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Police anticipate bigger two-night Halloween party

Change on wheels

By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL

As Halloween weekend is shaping up to be an even bigger event than usual with the actual holiday on Friday and the city’s annual Freakfest party on Saturday night, officials are looking to minimize trouble and inconveniences during the celebration.

Madison Police Department Central District Captain Mary Schauf said Thursday that bigger crowds are expected on State Street Friday because it is the official holiday and Saturday because of Freakfest's major headlining

act, O.A.R. As a result of a tamer celebration during recent years, Schauf said there will be 20 to 40 less State Troopers on State Street this year, however, there will still be the same number of police patrolling on Friday as Saturday.

According to Schauf, the number of Freakfest arrests was cut in half from 2006 to 2007, a trend police hope will continue.

She noted that 65 percent of people arrested at Freakfest last year were affiliated with a university, many of whom attend halloween page 3

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The “Bama Bus,” makes a stop in Madison Thursday afternoon. The bus will travel to swing states over the final 31 days before the election while making custom stenciled political T-shirts.

Badger Homecoming football game to promote energy efficiency

By Diana Savage THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison will be the first Big Ten School to have a “carbon-neutral” football game during Homecoming next weekend.

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the UW-Madison Athletic Department teamed up to organize the event.

The Badgers’ Homecoming game against Illinois will attempt to offset the damaging effects of carbon dioxide on the environment and advise fans on how to live environmentally friendly lives.

CALS Associate Dean Ben Miller said the project’s goal is to raise campus awareness about energy efficiency.

“We feel that this is an effort that will bring attention to this issue,” Miller said.

CALS professors Pat Walsh and Tom Gower and UW-Madison undergraduate Julia Kolberg have measured the carbon dioxide emit-

ted by the university. The total was 1,170 tons per gameday, a significant amount due to electrical use and transportation associated with football games.

“Any chance we have to work with our students on a project that’s important to them we get very excited about.”

Vince Sweeney senior associate athletic director Athletic Department

“Any chance we have to work with our students on a project that’s important to them we get very excited about,” said Vince Sweeney, senior associate athletic director for external relations for the Athletic Department. “Building the relationships, strengthening those relationships and working together is something that we really cherish.”

The carbon-neutral football game will add to a list of projects between the Athletic Department and environmental groups on campus.

On Thursday, UW-Madison student-athletes, Bucky Badger and university officials planted trees at the Arlington Tree Farm on land set aside by a landowner.

“Those trees won’t be touched and will grow and help in the carbon sequestration issue as well,” Miller said.

According to Sweeney, the recycling project between the Athletic Department and Rethink Wisconsin has recycled over 2,000 pounds of soda bottles and water bottles over the last six weeks.

“We’re very excited about the progress made,” Sweeney said.

In light of the project, CALS will host a Bioenergy Summit Oct. 23-24, which will bring together university experts, state lawmakers and innovators from Wisconsin’s private sector.

Students sell thriving company to new owner

By Cassie Holman THE DAILY CARDINAL

UW-Madison student entrepreneurs recently sold the leading student ticket exchange network, ExchangeHut, in a successful acquisition by CDI America and Daily Jolt.

Nathan Lustig, Corey Capasso and John Tucker bought ExchangeHut their freshman year from founder and UW-Madison alum Matt

Stamerjohn. Capasso said he and his partners sold to a larger company that is still a good fit.

Tucker and Lustig decided to buy the company after losing the Badger football ticket lottery their freshman year. The business venture panned out over a game of poker, where he and Lustig finalized plans to bid for the site, and the two later teamed up with Capasso.

“Going into it we didn’t really

expect to make money, we were just in it for the experience,” Tucker said.

“We were inexperienced businesspeople, but it worked out really well.”

After business picked up, they took advice to enter the Burrill Business Plan Competition and placed fourth. From the competition, the partners earned $1,000 to put toward expanding their service exchangehut page 3

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Madison Police Department Central District Captain Mary Schauf and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, discuss plans for Freakfest 2008.

Police say robbery of young woman on Gilman Street is unlike recent attacks Madison police are searching for a man who robbed a young woman last Friday, but police said the incident does not appear to be linked to a recent string of violent robberies plaguing the area.

The 18-year-old victim was walking alone in the 100 block of East Gilman Street around 1:30 a.m. Oct. 10 when a man approached her, according to a police report. The man asked her for money, began touching her legs and took money from one of the woman’s pockets.

The victim told police the robber then walked away with two other men. Madison Police Department public information officer Joel DeSpain said no weapon was seen, unlike other recent downtown robberies in which a gun is shown to victims.

“It doesn’t seem to fit that pattern we’ve been seeing,” DeSpain said.

Police describe the perpetrator as a black male, 22 to 26 years old, 6'6" with a thin build and wearing a dark colored hoodie.

