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UW’s Fiji chapter will compete against the University of Minnesota’s chapter for a replica Paul Bunyan’s axe.
fiJi runs to U of Minn. stadium for Red Crossby Shannon Kelly and alex Ditulliothe daily cardinal
Members of UW-Madison’s Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) frater-nity began the first leg of a 268-mile philanthropic run from Camp Randall to the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium Thursday.
About 35 participants in the third annual Fiji Rivalry Run, which raises money for the American Red Cross, will take mile-long shifts toward the stadium with the game ball in hand.
“[The run] really brings us all together,” said Leo Warman, co-chairman of the Rivalry Run committee of Fiji. “It’s a good time because it’s a challenge that we all have to face as a unit.”
The UW chapter will run 156 miles to Winona, Minn., where they will hand the football to the U of M Fiji members, who will run the final 112 miles to TCF Stadium.
The event also serves as a competition between the UW and U of M, where the two
chapters attempt to raise the most money for their respective Red Cross branches.
Last year the UW chapter raised nearly $11,000, an amount Warman hopes to top this year.
According to Tom Mooney, CEO of the Western Wisconsin Territory Red Cross, fraternity charity is an important con-tributor to their cause.
“I just can’t thank them enough,” he said. “[Showing] that kind of philanthropic initiative is really a great credit to the university.”
Mooney said donations will directly impact people in the Madison area at an important time.
“We’re coming into the fire season,” he said. “Unfortunately we’ll have to provide a lot more support, and this run really adds to that.”
Fiji established the event to pay tribute to the Wisconsin-Minnesota football rivalry while keeping a strong empha-sis on charity.
Warman said the rivalry between the two chapters is fun
Survey: Budget cuts hurt schoolsby ben Siegelthe daily cardinal
A survey released Thursday highlighted the effects funding cuts have had on public schools since the adoption of Wisconsin’s biennial state budget.
According to the report from the Wisconsin Department of Instruction, the $749 million decrease in school district fund-ing until 2013 has negatively affected the quality of K-12 pub-lic education through the loss of staff positions and the increase in class sizes.
“The depth and breadth of losses of experienced educators statewide is large,” the survey said. Nine out of 10 students sur-veyed lost one staff member in the staffing areas measured.
The report noted an increase in class sizes in roughly a quar-ter of surveyed districts.
In terms of class offerings, the survey’s findings indicate decreased subject sections and
offerings throughout Wisconsin. Ten percent of surveyed districts reported eliminating math sec-tions, while three percent of school districts completely elim-inated entire math courses.
Two-thirds of districts expect similar or greater cuts to be made in the next year’s budget, the survey said.
In response to the release of the WDI survey, Gov. Scott Walker asserted that the data “shows [the governor’s] reforms are working.”
In Walker’s statement, 90 percent of all districts “have the same number or increased” math sections, while 97 percent of districts also maintained or increased the math courses offered to students.
According to the governor’s release, 75 percent of surveyed districts have K-3 classes either smaller or the same size as before the budget took effect.
State politicians from both
parties connected the budget’s cuts with implications for public education along party lines.
“Wisconsin’s schools are suffer-ing at the direct hands of Walker’s immoral budget,” Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate said in a statement. “Scott Walker should be ashamed to claim that his assault on public education is working.”
Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, accused results of “misleading” the public about edu-cation in Wisconsin.
“ W h a t we should be talking about is education reform,” he said. “We all know that success in the classroom isn’t directly tied to funding.”
$749How many millions schools lost in funding
10Percent of schools that decreased math sections
JFC passes proposal that limits MedicaidThe Legislature’s Joint
Finance Committee approved a Department of Health Services budget proposal Thursday that includes $225 million in Medicaid cuts by an 11-4 vote along party lines.
Republicans, along with DHS officials, view the cuts as a way to deal with rising costs from expan-sion in the Medicaid programs.
Programs like Badger Care Plus and Family Care have grown near-ly 10 times the rate of Wisconsin’s population during the past two decades due to increases of both need and expanded program offer-ings, according to Republicans on the committee.
“These proposals preserve that health care safety net and build on the private system of coverage to ensure the Medicaid program is sustainable now and into the future,” Health Services Secretary Dennis Smith said in his testi-mony to the JFC Thursday.
Approximately 65,000 peo-ple would leave or be reject-ed by state health programs because of the funding cuts, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau’s projections.
To Democrats, these cuts amount to “social injustices.”
“The Republicans are waging a campaign against social justice and the enemy appears to be working-
class families who are struggling to make ends meet,” Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, said in a statement.
Rep. Tamara Grigsby, D-Milwaukee, expressed simi-lar concerns. “There is no justi-fication for stealing health care from 65,000 citizens, including nearly 30,000 children,” she said in a statement.
The budget’s proposal next requires approval from President Barack Obama’s administration by year’s end.
