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Lovell makes his pitch

Chancellor Lovell discusses budget cuts and UWM accomplishments at Thursday’s plenary address

By John Parnon Assistant News Editor news@uwmpost.com Chancellor Lovell gave his plenary address in UW-Milwaukee’s Wisconsin Room on Thursday evening, addressing concerns about the state budget and introducing several new initiatives at UWM. Lovell delivered his address to a full room, with the majority of the audience being composed of faculty and staff members.

Lovell opened his speech by talking about state budget cuts and how it would affect UWM, while also pledging that his highest priority was to meet the cuts without laying off staff or reducing section offerings.

Lovell also discussed the direction of many of UWM’s capital investments such as the Northwest Quadrant and the Great Lakes WATER Institute, giving a more accurate estimate of when these projects would be completed.

One of the items Lovell discussed that the audience was the most enthusiastic about was UWM’s deal with the China Education and Research Network in China, which Lovell told the audience could result in an additional $20 million in tuition revenue.

Through the CERNET program, which is an affiliate of the Chinese Ministry of Education, high achieving high school students in China are given the opportunity to study at UWM. UWM is one of only four CERNET certified schools in the US. Lovell also introduced the “best place

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Chancellor Lovell addresses the audience.

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Senate fights over separation of powers

Khan and Kadulski approved to executive branch

By Steve Garrison News Editor news@uwmpost.com

In the first session of the spring semester, student senate was already involved in divisive debate over President Angela Lang’s executive order to “separate powers,” barring members of the executive branch from serving on other branches of government.

As per the order, any member of the executive branch who chose to vote as a senator on the appointments of either Sana Khan for vice president

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or Nicholas Kadulski for treasurer would effectively resign their executive position.

All members of the executive branch chose to abstain from voting, meaning they have until the next senate meeting, Feb. 12, to decide whether to vacate one of the two branches.

Both Sana Khan and Nicholas Kadulski were approved in their positions by a two-thirds majority.

“I do not support a corrupt executive branch,” Director of Public Relations Taylor Scott said after Lang announced her executive order.

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to learn and work” initiative during the plenary.

“The faculty, staff and students of this campus are our greatest competitive asset.

Every decision that we make going forward should support, enhance and protect this asset,” Lovell said. “That is the core premise of the best place to learn and work initiative.”

Lovell then went on to talk about his interactions with students and faculty that left a particularly lasting impression on him, namely the “Hope House” project as well as the Silver Spring Community Nursing Center.

Lovell said that these stories were ones that were “seldom told in the press, but defines who we are as a campus community.”

Lovell then announced a video series called “Spotlight on Excellence” that UWM would be producing that would “tell stories from every corner of our campus.”

The first of the series, which followed the actions of UWM Associate Professor Anne Basting, was then displayed during the plenary.

Only the beginning of Lovell’s speech was dedicated to problems with the budget at the state level, but almost all of his points related back to the budget at some point.

“As reported this week in The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the reduction in the UW System budget was among the greatest in the entire nation,” Lovell said, with several “wows” being heard murmured through the crowd as Lovell paused to look up.

Lovell said that on the afternoon of

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SA plea for Voter ID

Senator Jesse Brown urged Taylor Scott to file a legal complaint, which Chief Justice Anthony Dewees said would take weeks or months to settle.

Deputy Speaker of the Senate Tereza Pelicaric also sponsored legislation that requires a search and screen committee composed of at least two non-SA members the power to narrow the branch head’s candidates for a position down to three selections.

The bill passed unanimously and now awaits Lang’s approval.

Currently, the president has the power to appoint whomever she chooses to an executive position,

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pending senate approval.

“Angela hasn’t been elected by the students and I feel like the students need a voice in appointments,” Pelicaric said in defense of her bill.

Senator Jesse Brown said, in regards to the ability to fill senate seats vacated by executive branch members, “There are a lot of bright students on campus, but none of them are here.”

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Expansions of two programs designed to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods surrounding UW-Milwaukee were discussed at the Jan. 24 Murray Hill Neighborhood Association meeting. Representatives from the UWM Neighborhood Housing Office touted an increase in the number of landlords participating in the Preferred Tenant Program, while MHNA President Steve Klebar announced the community policing program Report It, Record it is expanding to additional UWM-area neighborhoods.

While both programs are relatively recent innovations, Report It, Record It is the newer of the two. Initiated in the spring of 2011 by MHNA members in collaboration with the Milwaukee Police Department, Report It, Record It streamlines communication between Murray Hill residents and the 1st district police department. Members are provided with a direct phone number to report criminal activity and ordinance violations, resulting in faster dispatch times.

“It’s a useful vehicle to help figure out how things are going,” Kelbar said. “It’s provided better communication between the community and the first district police department.”

Police, too, have relied on Report It, Record It for information on crimes committed within the 58-block neighborhood directly south of UWM. In a recent email to MHNA members, for example, police requested information about three fires set within a single radius in the early morning on Jan. 26. The fires were still being investigated and no arrests had been made as of Friday afternoon, according to Officer Peter Graber.

The program has been broadened to include five additional campus-area neighborhoods that comprise the Milwaukee Eastside Neighborhood Associations.

However, despite the expansion in to other UWM-area neighborhoods, Klebar says it’s still too early to evaluate t success of Report It, Record It. “It’s too early to tell because it’s been a program that’s been implemented in relatively short period of time and there’s not enough data to say one way or the other,” he said.

Meanwhile, UWM Neighborhood Housing Office officials announced plans

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his inauguration, the state informed the UW System of an additional $66 million in cuts that would need to come from the UW System, in addition to the already established $250 million.

“This was certainly not a welcomed inauguration present to the campus,” Lovell said.

In Lovell’s September plenary, he talked about the importance of working together with faculty and staff during these budget cuts.

“Despite all of the uncertainty and trepidation surrounding the budget … it was very clear to all of us in the room that there was a strong desire to stay together as a campus to make it through the difficult times we were facing,” Lovell said.

Throughout his speech on Thursday, Lovell was constantly greeted by enthusiastic clapping and cheering, and even garnered a fair amount of laughs from

the jokes scattered throughout his speech.

University Committee Chair Mark Schwartz said, “We’ve got good leadership in place, we’ve got a system where we can work and collaborate, or in other words we know what we need to do, and if we could get the resources to do it, we could do a lot more.”

UWM will also be partnering with WisPolitics.com and WUWM radio to “bring candidates for public office to campus to have a dialogue with the campus community,” Lovell said.

Lovell also announced that UWM had been included among the top 500 universities in the 2011 Shanghai academic ranking of World Universities.

“The Shanghai ranking signifies that UWM is one of the world’s best international research universities, and it is a tribute to our great faculty, staff and students,” Lovell said.

After discussing budget cuts, Lovell then talked about capital projects and investments at UWM, highlighting the massive expansion to campus known as the Northwest Quad, as well as the Kenwood

Interdisciplinary Research Complex and the relocation of the Children’s Center.

In September’s plenary address, Lovell said that UWM’s budget model was 12 years old and its main focus was driving up increases in enrollment.

On Thursday, Lovell referenced what he had said in September, adding that “there was a greater emphasis on funding our new facilities and areas of research and academic program growth.”

Student Association President Angela Lang said that she agreed with everything Lovell said and that she liked that he was very proactive in working with the budget cuts.

“I’m always amazed at our capacity on this campus. As he mentioned, he’s absolutely right, we find a way to get things done, but there is a limit when you get to that. That’s frustrating when you know what you can do and you see what the lack of funds is keeping you from doing. We’re part of the solution for the state and it’s frustrating what’s been going on that makes us feel like, we’re put below the prisons, really.” Schwartz said.

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Continued from page 1 for upcoming tenant workshops as part of the Preferred Tennant Program. Now in its third year, the program offers a series of educational classes for student renters.

Students who completed the classes are eligible for either 2 percent off monthly rent or $250 off the amount needed for a security deposit, provided their landlord has also signed up for the program.

According to Director of the Neighborhood Housing Office Jes Berndt, a significant amount of landlords have signed on since the program has been initiated.

“In the past couple of years, dozens if not over a hundred [have signed on],” Berndt said. “The landlords are really interested in the program because, in theory, if they’re working with preferred [tenants], they’re going to have less damage, fewer issues in the property, they’ll have more responsible tenants, which ultimately saves them money, saves our students money and makes the relationship much healthy and productive.”

The program expansions come as the university prepares to institute new housing requirements for freshmen at the beginning of the 2012-13 school year. It’s a development that will fundamentally transform the present state of neighborhood relations, and one that Kelbar welcomes.

“The university is expressing some optimism that it’s going to reflect the change in behavior in the community, and I guess if they’ve done their research, they should know. I’m cautiously optimistic that they’re right.”

United States Student Association closes Wells Fargo account The Board of Directors of the United States Student Association – a nationwide grouping of student governments, including the UWMilwaukee Student Association - has passed a resolution to close its accounts with Wells Fargo.

The Board also announced Amalgamated Bank, DC will now serve as bank for the USSA. The decision was made to change to a unionized bank because “Wells Fargo is the largest lender now profiting off of $1 trillion student debt bubble.”

Satellite renamed for UW-Madison professor A satellite launched into orbit last October has been renamed in honor of former UW-Madison professor Verner Suomi. Suomi, who died in 1995, joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 1948 and taught there until his retirement in 1986. Often hailed as the father of satellite meteorology, he is credited with inventing the technology for time sequences of cloud images seen on television weather shows and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1977.

Washington State moves to legalize gay marriage The Washington state legislature is to vote on a bill granting full marriage rights to gays and lesbians, prompting speculation that the state is on the verge of becoming the seventh state to legalize gay marriage. The bill is expected to pass both houses of the legislature, and Gov. Christine Gregoire has said she will sign it.

If passed, Washington would join New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C. in recognizing gay marriage.