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n 10 years, when today’s fifth and sixth graders are highstepping around this campus like they own the place, I hope there’s a little commemorative plaque lying about, somewhere real unavoidable and inconvenient that reminds those greasy runts of what I had to sacrifice so that that walk of theirs could be so spectacular. When they mosey down the so-called East Campus Mall, or past the shiny new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery; as they traverse sidewalks atop efficient new utility systems in Library Mall or sip the newest flavored water in the no-longer poopy Union South; when they feel not-depressed when they head off to class in a normal-looking Humanities Building or gaze upon the finished product of whatever-theheck-they’re-doing right now to the Kohl Center lawn, I hope the Badger students of tomorrow are somehow made aware that it was alums like me that put up with a whole lot of walking around shit

so they could have all that. I envision something like “On a rainy Fall day in 2008, at this very site, former student ‘Champagne’ Dave Hottinger was forced, by temporary fencing, to take a right and walk, like, 200 feet out of his way so that this stupid walkway could look so frickin’ spectacular. David was late for class and stepped in a puddle during his ordeal,” just like they have for all the other historical sites on Bascom.

I can’t quite remember exactly, but I’m pretty sure this campus was still a campus —and not a work in progress—when I started my career here. State Street had yet to be torn up, the lovely Peterson building was up to something useful, Campus Square, mostly useless but still in existence, was just a stone’s throw from my dorm and housed a theatre I never exactly went to, yet still prided myself on explaining to visitors that you could buy beer there. Ogg was still Ogg; a dump—one that you could make fun of your friends for living in—and not a status symbol. And for the most part, sidewalks were walked upon and not caged inside fences and walked around. Seriously, if our old Chancellor had a shady side

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deal going with John Wiley & Sons textbook publishing, this new one has some serious ties to National Rent-a-Fence. And if by some chance those fences do come down before the year is out, this campus is going to look less familiar to me than when I first got here.

Which is fine... I guess. It’d be hard to argue that downtown Madison was not a very dumpy place outside of Capitol Square and the Fluno Center a few years ago.

The dorms were dumpy, the bars, buses and buildings were dumpy, heck let’s be honest, we were all a little dumpy back then, too. But it was Madison. It was our Madison.

If I come back in 10 years to let loose at a football game, it’s not going to be that Madison, it’s going to be their Madison.

I guess that’s what happens when you get old, except I shouldn’t be feeling old already.

I don’t need to be telling underclassmen where Madhatters was when I was their age just yet, nor do I want to hear how great things will look when it’s all said and done either (though I have my doubts about whether that will ever happen).

It’s not that it isn’t about time Madison got a boob job, it’s that she should have done it before I

dated her. By all accounts, I’m sure things will look nice when the dust settles and the cranes finally come down. I’m sure it will be nice when students living in Lucky are less so thanks to the new Luckier 888 that’s bound to be built; when the New Ogg is back to being the old one again and they finally put an IHOP on State Street and Bascom Hill has two escalators running up and down it. It will be great... for them. It’s like your parents finally getting cable after you move out.

It’s stupendous... for them.

Alanis Morissette had a word for these types of situations: ironic. And while there may not actually be anything ironic about all these improvements being made to the campus just in time for me to never really benefit from them, yet be very much inconvenienced by them nonetheless, I still feel her pain. When I walk past the future site of a green-powered Hillel center and realize I’ll never have the chance to sucker one of my Jewish friends into taking me there some day, it feels just like a black fly in my chardonnay, or like a death row pardon, two minutes too late.

Would you’ve thought... it figures? E-mail David at dhottinger@wisc.edu and rant.

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entered wrong, and then if it isn’t [from] our office, we send a letter to the local clerk telling them there’s a problem with this and that they should check it out,” Ohlsen said.

An Aug. 27 ruling by the GAB confirmed the current practice regarding voter registration discrepancies, according to Kyle Richmond, GAB public information officer.

Richmond said the statement was made in response to a letter Milwaukee Election Commissioner

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Mismatched voter registration will not disqualify Wis. voters Discrepancies in personal information between voter registration forms and other databases cannot be used to disqualify citizens from voting, Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board recently confirmed.

Mismatching voter information will continue to be flagged for investigation by the local clerks but will not be used as a basis for disqualifying voters, according to Dane County Clerk Robert Ohlsen.

“We look at the original application and see if something was

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Sue Edman sent to the elections board asking whether voters can be challenged on the basis of mismatched information.

“It was to clarify who can be challenged at the polls and on what basis,” Richmond said.

Richmond declined to comment on the relation between this clarification and Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen’s lawsuit against the GAB aiming to require information checks for anyone who registered to vote since 2006.

—Justin Eells

Ohio lawsuit similar to Wis. attorney general’s Voter registration central in Ohio, Van Hollen cases

By Claire Wiese THE DAILY CARDINAL

An Ohio voter registration case could soon be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and have an effect on a case of the same nature filed

by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen last month.

The United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Wednesday the Ohio Republican Party is allowed to carry on a lawsuit against Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

The Ohio Republican Party filed the case, claiming counties should be provided with lists of voters whose registrations did not pass

halloween from page 1 UW System schools and other Big Ten schools besides UWMadison. When arrests do happen, however, some out-of-town partygoers or people unfamiliar with the city may not know what to do.

