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Forum explores goals for new diversity planBy Megan Stoebig and Tamar Myersthe daily cardinal

The 2013 Diversity Forum kicked off Monday with two key-note speeches in addition to 10 concurrent sessions aiming to improve diversity issues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

According to Vice Chancellor Darrell Bazzell, attendance on Monday was 60 percent higher than at last year’s forum.

During a listening session, The Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee presented a general framework of the goals for a cam-pus diversity proposal.

The new diversity plan would

include how social, economic and political factors impact diver-sity, whereas the previous plan, which expired in 2008, focused on recruitment and retention prob-lems at the university in regard to ethnicity and gender, according to the committee co-chairs Ruth Litovsky and Ryan Adserias.

Additionally, in a breakout group, four experts discussed bolstering the success of under-represented students studying Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Institute for Biology Education representative Jennifer Ball-Sharpe said implementing sup-port programs can help connect

students to STEM fields, and stressed the importance of First-Year Interest Groups in making those connections.

During the first keynote speech, University of California-Los Angeles Professor Sylvia Hurtado discussed her model for creating diverse learning environ-ments, highlighting the need for understanding different factors that influence a campus climate.

Her model aims to understand a group’s history of inclusion or exclusion within a campus com-munity. Hurtado added that a campus community must ask

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U.S. rep. Mark Pocan, d-Madison, meets with the legislative affairs committee Monday to advocate for explicit voting rights.

Mark Pocan discusses adding voting rights to U.S. constitutionBy Tamar Myersthe daily cardinal

Americans do not have a constitutionally mandated right to vote, U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, said at a Legislative Affairs committee meeting Monday night.

The problem without having this clear right, he said, is that it makes denying voting privileges much easier.

Pocan discussed this and several other issues with com-mittee members, including the government shutdown, immi-gration reform and financial

aid restructuring. Pocan said he plans to work

on putting voting rights in the constitution, which would pre-vent legislation such as voter ID laws that he said minimize voting access for groups such as students and seniors.

“Instead of voters selecting their elected officials, elected offi-cials want to select their voters,” Pocan said.

Pocan also mentioned the need for immigration reform, and discussed possible legislation to

Downtown safety will not receive additional funding

By Paige Villiardthe daily cardinal

The Student Services Finance Committee denied the MultiCultural Student Coalition an additional eligibility hearing after listening to an internal appeal from the organization Monday.

MCSC member Olivia Wick-Bander said SSFC members violated their oaths and Associated Students of Madison bylaws by passing new administrative rules after the deadline for action had passed. She also said Chair David Vines violated policy because he delivered an official eligibility denial letter to members of MCSC before the committee had approved it.

Wick-Bander said the group’s denial let-ter indicated SSFC had a lack of information when they decided on MCSC’s eligibility. She also said SSFC found MCSC to be in violation of policy based on false claims. One claim stat-ed MCSC had not submitted training contracts in 2012 in accordance with policy, but Wick-

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SSFC denies MultiCultural Student Coalition’s appealBy Dana Kampathe daily cardinal

The Board of Estimates denied additional funding to provide more police officers downtown in a budget amend-ment meeting Monday.

The amendment, which is part of the Downtown Safety Initiative, would provide an additional $35,000 to the Madison Police Department for peak service times downtown and in surrounding areas and fund protection for State Street.

The DSI protects the commu-nity by providing more policing and implementing programs to reduce violent crimes, including security cameras and community policing efforts.

The board didn’t pass the amendment because they were uncertain how MPD would use the money.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District

4, one of the alders sponsoring the amendment, explained how the lack of extra officers meant patrol officers could be pulled from responding to other crimes to come downtown and deal with critical incidents.

“I think this program has proven its worth, its value, time and time again over the years,” Verveer said in the meeting.

“We’re going to need addi-tional staffing on the weekends,” interim Police Chief Randy Gaber said. “It is a predictable use of overtime funding.”

Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, also questioned wheth-er the University of Wisconsin-Madison is contributing to week-end policing needs. The MPD said the university pays some officers overtime on game days.

Alders also proposed an

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Increasing Underrepresented Student Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, a session with-in the Diversity Forum Monday, discussed the need for programs and collaboration through-out STEM fields not only for undergraduate students, but for graduate students as well.

Presenters said there is a decline in aver-age STEM skills and through the creation of programs such as First-Year Interest Groups students are able to learn in smaller groups that can assist with their university experi-ence. Presenters at the forum discussed the need to create more programs for the gradu-ate school level and said the collaboration of professors and students will create a better educational environment.

The Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee presented a framework for the new diversity plan, which would include social, economic and political factors, along with a renewed focus on the Wisconsin Idea in the diversity discussion.

Co-chair Ryan Adserias saw the plan as, “…not only being a resource for the state, but having the people of the state be a resource for us.”

After the presentation, a group con-sisting of campus employees, academic staff and students discussed the need to create safe places for conversation and the continual engagement of students and young professionals that are brought to campus.

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Kane Kaiman is a graduate of Cedarburg

High School. There, he scored a 5 on his AP Psychology test,

giving him the author-ity to interpret the

dreams of all humans and some of the

earth’s more intel-ligent mammals. He lives with his wife,

Dalton Brown, and his son, Mick Grundtner,

in Madison, Wis.

