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Metro Transit to begin requiring student IDs

By Meghan Chua The Daily Cardinal

Beginning Monday, students using their unlimited-rides bus pass will have to show their WisCards to bus drivers when boarding Metro Transit vehicles that require the swipe of a pass to board.

Madison Metro Transit announced in a press release Wednesday an initiative to enforce the rule already codified on the back of the Associated Students of Madison bus pass students receive, saying fraudulent use of the passes could threaten future pass programs.

Drivers will begin requesting identification from students boarding bus lines, excluding Routes 80, 81, 82 and 84. The release said if a passenger does not have a valid ID, his or her pass will be confiscated.

Bus drivers are also respon-

sible for confiscating passes that have been deactivated, which can happen if the owner of the pass is found posting it for sale on sites such as Craigslist or eBay, which constitutes fraudulent behavior, according to the release.

ASM Press Office Director David Gardner said the bus passes are extremely valuable. In one case, an online posting listed the pass at $300.

“Students who are selling them above what they pay out of their [segregated] fees for them are making a profit off of other students’ segregated fees,” Gardner said. “That’s absolutely unacceptable.”

Students can use their bus pass on any Madison Metro route in lieu of paying a fare per ride.

With each boarding swipe, $1.15 is withdrawn from the ASM fund

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Youth voter turnout close to 2008 level High turnout, but less support for Obama in 2012

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Beginning Monday, Madison transit bus drivers will ask to see students’ identification before they board paid transit lines.

ASM approves creation of Sustainability Committee

By Paige Villiard The Daily Cardinal

The Associated Students of Madison Student Council approved Wednesday the creation of a new grassroots committee to involve students in campus sustainability efforts.

The Sustainability Committee, which launches next semester, will create campaigns aimed at improving the University of WisconsinMadison’s environmental sustainability.

Former ASM Freshman Rep. Collin Higgins, who proposed the

Sustainability Committee earlier this month, said in last week’s council meeting many students are looking for a more formal way to address these environmental concerns on campus.

According to Higgins, committee members will spend much of next semester campaigning and organizing the committee for fall 2013, at which point the committee will begin paying a chair to formally run its sustainability efforts.

In order to create the committee,

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Despite concerns young voters would not turn out in big numbers to re-elect Barack Obama for president Tuesday, early statistics suggest the youth voter turnout nationally mirrors the huge numbers from 2008.

However, the numbers this time around suggest Obama received a significantly lower proportion of these votes.

Forty-nine percent of voters in the 18-29 age group showed up to vote in Tuesday’s presidential election, compared to 51 percent in 2008, according to statistics released Wednesday from Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement,

a nonpartisan, independent, academic research center that studies young people in politics. The 2 percent gap could change, as the figures are preliminary estimations and some votes are still being counted.

The 2008 election saw a historic increase in youth turnout, from about 19.4 million in 2004 to approximately 23 million in 2008. In 2012, early returns show between 22 and 23 million young Americans voted, totaling 19 percent of the electorate.

“Youth turnout of around 50 percent is the ‘new normal’ for presidential elections,” said CIRCLE director Peter Levine in a statement Wednesday.

But research from CIRCLE and figures gathered by The Daily Cardinal from polling locations around the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggest young voters did not support Obama as strongly as they did in 2008.

In 2008, nearly 66 percent of youth nationally supported Obama over John McCain, but this year the same demographic’s support dropped by 6 percent, with 60 percent voting for Obama and 37 percent voting for Mitt Romney.

The Daily Cardinal found similar results from polling locations across the UW-Madison campus, where approximately 70 percent of people voting at campus area polls voted in favor of Obama, which is a 9 percent decrease from 2008, when approximately 79 percent of campus-area voters supported Obama.

Conversely, 19 percent of campus-area voters supported John McCain in 2008, and 27 percent of voters in the same area supported Republican challenger Mitt Romney this year.

The shift could prove significant, but Levine said young people still “form a key part of the Democrats’ national coalition.”

City officials bundle proposed budget amendments

By Meghan Chua The Daily Cardinal

City officials will present recently signed amendments to Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed 2013 city budget as a single package, meaning all amendments included in the bundle must be either approved or rejected as a whole when the Madison Common Council votes on the budgets next week.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8,

said the package of amendments would make changes to both the capital and operating budgets, including granting $900,000 in additional funding to the Overture Center for the Arts and eliminating an increase in bus fares the budget proposes.

These changes, which Resnick said are two major priorities for council members, would be possible after cutting funds from other areas of the

budget, such as the proposed expansion of bus service routes.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the increase in metro cash fare would not immediately affect the Associate Students of Madison bus pass, which is funded by student segregated fees due to a contract ASM currently holds with the city, but after the con-

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Niko Ivanovic beer columnist

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andomly wandering through Union South a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a flyer, posted somewhat unnoticeably under The Sett food menu, highlighting four specialty craft beer offerings. Considering the relatively limited selection at the Memorial Union, I wasn’t expecting much, but as my eyes fell upon the last beer on the list, my jaw dropped.

