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The future of an old hospital

Panthers swept

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UWM draws up plans for Columbia St. Mary’s facility

By Steve Garrison Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com

Planning for the Northwest Quadrant (NWQ) continues to move forward despite concerns from the community.

The UW-Milwaukee Children’s Center, the Honors College and its dormitories, the Norris Student Health Center and Restaurant Operations (including a Grind coffeehouse) have been slated for the NWQ. The community that surrounds the NWQ, represented by the Mariners Neighborhood Association, has regularly attended NWQ organizing committee meetings and released a set of “guiding principles” that conflict with several proposed university uses for the property.

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Association President Bill Werner said the community is concerned about expanding student housing beyond the proposed Honors College dormitories, as well as retail services that are not designated specifically for campus use. They have also inquired about how the university plans to ease pedestrian and traffic congestion along Newport Avenue.

The 828,000-gross-squarefoot Columbia St. Mary Hospital building complex, temporarily renamed the Northwest Quadrant, increased the size of the campus by 20 percent when it was acquired in late December.

Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. (HGA) is the consulting firm in charge of reviewing applications for utiliz-

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Sandburg gets April shower

LUBUS: Vander Blue creates his own problems

fringe | page 9 UWM Artist Profile: Caitlin Driver The Pixies rip up The Rave

“ UWM undergoes its biggest expansion in decades. Pictured here is the old Columbia St. Mary’s building, which occupies most of the space.

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The thin blue waterline April Science Bag exposes evildoers lurking in Lake Michigan’s depths

Broken water valve sets off sprinklers, causes flooding

Fans and dehumidifiers dry up the damage in Sandburg.

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By Mike La Count News Editor news@uwmpost.com

On Monday, April 18 flooding in the East tower of Sandburg Hall temporarily displaced some students.

The incident was initiated when a valve on a hot-water pipe broke, causing hot water to pour out into one of the suites.

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“The cap just eroded away and broke,” said Scott Peak, director of university housing. “It happens in buildings unexpectedly.”

The water damage caused by the broken pipe was minimal, however the hot water rushing into the suite increased the room temperature enough to set off

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By Zach Brooke Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com

Lake Michigan may be the world’s fifth-largest lake, but don’t be fooled by all that water – it’s really a jungle out there.

That’s the message of this month’s Science Bag, UWMilwaukee’s long-running lec-

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ture series highlighting the applicability of science in everyday life. The current show, “Crime Scene Investigations: Lake Michigan,” aims to expose the seedy underbelly of Lake Michigan.

Hosted by Professors John Berges and Erica Young, the pair make use of badges, sirens, a soundtrack by The Who, and the high-tech equip-

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ment available at UWM, which boasts the country’s only graduate school of freshwater sciences, to present the facts mixed with a little bit of fun. “[Today’s] DNA sequencers are very small. One would fit on your kitchen counter,” said Berges. “You could buy one for about the cost of a luxury automobile. So they’re extremely accessible.”

The sequencers are used to detect the presence of invasive species – non-native plants and animals that threaten the original inhabitants of Lake Michigan – which scientists like Berges and Young have sworn to serve and protect.

“One of the really big bad guys, and I’m talking about fish here, is Asian Carp,” said Young. “Like any good criminal, it’s got a few aliases,” she added, noting its scientific name, Cyprinus carpio.

While singling out the

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A 20-year-old Mequon man has been charged with two counts of homicide. Dennis Markov is accused of shooting his parents on April 17 in their home following an argument over gas money. According to the complaint Markov shot his father three times in the back of the head with a .22 rifle after he refused to give him money for gas. Markov then shot his mother twice in the head when she got home. He hid both of the bodies in the garage. The bodies were found by police after someone from his mother’s work called about her not showing up for work. When asked by police how he felt about shooting his parents Markov said he “had never felt better.”

The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, an activist group, has distributed bulletproof vests to taxi drivers. In particular the effort was aimed at aiding those who work night shifts and in dangerous areas. Statistically that area consists primarily of boroughs outside of Manhattan. Vests have been donated by a New York-based security company and retired police officers. The group says driving a taxi or working in delivery can be one of the most dangerous jobs in the city. Though the vest will not protect against head shots they say most attacks are either caused by knifes or shots to the driver’s side.

Circus shootout Two Bavarian circus families engaged in a shootout over tent space. The two families began arguing over available space until they became entwined in battle using guns, knives and batons. The incident took place in Regensburg, Bavaria. Six people were injured, three from each family. No one was seriously injured.

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Rapists acquitted in Pakistan A Supreme Court ruling in Pakistan acquitted five of six individuals involved in a village council-sanctioned gang rape. In 2002, 12-year-old Mukhtaran Mai was ordered to be raped as punishment after her brother had an affair with a woman from Mastoi. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the release of five of the subjects. The sixth man had a reduction in his sentence from the death penalty to life in prison. This decision upheld the lower court, which attributed the acquittal to a lack of evidence. Mukhtaran said the police had never correctly recorded her statements.

Thursday, April 28

Saturday, April 30

The Milwaukee-based reggae/ska group the Invaders will be performing at the Gasthaus from 9 to 11 p.m.

UWM will be celebrating World Tai Chi and Qigong Day from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Union West Ballroom. The event is sponsored

by UWM’s College Health Science. The event is free and open to the public.

Friday, April 29 The UW-Milwaukee Photography Area will be opening Ellipsis: Out of the Camera from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Live Artists Studio at 228 S. 1st Street Suite 302. Ellipsis is an exhibit of eclectic photographs and multimedia works by a group of fine-art students.

Police Reports On April 18 at 8:48 a.m., UWMPD contacted a UWM student at the request of the Post Office. The student had dropped his wallet in a mailbox and it was delivered to a Post Office downtown.

On April 18 at 7:29 p.m., papier-mâché penises were discovered hanging on the southeastern side of the Union. When client services had custodians take them down, the students who hung them got upset and client services called the UWMPD to request the presence of an officer.

Sunday, May 1 Volunteer at Growing Power’s urban farm from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Learn what it takes to manage farms and livestock. The day includes a full tour of the facilities. The signup deadline is April 27 at the Union Adventure Center and is free to students.

On April 19 at 11:42 a.m., a UWM employee reported a custodian using a professor’s office phone without permission. It was unknown whether the custodian was in the office at the time of the report.

On April 20 at 2:10 p.m., a resident of the Sandburg East Tower called the police to report she had overdosed on a prescription medication.

She was still breathing and conscious when officers arrived. An ambulance arrived at 2:37.

Correction In the April 11, 2011 issue of the Post, in an article entitled “New Blood,” the word “ASAP” was incorrectly insert into a sentence, changing its meaning. The sentence should have read “They said ‘they were the strongest voice for students.’” The Post regrets this error.

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the sprinkler system. The activated sprinkler system is what caused most of the flooding in the dorms.

Peak said UWM staff acted quickly to shut off the water, but there was a 30 to 45 minute delay before all the water running through the 17-story tower was out of the system.

Staff responded to the flooded areas but had difficulty reaching the source of the leak due to the heat and steam created by the hot water.

Though only one sprinkler was activated, the excess water ran down stairwells and pipe chases, causing water seepage in several suites.

“It was like whitewater rapids,” said Peak. “At one point I walked up one [stairwell] and it was coming down just like a little river.”

University Housing called a remodeling company, Paul Davis Systems, to clean up the water.

Peak said that approximately 30 suites so far

have been indentified as having been affected.

Fans, vacuums and dehumidifiers have been running since Monday to dry up the dorms. Some students have temporarily moved to other rooms while the cleanup continues. In addition to drying out the water, repairs are needed on walls and ceilings.

The resident of the suite that was the source of the leak has moved out for the rest of the semester.

Initially, students were not allowed to go back into their rooms due to various electrical issues and concerns of students slipping down stairwells. Peak said they needed to make sure it was safe before allowing students to enter. University Housing staff have been working with the students to keep them updated about the status of their rooms.

“We are working with the students, keeping them informed, and I think there is talk about having an ice cream social with the students to get them in and talk to them about what is going on,” said Peak.

A final assessment of the damage is still pending.

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Awards build SA election results up for architects UWM college key to Milwaukee’s growth

Vote Totals

Senate Seats Taken

President: 1,647 Senate: 1,540

ASAP: 27 Independent: 2 College Dem.: 1

*Winning Candidates in orange

President Alex Kostal & Brent Johnson (ASAP)

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Jared Bierbach and Shawn Matson (Dem.)

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Dean Robert Greenstreet is also the Director of Planning and Design for the City of Milwaukee. Post Photo by Sierra Riesberg

By Jon Gorski Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com

The School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UW-Milwaukee recently won an award from the National Council of Architectural Registration Board.

The awards are given for schools of architecture that train students at the highest level of excellence, and this marks the third time in four years that UWM’s architecture school has won the award.

“Winning it once is pretty good,” said Dean Robert Greenstreet.

“Winning it three times in four years, well, we’re beginning to believe our own press.”

Tom Barrett invited Greenstreet to become the Director of Planning and Design for Milwaukee in 2003, a position that later became the Chair of City Development, which he still holds. Greenstreet has been continuously named one of the “25 Most Respected and Admired Educators in the United

States” by Design Intelligence.

For 25 years The School of Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP) participated in what was known as the Chicago Awards, competing against architecture schools across the Midwest in various forms of design and planning. It made a name for itself as a strong school of architecture in the region during this time, winning over 70 percent of the awards.

The school has recently been entering multiple national competitions, and has been successful at securing top honors in two or three per year. However, Milwaukee’s rich involvement in architecture and urban planning isn’t a new development.

When the city was founded in 1846 after merging many battling towns, it was already populated by a multitude of diverse peoples, each their own unique art history and architectural style. The Germans built the Holy Trinity

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Johnjoseph Pugel & Ryan Wittman (ACTA)

Erin Christens (ASAP)

64

Rachel Falk (ASAP)

800

Kristina Barth (ASAP)

786

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Camille Ridgeway (ASAP)

784

Laura Webb (ASAP)

Rick Banks (ASAP)

750

Austin Scudder (Independent)

74

Teresa Pelicaric (ASAP)

734

Carlton Reeves (ASAP)

69

Kenneth Blacks (ASAP)

719

Arrington Stoll (ASAP)

66

Michael Ludwig (ASAP)

706

Anna Stuyvenberg (ASAP)

686

Jason Kauffin (ASAP)

681

Thomas Roth (ASAP)

649

Michael Cruz (ACTA)

535

Dana Haberman (ACTA)

446

Daniel Kelley (ACTA)

427

Marissa Steinhofer (Dem.)