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What happened to winter?

The unseasonal weather is not as unusual as you may think Callie Koller Staff writer news@uwmpost.com

We may be 41 days into the winter, but so far this season’s weather has felt anything but wintery. The open golf courses and largely unfrozen lakes tell a story more indicative of spring than mid-winter. This past December was the 11th warmest in Wisconsin record, and already this January we are hovering nearly six degrees above the typical monthly average of 22 degrees.

The unseasonal weather does not surprise UW-Milwaukee Department of Mathematical Science Professor Paul Roebber who received his doctorate in meteorology.

“There’s a lot of variability in the atmosphere,” Roebber said. “If you look at day-to-day weather, there’s a lot of fluctuations in day-to-day weather, if you look at season-to-season, there’s a lot of fluctuation, if you look at year-to-

year there’s a lot of fluctuation.”

Earth is in an infinite pursuit of equilibrium, which causes natural deviation in climate conditions, Roebber said.

“People need to understand that the atmosphere is a fluid and that it changes.”

Although oceanic oscillations are known to influence weather patterns, Roebber said it would be a misjudgment to attribute our mild winter to El Niño or La Niña, which are characterized by unusually warm temperatures and unusually cool temperatures in the equatorial Pacific.

“It’s bad science to make that kind of forecast for this part of the county.

The connections between El Niño and La Niña, where they do exist, they’re not very strong at all in the Midwest.”

A steady warming trend of our atmosphere, however, has played a role

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New Planetarium show has audiences seeing stars

“Lives of Stars” runs through March 9

By Gil Towers Special to the Post news@uwmpost.com

The Manfred Olson Planetarium’s first new show for 2012, “The Lives of Stars,” debuted Friday night and will run until March 9.

The show will run every Friday at 7 p.m. with an admission price of $2 at the planetarium in the physics building. It focuses on star formation and evolution, concluding with a segment on the current night sky. Last week’s opening show was attended by a sold-out audience.

The show is presented by Manfred Olson Planetarium Director Jean Creighton, a Ph.D. in astrophysics who has been with the planetarium since 2007.

“I think people don’t realize that stars have the kind of stories that we do, that they’re born, they grow up, they go through some rough times, and then they kind of end,” Creighton said.

For those unfamiliar with the topic of stellar formation, the show offers a comprehensive but easy-to-understand overview. From nebulas to supernovas, audience members will track the various stages of stars over their sometimes multi-billion year lifespans.

One striking animation demonstrates how stars are born in a nebula through the forces of gravity, swirling and circling as more and more appear, or

one demonstrating what might happen as one is drawn into a black hole, past the event horizon.

Creighton says the planetarium’s shows are usually written as a collaboration between her and at least one staff member.

The second part of the show uses the planetarium’s special projector to display the night sky on the domed ceiling. Starting with an approximation of the stars visible from Milwaukee, more stars are eventually illuminated to show what a sky might look like away from the city’s bright lights.

Audience members spend time finding constellations like the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia, and identifying celestial objects like the Milky Way or the North Star.

First-time planetarium visitor Jessica Santiago came with her two kids, ages six and ten.

“It’s a fun, inexpensive, educational program for kids,” Santiago said. “I thought it was really interesting, and I think my daughter learned a lot. We pick out stars in the back yard, and it’s fun for them to see the constellations and learn about them.”

Other shows that will run this semester include “Galaxies Galore,” the next Friday night show beginning April 13, and “Cupid’s Constellations,” running on Valentine’s Day. “It’s the cheapest date in town, only $2 a person,” Creighton said.

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in our mild winter.

“It’s difficult to say for any particular year, especially if you refer it to any particular event, to say that that was because of global warming, but it’s not hard at all to say the general trend is because of that, it clearly is.”

Although the conditions would no longer suffice for backyard ice rinks like Roebber used to create for his children years ago, he did not otherwise have many complaints about this year’s mild winter.

Neither did UWM Atmospheric Science Club President Chris Nelson.

“It’s easier to walk the dog without having snow on the ground and being absolutely freezing,” Nelson said.

“Growing up in Green Bay, I cannot remember there ever being a golf course open after November.”

Golfers may have embraced the

Ecology Center to continue planting trees and shrubs well through November.

However, the warm spell they have been taking advantage of may not be around too much longer, as Roebber warned, you may not want to hang your jackets up just yet.

The current jet stream has prevented much of the cold air from traveling down from further north. This has resulted in near record lows of -48 degrees in parts of Alaska, while we experience milder conditions.

“It is inherently instable for [the jet stream] to stay in this situation,” Roebber said. “If that breakdown occurs, we can expect all of that cold air to start barreling down into the northern interior of the United States.”

Whether or not the ground hog sees his shadow this week, expect the saga of inconsistent weather to continue in Wisconsin.

As Roebber put it, “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute and it will change.”

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mild season, but many had a bittersweet feeling towards the lack of the expected winter weather, such as Union Adventure Center Program Coordinator Zach Weidman who expressed concern that it may disrupt future planned events.

“We have a snowman building contest that I’m really hoping to have snow for,” Weidman said in an email.

Consistent snow cover would also receive a warm welcome from plants.

“Snow kind of acts like an insulator over the soil, it keeps the soil more even temperature. All this freezing and thawing action is damaging to plants roots,” Urban Ecology Center Land Steward Joel Springsteen said.

The warmer weather has also allowed some plants to continue their harvest well past when they typically go dormant.

“Right up until that cold snap we got a couple weeks ago, we were still growing kale and spinach,” Springsteen said.

The warmer conditions allowed workers and volunteers at the Urban

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Students who have tried checking their email or looking at their class schedule in the past few weeks may have noticed some big changes to the university website. UW-Milwaukee’s homepage has been redesigned with new navigation, videos and features.

The updated look went live on

Tuesday, Jan. 17.

The redesign team, led by Director of Web and Mobile Services Michael Hostad, comprised of approximately 15 members including a web steering committee of representatives from the UWM community. The changes came at no cost to the university; Hostad and the others worked on the site “for the good of the order.”

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Students forced to find alternatives to on-campus parking

By Stephanie Schmidt Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com Despite its commuter school reputation, UW-Milwaukee has had persistent problems accommodating students who choose to drive to campus. The situation has improved with the purchase of the Northwest Quadrant, but remains problematic, at least in part because of limited space, high costs and a logistical labyrinth of red tape that comes with redevelopment.

However, some commuter students have found a creative, and sometimes cheaper, solution to the problem: offcampus parking rental.

Senior Ashley Meyer decided to rent a private parking space off campus rather than search daily for available spaces in university parking garages.

Meyer, who commutes approximately an hour and 15 minutes from Johannesburg, Ill., said that she pays only $45 a month for her private parking space on East Belleview Place.

“When I commuted last year, I usually parked in the Union. As long as I got there early in the morning, around 7:30 or 8, it was not too hard to get a spot,” Meyer said.

Students who choose convenience over cost still have plenty of options on campus.

UWM’s website advertises the Student Union garage as a preferred parking space, costing $1.25 an hour.

Cheaper parking is available elsewhere on campus for $0.80 per hour.

A student who parked in exclusively $0.80 lots for four hours a

day, three days a week, would spend approximately $40 dollars on parking in a lot, slightly cheaper than the offcampus rates paid by Meyer.

However, many students are expected to be on campus for much longer periods of time, particularly if they are involved in sports or student organizations and clubs.

Freshman Rebecca Robinson commutes each day from Cudahy, Wis., and says that the cost of parking has become a huge burden for her, especially when added to rising tuition prices, books and other learning expenses.

“My weekly parking cost ranges between $20 to $30 just for parking,

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not gas or any other commuting costs,” Robinson said.

The Northwest Quadrant parking garage is ostensibly free for students, subsidized instead through $15.10 in student segregated fees. However, the UWM Parking Facebook page shows that the Northwest Quadrant parking garage was at full capacity by roughly 9 a.m. every day the first week of classes. “[One day] I arrived on campus 20 minutes before my class started,” Robinson recalled “I went through four full lots and finally conceded defeat and headed to the Pavilion. I ended up 10 minutes late to my first

App design: there’s a class for that

Students producing app for Milwaukee County

By John Parnon Assistant News Editor news@uwmpost.com

Students in UW-Milwaukee’s new course, building native mobile apps, are working with Milwaukee County to design and create a smart phone app with park, zoo and airport information as well as GPS tracking of county buses.

UWM Mobile Program Manager Michael Hostad played a major part in the creation of the new course this semester based on faculty and student interest in mobile app development.

The course was also created in conjunction with a new Living Learning Community, called Mobile Rockstars, which places students with interests in mobile development in housing with each other and encourages collaborative work outside of class.

Web and Mobile Services Lead Developer Quinn Madson is teaching the mobile app course, which will be the first class he has taught in his five years at UWM. Madson said that the class was created before the contract to develop a mobile app for the county was signed, but that work on the county app was a great opportunity for the students.

“Our focus was to give the students a real experience. Instead of creating a bunch of smaller apps inside the class that don’t really go anywhere or do anything, we wanted to give them a real world experience, something they could really work for that they can see in the app store or the android market,” Madson said.

Student Success Program Coordinator Keri Duce said that the county approached UWM about creating the app after seeing the success of the UWM Mobile app.

UWM Mobile, which Madson also worked on, launched last semester for the Android marketplace and Apple app store, and offered features such as real time data on available computer labs and campus shuttle routes.

Madson said that as of Nov. 10, UWM Mobile had been downloaded 4032 times from the app store, and 4667 times from the Android marketplace, accounting for almost one third of the student body.

“It’s really hard to gauge the [success of the app] because with every new incoming class, there’s going to be more students that have that technology. It’s hard to say because we don’t have any other metrics to compare to,” Madson said.

No money will be changing hands between UWM and Milwaukee County for the development of the app, which Madson said would both be good for the community and give students a professional app development experience.

