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By Cheyenne Langkamp The Daily Cardinal

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Former President Bill Clinton addresses thousands at the Democratic National Convention, where he said President Barack Obama deserves another term to build on an already successful four years.

Clinton officially nominates Obama, rebuts GOP criticism

By Adam Wollner The Daily Cardinal

CHARLOTTE, NC— Former President Bill Clinton officially nominated current President Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential 2012 nominee Wednesday while further emphasizing the party’s populist convention theme in an address to the delegates.

Taking the stage to the loudest cheers of the convention so far, Clinton argued Obama deserves another four years in the oval office to finish cleaning up the “total mess” he inherited from the GOP and fully enact his agenda.

“No president—not me or any of my predecessors, no one— could have repaired all the damage in just four years,” Clinton said. “But he has laid the foundations for a new, modern, successful economy of shared prosperity.

And if you will renew the president’s contract, you will feel it.

The 42nd president also rebutted many Republican claims against Obama from their convention last week, chiding their basic arguments about the role of government and the individual in society.

“We believe ‘we’re all in this together’ is a far better philosophy than ‘you’re on your own,’” Clinton told the crowd.

After Clinton wrapped up his remarks, Obama, who arrived in Charlotte earlier in the day, briefly joined him on stage.

Prior to Clinton’s speech, Eau Claire Delegate Judith Willink said she was looking forward to it more than any other address at the Democratic National Convention because she felt a personal connection with him, having gone doorto-door for Clinton during his 1992 White House bid.

“When he was elected, that was euphoric,” Willink said. “So I’ve always had a real soft spot for Bill.”

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren spoke in the slot right before Clinton, asserting middle class Americans are fed up with an economic system that is rigged against them and that Obama’s policies will provide them with a fighting chance.

“President Obama believes in a level playing field,” Warren told the audience. “He believes in a country where nobody gets a free ride or a golden parachute.”

Instead of formally accepting the party’s nomination Thursday at the outdoor Bank of America Stadium as originally planned, Obama will address the convention at the Time Warner Cable Arena instead due to severe weather forecasts.

Associated Students of Madison Chair Andrew Bulovsky signed a document Wednesday night that could lead to a lawsuit with University of Wisconsin System administration over last year’s Wisconsin Union and Recreational Sports budgets.

The Student Services Finance Committee voted last February to deny funding increases for both budgets because the committee felt neither budget provided adequate details for a sound evaluation, according to former SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart.

UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward vetoed SSFC’s recommenda-

tions and the UW System Board of Regents passed both budgets, including their requested increases.

ASM Student Council approved a resolution giving Bulovsky the authority to sign a Notice of Claim against Chancellor David Ward, UW System President Kevin Reilly and the Board of Regents at its August meeting.

According to Mark Hazelbaker, a local attorney who will represent ASM should the situation result in a lawsuit, a Notice of Claim is a warning that claimants could sue if the dispute is not resolved within the 120 days allotted for negotiations.

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Wis. sees unexpected revenue increase A Department of Revenue report released Wednesday shows Wisconsin took in $126.6 million more in general-purpose tax revenue during the 2011-2012 fiscal year than projected, a number that could prove historic.

Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said in a statement he expects to report the largest transfer of money to the Budget Stabilization Fund in Wisconsin’s history if Gov. Scott Walker’s administration meets projected costs.

The Budget Stabilization Fund, known as the “rainy day fund,”

requires that half of the surplus revenue be set aside to help during fiscally troublesome times.

If Wisconsin spends as much as it expects, the state would end the biennial budget with a $274.1 million surplus, half of which would go to the rainy day fund under state law.

“After years of record budget deficits, we are clearly headed in the right direction,” Huebsch said in the statement. “However, fiscal stewardship does not take a break.”

The final Annual Fiscal Report for 2011-12 will be released

by Oct. 15.

Social media scavenger hunt aims to familiarize students with UW campus The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the second annual #FindUW event Friday to reacquaint students with campus while also expanding the university’s social media presence. #FindUW is a social media scavenger hunt created by the Center for First Year Experience and the Visitor and Information Programs.

Students are to follow clues from the #FindUW website and university Twitter accounts to locations around campus and find workers with red Bucky signs to be entered into drawings for prizes. Clues for the scaven-

ger hunt will be announced from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Prizes for the event range from gift cards to a dedicated table at Helen C. White Library for a semester.

University Communications and Marketing Social Media Coordinator John Lucas said the event will reinforce the university’s already expansive presence on social media platforms.

“One of my goals is to see [UW] be known as one of the most forward-thinking social media universities in the country,” Lucas said.

The event is an effort by CFYE and VIP to connect stu-

dents with university social media accounts to spread news and events in a digital format, according to Student Services Coordinator Darcy Wittberger. “[Social media] is where the students are,” Wittberger said.

“This is where they get their news and information and we want to go where the students are talking to each other.”

Several hundred students participated in last year’s #FindUW and the university wishes to increase that number this year, Lucas said.

More information on #FindUW can be found at finduw.wisc.edu. ­­—Sam Cusick

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happened to be walking by Witte Hall the other day and witnessed a timeless staple of freshman dorm life in the early fall: the get-to-know-you game of volleyball.

For the more outgoing and selfconfident incoming freshmen, a casual game of volleyball is nothing more than a worthy excuse to get some sun and physical activity and make new connections. For the more socially awkward, like myself, it was an excruciatingly uncomfortable exercise that followed a predictable template: tell people your name, exchange the obligatory “nice to meet you” and showcase some token enthusiasm when your team scored a point. These things aren’t terribly difficult to do, but the superficiality of the whole affair is quite cringe-worthy.

So, just like many of the other freshmen, I played along. Hell, I needed to play along. After all, I had convinced myself that these were “my people,” and that something like a casual game of volleyball was commensurate with the college experience. At least that’s what all those college brochures made it seem like anyway.

You see, I had been preparing to leave for college since I was in middle school. I grew up in the rural village of Richfield, Wis., a fine place in its own right. However, it is one whose values I believed were strongly at odds with my own. Richfield largely held true to just about all

the familiar stereotypes of people from small-town Wisconsin you’ve probably already heard—a bunch of church-going, country music-loving, beer-swilling, deerhunting, fish fry-eating lard-asses.