424

Willian Casey (ACTA)

420

Elliot Fuhrmann (ACTA)

414

Daniel Stuebs (ACTA)

381

Peck School of the Arts Katrina Drake (ASAP)

78

David Sidhu (ASAP)

78

Arielle Yanasak (Dem.)

60

Alissa Fedor (ACTA)

50

College of Letters and Science Courtney Klima (ASAP)

385

Jesse Brown (ASAP)

366

William Bornhoft (ASAP)

363

Brandon Methu (ASAP)

358

79

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Andrew Hastert (ASAP)

62

School of Education Michael Schultz (ASAP)

61

Lubar School of Business Samantha Fernandez (ASAP)

107

Brent Green (ASAP)

104

Victoria Ezemba (ASAP)

88

Joseph D. Radliff (Independent)

68

Daniel Laughland (Independent)

65

Sam Schmidt (ACTA)

60

Kyle Hertel (ACTA)

57

Greg Satina (ACTA)

48

Architecture and Urban Planning Joseph Samz (ASAP)

18

Gard H.G. Pecor (ASAP)

14

The colleges of Information Studies, Helen Bader School of Public Welfare and Nursing had no winning canddidates.

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SARUP Continued from page 3 Roman Catholic Church in 1849, designed by the same architect who would go on to design St. Mary’s on North Broadway.

City Hall, Pabst Theater and the Oriental Theater were all designed and built in the late 1800s and the early 1900s, and showcase a variety of different architectural influences reflective of the times.

The school was established in 1969 to answer the high demand for architectural education in Wisconsin, and currently is one of only twenty Ph. D. programs in the country. Since its start, the enrollment for SARUP has grown to over 850 students, and that number is only expected to expand.

The Milwaukee skyline is nearly exclusively designed by UWMilwaukee alumni, and according to Greenstreet, “you couldn’t name a new building in the city that either wasn’t designed by our alums, worked on by our faculty, or where we’d had a hand.”

The Milwaukee Public Market, a prime Third Ward landmark, has its roots as a project started at the school. Both Bradley Tech and Discovery World were designed by faculty members. On campus, the solar house going up by the Sandburg dormitories was drawn

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up by students of SARUP. Other projects by students include an environmental lab on the Hank Aaron Trail, off of 35th Street.

Though the school’s involvement in Milwaukee is rich and busy, students and staff are looking to the future. A two year study of the Inner Harbor is planned, working with engineering students and city officials. On top of large issues like that, the school also has a smaller, community design team as well.

As the projects and issues that SARUP tackles continue to grow, the school plans on continuing to evolve and enjoy the same level of success.

Currently, SARUP is planning on incorporating a Master’s of Science in Architecture, a more theoretical degree than a Master’s in Architecture. At the moment the degree is going through the final stage approval. There is also an online minor in Architecture offered through the program.

Greenstreet said that on a good year, all of the graduates from SARUP will find work, though he admits that it’s been a little rough recently. 75 percent of the graduates are spaced between Chicago and Green Bay, with the strongest concentration in Southeastern Wisconsin.

“We try to be a relevant school,” he said, and wants to continue to affect the way in which not just Milwaukee, but all of Wisconsin, develops.

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Bus it, bike it, or book it for spring Mollie Beaumont hopes to promote green thinking among student population

By Chris Flood Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com

What started as a project for UW-Milwaukee student Mollie Beaumont’s English class has led to a timely idea she hopes will get students thinking seriously about the consequences of driving to campus and going “green.”

While working on a project for her English 240 class, Beaumont and her partner came up with the idea “Bus it, bike it, or book it for spring,” aiming to create a day where students leave their cars at home.

After being dropped by her partner, Beaumont kept pushing the idea forward and the decided to have the event take place on May 2.

“I hope everyone leaves their car at home. It’s right around Earth Week and it’s rewarding to walk, bike or take the bus to campus,” Beaumont said.

According to Claude Schuttey, Director of University Architects and Planning & Transportation, all of UWM’s parking lots are used with the exception of some open park-

ing spaces in the Klotsche Pavilion.

With a high rate of students driving to school, Beaumont wants to push the idea of going green and help those students who drive to campus break the habit.

She says if students are willing to leave their cars at home they can get some exercise, save money or utilize the Milwaukee public transit system, which faces significant cuts from Governor Scott Walker’s budget bill. According to the event’s Facebook page, “by riding the bus, you will be sending a message to Scott Walker. The message is, ‘We need public transportation in Milwaukee.’”

According to Beaumont, driving to campus will always come at a cost; students must pay for gas, pay to park, and probably pay a few parking tickets.

When students bring their car to campus, the cost adds up – both for the student and for the environment. The current rates are $1.25/hour (or $11.25/day) in the Union and Lubar Hall garages, and $0.85/ hour at outdoor pay stations or meters.

Green grooves Student bands participate in bicycle-powered concert

Students bike their hearts out to generate power for the Earth Day concert. Post Photo by Sierra Riesberg

By Josh Kuck Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com

This past Thursday, as part of “Earth Week at UWM,” four bands took the stage in the Union Ballroom to compete in a battle of the bands.

In an effort to raise awareness of environmental issues, organizers Denis Pohlman and Rainy Shewczyk came up with the battle-of-the-bands concept as a way for students to learn more about the environment in an entertaining atmosphere.

Shewczyk and Pohlman recruited several environmental organizations to take part in this event as well. Schewczyk said, “[The battle of the bands]

is used to promote other outside environmental groups, and hopefully students take notice.”

Many environmental organizations set up tables near the entrance of the ballroom, including Transition Milwaukee, which works as part of a global movement away from fossil fuel dependence and toward a resilient, self-reliant community. They talked with students about oil as a finite resource and described various opportunities for students to get involved.

The concert took place on a large stage complete with professional lighting and sound.

The competing bands included The Siege Perilous, Kane Place Record Club, Superlucky and

Street parking is sometimes available, but the campus has earned a reputation for being ruthlessly targeted by parking enforcers; last year, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel labeled the UWM area as a parking-ticket magnet.

“Tickets around campus, gas prices, paying for the parking lots – it’s all outrageous,” Beaumont expressed. “When you live on the East Side or in a city, you don’t need a car.”

Beaumont transferred to UWM last spring and hopes to graduate with an English degree in January. She focuses on being green in her own life and believes this generation can do the same. She explained some of the basic things she does to stay green.

“I recycle, and I’m a constant garbage-picker at work since many people don’t recycle,” she laughed. “I like riding my bike to school, and I recently became vegetarian to be more green as well.”

Beaumont, with the help of her boyfriend, has already begun to spread the word and prepare students to not drive to school on May 2.

“My boyfriend will be coming to campus to collect signatures so we can email students about the event. Sending them a reminder electronically is more green than passing out flyers,” she explained.

Information about “Bus it, bike it, or book it for spring” can be found on the event’s Facebook page, which offers tips for students seeking alternative methods of transportation.

Ordinary Fiction. The bands played both original music as well as covers.

During intermission, the dance group “Cure Crew” performed to a remix of many contemporary pop and hip-hop songs. The dance crew began their performance by shouting to the bicyclers, “Thanks for giving us some light!”

Twelve stationary bicycles had been placed around the stage. These bikes, supplied by the company Power by the People, provided the power for the concert through human energy. They were ridden continuously by audience members throughout the night and were hooked up to a generator that was used to power the lights, instruments and sound equipment for all three hours of the concert.

Over the course of the night, hundreds of people drifted in and out of the ballroom. Pohlman, excited about the turnout of the event, said, “We’re hoping people can have fun and be green about it.”

The concert was environmentally friendly in many ways, right down to the food and beverages. Complimentary organic popcorn and beverages served in biodegradable cups were provided.

At the end of the show, the winner was decided by a vocal vote from the audience, and although it was close, Kane Place Record Club left victorious.

The event was sponsored by Emerging Green Builders, the Environmental Sustainability Committee and Union Programming.

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large slow bottom-feeder may seem as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, the duo also highlighted the widespread damage caused by agents operating on a microscopic level, such as viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS).

“It hasn’t been here that long. It’s only been in Lake Michigan since about 2007 [and] it’s claimed a lot of victims,” said Young. “It causes internal bleeding and tissue depresses and death. If that’s not nasty or a bad guy, I don’t know what is.”

However, the presenters stress that not all viruses carry the potential for harm, and many can be quite beneficial to the environment.

This is a good thing because, according to Berges, “if you were to take one teaspoon of pure, clean Lake Michigan water, in that teaspoon you would have more viruses then

there are people in the state of Wisconsin. They are incredibly significant parts of our Lake Michigan ecosystem. They’re perfectly natural and very, very important.”

Though Berges and Young reveal science’s extensive knowledge about dangers to the Lake Michigan environment, they also admit they don’t have all the answers, and even if they did, they would be powerless to fi x the problems by themselves.

“Many of things going on in Lake Michigan … are much more subtle and the questions require much more complicated analysis, but they [also] require much more then that.

They require an informed public that’s willing to listen and try to understand the problems,” said Berges.

“Crime Scene Investigations: Lake Michigan” will be presented one more time on Friday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in the Physics building, marking the end of the Science Bag lecture series until fall.

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NWQ Continued from page 1 ing NWQ space and assessing the feasibility of use.

HGA said in early feasibility studies that it would cost $81.7 million to renovate the NWQ for use by UWM. The 13-member Northwest Quadrant Coordinating Committee is directed by Interim Chancellor Michael Lovell and Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor Johannes Britz to analyze HGA feasibility studies and recommend immediate uses for the facility.

LeRoy Stoner is the chairman of the NWQ Coordinating Committee, and Claude Schuttey serves as co-chairman.

On April 19, the Coordinating Committee designated five permanent relocation priorities and one temporary priority for immediate use of the campus area, including: • Permanent parking for faculty, staff and students.

• Permanent relocation of the UWM Children Center, which currently sits on a parcel of land designated for the future Kenwood Integrated Research Complex.

According to Stoner, it is possible that the Children’s Center may begin relocation as early as January 2013.

• Permanent relocation of the Honors College and Honors

College dormitories. The Honors College and dormitories will occupy space used by the former Columbia St. Mary’s Nursing School. (The Honors College is expected to operate as early as next fall, but the Honors dormitories will require at least another year of renovations.)

• Permanent long-term development of campus Restaurant Operations, including a Grind coffeehouse. Food service operators are currently reviewing the space, which includes an operational food-preparation area that has not yet been designated for use.

