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Legislator proposes legalizing marijuana use for those over 21

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SLAC members bare all on Library Mall Monday to protest UW-Madison’s contract with JanSport.

SLAC strips to protest UW, JanSport contract

By Abbey Alfredson the daily cardinal

The Student Labor Action Coalition bared it all during a nude protest Monday afternoon on Library Mall to collect signatures for a petition encouraging Chancellor Rebecca Blank to cut licensing ties to the VF Corporation.

The VF Corporation, parent company of JanSport, has refused to sign the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, an agreement to protect Bangladeshi garment laborers. SLAC has held multiple protests this year requesting Blank to force the parent company to sign the accord, but she has declined to do so.

Blank explained in a February letter to SLAC members that she

based this decision on the fact that although the VF Corporation does produce in Bangladesh, JanSport does not. Blank stressed this commitment to “hearing updates and information about the progress or lack thereof in these agreements” in the letter.

Fr e sh m a n Me l a n i e McCormick said she found the protest to be effective and informative. Many other students walking to and from class were drawn to the protest.

“Definitely the display was eyecatching. I wanted to know why they were mostly naked,” sophomore Matthew Norman said.

Not only were students impressed by the protest, but former Director of the Institute of

Education at University College London Geoff Whitty signed the petition as well.

“I think it’s really good that people are standing up and protesting because what’s going on is quite disgusting,“ Whitty said. “Americans are getting cheap clothing, and English people are too. I wish the protesters luck.”

The protest drew in members outside of SLAC to undress and stand up for the laborers in Bangladesh, including Associated Students of Madison Nominations Board Chair Megan Phillips.

Phillips said ASM just passed a resolution asking Chancellor Blank to cut the contract for

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State Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, unveiled legislation Monday that would decriminalize marijuana possession and fully legalize its use for both recreational and medicinal purposes for those over 21 years old.

“The most dangerous thing about marijuana is that it is illegal,” Sargent said in a Monday press conference. She praised the effects of similar legislation in states like Colorado and Washington and called on lawmakers to pass a “homegrown marijuana solution.”

The 90-page bill includes a sales tax provision of 25 percent, according to Sargent.

Edibles and infusions cannot be sold, which is a change from

Sargent’s previous attempt to legalize the drug when she introduced a similar bill in January 2014. Cultivation of marijuana requires a $250 application fee under the bill.

Sargent noted the bill could not do anything for those currently facing charges for possession, saying she “cannot retroactively fix a broken system.”

“What is truly criminal is the money that Wisconsin as a whole is losing by not legalizing marijuana. This is a travesty,” Sargent said, noting projected budget deficiencies for the state.

The representative pointed to racial disparities in Madison and Wisconsin as the inspiration for the bill, saying that

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Authorities identify body pulled from Lake Mendota A statement from the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the body found in Lake Mendota Saturday afternoon to be 23-year-old Jacob D. Payne of Fitchburg.

A forensic autopsy Sunday discovered Payne died from wounds inflicted by an “edged weapon,” director of operations for the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office Barry Irmen wrote in the statement.

The wounds suggest Payne could have been stabbed to death. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office will continue to

investigate the case as a homicide instead of a death.

Wisconsin Circuit Court records show that a man named Jacob D. Payne, who would currently be 23 years old, was charged with a felony for armed robbery and threats to use force in March 2008. Payne pled no contest to the charges during his trial in January 2009. He was sentenced to a year in state prison for these charges.

According to court records,

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Sexual assault reported to UW staff A sexual assault reported Sunday to a UW-Madison staff member will not be investigated by the UW Police Department, according to a crime warning sent to students’ emails.

The assault, of which the victim and suspect allegedly know each other, happened in a Southeast residence hall Saturday.

Since the assault was reported to UW staff and the victim requested police not get involved, Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott said the police department cannot investigate the crime.

He added sexual assaults more often than not go unreported for various reasons.

“They may not want to get the individual in trouble. They may not feel comfortable talking to police,” Lovicott said, explaining

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there are many different reasons why someone may not want to contact police. “We absolutely understand that and respect that.

It’s completely up to them, and there are other resources on campus if they choose not to report it to police.”

Lovicott cited national statistics that one in five collegeaged women will experience sexual assault throughout her college career, but only six sexual assaults have been reported at UW-Madison over this academic year.

“Typically with sexual assaults, it’s just a fraction that are reported, which is unfortunate,” Lovicott said. “When you try to do the math, the numbers pale in comparison.”

