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Obama to take stage on Bascom

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The Badgers donned custom throwback jerseys in their 30-27 loss to Nebraska Saturday, snapping a fi ve-game Big Ten winning streak.

Kickin’ it old school

President Barack Obama, pictured speaking at Library Mall in Madison for a 2010 rally, will return to the city Thursday to appear on Bascom Hill. In 2010, Obama became the fi rst sitting president since Harry S. Truman to visit the University of Wisconsin campus.

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For the second time in two weeks, President Barack Obama will visit Wisconsin, making a stop at Bascom Hill in Madison Thursday for a grassroots event, according to a statement from his campaign Saturday.

Obama’s campaign released a statement about the event Saturday, and

in a tweet early Monday morning, the University of Wisconsin chapter of Students for Barack Obama announced the president would speak at Bascom Hill with the gates opening at 12 p.m.

Further details were unavailable.

Obama will visit the state the day after the first presidential debate at the University of Denver, postponing a visit to Cleveland, Ohio for a grassroots event, according to the statement.

“President Obama has been traveling all over the county to spread his message of economic security for middle class

families from the middle out, not the top down,” Gillian Morris, Obama for Wisconsin spokesperson, said in an email to The Badger Herald. “We are excited he is returning to Wisconsin.”

Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesperson Nathan Conrad said in an email to The Badger Herald that the recent number of visits by the Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden show how close the race has come for Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes.

“His campaign is throwing heaps of money

1 week after visiting Milwaukee, president announces Thursday trip to MadisonSean KirkbySenior News Reporter

Student loans hurt economy

Dozen cops, pepper spray needed to break up fights

Nearly 300 participate in Brittany Run

According to a recent survey, the cost of a college education is adding pressure to Wisconsin’s economy.

A study by the Institute for One Wisconsin pointed to student loan debt as harmful to the economy.

The Institute for One Wisconsin conducted a survey of 2,700 state residents that showed over one-third of individuals with bachelors or advanced degrees have outstanding student loan payments.

Scot Ross, IOW executive director, said the study found that across all income levels and age groups, individuals with a student loan debt are two-thirds more likely to buy a used car as opposed to

a new car and two-thirds more likely to rent instead of own a home.

“Home ownership and having a nice car were symbols of success, and now, they are being denied due to student loan debt,” Ross said.

Ross attributed the negative trends in student debt to legislative changes made in the late 1990s.

Ross said regulations that were changed in the mid- to late-1990s took away consumer protections for borrowing and encouraged privatization and consolidation of loans to make them longer term — which has resulted in an explosion of student loan debt.

According to Ross, student loan debt has gone

Several fights broke out in downtown Madison early Saturday morning that required a dozen police officers and pepper spray to quell, according to a Madison Police Department statement.

The report said the fight

broke out at about 2 a.m. in the State Street and Frances Street area and approximately 200 people were gathered in the area when multiple fights broke out.

A dozen police officers responded to the scene to stop the fighting. One officer was struck in the head and chest during

the skirmish but was not seriously injured, according to the statement.

The report said several people were arrested.

MPD officials did not immediately return phone calls for further details.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said there is no indication any University of Wisconsin students were

involved in the incident. Ald. Mike Verveer,

District 4, said the area in which the fights occurred is a busy intersection and it is not unusual to have 200 people in that area, given the popular bars and restaurants nearby.

Verveer said offenders are getting themselves re-arrested for causing

problems during bar time. One man arrested is under supervision of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, he said.

“What is shocking and disturbing is the fact that convicts are continuing to hang out and cause problems in this area,” Verveer said. “This is just the latest in a serious of

arrests of individuals with serious criminal records.”

According to Verveer, this is one of too many incidents the city has seen this year around bar time in the downtown area. Verveer backed up the police’s decision to deploy pepper spray on the

Julia SkulstadCampus Life Editor

Molly McCallCity Life Editor

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Nearly 300 walkers and runners participated in the third annual “Brittany Run” Saturday, a 5K run/walk to remember 21-year-old Brittany Zimmermann, a University of Wisconsin student who was murdered in her apartment on West Doty Street four years ago.

The purpose of the event is to raise money for Madison Area Crime Stoppers, an organization that aims to solve crimes by offering cash rewards up to $1,000 through anonymous and confi dential tips.

Tim Caramore, 29, placed first overall with a time of 15:36. Dani Fischer, 22,

completed the race in 17:51 and was the first female fi nisher overall.

Jean Zimmermann, Brittany’s mother, said despite the change in the location of the run due to construction, a few more students participated in the event in comparison to last year.

She said she hopes more students will attend the event in the future, not only to honor Brittany but to learn from Brittany’s murder as a way to reinforce the importance of staying safe on campus.

“Students need to be aware of their surroundings,” Zimmermann said. “Students are being attacked, mugged and being

completely violated — it needs to stop.”

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the event serves as a reminder to UW students they are not immune to violent crimes on campus.

He said the run also reminds the public Brittany’s murderer has not yet been found and may encourage anyone with information to come forward.

Verveer said Brittany’s murder currently remains under very active investigation, adding detectives work daily to try to solve her case.

Though existing evidence has not been sufficient enough to arrest anyone, Verveer said area police

remain focused on bringing the person who murdered Brittany to justice.

Verveer said Brittany’s family and friends raise tremendous safety awareness on the UW campus through her memory, citing examples such as the Brittany Run Saturday, raising money at other campus events and creating a scholarship in her name.

“I know Brittany’s family strongly believes that her memory should live on,” Verveer said. “This event serves as a reminder to all of us.”

Zimmermann said she and her family are already focused on creating new

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ways of promoting next year’s run to ensure her message can be spread to as many students as possible.

Zimmermann said one is idea is to team up

with various academic institutions around campus, such as the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, of which her daughter was a member. Professors could create a contest-like environment between students in

different departments within that college, motivating students to competitively participate in the event, she said.

She added a larger reward for completing the run in the fastest time has been brought up as well.

Zimmermann said she would like to thank everyone who participated in the event Saturday. She said she hopes it raised enough awareness to prevent another student attack and added she hopes to see many more student

participants in next year’s run.

The reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons involved in Brittany’s murder is currently $40,000, according to Zimmermann.

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U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., (left) and former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson (right) will meet again for debates Oct. 18 and 26.

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Baldwin, Thompson butt heads in debate

Tax reciprocity talks ongoing

Republican Senate nominee and former Gov. Tommy Thompson and Democratic Senate nominee and U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., clashed over key issues Friday night in the fi rst of three debates.

During the debate, hosted by Milwaukee Public Television and the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, Thompson and Baldwin, both running for retiring U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl’s seat, agreed on a few issues, such as withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and stopping the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes.

However, they disagreed over what taxes should be put in place, whether the Affordable Care Act should be repealed, whether the issue of gay marriage should be left up to the states or federal government and on reforming Medicare and Social Security.

Baldwin touted her record in Congress, claiming she spent her time in Washington fighting for middle-class families while standing against

special interests. She said Thompson cut a “sweetheart deal” with drug companies banning negotiation for lower rates when he served as secretary of health and human services under President George W. Bush.

“I have taken on powerful interests on behalf of ordinary citizens,” Baldwin said. “My opponent has taken on powerful special interests as clients.”

Thompson said while he served as governor of the state, he cut taxes 91 times and created more than 700,000 jobs. He said he is a reformer, while Baldwin was ranked the number one liberal and number one spender in Congress.

“What she’s talking about is always trying to find a way to tax somebody else and divide up the classes in America,” Thompson said. “I’m a builder. I built Wisconsin.”

University of Wisconsin College Republicans Chairman Jeff Snow said Thompson won the debate because he presented clear and concise reasons to vote for him. He said Thompson will work in the Senate to reduce the $16 trillion debt.

Snow said Thompson would use his expertise in job creation he gained as governor to create millions of jobs throughout the country, which would help improve the market for college students entering the work force.

While recent polls have shown Baldwin tied or leading Thompson, Snow attributed the jump in the polls for Baldwin to Thompson having a tough primary with three other contenders for the Republican Senate nomination.

Snow also said Baldwin has been an extremely effective fundraiser and Thompson “was just getting back in the game.”