• Permanent relocation of the Norris Student Health Center.

• Temporary space for approximately 400 students, faculty and staff who will be displaced by heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) renovations taking place in Bolton Hall during July and August of this year.

Plans to relocate Student Services into a single “one-stop shop” area within the NWQ have been discarded due to changes in campus space needs and because it’s not a central location on campus.

Also absent from the updated NWQ space-use report is the relocation of healthcare/sciences or teaching/learning programs.

As recently as March 8, the Coordinating Committee discussed structuring NWQ devel-

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April 20 isn’t just the somber anniversary of the Columbine school shootings, nor is it merely Adolf Hitler’s unappreciated birthday; it is also the day that many gather ’round to celebrate 4/20, convening in smoky attics and playing Nintendo 64 in commemoration of the cannabis holiday.

Throughout the nation and in some countries across the globe, stoners violated laws everywhere last Wednesday.

In Milwaukee, users of marijuana had been planning the day’s hazy adventures and aimless amblings for weeks prior, though many such plans were ultimately abandoned due to the effects of the drug itself.

But how did this day’s festivities affect different operations within our campus community?

Some stats from Restaurant Operations in Sandburg Hall and the Riverview dorms show just how much the reefer actually increases appetites.

For instance, the Palm Gardens in Sandburg took in over $2,800 in sales on 4/20, yet it only took in just over $2,600 the day before. To compare with last year, the Palm surprisingly made about $200 less on 4/20 than 4/19.

At their respective convenience stores, the Emporium (Sandburg) and the aptly named Riverview C-store, ice cream sales (in units sold) were up by about 17 percent, while last year

they went up 72 percent.

According to additional figures, tastes have changed in the last year as well. Frito Lay products (which include Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Munchies and Doritos, among others) sold considerably less this year than last year – by hundreds of units, in fact.

The Union Theatre saw a staggering 378-percent increase sales April 20 compared to April 19, which could possibly indicate that stoners have a preference for Matthew Barney’s seldom-seen Cremaster Cycle.

Billiards and bowling at the Recreation Center brought in about $40 less on 4/20 than it did the previous day. Last year however, the Rec Center nearly doubled its earnings on April 20.

These dazed figures seem to suggest preparations by the different operations on and around campus, however some employees of possibly affected businesses were hesitant to discuss it.

When asked if he would shed his opinion of the unofficial pot holiday, a clerk at Oakland Avenue’s tobacco store Knuckleheads declined to comment.

Restaurant Operations managers claimed that neither sales nor employee attendance seemed to be affected by 4/20.

Some even claimed to not be familiar with the day’s festivities.

After a slight chuckle, UWM Police Chief Michael Marzion’s reaction when asked his opinion of the day was, “I really don’t want to comment, so no comment.”

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opment around two “neighborhoods,” or themes, that would “provide for interesting use of the space and backfill opportunities around campus,” according to committee meeting minutes.

A decisive factor in the prospective development of the space has been cost and efficiency, according to Stoner.

Because the building was originally intended for patient care, extensive renovations would need to be made to accommodate the large classrooms necessary to implement the two-themes concept.

“Some of the important issues, like more teaching space, are a challenge there, because we are going to have to knock down walls and reconfigure some floors in order to get that kind of space,” Stoner said.

Neighbors express concerns Neighborhood input has been sought from early on in the development of the Northwest Quadrant.

UWM sponsored community information and input sessions in early 2004 with the intention of linking ongoing discussions between the university and various neighborhood associations about acquiring the Columbia St. Mary complex.

Since those sessions, the Mariners Neighborhood Association has expressed concerns about proposals introduced during committee meetings.

Stoner said that while the Neighborhood Association generally supports UWM’s need to determine occupancy, they have not provided positive suggestions for development.

“They only have restrictions they want to put on us,” Stoner said.

The expansion of student housing beyond the proposed Honors College dormitories is the biggest issue concerning the Neighborhood Association, according to Association President Bill Werner.

Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital previously operated dormitories for their Nursing School students, and it is expected to house approximately 90 Honors students.

“We have lived with dorms being there for years, so it is not new to have students there, but students bring problems into the neighborhood,” Werner said.

Werner mentioned problems such as drunken behavior and house parties, which usually begin on Thursday and continue until Sunday. He said that residents who have approached students disturbing the peace have been met with hostility.

Werner is also concerned about the inclusion of retail services, and the neighborhood association has stated explicitly in its “Guiding Principles” that they would not support any businesses operating out of the NWQ that are not run “exclusively for the conve-

nience of students, faculty, staff and guests.”

Werner said that he does not feel that the university should be housing businesses that will be in direct competition with the commercial district surrounding the neighborhood.

“They have mentioned retail services. … The ideas thrown around include a laundromat and maybe storefronts.”

Werner said that he understands UWM needs to develop revenue. “They are going about it in a very inclusive way,” he said.

The Neighborhood Association said pedestrian and traffic congestion along Newport Avenue is a concern they have always had with the Columbia St. Mary’s campus.

Stoner said this concern is being addressed through renovations that will shift the main entrance to the campus from Newport to Hartford Avenue to provide easier access to students.

“Some of the plans that we are starting to see will make it even friendlier, once UWM begins to develop it, rather than Columbia St. Mary’s,” Stoner said.

The organizing committee has been discussing cosmetic changes to improve the exterior of the NWQ so that it integrates more fully into the campus.

“We are looking to improve the curb appeal so that it won’t be seen, but it is a big space,” Stoner said.

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Panthers swept by rival Wright State Panthers run out of gas to stay with Raiders

Aaron Rodgers and the Packers will open next season against the 2009 champion Saints. Image courtesy of titansized.com

The Panthers beat up on local Cardinal Stritch but fell to conference rival Wright State over the weekend. Post Photo by Sierra Riesberg

By Nick Bornheimer Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com

UW-Milwaukee suffered a tough three-game sweep at home this weekend against Wright State.

The Panthers lost on Friday 6-3 in 10 innings and lost both games of the doubleheader Saturday 8-4 and 8-0.

The young Panthers roster got a full taste of what a powerhouse in the Horizon League looks like.

“We were looking tired.

This weekend it certainly looked like the close games were taking a toll. We’ve been pretty good in these types of circumstances all year, but not this weekend.”

– Coach Scott Doffek

“We didn’t come out and play,” said coach Scott Doffek.

“Emotionally our youth and inexperience showed through in this series.”

The first two games of the series were close late, but Milwaukee (16-20, 7-5 Horizon) was shut out completely

by Wright State (24-12, 8-3 Horizon) in the series finale; the Panthers couldn’t buy a timely base-hit.

“We just didn’t hit,” said Doffek. “We were really scuffling with the bats in the third game and scuffling all week to put the bat on the ball.”

Senior Chad Pierce pitched well in the first game, going nine innings and giving up just one earned run while striking out nine batters.

UWM battled back from a three-run deficit to tie the game in the sixth with a double from senior Cole Kraft and a single from junior Paul Hoenecke, but Wright State’s Jake Hibberd punched a twoout double in the 10th inning to give the Raiders the lead and ultimately game one.

In the first of Saturday’s twin bill, starting pitcher Eric Semmelhack looked great according to Doffek, but he ran into some seventh-inning woes when a 3-2 lead quickly turned into a 5-3 deficit, capped by a two-out two-run double by Wright State’s Tristan Moore.

UWM answered with one run in the bottom of the seventh, but would need much more, as defense became an issue later in the game as two Panthers’ errors allowed for three unearned Raider’s runs to touch home in the inning.

“We were looking tired,” Doffek said. “This weekend it certainly looked like the close games were taking a toll. We’ve been pretty good in these types of circumstances all year, but not this weekend.”

This exhaustion seemed most apparent in the final game when Milwaukee couldn’t muster a single run in the 8-0 loss. The Panthers were limited to just four hits in the game. Doffek credits much of Wright State’s success to their relief pitching.

“They were much better than us out of the bullpen all series, that was the difference in the three games. We didn’t come out of the bullpen and pitch with intent.”

On the slate for UWM is a midweek matchup at Northern Illinois before hosting conference foes Youngstown State and Cleveland State in two games apiece this weekend at Miller Park. Action is set to kick off Friday at 3 p.m.

Packers’ schedule preview A look into the future of the Super Bowl champs

By Tony Atkins Asst. Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com

Last year, the Packers seemed to embody everything that was necessary to become Super Bowl champions.

Sure they didn’t win every game decisively like the 2007 Patriots. Then again, the ’07 Pats didn’t win the

Super Bowl.

Warning: This is purely speculation; anything can be used against me.

With that being said, one can never look at a freshly minted football schedule and predict how the season is going to go. I understand that the NFL season is unpredictable, so unpredictable that no one knows for sure if the season will even exist.

But that didn’t stop me from trying as I took a look at the upcoming season.

First Quarter: First of all, the Pack have inherited a schedule that pits them against the AFC West, the NFC South, two other match ups against the New York Giants (NFC East)

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The decision, Chad Pierce style Senior pitcher key to Panthers success

By Alex Wendland Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com

The results aren’t in yet, but Chad Pierce might not be human.

He has been a production machine for the better part of two seasons since coming to Milwaukee after two years at the University of Arkansas. The Fond du Lac native is currently second for the Panthers in batting average (.339), third in slugging (.387) and fourth in onbase percentage (.388).

But perhaps most importantly, he has been on the Horizon League academic honor roll during his two seasons at Milwaukee and had the same SEC honors during his two years at Arkansas.

Oh, and by the way, he’s a pitcher. Pierce is 3-3 with a 3.88 ERA, and leads the team in strikeouts (47) and innings pitched (54.2).

The question must be asked, how did Chad Pierce

Senior Chad Pierce has been Mr. Everything this season for the Panthers. get out of Wisconsin in the first place?

“I always wanted to be a Razorback, I don’t know why,” said Pierce. “I think it was that I watched some football games as a little kid and for some reason fell in love with the Razorbacks.”

Given the opportunity,

Pierce felt the need to follow his childhood dream down to Fayetteville, Arkansas.

“When you’re playing college baseball, you want to play,” said Pierce.

Given the limited opportunities available at Arkansas,

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PACKERS Continued from page 7 and the St. Louis Rams (NFC West).

The first quarter of the season will have the Pack playing outside of the division. Their first test will come against 2009 champions the New Orleans Saints on a primetime national stage. The Pack can win on the big stage, and they need to win on that stage to set the tone for the rest of the season.

