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ANDREW LAHR spare me the lahrcasm

he frigid morning air roused my shivering body into a wakeful state. My mind wasn’t quite there, and I felt like I’d just suffered a pretty decent amount of head trauma. It was dark, too dark for what time it must have been... Where the hell was I? The smell of manure and rotting hay ﬁlled my nostrils, and I vomited the little food that was left in my stomach all over the cement ﬂoor. My mouth was dry—really dry—what I would have given for a glass of water. Where was I, and what day was it? What had happened last night? Many questions awaited my unprepared head. It took my standing up to realized how weak I was. I couldn’t stop shaking, partly due to exhaustion and partly due to cold. I must have seriously exerted myself last night over something. A small lightbulb lay in the corner of what now appeared to be an abandoned farm. I pulled the string, fearing what quickly became a reality. No electricity... damn. As

my eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness, I looked at what was left of my clothes. My T-shirt was torn to the point of shreds, covered in what must have been my own blood, and lots and lots of mud (I hoped). My shoes were nowhere to be seen, on one foot a sock remained, covered in mud, the other was noticeably missing. All that was left of my trousers was one pant leg, resembling something I’d never seen before... It was coonskin! Right then I remembered last night was Freakfest. I had dressed up as Davey Crockett, but where was my trusty axe, and who would take just one pant leg? I felt a strange object in my pocket and my spirits finally began to rise as I felt the cool comfort of my Samsung in my bloody hand, a comfort that faded quickly as I raised it to my face. To my dismay, not only was it covered in mud, but the fancy “touch” screen that I had paid so much extra for had been smashed to bits (at least now I would get to finally try putting it in the blender like that guy on YouTube). I had to find a way to get out of this place! The only way out was the main double-door, and after giving it a few hard kicks, I soon realized it was immobile, locked from the other

The Dirty Bird

side. My heart was pounding in my ears as the adrenaline kicked in...was I going to die in here? Just then I saw it: a small broken window at the second level of the barn. The darkness had hidden it from my dreary eyes, but now it was as clear as day. I scaled a few old hay bales, and just managed to hoist myself through, falling hard on the other side. The building looked familiar, a bunch of hay bales and pieces of wood were stacked on the outside of the double doors. There were fields in all directions; each one was full of dead crops and bales of hay. I chose the one where I could just barely see a road on the other side... And that’s when I saw him. A dark, hooded figure was heading my way from the road. He seemed to be carrying something heavy looking, and seemed to be in a lot better condition than I. I could have tried running, but I knew I would just pass out right away. It was better to save my little strength for the coming confrontation. As he drew nearer and it became clear the object he was holding was some sort of melee weapon, I fell to my knees and began to cry, my life flashing before my eyes. “Please, spare me!” I yelled to my ever-approaching captor.

“Lahr, is that you?” I was confused, and shaking again from the cold. “You look pretty fucked up man, I heard from Cindy you got really blasted and tried to pick a fight with some guy from the wrestling team.” It was Steve, my roommate, and he was carrying my lost axe. “Found this lying near the house you got in that fight at. Too bad you didn’t use it, haha. Maybe it would have helped... probably not though, by the looks of it.” I forced a laugh. “Man I thought you were coming to kill me, how’d I end up on the floor of a barn?” Steve looked confused. “You don’t remember? You bet Mike a case of beer that you could stay the night in the old abandoned farm outside of town all night, he and John locked you in... looks like you won.” “Oh Jesus, that beer better be an import. Hey, you wanna keep that whole crying thing on the down low?” John laughed as I wiped the tears from my cheeks. “Yea we’ll keep that between you and me, that was one hell of a Freakfest man.” Have your own Freakfest stories? Send them to Andrew at aplahr@wisc.edu.

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ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

ERICA ANDRIST sex columnist With the possible exception of Thanksgiving, Halloween is my favorite holiday. If Thanksgiving is a holiday devoted to eating, then Halloween is a holiday devoted to role-playing—you get to dress up as something you’re not and have a ton of fun with people you love. On Halloween and on the other 364 days of the year, role-playing can be a marvelous addition to anyone’s sexual repertoire. If we are looking to spice things up without creating drama, then role-playing can offer us a chance to have sex with “someone else” while in a monogamous or long-term relationship. If we have a particular fantasy which we love, but ﬁnd undesirable (or impossible) to truly bring to life, then role-playing can be a safe way to indulge in that fantasy. For these reasons and more, people can enjoy assuming another bedroom identity. Once we’ve decided if role-play is for us, the next step is to introduce it to a partner. I suppose it is possible to role-play with oneself, but it is generally not awkward to ask yourself if you would like to dress up as Chewbacca. Asking a partner, however, can sometimes trip us up. There’s no magical way to ensure our partners will respond well to our sexual requests, and while we can sometimes negotiate compromises, boundaries must always be respected. That said, there are a few things we might try to help it go more smoothly. The ﬁrst suggestion is to bring it up in a non-sexual setting. If you blurt out, “Hey, I have a Richard Nixon mask in my closet. Would you mind putting it on?” mid-thrust, your partner may be a little taken aback. Bringing it up outside the bedroom accomplishes two things. First, in the heat of the moment, our partners may feel pressured to say yes, even if

they’re unsure. Thus, we allow everyone some time to make sure we’re okay with what is going on. The second beneﬁt is that we can give our partners a window to express some of their sexual desires. By making a dialogue (or trialogue, or whatever) out of it, we can tell our partners about our fantasies, and give them room to express theirs, too. An effective option for facilitating this is to make lists. Write down every fantasy you’re interested in acting out (or activity you’re interested in trying) on a sheet of paper. Have your partner do the same. Then exchange papers. Both of you will rank each item your partner has written on a scale of one to three. A rating of one means you are also extremely interested in trying that activity, a ‘two’ means you’re maybe not crazy about it, but are willing to check it out, and a ‘three’ means you’re not interested in trying that scene right now. Then, you can compare lists and see where both of your interests lie.

It’s your scene and your orgasm(s), and a good part of the fun can be planning every last detail.

The second tip for bringing it up with your partner is the approach. My partner will probably not respond well if I look at the ﬂoor, shufﬂe my feet, and mumble, “You know, um... I was kind of thinking, um... that maybe we could... well, I don’t know, I know it’s really stupid, but... I was kind of thinking we could dress up as zombies and have mad undead sex.” Sure, I might feel as awkward as I felt that time when I accidentally loaded a porn site onto my laptop in lecture (many apologies to the people behind me, but I was freakin’ doing research for THIS COLUMN), but it will go so much more smoothly if I march up to my partner and say, “I heard

about this crazy hot zombie porno, and I was thinking that we could watch it and then act it out afterwards. What do you think?” If we’re worried that our partners will think we’re weird, then by no means should we plant the seed that what we’re asking might be weird. Once all parties are psyched about roleplaying, the next step is to make sure everyone’s clear on what (or who) exactly is going down. Saying you’re going to be the teacher and your partner is the student might not cut it. Is your partner going to be the naughty student who needs to be disciplined? Or the goody-two-shoes who is oh-so-eager to impress? You can design the scene any way you would like to. You can include props or costumes if you want to. You can draw the scene out for the whole weekend if you want to. It’s your scene and your orgasm(s), and a good part of the fun can be planning every last detail. It’s also a good idea to have a safeword when we’re role-playing. A safeword is a word that means “no” or “stop” that is not actually “no” or “stop,” and is unlikely to be said over the course of the scene. We have safewords because in some scenes, I might say “no” or “stop” when I don’t actually want to stop—for example, if I’m role-playing that zombie sex scene and we’re right at the part where my partner eats my... brains. Thus, a safeword ensures we have a way of letting our partners know we’re not okay with the way the scene is progressing. Halloween gets billed as pretty much the one day a year when we can become someone else and have fun. By incorporating role-play into our sex lives, every day can be one of those days. We can start today. Dress up. Be creative. Have fun. Get consent. Use rubbers. And if you have any questions, you can play the student, I’ll play the sex columnist, and you can contact me via e-mail. Erica is a ﬁrst-year med student, but that will not stop her from rocking a Lady Gaga costume all weekend. Questions, comments and concerns can be directed to sex@dailycardinal.com.

