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University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete campus coverage since 1892 dailycardinal.com Wednesday, September 19, 2012l
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Appeal filed, stay requested of Act 10 rulingBy Adam WollnerThe Daily CarDinal
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen officially asked for a stay and filed for an appeal Tuesday of a Dane County judge’s ruling that struck down certain portions of Act 10, the law that eliminated most collective bargaining rights for many public employees.
In a motion requesting the stay the Department of Justice filed with the Dane County Circuit Court, Van Hollen argued Judge Juan Colas’ decision, which declared much of the bill passed by Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican allies last year uncon-stitutional, would cause confu-sion for local governments if it went into effect immediately.
He added the ruling would likely be overturned by the state’s appeal, which Van Hollen filed with the Madison-based 4th District Court of Appeals hours after the request for a stay.
“Act 10 addressed real and significant financial problems faced by local governments,” Van Hollen said in a statement. “It makes no sense to force a return to a broken system before the appellate process is completed.”
Last Friday, Colas ruled Act 10’s limits on collective bargain-ing violated public sector unions’ state and federal constitutional
rights to free speech, free asso-ciation and equal protection. His decision only applied to local and county government workers, not to those at the state level. Madison Teachers, Inc. initially brought the lawsuit with several other unions.
MTI’s attorneys sent a charged letter to Van Hollen Tuesday ask-ing if he agrees with Walker’s accusation that Colas is a “liberal activist judge,” a term Walker used in a statement following the ruling. The lawyers said that if he does not share Walker’s opinion he should clarify his position, but if he believes Colas is biased he should ask for his recusal from the case.
University of Wisconsin-Madison political science profes-sor Donald Downs said the court will likely grant Van Hollen’s request for a stay because the basis of many of Colas’ arguments, especially his classification of col-lective bargaining as a constitu-tional right, are up for discussion.
“The constitutional founda-tions are certainly open to dif-ferent interpretations,” Downs said. “This is certainly a debat-able issue.”
If the court stays the decision, Downs said Act 10 would go com-pletely back into effect until the appeals court rules on the case.
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Protesters gather at library Mall Tuesday to protest alleged animal mistreatment during UW-Madison research. Participants held signs and pictures of the cats involved in the study.
By Sam CusickThe Daily CarDinal
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday to protest the university’s alleged mistreatment of animals during research.
The protest group congre-gated at Library Mall at noon and grew to approximately 40 people who displayed signs and pictures of the cats involved in the research to alert students of the alleged animal cruelty.
PETA initially filed com-
plaints with federal agen-cies last Wednesday, accusing UW-Madison of harming ani-mals during research by drilling holes into their skulls and inten-tionally deafening the cats.
Following PETA’s com-plaint, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health launched a formal investigation into the allegations, according to a state-ment released by PETA.
PETA spokesperson Jeremy Beckham said support-ers rallied Tuesday to inform
UW-Madison students about the allegations as well as con-vince them to sign a petition to end the research.
“What these experimenters are doing to cats in this labora-tory would be criminal abuse if it weren’t happening in a lab-oratory,” Beckham said. “And just because they have Ph.D.’s and wear lab coats doesn’t make their acts of cruelty any less deplorable.”
A group of research students
PETA protests alleged animal cruelty in UW-Madison study
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City passes legislation allowing cabs to cruise State Street during peak bar hours By Abby BeckerThe Daily CarDinal
After hours of discussion, Madison’s city council approved legislation to allow taxi drivers to cruise on State Street from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
According to the legislation, taxis can now drive on State Street from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. but can only cruise along the street with the intention to stop and pick up pas-sengers for one block before they must turn off again.
Associated Students of Madison representative David Gardner said the student govern-ment’s top priority this year is safety, and students should be able to easily locate a cab when they are out on State Street late at night.
“We need to ensure that our students feel safe when they’re going to class, out on weekends or on State Street, they need to feel protected and welcome,” Gardner said.
Due to recent budget cuts, University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Services cut funding to SAFEcab, a nighttime cab service, in addi-tion to altering several Metro Transit bus routes including the late night 81 route.
Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Chair Dan Statter said the issue should be a “common sense decision” for city council.
“There’s no negative in ensuring that there are a plethora of respon-sible options available for students
to get home safely,” Statter said.Mayor Paul Soglin said the
city needed to consider all the characteristics of State Street, such as the roles of local busi-nesses and pedestrian-friendly streets instead of only resident and student safety.
Director of Planning & Community & Economic Development Steve Cover said more vehicles on State Street could detract from its unique character.
“I think by adding more vehi-cles and more traffic on the street, you are going to make it a less desirable street,” Cover said.
But taxi drivers said they play a part in increasing safety
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Madison’s Common Council passed legistlation allowing cabs to cruise on State Street for one block from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.
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TODAy:Showershi 73º / lo 46º
ThuRSDAy:Sunnyhi 68º / lo 48º
Well folks, it looks like we’re in for another splendid academic year in the happiest place on Earth — er, the happiest college campus in the country! The sun is shining, crushed, empty Keystone Light cans are lit-tered throughout the campus and Montee Ball is on his own two feet and running for touch-downs despite the best efforts of his foes. Indeed, we are already living the life.
Well, sort of. Our favorite drunk food on campus, Fat Sandwich, went under, as did Fridas, the best margarita joint in town. Nothing gold can stay. F(at) and F(rida’s) have expired. Luckily for the letter F, reincar-nation exists in the form of Fried and Fabulous, a new drunk food cart located on Broom Street, across from the Chocolate Shoppe. For the last week and a half, the proprietor of the stand has offered fragmented figures of fried fatteners free of charge, and boy are they fabulous. Forget about any pedestrian deep fried peanut butter sandwich you may have had in the past. When you
have had a few too many from Fried and Fabulous, you will find yourself exceedingly fond of this foundation.