After the Saints, it’s on the road to Carolina. It’s a game many would probably write off, but keep in mind that the Panthers aren’t really a bad team. They just lack a good, mature quarterback while they develop. Also, don’t forget that they’re on the clock.

That draft pick just may be a game-changer.

The Pack will have their hands full with Jay Cutler and the Bears, and should have fun hosting the iconic Tim Tebow at legendary Lambeau field when Denver comes into town.

The Packers have a good chance to come out of the first part of the season unscathed, going 4-0 or possibly coming out with one loss against the Saints.

(Best case: 4-0; Worst case: 2-2 with losses to Chicago and New Orleans)

All eyes are on MU’s Vander Blue over the next few months.

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Vander Blue needs to grow up, fast MU freshman getting in hot water

By Jeremy Lubus Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com

One thing is very clear: Marquette freshman Vander Blue is writing checks he simply can’t cash.

I watched Blue play all through high school at powerhouse Madison Memorial in our state’s capital. I was there when, as a junior, he was simply at another level from his peers at the state tournament.

Then came his senior year, and he did not have nearly as good of a season. Part of that could be credited to the departure of 2009’s Mr. Basketball Jeronne Maymon from the Spartan’s lineup and, as everyone knows, he decommitted from Wisconsin. Blue was also not happy with how his academics were reported as being poor.

With a click of a mouse, kids who will never play college basketball blasted him.

This is when Blue started to head down the wrong path.

He let a bunch of high school and college kids mess with his mind and probably his game.

Come on, Vander. Those were just words. Why care so much about what kids on forums say? I bet if you talked to

students in the “Grateful Red” section – students who actually know the game – they would have a much better take.

What will always stand out to me is the way Blue was angry about not winning Mr. Basketball after losing to Hartland Arrowhead in the 2010 State Final in the Kohl Center.

Blue said he felt committing to Marquette swayed the decision to give the award to T.J. Bray of Catholic Memorial, who had a 4.0 grade point average and was going to Princeton. As the press conference ended, the state-wide media, including myself, were all saying the same thing: Blue was making excuses and whining.

I will be the first to admit that I am a huge fan of Blue. He plays the game like it should be played and has been blessed with skills that could get him to a professional level.

However, getting to the NBA and being successful there are worlds apart.

I thought Blue was putting this all behind him and growing from a talented teenager to a respectable young man.

But instead of working on his game quietly to prove all the Internet haters wrong, Blue starting running his mouth.

In a piece written about him in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Blue said, “All that hype I had coming in here – I believe it’s true. I can do that.”

Nobody asked for a story to be written about you titled “Marquette’s Vander Blue says he’ll live up to hype,” but when you’re looking for attention, it happens.

Why are you making statements like that knowing very well back in October you received a citation for hitting a kid at 1:30 a.m.? According to Blue’s statement, a racial slur was used against him.

With a click of a mouse, kids who will never play college basketball blasted him.

So using a racial slur is a reason to fight? You do know you’re Vander Blue right? You do know you are getting a MU education for free? That kid was probably under the influence of something and is paying $30,000 while you are not.

Jokes on him, not you, Blue.

In a time where education costs are skyrocketing, I hope Blue knows he has everything in front of him and realizes if he loves basketball as much as he says he does, he won’t lose his game when someone taunts him next time.

Second Quarter: Aaron Rodgers leads the Packers to the Georgia Dome to take on the Atlanta Falcons. The Packers defeated the Falcons in Atlanta during their playoff run; however, they narrowly won that game.

The Falcons are really good at home and should be a tough win. Oh, and it’s on national television too. No pressure.

The Rams come to Lambeau for what should be a win in week six. After a bye in week seven, the Vikings will host Green Bay in their first matchup. Who knows what will happen with the Vikings’ quarterback but until then, the Packers have a win.

Then you have the Chargers. Phillip Rivers and Aaron Rodgers should make for a great matchup, but let’s hope there isn’t another in-

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Pierce did what he could but ultimately felt he needed a change.

“In my first year there they gave me a little opportunity, and in my second year there they gave me little opportunities and I didn’t always succeed in those chances,” said Pierce. “I wanted to go to a place where I would be able to play and get more chances.”

So Pierce came home, to the only Division I baseball program in Wisconsin, and never looked back.

“Milwaukee’s great; you always want to be a part of a championship team, and last year, for the first time since 2001-02, we made a [it to the

sane late season run that causes the Packers to take a loss. Many people will build this up as a potential Super Bowl matchup.

(Best Case: 3-1) (Worst Case: 2-2 with losses to Atlanta and San Diego) Third Quarter: Monday night the Packers and the Vikings will square off for the love of Brett Favre, who may or may not be playing for either team.

No Favre should result in a Packers’ win but the Vikings are still talented, with arguably the best running back in the NFL in Adrian Peterson.

Lambeau Field should make the difference.

The Buccaneers in Green Bay could be a problem and I wouldn’t count out the Lions at Ford field. Then a match-up against the New York Giants in New Meadowlands stadium could make this the toughest stretch of the season, as injuries and weather become more of a factor.

(Best Case: 3-1) (Worst Case: 1-3 with losses to Minnesota, New York Giants and Tampa Bay) Fourth Quarter: Week 14 places Green Bay at home against the Raiders, which could be an easy win.

Staying in the AFC West the next week, a trip to Arrowhead could give the Packers troubles against the surprising Chiefs assuming they weren’t a fluke.

Then the Packers will round up the season at home against the Bears and Lions. Both are winnable games.

(Best case: 4-0; Worst case: 2-2 with losses to Kansas City and Chicago; Overall: 14-2 or 7-9) Last year’s Packers surely went through their fair share of ups and downs. From the beginning of the year, the Packers were forced to deal with brutal injury after brutal injury. But they didn’t fold even after their leader Aaron Rodgers went down.

They ended with a modest 10-6 regular-season record, and like true champions they rolled with the punches and got shiny new rings. Perhaps this year’s version can add to the jewlery collection.

regionals], and to be a big part of it is something you’re going to cherish for a while,” said Pierce.

Pierce came home, to the only Division I baseball program in Wisconsin, and never looked back.

As the Panthers look to build on their tournament run from last season, they will need leaders to carry the load down the stretch. Based on what we’ve seen thus far, Chad Pierce will be taking the Panthers a long way.

Goodbye Jerry Lawson Father of the cartridge video game passes away

By Tom Kosiec Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com

This month the video game industry said goodbye to Jerry Lawson. For those of you who aren’t aware, Jerry Lawson was a very talented engineer who created the first cartridge-based video game system, the Fairchild Channel F. Lawson, notable for being one of the very first African Americans who worked on video games, passed away on April 12 at age 70 in a California hospital after a heart attack.

Many game developers and gamers have never heard of Lawson, but he was one of the earliest video

game pioneers who helped give birth to the video game industry. His development of the interchangeable cartridge game and the first digital joystick paved the way for future game developers.

The amount of work he contributed to video games is just as important as other videogame pioneers like Ralph H. Baer (known as the “father of video games” who created the Magnavox Odyssey), Nolan Bushnell (responsible for making Atari a household name) and Shigeru Miyamoto (creator of Nintendo’s Super Mario

Brothers, Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda, among others).

Ever since he was young, Lawson had a knack for electronics, and in his teens he fi xed broken TVs as a parttime job. In the 1970s he had his own personal computer in his garage where he created his first coinup arcade game, Chicago Coin’s Demolition Derby, which came out shortly after Pong.

The idea of a cartridge was unheard of at the time.

Many engineers were scared to make them because they

thought it could cause explosions and didn’t know how to produce a console around its microprocessor.

When the Fairchild Channel F was released in 1976 it was the first time gamers could switch between game titles (earlier game systems like the Magnavox Odyssey and the first Atari systems had games built inside them).

Although the Atari 2600 surpassed the Channel F in sales, it was remarkable what Lawson was able to do with cartridge video games when he had no previous cartridges to base his work off of.

During the 1980s he formed his own studio called Video Soft, which produced cartridges for the Atari 2600. Lawson hasn’t kept up with the industry today, but up until his death he was

working on tools, laser telescopes and other electronic devices.

Lawson was admitted into the El Camino Hospital Mountain View in California a few years ago due to diabetes, which led to loss of sight in one eye and the loss of one of his legs. Many pictures shown before his death show him in a wheelchair.

Thankfully, a month before he died Lawson was recognized for his achievements in video games at the Game Developer’s Conference by the International Game Developers Association’s Minority Special Interest Group. Also, six of his previously unreleased Atari 2600 games were made available last year with all profits going to Lawson’s family. A memorial service is being planned sometime in May to honor the achievements he brought to the world of video games.

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Local roundup Castle Thunder, Vitrolum Republic and Wolfgang Schaefer

Nick Waraksa on the keys for The Vitrolum Republic who opened the show Saturday night at Linneman’s. Image courtesy of Heather Chapa

Castle Thunder celebrating their first single release from their upcoming EP Wolf in Sheepskin. Image courtesy of Cory Gorman

By Dustin Zarnikow fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

Milwaukee band Castle Thunder celebrated their upcoming debut EP Wolf in Sheepskin with the release of their first single off the record – a two-track disc containing the featured track “The Observer” along with “Rest Your Head.” Both tracks are well produced and, along with the performance, gave the small yet boisterous crowd something to look forward to in the near future, aside from rain.

While Moe Akhter’s tempos

create a building backdrop behind their upbeat sound, the enchanting vocals from front man Cory Gorman grab attention and the band proves they’ve got some fresh air to breath into the scene with their upcoming EP, for which the release party will be held May 27 at Cactus Club. But the band was also preceded by two other acts worthy of more than just a sole mention.

Opening the show, Milwaukee’s The Vitrolum Republic took a meager crowd by surprise – if I may speak for everybody – with an incredible display of wellcomposed, self-described “Gypsy

Noir” talent.

The classically influenced blues/folk/bluegrass medley at times brought a 19th century Norway feel to the old wood floors of Linneman’s, filling the room with a tale-telling sound, which combined with stage presence, painted vivid old-timey imagery. Jordan and Nick Waraksa command attention with impressive fiddle and piano talent, respectively, not to mention great vocals from both brothers, and a bit of guitar and accordion to complete their original, well-defined sound.

The band performed a large

handful of shipwrecked ballads and sagas off of their album For Highbrow Sideshows and Rowboat Serenades, encoring to audience demand with the appropriately mellow segue track “Willow Song,” the opening track of the album.