If not signed by Dec. 31, more than 50,000 people will be excluded from the programs to create immediate savings.
—Kendalyn Thoma
SSfC considers using Campus Services fund for WiSPiRGby anna Duffinthe daily cardinal
The Student Services Finance Committee discussed employing a controversial fund that would allow student groups to hire non-university-employed staff members Thursday.
SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said the committee could amend the Campus Services Fund to allow the Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group (WISPIRG) and other student groups to contract non-univer-sity employed staff members.
The fund was created last year to allow the Associated Students of Madison Student Council to provide students with services it deems impor-tant that are not already pro- GRaCe liU/the daily cardinal
SSFc chair Sarah neibart said the cSF would allow WiSPirG and other student groups to hire non-university employees.ssfc page 3rivalry page 3
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Cain apologizes with pizza
By Matthew HonigThe Daily CarDiNal
PROVO, UTAH-Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain effectively quelled all alle-gations of sexual harassment this week with his innovative use of “apology pizza.”
The former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza did some seri-ous damage control, visiting a multitude of women’s rights groups throughout the nation, and bringing some tasty party favors along with him.
“I was convinced that Cain was a male chauvinist, until last Monday, that is,” explained Wendy Chang, chair of the Carson City, Nev., League of Women’s voters. “He just burst into our weekly meeting carry-ing about 10 ultra-thick crust pies from one of the restaurants he used to own. He yells, “Who wants to taste my thickness?’
Chang said after the peace offering, the group welcomed him with open arms. “It dawned on me: a man this kind and charitable would never commit sexual harassment, not in a mil-lion years,” she said.
Cain took the time to sit down with the League chap-ter for dinner. “He was such a gentleman, really nothing like the way he’s portrayed on CNN and MSNBC,” said Abigail Weinstein, an 87-year-old mem-ber of the League. “At the end of the meal, he asked me what I was up to later that night. I told him I was going home to play Mah-Jong with my husband. Poor Mr. Cain just looked so upset and let down.”
On Tuesday, Cain turned up during lunch hour at the Center for Gender and Race Equality in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“Of course none of us could
even believe what was happen-ing,” CGRE receptionist Patty Kozlowski said. “Admittedly, I was a visibly miffed that he only brought pepperoni-where was the vegetarian option? Anyway, Cain was very apol-ogetic about it.. He took my phone number down so we could have a more ‘private’ con-versation about the matter.”
However, Kozlowski said she never received an official call back, but was contacted by some “creepy random Blocked ID guy who breathed rapidly into the phone and then just abruptly hung up.”
In an attempt to garner some
of the youth vote, Cain brought his “Pizza Party Presidential Campaign” to the campus soror-ity circuit. Candy Williams, vice chair of Alpha Chi Omega at Brigham Young University, found the presidential hopeful to be a “total charmer.”
“After all the bread sticks were gone, when everyone was leaving the room, Herman pulled me aside and asked if I’d stick around a little longer- to split a bottle of non-alcoholic wine. I was so down!” Candy recalled. “But then he saw my promise ring and ran out the door. Weird. I am still totally voting for him, though.”
Women of the world forgive GOP nominee for all the ass grabs
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By Maida N. WolfThe Daily CarDiNal
“That kid” everyone hates struck again during an introduction to cultural anthropology discussion Thursday afternoon.
“I asked the class a question, and there was this awkward, pro-longed silence,” teaching assistant Emmanuel Kont said, “and then ‘that kid’ put his hand up.”
Anthropology 104 students recounted the skin-crawling dis-comfort of the classroom’s silence Thursday, as well as the disgust-ing predictability when “that kid” took it upon himself to answer the question.
“It was a stupid question,” junior Katie Stupere complained. “We all knew what the answer was, we just didn’t want to be the ones to say it. And then, of course, ‘that kid’ had to raise his hand.”
While everyone in Anthro 104 agreed they hated “that kid,” students struggled to pinpoint exactly why he infuriated them so much. After intense confusion and lengthy debate, most concluded, “he just blows.”
“Even I hate him and his smarmy, know-it-all, brown-nosing fuckery,” Kont admitted, adding: “Woo! It felt good to get that off my chest!”
ASM to allocate $1.7 million for training seminar
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By Brock Longfellow, Ph.DThe Daily CarDiNal
Associate Students of Madison passed a resolution Thursday to increase student segregated fees by $275 per student for 2011 in order to fund a $1.7 million internal training session in Las Vegas.
The trip to Vegas is focused on improving the internal training of ASM staff so that they may better serve the stu-dent body of Madison. The funding will be used to fly the entirety of ASM’s staff and alumni in a private jet, in what ASM Chair Allie Gardner called “a priceless opportunity to internalize the internal ben-efits of inner bonding.”
When asked why 9 pent-house suites at the Venetian and Palazzo hotels were nec-essary, Gardner noted the “SSFC was in charge of intel-ligently planning efficient accommodation, and conclud-ed that sharing nine suits was less expensive than getting one for each person, so…yeah.”
