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ASM endorses request to extend term

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By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

UW-Madison’s three shared governance groups are all on board with faculty’s request to extend Interim Chancellor David Ward’s term at the university for another year.

The Associated Students of Madison sent UW-System President Kevin Reilly a letter endorsing the request Wednesday, bringing the shared governance groups to a consensus.

The University Committee, the executive committee of the Faculty Senate, made the request last week and The Academic Staff endorsed it Friday afternoon.

In their endorsement letter to Reilly, ASM said extending Ward’s chancellorship would allow for more extensive dialogue about changes within the UW-System and at the university.

“We believe continuing the appointment of Interim Chancellor Ward for another year will allow for meaningful discussion about timely issues affecting the climate of UW-Madison and UW System surrounding governance, the personnel system and other flexibilities extending from the biennial budget,” the letter said.

Ward said he would consider staying another year if governing bodies within the university and the system feel it is in the best interest of UW-Madison.

“I’d like to let people think about it for a week or two,” Ward said. “The last thing I’d want to do after the spring is to create a controversy.”

Ward said he thinks it might be easier for him to deal with the upcoming changes at UW-Madison than a new chancellor because he is familiar with the university.

“I think the arguments being made make sense to me, but I am a patient person and I think these kinds of decisions need to mature,” Ward said.

Dean of Students Lori Berquam said UW-Madison is “in good hands with Chancellor Ward,” and the length of his chancellorship should be determined by how long it takes the university to select the best possible candidates for the next chancellor.

By Corinne Burgermeister

After nearly five years of lawsuits, UW-Madison will pay approximately $500,000 in taxpayers’ money to Badger Catholic, after denying the group funding for religious practices including prayer and worship practices in 2007.

The lawsuit began after UW-Madison withheld a portion of the $253,000 reimbursement requested by Badger Catholic, then known as the Roman Catholic Foundation.

In 2010, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the university violated the group’s First Amendment right to free speech.

The UW-Madison System Board of Regents asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review

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the ruling, arguing that a public university should not be required to provide funds specifically for religious worship activities, but the request was denied.

Nico Fassino, president of Badger Catholic said he is relieved that the final chapter of the lawsuit has ended.

“The payment is not the issue; I’m just relieved that this has finally come to a close and that this is resolved in a way that really affirmed Badger Catholic’s original position,” Fassino said.

The Supreme Court declared funding for religious groups like Badger Catholic is not a violation of the separation of

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Tommy Thompson faces critics from both political parties as he prepares to run for U.S. Senate.

Former gov Thompson all but in for U.S. Senate race

By Rachel Hahn and Samy Moskol The Daily Cardinal

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Five years after denying Badger Catholic funding for religious practices, UW will pay the group about $500,000.

‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal has roots in UW-Madison movement

By Scott Girard The Daily Cardinal

The military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is officially repealed Tuesday. Twenty-two years ago, UW-Madison became the first major university to officially criticize military policy toward gays and lesbians.

In 1989, gays and lesbians were prohibited from serving in the armed forces and could face discharge if they openly served.

At an emergency faculty meeting on Dec. 4, 1989, fac-

ulty called on the university to sever its contract with the ROTC if it did not stop discriminating against people based on their sexual orientation.

“I was very proud of the faculty,” UW-Madison Sociology Professor Joseph Elder said.

“On the whole, they thought [the policy] was absurd.”

The faculty vote passed 386 to 248, but on Feb. 2, 1990, the Board of Regents voted against ending the contract, opting

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Fo r m e r Wi s c o n s i n Governor Tommy Thompson told WTMJ Radio Monday he has filed paperwork to run for the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis. Even though Thompson has not officially announced his candidacy, he has created a campaign website and announced to members of his campaign staff. He will officially announce within the next two weeks.

Thompson will face former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann for the Republican nomination and may campaign against U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, the only Democrat to have officially declared.

On WTMJ Radio, Th o mp s o n c r it i c i z e d President Barack Obama’s fiscal policies. “[Obama] is addicted to spending and taxes, and if you look at my record, I cut taxes 91 times and created jobs,” Thompson said.

Thompson said he changed Wisconsin from a “blue to a purple state,” calling himself the “original conservative.”

During his four-term tenure as Wisconsin governor

from 1987 to 2001, Thompson reformed Wisconsin’s welfare program with the Wisconsin Works program, and created the BadgerCare and FamilyCare programs.

Thompson then worked as secretary of the Department of Human Health and Services under President George W. Bush, where he reformed a federal welfare program.

Thompson already faces criticism from both sides of the aisle about running for U.S. Senate.

National conser vative group Club for Growth began running ads against Thompson, questioning his stance on tax rates and the 2010 health care reform law in the last couple weeks. Club for Growth is supporting Neumann in the Republican primary.

After receiving a negative response from his own party, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin also criticized Thompson.

“Thompson has been too busy taking lobbying cash from Big Oil and Wall Street to stand up to the divisive, anti-Wisconsin agenda of Paul Ryan and Scott Walker,” DPW Chairman Mike Tate said in a statement.

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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

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After further investigation, the Madison District Attorney’s office announced Monday they will not file criminal charges against a Madison Metro bus driver involved in a fatal accident last June.

The accident killed 58-yearold Memorial Library employee Maureen Grant as she crossed Lake Street along University Avenue. Police say Grant was in the cross-walk and the walk sign was on when she was struck by a Madison Metro bus as it turned.

Bus driver Debra Foster will not face criminal charges for her

instead to continue lobbying the ROTC to change their policies.

The Regents’ vote led to sit-ins outside then-Chancellor Donna Shalala’s Bascom office, as well as at the Board of Regents’ meeting room in Van Hise Hall.

Police removed the protestors from Van Hise after 10 hours. Many protestors complained of police brutality, increasing the issue’s notoriety on campus.

Following in UW-Madison’s footsteps, Harvard University faculty voted to end their own contract with the ROTC program in late 1990.

From there, the issue traveled around the country, raising questions for the presidential candidates on the issue of gay and lesbian rights.

Incumbent President George H.W. Bush stood against gays’ right to serve in the military, and challenger Bill Clinton, who ultimately won the election, supported them.

