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October 1, 2012

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Issue 5, Volume 57

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Sliding into Glendale

UW-Milwaukee’s plans to migrate baseball, track & field into Glendale may have been blocked at the plate.

By Tony Atkins and Justin Jabs Sports Editor and Assistant News Editor sports@uwmpost.com Two Sundays ago, UW-Milwaukee Athletic Director Andy Geiger announced during a Student Association meeting a proposal that would move its baseball and track & field program into a new facility that would have been erected in the city of Glendale. However, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has reported that the city has no interest in the move.

The city’s administrator, Richard Maslowski, reportedly stated that the City of Glendale was not interested in selling the land to the university. Maslowski told the Journal Sentinel that the parcel is zoned for office and medical use and the city is not interested in accommodating an athletic facility.

The 12 to 14 acre parcel of land is located at 100 W. River Woods and is within walking distance of UW-Milwaukee’s Humboldt-Capitol U-Park lot and is surrounded by two health care facilities along the Milwaukee River. The land is currently owned by Securant Bank & Trust and is priced at $1.7 million, according to the bank’s website. Bank officials declined to say whether any parties had shown interest in purchasing the property.

In an interview with Geiger, he stated that he didn’t directly speak with Maslowski but the university will move on if they can’t secure the land in Glendale.

“I don’t know if there are any options to go forward there,” Geiger

said. “But, if not, we’ll have to find someplace else.”

Geiger emphasized that it is “urgently important” to try to find another space close to the university and the unidentified “seven-figure donor” was not solely committed to that particular site.

“We’re open to other opportunities that we have,” he said. “I don’t want us to go a ridiculous distance from the campus.”

When built, the facility will house a 300 meter track, clinic site and a practice space for soccer, track and field and baseball. Geiger even mentioned the new facility would be big enough to house a football field.

“In a place where winter is an issue, it would be ideal,” Geiger said. “I think that’s an ideal facility and the baseball stadium and synthetic field in a building like this would be perfect for this program.”

Currently, the track program holds its home events at the Klotsche Center while the Milwaukee baseball team now plays at Henry Aaron Field, through Milwaukee County Parks. Many have argued that it isn’t sufficient enough to play host to the only Division I baseball program in Wisconsin. Geiger seemed to realize this as well in his statements.

“I find it unusual that a school that has a baseball team, a track & field program and a tennis program and doesn’t have a baseball diamond, a track & field facility or tennis courts,” Geiger said.

A lot of programs use the Klotsche Center, along with the track & field, program including men’s and women’s basketball, intramural sports along with a host of other classes and activities. Given the success of both the track & field programs, Geiger feels that these programs are more deserving of what is currently offered.

“We have two coaches that have done extraordinary work and we need to do better for them,” Geiger advocated.

Geiger supports “shared space” on campus and stated that there will be enough space for intramural sports and other activities.

“Between the two facilities, it would have added greatly to the effectiveness of nine of our fifteen teams,” he said.

Geiger also announced during the September 23 SA meeting that the facilities will primarily be funded by gifts along with the segregated fees raised from the aborted campus arena proposition that students voted on. The new facilities will host camps to raise money as well. The types of camps have not been specified.

While a track and baseball move to 100 W. River Woods in Glendale is not likely anymore, Geiger is committed to building a facility somewhere for these programs.

“We’ll leave no stone unturned. I’ll just keep working at it,” he said.

According to Geiger, the idea is to develop this land and lease it out with an option to buy. He emphasized that these developments are specifically tailored to the student-athletes and their coaches. It is not intended to be a facility to host a lot of fans; instead, it will give these programs the home that many feel that they deserve.

There is no plan to develop land anywhere else at the moment but the university is looking into it, perhaps more now than ever.

Tony Atkins, Steve Garrison and Justin Jabs contributed to the reporting of this story.

Police crackdown exposes deeper problems in campus neighborhood

Depth of student-resident tensions exposed

By Caitlin PenzeyMoog and Robin Turnblom News Editor and Special to the Post news@uwmpost.com

The Milwaukee Police Department’s crackdown on student misbehavior on the East Side resulted in 92 arrests by the third week of enforcement, 63 of which were UW-Milwaukee students.

While it’s still too early to assess the impact of the increased police activity in the surrounding campus area, Police Capt.

Stephen Basting seems less than confident that the issue can be addressed solely through police action.

“I don’t believe I’m going to be able to ticket my way out of this,” Basting said.

“But we will continue the enforcement.”

Tension between homeowners and student renters is a problem nearly as old as the university itself, but only recently

have the police responded so forcefully.

The Murray Hill Neighborhood Association, the most vocal supporter of increased police activity in the area, has demanded that both local and state representatives do more to address the issues of noise, property destruction and drunken mayhem in the neighborhood.

Two years ago the MPD partnered with the association to create the “Report It, Record It,” program, whereby residents can call in noise complaints so that MPD can better track neighborhood issues.

“In the past we’ve been very subjective in our complaints,” said MHNA president Steve Klebar. “But the relationship we have with the 1st District and their enforcement in the neighborhood and the trends we’ve been seeing are going to make it relatively easy to figure out what’s going on.”

Long-time residents say the issue has

only gotten worse in the past few years, though such claims are difficult to verify.

Julie Knox has lived on Murray Avenue since 1996. She has a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old.

“It’s an integrated neighborhood,” she said. “The non-students who live here expect a certain amount of energy – we like the vitality. The biggest concern really is the level of disrespect and arrogance. Sort of the, ‘Well we’re near campus, it’s ours isn’t it?’”

Some students express disregard for permanent residents, saying this is a college area where it is not unreasonable to expect college noise.

“I’m sorry, but this is part of college,” said Karley Krawze, a sophomore majoring in education. “If you’re not in college, you probably shouldn’t live here.”

Another student who wished to remain unnamed said he told his elderly

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Freshman enrollment at UWMilwaukee for the 2012-2013 school year has dropped 25 percent from its 2007 peak.

In 2007, the number of full-time new freshmen was 4,415. This fall, the estimated enrollment of freshmen students is 3,355. At the Chancellor’s Plenary on Sept. 20, Chancellor Michael Lovell said that if the trend continues we can expect overall enrollment for fall 2017 to be around only 24,850 students.

There was a five percent decrease in freshman enrollment between fall 2011 and fall 2012 alone.

“We simply cannot allow this to happen,” Lovell said at the plenary.

Lovell said that one way the university is planning on increasing enrollment is by reaching out to out-of-state

students. The Enrollment Task Force recommended increasing out-of-state recruitment by 272,000 contacts per year.

“We need to aggressively recruit students to UWM in ways that we have not done before,” Lovell said.

Lovell is planning on traveling to high schools in the region to “get the word out about what a great university we have.” He also is trying to recruit alumni to represent UWM and reach students across the United States.

“I challenge each of you to be a solution to this problem,” Lovell said.

Everyone at UWM is responsible for the recruitment and retention of students, he said.

“We cannot underestimate how the work of groups such as our custodial staff and police force, among others, provides a clean, safe and welcoming environment that attracts and retains students,” Lovell said.

One reason for the enrollment

decrease is competition from for-profit and online schools, which enrolled 17,000 Wisconsin students this year. If all the for-profits constituted a single university, it would be the third largest in Wisconsin, ranking just after UWMadison and UWM, with Marquette University close behind.

Lovell stressed that UWM’s “accreditation” is the key to enrollment success. He said that it ensured the quality of UWM’s academic programs and allows for “continuous assessment and improvement.”

“Our academic quality and integrity is vital for UWM to attract students, remain relevant, and align student skill sets with the needs of society,” Lovell said.

Despite the current drop in freshman enrollment, the overall enrollment numbers have actually increased 25 percent overall from fall 2001 to fall 2011.

UWM partners with 143 schools in 40 countries UW-Milwaukee has left its footprint all over the globe, establishing 143 university partnerships in over 40 countries.

Director of the Center for Global Health Equity and Administrative Director of the Institute for Urban Health Programs Anne Dressel recognizes the perks of partaking in international opportunities.

The “sister school” partnerships with international universities are associated with a variety of schools of study at the UWM campus. Dressel oversees the global initiatives for the College of Nursing.

“The study abroad programs offer a life-changing experience that allows students to realize what life is like in another part of the world,” Dressel said.

These experiences will be offered again during the winter interim in a program destined for Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Students in the College of Nursing program will have the opportunity to visit the hospitals, clinics, orphanages and social service organizations that constitute the Kenyan healthcare system.

Dressel also mentioned a visit to the Masai Mara - a large game reserve and home to the semi-nomadic Masai people.

There, the study of different health practices and beliefs will help students draw

cultural comparisons.

“In acknowledging such cultural differences, we can learn to help improve health care in the United States,” Dressel said. “Health care is a culturally sensitive field that deals with culturally diverse clients.”

Opportunities abroad are commonplace within the College of Nursing.

This past January, students embarked on a journey to Costa Rica, learning how culture, policy and economics all work to shape development of the health care system. Students also studied the role tropical forests play as a source of pharmaceuticals.

Another opportunity available to students over the past summer months was a trip to Morocco. Students gained insight into factors impacting women’s rights and families of Islam. For those looking ahead, a 2013 summer program is also in the works for China.

Dressel pointed out that students take away an insightful lesson from their experiences.

“Most students come to find that good health care can be given without much expensive technology,” she said.

“We tend to rely on it here in the U.S., but we need to realize we can get good care without it.”

When considering study abroad programs, costs can seem prohibitive.

Looking particularly at the January 2013 Kenya program, costs are estimated to be

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Yet, there are a number of resources available to students who need financial aid. There are several scholarships and grants available specifically for Wisconsin study abroad students. The estimated costs cover not only the program fee, but transportation, meals, lodging, international health insurance and visa fees. Not to mention the credits earned toward an undergraduate or graduate degree.

Other UWM schools of study can provide students with similar opportunities. The College of Health Sciences, the School of Architecture & Urban Planning, the School of Continuing Education and the School of Information Studies all offer international programs in which credit can be earned toward the major.

The university’s Center for International Education facilitates the relationship between these schools and those abroad, crediting them for the basis of a “culturally-competent and multilingual citizenry able to thrive in today’s world,” according to the website.

