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William Cronon lectures on Wilderness Act anniversary

By Dana Kampa THE DAILY CARDINAL

Environmental history professor William Cronon transported hundreds of viewers Tuesday evening from a theater in Memorial Union to iconic national areas including Niagara Falls and Yellowstone Park, challenging them to question the real meaning of wilderness. “[Wilderness] is not, itself, a natural phenomena,” Cronon said.

In a lecture titled “American Wilderness, Past, Present, and Future: A Historical Mediation,” Cronon described the history of the 1964 Wilderness Act to commemorate the act’s 50th anniversary.

The Wilderness Act protects more than 100 million acres of United States public land and created the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Cronon traced wilderness back to colonial times by referencing documents that

described a sense of mission attached to American settlement. However, Cronon said the transformation of wilderness into civilization is a myth with built-in erasures, the most obvious of which was overlooking native populations.

“This was a home to millions of Native Americans,” Cronon said.

Documents either omitted Native Americans all together or predicted these populations would vanish. He then displayed the image of a painting with the skeletal remains of a birchbark canoe in the foreground.

The professor highlighted the differences between how settlers viewed nature and how we see it today.

“The stump and axe are the symbol of progress,” he said.

The French Revolution lead to social critiques and the emergence of romanticizing wilder-

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Dogs on Call, Inc., a nonprofit organization that promotes health and wellness through animal therapy, visited Steenbock Library Tuesday. UW-Madison student Samantha McGarvey gets a sloppy kiss from one of Dogs on Call’s furry employees. + Photo by Dana Kampa

Alder salaries, emerald ash borer trees pose conflicts for members

By Irene Burski THE DAILY CARDINAL

In back-to-back meetings Tuesday, Madison’s Committee of the Whole and Common Council weighed the feasibility of increasing council member salaries and raising funds for tree maintenance as part of the 2015 budget.

Currently, the proposed budget includes $8,260 per alder salary. Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, pushed for amending this stipulation to add $200 per alder, which she said would be “symbolic” of the time requirements for the job.

“The aldermanic salaries

is something I’ve been thinking about for a very long time,” Rummel said. “It’s really a part time job that’s paid [for] like a high school babysitter.”

Ald. Mark Clear, District 19, called the question of salaries an

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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos outlines Republican agenda for next session Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, joined other Assembly Republicans for a news conference Tuesday to outline their upcoming legislative agenda, which mainly focused on economic growth.

“The centerpiece of our agenda is really making sure we focus on jobs,” Vos said.

Part of the agenda will target worker training to help citizens maintain their own economic stability.

“We want to make sure we keep our efforts going forward

to move people from government dependence to independence and self-sufficiency,” Vos said.

Assembly Republicans also offered numerous proposals to stimulate job growth. Rep. Dean Knudson, R-Hudson, emphasized reviewing licensing requirements and better employment options for recently released prisoners. Co-chairman of the Joint Committee on Finance, Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, also stressed supporting small businesses.

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, responded in a statement to the Republican agenda. He agreed that job growth was essential, but criticized the conservative plan.

“What Wisconsin really needs is a bold, vibrant agenda that will help create jobs and rebuild our middle class,” Barca said.

Education was also a top priority for Assembly Republicans

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Students to ‘Make Bo Pay,’ contribute to cancer research

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Environmental history professor William Cronon said it is necessary to understand the land to know how to protect it.

Students and community members will have the opportunity to make Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan contribute money to cancer research at the Kohl Center Wednesday.

At the free Shooting Down Cancer event, students can “Make Bo Pay” to Coaches vs.

Cancer, an American Cancer Society program that has raised millions of dollars for cancer

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research and awareness, according to the American Cancer Society website.

Ryan pledges to donate $1 for each student in attendance, $10 for each successful free throw and $1,000 for each successful half court shot.

The event raised $41,279 in 2012 and $66,130 in 2013.

Ryan and his wife Kelly Ryan created the event in 2012 to excite

students about the men’s basketball program while donating to a good cause, according to a UW-Madison Alumni Association press release.

Students attending the event can receive a free T-shirt and coupons to Noodles & Company, Culver’s and the University Bookstore.

The event will take place between 3 and 6 p.m.

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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

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ere I was: Terry Oliver, a man with a case. To find the Tenny Bros. “Tenny” like “Tennyson.” But as it stood, I had no leads, no starts, no clues—only four telegrams from a Finnish company with no return address and a few futile Google searches under my belt. I knew I would have to make a call on an old friend, or a new enemy depending on how you looked at it.

The day before, I left Schlep with all the necessary instructions for my classes.

When I walked into the office after a peaceful night of doing nothing, he was studiously applying a fake moustache and rouge to his face. It was a good disguise, meant to fool students and faculty alike.

All sweetened by the fact that I’m neither mustachioed nor rosy-cheeked. Always one step ahead.

When I saw Schlep was in (his own) capable hands, I stepped out of Humanities and navigated the labyrinthine, protean construction of Library Mall. Some days it’s worse than the Wandering Rocks out there.

But I made it all right, walking gently like a cat, as I wound

through the revolving door of Memorial Library.

This old friend of mine: He hid in plain sight, if you knew where to find him. Just had to follow the clues. Or, no, the cues. He had a flair for the dramatic, something (oddly) picked up from years of reading Beckett, which isn’t dramatic at all. But I digress.

He was lighting his meerschaum pipe now, like he was back in his office with the smoke detector compromised.

I made my way to the fourth mezzanine floor, touching the black “4M” twice for good luck. I was going to need it, talking to this guy. I made my way through the sliding stacks. Handy technology, these things: press a button and they slide forward and back in sequence, divulging all manner of books. Great space savers. The platforms don’t register any weight lower than 50 pounds though, so keep your small children and pets in sight I guess.

It had been a while since I paid my friend a visit, so I missed his stop a few times. But I got it right. His was the only card with a yen sign. I pushed the button and watched the stacks slide out.

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As the shelves shuttered along the track, lolling by the corner of my left eye, the walls of books peeled away like an onion, disclosing strange breaks and blemishes in the texts: spaces in the shelves, stacked with knickknacks and appurtenances (coffee cups, canned biscuits, several flashlights) or whole shelves missing, wide enough for a man to crawl through.

After the last wall of books rolled by and came to a stop, I saw my friend resting in his hammock, practicing his German. He looked up at me with jaundiced beneficence.