—Bri Maas

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Candidates are starting to announce their plans to become the next president of the United States.

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Garver Feed Mill project poses conflict for Board of Estimates

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Ald. Larry Palm, District 12, believes the Baum Development plan serves the community’s priorities and majority interests.

Madison’s Board of Estimates sparred during its meeting Monday night over development plans for the abandoned Garver Feed Mill on the edge of the Olbrich Botanical Gardens.

Registered as a historic landmark, the Garver Feed Mill was built in 1905. Since the mill was deeded to the city of Madison in 1996, several plans to restore the Garver Feed Mill ultimately fell through due to poor fundraising.

The city recently granted plans to restore the mill to Baum Development, which aims to renovate the building as an artisan food production facility and add a series of energy efficient micro-lodges on the land around the mill.

However, Dimension Development is working on an alternative to the Baum plan with Alternative Continuum of Care, LLC., which would turn the Garver Feed Mill into age-restricted housing, featuring both independent and assisted living facilities.

Representatives of Dimension Development expressed concern regarding the timeline for how long they will stay on the project without a commitment from the city.

“If the decision is made too late in 2015 to switch from the primary proposal to the secondary, the secondary proposal might not be viable,” said Tom Landgraf, a member of Dimension Development’s management team. “We can’t always show up as number two and be expected to cross the finish line.”

According to Ald. David Ahrens, District 15, prioritizing the Baum plan is socially irresponsible for the community.

“We didn’t ask what the … civic value was of this proposal,” Ahrens said. “What we have before us is a food processing plant and microlodges, or an innovative and socially necessary project for an assisted living center.”

Other members were skeptical of Ahrens, believing the Baum plan represented the community’s priorities.

“The Garver Committee, made up of Madison residents who voted in one specific way, were demonstrating a majority interest in [the Baum] proposal based on community priorities,” said Ald. Larry Palm, District 12.

State Democrats reintroduce equal pay law repealed by Republicans State Democrats introduced a law repealed by Republicans three years ago that they say would allow the state to enforce laws preventing pay discrimination on the basis of sex.

Originally passed in 2009, the law authorizes state courts to order employers pay damages to victims of discrimination. The law was only on the

books for three years before a new Republican majority in the state voted to repeal the legislation on a party-line vote in both the state Senate and Assembly.

“While Republicans have said they support equal pay they eliminated the best tool we had to enforce the law and close the gap—the ability of victims of wage discrimination

to get justice through our civil court system,” said state Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, one of the bill’s authors, in a Monday statement.

Republicans argued in 2012 the law put an unnecessary legal burden on businesses in the state and created a procedure by which some could file frivolous lawsuits against

businesses. A number of companies and commerce associations lobbied heavily in favor of the repeal.

Gov. Scott Walker signed the law’s repeal in 2012 without comment. Reinstating the law became a campaign promise for Democratic challenger Mary Burke as she unsuccessfully competed against Walker before

the 2014 gubernatorial election.

Wisconsin still has another law in place that forbids discriminating against any individual when considering compensation or promotions on the basis of sex. Hansen argued in the statement that law alone cannot prevent a growing state wage gap between sexes.

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UWPD, MPD awarded joint DOT grant for pedestrian safety issues A $25,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is expected to help improve pedestrian safety, according to a UW-Madison Police Department press release.

Jointly with the Madison Police Department, UWPD plans to use the additional funding to “help cover specialized training for officers, and increased pedestrian safety enforcement,” UWPD Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott wrote in the release.

Officers from the two law enforcement organizations will be trained in issues and protocols

pertaining specifically to pedestrian safety April 14 and April 15.

More than 1,200 pedestrians were injured in Wisconsin during the past year due to collisions with motor vehicles, with 35 pedestrian deaths occurring over the same timespan, according to statistics from the DOT. The proposed trainings will emphasize officers enforcing certain practices, including making motor vehicles yield to pedestrians in crosswalks and eliminating the human error that causes more than 90 percent of bicycle crashes, according to the release.

Partnership hopes to diversify liberal arts education and careers in Midwest A group of 15 Midwest research universities, including UW-Madison, announced their partnership with a network of 14 liberal arts colleges Monday in an effort to encourage liberal arts students to pursue graduate and academic work, according to a UW-Madison news release.

The program, called the Undergraduate and Faculty Fellows Program for a Diverse Professoriate, is a seven-year initiative that will be funded by an $8.1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The foundation aims to promote underrepresented groups to pursue careers as liberal arts professors, the release said.

