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Issue 9, Volume 57

{ POLI T ICS! } Gwen Moore

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Congresswoman addresses women’s rights, early voting

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Russ Feingold spoke on campus, along with Mayor Tom Barret.

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Barrett, Feingold urge early voting

Wisconsin politicians visit campus

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Mayor Tom Barrett and former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold spoke briefly on campus to a small group of students Tuesday to urge early voting in the upcoming presidential election.

Both stressed President Obama’s track record of helping students, mentioning the Affordable Care Act that covers people on their parent’s insurance plans until age 26 and continuing support for Pell Grants.

Around 40 people watched in Spaights Plaza as both politicians went into detail about early voting. Last election the state of Wisconsin allowed 21

days of voting before the election; this election the window for early voting is 10 days before the election.

“That wasn’t done by accident,” Barrett said of the policy change. “That was done to make sure it was more difficult for students, for elderly, for people with disabilities, for low income people to vote.”

Feingold said he spent 18 years in the United States Senate, in significant part because of Wisconsin’s students and specifically students at UW-Milwaukee.

“You always had my back,” he said.

Wisconsin’s role as a swing state highlighted the importance of early voting for Feingold.

“Wisconsin by many accounts could

Senate race student fact sheet

Baldwin, Thompson’s stances on key issues

Candidates Tammy Baldwin and Tommy Thompson. Courtesy of Baldwin and Thompson campaigns.

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be decisive,” the former senator said.

“Some people say it’s all down to Ohio and Wisconsin. That means whether or not the students at UWM turn out could be decisive. That might sound like a joke, but I won my first race by 31 votes out of 47,000.”

Actually, according to the State of Wisconsin Blue Book, it was a razorthin margin of 30 votes that got Feingold elected to the senate in 1982, edging out Republican challenger Everett Bidwell for the 27th District seat.

Communications Director of College Democrats of Wisconsin Bill Neidhardt said there was a groundswell at Wisconsin’s universities of voter registration.

“Now we have to get students to

vote early,” he said. “That’s what these two Wisconsin legends are talking to students about.”

After the event the College Democrats had a bus waiting to bring students downtown to vote early at City Hall.

Sarah Kallas, a freshman in the School of Heath Sciences, went to the bus to vote early.

“Early voting is a good way to stick it in Republicans faces,” she said.

Freshman Gretchen Schmook is trying to become more involved in politics.

“This was really exciting,” she said.

“Students are the future of our country, so we need to be involved.”

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important to students, and each politician’s stance on them.

Health Insurance: Baldwin voted in favor of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, while Thompson has said he would overthrow it.

The Affordable Care Act allows people to remain covered under their parent’s health insurance until age 26.

Interest Rate on Student Loans: Baldwin supported action earlier this year that would prevent student loan interest rates from doubling.

Thompson has been silent on the issue of student loan interest rates.

Abortion Rights: Baldwin supports abortion rights; Thompson believes abortion should be only legal in case of rape, incest, or the mother’s health. Both, however, support human embryonic stem cell research.

Longtime Democratic Senator Herb Kohl is retiring, leaving his Senate seat wide open for the first time in 24 years. Fighting it out for the position are Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican Tommy Thompson.

The race is very close, with no clear leader a week away from the election.

Both candidates were born and raised in Wisconsin, but that is about where their similarities end.

Baldwin served seven terms as a congresswoman in Wisconsin. Thompson served four terms as Wisconsin’s governor, was the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush, and then went on to lead a private firm.

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The days are ticking away to Election Day and Wisconsin is in its early voting period. Congresswoman Gwen Moore visited campus Friday to address women’s issues in the upcoming election and urge students to vote early.

“I’m not here to campaign for anyone except you, as women, my sisters,” she said.

Moore covered a number of topics that concern women, including health care, education, the pay gap, abortion rights, access to birth control and the small number of women in politics.

Women currently hold 90 seats in Congress, or 16.8 percent.

In terms of education, “women use Pell Grants in numbers disproportionate to men,” she said.

That gender breakdown is about 60 percent women and 40 percent men who receive Pell Grants, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Paul Ryan’s proposed budget would cut Pell Grants by $170 billion.

Moore authored the Violence Against Women Act last year that did not pass, she said, “because there were too many people, primarily men, who didn’t want to include protections for women on campuses who experience date violence, for Native Americans who live on reservations, for lesbian women who are battered by their partners and for women who are immigrants.”

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Gay Rights: Baldwin is pro-gay rights; if elected, she would be the first openly gay Senator in U.S. history. Thompson said in a recent debate that 71 out of 72 counties in Wisconsin voted for a Constitutional Amendment in 2006 and he supports that.

Pell Grants: Baldwin voted in favor or reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, which doubled the maximum number of Pell Grants. Thompson, a Republican, is associated with the Ryan Budget Plan, which would reduce the funding for Pell Grants (Thompson has tried to distance himself from Paul Ryan in this election).

A recent Marquette University poll puts the two candidates at a strong tie.

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GWEN MOORE continued from page 1 There is an average of 207,754 victims of rape and sexual assault each year, according to a study done by U.S. Department of Justice.

The same study and others, including studies by the FBI and the National Center for Policy Analysis, estimate that 46 out of every 100 rapes get reported to the police. Factoring in unreported rapes, about 3 percent of rapists serve a day or more in prison.

“They have minimized the pain and the agony of rape,” Moore said, referring to recent well-publicized comments of male politicians on the subject of rape.

The Congresswoman also emphasized early voting, urging students to vote right after the event.

“I really am very proud to be representing this campus at the University of

Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and I’m so happy that early vote has already started and to let everybody know they can vote today, and they don’t need an I.D. to vote,” she said.

In March two separate judges issued injunctions that prevent enforcement of photo I.D. requirements. The cases are currently in the Court of Appeals.

“Women, you better take charge of this election,” Moore said. “Your pay check is on the line. Your retirement health care is on the line, your dignity as a women is on the line, your life is on the line.”

Moore represents Wisconsin’s fourth Congressional District, the district that includes the city of Milwaukee and sprawls out to include parts of some Milwaukee suburbs.

“My only job is to get you all to commit to vote,” said Tanya Atkinson, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin. “Go to class, and then what are you going to do? Vote.”

Advocates for Choice at UWM and the Women’s Resource Center co-sponsored the event.

Natalia Koss Vallejo is an officer of Advocates for Choice at UWM. She is a women’s studies major, and thinks that this election has more at stake concerning women than elections in the past.

“We thought it was important to get the message out that women need to vote in this election,” she said. “Especially because of the comments that you’re seeing across the country right now.”

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Baby weight busting blogger A blogger from New York recently decided to put celebrity post-baby weight loss to the test — and spent $7,800 doing it. The blogger, Tracie Egan Morrizzey, gained 80 pounds during her pregnancy and only used methods cited by celebrities to lose the weight. She started Weight Watchers, joined a gym, and hired a personal trainer. Morrissey took over a year to lose the weight, while celebrities, supposedly using the same methods, take only a few weeks.

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Be On the Safe Side has been given a facelift. Dispatch prioritization and decreased boundaries are among the changes for UW-Milwaukee’s late night van transportation service.

Prior to Aug. 1, B.O.S.S. served riders north up to Hampton Avenue, west to 7th Street, south to Brady Street and east to the lake. The new boundaries bring the northern and western limits closer to campus, as they are now Capital Drive and Holton Avenue, respectively.

Allison Dropps, junior, is frustrated with the updates to B.O.S.S. “I used to use B.O.S.S to go to the Pick ‘n Save on Oakland,” Dropps said.

“Now it doesn’t travel there anymore.”