This week’s dream:“I have a recurring dream where

I’m running through the streets chasing after someone. It’s late at night, but I can see everything. Each time, it’s a little bit different. The person is not always the same; I know because they’re wearing dif-ferent clothes. It feels really good to run after them, because I feel like I have super powers. I’m really fast and strong. And it’s like I know they can’t get away because I can smell them. They reek! It’s weird. I have a lot of weird emotions, too. I’m trying so hard to catch them, but the chase is fun at the same time. Really exciting. Right at the end, I’m so close to catching up, but before I can actually do whatever it is I want to do, like tackle them or something, I wake up.”

—Clayton Stahl, sophomore

One hundred percent accurate interpretation:

Well, I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself. But, the chase can’t pos-sibly be as thrilling as the climax: tearing your human prey limb from limb.

Your kind has always made me sick. But, I guess I owe you a shred of gratitude; you’re the reason I got into dream inter-pretation in the first place.

As a boy, I worked on a dairy farm. I’d make my way out to pasture to milk the cows

before the sun came up. One day, I grabbed my pail and trekked out into the moonlit meadow. I still have nightmares about what I found out there in the tall grass.

Mr. Thorison, the farmer, was pretty upset. It looked like his herd had been put through the wood chipper.

I didn’t tell him about the yel-low eyes or the blood-soaked fur glistening under the full moon. Who would’ve believed a 12-year-old kid?

I grew up quickly after that. I studied my way out of Podunk, USA, and went off to the univer-sity. But, those cows were always at the back of my mind.

Something had to be done. What I needed was the perfect cover, a high-profile career that would allow me to travel the world.

Well, I’ve made quite a name for myself writing books, explor-

ing space, things like that. The fame and fortune has given me the freedom to roam from city to city. I set up shop, write my inter-pretations for the local paper and patiently wait for the full moon.

I’ve seen your work around town. The authorities do a decent job of covering everything up, but blood has a tendency to leave some tough, set-in stains. You must be a pretty big guy, judging from the footprints. I’m guessing around six and a half feet tall

before you “turn.” It doesn’t matter. I’m

going to hunt you down like all the rest.

At the crack of dawn, when you’re regaining

your humanity in some blood-spattered back alley,

know that I’m admiring the polished skulls in my study. They are my trophies; I line them up next to my collection of silver bullets.

And, like you, I get a kick out of the chase. There’s nothing quite like stalking a creature that embodies the brute strength of a wolf and the cunning of man. It’s an adrenaline rush to say the least.

This time, the game will be a little different. I know your name. You know mine. The ele-ment of surprise is lost. But maybe it’s more fun this way.

Don’t worry. I hunt wolves, not men. So, when the full moon comes around again, I suggest you chain yourself up, or else we’re going to have to find out once and for all who’s the better killing machine.

Do you have a dream you want Kane to interpret for you or someone you know? Send him an email at kaiman@wisc.edu for his absolutely 100 percent factu-ally accurate advice.

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T he other day, I’m scroll-ing through BuzzFeed, and suddenly my heart

drops. Surprisingly, it is not due to the baby dressed as Wilson from “Cast Away” but rather the realization that Freakfest is one week away, and yet again, I have no costume.

Rewind to last year when my primary goal was to keep up with my freshmen female peers and wear as little as possible despite the 25-degree weather. “What are you gonna be for Halloween?” “A scant-ily clad Dorothy. How ’bout you?” “I’m gonna be a busty ‘Despicable Me’ minion!” And so it goes.

On Freakfest last year, my friend and I decided the best way to break the Richter scale of revealing costumes was to be flashers, so we roamed State Street in trench coats and nude leotards, opening our coats to every other passerby. Now that I think about it, people were probably more creeped out than turned on, but we did

our best. I did seem to get the attention of a guy in a Freddy Krueger mask though, but I’m just gonna go ahead and not feel flattered by that.

After this year’s mini costume “freak out” (pun intended), I con-front my roommates about this life-or-death issue. We reach a consensus that, after turning into ice and shattering into a million pieces on Broom Street last year, we are going to stick with a warm and funny theme. One roommate suggests the overdone but easy idea of being a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit, so we saunter off to Ragstock to see what’s up. After looking at the tags, we find every jumpsuit is reserved for André the Giant and his whole extended family. I consider buy-

ing one just because I need a new sleeping bag but decide that at the moment there are more impor-tant matters to deal with.

Another roommate throws out the possibility of going as Walt and Jesse from “Breaking Bad” in meth-making attire. She suggests we write “chemistry major” on the front to increase the funny fac-tor. Suddenly, this escalates into an argument. First of all, none of us are chemistry majors (thank God), and second of all, this is a stupid idea because they don’t even watch “Breaking Bad.” (Why do I live with them again?) The bickering continues pointlessly over group text as tensions remain high and time runs out.

We are back to square one. Then, an idea comes to me

like a perfect bacon-wrapped gift from the gods: We will be Spring Breakers—you know, that movie where James Franco plays a cornrowed gangster and Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez shake their booties for the camera. My plan: Three of us will wear hot-pink robber masks, a heinous tiger bathing suit from Hot Topic and sweatpants. The fourth gets to be James Franco, or “Alien,” so she’ll cornrow her hair, get some grillz and wear a

Hawaiian T-shirt. If you want to know why I didn’t volunteer for that role, just look at a picture from the time I got my hair corn-rowed on a family vacation.

Finally, a group costume more original than a Crayola pack or the Spice Girls. We will own State Street and receive drunken nods of appreciation from all who attend the event. Maybe we’ll even get a shout out from Matt & Kim. My mind is racing. Immediately I follow my instincts and dial the number for Hot Topic at West Towne Mall, wasting no time in asking if they still have the tiger monokini bathing suit in stock.

