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New HR plan outlines UW personnel changesBy Cheyenne LangkampThe Daily CarDinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Human Resources redesign project will be released to the campus com-munity Friday after over a year of development, with a goal of improving university employee recruitment and retainment in response to the recent decline in state support.
According to an advanced copy of the plan sent to The
Daily Cardinal by the Wisconsin University Union, the redesign aims to maintain the university’s reputation as a world-class insti-tution by improving employee benefits to attract talented fac-ulty and staff.
The plan would allow employees to transfer saved sick days, health insurance eligibility and vacation time if they move to UW-Madison from other UW System campuses.
The redesign would also
improve employee compensation, including a recommendation to reward faculty and staff by pay-ing them based on performance.
Additionally, the project details a plan to record and ana-lyze workforce demographics to better ensure employment as well as advancement opportuni-ties are fair and include a diverse range of employees.
According to Robert Lavigna,
Rooftop tunesON CaMpUS
Musical talent Mike Massey and Francie phelps provide live music on the pyle Center rooftop terrace Thursday from 4-7 p.m. for the Third Thursdays event + Photo by Grey Satterfield
College GOP attends Ann Romney rally at MarquetteBy Jack CaseyThe Daily CarDinal
Thirty University of Wisconsin-Madison College Republicans travelled to Marquette University and joined hundreds of enthusi-astic supporters to hear Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speak Thursday.
The visit is the latest in a recent influx of campaign activ-ity in Wisconsin and under-scores the importance of the state in November’s presiden-tial election.
During her speech, Romney focused on her husband’s eco-nomic plan and how he would improve the economy for women, a crucial voting bloc in the election.
“We know that he cares about women,” Romney said, accord-ing to video footage of the event. “He knows that these past four years have been the most diffi-cult for women.”
Romney said more women are unemployed and below the pov-erty line now than at the same time four years ago. UW-Madison College Republicans Chair Jeff Snow said these economic prob-lems would cause women to be more attracted to Mitt Romney in November.
“Women have naturally been more liberal in the past but as you look at the economic situa-tion, women are realizing that Obama is not helping their situ-ation,” said Snow, who attended the event.
Romney also talked about her husband’s personal side. The Romney campaign has made an effort to reach out to middle class voters after recent polls suggested some voters feel he cannot relate to their finan-cial situation.
Snow said Romney suc-ceeded in bringing out a differ-ent side of her husband during Thursday’s speech.
“Her main point was to bring out his lighter, more personal side and talk about how he empa-thizes with people and under-stands them and feels for them,” Snow said. “A lot of people may not see that when they see his successes in his career, but they don’t see his personality.”
President Barack Obama currently has a 55 per-cent approval rating among Wisconsin women, according to recent Marquette Law School polls. Obama is doing particu-larly well among single women and women under thirty in the state, with 64 percent and 68 percent approval respectively.
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Higgs boson researcher speaks at UWBy Sam CusickThe Daily CarDinal
The University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomed one of its own professors to campus Thursday to speak about her role in the discovery of the Higgs boson, also referred to as “the God particle.”
Sau Lan Wu, a physics pro-fessor at UW-Madison since 1977, told a crown of over 100 people how researchers detect-ed the particle and how the university played a star role in the discovery.
The Higgs boson’s exis-tence was first proposed by Peter Higgs in 1964, and the particle is said to give all other particles mass.
Wu led a team of UW-Madison researchers who aided in the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, a par-ticle accelerator located near Geneva, Switzerland, which
helped prove the existence of the Higgs boson.
According to Wu, the machine creates conditions similar to those immediately fol-lowing the Big Bang, which are necessary to find the particle.
The university also contrib-uted to the discovery through its analysis of the data received from the Large Hadron Collider through the United States Open Science Grid, a national col-laboration intended to collect and analyze research data from around the world.
Interim Chancellor David Ward introduced Wu and congratulated her, as well as everyone involved from UW-Madison, on their success in the discovery.
“We are tremendously proud of the dozens of Badgers, including numerous students, involved in the pioneering work of the [Large Hadron Collider],”
Ward said.In order to authenticate the
discovery, researchers con-ducted two independent exper-iments to prove the results were accurate. UW-Madison was one of the few institutions from the U.S. to have members in both experiments, Wu said.
A UW-Madison gradu-ate student was one of two physicists who first obtained data showing the results of the experiment had only a one in 300 million chance of being caused by random fluctuation.
The discovery of the Higgs boson was the culmination of almost three decades of work and thousands of physicists from 56 nations around the world, according to Wu.
“It was a giant step toward understanding the funda-mental laws of nature,” Wu said. “It is the discovery of the century.”
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Sau lan Wu, a physics professor at UW-Madison, discusses the science behind the discovery of the higgs boson particle and her role in the breakthrough on campus Thursday.
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By Poops McGee Fake NeWS Friday
A local area man was thor-oughly confused when he showed up to a protest held by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Library Mall Tuesday after-noon, noticing that none of the other participants were carrying pita bread and gyros with them.
“Everyone else was either caressing a pissed-off cat or hold-ing pictures of cats with their brains dripping out of their eyes,” said Stephen Stephanopoulos, an employee at Parthenon Restaurant on State Street.
“I would definitely consid-er myself a pita enthusiast,” said Stephanopoulos, “but I’ve never encountered anything like this before.”
PETA spokesperson Jeremy “Take No Prisoners” Beckham was at the recent protests with his 12-year-old hairless cat, Admiral Snuggles, and was noticeably infuriated by Stephanopoulos’s attendance.
