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Students criticize bus route detours, changes

By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal

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Students virtually dance the night away at College Library and enjoy a number of other activities including fortune telling, video games, food and more.

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Student nominees talk UW chancellor search

By Cheyenne Langkamp The Daily Cardinal

The University of Wisconsin-Madison students chosen to help appoint the next UW-Madison chancellor said Thursday they plan to represent and involve all students throughout the process of selecting a new campus leader.

UW-Madison junior Cody Ostenson and graduate and professional student Jason Chiang were appointed to the Chancellor Search and Screen Committee by the Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Committee Wednesday.

According to Shared Gov. Committee Chair Sam Seering, the committeee selected Ostenson and Chiang for the positions based on the idea that both would represent different student viewpoints.

“We were looking for students who could represent a broad swath of students on this campus,” Seering said.

Ostenson, a former ASM Student Council representative, said he hopes to represent undergraduate opinion and would like to find an individual who embodies the Wisconsin Idea to serve as the university’s next figurehead.

“I’m looking to find a leader who is very passionate about education and wanting to give that back to future generations of students and wanting to give back the benefits of education to broader society,” Ostenson said.

Chiang said he applied for the position because he wants the graduate and professional schools to be represented throughout the process, particularly in terms of university research.

“This idea that you’re combining basic and applied research with the business potential of the entire state is something that I think is really unique to this university and something that mutually benefits both the school and the state,” Chiang said. “And this is a tradition that I really want to see continued through the efforts of our next chancellor.”

Ostenson said he hopes to work with Chiang to reach out and get all students involved in the process of choosing “where we want to go as a student body and what kind of a leader we want to take over.”

The UW System Board of Regents will approve the official appointment of the chancellor by summer of 2013 when current Chancellor David Ward’s interim appointment ends.

GE grant will aid UW medical research The University of WisconsinMadison School of Medicine received a $32.9 million grant Thursday to begin a 10-year collaborative project that will create a new imaging facility in the Wisconsin Institutes of Medical Research.

The UW-Madison School

of Medicine will collaborate with Public Health, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and General Electric Healthcare on the project, which marks a 30-year-long partnership between UW-Madison and GE. Under the grant,

UW-Madison medical researchers will work with GE Healthcare to tailor imaging technologies to improve patient diagnosis.

“What GE does is it provides us with a scanner, which you can

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With fewer routes and longer wait times, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students said changes to campus bus routes are “inconvenient.”

As of Aug. 26, routes 80, 81 and 85 changed due to a budget deficit of $1 million and campus area construction, specifically near the Memorial Union, according to UW-Madison Transportation Services.

Student Services Finance Committee Vice Chair Joe Vanden Avond said eliminating route 85 and merging it with the “super” route 80 is the biggest change.

The new route runs on Dayton and Lake Streets instead of Charter Street and Observatory Drive, with stops closed at the Memorial Union and near the Van Hise building.

UW-Madison sophomore Austin Ciccati said it takes him much longer to get to his classes in buildings along Observatory Drive from his dorm at Dejope Hall.

“I have a lot of classes in the Social Sciences building, so it definitely takes me a lot longer,” Ciccati said.

It is nearly a 20-minute walk from Dejope Hall to the humanities building and a 15 to 20 minute bus ride on route 80, which arrives

about every six minutes, according to Google Maps.

Other changes include a decrease in the late-night route 81 arrival time from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.

Metro Transit Marketing & Customer Service Manger Mick Rusch said the increased wait time is permanent, but the altered 81 route will return to its original path on Linden and Observatory Drive when Memorial Union construction is completed.

Walking across campus from Gorham Street to Dejope Hall takes about 30 minutes, and 15 minutes by bus, according to Google Maps.

With the doubled 30 minute wait time, it may take approximately the same time to walk.

UW-Madison sophomore Jacob Berchem, who also lives in Dejope Hall, said he noticed the longer wait time traveling across campus. “[Using the buses] was absolutely easier last year,” Berchem said.

While second year students such as Berchem and Ciccati say they miss the old routes, UW-Madison freshman Natalie Loranger said she has had a positive Metro bus experience. “[The buses] have been really convenient,” Loranger said.

“They always go right where I need to go.”

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UW Transportation Services and Metro Transit changed Routes 80, 81 and 85 due to budget cuts and construction.

Actor Kal Penn to speak at Mem. Union Actor Kal Penn, made famous for his roles in “Harold and Kumar” and “House”, has always balanced his entertainment career with an interest in politics. Friday, he is taking his act to Memorial Union Terrace to campaign for President Barack Obama.

While most people know Penn for his acting, he was heavily involved in Obama’s successful

2008 campaign and accepted an Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement position in 2009. This election cycle, he was named a co-chair for Obama’s reelection campaign.

The event, hosted by the UW-Madison chapter of Young Americans for Obama, begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Old Madison room at Memorial Union.

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U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was way faster than everyone he beat in the Ironman Classic in Madison last week. He intends to take his health perspective to his candicacy as vice president.

Paul Ryan way better at athletics than you

By Dr. Yams McYummy, M.D. fake news friday

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the current Republican vicepresidential nominee, said he placed 30th in Madison’s Ironman Classic Monday, finishing in nine hours, 43 minutes and two seconds. Ryan placed 354th, finishing in 11 hours, 28 minutes and 30 seconds, according to Ironman records.

Just minutes after passing the finish line, Ryan said to The Daily Cardinal he could not have finished so successfully without some help from his greatest inspirations.

“I wouldn’t have cracked into the top 30 without my own free will, the support from my wife Janna and all those who lost jobs at Janesville’s plant because of Obama,” he said. “But I really could not have done it without two people who

have shaped me into the person I strive to be every day, Ayn Rand and God.” In the swimming portion, which took him an hour and 26 minutes, he said the toughest part was navigating his canoe.