Wait, I just reread that sentence and had to re-evaluate my life.

Anyway, the conversation went a little something like this:

Hot Topic employee: “It’s the middle of October... We stopped selling bathing suits two months ago. Sorry.”

Me: “OK, what am I supposed to do now? Freakfest is next week.”

Hot Topic employee: “I don’t know, be a cat with its midriff showing or something.”

Me: “Alright I’m hanging up.”Do you know where Daniella

can get her hands on a tiger monokini? Let her know at emanuel2@wisc.edu.

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The Royal to play at FreakfestMilwaukee-based band The

Royal will play on the Capitol Stage at Freakfest Saturday, according to a tweet from Frank Productions Monday.

Bands had the opportu-nity to submit songs that peo-ple could vote for in a contest hosted by Frank Productions, the company that organizes the Halloween-weekend festival. Frank Productions chose the

winning band from the top three vote earners.

The Royal singer and song-writer Seann Bowe said he and a fellow band member have want-ed to play at Freakfest again since they played at the music festival three years ago with a former band.

Bowe said he is excited to play at Freakfest because Madison audiences are “more

fun to play to” than people in other cities.

“They’re so much more appreciative of art,” Bowe said. “They’re a very open-thinking city.”

Bowe said he “jumped out of his seat and started scream-ing” when he saw the tweet, and the band celebrated by dancing around to the “celebrate good times” song.

Bill could create UW nanotechnology ‘hub’Two Democratic state rep-

resentatives proposed a new bipartisan bill Monday aimed at increasing the funding for sci-entific research in nanotechnol-ogy through the University of Wisconsin System.

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, and state Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison, introduced the bill that would create a nanotechnology “hub” at UW Extension. The bill would simultaneously create a council that sets policies and priorities as

well as funds the hub.Nanotechnology is the study

of controlling and building with individual atoms and molecules and involves coordination among multiple scientific fields, accord-ing to a statement from Barca’s office Monday.

The “hub” would be designed to report on emerging nanotech health and safety information for the state Legislature.

“Nanotechnology represents a great opportunity to spur innova-tion while encouraging job growth

and economic development,” Barca said in the statement.

He also said the proposed “hub” would allow Wisconsin to build on the “strong history of pioneering research in the UW System.”

The proposal is a direct result of numerous recommendations by the Special Committee on Nanotechnology, which met from fall 2010 through spring 2011. It developed recommendations and was instrumental in drafting the bill, according to the statement.

“who’s at the table?” to assure all groups are acknowledged equally.

Additionally, she said the uni-versity should focus on improv-ing retention rates and making sure that when students gradu-ate they will excel in a future world that will be more equi-table, democratic and economi-cally sustainable.

“We want them to get their degrees and be qualified for all the things they’re aspiring to become,” she said. “We want them to be visionaries.”

Columbia Professor Derald Wing Sue gave the second keynote address about micro-aggressions, which he describes as “everyday slights and indig-nities, insults and allegations and put downs that people of color, woman, any marginal-ized group experiences in their day-to-day interactions by

well-intentioned individuals.”For example, Sue said he’s

been the subject of seemingly innocent comments asking where he’s from or compli-menting him on his English, even though he was born in the United States. Sue said it is important to acknowledge these biases so they can be addressed.

“It is impossible for any of us born and raised in this country to not inherit biases,” Sue said. “Some of them are unconscious and outside the level of conscious awareness, and that is where they are most problematic in terms of dealing with them.”

Bazzell ended the first day of the forum by reiterating the importance of a plan to improve diversity efforts on campus.

“If we are truly to be seri-ous about diversity and creat-ing a diverse environment, then we must have a diversity plan,” Bazzell said.

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reform financial aid.However, he said due to gov-

ernment being “held hostage by a very small number of people” in the shutdown, there has been little progress moving new bills forward.

Also at the meeting, Chair Morgan Rae said she met with

Police Chief Susan Riseling to dis-cuss Responsible Action, a bill she spearheaded that would prohibit police from issuing underage drink-ing citations when a dangerously intoxicated student or their friend contacted authorities to request help.

Riseling had previously expressed concerns that students in need of assistance could potentially

continue to drink dangerous levels in the future if they did not receive drinking penalties.

Among other ideas, Riseling suggested changing the bill so only students with blood alcohol levels above .28 could receive citations. Rae said she would like to explore alternative modifications, as stu-dents this intoxicated especially

need to seek help. Rae said instead she may add

language to the bill that would give students immunity from citations for their first emergency, but would not protect them in any consecutive instances. According to Rae, Riseling said she would consider the idea.

Legislative Affairs intern Madison Laning also updated the

committee on her project aiming to eventually pass legislation that would allow 19 and 20-year-old Wisconsin residents to purchase permits to drink.

Laning also emailed a survey to the student body Sunday and said she hopes to look at the results and determine whether students would support such a bill.

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high number of weekend detox visits triggers uwpD response

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department released a statement Monday detailing two incidences of excessive drinking over the week-end and warning students to consume alcohol legally and responsibly.

In the first case, at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, UWPD responded to Sullivan Hall after a house fellow found a 19-year-old male unconscious in his room. The student was transported to a hospital and intubated after doctors determined his blood alcohol content was .32. The legal definition of being intoxicated is having a BAC at or above .08.