More than a few kids from my high school had Confederate flag decals on the rear windows of (what else?) their pickup trucks.

It came as little surprise when I found out that Washington County, where Richfield is located, checked in at no. 74 in The Daily Caller’s 2010 rankings of the most conservative-friendly counties in America.

Don’t get me wrong, I created some great friendships during my upbringing, and I maintain many of those connections to this day. As the years passed, I just grew continuously weary of my surroundings, and dreamt of a place where I could be among more people with similar worldviews and outlooks as me. I spent many a Friday and Saturday evening playing basketball at a local park by myself, imagining what it would be like to get a fresh start elsewhere.

When it became too dark to play, I would retreat to my car, listening to artists like Bruce Springsteen, The Who, and Roy Orbison, whose lyrical themes often evoked the exact sentiments I was feeling: an underlying jadedness toward the status quo but an optimistic outlook for the future. Upon leaving Richfield I embarked for Madison to begin my freshman year that fall, Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”

perfectly encapsulated my feelings at the time in the song’s final line: “It’s a town full of losers, I’m pulling out of here to win.”

As a result of this nascent dreaming, I became fully convinced that UW-Madison would be the orgy of awesomeness that I had desperately longed for. I envisioned debating my peers about the finer points of Sartre existentialism, the subtleties of art deco and art nouveau and other high-brow shit like that.

I believed that all of my professors would give these gripping, epic lectures, calling on students randomly to test their insight and resolve. I thought everyone got laid with regularity. In a sense, I thought college would be the pinnacle of my existence.

Of course, I soon learned that my perception of college was quite warped. While freshman year was surely a whirlwind and up to that point, the greatest year of my life, I didn’t get nearly the level of fulfillment that I had expected going in. I had put the college experience on such a lofty pedestal that it simply couldn’t meet my expectations.

The lesson I’ve learned is to never let my perceptions of a particular environment dictate the breadth of my experiences.

Growing up in Richfield, I placed so much emphasis on what I didn’t like about my surrounding environment that I took for granted the aspects of the area that I did enjoy.

Rather than embracing the individuals and places that I

did appreciate, I retreated to my own inner sanctum, thinking that because almost everybody and nearly everything else didn’t meet my expectations, it meant that nobody and nothing else justifiably could. The same thing happened to me freshman year. I had a concept in my head of what college should be like, and when that schema wasn’t met, I became disappointed rather than moving on and discovering what I liked about the college experience.

Just as I did, I’m sure many of you incoming freshmen out there have visions of grandeur and come to Madison thinking, “HERE I AM, THE WORLD IS MY OYSTER!” And it’s true that some of you may have the stimulating conversations about high-brow shit like you always wanted. Some of you may have engaging professors who challenge you and maintain your undivided attention throughout the power lecture. Some of you may even get laid.

So welcome to Madison, freshmen. Your next four (or five) years of college will most likely be unique to any other period of your life at this point.

Just realize that even if your expectations of college aren’t met—or even if they are—there are still plenty of great people, places and things that you might still be overlooking.

Want to reminisce about your Freshman experience with Adam?

Tell him your get-to-know-you game of volleyball was, like, totally rad at ajwolf2@wisc.edu.

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his article marks my first post in a series of columns about Madison craft beer. An avid beer enthusiast for a while now, I’ve founded and operated a beer blog with a few friends for over a year and couldn’t be more excited to have this opportunity to write exclusively about Madison’s best beer, bars and brewpubs.

However, before I jump into the heart of the craft beer scene surrounding UW-Madison, I want to take the time to tell you why I love writing about beer in the first place.

For me it starts with a simple idea: beer is not just a beverage, beer is art.

From its naming, to the label, to the brewing, to the bottling, hell, even the pour, every element of what takes a bag of barley and hops, some water and yeast, and brings it to your glass is about so much more than a factory line and a super-bowl advertisement.

Instead it’s about creativity, passion, determination and a love for brewing, drinking and more importantly sharing beer. When I look at a brand new bottle, I pop the cap like a baseball fan at opening day. I allow the sudsy gold, amber, nut-brown or blackas-night liquid to fill my glass, and I see the clouds of foam rise, fall, and breathe like a living rep-

resentation of its crafters. Each new beer is more than an experience; it is an adventure and a mystery. After all, who knows what that first sip will offer?

No two beers are the same, and every brew is a learning experience for its consumer.

However, my questionably alcoholic obsession with the heavenly hop and beloved barley beverage is more than a simple appreciation of art. I like art, but I love beer. So, why do I absolutely adore the almighty ale?

Because beer is not just about the

that it has the power to create.

When I think about Westvleteren 12, the so-called “best beer in the world,” I don’t think caramel, fig, raison, toffee and vanilla. I don’t even ponder the legendary monks of Brouwerij St. Sixtus who have been carefully crafting the holy grail of beers for ages.

Instead, I think about that threehour walk through the beautiful streets of Stockholm with my uncle, desperately searching for any bottle we could get our hands on.

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look, feel, smell, or taste of that perfect pint, and it’s certainly not just about getting a little too tipsy: Beer is about people.

Beer is about the memories

Kentucky Breakfast Stout, I don’t think buttery bourbon, coffee and dark chocolate malts, I instead remember my dad calling me at 8 a.m. to tell me that he was

waiting in front of the liquor store with my mom and grandparents to smuggle out as many bottles possible in consideration of that strict “one per customer” rule.

When I think about Bells Two Hearted Ale, I don’t think about those fresh citrus hops, I think about meeting a girl that has so much in common with me that it’s almost hard to believe. I recall that sunburnt summer day in August, splitting a pitcher at the terrace while thinking that this will likely become a new senior year tradition. Seriously, I don’t think I’ll be capable of ordering that beer without invoking a subtle recollecting smile for a long, long time.