Students interested in more information regarding study abroad programs through any school of study should contact the study abroad office or visit www.4.uwm.edu/cie/studyabroad.

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COPS continued from page 1 neighbors to move to Shorewood. “I said, it’s only a mile away, and you wouldn’t have to deal with the noise.”

Knox noticed the noise and destruction seems to have gotten worse in the past few years, but it can differ from block to block.

“Sometimes a trend is hard to see because it depends on who is living in a house that year,” she said.

For Stan Liebe, a Farwell Avenue resident, the anxiety starts on Thursday. “It’s oh, what’s gonna happen tonight?”

“It’s waking me up during the week, horns blowing, people screaming, knocking over furniture on the curb,” Liebe said. “A lot of people urinating between the houses and in the driveways.”

Liebe said he has not felt the need to call the police, but wonders what the consequences would be if he did.

“I was kind of afraid of that too – retaliation,” he said. “Who knows what people are capable of when they’re mad at you.”

The fear of retaliation Liebe is not the only resident to express concerns about retaliation.

One neighbor, whose picture appeared in an April 2011 issue of The UWM Post, said someone threw a brick through his window with a copy of the issue tied around it. Police officials confirmed the incident took place.

“I’ve had severe retaliation against my property. We keep going to the very same problems over and over and over, it makes no sense to me after a while,” he said. “If it is a university responsibility to talk to [the students], you have to weigh the responsibility more seriously and do something.

I don’t dislike the students – I want to coexist with them, all of us do.”

Two residents of Murray Avenue, neighbors who live next to each other, said they have a reputation on their block.

“I don’t want to be retaliated against.

I’ve been in my house for 22 years, and they know me,” said one.

Her neighbor moved in to the neighborhood four years ago to take care of her boyfriend, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, after he suffered a stroke.

“He’s been in this house for fifty years.

He loves his house and his neighborhood.

And there are students who are really disrespectful, but we love the ones who are nice and don’t drink so much. We tell them, have parties, but by one in the morning, quiet down.”

Both spoke of frequent urination in their bushes by night and empty beer cans and smashed bottles littering their yards by day. A couple of years ago the fence connecting their back yard was destroyed and had to be replaced. The 91-year-old cannot keep his beloved potted plants on the porch because in the past they were repeatedly smashed.

“Can you imagine if people did that to your grandpa?” the resident asked.

Christina Johnson is a first-year graduate student in social work who said she does not remember the noise and destruction being as excessive when she was an undergraduate at UW-Stevens Point. She said the noise on Webster Place keeps her up at night on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

“It’s just a lot of yelling – I mean when I was an undergrad and drunk I just don’t remember it being this excessive,” she said. “I’ve felt compelled to yell something out the window, but not call the police.”

UWM Blitz The MPD’s increased enforcement started the first weekend students were back on campus in large numbers.

According to Capt. Basting, the first weekend was supposed to be educational, letting students know there would be an increased police presence. But the intoxication and belligerence was so bad the officers felt arrests were necessary.

The crackdown continued each weekend, with dozens of officers out on either Friday or Saturday night, patrolling the campus neighborhoods for parties and noise.

“To me, it’s not about the drinking,” said Basting. “I understand the college experience. I do. I went to UWM, so I get that. It’s about the disorder that it brings.”

When the Post rode along with police two weeks ago, many arrests were the result of noise coming from house parties or from students being loud outside.

That led to underage drinking tickets and many arrests.

With arrested students and non-students alike cuffed and waiting to be processed outside the Newberry Boulevard command post, students gathered on the street corner each weekend to observe the scene. Sophomore Cassidy Gotsfried, an occupational therapy major, said she thought arresting students for drinking offenses went too far.

“I understand that students need to tone it down, but this seems excessive,” she said.

One student arrested for underage drinking who called himself Tim said the tactics were intentionally humiliating.

Klebar wanted to make it clear the association is not against students, or the university. He stressed that the issue at hand is behavior.

“It’s about community values,” he said. “And the community values we have – whether you like it or not – have a certain expectation for civil order and respect.”

A few bad apples The university has undergraduate students complete a survey about alcohol every two years. The most recent survey from 2011 shows that of the UWM undergraduate population, a full 30 percent chose not to drink at all. Of the 70 percent who do, many are choosing to drink in safe and moderate ways, said Sarah Belstock, UWM’s Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Coordinator.

“There’s a subset who are engaging in higher risk behavior and putting themselves and those around them at risk for negative consequences,” Belstock said.

“We’ve got some cultural things in our society that really help support and drive these behaviors.”

These numbers are consistent with the rest of the UW universities and with college campuses across the nation.

“But I do think there are some unique things about our campus environment that help to shape the culture for those

Photo by Zak Wosewick who are choosing to engage in these behaviors,” she said.

Numbers of arrests from the past two years, along with arrests from the month of September, show that of the arrests roughly 60 percent are UWM students, with 40 percent being either non-students or students from other institutions.

The university’s role There are two offices dedicated to integrating students into surrounding neighborhoods and managing relations between those students and residents.

The Office of Neighborhood Relations is a branch of the university that works with the surrounding neighborhood associations, student organizations, MPD and the UWM Police Department to foster good relationships in the neighborhood.

The Neighborhood Housing Office focuses on students living off-campus and the landlords that rent to them. The office hands out publications and tries to educate students at orientation and during the semester about how to be a good neighbor.

The ONR attempts to get students invested in their neighborhood by staying in their residences for more than one year.

“The university aims to try to keep everybody happy,” said Andy Josephson, an ONR employee. “That’s the goal – we weren’t the first people here and we won’t be the last.”

NHO Director Jes Berndt said the NHO wants to spread a “good neighbor” message and encourage students to know who lives around them.

Underage drinking is a part of negative behaviors, but Berndt said it’s often the noise that spurs complaints.

“Most neighbors aren’t calling in saying ‘I think they’re having beer over there,’ they’re saying ‘[the students] are really loud and it’s 2 a.m.,” she said.

When students do get tickets, C.O.A.S.T. leaders visit the house and let tenants know the follow-up procedure and about available resources. C.O.A.S.T. is part of the NHO and is made up of students.

UWM grants the MPD a certain allowance to step up enforcement every fall and spring. These “grant periods” are in the warmer months of September and October and again in May. The university gives $25,000 in the fall and $15,000 in the spring to put more officers on the ground on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

During these periods, MPD keeps a list of local citations and gives it to the university. After this, three courses of action are usually set in motion within 24 hours. The Dean of Students will schedule a meeting with the student to talk about expected behavior, and Neighborhood Relations contacts the landlord to inform them what happened and the possibility of holding tenants accountable. C.O.A.S.T. leaders also visit the address and talk with the tenants.

Sometimes through the municipal court system, the Alcohol and your College Experience Program may be involved as a way to both address drinking concerns and reduce ticket costs.

Non-academic misconduct Dean of Students Daniel Kast speaks with students.

“We sit down with each and every student and talk with them about what happened and the impact their behavior is having on the surrounding community, and what their role is as a member of that community and what that should look like,” Kast said.

This process is in compliance with the UW-System’s policy for non-academic misconduct. Known as Chapter 17, the UW-System requires state universities to take action when students receive things like police tickets off-campus.

Each university can interpret and decide individually how to apply Chapter 17 to their campuses.

“As of this moment UWM has decided that until it does become a repeated problem, we will not take formal action on municipal violations. That’s not saying that won’t change in the future, that’s saying that at the moment that’s what we’re choosing to do,” Kast said.

Students rarely get ticketed twice, and Kast said a third time is unheard of.

“There has been a lot of discussion over what to do with repeat offenders, but right now it’s all academic, because it really isn’t happening,” he said.

The Murray Hill Neighborhood Association believes the university has a responsibility to punish students for their off-campus violations, as does Basting.

But Interim Associate Dean of Students Rob Longwell-Grice said the university entails an educational process over one that punishes.

“I think sometimes the neighbors forget that fact,” he said. “They want us to be punitive.”

Kast said a lot of students he sees do not know the university tracks violations that happen off campus. “They’re surprised to learn that we do this,” he said.

Freshman actuarial science major, Luke Mariani, said he disagrees with the procedure. “I spend a lot of money to be here. I should be able to do what I want off campus,” he said. “If I’m on campus they should reprimand me. If I’m off campus it’s none of [the university’s] business.”

Beyond university sanctions, one UWM adjunct professor who lives a block off campus said the university’s role in this problem is the elephant in the room.

“The burden the university is putting on this neighborhood is beyond reasonable – that’s the problem,” he said. “It puts the onus on the university. That’s the big elephant no one is talking about. Everyone is talking about neighbors and students.

No one is talking about the responsibility of the university.”

He wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from the university.

“Time will tell” Residents at the MHNA meeting last week said they were happy with the police presence.

“It’s been the best sleep I’ve gotten on the weekend for months,” said one.

Another said they are doing a “fabulous” job, and she hopes students get the point that noise is a real issue in the neighborhood.

Klebar said the association cannot yet define the success or failure of the blitz.

“Is it going to work?” he said. “I don’t know. Time will tell.”

“I’m hearing from neighbors that things are better,” Basting said. “I’m routinely hearing that.”

However, Basting told the Post the stepped-up enforcement is only part of the solution to a complicated issue. He expects both the neighborhood associations and the university to do more.

“I do believe [the university] needs to look at academic sanctions, and also to teach a higher percent of their classes on Fridays,” he said. “For students it’s ‘Thirsty Thursdays – I don’t have classes on Fridays so I can start my weekend on Thursdays.’

The university is aware of this.”

He also said the neighbors should increase interaction with students on their block and get to know them before they are faced with drunken confrontations.

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By Ciera Sutton Special to the Post news@uwmpost.com

Students who need a break from school can travel to the heart of Milwaukee for a journey under the sea. Coral Reef Adventure is now showing at the Milwaukee Public Museum IMAX. When experiencing this deep sea journey, viewers will see the South Pacific reefs and the creatures within as never before.

Reefs are underwater structures surrounded by corals that house an array of species including fish, sponges and mollusks. The reefs are sometimes described as the “rainforest of the sea” due to their vivid colors and upbeat scenery.

Viewers can learn about the reefs and efforts currently underway to save them.

The movie also discusses current research about reefs and information about new creatures being discovered.