Two hours prior, at approximately 11:30 p.m. Friday, UWPD transported an 18-year-old female student to detox after she was found passed out in Sellery Hall with a BAC of .29.

In total, there were six total detox conveyances from Friday through Sunday. Additionally, UWPD issued 19 Underage Alcohol Citations over the weekend.

UWPD also reminded stu-dents if they choose to drink alcohol, to do so legally and responsibly, given the police’s concern about the high intoxi-cation levels seen over the past year.

Bander argued the group had submitted contracts before they were aware of the cor-rect procedure.

SSFC Rep. Justin Bloesch said he would not change his vote because he had evidence that the date MCSC’s contracts were signed was after the date the group had been informed of the procedure for submit-ting training contracts.

Other SSFC members who had originally voted on MCSC’s eligibility said they did not feel MCSC’s appeal contained new information that could have affected their decision.

“I do not deny that there were bylaws violated, but none of these points would have changed the three reasons we denied them eligibility,” Rep. Brett Ducharme said.

SSFC also approved the

2014-’15 budget for the Campus Women’s Center, an organiza-tion that provides support ser-vices and brings awareness to campus about diverse gender-based issues women and oth-ers face.

CWC’s approved bud-get was $82,265.70, roughly $6,000 less than the group had requested. SSFC made some changes to the group’s budget, including a reduction in funds for a speaker.

Additionally at the meeting, SSFC received a budget request from the Student Leadership Program, an organization that focuses on strengthening individual and group leader-ship. The group requested about $10,000 less than its last approved budget, and an SLP member said they were able to cut funding in several areas they have not needed in the past few years.

amendment to the Community Development Block Grant, which would provide $40,000 in fund-ing to support shower facilities, lockers, port-a-potties and laun-dry for homeless individuals.

Richard Antonio, a rep-resentative for the Homeless Issues Committee, spoke about and showed support for the grant.

“Where are we to shower?” Antonio asked. He highlighted the importance of being able to take a shower before going into a job interview and being able to stay warm and dry during

the winter.“We have people whose basic

human dignity is being vio-lated,” said Ald. Lisa Subeck, District 1, when addressing the lack of public bathrooms on State Street.

The board decided to table the amendment until the next Common Council meeting Nov. 5.

Thirteen alders sponsored increased funding by $150,000 for the Overture Center Foundation, bringing the total budget to $1.6 million. The board approved the amend-ment, although the total is still less than last year’s budget.

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An overdue rant about delayed games

D elays are a touchy subject among video game play-ers. Drawing on Internet

ire seemingly from the fiery pits of hell, some players vent their unbridled frustration on the friendly confines of NeoGAF.com. Others take a more rational approach, believing extra time should make better product.

I tend to fall in the latter camp. Rockstar is a frequent offender and their releases almost always come out top-notch. Earlier this week Ubisoft announced that “Watch Dogs,” perhaps the most anticipated new Intellectual Property of the fall, would be delayed into spring 2014. For the record, I’m completely on board with this delay, especially with such a high-profile release. This delay, however, doesn’t come without consequences.

Ubisoft stock plummeted 32 percent following the delays of both “Watch Dogs” and “The Crew,” Ubisoft’s new driv-ing title. That’s understand-able. Pushed into the next fiscal quarter, Ubisoft’s already fal-tering titles “Rayman Legends” and “Splinter Cell: Blacklist”

make the outlook for this quar-ter considerably dire. Luckily, “Rayman’s” easy creation tools mean its budget wasn’t too extravagant, but the latest “Splinter Cell” underperforming can’t be an easy pill to swallow.

While Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot certainly isn’t in financial trouble by virtue of the Scrooge McDuck levels of coin “Just Dance” brings in every year, this delay will affect the myriad launch bundles that promised “Watch Dogs.” In addition, it shatters their marketing push for a project coming right as gamers are hungering for new IPs to kick off the generation. Rather than facing stalwarts like “Call of Duty,” “Watch Dogs” is now set against creative next-gen offer-ings such as “Titanfall” or the vast array of indie games Sony is putting out.

At this point “Assassin’s Creed” doesn’t really need the extra marketing push, it sells on name alone. I have no doubt “Watch Dogs” will still sell well and be a better product because of it, but I don’t think the delay is solely affecting quality.

Meanwhile, in the indie space this week, “Dark Matter” launched on Steam and prob-ably could’ve used a delay. After a failed Kickstarter campaign, developer InterWave Studios

launched their 2.5-D horror title with a six to eight hour cam-paign that ends in an abrupt wall of black and white text. Initially stating the story would be contin-ued, InterWave altered the final text to read, “there may be more left to explore.”

The basic terms of capitalism and consumer satisfaction aside, InterWave’s actions only cheap-en the plethora of avenues for indies to garner funding now-adays. Rather than deciding to cut content or simply make an ending that doesn’t sound like shit, the developers seemed to mislead consumers into believing they were acquiring a complete product. Instead, they seemingly got a first chapter.

I’m all for Kickstarter (a website I write for recently launched a successful one), but its reputation in the industry quickly soured from the jovial days of Tim Schafer’s pitch oh so long ago. Now, torrents of people put up projects they

deem worthy, leaving it up to the populous to determine win-ners and losers. It’s not unlike pitching to publishers, only it’s removed from those nasty, good-for-nothing executives—except your project apparently wasn’t good enough to garner financial backing. Following this sentiment, I typically don’t back many projects unless they look truly stunning.