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Alcohol License Density Plan called into question By Caitlin Gath The Daily Cardinal

The Alcohol License Density Plan could see several changes, or a possible repeal in the near future, according to a sub-committee of the Alcohol License Review Committee that met Thursday. The ALDP was enacted in October 2007 to reduce the number and capacity of alcohol licenses being distributed throughout the downtown and campus area. Reducing alcohol-related crimes was also a goal of the plan. However, according to the annual preliminary review of the ALDP, the number of liquor law violations increased the year after it was enacted. Many present at the meeting said they felt the plan is too restrictive. Hawk Schenkel, owner of Hawk’s Bar and Grill on State Street, said police enforcement is the key to well-run establishments and fewer alcohol-related crimes, not limiting licenses. The plan was enacted on a sunset provision, which requires its reevaluation after a certain

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period of time. The plan is currently set to expire a year from now, Alcohol Policy Coordinator Katherine Plominski said. “We’re trying to attract more people downtown,” Schenkel said. “I’m philosophically against it … you can’t keep on kicking away places and expect people to live down here and shop down here— it’s just not going to happen.” Mary Carbine, executive director of Madison’s central business improvement district, said she would like to determine the plan’s long-term economic impact on the city. “One could argue that development downtown could be adversely affected by the plan,” she said. Schenkel said if a bar has been a bar for a number of years, it is hard to imagine it as any other type of venue. “Unless some huge company comes in to spend money revamping a place, it’s not feasible to make it something else,” he said. “These places go out of business and it’s just going to sit alrc page 3

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Mark Staniszewski DJs at the Hoofers Buccanneer’s Ball at Memorial Union’s Great Hall Thursday.

New law requires health insurance for young adults By Ariel Shapiro The Daily Cardinal

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A new law will go into effect in January 2010 that requires all young adults up to age 27 to receive coverage from their parents’ health insurance policy, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Thursday. “This is a highly uninsured group of people in our state,” Doyle said. “If the people have a health insurance policy through their employer, or if they have one privately, that policy will now be required to cover children up to age 27 if they choose.” As it stands now, childless fulltime students can usually use their parents’ policy until the age of 25, but non-students are left to find coverage on their own. Because of this, many young adults who can’t

afford coverage go uncovered and hope for the best. A large part of the problem, Doyle said, is that there is no reasonable market available to this demographic. “I think most people who have children in this age group cannot find an affordable market, and what is available is usually so high deductable and so minimal ... so this is huge,” he said. However, the law is not without restrictions. Coverage excludes those who are married, those who have self-funded health plans, and those who have an employer-sponsored health plan that is cheaper than their parents’ plan. The new policy will also have federal tax consequences, Doyle

said, explaining the contribution of a child that is tax-dependent will be considered a part of their parents’ income. Despite the shortcomings of the new law, Doyle said he is positive about the increased security the plan will provide for young adults statewide. “This is a really remarkable step forward for people in this state,” Doyle said. “I wish this were around when my kids were that age.”

3 ways to stay safe on Halloween

1.CallPlan transportation in advance 262-5000 for all SAFE nighttime services • • •

SAFEwalk: 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. SAFEride bus: 6:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. SAFEride cab: 10:30 p.m. to 3 a.m.

2.• StayDon’t be out alone in groups and account for all members at all times • •

Tell a friend where you’re going and when you’ll be back Have taxi companies’ phone numbers and money on hand for rides home

3.• BeStay alert alert and aware of your surroundings • •

Don’t be a target—stay in well-lit, well-populated areas Familiarize yourself with SAFEride nighttime bus routes

—Courtesy of UW Transportation Services (wisc.edu/trans)

Obama to address education at Madison visit President Obama will have the opportunity to discuss federal stimulus incentives such as the “Race to the Top” education program during his visit to Madison next week, Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday. At a news conference, Doyle said the White House has been “fully briefed” on changes he has proposed to make Wisconsin more competitive for federal dollars that fund education reforms. Earlier this week, Doyle announced his support to allow

mayoral take-over of Milwaukee Public Schools. Doyle also proposed reforming teachers’ evaluations and lengthening the school year to improve Wisconsin’s chances of being awarded money from the Race to the Top program. Doyle emphasized the importance of stimulus funding, and said education systems across the country would be in “really, really deep trouble” without extra funds. “I hope that the president’s visit will be a chance for us to

really highlight the system we do have in the state, but also the fact that we are not resting on our word and the fact that we are really ready to race to the top,” Doyle said. The White House announced Obama will discuss “strengthening America’s education system” during his visit next Wednesday. Other details such as the location of the event have not yet been disclosed. —Hannah Furfaro

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Doyle shows support for new candidate The race for the governorship is still in flux for the Democrats, evidenced by Gov. Jim Doyle’s recent praise of a relatively unknown potential candidate Thursday. At a news conference, Doyle showed support for Kevin Conroy, a Madison biotech company executive, who is considering running a gubernatorial campaign as a Democrat. “I think he’s really a remarkable guy,” Doyle said. “I know Kevin— he has been a really creative and effective business person in this state

and you know, it will be up to him to make his decisions on what he is going to do.” Doyle’s comments come on the heels of Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton’s decision to leave the race, and the recent confirmation that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has been in contact with President Obama. Barrett is still considering running, and some suspect Obama’s visit to Madison next week may be include a discussion between Obama and Barrett about the 2010 gubernatorial election.

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alrc from page 1 there. The ALDP is not even really accomplishing anything.” Rick Petri, a representative from Downtown Madison Inc.,

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said some of the reasons people come downtown include dining, drinking, entertainment, sports and art. “That’s been part of our culture for 10,000 years,” Petri said.

“Food and drink are going to be a complement to downtown unless our culture changes.” The final review of the ALDP will be released within the next two weeks.

State arrests 34 immigrants By Kelsey Gunderson The Daily Cardinal

The Wisconsin Department of Justice announced Wednesday it arrested 34 undocumented immigrants throughout the state last week as a part of a two-week operation. The operation, which was conducted from Oct. 13-24, occurred in several cities, including Milwaukee, Whitewater, Kenosha and Waukesha, according to a statement. The DOJ statement said a majority of the immigrants arrested in the operation had criminal histories, including sexual assault, battery and cocaine possession. “Criminal illegal aliens do not belong in Wisconsin … my partnership with [Immigration and Customs

Enforcement] and local law enforcement continues to remove these threats to public safety and the neighborhoods and citizens they victimize,” Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said in a statement. Carolina Ortega, a member of MEChA, a UW-Madison organization aimed at educating the campus community on Hispanic-related issues, said she feels raids like these create a bad perception of undocumented immigrants in Wisconsin. “You just have to take a step back and admit that yes, some people do criminal activities, but that doesn’t mean that everybody is the same,” she said. Ortega added that immigrants in Wisconsin are innocent and that mass

arrests like these create fear among the immigrant population, leading to unwanted effects in the workforce. “They are just trying to work and make a living,” she said. “And when these raids happen, people get scared and stop showing up for work and this hurts both their employers and the employees.” Van Hollen said in the statement he feels raids like these ultimately improve the safety of Wisconsin communities, and plans to become more active with the issues surrounding undocumented immigrants in the future. “The success of this operation speaks for itself,” he said. “These criminals are now out of Wisconsin neighborhoods and off the streets.”

F o r m e r U W- Ma d i s o n basketball player Jeremy Glover pleaded guilty Thursday to burglarizing a Sellery Hall dorm room in early September, GLOVER according to the Dane County Circuit Court. Dane County Circuit Judge Sarah O’Brien accepted Glover’s plea and placed him in the First Offender Program in the District Attorney’s office. According to the criminal complaint, Glover and former teammate Diamond Taylor stole several iPods and cell phones, as well as almost $500 in cash on Sept. 6 from multiple dorm rooms in the building.

According to the complaint, Glover and Taylor were involved in another burglary incident in a private dorm building on Langdon Street that night. The complaint said Glover and Taylor admitted to drinking alcohol at a party before making the decision to burglarize the dorm rooms. According to the circuit court records, Taylor pleaded guilty in a hearing earlier this month and was placed in the First Offender Program as well. Glover, who was a walk-on from Haymarket, Va., still attends UW-Madison, although he no longer plays on the men’s basketball team. Taylor, who was a recruit from Bollingbrook, Ill., dropped out after the incident and now attends and plays basketball at Southern Illinois University. —Kelsey Gunderson

Legislature drops liquor tax increase By Alison Dirr The Daily Cardinal

The state Legislature dropped a $0.50 per liter liquor tax increase from a bill that boosts drunken driving penalties Thursday. The tax was originally proposed to fund part of the bill. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated the bill would have cost between $36 and $70 million, according to Carrie Lynch, spokesperson for Majority Leader Russ Decker, D-Schofield. Lynch explained this figure decreased significantly after the Department of Corrections reduced its cost estimate. The cost reduction was a result of more stringent ignition interlock device measures. The new law requires first-time offenders with a blood alcohol content of .15 or over to use the device, which makes the user take a Breathalyzer test before being able to start the car.

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“We’re trying to get to the problem [of drunken driving] earlier instead of waiting until people are a fourth offender and then locking them up in prison,” Lynch said. With fewer prisoners, the estimated costs decreased substantially. Pete Madland, spokesperson of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, supports dropping the tax for other reasons. “Any time you raise taxes, it’s going to hurt businesses and cost jobs,” Madland said. “With our economic conditions the way they are in the state, this is not the time to be raising taxes.” The legislative session ends next week, increasing pressure to pass the bill. State Sen. Jim Sullivan, D-Wauwatosa, and state Rep. Tony Staskunas, D-West Allis, the bill’s sponsors, removed the tax in order to facilitate compromise between the state Senate and the state House of Representatives.

