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Conservatives divided over fetal tissue bill

By Andrew Bahl THE DAILY CARDINAL

As a Senate committee heard testimony on three abortionrelated bills Tuesday, an otherwise united Republican party showed signs of disagreement on one of them.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said he probably doesn’t have the 50 votes necessary to pass a bill which would bar research using fetal tissue acquired after January, 2015.

Bill co-author state Rep. Andre Jacque, R-De Pere, said he hadn’t spoken to Vos about the matter but remained optimistic it would clear the Assembly in its current form, saying he felt there was strong support in the caucus.

The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services heard from researchers and advocacy groups on the fetal tissue ban, which state Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, said would ensure that ethical standards are adhered to in conducting research.

“The purpose of [this bill] is simple: to ensure research in Wisconsin continues with the highest ethical standards in mind,” Stroebel said in his testimony. “We need to treat aborted children as humans and not specimens.”

Dr. Robert Golden, dean of the UW-Madison School of Medicine, disagreed, saying the bill would

stifle research at the institution.

“This would have serious downstream consequences,” Golden said. “It would limit research on vaccines not yet discovered, for treatments not yet discovered, for causes of disease not yet understood.”

In addition, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patenting arm of UW-Madison, announced it unanimously opposed the bill, joining the state chamber of commerce and biotechnology firms in standing against it.

State Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, agreed with Golden, saying he was worried about misinformation influencing researchers’ ability to perform their work.

“I’m concerned about people throwing around junk science and people questioning the scientific community when [proponents of the bill are] off base,” Carpenter said.

The committee also took up two bills which would divert federal money away from Planned Parenthood, one by blocking the flow of Title X grants to the organization, while the other would prevent it from buying discounted medications, something it can currently do under Medicaid.

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ALLEN CENTENNIAL GARDENS

Have a ‘ruff’ day?

Dogs on Call brought their furry companions to campus Tuesday for some much needed relaxation during a hands-on session with students. Dogs on Call brings therapy animals to many places, nursing homes, hospitals and dorms among them. + Photo by Claire Grummon

TechBank brings opportunities for young area entrepreneurs

By Negassi Tesfamichael THE DAILY CARDINAL

When Madison area native Austin White-Pentony accidentally cracked his grandfather’s cell phone during a Brewers game, he had to decide whether to repair the phone or sell it and buy a new one.

After seeing a large price

discrepancy between the bids on eBay and Craigslist, WhitePentony saw an opportunity to make a profit buying back used and broken cell phones.

“I started buying phones after school and sold them online,” White-Pentony said, who launched his first electronic buyback company, Mad Town

Phone Sales, in 2011 as a student at Verona Area High School.

White-Pentony, now a senior at the University of Minnesota, teamed up with Tony Grisham and Aklilu Dimore, two former acquaintances through previous business ventures, to launch

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MPD receives more cases of credit card fraud

By Anna Madsen THE DAILY CARDINAL

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The UW Credit Union, along with other financial institutions, was one of several businesses targeted in a credit card fraud case.

Seven more reports have been filed to Madison police in connection with a June ATM fraud incident at an Associated Bank branch near campus.

Offenders in these fraud cases have placed devices into the card slots of the machines and copy account details from the magnetic strips of customers’ debit and credit cards, according to a statement from Madison Police Department Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain.

In some cases, small cameras are attached to the machines, allowing the criminals to record personal identification numbers as they are being punched into the keypad. This information is then used to falsify

cards, which enable the culprits to withdraw funds from the victims’ accounts.

Affected areas include ATMs at Associated Bank, as well as several branches of BMO Harris Bank and UW Credit Union.

Although investigations are still in process, police have estimated several hundred thousand dollars in losses. DeSpain said it is believed these crimes are being committed by people who do not live in the Madison area.

These incidents are not believed to be related to the credit card fraud cases near campus from the past month, UW-Madison Police Department spokesperson Marc Lovicott said.

In the incidents on campus, breaches in security resulted in

the compromise of credit card information of customers at numerous businesses. Lovicott explained it is too early in the investigation to know who is responsible for this fraud or where they are facilitating these crimes from.

“In many cases, criminals aren’t even in the city in which the criminal activity is taking place,” Lovicott said. “They do a lot of their business overseas, which makes it really difficult to investigate and track.”

Lovicott also noted that ATM fraud cases are part of a larger problem.

“This is, unfortunately, an issue that isn’t going away anytime soon, because of the rampant fraud that exists throughout the world.”

“…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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New stem cell model improves brain testing

By Bri Maas THE DAILY CARDINAL

Unknown side effects of drugs taken by pregnant women can cause various birth defects in newborns and can be very difficult to test for.

A recent UW-Madison discovery could provide a cheaper, faster and more reliable way to test for these potential side effects and help avoid neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, according to a university release.

Michael Schwartz, an assistant scientist in biomedical engineering at UW-Madison, co-authored the study with Zhonggang Hou of the Morgridge Institute, who is now a researcher at Harvard.

The research team used stem cells to build parts of the brain that are usually targeted by toxic chemicals or drugs.

These brain-imitating tissues

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The company is essentially the same, however the new business has a storefront.

TechBank grosses between $2.5 and $3 million annually in sales, and has bought nearly 20,000 devices, including iPhones, smartphones, tablets and Macs, since its founding.

The company has made enough in sales to pay off the college costs of its owners.

TechBank’s newest location opens Tuesday on the 400 block of North Frances Street, which

are called “organoids” and were used in various drug tests to make models to test other chemical compounds.

The organoids provided surprisingly consistent results, even across diverse cells within the model tissue, including neurons, glial cells, interconnected vascular networks and microglia. The tissues constructed were the first to incorporate all these components of the brain, creating a more complete 3-D model of brain development.

Not only is the new testing method easier and more accurate for researchers, it also could lessen reliance on animal testing.

“These model neural tissues capture a lot more of the complexity than you would find in a monolayer of cells,” Schwartz said in the statement. “They also mimic human physiology, and should be more relevant for predicting toxicity than animal mod-

els. The fact that we could apply a machine learning model to achieve 90 percent accuracy this early in the process is fantastic.”

The project required collaborative efforts from the regenerative biology team at the Morgridge Institute and UW-Madison experts in tissue engineering and machine learning. The data generated could also lead to future collaborations, according to the release.

Beyond drug testing, the new methods could also benefit future studies in helping to understand effects of environmental chemicals and identify toxic profiles or fingerprints in general.

“These datasets provide valuable information about changes in gene expression that researchers can mine to better understand mechanisms that might be disrupted during human brain development,” Schwartz said in the release.

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White-Pentony hopes will offer a low cost option to students and downtown restaurants.

