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Sixty days, 540,208 signaturesOpponents collect signatures through state Republicans rally to ‘recall the recalls’By Jacob RiedererThe Daily CarDinal

Democratic-affiliated groups official-ly began circulating petitions Tuesday as part of a statewide effort to force a recall election of Gov. Scott Walker.

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin and United Wisconsin, a political action committee created around recalling Walker, need to obtain 540,208 signatures in 60 days for a recall election to take place, which could take place as soon as May.

The groups kicked off the recall effort early Tuesday morning with events across the state where Walker oppo-nents could sign petitions at 12:01 a.m.

Students could sense the recall atmo-sphere around campus.

College Democrats gathered signa-tures on Bascom Hill and volunteers for the Teaching Assistants’ Association set up tables at East Campus Mall and Union South.

College Democrats Chair Jordan Weibel said their petitioning efforts have been successful so far and encouraged students to get involved in the process.

“Signing a petition is … one thing, but volunteering and getting up and talking to other students about why you specifi-

By Jack CaseyThe Daily CarDinal

As Democrats began circulating petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker, UW Republicans joined with the Dane County Young Republicans to put on a rally supporting the governor.

State Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, spoke at the event and said Walker has lived up to his campaign promises by balancing the budget and opening up the state to private sector job growth.

“We have made sure to turn the state around to let every single private job sector creator know Wisconsin is open for business,” Vos said.

Vos also urged supporters to defend Walker and warned about national unions sending money to spread “lies and innuendos” during the recall efforts.

“We have to work night and day to make sure that that recall, if it happens, is not successful,” Vos said. “Wisconsin cannot go back-wards, which is why every single one of you has to be involved.”

Although Walker supporters filled the room, Walker opponents in the crowd interrupted with chants as Vos was about to speak. Some event attend-ees approached protesters to get them

Officials speak against lapsesBy Alison BauterThe Daily CarDinal

UW System leaders spoke against additional system-wide funding cuts at a Senate committee meeting Tuesday.

The one-time cuts, meant to address lapses in the current state budget, will increase existing gaps in higher educa-tion funding by an additional $65.8 million over the next two years, cutting $18 million from UW-Madison alone.

Testifying before the Senate Committee on Higher Education, UW System President Kevin P. Reilly said additional cuts hinder the UW System’s contribution to state economic growth.

“If we seem taken aback, and we do, by the new proposed budget lapses, it’s pri-marily because they jeopardize [UW’s] public mission and threaten our ability to sustain broad access to high-quality edu-cation,” Reilly said.

Additionally, Reilly said “the lapses hit the university in a highly disproportionate, inequitable way” because the UW System, which uses 7 percent of the state’s general-purpose revenue, is taking 38 percent of budget lapse cuts.

Chancellors, professors and student leaders from across the UW System echoed Reilly’s concerns in testimony before the committee, worrying about the impact cuts could have on class size, fac-ulty layoffs and affordability.

In light of recent budget cuts to theuniversity, campus officials announced Tuesday they plan to use flexibility gran-ted to UW-Madison in the state’s 2011-’13 budget to restructure human resources at the university.

UW-Madison director of human resour-ces Bob lavigna said the project aims to better incorporate and manage talent at the university.

“We want to create a system that is flexi-ble so that we can make continual improve-ments to our hr processes,” lavigna said in a statement to the university.

Vice Chancellor for administration Darrell Bazzell said project leaders hope to have a new personnel system created by spring 2012.

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“These budget lapses point out the need for a broad policy discussion on the bounds between [general-purpose revenue] and tuition that helps to fund the university,” Chancellor David Ward told the committee. “We need, as a state, to decide and declare what the appropri-ate balance of tuition and state funding

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required to recall state senators

Four GOP Sens. could face recall

Recall papers were filed Tuesday against four Republican state senators, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau.

Sens. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau, Terry Moulton, R-Chippewa Falls, Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, and Fitzgerald will face recall elections if organizers collect enough signatures from members of the sen-ators’ respective districts in the next 30 days.

The number of signatures submitted to the Government Accountability Board must equal at least 25 percent of the votes cast in the candidates’ most recent elec-tion. Each group will need to gather about 15,000 signatures to initiate a recall.

Recall Senator Galloway Committee orga-nizer Nancy Tabaka-Stencil said Galloway has been a “rubber stamp” for Walker’s agenda.

“Recalling Senator Galloway will give Wisconsinites the opportunity to elect a senator who will work to bring balance back to the people and communities of our state,” Tabaka-Stencil said in a statement.

Galloway said she was not surprised a recall effort was launched against her, but added she was disappointed because she has kept her campaign promises.

“I’ve never backed down from a chal-lenge and will vigorously defend my record of working on behalf of my constituents,” Galloway said in statement.