Project partners will encourage graduate students from universities like UW-Madison to become faculty members at liberal arts colleges.

They will also help students transfer from small colleges to larger universities for advanced degrees.

“It can be a challenging transition to come to graduate school from a liberal arts college, especially for first-generation students and students from diverse backgrounds,” UW-Madison Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf said in the release.

“This important collaborative initiative should make that transition easier for students.”

The grant will fund paid summer research opportunities in the humanities, social sciences and the arts for students from participating colleges. It will also provide faculty fellowships, mentoring for scholars and workshops to strengthen connections between colleges and universities, the release said.

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A law proposed by state Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, would legalize recreational marijuana.

marijuana from page 1 marijuana criminalization diverts priorities for police departments. According to Sargent, each marijuana possession arrest costs taxpayers $425.

“As a dedicated conservative myself, I can see many positives with the ending of prohibition and the opportunity for the free market with the

body from page 1 Payne had an extended supervision period of three years following the completion of his sentence. The extended

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new offering,” said Joe Erato, president of the Wisconsin Cannabis Project, who spoke at the press conference.

Erato praised Colorado for its handling of marijuana legalization, citing reduced drug abuse and lower crime rates. “[The bill] falls directly in line with Gov. Scott Walker’s plan of creating jobs, reducing tax burdens on citizens, and creating a

freer and more open, conservative economy,” Erato said.

As far as getting support in a Republican state legislature, Sargent is confident the bill can pass.

“More of the people who have contacted me about their support of this bill are associated with the Republican Party,” Sargent said. “This is not a party issue. This is a value issue.”

supervision was later transferred to Mississippi and it is unknown when Payne returned to Wisconsin.

While officials at the Madison Police Department

declined to comment on the criminal history of the man found in the lake, the court records suggest the two men could be the same person.

—Theresa La Susa

unaware of the protest taking place and when asked about her thoughts on the event she said, “It’s a nice spring day.” At press time, Blank released no further statement

on Monday’s protest.

SLAC members said they plan to continue petitioning throughout this week.

Miller Jozwiak contributed to this report.

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By Allison Garcia The Daily Cardinal

Last Wednesday Guster came to the Orpheum stage and performed a concert that transcended nearly 25 years worth of music. With their newest album Evermotion having just been released, the group was back with a multi-generational set list that had the audience reminiscing about the good old days and swaying to the beat of their new laid-back sound.

Opening for the band was the experimental indie artist Kishi Bashi, who showed off his impressive versatility through a variety of songs. He is known for performing with his violin as well as catchy synth beats.

He put on a largely interactive show in which he jumped into the crowd to dance with the audience, got the audience to sing one of his clever rhythms and even got a huge cheer when he took off his suit coat.

While his more up-tempo songs did not get the crowd moving as much as he might have hoped, he tried to get the whole crowd jumping during one song and did not fully succeed, he had the audience swooning during some of his more low-tracks that focused more on his voice and violin.

His performance of “Bright Whites” was trance-like and masterfully performed.

After winning over the crowd with his last song “Manchester,” which also happens to be one of his most popular songs, Kishi Bashi also got the crowd pumped up for the main event,

Guster. But this was not the last we would see of the violinplaying, falsetto-singing and beat-programming artist.

When Guster walk on the stage the group of guys were dressed in goofy smiles and silly dance moves. After waving to the audience they kicked off their set with “Long Night,” the first song off of their 2015 release. Guster is one of those bands that sounds not only just as good live, but somehow way better, and this was pretty obvious in this first song when it felt like you had stepped into the song with the band.

Recently the band has received a little bit of flack for focusing too much on their new music and not playing crowd favorites. This was not the case at the Orpheum on Wednesday.

After lead vocalist and front man Ryan Miller said “We’re gonna play a bunch of songs from our multi-generational career,” the group broke into the song “Careful” from their album Keep it Together from 2003.

After playing this song Miller went on to comment “So many instruments. Why do we have to change instruments every song?” This was an interesting point because between almost every song they had to switch their instruments. And this didn’t just mean swapping type of instrument; they would all swap what they were playing. The bass player would switch to drums, the guitar player played trumpet, the lead singer played the ukulele and the drummer played trombone.

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While Guster did play a lot of their old music, front man and lead singer Ryan Miller seemed to prefer their new stuff, saying “it’s been 25 years, I don’t want to play that song I want to play this song.”

And these are only some examples of the interchangeability of these talented musicians. They were switching all night.