“Ah, Terrance,” he croaked.

“Professor Rice,” I said.

“That’s Professor Emeritus Rice.”

He wasn’t happy to see me these days, even as he basked in the glory of his retirement hideaway. I was like a tepid glass of milk left too long on someone’s kitchen counter.

“Well, what is it?” he said, reaching for another book.

Opening it revealed a cavity, with a meerschaum pipe nestled on the cut text.

“Desecrating library books now?” I asked.

“Heaven forbid. This is my book… written in lorem ipsum.”

He was lighting his meerschaum pipe now, like he was back in his office with the smoke detector compromised.

I didn’t like pipe smoke, but I admired the pipe’s design. It was carved to resemble John

Barth smoking a meerschaum pipe, carved to resemble John Barth smoking a meerschaum pipe, carved to resemble… the professor called it (and his smoking habit) “his Infinite Regress.” But Rice looked nothing like John Barth. He looked an aged Jeff Goldblum.

“I need your help with something,” I told him.

“And I need your help, Terry. Help convincing me that I didn’t back the wrong goddamn horse.”

“Listen—” “Why all this detective nonsense?”

“It’s a calling. I’m following it.”

“Teaching is a calling. You’re wanking off.”

“Look, I’ll be brief: I’m looking for the Tenny Bros.”

He puffed and something ghostly rose from the pipe bowl.

Then he smiled placidly. “You poor bastard,” he muttered.

“What do you know?” I asked.

“Nothing. Nothing,” he said, maintaining that smile of his, which was so munificently critical.

“What?”

“I’m afraid office hours are over, Terry,” he said, pushing the button. The shelf shuddered next to me. “You won’t be satisfied with the answer, when you find it,” he added, as it closed in on him.

I was hot under the collar then. But, I guess that’s all I could expect from professor Rice. He was really becoming an old enemy now.

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1836—Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas. His face is on the Texas $1 bill.

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1926—J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal. Houdini saws him in half and refuses to put him back together.

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1969—A clearly decaying, zombified Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death.

For the record An Oct. 20 article on a new brain sensor developed at UW-Madison reported the sensor has already been patented.

WARF is still engaged in the patenting process. The Daily Cardinal regrets this error.

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Oct. 22, 1454—The Gutenberg Necronomicon is printed, the first book printed using moveable type.

1975—Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus. Stalin becomes the first man to set foot on another planet.

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Seven UW-Madison students receive Fulbright funding

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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, outlines Republicans’ agenda for the upcoming session.

agenda from page 1 such as Rep. Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, who discussed universal educational access.

He focused on promoting life skill and making higher education more affordable by extending the tuition freeze to all UW System schools.

“A better Wisconsin begins

in the classroom,” Steineke said.

The Republicans also addressed plans to protect data privacy in the future. Vos proposed implementing a mandatory “kill switch” in every Wisconsin citizen’s cell phone.

If the phone is stolen or lost, the phone’s owner could call their provider to wipe out their data.

—Jacob Skubish

John Doe investigation releases thousands of emails Milwaukee County officials released 16,000 emails collected from a secret John Doe investigation of Gov. Scott Walker’s aides and associates two weeks before the Nov. 4 election.

The John Doe case is criminal investigation started by Milwaukee County prosecutors that inspected events and activities during Walker’s term as governor.

The emails revealed Walker’s campaign treasurer received financial information from a top Walker aide about a real-estate deal he was bidding on, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Walker released a statement issued by his campaign saying the email release was an effort to obstruct his election.

“Clearly, the highly partisan Milwaukee County executive, who has given $63,000 to my opponent, released four-yearold emails two weeks before the

election to distract voters from my opponent’s failed record,” Walker said. “This case was closed nearly two years ago.

Voters see through the political motives of my opponents to stop our successful reforms which are moving Wisconsin forward.”

Mary Burke said she had not discussed the release of the email records with Chris Abele, the current Milwaukee County executive, and that she was not timing her new attack ads to coincide with the release of the emails, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“The timing is about when people when they go to the polls need to consider Gov. Walker’s entire record over the last four years,” Burke told the Wisconsin State Journal. “Part of that, not only is it a lagging economy and historic cuts to education but certainly the scandal around his administration.”

—Charlotte Laracy

Food scientist Dave Arnold to visit campus, share innovative recipes Self-described “food innovator” Dave Arnold will share his tales of combining food and technology to create new, innovative products with UW-Madison students on campus Wednesday as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.

Arnold, the founder of the Museum of Food and Drink in New York and a renowned food journalist, first found his passion for mixing his skills in the kitchen with science after meeting molecular gastronomy pioneer Chef Wylie Dufresne.

Recipes of Arnold’s creation have landed him airtime on television shows such as “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” “The Today Show” and “The Ellen Degeneres Show,” according to Arnold’s website.

The lecture, which is put on by the Wisconsin Union Directorate in partnership with Madison Magazine and the Underground Food Collective, will take place in Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and tickets are not required.

UW-Madison tied the University of CaliforniaBerkeley for the secondhighest number of students to receive awards from the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright program.

Only 83 students received Fulbright DDRA fellowships across the country.

Former U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., created the program when he sponsored legislation for several programs meant to increase mutual understanding between American and the rest of the world.

The award recipients will use these grants to conduct research

in other countries for six to 12 months, according to a university press release.

Recipient Jacob Blanc received $45,204 to study history in Brazil and Paraguay, specifically the meanings of land and opposition in the Brazilian military, according to the release.

David Chambers, a geography student, will use his $48,265 in Thailand to study the creation of good space among Thailand’s Hmong.

Educational policy student Amy Porter received $26,447 to study poverty and enterprise, specifically negotiating good economic practice in Dakar, Senegal.

Brett Reilly received $80,669 to study the history of the state of Vietnam in France.

Nancy Rydberg received $21,212 to study educational policy and development studies in Uganda, focusing on local engagements with global girls’ education discourses in postconflict Northern Uganda.

Geography student William Shattuck received $34,733 to study roadblocks toward political change.

Finally, environmental studies student Sarah Sefanos received $50,100 to study cotton, diaspora and development in Ethiopia.

—Dana Kampa

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Although there is a Dec. 1 deadline for proposed salaries changes, Council President Chris Schmidt, District 11, did not envision salary increases taking effect in the near future.