“Being a college student while running a company is a juggling act of sorts.”

Austin White-Pentony co-founder TechBank

The company initially had locations in the Twin Cities area only, but in recent years

has opened locations at West Towne and East Towne Malls in Madison.

TechBank employs about 20 employees, which WhitePentony said helps manage the amount of business they get, as two of the three owners are fulltime students.

“Being a college student while running a company is a juggling act of sorts between giving enough attention to both while also doing well at both,” White-Pentony said.

“You always have a feeling that you’re not giving enough attention to one or the other.”

WARF Managing Director Carl Gulbrandsen said the effect of the proposed fetal tissue ban would be detrimental to research efforts.

WARF weighs in on fetal tissue ban bill

By Bri Maas THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s Board of Trustees announced today a foundation-wide opposition to the proposed fetal tissue ban Tuesday, according to a university release.

The proposed ban would make the use of fetal tissue obtained after Jan. 1, 2015 a felony. However, WARF patents and commercializes inventions born out of UW-Madison research that the board said would be compromised if the proposed legislation passes.

“As an organization that is committed to supporting research that leads to therapies and cures for deadly and debilitating diseases, we stand opposed to any legislation that would criminalize use of fetal tissue in research,” WARF Managing Director Carl Gulbrandsen said in the release.

“The WARF board believes the chilling effect this measure

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TechBank has grossed between $2.5 and $3 million in sales, which was enough to pay off the college education costs of its three owners. Its downtown Madison location opens Tuesday.

Jacque testified that Planned Parenthood effectively had a monopoly on federal Title X grant money, saying that money would be better controlled by the state Department of Health Services.

“Why only Planned Parenthood?” he said. “Why should we even have a state DHS at that point?”

would have on current and future research would be devastating.”

More than 100 university research labs use fetal tissue or its components to further understand illnesses or for other important research, according to the statement. These labs play a big role in attracting and retaining researchers, so the board said their closure would harm Wisconsin’s growing biotech industry.

“We view this bill as bad for Wisconsin’s economy and devastating to the individuals and families impacted by medical conditions like cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s,” Gulbrandsen said in the release.

“We must ensure that lifesaving biomedical research continues to be conducted in Wisconsin and that is most effectively done through use of fetal tissue and fetal cell lines.”

The board said it urges the UW System Board of Regents to take a similar stance on the issue.

Legislative Republicans have grown more interested in Planned Parenthood following the release of videos taken by abortion opponents that they say show organization officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue, a practice that would violate federal law.

The full Assembly is expected to take up the Title X bill during floor session Thursday.

University Affairs Committee narrows campaign focus, looks to use resources effectively

By Scott Bembenek THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Associated Students of Madison University Affairs Committee met Monday to select potential campaigns to focus on for the upcoming school year.

University Affairs campaigns focus on promoting student interests on the university level, look-

ing to identify changes that students would like to see on campus.

After identifying potential campaign subjects for this year, committee members put those ideas into groups based on what aligns with the ASM goals of promoting public education and student action in all parts of campus life, as well as with the interests of the student body.

Of the topic groups discussed, the committee established four main areas to potentially pursue. Among these were enforcing textbook affordability, expanding dining hall food options and exploring the possibility of expanding language certificate options.

Other possible topics include increased safety measures on cam-

pus, such as sexual assault prevention and increased safety lighting at night, and working for transparency in tuition costs.

University Affairs Committee Chair Angelito Tenorio emphasized that while the committee would like to pursue multiple campaigns, it is also important to allocate resources effectively.

“We don’t want to stretch ourselves too thin, because the more people working on a particular campaign, the more we’ll be able to get done,” Tenorio said.

Committee members will look to further narrow these topic groups at their next meeting and will then form more specific ideas to pursue over the coming year.

life&style Translating high-fashion beauty fads Wednesday, September 23, 2015

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By Cassie Hurwitz The Daily Cardinal

For many, the month of September brims with “back to school” clichés, pumpkin-flavored everything and desperate attempts to preserve the final moments of summer.

For the fashion industry, September is the month in which only one week has importance: Fashion Week.

Although the runways are a reserved space for creative exploration, both in beauty and fashion, the trends set during Fashion Week are paramount in determining what will or will not be popular in mainstream culture.

Despite the extravagance that makeup artists typically put into their runway work, each of these trends can easily be adjusted for everyday — even campus life.

Whether it is for a night-out, or a change in everyday pace, chang-

ing up your beauty routine can be the simplest of inspiration fixes.

Lipstick Trend: Darker the Better

A trend that seems to infallibly reappear each fall season are the deepening shades of lipstick.

Dark shades of lipstick were frequently seen on the runways.

It was showcased in two different ways: classic red pouts at Saint Laurent, Céline, and Carolina Herrera, and deep, nearly black shades at Marc Jacobs and Marchesa.

Many people think they can’t pull off a bold lip, but that’s far from true. Anyone can rock it. All it takes is experimenting with the different shades to find one that works with your skin tone.

While investing in such a timeless trend may be a good idea, there are plenty of budget options at the drugstore.

Look for a drugstore brand that emphasizes “moisturizing” to avoid the dreaded caked-in lines that are even more evident in bold colors.

Once you’ve found the perfect one, use a lip brush to apply the color evenly. Deep lipstick stands out, so it pairs well with a simple coat of mascara.

Eye Trend: Not Your Mother’s Winged Liner and Simple Smoky Eyes

Another common trend this season is eyeliner used in unconventional design. Their lines extended past typical boundaries and became works of art.

Fendi used small, disconnected dashes, Anthony Vaccarello drew inverted triangles underneath the eyes and Anna Sui added a second flick to their winged liner.

If you’re not as adventurous

in the eye department, an eyeliner look that never goes out of style is the classic cat eye.

The second look for the eyes is a lived-in smoky eye. Diane Von Furstenberg, Elie Saab and Burberry demonstrated this.

What they don’t know is that college kids have been rocking this look for decades.

It’s perfect for the morning after the homework all-nighter … or a different kind of all-nighter. The one where you forgot to take off your makeup, and it was smudged in the morning.

The purpose of this trend is to be imperfect, so there’s no need for precision, expertise or more than two minutes.

Blush Trend: Natural Flush

Another trend showcased by classic labels like Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors and Kate Spade aimed at imitating the natural

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flush you get after being outside in the cold. The Madison weather will probably give us all flushed cheeks soon enough, but before we hit those sub-zero temperatures, a rosy-pink blush dabbed on the apples of your cheeks will do the trick.

Fall is a great time to experiment with new trends, and if you end up disliking it, don’t worry.