There it was, modestly listed as if whoever printed the words had no idea of their significance: Three Floyds’ Zombie Dust. For those of you who haven’t heard of the beer, Zombie Dust is considered by most critics to be the best pale ale in the country. A single hop bomb of floral, citrus and resin, the beer provides an unbelievable amount of fresh, juicy hops without the bitterness of an imperial IPA. Though many of the better craft beer bars in Chicago carry the beer on tap during certain times of the year, finding it in Wisconsin is nearly impossible… or so I thought.

Zombie Dust’s acquisition prompts the question: How does a small, unknown newcomer to Madison’s craft beer scene like The Sett obtain a beer that many city staples could never dream of getting their hands on?

The answer surprised me in its simplicity. According to their supervisors and directors, all it really took was a few people who love craft beer, and a very good relationship with the distributors.

While many bars stick to proven sellers amongst their regulars, The Sett’s ambitious outlook on beer seeks to bring as many different

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Beer drinkers who frequent The Sett in Union South are tapping into the hidden resource of Madison’s craft beer scene—with the highly praised Three Floyds’ Zombie Dust on the menu, it’s worth checking out. unique brews as possible to their taps. For example, while your typical beer bar may try to keep a few IPAs, pale ales and local favorites on tap at all times, The Sett will pretty much put out whatever is new and exciting. And to be blunt, they don’t seem to really care if the casual beer drinkers like it or not. I suppose that’s what the other six to nine macro taps are for.

I’m not sure if this mentality has given the bar priority amongst the distributors, but whatever it is, The Sett continues to receive kegs that most other great Madison beer spots simply can’t get. The most notable beer currently on tap is Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, a massive 15% ABV imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels. It’s an aggressively rich beer that yields decadent milk chocolate, vanilla, espresso and buttery cream. That is, if you can handle the significant bourbon heat.

However, the fact that such a great beer still hasn’t sold out despite only being a 1/6 keg points to The Sett’s underlying problem.

In reality, this spot is Madison’s best-kept secret when it comes craft beer, but it really doesn’t want to be. One hurdle to overcome is a predominantly student crowd that may not be as familiar with craft beer. Thankfully, that is slowly starting to change, with more and more undergrads recognizing that the only place for Natty Light is seven beers deep.

Still, if a student union bar expects to appeal to the poor college crowd, it needs to help us out a little bit. Charging $6.50 for a six ounce portion of Bourbon County is simply not fair, regardless of the insanely high ABV. Consider that a four pack of the same beer at your average liquor store will cost five bucks for a twelve-ounce bottle, and the sample-sized six ouncer seems like a joke in comparison.

For this reason I suggest the Sett sacrifices profit margin for product movement, so they can sell more beer and rotate their kegs frequently.

Similarly, the Union South spot isn’t doing itself any favors with a

lackluster online marketing campaign. After significant searching online you can find an out-of-date beer menu. But with no Facebook, Twitter or live tap list, I’m not sure how they expect even the biggest of beer geeks to hunt down their best offerings. For that reason I’ll go ahead and list their upcoming taps: Lakefront Luther Helles Rauchbier, Big Eddy Baltic Porter, Bell’s Special Double Cream Stout, Sprecher Hopfuzion and (of course) Three Floyd’s Zombie Dust are all on the horizon for consumers.

It’s a beer menu that is absolutely worth checking out, and with an expanding bottle collection and great distributor relations, the future looks promising for The Sett.

It is my new go-to spot for hunting down rare seasonals from the likes of Bells, Three Floyds and Goose Island. I just hope that poor marketing and pricing doesn’t keep The Sett from reaching its full potential.

Send your questions and comments about craft beer to ivanovic@wisc.edu.

America’s last rock star and my one true love Adam wolf howlin’ mad

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’ve alluded to it in this column before, but in considering its timeliness at the moment, I wanted to say it again: I love Bruce Springsteen.

As you might imagine, I was positively elated when I heard Bruce was going to have a rally near the Capitol this past Monday (Obama was there, too, but that wasn’t really important). After missing out on seeing Bruce in both of his September shows at Wrigley Field, I was happy to find some redemption by seeing him in Madison, even if he only played a few songs what with all the political grandstanding.

I was pleased to find that many others were similarly ecstatic about his arrival as well.

So what is it about Bruce Springsteen that makes him so enthralling? After all, this is a 4 Bedroom House for Rent – August 1117 Mound Street Off Street Parking Call 606-219-5893

man that reduced New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie—who has reportedly seen 129 Springsteen shows—to tears upon hugging him. I’ll try to explain the Bruce phenomenon in five steps.

1. He shares the same worldview as the Baby Boomer generation.

Bruce grew up in blue-collar Freehold, N.J. in the 1960s, coming of age during a tumultuous time in American history. As a result, Bruce’s music reflected these hardships, many of which were faced by his fellow Baby Boomers: The mundane nature of working-class life, the unfulfilled promises of the American Dream, and the endless pursuit of the “Promised Land.” It’s no wonder so many of his songs include motifs of cars, the speed machines that serve as a means of escapism from the travails of everyday life.

By articulating these themes, Bruce forged an unbreakable connection with a huge audience.

2. He’s Bob Dylan, except he’s not a crotchety asshole.

When he was first gaining popularity, several music critics touted Bruce as “The Next Dylan” for the similar way in which he captured the angst of a lost generation.