They moved on to another classic, “The Captain” from Ganging Up on the Sun, their 2006 album, which had the

crowd singing along. From there they switched back to another song from their most recent album called “Doin’It By Myself.” At this point the lighting from the Orpheum really came into play, every time the band reached the lyric “That’s being alive, being alive,” the whole room would light up, really highlighting the freeloving spirit of the song and the band.

In the next song, another oldie called “Red Oyster Cult” showed once again just how comparable their live performance is to their albums, they have clearly had a lot of practice performing in front of an audience.

After this, Miller said they were going to take a risk and play a song from their new album that they’ve had a hard time making sound good live.

When “Expectation” started I decided they had nothing to worry about because in line with the rest of the concert, they sounded amazing.

Miller then began talking about how whenever he’s in Madison he likes to buy something from a thrift store. In fact, he pointed out that the shirt he was wearing at the time was one he had bought there that day. After the break this story provided the band broke into a jam session about thrift shops and that great feeling you get when something fits just right and it is your shit.

“What You Call Love” was filled with tons of energy after their jam session. There was even a trumpet solo in the middle of the song. Then “Lightning Rod” slowed things down with a haunting melody that isn’t seen in any of their other songs.

When the group played “Do

You Love Me,” my personal favorite song of theirs, I came to the realization that the music video for this song represents perfectly how the band moves around on the stage. They don’t move around much, mostly just bopping around, but they somehow captivate the entire room with their large personalities.

Other songs they played included “Come Downstairs and Say Hello,” “Manifest Destiny” and “Happier.” What’s neat about Guster is their ability to play songs from so many different albums dating back years and yet create a sound so cohesive you would believe it all came from one amazing record.

Guster did something unique that I have not seen a lot of groups do during a concert.

Towards the end of the concert they brought the opener back out to play with them. Kishi Bashi joined the band with his violin for “Simple Machine” and stayed for “Satellite,” the song everyone in the audience was waiting for. At this point Guster was in a groove and smiling along as they jammed with the artist they seem to have enjoyed touring with.

After the show Guster admitted they were going to play an encore regardless of whether or not the audience wanted one, which the audience did. But before starting the encore the audience had to shoot ping pongs into the mouths of the band. Although it took some time, eventually the encore began. They closed the show with songs mostly from their most recent album.

Guster is an amazing band to watch live and was worth going out on a Wednesday night for.

I hope they make it back to Madison again some time soon for more fun times.

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n the beginning there were artists. Single-celled organisms that produced art on a small scale. Some artists would group together to form bands that were able to make more complex music at the same rate. A bunch of artists got the bright idea to see what happened when they all clumped together and performed art all in one place. This petri dish became known as the music festival. 8,500 individuals attended at the Monterey Pop Festival way back in 1967.

The first rock fest ever adhered to the historical definition of festival, which traditionally referenced a momentous religious gathering. In a decade where spirituality roamed free, gatherings like Woodstock truly did take on a holy sort of quality. Thousands of enlightened hippies danced in the rain, blissfully unaware that one day they would have to lie to their children about taking LSD from a guy named “Treegiver.”

Scientifically and artistically, a culture formed.

The music festivals of today, were they capable of thought, would probably look back at their ’60s ancestors and wonder how an organism was ever able to survive with so few adaptations.

Food distribution and ambulance accessibility were huge issues at Woodstock and other festivals.

Time forced these gatherings to adapt and be more accessible to the public. It’s an entirely good thing for a music festival to become a safer place for concertgoers, but the festivals evolved economically as well.

What we have now are mega festivals, the artistic equivalent of a full-fledged organism. Take South by Southwest, for example. The weeklong Austin beast now encompasses music, film and business. It has become one of the most exclusive festivals in the country. South by Southwest artists have become a business commodity, performing to select groups of journalists and members of the music industry. Other festivals have selectively developed visual organs made to lull their attendees into a trance-like state. The stages of Ultra Music Festival in Miami look like alien creatures, using flashing lights and blaring bass to attract masses of molly-fueled ravers.

Festival culture has exploded in the last decade to the point where at least once a month you can find someone in lecture anxiously waiting, watching a screen for tickets on their laptops. Highly sought after are the three-day wonderlands that promise fantasies turned into reality. While the Cro-Magnon festivals required attendees to live in tents and vans, the evolved urban festivals allow for almost anyone with a ride and, depending on their age, an OK from their parents to essentially lose three days of their life to drugs, sweat and soundwaves.

