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Federal court finds Wis. campaign finance law unconstitutional By Mckenna Kohlenberg and Rachel Fettig The Daily Cardinal

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Although UW reported over 10,000 degrees earned last year, some people question if graduates will be able to find jobs.

Record degrees, but job market still uncertain By Alex DiTullio The Daily Cardinal

While UW-Madison set a new university record last year by conferring more than 10,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctorate degrees, a poor economy could make it difficult for students to translate their degrees into jobs. In the 2010-11 academic year, the university distributed a total of 10,099 degrees: 6,579 bachelor’s, 2,105 master’s, 754 research doctorates and 661 professional and clinical doctorates.

“These indicators suggest and support the importance of higher education to our state and national economy,” Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Paul DeLuca said in a statement. “UW– Madison continues to perform at the highest level.” Despite DeLuca’s optimism, economics professor Christopher Taber said a bad economy could make it difficult for students to find a job after

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UW protects trademarks from porn According to UW-Madison, the best way (not) to beat it is to block it, as the university took preventative measures to protect the exploitation of its name by pornographic websites. The recent creation of the .xxx Internet domain name, meant exclusively for the pornography industry, has prompted companies and institutions to buy up .xxx domains to prevent any X-rated use. UW-Madison has opted to block rather than purchase a number of domainnamessuchas“UWMadison. xxx, UniversityOfWisconsin.xxx and WisconsinBadgers.xxx,” a measure that will keep the various domains unavailable to purchase for the next 10 years. According to Tricia Dickinson, marketing director for UW Communications, the block entailed putting the university’s intellectual trademarks off-limits.

“Basically there was a chance for any organization to file and say ‘hey, these are our federally protected trademarks,” Dickinson said. “If anyone says they want to create a website called Coca-Cola .xxx, for example, Coca-Cola would’ve already filed and said nope, nobody else can do that.” Dickinson conceded that the block has its limits in protecting the university’s image. Responding to a domain that sidesteps the blocked terms is more expensive and complex, involving the university’s legal action against any sites that do arise. “We couldn’t possibly predict all the ways someone could use our name,” she said. “For instance, if someone said, ‘Hey, I’m going to create a porn site called ‘Badgercoeds. xxx,’ there was no way we could know what all the possible variations could be.” —Ben Siegel

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that one of Wisconsin’s campaign finance laws prohibiting individuals from contributing more than $10,000 a year to issue-based political action committees is unconstitutional. Wisconsin Right to Life filed a complaint before 2010’s gubernatorial elections, noting the contribution limit violated First Amendment rights protected under the Citizens United federal court ruling that allows groups to donate unlimited amounts to political campaigns.

According to the ruling, the limit is only unconstitutional to the extent that it limits PACs like Wisconsin Right to Life “that only engage in independent spending for political speech,” or in other words, do not contribute money to political candidates’ campaigns. Wisconsin Right to Life Executive Director Barbara Lyons said the “victory” adds to the pro-life group’s reputation as a “significant contributor to state and national dialogue on speech.” But Mike McCabe, executive director of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign said

the decision will give political action committees too much power in deciding elections. “You’ve got a special interest monologue in many elections where the candidates … and the voters don’t really matter much,” McCabe said. “It’s all about the interest groups duking it out and this ruling just aggravates that.” McCabe said the decision would still influence elections because of independent political action committees’ issue ads and other lobbying efforts, even though they cannot out-

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Members of the ASM Legislative Affairs Committee presented the results of a Mifflin Street Block Party survey to the committee Monday.

Alcohol coordinator talks party policy By Anna Duffin The Daily Cardinal

Members of the student government Legislative Affairs Committee met with Madison Alcohol Policy Coordinator Mark Woulf to discuss a policy intended to prevent “nuisance” parties Monday. According to Woulf, the policy would allow police to fine landlords if their residents threw parties deemed “nuisances.” In order to qualify as a nuisance, the party must violate a specified number of city ordinances. “We’re trying to drive down the size and scope of private parties by getting at landlords,” Woulf said. “We’re giving police a tool to hold landlords more accountable by fining nuisance house parties that are posing threats.” Woulf said by encouraging

more entertainment downtown, city officials hope to offer a safer alternative to house parties. He said the legislation is intended to turn “out of control” parties into smaller ones. UW-Madison junior Damon Terrell said the policy “sets up a power dynamic” between the landlord and the resident. “Already students are kind of at a disadvantage going into a relationship with their landlord,” Terrell said. “I think it sets ups a paternalistic relationship with the landlord and the leasee.” Other students said they were concerned landlords would add stipulations into their leases allowing them to pass the fines onto the residents. Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs

Chair Hannah Somers said she fears the policy could make residents uncomfortable approaching their landlords. “I just think that this legislation can have consequences that are reaching further than we’re thinking,” Somers said. Also at the meeting, members discussed the results of a survey about the Mifflin Street Block Party that received over 7,000 student responses. The recommendations made to improve the party included limiting the number of visitors staying in the dorms and eliminating the open beverage policy implemented last year. According to ASM Rep. Maria Giannopolous, a majority of the respondents said Mifflin is “necessary” and plan to attend this year.

