitiful” and Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town.” It had a blues track named after a hippie cult novel. It shouted “Casablanca”

like Fallon was trying to woo Ingrid Bergman herself. Mostly, though, it appealed to the part of me that wanted so hard to believe that nice guys didn’t always finish last and that a fatalistic romantic gesture like throwing a kiss-moist stone at a window frame would and could be rewarded. In “Miles Davis & The Cool,” Fallon delivers. “With a flick of a wrist and a turn of the key / you just fall in my arms.” It’s one of the album’s most beautiful and poignant moments, when rough-necked hero who “never had a good thing” finally hears his sweetheart’s voice, “sway sweet and slow.” To an immature 18-year-old kid who still believed in true romance, that track sounded like gold. Four years later, it was hardly remembered. Having lost the The ’59 Sound in one of those iTunes librarywiping rituals I used to pull every couple of months, the idealistic sentiments found therein seemed pretty unsuited for my late-college lifestyle. Fueled by alcohol and convenience, my cynicism had bloomed. As radical feministic riot grrrls had too great an impact on my understanding of power relations, I can’t be so hard on myself as to admit to misogyny. I certainly, briefly became

Young Man goes from YouTube to the stage By Jessica Sklba the daily cardinal

In case your Halloween weekend was not enough fun for you, grab a ticket for Young Man and Cold War Kids’ show at the Majestic Nov. 1. Young Man’s Colin Caulfield records and produces all of his own music. He is a multiinstrumentalist singer-songwriter. In other words, he can basically do anything. He is excited to bring his music to the stage and work alongside a band of talented musicians. Caulfield majored in English, and he attributes a lot of the characteristics of his music to his academic background. He writes songs in a structural way, as if presenting an argument. “I didn’t nail all of my papers, but I feel like I tried something different every time,” Caulfield said. “The same applies to my music.” Young Man rode the wave of Internet fame. He gained recognition through YouTube covers of famous bands including Bon Iver, Beach House and Ariel Pink. When Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox heard Caulfield’s cover of their song “Rainwater Cassette Exchange,” he said it was better than the original and began promoting Young Man to their active online community, immediately accumulating hoards of fans. Despite his lack of formal training, Caulfield shies away from calling himself self-taught. “The idea of being ‘self-taught’ is increasingly vague with the

Internet,” Caulfield said. “I can get in-depth vocal lessons for free on YouTube, so to say I learned everything on my own is kind of inauthentic.” Self-taught or not, he holds himself to high standards and draws inspiration from musicians such as John Lennon and The Beatles, Wolfgang Voigt, and Rufus Wainwright. The production of Young Man’s music is meticulous and time consuming. He layers the vocal harmonies with guitar, keyboard and percussions for the eight tracks of his latest album. When he performs live, he works with a band, and he is excited to expand his musical abilities. Young Man released an EP in 2010 entitled Boy, and his first full-length album Ideas of a Distance was released this September. Caulfield put a lot of effort into this album. “Trying to pick a favorite track is like trying to pick a favorite child,” Caulfield said. “I’m just so proud of all of them.” Fresh from a tour with Grouplove, Young Man is excited to kick off their tour with Cold War Kids in Madison. Caulfield’s musical history with Madison consists of playing a house party a couple years ago, so playing alongside the well-known Cold War Kids is a major step up. “It’s just a totally different vibe,” Caulfield said. “It’s really professional. It’s much more of a production. I’ve heard great things about the guys from Cold War Kids, so it will be a good experience.”

an avid and evangelistic antiromantic. Women were to be respected and fooled around with, but romance? That was kid stuff, a dangerous road best saved for that perfect and perfectly symmetrical, Nietzschequoting hipster chick that Godwilling didn’t exist.

Coming across a particularly attractive moral universe in a record will almost invariably assure my fandom.

