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Earning women’s studies a seat at the table Story by Jonah Beleckis

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t was the early years of the Women’s Studies Program at UW-Madison, and students in Susan Friedman’s “Images of Women” discussion section were talking about challenges many women in the 1970s may have been struggling with, but could never discuss in an academic setting.

“My husband won’t let me come to class until I’ve cleaned the oven,” Friedman remembers one student saying, in response to analyzing an advertisement depicting a similar scene.

Such an opportunity to analyze deeply personal and social issues in an academic setting gained formal structure in 1975, when the Women’s Studies Program— becoming the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies in 2008—was born at UW-Madison.

“It’s an academic subject,” said Friedman, who still teaches in the department today. “It’s still a strain in teaching gender and women’s studies. Things that are very personal, sometimes stories of violence, stories of extreme distress enter into the classroom.

At the same time ... what we’re doing is an academic enterprise

and it needs to be done rigorously … but you can’t ignore when people come into class and say things.”

The GWS department will be reflecting on its 40-year history and contemplating its future at a campus-wide conference Oct. 23 and 24, when students will be able to hear lectures and join discussions with prominent educators in the field.

This department, created by the impetus of roaring social movements, maintained the energy it was born with and now eyes new directions to expand the study of women and gender.

excluded from the curriculum,” Ipsen said.

This argument resonated with the UW System Board of Regents, which in the early 1970s mandated that all System campuses establish women’s studies programs.

The UW-Madison committee tasked with creating the program wanted the autonomy to establish

its own coherent curriculum, but recognized the study of women and gender was missing from many different departments.

“We didn’t want to isolate the subject of women’s studies and gender and just do it as a separate thing. We were afraid of a kind of ‘ghetto,’” Friedman said. “We wanted to integrate the existing departments with the

kind of issues we believed in.”

After its creation, the program faced a new set of issues surrounding its legitimacy.

Friedman said skeptics questioned if women’s studies was “just a fad” or “too political.”

Faculty seeking to establish legitimacy through tenure in other departments found themselves

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Momentum of the ‘Second Wave’

In 1975, women made up 51 percent of the United States population, but very few in academia studied their experiences and history.

According to Pernille Ipsen, assistant professor and conference organizer, the second-wave feminist movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s helped earn women’s studies a seat at the academic table.

“It was so difficult to speak against because it makes very little sense, for, as long as academia had existed, women had been so

Photo courtesy of the gender and women studies department

Julie D’Acci (front left) and Mariamne Whatley (front right) have both taught women’s studies courses.

Legislators ask state jobs agency to answer for misused tax dollars

By Andrew Bahl the daily cardinal

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Drivers of the Planter’s NUTmobile stopped by UW-Madison’s campus Wednesday as part of Mr. Peanut’s Bucket List Tour. + Photo by Kaitlyn Veto

A legislative committee questioned representatives from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Wednesday after an audit showed the agency mismanaged funds and did not follow state statute.

WEDC has been a key piece of Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to grow business in Wisconsin, replacing the state’s Department of Commerce, which he called inefficient. But the agency has come under fire for giving out over $100 million without proper oversight and for not consistently following internal policies and state statutes.

Representatives from the Legislative Audit Bureau told the Joint Legislative Audit Committee the agency didn’t follow state statute and didn’t consistently gather data to ensure that businesses it supported were delivering on job creation promises.

But WEDC officials defended the agency, saying it has largely

been successful in creating economic growth and that it has improved since a 2013 audit.

“I truly believe WEDC is doing what it was intended to do,” WEDC Board Chairman Dan Ariens said.

“I am confident we are poised to become an organization you will be proud to call your economic development engine.”

The agency also announced Wednesday that it will award $5.5 million in tax credits to encourage Dollar General to build a distribution center in Janesville.

Tricia Braun, vice president for Economic and Community Development, said the move would bring in 550 jobs to the region and that it validated the agency’s efforts.

State Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, agreed that changes need to be made to WEDC but added that many of the same problems existed within the Department of Commerce.

“We can address the shortcomings of WEDC without throwing out the positives,” Nygren said. “We have to real-

ize some shortcomings existed before WEDC.” Other members of the committee weren’t persuaded, with some Democrats calling for criminal charges to be considered where WEDC didn’t adhere to state statutes.

“What I heard without you saying it is that WEDC didn’t comply with the law,” State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, said.

“Everyone must follow the law.”

Last week, Walker tapped Mark Hogan, a former BMO Harris executive and Republican donor, to serve as WEDC’s third CEO. Hogan would replace Reed Hall, who has led the agency for the past three years and stepped down last month.