Since B.O.S.S. is funded by segregated fees, only students are allowed to use the service and must show their ID upon entering the van. Dropps called this rule “annoying,” claiming it “slows down

the process.”

Dropps started off as a freshman living in the Cambridge Commons, off of North Ave., when she was introduced to B.O.S.S. During midterms, Dropps had a late night study session with a classmate. As their session came to a close, she realized that B.O.S.S. was unable to pick her up because their study spot was not within the service limits.

“I stood on the city bus stop in the dark alone and it was pretty scary,” Dropps said of the experience.

The mission of B.O.S.S. is to “promote a safe environment for members of the UWM community to live, work and study,” according to their website.

Anthony Gomez is the director of B.O.S.S and has worked for the service for a total of eight years. Gomez started off as a student worker. Over time, the assistant director left and Gomez took the opportunity to apply for the position.

Riders north of Capital made up only seven percent of the students served prior to the changes. Travel times driving to

and from that area would take roughly 20 to 30 minutes. As there are about 300 to 400 calls a night, there are many students to cater to around campus.

“The bigger the pie, the harder it is to serve,” Gomez stated.

For the spring 2013 semester, B.O.S.S. will be strictly enforcing a new policy. Student IDs must include a valid U-PASS sticker to be considered valid.

The challenge is to increase service levels while enhancing the service for the students as well. B.O.S.S is busy even as the boundary limits shrink. There are a consistent number of phone calls made nightly between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.

A priority level list is used, and if a rider cancels their call and asks to be added back to the list, they will be placed on the bottom all over again. If it is 2 a.m., B.O.S.S will not leave students stranded; there are nights the drivers are not finished until 3 a.m.

“We did more than we could handle and made no changes since [2000],” Gomez said.

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Law bans cell phone use for young drivers

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Teens risk profiling

By Maegan Krause Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com

Chancellor Michael Lovell and company take shovels to the future site of the Kenwood IRC.

Groundbreaking the new Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Center UWM’s first new building in 17 years

By Srijan Sen Special to the Post news@uwmpost.com The groundbreaking ceremony for the Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Center was held on Oct. 24 outside Lapham Hall. The center will be the first major building in 17 years since the Lubar School of Business opened in 1995.

The cost of building the Kenwood IRC is estimated to be about $75 million. This newest venture is part of an overall initiative by the institute to add and improve the structural facilities on campus.

The groundbreaking ceremony was held on the construction site located on Maryland Ave. The guests of honor included Mayor Tom Barrett, Alfred and Isabel Bader and award winning architect David Black. Chancellor Michael Lovell began the ceremony by introducing the guests and thanking the Helen Bader Founding, which provided a $1.5 million gift towards the construction of the building.

“This building is made to make a statement,” said chief architect David Black. “It is a true example of progressive architecture. It can be viewed as a metaphor for the intensive research

that will be going on inside.”

The Kenwood IRC will be the new home to the physics department. This 150,000 square foot structure will provide core facilities and laboratories for science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs. Other research themes include an imaging suite, physical and chemical properties and processing and growth facilities (biological sciences, chemistry, physics, geosciences and related disciplines). The buildings will include undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral classes.

Mayor Tom Barrett called UWM an urban university. He also said the university is a tremendous asset to the Milwaukee community.

“If an educational structure has to be built, it has to be done right,” Barrett said. “To be more competitive, we need to have structures like these.”

Among the completed and operational projects are the Northwest Quadrant, the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health and the School of Freshwater Science. The total cost of this UWM initiative is estimated to be about $240 million, according to the master plan.

The Kenwood IRC is expected to be operational by Dec. 2014.

Beginning Nov. 1, 2012, young drivers will no longer be able to use cell phones while driving in Wisconsin. A new law makes it illegal for drivers with an instruction permit or probationary license to use a cell phone while operating a motor vehicle, except in case of an emergency.

Violation will result in a fine of $20-$40 for a first-time offense and $50-$100 for a second or subsequent offense.

The Assembly Bill 291 was introduced last September, and was enacted into law by the governor on April 11, 2012.

Eight members of the Assembly and three members of the Senate authored the bill. It passed through the Assembly unanimously, and the State Senate voted in favor of waiving a public hearing 3-2.

Out of the 15 committee members, 12 voted in favor of passing the bill, and two members did not vote due to absence. The two groups who registered in favor of passing the bill were AAA Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Insurance Alliance.

Assembly Representative Jerry Petrowski said the bill was a proposed inclusion to the graduated drivers license stipulations that are already implemented.

“The whole goal behind the graduated drivers license is to give young drivers the opportunity to develop good driving skills, good habits if you will,” Petrowski said.

“Talking on your cell phone especially when you are a new driver, especially when you're in heavy traffic; that is a huge distraction.”

UWM freshman Alexandria Robertson

is among the many teens that may be impacted by this new law. Robertson said she thinks the new law is important, but that is should be made for drivers of all ages, not just those who hold probationary licenses or instruction permits.

“There have been far too many car accidents and deaths caused by texting and talking on the phone,” Robertson said.

“Nothing is so important that you can't wait until you are out of the car to hear it.”

According to a study conducted in 2004

by David L. Strayer and Frank A. Drews of the University of Utah, compared with single-task (driving only) conditions, when drivers used cell phones there was also a twofold increase in the number of rear-end collisions.

However, Strayer and Drews' report did conclude that there was no difference in statistics between younger drivers and older drivers.

In a similar study conducted in 2009 by the Pew Research Center, 800 teens ages 12-17 were asked about their cell phone usage. The study's results showed that out of the teens owning cell phones whose ages were 16–17, 52 percent said they have talked on a cell phone while driving.

Petrowski said he thinks there have been a number of people that have come forward and talked about the experiences they've had with drivers on their cell phones.

“There have been people that came in and testified that there were accidents, that people were broadsided and hit because people were on their cell phones,” Petrowski said. “[The bill] was an educational effort to allow drivers to develop good skills where they were not having distractions while driving.”

National Cat Day is October 29th

This day of celebration was created to bring to light the large number of cats that need to be adopted and encourage pet owners to celebrate the felines in their lives.

The Milwaukee Humane Society currently has dozens of cats available for adoption.

Riley is a nine-year-old Tabby that needs a home.

Tarantula is a three-pound kitten that is up for adoption.

Photo by Zak Wosewick Both of these cats can be visited and adopted at the Milwaukee Humane Society, located at 4500 W. Wisconsin Avenue.

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Court is in Session Back at the K, the Panthers look to dominate on their home court.

Photo Courtesy of Kerri Schuh Susie Johnson has been at the helm of UW-Milwaukee volleyball since 2007

Character is key

Susie Johnson reveals the key to her long term success

By Alex Maring and Nick Bornheimer Staff Writers sports@uwmpost.com

Photo by Zak Wosewick Coach Jeter lends some advice to his players during the Black and Gold Intrasquad Scrimmage

By Adam Taberman Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com The UW-Milwaukee Men’s Basketball team is back for another run at the Horizon League crown. This time, it is more convenient for students as the Panthers return to the Klotsche Center.

This will be the first time since the 2003 season where fans won’t have to travel to the U.S. Cellular Arena to see the men play. Last year, the Panthers went 20-14 including a 13-3 record at the Cell. One can only hope the Panthers can reiterate that success on campus.

The Panthers are preparing for another grueling, yet rewarding season.

With the departure of starting point guard Kaylon Williams, junior transfer Jordan Aaron must come in and help fill the void.

Losing Williams, Ryan Allen and Tony Meier to graduation won’t be an easy task to recover from. However, there

is a tremendous amount of confidence among the team. Freshman J.J. Panoske believes that a big component to this year’s team will be speed.

