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November 14, 2011

Issue 12, Volume 56

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Free parking at Klotsche? By Aaron Knapp New UWM teachers’ union By Callie Koller

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Shutting out the doubters

Out of the red, into the black and gold Athletics looking at feasibility of on campus basketball stadium

By Lyla Goerl Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com

Senior Makenzie Gillaspie celebrates as the Panthers won 3-0 claiming their first ever NCAA tournament game. Post photo by Austin McDowell

Milwaukee blanks Illinois State, moves on to second round

By Nick Bornheimer Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com The No. 15 UW-Milwaukee women’s soccer team shut out Illinois State Saturday night 3-0 in front of a packed house at Engelmann Field for their first ever NCAA tournament win.

The Panthers (19-2) hadn’t experienced a loss since their trip to Illinois State on October 23. As fate would have it, the Panthers found themselves pitted against the very same Cardinals (13-6), only with

home field advantage and much more at stake the second time around.

Seniors Sarah Hagen and Keara Thompson and sophomore Krissy Dorre all scored in the winning effort. Hagen also broke her own school record, scoring her 25th goal of the season.

“For this senior class, to make the NCAA Tournament every year, to finally get a win, it has been very elusive,” UWM coach Mike Moynihan said. “We’ve had some very good teams and played good games in the tournament, but just haven’t been able to come up the “W.” It’s a great feeling.”

The Panthers’ key to victory was limiting Illinois State’s red-hot offense and Missouri Valley Conference MVP Rachel Tejada, who scored in the previous meeting.

The success stemmed from impressive back-line play from senior leader Makenzie Gillaspie.

“We knew [Tejada] was a quick player, a lot faster than me, so I had to respect the speed,” Gillaspie said. “We worked a lot on 1 v. 1 defending, and I think that was to our benefit.”

In regards to defense, goalie Jamie Forbes was able to keep her sheet clean and tally five saves.

“I really focused on how our defenders were going to be positioned,” Forbes said, who credited much of the team’s success to their preparation after seeing them once this year. “This game, we knew that they would take it to the end line and try to cut back.”

Forbes made an incredible diving save late in the match off of a shot by Rachel Bostick to preserve a then two-goal lead.

Hagen and the Panther offense did not waste any time getting on the board.

Hagen headed in a Thompson corner kick

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Political foes resolve to shake off Walker woes Petitioners prepare as Walker recall campaign kicks off

By Steve Garrison News Editor news@uwmpost.com In a Riverwest storefront on Friday night, petitioners gathered to learn procedure and talk shop about the recall campaign against Gov. Scott Walker that will begin on Nov. 15.

The seven petitioners in attendance at this United Wisconsin event were mostly retired persons – former public employees, teachers, a detective – all of whom believe that Walker has irreparably damaged the state while in office.

The signs adorning the Booth Street building’s walls – some nothing more

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than black marker on large, torn-out pieces of paper – shout out against transit cuts, underfunded programs for the poor and other causes that have riled up liberal-leaning Wisconsin residents who believe that the elimination of collectivebargaining for public employees was the first shot fired in an ongoing war against the lower class.

“It is the haves and the have-mores, and that is what Walker is about,” retiree John Harrington, 63, who taught for 10 years before becoming a police officer, said.

Harrington retired a detective in 2008 after 26 years on the force and said Walker showed his true colors during a prank phone call released earlier this year,

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in which an editor for online news site Buffalo Beast pretended to be David Koch of Koch Industries, a large contributor to the Walker campaign.

During the call, Walker said Sen. Tim Cullen (D-Janesville) was, “not one of us,” referring to the fact that although Cullen went into the private sector and “made real money and became a little more openminded,” he was not conservative.

“I am focused on that phone call,” Harrington said. “It may have faded a bit, but it will come back.”

Harrington’s reasons for disliking Walker are easy enough to understand: “I don’t like bullies. I don’t like bullies with money or bullies with political power.”

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Political action committee United Wisconsin is one of the largest organizations trying to unseat the governor and has spent months preparing for the 60-day filing frenzy they hope will end in Walker’s recall.

The PAC is working alongside several other organizations, including the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, to collect 540,000 signatures by Jan. 17. The signatures will then be submitted to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board for approval.

Concerned over the GAB vetting process, during which lawyers from both

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UW-Milwaukee’s athletic department is looking into building a new arena on campus that would host the men’s and women’s basketball games, which have been held at the U.S. Cellular Arena for the past five years.

Athletic Director Rick Costello said real estate surrounding the university is limited, but there has been discussion of building the stadium on the site currently occupied by Norris Health Center. Norris would be relocated to the Northwest Quadrant if the plan is approved.

Over the past five years, the athletics department has averaged a $1.5 million deficit. Costello said that the deficit does not mirror the department. The deficit has gotten better over the last year, making it a better reflection of the department. Looking into an arena with a strategically planned amount of seats could potentially help the department get its deficit under control.

With tuition and housing costs increasing, ticket sales need to be higher, in order to achieve the rate the department had last year. While the department would prefer to continue achieving the sales rate they had last year, the university’s budget is taking a toll on the progress of creating a new stadium.

“We have talked about escalations of cost, housing, food and tuition,” Costello said.

The NCAA passed new legislation concerning cost of attendance that continues to separate the haves and have-nots, Costello said. In essence, the legislation requires $2,000 to be added to athletic scholarships, a substantial increase for UWM. The Horizon League passed this legislation, and Costello voted for it.

“If you want to continue playing in a Division I basketball level, I can’t go into a house and make an offer less than what [other schools such as] Michigan State and Wisconsin are offering,” Costello said.

While the legislation is being worked into recruiting new athletes, talk of raising money for building a new arena has been in motion.

“Right now, it’s roughly between $45 to 60 million,” Costello said. “If we go with a 5,000 seat arena, the cost would be approximately $45 million. Anything more would raise the cost.”

Costello believes that having 5,000 seats in the arena would be the best decision. Having only 5,000 seats would

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“It was huge to get on top quickly,” Hagen said. “When we played them the first time, they came out, and they really took it to us.”

The Panthers maintained possession for the majority of the match, ripping 17 shots and putting eight on goal.

After two header attempts and a powerful shot by Hagen, Dorre was able to put a rebound in the back of the net in the 74th minute for the game’s second goal.

Thompson sealed the deal with a goal in the 85th minute to give the Panthers their final tally. UWM was able to hold the nation’s third highestscoring team scoreless Saturday night and will now advance to the second round for the first time since 2006.

The Panthers are set to face Ohio State next week in hopes of continuing what has been an unbelievable season.

Milwaukee went to OSU last year and came away victorious. Moynihan and his team said the task will be tough, but feel like they can compete with anyone in the country.

“They didn’t graduate too many players, so I think it will be a little bit of a rematch from last year,” Moynihan said. “They’re going to be hungry to get back at us … but this is a very special group – it’s different. We’ve always had good chemistry, but there’s a little sparkle.”

CORRECTION In the Letters to Editor section of the November 7 issue of The Post, the headline "Wanker Coaches" was inappropriately appended to the signature of the preceding letter. The Post regrets this error.

Angelina Cruz and Nathaniel Haack conduct a training session for petitioning the recall of Scott Walker at a Riverwest storefront. Post photo by Austin McDowell

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Continued from page 1 sides of the political spectrum challenge and counter-challenge the validity of the signatures, UW-Milwaukee alum and fifth grade teacher Angelina Cruz said 750,000 to one million signatures would be ideal.

“They are going to look for reasons to throw them away,” Cruz said.

Petitioner concerns were not limited to signatures. Organizers will also be collecting signatures to recall Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. Many Democrats worry that if the recall is successful, Walker will simply step down before a new governor is elected, allowing Kleefisch to take over the position.

“Right now, I just do not trust our state legislator … so we will just recall them both,” organizer and UWM alumnus Nathaniel Haack, 23, said.

Collecting 750,000 signatures in 60 days to recall two different government officials is a tall order, and the lack of students in attendance for the petitioner’s training meeting was apparent.

Haack said that the Riverwest branch of United Wisconsin has over 100 volunteers involved in the recall campaign,

but the Democratic Party of Wisconsin was responsible for campus field organizing at UWM and Marquette University.

Campus field organizer Andrew Suchorski, 20, said it was important to get as many students involved as possible and was hopeful they could sign up a few thousand volunteers.

“We are going to be very visible on campus,” Suchorski said, mentioning that students will be tabling in the Union, as well as doing more public circulation.

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has also reached out to a variety of student groups on campus, including the Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association, Students for a Democratic Society and the College Democrats.

