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Sheryl WuDunn visits UW to address inequity

By James Moes THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Author Sheryl WuDunn speaks to UW-Madison students and community members at a DLS lecture Tuesday.

Award-winning author and journalist Sheryl WuDunn challenged UW-Madison students and community members to think about socioeconomic inequalities in America during a visit to campus Tuesday.

WuDunn kicked off this semester’s Distinguished Lecture Series by discussing the newly published “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity,” a book she co-authored with her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

She began her lecture by introducing the wealth gap apparent in America and questioning whether the United States is still “the land of opportunity.”

“There’s this growing trend of inequality, it’s sort of creat-

ing a bigger gap between the rich and poor,” WuDunn said in an interview with The Daily Cardinal. “President Obama said that it’s the ‘defining challenge of our time.’”

WuDunn said the best way to combat social inequality is through strengthening maternal attachment with children prior to the age of five, emphasizing that whether a child experiences parental affection by 3 1/2 years old is a better predictor of high school graduation than IQ levels.

In a similar fashion to her book, WuDunn highlighted both the problems and the solutions to social inequalities by using anecdotes and stories, stressing the importance of storytelling as a method of bringing people into the cause and spreading the message.

WuDunn said traveling the

country to meet new people and discover their stories was one of her favorite parts about writing “A Path Appears.”

“There are so many people who are doing amazing things and they just have not had their voice heard,” she said.

UW-Madison sophomore Chet Agni said he enjoyed the lecture because WuDunn and her stories are inspirational, which is difficult when dealing with topics such as rape and social injustices.

“I feel like a lot of times people don’t want to hear about [issues around the world] because they are saddening and disheartening, but then when you look at … what you can do about it, it can be very hopeful,” Agni said. “It was definitely not something that bummed me out ... it was very a hopeful, happy, inspiring presentation.”

Tommy Thompson stresses bipartisanship

By Daniella Emanuel THE DAILY CARDINAL

Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson spoke about the importance of bipartisanship in local and national issues in a lecture commemorating the life of Wisconsin state senator Paul Offner at UW-Madison Tuesday.

Thompson stressed positive change can be achieved through direct communication between parties, which has become challenging with the growth of social media and technology in general.

“I think we have developed a society where we are talking over each other and around each other and we’re not talking together,” Thompson said.

Using the examples of the federal welfare program, 9/11 and global health, Thompson argued in favor of the power of bipartisanship in formulating positive change.

Thompson said the federal

welfare program would not have been possible without Republicans and Democrats working together to understand the situation of mothers on welfare.

“It was a bipartisan thing,” he said. “I didn’t do it alone.

I had help from people. I listened. As Benjamin Hooks said, ‘Does anybody listen.

Does anybody care?’”

Thompson described how on 9/11 everyone came together to strengthen the U.S., putting aside their political views to help as much as possible.

“When President Bush came to talk to the Congress, Democrats were hugging him and everybody was reaching out to help,” he said.

Thompson also cited the funding gained for Kofi Annan’s global health plan to prevent and fight AIDS, tuber-

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University police investigate UW residence hall sexual assault The UW-Madison Police Department is currently investigating a sexual assault reported Monday, according to a UWPD incident report.

The aggressor committed the assault in a UW-Madison residence hall shortly after midnight Saturday morning, according to the report.

UWPD encourages any persons

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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., meets with UW-Madison College Republicans to discuss pressing political issues ranging from ISIS to the economy.

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson speaks with students about pressing political issues

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with information pertaining to the case to contact (608) 264-COPS. Members of the UW-Madison community were made aware of the assault Tuesday through an email notice sent out in accordance with the Clery Act, a federal measure requiring university campuses to disclose reported crimes in a timely manner.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., spoke with UW-Madison College Republicans Tuesday night about his thoughts on pressing issues that Americans face today.

Johnson has been in the Senate since 2010 and serves on numerous committees including the Committee on Budget, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Homeland Security and Governmental

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Affairs and Foreign Relations.

He also serves as a ranking member of the Subcommittee of European Affairs and Financial and Contracting Oversight.

The senator said the Declaration of Independence is similar to a letter of intent and the U.S. Constitution is a contract.

“America’s letter of intent is the vision of our country; we are given unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” Johnson said.

Johnson argued the founding

fathers wanted limited government to promote prosperity.

“The pursuit of happiness is a pretty serious thing, it is not easy to achieve,” Johnson said.

“However, it is a God given right to pursue happiness.”

Engaged students asked questions ranging from the economy to foreign policy.

Johnson argued for strong military presence to stabilize the Middle East and to fight

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Sean Reichard quid quo pro

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isdom can find you when you least expect it. As I was leaving the bathroom in City Bar one evening, I saw above me an apercu of most scintillating illumination, nestled between black and purple Sharpie curlicues on one of the ceiling beams: “Love is Fake.”

A bomb detonated in my head. I thought: Yes. Right.

Absolutely. How long I had been benighted! How long I had toiled uselessly! Some enlightened soul, in all due beneficence, perspicacity and magisterial generosity, had taken it upon himself (or herself! I will not distinguish!) to scribe on that blank surface (where it is easily found but with difficulty sought) a truth that dismantled, as it were, the planks to that erroneous raft Maya barring me from the embrace of the abyssal sea.

“Go row your own boat, Schopenhauer,” I thought. “I belong to the ocean now.”

Yet, while I was floating in this immensity, as I was dipping into the abyss, I saw the flotsam of that bark still floating nearby. True, I had been liberated into the roiling sea, but there were still these artifacts, these edifices. I was reminded of what else was fake in life, which roused my ire. The list is extensive, but what follows is a short catalogue of other things that are fake, and why I’m discontent in their falsity.