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Campus buildings harbor spooky secrets By Caitlin Gath The Daily Cardinal

There are lots of things that are frightening, but generally college campuses should not be one of them. If you’ve ever taken the Haunted Campus Tour, you might be surprised at the many spooky myths lurking around Bascom Hill and beyond. Amid apparitions and poltergeists—which are decidedly more menacing—there is a lot more to the UW-Madison campus than really big hills and an unnecessary amount of walking. North Hall, the university’s first and oldest campus building built in 1851, originally served as a dormitory, library, museum and classroom. And eventually it became home to the school’s very first ghost. In 1880, student and future famous explorer John Muir reported seeing a white apparition in the hallway outside his bedroom. Local media picked up the story, and then the ghost was reportedly seen everywhere, at all hours of the day and night. Yet surprisingly enough, just when the story couldn’t get any juicier, another student named Whitney Trisdale confessed that it had been him dressed in a white sheet the

entire time. OK, so maybe not the scariest story you’ve ever heard, but trust me it gets better. Bascom Hall, the third oldest building on campus, is said to have creaky floorboards that are actually the moans and groans of John Bascom, for whom the building is named. Still not convinced the campus is haunted? Well, before the beloved Abe Lincoln statue was erected as ruler of Bascom Hill, a little debate had to be solved about whether or not several dead bodies should be removed in order to make room for him. Officials decided to leave the bodies and move Abe, but to this day small silver plaques at the top of the hill mark the graves of two men. Check them out the next time you make that deadly hike. If you’re not scared yet, which I don’t know how you couldn’t be, then think twice about entering into Science Hall the next time you feel the temptation to come face-to-face with dead body parts. Science Hall, which was erected in 1877, was originally intended for all science majors and engineering classes, when that was still feasible on cam-

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Students crowd around Science Hall, where cadavers were once housed in the late 1870’s. Students at the time reported odd occurrences like objects shifting in lab rooms and other strange happenings. pus. Several years later, the Former students have since makes you want to cry and hide anatomy department moved had the feeling of “not being under the covers with the light into the building, as well as alone” whenever they enter, and on, rest assured that you should a few cadavers. The cadavers on the fourth floor there have still be more worried about were housed in the basement, been reports of beakers being that big exam next week than with a pulley system created to knocked off the shelves one by whether or not your roommate transport the bodies between one, as if someone were slowly is going to put a sheet on and floors since there were no stairs pushing each one off. pretend to be the next great at the time. Even if none of these stories poltergeist of North Hall.

Last minute costume ideas Girls

1. 80s workout: Its fun and cute. All you need is a baggy sweatshirt, tights, legwarmers and a headband. 2. Butterfly: Flutter around State Street with a cheap pair of wings from Pipefitter or Ragstock then dress in all black. Quick, easy, cheap and most importantly warm! 3. Be an arctic explorer: Deny false expectations for girls’ costumes and create the jacket, ski boots, goggles and gloves needed survive a chilly Halloween. Plus it will keep away the creeps.

Guys

1. Any character from The Office: Its super easy. Just put on a shirt and tie, add the name tag of your favorite character and you’re good to go! 2. Sports fan/Player: Even easier. Put on your favorite jersey and hat, then accessorize with the corresponding sports equipment. 3. Try a character from the show Mad Men: If you are the more suave type, just assemble a suit and act confident. Plus it gives you an excuse to hold a drink in your hand most of the night, those guys have three martini lunches.

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At some point during Freakfest you are likely to run into Madison Police Department officers, with a few of them on horseback. MPD has stated this year that they will not need as many officers because of declining arrests in recent years.

1. High School stereotypes: You can include as many people as you want guys or girls. Don’t forget common stereotypes: jock, cheerleader, nerd, band geek, pot head and goth.

2. Holidays: It’s the perfect time to break out all the holiday themed accessories you have hidden in your closet and what makes it even better is that there is almost a holiday for everything so everyone can join. Start with the major ones like Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter and if you’re feeling creative try Black Friday or New Year’s Eve. 3. Scooby Doo/Buffy the Vampire Slayer: With a nice mix for male and female costumes, the Scooby Doo gang provides lots of opportunities to be creative. Fred’s white shirt and Shaggy’s hippy outfit are easy to acquire, though it might be harder to get Daphne’s purple dress. The Buffy group has a similar amount of boy or girl roles, just updated a few years and you’ll need red face paint for fake blood.

Couples

1. Peanut butter and jelly: Decorate two pieces of tag board – one peanut butter and the other jelly – tape it around you and you’re PBJ. 2. Taylor Swift and Kanye West: Get a sparkly dress for her, and dark shades, black clothes and a microphone for him and you’re ready to walk around interrupting each other all night! 3. Zombie and Zombie Hunter: Nothing says “a night out” like gushing brains made from cookie dough and a cowboy hat for your intrepid Zombie hunter. Pretend to chase or run from your date all night long, with ripped clothes the focus for both costumes.

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Frightful, funny films for Halloween fun “Hocus Pocus” Few things put me in the Halloween spirit more than Bette Midler sucking the souls from virgins through her 300-year-old buckteeth. “Hocus Pocus” was 1993’s most terrifying movie (eat it “Leprechaun”), which is probably why the Disney Channel gives us so many chances to watch Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and that lady from “Rat Race” whizz around on vacuum cleaners, ruin Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ songs and request seeing-eye books in French. It also spawned the careers of that closet voyeur girl from “American Beauty” and Kenny Ortega, so we can thank “Hocus Pocus” for that new MJ documentary. Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio was originally cast as Max the virgin, but fill-in Omri Katz got to talk to the cat “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” ripped off. Its spine-tingling pleasures—like watching dead cats inflate back to life—make “Pocus” one of the best cult films without decapitation. And who can resist spells like this: “Twist the bones and bend the back / Itch-it-a-cop-ita-mel-a-ka-mys-ti-ca.” -Ryan Hebel “Frankenweenie” It’s not what you’re thinking, unless you have seen this mid-80’s black-andwhite short film by Tim Burton. Although its name resembles a porno involving a creature made out of corpses, this parody focuses on a boy named Victor Frankenstein (surprise, surprise) whose dog, Sparky, is hit by a car. Victor makes some pretty elaborate machines for a little kid and brings Sparky back to life. Victor’s neighbors are horrified when they see Sparky alive again with bolts in his neck, and naturally form an angry mob. Needless to say, shenanigans ensue, and the movie ends when the whole community is brought together and learns a valuable lesson. This heartfelt childhood classic was good enough to get Burton fired from Disney, though Burton is now planning a stop-motion remake in black and white 3-D to come out in 2011. It is still a mystery why it is called “Frankenweenie,” when it is not a wiener dog but a bull terrier. At any rate, Sparky’s acting abilities as a Frankenstein creature clearly surpass those of Robert De Niro. -Conrad Canfield

“The Thing” A successful horror film must contain one of two things: either several legitimately terrifying moments, or enough gore to make the Crypt Keeper cringe. Provide both, and you’re not just a decent fright flick, you’re a bona fide horror classic. That’s why John Carpenter’s “The Thing,” a movie that never misses a chance to terrify while spilling buckets upon buckets of blood, is always worth a spin in the DVD player come Halloween. Carpenter plays to all of the most widely circulated fears humans have. The setting on a secluded Antarctic base plays to fears of isolation and claustrophobia. The alien antagonist, which can assimilate itself with any life form it touches, creates paranoia among the characters and plays at the fear of relying on other people. The presence of Wilford Brimley plays to the all-too-common fear of bushy mustaches. Everything is there, and it’s all held together by a truly badass performance from Kurt Russell. And topping it all off, the ending is truly unforgettable, and likely to make viewers just as paranoid as the characters. -Todd Stevens

“The Nightmare Before Christmas” Tim Burton’s stop-motion fantasy is a must-have movie this Halloween if you agree with any of the following statements: First, you think an angsty skeleton in a striped suit who can pump out a ballad better than Hamlet on crack is charismatic and strangely adorable. Second, you still check under your bed for the Oogie Boogie man and wonder why his Southern twang makes him so terrifying. Third, once the leaves start changing colors you find yourself humming the Pumpkin Song on your way to class. And finally, the mere fact that Walgreens everywhere have already stocked candy canes and snowflake-themed baking kits sets you off more than failing your Finance midterm (Not that I actually did, though). Shelve the Christmas goodies until next week. “This is Halloween!” -Treena Nicole Fischer “The ’Burbs” Tom Hanks is known for some of Hollywood’s greatest films, but one of his lesser-known flicks should be at the top of everyone’s Halloween movie list. In the 1989 feature “The ‘Burbs,” Hanks plays Ray Peterson, a suburbanite family man fed up with the banality of everyday life. Along with his nosy neighbors—played by Bruce Dern, Corey Feldman and comedian Rick Ducommun—Peterson investigates why his suspicious new neighbors, the Klopeks, beat their garbage with a shovel and dig in their backyard in the middle of the night. The sexy Carrie Fisher plays Peterson’s wife, and the late Henry Gibson is great as the mysterious Dr. Werner Klopek. The movie is great for its social commentary on the neuroses of suburban life as well as its bevy of corny one-liners—a must-watch for a lot of laughs and a few scares on All Hallow’s Eve. -Joe Skurzewski GRAPHIC BY JENNY PEEK