The staff training will include vocal communica-tion lessons from Vegas -native Barry Manilow, effi-
ciency training with federal government representatives and a question and answer session with Ryan Reynolds, which Gardner noted as a “no-brainer.”
According to SSFC, 40 percent of the funding will go towards transportation, 35 percent toward accommoda-tion, 15 percent to pay for Manilow’s appearance fee, 9 percent for gambling money, 10 percent for alcohol and 7.24 percent for bail-out money.
A Daily Cardinal investi-gation concluded that SSFC may have made calculation error in their budget, but was reassured by ASM Press
Secretary Ade Afolayan that “Mr. Reynolds is actually paying us to come.”
The announcement by ASM, printed on gold tab-lets, stresses that the train-ing session will greatly improve the organization’s internal structure and com-munication. But Gardner assured students that the les-sons learnt will be brought back to Madison.
“What happens in Vegas will definitely not stay in Vegas, except for the student segregated fees.” ASM will live hold a referendum on the decision after returning from the trip.
“That kid” holds up Anthro lecture, infuriates peers
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Remembering a fellow BadgerOn campus
The university held a memorial event Thursday at the memorial union for former Vice chancel-lor John Trophy, who passed away Oct. 2. Trophy served from 1989 until 2003. colleagues and family described him as a brilliant, funny, down to earth man. + Photo by Wan Mei Leong
city seeks student input on mifflin By Esta pratt-KielleyTheDailyCarDiNal
City and neighborhood officials deliberated Mifflin Street Block Party plans and addressed misunderstandings regarding the proposed rede-velopment of the 100 block of State Street Thursday.
In response to a survey the Associated Students of Madison e-mailed to students Thursday regarding their perspective on the future of the block party, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said he is “excited ASM sent out a survey” and looking forward to receiving the results.
Verveer said he, along with the Capitol Neighborhoods, Inc., Mifflin West District and ASM, wish to jointly hold a series of public meetings to address student responses and opinions regarding the future of the block party.
The first public meeting is projected to take place Dec. 8.
However, concerns were raised regarding the turnout of students if the meeting was held so close to final exams.
The committee also addressed a “widespread public miscon-ception” about the State Street 100 block renovations, which involves the demolition of six buildings on the block, two of them historic.
Verveer said the initial proposal is “widely misun-derstood in the community” because the proposal calls for the complete demolition of half the block and to not save anything, including the State Street “façade,” except indi-vidual materials for reuse.
“If they get their way, everything will be completely knocked down,” Verveer said.
CNI Vice President Scott Kolar said it is an interest among neighborhood residents to find a way to not demolish the historic Schubert building, but rather incorporate it into the new plans.
According to Verveer, the development team is not inter-ested in saving the building because they plan to preserve the view between the Overture Center and the Capitol.
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henryVilasZoo’sBBtheorangutandiedinhersleepat40duetoadvancedage,respiratoryinfectionandpossiblecardiacdisease.
The Henry Vilas Zoo is mourning the passing of long-time family favorite, BB the Orangutan, who passed away in her sleep earlier this week at 40 years old.
After a preliminary exami-nation, officials stated the cause of death was due to advanced age, respiratory infection and possible under-lying cardiac disease.
“This is a difficult time for the staff who cared for BB,” Interim Zoo Director Ronda Schwetz said in a statement. “BB has been at
Henry Vilas Zoo for many years and had delighted guests with her interactions.”
BB was considered geriatric for an orangutan and was under close care from the zoo veteri-narian, UW veterinary staff and zoo staff.
BB was mother to Kawan, one of two orangutans remaining on display at the zoo.
“We hope that visitors will continue to come and see our other orangutans as often as they visited BB,” Schwetz said in a statement.
Vilas Zoo orangutan dies
Epa administrator to visit campus nov. 15 at union southU.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, one of “Newsweek”’s “Most Important People in 2010, will speak at Union South Nov. 15.
Jackson will discuss chal-lenges facing environmental laws as well as the EPA’s efforts to respond to President Barack Obama’s request that federal agencies work with American businesses to help create jobs.
Obama appointed Jackson
EPA administrator in 2008. Since being appointed, Jackson was on “Time Magazine”’s 2010 and 2011 lists of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World,” this in addition to her recognition in “Newsweek.” “Time” recognized her specifi-cally for her efforts to protect the nation’s water, air and land from pollution.
UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental
Studies, the Great Lakes B i o e n e r g y R e s e a r c h Center, the W i s c o n s i n E n e r g y Institute and the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery will sponsor the event, which is free and open to the public.
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vided on campus.Upon its creation, the fund
sparked controversy because stu-dent groups said its creators did not reach out to enough students on campus, adding it would give ASM too much power.
But Neibart said the fund is the only means through which a student group can contract staff members from outside the university.