“All of the world’s creatures, whether they are cats, sheep, tapeworms, your neighbor’s dog, snakes or sea kittens [Editor’s note: that PETA-made phrase you just read, “sea kit-tens,” is not fake. It means “fish.” We’re not shitting you.], deserve a happy place on this earth,” declared Beckham, furi-ously fondling the raw skin on Admiral Snuggles’ back while glaring at the gyro-munching Stephanopoulos. “And that place is not in a dark, cold labo-ratory or folded up in a pocket
of flat bread!”Admiral Snuggles con-
sumed the gyro meat enthusi-astically, as Stephanopholous, perturbed, froze.
“I mean, just look at Admiral Snuggles right here,” said Beckham, holding up the bald, squirming feline as Rafiki did Simba.
“How could anyone want to do ANYTHING bad to a cute little kitty like him? Just look at his adooorable little nose and his perfect little whiskers. Who’s the cutest kitty, Admiral Snuggles? You are! Oh yes you are! Yes you aaare!” Beckham said.
It is unknown as to how much longer the protests will continue, but PETA vol-unteers do not expect them to end anytime in the near future, much to the annoy-ance of literally everyone.
“We have to make the public aware that killing animals for profit isn’t going to fly. Except for sloths. I don’t like sloths. They can go rot in hell,” added Beckham, still groping the cat, as he raised his pinky finger to the corner of his mouth.
Protest heavy on cats, light on flat bread
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By Timothy McCorgiFake NeWS Friday
After being enrolled at UW-Madison for 126 semes-ters, over 63 years of attendance, Buckingham Badger, despite his overwhelming popularity, has yet to graduate or receive a degree from the university.
While many students require a “victory lap” year to com-plete their majors, no one has come close to Buckingham’s record. Having been in and out of almost every major on cam-pus, Bucky has yet to complete any major, usually switching out once he hits the 400 level classes.
Professor Tommy Shultz has been teaching at the UW since 1970, and teaching Buckingham since that time as well. “He’s a good lad, but he never does his homework,” Shultz explained.
On any given weekend Buckingham can be found at nearly every UW sports event, rallies, speaker presentations,
or alumni gala on or off campus. Due to his energetic spirit and complete dedication to everything UW, to many students on campus Buckingham has become a mascot of sorts. Speaking of her J202 class, sophomore Sruffy McDuff said, “I saw Buckingham more often on shirts and hats than in class.”
Buckingham came in for an interview, but only replied by chuckling to him-self, doing push-ups, and mak-ing a “W” with his fingers.
By Danny HarriganFake NeWS Friday
Wisconsin Badgers football team personnel said Sunday that head coach Bret Bielema had been using a menu from popular chain restaurant Denny’s to call plays for the first three games of the season.
Bielema said using the “fami-ly-friendly” menu has increased the level of surprise in their plays while he gets to admire “pretty pictures of waffle fries” when he gets “super bored.”
“It eases new players into our complex program here at UW-Madison,” said Bielema. “Besides, we don’t have Russell Wilson or any of our wide receivers and offensive line left, so what’s the harm in having a little fun with the new guys?”
Despite protest from fans, at a press conference members of the Badger football team said they
enjoyed using the menu because formations based on the shapes of breakfast specials “makes their tummys all nice and warm inside.”
“Studying the playbook was confusing at first,” admit-ted transfer quarterback Danny O’Brien. “But now I’ve mastered the Ultimate Skillet formation like nobody’s business.”
Star running back Montee Ball, a Heisman candidate last year, said he backed the playbook change. “Our offense may be in the tank, but there’s nothing like being the lead waffle in the Belgian Waffle Slam,” Ball said.
Despite the futility of the Badger offense, the team has no plans to change to a more conventional play-book. At press time, Bielema said he started flipping the menu upside-down during games, “in case one of those Big Ten fuckers tries to read our plays.”
Buckingham Badger still has not graduated after 126 semesters
Bret Bielema’s offensive playbook is a Denny’s menu
The awkward confrontation between PeTa supporters and Pita supporters took a turn for the worse when both parties disagreed on the correct way to pronounce “gyro.”
GraPHiC By Dylan MoriarTy
Stephen Stephanopoulospita enthusiast
“Everyone else was either caressing a pissed-off cat or holding pictures of cats with their brains dripping
out of their eyes.”
City meets, plans to meet againBy Tabby CatFake NeWS Friday
Madison’s city council con-sidered approving a motion at a meeting Tuesday to discuss amending a previously amend-ed ordinance.
But Mayor Paul Soglin said he will most likely veto the proposed discussion item if approved, before the city coun-cil’s next meeting, Sept. 25.
When pressed for details on his opinion of the proposed amended amendment, Soglin ruled the question “out of order.”
Council President Ald.
Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, presided over council for the first two hours of the discus-sion because Soglin said he was late trying to flag down a taxi on State Street.
“I waited for hours and no cabs ever came,” Soglin said. “I’m the mayor, dagnabbit!”
Also at their meeting, the city approved funding for vari-ous planning and design proj-ects that may or may not go into effect for next year’s capi-tal budget and the benefits and hazards of beekeeping within city limits.
Buckingham does nearly everything besides studying.
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UW named a top school for veterans
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was named to the 2013 Victory Media list of “Military Friendly Schools,” which hon-ors the top 15 percent of uni-versities nationwide that best accommodate veterans.
Currently, UW-Madison has over 600 military students enrolled. For these students, the university offers special social programs and academic sup-port, including keeping accounts of students on active duty open, allowing them to continue check-ing email and register for classes before returning to campus.
Additionally, the Pres House, a student apartment complex, now offers special housing schol-arships for veterans.