Although Dylan is considered the superior songwriter and served as a direct influence for Bruce’s music, Dylan has never resonated

with his fans the way Springsteen does. While Springsteen’s shows are full of heart and palpable energy, Dylan tends to play with a holier-than-thou detachment and is barely comprehensible these days due to decades of chain smoking. It comes as little surprise that Bruce’s four-song set generated more buzz than Dylan’s full concert that occurred the same day at the Alliant Energy Center.

3. He’s ruggedly handsome.

Seriously, how is that dude 63 years old? He’s got a better hairline than I do, and I’m over 40 years younger than him. Pairing the perfect amount of stubble with an impeccable dress sense, Bruce is desired by legions of women over 35, if not younger than that. And have you seen his ass in a pair of jeans? Yeah, I’ll stop there.

4. He’s backed by perhaps the most eclectic band in the history of popular music.

A rock band prominently featuring the saxophone may seem like a novelty, but it’s hard to imagine Bruce achieving as much success without the late Clarence Clemons, whose virtuosic solos are ubiquitous on 1975’s Born to Run album.

Of course, there would be no “Jungleland” without pianist Roy Bittan, who provides the song’s dour, yet hopelessly beautiful open-

ing. The E Street Band’s brilliance often gets overlooked due to the man playing in front of them, but true fans recognize the band’s indelible impact on Bruce’s music.

5. He’s arguably America’s last rock star.

Think about it. Beginning around the 1980s, a proliferation of new genres and subgenres effectively spelled the end of the traditional rock star, leaving only those that came before. Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and John Lennon have been dead for years.

Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Elton John and The Who all hail from Europe. Dylan was more poet than rock star, and Little Richard and Chuck Berry were more architects of rock ’n’ roll than thriving stars.

It truly seems like Bruce is the only breakthrough artist left from what was a Golden Age of popular music.

So that’s probably the best way I can explain the allure of Bruce, and I still feel like I haven’t completely scratched the surface. I guess sometimes you just intuitively know when you’re in the presence of greatness, even if you can’t totally explain it. I felt that way once again Monday morning, just as countless others have for the better part of 40 years listening to Bruce.

Send all questions to Adam at ajwolf2wisc.edu.

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Democratic leader of state Senate to resign Just one day after the Republicans retook control of the statehouse Tuesday night, state Senate Majority Leader Mark Miller, D-Monona, said he will step down as the Democratic leader at the end of the legislative session.

Miller joined state Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, as co-majority leaders of the state Senate after then-state Sen. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau, announced her resignation last May, causing a 16-16 party split.

Miller became the sole majority leader after the June recalls provided Democrats

with a one-seat advantage in the state Senate.

“The last two years have been historic,” Miller said in a statement. “I look forward to working with Republicans and Democrats in the upcoming session.”

As the state Senate Minority Leader, Miller was at the forefront of the movement against Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill in spring 2011. He was one of the 14 state Senate Democrats who fled to Illinois during the collective bargaining debate in order to avoid voting on the controversial legislation.

Miller’s decision to leave the

state made him the target of a recall effort, but organizers were unable to collect enough signatures to force an election. Three of his Democratic colleagues also survived recall elections that summer.

State Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Madison, is considered one of the top candidates to take over Miller’s post, but his office could not be reached for comment.

Erpenbach served as a primary surrogate for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign in Madison during the closing weeks of the race.

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The city of Madison issued an eviction notice to members of “Occupy Madison” living on the 800 block of East Washington Avenue Wednesday, ordering all persons to vacate the site by Nov. 9.

Members of Occupy Madison and the city’s homeless community pitched tents and have been sleeping on the city-owned property since the last weekend in October, which, according to Assistant to the Mayor Astra Iheukumere, is considered trespassing.

“The plan is to transition them off the property because as winter comes, it is not going to be a safe situation for people to be sleeping outside,” Iheukumere said.

The notice stated city officials would consider any belongings left at the site after Nov. 9 abandoned and would therefore remove them from the location.

Since the national Occupy Movement came to Madison in October 2011, the local, grassroots division of the protest has steadily evolved into a community for the city’s homeless who congregate and camp in various locations throughout the isthmus.

According to Iheukumere, city staff is working with Porchlight—a homeless shelter in Madison that provides transitional and per-

manent housing, food, counseling and employment services—to transfer people currently inhabiting the site in need of housing to more suitable arrangements.

“We are really looking for longterm solutions for these people,” Iheukumere said. “The intention is not to make this a combative or adversarial situation.”

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi proposed funding for a new homeless shelter in his 2013 county budget to better provide for the needs of Madison’s homeless this winter, although city and county officials have yet to determine the location.

Tenant Resource Center Executive Director Brenda Konkel said in an interview with The Daily Cardinal Oct. 30 that Madison’s homeless and women’s shelters do not meet the homeless community’s needs, with beds running out quickly and women waiting in line for a “lottery.”

But according to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, there are several budget considerations to be made on the proposed shelter, for which the city allotted $25,000 in its proposed 2012-’13 budget.

Resnick said some city officials, including himself, are signing an amendment that could increase the shelter’s budget by $6,000.