Yet, I digress. The reality is that InterWave completely bun-gled this entire situation. Put this up on Steam Early Access and slowly retrieve the neces-sary funding a la the magnificent “Assault Android Cactus.” Cut content, include a realistic end-ing, rework your original design, for God’s sake, you could just call it “Chapter One!”

Developers constantly deal with time constraints requir-ing them to reformat their ini-tial vision. If anyone’s looking for the completely wrong way to release a full-scale title, check out “Dark Matter.” I’m mildly surprised Steam even let them put this up, but, even more so, I’m disappointed InterWave would take the easiest path out of a situation for which modern funding techniques have created so many solutions.

Are you tired of game pro-ducers delaying release dates? Tell Adam at aparis@wisc.edu.

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product because of it, but i don’t think the delay is soley affecting quality.

The Skinny

Who: And So I Watch You From Afar, TTNG, MyletsWhere: The Sett atUnion SouthWhen: Oct. 25, show at 9:30 p.m.Cost: FreeWhy you should care: These three Sargent House bands are some of the premiere acts in instrumental math music.

Check this out before you go:If you haven’t heard any TTNG, “26 Is Dancier Than 4” is a must-listen. And So I Watch You From Afar released a new album, All Hail Bright Futures, in March, which is by all accounts one of the best instrumental rock albums of the year so far. Mylets is an absurd guitarist and musician, go check out some live footage and you’ll need to see him in concert.

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H ere’s the situation: you find yourself in a sweaty pit of people, waiting for

your favorite band to come on—the excitement of the crowd is pal-pable. Then the lights drop.

There was once a time where that moment would create a deafening roar and uproari-ous applause, but not anymore. The screams are still there, but instead of applause, you get a sea of iPhone screens.

While Prince, Savages and others would prefer you leave your phones either at home or in your pocket the whole night, I understand wanting to capture a photo or two so your friends on the Internet can see how cool you are.

My real problem comes with videos.

When I take a picture using my phone, I stick my arm in the air, press the little button and then quickly bring my arm back down. That whole process takes about three seconds.

When one takes a video, there are two routes they can go down.

The first is 45 seconds of a hand shaking, holding the speaker while singing the words to the song (typ-ically off-key). This bothers me for two reasons. The first: When are you ever going to watch it again? “Hey guys, look, I was at [insert band here] and I got this great video of their most famous song!”

What usually ensues after that is a lot of screaming, an occasional glimpse of the stage and usually an epileptic fit.

The second reason why the 45-second video bothers me is because let’s say you are actu-ally trying to capture this for posterity. Will a little less than a verse or a chorus of a song really bring back a wave of memories? Will that really be what you remember from the show? Make your own memo-ries, tangible ones—ones that don’t require you to live vicari-ously through your iPhone.

While the 45-second video guy is bad, the full song or, even more, amateur videographer is my arch nemesis.

Let me preface this next statement with the fact that I am relatively tall (my driver’s license says six feet, but that’s an overstatement). I bring this up because I can see over the

heads of the average concert-goer. While I often feel like I end up behind Shawn Bradley (a ’90s basketball reference for the uninitiated), usually I can see pretty well.

In this scenario though, I am behind an average-height male (5’9”). For the first six songs, my only gripe with this aver-age-sized male is that he has no regard for my personal space (but that’s for another column). Yet, song seven is our mis-aligned fan’s (let’s call him Chad) favorite song.

Instantly, Chad freaks out. I too may be very happy that this song is on, and Chad’s visible excite-ment is a good thing, as bands on stage tend to react well to crowd surges of energy.

Chad whips out his iPhone and because he wants the perfect video, throws both hands in the air, gently cradling his phone as he proceeds to spend the next five minutes with both hands in the air, singing along to his favorite song while obstructing my view.

While in this scenario I must sound like a crotchety old man (and that statement isn’t without its merits), this is terribly annoying. By virtue of Chad singing along to the whole song while dancing and having both hands in the air, he is invading my personal space, obstructing my view and ruin-ing his video.

Sing along to “Mr. November” in the shower, or even at the show, but if you are going to obstruct my view of the stage, at least do so peacefully, without your shrill voice superseding Matt Berninger’s as I try to peacefully enjoy my concert experience.

Some crowds are much worse about this than others.

Electronic music crowds love taking a video of the pretty lights, and then another one because these visuals are SO UNIQUE, and then another one because this light show wasn’t this cool 15 min-utes ago.

Indie music crowds are filled with people who are content to check their Twitter feed for 90 percent of the show, yet when that one song comes on they have been waiting for all night, they turn into Chad.

Now, we all have our pet peeves and when you attend as many con-certs as I do, some of them are exacerbated and others you learn to get over. I have stopped car-ing for the most part about my personal space, as I am 19 and not 91. I understand people want to have a good time and if that means

jumping around and occasionally bumping into me, so be it.

I understand that everyone wants a picture or 12 at a show. Personally, I take a picture or two at the beginning and a pic-ture somewhere in the middle of the show if it looks really cool. You may want to take 30 pictures and that’s fine as long as you don’t spend three min-utes making sure that each pic-ture is exactly perfect.

But when it comes to Chad, the amateur videographer, I hate that guy. And your friends silently hate you too as no one wants to watch your terrible video of your favorite song from the band you saw last night and their apparent kindness is actu-ally jealousy of the show that you “saw” that they didn’t.