John Bechtol, assistant dean of students for veterans, said he hopes to look out for the best interests of student veterans and help them whenever he can.
“The goal [is] that the issues
they face as new students are simply issues that any other new student would face,” Bechtol said. “Being a veteran should not be a burden in any way shape or form.”
In addition to help from Bechtol, Vets for Vets, a student organization on campus, aims to make the transition back to campus for student veterans eas-ier. It became the UW-Madison chapter of Student Veterans of America, a national organization dedicated to helping student vet-erans, and was voted best SVA chapter in 2011.
While the university has been recognized as one of the most mil-itary-friendly universities, Bechtol said he will continue to do all he can to help student veterans.
“Getting a compliment isn’t going to stop our work for trying to assist veterans on campus,” Bechtol said.
— Cassie Sterwald
Campus Women’s Center, M.e.Ch.A present cases for funding eligibility
Two student organiza-tions applied for 2013-’14 fis-cal year funding eligibility from the Student Services Finance Committee Thursday.
Representatives from the Campus Women’s Center, an orga-nization focused on addressing the multiple oppressions women-identified individuals face, said they deserved eligibility because they provide their services to every level of student at the university.
The main service the group pro-vides is called Kids Time, a free babysitting service offered to both undergraduate and graduate stu-dent parents.
CWC Support Services Coordinator Gethsemane Herron-Coward said she hopes the commit-tee will take into consideration that the group provides an avenue for all people to grow as a person through their services.
Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán de UW-Madison members spoke about the impor-tant role their organization plays on campus in using art to encour-
age political and cultural engage-ment, including workshops taught through music, painting, poetry and other art forms.
M.E.Ch.A member Valeria Cerda said she hoped SSFC gained a better sense of what M.E.Ch.A is about and the important role they play in representing marginalized communities on campus.
“We are essential on this cam-pus,” Cerda said. “Our services do provide something that is not any-where else on this campus.”
According to SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker, an organization must undergo eligibility hearings every four years and demonstrate its ability to perform “direct ser-vices,” which are educational ser-vices available and tailorable to any UW-Madison student’s needs, to receive funding from student seg-regated fees.
Student groups must devote 51 percent of their time offering direct services to receive eligibility.
SSFC will vote on both groups’ eligibility Monday.
—Cheyenne Langkamp
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theStudentServicesFinancecommitteehearsfundingeligibilitypresentationsthursdayfromtwostudentgroups.
Construction to shut down section of langdon StreetDrivers intending to head
eastbound on Langdon Street will need to plan an alternate route beginning Friday.
Madison’s Traff ic Engineering and Parking Divisions announced that the State of Wisconsin will begin utility construction on the 700 and 800 blocks of Langdon Street, near the Memorial Union and the Pyle Center.
Eastbound traffic will be closed on Langdon Street to all vehicles, according to a state-ment from Phil Nehmer of Traffic Engineering.
Vehicle traffic headed west on Langdon Street between North Lake and Park Streets will con-tinue uninterrupted, according to the statement. Bicycle traf-fic on Langdon Street will also remain unaffected.
City traffic engineers expect construction to be completed in August 2013, according to Nehmer.
Mayor Paul Soglin includ-ed funding in his proposed 2013 executive capital budget for additional downtown and campus-area street recon-struction, including North Charter Street between Regent and Johnson Streets.
director of human resources and project leader, the flexibili-ties granted to the university in the new plan would allow for “a community and workforce of the 21st century that is engaged, is diverse, has the right talent and is also adaptable.”
“We are committed to the Wisconsin Idea, which is to develop and create knowledge that enriches the state, the nation and the world,” Lavigna
said. “In order to do that we have to have the best talent and we have to have the flexibility to attract and hire the best talent.”
Another portion of the new plan would benefit the current employee category of “clas-sified staff,” which includes university clerks and office employees, by allowing the group to formally express their concerns to administration.
Lavigna said the project team plans to hold informational ses-sions to request further cam-
pus feedback before bringing the plan’s final draft to the UW System Board of Regents for approval in their November or December meeting.
“We’re very excited to bring this plan to the campus and to engage in this conversation,” Lavigna said. “We hope that everyone across the campus... will engage in this conversation.”
If the Regents approve the plan, it will advance to the state legislature for final approval this spring.
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StudentsandotherFreakfestattendeeswillnotbeallowedtocarryglassbottlesonandaroundStateStreetduringhalloweenweekendduetothecity’sannualweekendglassban.
City approves annual glass ban on State Street during Halloween weekend
Students are now prohibited from carrying glass bottles on and around State Street during this year’s Halloween weekend festivities downtown, due to a glass ban enforced each year during Freakfest.
T h e D o w n t o w n Coordinating Committee unanimously voted to estab-lish a glass-free zone on State Street and nearby cross streets starting at 9:30 p.m. on both Oct. 26 and 27, ending at 5 a.m. the next morning.
Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the city designed the ordi-nance to improve public safety after several violent Halloween riots occurred on State Street about a decade ago at which
crowds used glass bottles as projectiles.
“Once the ordinance was adopted and used for the first year, the amount of glass on the street diminished substantially,” Verveer said.
Committee members said they plan to discuss this year’s Freakfest event with police offi-cials and event coordinators at their October meeting.
Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the police have yet to release their official expecta-tions on crowd size, but he said he expects larger crowds this year due to headline bands like Big Gigantic and Mac Miller.
“I’ve heard more buzz just in
general about the event, so that makes me more optimistic about the crowds,” Resnick said.
Verveer said he does not pre-dict a greater number of people at Freakfest would pose chal-lenges for law enforcement.
