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ESPN’s College Gameday to visit UW

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Freakfest officials announce featured bands, price increase

By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal

Freakfest organizers announced musical acts and raised ticket prices Monday for the State Street Halloween celebration.

All Time Low and Neon Trees headline this year’s performances, which include an assortment of national and regional musicians. Ready Set, the Big Strong Men, Quiet Corral, famed underground rapper MURS, Madison-bred Locksley and Chicago’s JC

Brooks & the Uptown Sound round out the lineup.

Frank Productions, the concert promotion company that has run Freakfest for the past five years, also announced a slight bump in ticket prices. Tickets bought in advance have been raised from $7 to $8, and those bought the day of the event have increased from $10 to $12.

In raising ticket prices, which are agreed upon by Frank Productions and the

ESPN’s College Gameday announced Monday it will broadcast from Bascom Hill when it visits UW-Madison for the Badgers’ Big Ten opener against Nebraska Saturday.

The program will broadcast live on ESPN and ESPN U from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

UW Athletic Department Spokesperson Brian Lucas said the coverage is a tremendous opportunity for the university to showcase itself.

He said in addition to the threehour program Saturday, ESPN will highlight Madison and the football team the entire week leading up to the game.

“That type of exposure is just priceless in terms of recruiting not only for football, but also for all other sports,” Lucas said.

Lucas said he is proud Gameday chose UW for the second year in a row because it selects universities based on a combination of fan

support and what it anticipates the weekend’s best game will be.

Last year, Gameday visited the university when the Badgers beat then undefeated Ohio State.

UW head football coach Bret Bielema said he hopes an atmosphere, similar to last years against Ohio State, will lead to an “electric” game Saturday.

“If [the atmosphere] can get anywhere close to the Ohio State game last year—just the excitement, the energy—I know our kids really fed off of it,” Bielema said at a press conference.

According to Lucas, the difficult matchups the Badgers have had reflectsthe strenght of the football program.

“For our team to be involved in that many [important] games, we can just be proud,” Lucas said.

This will be Nebraska’s firstever Big Ten conference game, and is the first time since 1962 that two top-10 teams will face off at Camp Randall Stadium.

mayor’s office, officials hope to raise Freakfest’s quality and revenue.

“We’re trying to spend a little bit more on talent and production and beef up the amount and caliber of the bands we have at both stages,” said Frank Production’s Charlie Goldstone. “The city has operated the event at a loss every year, and we’re just trying to [help] close

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ESPN’s College Gameday will visit Madison for the Badger’s Big Ten opener against the Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday

Student ID stickers to vote under voter ID law criticized

By Samy Moskol The Daily Cardinal

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Police and service personnel worked to remove a fallen tree on Spring Street Monday.

The Fitzgerald brothers requested Monday that a legislative committee review the legality of a statewide policy that allows universities and colleges to put stickers on student identification cards for students to vote under Wisconsin’s new voter ID law.

The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board decided earlier this month to allow stickers on student IDs with the information now required to vote—an issuance date, a student signature and an expiration date—under the Republican-backed law.

This move came after critics of

the law argued it would marginalize student voters originally from outside the state, because no Wisconsin college currently has IDs with the necessary details and the process to change IDs would be costly.

However, state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, and Speaker of the Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald, R- Horicon, asked the Joint Committee to review administrative rulesin order to examine the GAB’s decision to allow stickers, which they said will hinder “clean” and “fair” elections in Wisconsin.

“Elections are supposed to be a true measure of the will of the

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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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t all started when the girl I was dating told me, “You are the most arrogant, self-centered person I have ever known.”

“I am,” I replied with a grin, delighted at the compliment.

“I want you to read this book on Narcissism or we’re not seeing each other anymore.”

“I am,” I replied again, not listening to what she was saying after hearing the words “I want you to...”

Apparently she’d taken my automatic response as a gesture of agreement because there she was the next day with a determined look on her face and a copy of The Narcissism Epidemic in her hand.

“Look I’m not going to take the time out of my important life and read this book for you, okay?” I informed her.

However, after much protest I hesitantly decided to give it a chance. After all, the book was all about me—a topic I quite enjoyed.

As I read through the book I compared my personality to the typical Narcissist: 1. Has a grandiose sense of self importance—check.

2. Holds unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment—check.

3. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes—check.

4. Is confident that their life stories and opinions are so interesting that complete strangers will read them with fascination every Tuesday—check.

After taking the survey, all I could think was, “where are my royalties? This book reads like a biography about my life.”

In reality though, it was quite an awakening for me. I realized that while my Narcissism was winning surface level admiration, it was stopping me from having truly meaningful, interdependent relationships. For the next few months, I made an effort to be more empathetic, and to take interest in others and not always put myself first.

My behavior changed, but I still felt trapped by the Narcissist label, wondering if I was truly being genuine or just trying to cover up my disease.

Then one day I heard the news: a proposal had been made to remove Narcissism as a distinct disorder from the psychologist’s diagnostic manuel, the DSM-V. I was relieved. I could take the lessons I’d learned and be more caring with others, but I would no longer have every single behavior of mine scrutinized by my lady friend as if I were some type of Narcissist.

We are the few, the proud, the Narcissists, and we demand you give us our due attention.

But then I began to wonder if getting rid of Narcissism was worth the trade off. Narcissism is already one of the more understudied personality disorders.

How dare they further marginalize narcissists? Now psychologists want to take us out of their books and pretend that we don’t exist? We want more chapters in college textbooks, more New

York Times bestsellers!

Think that is too much to ask? Think again, pal. We give you psychologists a job. How many clients would you be able to cure if there hadn’t been some narcissist in his or her life to break their hearts, spend their life savings or make them feel depressed and insignificant? You need us!

