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An increased police presence at this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party led to more arrests and increased costs.

Police chief calls for changes to Mifflin

By Taylor Harvey The Daily Cardinal

Madison’s top police official said in a July 12 letter to the Wisconsin State Journal the Mifflin Street Block Party could be “eliminated” unless it is “drastically” changed.

Most significantly, Madison Police Department Chief Noble Wray wrote police are looking to find a new venue for the block party to spare its costliness to the city and foster a safe environment.

“We can no longer tolerate this large event taking place in a highly populated residential neighborhood,” Wray said in the letter to the State Journal. “It has become too costly and too dangerous.”

Following the 2011 block party’s “disorder, stabbings, robberies, sexual assaults, batteries and property damage,” the Madison Police Department spent more than $195,000 at this year’s party due to the “need for additional resources,” according to Wray.

That’s a $130,000 increase from 2011, when Madison police spent $65,000.

“We can no longer tolerate this large event taking place in a highly populated residential neighborhood.”

Noble Wray chief Madison Police Department

“The Mifflin Street event is now an end-of-the-school-year bash funded by taxpayers,” Wray said in the statement. “[Mifflin] is not a place where we should be spending limited resources in tight economic times.”

According to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, the block party needs “grassroots support” and student planners to facilitate cooperation between various stakeholders for the party to continue.

“It is a realistic nature that two weeks before finals stu-

dents are going to want to have a celebration on the UW-Madison campus,” Resnick said. “I believe there are options to look at to be able to have an event that will be student-driven and student-focused.”

Finding a suitable site could be a positive solution, Resnick said, but there are many options the city is glossing over, such as a sponsorship or partnership, to make a cost-effective and safe endof-the-year celebration a reality.

Th e U W-Mad i s o n SAFEride cab program ended its services this June and will not continue next school year due to budget cuts.

The service, which was managed by UW Transportation Services, offered each student six free late-night cab rides per semester within the campus area. The $120,000 program was funded entirely through mandatory student segregated fees.

The Student Services Finance Committee, which makes recommendations on the distribution of student segregated fees on the UW-Madison campus, restored SAFEride’s funding in April, but UW Transportation Services decided to end its involvement with the program.

“We informed [the Associated Students of Madison] that due to the uncertainty and lack of commitment, Transportation Services would no longer administer the cab service,” Commuter Solutions Manager Darwin Ward said in an email.

SSFC originally voted to cut the cab service’s funding in March due to its declining use, but reversed its decision and restored the program’s funding shortly after many students spoke out against termination of the service.

ASM Vice Chair Maria Giannopoulos said the lack of administrative involvement from Transportation Services left ASM with no choice but to discontinue the service entirely.

“Transportation Services

said ‘we’re not going to run the program, and we’re not going to put in our portion,’” Giannopoulos said. “So that’s where the disconnect comes in because they’re unwilling to do their part.”

“We’re looking more holistically at safety on campus.”

Maria Giannopoulos vice chair Associated Students of Madison

Giannopoulos said ASM is increasing its commitment to educating students about nighttime safety following the removal of the SAFEride cab service.

“We’re looking more holistically at safety on campus,” Giannopoulos said. “We’re trying to educate people about where to walk, to stay in groups, and we’re also doing our sexual assault awareness campaign.”

Ward said Transportation Services remains committed to nighttime campus safety and is looking into future improvements to its current services.

“We are studying the campus bus route system for possible future improvements, and included in that study are various options for improving nighttime travel across campus as well as travel for mobility-impaired individuals,” Ward said.

Transportation Services will continue its other nighttime services, SAFEwalk and SAFEride buses, in the fall.

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Body of recent UW graduate found in Lake Mendota

By Abby Becker and David Jones The Daily Cardinal

A recent UW-Madison graduate’s body was recovered in Lake Mendota June 22 after a late-night swim ended in tragedy.

Twenty-two-year-old Matthew Roelse, who graduated from the Wisconsin School of Business in May 2012, was swimming with a female friend in Lake Mendota when he became distressed, according to a city of Madison news release.

His friend attempted to help him back to shore but lost sight of him after he went under the water. She swam to shore by herself and called 911 at 2:46 a.m.

Shortly after the woman’s call, the Madison Fire Department’s Lake Rescue Team searched the area where Roelse was last seen for approximately three hours

but had problems because of algae, thick weeds and the lack of sunlight, according to Madison Fire Department spokesperson Lori Wirth.

“It was very difficult to see anything under the water,” Wirth said.

Police officers tried unsuccessfully to locate Roelse by searching nearby sailboats, the city news release said. They also searched the shoreline to see if Roelse had made it back to shore but only found his clothes, according to Wirth.

Madison Police Officer Howard Payne said the Dane County Sheriff’s Department dive team recovered the body at 10:27 a.m. near the 600 block of North Lake Street and Lake Mendota.

An active member of Sigma Iota Epsilon business fraternity, as well as UW-Madison’s crosscountry ski and frisbee teams, Roelse was a model student, ath-

lete and graduate, according to the release.

“He epitomized the hard work ethic, lifelong quest for knowledge and virtuous ethos for which Wisconsin graduates are recognized worldwide,” School of Business Dean François OrtaloMagné said in the statement.

University of Wisconsin Police Department Sergeant Aaron Chapin recommended students be “aware of their own limitations” in order to stay safe in the lake. He also encouraged students to limit alcohol consumption.

“The biggest dangers that we see [are] when there is alcohol involved in the situation and also when people are swimming during hours where there is not approved safety personnel working there,” he said.

Meghan Chua also contributed to this report.