For Freakfest 2008, Schauf said police are considering handing out cards to people detailing the process of reuniting with friends who get arrested or escorted off State Street. The cards would tell people to meet up with their lost friend at the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Doty Street in order to reduce hassles for police and Freakfest attendees alike.

“Otherwise we get inundated with people trying to figure out where their friends are going,” Schauf said.

To make the party easier for Madison residents, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the city is

exchangehut from page 1 to other Big Ten universities.

Lustig said managing classes with a successful business was sometimes challenging, but depended on the seasons. Lustig, Capasso and Tucker worked 40 to 50 hours a week during busy ticket seasons, but only 10 to 15 hours other times. During their ownership, they raised the ExchangeHut website from 2,000 users to roughly 150,000 users.

registration checks.

Similarly, Van Hollen filed a suit against the Government Accountability Board last month for its failure to adhere to the Help America Vote Act, which requires clerks to check voter registrations with other databases.

Van Hollen said in a statement the court’s decision in the Ohio case reinVAN HOLLEN forces the arguments in his own case against the GAB. “As the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals made clear in yesterday’s decision, the purpose of the Help America Vote Act is to help Americans cast votes and ensure those votes giving free tickets to people who live and work on State Street.

Verveer said the only complaint he has heard from residents is that they are sometimes unable to make it home when cleanup crews take over the streets at the end of the night.

Ald. Eli Judge, District 8, said residents of the private

count and are not diluted,” Van Hollen said. “That purpose can only have effect if the law is carried out.”

The GAB contends that objections like these can only be made by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Lester Pines, the attorney representing the GAB, said the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is “interesting,” but will not necessarily affect the case against the GAB. Pines said Dane County Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi, who is presiding over the case, could take the Ohio opinions into account, but said it “has no binding effect on any judge in the state of Wisconsin.”

Sumi will hear the motions from GAB to dismiss the case on the morning of Oct. 23, just two weeks before Election Day. dorms Statesider and Towers have been pushing for free tickets to Freakfest for years. Despite their proximity to State Street, Judge said those residents do not currently receive free tickets because their address is technically on North Frances Street, but negotiations are still in the works.

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A variety of books line one of the tables at the Memorial Library book sale. The sale will continue Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Milwaukee-based company looks to provide money for pharmacy school

By Beth Pickhard THE DAILY CARDINAL

To celebrate its 150th anniversary, the F. Dohmen Company will contribute $500,000 to the UW-Madison Pharmacy School for student scholarships.

Half the money will be used to support the Dean Scholarship within the School of Pharmacy, and the other half will be given to a graduate student support fund within the pharmaceutical sciences division.

“The scholarship is going to be one of the most significant scholarships that the School of Pharmacy has had in its history.”

Linda Halsey director of development School of Pharmacy

The F. Dohmen Company is a family-operated company based in Milwaukee that started out as a pharmaceutical wholesaler and transformed into a health services company.

Dohmen COO Cynthia LaConte said they feel this contribution mirrors their business mission.

“We feel the School of Pharmacy has a place in our past as well as in our future,” LaConte said. “We have definitely served the commuKYLE BURSAW/CARDINAL FILE PHOTO

Officials said the number of State Troopers patrolling State Street this year will be 20 to 40 less than last year’s Freakfest party.

Joseph Boucher, business school senior lecturer and attorney at Neider & Boucher, answered initial company questions on accounting, legal issues, taxes and negotiating sales.

Boucher said the students were successful for many reasons—including patience, persistence and smarts— but particularly for their ability to listen to advice.

“The reason many people fail is they don’t listen or take advice, and they don’t work hard enough and they aren’t patient enough,” he said.

“These guys did all of that.”

Lustig said students will not see any drastic changes in the business or the website.

“If you haven’t noticed anything yet, it’s a good sign. It’s been a pretty seamless transition.”

Tucker said the team benefited from the hands-on experience the company provided.

“There are definitely a lot things we’d do differently, but it was a great time. We would definitely do it again, no questions asked,” Tucker said.

nity by supporting retail pharmacies and … we would like to honor that past through the School of Pharmacy.”

As an emerging health services company, the F. Dohmen Company believes there is a connection between the pharmaceutical sciences program and the company.

“On the pharmaceutical sciences side … we also see a connection to our future, and we would like to support that future as we look to support life sciences companies,” LaConte said.

Linda Halsey, director of development in the School of Pharmacy, said the donation is important for providing financially limited students the opportunity to attend pharmacy school.

“The scholarship is going to be one of the most significant scholarships that the School of Pharmacy has had in its history,” Halsey said.

“This … is going to impact many student’s lives over many generations.”

According to LaConte, the donation will be made by the end of the year. She said she is excited to be donating the money as part of the company’s celebration.

“We’re excited about the opportunity to support the School of Pharmacy at Madison, and we are thrilled to be able to do that,” she said.

Woman’s pet bunny thwarts late-night burglary attempt on Pinckney Street While burglaries are a common crime trend in the Madison area, Madison Police Department public information officer Joel DeSpain said “watch bunnies” putting a stop to them are anything but normal.