“Sleepy Hollow” With the slasher genre’s plotless gore inﬁltrating every corner of the commercial market these days, the historic side of Halloween has been forgotten. My go-to fright ﬁlm: “Sleepy Hollow,” because the Headless Horseman is to Halloween what Santa is to Christmas. Tim Burton brings a classic legend back to life with the added bonus of some pretty sweet digital effects, Johnny Depp and, oh yeah, Christopher Walken as a head-chopping Hessian. Burton’s Gothic interpretation (18th century type, not kids with black makeup) of Washington Irving’s folk story is a true homage to American literature and period costume while offering a dark vignette of our modern taste for bloodshed. Grab some popcorn and enjoy. -Treena Nicole Fischer

“Drag Me To Hell” Hearing that Sam Raimi had a new horror ﬂick in the works was met all but universally with groans. Imagine the collective shock felt by the blogosphere (and by normal people world for that matter) when it turned out to be good! Acting as a spiritual successor to his cult favorite “Evil Dead,” “Drag Me to Hell” combines old-school tropes and new-school effects to great effect. The script is full of delightful horror clichés—a young girl pisses off the wrong gypsy, inviting demons to torment her and, well, the rest is in the title. Raimi constantly takes us from terror to nervous laughter and back to a scar—the movie plays like a fake left jab followed by a right hook to the stomach. In a good way. -Mark Riechers

“Dawn of the Dead” Let’s talk zombies. Zombies overwhelm us humans with huge numbers of animated corpses. If they bite you, you become a zombie, doomed to wander the earth hankering for brains. Your best bet to survive, naturally, is to hide out in a shopping mall. You can thank George Romero for this PSA, who brought the zombie genre into the mainstream with “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968. “Dawn of the Dead,” the second and arguably best in Romero’s canon, depicts survivors that try to wait out the zombocalypse in a monument to consumerism. Zombie violence via sporting goods ensues. Pro tip: avoid the action-heavy Zack Snyder remake from 2004—the 1978 version is a terrifying classic. -Mark Riechers

“Shaun of the Dead” If anyone acknowledged the great debt we all owe George Romero for his work with zombies, it’s Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. “Shaun of the Dead” plays as a love song to the zombie genre—each sight gag is an elaborate recreation of scenes from Romero’s movies with Pegg and Wright’s cast inserted to comic effect. Even Shaun’s yawns at “The Night of the Blood Beast”—Mystery Science Theater 3000 version work replicate the moan of the undead, which Sometimes movies intended to instill fear into the hearts of the All-American family from 1958 only serve to make us laugh in demonstrates something about the filmmakers– the naughts. This is the case with the pseudo-science fiction and diluted horror extravaganza that is “The Night of the Blood Beast,” they get zombie flicks, specifically their themes viewed through the eyes of Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot and the lone human aboard the Satellite of Love, Mike Nelson. “The Night that apply to people as well as monsters. By its of the Blood Beast” begins with a horrendous short film about an angel from heaven sent to help a newly married couple do, well, dark conclusion, “Shaun” becomes a genuinely something, I guess. Shortly thereafter, a NASA spaceship crashes and we find a dead pilot inside. But it turns out he isn’t dead, scary zombie flick in its own right—great for just infected by a mysterious alien who is hellbent on impregnating as many humans as possible with animated shrimp-creatures. tricking your scaredy-cat friends into watching a Without the commentary from the S.O.L., this film would be truly unbearable. And it ends exactly as you would expect: the blood horror film. -Mark Riechers beast assumes a human host and Molotov cocktails fly! -Anthony Cefali

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A memoir of genius, a reﬂection of glories past By Anthony Cefali THE DAILY CARDINAL

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And craziness ensues... By Pati Mo THE DAILY CARDINAL

It’s time to put on costumes and let Halloween once more bring on many unforgettable moments. Every year, hundreds of students and visitors congregate in downtown Madison for the festivities of Halloween night, and some of them end up having unusual experiences on Halloween weekend. Last year, UW-Madison junior Mike Pontillo faced an unexpected incident in the middle of a party in his 110-year-old house. “Someone was using the restroom upstairs, [and] they clogged the toilet somehow and watched [it] overflow,” Pontillo said. The overflowing toilet, according to Pontillo, flooded the entire bathroom and started leaking through, down into the kitchen. “It was almost raining in my kitchen,” said Pontillo, who had over 70 guests at his party that night. The incident made the night even more fun, Pontillo said, since he was forced to handle a completely unexpected situation at a rather unfavorable time. “It was fun trying to deal with the situation while not being 100 percent sober.”

Some students witness bizarre events right outside of their homes. “[My] craziest moment was having 47 cops in front of my house,” said UW-Madison senior Josh Wolf, who struggled to bring people into his house while police officers tried to close off the street. Some students, however, draw attention by just wearing intriguing costumes and walking down State Street. UW-Madison junior David Glustrom remembers the many reactions he received from his outfit last Halloween. “Last year I was a boxer. I remember [fighting with] other boxers on the street,” said Glustrom, who usually shops at costume or thrift stores for Halloween outfits. Glustrom expects to see State Street transform into the usual catwalk full of different costumes. “[I’m] looking forward to seeing a lot of Michael Jacksons, a lot of [characters from] ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and Obamas,” Glustrom said. These seemingly out of the ordinary experiences students have every year on Halloween has made this weekend on campus a time to await more surprises.

DANGEROUS DRINKING GAMES FOR HALLOWEEN Trick or Treat

Sit around with your friends and a deck of cards. Go around the table with each person picking a card. A black card is a “treat,” which means the card picker takes a five-second drink. A red card is a “trick,” in which the card picker gives out 10 seconds worth of drinks, splitting up the time allotment however he wants to. A face card is a double-trick, meaning the time allotment for whoever must drink is doubled. And an ace is Goblin, meaning whoever is the last person to grab his beer and begin drinking must finish his drink, however much remains. The high time duration for drinks is not for the weak, so when players are feeling overwhelmed they tap out. The last person to tap out wins.

Halloween Beer Pong

The normal beer pong rules apply, except for one spooky rule. Before the game, each team must denote on of its cup as a “horror cup.” When the opposing team sinks a team’s horror cup, whoever’s turn it is to drink must drop a shot of any kind into the cup of beer and chug, ultimately making the cup a horrible drop shot. If the losing team finished the game without sinking its opponent’s horror cup, both members of the other team must do that horror of a drop shot.

The Cauldron

Fill up a pitcher of beer to create to drinking “cauldron.” All the players stand up in a circle. Randomly select a player to go first. The first player drinks out of the cauldron as long as he lies, while the rest of the players count off the seconds. When the first player is finished, he passes the cauldron to his left, where the next player must chug the cauldron for at least one more second than the previous drinker. Whoever fails to exceed the amount of seconds drunk from the cauldron of the previous drinker is deemed the witch. The witch must pay the price by entertaining the rest of the players with a witch dance for at least 15 seconds.

The following text was discovered in an ancient ﬁle cabinet in the Cardinal backshop. It was neither dated nor signed though handwriting and historical experts say it is likely the work of one R.L. Stine. What would you say if I asked if you had read Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”? How about Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” or Pynchon’s “The Crying of Lot 49”? How about “Say Cheese and Die” and “Say Cheese and Die-Again!” Notice I have not named the author of the last novels, because he is me! And I am him! I, the venerable Robert Lawrence Stine, will live on forever as the unrecognized genius that put the werewolf back in the living room, showed kids that piano lessons could in fact be murder and brought terror back to the Scholastic BOOk fair (my wit knows not the rules of punctuation). And what do I have to show for it besides some 300 million books sold? I have written hundreds of books, but not one has received the critical acclaim it deserves. Instead of praise, people have accused me of having ghostwriters, and I must say that I am insulted by this. Gentle readers, you must be thinking of Bill Shakespeare, that dishonest immoral louse, not the proliﬁc genius who perfectly captured the feeling of existential uncertainty in “The Blob that Ate Everyone.” He eats because he loves, my readers, because one can achieve no greater closeness than through the act of phagocytosis. Where else can you find the suspense and terror featured in my books? For a while, my Goosebumps series had to compete with that infernal Nickelodeon show “Are You Afraid of the Dark,” but alas fair reader, the pen is and always will be mightier than cheap pyrotechnics and bad make-up. I strive in every one of my books to give voice to your innermost fears, to make you expect that which you least expect. I feel my literary strength is my ability to make mountains of people we never bother to think twice about. Would you ever guess your grandma was a secret agent? Well neither would I, but that’s why I wrote “Secret Agent Grandma,” to help blur the lines between the reality of this world and our deepest fantasies. For me, writing is as much about critiquing progress and society just as much as it is scaring the pants off of kids. And I have already broken ground with my critique of the Internet shortly after its invention by Al Gore. I wrote “It Came from the Internet,” back in 1999, well before Chris Hanson used his nationally syndicated show to warn people of predatory dangers. And the danger I warned of was, and is, far more deadly. Some say these are children’s books, I say they are memoirs of a man who has never grown up. Of all my books, I am most proud of “A Shocker on Shock Street.” Any of my dedicated fans would be quick to point out that my books are full of all kinds of shocks, but “Shock Street” is an entirely new different kind of shock altogether. “Shock Street” itself is a subtle jab at my own fame, to show exactly how good-humored I am about the years of unrecognition. It is a parody of the Goosebumps