Looking through the vinyl stacks at some record store a few weeks ago, I came across a copy of The ’59 Sound and remembered how I had really connected with that album a few years before. Putting it on later that night,

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the album immediately pulled me back into its seductive, old timey biosphere. Although the highly listenable music sucked me in, it was Fallon’s raven haired thieves and temptresses that kept my head spinning on weird frequencies. I played The ’59 Sound daily for weeks, and before I knew it, I was seeing the world in cool blues. Everything gleamed like some infinitely more innocent reshoot of “Sin City.” Even the women on the street looked a little different, and I was getting these aching longings like I hardly remembered. Not sexual urges necessarily, because those familiar pangs were never going anywhere. No, these yearnings were the kind that make you read Shakespeare and get you hurt. Seems to me that each record creates its own kind of moral system, has its own values and revels in its own remark-

able style. Thus, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way makes assumptions about what constitutes good music and proper human behavior in a very different way than even Lil’ Wayne’s Tha Carter IV would. I pay more attention than most to the imagined worlds created by sound and words. Coming across a particularly attractive moral universe in a record will almost invariably assure my fandom. My recent experiences with The ’59 Sound suggest that a record also has the potential to influence the listener’s values in a rather profound manner, but questions remain. What are the implications of the strong materialistic sentiments in modern pop music? Does free jazz have any potential for boosting creativity? Most importantly, when the hell does this crap wear off? Send all feedback to Alex at seraphin@wisc.edu.


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Steve Hughes The Young Progressives

It started with students. On a cold winter morning, February 12, 2011—the day after Governor Scott Walker introduced his now-infamous “budget repair” bill—students gathered outside Memorial Union. It was a ragtag and hastily assembled bunch of Teacher Assistants’ Association,

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The Young Progressives and College Democrats, but the crowd of about 80 students listened intently as the groups explained how important immediate action was. Then, on Monday—Valentine’s Day— over 1,500 students descended on Walker’s office in the Capitol Building to deliver wheelbarrows full of cards protesting the proposed cuts

to the University of Wisconsin. Thus began the protests that would soon grow to 70,000, 100,000, and, finally, 150,000 people filling Capitol Square. Today, over eight months later, we stand on the verge of finally being able to remove Scott Walker from office. Two weeks from today, volunteers across the state will begin collecting signatures to recall the

governor. Grassroots activist groups and individuals throughout all of Wisconsin— including on UW’s campus— will have sixty days to collect a minimum of 540,206 signatures, though they aim to collect over 700,000. “We’ve done the math ... and Wisconsin can’t afford any more days with Scott Walker as governor,” said Mike Tate, Democratic Party

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of Wisconsin Chair. Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold has also lent his voice to the recall movement, saying “Scott Walker has attacked the rights of Wisconsin workers, passed an undemocratic voter ID bill, and done the bidding of the Koch brothers and his deeppocketed corporate backers at every turn.” And UW students have the opportunity to be the vanguard of the recall effort. In the intervening months between the protests and today, Walker has cut over $300 million from Wisconsin’s universities, and halved the technical school budget—the largest cuts to the UW system in the history of the state. However, on campus, students and organizers have only 33 days to collect signatures before students leave for finals and winter break. This makes it especially important that students not only sign, but also volunteer to help reach out to their classmates in this shortened period. Students need to make their voices heard. “The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines,” said the late populist U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone. On Saturday, November 19, working people from across the state will gather on the Capitol Square. Students, led by The Young Progressives, will gather on Library Mall at 11:00 a.m. before marching to the Capitol to add our voices in opposition to Scott Walker. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. UW students have a vested interest in the removal of this governor from office, and we have only a short time to make our presence felt. Join us on November 19, and talk to your friends and neighbors about why it’s so important to be involved. Just remember: The movement started with that group of students on February 12. It can end with students, too. Steve Hughes is president of The Young Progressives. Please send all feedback to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

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Still recovering from Freakfest

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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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A FISHY PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Hannibal crossed them 5 Pauley Pavilion school 9 Howling scavenger 14 “In ___ of flowers ...” 15 Coward of England 16 Casaba, e.g. 17 Apparel 18 Certain instrumentalist 20 ___ de Triomphe 21 “Jelly Roll” of jazz 22 Last of 26 23 Considers, as a judge 25 Some literary pieces 28 Iridescent 30 At times, it’s a stretch 31 Arrest, in slang 32 Circle segments 36 RN’s specialty 37 California prison city 40 “Don’t make me laugh!” 41 Range 43 Somber 45 Crooned 46 Implored 48 Tropical fruit 51 Dirge’s tempo