UW College Democrats Chair Chris Hoffman said Tammy Baldwin came across the debate as the candidate more focused on students, especially by highlighting her support of and work on the Affordable Health Care Act. He said Baldwin has worked with students since she served on the Dane County Board of Supervisors.

Hoffman said Baldwin would work with President Barack Obama in providing more Federal Pell Grants for students as well as keeping tuition costs lower.

Hoffman said in the next few weeks, Baldwin will need to continue to focus on areas outside of Dane County to build support and visit with people throughout the state. He said students can help by volunteering for Baldwin in phone banks and informing voters.

The second debate will be held Oct. 18 in Wausau, with the third coming Oct. 26 in Milwaukee.

Senate candidates meet for 1st time, clash over economic, social issuesSean KirkbySenior News Reporter

Oct. 1 deadline looms as Wisconsin, Minnesota offi cials remain hopeful

While negotiations are still ongoing to reestablish tax reciprocity between Wisconsin and Minnesota, officials of both states are looking to settle the issue by 2014 as others claim a deal will not come through for the 2013 year.

Minnesota Department of Revenue Commissioner Myron Frans said negotiations are still ongoing and both sides are hoping to get a solution by the Oct. 1 deadline for the 2013 fi scal year.

“We are always open minded and we’re both interested in [having reciprocity in place] for 2013,” Frans said, “Both sides are trying.”

Wisconsin Department of Revenue Secretary Richard G. Chandler said in a statement that efforts by both sides to restore the reciprocity agreement former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty ended in 2009 after Wisconsin did not accelerate its compensation payments to Minnesota.

The agreement had allowed those who lived in one state and worked in another to fi le income tax returns in just their home state, rather than fi ling in both states.

Gov. Scott Walker has been working with current Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, according to Chandler’s statement. In March and April 2012, Wisconsin made offers to make accelerated payments to Minnesota and to use a new study to calculate the size of each one.

However, Chandler’s statement said Wisconsin provides its residents with a tax credit for taxes paid to another state to avoid double taxation, while Minnesota limits its tax credit for taxes paid to another state. He said this gave Minnesota a tax windfall when reciprocity ended, and Minnesota is now asking Wisconsin to supplement that windfall.

“Making such a payment, estimated to be as much as $15

million by Minnesota, is not possible under current law,” the statement said. “Furthermore, it is unreasonable to ask Wisconsin taxpayers to pay to reverse a tax increase Minnesota imposed on its own residents.”

Frans said both departments are only using estimates and they are waiting on reports of the actual fiscal impact, which will be available in spring of 2013. He said if an agreement does not come through by Oct. 1, both states will continue to negotiate for the 2014 year.

Rep. Chris Danou, D-Trempealeau, said while he is still hopeful that an agreement may make it through by Oct. 1, he thinks a decision between the two states would be unlikely.

He said the issue should be focused more on Minnesota coming through and changing its laws rather than Wisconsin, since more Wisconsinites work in Minnesota than Minnesotans work in Wisconsin.

According to Chandler’s statement, over 57,000 Wisconsin residents work in Minnesota and over 22,000 Minnesota residents work in Wisconsin.

Rep. Dean Knudson, R-Hudson, said in a statement that negotiations appear to have reached an impasse even though Wisconsin agreed to Minnesota’s original conditions in the agreement.

“However, [Frans] now insists on a new payment from Wisconsin, one that is incompatible with Wisconsin state law and inconsistent with Wisconsin’s reciprocity agreements with other states,” Knudson said in the statement. “Along with taxpayers on both sides of the border, I will be bitterly disappointed if another year goes by without a new agreement.”

He said his commitment to reaching a new agreement remains strong, even if an agreement will have to wait until 2014.

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citizens although he said it is unfortunate the use of pepper spray is becoming so common.

Verveer said the extra cops in the area due to the Downtown Safety Initiative prevented the incident from being worse. He said if the initiative were not in

effect, there may not have been enough cops to break up the fi ght.

“The police are doing their best,” he said. “The city government has tried to provide as many tools as possible to deal with these issues.”

Verveer said he is disappointed with the fact outside criminals

are continuing to come downtown. He said there were problems with this in the summer and he thought they would stop coming once the school year started.

Resnick said the city is doing certain things to proactively focus on the instigators of these incidences. He added the

city started a mentoring program earlier this year.

“We are reaching out to youth that are hanging out in the State Street area with no place to go,” he said.

Resnick said members of the program approach individuals and ask why they are there and if they have a job. The main objective is to get to the

root of the problem, he said.

There are also gang offi cers who visit University Avenue and State Street to focus on these problems.

Resnick said despite the incident, this weekend was “quiet” and from house parties to noise violations, there were very few incidents.

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onto the air in a thinly veiled attempt to make the people of Wisconsin forget just how dire our economic situation has become,” Conrad said. “We have full faith that the people of Wisconsin will see the error of their ways in 2008 and vote for fiscal sanity’s return to Washington on Nov. 6.”

Jeff Snow, University of Wisconsin College Republicans chairman, said the visit shows Wisconsin is within striking distance for Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, R-Janesville.

He said whenever an incumbent president has to visit a state he won by 14 points last election, it shows he is in danger of

losing the state in the next election.

“Romney and Ryan clearly have a great shot at winning Wisconsin,” Snow said. “When he has to come back to Madison to rev up his base, it shows his base is disillusioned.”

However, Chris Hoffman, UW College Democrats chair, said polls throughout the state show that Obama is in the lead.

He added if Obama was concerned about losing the state in November, he would focus on visiting other parts of the state, not his strong Democratic base in Madison.

“He’s coming here because he wants to help fire up the state and remind his supporters why they want to vote for him,” Hoffman said.

Obama last visited

Wisconsin on Sept. 22, delivering remarks at a grassroots event in Milwaukee with Democratic Senate Candidate and U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison. According to his campaign website, the event drew 18,000 people.

The visit also marks Obama’s first visit to Madison since Sept. 2010, when he became the first

sitting president since Harry S. Truman to visit the UW campus, drawing a crowd of 26,000.

A Sept. 20 Public Policy Poll showed Obama leading Romney in the state 52 to 45 with a margin of error of 3.4 percent. A Sept. 20 Rasmussen poll showed Obama leading Romney 49 to 46 percent with a margin of error of 4.5 percent.

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from $200 billion in 2000 to $1 trillion in 2011.

“Now we have more student loan debt in America than credit card debt,” Ross said.

Ross said on average individuals with an undergraduate degree pay $350 a month and others with graduate or professional degrees pay $448 in student loan debts.

He said the average length of paying off student loan debts span 19 years for undergraduates and over 22 years for those with graduate or professional degrees.

A statement regarding the study released by the IOW said after the 1996 Student Loan Marketing Association Reorganization Act favored student loans over government loans, the ability to consolidate

privatized loans extended the payment period and amount paid over time.

The statement said due to student loan payments, new vehicle spending in Wisconsin may be reduced by up to $201.8 million annually.

Also cited was a relationship between student loan payments and renting a home. It said 85.6 percent of renters with household incomes of $50,000 to $75,000 have student loan debt.

Susan Fischer, University

of Wisconsin Financial Director within the UW System, said student loan debts are not a sudden problem, but rather a slow, building one.

“Students need to realize what kind of debt they are going to have when they get out of school,” Fischer said.

Fischer said taking out student loans is like using a credit card, and students should be more responsible and proactive in order to

realize the terms they have accepted.

Fischer said at UW, the students who accumulate the highest debt-load the quickest are those who stay for more than four years.

Fischer said one-on-one financial advising would be ideal, but is not possible because there are about 17,000 UW students who take out student loans and about 10 advisors working in that advising area.

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“Now we have more student loan debt in America than credit card debt.”

Scot RossExecutive Director

Institute for One Wisconsin

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UW professor appointed to federal nuclear waste board

Sustainability project receives grant

Anti-child abuse advocates march

One of the University of Wisconsin’s own is being summoned to the White House.

UW professor of geoscience Jean Bahr has been appointed by President Barack Obama to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, the university announced last week.

Bahr was officially sworn

in as a member of the board in Washington, D.C. last Thursday.