“I think logically [police pres-ence] could increase somewhat consistently with the crowd size,” Verveer said. “I just wouldn’t expect [the larger crowds] to be much of a problem.”
But Resnick told the Daily Cardinal on Sept. 17 he expects fewer law enforce-ment officials will be on duty because of a decreasing trend in major incidents at past Freakfest events.
—David Jones
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It’s Wednesday night and the seconds are ticking until your paper on the growth of media conglomerates (or any other usual suspect of essay topic) is due tomorrow at 2. You’re fully aware that coffee will be enter-ing your bloodstream in unholy quantities until the first birds of morning are chirping as you type the last words.
Now picture the same situ-ation except do not envision yourself holed up in your room or the library with a brain full of stress and regret. Rather, you’re relaxing at Redamtè Coffee House, casually sipping some frothy caramel concoction and enjoying the soulful guitar music of a musician you had never even heard of until a few minutes prior.
Redamtè Coffee House is, as its name implies, a new coffee shop which opened a year ago at 449 State Street, perched above eye level on the second story of Asian Kitchen and other estab-lishments. Redamtè has a mission to create a community-focused coffee shop that works to bring awareness to local and interna-tional social issues through indi-vidual efforts and in partnership with organizations around the world. As their website states, Redamtè routinely asks itself, “how can we, as a business, make the world better?”
“Our main purpose is to show the local consumers that their simple daily purchases have power, however small the impact,” said Director Mitchell George in an interview with The Daily Cardinal.
For example, the café hosts Meal for Meal Monday dur-ing which every meal pur-
chased equates with another being donated. On Thirsty Thursdays, far from its com-monly known campus connota-tions, every drink purchased means the organization donates one gallon of clean drinking water. Without even realizing it, patrons are contributing to different organizations all over the world.
In order to be environmen-tally sustainable, Redamtè is also dedicated to buying local, organically-grown produce, as well as offering vegan and glu-
ten-free products. “When you hear ‘locally
grown’ and ‘organic,’ you think ‘expensive.’ We want to change that,” said George about their menu and ingredients.
Redamtè’s main focus is to create change through its partnerships with other nearby and worldwide causes, such as Beautiful Child and Faith Orphanage, a Haitian orga-nization that cares for nearly 30 children and also works to give underprivileged children a chance at education.
As for Redamtè’s entertain-ment scene, the cafe also col-laborates with Majestic Live to host musical acts of various genres across a broad spec-trum, creating an evening of music and fellowship within its intimate and laid-back envi-ronment, like when Ron Pope played a nearly sold-out show at the café last weekend. The ambience of Redamtè offers “a welcoming atmosphere, one where people can be relaxed and friendly without all the polish of a structured event,”
according to George.Many of you may be fans
of New York-based indie band Freelance Whales, who will take the stage at Redamtè on Oct. 6 in what is expected to be a very successful show, espe-cially for college students in need of a night out free from their daunting piles of home-work and other obligations. Redamtè brings its musical acts directly to the UW-Madison campus with its centralized location on State and, in the case of Open Mic Wednesdays, appreciates the talent that the citizens of our city have to offer. Redamtè’s open mic nights are alcohol-free, encouraging stu-dents to simply enjoy the music of local artists, and it gives local performers the opportunity to creatively contribute their tal-ent to the community through Redamtè’s hub of organizations and affiliations.
So basically, if you have a hankering to let out your inner John Mayer or hone your flour-ishing barista skills, stop by Redamtè to sign up for open-mic night or to volunteer your time behind the counter. For non-performers, there are plenty of nationally-renowned artists lined up to take the stage this fall and beyond. In addi-tion, visit the website to make a donation to the many organi-zations Redamtè works with, volunteer your time to events or learn more about Redamtè’s core mission. Essentially, Redamtè is an exemplary coffee shop with the added bonus of local food, good company and a unique music venue option. We know better than anyone, as college students, that cof-fee and music make the whole world go ‘round.
Redamtè prime for coffee and concerts
‘Hey, uke!’ Jaime picks up a new instrument and lifestyle
To sum up Redamtè Coffee House in a few key words: Chipotle Chicken and Bacon sandwich, coffee, Open Mic Wednesdays, Jordandal’s free-range chicken, more coffee and concerts.
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By ainslie CampbellTHe daily CaRdinal
Falling in love with a musi-cian happens to me on practically a weekly basis. When you’re in an audience and looking up at a stage being sprayed by the sweat of a band’s lead guitarist literally buckling to his knees under the weight of his own wailing, musi-cal angst or staring with puppy-dog eyes at a crooning female vocalist whose presence, though physically small, seems to take up the entire venue, it’s kind of difficult not to.
I’m talking about Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Ritzy from The Joy Formidable, the orgasm-inducing voice of Dallas Greene (formerly of Alexisonfire, currently waxing folksy as City & Colour), all the members of Phantogram, Two Door Cinema Club, Ludacris (OK so that one’s just a personal thing. Cue “What’s Your Fantasy”), I could go on and on.
When a singer screams a note only to spray saliva all over the mic or when you can slowly watch their pit stains form as they sweat out an hour-long set on a small, sauna of a stage, musicians are not beautiful in the conventional kind of way. But it’s
that contorted face of focus and complete consumption in art that I love, and I’d venture to say I’m not alone in this infatuation.
It’s why we squeal like pre-pubescent tweens at a “Twilight” movie when the band we’ve been waiting for finally takes the stage. Can they hear what we, individu-ally, are saying? (“ANYTHING YOU WANT, LUDA.”) No. But we yell anyway, because they awaken something in us, wheth-er it’s a simple desire to dance or to create something wonder-ful of our own. Like moths to a flame we are drawn to people who exude energy and who can harness it enough to share the love via osmosis of the eardrums.