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Mock election shows voting law’s impact

Board’s technical school decision to be formalized

By Sam CusickThe Daily CarDiNal

The City of Madison Clerk’s Office and the Associated Students of Madison held a mock election Tuesday in Memorial Union, where they examined potential problems that could arise from the new voting laws.

Following the passage of the new law requiring a photo ID to vote, current Wisconsin student IDs will not be an acceptable form of identification. The university plans to issue new Wiscards that comply with voter ID laws.

Officials said student ID cards were the second-most common form of identification presented by the nearly 100 students who voted in the mock election, with Wisconsin driver’s licenses being the most common.

“That basically tells us that it’s going to be a lot harder to get … stu-dents using their Wiscard to vote because there’s going to be so much more that you need to bring than just one card,” ASM Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers said.

City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl said city officials also

learned they will need to double the number of poll workers per polling place from five election officials to 10.

Madison will need the addi-tional workers to meet a commit-ment the city made to ensure no one waits in line for more than 15 minutes to vote, Somers said.

“[Poll workers] are going to have to look at more information, so it’s generally going to take longer because … now they’re going to have to see two documents and your ID card,” she said, referring to proof of enrollment and proof of residency.

Witzel-Behl also said that students with proof of residen-cy previously could vouch for a roommate who did not have a document in their name to use as proof of their address.

However, this option ended with the passing of voter ID laws.

Somers and Witzel-Behl said that while many people typi-cally register on the same day as they vote, these new proof of residency laws will make the registration process more time-consuming, leading to a decrease in same-day registration.

By Tyler NickersonThe Daily CarDiNal

Technical school students may not be allowed to use their student IDs to vote, after a legislative com-mittee decided Tuesday to formal-ize the Government Accountability Board’s interpretation of the Voter ID law into a rule.

The GAB determined earlier this month the language in the law requiring voters to present a photo ID puts technical school IDs into the same category as college and university IDs and should be allowed.

The GAB, an independent state agency that oversees the election process, maintains the right to interpret and enforce laws and cre-ate administrative rules. Wisconsin Act 21, passed earlier this year, sends administrative rules to the Governor for final approval.

Democratic legislators fear that under Act 21 Gov. Scott Walker could override the board’s techni-cal college rule, potentially mak-ing it harder for the state’s 400,000 technical school students to vote.

The Joint Committee for the

Review of Administrative Rules voted along party lines to order the board to formalize their opinion on technical school’s ID requirements.

A rule permitting schools to use stickers on their IDs will be drafted.

Democratic committee members criticized the move as a way to “micromanage” the upcoming election.

“The governor is going to be in control of his own election,” state Rep. Gary Hebl, D-Sun Prairie, said.

Democrats argued the pro-cess undermines the GAB’s role because it takes lawmaking power away from the legislature and plac-es it in the hands of the executive.

“Let’s at least maintain the independence of the GAB,” state Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, said.

State Rep. Jim Ott, R-Mequon, said after an emergency rule leaves committee, it must follow certain procedures.

“If we just say we are not going to make any rules because we don’t want any rules to go past the gover-nor, then we are not going to take any action on any emergency rules from now on?” Ott said.

cally want to recall Walker is really going to make this recall successful,” Weibel said.

Debbie Thomas, vice chair of College Democrats, said she was optimistic the group would collect “several hun-dred” signatures during the first week.

Jill Hopke, a TAA volun-teer, said Walker unfairly infringed on her right to col-lectively bargain.

Hopke said the TAA would be working to inform the public about the new law that requires voters to show valid forms of identifica-tion at polling places and the effects this requirement will have on voting.

“It’s very important to be able to have a say in the work-place, and that’s what collective bargaining affords us,” Hopke said. “So, hopefully with this effort we will be able to recall Walker and move toward get-ting our rights back.”

But College Republicans spokesperson Jeff Snow said Walker’s policies are getting the state “on track” after years of “fiscal insanity.”

“I think the more time goes on, the more facts we have on our side, the lower the budget deficit gets and the more our reforms get a chance to work,” Snow said.

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to leave while others ver-bally responded to the pro-testers’ chant.

The room turned into a shouting match between both sides.

College Republicans Chair Johnny Koremenos said they’re “afraid that their side is not going to win out unless they bully everybody.”

“Let them infiltrate our

events. We’re not afraid because when it comes time for voters in Wisconsin to pull that lever, they are going to vote for Governor Walker.” Koremenos said.

College Republicans Spokesperson Jeff Snow said the group’s goal is to get stu-dents who formerly had not supported Republicans to reconsider signing the peti-tion.

“We have to work to express to students that our reforms are working,” Snow said.

Snow said people are beginning to see that Walker’s policies are working and that a recall election would not be successful.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they get the signatures, but I know we’ll win in the general election,” Snow said.