Then, Ryan’s five hour and 26 minute bike ride was marked with ease. He said he was proud of himself for “beating the personal bests of the ironpeople [he] was passing.”

His four hour and 12 minute marathon was relatively uneventful except for when he ran backwards for 15 minutes to “prove” he could do that, too.

Ryan’s Ironman success follows numerous other athletic accomplishments throughout 2012. He recently won three medals at the London Olympic Games, came in third at a Kuwaiti rifle shooting contest and earned the most money bet-

ting on I’ll Have Another at the Kentucky Derby.

Ryan, who has vowed to apply his can-do attitude to all things vice-presidential, confirmed Thursday he would aim to “eliminate Obamacare”, and would instead supplement it with required 40-minute periods of P90X for public school students each day starting in the 10th grade.

UPDATE: A recent study done by American Center for Healthy Politicians revealed Ryan to have abnormal amounts of iron in his bloodstream. He later admitted to “iron doping”, a phenomenon where participants in Ironman classics with self-esteem issues eat only egg yolks, mollusks, and lentils to increase the level of iron in their bloodstreams and prepare for the likely event that they will not win Ironman.

Occupy Gordon movement grows

By Dolores Landingham fake news friday

A mob of angry upperclassmen set up camp on the dilapidated bridge between Gordon and Witte Hall around dawn Thursday morning.

Members of the mob, now dubbing themselves as the Occupy Old Gordon Movement, said they are giving voice to a silent majority of upperclassmen who oppose recent university construction projects.

“We will be here until the university stops building fancy shit for freshmen,” said

Occupier Michelle Jackson, a junior. “Back in my day we had to risk breaking our faces as we tip-toed across that ice-covered concrete bridge if we wanted puppy chow at one in the morning.

That built character.”

The group said they hope the protest remains peaceful, but are ready to fight if need be. According to Jackson, occupiers are armed with stolen dining hall silverware dated to 2010 and are prepared to defend against intruders of any sort.

Several former residents

from Witte 4A who said they feel “nostalgic” for the old Ed’s have also enthusiastically joined the movement.

“Look, brah, I just have this mad craving for Juston Stix,” said senior Spencer Morris. “Don’t judge.”

Morris held back tears as he recalled the first time he and his friends drunkenly vomited up cinnasticks in the Sellery 3B den.

Though their barricade has been growing slowly each day, their tangible goals, and steps towards accomplishing those, remain unclear and varied.

City officials confirmed Thursday that for the last two weeks, state Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, has not acted inappropriately around strangers’ children.

In July, Hulsey allegedly pushed a nine-year-old boy, with whom he was unrelated, off his flotation device at Spring Harbor Beach.

Following the incident, other Madison news organizations reported that various HULSEY area summer employees reported “feeling continously uncomfortable with Hulsey’s presence” at their respective areas of work. Other beachgoers then said he allegedly took “creepy” photos of random children.

But after an interdepartmental City of Madison investigation, city officials concluded that Hulsey abides by social rules, most of the time in a majority of city locations.

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He then affirmed “Hulsey has not been blatantly creepy for the last 15 days.”

Hulsey could not be reached for comment because his cell phone was off while he was watching the 1994 version of “The Little Rascals.”

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Biden, Ryan wrap up week of campaigning in Wisconsin As the November 6 election approaches, Vice President Joe Biden and Vice Presidential hopeful Paul Ryan campaigned in Wisconsin this week in an effort to drum up support among voters.

Ryan hosted his first town-hall -style meeting as a vice presidential candidate in Ashwaubenon Wednesday, while Biden addressed thousands of supporters at UW-Eau Claire during his second stop in Wisconsin this month. Experts consider Wisconsin among a handful of battleground states in the presidential election.

Biden discussed the Democrats’ education platform, college debt and entitlement programs. He

also attacked Republican plans for job creation, saying they would lead the country into a worse financial situation by hurting the middle class. In contrast, Biden said President Barack Obama’s job creation policies would lead the country forward.

According to video of the event, Biden said, “We know the way to create good jobs is the old fashioned way, from the middle out not the top down.”

During his speech, Ryan answered questions on topics ranging from the economy and jobs to individuals’ long-term financial security. He emphasized the importance of creating and passing a workable budget, as

well as returning to the country’s core principles.

“It’s not too late to get the country back on track by reclaiming those principles that built this country,” Ryan said in his speech, according to video footage. “[They] get America free and…get people hope.”

Both campaign stops reflect an increasing effort from both sides to win over voters in a state that is increasingly split. A Republican has not won Wisconsin since 1984, when the state went for Ronald Reagan. In the latest Marquette Law School Poll conducted in August, President Obama leads Mitt Romney 49 to 46 percent among Wisconsin voters.

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Association seeks student input for Mifflin Members of the Mifflin Neighborhood Association agreed Thursday that University of Wisconsin-Madison students and administration should play a bigger role in planning the 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party.

“The students should have some input,” association Chair Larry Warman said at a meeting. “Last year, students felt that Mayor Paul Soglin made some decisions without their input, and it may have caused some ill-will.”

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the chancellor and vice chancellor took a “laissez-faire attitude” toward last year’s block party. They also said UW-Madison administration

should be more involved with the event.

“They said they realize that their own students are major consumers of the party and that they pledge to take a more formal role,” Verveer said.

Police have not published an official report detailing statistics from last year’s event, according to Verveer.

At a neighborhood meeting after last year’s event, a police representative said police staff felt more threatened by students attending the party than they had in previous years, according to association member Rick Broughman.

Association member Peggy LeHahieu said the environ-

ment in Madison is different this year due to gang influences and increased violence in the downtown area, which could have negative implications on the 2013 event.

This past summer, a shooting occurred on the 500 block of University Avenue, injuring three people, and three suspects attacked UW-Madison Badgers’ senior running back Montee Ball.

