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Spring Farewell Issue 2011 Think the Cardinal is done for the summer? Think again.

Check out dailycardinal.com all summer to stay informed until you get back to campus this fall.

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Up to nine state senators—six Republicans and three Democrats—will face recall elections in July following the battle over the budget repair bill, which included weeks of protests at the Capitol.

Summer highlights will include recalls, budget

By Ariel Shapiro the daily cardinal

After four months of political upheaval in Wisconsin, UW-Madison students can expect the high level of activity to continue through the summer with recall elections, more policy pushes from Gov. Scott Walker and the potential for radical changes to the UW System.

Nine state senators could face recall elections July 12 if the petitions against them are verified by the Government Accountability Board.

Only four lawmakers in Wisconsin’s

history have had recall elections, and only two were defeated.

As the state Senate currently stands there are 19 Republicans and 14 Democrats, which means Democrats need to gain three seats in the recalls in order to control the chamber. Six Republicans and three Democrats are up for recall.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if when students return in the fall we’ve got a Democratic majority in the senate,” UW-Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang said.

Dresang said Democrats will mobilize their efforts against

Republican incumbents based on anger over the collective bargaining provisions of the budget repair bill, while Republicans will play on the controversy of Democratic senators fleeing to Illinois to delay a vote on the bill.

He said Republicans’ argument against the Democratic senators is “much more of a kind of abstract idea than the … principle issues of collective bargaining rights.”

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Republican legislators may include parts of repair bill in biennial budget

By Scott Girard the daily cardinal

While state Republicans hope to resolve the controversy over the budget repair bill in the courts, they are prepared to insert parts of the bill into the state’s budget if no ruling comes by the end of the fiscal year, June 30.

Andrew Welhouse, spokesperson for state Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said if the courts have

not decided on the issue by then, Republicans will add portions of the bill pertaining to collective bargaining to the state budget.

“If it’s continued to be tied up in the courts and we can’t get resolution, we, at that point, would put this into the budget,” Welhouse said. “But we still expect the resolution to come through the courts, and that’s our preferred course of action.”

Those restrictions, which would strip public-sector employees of almost all collective bargaining rights, sparked the massive protests that took place at the Capitol for weeks in February and March. All 14 Democratic state senators left the state to block a vote on the bill, but Republicans separated the non-fiscal portions, budget page 5

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In memoriam: The classmates we lost this year

Anna Shoemaker

Riley Whitehead

Hiron Mayukh

Dylan Ellefson

Tommy Kuehn

UW-Madison junior Anna Shoemaker passed away Jan. 13, from injuries sustained when her friend’s car swerved into oncoming traffic and hit a semi-truck, according to the Bayfield County Sheriff ’s Department.

Shoemaker, 20, was remembered by family and friends as an organized and athletic music lover who enjoyed spending time with friends.

She was pursuing a degree in environmental policy, with a goal of eventually applying to law school. She planned to study abroad in Venezuela during the spring semester.

Shoemaker was originally from Hudson, and chose to have her organs donated after her death, according to a CaringBridge website set up by her family.

UW-Madison sophomore Riley Whitehead, 19, passed away unexpectedly March 22, in Madison.

According to an online remembrance page, friends and family remember him as being an ambitious and enthusiastic young man with a great sense of humor.

As a member of the Albany Show Choir and Monroe Theater Guild in high school, Whitehead enjoyed acting and theater.

Whitehead was pursuing a degree in political science and was a member of the UW-ROTC program.

UW-Madison student Hiron Mayukh died March 29.

Friends and family described Mayukh, 24, on a remembrance website, as a compassionate and brilliant individual who brought joy to those around him.

Mayukh was a student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Sun Prairie native and UW-Madison senior Dylan Ellefson was killed in a two-car crash Oct. 24.

Ellefson, 21, a Spanish major, is remembered by friends and family as charismatic and upbeat.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of a member of our community,” Dean of Students Lori Berquam said in a statement at the time.

According to friends, he was one of the most positive people they knew and had a contagious smile that could brighten a room.

UW-Madison alumnus Tommy Kuehn passed away Jan. 13 from bacterial meningitis, a rare but sometimes fatal disease.

Family and friends will remember Kuehn, a former UW Spirit Squad member, as a spirited, upstanding and bright young man.

Family members described Kuehn as a vibrant young man with promise who was loved by many.

Kuehn graduated from UW-Madison in 2010 with a degree in biology. He was working as a research assistant in the Department of Neurosurgery at UW Hospitals and Clinics with aspirations to attend medical school.

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The Division of Student Life will hold a memorial Thursday to remember the five UW-Madison students who passed away during the 2010-’11 academic year.

The memorial will take place at the Carillon Tower at 1 p.m. Students will pay tribute to the deceased with five individual tributes, each followed by a minute of silence.

Hopper calls on UW-Oshkosh professor to resign over petition

By Adam Wollner the daily cardinal

State Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, is calling for a UW-Oshkosh criminal justice professor to resign after encouraging students to sign a recall petition against the senator.

The Republican Party of Wisconsin released an audio clip

of professor Stephen Richards addressing his students before class March 7 about the Hopper recall petition. Although he said students were not required to sign the petition, he allowed time for students to do so outside of the classroom.

“Quite frankly, nothing short of this professor resigning will be

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adequate for the students and the parents of UW-Oshkosh,” Hopper told the Oshkosh Northwestern.

“People send their kids to school to be educated, not indoctrinated, and this professor took state-funded time to make a political stand.”

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Slow Food UW serves last lunch of the year Word of mouth earns café legions of foodie fans

By Alex DiTullio the daily cardinal

After a semester of serving food to a growing number of customers, the student organization Slow Food UW’s café program ended the year with its final lunch Wednesday.

The café is a student- and

volunteer-run program that serves local and affordable meals to students, staff and the community. It is located at The Crossing church and serves sandwiches, soup and salad every Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m.

Slow Food UW encourages environmentally friendly practices and using quality ingredients in cooking, and opened the café to serve fresh food at an affordable price, Slow Food UW intern Andrea Snow said.

Snow said the café’s success comes from students’ word of

mouth. She and Slow Food’s two other interns originally planned to advertise the program, she said, but realized it was not necessary after customers effectively spread the word.

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Students took a break from the end-of-year crunch Wednesday to relax with dogs at Canine Therapy outside Carson’s Gully.

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The Associated Students of Madison’s Nominations Board faced scrutiny on a number of counts as the Student Council accepted appointments and debated policy Wednesday.

Former ASM university affairs chair Carl Fergus publicly criticized the Nominations Board’s interview process, while several anonymous members voiced private concerns regarding the group’s violations of its Open Meetings Law. During open forum, Fergus criticized the board for selecting Governing Board candidates for the Student Activities Center even though only three Nominations Board members had heard both of the top two candidates’ interviews for the position.

“That is not fair to those people who have put in their time and want to be involved in ASM,” Fergus said.

ASM ran out of time and did not come to a decision regarding

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However, UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said even if Democrats managed to take the Senate in July, they likely will not be able to reverse policies Walker put in place.

“Even a significant pick up won’t fundamentally alter the balance of power in the state,” Franklin said, “though it certainly could make life more difficult for the governor to have a Democratic senate if it went

the Nominations Board’s SACGB appointments Wednesday.

Several ASM representatives privately expressed concerns that the Nominations Board twice violated Open Meetings Law in the past week.

Nominations Board Chair Nikolas Magallon defended the committee, saying he was new to the process and unaware of the Open Meetings Law, which requires ASM official business to be open to the public.

“We’re working with a deadline here and we’re just trying to get things done,” Magallon said.

“People are telling us that we’re messing up. We understand it, and we’re just trying to learn.”

Magallon said former ASM Chair Brandon Williams apprised him of the policy violation when the Nominations Board’s meeting ran past midnight—the time the SAC closes to the public—but chose to continue the meeting.

The Student Council also debated reconsidering last week’s vote

on appointments to the Student Services Finance Committee.

Although some representatives said the voting process confused them and that it should be reconsidered, others disagreed.

Rep. Cale Plamann said reconsidering the vote would be illegal under ASM’s constitutional bylaws.

Others said it was Student Council members’ responsibility to under-

stand the voting process before voting, not to call for reconsideration after the fact.

“If you’re going to vote on something, know how to do it,” representative Dan Posca said.

ASM will continue the SACGB appointments debate at its next meeting Wednesday, in addition to taking up other business before concluding for the semester.

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This summer could also see the introduction of legislation that has been put on the back burner because of all of the issues surrounding the budget, including social issues like stem-cell research and reproductive rights.

During the campaign, Walker said he would like stem-cell research to focus on adult rather than embryonic stem cells, and Dresang said he could try to push that through before Republicans possibly lose control over both houses.

Another issue that will most likely be decided before the beginning of the fall semester is the status of UW-Madison, and whether or not it will remain a part of the UW System.

“That’s a very fluid situation right now,” Dresang said. “Clearly it’s one of the governor’s priorities, but the Republicans are not following the governor as blindly as they had been at the beginning of his term.”

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said he hopes a compro-

mise can be met in which all UW schools are free of what he called the bureaucratic restrictions they have now, but remain unified with UW-Madison in tow.

But Giroux said because of the $250 million in cuts to the UW System, all state universities will see significant changes come the fall.

“It’s going to be hard for us to absorb cuts of this magnitude without somewhere, somehow touching just about every corner of the university,” Giroux said.

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Newly elected ASM Chair Allie Gardner and Vice Chair Beth Huang discussed policy violations and appointments at Wednesday’s meeting.

budget from page 3 namely the restrictions on collective bargaining, so they could vote without the larger quorum required for fiscal issues.

Since then, the issue has been tied up in a court battle because Republicans may have broken the state’s open meetings law the night the bill was passed.

While many legislators and voters still have strong feelings on the issue of collective bargaining, Welhouse said he was not worried about reigniting the protests or opposition to Republican legislators.

“I think the people of Wisconsin have spoken very

hopper from page 4 gate political activity in the classrooms of other UW-Oshkosh professors because Richards said there was an effort of “about 100 faculty” to file the recall petition.

Richards could not be reached for comment.

A recall petition against Hopper was filed with the Government Accountability Board April 7 with over 22,000 signatures, forcing a recall election this summer.

UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells released a statement saying Richards’ comments “clearly crossed the line into inappropriate political activity.”

“When educators let their personal political opinions interfere with classroom teaching, it is

clearly at the ballot box that having a balanced budget is a priority for the state and I think that’s the bigger concern here,” Welhouse said.