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should be.”Ward noted UW System

leaders must learn to be cost-effective as well.

UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell contended, there is “only so far” increased efficiency can go toward cov-ering the cuts.

“There’s really a limit to how far we can be cut,” Lovell said. “I believe the present cuts to the UW System could do irreparable harm to the

state.”Committee Chairman

state Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, said he hoped the group could serve as a “conduit” to remind fel-low senators to “make cer-tain that we understand the consequence of our action when it comes to the appor-tionment of the state financ-es.”

“We will get together on a bipartisan basis and chat about where we go from here,” Schultz said.

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Walker opponents protested at a republican rally Tuesday, which led to a confrontation with supporters.

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City and university officials held a mock election Tuesday to prepare for voting laws that will affect the next election.

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City slashes Edgewater fundsBy Taylor HarveyTheDailyCarDiNal

The long-debated Edgewater Hotel project could be dead follow-ing a Common Council vote Tuesday in which Mayor Paul Soglin broke a tie to make the final decision.

After hours of testimony and questioning, Madison’s Common Council approved Soglin’s 2012 Capital Budget, with $3.3 million of tax incremental funding allot-ted to fund the Edgewater Hotel project.

The Capital Budget originally allotted the Edgewater $16 mil-lion in TIFs, the city’s funding consisting of citizens’ tax dol-lars, until Soglin slashed the project’s allocation down to $3.3 million in September.

“This is a travesty for the Langdon Street neighborhood,” Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said. “This neighborhood abso-lutely needed development.”

Edgewater developer Robert Dunn said the fate of the Edgewater remains unknown, but there is no way the project can shoulder the redevelopment funds and the hotel remain economically solvent with-out the $16 million TIF.

“I am going to work to see if there is anything else that can be done to try to make this happen,

and we will move forward accord-ingly,” Maniaci said.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the city set a poor precedent by overturning years of planning by the previous City Council.

Resnick said although the rejected TIF funds will not “scare business away,” it could make it difficult for the city to do business in terms of large-scale investments.

“I really hope moving forward the mayor, the Common Council and business leaders will be able to enter into a process to create a better place to conduct business and encourage growth,” Resnick said.

Those who opposed the extra funding in both public testimony and official deliberation raised concerns such as whether the Edgewater was worth $16 mil-lion while the city could use that funding for other projects, such as schools and other public spaces.

“There’s obviously a lack of available public space, but for $16 million you have to ask what could you do in another area,” Ald. Larry Palm, District 15, said

“This should be a destination, a landmark of our city,” Dunn said. “If we’re not going to do what we ventured together to do, the future is not very bright.”

SJ hears MCSC’s appealBy Anna DuffinTheDailyCarDiNal

The Multicultural Student Coalition appealed a student government committee’s deci-sion to deny the group funding to the Student Judiciary Tuesday.

The Student Services Finance Committee denied MCSC in October when members of the committee determined less than half of the group’s time was spent “directly serving” students.

MCSC member Jensen Trotter said SSFC does not have a stan-dardized method for determining what constitutes a “direct service,” saying SSFC representatives deter-mined the group spent anywhere from 5.4 to 64 percent of their time directly serving students.

“The incredible range dem-onstrated from these hearings would be enough to convince any credible statistician that the system used to extract these findings is fundamentally flawed,” Trotter said.

Neibart said although SSFC members might interpret

“direct services” differently, the committee does have a stan-dardized process for calculating what percentage of a group’s time is spent on the services.

“When it comes down to it, groups could say anything is a direct service,” Neibart said. “It is then SSFC’s job to delineate what actually is.”

MCSC executive staff member Althea Miller said the method SSFC Rep. Cale Plamann used to decide the group spent less than half its time on “direct services” was subjective and unfair.

“The very fact that these arbitrary numbers needed to be applied is indicative of a broken process and insufficient eligibil-ity criteria,” Miller said.

“He did his duty as an SSFC member to clearly identify what a direct service is and how much time a group spends on that direct service,” Neibart said.

The SJ has 10 school days to make a ruling on the case and determine if SSFC’s ruling was valid.

MCSCDiversityeducatorNnekaakubezesaidSSFCwassubjectiveindecidingifthegroupwaseligibleforfunding.

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Before City of Madison budget talks got underway, Dane County Board officials passed the county 2012 budget Monday.

“I believe this budget does what is necessary to defend critical human and public services at a time when our residents need them most,” County Exe-cutive Joe Parisi said in a statement.

Both Parisi and Mayor Paul Soglin proposed investing a total of $78,276 toward an initiative to com-bat what has been called a heroin and opiate “epide-mic” in Dane County.