Bahr said the NWTRB works under the Department of Energy to review their work with nuclear power plants and management of radioactive waste and report their fi ndings to Congress.

“It is important to have independent expertise, advice and technological review of what’s going on so we can make it better,” Bahr said.

She said she plans to bring her experience on the board back to the classroom and teach students that what they are learning can have an impact on a national level.

Bahr was a member of the

National Research Council’s Board on Radioactive Waste Management from 1992 through 1997.

She was former president of the Geological Society of America, former chair of the UW geoscience department and co-director of the UW Women in Science and Engineering Residential Learning Community. She also was also formerly involved with studies regarding the Yucca Mountain waste management sight.

Bahr said the board is composed of 11 members who serve with four-year terms and includes members with a wide variety of scientifi c expertise.

She said her specialty is hydrogeology, the science of how groundwater moves through rocks and soil.

Bahr said hydrogeology relates to the NWTRB because of the technique involved with disposing radioactive waste. She said people are possibly affected through groundwater in the disposal process because the waste is placed in a geological repository underground.

She said members on the board will travel overseas next summer to learn from other nuclear programs similar to the NWTRB on how they deal with nuclear waste.

“I hope to be able to

provide solid input and recommendations,” Bahr said, “I look forward to being able to make sure we are on track.”

Clifford Thurber, professor and chair in the department of geoscience, said he thinks Bahr is a logical choice for the board.

Thurber said Bahr’s previous involvement with the Geological Society of America is what brought her to the attention of the federal government.

He believes the work the board does is significant because there is currently a push to consider a new generation of nuclear power plants.

“If we move forward with

this, there will be the issue of doing something with the waste, which is where the board will be important,” Thurber said.

Thurber said he hopes Bahr’s appointment will bring some much-needed attention to UW.

“UW doesn’t get the respect it deserves from the state government, so it is nice to have the federal government respect the people that work here,” he said.

He said he hopes now that with the appointment of a UW scientist to the board, the state of Wisconsin will recognize and utilize the tools they have available to them through the university.

Bahr appointed by Obama to join 11-member team for 4-year termAllison JohnsonHerald Contributor

Organizers of the sustainability project hope to eventually develop a mobile application so individuals can monitor how much energy they use in a given building, like Chadbourne Hall.

Jen Small The Badger Herald

The National Science Foundation awarded a grant to a University of Wisconsin sustainability project through the Sustainable Energy Pathways program.

The study focuses on the human component of building sustainability. Faculty members across different UW departments and workers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York will work on the four-year study.

According to Suman Banerjee, UW professor of computer sciences and electrical and computer engineering, the primary goal of the project is to understand how energy is consumed in large commercial buildings.

Banerjee said the focus is on developing a system to allow occupants of buildings to see how much energy the building is consuming.

Banerjee said they are working with Cole and Chadbourne Residence Halls to implement the system.

“By being aware of their consumption manner, they can see how they can improve,” Banerjee said.

In the future, Banerjee said they might build a mobile application in order to inform individuals of their personal energy use.

According to Banarjee, Cole and Chadbourne will be used as a testing ground for the project before eventually expanding to other dorms.

Associate professor of consumer science Nancy Wong said energy use in commercial buildings is

one of the biggest aspects of energy consumption in the US that has not been examined.

Wong said it is important to solve the cultural and human question that has not been emphasized in the

past regarding human

interaction with energy resources.

“The way we can achieve the best result in prompting human behavior is develop an educational

program,” Wong said.

Wong said their long-term goal is to investigate the potential for education and outreach and for broader implementation regarding information feedback and management control systems.

Wong said she believes people want to do the right

thing but do not have the tools to do so. However, she said if people give feedback on a daily or weekly basis, it helps to educate and monitor behavior on an individualized level.

“I think it is exciting for people at the University of Wisconsin because the university has always been trying to promote what they call ‘interdisciplinary research,’” Wong said.

Banerjee said the project will also function as an opportunity to test and further improve the technology being put to use. Banerjee said this is a cross-disciplinary research project involving the UW Office of Sustainability and individuals within the fields of electrical and civil engineering, computer science and human ecology.

He said this is an important project that demonstrates the leadership the UW campus displays regarding research.

Program’s focus aims at displaying a building’s energy consumption to occupants

Julia SkulstadCampus Life Editor

Rainbird Foundation organizes 3rd annual walk in name of prevention

Hundreds of Madison residents and community members gathered at the corner of State Street and the Capitol Square on Sunday to participate in the Rainbird Foundation’s third annual Child Abuse Prevention Walk.

Participants walked one mile around the Square to join the foundation’s “1,000 Mile Journey” for the end of child abuse.

The Rainbird Foundation teamed up with other non-profit organizations that hosted booths at the event, including Safe Harbor, State Farm and Madison-Middleton Exchange Club.

A statement from the Rainbird Foundation said the 1,000 Mile Journey is the organization’s largest public education outreach and fundraising event.

“Ending child abuse is a major health issue,” the statement said. “Wisconsin spends $637 million each year on costs related to child abuse. The U.S. spends more than $136 billion each year. That boils down to more than $4,000 per second nationally.”

The event began with a speech from Hanna Roth, founder of the Rainbird Foundation, who shared her personal experience with child abuse, saying her father was a teacher, a convicted pedophile and a violent man.

“The recovery is so much worse than the abuse itself,” Roth said, “But I knew if I didn’t take a stand that it would continue to happen and that was not an option.”

Roth spoke about children’s rights as well.

“Now is the time to bring the light of truth to any corner of our culture where our darkest secrets lie,” she said.

She said children in the U.S. are treated as possessions and do

not enjoy the rights guaranteed to them by the Declaration of Independence.

“I’ve been called pushy, but I will push when people refuse to listen,” Roth said, “I will not do what does not work because it is simply the norm. If we stay silent, we are part of the problem. We will not be silent. We will not be silent until we can look a child in the eye and say, with a pure heart, ‘you are my future.’”

Whitney Trotta, director of the walk, said she wants to encourage people to get involved with the Rainbird Foundation’s mobilization unit — also called “MOB unit.”

“The MOB unit urges people to take a stand for the end of child

abuse,” she said, “There are small roles that you can play that will contribute to putting an end to the larger problem of child abuse.”

Regarding the importance of the event for the foundation and for the prevention of child abuse, Trotta said she thinks as consensus nobody likes child abuse, but added there is yet to be a real public demand to put an end to it.

She said the walk encourages people to seek a solution to the problem of child abuse and encourages people to act.

“Everyone should have a voice, including children,” Angela Shanley, participant and friend of Roth, said. “Hanna Roth is an incredible woman, and this is an incredible cause.”

Paige CostakosHerald Contributor

Temporary concealed carry laws extended until December

The Wisconsin State Legislature voted recently to extend the temporary concealed carry regulations until more permanent regulations can be put in place.

The rules regulate training requirements to get

a concealed carry permit, and the temporary rules act as emergency rules put in place until permanent ones are decided.

“Most of the controversy revolves around the training requirements,” said Buster Bachhuber, director of the Wisconsin chapter of the National Rifl e Association.

According to Wisconsin

Senate Majority Leader Fred Risser, D-Madison, the regulations will be up for renewal in December.

The controversy stems mostly from the Department of Justice offering a shorter course to fulfill the concealed carry’s training requirement, instead of a more traditional course that takes longer.

Bachhuber said a majority of the people who take the short course will take the long course as well.

“Sixty percent of people who take the short course sign up to take the long course after, which is a very good thing,” he said.

He said he thinks people will sign up for the long course if they see fi t, but the

DOJ’s short course should be suffi cient.

According to Bachhuber, the short course makes sense for many people who want a permit because the long course training is similar to what police receive, which he said is not always necessary.

“Under the current rules, training now is ‘learn

what you need to know,’” Bachhuber said.

Risser also said he is pleased these temporary rules were extended, and he just wants to see “reasonable regulations” as the permanent ones.

“There are some who believe people can carry weapons without any training,” he said.

Sarah LinkHerald Contributor

“By being aware of their consumption manner, they can see how they can improve.”