After Clinton won the elec-

role in the accident, but according to the defense attorney’s office, Wisconsin State Patrol investigators found a significant blind spot on the bus that prevented Foster from seeing Grant until she was directly next to the bus.

Madison Metro released a statement Monday saying all Metro buses met regulations, but “left and right blind spots are common in all large vehicles, and Metro drivers are trained to handle [them].”

Madison Metro’s investigation into the incident is ongoing.

—Alison Bauter

Man hospitalized after brawl Sunday Police were called to a large fight on the 300 block of W. Johnson Street that hospitalized one man and injured one woman shortly after bar time Sunday morning.

By the time Madison police arrived at the bar, the fight was over.

A 25-year-old woman from Milwaukee was still on the scene, and told police a “man with dreadlocks,” possibly wearing a red plaid shirt was involved in the fight.

The victim said she was

punched in the head, but was not seriously injured, according to police.

However, the woman’s 25-yearold boyfriend, also of Milwaukee, was taken to a local hospital after suffering facial fractures, Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said.

According to DeSpain, Madison police detained a possible suspect, but the victim could not positively identify him.

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which the group hoped.

Fassino said the ruling will not only allow Badger Catholic to continue performing services on campus, but will allow religious student organizations across the U.S. to deepen their level of services provided to students.

thompson from page 1 Political Science Professor Kenneth Mayer said he thinks moderate Thompson may have an advantage over more conservative Neumann and liberal Baldwin, who has been ranked as one of the most lib-

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No charges in summer bus fatality

church and state, which according to Fassino is the “greatest affirmation” of Badger Catholic’s case.

“It was never about receiving compensation,” Fassino said, but added it was the outcome for

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eral members of Congress by the National Journal.

Mayer said Baldwin running against an extreme conservative like Neumann might have worked towards her advantage but a “centrist candidate like Thompson makes the road much tougher for her.”

tion, he compromised on the issue with the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which required the military not to openly ask whether a servicemember was homosexual.

But even with the change, if a service member was found to be homosexual, they were discharged from the military.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he would repeal the law if elected, and Congress officially passed the repeal in December 2010.

Gabe Javier, the director of UW-Madison’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center, said he thinks the repeal is “a great step,” but wishes to see more effort toward helping trans-identified service members, as well as civilian partners.

“It’s certainly a long time coming and we’re glad to support any service members who feel they can finally openly serve with integrity and honesty,” said Javier. “We’re very happy about that, but we also know there’s still a lot of work to do.”

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Efforts to combat discriminatory policy against gay and lesbians serving in the military began at UW-Madison in 1989.

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Gluttons: destroying local food Elliot ignasiak ignastrodamous

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adison is a great place to live for someone, like myself, who enjoys local food.

However, I am getting increasingly frustrated with the local food movement as it becomes more mainstream. I know many people associate local food with communities and sharing, but I think it needs to be more exclusionary—a members only club that requires a referral or an entrance exam.

Those of us who understand the true philosophy of local food must reclaim it, violently if necessary, before it is sold out to the unfit masses.

Like an “I voted” sticker, eating “local” has just become a cheap way to proclaim, “I give a shit about things that matter.

Occasionally, at least, anyway.

Plus, I’m eating healthy… well, kind of.”

As proof of how bad it has gotten, the other day I saw a

McDonald’s with a sign proudly proclaiming that the fine dining establishment was “locally owned and operated.” As if grandma was in back making a grass-fed hamburger while singing Polish folk music as she shaped the meat into quarter pound patties with her nurturing, clammy grandma hands.

McDonald’s is a company that has given children toys with lead paint from China and imports some of its meat from Australia and New Zealand because American cows can’t produce enough, even with our factory farms, antibiotics and genetically modified corn. The only thing local about a corporation like McDonald’s is the minimum wage employees it hasn’t been able to outsource to India.

McDonalds bastardization of the word “local” makes me angry, but one would expect such marketing tactics from such a massive corporation. However, even the farmers’ market is not immune to processed crap posing as local health food, and that makes me irate.

Listen up people: The farmers’ market exists to supply people with real, local, fresh produce. That means cucumbers, tomatoes, parsnips and (if you’re preferences are like mine) the occasional 10 pounds of elk heart—not cookies, lemon bars and scones. What you are eating is an unhealthy breakfast dessert—the fact that it is local doesn’t change that. I don’t care if you buy a fat-free, gluten-free, cholesterol-free scone from an Amish man. Even if the scone is made with organic brown sugar (which I’m pretty sure is not indigenous to Wisconsin), the “organic” label is not synonymous with healthy.

If you’re looking for a truly low-calorie, fat-free, glutenfree, cholesterol-free snack, skip the pastry and just eat the sugared napkin that comes with it. If your idea of supporting local food is going to the farmers’ market for a nutrientfree breakfast dessert, go take your leisurely Saturday morning walk elsewhere. Some of us go there to shop for products

we can’t buy any other day of the week at Starbucks. If you can’t think of anywhere else to go and put that chocolate chip, artificially flavored raspberry scone in your mouth I’m going to stick it up your ass.

Feeling guilty yet? You should. You’ve eaten over a 1,000 calories, and it’s not even noon. A walk around the Capitol just isn’t going to cut it, so why not take a jog to Picnic Point or swim across Lake Mendota? Better yet, do both and then jump off a cliff at Devil’s Lake. It’s gluttons like you who make the farmers’ market such a crowded hassle for natural foodies like me.

Besides, I’m sick of having to wait so long in line for the best part of the farmers’ market— the free cheesecake samples.

Tired of battling your way through mobs of people munching on cheese danish while you try to purchase handmade butternut squash ravioli and a delectable strawberry jam? Send your complaints Elliot’s way at eignasiak@wisc.edu.

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Woman groped on State Street

By Alison Bauter The Daily Cardinal

A man wearing a cowboy outfit sexually assaulted a woman on State St. Sunday, Sept. 11, police reported Monday.

Police said the woman, 20, was walking in the 500 Block of State St. around midnight when the stranger grabbed her in the groin.

The woman then called police and gave them a description of the man who, according to reports, was in his late 50s and wore a “cowboy outfit,” including a cowboy hat.