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In light of the recent tragedy, Madison police caution swimmers to be careful and limit alcohol consumption.

UW opens new office in China to promote opportunities

By Sam Cusick The Daily Cardinal

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will function as an outpost for the university’s growing commitment to enhance educational opportunities in China, opened in June.

China is the third-mostpopular location for stu-

dents studying abroad at UW-Madison and opening the office will allow for increased study abroad and internship opportunities, according to Kerry Hill, the communications coordinator for the Division of International Studies.

“Our goal is to make [China] the top destination, because China has risen in importance on the world stage,” Hill said

in an email. “It is a country we cannot afford to ignore, and we want to ensure that UW students have opportunities to go there.”

The new office will help with a wide range of other activities in China, Hill said, such as coordinating academic and professional conferences, supporting new research collaborations and engaging with alumni.

“UW-Madison already has a wide range of connections and partnerships in China, and this office will provide a physical presence to support and expand those ties,” Hill said.

“It will give the university a full-time face in this region, something that is important to building mutually beneficial relationships.”

The Innovation Office was

made possible by a partnership between the East Asian Legal Studies Center in the UW-Madison Law School and the Minhang district in China for which they provided legal assistance.

The university and the Minhang district have agreed to a three-year commitment, with the expectation that by the third year, the office will produce its own revenue.

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ACROSS 1 Where some dye for a living 6 Poetry showdown 10 Tap-on-the-shoulder alternative 14 2002 Olympics venue 15 Husband of mama 16 Legendary entertainer Horne 17 “American Idol” contestant Clay 18 Dark clouds, to some 19 Actor who married Shirley Temple 20 Brazil has the world’s largest 22 Theme word inside this puzzle’s theme words 23 “Honest” president Lincoln 24 Expire, as a subscription 26 Rabbit-sized rodent 30 Doc or Bashful 32 Didi in “Grease” 33 One lacking experience 35 Gaggle member 39 Like a winked agreement 41 Organ of hearing 42 Born first 43 Court reporter

44 The “I” of “The King and I” 46 Acute, as vision 47 Back pocket liquor bottle 49 Abbr. at the head of a letter 51 Ancient as the hills 54 He may OK a TKO 55 Kittenish sound 56 With many on the street, as police 63 Place for 44-Across 64 Senior moment?

65 Blow the socks off 66 “Would you care for anything ___?”

67 Unlikely to bite 68 Gondolier’s beat 69 Parrot’s morsel 70 Tireless thing to ride 71 Diary item DOWN 1 Trade easy punches 2 Operatic encore choice 3 Mischief-making Norse god 4 Appliance used by Hansel and Gretel 5 Adjective on some yogurt containers 6 Mold’s origin 7 Type of duck 8 Subjects for Fossey and Goodall 9 Repeated word in meditation

1 0 Common people 11 Musical “repeat” sign 12 Total mess 13 Medium’s card 21 Last brief notice 25 Try to persuade 26 John follower 27 Animal that gives milk 28 Single occurrence 29 Clueless 30 Wet one’s whistle 31 Slightly tattered 34 Nay opposers 36 Emotional poems 37 Visionary type 38 Some eagles 40 Turnpike tariff 45 “You said it, preacher!”

48 Accepts, as a resolution 50 Wipe out entirely 51 Places for altars 52 Craftiness 53 Wipe the slate clean?

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Camp Randall Camp Randall, home to Badger football and its traditions, is the ultimate place to show UW-Madison pride.

The stadium, one of the largest university stadiums in the nation, holds just over 80,000 fans with a 14,000-seat student section. When the sea of red jumps around at the end of the third quarter, the energy is said to register on the Richter scale.

The UW Marching Band performs during halftime and again after the game, called the “fifth quarter,” for fans and students who stick around. And of course, Bucky will be there to rally the fans and practice his push-ups as the Badgers’ score climbs.

The grounds around the stadium host other athletics facilities such as the Shell, and have a history as training grounds for troops through World War II. During the Civil War, Camp Randall was the training site for over 70,000 recruits from Wisconsin and held captured Confederate troops.

State Street Considered a defining aspect of downtown Madison, State Street links UW-Madison’s campus with the Capitol Square.

The former four-lane road is now a pedestrian mall lined with dozens of restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques and bars.

From Afghan, Greek and Italian cuisine to burgers and brats, State Street offers a variety of dining options.

There are also a number of clothing and specialty stores on State Street where students can spend their hard-earned cash on new clothes. From popular stores like Urban Outfitters and American Apparel to more eclectic stores like Ragstock and Rethreads, there are plenty of options.

State Street also boasts entertainment venues like the Orpheum and Overture Center, where students can attend concerts and performances.

State Street is typically packed with people enjoying all this unique part of downtown Madison has to offer. It especially comes to life during Freakfest, the infamous annual Halloween party.

Union South The recently built Union South is the perfect spot for UW-Madison students to gather and study, rock climb, bowl or grab some famous Babcock ice cream.

Just over a year old, the union is home to six dining venues, offering hungry students a wide variety of choices from Asian food and pizza to ice cream and coffee.

Additionally, the lower level of the new union houses a rockclimbing wall, bowling alley and game tables to provide further entertainment for students on campus.

While it does not have the iconic terrace overlooking Lake Mendota, Union South has several terrace-like areas featuring UW-Madison’s signature chairs where students can eat, study and hang out.

Union South is located between the Computer Sciences and Statistics Building and Engineering Hall on the south side of campus.

State Capitol

The Wisconsin State Capitol building is not only the geographic center of Madison, but also serves as a political and cultural hub.