“I think this year we added a lot of speed with Jordan Aaron and Bobo (Thierno Niang) coming in,” said Panoske. “I think the fans will like to see a lot more fast-paced game.”

Other than speed, the Panthers also have some experience coming back with them. They have five returning seniors from last season; Paris Gulley, Ryan Haggerty, James Haarsma, Demetrius Harris and Christian Wolf.

With added speed and some major players returning, some doubts are still present, as evidenced by Horizon League coaches and the media. The Panthers are projected to finish sixth out of nine teams. This did not sit well with some members of the team.

“We’re predicted to go sixth in the league, but to be honest, I think we’re better than sixth, but that’s what they

have us at right now,” freshman Austin Arians said on the projections. “It’ll be fun; I think we have a great group of guys. It’ll be interesting to see what comes out of this season.”

Arians posted 17.2 PPG last year at Madison Edgewood. He was very impressive in Milwaukee’s intrasquad scrimmage game on October 23, knocking down 5 shots from distance for 15 points.

Everybody on this team should play an important role this season, whether it is a player or a coach. The move to the Klotsche Center should provide an electric atmosphere that will carry the team through tough games. The team seems ready to go, and will seek to get some great wins this season.

After last season’s loss to Butler in the second round of the Horizon League Tournament, UWM is looking to bounce back strong this season. Court is in session and this year’s Panthers will have to make their case.

Coach Susie Johnson has been instrumental to the success of the UWMilwaukee women’s volleyball team for over a decade now. Johnson is now in the midst of her 16th season at UWM since becoming head coach in 2007. Before that, she served as the assistant coach for ten years. Johnson has tallied up 110 wins in five seasons as head coach and holds a 187-25 Horizon League record in 15 seasons at UWM. Last year, Johnson led UWM to a conference championship while dominating the Horizon League. This year has not started off as well as past years with two major injuries coming to sophomores Taylor Golabowski and Kayla Price, setter and newcomer of the year who both are out for the season.

There are only two seniors (Elizabeth Egerer and Anna Bartz) on the team this year. Johnson noted that there are players stepping up and are more than willing to carry the torch moving forward, like sophomore Hannah Blanchard.

“Hannah Blanchard has stepped into the setter role in a big way.” Johnson said. “This position is just like the quarterback of a football team. We have worked hard with her to quickly jump into that role and get into sync with the team,”

Elizabeth Egerer, the senior outside hitter, is relied on more heavily as this is a younger program now.

“Since our team was mainly made up of returners, it made it very easy for us to each lead in our own individual ways,” said Egerer. “That being said, it has required me and the other upperclassmen to really step up and lead the way.”

Although the volleyball team is very youthful, core players like Egerer, Bartz, Julie Kolisnske and Rachel Neuberger have been vital in providing leadership this season. Johnson described how important these players would be moving forward.

“They are all incredibly important at this moment to lead the team to victories. They are the most experienced and are very ready to accomplish more,” explained Johnson.

Coach Johnson has coached some very good volleyball players over the years. In fact, she has coached nine Horizon League Player of the Year winning seasons.

Having had so much success as a coach, Johnson sets a very high standard for her players. She feels that winning is just a small part of playing volleyball.

“I care a whole lot more about the player than I care about the wins,” Johnson said. “We fight every day to be a great teammate, person, and competitor. If they know you care, the winning will follow.”

Women’s soccer dominates Cleveland State 5-0

Panthers clinch conference championship and top seed on senior night

By Joe Horning Assistant Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.uwm

Photo by Zak Wosewick Friday was Senior Night as UW-Milwaukee took on Cleaveland State

On a bone chilling Friday night, UW-Milwaukee Women’s Soccer sent out its seniors in their final home game of the season in a blast; with a 5-0 blowout wins over the Cleveland State Vikings. With the win, the Panthers clinch their 13th straight Horizon League conference championship and the no. 1 seed in the Horizon league tournament.

Before the game, the four Panther seniors, Sammy Vovos, Demi Price, Jamie Forbes, and Helen Steinhauser, were honored. In their final home game, they all pitched in phenomenal performances.

In the 5th minute, senior Sammy Vovos made a statement with the

opening goal. This began a dominant first half by the Panther offense. By the time the half came, it was 4-0 and UWM had been dominating the ball in Viking territory. Senior goalkeeper Jamie Forbes was alone near her goal for most of the night.

“Credit to our defense, credit to our midfield. We definitely kept the ball away from me, which is nice once in a while. But it was a total team defending effort,” said Forbes after the game.

With this shutout, Forbes ends her career at UWM with 21 shutouts, second in team history.

“It feels great. It feels real good that we got to do it for the 13th year in a row. It’s just an awesome feeling,” said junior Krissy Dorre.

Sophomore Kelsey Holbat and freshman Sara Zawacki scored the other two goals of the night, includ-

ing Holbat’s impressive unassisted goal where she out-juked the defenders to punch it in. Cleveland State didn’t stand put up much of a fight, being outshot 20-7.

The second half was slow and arduous for most of the fans as the Panthers controlled the ball and kept the Vikings at bay. Finally in the 84th minute, Zawacki scored to rile up the crowd and put the final nail in the coffin.

Head coach Greg Henschel was very pleased with the victory on senior night.

“It’s a great way to send out our seniors, the best part about it is they’ve earned games next weekend back on their homefield,” he said.

The Panthers move on to the Horizon League tournament, which will be held next weekend at Engelmann Field.

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Panthers dominate Raiders in the pool

Both men and women take care of business against Wright State

Photo by Zak Wosewick Junior Kevin Ferron on the attack against Detroit Photo by Zak Wosewick

By Kyle Zittel Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com The UW-Milwaukee men’s and women’s swim teams defeated Wright State Friday night in dominating fashion. The men won 155-85, while the women dominated as well, winning 148-90.

Men’s diving was highlighted by last week’s Horizon League diver of the week Lee Anderson, who won the one and three meter diving events. Andy LaFleur finished second in both the one and three meter diving events, displaying the men’s dominance in almost every event.

The 400 yard men’s medley relay team of Sam Niesen, Nathan Welchlin, J.J. Melville, and Mike Brady won with a time of 3:28. Nathan Welchlin was the winner in the 200 yard freestyle event and Sam Niesen won the 100 yard backstroke.

Nic and Tim Halverson both fared well in the distance events, finishing second and third respectively in the 1,000 yard freestyle. Nic also won the 500 yard freestyle, with Tim finishing second.

The women fared just as well, with Diana Diel leading the way. Diel set a new pool record in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:53:64. She also set another record in the 100 yard butterfly with a 58.11 second time.

Both relay teams also won, with Becky Yokosh, Leah Winckler, Emily McClellan, and Sierra Townsend taking the 400 yard medley. Diel replaced Winckler in the 200 yard freestyle as the women again came out on top. McClellan also won the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 53 seconds. Freshman Rachel Margis finished second in both diving events.

“With 22 new freshmen, there is a lot of learning moments in these swims,” Coach Kyle Clements said. “There were just so many good swims we had over the day, and it was coming from all ages.”

The swim teams will be home this weekend with a pair of duals Friday and Saturday. They will take on Wheaton College on Friday before Horizon League foe UIC comes to the Klotsche Natatorium on Saturday.

Running out of time

Soccer’s James Ashcroft gives his angle on disappointing losses to Detroit, Wright State.

By James Ashcroft Special to the Post sports@uwmpost.com The last couple of games in the regular season always leave a lasting mood on how the season as a whole turned out. It doesn’t matter how well you have been doing throughout the year or how good of a season you had, you are only as good as your last game.