And that’s just the foodie scene around town. My person-al favorite part about being back on campus is the mid-afternoon school day. To me, the experi-ence of waltzing through Library Mall, with the September sun and a light breeze playing sec-ond piccolo to the sensation of glancing at the cornucopia of colors and the array of aromas emanating from the food carts, not to mention listening to a man in a bright orange jump-suit play a calming tune on the piccolo is ineffable. If I had my druthers, it would always be 1:30 in the afternoon, I would have a lifetime supply of iced coffee and stimulating reading mate-rial, and I would pop an eternal squat on the nearby steps next to the four-sided clock with hands that point to different minutes on each side.
For the last three years, I have viewed this campus as my play-ground. The Serf, my monkey bars. State Street, the tunnel that you can army crawl through one hundred times in a day and
never tire of. The Kohl Center and Camp Randall Stadium, the merry-go-round where you almost always have an incredible time, but every once in a blue moon, your experience there just makes you feel like puking.
With such a wealth of toys in our arsenal, with so many tools for elating ourselves at our dis-posal, it is no wonder that the Huffington Post has endorsed us as the kings and queens of bloated endorphin levels. It is sad to imagine the day in which I can no longer stroll down State Street, patronize the four–block long Farmers Market, watch the Badgers stomp on conference and non-conference opponents alike, get postgame Chipotle, and gulp down a Wando’s fishbowl accom-panied by an entourage of joyous sports fans amid a sea of red.
We rock out so hard here that myriad kids from Los Angeles, who have never even seen a snowflake in their lives, pledge to dedicate four years of their lives here knowing full well that for roughly half of the time they are here, the air outside will be colder than [insert harsh celebri-ty breakup due to an affair here].
Like anyone else, we are
human and we have our share of woes. For starters, we’re still looking at bringing home our first Rose Bowl since 2000, which will be an uphill battle. Secondly, the terrace is only habitable for three and a half months out of the school year. Thirdly, we have way too many ice cream and Badger gear shops around. What’s that you say? None of these are legiti-mate complaints, and all are in fact positives, as in we’ve been to consecutive Rose Bowls, we have a beautiful terrace to watch boats sail and drink pitchers of Spotted Cow for roughly half of the time we are here, and we can eat ice cream and support Bucky from almost any square block on campus. Fine, if that’s the way you see it, I suppose the glass is half full.
At the end of the day, the Huffington Post hit the nail on the head. For here at UW, our student body is synonymous with the production company behind the last decade of medio-cre Adam Sandler movies. We are Happy Madison.
Have any solid UW-Madison treats that Zac forgot? Enlighten him at [email protected].
Let me preface this column by saying that I’m a proud, card-car-rying dog lover. If I see a dog on the street, especially in Madison, I will accost its owner until he or she lets me pet it. I’ve been known to throw social propriety to the wayside when I see a canine, especially one that is particularly worthy of high affect and baby goo-goo talk. I have a framed pic-ture of my dog by my bed. Now that we have that settled:
Last fall, when my now-roommates told me they were planning to get cats this fall, I shrugged and offered my indifferent approval. I thought to myself, why not? Cats kinda suck… but only kinda.
I guess I should explain my disinclination toward cats is rooted in childhood experiences featuring feline rejection and hos-tility. It’s not like I was always opposed to cats though. In fact, “AristoCats” was number seven on my list of favorite animated Disney movies about domesticat-ed animals. I was hardened by a number of cat-astrophic experi-ences (hope you like cat puns, readers, because there’s more
where that came from). I spent numerous
Thanksgivings pulling on my cousins’ cat’s tail, wondering why it wouldn’t stay around long enough for me to pet. It’s probably because I was yanking its tail, but still, I was pissed. I also have three scars on my hand from a traumat-ic birthday party when my friend’s cat actively opposed joining me on the slip-n-slide. Needless to say, I am not a cat advocate—not an advo-cat, if you will.
Nevertheless, time had passed and my emotional and physical scars were fading. I thought to myself, Jenna, you’re stronger than this. Don’t let those mangy furballs dictate your deci-sions. This is college, try some-thing new. YOLO. So while other juniors were out learning how to sail, getting internships and drinking Wando’s fish bowls alone, I was going to try my hand at living with cats. Feeling brave, I signed the lease with four other girls and two cats. Well not the cats, as they lack opposable thumbs.
Fast forward to move-in day. I was pleasantly surprised to learn the cats were, in fact, kittens—two adorable, soft, loving kittens. Or so I thought. You know how they say every relationship has its honeymoon period? Well, the Jenna-kittens (or as I would later call them, shittens) honeymoon lasted about a day and a half.
Don’t get me wrong, that day and a half was pure magic. We frolicked, napped and danced together. They even took a lik-ing to my shoulders and (when I forcefully kept them there) would perch on them like my own little parrot-cats. It was heaven.
Then things changed. The two kittens—Mogubichu (“Bichu” for short) and Rue-Samba-Fuck (I simply call her “Fuck” because
I’m not sure what her actu-al name is and because I love unnecessary expletives)—made themselves comfortable. And by this I mean they essentially took over our apartment, for better or for worse.
For better, they’ll snuggle up on your chest while you’re watching television and purr softly. For worse, they’ll snug-gle up on your laptop while you’re sending an important mass email and you’ll prema-turely send it with the sub-ject “D sdvS df KJSEVcv –dfb dfv38bcv0 qero2v4 vos7.”
For better, they’ll greet you at the front door when you come home from a stressful class. For worse, they’ll greet you in the bathroom and scare the shit out of you when you didn’t expect a furry creature to be drinking from the toilet bowl.
For better, they’ll play catch with their squeaky toys. For worse, they’ll play hide-under-t h e - o t t o m a n - a n d- s e e - h ow-many-toes-they-can-claw-and-make-bleed.