Counterfeit money surfaces in two separate incidents Counterfeit bills tricked two different people last week in separate incidents that took place within a block of one another and only days apart.

In one incident Nov. 3, the 25-year-old victim found a buyer for her computer monitor on Craigslist. According to the police incident report, they arranged a meeting around 3 p.m. on North Lake Street near Langdon Street, where the man

gave her five fake $20 bills.

The bills, which all had the same serial number, were masked by one legitimate $20 bill on top of the stack, said Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain in the report.

Police report the suspect as being black, 20 years old and around 6 feet tall.

In a separate incident a block away, a man allegedly used

seven fake $10 bills, all with the same serial number, to purchase a pipe and lighter at Sunshine Daydream on State Street Nov. 1.

A store employee did not discover the crime until reviewing receipts two days later, according to DeSpain.

Police report the suspect in the second incident as being white, 20 years old and around 5 feet 10 inches tall.

—Erik Thiel

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rides pass is still being paid for

by University of WisconsinMadison students.

“Every single time that card is swiped … students are paying for that,” Resnick said.

UW-Madison employees and anyone else who receives an unlimited ride pass from his or her

employer will also have to show identification or campus credentials to bus drivers so the driver can verify the correct individual is using the pass, Resnick said.

“This could be an effective method of … verifying and preventing fraud in the future,” he said.

Council members oppose specific proposals such as the increase in bus fare and decrease in funding for the Overture Center.

However, Resnick said the mayor will likely be “adamantly against” a budget that includes amendments changing those proposals, and would likely veto the entire budget if city Council votes in favor of the amendments.

“The mayor has indicated that he will not support the

packet, period,” Resnick said.

If the budget is vetoed, Council would call an emergency meeting to vote on overriding the veto, which requires a two-thirds majority of council members.

Madison Common Council will vote on approval of the capital budget at its meeting Nov. 13 and the operating budget, which includes the Overture Center funding and bus fare increase, Nov. 14.

that pays for the passes.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, also said fraudulent use of the bus passes is a noticeable concern.

If a pass is sold to an individual who may not be a student, Resnick said the unlimited

budget from page 1 tract expires those rates would also rise.

“One reason why I’m opposed to raising bus fares, among many, is that I am concerned about how an increase would affect student bus pass costs in the near future,” Verveer said.

Additionally, he said Soglin “did a very good job” with the 2013 budget, but the majority of city

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Former ASM Freshman Rep. Collin Higgins speaks in support of creating a grassroots Sustainability Committee Wednesday.

asm from page 1 the proposal needed approval from two consecutive council meetings.

It was passed in its second round of voting Wednesday by a 23-3 vote.

Also in the meeting, council took its first vote on the 2013-’14 ASM internal budget.

Council approved an amendment to the budget, proposed

by Rep. David Gardner, which would include an additional $500 to fund programming for ASM’s grassroots committees’ various events and campaigns.

Council also approved an additional amendment, proposed

by ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky, to create an ad hoc committee for finding candidates and allocating funding for Varsity Day, an endof-the-year speaker’s event that brought Neil deGrasse Tyson to campus last year.

Varsity Day was also brought up in last week’s session by several students in open forum who all showed an interest in bringing a big-name speaker to campus at the end of the year, saying a renowned speaker would be a good way to celebrate UW-Madison.

Gardner, who is also the ASM Press Office Director, said the Varsity Day amendment would be a collective-action aiming to solicit input and funds from other campus organizations and departments for the high-profile speaker they wish to bring.

Council approved the full internal budget, which will now go to the Student Services Finance Committee next week for inspection and approval.

Student Council will then have the final vote on the budget that will need to be approved by a twothirds majority later this session.

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Austin WEllens all’s well-ens well

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ho doesn’t love a good bad guy? Well that sounds weird, but you get what I mean. Or maybe you don’t.

Point is, few things are as enjoyable in a good movie as a bad villain. Well not “bad” bad, but really well done and terrifying and easy to hate and awesome.

You know, a bad villain.

People have spent countless hours debating who the greatest villains in movie history are, and you could make cases for lists and lists of many different fiends of film. However, in my very productively spent hours of reading these arguments, articles and lists, I’ve come to notice a pretty solid trend in which villains tend to be considered the best of the worst. Or the worst of the worst.

That is, I’m pretty sure that all truly great movie villains fall into one of two categories, which I refer to as either the “Blank Slate” villain, or the

“Magnificent Basterd” villain.

Named for the perfect exemplification of the type, the “Magnificent Basterd” villain is one who’s very evil, if not purely irredeemable, but they’re so entertaining and charismatic, so purely fun, that you look forward to their appearance on screen and, in spite of yourself, almost find yourself rooting for them even though they’re a murderer/psychopath/what have you.

Its name, at least the way I use it, stems from Christoph Waltz’s character in “Inglourious Basterds,” Colonel Hans Landa, who managed to embody everything that is right and good and awesome about movie villains.

He takes the opening scene and turns it into one of the most tense, exhilarating cinematic experiences in recent memory. His character shifts flawlessly from affable and overly polite to icy, inhuman and vicious in the execution of his tasks. It’s a show-stealing scene in a very, very good movie, and from that moment on, he only gets better. As the movie progresses, Col. Landa ranges from borderline goofy (the “that’s a BINGO” line) to a soul-chilling interrogator who commits acts of senseless violence. And through it all, you

couldn’t take your eyes off him if you wanted to.