Although police said they located and spoke with a person of interest, they did not

have sufficient information to seek his arrest.

“If you think of this crime, it’s kind of a hit and run kind of crime,” explained MPD Lieutenant Mary Lou Ricksecker.

According to Ricksecker, sexual assaults of this nature are “not an uncommon occurrence on State Street.”

Police could not confirm whether the victim was a student, but Ricksecker said based on reports, “it appears she probably is.”

Ricksecker said the crime was not reported until almost a week later because police classify it as a “fourth degree sexual assault,” a relatively minor offense.

Program helping wrongly convicted criminals receives $1 million grant

By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal

A UW-Madison law school program that has effectively released 15 wrongly convicted prisoners in the last 12 years has been saved from being forced to make major cutbacks after it received two federal grants totaling $1 million in the past three weeks.

The program, called the Wisconsin Innocence Project, received the grants from the U.S. Department of Justice, allowing the program to continue providing legal assistance to inmates by preserving the number of students and attorneys involved.

Co-director John Pray said the program is critical for wrongly convicted prisoners.

“The difference...for these people could be the difference between...being released and living life in prison for something [they] didn’t do,” Pray said.

Pray remembers the first exoneration the program handled, which was of a man who confessed to a murder he did not commit.

“We got testing on him that proved he didn’t [commit the murder] and proved who did do it,” said Pray. “He was released and came to law school at UW and has gone on to become a productive citizen as a lawyer.”

Without the grants, the program would have been forced to cut student enrollment in half and lay off three of five staff attorneys, rendering it unable to provide legal services to inmates The grants will not only save the program from cutting students and faculty, but also will allow the program to increase student enrollment. “[The grant] allows us to expand our proactive program that looks for significant DNA testing, do more work that doesn’t involve DNA testing, take double the number of students and places a new attorney in the state public defender office,” co-director of WIP Keith Findley said.

According to Findley, the program allows students to handle real cases and represent clients under faculty supervision.

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The Japanese Karate Club offered beginners’ classes for students in Lathrop Hall Monday.

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Local reverends and residents alike waited late into the night to address city Plan Comission officials Monday over a contentious University Avenue high-rise proposal Monday.

UW Campus high-rise proposal approved

By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal

After hours of public testimonies, the Plan Commission voted 4-3 late Monday to favorably recommend the development of a high-rise apartment building on the UW-Madison campus to the Common Council.

The plan calls for the development of a 90-unit apartment building on land owned by the St. Francis’ House, a campus ministry on University Avenue near Grainger Hall.

“This is the direction the campus should be taking,” Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said, pointing out that the influx of new housing will help drive down neighborhood housing prices for students and other potential residents.

The plan is the latest incarnation of many divisive efforts to

develop the site that have pitted St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, which runs the campus ministry, against neighboring Luther Memorial Church.

For the many members of the public affiliated with St. Andrew and the St. Francis House, the apartment development is the key to the ministry’s survival.

“It’s hard to [financially maintain] the ministry, and this is a way to do that,” Mary Hastings, St. Andrew’s senior warden, said, pointing to the revenue that the potential eightstory complex could bring in.

Luther Memorial’s opposition to the project is also multifaceted, consisting not only of issues of noise, maintenance and safety, but also worries about their religious community.

Former Lutheran Bishop Jon Enslin said people are afraid

the new development will cause problems that will complicate church operations.

“They fear for their own congregations future,” he said.

In the end, a majority of the Plan Commission maintained that the issue came down to the interests of the larger neighborhood.

“At the end of the day, arguments about who likes their church the most or how important the ministry are really isn’t the issue here…it’s really about standards and how we manage conflicts with land use,” Eric Sundquist, a Madison resident and Plan Commission member said before voicing his approval for the plan.

The committee’s recommendation will be presented to the Common Council during their meeting Tuesday.

State Rep Pocan visits student government commitee

By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

U.S. Congress candidate and Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, told students Monday they should reach out to legislators from their hometowns to ensure student voices are heard throughout the state on important issues.

In a meeting with the Associated Students of Madison’s Legislative Affairs Committee, Pocan said while representatives from districts with UW-System campuses are used to thinking about student perspectives, others are not.

“A lot of times they don’t necessarily think about issues the way they probably should,” Pocan said.

Pocan urged students to “get creative” in the way they reach out to legislators. He said while sit-ins and protests might work when Democrats have the majority, Republicans might not be as influenced by demonstrative acts.

Students should use the extensive network of UW-Madison alumni to show legislators how beneficial the university is to the state’s economy, Pocan said.

Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers agreed with Pocan, and said reaching legislators through means beyond writing letters or protesting would be beneficial.

“I think that it’s important to change it up and I think it’s important that there are different ways we can go about influencing our

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Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, urges students to reach out to their legislators to have an influence in policy-making. legislators,” Somers said.

As he hopes to gain influence in the federal government, Pocan said students should not forget about nationwide student issues such as financial aid and job availability.

“If when you graduate … you can’t find a job in your field because the economy’s not quite there, we’ve got a real problem,” Pocan said.

ASM Vice Chair Beth Huang agreed with Pocan, and said federal issues have taken a backseat to state ones in ASM. Also at the meeting, the committee made tentative plans to send an email questionnaire to the student body to gain an understanding of what students think about the Mifflin Street Block Party.

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Alex Seraphin music columnist

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isconsin is not a state traditionally known for producing music of national prominence, though there have been a few notable exceptions. Steve Miller was a hero of mid-70s rock FM radio, Wisconsin’s laid-back ambassador to a format vice-gripped by mythic Detroit-bred elbow sleaze-grease. A decade later, the Violent Femmes had their solid one-album run as New Weird America’s sex-starved, eager vanguard. Now, one name on the national scene evokes Wisconsin.

Justin Vernon’s shockingly popular soft-rock outfit Bon Iver had a No. 2 album in June.

Even in a world where ‘units moved’ and ‘cultural impact’ have never been so frustratingly decoupled, the humble, podunk luddite-type in me gets a little kick out of Bon Iver’s market dominance.