Mobile App Development Process Madson said there are several steps that have to be taken when working towards the development of any mobile app. Here are the steps that have been taken so far on the Milwaukee County app: Have a brainstorming session to come up with features that would be useful to people in Milwaukee County.

Narrow down what features are most important for the first revision of the app.

Find the scope of what those features

will do.

Find where to get the data for those features.

Gather logistics of how the app will be built.

Decide what the user interface will look like and how it will function.

Determine the differences between iPhone and Android versions.

UWM has partnered with Appcelerator, a mobile development company, in order to get the course off the ground.

Development of the county app will take place using a program called Titanium Studio, created by Appcelerator, which students will get the chance to learn in the mobile development course. At the end of the course, students will take a certification test to become Titanium Certified App Developers, and the test will also serve as a final exam for the students.

“We thought it was a really great exam, it’s something for [students] to put on their resume,” Madson said. “Usually it’s $300 to take the exam and get certified … part of the agreement we worked out with Appcelerator was to also get the students certified in TCAD.” Students will also be graded on weekly quizzes, actual development on the application and a presentation of their work to both the county and the rest of the class.

Fifteen students are enrolled in the course right now, but UWM has plans to add an intro level course with no prerequisites as well as a more advanced course than the one currently offered.

Because the class right now is currently a pilot program, students had

class even though I was on campus early.”

The Student Association has been looking into subsidizing student parking in the Pavilion, similar to the current arrangement at the Northwest Quadrant, but Robinson said the parking garage was too far from most classrooms to be convenient.

The College Prowler website has graded parking at UWM as a “C+,” with student reviews ranging from one B to a handful of Ds and one F. Reviewers complain about cost for the few spots available and wish hopefuls good luck in finding a spot. to go through an application process to be enrolled this semester, requiring some basic programming experience in a different computer language.

Madson said these basic requirements will be the main focus of the entry level course being offered in the fall.

“The idea is that students coming right out of high school will be able to get into that intro class and it would give them all the knowledge they need to know and get them to be successful in building mobile apps. The LLC is targeted at high school students so when they come to UWM as freshmen, they get paired together… they found through studies that students tend to do better when they’re living together,” Madson said.

Madson said the Mobile Rockstars LLC will be partnering with graphic design programs to deal with user experience and making attractive user interfaces, and they are also considering some business classes to deal with start ups.

“The way technology is advancing and mobile apps are becoming so prominent both socially and becoming such a windfall financially, it makes sense and gives students a chance to learn about it,” School of Information Studies Academic Advisor Tobiah Deutsch said Madson said that long term goals of the class include helping out other local or state agencies with mobile development, but for the next two semesters, plans are to work with the county to create and improve the Milwaukee County app.

“If I was to be an incoming SOIS student, I would love to have something like this, where it’s some real world opportunities, some brand new technology,” Madson said. “It’s really exciting right now.

I’m hoping the students in this class will have their own ideas like, ‘Oh it’d be really great if there was an app to do XYZ,’ and they’ll actually be able to build it.”

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Continued from page 4 “We do not charge the university for it, we just all work together to get it done,” Hostad said.

One of the components of the new look is a reorganized navigational bar.

Formerly, web pages were contained in categories based on audience, such as current or future students. Now, information is topically structured to better ref lect the site’s traffic, according to John Mills, lead designer for the project.

“Users were actively drilling down and getting to these specific areas,” Mills said. “We wanted to bring them up and make them easy to get to.”

Frequently visited pages such as D2L and pantherLINK have been removed from the old drop-down menu and placed right at the top for easy access. Another feature the design team is responsible for is the IAMUWM video spotlights.

“The new IAMUWM vignettes are intended to show off the great range of personalities and passions in the UWM community,” Director of University Communications and Media Relations Laura Glawe said.

The videos feature students, faculty, staff, alumni or donors showing off their school pride.

“Basically, anyone in the UWM community that is doing really great things we want to highlight,” Mills said.

Planning and research for the redesign began about a year ago, coinciding with the school’s new “powerful ideas, proven results” advertising campaign.

After planning, the actual design took about four months. According to Mills, the traditional cycle of updating the webpage is every four years. In the future, the team would like to take regular and frequent looks at the website to ensure it meets the needs of users, something that has not been done in the past. Rather than looking at it every three to four years, it would be undergoing continual improvement, Hostad said.

Other improvements in the works are updated campus maps, enhanced search features and a better A-to-Z list. Mills has found that people are not quite sure how to use the search engine and he is looking at interface tweaks for it. The A-to-Z list, which contains every single webpage on the server, is giant but woefully out of date, according to Hostad. With the website constantly changing, the list becomes aged frequently. The team is trying to find a better method for keeping it up to date.

Feedback for the site has been limited so far, compared to previous updates. For those who have voiced their opinion, the words have been mostly positive and the comments have been helpful to the design team.

Users can share their opinions by clicking the small feedback button on the bottom right-hand corner of each page.

“The site strives to be everything for everyone,” Hostad said. “I think we’ve done an amazing job in terms of trying to meet that goal.”

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David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, showing now at the Downer Theatre, headlines this week’s film-heavy edition of fringe.

Have a seat, please A Dangerous Method and the psychology of history

By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method is a film about history that does not actually attempt to replicate history, nor does it concern itself with portraying most of its characters as believably real human beings. It is a character study in the same manner that its characters study each other, and it turns the lens through which historical figures like Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein analyzed their patients – the lens of psychoanalysis – simultaneously on them, the relationships between their schools of psychoanalytic thought, and on the early 20th century European historical environment that would lead to two World Wars. The film is as much about analyzing and explaining historical trend, and what could be termed the psychological impetus for history, as it is with exploring the various schools of psychoanalytic thought that defined the early days of the science’s movement.

But first, plot.

The film is ostensibly about the psychological, sexual and romantic relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a former patient of his who he accepts as a pupil and eventually a lover. The relationship between the two is at first purely pathological, with Jung engaging one of Spielrein’s deeply-held

(and to her, shameful) psychosexual punishment fetishes, but gradually evolves to something more significant to both parties. Eventually Jung, long an admirer of Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, cartoonishly and symbolically chomping a cigar in every scene in which he appears), seeks out, befriends and works with the Father of Psychoanalysis, who ends up being a go-between in the complex relationship between Jung and Spielrein as well as an intellectual adversary to Jung.

Then, psychology.

The father figure is of immense importance to the interpersonal relationships between the three psychoanalysts (Spielrein eventually becomes a leading figure in the field of child psychology), of special significance in its opposition to Freud’s theory that the mother is at the heart of most psychological abnormality. Freud sees himself as self-appointed father to both Jung and Spielrein, at one point refusing to share an account of a dream with Jung for fear he will lose his authority. Spielrein’s punishment fetish arises from an incident in which her father spanked her when she was very young, a memory from which she derives extreme excitement. Jung fathers three different children to his wife throughout the course of the film, and eventually fills the role of sexual father to Spielrein through the affair that provides the film’s dramatic arc.

But while the film uses the desire for and to be a figure of patriarchal authority as one of the central theses

of its interrogation of psychological relationships, it also uses a series of four analytical schools of thought as a means to analyze not just character but history, especially history as it relates to both World Wars and the psychological state of the continent of Europe that preceded and predicted them.

Complicated, yes, but so is psychology.

Obviously, there is Freud. He argues that all psychological problems are inherently sexual and that the study of the human psyche should remain strictly scientific. He, a Jew, also laments the volume of Jews studying the field of psychology, predicting the large amount of Jews in the profession will earn them enemies. The film’s epigraph takes special care to note he f led Nazi Germany and died in 1939, during the Second World War. Jung, however – referred to by Freud in the film as an “Aryan” – rejects Freud’s strict assertions of science and embraces mysticism, believing it possible to predict events before they happen. In the film, right before a disbelieving Freud, he correctly predicts that the wood on a bookshelf will crack.

(It should be noted that Freud is able to pick his personal psychology apart with extreme ease, strongly validating many of Freud’s analytic techniques and theories.) Jung also narrates a dream in which a f lood – composed of “the blood of Europe” – sweeps across the continent, an obvious prophecy of the First World War. The film’s epigraph notes he suffered a nervous breakdown during the war, but “died comfortably” in 1961, the obvious suggestion being

that he, Freud’s “Aryan,” suffered no ill effects from the war that killed his mentor. ( Jung, in fact, was embraced by the Nazi regime, though he himself did not support it.)

Noted libertine Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel) makes a brief appearance in the film, during which time he makes a tremendous impression on Jung before vanishing over the wall of Jung’s countryside institution.

Gross argues that instead of repressing our basic biological urges (of which Freud was a proponent) we should embrace them, allowing us a kind of psychological freedom, especially as it relates to sexuality. This concept greatly inf luences both Jung and Spielrein. The film’s epigraph notes the year of his death as 1919 – which is incorrect, possibly consciously so – passively suggesting a connection to World War 1.

Spielrein is a significant proponent of the connection of sex and death, believing that in order for true sexual satisfaction, part of the personal ego must be destroyed in order to indulge in the satisfaction of another. Freud accuses her of loving Jung because she, a Jew, is drawn to him precisely because he is Aryan. The film’s epigraph notes she was killed by Nazis.

And finally, history.

Cronenberg does not treat his characters as if they are fullydeveloped, fully-involved human beings (think Freud’s incessant cigarsmoking). It’s easier to think of them more as physical conduits of their own inner psychologies and theories instead of f lesh-and-blood animals, which Cronenberg projects onto a larger image of Europe. As much as Cronenberg busies himself with studying and dissecting the relationships between not only his characters but the schools of psychoanalytic theory which each spearheads, he also carefully proposes

that the history of Europe in the 20th century (which had barely been born when Freud and Jung became celebrities) was directly shaped by the psychologies which manifest themselves in the three protagonists at the heart of A Dangerous Method.