Are you a “pro” at filming concerts on your iPhone? Send your sick footage to Brian at weidy@wisc.edu.

Brian WeidyWeid-ing out the noise

By Mary SullivanThe daily cardinal

After the massive success of Katy Perry’s last album, Teenage Dream, and her extremely pub-lic personal life being in the spotlight the past couple years, there was no way of telling what her next move would be in the music industry. On her new-est release, Prism, she is the polar opposite of her previous “I Kissed a Girl,” “Firework” and “California Gurls” fun-loving, careless pop princess image. And though it was a respectable and courageous effort, I don’t see this side of Katy Perry being a huge success.

The album is dark, vulner-able and pretty much depress-ing after the fun, impactful, catchy feminine anthem “Roar” opens the record. Don’t get me wrong, her blatant calling out of Russell Brand’s text mes-sage break up on the lyrics of “Ghost” is fantastic (“You sent a text/It’s like the wind changed your mind”), but this track and the rest of the break-up bal-lads are just whiny and boring. Maybe it’s just me, but I expect-

ed a Katy Perry post-divorce album to be a little bit tougher and have an attitude.

Perry throws in some club hits in the first half of the album but the writing is really unim-pressive. “Birthday” and “This is How We Do” have some of the least intelligent lyrics I’ve heard. It’s time for her to leave the lines like “This is how we do, yeah, chilling, laid back- Straight stuntin’ ya we do it like that” to Miley and recognize that she is going to be 30 years old pretty soon and can’t act like a post-pubescent teenager forever. Speaking of which, for some reason when I listen to “International Smile,” a Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movie cover pops up in my head. It’s especially confusing when they’re compared to the super mature tracks like “Love Me” and “By the Grace of God,” which stand out awkwardly as beautiful stripped-down pieces among her lackluster attempt at being happy and lively again. Her collaboration with Juicy J in “Dark Horse” was a smart move and will most definitely be one of the more popular tracks on the album. The production of the upbeat songs are great and they will no doubt get played on the radio and in the clubs. I just don’t see any of these going down as pop classics.

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Marijuana’s classification hurts causeJeff Brinkrantopinioncolumnist

T he majority of people overwhelmingly sup-port the legalization of

medical marijuana, and by a small margin support full-scale legalization. So I think its time that these policy directors get together and figure out where they are going with this thing. These are two different direc-tions with which Colorado has experimented. I seriously doubt that people who smoke pot would rather go to a doc-tor, pay him and then go to a store all under the cover that its for medicinal purposes (A lot of the time, it is) than just walk into 7/11 and buy their product. By defining this plant as two different things, both a medicine and recreational intoxicant, we’ve effectively made the road to legalizing

both very difficult. Yes, classi-fying marijuana as a medicine was a smart idea from the start, however the states with medi-cal marijuana programs are now aware of what is going on. They can’t stop someone from lying—they just cant. And the doctor in certain states, such as California, is inclined to give you the required card, receiv-ing money for the approval.

However, this impedes the progress of the full-scale legal-ization process by defining this plant as two different things.

Those who grow the plant for medicinal shops most definite-ly would not want full-scale legalization; their product would immediately loose most of its market value.

Going back to California, its no wonder that their legaliza-tion law didn’t pass, their lobby of medical growers opposed it. The usual voters who would approve such legislation actu-ally opposed it because of the financial success they have from working in a gray area. An MSNBC article also found that in Maine, a similar proposition was made and failed. One of the opponents of the legalization bill was the Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine. These opposing groups impede the progress than can be obtained by those who feel legalization and regulation is the correct answer to the drug war. Which yes, it is. Colorado now has to deal with both industries

erupting and will most like-ly see their medical program seriously drop off in mem-bers, and rightfully so. Luckily their medical supporters were unable to block the law that legalized the drug fully.

This problem will never get solved until the federal govern-ment decides what to do with the Controlled Substances Act in rela-tion to marijuana’s category. Most politicians in D.C. are aware that it is not classified correctly, however the agenda doesn’t call for this change at the current time. The

government has enough problems at the moment than dealing with this. No matter how many states legalize however, nothing will change until that federal law does.

As the rule of law goes, the fed-eral government’s laws will trump those of the states when conflict arises. Anyway, it would be nice to see these two camps come together and forget the financial aspect of this issue and look more at the morality of it. Should we treat it as a medicine and continue this game with the government where states operate in gray areas? Or should we out-right legalize it and allow everyone the choice to try a plant that’s been illegal for 80 years, for reasons that were completely unfounded and racist (its criminalization was the result of racist speculation decree-ing the plant made white women sleep with black men in the 1930s). I promised myself I would only write about this topic once, so that’s it.

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this problem will never get solved until the federal government decides what to do with the Controlled

Substances act in relation to marijuana’s category.

By defining this plant as two different things, both a medicine and recreational

intoxicant, we’ve effectively made the road

to legalizing both very difficult.

Protecting your online reputation allows you to remain employable Biblical translations are legitimate

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letter to the editor

By Chris JonesPhD canDiDaTe, hebrew anD SemiTic STuDieS

I want to offer a few responses to Sara Vinson’s thoughtful piece on why the Bible is a poor source of religious authority. Let me say, at the outset, that I fully concur with her that the Bible contains factual errors, internal inconsisten-cies and some deeply prob-lematic, ethically disturbing content. I am not trying to change Ms. Vinson’s mind in that regard.