The two democratic representatives on WEDC’s board, State Sen. Julie Lassa, D-Stevens Point, and Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, testified the leadership change is not enough and that they will introduce a bill in the coming days that would radically overhaul the agency.

“…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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Board of Estimates talks financials of Soglin’s 2016 budget

By Martin Rakacolli the daily cardinal

The Board of Estimates convened Wednesday to formally discuss Madison Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed 2016 Capital Budget, focusing on ongoing projects such as the Madison Municipal Building renovations and a new library project.

The 2016 proposal totaling $295 million provides $4.8 million in funding for renovations of the municipal building and reauthorizes $3 million in borrowing.

The budget includes $133 million in borrowing overall, though Soglin told the board, “I did the best I could with what we had.”

The aging municipal building, estimated to cost about $30 mil-

lion to renovate, has not been refurbished in decades, city officials said.

The project’s cost has been a point of contention among city leaders, with some worried about delays due to lack of funding.

City Engineer Rob Phillips told the board the project has, in fact, slowed down and is now behind schedule. Developers have the project in its schematic design phase and expect to complete designs in November, according to Phillips.

“We are further and further into the design process, and hope to begin construction soon,” Phillips noted, saying construction will finish in 2019.

Another effect on the municipal building construction will be the removal of the U.S. Post Office,

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Madison Mayor Paul Soglin discusses his 2016 Capital Budget with the Board of Estimates. which is currently housed there.

A funding concern the board also discussed was the Pinney Neighborhood library project, which will develop a new library building at a cost of $10.7 million.

However, $1.75 million comes from donors to the Madison Public Library Foundation and will not be reflected in the city budget. During the meeting, officials expressed concerns about delays to the proj-

ect if there were insufficient funds.

The Common Council has scheduled a Sept. 15 public hearing to discuss the proposed budget, and plans to pass the budget in mid-November.

UW police chief stresses awareness of campus sexual assault to Student Council

By Madeline Heim the daily cardinal

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UW-Madison Police Department Chief Susan Riesling speaks to the Student Council about sexual assault awareness Wednesday.

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Creating the introductory courses also came with its own sets of bureaucratic difficulties.

According to Friedman, Ruth Bleier, a medical school professor, first proposed an introductory science course to the Biological Sciences Divisional Committee.

Initially, the committee said it was not rigorous enough to give science credit and that “it reads like something that would be in a Kotex box.”

Bleier responded by making a course so extremely rigorous the committee turned it down, citing it was too difficult for freshmen.

What came from the third proposal has blossomed into one of UW-Madison’s most popular classes: Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease, more commonly known as GWS 103.

The 21st century of women’s studies

Helen Powling is all too familiar with the waitlist for GWS 103.

But to her, the two and a half weeks spent waiting were more than worth it.

“The knowledge [a student] will get from GWS 103, you can’t pass it up,” said Powling, a UW-Madison senior. “I learned about my own body and I also learned about myself and my identity. Those two things I will take with me for the rest of my life.”

“As long as academia had existed, women had been excluded from the curriculum.”

Pernille Ipsen conference organizer GWS department

Despite positive feedback on GWS 103 and the department, the pressure to find a job post-graduation leads to many questions about the department’s ability to prepare students for the future.

“When students tell their parents they’re studying gender and women’s studies, that can be a hard sell,” Department Chair Judith Houck said. “We do well.

We teach critical thinking, critical writing, research skills and other things that translate to the market.”

Houck argues GWS classes

UW-Madison Police Department Chief Susan Riesling addressed issues of campus sexual assault at the semester’s first Associated Students of Madison Student Council meeting Wednesday.

Riesling reiterated the prevalence of assault both on campus and nationwide, noting UW-Madison had 164 sexual assaults reported to campus police last year. She pointed out this number is higher than most universities, but speculated it could be a result of the university’s concerted effort to encourage reporting.

Riesling also discussed this year’s campaign against sexual expand student thinking through offering diverse perspectives.

“There has always been an effort to make sure that we don’t just present the historical perspectives of white middle-class women,” Houck said.

Critical analysis, identity and research aside, Powling found other practical implications from her time in GWS 103.

“The other thing that will always stick out to me as one of those turning points was the day I learned about orgasms in GWS 103. I had no idea what those were until I was a sophomore in college. I also didn’t know what a clitoris was until I was a sophomore in college,” Powling said.

“Both of those things were literally pretty mind-blowing.”

In 1975, the Women’s Studies Program was fighting to prove it was a legitimate field. Today, the GWS department has established itself, leaving students with knowledge that will stay with them past graduation.