This is why I LOVE craft beer, because each ale carries a web of memories, experiences and people that hold more value than any little bottle ever could in itself. For this reason, I insist that the passion for beer ought not only to be experienced but shared. By expressing my fascination with the barley beverage to those around me, I have convinced my family and countless friends to appreciate the world of bold, bubbly brews, and I hope if you’re reading this you will too. Because honestly craft beer brings people together, and there are few things in this world more important than that.

Have questions, comments or suggestions for Niko? E-mail him at ivanovic@wisc.edu.

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By Kristen Tracy The Daily Cardinal

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Former Associated Students of Madison Constitution Committee Chair Sam Seering introduces the new constitution Wednesday.

Student government heard legislation proposing a new Associated Students of Madison constitution at a meeting Wednesday night that calls for a complete restructure of the current student government institution.

The proposed constitution would establish four different branches of ASM, which include the executive, legislative, judicial and appropriations branches.

These would replace the institution’s three current branches: Student Council, Student Services Finance Committee and Student Judiciary.

Former ASM Constitution Committee Chair Sam Seering, who proposed the new constitution at the meeting, said that while the judiciary branch would remain similar to its current form, changes to the other branches would significantly improve ASM operations.

Currently, Student Council is responsible for both student

outreach and legislative affairs.

The new governmental structure would split these responsibilities between the legislative and executive branches, which would “create a more efficient organization,” according to Seering.

“Structure is where ASM has consistently failed year in and year out.”

Matt Manes former chair Student Services Finance Committee

“You would have the internal structure being debated in the [legislative branch] and the peer executive branch working on external relations and really trying to connect with students to make sure that ASM is relevant and working on issues that students want them to,” Seering said.

Former SSFC Chair Matt Manes spoke in support of a new

ASM constitution in open forum.

“Structure is where ASM has consistently failed year in and year out,” Manes said.

“And that is because structurally [it is] set up to fail. [ASM] may have the greatest leadership, and [it] may all work together fantastically, but [its] success will be hammered by [it] structure.”

The legislation calls for Student Council to approve the placement of the constitution on the ASM Fall 2012 ballot, making the document subject to a student vote.

ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky said the resolution must receive at least 2/3 votes in two consecutive Student Council meetings to be placed on the fall election ballot.

Also during the meeting, members paid tribute to recently deceased UW-Madison student John “Vietnam” Nguyen by watching a YouTube video of his song “If a Minute Would Reverse.”

Nguyen apparently drowned in Lake Mendota Aug. 30.

Commission hears proposal for new student apartments

By Meghan Chua The Daily Cardinal

The balance between historic buildings and new projects in downtown Madison came under discussion Wednesday night when city officials heard a proposal for a new studentoriented apartment complex slated for construction where three historic buildings currently stand.

Two buildings on North Henry Street as well as a building on Iota Court would be demolished to create space for a new, eight-story apartment complex catered to students.

According to Timothy Parks, a planner with the Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development, those three structures are historical.

“The new design of the project has to be exemplary … in order to support the removal of [the buildings],” Parks said.

The plan also includes a pedestrian walkway near the proposed apartment complex as well as a complete remodeling and an addition of two stories to the apartment building at 140 Iota Court.

Parks expressed concern about improving fire department access to buildings in the area under the proposal, which is still at an early stage. He said the proposed plan could improve on emergency vehicle access both to the new building and nearby structures on Langdon Street.

Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said emergency vehicle access in that area is currently an issue due to poor road availability leading to those buildings.

She said the benefits of a project that can construct a more accessible road and improve safety for the property and adjacent buildings outweigh the cost

of losing “older” structures.

However, Maniaci also said residents “really appreciate that older characteristic to the neighborhood.”

Earlier this year, a similar debate over replacing historical buildings with new structures centered on State Street redevelopments when city officials weighed preserving historically significant buildings on

the 100 block against replacing them with commercial and office spaces.

The city ultimately approved the Block 100 Foundation’s proposal after a compromise between the city and project developers W. Jerome Frautschi and Pleasant Rowland that no longer included demolishing certain historic buildings.

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Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, supports the proposed construction, emphasizing fire department access to the area.

Vilas Zoo brings in three new animals Henry Vilas Zoo brought in three new animals, all native to Wisconsin, to join its facility after successfully rehabilitating them to health as part of its animal rescue efforts.

The zoo adopted an Eastern Screech Owlet that was orphaned and hand-rasied, rendering it unable to survive in the wilderness because it associates itself with people.

The zoo also took in an oppossum joey that was injured by wildlife, as well as a Ruby-

Throated Hummingbird that was unable to fly due to an injured wing.

“Our three new, rescued residents will increase the already tremendous diversity of our free zoo,” Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said in a statement.

According to zoo Director Ronda Schwetz, by telling these animal’s stories, the zoo is “fulfilling our mission to help educate our visitors to the issues facing wildlife and what our visitors can do to help.”

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New city budget proposal could mean police layoffs

By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal

At a press conference Wednesday regarding Madison’s 2013 capital budget, Mayor Paul Soglin discussed a request he made in July that all city department heads present an operating budget with a five percent reduction in spending.

The city’s annual operating budget manages Madison’s spending for the upcoming year, while the capital budget includes city expenses that will last for more than 10 years like ambulances, fire stations and major street construction.

For departments like Madison Police, a reduction in operating budget spending could mean cutting their city funding by $3,303,330 and would result in eliminating 30 police officer positions, 11 civilian positions and the crossing guard program, Madison Police Chief

Noble Wray said in a letter to the mayor and council members.

“A reduction of this magnitude ... would dramatically affect the manner in which we deliver police services here in Madison,” Wray said in the letter.

In addition, Soglin said that due to prior commitments with other communities and the federal government, there is not space within the capital budget for his own priorities, which include strengthening community and neighborhood centers, partnering with school districts and creating a public market, which is similar to a farmer’s market.

“For those who are looking for this budget to reflect my own priorities, I’m sad to say that’s minimal because we don’t have a lot of flexibility given the inherited level of debt service,” Soglin said.

The idea of a public market in Madison would provide fresh,

local food, and would improve the local economy, according to Soglin.

“A reduction of this magnitude ... would dramatically affect the manner in which we deliver police services.”