All that said, I can’t help but have a soft place in my heart for these little shittens. I genuinely care about them. I mean, I’d be lying if I said I haven’t caught myself asking them how their day has been. Some may call it schizophrenia, I call it love. Although my dog Sparky is still No. 1 (expect a column on that later, my dedicated readers), for bet-ter and for worse, until lease do us part, these cats and I are enjoying cat-rimonial bliss.
Alright sorry, that was espe-cially bad. I just can’t figure out the purrfect way to end this… I guess the cat’s got my tongue… and laptop… and toes.
Do you dislike cats? Do you dislike cat puns even more? Email Jenna at [email protected] with your purrferences.
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Police to educate students after increase in burglaries
The downtown area has seen an increased number of burglar-ies last August compared to other years, particularly on Spring Street and on both sides of Regent Street, according to Madison police and city officials.
Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said there is a burglary spike every August, and this could be attrib-uted to students moving into houses and apartments off-cam-pus who do not lock their doors and windows.
This year, the spike is more pronounced with 58 total report-ed burglaries in August while the number of burglaries in
August 2009, 2010 and 2011 aver-aged 39, according to MPD Lt. Kristen Roman.
“Most of the time burglars target laptop computers and other electronic items,” DeSpain said. “We advise people to make sure their doors are locked, their windows are secure and if they are not going to be home, not to leave their laptops sitting on a kitchen table.”
As students come back to campus, these burglaries “are not completely uncommon,” according to Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8.
Resnick said although he does not know the explanation
for the increase in burglaries this year, city officials, the Associated Students of Madison and the MPD are taking this “very seri-ously” and working together to reach out to students.
Police are currently experi-menting with social media, going on safety walks and knocking on doors in an effort to educate stu-dents about preventing burglar-ies, according to Resnick.
City officials, ASM and the MPD will host a neighborhood walk Monday to talk about risks and areas of improvement in another effort to reach out to stu-dents living off-campus.
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By Abby Becker and Cheyenne LangkampTheDailyCarDinal
City officials and University of Wisconsin-Madison stu-dent representatives plan to collaborate in arranging an alternative late-night trans-portation service to SAFEcab, a nighttime cab service recent-ly eliminated from the univer-sity budget.
Although the Student Services Finance Committee voted in April to rein-state funding for SAFEcab, UW-Madison Transportation Services said they would no longer manage the nighttime cab program, leading to its discontinuation.
Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said he is working with Associated Students of Madison representatives and city staff to find an alternative solution to SAFEcab.
Although at this point the three proposed solutions are in their introductory phases, Resnick said the alternative ideas include administering SAFEcab through another university department such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department or using a cab service other than Union Cab.
Another idea involves a city proposal of a rapid taxi service in downtown Madison, accord-ing to Resnick. For a standard cost of around $3 or $4, stu-dents would be able to use a taxi service that would cover the immediate campus area.
“Making sure someone
gets home safely or making sure you as an individual get home safely should be one of the highest priorities, par-ticularly any time alcohol is involved,” Resnick said.
ASM Press Office Director David Gardner said stu-dent leaders would address the issue through ASM’s Campus Safety campaign, which was created after stu-dents told ASM representa-tives they felt campus crime seemed to be increasing.
“There have been a lot of big issues that make students question whether they’re safe on campus,” Gardner said, ref-erencing the recent attack on UW-Madison running back Montee Ball as one example.
Resnick said there are ben-efits and drawbacks to the pro-posed ideas, such as admin-istrative costs and city zoning laws, but city and student leaders are working toward an alternative to SAFEcab.
“It’s going to be a fight, but I believe it is one of the top priorities for students,” Resnick said.
Gardner said ASM plans to hold a town hall meeting in the coming weeks to reach out to students, city officials, uni-versity transportation and the community at large for further opinions and proposals.
“Primarily we hope to work with the alderman, with city officials, with UW trans-portation services in finding what the best way for us to move forward would be,” Gardner said.
Student representatives, city leaders to collaborate on SAFEcab alternative
including senior Sean Kelly, said PETA’s allegations against the university are completely false.
“I work in the labs that do experiments on animals,” Kelly said. “I’m the one who is respon-sible for making sure that they are anesthetized and they are. [PETA] really has no argument.”
PETA also believes the
research taking place on campus is little more than “killing for cash,” according to Beckham. He also said that more than $3 mil-lion dollars has been “wasted on this cruel project.”
PETA volunteer Charlie Talbert said the protest is a way for the group to reach out to stu-dents and let them know what is going on at their university.
“I think right now the ani-
mal research operation here at the university is a really a stain on the reputation of a really great university,” Talbert said.
Juniors Hayley Pernsteiner and Sadie Olson said while UW-Madison’s experimenta-tion with cats is “not a good thing,” the benefits outweigh the negatives.
“They’re obviously doing it to learn something,” Pernsteiner said.
New cars on the blockOn CAmPus
students will see the new 2013 Ford Police Interceptor suVs cruising around campus this year, after the university of Wisconsin-madison Police Department replaced older vehicles with the new model. + Photo by Stephanie Daher
late at night in the downtown area by monitoring inebriated patrons.
“When I drive on State Street...and I see people who are so intoxicated they can’t walk...I want to be able to get to these people before they get to their vehicles,” Union Cab driver Dee Pachlehofer said.
According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, Soglin plans to veto the 10 p.m. time.
The city council will hear the ordinance again at their next meeting, and council members can override Soglin’s veto with 14 votes.
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madison’s City Council approved legislation Tuesday prohibiting panhandling on State Street and in the Capitol Concourse area.
According to Madison Police Department Officer Jeff Pharo, there is a specific group of 18 people who frequently panhan-dle on State Street who have violated 295 city violations over the past two years. Pharo said 12 of the 18 panhandlers are felons while seven are regulars at detox.