Generations coming together

Some women who will be attending the Oct. 23 and 24 conference once lived in a United States where it was not illegal for

“Finally, it’s not just about the women and what the women are supposed to do to avoid being the victim.”

Susan Riesling chief UW-Madison Police Department

assault, titled “Don’t Be That Guy.” As opposed to last year’s “Tell Us” campaign that focused on encouraging survivors to report, this campaign will target men as agents of preventing sexual assault.

“We really want women to look at it and say is ‘Finally. Finally, it’s not just about the women and what the women are supposed a husband to rape his wife.

All attendees still live in a country where white women make 78 cents to every dollar a man earns, and women of color earn even less.

“I learned about my body and I also learned about myself and my identity.”

Helen Powling student UW-Madison

“I was hoping that this event could be a moment to show the students the older generation, as well as bring them together,” Ipsen said. “The issues that we confront and deal with are in many ways the same, but the ways that we do it are sometimes so different that we can’t hear each other across generations.”

The conference will also address the future of the GWS department as resources dwindle.

Houck hopes to see future improvements on topics like race, work and the environment, while adding faculty and career planning resources. Friedman said the department is in the explor-

to do to avoid being the victim,’” Riesling said.

In addition to general safety reminders about drug and alcohol use, especially in the first weeks of school, Riesling said all UWPD officers will be wearing body cameras beginning Oct. 1, an idea discussed in several student and faculty focus groups last year.

Riesling told council members that all footage will be available for public access.

The council also heard initial updates from committee chairs, which included Finance Committee Chair Ariela Rivkin introducing the idea of posting student organizations’ use of event and travel grants online for greater transparency. atory stages of establishing a Ph.D. program, though she noted budget constraints could hinder such progress.

“Any lack of resources that we’re confronting at this point I don’t think is unique to gender and women’s studies,” Houck said.

Nevertheless, this department builds on its history of thriving in the presence of challenges.

It was the energy of advocates pushing for a voice in the academic conversation that brought the department into existence. It is the energy of professors and students who make GWS 103 an electric environment.

That same energy, instead of being used to clean an oven before being able to come to class, is what Ipsen sees the current generation of GWS students using to propel the department’s and students’ accomplishments. “[GWS] won’t keep growing unless we all put energy into it,” Ipsen said. “[The younger generation] should see it as their material, their space to engage in these issues and practice their arguments and their thinking about hierarchies of difference. By having them in the same room … they can inherit this, take it over and take it as their own.”

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Books struggle to set the age of adulthood

British rock band holds spotlight status in album ALBUM REVIEW

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Maham Hasan

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hat does it mean to be a grown-up? Be it the 18-year-old incoming freshman or the 22-year-old senior at the cusp of graduation, adulthood and the pressure to grow up hovers above both. But do any one of us even know what it means to be a grown-up? We’re told that turning into the milestone of our legal age and entering college puts us into the world of those that have grown up at some level. We’re also told that graduating college and entering what is sadly called the real world is the mark of adulthood. And yet we neither feel nor think of ourselves as grown-ups.

We’re also told that grownups are somber and serious, riddled down with the weight and worries of the world. They don’t have the time or inclination to spontaneously take a road trip. That random indie band playing two miles away from them will be foregone in favor of responsibility. Responsibility and staying true to who we are or having fun are not synonymous. There will be no late nights of silliness with friends or lazy afternoons wiled away dreaming. These are things we’re not explicitly told but we still hear them in each patronizing eye roll directed at us by those who refer to themselves as “adults.” Is it any wonder then that we do not know how to grow up? What’s more is that we don’t want to.

“The Life and Death of Harriett Frean” by May Sinclair is one that shows us the absolute necessity of

cutting the cord. I don’t believe that finding comfort and solace within the home that is our parent’s ever makes anyone less of an adult. But who we are outside of them and what our identity is can never be fully established if every hard knock has us running for our childhood bedroom. The deafening misery that you live in if you live your whole life for your parents and the crippling desire to please them is one that this tale exhibits excellently. Your life becomes the hell where every action of yours is tinged with resentment and also the thrill of being the martyr that pleases everyone. Who you are outside of that is nothing but the ghost of a person with forgotten potential, neither child nor adult but just a vessel.

James Joyce reveals to us in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” what it means to leave your adolescence and everything behind to be who you want to be. Not just anybody, but what it truly means to be an artist and writer of life.

Not someone who merely pens stories and employs brushstrokes, but one who fully embraces and understands setting one’s mind free.

Someone for whom adulthood has no meaning, for being an artist is the only state he pines for and knows that the bleakness the world is rife with will have to be left behind first.