According to Welhouse, the collective bargaining changes are necessary to deal with the state’s budget deficit in the upcoming biennium.

“We have said since the beginning that the long overdue collective bargaining reform is a critical part of balancing the state budget and local budgets throughout the state,” Welhouse said.

Other Republican and Democratic state legislators did not return phone calls. ultimately our students who are wronged, denied the benefit of an unbiased, open-minded, inclusive educational environment,” Wells said in a statement.

Wells also said he believes the problem has been corrected after meeting with Richards and several of his students.

State Reps. Jim Steineke, R-Vandenbroek, and Michelle Litjens, R-Vinland, sent a letter to Wells questioning the university’s handling of the matter.

“The university cannot simply sweep this one under the rug,” Steineke said. “Any hint at a general agreement among professors to actively support a political agenda in the classroom must be brought forward to the taxpayers who fund their university.”

UW-Madison released a Wisconsin Poverty Report Wednesday, which found public assistance programs and tax credit expansions helped prevent impoverished citizens from losing money during the recession.

Prepared by UW-Madison researchers at the Institute for Research on Poverty, the report looked at the needs of and resources available to the state’s poorest families.

When comparing two measures of poverty, the official poverty rate and the Wisconsin Poverty Measure, the study found a discrepancy in the numbers.

For instance, according to the Wisconsin Poverty Report, about 11.5 percent of the state’s population was under the poverty line in 2008 and 2009.

Meanwhile, the official poverty rate of Wisconsin grew over two percentage points from 10.2 percent in 2008 to 12.4 percent in 2009.

The discrepancy between these measures of poverty indicates Wisconsin has a higher poverty threshold—the level at which someone is considered impoverished—than the rest of the country.

This indicates the success of tax credit expansions and anti-poverty programs such as BadgerCare, a program that provides low-income uninsured families with children, according to the study.

Walker declares State Worker Appreciation Day Gov. Scott Walker issued a proclamation Wednesday to declare May 4, 2011, State Employee Recognition Day in Wisconsin.

In the proclamation, Walker said state employees provide many necessary services to the people of Wisconsin, and praised their hard work.

“Wisconsin’s public servants are recognized as an invaluable resource, assisting countless residents on a daily basis in every county across the state,” he wrote.

Walker also praised the way state workers have handled the tough economic times, doing more with fewer resources.

“In challenging economic and budget times, state employees continue to cut costs and gain efficiencies in the delivery of essential services by utilizing taxpayer resources wisely and seeking better ways to provide highquality services,” Walker said in the proclamation.

Earlier in the week, Walker announced a new State Employee Recognition Program, which will provide three awards to outstanding state employees.

slow food from page 4 the program’s success.

“We do not want this to be a project that is one shot and it’s dead,” said Snow. “We want it to become an integral part of slow food.”

Volunteers at Slow Food would like the café to remain open in the summer, and Snow said the organization is hoping to receive a grant from the university to compensate interns for its work.

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Looking Ahead:

The New Badger

Partnership Story by Mike Scanlan & Alison Dirr Graphic by Natasha Soglin The New Badger Partnership has sparked serious discussion about the future of UW-Madison and many questions remain unanswered as summer approaches.

“Obviously at the end of the day it will be up to the governor, the legislature, to decide what to do with the budget proposal that is in front of them,” Darrel Bazzell, vice chancellor for administration, said. “But we are still optimistic and hopeful that they will endorse the New Badger Partnership and include it in the budget.”

Wisconsin’s legislature is working toward a July 1 deadline to pass the budget, which currently includes Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to shift UW-Madison to a public authority model.

As it stands today, the proposal would give the university certain flexibilities that the UW-Madison administrators argue would raise the university’s revenue and allow it to continue to compete with other institutions worldwide.

They have also said these flexibilities will help the university cope with a $125 million cut in state funding over the next two years.

Preparing to implement The university administration, with Chancellor Biddy Martin leading the campaign, has been the most vocal proponent of the public authority model. However, others on campus are charged with actually implementing these potential changes.

Deans of colleges and schools throughout the university oversee the budget cuts in each of their respective divisions. The administration has asked all deans to prepare for a hypothetical 10 percent cut.

“We haven’t assigned formal cut numbers to schools and colleges,” Bazzell said. “So what specific things they would either deemphasize or eliminate all together we don’t know.”

He also said the deans have provided some information about potential impacts.

“We will protect the educational function at all costs.”

Dean Paul Peercy College of Engineering

College of Engineering Dean Paul Peercy said he and his faculty and staff have been developing a plan to absorb the cuts for several months. According to Peercy, even with the flexibilities in the New Badger Partnership, the College will still have to merge some units and decide which functions are most important to educating students. Ultimately, though, he said this could be a positive change.

“We will protect the educational function at all costs,” he said. “So the functions that we are talking about is how can we become more efficient … to make sure the students have access to everything they need and to make sure we do not reduce the number of sections that we offer, so that we do not make it difficult to graduate in a timely manner.”

Peercy said the engineering department

would provide more efficient computer and library support while moving more classes online.

In early March, Bazzell predicted that the university would release concrete budget numbers to all campus units either by the beginning of April or May, but said that “moving parts” were making this process difficult.

Since that time, the University of Wisconsin System proposed the Wisconsin Idea Partnership, a similar structure to the one proposed by the UW-Madison administration. State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, chair of the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities, also presented an option to separate the public authority debate from the budget bill.

Bazzell said preparations to implement the New Badger Partnership or the Wisconsin Idea Partnership were similar while Nass’ proposal requires no implementation efforts on the part of the university.

System may make it through the JFC even if the entire proposal does not.

However, according to Burden, at this point it is difficult to determine if the budget will even be passed by July 1, the beginning of the new fiscal year for state administrations.

“If we had to project at the moment, I’d say it seems unlikely that any-

unfolded, including the stated positions of both critics and advocates.

“I started to get a little bit confused, like everybody, about what was being proposed and it was hard for me to track what was going on,” he said. “And then I started to realize that there were people either advocating or criticizing the New Badger Partnership …

I sort of wanted to see the big picture of who’s doing what, who’s saying what and so on.”

thing will be done before July 1,” he said.

He noted each side only presents its own side of the argument, making it difficult to view the situation objectively.

“I think it’s good for people who are supportive to see what the critics are saying and then vice versa,” he said.

Both proponents and opponents of the New Badger Partnership will continue to advocate for their respective views as the school year comes to a close. Although at this moment a concrete roadmap is not in place for the future of Wisconsin’s higher education, actions this summer promise to move the UW System closer to a final decision.

Flexibilities in flux Although the administration has pushed hard for the New Badger Partnership flexibilities, some remain unconvinced the proposal will make it through the legislature.

Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor, said he does not think any of the proposals have a legitimate chance of being adopted by the legislature.

“I think the last couple weeks we’ve heard a lot of legislators express concerns about the New Badger Partnership,” he said.

“They want more time to investigate it and they want to compare it against the Wisconsin Idea alternative, where the system would still be held together but there would be some additional flexibilities.”

He also said legislators worry about addressing these proposals when they are simultaneously confronting other major issues like collective bargaining legislation.

Before the bill can be voted on in both houses, it must pass through the Joint Finance Committee.

“I think it’s good for people who are supportive to see what the critics are saying and then vice versa.”

Professor Kris Olds UW-Madison Geography

State Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester and co-chair of the JFC, said in a recent statement he did not think the New Badger Partnership would pass. Still, he conceded that some flexibilities for UW-Madison in addition to the UW

New resource develops for tracking changes But even with such uncertainty, many people will be tracking the proposals’ progress through the legislature over the summer months.

UW-Madison geography professor Kris Olds has been uploading resources to his BadgerFutures blog (badgerfutures.wordpress. com) and the related Facebook page since the beginning of February.

Olds said he wanted to see the situation as it

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Bonnaroo Arts Festival—June 9-12, Manchester, Tenn.

Summerfest—June 29-July 10, Milwaukee, Wis.

Bonnaroo 2011 is set to be a monumental event, just as the festival has been each of the last few years, with acts like the Strokes, Eminem, the Decemberists, NOFX and the Black Keys appearing this year, and past years including such artists as the Dave Matthews band and Bruce Springsteen. The Manchester, Tenn. festival is a four-day party, where the photo Courtesy Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival music literally never stops.

Late at night the music switches to silent discos, as live DJs spin records while the sound is piped directly to the wireless headphones—for those who like to stay up late instead of curling up in the tent to prepare for another day packed to the brim with music. This camping festival is a giant party that features the best in live music, comedy and atmosphere. I have never been more excited for an event than I am to see this much amazing talent in one space. –– Jeremy Gartzke

It would be hard to craft a summer festival preview without Summerfest, mostly because the name dictates so.

But the 11-day music festival is a bonafide Wisconsin tradition that many Milwaukee-area Sconnies consider a mandatory stop during road construction season. Of this year’s smattering of musicians old, new and in between, Kanye West’s photo Courtesy Summerfest appearance is by far the most anticipated, as he rides his recent critical heights to a June 30 performance at the Marcus Amphitheater with protégé Kid Cudi. But even if you can’t make it to Yeezy, there are still other worthwhile acts to catch, such as the also hyped Black Keys with Florence + the Machine on July 6 or the Flaming Lips on July 9, as well as some fluffy pop with Katy Perry on July 7. Less crowded but equally appealing shows such as Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (July 8) and the Ike Reilly Assassination (July 3) are available too, as well your dad’s favorite bands like Kansas (July 7) and jokes like Matisyahu (June 29), so there really is something for everybody. –– Todd Stevens

Pitchfork Music Festival—July 15-17, Chicago

Lollapalooza—Aug. 5-7, Chicago

While Lollapalooza may be living 10 years in the past, that other music festival in Chicago does a much better job of living in the now. This year’s big names may not generate as much buzz for the Union Park gathering as the Pavement reunion or LCD Soundsystem’s final tour did last year. However, 2011 headliners Fleet Foxes and TV on the Radio both just released outstanding albums, and Animal photo COURTESY pitchfork media Collective’s performance will provide Panda Bear with a chance to redeem himself after bombing at Pitchfork last year.

Meanwhile, Pitchfork shows just how in tune they are with the year’s emerging acts, having booked several that have justifiably exploded onto the scene in the past few months, such as Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, tUnE-yArDs and Yuck, as well as some indie royalty like Neko Case and the Dismemberment Plan. Plus, Madison’s own Zola Jesus will be making an appearance, and that lands any festival bonus points. –– Todd Stevens

There’s an episode of “The Office” where Jim asks Ryan if he’d like to play a prank on the obnoxious Andy. Ryan responds, “Not now, but ask me 10 years ago.” Jim might as well have asked him, “Hey Ryan, want to go to Lollapalooza this Summer?”