So far, however, Suchorski said student response has been merely “OK.” UWM junior Reid Biesterveld said he supported recalling Scott Walker because his mother and aunt, both teachers, have been negatively impacted by the governor’s policies.

“My Aunt Laura had to retire, because she had to pay more into her retirement fund,” he said.

Biesterveld said he would sign a recall petition, but would probably not be volunteering.

“Not right now … too buried with school, too many group projects,” Biesterveld said.

Wisconsin Democrats can take solace in Ohio’s recent decision to repeal their own collective bargaining law, passed in March by a Republican controlled state legislature and Republican Gov. John Kasich.

“Ohio gained much of their inspiration … from the protest that started out in Madison and now that momentum has shifted, and they will inspire us,” Haack said.

However, the two bills delineate in some key areas. For instance, the collective-bargaining bill passed in Ohio placed bargaining restrictions upon police and firefighter unions – Wisconsin’s law did not. Voters in Wisconsin are also trying to repeal a governor, whereas Ohio voters were simply eliminating the law through a referendum.

Despite these distinctions, Haack said he was confident that when the snow begins melting next spring, Wisconsin will be a very different state.

“This is not a decision we would take lightly,” Haack said, in reference to the petition drive. “There is a reason why a governor has never been recalled in Wisconsin.”

A new report by the United Nations has raised concerns that Iran may be much closer to producing an atomic bomb than previously thought. The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency report states the agency had “credible” information that Iran had built a large explosives vessel to conduct hydrodynamic experiments, which are “strong indicators of possible weapon development.” Iran has dismissed the report’s accusations, calling it “unbalanced” and “politically motivated.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the full extent of Iran’s nuclear program was not ref lected in the recent U.N. report, arguing that Iran is “closer to an [atomic] bomb than is thought.”

Timberlake is Marine Corps “Ball”-in’ Justin Timberlake “is a man of his word,” Access Hollywood reports.

The multifaceted artist made good on a promise from earlier in the year to attend the Marine Corps Ball with Corporal Kelsey De Santis in Richmond, VA. In July, De Santis invited Timberlake to the ball via YouTube, telling the star, “If you can’t go, all I can say is, ‘Cry me a river!’” De Santis was then invited onto Access Hollywood Live, where she challenged Timberlake to a dance off. Timberlake accepted.

The wife of a Marine who attended the big night said Justin “posed for pictures and seemed like a normal guy.”

Penn State remembers child sex abuse victims Thousands of Penn State University fans participated in a candlelight vigil out of concern for the sex abuse victims of alleged pedophile and former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Blue shirts were worn by students and alumni alike during the team’s last 2011 home football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers, a sign of collective support for the eight victims who have come forward so far alleging sexual abuse against Sandusky. The show of support was a far cry from images of unruly crowds torching a TV van and toppling street lamps in State College, Pennsylvania, in protest of Penn State’s legendary coach Joe Paterno’s dismissal earlier in the week.

Atlas couldn’t shrug this off…

100,000 copies of Atlas Shrugged, a movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s famous novel, were accidently emblazoned with the phrase “selfsacrifice,” an idea anathema to Rand’s objectivist philosophy, which called for radical “self-interest” in the face of societal control. The marketing team behind the critically panned 2011 film adaptation said they were “mortified” once they discovered the misprint that read: “Ayn Rand’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life…” New title cards will be offered to DVD and Blu-ray owners who wish to replace their f lawed versions. “The irony is inescapable,” said Atlas Productions COO and Communications Director Scott DeSapio said.

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Continued from page 1 raise ticket demand. At the U.S. Cellular Arena, there is currently no ticket demand because of a seating surplus.

Costello said he believes higher demand for non-student tickets can be an asset to a growing team.

Over the past eight years, the average attendance has had its ups and downs.

Last year, average attendance for men’s basketball was 3,822. Costello said if they could get approximately that average in a new arena, the budget would become much better.

Fundraising is underway, and the department has already raised little more than half of what they need. Costello said they currently have consultants going out and testing the feasibility of fundraising, giving out questionnaires to see who would support something of this magnitude.

Student Association Speaker of the Senate Rick Banks said that he would support building a new basketball stadium on campus.

“It makes financial sense,” Banks said. “They’re paying to use the U.S. Cellular Arena and generating little to no revenue from parking, concessions and advertising.”

Recently, a referendum was passed

by SA to increase segregated fees $25 per semester in order to fund a new arena. If a basketball stadium is not approved, the money will go towards paying the athletics department's debt.

This proposal received approval from the Senate Finance Committee and the senate.

Banks indicated that if the school wants to move from a commuter school to a more traditional four-year university, having a strong athletic program is a distinct advantage. Moreover, Banks believes people want to go to a school where there is good student life and academics.

“Having the arena on campus will be a great improvement to campus life,” Banks said.

Murray Hill resident and treasurer of the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association Gary Halvorsen said that he could not speak on behalf of the neighborhood association but said he loves basketball and generally supports the idea.

“As long as the parking was taken care of and there were no gangs of drunken students running around raping and pillaging, I don’t see any problem with it,” Halvorsen said.

A basketball stadium on campus would be located next to Klotsche Center moving the Norris Health Center to the NWQ. Post photo by Sierra Riesberg

Student Court issues restraining order to College Dems’ leaders

Sets new precedents for all student organizations

By Aaron Knapp Assistant News Editor news@uwmpost.com

The University Student Court issued a temporary restraining order last Sunday to the executive board of the currently inactive College Democrats at UW-Milwaukee, barring the five board members from holding those positions if they resume the student organization’s activities.

The order indicated that the court would likely hold new elections for the executive board of CD-UWM, and the final decision, which will be released Thursday, will likely set a precedent that holds an organization’s charter as a more powerful legal document than its constitution.

The organization charter is a form approved by SA and submitted to the Student Activities Office that serves as UWM’s recognition of the student organization. That precedent may force many student organizations to resubmit charters for Student Association approval.

“In this case, we have an organization that failed to hold elections, failed to follow its own rules, failed to follow the procedures that were outlined in its charter, which was passed by the Student Association Constitution through the

senate,” Chief Justice Anthony DeWees said. “Every student organization has to have a charter, [and] every student organization on campus is required to abide by the Student Association governing documents.”

Although the issue in this case was whether or not CD-UWM held elections last April, the affect it will have on other UWM organizations include how its membership and whether the organization’s charter or self-created constitution have more legal weight.

Despite the implications that this decision could carry for student organizations at UWM, the case was decided in summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Matt Rosner. In other words, Rosner’s allegations and evidence were largely accepted as fact because the defendants failed to appear and submit contradicting evidence. “[The defendants] never showed up for the court case,” DeWees said. “To refute any of the facts in evidence, they would have had to show up. They didn’t, so all we could go off of is what we were given.”

Rosner, a recent transfer student to UWM and a senator in SA, alleges that CD-UWM did not hold elections for its officers last spring and has been inactive during a crucial period for the

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Democratic Party of Wisconsin. He has asked the court to hold elections for CDUWM in order to restart it, but he is not shy about his ambitions to lead CDUWM. “What I’m trying to do is give this organization a fresh start – we need a fresh start,” Rosner said. “If UWMilwaukee wants to take an active part in these recall elections and other Democratic Party causes, we have to get this organization going again.”

Both Rosner and defendant Jared Bierbach, the last Chair of CD-UWM, admit to never having met one another or attempted any kind of compromise.

“I have never met him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know if he was a student last year. I have never been contacted by him. I don’t even know anything about what he’s alleging,” Bierbach said. “Frankly, I don’t care, because this is just another instance of bizarre allegations against us and almost a witch hunt against myself, Shawn and anyone associated with us after we decided to run for Student Association.”

Bierbach referred to his failed bid for SA President along with his Vice Chair, Shawn Matson. In that election, the political party ASAP swept the elections and took nearly complete control of SA. Since that time, CD-UWM has not received funding or office space and has become inactive as an organization.

While former CD-UWM executive board members, including Bierbach, argue this is because SA officials lost their paperwork, those officials including Speaker of the Senate Rick Banks and President Alex Kostal contend that the paperwork was never submitted.

Since Rosner did not attend UWM last spring, his allegations are based on the accounts of several witnesses who attempted to join CD-UWM online through the recently established OrgSync and vote in these elections, but did not find any members of CD-UWM at the appointed time and place. Subsequently, they were removed as members of CDUWM on OrgSync.

SA President Alex Kostal claims that a member of the organization named Theo Bialk was leading a campaign to run for chair of CD-UWM when Bierbach and Matson cancelled the elections, which took place only days after the SA elections.

“They postponed the election indefinitely,” Kostal said. “They just called the election off completely, never

rescheduled it and said that they would handle it sometime in the future.”