While Charles Bukowski’s, “Ham on Rye” may not have a character we can identify with on the basis of our biological age, that is of little significance in the face of the magnitude of experiences Bukowski’s own tale of growing up in the Great Depression contains.

Bukowski’s alter ego emerges as Henry Chinaski who is something of an asshole. He could not possibly

care any less about your beliefs, causes and principles. What Henry Chinaski cares about most in the world is Henry Chinaski, and the idea of being “somebody” when we grow up is laughable to him.

And yet his spitting in the face of mainstream culture and all that it expects out of him while growing up emulates more than anything the idea that growing up maybe just maybe may mean growing a thick skin.

We pay bills, feed ourselves, work, study and, for some, also support our tuition in school; and yet we do not hold the right or feel comfortable calling ourselves adults or grown ups. Clearly, it isn’t a real-world responsibility or biological-age milestone. Such is our alienation with the concept, that the whole institution makes us feel like a misfit and that we do not belong. We do not have the right to call ourselves grown-ups.

But why not challenge that? Why not define what it means to be a grown-up with simply what it means to us? Or better yet, accept that any combination of who we will be as a grown up will always contain some lost child, some angsty teenager and some fumbling young adult. The definition would simply be the courage and strength to keep on living every day that, regardless of that, would give us adulthood status. That, for me, is the grown-up I am: child, teenager and every past version of me rolled into one that carries, bears and lives with the weight of all those versions every day.

When will you start calling yourself an adult? Will you never grow up? Are you Peter Pan? Let Maham know at mhasan4@wisc.edu.

Madison’s weekend entertainment Allison Garcia THe Daily Cardinal

Cheers to the weekend and all of its entertainment glory.

Catch a flick The Marquee is hosting three free movies including “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Lanthanide Series” and “Wild Tales.”

Show your Badger pride Before Saturday’s game Union South holds a Badger Bash with the Wisconsin Marching Band. Also, the band holds a fifth quarter with singing and dancing after the game concludes.

Enjoy a festival The Sett is hosting the Snake on the Lake Festival Friday featuring Burial Hex, Samantha Glass, Mr. Jackson, Myrmidons, Proud Parents, and DJ Evan Woodward. The Edgewater & Isthmus Concert Series Friday will host Simon Balto, Anna Vogelzang, Solid Gold and Field Report.

Get your hands dirty Wheelhouse Studios is hosting Free Art Friday as well as a Habitat Souper Bowl Saturday with free clay to make bowls.

Want to bango?

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn are bringing bluegrass to Memorial Union Saturday.

If you feel like paying All weekend the Comedy Club on State shows Owen Benjamin. Thursday Granger Smith performs at the Majestic and Probcause performs at the Frequency. Friday Ratatat performs at the Orpheum.

Check The Daily Cardinal each Thursday to find out what to do for entertainment in Madison each weekend. Hint: We like things that are free.

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What Went Down Foals

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Now having released their fourth album, Foals’ ability to stay afloat these past seven years is quite remarkable. The British rock scene has seen better days, but somehow this group out of Oxford has made a slow climb into the limelight, where they intend to stay. Does What Went Down give Foals the chutzpah they need to keep their heads above water?

Stylistically, Foals has been a bit of a transformative project, their debut Antidotes was a jumpy math rock barrage; the band’s energetic emergence gave fans a healthy dosage of head bobbing fun. From there, it has been a journey of tweaking elements and testing new directions, which have paid off so far. The band’s sophomore album, Total Life Forever, added a little more atmosphere, slightly slowing the tempo, but never forfeiting their forte in catchy rhythm creation. Holy Fire saw a great leap in popularity for the group. Converting catchy rhythm into groovy jams, with highlights “Inhaler” and “My Number” landing themselves consistent radio spots, Foals quickly became an act worthy of festival performances. What came after Holy Fire could be very divisive for a group that’s gained this much steam, and with that we have the newly released What Went Down.

The album’s self-titled opener shows a lot of promise. This time around, the air is filtered with frustration, syphoned through singer Yannis Philippakis’ raspy howls and

a heavy lead riff. The opener channels its energy through aggravation, a new approach for Foals, but one hell of a start to the album. “Snake Oil” is another heavy hitter, relying on the band’s newly acquired hard rock palate, Philippakis belts out lines with ferocity. “Mountain at My Gates,” “Albatross” and “Night Swimmers” sink back into the funky pop beats that defined previous Foals records, as if to say their sound is evolving rather than changing. At this point, Foals has a knack for the upbeat, and their bubbly tunes are as swiftly crafted as they are enjoyed by listeners. But their capacity to excel in the art of happy sing-alongs leaves a lot of room for improvement. Specifically, some of the more experimental songs on What Went Down feel like a heavy-handed attempt at something new.