I’m no scientist (I’m a music

columnist, for cryin’ out loud), but at this point in the evolutionary timeline, I’d say we’re right at the fish mark. The festival is completely functional within its own environment, but with alluring land nearby waiting to be walked on.

There’s one bodily structure that modern festivals have put significantly more evolutionary thought into: the economic organ. Every single year it seems as if the secondary market for festival tickets grows larger and larger. Two years ago, I was relieved I could get a Pitchfork three-day pass for half the price of a one-day Lollapalooza ticket. This year, it seems like I’ll be bragging about the same deal, only this time the Lollapa tickets are three times as expensive.

Perhaps one day Pitchfork tickets will be just as expensive as the Lolla tickets of today. That seems to be the nature of festivals, expanding in size and name power with no bubble in sight.

Social media has a tendency to accelerate these growth rates.

There’s no way someone missing out on Bonnaroo doesn’t feel jealous when seeing the recently changed Facebook profile picture of a friend who attended. Their flower garments and big smiles scream absolute freedom, while their captions simply say, “Take me back.”

Eventbrite made a study of social media’s relation to music festivals, observing “The majority of posts fell into categories that emphasized the festival experience as opposed to specific performances that were taking place.” If Flying Lotus kills it at his upcoming Bonnaroo performance, most of the festival goers will remember and thank Bonnaroo for that memory, not Flying Lotus himself.

In this way festival goers have found themselves in a symbiotic relationship with the festivals themselves. No matter how lackluster the performances they see might be, as long as ticket holders run back to their towns and sing the praises of their wild and free experiences, festivals are sure to see new crops of bright-eyed attendees in the years to come.

While it’s encouraging to see the amount of people being introduced to new music is increasing every year, I can’t help but think that music festivals are adapting for survival rather than artistry.

More and more gatherings are the musical equivalent of roller coasters, especially with the recent boom in exclusively electronic festivals. Believe me, I am the absolute last person you’d find shaking my elderly finger at the younger crowd for “ruining” something, but I think there needs to be a reimagining of what a music festival is meant to be.

I’m particularly interested to see how rural Wisconsin festival Eaux Claires will fit into the current climate. Many niche bands and a scenic location could harken back to the days of the ’60s festivals. And even while mega fests roam the land, with some even migrating across the world (Riot Fest, anyone?), there will always be fledgeling fests with their own unique traits ready to go down the same path as their ancestors.

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Revelry Music and Arts Festival 2015

Prepare for AlunaGeorge’s unique sound

By Paul Blazevich The Daily Cardinal

While likely known most in the United States for their collaboration with Disclosure on “White Noise,” this duo from London has been making waves overseas ever since their debut album Body Music was released in 2013. As EDM, hiphop, alternative rock and folk have their respective representatives this year at Revelry, the rising prominence of electropop and R&B will be expressed at the festival by a duo cut from the same cloth as Sylvan Esso and CHVRCHES. In the tradition of Toro Y Moi and Gemini Club at past Revelry Music and Arts Festivals, AlunaGeorge will provide an alternative option for many members of the University of Wisconsin community who are not as interested in the

common “party genres” of college. Though acts such as The Social Experiment and The Chainsmokers will be representing the musical realms more commonly associated with parties, the bar scene, and events like Revelry, AlunaGeorge’s presence at Revelry is undeniably important to the propagation of such a festival.

In order to appeal to all areas of the UW campus community as well as live up to the title of a true music and arts festival, acts like AlunaGeorge are necessary. This is not “Revelry Party Festival;” it is Revelry Music and Arts Festival, a showcase for up-andcoming artists that are producing great material in all facets of the music world, not only the musical areas that will draw the most out of town guests.

Regardless of the fact that AlunaGeorge will be appealing to

a different demographic of music fans, they will not be out of place at Revelry. Their mix of alternative R&B (a quickly progressing genre in its own right) and electronic production presents listeners with the best of multiple worlds: the singer-producer collaborative approach, infective, body-melting beats, and proficient female vocals.

We will be graced May 2 with an important day in Madison music history. While last year will be hard to top, the mixture of hip-hop and jazz, EDM and pop, R&B and electro synths promises to give 2014 a run for its money. Coupled with the completion of another stage of Library Mall/Memorial Union construction, the presentation of an eclectic group of musicians at 2015’s Revelry Music and Arts Festival will be a spring day to remember.