With all four headliners (Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay and Muse) having at least 10 years of music behind photo Courtesy Lollapalooza them, the Chicago festival feels a lot more 2001 than 2011. Even with secondary acts such as My Morning Jacket, Explosions in the Sky, Deadmau5, Cee Lo and Kid Cudi, the whole lineup seems a bit unsatisfactory and full of bands whose best work may well be behind them.

That said, it’s hard to complain about a festival as consistently excellent as Lolla. Also, considering this year marks Lolla’s 20th anniversary, some crazy shenanigans can be expected. But will the scheduled acts give anyone a reason to be there to see them? –– Jon Mitchell

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y favorite entry on Wikipedia is “List of helicopter prison escapes.” I was first directed to the page by my brother, and it’s an interesting topic in its own right (escaping prison via helicopter has to be the most ballin’ exit anyone’s ever had). The stories in the entry are interesting unto themselves, too. You can read about David McMillan’s 1983 botched escape and subsequent trial, or Pascal Payet’s somewhat ominous 2001 escape (he’s still at-large).

But I’m primarily taken by this entry because, well, it is hardly relevant to anything. Prison escapes make up only a small portion of our lives, and those attempted via helicopter comprise an even smaller compartment within that. It’s just one tiny parcel that most of us would never take time to acknowledge, but when we start to unpack it we discover a Pandora’s box of

information. What is inarguably unimportant makes a compelling case for being very, very important.

And that’s exactly how I like to think about music these days, too.

New York Magazine pop music critic Nitsuh Abebe first synthesized this idea in the aftermath of the “Who is Arcade Fire?” meme, which is a very apt microcosm for this whole ordeal.

Because who would’ve thunk that Arcade Fire, the band that played Madison Square Garden, headlined Lollapalooza and whose worst album won a Grammy, was completely unknown to thousands, maybe millions of people.

Because while people who listen to Arcade Fire view them as one of the biggest bands in the world and have deep, enlightening conversations about how their music reflects or impacts social norms; people who primarily listen to Taylor Swift have intellectual conversations about her music as well. And not just Swift, but also Bruno Mars, Ke$ha, Eminem, Bright Eyes, Insane Clown Posse—they all invoke similarly deep conversations (alright, maybe not ICP).

So the contemporary geist of

music consumption is defined by fanaticism—each of us thinks the world of music revolves around our personal interests. And the really amazing part of this is how it’s actually sort of true, because how else would we define the motion of music? It used to be a lot easier to place ourselves in the grander scope of things because we were given the “mainstream,” and everything slightly left-ofcenter was labeled “alternative.”

Prison escapes make up only a small portion of our lives, and those attempted via helicopter comprise an even smaller compartment within that.

But now nothing is alternative—or, everything is alternative.

The pockets of alternative music are so plentiful and stretch so deep that sometimes it’s hard to actually tell which strands are following the definitive pathways and which are just quirky offshoots.

The biggest effect of this is our conception of historical progress.

Radiohead’s OK Computer was groundbreaking in every sense of the word, but how important are its advancements at a time when a 13-year-old kid can just as easily unearth Burial’s Untrue?

Right now people applaud James Blake’s self-titled debut for his amalgamation of dub, glitch and R&B. It is a crucial touchstone in digital innovation and serves as an important connector between these three compartments of music; but what happens when—probably sooner than later—someone does it better? We hear a fuller, smoother glitch record that pushes Blake’s ideas further and helps to define its compartment? And then we decide that it is, in fact, a better record, because it is more distinctive, even though Blake’s would have more connectivity with its fundamental influences. This is not how MTV would react, but isn’t that the point of moving beyond these authoritative sources of music exposure?

To frame it another way: That Wikipedia entry on helicopter escapes is really awesome, but you really haven’t lived until you’ve read the entry “Wolf attacks on

humans.” The two could not have less in common, yet we’re expected to be able to relate to, and then qualitatively assess each on the same scale. Wouldn’t it be more mutually beneficial to just agree that Wikipedia is awesome and share experiences from there?

We appreciate them because they are so different from one another.

And so the question posed to any music writer who works for a publication with a general audience is: How do you relate to, let alone satisfy all of these intensive compartments who think the world of music revolves around them? How do contemporary music writers write about one compartmentalized genre in a way that stimulates readers who come from multiple compartments, without sounding esoteric or, at worst, pedantic?

If you have any ideas, I’d love to hear them.

And with that, graduating senior Kyle Sparks rides off into the sunset. Or more accurately, he escapes via helicopter into the sunset. If you would like to hear more thoughts, send him an e-mail at ktsparks@wisc.edu and a long, rambling chat over a pitcher of Blatz can be arranged.

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From Snoop Dogg to Steve Earle, this spring hashad an abundance of quality concerts. From the wealth of great shows to choose from, the Cardinal arts staff looks back at the semester that was and breaks down our favorites.

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of Montreal - Union South, April 15

Sleeping in the Aviary - The Frequency, April 28

The opening of the modern and sleek Union South couldn’t have found a better match than with the eccentric synth-y electronic pop of of Montreal. Although they played mostly their newer songs, which arguably are less danceable than tracks from earlier albums Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? or Skeletal Lamping, the colorfully-painted crowd kept dancing throughout the night under the periodic sprinkling of confetti. The elegant wood-floored venue of the ballroom at Union South didn’t seem to match the zany lyrics and outwardly bisexual tilt of front man Kevin Barnes, but that made the show feel even more other-worldly. The absolutely ridiculous stage-show that of Montreal is known for didn’t disappoint—Barnes changed costumes at least three or four times, complemented by men in spandex bodysuits and pig masks fighting one another in front of him and then dragging a man dressed as Einstein across the stage for no apparent reason. Like I said, it was a crazy show. –– Riley Beggin

I don’t get worked up about much of anything. Generally, even in the most exciting of occasions, I remain pretty stoic. But once Sleeping in the Aviary broke out “Write On,” off their album Expensive Vomit in Cheap Hotel, I freaked the fuck out.

Sleeping in the Aviary consistently put on a good show every time they drop by their old stomping grounds in Madison, but their April 28 show at the Frequency is possibly the best set I’ve seen them play. It helped that they had not one, not two but three great opening sets from Kitty Rhombus, the Hussy and the Midwest Beat (who I wasn’t familiar with beforehand but found very impressive), but it also helped that Sleeping in the Aviary were absolutely at the top of their game that night. And anytime lead singer Eliot Kozel can end a show dressed in a hot dog costume, you know you’ve got something special. –– Todd Stevens

El Ten Eleven

Mason Jennings

High Noon Saloon

Majestic Theatre

April 28 For most bands out there, I’d say that live bootlegs do pretty good justice to their live performances. Just like one can have a pretty good understanding of what’s going on at a football game by listening to a broadcast on the radio, I’d say one can get a pretty good impression of a band’s live capability from listening to their recorded live material.

Such is not the case for El Ten Eleven.

Theirs is a live experience that must be witnessed in person to fully appreciate, and the few of us lucky enough to see the Los Angeles duo perform at the High Noon Saloon last Thursday certainly did. With his only accompaniment Tim Foggart’s drumming, guitarist/bassist Kristian Dunn delivers post-rock instrumentals by looping melodies on his doubleneck guitar/bass with acute timing and emphatic intensity. Whereas with most bands, you need to read interviews to find out how they go about crafting their songs, El Ten Eleven do it before your eyes. –– Jon Mitchell

Snoop Dogg - The Orpheum, February 1 In a year of memorable Madison concerts, Snoop Dogg’s performance at the Orpheum theatre on February 1 stands above the rest. After having enjoyed a successful Badger basketball game, the masses traveled through blizzard conditions to pre-game and enjoy a night of pure Southern California hip-hop. As I arrived at the arena, surrounded by the red eyes and cottonmouths of my compadres, I was immediately engulfed in the sweet aroma of cheap ganja.

The bar was, appropriately, crammed with fans buying gin and juice and 40s, and the crowd had already packed into the stadium far before Snoop would begin. The actual performance, at least the one I could see beyond the continuous smoke screen, was perfect. Despite only playing seven songs, Snoop gave the crowd their favorite hits, even sporting a Green Bay Packers jersey despite his well-known love of the Pittsburgh Steelers. And in what was perhaps the crowning achievement of the night, Snoop managed to get a couple thousand stoned college students to “Jump Around” with his personal rendition of the Wisconsin classic. It was, as the Dogg would say, a night of sensual hip-hop seduction. –– Miles Kellerman

photo Courtesy Priority Records

Owen Pallett - The Sett, April 16 It was a new venue, a new setup and Owen Pallett was playing with a new violin. But while the Sett showed its age (a much more awkward venue than der Rathskeller, to be sure), the rest of Pallett’s set was impressively mature. His new touring lineup flexed unexpected oomph with two additional members, but they regrettably left after a couple of songs because they had not had enough practice time to be comfortable playing in front of an audience. Instead, Pallett filled his set with intricately looped and layered violin and keyboard patterns that thrust new life into his antiquated instruments. And while the fuller, louder sound of the larger group proved the winner in a live setting. His qualities of reserve and gestalt toward his art that makes Pallett such an incredible and unforgettable talent, and what ensures that his future works will demand our full attention, no matter how many people he lets play with him. –– Kyle Sparks

February 5 Early this semester, it was pretty lonely here for the many Minnesota expatriots who call Madison home. The Packers were sweeping through the playoffs and it seemed literally everybody walking down State Street was wearing a cheesehead. Thankfully, Mason Jennings dropped by the night before the Super Bowl to make those of us from the Northstar State feel at home.

As a definitive member of Minneapolis music’s royalty, Jennings show was filled with fans in Twins hats carring Minnesota Public Radio tote bags. Combined with Minneapolis folk group the Lower 48, Jennings was able to craft an easy going and personable show as one of the most charming artists to stop by Madison all year, whether it be through stories about how his song “Memphis, Tennessee” was supposed to be called “Lubbock, Texas” or explaining his own difficulties being a Steelers fan that weekend. For one night, it was just like being in Uptown Minneapolis, but at least here, we had Spotted Cow. –– Todd Stevens

life&style The hottest summer hair dailycardinal.com/lifeandstyle

By Margaret Schafer THE daily cardinal

For many men and women, hair can be a very touchy subject. When it comes to haircuts, hairstyles and hair colors, there’s a very fine line between edgy and over the top. So, understandably, I find that many students in Madison end up forgoing the possibility of individual flair and settling on messy ponytails and untamed long locks. This summer, try something new: How about a head-turning, face-framing cut rather than your usual do? Embrace unique haircuts that suit both your face and personality. Hair is the one accessory that you are constantly wearing, and a good haircut can do wonders when it comes to adding personality and elegance to your everyday look.