We’re the people who run Wall Street, the money you wish you could have. We’re the models on magazine covers, the bodies you wish you could have. We’re the musicians who write the songs you wish you wrote, and the athletes who make millions of dollars entertaining stadiums full of people who wish they had the athletic ability we have. We are your entertainment, your economy, the best sex you’ve ever had.

We make your life worth living! Anyone can be paranoid or dependent but not many have what it takes to be us.

We are the few, the proud, the Narcissists, and we demand you give us our due attention.

Been diagnosed with Narcissistic personality disorder? Learn to cope with Elliot at eignasiak@wisc.edu.

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Creative Writing on Campus: Poetry Restaurant on Rye Kasia Manolas My hands as soft as unsettled snow, They’re still injured from kneading bread dough.

While my eyes sprinkle them with hail, I notice him standing there as if behind a veil.

With a glance, I see his black suit and tie.

He’s a stranger in a restaurant on Rye. I rip at the cream’s lid, its thin rim.

But when he sees me I’m suddenly aware of every limb.

They’re sucked into quicksand, unable to get out, Wishing to move towards him, to walk without doubt.

My face resembles the whitest bread; He has eyes I have neither seen nor read.

My vision halts, my own hands a blur.

I try to hold my coffee and begin to stir.

I imagine what I’m wearing—what’s he seeing?

A soft yellow dress— flowing and freeing.

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Gray wolf no longer endangered

By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

The Multicultural Student Coalition filed an appeal to the Student Judiciary Monday against a student government committee’s decision to limit the group’s funding.

Badger Catholic Chair Nico Fassino told the same committee his group, who recently won a lawsuit against UW-Madison for denying the group money in 2007, is eligible to receive funding.

“I assumed they would file an appeal, and they have every right to.”

Sarah Neibart ssfc chair

The Student Services finance committee denied MCSC’s request to be eligible for $1.27 million in funding last week because the group submitted their waiver past deadline, thus capping MCSC’s funding at $250,000.

MCSC’s appeal contains fourteen specific complaints against SSFC, including claims the committee did not inform MCSC of the punishment for turning in the waiver late and failed to be “reasonably helpful” once MCSC made it clear they were going to apply for

stickers from page 1 people,” said Jeff Fitzgerald in a statement.

“The legislature has a responsibility to make sure that ethics and elections laws are properly enforced and not misinterpreted.”

“We have a process in place to make sure that this non-partisan board is enforcing the Legislature’s laws in a non-partisan way,” Scott Fitzgerald said in a statement.

They also requested the committee review the GABs plan to allow recall petitions downloaded online to have pre-printed information.

The committee will meet Tuesday to discuss the legality of the GAB’s initial decisions.

The same day the Fitzgerald brothers requested the law be reviewed, state Rep. Andy Jorgenson, D-Fort Atkinson, criticized

more than $250,000 in funding.

SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said she expected the appeal.

“I assumed they would file an appeal, and they have every right to,” Neibart said.

But Neibart said SSFC did everything within their power to notify groups of the deadline and ensure groups’ success.

Neibart said SSFC did not violate any laws.

“I’m confident in SSFC’s decision and I think we, procedurally, were right so I don’t foresee any negative circumstances coming our way,” Neibart said.

The Student Judiciary will assemble a panel tomorrow to determine if MCSC has grounds for an appeal, Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield said.

MCSC declined to comment on the matter.

Also at the meeting, Badger Catholic leader Nico Fassino spoke to SSFC, saying the group was eligible to receive funding.

Recently, UW-Madison paid Badger Catholic $500,000 after the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the university violated the group’s First Amendment right to free speech by denying it funding for religious practices in 2007.

Fassino said Badger Catholic provides mentoring to students and works to facilitate campus-wide discussion about faith and fulfills all requirements necessary to receive funding.

SSFC will decide whether the group is eligible for funding Thursday. the Walker administration’s use of $1.1. million from a public campaign fund to implement it.

The Wisconsin Election Campaign Fund, which uses public money to give grants to “underdog” candidates, is empty, according to Jorgenson.

The bill would restore the money, and re-implement the public financing program that has helped fund 11 current Wisconsin lawmakers from both sides of the aisle.

“The dollars taken were never the state’s to use. They were the peoples given in the hope that the underdogs, not just the well-connected, could guide the future to our state,” Jorgensonsaid in a press conference Monday.

“It’s time we put it back and restore some measure of the public trust,” Jorgenson urged.

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award, originally established by President Clinton in 1996, as the highest honor for scientists and engineers starting their careers.

Recipients including Arnold and Fredrickson will receive research grants for up to five years.

Arnold’s research focuses on using inorganic and organic electronic materials for different forms of energy.

Fredrickson is currently leading a research project focusing on metallic chemical bonding.

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Environmental studies a hot major in US U.S. News and World Report mentioned UW-Madison’s recently introduced environmental studies program in a report listing “hot college majors” Monday.

The report ranked environmental studies and sustainability majors as number three on their list of nine degrees in “fields of the future.”

According to report, “defining issues of the century” such as issues of energy, climate, water, food and health have led to an increase in environmental studies programs.

“Economic surveys show that envi-

ronmental fields are where some of the most rapid job growth will occur between now and 2016,” Nelson Institute Interim Director Gregg Mitman said at the time of the major’s approval in a UW news article.

According to Mitman, the new major helps provide students with the tools to build a green future.

Students enrolled in the program are required to take courses in food and agriculture, health, energy, biodiversity, climate, history and culture, land use and policy.

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Since its transformation into a ticketed event, Freakfest has been heavily subsidized by the city. Expenses have gradually decreased, but the festivity still cost taxpayers around $35,000 in 2010.