As long as you didn’t Instagram it, no one will remember.

Don’t be afraid to try something different; you never know what might suit you.

A new trend can take you out of your comfort zone and help you feel more confident.

Be inspired by one of these trends and try to replicate it on your own.

Each beauty trend is reminiscent of what you proably already do with your beauty routine now, just with an edge.

Confessions of an international student at Madison

By Haidee Chu the daily cardinal

For many, the first day on campus recalls feelings of butterflies triggered by the overwhelming plethora of new names to remember and the complete unfamiliarity of the new surroundings and culture.

For an international student, these same feelings apply, but the extent of nerves is multiplied by practically ten.

Many assume that the fact that I have spent four years at a boarding school (for the duration of my high school career) far away from my home in Hong Kong means that I have almost completely assimilated the American culture.

To be frank, though I have gotten used to being far away from home, the transition never gets easier. After all, my idea of the U.S. was confined to the boarding school culture of a small town of Massachusetts, a place that is unknown to even most of the state’s natives.

It was not the 7,668 miles nor the 18-hour plane ride from home that became jarring to me, it was the utter dissimilarity of cultures that causes me to sometimes doubt and dither

about my choice of leaving home.

With only 8 percent of international students, the University of Wisconsin has a relatively low percentage of international students, compared to the other leading universities in the U.S. Beyond these statistics, cultural diversity still exists in a thriving campus like UW Madison.

Sometimes I cannot help but to wish I had more friends who could easily connect with my cultural values and traditions.

Being an ethnic minority does not make it any easier. It would be completely unreasonable and unfair for me to call the community unaccepting of diversity—that is the furthest thing from the fact.

However, I have to admit heavyheartedly that sometimes it is challenging to not be seen as just another “American university student” because of the stigma and stereotype that is associated with the color of my skin.

But that is not to say that none of the stereotype pertains to the reality.

There are times when I resorted to the self-deprecating excuse of “that’s because I am Asian” to

poke fun of myself and give into the stereotype.

At the same time, there are times when I felt the pressure to betray parts of my culture to conform, in hopes of acceptance and inclusion from others.

I can say from experience that there are no times when either of those ever felt right or satisfying.

I cannot begin to decipher or articulate the fundamental differences of the two cultures and myself.

But if there was one thing I have learned about cultures and identities (in the short four years I have spent in the U.S.) it is to embrace these differences.

I can then derive what I love from within each culture, and all together, make it my very own.

Instead of making a cheap joke, I can instead say “that’s because I’m Asian” loudly and proudly.

Perhaps it is okay to have never have heard of the sport lacrosse, okay to call a trash can a “rubbish bin” and okay to be a Patriots fan (though many people have tried to convince me otherwise).

Whatever it is, an important lesson I have learned is to embrace my

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Despite cultural differences, we all call Bascom hill home. cultural difference, take pride in it and turn it into a source of empowerment for myself and for others.

Stay true to who you are, keep an open mind while accepting and respecting other cultures, reach out to others without shying away from your inherited gift of uniqueness and everything else will fall into the right places.

In simplest of terms, be kind to someone that doesn’t look or act like yourself.

I can only say this so surely and confidently because I have already been through this experience before.

One thing I can assure you, though, is that all these feelings of unease are as transient as you make them.

Despite re-announcing what others have said before, the truth of the matter is, there is probably no better place than Madison to heartily welcome you into the community — if you stay true to yourself.

How fashion trends of the past re-emerge in modern standards of style

By Sophia Dramm The Daily Cardinal

The old saying that “those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” pervades many aspects of life, especially in the creative realms.

Many points in our modern age seem edgy and original in terms of design, but most often are repeats of popular styles of the past.

The “latest trend” may be the newest design of the fashion world, but a peek into past fashion shows that today’s fashion maybe be merely a re-imagining of the past.

By looking back at these iconic styles, there are clear ways in which classic elements of design can lead to stylishness in the modern day.

1950s

The return of high-waisted bottoms are perhaps the most popu-

lar staple from the past.

Classy high-waisted pieces, like the pencil skirt and dress pants from the 1950s, were popularized by women like the beautiful Marilyn Monroe.

Winged eyeliner, big sunglasses, accessory use, specific textures and the necessary LBD (little black dress) were Audrey Hepburn’s trademark styles from the 50s that have prevailed as staples.

Recreate the looks by keeping proportion in mind. Modesty and simplicty prevail. After every scantily-clad trend exits, the same principles of class re-emerge.

1960s, 1970s

“Hippie fashion” (from the 1960s and 70s) has made a successful comeback in 2015.

Two different styles of pants from this era, bell-bottoms tightly fit on top, and boho wide-legged

pants, are easily identifiable as popular trends of its era.

Additionally, flowy boho tops, parachute pants, flower crowns, and round sunglasses have resurfaced from the 60s: the essence of the “flower girl” resurrected itself into “Coachella babe of the 21st century.”

The more refined style of this decade was heavily influenced by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Jackie’s classic style of dress suits, large hats, and long gloves inspired women of her time and still does today.

Perhaps one of the most influential women in history, both in culture and fashion, the former First Lady’s legacy continues to inspire today.

Keep the tradition alive by looking for items that preserve fabrics of the past, such as suede.

Look for silhouettes that replicate a looser frame over the upper-

body by balancing a more formfitting style on the bottom.

For the final touch, make sure to curate accessories carefully; the more being the better.

1990s

Punk grunge style, including everything from oversized to baby-cropped, comes straight from the 90s.

Flannels, plaid, denim, overalls, crew neck sweatshirts, crop tops, choker necklaces and platform shoes are styles very popular today that can be attributed to a decade of the past.

Shows like “Friends” are popular both on Netflix and on the street as Rachel Green and Monica Geller have become beacons of style in the modern day.

Many trend-based stores offer modern interpretations of “grunge.” While this is an easy way to obtain a certain look, some of the

best 90s recreations can be found through thrifting.

The 1990s were reasonably in our own lifetimes, so stores like the national secondhand shop Goodwill and local vintage places like Good Style Shop on East Johnson Street offer a plethora of choices.

It could be argued that fashion lacks traditional originality.

Or that instead, that originality in fashion has come to be redefined as how creatively the past is reimagined.

In a more optimistic light, fashion can be seen as continuous recycling of itself. Does this mean that the 2000s popularity of gauchos, pleated mini skirts, and bedazzled Crocs will be back in the near future?

Or perhaps there are elements of classic style that we have lived through and are simply too close to appreciate.