I am personally an advocate for short hair.

Not only are short and sweet pixie cuts and bobs unique enough to help you stand out in a crowd but they also allow you to frame your face in flattering ways. People often think this type of cut is too daring and that they would rather hide behind their hair. But this simply shouldn’t be: Pixie cuts have the ability to bring out the best of you. In contrast, long, blunt-cut hair has a tendency to diminish stunning facial features.

Pixie cuts work especially well when it comes to showing off narrow faces with delicate features.

There are many different ways to give a pixie cut a unique feel (length of bangs, length of sideburns, “piecieness” of cut etc), and they are unbelievably low maintenance. Bob haircuts work well for almost all face shapes and can have different looks depending on the specific cut. For example, the wavy, chin-length bobs with sweeping side bangs are increasingly popular as we advance into summer months. If you aren’t interested in waves, check out the film noire feeling of short bobs with blunt bangs.

As for all of you who are thinking, “short hair will make me look like a boy!” Think again.

When done right, short hair actually manages to make women look more feminine, delicate and petite.

If you are not quite ready to take the plunge and chop off all of your locks there are ways to re-

style your hair while keeping it the same length.

If you’re set on long hair, make sure the hair is heavily layered and holds its shape. Bangs are always a classic option. Many of the female students on campus have chosen side-swept bangs, so if you’re looking for something different go for blunt, eyebrow-skimming bangs.

For an even more daring look, the undercut is not only very hip but also extremely easy to style. An undercut is achieved by shaving sections off of the bottom layers of hair, usually on one side of the head. This look can range from the extreme and eccentric style of Alice Dellal to the subtle and easy to hide look of Amelle Berrabah.

Undercuts provide a great way to add edge to any look.

It has also come to my attention that many people are afraid to color their hair as the messy roots, dry hair and often drastic change deter them from making this switch. For those of you who would prefer a natural look: dying your hair a couple of shades darker or lighter is a great way to enhance your natural color and illuminate your skin tone.

For a more adventurous look there are several options. Bleached hair can look great in both a punk and feminine way. However, as bleaching can be very damaging for your hair, I would only suggest this look with short hair. Also, when you bleach your hair you often end up bleaching your eyebrows so as to make it look more natural.

Bleaching should always be done professionally in order to minimize damage and breakage.

Another great option is dip dying, where the ends of the hair are dyed differently than the top layers.

It’s relatively hard to make this look natural, but for those who are searching for an edge I recommended it.

When it comes to styling your hair, move away from ponytails or plan straight styles. A bad hair day can be instantly transformed with a great head scarf, bow or a thin headband worn around the forehead. Many students have been jumping on the feather and glitter bandwagon: adorning their locks with accessories that stand out. And finally, when it comes to wearing your hair down, remember: big curls!

Steep & Brew: Relax, take it easy!

By Eamon Hegarty and Matt Payne the daily cardinal

Think, for a moment, about the invaluable resource that no college student can go without. Undoubtedly, a reliable source of caffeine, a good bike or moped and a go-to study spot when finals hit are among them.

What happens, however, when the academic week is through; when your assignments and problem sets have been turned in and you haven’t quite accepted the fact that come Monday you’ll have to do it all over again? You need time to relax. A time to rest and gossip with friends and catch up on all that has happened in the last week.

To those who are seeking this serene relaxation and reflection period or even find it necessary, the Steep ‘n’ Brew provides an environment where a Friday afternoon can casually melt into Friday evening.

At Steep ‘n’ Brew, no one will rush you for an order or hustle you into purchasing a big-ticket latte or some complicated coffeetea concoction made with whipped cream and beans imported from Zanzibar. Moreover, you won’t be overwhelmed by the necessity of making overbearing decisions. With a simple yet plentiful menu of dozens of coffees, teas and coffee-house staples such as espresso or lattes, rookie and veteran coffee drinkers alike can enjoy their favorite cup of joe. The staff will let you chit-chat and lazily read their newspapers to your heart’s content. The word “rush” doesn’t cross to the customer’s side of the their counter top.

You can casually lounge in one of their many comfortably cushioned reading chairs, combine a few tables for a group meeting or sit down by the window and watch State Street traffic pass by. The takeaway message here is that the ambiance of the Steep ‘n’ Brew satisfies the coffeehouse needs of our college town.

The lazy, peaceful ambiance of the Steep ‘n’ Brew in no way effects their ability to produce fantastic products. In addition to a large selection of black and green teas (the Irish and Indian varieties are highly recommended), their coffees, particularly the seasonal variety drink are a great option for all of the coffee drinkers and tea drinkers.

We have found that no matter what your purchase, you will never be disappointed. For all you smoothie lovers, the arrival of spring brings about a time to enjoy an authentic fruit smoothie in the outdoor patio area, lower the shades and take in the local foot traffic.

When most of us imagine a coffee house, we could picture a caffeinecharged environment in which intellectually stimulating conversations whirl between stressed students who furiously type on their laptops and study for their upcoming exams.

That, or a place where local people come to chat, gossip and to complain about whatever it is that is going on in their lives. Whether you are a student or study group looking for a quiet nook to get some work done or just looking for meeting place to catch up with friends, the Steep ‘n’ Brew will satisfy your every coffee-house need.

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What’s in the Fridge?

Spring Market Sauté

By Alec Walker THE DAILY CARDINAL

As I strolled around Capitol Square with the eclectic farmers market crowd on Saturday, I contemplated how to best showcase some of my favorite local spring edibles: Portabella mushrooms and wild ramps (a type of leek). The natural choice was pasta, so I stopped by RP’s Pasta and picked up a package of lemon-dill linguine.

As I continued on my way, I stumbled across a vendor offering a variety of newly emerged greens and decided the earthy essence of arugula would provide the perfect complement to my developing dish. I decided on Spring Market Saute: the perfect dish for the season Ingredients: 1 package RP’s lemon-dill pasta 5 tablespoon butter 10 cloves garlic, minced 6 wild ramps, chopped 1 pound Portabella mushrooms Handful of arugula Shaved parmesan Salt and pepper to taste

Begin by slicing the Portabella mushrooms into quarter-inch thick slices and sautéing with three tablespoons of butter over medium heat.

While the mushrooms sauté, begin to boil water for the pasta.

When the mushrooms are cooked through but still firm, remove them from the pan and add the remaining two tablespoons of butter.

Sauté the garlic and ramps until translucent and add the portabellas back into the pan. At this point you can toss the pasta into the boiling water. Since RP’s pasta is fresh it only takes around three minutes to cook: Watch it carefully to save yourself from a mushy pasta mess.

When the pasta is al dente, drain off the excess water and toss with the vegetable sauté. At the last minute, add the arugula to the pan and season to taste with salt and ground black pepper. Top with freshly shaved local parmesan. Pair this scrumptious spring feast with a slice of sourdough from Madison Sourdough Company and a glass of chilled Prairie Fumé from Wollersheim Winery.

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New Badger Partnership 16 state Senators leaves UW at a crossroads eligible for recall

More than 40 years after the creation of the UW system, controversy erupted as Chancellor Biddy Martin proposed the New Badger Partnership, a plan to remove UW-Madison from the UW system.

The NBP would give UW-Madison a separate 21-member board of trustees, which would give the university authority in spending decisions as they face harsh budget cuts in 2011-’13.

Martin said the NBP would be a crucial milestone for UW-Madison that would allow the university to remain competitive globally.

Meanwhile, opposition grew among the other UW system chancellors who say the NBP would hurt higher

education in Wisconsin by creating unnecessary competition between UW-Madison and the other UW system schools.

Some students and faculty at UW-Madison oppose the partnership because they fear it will lead to privatization and tuition increases at the university.

As controversy intensified and protest broke out on campus, Martin caught a break when the UW-Madison Faculty Senate passed a motion stating their official support of the NBP. The NBP could change UW-Madison drastically and will continue to be a topic of interest and debate around Wisconsin in the following months and maybe years.

—Alex DiTullio

New Union South opens After months of construction and anticipation, the eco-friendly U n i o n S o u t h opened its doors to the public April 15 with allnight bowling and a concert featuring the indie-glamrock band, of Montreal.

The building includes entertainment such as a rock-

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climbing wall, a 350-seat movie theater, a bowling alley and a concert hall.

The union makes available various food options such New York style pizza, Chinese food and UW-Madison’s famous Babcock Ice Cream.

As if exquisite design was not enough, the Union South is the first Leadership Energy and Environmental Design building on campus and is set to receive a gold rating. It used 88 percent of the materials from the former Union South building, as well as panels from the old Kohl Center floor.

—Alex DiTullio

ASM passes controversial fund

After heated debate last fall, the Associated Students of Madison passed the controversial Campus Services Fund near the end of this semester in a last-minute vote.

The CSF is an ASM funding stream that would guarantee financing to services student council deems vital, such as legal, tutoring and sexual assault services.

The proposal was “indefinitely postponed,” then relegated to Rules Committee after

around 100 students spoke in opposition to the CSF during ASM open forum last December.

When the spring semester began, the CSF, brainchild of Student Services Finance Committee Chair Matt Manes, seemed all but dead. However, Manes reintroduced the CSF to council near the end of this semester.

The second vote on the CSF initially failed. But as the meeting drew to a close, Rep. Matt Beemsterboer motioned to reconsider the vote.

Student council members re-voted, and finally passed the CSF. —Alison Bauter

Protesters who had been demonstrating at the Capitol turned to recall campaigns after the state legislature passed the budget repair bill early March.

Organizers from across the state campaigned against the 16 state Senators eligible for recall. Those against Republican senators have argued the process in which they passed the bill reflected the lack of transparency within the state government. Those collecting signatures to recall Democrat senators have argued it was unconstitutional for them to flee the state.

Sen. Dan Kapanke, R- La Crosse, was the first to have a recall petition filed against him, followed by Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac after it was dis-

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covered he was having an affair with a legislative aid and living outside of his district.

Recall campaigns have also turned in petitions against Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, R-River Falls, Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Conover, Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, Sen. Robert Cowles, R- Green Bay, and Sen. Robert Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie.

Never before in Wisconsin history have nine senators simultaneously been forced to hold a recall elections.

Recall elections will take place in July.