“I really thought this was the last possible option I could take, however I do think this is the best possible option at the time,” Neibart said.
Some SSFC representatives said they were concerned the CSF would allow the committee to rule based on the beliefs and ideologies of the groups, and ille-gal practice.
But Neibart said legal advisors
assured her the fund was legal.The committee will further dis-
cuss amending the CSF Thursday.Also at the meeting, Neibart
said she was disappointed SSFC did not come to a decision on the Multicultural Student Coalition’s appeal for funding Monday.
“I had given my committee members a lot of time to prepare and I had the process laid out very straightforwardly,” Neibart said. “I asked them if they had any questions and no one even came up to me about it.”
SSFC also passed the Student Leadership Program’s funding at $68,751 after minor alterations to the group’s requested budget.
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but intense. At stake is a replica of the coveted Paul Bunyan’s Axe, one side of which the chapter that raises the most money gets to paint.
“Their side remains unpaint-
ed,” he said. “We always tease them when you raise more than us, you can paint your own side.”
When members are not passing the time blasting music or playing cards, Warman said 24 hours on a bus moving at a jogger’s pace can seem long. Still, he argued
the donations that their running results in make it worthwhile.
“Everything that we planned for … is paying off one mile at a time,” he said.
People can donate money to the American Red Cross at fiji-run.com.
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“I asked [my committee members] if they had ques-tions and no one even came
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By Sean ReichardThe Daily CarDiNal
In a society of many mytholo-gies, some times worlds come together in a variety of interesting ways. Mary Dally-Muenzmaier’s first novel “Artifacts” is an exam-ple of such a convergence.
“Artifacts” has all the hallmarks of a supernatural thriller: Former public relations agent Alfreda quits her job and starts working at an antique shop run by a friendly curmudgeon named Wally. She is mysteriously drawn to a Filipino chest, and soon she and Wally are embroiled in an adventure that leads Alfreda to a deeper under-standing of herself.
Dally-Muenzmaier’s first novel, “Artifacts” was a book long in the making.
“Seven years to be exact,” she said in a phone interview. “But I was also working full-time and doing other jobs. There were breaks in between.”
Dally-Muenzmaier spoke a lot of her various careers, including the founding of Cerebral Bends Productions with her husband in Milwaukee.
“I was doing a lot of free-lance writing, some genealogy research, and kind of graphics work on the side, website design, that kind of a thing.”
In the novel, the main charac-ter, Alfreda worked for 13 years as a PR agent, a career Dally-Muenzmaier has also dabbled in.
“I’ve done some PR work, more marketing than PR, but mainly for small companies,”
she said. “I’ve made it kind of a point to avoid the corporate life that many people get into.”
Dally-Muenzmaier talked about her systematic approach to writing “Artifacts” over the course of seven years. She wrote it in bits and pieces in the comfort of her apartment.
“Our apartment is very small, so my writing space is kind of in our dining space,” she said. “I tried to write a little bit every day during the time period that I was writing, and then I would take a break and step away for a couple months and then come back to it.”
Besides drawing on her experience in public relations, Dally-Muenzmaier fashioned one of the main characters, Wally, on a number of people she has known.
“Wally is kind of amalgama-tion of older gentlemen that I’ve known throughout my life, both in a personal setting and in a work related setting, and that kind of relationship where it’s kind of loose and there’s a lot of back and forth, I’ve always enjoyed those relationships,” she said.
Dally-Muenzmaier also spoke about the importance of yoga in her life, which is a crucial plot point in “Artifacts.” She has been a practitioner of Hatha-Vinyasa yoga for 13 years.
“When I practice, it’s an hour-long flow series, as it’s called,” she said. “So you’re doing all different kinds of poses, but it’s a much more methodical practice, then, say, some of the more ath-letic yoga practices.”
For Dally-Muenzmaier, yoga was almost like a form of release or therapy, in dealing with per-sonal problems.
“We can call them emotional artifacts, maybe things we haven’t dealt with internally or fully, [that] sometimes come up to the surface when you’re doing yoga. So that’s part of a yoga practice.”
Finally, Dally-Muenzmaier discussed briefly the amount of research that went into “Artifacts” and the artifacts she chose to feature.
“I did a fair amount of research. I didn’t want to do too much in depth, mainly because I wanted it to be more of a fictional represen-tation than an actual nailing down
of what particular cultures hold as their mythology.”
Dally-Muenzmaier ended by talking about future fiction-al endeavors, in particular, a sequel to “Artifacts.”
“I had thought about doing a sequel, but I wanted to finish the first one first,” she said.
“But it has crossed my
mind. It’s something that mat-ters that really has no limits. You can go anywhere with it,” said Dally-Muenzmaier.
“I guess my firm answer would be maybe.”
“Artifacts” is available through artifacts.cerebralbends.com to order, and for a limited time it is available as a free PDF file.