Foxygen impresses at The Sett last Friday

By Marie Renaud The Daily Cardinal

Foxygen made a stop at the Sett this past Friday on their “Farewell Tour” and brought arguably the most entertaining show our campus has seen in 2015 thus far. The nine-piece band, which includes three mesmerizing back-up dancers, played a set that consisted of songs off of their two most recent albums, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic and …And Star Power, enticing the crowd to dance around to

favorites such as “Shuggie” and “How Can You Really.”

The sold-out show was complete with colorful lights and quirky props, including a toy doll.

Lead vocalist Sam France, who is known for exerting his craziest self during performances, definitely lived up to his name.

He acted as the ring leader to the loudly extravagant production. At one point, in between his wild dance moves, he jumped off the stage and yelled at a member at the crowd for pushing people

around too much. The enormous crowd was probably as energetic as the band members themselves.

There has been speculation about what this “Farewell Tour” means for Foxygen, which was first formed as a duo in 2005. The rumor spreading between excited fans was that they are, in fact, staying together and just reducing their nine-piece band to a fewer number of members. We can only hope this is true, and that Foxygen brings their contagious energy back to our campus again in the future.

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The failure of America’s fourth estate Cullen Voss Opinion Editor

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t’s difficult to have a citizenry who gives a damn about voting when they immediately associate politics as a shouting match between two sides who are constantly trying to undermine the other. There is the office of the presidency and then there is the President of the United States.

There is the governorship and there is the governor. In both of these instances, the titles and the individuals themself are not synonymous but you must have civility when discussing the man or woman holding that office. When the media is critical of, and investigates Gov. Scott Walker or President Barack Obama’s policies it is healthy and just as much a part of the democratic process as voting, calling them names in an effort to boost ratings or web traffic, is not.

Gov. Scott Walker has been in the hotseat in a nearly relentless stream of attacks by the media over topics ranging from Right-To-Work legislation to whether or not he believes in evolution. Behind a lot of the debate regarding the potential 2016 presidential contender is a style of namecalling you’d expect to hear on a children’s playground.

I’m not even talking about the comments section on a Facebook article.

There are media outlets, like The Washington Post, who are entrusted to report the news yet refer to Gov. Walker as a hooligan. A Salon article even called him “The Great

Whitebread Hope.” It’s well within these organization’s purview to do these things but it doesn’t add anything to the story which begs the question: Why do it?

Unsurprisingly, President Obama has been the subject of similar attacks around the country.

President Obama’s attacks began even before taking office when he was accused of being Kenyan despite releasing his birth certificate, a problem which somehow plagues him to this day. In February, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani asserted President Obama was un-American on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” where no one on the panel refuted his nonsensical claim. The “Fox & Friends” panel continued to indulge Giuliani in his ridiculousness and failed to critically question his position.

When I read those kind of articles or watch those news segments, I immediately lose interest.

Not because I’m offended by their language, not by a long shot. It’s because their method of “reporting” is contributing to the current state of America’s political discourse and giving it any further attention, even sharing it on Twitter or Facebook, implicates me in supporting that language in the media.

The media act as the fourth estate in America, or they’re supposed to. This means the media takes up the task of reporting on and watching over the government and is responsible for keeping the electorate informed of the government’s actions. The power of the fourth estate has eroded. Today there are a plethora of “news” sites littered across the Internet. These

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Gov. Walker has started to see the media’s personal attacks on a national scale as he begins a potential 2016 presidential campaign.

sites allow people to find their own little corner of the Internet that reports “news” and highlight video excerpts validating their position and thus creating a vicious cycle of continually influencing the readers political leanings. It’s much easier to make a legitimate looking website today than it was to maintain a consistent, widely distributed print publication in the past.

Name calling in the media immediately degrades the conversation. If you claim to be a trusted news outlet and you call someone names, you’re not reporting anymore, you’re levying personal attacks against the individual you view as the opposition. No matter how justified you feel calling Gov. Walker a hooligan or President Obama un-American, once you do it or even allow others to do it unchallenged, you’re contributing to the decline and ultimate failure of the fourth estate. Reporting the news, particularly American politics, requires restraint and courage.

Legislation will be passed that you don’t agree with and people will be elected that you didn’t vote for. It is the media’s job to report these events carefully and avoid the easy jabs at the person you disagree with.

Look, this isn’t a desperate plea from a naive political science major asking everyone to sing Kumbaya.

It’s simply illustrating a point: The fourth estate is failing us. The media’s job is to report the news, not rock it left and right.