“Give It All” is a slow burner to say the least, gradually building to symphonic climax a la explosionsin-the-sky style. The payoff, unfortunately, doesn’t make up for the staggering crawl it takes to get there, briefly escalating, before simmering out in a flash. The latter half of the album suffers from a lack of enthusiasm, but the final track “A Knife In The Ocean” feels like a proper ending. While Philippakis seems to be treading through insecurity and regret, he doesn’t wallow in the same gloomy sounds of “Give It All” or “London Thunder,” but goes out in a grandiose eruption, drowning in sonic disarray as What Went Down comes to a close.

Foals have become the staple example of exponential growth, with each release garnishing more popularity as they continue to develop.

Adjustments here and there have guided them to a sound of their own, but describing their “sound” is a bit more challenging.

Grade: B Oh Wonder journeys to futuristic sound ALBUM REVIEW

Oh Wonder Oh Wonder

By Ben Golden THe Daily Cardinal

London synthpop group Oh Wonder released their self-titled debut. For the past year, the group had been releasing one song per month in an effort to gain popularity leading to their album release. The calculated approach seems to have paid off.

The vocals of musical duo Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West float throughout the album in an indie-electronic haze that enraptures the listener. Vander Gucht and West never once harmonize together in the album, but instead sing the same melody without one solo to be heard. This is a unique effect that compliments the genre, or lack thereof, that they are going for. Each song has a mixture of new and old elements of music that combine to make something refreshing and different.

The song “Lose It” features oldschool piano and saxophone, bringing their subtle undercurrent of R&B to the forefront. Their use of unexpected instruments includes shakers carrying out the beat in “Without You” and snaps pulsating in “Landslide” add a welcomed addition to the otherwise full-on presence of an electric sound.

“Dazzle” is Oh Wonder’s most techheavy song, which lets the band showcase the other end of their genre-bending spectrum.

Looking beyond each song individually, the record as a whole succeeds in transporting the listener to a simple, serene, futuristic soundscape that plays on the past.

However, the album is not perfect.

The record is polished and flows from the first song to last, almost to a fault. Many of the songs sound similar and can blend together for the casual listener. Though there are a few standouts, particularly “Dazzle” and “Lose It,” many of the other songs struggle to differentiate themselves. The duo has definitely found their style, but for their next record they should aim to find a way to make a unified album that features songs that can also stand alone.

Grade: B

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At approximately 12:16 a.m. last Friday, UW-Madison first year Kyle Montgomery lightly tossed a white, regulation-sized pingpong ball across an eight-foot-long table and into a red cup on the other end without a bounce.

The completion—a first for the freshman—had a trajectory which caused the ball to spin around the rim of the cup before splashing into the water which filled the bottom fourth of the cup.

“I just made that cup!” exclaimed

Montgomery, just loud enough to be heard over the blaring of Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen.” “This is my first time doing this. I just threw a pingpong ball directly into a red cup all the way over there!”

The cup receptive of Montgomery’s shot was not alone, but one of several identical red cups arranged in a pyramid formation, all with equal amounts of water inside. Montgomery stumbled upon the table with cups on it within 10 minutes of entering the Mifflin Street house party, but did not throw a single ball into a cup

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until more than two hours later.

“When I got to the party, I saw a pair of partners on each end of the table chucking pingpong balls into red cups on the opposite end of the table,” Montgomery explained to Cardinal reporters. “About a dozen others were flanking the table shouting at each other, so I decided to join in on the flanking and shouting, hoping to eventually try my hand at throwing the balls into the cups.”

With steadfast diligence and loud, incessant arguing and negotiations, Montgomery did indeed get his turn.

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party to let me attempt to throw balls into cups just as he was, he finally pointed to my roommate and I and said, ‘Aight, you two play the winners of this game,’” Montgomery said.

Montgomery made two additional throws into cups before being forcibly removed from the table by burly, drunk upperclassmen. Each of the subsequent splashes of a small table tennis ball into a red cup gave Montgomery more and more satisfaction.

“I really, really enjoy throwing pingpong balls into cups,” he said.

“I can’t wait until next weekend!”

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Immediately following her speech in Iowa last Saturday, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton personally handed out hundreds of homemade shortbread cookies. To compensate for her campaign’s recent struggles in the polls, Clinton has started placing a premium on spontaneity and kindness along the campaign trail.

Each cookie came with a personalized note and a very pleasantlooking red-and-white bow.