Mayor Paul Soglin said this ordinance is necessary to curb
the “profound” effect less than two dozen people are having on the city such as diminishing police and fire resources.
But Ald. Brian Solomon, Dis-trict 10, who voted against the ordinance, said he is not convin-ced this ordinance will stop the illegal activity of those involved in panhandling.
Community members such as Monday’s bar owner Gary Garten, spoke in favor of the amendment, saying panhandling is the worst it has ever been.
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artsl4 Wednesday, September 19, 2012 dailycardinal.com
W hat was the last book you didn’t finish? Come now:
you’re not all perfect little liter-ature angels heralding the mer-its of the written word. Was it a class reading? Was it a book for recreation? Did one of you little fools try and read “Finnegans Wake” on a dare? On a related note, did you survive and/or avoid hospitalization?
There’s no shame in not fin-ishing a book. It may be some-thing as innocuous as not hav-ing enough time in the day/week/month/year/life. After all, life is not a void of time in which to finish “Wuthering Heights,” especially during these hectic college years.
But of course, there are more selfish reasons to not finish a book. Like, you don’t like it, or you don’t agree with the author on this or that, or the concept of reading is just utterly repulsive to you. Whatever the reason, it’s valid, and even a career read-er like me can succumb to the
temptation of quitting prior to the finale.
Recently, I tried to read “London Fields” by Martin Amis. I had no context as to what the book would be about, but everything I had ever heard about Amis was nothing if not enticing: master craftsman, prose virtuoso, terribly compel-ling, yadda yadda yadda. And so I dove into what was, by all accounts, his chief achievement.
I got 50-odd pages in and stopped. Keith Talent had got-ten Nicola Six’s phone num-ber and I just couldn’t go any further with these people. I got “London Fields” from the library; it’s still sitting on my shelf, and the gold letters glow dimly when I turn on my read-ing lamp like a subtle mockery. I still don’t know whether I’ll pick it up again.
I can’t really say what made
me put down “London Fields.” True, I found nothing redemp-tive in the characters—or in the meta descriptions of the characters by another charac-ter—but that wasn’t it. I was expecting the unpleasantness. It’s Amis’s trademark. And the writing was inspired, or at least had a razzle-dazzle. Nonetheless, something was amiss about Amis.
This is an odd scenario for me, since I usually finish what-ever book I’m reading, even if it’s not particularly good. ‘Tis a compulsion of mine. You could say I read with a vengeance.
And speaking of which, immediately after sputtering with “London Fields,” I picked up “White Noise” by Don Delillo, which I proceeded to read with a vengeance. It’s not my usual kind of book (dis-tinctly postmodern with a mild literary flair) but it spoke to me on multiple levels.
The first level was that I didn’t think it was very good. The dialogue was horrendous and barefacedly didactic, and any book that seeks to ensnare the zeitgeist will always fall short for me since the zeitgeist is, by definition, so damn flip-pant. The second level was
that I just didn’t agree with the ideas presented. Besides the commentary on consumer culture, industrial pollution and the aforementioned prob-lem of white noise i.e. ambi-ent television and radio waves and our dependence upon them (all valid points but ulti-mately glossed over or simpli-fied), “White Noise” was a book about death. Death errywhere.
Imagining the characters mewling and agonizing over death struck me as histrionic, and in a certain sense, pathetic, which may have been Delillo’s point. But it’s fair to also assume that Delillo buys into the death anxiety idea, which is shamelessly solipsistic.
So the point is I didn’t really like it. At the same time, I’m half tempted to buy my own copy someday and make it a regular read. Why exactly, if I
disdain it so much? Because it struck me, fundamentally. I feel like “White Noise” is a book I would want to return to, if only to reject its premise. I would’ve never reached this conclusion had I simply given up on read-ing it before the end.
In the contest between Book and Reader, there’s a peculiar satisfaction which comes from finishing a book you’ve decid-ed is no good. It gives you the whole picture, even if the whole picture is fraught with unpleas-antness. And it gives you bet-ter basis for explaining what made a book unpleasant. Best of all, it gives you ammo against the zealots of bad literature—or “good” literature, it’s all relative. So if you don’t finish a book because you can’t, no hard feel-ings, it happens. But if you don’t finish a book because you won’t, think twice. You very well might surprise yourself.
Are you affronted that Sean would assume you’ve ever started a book without finish-ing? Or do you constantly pick up books only to leave them perched open and waiting on the table for months on end? Send tales of your reading hab-its to [email protected] to discuss further.
By Andy HolsteenTheDailyCarDinal
This past weekend I trav-eled to see David Byrne and St. Vincent in concert at Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. As a fan of both artists, I had an inkling this performance was going to be special, and it definitely was. But the sheer talent on stage wasn’t the only thing that made seeing these two together excit-ing: their audiences bridged separate generations.
Byrne, who is best known as the former leader of Talking Heads, was one of the main fig-ures in the pseudo-Avant-garde scene of my parents’ young adulthood. His unique stage presence and message to “stop making sense” radiate a cryp-tic elegance. While St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark)—my elder by less than a decade—enraptures listeners with her chillingly beautiful voice and perfectly simple guitar melodies.
Although the performance was incredible, something else really grabbed my atten-tion: there were a good number of people in attendance who didn’t know who St. Vincent was at all beforehand.
With the issue that a per-son should know what they’re paying for before going to a concert aside, there seems to be a deeper conundrum here: at what point does one decide they don’t need to actively pur-sue new music?
Considering Byrne and St. Vincent can share a stage, their musical identities are relatively similar. Regardless, a large por-tion of the concert crowd was obsessive over one, and almost entirely unaware of the other.
It isn’t a bad thing to have
a few all-time favorite bands. Something about being oblivi-ous to anything outside of those groups seems counterin-tuitive though. There’s no point in completely separating one-self from the broad, and ever-growing, music world.
