UWM Post 2-7-2011

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UWM campus fills out with former hospital

By Mike La Count News Editor new@uwmpost.com

Members of the UW-Milwaukee community filed into the former Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital to tour UWM’s newest addition to its Kenwood campus on Friday, Feb. 4.

From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. the former CSM hospital held an open house to allow anyone interested to take a walk inside the 11 acre acquisition.

On Dec. 28 the hospital group handed the keys over to UWM following the purchase agreement last fall. The cost to the university was $20.2 million. The price for the facility has been considered a bargain. In addition to the large addition in classroom and office space the seven-build-

ing complex includes 962 parking spaces.

The savings will be short lived, however, as a large amount of remodeling must be done to convert the medical center into academic infrastructure.

The open house began with brief remarks from Interim Chancellor Mike Lovell. As members of faculty and staff signed up for tours and sampled the buffet Lovell discussed the next phase for turning the 92 year-old hospital in to UWM’s Northwest Quadrant (NWQ).

Lovell said, “This is really a work in progress; they are still patching holes and putting on coats of paint.” “But, we really are going to be moving into this facility in short order. I think

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Traces of medical equipment remain in what will someday be offices for UWM faculty and staff. Post photo by Sierra Riesberg

UWM Restaurant Operations to participate in composting program

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“Four Dollars, All Day” reads the hanging banner in the Union regarding the Columbia St. Mary’s parking structure, which has been open since the spring semester began. The lot opened as a result of UW-Milwaukee’s recent acquisition of the CSM building and in anticipation of the expiration of UWM’s lease with Milwaukee County for the Lakefront UPARK lots.

The Lakefront lots, com-

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prised of Veterans and McKinley parks on Lake Michigan, have about 700 spots and are currently rented from the county for use in the UPARK System.

This lease is largely paid for by student segregated fees, and as such, the lot remained fee free for students to use.

The Student Association has been working with university administration and county officials since last fall to find a better alternative for the displaced students, says SA President

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UW-Milwaukee Restaurant Operations will take part in a composting program after an agreement for collection and pickup was brokered by the student group Act Everywhere.

Under the new agreement organic waste will be collected from all campus cafeterias and Grind locations. The deal was announced Tuesday morning near the Grind in the Golda Meir Library.

“We’re happy to announce all five Grind units working together to compost grounds, as well as all cafeteria and residence halls,” said UWM Restaurant Operations Manager Chad Boppel.

The materials will be collected three times a week by Growing Power, a non-profit urban farm located in the Thurston Woods neighborhood on Milwaukee’s north side.

There the waste will be converted into fertilizer and used to grow organic produce.

The announcement marks

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the successful conclusion of a campaign first launched last fall by Act Everywhere, a student group focused on environmental sustainability education and action on campus.

The group first raised awareness of the issue by conducting a photo petition in which hundreds of students were photographed holding signs in support of campus composting.

In an editorial appearing in the Nov. 8 issue of the Post, Act Everywhere member Chelsey Libecki-Duszynski stressed the need for a composting program. She wrote, “For now, the grinds are simply tossed in the trash – pounds and pounds of grounds that could be going to local organizations, like Growing Power, to be used for composting.”

Their efforts received a big boost two days later, when UWM chef Brian Vetter publicly agreed to work with Growing Power in front of a sold-out speaking event hosted by Michael Pollan, author of several influential sustainable eating and nutrition books.

While the deal represents

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significant progress for Act Everywhere, the group has yet to realize all the goals of the campaign. Their next aim is to install food waste bins throughout the student union, which will be included with food waste collected by Restaurant Operations. For that to happen, the Student Association will have to approve the purchase of special receptacles.

On Tuesday, Brett Johnson, assistant legislative liaison for SA, expressed optimism for the passage of the Union proposal.

“SA wishes to thank Act Everywhere for its persistence and involvement in bringing composting to campus,” he said. “The hard work of its members and the organization’s willingness to work with administration have resulted in composting coming to the Grinds on campus and continued efforts will soon bring composting to the union.”

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Milwaukee County is estimating the cleanup cost of last week’s blizzard was around $2.8 million. The city has figured this year’s snow removal cost to be at $3.9 million. Cleanup for the storm began on Tuesday when a snow emergency was declared that lasted until noon on Friday. Parking rules have returned to normal but not before 464 cars were towed. By Friday afternoon 230 were towed for obstruction and 90 percent of the snow removal had been complete. Residents and business owners continue to shovel off sidewalks to avoid a $25 fine.

Last week Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill to give companies a tax deduction of between $92 to $316 for each new job they create. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has estimated the bill will cost the state $67 million over the next two years. Currently the state is projected to be running on a $3.9 million deficit. Walker’s administration has not said how they will make up for the lost revenue. In January Walker signed two other bills that issue tax cuts to businesses who relocate to Wisconsin. One bill eliminated the income tax on contributions to health savings accounts. The combined cost of the two bills is $50 million. Walker says the bills are just one step in his plan to show businesses his commitment to helping fix the economy.

Irishman teaches the French Lewis Alexander Mawhinney, a 26-year-old man from North Ireland, turned up as a teacher in a French secondary school after escaping a psychiatric ward. Mawhinney was labeled a “dangerous schizophrenic” and indefinitely assigned to the ward after stabbing a fellow trainee at a call center in the neck. The man ended up in the small southeastern city of Dignes, France and got a job as a German teacher. A spokeswoman for the school said Mawhinney was hired because of his high qualifications and positive interview. School officials were first alerted about Mawhinney by his incoherent ramblings. When questioned, he was under the impression he worked for a British Intelligence Agency and sometimes wore gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints. After being identified Mawhinney was taken to a hospital in the region. His students, however, had no complaints.

Top Gear grinds Mexico The BBC apologized to the Mexican Ambassador to the UK after the hosts of the channel’s “Top Gear” added racial remarks to their review of a Mexican sports car. Cohost Richard Hammond asked, “Why would anybody buy a Mexican car? Cars reflect national characteristics don’t they?” said Hammond. “Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.” The show’s executive producer wrote an apology to the ambassador who was infuriated by the “offensive and xenophobic” remarks. The BBC did defend the use of stereotypes as being a part of British humour.

Events Monday, Feb. 7

Friday, Feb. 11

Climb aboard the mystery bus for a new experience. From 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., the Adventure Center will give students a free ride to an undisclosed location where they will see something new in Milwaukee.

The Adventure Center will be taking a trip to Sunburst Hill where students can ski ($25) or snowboard ($40) from 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Snowboards are available on a first-come firstserve basis.

Thursday, Feb. 10

The former Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital will be holding an open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to showcase UWM’s newest addition.

Diane Ravitch, former Clinton and Bush Assistant Secretary of Education and critic of testing programs such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, will be giving the keynote address in Thursday’s Urban Forum at 6:30 p.m. in the Union Wisconsin Room.

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that later on this spring we are going to be starting some of the transitional foot space we need for our campus as we redo several buildings.”

The first occupants of the NWQ will likely be those displaced from Bolton Hall, which is set to begin renovations this year. Already in use is parking garage and surface parking lots. The garage, which opened at the beginning of the semester, is already being used by hundreds of students, according to Lovell.

As to the permanent usage of the building, much still needs to be determined. However, the UWM Children’s Center will be one of NWQ’s permanent residents as the current center located at Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue is slated to become part of the Kenwood Innovative Research Complex.

The university has put together the Northwest Quadrant Implementation Committee to determine the best use for the new space. The committee is made up of faculty, staff and students and chaired by LeRoy Stoner, the head of UWM’s theater department.

“I think we are going to be building on this space for probably the next ten years,” said Lovell.

Lovell gave those present an opportunity to ask questions, which was taken advantage of by

Jackleen Salem, winner of the 2010-11 Chancellor’s Golda Meir Library Award, will discuss her research on Muslim immigration in America from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. in room E281 in the Golda Meir Library.

one man who asked about funding for renovation. Lovell responded the campus does have some funds to use but there are plans to request money from the state. Though he is adamant about being tight fisted with Wisconsin’s cash, Lovell believes the Walker administration will support renovations.