“…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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very Christmas season, children act on their best behavior and make a list of all the presents they are entitled to. Then, magically on Christmas morning, the presents appear as a reward for a month of eating all of their broccoli and saying a few extra pleases and thank you’s—this is how the story goes. Nonetheless, despite children getting brattier and more misbehaved every year, there have yet to be any reported incidents of a child actually receiving a lump of coal. Instead, children are showered with gifts irrespective of their behavior or deservedness, and they can’t help but give praise to this Santa figure for all their blessings. While the religious right decries that the true meaning of Christmas has been replaced by materialism and a desire for gifts, they fail to see the much bigger threat. It’s not capitalism that is ruining the Christmas season (or Holiday season, depending on your own particular convictions)—it’s communism. Christmas has become a time when everyone’s hopes and happiness rely on a fat man with a beard—a man who is as evil as the Devil himself. Make no mistake: This character, commonly referred to as Santa, is not the jolly food fellow we’ve been led to believe he is. He’s Karl Marx. Santa is ruining Christmas, and if we don’t stop this hateful figure from using this most

wonderful time of the year to indoctrinate our youth they’ll all be wearing red uniforms before we know it. Like communist ideology, the myth of Santa Claus sounds too good to be true and makes a lot of false promises it can’t keep. One can always tell how evil something is by the justifications and reasons given for it. When someone says they a r e working

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to ensure cooperative wealth and a classless, stateless society full of superabundance for the working class, clearly they are up to no good. However, the evil of Marx pales in comparison to the evil of Santa Claus, whose sole duty and motivation is to ensure the happiness of every child around the world. Can you not smell the ulterior motives behind this altruistic folk hero? They are as putrid as the stench that emits from Uncle Larry after he’s drunk too

much eggnog —only to the common person, they are not as obvious. One must understand that when children embrace Santa Claus, they are learning to embrace communist ideology. For the goods and presents don’t just magically appear under the Christmas tree thanks to Santa. The presents come from each elf—extorted and forced into mindless labor according to its ability—to each undeserving child according to their need. Of course, in a system where each little unproductive lecher is able to make claims upon the productive workforce of society, the concept of needs begins to blur with that of arbitrary desires. Children’s needs have come to mean new iPads, video games and friendship bracelet Barbie kits. Yet, they fail to realize that it is only through the creative, productive force of capitalism that these things are possible and that every right to someone else’s products requires violations of the creator’s rights. Even the figurehead of giving and sharing himself, Santa Claus, is unable to adopt his communist philosophy of taking only what is needed. Judging by his waistline, Santa Claus’ needs are more likely to include a triple bypass surgery than a few million more plates of cookies. The youth are at a critical age, and while religion may be the opium of the adult masses, for children, candy canes and chocolate Santas come pretty damn close. So this Christmas, say no to Santa, say no to entitlements and give the greatest gift of all: your creativity and time. Although, a new iPad would be pretty nice, too. Suspiscious of Santa’s true intentions as well? E-mail Elliot at eignasiak@wisc.edu and help him uncover the real reason why his suit is red.

Colonoscopies and other ghastly encounters Jaime Brackeen brax on brax on brax

pparently, I have an inviting face. Don’t get me wrong, I do not mean inviting in an attractive way. Nay, I mean it in a I-look-like-I-want-to-hearabout-your-problems-face way. Perhaps it is my accidentally encouraging smile or maybe my expressive eyebrows as they raise and furrow to fit the emotions of the speaker’s harrowing tale. Better yet, it could go beyond my face all together and solely be blamed upon my inherent nature to continue asking questions even when disinterest is oozing out every pore in my body. This is the reason I have people telling me the date of their next colonoscopy. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Mind you, I’m not trying to say I’m popular. I don’t even KNOW these culprits of excessive gab (both males and females). The following is a situation that happened just over a week ago, proving that no one wants this kind of inviting nature wrought upon him

or her. I was working at a telethon fundraiser for a non-profit organization one night, and during a break for most of the other volunteers I was one of the few who got stuck manning the phones as everyone else partook in some mouthwateringly cheesy pizza. However, the two program managers lingered. Oh, did they linger. One of the guys sat next to me as the other walked over with a slice of pizza, remarking we should be sure to get some before it’s gone. To this, my seated companion (who I will henceforth refer to as “Grumbly”) decided to share the news that he couldn’t eat after 7 p.m. because his stomach really didn’t agree with him at that late hour. “My doctor tells me I have acid reflux so stuff just doesn’t sit well late at night,” Grumbly continued to explain while giving me a knowing look. Any normal person would probably mumble an “I’m sorry” and turn back to their phone in this uncomfortable situation, but not me. No, even as I surreptitiously asked myself what the hell I think I’m doing, my mouth formed words

along the lines of, “Oh, my aunt got a chunk of meat lodged in her throat once from acid reflux and had to get it removed at the hospital.” Boom. Can of worms opened. Mistakenly interpreting my contributing comment as a sign of interest, Grumbly launched into a discussion of his dietary requirements and restrictions. The following is how the rest of the conversation went down, according to my memory. “Yeah I have to eat a lot of flax seed to keep myself [whispered] regular,”mumbled Grumbly. “Oh! I sometimes put flax seed in my oatmeal because it’s such good fiber!” I quickly interjected. Wait, why did I say that? “Exactly. It’s kind of like what they give you at the doctor’s office before a colonoscopy,” said Grumbly, picking up confidence in our new camaraderie. “That stuff really cleans you out but it’s not actually so bad.” “Huh, yeah.” (Dear God, Jaime, why are you doing this?) “I usually hear people complain about it a lot,” I contributed. (Apparently this was interpreted as: “Please tell me about your personal experience with colonoscopies.”) I will spare you the goriest

details, but suffice it to say, due to some cysts the doctors found in his colon, Grumbly is due back for another check-up in three years. As the ghastly notion of knowing the intimate situation of a stranger’s bowels sunk in—yet there I sat, still nodding and smiling—I fear Grumbly was practically on the verge of inviting me to come along for this next trip. Luckily, a viewer of Barbra Streisand’s “One Night Only” program chose this moment to call and make a donation… Five minutes down the road, this led to a discussion of her new apartment and its auspicious discovery on Nov. 11, 2011 (11/11/11). Sometimes, I just can’t win. So perhaps with my curious-to-a-fault disposition I will consider a change in career paths. Forget journalism; I should become a shrink. People are going to tell me their personal information regardless, I might as well get paid to doodle on a pad while it happens. Want to disclose some of your own personal experiences and medical fiascos to Jaime? She’s more than welcome to hear them, so send ’em on over to her at jbrackeen@wisc.edu.