Dusting off ‘Artifacts’ for a fresh read
• Broom Street Theater presents “Ghosts of Christmas Past,” tales for the optimist and cynic alike. It promises a “satirical examination of all types of holiday spirit.” The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $9.• Check out UW’s theater and dance scene at the Hemsley Theater with “Ti Jean and His Brothers.” This tale of overcoming oppression can relate to modern day uprisings. Catch the performance in its last weekend at 7:30 p.m., get tickets at the box office for $22.
• Venture over to the east side of town to hear Chris Bathgate, Paper Thick Walls, and Briar Rabbit at the Project Lodge. Experience a new venue for only $5 at the door. The show starts at 6:30 p.m.
• Take a journey to the Ivory Coast with Dobet Gnahore’s multilingual vocal and percussive performance at 9 p.m. at the Sett in Union South. Tickets are only $10 for students with a UW ID.
11/12• The 2nd Annual Madison Hip-Hop Awards are rolling out the red carpet at the Barrymore Theatre starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are only $7 in advance or $10 at the door and the night features artists 9 Delegates, Kyle & Keem, Black Star Drum Line. • You could also make your way over to the Overture Center-Playhouse for “The Farnsworth Invention,” the story of two men struggling over the invention of television. The show begins at 7:30 p.m., and tickets cost $37.
11/13-11/16• Use your free time any day this week to check out The Hanga Traditions: Twentieth Century Japanese Woodcuts on display at the Chazen Museum of Art for free.
• Bring on the banjo at the High Noon Saloon on Wednesday, Nov. 16 with Split Lip Rayfield, Legendary Shack Shakers and special guests Mountain Sprout. Bring $15 for admission and be sure to get there for the start of the show at 8 p.m.
Mary Dally-Muenzmaierauthor
“artifacts”
“We can call them emo-tional artifacts, maybe things we haven’t dealt
with internally or fully.”
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Response to Iran must be strategic
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a much-anticipated report regarding Iran’s nuclear programs Tuesday afternoon, including hard evidence of certain military aspects of the program that suggest Iran could eventually posses a nuclear weap-on. Crucially, the report released Tuesday is the most comprehen-sive and damning account of Iran’s nuclear program yet, and as such the report will send shockwaves throughout the international com-munity. Reports released late last week and early this week describe
Israel as pre-paring for a military strike against Iran, while defense planners in the United Kingdom are preparing mili-tary contin-
gency plans if the United States or another ally chooses to resort to military force in response.
Yet most of what is contained in the report is not new. The report is largely historical in nature, detailing the Iranian regime’s nuclear pro-
gram from 1989 to 2003. Western governments provided most of the evidence in the report, which con-cludes that though Iran was on the path to build a nuclear weapon, such efforts largely stopped in 2003. The CIA came to the same conclu-sion in 2007 and said so publicly.
This raises the question of why those in Western capitals are react-ing as if they’ve never heard this evidence before. First, the IAEA placed emphasis on what is known as multiple-source reporting, meaning most of the claims in its report can be backed up by more than one piece of evidence. Second, because the IAEA analysts who came to these conclusions are inde-pendent analysts, the report lends legitimacy to Western intelligence estimates—legitimacy that was in short supply when the United States claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Clearly, a nuclear Iran is not in any nation’s interest, especially not those in the Middle East. A nuclear Iran completely changes the power dynamic in the region—and poten-tially the dynamic across the globe, thereby harming U.S. and allied interests in the region. But what is to be done?
The United States and its inter-national partners have tried suc-cessive rounds of increasingly harsh sanctions against the Iranian regime, but these sanctions lack teeth. In contrast, Russia and
China have largely ignored the sanctions and have continued trad-ing with Iran. Some analysts point to Chinese firms being directly involved in the Iranian nuclear pro-gram, providing industrial compo-nents that help in the enrichment of uranium, a key step toward attain-ing nuclear technology.
It is unlikely that the IAEA report will provide the impe-tus needed to force Russia and China to begin implementing sanctions. Russia declared Wednesday that it did not view the report as reason enough to enforce such
action. And if the United States cannot convince China to stop devaluing its currency, it is unlikely to convince China to stop trading with Iran. Additionally, further sanctions against Iran are unlikely to deliver the desired result. They may, in fact, risk exacerbating the world economic situation. Key allies such as Japan and South Korea depend on Iranian oil to fuel and lubricate their econo-mies, and a disruption in supply
could have global ramifications. Western leaders have discussed
military action against Iran, and reports within the last few weeks indicate that these plans may be in advanced stages. Israel recently conducted intensive training in long-range bombing missions, and reports from the United
Kingdom indicate that the country’s defense agency is preparing contingency plans to support U.S. or allied military action.