I assume, however, that as an atheist Ms. Vinson has a high regard for reason and evidence, and I want to correct several inaccura-cies in her piece. First of all: While there is always some uncertainty involved in translating dead languages, it is not the free-for-all that she imagines. Apart from a few words or phrases here and there, we can general-ly arrive at reliable under-standings of what ancient Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek authors intended to say, and

we can situate their state-ments in their own histori-cal contexts.

Second, it is not true that the Bible, as we now have it, has passed through multi-ple translations. Most mod-ern English versions are based on the best Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek manu-scripts available, meaning that they are reliable repre-sentations of the text’s con-tent. We may (and should!) take issue with what these ancient authors say, but the text itself has not become “warped” over time—quite the contrary.

If Ms. Vinson (or anybody else!) is curious about how biblical texts were written or what they meant to their original audiences, I would encourage her to take a bib-lical studies course at UW. They are taught using secu-lar, critical methodologies by some of the world’s finest scholars of the ancient world (and also, sometimes, by me).

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S top posting pictures or statuses about illegal activities on Facebook.

According to Nolo-Law for All, two thirds of all recruiters and half of employers research their applicants’ online pres-ence. Employers have been known to turn down appli-cants because of a negative photo, status or “about” page on their Facebook account.

College admission offices are able to look at the Facebook pages of their applicants. According to a CNN Opinion article by Nicolaus Mills and the Kaplan Survey, 27 percent of college admission coun-selors looked at their applicant’s Facebook accounts during the admission process.

Despite these realities, every morning when I check my Facebook I see another one of my friends has posted a picture of his or herself holding a beer, a red cup or drinking straight from a champagne bottle. There are far too many statuses on my news feed about how hammered friends are going to be tonight, how drunk they got last night or about fighting through their current hangovers.

The red solo cup has become closely associated with alcohol and underage drinking. Because of that close association, it’s possi-ble that drinking a non-alcoholic beverage out of a red solo cup will be misconstrued as drinking an alcoholic beverage in a Facebook photo. For that reason, I would recommend setting down any beverage in a red solo cup before taking a photo. You don’t want an employer or admissions coun-selor to misinterpret the picture.

Posting these activities can be extremely detrimen- tal to your online reputation. For people under the age of 21, posting pictures and statuses about drinking is providing

the world with proof of your participation in illegal activi-ties. Even if you are above the age of 21, be careful about the number of pictures or status-es you post relating to alcohol. Even though drinking may be legal, the frequency and level of drunkenness on your page can be unattractive to potential employers or graduate school admissions counselors.

Closely monitor your pres-ence on the Internet. It’s impor-

tant to maintain a clean Facebook account that doesn’t contain any evidence of illegal activity. Social media is wildly popular in today’s society. It allows us to check up on our friends and keep in touch with loved ones easily. However, it also allows employers and college admis-sions officers to check up on their applicants. Therefore, pro-tection is necessary.

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ACROSS 1 One of America’s 50 6 Positioned, as a house 11 “What am ___ do?” 14 A “Cosby” episode,

today 15 One place for a big

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establishment 20 Fly ball’s path 21 Fond du ___ 22 A “Hickory Dickory

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directions 29 Lengthen, as a speech 30 “Genesis” brother 32 Paleozoic and

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etc. 43 Good’s opposite 44 Rewrite for the screen 46 Captain’s speed

measure 48 Ruckus 49 “How ___ is that?” 51 Winter bird food 52 Short snooze 53 Flies across Africa? 56 Support framework 58 A real fly-by-night 59 Deerstalker, for one 60 ___ Claire, Wisc. 61 Anonymous surname,

in court 62 It’s a sin 68 Curator’s hang-ups 69 Give a false

impression of 70 Lacking worldliness 71 “What can I do for

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yellowfin 5 Ask on bended knee 6 Pouchlike part 7 Receiver of

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and ebb 38 Marry, sans ceremony 40 “See ___ Run” 42 Not mono 45 Samsung competitor 47 The “S” in T.S. Eliot 50 Like ‘50s gasoline 53 At the present time 54 Made a statement on

a stack of Bibles? 55 Bishop’s vestment 57 “Dead Man Walking”

actress Sarandon 63 Balmy place? 64 Moist, and then some 65 Quicken the pace 66 “___ been thinking ...” 67 Word before “capita”

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Sports DailyCarDinal.ComTueSDay oCTober 22, 2013

UW keeps on winning

Press Conference

by Jack baerThe Daily CarDinal

Women’s HockeyThe University of Wisconsin

women’s hockey team (4-2-0 WCHA, 4-2-0 overall) moved up to No. 2 in this week’s NCAA rankings and will continue its homestand with a series against Lindenwood (0-7-1) this weekend.

The Badgers are coming off a dominant series sweep of St. Cloud State at the LaBahn arena.

Head coach Mark Johnson described the challenge of pre-paring for what could be per-ceived as a lower-tier opponent in Lindenwood, a program which was recently admitted into the NCAA as a varsity sport before the 2011-’12 season.

“One thing I’ve learned is you have to respect your opponent. Don’t look at their record. Don’t look at their history,” Johnson said. “Prepare for that 60 min-utes Friday night like it’s the last game of the season and you have to go out and win it.“

Unanimous No. 1 Minnesota swept the Badgers in Minneapolis earlier this month.

“The two games we had a couple weeks ago were evenly matched. They found ways both nights to end up beating us. So the object now is to grow. So we’ll get a better feel of that in February when we come down and play the two games here in Madison.”