Leatherette

A “leather substitute,” made by covering PVC-cased fabric in plastic, leatherette has a variety of uses, from binding books to car seats to lingerie even. The fact it is fake is not the only reason it displeases my

expanded, oceanic sense. No. I am displeased because when I think of leathery things—of books and car seats and so on—I think of real leather.

Do you understand? It is not the same! Would you bind the Necronomicon in Leatherette?

Hell no!

I reject you, leatherette, and all your lies!

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I understand it cannot be done. I understand all movie deaths are by necessity fake.

But c’mon! It was easy enough to rationalize (as I had done, before my explosive epiphany) that death in, say, theater, couldn’t be done. I had seen enough of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”

Skyler

I’ll be brief on this one, since it should be (on the whole) obvious.

Skyler, you’re so fake. Fake, fake, fake. And you know it too.

You faker. Fake faker. With your pomade and your bleached hair and those leatherette boots you claim to wear “ironically.” And that jackalope head you keep

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Jackalopes

The falsity of the jackalope, a hybrid between a jackrabbit and an antelope, who feeds on whiskey and can be milked, who breeds in electrical storms and speaks in human tongues, saddens me more than anything else. This is the stuff of legend! Woe to whoever made the veil of reality and neglected to embroider a few jackalopes on it!

It follows, of course, that I also reject the dahu, the skvader and the accursed wolpertinger.

Lies, all lies! I find no consolation in their nonexistence.

to understand that. After all, it’s theater. They can barely maintain verisimilitude as it is, especially if their budget is tight! Paper mache trees do not fly. Unless it’s Samuel Beckett.

But movies! Alas, movies!

Couldn’t you try harder? I get we’ve come a long way from the off-screen assaults in, say, “Witness For The Prosecution” or the use of red paint for blood, like in “El Topo,” but even at its most feverish pitch, even at its most gory, the death in movies does not approach the death in life!

mounted in your bathroom!

What does that even mean?

Where’s the symbolism in that?

Skyler, I reject your fakery!

There are many more grievances to be uttered. But for the time being, I’ll continue to float idly, with the supreme knowledge that everything is fake, least of all love.

Is love as fake as the bathroom stalls at City Bar would like you to believe? Were you one of the many who thought jackalopes were actually real? Send all your teary-eyed responses to Sean at sreichard@wisc.edu.

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Death in the movies

1795—France takes over Belgium. As we know, this was the last time France conquered anything.

1864—John S. Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln. Lincoln’s cabinet throws paper airplanes and shoots spit balls throughout each one of Staples’ substitute meetings.

1867—Karl Marx’ “Das Kapital,” is published. The illustrated children’s edition is released in 1870.

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1874—Rotterdam opens drinking water pipes.

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1908—Harrison Ford introduces the Model T car for $825.

1967—Godzilla defeats the three-headed King Ghidorah in a battle that destroys all of Tokyo for the third time in a decade.

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First Lady will visit Madison next week First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Madison next Tuesday to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke.

The grassroots campaign event will feature former Trek Bicycle executive Mary Burke, with details of the event yet to be announced, according to the Burke campaign press release.

Michelle Obama first appeared with Burke for a campaign rally Monday in Milwaukee.

The president has not announced any campaign events with Burke, though she did meet with Obama in early September

before a rally in Milwaukee, according to the Associated Press.

Responding to the ObamaBurke campaign event, Wisconsin GOP Executive Director Joe Fadness released a statement critical of Burke’s allegiance to the president.

“Mary Burke is sending a clear message that she stands with Barack Obama and his broken agenda that has hurt our economy … our state deserves better than a candidate with failed policies and copy-andpaste ideas,” Fadness said in the statement.

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in politics.

“I always believed that our best days are still in front of us,” he said. “Lead by the University of Wisconsin and the leadership in this state, there is nothing we can’t accomplish.”

The lecture was sponsored

by The Urban Institute, where Paul Offner was a consultant specializing in poverty, and The Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.

culosis and malaria in Africa as a dual-party success. He said with the support of President Bush and the Democrats in Congress, they were able to raise $5 billion.

In his final words, Thompson brought his point back to UW-Madison and encouraged students to run for public office and get involved

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David Maraniss spoke about the changes in the field of journalism and gave advice to aspiring journalists. He is an award winning journalist and biographer. + Photo by Emily Buck

Annual campus Diversity Forum set for early November, open for framework input UW-Madison announced plans Tuesday for the third annual Diversity Forum, an event focused on the discussion of implementation of diversity on campus.

The two-day event, to be held Nov. 10 and 11, will feature speakers, panel discussions and talks about the implementation of the university’s recently developed Diversity Framework.

Maj. Gen. Marcia Anderson, the first African-American woman to achieve that rank in the Army Reserve, will be featured as the forum’s keynote speaker.

Other speakers will include author and business leader Rebecca Ryan and Peter

Aranda, CEO and executive director of The Consortium of Graduate Study in Management, a consortium which consists of business schools, corporations and students.

The event is scheduled to be held at the Memorial Union Nov. 10, with the second day, Nov 11, divided between the Pyle Center and the Wisconsin Historical Society.

The first day of the event will also feature a panel discussion between UW-Madison professors on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act and a town hall meeting on race, community and law enforcement.

The annual forum supplements the university’s Diversity Framework, which makes recommendations “ranging from the development of diversitycentric leadership experiences to building stronger connections to the broader Madison community,” according to the Diversity Framework website.

The plan, formulated in fall 2013 and approved in May, is in the process of being implemented.

Students interested in participating in the event should register on the university’s Office of Human Resources Development website. Registration is divided up between the two days. ­—Andrew Bahl

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Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson addresses the importance of bipartisanship during a lecture Tuesday.

UW-Madison joins higher education institutions in digital think tank UW-Madison is slated to join various higher education institutes in a think tank aimed at developing digital teaching and learning initiatives.

The educational consortium, Unizin, provides a medium for universities to work together on creating new technological tools to improve overall learning experiences for students, according to a university statement released Tuesday.