Noble Wray chief Madison Police Department

“A public market that focuses on access to quality fresh food not only provides a health benefit to a community, but it also provides some economic savings,” Soglin said. “It provides an opportunity to grow locally owned and controlled businesses.”

Madison’s Common Council will vote on both the capital and operating budget together in November.

Police arrest drunk driver in parking ramp A drunk driver was unable to exit the State Street Campus Parking Garage on North Frances Street early Wednesday morning due to his high level of intoxication.

Police arrested 26-year-old Jorge Rojas on his fourth drunk driving offense with a .21 blood alcohol content, according to a police report.

The report said a private security guard found Rojas and his unnamed 33-year old passenger passed out inside a car at 1:40 a.m. Wednesday. The vehicle was playing loud music and contained empty beer bottles and cups which smelled like mixed drinks.

The guard woke up Rojas after trying for about 10 minutes

and offered to call a cab for the men, according to the report.

Despite saying a cab ride home was “fair,” according to police, Rojas later began driving through the ramp.

However, the report says, “he appeared not to be able to figure out how to use a credit card to … actually get out of the ramp.”

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Associated Students of Madison Chair Andrew Bulovsky signed a document initiating possible legal action against UW System officials Wednesday.

notice from page 1 impossible to tell, he does not predict that negotiations will resolve the issue.

“There have been attempts before to try to work out better working relations between the university and the students,” Hazelbaker said. “But honestly, in terms of real relief, we can’t very well count on it because they just haven’t proven to be very amenable to recognizing the role that students have in this fee setting process over the years.”

UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell

Bazzell said ASM did not notify administration of its plans to pursue a Notice of Claim, but administration is willing to talk with students regarding the issue.

“If they want to sit down and talk, I think the chancellor’s always been open to that, has always engaged them when they’ve wanted to,” Bazzell said. “Obviously he’s not given them the answer they want in the budget but the communication has always been there.”

Hazelbaker said Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen will evaluate the claim in the coming days and then send it to university administration.

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he first “Darksiders” utilized elements from several classic franchises to create a hybrid title that combined the fast-paced combat of “God of War” and puzzleladen dungeons in the vein of “The Legend of Zelda.”

While some cried foul over the obvious homage to these classic franchises, the end result was a successful union of vastly different concepts. It is apparent in “Darksiders II” that Vigil Games is far more confident in their franchise this time around.

Numerous nods are still fairly overt, with Zelda-like tones to signal a solved puzzle or gruesome finishers that would make Kratos proud, but “Darksiders II” expands far beyond the franchises that inspired the first title.

With the addition of expansive loot options and a plethora of dungeons to explore, Vigil Games has crafted a greatly expanded sequel marred only by technical issues and some uninspired design that made me miss the comfortable formula of its predecessor.

Although both the combat and loot systems are impressive, the dungeon design is still the focal point of “Darksiders II.”

In a twist hinted at by the ending of “Darksiders,” players control War’s brother Death during the 100 year imprisonment of War that precedes the main events of the original game. In an attempt to prove his brother’s innocence, Death sets out in search of the Tree of Life, the key to restoring humanity and freeing War. He discovers during his jour-

ney that Corruption (a character in the game) has spread across a multitude of worlds and threatens their very existence.

Death’s trek takes him to varied hub worlds that range f r o m colorful forested areas to dreary environm e n t s ruled by the dead.

Each of these locales serve as individual hubs where Death can talk with NPCs and acquire quests.

Quests are plentiful with collectionbased s i d e quests to fulls c a l e du n ge o n s that complement the behemoths making up the main storyline.

The story is only mildly engaging and provides a satisfying enough payoff, but the combat, piles of loot and innovative dungeon design are by far the most impressive elements. Expanding on the simplistic upgrade system of the previous game, “Darksiders II” features a diverse system of loot drops that keeps players invested beyond the game’s finale.

Defeated bosses and enemies shower loot upon defeat. I recommend players enable an autoloot system to easily gather items and then sift through them via the in-game menu system.

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vide stat boosts as well as cosmetic enhancements.

Although the button-mashing that grew stale in the first title works, the loot system has greatly improved the game’s combat system.

Players collect a myriad of secondary weapons that diversify battles. Heavy w e a p o n s provide powerful finishers and faster Graphic by Dylan MOriarty armblades or bucklers create rapid kills when used in tandem with addictively scouring for the scythes. superior items to upgrade my Players can also unlock character. Vigil smartly added wrath abilities via an extensive a new-game plus option that skill tree. Two separate sides allows players to run through provide Death with abilities the game again with all their ranging from ghoulish minabilities and items intact as ions, a defensive or strength they search for objects to pro- boost, and a sweeping attack

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that affects all enemies within the immediate vicinity.

Although both the combat and loot systems are impressive, the dungeon design is still the focal point of “Darksiders II.” With far more dungeons to explore this time, the puzzles hold up surprisingly well considering the level of content. However, as a result of this expansion, the game gets away from the traditional Zelda approach of a specific item collected and utilized for each dungeon I adored so greatly in the first game.

The early dungeons tend to rely solely on Death’s platforming skills and inherent abilities.

As a result, the initial stages do not quite provide as inventive puzzles as later dungeons. As the game progresses and Death acquires more varied items I found myself wildly impressed with the creativity of the puzzle solutions but couldn’t help wishing they had been able to instill this level of quality throughout the adventure.

Despite a two-month delay, technical issues still rear their ugly head from time to time.

Some objects and textures don’t load in and at one point the game itself broke and I was unable to attack any enemies.

However, these issues are fairly minor compared to the scope and overall quality of a game the size of “Darksiders II.” I love that Vigil was able to switch protagonists yet expand beyond simply a palette swap.

Death is far more mobile and platforming is accentuated throughout the game. The character change along with every other addition in this impressive sequel has me even more excited for future titles in what has quickly become one of my favorite franchises in gaming.

Grade: B+ Adam will be writing and reviewing video games for us every week! Send your gaming questions and most-anticipated new releases to him at arparis@wisc.edu.

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Can you tell which is which? The long-time practice of making movies using real film is about to go extinct as it shifts to a more digital realm. Christopher Nolan uses a mixture of Imax cameras and film in “The Dark Knight Rises,” (left) while Paul Thomas Anderson sticks solely to an ancient medium in “The Master” (right).