The 45 minute show runs from now until Nov. 4. Tickets can be purchased online or over the phone, and students can get a discount using their ID. You may not be able to swim with the fishes, but this is the next best thing. For more information, visit www.mpm.edu or call 414-319-4629.

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Historic Milwaukee, Inc. held the second Doors Open Milwaukee event on Sept. 22 and 23. Included in the 43 historic sites is the Milwaukee Press Club, which is located inside of the

Newsroom Pub at 137 E. Wells St. The Press Club was founded in 1885 and “provided professional development and camaraderie to members of the press community,” according to their website.

The Press Club has a rich history and features signatures from many celebrities and dignitaries around the world. This collection of signatures originated as far back as the 1890s, when the Press Club was located at the Herold building and dignitaries signed the wooden walls of the club. This presented a problem when the Press Club decided to move to another building. Members of the club snuck in and cut out the signatures from the wall. When they settled on a new location, members decided that signatures would be signed on mat board.

The collection of signatures was given to the Urban Archives of UW-Milwaukee. Displayed at the Newsroom Pub, the signatures are currently on loan from the Urban Archives.

The location of the Press Club moved many times throughout the 1900s. Notable locations for the Press Club included the Herold building, Miller building, Jung building and the Fine Arts building before settling into the Newsroom Pub in 2000.

One interesting story about the Press Club is how they acquired their cat mascot, Anubis.

In the late 1800s Tom Brahany was a Madison correspondent for the Milwaukee Sentinel and his office was located inside Wisconsin’s chief fish and game ward. This was also where a petrified cat was located. One day Charlie Lush, a Chicago reporter, came to visit the office and asked if he could use the cat for a show he was doing in Milwaukee. The warden never gave him permission but told him if the cat disappeared then reappeared after hours, who could they blame? Lush never brought Anubis back and it is unknown how the cat returned to the Press Club. Anubis is now treasured as the Press Club’s mascot.

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By Porscha Johnson Special to the Post news@uwmpost.com Pere Marquette Park became the rallying grounds for advocates against sexual assault Saturday afternoon. With more than 100 people gathered, the message was heard loud and clear – “End sexual violence, we will not be silenced!”

Chanting in unison, the group left from outside the Milwaukee County Courthouse located on N. 8th Street and Wells Street downtown to begin their second annual Milwaukee SlutWalk.

Traveling along Wisconsin Avenue to Pere Marquette Park, the group was quick to gain attention. If wearing heels and mesh tights weren’t enough to turn the heads of onlookers, the police escort surely was. Lead by Craig Bergland, the advocated welcomed the attention.

Bergland, a bishop serving the UAC (a new interfaith religious group), volunteered to lead the walk out of an obligation to advocate social change. He spoke of Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, and his recent comments that a woman’s body can shut down and prevent pregnancy after rape. This, Bergland said, demonstrates a “profound need for social change. These absurd beliefs have become the norm.”

Married to a survivor of sexual assault and a survivor himself, Bergland is

dedicated to raising awareness on the matter. He said that one in every four women, and one in every six men, are assaulted before the age of 30.

“Essentially we all know someone of those statistics even if we aren’t aware of it,” he said. “The only way to combat this ignorance is through education. The culture we live in is uncomfortable talking about anything sexual, especially sexual assault. This walk aims to encourage victims and survivors to step forward. By coming here today and by participating in the event, we are saying ‘this matters to me.’”

The advocacy group strolled into the Pere Marquette Park around noon flashing posters that read things like “Consent is Sexy” and “My clothes are not an invitation.” Event organizer Katie Jesse took control of the crowd as she introduced a local singer onto the pavilion and encouraged participants to stick around for food and drinks and resource information.

Jesse is the board president for the feminist bookstore and community center A Broader Vocabulary Cooperative, which was the main event sponsor for last year’s SlutWalk. Jesse worked closely with the SlutWalk’s event coordinator Michelle Stander-Reiner in 2011, and took it upon herself to organize this year’s event in absence of Stander-Reiner. She explained that SlutWalk Milwaukee really grew out of anger for the all too

common way of thinking that rape victims are somehow at fault.

Ron Fintak, also a member of the Broader Vocabulary Cooperative, elaborated on this way of thinking, comparing it to blaming a homeowner for a burglary.

“The discussion needs to be changed from telling females ‘how not to be raped’ to telling males ‘don’t rape.’”

Jesse said a big problem sexual assault victims face is that there is only one 24-hour sexual assault treatment center in the area, at the Aurora Sinai Medical Center. This means victims are turned away at other hospitals that do not offer treatment and have to find their own resources. Jesse said hospitals need to either “provide treatment at their own facilities, or provide the transportation and resources to one that does.”

“There is no official policy within police departments that allow for advocates of victims to be in the rooms for support when they come forward,” Jesse said. “Most of the time victims leave police stations more upset than before they went in.”

Jesse estimated the number of participants in SlutWalk this year was around the same as last year. However, she did express disappointment in the turnout from UWM students. In the previous year a large UWM support group had attended, but this year only a few students took part.

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With the release of the schedule; will this be the year UW-Milwaukee men’s basketball goes dancing again?

By Nick Bornheimer Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com When will UW-Milwaukee men’s basketball return to their 2005 form?

For those that don’t know, 05’ was the last year the Panthers advanced to the NCAA tournament. Two years ago looked promising when the team was one win away from dancing, but they fell short to then national runner-up Butler.

Will this be the year? If the team can advance to the big dance, they’ll have to battle through a treacherous Horizon League.

The 2012-2013 schedules have been released, and there are no real scheduling surprises. The most notable game being the Dec. 22 game against the Wisconsin Badgers at the Kohl Center, but it’s conference play the will make or break the Panthers this season. The sudden departure of Butler knocks the number of conference games down to 16, and removes some league notoriety.

It wasn’t Butler atop the Horizon League last year, though – it was Valparaiso and Detroit. These are the early favorites to top the league, and the teams that UWM will need to take care of if they want to have a chance at greatness.

UWM is picked to finish fifth in the league behind Valparaiso, Detroit, Green Bay and Youngstown State respectively. Valparaiso will probably be the biggest test for UWM this season.

They finished 14-4 in conference last season and are returning with leading

scorer Ryan Broekhoff and rebounder Kevin Van Wijk.

Detroit is the other team that jumps out when you look at the schedule. Ray McCallum Jr. is again the favorite for Player of the Year in the conference, and don’t forget that Detroit received the automatic bid to the tournament last season after running through the Horizon League tournament, seemingly without effort.

Other teams that pose a threat include Green Bay, Youngstown State and Cleveland State. Green Bay will return their top four scorers from last year, Youngstown will return Kendrick Perry who averaged 16.8 points per game, and Cleveland, who began last season 20-4, usually give the Panthers a run for their money.

This season, the Panthers are without big man Tony Meier, court general Kaylon Williams and defensive force Ryan Allen, who graduated. Ja’Rob McCallum and the Boga brothers have transferred and it will be tough to overcome, but the acquisition of guard Jordan Aaron should help fill the void.

He averaged 14.3 points, 3.8 boards and 3.9 assists last season at Southeastern Community College in Iowa. The transfer player looks like he’ll be point guard number one on the depth chart.

Will UWM stir-up the Horizon League and get back to the big dance and gives fans a taste of what they had in 05’? The UWM faithful fans will be packing the K this year, cheering on the black and yellow in anticipation.

Chris Hill was part of UWM’s “Sweet 16” season in 2005

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Up the Hill following stellar basketball career

Chris Hill looks to contribute to UW-Milwaukee

By Alex Maring and Mitch Coey Special to the Post sports@uwmpost.com

Growing up in Chicago wasn’t easy for Chris Hill, but playing basketball in and outside of school made him tougher and life that much easier. As a child, watching Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win six championships in his hometown inspired Hill to work his way to the Division I basketball level.

Chris Hill, who is now in his second year at UW-Milwaukee working as the video coordinator, attended Whitney Young High School where he was a four year starter at point guard. After graduating high school, Hill received a scholarship to play basketball for the UWM Panthers.

The transition from playing at the high school level to a Division I college was a challenge for Hill initially. He explained how hard he had to work to become a starter on the basketball team.

“The biggest thing I struggled with was the physical part. I was about 145 [pounds], soaking wet with all my clothes on. I was getting in the weight room trying to get stronger,” Hill said.

Hill’s idol Michael Jordan had a pregame ritual. Naturally, Hill would develop his own habits as a player.

“I would only wear black socks, I had to wear black socks,” he said jokingly.

Hill didn’t get much playing time his freshman year and redshirted his sophomore year. During that time, he focused on mentally and physically preparing himself for the next season.

“I got the chance to travel, most redshirts don’t travel. I went everywhere, I practiced,” said Hill. “That redshirt year to the next year, [I was] getting mentally and physically stronger from being able to watch the game, we had a great year. That year we lost in the [NCAA] first round against Notre Dame, and getting so close to winning that game, it made me that much more hungry,” Hill said.

Hill divides his time between focusing on basketball and school, and says he always wanted to be a cop growing up.

“Growing up as a kid, I always liked to play cops and robbers with my cousins.

I wanted to be a cop, so I was a criminal justice major. I really enjoyed my criminal justice classes and I ended up double majoring in sociology and criminal justice.

One thing I was always good at was writing papers and you have to write a lot of papers in sociology,” Hill said.

Going into his junior year, Hill and his teammates were prepared to work and succeed. That season, the basketball team fell just short of the NCAA tournament and made it into the NIT. Going into the 2005-2006 season, Hill and his teammates were ready to qualify for the NCAA tournament. Hill explained the team’s approach that year and how they prepared together.

“Coming back that next year we were hungry, we wanted to make it to the NCAA tournament. Everybody was so focused. We worked so hard that summer. We had seen success, so coming back we were that much more focused,” he said.

All the hard work during the offsea-

son paid off. Hill and his teammates qualified for the NCAA tournament and reached the “Sweet 16” during the 20052006 season. Hill’s basketball career was not over after he graduated from UWM. Hill played four years of basketball overseas. His first year overseas, Hill played for Romania, his second year he played for Lithuania and his third year he played for half a year in Romania and half a year in the Ukraine. Hill finished his final year overseas in the Ukraine.