The relationship between Jung and Spielrein, for instance, a relationship between an “Aryan” and a Jew based on the principle of the punishment of the latter by the former, is not necessarily a stand-in for the Second World War, but it is certainly wielded as the embodiment of Spielrein’s sex/death correlation as manifested specifically in the war itself. It is no coincidence, to both Cronenberg and theoretically Freud, that a connection exists between Spielrein’s love of the Aryan Jung and her death at the hands of Nazi Germany. But it would be a mistake to interpret the relationship as a metaphor; rather it is the genius of A Dangerous Method that the fiery sexual liaisons at the film’s center represent only the ability for human history to be psychologically deconstructed as if it were a patient in a chair, and is only the specified expression of a wider psychological pattern that Cronenberg professes to diagnose.

Thus, through its assertion that within history lies eminent psychological pattern, A Dangerous Method makes the argument that historical trend can perhaps even be predicted if enough thought is given to the psychological state of the present.

The film does not make the claim that Carl Jung is psychic for being able to prophesize the First World War; perhaps he was only particularly in tune with the psychology of his own time that would lead to it. And perhaps we ourselves could be able to determine the swing of future history just by looking around and giving it some thought.

Now tell me how that makes you feel.

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Our month-by-month breakdown of

the UWM Union Theatre (part two)

By Fringe staff fringe@uwmpost.com

Part two of our in-depth exploration of the films being screened in the coming semester at the UWM Union Theatre.

April The Turin Horse (April 6-8) One of the most important works of global cinema in the last decade, renowned Hungarian master Béla Tarr’s self-professed final film makes its Milwaukee debut this April.

Instantaneously one of the most notorious Oscar snubs of all time – if such a concept can still be argued to exist – The Turin Horse, filmed entirely in black and white, as with all Tarr films, explores the stark existentialism of peasant life in Eastern Europe and the utterly beautiful bleakness of the human condition. Eastern Europe has had an unknown and thriving film community for the better part of three decades, for which Tarr has acted as father figure and chief export. While not nearly as long as his seven-anda-half-hour masterwork Satantango, The Turin Horse still boasts that film’s quiet, patient attention to detail and poetic humanist desperation.

The Taste of Cherry (April 21-22) Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was one of the first directors to achieve the seal of approval of the Iranian government for international export, and his 1997 magnum opus The Taste of Cherry was as much a wondrous document of a nation whose borders have always been notoriously shut to the Western world as it was a beautiful and lyrical exploration of the human will to live and die upon its Cannes Film Festival debut more than a decade ago. Kiarostami’s latest film, Certified Copy, was a sensation in France, but it pales in comparison to The Taste of Cherry, which took home the Palme D’or the year it saw international release. Filmed almost entirely within a moving car, which acts as a physical manifestation of psychological space, the film tells the story of a man who wishes to kill himself and the day-byday routine in which he attempts to convince a stranger to bury him upon his demise.

This Is Not a Film (April 26) From the other end of the Iranian spectrum, 2010’s This Is Not a Film had to be smuggled out of the country in order to make its Cannes debut, to the shock and dismay of an Iranian government that would have most certainly stif led the heavily critical film. More about the process of making a film in the censor-heavy nation of Iran than anything else – it documents its own production in an act of meta-filmic bludgeoning – the This Is Not a Film is as much a stand against censorship of the media as it is a pointed and unique filmic artifact that could only ever have been made in the cheap, revolutionary age of digital filmmaking.

The Parallax View (April 27-29) Alan J. Pakula directed one of the most important American political films, All the President’s Men, in 1976 at the heart of the Cold War and the age of espionage and political paranoia.

Two years earlier, in 1974, Pakula directed The Parallax View, which touches on many of the same themes and is based on a novel written in 1970, years before the Watergate scandal ever occurred. Starring Warren Beatty, the film is a singularly important document of the post-1960s American paranoia that followed the downfall of the counterculture.

May The 2011 Best of Rural Route Film Festival (Tues. May 1, 7 p.m.)

As big business looks where to drill for oil next, so does the independent film world’s search for source material.

The traveling Rural Route Film Festival, which returned last year after a successful 2003-2008 run, highlights festival director Alan Webber’s quest for pastoral beauty. Whether it be an organic turnip farming dentist in West Virginia or a dramatic backpacking adventure set in Peru, the film’s message is the same: by and about rural people and places. Though it’s old news now, Webber premiered the festival atop New York City’s largest greenroom farm, Brooklyn Grange, with the stunning Manhattan skyline behind them on a warm summer evening as they sat on hay bales in Astoria, Queens. This year, UWMilwaukee instructor Kate Baisley managed to make her Anima Mundi a kaleidoscopic celebration of f lowers wild and cultivated - a finalist in the Experimental category.

On the Line (May 9) Despite a predictable message, Canadian director Frank Wolf tells a common story with his recent documentary: big-business oil barrens and the endless allure of Texas tea, often at the expense of the planet, and under the deceptive banner of “energy independence.” As if there weren’t enough warning signs of environmental devastation already, Calgary’s Enbridge Corporation plans to build an extensive pipeline from the Albert Tar Sands to Kitimat, British Columbia: a 1,170km expanse that Wolf and his friend Todd McGowan biked, hiked, rafted and kayaked through the expanse of during the summer of 2010. No surprise, here: courtesy of Enbridge, the project’s price tag currently reads $5.5 billion. Never mind the native residents affected by the pipeline itself, who tell a different narrative altogether along the winding roads of Wolf ’s journey. Might as well see this one before the supertankers arrive, who will cover all of the pipelines’ 773 watercourses with…a continuing litany of greed?

Student Film & Video Festival (May 13) UW-Milwaukee’s experimental approach to 16mm film, along with its

Bela Tarr’s final film, The Turin Horse, might be the apex of this semester’s Union Theatre schedule.

modern media counterparts, tends to broaden the range of paths a student can take while at the university level, and perhaps better than other academic entities. Since the mid-‘90s this end-of-year culmination of student work has bridged its viewers with the international, student-run Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - another audience that has grown in stature and reputation since its move to the Union Theatre. Five guest judges including Angela Catalano (executive assistant at Milwaukee Film) and Ryan Dembroski (executive producer, AboutFace Media), will round out a high-profile

panel, as this year brings some of the most unique productions to date, including Joshua Baum’s “Breathing for Babies,” a found footage project that finds meaning in things discarded, and Elizabeth Hagen’s “Sun Spots,” a filmic diary of minute moments, spanning one summer’s time.

Northeast (May 11-13) As we enter our 20s, the compressions of real life gradually separate us from our true friends and family - first geographically, then spiritually and emotionally. For writer/director Gregory Kohn the

road towards companionship - and further, the aimless, meaningless wandering of bachelordom - is much more entertaining when described by Hollywood versus experienced in real life, especially when the tendency is to feel left behind. Through the guise of Will (David Call), “an unemployed playboy living in Brooklyn,” the cognitive shift from apathy to effort comes in many forms, even if Will’s search for love is slowed by a series of harsh, ultimately self-renewing truths about life.

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Snubs and surprises: the 84th Academy Award nominations The Post details this year’s Oscar contenders

four-horse race now.

Actress in a Supporting Role Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) Jessica Chastain (The Help) Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs) Octavia Spencer (The Help) Give props to McCarthy for being nominated despite the Academy’s distaste for comedy. We haven’t seen this since Marisa Tomei won for My Cousin Vinny. However, Spencer, the sidekick to Viola Davis in The Help, is the front runner. Don’t misjudge the Academy’s nostalgia to the silent-era though, as Bejo could easily win.

Actor in a Supporting Role Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn) Jonah Hill (Moneyball) Nick Nolte (Warrior) Chris Plummer (The Beginners) Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)

By Sean Willey Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com

The race is a steady walk for the first six months, around July it’s a jog and come December the audience and critics turn the corner for the final sprint home.

Here are the contenders for the 2012 Academy Awards.

A 9/11 ref lection story (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), a Deep South drama (The Help), a Woody Allen romance (Midnight in Paris), a homage to the silent film era (The Artist), a Hawaii family drama (The Descendants), a World War I epic (War Horse), a Scorsese shoutout to film preservation (Hugo), a family ref lection piece (The Tree of Life) and a hearty look at the relationship between money and baseball (Moneyball) all face off for Best Picture.

Although a bit drab and controversial, the 2012 Academy Award Nominees are among Hollywood’s favorite stars.

Seven other category nominations were released on Jan. 24, the most popular and noteworthy of the Academy Awards.

Actress in a Leading Role Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) Viola Davis (The Help) Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn) The surprise nomination is Mara, who played her chilling role with grit, but it’s all about Streep, Davis and Williams.

Streep and Williams wonderfully channeled the persons their biopics portrayed, but Davis’ interpretation

of a housemaid in 1960s Mississippi has the Academy all a twitter. The announcement of this category’s winner will come with lots of gasps and hollers.

Actor in a Leading Role Demián Bichir (A Better Life) George Clooney (The Descendants) Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) Brad Pitt (Moneyball) Until the announcement, it was widely accepted that Clooney and Dujardin would duke it out for the statuette. However, Oldman’s turn as a British spy apparently had voters’ heads turning. Best friends Pitt and Clooney are playing tug-of-war as well. It’s a

Sydow’s nomination is interesting.

Albert Brooks was snubbed out for Drive, but Branagh and Plummer are the ones everyone is keeping their eyes on. However, the Academy can bring upsets. Hill’s portrayal of Peter Brand, Billie Bean’s (Brad Pitt) genius assistant in Moneyball, was well played with the correct amount of smarts and charm.

Directing Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) Michel Hazanivicius (The Artist) Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) Alexander Payne (The Descendants) Martin Scorsese (Hugo) Allen’s nomination isn’t a surprise since he’s an Academy favorite and Midnight in Paris is the perfect kind of romanticism. Scorsese has been snubbed plenty of times, but this time around,

his movie about movie preservation may be the fodder the Academy is looking for. The goliath to beat though is Hazanivicius – The Artist is a rare fogy and f luffy movie.