Cullen is a senior, graduating in May, majoring in history and political science. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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President Obama has weathered the storm of personal attacks for seven years while U.S. politics have grown increasingly divided.

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Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

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14 Curly leafed veggie 1 5 Draw the route again 1 6 Demonic 17 Horace volume 1 8 Informed 19 What rumors of war may cause 22 Butter for 33-Across 23 “ ___ the ramparts ...”

24 Big name in trains 2 7 “Smoking or ___?”

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Sports Outlooks of UW teams vary for 2015-’16 Tuesday, April 14, 2015 DailyCardinal.com

Wisconsin nabbed six highly touted recruits, including forward Luke Kunin, the captain of the U.S. under-18 team.

Assuming the youngsters learn from last year and develop into more polished, experienced players, the team may see improvement from last year.

However, the Badger faithfuls’ hopes shouldn’t be too high because next year won’t feature the type of championship-caliber team Wisconsin hockey fans have grown to expect.

—Andrew Tucker

Women’s Hockey

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Lauren Carlini (center) should be one of the nation’s best players, returning as the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year.

Volleyball

The University of Wisconsin women’s volleyball team has its two second-team All American players, senior libero Taylor Morey and junior setter Lauren Carlini, returning for the 2015 season. In addition to these two starters, UW has landed six of the “Fab 50” recruits as named by Volleyball Magazine.

Head coach Kelly Sheffield’s six incoming recruits ties the record for most players coming from the “Fab 50” list, and two of the recruits have been ranked in the top 10 from prepvolleyball.com’s list. The no. 6 recruit, Tionna Williams, is a middle blocker from Fort Wayne, Ind., and the no. 9 recruit, Madison Duello, is an outside hitter from Kansas City, Mo. “Tionna and I go back almost four years since I’ve known her and her family since her freshman year,” Sheffield said. “She is an incredible athlete with elite quickness and athleticism.”

These two additions, along with the four other new recruits will fill the spots for the five graduated seniors from the 2014 season.

The solo returning senior, Morey, was named to the U.S. Collegiate National Team as one of the liberos on the team.

Morey and the team will tour China in mid-June.

Along with Morey, the team will be lead by Carlini, the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year,

working as the setter with an incredibly diverse skill-set. It will be up to these two to facilitate the team’s elevation to one of the nation’s top programs.

—Colleen Degnan

Men’s Hockey

The 2014-15 season of UW men’s hockey was by far the worst in program history, at least in terms of record. The squad finished the season at 4-26-5, with a loss in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.

At the season’s end, many were wondering if head coach Mike Eaves would stick around for another year. He did, but it was at the expense of assistant coaches Matt Walsh and Gary Shuchuk.

The Badgers were by far the lowest scoring team in the Big Ten last season, and with the loss of senior forward Joseph LaBate to graduation and sophomore Morgan Zulinick to family issues, UW will begin next season without two of its top three point scorers. When you add the loss of starting goalie senior Joel Rumpel and his backup senior Landon Peterson, as well as crucial defensive cog senior Chase Drake, Wisconsin has plenty of holes to fill on both sides of the rink.

On the bright side, the team returns its top scorer, sophomore forward Grant Besse as well as a cast of freshmen whose inexperience took the blame throughout the season for the down year. In terms of replacing the seniors,

The Badgers’ 2014-’15 campaign ended at the hands of rival Minnesota in the first game of the Frozen Four. Nonetheless, it was a successful season for Wisconsin, as they took home the WCHA Tournament crown on their way to a 29-7-4 record.

The Cardinal and White will graduate team leaders Blayre Turnbull, Brittany Ammerman, and Karley Sylvester. It will also lose defenseman Katarina Zgraja and forward Katy Josephs, who played on the third line. The departure of Turnbull, who had the second most goals on the team, and Sylvester, who led the team in assists, will no doubt hurt the Badgers. However, one of Wisconsin’s strengths this season was combining veteran leadership with young talent.

Annie Pankowski will begin her sophomore year after leading the team in both points and goals.

Barring a sophomore slump, which is unlikely for this talented skater and shooter, Pankowski will be the offensive leader for Wisconsin.

The Badgers will also return one of their most underrated players in rising junior Sarah Nurse. She is one of Wisconsin’s fastest skaters, with a quick shot and creative ability around the net. After a late offensive surge, she finished second on the team with 15 goals and captured the WCHA Tournament Most Outstanding Player award.

Between Nurse and Pankowski, the Badgers will have plenty of offensive prowess next season.