Suman BanerjeeUW Compter Sciences

Professor

“Now is the time to bring the light of truth to any corner of our culture where our darkest secrets lie.”

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Wisconsin files lawsuit against Kipp Corporation

The state of Wisconsin sued a Madison company Friday alleging it did not do enough to investigate and clean up chemical spills on its property and neglected to notify the state of more contamination.

The Department of Justice filed the lawsuit at the request of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources alleging Madison-Kipp Corp. failed to investigate and restore the environment and failed to notify the Department of Natural Resources of contaminating the environment at its Madison location.

According to the complaint, Madison-Kipp used tetrachloroethene, a carcinogen also known as perchloroethylene or PCE, as a degreasing solvent from the late 1940s to 1987, leading to both soil and groundwater contamination.

The DNR became aware of PCE contamination in 1994 and has overseen Madison-Kipp’s clean-up. At least 39 properties near the Madison-Kipp property on 201 Waubesa St. were contaminated. According to the complaint, Madison-Kipp and the DNR have installed vapor mitigation systems at 19 neighborhood

homes. Madison-Kipp also

used oil containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, another carcinogen, on its facility from 1966 to at least 1971 and spread spent oil as a dust suppressant on its parking lots until 1977, when they were paved.

A consultant notified Madison-Kipp that spent oil had been spread on the facility as a dust suppressant in March 2006. However, the complaint alleged Madison-Kipp did not share that information with the DNR until April 2012, after discovering PCB contamination in March 2012.

“From on or before 1994 to present, Madsion-Kipp failed to take those actions necessary or to minimize the harmful effects to lands or waters of this states caused by the discharge of tetrachloroethene and PCBs,” the complaint said.

Mark Meunier, vice president of human resources for Madison-Kipp, said the complaint is nothing new and the company knew the DOJ was going to file the complaint soon. He said it is an official step in the process.

Meunier said Madison-Kipp has been meeting with both the DOJ and the DNR every two weeks for more

than 18 months.“Madison-Kipp Corp.

has been a part of the community for over 100 years, and we will continue taking care of our 400 employees while we responsibly investigate and remediate the effects of commonplace industrial practices used more than 40 years ago,” Meunier said.

Meunier said Madison-Kipp has not done anything illegal and would continue to work with DNR. He added there is no elevated health risk to the public from any of the spills.

DOJ spokesperson Dana Brueck said Madison-Kipp has been meeting with the DOJ and the DNR before litigation and it is not unusual for parties to meet.

Bill Cosh, DNR spokesperson, said since the matter is ongoing litigation, DNR could not comment on it.

According to the DNR website on cleanup efforts at Madison-Kipp, only three homes next to the company had elevated levels of PCE beneath their homes. Of the three homes, only one had a trace of PCE in the home, which is not enough to cause adverse health effects but enough to pose an increased risk of cancer to residents.

The DNR website also said that contamination has not affected public water.

Sean KirkbyCampus Editor

Investors see Obama win

NEW YORK (AP) — As President Barack Obama widened his lead over Mitt Romney in polls this month, traders at hedge funds and investment firms began shooting emails to clients with a similar theme: It’s time to start preparing for an Obama victory.

What many in the market worry about isn’t that high earners may pay more in taxes if Obama wins. They worry that federal spending cuts and tax hikes scheduled for 2013 will kick in on Jan. 1 and start pulling the country into another recession. The higher taxes and lower spending would total $600 billion. They take effect automatically unless Congress and the White House reach a deal before then.

If he’s re-elected, Obama will still face a House of Representatives controlled by Republicans the rest of the year. And the new Congress that takes offi ce in January may have a Republican House, too. Investors says that’s likely to set up a budget battle similar to August of last year, which ended with the country losing its top credit rating and panicked investors fl eeing the stock market.

“If you have any kind of gridlock, you run the risk of inaction,” says Tom Simons, a market economist at the investment bank Jefferies. “This is a situation where inaction is the worst outcome.”

Obama and others like former President Bill Clinton have expressed the belief that House Republicans could be more cooperative once the election is over.

“They’ll be faced with determining whether we get a recession or not,” says Jeff Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial.

Most on Wall Street think Congress and Obama would eventually manage to at least postpone some of impending tax and spending changes before this year is out.

The Congressional Budget Offi ce recently laid out the grim consequences of such an event — often compared to dropping off a “fiscal cliff.” Starting Jan. 1, tax cuts signed by

President George W. Bush expire as do Obama’s cuts to payroll taxes. Federal spending on defense and other domestic programs will drop, while emergency unemployment benefits run out.

The combined effect off all these changes would shrink the economy nearly 3 percent at an annual rate in the first half of next year, the CBO estimates, and push unemployment up to 9.1 percent by the fall. The unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in August. Recent surveys of businesses suggest the threat is already weighing on the minds of executives when they’re making hiring and spending plans.

For the world’s biggest money managers, the fiscal cliff now ranks as the greatest hazard to the global economy, according to Bank of America’s most recent fund manager survey. It topped the European debt crisis, a collapse in Chinese real estate and even a war between Israel and Iran.

The danger looms so large to most investors that they believe Washington will fi nd a way to escape it.

“Ultimately, I think a deal gets done, but it’s just a question of how long it takes to get there,” Kleintop says. “By no means is it going to be an easy process. Gridlock means there’s a greater chance that this drags on into next year.”

Analysts at investment fi rms have kept a close eye on polling numbers and especially on the Intrade, an online marketplace where members can trade predictions on events like elections. Polls show voters leaning toward Obama in key swing states. On Intrade, the odds have swung strongly in Obama’s direction, jumping to a 76 percent chance of re-election, up from 51 percent at the start of September.

Intrade markets put the chance that Republicans will retain control the House at 74 percent.

If these forecasts prove right, the balance of power in Washington would remain the same. Democrats keep the White House and a slim majority in the Senate, and Republicans keep the House.

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President Barack Obama has backtracked on his Guantanamo promises. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to “double Guantanamo.”Andy Fate The Badger Herald Associated Press

Obama, Romney avoid subject of Guantanamo

Higher ed mismanaged, students pick up check

This weekend, one of the youngest detainees and the only Western prisoner left at Guantanamo Bay was released to Canada. Omar Khadr, who was just 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan, grew up incarcerated in the United States prison facility off the coast of Cuba. He was subjected to countless interrogations and torture sessions.

Repatriated to his home country, Khadr will now continue his sentence in Canadian prison — where he should have been brought after his arrest in the fi rst place. His lawyers have said he is in a state of disbelief, which is not surprising. It is the only reasonable reaction one could have after a decade in the black hole that is Guantanamo.

During the post-9/11 Wild West days in Pakistan and Afghanistan, dozens of arrests were made as a result of hefty bounties for al-Qaida operatives — any Arab man in the region could be painted as a mujahideen in training. The Bush administration was eager to apprehend and infl ict revenge upon any and all potential “terrorists,” so these men were relocated to an island prison thousands of miles away from their homes with no judicial system in place to establish their innocence.

One such man was Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, who moved to Pakistan from his

home country of Yemen for cheaper health care after a nasty car accident. Rounded up by bounty hunters, he spent close to a decade in Guantanamo until he died in his cell. He was approved for release by the Department of Defense in 2004 and again in 2007 because of the lack of evidence in his case, but because of Yemen’s lack of political stability, he was kept incarcerated in Guantanamo in an indefi nite state of limbo. The cause of his death is unknown, but Latif’s lawyers claim he suffered severe torture sessions and was frequently subjected to extreme physical abuse and degradation. He joined his fellow prisoners in a hunger strike and was force-fed liquid food through his nose twice a day for years. In 2009, Latif attempted suicide by slitting his wrists.

Al-Jazeera reports in a letter to his lawyers in 2010, Latif said, “I am happy to express from this darkness and draw a true picture of the condition in which I exist. I am moving towards a dark cave and a dark life in the shadow of a dark prison. This is a prison that does not know humanity and does not know anything except the language of power, oppression and humiliation for whoever enters it. It does not differentiate between a criminal and the innocent.”