However, Bierbach disagrees with the assessments made by Kostal, Rosner and the court and asserts that elections did take place, even though turnout was low.

“We held elections,” Bierbach said. “Yes, there were only eight, or I don’t even know how many people showed up … because no one wants to participate. There’s only so much I can do to get people to come to a meeting and participate.”

He further argues that joining CDUWM on OrgSync is not enough to become a member and that he has no responsibility to inform non-members about elections. He found it suspicious that some members of ASAP wanted to join CD-UWM right after defeating the organization in the election and without having come to meetings.

“All year I had begging these same people to join and come to our meetings … then all of a sudden there [was] this influx of people who hadn’t come to meetings who then want to run for executive board positions,” Bierbach said.

Bierbach noted that there is no legal doctrine establishing how student organizations should treat OrgSync, so he relied on the CD-UWM Constitution, which dictates that a member is any student who is also a member of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and has participated in at least two events in that semester, not including elections.

“If I’ve not met someone, if I have not seen them at a meeting, they’re not a member to me,” Bierbach said.

The court came to a very different interpretation of what constitutes a member by relying on the CD-UWM charter, approved by the SA senate in 2001, instead of the CD-UWM Constitution, a much more detailed document that was last updated in 2009.

According to the handwritten charter, a member need only be “a UWM student who shares the values of the Democratic Party” and can only be removed at a meeting when two-thirds of the members present vote to do so.

Regardless of the issues of whether or not the election took place, what document carries more legal weight and how membership is determined, the court only heard Rosner’s arguments and will issue its decision based on that evidence. According to Rosner, the court is expected to order that a new election take place and appoint someone to administer those elections.

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Young squad looks to climb a top conference

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This year’s UW-Milwaukee women’s basketball team can be categorized many different ways – young, inexperienced, fast, explosive. For a team that is chasing a conference title for the first time since 2006, they have something that is hard to find and impossible to teach: swagger.

Or as coach Sandy Botham calls it, “spunk.” The term may get more recognition in youth as swag, but no matter how it’s used, this group of Panthers has it, and much of it has to do with the influx of the last two recruiting classes.

“You can just tell by the way they play,” Botham said. “It must come from their high school careers. Many of them are coming from winning programs.”

Much of last year’s team returns, and with a handful of new, talented freshmen, the Panthers will be able to compete with anyone.

“Last year, we proved we can score a lot of points,” Botham said. “The problem was we really couldn’t stop other teams from scoring on a consistent basis. We need to improve on defense, and that’s where we began the season focusing on the most.”

The team will have to replace one of their most successful and talented players in the history of the program, Lindsay Laur. Her career put her in many record books, including finishing as the No. 3

rebounder (791) and No. 4 scorer (1,404 points) at UWM. As much swagger as the young squad has, it will quickly be tested, as they face a tough-as-nails non-conference schedule, which includes powerhouse programs, such as Oklahoma and Baylor – not to mention they play six of their next seven games on the road.

“We are going to really learn a lot about ourselves in our non-conference season,” Botham, who has won more than 230 games at UWM, said. “We are going to get beat up, but we play these games for a reason. To be the best, you go to play against the best.”

The Panthers, who were 12-18 last year (9-9 Horizon), had a much bigger frontcourt last season, as the team transitions into a quicker, smaller guardoriented offense. The team is moving talented sophomore Angela Rodriguez away from the point guard position to a much more natural off guard spot.

Rodriquez was an instant sensation last year, averaging 12.6 points per game, good for second on the team. She also got her fair share of cardio, averaging an impressive 36.7 minutes per game.

“I was so blessed to be able to be so successful right away,” Rodriquez said. “I really enjoy being here so close to home.

My family can come see me, and it’s a great environment to be around.”

Rodriquez’s fun, outgoing personality, combined with basketball skills, has

helped lead to a wave of the area’s top talent to consider and choose Milwaukee.

“I played basketball with so many of the area’s top players during my [Amateur Athletic Union] seasons,” Rodriquez said. “I tell them how awesome of a place UWM is. Ashley Green actually told me she looked up to me in high school, and it meant so much to me.”

Green, now a freshman, is just one of the many top players from the Milwaukee area who are joining forces in college. At nearby Nicolet High School, the 5-foot11-inch Green led her team to a state title and was a two-time all-state winner. The Panthers also had two local standouts from Milwaukee Vincent and Milwaukee King signed letters of intent this past week.

Courtney Lindfors looks to improve on a solid freshman season. The 6-foot4-inch inside presence is something the Panthers are lacking in depth this season.

She was third on the team last year in scoring at 9.2 points per game and ended up starting 21 games for the Panthers.

“She is very talented and continues to improve every day,” Botham said. “She has a great work ethic, and now I am hoping she can get away from those freshman mistakes.”

For the Panther, the future is now and later with Rodriquez and Lindfors, as the sophomores will be asked to do much more than last season, and with Alex Klawitter being the lone eligible senior.

Milwaukee looks to be repeat Horizon League champions

By Nick Bornheimer Staff Writer

As the UW-Milwaukee men’s basketball team looks to build on last season’s success, big contributions from new sources will prove vital. The squad lost their top two scorers from the 2010-11 season, Anthony Hill and Tone Boyle, and will be forced to rely on newcomers and up-and-coming players to fill the void.

The Panthers also face a rigorous schedule that includes a trip to East Lansing to take on the Michigan State Spartans and games against in-state rivals Wisconsin and Marquette, who are both in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll.

Milwaukee is picked to finish fourth in the conference behind Butler, Detroit and Cleveland State. It would be pretty easy to count them out, right? The odds may be stacked against the team, but history tells us not to rule out the black and gold. The Panthers also lost their top two scorers and were picked to finish fifth in the league last season. Tell that to their 2010-11 league championship title.

“The key is keeping up our confidence,” UWM coach Rob Jeter said. “Hopefully we can manage through our injuries and the tough non-conference schedule and have enough confidence to go into our league to where we can get off to a great start.”

During the Panthers’ annual basketball Tip-Off Luncheon, Jeter acknowledged that the team will be missing approximately 39 points per game from last year’s team.

Factored into this number is senior Tony Meier, who is starting the season sidelined with a leg injury.

“Everyone knows that we’re a little banged up – we’re a little hurt,” Jeter said.

“But we got guys that are willing to pick players, like Tony, up, and we’re going to have to have that. Someone else gets an opportunity to get better, and that’s going to help our team.”

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Panthers coach Sandy Botham has a young and talent group this season as they look to climb a top the conference. Post file photo.

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There is no doubt that the early loss of Meier will be a big one for the Panthers.

Meier is the top returning scorer and provides a veteran presence on the court.

The team does return their backcourt from last season though, junior Ja’Rob McCallum and the Horizon League assist leader from last season, Kaylon Williams.

Williams was a standout, starting all 33 games and recording a triple-double against national title runner-up Butler last season. He and McCallum look to pick up where they left off last season and provide leadership for a young squad.

Milwaukee also returns Kyle Kelm, Lonnie Boga (who has also been affected by injury), Ryan Allen, Ryan Haggerty, Christian Wolf – players who are all expected to contribute throughout the season – and Mitch Roelke and Quinton Gustavson, who received some playing time last year as well.

“When guys step out, it’s the new person’s time to step in,” McCallum said.

“We have guys all down the line that just have to step into those roles. We lost 39 points, so somehow we just have to find a way to put them back on the board.”

Newcomers The most exciting part of this year’s team may be the new faces. Milwaukee brings in an eager crop of new guys and has some familiar faces to show them the ropes. The Panthers welcome six new faces to the team, including junior college transfers James Haarsma, Demetrius Harris and Paris Gulley, who all shined in the team’s annual black and gold squad scrimmage.

Haarsma scored a game-high 25 points, while Harris added 16 and Gulley hit a pair of key free throws late. The freshmen class includes redshirt Evan Richard and true freshmen J.J. Panoske and Shaquille Boga, brother of Lonnie.

Boga scored 20 points in the scrimmage and hopes to provide some depth at the point guard position along with Gulley.

“Shaq is very talented on the offensive end,” Jeter said. “Defensively, he’s still a younger player, but that’s where we come in as coaches. I just want him to have fun and play.”

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Paul Simon's stop Friday night at the Riverside Theatre was an appropriately magical twohour experience. Photo by C.J. Foeckler

A MAN AMONG LEGENDS PAUL SIMON BRINGS THE RIVERSIDE THEATER TOGETHER

By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

It was about halfway through Paul Simon’s two-hour set Friday night, during Graceland ’s “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,” when a sizable portion of the patrons in the Riverside Theater’s upper balcony were deliriously dancing laps in the aisles (they were eventually restrained by security), that the gravity and magic of Paul Simon’s songwriting became so readily apparent that it, momentarily, took physical form.