Additionally, the association discussed new student apartments on the 300 block of Frances Street and the corner of Bassett and Dayton Streets.

Construction will begin early next year.

— Stephanie Castillo

UW Cycling Club helps return $7,500 in stolen bicycles The University of WisconsinMadison’s Cycling Club assisted in returning $7,500 of stolen bicycles Thursday.

Sunday, a Madison man and woman notified the police after discovering three of their bicycles were stolen from their garage on the 1300 block of Chandler Street, according to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain.

The victims also said their cars were broken into, according to the police statement.

Police said the bicycle owners contacted the UW-Madison Cycling Club asking them to keep an eye out for the three bikes, one valued at $3,500 and two valued at $2,000.

A club member said Thursday he saw someone almost run

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over the stolen bicycles in Lot 112, located on the 900 block of West Johnson Street, according to Despain.

DeSpain said the owner found all three bicycles unsecured in a nearby bike rack in the parking lot.

Police have not identified possible suspects, according to DeSpain.

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Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment members present their funding eligibility to the Student Service Finance Committee.

Student groups apply for eligibility Two student organizations applied for funding eligibility from the Student Services Finance Committee for the 201314 academic year Thursday.

Student Leadership Program, a student organization designed to train other student organizations in leadership and effective communication, said their group’s devotion to individually tailored workshops for each student organization makes SLP eligible for funding consideration.

Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment representatives spoke about their group’s peer-to-peer counseling and provision of a safe environment for victims of sexual assault, rape and stalking.

Matt Spence, a survivor of an abusive relationship and stalking, spoke about his experiences with PAVE in open forum and said he would not have been able to get over his feelings of guilt without the organization.

“I really enjoyed volunteering my time with [PAVE],” Spence said. “There is a lot of victim blaming in the media and by learning more about that I have become comfortable with my experiences. I didn’t tell anyone about them for years. And working with PAVE… I can feel comfortable being myself.”

According to SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker, an organization must undergo eligibility hearings every four years and demonstrate its ability to perform “direct services,” which are defined as educational services available and tailorable to any UW-Madison student’s needs, to receive funding from student segregated fees.

“We look for if what groups provide fits the direct service criteria and then we look to see if they spend most of their time on that,” Bruecker said.

SSFC will vote on both groups’ eligibility Monday.

— Sam Morgen

UW announces ‘Year of Innovation’ The University of WisconsinMadison will recognize its history of imagination and innovation this academic year by celebrating the “Year of Innovation,” focusing on three related themes throughout the year.

The first theme is rejuvenating the university’s processes in teaching, researching and operating, while the second aims to improve interactions between the campus and community. The third investigates the impact of UW-Madison innovation projects throughout the world.

“My hope is that the Year of Innovation will expand entrepreneurship, discovery and cre-

ativity in ways that will engage and benefit the entire campus and the broader community,” UW-Madison Chancellor Ward said in a statement.

UW-Madison created a committee comprised of various colleges, students, athletic departments and alumni associations to plan the program. The committee will continue to plan events throughout the year to highlight innovation at UW-Madison.

The “Year of Innovation” also incorporates the Go Big Read book, “Radioactive” by Lauren Redniss. The book focuses on the life and loves of Marie Curie, the noted scientist.

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ing technology improved by this program will have broad usage across medical fields and in nonmedical research. Grist believes UW-Hospital’s imaging technology is a factor in its high-rated patient care.

“One of the reasons why UW-Hospital is rated number one in Wisconsin and one of the top hospitals in the nation is the clear recognition that our imaging clinical care is the best in the world,” Grist said. “This is only going to enhance that more.”

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imagine as a huge iPad,” School of Medicine and Public Health Radiology Department Chair Dr. Thomas Grist said. “Our job is to develop apps for the MRI scanner to make it useful for doctors.”

Researchers will mostly work on modifying existing scanner software to be compatible with new medical applications, for example to make 3-dimensional images of the heart. The project will be reviewed annually to check its progress.

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arts Take a close Wook at this local band

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In addition to the normal stresses of student and “real world” life, the members of Madison jam/electronic band Wook balance an extended schedule of gigs and traveling, including their stint at the Majestic Theatre opening for Papadosio Friday.

Since settling into their current lineup approximately a year ago, they have been constantly working within the Midwest music scene. The start of their festival career happened by chance when guitarist and vocalist Jake Stottler met the promoter of the Grateful Garcia Gathering whilst on the Terrace. The festival is a small one held in middle Wisconsin, and is a “weird, hippie place,” according to the band.

“Someone had canceled the week before and we jumped on the chance to fill the slot,” bassist and laptop-operator Mike Kuerschner recalled. “From there we learned about other gigs through people and bands we’ve met. It’s tough in the beginning; a lot of emails and phone calls never get responses at that stage.”

Since two of Wook’s members are still students at UW-Madison and the other two have full-time jobs, the band must pack their summer schedule to the brim and strategically plan their school-year performances.

“We’ll play Thursday through Saturday night at the most with

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an errant weekday show here and there,” guitarist and vocalist Adam Lowe explained. “We wouldn’t string together a series of shows for a straight week.

It definitely works around the school schedule.”

For example, looking forward on the calendar, the band will play a Thursday night in Iowa, drive back and attend class or work on Friday and return to Iowa for a Friday night show. The secret to their multi-

tasking ability stems from several factors.

“We mostly use diligent driving and get in the car and go home as soon as the show is over,” Lowe said. “We do our fair share of partying in Madison but school has always been a blockage for doing things like that on the road.”

Kuerschner added, “It’s good to stay grounded and know that our education is important and we’re paying for it. You know,

doing that instead of being hungover in Iowa somewhere.”

As for musical influences, the band covers a full spectrum, particularly in the jam band realm. They describe their collective interests as a mutt of sorts: Dave Matthews Band, Lotus and Umphreys McGee layered with electronic and DJ interests, among many others.