Original Screenplay The Artist Bridesmaids Margin Call Midnight in Paris A Separation Midnight in Paris has this category locked. A loss would be comparable to Crash beating out Brokeback Mountain in 2006.

Adapted Screenplay The Descendants Hugo The Ides of March Moneyball Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The race is between Hugo, Moneyball and The Descendants. Hugo probably wins it because the Academy can’t pass up the message it sends.

Animated Feature Film A Cat in Paris Chico and Rita Kung Fu Panda 2 Puss in Boots Rango Major snub: no The Adventures of Tintin. The Parisian and cubism styled A Cat in Paris is unknown to the mainstream, as well is Chico and Rita, but Gore Verbinski’s Rango is the critical favorite. Will it win?

All of this speculation and jibberjabber will end Feb. 26 when celebrities take their seats at the Kodak Theatre in hopes of going home with the gold.

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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

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 UW-Milwaukee 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.

Early Mike Kuchar Films (Tuesday, 7 p.m.)

In a few short weeks, legendary experimental filmmaker Mike Kuchar will grace the Union Theatre with his presence for the March 13 Experimental Tuesday. To prepare for the filmmaker’s appearance and screenings, the Union Theatre

is showing a selection of Kuchar’s important early works. Films to be screened are: Sins of the Fleshapoids – an optimal example of low budget camp – examines Earth and its inhabitants a million years into the future, The Secret World of Wendel Samson, a telling of artist Wendel and his struggle to break up with his boyfriend, and The Craven Sluck, about a woman’s failed suicide attempt and her life that follows.

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Wednesday, 7 p.m.)

From 1965 to 1989, Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania under a strict totalitarian regime. The Romanian leader’s time in power was riddled with food shortages and serious unemployment – all while Ceausescu lived an excessive lifestyle. With the coming of the Romanian Revolution in 1989, Ceausescu’s regime was overthrown, and following a trial, he and his wife were sentenced to death by

firing squad. Now, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu retells the story of the former Romanian dictator with recently found, thought-to-not-exist footage of Ceausescu and those close to his political body.

Vito (Thursday, 7 p.m.)

Among the LGBT community (and the world overall), Vito Russo remains as one of the most prominent activists and social commentators. Author of The Celluloid Closet, a critique of Hollywood’s portrayal of gays in film, Russo amassed a great following and won the respect of the growing and ever-prominent LGBT community.

Sadly, he died of AIDS-related complications in the early 1990s. Vito documents the inf luential life of Russo, from his first involvement in activism after the Stonewall riots in 1969, to his AIDS advocacy in the 1980s.

Tim and Eric’s debut feature film is exactly what you’d expect from the peculiar duo.

A bizarre billion dollars spent

Tim and Eric’s first feature film is the fruition of a most peculiar resume

By Kevin Kaber Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

Although a bit drab and controversial, the 2012 Academy Award Nominees are among Hollywood’s favorite stars.

Leave it to Tim and Eric to spend one billion dollars on a film. That’s the plot to the absurd comic duo’s latest work, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie.

Perhaps best known for their huge presence on Adult Swim, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have created an impressive cult following over their bizarre programs: Tom Goes to the Mayor, the limitedanimation series about the hopeful Tom (Heidecker), whose odd ideas to help the city are always thwarted by the mayor (Wareheim), and Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, the liveaction skit show in which anything, no matter how strange, is made possible.

Along with live stage show tours and peculiar original albums, Tim and Eric’s segue to feature-length film was present, though the question remained – what the hell are they going to do?

Though the title might shed enough information about the film itself, promotional materials before its release introduced many to the term “Shrim,” a word made up by the comedy team. The confusion and bewilderment over the film’s story sparked interest in fans everywhere and with its recent showing at Sundance, reviews and interviews, the movie has obviously crafted itself into a unique position in the world of cinema.

The film opens with Tim and Eric’s billion dollar movie, a threeminute film starring a Johnny Depp impersonator as he approaches a woman at an outdoor café (instead of using the money on the film’s actual production, Tim and Eric used the money for “designer” clothes and helicopter rides to and from the studio, among other things). The financiers of

the billion dollar movie, the Schlaaang Corporation, are justifiably upset that the film was terrible and immediately seek repayment. With no money to pay their billion dollar debt, Tim and Eric go on the lamb until a deux machina in the form of a commercial in which a mall owner (played by a raucous Will Ferrell) screams at viewers, encouraging them to run his failing mall, which would undoubtedly make the mall rehabilitators one billion dollars.

Of course, in true Tim and Eric fashion, the mall is inhabited by the most awkward vandals and its stores are slim to none (some sell knives, others offer Eastern medicinal remedies – the “Shrim” which involves great amounts of defecation). Taquito (played by Tim and Eric’s favorite, John C. Reilly), a sickly anemic boy who lives in the mall and eats unrefrigerated taquitos, befriends Tim and Eric and helps them restore the mall.

Plenty else occurs in the movie.

With the use of improper and hardly professionally-tuned special effects (a trait seen plenty throughout the film – crude explosions and cheesy commercials included) subplots are abound in order to make the best use of Tim and Eric’s nightmarish production style. Not only is there a love story (which is generous in its explicit sex scene), but there is also a father-son story, among others. The various subplots keep the film’s pacing strong, an issue that many feared due to the fact that Tim and Eric’s other shows feature numerous skits in a matter of 15 minutes. At an hour and a half long, Billion Dollar Movie might be considered exhausting by some, namely those that have no penchant for bizarre humor; however, those that can handle the Tim and Eric genre will surely enjoy the oddity filled adventure.

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Midwest is best Shades set new course for sound

The Shades’ recent material drove the band forward Thursday night at Hotel Foster, received as the headliner but billed as the opener.

By Graham Marlowe Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com Entering the uppity tavern of Hotel Foster on Thursday night brought to mind unmistakable indierock reference points – mounted animal heads, sparkling chandeliers, an American f lag draped in front of the stage to accent the building’s wooden interior. If these don’t remind you of recent rock revisionism – think Ryan Adams or My Morning Jacket – chances are you weren’t at the gig anyways, and although

Trapper Schoepp & the Shades aren’t completely original to today’s rock and roll scholars, their songs show a strong enough understanding of their heroes to avoid similar compositional mistakes.

More than ever before, the Ellsworth-birthed brothers Trapper (guitar, vocals) and Tanner (bass) took liberties to show their audience the difference between the studio-slick incarnation of the band and that of the hard-drinking live article, inspired by

Wednesday, February 8 – 7pm

Think Global, Act Rural

In conjunction with the 15th Annual Festival of Films in French Wednesday, March 14 – 7pm

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

Kenyan Maathai– winner of the Nobel Peace Prize – is one of the heroines spotlighted in the Heroines and Hellions series this spring Wednesday, April 11 – 7pm

Land

A true Wild West story about land ownership and development in politically volatile Nicaragua

a lifelong diet of hard-drinking rock and punk fusionists like The Clash and The Replacements.

Drawing mostly from their new album, Run Engine Run, the band – as well as the audience – relished in the raw, twangy energy of “Wishing Well,” “Tracks” and “Mercy Blues,” musical postcards whose classic breakdowns cast away the bittersweet like exhaust in the rearview mirror.

As the band moved forward through other would-be singles (“Run

Engine Run,” “To Have You Around”), the melancholic counterpoint and razor-sharp solos of Graham Hunt (lead guitar) helped drive home a ‘70s-penned narrative about the smalltown heart, of home found in odd places though never forgotten.

Veteran drummer and sage of MKE punk Jon Phillip, who audience members barely saw, was far from passive, and no matter the song’s context, his playing cast a prickly sheen over an otherwise tried-andtrue power-pop formula.

Philip’s percussive anchoring of the songs guided the narrative as often as it helped Hunt pick away at (and pivot from) their well-worn grooves, inching little by little towards a climax of his choosing - something headliner The Championship failed to provide in any lasting capacity.

If high schools still had decent budgets, the Shades’ one-off gig at Foster would have been the perfect clip on a resume for signed bands looking to rowdy up those drunkand-stoned high school dances of the 1970s. The latest material has, unlike earlier efforts, brought Schoepp’s simple poetry to a place that electrifies the group’s decidedly Midwestern inferences about life.

The addition of Graham Hunt seems to complete the equation, to remind one of a basic sound passed on from our parents’ dusty record bins. Hunt’s energy is what’s needed to make the music’s linear qualities explode, to take them beyond the tired image of drunken charmer rock bands that already have record deals.

Monday – Friday, April 16 – 20

Earth Week in the Union

A week of fun, eco-friendly activities, including art, informational displays, a fashion show, music, food and more!

Tuesday, April 17 – 7pm

An Evening of Social Responsibility, Radical Business Philosophy and Free Ice Cream with

Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Presented by the UWM Union’s Distinguished Lecture Series Wednesday, May 9 – 7pm

On the Line

Follow two men as they bike, hike, raft and kayak the route of a proposed bitumen pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands to Vancouver, Canada

Despite their respectable reputation in the Milwaukee area, The Championship, being the purveyors of Americana that they are, didn’t so much bring their own energy as they did rescind the party atmosphere laid forth by the Shades. At the basic level, the setlist – which diverted some attention from their triumphant, longer-form songs (for example, “Love Shine On Me”) – set a mood that just didn’t instill the same thirst for an encore as the opener.

It’s clear that The Championship are innovating when two and threeyear-old songs like “The Sword” and “Black Cloud” sound the way they do, their angst resounding fatigue rather than hope for change; it’s just not clear how they plan to translate that innovation in performance quite yet.