Seeing Simon, one of the most important songwriters in the history of American music, in concert is not a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He has toured dutifully and extensively throughout his career, dating back

to his days with Art Garfunkel. But he injects so much spontaneity and passion into each individual concert, most of which push two hours (his Riverside set did), that seeing even an average performance still feels like one has witnessed something important.

Paul Simon was not average Friday night. At the start of his second encore – there was no question whether the show would actually end, as Simon introduced every individual member of his band when it finally did – he gathered opening bluegrass quintet Punch Brothers together onstage for an immaculately intimate mini-set, sans band, which consisted of two Simon & Garfunkel hits: “Cecilia” and “The Boxer,” both from Bridge Over Troubled Water. According to Simon, it was the first time he and his openers had performed the songs that way, just them

and a spotlight and a chorus of voices hailing from the crowd. In a show filled with moments of enchantment, it was by far the most profound.

While the former, an innately personal song of the success of love (“Jubilation, she loves me again/I fall on the f loor and I’m laughing”) got the crowd bouncing along, joyous, the effect of the latter was much different.

“The Boxer” is a powerful song on record, with its apocalyptic strings and trombone blasts, but in concert, acoustic and quiet, the effect is much more personal and much more magical.

And as the entire audience joined in singing “lie-la-lie,” the placeholder lyrics that became a signature phrase, the effect became far more intense, 2,500 people interconnected, focused, one. Paul Simon has that effect, especially when he’s finding ways to

do new things 50 years into a career in which he’s tried almost everything.

Paul Simon didn’t play “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.” Nor did he play “Duncan” or “You Can Call Me Al.” Many of his biggest, most inf luential hits were eschewed for lesser (still great) songs like “Hearts and Bones,” and all of the material he played, which was a substantial amount, from his new So Beautiful or So What. It didn’t matter. Simon’s bouncy, soulful, gentle style of songwriting, simultaneously romantic, upbeat and strangely, beautifully cynical, transcends the very idea of a hit.

Material from Graceland dominated the set – “The Boy in the Bubble” opened it, and “Graceland,” “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,” “Crazy Love, Vol. II” and “That Was Your Mother” filled it out.

You forget just how many hits, how many masterworks Paul Simon has accrued over the course of his career, until two hours have passed, the show is over, you’ve sung along to everything, and you still really wish he’d played “You Can Call Me Al.” You also forget just how long Paul Simon has been recording music, until he’s playing an acoustic rendition of “Here Comes the Sun,” and you realize to yourself that this man probably knew the Beatles personally at the absolute height of their career. And you realize there’s really nothing left for him to do, that the now-70-year-old Simon could pack it in tomorrow, retire comfortably somewhere in Europe and boast more to his name than maybe any other living musician. And you realize that he won’t, and thank heaven for that.

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tUnE-yArDs takeover Turner Hall

Experimental indie band leaves a good impression on Milwaukee

By Patrice Vnük Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com

“Well, it seems like Milwaukee is a pretty amazing town!”

Merrill Garbus was visibly surprised by the turnout for her tUnE-yArDs show at Turner Hall Friday night. The crowd’s enthusiasm was not without warrant; Garbus and the tUnE-yArDs put on one hell of a show.

Following the recent release of their album w h o k i l l, the band, made up of Garbus and Nate Brenner, added a saxophone section for this tour. As one of the more charismatic voices in music today, Garbus uses her vocals as a central instrument, often looping them with drum beats. As if that wasn’t enough talent for one person to possess, she also adds ukulele and other percussion throughout the show. Her vocal range is astounding: While at times sounding masculine, she can also reach upper soprano notes many young choir girls can only dream of.

The dynamic and vibe between band members was contagious. Their face paint, coordinated outfits and genuine grins made being in the crowd a pleasant experience. Everyone seemed genuinely

happy, a welcome change from the competitive pushing I always seem to get in the middle of.

Garbus’ reaction and pleasure at the audience’s size and liveliness only added to the excitement. The crowd fed off of her energy and she off theirs, a kind of interaction all concerts should possess.

The band played hits like “Gangsta” and “Bizness,” and Turner Hall’s floor threatened to collapse.

Being that the date was 11/11/11, at 11:11 p.m. Garbus orchestrated a little group activity. For that one minute, she told everyone to pick a note and sing.

She and the band joined in as well, and as the sound swelled, she took a picture of the audience with her phone. So that probably means everyone’s wish will come true, right?

For the last song, openers Pat Jordache and his band joined tUnE-yArDs onstage. The merger of sounds welled together (possible band lovechild?) and left the crowd screaming in a show that left little to be desired for the majority of ticketholders. tUnE-yArDs performed one of their best shows in a long time and will likely have an even bigger audience the next time they come to Milwaukee.

The tUnE-yArDs' receptive audience gave Merrill Garbus the comfort to stretch her voice in a number of charismatic directions Friday night at Turner Hall. Post photo by Sierra Riesberg

Too much of a good thing

Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

In recent years, Haruki Murakami has risen to become perhaps the preeminent author of note in world literature in a society sorely lacking for literary heroes. It’s not difficult to see why a young, educated, cultured readership would place faith in a postmodern writer who constructs his novels from incessant references to music and film. As American Millennials continue to age, Murakami’s popularity in this country continues to escalate.

He’s long been revered in his native Japan, selling many millions of copies of every book he’s written since 1987’s Norwegian Wood, and not coincidentally, the buzz for Murakami in America has coincided nicely with the lead-up to his newest work, 1Q84: a massive, elaborate, dense and imperfect work that approaches a variety of topics, some more important than others, that fails to find an ultimate hierarchy to its themes. But where to begin?

Like the best postmodern literature, 1Q84’s closest and most resonant obsession is with itself: what makes it tick, what defines the parameters of its genre, the eccentricities of its nature as an international work of literature.

Murakami’s status as a Japanese writer whose true worth to the literary canon (as determined by publishing elite) is determined by his accessibility in the English language has always been an essential roadblock for a non-Japanese audience to appreciate his work, and translation issues tend to plague his English volumes.

1Q84 is no different. But what makes large quantities of the novel fairly brilliant, and in a strange way makes it an essential tome to a literary canon that more and more makes it its business to look inward upon itself, is the way Murakami actively addresses his own translation issues in a way that transcends the very words it calls into question. Murakami is a writer of ideas more than a writer of prose, perhaps never more so than here.

A great deal of 1Q84 deals with a book-within-a-book called Air Chrysalis, the brainchild of a small, timid, dyslexic 17-year-old girl with the pen name FukaEri. Submitted to a literary contest, it is unable to be published in spite of its brilliant imagery and narrative flow, which leads to Tengo, one of the novel’s two main protagonists, who is charged with cleaning up the language of the work to more suit its fantastical content.

Obviously Fuka-Eri’s loss of authorship is immediate (an idea more firmly reinforced by the revelation that she didn’t even write it herself, but rather dictated it to a friend), and Murakami spends a great deal of energy emphasizing this theme. 1Q84 is in large part a novel about the loss of authorship across lines of translation.

But its more diverse and prevalent obsession is with systems, shadow constructs that define and enforce the ways human beings relate to one another and make their own decisions. The novel’s second main character, Aomame, who once shared an immensely tender moment with Tengo at the age of ten and has loved him (that is to say the idea of him) ever since, is a physical therapist by day and an assassin by night. She makes constant reference to the systemic nature of human muscles, and makes it her duty to push those muscles to the very brink of their functional ability within the muscular system in order to reinvigorate them, if only because of the impossibility of pushing them beyond those boundaries.

Systems (even as manifested through language) in 1Q84 are naturally oppressive, and as the novel begins, Aomame, upon the urging of a mysterious cab driver, departs a prolonged traffic jam – another system – and exits down an emergency stairwell from an overpass to take a train instead.

From that point on she becomes aware of a world-within-a-world, a reality that’s less alternate than simply different, one of which only she and a scant few others are aware. Two moons now hang in the sky, which Tengo eventually sees as well, and Aomame dubs this alternate 1984 (the year the book takes place) “1Q84,”

with the “Q” standing for “question.”

Even reality seems to be a system which only exists to be overcome, and the structural (read: systemic) nature of art is placed full in the fore, not only with the way Air Chrysalis’ publication is approached, but with the structure of the book itself. 1Q84 is divided into three books (individual novels upon their publication in Japan), each divided into 24 chapters that alternate back and forth between the perspectives of Aomame and Tengo.