If we’re not lusting after them we’re putting them up on a ped-estal as our idols. (This imme-diately brings to my mind the scene in “Almost Famous” where Stillwater’s Russell Hammond flings himself off a roof and into
a pool screaming “I am a golden god!” but I digress.) They create the sounds and harness the emo-tions we only wish we could.
See, musicians help us cheat a little when we need a feeling fix; they provide us a straight shot of auditory ambiance that sets the tone of our day, night, workout—whatever. Achieving said feelings on our own requires a little more work, a little more effort.
In the love arena, we have to find the right person who makes our heart skip a beat every time they walk into the room. Often there’s a screening process involving lots of awkward num-ber exchanges and even more awkward rejections, which is certainly more difficult to deal with than swooning at the first vibrations of a well-strummed G-chord on our heartstrings.
When it comes to creating music and crafting our passions into songs things get even more challenging. We have to learn how to play an instrument. We have to find an instrument to play.
This is where I had my real struggle. I took piano lessons for about five years during middle and some of high school, but ulti-mately got too busy to practice. There was also that one month
where I took guitar lessons, but I had to drop that too because I lacked the enthusiasm to devote even 15 minutes a day to plucking out chords.
But then, last Saturday while walking home from coffee with a friend, I went into Spruce Tree Music on East Johnson Street on a whim. There, in the corner, were some wtiny ukuleles call-ing my name. A small soprano uke wasn’t too expensive and I realized I could learn and be able to play the “Adventure Time” theme song. I bought it, and for the past week I haven’t been able to put it down.
In between classes, before bed and essentially whenever I have free time you can find me pluck-ing away on this lullaby lute of sorts. It took the drive of really wanting and devoting time to learn a song, but now I’ve got an insatiable craving for more uke and I intend to feed the musical beast until it’s full.
Find something that makes you want to procrastinate and allow yourself a bit of time to flesh it out. Write out some lyr-ics. Bang on a drum. Learn the harmonica for all I care. Get out there and strum around with other people and you might even
kill our two birds of this column with one (rolling) stone (aha! music puns).
Now, you don’t have to stop loving the musicians you love for whatever reasons you might have; there are times where oth-ers might just express what we’re thinking better. But don’t let this infatuation get in the way of your own ability to create.
i’ve got an insatiable crav-ing for more uke and i
intend to feed the musical beast until it’s full.
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Classic,1990
D o it, I dare you. Run into me one more time.
It’s a common-ly known fact that here in Madison, 99 percent of kids
are walking around with their noses towards their chests. The other one percent? Well, we’ll just leave them to their public displays of inaudible, sometimes creepy beginner’s French.
And there she was, the boots walked forward at a trot I’ll call brisk. Her backpack exceeded the manufacturer’s weight suggestion. Her eyes were obscured by this
fantastic bright light so intrigu-ing to her that her nose actually appeared to become a part of it. By the time these details became visible, I had fallen victim to a “bystander collision,” an epidemic that is engulfing this entire cam-pus, one pedestrian at a time. The symptoms include rude “huffs,” bruised shoulders, curving detours every few steps, and a bad case of angry glares.
So naturally upon being bull-dozed, I grabbed for my own phone and proceeded to conform to the “texter” stance. Thumbs placed on phone, both eyes on screen, yet making occasional glances to the general area in front of me to justify my actions. “What ever happened to walking?” Seven seconds to spell, three to send, and just about half of a second, give or take, for me to smash into a man waiting for the bus. (Sorry dude in the brown jacket…and for your choice of skinny jeans.)
Hypocritical is what you could call me at best, but it’s not by choice anymore. Our culture has rede-fined communication. It’s con-stant, it’s silent, it’s usually with no one in our general proximity and it makes utterly no sense. Did you notice the boy walking next to you, wearing the best cologne you have ever smelled? How about the pro-fessor whose papers just became a tornado on North Park Street? Or the gal, clearly in tears, two steps ahead of you? Sadly, no. You were looking down.
It’s simple really, and it’s called observance. But we lack it. We dismiss it. We save it for touchable screens.
Humans have this amazing ability. It is called perception. We see images, and they evoke an emotion inside of us that guides our actions—if that just sounded like a plagiarized Anthro 104 note, that’s because it is, (Bowie)—but the underlying, more relatable def-inition is we have this crazy ability to see. We can see the stationary sailboats along Lake Mendota, fashions of clothes, the ancient
calligraphies of bored students on desks and the beautiful, and oddly inspiring, glow of Henry Mall at night. But I doubt any of you see these things—They lie beyond the realm of the lighted screen.
I cannot give punishments. I am an average nineteen year old who uses her phone between classes just as much as the lad walking at a sloth’s pace directly in front of me. What I can convey, however, is the universal truth that to experience life, you have to see it. In order to live, you need to be aware. And in order to give and participate in human interaction, a true necessity, we all need to look up.
No, it’s not time to boycott these cellular devices, but it is time to put them away for a few seconds to watch where we are going, instead of assuming the path is open. It’s time to begin to appreciate the tangibility of the world around us. Take advantage —it is not fleeting. It will not leave us after a finger press.
Hey, look up! For Buck’s sake, it’s not glued to your hand. And I’ll try my best not to crash into you either. Besides, it’s one foot in front of the other. How hard can that be?
Morgan Haefner is a freshman majoring in journalism. Please send any feedback to [email protected].