Prior to June, the only tangible indication we had of Vernon’s real-world pop-regard was an enormous online/print presence and, more mysteriously, Kanye West’s bizarro-world recruitment of the falsetto frontman for two guest spots on his hopelessly overblown would-be pop manifesto My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

But what gives with all this hype directed at our humble homeboy? Despite Vernon’s recent attempts to distance himself from his lonely-man-in-the woods image, I would argue that For Emma, Forever Ago’s heartbreak and sickness narrative was a major factor in both its commercial success and critical acclaim.

I won’t repeat the story, because any Madisonian bothering to read The Daily Cardinal’s music column will have heard it repeated ad nauseum. Undeniably upperMidwestern, it was a beautiful and sad story perfectly complimentary to the album’s frosty arboreal artwork and the flannelwrapped raw-wounded character of the music. Knowledge of the

Bon Iver story lent For Emma an emotional weight, becoming as essential to the experience as Dylan’s anti-lefty electric conversion ‘myth’ had been to Bringing It All Back Home.

Of course, no album exists in a vacuum. Every act worth writing about, from Odd Future to Arcade Fire, has a PR-campaign creation saga. I find Bon Iver’s particularly interesting because it is so intrinsically entangled with Wisconsin.

Anyone desiring proof of Vernon’s purposeful public affection for the state need look no further than the UW gear he sports in side-project Volcano Choir’s promo pictures. Or better yet, check out the giant inked outline of Wisconsin on his left shoulder and neck. That Vernon’s home state is important to him does not need to be questioned.

I may ask, however, what his enthusiastic flag-waving Wisconsin pride might mean for those of us who consider ourselves fans.

Wisconsin, with its history of socialist mayors and McCarthyism, rustic Northwood resorts and Rust Belt urban decay, means plenty to its residents and plenty more to millions across the country. Even

by Midwestern standards, though, I think it is fair to say that Wisconsin does not signify pretense or self-importance.

Wisconsinites largely take a great deal of pride in their salt-ofthe-earth, blue-collar history. I hear it in the voices of folks as dissimilar as Janesville and Slinger Country-listening Tea Partiers and self-declared Milwaukeean ‘Union Thugs.’

This state wraps itself in its glorious beer-drunk and bruisedeye pride in a manner that would be quite unimaginable in my home state of Illinois, where Chicagoans (God love them) harbor arguably justified dreams of cosmopolitan exaltation and central and southern Illinoisans are regarded as alien.

Sure, I grew up loving Chicago, but what choice did I have? It was a mountain, capital of our corner of the world. Growing up in the city’s shadow-sprawl suburbs, I had always felt that the love was unrequited. Wisconsin, maybe, was the homely girl down

the street who would love me back. She wasn’t a princess or a porn star, but I thought she was beautiful. Which brings me back to Kanye West.

Although Vernon and West’s supposed working friendship remains fascinating musicnerd party talk, it strikes me as terribly discontinuous with the Bon Iver myth. Ultimately, West attempts to bring respectability and pretention (perhaps too much) to an essentially pop mass-market art form (hip hop— and I do not intend the description to disparage).

Vernon is really the opposite, a musician in an artistically pretentious niche field (indie rock), circumventing and subverting the cool exclusivity of the field and its canonized gallery of appropriate influences.

You won’t be able to find much of any influence from say, Radiohead (one of West’s favorite bands), on Bon Iver. You will, on the other hand, find quiet a bit of Bruce Hornsby and Bonnie Raitt, two terminally uncool artists Vernon name-dropped repeatedly in the promotional lead-up to his second album’s release.

You will also find “Beth/ Rest,” the album’s much-debated final track and creative lynchpin. With its glossy synths and canned drum sounds, the track strongly arouses in me childhood memories of driving around in my mother’s car, listening to Luther Vandross and Kenny G on WNUA 95.5, Chicago’s nowdefunct smooth jazz station.

The music was kitschy and overly earnest, the kind of crap Northwoods native Aunt Cathy might have nodded off to while I fiddled with my Game Boy Pocket during summer weeks in Rhinelander.

Later, in high school, I became a cool kid, disdaining the station and cruising past it during my 10-mile drive to Catholic school.

I still remember one morning commute, however, when a snatch of vocal from my youth stopped my hand cold on the dial. The song was Jackson 5’s ‘The Love You Save,” and I listened. What a great song.

Justin Vernon not Sconnie enough for you? E-mail Alex at seraphin@wisc.edu.

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Gallery Groove Got an itch for some visual art, sensical treats and cultural gravy? Check out these exhibitions happening around Madison this fall.

— Memorial Union — 800 Langdon St.

• Windows to Taiwan (Porter Butts and Class of 1925 Gallery)—visually documented development of photography in Taiwan.

• Observations (Porter Butts Gallery)—a series of drawings that portray the Jelena Berenc’s observations of nature.

• Skyships (Theater Gallery)—A psychic space-age graphic oil painting collection by Dennis Bertram.

— Union South — 1308 W. Dayton St.

• Chele Isaac: Anywhere (Gallery 1308)—an exploration of the American Dream through the lens of both turbulence and coherence.

Madison Museum — of Contemporary Art — 227 State St. • The Chicago Imagists­—a collection of various Chicago artists’ pieces in the late 1960s style of Imagist Art. • Chicago School: Imagists in Context—pieces that were inspired by or had an impact on the Chicago School of art.

• E Plurbius Unum: Artists Picture Society— perspectives on American ethnicity, gender, race, class and political belief from U.S. aritsts.

— Overture Center — for the Arts: 201 State St. • Free Speech/Speech Free—the idea of “free speech” portrayed graphically through art.

• Maren Munoz & Marcus Benavides, “Oddacity”—international relationships illustrated by woodcut printmaking.

— Chazen Museum — of Art 750 University Ave. • The Loaded Image: Printmaking as Persuasion—explores how prints have played as propaganda in several eras of America’s past.

‘Contagion’ proves to be an outright killer flick

By Matt Honig the daily cardinal

Surprisingly, the scariest movie of 2011 thus far doesn’t technically fall into the horror genre. With “Contagion,” A-list director Steven Soderbergh (the man behind hard hitting dramas like “Traffic,” but also the breezy diversions of the “Ocean’s” series) has shown his enduring versatility as a filmmaker. Shot in an all-toorealistic, practically documentary style, the viral anxieties of “Contagion” travel through the screen and right into your theatre. Bring Wet-n-Wipes with you for this one.