Ethan Safran guest film columnist

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sk anyone about their experiences in a movie theater and they are likely to tell you a few homogenous things. Namely, it is pretty difficult, even with the slightest amount of movie theater experiences, to not remember a warm, focused light beaming across the theater, the humming of a projector heard beyond the walls of the projectionist’s room or the occasional flickering of the image on the silvery screen.

These are all staples of the cherished moviegoing experience.

Yet, to a certain extent, film, as we all know it, may be coming to an end.

It may not be a short, quick end, but rather a long, drawnout and painful one, at least for the diehard moviegoers who embrace the medium and fear

what kind of damage digital filmmaking may inflict upon the culture of moviemaking.

As an advocate for the continuation of both filmmaking and projection in the traditional sense, I believe digital projection and filmmaking have their merits but are being rushed into the marketplace.

The arguments of film versus digital filmmaking, whether one realizes it or not, have materialized at a quickening pace throughout the past few years.

In 2009, cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle won an Academy Award for his cinematography on “Slumdog Millionaire,” a film, apart from being a significant critical and commercial success, shot almost entirely with digital cameras.

This summer, Christopher Nolan, director of blockbuster hit “The Dark Knight Rises,” shot portions of the film with Imax cameras and reiterated his belief in the limits of 3D and digital filmmaking.

And this fall, certain capable movie theaters throughout

the country will show director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” in 70 mm. Anderson shot the film with a 65 mm camera, a camera so large yet powerful it creates an incredibly high-resolution image.

[The death of film] may not be a short, quick end, but rather a long, drawnout and painful one.

In fact, a documentary released this year titled “Side

By Side” explores the arguments in the battles of film versus digital. The documentary, produced by actor Keanu Reeves, features interviews which such directors as Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher, as well as cinematographers.

Yet, as much as certain filmmakers and moviegoers may be against digital filmmaking,

some feel that digital projection is not necessarily a bad thing.

Fiscally, projecting a movie in film is expensive, as it costs nearly $1,500 to print and ship a single copy of a 35 mm movie to a movie theater for exhibition. Compared to a digital copy which costs only $150, digital copies can save distributors lots of dollars.

However, if parts of a digital projector break, it can become quite expensive to replace the bits and pieces. A broken bulb in a digital projector can easily break other parts within the projector and put a hefty price tag on the repair process.

By next year, the vast majority of movie theatres throughout the country will be forced to convert to digital projection.

You can be certain that some independent art house theaters or other small theater chains may try and hold out for as long as possible, but it may boil down to a question of when, not if, movie theaters must convert to digital projection. Not converting may result in theaters

shutting down completely.

A popular pro-film argument tossed around concerns the idea of film being “organic.”

Like a number of things in this digital age, some consider digital objects to be plasticy and lifeless. This includes the digital aspects of filmmaking and medium itself. When shooting something on a digital format, one can look at a monitor to see immediately what one has shot.

This does not occur with film, as film forces the filmmakers to create images without exactly knowing what kind of coverage they are getting.

Some people may say, “Who cares? It’s a movie after all.

You’re still watching a movie either way.” Yet, until the technology catches up, there is no denying that watching a movie shot and projected on film offers a richer moviegoing experience.

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Jaime Brackeen opinion columnist

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ust in time for day one of last week’s Republican National Convention, the Obama administration announced its finalized plans for fuel efficiency regulations on American car manufacturers.

The regulations push Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for new American-manufactured cars and trucks to operate at 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

At a time when gas prices sit around $4 at the pump, this initiative is far from punctual—it is long overdue.

Current regulations require manufacturers to create cars with fuel efficiencies of 28.5 miles per gallon between city and highway driving, and the next step towards fuel conservation will require vehicles to run at 35.5 mpg by 2016.

President Obama and his administration have worked with car manufacturers such as General Motors, Ford and Chrysler to arrive at a decision both the government and automakers find feasible, yet Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has called the plan “extreme,” saying Americans will not be willing to pay the increased price for the more efficient vehicles, while House Republicans threaten to dramatically reduce the requirements.

This bashing comes as no surprise considering this program will likely be lauded as one of the greatest accomplishments, both economically

and environmentally, for the Obama administration in his first term as president, which is not exactly good news for the Republican sect of which an overwhelming majority remains in denial about the increasingly worrying effects of global warming and greenhouse gas emissions.

However, I cannot say I disagree with Romney in calling the plan extreme, though I am looking at the term through a much rosier lens. Extreme situations often call for extreme solutions and Obama is not afraid to take them.

NPR reported “that more than 20,000 high temperature records have been broken this year,” and in particular, any Wisconsin natives sweating it out on their way to class over the past couple of days cannot deny these September temperatures are much higher than memory serves to recall. It is becoming harder and harder to push the dire situation of our environment on the back burner—this pot is boiling.

The new CAFE standards not only will save Americans around $3,000 over the lifespan of a car in gas money, if the plan can be upheld they will also cut ozone-damaging greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2025.

Environmental impact notwithstanding, the plan also has a couple other merits to offer Americans.

“These fuel standards represent the single most important step we’ve ever taken to reduce our dependence on foreign oil,” said President Obama in a White House press release.

The United States produces two percent of the world’s supply of oil to the 20 percent it consumes, according to New York Times writer and

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The graph above depicts the rising requirements cars and trucks must follow. By 2025 miles per gallon requirements will reach 54.5 mpg almost double current standards.

University of Chicago professor Richard H. Thaler. Relevant to this, the president’s fuel-efficiency regulations will “reduce U.S. oil consumption by 12 billion barrels,” the White House said in the aforementioned press release.

It is time for us to start thinking long-term when it comes to fixing the economy, the environment and our country as a whole.

Diminishing the necessity for foreign oil will not only make the U.S. a more autonomous country when it comes to energy consumption and production, it would also likely

reduce demand for these staggering imports, which would ultimately drive the market price of oil down, therefore making gas simultaneously cheaper and less of a staple in American consumption.