Audience consensus centered around a chortled inference of “I love this band, but I like their music when I’m sitting at home.” The group’s electricity needs to be accounted for as the reviewer, this was obvious to me as people’s attention drifted from the magnetic presence of the musicians to that of the alluring barstools.

Their songs soon became interesting background music.

Truth be told, the venue was crawling with West Coast talent scouts, who probably haven’t seen a band like Schoepp’s since their glory days of youth.

The Shades don’t yet possess the spaciousness that normally performs in front of chandeliered venues, but they sure know how to embody the space of the one they’ve created.

Share the Earth - a series of earth-friendly events from the UWM Union.

Visit www.sharetheearth.uwm.edu for specifics on time and location of events and for all the latest information about environmental events in the UWM Union.

Share the Earth is sponsored by Union Programming and made possible through the efforts of Union Custodial and Mechanical Services. Call 229-3111 for more information.

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Chairlift looks forward and back

A Brooklyn duo’s modernized homage to the ‘80s

By Samantha Radle Special to the Post fringe@uwmpost.com

Bright and elastic (and somehow chewy and pink), at first listen Chairlift has all the sticky qualities of bubblegum. The synth-pop duo’s newly released Something comes four years after their debut, Does You Inspire You, which garnered some modest attention after being featured in the now-famous iPod dancing-silhouette commercials.

Yes, Chairlift is one of those bands, full up on ‘80s enthusiasm and spandex, hailing from Brooklyn of all places.

They’re not to be written off so quickly, though: there’s something refreshingly off beat about their shiny pop, though it doesn’t completely drown out the sometimes-cloying kitsch of it all.

Singer Caroline Polachek’s voice has earned comparisons to perhaps an unfair amount of other vocalists, most

commonly to Leslie Feist, with traces of Florence Welch (of Florence + the Machine) and Kate Bush to be found as well. But it’s clear that Polachek doesn’t intend to emulate any of them; her voice has its own unique tone that amounts to something other than mere imitation.

Patrick Wimberly’s synths are the real thing, too, and don’t pay homage to the ‘80s so much as they appear to actually be from the ‘80s. Chairlift gently shifts its focus away from the darker tones of Does You Inspire You, whose gauzy dream-pop suggested a fresh incarnation of Cocteau Twins. The ethereal vocals and plasticine synths continue to be a dynamic combination, though, and if Something is a bit inconsistent, it’s a strong and authentic effort overall.

The opening track, “Sidewalk Safari,” is danceable without being disposable and serves as an effective introduction to the rest of the album.

Lyrically Something is stronger, and like any decent hipster, Chairlift doesn’t take itself too seriously – for the most part. “I Belong In Your Arms” is pure, cheesy Top Gun romance, while too suave for its own good, “Take It Out On Me” takes nostalgia a bit too far, sacrificing some originality along the way. “Cool As A Fire” is dull, but the album reaches its zenith with “Amanaemonesia,” a smooth, crisp track, and an obvious (if impossible to pronounce) choice for a single. Later on, “Frigid Spring” has a twee feel to it, invoking the lovably quaint dreariness of Belle & Sebastian. As a final track, “Guilty As Charged” is an odd one, but the subdued retro synths of the chorus are totally redeeming.

Something is worth a listen, and Chairlift is a group to keep an eye on.

Chances are they’re not done evolving, and it’s anybody’s guess what they’ll come out with next.

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A new chapter begins: Henschel new soccer coach

Success, character at UWWhitewater helps school choose Brookfield native

By Jeremy Lubus Sports Editor jdlubus@uwm.edu There is no replacing Michael Moynihan, but you do not have to tell that to Greg Henschel. Henschel is not looking to replace Moynihan by any means and he will be the first one to tell you so. However you want to look at it, Henschel is UWMilwaukee’s newest women’s soccer head coach.

When Moynihan left for the open job at Northwestern University, Athletic Director Rick Costello said the school would begin a nationwide search for Moynihan’s replacement.

It didn’t take any cross-country plane trips to find Henschel. His incredible success and winning character at UWWhitewater made him soar to the top of the list, and when he interviewed for the job, he was a hit.

Hopefully it is the start of something special.

“We had more than 100 [coaches] apply for the job,” Costello said. “It is not an easy task to trim that down. It was kind of a good thing it occurred over winter break because it allowed me to devote much of my time to the search.”

Henschel led Whitewater’s men’s and women’s soccer teams to Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic

Conference titles and NCAA Division III tournament berths this past fall.

That’s right, both the men’s and women’s teams. Henschel was the head coach for both programs and had major success with both, which caught the attention of Costello and his staff.

“Two things really caught my eye with the interview with Greg,” Costello said. “One being his tremendous success at Whitewater and leading them to the NCAA Tournament, and the second was his tremendous energy towards the job.”

Henschel is a humble man who has grown up with soccer in his blood and, maybe more importantly, grown up, played and coached in the state of Wisconsin.

“This really is a dream job in every way possible,” Henschel said. “A big reason I took this job was so I could coach just one team.”

Henschel went to Whitewater after playing semi-professionally for four years. He has been in charge of both the men’s and women’s programs at Whitewater since 1999, leading the two programs to a combined 290 victories and 11 NCAA Tournament berths.

Henschel capped his tenure as the Warhawks’ women’s coach with a record-setting season in 2011. The team set school records for wins with 14, and he was named the WIAC

Coach of the Year.

“For me, I like to think I have 26 years of coaching in 13 years,” Henschel said.

The rich success the Panthers have should help ease the transition for Henschel. UWM did not lose a game in the Horizon League all year on their way to the league crown and NCAA Tournament appearance with 16 underclassmen on the roster. Goal keeper Jamie Forbes will also return to the 2012 squad..

Henschel has a strong, young core to work with and develop as he begins to continue the success left by past graduating classes.

“We have some smart, good girls on our team,” Henschel said. “It is very important to me to have good people in your program. Good people strive to get good grades. This is critical to me because I feel your personality really shows up on the soccer field.”

Henschel knows there are many challenges that lay ahead of him both on and off the field but he knows there is one goal that will never teeter off the top.

“The biggest challenge is not so much the wins and losses,” Henschel said. “Every day I plan on properly representing the Moynihan family the way they should be.”

Greg Henschel led both the mens and womens programs at UW-Whitewater a combined 290 victories and 11 NCAA Tournament berths. Photo courtesy of Whitewater athletic department

Ryan Haggerty, James Haarsma, Christian Wolf applauded service men during a game against Butler. Post Photo by Sierra Riesberg

Honoring the honorable Veterans take center stage as Milwaukee wins over rival Butler

By Tony Atkins Assistant Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com It wasn’t Veterans Day. It wasn’t Memorial Day or any other holiday for that matter. However, that didn’t stop UW-Milwaukee and Butler University from dedicating perhaps the biggest regular season Horizon League conference game to the men and women who have risked their lives on the battlefield for their country.

The least that Kaylon Williams and company could do was lay it all out on the court and give the vets a good show.

That is exactly what happened in the showcase honoring veterans that served and protected this country for generations. In honor of the troops, both teams sported alternate jerseys with an army fatigue design replacing the normal. In addition to the new color, the back of each jersey for both UWM and Butler simply read, “USA” instead of each player’s last name. “[The event] took a lot of planning, between both us and the people at Butler,” UWM Athletic Director Rick Costello said. “Everyone really enjoyed themselves, and it was a great environment for everyone.”

The Division 1 national runnerup Butler Bulldogs took to the f loor looking to send Milwaukee to their third straight loss. It was up to the Panthers to show the veterans in attendance that this Milwaukee team is full of fighters.

In the first half, the Panthers found themselves trailing by as many as eight points. However, the Panthers found themselves taking

the momentum as the half came to a close. After beginning the second half down 24-25, Kaylon Williams and the Panthers fought back into the lead with a blazing 13-1 run. The Panthers would finish off the Bulldogs 53-42.

“It was incredible giving back,” head coach Rob Jeter said when asked about the atmosphere. “We didn’t give nearly as much energy as the fans gave us but still, it was great to see all of the veterans and everyone in attendance having a good time.”

Although it was a big win for the Panthers and their Horizon League title hopes, the biggest story that night wasn’t the game, it was the theme of the game itself. A platoon of students came to support the veterans and the team and in the process, filled a student section with white tee-shirts that read “Mil-wau-kee” in army fatigue green. Along with the packed student section, there was a packed “every other section,” as the filled arena buzzed with the atmosphere that the Panthers thrive in when provided.

“It was a really good feeling to see the student body embracing the military,” Sergeant and Army veteran Fred Gladney said. “I am glad to see the university taking the time out to honor those who have served in the military.”

Hats go off to two great schools for putting aside their differences to honor something of a much greater good. The Milwaukee Panthers came away with the victory in a packed US Cellular Arena. Perhaps it was the turnout. Athletic Director Rick Costello certainly thinks so.

“Come support your Panthers,” Costello said.

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Needing a little of “Michael’s secret stuff” Panthers should take page from Space Jam

By Jeremy Lubus Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com

With the free world at stake, the Looney Tunes were getting killed at half time. For those of you who don’t remember, Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan were trailing 66-18 heading into the locker room. The team was def lated. Daffy Duck was dozing off, Lola Bunny was giving up hope, and Swackhammer had the world fearing Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing would never return to the stars they were.

After a rally cry from Jordan to get his teammates back on track yielded no results, something had to happen.

Enter the clever thinking of Bugs Bunny and his ‘magical’ powers. He found Jordan’s secret stuff in a water bottle and passed it around, and the comeback was on.

The Tune Squad had to come back into the second half with the same team they had in the first half. This is the same tune for the UW-Milwaukee men’s basketball team. Lonnie Boga is in a sling after surgery and Ja’Rob McCallum has missed significant time with a wrist injury and doesn’t appear to be returning any time soon.

Injuries are becoming a real pain for the Panthers. Watching Mr. Hustle and personal favorite Ryan Allen spring off a trampoline for a rebound only to crash to the deck f lat on his back sent chills through my

spine against Valparaiso Saturday.