When asked what was different about playing basketball overseas, Hill stated, “The way they play is a little different.

One of the biggest problems I had when I first went over there was taking an outlet pass and taking that first step before putting the ball on the ground. I have never been caught for traveling so many times in my life. Over there, they want you to put the ball on the floor before you dribble. That was the biggest difference.”

Hill spent his first year working at UWM as an academic advisor for the men’s basketball team. Now in his second year, Hill is the video coordinator for the men’s basketball team. As video coordinator, Hill prepares game film for the coaches when they are scouting other teams. He also works with Chip Mackenzie, Director of Operations, doing community service. Hill hopes to work his way up at UWM and become an assistant coach.

When asked if he had any advice for new freshman, Hill said, “Keep your head down and just do the hard work.

Pay your dues, as cliché as it sounds, hard work pays off ”.

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Shakon key to Panthers success in 2012

Senior goal keeper looks to cap off impressive career as a Panther

By Zack Garhart Assistant Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com

Team captain and men’s goal keeper John Shakon found out that he was named Horizon League Defensive Player of the Week through a text message. The award, Shakon’s first, was earned by turning in a shutout performance against Northern Illinois at Northwestern’s Lakeside Classic, a game in which the Panthers would win 1-0 while retaining possession of the LeWang Trophy. The text, reading “congrats,” came from UWMilwaukee’s goalkeeper coach, shortly following the announcement from the Horizon League. Shakon was surprised by the prestigious award, yet his reaction was modest.

“Usually I don’t look at that kind of stuff, but when I got the message, I checked it out. I thought, ‘hey that’s pretty cool,’” Shakon said. “At the same time though, (you) can’t get caught up in that kind of stuff, just as long as I’m playing well.”

Solid individual performances, he

said, ultimately translate into success from the entire team. As a senior, Shakon leads both through his own elevated level of play, as well as his on the field responsibilities of ensuring each player is playing to their potential.

Like many other players on the team, Shakon is not a Milwaukee native. Growing up outside of Chicago, he played high school soccer at Hinsdale Central in Oakbrook, Illinois, where he racked up a number of individual accomplishments in his time at goalkeeper.

He was named Illinois Gatorade Soccer Player of the Year, earning All-State and NSCAA All-Midwest team honors as a senior and posting a school career record of 14 shut outs drew attention from big programs like Milwaukee, Loyola, University of Illinois-Chicago and George Washington. Yet, over the local schools, Milwaukee seemed to be the best fit for Shakon.

“I wanted to get out and try something new. The coaching staff at the time also drew me here,” he said.

Though the coaching staff underwent reconstruction since his arrival, Shakon

loves playing in Milwaukee.This year in particular, he has had no problem getting used to the new coaches. Though other players took a little longer to adjust, he said that the team has handled it very well and their success has reflected the overall team chemistry.

“It didn’t take too long for us to iron out the kinks,” he said. “We really hit the ground running once preseason came.”

Redshirting was another unforeseeable obstacle that Shakon highlighted as unique to being a college athlete. Upon arriving at UWM, the redshirt was placed and Shakon found the position to have a lot of depth.

“There were two seniors and one sophomore ahead of me when I got here,” he said. Redshirting was tough, but it ended up paying off as the two seniors graduated before he could become eligible. “The preseason battle came in my first year of eligibility and I beat out the guy ahead of me.”

He hasn’t looked back since and he has started nearly every single game from that point on. A few of his career highlights came in that first season. He recalls

the game against Butler being particularly special when he saved a penalty kick and made a number of great saves.

Again, it is not so much about individual statistics with Shakon because he emphasizes team efforts more than anything. As a captain, he said that it is one of his responsibilities to make sure the team is getting better every day at practice.

“We don’t want to be a team that peaks midseason. We want to be on the rise as the season goes on,” Shakon said.

“I’d rather just see us winning games, it’s not about statistics.”

After finishing 6-10-2 last season, conference play will be a huge key to measuring the team’s success at the end of the season. Most of the matches last season were closer than their overall record would reflect. Conference play will reveal the true identity of the team as they play against the programs that know them best. The Panthers take on Green Bay in the Chancellors Cup Wednesday night at Engelmann Field.

Ten years of Black Cat

After 10 years, ultimate frisbee has developed into

a program that students should take a look at

By Joe Horning Special to the Post sports@uwmpost.com

Photo courtesy of Black Cat Ultimate

If one asked a member of the UWMilwaukee Ultimate Frisbee team if it was just a casual hobby to them, it is quite possible that they would stare at that person in sheer disbelief. To many of these members, ultimate Frisbee is to them, what painting was to Picasso.

Ten years ago, in 2002, a group of UWM students formed the Black Cat Ultimate Frisbee team. In the ten years since, they have grown into two men’s teams and a women’s team. Every spring, they compete with other colleges in the USA-Ultimate League for the national title.

This past spring, the Black Cats came up just short of qualifying for the national tournament. According to team member and UWM junior Tim Posl, the whole team felt sadness after such a loss, but also took pride in all the hard work they had done during the season.

To players like Posl, ultimate is not just something to pass the time.

“It’s more than just a hobby or fun a thing to do on the weekends. Ultimate is

more a way of life at this point. I have met some of my closest friends through playing ultimate. I love being a part of Black Cat because it is more like a family than a team,” he said.

Posl feels like a lot of people write off Ultimate as an artificial sport, as if it is a bunch of people tossing a Frisbee around just for the heck of it. In reality, it is nothing like that; they work hard to be the best athletes they can be, just like any athlete in the schools NCAA sports.

This year the Black Cats have a lot of reason for hope. The Black Cats are now a part of the sports and rec department on campus and receive benefits they have never received before; such as practice time on Engelmann Field and more grants from the school. They also feel very confident about their team this year and hope to make another run at a national title this spring.

For those students interested in the team, anyone is welcome to come and play. They meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights at the lake front on Lincoln Memorial Drive just off of campus at 5:30 p.m. Men’s tryouts begin Oct. 2.

By Joe Horning Special to the Post sports@uwmpost.com Start ‘em: Week five is here. If you have anyone from the Packers, start them, especially the defense. If you thought last week’s game against the Saints was a buffet, the Colts are no better. Any skilled player for the New York Giants is also a hot item to start against a weak Browns defense. The Cardinals, Seahawks and Texans defenses face ripe opportunities against the Rams, Panthers, and Jets respectively. Ryan Matthews owners, he is a MUST START against the Saints.

Kyle Rudolph and Adrian Peterson are the only viable starters for a weak Vikings offense against a weak Titans defense.

With the Broncos having a rocky middle of their defensive backfield; Tom Brady will exploit it with Gronkowski for massive yards. The “Gronk” is a must start.

Finally, Andre Johnson is a definite start against a Jets defense that lost their allgalaxy corner Darrelle Revis.

Sit ‘Em: With the regular refs coming back, it’s time to bench those replacement refs.

Yes I know they’ve been giving you a lot of points (Seattle fans!), but they will be placed on the PUP List –Professionally Unable to Perform. (Joke credited to Editor Tony Atkins, patent pending.)

As usual, don’t start anyone from the Washington Redskins backfield. (I will never trust Mike Shanahan in fantasy. Ever.) In addition, the Cowboys, Lions, Raiders and Buccaneers are on a bye. Sorry Megatron owners. If you Fred Jackson or CJ Spiller owners finally get them back from injuries, you chose a bad week. The 49ers run defense doesn’t take anyone prisoner. (Well except maybe AP, but he’s AP.) Mike Vick owners, I know I’m hard on him, but the Steelers are no easy test. You’ll be lucky if he comes out with 1 fantasy point and an intact body.

Waiver Wire Watch: I told you last week to get Titus Young, now get his teammate, RB Mikel Leshoure. In his debut game he posted 100 yards and a TD, and he gives the Lions a legitimate running game. I mean wait till next week, obviously. Don’t be that guy starting a bye week player despite the fact Ahmad Bradshaw is back from injury; the Giants have stated Andre Brown will split work with him.

Brown is un-owned in majority of leagues and is a clearly better back. It won’t be long before he’s starting. Lastly, I know many of you saw the Seahawks shut the Packers down. Their defense is a hot item every week.

If you have questions I didn’t cover feel free to ask me on Twitter: (@ JoeHorning_). As a final warning, anything is possible on any given Sunday.

Schemes and game plans may change and you’re out of luck, but best of luck that they don’t.

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On the road

in Ohio James Ashcroft of men’s soccer gives

an inside look at life on the road

By James Ashcroft Special to the Post sports@uwmpost.com When it comes to being a Division I student athlete, there are many things that one must learn to deal with; practice, lifting, game days and of course school.

Many people admire and look up to what these athletes can achieve, and rightfully so. Working at the level which most professional athletes do in terms of practice and games is a lot to ask, and then there is the matter of juggling school work along side that too. Here is a glimpse into the daily life of a Division I soccer player.

When it comes to match days, we unfortunately aren’t able to play every game at Engelmann field in front of our terrific home support. This year we will host only eight of our 17 regular season games, so adapting to being on the road is something that our very young team is starting to learn.

On our second trip to Ohio, the team left for Bowling Green State University on a Monday afternoon in order to play in a Tuesday night game. This meant some classes would be missed, and many of the players were glued to their laptops

on the bus as they tried to catch up on homework.

Once at the hotel we found a restaurant to eat at, usually somewhere that can provide a supply of healthy food loaded with carbohydrates in preparation for the game. At the hotel, there are two players to a room and no set roommates because the coach believes each player should build a rapport with each individual team mate. That way team chemistry can be improved. The mornings consist of breakfast at the hotel, a jog and stretches before a pizza and pasta based pregame meal at a local restaurant.

The game itself was probably one of our better performances this season, even though it was a 2-1 victory for Bowling Green State. All of the statistics were in our favor; possession, corners, shots on goal. It was a bitter blow, considering the effort we put in, and it made the nine-hour bus drive back from Ohio feel a lot longer.

Teams experience a lot of emotions throughout the season. It truly is a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows. We will learn to bounce back from this defeat.

After all, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”.