Because, let us be reasonable here, Obama is not the only one to blame (or really even one to blame at all) for gas prices fixing to knock the bell off the high striker—oil is a slave to the market and anyone who has taken Econ 101 can tell you increased demand for a product almost always drives prices up.

There have also been talks about increased tax breaks for those investing in fuel-efficient cars and trucks, offering yet another incentive to ease the burden of vehicle prices increasing by about $1,000 by 2016 (essentially the only qualm

Romney and his staff could come up with against the plan).

Regardless of tax breaks, the increased price of the vehicles is a modicum of money in the bank compared to the collective $1.7 trillion the government predicts Americans will save when fueling up.

It is time for us to start thinking long term when it comes to fixing the economy, the environment and our country as a whole.

President Obama and car manufacturers who have helped reach this agreement know Americans are ready to invest in these somewhat drastic measures, so let us now show our support for these fuel-efficient strides towards a cleaner and more economically independent tomorrow.

Jaime is a senior majoring in journalism. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Student organization creation process needs to be simpler Steven Nemcek opinion columnist

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hen I attended my Student Orientation and Registration (SOAR) session three years ago I was told the requirements to form a student organization on this campus were minimal. The University only demanded that the organization be composed of at least three students, and I don’t even remember hearing that an adviser was needed.

Because I have held “leadership” positions in two organizations, I can tell you first hand that the requirements to form and register an organization have expanded dramatically.

This is my complaint letter.

First, in order to form a new student organization, one must attend a workshop lead

by The Center for Leadership and Involvement. Normally I would have no problem attending an informative and productive leadership workshop.

However, this hour-long ses-

sion consisted of a presenter going through every possible link on the Wisconsin Involvement Network (WIN) website. In this day and age it is a rare individual who cannot navigate through a website.

Spending an hour watching the presenter slowly and meticulously click on dozens of side bar links on her I-Pad was not my idea of fun.

Not only is ASM a maze of bureaucratic red-tape, but their rules and regulations regarding funding are absurd.

Second, in order to be approved by the University, a comprehensive and lengthy constitution must be submitted. Our organization has had a constitution written for a number of years, and we successfully submitted that last year.

This year our registration was rejected because our twelvepage constitution didn’t have “language that states that all

decisions are made by students, officers in the organizations must be UW-Madison students, and information about your leadership selection process in general” in the format that the University needed. We hadn’t modified or changed our constitution from years prior, but constitution language requirements seem to have increased this year. It seems that by mandating that certain language be present in a constitution, the University is forcing the design of that constitution, which is overtly authoritarian.

Finally, perhaps the most obnoxious aspect of leading an organization is the application for and the receiving of funds through ASM. Not only is ASM a maze of bureaucratic red-tape, but their rules and regulations regarding funding are absurd. Their requirement that an organization must slap the ASM logo on any items purchased with funding is excessive. Their requirements about how money is to be spent on food are insane. Their grant application process and allocation of funding is without sense or order. Last year some

groups were given disproportionate amounts of money just because they were first in line for the grant process, leaving little for the rest of the UW student organizations.

I can tell you first hand that the requirements to form and register an organization have expanded dramatically.

The amount of time I spend preparing and applying to become a Registered Student Organization (RSO) and applying for funding will probably surpass the amount of time my organization convenes during the school year. This isn’t acceptable, and it is a far cry from the streamlined process described to me at SOAR. I hope that both ASM and The Center for Leadership and Involvement make an attempt to ease this process in the future.

Have you also had trouble starting a student organization on campus? Let Steven know by

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team didn’t really get a chance to get at until it had already Max been dealt a crushing blow.

Sternberg “We won but the adversity stern words struck this year a lot earlier than it had in previous years,” he 2012 opener at Camp UW senior running back Randall is in the books Montee Ball said. “Its an eyeand Wisconsin football opener for us.” remains undefeated. While Despite what on the surface it was only a five-point vic- looked like a lackluster perfortory over an FCS opponent, the mance for the two-time defendBadgers won nonetheless. ing Big Ten champions, the So although many will spend Badgers are by no means facing the next few days lamenting the prospect of a down year. what could have, to the naked Just think back to 2010. In eye, looked like a team destined what ultimately became a Rose for disaster, all we got to see on Bowl year, the Badgers struggled Saturday was a reality check. mightily out of the gates. After Wisconsin football is back. earning a tough opening win over Because lets be honest, last San Jose State, UW nearly lost season was a fluke. A fluke not (and by all accounts, deserved in the sense of it being an 11-win to lose) at home against Arizona campaign and a second con- State. They followed up that secutive Rose Bowl appearance, effort with a dismal performance but a fluke in the way in which as they opened conference play that success was achieved. with a loss in East Lansing.

From the Flash foropening snap ward just two of the 2011 cammonths and that paign, there was But at a school where suc- same team was a different vibe cess on the field is usually celebrating a Rose surrounding UW not pretty, an ugly start Bowl bid clinched and its football might be just what the on the Camp doctor ordered. program. Big Ten Randall turf. titles were always The reality is the goal but this that Wisconsin team seemed football, or very much capable of taking that Wisconsin athletics for that mata step further and running the ter, succeed by gritting it out on table toward a school-first BCS the field. title game.

They win not by making plays Perhaps that vibe was too destined for Sportscenter, but by strong, leaving the team just a being fundamentally sound and bit out of character in breaking remaining dead set on the task at from its trademark “1-0” mantra hand: getting a win. to focus on the prizes seemingly Last season was a fluke, a seawithin its grasp. son where the Rose Bowl seemed This year is a different story. almost a disappointment given But while Saturday’s 26-21 win the obvious potential the Badgers over Northern Iowa may have had to run the table. sounded the warning sirens Although it won’t be courtesy across Badger nation, it is by no of incessant blowout victories, means time to panic. not one thing that transpired on The lessons every team has Saturday would suggest that the to learn are learned through same potential doesn’t exist for adversity and after having to the 2012 campaign. deal with that adversity in the “From my point of view as a form of devastating losses last head coach and in my twisted season, the Badgers might have mind, it couldn’t have worked caught a break in being given out any better,” Bret Bielema told the chance to go through that reporters. “We’ll take these corsame hardship and come out of rections and we’ll move forward.” it unscathed.