Pundits have been analyzing the finer points of this campaign move nonstop since Saturday, and the common consensus is that, not only were the cookies baked by Mrs. Clinton herself, but they were made from the generations-old Rodham-family recipe famous for its generous portion of pecans and slight hint of vanilla. “Best cookie I’ve had in a long while,” one man mused, while another interjected “I don’t know who that lady is, but she’s got my vote!”

Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, addressed the press after Clinton’s speech, fielding many questions about the legitimacy of Clinton’s baked goods. Already under fire about her use of a nongovernment email server, another controversy regarding the Secretary of State’s honesty and openness could have grave results. Mook, however, maintained that each and every cookie was personally baked by Hillary within 24 hours of the event.

Though some reporters demanded video evidence of Mrs. Clinton’s cookie production, the campaign has yet to release any further information to prove that she did indeed bake these cookies herself.

“I don’t know who that lady is, but she’s got my vote!”

Allen Schuberman undecided voter Iowa

The true influence of Hillary’s shortbread-related publicity stunt will not be fully received until polls are released later next week. If the personal touch and familiar scent of shortbread cookies bodes well for her campaign, Hillary may have found the public-opinion boost she needs to catapult herself to the next level of presidential candidacy. If not, it will simply be remembered as “that one time Hillary made some tasty cookies for people in Iowa.”

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Cars headed west down University Avenue at the intersection of Park Street and University Avenue under long exposure, taken from the pedestrian footbridge.

The case for traveling in your twenties Sergey Fedossov Opinion Editor

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may be not much of a spiritual person, but one of the most profound experiences of my life was behind the wheel of a 1999 Toyota Highlander on the road from Madison to Florida for spring break. In a 24-hour period, I spent half that time behind the wheel, and the rest talking to my fellow passengers, bickering with other members of our collegiate caravan or attempting to get some uncomfortable sleep. We made the return trip about five days later, with similar distributions of fitful rest and bloodshoteyed driving.

For under $250 a person (before food), and three cars, we managed to get fourteen of us across the country and into two separate condos for a week, fulfilling a journey down to the United States’ spring break capitol. To this day, that week was

one of the greatest of my life, and has instilled me with a sense of wanderlust ever since.

Get out while you can, and be afraid of the homebody life that is creeping up as you read this very article.

Surely you’re aware of at least some of the generic, tired arguments and talking points for travel. While they might be as old as the salt of the Earth, they’re still highly true. Through travel, I’ve learned more about cultures near and far than I ever could have gleaned from a textbook. By traveling, I have exposed myself to just a sliver of the many varieties of beautiful and varied landscapes and sights on the Earth. In visiting locales that I couldn’t call my home, I learned to detach myself from a lot of the stressors that

the rat race of life throws at you.

However, there is a highly specific time frame for it that yields the most unique results, and reaps the most benefits of it.

Traveling in college (or immediately following it) is the greatest travel you will enjoy in your life.

As a child, your experience with visiting different parts of your state, country or even the world is vastly different from that of an adult. You don’t have the mental faculties or proper perspective to understand what it is like to pack a bag and travel hundreds of miles to your destination and learn about the culture, history or significance of most destinations. Your experience is limited to that which you can sense and perceive, and even that is often clouded with the poor memory, anxiety of being in an unfamiliar locale and other complaints common to children. When you travel as an “adult” (think salary, house, job, car, spouse, kids, early 30s and so on), your experience is plagued by responsibility; you’re stuck stressing to make

sure everyone in the party is pleased, worrying over work and bills back home, saving up and other things you are perceived to be accountable for.

To this day, that week was one of the greatest of my life, and has instilled me with a sense of wanderlust ever since.

Whether you’ve just finished your bachelor’s or are taking your first steps of your undergraduate career, your budding adulthood is a rapidly shrinking window of opportunity to get the most bang for your buck for traveling. These are the days for you to be the weekend warrior you look back upon, the months you’ll tell your children (depending on their age) stories of. The greatest part about this type of experience is how little it takes to prepare in terms of resourc-

es, logistics and prior planning.

Once you save up a little cash, there are dozens of websites, airlines and other travel companies that offer dirt cheap transportation. The rest is dependent on how far and how long you’re willing to abscond, and what company you’ll choose to take with you.

The more you explore and want to get out of Madison, the bigger and bolder you’ll want your escapades to be. Studying abroad and backpacking trips are an entirely separate beast that take it to eleven, that you especially won’t be able to do after you lay down your roots.

Get outside and away while you can, and be afraid of the homebody, white picket fence life that is creeping up on you as you read this very article.