Join SDS as we host two panelists cherrene Horazuk and Irma Santiago to focus on the struggles, hard work, and dedication displayed by women within the workplace and labor movement. Cherrene (president of AFSCME local 3800 at University Of Minnesota) and Irma Santiago (representative of the Palermo worker’s union) will share their experiences as women in the labor movement, and discuss how women are important to the labor movement, where they feel the war on women will go, and if they feel that a strong movement will arise from the war on women and working people.

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By Kevin Kaber Fringe Content Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

As you may already know, we at The Fringe are fairly excited about this year’s Milwaukee Film Festival. Over 200 films are showing on screens close to the Eastside (as opposed to the long commutes to suburban theaters in years past), all of which hold their own standing within the film community and make MFF a truly unique festival; there’s comedies, pieces from area artists, international films, horror flicks, shorts, docs and B-movies. With such an offering, there’s of course reason to celebrate.

Immediately following opening night’s forewords from Milwaukee Film administrators, Chris Abele, Tom Barrett and others was the screening of Starbuck, a raunchy French-Canadian film that riled the audience into an extended laughing fit – which was more than suitable for the famed MFF Opening Night Party.

Housed at Discovery World, MFF’s gala was a site for the creative-types, the cinephiles and the prominent. Though party goers, including myself, were diverse, they were bound by a love of cinema, free appetizers and booze.

Discovery World was split into several different venues and bar areas. A

tent on the north side of the building housed a stage and makeshift salon (yes, you could get your nails and hair done).

An outside venue with bar was home to a Chinese cultural demonstration and the Cinema Hooligante photobooth featuring a spider, which might be considered more realistic than the one featured in The Giant Spider Invasion, which Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt will present this Saturday. Happy to take pictures and stand next to girls, Borchardt was ever-present at the party – I got a chance to speak with him about presenting the B-movie and it went like this: “Bill Rebane, man. It’s gonna be awesome on 35mm, man. Yeah, thanks

for coming out man, see you on Saturday, it’s gonna be great, man.”

The third floor of the museum was perhaps set up to be the most upperechelon of the venues, with more formal attire per capita than the rest of the museum.

There were plenty of performances too, all of which were great. From breakdancing by the Gravity Benders Crew (where Borchardt was found to be omnipresent), to performances by Naima Adedapo, the great Harvey Scales, and a DJ set by the Madhatter (where plenty of white-haired and drunk donors and Milwaukee Film members were exuberantly dancing), there was plenty to keep

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the partiers entertained. The free drink tickets were spent wisely and with haste.

There’s plenty to be excited about during the MFF season. The opening night party, while not free to the general public, is by far one of Milwaukee’s great creative events, not to mention the festival itself. Unless of course that one guy succeeds at making Milwaukee the new Hollywood by blowing up a car downtown (of whom was in attendance and I’m sure subject to plenty of local filmmakers’ sneers), the Milwaukee Film Festival is the city’s premiere film event and, as successful as it’s been so far, is something that we all should be proud of. read our selected MFF reviews on page 11

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By Steven Franz Fringe Media Editor fringe@uwmpost.com NPR’s Radiolab, an hour-long program with occasional shorter podcastonly segments, has rapidly swept the corner of the pop-culture world that devours podcasts to become regarded as one of the most innovative and absorbing programs in production today. Like The Moth or Ira Glass’s influential This American Life, it can be termed a storytelling program; that is, it concerns the personal narratives of a diverse variety of everyday people – their struggles, their ideals, their goals, their life experiences – which it presents as stories, sometimes quite theatrically, with musical accompaniment and narration. But unlike other programs, which are more about endearing and uplifting stories of everyday life, Radiolab is specifically about science. It’s grounded in actualities and provable phenomena – in fact, the basic structure of the show is usually an explanation of how something in the universe actually works – rather than existentialism or perception. That’s not to say there’s no poetry in the narratives, quite the opposite; but the poetry Radiolab does find is more about the experience of the natural world and its size, scope, and wonder – even its flaws.

Radiolab’s main point – that the universe is beautiful – explains its somewhat cultish following, which is composed of a generation of young, technologicallyconnected intellectuals (it certainly helps that in the 21st century, it appears to be cool to be a nerd) who are naturally inclined to science. It also provides the essential connection between Radiolab the radio show and Radiolab the live show – there needs to be some level of visual panache in the equation in order for the leap from the darkness to the light to be made. With its focus on beauty, narrative, music, and scale, the show – dubbed Radiolab Live: In the Dark – was able to take form as a combination variety show, concert, recital, and avant-garde video installation, and came to Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater on Saturday night.

The abstractness of the radio allowed

for a particularly artistic expressionism to the proceedings – having co-hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich sit by themselves and talk at one another would be boring – and without any predetermined, concrete imagery to accompany the radio program, the project’s directors were able to freely invent their own visual aesthetic. The dance/performance art troupe Pilobolus provided most of the accompanying visuals, which ranged from elaborately-choreographed dance numbers to minimalist experimentation with the projection of images.

The theme of the show was light and dark – manifested through sight and blindness, mostly – another concept which lent itself to the program’s fascinating live aesthetic. At one point, Abumrad and Krulwich led the audience through the step-by-step evolution of the human eye, which culminated in a working model of an eyeball through which an actual image could be discerned. And, during the closing segment of the program – in which every audience member held up a tiny white light bulb to simulate the stars in the sky – Pilobolus used simple light play to project the shadow of a dancer, playing an astronaut, onto the stage’s backdrop as he acted out the narrated story of a spacewalker experiencing a brilliant and blinding sunrise.

Other elements of the show included live comedy from Kids in the Hall veteran Dave Foley (one might ask whether dick jokes and serious science are really all that compatible) and a segment where two blind men engaged in a debate over whether picturing the real world was an impediment to reality and an impediment to truth, or whether it was the natural human condition to visualize everything.

And Radiolab composer Thao Nguyen, herself an indie rock singer/songwriter, provided both live musical cues as well as more than one song to complete the show’s particularly vaudevillian concept.

The absorbing chemistry between Krulwich and Abumrad, along with the unique and vibrant production design, made Radiolab Live: In the Dark a fascinating, entertaining and uplifting experience far into the dark of the night.

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By Steven Franz Fringe Media Editor fringe@uwmpost.com The way Green Day placed the first single from their new album ¡Uno! as the last track speaks volumes about the way modern culture consumes music – singles don’t exist as gateways to albums anymore; they’re the musical short film that wets the appetite and serves as placeholder in the expectation of the larger thing that exists almost separate from them. This is the music industry that the 24-year veterans have suddenly awoken to find themselves a part of, and they don’t exactly like it. Disregarding Billie Joe Armstrong’s apparently intoxicant-fueled rant against the iHeartRadio Music Fest, ¡Uno! – part of a threealbum trilogy whose sequels will be appropriately titled ¡Dós! and ¡Tré! – seems to be the byproduct of sheer dissatisfaction, with both a changing industry and the rapid marginalization of rock music that, for Green Day especially, was once platinum-selling material.

“Kill the DJ” is the best example of this, a four-on-the-floor dance track that serves as a rallying cry against conservative Christian culture and, you know, a death warrant for electronica DJs. It’s also easily the worst track on the album, a mocking whiner that defeats its own purpose by sounding like Franz Ferdinand filtered through pop radio.

But like “Kill the DJ,” ¡Uno! as an album breathes with an anger that Green Day has rarely possessed, even on the explicitly political “rock operas” that made up the bulk of their ‘00s material. “Let Yourself Go” is a firebrand of a bile-filled anthem, a truly angry rant about a certain egocentric compatriot that may or may not be Ben Weasel. This isn’t political rage – although an element thereof certainly shows itself – it’s personal rage.

Billie Joe just feels wronged. “We never had anything in common and I never liked you anyway,” he growls on “Loss of Control.”

It’s an anger tempered only by forays into upbeat retro pop-punk romanticism that seem as much a product of Armstrong’s reaction against the radio as his fury at DJ culture, as with lead single (and tucked away closer) “Oh Love” and “Fell For You.” But even the romance seems dangerous; “Fell For You” is littered with images of crashes and violence (“Angel Blue,” another love song, features images of cemeteries and suicide) that suggest something more sinister, more hazardous, more thrilling.

The pop punk, however, is refreshingly honest; Green Day sounding like Green Day (for once). ¡Uno! is an album of appropriate rage, as opposed to the broad, cartoonish political target practice of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. It’s also, not coincidentally, the finest punk rock Green Day has recorded since the 1990s, but that’s what happens when you’re existentially pissed.

Lupe Fiasco hasn’t exactly had the easiest year and a half. In addition to recent controversies involving remarks made about him on Twitter and misinterpretations of some of his lyrics by journalists and academics, his March 2011 release, Lasers, had been denigrated by fans and critics. Lupe was accused of recording, what was perceived to be, a project of Atlantic Records that pandered to pop radio sensibilities.

Those fans will be glad to know Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 is essentially the opposite of Lasers, both stylistically and thematically, lacking in any sing-along hooks or karaoke-friendly tracks.

Especially notable here is the album cover: blacked out and devoid of any images aside from a small (and in my opinion, unnecessary) parental advisory sticker. This can be interpreted in several different ways as you listen to the Food & Liquor II, one of them being that Lupe didn’t want any distractions from his message. His lyrics are delivered straight-forward and bluntly on “Strange Fruition,” the first full song on the album. Lupe comes out of the gate swinging: “Now I can’t pledge allegiance to your flag / ‘cause I can’t find no reconciliation with your past // When there was nothing equal for my people in your math / You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads” The blacked-out cover could also be said to stand for the overall darker tone compared with 2006’s Food & Liquor. Though that album dealt with many of the same topics, such as urban blight, politics and pop culture, much of its optimism has been supplanted. While he’s not overtly angry, Lupe conveys a sense of urgency and indignation on songs such as “Lamborghini Angels” (about Project MK ULTRA and the Maywand District murders) and “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free):” “It’s parts of Manilla like the video for ‘Thriller’ / But the U.S. embassy is reminiscent of a villa // If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla / Then what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophilia?”

Lupe also examines the use of the word “bitch” in hip hop on “Bitch, Bad” and gives a shout out to the creativity of the ghetto on “Hood Now,” but with 17 tracks, Food & Liquor II seems to drag along at times. This is apparently because much of the material was recorded with the idea that it would be part of a double album.