Goldstone said he does not believe the change will have any real affect on attendance. The increase also has precedent, as prices were last raised from $5 in advance and $7 at the gate in 2008 with similar justifications.

“It’s a pretty modest ticket price looking at the whole value of the event,” said Goldstone. “You’ve got eight national acts, most of which if you were to pay to see them would cost

“The city has operated the event at a loss every year and we’re just trying to [help] close that gap.”

President Obama to honor two UW professors President Obama will honor two UW-Madison professors among 94 scientists and engineers in Washington October 14, with awards for extraordinary achievements and leadership in the science community.

UW Engineering Professor Michael Arnold and Chemistry Professor Daniel Fredrickson earned the Presidential Early Career Award for success in their independent research careers.

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SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said the committee’s decision to limit MCSC’s funding was legal and does not foresee problems for SSFC with the appeal.

Wisconsin federal legislators lobbied Monday to remove gray wolves from the federal endangered species list after their recent increase in population.

In a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and the other Wisconsin congressmen said the Wisconsin gray wolf population has returned to an ecologically manageable size and therefore should be removed from the Endangered Species list.

The Wisconsin gray wolf population, which is estimated to be between 782 and 824, now exceeds the federal recovery goal of 100 and the Wisconsin Wolf Management Plan of 350. Legislators argue this population revival more than justifies the wolf’s removal from the list of endangered species.

The species has recovered so well that the wolves now struggle with a significant decrease in space.

Lawmakers highlightthis graph represents the ed the threat gray wolves extreme spike in the Wisconsin have posed to local farmgray wolf population over the past 21 years. ers. They said the wolves have impeded on farmers 83 land and were responsible for the deaths of 75 live25 15 34 stock animals from 47 different farms.

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Baldwin, the author of ~800 the letter, commended the bipartisan effort to “protect Wisconsin’s people and property in a vibrant ecosystem.”

“The resurgence of the gray wolf in Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region is a stunning success story for the Endangered Species Act and a lesson in exceptional wildlife management,” Baldwin said in a statement.

Legislators said through careful management, the state of Wisconsin can both protect Wisconsin residents and 435 preserve a once nearly diminished specie.

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two to three times that [much].”

Approximately 55,000 people attended Freakfest in 2010.

Since its start as an informal gathering in the 1970’s, Freakfest has seen crowds of up to 100,000 on State Street, some of which have required the

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Despite raised ticket prices, thousands are expected to attend this year’s Freakfest. In 2010, 55,000 people attended the event. deployment of tear gas by law enforcement to prevent excessive rowdiness and potential rioting.

Keeping ticket price fluctuations in perspective is important, insisted Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, especially given the turbulent history of Halloween in Madison.

“Recognizing the long history of Freakfest and understanding the problems we’ve incurred in the past, I’m excited for another successful and hopefully safe Halloween,” Resnick said.

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hen R.E.M. broke up last week, I didn’t feel the loss. When the White Stripes called it quits, sure.

When Sony announced it was firing Sam Raimi and rebooting the Spider-Man franchise, Jesus; I didn’t answer my phone for a day and a half. Instead, I just sat alone in my apartment and drank, cursing Topher Grace at the top of my lungs.

There really wasn’t much else to do.

For the nerd, it is a painful moment of clarity when that object of his obsession (band, franchise, sports team, whatever) dies. He is faced with his impotence in the face of the infinitely distant. Such are the dangers of the modern world, when a particular and ever-growing group of otherwise frustrated hacks and losers allow themselves to become so emotionally invested in others’ artistic works.

Now, I know a few music freaks, even one or two college-age kids who took the demise of R.E.M. like horse pill. I can feel it stick in his or her throat, and I can imagine the little twinge. I didn’t have that reaction, despite the large expanse R.E.M. has staked in my life.

Until college, I had dismissed R.E.M. as uncool, even vaguely unsettling. When soul-searching, I am still haunted by memories of family road trips soundtracked by “Shiny Happy People,” played end on end for hours. My parents

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couldn’t have possibly been that cruel... But then, on my last call home my mother, unprovoked, mentions that the sexy redhead from the B-52s guests in her favorite R.E.M. song and my hair stands on end.

Childhood traumas aside, the stunning, melancholic “Nightswimming” alone moves me to forgive R.E.M. for some of their worse tracks. Also taking into account their profound influence on the modern American sociomusical landscape, I can’t honestly begrudge R.E.M. the unwholesome geek love they received. In a recent online column, Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield called R.E.M. the “band that invented indie.” Rolling Stone’s frustratingly weak handle on that music scene notwithstanding, I find Sheffield’s label spot on.

REM really created indie not by being on an independent label, but by engineering its true DNA.

That R.E.M. may never have actually been an ‘independent’ band is irrelevant. (I.R.S. Records was distributed by Universal and owned by Sting’s manager.) It’s no secret that the majority of the artists referred to as ‘indie’ nowadays scarcely even bother pursuing the pretense of DIY upstart credibility. (Didn’t Vampire Weekend score a Target ad last year?

XL Recordings had better be treating those kids ‘crusts-cut-off’ well.)

No, R.E.M. really created indie

not by being on an independent label but by engineering its true DNA. Specifically, they established what would later become indie as “the cult of cool.” Not insincere cool, by any means. The guys from R.E.M. must truly have loved the music of the innumerable bands they championed, from Minutemen to Charlie Pickett.

Only truly obsessive nerds would have bothered constantly name-dropping in big time interviews and headlining for bands they knew a large portion of their college-y fan base wouldn’t dig. They, more than any band before them, were outof-the-closet music geeks. Man, you can bet your ass that these guys cried their eyes out when D. Boon died—and not just because they had met the guy.