series, complete with a literal world built around the perils featured in the “Shock Street” books, a mirror held up to my own! I puff my pipe at you, innocent reader, who is not instantly smitten by exactly how beyond post-modernism “Shock Street” is. Not to mention the robot twist! Did you ever see that one coming? You thought you could project yourself and your friend onto the lives of Erin and Marty, but how wrong you were! Unless you are a robot, which I’m sure you never thought about until you read my book! “How did I do it you,” you may ask? How could I have slipped such an Orwellian twist into such an innocent novel? We live in a post-modern world, it was the least I could do, helping us reach a state beyond postmodernity. It is divinely post-post modern, but I digress.

Halloween approaches, a time of year that is distinctly my time of year, much like the theme park in “Shock Street” is my ultimate dream. And I must say it is time to give credit where credit is due. The ebb and ﬂow of time are working against me, the tide washing out the name that I wrote so boldly in the sand and decorated it with shrunken heads and jacko-lanterns, but I know that it will eventually fade away. So I say this; remember me every Halloween as the man who helped an entire generation of kids look into themselves to ﬁnd what scares them most, so that they could face and conquer it. And when I am so long gone that worms have started to gnaw at my bones, remember my candid and lighthearted novellas that helped you to understand this bleak human condition, especially “Go Eat Worms!”

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His genius abounds, his thrills are profound, and at the end of the day, he is just one creepy dude.

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I see dead people. According to a CNN survey, 48 percent of Americans believe in ghosts while 22 percent say they’ve seen or felt a ghost. dailycardinal.com/comics

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Today’s Sudoku

Evil Bird

By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

Angel Hair Pasta

By Todd Stevens ststevens@wisc.edu

Sid and Phil

By Alex Lewein alex@sidandphil.com

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

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

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

The Graph Giraffe

By Yosef Lerner ilerner@wisc.edu

Charlie and Boomer

By Natasha Soglin soglin@wisc.edu

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what to wear? ACROSS 1 Pickled flower bud 6 1991 missile 10 Alka-Seltzer-into-water sound 14 Covent Garden staging 15 Bat Masterson’s aid 16 Criminal charges 17 Start of a warm weather pun 20 Chinese toy, for short 21 Drug cooked up in labs 22 Kind of change 23 Like some advice 25 “Hey, good ___!” 29 Sounds of contentedness 30 AAA assignment 33 Certain Alaska native 34 Appease 36 Reason to visit the school nurse 37 Middle of a warm weather pun 40 It may have a combination 41 Boater’s getaway spot 42 “... ___, dust to dust” 43 112.5 degrees away from S 44 Ten-percenter, briefly 45 Affirm 46 Automobile engine

part 9 Become limp 4 52 Western Samoan currency 53 Contents of some lockers 57 End of a warm weather pun 60 “Nautical” prefix 61 Army division 62 Jung’s feminine component 63 Euphoric feeling 64 ___ noire (fearsome entity) 65 Kind of saxophone DOWN 1 Overthrow of the government 2 Area in an abbey 3 Cheat at Pin the Tail on the Donkey 4 Hebrides language 5 “Yay, team!” 6 “The Turn of the ___” 7 Slyly spiteful 8 Take out a sword 9 ___ Rio, Texas 10 College head, in slang 11 Kilauea flow 12 Org. that rolls out the barrels 13 Attention-getter in a library 18 Arabian Sea sultanate

9 Anguine fish 1 23 Diet, in adspeak 24 “Cheers” actress Perlman 25 Hard-twisted cotton thread 26 Burger topping, perhaps 27 “An ___ of prevention ...” 28 Gun’s recoil 30 Church support 31 An earth tone 32 Most minuscule 34 Soft mineral often carved 35 Arctic sea bird 36 What to eat to lose weight 38 Primordial matter, to some 39 Like the outdoors 44 Absorbed 45 Worshiper’s distance? 46 Silver salmon (Var.) 47 Entrenched routine 48 Winged 49 Pull, caveman style 50 100 Cambodian sen 51 Hideous giant 53 Feature of some lions 54 “___ go bragh!” 55 Survivalist’s stockpile 56 “Arts” anagram 58 Bath place 59 “___ your heart out!”

Washington and the Bear

By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

opinion Key to progress lies in the Golden Rule dailycardinal.com/opinion

By James Meincke COLLEGE DEMOCRATS

In the United States, an overwhelming majority of Americans identify with both religious and political beliefs. In every major religion of the world, people are called to love one another as themselves. That being the case, why isn’t this fundamental idea inherent in our politics as well? The idea of loving one another transcends not only religious boundaries, but is also an ethical belief we have heard since childhood—the Golden Rule. Politics should be a tool used to help our neighbors, but I do not see that reﬂected in contemporary politics. Social issues like welfare and poverty are crucial to the concept of loving one another. If we are called upon to help our neighbors, why is it such a problem to give to the less fortunate? Many conservatives argue against welfare because of the cost, yet many continue to support the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where combined costs total nearly a trillion dollars. It is hard to justify supporting these wars when we

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are not willing to give to our neighbors so they can live better lives. With nearly half of every tax dollar going to the military, our policies just do not seem to follow our faith-based values. Furthermore, many conservatives threaten a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion based on their religious beliefs to protect the life of the fetus. Whatever your stance is on this issue, please acknowledge that there are many o t h e r issues that affect the protection of life. This would include such issues as war, the death penalty and stopping genocide. It is contradictory to vote for a candidate based on his or her abortion stance when he or she also supports war. After the attacks on Sep. 11, President Bush declared it our moral responsibility to rid the world of evil. With the civil-

ian death toll in Iraq reaching close to one million, can we still justify that call to action through our faith values? Lastly, I would like to touch on the debate concerning health care. One of the biggest problems concerning this issue is our inability to put ourselves in others’ shoes. We are so comfortable in our own situations

that we forget that others are struggling to survive, even in our own country. With over 40 million Americans uninsured, we face a terrible crisis. Again, the idea of helping our neighbors is

Restaurant aid needed for wait staff during these lean times By Kathy Dittrich THE DAILY CARDINAL

In these tough economic times ,the hospitality industry and its employees are suffering. As consumers revisit home cooking and grocery shopping in an effort to cut food costs (and improve eating habits), both the restaurant business and the salary of its employees, which depends on patron numbers, have decreased. Madison, which is ranked third for restaurants per capita in the entire nation, is home to a large and cheap work force—namely, students. Students do much of the grunt work in Madison. They deliver pizzas and server beer until 3 a.m., and steam milk and pull shots of espresso at 6 a.m.

In these tight economic times, with restaurant business already down, customers are tipping less.

This large and eager work force has supported and made the hospitality industry of Madison possible. Madison restaurant owners owe their success and livelihood to the thousands of student employees who labor Friday night until close only to turn around and do it all over again Saturday morning for a Badger game. Waiting tables and tending bar are two of the most difﬁcult service industry jobs. Working in a restaurant is both physically and mentally exhausting. Employees are constantly on their feet and rarely have the opportunity to sit down during a shift. They frequently lug cases of beer up stairs, haul kegs around walk-in refrigerators and bear trays loaded with food and drinks from kitchen to table and back again. Service industry workers

suffer the verbal abuse of dissatisfied customers, belligerent and offensive behavior of drunks and dehumanizing treatment of the entitled. One might assume that restaurant employees are amply compensated for their troubles. In Madison, however, restaurants pay their servers a mere $2.33 per hour. Bartenders might make $6-7 per hour at a nicer establishment, but most campus-area bartenders make $4-5 per hour. Restaurants are allowed to pay less than minimum wage in Wisconsin as long as an employee’s tips make up the difference between minimum wage and $2.33. This is a pretty sweet deal for restaurant owners as it means that they don’t have to pay their tipped employees even minimum wage. However, this means the responsibility of paying a restaurant employee falls to the customer. Without customers, servers don’t get paid. And in these tight economic times, with restaurant business already down, customers are tipping less. It’s a double whammy to service industry salaries. Service industry professionals should not have to live on such uncertain and volatile circumstances. The exploitation of the student work force (for whom any job is better than no job) must stop. Madison needs to increase the server wage. It’s unacceptable and unfair that the restaurant industry is allowed to pay their employees less than minimum wage. Restaurants in Madison are taking advantage of the large cheap work force here and profiting off both the cheap labor of their employees and the labor of anyone who patronizes their establishment, as it is the patrons who bear the financial burden of a tipped employee’s salary. A tipped employee’s livelihood therefore depends on the consideration and generosity of his or her customers. A tipped employee can never have a bad day. Hourly employees can have a bad day and

make just as much money as when they have good days. If a tipped employee has a bad day, they get tipped less and consequently, they get paid less. Should one’s salary be determined by emotional factors? Is it really fair to pay someone less because their grandma died and they are upset? Or, they have three mid-terms this week and are sleepdeprived and distracted?