“The new [Walker] administration has said that they are not going to put up money for new buildings, but to maintain and upgrading existing buildings is something that they will consider funding,” said Lovell.

The tour sign-up sheets quickly filled, as many of those in attendance were eager to see what exactly was included in UWM’s 820,000square-foot acquisition. From the radiology department to the morgue, the gutted hospital’s best attribute is its potential. The future of areas such as operating rooms, laboratories and the cafeteria may still be buried deep within imagination but certain space, such as patient rooms, appear easily adaptable for faculty and staff.

“This is a great opportunity to look around and maybe pick out a new office,” Lovell jokingly added.

Whatever its use may be, the Northwest Quadrant adds to UWM a significant amount of breathing room, increasing the area of the main campus by 20 percent. This will likely cause UWM’s campus to lose its current ranking as the second-densest in the country behind Georgetown University.

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Wikileaks spills Where are they over to UWM now?: Bella’s Fat Cat Symposium discusses website’s political, social transformations

By Steve Garrison Special to the Post news@uwmpost.com

Wikileaks was the topic of discussion in Curtin Hall Friday afternoon as several notable professors met for a symposium titled “Minding the Gaps: Wikileaks & Internet Security in the 21st Century.”

Sponsored by The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21), the symposium presented three separate lectures discussing the political, legal, and medial transformations that Wikileaks has forced into public spotlight.

Moderator Michael Zimmer said, “We are going to bring together three different perspectives that may not be part of the typical dialogue around Wikileaks. I think it is important perspectives that we need to address and put together.”

Wikileaks was launched in 2006 to provide “an innovative, secure and anonymous way for independent sources around the world to leak information to our journalists.”

The website has grabbed headlines recently because of their role in acquiring and subsequently releasing the first 220 of 251,287 leaked U.S. diplomatic cables dating from Dec. 28, 1966 to Feb. 28, 2010.

Kate Kramer, deputy director of C21, said that she had been discussing information and security with a coworker, and when a lecture was cancelled on short notice, it became an opportunity to open the discussion to the student body.

The symposium drew a diverse audience of students, staff,

and community members, with an estimated 50 people filling the lecture hall. Richard Grusin, professor of English and director of C21, required students in his English 820 class to attend the symposium.

Student Mark Heimermann, was happy to oblige. “It is nice to be able to come and hear experts in different areas talking about things that you would not have a chance to hear about otherwise, so … I enjoy coming to them for that reason.”

The lecture opened with a discussion by Professor Sandra Braman, professor of communications at UWM, titled “The Wikileaks Moment: Transformations in Law-StateSociety relations.”

Professor Braman discussed the way in which Wikileaks both changes and is changed by law, state, and society.

The lecture was a favorite among several attendees, including UWM students Joe Ford and Bethany Blount.

Ford said, “The first speaker was going over how this is affecting relationships between the society and the state. I thought her presentation was really interesting.”

Blount said the trouble Wikileaks founder Julian Assange found himself in was interesting to her. Bremen spent considerable time on the issue.

She said, “There is so much controversy between everything, but he has not actually been prosecuted for everything, and they may not actually prosecute him for something, because of the extradition policies

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Cheese & Sausage Shoppe takes the helm

Former Bellas, corner of Oakland and Linnwood.

Post photo by Sierra Riesberg

By Kevin Kaber Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com

It’s Friday night. You find yourself intoxicated and therefore believe you’re hungry.

You stroll around Locust Street and Oakland Avenue in search of the perfect burger fix. Five Guys closed at 10 p.m. and you don’t want to be the guy not ordering a gyro at OGs. Not to mention you’re still sober enough to make a conscious decision against the ever-inviting George Webb. Then it hits you: Bella’s Fat Cat. Unfortunately for you, Bella’s – a greasy favorite stop for those not out until bar close – has closed its doors, so it seems, for good.

Many have been questioning the closing of Oakland and Linwood Avenue’s Bella’s. But more recently, many have been questioning the location’s new business.

This winter, a sign at the former Fat Cat site appeared

out of nowhere. It reads: “West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe, Café and Deli.”

The West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe is a locally owned and operated store with two locations already in business. One is its original West Allis site and the other is a newer operation located within the Milwaukee Public Market.

The store has been awarded best cheese in Milwaukee three years in a row by WISN Channel 12.

Howard Lutz, co-owner of West Allis Cheese & Sausage, says that in addition to the already cherished cheeses and sausages offered, the newest Oakland and Linwood site will have a full-fledged café.

Sandwiches, soups and frozen custard sundaes will be available along with other snacks, including Wisconsin’s delicacy: fried cheese curds.

The café will also serve a selection of coffees, beers and wines. Wireless Internet will

be available at the indoor and outdoor seating areas.

Lutz’s brother and West Allis Shoppe co-owner, Mark Lutz, is shooting for a midMarch opening. Hours have not yet been decided.

So why did Bella’s close?

Howard Lutz had no comment when asked. However, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported back in September that Bella’s Fat Cat owners Michael and Kim Schmidt lost their operating license in July. The Custard Calendar at BellasFatCat.net confirms this; Mocha Chip was the last special flavor, dated June 30.

In addition, they were forced to evict the Oakland store due to unpaid state taxes and they lost a $71,000 lawsuit over an unpaid loan.

With a large following, West Allis Cheese & Sausage is sure to continue its tradition on Oakland and Linwood at the former Bella’s location and cater to the youthful population in the area.

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Horsemen of the Civil Rights ride on Freedom Riders on display in Golda Meir

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Running from Jan. 24 to Feb. 21, the Freedom Riders exhibit in the Golda Meir Library showcases some of the most ambitious actions of the Civil Rights movement of the ’60s.

Robert Smith, an author and professor of history at UWM, spearheaded the panel presenting the Freedom Riders. Those on the panel included Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Russell W. Stamper; Patricia Parker, outreach specialist in the UWM Department of History; and Tyrone Dumas, Milwaukee Public Schools community engagement project coordinator.

All gave their own perspective and unique experiences with the Civil Rights Movement nationwide and in Milwaukee.

Stamper expressed that decades of Jim Crow laws imposed on African-Americans still cover the community with a sense of inferiority. He said, “African-Americans came [to the U.S.] no fifths of a person; we came here property,” but acknowledged that the country as a whole has made strident progress, as AfricanAmericans have gone “from property to President.”

When pressed on their own personal experiences with racial relations in the early ’60s, the panelists had much to reveal. Parker espoused that segregation was not only rampant in the South, but also in Milwaukee. She took the same bus as white children, but was not allowed to use the same restroom as they were. When white children were on the playground, she was barred from the area.

When Dumas went to Arkansas as a child he had no idea of the prevalent racial segregation and never un-

derstood it. After his cousin was killed in a bombing at a church, however, he became extremely aware of the severity of racial tensions. He said he was shocked to find that black history was not taught at MPS. Stamper also addressed the Fugitive Slave Clause, stating that it constantly protected slavery as well as being a social engineering practice against the Supreme Court of the United States. As property has no rights, the slaves were completely prevented from having any say whatsoever in how they were treated, from economics to judicial decisions.

Dumas said he recognized that there was always a code of authority among segregated communities, from teachers, to thieves, to thugs. Everyone knew each other, and that brought the community to have more of a sense of family.

He recalled one instance where bottles and other objects were thrown at him on the corner of 35th Street and Lisbon Avenue.

He also told how he was assaulted and beaten by officers of the Milwaukee Police Department in 1967.

For Parker, the places that people often felt safest were churches. She said because churches are the most segregated, people felt safe expressing themselves both religiously and personally. Churches were a gathering ground for people.

They were safe and private.

It was the Civil Rights Movement that paved the way for many others to follow, according to Parker. Dumas noted the seriousness of the era of the movement, saying, “Those who studied Apartheid studied American history.”