That’s just what a 25-year-old woman had guarding her residence on the 500 block of North Pinckney Street when a man attempted to burglarize her apartment last weekend. According to a police report, the woman reported being awakened by the thumping of her pet bunny’s foot around 3 a.m. Oct. 11,

an action she told police is common for the animal to do when someone is in or around the residence.

When the woman got up, she yelled at a man who had entered her apartment and he ran out the back door. Police said nothing was missing from the apartment, and the woman credited her bunny’s thumping for helping her wake up and quickly scare off the intruder.

Police describe the perpetrator as a white male, 5'5" and 150 pounds with a thin build and short hair.

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By Karlyn Tjaden THE DAILY CARDINAL

Although this news bit has escaped much of the mainstream media—except Fox News—the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, Shelly Mandel, endorsed Sarah Palin for vice president at a McCain-Palin rally a short time ago. Mandel, admittedly a lifelong Democrat, has caused a stir within the organization because NOW has formally endorsed the Obama-Biden

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ticket. Originally founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan and Pauli Murray, NOW is considered the first and one of the most influential organizations of “second wave” feminism that began in the mid 1960s.

In her speech, Mandel admitted that she doesn’t agree with Palin on several issues. However, she stated that “Sarah Palin will fight for women’s rights, a woman who will fight for the middle class, and a woman who will— Lord knows—shake things up.”

Mandel, however, did not cite any of Palin’s credentials, or any specific instances where Palin has stood up for a feminist cause, which leads me to believe that the main basis for her support is the fact that Sarah Palin is a woman.

Maybe Mandel didn’t mention any of Palin’s credentials because Palin actually has no credentials, further evidence that Mandel’s support of Palin is only because of her gender.

However, Mandel’s questionable support for Sarah Palin

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Both sides of abortion debate flawed I am greatly discontented over the abortion debate that has taken place on this editorial page over the past week. The arguments presented, in my view, are seriously confused. Josephson respects the view that fetuses have equal moral value to every human being, but can’t respect pro-lifers who judge pro-choicers for their views. This is akin to the argument that one should respect abolitionists’ opposition to slavery, but shouldn’t judge slave owners for practicing it.

Bryna Mulcrone argues that women who have abortions

have an increased rate of depression and suicide. This is not an argument against their right to bodily autonomy. If I choose to eat McDonald’s every day, I may become obese (also positively correlated with depression and suicide). Does it follow that I don’t have a right to decide what I eat?

Sean Stiennon argues that because fetuses are innocent human beings, abortion is “a staggering offense against human rights.” While fetuses are genetically human and trivially innocent (they haven’t done anything wrong), Mr. Stiennon equivocates.

Being genetically human does not entail moral personhood. Moral innocence isn’t only about a lack of wrongdoing; it’s also about being capable of wrongdoing.

Brandon Biagioli argues that since there’s no moment at which humans are given a right to life, they must always have one. But his argument is fallacious. There’s no particular number of hairs at which a person goes from having a full head of hair to being bald; that doesn’t mean no one has a full head of hair.

—Andrew Hanson UW-Madison student

brings up deeper issues, such as the meaning of feminism and progress with respect to women’s rights. I suppose that some people think a woman in a high position of power (regardless of her positions or credentials) is a sign of social progress and an advancement of the feminist agenda.

But how can a candidate chosen as a pawn to get more votes from women really advance the goals of feminism? Personally, I think women should find this offensive. Underlying McCain’s choice of Palin is the assumption that women will vote for a woman because she is a woman and not look at the actual positions of these female candidates.

This kind of thinking can actually hinder progress for women in this country.

Furthermore, the whole debate over whether Sarah Palin is a feminist represents social progress toward equal rights for women and distracts from the real issues about women and feminism. Just because a few women such as Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton can have such influence does not mean that sexism doesn’t exist anymore. Many women in this country and all over the world are hindered from social mobility and opportunity because of their gender, not to mention other factors including race and class divisions that are often intri-

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cately linked with sexism. This is not because they have failed to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” adequately. Sexism, nowadays, often takes a more subtle form because of our need to be politically correct (which seriously hinders the deep societal conversations we need to have about social stratification)—but it is still there.

Just because a few women such as Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton can have such influence does not mean that sexism is gone.

Furthermore, just because a woman is in office does not mean she is going to fight to end gender oppressions. Whether or not Sarah Palin will work and fight to end these oppressions is uncertain, but her actions and ideology suggest that she will not.

Thus, when looking at gender inequalities, it’s important to remember that women in politics is not the solution. The real solution lies in social education and policies that seek to end gender oppression.

Karlyn Tjaden is a senior at UWMadison. Please send responses to opnion@dailycardinal.com.

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New Keane release will leave all fans satisfied

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hold on to a relationship in “The Lovers Are Losing.” The peppy The first few seconds of Perfect bounce in “You Haven’t Told Me Symmetry will probably lead to a Anything” diverts the listener pause, eject and blank stare when from the fact that he has been the label on the CD proves that anticipating this bad news: His this really is the product of British relationship had been “Stuck in group Keane. the mud / Stuck in a rut.” And The latest from Keane casu- it is drummer Richard Hughes ally dances away from the noisy just as much as the synthesizer in electronica of 2006’s Under the “Better Than This” who pushes Iron Sea and differs from the the listener to leave a current, piano-heavy unfulfilling relaCD REVIEW tionship.