W hen Chief Justice John Roberts ruled the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act’s mandate provision could be construed as a tax—even after President Obama denied that the mandate was a tax, and even after Congress explicitly removed all language that would indicate that the mandate could be construed as a tax—I was, like most Americans who actually bothered to read the decision, baf-fled. Roberts’ use of doublespeak to redefine the word “penalty” by denying its dictionary implications of violation of law was remarkable.
This past week may have brought about an eerie sense of déjà vu to those paying attention to local news. Judge Juan Colas of Dane County overturned Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 bill on constitution-al grounds, and Colas’ logical rea-soning is reminiscent of Roberts’. Two opinion articles written for the Daily Cardinal already discussed this topic, but neither of them dis-cussed Colas’ ruling. I find that a fact-based approach is usually the best way to start a discussion, so I will focus on the language in the ruling itself. I would encourage you to then go back and read the two articles “Walker cannot play nice
with others” and “Judge Juan Colas should stay his repeal” which were written by my less-than-conserva-tive peers, so that you can make a judgment call for yourself.
Judge Colas broke down the decision into four rulings, the most relevant being that he found certain sections of Act 10 vio-late “free speech, association and equal protection.” Namely, “per-sons, even if they have no right to a legislatively conferred benefit, cannot be required as a condition of receiving that benefit, to sur-render constitutional rights...”
Colas essentially makes the argument that because the gov-ernment offers collective bargain-ing as a benefit to some employ-ees, they cannot be required to give up a constitutional right to take advantage of that benefit. Colas states that Walker’s Act 10 “impose[s] significant and bur-densome restrictions on employ-ees who choose to associate in a labor organization.” He is refer-ring to the fact that those who choose to join a public union can only bargain for cost of living pay increases, while non-union members do not have this restric-tion. The right to “free speech” was thus impaired on individuals that chose to join unions, and so, argues Colas, Act 10 is invalid.
Colas goes on to argue that Walker’s Act 10 discriminates against people of a certain socieo-economic situation, saying that those who voluntarily choose to
join unions comprise a separate situation of people that are being unfairly treated. He states that the law is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause using this line of reasoning.
Let me answer each of Colas’ two findings in turn. First, Colas’ argument about the imposition of significant and burdensome speech restrictions on those who choose to be unionized is invalid because those speech forms are a function of the conferred col-lective bargaining benefit, not a function of speech under the constitution. An individual has the right to associate and to bar-gain with an employer under the constitution, but that same indi-vidual may not have the right to bargain within the confines of some externally-granted benefit, such as union membership.
Indeed, case law has held con-sistently that collective bargaining as a form of speech is not a con-stitutional right. Bargaining as a form of speech is protected, but bargaining within the confines of a conferred privilege, such as union membership, is not. This is a com-plex idea to grapple with, so let me quote the 1979 U.S. Supreme Court case Smith v. Arkansas State Highway Employees, Local 1315. It states, “The First Amendment right to associate and to advo-cate provides no guarantee that a speech will persuade or that advo-cacy will be effective. The public employee surely can associate and
speak freely and petition openly, and he is protected by the First Amendment from retaliation for doing so. But the First Amendment does not impose any affirmative obligation on the government to listen, to respond or, in this con-text, to recognize the association and bargain with it.” The Illinois Policy Institute references this case in its analysis, which predicts Colas’ ruling will be overturned.
Colas’ second line of rea-soning regarding equal protec-tion is just silly on its face. By his rationale, a choice an individual makes can determine what “class”
he or she falls into. One could eas-ily extend Colas’ arguments and make the case that because we all make different decisions, any law that affects us is class discrimina-tory. This is clearly ridiculous and would render all laws void.
I believe in the end the Wisconsin Supreme Court will once again uphold Act 10, overturn-ing Colas. These persistent attacks will most likely continue into infin-ity and beyond. Thus is politics.
Steven Nemcek is a junior majoring in biochemistry and political science. Send all feedback to [email protected].
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the passing of act 10 last year drew a myriad of protests and counter protests to the State capital building.
Stop staring down at your phones while you are walking
steven nemcekopinioncolumnist
Judge Juan colas’ decision is absurd
morganhaefneropinioncolumnist
humans have this amaz-ing ability. it is called
perception.
ldailycardinal.com Weekend, September 21-23, 2012 7 sportsVolleyball
Wisconsin prepares for first conference test of yearBy Vince Huththe daily cardinal
As far as non-conference résumés go, the Wisconsin volleyball team’s (12-1 overall) is hard to beat. One loss in 13 matches is impressive enough, but it’s the coast-to-coast nature in which the Badgers plowed through their non-conference slate that is truly impressive.
Wisconsin picked up the first ‘W’ of its current 11-match win streak during its final match at the South Florida Invitational, and a three-match sweep the following weekend at the Long Beach State Invitational kept the momentum rolling.
The Badgers returned home six days later to host
the InnTowner Invitational, where they swept through three matches to reclaim the tourna-ment title (Notre Dame won the event in 2011). Wisconsin made the most of its final tune-up before Big Ten play, winning the Georgia Southern Eagle Invitational in Statesboro, Ga.
Eleven wins over four week-ends—not to mention losing just eight sets over that span—doesn’t happen to just any team. This weekend’s road tilts with Northwestern (11-0 overall) and Illinois (6-4 overall), however, will give Wisconsin head coach Pete Wait a better measure of where his team stands.
The Badgers haven’t played the toughest competition this
season, but that will change with a Big Ten conference that is as deep as any in the nation, with seven teams ranked in the top-25 and three more—Wisconsin included—not too far outside.
“It’s hugely important to get off to a good start [in Big Ten play],” Waite said. “And we’ve positioned ourselves well with pre-conference play.”