While Food & Liquor II isn’t quite as entertaining as the original, it can hold its own amongst Lupe’s best work. This album is less about theatrics and showmanship, and more about opening a dialogue amongst the politically and economically disenfranchised.

Yep, it’s still going on and yes, we’re still excited. Compliance, the Milwaukee Show, The Giant Spider Invasion, and Klown are at the top of our list of mustsees this week.

Aesop Rock

(Monday | Turner Hall Ballroom | 7:00 p.m.)

Hailing from San Francisco, alternative hip hop producer and performer Aesop Rock stops at Turner to promote his latest album, Skelethon. Get down for less than 20 bones, yo.

Jim Breuer

(Thursday | Turner Hall Ballroom | 7:00 p.m.)

You may know him as SNL’s Goat Boy or Dave Chappelle’s counterpart in Half Baked, parts which help define what Jim Breuer’s standup is like. Join him as he defends himself from always looking high.

Dead Man’s Carnival

(Friday | Miramar Theatre | 7:00 p.m.)

Partake in one of the finest traveling circuses out there today. Dead Man’s Carnival is chock full of bizarre obscurities.

Heat it Up! Milwaukee’s Bloody Mary & Chili Challenge

(Saturday | Cathedral Square Park | 10:00 a.m.)

Some of Milwaukee’s greatest eateries will face off in the Bloody Mary and Chili Challenge. $20 for unlimited servings, which will come in handy as you will be acting as judge.

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Digital verite End of Watch’s subjective realness

By Steven Franz Fringe Media Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

Cinema verite is dying as a form of documentary expression precisely because it’s being wielded by fictional films as a way of creating falseness. The style works so incredibly well as a fictional storytelling tool and fabricates realness so fully that its stylistic nature is replacing its realistic nature. Basically, films like Project X, Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity, etc., by virtue of so readily adopting documentary style to achieve fictional ends, are invalidating documentary filmmaking’s ability to use the style for nonfiction. What’s the point of using cinema verite to tell the truth if it's being shown to be so good at telling lies?

The documentary form has stayed mostly the same since the 1960s, when cinema verite style was introduced by travelogue auteurs like Jean Rouche, and its stagnancy has only led to the rapid expedition of the necessity for change.

Films have been made since cinema verite’s wildly successful introduction that have made use of the style to achieve fiction – most notably mockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap and Best In Show, although other, more serious films (like Peter Watkins’ 1965 Oscar-winning “documentary” about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on England, The War Game) have also utilized the form. But there was never an embedded challenge to cinema verite’s objectivity, no subversion of its ability to reflect actual reality until now, in our modern, changed, digitized cinema environment. The War Game was determined, even though it was entirely fictionalized, to actually be a fully scientific documentary of the probable outcome of war, and was never considered by either Watkins or the viewing public of its era (certainly not Academy voters) to be anything other than truthful. And mockumentaries were (and are) intended to be satire, obviously fictional but never a direct challenge to objectivity. There is no implanted reality in them; cinema verite style is not used to involve the viewer, but wielded rather as a mediating tool to add a layer of ironic self-awareness that emphasizes the film’s fiction by juxtaposing its realness with the patent ridiculousness of its writing.

But when The Blair Witch Project debuted in 1999, a film so forward-thinking and subversive in the way it utilized its “realist” style that it actually tricked a great deal of people into thinking it was real. Thus, the first actual challenge to cinema verite’s assumed realism was presented. The ultimate result of that film was the beginning of a stylistic revolution – End of Watch, David Ayer’s new “found footage” cop film, even borrows

Blair Witch’s premise of being the result of a student film that’s been used to document a horrific experience – but in its time, it was regarded as a unique curiosity. Its engagement was with home video aesthetic, not digital filmmaking (as with End of Watch) per se, and before the compounded predominance of the Internet, it had more to do with widelycirculated cult VHS tapes, a culture of sharing that was by its nature hidden, and it had to be physically “discovered” at a later date instead of experienced in the real-time streaming narrative of internet reality that modern, fully digitalized found footage cinema has used to its advantage.

End of Watch, which is also consciously invoking traditional stylistic realism, is doing so much more potently than films like The Blair Witch Project (or even newer films like the monsterinvasion Cloverfield or the now-classic Paranormal Activity franchise, which still rely on the idea of being “found”) because of both its fully-complete, pseudo-documentary narrative – as opposed to the supposed real-time experience of, say, Cloverfield – as well as the experiential, subjective internet society in which it’s being produced. Within the film itself, Jake Gyllenhaal’s Brian Taylor is constantly recording – not filming – his exploits as part of a film school project, which includes all aspects of his life – weddings, station life, his beat and of course the film’s larger conspiratorial plot – as opposed to an isolated, continuous experience or a randomly-assembled series of discrete incidents.

This fully documentarian construction could lead End of Watch to be considered a mockumentary – a style which gives careful credence to plot, character, and story as the interconnected elements of a larger work of conscious narrative fiction – as opposed to a found footage film which posits itself as a replication of experienced reality (It is, after all, supposed to be an assembled documentary, as opposed to a collection of discovered footage presented without filmmaking interference). There is an essential subjectivity to End of Watch, however, that operates against not just found footage fiction, but mockumentary style as well.

Both found footage style and mockumentary style attempt to replicate the cinema verite documentation of What Actually Happened, with mockumentary slipping in a conscious, absurdist distanciation, while found footage films imitate the supposedly objective omniscience of the camera lens (Paranormal Activity 3 even goes so far as to splice itself together from nothing but surveillance camera video that’s not even operated by human interference).

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Experimental quilting at its finest

The Union Art Gallery’s perspective shift

By Maddy Hughes Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com Whatever it is that people imagine when they think of quilting, it probably isn’t images of naked, gorgeous women posing with attitude. But this is exactly what is representing the Union Art Gallery’s current exhibit, Throw: Innovation in Modern Quilting, running until Oct. 13. Applying playful and creative technique to a traditional craft, the show exemplifies what it is to turn artistry on its head and ignore formulaic standards. The outcome is a treasure of works that incorporates fresh ideas and traces of each artist’s individuality.

How is this accomplished? The exhibit includes the works of seven artists: nine quilts and 15 mixed-media pieces, all of which are quilted at their core. Stationed all over the U.S., each artist has a distinct vision and endeavor for how to broaden a narrow conception of quilting.

For instance, Maura Ambrose made quilts to represent 50 states in her “50 American States Series,” inspired from a nationwide road trip whose purpose was to attend the weddings of many friends getting married within a short span of time.

Ambrose was picked up to sell her work at a chain of stores by Levi’s brand, called Made Here and headed by Jay Carroll.

Ambrose runs a professional studio and contributes her naturally dyed quilts from her own small business Folk Fibers in Austin, Texas. The exhibit features a short

advertorial film that paints Ambrose as an artist’s artist—someone who embraces and delights in the imperfection of materials, grows her own indigo plants (she grew 500 in one year), and recognizes that there is still great potential with limited resources.

This is the kind of business from which it feels good to buy a product, simply because of the hard work, honesty, and appreciation that is so apparent from Ambrose.

Artist Sherri Lynn Wood shares a spotlight in the show as well with her brightly colored, uniquely patterned quilts that are reminiscent of the scenery in a Dr. Seuss story. She adorns the quilt’s swirls of colors with glossy thin beads following each other in the curvy lines around the border in one named “Red Edge.” Though they are not displayed side by side, her trademark style is obvious in quilts on the other side of the gallery.

Wood’s other work demonstrates versatility remarkable in such a trade that typically stays true to a one-dimensional visual appeal. She works with families dealing with the death of a loved one to create a quilt that is a symbol and reminder of their presence. To do this she uses the clothing they left behind as the material, and actually allows the family to put it together as part of their healing process. Wood is not only an artist, but also a true art therapist. What a meaningful use for something commonly considered a simple hobby.

Then there is Greely Myatt, the exhibit’s only male artist, who makes pieces that step outside the boundaries of quilt-

ing but still aesthetically reference it. He uses alternative materials to create patterns in the fashion of a real quilt in his pieces “Ocean Waves” made from road signs, and “Reoccuring Storm” which looks exactly like a bunch of overlapping cartoon talk bubbles (whose only messages are those of colored designs) and is made with relief printing, and chine colle. While this is not technically quilting, Myatt’s work speaks to what quilting can teach us, or inspire us to make.

Finally, it is Julie Floersch whose work is responsible for the naked model referenced earlier. Floersch focused on small, intricate jean quilting in the past but has since gone in an entrepreneurial direction with her own accessory company, Kwilti.

The gallery shows a pair of sneakers she re-fashioned with quilted jean and colored cloth, three pairs of earrings made from quilted material into “pyramid studs” as she calls them, each with their own name for their unique funky patterns, and three large, edgy necklaces in a similar style.

Floersch’s work realizes the possibilities of function and form using quilts and, again, re-defines the classic craft in a modern brand.

You may have thought that quilting was an activity reserved for bored housewives, but these artists, along with the rest in this gallery, are the perfect nonconformists to challenge your previously held assumptions. Visit the Throw exhibit before Oct. 13 for a change of perspective.

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MFF 2012:

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Selected Fringe staff reviews

By Fringe Staff fringe@uwmpost.com Starbuck (Ken Scott | Canada | 2011) The Milwaukee Film Festival’s opening picture wasn’t what you’d see at many other film festival opening nights. Starbuck, an uproarious comedy about sperm, fatherhood and masculinity was met with the packed Oriental Theater’s full attention.

A generation after ultra-slacker David donates tens of thousands of dollars worth of his potent seed under the name Starbuck, 142 of his estranged offspring seek to know David’s identity. Alerted by the sperm bank’s lawyer and on a quest to prove his adult masculinity to his family and pregnant girlfriend, David begins “fathering” his children unbeknownst to anyone else.

A truly spectacular comedy, Starbuck is at large a perfect combination of comic timing, zingers and sexual and physical comedy. Though at times the film falls down the path of forced melodrama, Starbuck will likely maintain a status of being one of MFF’s funniest entries.

I Want My Name Back (Roger Paradiso | USA | 2011) Tracing the troubled history of the founding fathers of hip hop, The Sugarhill Gang, is no small task.