The Freedom Riders exhibit is currently open to the public and will run until Feb. 21.

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“The real goal here is to find a place to let students park who had once parked at the Lakefront, who will … be unable to park there next semester,” Romero-Boeck said.

In December, the SA met with UWM administrators and County Parks Director Sue Black to discuss the option of renewing the lease, which the county ultimately decided against.

“It was never the intention to have long-term parking at the Lakefront,” Black said.

According to Romero-Boeck, the issue may not end there.

“SA has been in contact with the county … From what I understand, Sue Black doesn’t even have the authority to say no [to the renewal of the lease], the county executive doesn’t even have the authority to say no, ultimately it would come down to the county board … that discussion is not closed yet.”

Romero-Boeck says his first

option would be to renew the lease on the Lakefront property, but if that were unavailable his second preference would be “to find a lot on campus, that through the segregated fees that were once going to the UPARK lot we could allow students to park fee-free. Whether that be in the Klotsche pavilion or whether that be in Columbia St. Mary’s, I’m not sure.”

The SA has also discussed the issue with the chancellor, who has the final say in any decision made. According to Romero-Boeck, the university is hiring an outside parking firm to do an analysis of the parking on campus and provide more input on the decision making process.

When asked when a final decision could be expected, Romero-Boeck replied, “Ultimately, we’re going to work until when we need, as late as possible, to find the best possible option and the option that makes the most sense mathematically and for the students … It’s not a rush and we’ll take the time that we need.”

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The second lecture in the symposium, titled “Wikileaks and Mediality,” was delivered

by Professor Robert Grusin. He discussed the medial effects Wikileaks has had in releasing visual and textual information related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Bethany Smiltneek, a junior at UWM, said, “I think it is interesting what the last presenter [Grusin] was saying, that this is the way that things are moving … that it is kind of inevitable, and there is really going to be nothing you can do about it.”

The final lecture was delivered by Laura DeNardis, execu-

Bright colors and silhouettes in Alwin Nikolais’s “Winter Studies,” one of the shows in the Peck School of the Arts “Winterdances.” Post photos by Sierra Riesberg.

tive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She discussed the technological and ethical impacts of denial-of-service attacks like those conducted by Wikileaks supporters and their growing prevalence in digital political protests.

Following DeNardis’ lecture, the floor was opened to attendees for questions.

In her lecture, Braman clearly illustrated the need for the open discussion of the issue of Internet security in the 21st century.

“In a way, this is a kind of exquisite moment in a tension between different kinds of political power that has been growing over several decades with the Internet and with other new technologies.”

Students attend an lecture on Friday to hear about the global impact of Wikileaks. Post photo by Sierra Riesberg

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Hill dominates in win over Green Bay Panthers riding four game win streak

By Jeremy Lubus Sports Editor Sports@uwmpost.com

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Tucker, free throws lead way over Cleveland State

Holding a nine-point lead with six minutes remaining, senior Tone Boyle missed a three-pointer and fellow senior Tony Meier hauled down the offensive rebound. The Panther drained the shot clock and with only two seconds left on the shot clock Meier knocked down a three-pointer.

The play all but summed up the second half of the heated in-state rivalry with Green Bay as Milwaukee rolled 88-75 Saturday afternoon at the U.S Cellular Arena.

“We needed that shot,” said Milwaukee coach Rob Jeter. “They would cut the lead to about eight or nine and we always had an answer.

Tonight, Tone and Meier had an answer.”

Senior Anthony Hill established early for the Panthers that they wanted to own everything inside. Despite being swarmed by 7-foot-1-inch cen-

ter Alec Brown, Hill still poured in a game-high 29 points. The Panthers scored 24 points in the paint, almost all coming from Hill.

“Anthony Hill was a monster all game,” said Green Bay coach Brian Wardle. “I’m looking forward to him being out of the league next year. The way he played really exposed us all day.”

Milwaukee (8-5, 13-11) erupted to start the second half. Hill opened by scoring in the paint and was quickly followed by a trio of three pointers by Ja’Rob McCallum, Boyle and then Kyle Kelm.

Sandwiched between the three pointers was a pair of free throws by Green Bay guard Rahmon Fletcher.

When it was done, Milwaukee had built a 16-point lead at 44-28.

Milwaukee struggled in their previous games from beyond the arc making just 18 of their last 80 attempts. On Saturday, Milwaukee made 11 three pointers.

Green Bay (6-6, 12-12) would not go away easy. Sparked by Bryquis Perine’s 16 second half points, the Phoenix made UW-Milwaukee work for everything until the final buzzer sounded.

Hill also dominated on the glass hauling down a new career-high 15 rebounds.

“Going up against a sevenfooter is nothing new for me,” said Hill. “I go up against one every day in practice with Mitchell Carter.”

Boyle started out slow but finished strong with 16 points and McCallum added 15 points as well for Milwaukee, who won all three games on their home stand. UWM has beaten Green Bay 11 of their last 13 visits to Milwaukee.

Milwaukee faced Green Bay winners of their last three games and are climbing towards the top of the Horizon League Conference. They now sit in fourth place. They travel to Loyola and UIC later this week.

Panthers convert 25-30 from free throw line

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Tensions were riding high when Cleveland State came to the Klotsche Center Saturday afternoon. Trailing by double digits in the second half, the UW-Milwaukee Women’s team clawed their way back and made it a one-point game.

Junior Courtney Lindfors drew a foul on Vikings Shawnita Garland. Upset with the foul, Garland was hit with a technical foul and as a result was done for the game, as the technical foul counted as her fifth personal foul. Senior Lindsay Laur drained both free throws and Lindfors added another free throw as Milwaukee came from behind to win 73-64.

Cleveland State (5-6, 12-9) built a 10-point advantage after Honesty King scored on a layup to make it 34-24. However, the Panthers would respond with an 8-2 rally to end the first half.

Anne Breland knocked down a three pointer and layup and Sami Tucker drained a threepointer of her own to cut the deficit to only four heading into halftime.

Tucker finished with a dou-

ble-double scoring 18 points and hauling down 12 rebounds while logging a team-high 36 minutes on the floor.

Milwaukee-native Janelle Adams had a team-high 16 points and added three steals along with six rebounds for Cleveland State.

Tied at 62-62 with a little over three minutes to play, the Panthers made an effort to get to the free-throw line. As a team, the Panthers finished out the game 9-12 from the line to hold off any comeback. Laur’s threepointer with 1:37 left to play gave Milwaukee a five-point lead at 69-64 and turned out to be the final basket made for the Panthers, who would never trail after that point.

The Vikings struggled down the stretch in large part of the Milwaukee defense. The Panthers (6-5, 9-13) forced two turnovers and allowed just one field goal in the last three minutes. They are now winners of three of their last four games.

Laur poured in a team-high 21 points and was perfect from the free-throw line on eight attempts. The Panthers travel to Illinois next to play both Loyola and UIC.

Hill scores two of his game-high 29 points Saturday afternoon.

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Filling the Prince’s throne Signing Weeks more important

By John Linn Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com

The Milwaukee Brewers are faced with an interesting problem going into the 2011 season. They are almost assured that slugging first base-

man, Prince Fielder, will be leaving via free agency at the end of the season. Many people see this as a crippling loss for the Brewers.

But is signing Fielder truly a necessity? In reality, it may not be as important as it appears. Would it be nice to

keep Fielder? Of course. But is it imperative to making, and then keeping, the team as a winning franchise? No. The idea of money comes into play. The Brewers have spent a large amount of money in recent years, signing players like Corey Hart, Ryan Braun, and pitcher Yovani Gallardo to long-term contracts.

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Redd could spark Bucks Sharp shooter expected to return this month

By Kris Gilson Staff Writer Sports@uwmpost.com

The Bucks are sputtering along at this point, kind of like your uncle’s old pickup truck – he’ll tell you there’s still potential in the thing, but you know for a fact that it’s just about ready to go to vehicle heaven. It could die tomorrow or it could be a few months or years from now, who knows. It seems like your uncle is the only optimist at this point, but he has to know that the end is near.