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Student breaks up University Avenue assault A Madison student’s intervention in a fight on University Ave. Saturday night disrupted two brothers’ assault of another man. A 19-year old UW-Madison student stepped in to an argument between three men on the 500 block of University Ave. as two of the men began attacking the third man, who was knocked to the ground. “The victim was knocked unconscious…but that did not stop the aggressor from delivering more blows to the man’s head,” Madison Police Department Spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement. “The Good Samaritan pushed past the man trying to restrain him and pulled the primary suspect off of the 28-year old victim.” Both aggressors fled the scene but were later tracked down by UW-Madison Police, who identified the two as brothers. The victim, who was taken to a hospital to receive treatment for head injuries, was unable to remember what happened, according to DeSpain. “[He] did not believe he could have been involved in anything resembling mutual combat because he said, ‘I don’t fight,’” he said.

jobs from page 1 graduating. “It’s a really tough job market and the unemployment rate for recent college graduates is high,” Taber said in an e-mail. “Unemployment fell a bit recently, so hopefully it will pick up, but we have been saying that for awhile.” According to Taber, the unemployment rate is 8.6 percent overall, but only 4.4 percent for four-year college graduates. While this indicates college graduates fare better in the job market, he said the unemployment rate is higher for young workers regardless of academic achievement. Jocelyn Milner, the university’s associate provost and director for academic planning and analysis, said she speculates last year’s increase of 200 master’s degrees came in response to a bad economy. She said after surveying graduating undergraduate students last year, 28 percent said they were planning to enroll in professional or graduate school. “Students seem to be … interested in coming back for a master’s degree,” Milner said. “[This] is consistent with national trends that that’s the way people are seeking to recession-proof their careers.” While Taber said individuals can find jobs with almost any degree, he said “more practical” pre-professional majors such as business and engineering are currently more valuable for landing a job. Milner came to a similar conclusion, saying the schools of business and engineering have both shown some of the strongest records of employment after graduating. Dani Golub contributed to this report.

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Academic Staff Assembly Members of the Academic Staff Assembly revised the requirements to receive a prefix to their title for recognition or promotion, making it easier for staff members outside of research fields to get the titles. + Photo by Ben Koeppen

Bill challenges ‘web’ abortions By Samy Moskol The Daily Cardinal

A senate committee will hold a public hearing Tuesday to discuss a bill that would prohibit pill-induced abortions from being administered through teleconference. The bill proposed by state Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, and state Rep. Michelle Litjens, R-Oshkosh, would also require doctors ensure a woman is not being coerced into seeking to end a pregnancy. Telemedicine abortions allow a doctor to confirm a woman has properly taken the mifepristone drug, more commonly known as RU-486, through a web conference. They are administered in

Iowa and Minnesota, but are not in Wisconsin. Currently, women in Wisconsin can receive abortions—both chemical in the first trimester and surgical through the 22nd week of pregnancy—in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Appleton. Wisconsin Right to Life Legislative Director Sue Armacost said she recognized the bill would not stop RU-486 from being distributed, but would require the physician who is prescribing it to give the patient a physical exam in person. But Lisa Subeck, executive director of National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League Pro-Choice Wisconsin said women receive the same

medical care during a telemedicine chemical abortion as they would in any other situation. “Wisconsin Right to Life would like to portray … some concept where you go into a video booth at a local shopping mall,” Subeck said. “We are talking about physicians providing medical care.” Subeck said the legislation would create new disparities on who has access to healthcare. Armacost said those claiming the bill would take away health options for women is “laughable.” “If you really are concerned about the health of women you would not be distributing this particular drug in this manner,” Armacost said. “We want to make sure that doesn’t occur in Wisconsin.”

SSFC approves ALPS funding at over $150 thousand The Student Services Finance Committee approved the budget of a UW leadership program of over $150,000 Monday. According to its website, Adventure Learning Programs is a student-run program that “builds leadership, community, and high functioning groups through fun and challenging adventure activities.” The program provides workshops to student groups through team-building exercises and ropes courses. Among the changes made to

the budget was a $500 increase to the program’s transportation line. ALPs members said the increase would allow them to provide fleet vehicles to drive groups to their ropes courses and groundwork programs. Several SSFC members motioned to cut $200 from the program’s food and beverage line. Committee members said the request was too high for staff training events in the fall and spring semesters. Rep. Tia Nowack said cuts to the

program’s food and beverage line would hurt the program. In past years, ALPs has run out of provisions at training events. Nowack also said cutting the request would contradict previous SSFC budget approvals for past groups. “To be consistent with how we’ve dealt with food this year, we should not be striking this line,” Nowack said. SSFC voted against cutting $200 from the food and beverage budget. The total budget was approved at $151,005.65.

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SSFC Rep. Tia Nowak said removing money from ALPs food and beverage budget item would go against SSFC precedent. The committee passed ALPs budget Monday.