Hopes and Fears of 2004 by far The emphasis on producmore than a tion rather than simple shimmy. Even the piano keys did abstract album not lead the art of Perfect group to ignore Symmetry estabthe quality of Perfect Symmetry lishes the defitheir lyrics. In Keane nite shift from what comes off whatever Iron as a nonsensical, Sea’s teal-maned horses meant. lighthearted ditty, “Pretend That Overall, Perfect Symmetry You’re Alone” suggests it is time might yield comparisons to the to “Forget about fashion / Forget Killers, and these are not com- about the law” because “Love is pletely unwarranted. The Killers just our way of looking out for have produced upbeat rock using ourselves / When we don’t want quite a few electronic tools. to live alone.”

Keane do not try to emulate But Keane have not completethis from across the ocean; the ly forgotten the ballads that made inclusion of a piano and the them famous. The simple piano exclusion of a gospel choir prove line that accompanies the refrain this. Nor do they follow fellow of “You Don’t See Me” drives Brits Coldplay on the quest for home exactly how lovelorn singa “fuller” sound. This new direc- er Tom Chaplin feels. “Playing tion (destination: dance party) is Along” may lead to a layered and exciting nonetheless. developed end, but it begins with Although piano rock was what quiet vocals, and “Love is the made them famous and then End” is a ballad in every sense ubiquitous, the obvious change of the word. It just offers more from Keane’s previous albums than the classic Keane strategy of should make even the most vocals and piano. steadfast naysayer tap at least a Perfect Symmetry is not 11 few toes. First single and album- reworded versions of 2004’s opener “Spiralling” lives up to “Somewhere Only We Know.” both those British-pop expecta- If anything, the glittering pieces tions. The immediate reaction is of “Somewhere Only We Know” to dance, and there is no other were cut into triangles, painted appropriate response. over and pasted together to form Keane’s favorite theme, the the new album art. This verdifficulties of love, comfortably sion of Keane should successfully shares the spotlight with these solicit new listeners but leave prenew, more-involved melodies. vious fans happy, or at least hapSongwriter Tim Rice-Oxley pily distracted from the fact that describes the irrational urge to they have yet to find “the one.”

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British odd-ball mockumentary from Jay and Mark Duplass puts a twist on the low-tech camera work of cult horror films like “The Blair Witch Project” when four friends try to make their own horror movie.

Mock horror in the ‘Bag’ British mockumentary stumbles between comedy and horror

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Sometimes it’s nice to see a film that focuses on making one thing shine. Jay and Mark Duplass’ festival darling “Baghead” captures some great relationship dynamics on screen in a very realistic way, but any adherence to genre or plot goes out the window in favor of a man with a bag on his head.

Any adherence to genre or plot goes out the window in favor of a man with a bag on his head.

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Reality gets distorted when characters Matt, Michelle, Catherine and Chad can’t tell the difference between pranks and danger.

Shot in the spirit of “mumblecore,” a genre of shaky digital cameras and improvised scripts, the look of the film matches these underdog characters, humanized by their organic, free-flowing dialogue. After seeing their friend’s overhyped but successful indie darling, Matt (Ross Partridge), Chad (Steve Zissis), Michelle (Greta Gerwig) and Catherine (Elise Muller) decide they could make their own low-budget hit and resolve to hide away at Chad’s cabin until they’ve come up with a script that will jump-start their sagging acting careers. They set out for the cabin and hole up for some creative brainstorming sessions.

They end up drinking, playing cards and goofing around, of course, all underscored by the sexual tension among the four.

Catherine thinks she and Matt are back together as a couple, but Matt thinks they’re not exclusive. Chad wants to hook up with Michelle, but Michelle is more interested in slipping Matt dirty notes while Chad grabs her another vodka mixer. The film is shaping up to be a 20-something relationship movie, another mumblecore staple.

The film takes a turn when Michelle describes a dream about a man with a potato sack over his head staring at her from the woods. Matt thinks it’s a perfect idea for their movie and runs with it, initiating an escalating series of pranks scaring each other as Baghead.

The film is shaping up to be a 20-something relationship movie, another mumblecore staple.

The pranks get more and more serious. Someone shows up as Baghead in Michelle’s bedroom, staring at her as she plays the part of the dumb beauty and strips for a masked stranger she assumes is Matt. When she realizes Matt was nowhere near her room, she freaks out and attempts to leave, only to find that the car battery is missing. The audience begins to wonder who is pulling the pranks, or if they are pranks at all.

The tension between laughs and screams is a lot of fun for a while, but the cast just doesn’t seem to do as well with the horror material in the last act of the film.