Bach’s classical masterwork The Well-Tempered Clavier, for comparison, is a collection of solo piano suites that consists of two books, each composed of 24 pieces alternating between the 24 major and minor keys of music. Perhaps drawing a line between himself and Johann Sebastian Bach is a little highminded, but Murakami’s point about the mathematical assembly of art is welltaken, and it’s one of the few times that his career-long obsession with constant reference to music takes tangible, critical form.

But as Murakami layers his book with more and more themes, the focus of the work tends to fall apart. As they begin the search for one another, both Tengo and Aomame are implicated into an elaborate fantasy conspiracy involving an arcane and magical religious organization with ties to the “Little People,” a race which begins as a plot point in Air Chrysalis but rapidly becomes apparent to both Tengo and Aomame is real – and dangerous – but which cannot exist inside a city, being as they are a function of nature.

Thus, two more systems are introduced.

At some point, 1Q84 begins to sag beneath both its length and the myriad of concepts and criticisms that Murakami employs, even though each is individually well-done. Supposedly Murakami meant to end 1Q84 after its second book, and perhaps that would have ultimately made the most sense. As it is, one of the only faults that can be leveled on the work is that it does far too much of a good thing and loses its center in the meantime.

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Positive displacement Atlas Sound finds comfort in the anomalous

By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

The only real difference between Deerhunter, the inexplicably and meteorically popular Atlanta indie rock band for which Bradford Cox is the lead singer, and Cox’s solo project Atlas Sound – a name he has ascribed to his personal musical endeavors from the time he was 10 years old – is the volume. Cox applies the same songwriting strategies to Atlas Sound as he does to Deerhunter: his lyrical propensities are mainly streamof-consciousness, and he has the same reverence for warm, retro reverb fuzz in the former as he does in the latter. Even the way his songs unfold, meandering up and down and back again between chords in a singularly dreamy compositional style, mirrors his work with Deerhunter, especially as he enwraps his music in a wave of rock and roll fuzz and a croaking, self-conscious vocal delivery that very few other bands appropriate, even though a great many try.

Atlas Sound is no Deerhunter, though, even if their wires cross in so many elaborately predictable ways. If Atlas Sound was Deerhunter, Cox’s digital f lourishes wouldn’t have a place, because the dialed-back acoustic

nature of Atlas Sound ’s material expressly allows that to happen.

It’s diff icult to tell whether the incessantly quiet digital backwash of Parallax is being spoken above

by Cox, is speaking above Cox itself or is f loating there along with him in a cloud of pleasant musical jelly.

Probably the latter.

It could be that Parallax represents a f irst: the point where music, more and more nostalgic as time goes on, began to be nostalgic for digitalism. Certainly this theory is upheld by Parallax’s packaging, which features garish green leopard print and a CD that recalls the design of the f irst wave of rock-and-roll and jazz reissues, complete with artif icially-added chips in the f limsy paint with which those designs were printed. But the truth is a little more troubled than that, and the nostalgia far more multilayered.

The humanism of Cox’s storytelling, f lawed in the way he comes up with it in-studio, conceivably unable to edit or further structure it with the benef it of the red pen of hindsight, is both companion and counterpoint to the nonmusical effects that dot the record. It’s bionic in that regard.

When a song like “Flagstaff,” not even the f inal track on the album, can end in three solid minutes of the repeated and augmented

effect of a scratch on a CD being registered in the CD’s transfer to a computer – a wet, click-like sound – it’s part of the point, and not wholly unpleasant. Here Cox is drawing the avant-garde from the amazingly familiar yet tremendously modern, the digital equivalent of white noise on television, and f inding both humanity and comfort in it.

Parallax’s title is drawn from Cox’s experience of having a nervous breakdown while on tour with Deerhunter and the ensuing displacement of his own terrible experience with the positive experience of the rest of the band.

There’s certainly an element of musical estrangement work, as Cox draws on abstract digitalia alongside 1960s garage recording quality. A great deal of Cox’s preoccupation on Parallax involves balancing his “fame” (insofar as a band like Deerhunter can be truly famous) with his own personal desires. Such is the case with lead track “The Shakes,” in which Cox, in a pasttense fantasy, ruminates: “Found money and fame/But I found them really late/So in my mansion I’d sit/ Waiting for it all to end.” Obviously it hasn’t ended, so perhaps Cox has found a way to parlay the unpleasant experience of being into satisf ied comfort, f inding pleasure in his own personal skipping CD.

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An inarticulate, but listenable album M+A’s latest effort, things.yes, fuses many genres into one

By James High Special to the Post fringe@uwmpost.com

Michele Ducci and Alessandro Degli, the up and coming music duo known as M+A, released their new album things.yes, on Nov. 7. Ducci and Degli combine mellow alternative rock, electronica, ambient downtempo, jazz and deep house, and the result is an album whose sound is entirely its own.

The fusion of various musical genres allows both casual alternative listeners and dance music aficionados to enjoy the offering. It’s underground, but accessible.

Their first track “Yeloww” is a subtle offering with mellow synthesized textures, a lead flute, tribal percussion and supporting female choir vocals.

Ducci chimes in with a soft repetitive chant, creating a calm but groovy wall of sound. “Yeloww” serves as a great opener for the album, showcasing their technical capability and attention to detail.

Fans of house will enjoy “sommer,” a trippy, four-to-the-floor deep house track. It’s incredibly melodic and smooth but maintains an edgy quality thanks in part to the glitch edits to the drums and mesmerizing bass line. The energy of “sommer” carries into “Bam,” a melodic arrangement featuring piano, xylophone

and some hard-hitting drums, featuring enough reverb to make the track sound like it was recorded in the Grand Canyon.

Further along, “(we)” steps out of the house genre and brings alternative rock back to center stage. Its glitch-laden groove is composed of break beats with a touch of distortion, much like MGMT. The xylophone riffs, Christmas bells and synthesized strings sound a bit strange paired with the drums, yet it’s original and refreshing.

While there aren’t many negative things to say about things.yes, there is a severe lack of volume and definition in the lyrics, which are either too soft or hard to understand. There are definitely points in which they can be heard, but when the tracks get busy, the words are washed out. Devoting energy to figure out the lyrics makes enjoying the other elements difficult. While this is disappointing, every other element in the album makes up for the shortfall.

M+A’s talent for blending genres of electronic music is their best quality.

It’s even more impressive given that they produced the entire album in their home studio in Italy. It’s a refreshing and original experience. From start to finish, the album is a treat. Understandable lyrics? No. Enjoyable music? Yes.

Got to get up to get down Jazz on the rise in Milwaukee

By Graham Marlowe

Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

Despite its reputation (to some) as a mock counterculture, Milwaukee has naturally segregated boundaries that leave many unique surprises overlooked by the city’s music scene, or are at least hidden enough to invoke mystery. One of the obvious ways to explore this is to attend jam sessions, official or unofficial, and soak up where genres cross over, what members of big bands do to smaller, more engaged groups of listeners, etc.

In Milwaukee, the best ones are practically common knowledge, even if people haven’t been to them personally, and some have held their reputation for quite some time. What goes on in Riverwest basements, UWM rehearsal halls and other venues is another story entirely, but this should at least direct listeners towards the right crowd.

Erotic Adventures of the Static Chicken (The Jazz Estate, Tuesday nights, 21+) Grown from the same avant-garde fish tank as New York City’s “downtown music” gene pool, which modernist jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood commanded in the early ‘90s, this Tuesday night jam session, which retains a psychedelic edge, has been a go-to gig for fans of jazz.

The band, comprised from highprofile local favorites, like Choir Fight and De La Buena, follows a format so openended that it can be hard to tell at times what is an of-the-moment improvisation and what is an unrecorded original being

fine-tuned on the spot. Such a progression makes for easy transitions between acid jazz, the masked virtuosity of Buckethead and moments that mesh Steely Dan with Black Sabbath. With jazz legends and crooners on the walls behind the group, whose guitar playing isn’t always obvious, that, better than anything else, shows how versatile this music really is.

Milwaukee Jazz Vision’s Jazz Jam Session Series (Friday nights, four venues, all ages)

Sponsored by Milwaukee Jazz Vision, a recently incorporated nonprofit organization with the goal of advancing jazz in Milwaukee, this entry is truly the work of five. Throughout each month, MJV hosts four main jam sessions, assigning a reputable jazz trio to each venue (Rochambo, Tonic Tavern, the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, the Jazz Estate) while those same players stretch their performance energy between more gigs than most. The format and repertoire are recognizable to even novice jazz listeners, since many of these jam sessions take traditional, acoustic jazz performance to an accelerated, though not far-out, realm.