Maybe this complacency to discover new artists after a cer-tain age comes from resentment for specific genres of modern music. Everyone has been lec-tured by their grandparents about how the stuff kids lis-ten to these days is garbage compared to Patsy Cline and Elvis. I mean, it’s reasonable that there aren’t many people
in retirement listening to Nicki Minaj. It isn’t logical, however, for someone to dismiss all new music just because some of it doesn’t jive with them.
The still semi-relevant and grossly parochial culture of listening to music on the radio might be partially to blame for this. Stations that play one exclu-sive genre of music irk me more than anything else about FM radio. I’ll pick on classic rock stations in particular because, well, it’s pretty easy. They play the same narrow catalogue of songs (mainly Led Zeppelin, the most regurgitated group of all time) over and over. For some
reason, people keep listening.With the rise of the Internet,
the phenomenon of getting stuck in a musical vacuum after a certain age may be coming to an end. Sites such as Pandora are bringing about a paradigm shift in how we listen to and discover music. Pandora is a fantastic tool for finding new music, as giving recommenda-tions is a huge part of the site. Platforms like this are becom-ing more ubiquitous by the day, thus making FM radio a thing of the past.
It’s hard to blame the David Byrne fans who didn’t know anything about St. Vincent for
being uninformed. They grew up in an era when the Internet hadn’t even been invented, and radio was essentially the only way to hear new music.
I have a feeling that genera-tions from here onward will at least have some immunity from stagnating into the bleak world of musical sameness. With the movement away from FM radio towards the Internet, which harbors infinite possibilities, discovering new artists is eas-ier now than ever before. It’s hard to be anything but opti-mistic about our chances of not having to settle musically, even as adults.
Busting out of musical comfort zones
‘Are you going to finish that?’: the reader’s ultimate choice
There’s no shame in not finishing a book. It may be
something as innocuous as not having enough time in the day/week/month/
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So if you don’t finish a book because you can’t, no hard feelings, it happens.
But if you don’t finish a book because you won’t,
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By Maggie DeGrootThe daily cardinal
CollegeFashionistas are the ones who capture and write about the stylish students on the UW-Madison campus, but what about the styles of the Style Gurus themselves?
Two of our UW-Madison CollegeFashionista Style Gurus, Taylor Viegut and Chelsi Zollner, sat down with The Daily Cardinal to share their own style tips.
Maggie DeGroot: Let’s get started with a question to get you know you both better on a style level. Give me three adjectives to describe your personal style.
Taylor Viegut: Relaxed, eclectic and feminine.
Chelsi Zollner: Boho, com-fortable and warm, as far as colors go.
MD: As college students, our budgets are often pretty limiting and we fall back on a couple of key outfits. What is your favorite go-to outfit?
TV: My favorite go to outfit is my denim button-up with a classic white tank underneath, in case I get hot, with a printed scarf, black or grey leggings and my classic red Vans. It’s comfort-able and easy to walk around in all day.
CZ: Go-to outfit would have to either be a knit maxi dress, which I’m wearing now, or boyfriend
jeans and some sort of graphic tee or sweater. Both option are super com-fortable for running around all day and can be dressed up with accessories if needed.
MD: College students, espe-cially UW-Madison students, are crazy busy and we don’t have much time for sleep so it tends to be difficult to get out of bed during the week. What are some tips for getting ready quickly in the morning?
TV: I usually get ready in a half hour or less, and a classic high pony tail is a go-to for me because it looks polished and is easy. A tip I always use is to take a small portion of hair from your pony and wrap it around your hairband so you can’t see it, plus it looks extra chic. I also keep my makeup to a minimum. NARS Laguna pressed powder, Laura Mercier lip shimmer and a little mascara and I’m good to go.
CZ: For the morning a top knot bun is my go to. You know it’s going to stay secure all day and with the weather right now you don’t have to worry about getting hot. Also using as little make-up as possible, cover-up, mascara, etc., because I never know when I’m going to have a chance to go home to touch up.
MD: Sometimes UW-Madison fashionistas get sick of wearing the usual Badger football jersey. Any advice for creating a stylish, unique gameday outfit?
TV: I paired white cut-offs with a reversible Wisco Lacrosse jersey, honestly my new favorite pur-chase, and again my classic red Vans with a focus more on the accessories. I would try adding a chunky gold necklace to your gameday attire and layering a ton of different bracelets. Also have fun with your make-up on game day, like try a bright red lip with a gold smokey eye.
CZ: Game day! One of my favorite things is creating unique game- day outfits. Two weeks ago I cut one of
my guy friend’s t-shirts into a tank and paired it with black and white polka dot pants from H&M. I’ve also put on leopard print tights underneath jean shorts, and always pair the outfit with off-white Chuck Taylors.
MD: Wisconsin weather is crazy and often can go from hot, humid weather one day to almost freez-ing the next. On top of this crazy Wisconsin weather, college stu-dents also have a limited bud-get and closet space. Any advice for transitioning outfits from summer to fall?
TV: I just had an article last week on transitioning from summer to fall—check it out! But I would say layering your sweaters over shorts and
skirts. A white knit sweater over a maxi skirt is a great fall outfit that still has some summer left in them. Simply adding a scarf to your daily attire is an easy fix as well. It has been too hot to wear them all summer so by adding a scarf to the tanks we’re still wear-ing around campus is an easy way to dress up your attire.
CZ: Denim tops are great for transcending seasons, whether it is a vest, button up or jean jacket. Sweaters, my personal favor-ites are oversized sweaters, are also nice to have with you when temperatures are varying. Maxi skirts are also really great because once it starts to get cooler you can always put tights or leggings underneath.
life&styleTrendspotting at New York Fashion Week
UW-Madison collegeFashionista Style Guru Taylor Viegut shows off one of her looks to help transition from summer to fall.