Maybe most important will be the return of goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens, who proved to be one of the best netminders in the WCHA. She earned 14 shutouts on the campaign, which tied a school record. With Desbiens between the pipes, Wisconsin will be competitive in almost every game.

It may have lost key players from their Frozen Four squad, but the returning underclassmen have the ability to continue the winning tradition in Madison.

The combination of a high powered offense, an excellent goaltender, and the coaching of Mark Johnson gives Wisconsin a realistic shot at defeating the evil empire that is Minnesota and competing for a national title.

—Bobby Ehrlich

Men’s Soccer

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Grant Besse is one of the most talented players on a Wisconsin team desperately looking to bounce back.

After one of the most successful seasons in team history in 2013, the Badgers registered just 3-12-3 (0-7-1 Big Ten) in 2014. Despite the disappointing record, Wisconsin has reason to believe it will improve heading into next season.

The Badgers played with just three seniors this season, so most of the core will be back another year older. Forward Mark Segbers finished tied for sixth in the Big Ten with 15 points, leading a group of exciting freshman players—12 in all on the team in 2014.

Fellow forward Tom Barlow tied for the team lead with five goals and finished with 13 points, as the freshman duo accounted for nearly half of the team’s 58 total points.

While the Badgers may find it difficult to make a big jump up in the standings after the winless Big Ten season, they may not be as far off as the record indicates. They suffered in close games, finishing 2-6-3 in contests decided by a goal or less. The team has already made positive strides, starting off their five game spring schedule with a pair of shutout wins.

Led by head coach John Trask, who will be entering his sixth year at the helm at Wisconsin, the Badgers should be able to improve upon this season’s last place conference finish. They will have to

each bring something great to the position. It’s the same way with the defenders. We’ve got those who will bring a physical component, but also those who will bring a technical component.”

One current Badger who is dominant in that technical component is sophomore/junior midfielder Rose Lavelle. Wisconsin will be relying on her to lead the charge in 2015 and beyond, and they will need her to go from being more of a facilitator to a scorer. She has the dribbling ability and speed to turn her 10 assists from 2014 into goals and wins in 2015.

—Lorin Cox

Women’s Basketball

The Badgers’ season ended in heartbreak as Jacki Gulczynski’s apparent game-winner was waived off after seemingly a lifetime of deliberation.

After a disappointing season that saw Wisconsin stumble to a 9-20 overall record and an opening round loss in the Big

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Rose Lavelle will be an essential component to the Badgers’ attack, as they ride a growing midfield into 2015. hope the freshman pairing that led them in 2014, as well as the now more experienced club in general, will continue to improve if the Badgers want to return to the NCAA Tournament in 2015.

—Jason Braverman

Women’s Soccer

Coming off their best season in school history, the Badgers will have high expectations for 2015.

They are losing two of their Top 3 goal-scorers in Kodee Williams and Cara Walls, but they can lean on the development of a fully returning midfield to create shot opportunities for their new forwards.

An equally difficult loss will be taking the pitch without NSCAA All-American and Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year Genevieve Richard, who set a school record with 16 shutouts in 2014. Wisconsin has depth at the position with three other returning keepers, and they’re adding a fourth from their recruiting class in Grace Quirk.

Quirk is one of 11 girls who signed national letters of intent back in February. “This is a class with a really good balance, from forwards to midfielders to defenders to goalkeepers,” head coach Paula Wilkins said at the time.

“We think the forward group all has different dimensions. They’ll

Ten Tournament, there is clearly room for improvement.

They’ll lose seniors AnnMarie Brown, Jacki Gulczynski and fifth-year senior Cassie Rochel, and the NCAA has yet to make a decision on a potential sixth year of eligibility for Michala Johnson, who played in just six games last year due to a torn ACL. While this would temper expectations, make no mistake: this team is hungry.

Head coach Bobbie Kelsey excitedly announced the addition of two forwards from Chicago, Marsha Howard and Elizabeth Toye, who will likely take on a share of the minutes vacated by Gulczynski and Rochel.

“Marsha is a 6-1 small forward who will definitely have the chance to come in and play right away,” said Kelsey. “These two young ladies ... will add a dimension of athleticism that we will need as we continue to reach our goal of winning a Big Ten Championship.”

Returning next season are leading scorer Nicole Bauman, who led the nation in three-point percentage last year, and junior guards Tessa Cichy and Dakota Whyte. Cichy showed some flashes of excellence last year, and will take on a bigger scoring load this coming season.

—Tommy Valtin-Erwin