While members of the Committee did not reach a consensus on increasing salaries, Common Council agreed to increase funds for urban forestry, reversing their previous stance, after a similarly contentious debate regarding the threat of the invasive emerald ash borer (EAB) and who would pay the fee for their maintenance and removal.

“We have luxury housing in towers that have very little street frontage, but the folks there are going to pay a lot less [than those living in moderate priced housing] that have a lot of street frontage,” Ald. Lisa Subeck, District 1, said.

However, the necessity of the funding ultimately outweighed members’ concerns regarding the price tag attached.

“We can create a mechanism to be able to save our trees [from the EAB],” Ald. Maurice Cheeks, District 10, said. “There are so many things we can’t do but we can do this.”

“equity issue” and that increases would allow more economically disadvantaged candidates to serve on the Council. However, this prediction was not universally embraced.

“I’m really sort of wrapping my head around how we can provide better services to our constituents through being a stronger council,” Ald. Larry Palm, District 12, said. “If you raise it to a full time salary, this becomes then a job that people are really seeking … I think elections will become that much more challenging.”

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Ald. Larry Palm, District 12, weighs the pros and cons of raising council members’ salaries.

Madison Water Utility plans to revitalize infrastructure Madison Water Utility announced Thursday it is seeking a water rate increase, subject to approval from the Public Services Commission, according to a city of Madison press release.

The rate increase, though not determined at this time, will provide for a 30 percent overall boost in revenues and will be used to replace old water mains, general

manager Tom Heikkinen said in the release.

According to MWU Public Information Officer Amy Barrilleaux, there is pipework that hasn’t been restored since the 1950s.

“Most of our infrastructure was built during that post-WWII population boom,” Barrilleaux explained in a press conference

two weeks ago. “If you drove on a road that was 65 years old you’d really have a hard time and that’s how our pipes are.”

MWU also announced plans to reward customers that use less water, offering a conservation rate during peak water usage months. The new rates, if approved, could go into effect in the spring of 2015.

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With the rising popularity of experiencing nature, particularly at Niagara Falls, so began tourist infrastructure.

Cronon described the falls as a “place of nature overwhelmed and desecrated.”

Automobiles acted as the most decentralizing force in human history and allowed working class Americans to enter parks. The Wilderness

Act prohibits roads, vehicles and permanent structures in designated wilderness areas, such as National Parks.

“It’s hard to imagine the Wilderness Act being passed today,” Cronon said. “We’re living in a very dynamic world.”

Cronon concluded by saying these statutes are all about touching, knowing and loving the world we inhabit.

ness when youths retreated from the bloodbath to nature.

In following years, wellknown environmentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Cole highlighted the tension between “divine” wilderness and human elements in their works.

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By Alex Moe The Daily Cardinal

The field of mental health is as diverse and complex as the problems that are therein examined and treated.

Researchers and doctors alike strive to provide the best results for those who suffer from disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder.

PTSD is characterized by “hyper-arousal” a state of agitated arousal where the individual experiences a state of anxiety coupled with overreaction to events. Within the disorder there exists a wide spectrum of those who experience some, but not all of the characteristics of PTSD. Because of the diverse symptom clusters, an individualized approach can better serve the one receiving treatment.

In cases where individuals develop PTSD, traumatic events occurring over time can cause changes in the brain and in the body, affecting the autonomic nervous system. The ANS regulates subconscious activities such as heart rate, breathing, pupillary dilation, digestion, and others.

A study recently done at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that certain yogic breathing techniques can help alleviate the vexing symptoms of PTSD. The results of the study mark a step forward in gaining

control of these usually uncontrolled functions.

The CIHM was started in 2009, and has since conducted scientific research about mental health and spread a message of mindfulness and selfbetterment. Their mission is to relieve suffering and promote well-being, and its major activities are split into three main areas. The first is basic research in the lab. This is a preliminary stage, and allows for the researchers to focus in on a more refined subject for later stages.

The second area of activity is translational research and involves a more deliberate attempt to functionally apply knowledge gained from the first stage. Application of results is the goal of this part of the process at the CIHM, and connects to the final area of activity for the center: dissemination of understanding.

This communication effort is the most important step, as it spreads the benefit of crucial knowledge to the network of professionals and sufferers of PTSD who need to be reached out to the most.

The founder of the CIHM, Richard J. Davidson, emphasizes the importance of selfinvolvement in the treatment process of mental betterment.

“Well-being is a skill. It can be learned,” Davidson said.

One method of self-regulation involves a paced schedule of breath control exer-

Ask Ms. Scientist: Flourishing bacteria in the mouth cause your bad morning breath Dear Ms. Scientist, Why do we have morning breath even though we brush our teeth right before going to bed? And why is our breath not as bad at the end of the day right before brushing our teeth?

—Fred S. Even though our mouths may be exposed to more bacteria during the day due to the foods we eat, especially those high in sugar such as soda or candy, we produce more saliva that helps wash away the bacteria which is attracted to all the food residue left on our teeth and this keeps our normal microbiota in check.

Saliva also has enzymes and proteins such as lysozymes and immunoglobulin A (a.k.a. antibodies) that help kill bacteria and maintain a balanced microbiota. When we sleep, our mouths naturally dry out, allowing bacteria to flourish and create the not-so-good morning stench for others to experience.

Ask Ms. Scientist is written by Corinne Thornton. If you have a burning science question you want her to answer, email it to science@dailycardinal.com.

cises and meditation. This method of interval breathing, Sudarshan Kriya Yoga, acts against “hyper-arousal.” The breathing activities along with various meditation techniques were integral to the training for participants. This, along with group sessions for several hours a day help to establish a social format in which those with questions or concerns can voice their minds and find common ground with others.

The participants in the study experienced relieved symptoms. Of the 21 participants, the 11 soldiers who received the treatment showed reduced signs of PTSD compared to the 10 in the control group. Symptoms such as respiration, heart rate and eye blink magnitude are indicators of arousal, and were measured to gather data about the effectiveness of this technique.

With such a small sample size, it is difficult to draw any broad conclusions. However, the results of this study can be strengthened by further examination of techniques like Sudarshan Kriya Yoga. These results present an alternative to drug treatment, and ongoing research suggests that these methods do have merit.

The series of studies that encompasses this and other research are part of an effort on the part of the CIHM to refine contemporary mental health treatment techniques. Results like these can strengthen the

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approach that we take to bettering mental health, and allow for mental health professionals to deal with disorders like PTSD that present themselves in a variety of ways.