Besides, watching all the meanspirited pranks makes it difficult for audiences to care if some psychopath hacks the whole gang to pieces. And when audiences finally find out the truth about Baghead, it’s pretty underwhelming, almost to the point of undermining the enjoyable first half of the film.

The whole mishmash of genres and styles points to the film’s larger message started in the film’s opening scenes—festival films are bullshit, and their contained human drama happens nearly by accident. A fair point, one supposes, except you have to watch a festival film to derive it.

Grade: BC

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Now Playing Madison Daily Cardinal writer Todd Stevens sits down with lead singer Brian Thorpe of Madison band A Minute Jack Forum.

Sounds like: Wilco, Kings of Leon, Neil Young Your lyrics cover a wide spectrum of topics. Where do you get these offbeat inspirations?: It just kind of comes up and goes where it goes. A friend (guitarist Matt Duranceau) said I should write a song about a gentleman he worked with who thought he could channel aliens, which I thought was an odd suggestion at first. But we ended up writing it in the context of NASA and all these other weird happenings.

How do you end up drawing from so many different genres of music?: Well, there are a lot of things I would say I admire but wouldn’t try to emulate. We always stress what we think we can do well, and it really comes from a desire to do something creatively. We don’t go out with a goal of trying to sound like something else.

If you had to spend the rest of your life on a reality show, which one would it be?: Maybe “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” because I need the exercise.

You can check out A Minute Jack Forum Friday at 10 p.m. at Alchemy.

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By Brandon Storlie THE DAILY CARDINAL

When the Wisconsin women’s hockey team takes the ice this weekend, it will do so from a familiar position: the top of the polls.

After the defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs lost back-to-back games against Minnesota last weekend, the Badgers took over the top spot in both the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls released Tuesday. Wisconsin received an overwhelming majority of first-place votes in each poll.

The team’s reaction to the news was mixed. Although some players embraced the added pressure, others said they would prefer to fly under the national radar early in the season.

“It’s a nice honor that people respect your team and give you that credit, but I don’t like being at No. 1 too much because you do have the added pressure of being No. 1 in the nation,” senior goaltender Jessie Vetter said.

While Vetter would rather avoid the pressure of the nation’s top spot, other Badgers welcomed it.

“I love it,” junior forward Jasmine Giles said. “It’s been like that most of the time I’ve been here, and I love being [part of] the team that everyone plays their ‘A’ game against. I wouldn’t want it any other way.”

The Badgers skate into this weekend’s series with a perfect 2-0-0 record in WCHA play. Vetter, who gave up her first goals of the year in a 7-4

win against Ohio State last Friday, rebounded nicely to record her third shutout of the season Saturday.

“I came in a little more prepared,” Vetter said. “That was the first competition where I saw more than 15 or 16 shots, so it caught me a little off guard.

We were very happy to come out with a sweep.”

With series against both Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth looming at the end of the month, it would be easy for Wisconsin to overlook this weekend’s series against the Bemidji State Beavers.

Having yet to open league play, the Beavers (1-1-2) remain a bit of a mystery early in the year. BSU earned a split with Wayne State to begin the season and then battled to consecutive ties with Northeastern last weekend.

“We’re not overlooking Bemidji at all right now,” senior forward Erika Lawler said. “They’re going to be holding onto us, clutching and grabbing, doing everything in their power to get us to stay out of the scoring area. It’s not going to be pretty.”

Still, the upcoming series with the No. 2 Golden Gophers isn’t far from anyone’s mind.

“It’s pretty cool playing Minnesota in general, just because they’re a great team,” Vetter said. “No matter what happens this weekend, it’s going to be fun.”

The Badgers and Beavers face off at the John S. Glas Fieldhouse on the BSU campus Friday night before traveling to Eveleth, Minn., Saturday night to take part in the inaugural women’s United States Hockey Hall of Fame Game at the historic Hippodrome.

“We are thinking about the Gophers and Duluth the weekend after, but right now our focus is definitely on Bemidji,” Lawler said.

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Sophomore forwards Mallory Deluce (left) and Hilary Knight have combined for 21 points and 14 goals this season.

volleyball from page 8 hitter Laura DeBruler has been shredding opposing defenses with 282 kills thus far in the season, good for second best in the conference. She complements a team built around the block, as Illinois has been averaging 2.8 blocks per set, led by sophomore middle blocker Johannah Bangert, who has been putting up 1.58 blocks per set on her own. “[DeBruler] is a great player,” senior middle blocker Audra Jeffers said. “We’ve been scouting her, and we’re going to probably get two blockers up on her as much as possible. But no matter who’s attacking, we really have just been working on our defense, and that’s an area our team wants to improve on.”

Fortunately, the Badgers have improved defensively in recent weeks and should answer to the challenges that Lynch and DeBruler present. Sophomore libero Kim Kuzma earned coDefensive Big Ten Player of the Week honors last week after tallying 38 digs in seven road sets last

weekend and recording her fourth career 20-or-more-dig match against Northwestern. In addition, Wisconsin has an arsenal of frontrow hitters to provide an offensive counterattack that has a .257 hitting average. Seven players have 70 or more kills on the offense, led by Brittney Dolgner, who has thrown down 195 thus far in the season. Jeffers is second with 161 and leads the team in blocks with 71, and she knows that her team DOLGNER will need complete matches on both sides of the ball to come out of this weekend with two more conference wins.