Last Wednesday, we took on Detroit at Engelmann stadium. Engelmann has become somewhat of a fortress this season, helping us post a 5-0 home record.

This record came to an end after the ended in a 1-0 loss – Detroit’s win coming from a dubious penalty decision in the 46th minute. Senior Jamie Bladen saw a red card after conceding the penalty kick.

Down to ten men for most of the

second half, I felt we dominated though as the stats would show. We out shot Detroit 14-4 and had seven more corners. With all our pressure though, we could not seem to make it pay and unfortunately came out of the game with nothing.

“I am more proud of you tonight than I have been all season,” Coach Kelderman said. “You battled liked dogs out there and can leave here as proud as a peacock.”

Friday, we took to the road again, traveling to Ohio. Our fourth trip this year to a state where we haven’t had any success. This time we were heading to Wright State in our final road game of the 2012 regular schedule, knowing that a win would guarantee us a place in the post-season tournament.

The brave-battling performance of Wednesday against Detroit had long

passed, as in the first 45 minutes of soccer there was only one team on the pitch.

That unfortunately was Wright State. A firm and necessary warning from our coach to step up our performance in the second half didn’t help us play any better.

We went down 1-0.

Their game wasn’t one that would be remembered for any soccer talent or moment of magic. It was a simple case of Wright State wanting it and having the will to win more than we did. Perhaps the whole of the Raiders team was buoyed by their senior night. Whatever the case was, we had left our true selves behind in Milwaukee and didn’t do the great soccer program that we have any justice.

We head into our game against Valparaiso at the weekend needing a win to make the conference tournament.

Fantasy Football Guru - Week 9

Everything you need to know to conquer strangers and friends in fantasy football

By Joe Horning Assistant Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com Start Em: Another week, another chance for the Panthers to suck. I kid, I kid. Cam Newton has been awful as of late but this week he gets the Redskins-- the pass defense that “gives” touchdowns to opposing QBs as DeAngelo Hall puts it. Cam Newton might just regain his mojo this week. I know everybody loves to rip on Jay Cutler and the Bears, but they get the poor Titans defense this week. Start Brandon Marshall, Jay Cutler, and Matt Forte. With the Bills making the weakest offense look All-Pro, Arian Foster is set to explode on them. Mike Vick owners, once again I feel your pain, but give him a try this week against an awful Saints defense.

On the off chance DeMarco Murray’s foot heals up, he might have a good day against the Falcons bad run defense.

Sit Em: Counting on Tom Brady or the 49er’s defense to inch your victory out this week?

Too bad, so sad, the bye week hates you.

AJ Green has been a godsend to fantasy owners but Champ Bailey of the Broncos

doesn’t care. Bailey defies age and shuts down everyone. Sit Green. C.J. Spiller and Fred Jackson form a powerful rushing attack but they have the dominant Texans defense. This will not end well. You know what else will not end well? Chris Johnson against the suffocating Bears defense. Sit him. (You all should be used to that by now.) If you still own Darren McFadden, WHY? He’s playing in a zone blocking scheme that is not his suit. Sit him against the resurgent Buccaneers defense. Finally, AP owners, I know he’s been making good defenses look awful, but he won’t stand a chance versus the Seahawks.

Waiver Wire: This might only apply in PPR (points per receptions) leagues, but Ryan Broyles of the Lions is going to see a lot more action with Nate Burleson out for the year. In a pass-happy offense and lining up in the slot, Broyles might see at least 7 catches per game. Leonard Hankerson is seeing more playing time with Pierre Garcon out and is fast becoming a favorite of RGIII. Rashad Jennings and Jonathan Dwyer are going to become heavy usage backs with Maurice Jones-Drew, Rashad Mendenhall and Isaac Redman out.

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Machines Sleigh Bells and opener AraabMuzik energized Turner Hall

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therapy

The Mountain Goats at the Pabst Theater

By Steven Franz Fringe Media Editor fringe@uwmpost.com

The relationship between John Darnielle and his listeners has always been one of savage bluntness. As the singer and songwriter (and sometimes sole member) of The Mountain Goats, he’s dressed his lyrics in metaphors, interconnected narratives, recurring characters and complex imagery, yes; but the dark trips his characters take, their shitty actions, their horrified depression, their angst and their personal hells have always been somewhat of a reflection of Darnielle himself. There’s a therapy in his music that makes the listener somewhat essential to him; the viewer-as-listener is essentially playing the role of psychoanalyst-as-listener, allowing him to get some truly dark subjects and confessions off his heavy chest.

And the relationship he shares with each and every one of his many fans (which, thanks to a career renaissance in the last few years, comprises a group larger than anyone could have conceivably thought possible) is a completely personalized one – we are privy to a level of honesty that even very good friends often avoid.

Perhaps this is why he’s taken so readily to Twitter.

This relationship seemed to be the theme of his Tuesday night concert at the Pabst Theater, which, due to a variety of circumstances led primarily by its night of the week, played to an incredibly small crowd that barely filled up the prestigious theater’s lower level.

There was basically nobody there. So as Darnielle and company took to the stage with an imposing and grim black curtain blocking off his view of the empty seats on the theater’s first balcony, he was greeted by the expectant cheers and faces of what amounted to a small group of friends, and, for the rest of the night, it felt like it.

That’s not to say the crowd acted small; on the contrary. The vociferousness of the show’s relatively few attendees far exceeded the crowd’s actual size, especially close to the stage, where the closely-packed pit took it upon themselves to request songs any chance they got. (“Ethiopia!” yelled one man. “We’ve never played that song live,” Darnielle responded, “and we never will.”) It was an interactivity only heightened by the lip-loosening qualities of alcohol. Darnielle ran through several beers during the performance, (spilling one in a fountain of suds) which only seemed to progressively extend his hilarious, rambling song introductions. (“This song is about the moment you realize you’re getting a divorce,” was but a small sample of the long-winded exposition leading into “First Few Desperate Hours” from the band’s magnum opus Tallahassee.) And toward the end of the concert, Darnielle recalled a long anecdote about being given a small red toy as a gift after a show at Riverwest’s Fuel Café in 1997, which he then kept for years for no reason.

The show’s set list, always dense with Darnielle’s two-minute anthems, was composed largely of songs from the new album Transcendental Youth, but was aided at times by excellent opener (and Silent Bob lookalike) Matthew E. White’s horn section, which Darnielle dubbed the “Transcendental Trio.” But the show, as cathartic an experience as any of the band’s legendary concerts, was peppered as much with the familiar old stuff, which was greeted by the crowd with open ears and hearts. Never was a more electric sing-a-long held than with set closer “This Year,” whose plaintive cries of “I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me” are as simultaneously warm and terrifying as the man onstage grinning far too broadly to be singing songs about drug addicts and the physically abused. But I guess that’s just the therapy working.

Photo by CJ Foeckler.

Kevin Kaber Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com It was an excessive night of noise in the packed Turner Hall on Wednesday.

The crowd grew slowly to the point of near capacity, an oddity given the hitor-miss obscurity of the night’s acts and that it was Wednesday night, a time usually reserved for whatever normal things normal people do at that time.

However, Wednesday’s concert goers were by no means the normal people that stay in and watch TV (what’s even on Wednesday nights?). A seemingly randomized group of diverse early 20-somethings dominated the hall, downing their drinks and almost evenly readying for AraabMuzik and Sleigh Bells – two bold acts unique in their excess.

AraabMuzik, the incredibly talented Providence DJ, opened the night along with a probably stoned but nonetheless entertaining to watch hype-man.