This year’s Milwaukee Bucks are the same way. Injury after injury, poor shooting night after poor shooting night, it’s probably only a matter of time before they become an afterthought and die a lonely death, especially since the Brewers report to Arizona for spring training soon.

So before you move into baseball mode, think about this question – could Michael Redd, the man of many knee surgeries, help this team in any way down the stretch and bring the Bucks back into the play-offs?

The answer may not be as ri-

diculous as you think. Redd has been out since last January after blowing out his left knee for the second time. He spent most of the time trying to get back into game shape in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Some could see this as a minor miracle, considering there were questions about whether the injury could end his entire basketball career.

This is a guy who is making over $18 million this season to stay at home and rehab his knee.

There are only four players in the NBA that are getting paid more than Redd, but you can’t hold that against him. When healthy, he’s one of the league’s premier shooters that can open up the floor for his teammates.

The plan was for Redd to return to the team this month, but there are no guarantees. Even with the return of Carlos Delfino, who was supposed to spread the defense and allow guys like Andrew Bogut and Drew Gooden to operate inside, the team is still struggling to make a jump shot and score points consistently. Part of that has to do with the incredible amount of injuries to people not named Delfino or

Redd (the team still hasn’t had a full complement of players at a practice this season), but it’s hard to imagine Redd not being able to hit a three pointer or two per game if he gets back into game shape.

With that said, maybe last season’s playoff appearance was a fluke. Maybe the whole “Fear the Deer” thing was just to distract us from the train wreck known as the 2010 Milwaukee Brewers.

All I know is that this team is too good to be around 10 games under .500. I know I’m grasping at straws at this point, but I’ll take anyone right now who can make a shot. Could Redd be that guy? Sure. Could he end up hurting his knee again after five minutes in his first game back?

Of course.

Basically, there’s no reason not to give Redd a chance to play again for the Bucks. The team may well be out of the playoff hunt by the time he could play again, but there’s no harm in seeing what he still has left in the tank. Maybe if we’re lucky, he’d be like a shiny new Cadillac rather than your uncle’s old pickup truck.

Rick Barnes’ winning philosophy

By Shawn Kumar Staff Writer Sports@uwmpost.com

In March of last year, Texas basketball head coach Rick Barnes made a very peculiar comment that caused mass outrage in the Longhorn nation. Many websites and blogs opened up with “Fire Barnes!” as the main topic. None of those same people are talking now.

Barnes said, “We would love to win a national championship, but we’re not obsessed with it because we’re obsessed with these guys trying to live their NBA dream. What’s happened to Kevin Durant, LaMarcus Aldridge, T.J. Ford – I’d give up a national title for all our guys to be able to live their dream.”

At the time, fans were shocked that Barnes seemed not to care that winning a national title was not the number one priority. People wanted him out of the program right away

and replaced with a “win now” mentality coach. They seemed to have forgotten that Barnes has taken the team to 11 NCAA tournaments, five Sweet 16 appearances, two Elite 8 and one Final Four.

But it appears that Barnes’ unconventional philosophy has proved extremely beneficial to the program. The Longhorns are currently on-pace for a number one seed in the NCAA tournament and their best chance to win a national title.

How did this happen?

What fans sometimes fail to understand is that what they want and hope for is not what players want and hope for.

Fans want their teams to win and have success so they can have their undeserved sense of accomplishment and bragging rights with their friends.

Players want a shot at fame and fortune by playing at the next level, in this case the NBA. Winning a collegiate championship, frankly, is just a bonus and not their top priority.

This is the reason that Barnes’ comments last year have proved as a major recruiting tool. It also showed that Barnes clearly knew what he was saying and that his words were calculated. A player trying to decide where to spend his college career wants to find the place that can make him the best prepared he can be for the NBA. If there is a coach out there who wants to make developing future NBA players his top priority instead of trying to win a championship, or if it’s a priority to make them great young role models like other coaches, it becomes pretty simple to make a decision.

In the process, Texas in currently ranked No. 3 in the country and poised for a great championship run. Sometimes, the unconventional approach is the best method for success, and it’s just a matter of time before the “Extend Barnes’ contract!” blogs and web sites start to appear.

Marcum, the Brewers gave up their top second-base prospect, Brett Lawrie. This would then compel the Brewers to resign second baseman Rickie Weeks.

Weeks is coming off a career year and has shown the potential that led to him being a first-round draft pick. Weeks would appear to be higher on the list of necessary players to sign because of the lack of depth at second. Weeks also would be harder to replace with his mix of blazing speed and homerun-hitting power.

It would be smarter, then, for the Brewers to put their money into bringing Weeks in long term rather than trying to rope Fielder back in.

Also, as most baseball fans know, slugging first basemen aren’t exactly rare commodities. However, a powerful and fast second baseman is not something that every team has. You may get power but not speed, or vice versa.

Weeks can be a player to build around, like Braun or Gallardo. Fielder is of course a winning component, but there are players even in the Brewers system who can play first, like Mat Gamel, or they could move Corey Hart to first and have Mat Gamel play the outfield. Those are just possibilities, of course.

Prince Fielder is clearly a fan favorite in Milwaukee.

He is important to the team, at least for this season. He will be a major player on a rebuilt team with high expectations and plenty of talent.

However, after this season, wasting money on a player that could be replaced is not as important as it may seem.

Fielder is important, yes, and he won’t be easily replaced or quickly forgotten. But there are plenty of other options and other people to spend the money on.

February 7, 2011

Best Coast and Wavves: Concert preview

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It’s been awhile since any good, big-name music performers came to Milwaukee. Granted, Wu-Tang Clang made an appearance, and the Decemberists performed over the weekend, but overwhelmingly, music fans are left disappointed with the local venues’ upcoming shows.

Enter Best Coast and Wavves, playing at Turner Hall Ballroom this Friday along with opener No Joy. Even just one of these headlining bands playing alone would be high-profile enough to dig Milwaukee out of the musical rut it has been in lately, but surely no one will complain that we’re getting to see both!

The two bands’ histories are very intertwined.

If you’ve heard of one, you’ve probably heard of the other; if you like one, you probably like the other. In fact, the indie icons Nathan Williams of Wavves and Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast have been dating since their teenage years.

Possibly because of this, their musical styles play off of each other as well as their Internet presences.

Both bands’ Californian roots work their way into the lyrics as well as the sound. Wavves’ sophomore album, King of the Beach, is comprised of lo-fi, fuzzy harmonies that transport the listener to the beach. Guitar riffs that sound like a hazier Blink-182 also carry the album, especially in songs “Linus Spacehead” and “Idiot.”

Best Coast is probably best known for her summer-day-sounding singles and carefree lyrics. Front woman Cosentino loves to rhyme words like “lazy” and “crazy” – a bit predictable – but she’s obviously doing something right. Her album Crazy for You has met vastly positive reviews.

Perhaps eclipsing her fame is her cat, Snacks, who is pictured on Best Coast’s album art as well as on Wavves’ King of the Beach. Snacks rides the cat meme by updating his Twitter with pictures and coming up in interviews with Cosentino on a regular basis.

The joint tour bringing the two bands and opener No Joy across the country has sold out in several cities. Since both Best Coast and Wavves have solid followings and devout fans, the show promises to be entertaining. What’s more, we could all use a little California in the depths of winter.

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The Decemberists played a fine show Saturday evening.

A newcomer to the scene may have only considered it so, and contently shrugged off the experience as just fine, nothing more, and nothing less.

The Portland-based group played an exceptional set, but the delicate intricacies that attract their loyal devotees don’t necessarily shine directly from their polished musicianship or an overenthusiastic performance. Rather, the appeal to the stolid and amiable musicians comes from a source threaded deeper within the music, developed over time like a brass patina.