According to Parisi, the budget preserves the county’s safety net for seniors, kids and those with disabilities, and carries out an initiative to clean up Dane County lakes and protect natural resources.TAylor HArvEy / THE DAily CArDinAl

Dane County passes budget for 2012

EpA administrator praises UW’s environmental leadershipBy Alison BauterTheDailyCarDiNal

Loud applause greeted the Environmental Protection Agency’s Lisa Jackson as the agency administrator addressed a packed Varsity Hall Thursday on the importance of the EPA’s economic role.

President Barack Obama appointed Jackson in 2008 as the EPA’s first African-American administrator. Her career has been characterized by a push for conservation-based economic innovation and environmental justice.

“It’s good for me as EPA admin-istrator to come into Wisconsin,” Jackson said Tuesday. “It’s really like coming back to home to the

source of everything we do.”Jackson praised UW-Madison

for its past leadership in the environmental movement and called upon faculty and students to continue to “drive the environ-mental movement.”

“We need that same nation-wide concern mobilized to pull these issues out of the political gridlock of today,” Jackson said.

That drive is especially cru-cial now, as Republican lawmak-ers vote to “undermine” the EPA and national environmental law, she said.

Jackson attributed anti-envi-ronmental legislation to “misin-formation” spread by lobbyists, corporations and news organiza-tions, and she sought to dispel

common misconceptions. Chief among those, Jackson said, is the misconception that EPA spend-ing and regulation harm the national economy.

Jackson credited Obama for continuing to fund the EPA in the face of economic recession, because the president “knows the choice between the envi-ronment and the economy is a false choice.”

In the face of “a new genera-tion of environmental challeng-es,” Jackson emphasized tying environmental innovation, like hybrid transportation and green energy, to growing the economy.

“It is clear we could have a clean environment and a good economy,” Jackson said.

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roommates tackle, deter burglarsTwo North Broom Street

roommates held down two bur-glars who broke their apartment window Monday night until police arrived at the scene.

Police said the roommates heard a garbage can get kicked over and opened the door. They found two men hanging from their second-floor bal-cony. The men claimed they wanted to smash the pump-kins that were on the balcony.

The roommates later heard the sound of breaking glass and found one of the suspects had

broken two of their windows.“One roommate tackled one of

the suspects and held him, wait-ing for police to arrive,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

The other intruder, who returned to free his friend and punched a roommate in the nose, was tackled by the other roommate until officers were on the scene.

Police charged the intruders with disorderly conduct, crimi-nal damage to property, battery and underage alcohol possession.

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student organizations measure collected food on the last day of a campus-wide food drive. + Photo by Daven Hines

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Ben SiegelGuest columNist

T he fact that two of the year’s most highly antici-pated hip-hop albums

share a release date invites a cer-tain amount of comparison of both the artists and their music.

First, there’s Drake: the teen “Degrassi” heartthrob turned rapper/singer, sensitive and soft-spoken enough for your rabbi to proudly claim as one of the tribe (he’s Jewish, after all).

Then, there’s Childish Gambino (the pseudonym of Donald Glover), an Emmy-award winning “30 Rock” writ-er and actor on the hilarious “Community.” If his background doesn’t make him an unconven-tional rapper, listening to any of his songs will yield at least three pop culture references in the first 30 seconds, a quality that makes Drake’s solid lyri-cism sound dull and depressing by comparison.

It’s easy for me then, as a lis-tener, to extend my comparison of the musicians to their music. With this perspective, Glover’s promise on “Hold You Down” not to stop rapping until “James Franco is the white Donald Glover,” makes this unconven-tional rapper the edgier MC for his alternative anti-materialistic social commentary. This becomes especially clear next to Drake’s discography. After all, isn’t Drake the one singing the club-friendly hooks for the hedonistic hits of Rick Ross and Lil Wayne?

At his best, Glover is a whip-smart lyricist whose rhymes are equal-parts hilarious and sub-versive. “You’re not not racist ‘cause the Wire’s on your Netflix queue,” he jabs (also from “Hold You Down”), a line that made me self-conscious for my season five binge a few weeks ago. If any-thing, Gambino’s introduction to the mainstream is not only welcome, but also necessary for a genre that’s been suffering from an identity crisis since The College Dropout.

Drake may appear to croon catchy hooks just as frequently as he does to spit, but it would be a mistake not to mention him as one of Kanye’s successors of rap’s avant-garde. Keeping in mind the strangely mourn-

ful odes to success and mate-rial wealth on his mixtape So Far Gone, it takes only one listen of Take Care’s second single, the Nicki Minaj-featured “Make Me Proud,” to see Drake as the edg-ier rapper, the one challenging how a rapper talks about women from hip-hop’s inner circle.