“Our decision to join Unizin at this time opens the opportunity for our faculty, staff and students to help shape the next generation digital teaching and learning environment

for Wisconsin and the nation,” Steve Cramer, UW-Madison vice provost for teaching and learning, said. “Our campus Educational Innovation initiative can now grow in new dimensions that otherwise would not have been possible.”

Indiana University, Colorado State University, the University of Michigan and the University of Florida began the consortium in July 2014, and will be welcoming Oregon State and Minnesota to the group along with UW. The university also said it expects the involvement with Unizin to lead to new opportunities in Massive Open Online Courses.

New poll puts Mary Burke ahead of Gov. Scott Walker Democratic candidate for governor Mary Burke climbed ahead of Gov. Scott Walker in a poll released Tuesday.

The poll, conducted by Gravis Marketing, surveyed more than 900 registered voters with an equal distribution of voters identifying as Democrat, Republican and

Independent. The gender divide was equally split.

The poll showed a five point gain in favor of Burke for the Nov. 4 election. Burke earned 50 percent of the potential vote while Walker earned 45 percent; there was a margin of error of 3 percent. The former Trek Bicycle executive has not

released a statement regarding the news.

The Marquette Law School released a poll earlier this September putting Walker ahead by two points.

Marquette has compiled poll data from the last year illustrating the close nature of the gubernatorial race.

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ing their economy, instead of relying on oil wealth. In addition, the senator argued for Arab countries to renounce the extreme version of Islam that promotes terror.

If there was a vote to put military on the ground, Johnson said he would vote yes.

“Islamic terror have declared war on us, our only choice is whether we are going to play defense or offense,”

Johnson said. “I would choose to be on the offense. I would rather choose to fight them over there than to fight them here on our homeland.”

Johnson said he will continue to support Gov. Scott Walker and other Republican candidates in the upcoming election by speaking with students.

He said students’ futures are at stake and students are the future of the country.

the Islamic State. The senator made the point that the Obama administration should have not demilitarized Iraq because he argued ISIS is rising from the ashes of Al Qaeda and Iraq.

Johnson agreed with Obama that the Arab countries need to see the full potential of their people by diversify-

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Sighted on State Street, the November Project tribe travels throughout campus during their morning workouts.

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November Project partakers from across the country gathered in Madison to celebrate fitness and work out together.

An unusual tribe has been living among the Madison community for two years.

Originating in Boston in 2012, the group made its way to Madison less than a year later.

This tribe is known as the November Project, a grassroots fitness movement started by two retired Northwestern University rowers as the brisk November air began to infiltrate the Boston area.

In an effort to remain active as the weather turned uninviting, the athletes, Brogan Graham and Bojan Mandaric, made a pact to workout together every morning during the month of November.

Two grew to 10 and 10 grew to 20 and as the months wore on, word got out and November Projects started popping up elsewhere: first in Madison, then San Francisco, and now people are waking up early and exercising for free in 16 cities across the United States and Canada.

Led by Pat Bauch and, until recently, Ted Gurman, the Madison chapter meets on Wednesdays at 6:28 a.m. at the top of Bascom Hill and Fridays at 6:27 a.m. at Lady Forward on the Capitol steps.

The workouts are primarily running-based and designed to build endurance and strength in an inclusive and motivated environment.

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That’s why we show up and do it together. We turn this vicious, fierce workout into something that’s fun and has an element of camaraderie,” said Bauch, a UW alumni and West High School history teacher.

He continued, “You look around at 6:47 or 6:50 and you see the sun coming up over the Capitol on top of Bascom, and you’re like … I can’t imagine that I wanted to miss this.”

The workouts are “scalable” to all fitness levels because the group doesn’t technically travel anywhere or move at a specific pace.

“We have people show up who run a 2:40 marathon … they’re laughing side-by-side with somebody that is recovering from knee surgery,” said Bauch.

Representatives from each city came to Madison Sept. 12 and 13 for the NP Summit: a twoday gathering that allowed the tribe to meet and workout with their counterparts from across the country.

The crowd met to tackle the Capitol steps Friday. After an epic workout, the leaders spent the rest of the day discussing world takeover. Then Saturday, the tribe ran the North Face Endurance Challenge at Kettle Moraine State Forest.

Afterward, they came back to Madison for a rendezvous at the Memorial Union Terrace, where the leaders announced the first step in

their plan for world takeover: a goal to have 3,014 people working out at the same time one Wednesday morning before the end of 2014.

Based on this number, each city was given a lofty but attainable goal number: Madison’s is 150.

Dan Graham said in a speech at the Terrace, “You need to be the ambassador to that next group … we need them to come to the workout and we need them to realize how great this is.”

The tribe is recruiting friends, family, roommates and pets to join this movement. While many campaigns rely on propaganda for increased exposure, Bauch says the November Project benefits most from word-of-mouth advertisement.

“You can go around and you can blast November Project everywhere and you can chalk sidewalks and put it up into social media all you want, but it really comes down to the members sharing their experiences with the people that they know.”

Growth of the November Project isn’t about personal gain for leaders or even a sense of pride for the tribe. It’s about providing accessible and inviting fitness for people regardless of age, fitness level and socioeconomic status.

“I’d like for it to be seen as one of the turning points in the way we view fitness in our society,” concluded Bauch.

Do you even CrossFit?

By Zack Benson THE DAILY CARDINAL

What is CrossFit anyway?

Hobby? Sport? Lifestyle? That escalated quickly. And it did in the real world, as well.

The almanac answer to this increasingly frequent question is that CrossFit is all the above, depending on who’ s answering.

Anyone can join an affiliated gym ... and drastically improve their quality of life faster than anything else on the market.

On paper, CrossFit began as an exercise philosophy built around the mantra, “Constantly varied, high intensity, functional movement.”