Reinforcing the spectrum of talent, Chuck Lawton – the third of the official three-piece – held up the rhythm on bass (and occasionally guitar) backed by first-time-Vitrolum- dr ummer Benjamin Schaefer, whose passionately-animated performance and enjoyable finesse on his hodgepodge kit had him nearly stealing the show on more than one occasion.

Enter the night’s second set of brothers, Wolfgang and Benjamin Schaefer. Wolfgang Schaefer has a knack for emotionally driven, poetic sentiment, which fits his sound well as he softly picks his

way through his set on acoustic guitar. Armed with a raspy, standalone voice, Schaefer’s offstage personality only reinforces his genuine performance, putting nothing but true feeling into a relaxed sound.

Covering a handful of songs off of his self-titled album Wolfgang Schaefer, he also threw in a beautiful rendition of Phosphorescent’s “Mrs. Juliette,” as well as a song or two from his humorously self-described upcoming album “Typewriter Two” (a reference to the artwork on his current album, and not the actual title).

Schaefer and his brother work together well with their dedicated attention to detail, and crafted a lovely yet somber set that served as a laid back segue into the Castle Thunder performance that ensued.

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Legends reunited The Pixies’ Doolittle tour torches the Rave

Legendary reunited alt-rock band the Pixies perform Saturday, April 23 at the Rave. Post Photo by Ellen Rosberg

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

It’s been 22 years since the Pixies released Doolittle, the seminal album of a career defined by one seminal album after the other.

The band helped inspire an entire generation of rock musicians who were barely a few years younger than they – most

notably Nirvana, whose “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was admitted

by Kurt Cobain to be his attempt at writing a Pixies song.

But they were not destined for a particularly long recording career (their first EP, Come On Pilgrim, was released a mere four years before their final LP, 1991’s Trompe le Monde), but the impact of their Beatles-like few years together has far outlasted many of the influential

bands to form in their immediate wake.

It’s also paved the way for more than a few reunions, most of them disastrous, but the Doolittle Tour, which stopped at the Rave on Saturday night and is now in its third year, has shaken the curse of bitterness and infighting and proved both longstanding and tremendously rewarding.

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core aside, the show itself was little more than a brief rip through the 38-minute album and all of its B-sides, which was as much a curse as a blessing.

Most of the B-sides (especially those which opened the show) are not particularly rewarding, and were approached like chores by the band.

Songs that opened the show, including “Dance the Manta Ray” and “Weird at My School,” were greeted tepidly by an unfamiliar audience while the band, silhouetted against a video screen that took up the entire stage, seemed uninterested in playing them.

The Pixies themselves were never renowned for their live energy, a reputation that continued here. The music and the mystique were obviously the main attraction and the crowd was willing, on the more driving, renowned songs, to provide the spark themselves.

But when it came to the Bsides, which were only there to pad out the set, neither spark nor interest was there. That’s okay, however, because the band kept playing and the locomotive kept gaining speed; Doolittle itself has neither a lull nor a bore in any of its 15 songs.

If not energetic, the Pixies are a sly and playful act, a characteristic that brings out the similar traits in their music. As loud and abrasive as their songs can be, there’s always an upbeat element present. For example the surf rock-infused “Here Comes Your Man,” was a set highlight that especially shone through when bassist Kim Deal grinned ear to ear and shot sidelong

glances at just about everyone.

As the show progressed, the songs became more recognizable, the audience became more invested, and as if a switch was flipped the show transformed from tedious (if interesting) to incredibly memorable, especially once the encores hit.

Indeed there was just so little material on the album itself that the show was essentially split into two sets: the Doolittle set and its encore (more Bsides), and a second encore that featured a six-song greatest-hits assault.

At one point, Deal (who, after the Pixies, went on to front another important band, the Breeders), remarked out of surprise that they were already “halfway through the second side; albums were so much shorter back then.” But the show itself was about half-over, and was by far most outstanding once the Doolittle material had been covered. The audience response for “Where Is My Mind?” and “Gigantic,” the set-closing punch of the band’s two best songs, neither of which is from Doolittle, was overwhelming.

The entire second encore, which was played with the video board off and the house lights up, was a show unto itself: a minor mosh pit developing, everyone singing along, the band having tremendous fun.

At one point they even broke down into an extended instrumental break, something Deal, the show’s unquestioned star, remarked that it took them 22 years to learn how to do. Like the tour itself, apparently even the Pixies are still growing.

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The good stuff De La Buena’s La Tortuga

De La Buena’s new album, La Tortuga, is a melding pot of Latin jazz styles and history. Image courtesy of expressmilwaukee.com

By Graham Marlowe Staff Writer fringe@uwm.edu

Two records are all it’s taken to make De La Buena one of Milwaukee’s most beloved postmillennium bands.

Their first release, En Vivo Y Directo (2005), captured the 10-piece’s lakefront daydreams in all their glory and found the jazz orchestra’s distinctive reading of Latin at the top of its game.

On their first live album the heat index resembled Tampa, Fl. However, on the new full-length La Tortuga, the headspace is more like Cancun in mid-July.

The album begins with a hoarse, megaphone intro – a touch that rock fans may recognize from STP’s “Dead & Bloated” – and sets the stage for a wild 10-track hacienda party.

Rather immediately, though, there is something off-kilter for listeners: keyboardist and bandleader David Wake has spiked the punch. The difference is these tracks won’t give you that hazy, world-weary gaze the next morning.

Wake’s solos alone creep up on you like the delayed effects of a complex red wine. All of a sudden, listeners find themselves in another reality, only to calmly and matter-of-factly re-

turn to the head (instrumental chorus) of each tune. With experience comes expressive freedom, and Wake takes full (though not self-indulgent) advantage of this wherever possible.

Wake is also a deft arranger, though his vision could not exist without his spirited personnel.

“Sembaji” is a traditional Yoruba chant sung by percussionist Cecilio Negron Jr., re-imagined with chunky Hammond organ, unpretentious woodwind solos and fat, brassy “Price is Right” horns.

The ghost of legendary pianist/jazz fusion pioneer Chick Corea is on display as well, particularly on “Shagu” and “Imbe,” a rousing, guest-heavy chant adaptation. “Shagu” highlights the balmy, world-beat vocal harmony of Corea’s ensemble, Return to Forever (and ’70s-flashback sax from Aaron Gardner and Mike Pauers, respectively).

In all its forms, mid-’70s jazz had a peculiar knack for the ethereal; this trait is not hard to find on La Tortuga. With Wake now a father, there is no doubt that a certain love shines through.

This is true particularly on “Quimbombo” (with a lead-in from his daughter), which showcases the brittle charm of his traditional Latin acoustic sensibilities and “I Kana Kele Ke,” a short piece performed on the kora (a type of West African harp) by the band’s “linguistic consultant” Yaya Kambaye.

Overall, there are so many highlights and styles covered on this album that an explanation could quickly become a dense history lesson. However, this is not upper-middle-class suburban barbecue schmaltz. This is Latin jazz at its most emotive; in simple terms its the sound of a band catching fire.

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Form and function UWM artist profile: Caitlin Driver

By Justin Hamilton Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com

Continuing the UWMilwaukee artist profile series, which highlights graduating seniors in various fields of the visual arts program, the Post had an opportunity to talk to senior Caitlin Driver about her work this week.

Driver is receiving her degree in Jewelry and Metalsmithing, one of the most varied fields of study at the Peck School of the Arts.

In addition, she co-organizes events for the department’s own Object student organization and was recently selected to be featured in the current Juried Art Show at the UWM Union Gallery.

The Post: The jewelry and metalsmithing department is a unique area within the Peck School of the Arts, covering a range of media under one focus. What drew you to this field, and where do you see your artwork fitting in that spectrum?

Caitlin Driver: Initially when I started out at UWMilwaukee I thought that I was going to be a painting and drawing major. I found myself getting too involved with the medium and becoming extremely obsessive over the things that I was trying to portray realistically. I could paint really, really well, but to retain my sanity I became more interested in the forms

I was making by skewing color in realistic portraits.

What drew me into metalsmithing was the medium of metal, its three-dimensionality and how it challenges my obsessive tendencies.

The medium helps me to set myself in check; because things take so long to make in metal, I find it hard to ever slow down and become bored with the processes that take a lifetime to master. My work in the medium focuses a lot on how the body relates to the space around it.

Post: Could you tell me a bit about the Object student organization, your role in the group, and the overall goals you try to achieve? Has working in Object shaped your personal work in any way?

Driver: Object is the jewelry and metalsmithing student organization. The group holds an annual jewelry sale in the UW-Milwaukee Union.

Funds of that help to bring in visiting artists to the Artists Now! lecture series, jurors for our annual Metals juried student exhibition, and helps pay for students to be able to attend SNAG [Society of North American Goldsmiths] conferences as well as events such as SOFA Chicago [The International Exhibition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art].

I have been a member of Object since I started the pro-

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Street Style Students make do with lackluster weather

By Patrice Vnük Asst. fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

pieces, or search at the alwaysreliable thrift shop. Throwing together a couple of your favorite things usually turns out better than expected and looks less thought-out and more effortless.

Spring runways reflected thriftshopping culture more than ever this year, so even if you don’t think something matches, it just might. Unusual jewelry and accessories can also make an understated outfit more pronounced and creative.

Milan and Epiphany

This pathetic excuse for April weather is no reason to give up completely and wear sweatpants all day. It’s so disheartening to see people’s wardrobes reflecting the cloudy and dismal sky.

Put forth some effort! Pretend it’s sunny! Pretend you care!

You’ll be surprised at how much better you feel if you leave the house wearing an actual outfit rather than what you wore to bed the previous night.

Janae

Major: Information Studies Where did you get what you’re wearing: I get them from pen pals, friends made some, and donation boxes.

Favorite place to shop: I don’t really shop for clothes; I find a lot of stuff in dumpsters, and friends make clothes for me.

Fashion inspiration: I come up with it on my own.

Getting creative with your clothing can be as easy as changing where you shop. Originality is hard to come by at corporaterun retail stores. Try branching out and looking for homemade

Majors: Milan – Architecture and History; Epiphany – Jewish Studies Where did you get what you’re wearing: Milan – The Internet, and my leather jacket is from New York; Epiphany – I got this jacket from Value Village, and my pants are from GAP. Favorite place to shop: Secondhand stores and eBay. Although we usually don’t feature two-for-one outfits, Milan and Epiphany complemented each other in a great way. Both opted for a laid-back, grunge-inspired outfit that was casual yet had a little edge. A leather motorcycle jacket will always make you look cool. Always.