VolleyballThe volleyball team (5-3 Big

Ten, 16-4) continued it’s break-out season with a 3-1 upset of No. 5 Michigan State at the UW Field House.

Head coach Kelly Sheffield praised his team’s defense and serving, along with many indi-vidual players’ performances.

“[Senior] Annemarie Hickey

was absolutely fantastic defen-sively the whole match. I thought [freshman] Lauren Carlini did a really good job of executing the game plan,” Sheffield said. “[Junior] Ellen Chapman prob-ably played one of her most com-plete games of the year, certainly put a lot of pressure on them from behind the serving line.”

Sheffield later discussed the upcoming match against No. 10 Minnesota on Wednesday.

“Their outsides are about as good as anybody in the conference. They’ve got a player of the year candidate in the middle. We’ve got to try to figure out a way to slow her down a little bit. And then a couple of freshmen that have come in and really done a nice job.”

FootballThe football team (3-1, 5-2)

dominated Illinois en route to a 56-32 win in Champaign. Now, a second bye week awaits the Badgers in the coming weekend.

Andersen went on to discuss junior kicker Kyle French’s deci-sion to forgo a senior season with the Badgers.

“I think he believes he’s moving in the right direction for the foot-ball team, number one, for himself and football for the rest of the sea-son, and for himself in the future as he prepares to go in the direc-tion he’s going in years to come. He knows he’s got my support,” Andersen said. “Kids’ lives change every single day. Doesn’t always go the way we want it to just like our lives do. He’s a great kid. I’m here to support him, and he knows that. I think his teammates are here to support him also.”

Andersen stated he expected senior linebacker Chris Borland to be ready for the team’s next game at Iowa but, kicking long field goals might be out of the question.

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B uster Olney of ESPN reported last Saturday that officials from the

Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers expected the topic of banning home plate collisions to be raised at Major League Baseball’s Winter Meetings.

That’s a good thing, because the alternative is to allow one of the stupidest rules in sports to con-tinue existing for yet another year.

Collisions bring so little to baseball and cost so much. In last Thursday’s ALCS game five, we saw Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera slam into Red Sox catch-er David Ross, then the same Ross bowl into Tigers catcher Alex Avila an inning later.

Both Cabrera and Ross were unsuccessful in dislodging the ball from the catcher’s glove and were out by an average of 10 feet. However, Avila was injured in his collision, suffering a strained patellar tendon in his left knee. Avila went on to play in game six, but was probably not 100 percent when you consider he hit 0-4 with 3 strikeouts.

All the plate collisions did in that game was injure one team’s starter and give two bad baser-unners a small chance to redeem their clear blunders.

At some point it became accepted and eventually laud-able for catchers—because they happen to be wearing body

armor to protect them from foul balls—to use that armor to prevent baserunners from reaching home.

Maybe this would be okay if catchers took pride in taking their hits and holding the ball in the face of a man the size of Cabrera bulldozing them at full sprint, but that is simply not the case.

Consider comments from for-mer Tigers manager and noted curmudgeon Jim Leyland, San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy, and St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny.

All of them are former catch-ers, all of them are known for managing with an old school mentality, and all of them have publicly stated they want to get rid of collisions.

We can talk about how rail-roading catchers has always been part of baseball. That doesn’t mean it’s a good part of baseball.

Baseball also used to fea-ture baserunners spiking the Achilles tendon of second base-men, a reserve clause that tied players to teams for the entire-ty of their careers, and a white players only rule. Baseball’s higher ups got rid of all of these rules, and baseball is obviously better because of it.

When something like colli-sions hurt the game, it should be removed. And collisions do hurt the game when you think of the health of the three consensus best catchers in baseball, the Giants Buster Posey, Twins Joe Mauer, and Cardinals Yadier Molina.

Posey lost most of his 2011

season to a shattered ankle from a plate collision. Molina suffered an upper back, shoulder and neck strain along with a concus-sion scare from a 2012 collision.

Mauer is going to have to change positions soon, and it’s due to past injuries, one of which occurred in a 2012 col-lision, and concussion issues which make the prospect of him getting trucked absolutely ter-rifying for any Twins fan.

That’s the three best players at their position all having their careers endangered by home plate collision injuries and all in the past three years. How is that even remotely acceptable?

That’s just the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to the dam-age collisions have caused. If you want a particularly asinine example, go read about the 1970 All-Star game. That’s when hus-tle legend Pete Rose laid out a hit on Ray Fosse that would make Ray Lewis blush during an exhi-bition game. Fosse’s promising career was subsequently ham-pered by shoulder injuries taken from the hit. Rose never apolo-gized and 33 years later, Fosse is still bitter.

Sure, slamming into the catcher can be entertaining, but if it’s one of the reasons one watches baseball, I’ve got some good news. Football exists, it’s got plenty of collisions and it’s played every weekend during the fall and winter.

Do you think collisions at home plate should be eliminated from baseball? Let Jack know what you think by emailing sports@dailycardinal.com.

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last Thursday redshirt junior kicker Kyle french announced via facebook that he will retire from football after this season, ending his career as a Badger a year short.

“The coaches have asked me to forgo my senior season and focus on my career outside of football after this season,” the post reads. “it has been a great ride, a time i’ll never forget, and i’m excited for what is to come!”

he sent out a tweet later that night saying, “it was a mutual agre-ement that is best for everyone.”

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