City officials discussed the final draft of the plan for downtown Madison with the public Monday at a Bassett Neighborhood meeting. Key aspects of the plan include developing transportation options, increasing the city’s sustainability, enhancing the lakefronts through such initiatives as a continuous Lake Mendota bike path and the extension of the East Campus Mall to Monona Bay. After being formally introduced to the City Council in November, the Downtown Plan was referred to 14 city committees, one of which has already made its recommendation. Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, explained the timeline of the city process, saying the plan should be “ripe for Plan Commission and City Council action” by the spring. The plan regulates building height with the aim of keeping a quality atmosphere. Height limits will become stricter in a new zoning code set for adoption next year. “The new zoning code … will more flexible and updated to today’s standards,” Verveer said. Jonathan Cooper, executive council member of the Bassett District, contributed information from a meeting he took part in with Mayor Paul Soglin early last week. According to Cooper, there was nothing in the plan Soglin was “strongly for or against.” What Soglin did point out, however, was a lack of funding. “It was interesting that one of [Soglin’s] first comments is that money is tight, and we should not necessarily expect a whole lot of the Downtown Plan to come to fruition real quickly based on budgetary constraints,” Cooper said. Verveer echoed this statement. “Some of the most exciting things on the plan are public projects that likely won’t see funding in the immediate future,” he said. Despite this challenge, the Downtown Plan is a strong one. “This along with the rewrite of the zoning ordinance will sort of guide downtown’s development over [a] 20-year window,” Cooper said.

campaign from page 1 right say which candidate they support. But Lyons said critics of the decision do not understand the First Amendment and the protections the Citizens United decision guarantees. “There have been cases all across the country in which people that have these interpretations of the constitution are just plain wrong,” Lyons said. McCabe said they did not believe the decision will be reconsidered because of its accordance with the federal Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. “The Supreme Court as it stands is currently hostile to these kinds of [state] laws” McCabe said. “In the meantime, there is going to be a great deal of damage done to our democracy.”

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Alex Seraphin regurgitated alphabet soup

ately, I’ve had a creeping worry that the Internet will be the death of everything beautiful, patient and human. I look around at dead-eyed freshmen stroking their smart phones, and I can’t help but ge but get this selfrighteous indignant lump in my throat. Humanity isn’t worthy of getting everything instanteously. I don’t think we can handle the responsibility. The hateful filth streaming out of every message board worldwide suggests universal selfish and lazy ineptitude. Self-discipline died in the ’60s when jeans became formal wear, but I doubt even the dirtiest of hippies could have hoped for anything so depressing as our present situation. I pray the gallows be a delusion, but I do not trust myself to hope. I, for one, feel the rope tightening. You see, I spent 10 months of this year not owning a working

computer. One drunken beverage tipped on a cold February night and stole my white MacBook away. It hurt for a week or two, and then I lived well. I listened closely when I heard what precious little music I could get my hands on, but I appreciated it all the more. I actually lived in the rooms I occupied. I read books and my friends’ faces.

You see, I spent 10 months of this year not owning a working computer.

Around the middle of November, I was breaking down. I was scared shitless of standing naked, without resources in the post-collegiate world I had been taught to dread by my parents. They had stopped feeling joy when responsibility introduced fear into their lives. I had maintained my false vow of simple living long enough. I had begun to look longingly at the people with

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iPods passing on the street. I got the insurance men to take a look at the beer-stained white window I had missed so much. Sure, they scowled and twisted their faces, but in the end they coughed up the dough. Before I knew it, I was back on the Web, iTunes library dragging like an anchor in tow. I circled down the toilet bowl info-drain, paddling back up when I could muster the might or the will to live. I knew I would give in. I had never been a strong man or much a man at all. Weeks have gone by, and I spend night after night scouring the Internet looking for the next fix, the next chilled-out blog post that would lead me to ecstasy. Meanwhile, I fear I’m drowning in an infinitely expanding digital library full of music I’ll never listen to and wouldn’t care for anyway. Over the last year, I had the luxury of only listening to a few hip-hop and punk records, most of which I strongly suspect had helped me grow into a better human being. With a world of obsessive hipsters prowling blog after blog, how could I afford such leisure? I’d be left behind. I’d become irrelevant.

So, I sit in the computer screen glow with my headphones on, unable to control my angry urge to be alone and entertained. Insecurity weighs heavily upon me and fuels my endless selfisolated trend chasing. I have to be informed about the best, most obscure music, because what am I otherwise? (A piece of meat, another guy with all the talent in the world and no will to act.)

Lately, I have got a creeping worry that the Internet will be the death of everything beautiful, patient and human.

Some nights, I get these dreams like I’ll never see the faces I love again, like I’m sipping wine by the fire but can’t feel the warmth. I get these cold sweats and fear I’ll never have the courage to cozy up next to some nose-ringed beauty because I can’t stand the eye contact or the pressure of intimacy unmediated

by a well-chosen profile picture behind a glass shield. Then, I wake up. I get out of bed. I look around at my bedroom, my dirty clothes on the floor, my records lying out on milk crates, my cozy brown armchair. I remember the articles on the Egyptian election and Occupy Wall Street I had read online the night before. I remember the Pure X album I had finally downloaded and absolutely loved. I remember the cute librarian who works the counter every Tuesday. I grab my towel and head to the shower. The fact is, the Internet is a fantastic tool with plenty of potential to solve the world’s problems and make our lives easier, more democratic and even more exciting. More importantly, it isn’t about to go away. Selfcontrol and mindfulness of our own bad tendencies can maybe (just maybe)save the future. I’m not one to hope, but enough with the worrying. I have a graduation ceremony to attend. Are you optimistic about the future of Internet-based information sharing? Let Alex know at seraphin@wisc.edu.