Home to the state Senate and Assembly, the governor’s office and the state Supreme Court, the Capitol Square also plays host to frequent protests and demonstrations.

For over a year, Wisconsin citizens have protested against Gov. Scott Walker while marching around the Capitol Square, home of the state’s historic recall effort.

On Saturday mornings from April to October, Madisonians set politics aside and flock to the Farmers’ Market, where local farmers set up around the Square and sell fresh produce and other snacks.

Because no building in the city rises taller than the Capitol, Madisonians can never be lost while roaming the city’s streets.

Memorial Union An indelible piece of the Lake Mendota shoreline since 1928, the historical Memorial Union remains a center of student and campus life. It is the home of the Wisconsin Union Directorate, an eclectic group of organizations that includes the Hoofers outdoor club and the WUD film and music committees responsible for bringing a wide range of films and artists to campus (including Community’s Nick Offerman and a screening of “The Dictator”).

Along with the weight of UW-Madison history and tradition, the winds of change can be felt about the landmark. Generations of Badgers have enjoyed brats in Der Rathskeller, a German-style eatery that recently revamped its menu.

But the Memorial Union has not gone without controversy. Beginning in July, the Union will undergo a $42 million construction project to modernize the building and upgrade and enlarge the lobby of the adjoining Wisconsin Union Theater. Some people worry the lobby expansion could come at the expense of pristine views of Picnic Point.

Despite disagreement over the Memorial Union Reinvestment, students and administrators alike can be found occupying the colorful chairs and table of the Terrace during sunsets in the warmer months, beers in hand.

West Mifflin Street A Madison tradition since 1969, the Mifflin Street Block Party is one of the city’s most recognized events among college students throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest.

The block party tradition began as a protest against the Vietnam War, where police arrested Madisonian activists including current Mayor Paul Soglin Since then, the tradition has evolved from a protest to the ultimate end-of-semester celebration as UW-Madison students flock to Mifflin Street as early as 8 a.m. on the first Saturday of May where residents open their houses and backyards to friends.

Due to a slew of violent incidents that occurred at the party in recent years, Mayor Soglin said city officials plan to analyze specific details, like police enforcement and costs to the city, over the next few months to determine the party’s future.

Police issued nearly 400 citations at this year’s party, which is almost four times more than the 2011 block party, due to a zero-tolerance attitude toward ordinance violations like open intoxicants on the street.

Kohl Center The Kohl Center was built in 1998 to provide a new home for the Badger’s men and women’s hockey and basketball teams.

In addition to housing hundreds of roaring Wisconsin fans during both hockey and basketball seasons, the Kohl Center serves as the primary location for large campus events such as convocation and graduation.

Because of the building’s ample space, the biannual student organization fairs are typically held at the Kohl Center. This is when UW-Madison’s hundreds of clubs and societies, ranging from the Quiddich Club to Women in Science and Engineering, set up tables to provide information, answer questions and collect contact information.

The Kohl Center also serves important public figures who come to speak on campus. President Barack Obama spoke in the arena when he visited Madison during the 2008 election.

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Madison is brimming with art, and in particular, music.

From big-name acts (Bassnectar, Neon Indian, Eric Hutchinson) all the way down to the lone saxophonist playing that one George Michaels song on State Street (“Careless Whisper”), this city has something to suit your tastes.

At times it can feel like an onslaught, but your trusty Arts page will be with you all year long to help you sift and winnow through the muck to find something with which it is truly worth blasting your eardrums.

Your new favorite artist may just walk amongst you on their way to class or frequent your favorite coffee shop. To help you get to know your Madison musicians, The Daily Cardinal sat down with John Kruse, the man behind local label Mine, All Mine! (MAM) Records and his business partner/friend/ bandmate Corey Murphy to get the scoop on this city’s homegrown talent.

First things first: If you’re looking for music, MAM Records has it.

“We’ve got over 200 free releases at MAMrecords.com that you can download completely free,” Kruse said. “So if anybody wants music, there are over 200 [artists] on there.”

A fairly hefty number considering Kruse started the site about six years ago around the beginning of his freshman year

of college. Both he and Murphy recently graduated from UW-Madison with a dual degree in Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies and a degree in Music Education, respectively.

“It started out just as a name to put on my self-released stuff,” Kruse said. “I just randomly had a CD and I realized that the guy who made it, he did everything himself. You know, he packaged it and made it, and it was the first time I realized that you could do that, you know? That you could make it yourself.”

“Madison is probably one of the easiest cities to be involved in music.”

John Kruse founder Mine, All Mine! Records

There was also that one week Kruse spent in Norway, which proved crucial to the label’s international beginnings. He emailed hundreds of bands and ended up with 20 whose songs he uploaded to the site under the Mine, All Mine! label. They still have a pocket of artists residing in the UK and a few other countries, but the label’s focus has shifted to a more local geography of late.

“There was a point where it was like, ‘Yeah we exist in Madison, but not a lot of people know about us,’” Murphy said.

“And it was like, hey, now that

Frank Ocean channels bright talent with first solo album

By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal

ALBUM REVIEW

Channel Orange Frank Ocean Frank Ocean is brooding in his thoughtfulness, his music somewhat solemn in its off-kilter cool.

Always the mellowest member of Odd Future, Ocean’s studio debut curiously features few collaborations with other artists (noteworthy is the executive producer credit given to his dog, Everest) and leaves the spotlight on someone used to being the most enigmatic man in the room.