Typically, modern DJs (given those fucking laptops) are able to mix whatever

whenever they so choose, then click play at their shows. AraabMuzik, on the other hand, does the seemingly impossible for DJs like Girl Talk and Skrillex, and performs his own music in real time.

With fingers like E. Honda’s arms when he does that move when you smash the buttons real quick like (the sumo from Street Fighter II – you’re worthless if you didn’t already know that), AraabMuzik worked samples on his drum machine with crazy precision. Although the end result was mostly dub - somewhat disheartening, but hey, it was suitable; the crowd liked it regardless. You got to admire the artist’s ability to create, in real time, what so many of his colleagues do in however damn long they want to.

By the time AraabMuzik finished (having not said a word to the audience himself), the crowd, now swollen in size and drunk, was excited to see Sleigh Bells donning their $55 “Slay Bulls” jerseys and sweating at an ever-frightening pace.

Sleigh Bells was quick to get on stage after their sound check. The Alexis Krauss-Derek Miller duo, along with

a touring guitarist opened with Reign of Terror’s “Demons.” Miller’s hardcore background ever-present, along with the Krauss’s screeching, and often inaudible, anthem-esque pop vocals blaring excessively loud throughout the hall.

While many similar acts sometimes fail to keep the attention of their diverse audiences, Sleigh Bells succeeded due to the act’s catchy mix of metal and bubblegum pop that’s as danceable as is entertaining. Not to mention the leggy Krauss’s onstage banter, although obviously put on, received cheers every time an f-bomb was dropped. Krauss was in an advertisement for Nickelodeon Magazine too (“Nickelodeon Magazine PLEASE!”), which makes her all the cooler. Also, in many Sleigh Bells songs, she makes suggestive noises – look out boys!

Regardless of my crush on Krauss, the band played a great set that was engaging for all. Void of an encore, Sleigh Bells invited the brave women (and one odd guy) to get on stage and scream their excessive screams.

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Made in Milwaukee A recap of the nuttiest Halloween party of the year

By Steven Franz Fringe Media Editor fringe@uwmpost.com Screw Christmas. Halloween is the funnest holiday of the year.

It was fun when you were little and you got to parade around in costumes and get free candy. It was fun when you got to put fake little cobwebs and tombstones in your yard. But unlike Christmas, where the myth of the holiday is hopefully penetrated by the time you reach double digits in age, there’s no fantastic mythology

to Halloween. You get to dress up as a kid, you get to dress up as an adult. If anything, it’s even more fun because you can be ludicrous and creative about it.

And nobody else cares because they’re all dressed up too, and a lot of them are wearing much cooler costumes than you.

The Fatty Acids were dressed like Juggaloes on Saturday night.

Saturday just happened to be the day that the Insane Clown Posse played at The Rave. It’s true, the venue where they’ve sadly supplanted GWAR as the go-to annual Halloween show (GWAR doesn’t

play until November 21). So it was only right that Milwaukee’s resident weirdos/ misfits/intellectuals/band of some kind paid tribute to the Faygo-swilling clown kings at Turner Hall, where they were performing as part of the 2012 Made In Milwaukee Halloween Party. Yes, they played “Miracles.” In fact, it closed the show in a glorious moment that’s certain to never be eclipsed in the annals of Fatty Acids lore.

They weren’t the only ones there, however. Clearly the largest Halloween celebration in the city, the party was

full of all kinds of activity – live artists painting away on the venue’s open upper level, where there was also a photo booth to record one’s costumed escapades. A costume contest. Four bands, which included Kane Place Record Club, the Rusty Ps (aided by MC One Self, who served an additional role as de facto master of ceremonies), the Fatty Acids, and headliner De La Buena. A fashion show which featured eight designers and more than 60 models. And a nightclosing dance party which alternated between Michael Jackson songs and Prince

songs that was appropriately kicked off by “Thriller” (which means Michael Jackson won, I mean really).

There was a guy dressed like Felix Baumgartner, whose massive heliumfilled “space balloon” managed to dislodge itself toward the end of the night and float to the ceiling, where it stayed. At one point he was grinding with a Rubik’s Cube. Which is really all you need to know. Well, that and the fact that the Fatty Acids were dressed like Juggaloes, which cannot ever be overstated.

The Jersey Shred Titus Andronicus’ honest rock and roll

By Steven Franz Fringe Media Editor fringe@uwmpost.com When Titus Andronicus released The Airing of Grievances in 2008, they were a little-known, easily dismissible New Jersey rock band born on the heels of the Springsteen craze with impenetrable low-fidelity production and were likely to be grouped in with “indie” bands or ignored. That all has changed. Two albums later, with the release of Local Business in 2012, the band is a force, and a different beast entirely. Their wild live shows are the stuff of legend, their declarations of “PUNK IS BACK!” have made their feelings on their “indie” moniker clear, and far from being minor, they are

now one of the most prominent, forceful bands in rock and roll.

That is not to say everything has changed. A song title like, “Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus,” the second track on Local Business, recalls the same artistic intellectualism that went into the selection of their very name (which is also a Shakespeare tragedy) as well as “Upon Viewing Brueghel’s ‘Landscape With the Fall of Icarus’” from their first album.

They still retain their sensationally bleak outlook on the universe (“Okay, I think by now we’ve established / Everything is inherently worthless,” sings Patrick Stickles on “Ecce Homo”). But the production is cleaner than the biting lo-fi of previous efforts, and Stickles’ voice no

longer quite cracks with the same electric violence as before – there’s something quieter, more resigned perhaps, about the way he sings.

Perhaps this is because Local Business, of the three Titus records, is by far the most personal and most openly therapeutic. It’s admittedly tough to say that an album can get more private than 2010’s The Monitor, which used a complex Civil War metaphor to represent an immensely bitter breakup (lyrics include “The enemy is everywhere” and “There’s only one dream that I keep close / And it’s the one of my hand at your throat”). But whereas The Monitor was lashing out at the cruel universe, Local Business seems resigned to its ways, with deeply honest topics including Stickles’ struggles with eating disor-

ders and drugs on the bluntly-titled “My Eating Disorder” (“Drug addict since single digits / vitamins to fight the fidgets”). Stickles even makes lighthearted reference on “(I Am The) Electric Man” to the life-altering moment when he experienced a freak electric shock in late 2011, after which he’s never regrown his once-trademark beard.

Local Business is such an openly, almost caustically honest album – at points it feels quite a bit like a confessional or a psychiatric interrogation – that Titus Andronicus seems to have cemented themselves as the descendants to Jawbreaker or the somewhat quieter Sunny Day Real Estate. Perhaps this is why the production is so much cleaner; in somewhat of a middle finger to the

growing ironic disconnect of indie rock, the band has thrown down the sonic filter between the content of the song and its listener the way The Mountain Goats did early last decade. It’s an act of defiance that carries with it a profound sense of positivity, the very same that allows Stickles to poke fun at his own eating problems with the brief, loud anthem “Food Fight!” that preceded “My Eating Disorder.” The band long ago reached the conclusion that we’ll all always be losers, and they still seem to think that it’s perfectly okay.

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The Fringe previews MKEZF

By Jessica Bublitz Special to the Post Fringe@uwmpost.com Your first question may be: “What’s a zine?” But rather than have me tell you, why not find out for yourself? The Milwaukee Zine Fest (MKEZF) is a free annual weekend-long event in the Riverwest neighborhood that celebrates underground and independent media through vendors, readings, and music.

The 2012 MKEZF will be held on Saturday, November 3rd at The Falcon

Bowl (801 E. Clarke) with a big welcome on Friday and a Halloweeninspired cover show on Saturday night.

Whether you’ve been to the event in the past or this is your first time, this year’s festivities will offer something new for everyone.