In 2008, supporters of President Barack Obama were promised an end to the facility. The president’s inter-agency Guantanamo Bay Task Force was created to handle the transition away from the shadowy, guilty-until-proven-innocent philosophy of international criminal justice so beloved to former President George W. Bush.

But instead of bringing an end to deplorable tactics

of interrogation, the Obama administration has made legal efforts to keep the facility open. The U.S. Court of Appeals backtracked on meaningful judicial oversight — which is necessary to insure no torture techniques are used — effectively bringing back the lack of transparency characteristic of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in the Bush days.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a supporter of this oppressive torture facility. According to Fox News, in 2007 he stated, “I don’t want them on our soil. I want them in Guantanamo, where they don’t get the access to lawyers they get when they’re on our soil. … My view is we ought to double Guantanamo.”

But Romney hasn’t had to state his opinions on the subject during his presidential campaign because the debate has been completely swept under the rug. His lack of belief in basic human rights isn’t brought forward in smear campaigns because the American public essentially does not care. Romney and Obama both plan to use Guantanamo as the depository for any and all suspected “terrorists,” regardless of the legal grounds for their incarceration.

And so, after another detainee has quietly passed away in the hell that is indefi nite incarceration at the hands of the U.S. government, both presidential candidates are happy to walk away from the subject of Guantanamo. What’s worse is that the American people are too.

Meher Ahmad (mahmad@badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in international studies and Middle Eastern studies.

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If you’re reading, this then you’re probably like me — a college student investing in an education while accumulating student debt. In order to pay for our higher education, we all make sacrifi ces. We hold two jobs during the school year and try to fi t in some homework on the sly while supervisors aren’t looking, but of course in the end we forgo nights of sleep in favor of an evening with the lovely Helen C. White.

As University of Wisconsin senior Adelaide Blanchard, who works at a newspaper and a coffee shop in addition to her coursework, put it, “… College is a world of extremes. I’ll sleep for twelve hours, or I won’t sleep at all.” After seeing too many sobering tuition bills, and well aware of the grim eventuality of paying off student loans, we live on a budget — in my case, this means that my food pyramid is lacking on fruits and vegetables but is characterized by a disproportionate percentage of frozen pizza and ramen.

I’m not going to glorify the overextended college student as a genuine starving artist, living a bohemian lifestyle as an ascetic idealist. The fact that as college students we’ve been willing to make fi nancial sacrifi ces — in exchange for an education and the long-term benefi ts that accompany it — has made university administrations complacent, and as a result tuition has skyrocketed.

A brief statistical interlude:

According to a Bain and Company analysis of the sustainability of higher education institutions, “Annual tuition increases several times the rate of infl ation have become commonplace.” If you look at a graph with time on the x-axis, the college tuition curve diverges rapidly from the infl ation curve, climbing upstairs

somewhat exponentially. It’s not as if tuition has gotten more expensive with everything else — it has increased signifi cantly faster than wages, and if student fi nances were candles they’d be burning at both ends. There’s reason to doubt students have directly benefi ted from outrageous increases in tuition considering a Goldwater Institute study found between 1993 and 2007, the fastest-growing expense in higher education was administrative costs.

UW is no exception to the general trend of university tuition hikes — yes, education has faced signifi cant budget cuts from the state government — but UW System President Kevin Reilly has recommended 5.5 percent tuition increases for in-state students six years in a row.

One thing is clear — as students accumulate stacks on stacks of loan debt and face relentless tuition increases each year, university administrations and politicians pass the blame back and forth. Universities attest that due to recurring state and federal budget cuts to education, they are forced to raise the cost of tuition. Politicians argue universities have become complacent after years of government support and as a result have become fi nancially ineffi cient. Both parties are right, but neither is helping the situation of college students — who bear the economic burden of politicians and university leaders who are unable to work together to make education accessible, affordable, effi cient and sustainable.

Nowhere was the unfortunate disconnect between the higher ed business and government offi cials more apparent than in President Barack Obama’s proposal of economic incentives for universities that economize and make education affordable and the ensuing response from academia. Obama addressed universities directly, saying, “You can’t assume that you’ll just jack up tuition every single year. If you can’t stop tuition from going up, then the

funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down.” Apparently he hit a nerve with university administrators nationwide because they disagreed vehemently. According to USA Today, President of Illinois State University Al Bowman called Obama’s proposal “fuzzy math,” and University of Washington President Mike Young called the statement “political theater of the worst sort.”

These university presidents have some reason to protest — government is cutting funding on one end and trying to regulate tuition at the same time. However, state and federal administrations have a right to expect universities to use government funds and tuition dollars effi ciently. University administrations glow with pride when Obama says investing in education is essential if we want to compete in the global economy and that accessible education is an integral part of the American dream. But when students, economic analysts and government offi cials demand higher education institutions provide an affordable education and manage their universities in an effi cient and sustainable way, their responses are loaded with the sort of condescension only found in the deepest recesses of academia.

Here’s my two cents. First of all, all it takes to provide a quality education is a classroom, a few books and a competent, possibly inspiring professor. The rest — a state-of-the-art discovery institute, a glittering new dormitory on the lake and whatever the hell they are building on Library Mall — is superfl uous. But if higher education administrators want to make a business of education, which is clearly their intention, they had better treat it as any other business and start paying attention to economic indicators, rather than running up a tab in taxpayer spending and student loans.

Charles Godfrey (cgodfrey@badgerherald.com) is a junior majoring in physics and math.

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It may not be the most lucrative career path, but public service is an opportunity to create positve change.Andy Fate The Badger Herald

Public service makes positive impact

Due to the gloomy slump the economy is in and the way public unions have been taking the spotlight in a not so positive way, students of our generation tend to look to the public sector with an evil eye. Everyone wants a six-fi gure salary post-graduation, working for a private company that promises all sorts of benefi t packages, which a comparable job in the public sector couldn’t even begin to compete with. This desire is understandable given the current state of the economy and the rising cost of tuition.

However, recent graduates are taking public sector jobs — statistics actually show an increase over the last three years

in the number of grads moving to the public sector. And they’re doing so begrudgingly or with disregard for what it means to explore public service; they’re just relieved to have found something.

If you had asked me at this time last year, just after the culmination of the Wisconsin collective bargaining protests, I probably would have been right alongside the majority of students in vying for employment with the big name companies. Don’t get me wrong — I support the public workers in Wisconsin who fought for their collective bargaining rights and I respect what they did. But the rhetoric surrounding the public sector was growing more and more contentious while University of Wisconsin students were set to see a 5.5 percent tuition spike for the fi fth consecutive year.

These arguments seem trivial to me now, after I spent the past summer taking advantage of a

truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intern at The White House.

During the application process, I explained that my contribution to public service encircles my commitment to journalism and The Badger Herald — I view journalism as an essential public service, as it holds offi cials accountable and keeps the

public informed.While I still see

journalism as a remarkably important public service, interning this summer introduced me to the true value of working in the public sector even, and especially during, trying times. Today’s generation is skirting further and further away from the prospect

of accepting “one of those jobs” — the public sector job market has become a fallback option. We need to reevaluate this stigma. Now is the time to join the public sector and take an active role in public service.

The Chicago Teachers Union strike raises, once again, the question, “what do those teachers possibly have to complain about?” But students need to recognize the large scope of the public sector. Regardless of your take on the CTU strike, recognize that public employees span from public school teachers to government budget analysts, political and nonpolitical appointees in federal and local governments, employees at nonprofi ts and the list goes on and on.

Joining the public sector should be seen as a duty, but not a burdensome one. If you have a problem with the people making decisions, join them — don’t run as far in the other direction as possible. Public service is rewarding

in that you’re not working for the value of the dollar, but rather the value of making a difference.

Your potential to have a positive impact on the lives of millions of other people is incredible; the opportunity to change the world in ways you haven’t yet even imagined is made possible by the public sector. Public service brings the best and brightest minds together to make a difference that impacts people outside of a particular market, and in a way, signifi cantly alters their lives. This is critical.

So, as the “fi nd a job by Thanksgiving” crisis begins, consider the impact you could have on society by tossing your name in the hat for jobs in public service. Do so with your fi ngers, toes and pinkies crossed hoping your name will be the chosen one. Make a commitment to public service, live out a term in the public sector and see the value of your work during your time there.