As an old sailor in a tavern of likeable character, yet lost in woeful tales, front-man Colin Meloy is a relentless storyteller. With a keen ear and an eager desire to listen one may be pleasantly, or often unpleasantly, surprised with the rich anecdotes from the skillfully poetic raconteurs.

Shaping their craft for just over a decade, the roaming folk-pop narrators have perfected a sound like no other, lush with melodies and enhanced by the ever-present Hammond organ manned by Jenny Conlee, whose common addition of the squeezebox layers complexity to their often maritime-like tune.

Their sounds carried in nicely to the Riverside as if it were perched on an onshore sea

breeze and deriving from the great ships of Lake Michigan as the band opened with the rather somber-toned “Leslie Anne Levine” off of their 2002 debut Castaways and Cutouts.

And it was certainly welcomed with open arms as the crowd zeroed in their concentration through a set that comfortably passed the time through the February evening.

Lulled by the bright springtime hues echoing from the instruments of some songs like “Calamity Song” of their latest, The King is Dead, or “Yankee Bayonet (I’ll be home then),” one might not suspect the darker nature of the diversely loaded quiver of stories they tell, some dealing depressing blows to their upbeat sound.

But even so, many others are so poetically and smartly saturated with wit and quick-humor that it’s easy to let yourself become pleasantly attuned to such veiled cryptic tales.

The Decemberists carried on with a playful stage presence, often with seemingly theatrical revues, keeping their listeners smiling contently while paging through strange accounts of lovelorn spies in “The Bagman’s Gambit,” twisted and humorous warnings of “The Cautionary Song,” or the disturbing narrations of “The Rake’s Song” (in which by act of sheer folly, a man sought to supplement happiness and escape through marriage and family later kills his three children).

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A wolf in a sheep’s clothing Peter Wolf Crier pleasantly pleases

By Graham Marlowe Staff Writer fringe@uwm.edu

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It’s hard to enjoy live performances sometimes – of any kind – completely sober and all by yourself. But Friday night was an interesting circumstance.

Peter Wolf Crier, aka Pete Pisano (guitar/vocals) and Brian Moen (percussion), evoke a special kind of homely, Twin Cities melancholy in their work – one seemingly reserved for Shank Hall’s edgeof-downtown Friday night mood lighting.

The group’s debut, Inter-Be, ranks high on the radar for indie-rock connoisseurs these days, but huddled around the duo’s sarcastic warmth with forty others made it easy to forget about frostbitten fingers, as well as the mythos of Jagjaguwar – their prominent Midwestern label whose popularity rests primarily in the endless hype surrounding Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and his numerous projects.

Unlike so many others who’ve simply cashed in on the poppiness of the scene, (primarily blues-rock duos like The Black Keys and Harlem), the 11 songs of Inter-Be have a peculiar homespun quality that strips them of their innards, reassembles them, and

tosses them by the wayside.

What remains in the live setting? Well, everything, along with a few surprises.

Artistically, Pisano and Moen are strong imagists, though they certainly don’t work to uphold an image themselves. For the pair onstage, it was a slow night; but for anyone in the audience, standing attentively next to the stage or seated calmly in the back row, it was anything but.

“Crutch & Cane,” “Down Down Down,” and the oddly chorus-less “Hard As Nails” (a real feat in today’s culture) are what people generally find in their attics: pained and ghostly ruminations of lost innocence that slap you in the face when you least expect it. “A clergy of empty cars / cold night / silent priest / Clearing cracks / walking tall / promise you the moon and stars,” he moans in the last of the three.

There may be threat in Pisano’s voice, but there’s also reassurance. Between songs, Pisano – along with Moen, whose well-timed outbursts won laughs of their own – discussed the illusory hospitality of alcohol, citing that perhaps this is what made the one-time Cudahy resident feel “at home” in Milwaukee on occasion. This was read as a shrug of ambivalence towards Milwaukee’s well-known drink-

ing culture, but the crowd embraced him again when, confronted with the rock-cliché request of ”Free Bird,” he replied, Not good enough with pretend smugness.

This same humor let everyone breathe easier in “For Now,” “Demo 01” (which could be mistaken for an All Things Must Pass outtake from ’71), and new gem “Calling,” as a burst of sunset resignation crept out of the speakers, capped off by Pisano’s extended mini-choir fade-outs, singing both melody and several harmonies on certain songs.

The real climax, however, came with a wistful electric rendering of Nick Drake’s “Place To Be” which brought headliner Retribution Gospel Choir onstage as it brought to the entire venue to its feet in collective jubilance. Pisano and Moen have enough tenderness to pull off such a song, but hearing the power of their musicianship was something else entirely to witness as a music listener.

Due to the billing of the show – which now feels like false advertising – Peter Wolf Crier had many walking out as actual headliner Retribution Gospel Choir came on after them. This dub-inflected side project of Alan Sparhawk (Low) is a bit mono-harmonic for some, but the way this band grooves it’s a shame Pisano and Moen had to cheerlead for the trio at this tour stop.

Talib Kweli’s misstep into the gutter Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Records

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When it boils down to it, the real problem with modern hip-hop has nothing to do with the form or the beats or the flows or the rappers themselves; it’s that there’s really not all that much an emcee can ultimately say.

He can make attack anthems, rip the haters, boast of his own lyrical prowess, and brag about women and money all he wants, but in only the rarest cases does he actually attempt to push his form, to make something different, to treat his brand of rap as a larger artistic form and attempt to make it go somewhere.

There are too few Kanyes, Eminems, or M.I.A.s in the game. Everyone else tends to wallow in his own vicious cycle of hit-making; there’s a very specific pattern of songwriting that threatens to turn most hip-hop into repetitive mush, one that very few rappers are capable of escaping.

Brooklyn’s Talib Kweli, a veteran of the ’90s under-

ground hip-hop scene (and former Black Star member along with Mos Def), had always managed to avoid this vicious cycle. This is in part because of his lack of connection with the mainstream circuit (with the exception of 2007’s major-label Eardrum), but also because he has always dwelled in another lyrical plane.

He rapped for a higher moral cause, and after the age of gangsta rap and nonlyrical slayings, he was a beacon of sorts for the treatment of hip-hop as a legitimate art and not a puffycoated clown-off. He cultivated his flow, wound his lines like yarn and hid his rhymes carefully like freeform poetry.

But on Gutter Rainbows, his first release since Eardrum, it becomes painfully apparent that even an artist like Kweli can fall into the same types of pitfalls as lesser emcees, albeit to a different degree. While his signature rolling, confusing, off-beat flow is powerfully well in hand, Gutter Rainbows rarely progresses lyrically beyond braggado-

cio or high-grounded moral pontification.

Track after track either feels like a finger-wagging sermon or the basest, emptiest boasting with hardly any spurts of brilliance amongst the repetition.

There are very few powerful guest performances to provide a breather or shake up the track sequence. The neosoul beats that are laid down often seem generic and tend to run together.

What we’re left with is Kweli, by himself, affirming either that no rapper can touch him stylistically; that he’s a true independent unaffected by the mainstream whatsoever (which at this point is an outright lie, especially after Eardrum); or that society is a moral cesspool of degradation and sin from which we must save ourselves.

The album isn’t without its scarce high points, which appropriately shake up the routine: “Friends and Family” is a four-minute shout-out to the people, meticulously listed, to whom

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Journal of a riverboat genius Mark Twain’s loose autobiography worth the wait

By Timothy Sienko Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com

In 1910, American humorist and writer Samuel Clemens died leaving a mountainous transcript coupled with a handwritten note forbidding the comprehensive publication of the book until a hundred years after his death. Clemens, of course, is the birth name of Mark Twain, and the recently published manuscript is Volume 1 of his autobiography.