It’s a philosophy made to create an athlete whose exercises will never fail to produce “real world fitness.”

The focus isn’t based on enlarging muscles, but instead on creating a body ready for any physical demand all while using the most organically powerful and practical movements possible.

With this philosophy, every workout is done for time.

This means a fixed amount of exertion should be done as quickly as possible, or with an “AMRAP” (as many rounds as possible) mindset.

What’s done in that time and what makes CrossFit unlike any other workout is complete variance.

Olympic lifting leads into plyometrics, which transitions

to sprinting, burpees, and so on and so forth.

But the question remains: How did this insane workout become a hit? How did a mere exercise philosophy become a sport whose disciples went from showing up in a backyard for the first annual CrossFit Games in 2006, to airing on ESPN closer and closer to primetime every year?

The shortest answer is because it works, because anyone can step in and do it and because it fosters a sense of community.

It’s successful in that the functional nature of every exercise with a focus on intensity over a set amount or reps and rest, has produced the pinnacle of fitness.

When a regime produces athletes who are running fastpaced marathons while also lifting Olympic-level weight, it’s bound to catch some attention.

But it isn’t meant to only attract the diehard fitness junkies. Anyone can join an affiliated gym of CrossFit Inc. (what the NBA is to basketball), get coached on how to correctly tone their bodies and drastically improve their quality of life faster than anything on the market.

Even in Madison and close to campus, it’s easy for students to get involved. There are multiple gyms just a short bus or bike ride away, including CrossFit Recursive and CrossFit Connex.

CrossFit is a community.

From the best of the best who compete in the Crossfit Games every year, to the accountant that just did his or her first AMRAP, we’re all united in coming together to make better versions of ourselves.

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Using large posters and lots of lighting can make any room seem bigger and more inviting.

How to make your space a functional retreat

By Chace Goff THE DAILY CARDINAL

Well fellow Badgers, we’ve done it. About a month has passed and we still live to work, study and design another day.

For me, I’m just thrilled that I haven’t lost my mind between time consuming art and design projects (never did I ever think I would be spending five to eight hours drawing the lobby of Nancy Nicholas hall), student orgs, mingling and finding time to sleep.

Despite my lack of catnaps, it’s refreshing to learn at a school where everyone is proud to be a student. It makes me want to push myself to succeed and seize every opportunity that comes my way.

Even our campus never fails to inspire, with beautiful architecture and landscaping at every turn, bustling with young, creative and intelligent students.

I’m a firm believer that making a space your own and, in general, aesthetically pleasing can have a huge impact on your life and overall outlook, which is especially important

during the school year.

Naturally, I spent a little more time and effort than the average student rearranging and decorating to make my living space a home away from home and a place that I can live and work happily.

Whether you are in a dorm, apartment or house, working with small spaces can be difficult; there never seems to be enough storage, it can look unorganized and messy quickly, and there just isn’t much room for extras.

If you continue to struggle with these issues, my humble, amateur advice to you would be to mainly focus on 1) storage and 2) the little details that make a room unique.

To address the problem of storage, a good rule of thumb is that each piece should include at least one storage element. If it includes more, then all the better.

A common example would be a storage ottoman, which has seating and storing all in one—what could be better? My favorite and most useful piece of furniture I have is my spinning mirror/bookshelf. It

reminds me that I’m looking good and to grab a granola bar before class all within a 180° spin!

If you’re not looking to break the bank, under-bed storage bins will save your life. Stuff your seasonal clothes, extra sheets and towels, or even use them for laundry.

Once you have somewhere to put all your belongings, you can finally get into personalizing your space. Things like posters and knickknacks are small, but make all the difference (you can find super cute treasures at Earthbound Trading Company on State Street or any small vendor online).

And don’t forget about pictures of your beloved friends and family. Whether you want to splurge on some decorative frames or tape them to your walls in the pattern of your choice, those reminders will be the perfect distraction during midterms.

Another wall décor idea could be to try your hand at origami and stick those figures on the walls.

Whatever it is you choose to do with your space, make it beautiful, make it efficient, make your own.

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Burke must work on expanding outreach TONY CASTAGNOLI Opinion Columnist

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isconsin voters would be foolish to fall for Scott Walker’s attempt to make his opponent, former Trek Bicycle CEO Mary Burke, appear incompetent. At this point, the race is still a toss up, but Wisconsin just made history by electing Tammy Baldwin, an out and proud lesbian, to the U.S. Senate in 2012. That’s why, as a realistic socialist and regular optimist, I believe Wisconsin is totally capable of making history again. But the voters have to actually get to the polls, and that requires registering. And while Mary Burke has spent enough of her own money on this campaign, she would be well advised to rely mainly on her speech from now until Election Day. After all, it’s free (usually) and it means a lot more to voters than negative advertisements like a grown man standing in a hole and then somehow blaming her for being stuck in it, as Gov. Scott Walker’s most recent ad does. Walker’s ads are rather creepy, if you catch my drift.

It’s pretty clear, too, that Scott Walker has lost his appeal to anyone who is a woman, a person of color, an immigrant, a senior citizen, a student, a homosexual or a union member.

Raising money will not be the most important factor in winning this election, despite what the cynics claim. That being said, it’s obvious that a lot of money has been and is continuing to be raised on both sides, but according to an

Aug. 4 report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Walker out raised Burke by $12.5 million.

That’s not an exaggeration.

Imagine if that money was instead sent to families about to send their kids to college.

Talk about a real solution to a problem, rather than a “freeze” in tuition hikes. Amazingly, $12.5 million is quite a high gap in fundraising comparisons for no legitimate pay-off. So it begs the question: if Scott Walker is so popular, as many people think he is in Wisconsin, then why has his campaign negatively portrayed his opponent as a “Madison millionaire,” while at the same time having raised literally millions of dollars more than her in this campaign? Well, it’s just hypocritical, old school politics. The one detail that cannot be ignored here is that Scott Kevin Walker is predictable, in that he wants to hold on to the position of Wisconsin governor so that he has a legitimate shot at contending for president in 2016.