Wisconsin will face a Northwestern team Friday night that has had a similar early-sea-son story. The Wildcats haven’t lost a match, but their oppo-nents have won an average of just four.
Perhaps the strongest part of Northwestern’s game this season has been its serving—the Wildcats rank No. 12 in the nation in aces per set. However, the Badgers won’t change their serve defense going into Friday’s game because of it.
“I think we have the best libero in the game in [junior] Annemarie [Hickey],” senior middle blocker Alexis Mitchell said. “And I think we have one of the best pass games, too.”
Illinois, who will host the Badgers Sunday afternoon, has played a rather daunting non-conference slate. The Fighting Illini played six ranked oppo-nents in their first ten matches. Although Illinois picked up just two wins in those six matches, it
enters Big Ten play more battle tested than the Badgers.
Wisconsin (No. 18) and Illinois (No. 21) both rank among the nation’s best in blocking efficiency. The battle at the net could be the determining factor Sunday, but the Badgers aren’t approaching the match with that mindset.
Waite said often, when two teams with similar strengths square off, the match outcome ultimately comes down to other facets. Mitchell also suggested Sunday’s winner will do more than simply block well.
“It really comes down to who-ever comes to play,” she said.
As if this weekend’s road trip won’t be a tough test already, the Badgers will return to Madison for their conference home opener Friday night against No. 4 Penn State. In a confer-ence as tough as the Big Ten, Waite knows it is imperative to hit home the “one [match] at a time” cliché.
“If anything, we’re more focused on playing at home than who we’re actually play-ing,” senior outside hitter Mary Ording said.
“Anybody can beat anybody in the Big Ten,” Waite added. “Nobody’s looking any further than Northwestern.”
after an impressive start in non-conference play, the Badgers’ volleyball team will look to continue their hot streak in the Big ten.
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Senior middle blocker alexis Mitchell leads the Badgers in kills and kills per set through 13 matches so far this season.
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Badger women’s soccer team readies for Big Ten opener this weekendBy Christian Blatnerthe daily cardinal
The No. 14 Wisconsin Badgers women’s soccer team (0-1-0 Big Ten, 6-2-0 overall) open up their home conference schedule at the McClimon Soccer Complex on Friday as they face off with the Michigan State Spartans. Friday’s game will be an important one for the team, as they are coming off a 2-1 loss to No. 11 Penn State last Sunday.
The team is still searching for its first win in conference play and, although it is still very early, they could use a victory against Michigan State to even up their record.
“This week we looked at some of the things that Penn State exposed for us and said we need to focus a little bit better on those things,” said head coach Paula Wilkins. “For this game, when you have the advantage of being at home and having a good crowd behind you it’s really important.”
“The biggest thing is consistency for us and doing the things we do well,” she added. “Transition on defense is going to be important along with getting numbers behind the ball and knowing what our assignments are.”
Wisconsin is 22-4-2 all time ver-sus Michigan State, winning each of
their last five meetings in Madison. The team also holds the second best home record in the conference this year, outlining the perfect storm for a Badger victory on Friday.
“It’s going to be a really good atmosphere and I think we’re going to come out ready to compete,” said redshirt junior forward Paige Adams. “It’s always a really good game against Michigan State, so it’s going to be energetic and a fun game to play.”
The Badgers will complete their weekend set of home games as they match up against the Michigan Wolverines on Sunday at 1 p.m. Heading into the weekend, Michigan has won three straight games in shutout fashion.
“This week we’ve just worked as a team on how to play against [Michigan] and how to find gaps and how to get in behind them,”
said Adams, who leads the team in both goals (four) and points (10). “If we can execute that I think we’ll be okay and be able to score some goals.”
The Badgers have not had a problem putting the ball in the net this year, tallying 20 goals to date. The team’s 2011 season goal total was 26, so they have already prov-en that they are well on their way to being a much more productive
offensive attack this year.From the looks of it, this week-
end is shaping up to be host to a couple of very exciting matches for the Badgers women’s soccer team.
“Staying focused and doing the details right [will be key],” redshirt sophomore defenseman Alexandra Heller said. “We defi-nitely need to bounce back this weekend after a tough loss to Penn State.”
Both Michigan State and Michigan are very organized teams and each have some dynamic offensive players.
“Every time you play a game in the Big 10 it’s an important game,” Wilkins said. “It doesn’t matter who you’re playing.”
For Wisconsin, it’s going to come down to refining their strengths this weekend as they look to get back on track in conference play.
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the Badger women’s soccer team looks to bounce back from their first conference loss.
alexandra Hellersophomore defenseman
Wisconsin women’s soccer
“We definitely need to bounce back this weekend
after a tough loss to Penn state.”
Mary ordingsenior outside hitterWisconsin volleyball
“if anything, we’re more focused on playing at home than who we’re
actually playing.”
Women’s soccer
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Football
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head coach Bret Bielema chose to rely on redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave to help provide a spark to the passing attack in the Wisconsin Badgers’ slumbering offense.
bielema announces Stave gets start for UWby ryan Hillthe daily cardinal
Well, it’s official. Redshirt freshman Joel Stave will be tak-ing the reigns of the struggling Wisconsin (2-1 overall) offense Saturday morning against Texas El-Paso (1-2 overall) in the team’s final non-conference game of the season.
The former walk-on from Greenfield, Wis. replaced previ-ous starter and redshirt junior Danny O’Brien after the first half of last Saturday’s 16-14 win against Utah State, in which O’Brien fumbled once and threw an interception which ended up being overturned.
“[Stave] didn’t show me any reason why not to stick with him,” Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said.