52 Maugham’s “Cakes and ___” 53 Leg bones 56 “And the earth ___ without form” 59 Breakfast possibility 62 With adroitness 63 Macbeth’s honorific 64 Pearl Harbor locale 65 Hired thug 66 Stuff below a sneezeguard 67 Pear-shaped instrument 68 Golden parachute beneficiary DOWN 1 Aquarium organism 2 “Pants on fire” person 3 Possibly 4 Undersea prowler, briefly 5 Awaiting delivery, in a way 6 Sandpaper choice 7 “___ we forget” 8 Likewise 9 Patient care grp. 10 Tokyo tender 11 Miss Doolittle 12 Offensively curious 13 Chips in at the start 19 New York silver center

21 Chief support 4 Actor Wallach 2 26 Small bits 27 Old French coin 28 Table scraps 29 Orange juice component 30 Young fellow 32 Dream-period acronym 33 Fight the imaginary? 34 Roof edge 35 Hose or hoes’ place 38 Showy 39 Tote with effort 42 Govt. headed by Jefferson Davis 44 One living in a dump 46 Sad state of affairs 47 Word with “little” or “major” 48 Treaties 49 Island welcome 50 Brake part 54 Worshipped one 55 Steady 57 Gel used in cosmetics 58 Out of ___ (not agreeing) 60 Cell occupant? 61 Conducted 62 Birthday topic

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First month encouraging for young Badgers team By Ryan Evans The Daily Cardinal

According to head coach Mike Eaves, if you had told him at the beginning of the season that his young Wisconsin men’s hockey team (3-3 WCHA, 4-4 overall) would be .500 at the end of the season’s first month, he would have taken it, and that is exactly where the Badgers find themselves after their first four weekends of play. At the start of this year not many would have predicted Wisconsin would be sitting where it is at this point, but this young team has done its best to prove its doubters wrong and finds itself in fourth place in the WCHA after one month of play. As Eaves pointed out, people shouldn’t have been so quick to judge this year’s Wisconsin

team because young groups are unknowns and therefore hard to predict. “I really think that with a young team it’s hard to put an expectation on a team,” Eaves said. “It’s better to have an open mind, don’t limit them and don’t put low parameters on them.” “As we go along we’ll see how they grow and maybe for the second half of the season, once we have a better feel, we can set better parameters.” But, Eaves is the first to point out that, despite the Badgers’ promising start, this young group still has plenty it can improve on, specifically mentioning the team’s penalty kill, which allowed four power-play goals to NebraskaOmaha in Wisconsin’s 5-4 loss to

the Mavericks this past Friday. “We talked about [the penalty kill] again this morning,” Eaves said. “We looked to the reasons as to why I think we’re in a bit of a funk. We’re trying a lot of different people […] it’s an area that we know we have to get better. We’re doing some things. We just need to shore it up a little bit.” For the first time this season, Wisconsin was faced with maintaining leads this past weekend. Against Nebraska-Omaha, the Badgers built two 3-0 leads. In the first game they couldn’t hold it and lost, and while they won Saturday, they allowed the Mavericks to creep back into the game. Holding leads is a new mindset for a Wisconsin team that has usually found itself having to come back

in most games this year, and Eaves ition the past couple of weekends. said it’s something the team can’t “We said at the beginning as a learn by simply practicing. projection that we’d have to have “It’s really an emotional thing,” scoring by committee because we Eaves said of the ability to hold didn’t have anything really proven leads. “It’s about playing with coming back to a high degree and poise and confidence and we found some nice understanding what the things, Eaves said.” situation in the game is So we’re seeing and how to execute in that. things we really like and So a little bit in practice things we can build on.” goals helps, but it ultimately One player leading Wisconsin comes down to games.” the Badgers’ goal scorhas scored in its past One thing Eaves and ing charge has been four games his coaching staff have sophomore forward been impressed by the past Tyler Barnes. He is curcouple of weekends has rently riding a sevengoals been the Badgers’ scoring game point streak, and Wisconsin outburst. There were quesin the past four games he scored in its tions about the Badgers’ has tallied two goals and first four offensive ability after they three assists. But, Eaves games managed just eight goals is still looking for consisthrough their first four tency from Barnes. games, but in the four games “If we can get Tyler Barnes to since—in games against WCHA play Saturday like he does Friday rivals North Dakota and Nebraska- we’ll have something special,” Omaha no less—Wisconsin’s Eaves said. “He still hasn’t gone offense has broken out, lighting to that next level of consistency, so the lamp 20 times. we’re going to continue to push. Maybe more impressive than We pointed that out.” the goal-scoring numbers them“Tyler has aspirations of playselves is the fact that 13 different ing at the next level,” Eaves added, players have scored the 20 goals “and one of the definitions of playWisconsin has tallied in its past ing at the next level, and one of the four contests. After losing three of definitions of being a professional their top five scorers from last sea- athlete is the fact that you’re conson the Badgers knew they would sistent day in and day out, and have to find new sources of offense, that’s something Tyler is aware and Eaves said that is had been of, and we’re going to continue to encouraging to see that come to fru- push him to get there.”