“All I can say is / I’m so proud of you,” Drake says in the chorus of the album’s second-official single, one that reached No. 9 on the Billboard 100. When you look at his Saturday Night Live performance of the song on YouTube, take a second and step back, stop watching for booty shots of Nicki’s posterior and ask yourself: When was the last time a rapper penned a chart-topper about his respect for a woman?

Despite its tendency to offer more of the usual textbook objec-tification, Lil Wayne’s recent “How to Love” first comes to mind. The odds are that Drake’s girl is as hot as the object of Wayne’s affection—after all, it is Drake—but that isn’t the focus of his serenade: “Sound so smart like you graduated college / Like you went to Yale but you prob-ably went to Howard, knowing you / Weekend in Miami tryna study by the pool.”

Drake’s girl is obviously strik-ing a pose by the pool, but it’s her drive, her intelligence and char-acter Drake loves. It may come off as a bit corny, but before cheapen-ing it as forced, remember back to Drake’s “Best I Ever Had”—that one that spent 14 weeks as the hottest song in the country and almost earned him a Grammy without making anyone a dime. Drake spends the song reassur-ing his girl of his love for her, no matter when he sees her or how she looks: “Sweatpants, hair tied, chilling with no makeup on / that’s when you’re the prettiest, I hope you don’t take it wrong,” a rhyme so honest and genuine you can’t believe you didn’t think of it.

That’s not to say Drake doesn’t have his misogynistic moments on Take Care. “Lord Knows,” featur-ing Rick Ross, starts off with Drake describing the lack of trust he has in some women, going to far as “going through her phone / if she go to the bathroom / in her purse right there / I don’t trust these

hoes at all.” Even at this low, Drake acknowledges that untrustworthy/selfish women share similar traits with the opposite sex.

At the expense of ostracizing myself from the very same commu-nity of musical criticism I’m trying to enter, comparing and general-izing rap, especially in this case, is a bit of a cop-out. Just because Camp and Take Care share a release date doesn’t mean they should be pitted against each other; to say one is bet-ter than the other is an oversimplifi-cation at the expense of both artists and their genre.

The greater disservice, however, comes with listening for a message challenging hip-hop and rap and expecting it only to come from the

outside. Just because the rap outsid-er is doing something new doesn’t mean the MC of the hour isn’t chal-lenging conceptions of popular hip-hop. Of the two, Gambino may be the Williamsburg hipster at heart,

but it’s Drake who’s the trendsetter.Take Care, Drake says with

his Tuesday release. I’d advise listening up.

Disagree? Let Ben know at brsiegel@wisc.edu.

Trendsetting puts Drake ahead of Gambino’s hipster cred

T is the season for thanks-giving. With the holidays approaching quickly, I’ve

been more introspective. I’ve been thinking about how

good my life is, even though I’m stressed about papers, grades, applying to the journalism school and about a million other things, just like any other college student. So when reading “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,” I was constant-ly considering what it would be like to be Christopher, aged 15 years, 3 months and 2 days as he introduces himself.

He has autism. Christopher cannot stand people touching him. He is frightened by strang-ers. He counts and solves math problems when he is scared or overwhelmed. His teacher has to draw him pictures of people’s faces with different emotions so he can understand what they are thinking, but at the same time he can comprehend a puzzle that stumps even Ph.D.s.

He is honest, at times brutally so. He is also wise, coming up with opinions about things that people normally wouldn’t question, like why people like him have “special needs.” According to Christopher, everyone has special needs, even his father.

With that statement, I had to wonder what my special needs are. Maybe it’s that I refuse to eat

onions—a trait that I share with Christopher’s dad. Or is it how I hate change? Perhaps each of us is made up of these “special needs.” They make us who we are.

It's cliché to talk about putting yourself in someone else's shoes, when you obviously can't. It's impossible for me to even begin to understand what someone like Christopher would be going through in everyday life. There are too many differences.

For Christopher would have been pretty infeasible to go to a university like UW-Madison. The amount of people—in lectures, on the street, in a dorm—could be ter-rifyingly overwhelming. Getting along with other students would forever be a challenge, as he might be confused about jokes complicat-ed relationships. Christopher only

knows three jokes. He talks about people being teachers, or parents or having sex, but doesn’t seem to understand these on a deeper level.

Living alone would probably never happen for Christopher. Neither would traveling or hav-ing kids.

It’s interesting to try to under-stand what life would be like if I were born with a mental handicap. It’s impossible to truly comprehend it all, but still valuable. How are we to empathize with people if we don’t even attempt to understand them?

“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” helped me understand someone else. I was lost in Christopher’s world and the way his brain worked. This is the true value of literature—allowing read-ers to understand people different from them.

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The ‘curious incident’ of gaining new perspective

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I have been talking with my progressive friends about Gov. Scott Walker lately.