His strategy appears to be to raise as much money as he can by kissing up to donors who will fund his current campaign and possibly any future campaigns as well.

What isn’t old news, though, is that the star of the thrilling “New Jersey Bridge Scandal” (brought to you courtesy of MSNBC), N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, just made a presence in Wisconsin to endorse Walker on the very same day Michelle Obama made a visit in Milwaukee to endorse Burke. Remember this, because if Walker wins a second term in November, his fake east coast friend will completely turn on him in a year and a half from now during the Republican presidential primaries. Meanwhile, it makes a lot more sense for the first lady to endorse the potential first female governor of Wisconsin: Michelle Obama has indicated no political ambitions of her

own, yet as a fellow Midwestern citizen, she genuinely cares about progress being made for the people not just in her home state of Illinois, but also in the state to the north.

It’s pretty clear, too, that Scott Walker has lost his appeal

of Wisconsin that their right to vote is being challenged, but that she is also worth voting for to counter this Republican obstruction. As for any undecided voters, it may help to address the “plagiarism” claims Walker is throwing at her for

right now. But there’s time to improve those predictions before Nov. 4. Mary Burke must show the voters how much of a leader she can be by speaking her Harvard-educated mind in an open and honest way. She needs to be extra friendly, and even more blunt on the direction she believes Walker is taking this state. Burke should not worry about raising any more money; she could certainly get herself elected through free sound bites, as long as each statement ends with a clever phrase, such as “I’m not making these numbers up, look into it if you don’t believe me.” If Mary is interested in my advice, then she should take the rest of this month to speak with journalists regularly that way her genuine concerns will reach the voters’ attentions if she is loud and clear enough.

Mary Burke will need to not only convince the people of Wisconsin that their right to vote is being challenged, but that she is worth voting for to counter this Republican obstruction.

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to anyone who is a woman, a person of color, an immigrant, a senior citizen, a student, a homosexual, or a union member. After all, one could argue, he knows that if they show up to vote at the polls, their ballots likely will not be cast for him.

No amount of money he raises is likely to change this fact.

Therefore he seems more prone to enact legislation which imposes more restrictions for voters who don’t possess the proper identification (hint to any apathetic students: your Wiscard doesn’t qualify).

Mary Burke will need to not only convince the people

what they are: a shiny object for the easily distracted because, comparatively, her minor mistake simply cannot compare to his ongoing John Doe investigation, which is actually a serious breach in ethics. It’s a mountain being made out a molehill because the true story is that an advisor of hers incorporated precedents that have worked in other circumstances within her detailed jobs plan. What exactly is the heated issue with synthesizing good ideas?

The real issue is that Walker is painting Burke as a moron, and the neck-and-neck polls show that it’s paying off

Even little things could go a long way to further her reach across the state. She could go to costume themed events in a fun Halloween costume… come on, people running for office need to celebrate too. How about campaigning with her golden retrievers more? Start hugging people more? It all comes down to being a more approachable person— I mean, I’d be excited to hug the potential first female governor of Wisconsin. At this point we could really use a governor who can set a good example for the youth of this state.

Tony is a junior majoring in landscape architecture. Is Mary Burke the best choice for Wisconsin? Is Tony overlooking Burke’s faults or underplaying Walker’s strengths?

Please send thoughts to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

When it comes to exercise, no two bodies are the same OWEN DESAI Opinion Columnist

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he word exercising is not in my vocabulary.

In fact, “let’s get swole” would not be a phrase you’d ever hear me say. I’m all for staying fit and living a healthy lifestyle, but going to the gym would never be my idea of fun. As a five-foot-eight-inch male who is fairly thin, I’ve never had to exercise to keep my shape. My entire family is all relatively skinny so I’ll have to thank my genetics for what I’m working with. “Hey Genetics, is this all you’re giving me? This is how muscular of a person I’ll be? Okay, alright. That’s fine with me.”

My workout routine consists of very few activities.

Walking up and down Bascom

Hill effectively keeps my legs in shape, putting books in my bag and carrying it on my back works out my arm and back muscles, and getting out of bed in the morning does an adequate job of giving me toned abs… sort of. When it comes to exercising, there are three types of people: those who are lazy (me), the people who like to run because they think it is a “fun time,” and the gym rats. I’ll never understand the last one.

I guess the idea of “getting bigger” was never something I thought was very important.

Whenever I see guys and girls walking to the gym in

their sweats, yoga pants, mid calf socks, tank tops and ear buds hanging from their head, my instinct it to ask “Why?” But truthfully, I am happy they’ve found an activity they like to do. While they’re walking into the SERF, I’m across the street helping myself to pizza and a scone. Look at all of us as a student population being happy.

I’d be lying if I said that whenever I do see a really muscular guy I’m not intimidated. When his arms are bigger than my head, I am a tiny bit scared. I judge these guys in how much it would take for them to knock me out. If Mr. Gym-Rat could just flick me and I’d be out cold on the pavement, that’s when I know this isn’t a person I should mess with.

A guy in my dorm described every muscle besides your thighs as “vanity muscles.” I

guess then that would mean I definitely don’t work out my

While they’re walking into the SERF, I’m across the street helping myself to pizza and a scone.

vanity muscles at all.

You’ll never see me lifting unless it involves getting food to my mouth. I guess the idea of “getting bigger” was never something I thought was very important. Why run if I’m not going anywhere? If I am going to exercise, I like to do an activity that is fun at the same time.

I am from Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes, so biking or rollerblading around one of our many lakes would be an

interesting activity for me. One time I vacationed in Arizona and I went hiking, Whitewater rafting, and horseback riding.

These kinds of exercise are more tailored to how I view working out because there is purpose behind them.