If that’s too tame, try a quirky print instead. Wearing colors that harmonize but don’t necessarily come from the same family are the best way to avoid the “matchy-matchy” curse so many people seem to fall prey to. Also, if you want to make your outfit look even better, hang out with someone else who dresses well.

Fashionable by association.

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Film shorts Weekly film selections from the UWM Post

ual and health. It provides a very compelling argument for the kinds of localized farming and nutrition movements that are rapidly gaining favor in response to our modern, corporatized farming and food-distribution industries. The film will be immediately followed with a discussion moderated

by Fred DuBray, the executive director of the InterTribal Bison Cooperative.

In a Better World (begins April 29, Downer Theatre)

In a Better World, this year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, starts a run at the Downer Theatre on Friday, April 29.

Image courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

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

The Milwaukee area offers a fantastically diverse, somewhat overwhelming selection of films from week to week in a variety of venues across the city.

The UWM Post provides a handy guide to some of the highlights, from the Union Theatre to the Oriental Theatre and beyond.

They Came From Underground (April 27, Union Theatre) A local project, They Came From Underground is a sort of concert documentary greatesthits collection, a conglomeration of concert footage from some of the premier alternativerock acts of the 1980s. Some, like Milwaukee’s own Violent Femmes, were at the absolute height of their musical powers, while others, like They Might Be

Giants, were soon-to-be household names struggling to hit it big. The film was composed by Mark G.E., a Milwaukee native who owned and operated the renowned Joy Farm venues in Kansas City and Milwaukee and who will be in attendance for the film’s Milwaukee premiere.

Good Meat (April 28, Union Theatre) Part of the UWM Union Theatre’s “Share the Earth” Environmental Film Series, Good Meat is a 2010 documentary about an overweight Native American man’s attempt to shed pounds by strictly adhering to the diet practices of his cultural ancestors. Described by its creators, Lakota Indians Sam Hurst and Larry Pourier, as a kind of reverse Super Size Me, Good Meat explores the now-tenuous connections between heritage, culture, rit-

The 2011 winner of the Best Foreign Language Film awards at both the Oscars and the Golden Globes, In a Better World is a sprawling, international tale of loss and revenge across national and cultural lines. A product of Denmark (where its title translates literally to “The Revenge”), the film follows the parallel narratives of a Swedish doctor (Mikael Persbrandt), his young son (Markus Rygaard) and his son’s friend (William Jøhnk Nielsen) as they struggle with their own growing demons and personal vendettas against the residents and rulers of an African refugee camp.

Super (begins April 29, Oriental Theatre) The follow-up to 2006’s woefully under-appreciated horror-comedy Slither, which breathlessly and deftly mixed big laughs and grotesque horror imagery, Super is director James Gunn’s attempt to breach the similar gap between comedy and intense physical violence. Ostensibly following in the vein of 2009’s misunderstood Observe and Report, which chronicled a small-time mall cop’s attempts to keep the peace by any means necessary, the film treads the fine line between lighthearted jokes and troubling psychoses as it follows Rainn Wilson’s attempt to become a real-life superhero to get his ex-wife back (against her will) from a drug-dealing Kevin Bacon, who is rapidly reducing his six degrees of separation to about three or four.

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DRIVER Continued from page 12 gram and I am currently their Secretary. Being a member of the group has definitely helped me to understand the process of grant writing and the importance of getting funding, because there is a lot of free money out there! The group has also helped me to be more in tune with what’s currently happening in the field by attending conferences.

Post: Your artwork has a very modern, modular kind of aesthetic to it that seems almost structural in approach. Where do you pull influence from and what are your goals in creating artwork this way?

Driver: Spot on! A lot of my aesthetic influences come from modern architecture and design. In particular, designs that have a sense of repetition, pattern, scale changes, perspective, movement and space are the things that I am drawn to the most.

The current work that I’m making is influenced by a few different architects, but one in particular is Zaha Hadid. My current work is installationbased and has a lot of reference to architectural structure, relief sculpture and the decorative arts. I am creating three-dimensional wall patterns that are environments in which I am placing a wearable piece of jewelry. The piece that is wearable connects the structure to the body and that relationship is what I am most interested in exploring.

I haven’t seen a whole lot of people working this way within the metalsmithing field, connecting installation, sculpture and metalsmithing. I hope it makes people think about adornment differently.

Post: With all the versatility and functionality of metalworking, it seems you could move in many directions with

your work at this point. Where do you see your practice taking you after graduation?

Driver: After graduation, I plan on taking a little bit of time off to get more experience by doing internships, working in galleries, teaching workshops, whatever I can get my hands on that is not academic before I go to graduate school.

Post: What have been some of the strong points and opportunities you’ve experienced working here in the Milwaukee art community and specifically with UWM? And conversely is there anything you would like to see happen in the future of the art community here?

Driver: I really, really like how there is healthy competition within my department.

Everyone is willing to give feedback, both positively and negatively. I appreciate the extremely talented faculty within the entire Peck School of the Arts. I feel extremely blessed to have each and every one of them as my mentors. I would love to see classes in rapid prototyping, industrial design and more collaboration between different schools within the UWM campus.

Post: Can you tell me a bit about the upcoming Bachelors of Fine Arts Thesis show you are exhibiting in and what you are working on for that show?

Driver: The piece that I am putting in the BFA Thesis [May 10 -21, Inova/Arts Center, 2400 E Kenwood Blvd.] show is my most current work. I am currently fabricating a three-dimensional tessellating wall pattern that is constructed out of white chipboard. Within the pattern, there is one piece that is fabricated out of silver and is made to be taken off the wall and worn by the viewer. The installation is about eight feet by eight feet, but I’m only putting part of the installation in the show because of the gallery’s size requirements.

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Little Italy UWM welcomes The Italian Film Festival USA

By Angel Rivera Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com

How does a free trip to Italy sound? Italy is coming to campus: specifically, it’s coming to the UW-Milwaukee Union Theater from April 28 to May 1.

The Italian Film Festival USA of Milwaukee is known for showcasing and premiering critically acclaimed Italian films (with English subtitles).

The festival has successfully expanded to 10 cities and is currently in its seventh year of production. This year’s edition brings eight top contemporary Italian fi lms from esteemed directors and talented newcomers chosen by a local fi lm committee.

The UWM Post interviewed president of the festival Barbara Klein about the history of the event, its impact, and what to look forward to the most.

UWM Post: First, give us some information about yourself. What exactly is your role in planning the film series?

Barbara Klein: As president of the Italian Film Festival USA, I select a short list of films (this year 14) and negotiate with the distributors.

Then the local committee – in Milwaukee that is Bobby Tanzilo and Paul Salsini – select the films from the short list that are to be shown lo-

cally (this year they picked eight).

Post: How long has the Italian film series been running?

Klein: The Italian Film Festival USA started in St. Louis in 2005, and expanded to Milwaukee in 2007.

Post: What are some of the more significant films on this year’s docket?

Klein: The lineup includes the latest film by Academy Awardwinner Gabriele Salvatores, Happy Family. In addition, 18 Anni Dopo (18 Years Later), the director Edoardo Leo was just nominated on April 7 for the David Donatello Award as best new director.

[The David Donatello Awards are the Italian equivalent of the Oscars.] And Basilicata Coast to Coast [which was nominated for eight David Donatello Awards] was a hit comedy last summer in Italy.

Post: What are some of the thematic preoccupations of this year’s lineup of films?

Klein: We try to bring the best of recent publicly and critically acclaimed Italian films (we don’t have a theme) and present the local premiere.

Post: The Italian Film Series only plays in certain “mainstream” or big cities. Why is that?

Klein: The Italian Film Festival USA is held in 10 cities:

The Italian Film Festival is premiering eight films at the UWM Union including David Donatello Award nominee Edoardo Leo’s 18 Anni Dopo (18 Years Later). Image courtesy of the Italian Film Festival USA St. Louis, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Detroit, Cleveland, Memphis, Minneapolis, Denver, Chicago and Boulder.

The purpose of the festival is to bring recent Italian films to cities where few Italian films are shown during the rest of the year, despite there being many Italians, ItalianAmericans or cinephiles who enjoy seeing Italian films.

Post: What do you feel people would gain from watching these fi lms, and do you feel the Italian language (even though English subtitles are provided) contribute to the film? I ask the aforementioned because certain meanings get lost in translation.

Klein: I believe it is a more enjoyable cinematic experience when you can hear the film’s original language, rather than it being dubbed in English. And Italian is a very beautiful language to hear!

We hope that the audience can not only enjoy hearing Italian, but also seeing the various regions of Italy that we have represented in our film selection and learn something new about Italy.

European films, such as Italian films, are often very different than American films ...t and we think that our audiences will be thinking about our films and their messages well after they’ve left the theater!

Post: Could it be said that the films will enrich viewers’ perspectives, and if so, how?

Klein: Yes, many of the films have a story where the characters discover something about themselves (such as Basilicata Coast to Coast), grow emotionally, or are about family dynamics (18 Anni Dopo).

The film Rosso Come Il Cielo is the all-time audience favorite in St. Louis at our festival.

It is a very moving story, and a true story of Mirco Mencacci who, even though he is blind, became of one of the most renowned sound editors in Italian cinema.

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The pourne identity Is gay-for-pay reasonable?

By Jon Tingley Sex Columnist fringe@uwmpost.com

I’m not exactly sure how it happens in the straight world, but I’m sure the straight porn industry lures plenty of young men and women into the profitable trade in similar ways as the gay porn industry.

What’s interesting is that gay porn stars make far

more money than actors in straight porn and men who claim to be straight and go “gay-for-pay” make the most.

It seems to me that this fact alone is a huge motivating factor for young men to get involved in the porn industry, only thinking about the short-term financial benefits and not the long-term social and professional consequences.

You might be wondering why I’m writing about this.

No, I don’t hate porn or porn stars – I actually think that

pornography can be a very healthy part of both singlehood and partnered sexual relationships. I’m writing about this because one of my best gay friends was recently reading his favorite LGBT blog only to see a banner ad at the top for a popular “gay-for-pay” site. In this banner ad was a person who we had all known for a long time in the Milwaukee social circle; we’ll call him Jake.

For their friendship, it brings up all sorts of trust issues. When my friend has

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to look at his former flame every time he blogs, it can be a little disturbing, making you wonder, “If he’s doing this, what limits does he have?”

Aside from the friendship issues, we should think for a second about our amateur porn star. Many young men and women don’t think about how this 30-minutes and $500 will affect their future. They think that there is so much content out on the Internet that no one they know will ever see it. The reality is that the company that filmed them will most likely want to promote their site and, like our friend, they will use their pictures in ads on several sites, reaching millions of people.