From the editor’s desk: The best in study music playlists From beginning to end to in over your head: Your finals week in music If you’re sitting in College Library, sweating profusely from climbing four flights of stairs in a down coat and scarf, thinking about flashcards after finally finding a place to sit, only to find the person next to you is loudly chomping down on their Fritos, you are not alone. We face this situation semester after semester, and the sophomoric tendency to tear our hair out goes far beyond our sophomore year. Thus, I present to you a playlist that will really help you get down to the dirty work at hand. The Vitamin String Quartet Performs Modern Rock Hits 2011, Vol. 1 may not be a single song, but it is included because it is worth listening to in bulk. The beautiful interplay between string instruments, which compile all Vitamin String Quartet works, gives the chance to listen to songs by popular artists without the lyrics—a perfect combination to prevent distraction. “La valse d’Amélie,” by composer Yann Tiersen has a similar quality of non-distracting escapism. The track, one of many beautiful tracks on the “Amélie” film soundtrack, gives one the aura French refinery. If you can imagine being transported to a quirky café on a Parisian street, it just might seem chic to study. “Holocene” by Wisconsin native Bon Iver is only fitting to rally to, and “Santa Fe” by Beirut and “Heart It Races” by Dr. Dog (a cover) are both energizing tracks that give you the gumption to pick up that book, or at least strut your stuff over to a library. Beirut even gives some encouraging advice regarding test-taking bravery: “Whatever comes through the door / I’ll see it face to face.” I usually have trouble studying to hiphop and rap, but “Electric Relaxation” by A Tribe Called Quest has a fitting groove that reminds us to relax, whether it be through meditation or Phife and Q-Tip’s bedroomoriented methods. “Change Is Gonna Come” by Pretty Lights, “Zorbing” by Stornoway, “Intro” by The xx and “Lights (Shook Remix)” by Ellie Goulding are optimal for studying in the thick of things. Their smooth and low-caliber harmonies, combined with steady backbeats keep your mind moving. Then step away from your notes—“I

Footnotes from an English major: What to listen to in the final throes

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Trampled by Turtles’ cover of “Where Is My Mind” will quiet your chaotic thoughts this week.

Butch Walker’s “Summer of ’89” keeps you entertained under grueling conditions.

Walked” by Sufjan Stevens, “Skin Is, My” by Andrew Bird, “Shangri-La” by M. Ward and “You Really Got a Hold on Me” by She & Him are cool-down tracks that are relaxing enough take out the knots in your shoulders. Finally, there’s Trampled by Turtles’ rendition of “Where Is My Mind?” when you walk in to the exam and realized you’re screwed anyway.

Writing papers is much easier with an interesting playlist, and as an English major, all I do is write papers. If you’re like me though, writing papers (or articles) usually results in 14 tabs open in your web browser, only two of which have to do with what you’re writing about. A playlist like this, with a good mix of slow songs I can ignore and jams

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1. Vitamin String Quartet Performs Modern Rock Hits 2011, Vol. 1 2. “La valse d’Amélie”—Yann Tiersen 3. “Holocene”—Bon Iver 4. “Santa Fe”—Beirut 5. “Heart It Races”—Dr. Dog 6. “Electric Relaxation”—A Tribe Called Quest 7. “Change Is Gonna Come”—Pretty Lights 8. “Zorbing”—Stornoway 9. “Intro”—The xx 10. “Lights (Shook Remix)”—Ellie Goulding 11. “I Walked”—Sufjan Stevens 12. “Skin Is, My”—Andrew Bird 13. “Shangri-La”—M. Ward 14. “You Really Got a Hold on Me”— She & Him 15. “Where Is My Mind? (cover)”— Trampled by Turtles

1. “Summer of ’89”—Butch Walker and the Black Widows 2. “Last Known Surroundings”— Explosions in the Sky 3. “Coffee and Cigarettes”—Jimmy Eat World 4. “Totally Fucked”—Spring Awakening Cast 5. “Wagon Wheel”—Old Crow Medicine Show 6. “Eager For Your Love”—Tristen 7. “Bright Spring Morning (Piano ver sion)”—Suburban Legends 8. “Throw Your Sets Up”—Whole Wheat Bread 9. “Take Me to the Riot”—Stars 10. “Drive”—Incubus 11. “Cannons”—Youth Lagoon 12. “Queen of Hearts”—Fucked Up 13. “She’s Lost Control”—Joy Division 14. “Appetite”—Marvelous 3 15. “Let’s Hear it For Love”—Smoking Popes

that keep the ADD part of my brain entertained, usually keeps me focused and working hard. A sing-along chorus isn’t normally a good thing when you need to study, but if you’re like me you need a lot of motivation to actually do your assignments, a little fun every now and then can keep you going. That’s where “Summer of ’89” comes in. The song is simple, but fun, and it keeps my brain entertained while I write. “Last Know Surroundings” is an instrumental that lasts eight minutes. Eight minutes during which I will get a ton of work done because my head will be focused on my work instead of the fact that I’d rather people watch. If you’ve ever been in the middle of a paper and realized that you were writing the wrong prompt, “Totally Fucked” is great to have on your playlist. There’s energy and harmonies that will keep you focused without distracting you too much. “Bright Spring Morning” makes you want to just be done with school, and this is the one song on the playlist that backfires sometimes. On the one hand, it can motivate you to finish strong (good for that middle slump), but on the other it can also make you just want to say “fuck it.” Youth Lagoon’s Year of Hibernation is such a great album that I could probably listen to the whole thing while writing. Variety is important when writing though, and “Cannons” contrasts very well with “Queen of Hearts” and “Drive,” keeping you on your toes and out of that rut. Sometimes more abrasive is better, which is why my list is peppered with faster and louder nuggets like “Queen of Hearts” and “Throw Your Sets Up.” Songs like these keep me from falling into a rut in my writing and spending 45 minutes looking up the perfect study food to have delivered to the library instead of discussing the finer points of postcolonial British Theater. Jeremy Gartzke / the daily cardinal