“Every night that we play, we know it’s going to be a battle,” Jeffers said. “It just really stresses our team to be on our toes all the time. You really can’t let up at any point in the game—you have to go start to finish really tough [to win in the Big Ten].”

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Senior goaltender Shane Connelly will look to control rebounds better and raise his level of play against Denver. In his only game last weekend, Connelly allowed five goals while facing 37 shots.

Men’s hockey heads to Denver

By Ben Breiner THE DAILY CARDINAL

After spending its first weekend on the East Coast, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team will be going the other direction for the next two days.

The Badgers will open conference play on the road Friday night against the No. 10 Denver Pioneers. The teams met three times last season, yielding two very memorable games.

“It’s just two really good teams.

We have mutual respect for each other, but at the same time we really don’t like each other going into the game,” senior goaltender Shane Connelly said.

In their first regular-season meeting, Wisconsin lost on a controversial disallowed goal late in the game. The Badgers, however, won the second game of the series.

The next time they met was the first round of the NCAA tournament, when Wisconsin upset Denver in the Kohl Center, ending their season.

The Pioneers returned much of their team from last season, including high-scoring forward Tyler Bozak.

“[Denver is] really strong up front. They will shoot the puck all the time, and they’re really good at special teams. That’s what we’re working on this week, trying to shut them down,” junior forward Michael Davies said. “Just like BC and [New Hampshire], their transition game is really fast, from offense to defense and defense to offense.”

The Badgers opened their season against No. 1 Boston College and No. 7 New Hampshire. They lost both games but hung with BC for much of the contest.

Coming out of those games, the team focused on special teams in hopes of taking something from the losses.

“I think we’ve got to start with the simple things, playing hard. Just going to start with that. Hopefully our special teams, we’ve been working on it all week, hopefully that improves,” junior defenseman Jamie McBain said. “After the first weekend we can kind of adjust to what the refs are calling and maybe not take as many penalties to give our penalty kill a rest and hopefully just click on the power play.”

Wisconsin could not convert on any of its 16 power plays in

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Badgers remember their past trip to Iowa City, a 24-21 Wisconsin win in November 2006.

“It gets really nasty there,” Langford said. “The fans are really close, and it can be a rough environment to play in.

But the great thing about it is you can control the volume in their stadium.

So if we do things the right way, we can have a lot of fun.”

The winner of the game will be rewarded with the Heartland Trophy, a brass bull that was first presented in 2004. Since then, the teams have split the series 22. Casillas sees the renewal of the rivalry as a chance for the Badgers to get the fresh start they might need to turn around their season.

“Iowa’s a great team, and we have a great history going against them,” Casillas said. “It adds a little more that coach Bielema used to play there and coach there. It’s an intense rivalry. I’m glad it came around at this time to give us an added extra influence to get ready for this game.”

The game begins at 11 a.m. and will be shown on the Big Ten Network.

This, however, is not a new phenomenon.

Last season many fans called for Evridge to start. Standing in the student section, there was always someone nearby, calmly explaining to his or her friend, “Evridge is just a lot better, Donovan sucks.”

Unless every part of the offense gets itself together, it won’t matter who plays QB.

Early in John Stocco’s career, fans called for Donovan, though it was not as big of a stretch, since Donovan was a very hypedup prospect. Before that, fans called for Stocco over Jim Sorgi, and before that, many wanted Brooks Bollinger to be benched for Sorgi (Bollinger was the last Badger QB to take the job from

the first two games and allowed three powerplay goals. Against BC, they also gave up a pair of shorthanded goals.

One theme that came out of the first weekend was production from freshmen. First-year players accumulated half of Wisconsin’s 14 points this season.

“There were some times that the young defensemen actually did some very nice things in playing their first college game,” Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves said. “I just think overall it was a very pleasant surprise, a good start for them.”

Denver has only played one game this season, a 5-2 win over No. 8 Notre Dame.

Despite coming close to sweeping the Pioneers last season, the Badgers are preparing for a difficult road game.

“I think they’re definitely going to use [the tournament loss] for motivation,” Davies said. We’re just going to come out and control the things that we can control and play our game.”

The puck drops at 8:30 p.m.

Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday.

Friday’s game can be seen on Fox Sports Net. someone mid-year, six games into the 1999 season).

As for the situation in the coming weeks, the Badgers’ season goal can only be a middle of the conference finish and a mid-tier bowl game. The question will be about weighing the value of this season and the developmental value for Sherer.

Will playing the next six or seven games give Sherer enough experience that the beginning of next season goes more smoothly? Will the receivers suddenly become that much better with a change in QB? What should happen is a trial by fire for Sherer. Throw him out there and see what happens. Do not, however, expect his play to change the face of this team. There will be no Dustin Sherer “era,” no revolution in the way this team plays.