The Panthers could not afford to lose another body, especially the way the Monstars have been playing this season. The Panthers are banged up: even top players like Kaylon Williams and Tony Meier are fighting through injuries.

The Panthers are heading into the half way point of the season with a lineup they did not anticipate having.

It does not matter what was expected, just ask Bugs how they were going to deal with the suffocating defense of the Monstars. They got through it and there is no reason to think we will not either. The season has had its fair share of ups and downs already, but if the Panthers let the injuries mess with their minds, we are doomed because the Monstars from Cleveland State want to take the Horizon League over.

The Panthers could have their own version of Bill Murray, but even better.

Murray enters in the fourth quarter when the Tunes squad loses Stan Podolak. Could that be our very own Evan Richard? One could only hope as he is recovering from a back injury.

Murray “doesn’t do defense,” but I am pretty sure Richard can and he hits his free throws. After all, that’s how the Panthers got to where they are right now, with defense.

Somewhere, Rob Jeter needs to find Jordan’s secret stuff to get through the tough pains because last season’s abrupt ending still stings.

Top: The Tune squad rallied despite a rash of injuries, the Panthers will look to do the same. Photo courtesy of lewiswaynegallery.com Bottom: Ryan Haggerty drives to the basket for a basket Saturday. The Panthers lost 55-52. Post Photo by Sierra Riesberg

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Job opening! NBA Over center needed. and back Local seven footer looking

Panthers for work. Local team unable to gain looking for seven footer. momentum after splitting twogame Horizon ByTony Atkins Assistant Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com

By Mitch Pratt Staff Writer Sports@uwmpost.com

The UW-Milwaukee women’s basketball team went into a twogame road swing to Indiana to take on Valparaiso and Butler. The Panthers (6-13, 2-7 Horizon) battled hard but came away with a 1-1 record on the trip.

The win came on Thursday evening in Valparaiso’s gym in a 5547 win over the struggling Crusaders (5-14, 1-8 Horizon), a team that has just one conference victory this year.

The Panthers were lead in points by center Courtney Lindfors, who contributed 14. However, it was the team’s defense that was able to bewilder the Valparaiso offense by forcing 21 turnovers and capitalize on them by scoring 22-7 on points off of those turnovers. The Panthers were also able to hold the Crusaders to zero points from the bench.

On Saturday, the Panthers

were lead offensively once again by Lindfors, who had 19 points in a losing effort against Butler (8-12, 4-5 Horizon) in Indianapolis. The final score was 76-63 as the team was unable to keep up that defensive tenacity that they showed against Valparaiso. The team came up short against the Bulldogs, who overcame 18 turnovers by shooting 52 percent from the f loor.

The Panthers were looking to build on the victory they had against Youngstown State in their last home game before the two game swing, but this trip ended up being a microcosm of the team’s inconsistencies on the defensive end of the court this year.

They’ll be back in action this week as they step out of conference play and host Seattle University at the Klotsche Center on Wednesday night. Then, they’ll try to right the ship in their Horizon League schedule with a game in Green Bay against the undefeated and nationally ranked Phoenix on Friday night.

Over the past few weeks, the Milwaukee Bucks have been pulling off victories against some of the biggest stars the NBA has to offer.

LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and most recently, Kobe Bryant have all fallen to the Bucks. The Bucks have definitely shown that they are ready to take on whatever challenges are thrown their way as they settle into a rhythm moving along in the year.

Also during this time, the Bucks lost a major player from their roster: center Andrew Bogut. This came at an extremely crucial time to a team that was lacking the presence of a solid backup center to begin with. Now it seems that the Bucks will need to look for an inside presence, not to backup,

but now just to start.

Without the inside presence of Bogut, the Bucks held their own.

They beat the Lakers without him and out-willed both the 7-footers Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol. While a win of this magnitude shows that the Bucks can compete, it is almost certain that they won’t be able to sustain and win on a consistent basis if they are starting a 6-foot-10-inch Drew Gooden at center.

Gooden has been phenomenal as a starter, averaging over about 16 points and 9 rebounds. That doesn’t mean that he should be starting center night in and night out. If the Bucks don’t reach out to the increasingly dry free agent pool and obtain the services of a center, I can’t see them making that playoff push in this shortened season.

There is one easy solution for the Bucks. Joel Przybilla. It is only

right that a Milwaukee resident and arguably the best pickup at the position should sign with his “local” team. He played great in Portland and should have been signed even when Bogut was healthy. He’s not a scorer, so the Bucks wont need to feed him as much and Gooden can remain the primary scorer down low. He is also a great rebounder and would help the Bucks in other ways than scoring, sort of like Kurt Thomas’ role to the 2009 playoff squad. If the Bucks are smart, Przybilla makes a little too much sense not to sign.

While the Bucks continue to pull off win after big win, they still need someone to fill the void down low for as long as Bogut is injured. What moves are made in the coming days will show how serious this Bucks franchise is about winning.

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No new ideas from In response to leadership in spring ‘As semester begins, SA vows plenary address to rebuild’ Chancellor’s address largely a progress SA Vacancies report on September initiatives By: Joseph Ohler, Jr.

By: Editorial Board editorial@uwmpost.com On Thursday, Chancellor Michael Lovell gave his plenary address for the spring semester, addressing the deep budget cuts and other issues and opportunities he sees for UWMilwaukee.

Chancellor Lovell and administrators from other UW system schools have spent a lot of time and energy in Madison trying to reduce state budget cuts, but they were unable to do so. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently reported that the cuts for the UW System are among the nation’s largest. Unfortunately, UWM and other Wisconsin public universities are still fighting the same funding battle they were at the time of the chancellor’s fall plenary address.

No one else besides the current legislature and governor can be blamed for the state budget’s short sighted and unfair austerity measures.

However, we believe that the plenary was largely just a progress report on the initiatives mentioned in the fall address. This seemed to be the chancellor’s intention, as early in his speech he laid out the three main topics he would discuss, two of which were simply updates, and the third focused on telling the stories about people on campus making a difference.

An update on UWM’s ongoing

initiatives was certainly needed. From various capital projects to connecting UWM with a program that will enroll up to 1,000 Chinese students in the near future, we’re moving in the right direction as Wisconsin’s premier public urban research university. However, we expected the spring plenary to include even more new ideas and bold initiatives.

The school leadership projects a vision in which UWM is an elite research university but remains a school that truly serves its surrounding community through its accessibility and relatively low cost. Because our state leadership in Madison continues to pass legislation that makes it harder for this vision to become a reality, we need to be increasingly innovative and agile in our drive for excellence and pursuit of becoming a top tier university.

The university’s faculty have made real strides in the past year in working to provide the best education possible and creating a climate conducive to fostering a love of learning and motivation to improve the surrounding community.

In the September plenary address, Chancellor Lovell discussed the finer points of UWM’s new message and marketing campaign, “Powerful Ideas, Proven Results.” There’s evidence that this new slogan has real merit. The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World

Universities included UWM in its list of top 500 universities on the globe, a strong achievement for a school that has spent much of its existence in the shadow of its Madison counterpart.

On Thursday, Chancellor Lovell informed us on the real progress that has been made in pursuing several initiatives he mentioned in September, but his speech largely fell f lat on expanding that list with new initiatives.

We’ve come a long way in just a short amount of time, and in order to keep that momentum going, we can’t stop making new goals and expectations for ourselves simply because we’re making progress in other areas. The issue still remains whether it’s realistic if UWM can remain an access university, providing a quality higher education to its own community while climbing the ranks among national research universities. An admissions cap needs to be seriously considered, as top tier schools must demand top tier students.

UWM educates more Wisconsin natives than any other campus in the state. Being the school that educates Wisconsin has its own nobility, but it has its limits too. We acknowledge the chancellor’s groundbreaking work in making UWM better, but hope he continues to put forth new ideas and addresses some of the questions we have about his vision for the future.

The pending senate vacancies resulting from the paid directors choosing pay over voting rights will be a golden opportunity for previously excluded students to become involved with the SA. I experienced this firsthand by winning my first of four senate terms via a mid-year vacancy caused by a similar separation of branches decision early in the 2004-2005 academic year. I was absolutely unknown by any standing officials at the time, but squeaked in by one vote when multiple opponents no-showed. The rest is history.

However, this begs the question as to why certain students were excluded in the first place. SA has never conducted a formal background check on candidates for the general election or for mid-year senate vacancies. An official report from the WI Department of Corrections is only $13, so appropriating enough money to cover 200 applicants for 50 Senate seats and 10 (or so) executive branch positions would require only $260 in segregated fees, a drop in the bucket compared to the budget of even one SA branch ($43,500 for the senate, not counting the SAC budget).

SA added $10,000 to senate “office operations,” so why not $260 for background checks? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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It’s time for girls “Good to get a “Bro Code” enough” is not good enough on Voter ID

It’s time girls started watching each other’s backs instead of stabbing them. We are constantly trying to steal each other’s boyfriends, talking about each other behind our backs, and acting catty towards A plea from the UWM one another and it really needs to stop.

By: Angela Schmitt Staff Writer editorial@uwmpost.com

If you have seen the popular TV show How I Met Your Mother, then you are familiar with the “Bro Code,” which is a set of rules set forth by the character Barney Stinson, outlining the do’s and don’ts of male behavior. Examples of some of these rules are the classic “bro’s before hoes” and “thou shalt not sleep with your bro’s ex-girlfriend.”

I’m not sure if the TV show started the idea of the code, or if it has different origins, but the fact of the matter is that it’s out there, and “bro’s” are supposed to follow it. According to some highly entertaining Urban Dictionary posts, if a bro breaks the code, it is considered to be “blasphemous, sacrilegious and high-bro treason.” Hard core, gentlemen, I like it.