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Ethan Safran opinion columnist

t is a seemingly “self-supporting enterprise” that collects no tax dollars to support its expenses. It relies completely on products and services to subsidize its operations. It generates approximately $67 billion a year in revenues and has been named the “Most Trusted Government Agency” for six consecutive years and the sixth “most trusted business in the nation” by the Ponemon Institute. What agency did I just describe? The answer is the United States Postal Service. This important agency is currently in a financial predicament and this problem is something that all of America should begin paying attention to. Earlier this week, the USPS announced what was not really much of a surprise to some people: The agency needs to reduce its operating costs by about $20 billion by 2015 in order to “return to profitability.” That’s a large amount of money in an relatively small amount of time. A newly proposed plan dis-

plays the need to save $3 billion though 2015, and such changes would allow for “significant consolidation of the postal network in terms of facilities, processing equipment, vehicles and employee workforce.” One of the possible ramifications of this proposal would alter the service of first-class mail. A letter mailed on a Monday would no longer be guaranteed to reach its destination on a Tuesday, though the USPS assures that it would reach its destination within three business days. Earlier this year, the USPS announced that it may have to close nearly 10 percent of the roughly 32,000 retail stores throughout the country and, this past September it began considering closing 252 of its 487 mail processing facilities. Previously proposed plans have included the possibility of laying off over 100,000 employees, slicing the payrolls of some 100,000 others or getting rid of Saturday delivery. As of now, the USPS said it is not considering getting rid of all weekend deliveries. Let’s not forget a small, seemingly minuscule piece of history: Benjamin Franklin founded the United States Postal Service on July 26, 1775. At a certain point in

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Opposing view: Too big to fail

The United States Postal Service is burdened with high health-care, pension and labor costs, not to mention falling sales. It faces fierce competition in e-mail and private delivery systems, yet bailout talks are in the works. Are big banks and auto manufacturers the only organizations that are too big to fail? + Matt Beaty time in the 1800s, three-fourths of all government employees were employed by the USPS, and the institution used to be the largest public-sector employer in all of the United States. Even Article VIII of the United States Constitution dictates that Congress shall have the power “to establish Post Offices and post Roads.” No one will deny that USPS employees enjoy incredible benefits, and fiddling with unions and their benefits will inevitably lead to even greater problems. The past year has shown unhappy unions are that last thing that such a selfsupporting enterprise needs. The greater-Madison area currently has over half a dozen post offices scattered around the city. What if one of those

one of the most respected institutions in America effectively goes to the dark ages. Although it is more likely that it will not suffer too greatly, because numerous ideas and proposals will perhaps draw some sort of consensus that will allow for the USPS to save itself. Though one thing is certain: American citizens and our national, state and local politicians must start paying more attention to this surprisingly sad situation. Congress and the people need to stand up in support of the USPS, one of the most well-respected and trustworthy government agencies in the United States. Ethan Safran is a freshman with an undeclared major. Please send all feedback to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

Keep the baby Jesus out of politics mary sedarous opinion columnist

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was to close? How would it affect mail distribution across Madison? It could affect how often easily people can send and receive mail, and it would without a doubt cost jobs. But Congress must think about all the rural communities throughout both Wisconsin and other parts of the country. If their single accessible post office is close, contact to other areas will be limited. If drastic decision-making and structural reorganizations are not made, it is not possible to rule out bankruptcy, as the USPS would fall further down an endless spiral of fiscal cuts. This can all be blamed on the shared ignorance of the two political parties that will no doubt blame each other while

s the holiday season rolls around, religious tensions are sure to follow. Just a month ago, Gov. Scott Walker ignited a slight controversy by calling Madison’s holiday tree a Christmas tree in a press release (because pine trees were an irreplaceably sacred part of Jesus’ birth in the middle of a desert and have been key throughout 2000 years of subsequent Christian tradition). As you can tell, this particular issue seems quite petty. However, it signals a more important problem: America’s inability to properly recognize the separation between church and State and the consequences the joining of the two bring. The part of the First Amendment that separates church and state reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof....” And yet, in spite of this, America has always managed to meld religion and politics. And religious politics then go on to affect society. Politicians have always presented themselves as active churchgoers, and the political influence of religious groups makes it almost impossible for a

politician who is not pious to gain power. And to many citizens, religion is still considered inseparable from basic human decency. In fact, in the ongoing Republican primary season, it has become quite popular for a candidate to make religion a defining trait of his or her campaign. There have been three well-known candidates—Herman Cain, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Texas Gov. Rick Perry—who claim that God had, in some way, convinced them to run for president. Apparently He believes in quantity over quality.

Many of the most controversial public policy issues emerge when religion is involved.

At first, such religious politics seem harmless or amusing. After all, the first amendment says, “Congress shall make no law,” and the politicians are just stating opinions and pandering—not making laws. But if they are elected, their religion affects policy and ends up causing problems in society. Many of the most controversial public policy issues emerge when religion is involved. For example, marriage is defined in religious terms, leaving homosexual couples

unable to legally marry in many states. The inability to separate religious opinions from law has led to ridiculous conflicts over the legality of building mosques. This happened in New York, when the building of a mosque near Ground Zero led to a ridiculous nationwide debate. Creationism, a purely religious concept, still has advocates trying to place it into public schools. Religion’s connection to what is secular just ends up causing more issues for those marginalized by it. Despite these debates and issues, politicians still pander to their religious constituents by calling pine trees Christmas trees despite the fact that conifers have absolutely no Christian significance. And we buy it. People close their eyes to the obvious problems caused by religion in politics and fervently support it. They think that the name given to a tree is somehow an expression of religious freedom. By misinterpreting the freedom of religion, society unwittingly shoves religion down other people’s throats. If there is one thing society should learn this holiday season, it is that religion has no place in politics. So, enjoy the holidays everyone. Anyway, commercialization has already made the 25th of December a universal holiday. Mary Sedarous is a freshman with an undeclared major. Please send all feedback to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