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Sanders’ socialism falls short Tim Heinzel Opinion Columnist

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lot of UW-Madison students and a significant portion of the American public are considering supporting Bernie Sanders in his bid to be the next president, and it’s not surprising that he’s gaining so much support. After all, who wouldn’t want free healthcare, free college, a guaranteed living wage, guaranteed paid vacation and renovated national infrastructure? No one, right?

The problem is that implying all of these things would be free or guaranteed is a mischaracterization of the truth.

Everything in economics involves tradeoffs. Your free college and healthcare is necessarily paid for with someone else’s tax money. Your guaranteed wage may seem inevitable if a national $15 minimum wage is implemented, but there’s nothing that says employers have to hire you. If you are hired at $15 instead of what you would have otherwise been worth, your extra money comes at the expense of your employers, your coworkers or the customers of the business that have to pay higher prices.

Hardly anything is truly free.

I think Sanders and his supporters have a slight idea that these socialist/democraticsocialist policies require strict economic regulation and tax increases, but they don’t have any strong justifications for why some U.S. citizens, businesses and corporations should be forced to pay to try and create a country where economic scarcity doesn’t exist and everyone has all of their needs met. Sanders’ justifications for implementing socialist economic policy revolve around appealing to emotion by vilify-

ing rich people to suggest that they “refuse to accept” their responsibilities as Americans and, therefore, deserve to be severely taxed to support everyone else’s welfare.

A prime example comes from Sanders’ “on the issues” page of his website. It states: “This campaign is sending a message to the billionaire class: ‘you can’t have it all.’ You can’t get huge tax breaks while children in this country go hungry.

You can’t continue sending our jobs to China while millions are looking for work. You can’t hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens, while there are massive unmet needs on every corner of this nation. Your greed has got to end. You cannot take advantage of all the benefits of America, if you refuse to accept your responsibilities as Americans.”

Your free college and healthcare is necessarily paid for with someone else’s tax money.

While there are only 535 billionaires in the U.S. with a combined wealth of about $2.2 trillion (many of which are extremely generous and devoted to improving the world, like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg), Sanders implies that they are responsible for child hunger and to blame for the unmet needs of the United States (universal healthcare, free college, paid time off, and so on).

To Sanders, solving all of society’s problems seems as simple as taking money from evil rich people that don’t deserve to keep what they’ve earned. He por-

trays billionaires and the 1 percent of Americans as withholding the money and resources that would be necessary to solve all American economic problems.

Unfortunately, the notion that a utopia can be reached at the small cost of taxing rich people is false—the costs (both explicit and implicit) of implementing all of Sanders’ policies are enormous.

I hope the next president ushers us toward capitalism, not Sanders socialism.

All of the wealth that the 1% percent have isn’t sitting under a mattress doing nothing. It is invested in stocks, saved in banks which use it to make loans or tied up in property or business ventures. Without capital, businesses would struggle to start up, loans would be harder to get and technological progress that depends on investment would be harder to achieve. All of the things that rich people do with their money provide value to society. Even spending on seemingly wasteful luxury goods like private jets and exotic cars gives producers of those goods a way of life.

Ultimately, getting the world to the point where everyone can afford healthcare and education and see all of their needs satisfied requires massive technological progress. It isn’t possible to simply take away money from rich people and get whatever you want with no negative consequences. Resources aren’t perfectly convertible either. That means we couldn’t

just liquidate Microsoft and Facebook and suddenly have the resources to end world hunger and provide healthcare to all. While the market capitalization of both of those companies would buy a lot of food and healthcare, the supply of the two goods isn’t infinite—cheaper food and healthcare won’t appear by throwing money at the market. Individuals becoming extremely wealthy doesn’t prevent solving problems like poverty. In fact, I’d expect progress toward eliminating poverty to coincide with people becoming quite rich.

To get to the end result that Sanders wants for society, capitalism is the way forward. Short term, his policies could help some people at the inherent expense of others. In the long run, socialism cannot create the economic growth and technological progress necessary to improve national and global standards of living.

When wealth redistribution is the means of attempting to make economic progress, the market incentives that drive innovation will be gone. The investment necessary for advancement will be diminished. And perhaps most importantly, society will be attempting to move forward by trying to help some at the expense of others rather than working together to create the technological progress that allows everyone to be better off in the end. I hope the next president ushers us toward capitalism, not Sanders socialism.

Tim is a freshman majoring in finance and economics. What do you think of his thoughts?

Are you concerned by Sanders’ “socialist” platform? Or is Bernie, in your opinion, one of the more attractive candidates in the race? Please send comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Trump’s policies reflect un-American ideals Samantha Wilcox Opinion Columnist

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hen I was in the second grade, I came home from school with an assignment to research a significant historical figure. Naturally, I contemplated researching heroes such as George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr. But, when I shared this plan with my mother, she told me to research a significant woman in history.

Looking back on this moment now, I realize that this single homework assignment sparked a feminist chord in me. My second-grade self got caught up in society’s view of what is considered a hero, and a woman didn’t even come to mind for me. I don’t want my future children to grow up in a society that glorifies only men. And it is for this reason that I am appalled that Donald Trump is running for president in the upcoming election.

Since announcing his candidacy early this summer, Trump has taken the campaign trail by storm. According to CNN, Trump is currently leading in

the polls with a whopping 24 percent of GOP support, which is nearly double the support of his closest competitor, Carly Fiorina. In August, he filled a stadium with 30,000 supporters in Mobile, Ala., for a pep rally. And in the most recent GOP debate, his antics and controversial views drew a record 23 million viewers, the largest numbers CNN has had for any broadcast in their history.

How are immigrants searching for opportunity and security any different from our country’s first settlers?

However, the cult following and support that Trump boasts is, in fact, severely frightening.

How can it be that in a nation where the foundations of our political system are based on equality, we could potentially have a president who publicly and vehemently goes against this very concept?

In an interview with Rolling Stone, when asked if Fiorina would be a good contender for president, Trump said, “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?” By routinely making disparaging comments about women’s appearances and how that translates to their worth, Trump is undoing the work of so many women before his time. Women have fought for their right to be educated and respected in the workplace for decades, but this could all be for naught if Trump makes it socially acceptable for men to disparage a woman’s capability based solely on her looks.

Additionally, one of Trump’s main campaign promises is that he will fortify border protection between the United States and Mexico by building a wall. This promise of isolating American culture is not only massively insulting to people in this country of Latino decent, but also goes blatantly against many of the very values our country was built on. As every elementary schooler knows,

the first settlers of the United States were fleeing persecution and came here in search of a better life. How are immigrants searching for opportunity and security any different from our country’s first settlers? If our president is advocating for a mass rejection of cultures that are not Anglo-based, his view will trickle down into the social consciousness and will further stigmatize immigrants.