Jamie Breiwick, a cofounder of MJV, says it only makes sense that Milwaukee jazz has resurfaced on a widening scale. During the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Breiwick says there weren’t many jam sessions at all, citing popular tastes at the time as sentimentally commercial and somewhat destructive to the purity of jazz music’s ethos. In that regard, MJV is viewed as responsible for reorganizing Milwaukee’s jazz community and, primarily through their website (milwaukeejazzvision.org), has made an important move for the city.

The Jazz Gallery (First Tuesdays, 926 E. Center St, all ages)

Due to the popularity of the jam sessions mentioned above, a lost relic of Milwaukee jazz has seen revitalization in Riverwest over the last few months. The Jazz Gallery, a longtime tributary for the arts community, is once again hosting a series every first Tuesday of the month.

If you’ve ever been there, it feels a bit like a hip spinoff of the UWM Union’s art exhibit. The interior, highlighted by a surreal checkerboard theme, fits well with the music sets, as there are often exhibits from local artists being showcased simultaneously. Don’t be fooled by the “adults and teens” welcome suffix on flyers and ads, as Eastside JazzFest 3 illustrated to many wide-eyed passersby that the best jazz quartets – in this case, highschoolers – often have an early start on their skills and craft.

The Get Down (533 E. Center St., 21+) While there are no live musicians at Mad Planet on the second and fourth Saturday of each month, The Get Down sure functions like a jam session. In other words, the open-mindedness and lostand-found nature of the music spun by DJs Andy Noble (Kings Go Forth), Brent Goodsell, and Opiated Black – all on rare funk, soul and R&B vinyl – qualifies it as a jam session. Outside of the regular crowd, immediate recognition of the music selection is hard to come by, but its outright funkiness provides much of the theme for everyone there, which around midnight gives the “you had to be there” vibe of an off-the-hook warehouse party. Dirt cheap, super fun and with a diverse crowd, The Get Down is a dance party that transcends such a gathering’s normal boundaries and, as such, will remain of the city’s more revered social hotspots.

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The ins and outs of cult life

Martha Marcy May Marlene intrigues audiences with its sobering tale

Now showing at a theater near you

A look at what’s to come at UWM’s Union Theatre

By Kevin Kaber

Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

By Kevin Kaber Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

Martha Marcy May Marlene is a quiet, slow movie that increasingly outdoes itself with each sobering sequence of events. A dramatic thriller, or even a horror of sorts, the film has an uncanny ability to cause worry and jaw drops from its audience. Most of its subject matter is something that might be heard from Jonestown or the Yearning for Zion Ranch.

Right away, we’re shown the workings of an intentional farming commune in upstate New York. Its population is twenty-something strong, including children and infants. Everything seems normal, at least for a commune – the kids play while the adults work, and so on – but then we see the community’s women waiting patiently for the men to finish supper, so that they can begin to eat their meals. This is just the first of many oddities surrounding the commune, and likely the least troubling one, at that.

One of the commune’s women, Martha May (expertly portrayed by Elizabeth Olsen), renamed Marcy May by the commune’s leader Patrick (John Hawkes), decides to flee the camp and later reunites with her older, estranged sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) after two years of separation. Lucy is the only biological family Martha has left. With no money, shelter or stability in the real world, Martha has no choice but to remain under the wing of Lucy and her husband in the confines of a sprawling lakeside manor. Slowly, through a series of flashbacks and memories triggered by like events, Martha’s story on the commune is told.

Years earlier, Martha is inducted to Patrick’s commune by a mutual friend.

Right away, she’s told that she will need to play a role in their society, like knitting, gardening or cooking, in order to be fully taken care of. The peachy facade of the community is turned fully around as Patrick’s induction includes rape, group sex, violence, robbing outside communities and Patrick’s own disturbing sermons. The community’s Manson Family vibe fully sinks into Martha’s personality and serves as her greatest obstacle when trying to assimilate into her sister’s family.

First time feature director Sean Durkin manipulates reality and memory, successfully molding the medium to his liking with each sequence and transition. Given the nature of most of Martha’s past compared to her current ways of life, the smooth transitions will leave viewers stunned. She seemingly floats from present to past and then back again, often times doing and believing things that would only hold as decentmannered back in Patrick’s cult.

The matter of time between the parallel and juxtaposition of Martha’s days with Patrick and with Lucy begins to dwindle slowly, as her past creeps up to her present. Ultimately, this leads to an incredible ending that doesn’t answer any questions, nor does it present any new information.

From beginning to end, the performance by Olsen, who is also the younger sibling of Mary-Kate and Ashley, is the driving force of the picture. Her dynamic emotional array never ceases to impress. She simply becomes the role of Martha May and Marcy May.

Elizabeth Olsen gives a startling performance as a battered woman in Sean Durkin's debut feature.

The UWM Union Theatre is one of the most notable and diverse movie theaters in the entire country, but it can be easy to overlook, in the context of studies and the day-to-day bustle of the UWM campus.

Every week, the staff at the UWM Post provides a brief guide to the theater’s most notable titles, in an effort to encourage students to make the most of this unique and vibrant resource.

The Nohl Fellows: Program Two (Wednesday, 7 p.m.)

The second of three programs showcasing the works of the recipients of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund for Individual Artists Fellowship, Program Two features “established” recipient Brent Coughenour’s film, Mysterium Cosmographicum. A series of three parts, Mysterium inspects the inner

workings of the “collective subconscious,” in other words, the Internet. This transcendent piece makes use of computer software and hardware for an interesting experience. The Nohl Fellows program will continue on Nov. 30.

The Interrupters (Thursday, 7 p.m.)

Premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, The Interrupters documents the works of three former gang members turned “violence interrupters,” who mean to put a cease to the violence that has pinned Chicago’s South Side as the nation’s center of violence. CeaseFire, the organization behind the Interrupters’ deployment, believes that violent crimes, like infectious diseases, must be stopped at the source to be put to a halt. During the period of filming, Chicago saw several high-profile crimes, particularly the brutal murder of a high school student, Derrion Albert, which caught national attention. The sobering, but inspiring, critically acclaimed documentary

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The Turkish Film Series (Multiple showcases, Friday-Sunday) Now a staple of Union Theatre programming, the Turkish Film Series will host an array of recent films released in Turkey. Friday night will feature Honey (Bal), a film about a young child and his beekeeper father and the mysterious remote forest that surrounds the two, at 7 p.m. At 9 p.m., Majority (Çoğunluk) portrays a man’s struggles to overcome his oppressive parents and break away from a rather unfulfilling life in Istanbul. On Saturday, Merry-Go-Round (Atlikarinca), the story of a family forced to relocate after its mother becomes paralyzed, will show at 7 p.m. To end the series, Shadows and Faces (Golgeler ve Suretler), which chronicles a girl separated from her father during a struggle between the Turks and Greeks in the ‘60s, will show Saturday at 9 p.m. All films are free and are presented with English subtitles.

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EDITORIAL The following piece represents the views of the Editorial Board of THE UWM POST. The editorial board is not affiliated with the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and these views do not represent the views of the university.

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Solid groundwork in place for long sought on-campus arena UWM Neighborhood Relations Rob Jeter’s Panthers have picked up where they left off last year, following Saturday’s win over Southwestern Minnesota State. But with all due respect to the defending Horizon League champs, some of the biggest developments taking place in UWMilwaukee athletics right now are happening away from the court.

Instead, they’re occurring in the offices of a Milwaukee design firm, where a feasibility study for an oncampus arena is being drawn up.

The study has been in the works since the spring of 2011 and includes analysis on the sizes, costs and locations of an arena. While all findings are tentative and subject to revision before being finalized, it’s reported to recommend a 5,000-seat facility at the cost $40 to $65 million, located just north of the Klotsche Center on land currently used by Norris Health Center. The stadium would be financed through a combination of philanthropic contributions and student segregated fee increases.

While there’s been a lot of interest in an on-campus arena over the years, as of right now, there’s never been an official proposal. That could soon change, however, when the study is completed by early winter, and university officials will decide if they should go with the plans. Based on what we’ve heard so far, we think they should.

We’ll start with the obvious reason: money. Men’s basketball is the biggest revenue generator within the Athletic Department, but the current arrangement with U.S. Cellular Arena is far from ideal. Under

the present agreement, UWM pays roughly $230,000 a year to use the arena for home games and is unable to benefit from concessions and parking revenues. The agreement also limits the corporate sponsorship the team can receive. A university-owned facility would eliminate the expenses and forfeitures that are the cost of doing business with the U.S. Cellular Arena, significantly increasing men’s basketball revenue.

In addition to these facts, there’s the more speculative proposition that an on-campus arena would generate higher attendance figures than the U.S. Cellular Arena and further supplement men’s basketball revenues.