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What could be cuter? If a goat and a sheep mate successfully, they will produce a geep. Tuesday, December 13, 2011 • 7

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F TROOP ACROSS 1 Hair line 5 Poetic foot 9 Cowboy boot feature 13 Filled cookie 14 Juicy pear 15 Superboy’s sweetheart Lang 16 What an also-ran may get? 18 Part of the eye 19 Granola grain 20 Belfry resident 21 Garden walkway 22 Literary sisters Emily and Anne 26 “You’ve got a ____ nerve ...” 28 Didn’t linger 29 Letters with “messenger” or “transfer” 31 Like many diet products 34 ___ grabs (available) 36 Relevant, to lawyers 38 More than displeasure 39 Abbr. after many a general’s name 40 They may be current or foreign 42 U.S. gun lobby 43 “A Christmas Carol” comment 44 Adhered (to) 45 Birds or fruit 47 Acoustic term

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Televise Jazz great Brubeck “Dear ____ Madam ...” Spent time at Betty Ford’s 56 One of the four Gospels 58 A day in Spain? 60 Feel sick 61 Potent pints 62 Small kitchen appliance 67 Hardly healthy-looking 68 TV group featuring Mr. T 69 Celsius freezing point of water 70 Report-card blemishes 71 Hint to an unexciting speaker 72 “Thanks ___ so much!” DOWN 1 “The Gold-Bug” author 2 “Woof” alternative 3 ___ Speed Wagon (old vehicle) 4 Rogers Centre locale 5 Schubert’s “Fantasia ___ Minor” 6 “This looks like ___ for Superman!” 7 Point of a fable 8 Certain garment worker 9 Don, as a sweater 10 What Halloween lips are made of

11 Inventory item 1 2 Allergy reaction, sometimes 14 Second photo in a testimonial ad 17 Scarf down 22 Book jacket bits 23 Already-aired TV show 24 Readily available, as parts 25 A big mess 27 Russian city or oblast 30 Site of Churchill’s 1943 Turkey conference 32 Get there 33 Made one’s hair stand on end? 35 It’s kept on track, hopefully 37 Far from flexible 41 Path of a cresting river 46 Put on a pedestal 48 Gets the suds out 50 Coin of the ___ 53 Cowboy’s calf catcher 55 Even-steven situation 56 Mocking comment 57 Count ___ (Lemony Snicket villain) 59 Cruise film, “____ Good Men” 63 Summer air circulator 64 Gun, as an engine 65 Miner’s vein contents 66 “Neither rain ___ sleet ...”

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Men’s Basketball

Badgers seeking first win on the road By Max Sternberg The Daily cardinal

Having seemingly gotten back on their feet after two consecutive losses to top-10 teams North Carolina and Marquette, the No. 14/15 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (8-2 overall) now faces its final road test of the non-conference schedule as it visits instate rival UW-Milwaukee (2-0 Horizon League, 8-2 overall) Tuesday night. Fresh off of a win over UNLV on Saturday—arguably their best victory of the young season—the Badgers now set out to prove that they can win on the road. Although Wisconsin is 27-1 all-time against Milwaukee and a perfect 10-0 under head coach Bo Ryan, the Panthers have a

Rivalry renewed

The Badgers head to Milwaukee to renew acquaintances with the in-state rival Panthers. Series domination The Badgers have dominated their foes from Milwaukee. They lead the all-time series 27-1 and are a perfect 10-0 under head coach Bo Ryan.

tournament-ready team this season, having already taken down Big East member DePaul in nonconference play. “Milwaukee is a really, really good team,” UW junior forward Mike Bruesewitz said Sunday. “They haven’t lost at home yet so they are going to be a real challenge for us.” One of the challenges in facing the Panthers this season is that they don’t have a standout scorer. While leading scorer senior guard Kaylon Williams is averaging just 12.8 points per contest, Milwaukee has three players averaging in double figures, with another three clocking in above the 8.5-point-per-game mark as well. Fighting injuries throughout the season, the Panthers have done a remarkable job of replacing lost production while playing all 10 games without at least one projected starter. While Wisconsin is a staggering 158-12 at home under coach Ryan, once they leave the Kohl Center it is a modest 55-57. After finishing last season just 5-6 in true road games, winning on the road immediately became a point of emphasis heading into the 2011-’12 campaign. Already having lost their first road test at No. 5 North Carolina, the Badgers desperately need to pick up a win on an opponent’s home floor, if for no other reason than to build confidence heading into the demanding Big Ten schedule. “To go into their place and get a win would be huge against

a good team,” sophomore guard Josh Gasser said. “A road win is a road win, it’s always good to have one under your belt.” From day one, the focus this season has been on the play of a trio of juniors in the backcourt. While junior forward Jared Berggren has been a constant presence on the floor for UW, the play of Bruesewitz and junior forward Ryan Evans has fluctuated wildly along the spectrum, great at times and anything but at others.