Having introduced the world to hip hop with the 1979 hit “Rapper’s Delight,” without The Sugarhill Gang, today’s hip hop and rap scenes would be incredibly different, and may not even exist at all. The cultural implications and financial success of the single 15 minute track is discussed in Milwaukee’s own Roger Pardiso’s I Want My Name Back.

Rooting all the way back to Sylvia and Joe Robinson’s founding of Sugarhill Records and subsequent release of “Rapper’s Delight,” Paradiso follows the band’s quick ascent to superstardom and descent into poverty and utter namelessness.

Unbeknownst to many, the Robinson family trademarked and copyrighted much of the Sugarhill Gang’s work and even the members’ stage names and never paid any of the millions of dollars of royalties to the men behind the smash hit. In the last decade or so the Gang has begun to fight back, with only modest victories against the undeservingly wealthy Robinsons (of whom have acted as the members of the Sugarhill Gang).

Paradiso’s documentary, though loaded with information that isn’t well known, has its own setbacks.

Jagged storytelling and repeated facts make the doc somewhat difficult to keep track of, though the Sugarhill Gang’s story is interesting in its own right.

V/H/S (Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence, Ti West | USA | 2012) Horror films often get a bad rap.

Many are cheesy, hastily thrown to-

gether messes of gratuitous ultraviolence and sex derived from the same stories of yesteryear. MFF’s first entry in the Cinema Hooligante program, V/H/S, understands these issues and plays with the genre fittingly.

In a found-footage styling, a group of candid pornographers and vandals accept a job offer that has them searching an abandoned house to retrieve a videotape. The vandals arrive to find a man slouched over dead in front of a half dozen televisions displaying the blue screens of ended video cassettes (á la David Foster Wallace’s great novel Infinite Jest). The hoodlums begin rewinding and watching the tapes, each depicting its own horror story, all the while terrifying things begin to occur in the house.

This method of horror story-telling is nothing new (think Palahniuk’s shorts collection Haunted and the 80’s camp delight Heavy Metal), but by no means is it popular to many horror directors. V/H/S freshens up the horror genre with short-and-to-thepoints-we-horror-fans-like-the-most vignettes that almost sway towards the comical but keep everything disgustingly violent.

J. Hoberman Jim Hoberman (known in his field by his first initial) is one of the most significant living film critics, but since his unexpected termination from his longtime home, the Village Voice – a telling insight into the state of, um, print journalism, ahem – his fame seems to have skyrocketed even further. His latest book, Film After Film, debuted to tremendous acclaim, and cemented him as one of the leading minds in the study of cinema in the 21st century as it makes the technological leap from celluloid to digital, and from theatrical distribution to interactive, online distribution. He was also invited to be one of the centerpiece guests at this year’s film festival, where he spoke Sunday afternoon.

Hoberman isn’t a commanding personality, nor a particularly compelling live speaker. He mostly let his preexisting words speak for him, reading directly from Film After Film, a fact that was slightly disappointing to those who had already devoured the volume, but was irrelevant to those in the audience who hadn’t already given thought to his somewhat provocative ideas about cinema – that digital technology has changed it, revoking its relationship to the tangible world, and that with the innovation of CGI technology, the history of the filmic medium can now be considered simply the history of animation.

Hoberman was also on-hand this weekend to present two films: Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983) and David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006), both of which are in some way related to his ideas about cinematic, non-indexical reality, the former in philosophy and the latter in technology. Both are great films, and both, by coincidence, happen to be very long, but that can’t really be held against anyone.

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

Lowering drinking age

only way to solve tensions

UWM, students, neighborhood association

and MPD all share blame in police crackdown To say the current relationship between UW-Milwaukee students, the university, the Milwaukee Police Department and the permanent residents in the campus’ surrounding neighborhoods is contentious would be a grievous understatement. The last month has seen over 50 student arrests and a litany of accusations in a blame game that has pitted neighbors against students and students against the police, all while the university sits idly by.

The problem with this blame game is that we can’t point a finger at just one perpetrator and tell them to get their act together. That’s because everyone is at fault in some way or another.

Students feel unfairly targeted in this situation, and maybe that’s the case. It sucks to spend your first weekends back at school in an authoritative and threatening environment, wondering if you’ll get arrested or not. And you may feel like drinking and partying is your God-given college right.

After all, we do live in Milwaukee, where drinking is engrained in our culture.

While there’s nothing wrong with having a good time, – even the police will tell you that – you have to be responsible about it. This whole police crackdown is not an effort to stop underage drinking; it’s to stop the people that are too loud and disruptive and are destroying their neighbors’ property. It is noise complaints that lead police to underage drinking busts. If the cops can hear your music from 50 feet away, they are going to be suspicious. So, if you don’t want to get arrested, just keep it down. Also keep in mind that the police cannot force their way into a party. If you don’t want to arouse suspicion, lock your doors and limit the number of drunken people that stagger in and out of your home.

Don’t let a few idiots give all UWM students a bad name.

Students should also take the permanent residents in the campus’ surrounding neighborhoods into consideration. These people were a part of the

community – many for decades – before you arrived, and they will be a part of the community after you are gone.

They have the same right as students to be there and enjoy all the great things the community has to offer.

However, neighbors are not completely blameless either. Some residents have commented that student partying is the worst it’s ever been.

That may be so, but calling the cops on students is the wrong way to build a relationship; it will only add to the hostility and resentment.

Neighbors also can’t assume that UWM students are the only culprits.

By looking at the arrest records, it is clear there are also non-students causing problems. It’s more of a 60/40 breakdown.

While members of the neighborhood associations may think students don’t respect them or their property, students often feel the same way, forming a huge disconnect between the two parties. If neighbors want to engender a better relationship with students, they should welcome them to take part in neighborhood associations and contribute to the community.

One idea that may help control the noise in neighborhoods is providing events like underage music shows. Many students under 21 cannot get into weekend events around Milwaukee because they are held in bars or establishments that serve alcohol. Also, if there was a student discount with the purchase of tickets more students would be excited to go to events in the city. If students found it cheaper and more rewarding to go to other fun events, they wouldn’t spend so much time patronizing the house parties in campus neighborhoods.

The police have also played a part in this crackdown saga. What students need to understand is that the police crackdown is reactionary. The department was getting so many complaints through the neighborhood association’s “Report it, Record it” program that they had to respond. The neigh-

borhood association is taking a hard line stance on the situation, so the police department felt like it had no choice but to do the same. However, educating students by hauling them off to jail pushed it a bit too far. Now the relationship between students and the police is strained. If there are problems, students will now hesitate to contact the police because they feel targeted, like they’ll get in trouble.

Capt. Stephen Basting of the Milwaukee Police Department said the police can’t ticket their way out of this situation, which is completely true. UWM students just don’t care.

And it shouldn’t be the police department’s problem to come up with a solution. That’s where UWM comes in.

UWM lives in an idealistic world where they think educating students about the dangers of underage drinking and house parties – in such forms as emails or a brochure – will be enough to keep students tucked up safe in their dorm rooms at 1:00 a.m. on a Saturday night. Well, this approach is a joke.

Students don’t take these reminders or pamphlets seriously. Unfortunately, though, there isn’t much else the university can do.

That is why we think the only solution that might work is to lower the state drinking age to 18, therefore taking kids away from the neighborhoods and into the bars. We know this argument is one of the oldest in the book.

But since Sept. 1, 1986, Wisconsin residents have had to wait until they were 21 to legally drink. Why 21? Well that’s the age of majority – a concept that dates back centuries in English common law that says 21 is the age at which a person could vote and become a knight. Despite the stupidity of that concept, the state won’t back down on the law. To do so would decrease Wisconsin’s annual federal highway allowance by 10 percent. And in these tough economic times, that is money the state can ill afford to lose.

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Lower tuition would bring

in more out-of-state students

In response to Chancellor urges

reflection of UWM values I love how they want to seek out-of-state students that have to pay twice as much to boost enrollment. Maybe if they dropped their out of state rate, more out-of-state residents would actually come to UW-Milwaukee. Their out-of-state tuition is outrageous!

Corey Wood

Student commuter tired of irrational parking policies The enforcement of irrational policies does little more than frustrate students looking to park at the Pavilion or Northwest Quadrant parking ramps. Recently, I tried parking in the Pavilion ramp when spaces became available. The worker explained that although a car just left, creating a fourth open space, that the three arriving cars were not allowed to enter because at least “five spots must be open before letting any more in.” This after having already turned around once earlier seeing the “Lot Full” sign, checked the NW Quadrant (also full, entry gate closed with no worker in sight) and returned to try to find a metered parking spot in the Pavilion (none available), then being temporarily relieved to see the car mentioned above, leaving.

Realizing that the worker was simply enforcing a policy, I brought the issue to the Parking & Transit Office, where the irrational excuse was made that the policy is designed to prevent long lines from building at the entrances. As any commuter student can attest, the rule fails to accomplish that, as long lines will always build during the peak arriving hours. The office was indifferent to the logic that after the peak arriving hours when the lot fills, that it is in fact more rational to have workers monitor and track the exit and entry of cars. A pencil & paper would facilitate this. The office simply reiterated their illogic, going so far as to say that although students pay for these parking spots through tuition, they are not entitled to the spots as they become available, only when the workers “determine to let them in.”

This policy puts the workers in the position of having to explain to frustrated students, who can see spots become available, that an arbitrary threshold must be met before they’re allowed in. This irrational policy should be ended in favor of using the simple, more efficient method described above. The (college) student workers are capable and commuting students have already paid for these spots.

Anonymous

Know when to say when In response to “Party to a crime”

What, are you guys a bunch of goofs or something? The UWM Post actually authorized the decision to publish a picture of some idiot sucking down beer from a keg, just because he asked you to?

You guys have got to know when to say when.

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Is junk food really cheaper?

Eating healthy doesn’t have to be hard on your wallet

By Brittney Adekola Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com It seems ridiculous that if you try to eat healthy you have to pay an arm and a leg for it. McDonald’s has their dollar menu, and that seems to be the cheapest and fastest option for many people. But it does make you wonder if junk food is really that much cheaper than the salad you could buy at a sit-down restaurant.

A study released earlier this year by the Department of Agriculture found that fruits and vegetables are cheaper than some foods that are high in fat and salt. Although it does depend on the foods you purchase and your eating habits, you may be able to have a balanced meal that isn’t too costly and will feed your entire family.