Friday will start the weekend off with an interactive zine reading at Riverwest Film & Video (824 E. Center) at 7pm. This will be a reading like no other and will include music and performances, and will be broadcast live over the Internet through Riverwest Radio (riverwestradio.com).

Afterwards get your dance and mingle on with zinesters at the Riverwest Public House (815 E. Locust). The space is a cooperative bar but also offers non alcoholic drinks and will be featuring MKEZF organizers DJing until close.

Now in its fifth year, the MKEZF was established after the nearby Madison Zine Fest would not be participating in 2008. In the beginning it was held at UWM’s Golda Meir Library and since has been at The Falcon Bowl with workshops at Cream City Collectives, located across

the street. Unfortunately, with the sudden eviction of the CCC just two days before MKEZF, this year will not have these workshops. However, there will still be a banquet room full of vendors to keep visitors busy throughout the day. Participants include writers of personal narratives and fiction, printmakers and photographers, cartoonists, poets, and multimedia installation artists from all across the country, from as far as California and as close as just a few blocks away. The bar will be open if you prefer reading your newly traded zines over a Bloody Mary, but the event is

also all ages and encourages families to attend as well.

Afterwards, say goodbye with a great 21+ cover show at Linneman’s Riverwest Inn (1001 E. Locust) – wearing a costume is encouraged.

This event will not be free or donation based because it is not run through the MKEZF, but for five dollars it will surely be worth the money. Bands include The Dickies, MC5, and The Stooges starting at 10 p.m.

For more information, be sure to check out milwaukeezinefest.org.

FALL(ing) together Peck dancers collaborate with professional dancers, musicians

By Clair Sprenger Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com Over the weekend, the Helene Zelazo Center featured a collection of five modern dance pieces in the show, FALL(ing). Peck’s dance school decided to rebel from the norm and collaborate with professional dance organizations of Milwaukee on this show, instead of with other Peck departments, said Simone Ferro, chair of the UWM Department of Dance and one of the show’s choreographers.

Peck faculty and students collaborated with professional dancers and choreographers from the Milwaukee Ballet Company and Milwaukee’s Present Music Ensemble. Ferro wanted the three organizations to team up and approached Michael Pink, the director of Milwaukee Ballet, and Kevin Stahlheim, of Present Music, over a year ago about the idea. They were originally going to do a smaller project, but then it evolved into the large production FALL(ing).

“So this started with a microscopic, embryonic version of a small collabo-

ration of one piece between, myself, Present Music and the Milwaukee Ballet and evolved [into] a full evening with four choreographers, professional dancers, student dancers,” said Ferro.

Ferro said that, like much contemporary dance, none of the pieces tried to tell linear narratives. Although this was mostly true, the first piece, “BirdPrince-Bird,” definitely told a fairly straightforward story about a man and the two women fighting over him.

Ten dance students, choreographed

by Petr Zahradnicek of Milwaukee Ballet, performed in the second piece “Fall to Rise.” The main difference that made this piece a little less convincing than the others was how the dancers didn’t have enough conviction with their movement, nor many emotions across their faces (with exception for three dancers given the limelight).

“We all bear gravity, so the idea of FALL(ing) is resisting or not resisting gravity,” Ferro said. The ideas Ferro and those she worked with drew from the spanned from “fall, the season, falling in love, falling [or] dropping, falling as absence of gravity, falling as resistance to gravity.”

Ferro’s choreography for “Dis/ Equilibrium” tries to capture the slow motion feeling you get when you fall, when your brain chimes in and is like – whoa, something’s amiss, and time slows down as you try to save yourself.

And it really worked. There seemed to be a whole slew of mini-narratives sort of twisted together. It almost was like watching somebody’s life pass before his or her eyes.

“You know when you’re starting to fall, there is a mechanism in your brain that detects that some reason you are not you are in a position that is not customary, and by that time the brain fires impulses to your muscles in time to react,” Ferro said. “But this moment between brain and reaction seems sometimes endless.”

Ferro’s recreation of her 2007 dance “Magnetic Field,” which her notes describe as “the paradox that it makes you stronger to know that you can rely on someone physically and emotionally,” also seemed to have somewhat of a narrative. It seemed to portray a rollercoaster of a relationship.

Peck dance seniors Brenna Marlin and Gina Laurenzi worked on Ferro’s

dance number as student researchers through the Office of Undergraduate Research, alongside Peck dance alum Katharina Abderholden, who graduated last spring. They worked for five hours a day, much like professional dancers’ schedules, Ferro said.

“Slowly and Always,” choreographed by Dani Kuepper, was the one piece in which dancers wore color.

It would have been distracting if the piece wasn’t so darn good. It had the most movement, the dancers were all happy and the music, which had wowed throughout, sounded celebratory. It was fitting for fall.

Peck dance has gotten more press attention because of this collaboration, Ferro said. “It’s quite exciting to see UWM seen with different lens.

Sometimes they say, ‘Oh, this is just and academic institution.’ So there is not the artistic – the artistic side becomes almost clouded, muffled, no?”

Set builders revamped Zelazo for the night. They installed everything from sprung floors to the lighting.

Abderholden, as a movement researcher for Ferro’s “Dis/Equilibrium,” “helped with the choreographic as-

pects/teaching the dancers how to perform the movement” and rehearsed with the dancers.

“I found it interesting to see how our techniques melded, because I would consider myself a modern dancer…” said Abderholden, who graduated last spring. “There’s an interesting collaboration between techniques and disciplines, because ballet technique is extremely formal, and modern technique is extremely pedestrian, and how the experience of understanding the middle ground and fusing the two together was like, I can’t even describe it, because it was such an involved process of personalities and kind of opening up to resistance and what not.”

Ferro thought having Peck dance students collaborate with professional organizations would also fuel innovation, noting that there’s six or seven dance companies in Milwaukee and this Peck-professional collaboration is only the first.

“The isolation is a dead end,” Ferro said. “So I think the more you promote this overlapping… this symbiotic work, the more you find the strength of this [artistic] community.”

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Guide to Voting

By Fringe Staff Fringe@uwmpost.com We the editors of The Fringe, are all about you fellow Americans exercising your right to vote. Though record voter turnouts occurred last presidential election – thanks to Obama’s celebratization via other cool celebrities’ endorsements (and McCain’s cheeks and choice for vice president) – it would be nice if maybe everyone of voting age (save for felons) voted. We are a democracy, you know. Our vote counts, at least in the Electoral College. We could’ve had Gore.

So, when it comes time to vote in this term’s presidential election, how would either candidate affect our fellow students of Milwaukee? Would we be better off with four more years of the socialist Muslim from Kenya? Or should we consider an unrelatable Mormon candidate that has argued to get rid of porn?

As a student body at least, we should be concerned with our financial access to the fine academic institution that we attend. Obama so far, has increased spending on the Pell Grant, a program to help economically disadvantaged students attend colleges and universities.

As nearly all financial aid applicants at

UWM actually received aid in the last few years, this is an important aspect that we students should consider.

Here’s a better question though: will we be able to find jobs in the fields we study? Probably not, unless you’re a teacher in math or sciences and that’s only if Obama’s plan succeeds. Under Romney’s plan, his people will offer you a job if you ask the above question, just like that kid at the stand-or-sit debate.

Or ask your parents.

As people of Milwaukee on the other hand, we must ask ourselves the all-important question: beer? Romney doesn’t drink. Point Obama.

But there’s plenty more to consider in the upcoming election. Gay rights?

Balancing the budget? Ending wars?

