University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete campus coverage since 1892 dailycardinal.com Tuesday, March 12, 2013 l “…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.” COURTNEY KESSLER/THE DAILY CARDINAL Dr. Kim Wilcox, a finalist for the UW-Madison chancellor position, meets with campus and community members Monday in the Mead Witter Lobby of the Chazen Art Museum. Third UW chancellor finalist visits Madison Wilcox emphasizes past experience, new funding sources By Cheyenne Langkamp THE DAILY CARDINAL Dr. Kim Wilcox was the third candidate for the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor position to visit campus, empha- sizing his experiences at similar institutions and ideas about how to diversify funding sources in meetings Monday. Wilcox, former provost and vice president for aca- demic affairs at Michigan State University, called it a “personal pleasure” to be considered as the next leader of “one of the nation’s jewels,” not only because of the university’s commitment to aca- demics, but also its accessibility and connections with its students and state. If chosen as chancellor, Wilcox said he would engage with students formally through student government, but added he would also emphasize infor- mal interactions, such as recep- tions and lunches. “That’s a time when I can learn an awful lot about the university from someone else’s eyes,” Wilcox said. “I can learn an awful lot about the nature of student issues.” He added he would see his role as chancellor as encouraging the creation of a “community of scholars,” while also taking on the special “responsibility and oppor- tunity” to take action on behalf of students that no one else on cam- pus is given the authority to take. Wilcox emphasized his back- ground at similar institutions, where he said he interacted with similar shared governance struc- tures like the system in place at UW-Madison. He added he was proud to collaborate with facul- ty to create an academic review program and students to create academic minors during his time wilcox page 3 Students discuss state bill allowing bars to sue underage patrons By Mara Jezior THE DAILY CARDINAL In a meeting Monday, student leaders discussed the implica- tions of a bill recently introduced to the state legislature that would allow bar and liquor store own- ers to sue underage patrons who are caught purchasing alcohol on their premises. Sponsors of the bill said its purpose would be to address the problem of underage drink- ing across the state, accord- ing to Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Chair Dan Statter. Still, Statter criticized the bill, suggesting that “either [legislators] are really con- fused as to appropriate ways to address this issue, or there’s an alternative motive.” If the proposed bill passes, bar and liquor store owners would be able to sue underage patrons who are caught drinking on their premises up to $1000. If an estab- lishment chooses to sue a patron, the lawsuit would be an addition- al cost on top of a $130 drinking fine, as well as a $600 fine for any The Landmarks Commission, including Chair Stuart Levitan, approved redevelopment designs for the former Holy Redeemer school, saying they fit with the neighborhood’s historic building standards. JANE THOMPSON/THE DAILY CARDINAL Human Resources redesign forum draws large crowd By Cheyenne Langkamp THE DAILY CARDINAL University administrators updated the campus community on the implementation of the new Human Resources design plan at a forum Monday, amid concerns from attendees over supervisor accountability, employee cat- egory transitions and changes to compensation and benefits. The plan was mandated in the last state biennial budget to allow the university additional flexibili- ties in recruiting, retaining and compensating its employees. The plan’s September release sparked controversy on campus and prompted a semester full of dis- cussion in university governance groups, all of which eventually voted to approve the plan. The largest change under the plan will be the creation of the “university staff” category, which will consist of all employees paid by the hour, to replace classi- fied staff. All salaried classified staff will have a choice between becoming university staff or tran- sitioning into the academic staff category. As current salaried staff underage page 3 hr design page 3 City committee approves catholic school exterior redevelopment design The Landmarks Commission approved designs for a downtown redevelopment of a former catho- lic school at a meeting Monday. The commission awarded an exterior certificate of appropri- ateness, which means proposed exterior alterations meet the com- mittee’s standards of compatibil- ity with the neighborhood’s his- toric character, to designs for the proposed former Holy Redeemer Catholic School redevelopment into apartments. Holy Redeemer pastor James Holmes closed the build- ing, located at 142 W. Johnson St., which the church used for social and parish events, in December because the struc- ture was deteriorating. He applied for city permis- sion to divide the West Johnson Street lot, which also houses the church, in order to sell the previ- ous school building to investors while maintaining ownership of the functioning church. Landmarks Commission chairperson Stuart Levitan said the commission does not have jurisdiction to stop Holmes from selling the build- ing, despite emotional pleas from parishioners. “It breaks my heart … to see apartments page 3 ADVERTISEMENT Scott Resnick alderperson District 8 “I don’t think Wando’s wants to get into the system of suing their patrons.”
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete campus coverage since 1892 dailycardinal.com Tuesday, March 12, 2013l
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
CoUrTney Kessler/the daily cardinal
dr. Kim Wilcox, a finalist for the UW-Madison chancellor position, meets with campus and community members Monday in the Mead Witter lobby of the chazen art Museum.
Third UW chancellor finalist visits MadisonWilcox emphasizes past experience, new funding sourcesBy Cheyenne langkampthe daily cardinal
Dr. Kim Wilcox was the third candidate for the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor position to visit campus, empha-sizing his experiences at similar institutions and ideas about how to diversify funding sources in meetings Monday.
Wilcox, former provost and vice president for aca-demic affairs at Michigan State University, called it a “personal pleasure” to be considered as the next leader of “one of the nation’s jewels,” not only because of the university’s commitment to aca-
demics, but also its accessibility and connections with its students and state.