Trump claims that he can “Make America Great Again,” emblazoning this phrase on all of his campaign merchandise and materials. However, the United States is a nation that prides itself on social mobility and freedom for all and would not be made great by enforcing sexist and isolationist policies.

Samantha is a freshman majoring in communication arts and journalism. What do you think of her perspective? Do you feel as though her thoughts regarding Trump’s sexism ring true? How do you feel about his intense stance on immigration? Please send all thoughts and comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Tinder provides fun, yet callous, pleasure maham hasan tales from tinder

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he tale begins with me stumbling on to Nancy Jo Sales’ feature in the September issue of Vanity Fair, “Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse.”

Putting aside my thoughts on the piece for now, I did what I always do when I come across something relevant and titillating—I texted it to my friends to garner their thoughts on it. What ensued was somewhat of a heated debate over text which, in a way, wrote this week’s column in itself. People use Tinder as casually and commonly as Facebook now. We’re also either pretending we haven’t used it, and hence sticking to our lofty state of judgment, or we’re part of a couple who wants to see what else is out there. So we have opinions—oh so many opinions— about Tinder.

Arriving full circle back at the aforementioned article, Sales documents the Tinder rituals that have become a part of the norm for twenty-somethings and the dating in which they engage. Gorging on the swiping, and riding an addictive high from the esteem boost when you match with someone, is what dating, for all intents and purposes, has been reduced to. Sex has never been easier. Gone are the times when a play or a line would be enacted at the bar every weekend, since Tinder takes care of every little detail that might translate to something we once knew as effort.

With a smorgasbord of willing participants available to us, with as

little as a swipe and a few emojis, the heady chemistry one feels with someone to whom they’re maddeningly attracted might be facing extinction as well. The point is simply sex, and many are willing to engage in it with you: the who does not matter beyond the stamp of approval that is the right swipe.

More people got hurt, more people were blasphemed as lying cheats... when all they really had in mind was bouncing on you a few times.

One friend raised a thought-provoking point: in the midst of everyone insisting that this is the end of romantic dating, and nothing short of a dating apocalypse, it is sometimes easy to lose sight of the simple fact that perhaps the tendencies were always there, and Tinder was simply the trigger that was missing.

Maybe technology is finally catching up to the callousness and selfinvolvement we always desired in our casual interactions. My friend had a point, no doubt. It has become incredibly irksome and tiring to hear and shoulder the blame for “this” generation being the crux of depravity and downhill movement of many things. Surely human behavior can’t change that drastically, simply because there are tools at our disposal that allow the existence of certain behaviors. After all, those that have found their significant others on Tinder and through other online dating platforms also exist. Instead of the tools being the

Riding the Wavves at a weeknight mosh pit

By Jonny Shapiro The Daily Cardinal

Wavves, the surf-rock punks from So-Cal, came through Madison Monday to play a show at the Majestic. When I spoke with guitarist Alex Gates last week, he told me the only shows they’ve been doing since their last tour were one-offs in college towns. So, naturally, they felt right at home.

Wavves wasted no time getting started. They had no interest in making the audience wait. Within five minutes of opener Twin Peaks leaving the stage, Nathan Williams walked out with a wine bottle in his hand, picked up his guitar that was “really cool but just will not stay in tune,” and began playing.

The bells of “Sail to the Sun” chimed in, the opener of their album Afraid of Heights, and the crowd braced themselves for the ensuing mosh pits. Wavves raged on through a flurry of hits, stringing together crowd favorites “Idiot,” “Linus Spacehead” and “Beat Me Up.” It was about this time Williams promised the Majestic that when he finished his bottle of wine, he would jump into the crowd from the balcony.

Thus far, Wavves has officially released four singles off of their new album, V, but they didn’t stop there on Monday. They played three of those four, and sprinkled in a couple more that have yet to be released.

They also included, “No Life For

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The popular mobile-based app Tinder allows for users to swipe right or left on nearby potential meet-ups.

Me,” a track off of Williams’ collaboration album with Cloud Nothings.

Again shunning the concept of making the crowd wait for the inevitable, Nathan addressed the crowd, “This is when we would usually go backstage before an encore, but we’re just gonna keep playing.” They crashed into a trio of “King of the Beach,” “Demon to Lean On” and “Green Eyes.”

Immediately after, Williams made good on his promise. He chugged what little wine was left, went backstage and reappeared on the balcony. He called the crowd over below him and flipped onto his screaming fans, who caught him dutifully.

I touched on the dichotomy of Wavves’s self-deprecating lyrics with their fast-paced anthems in my discussion with Williams. You sing along, and you almost don’t even realize what you’re saying.

Halfway through the show, they dive into the eponymous single off their last album, and have the crowd screaming, “I’ll always be on my own, f----- and alone.”

But nothing stops. The moshing continues; the crowd surfing carries on. The great thing about a show like this is that it accomplishes what it meant to do. It transcends the workday and lifts you to a better place: A place filled with sleeve tattoos, eyebrow piercings, and music that’ll wake the neighbors.

bearer of the end, perhaps we need to reflect within and recognize our penchant, for all that we engage in is now at our fingertips.

The end result, from what I read in Sales’ article and observe in the masses, is that, as a rule, no one’s interested in intimacy or developing connections. It’s all about finding an available orifice to stick something in, and vice versa. The best news for them? That’s all readily available now. So all the good things that came about from the connections and intimacy, i.e. sex, exists without the “burden” of the connections and the intimacy. It’s a brilliant shortcut: a quick, fun and hassle-free physical release of many shared orgasms without ever having to dwell on anything personal. It’s not much different from masturbating, except that there’s another live body there. So, really, things are not changing. The masses were, in fact, always this shallow and disinterested to begin with;

now they simply have all the tools to do so openly and publicly. Maybe they’re just shedding the façade now and owning up to what they always wanted without the fringes and bows on top, without having to play the social norm game of “love” and “connections.”

Sales references Christopher Ryan’s book, “Sex at Dawn,” which more or less echoes the same sentiment. People have always chased novelty and a high number of sexual partners as a species, with a few inbetween who value relationships with depth and emotions, so the behavior Tinder seems to have exacerbated is really not something alien that has suddenly gripped everyone.

I agree with Ryan, since people don’t become more and more depraved toward some epic final doom. They simply become more open about their predilections that always existed and simmered under the surface, but were never accepted in “polite” society. It’ll simply get harder for

the ones that do put stock in connections, personalities and finding meaningful depth-filled relationships. But, then again, it was never easy to begin with anyway. People just pretended more than before; they put on a ruse and went along with whatever was socially accepted with the full intention of only giving and taking what they themselves wanted. The result? More people got hurt, more people were blasphemed as lying cheats who promised to love you, when all they really had in mind was bouncing on you a few times. The perk of the times, at least, is that the ones who are only interested in bouncing have the freedom to express that and engage in it.