Yet the likelihood of a mili-tary action achieving anything of significance is almost nil. Iran maintains its nuclear program in deep bunkers and bases out of the reach of even the best weapons Western powers have to offer. Their nuclear sites are clandestine and diffuse; meaning the chance of hit-ting all of them is small. And to have any appreciable effect, a military attack must destroy Iran’s nuclear capability, not simply damage it. The Iranian military is no push-over, and possesses credible retalia-tory capabilities. In this scenario, Israeli and U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan would become prime Iranian targets.
Setting the program back a few years will not increase interna-tional security; it may even make matters worse. A preemptive attack on the Iranian regime may legiti-mize it among its people and other countries in the region. A nuclear
Iran is bad, but a nuclear Iran seek-ing revenge is worse. If an attack occurs, it must be a full-out attack that completely destroys Iran’s nuclear program. Anything less would be a failure.
Obviously the international community is between a rock and a hard place. As confrontation with Iran would be very costly, the likely course of action is to focus on diplomacy and econom-ic sanctions. France has already called for a summit of the U.N. Security Council to begin dis-cussing such steps.
Ultimately, whatever strategy Western leaders adopt to confront the Iranian nuclear program must be flexible, concerted and sup-ported by international consensus. While diplomacy and sanctions may not be enough to force Iran to give up its program, a military attack should remain a last resort. Finally, the international commu-nity must employ diplomacy and tough sanctions, combined with military posturing that lends credit to Western demands while preserv-ing the flexibility to attack should the need arise. These credible and costly signals will demonstrate to the Iranians that the international community means business.
Andrew Thompson is a senior majoring in political science and his-tory. He likes long walks on the beach. Please send all feedback to [email protected].
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By Max Sternbergthe daily cardinal
Though Wisconsin men’s bas-ketball lost three starters from last year’s Sweet 16 team, the expectations are high in Madison as the Badgers into Saturday’s regular season opener against Kennesaw State.
The return of senior guard and preseason All-American selec-tion Jordan Taylor is certainly a big part of that excitement, but as the Badgers showed in their 80-54 exhibition win over UW-Stevens Point, this year’s team goes far beyond Taylor.
Just in the backcourt alone, the emergence of a third option in sophomore guard Ben Brust has added another dimension to a duo of guards who already have a significant amount of talent and experience.
“Ben is great,” sophomore guard Josh Gasser said. “He’s going to have a great year for us coming off the bench or even starting down the road. But I think we’ve got a good group of guards and our bigs are good as well.”
Those guards will be charged with the task of keep-ing Kennesaw State junior guard Markeith Cummings in check on Saturday afternoon. Cummings, a 6-foot 7-inch junior from Beach, Ala., led the Atlantic Sun Conference last season, averag-ing 18.3 points per game in his sophomore campaign.
With more size than most players at his position, Cummings has the ability to hurt opposing teams by scoring and rebounding. Last season Cummings had five rebounds per game.
“We’ve covered guys like that
before,” Gasser said. “We’re not going to change what we do for one player.”
But while the Owls finished just 8-23 last season, they return four starters from a team that defeated ACC power Georgia Tech by 17 in its regular season opener last season. The results may not have been there, but the talent certainly is.
“We are a team of routine,” junior forward Mike Bruesewitz said. “We just keep going with what we’re doing. We just go over their strengths, their tendencies. Just try to take away some of their strengths and make them do some stuff they’re not used to doing. Nothing really changes, just work as usual.”
Now that the preseason has finally come to a close, the Badgers hit the court running, playing three games in just over a week to start the season.
While this frenzied start may cut into Wisconsin’s ability to pre-
pare for individual opponents, it also provides good preparation for a Big Ten schedule, during which that quick turnaround will become the norm.
“When we get a lot of games like that in a row, it can be chal-lenging at times because of the little quicker turnaround,” Bruesewitz said. “But it’s definitely fun because you’re playing games, you can’t really complain about that.”
While the Badgers know that they have to take it one day at a time, it is impossible to keep future games out of sight.
“You don’t avoid looking at it, you’re going to naturally look at that game, but I’m taking it one day at a time,” junior forward Ryan Evans said. “I’m going to look at that game, but I’m not going to focus on it.”
Focus will be key, as the Badgers look to ride the momen-tum of a winning. A streak they hope begins on Saturday after-noon at the Kohl Center.
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Wisconsin’s starting squad will have a different look for its opener, even with the return of senior guard Jordan taylor.
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Senior forward ashley thomas expressed her anticipation this week for 2011-12 season under new head coach Bobbie Kelsey.
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By adam Tupitzathe daily cardinal
Bobbie Kelsey makes her reg-ular season debut as Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Friday night as the Badgers head east to take on the UW-Milwaukee Panthers. Wisconsin will return to home this weekend with a Sunday afternoon game against Oral Roberts.
Wisconsin wrapped up its exhibition schedule this past Sunday with a convincing 66-33 victory over UW-Parkside at the Kohl Center.