Style tips from UW-Madison CollegeFashionistas
By Kelsey EichmanThe daily cardinal
New York’s famous fashion week ended with a bang last week after eight days of runway shows previewing the trends for spring and summer 2013.
In the first few days, designer Jason Wu wowed with a collec-tion more risqué than his usual. Wu’s sexy, sheer trends carried over into many designers’ col-lections that week. Even at the end of the week, designers like Narcisco Rodriguez highlighed a pared-down, black and white style theme that could make for a unique fashion season for spring and summer 2013.
It is very rare that one sin-
gle trend comes on so strongly from almost every designer. Marc Jacobs’ looks were almost two-thirds entirely black or white.
His use of skin was also key to making his collection surpris-ingly fresh. Although Jacobs is known for favoring a “covered-up” girl, he featured low-slung skirts and high cut jackets that featured the model’s midriffs and hipbones. He used simple styles yet changed the amount of skin typically shown to make conven-tional clothes sexy, without being too vulgar or too showy.
Both Alexander Wang and Cushnie et Ochs did almost entirely black and white collec-tions as well. Both heavily fea-
tured cut-outs but Wang’s were more geometric and “tron-like” while Cushnie et Ochs’ had a gentler feel. Both designers also used leather quite a bit, which was surprisingly common among collections considering the warm spring season.
Proenza Schouler primarily focused on keeping their leather light and appropriate for spring by using it in a patchwork, collage way in jackets and dresses.
However, not all designers used leather in this way. Wu’s use of leather was meant to be more menacing and sexy than springtime sweet. Wu said he was inspired by photographer Helmet Newton’s retrospective,
shown earlier this year at the Grand Palais.
Newton’s S&M shots gave Wu inspiration to work lace and leather into an incredibly chic, elegant collection. He acces-sorized with leather harnesses, black veils and the same red lip-stick worn by models in some of Newton’s photographs, but still maintained the ladylike quality he is well-known for.
Another designer to wow was Diane Von Furstenberg who part-nered with Google to use the lat-est technology of the season in her show. All of Von Furstenberg’s models wore Explorer Edition Google Glasses, which retail at $1,500. The small cameras on
the glasses allow footage to be shot from the model’s perspec-tive, which Von Furstenburg’s team will use to create a short documentary film, debuting later this week.
Google also notes the glasses can be used for photo sharing, video chat, shopping and line-of-sight direction display.
New York Fashion Week certainly did not disappoint its not only well-dressed, but criti-cal fashion industry audience. Designers at this year’s fash-ion week had a clear response to the overly loud trends of the past and didn’t fail to present stunning collections that gave freshness to timeless trends.
UW-Madison collegeFashionista Style Guru chelsi Zollner shows off her black and white polka dot pants she pairs with a Badger shirts for football gamedays.
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dailycardinal.com Monday, September 19, 2012 5l
W e have all heard the stories of the extremes members of the
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have gone to in order to turn heads and call attention to inci-dents they determine to be animal cruelty. So upon learning of PETA’s accusations that a UW-Madison animal research lab violated ani-mal welfare laws while using cats to perform brain experiments, many of our initial reactions were to ques-tion the legitimacy of the claims. But while the group is controversial and sometimes disruptive, we wel-come its insight onto our campus.
Animal research has seeming-ly always been a topic of debate, and rightfully so. At UW-Madison in the 1950s, experimenter Harry Harlow separated monkeys from their mothers to study child-hood attachment styles, despite the notion that maternal depriva-tion typically has a severe negative impact on psychological develop-ment. In other experiments, baby monkeys were totally isolated from other monkeys for up to 24 months,
leaving them seriously psychologi-cally disturbed.
But today, legal guidelines are in place to ensure animal research is conducted in a humane manner. As long as animal experimentation follows the regulations set in place, we do not disprove of it.
In the situation at hand, we do not particularly trust either side with their accounts of what hap-pened in the UW-Madison lab. PETA alleges “Double Trouble,” an orange tabby cat used in the experiments, underwent sev-eral invasive surgeries and was eventually euthanized. The lab,
however, said the cat was used in legally sound experiments on cochlear implants. Lab offi-cials said the experiments have revealed information that has allowed a young boy to hear.
Without knowing exact-ly what occurred within the confines of the lab room, we strongly support the National Institutes of Health and the United States Department of Agriculture’s ongoing investi-gation into the experiment.
If animal welfare guide-lines were breached, the lab deserves to be penalized. While we believe the Food
and Drug Administration and other government entities that hold researchers accountable for abiding by regulations are enough, and PETA is often more disruptive than construc-tive, we welcome its watchdog role onto our campus.
If PETA is willing to work with the university’s researchers in a constructive way to improve experi-mentation tactics, it could bring a beneficial perspective to the table.
And while we trust the FDA is competent to hold experiment-ers accountable to engaging in law-ful research practices, having the extra check on researchers can help
ensure no valid cases of animal cru-elty slip through the cracks.
Possibly most importantly, the group brings publicity and debate to controversial issues, such as ani-mal experimentation, and forces members of society to engage in constructive dialogue surround-ing ways to improve the treatment of animals. Conversations such as these that call into question the status quo are part of what makes UW-Madison the intellectual pow-erhouse that it is.
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Peta’s recent allegations of misconduct against the University of Wisconsin-Madison have sparked protests against the abuse of animals during scientific research.
if PETA is willing to work with the university’s researchers in a con-
structive way to improve experimentation tactics, it could bring a beneficial perspective to the table.
Judge Juan Colas should stay his repeal
L ate last week Judge Juan Colas struck down major portions of Act 10, the law
that severely curtailed how pub-lic employees can collectively bar-gain. Judge Colas argues that the implementation of the law violates the constitutional rights of state employees, specifically the rights of free speech, association and equal representation under the law. Colas views Act 10 as illegally denying public employees the rights afford-ed to workers who earn their wage in the private sector.