Among those people are peers, professors, family members, employers and more. Of course, not everyone out there is looking at gay porn, but if gay porn stars are getting paid, a lot of people must be tuning in.

In the event that someone recognizes you, they will tell other people and then they will tell their friends, and pretty soon, you’re surrounded by people who have witnessed a moment that you may regret.

That video clip is a moment that will be accessible to the public forever.

It’s true that after a few months the escapade will probably get lost in a neverending cycle of other men and women baring all, but that doesn’t mean your video is gone. People will still find it for years and years.

Even after the production company closes in 10 years and the website is shut down, the video will still live

on in torrent sites, porn blog posts and the hard drives of your biggest fans – and that is what my friend is worried about.

It’s one thing if his buddy sought out a production company looking for a quick buck and knew what he was getting himself into. There are hundreds of successful people out there who have consciously decided to be in the adult entertainment industry and have made a great life for themselves.

There are others, however, who have been taken advantage of when they’re drunk or depressed and are coaxed into signing agreements and taking off their pants. If you’ve followed the Joe Francis and Girls Gone Wild saga, you know that many women have come forward explaining how people working for GGW have been trained to talk them into being in the amateur porn videos. If this is what happened to Jake, then he should pursue action that will remove his video and prevent any more people from witnessing a drunken mistake.

Never forget that no matter what it is that you’re putting online, a lot of it will stay out there once you hit “upload.” It’s something that I have to consider as I write my posts, and it’s something that you should think about when you send those pictures to someone in a chat room or upload that YouTube video.

You don’t want to have to defend something you posted 10 years ago, and you don’t want to have to explain to your children why you pranced around naked for $500 when you were 18.

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Lost and Found

By Post Staff fringe@uwmpost.com

The third in a series of Post mixtapes, “Lost, Found” centers around loss, whether the music be from some of the more beloved and influential musicians to have passed in recent years, or some of the more tragic songs that were themselves written in mourning.

TV On The Radio - “You” The music world was saddened and stunned Wednesday to learn of the death of Gerard Smith, bassist for the beloved indie funk/rock quintet TV On The Radio. He was diagnosed with cancer just a few weeks ago, and while he participated openly in the recording sessions for the band’s new album, Nine Types of Light [ed note: perhaps a hyperlink to the Post review?], he was

unable to embark on the supporting tour. While TV On The Radio will undoubtedly soldier on without Smith’s presence, his earthquake of a bass guitar will certainly be missed. Look no further for evidence than “You,” the third song from Nine Types of Light, which in retrospect functions as much as a tragically ironic tribute to Smith (“You / Gave no reason for letting go / I just thought you might like to know / You’re the only one I ever loved”) as a testament to his powerfully reverberating techno-inspired skill on the four-string. TV On The Radio will undoubtedly go down as one of our generation’s most enduringly influential groups, and Smith was (and is) a huge reason why.

Steven Franz Assistant Fringe Editor

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Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse - “Grim Augury” (feat. Vic Chesnutt) By the time the large scale collaborative album between Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) and David Lynch (David Lynch) was released in July of 2010, both Linkous and guest vocalist Vic Chesnutt were already dead. Chesnutt committed suicide on Christmas Day of 2009, and Linkous in March of 2010. Both artists had long struggled with depression. This song written by Linkous, is about a man explaining a nightmare he had to his wife. Ironically, the song ends with his plea for her not take this dream as a grim augury of things to come. Dark Night of the Soul, their last and only collaboration was dedicated to their memories.

Zach Erdmann News Editor Kings of Leon – “Pyro” A family band that prides itself on brotherhood is bound for some sort of change after four raucous, high-strung albums. The first signs of that change appeared on 2007’s Because of the Times -- a big, swollen arena-rock growth spurt that saw its jaded musings top the charts (and in the process, go mainstream).

By 2008’s Only by the Night they began to actually fill arenas. But the three Followill brothers (and their cousin) from Bible Belt Tennessee have changed so much that the group’s fifth record, Come Around Sundown, alludes to the possibility of a nervous breakdown. This is particularly true of “Pyro”, one of the industry’s coldest monologues on the passage of lost time to date.

“Pyro” both recounts and cries out to the inevitable fate of the touring musician, an anthem for those running on empty. “All the black inside me/is slowly seeping from the bone,” sings Caleb over a dragging midtempo. “Everything I cherish/is slowly dying, or it’s gone.” The rest of Sundown has been categorized as “beachy” by some critics, but the emotion contained in that song naturally overshadows whatever sunnier content surrounds it.

To lose the strength of one’s inspiration, to have forgotten where home really is – that’s what this song is about. The bus keeps driving, the road goes on forever. And that, to me, is the biggest loss of all.

Graham Marlowe Staff Writer Drive-By Truckers – “Angels and Fuselage” Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood is about as much a lyrical historian as he is a musician.

Throughout much of the bands career, they have chronicled the legends and lore of the South, and Hood’s done it better than most could.

Southern Rock Opera was the band’s 2001 album that really put them on the map, examining the problems of the South and recounting the histories of “The Three Great Alabama Icons,” including George Wallace, Bear Bryant, and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Sant.

Hood’s “Angels and Fuselage” is appropriately the closing track on the album – a song that supposes what those final moments may have been like as the plane went down during the fateful flight that flew Lynyrd Skynyrd to their graves.

Dustin Zarnikow Fringe Editor Christopher Denny – “Time” Christopher Denny, a young singer-songwriter from Arkansas, has a voice that emulates his harmonica. With his warbling vibrato, he exudes the dust of the Midwest: the tired, reluctant optimism that has plagued many a weary wanderer.

“Time” is about the alwayspresent desire to escape the human condition. “You see I might not ever die, if it were not for time,” he laments. Although the lyrics are desolate in nature, the song keeps humming along at a brisk pace. We’re all on this ride together into the infinite, and there’s no escaping it. Might as well dance while we’re at it.

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Wisconsin’s public Congressional libraries in peril The Verbal Vegan

Walker’s proposed budget eliminates funding

Congress crosses the line with scientifically unsound anti-wolf legislation

By Jackie Dreyer Editorial Editor editorial@uwmpost.com

“What is more important in a library than anything else – than everything else – is the fact that it exists,” said Archibald MacLeish in his essay “The Premise of Meaning” in the June 5, 1972 issue of The American Scholar.

MacLeish was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress, and is considered “one of the hundred most influential figures in librarianship during the 20th century” in the U.S. by American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association.

To be sure, MacLeish is rolling over in his grave at the serious cuts Wisconsin’s public libraries could be up against – thanks to Governor Scott Walker’s proposed 2011-2013 budget. Anger, frustration and dissatisfaction directed at the more publicized parts of Walker’s budget, like the cuts to education and teachers, are

By Sarah Hanneken Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com

still justified and necessary; however, how, until now, has nobody expressed outrage at our public libraries being in jeopardy?

Libraries have long been nuclei of positive influence – a wealth of experience and knowledge at our fingertips. Fiction can transport you to a whole other world, taking you back into the past, keeping you in the present or pushing you forward into the future. Nonfiction can connect the dots on any topic

that you could possibly want to know more about.

But even beyond books, libraries now provide access to computers and the Internet to those who do not have the luxury of owning a computer themselves or being able to afford personal Internet access.

That not only includes low-income families, but also college students.

I bet that more UW-

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Ask me why I’m wearing jeans Denim Day promotes sexual assault awareness

By Maura Metz Special to the Post editorial@uwmpost.com

“Ask me why I’m wearing jeans,” reads a sticker you will see members of the UWMilwaukee community wearing on Wednesday, April 27. For a college population that wears jeans almost every day, what special meaning will it have if you wear them on April 27?

The day is called Denim Day, and we will be wearing denim to create sexual assault awareness and confront victim-blaming attitudes. People will be participating throughout Milwaukee and the whole state of Wisconsin, and support stickers will be available ahead of time at UWM in Sandburg, Cambridge Commons, Riverview, the Union Atrium and the Women’s Resource Center.

Denim Day originated out of a court case with a woman who was raped by her driving instructor, but her case was overturned when the chief judge declared that, “... because the victim wore very, very tight jeans,

transgression

she had to help him remove them … and by removing the jeans … it was no longer rape but consensual sex.”

No matter what a person is wearing, unwanted sexual contact is never acceptable.

Unfortunately, sexual assault is all too prevalent. According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network, someone is sexually assaulted every two minutes.

Let’s be a campus that stands up to sexual assault.

Sexual assault affects everyone. Not sure how it impacts you? You might have a loved one who is a survivor, or maybe you yourself are a survivor. You might be concerned about how to reduce your risk of being victimized. Maybe you are committed to not perpetrating

sexual violence yourself. You might be going into a profession where you are in contact with concerns of sexual violence. Maybe you are a person who cares about having a safe environment for everyone.

Let’s be a campus that stands up to sexual assault.

There are many steps each one of us can take to move toward ending the culture of sexual assault. We can listen without judgment to the stories of survivors. We can ask about and respect our partner’s boundaries. We can make a conscious effort not to laugh along with sexist jokes. We can look out for a friend who has had too much to drink at a party.

How are you going to be a part of the solution? I am going to start by putting on a pair of jeans and a sticker on Denim Day and I will engage in conversations about sexual assault awareness with my fellow students.

Maura Metz is a UWM student and student employee at the Women’s Resource Center.

Our federal legislature is getting a bit too big for its britches, I’m afraid.

On April 14, Congress seriously overstepped its boundaries with the passing of a provision to strip wolves of federal protection in the northern Rockies.

This non-budgetary stipulation passed as a rider on the eleventh-hour Congressional budget deal approved just moments before midnight on Friday, April 8. The following week, the measure was given final approval, effectively delisting the gray wolf and insulating the provision from any judicial review.

In other words, not only did Congress shit all over the Endangered Species Act (ESA), they made sure the mess couldn’t be cleaned up.

The gray wolf, which was hunted to near-extinction in North America beginning in the 1930s, was among the first species to be placed under federal protection with the passing of the ESA in 1973.

Under these protections, wolf populations have been able to slowly reestablish in the northern Rockies and in some parts of the Midwest – though their range once spanned the entire northern U.S. Ever since wolves were first placed under ESA protections, ranchers and hunters have fought viciously to have them delisted. Ranchers have complained about losing profit due to predation on their livestock, and trophy hunters are upset that the wolves are essentially bringing the onceoverpopulated elk and moose herds back into balance.