“I think they played well together in these first two exhibi-tion games,” Kelsey said. “The first one we had a lot of turn-overs, but I think we fixed that in the second game. I’m glad we got pressed in the first game—it really showed what we had to work on.”
Kelsey is taking over a Wisconsin team that had a 2010-11 season best described as streaky. The inconsistent play led athletic director Barry Alvarez to make a coaching change away from former women’s basketball head coach Lisa Stone.
Wisconsin’s style of play will be dramatically different this year as Kelsey has installed a complete-ly new system on both offense and defense. The offense will be significantly more up-tempo than it has been in years past, which is something that the players are certainly looking forward to.
“I love the fast pace,” senior forward Ashley Thomas said. “I love that we can get up in transi-tion, push the ball, and look to sprint from rim to rim.”
Kelsey spent the last four
seasons as an assistant coach at Stanford. The Cardinal reached the Final Four in all four sea-sons. Kelsey also advanced to the Final Four three times as a player at Stanford. Kelsey hopes to bring some of that success to a Wisconsin program that has never advanced past the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
“What we have right now is good enough,” Kelsey said. “We can win a lot with this group. They just have to believe that.”
UW-Milwaukee has a 1-20 all-time record against the Badgers and has never defeat-ed them at home. Last sea-son, Wisconsin defeated the Panthers 68-53 in Madison.
After the trip to Milwaukee, the Badgers return to the Kohl Center on Sunday to take on Oral Roberts in a matchup between two teams coming off of WNIT appearances in 2010. The Golden Eagles return all five starters from last season, so their expe-rienced lineup could give the Badgers trouble.
Wisconsin has a hectic sched-ule to start the year, playing four games in a span of eight days. Senior forward Anya Covington thinks that the excitement of start-ing a new season should help keep the team focused and energized.
“The opportunity to be able to play should give you enough energy,” Covington said. “We just need to keep each other encour-aged and know that it’s basket-ball season, so let’s go.”
Tonight’s game tips off at 7 p.m. at Milwaukee’s Klotsche Center. Sunday’s home opener against Oral Roberts is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Kohl Center.
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after a big 2-0 win over Michigan in ann arbor Wednesday, the Wis-consin men’s soccer team will face the Penn State nittany lions in the semi-finals of the Big ten tourna-ment. With a 2:30 p.m. start time Friday, this will be the second mee-ting between these two teams in less than a week.
Penn State beat the second-see-ded Ohio State Buckeyes in a huge upset that saw PSU capture its first Big ten conference win this season.
the Badgers just barely edged the nittany lions in their first mee-ting, escaping with a 1-0 win in
double overtime.if the Badgers manages to beat
Penn State Friday, the team will move on to the finals of the Big ten tournament, where they will face the winner of the game between top-seeded northwestern and fouth-seeded indiana. the cham-pionship game is scheduled for 11 a.m. Sunday, nov 13.
the winner of the championship game receives an automatic bid to the ncaa tournament. if the Bad-gers have any hope of reaching the ncaas, they likely have to win out.
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Five weeks into the 2011-12 sea-son, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team (3-4-1 WCHA, 4-5-1 overall) is still trying to figure out what type of club it is. The Badgers have shown resiliency in several late-game comebacks, but they have also shown their youth in games
like last week’s 7-2 loss to St. Cloud State. However, success this week-end over the No. 1 Minnesota Gophers could help define this young team.
“We always talk about develop-ing ourselves into a championship-caliber team,” head coach Mike Eaves said, “Playing this level of team helps us get to that.”
Minnesota (6-0, 9-1), who ascended to the No. 1 spot this week after a sweep of No. 20 North Dakota, is playing like the best team in the country so far this sea-son. The Gophers have the top-ranked scoring offense (4.8/goals per game) in all of college hockey as well as the third-ranked team defense (1.60 GAA).
Facing such stiff competi-tion, Eaves is looking at what his team can do to win rather than just game-planning around Minnesota’s strengths.
“We know they’re good; we can’t change what they’re going to do,” Eaves said after practice Thursday. “It’s about the things we do.”
One point of emphasis this week has been the team’s penalty kill, which after a woeful start to the season, started to show signs of life last Saturday in St. Cloud when the Badgers did not allow a power play goal.
“We’re looking more comfort-able with the scheme we want to run,” Eaves said of his penalty kill unit.
In order to avoid Minnesota’s 4th
ranked power play, the Badgers will need to play disciplined hock-ey and stay out of the box.
“Probably the biggest job is try-ing to manage the emotions so they play whistle-to-whistle and don’t get involved in all that stuff that happens afterwards,” Eaves said.
The rivalry between Wisconsin and Minnesota has always run deep, but when one of the pro-grams is ranked No. 1 in the coun-try, it only adds fuel to the competi-tive fire.
“It gets everyone up a little bit extra,” sophomore forward Mark Zengerle said. “I mean everybody is going to be up either way being that it’s Minnesota, but them being No. 1 gives us a little more incentive to get those wins.”