The ones who only selectively boink those they connect with on all possible levels have a less pretense-filled world in which to find themselves.

Have you found your one true love, or one-night stand, on Tinder? Let Maham know your thoughts at mhasan4@wisc.edu.

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Time crumbles things, even your alltime favorite record jake witz We gettin’ It

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’ve heard friends and music critics alike describe many an album as “timeless.” I more often than not agree with their selections; The Velvet Underground & Nico, Loveless and Endtroducing….. are just a few of the albums that still sound fresh when played today.

But in the back of my mind, I fear that these albums just operate on a longer timeline, their relevancy decaying at an unnoticeable rate, but all the while still decaying.

Art is inherently of its time.

To be inspired, an artist must see something external and process it in a way that resonates with their personal selves. Thus, art will always be a delicate mix of the artist’s personality and bits and pieces from their societies. When listening to Bach, you feel the essence of baroque Germany in every clang of harpsichord and stroke of violin.

These days, it’s tough to resonate with 18th century composers.

It would be rare for a kid today to run to their room after a fight with their parents and throw on “Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565” to wash the angst away. While the work stands as a testament to the genius and mastery of Bach, its role as a historical artifact far outweighs its role as an accessible work.

What characteristics does it take for a song to outlast its time? Lyrics are, bar none, the biggest deciding factor when it comes to relevancy. If you rhyme about Twitter or Myspace in a song, you’ve essentially doomed your work to a life span of, maybe, twenty years tops. The Rae Sremmurd hooks of today are the wedding DJ’s tools of tomorrow.

In contrast, to extend the life of an album means touching something deep in the listener that resonates with most every human being. For most musicians, love is the go-to emotion. The Velvet Underground & Nico is full of hopeless romances, parties and heroin dazes. The lyrical mixture of beauty and depression is one of the reasons the album still stands on its own today.

Sonically, music can stand the test of time if it can achieve natural beauty. That universal feeling of appreciating a blooming flower, that deep soulful satisfaction of inhaling a full breath on the Lakeshore Path, is the ambiguous energy that “timeless” artists utilize in their works. Some of these feelings can even be described by science.

The basic human instinct to appreciate symmetry and ratios is why Mozart’s works still thrive today. In “Sometimes”

by My Bloody Valentine, Kevin Shields’ fuzzy, thumping guitar is not just appealing in its chords.

The rhythm outlined only by his strums is the same feeling you get in your heart when you know you’re looking at someone you love for the last time in a long while. It’s not the conscious mind that the music appeals to, but rather the instinct, the part of our brains we’re all too busy to address on a regular basis.

Sadly, whole genres are built on historical context and will one day succumb to the same ailments as music scenes before them. Punk and hiphop are both founded on rebellion, and historically have been used to empower speech of the oppressed. It’s a lofty vision, but what if we live in a world one day where people are no longer oppressed on the basis of their backgrounds? Will Henry Rollins screaming over a D-Beat strike those citizens of utopia in the same way it did for the punks of the 90s?

There is no problem whatsoever with living in the now. Music can serve multiple purposes, and one of those purposes is being a voice of the youth and oppressed.

Electronic music is grounded in a “Screw you, I’m going to be me” mentality, and that’s totally fine.

But when those partiers, who are currently defining a scene and a generation, wake up one morning with no more energy, money or drugs to indulge in electronic mega-fests, they’ll abandon their music faster than humanity abandoned disco.

While EDM and hip-hop producers are measuring the pulse of contemporary America in the internet age, the artists who will be played far beyond now are away from the spotlight, measuring the pulse of human nature. The difference between Mozart and other artists of his time who composed works with Christian lyrics for church is the same difference between DJ Shadow and Metro Boomin. While both are incredibly talented artists, I believe only DJ Shadow’s work has the characteristics that will resonate with people long after he’s dead.

And after all is said and done with natural beauty and pseudo-philosophical ravings, I still have that same uneasy feeling as I did when I started writing this column, that even the albums I can rely on to always sound new and interesting will one day go the way of internet rappers and go-go boots. Maybe it’s because one day I know I’ll be in that same category, as old and lame as the music I’ll be ashamed to admit I indulged in.

But, as long as I still get that lump in my throat when I’m listening to “Femme Fatale” or that desire to drive through dimlylit streets every time I put on “Midnight in a Perfect World,” I’ll take comfort in knowing that some classics still stand. At least for now.

How has your favorite album stood over time? Let Jake know at jakey.witz@gmail.com.

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Travis Scott hands the reins for his first Rodeo to guest features, falters on debut ALBUM REVIEW

Rodeo Travis Scott

By Brandon Danial The Daily Cardinal

Travis Scott has been a bit of a buzzword for the last few years in the hip-hop community. After signing with Grand Hustle records and landing production spots on both G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer and Kanye’s Yeezus, people became curious over Yeezy’s newest disciple. “Who is Travis Scott?” some asked. Following two EPs and several delays, Scott makes his grand entrance on the debut LP Rodeo. But, upon completion, both new listeners as well as adamant followers of the young rapper may still be asking, “Who is Travis Scott?”

The Houston native finds his sonic residence in the growing Atlanta trap scene. Rodeo marks an addition to the catalog of trap music’s ever-evolving style— a genre that has grown past its locale and into an integral part of current hip-hop culture. Scott’s direction on Rodeo is decisively meticulous; rather than storming the gates atop a bucking bronco, he puts us in first gear and

takes his time cruising. Where many trap stars feel inclined to rush in as many bangers as possible, Scott has something bigger in mind, leading us through the expansive landscape of Rodeo’s production. The ride is lengthy and retains a chilling atmosphere from start to finish. Beats feel drenched in filters, chugging along faintly as each snare pops in comparison. The muffled rhythms retain a hazy cognizance, as when Scott and Juicy J stumble through “Wasted,” or during the alluring hypnotic refrain of “Pornography.” Beat switches feel natural, the way the second half of “Oh My Dis Side” decelerates to a swaying R&B stupor is as smooth as it gets. The addition of some obscure instruments adds a lovely flavor to Rodeo as well—the piano lick on “90210,” the surprising psych-rock intro to “Piss On Your Grave,” and Toro y Moi’s synths on “Flying High” bring an artisan depth to Rodeo that is a highlight of its own.