Restaurants in Madison are taking advantage of the large cheap work force here and proﬁting.

Service industry employees should not have to rely solely on tips to pay their rent, heat their home and put food on the table. Restaurants should be required to pay their employees a decent hourly wage and a server’s tips should not make up for or affect what the restaurant pays them. Tips are not guaranteed, especially now when people are pinching pennies and shorting their server or bartender. An employee’s wage should be guaranteed. No one should have to wonder whether or not they will get paid this week. The word ‘tip’ is formed from the acronym of ‘To Insure Promptness.’ Tips should be rewarded for a job well done and in appreciation of good service. Restaurant employees should not be forced to depend on the generosity of a customer to earn a living. It is time for restaurants to take some responsibility for the livelihood of their employees and adequately compensate those who make their business possible. Kathy Dittrich is a senior majoring in French and English. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

not only a religious idea, but one concerning all of humanity. It saddens my heart when I see people frivolously spending and indulging themselves with worldly possessions, yet the idea of a national health-care plan is still too “f r i v o lous” for our government. Opponents of health-care reform argue that we can’t afford it. I reject that claim. What we cannot afford is having our own citizens out on the streets because a surgery bill cost them their house. What we cannot afford are insurance companies denying procedures based on costs, and those decisions resulting in the deaths of patients. That is a real crime. Gandhi said the “earth provides enough for every man’s need but not every man’s greed.” The barrier of selfishness must

fall before we can help out our fellow citizens. The bottom line is that we, as citizens, whether religious or not, need to step up and give to our brothers and sisters. We can use the government as a tool to efficiently help our neighbors in a way we cannot individually. But government will not always be perfect and cannot force us to help each other. We must take the initiative on our own to help our neighbors and promote good in our lives. If you have ever justified your politics through your faith, then I ask you to consider whether your decisions were for the benefit of others. If we want change in this world, we must embody that change and represent it for others to see. Ultimately, we must love each other as ourselves. Otherwise, the ideals of selfishness and greed will take over and progress will cease. James Meincke is the communications chair of the College Democrats of Madison. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

The ALRC Student Vote Campaign Since the denial of Ald. Bryon Eagon’s proposal for a student voting seat on the Alcohol License and Review Committe last week The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board has urged readers to e-mail city alders with their opinions about the student vote on the ALRC. The issue is moving beyond the ALRC now and will be debated during the next Common Council meeting on Tuesday Nov. 3 at 6:30 in the City-Council building. We encourage students to attend and show their support for a student vote on the ALRC. Contact city alders The contact information for all city alders can be found at cityofmadison.com/council. Send an e-mail to city ofﬁcials to let them know your stance on creating a student voting member on the ALRC.

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Little Girls formulate incomplete ‘Concepts’ for new release By Kyle Sparks

tary rubble. Their lyrics are indecipherable throughout Concepts, but on “Youth Tunes” California is so in right now. Following it’s clear they’re not calling for help. They’re the breakthroughs of bedroom noisemak- underwater, but they’re meant to be there. ers Wavves and Girls, among others, West Concepts is a surf rock album thorCoast rock hasn’t seen this much atten- oughly drenched in noise. Although the tion since Black Flag and the Minutemen studio can be used as a beneficial instruroamed the coast. Indie culture has swelled ment, it’s more of a deterrent for Little around the geographically prominent lo-fi Girls. Whatever innocuous statement geyser, fully embracing the characteristi- they mutter, the vocals’ grimy aesthetic cally ramshackled prosinks any meaning behind CD REVIEW cesses and the ambiguity the trudging melody. Their of chaos. Music’s cycliattempt at echolocation gets cal history has clearly lost in translation, bouncing shown, though, that if off of too much choral and anything, this spells the seaweed to retain substantive value. It would seem as beginning of the end. though they’re using their Increased exposure designates a fleeting, spefilthy production value to Concepts cial flavor by creating a hide the fact that they don’t Little Girls public swimming pool actually have anything to say, of sounds. but I’m willing to give them Seemingly every band has its hand in the benefit of the doubt for now because the distortion pedal pond, and as Garreth what minimal message they do get across Campesinos! wisely put it, “Stamping harder is received warmly. on your fx pedal won’t make you feel any However, a benefit of the doubt isn’t a better anymore.” It takes more than distorted saving grace, and Little Girls is a band that aesthetic to stick out these days, but indi- doesn’t need to stay in the basement. Their viduality comes in many shapes and sizes. sharp guitars and throaty vocals are warm Take, then, Toronto’s Little Girls. Their latest enough that they don’t need a cloak to go release, Concepts, is an album so desperately out in public. It almost seems like they’re longing for California’s beach rays that it goes ashamed of themselves, holing up and takso far as to submerge itself in its ocean from ing a dive just when the waves are about to hit their peak, refusing to open up enough 2,500 miles away. to be received. There’s an art to keeping your cards close to your chest, but at times it’s almost as if Little Girls have exchanged their cards for a wetsuit. Their name emits an air of immaturity, That undercover aspect is the crux of and if we think of it in terms of raw Little Girls’ paradox. Their name emits potential then it’s an apt descriptor. an air of immaturity, and if we think of it in terms of raw potential then it’s an apt descriptor. They paddle just a little too far offshore, and Concepts suffers for it. They’re caught in the undertow and they haven’t Little Girls play to their strengths with yet found a way to squeeze Little Girls perpetually rolling guitars. Their churn- between Vivian Girls, Screaming Females, ing chords work like dairy farmers, but Parenthetical Girls or just plain Girls withtheir efforts tend to get washed up in the out conforming to the California zeitgeist. sonic hullabaloo. The production value They do their own originality and ambition ultimately makes the proverbial butter in a disservice by being overly adventurous in this scenario so aqueous that each pulsating a shared reservoir. I don’t mean to suggest chord grinds itself into more of a soup than that Little Girls don’t belong, because they do; but they need to carve out their own a suitable bread topping. The group’s high water mark comes right path in ambivalent surf distortion before away on lead track “Youth Tunes.” Layers of we can justifiably recognize them as not guitars crash over each other and build sizable just contemporaries of the scene, but as a momentum before the tide recedes and the band worth noting at the tip of the tide chords are left to start over from the sedimen- instead of merely at the mercy of it. THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Although a happy medium between Paramore and Los Campesinos!, Johnny Foreigner’s latest release, Grace and the Bigger Picture, lacks a clear picture of its own.