Pamela Selman (pselman@badgerherald.com) is a junior majoring in political science and journalism.

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“If you have a problem with the people making decisions, join them — don’t run as far in the other direction as possible.”

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Dress to impress with blue blouses, red lipstick

School is well underway, and we’re at the point in the year where you’ve started to slack a bit in your wardrobe choices simply because there isn’t anyone worth it in your classes. Come on, ladies — I know it’s not just me! But that ends now. I’m challenging all of you readers to be daring and try something new. If there isn’t anyone to impress, why not experiment and try something crazy? Okay, maybe not too crazy, but at least try something you wouldn’t

do otherwise.I’m going to start

with something for your hair. You might have noticed this one on campus already, and I think it’s a fabulous trend that everyone should feel confi dent enough to try. I’ll call it the high ballet bun. Kim Kardashian is one of the ladies bringing the style to the mainstream, but it has already evolved further at this point. The great thing about this hairstyle is that it’s easy, and can effortlessly mask a bad hair day. Forget straightening, curling, or whatever else your normal hair routine requires. This is a classic feminine look that I hope is here to stay for a while. For a how-to on the bun, simply search it on Pinterest or a blog such as “The Beauty Department,” and they will break it down for

you. Try it out; you’ll be glad you did.

Regardless of whether you have 20/20 vision, it’s fun to try putting on a pair of glasses. Vintage-looking pairs with darker rims are very popular right now, and they are a unique way to shake up your look and show off that bookworm persona that your professors love to see. In choosing a pair of glasses, it’s important to consider your face’s size and proportions. Contrast the shape of the frames with the shape of your face. For fuller, rounder faces, go with a pair that is more rectangular. For stronger jaw lines or more angular faces, fi nd some that are rounded and soft. If you want to be really daring, try lighter frames, or even clear ones - they’ll brighten up your eyes like nothing else.

One of my new(er)

favorite things to do is to rock red lipstick. Gwen Stefani has been doing it for years (and totally owning it), and I think the rest of the world should fi nally be brave enough to try it out. It may seem that a certain shade of red can go for anyone, this most certainly isn’t the case. Depending on your skin tone, a darker or lighter red will be more appropriate. I would suggest stopping at a makeup counter for some advice, whether or not you buy a tube; drugstore brands work just fi ne.

Complementary lip liner is also essential with red lipstick. I didn’t think it would make much of a difference, but I have defi nitely noticed how it can improve the overall look. It helps it stay on much better and defi nes your lips, dictating exactly where the lipstick

should go. I was nervous about trying this trend at fi rst, since I’ve always been more of a gloss girl, but I am obsessed now and love my Gwen-inspired lips.

Now, I have a couple of suggestions to try for a night out. First, I recommend fi nding a top in that vivid, rich royal blue. You know which color I’m talking about. It’s looked great on every lady I’ve seen sporting it lately. Plus, it looks kick-ass in pictures that have been Instagrammed — if that’s any incentive. This gorgeous color can suit anyone, regardless of skin tone and hair color. Looser blouses and tunics in the color paired with a skinny pant is a great way to go. Pair the top with some killer red lips, and you will be a standout, guaranteed.

This has to be my favorite suggestion:

leather leggings. Yes, you heard me right. Channel your inner badass and try a pair (they don’t necessarily have to be actual leather, but go for the look). Pair them with some ankle-high booties and a loose top for a foolproof outfi t. If you are feeling really daring, wear it during the day, possibly with a neutral-colored sweater or a vintage rocker tee. If leggings aren’t your thing, try and incorporate leather into a skirt. A high-waisted A-line is ideal. This shape will offset the hardness of the leather and make you feel tough yet feminine at the same time. I love the embodiment of that fashion paradox — it’s something that will never go out of style. Go ahead and throw your hair up into a bun and slap on some red lipstick. I dare you.

Emma AustinTimelessly Trendy Columnist

From a cappella to ‘Argo,’ October movies worth a look

Looking into the next month of film, it’s no surprise a flux of horror/thriller movies are arriving just in time for the Halloween season, including Tim Burton’s “Frankenweenie” (Oct. 5), along with the fourth and latest edition of “Paranormal Activity” (Oct. 19). Of the month’s newest arrivals, here are some others worth catching at a local theater.

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Dirty Projectors unites all types at ‘majestic’ performance

Saturday night, an army wearing flannel shirts, unkempt beards, designer glasses and skinny jeans invaded the Majestic Theater to welcome an event some hipsters may declare as more important than their weddings: The Dirty Projectors were playing.

The general public probably couldn’t care less, but they most likely haven’t heard of the Brooklyn-based band. The overall sound revolves around

David Longstreth’s elastic, straining vocals, crunchy, unorthodox guitar chords, irregular Afro-drum beats and the three-part vocal harmonies of singers Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle and Olga Bell. Inevitably, this sound has led to a fair share of divisiveness amongst mainstream listeners, but near-unanimous praise in critic’s circles and the indie blogosphere.

Before the Projectors walked onstage, the fervent hipster-love was palpable. As the Minneapolis-based Night Moves opened, a guy standing next to me displayed cringe-worthy indie pretentiousness when he brought his Pabst Blue Ribbon-breath a little too close to my ear, pushed his thick-framed glasses up his nose and said, “these guys suck,” even though the

majority of the crowd was visibly enjoying the band’s sonically-pleasing, fl oating-on-chillwaves dream pop.

But any arrogance was immediately hushed as soon as Dirty Projectors took the stage. With their faces barely illuminated by a warm, orangish glow, the band launched into “Swing Lo Magellan,” the title track of their most recent album. Guitarist Longstreth’s face showed emotional bliss as he chicken-bobbed his head to the beats engulfing him. The band had an entirely peaceful presence, and the Majestic’s intimate lighting made no attempt to exploit the band or create an in-your-face performance. This was a concert that didn’t beg for the audience’s attention, but the entire crowd gave it willingly.

As the night drew on,

Longstreth acknowledged the crowd’s fervent appreciation. He asked, “If this hadn’t been Madison, what would you have thrown?” This got the

audience laughing a bit, but any chuckles were soon drowned out when the band jumped into “Beautiful Mother,” a track from their 2010 collaboration with Björk, and EP titled Mount Wittenberg Orca.

“Mother” features rapid-fire interplay between the

three female vocalists, and as I stood there listening to their chilling vocals, I gained a newfound appreciation for the human voice. The sound of three voices in perfect harmony is one of the most beautiful noises in the entire world. It helped that their tightly-knit harmonies ebbed and flowed throughout nearly every song in the set, and what resulted was a night of constant awe and innumerable goosebump fl are-ups.

Adding to the sense of awe were the uncanny similarities between their live performances and the studio versions. During “Gun Has No Trigger,” the band executed a collage of floating harmonies punctuated by sharp percussion in a performance that sounded

exactly as it does on Swing Lo Magellan. I was awestruck when I realized that some of the sounds I had always thought were overdubbed on their albums were, in fact, human sounds.

Before the band leapt into their encore, Longstreth looked out at the crowd and proudly declared, “Two hours and 90 minutes ago, you all walked into the Majestic, hoping to see something majestic. But the truth is — the majesty is you.” But he was being modest. This was a concert that somehow managed to extinguish the snarky personalities of several hundred hipsters and unite the audience in nearly an hour and a half of collective awe, substituting pretension for astonishment. I’d call that majestic.

Studio-quality jams and vocal harmonies make live Projectors a hit, hipster or notErik SaterenArtsEtc. Writer ... any arrogance was

immediately hushed as soon as Dirty

Projectors took the stage.

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“Pitch Perfect”Starring Anna Kendrick

(“End of Watch”), Brittany Snow (“Hairspray”) and Rebel Wilson (“Bridesmaids”). Opens Oct. 5.

When reserved and talented music mixer Beca (Kendrick) arrives at Barden University for freshman year, she wants nothing to do with college life. Once she is persuaded to join the female a cappella group, The Bellas, she starts to learn the rewards of teamwork and friendship. She also attempts a romantic relationship with Jesse (Skylar Astin), a member of the mens’ a cappella team, The Treblemakers. In this simple romantic comedy, Wilson’s character, Fat Amy, should provide many laughs over a soundtrack sure to be a hit.