The men’s basketball team plays its home games miles from the university.

For the thousands of students living on the East Side, getting to the U.S. Cellular Arena is much more of a commitment then walking to campus.

It makes sense to us that distance hinders turnout.

The counterargument to all this is, however, that UWM students are notoriously disinterested about what goes on at campus outside of classrooms and that a change in location will not affect a change in attendance. While we acknowledge UWM students have never been big on school spirit, there are reasons to believe total apathy is a thing of the past. UWM is actively working to erase its reputation as a commuter college. The newly instituted residency requirements will dramatically reshape the UWM experience, creating the close-knit sense of community that fuels fanbases. There’s no reason to

doubt increased attendance.

Revenue is important, but it’s not everything. If money were the sole justification to support an on-campus arena, it would be a lot harder to see the project as a worthwhile endeavor.

An on-campus arena will not be a cash cow. Men’s basketball revenues will give the athletic department a lot more financial maneuverability, but that’s about it.

Fortunately, the reasons for welcoming an on-campus arena go far beyond basketball revenue. A large part of its worth lays in its usefulness as a multipurpose venue. In addition to men’s basketball, it would house the women’s basketball and volleyball programs. Concerts could be booked during the off-season. It would be perfect for graduation ceremonies or other large university events.

An on-campus arena would be the latest in a series of ambitious projects undertaken by the university. Among those already in place are the ongoing development of the 11-acre Northwest Quadrant and renovation of the 57,000 square foot former Pabst Building and future home of the School of Public Health. Projects starting next year include a 100,000 square foot expansion of the Great Lakes WATER Institute and construction of a 25,000 square foot business-accelerator facility at UWM’s newly acquired 80acre Innovation Park in Wauwatosa.

Beyond their practical applications, these projects are all designed to increase the university’s stature. In that respect, n on-campus arena goes as far as any other towards realizing that goal.

What has love got to do with it?

I'm inclined to simply chuckle at the naivete expressed in the November 17 "Good senses" Post editorial. But since the editor is clearly ignorant of the history of relations between UWM and its surrounding community I feel obligated to respond.

MHNA members are not, in fact, hostile to all things University. A large number of members have long histories with UWM. We attended as students, some of us take classes still. Many of us send our kids there. Some of us work at UWM. But when you get down to it, all of that is irrelevant.

The current situation in the neighborhood is the culmination of two decades of change, largely caused by the university's shift from a mostly-commuter institution with enrollment of about 20,000 to a largely non-commuter institution with an enrollment half again as high and rising. The consequence of this growth has been a dramatic shift in the behavior patterns near the university, especially in and near duplexes rented to groups of students. Disruptive behavior skyrocketed.

MHNA was formed more than a decade ago when neighbors had simply had enough of the disruptions. As an organization MHNA spent years working with the university, encouraging the administration to take the problem seriously and find a way to restore the neighborhood to a community where residents could go to bed on a Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night confidently expecting a normal night's sleep. Instead the problem has only worsened. The university has not taken responsibility for the results of its own policy changes.

Unfortunately, too many students seem not to understand that living in a residential neighborhood precludes keeping your neighbors awake at night. It precludes urinating on the street. It precludes vandalism and theft of lawn furniture.

The "Report It / Record It" campaign is nothing more than the neighborhood demanding the kind of civil behavior that any reasonable (and sober) person would recognize as appropriate in a residential community. It is an attempt to change the reputation of the neighborhood from "Party Central" to something more decent, a place with real, not pretend, respect for each other exists. Holding people accountable for disruptions is critical and should come as no surprise.

In a charitable mood I'd say that the editor's suggestion (that MHNA needs to "back off the anti-UWM rhetoric" in favor of some fuzzy notion of "loving thy neighbor") is naiveté. But I'm not feeling particularly charitable at the moment, so I'll call this editorial out for what it is: a clear case of blaming the victim. Arguing that a "common sense" solution involves having victims stop complaining is offensive. It is an example of why the situation has come to be as it is.

–Gregory James

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The author of the November 7 "Good Senses Make Good Neighbors" editorial evidently walked into the middle of the movie that he/she is reviewing. Let me tell you what you missed so far.

You characterize April 2011 as the beginning of a "campaign" that the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association has been "waging against UWM student and administration." That was not the opening salvo in an act of war. It was preceded by more than a decade of quiet diplomacy in which area residents made good faith efforts to work with UWM students and administrators to remedy an alarming and expanding set of problems.

Also, while you were out getting popcorn, you may have missed the long, slow slide that the UWM neighborhood has taken as the area's quality of life has eroded.

You focus on noise issues, but that's an easy one. The 200 percent increase in noise complaints which you cite and attribute to MHNA's "Report It, Record" initiative does not signal a new hostility. That program is a simple but effective attempt to empower frustrated and frightened people -- by better enforcing ordinances of all kinds which exist to protect everyone. It's not anti-student, it's anti-noise. It's antigrafitti. It's anti-public drunkenness. Anti-assault. Anti-burglary. Anti-vandalism.

Anti-rape. Get the picture?

You do recognize the problem of foreclosure (applause) but fail to connect the dots. Does foreclosure have anything to do with falling rates of owner-occupancy?

Are lower home values due to property damage by strings of negligent renters? What do you suppose is the "curbside appeal" of a house with seven cars parked in its driveway, day-old vomit on the porch, and a sidewalk strewn with shards of cherry vodka bottles? Let MHNA gather those statistics and then let's work together on it.

This movie isn't over, and it's hard to say how it will end. The residents of Murray Hill hope you stick around to see it. We're not whispering "SH-H-H-H" in the theatre to spoil your fun. We just want everyone to be able to hear the dialogue.

–Michele Patin

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Rethinking Black Friday

By Jesse Anderson Staff Writer editorial@uwmpost.com

“It’s my favorite day of the year, and I’d pay if it could come sooner!” Nancy exclaimed.

Thanksgiving brings family together to give thanks for all of the wonderful things for which to be thankful. We feast.

We toast. We rejoice. Before long, we are sated and sleepy, and that day is over.

Then the next dawns and brings Nancy her favorite day, Black Friday.

It is a glorious day when the Walmarts of the world permit the middle class to feel affluent, now able to afford the coveted flat screen, purse, pod or pad. It is as if all of the wonderful, versatile solutions for modern living are ours for the taking.

That is, if we can beat the crowd.

Shoppers are certain that after surviving Black Friday, they will feel sexier in their designer apparel, more productive with their new gadgets, challenged and entertained with their new video games.

Nancy will smile as she lays to sleep, knowing she has fulfilled her duty to live up to neo-Christmas expectations.

What Nancy doesn’t realize is that the Black Friday bonuses won’t last. Interest will accumulate on her credit card, and the end cost will be greater than she will ever know.

Let’s say she has charged $700 per holiday season for 10 years and made minimum payments. After 10 years at 18 percent, she would owe $4,795. She would have already paid $7,687 in interest alone.

Payments in the first year would have been $14.80 per month. After 10 years,

$101.40. Bear in mind, she still wouldn't have paid for the Christmas presents from ten years ago when she embarks on the exodus to the megamall this year.

Another element of Black Friday that will detract from the perceived benefits is her interest in the things she has purchased. Before long, she will need something more to fulfill the socially constructed desires she mistakes as needs.

For Nancy, it is justifiable. Culture has told her that she must buy gifts for Christmas, because that's what people do. She believes that she must buy these things at “sale prices,” because she is a middle class mother and college student in rough economic times.

You see, Nancy has a disease called “affluenza” – a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.

She is not alone. Americans spend nearly two-thirds of our economy on consumer goods. We spend more on shoes, jewelry and watches than on higher education. Last year, consumers spent over a half a trillion dollars on Christmas gifts, producing an extra 5 million tons of trash.

Western civilization is addicted to stuff, and in our hearts, most of us know it. The bill is already coming due, and Visa won't be giving thanks for what we’ve given them.

At its most extreme, affluenza threatens to consume the planet. We now have 7 billion people, of which the industrialized portion (America being at the top) have been producing and consuming at a rate much faster than the ability of the Earth to absorb our pollution

or replenish our stock.

On a more immediate level, our economy is in shambles, and the banks aren’t the only ones to blame. Our hunger for more feeds their hunger for more.

This isn’t simply a problem of political or corporate corruption. It’s a problem of desire, vanity and self-deceit. It’s a problem of our dependence on convenience and mass produced pleasure.

We hunger for more, bigger, better things. We want them now and with as little work as possible. This incessant hunger for more is eating our planet and our economy, and once we take the last bite, we won’t be hungry – we’ll be starving.