It’s not just the great acting and writing behind the character that made him an effective villain though; it’s the fact that even if we can’t agree with what he’s saying or fighting for (and we can’t), we still find ourselves cheering for him just a little. As much as he terrifies and repulses us, there’s a part of us that really wants him to be on screen at all times. It’s this magnetic quality that my favorite charismatic villains like Col. Landa, The Joker in “The Dark Knight,” Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest” and Anton Chighurh in “No Country for Old Men” have all possessed.

Sometimes, the villain winds up as the protagonist of the story, as in Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” Alex DeLarge’s hobbies include rape, ultraviolence and Beethoven, and yet we’re with him for the entire story and are even pretty much sympathetic to him at the end.

This seems like a good spot to clarify something. A villain is a bad person; a hero is a good person. A protagonist is the character we’re experiencing the story with,

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more or less the main character; an antagonist is the foil to the protagonist, the side of the story we’re set against. You can have a hero as an antagonist, and, as in “A Clockwork Orange” and other works, you can have a villain protagonist.

The other category of great villain, the “Blank Slate,” is the menacing, mysterious villain—the one that inspires terror with their mere presence onscreen. Some examples include Darth Vader (kind of obvious), Michael Myers/The Shape from the “Halloween” series, and, very uniquely, HAL-9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” They’re all basically blank slates. If my calling them “Blank Slate” villains didn’t make that clear.

Unlike other villains, their appeal lies in what’s left unsaid.

Darth Vader, when he first appeared, was a mysterious figure.

Nobody knew who or what he was, what he looked like under his helmet or if he was even human. HAL9000 nearly ran into the same problem, terrifying us in his cool, omniscient and omnipresent sense of menace and mystique. We can’t tell if he’s truly having feelings or if he’s just carrying out his programming, and the closest we get to a physical sense of his existence is that cease-

less, careless, distant red light in a lens. We can’t begin to understand him, and this terrifies us.

The ultimate blank Slate, however, remains Michael Myers of the “Halloween” franchise.

His motives are left unexplained beyond anything more than pure evil and his face is a literal blank slate, just a white slide onto which we can project our fears.

And this is where the true base of the “Blank Slate” villain’s effectiveness lies: They provide a dark, negative space for our imaginations to fill, draw our fears into the open and allow us to fill in the blanks with whatever we choose.

It’s our primal fear of the dark being expressed through cinema.

This is fundamentally different than the “Basterd.” Where the “Slate” shows our fears outside of ourselves, the “Basterd” scares us by showing us the appeal of being bad, how fun it can seem to be evil.

It shows us the monsters that, deep down, live inside all of us, and that they’re really more terrifying than anything we could imagine.

Wow, that got kind of serious.

Sorry. Next week my column will have more dick jokes, I promise.

Send Austin some dick jokes for next week to wellens@wisc.edu.

Allman Brothers and fathers provide peek at personality Marina Oliver guest columnist

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have always viewed people’s music habits as a sort of indirect personal statement. It’s not necessarily based on the type of music they listen to (hey, I’m not here to judge), but rather how they consume it—how much of their overall life relates to music?

Do they choose to spend their money and time at concerts?

Do they only like to listen when they’re in the car? How many of their memories are linked to music? What does this say about them as an individual?

If I apply this “test” to my dad, I’d say the results are clear (and something I’ve suspected for a very long time): My dad is infinitely cooler than I will ever be, and I have come to terms with this.

Growing up, I collected tales of his life experiences like little treasures. I would envision a young,

hip version of him (sans the fashionable short-shorts of the ’80s because, ew) hitchhiking across state lines and traveling the world, always adventuring and adding stories to his arsenal. Of course, he grew up in a different era with a different set of rules, but I still admired his free spirit.

Most of his stories seem to include some sort of musical facet or be about shows he’s seen, friends he has met through concerts, funny stories behind this album or that concert tee and his hilarious opinions on various modern aspects of the industry (“In my next life I could get paid thousands of dollars to yell ‘yeah’ and ‘what’ in the background of rap songs”).

Music is so intricately woven through his being, and mine, that it becomes nearly impossible to extract. His litany of experiences has clearly shaped his worldview, and hearing about these blasts from

the past really clues me into the person my father was before he was just “Dad.” For example, my dad, summer and the Allman Brothers Band will always be synonymous in my mind.

I remember being a shy child sitting in the passenger seat of my dad’s truck, letting the strains of “Blue Sky” or “Whippin’ Post” wash over my young ears and feeling so delightfully grown up. It felt like I’d finally been let into a cool adult club where there was more to life than my Pokemon cassette tape; this was real life and it began my journey of wanting to know more about my dad as a person.

Naturally, I was unsurprised last summer when I found the autobiography of Gregg Allman on my dad’s office desk. I figured I’d see what all the fuss was about, and my dad found me engrossed in the book several hours later.

Over dinner, I mentioned in

passing how my mind was blown when Allman talked about the 600,000 people packed into the Watkins Glen Summer Jam 1973 in New York.