Sergey is a sophomore majoring in international studies and economics. Do you feel motivated to pack your bags and take off ? Please send all comments and questions about travel to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

“Deez Nuts” uses satire to expose issues in the electoral system Lucas Deruyter Letter to the Editor

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s you may have heard, a fifteen year old in Iowa is running for president under the pseudonym “Deez Nuts”. While he is not able to legally become president of the United States, the candidate is doing better than most independent candidates in recent memory and is showing an eight percent favorability rating in his home state of Iowa. While many find Deez Nuts to be a mockery of the electoral process, I personally believe that Deez Nuts is good for America. I believe this because I have a sense of humor, and because Deez Nuts exemplifies the dilapidated and pitiable state of America’s primary election system.

If Deez Nuts make you angry, I would suggest not getting mad at the fifteen year old, but rather the crummy system that allowed Deez Nuts to be a presidential candidate.

America’s primary election system used to be great. The implementation of the system prevented political parties from presenting Americans with only two choices for the position of President and gave

individuals who would not have been selected by their party to run, like John F. Kennedy, a chance to create a campaign and an opportunity to hold the office. However, due to an influx of candidates running for president, a vast increase in the amount of money necessary to run a successful presidential campaign, and the media’s need to cover big names rather than relevant issues has made the process kind of a joke. Moreover, it’s not even a funny joke like Deez Nuts.

The fact that Deez Nuts can actually make it onto an election ballot makes it clear that people do not take the primary election seriously and that it has become incredibly flawed, With more than a year before the actual election, the Republican Party currently has seventeen candidates running for the office of the president of the United States. The current frontrunner of this primary, Donald Trump, has already made enough questionable comments to guarantee that no moderate voter will cast their vote for him. This is demonstrative of the biggest issue with the current presidential primary elections.

In order for a candidate to win the primary election they need

to appeal to their base, which entails adopting their base’s most extreme views. However, this makes it works counter to the goal of appealing to the largest number of voters possible in the general election.

If the story of Deez Nuts makes you laugh, that is probably a good thing.

Deez Nuts exemplifies how the primary election is in a poor condition on an even more basic level. It is impossible to believe a system can lead to any amount of success when it is possible for a fifteen year old to use an obvious pseudonym to half-complete a declaration of candidacy form and actually have the for accepted. The fact that Deez Nuts can actually make it onto an election ballot makes it clear that people do not take the primary election seriously and that it has become incredibly flawed.

If the story of Deez Nuts makes you laugh, that is probably a good thing. It shows that you either have a sense of humor, or have realized that the primary system has been messed up for a long

time and are glad that it is falling further into the public eye.

If Deez Nuts make you angry, I would suggest not getting mad at the fifteen year old, but rather the crummy system that allowed Deez Nuts to be a presidential candi-

date. Then channel that anger into trying to fix this problem.

How do you feel about Deez Nuts in the context of the electoral system? Please send all questions and comments to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Back to the Camp to turn things around

By Andrew Tucker The Daily Cardinal

Throughout the offseason, the Badger faithful looked forward to the first game, a showdown with national powerhouse Alabama. Often overlooked was Wisconsin’s second game, and first home game, against Miami (OH) Saturday.

The Badgers (0-1) certainly aren’t overlooking the RedHawks (1-0), with players claiming they have been preparing just as hard for the Mid-American Conference opponent as the reigning Southeastern Conference champion.

“We [had] probably one of the more physical practices we’ve had all year today,” redshirt junior center Dan Voltz said Tuesday. “Coming off a loss, it fuels the fire even more to get back in the swing of things and start winning ball games.”

Voltz’s assertion symbolizes the significance of Wisconsin’s showdown with Miami, which went 2-10 in 2014, as playing a lower quality opponent will give UW a chance to work out the flaws unearthed in last weekend’s drubbing.

One of the most pressing areas of concern is the Wisconsin offensive

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Redshirt sophomore wide receiver Jazz Peavy reeled in the first reception of his college career last Saturday against Alabama.

line, which struggled to allow its talented backfield to break out against the Crimson Tide. With three new starters, the opener was bound to be rough, but with a game under their belt, the young line may have less jitters and will be more focused on the game itself rather than the moment.

The more the group plays together, the more chemistry it will develop, which was a crucial aspect of last season’s offensive success in which all five linemen started every regular season game.

While the running game wasn’t in top gear, the passing game was as good as it has in the Joel Stave era, as it uncharacteristically eclipsed the ground game by 188 yards. Stave looked sharp in the first half, going 14-of-16 for 149 yards and one touchdown, and played well throughout the game, not throwing an interception until the final drive when the game was essentially over. Redshirt senior wide receiver Jazz Peavy is excited to play alongside this more polished version of the quarterback.

“I feel like this is Joel at his most confident, and that’s a great thing to see, because he’s back there doing what he should be doing,” Peavy said.