With six Badgers hailing from Minnesota, this is a par-ticularly exciting series for the young team. For freshman for-ward Joseph LaBate, an Eagan,
Minn., native, this weekend is particularly exciting.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun,” LaBate said on facing the Gophers. “I know quite a few guys on the team so it’ll be fun to play against them. “It’s going to be exciting.”
As the young Badgers continue to search for an identity this sea-son, playing host to the top-ranked team in the nation offers an excel-lent chance to make a statement to the rest of the WCHA and college hockey as a whole about this team.
“Absolutely,” LaBate said when asked if his team was looking to make a statement. “We’re a young team. A lot of people don’t really give us much respect, so I think this weekend is a chance to earn that respect playing the No. 1 team.”
“That’d be huge,” said Zengerle, echoing LaBate’s sentiments. “Especially in our own building, we got our fans behind us, it’d be huge if we got some wins.”
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between Wisconsin and MinnesotaBy Max Sternbergthe daily cardinal
This weekend’s battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe will make the 121st meeting between Wisconsin (3-2 Big Ten, 7-2 overall) and Minnesota (1-4. 2-7), the first com-ing all the way back in 1890.
While the axe has only been around since 1948, the nation’s oldest college football rivalry is rich with history, history that head coach Bret Bielema wants to make sure his players under-stand and embrace as they head to Minneapolis Saturday.
“We’ve done different things during the course of the week [to educate the team about the rival-ry],” Bielema said. “But I think you just have to get an idea of what your team needs.”
Rivalry or not, there is no doubt that what this Badger team needs right now is a road victory. Snake-bitten in games away from Madison, the Badgers’ 7-2 record has been consistently discounted by the team’s failure to win a true road game this season. Having lost their only two opportunities on back-to-back heartbreaks in the final minute, Saturday is no doubt a chance for the Badgers to make a statement that they remain a force to be reckoned with at home as well as on the road.
“More than anything, it’s anoth-er game on our plate that we have to get prepared for,” UW senior quar-terback Russell Wilson said, down-
playing the impact of the rivalry. “And in our minds, we have to win.”
While the Gophers head into Saturday just 2-7 and 1-4 in the Big Ten, their play of late has been far better than their record would indicate. Finally hitting its stride under first-year head coach Jerry Kill, Minnesota is fresh off a two-week stretch in which it upset division-contending Iowa in Minneapolis. The Gophers fol-lowed their performance up by nearly beating another contender, Michigan State, in East Lansing.
“Last time we went there it was a real tough game,” junior center Peter Konz said of the team’s 31-28 win in 2009. “I know they’re going to step it up. They’re getting better this year.”
Much of the recent success is due to the maturity of junior quar-terback and former wide receiver MarQueis Gray. Since taking the helm for good from freshman Max Shortell, Gray has provided the Gopher offense with a spark, making Minnesota noticeably more competitive of late.
“MarQueis is big,” Bielema said of Gray. “But to me, they are just settling in to what their coaches are telling them.”
In last Saturday’s 31-24 loss against the Spartans, Gray passed for 295 yards and three touch-downs, adding 71 yards on the ground as well. Senior wide receiver Da’Jon McKnight caught all three of those touchdown passes, finishing the game with 173 yards receiving on his own. The growing connec-tion between Gray and McKnight is something coaches around the Big
Ten are beginning to take note of.“McKnight and [Gray] obvi-
ously have got a very special relationship,” Bielema said. “Any time you have that relationship between a quarterback and a wide receiver, that’s special.”
Saturday marks the beginning of yet another stretch that has the Badgers on the road in consecu-tive weeks. With just three games left in the regular season, there is little room for error, especially with any hopes of a return trip to Pasadena hanging in the balance.
The Badgers should have senior free safety Aaron Henry back after he left last week’s win with a sprained ankle.
“It hurts, but it’s November; it’s that time of the year,” Henry said about his injury. “This is my last year. I’m willing to lay it all down on the line for my team-mates,” Henry added.
Though the losses to Michigan State and Ohio State mean Wisconsin no longer controls its own destiny, the Badgers will need to take care of business first and foremost by winning out before they can hope for the help they need to qualify for the Big Ten Championship Game and a shot at the Rose Bowl.
“At the end of the day, that [Paul Bunyan’s Axe] represents a win,” Konz said. “It means you’re doing things the right way.”
Parker Gabriel contributed to this report.
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Wisconsin has won the last seven meetings with their historic rival Minnesota. the Badgers ran over the Gophers last year, winning 41-23 and scoring five touchdowns on the ground.
The greatest show on icethe Badgers welcome the no. 1 Golden Gophers to the Kohl center for another edition of college hockey’s best rivalry
freshman forward Joseph laBate, a Minnesota native, is ready to make his own contribution to this long-standing rivalry.
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