They were heroes, framers of the ‘Indie Constitution and Official Canon of Appropriate Influences.’

Despite this, I have never really been much of a fan.

Sure, a few tracks from “Chronic Town” and “Document” had always floated around near the top of my ‘most-played’ list.

The vigorous, hard-rockin’ (for R.E.M.) “Exhuming McCarthy” still ranks among my favorite songs, not least because of its crypto-political sloganeering (“Loyal to the Bank of America / Enemy met, I’m addressing the realpolitik.” ) Ultimately, though, my appreciation of R.E.M. was ruined by an early exposure to one of R.E.M.’s shaggier contemporaries. Judging from their AllMusic biography, you’d think that Husker Du had been R.E.M.’s closest rival in the

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Yes, REM is over, but wipe those tears from your eyes—their legacy lives on in the indie music scene and in the hearts of nostalgic fans. battle for lordship over the folk punk underground, but R.E.M. were slightly left-of-center brains who wrote rewardingly mysterious jangle pop.

On the other hand, the Husker’s music had pop elements but was off-kilter and ugly, all treble and chain smoking hack. I played it loud between the other underground/hardcore CDs I bought at the mall; I got lost in the music

the same way a different kind of obsessive nerd might have gotten lost in Dungeons & Dragons.

Or maybe the way a young R.E.M. guitarist might have gotten lost in, say, Big Star. Of course, I had the good sense to become a fan of a band that had broken up years before I was born. I guess it’s less painful that way.

Got questions? E-mail Alex at seraphin@wisc.edu

Remakes: Routinely repulsive

By Matt Honig The daily cardinal

In TV, look out for the highly anticipated “Terra Nova,” which premiered Monday and is directed by the infamous Steven Spielberg. Harkening back to Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” days, “Terra Nova” tells the story of a futuristic society threatened by pollution, forcing Earth’s inhabitants to go back in time to form a colony in a healthier environment. It’s been getting generally favorable reviews—and will have absolutely awesome special effects.

If you’re really looking for a time-consuming media distraction, pick up the latest version of “FIFA Soccer 12,” featuring a groundbreaking “Player Impact Engine” built to simulate real-world kinesthetics in all player interactions. For a more terrifying and zombie-ridden experience, explore Raccoon City in “Resident Evil Code: Veronica X HD.” Even though it is horrifying in every way, it is a less damaging fright than those looming midterms. Both “FIFA Soccer 12” and “Resident Evil Code: Veronica X HD” are being released today, September 27.

In music, Wilco has managed to maintain its quality indie-music running with their latest album The Whole Love, released Sept. 27. A little bit darker than their previously dubbed “dad rock,” The Whole Love is an absolute treat for the ears. In other indie-sub-pop news, the Dum Dum Girls also released an album today, Only in Dreams, which presents the band in the happiest light thus far in their career.

In film, look out for “50/50.” Released Friday, “50/50” stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen who manage to make the morbid a little bit comical in their pursuit to find Adam (Gordon-Levitt) a way to deal with a rare form of spinal cancer. For a glimpse of another kind of hunk, check out Daniel Craig in “Dream House,” a suspense thriller about a family who moved into a house with a homicide-ridden history.

A couple of weeks ago Hollywood released “Straw Dogs,” a critically maligned remake of a violent ‘70s classic. Unsurprisingly, it tanked in cinemas and will probably be out of multiplexes by Friday.

Whereas the original had Dustin Hoffman playing the lead, the new one has watered-down pretty boy James Marsden in the role.

A month before that, a halfassed redo of “Conan” opened to barbaric reception. (The movie would have made even more money if the philandering Governator had starred in it). And, back in April, the usually funny Russell Brand shat the bed in his rendition of “Arthur,” a hilarious role immortalized by the late Dudley Moore.

Let’s face it: 2011 has been a vast wasteland of really shitty remakes.

When will studio excess realize that the movie going public generally doesn’t want to see redone versions of films that simply don’t need to be redone?

None of the aforementioned properties have much name recognition with the young movie going population. How much of Generation Y knew that “Straw Dogs” was a remake? The info definitely wasn’t included in the film’s marketing. Hell, I didn’t know until I just looked it up on IMDB. It should be obvious that young people aren’t going to go out and see it. And the people that went out and saw the original “Straw

Dogs”—our parents’ generation— probably aren’t going to watch the new one because they generally don’t like watching their classics being eviscerated. The same fate went to “Arthur” and “Conan.”

Low box-office receipts must be reason enough for studios to stop releasing dumbed down versions of quality older films, right?

Wrong. Hollywood is showing no signs of shutting the remake floodgates. In two weeks we’re going to be given a remake of “The Thing”; the original version is a horrifying sci-fi that any redoing will unlikely be able to measure up to.

In the pipeline are excruciatingly unneeded remakes of other beloved ‘80s movies, including “Total Recall,” “Robocop,” and “Highlander.” Perhaps most blasphemous, however, is the news that a “Scarface” remake is in development. The fact that anyone is even going to try to top Pacino’s Tony Montana is laughable. What’s next, a remake of “E.T.”? “Star Wars”?!

Studios will often avoid the term “remake” in the marketing of their remakes. They’ll usually opt for the sexier term—“reimagining.”

Tim Burton’s “Planet of the Apes” was a “reimagining,” so was Rob Zombie’s “Halloween,” and those “Jason” and “Freddy” re-dos.

This “reimagining” euphemism is used to cloak the fact that they merely just changed the characters and slightly altered the plots of older (vastly superior) mov-

ies. Most of us would rather see something original, a la 2010’s “Inception” or “The Town” than the watered-down rehash.