Student involvement plays a role in the daily activity of the CIHM and the Waisman Center. More than 60 undergraduate students are part of the work that goes on there for the betterment of mental health and development. With the continued effort of students like this as well as researchers in the field of mental health, the long-term goal of the CIHM may yet be achieved. It hopes to

determine to a greater degree who benefits from which style of treatment and further individualize the approach to mental health.

This individualization is key to unlocking the secrets of disorders like PTSD, and Professor Davidson indicated that persisting benefits would only accompany persistent effort.

For those that experience the negative effects of lasting mental trauma, the road ahead seems long but hopeful. With continued effort on the part of scientists like those at the Waisman Center, knowledge of aid techniques will only grow.

Beetle study illuminates how changing wind speeds can impact an ecosystem

By Phoebe Kiekhofer The Daily Cardinal

In dense field of soybean alfalfa plants, a lady beetle perches atop a plant, looking for aphids to prey on, unknowingly serving an indispensible role to the ecosystem and health of the plants. But just as in any other ecosystem, a host of factors compromise the lady beetle and its role­­­­­—some more unexpected than others.

Traditionally, factors like climate and temperature are the easiest to observe when zoological studies are conducted on an ecosystem. However, what if there are other aspects which should also be closely examined? The University of WisconsinMadison zoologist Brandon Barton’s latest study demonstrates an example of this.

Barton and his students conducted experiments involving varying wind speeds on soybean alfalfa plants, leaving some in the open and some with windbarriers. What Barton found was how the wind had an indirect effect on soybean aphids which are typically pests who are detrimental to the alfalfa plants.

While the aphids themselves were not directly affected by wind speeds, Barton’s experiments illustrated how Asian Lady Beetle density on the alfalfa plants corresponded inversely with

wind speeds. High wind speeds bend the plants over, and the lady beetles are unable to adhere to the plants like the aphids do and are blown away.

In his study, Barton and his students noticed a marked decrease in the number of lady beetles on the plants with higher wind speeds, but the aphid population remained consistent.

the same time indirectly benefit other organisms in the beetle’s ecosystem who are consuming the plants.

“Reducing the number of aphids could eliminate the need for pesticides and in turn this could make the alfalfa plants more organic,” Barton said.

And with the burgeoning trend of organic, all-natural foods over the recent years, this method could potentially make a tremendous difference in the organic produce market, making organic, pesticidefree produce more accessible all around and driving the price down.

But Barton says that while this is plausible in theory, there are still many other factors to take into account with this field of study. For example, “how wind may affect the abundance and behavior of other predators remains unknown,” said Barton.

Thus his study remains not without limitations. graphic by Cameron Graff Still, Barton’s study poses potential advancement in that it opens up an Since the lady beetle preys on the entirely new lens to examine the natusoybean aphids, higher density of lady ral world through. More research on beetles, when allowed by the winds, the topic, with more factors of climate benefits the alfalfa plant by diminishing change taken into account and explored, the aphid population. could one day change the face of both the This phenomenon indirectly lowers natural world and our impact on it. And the aphid population by creating lower while Barton says his study is just a wind speeds. This could, in theory, start, it without a doubt leaves many largely benefit the plant health and at doors open.

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We missed it by a day, but it’s still good to pay respects: Eliott Smith died 11 years ago on Oct. 21, 2003. Rest in peace.

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Miley + Wayne 4eva Today’s Sudoku

ACROSS 1 Ample, as a doorway 5 Pre-stereo recordings 10 Clickable image 14 Cut and paste, e.g.

15 Some Hindu people 16 Wine valley 17 Boyfriend 18 He brings the house down in Britain 19 Where a squirrel squirrels nuts away 20 It makes letters bigger 23 Donned the feedbag 24 Apiece, in scores 25 Followed closely, dogstyle 27 “___ beaucoup” 29 “Is it soup ___?”

32 Actor’s lines meant for the audience 33 Palindromic Eastern title 35 Class-conscious org.?

37 Pencil stump 38 It’s twisted off 43 Costello or Gehrig 44 Draft pick 45 Dada founder 46 Hits with one’s head 49 Arid 51 Out of practice 55 More nimble

7 Ram’s ma’am 5 59 ___ chi (martial art) 60 South African peninsula 64 Hubs 65 Texas shrine (with “the”) 66 Demon’s doings 67 Vending machine inserts 68 The brightest star in Orion 69 ___ over backward 70 “Hey ... over here!”

71 Stretches across 72 There are 10 million in a joule DOWN 1 Computer accessory 2 Form a conception 3 It may be needed for a change 4 Decorative case 5 Fable finale 6 Common way to take medicine 7 Not yet final, in law 8 Court attentiongetter 9 “The Terminator” woman 10 West ___ (Jamaica’s home)

North or South state Bloomed “Uh-uh” Coniferous evergreen forest 22 Drink in Boston Harbor?

26 Star of a ball, briefly 28 Blackguard 30 “Come in!”

31 Asian holiday 34 Litigator’s org.

36 Menu phrase 38 Traces 39 Beats to the tape 40 Venerable 41 Missed the mark 42 PC “brain” 43 Barbell abbr.

47 Keyboard user 48 “Didn’t I tell you?”

50 Royal guards 52 Candy company Russell ____ 53 Using a camcorder 54 Gives the right-of-way 56 Nature calls?

58 Angora, merino, etc.

61 Gymnast’s feat 62 Crazed with passion 63 Daughter of Hera and Zeus 64 Chop (off)

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

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

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By Kyle Dougherty The Daily Cardinal

There’s no telling exactly what you’ll experience if you come out to see the Meat Puppets perform at the High Noon Saloon this Wednesday, Oct. 22 with tour-mate Cass McCombs. In fact, they don’t even know themselves. “I think we’re gonna wait until we get to the venue, and then put some thought into it,” says guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter Curt Kirkwood. “We got a few different ideas we’re messing around with. We brought acoustic guitars, we might try to hook that up. We’re just playing it by ear.”

That laid-back, open-minded approach is part of what, for the past 34 years, has given the Meat Puppets the unique magic that has caused ripples through the music community among both fans and critics. Since being formed in 1980 by Kirkwood, his brother Cris and original drummer Derrick Bostrom, the Meat Puppets have been characterized by their impressive chops, “unabashed stoniness” (to quote Bostrom), and—perhaps most importantly—their penchant for absorbing any musical style and

experience that drifts by and catches their interest, no matter how eclectic.