Soderbergh wastes no time in gripping the viewer. A chilling opening montage reveals

that a new virus has claimed victims in Asia and in Europe; America is next.

The film then breaks off into multiple narratives, all of them driven by solid performances.

Matt Damon plays an overweight Minnesota family man whose wife (Gwyneth Paltrow, improving here upon the not-so “Country Strong,” although in a much minor role) has come down with the virus.

Another subplot involves the super serious, but always composed Elliot Cheever (Laurence Fishburne,) a big-time doctor at Center for Disease Control. Much of the film follows the beauracratic work that Cheever and his coworker Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winselet) do to contain the virus.

The smoking-hot Marion Cotillard plays a World Health Organization epidemiologist investigating the disease in Japan. The best performance of the movie (perhaps even worthy of a Supporting Actor nod?) comes from Jude Law—a great actor whose skills too often go wasted (ahem, “Repo Men.”) He chews up the scenery as the egotistical, conspiracy theory-sprouting blogger Alan Krumwiede.

FILM REVIEW: A-

A major strength of “Contagion” is that the script generally does not play by the rules of Hollywood convention. A lot of people die (duh), including characters you don’t necessarily expect. Some critics have complained that the scientific lingo used in the movie is confusing, but it really contributes to the stark realism that Soderbergh brings to the table.

The story intensifies from beginning to end. Lingering shots of empty corridors, filthy stair-railings and deserted streets provide a feeling of quiet unease. These scenes are juxtaposed with graphic sequences of people succumbing to the virus in the grossest ways possible. All of the chaos is set to

frequent Sodebergh collaborator Cliff Martinez’s electronically infused score. This is easily the best soundtrack since Trent Renzor’s work on “The Social Network.”

“Contagion” isn’t for everyone, it isn’t light escapism.

Soderbergh’s work here is unrelenting, graphic and largely joyless. It is truly remarkable that a film so brutal and downbeat managed to get a PG-13.

Soderbergh pushes the rating to its outer limits, making the experience of “Contagion” more disturbing than any R-rated movie of recent memory.

Basically, if you like thrillers, get to the multiplex, now.

Just make sure you wash your hands afterward.

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Ryan waal opinion columnist When Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., announced her intentions to run for U.S. Senate, it excited and satisfied many liberal Wisconsinites.

Baldwin is an ideologically consistent, progressive public servant whose years of service to Madison and the nation have advanced the causes of LGBT rights, non-profit health care and peace-oriented foreign policy. And, perhaps not surprisingly for a Dane County representative, Baldwin was rated in 2011 as the most liberal member of the U.S. House of Representatives

by The National Journal— a distinction which will entice voters in Wisconsin’s 2nd and 4th congressional districts and students here on campus.

However, since Madison and Milwaukee do not represent the entire state, some commentators believe that Baldwin, the presumptive Democratic nominee according to recent Public Policy Polling, is too progressive to win her seat.

This may not be the case. In fact, Baldwin has a chance to beat any Republican challenger by using one simple strategy: embracing and promoting

her liberalism.

Baldwin is a left-wing guinea pig for future national and state elections. Baldwin can be credibly marketed as a congressional maverick. She has held steadfast to principle, voting against the Iraq invasion and voicing disappointment with Obama’s health-care plan. While other prospective candidates, such as the more moderate Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., would still provide different ideas than the current Republican Party, no prospective candidate has as strong a progressive offer as Baldwin.

Rep. Baldwin is a leftwing guinea pig for future national and state elections.

If you examine the most recent opinion polls, specifically those related to the atrocious debt ceiling negotiations earlier this summer, you’ll notice Congress has record disapproval rates. A recently released NBC-Wall Street Journal poll showed 82 percent disapproval of Congress as a whole after the debt debate finally concluded.

According to the same poll, 73 percent of the people polled said they believed the country was on the wrong track. These

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Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., addresses a crowd in 2010. She recently announced her candidacy for the 2012 U.S. Senate election. polls suggest that 2012 will be another anti-establishment year and one in which neither party has a clear advantage.

Sure, in 2010, Republicans took over Congress on a referendum of Barack Obama, but the polling that year suggested a disappointment with Obama.

This year? The Republican surge is fading fast, and the numbers suggest that both parties are almost equally to blame. If next year will be a referendum on the “status quo,” Baldwin’s unabashed liberalism will help her distinguish herself from the prevailing winds in Washington.

For many years, it seemed that Wisconsin had developed a liberal streak of sorts, represented by Democratic Sens.

Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold for decades. But after the election of Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who overcame a complete lack of political experience to defeat

Feingold last fall, it’s clear that anything is possible in recent elections. So why not pick someone who seems like an outside chance again? Why not pick a far-left candidate like Baldwin who actually freely vocalizes her support of progressive causes?

The time is right to pick a real liberal to capitalize on the anti-corporate progressivism seen in this year’s protests.

It’s tiresome to see the Democratic Party repeatedly campaign progressives who conceal their left-leaning ideals in state and national elections in order to win. While picking a moderate candidate to compete with a Republican is a frequent strategy of the left, it

often fails. The time is right to pick a real liberal to capitalize on the anti-corporate progressivism seen in this year’s protest at the Capitol.

Bottom line: whatever strategy is best, Democrats need to pick it.

With 23 U.S. Senate seats up for renewal in 2012 and a Republican majority firmly established in the House, as well as the potential election of a Republican president, Democrats will be facing an uphill battle to retain any control of government. And if the Tea Partyinfested GOP takes control, all Americans stand to lose from their economic and social policies.

This coming year, the strategy should be to deliver a bold alternative to the Republican agenda. And if bold is what we need to win, there is no better choice than Tammy Baldwin.

Ryan Waal is a sophomore majoring in English. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com

Walker still doesn’t understand how economy works Zach thomae opinion columnist Gov. Scott Walker picked a good time to introduce his weekly radio addresses. With low employment rates and his tenure still divisive, talking to the taxpayers is timely and important. Now that he has released an addressed titled “Jobs,” Walker can demonstrate his strong, common-sense understanding of what’s wrong with the economy.