The heartbreaking legislation passed earlier this month implements a delisting rule that was declared unlawful by a federal district court back in 2009. The fact that Congress is brushing aside sound science (not to mention a previous judicial ruling) to cater to these small but vocal special interest groups is sickening.

And don’t let the irony of the situation escape you – the ranchers and hunters who

are so “concerned” about the wellbeing of their livestock and quarries are really only concerned to the extent that it affects their bottom lines or living room décor.

In a statement released

by Defenders of Wildlife, a non-profit organization, president Rodger Schlickeisen denounced Congress’ actions as “unforgiveable,” declaring: “Congress is selling out America’s wolves, and in the process is also undermining not only one of our greatest wildlife conservation successes, but also the Endangered Species Act, one of the world’s most far-sighted conservation laws. This provision sets a terrible precedent that could be regarded as an invitation to other legislation to strip protections for any other endangered species that a politician finds inconvenient to protect.”

Suzanne Stone, the organization’s northern-Rockies representative, added:

The ranchers and hunters who are so “concerned” about the wellbeing of their livestock and

“Congress is trying to force this through on a budget bill in a moment of incredible desperation. And for what? To appease a tiny group of the most radical hunters and ranchers who want to get rid of wolves entirely. Nevermind that the vast majority of Americans, including those of us in the West, recognize the wolf as a vital part of our wilderness and want wildlife decisions to be made by scientists, not politicians.”

And definitely not by politicians who answer to mercenary ranchers and hunters.

Those are the predators we should be worried about.

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Competition breeds innovation, innovation saves fuel

Image courtesy of the autosport.com

The cost of racing is outweighed by the innovation it provides

By John Prellwitz Automotive Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com

Eight open headers belch fire skyward as the “Christmas tree” flashes green.

Nearly 8,000 horsepower pumps through the Hemi, which produces so much torque that the sidewalls of the 36-by-17.5-inch drag slicks visibly crease and fold as they spin – but only if you’ve got a highspeed camera, because in four seconds’ time the car has gone from 0 to 300 mph and is one quarter mile away.

At another venue, 43 drivers vie for position, rubbing fenders and trading paint at 200 mph, their 750 horsepower engines screaming past 9,000 revolutions per minute for 500 miles. The only reprieve comes from a few caution laps while crews collect the debris of two cars that collided in Turn Three. Despite spinning into a wall, flipping multiple times and catching fire upon landing, both drivers walk away from their mangled cars unscathed.

A top fuel dragster burns nearly 24 gallons of nitromethanol in a single quarter mile run. Those 43 stock cars average less than 5 miles per gallon and burn a combined 4,500 gallons of high-octane race fuel per event.

Those statistics have long made auto racing the subject of sharp criticism coming from environmentalists and others concerned about how our finite supply of fossil fuel is consumed.

With an oil spill marring recent history, newfound instability in the Middle East and fuel prices nearing records highs,

that criticism has only gotten louder. From that perspective, it would be simple to call racing a wasteful indulgence. But that would require ignoring the invaluable contributions racing has made to the private sector in the realms of safety, performance and, yes, even fuel economy.

Competition, as they say, breeds innovation. Over the course of World War II, our world, which had still been heavily reliant on horse-drawn carts, was introduced to airplanes as viable transportation, the advent of jet power and self-guided rockets and, of course, the dawn of nuclear research. All this in just six years.

It would be simple to call racing a wasteful indulgence. But that would require ignoring the invaluable contributions racing has made to the private sector in the realms of safety, performance and even fuel economy.

So too is it with racing. Once performance had plateaued as far as speed was concerned, racers directed their attention elsewhere.

Early racing drivers went without seat belts, believing they were better off being thrown clear of a wreck.

Fatality rates were understandably high. Since then, extensive research has proven that

cushioning the impact of a collision through crumple zones reduces stress on the body, as does limiting its movement by way of form-fitting seats, multipoint seat belts and, more recently, neck braces and the HANS device.

Auto-retracting seatbelts and strategically located airbags attempt to mimic these effects in passenger vehicles, without the discomfort of being pinned in place like a child in a booster seat.

Since so much fuel gets used in a race, teams make every effort to use as little as possible while maximizing the energy gained from each drop.

The less fuel that gets used, the longer their car remains on the track running at full tilt rather than wasting time in the pits refueling.

Dual overhead cams, direct injection and forced induction are all products of racing’s combustion research. Each allows more power to be gained from less fuel. Audi moved away from its tried-and-true gasoline engines and switched to diesel to prove to the world in grand fashion that diesel is reliable, efficient and powerful.

Just how embedded is racing technology in the regular cars we drive each day? Next time you’re in your car, look up and slightly to the right. The rearview mirror was first introduced during the inaugural running of the Indy 500. Racers had previously relied on their ride-along mechanic to watch traffic for them. Ray Harroun dispensed with the mechanic, opting to use a mirror instead and won the race.

So rather than restrict racing, allow it to flourish unimpeded. Pure competition is the quickest means to innovation, making the cars we drive safer and more efficient while providing an entertaining spectacle to boot.

Milwaukee students than you’d imagine cannot afford Internet wherever they happen to live. If there are no open wireless networks to “steal” Internet from nearby, their only option is to meander up to campus and use the university’s Internet and/or computers. (Arguably, though, campus wireless, i.e., Prowlnet, is not “free,” in the sense that you must have a Panther ID to access it, meaning you must be a tuition-paying student or faculty member.)

Walker’s budget would abandon “the requirement that municipalities fund libraries at a level equal to the average of the past three years, also known as ‘maintenance of effort’” and cut state aid by 10 percent, according to WUWM. To put it simply, the City of Milwaukee has 13 libraries and an approximate budget of $22 million. The budget would mean “about $297 thousand in cuts,” Director of the Milwaukee Public Library Paula Kiley told WUWM. Do the math, and that may not seem like a giant cut, but from what Kiley told WUWM, this means the potential reduction of library sharing capability and the central library’s ability to provide all of its services.

In detail?

Kiley said, “Purchasing collections, especially special collections that people expect to find at the central library, and also having enough staff in the building to keep the doors open, and to answer questions whether it’s by telephone or email or chat or in person,” are all vulnerable in the face of cuts.

With this decrease in funding looming over our libraries’ heads, it makes you question Walker’s motives for its implementation. Does he feel that libraries will become obsolete?

Legitimacy there is not in a proposed battle between libraries and the Internet.

An “acclaimed American study” that investigated “the effect of the Internet on the demand for public library services and resources,” concluded that “Internet use exists as a supplement to and not a substitute for library use,” according to “The role and value of libraries in the age of digital technologies” by Svanhild Aabø in the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

Aabø also acknowledged The Comedia group, a British research consultancy specializing in cultural and urban policy issues, and its work on the future of public libraries. He said, “its starting point was a sense of urgency about the prospects of public libraries, a feeling that they are seriously threatened in the era of deregulation, local government restructuring, commercialization of information and growth of home-based leisure.”

“Local government restructuring” is unquestionably Walker’s modus operandi. But instead of amending Wisconsin’s government to support the best interests of our state’s citizens, he’s devalued much of what we hold dearest. Public education and libraries are two places where budget cuts simply cannot be tolerated. If our state is to have a future of any kind, two of the most prominent places where learning takes place cannot take the hit.

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PRIMAL URGES

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Pet of the Week Tobin Tobin is the hansdome fellows name, he’s an aqaurius with spunk and confidence.

What you see is what you get, with him.

He plays hard and sleeps harder (never without a pillow or blanket). He may not be spoiled, but he never takes it for granted.

He’s been paying dividends for the past ten years. Happy birthday, Toby baby!

CORPORATE HORROR

JOSEPH KUENZLE

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$QQRXQFHPHQWV Coming Soon! Student organization survey

David Coleman The Original Love Doctor April 27, 7:30pm, Union Ballroom Sponsored by Mortar Board, a student organization at UWM.

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Keep an eye on your UWM email account for information on the student organization survey.

Your opinions and input are very important to us!

Renewal registration is in progress!

New Students and PantherSync Training is required!

Choices are becoming limited!

This summer, students attending orientation will be creating user profiles in the PantherSync system. In order for organizations to gain the most from this opportunity, officers should make sure the portal is updated and looks good for the summer. It would also be a good idea to designate an officer to check the portal for new member requests during the summer. Who knows, your organization could have a surge of new members first thing in the Fall! Look for more details in the next Leading Edge newsletter distributed online in PantherSync!

Student Activities is hiring!see For Office details

The Student Activities Office is now accepting applications for two positions: Student Organization Consultants and Web Design/Developer. Student Organization Consultant general responsibilities include providing training and assistance to student organizations, representing the office at various events on campus and assisting students in finding involvement opportunities. The Web Design/Developer general responsibilities include one-on-one consultations with OSL Centers for the planning/development and launch of departmental websites. Continued responsibilities include general maintenance, updating and ongoing development of additional web site and resources. For the full position descriptions and an application visit http://www4.uwm.edu/sao/temp/employment.cfm

www4.uwm.edu/sao/panthersync/renewal.cfm Sign up for training with OrgSync Inc. (required training) You can RSVP from within the Panthersync system or Need to update/change officers for your organization in PantherSync? The following sign up steps will assist you in updating the officers for your organization in PantherSync. at the Student Activities Office, Union 363.

Administrator Duties An officer with administrative rights needs to log into the organization via their personal PantherSync profile and choose “Org Profile” from the left side of the page under the grey “Settings” link.

Proceed to the third screen page titled “Registration Contract Page 2”and replace the past office’s name and email with the new officer’s information, then click on "Finish" near the bottom of the page.

Monday, September 13 } 1:00pm, 3:00pm or 5:00pm Tuesday, September 14 } 10:30am or 1:00pm

Replacing Officer’s Duties After joining the organization, log into your personal PantherSync profile and choose the "forms" tab from the left side of your page.

Fill out a "Registered Student Organization (RSO) Officer Registration Contract Form". Click “Submit”, then choose the option to print the PDF form, sign it, and then turn it into the Student Activities Office, Union 363.

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

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THE UWM POST CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Fresh follower?

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In-word

THIS WEEK’S IN-WORD: SHOWING

INSTRUCTIONS: Find as many words as possible using only the letters from this week’s IN-WORD. Words must be four or more letters long.

Slang words, proper nouns, and contractions are not permitted. Only one form of a verb is permitted. Words that become four or more letters by the addition of “s” are not permitted.

Can you find 19 or more words in “SHOWING?”

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