—Samy Moskol

Result still unclear in Supreme Court race After finishing 30 percentage points behind David Prosser in the Supreme Court primary, it appeared as if JoAnne Kloppenburg did not stand a chance against heavily the favored incumbent in the general election.

Seven weeks later, the two found themselves in the most contentious and partisan Supreme Court race in recent years.

The race soon became a referendum on Gov. Scott Walker’s agenda after the uproar over the budget repair bill. Despite promises from both to be independent, liberals and union backers supported Kloppenburg while conservatives and

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Walker supporters sided with Prosser.

This enthusiasm from both sides resulted in a dramatic election night, with just a few hundred votes separating the candidates for most of the night. After a clerical error was discovered several days later, Prosser was declared the winner by just over 7,000 votes, with a recount currently underway.

No matter the final result, it is clear there is a sharp political divide in Wisconsin and that the state will be a battleground in the 2012 election.

—Adam Wollner

Palin pays visit to Madison Former vice presidential candidate and conservative superstar Sarah Palin appeared at a Madison Tea Party Rally in April supporting Gov. Scott Walker and sparked a mass protest against her visit.

The dueling rallies gave protesters the chance to see their counterparts up close, but resulted in little bipartisan agreement. Few were swayed by the others’ witty signs and slogans; others just wanted fresh produce from the farmer’s market.

Palin praised Walker for fixing the budget

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and saving public-sector jobs, while reprimanding union leaders for hurting the people they represent.

Never missing a chance to fuel rumors of a 2012 run, she told supporters to “let the 2012 election begin here.” She applauded Obama for building “solar shingles and really fast trains [that] will magically save us” and invited both parties on the “bullet train to bankruptcy.”

—Patrick Tricker

Budget repair bill puts spotlight on Wisconsin

It is not often that Madison is thrust into the national spotlight. However, when Gov. Scott Walker introduced his plan to cut collective bargaining rights for public employees in February, he set off a movement that brought the state government to a standstill for more than a month, making our state capital the political crucible of the nation.

Supporters of the bill said it was necessary to balance the state budget, but the opposition claimed it was union busting and came out in force.

What followed Walker’s announcement was nothing if not cinematic. Increasingly more protesters filled the Capitol in the week following the bill’s announcement until tens of thousands staged a full out occupation lasting a total of 18 days until the last hold-outs were ordered to leave.

Signs decrying the new governor wallpapered nearly every surface inside the Capitol, drumming and chants continued through the night long after the lawmakers went home and demonstrators set up an infrastructure including food stations, a day-care center and even a small library to sustain the protest.

The scene inside the chambers was no less dramatic than what was going on outside of them. Legislators split down party lines fought bitterly

on the floor, and on February 20 the 14 Democratic state senators fled to Illinois where they would stay for three weeks to deny Senate Republicans the quorum they needed to vote on the bill.

Although the “Fab 14” became as controversial as the bill itself, they succeeded in delaying it for a few weeks. However, on May 9 Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald found a way around the quorum issue by stripping the fiscal components from the bill.

However, a Dane County Judge found that Fitzgerald and the others involved broke the open meetings laws in order to pass it, and it is currently being held up in court.

Though the provisions have already passed and the protests have subsided, this event marked a turning point for Wisconsin and the state will be feeling the effects of it for a long time to come. Nine senators are now facing recall elections this summer because of the stances they took during the Capitol crisis and a potential recall for Walker looms on the horizon.

This was not just the biggest story for the campus or the state, but for a full month, the whole nation, and UW-Madison was in the center of it all.

—Ariel Shaprio

Photos by Ben Pierson Graphic by Natasha Soglin

Soglin re-ups Paul Soglin was sworn in as Madison mayor for the third time in April after defeating incumbent Dave Cieslewicz.

The race for mayor was a close call with Soglin e d g ing out

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Cieslewicz by 700 votes.

Soglin surprised Cieslewicz when he announced his candidacy for mayor in December.

In the February primary, Soglin also gained more votes than Cieslewicz by a narrow margin.

Cieslewicz previously beat Soglin for mayor in 2003. Soglin served as mayor from 1973 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1997. Soglin has held the mayoral position for more years than anyone else.

—Maggie DeGroot

Mifflin in danger

The Mifflin Street Block Party began in 1969 as an outlet for UW-Madison student activism; however, the future of the event is question following two stabbing incidents at this year’s party. These violent acts, including the increasing number of intoxicated attendees, could end the historic block party.

A 21-year-old UW-Madison student suffered life threatening injuries

after being stabbed multiple times. A second stabbing occurred later that day when another victim sustained non-life threatening injuries.

Mayor Paul Soglin and other city officials have spoken about the possibility of changing the block party or even ending it after the acts of violence and high levels of intoxication of attendees.

—Maggie DeGroot

Resnick snags District 8 seat Recent UW-Madison graduate Scott Resnick beat out UW-Madison student Kyle Szarzynski for the District 8 seat on Madison’s city council. District 8 is made up of a large amount of students including the Lakeshore residence halls and Langdon Street.

Resnick won 56.7 percent of the vote to take over former alder Bryon Eagon’s seat. Eagon

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decided not to run for re-election after being hired to work for Teach for America in New York City. Eagon also endorsed Resnick.

Incumbent Bridget Maniaci retained her seat on city council representing District 2 after defeating challenger UW-Madison graduate student Sam Stevenson. Maniaci received 51.7 percent of the vote.

—Maggie DeGroot

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Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day. dailycardinal.com/comics

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Thinking about the summer

Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

© Puzzles by Pappocom

Eatin’ Cake

By Dylan Moriarty EatinCake@gmail.com

Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

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

The Pipesmokers

By Joseph Diedrich jsdiedrich@wisc.edu

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Hoop Dreams

By D.T. dtollefson@wisc.com

By Angel Lee alee23@wisc.edu

First in Twenty Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com v for victory!

ACROSS 1 Circle fragments 5 Winning margin?

9 Like Shaq 13 Formal decree 14 Kimono ties 15 Four-person race 16 ABC targets 18 The ___ (Netherlands city) 19 Windpipe, for one 20 Like the designated driver 21 The whole schmear 22 Aid for peeperwashing 25 Length x width 27 Stem-to-stern timber 29 Revealing 31 Cleverly skillful 34 Wang of wedding wear 35 Got fed up?

36 Formal complaint 39 Department of Justice agcy.

42 Christmas trio 43 Water route 47 Battery boosts 50 Make hopping mad 51 Dairy case bar 52 Nod of the head, for one 55 Palindromic Bobbsey

56 Woodwind instruments 58 Cousin of a moccasin 60 Do-___ (second chances) 61 Distributes, as the loot 64 Purge, Pied Piperstyle 65 Think tank product 66 Domesticated 67 Ill at ease 68 Catholic ritual 69 Notre Dame niche DOWN 1 Toward the tail, in a yacht race 2 Went head-to-head with 3 Nitpicky person 4 Work on a batter 5 “You can’t be serious!”

6 Complied with a command 7 Title of nobility 8 Unfinished dollar sign 9 Steeped thing on a string 10 Morocco neighbor 11 Designer Yves Saint 12 Soapmaking caustic 15 Seventeenth Greek letter 17 Fleecy female

0 Rejects disdainfully 2 21 Wanted poster acronym 23 Military uniform alternatives 24 Where the iris is 26 Tree rings indication 28 Nautical journal 30 Doily material 32 “___ La Douce” 33 Pageant crowns 37 What platypuses lay 38 Tin ___ (lack of musical sense) 39 To and ___ 40 Toni Morrison book 41 Glacial floater 44 Apple with dark red skin 45 Oldfashioned warnings 46 Tokyo money 48 “Yippee!”

49 Individual beings 53 Exploded stars 54 ___ chi (Chinese exercise) 57 Wintertime in D.C. 59 Salad cheese 60 Work on an urn 61 Not very bright 62 Director Lupino 63 ___-Wee Herman

Washington and the Bear

By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

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BIGGEST WISCONSIN FAILURES OF 2011

THE DAILY CARDINAL EDITORIAL BOARD SELECTS THE WORST OF THE WORST

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he extent to which Gov. Scott Walker has managed to drag Wisconsin backward in little more than 100 days in office has been, if nothing else, simply astonishing.

Since his inauguration in January, Walker has worked tirelessly to enact changes holding Wisconsin back, stifling the state’s potential to be a center of industry and turning his back on its proud history of labor rights. His actions in the past months have thrust Wisconsin into the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons, making Walker easily the person who has harmed the state most in the past year.

He turned down a federally funded high-speed rail project that would have modernized Wisconsin’s infrastructure and created jobs at barely any cost to the state.

He cut corporate taxes, pulling the state deeper into debt, which he chose to repay by attacking working families.

He has sought to turn the clock on workers’ rights back a few decades by stripping collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin state employees in a move that brought thousands of protesters to the Capitol. He has admitted these changes do nothing to help bal-

ance the state’s budget, making it clear his only intention was to decimate workers’ rights and start a trend of union busting across the country.

He has shown a childlike stubbornness, unwilling to compromise even as unions and state employees made concessions he wanted and as the state drew national attention as the front lines in a Republican attack on working Americans.

He decimated funding for the university system, a driving force behind the state’s economy, in a move that made drastic changes to UW-Madison necessary.

And he supported legislation that would disenfranchise students, racial minorities and the poor.

It has been a busy five months for Walker. That is why his party could face backlash from recall efforts against state senators and, there is an outside chance, even the governor himself.

There’s now a certain irony to the simplicity Walker campaigned on.

He had a “brown bag” plan to fix Wisconsin’s budget and put the state back on the road to a prospering economy, based on basic tenets like, “People create jobs, not govern-

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Gov. Scott Walker ran on a campaign of honest reform. So far, he’s failed on all fronts. ment” and “Don’t spend more than you have.” Who couldn’t agree with that? Living within your means, letting people make jobs for Wisconsin workers, that’s great, right?

Well, it turns out that simplicity—that every-man approach so many Wisconsin voters found attractive back in November—meant an administra-

tion that has bent over backward to serve the interests of the wealthy and corporations while walking over the poor and working class.

To achieve these goals, he has relied on his muscle men in the state Legislature, the Fitzgerald brothers, who have bent Wisconsin law to accomplish the governor’s most con-

troversial goals. By doing so, he has not only undermined Wisconsin’s history as a leader in progressive policymaking, but also threatened the civility and decency of the state’s democracy.

And, to say the least, he has given Wisconsin voters ample reasons to throw him out whenever they get the chance.

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h e re’s a lot of time and money spent creating secure and efficient computerized voting mechanisms to ensure the legitimacy of elections. But as Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus proved in the April Wisconsin Supreme Court elections, no amount of time and money can eliminate human error.