Here at UW Madison I referee Rec Sports, which is my form of exercise each week. As you can tell, I am not completely against exercising—I just prefer to do it in another form.

So, whether exercising is your thing or not, just remember this phrase: You do you. Just know that whenever you’re waking up at 7 a.m. to get in your morning workout, I will still be lying in my bed under my covers till 9 a.m., Sunday through Saturday.

Owen is a freshman and a new columnist for The Daily Cardinal. What is your take on the need to exercise? Please send all feedback to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

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Porter Robinson’s tour shows emotional side of electronic genre

By Robert Vanderwist The Daily Cardinal

Last month, Porter Robinson’s Worlds helped popular electronic music to take a step in the right direction, encouraging a shift in focus from the loud, formulated nature of big room dance music to an emphasis on meaningful and emotional songwriting. When he began writing Worlds, Robinson may not have always had ambitions of grandeur, but it was clear that he was on to something special. “All along, I knew I was going to write something deeply personal,” Robinson told me, regarding his songwriting process. However, the culmination of Robinson’s vision extends far beyond the album itself. Last Saturday, the Orpheum Theater was home to the Worlds Tour, a monumental production that brought the album to life more vividly and cohesively than I could have ever expected.

“I definitely wanted it to feel like the most beautiful version of the music,” Robinson told me. “It was such a high-octane effort to try to get the show right aesthetically.”

One of the most important distinctions to be made is that Worlds is not to be misinterpreted as an EDM album, and the live show that accompanies it is as far from a rave as a high-budget electronic show could possibly be. “I think it has to do with the atmosphere,” Robinson said, regarding his growing distaste for EDM and the culture surrounding it. “[Music] is not meant to be treated as a party, and that’s what EDM is … When you’re writing music for DJs, there’s all these very functional things that you have to do to make it ‘work.’

I wanted it to be more about the listening experience.”

This put the extravagant nature of the live show into perspective for me. Especially when it comes to big room dance music, extravagant displays of light and color are nothing new.

Visual displays used by most electronic artists feature lights and graphics that serve little purpose other than to add to the energy of their set and get a rise out of their audience, and this too often seems a bit one-dimensional. Meanwhile, the visual element of Porter Robinson’s “Worlds Tour” is every bit as creative and artistic as the album itself. “I definitely directed the whole thing. I put no less than 300 hours into it,” Robinson said when I asked him about his personal involvement with the aesthetic production of the show. “It was a massive, massive effort.”

Robinson’s visual show, ripe with recurring motifs of fantasy and adventure, paints a clear picture of the dystopian narrative hinted at by the album. Before I go any further, I will include an important disclaimer to any minimalists out there: If you are simply not a fan of high-budget productions, or if you tend to roll your eyes at the sight of smoke machines and a 30-foot-tall display screen,

the “Worlds Tour” may not be for you. I understand that. I spent my younger years going to shows in basements and small venues, and at 15 years old I would have cringed at the idea of praising a show for its aesthetic concept and production value almost as much as for the music itself. But after seeing the creativity involved in Robinson’s new show, it would be unfair and naïve to dismiss its aesthetics as unimportant. The visual show that Robinson has created is not secondary to the music being performed or vice versa. Rather, the two work together to create a coherent multisensory experience, giving the audience a clearer look into Robinson’s vision than the music alone ever could.

The emotion and creativity [Robinson] has brought to his music and his live show is a step in the right direction.

One of the interesting steps Robinson has taken in his new live show is his decision to play live keyboard melodies and even sing along with the vocals on his songs. “I’m not even very good at either,” he admitted to me modestly. “I don’t have those Sam Smith pipes, but I try to make it work for the sake of the show.”

“Sad Machine” was the perfect outlet for Robinson to showcase this element of his show, adding a personal touch to his performance, and seemingly allowing him to feel a stronger emotional connection to his songs onstage.

“There’s lots of cool moments where I can change the chord progression because I have control over that,” Robinson told me.

“There’s some sections that have significantly changed from night to night, depending on how I play it live. Sometimes it does set an emotional atmosphere and I get really into it.”

This led to a stark contrast when Robinson transitioned from these fun dance anthems into his chaotic, menacing live rendition of “Fresh Static Snow.”

Robinson beat down on a drum pad intensely as an ear-splitting, distorted bass line rang out, and images of a demonic-looking beast took over his visual display. The vague dystopian narrative present in the album, amplified by his live show, featured recurring themes of good and evil, and images of this demonic being reappeared throughout the show to evoke feelings of evil and danger. The introduction of this motif reminded me of one of Robinson’s grievances with electronic dance music. “[EDM] focuses on being this fun thing always. That wasn’t my goal,” he explained. In my opinion, Robinson boldly separates himself from the feel-good

EDM prototype by embracing these feelings of fear and terror.

A great artist has the potential to evoke an entire spectrum of human emotion. In the same way that a good horror movie keeps us on the edge of our seats, Robinson invited his audience to step out of their comfort zone and find beauty in the emotions that are too often avoided.

As the show progressed, Robinson ultimately played almost every song from Worlds, most of them altered from their album version for the live show. Robinson’s performance of “Flicker” was among the first to highlight the immense influence of Japanese art on Robinson’s music as well as his visual display. Anime characters appeared on screen periodically, and the emotional journey evoked by Robinson’s music was chronicled by 16-bit video game-style animations that furthered his recurring dissonance between themes of good and evil. High-energy breaks were balanced by ambient, beautiful melodies in songs such as “Lionhearted,” “Natural Light” and “Hear the Bells.”

On songs like “Goodbye to a World,” “Fellow Feeling” and “Language,” Robinson makes it clear that while his distaste for EDM stems from a lack of creativity that plagues the genre, he does not condemn dance music altogether. He shows us that it is possible for music to be danceable and beautiful at the same time.