Nothing that I or any writer “We get a lot more out of could say would persuade the this than we do out of a 42-0 masses that a 26-21 squeaker over blowout,” UW head coach Bret an FCS school is a good start for Bielema said. “You have to touch a team looking to book a third a hot stove once and once you straight trip to Pasadena. touch it, you don’t want to touch But at a school where sucit again.” cess on the field is generally not With a new quarterback pretty, an ugly start might be just at the helm, six new assistant what the doctor ordered. coaches on the sidelines and Do you think the Badgers ugly a new group of contributors start was exactly what they needed? across the board, the Badgers Will they rebound next week, or will now get to spend a week ana- they continue to struggle? Let Max lyzing a game full of teaching know what you think at msterberg@ moments, something last year’s wisc.edu

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The No. 15 Wisconsin women’s soccer team is hoping to continue their early success and push their way towards the top of the Big Ten standings this fall.

Catching up with Wisconsin’s two other fútbol teams Both Wisconsin men’s and women’s soccer teams are looking to shake things up on the national scene and in the Big Ten conference this fall.

By Vince Huth The Daily Cardinal

Women Simply put, the No. 15 Wisconsin women’s soccer team (4-1-0 overall) is an earlyseason favorite to win the Big Ten conference this year.

The Badgers are one of just two Big Ten teams currently ranked, along with No. 7 Penn State, whom Wisconsin will play at University Park in Pennsylvania in the Big Ten opener.

The September 16th date will be the only regular season matchup between the two teams.

Wisconsin opened its season sweeping a three-game home stand, knocking down—and shutting out, at that—Notre Dame, South Dakota State and Loyola Chicago.

Senior goalkeeper Lauren Gunderson recorded nine saves over the stretch, including a season-high seven in a 1-0 win over the Fighting Irish.

The Badgers outscored their three opponents by a combined score of 10-0, and senior goalkeeper Olivia Hoff also recorded two saves in 60 minutes of action.

Wisconsin shared the load offensively, as not one player scored more than once in any of the three games.

No. 2 UCLA put out the flames to Wisconsin’s hot start, outshooting

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the Badgers 16-6 en route to a 2-0 victory in Los Angeles in late August.

The game was scoreless until the 77th minute, when Bruins sophomore forward Rosie White converted a cross from

sophomore Caprice Dydasco.

The Badgers bounced back later on the road trip with a 4-2 win over Loyola Maramount despite being outshot by the Lions 12-9.

SImply put, the No. 15 Wisconsin women’s soccer team is an early-season favorite to win the conference.

The Badgers will be in action at home this weekend at the McClimon Soccer Complex, where they will host Illinois State (3-1-2 overall) Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Men Its record through three games is the clear-cut definition of average, but the Wisconsin men’s soccer team (1-1-1 overall) has shown promise this fall.

The Badgers opened their season on the road at Memphis, where they took down the Tigers 4-3 in dramatic fashion.

Trailing 2-0 at halftime, Wisconsin used a 4-1 scoring outburst in the second half to come away with the win.

The game’s first score didn’t come until the 76th minute, when freshman midfielder Drew Conner found the back of the net off a pass from sophomore defender AJ Cochran. Junior forward Chris Prince tied the game just two minutes later, and redshirt junior midfielder Derek Pitts capped a furious scoring barrage in the 84th minute to give the Badgers the lead.

Howe ve r, Me m p h i s answered just one minute later, tying the game with five minutes to play. In a second half filled with scoring, it was only fitting five minutes would be ample time for one side to net the game-winner.

Sophomore midfielder Jide Oluyedun did just that for the Badgers as he converted on a

pass from junior midfielder Joey Tennyson in the game’s 89th minute.

The game’s combined seven goals would equal the output of Wisconsin’s next two contests.

The Badgers opened the Nike Portland Invitational squaring off against now-No. 21 Washington. The Huskies notched an early goal in both halves, but Wisconsin matched each score.

Despite outshooting its opponent 10-7, the Badgers could not respond to Washington senior defender Dylan Tucker-Gangnes’ goahead goal in the 72nd minute.

The Huskies ended up coming out on top in the battle of UW schools, 3-2.

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In a match against host team Portland, Wisconsin ended a scoreless game late in the second half off Prince’s penalty kick goal. However Portland senior forward Ricardo Carrillo netted an 85th-minute goal, and the match ended in a 1-1 draw.

Wisconsin’s season—filled so far with a second half comeback, a competitive match against a top-25 team and a draw on the road—will return to Madison this weekend.

The Badgers return to Madison to open their home slate against Florida International (3-0-0 overall) Friday at 7 p.m. and No. 13 Georgetown (4-0-0 overall) at 12 p.m. Each one of these matches will be held at UW’s McClimon Soccer Complex.

UWBadgers.com contributed to this report.

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Badgers turn to underclassmen for help on the outside Young receivers Fredrick and Doe have stepped into leading roles behind starter Jared Abbrederis.

By Parker Gabriel The Daily cardinal

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Bret Bielema and his team will have to get over mental mistakes and defensive lapses if they want to win a second consecutive Big Ten title and make a return trip to the Rose Bowl.

Peaks and valleys fill Badgers’ first victory Parker Gabriel parks and rec

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top me if you’ve heard this at some point during the week, but the Badger football squad didn’t exactly turn in a Picasso on Saturday against Northern Iowa.

It has been well documented and much-talked about on campus and yeah, a Football Championship Subdivision team had the ball and a chance to take the lead in Camp Randall in the final three minutes.

However, without at least another game, and really, probably several more, it’s difficult to pin exactly what a 26-21 squeaker means for UW’s fortunes this year.

No team can really be accurately judged on 60 minutes, though we can usually take some cues.

With a few days to digest last week’s win and as the team gets fully into its preparation for Saturday’s road game against Pac-12 opponent Oregon State, here are a few things that have struck me as interesting.

History lessons

More than the five-point difference Saturday, the Badgers’ point total of 26 was obviously a surprise.