How would one describe such a mellifluous band?

Though in their early days they were a part of the then-burgeoning hardcore punk scene, Kirkwood never considered the Meat Puppets a punk band. “I was never one to label us,” he said. “We liked to play punk music because it was fun. You get to play real fast and not think about it.” They were popular, however, and quickly signed with SST Records, where they were close-knit label-mates with other groundbreaking bands of the time, such as the Minutemen, Black Flag and Hüsker Dü. “We were all friends,” Kirkwood said. “I still see all those guys.”

But the Puppets weren’t interested in limiting themselves, and they soon began peppering their sets with music not anticipated by their hardcore audiences—country standards, Grateful Dead covers, and the theme from “The King and I,” among many others.

The variety was not often received peacefully. “You’re gonna get a bunch of shit

thrown at you if you start playing some kinda ‘hippie crap’ or whatever,” says Kirkwood.

“And I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty punk rock. I like to have stuff thrown at me, and I definitely like to see these assholes pissed off.’”

The main source of the Meat Puppets’ unique playing was their desire to express all facets of their love for music without restriction.

Was defiance the main motivator for their unconventional tendencies? “It played into it a little bit,” said Kirkwood.

“But it was never the intention to hurt people’s feelings or make them upset.” It was more about reminding punks what the scene was supposed to stand for. “Freedom is a big word,” said Kirkwood. “Before you start going around, saying you’re free, you should look in the mirror.”

But despite the fun of angering a hypocritical audience and getting beer cans rained on

‘Talking Dead’ is a plague on AMC’s Sunday night lineup jake smasal smasaltov!

On Sunday nights the mostwatched show on television, AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” airs. Immediately after it ends, a foppish blonde man—comedian Chris Hardwick—comes on screen and talks about the show for the next hour. Nothing else happens. Hardwick and whatever celebrity guests and/ or cast members tell jokes, talk about what just happened and what possibly could happen.

The most interesting part of this is that people watch it.

Viewers stay tuned in to watch Hardwick and his weekly compatriots draw the interest of “The Walking Dead’s” fans.

Many see this as a storytelling shortcut and a way to get cheap laughs. In many cases, this is true.

The “Talking Dead” phenomenon is a sign of television to come. Over the past decade, television has become increasingly aware of itself, and this show about a show is just another indication of this new self-awareness. “The Office” and its subsequent followers allowed for actors to break the fourth wall with their “documentary” style. Shows like “Family Guy” make refer-

ences to themselves being in a TV show in order to highlight the absurdity of a situation.

Many see this as a storytelling shortcut and a way to get cheap laughs. In many cases, this is true. As Abed explains in the “documentary” episode in “Community’s” second season, telling stories this way is like “shooting fish in a barrel.”

Yet, “Talking Dead” moves past these fictionalized versions of meta-ness and becomes its own, very real entity. “Talking Dead” is like something that would happen on “Family Guy” or “Community,” not a real thing that people like.

Again, this is a product of our time, and it only works for shows like “The Walking Dead” that have openly encouraged their fans on social media and through promotions. If HBO had started airing something like “Talking Dead” after “The Sopranos” or “Six Feet Under,” it would have been ludicrous.

These shows were made for people to take their own meanings from and to appreciate on their own. Even among other AMC shows, “The Walking Dead” stands alone. Can you imagine if “Breaking Bad” or “Mad Men” had something akin to “Talking Dead?” No one would like it, want it or watch it. Yet for “The Walking Dead”—which wants to be considered as seriously as its network counterparts—“Talking Dead” airs after it twice on Sunday nights.

While “Talking Dead” is certainly part of how “The Walking Dead” has remained the most popular cable show,

it’s hard to see the need for it.

“The Walking Dead” does not need anything to speak for it.

It’s a show about a bunch of people killing zombies, other people and generally surviving, and if that does not sell you on the show, you probably just are not going to like it. It’s actually as simple as that. It seems like a better idea to air some of AMC’s newer dramatic programming after the first airing of “The Walking Dead” in the hopes that some of the show’s popularity will bleed into whatever follows. “Turn,” the network’s Revolutionary War era espionage show, would probably do very well in that slot. Hell, “Mad Men” would probably do alright too, and moving “Comic Book Men” up an hour would at least make it a little easier for the four people who watch “Comic Book Men” to get to bed on time.

‘Talking Dead’ is like something that would happen on ‘Family Guy’ or ‘Community,’ not a real thing that people like.

By giving up a prime piece of prime network space to “Talking Dead,” AMC hurts its own original programming. And, at the end of the day, isn’t it just doing what you’re supposed to be doing with your friends?

Watch “Comic Book Men?” Don’t have any friends? Are these things related? Let Jake know at smasal@wisc.edu.

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their heads, the main source of the Meat Puppets’ unique playing was their desire to express all facets of their love for music without restriction. “It just always seemed to me that the fun of having a band from the get-go with us was, ‘let’s play some of this.’ We used to play a lot of covers when we were kids. We’d get songbooks and play all through an Elvis songbook or a Beatles songbook or a Glen Campbell songbook. Then just sticking with one style seems to be kind of counter to what I thought about art in the first place.”

“Genres tend to melt away if you’re playing for a while.

And you know you’re playing a country sounding thing, or whatever, but it’s still all just playing... You can have brown gravy, or country gravy, any gravy right? We tend to go for a large gravy boat, the sloopsized gravy boat of crap. It’s always been fair, whatever we wanna do.”

The Meat Puppets have never stopped absorbing and evolving, from those early days all the way up to their most recent release, 2013’s Rat Farm.

There have, of course, been

plenty of ups and downs along the way. The Puppets shot to minor mainstream fame after a big fan of theirs, Kurt Cobain, invited them to play a few songs from their second album with Nirvana on their “MTV Unplugged” performance in 1993. Their next album, Too High to Die, was subsequently a mild mainstream hit, but their new-found trajectory was cut short when the unprecedented access to drugs brought about by fame led Kirkwood’s brother Cris to spiral down a path of addiction, jail, and getting shot that didn’t end until 2006, when he miraculously got clean and the Puppets reunited. They’ve been back touring together and making music ever since.