I’ll be the first to admit that Walker’s policies have had mixed results at best. I stand with my progressive friends in opposing his budget cuts—after all, it is a recession which is the worst time to cut government spending. But my friends also want to hold a special recall election to kick him out of office early. I disagree.

I see the appeal of a recall election: With recall elections already circulating, there is a good chance that he could be replaced with a progressive Democrat. I’ll even admit that there’s probably no better way to reverse Walker’s policies than to just outright replace him. Regardless, the case for a recall is much more strained than its advocates would like to believe.

There are three things that can happen as a result of this attempt to oust the governor. For one, the petition to hold a recall may not have enough signatures in time, and even if it does, Walker may still win the election. In both of these cases, the progressive agenda is no further ahead than it is now. Both of these would leave the Democratic party with fewer resources and less likely to attract the support needed for the next gubernatorial election. Needless to say, this is not a case where the Democrats have nothing to lose—they might not have much now, but things can certainly get worse.

Of course, while the risks are great, so too may be the rewards. What would happen if Walker lost?

Before we can answer that question, we should take a look outside Wisconsin. The elec-tion of President Obama was certainly a triumphant moment for the Democratic party, and briefly left the Republican party in tatters. The Republican party probably would have stayed in tatters, too, if it hadn’t formed a strong, loyal opposi-tion. Rather than sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the next election, Republicans took a tip from British Parliament and began opposing the President’s initiatives solely to oppose his administration. Given Obama’s troubles in office and the Republican party’s comparable gains, this seems to be working well for them.

Or is it? Even after the Republican party regained control of the House of Representatives and many state governments (including ours) in 2010, not a whole lot changed. In hindsight, the reasons for this are clear. Even though the government has changed hands, the financial situation has yet to improve. This leaves politics-as-usual much blood-ier than it normally is, as each party desperately tries to be the one on top when the economic situation improves.

This state of political paraly-sis is predictable in a recession, since voters almost always throw out incumbents when the economy is ailing. This means more political paraly-sis for Wisconsin—even after a potentially successful recall a change in governorship may do little to improve the state’s economic situation. Look at

California and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to see how the results of a recall can actually backfire.

But seats in government are not everything. Trust in Congress is at an all-time low and political paralysis is mak-ing few people’s lives any easier. It is possible that an econom-ic recovery would occur after Walker’s replacement steps into office. But in truth, there is very little that a Democratic replacement for Walker would want, or even be able, to do

that would make things better. Unfortunately, the budget still needs to be balanced, and rais-ing taxes in a recession would hurt economic growth. The only thing that kicking Walker out makes more likely is the possibility that a Democrat is in office when the recession ends—but where’s the justifica-tion for a recall in that?

Out of the three possibili-ties, two of them leave the Democrats in essentially the same position—if not worse. The third might lead to

Democratic gains in the short run, but would almost certainly have little effect in the long run. Recall elections are good for removing corrupt politicians in poor economic conditions, but this is hardly the case. At this point a recall election is just a “do-over” for the impatient. My friends see it differently, but as far as I can tell, recalling Walker isn’t worth the effort.

Zach Thomae is a freshman majoring in computer science. Please send all feedback to opin-ion@dailycardinal.com.

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Turnover troubles continue to haunt team in loss

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Wisconsin lost a close one to Marquette despite senior forward anya covington’s strong effort in recording a double-double.

By ryan hillthe daily cardiNal

The Badgers (1-2) led against in-state rival Marquette (2-0) 47-43 with just 4:25 left in the contest, but were outscored 11-5 for the remain-der of the game and fell 54-52 at the Al McGuire Center in Milwaukee.

Sophomore guard Morgan Paige put Wisconsin up 49-46 with 2:37 left to play, but a pair of layup and two free throws put the Golden Eagles up three with 46 seconds remaining.

The Badgers then turned the ball over on the next possession but got it back and missed a 3-pointer with just five seconds left. Junior forward Sarina Simmons nailed two more free throws and the game concluded with Wisconsin senior guard Jade Davis hitting a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

“In the end, we probably didn’t box out the way we were supposed to, didn’t hit a shot or two, missed a layup, missed a free throw,” head coach Bobbie Kelsey said. “It all adds up in the end. That’s a good team and we learned a lot but we couldn’t win the game.”

Senior forward Anya Covington

turned in the most complete game for the Badgers Tuesday night. The 6-foot-2 senior notched her first double-double of the year, finish-ing with 11 points and 11 rebounds. She also showed frustration with the late collapse.

“It’s just the little things like coach said,” Covington said. “There were a few plays we missed, a few shots we shouldn’t have took, a few missed rebounds and they add up. It’s a learning lesson. We don’t want to have too many learn-ing lessons like that.”

Wisconsin struggled to defend Marquette’s Simmons, a 6-foot-1 forward out of Rufus King High School in Milwaukee. The junior had a career-high 23 points and pulled down six rebounds in the process.