We already have a good idea about what Walker thinks. Tax increases and burdensome regulations under former Gov. Jim Doyle and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett killed economic growth in Wisconsin. Job creators, uncertain about the future and their profit margins, stopped creating jobs, contributing to a dramatic rise in unemployment. Employers won’t be willing to hire more people until the job climate is more business-friendly. It’s a haunting story about how government overreach leads to a crisis, forcing us to tighten our belts and teaching us to let the magic of the free market work.

However, there is another

story. The collapse of the housing bubble and the financial markets were a shock to the economy. People started holding more cash, but not enough money was created to allow people to buy all of the other things they wanted.

Government spending helped these people out a bit, but this spending wasn’t enough to make up for the demand shortfall people and businesses faced.

This paints a very different picture from Walker’s tale.

Rather than being burdened by taxes and regulations, businesses aren’t creating jobs because customers aren’t willing to buy their products. In this case, we shouldn’t be worried about big government until we increase consumer demand and get people back to work.

Employers won’t be willing to hire more people until the job climate is more business-friendly.

Of course, these are just stories, and the real world is much more complicated than any story.

That said, the two stories predict different things about the econo-

my, and it should be possible to prove these predictions.

In his radio address, Walker claims that “many … job creators said one of their biggest challenges was finding skilled workers to fill their open positions.”

Since Walker doesn’t give a number, it’s hard to tell what this means. However, the National Federation of Independent Businesses has been tracking what business leaders have said are their “single biggest” problems for many years, and there is a clear verdict: Concerns about the quality of labor have gone down considerably during the recession, from roughly 15 percent to 5 percent.

Where did these worries go?

The results shouldn’t be surprising. Concerns about qualified workers have been replaced by concerns about sales, exactly as the second story predicted. To be fair, the surveys show that business leaders are also concerned about taxes and regulations, but these concerns have been stable over time. Business leaders haven’t heard about the sudden overreach of the government in the economy, and they have always been worried about taxes.

Even without numbers, it’s easy to see where Walker got his “facts.” His administration

has been soliciting advice from business leaders with an “Open for Business” survey. One of the questions asks businesses for the “largest obstacle [they] encounter when trying to maintain business growth.” However, there’s something curious about the survey choices: None of them are about sales. Unless Walker thinks that sales are never a problem for business expansion, this doesn’t make sense, except as a way to prevent a politically unwelcome answers.

Given Walker’s trouble understanding the economy, I don’t hold my hopes up for Wisconsin’s job creators.

Walker added that “the debate over the federal debt crippled the economy.” If this is implying that the national debt is worrying investors, then it’s not true. Interest rates on Treasury bonds are very low, meaning that investors are still willing to hold government debt without expecting high returns. If the debt was forcing an imminent crisis, investors wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it. In the

real world, Treasury bonds have been strong as ever, even during the debate over defaulting on the debt. The debt debate may have been bad enough, but that’s not all Walker said. According to him, this debate “crippled” the economy. Now, it’s true that the rise in employment went from nearly zero to zero during that time, but that’s hardly a sign of the economy being “crippled.” It’s more likely that Walker needed to blame something for the ongoing troubles and picked something recent. Needless to say, his economic world-view hasn’t become more accurate yet.

This radio address shows us something disturbing about Walker. Not only does he not understand why the economy is in trouble, he also isn’t trying very hard to find the answers. Given Walker’s trouble understanding the economy, I don’t hold my hopes up for Wisconsin’s job creators.

Zach Thomae is a freshman majoring in computer science. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com

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Today’s Sudoku

Nicer than the crossword

Evil Bird

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Eatin’ Cake

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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.

Imogine and the Goat

By Natasha Soglin soglin@wisc.edu

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Crustaches Classic

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com

A VERY HARD PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Bamboo eater 6 Discontinue 11 “Ben-Hur” author Wallace 14 Spirit of “The Tempest” 15 Usher in 16 Author Wolfert or Levin 17 Golf course named after a Flintstone?

19 “Don’t give up!”

20 Thug at work 21 Singing John from Middlesex 23 Auction off 24 Window grate 25 Big sister?

28 Cop’s order 30 Ho Chi Minh Trail locale 31 Game or battle site 32 Apply knuckles to wood 35 It might give you chills 36 Two-footed 38 Southern college nickname: ___ Miss 39 End of a school pledge 40 Consumers 41 Garbage hauler 42 The ‘70s, e.g.

44 Strokes of unanticipated luck

46 Like a ninja 48 Basketball crowdpleaser 49 Garcon’s list 50 Island group giant tortoises 55 Arithmetic directive 56 The first U.S. National Park 58 Fjord relative 59 Exhilarate 60 Demonstrating good posture 61 Exist, to Popeye?

62 Some vending machine selections 63 Accepts a challenge DOWN 1 Nickname for Haydn 2 Aphrodite’s love 3 Calligrapher’s fine points?

4 Lowers in dignity 5 Axis opponents in WWII 6 Bunch of schemers 7 “East of ___” 8 “I ___ my wit’s end” 9 [not my mistake] 10 Otherworldly 11 Arkansas capital 12 He playd Robin 13 Batman, really 18 Old measures equal to 45 inches 22 Actress Taylor, to tabloids

Actress Rowlands First radio code word?

Debutante’s party Project for giant beavers?

28 “___ Jacques” 29 Professional team in Ohio 31 Copied 33 Plant with medicinal qualities 34 They’re positioned in the church 36 Ohio State players 37 “Gosh!” to an Englishman 41 Large Indonesian island 43 ___, drink and be merry 44 Imperfection 45 Was not renewed 46 Spine-tingling 47 Olympic gymnast Comaneci 48 Fruits of the blackthorn 50 Word before “hand” or “rags” 51 Utah ski haven 52 Attendee 53 Twice from thrice 54 Places for making soaps?

57 “Telephone Line” group

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Nosbusch’s goal gives Badgers a big win to open Big Ten schedule

By Rex Sheild The Daily Cardinal

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Joey Tennyson’s goal against Drake on Friday was his third of the season, making him the team’s leading scorer on the year.