Honestly, I find the Bro Code to be incredibly admirable, and I’m really jealous.

As far as I’m aware, the only code us girls have is that if the girl in the stall next to you runs out of toilet paper, you have to give her some. Otherwise, it’s pretty much fair game for us ladies, and let me tell you, it is a (female) dog eat dog world out there.

Girls are always backstabbing, rolling their eyes, talking crap and spreading rumors about each other. I’m not saying we’re all evil, but every girl does these things at least on occasion, and of course,

there are some girls who do it like it’s their job. Either way, it’s not acceptable.

I did a little bit of research on “Girl Code” and I wasn’t really surprised to find that while some rudimentary guidelines do exist, it’s still pretty nondescript. Rules such as “don’t judge your friend if she eats an entire tub of ice cream in one sitting after a break up,” and, according to the Urban Dictionary entry for “Girl Code,” apparently “you are never, in any case, to date a friend’s ex or a guy who she was really into. Exception: if he’s one of those guys who every girl likes” is one of our “rules.”

First of all, if anyone eats that much ice cream at once, regardless of the situation, it’s pretty disgusting. Second of all, while the first part is nice, adding in the exception that you can date a friend’s ex if he’s “likeable” is pretty backwards. Basically, any guy is fair game unless he’s revolting?

Way to go girls, we’ve really got this Girl Code down.

It isn’t even about having some written code that we swear to follow, it’s about the way we treat each other. If I had a dollar for every time I saw girls rolling their eyes at each other, making rude comments and being judgmental or catty, I would not need a job. So why are girls so mean to each other?

I recently read an article in Scientific American titled “The ‘Bitch’ Evolved: Why Girls are so Cruel to Each Other,”

that discussed a study done in 2006 by the journal Evolution and Human Behavior that showed that in a study of women ages 18-25 “female social aggression among reproductively viable females is usually interpreted as a form of mate competition” at that they “ would sabotage another female’s image as a desirable reproductive partner, such as commenting on her promiscuity, physical appearance or some other aberrant or quirky traits...”(Jesse Bering, 2009).

Sounds about right.

The interesting thing was that the scientists had assumed that this kind of behavior was actually more acute in teenage females, but judging by the amount of hateful things written about other girls on the bathroom stalls of bars, we’re still at it well into our twenties.

They had a point though, that kind of behavior should have been left behind in high school. It’s really immature, and there is nothing more off-putting and unattractive than a catty girl. Plus the “stink face” really doesn’t do anything for you. So hey, here’s a wild idea: why don’t we start a real code, where we simply just try to treat others the way we want to be treated? We could maybe look out for each other and respect each other? And we could try to have each other’s backs instead of stabbing them? And for the love of God, do not let anyone call it the “Hoe Code” because that is just stupid.

The right to a defense Attorneys: protect and serve

By Miranda Rosenkranz Staff Writer editorial@uwmpost.com

People have despised lawyers since 400 B.C. In The Clouds, Aristophanes described a litigator as “a courthouse junkie blessed with the gift of gab, a barrack-room lawyer and a filthy oily rag.”

Defense attorneys seem to have the worst reputation. People call them scum who let criminals free into the public sector. However, lawyers are a necessary evil in society.

The fact of the matter is that citizens of this nation are granted certain rights and are all equal in the eyes of the law. Everyone, even those suspected of the most heinous crimes, deserves a defense. In fact, the Fourth and Eighth Amendments in the Bill of Rights protect the rights of the accused. The founding fathers recognized that even if someone is a child molester, rapist or murderer, they deserve fair treatment. The Supreme Court has expanded on this belief and continued the tradition of protecting the rights of the accused.

Everyone deserves a good defense, this is undeniable. However, many ask why anyone would want to become a defense attorney. Why would someone who goes through at least seven years of school and pays hundreds of thousands of dollars for a prestigious education want to brush elbows with the scum of the world?

Firstly, when a lawyer works for ten years as a public defender, they can have their student debt forgiven. This is a nice perk for someone who racked up loans and makes pennies being a public defender.

Along the same ignoble lines is the competition aspect. For some attorneys, their winning reputation is more of an asset than cash.

Despite this, most people have noble reasons for becoming lawyers of defense.

The legal system is inherently flawed.

The criminal justice field is particularly frustrating with all of the blunders and loopholes. People become defenders in order to try and change the dirty system.

Statistics have shown prison is a horrible place that makes criminals into violent ones and violent ones into maniacs. Many politicians claim to be “tough on crime.”

They feed on the fear of the public in order to get more votes. While legislators are focused on re-election, troubled adolescents and disturbed individuals pay the price. Mandatory minimum sentencing for certain offenses can make a two-year probation sentence into 25 years of hard time.

Society needs defense attorneys to fight for the little guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time or the confused person who is able to be rehabilitated.

Prison is not the place for many criminals.

Instead of punishing them, rehabilitate.

The current system is not working so America needs to try something new.

Defense attorneys recognize this and they fight to protect the accused while trying to change the system.

Granted, there are purely deranged individuals in this world. Defense attorneys have to represent these people too. But it is necessary to represent evil while trying to help those being taken advantage of and in despair. As Sir William Blackstone said “better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”

Student Association to UWM Administrators

By UWM Student Association Special to the Post editorial@uwmpost.com

UWM Administrators: The UWM Student Association was ecstatic in recently announcing to you that we received approval from the Government Accountability Board (GAB) allowing the department of enrollment services to print proof of enrollment stickers and affix them to the back of the newly created UWM Voter ID cards (see example above).

We are puzzled and saddened that you have not pursued our GAB-approved idea.

We are also shocked and appalled that sources within the UW System have gone so far as to say that students who forget to print their PAWS enrollment document themselves each Election Day are “lazy” and that our current system “costs next to nothing, and is good enough.” Do you all truly believe that the students are only worthy of a voting system that is simply “good enough” when their rights are openly under attack?

The Student Association thinks that we deserve better. Without this proof of enrollment, students will be denied the right to vote on Election Day. Failing to pursue our innovation, then, is nothing short of a denial of the fundamental rights of students.

The fears that the Student Association have about the current system are twofold.

First, a certain percentage of students will simply forget to print this PAWS enrollment document out on Election Day and be refused the right to vote on a yearly basis.

This is not something that administrators should ignore or blame the students for.

Students are not lazy; they have simply been targeted by the state legislature.

Second, another percentage of students will be so confused by the enrollment stipulation that they will be discouraged from voting in Milwaukee at all. We have

seen this first-hand at other institutions.

Students deserve better, and the Student Association has proposed a Voter ID system that is better.

UWM Administrators, the Student Association is not asking you to do the impossible. We have presented a superior system that is feasible. We have proven to you that it is on solid legal ground (it is only stickers to add issuance, expiration and signature onto current four-year IDs that are taboo). We have even offered you $5,000 from our own budget for implementation.

At this point, all we can do is plead with you to reconsider.

Lastly, whose side are you on, Department of Enrollment Services? Are you on the side of the students or the side of state legislators who have created numerous obstacles for us at the polls?

Read 2011 Wisconsin Act 23 for yourselves: One can use their special UWM Voter ID card “if the individual establishes that he or she is enrolled as a student at the university or college on the date that the card is presented.”

Doesn’t this almost explicitly require a high standard from you, Department of Enrollment Services?

Your current system is admittedly good enough, but “good enough” is simply not good enough when the new Voter ID law is specifically designed to disenfranchise students. We expected so, so much more from you. Students deserve better, and the Student Association has proposed a Voter ID system that is better.

Our system is legal. Our system is feasible. We have offered thousands of dollars. We have offered volunteers from the Student Voting Rights Committee to help implement this process free of charge.

Please think this over and reconsider our system, UWM Administrators. Stand with us, not against us.

UWM Student Association

Winning in Winterim Teaching a class in three weeks proved challenging but rewarding

By Krislyn World

Special to the Post editorial@uwmpost.com

Teaching Winterim 2012 was one of the best decisions I’ve made in life. The

experience was rewarding and beneficial for both my students and me. I taught beginning level African dance as a Senior Lecturer/Adjunct faculty member of the dance department in Peck School of the Arts.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Fill in the squares so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 exactly once.

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DOWN 1 Flower parts 2 Picturesque 3 62-Across dispenser 4 Fee 5 Enhance (2 wds.)

6 Playground toy 7 Hold (on) 8 Otherwise 9 “Leave as is” 10 Greek Muse of poetry 11 Notably polished in manner 12 Overwhelm 13 Wee one 21 Fire remnant 22 Frozen steam 26 Expression of surprise 28 Junkie 30 Wrestler Hulk 31 Lennon’s mate 32 Went away 35 Register

37 Layer 38 Fundraiser giveaways 39 Performs better than, maybe 40 Keanu character 41 Be part of the gang (2 wds.)

42 Craggy hill 46 Hole punching tool 47 Facial hair style 49 Cameron flick 50 Annoying person 51 Pirate nickname, maybe 53 Change 55 Beverages in Bonn 58 Bark in pain 59 Advertising award 60 Wallops 61 Castrate 62 Old French coin solution found on page 4

solution found on page 4

ANAGRAM CRACKERS INSTRUCTIONS: Unscramble the letters below to spell out everyday English words. When you’re finished, unscramble the circled letters to find the missing word from the quip!

VHANE FLONE

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CONUE KREAM

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RORTER LATMEL

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PAREME COLEAS

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Q: What relationship advice did the diner chef give to the waiter?

A: “Don’t let your ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___” solution found on page 4

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IN-WORD Find as many words as possible using only the letters from this week’s IN-WORD. Words must be four or more letters long. Slang words, proper nouns, and contractions are not permitted. Only one form of a verb is permitted. Words that become four or more letters by the addition of “s” are not permitted.

SOCIALS

Can you find 17 or more words in “SOCIALS?” Our list can be found on page 4.

solution found on page 4

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