Just ahead of Channel Orange’s release, Ocean demystified this slight change of persona with a post to his Tumblr. The post detailed an early heartbreak he endured from a relationship with a man, a revelation that, for better or worse, will create an entirely new arena for Ocean’s recognition. It is unfortunate that Ocean’s bisexuality will undoubtedly steal the spotlight from his debut, as the storytelling ability and musical-

ity ensconced in Channel Orange make it clear that his album is just as worthy of attention.

It has always been Ocean’s strength—his storytelling and word choice. “Thinkin Bout You,” the closest thing Orange has to a single, is rife with dazzling wordplay, outshining the billowing, spacey minimalism of the instrumentals from the beginning. “A tornado flew around my room before you came, excuse the mess it made,” Ocean sings apologetically in the song’s first verse.

You’d be hard pressed to find a more fitting description of the break up blues—until Ocean surpasses himself later in the song, of course.

“I got a fighter jet I don’t get to fly no more / I’m lying down, thinking bout you,” he wails, a fantastic take on the grounding of post-breakup doldrums. Flying (or lack thereof) is a recurring emotional connotation on Orange, underscoring Ocean at his best: depicting the intangibles of feeling through the relatable surrealism of fantasy.

More often than not, his feelings are loneliness, emotional distance and solitude—or some variation on the like. This is a feeling that resonates with Ocean, as it appears in not only the aforementioned tracks, but on “Sierra Leone,” “Pyramids” (tied with “Forrest Gump” for the album’s best song, though ask me

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we’re here let’s try and do local shows and local releases. So most of the recent releases have been local bands.

“After two or three years we really got into the booking and promotion stuff, and that really took off when we started doing … shows at the Dragonfly Lounge a lot.”

The Dragonfly Lounge serves as MAM’s primary artist venue and is located beneath the churchturned-Italian-bistro Bellini’s on East Washington Avenue With cavernous stone walls, a speakeasy vibe and often hosting many a jazz performance, this is certainly a place worth checking out.

Suffice it to say the label has grown greatly from its days of strictly online releases.

“We still do quite a bit of that, but now we have a lot of physical releases, a lot higher quality…a lot higher quality music I think, a lot higher quality for the physical stuff we do,” Kruse said. “And now we do a lot of booking—we had the festival—and then we do a lot of charitable stuff.”

He is referring to Lost City Musical Festival: A first-time event that hosted mostly local and regional acts for four nights of music in four venues around Madison the weekend of July 5-8.

Kruse and Murphy both agreed the turnout for this endeavor exceeded their expectations.

“It went really well,” Kruse said. “It went better than I think any of us thought it would. You know I thought it was going to be mostly the bands that would be

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there and it was mostly the bands that participated in a lot of stuff with the festival, but we had a lot of people that I had never seen before show up to stuff.”

“It was definitely a leap, because we’ve had a lot of success booking individual shows before,” Murphy added. “So going from there to going to four nights of music with four simultaneous shows (“Five at one point,” Kruse interjected.) in this space we were kind of like ‘Fuck it, let’s give it a shot.’”

The festival brought out a fair amount of the Madison community and also served as a fundraiser for three local charities: Madison Area Music Awards (MAMAs), Madison Music Makers (for instruments and music supplies) and Girls Rock Madison, helping create scholarships for those who can’t afford it.

It served as a great way to bring together the local music community, which Murphy asserted is a group one can get to know fairly quickly.

“In Madison it’s really easy to know 95—well shit, I don’t want to make up numbers—A LOT of local bands,” he said. “Because you go to a show like this (Icarus Himself with Pushmi-Pullyu and Oedipus Tex on the Terrace) and you know the people that come to it from the bands that you’ve played with before because that’s the people who are interested in it and music.

“Get involved. The local music scene is detached from the campus. It’s like this is the

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Captiol and this is the campus and then this is where like, all the people that do this thing is [sic].” (See map of downtown Madison for reference.)

“Madison is probably one of the easiest cities to be involved in music,” Kruse added. “If you want to play a show, there is a place you can play a show whether you are 14 or 50. You know, there are places you can play.”

“And if you want to do it yourself,” Murphy said, “then go see how other bands do it, because that’s how you meet the people that you need to know. You go see a band and tell them that they had an awesome set and [then] they’re your friend[s].”

Madisonians certainly have a friend in Mine, All Mine!

Records—whether they need a website to release their free download, help distributing CDs or just something fresh for their mp3 player, Kruse and Murphy are there to help get things kickstarted at little to no cost.

So what are you waiting for?

Madison music is yours for the taking, and its as simple as getting yourself out there.

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HOMEGROWN One of the great things about this city is its focus on supporting the people who call it home. Just as easy as buying homegrown veggies at the Farmers’ Market is getting in touch with the local music scene. Here are some of John Kruse’s (see “Yours, All Yours!”) favorite acts playing at venues and in basements near you. orange from page 12 again tomorrow), “Pilot Jones,” and “Bad Religion,”—this last track being responsible for the confusion over pronoun ambiguity ahead of Ocean’s Tumblr statement (a haunting song in its own right, social and cultural implications notwithstanding).

With the emotions he knows, Ocean’s music hits a space-age cool.

Orange becomes shakier when he tries adapting his talents to storytelling he clearly shares less affinity with, on display in the songs “Crack Rock” and “Super Rich Kids,” the latter with the help of recently reclaimed wordsmith Earl Sweatshirt, also of Odd Future.

Bouncy and full of wordplay, it’s an unwieldy marriage of his solitary topical tendencies as an artist and the shimmering images of exclusivity this song’s lyrics conjure. It’s the soundtrack to a party at Bernie’s beach house, only you’re watching through a window. Wouldn’t you rather be inside?