While Wisconsin extended its winning streak against regular season, non-conference opponents to 33, it also scored the school’s fewest number of points since the 2011 Rose Bowl against Texas Christian (a 21-19 loss).

The Badgers had not scored fewer than 30 points in Madison since beating Arizona State 20-19 on Sept. 18, 2010 and averaged 54.5 points in the 12 home games between that day and Saturday.

In 2011, a 35-0 win over Oregon State was the low-mark for the offense in the first six weeks. Fast starts, like conference championships and trips to Pasadena, have become the

expectation by Wisconsin fans.

That’s fine. High expectations are great. But they’re also just that. Is it realistic to assume the Badgers will score more than 26 points against Northern Iowa? Sure.

But it probably isn’t wise to assume the Badgers will waltz over every non-conference opponent forever, no matter how soft the schedule is.

In 2010, the Badgers beat San Jose State 27-14 and squeaked by Arizona State the next week. They went to the Rose Bowl that year.

Yes, San Jose State plays in the Western Athletic Conference and ASU in the Pac-12, but I’m not sure Saturday’s game is as dire as something like the 36-35 overtime win against Cal Poly in 2008.

First of all, that game was late in the season. In addition, UW let UNI back in the game with a couple breakdowns in the second half. They were chasing Cal Poly the whole game in 2008 and needed three missed extra points to get by.

Questions still lingering

That’s not to say there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Mental errors and coverage breakdowns led to the two long touchdown passes in the fourth quarter Saturday.

Big-play vulnerability doomed UW in all three of its losses a season ago. The Badgers can’t afford to miss key tackles like the one first-year starting free safety Dez Southward missed on the Panthers’ 55-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter.

The offense will have to be more consistent. Head coach Bret Bielema admitted after the game that star senior running back Montee Ball faced no live tackling all of camp.

In 32 carries, he looked a half step slow at times. Tuesday after practice, he willingly acknowledged he was, “rusty” and said this week he felt back to normal.

If he backs that up Saturday, UW will find itself in far fewer

long yardage situations on second and third down.

As an aside, it was pointed out by a reporter Tuesday that 151 total yards being considered a sub-par performance gives some insight to the expectations for Ball this year.

Bright spots

As the season moves ahead, it will be interesting to see if the young corps of wide receivers can continue to produce.

Against UNI, the unit combined for 11 catches, 144 yards and two touchdowns. Redshirt junior Jared Abbrederis, redshirt freshman Jordan Fredrick and sophomore Kenzel Doe each had big catches and wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni said he was impressed with how his young receivers handled themselves.

After an inconsistent camp, if the group continues to grow, defenses will have to respect the passing game more than UNI did Saturday.

It will also be interesting to see how the Badgers’ pass rush develops. Redshirt junior Chris Borland is a force coming off the edge in the nickel and the front four got a couple of pressure in key situations.

Through spring practice and fall camp, wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni consistently acknowledged he had a group that lacked experience beyond redshirt junior Jared Abbrederis.

Players like redshirt junior Jeff Duckworth and redshirt sophomore Chase Hammond have been in the program for multiple years, but Hammond does not have a career reception.

Duckworth caught 15 passes for 230 yards and a score in 2011, highlighted by a 36-yard reception on fourth down against Michigan State in the Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis.

Saturday, Azzanni went young around Abbrederis, and the results were positive. As a unit, wide receivers caught 11 passes from junior quarterback Danny O’Brien for 144 yards and two touchdowns.

Abbrederis registered both scores, one on a corner route in the red zone and the other after he got deep behind the secondary on a post pattern for a 53-yard touchdown.

The two scores give the former walk-on—he was awarded a scholarship prior to this season—13 for his career, good for No. 10 all time at Wisconsin.

“He’s a short kid from Wisconsin that wasn’t recruited,” Azzanni said of Abbrederis when asked how the Wautoma, Wis. native continues to fly somewhat under the radar.

“He’s not your prototypical 6’4, 210 lb. guy that was recruited by everybody in the country and people just don’t want to accept that he’s a really good player.”

“He’s one of the best in the country,” Azzanni said. “He’s one of the best in the conference and in the country.”

Redshirt freshman Jordan Fredrick recorded his first two

career receptions for 31 yards.

Sophomore Kenzel Doe caught three passes for 21 yards, including two third-down catches on underneath routes that moved the chains.

Doe, listed generously at 5’8 and 170 lbs., showed a willingness to go over the middle, where linebackers live and where some receivers get gun-shy about catching the ball.

“If they want me to go over the middle I’m going to have to do it to be successful,” Doe said Tuesday. “I can’t just shy away from it or be scared.”

With three catches, Doe surpassed his production from 2011 (two catches for four yards) despite playing just nine snaps Saturday.

“He knows that’s his deal, that he can maneuver his way thorugh there,” said Azzanni, who was the offensive coordinator at Western Kentucky in 2011 and coached for Urban Meyer at Florida before that.

“I was proud of him to come out and have a really good game. He deserves it.”

Abbrederis is the top returning receiver in the conference and is a consistent threat. With a loaded backfield that will get plenty of work (47 carries Saturday) and talented group of tight ends, UW should have more big play ability than it showed Saturday.

How much the wide receivers past Abbrederis are a part of that is yet to be determined, but the young group showed promise against Northern Iowa—though the Panthers often played one deep safety to help stop the Badgers’ ground game.

For Azzanni, building trust between O’Brien and his group is the key.

“I don’t care if it’s four catches if we get four thrown to us,” he said.

“Whatever’s thrown to us, we have to make. We did that Saturday, so I was pleased with that.”

Going forward

Your outlook probably depends on whether or not you believe Bielema when he said a hard-fought win was “the best thing that could have happened to us.”

If corrections are made and preparation is better—junior center Travis Frederick and Ball both said they thought that would be the case, Tuesday—then maybe a trip to Oregon State will start to show UW’s true colors.

Maybe a lack of focus and just-a-bit-off preparation are the team’s true colors. I would have been more likely to believe that in 2009 than I am now.

Time will tell.

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Junior Jared Abbrederis heads a young group of Badger wide receivers who are looking to gain experience this fall.