Hopefully, this notion will inspire others to think the same way. “My message is far from that EDM is bad or that party music is bad or that it shouldn’t exist,” Robinson said when I asked if he might return to playing EDM festivals in the future.

“I’m not closed off to the idea of doing EDM festivals. I just felt that this year, I wanted to send a clear signal about the direction of my shows.”

Porter Robinson is not trying to change the world. However, I think that the emotion and creativity that he has brought to his music and his live show is a step in the right direction for mainstream electronic music. Robinson set out to write exactly the album that he felt he needed to write, despite what his fans may have wanted, and I think he deserves a lot of respect for sticking to his vision so cohesively. “I think it’s critical if you’re making any kind of music or art to keep the reception out of your mind while you’re writing,” Robinson told me. “Thinking about the reception is an easy way to lose the path and write music disingenuously. Even my own fans, you have to not think about. You have to be a leader as a creator. I felt pretty sure that there would be some backlash, but I didn’t really worry about it.”

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Hopeful predictions for ‘True Detective’ Season Two jake smasal smasaltov!

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ast week, it was announced that Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn, along with a yet to be cast female lead will star in the upcoming second season of “True Detective.” Farrell will star as a detective, while Vaughn has been cast as a career criminal and seems to be the antagonist of the new season. The only other details that have been revealed about the new season are that it will take place in California and will have something to do with, in the words of show creator Nic Pizzolatto, “the secret occult history of the United States transportation system.” That certainly leaves a lot of room for speculation, and because I am a huge fan of both speculation and “True Detective,” I have decided to come up with some scenarios of what the new season might have in store, as well as which female actress would be best cast as the lead.

Scenario Number 1: Hardcore highway commission Colin Farrell plays a detective who, through a strange sequence of events involving an old case that will be chronicled through flashbacks, ends up working for the California Department of Transportation surveying highways. While in the midst of this unwelcome career change, he begins to notice strange vehicles coming down mostly deserted stretches of highway at odd times. He begins to investigate, and he and his partner (our female lead) discover that a criminal kingpin (Vaughn) has developed a human trafficking network with various members of the State Highway Patrol.

This, of course, will tie back into Farrell’s earlier case, and our two detectives are warned off the case by some sort of intimidating authority figure. As the season

goes on, the two triumph over the deeply philosophical forces of evil, and viewers everywhere realize Vaughn should stick to acting in movies about sperm donors and dodgeball.

Perfect female lead: Can’t you totally see Maggie Gyllenhaal making the transition to the small screen and rocking this?

Scenario 2: The “Romeo and Juliet” The first season of “True Detective” may have been the least classically romantic season of television since the most recent season of “The Bachelor,” and now the show takes a chance on trying a new spin on an old tale. Farrell and our female lead start as two detectives assigned to what seems like a simple robbery case, before they find that this one case has connections all over the state, with our villains seemingly traveling at obscene speeds between crimes. Vaughn, of course, would be the perpetrator of these robberies, a man brought up on the road who knows every nook and cranny of California.

However, this scenario focuses more on the evolution of our detective’s relationship from coworkers to friends and, in the penultimate episode, to star-crossed lovers.

The season, of course, would have to end with our heroes tragically dying in an epic showdown with Vaughn and his goons.

Perfect female lead: Having proven she can play a tough character in “Homeland,” and being one of the stars of Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo and Juliet,” I believe it is ordained that this part be played by Claire Danes.

Scenario 3: Roadhouse This one is pretty much just “Roadhouse,” with Farrell instead of Patrick Swayze.

Perfect female lead: Again, it’s “Roadhouse.” It doesn’t really matter who plays what, it will still be the most awesome thing anyone has ever seen.

Excited for “True Detective?”

Let him know your predictions at smasal@wisc.edu.

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UW heads down I-94 to Marquette

By Jason Braverman the daily cardinal

The Badgers (1-5-1 overall, 0-2-0 Big Ten) travel to Milwaukee today to take on instate rival No. 13 Marquette (5-20) after being shutout for the first time this season in a loss to Maryland.

Snapping their scoreless streak will not be easy for the Badgers, as the Golden Eagles are currently in the midst of a schoolrecord five consecutive shutouts.

Led by redshirt senior goalkeeper Charlie Lyon, Marquette has not surrendered a goal since August, a streak that has lasted for over 508 minutes of play.

Lyon’s average of just 0.43 goals per game ranks second in the Big East and his .875 save percentage is best in the conference.

While the defense has been the biggest story of the season so far, Marquette is led offensively

by redshirt junior forward David Selvaggi, who leads the team with both three goals and eight points.

Coinciding with the school record streak, the Golden Eagles have won five in a row to bounce back from losses in their opening matches to the last two National Champions, Notre Dame and Indiana.

The Badgers, on the other hand, have not won in their past five games, going 0-4-1 in that span.

Despite the results, head coach John Trask remains hopeful about the team’s progress.

“To see the growth of this team over the last few games has been very encouraging,” Trask said. “We’re learning some tough lessons, but I know this group will stay together.”

As a young team, Wisconsin has been led offensively by a group of freshmen. Forward Mark Segbers, forward Tom

Barlow, and midfielder Mike Catalano, all true freshmen, are the only Badgers with multiple goals this season.

The Badgers have responded well after halftime, scoring all but one of their goals of the year in the second half. However, they allowed two goals in the second half of the last game against Maryland, and will look to get back on track there while also scoring more in the game’s opening frame.

In goal, redshirt sophomore Casey Beyers got his third start of the season, falling to 0-2-1.

Freshman goalkeeper Adrian Remeniuk got the first four starts of the year, going 1-3-0 in net.

Kickoff is slated for 7:05 at Marquette’s Valley Fields soccer complex. After the Golden Eagles, the Badgers will return to Madison for a pair of home games against Michigan and Green Bay.

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Midfielder Mike Catalano, part of a group of three freshmen driving Wisconsin’s offense, will take on a formidable defense.