The crowd for a Wook show fluctuates depending on the

time and place. At a particularly memorable Summer Camp set this past summer (the first slot on Friday morning), the band brought juice and donuts for their audience. On the flip side of the coin from buzzing festival sets, the band has played to nearly-empty rooms.

“We’ve played in Chicago to the sound guy and when he went out for a cigarette there was no one,” Kuerschner said.

“But we’re well aware that it doesn’t do any good to lose your cool over things like that.”

This lighthearted attitude helps Wook navigate the ups and downs of band life, and they consider themselves “serious about their music but not about themselves.”

“The more you take things with a smile, the easier it is to get through everything,” they said. “Plus we’re just a bunch of weird guys.”

As previously mentioned, Kuerschner, Lowe, Stottler and drummer Andrew Stark will open for Papadosio Friday at the Majestic Theatre.

“We’re excited because we love the Majestic as a venue,” Kuerschner said. “Also because we look up to Papadosio as a band. We’ve been really into their stuff lately.”

Wook will also be playing a fundraiser show with The Family Business for the American Lung Association on October 4 at the Majestic Theatre, for which tickets are now available. All the proceeds will go to charity.

Navigating ‘Rack City’: implications of Tyga’s new ventures Michael Penn ii pen(n) game stressful If you’re reading this column, you must possess an understanding of the glimmering piece of art that glows in the limelight of strip-clubs and oncampus apartments nationwide (and potentially worldwide). It is this minimalist megahit that involves money, a type of territory and how they flow in an effortless tangent of twerkable genius.

This piece of art is called “Rack City” by Tyga. And it is art, no matter how you define it or choose to exclude it like strip-club anthems have never existed.

This is not the first of its type and it will not be the last. Tyga, government name Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson, is not the first artist to dabble in multiple forms of entertainment. But Tyga (an acronym for “Thank You God, Always”) has delved even deeper into his persona to introduce another format of seedy exploitation to his repertoire: RackCityXXX.com. Yes. You can now fire knuckle children courtesy of the guy who made “Coconut Juice” as the protagonist. I bet you forgot that “Coconut Juice” existed. I

also know that you forgot he’s Travie McCoy’s cousin, but I digress.

The players are the usual suspect porn stars so sensitively dubbed “Rack City Bitches”. There’s “Rack City, Bitch” merchandising as well: T-shirts right now, but maybe he’ll bring snapbacks back? $99 a year gets you the plane ticket to Rack City and by then it’s too late: you’re enslaved to the familiarity of the DJ Mustard synth line and Tyga’s SAG card is still processing. Then the usual pornography fare occurs and you mute your computer so your House Fellow doesn’t hear since quiet hours started two hours ago.

Until we come to grips with the fact that we provide the market for this trade to continue, we have absolutely no right to be upset.

It’s not unique, but in some ways is, and I think Tyga will merely become another martyr for our sexual insecurities.

Thus, the blame game continues.

It only took the site’s initial 110-second trailer to cause my hidden internal feminist to overflow into a torrent of “What the fuck? Why, God? Is

this reality?” responses. I’ve swan-dived in the deep blue sea of faux-misogyny humor too many times to count in both public and private settings.

And in these settings, among men and women of varying social orientations, that damn “Rack City” art piece has been the proverbial red herring time and again. It’s dispensed as a meaningless sentence enhancer among the intelligent and tolerant. But I honestly wanted this to be a Funny or Die assault on our heartstrings. Or an Onion side joke. Or a rouge for Tyga’s upcoming Adult Video News Awards performance.

But, nah. This shit exists.

And it’s not the actual pornography or Tyga that caused my feelings; it’s our collective hypocrisy toward the topic and how it furthers the constant divide.

Porn and hip-hop intersect more frequently than many understand. Snoop Dogg (Lion omitted) won two Adult Video News awards in 2002 for his “Doggystyle” tape being a top seller with a top-notch soundtrack. You know who else has done so?

Everyone has, including IceT, Too $hort, Mystikal, Uncle Luke, DJ Yella, Kool Keith, the entire G-Unit and (no matter how much you don’t want to claim him) Brian Pumper. Even Kanye mentioned he’d want to

go for it, which would probably end up involving a phoenix, a Murcielago, an exotic sofa and John Legend’s eyebrows. This is nothing new, and Tyga’s marketing ploy is just as convenient as it is provocative. We already use “Rack City” as a conversational red herring, we already reinforce the context, and humans love sex. When has morality appeared in your subconscious when you go to Brazzers? Oh. It’s a golden ticket to the Chocolate Factory. Or Tyga’s mansion. Pick a door, chap. (Oh God, unintentional double entendre.)

I think Tyga will merely become another martyr for our sexual insecurities.

Thus, the blame game continues.

But here’s where the plot thickens/twerks harder: We can blame Tyga or Snoop or Pumper (#BlamePumper) for being practitioners of the sexist systems in place, but they are not the originators. And until we (consumers, thinkers, political figures, and sexual beings) come to grips with the fact that we provide the market for this trade to continue, we have absolutely no right to be upset. But can we ever stop? I

don’t know if we will ever come full circle with our insecurities.

Life is contradiction and we are the fallible condemned to our imperfections. We can write theories on sexism and misogyny by day, but we’re still hormonal, New Glarus-slurping scoundrels by 1:26 a.m. when the party hits its peak and The Weeknd hits another off-pitch note about snorting another line of coke.

They will write pieces on this. Feminists will condemn him for utilizing his star power in this conceptually-screwed industry.

Fanboys (and maybe fangirls) will defend RackCityXXX.com as its own think piece and champion Tyga for his strategy. And every confused, flawed, in-betweener hip-hop head will wander through this maze of human hypocrisy like we have been for centuries attempting to bring a better balance to the world through our own choices. I just hope you can take a few steps with me as we navigate these cities of racks aimlessly.