The hunger is observable on Black Friday. It’s is like a cross between Dawn of the Dead and a teen idol autograph signing. Mindless souls crazed into exchanging hours they’ve worked for temporary, often mediocre satisfaction.

Don’t get me wrong. I like stuff, too.

I buy things, but I will not be buying anything on Black Friday. In fact, I will be joining the tens of thousands of people observing “Buy Nothing Day.” Adbusters, the group responsible for igniting the Occupy Wall Street movement, annually run their Buy Nothing Day campaign to promote a shift away from shopping.

The things you own end up owning you. You are a human being. Your life has value. Don’t give that value up. Don’t shop on Black Friday. Celebrate Buy Nothing Day the day after giving thanks for what you already have. Remember, you don’t have to buy a gift to give a gift.

The age of the Facebook gay

Negative gay stereotypes aren’t only being reinforced by the media

By Brody Hess Special to the Post uwmpost.com"@uwmpost.com

When I was 14, I got my first job as a front desk attendant at the local pool.

It was a nice gig for someone my age – $6.50 per hour, free swimming, and it was across the street. I’ll never forget what my manager said about customer service.

“Bad word travels 10 times as fast as good word. Every experience counts.” It’s true. I’m much more likely to tell someone about a bad experience than a good one.

A good reputation is important for any entity, and the LGBT community is no exception. Only six states have complete marriage equality, and only 16 states allow LGBT couples to file for joint adoption statewide. Organizations, like the Human Rights Campaign, are fighting every day to give LGBT individuals equal rights, so when negative stereotypes are reinforced, I get upset.

I’ve already discussed gay-straight etiquette, but what about our image? I asked both gay and straight friends of mine what comes to mind when they think of the word gay. “Superficial and sex-obsessed.”

“Overly competitive amongst each other.” One gay male even said, “Gays are pushy, loud and whores.”

When asked what annoys them about “gay culture,” I heard that “individuals have formed a stereotype that other gays feel responsible to fall into or model. A lot of times the people asking for equality are the same ones making it clear just how different and loud and proud they are,”

and “I feel like more often than not guys fall into ‘the mold,’ because they feel it is the best way to let other people know they are gay.”

I can give counterexamples to these arguments, as can many others. What bothers me is that the first thing gay people think of about their community are negative stereotypes. This sentiment seems to be growing throughout gay and straight communities, as do the examples of reinforced stereotypes.

I’m a networker. In my year and a half of Milwaukee residency, I’ve met many people. Since Facebook has become the new handshake, my Friends list has grown a bit high. I’m not exactly proud of it, but the number of friends has allowed me to catch certain patterns in “friending” behavior. If I want to know if someone in the Milwaukee area is gay, all I have to do is check our mutual friends. Almost every time, they’ll have multiple gay mutual friends and no others. To some extent, that makes sense. People make friends with others who have things in common with them. It’s not like the gay community is that big.

What’s interesting is when they have a Friends list in the multiple thousands as well as hundreds of provocative pictures.

I’ve begun to call these mass “adders” of homosexuals “Facebook gays.” It’s as if these people collect gays, adding as many as possible so their “friends” can witness the exhibition of the body they work so hard for – or don’t work hard for at all.

Multiple times a week, a new underwear or chest shot is posted, instantly followed

by a barrage of “likes,” providing the exhibitor the sense of glorification they obviously crave.

Milwaukee has its own set of Facebook gays. Many have tried adding me, as well as my friends. It’s kind of irksome knowing someone wants me as a Facebook friend so I can ogle them. They don’t know me or interact with me, but they add me because we have mutual gay friends.

Some of them are interesting at least.

One in particular has a huge array of artistic self-portraits, rather than sticking to the cliché mirror shot of their torso.

Half of the pictures are fully-clothed or even simply head-shots. They’re a bit vain, but they’re definitely artistic and well composed. Most of the time, however, their profiles are just clichéd and superficial. I literally just witnessed someone post a cheesy status update – “Facebook is boring the gay out of me” – that got more than 10 likes in two minutes, and the people who liked it weren’t even all on the same continent. Did I mention he’s barely 18?

It’s sad to me that these people are so lacking in depth that they have to resort to such foolishness. What’s frustrating is how people like that, online and offline, make the rest of the community look. They’re the loudest of the bunch, constantly demanding attention, while the rest try not to define themselves by their sexuality. Let’s do a better job of representing a group of people who really aren’t that different after all.

concerns over the last 200 years

By William Bornhoft Staff Writer editorial@uwmpost.com

The term Evangelical is well known in the United States by those religious and non-religious alike. To most, the word represents a Christian denomination that is more popular in the South, held by cultural conservatives who homeschool their children and consider themselves extremely patriotic.

This stereotype is largely the result of a movement that started in the 1960s and ‘70s, when a series of Supreme Court rulings on issues, such as school prayer and abortion, motivated Evangelicals to become more politically active. This was a time when faith and ideology became tied together, and the infamous modern religious right was created.

It may surprise some to know that Evangelicals have a deep history in social activism, dating back to the 19th century, when Evangelicals, such as Charles Finney and William Wilberforce, worked to give equal rights for women and the abolishment of slavery, based on the belief of universal human rights.

This time period was known as the Great Awakening, when many American Christians believed it was their duty to make political reforms that would lead to a more just and equal society.

Many believe that Evangelicals today

are undergoing yet another Great Awakening, where the scope of political issues that are focused on is being expanded to include things like poverty, human trafficking and the environment.

Yet again, these issues are important because of the belief in universal human rights and freedoms. There has also been a great shift in where the majority of Christians live. There are now more Evangelicals living in Nigeria and Brazil combined than in the United States. What’s unique about the younger generation of Evangelicals is that while caring less than their parents did about issues like traditional marriage, they still care a great deal about abortion, because they see it as a social justice issue.

This is echoed in a poll covered by NPR, which showed that “the generation of young people born after the 1970s ended is known as a socially tolerant and politically liberal bunch. But a new poll out today finds that abortion is not one of the issues on which the children are more liberal than their parents.”

It will certainly be interesting to watch how the traditional tie between religion and conservatism in this country fairs in decades to come. Many who have become weary of the religious right might find that a religious left movement isn’t necessarily the answer either.

Party politics powerless

Consensus a novel idea for political process

By Jessica Wolfe Staff Writer editorial@uwmpost.com

The current political system in America continues to encourage citizens to choose a side. Consequently, the population tends to think in terms of black and white. Most voters consider themselves left-wing or rightwing. Liberals boast one set of values and conservatives another, and these two sides are becoming increasingly polarized.

Maintaining the party line consistently results in gridlock, inhibiting positive change and forward progress. Radical leaders often end up running for office, directing our country away from mainstream ideologies.

The “red meat” candidates throw to the base during the primaries becomes irrelevant when we focus on the differences between the two parties, as opposed to the similarities.

Presidential elections thus become a popularity contest and a struggle for party power. The majority of Americans are then, in a way, forced by these political parties into groups they may not fully agree with.

The majority of issues confronting us today don’t always have a liberal or conservative solution. People that do things from a broader perspective, moderates and independents, are in fact more invested in the electoral process than their liberal or conservative counterparts, who simply show up on Election Day and cast their ballot for the party they have always supported.

Citizens should not be chained to a political party but to the ideas and viewpoints they support. Any one person can have any number

of different ideas and stances that combine together to form their own unique belief system. People could then vote for politicians that have any possible combination of beliefs that best mirror their own.

It is inevitable that people with similar beliefs will rally together in search of power. After all, there is strength in numbers. The Republicans and the Democrats often target moderates and independents during election season, hoping to attract these voters to act accordingly. But it is time for the table to turn and for citizens vote their conscience.

There is much discontent with the current two-party political system, and as a result, we need to transform the current presidential nominating process. We may not be able to change the two-party system, but we can change the quality of candidates these two parties bring to the voting booth. The time has come for voters to transcend beyond traditional party politics and choose candidates who mirror our own ideologies.

Forget the Tea Party. Those of us in the “me” party, the majority of everyone else in this country who don’t believe the people on the fringe of political ideals have all the right answers, need to stand up and be heard. Until we go out in force for the primaries and demand to see candidates willing to work with both sides of the political aisle, work toward compromise and solutions that benefit this country and not their party, we will continue to get the same dysfunctional followers, not leaders. After all, this country was founded on democracy, not the overly simplistic red and blue paradigm. Pick a president, not a party.

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In describing his experiences at a bargain sale, Smith says that half of his money was gone in just thirty minutes, so that he now had the same number of pennies as he had dollars before, and just half as many dollars as he had pennies before. How much did Smith spend?

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