Taxes? Blah blah blah. What should be said is that regardless if you think the candidate you and your peers vote into the next four years in the White House he or she (remember write-ins), still has to overcome the bleak reality of American politics that is bipartisanism.

Whoever is president in the next term will still have to face his political party’s opponents, leaving the United States in a standstill of progress and sadly failing to owe up to his platform.

With all that apathy, we shouldn’t

offer an endorsement. The world will end in December, mark your calendars.

However, we would never let that inFRINGE (get it?) on your voting decision – seriously don’t listen to us. It could be worse, though. Imagine a world in which a sex-crazed Herman Cain shared the Oval Office with a Biblethumping Rick Santorum… (There’s a sitcom in there somewhere.)

Ultimately, we leave you with quotes that may or may not be endorsements from two leading figures in pop culture.

“Mitt Romney don’t pay no tax. Mitt Romney don’t pay no tax” –Kanye West, hip-hop artist.

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EDITORIAL The following piece represents the views of the Editorial Board of THE UWM POST. The editorial board is not affiliated with the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and these views do not represent the views of the university.

Female reproductive rights and pay equity affect everyone Every single vote can make a difference Tuesday, Nov. 6 is Election Day. For some college students, this day has been circled on their calendar for months as an opportunity to exercise one of their greatest rights as an American citizen.

However, for others, Election Day is viewed simply as the culmination of a year of lies and rhetoric about issues that don’t even affect or concern them. It’s a day they could care less about because, to some students, the election just represents their inability to influence the political process. This perception couldn’t be more inaccurate.

Of all that’s at stake during this political cycle, women’s rights have become one of the most important. And really, they’re not just “women’s issues.” They are issues that affect everyone, no matter gender, age, race, sexual orientation, religion or socioeconomic status. Even if you haven’t taken birth control, been raped or abused, made the decision whether or not to abort a child or been unfairly compensated for doing the same work as someone of the opposite sex, odds are, you know someone that has.

Earlier this year, Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown student Sandra Fluke a slut because she wanted her insurance company to cover birth control costs. A few months ago, Missouri Republican Senatorial candidate Todd Akin said a woman’s body could magically block pregnancy following “legitimate rape.”

Just last week, Richard Mourdock, a

Republican Senatorial candidate from Indiana, said pregnancy because of rape was “something God intended.” A few weeks ago, pro-life advocates preached to UWM students in Spaight’s Plaza describing the horrors of abortion, castigating any female that would ever consider getting one. Male or female, Republican or Democrat, you are entitled to your opinion. But you want to know what the problem is with all of these opinions?

They were all voiced by men.

But that’s just the culture we live in, where society justifies violence against women, and the right for a woman to make her own reproductive and health decisions is disregarded and even sometimes trivialized. Today’s politicians are no different. But you know what?

Women shouldn’t have to continually defend themselves or their actions to politicians – who are predominately male – that feel it’s the government’s duty to legislate on these issues.

Then there’s the issue of women’s equality in the workplace, which was made even bigger with Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” comment. According to the United States Department of Labor, women who work full time are paid only 77 cents to every dollar made by their male counterparts. In one year, that’s a loss of nearly $11,000. A lot of people will try to tell you the gender pay gap is a myth, as statistics don’t take into account the different hours and professions that

women choose. While those certainly attribute to lower incomes, that’s only 60 percent of the equation. The other 40 percent is due to flat out discrimination by employers, including the belief that every woman has the potential to get married and start a family, at which time her career will become a meaningless aspect of her life.

You don’t think this is important to you? Well ladies, by the time you’re 25, your male counterpart will have already earned $5,000 more than you. And guys, the latest population statistics show that women make up a slight majority of the U.S. citizenry. Women also make up over half of all undergraduate college students. The whole country’s economy and status in the world will benefit when every part of its population is educated, respected and allowed to progress to a more affluent position.

Even if these issues don’t always directly affect men, they affect their mothers, their sisters, their girlfriends and their friends. As a voter, you have the ability to influence the future of gender rights and equality in this country.

You have the opportunity to determine whether politicians will determine female health care and reproductive rights, whether women will get a fair shot at participating as an equal part of society, not just a minor interest group. So please vote. It will make a difference.

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Methu commended for

standing up against

attempts to cut ties with

Palermo’s Pizza The student body of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee is indebted to Brandon Methu for standing up against the attempts to cut ties with Palermo’s Pizza. It is important to recognize the blatant mischaracterization by Angela Lang that the resolution was “overwhelmingly” supported by the student body. The UWM Post article notes that over 800 signatures were gathered in support of the resolution. According to the UWM website, there are over 24,000 undergraduate students enrolled at UWM. Simple math reveals that a small contingency consisting of about three percent of students support the resolution. I wish to thank Brandon Methu again for this conviction to represent the entire student body as well as condemn the four directors that abstained. If this issue is truly important to the entire student body of this University they will “overwhelmingly” refuse to purchase Palermo’s Pizza from the locations that offer it.

By Jeremy Lucas

Gay student should have researched

Wisconsin same-sex marriage law

before applying to UWM In response to “UWM student denied in-state tuition based on same-sex marriage legalities”

I am writing in response to the article published regarding the UWM student denied in-state tuition on the premise of same-sex marriage. Maybe this is something that he should have researched before matriculating at UW-Milwaukee. I have beef with the loopholes that many gays are always trying to find in the system, but then, when they are not “treated equal,” they put up a fight. Same-sex marriage is a mockery on the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. Obviously, this sanctity is recognized and fully supported by the state of Wisconsin. Therefore, Wisconsin does not recognize a same-sex marriage as marriage by law. May I repeat that clearly so you understand it completely?

Wisconsin does not recognize gay marriage because it is based upon banned practices and it is a mockery of the traditions and laws set forward in the state of Wisconsin. So my question for this student is, “Why would you expect to receive in-state tuition when according to the state of Wisconsin you have no spouse?!” If I married nine wives in another state and moved to Wisconsin, should I expect to receive public assistance for each and every spouse and 50 plus children because I am a resident of Wisconsin?

I am assured that even if I brought a list of all of my greatest “artistic abilities,” my “family” would be denied the state’s support and rightfully so. This student is not only making a mockery of the sanctity of marriage, but is making a mockery of the policies and laws that protect and provide for the full-time, tax-paying residents of this great state of Wisconsin.

By J Stanley

OP-ED Get ready to vote!

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Some helpful, last minute voting tips

By Neighborhood Housing/COAST Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com From the overplayed television ads, to the laughable, weekly skits on Saturday Night Live, it is clear that the 2012 presidential election is upon us. Whether you are a Democrat, Republican or third party voter, as a resident, this upcoming election is an important national decision in which you are able to participate. Just in case volunteers in the UWM Union or Spaights Plaza haven’t already stopped you to register to vote, we’d like to provide you with one last resource on how to register in the city of Milwaukee, as well as some information about how to find your polling place on Election Day, which lands on Tuesday, Nov, 6.

As a college student, unfortunately registering to vote can sometimes be a bit of a hassle if you do not live close enough

to home to vote. For those students living in the residence halls or nearby neighborhoods, but cannot travel home in time for the election, absentee ballots or Election-Day registrations are more useful methods.

The first resource I would check out is http://city.milwaukee.gov/vote.

This website has directions on how to vote using the four methods the City of Milwaukee has designated available for residents: in-person with the Election Commission at Milwaukee City Hall, at any Milwaukee Public Library, at your polling site on Election Day or voting via mail with an absentee ballot. The website also includes important information regarding the state requirements for registering to vote in person. This is important information for any first time college voter to read thoroughly because it lists all of the acceptable proof of residency documents, including – but not limited to – a

current and valid Wisconsin driver’s license, identification card, utility bill, bank statement, paycheck or a current housing lease.