FSU has not earned their No. 1 ranking in the AP Poll

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Coming off three Top-10 matchups, Lauren Carlini and the Badgers are set to play Northwestern.

Badgers march on in Big Ten play

By Sam Karp the daily cardinal

Just when it looked like the schedule was easing up, the reality of playing in the Big Ten set in. Coming off of a home win against Ohio State, No. 6 Wisconsin (1-1 Big Ten, 10-2 overall) will take on Northwestern (12-1, 2-0) at the Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston, Ill. While Wisconsin started the season off with some tough games against No. 19 Southern California, No. 4 Washington and No. 3 Penn State, Northwestern’s first real test of the season will come against the Badgers.

The Wildcats’ first (and really only) tough match of the season resulted in their first loss. In the USD-SDSU 2014 Challenge in San Diego, Calif., the Wildcats were swept by No. 23 San Diego (9-5, 2-0).

However, since the loss Northwestern is undefeated, dropping only five sets in their last seven matches.

They opened up their Big Ten season against Rutgers at home by sweeping the Scarlet Raiders 3-0. Their second Big Ten match against Maryland, however proved to be more difficult.

Again at home, the Wildcats easily won the first set 25-15 but the Terrapins came back strong in the second set taking it 25-23. Again coming out strong in the set, Maryland was able to squeeze out the third set victory 25-23.

However, the Wildcats seemed to figure out Maryland in between the third and fourth set, as they easily won the fourth 25-16 and went on to win the decisive fifth set 17-15.

While the Badgers did start the season off with some tough opponents, they were able to navigate through it. After going 1-1 against Southern California and Washington in the Pac-12/ Big-Ten Showcase the Badgers were swept by familiar foe Penn State.

As has become common place with this team, the Badgers were not affected by back-to-back losses and instead turned their focus to Ohio State.

Even though Badger head coach Kelly Sheffield admitted that Ohio State was a hard team to prepare for because of their versatility in both players and formations, Wisconsin seemed more than ready for

the challenge.

Wisconsin completely dominated the game as they held Ohio State to a .123 hit percentage and boasted a .266 hitting percentage themselves.

Wisconsin also out-killed the Buckeyes 45-37.

All of this added up to a 3-0 sweep of the Buckeyes. The first two sets were close at times but anytime Ohio State would start to make a run the Badgers would come up with a big play to continue to separate themselves from their competition.

However, in the third set Wisconsin seemed to almost have broken the Buckeyes’ will by storming out to a 11-1 lead before the Buckeyes started to show some resistance. Even though Ohio State started to make a run, they could not sustain it and the Badgers took the decisive set 25-17.

Wisconsin is hoping to build on this momentum and start their win streak up again against the Wildcats.

After taking on Northwestern, Wisconsin will travel to Urbana, Ill., to take on Illinois before returning home to take on Rutgers Oct. 10.

ive me one reason why Florida State is No. 1 in the AP poll.

Just one…

Still waiting.

Oh, they won the title last year.

And to that I say, Tennessee won in 1998, they should be No. 1 in the AP poll because I completely disregard my eyes and go off previous years results.

Florida State has played like a middle-of-the-road, power conference team with three tight wins: all nice wins, but they’re not taking teams behind the woodshed like the unstoppable juggernaut they were last year.

They’re more in the category of Baylor, Mississippi State and Nebraska, rather than sitting at the head of college football’s most prestigious table with the likes of Oregon, Oklahoma and Alabama.

Let’s go game by game to break down the Seminoles’ less than stellar case for a shot at the playoff.

Week 1: A narrow 6 point win over Oklahoma State. Now, I don’t want to discredit the quality of opponents but rather highlight the flaws of the Noles. The Cowboys are a good team, and should finish very high in the Big 12 if a few things go their way, but they’re not in contention for a national championship—they’re not that type of team.

Winston threw 15 incompletions and two interceptions.

Florida State was not able to pull away from the Cowboys due to their mistakes, but held on in the end despite trying very hard to blow a 17-point lead.

Week 2: An unimpressive win over The Citadel. It may be unethical or unsportsmanlike but FBS teams bring in FCS teams to serve as punching bags.

I’m not saying you should run up the score, but you should win by more than 25 points. Especially

when teams like Michigan, one of the worst teams in the country, can go up by over 50 in their dismantling of Appalachian State.

Now, don’t get me wrong, the Noles were never even close to losing this game and they benched everyone late, but despite the fact that the BCS is gone, teams still need to look good on paper and put up absurd numbers to ensure their spot in the final four.

Week 3: Then the Winston suspension happened. As much as I’d love to spew 200 words on that, this is a football column, not an opinion piece on the behavior of student athletes.

It’s hard to win without your best player and emotional leader, I’m not disputing that. But Winston doesn’t play defense, and the “best team in college football” according to the AP should be able to befuddle opposing offenses. Unfortunately, the Noles’ defense is giving up 25 points a game, which is 66th in the FBS: slightly less than average.

Week 4: The Seminole defense continued to be a great big sieve and gave up 41 to NC State. Fortunately, their offense bounced back and the Noles won in a shootout.

Regardless, the FSU rushing attack is abysmal­­­—and I’m not just saying that because we’re pampered Badger fans. Florida State is only averaging 123 rushing yards per game, and that’s with a dual threat quarterback. Thats 103rd in the country. The bottom 20 percent.

So here’s the verdict. 3 wins by one score or less, less than average defense, horrible rushing attack.

How can you look at those three points and say they’re the best team in college football? How can you infer that they’d beat any other team in the country on a neutral field? It makes no sense.

Down with the AP poll’s supposed champion.

Think Florida State has been looking better than Grey is giving them credit? More of an Oregon or Alabama person? Let Grey know at gsatterfield@wisc.edu and @gsatterfield45 on Twitter.