The most promising part of the passing game isn’t just Stave’s numbers, but the way the ball was spread out. Eight players caught a pass against Alabama, and three players had five or more receptions. If this passing balance persists against Miami, and even Troy or Hawaii in the coming weeks, it could force future defenses into respecting the entire field. This in turn creates an increased pressure that could open up the field for the run, the oppo-

From behind enemy lines Sports editor Jake Powers caught up with Grace Remington, sports editor for Miami University’s student newspaper, The Miami Student, to discuss the RedHawks’ outlook heading into Madison.

Q: What is the vibe surrounding Miami before the game this weekend?

A: It’s not too often that Miami plays a Big Ten school, or any school from one of the Big conferences, so they are definitely aware of that. [Head coach Chuck Martin] kind of compares it to preseason, our first four games before conference play starts. He doesn’t treat this game as a practice, but he compares it to that. The players, they’re pumped. Obviously they respect site of the Melvin Gordon-centered offense of 2014.

Defensively, Wisconsin will certainly monitor the play of the safeties with the uncertain status of Michael Caputo. Caputo left early in the Alabama game after a head injury that left him disoriented, walking to the Alabama huddle. He was replaced by sophomore D’Cota Dixon, who was limited last season due to injury, but played special teams sparingly in all three of the games he was healthy.

“It doesn’t matter how hard you go in practice, I feel like game speed, game tempo is something else because at the same time, you

Wisconsin and the Big Ten and they know they’re the 33-point underdogs. But they’re ready. I asked them if they have a David versus Goliath mentality, and they all said ‘no.’

Q: What does Miami’s quarterback picture look like after Drew Kummer’s strong debut?

A: They are going to play all three quarterbacks all year, so that’s Kummer, Gus Ragland, a redshirt freshman and Billy Bahl, a true freshman... I was really impressed with [Kummer’s] performance Saturday and so was coach Martin and the rest of the team... he was calm, he was cool and collected. He looks decisive.

Check out the rest of Jake’s interview with Grace at dailycardinal.com find another edge about yourself,” Dixon said.

Miami runs a spread offense that often relies on the pass, which Dixon said the defensive backs were excited about. With the RedHawks testing the Badger secondary, it will put junior cornerback Sojourn Shelton to the test. Shelton looked great against Alabama after struggling last season following a fantastic freshman campaign. Whether last week was a fluke, or whether Shelton reverts to his freshman form will be a key part of the Badgers’ defensive success.

Wisconsin and Miami will kickoff at 11 a.m. Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.

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Badger Classic plays host to familiar faces

By Matt Davis The Daily Cardinal

The Badgers (5-1) passed their first big road test of the season and bounced back from a rough opening weekend, sweeping No. 18 North Carolina and beating Louisville 3-1 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge last weekend in Louisville, Ky. “It was a lot better weekend I think with how we played this past weekend compared to our opening weekend,” head coach Kelly Sheffield said at a Monday press conference. “I thought we were a lot grittier, something we talked a lot about through the course of the week leading up to the weekend.”

Last weekend’s win not only showed off UW’s physical play, it gave Wisconsin much needed confidence going forward this season.

“To sweep a team like North Carolina, I think at this point in the season, I think that was a big win for us,” Sheffield said.

“And to beat a Louisville team that really has a chance of being a special team in four the following night.”

In this weekend’s matchup, Wisconsin will host the Badger Classic, featuring Georgia (4-3), Georgetown (2-4) and Kent State (4-3), at the UW Field House. All three teams have former Badger

players as coaches, which will make for an exciting reunion for UW. “We wanted this to be an allBadger affair,” said Sheffield. “We thought it would be great for the fans and thought it would be great for those guys to come back and celebrate with each other. There’s a lot of former Badgers that are coaching.”

Among the Wisconsin alums are Georgia head coach Lizzy (Fitzgerald) Stemke and assistant coach Colleen (Neels) Bayer, Georgetown head coach Arlisa (Hagan) Williams and Kent State assistant coach Kim Kuzma. The Classic welcomes back 60 former UW players and coaches and will honor the 1990 Big Ten Championship Team, as well as the 2000 Big Ten Championship and NCAA runner-up team.

As for this weekend’s matchups, UW will face a physical Georgia team led by Stemke and will then take another good team in Kent State.

“Georgia kind of looks like some of the stuff that I was watching film on our team a week and a half ago,” Sheffield said. “But they are a team that I think she probably feels really good going forward.”

“Kent State has had some good wins. It’s a gritty team. ” UW will play Georgia Thursday at 7 p.m. and then Kent State Friday at 7:30 p.m.

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