He does a little better on “Crack Rock,” his words bristling over a beat that crackles. “You don’t know how little you matter

-Cap Alan -Control -Crane Your Swan Neck -Cribshitter -Dietrich Gosser -Dirty Jive until you’re all alone,” he asserts, and follows, “in the middle of Arkansas / with a little rock left in that glass dick,” shedding light on an unsettling existence he can never claim as his own but salvages with his verbal inventiveness.

To speak about emotions is to speak in a language cloaked in the gray murkiness of ambiguity. As a fantastic look at the resonance of the surreal and sobering chords of love, loss and loneliness, Channel Orange is a misleadingly bright title.

(For future reference, a search for the symbolism of the color orange is not served by searching “orange aura mood rings,” or any combination of those terms. That was a mistake on my part. A Wikipedia search on the color was much more thought provoking.)

As the color of both traffic signs and prison jumpsuits, orange is a visible reminder, a warning of what lies ahead. Sharing his heartache with the world, Ocean’s studio debut is more sublime than superfluous, though it runs tangential to both. When he sticks to writing his own script, rather than what he sees as the scripts of others, Frank Ocean shows his true colors.

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-Troy Schafer -William Z. Villain -Pushmi-Pullyu *editors’ choice More good news! A lot of these bands have their stuff available to download for free at mamrecords. com. And be sure to follow @mamTWEET on Twitter to keep track of where your new favorite artist might be playing next.

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UW-Madison scientists aid Higgs boson search

By Jennifer Laaser The daily cardinal

Two independent teams of physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland made a surprising announcement early on the morning of July 4. The announcement: They had discovered a new particle, and it might help explain why things have mass.

Researchers have been searching for this particle, known as the Higgs boson, since it was first proposed almost 50 years ago. The Higgs boson is incredibly difficult to make, however, requiring the collision of protons at very high energies. Designing, building and running the experiments in order to find it took years of work from scientists around the world.

The University of WisconsinMadison played an important role as two Wisconsin scientists have been right on the front lines. Professors Sau Lan Wu and Wesley Smith, both in the UW-Madison physics department, played critical roles in designing the experiments and analyzing the data that led to the July 4 announcement.

“Wisconsin is sort of a rare place in that we have two strong groups, one on ATLAS, and one on CMS,” said Smith, referring to the two main detectors at the LHC. “We have the resources here to build large parts of experiments and really make an impact.”

Physicists have long known that objects have mass and that massive objects attract each

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other. But what they could not explain was why things have any mass to begin with.

One potential answer lay in the Higgs mechanism, first proposed in the 1960s. The Higgs mechanism says that an invisible field, called the Higgs field, permeates the universe, and that interacting with this field is what gives particles their mass.

“The best way to envision it is if you picture a marble being dragged through molasses,” said Smith. “The stickier the particles found in the Higgs field, the more mass they have.”

Even though the Higgs field is everywhere, we cannot see it directly. Physicists must force the field to show itself by creating an associated particle called the Higgs boson in order to prove that the Higgs field exists and that the Higgs mechanism is correct.

By sending beams of protons whizzing around at nearly the speed of light and colliding them

with each other, physicists can create just the right conditions to make a Higgs boson. Once a Higgs boson appears, it rapidly decays into other particles which leave distinct signatures on the LHC’s detectors.

“Reassembling the debris to find the Higgs particle is literally like finding a needle in a haystack,” said Wu. This is where Smith and Wu’s research teams come in. Wu’s group works on the ATLAS detector, where they simulate the expected results of collisions and analyze much of the data coming out of the experiments. Smith’s group works on the CMS detector, where they are responsible for the design and operation of the “trigger” system that sifts through billions of collisions per second and decides which data is interesting enough to be stored for further analysis.

Significant parts of the CMS detector were also designed and built in Wisconsin. Computer

science Professor Miron Livny developed important parts of the software used to analyze data from the collisions.

Scientists working on the Higgs research have been careful to say only that the new particle might be the Higgs boson. More experiments are necessary to prove whether it actually is or not.

For example, according to Smith, the theory predicts that the experiments should produce a certain amount of the Higgs boson.

“If we’re making too many or too few,” Smith said, “that means something’s wrong.”

The theory also predicts that the Higgs boson can decay into different combinations of particles at different rates.

“An important step in ascertaining whether it is the Higgs particle is to measure decay rates,” Wu said.

Preparations for these experiments are already in progress. The LHC will shut down next year in order to prepare for experiments at even higher energies, and Smith’s group is currently working to upgrade the trigger systems at CMS to handle the collider’s new capabilities.

If the upcoming experiments prove that the new particle is indeed the Higgs boson, physicists will begin studying the Higgs mechanism in detail.

This might in turn provide insight into exotic physics like extra dimensions, shadow universes and dark matter.

With all this in mind, Smith sees the recent discovery not as the end of the story, but as an exciting beginning.

“If we found it,” Smith said, “my gosh. Now we have an incredible opportunity to study it!”

Ask Mr. Scientist: Dear Mr. Scientist, I heard that solar flares can make my cell phone stop working. Is that true?

—Molly P. It is true that solar flares can disrupt communications, but they probably won’t affect your cell phone.

Solar flares produce a lot of radiation, including X-ray

and UV radiation that can potentially cut off radio signals. However, a cell phone tower would have to be in the same direction (from you) as the Sun in order for your call to be affected. On the other hand, any device using a GPS signal faces a larger risk of being affected because solar flare radiation can disrupt signals from GPS satellites.