Don’t know your polling location while attending UWM? Visit http://itmdapps.ci.mil.wi.us/electedreps/pollingLocation/checkAddress.jsp and simply type in your house number and select your street name. This website will tell you the correct polling location.

Lastly, a good general resource for frequently asked questions about voting and the election is the Rock the Vote website. Visit http://www.rockthevote. com/voting-is-easy/the-voting-process/ faq/#quest13 to find out if you are registered to vote, how to change your registration address if you have moved, where to vote, how to request an absentee ballot, as well as who to contact if you feel your voting rights have been violated. Happy voting, UWM students!

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The case for Mitt Romney

Why his plan will help restore our country

By Nick Smith Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com

There were two ways to go about writing this article. One was to lay out piece by piece why President Obama doesn’t deserve a second term. The second was to focus solely on what Mitt Romney can bring to the table as president. I’ve decided to go with the latter for a couple of reasons.

First, telling you why Obama has done everything but earn a second term only leaves us at “…so now what?” Secondly, many people claim to be more in-tune with the issues, saying that their awareness goes beyond what a Super PAC commercial tells them. Unfortunately, though, that isn’t really the case. I know those of you exist out there. In such a politically charged environment, the partisanship causes a lot of a given candidate’s image to be distorted for the worse.

For the sake of my argument, there will be no direct or indirect references to President Obama from here on out.

My goal is to tell you only about Mitt Romney and his credentials to be our next president.

Romney’s experience as Governor of Massachusetts, President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics and Cofounder/ CEO of Bain Capital would bring wideranging leadership to the White House.

Is the office of the Presidency a different level? Of course it is. But when you’ve been in charge of organizing Olympic Games on American soil, you’ve been tasked with representing the country. The whole world’s eyes are on you and your operation. Mitt Romney will not flinch when America is in the spotlight and tough decisions need to be made.

Mitt’s most well-known job was with Bain Capital. The gist of Bain’s function was to either buy out companies, making them profitable and then selling them at their peak value, or make venture capital investments in which firms give large sums to start-ups in hopes of making a profit. Such profits are only subject to capital gains tax rates, which is how Romney became rich. This did not occur through illegal business practices, inheritance or by somehow cheating the tax code.

Everything he touches turns to gold.

His history of slimming down companies, streamlining their operations and making them profitable sounds like a great starting point for the United States government. His business credentials are impeccable, making him ideal to turn a once revered economy great again. This is something Paul Ryan shouldn’t be too shabby at either.

More specifically, how will Romney help you and me? First, look at the most fundamental conservative principal, which is to cut taxes and lower spending.

By not raising taxes on the middle class and keeping middle-class tax deductions, money will be put directly into such family’s pockets and help grow small businesses. Also, eliminating the capital gains tax for those making under $200,000 will singlehandedly encourage families and individuals to invest their disposable income into the economy. It’s the most potent shot-in-the-arm to boost U.S. markets. It’s a situation where everyone wins.

Romney has vowed to lower the corporate tax rate, which will encourage large businesses to open up shop in the U.S., ultimately creating jobs and increasing their investments in our country. Romney’s plan also includes a cap on federal spending at 20 percent of the gross domestic protect, or GDP. Romney’s plan for healthcare is simple: give it to the states. It’s what he did in Massachusetts. Doing so will promote competition amongst insurers, improve efficiency and simply give people choices in choosing their provider. The Romney/Ryan plan for Medicare and Social Security is also simple: Reform it.

Otherwise it won’t be around for the rest of us.

Mitt Romney’s spent most of his life resurrecting businesses. His failed presidential run in 2008 must have been a sign. The United States needs his expertise now more than ever. I’m ready to put Mitt Romney’s plan into action.

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Save the drama and vote Obama President needs four more years to achieve potential greatness

By Brian Holmes Columnist editorial@uwmpost.com When America’s first bi-racial President Barack Obama took office in 2009, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made a sacred vow that “the single most important thing we [Republicans] want to achieve is for President Barack Obama to be a one term president.”

McConnell and his ilk didn’t mention jobs or education as their “number one” priority. Instead, they vowed to precipitate the failure of the president.

Well Mr. McConnell, if the president doesn’t succeed in his job, then where does that leave us as Americans? Unlike McConnell, I tend to see Obama as a two-term president. Here are a few reasons why he should remain in the White House.

The president’s greatest success has arguably been his commitment to put the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. After several failed attempts by past presidents, President Obama has succeeded in offering an alternative plan to our broken healthcare system – at least for now. Romney promised to repeal the ACA if elected. However, what are Republicans going to replace it with?

Hospital bills are the highest cause of bankruptcy for Americans, with high prices putting millions in a bottomless pit of debt.

Health insurance companies abhor the ACA because it requires them to use 80 percent of their customer’s premium money on health care expenditures. While they will be flooded with new customers because of the new law, they will still lose money. By pooling millions of dollars with Republican politicians, they have launched a crusade to spread incorrect information about the ACA law.

Conservatives claim the ACA is a government takeover of health insurance. This is an all out lie. In fact, Politifact National deemed this conservative whopper the “2010 Lie of the Year.” Unfortunately though, many voters still maintain this belief.

Even though some people initially criticized it, Obama’s bailout of the American auto industry was also a life saver for many Americans. Millions of jobs were saved and later gained because of this. It was a necessary evil at the time and the right decision. There’s a reason Michigan is overwhelmingly Pro-Obama.

The war on terror is another area where the president has excelled, even though it is a war we cannot win.

Fundamental Muslim extremists are worldwide. Most Americans are tired of sacrificing young lives and trillions of dollars chasing ghosts in the desert.

President Obama got America out of Iraq as promised. Although American troops are still in Afghanistan, there is an exit date for the end of 2014. Obama has shared his intention to decrease the American presence abroad, which would be much more beneficial than maintaining the right wing dream of a “Republican empire.”

Anyone who watched the final debate should be alarmed at the prospect of a President Romney. The man appeared clueless on foreign policy. He kept turning to domestic matters in order to avoid debating the president on foreign relations. Romney claims that America’s declining global influence is due to its decreased presence abroad. His goal is to invest in more warships, increase troops overseas – an idea even the Pentagon disagrees with and increase the military budget to four percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, or GDP, even though the U.S. already spends more on its military than most of the world combined. America has continued to maintain a strong military under Obama, who has invested in new technology and better armor for our troops, but doesn’t feel we have to break the bank to maintain the most powerful military in the world.

Since Obama has taken office, things have been quiet. Unlike many of today’s conservatives, Obama has demonstrated a willingness to negotiate and compromise. One of his most notable accomplishments has been his strength in diplomacy. The tough talk and arrogance displayed by George W. Bush and his ilk showed a lack of character and willpower. Because of that, Obama has spent four years repairing strained relationships with America’s allies across the world. He has also shown no known weakness to enemies and has been hospitable, but wary, of those in between.

Obama has remained steadfast on his views throughout his presidency and has proven to be a capable leader. It cannot be forgotten that he gave the orders that captured and killed Osama Bin Laden. Many of this country’s most successful presidents would not have been able to achieve their success if they had only served one term. In a second term, President Obama could have the potential to achieve greatness Obama and Romney are in a virtual deadlock both in Wisconsin and nationwide, which is why it is more important than ever to vote. Obama has begun the long and arduous march forward from past mistakes. This nation cannot afford another president that wants to play cowboy and get more people killed or that still insists on preaching trickledown economics. It was a disaster last time and this time it will be much worse.

Just save the drama and vote for Obama. just save the drama and vote for Obama.

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