Nickolaus made the list after she misreported her county’s Supreme Court election results by nearly 14,000 votes. The saddest thing is that the error could have been prevented, according to Nickolaus, if she remembered to hit save on her computer.

People are allowed to make mistakes, even public officials. And while the non-partisan Government Accountability Board concluded that her miscount was in fact just a mistake, it still leaves a stain on the election.

The real issue with Nickolaus is that this was not her first mistake, or even her second. As more sto-

ries continue to surface on Nickolaus, they show a less than stellar career as Waukesha County clerk.

There are numerous election mishaps under Nickolaus’ watch. In 2004, there were reports of voters receiving the wrong ballots and the votes still being counted. In 2005, she sent out pre-filled ballots to newspapers. And there were more miscounted votes in her county in both 2006 and 2007.

Surely if Nickolaus made this many mistakes in the private sector, she would have been fired by now.

Perhaps the most questionable fact of Nickolaus’ clerkship is that she works on her home computer which wasn’t cleared for security. This is sloppy work by someone who worked as a computer analyst for many years.

Like everyone else, Kathy Nickolaus is prone to mistakes. But when the mistakes affect an integral part of the democratic process, they are less forgivable.

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he family Fitzgerald deserves some form of recognition for all their hard work thus far. We were thinking an award for “Worst Father-Son Trio” would suffice.

It’s been nothing but political stunts from the oldest son, state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, and his kid brother, Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon.

Back in February, when Gov. Scott Walker chose Stephen Fitzgerald—father to the pair of Wisconsin legislators—to lead the state patrol, we watched with a wary eye. Unfortunately, Papa Fitzgerald proved to be but the tip of the nepotism iceberg, with other Walker cronies landing government jobs since.

We’re well aware of the darker side of government. So it’s not surprising to see political allies

land public jobs after a successful election. But when it comes to the family Fitzgerald, nepotism is the least of our concerns.

We expect more than amusement from two of our top legislators.

During the March rallies at the Capitol, you’d be hardpressed to go a day without hearing from the brothers Fitzgerald.

But it was their inexcusable, if not illegal, actions that were real cause for alarm.

When the Senate Democrats ran to the border to block Walker’s budget repair bill, the

elder Fitzgerald began plotting ways to force a return. In what might be the pettiest display of politics in Wisconsin history, Fitzgerald punished Capitol staffers, blocked access to copiers and even tried to stick his dad’s state patrol on the absent Democrats.

Later, after the governor separated the collective bargaining provision from the rest of his bill, the brothers Fitzgerald held a committee meeting to pass it along to the house. What they failed to do, however, was follow state open meetings laws by posting a public notice 24 hours in advance.

If nothing else, the brothers Fitzgerald have been a source of entertainment. But we expect more than amusement from two of our most powerful legislators. Until Wisconsin sees real results, we can safely say the Fitzgeralds failed.

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t wouldn’t be a list of screw-ups without an ASM member or two. While Student Council is always an easy target for its lackluster Diversity Committee initiatives and tumultuous relationships between student orgs and the Student Services Finance Committee, this time we are proud to say we aren’t wagging a Colbert finger at ASM as a whole.

Who we are raising our brows at is ASM Finance Committee Chair Matt Beemsterboer—one of the top dogs leading the little-known and quite pointless ASM shadow organization, the Associated Free Thinkers Ensuring Responsibility.

Comprised of ASM brothers, AFTER’s unstated mission is to advocate student issues across campus. But because the group is said to have met only once this year, keeping members in the loop and

fulfilling its fluffy group objective has turned into a colossal flop.

AFTER came under scrutiny when Beemsterboer jumped out of the shadows and purchased full-page ads encouraging students to vote against an upcoming United Council referendum on the group’s behalf.

In our eyes, Beemsterboer’s intentions were to exploit student funding to cover the cost of his own political initiatives.

Claiming the ads were to be paid for by private funds, Beemsterboer’s jumbled words and contradictory statements put his moves in a shady

light. Because it violates ASM bylaws to use segregated fees for political purposes and because Beemsterboer undeniably knows this, his alleged intention to use AFTER funding for electoral purposes speaks louder than his words. And since the location of AFTER’s $4,056 in funding was already under questioning, fellow ASM students justifiably filed a suit against AFTER in order to clear the air.

While Beemsterboer was able to weasel out of Student Judiciary charges, we don’t buy his meager and less than hardy excuses. In our eyes, Beemsterboer’s intentions were to exploit student funding to cover the costs of his own political initiatives.

And as a student wearing leadership shoes as large as his, he should know better. Lucky for him, they make clown shoes for feet that big.

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hat did we ever see in you, Bridget Maniaci?

Two years ago, when the District 2 race faced off Maniaci against then-incumbent Brenda Konkel, you represented a chance for sound representation in the downtown district that encompasses much of the Langdon Street area. Konkel’s divisive and contrarian nature had grown tiresome, and her seat was due for some new blood. But over her term, Maniaci has not proven to be any more effective. In fact, she has proven to be just as hard to work with as Konkel, but without the immense expertise in city affairs of her predecessor.

This past year has seen Maniaci engage in a series of ventures, some of which were good ideas that were poorly executed while others were simply met with instant derision.

Having already used up much of her

political capital on the Edgewater Hotel project, Maniaci attempted to move back the standard lease signing date for renters, ultimately settling for a compromise that changes little. Meanwhile, her attempts to push health care for alders and to cut districts from the Common Council were taken about as seriously as opponents take the UW softball team.

Despite this, Maniaci did manage to get re-elected to her seat this April.

Now that she has two more years to work with, hopefully she can approach the job with a more effective game plan, because whatever her strategy was this year, it wasn’t paying dividends for anybody. If she both wants to actually make an impact on Madison and keep her seat two years from now, it would certainly behoove her to make some changes.

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s the American Dream dying for our generation? No, for all intents and purposes it’s dead, although we are currently trying to keep it on life support. I’m sure my generation will see the proverbial nail put into the coffin.

The essence of the American Dream can mean many things but most simply it can be reflected in the Declaration of Independence which stated men have inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The right to life means that we have the right to protection from physical force that may harm our ability to live; not expensive drugs, with costly side effects to extend the lives of the 61 percent of adults in America who are either overweight or obese yet continue to take little responsibility for themselves by eating at McDonald’s.

Liberty can mean many things, but it certainly doesn’t mean the PATRIOT Act, forcing children to get vaccinations with mercury or subsidizing big agriculture at the expense of family farms. Yet, it’s the farmers who sell raw milk we must be protected from, not Monsanto who sells GMO crops with delirious health effects that the FDA has decided to ignore (probably because the FDA Head of Food Safety came from Monsanto).

The right to pursue happiness means that we have a right to choose our career instead of being forced into a job that best serves “society.” In America we can be a doctor, a scientist or even a millionaire who collects unemployment. It doesn’t mean that the government should provide Prozac to the millions of depressed American’s who have bought into a false American Dream of consumerism and dependency on government.

Needs, desires or benefits to “society” don’t constitute rights. A

right is a freedom to act without violating the rights of another. If computers make everyone happy it doesn’t mean we have a right to them. How could we possibly provide each American a computer for recreation unless we forced some American’s into labor…or exported the jobs to China?

If our nation’s founders could see how the essence of the American Dream has been misconstrued they’d be protesting in their graves.

Politics in America has become a big marketing campaign. When 80 percent of the population thinks the country is going in the wrong direction you sell them on hope and change just like you sell Viagra on the five-o’clock news. If we think erections lasting four hours are a problem, how about the devaluing of the American dollar that has been happening since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. Now old men can have rock-hard erections and print money out of thin air. In a country where corporations get benefits from government (and we call it “capitalism”) we never address the causes because “you don’t want to tell the people your position on issues, no you just delude them with slogans” as Noam Chomsky, a famous left-leaning libertarian socialist, not Rush Limbaugh, said in a critique of President Barack Obama.

With a few exceptions such as health care, Obama’s change has been about as meaningless and overused as the word “epic” here on campus. Getting so drunk you pass out by 8 p.m., piss yourself and wake up in your own vomit does not make you epic—it makes you a smelly moron. Likewise, supporting Bush’s Trouble Asset Relief Program (TARP) for banks, keeping and even increasing troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and punishing Bradley Manning’s patriotism without a hearing as if he were an al Qaeda source in Guantanamo Bay is a far cry from the real change that can

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Elliot Ignasiak, winner of The Daily Cardinal 1,000-word essay contest with his prize check. give Americans hope.

Many Americans wouldn’t realize this; they voted for change in 2008 and forgot about politics—but at least they voted! How can I not be cynical? My generation is more concerned with what guidos in a house on “Jersey Shore” are doing than what people in our House or Senate are doing ... this is “the Situation” in America and it looks as promising as Pauly D’s music career.

Forget the controversy about voter ID laws; we need a GRE for politics and common sense.

You must have read a book in the past year before you can vote; fiction doesn’t count so sorry but no “Harry Potter,” “Lords of the Rings” or the Bible (like a wishy, hopey Democrat I use the term fiction rather loosely; nothing by Sarah Palin either).

That said, Sarah Palin is proof the America Dream isn’t completely dead; it just needs a makeover. The

same lady who utterly embarrassed herself in 2008 has not only become a leading candidate for the 2012 election, she’s also managed to grace the cover of Vogue magazine—all while having an IQ that is marginally higher than the model on the page 94 shampoo add.

The Tea Party started as a truly patriotic, libertarian movement; inspired by the corporate excesses in government and a desire to return to a constitutionally sound government that protected man’s rights. The extent to which this message of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has been hijacked by corporate influence and the religious right singing “God Bless” while waving “Atlas Shrugged” flags is saddening. It’s nearly as ironic as the African celebrities on MTV Cribs looking up to Scarface—a Cuban, racist mobster. If the religious right bothered to read “Atlas Shrugged” they’d find it’s

not only dedicated to a critique of altruism and socialism, but of religion. It shouldn’t be surprising they haven’t read it, they still have yet to read the Bible. It’s laughable to decry government involvement, yet support federal regulations of weed or gay marriage.

What does of this mean for America? It means that in a country where we still arrogantly claim to be the greatest land of freedom and opportunity we rank 16th in freedom of the press and below most developed nations in social mobility. Our disparity between rich and poor lines up with some of the third world countries we give weapons to.

My “dream” is to be a thinking man’s comic. In 10 years I fear that I won’t have an audience … most men, and women, don’t seem to think much anymore. It’s a shame because it’s easy to write comedy about politicians in America—most are already a joke.

FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR IN CHIEF Time to leave the nest

Emma Roller outgoing editor in chief

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h, what a long and winding road it has been… kidding, kidding! I’ll try to refrain from any road or journey similes, most of which I already covered in my eighth-grade graduation speech. Even as I sit here on the dirty-ass couch trying to piece together a cohesive farewell column, I feel comfortable enough with my co-editors to give a dramatic interpretation of my eighth-grade graduation speech, embarrassing clichés and all. There are few people I’m comfortable sharing such idiosyncrasies with, yet in this little basement in Vilas Hall I’ve carved out a niche that I don’t think I’ll be able to ever completely replace.

Though I’m sad to go, I’m excited to see where next year’s leadership will take this paper.

Kayla Johnson, who will be replacing me as editor in chief, is a natural leader with a clear vision

for the future of the Cardinal.

Nico Savidge, who will be taking over as managing editor, is not only a national award-winning sports columnist, but has a deft eye for design and a keen sense of what students enjoy reading.

I won’t dwell on how awesome I am, but I will use the rest of this column space to hype how awesome the Cardinal is. The Cardinal has a rich history chock-a-block with talented journalists, radical activism and coups staged by the staff of a certain other student newspaper (but that’s a story for another time). So if you’re looking for some good summer reading, I recommend, “It Doesn’t End With Us” by Allison Hantschel. Allison was editor in chief in 1993, just before the Cardinal was forced to shut down for seven months in 1995. She has often referred to the story of the Cardinal’s history as, “the ‘Hoosiers’ of newspapers.” And as you will doubtlessly see next year, we are due for a comeback.

Emma Roller is a senior majoring in journalism and political science. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

New editor ready to take charge

kayla johnson incoming editor in chief

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ey there, campus hooligans! My name is Kayla Johnson and I will be the editor in chief of The Daily Cardinal next year. This upcoming year marks our 120th anniversary, putting the paper’s birth back in the horse-andbuggy days when muckraking newspapers were exposing corruption on a daily basis.

The Cardinal office tells our paper’s history every day as our news editors sit down to find stories.

Momentous issues of the past plaster the walls with headlines announcing historic events from the U.S. entry into the first World War, the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King to the Badgers’ 2011 Rose Bowl journey.

We pitch stories at a large oak table engraved with the initials of editors from years past. These initials remind us of the students who put this paper together during times when there was still a darkroom in

the office and when the desks were occupied by typewriters instead of MacBooks. Many of the Cardinal’s alumni claim the years they spent at the paper—with bloodshot eyes and ink-stained clothes—were the best of their lives and where they learned the skills that got them to where they are today. And, where they are is mighty impressive.

Our alums include 11 Pulitzer Prize winners, over 35 Emmy Award winners and even a two-time Nobel Prize winner. Some alums have worked as editors at The Wisconsin State Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Rolling Stone. They have been producers of “60 Minutes,” “NBC News” and “The Daily Show.” Hell, even Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is a Cardinal alum.

As editor in chief next year, I plan to ask our alumni to share their stories and wise counsel with our staff, further strengthening the “education” that comes with being a part of the Cardinal family. As a student paper, we not only serve students by providing relevant and thorough coverage, but also by welcoming students to join our staff and learn important

skills to bring into the “real” world.

(Hint, hint.)

I am not only looking at The Daily Cardinal’s past as our 120th anniversary approaches.

Journalism is changing and with it, so must the historic Daily Cardinal. We must fully embrace social media in order to provide instant and constant coverage through blogs and tweets.

We must better prepare our staff to flourish in the ever-changing world of journalism and provide you, the reader, with the information you need to understand what is happening in both the campus and world community.

As the editor in chief of the nation’s sixth oldest student newspaper, I will work my hardest to uphold and build upon the legacy of The Daily Cardinal. Through an increase in muckraking, now known as investigative reporting, and an expanded online presence, I will do my best to keep this historic institution at the cutting edge of student newspapers.

Kayla Johnson is a sophomore with an undeclared major. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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The exact snapshot is hard to find, but the choice for moment of the year comes down to this: The Badgers played football in Pasadena on New Year’s Day. From the moment UW began to run away from Northwestern in the regular-season finale to the two-point conversion that saw Wisconsin come up just short against TCU, the five-week whirlwind between Nov. 27 and Jan. 1 featured just about everything.

It started with students and roses pouring onto the field after UW hung 70 on the Wildcats and continued through the formal bowl announcement a week later and the

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mad dash for tickets that ensued.

It raced right through bowl practices and finals, overcame travel problems, packed piers in Santa Monica and turned Los Angeles red for days.

It turned a rainy week in Southern California into a brilliant Jan. 1, filled the Rose Bowl with 70 percent cheese heads and—in the fourth quarter—conjured up decade-old images of glory as a burly UW running back barreled down the perfectly manicured grass.

In the end, it also disappointed Badger nation. That doesn’t mean anyone will forget it any time soon.

—Parker Gabriel

No. 1 OSU falls on the field

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With the big, bad Buckeyes coming to Camp Randall, afternoon sun replaced by floodlights and an electrifying crowd and Bowl Championship Series implications in the balance, everybody knew Oct. 18 had the chance to be a special Saturday in Madison.

Let’s just say the student section was wise to arrive promptly.

When senior return man David Gilreath broke free around midfield on the opening kickoff, the press box swayed like it usually only does for

House of Pain. It set off a wild night that saw the Badgers hang 21 quick points on OSU and nearly give up the lead before freshman running back James White made a sensational cut and sealed a 31-18 victory.

Despite pleas from the PA, students and fans stormed the field to celebrate the legendary win.

Even though a trip to Iowa City loomed, the most optimistic fans may have caught a faint whiff of roses for the first time as they filed out.

—Parker Gabriel

Hockey wins 4th title

No. 1 OSU falls on the court Feb. 12 was the day the legend of Jordan Taylor was born. After the Badgers rode the crowd to an early lead, it looked like the undefeated Buckeyes would continue their streak of perfection after a late first half/ early second half run gave Ohio State a 47-32 lead with just over 13 minutes left.

Then, in the span of just over three minutes, the junior point guard led UW on a 15-0 run to tie the score at 47, punctuated by freshman sensation Josh Gasser’s 3-pointer off yet another Taylor assist. Taylor finished the game with 27 points and

seven assists, with 21 of those points coming in the second half. With the game televised nationally, Taylor’s burst gave him the distinction of being the first Badger to ever be trending on twitter worldwide.

More importantly, the win thrusted Wisconsin into real national discussion for the rest of the season. Although a loss four days later on the road against Purude all but shattered any hopes of a Big Ten title, the sea of red crashing onto the court following this victory will forever stick in Badger fans’ minds.

—Max Sternberg

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UW in Sweet Sixteen

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HONORABLE MENTION:

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Unranked at the beginning of the year, Wisconsin men’s basketball surpassed just about everyone’s expectations.

The Badgers knocked off the final undefeated team in the memorable victory over Ohio State, saw a freshman post the first triple-double in school history and capped it off by completing just the third perfect home schedule in the last 80 years.

As if the regular season wasn’t enough, UW had to overcome more criticism heading into the NCAA Tournament.

After a disappointing 36-33 loss to Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament, the Badgers were the trendy pick to be upset in the first round facing Belmont. But energized perhaps even more than usual as a result, Wisconsin seemed right at home at the McKale Center, easily defeating the Bruins and then overcoming a poor shooting performance

by Jordan Taylor and Jacob Pullen’s career-high 38 points to defeat Kansas State in the second round.

The season ended, however, in the Sweet Sixteen with a loss at the hands of eventual national runner-up Butler.

—Max Sternberg

10,000 ‘fill the bowl’ for women’s hockey game

This year’s ‘Fill the Bowl’ event was one of truly great moments in Wisconsin sports. Shattering the previous NCAA record, 10,668 fans made the event the most attended game in women’s collegiate hockey history. With the mammoth crowd behind them, the Badgers faced off against Minnesota, defeating the Gophers 3-1 in one of the most exciting games of their season.

—Matthew Kleist

It was the perfect ending to a perfect season, and for the few Badger fans who witnessed it, the memories of the 2011 women’s hockey national championship game will not be soon to fade.

After a season that saw Wisconsin steamroll its competition all season on the way to conference championships and individual awards, the Badgers put the final touches on their dream year in Erie, Pa., March 20 with a 4-1 over Boston University at Tulio Arena.

UW never trailed in the match and two Carolyne Prevost goals ensured continued WCHA dominance in the title game.

The victory not only capped off a fantastic year, as Wisconsin claimed its fourth national title in six years, but marked the moment where the Badgers reclaimed their rightful place atop the women’s hockey world.

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Her name might not be the first that comes to mind when Wisconsin fans think of the players who defined the past year in Badger athletics, but there wasn’t an athlete on campus who dominated their sport the way Meghan Duggan did.

The senior and team captain of the Wisconsin women’s hockey team, Duggan embodied in one player the strength of an entire program. She led the team and the nation in points and assists, scored in 25 consecutive games from Oct. 22 to Feb. 4 and, to cap it all off, won the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, recognizing her as the most valuable player in college women’s hockey.

And, oh by the way, her team lost just two games all season on its way to a fourth national title in six years. As her team marched toward that championship, the common refrain was that Duggan’s leadership on and off the ice made the run possible.

There’s a reason Meghan Duggan’s teammates nicknamed her “Alpha”—she dominated her sport and outshone every other athlete who put on a motion W this year.

—Nico Savidge

For a team to be special— and the 2010 Badgers certainly did plenty of special things— there need to be players that contribute well beyond the statistics. And Watt was that man.

He had a knack for excellent play in the biggest moments, a natural leadership on the field and a genuine attitude that made him an easy fan favorite.

If, years down the road, fans are still displaying two hands in the “W” shape, we will have John Clay and Bret Bielema to thank for beginning the tradition. However, it will be J.J. Watt known for taking it upon himself to make it a sensation in 2010.

With his 62 tackles, including 21 for a loss, and 11.5 sacks, Watt led the Badgers back to the Rose Bowl for the first time in 11 years and was awarded the Lott Impact trophy.

And yes, it was a pure football skill that filled the stat box, but it was his demeanor that set him above the rest. #DBWH —Mark Bennett

After waiting two years for his opportunity to take over the role of floor general for the Badgers, junior point guard Jordan Taylor made the most of his chance during the 2011 season. Not only did Taylor lead his team in scoring during Big Ten play with 20.3 points per game, but the 2011 second-team All-American lead the nation and set a school record with a 3.83 assist-to-turnover ratio.