Unless every part of the offense gets itself together, it won’t matter who plays QB. Evridge and Sherer manage games, and without a good group to manage, neither of them will earn the fans’ admiration.

Feel like Scott Tolzien is the answer behind center? Tell Ben about it at breiner@wisc.edu.

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hen things go badly for a football team, the man behind center takes the blame.

Fans usually have an infatuation with the second-string quarterback, and if Saturday was any indication, that trend holds true in Madison.

The boos rained down as starter Allan Evridge completed just two passes while leading an ineffective offense. When backup Dustin Sherer came in, however, the fans lauded him with applause and cheers, it seemed, just for not being Allan Evridge.

That was, until Sherer threw his first interception and the crowd turned yet again.

Sherer could be an improvement over Evridge, or he could be worse.

In the end, there will not be a huge difference.

This is not like Terrelle Pryor and Todd Boeckman, where one is a dynamic talent and the other is a game manager. Sherer and Evridge are in the same boat as most Wisconsin quarterbacks: nice players but rarely difference-makers.

This has also bred an unusual strain of complaints calling for freshman Curt Phillips to start, despite the fact that he has redshirted the entire season.

Phillips was well-rated coming out of high school, getting four stars out of five from Rivals.com and being listed as the No. 7 dual-threat quarterback prospect in the county. He was not, however, in the upper crust of quarterback prospects who had a chance to see time as true freshmen.

The only time fans have seen Phillips play was in the Spring Game, where he was nothing special, not a surprise considering he had left high school a few months before and enrolled early at UW. He hardly looked like a world-beater, and it frankly was not surprising when the coaching staff decided to spend this year developing him.

Yet there is still a large part of the fan base calling for change, change, change, damn the consequences.

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Senior linebacker Jonathan Casillas (2) will lead the charge against an Iowa offense that is scoring 28.6 points per game.

Badgers take aim at Hawkeyes

By Matt Fox THE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin football team will try to snap its three-game losing streak this weekend when it travels to Iowa City to play for the Heartland Trophy.

The Badgers (0-3 Big Ten, 3-3 overall) have beaten the Hawkeyes (1-2 Big Ten, 4-3 overall) in their past two meetings. Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema earned four letters as a player for Iowa before serving as a Hawkeye assistant coach for nine seasons. Bielema looks forward to once again facing his alma mater.

“We just want to approach practice with attitude,” senior cornerback Allen Langford said. “Approach practice by doing things the right way—doing things full speed, working hard, having great energy, having great enthusiasm and looking forward to going out there and playing a great team in Iowa.”

The Hawkeyes are led by sophomore quarterback Ricky Stanzi, as well as junior running back Shonn Greene. Greene has rushed for more than 100 yards in every game this season to go along with six touchdowns.

Wisconsin’s defense seems well aware

of Greene’s consistency and ability to make big plays.

“The offense is pretty simple, but at the same time they have some great players running their offense,” senior linebacker Jonathan Casillas said. “[Greene] is probably one of the best in the Big Ten. He runs very hard, he’s very big and very experienced as well. I think stopping him is probably going to be our main challenge.”

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Purdue and Illinois up next for volleyball team

By Andy Van Sistine THE DAILY CARDINAL

Despite losing the first two conference matches of the season to Minnesota and Iowa, the No. 19 Wisconsin volleyball team (4-2 Big Ten, 14-4 overall) will be faced with an even tougher pair of opponents this weekend. They will face No. 21 Purdue (3-3, 14-4) and No. 17 Illinois (4-2, 13-4) while on the road for the second straight week.

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“They’ve got a lot of physical football players up front playing their best football now at this time of the year,” Bielema said Monday. “It’s a tremendous challenge and a great opportunity for us to go on the road and get a good gauge of where we are.”

The Badgers hope to bounce back from a disastrous 48-7 loss against the Penn State Nittany Lions, in which Wisconsin gave up 377 total yards of offense and 31 unanswered points.

Although Wisconsin has struggled lately, several Badgers were pleased with the way the team has responded during practice.

ranked in the AVCA top-25 poll, the Badgers will need to take both matches if they wish to remain in contention for the conference title. “[Having six ranked teams] is great for the conference, and it’s great for the fans, because it means there’s going to be some great competition,” UW head coach Pete Waite said. “But obviously it means you have to be really well prepared every time you step on the court, whether you’re home or away, because there’s a lot of strong, physical teams out there.”

Friday night’s match against Purdue will prove to be a challenge in the defensive department for Wisconsin, which must shut down senior middle hitter Stephanie Lynch to pull out the win. Lynch has been stellar from the front court, hitting an average of .420 and racking up 233 kills, which is fifth best among all Big Ten players. She also averages 1.27 blocks per set on a team that has tallied 44 more blocks than its opponents this year. Lynch and the Boilermakers will need to pull out all the stops

to take a win from the Badgers, who have won three of the last four meetings between the clubs.

The competition will likely tighten up even more when Wisconsin heads into Champaign.

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Senior middle blocker Audra Jeffers is tied for the team lead in blocks against Big Ten competition.

Earlier this week she stressed the importance of defense and preparation in the coming games.