And if you choose to step with me, by all means… make it nasty.

Do you think Tyga takes too much heat for his new enterprise or do you think RackCityXXX.com is the root of all evil? Talk to Michael about these issues at mdpenn@ wisc.edu.

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LOVE THIS GIANT ACROSS 1 Org. for doctors 4 Overthrow plotters 9 “Li’l” guy of Dogpatch 14 Yule drink 15 The ___ of defeat 16 Hillary preceded her 17 Three clubs 20 Cream-filled cookie 21 Posh retailer 22 Spins the same yarn 26 Night time, poetically 27 “You never ___ it so good!”

30 Sitcom interruptions, sometimes 31 Cry of distress 33 Type of auto collision 35 Defeat an incumbent 37 Arm bone 38 Two clubs 42 It’s picked from a pocket 43 Rancher’s rope 44 Couple with sixteen arms?

47 At hand 48 Place of therapeutic waters 51 Make tracks on a mountainside

2 Reel companion 5 54 Supports a charity 56 Falter on your feet 59 Shopper’s reminder 60 Three clubs 65 More than fat 66 Place with an eagle’s-eye view 67 “A Nightmare on ___ Street” 68 Used hip boots 69 Cake segment 70 ___ of Galilee DOWN 1 Goat or rabbit wool 2 Secured 3 Metal lace ends 4 It may be called on account of rain 5 Earlier 6 “You stink!”

7 Egyptian symbol of enduring life 8 French high school 9 College fund-raising targets 10 Cause of ruination 11 Few words, figuratively 12 Miscalculate 13 Manta ___ (large fish) 18 Opponent 19 Rock groups?

23 Loretta of song 24 Be an unsuccessful gambler 25 Inflate with pride

8 First-rate 2 29 Modern means of ID 32 Jacob’s father-inlaw 34 Tear conduit 35 “Do ___ others ...”

36 Out of breath 38 Rifle’s recoil 39 Privileged 40 Goodbye, in Genoa 41 Kitten’s plaything 42 Article for “Alamos” 45 Victimized (with “upon”) 46 Smidgen 48 Subway station sights 49 Grinding tool used with a mortar 50 Breathing inhibitor 53 Car window decoration 55 Pie ___ mode 57 ‘What ___ can happen?’

58 Flightless South American bird 60 Respond to an ovation 61 Org. for attorneys 62 Make the effort 63 Move quickly 64 Suffix for “command” or “profit”

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Conventions, laughable but here to stay

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he political convention predates the Civil War, but since the presidential primary system was enacted it has lost most of its original political purpose. Conventions today serve as pep-rallies, filled with pageantry and rabble-rousing; their purpose now is energizing the base and gaining (positive) press coverage for their party and their candidate. Although there are unsavory aspects to the political convention, it is here to stay.

It can be easy to look down on the inflated rhetoric of the conventions, but they can also be very beneficial to the average citizen. They allow everyone to hear speakers that they might not have travelling through their state. Here in Wisconsin, we have the dubious privilege of being a swing state; both the Romney and Obama campaigns have brought speakers and events here to champion their cause. However, if you are a Democrat in Texas, or a Republican in Vermont, or anyone in Wyoming, chances are you don't have many opportunities to catch big-name speakers in your party

as they campaign. The nationally televised conventions give partisans a chance to check out speakers they would normally have no chance to hear. The conventions also allow rising stars to gain national attention. Marco Rubio's speech electrified the Republican crowd and would have been the largest story of the Rebulican National Convention if it wasn't for a wild-card guest speaker—more on him later.

Another large and laudable part of the conventions is the approval and publication of each party’s platform. Although the platforms always fall to the wayside when the time comes to navigate the political process, each platform gives a vision of an ideal America. Many voters use each candidate's party's platform as a major point in choosing a side, and for good reason.

The platforms show how the parties prioritize the many issues facing America, and how they would run the country if given unfettered control. The platforms also allow citizens to track how each party is changing. Those right-of-center might weaken or strengthen their

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National Conventions are generally useless, but they do allow for unknown speakers to gain a national stage and reach people who wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to listen. allegiance to the Republicans now that their platform includes supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage and a no-exceptions ban on abortion.

Correspondingly, those left-of-center might reconsider their vote after democrats omitted usage of the word "God" and a passage which declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel that were present in the 2008 platform. Curiously, both of those statements were reinserted last week after heavy scrutiny.

Given the multi-faceted approach to the conventions— there are many different speakers, and the media broadcasting forms a Greek chorus in their coverage—they can reveal what the American public cares deeply about amongst the multitude of disagreements between the parties. The results of this conven-

tion were far from surprising, the focus on the economy will only grow until the U.S. begins to approach full employment again.

Everything else that inflamed the media hasn't seemed to stick, they were merely flashes in the pan compared to the forest fire that is our national economy.

Finally, there are, and will always be, seemingly useless and distasteful elements to the conventions. Empty rhetoric and obvious pandering (Ann Romney proclaiming her love of women comes to mind) can come off as distasteful at best, or dishonest at worst. But that’s just how the game is played at conventions, it is best to just ignore it or laugh through it.

Clint Eastwood's speech at the RNC was possibly the weirdest 12 minutes of national TV

this year. Although he did blame Obama for the war in Afghanistan, the surreality of the entire speech totally overwhelmed the rhetoric.

Watching your own side’s convention can be fun and encouraging, but watching the other side’s is important and practically necessary. If every citizen were to watch the opposing side’s convention, the level of political animosity would certainly drop.

By watching the other side's speeches—empty promises and all—you can gain a real feeling for how and why people vote differently than you. In the end, it's an exercise in empathy, and thats something that both sides can agree on.