It is true, there are decent remakes, but they are few and far to come by. For every “Planet of the Apes” or “Poseidon” there’s the occasional “3:10 to Yuma,” “Insomnia,” or even “Ocean’s Eleven” (the sequels are horrible; don’t even get me started on sequels to remakes). “The Departed” (2006) was a remake of an Asian film, “Infernal Affairs” and it went on to win best picture.

Early word on the Craig Brewer’s “Footloose” is positive and hopes are high for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, though I am skeptical of the latter’s quality.

I saw the original “Girl” in theaters about a year and a half ago, and though it was a good film, the glossy new David Fincher version is total tinsel-town cash in.

Although the same could have been said of “The Departed,” the Swedish version of “Girl” is more well-known in America than “Infernal Affairs.” The cultural relevance of the Swedish film renders the Americanized version particularly unnecessary; it’s irrelevant that the script reputedly is truer to the Steig Larssen novel. Whatever, I’m still going to see it. With remakes, you just have to take your seat in the theater and do one thing only: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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his summer, the Wisconsin state Senate passed legislation aimed at curbing local and municipal control over housing laws. Senate Bill 107, which was introduced by state Sen. Frank Lasee, R-De Pere, would prohibit local governments from enacting ordinances limiting a landlord’s ability to show an apartment, search a prospective tenant’s background or use that back-

ground information as the basis of rejection. The bill will be taken up by the state Assembly at some point in the current session.

In essence, Lasee wrote this bill to protect landlords from troublesome tenants. However, in Madison the problem often proves to be the opposite.

Students in this city tend to change residences on a yearly basis and are often unfamiliar with the local renting policies,

giving landlords room to take advantage of them. The problems student renters face are why Madison has the tenant protections in the first place. If anything, students need greater tenant protections.

Some of student tenants’ most basic protections would be wiped out by this SB 107. Current city laws cap security deposits at a month’s rent. If legislators pass this bill, a landlord could set it as high as he or she likes and could deduct for any and all infractions without limitations. Landlords would also be free to use information on income, occupation, court records, rental history and credit information from as far back as they like to deny a prospective tenant. Furthermore, the bill would even prevent local governments from determining something as essential as requiring landlords to install up-to-date fire alarms. This bill doesn’t seem to consider the tenants who need to actually live in the landlords’ buildings.

The new law would also make the already ridiculous

mad-dash for off-campus housing students face every year even worse. City law states that landlords cannot enter a tenant’s apartment without proper notice or show it to prospective tenants until Oct. 15. The new law would allow them to enter at any time and show the apartment starting the first day of the lease.

This means freshmen could be pressured to start making housing decisions for the next year before they ever see their dorm room.

If anything, students need greater tenant protections.

Luckily, there is a place students can turn to: the Tenant Resource Center. This nonprofit group provides free housing counseling and holds housing law seminars

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to help educate Madison residents on their rights as tenants and how to handle conflicts with their landlords. If this bill does pass, the city and perhaps even the university will need to expand these types of services.

Although the specifics of the bill are troublesome enough as they are, the greatest disservice SB 107 does for Wisconsin is trying to place a one-size-fitsall housing code for a state of such broad geographic diversity. Milwaukee is not Madison is not Cazenovia (population 333). Each city faces its own problems and challenges and each has its own housing laws for to deal with them. This bill is uniquely overreaching in that it does not necessarily tell local governments what to do, but instead keeps them from creating housing laws in their own best interest.

We urge Wisconsin’s assemblymen and assemblywomen to reject SB 107 in order to continue protecting tenant rights.

Beginning of year shows instability within ASM Sam Witthuhn opinion columnist

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he Associated Students of Madison is having a rough month. Since new leadership took over in the summer, ASM gave birth to a somewhat heretical student government and in turn received harsh but justified criticisms from members of the 17th session. Former ASM Chair Brandon Williams even tweeted, “It might just be me, but the @asmstudentgovt is starting to look and feel a lot like the WISPIRG office. Take it or leave it.” While bold, the tweet is probably true.

Although ASM’s intentions still lie in the interest of the student body, as a journalistic observer I can’t help but wonder whether students are actually running ASM this year or just running it to the ground.

After analyzing the news and witnessing what former ASM leaders write in a North Park Street blog post as, “a scandal of near-epic proportion for ASM,” I can’t help but conclude the latter.

ASM Chair Allie Gardner and recently removed Vice Chair Beth Huang seem to be a bit under-qualified and a bit overly humanitarian for their positions. However, I admit their hearts are in the right place. They understand the importance of attracting broad and diverse membership as well as the significance of protecting student rights. But, it can be argued their methods in doing so have been a bit unorthodox.

That said, I am able to cope with this session’s new activist mindset and brush off obvious traces of WISPIRG. This is most notably seen in Gardner’s former position with the organization as well as a hunger

and homelessness project that some ASM members are attempting to tackle. I’m also able to overlook ASM’s sponsorship of a diversity rally organized in response to an admissions study released by a conservative think-tank against UW-Madison. I’m even able to forget Gardner’s fallacies about not endorsing the rally that I personally witnessed Huang speak passionately at.

So what’s really the big fuss?

Sadly, at ASM’s rate, there might not be anyone left to even answer that question. And if it hadn’t been for last week’s Student Judiciary motion to remove Huang and Nominations Board Chair Niko Magallon, my sentiments toward the organization would still be hanging on by a golden thread. Unfortunately, this was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Huang and Magallon were recently removed from their seats after a futile battle with the SJ over simple semantics of a previous ruling. Last year, Huang and Magallon were caught campaigning to students in campus residence halls—a move that directly clashes with ASM bylaws. In response, the SJ ordered the two to write an apology letter and complete 20 hours of community service by Sept. 15, 2011.