UW goes unbeaten during two-game weekend road trip The Wisconsin men’s soccer team (0-0-0 Big Ten, 3-3-1 Overall) was in need of two good results this past weekend as it traveled to UIC. Looking to halt a three game losing streak, the Badgers headed to Chicago to face Drake University (4-3-1) and SIU Edwardsville (3-2-2) in their last Friday-Sunday game weekend of the season.

Wisconsin started the weekend off strong, easily getting by Drake in a 3-1 victory. Friday night’s win was the first in four games and brought the overall record back to .500.

Striking early, the Badgers entered halftime with a comfortable 2-0 lead on goals by sophomore midfielder Nick Janus in the 18th minute of the game and sophomore midfielder Joey Tennyson as the first half neared its end.

The goal by Tennyson was his third in five games and was enough to make the young star the team leader in goals scored this season.

Not long into the second half, Wisconsin cemented its lead and eventually the win as sophomore midfielder Trevor Wheeler netted the third goal of the game and his first of the season.

The Bulldogs responded quickly to the Wheeler goal, scoring just over two minutes later. However, the goal was too little too late as the

Badgers took the final decision.

After earning a start Friday night and playing exceptionally, sophomore goalkeeper Max Jentsch found himself in between the pipes again Sunday afternoon as the Badgers took on SIU Edwardsville.

Despite another strong outing by Jentsch and the Badgers, they would play to a draw against the Cougars.

After finishing the first half with 0-0 tie, Wisconsin would once again be the team that opened the scoring. The Badgers would take a 1-0 lead late in the game on a beautifully placed header by sophomore forward Chris Prince.

SIU found the equalizer, however, on a goal by the Cougars’ Derek Huffman. SIU’s goal came in the 86th minute of the game and forced overtime.

Neither side was able to find the game winner during the extra time, and after 110 minutes of play, the game would end in a 1-1 draw. Even though a draw is not the ideal outcome, the Badgers ended the two game road trip without taking a loss, bringing their record up to 3-3-1.

The Badgers returns home this upcoming Sunday as they host Loyola Marymount. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Dan McClimon Memorial Complex.

UWBadgers.com contributed to this report.

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and Kansas City markets.

Missouri

Kansas

By Matthew Kleist The Daily Cardinal

Missouri was a candidate to join the Big Ten during round one of expansion last summer, but as we all know the conference ended up going with Nebraska and capping the additions at that. However, that doesn’t mean Mizzou shouldn’t be discounted should Delany give in and further expand the Big Ten. Missouri has a rivalry with Illinois that is waiting to burst onto the national scene as well as potential regional rivalries with Iowa and Nebrasksa.

The Big Ten is always looking to grow the BTN as well and push the conference brand to new parts of the country. Adding Missouri would bring in both the St. Louis

The Jayhawks have pledged their loyalty to the Big 12 in the past, but if the conference implodes (and it looks like it will) what’s to say they won’t entertain a Big Ten offer?

They fit in demographically with the conference and the addition of their basketball program would take the Big Ten to the next level in terms of national prominence.

In terms of TV ratings, Kansas would cement the Kansas City market for the Big Ten What schools do you think the Big Ten should pursue should it choose to add more members? Let Ryan know at rmevans2@dailycardinal.com.

A goal from senior forward Laurie Nosbusch and a superb defensive effort helped the Wisconsin women’s soccer team open Big Ten play with an impressive 1-0, win over No. 21 Penn State on Saturday afternoon at McClimon Soccer Complex.

“Anytime you beat a team that has won the Big Ten the past 13 years is a big thing, especially to open up the Big Ten,” head coach Paula Wilkins said.

“In terms of a Big Ten Championship, it’s just one little game and we have 10 more to go.”

Senior goalkeepr Michele Dalton was tested throughout the game by an aggressive Penn State offense. An early attack came from the foot of Nittany Lions’ junior midfielder Maddy Evans at the 11th minute mark, but Dalton made a diving stop, one of her seven.

The Badgers’ scoring opportunities were few and far between. They only two shots on the goal but Nosbusch took advantage of it in the 18th minute for the eventual game-winner.

Junior defender Lindsey Johnson used a flip throw-in from the far side of the field to get the attack started. Junior defender Joana Bielefeld got enough of a head on it to pass it to a wide-open

Nosbusch for an easy tap in goal, her fourth goal of season.

“I was just in the right place at the right time,” Nosbusch said.

Penn State was on the attack for most of the second half with a 7-1 advantage in shots and had a great scoring opportunity by senior defender Emma Thomson in the 68th minute but Dalton made a great punch save that sailed over the net to protect Wisconsin’s lead.

Despite seven shots on goal for the Nittany Lions, none of them came from sophomore forward Maya Hayes, the NCAA leader in goals scored, due to the

stifling Badgers defense.

“One of things was organizing our back four,” Wilkins said.

“We changed our personnel from past games putting [sophomore defender] Alexandra Heller in the middle and putting Lindsey Johnson out wide.”

The physicality in the Big Ten opener was at a premium for both teams with 38 fouls being called and six yellow cards being handed out.

The Badgers are back in action next weekend with a game against Michigan State on Friday and Michigan on Sunday.

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Laurie Nosbusch was the hero over the weekend against Penn State, scoring the game-winning goal in the 18th minute.

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Badgers’ title defense begins this weekend against Lindenwood

By Nico Savidge The Daily Cardinal

Before opening its season Friday night, the top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team will watch as a banner celebrating its 2011 national championship rises to the Kohl Center rafters. Once there, that banner will occupy space next to three others from title runs in 2006, 2007 and 2009—and, the Badgers hope, will be joined in a year’s time by another reading “2012.”

While Wisconsin fans will inevitably look toward next spring and another notch on their dynasty’s belt, head coach Mark Johnson is focused on something more immediate. He is concerned with what happens a few minutes after that banner finds its new home—and his players go to work on the ice beneath it.

“As most coaches will tell you, we don’t like distractions. We like kids to focus in and get in a good, solid routine and stay there,” Johnson said. “As that banner is starting to be hoisted it’s one of those memories that will certainly sit in the back of their mind for the rest of their lives. But how they’re going to react? I don’t know. I just hope that when they drop the puck they’re ready to play.”