The University of California Press has just released the first of three books that will be the complete, unabridged autobiography that Twain spent the last forty years of his life writing. Twain himself published portions of the manuscript during his lifetime. In the intervening century since his death, a number of editors have compiled various versions of the autobiogra-

phy – the first attempt being in 1924, using Twain’s original organization. Critics destroyed the book’s reputation for its stream-of-consciousness approach and rambling nostalgia, and subsequent attempts have rearranged the material to fit the chronology of Twain’s life.

While these other publications have given readers a focused and easily digestible portrait of a great American writer, they were judicially edited. The 1959 edition is the most readable. The text eliminates documentation of news events that Twain had included for context, as well as complete biographies of family members, and scathing attacks on a variety of Twain’s acquaintances. The result, while enjoyable, is incomplete, leaving gaping holes in the narrative of Twain’s life.

The new edition restores all of the material previously

omitted and follows Twain’s hand written instructions.

This is exciting for literature students and Twain enthusiasts, but the size of the first volume alone is intimidating.

It contains all of the signatures of Twain’s celebrated prose: self-deprecating humor, playful conclusions of adult life, and harsh critique of anyone with whom he disagreed.

However, Twain was never a writer of restraint. Even his greatest novels, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, contain rambling passages that struggle on for pages to sell a lowbrow joke. While Tom Sawyer may be one of the most enduring characters in American Fiction, he is also one of longest-winded and annoying.

And Twain’s autobiography is no different. The most enthusiastic reader will find much of the book difficult, trying to keep dates and names straight as Twain meanders through the Mississippi of his mind. The book feels more like an expertly detailed diary than a carefully plotted memoir. And perhaps, it should be approached as such. But, those passages and chapters that Twain nails with his wit and sharp intellectual eye are more than worth the hundred-year wait.

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Continued from page 10 he feels grateful. It succeeds despite the quaint cuteness with which it drips. But from there we unfortunately move straight into “Tater Tot,” a judgmentally moralistic and vaguely racist abomination of a track that wrong-headedly attempts to place Kwelias-narrator into the mind of a soldier returning from war to crime, blaming his psychological decomposition on all the wrong things.

It also starts with some of

the most baffling 36 seconds ever recorded, a seriously wielded sample of a woman wondering on a radio call-in show asking, “what the hell is in our oxygen supply that creates a rainbow effect in a sprinkler.” I don’t know, it could be that the water droplets create a prism effect and separate white light into the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum, you know, like how all rainbows are formed. It’s a moment of inexplicable stupidity that pulls the album’s worst traits right out into the sun and hangs them there for everyone to see, and it’s not a pretty sight.

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Lost Somewhere in translation

By Kevin Kaber Staff Writer fringe@uwm.edu

Johnny Marco is a bored individual. He drives his Ferrari around Los Angeles, he parties with the young and famous, and he searches for stimulation with promiscuous women from around the world, but nothing seems to cure his discontent.

Sofia Coppola’s 2010 film, Somewhere, surveys the state of mind of Marco (Stephen Dorff), a Hollywood A-lister with seemingly no passion for the life he lives.

But all of that changes when he is visited by his 11-yearold daughter Cleo, played by Elle Fanning. Marco finds belonging with his daughter even as he finds himself tormented with the temptations of Hollywood’s limelight at nearly every corner.

The more-or-less cliché plot is not as mediocre as it would

be if it were not for Coppola’s writing and directing, which focuses on Marco’s isolation and insecurities.

Coppola of course knows the Hollywood lifestyle well.

Daughter to the director, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia has probably experienced much of what young Cleo experiences in the film.

The movie is quiet and discontenting while following Marco’s travails. The long, silent shots are longwinded and almost boring at times; yet, Coppola’s camera work isn’t without reason, as each shot, however uninteresting and lengthy it may seem, portrays the subject’s state of mind, namely Marco’s disinterest of being.

Somewhere’s writing doesn’t match the comedic prowess of Coppola’s acclaimed Lost in Translation (2003) ­­ – Bill Murray is a force to be reckoned with. The dry wit is too forced and falls flat. Marco’s

best friend Sammy, played by “Jackass” and “Wildboyz” daredevil Chris Pontius, may be the most efficient and/or only comedic relief to the film’s consistent melodrama.

Although, as acclaimed of a filmmaker that Coppola is, Somewhere doesn’t compare to Lost in Translation’s award winning prose, but that’s not to say Somewhere is at all bad.

It’s a classic Coppola work: quiet, concerned with gestures and minimal dialogue, and portrays the trials and tribulations of the privileged.

While the film represents a strong story, it does not intrigue as much as it could.

The minimalist dialogue and technical/thematic realism elements are not met well with the acting and/or writing, but overall, this film should not be dismissed –it won the Gold Lion award at the Venice International Film Festival.

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is not to say that their skills lay only in their words, for assert your ears with patience and you will be rewarded with color. Throughout the night the band pleased musical ears with the lovely harmonies of “Won’t Want for Love,” driven by the impressive backing vocals of Becky Stark, the buildup to the fitting cacophony breakdown of “The Bagman’s Gambit,” and the epic, well-performed accordion-accompanied seavoyage of “The Mariner’s Revenge Song,” at which point the storytelling began to take life as the musicians and crowd together helped the story take physical form, acting and reciting the story together.

Perhaps the most naturally beautiful moment of the show was the closing encore performance of “June Hymn,” in which, along with the strum of his acoustic guitar, Meloy sang, “And you were waking / And day was breaking / A panoply of song / And summer comes to Springville Hills.” At this point the twisted nature of some of the more historically blood-stained ballads of war, prostitutes and capitalism melted away into a perfect moment of reminiscence and warmth.

Yes, The Decemberists put on a fine show. A quick glance at the water’s surface perhaps could have suggested otherwise, but those who looked deeper into the blue, those whose curious ears perked, those who heeded the warnings and attentively regarded the band for what they were, yes, those people likely hovered out of the theater in a dreamlike cloud of lingering talltales and cultured, rapturous lyric.

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Salute your shorts with the Rosebud Cinema A preview of the local movie house’s Oscar-Nominated Short Films Program

Pixar’s Day & Night is just one of the short films up for Oscar consideration.

By Steven Franz Asst. fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

The short film may not be a dying art, but it’s certainly a disappearing one. What was once a movie theater staple, playing in bunches before the feature presentations of yore, has been almost eliminated from the movie-going experience.

A few animated studios still diligently produce and showcase them theatrically – Pixar, for instance, has released so many popular shorts that their complete DVD compendium, Pixar Short Films, is a regular long-form staple on the ABC Family channel – but for the most part, short films are the stuff of DVD special features, film festivals, and online video sites like Vimeo and Youtube, where their viewership may be expansive but their marketability is severely limited.

It’s a far cry from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, when the likes of Looney Tunes, Shirley Temple and Charlie Chan used to saturate the cultural consciousness via their seven-minute adventures and short-form serials like Flash Gordon were draws in themselves as eager patrons yearned to see how one intense cliff hanger after another would be resolved. The funny thing is that the classic shorts have had a large and tangible influence on modern popular culture – animated shows like “Adventure Time with Finn and Jake” still use the short format for individual story arcs, and classic adventure and sci-fi serials have directly given birth to the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises – but the format itself has fallen far out of favor, to the point where year in and year out most of the Oscar-nominated short films are sadly almost completely

inaccessible to the viewing public.

Fortunately for Milwaukee film buffs, the Rosebud Cinema offers an annual program of Academy Award-nominated short films, playing this year for an entire week from Feb. 11-17, to briefly bring a bit of local attention to a form of art that is rapidly waning in the consciousness of filmgoers. It’s a an opportunity that otherwise doesn’t exist in the city.

Apart from the few widelyreleased animated shorts in circulation (like The Gruffalo, which recently aired on ABC Family, and Pixar’s Day & Night, both of which are up for Oscars and are on the Rosebud bill) and the Milwaukee Film Festival, which runs a few independent shorts for award consideration, there are no real showcases in the greater metropolitan area for important or award-worthy short films.