Lacking ‘big picture’ By Kyle Sparks

harm and casting blame. Whether a missed opportunity or a frustrating encounter with a Although their press photos rub shoulders boy toy who refuses to make his intentions clear, with the likes of Paramore and 30 Seconds to they’re never slow to point the finger, and the Mars, Johnny Foreigner spend their time touring overarching theme of decisiveness pits an ‘us vs. with groups like Girls and Los Campesinos! on them’ hostility. the regular. The hyperactive pop-rock on their latBut what’s so frustrating about Johnny est release, Grace and the Bigger Picture, straddles Foreigner is that they lack a clear position. the fence between the two groups like Harry They see faults in everything but make no Harlow’s monkeys, unsure about whether the argument for remedy. They oppose themsubstance provided by one can negate the comfort selves to most everything, but make no statement as to what it is they actually stand provided by the other. At their best, Johnny Foreigner are a radiant for. They find pleasure in parties and each example of what post-twee is. In many ways, the other, but fail to align themselves with any individual ethos. Their attiantithesis of twee pop itself, CD REVIEW tudes are dependent on othpost-twee adds stark observations, angst and education to ers, which makes “Choose the oppressively cheery genre. Yr Side and Shut Up!” more Optimism is replaced by pessiof a plea for help than a mism, twangy hooks by distorhostile accusation. tion and elementary emotions There are enough appealing by hyper-literate discourse, components of Grace to suggest and Johnny Foreigner seem to that Johnny Foreigner are in Grace and the understand this well enough. fact a band worth our time, but Bigger Picture “Choose Yr Side and Shut ultimately, Grace’s inability to Johnny Up!” is what Sum 41 should choose a side and shut themForeigner selves up puts the group in a have been. The metal-based guitar trills provide a solid grounding for the precarious position. People who like Paramore angst-ridden yelps and propel the album with a might get turned off by the post-twee yelps, while fans of Los Campesinos! might struggle to see sense of immediacy from the start. Yet Grace is an excessively divisive record. value in the group’s mindless indulgences. At the end of the day, they’re just pop songs, It’s a full-length LP, but it might as well be three separate EPs. “I’llchoosemysideandshutu and at the risk of sounding like too much of a p, Alright” faithfully closes out the lead track’s curmudgeon, there’s enough pop music out there theme, wrapping up the pep and urgency of that actually says something for anyone to feel the album’s onset with a dreary ode to ending obligated to sit around with informal expressions. a relationship for the fun provided by friends. It’s not that Grace is entirely mindless either. “Criminals” follows with another upbeat Whereas contemporaries like Paramore compliromper that takes a more drawn-out approach ment their weightless discourse with directionless to enthusiasm before concluding with one of distortion, Johnny Foreigner at least accomthe album’s true standouts, “I Woke Up On A plish instrumental coherence, thus revealing the schism. Musically, they align themselves with Los Beach In Aberystwyth.” The back third of the album is the real winner, Campesinos! and other post-twee revolutionists; highlighting the most successful components of lyrically, they stand next to 30 Seconds to Mars their first two sounds in an amusing and coherent and other MTV teen-punkers. They present two conclusion. Ironically enough, “More Tongue, antitheses—style and substance—and they’ll have Less Heart” accomplishes the opposite of what its a hard time being embraced by devout followers name alludes to, scaling back the trudging vocals of either until they finally choose a side. Music listeners aren’t wire and twine; we’re real people and focusing on an expressive discontentedness. Primarily their lyrics reflect on absorbing and we want commitment. THE DAILY CARDINAL

Around campus this weekend Chicago’s Smith Westerns are the new-wave Beatles. Their just-wanna-hold-your-hand poptimism is more broadly deﬁned, and their summery hooks bathe in dirt—think early Black Lips. By the looks of them, you’d guess they just formed a few months ago to compete in their middle school’s talent show; but by now they’re practically roadtested warriors. They’ve been prominently featured in publications, including Pitchfork, and their arrival in Madison trumps whatever Halloween Eve apple-bobbing or pumpkin carving you had planned, guaranteed. who: The Smith Westerns and Capgun Coup where: Der Rathskeller when: Friday 9:30 p.m.

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Like a cat passing through the hands of a guitarist, so does the focus pass through the Little Girls’ hands on their latest release, Concepts.

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Women’s Hockey

Badgers look to right ship against rival Minnesota By Nico Savidge THE DAILY CARDINAL

After three series against mid- and lower-level conference competition, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team faces its biggest test of the year this weekend with a series against undefeated rival Minnesota. So far this year, the Badgers have been inconsistent over the course of their series, having lost their opening game and won the second contest against each of their opponents. Senior goaltender Alannah McCready attributed Wisconsin’s second-game success to the sense of desperation they feel after losing their first game and trying to avoid a sweep. She said the team has to find a way to recreate that intensity in their series-openers. “In the second games we have a lot more urgency,” McCready said. “We need to bring how we were playing in the second game to the first game and we’ll be just fine.” McCready attributed the firstgame losses to the team needing more time than normal to get used to their opponents’ style. “It’s taking us a little bit longer to get cohesive and make sure everyone’s

working together okay,” she said. Interim head coach Tracey DeKeyser attributed the Badgers’ early struggles to working out where players will ﬁt into the teams’ new structure after major off-season changes. “We’ve had a couple of series to ﬁgure out lineups and just roles for returners and new players,” DeKeyser said. “So I’m excited to see what we can bring into the rink tomorrow.”

“That’s always exciting to play the Gophers and I’m sure they’re excited to play us.” Tracey DeKeyser interim head coach UW women’s hockey

One of the most important roles Wisconsin has had to sort out is who will start in goal, where McCready and freshman Becca Reugsegger have traded starts so far this year. In two games this year, McCready has a 1.50 goals against average and a .946 save percentage, while Reugsegger is averaging 2.02 goals

allowed per game and has a .911 save percentage. Although the team has yet to find a consistent starter, DeKeyser said they would not make a schedule for splitting starts between Reugsegger and McCready. “We don’t have a set schedule like that because it’s so dependent upon injuries and who’s performing and who’s prepared,” she said. One of the benefits of Wisconsin’s schedule so far has been that the Badgers have not had to face top competition like the Gophers so far. Senior forward Jasmine Giles said the team’s first three series against North Dakota, Bemidji State and Ohio State have given them an opportunity to shake off the cobwebs, adapt to their young core and get ready for better opponents. Now that they are back in the groove, Giles said she thinks the team is ready for Minnesota. “Minnesota’s going to be probably our top competition this year,” she said. “It’s definitely nice to get to play a couple of teams to get used to our systems and get used to each other.” “You can just tell the team is really coming together,” Giles added. For all of Wisconsin’s players, their

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Senior goaltender Alannah McCready is 1-1 this season, while her teammate, freshman goalie Becca Reugsegger, is 2-2. Border Battle rivalry with Minnesota is a major motivating factor this weekend, more so than the Gophers’ No. 2 ranking. DeKeyser said the rivalry gets both sides going and will

make the series very interesting. “That’s always exciting to play the Gophers and I’m sure they’re excited to play us,” she said. “It should be a fun weekend.”

Volleyball

Wisconsin looks to make Big Ten move against Michigan, Michigan State

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Freshman outside hitter Kirby Toon and Wisconsin have won four of their last six Big Ten contests after splitting two games last weekend. By Adam Tupitza THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin volleyball team hopes to make a statement on a two-game road swing this weekend

mcgwire from page 12 mance enhancing drugs. In 2005, when McGwire was asked to testify at a congressional hearing on steroids, he continually dodged the subject of steroids, and articulated his memorable quote: “I’m not here to talk about the past, I’m here to be positive about the subject.” Some players have faced these difﬁcult circumstances more gracefully than others. Jason Giambi and Andy Pettitte apologized to the public for their steroid use soon after it was reported. When both have retired and we look back at each of their careers, this move will be remembered fondly and will create more of a positive overall legacy. On the other side, individuals like Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez have forever tarnished their legacies

in Michigan. Wisconsin (5-5 Big Ten, 10-9 overall) is coming off a split of two games at the UW Field House last weekend. Last Friday, the Badgers by lying on several occasions before the truth was ﬁnally exposed. McGwire’s position is still a little unclear in this dynamic, but his new job with the Cardinals will give him another opportunity to reﬂect on his past behavior. If McGwire discusses his own drug use, this could go a long way toward repairing the game and reearning the public’s trust. Now McGwire has two choices: take the same approach he did in the congressional hearing and avoid the past, or come clean and allow others to learn from his mistakes. Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I’d love to see him make the latter move, because today’s baseball fans are in desperate need of some sincerity. Think McGwire’s reputation is beyond repair? E-mail Matt at mfox2@wisc.edu.

lost to No. 6 Illinois in four sets, but came back to defeat Northwestern in four sets Saturday. Freshman outside hitter Kirby Toon was instrumental in the victory, setting her career highs in blocks (ﬁve) and hitting percentage (.407), as well as matching her career high in digs with 10. “Kirby’s a great physical player, and the thing she’s been working on the most is actually the mental side of the game; staying positive with herself and letting go of mistakes, and she really did that against Northwestern,” head coach Pete Waite said. This weekend, the Badgers take on No. 13 Michigan Friday and Michigan State Saturday. Wisconsin defeated both teams at the UW Field House earlier this month, and both opponents were ranked at the time. “It’s deﬁnitely an important weekend for us,” Toon said. “Both Michigan and Michigan State are very good teams, and although we beat them here, it will be a different atmosphere playing in their home gyms.” Waite expects a tough challenge in Ann Arbor against the Wolverines.

hockey from page 12 finding his way to Madison, and is familiar with the New Hampshire program. “When I was at [Boston University] we played them twice,” Bennett said. “They’ve got very talented forwards, and their transition game is really good. They can get the puck from defense to offense real quick and they’re explosive.” While Bennett may be familiar with this weekend’s opponent, he is still adjusting to a budding goaltender rotation between himself and fellow junior Scott Gudmandson. Coach Eaves has not announced a plan for the two for this weekend, but so far Friday nights have belonged to Bennett and Saturdays to Gudmandson.