My dad casually dropped the information that he had been at that festival as a 20 year old. He’d gotten separated from his friends early on in the confusion of the crowd and had a blast wandering around all day, taking in the sounds of The Grateful Dead and, of course, The Allman Brothers.

I felt like a paleontologist uncovering the remains of some huge discovery. I didn’t know what it was exactly, but I spent the rest of the night interrogating my dad about gems from his past of which I had been previously unaware.

This is just one tiny pixel in the big picture: Music as cultural capital can sing volumes about where people have come from and why

they are what they are. It can outline their choices and experiences; it can demonstrate their idea of happiness; it can help you see the world through their eyes.

I’d urge every one of you to uncover these little anecdotes and experiences. Not necessarily with a parent, but anyone, really. Music can put an entirely new spin on an otherwise run-of-the-mill conversation, and can help you delve to the core of a person.

That being said, one day last year, my dad came home with a plastic LMFAO bracelet and Red Foo glasses, loudly and proudly proclaiming he can’t stop party rockin’ all the time. I chose not to read too deeply into that one. Sometimes, music is also just a catchy beat or a chance to break out your rusty and non-existent (come on, Dad, we’re related) dance moves.

Share your parent-inspired tunes with Marina at mkoliver@wisc.edu.

opinion Tea Party’s extremism alienates voters dailycardinal.com

Zac pestine opinion columnist

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would like to consider myself an independent voter. In truth, I am probably more of a moderate Democrat than an Independent, but I have always disliked labels because most things factoring into them are contingent and malleable.

Tuesday, Nov. 6, I was forced to do something that I hope I never have to do again: vote straight democrat. It isn’t that I will never again vote straight Democrat or that I never again want to vote straight Democrat. Rather, I hope with all of my heart that I never again feel it absolutely necessary to do so. In fact, I sincerely want to be able to one day endorse a Republican candidate.

Although I am a native

Chicagoan, I chose to vote here in Wisconsin because I felt that this fine state needed my vote more than the Land of Lincoln did. And to be fair, there are some Republican candidates in Illinois that, if the timing were right, I would have no problem endorsing. For instance, in what would have been my voting district in the suburbs of Chicago, the district 10, there could very well exist circumstances in which I would whole-heartedly cast my ballot for moderate Republican Robert Dold, who lost to Democrat Brad Schneider by the narrowest of margins.

The conditions that I speak of, that I find so dire and pressing to be able to enjoy a moderate Republican in office, are that nowhere, on any ballot, should any Tea Party member have a legitimate chance of success.

There have been great Republican politicians in the past, and there still are in the

present. Vintage John McCain and Mitt Romney, as well as current Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie immediately come to mind.

I cannot fathom putting more Republicans in office as long as the Tea Party is around.

But the fact is that the Republican Party has been usurped by the Tea Party. That is the reason that John McCain chose Sarah Palin as a running mate four years ago, and it is the reason that Paul Ryan campaigned alongside Mitt Romney.

The Tea Party represents a backwards, mendacious and often racist element of extreme right-wing conservativism,

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and with them holding sway in the government, moderate Republicans have no choice but to at least partially assimilate to Tea Party platforms so that they can simultaneously push their own agendas.

I cannot fathom putting more Republicans in office as long as the Tea Party is around.

I refuse to allow my country to be dictated by people who could not care less about those who are inherently disadvantaged. I will not stand for anyone who condones, or does not condemn, the belief that rape can be legitimate or that it is the will of God. I will not remain idle while politicians recklessly permit the debt ceiling to near the brink of default, causing an economic catastrophe, just because the extant, mindful propositions to avoid such collapse come from someone who they dislike. And above all else, I understand that it is inevi-

table that all politicians stretch the truth. But I will take no part in supporting a party that purely fabricates and propagates false data and ideas on a daily basis, with zero regard for any last bit of truth.

I genuinely want there to be a time, hopefully in the near future, when I am perfectly content to call Mark Kirk or Chris Christie my president and be confident that bipartisan propositions will be instituted to make the country I love so dearly a better place.

That can only happen when the Tea Party is a mere remnant of the past, a blip in the history books. Until then, I must acknowledge that I am so very proud to call Barack Obama the president of my country, the United States of America.

May it be a prosperous four more years!

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College athletes should not be paid unless it is for education jonny shapiro opinion columnist

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t’s not a new story, but it seems as though there is no escaping the constant struggle for money. And the question of whether college athletes should be paid is about one story away from being as burned out as Ryan Leaf.

Seeing as how there has been an article in The Daily Cardinal this year addressing the issue already, I feel it’s my responsibility to test

just how close we are to beating the question to a pulp.

College athletes should not be paid. Scratch that. College athletes should not be paid any more than they already are, unless that money is allocated towards education. Instead of focusing on players’ on-field duties, let’s turn the focus to the other half of their title, the student aspect. Every player that receives a scholarship to play a sport for a university is receiving a free education, which, at some

schools, turns out to be more than the average American worker can expect to make.

Heisman candidate Manti Te’o, linebacker for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, is attending classes and will graduate from a top university. For free. If he had not been a student athlete, this would have cost him a cool $57,805, about $7 thousand more than the median annual income per household.