“She’s a great player,” Kelsey said. “She’s one they depend on and they go to. She can deliver for her team.”

The Badgers also started out slower than they would’ve liked—they found themselves down by nine points on two separate occa-sions in the first half—but slowly chipped away and pulled even at

halftime. They then scored six straight points after Marquette scored to open the half, but poor shooting proved to haunt Wisconsin the rest of the way. As a team, the Badgers only converted on 31.4 percent (16-of-51) of their attempts, including only 6-of-21 from 3-point range.

Once again, turnovers hin-dered the Badgers as well. Just one game after committing 31 turn-overs against Oral Roberts Sunday, Wisconsin cut its total to 19, but still has room for improvement with ball-handling.

“We’ve been struggling with set-tling into our offense,” Paige said.

Despite the loss and falling to 1-2 on the season, Kelsey still saw improvement in some areas and acknowledged that the team still took a step forward.

“We battled all the way to the end and just came up a little short,” Kelsey added.

Wisconsin returns home to play Washington State on Friday at the Kohl Center. Tipoff is sched-uled for 7 p.m.

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Wisconsin hockey is taking fans for a ride

A fter watching the first month and a half of the season, I really can’t

figure out what to make of this season’s Wisconsin men’s hockey team.

The Badgers have played 12 games and have a overall record of 5-6-1 this year, and find them-selves sitting in a tie for fourth place in the WCHA—pretty respectable for a team made up of 20 freshmen and sophomores that came into this season with limited expectations.

With an inexperienced team you knew that this year would be a roller coaster-esque series of ups and downs, but it has been the altitude of those peaks and depth of those valleys that has left me wondering just what type of team Wisconsin has this year.

The Badgers have been con-sistently inconsistent. They’ve swept a then-No. 5 ranked North Dakota team, and they’ve been blown out, 7-2, by a mediocre St. Cloud State team. They’ve come out strong on Friday and faltered Saturday, and they’ve rebounded on Saturdays after tough starts on Fridays.

This past weekend against No. 1 Minnesota may have been the perfect microcosm of the Badgers season thus far. On Friday they looked brilliant. They displayed a dangerous, quick-strike offense and the ability to make things happen with the puck by using crisp, tape-to-tape passes in transi-tion and cycling in the offensive zone. The Wisconsin defense frustrated a Gopher offense that has had its way with oppo-nents this season. The Badgers skated right past the top-

ranked team in the country —it was the type of win you want to build on if you’re head coach Mike Eaves.

But that all disappeared Saturday as the Badgers were dominated by Minnesota, who controlled the game from start to finish. Wisconsin was sloppy on offense, throwing wayward pass-es and falling short on a number of golden opportunities on the Gopher net. The Badgers com-mitted sloppy turnovers in their own zone, which led to goals for Minnesota, and a 4-1 loss.

Those types of ups and downs have defined this season for Wisconsin. Just when you think they’ve turned a corner, they come out and lay an egg, and just when you’re down on them, they do something that leaves you awestruck.

But, that’s what you have to expect from an inexperienced team. Each weekend we are watching the Badgers growing as a team before our eyes. 2011-12 will be a season-long learning process for Wisconsin, but along the way, there have been plenty of encouraging bright spots.

On the top line, sophomore forwards Mark Zengerle and Tyler Barnes have turned themselves into Wisconsin’s dynamic duo on offense. Combining all of last season, the two players had a total of 11 goals between them. This sea-son through 12 games they are 1-2 on the team with five and six goals, respectively, and both Zengerle and Barnes current-ly find themselves on 11-game point streaks.

Sophomore forward Keegan Meuer has stepped in valiantly as the Badgers’ second line cen-ter since the injury to junior Derek Lee. Meuer provided the game-winning goal Friday against the Gophers.

Maybe the biggest question coming into this season was

the Badgers’ goaltending situa-tion of relying on two freshman goalies. Both goaltenders have played well this season, specifi-cally Joel Rumpel, who boasts 2.83 goals against average and .913 save percentage. Anyone who watched the series with Minnesota this past weekend knows how important Rumpel was. His play kept Wisconsin competitive all weekend and gave it a chance to win both nights, especially on Saturday when Rumpel faced a 60-min-ute long barrage of Gopher shots, yet the Badgers still had a chance to win the game head-ing into the third period.

Freshman forwards Brendan Woods, Matt Paape, Joseph LaBate and Brad Navin have all received plenty of ice time and they’ve all shown flashes of the talent that brought each of them to Madison.

The challenge now for the Badgers is to translate the talent they’ve put on display this sea-son into complete on-ice efforts, each game, every weekend.