This week’s Ask Mr. Scientist answer was provided by guest-writer Matthew Kleist. If you have a burning science question for Mr. Scientist, tweet it to @DC_Science or e-mail it to science@dailycardinal.com

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Kate Krebs opinion columnist

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he University of Wisconsin-Madison is a place of opportunity, first and foremost. There are sports, clubs, classes, people and tons of night life to explore as the semester begins and students and teachers alike flock to the buzzing city of Madison.

Whether a freshman, transfer or returning student, everyone can be overwhelmed by the choices they must make when a new school year starts. The best advice for this situation: just dive in.

Diving in is easy for students living in dorms, where there are

scheduled events to help meet new people and there are activities (like running or watching movies) that they can participate in to keep in shape or learn about new things. It can be more difficult for the off-campus student, but not impossible.

The key is to continue to join different organizations and find the ones that are the right fit.

Students who want to get involved with their school and their peers should seriously consider attending the Student Org Fair. Here, the school’s clubs present themselves and explain

what they are all about. Students can sign up to help out in charities, join an intramural sports team, get on a dance squad or even practice a foreign language.

Because there is so much going on at UW-Madison, there is really no way to know if a certain activity will work for a particular student. The first step is to go to the Org Fair and sign up for a few different things. By trying a little of everything, students can get to know their peers while learning about themselves, as well.

Of course, one person cannot possibly do everything, so it is important to remember that it’s okay to quit something if you don’t love it. Neuroscience club might have looked really interesting at first, but by November it might be too much science if you have a math-andchemistry-dominated schedule.

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The same goes for nonacademic extracurriculars. Everyone loves cheese, but taste-testing each week might feel redundant for someone who is also involved in a baking club.

The key is to continue to join different organizations and find the ones that are the right fit, all while keeping an open mind.

Some people just aren’t suited for organized activities and prefer to meet friends in their dorms or apartments and explore the world that way. And in Madison, students only need to walk out their door to find all kinds of opportunity waiting.

That being said, students should beware the pitfall of attending a big university.

Badgers love their sports teams, the holidays and just about every other reason for celebration a person can think of. Parties are

wild and exciting, and joining in the festivities is a part of college.

However, balance is essential.

Each student has his or her own sense of equilibrium and own expectations of a college experience. Keep in mind that there are many ways to have fun in Madison, and no one should confine themselves to a single type of college experience. The beauty of a big school is the opportunity to engage in traditional classroom learning, to interact with other cultures, to cheer for sports and to see true art on a daily basis. This fall, everyone should try to take a bite out of each kind of college experience and see and do everything they possibly can.

Kate is a sophomore majoring in English and Spanish. Please send all feedback to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

How to survive as a non-liberal on a liberal campus Steven Nemcek opinion columnist

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n 1951 a young Yale undergraduate wrote the book God and Man at Yale, which was a scathing criticism of the liberal ideological bent held by the instructional staff at Yale. The author, a young William Buckley, would go on to become the leading voice of the conservative movement during the second half of the 20th century. Unfortunately for those who share Buckley’s sensibilities, today the majority of collegiate institutions retain their liberal partisanship.

As a young and eager student stepping out of my sheltered Waukesha County home onto this campus, I was in for a cultural shock. The two locales couldn’t be more politically polarized. The difference was night and day.

Seeing citizens of Dane County rally at our state Capitol beating drums, misusing the Polish solidarity symbol, chanting and booing during the Scott Walker recall election made my blood boil. Walking down State Street and seeing the blatant liberal agenda in so many store fronts was aggravating.

Listening to professors (in science classes, mind you!) harp on about the cold and heartless members of the opposing political party made me want to scream.

Through all this nonsense and lack of logic, I have still managed to hold true to my beliefs. Here is a list of advice for those of you who may find yourselves in similar situations to my own. While I haven’t personally done all the items on this list, I have done a number of them, and I can personally attest to their value in keeping a sane mind.

First, seek out non-liberal groups on campus. I personally recommend the group Young Americans for Liberty, which is a libertarian, student-run organization that combines fiscal conservatism with social lib-

eralism for a dose of reason that you will not find in the classroom. I know our campus also has a College Republicans chapter which may be of interest to some. In addition, the campus has a Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, which aims “to promote understanding and critical appreciation of the cardinal principles, institutions, and practices of liberal democratic polities… [by presenting] programs dealing with such topics as religious and political freedom; the free market; educational reform; limited government; constitutionalism and the rule of law; the promotion of liberal democracy in the world; the relationship between liberty and equality; and national security and the battle against terrorism.”

Don’t be afraid to learn and adjust your views if you believe you were previously mistaken.

Second, major in Political Science. This one may seem rather counter-intuitive, but I have found many of the professors to be more liberty-oriented than one would expect. Plus, the discussions that you have with the professors and TAs are invaluable. Those professors that are liberal can provide a means by which we can learn from our ideological opposites so that we can further strengthen our beliefs.

Third, read basic economics textbooks. I personally recommend the Austrian economists, because Keynesianism is all about big government deficit spending.

The book Economics in One Lesson is definitely a good place to start.

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations is indispensable when it comes to defending capitalism as the most socially beneficial economic system. And of course, don’t forget to read the Constitution. The 10th amendment, when read and compared to the influence of today’s

federal government, may leave you confounded.

Fourth, volunteer for political campaigns. One of the benefits of living in a city so close to our state Capitol is that politicians are constantly looking for interns and aides to help out in their office and during the campaign season.

You can’t get a better hands-on experience than a gig working for one of our representatives.

Fifth, stand up for yourself! You will definitely see individuals adorned in liberal pins and signage wherever you go on campus. Get pins and posters representing your indi-

vidual beliefs and ideologies. I have two conservative pins on my backpack and I have only been berated once in public. A number of times an individual approached me and quietly whispered that he supported my views. It’s amazing when this sort of interaction occurs.