I can’t help but wonder whether students are actually running ASM this year or just running it to the ground.

Huang and Magallon wrote their letters and submitted their hours on the night of Sept. 15, 2011. Because they recorded their hours on Sept. 15 rather than by Sept. 15, they were removed from their posts. Stupid.

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ASM Chair Allie Gardner and former ASM Vice Chair Beth Huang preside over a May 2011 ASM meeting. Huang was recently removed from her position.

While I didn’t fully endorse Huang to begin with, it is completely ridiculous that a prominent leader of our student government is stripped of her title due to a simple communication error.

If the hours were completed and turned in, then both Huang and Magallon paid their dues. Yes, the ramifications were scanty and yes the way in which they were completed are suspect, but that was the deal SJ made and, in my eyes, Huang and Magallon held up their end of the bargain.

This ruling only furthers ASM’s clear lack of stability and consistency among its leaders, which creates grave uncertainty for the direction of ASM. According to a Daily Cardinal article, “Huang said it took her three months to transition into her position as Vice Chair, and that nobody can make that changeover in one week’s time.

She said during that period she met with 50 to 100 different fac-

ulty, staff and administration members on campus, as well as student organizations.”

As of now, this ASM versus ASM battle has no rightful victor.

There is absolutely no way that a new vice chair and Nominations Board chair have the time and capacity to transition into these positions in a matter of weeks. Losing Huang and Magallon stretches ASM extremely thin. It is important that SJ take this into immense consideration before declaring a simple deadline mix-up the reason for the removal of Huang and Magallon in their

upcoming appeal.

UW-Madison students have enough trouble keeping up with ASM as it is. Confusion over who is or isn’t leading our student government mirrors the zoo that is now Wisconsin’s Capitol—drama UW-Madison students don’t need. It goes without saying that the council’s new leaders have been questionable thus far, but their removal should not be based on a matter as trivial as a deadline confusion.

Among other things, the SJ’s decision to vacate two prominent positions only strengthens my contempt for ASM’s actions this year and furthers my disappointment. As of now, this ASM versus ASM battle has no rightful victor.

Sam Witthuhn is a senior majoring in political science and journalism. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com

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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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SUPER SOLVERS ACROSS 1 Time-honored ceremony 5 Blacksmith’s tool 9 “___ for All Seasons” 13 “... unto us ___ is given” (Isaiah 9:6) 14 “I cannot tell ___!” (apocryphal Washington quote) 15 Greek salad morsel 16 Aston Martin-driving agent 18 Black tea variety 19 Didn’t go fast?

20 Mistreat 21 The way the wind blows 22 Cheddar description 23 Common surname 25 Sweet-talk 28 Suffix with “narc” 29 Bonfire remnant 32 Build up, as a fortune 33 Dumfries girl 34 Mrs., in Montreal 35 Large quantity 36 They can be paid online 38 Girlfriend in Paris 39 “... ___ he drove out of sight ...”

40 Bollywood costume 41 It may be picked up in a trash heap

42 Sleep study measurement 43 Healing cream additive 44 Mall tenants 45 “As You Like It” forest 47 Alternatives to Levi’s 48 Make unreadable, in a way 50 Old battle-ax 52 It has four quarters?

55 Memory failure 56 Ross Macdonald’s supersleuth 58 “Home Improvement” star Tim 59 Help in a heist 60 “Muy ___” 61 Red root veggie 62 Throw down the gauntlet 63 Sensitive, as a subject DOWN 1 Indian prince 2 “The hour ___ hand” 3 Large reference book 4 Chicago-to-Detroit dir.

5 Disorderly crowd 6 One way to think 7 Confessor’s revelations 8 Stand for a statue

9 Watchful and ready 1 0 Mickey Spillane’s creation 11 Mary Kay competitor 12 Can’t live without 15 Science of light and vision 17 Catamaran movers 22 Shade of green 24 Hit’s opposite 25 Provide party food 26 Dino’s love 27 Margaret Rutherford film portrayal 28 Stan’s partner 30 “Let a ____ Be Your Umbrella” 31 Shoes not designed for comfort 36 Hay unit 37 Civil War fighting ship 38 “Famous ___” (cookie maker) 40 Depress 41 Direct 44 House’s counterpart 46 Turn back to zero 47 Reduce 48 Bacon unit for a butcher 49 Hearty partner 51 Vocalist McEntire 52 Youngstown’s state 53 “... and ___ the twain shall meet” 54 Maritime raptor 57 Major broadcaster

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New talent like A.J. Cochran (left) has meshed with veteran leaders such as Josh Thiermann (right) for the men’s soccer team and that has the team off to a solid start this season.

Wisconsin’s condfidence high heading into tough stretch The Daily Cardinal

For many onlookers the UW men’s soccer program the success of this season’s 4-3-1 start has been relatively surprising considering the how last year’s team faired.

However, within the program few find themselves shocked by the quality results the team has managed to achieve so far in the early part of the season.

The Badgers have posted quality wins against Virginia Tech, Drake and Loyola Marymount, with the most impressive result being a 1-0 defeat of the Hokies on the road in Blacksburg, Va. “We are possessing the ball much better this year, on top of the improvement new players have brought with them in the program,” Wisconsin head coach John Trask said.

The Badgers’ new talent has not gone unnoticed, as College Soccer News rated the incoming recruiting class 18th in its Top 40 Recruiting Class list. Among the most noticeable of young talent on the team has been freshman defender A.J. Cochran. Prior to coming to Madison, Cochran was

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named Gatorade Player of Year in Missouri and was rated the No. 4 prospect in the Heartland Region

by TopDrawerSoccer.com.