“Taken 2” Starring Liam Neeson

(“The Dark Knight Rises”), Maggie Grace (“Twilight”) and Famke Janssen (“Nip/Tuck”). Opens Oct. 5.

Since the release of “Taken” in 2008, many parents have felt a sense of anxiety sending their sons or daughters off to a foreign country. This weekend, the sequel to the action thriller sends Bryan Mills (Neeson) back into action on a vacation to Istanbul, where Murad Hoxha (Rade Serbedzija) kidnaps his wife, Lenore, (Famke Jannsen) and daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). Hoxha’s motive stems from revenge for Mills’ murder of his son, Kim’s kidnapper, in the first film. Under the new direction of Olivier Megaton (“Colombiana”), this should be a defi nite box offi ce hit for the month.

“Argo”Starring Ben Affleck

(“The Town”), John Goodman (“Trouble with the Curve”) and Bryan Cranston (“Rock of Ages”). Opens Oct. 12.

Based on a true story during the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, six Americans hide in the home of Iran’s Canadian ambassador following a takeover of the American embassy by Iranian citizens. CIA specialist Tony Mendez (Affleck) devises a plan in which he rescues the Americans under the false pretense they were part of a film crew completing production work for a film called “Argo.” For Mendez, the stakes are high as he tries to quickly save the Americans. After years of acclaimed work by Affleck, “Argo” is already receiving potential Oscar buzz.

“Cloud Atlas” Starring Tom Hanks

(“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”), Halle Berry (“New Year’s Eve”) and Hugh Grant (“Love Actually”). Opens Oct. 26.

With a budget of more than $100 million, this film of many genres, including epic, adventure and drama, has the largest budget of all time for an independent film. Based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, the Toronto Film Festival received the film with a 10-minute ovation last week. Judging by the trailer, the movie examines how the actions of certain individuals influence the lives of others. It shares the feel of Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life,” providing a vivid cinematic experience.

“The Big Wedding” Starring Robert De Niro

(“New Year’s Eve”), Katherine Heigl (“One for the Money”) and Diane Keaton (“Morning Glory”). Opens Oct. 26.

In the comedy film “The Big Wedding,” Don (De Niro) and Lyla (Keaton) Griffin are long divorced but must put on the facade of a happy Catholic couple for their son’s wedding. As all their friends and family come together, the plan inevitably falls to pieces.

The film also includes an ensemble cast including Amanda Seyfried, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams. Williams’ fi lm “The Birdcage” presents a similar story with gay marriage in place of religious marital bonds. While “The Big Wedding” probably won’t receive much critical acclaim, the humorous story and fantastic cast will make for an entertaining fl ick.

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Of their 259 total rushing yards on the night, the Huskers only gained 68 in the fi rst half.

The crowd at Memorial Stadium gradually became more engaged as Nebraska crawled its way back with a 38-yard touchdown on a designed draw for Martinez, who later threw a pass to wideout Kyler Reed to narrow the score to 27-24.

In the end, the point differential came down to the kickers. While Wisconsin’s Jack Russell missed a 41-yard field goal wide right and an extra point after UW’s third touchdown, Nebraska’s Brett Maher was clutch, converting the tying 38-yard field goal and the go-ahead 41-yarder in the fourth quarter.

The Badgers made thing interesting on the game’s final drive, as O’Brien replaced a banged-up Stave and led Wisconsin’s offense to midfield. However, officials reviewed a key pass completion to redshirt-freshman wideout Jordan Fredrick on third-and-10 and ruled it a half-inch short of the fi rst down.

“We were up, we were doing well and we just have to keep it going,” Abbrederis said. “They had more energy than us in the second half. We have to have that mentality; we can’t just play two quarters and have two bad quarters.”

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the way Ball was running. Flashbacks to the Nebraska game last year weren’t far off — at fi rst.

“That’s what I was really focusing on coming into this game, just making one cut and go,” Ball said. “And really getting back to what I was doing last year.”

At the half, Ball led all rushers with 59 yards on 17 carries for two touchdowns. Only five minutes into the third quarter, he would gain his third touchdown of the game, equaling his season total through the first four

games.But through the second

half, Ball only gained 31 more yards — for a total of 90 — on 15 additional carries. By game’s end, his average fell to a meager 2.8 yards per carry.

But the senior running back wasn’t the only one who cooled off.

While the Badgers as a whole didn’t perform as well in the second half as they had in the first, that difference was most noticeable on the defense.

In the first half, the defense held Nebraska to 68 rushing yards and 75 passing

yards — just 143 total yards. Meanwhile, the Badgers had compiled 205 yards of offense on 161 passing yards and 44 rushing yards. At the time, the Badgers also held a 20-10 lead.

After Ball scored his third touchdown, Nebraska scored 17 unanswered points and added 297 offensive yards — ending with a total of 440 yards.

“It’s hard to pinpoint one exact thing,” junior defensive tackle Beau Allen said. “One thing that was kind of tough is they had some long drives going

and gave some momentum to them. If we could have forced some more three-and-outs, that could have been a big thing for us defensively.”

Kicking controversy continues

Sometimes, missed fi eld goals or extra points aren’t a huge deal. Other times, they haunt teams for the rest of the game.

Freshman kicker Jack Russell, despite winning the kicking job from sophomore Kyle French earlier in the season, missed a PAT and later sent

a 41-yard field goal wide left.

Those four missed points hung over the loser in a 30-27 decision like a big “What if?”

“Obviously in retrospect it’s very, very big,” Bielema said of the four missed points. “… We know that every play matters. The kicking game is a little bit up and down. Both of them at times show really good things. It’s made it diffi cult to go with one guy. You would like one of the guys to stand up and take control, but it hasn’t been able to happen for us yet.”

OFFENSE, from 10

should start — strong cases can be made for both Stave and O’Brien — but rather for sticking the same man at quarterback, barring injury.

Yet Wisconsin’s head coach brought up an even more far-fetched idea in his postgame press conference — getting a third quarterback, mobile redshirt senior and two-time torn ACL victim Curt Phillips, involved. As if a two-man unit dictating plays in the huddle wasn’t enough.

“I think the positive thing is, we haven’t seen Curt yet,” Bielema said. “I think

he’s got some abilities that can help us as well. So the good news is, I think we’ve got three quarterbacks that … can help us win football games.”

It’s as if he sees the most important position on the fi eld as a place suited for a carousel of strong-armed athletes in cardinal and white uniforms. He professes his love for Stave, how impressed he is with the maturity of the 6-foot-5 passer, but then treats the position like it’s a spot on the Badgers’ kickoff coverage unit.

The golden-haired starter who last played on the road as a high school senior in 2010 handled a

rabid Huskers crowd with tremendous poise, fi nishing the fi rst half with 161 yards on 9-of-14 passing and a touchdown.

His productivity slowed down in the fi nal 30 minutes as he attempted to thread the ball into gaps narrow enough to make Wisconsin fans cringe. Stave’s signs of inexperience included a dropped pass straight into the hands of a Nebraska’s linebacker Will Compton near the end of the fi rst half and another near-interception later in the game.

But Stave had more than earned a lock on the starting spot, no matter what situation

developed late. Those are the situations where head coaches display their confi dence in the offensive leader, the worst time to send mixed messages to the quarterback.

“You want to be the guy in there with the two-minute drill, on the road, on national TV, to win the game,” O’Brien said. “Unfortunately that play just stopped, but I liked the momentum we had; I thought we were on the same page.”

The outcome may not have been different with Stave under center. But when Bielema chose him as the starting quarterback, he was

making a long-term commitment, and he must honor it.

Stave earned the role of emerging as the potential hero, the architect of a game-winning drive in one of the toughest road environments Wisconsin has ever faced. But thanks to a misguided decision from his head coach, it was a dream that never had the chance to be realized.

Ian is a senior majoring in journalism. Share your thoughts with him on how Bielema has handled the quarterback shuffl e via email at imccue@badgerherald.com or on Twitter @imccue.