Despite this amazing rock ’n’ roll legacy, Kirkwood still takes a humble approach. “It’s just what I do. It’s fun, it’s an artistic outlet, and it’s all I’ve ever done. I’ve been doing it since I was a teenager… There’s nothing like playing live, touring. It has a lot to offer that you just can’t get your head around if you’re just sitting around. You have to get out and do shows to let the stuff be what it can really be.”

RECORD ROUTINE Horse Feathers display a new energy on So It Is With Us ALBUM REVIEW

So It Is With Us Horse Feathers

By Mary Sullivan The Daily Cardinal

The fifth installment of Portland-based Horse Feathers, So It Is With Us, is Justin Ringle’s attempt to shed the skin of the folkheavy albums that came before and open up Horse Feathers to something a little more upbeat and fun.

He admitted in an interview with Folk Radio this August that he “ended the year 2012 disillusioned and defeated … After an arduous period of self-doubt and discovery, I finally arrived at the enlightened idea that maybe it should just be a little more fun. I had grown weary of talking to people after shows who said that my last record ‘helped them through their divorce.’ I have always been flattered by that sort of thing, but I realized what I wanted to hear was how my last record helped them ‘have a great weekend.’” Though I don’t know how many crazy fun weekends So It Is With Us will inspire, it is most definitely a step in the right direction.

The opening track and the album’s first single is the most in-your-face example of change in the band. “Violently Wild” is a feel-good Americana tune with gorgeous vocals by Ringle and

a rejuvenating declaration that “we have just begun.”

The following tracks, “Thousand” and “Dead End Thanks,” are a bit more slow, but keep the positive image of “Violently Wild” with a light, bluegrassy string section by Nathan Crockett and Lauren Vidal. Coming later on the album, “Old Media” is a classic rock jam with high points that lift you up and a percussion section—courtesy of Dustin Dybvig—which is unmatched by any other track on the album.

“Why Do I Try,” “Small Melody” and “The Knee” relapse to Ringle’s sad, somewhat hopeless style of lyricism, straddling frustration and giving up. However, they showcase his impressive vocals, which we miss in some of the more up-tempo tracks. “The Knee” has the most powerful lyrics on So It Is With Us, narrating the story of someone at rock bottom with gut-wrenching yet unapologetic lines like “a man works just to put his pain up his nose” and “there’s no forecasted grief in picking pockets from a thief softly screaming ‘woe is me.’”

The last track juxtaposes this desire to give up with an inspiring call to take responsibility for one’s life and act. Ringle argues “it’s not how much you love, it’s how much you try” then declares “I won’t get down on my luck or down on my knees.”

With lyrics like these backed by amazing instrumentals, it sounds like Ringle’s Horse Feathers aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Rating: B

opinion Mandatory paid vacation lacking in U.S. YUKAKO HIRAKAWA Opinion Columnist

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he term “work-life balance” has become popular worldwide in recent years. The idea of workleisure balance was invented in the mid-1800s, and the term work-life balance was firstly used in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

Work-life balance is often misunderstood to mean people should have more leisure even if companies earn less money.

According to the Personal Efficiency Program, however, personal efficiency is the key to achieve work-life balance.

In other words, employees are evaluated based on their productivity. Therefore, work-life balance can help employers and employees at the same time by paying wages based on the efficiency of work.

If we want to work at a company where employers are evaluated by efficiency of work, paternity leave acts as a barometer for checking whether work-life balance works well in the company.

One of the difficulties that working fathers and mothers have is both parents being involved in the parenting process. When both fathers and mothers are working, it is almost impossible to raise children unless the spouses are able to help each other. The first step for helping each other during raising a child is parental leave. If a workplace provides work-life balance, it would be easier to take time off after a baby is born. This is because work-life balance cares only about efficiency of work, and being efficient at work means allowing workers time to leave

the workplace and enjoy life.

Some college students have a motivation to work at a place where they can be satisfied with both vocation and vacation. The motivation has become more significant recently because women are taking more influential roles in the business sector.

For example, General Motors appointed their first woman CEO. This change makes couples economically stable and also helps to achieve social

progress for women.

“I am not saying that women and men are exactly the same, but I don’t believe all the responsibility should fall on shoulders of women,” says Thomas Jaime, a doctoral student in UW-Madison. He took an unpaid week off soon after his daughter was born in the beginning of October 2014.

He decided to take a week off because he thought it would be too difficult if his wife had to

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do all the housework alone on top of needing to breast feed.

Recalling the experience of taking his week off, he said he is quite satisfied with supporting his family this way, and so is his wife.

In terms of the workplace, Thomas Jaime could not have chosen a much better job to have when a child is born. It’s easier for Doctoral students to take time off than for professors.

Still, he could not have taken a week off without an understanding boss and colleagues.

“Doctoral students are more flexible than standard jobs,” Thomas Jaime said. Before he left his job for a week, he looked for a colleague to act as a substitute in his classes, things went well except for the surprise birth of the baby.

“She came here quite early, and I did not communicate with my boss first.” As we all know, the birth of a baby is not always punctual. Still, Thomas could take time off with the understanding of his colleagues and supervisors for his involvement in parenting.

College students have a bunch of opportunities, from choosing whatever we want to study, where we want to work and when we want to have class. An ideal company would vary from person to person, because some students have decided they will not have a family and will work to achieve a higher career status. However, if students are planning to make their own family in the future, then they need to consider how well work-life balance applies in each company they are applying to.

In this country, many people do not value leave and vacation compared to European countries.

For me it is surprising that people in the U.S. work so hard and long because I thought America was

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a nation of liberty. However, the U.S. has no mandatory paid holidays or vacation, although many other industrialized countries have at the very least 10 paid vacation days per year. For example, New Zealand requires no less than four weeks paid vacation and Norway requires employers give employees 25 working days of paid vacation.

Thus, college students in America should be more careful about the system of maternity/paternity leave their future employer may offer since the United States does not legislate mandatory paid vacation or maternity/paternity leave.

However, the U.S. has no mandatory paid holidays or vacation, although many other industrialized countries have at the very least 10 paid vacation days per year.

It is time that a new era comes forth where people should seriously reconsider the term worklife balance because more and more women have played a significant role in companies in recent decades. If couples continuously work, they cannot raise children without supporting each other. Thus, if college students are planning to have a family in the future, they should choose a company which evaluates employees by their productivity.