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Tyler Barnes has a seven-game point streak, but Mike Eaves says he is looking for consistency from the sophomore forward.


Sports

Tuesday November 1, 2011 DailyCardinal.com/Sports

Football

Wisconsin aims to learn from adversity By Michael Tews The Daily Cardinal

Coming into the showdown against Ohio State, the No. 19 Wisconsin football team (2-2 Big Ten, 6-2 overall) was poised to make a statement and redeem itself after a devastating loss at Michigan State. Yet, in spite of the Badgers late rally, the nightmare from MSU returned when Buckeyes freshman quarterback Braxton Miller connected on a 40-yard touchdown to freshman wide receiver Devin Smith to nullify Wisconsin’s incredible comeback and give the Buckeyes a 33-29 victory. While clearly disappointed about lost opportunities that might have prevented the defeat, head coach Bret Bielema stressed about taking accountability and moving forward. “[We are] within a play or two arguably of winning each game, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out 8-0 sounds a lot better than 6-2,” Bielema said. “We kind of always talked about in our program being accountable for what we saw. Bottom line is we lost two games, and you have to own it and embrace it.” The Badgers will go back to the drawing board and work out some of the issues that have plagued them in the past two weeks, particularly on the defensive side of the ball.

Even with the strong play of junior linebacker Mike Taylor, who recorded 22 tackles, the Badgers’ defense was unable to stymie the Buckeyes’ running game and surrendered over 250 rushing yards. “We let the quarterback outside the pocket, and obviously the communication and busted coverage is unacceptable and its something we definitely have to correct,” Bielema said.“I would say most of our issues that have popped up have become two things: either a wrong alignment or assignment or lack of communication.” Senior quarterback Russell Wilson talked about the minor adjustments that the Badgers need to address.

“We lost a couple games on heartaches that will last a lifetime, but in the end it makes all of us stronger.” Bret Bielema head coach Wisconsin football

“We are doing a good job of converting when we need to and making plays when we need to, but there’s that little thing we are missing,” Wilson said. “A block, a throw, whatever it is we have to

capitalize on that.” The Badgers will need to take care of their business as they face Purdue in a pivotal divisional matchup as both teams are tied 2-2 in the Leaders Division. Wisconsin has won the last five games against Purdue but struggled last year as it was down 10-6 at halftime and had to fight back in the second half to secure the 34-14 victory. “Purdue returns more players than any other team in our league, and you can see where they play very well in stretches, Bielema said. “They have speed. Defensive line wise they have big guys inside that are going to be a difficult task for us. Their athetltic at the linebacker spot so it will be a tough contest.” The Badger defense will also be tested as it faces Purdue’s spread offense, which utilizes the wildcat formation to throw off defenses. “Out of all those spread teams, they have someone who impersonates the quarterback,” Bielema said. “Purdue ran a reverse when the quarterback was lined up as a receiver and threw it downfield, so we have to make sure our bases are covered and everyone is high aware.” Wilson relishes the opportunity for the team to make a statement against Purdue and show this team

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Russell Wilson and the Badgers will try to bounce back in a key Big Ten matchup with Purdue after two painful losses. is still capable of winning games. “The main things is looking at it as another opportunity,” Wilson said. “If you love the game of football, every opportunity is a blessing and every opportunity is a chance to excel on the football field.” The poise and perseverance Wilson exudes is a trait he attributes to his father, who taught him never to stop battling on the field

until the clock ran out. “My dad taught me about preserving,” Wilson said. “No matter what is going on in your life, no matter what is the situation during the game, you just have to keep pushing and keep working.” “We lost a couple games on heartaches that will last for a lifetime, but in the end it makes all of us stronger,” Bielema said.


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