These athletes are getting paid.

What people are really up in arms

about is the fact that they do not decide where their money goes. It goes towards education, whether they like it or not.

College athletes should not be paid any more than they already are, unless that money is allocated towards education.

And this is truly in the best interest of the students.

Money is just one more thing in a college student’s life that takes their focus off of their studies. In a controlled budget, the money that they make is 100 percent devoted to their education; it is devoted to the advancement, not of their bodies or their football program, but of their minds.

In the midst of a political election and complete lack of bipartisanship in Washington, the country has not been this divided in decades. But education is one topic that should never be called into question. It is the most important thing for our civilization, and it is what allows us to move forward as a society. If I were president, I would take the money that is going towards mindless war and funnel it into the education of our youth. Every penny.

Unfortunately, America does not want an 18-year-old Badger in office (although sometimes it seems like this is the best option).

Introducing a paid salary for student athletes would bring the business side of the NCAA to the forefront, overshadowing the heart and passion that viewers love to see in college sports and that viewers are often cheated out of in professional sports. This precedent of “money first” would be the model for these players who, before they are student athletes, are America’s youth.

The most impressive athletes to me are the men and

women who valued their education during their college years, the men and women who are capable of more than slinging a baseball 99 miles per hour and will put their salaries on a back burner for their team. What impresses me are the college athletes who go to class and appreciate the higher learning that has been made available to them.

But not everyone who comes into college as an athlete is capable of the kind of critical thinking that is necessary to get a degree, and many go through their collegiate careers without learning how. Less than 10 percent of college athletes make it to a professional sport, which means the vast majority of them will be thrust into a world for which they are wildly unprepared. With summers being taken up by camps and athletic training, no time is given to career building or internships.

The most impressive athletes are the men and women who valued their education during their college years.

So, pay the student athletes more. Take a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue that the NCAA makes annually and put it towards training the athletes for a future in the professional world not involving athletics. Private tutoring, seminars, individualized curriculum. For those who do make it to the professional sporting level, four years of monetary payment will not mean a great deal in the long run anyway. For student athletes in general, especially those who do not make it past collegiate athletics, four years of education will wind up being more valuable than any paycheck they would receive.

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Men’s Basketball

Badgers faced with a difficult start in ’12-’13

By Max Sternberg the daily cardinal

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Redshirt junior defensive back Dezmen Southward and the rest of the Badger defense will need to stay on their toes in order to keep up with a fast-paced Indiana offense Saturday.

Defense pepares for fast-paced Hoosiers

By Parker Gabriel the daily cardinal

The Indiana offense leads the Big Ten in passing attempts (381) and passing yards per game (299.9). It is tied for second in the league with 19 passing touchdowns and third in scoring (33.1 points per game). Yet the Hoosiers (2-3 Big Ten, 4-5 overall) rank dead last in the conference in time of possession, averaging just 27:13 per game.

That has become the mantra in Bloomington, Ind., under second-year head coach Kevin Wilson. Throw the ball, throw it often and throw it quickly.

“They handle the up tempo offense as good as anybody,” Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said Monday in his weekly press conference. “You’ll see a lot of times on film where defenses don’t have their eyes in the right places just because they’re getting the ball snapped so fast.”

In preparation for the up-tempo attack, the coaching staff has implemented practice techniques used last winter leading up to the Badgers’ Rose Bowl matchup with Oregon. The period, dubbed “Supersonic,” is designed to force the defense to get a play call from the sideline and get aligned faster than usual.

“Our offense already knows

the plays they’re going to run and they go through them as fast as they can,” sophomore defensive tackle Beau Allen said of the drill. “As a defense, that helps us get in our stance fast, get locked into all of our keys. That’s one thing that’s been really helpful during prep so far.”

Through nine games, the Hoosiers are averaging 77.4 plays per game. By contrast, Wisconsin (3-2, 6-3) runs 64.7 per game and averages nearly five minutes of possession more per game.

“A lot of teams like Indiana and Oregon and other teams that go at that supersonic pace rely on guys being misaligned,” redshirt junior middle linebacker Chris Borland said. “If you’re lined up and you have the call, you can play against anybody.”

Though IU throws the ball more than anybody in the Big Ten, Wilson—who directed prolific offenses at Oklahoma before coming to Indiana—is working with a group of young signal-callers.

IU Sophomore Cameron Coffman (1699 yards, 63.5 completion percentage, 10 TD, 4 INT) has started seven games since fellow sophomore Tre Roberson broke his leg on a horrendous play Sept. 8. Coffman has shared snaps with fresh-

man Nate Sudfeld (632 yds., 63 pct., 7 TD, 1 INT).

Redshirt junior free safety Dez Southward said both play best when the Hoosiers start to get in rhythm.

“If you let those guys get rolling, and they have us on our heels, they can keep doing it all game,” Southward said.

“If we get a three-and-out and our offense is on the field for five or six minutes, you don’t want to keep going fast and going three-and-out. It can change they way that they manage their game.”

The Sunrise, Fla., native started three games a year ago, including the Rose Bowl, when Badgers started a different combination in the secondary to maximize athleticism against the Ducks.