Judge Colas was correct in his ruling against Act 10. Although I doubt that his ruling will sur-vive litigation, especially given the conservative leaning State Supreme Court, I sincerely hope that his ruling will allow Act 10 to be re-structured. Walker’s actions against public unions were unwarranted. Walker’s efforts to bring the state budget were necessary; however, the way that he shredded what many, including myself, view as a work-er’s basic rights was an unneces-sary partisan attack against the unions. Judge Colas’ decision gives Act 10 a chance to undergo a facelift. The law can simultane-
ously help control Wisconsin’s budget without pulling out the carpet from under collective bar-gaining.
The debate surrounding Act 10 will certainly continue into the future in Wisconsin, and as other states pass similar legislation the debate will only spread. Judge Juan Colas’ decision will hopeful-ly set a good example of how the court system can restructure a broken law. However, Judge Colas should heed Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen’s request to stay his ruling until the appellate process is complete. By placing a hold on his ruling, Judge Colas would allow Act 10 to continue functioning as before. Ultimately, the appeals process will not be affected on whether Act 10 is cur-rently in place or not. The only incentive I can see to shuttering the law until the appeals process is done is that it will encourage the appellate courts to speed up their judgements.
The upside to staying the repeal of Act 10 is that school’s front offices won’t be in a perpetual state of con-fusion until the law is either wholly repealed or substantially changed. The Madison Teachers’ Union has already attempted to resume contract negotiations. Until Judge Colas’ decision is dealt with, these negotiations will only be a waste of time and money.
Please send all feedback to [email protected].
A few words of advice to whoever eventually takes over the Orpheum
L ooks like the Orpheum Theater, an icon on the 200 block of State Street,
will soon be shutting its doors after being mismanaged straight into the ground. The details of the demise of the Orpheum aren’t exactly clear to me, but I know that a lost liquor license, shoddy booking and inconsistency in every other aspect of running the company surely didn’t help. This is an open letter to whoever sinks the time and money into the next iteration of the Orpheum theater, conveniently organized for you, future owners.
One: Please, don’t do anything stupid. Now, I know that this sounds fairly evident, but given the behavior of the previous man-agement, I feel as if it needs to be said. If you feel yourself falling behind on loans, or you think that your liquor license application might not be best served written in crayon, do yourself a favor and nip these problems in the bud. Have a competent accountant or at least know someone who owns a calculator. Buy some file cabinets, then use them. Maybe get one of those fancy desks that has built-in folders for incoming and outgoing papers. If all else fails, throw a fundraising pajama party a la Kid ‘N Play’s House Party 2; make sure to have them in attendance.
Two: Realize the shortcom-ings and strengths of owning the Orpheum. It is a bar/con-cert venue/restaurant/theater. Unfortunately this seems to cre-ate more problems than it adds in diversified revenue streams. Just because you have four aspects to your business doesn’t mean you can half-ass each one and end up with two whole asses. That’s unfortunately not how it works. Bring in music acts that are appro-priate to the size of the stage and the location of the theater, but don’t be too limited either. The Found vs. Found event held last year was nothing if not unconventional, and it was an awesome and seemingly successful event. The most impor-tant advice I can give to you is that
you’re going to have to spend a lot of time figuring out what events work and what won’t work at this venue. Keep putting on events. Scaling back only means that it will take you longer to find the winning formula. Yes, you’re going to have to spend a lot of money. No, there are no guarantees.
Three: Be open consistently. This will require a consistent and dedi-cated staff, and after the awkward mismanagement of the past few years, you might have to do a lot of re-building. Hire younger students and give them incentives to stick around for multiple years.
Four: Don’t be dumb. I really can’t emphasize this one enough.
David is a senior majoring in English literature.
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by parker Gabrielthe daily cardinal
There is no shortage of questions in regards to the Wisconsin football team’s (2-1) offense in the days leading up to Saturday’s non-conference finale against Texas-El Paso (1-2).
First, of course, is who will start at quarterback. Nobody budged on that ques-tion Tuesday, when offensive players and assistants regularly meet with reporters—though the quarter-backs were not made available this week.
It also remains to be seen how much r e d sh i r t j u n i o r wide receiver Jared Abbrederis will be able to contribute—if anything—as he recovers from a concussion suffered in the second quarter against Oregon State. Without him, UW wide receivers accounted for just two catches against Utah State Saturday in a 16-14 win.
To have these questions at such important positions could be seen as troublesome for the Badgers, considering the underperformance of the offense so far this year.
Wisconsin ranks last in the Big Ten in scoring offense (16.3 points per game), total offense (276 yards per game) and pass-ing offense (156.3 yards per game) and No. 11 in rushing offense (119.7 yards per game). Those cat-
egories rank Nos. 113, 116, 94 and 114 in the nation, respectively.
Despite such significant struggles and despite the breadth of those struggles, red-shirt junior Travis Frederick said he feels like the offense
is making steady prog-ress towards consistent production.
“A lot of people on the outside aren’t going to see it, because it comes down to a step here or a step there or where your hand placement is, but I do think we played a lot better than we had, obviously minus the penalties,” said Frederick, who him-self was flagged twice against Utah State.
For the year, UW has averaged just 3.1 rushing yards per
carry and 4.3 yards per play, but Frederick pointed to a six-play, 42-yard drive in the fourth quarter as a sign of where the unit is headed. Senior running back Montee Ball carried the ball on all six plays, capping the drive off with a 17-yard touch-down run.
“That whole drive was a good gain and a good gain and a good gain and then it popped,” Frederick said. “That’s what we’re used to and that’s kind of what I came into the season expecting, and it hasn’t been what we’ve had.”
Redshirt junior tight end Jacob Pedersen echoed the sentiment.