Yukako Hirakawa is a new writer for The Daily Cardinal.

Do you agree or disagree with her stance on mandatory paid vacation in the United States?

Does the United States not need mandatory paid vacation? Please send all feedback to opinion@ dailycardinal.com.

Foreign surrogacy births problems, not solutions HAE RIN LEE Opinion Columnist

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t is quite evident that we now live in a world of advanced technologies. One of the technological glooms of today is the use of surrogacy which is the practice of using another woman to carry the baby instead of the actual parents through implantation of their embryo into her.

Many of us are already aware of this technology as Hollywood celebrity Sarah Jessica Parker was widely known for using a surrogate mother for the birth of her twin daughters back in 2009.

But surrogacy is increasingly becoming more controversial in developing nations as it is commercialized without proper law enforcement to prevent abuses like here.

A New York Times article on Aug. 26, 2014, revealed more about the shadowy surrogate business in Thailand. There is a reason why surrogacy is more popular and gloomier there.

Thailand is one of few countries in Southeast Asia that lawfully allows commercial surrogacy and many are hired by couples from wealthier countries like Australia and the United States to carry babies instead of the actual par-

ents. The inherent pursuit of this business is good because it allows infertile people to have their own children and pay money to people in need to earn money in a relatively short time. However, this practice is becoming very controversial as more people are abusing this technology.

Also, this practice is usually happening in the legal gray areas, where there are no laws preventing the abuse of surrogates or helping victims of said abuse.

One Australian couple that had twins through a surrogate mother in Thailand decided to only take one of the children because the other baby was born with Down Syndrome. The father indicated, “I don’t think any parent wants a son with a disability.” This case became even more problematic when court records revealed him to be convicted and imprisoned 20 times for sexual abuse of children in the 1990s, questioning his fatherhood ability and rights

to even use surrogacy.

Another dreadful case was discovered recently when the police raid in Bangkok clinics found that a Japanese man had fathered approximately a dozen babies through surrogates within weeks and months apart. The misuse of the practice in Thailand is raising concerns about the commercialization of the surrogacy business.

Many Thai women from rural regions are attracted to the surrogate business in order to earn money for survival and better lives. Most people who pay for the surrogacy are from developed nations. This shows the glooms of a globalized economy because it is overcoming the social moral that all of us consider important; that it makes humans a commodity and the subject of trade. Human lives are being traded whether the outcome may be potentially beneficial for both parties or not.

Then the question rises, should surrogacy really be commercialized even when it, to some extent, violates the basic human norm of globalized trade?

But there are more problems than just the moral contradictions. The problem rises in legal fields; whether the foreign cou-

ples that pay for this could successfully bring their child out of countries lawfully. In Thailand, the legal definition of a mother is the woman who carried the baby physically. So, in order for the foreign couples to take their children into their care legally, they need to have surrogate mothers give up their rights of children, which could involve the rather complex process in the courts that may force both parties to rely on the illegal methods to solve the issue, such as passport forgeries.

One Australian couple that had twins through a surrogate mother in Thailand decided to only take one of the children because the other baby was born with Down Syndrome.

Or even worse, the surrogates could be left behind with their non biological children because the foreign couples could change their minds, which become very convenient for them since the legal status for the mother in that country is the one who carried the baby.

This becomes very difficult when the surrogate mother, who

possibly came into the business to make money, is forced into further economic burden and moral guilt for using contradictory practice with no paybacks.

Also, this practice is usually happening in the legal gray areas, where there are no laws in preventing the abuse of the practice or helping victims of the practice. The practice of surrogacy could hardly be good, especially for surrogate mothers, when there are no legal controls for it to guarantee effective solutions or preventions for the potential problems.

Surrogacy is not only the moral erosion of humanity, but also the stigma of poverty and inequality for the powerless.

Even if there are benefits to the issue, when the other party is forced into potential danger and misery without proper protections, this practice could hardly be the true reproduction of human lives, but the destruction of pre-existing lives.

Hae Rin is a freshman writer for The Daily Cardinal. Do you agree or disagree with her view on surrogacy? Is there a view she may have overlooked? We want to hear your take. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Wisconsin goes for eighth win in a row

By Sam Karp the daily cardinal

Riding a seven-game winning streak, No. 5 Wisconsin (7-1 Big Ten, 16-2 overall) will look to extend its win streak this Wednesday when Iowa (1-7, 9-10) comes to the Field House.

The Field House has proved to be a tough environment for opponents to come into, as the Badgers are 7-1 at home this season. Attendance has continued to impress this past weekend when Badger faithful sold out the Field House for the third time this season. Players and coaches have definitely taken note in the increase in attendance from last year to this year.

“It’s starting to become a hard ticket,” said Wisconsin head coach Kelly Sheffield. “And we’re real excited about that.”

These matches are becoming not only a must among the Madison community, but also among UW students.

“I mean, they were packed,” Sheffield said. “They were loud and energetic... and man that makes all of us really excited.”

Last week, the Badgers swept

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Sophomore Lauren Carlini is 10th in the NCAA in assists per game, with an average of 11.44.

Minnesota in their home-andhome series. The win at Minnesota marked the first time the Badgers had beaten the Gophers on the road in six matches.

The two matches each had different storylines as the outside hitters on the Badgers dominated the first match while Wisconsin’s middles carried the team in the second match.

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UW rematches 2013 NCAA opponent

By Jason Braverman the daily cardinal

Playing their third consecutive home game, the Badgers (0-50 Big Ten, 2-9-2 overall) will look for some consolation Wednesday in what’s been a disappointing season against in-state rival Milwaukee (2-3-1 Horizon, 5-8-2).

The two teams have played annually since the creation of the Wisconsin soccer program, with the exception of the 1982 and 2012 seasons. All-time, the Badgers lead the series 16-147, and sent the rival Panthers home in the first round of the NCAA tournament a year ago with a 1-0 victory.

Wisconsin has gone 0-1-1 so far in its three-game home series at the McClimon Complex, losing 2-0 to Ohio State Saturday and tying with Loyola last week.

The Ohio State loss marked the third time this season the Badgers have been shutout, though they were able to threaten offensively and recorded 12 shots.

Strong freshman play has led the Panthers this season. A pair of newcomers, freshman forward Petter Ingebrigtsen and freshman forward Reid Stevenson, are tied for the team lead in goals and points with four and nine, respectively.

