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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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The Roots follow up a provocative ‘Fallon’ performance with an equally provocative 13th album. | 8
After an already dominant season, Montee Ball was named 1 of 5 finalists for college football’s most vaunted trophy. |
Going, going, gone! Student season ticket holder vouchers for the upcoming Rose Bowl Game sold out within minutes Sunday evening. | 2
Choo choo!
An Olbrich’s Holiday Express brings seasonal spirit to all of the Madison community as it rounds a lap Monday afternoon. A small admissions price will score anyone a peek at a number of large-scale model trains, with the main attraction changing on a daily basis. Malory Goldin The Badger Herald
Cullen could enter recalls Dem. senator announces potential candidacy if fight against Walker reaches necessary mark Leah Linscheid Deputy State Editor
‘The Onion’ makes splash at UW Alums return to paper’s homeland to embed satirical journalism principles in students Julia Skulstad News Reporter Two University of Wisconsin alumni returned to satirical newspaper The Onion’s hometown last night as part of the Wisconsin Union’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Joe Garden and Carol Kolb gave audience members an inside view of the fake news source to a background of laughter during the evening’s programming. The lecture started by comparing The Onion
to other news outlets, including CNN, The New York Times and The Badger Herald. Compared to these sources, Garden said The Onion was on top with 100 “trillion” readers, putting CNN in second place with its five trillion. For journalistic integrity,The Onion scored a perfect six out of six, while The New York Times scored at a five and The Badger Herald at a zero, “because they have no journalistic integrity whatsoever,” Garden
said. “We’re all friends, and I feel bad showing you people these charts,” Kolb said amid laughter from the audience. Garden and Kolb also featured some of The Onion’s popular articles and video clips. Headlines drawing some of the most attention from the audience included: -“I’ll Be Able to Get This Big Pot of Chili Over to My Friends House if I Put on These Roller Skates” -“Guy in Philosophy
Class Needs to Shut the Fuck Up” -“Governor Walker Should Be Flogged for his Inability to Control his Underlings” -“Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation With Wish for Unlimited Wishes” Following their presentation, Garden and Kolb opened the floor up for questions, and the lecture took on a more serious nature. Both Garden and Kolb said the thought
THE ONION, page 4
Amid a heated recall atmosphere with accusations of damaged petitions, a state senator has emerged as a potential candidate to face Gov. Scott Walker if a recall election is triggered. Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, CULLEN recently expressed interest in running against Walker in a recall election if enough signatures are collected. According to Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Graeme Zielinski, Cullen would pose a significant threat to Walker as a credible candidate because of his history of bipartisanship in the Legislature, a characteristic Zielinski said is sorely lacking under Walker’s administration. “Cullen would be a serious candidate because he’s somebody who knows the value of compromise,” Zielinski said. “He is a strong voice for moderation in an atmosphere that’s been poisoned by Walker, who is a candidate that rules by fear. Cullen, in comparison, would rule by compromise and consensus.” Zielinski also said there are many stakeholders with an interest in seeing Walker recalled, and independents, progressives and Republicans will all have a say in which candidate will be chosen to run in the recall election. United Wisconsin spokesperson Meagan Mahaffey said in an email to The Badger Herald that the organization is solely focused on getting enough signatures to trigger a recall election and does not intend to play a role in
selecting the candidates to run against Walker. Mahaffey commented on the success of United Wisconsin’s recall efforts, stating in her email that more than 300,000 signatures have been collected at last count, many in historically conservative counties. According to both Mahaffey and Zielinski, defamation and other acts against the recall efforts occurring across the state have not affected the movement’s success. One such defamation act took place in Chippewa Falls, where a 68-yearold woman destroyed a “Recall Walker” sign owned by petition volunteers. According to Chippewa Falls Police Capt. John Liddell, the woman pulled her vehicle up near the volunteers and appeared as though she wanted to sign the petition. She instead ripped up the petition and drove away, yelling at the volunteers. Liddell said the volunteers recorded the woman’s license plate and plan to press charges. The woman was not immediately taken into custody, but the police report will be sent to the Chippewa Falls district attorney for formal charges of criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct. A similar situation is being investigated in West Bend, where 30-year-old Jeffery Karnitz is being charged with two counts of defacing recall petitions for both Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, a felony in Wisconsin. West Bend Police Lt. Richard Lucka said Karnitz scribbled out names on two petitions in a residential neighborhood in West Bend. Ben Sparks,
CULLEN, page 4
Night in UWPD footsteps highlights campus culture A ride-along with an established officer offers insight into drinking problems Pamela Selman News Content Editor An evening in the life of a University of Wisconsin Police Department officer entails a wide array of tasks, ranging from patrolling murky and secluded areas of campus to aiding house fellows in monitoring incapacitated students. Officer Tanner Gerstner said the job comes with moments of absolute terror, whether it be the 10 minute drive from campus to detox, praying the individual in the backseat keeps bodily fluids inside or going from a routine traffic patrol to pursuing an armed suspect at a moment’s notice. While the excitement was relatively low Saturday night, Gerstner’s patrol took him to the nooks and crannies hidden in
the crevices of Madison. His night began with a drive through dark and unpopulated areas of the city, checking parking lots of temporarily deserted campus buildings and the pathways of the eerily dark Arboretum. “It doesn’t happen all too often, but sometimes we see drug deals, gang-related activity or sometimes even prostitution back here,” Gerstner said as he drove through the Arboretum’s stretch with the vehicle’s sidelights gleaming. “We’ll also catch kids out here engaging in [sexual activities], but we’ll send them home because it’s not good to be out here in a dark area where they might not know where exactly they are and aren’t capable of paying attention to their surroundings.” After a clean sweep and a stop at the Eagle Heights housing lots “just to make [UWPD’s] presence known around here,” Gerstner continued patrol of the campus area, highly concentrated
with intoxicated students roaming between bars and house parties. While checking in on the area’s parking garages to ensure no suspicious behavior was in the works, a call came over the radio asking for officers to respond to a house fellow’s call to 911 for an incapacitated resident. Arriving on scene, Gerstner was met by the primary officer heading the call, an additional backup officer and a team of three volunteer emergency medical service personnel. Despite registering a .14 blood alcohol content level, the student residing in Jones House on the lakeshore was medically approved by the EMS team. UWPD did not hand out a ticket on the spot, but after pouring out the remainder of the student’s alcohol and telling him to stay in for the night, the student was instructed UWPD officers would return the next night to discuss what went wrong, how the student was feeling
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Malory Goldin The Badger Herald
Members of MEChA believe no policy violation occurred in original plans to co-sponsor an event and asked SSFC to lift the negative mark against the organization. After debate, the committee ultimately agreed the multi-cultural student group had not actually gone against SSFC guidelines.
Proposal advances to create student internship network Katie Caron Campus Reporter A student government committee recommended an idea to create a student internship service on campus that would provide a central database for students
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during a meeting last night. Associated Students of Madison Intern David Gardner presented the student intern service idea to the Student Services Finance Committee to be evaluated. “Because they’re
becoming more and more competitive, there is a need for people to have some assistance in finding internships,” Gardner said. “There’s a lack of outreach, and people aren’t advertising internships
INTERNSHIP, page 4