The first-team All-Big Ten point guard eclipsed the 1,000 point mark this season, and was often relied on to hit the big shot or give his team a lift in the game’s critical moments. His ability was showcased against one of the Big Ten’s elites, where Taylor scored 21 of his 27 points in the second half, sparking a comeback victory against then-No. 1 ranked Ohio State. The native of Bloomington, Minn., was also dominant without the ball in his hands, as he was selected to the Big Ten’s All-Defensive Team.

Taylor’s impact during the 2011 season saw him rise to national prominence as one of the best point guards in the nation.

-—Jeremy Wodajo

There was no collegiate defenseman in the country as dominant and as valuable to his team this season than Wisconsin sophomore Justin Schultz. The West Kelowna, British Columbia native scored 18 goals to go along with 47 points this year, easily making him college hockey’s top scoring player from the blue line.

The postseason accolades came rolling in for Schultz after the Badgers’ season came to a end. Schultz was named the WCHA Defensive Player of the Year and became the latest Wisconsin player to be named a first team all-American. Schultz was also a top-10 finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award. His own teammates named him team MVP., showing just how much he meant to the Badgers.

With Schultz returning for his junior season, he will undoubtedly be one of the brightest stars on the college hockey landscape next year and fans should be excited to see how he builds on his phenomenal 2010-’11 campaign.

—Ryan Evans

The 2011 honorable mention AP All-American led the Badgers in scoring and rebounding for the second year in a row, and also finished in the top five in the Big Ten in both categories. His presence on the floor this season showed the growth he made from that summer to his senior year, as the Minnesota-native averaged 18.3 points per game in 2011, and played a pivotal role in UW’s NCAA tournament success.

Leuer finished his career with 1, 376 career points, twelve in school history, and was one of just 8 players to record 1,300 points and 500 rebounds. Along with earning first-team All-Big Ten honors from the coaches, Leuer led the class of seniors that totaled 100 career wins.

Despite his 6'10" frame, Leuer’s presence extended far beyond the block as he averaged nearly 40 percent shooting from three, and was as dominant in the low-post as he was 25 feet away from the basket-a huge reason why his career will undoubtedly extend from UW to the pros.

—Jeremy Wodajo

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call it the Lloyd Carr effect.

For 13 seasons Carr led the Michigan Wolverines football team to a 122-40 record, including five Big Ten titles and a share of the national championship in 1997.

But after a 2007 season that saw Michigan finish 9-4, including a 41-35 victory over Florida in the Capital One Bowl and just one season removed from a Rose Bowl appearance, Wolverine fans got greedy. They fired Carr and hired Rich Rodriguez to head the program.

Rodriguez was fresh out of West Virginia, where he led the Mountaineers to four Big East titles in seven seasons, and brought home two BCS bowl wins.

However, at Michigan Rodriguez brought nothing but shame and embarrassment to the Maize and Blue. In three seasons under Rodriguez, Michigan won just six conference games and only 15 overall. They never finished better than seventh in the Big Ten and were trounced by Mississippi State in their only bowl appearance, the 2011 Gator Bowl.

So sure, Carr lost three Rose Bowls in his tenure while he won just one. And sure, 2005 and 2007 were rough seasons. But this was a man who had ensured greatness for over a decade, and there was little reason to believe he couldn’t continue to field a solid team year after year.

But, like I said, Michigan fans got greedy. So they kicked Carr out and brought in Rodriguez, expecting national titles to begin raining down upon Ann Arbor. Instead, Rodriguez all but destroyed a program that had been at the pinnacle of college football for over 100 years— almost uninterrupted—prior to his arrival.

Today, fans can take two important lessons from this case.

Lesson one: Don’t hire Rich Rodriguez as head coach of your football team.

Lesson two: Don’t get greedy.

If you have a solid program year in and year out, don’t toss that away because you think a different coach can come in and run the table instantly. In fact, as Michigan experienced, you may just throw away everything you once had.

And so what can Wisconsin fans learn from this story?

Take Bret Bielema and the football team for example. Yes, 2008 was a rough year when the Badgers lost six games, but the university stuck with him and he brought home 11 wins, a conference title and a Rose Bowl appearance this past season.

It’s hard to argue anymore that this team isn’t Bielema’s team either. In 2006, when the Badgers went 12-1, that was Barry’s team.

But the program today is entirely Bielema’s recruiting and entirely indicative of Bielema’s success And sure, Bielema couldn’t bring home a Rose Bowl victory this year, but he has now proven himself among the coun-

try’s coaching elite, and this is a program that seems destined to return to Pasadena soon.

Wisconsin fans must not get complacent. Do not become so bored with top-25 finishes year in and year out, that you’re driven to madness when Bucky isn’t hoisting the crystal football each season. This is a team to be proud of, and Wisconsin fans need to realize the fortunes they have in the current successes.

This argument can be applied to other programs at UW as well.

Take, for example, Bo Ryan’s basketball program. Every season, the man brings in a ragtag group of guys and turns them into legitimate conference contenders. And, sure, we all want national championships, but no coach has been more consistent in his success over the last decade than Bo Ryan.

Could another coach win Wisconsin a title? Maybe. But in all likelihood, you take a huge risk off hiring someone who will do far worse than Ryan.

So Badger fans should be proud of the successes Wisconsin teams have had. Our men’s hockey team floundered down the stretch this year, but head coach Mike Eaves is only a season removed from a Nation Title game appearance in 2010.

Wisconsin fans must not get complacent. Do not become bored with top-25 finishes year in and year out.

Early in the fall semester, I made the argument that Wisconsin is the only legitimate three-sport school in the NCAA. With our football, men’s basketball and men’s hockey teams ranking among the elite in the country every year, while racking up professional-level attendance figures, UW athletics have never been stronger.

It’s important to keep this in mind. Yes, I want national championships as much as anyone, but I also appreciate the un-paralleled level of success our athletic department enjoys regardless of whether we’re cutting down the nets.

The saying goes, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.”

So don’t get greedy—you may just come to regret it later.

And always remember the two words universities across the nation envy: ON Wisconsin.

—Mark would like to thank those who have supported him throughout this past year, especially his two co-editors, Parker Gabriel and Ryan Evans. He would also like to make known his appreciation for the help of those who came before him, as well as the entire Daily Cardinal staff. Finally, he would like to thank family and friends for learning to understand his regular schedule of disappearing into the bowels of Vilas Hall for prolonged periods of time. He owes you all. Refer all comments to mdbennet2@wisc.edu.

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Softball

Wisconsin splits twinbill against Green Bay

By Adam Tupitza The Daily Cardinal

The Wisconsin softball team had trouble taking care of pesky in-state rival UW-Green Bay, and had to settle for a doubleheader split Wednesday at Goodman Diamond. Wisconsin (6-10 Big Ten, 27-22 overall) won the second game of the twinbill 5-1 after dropping the first game by a score of 4-2.

Green Bay (21-22) likely viewed the series with Wisconsin as one of its biggest of the season, and the team came out of the gate in the first game full of energy. On the other hand, the Badgers initially looked nothing like the team that took No. 2 Michigan to the wire this past Sunday.

“They’re a gritty team that fights,” head coach Yvette Healy said.

“They’ve got some good Wisconsin kids. We knew that they would be a good team.”

In the first game of the doubleheader, Phoenix pitcher, senior Katie Cooney, pitched seven innings and gave up just one run on five hits.

Wisconsin did not trail in the game until a disastrous sixth inning.

The Badgers had a 2-1 lead at the start of the frame, but Green Bay took advantage of suspect defense by the Badger infielders. Wisconsin only committed one official error in the inning, but a throw into a base runner and other questionable throwing decisions fueled the Green Bay rally.

The Phoenix loaded the bases thanks to two infield singles and the error. Green Bay tied the game at two on a grounder to freshman shortstop Stephanie Peace, who threw home but not in time for the force-out.

A Green Bay single gave the Phoenix their first lead, 3-2. Green Bay scored their fourth and final

Men’s Hockey

Murray leaves Badgers, signs with Swiss team

By Ryan Evans the daily cardinal

Wisconsin men’s hockey junior forward Jordy Murray has signed a professional contract with the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the Swiss National League A (NLA) and will forgo his final year of eligibility with the Badgers.

The move has long been speculated for Murray, who was second on the team with 18 goals last season. He considered making the same move last offseason as well.

But what finally convinced him to leave Madison was a unique opportunity the Swiss league offered him that wouldn’t be available if he waited any longer to sign.

Because Murray began his hockey career in Switzerland, where his father was a coach, Murray would not be considered a foreign import player—which Swiss teams can only have four of—and therefore was in line to sign a larger contract.

If he waited longer to sign he would no longer be considered a non-import player due to rule changes. So this offseason was now or never for Murray, and he jumped at the opportunity. His departure leaves a large hole for head coach Mike Eaves to fill next season.

run on a slow grounder to Peace, whose only play was to tag the runner headed from second to third. When the inning was all said and done, the Phoenix plated three runs despite hitting no balls in the air and only one of their grounders leaving the infield.

“Green Bay did a nice job put-

“To be at 27 wins right now, it’s really a phenomenal accomplishment for this group.”

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ting the ball in play. We didn’t come through and make some of those tough plays. I didn’t think they were easy,” Healy said.

In the second game of the doubleheader, sophomore pitcher

Meghan McIntosh allowed just one run in seven innings, earning win number nine.

“My changeup was really working and I had great defensive play behind me,” McIntosh said.

Freshman outfielder Mary Massei was the offensive catalyst in the Badgers’ victory, smacking two triples.

Her teammates were able to drive her home in both innings, and Massei’s fourth-inning triple scored sophomore outfielder Kendall Grimm.

“I’m not the fastest on the team, but I’m just going to keep hitting the ball like I have been,” Massei said.

The Badgers will be back in action this weekend at Purdue in their final road trip of the season. Wisconsin only has four games left in this season and will look to finish an already successful first season under Healy on a good note.

“To be at 27 wins right now, it’s really a phenomenal accomplishment for this group,” Healy said.

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CONGRATULATIONS

NICO SAVIDGE! Following two years of offending small American cities, getting called “everything that is wrong with America” and championing the Canadian pastime of ice hockey, the Society of Professional Journalists honored The Daily Cardinal’s own Nico Savidge with the mark of excellence for sports column writing at a student newspaper for 2010.

Nico will be moving into the managing editor’s chair in the fall, and we know he will bring his tradition of excellence along with him as he takes the helm.

Nico Savidge: Just putting a little hay in the barn.

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