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Online: Men’s soccer salvages weekend for UW with 2-1 victory.

UW blows lead in Lincoln, falls 30-27

Wide receiver Jared Abbrederis was Stave’s favorite target at Memorial Stadium, reeling in seven catches for 142 yards, a performance that included two grabs of more than 25 yards.Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald

LINCOLN, Neb. — It came down to a battle of wills. And some bad luck.

Down on the scoreboard with just more than a minute remaining, the Badgers attempted to run senior tailback Montee Ball off the right side on a fouth-and-1 behind their usually-dominant offensive line. But Saturday night, in front of a raucous Memorial Stadium crowd, the Cornhusker defense would have none of it.

A Wisconsin miscommunication on the play call between Danny O’Brien and Ball allowed the ball to come loose, sealing the Huskers’ (4-1, 1-0 Big Ten) 30-27 win over the Badgers (3-2, 0-1) in a game the Badgers led, at one point, by 17.

Leading the Badgers offensively was redshirt freshman Joel Stave at quarterback, who looked impressive at times in his fi rst road start. Stave completed 12 of his 23 passes for 214 yards and a touchdown, while Huskers’ junior quarterback Taylor Martinez showed off his dual-threat capabilities, running for 107 yards and a touchdown on the ground while throwing for 181 yards and two touchdowns.

“Give a lot of credit to Nebraska. … They played very, very well in the second half,” Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said. “Obviously it was a tale of two halves; you could feel that momentum switch in the second half and something that our guys were never able to get back under grasp.”

Wisconsin opened up the game on fire, jumping out to a quick 7-0 lead thanks

to a solid five-play, 71-yard drive punctuated by a two-yard touchdown run by Montee Ball. Stave found junior standout receiver Jared Abbrederis for a 54-yard strike on the drive, as Abbrederis finished the day with seven catches for 142 yards and a touchdown.

The Badgers’ defense then provided the offense a gift, as linebacker Chris Borland recovered a Rex Burkhead fumble and gave the UW offense possession at the Nebraska 17-yard line. Just a few plays later, Ball again found himself in the end zone, as the star tailback plowed his way in for a touchdown on a fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line.

It looked like there was the potential for a Badger blowout in the beginning of the second quarter, as Stave found Abbrederis on a 29-yard touchdown pass to make the score 20-3 with just under 12 minutes remaining in the fi rst half.

“I thought we had a lot of explosive plays,” Abbrederis said. “That first half was a good glimpse of what we [are capable of], but we have to make sure we can do that for a full game.”

While Wisconsin looked impressive for nearly two quarters, momentum shifted markedly toward Nebraska after a 93-yard Martinez-led drive near the end of the second half. The Huskers’ speedy signal-caller gashed the Badgers for a key 20-yard run on a delayed draw up the middle, finishing the drive with a touchdown pass to Burkhead from three yards out.

With the score 20-10 heading into the half, the Badgers had outgained the Huskers 205-143 on offense and were also winning the battle in time of possession. Chances looked remarkably bright Wisconsin could hold on for the upset victory on the road, but Nebraska’s running game in the second half proved to be too much

Huskers collect 20 unanswered points in 2nd half to take revenge on BadgersNick KorgerSports Content Editor

for the Wisconsin front line to handle.

“They started doing some different things offensively,” defensive tackle Beau Allen said. “We know that they’re

a spread team. … They definitely got some rushing yards on us in the second half that they didn’t have in the fi rst half, and I think that was the big difference.”

After capitalizing on a Martinez fumble to make the score 27-10, Nebraska started to pound the ball on the ground with not only Burkhead and Martinez, but

also speedy running back Ameer Abdullah. Together, the three accounted for 263 of Nebraska’s rushing yards.

LINCOLN, page 8

Stalled offense, missed FGs doom Wisconsin

Stave earned opportunity to direct game-winning drive

Every Wisconsin fan watching the game Saturday did a double take when No. 6 entered the game on the game-deciding drive with just under three minutes left in a Memorial Stadium growing louder with each snap. No, there was no way Danny O’Brien, the transfer

savior-turned backup quarterback and clipboard manager could be back in the game.

The new starter, redshirt freshman Joel Stave, had just been knocked around on a grounding call that ended the Badgers’ penultimate drive, so maybe he was injured. Yet Stave said after the game he simply had the wind knocked out of him, that he was healthy enough to step back into play.

But as head coach Bret Bielema said after the 30-27 UW loss in the Big Ten opener, it was all part of the plan. The more experienced O’Brien, who started 17

games in two seasons at Maryland, was the man to lead the two-minute offense, to take control of the huddle on the most important snaps of the game.

Forget about the stab it might take at a young player’s confi dence, one who shined in the fi rst half of the game in a mind-numbingly loud Memorial Stadium Saturday. Stave was expectedly tight-lipped on the move to take him out late but said he was not so rattled that he could not have fi nished out his second career start.

“That’s not my call,” Stave said postgame. “He made the call, and I just [have] to live

with it.”He does have to live with

it. But that certainly doesn’t make it the right call.

Bielema has been commended for his bold moves this season — fi rst fi ring offensive line coach Mike Markuson and then benching O’Brien, the man many expected to fl ourish in Madison. But he simply can’t expect to win games, especially tough battles on the road (fi rst case study: Lincoln Saturday night), with a different man running his game-deciding drives.

And it didn’t take long to show exactly why the strategy of snubbing Stave

for the No. 2 quarterback won’t work. On fourth-and-1 from the Wisconsin 49, a miscommunication between O’Brien and running back Montee Ball led to a turnover that allowed the Huskers to escape a major upset at home.

While O’Brien believed the play called was a quarterback option, where he could either hand it off to Ball or run it himself depending on the defense he saw lining up across from him, Ball said it was a naked bootleg, a designed run for O’Brien.

The Badgers’ top tailback didn’t even realize he was getting the ball and

subsequently fumbled. Ball wasn’t shy about hiding his frustration with the play after the loss, and O’Brien admirably took full blame for the critical slip-up. But he shouldn’t have even been in the game. He belonged on the sideline, helping guide his younger counterpart down the fi eld.

The elder signal-caller looked comfortable as a pocket passer, moving the ball down the fi eld with promising effi ciency on a 36-yard drive before the fatal miscue near midfi eld. This is not an argument of who

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LINCOLN, Neb. — When it comes to third-and-short, or fourth-and-short, Wisconsin has not had much luck converting the once-easy situational downs. And it’s a problem that made the trip with them to Memorial Stadium this weekend.

With just more than a minute left in the game, Wisconsin (3-2, 0-1 Big Ten) faced fourth-and-1, trailing Nebraska (4-1, 1-0) 30-27. With junior quarterback Danny O’Brien running the two-minute drill, senior

running back Montee Ball took the handoff and fumbled. Nebraska recovered — and secured the win.

For Nebraska, it was sweet justice. For Wisconsin, it was pure disappointment after capturing a 17-point lead at the beginning of the third quarter.

While Ball is credited with the fumble, he wasn’t even supposed to get the handoff in the fi rst place.

“I wasn’t expecting the ball at all,” Ball said.

“It’s very frustrating because it looked like I fumbled the football, but I’m not just going to sit here and point the fi nger at all. We just can’t put ourselves in that situation.”

According to O’Brien, with the look he was getting from the defense, he thought he would have been sacked on the bootleg run and therefore

carried out an automatic handoff to Ball. The ultimate miscommunication ended the Badgers’ final drive and their chances of walking out of Lincoln with a season-boosting win.

The fourth down only exemplified UW’s prior struggles on third and fourth down against the Cornhuskers. The Badgers converted only four of 15 third downs and one of their two fourth downs. Prior to Nebraska, Wisconsin converted only 30 percent (16 of 53) of its third downs and three of five fourth downs through the nonconference season.

You’re hot, then you’re coldThrough Wisconsin’s first

half, it looked like there was something different about

OFFENSE, page 8Freshman kicker Jack Russell missed a 41-yard fi eld goal just before halftime after missing an extra point earlier in the second quarter. Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald

Run game, defense falter in fi nal half; kicking game proves crucial in 3-point lossKelly EricksonSenior Sports Writer