“A.J. is one of those players you hate to play against when you’re the opposing team but love to have when he is on your team,” Trask said. “He brings a certain physicality and toughness to the team.”

Trask also noted that leadership from senior captains Colin Mani, Arnel Zahirovic and transfer Josh Thiermann have paid dividends for the team.

“Colin, Arnel and Josh have really done a great job for us this year,” Trask said. “They have really made a difference in how are team has played.”

The Badgers will have to rely more on their leadership and confidence of youth as they head into undoubtedly their toughest stretch of the season. This week the team plays in state rival Marquette Wednesday and then opens up league play against No. 7 Indiana (5-0-2) Sunday. Following that game the team will take on No. 3 Creighton (6-0) Oct. 5.

A daunting gauntlet for

sure, but Trask does not feel that the team is at all fazed by the difficulties ahead.

“Our kids are excited for the upcoming games ahead,” Trask said. “It’s an opportunity to face some quality competition and show everyone what we can do.”

Even with these tough matchups ahead, they are only a handful of difficult contests on a remarkably tough schedule the team has already played.

The Badgers have already played west-coast powerhouse and No. 8 nationally ranked UC Irvine (7-1) as well as national power Virginia (5-4) which was rated top 10 nationally when the Badgers played them.

The tough non-conference slate has prepared the Badgers for a rugged Big Ten conference.

“This year the conference is down a little,” Trask said. “Last year we were by the far the top conference in that nation, while this year the Big Ten will be top three in the nation.”

If the men’s soccer team has proven anything this year it has been that it can now compete with the top programs in the nation.

love hockey.

That’s an easy sentence to write. It’s even easier to say and far harder to make clear how much I mean it. But here’s an attempt: I love hockey because of everything it has given me and the community I have found within its fans and within its fandom.

So when someone tried to deprive Philadelphia Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds of that Friday night, it made me angrier than I can rightly express.

In an exhibition game between the Flyers and the Detroit Red Wings played in London, Ontario, Simmonds lined up to take a penalty shot when someone in the crowd threw a banana peel onto the ice. Simmonds is African-Canadian, making him one of a few black hockey players and, sadly, leaving him open to a number of incomprehensibly racist and disgusting acts at the hands of a few “fans.”

Those quotations are necessary because the idiot who threw a banana peel at Simmonds, just like the ignorant bigots who dressed in blackface in Wisconsin’s own hockey student section last year, are not true hockey fans. They must not love our game.

Because they were trying to take our community away from Simmonds, and true fans would never do that. If the person who threw that banana peel was a real hockey fan, they would have known that hockey is open to everyone, that it is never a tool for exclusion— like any sport, it’s a place where people find themselves.

The hockey community I know welcomed me with open arms. I came to it a stranger who couldn’t skate and didn’t know how offsides worked; someone from a place where lakes didn’t freeze over, where I never played it growing up and where the NHL

ranked a solid fourth in local attention. But the game never kept its mind closed. From day one, I found something special through hockey, a connection to its fans, its players and the game itself that I haven’t gotten anywhere else.

I know that’s not unique to hockey and that every sport can have that effect and become the place where someone finds that home. There’s a difference, though, between knowing it can happen and experiencing it. I don’t just think hockey can be a community; I know it because that’s what I’ve lived for the past few years.

But that’s easy for me to say.

After all, I’ve never been shunned from this sport I love—I’ve never had to endure someone calling me a slur or throwing a banana peel at me.

It’s a position of privilege I’ve enjoyed, and one that has allowed me to see how beautiful and welcoming hockey can be; how much someone who never quite fit in elsewhere can find himself in it.

And that’s why events like the one in London infuriate me.

Because they deprive someone else of that love. They keep someone from experiencing that happiness, that joy, that acceptance— that community so many people have found in hockey.

There isn’t a crime greater than that.

It’s one Brendan Burke, the openly gay student manager of Miami’s men’s hockey program who worked to eliminate homophobia among his teammates and in the game, sought to conquer before his untimely death. It’s one Simmonds rose above Friday night.

Burke was bigger than that homophobia, and Simmonds was bigger than that racism.

(In a bit of disappointing irony, on Monday night Simmonds shouted a homophobic slur at New York Rangers forward Sean Avery - apparently he thinks some people are worth excluding, which is frustrating and disheartening.) But I don’t doubt that there have been men and women who weren’t; people who thought they had found acceptance in hockey only to see someone keep the sport they loved from loving them back.

There’s a corny set of commercials that runs on the NHL Network fairly often. They show kids of all sizes and colors playing hockey and enjoying themselves, and include a group of pro players saying, “Hockey is for everyone.”

Hockey was for me, it was for Simmonds—cliches be damned, it is for everyone.

So when a hockey “fan” pulls the crap that person in London did Thursday night, they don’t just insult Simmonds, and they don’t just insult black hockey players. They insult the sport we love and the community we have found within it by depriving someone of the right to be welcomed into hockey the way we were.

Hockey is for everyone. But we have to make that true.

What were your thoughts about the incident in London, Ontario?

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The Badgers’ defensive line has had to cope with the loss of play maker and NFL first-round pick J.J. Watt, but through four games this season it has filled in for him admirably.

UW defensive line has risen to the occasion Without J.J. Watt the Badgers have had to step up

By Max Sternberg The daily Cardinal

Having lost a playmaker in NFL first-round draft pick J.J. Watt, the Badgers figured to see a bit of a drop-off on the defensive line heading into the 2011 campaign. But while it was certainly tough to replace a high-energy, high-impact player like the Houston Texans rookie, it seems that UW has done a good job thus far, going back to the “bend but don’t break” philosophy that has worked well throughout the Alvarez/Bielema era.