“When you’re watching film
on that kind of stuff, and you see a play that got made for a two-yard gain and you see that if I would have stayed on my block it would have hit for 50, it kills you,” said Pedersen, who has been held to seven catches for 63 yards so far this year. “We’ve got a ton of plays where, boom, it’s the last guy that makes the play.”
While the Badgers have been close to big plays on several occasions, their longest run-ning play of the year was a 20-yard run by junior James White. Ball was held to two yards or less on 9 of his 19 first-
half carries against Utah State before averaging 4.7 yards per carry in the second half.
UTEP may provide an oppor-tunity for the UW ground game to get on track. Through three
games, the Miners have given up an average of 215.7 rushing yards per game.
It remains to be seen if the Badgers can really be so far off the mark statistically, but still so close to hitting a gold mine of production. However, if big plays are contagious Saturday would be a good time to start, with a trip to Lincoln, Neb. looming beyond UTEP.
“I have that mentality every game, but from looking on film and stuff I see the opportunity to make big plays,” Ball said. “I feel like this is going to be a really good game for us.”
badgers’ offense looks to bounce back
The NFL’s replacement ref-erees had a gruesome first two weeks of games, but
I’m not sure how much blame they really deserve.
I think the majority of us knew that football player in high school who went on to play at some Division III school. He was the guy who looked help-less when he went against the Division I prospect who played for a cross-town rival. His chances of success were about as good as someone who spends a night at Mondays hoping to not black out.
If you knew that guy, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about when I say the D-I pros-pect made that guy look—along with a number of other unap-pealing attributes—slow. Slow and weak.
Even if you didn’t know that guy, you probably under-stand the point I’m trying to make: The difference between D-I and D-III college football players is massive. The differ-ence in speed and complexity between the two levels is over-whelming. So, if the D-III ref-
erees were asked to step in for their D-I superiors, it’s under-standable they’d be blown away, incapable of keeping up with a game far more compli-cated than the one they were accustomed to officiating.
That’s what’s happened with the NFL’s replacement referees, except the league has brought the D-III guys through D-I and straight to the NFL.
It’s a colossal leap, and it’s evident beyond the calls they might have missed these first two weeks. While I don’t think it’s fair to hold them to the standard of the striking referees, the replace-ments have certainly embar-rassed themselves.
Seattle played at Arizona in Week 1. The Seahawks trailed by four during the game’s final minutes, and wide receiver Doug Baldwin was injured on a play that resulted in an incom-plete pass. Seattle used its final timeout to tend to Baldwin—something it needed to do under NFL rules. But with 30 seconds left Seattle called for another timeout, and it was granted.
The refs wrongfully con-cluded Seattle’s previous “final” timeout didn’t count because the play’s result nat-urally stopped the clock. The Seahawks failed to take advan-tage of their lucky break, how-
ever, and the refs’ mistake for-tunately didn’t determine the game’s outcome. Those refs didn’t just make the wrong rul-ing. They misunderstand one of football’s simplest rules, one that doesn’t require making a judgment call.
Perhaps due to the refs’ lack of authority, it’s evident that the players and coaches know they can walk all over the replace-ments. It appears players are getting into dead ball tussles with each other more frequently than they would if the referees weren’t so inexperienced.
Further, Yahoo! reported Eagles running back LeSean McCoy told a Philadelphia radio station, “[The referees are] like fans… One of the refs was talking about his fantasy team, [and said], ‘McCoy, come on, I need you for my fantasy [team].’”
Beyond the claims of biased officiating, that kind of behav-ior shows what kind of position
the replacement refs are in. But despite how obvious it is they’re in over their head, I don’t think we’ll see the striking refs back anytime soon.
Scott Van Pelt tweeted on Sunday, “You cannot allow your product to be compro-mised like this. Period.” I love Scott Van Pelt and would jump off a bridge if he told me to, but I don’t think the NFL will fol-low his orders quite as easily as me.
After all, the ratings haven’t been affected. The ratings are only slightly lower than last sea-son’s, and the NFL drew its sec-ond-highest viewership in 2011 since 1989.
As long as we continue to watch the games and the own-ers continue to make money, I don’t see their incentive to come off their current stance with the referees union. The owners had to have known the replacements would struggle when they chose not to negoti-ate with the striking referees. The owners had to have known the product wouldn’t be the same. If they didn’t give in then, why would they now?
The replacement referees will get better as the season goes on, and pretty soon NFL fans will come to accept that they’re here to stay (if they haven’t done so already).
But what if one of the NFL’s elite players gets injured because of the replacement refs? In Sunday’s game between Baltimore and Philadelphia, Eagles quarterback Mike Vick threw a pass off his offensive lineman’s helmet. It bounced backward and hit the ground, resulting in an incomplete pass and dead play. No whistle blew, and the players carried on as though the ball had been fumbled.
While the refs eventually blew the play dead, it still got me thinking: What if a player had been injured on that play? I can’t imagine how much criti-cism the NFL would receive if one of its stars were lost for the season on an extended play like that. What if Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady or Jay Cutler—just kidding, Jay—tore his ACL try-ing to recover a fumble in that situation? It might be one of the only ways to bring the striking referees back.
And if they do come back, you can bet the house that fans will continue to complain about all the bad calls, despite how much better the officiating would be.
Do you think the replacement refs have embarassed themselves? When do you think the referee strike will end? Let Vince know at [email protected]
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redshirt junior center travis Frederick and the rest of the Badgers offense will have to make noticeable improvements to get out of the basement of the Big ten’s statistical department.
16.3Points per game by the Wisconsin offense, which ranks last in the Big Ten
3.1Average yards per carry by Badger running backs
travis Frederickoffensive lineman
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“a lot of people on the outside aren’t going to
see it..., but i do think we played a lot better than
we had.”
While i don’t think its fair to hold them to the standard
of the striking referees, the replacements have certainly
embarassed themselves.