“I think they play some aggressive volleyball, and they run a fast offense,” Waite said. “Lexi Zimmerman is a super setter; she injured her hand about 10 days ago but we expect her to be back in the lineup. When she’s out there, they are doing some great things.” “Both Michigan and Michigan State are very good teams, and although we beat them here, it will be a different atmosphere playing in their home gyms.” Kirby Toon freshman outside hitter UW volleyball

Zimmerman is currently third in assists in the Big Ten with 11 per game. Toon’s younger sister, Molly, a senior at Middleton High School in Wisconsin,, will play volleyball for Michigan (6-4 Big Ten, 18-5 overall) next season. There has already been some friendly ribbing between the two sisters. “We’ve made comments back “You just have to show up every game,” Bennett said. “Competition is good, but you can only control what you can control and the only thing I can worry about is my game and how I play.”

“We have to have that attitude of ‘we’re coming to the rink to win.’” Blake Geoffrion senior forward UW men’s hockey

As for the offense, the Badgers look to avoid the penalty trouble that plagued them last Saturday. Wisconsin racked up 40 minutes worth of penalties, including

and forth, but we’re both really happy for each other,” Toon said. Michigan State (2-8 overall, 148 overall) now ﬁnds itself on a six-game losing streak, which began against the Badgers. The Spartans started the season with 12 straight victories, but have struggled since entering Big Ten play. Wisconsin will look to contain MSU junior outside hitter Megan Schatzle, who averages three kills per set. Coach Waite expects to face a Spartan squad desperate to get out of their recent slump. “That’s a team with their back up against the wall,” Waite said. “They’re going to be battling. Their libero got hurt in their match here, and I’m sure that set them back a few matches. They are a physical team and we know they’re going to be ready to go.” A sweep of Michigan and Michigan State this weekend would establish the Badgers as one of the top ﬁve teams in the Big Ten. “The Big Ten is a very competitive conference this year, and it’s anyone’s game,” Toon said. two majors in the third period that led to the game-winner from Minnesota State. Consistency has been an issue for the team through the first two series. The team has had ingame lulls as well as trouble carrying Friday night’s energy into Saturday. Junior Brendan Smith leads the offense in scoring with five points (two goals and three assists) while senior center and captain Blake Geoffrion leads the team in goals scored with three. “We have to have that attitude of ‘we’re coming to the rink to win,’” Geoffrion said. “We have to play hard both nights, every single shift, and if we do that we’ll give ourselves a good chance to win. The puck drops at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday night at the Kohl Center.

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Football

McGwire has chance to redeem legacy

Badgers hope to slow surging Purdue offense By Ben Breiner THE DAILY CARDINAL

After two games against top10 opponents, is seemed like a bye week came at a good time for Wisconsin. With most of its injured players back and rested, now comes the challenge of getting back on the winning track. The Badgers (2-2 Big Ten, 5-2 Overall) hope to end a twogame losing streak when they host the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday. Purdue comes to Camp Randall with a dynamic offense two weeks after shocking the top10 Ohio State team. “I think the game will be dictated by our defense or their offense,” sophomore cornerback Aaron Henry said. “I think we have to go out there and set an early tone, and we just have to go out there and do what we capable of.” The Boilermaker attack has

been pass-heavy historically, but this season the running game has also been strong. Senior quarterback Joey Elliott is mobile and is joined by sophomore back Ralph Bolden, who currently ranks third in the Big Ten in rushing yards per game. That balance was on display over the last two weeks as Elliott threw for 281 yards in the OSU upset, and seven days later Purdue had 220 yards on the ground. Reliance on quick screens and timing routes are several elements of former coach Joe Tiller’s offense that have carried over into this season’s unit. “They have really good timing, [Elliott] really doesn’t hold onto the ball that much, but he can run around,” senior defensive end O’Brien Schoﬁeld said. “I’m hoping that he holds on enough for me to get to him.” The defensive line has been

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Freshman linebacker Chris Borland, along with junior linebacker Blake Sorenson will have to atone for the injured Mike Taylor. focusing on getting its hands up to break up passes to counter quick throws. Henry also noted Purdue’s screen game is so effective because their receivers and linemen excel at cut blocking; trying to block a defensive player by taking out his legs. In 2004, Badger defensive end Erasmus James was sidelined by a Purdue cut block during a game between two top-10 teams in West Lafayette, Ind. The Wisconsin defense will also have to make a significant adjustment as a season-ending injury to freshman linebacker Mike Taylor has left the team without one of its starting outside backers. Stepping into that vacuum are freshman Chris Borland and junior Blake Sorensen. Borland was splitting time with Taylor before the injury, coming in as a pass rushing substitute. Borland was known for making big plays and pressuring quarterbacks, but after Taylor went down against Iowa, he looked a bit uncomfortable dropping into coverage. For Sorensen, this is a slight position shift as he has spent most of the year subbing in at middle linebacker. In the preseason, however, he was expected to hold the outside starting spot, before Taylor took it with

a strong performance in August. Sorensen is a versatile player (he can now play all three linebacker spots) with a good understanding of the playbook, but is not known as a playmaker.

“I think the game will be dictated by our defense or their offense.” Aaron Henry sophomore cornerback UW football

The team has not yet decided which of the two will start on Saturday. “I don’t know what we’re going to do, I think some sort of rotation’s going to happen. I’m going to play some inside and some outside, so I don’t really know what’s going to happen,” Sorensen said. “Honestly, I don’t even think it matters who starts, the reps will kind of be split up evenly.” Sorensen expects to rotate at both middle and outside linebacker with Borland and junior Culmer St. Jean. After only 23 points in the last two games, senior quarterback Scott Tolzien and the UW offense will look to get back on track against a Boilermaker defense that ranks 10th in the league.

Men’s Hockey

Badgers look to get season going against Wildcats By Parker Gabriel THE DAILY CARDINAL

While most of the campus is figuring out Halloween costumes and buying tickets for Freakfest, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team is preparing to host another talented opponent this weekend. The Badgers welcome the New Hampshire Wildcats to the Kohl Center on Friday night to kick off a weekend matchup between two potent squads. The Badgers (1-2-1) look to build on last weekend’s series in Mankato that included the team’s first win and first shutout. That performance, a dominating 6-0 victory on Friday night, was followed by a 3-2 loss in which freshman Craig Smith was ejected for a violent check from behind and subsequently was penalized with a game misconduct. Smith has since been suspended for this

weekend’s series and will not be in uniform. Wisconsin did get a piece of good news this week, however. Freshman forward Derek Lee has been ruled eligible by the NCAA Clearinghouse and will see his first action for the Badgers on Friday. That action will come against a very good opponent. The Wildcats (2-2-1) advanced to the final eight of the NCAA Tournament last season and return a very good team this year. “They’re a skilled team,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “They skate well; they play on a sheet of ice that’s actually a little bigger than the Kohl Center.” Wisconsin junior goaltender Brett Bennett played two years at Boston University before hockey page 11

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Junior goalie Brett Bennett has split time with junior goalie Scott Gudmandson this season. In two starts Bennett has a 1.5 GAA.

he Phillies-Yankees World Series matchup is without a doubt intriguing. The teams boast a pair of frightening lineups and stellar rotations. The Phillies are trying to become the ﬁrst team to win back-to-back titles since 1999 and 2000. Ironically, this was the last time the Yankees were crowned champions. Unfortunately for me, these two teams happen to be two of my most hated franchises in professional sports. I’m in a lose-lose situation since it will pain me to see either team pop champagne when the series concludes. So maybe that’s why I was pleased to receive a distracting bit of other baseball news this week with Mark McGwire’s return to the game as the new hitting coach of the St. Louis Cardinals. McGwire retired from the game in 2001 with 583 career home runs, the ﬁfth-most in MLB history. He was also a 12-time All-Star and a member of Major League Baseball’s All-Century Team. But far more important than any of those accomplishments was McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s 1998 home run race. This event provided a fresh storyline for the game amidst a dark era that included a cancelled season in 1994 and extremely low attendance numbers.

[McGwire’s] new job with the Cardinals will give him another opportunity to reﬂect on his past behavior.

Through it all, McGwire and Sosa sparked tremendous excitement and continually garnered respect with their professional behavior and lovable personalities. Chasing Roger Maris’ record in the same season created a common bond and brought the two closer together. It seemed like there wasn’t a moment where the pair wasn’t having fun, and that’s what seemed to give baseball such a renewed sense of optimism. A decade later, all of that seems to be not only a thing of a past, but an event that probably shouldn’t have taken place in the ﬁrst place. That concept to me is easily the most painful thing that fans of the “steroid era” have been forced to try and comprehend. When reports about rampant steroid use in baseball ﬁnally began to surface, it didn’t take long before McGwire and Sosa became connected to the investigation with concrete evidence. How ironic that the two players once labeled as the “saviors” of baseball were actually the forerunners of an era that some would argue was even darker than the one that came before it. Although the early ’90s were a rough time for baseball, that period didn’t hold nearly as much disgrace as the late ’90s in its connection to cheating and performcgwire page 11