The availability of healthy foods comes down to two factors: where you live and how much you make. A grocery store with health food options may not be easily accessible or in walking distance for some people who don’t have a car. Do I think eating out too much is a bad idea?

Yes. Can it be stopped? Well, maybe if you have the discipline. But it can be especially hard for college students. That's why everyone keeps saying, “You'll gain the freshman 15!”

If you’re stressed out and have a lot on your plate (pun intended), you’re not go-

ing to want to go home and make dinner.

You may feel like you're too busy or just feel too lazy to do it. But, in the amount of time you spend on Facebook or watching TV, you could definitely make a decent meal.

Junk food isn’t necessarily cheaper than healthy foods because it will all add up in the end. You could spend $10 at the store to make a meal that will last a few days, or get one Big Mac meal that costs close to $5. I know some people who are already planning not to take their future children to McDonald’s, but I don’t think it needs to be that extreme. Kids should experience the golden arch and order a happy meal like most of us did.

There just need to be boundaries set aside for people so that unhealthy eating can be limited. But that is easier said than done. I know, because it’s something I have a problem with too. With juggling homework, a job and an internship, making a home-cooked meal doesn’t seem very ideal to me.

The best thing to do is limit the amount of days you eat out. For me, it won’t be too much of a challenge to limit fast food eating to once a week, although the temptation can be worse if you have a car, which makes it so much easier to go to a drive thru even though it makes more sense to go to the grocery store.

Students compete with immigrants for jobs

Businesses often choose to hire someone they can underpay

By Sandra Padilla Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com Having a job while attending college is more than essential; it provides money and the opportunity to build a resume and network. During the summer, I decided to get my first job. I was sure I’d land one quickly, considering I have various skills, like knowing multiple languages. The fact that I was getting interview calls the day after I applied made me even more encouraged.

I first looked into “luxury” restaurants in the Third Ward because I wanted to be a server. I like interacting with others, not to mention the prospect of the good tips I could receive. However, a month into the summer, I was getting nothing but interviews. Why was an intelligent college student not getting any job offers?

As the summer passed, I had applied to at least 10 different locations, but nada. Some people said, “Well, you’re supposed to apply at least three months before you need the job.” This is true, but the people who were getting hired over me weren’t concerned. So I took a moment to rewind and look back at everything I had experienced while trying to land a job. First off, I remembered the nice and well trained employees that would open the door for me and lead me into the human resource offices. I thought about the questions asked during the interviews. The fact that the national economic situation is not very good also lingered in my mind.

Eventually I realized the employees that usually led me into the fancy offices were clearly immigrants. Perhaps what gave it away was that they did not speak English fluently. Looking back, most workers in these businesses were from other countries. All of these luxury places – which are known to have big money – were choosing people they could underpay. This seemed unjust for me as a student, and also reflected on

how unfair it was for someone who came from another country and needed to support their family.

I decided to Google: “the benefits of hiring an immigrant.” Running across greaterhalifax.com, I found some interesting insight. “Many companies have not yet tapped into the vast potential that lies in hiring immigrants,” the site said. Another site, smallbusiness.chron. com, stated the advantages, such as reduced labor cost, business expansion and workforce diversity, and disadvantages, like employee resistance, language barriers and legal issues. The best benefit I found was the reduced labor costs, because there is always “someone willing to work for a lower wage than those born and raised in America.” But smallbusiness.chron.com also urged owners to “protect against possible charges of reverse discrimination,” as well as to “ensure the necessary documents, such as green cards.”

Being a student, almost any job is a way to make decent money, but there are a lot of people out there, including recent graduates, who have had difficulties getting jobs in their fields. As a result, graduates are often forced to conform in order to land an opening. Latina magazine agreed with this notion, saying the “recession gets bad enough for people to accept jobs in the low end of the spectrum.” But the truth is we aren’t competing with immigrants; we are just being pushed aside by a business notion that says “we benefit from reduced labor costs.”

Needless to say, I was very surprised to learn what I did from my first taste of the real world. I experienced something I wouldn’t have normally noticed, but it makes sense now. So when you go to a restaurant, pay attention to who is making your food and/or serving it; these hardworking employees might be underpaid, but at least they aren’t going unpaid. And, as for me, I landed a good “student” job eventually.

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Dysfunctional family

SA and UWM administration should try implementing cooperation and communication

By Justin Kane Welch Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com *For inclusive purposes, this column uses the personal pronouns per/per/pers/ pers/perself Some of you may have read a previous column I wrote in the Freshman Welcome edition of the UWM Post. In this column, I gave a brief description and explanation of the Student Association (SA) at UW-Milwaukee. Now, I will give my opinion of this body, as well as its relationship to the UWM administration.

For those of you who were on campus last year and even for those new to UWM, it may seem that the SA is dysfunctional. It is. It may also seem that its relationship to the UWM administration is dysfunctional. It is. I liken this relationship, appropriately enough, to a student who graduated high school three months ago and is now starting college.

We, the students, through the SA, are the new college student, and the UWM administration is our parent. Yes, we, as a new student, may be eighteen and able to legally act as adults in most respects.

Our parents – always looking out for our “best interests” – may think differently about our decisions and decide to make them for us, or tell us how to make them.

In my opinion, this relationship is the underpinning of the current contention

Fail

Mary

By Nic Waldron Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com

The NFL is in a bad situation right now. Although Commissioner Roger Goodell and his administration are, by all accounts, too arrogant to realize it, they have fucked up bad – real bad – and thousands, if not millions, of people know it.

Over 70,000 calls were made to Goodell’s office by angry fans before his line was disconnected after last Monday night’s now infamous “Fail Mary” play.

This included one from me, where – in understanding that my voicemail would probably never actually be listened to – I drunkenly and irately slurred something to the effect of Goodell and his sock puppets being “scumfucking asspiles.”

Although the Fail Mary play was the catalyst, it’s a lot more than just boozefueled cheese-heads and twittering Green Bay players who are rightfully spewing bile about the actions of the scab refs. Their in-over-their-heads ineptitude over the past three weeks created a margin of error wide enough to call the entire NFL season into question – a situation that has afforded support for both the Packers and the once locked-out NFL officials’ union from a broad and very telling variety of sources.

between the SA and the UWM administration. For those of you who have looked into what the SA is, what it does or how it came to be, you might have come across Wisconsin State Statute 36.09(5). This statute –and subsequent court and legislative action – is part of Chapter 36 of the Wisconsin State Statutes which gives the students of the universities of the UW System the “right to organize themselves in a manner they determine and to select their representatives to participate in institutional governance.” This includes the allocation of certain student fees and the “primary responsibility for the formulation and review of policies concerning student life, services and interests.” What neither the SA nor the administration rarely talks about, at least in open forums, is that this statute needs to have an implementation plan to be effective.

Herein lies the problem, as well as the key to my analogy.

This great responsibility given to students and administration alike is to compromise on key issues for the common good of the university and the students.

Where this becomes a problem is when the parties stop communicating effectively. The parents (remember, UWM administration) and the student (SA) both know the student is old enough to make decisions for perself, but how to go about doing that becomes a problem. The parent likes making some of the decisions

and doesn’t want to give up the authority or responsibility. The student wants the freedom to do what per has the right to do. Both parties go about trying to do what they think they can and should do without communicating effectively with the other. On both sides, meetings are held, decisions are made and secrets are kept, but nothing can be implemented without the other person. As a result, bad feelings arise, disinformation abounds and mistrust is bred.

What I would suggest is that the UWM administration and the SA get some outside, or even professional, help for their disagreements. Talk about this implementation plan with students, staff and faculty. Put all the cards out on the table. Get more than six to twelve people involved. Give people the information they need to make informed decisions. Just try getting this information and see how much money you have to pay to get it. I tried, and couldn’t afford it. I don’t think the SA or the UWM administration want anyone to know what’s going on.

In the end, this relationship is going down in flames unless they start actually talking to, and listening to, each other.

Oh, and I’ll get back to you all concerning open records in another column, which is a heads up on another one of your rights that is difficult to exercise here.

Last Monday night’s game should wake people up to the greed and anti-union sentiments of Corporate America One of these telling sources included the Seattle fans themselves, who, according to polls from both ESPN and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, overwhelmingly believed the play’s result was an interception. Vikings punter Chris Klewe actually stood up for his division rivals in a selfpenned article on Deadspin. On Twitter, former WWF play-by-play man Jim Ross compared the replacement refs to pro wrestling officials.

Even Scott Walker – who owes fame and national relevance to his union-busting tactics – hopped on the bandwagon in support of the officials’ union (yes, the irony is hilarious).

The NFL wound up giving itself until last Tuesday afternoon to weigh the options of pissing away a sizable amount of its credibility by overturning the result of the game, or all of it, by standing behind the result. Remaining true to their reputation, the Goodell administration ultimately decided to whip out its collective endowment and shake loose the final few urine-drops of integrity clinging to the NFL shield, they so disingenuously claim to be protecting.

Despite admitting the call was blown, the result was affirmed in an official press release, which could be described as a chubby alabaster middle-finger to the intelligence of anyone not addicted to meth – if not for

the fact that even hopeless tweakers could tell that the Packers’ M.D. Jennings picked off that pass.

Until now, I could never recall a moment in the 20 plus years that I’ve followed the NFL when so many fans across the board, not to mention players, coaches and even the media felt so disillusioned and alienated with the NFL product – a product which also happens to be one of Corporate America’s largest weapons of mass distraction. Say what you will about the triviality of pro sports – goodness knows I’ll probably agree – but if it takes something like this to finally wake the masses up and get them to realize how badly they get fucked by greed and anti-union sentiments, then good, let them be pissed about the game.

Either way, the fallout from this game will become “real news” very quickly, if it hasn’t already.

While I have no doubt that many of the fans threatening to boycott will be right back to where they were by the time this column goes to press, I am officially done with the NFL for 2012. Even if the Packers somehow end up winning the Super Bowl, it’ll be a championship more tainted than those won in the NBA by the Houston Rockets while Michael Jordan was serving his gambling suspen… I mean…“retired.”

Maybe I’ll come back in 2013. Maybe.

Check out Patricia Cole’s column, “Life doesn’t come with a manual” online at uwmpost.com

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