While the stat lines may not be as gaudy with the loss of Watt’s production, the line has shifted its focus, concentrating on making it a team effort at putting pressure on opposing quarterbacks and shutting down the opposing run game.

“What I think it is is just a change in how we play,” sophomore defensive tackle Ethan Hemer said. “We are a year wiser; we’re willing to make plays and we’ve got the experience now where we can make some sacrifices and it’s not going to burn us.”

One of the reasons that the adjustment process has been so smooth is the leadership that remains in seniors Patrick Butrym and Louis Nzegwu. In addition to combining for 13 total

tackles over the first three weekends, the two veterans have led the transition process from day one, both on and off the field.

“Its critical,” UW defensive line coach Charlie Partridge said of the senior leadership. “Those guys need to keep everybody on task, and with everybody getting into the game, those guys need to have the same urgency, the same work habits as those older guys.”

“It’s huge,” Hemer said.

“They’re guys that we can really look at and say ‘these are guys that are all about Wisconsin.”

“We are a year wiser; we’re willing to make plays and we’ve got the experience.”

Ethan Hemer sophomore defensive tackle Wisconsin football

Yet with Watt being the only major departure from the defensive front after last season, perhaps it’s more a change in personality than a change in personnel. After all, the Badgers still returned four players with starting experience on the line, not exactly indicative of the “rebuilding” process you’d think with the press surrounding

Watt’s departure.

One of the more pleasant surprises over the early part of the season has been the return of redshirt junior Brendan Kelly.

After redshirting in 2010 due to injury, Kelly has made his mark off the bench this season, posting a career-high six tackles against Oregon State and following that up with a two-tackle, one-pass break-up performance against Northern Illinois. Kelly’s nine total tackles led the Badger line through the first three weekends of play.

“That’s college football. Who’s going to be that next guy; who’s going to be the guy that leads your group,” Partridge said.

“There’s a number of guys that we’re really happy with who’ve stepped up their game.”

Still, with the start of Big Ten play less than a week away, the Badgers are looking for someone to step into the playmaker role as Watt so forcefully did during last year’s Big Ten title run.

“We want more than [just playing solid],” Hemer said.

“We’re definitely not content with the way we’re playing.”

“Four playmakers are better than one,” junior defensive lineman David Gilbert said. “If you have four JJ Watt’s, that’s a whole different ballgame.”

Non-conference play proved to be a breeze for the Wisconsin football team, but with the Big Ten season beginning this weekend, the Badgers will find out just how good of a team they really are.

The No. 8 Nebraska Cornhuskers come to Madison hoping to make their mark on the Big Ten and the Badgers in their inaugural conference game Saturday.

UW head coach Bret Bielema knows how big of a game this is and also how important homefield advantage will be.

“Camp Randall should be rocking,” Bielema said.

The Badgers are not taking this game lightly by any means, and Bielema wants students to get to the game early and make Camp Randall Stadium as loud as possible.

“We encourage everybody to get in their seat and bring as much red as possible and make that place electric,” he said.

Saturday’s matchup will be the first game at Camp Randall Stadium between two teams ranked in the top 10 since 1962, and with all the media attention that goes along with a game like this, the players have to maintain their concentration.

“You’ve got football, you’ve got academics; this is a busy time for us,” Bielema said. “Our kids really have to be great about where their focus is.”

Nebraska is undefeated and coming off of a 38-14 win at Wyoming. They run a fastpaced, no-huddle attack that utilizes a quick tempo to catch their opponents off guard.

While this may be a different offensive scheme than what the Badgers employ, the two teams do share several similarities, which are not lost on Bielema.

“Both of our athletic directors are former coaches that had hall-of-fame careers,” Bielema said, “Nebraska play-

ers are like Wisconsin players; they both really love to play the game.”

Bielema and Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini have some similarities themselves, both getting their first taste of coaching at the University of Iowa. As a graduate assistant for the Hawkeyes, Pelini even helped coach Bielema for one season in 1991.

Historically the Cornhuskers have had excellent defenses, known as the “Blackshirts,” and this season they appear as formidable as ever. Two stars, senior defensive lineman Jared Crick and senior cornerback Alfonzo Dennard, return to Nebraska’s lineup after missing time due to injuries, but Wisconsin’s offense hopes to keep rolling after its hot start. Through four games, the Badgers are ranked sixth nationally in points per game (48.5) and 13th in rushing offense, averaging over 245 yards per game.

One of the few concerns about this Badgers team heading into this game is the fact that it has not been in a competitive game through four quarters, but Bielema feels that his team is ready to play a full 60 minutes.

“We haven’t been in a competitive situation much beyond the second quarter, but that is something that I’m not really concerned a great deal about with this group because of the way they think and they way they’re wired,” Bielema said.

With ESPN heading to town, the eyes of the nation will be fixed on Madison this week. Fans will finally see how the Badgers handle their first true test of the 2011 season and find out if they are worthy of their top-10 ranking. If you ask Bielema, they’ll be more than ready to go.

“We’re here (in the top 10), we don’t plan on leaving, so lets take advantage of some of the opportunities that are coming in front of us,” he said.

Walls named Big Ten Freshman of the Week Wisconsin women’s soccer freshman forward Cara Walls was

honored by the Big Ten Monday as the conference freshman player of the week following her performances this weekend in the Badgers’ games against Michigan and Michigan State.

Walls recorded two goals—giving her a team-best six on the season—in the Badgers’ 2-1 win over the Spartans Friday and a team-high two shots on goal Sunday against the Wolverines.

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This is the second time Walls has been named conference freshman of the week this season.

-UWBadgers.com contributed to this report.

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James White and the UW backfield is averaging 245 yards per game on the ground, which ranks 13th in the nation.