You do not have to look back far to see a Wisconsin team that arguably was not ready to play soon after seeing a banner go up. The last time the Badgers opened a season as defending national champions, against North Dakota Oct. 9, 2009, they fell to the Fighting Sioux 2-0 in a

game that foreshadowed a season full of disappointment.

This time around, there are fewer indications that Wisconsin will suffer the same letdown. Unlike the 2009-’10 season, the Badgers have not lost almost all of their top scorers, a legendary goaltender and their head coach. And their opponent Friday, Lindenwood, is far less talented—the Lions’ women’s hockey team will make its debut as a Division I hockey program over the weekend.

Still, they will have to deal with the loss of team captain and Patty Kazmaier Award winner Meghan Duggan, and a slew of other seniors.

“The one thing about our business is that you lose quality people, you lose quality players, every year, and then you try to fill them in,” Johnson said.

Attempting to fill that void will be a class of freshmen who have plenty of opportunities to show what they can do in the series. With four players—junior defensemen Stefanie McKeough and Saige Pacholok, senior defenseman Brittany Haverstock and senior forward Carolyne Prevost—away at Hockey Canada camp, Johnson said Wisconsin’s freshmen will play a big role over the weekend.

“They’re going to get a lot of ice time,” he said. “The bench will be a little bit short this weekend and our young ladies will certainly get an opportunity to get their feet wet in a hurry.”

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UW will see its 2010 national championship banner raised on Friday in its season opener against Lindenwood.

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Russell Wilson and Nick Toon connected for five completions and two scores against NIU Saturday, demonstrating what Bret Bielema calls “an obvious connection” between the two.

Tough Coyotes team looms for Wisconsin

By Matt Masterson The Daily Cardinal

While South Dakota may not be a team that strikes fear into the hearts of most college football fans, don’t expect that to change the way the Badgers prepare for their opponent this weekend. Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema knows that if his team wants to win, the Badgers can’t change the way they practice, regardless of who they are playing.

“Saturday we need to execute; it doesn’t matter who we’re playing, if it’s South Dakota, Northern Illinois, Oregon State, Nebraska, it’s the same for our guys.” Bielema said.

Consistency is clearly the Badgers’ main prerogative in practice this week as they head into Saturday’s game at Camp Randall.

“If you want to put in the extra time, the success you’re going to have is winning bowl games,” Bielema said.

Bielema understands that while the opponent may change from week to week, the work that his Badgers need to put in, in order to win must stay the same.

“If our preparation this week changes from what it was last week against Northern Illinois, or the week before against Oregon State, or to go ahead a week against Nebraska, then we are setting ourselves up for failure,” Bielema said.

South Dakota is returning a surplus of veteran leadership on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball from. The 2010 squad was able to knock off Big Ten rival Minnesota at TCF Bank Stadium. That win, coupled with a convincing victory over 2010 FCS champions Eastern Washington this season, shows that the Coyotes may not be the cupcake that many people expect them to be for Wisconsin.

The Coyotes have not shown any signs of intimidation heading into what will surely be the most difficult game, in the fiercest environment, of their 2011 season.

“One of [South Dakota’s] defensive linemen said they were going to come in here and hit us in the mouth.”

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“They lack nothing in confidence overall,” Bielema said.

“Their kids are excited to play us. One of their defensive linemen said they were gonna come in here and hit us in the mouth.”

If the Badgers want to contain the Coyotes and prevent a catastrophic upset this weekend, they will need to utilize their veteran

leadership, which starts with seniors wide receiver Nick Toon and quarterback Russell Wilson.

“Nick Toon has played the three most complete games that I can remember for a long time,” Bielema said. “Russell and him obviously have a connection.”

That connection led to five total catches by Toon, including two for touchdowns, which helped pace the Badgers during a pass-happy first half against Northern Illinois.

Toon, along with fellow wide receiver Jared Abbrederis, was rewarded for his efforts against the Huskies by being named the Badgers’ offensive MVP for the week by Bielema.

The main injury news this week for the Badgers came from senior right tackle Josh Oglesby who injured his left knee Saturday.

Oglesby has missed significant time over each of the last two seasons with knee injuries, including the final six games of 2010. However this injury appears to be minor. He underwent an MRI on Monday, and his outlook appears to be very good.

“All the preliminary indications have been very, very positive,” Bielema said.

“There is a very good chance he will play this week, if not, for sure next week as long as the MRI comes back all clean.”

If the Big Ten decides to expand, these are the school they should target Ryan Evans sans flattop

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n the past few weeks, conference movement and re-alignment has dominated the college football news cycle.

Through all of this talk of expansion/re-alignment chaos in the Big 12, Big East, Pac-12 and SEC, Big Ten conference commis-

sioner Jim Delany has stood firm on his stance that the conference will not pursue further expansion and is content with the current 12-team league following last summer’s addition of Nebraska.

But the question I have is with the winds of college football change gaining strength each day is it possible for the Big Ten to stay out of the path of the storm? You have to keep up with the Joneses.

So, let’s say the Big Ten does dip its toes into the expansion

waters. Who would be the best targets? These are the teams on whose door I would go knocking based on academic prestige (AAU membership) regional fit and success across multiple D-I sports:

Notre Dame

The Fighting Irish are the obvious first choice, right?

They are almost too perfect a fit. They are a renowned academic institution, helping the Big Ten maintain their academic stan-

dards, and Notre Dame is located right in the middle of Big Ten country. The Fighting Irish would bring added prestige to the conference as well as huge ratings to the ever-growing Big Ten Network.

Notre Dame plays games against a number of Big Ten schools each season and has a historic rivalry with Michigan, so why not go a step further and officially join the conference? Plus, should NCAA football become a collection of super conferences Notre Dame risks

being left out in the cold should it remain independent.

Even with Delany’s proclamation that the Big Ten will not pursue expansion, there are well-held beliefs that if Notre Dame declares it is ready to forfeit its independent status, the conference will jump at the opportunity to add the Irish and the Irish will feel forced to give in should super conferences become a reality.

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