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Obama administration has plans for the Iranian threat Zac pestine opinion columnist

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few weeks back, I wrote an article pertaining to the threat of an Iranian nuclear program. Attempts to cripple the success of their program, which most world intelligences believe to be aimed at attaining nuclear weapons, have failed. If red lines are not drawn to deter the Iranian nuclear program, one of the most sinister governments in the world will possess arms that can destroy hundreds of millions of human lives worldwide. I also wrote that, although under no circumstances should Iran have these weapons, a Cold War is much more likely between the West and Iran than a nuclear one.

But that does not mean that red lines should not be drawn.

The Obama administration has something substantial brewing in the White House Situation Room regarding the Iranian threat.

In terms of American politics, I am a supporter of Barack Obama.

I am not anti-Republican, and I do not believe that all Republican

policies are misguided. However, I do believe that the Tea Party movement, which now maintains a stronghold on the conservative movement, is dangerous in many ways and is inherently contradictory to the idea of the American Dream for the American middle class. This column is not about American politics however, and the reason for my digression is to propagate the idea that Obama and his relationship with Israel, while certainly not always warm and amiable, is not on the brink of deterioration.

The Prime Minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, has spoken out many times to the global community, with his efforts especially directed towards the Obama administration, to establish thresholds that the Iranian nuclear development process cannot cross under any circumstances.

President Obama’s responses to Netanyahu’s objections have been nebulous at best, and this has seemingly caused a major rift in the relationship between these two democratic states.

The argument I would like to make is that what Obama likes to do more than anything else is leave others to guess what he is thinking or planning on doing.

Just because he will not explicitly state specific red lines that Iran cannot cross, or will not dole out mandates regarding their program, does not mean that his administration’s intelligence is not currently working behind the scenes to squander

Iran’s program if they do cross a non-publicized threshold.

Let us not forget that no one outside of his administration and the soldiers involved in the mission had any clue that we were on the verge of finding and taking out Osama Bin Laden.

Whether we like it or not, this Obama guy likes to be secretive.

While Obama and Netanyahu are surely not best friends, Netanyahu and his Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, are as buddy-buddy as they come. In terms of Israeli and world politics, Netanyahu and Obama often find themselves together with their backs against the wall, and they incessantly seek to substantiate each other’s controversial remarks. Until recently, many signs within the media pointed to a growing rift between Israel and the United States. Obama and the Netanyahu/Barak tandem seemed to be on very different wavelengths. But state-

ments made by Obama to the Jerusalem Post the other day are helping to assuage fears of a potential schism in the U.S.Israeli partnership.

One of the most sinister governments in the world will posses arms that can destroy hundreds of millions of human lives.

Regarding this coalition, Obama stated, “Do not forget that the United States is Israel’s main ally. We have intimate relationships in the intelligence field, and the U.S. is Israel’s most important supporter in the security field. The foundation of this relationship is a long-standing friendship and shared values between Israel and the American people.”

Israel knows that if it were to

attack Iran without multilateral support from the U.S. and others in the global community, it would allow itself to be exceedingly vulnerable to a vociferous attack from a plethora of potent neighboring countries.

There shouldn’t be doubt that President Obama is completely on board with the full safety and security of the Land of Israel.

Playing the waiting game is very hard, and also very unfair in these ominous times. But with over a year left until Iran will be able to successfully detonate the aforementioned armaments, we have to remain faithful to the belief that although they will not reveal their plans to the public, the Obama administration has something substantial brewing in the White House Situation Room regarding the Iranian threat.

Zac Pestine is a senior majoring in philosophy and communications.

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Senior outfielder/infielder Whitney Massey and the Wisconsin softball team begin their fall schedule with a double-header this Sunday in Madison.

Wisconsin softball team looks to begin another successful season earlier this week, there hasn’t been anything short of hard The Wisconsin softball work as Healy has challenged team kicks off the fall season her players by doing a lot of this Sunday in a double-header competition drills, including a against Kirkwood Community two-hour intense obstacle drill College at the Goodman Diamond that tested their physical and at 1 p.m and 3 p.m, respectively. mental strength.

Wisconsin comes into The lofty expectations are this year with high expecta- welcomed with the return of tions, coming off back-to-back all 10 players from last year’s 30-win seasons, including a squad in addition to eight new 34-win season a year ago which freshmen, who have impressed was one of the best seasons in Healy early on. the team’s history. Their sea“They’re catching on nicely son was cut short, however, but I think we have a great after failing to make the NCAA group of freshmen. They’re Tournament. very humble and Head coach Yvette excited to be playing Healy, in her third at Wisconsin,” Healy season with the prosaid. “There seems to gram, believes the be a real appreciation Number of 2012-’13 squad can for getting to wear returning players from turn the corner and the W on their jerseys last year’s compete for a Big Ten this weekend and 34-win squad title and beyond. we really like to sur“Right from the round ourselves with start, and we know it’s people like that.”

The number of a lofty goal, but the goal Of the 18 players in doubles by is to win the Big Ten the program, no player senior [title]. It’s something may be more important Whitney Massey in that hasn’t been done than senior infielder/ 2011, the most in softball before,” outfielder Whitney of any player Healy said. “It takes a Massey. Massey, an in the nation tremendous amount of all-Big Ten first team work, leadership and player in 2012, looks team-bonding but I to build upon her 2012 think that its the goal statistics, where she for every team at Wisconsin.” posted a .358 average includSince practice got underway ing team-best 22 doubles and

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36 RBIs. “She led the country in doubles last year and that is a big deal for her, the program and the university,” Healy said of her star player. “She’s a player that just keeps on getting better and I think she’s the answer of what we’re trying to make the program all about.”