Oregon racked up 621 yards in a 38-31 win and did not push the pace to levels seen often this year, but Southward said the UW defense felt prepared for it and is similarly confident this week.

“What you see a lot of times when teams are really getting hurt by these guys is, Indiana’s lining up, ready to snap the ball and the whole defense is looking to the sideline waiting for the call,” he said. “You can’t defend an offense looking at the sideline.”

The Daily Cardinal’s Sports Tweets of the Week: 11/1-11/7

We spend an inordinate amount of time on Twitter, so we’ve decided to justify that wasted time by compiling the week’s top tweets. They might be funny, they might be motivational and they might be none of the above, but as long as the tweets come from a past or current Badger player or coach, they pass the only prerequisite to make our list.

What do you think of this week’s top tweets? Is there another 140-character dispatch of goodness that should replace one of the tweets on this list? Tweet at us @Cardinal_Sports with your favorite tweets!

Despite an NCAA title in 1941, Wisconsin men’s basketball has a history largely defined by consistent futility. After that 1941 title, UW appeared in the Big Dance just three times over the next 57 years, never reaching the Sweet 16. But since 1999, the Badgers have gone dancing 14 consecutive years, reaching the Sweet 16 six times.

Since Dick Bennett took the helm, and now over the 11 years that Bo Ryan has been the head coach at UW, the program has gone from a perennial loser to a virtual lock for the NCAA Tournament.

At the same time, the Badger fan base has begun to expect that type of success, even going so far as to demand more.

Despite a Final Four appearance in 2000 under Bennett, the Badgers have struggled to take the next step into becoming a perennial contender for the national title.

“I think we have been talking about that for a few years now,” senior Jared Berggren said at Big Ten media day in Rosemont, Ill. “In our offseason training, our strength coach Scott Hettenbach always says ‘we are right there, when are we going to break this door open.’”

The door very nearly broke open in last year’s Sweet 16 matchup with top-ranked Syracuse as the Badgers found themselves with a chance to win in the final possession in Boston. But ultimately Jordan Taylor’s shot for the win fell short and UW was once again left just shy of the promised land.

“I think we were real close to moving forward,” senior forward Ryan Evans said. “I think we will definitely have an opportunity to do that this year.”

If Wisconsin is ultimately to break through and finally reach a national title game, they will have to survive one of the toughest schedules the program has ever seen. After opening the regular season with Southeast Louisiana, the Badgers have just two days off before they head to Gainesville for a road test against No. 10 Florida.

Beyond Gainesville lies another road game at Marquette, a neutral site matchup with No. 15 Creighton and home dates with California and Virginia. With that

type of stretch right off the bat, the Badgers should be well accustomed to grinding it out come the start of Big Ten play.

But last season Wisconsin surprised many with road wins at Illinois, Purdue and Ohio State, the first time the program had done so since 1913. That success helped shed some of the “great at home, bad on the road” image that UW had gotten over the years.

“We had some good experience last year playing in tough environments and we able to have a little bit of success,” Berggren added.

“It’s always tough to play on the road and to be successful, but once you get a taste of it you know how sweet it feels to go into that hostile environment and to get a win.”

Despite losing Jordan Taylor at the point guard position, the Badgers have plenty of experience as they try to make this year the year they finally break through.

With impact freshman Sam Dekker now being added to the fold, Wisconsin figures to have a good shot to get the job done come the start of conference play and into March.

Dekker, a native of Sheboygan, is Wisconsin’s most highly touted arrival since Devin Harris in 2001. Having dominated the high school and AAU ranks in Wisconsin, Dekker brings the Badgers the type of athleticism and tempo they have rarely had the opportunity to utilize.

But while many feel this added dimension gives Wisconsin perhaps a better shot come March, coach Ryan was quick to note that the principles of “Wisconsin basketball” will remain unchanged.

“Sam is a very good athlete, he has a very good feel for the game” Ryan said. “But Sam also understands how important half court offense is.”

The consistent play of Wisconsin men’s basketball over the past decade-plus has turned UW into a player on the national scene. But still without a title and lacking a Final Four appearance during Ryan’s tenure, the Badgers are still hungry to take that next step.

“Its not about the Final Four, its not about the Sweet 16 or the Elite 8,” Ryan said. “In college basketball, players and coaches want to win a national championship. That’s it.”

Butters leaves men’s hockey team after three seasons Wisconsin men’s hockey assistant coach Bill Butters has announced he is leaving his position with the Badgers effective immediately according to the UW athletic department and head coach Mike Eaves.

“I can’t thank Bill enough for the time he spent with our program,” Eaves said in a press release Wednesday. “He has decided that it is in his best interest to return home to Minnesota to be with his family and to pursue other passions in his life. Bill is a good friend and a great hockey

man. He has had a long and successful career in the game and, though I’m sad to see him go, I’m happy he will be able to move onto this next chapter in his life.”

Eaves has already begun the process of looking for a new coach to replace Butters, who was in his third year as an assistant with UW. Butters, who had previously played and coached at the University of Minnesota, was one of the top assistants on Eaves’ staff and played a role both on and off the ice, in coaching and recruiting. matt masterson