Despite the strong play from their freshmen forwards, Milwaukee has struggled to score at times, having been shutout seven times, nearly half its matches.

Starting all but three games this season, sophomore Liam Anderson has handled the majority of the goalkeeping duties for the Panthers. His 47 saves are tied for fourth in the Horizon League.

Much like its in-state counterparts, Wisconsin has also relied on production from its younger players, with 12 freshmen this year. Of the 14 goals the team has scored, 10 have come from a trio of freshmen: forwards Mark Segbers and Tom Barlow and midfielder Mike Catalano. Another first-year player, sophomore defender Matej Radonic, was responsible for one of the other four goals.

Freshman goalkeeper Adrian Remeniuk started for the ninth time in his career in the 2-0 defeat against Ohio State, having been in net for both Wisconsin wins this season.

The Badgers will look to end their home stand on a positive note before returning to Big Ten play for their final three matches of the regular season.

Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the McClimon Complex.

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Adrian Remeniuk has been the goalkeeper in both UW wins.

“That’s the type of team we have,” Sheffield said. “And fortunately we’re able to be able to play those types of games.”

While Iowa was pedestrian last year, Sheffield knows that his team cannot discount the Hawkeyes, especially after they beat Northwestern last week.

“They’ve got to be feeling really good about themselves,” Sheffield

said. “They look really good on film. Certainly a lot better than what we’ve seen a year ago.”

Sheffield knows a lot of credit for this steady improvement from last year to this year has to go to Iowa’s new head coach Bond Shymansky and the rest of his coaching staff.

Shymansky has been trying to implement a new offense, which will take his team time to become

fully comfortable with.

“They’re playing hard,” Sheffield said. “They’re playing with a lot of energy. But offensively, they’re just running things a lot quicker, a lot more diverse, and you can tell it’s starting to take hold.”

Unfortunately for the Hawkeyes, learning the new playbook has taken them a while and as a result their performance in the Big Ten has taken a hit.

After making it through their nonconference schedule with an 8-3 record, the toughest conference in the nation brought them back down to size.

They were swept in sixstraight Big Ten matches before putting up an impressive performance at home against No. 12 Illinois, pushing the Fighting Illini to five games, and later in the week beating Northwestern.

Following their match against Iowa, the Badgers will return home Sunday to take on No. 11 Nebraska.

This will mark the return of former Badger coach John Cook, who coached Wisconsin for seven seasons and made six NCAA tournament appearances before moving onto Nebraska.

Examining the NBA MVP race Rushad Machhi breaking shad

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ith the NBA season barely a week away from starting, it’s everyone’s favorite time of the year: prediction season! Now it’s my turn to make semi-educated guesses about the NBA before any actual action has taken place.

Today I’ll look at the top five MVP candidates for the upcoming year.

“But Shad, I’ve seen you play basketball, how are you even a little bit qualified to write something like this when you still shoot with two hands?” ponders a confused reader. Well I’m finally starting to consistently make uncontested layups, so yes, I can write this column. Let’s get started, shall we?

5. Giannis Antetokounmpo, SF, Milwaukee Bucks

A man can dream, can’t he!?

Fine moving on.

5. Kevin Durant, SF, Oklahoma City

The man that we Bucks fans hope Giannis will develop into!

This might be the only time for the next few years that Durant is not a top two finisher for MVP, since he’ll miss at least the first six weeks of the season recovering from a Jones fracture in his foot.

However, as long as Durant returns without any further complications to his injured foot, he will remind us all that he is a top two player in the league when he returns in the second half.

Still, Durant cannot go any higher than five this year because he will miss a sizable chunk of the season, as “the real MVP” needs to play almost every game.

4. Blake Griffin/Chris Paul, PF/PG, respectively, LA Clippers

One of the two big dogs from the Clippers is going to garner MVP noise, but it is tough to say which one. Last season, while Paul was injured, Griffin showcased his complete offensive game and put up his best season ever, averaging 24.1 points, 9.5 rebounds, and 4 assists per game, and carried the Clippers as his teammate recovered.

Paul still finished only four spots behind Griffin in MVP voting despite missing 20 games.

Both players are very capable of snagging top five spots.

However, a few factors work against both of them. First of all, if both players share the floor constantly, they will take away from each other’s stats, diminishing each other’s candidacy.

Both players have also struggled with injuries in the past, with Griffin just coming off a minor back surgery, and Paul having his usual ankle and knee issues that have not allowed him to play more than 70 games since the 2010-’11 season.

If Paul can stay healthy all season, this spot becomes his as his all-around brilliance at point guard and defensive prowess will elevate him past Griffin. But if Paul misses his usual allotment of games, Griffin will pad his stats and earn this spot himself.

3. Anthony Davis, PF/C, New Orleans Pelicans

The Brow put the world on notice last March, putting up 24 points, 11 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game during the month, which resulted in the Pelicans benching him for most of April as they realized playing Davis would hinder their lottery aspirations.

However, Davis put fear in

the hearts of the rest of the NBA as he utilized his physical gifts in ways never seen before, climaxed by an absurd 40-point, 21-rebound, 3-block performance against the Celtics March 16.

If Davis sustains the performances he had from last March and carries the Pelicans to a playoff berth, he has this spot, and might even climb higher if New Orleans can manage a high seed.

2. Russell Westbrook, PG, Oklahoma City Thunder

Durant has said that his allstar teammate Westbrook can hoist the MVP trophy himself one day, and boy, is this an excellent opportunity for him to do so.

Westbrook played at another level during the 2014 playoffs, posting a mind-boggling 27 points, 8 assists, and 7 rebounds per game, as well as numerous game-changing plays on defense.

That also happened while sharing the ball with Durant!

With Durant sidelined for at least the first two months of the season, if Westbrook can keep OKC afloat, the Thunder might have two MVPs at the end of the season.

1. LeBron James, SF, Cleveland Cavaliers

The return of the King. Last year was just the second in the past six that Lebron was not crowned MVP, and after the first time voters snubbed him, he unleashed a fury of hell to reclaim his throne and remind everyone who the true king is.

I expect a similar revenge season, as well as his homecoming to Cleveland and being the leader of what should be a historically great offense to propel him back to the top spot.

Who’s your pick for NBA MVP? Share your thoughts with Rushad at machhi@wisc.edu.