“Right from the start, and we know it’s a lofty goal, but the goal is to win the Big Ten.” Yvette Healy head coach Wisconsin softball

Massey, who is climbing the Wisconsin softball career rankings, sits sixth all-time for on-base percentage (.400), fifth for OPS (.857) and fourth for doubles (32) but isn’t worried about her impressive career statistics. Instead, her main focus is team success as she concludes her final season at UW. “I’m excited [for this season] and I want a ring on my finger from Big Ten [title] and make the NCAA [tournament],” Massey said. “I think for sure this is the team that can do it. I’ve never seen a team like this at Wisconsin since I’ve been here.”

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I know I have a reputation for being an SEC hater in football, and I won’t hide from it. So when No. 8 Arkansas lost Saturday to Louisiana-Monroe at home, I couldn’t keep myself from opening up Microsoft Word and throwing out a few words of joy.

In other words: I told you so.

Sure, Arkansas isn’t Alabama or LSU. And as I have said many times before, non-conference games are a terrible barometer of where a team stands.

But come on: LouisianaMonroe? They aren’t even the best of the Louisiana teams (that would be Lafayette).

While it isn’t Alabama or LSU, it wasn’t Ole Miss or Auburn either. It was the No. 8 team in the country.

And that is where the “haha, told you so” moment comes in.

Who in their right mind put this team inside the top 10 in the country? And without anything other than historical reference (without regard to the fact that the Razorbacks have a new roster and a new head coach) to rely upon, what basis did the writers and coaches have to put this team so high on their preseason rankings?

Now that they have lost to a team like ULM, it doesn’t really matter that Arkansas was overrated in the preseason because no one would allow a team that lost to a non-BCS school to make it to the BCS title game, or would they?

But it is nonetheless a perfect illustration of the inherent biases in the BCS system, biases that have been successfully designed to boost the chances that an SEC team (or two) will play in the final college football game of the season.

SEC teams start the season high in the rankings. And that in itself gives them a better chance to move into the top two and an even better chance to return to that pedestal in the standings after an early- or mid-season loss.

More importantly, however, the preseason rankings set in motion a series of biases that results in SEC teams having substantially better strength of schedule rankings than their counterparts in other BCS conferences.

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Arkansas’ upcoming game against Alabama had come before, rather than after, the Razorbacks’ loss to UL-Monroe.

If this were the case, Alabama would have the chance to face a top-10 team on the road.

Now assume Arkansas beats Alabama. Arkansas moves way up the totem pole, having beaten the top team in the country. Alabama, on the other hand, moves down maybe two spots at the most. After all, a road loss to a top-10 opponent is more than forgivable.

Then say that Alabama runs the table from there on out. They are almost assuredly in the BCS title game with that one loss.

Now back to Arkansas. They beat Alabama and follow that up

by losing to UL-Monroe. Likely they remain highly ranked. They did beat Alabama so that loss must be an anomaly. If they also run the table, they also have a good shot to go to the national title game.

See the preseason rankings set us up for a self-fulfilling prophecy that has allowed for the consensus opinion that the SEC is far superior to anything else that college football has to offer.

There certainly is an argument to be made that SEC football is the best out there. And perhaps the more physical nature of the conference makes its brand of football closer to that of the NFL and thus more appealing to the average fan.

But when all is said and done, the numbers speak for themselves. When presented objectively, of course.

ESPN throws this out on its airwaves time and time again: “Since 2006, the SEC has posted a higher nonconference winning percentage than any other conference, 231-55.”

However, I am sure that there are teams in every BCS conference that would have no problem running the table against Kent State, Penn State, North Texas, and Georgia Southern.

Yes, that was Alabama’s “unparalleled” non-conference schedule (at the end of the regular season, Alabama was 1-1 against ranked opponents, conference or nonconference).

What ESPN fails to mention is that since 1990, the SEC is just 160-127 against other BCS conference foes. And since the inception of the BCS in 1998, the conference is just 81-77 in regular reason games against BCS nonconference opponents.

Yet somehow that mediocre record has resulted in the conference gaining a reputation as the nation’s best, a reputation that has allowed them to set the stage for excused conference losses allowing teams to maintain their high rankings, thus allowing the self-fulfillment of the prophecy of SEC dominance.

The response to this claim is almost always the national title run. But in a sport that sets its national title matchups based upon subjective rankings and supposedly “objective” computer rankings of prowess, the fact that those national titles have stayed in the SEC is evidence of the bias, not evidence that the bias is even remotely justified.

There is a distinct bias that has allowed the SEC both to obtain and maintain its reputation as the dominant conference in college football. The bias not only pervades the discussion in television coverage (ESPN, cough, cough), but also extends itself into the very formula upon which the BCS is built. A formula that was devised, curiously, by then-SEC commissioner Roy Kramer.

So why does the media allow this bias to exist? I don’t know, but the $2.25 billion at stake for ESPN may play a part.

Do you think the SEC is overrated? Are their six straigt titles overblown? Let Max know what you think at max.sternberg@ yahoo.com.

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Men’s soccer team travels to Chicago for weekend series Prince, along with fellow junior Paul Yonga and senior Coming off of a disappoint- Kyle McCrudden, were named ing home series last weekend, as the captains for Wisconsin the Wisconsin Badgers men’s this season. soccer team (1-2-2 overall) is UW enters their game travelling to Chicago for the against Western Illinois Chicago South Loop Hotel UIC holding a 8-3-1 advantage in Soccer Classic this weekend in head-to-head games, with the hopes of turning around their Badgers claiming a 1-0 victory slow start. against the Leathernecks last The Badgers will face off year in Madison. Scoring first against Western Illinois (2-3- will be a key factor in this 0) on Friday night and then game, as the last five times take on IUPUI (2-5-0) on these two teams have met Sunday morning. resulted in shutouts.

UW’s defense came up Western Illinois’ offense short in a 3-1 loss has gotten off to a to FIU in the team’s slow start this seahome opener last son, having scored weekend, but the just three goals in Badgers were able to their first five games.

Goals against fight to a 1-1 tie with Defense and goaltenaverage for No. 13 Georgetown ding has earned the UW freshman goalie Chase last Sunday.