Rodeo’s stellar production is, in part, thanks to the enormous list of producers involved, but Scott also brings an all-star cast of artists to the table for his features. While the lineup is intrinsically appealing, the sheer amount of talent Scott recruits for his debut is the source of its greatest weakness. An artist’s first major unveiling is meant to be a showcase of talent; not just the ability to make good songs, but the ability to handle things with-

out the training wheels on. When your first record is half-filled with features (mostly-high profile artists may I remind you), a lack of credibility begins to loom overhead. 2 Chainz and Juicy J deliver expectedly slick bars on their respective tracks, whereas the highlight pop songs “Nightcrawler” and “Pray 4 Love” are at their best when Swae Lee and The Weeknd take the reins.

Even “Piss on Your Grave” feels like the most Kanye song ever, a track that could easily be a Yeezus leftover. In almost every case, Scott gets overshadowed by the stadium acts he brings to his house show. It’s a shame too, because Rodeo actually attempts to please on a more personal level as Scott analyzes the drug-induced life he has prescribed for himself. But all of the glitz and glamour that radiates from Rodeo puts emotional connection on the backburner so the stars can shine that much brighter.

Rodeo is all-around a good album, but I’m hesitant to say it’s Travis Scott’s album. Scott has a knack for pairing up beautifully with his contemporaries, but a jack-of-all-trades is a master of none. Scott has a bit of an identity crisis at hand, but I believe he has all the means to find his niche. Rodeo is solid, but at the expense of its creator. I can only hope his next release gives me a reason to point and say, “This is Travis Scott.”

Rating: B—

With smoky, sexually charged music, The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness offers the perfect mix of pop and PBR&B ALBUM REVIEW

Beauty Behind the Madness The Weeknd

By Paul Blazevich The Daily Cardinal

The Weeknd began his career in a shroud of anonymity. Mixtapes he released in 2011 had no physical face attached to them. His verses were featured on works from the likes of Drake and Wiz Khalifa, sometimes completely void of credit.

The growing popularity of “Wicked Games” and the release of Kiss Land in the autumn of 2012 began The Weeknd’s slow and calculated rise from darkness to the limelight of American and Canadian pop music.

Beauty Behind the Madness is released at a theoretically perfect time in Abel Tesfaye’s (The Weeknd’s given name) career. Coming off of the astronomical success of “Earned It” from the “Fifty Shades of Grey” soundtrack, and several hit singles in the past year, Tesfaye’s newest release has been highly anticipated since its announcement. This anticipation is deserved, as the musically interested public has been waiting for the next male pop superstar since the death of Michael Jackson. The Weeknd is likely to soon pick up the crown and begin the next reign as King of Pop.

There are several tracks on Beauty Behind The Madness that have the capability of elevating The Weeknd to that level of King of Pop. Placing “Real Life” in the position of opening such an important album of 2015 was a bold and successful decision.

This work gives the listener an ear into The Weeknd’s new dominating themes: Orchestrated instrumentation that demands full attention in the room in which it is played. This is contrary to the original Tesfaye material, where the music played the part of background noise to mischievous activities. Highly produced choral lines often flirt with the mistake of over-production, and sultry lyricism and steamy vocals that stab their way through your heart and straight into your animalistic desires.

As expected when Kanye West’s name is mentioned in the credits of a song, “Tell Your Friends” takes the crown of best track on Beauty Behind the Madness with ease.

West’s audial presence in the production of this track is clearly heard in the soulful piano riffs, bass lines and contorted vocal synths. The sounds continually roll through the rap-sung verses of The Weeknd as he tells his latest sexual exploit to brag about her Abel experience to her friends. This record is right at home in a dark Toronto club in the middle of November at 2 a.m.

“Often” and “The Hills” require no special introduction or description here, other than to mention that although these tracks came out months ago, they are right at home on the dark-pop, PBR&B album that

is Beauty Behind the Madness. They provide context to this work and remind the listener that there are still elements of the former Weeknd in his new projects, even if Billboard favors half of the tracklist.

On the other end of the spectrum are “Can’t Feel My Face” and “Earned It.” While “Often” and “The Hills” validate The Weeknd’s position as Maestro of Sex, these two tracks are aimed at radio listeners, younger ears and the faint of heart. “Can’t Feel My Face” and “Earned It” will be heard at wedding receptions and homecoming dances for years to come.

The Weeknd was once sought out as the perennial “feature,” an artist that needed to sing at least one chorus on your album in order to garner more publicity for your new release; The Weeknd was good as an addition to a track but not as the feature presentation because he was not yet prevalent enough in popular recognition. Beauty Behind the Madness reverses those roles, as The Weeknd invites two relatively unknown artists to the lineup: Labrinth and Maty Noyes. These features, the massive production throughout the entire album and the unprecedented commercial success of all singles on Beauty Behind the Madness makes this album one of the most prominent releases of 2015. No matter how commercialized The Weeknd’s work becomes, we will always be pulled into thoughts of our past loves and present secrets by the smoky electricity of The Weeknd’s crooning.

Rating: A

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Today’s Sudoku

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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Dig It!

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ACROSS 1 Trash, as a project 6 Jessica of Hollywood 10 Agrees quietly 14 Hawaiian welcome 15 Cleo’s wooer 16 Way out 17 No matter what 2 0 Flower part 21 More strange 22 Mustard choice 25 Soft, nappy leather 26 Sound effect 3 0 Eye part 32 LP part 35 Fasteners 41 Accept or reject 43 “King of Queens” character 4 4 Scatter, as a mob 45 Stake-driving hammer 47 Harvest 4 8 Desert transport 53 Brief quarrel 56 Rhododendron’s relatives 58 Becomes less intense 63 Law of the jungle 6 6 Great Lakes city 67 Atlantic bird

68 High point for Moses 69 Bodies of saltwater 70 Part of a wine glass 71 Really enjoy DOWN 1 Some bunts, for short 2 “Colt” anagram 3 “Arrivederci” city 4 “Don’t forget about me” 5 Used a vegetable peeler 6 “Where ___?”

7 Computer network acronym 8 “Hagar the Horrible” creator Dik 9 Farm measure 10 Jacket named for a Hindu leader 11 Nitrous ___ (laughing gas) 12 Had an evening meal 13 Cubic meter 18 “The Phantom Menace” boy 19 A sibling, for short 23 Japanese martial art 24 Fine word for libraries?

26 Young newts 27 Applaud 28 Part of a camping trip, often 29 Ready for customers 31 “Bullets,” to a poker player 33 “___ ‘em, Fido!”

3 4 Thing on an agenda 36 Track unit 37 Swear to be true 38 Like a desert 39 Leaning Tower city 40 Bit of choreography 42 Carousel music, e.g.