As Eaves will tell you, it is a season-long process with this young Wisconsin team. This team has a lot of grow-ing and learning yet to do, but the Badgers have the talent to be competitive in the WCHA—and we have seen that this sea-son. Wisconsin has proven it can skate with some of the top teams in the country, but the challenge now is to put it all together on a consistent basis.

The talent is clearly there for Wisconsin, and while it may not pay immediate dividends this year, if this group can con-tinue to grow together, they will be a dangerous team in the not-so-distant future.

What have been your impres-sions of the Wisconsin men’s hock-ey team this season? E-mail Ryan your thoughts at rmevans2@dai-lycardinal.com.

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Glimpses of brilliancy shine through inconsistent play

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By Max Sternbergthe daily cardinal

There was plenty to talk about following Wisconsin’s 85-31 season-opening win over Kennesaw State. From the record-tying first half in which the Badgers only gave up eight points to the 54-point margin of victory, their largest since 2006, the season opener was certainly a wake up call to a UW fanbase heading into yet another season not knowing what to expect.

Having dismantled the some-what one-dimensional Owls Saturday, Wisconsin (1-0) now confronts the challenge of facing the much more disciplined, multi-dimensional Colgate (1-0) team.

“We know the experience level of most teams is going to go up [from Kennesaw State],” UW head coach Bo Ryan said Monday. “They’ll play better together and play better off each other on both ends of the court.”

Colgate senior guard Mike Venezia and senior forward Sterling Melville scored 39 points in their 78-74 season-opening win over Binghamton, the Raiders’ first season-open-ing win in three years. That being said, Colgate is just one of those teams that always brings their best.

“You like to play good teams earlier in the year that can pre-pare you for the Big Ten season and for tougher non-conference play,” sophomore guard Josh Gasser said. “We know Colgate is going to be a good team, they

are well coached and they run their system right.”

One way the Badgers plan to combat that system is by making sure that the frontcourt remains a presence both in terms of scoring and on the boards, an area where Wisconsin’s size advantage should allow them to dominate. Junior forward Jared Berggren and junior guard Ryan Evans both finished Saturday’s game in double-digit scoring, with fellow junior for-ward Mike Bruesewitz adding a seven-point, four-assist and eight-rebound performance of his own.

Bruesewitz and the rest of the big men have focused not only on providing a boost to the team’s point total, but more importantly on taking care of the little things that may show up on the box score.

“There was times when I maybe could have taken a shot but I passed up a good shot for a great shot,” Bruesewitz said. “That’s how you shoot 65 percent from three is when you have a lot of guys who are unselfish. Little things are so

important and they contribute to why we’re so efficient offen-sively.”

The emphasis on the little things goes beyond the big men up front. Senior guard Jordan Taylor, having led the country in assist-to-turnover ratio last season, turned in another effi-cient performance Saturday with seven assists and no turnovers.

“Jordan is obviously a good scorer pretty much whenever he wants but teams are going to take him away,” Gasser said. “He’s such a good point guard that he won’t make bad decisions and he will get other guys involved.”

One of those guys Taylor will look for on Wednesday is sophomore guard Ben Brust. Having only seen minimal playing time during his fresh-man year, Brust has burst onto the scene early this year, fin-ishing Saturday’s regular sea-son opener with a team-high 14 points coming off the bench.

“When I did get those opportu-nities [last season] and I watched myself not have success, it just eats at you,” Brust said. “I just looked back and I said I would never let that happen again.”

Brust is not alone in playing with a chip on his shoulder, as the drive to continue to improve to succeed seems to permeate the entire Badger roster.

While Colgate comes to Madison with an talented group of players primed to pull off the upset, Wisconsin simply doesn’t seem ready to let that happen at this point.

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The Badgers look to build on hot start

Josh Gassersophomore guard

UW men’s basketball

“we know Colgate is going to be a good team, they are well coached and they run

their system right.”

Senior guard Jordan Taylor has received much preseason atten-tion, being named a preseason 1st-team all-american by the aP, Blue ribbon yearbook and athlon along with receiving spots on the Wooden award Preseason top-50 and the naismith trophy watch list.

the Bloomington, Minn. native finished the 2010-11 sea-son with the nation’s highest

assist-to-turnover ratio, 3.83.taylor, although not standing

ut the most in Wisconsin’s season-opener, continued to impress with 11 points, 7 assists and committing no turnovers.

With taylor’s help, Wisconsin moved up one spot to no. 14 in the aP top 25 poll. the team looks to continue its rise against colgate at 7 p.m. Wednesday night at the Kohl center.

Early season hype

re-emerging in the season-opener, junior guard ryan evans is playing as well as any of Wisconsin’s prolific scoring threats.

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Junior forward Mike Bruesewitz put up solid numbers against Kennesaw State. he is expected to do the same Wednesday.