Bielema did, however, mention multiple times how Stave, O’Brien and fifth-year senior Curt Phillips are all capable of tallying W’s and how he has confidence in each. Apparently the rest of the players do as well.
“I think all week [the team has] been kind of wor-rying about doing their own business, not wor-ried about who’s the quarterback,” Bielema said. “Like I said, we’ve got a couple guys that we can win with.”
Badger fans had hoped to see the O’Brien that was on display his redshirt freshman year at Maryland, in which he won ACC Freshman of the Year while throw-ing 22 touchdowns and just eight intercep-tions.
What Badger fans didn’t want to see was the
O’Brien that threw for just seven touchdowns and 10 inter-ceptions a year ago. Granted, he was under a spread offense this past year, which most likely had an effect on his numbers.But O’Brien has struggled even under Wisconsin’s quintessen-tial pro-style offense this sea-son. It doesn’t appear this way when looking at his stats, but something clearly wasn’t work-ing right.
Bielema thinks he simply didn’t take care of the pigskin as well as a typical Wisconsin quarterback should.
“When we went with him after halftime, the number one thing was ball security,”
Bielema said. “I told him that, I told all of them that when the first thing was made and I think it’s reso-nated with our entire team. There’s been a huge emphasis on it.”
Bielema said Stave was informed of his starting duties on Monday and was comforted when he learned he would not have to meet with the media this week.
“Actually, when I told Joel I wasn’t going to make him see the Monday
media he was kind of relieved,
so he could just worry about prepping and moving himself forward,” Bielema said.
Realistically, critics can’t judge Stave on last weekend’s performance, when he was essentially put in to hand the ball off in hopes of wearing down the defense. In other words, he was put in to run typical Wisconsin second-half play.
The only thing different last week is that the Camp Randall fans were stressed the entire sec-ond half for the first time in quite a while.
Stave threw just six passes, two of which were completed for 15 yards.
Bielema did seem to say that he was not afraid of using multiple quarterbacks and says that certain situations might call for another signal-caller.
“I make every move with the belief that it will be long term, but on the same account, you understand that we have a number of guys,” Bielema said. “Danny O’Brien has come in and done a great job during two-minute O. I’ve seen him do that, so in my mind, those kind of situations arise, right now there’s nobody better in that situation than Danny O’Brien.”
“I think Curt, with what he brings to the table in certain sit-uations, gets you excited about him as a player. And obviously Joel just has a wide range of being able to do all of it.”
So what gives Stave the abil-ity to “do all of it?”
“He’s mature beyond his years, but he’s got a lot of kid in him,” Bielema said. “Just the way he kind of handles every-thing. He really has a lot of fun.”
“[He’s] kind of one of those guys, and as a coach, you love (a quarterback) that doesn’t get rattled.”
men’s Soccer
Badgers return home looking to keep building off successful weekendby rex Sheildthe daily cardinal
Coming off of a 0-0 tie and a 1-0 win against Western Illinois and IUPUI respectively at the University of Illinois-Chicago Soccer Classic this past week-end, the University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team (2-2-3 overall) looks to con-tinue its winning ways on Friday as it takes on Big Ten foe Penn State (5-1-1 overall) at the McClimon Soccer Complex in the first conference game of the season for both squads.
“We had two great games with them last year,” head coach John Trask said. “We think it’s going to be a great game, a great way to kick off the Big Ten season.”
Despite allow-ing 10 goals through its first four games, Wisconsin’s defense, led by recent Big Ten Co-Defensive Player of the Week, freshman goalkeeper Chase Rau, has been much improved as of late, having not allowed a goal in the last 222 minutes of play, dat-ing back to September 9th against Georgetown.
“We’ve been communicating more. The defense has matured and decided as a group to get our stuff together,” Rau said of the defensive improvements. “We
decided that we were getting scored on way too much.”
However, the Badgers will face a tough test against Penn State, who is coming off a weekend sweep of Albany and Adelphi, 1-0 and 3-0, respective-ly. Offensively, the Nittany Lions
have been dominant thus far, placing them-selves second in the Big Ten in points (36), goals (12) and assists (12) and are led by senior for-ward Julian Cardona, who has recorded 11 points and five goals.
“They have some very formidable attack-ers. I think they have had seven games and scored 20 goals so obvi-ously they know some-thing about scoring goals,” Trask said. “Our task will be can we shut down their attacking
options and give ourselves a good chance to win the game.”
Penn State has been more impressive on defense, leading the Big Ten in shots on goal allowed (17), and are anchored by senior goalkeeper Emmanuel Martin, who has given up an average of 0.87 goals in his five starts.
As league play begins for both teams, it will be key to get off to a fast start for early positioning in the conference standings, and Trask echoed that.
“You only have six confer-ence games, three at home and three away, and every game in the Big Ten is a mighty chal-lenge whether you’re home or away,” Trask said. “If you want to be successful in the league, you’ve got to win games and tomorrow is an opportunity for us to win a soccer game, and that’s how we’re going to approach it.”
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the Wisconsin men’s soccer team is looking to get off on the right foot in Big ten season play friday against penn State.
222Consecutive shutout minutes by the Badgers
12Goals scored so far this season by Penn State, second most in Big Ten
John traskhead coach
Wisconsin men’s soccer
“We think it’s going to be a great game, a great
way to kick off the big ten season.”
bret bielemahead coach
Wisconsin football
“He’s mature beyond his years, but he’s got a lot of
kid in him.”
15Career passing yards for Badger quarterback Joel Stave
156.3Average passing yards per game by Wisconsin this season
redshirt freshman earns first career start against Utep