The Rosebud’s OscarNominated Short Films Program is a slight remedy for this, compiling all the animated and live-action films recently nominated for the coveted award into one massive 145-minute bill. The showcase will run twice on Friday and thrice daily over the weekend before settling into a single daily 6:30 p.m. showing, so there are plenty of opportunities available for an experience that is becoming rarer and rarer: a communal, in-theater viewing of an exceptional short film. In addition, the weekend showings will feature a different Oscar-nominated documentary short – the rarest and most inaccessible of shorts – attached to the bill.

And as an added bonus, one will look a little less foolish when entering into that office Oscar pool.

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Super Mario World The Many Faces of Multitalented Mario

By Tom Kosiec Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com

This week’s hot new videogame release is Mario Sports Mix for the Wii. The game compiles basketball, dodge ball, volleyball and hockey all onto one disc. Mario is traditionally associated with platforms, but he’s dabbled in other genres as well in his 25-year career. This is just a sample of the hundreds of Mario games released worldwide.

Mario the Athlete: Mario is quite the athlete, despite having a reputation for being a chubby, Italian plumber who eats too much pasta. Nintendo has released countless sports games featuring Mario, which include, golf, tennis, soccer, baseball and basketball. He even collaborated with Sonic the Hedgehog for the summer and winter Olympic Games. All of them are pretty good, but tennis is by far the most fun.

Mario Behind the Wheel: Who doesn’t love Mario Kart? There have been many iterations of Mario Kart, but the most criminally overlooked entry in the franchise is Mario Kart: Double Dash!! for the GameCube. This game mixes up the formula with two racers per kart, and multiplayer supports up to 16 players.

Mario’s Fiestas: Like Halo or Call of Duty, the Mario Party series is the

perfect game for those nights when you just want to eat pizza and drink beer all night with a group of friends. Mario Party is like a virtual board game, but with dozens of mini games designed for one to four players.

throw shells to eliminate your enemies. Another odd Mario game is Mario Paint for the Super Nintendo which came packaged with a mouse. The game was noteworthy for its applications that allowed users to create their own artwork and music.

Puzzled Mario:

Super Smash Brothers is probably familiar to most of you, but if you need a refresher the basic premise is classic Nintendo characters like Mario, Donkey Kong and Link gather into the fighting ring, and kick the crap out of each other.

Dr. Mario is a takeoff of Tetris where the goal is to line up vitamin capsules by the same color either horizontally or vertically to eliminate viruses. Mario’s other take at the puzzle genre is Mario’s Picross for the original Game Boy. To solve puzzles you needed to fill in numbers on select parts of a grid to form a picture.

Mario RPG:

Mario Arcade:

Mario’s first appearance in a role-playing game (RPG) was Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars, a dream collaboration between Nintendo and Square (the makers of Final Fantasy). Although the game was great for its time, the Paper Mario games that came out afterwards are significantly better. Two things these games do better than most RPGs out there are well written stories with hilarious dialogue that are laugh out loud funny, and a timed button-press battle system that keeps combat from growing stale.

The Mario vs. Donkey Kong games for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS are similar to the original Donkey Kong arcade game, but larger in scope. Gameplay is a combination of platforming and puzzles. Mario also can be found in the Game and Watch Gallery games for Game Boy, a small collection of easy pick-up-andplay games like rescuing people from a fire.

Sparring Mario:

Miscellaneous Marios: Virtual Boy – Nintendo’s first stab at 3D gaming – wasn’t very memorable, but there were a few gems for the system. One was Mario Clash, a take of off the classic Mario’s Bros arcade game where you

Mario and the Gang: Mario has appeared in minor roles in some of his friend’s games, from the mushroom kingdom as well as a few nonNintendo games. Some highlights where Mario can be found are in Luigi’s Mansion, a Ghostbusters style videogame for GameCube. Wario Land: Super Mario land 3 is a platform game starting Mario’s rival Wario. As for cameos, Mario

Twenty-one years after Mario first took to the skies via raccoon tail, Nintendo prepares for his latest release with their Mario Sports Mix for the Wii. Image courtesy of Nintendo

can be spotted in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the Super Nintendo, and both of the Nintendo 64’s Zeldas.

And as far as non-Nintendo games are concerned, Mario has been a playable character in SSX Tour, NBA Street Vol. 3, and can be seen in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, all for GameCube.

Cool free Mario flash games: Go to www.funnygames. co.uk to play dozens of free Mario games. Highlights include Mario Combat, a game that plays like a platformer, but where Mario uses kung fu to defeat his enemies. The other standout title is Super Mario Crossover, where you can play through the original Super

Mario Brothers as Megaman, Samus Aran from Metroid, the guy from Contra, and other characters from the NES era.

Mario games that suck: Avoid the educational Mario games like Mario is Missing, Mario Time Machine, and others like Mario’s Early Years: Fun with Numbers at all costs.

They’re complete crap, and don’t live up to the Mario name.

What’s next for Mario in 2011: A new Mario game has been confirmed for the Nintendo 3DS and is rumored to be a new take on Super Mario World.

New versions of Paper Mario and Mario Kart have been confirmed for 3DS as well.

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Unnecessary changes to Hyde Amendment will not pass

By Jackie Dreyer Editorial Editor editorial@uwmpost.com

Portrayed on a television miniseries I’ve been watching recently, rape is fresh in my mind.

Based on the 2006 film This Is England, which gives a brilliant look into the life of young skinheads in England in 1983, the 2010 series is called “This Is England ’86” and follows the same young adults just three years later.

In the third of four episodes, a female, Trev, comes over to her friend Kelly’s house so they can go to the pub to watch a big European football game. Kelly’s father, Mick, who earlier in the episode is outed for potentially sexually abusing Kelly’s older sister, Lol, when she was younger, ends up raping Trev.

Privy to the entire scene, one could easily say that this is “forcible” rape, as Mick grabs Trev, and uses his strength to push her back onto the couch and keep her pinned down, despite her efforts against him. Obviously, rape is rape is rape. It needs no defining adjective in front of it.

Unfor tunately,the Republicans think otherwise.

Their bill, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” otherwise known as H.R. 3, was introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and tried to make permanent the “Hyde Amendment,” which is a “provision banning the use of taxpayer subsidies for abortions that currently requires annual Congressional renewal,” according to CBS News.

But the issue is that the Republicans had made some changes to the diction of the bill, specifically in “SEC. 309.

TREATMENT OF ABORTIONS RELATED TO RAPE, INCEST, OR PRESERVING THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER,” which shows a change in wording from “rape” to “forcible rape” and a change from “incest” to “or, if a minor, an act of incest.”

Who’s to say which rapes are “forcible” and which are not? And why is a victim of incest is only eligible for an abortion if they’re a minor?

Those changes carry absolutely no legitimacy, and it’s a wonder how they ever got put into the document in the first place. Truly, no words could ever explain how baffled I am.

Luckily, it seems the Republicans have learned the errors of their ways. Smith’s office confirmed on Thursday, Feb. 3 that the language of the bill is being changed to

How to buy or adopt a pet responsibly

A puppy mill is a facility housing animals bred and sold solely for profit. These animals live in atrocious conditions, receiving minimal veterinary care, inadequate food and water, minimal socialization (if any) and are forced to live their lives in extremely overcrowded kennels.

The parents of the puppies sold in pet stores, known as “breeding stock,” are there strictly for breeding purposes and are killed or left to die when they are no longer productive.

Many of these animals are inbred, resulting in generations of dogs with unchecked genetic defects. The parents of the puppies sold in pet stores, known as “breeding

stock,” are strictly for breeding purposes and are killed or left to die when they are no longer able to reproduce (i.e. when they are no longer “productive”). These dogs live their whole lives in small wire cages, being forced to breed and are given minimal time between breeding sessions to recover.

The first eight weeks of a puppy’s life are crucial for learning important lessons in socialization, pack order and discipline. Puppies born in puppy mills, however, are separated from their mother and siblings weeks before they are biologically ready. If taken from their mothers before eight weeks of age, they may never learn these important lessons. Puppies whose only purpose is to become merchandise may never learn how to respond to humans as friends and pack leaders.