“To go into [Milwaukee’s] place and get a win would be huge against a good team.” Josh Gasser sophomore guard Wisconsin men’s basketball

Both had been struggling of late before resurgent performances in Saturday’s win. Bruesewitz picked up a careerhigh 10 rebounds to lead the way for the Badgers, with Evans adding nine for a career-high of his own. Their presence on the glass, something missing during the lull UW seemed to hit at the beginning of the month, makes Wisconsin much more dangerous no matter where they play. “We’ve got so many guys who can score,” Gasser said. “We just try to do the little things and when our chances are open, knock them down

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Ryan Evans and the rest of the Badger front court’s play appears to be improving after an inconsistent start to the season. and make some plays.” With finals just a week away and Big Ten play not far behind, the mental challenge of staying in the moment might be the toughest task to handle as the Badgers try to take care of business in Milwaukee. “We do a good job as a team to

make sure that we get that stuff done off the court,” sophomore guard Ben Brust said. “When we are on the court, you’ve got to be focused all the time.” “This week is going to be a little bit of a struggle,” Bruesewitz admitted. “But that is why you are a Division I athlete.”

Packers should be thankful for the rise of Tebow Time Ryan Evans not that one

ased on the amount of media coverage of Tim Tebow that I’ve had to endure since he took the reins of the Denver Broncos’ offense, I think it is fair to say that Tebowmania has engulfed the NFL. I’ve never been much of a Tebow fan myself. Not because I have anything against the guy personally, but because the media coverage he has received ever since he was a freshman at Florida has been gag-inducing. While he was a star for the Gators I lost count of the number of times I watched a Tebow feature on ESPN or read something about Tebow that painted him as some sort of Christ-like figure. Since he first appeared on the national football stage six years ago, the predominant attitude toward Tebow has been that he can do no wrong. That attitude has followed Tebow to the NFL. I get that he’s a great guy and people really want him to succeed because he’s so popular, but let’s be real here for a second: An NFL quarterback with a 48.5 percent completion percentage should not be receiving the heaps of praise that are bestowed on Tebow week in and week out. “But Ryan,” you will say. “All he does is win!” And I am going

to respond by saying that Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl, are we gushing over him too? I swear that people are blinded by Tebow’s charm and as a result they rationalize any way that they can to convince themselves that Tebow is a good NFL quarterback. They don’t want him to fail, so they choose to ignore the mountain of negatives while grasping at the straws that are the positives. Congrats, Tim! You’ve elevated the Broncos to mediocrity! Why wait? Let’s just put him in Canton now. Tebowmania has gotten a bit out of control. Sure, he’s engineered some nice comebacks (having to come back on the then 0-5 Miami Dolphins really left me in awe), but when I read things like what Greg Couch wrote for FoxSports.com on Dec. 6 I start to draw the line of ridiculousness. “Tebow is the NFL’s Most Valuable Player,” Couch wrote. “[Tebow’s] more valuable to his team than any other player in the league. Aaron Rodgers is his closest competition.” I’m sure Rodgers (you know, that guy boasting a completion percentage near 70 percent and 39 touchdown tosses and just generally putting together one of the best seasons from a quarterback in NFL history) is honored to be classified as the “closest competition” to the spectacularly mediocre Tebow. But on the subject of Rodgers and the Packers, maybe

they should be thankful that Tebowmania has overtaken the NFL this season. I never thought it would have been possible for a 12-0 team to be under the radar, but the 2011 Green Bay Packers seem to be. I remember when the Patriots were on their way to their 16-0 record in 2007, it was all that anybody could talk about. That team got dissected by the media each and every week, and I couldn’t turn on ESPN without being overwhelmed by the sheer number of times I had to endure Tom Brady’s face on the television screen. I can’t imagine the type of pressure and scrutiny New England felt that year being put under the microscope by every football fan in the country. But, fortunately this year’s Packers haven’t dealt with that type of attention thanks to people like Tebow. When I’ve turned on SportsCenter or perused news sites on Sundays this season after the Packers have disposed of yet another opponent I don’t see headlines like “Aaron Rodgers makes yet another team cry.” No, I get things like “Tebow does it again!” And that’s all anyone continues to talk about until the next Sunday. And so the cycle continues. Tebow has successfully put a potential undefeated season on the back burners. And, considering his body of work, I’m chalking that up as his most impressive accomplishment this season.

The Packers haven’t had to deal with added media scrutiny, haven’t faced extra pressure this season thanks to the media’s man crush on Tebow. They have been able to simply to go about their business and continue to do what they do best, namely, rolling over the NFL. Now, I’m sure if the Packers are looking like they will get to their New Year’s Day showdown with

the Lions with an unblemished record the media scrutiny will increase, maybe Mercury Morris will even come out of the woodwork to stir something up, but then again, Tebow may be getting ready to lead a stunning six-point comeback over the Kansas City Chiefs. Has Tim Tebow been an integral part in the Packers’ quest for perfection? You can e-mail Ryan at rmevans2@dailycardinal.com.

Chelios, Suter inducted into U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Former Wisconsin men’s hockey greats defensemen Chris Chelios and Gary Suter are set to be inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, becoming the fifth and sixth former Badgers to receive the honor. Chelios and Suter join Mike “Doc” Emrick, Ed Snider and Keitih Tkachuk in this year’s hall class. The five were inducted in a ceremony at the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel Monday evening. Four former Wisconsin men’s hockey players have previously received entry into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame: “Badger” Bob Johnson in 1991, Bob Suter and Mark Johnson in 2003, and Mike Richter in 2008. Chelios played professionally for 26 seasons, most notably for the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings, and is the all-time

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leader in games played for an NHL defenseman (1,651). He won three Stanley Cups and three Norris Trophies during his career. Chelios also helped capture silver for the U.S. at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Suter played for 17 years in the NHL, mainly for the Calgary Flames, and ammassed 844 points in 1,145 career games. He was also a member of the 2002 Olympic Silver Medal team. By Ryan Evans/ The Daily Cardinal