It’s like it’s a secret or something; like it’s blasphemous or treasonous on this campus to believe anything other than the presented liberal drivel.

And finally, join The Daily Cardinal newspaper opinion section. The Daily Cardinal has a long history of espousing liberal ideals,

but together we can take over the organization from the inside.

I wish you all the best with your endeavors! Be prepared to do battle against individuals that sound intelligent and emotionally appealing. Don’t be afraid to learn and adjust your views if you believe you were previously mistaken, but don’t cave just because you are a minority. We need more people just like you on this campus. I look forward to meeting you in the next few years. Good luck!

Steven is a junior majoring in biochemistry and political science. Please send all feddback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Top five games to watch for in 2012-’13 Men’s hockey Wisconsin vs.

Minnesota at Soldier Field

By Matt Masterson the daily cardinal

For the first time since 2009, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team will be heading outdoors, this time at Soldier Field in Chicago February 17. The Badgers will take on archrival Minnesota in the inaugural Hockey City Classic—a doubleheader that will also feature a game between Notre Dame and Miami University.

The last time UW played out-

doors, they defeated Michigan in a 3-2 thriller in front of over 55,000 chilly fans at Camp Randall Stadium. This time, the Badgers are looking to bounce back after a rocky 2011-’12 season and prove their worth against one of the best teams not only in the WCHA, but in the country.

Junior forward and Hobey Baker hopeful Mark Zengerle heads a more experienced roster that could compete for a WCHA championship as well as their first spot in the Frozen Four since 2010.

This game will also be the last regular season contest between the two schools before they both move to the Big Ten Conference in 2013.

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Wisconsin’s 45-7 win over Penn State last season clinched the Badgers’ spot in the inaugural Big Ten Championship game in Indianapolis. This season’s game could be for a trip to Indy.

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Wisconsin visits Penn State

By Matt Masterson the daily cardinal

The Wisconsin football team closes out its 2012 season with a trip to central Pennsylvania November 24 to take on Penn State, which will be led by new

Football

Wisconsin hosts Michigan State

By Matt Masterson the daily cardinal

After two seasons of bad blood, controversy and (most importantly) classic games between the Wisconsin and Michigan State football teams, the two schools are finally bringing the fight back

head coach Bill O’Brien.

With Ohio State ineligible for postseason play in 2012, the Nittany Lions look to be the Badgers’ biggest competition in the Big Ten’s Leaders division. If Wisconsin is able to hold off Penn State on the road, they will likely be making their second-straight appearance in Indianapolis and the Big Ten Championship game.

Wisconsin’s defense will hope to repeat their performance against

Penn State from last season, when the Badgers held PSU to just 233 total yards and seven points in a 45-7 throttling at Camp Randall.

This game will also be the first time since 1966 that UW has made the trip to Happy Valley and not faced off against Joe Paterno. The much-maligned program will try to distance itself from its recent controversy and turn over a new page for Penn State football in a statement game.

to Madison October 27.

Sparty played host to the Badgers for their last two regular season contests, both of which went the way of Michigan State. The inaugural Big Ten Championship, however, was a different story, with Wisconsin pulling out an incredible 42-39 victory over the Spartans last December.

Both teams lost numerous starters to the NFL and will be looking to rebuild in order to stay

among the Big Ten’s best, but while the personnel has changed, the rivalry has not.

Returning starters, such as senior running back Montee Ball and redshirt junior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis, will lead an offense that hopes to be as productive as the 2011 unit that broke several UW and Big Ten records.

For the second straight season, this matchup could be an appetizer for another marquee championship game in Indianapolis. mark kauzlarich/cardinal file photo

Indiana will be a national title contender this season, in large part because of sophomore center Cody Zeller.

Men’s basketball Wisconsin vs.

Indiana

By Vince Huth the daily cardinal

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Wisconsin came up short in last season’s national championship game, losing to WCHA rival Minnesota, 4-2. The Badgers will host the Gophers at the La Bahn arena January 26.

Women’s hockey Wisconsin hosts Minnesota

By Vince Huth the daily cardinal

The Badgers lost just five games all of last season, and the Gophers were responsible for three of them. The biggest

of those came in the national championship game in Duluth, Minn., where Wisconsin fell to its WCHA rival, 4-2.

From a historical standpoint, Wisconsin’s showdown against Bemidji State October 19 will be the biggest game of its season, as that will be its first game in the new La Bahn arena. However, from a talent standpoint, the national cham-

pionship rematch January 26 will be the Badgers’ biggest game of the regular season.

These two teams are two of the nation’s best: At least one has played in the national championship game in eight of the past nine years. They will likely both carry a high ranking into the January matchup, and a packed La Bahn Arena will make for an electric atmosphere.

The 2012-’13 schedule hasn’t come out yet, but the Badgers will play the Hoosiers at least once during the regular season. If that’s the case, the game will almost certainly be in Bloomington, Ind., as the Hoosiers played at the Kohl Center in the teams’ only regular season meeting last season.

Indiana is one of the early favorites to contend for a national title and will likely be favored when it plays Wisconsin.

However, high rankings won’t scare the Badgers, who have a recent history of knocking off top teams.

Wisconsin beat then-No. 5 Duke when the Blue Devils came to Madison as part of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge three seasons ago. The following season, Wisconsin took down then-No. 1 and undefeated Ohio State behind a Jordan Taylor-led comeback in the second half.