Leathernecks’ their Rau The Badgers are two wins this year, as welcoming several sophomore goalkeepnew faces in 2012, er Yves Dietrich has Total number 11 in all, including a stellar 1.20 goals of goals freshman goalkeeper against average scored by the Chase Rau. IUPUI is comBadgers so far Rau, a Sparta, ing off of 3-0 loss to this season Mich. native, has Wright State and is started four conseculooking to get back tive games this seainto their winning son for the Badgers, and has ways, after dropping five of put up an impressive 1.82 goals their last six games. against average and has made The Jaguars are lead offen11 total saves. sively by senior midfielder The Badgers are second Kyle Hyland. The Bay Village, in the Big Ten in total goals Ohio native has scored four of scored so far this season, scor- the team’s seven goals so far ing nine times in the team’s this season. five regular season games.

The Badgers and Jaguars While the goals are coming, have met just four times, it’s not just one player putting drawing even in the all-time the ball in the net. Eight dif- series 2-2-0. ferent players have scored for Wisconsin will return to Wisconsin this season, with Madison next weekend as they junior forward Chris Prince host Penn State next Friday. as the only player with more UWBadgers.com contributed than one goal. to this report.

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Redshirt junior safety Dezmen Southward and the rest of the Badgers defense will have to step up on Saturday in order to slow down Utah State’s potent offensive attack.

Badgers hope to bring back a sense of urgency

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Get ready for a changed Wisconsin Badgers team (1-1 overall) this Saturday against the Utah State Aggies (2-0 overall) when they burst through the tunnel at Camp Randall Stadium.

Whether you’re talking personnel, energy, or confidence, the Badgers simply seemed different this week compared to the first couple weeks of the season.

“The kids were really juiced,” Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said. “Sunday there were some things said, players had their own little discussions about what needed to happen so I think that’s been addressed and hopefully you’ll see that Saturday.”

Bielema also said junior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis is still “up in the air” for Saturday.

The frustration from the 10-7 loss last week against Oregon State has assuredly carried over into this week, but not quite to the level of frustration that many would expect from a 1-1 team that was ranked 12th in the preseason.

“You can’t just go out there angry,” redshirt junior linebacker Chris Borland said. “You have to be put under a game plan, put into a technique and I think the guys are doing that this week.”

If Wisconsin does end up taking the field angry on Saturday, especially on defense, they could find themselves in a whirlwind of trouble, considering the “exotic” offense—as redshirt junior safety Dezmen Southward liked to call it— the Aggies will bring to Madison.

Utah State sophomore quarterback Chuckie Keeton has propelled Utah State with his arm and his legs to its first 2-0 start since 1997. He leads an offense that many Wisconsin defensive players described as unique.

“Lots of motioning and stuff,” redshirt sophomore safety Michael Trotter said, who will be starting in place of injured Shelton Johnson. “I think for our defense to be successful, [we] just [need to] make the right calls.

That’s honestly all it is.”

Keeton has completed 77.2% of his passes this season and rushed for 86 yards last week in their 27-20 overtime upset victory over Utah. He came up clutch in overtime when, faced with a thirdand-nine on the team’s first overtime possession, he scrambled and ran the ball to the one-yard line. The Aggies scored two plays later and deflected a pass in the endzone on Utah’s next possession, sealing the win.

played hard. I blocked out all the distractions outside of me and I did the best of my abilities.”

“That’s just what he’s going to have to do, just go out and be Michael Trotter.”

“I just have to go out there and play like I belong here,” Trotter said. He came down with mono his freshman year and pulled his hamstring a day after his twin brother suffered the same injury early in fall camp last year.

Borland thinks it simply comes down to the fundamentals when facing a very mobile team “Today we were jumping like the Aggies. around, screaming and “There’s things we can do bringing the energy level schematically, but it comes down up, which should bring to tackling, it comes down to urgency [Saturday].” guys playing sound within their own game. So we have to do both Montee Ball those things,” Borland said. senior running back Wisconsin Badgers The arrival of linebackers coach Andy Buh doesn’t hurt anything either. Buh was the defensive coorThis pocket-awareness that dinator and linebackers coach at Keeton displayed last weekend has Nevada, which played Utah State much to do with why Trotter com- the past two seasons. pared him to Michael Vick.

“It’s big,” Borland said of Buh’s “I’m going to really have to knowledge this week. “He knows bring it,” Trotter said. their offense inside and out and he Southward and knows their personnel, Johnson have been more so it’s been a great asset than willing to lend a for us.” hand to the 209-pound Senior Aggies’ runTrotter, even if that means ning back Kerwynn putting in a few extra Williams has 158 rushing Points per game hours during preparation yards on 32 carries so far allowed by time this week. this year and sophomore the Badgers, “[Johnson] has been Joe Hill has 116 yards and good for really helpful and yesthree touchdowns on 34th in the terday we had a great only 11 carries, so the talk country. practice,” Trotter said. should clearly not be lim“(The coaches) threw ited to Keeton. new stuff out there I Perhaps the most Utah State’s best start to didn’t expect, so we’re frustrated from last the season going to meet right now, week’s performance was since 1997 go over it and get if senior running back fixed,” Trotter said yesMontee Ball. terday after practice.

“You watch the Southward was grateful to serve film of our game against Oregon up some useful advice, as he was in State, they’re over there jumping a situation similar to Trotter earlier around,” Ball said. “We were just in his time here at Wisconsin. kind of just standing there. Having “Play the game you play,” he no energy, no focus, none of that. said. “Honestly, there’s nothing Today we were jumping around that changed from when I was a screaming and bringing that enerbackup to when I was a starter. gy level up, which should bring I just came out and played, and I urgency [Saturday].”

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Junior forward and team captain Chris Prince leads the Badgers in scoring through the team’s first five games.