Lineage records are often falsified, and many puppy-mill dogs are prone to hereditary problems such as epilepsy, heart disease, kidney disease, deafness, eye problems and respiratory problems, to name a few. Puppies often arrive at pet stores and their

Sometimes bigger isn’t better

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Puppy mills are breeding grounds for profit

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new homes with diseases or infirmities: distemper, kennel cough, pneumonia, mange, fleas, ticks, intestinal parasites, heartworm, chronic diarrhea, etc. Many dogs end up back in shelters due to excessive nipping, biting or refusal to bond with their human family.

To help fight puppy mills, DON’T BUY A PUPPY FROM A PET STORE or any place that sells the animals solely for profit. (This includes websites that sell dogs online.) Responsible breeders will want to meet you first.

You may think that by buying puppies from puppy-mill outlets (pet stores) you’re helping these puppies, but really you are supporting the continuation of the puppy-mill business.

A dog shouldn’t cost you more than $600 or $700, and paying anything over that is most likely pure profit for the seller. Shelter and rescue dogs don’t cost more than $400 to $500, and their costs are strictly based off veterinary care for the animals. (Most dog shelters are

See PUPPY MILLS page 16

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By John Prellwitz Automotive Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com

I hate trends.

The concept of wearing a particular brand of clothing or buying overpriced, “ticklish” Muppets for Christmas simply because they’re the “in” thing has never sat well with me.

Even more bothersome is when that “in” thing is less functional than the thing it replaces – like summertime Ugg-wearers or the flip-flops-in-January kids I went to high school with – although their commitment to “fashion” is to be commended.

Worst of all is when a dysfunctional trend becomes so mainstream that those few unimpressed consumers are hardpressed to find an alternative, functional, non-“it” item. I am, of course, talking about wheels on new cars and the upward trend in their diameter over the past twenty years or so.

Rewind to when most of us were newborns. The average car rolled around on fourteen or fifteen inch tires, while the larger sixteens and seventeens were generally reserved for per-

formance vehicles, such as the Corvette. Nowadays seventeen-inch wheels are the norm with eighteeninch wheels swiftly taking their place.

You might be wondering, “Why is John so upset that Honda Civics ride on the same diameter wheels as the Corvettes of yesteryear? Is he just a prick that hates anything everyone else likes?” Yes, I am. But that’s not my point.

While the shear ubiquity (a trendy word I hate) of oversized wheels is a minor annoyance to me, it’s the decreased performance of such applications that really grinds my gears. The problem revolves almost entirely around weight.

Increased weight negatively impacts a vehicle’s acceleration, braking, handling and fuel economy. When that weight comes in the form of unsprung mass – not supported by the suspension, i.e., wheels and tires – the effects on handling in particular are even greater.

Higher un-sprung mass numbs feedback of road surface irregularities to the driver while further reducing the vehicle’s reaction to steering

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RAPE

Continued from page 15 match that which is in the Hyde Amendment. Thus, the aforementioned part of SEC. 309 now reads: “The limitation established in the preceding section shall not apply to an abortion (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest…”

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non-profit organizations.)

When adopting a shelter or rescue dog, you can rest assured that your new family member will be up to date on shots and in good health. If you’re looking for a purebred dog, there are plenty of purebred rescue organizations out there. For those looking for a specific breed, www.petfinder.com is a great resource for find-

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It’s time to start questioning Scott Walker

By Jared Bierbach and Shawn Matson Special to the Post editorial@uwmpost.com

The Republicans campaigned on job creation, and we all hoped they would deliver. And then reality set in: it became clear that the Republicans of 2011 are the same Republicans of the past decade who failed to create jobs or deliver on their promises.

It was easy to criticize, but now the time has come to govern and Republicans are scrambling to distract from the fact that they lack the ability to deliver on their promises.

We hear the old mantra about job creation and economic growth but never a single new concrete idea.

Instead, this resurrected push for a voter identification law is designed as a time-consuming stalling tactic. They hope they’ll be able to come up with a good idea sooner rather than later. But they won’t. We see over and over that all Republican lawmakers have to offer is sound and fury – signifying nothing.

But let’s address these hyperbolic accusations.

Republicans want us to believe that voter fraud is a serious issue that threatens to subvert our democracy. But what the public has yet to see is any proof that organized efforts to commit voter fraud have occurred. We debated

a similar proposal in 2004, which voters ultimately rejected. The Brennan Center at the New York University School of Law examined allegations of voter fraud in 2004 and found that out of all votes cast in the state, only 0.0002 percent were potentially fraudulent. Widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin? False.

The bottom line is that Republicans want to make it harder for you to vote. And it just so happens that students are the least likely demographic to vote Republican.

On campus, we, the College Democrats at UW-Milwaukee, worked hard to make sure the student voice was heard from Milwaukee. We helped countless students – regardless of their political ideologies – find their polling place and register same-day on Nov. 2, 2010. These students, many of whom were first-time voters, would have been deprived of their right to vote without Wisconsin’s popular same-day registration laws.

This proposal by Republicans is an affront to students and all voters. While

Wisconsin led the nation in youth turnout during the 2010 midterms, the bottom line is that Republicans want to make it harder for you to vote. And it just so happens that students are the least likely demographic to vote Republican.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that we are all entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts. But gone it seems are the days when the debate was topical, or even factual. While the national dialogue continues to descend into vitriol, it is time for Wisconsinites to speak out and end the reign of untruth that clouds the true issues facing our state. Despite their supposed mandate to govern, Republicans are out of touch with the working people of our state. And so, while Wisconsin may be open for business, it is closed to new ideas, innovation and the job creation we desperately need.

Let us ensure that Wisconsin remains true to its strong legacy of voter participation and empowerment.

Ask your Republican legislator if they can explain why they are not focused on priority number one: job creation.

The time has come to reclaim the conversation so that the will of the people is heard.

From Milwaukee to Minocqua, we’re all asking, “Where are the jobs, Mr. Walker?”

input.

There is an upside to larger-diameter wheels. Lowprofile tires are employed to maintain the overall diameter of the wheel/tire combination. The thinner sidewall (low-profile) of these tires is less flexible and therefore counteracts some effects of the increased un-sprung mass, but at the expense of ride comfort and noise isolation. Somewhere there exists equilibrium where unsprung mass, sidewall flex and ride comfort all meet, but at this juncture in time, the Marketing & Design team is prevailing over the Engineers.

Therefore, thankfully, mistakes have been recognized and corrected. It’s just a wonder that they had to be made in the first place. The definition of rape – non-consensual sexual intercourse against one’s will, especially by threat or use of violence – is entirely selfsufficient. Let’s not make it any harder on the women who have, unfortunately, been raped.

ing a pet.

Ultimately, if you are considering adding a furry friend to your family, adopting is the best option. Not only will you save a life (and a couple hundred dollars), you will know that the money you are spending won’t be supporting a puppy mill.

To find out more about puppy mills, visit www. nowisconsinpuppymills.org or www.aspca.org. For more information about dog adoptions, visit www.wihumane. org.

I commented a while back that cars are reaching their zenith in terms of size and weight and that stricter Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and consumer demand for efficient transportation will result in shrinking vehicle dimensions. I believe the same holds true for wheels, not just because this is a passing trend, but because smaller wheels are an effective means of increasing performance and fuel economy without committing millions of dollars to research and development.

And what, you might ask, will I do when everyone’s driving cars with reasonably sized wheels? Buy a T-shirt that says, “I had fourteens before they were cool.”

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Pet of the Week Ivan Ivan is a seven year friesian sport horse with a puppy dog personality. He loves to chill out in the pasture with his buddies and enjoys eating hay 24/7. His best friend is a horse named Kaycey and the two are inseparable. He likes to go on long trail rides through the woods and loves to share his apples with Kaycey.

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