Yes, both of those games were

at the Kohl Center. But Wisconsin also won on the road against then-No. 9 Ohio State last season, and the Value City Arena isn’t the easiest place to steal a win. The Buckeyes have suffered just three combined home losses over the past three seasons.

In a matchup between two of the Big Ten’s top teams, the Wisconsin-Indiana game will also feature some of the conference’s top individual players. Indiana sophomore center Cody Zeller is a favorite to win Big Ten player of the year honors (and All-American ones, too). Wisconsin forward Sam Dekker and Indiana guard Yogi Ferrell will have a big impact on their respective teams as freshmen. Wisconsin center Jared Berggren, forward Ryan Evans and Indiana forward Christian Watford are three of the conference’s top seniors.

It’s hard to go wrong when conference rivals—and conference title contenders—square off. It will surely be a hot ticket if the Hoosiers visit Madison this season. If they play only at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, park yourself on the couch and grab a beer or six.

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New facilities, renovations for Badgers Women’s hockey team to play on new home ice in La Bahn, Camp Randall gets renovations La Bahn Arena The Wisconsin women’s hockey team is one of the top programs in the nation, and this fall it will have a brand new arena to show for it.

Wisconsin will host Bemidji

State October 19 for the La Bahn Arena’s inaugural game.

The Badgers previously played their home games at the Kohl Center, but the $34.09 million La Bahn Arena—which stands right next to the Kohl Center— will be their new home ice.

The 2,400-seat facility will also serve as the men’s and women’s hockey teams’ practice facility. The men’s and women’s swimming teams will also have locker rooms and various team rooms at La Bahn.

The Kohl Center is the home

venue for the men’s hockey, championship game. It’s up men’s basketball and women’s for debate whether there’s basketball teams. Before La more pressure closing an era Bahn was built, four teams the right way or beginning a shared the same facility, and new one with a bang. However, the women’s hockey team often as far as Ammerman is conhad to practice at the Shell cerned, opening La Bahn the Facility or the Alliant Energy right way doesn’t put any more Center. The new arena truly pressure on the Badgers than gives the team its own home. they would’ve been under comWhile the women’s hock- ing into the season. ey team is excited to have its “We as a team don’t look at it own arena, it certainly didn’t as pressure,” Ammerman said. despise playing at the Kohl “We look at it more as exciteCenter, which seats 15,237 for ment and adding a jump to our hockey games. Junior forward step to be able to play in the Brittany Ammerman said it opening of the La Bahn. I think was unlike any other ice the it will only make us better and Badgers would play on during more of a threat.” the season.

-Vince Huth “The Kohl Center had an NHL arena-type feeling to it that you couldn’t find anywhere else Camp Randall Stadium may in college hockey,” Ammerman said. “I think I will miss that have been around since 1917, but feeling the most, but also the big that doesn’t mean the Wisconsin ice sheet. It allowed for a lot of landmark doesn’t need a facelift from time to time. speed and creativity.”

In January, UW broke ground The women’s hockey team didn’t struggle to draw a crowd on an ambitious renovation projfor home games at the Kohl ect of the nearly century-old Center. One would expect that, stadium, a project that will culas the Badgers have arguably minate with the opening of an been the best team in women’s “Athletic Village” surrounding hockey over the past five sea- Camp Randall by 2014.

The developsons. However, ment entered its they didn’t fill first stage earlithe Kohl Center er this year with to capacity. the construction Playing at of a new tunnel La Bahn will leading to the limit crowd field as well as size, but it Amount spent on the new the laying down might be in La Bahn arena of new turf.

Wi s c o n s i n’s Construction favor.

After will begin on the all, a sellout McClain Center, crowd of 2,400 as well as the at La Bahn locker rooms will be louder Amount spent on the Camp and equipment than the same Randall renovations rooms, in July, amount at the and the projKohl Center. ect will culmiAmmerman nate with the said the construction of Badgers have experienced such crowds a three-story addition on the while playing at Minnesota’s north end of Camp Randall.

The addition will include a new Ridder Arena.

“I look forward the most weight room, athletic training to the La Bahn being filled to room and academic center.

The new weight room is set capacity for probably every game that we play,” Ammerman to be 17,000 sq. feet, a subsaid. “Being that the rink is so stantial increase from the curmuch smaller than the Kohl, rent 7,800 sq. foot room, and the size will allow for a lot of on par with the size of those from some of Wisconsin’s Big energy in the building.”

In addition to its raucous Ten rivals.

While this overhaul is takcrowds, La Bahn will give Wisconsin an edge in recruit- ing place at the university’s ing. Ammerman said the team football stadium, it will not was in a pretty good spot just be football players who pitching the Kohl Center to enjoy the new renovations— recruits, but the luxury of athletes from all sports, as having its own arena might be well as the fans who flood Camp Randall on Saturdays, even better.

“Having a brand new will be able to take part in the arena built with the intention new changes.

For instance, students can to enhance the women’s program will only add to why the look forward to a new scoreUniversity of Wisconsin is a board at the stadium’s north great school to not only play end, as well as other “fanhockey at but also to attend,” friendly” enhancements.

The project was initially Ammerman said. “Just as the Kohl Center was a main attrac- priced at $76.8 million, but in tion and draw for players to April, the University Board of come to UW, the La Bahn will Regents approved an additional $9.4 million, taking the final create that draw also.”

With last season being their overall cost up to a whopping final one playing at the Kohl $86.2 million.

If all goes according to plan, Center, the Badgers nearly closed the era in perfect fash- the Athletic Village will be ion, falling to WCHA rival completed by January of 2014.

-Matt Masterson Minnesota 4-2 in the national

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