46 Declare with confidence 48 Projects for lawyers 49 A shade of blue 50 Journalist Shriver 51 Diminutive beings 52 Hawaiian gift 5 4 Dance noisily 55 Morbidly fat 57 Birds, collectively 59 Opera showstopper 60 Add a little color to 61 Biblical twin 62 Liner 6 4 Easy number to add 65 Dream state, for short

Dig It (yet again)!

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No. 11 Wisconsin, the defending Big Ten champions, will begin conference play with matchups against defending national champion Penn State and the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Badgers prepare for major Big Ten tests

By Matt Davis The Daily Cardinal

After winning two out of three matches last weekend, No. 16 Wisconsin (8-2) will begin conference play this week with a pair of big tests, as it will face top-ranked Penn State (11-0) and No. 12 Ohio State (11-1).

“This week we’ve got Penn State and been watching a lot of film,” UW head coach Kelly Sheffield said. “Once again, Penn State is a very talented team that seems to be getting better every week that has a coach that has accomplished a couple things along the way. Ohio State is a team that may jump into the top 10 in this week’s polls, so we are certainly excited to get the Big Ten season under way.”

Wisconsin is very eager to get revenge on the Nittany Lions after they fell in four sets to Penn State in last year’s NCAA Regional Final.

However, beating the Nittany

Lions will not be an easy task.

Penn State is led by both a plethora of All-Americans and news faces, including freshman setter Bryanna Weiskircher, and has yet to drop a set this season.

“Here is the thing, [Micha Hancock] had probably the best serve in the country, certainly the best serve on their team,” said Sheffield. “The new setter they have in right now is certainly the best server on their team. She is not quite Micha behind the service line, but she’s no slouch and she is quite good.

They’re in fine hands.”

Sheffield likes to stress that his team prepares equally for each team they face week in and week out, coming in to each game with the same mindset to improve every time they play.

However, given the fact that the Badgers will take on the number one team in the nation this week, Sheffield concedes that he and his team are looking at the Penn

State match a little differently than usual.

“As a competitor, I would hope they are looking at this game differently,” Sheffield said.

“Our goal is to try to compete for a national championship and you’re going against a team that has won the last two. Although their personnel is different, we’re going up against a program that has storied excellence to it and our players to want feel that.”

Not only are the Badgers excited for Penn State, but also very eager to start conference play in the Big Ten, which has its fair share of teams loaded with talent.

“I think they’re also equally jacked up to be opening up Big Ten, and I’m not sure who you have in front of you,” Sheffield said. “On the flip side, we won a Big Ten conference championship last year, and that was something that was pretty big for us.

Although, Penn State won the whole thing, I’m sure they feel

that’s rightfully theirs and they’re probably going to be packing a little bit more juice as well.”

Wisconsin takes on Penn State first Wednesday at Rec

Hall in University Park, Pa. at 6 p.m., followed by its matchup with Ohio State Sunday at St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio at 1 p.m.

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Despite losing players such as Micha Hancock (right), Penn State is ranked No. 1 and figures to once again contend for a national title.

Brewers inspire hope for a brighter future with GM hire zach rastall make it rasty

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y all accounts, 2015 has been an unmitigated failure for the Milwaukee Brewers. With the bitter memory of their September collapse last year fresh on the minds of fans, the Brewers face-planted out the gates to a 5-18 start to the season that immediately quelled any hope of postseason contention this season.

Manager Ron Roenicke was axed; general manager Doug Melvin announced his intention to step down at the end of the year; Kyle Lohse and Matt Garza pitched so poorly that fans started longing for the days of Jeff Suppan and Dave Bush. The Brewers had plunged into the abyss, and you’d have been hard-pressed to find a fan with much optimism about

the future.

But with the announcement of the hiring of David Stearns as its new general manager, owner Mark Attanasio has shown a clear new direction for the franchise, one that should give fans hope of a brighter future.

At 30 years old, Stearns, who has served as the Houston Astros’ assistant general manager since 2012, will be the youngest GM in the MLB and is even younger than Ryan Braun.

While some may see his youth as a drawback, some of baseball’s best general managers were around Stearns’ age when they got their start. For example, current Chicago Cubs GM Theo Epstein was only 28 when the Boston Red Sox hired him back in 2002.

Hiring someone as young as Stearns, a 2007 Harvard graduate, isn’t unprecedented, and his combination of youth and background in analytics makes him the perfect fit for a franchise that’s perilously close to being a full-blown dumpster fire.

If skeptical Brewers fans want proof of Stearns’ capabilities, they need only to look at his tenure in Houston to be reassured that the team is in good hands.

Between 2011 and 2013, the Astros were the laughingstock of baseball. During those three years, they went 162-324 and finished each season with at least 106 losses. It was a brutal stretch of futility that puts the Brewers’ current struggles to shame, but GM Jeff Luhnow, Stearns and the rest of the Houston front office laid out a clear plan to reinvigorate the farm system and build a contender out of homegrown talent.

Not only were they successful in that endeavor, but they’ve done it faster than even the most optimistic Astros fan could’ve hoped.

After posting a 70-92 record in 2014, Houston has taken the American League by storm this year and looks poised to return to the playoffs for the first time since its World Series appearance in 2005.

It’s been a remarkable turn-

around for the Astros in a brief period of time, one that Stearns will look to replicate in Milwaukee.

The Brewers already put the wheels in motion on their upcoming rebuilding process by dealing Carlos Gómez, Mike Fiers and Gerardo Parra at the trade deadline in an attempt to shore up their farm system.

There’s still plenty of work to be done in that regard, but Stearns will benefit from the luxury of getting to work with scouting director Ray Montgomery, who is highly regarded around the league and was thought by many to be a candidate for the general manager position.

Melvin will also be sticking around with the team in an advisory capacity, which could prove beneficial to Stearns as he makes the transition into his more significant role in Milwaukee.

The task that lies ahead for Stearns certainly isn’t an easy one, especially with the Brewers playing in the loaded NL Central, but

the hiring of a smart, young general manager with an analytical background was a savvy move on Attanasio’s part and the one that’s reflective of the direction that many teams are going when hiring front office executives. That strategy has worked for franchises like the Astros and the Chicago Cubs, and following their example gives the Brewers their best chance at building a consistent postseason contender.

The 1982 team is still the golden standard by which all Brewers teams are measured.

The fact that they’ve hired a GM who wasn’t even a glimmer in his father’s eye during that historic season is indicative of the paradigm shift that the franchise is undergoing in its quest for a brighter future.

Is David Stearns the right man to lead the franchise’s rebuild?

Will the Brewers be a playoff contender in the near future? Share your thoughts with Zach at zach. rastall@dailycardinal.com.