If chosen as chancellor, Wilcox said he would engage with students formally through student government, but added he would also emphasize infor-mal interactions, such as recep-tions and lunches.
“That’s a time when I can learn an awful lot about the university from someone else’s eyes,” Wilcox said. “I can learn an awful lot about the nature of student issues.”
He added he would see his role as chancellor as encouraging
the creation of a “community of scholars,” while also taking on the special “responsibility and oppor-tunity” to take action on behalf of students that no one else on cam-pus is given the authority to take.
Wilcox emphasized his back-ground at similar institutions, where he said he interacted with similar shared governance struc-tures like the system in place at UW-Madison. He added he was proud to collaborate with facul-ty to create an academic review program and students to create academic minors during his time
wilcox page 3
Students discuss state bill allowing bars to sue underage patronsBy Mara Jeziorthe daily cardinal
In a meeting Monday, student leaders discussed the implica-tions of a bill recently introduced to the state legislature that would allow bar and liquor store own-ers to sue underage patrons who are caught purchasing alcohol on their premises.
Sponsors of the bill said its
purpose would be to address the problem of underage drink-ing across the state, accord-ing to Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Chair Dan Statter.
Still, Statter criticized the bill, suggesting that “either [legislators] are really con-fused as to appropriate ways to address this issue, or there’s an alternative motive.”
If the proposed bill passes, bar and liquor store owners would be able to sue underage patrons who are caught drinking on their premises up to $1000. If an estab-lishment chooses to sue a patron, the lawsuit would be an addition-al cost on top of a $130 drinking fine, as well as a $600 fine for any
the landmarks commission, including chair Stuart levitan, approved redevelopment designs for the former holy redeemer school, saying they fit with the neighborhood’s historic building standards.
Jane ThoMpson/the daily cardinal
Human Resources redesign forum draws large crowdBy Cheyenne langkampthe daily cardinal
University administrators updated the campus community on the implementation of the new Human Resources design plan at a forum Monday, amid concerns from attendees over supervisor accountability, employee cat-egory transitions and changes to compensation and benefits.
The plan was mandated in the last state biennial budget to allow the university additional flexibili-ties in recruiting, retaining and compensating its employees. The plan’s September release sparked
controversy on campus and prompted a semester full of dis-cussion in university governance groups, all of which eventually voted to approve the plan.
The largest change under the plan will be the creation of the “university staff” category, which will consist of all employees paid by the hour, to replace classi-fied staff. All salaried classified staff will have a choice between becoming university staff or tran-sitioning into the academic staff category. As current salaried staff
underage page 3
hr design page 3
City committee approves catholic school exterior redevelopment design
The Landmarks Commission approved designs for a downtown redevelopment of a former catho-lic school at a meeting Monday.
The commission awarded an exterior certificate of appropri-ateness, which means proposed exterior alterations meet the com-mittee’s standards of compatibil-ity with the neighborhood’s his-toric character, to designs for the proposed former Holy Redeemer Catholic School redevelopment into apartments.
Holy Redeemer pastor James Holmes closed the build-ing, located at 142 W. Johnson St., which the church used for social and parish events, in
December because the struc-ture was deteriorating.
He applied for city permis-sion to divide the West Johnson Street lot, which also houses the church, in order to sell the previ-ous school building to investors while maintaining ownership of the functioning church.
Landmarks Commission chairperson Stuart Levitan said the commission does not have jurisdiction to stop Holmes from selling the build-ing, despite emotional pleas from parishioners.
“It breaks my heart … to see
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W hen I imagined my time abroad in Paris, it was all butterflies
and rainbows—or rather, it was all warm baguettes and hand-some strangers. Although the warm baguettes and handsome strangers turned out to be true, along with them came a barrage of things I hadn’t expected at all. To save any future Badgers who go abroad the trouble, here are five lessons I learned the hard way:
1. Eating is an event. Eating is an integral part
of French culture and the way people connect to one another, even more so than in America. When you sit down for a meal, especially if you are in a French home, expect it to take around three hours—or five if guests are present. In a restaurant, waiters are not being rude to you by leaving you alone for an hour; they are catering to your natural desire to ruminate over every course. I learned this the hard way when I sat down at the table at 8:30 for dinner and my host dad laughed, saying, “Oh, you thought we were going to eat at 8:30? No, when I say, ‘Dinner is at 8:30’ it means, ‘We will begin thinking about eating dinner at 8:30.’ You Americans eat so early!” Awesome.
2. Eating is not a public event. This may seem to contradict
my last point directly, but hear me out. Before coming to France, I didn’t realize quite how much eating-on-the-go I do in the U.S. This is probably because I was
never socially reprimanded for doing so in the U.S., but the French made up for it with zeal. I have been caught eating a sand-wich while walking around and have had several strangers in a row sarcastically spit “bon appe-tit” at me as I walked by. I was told to leave a thrift store until I was done eating a piece of chocolate. And you know that feeling when you walk out into the cafeteria in middle school with your tray and you can’t find your friends? Now you know what it feels like to eat a croissant on the Parisian metro—the entire car of people will find you sad and disgusting.
3. Making eye contact with someone on the street is not harmless, neighborly kindness.
Unbeknownst to us, we Midwesterners have been practicing our “smize” for our entire lives. (For those of you that do not religiously follow “America’s Next Top Model,” that means “smile with your eyes”). When we walk down the street, we naturally make eye contact with strangers, smile and continue along our way. There might as well be “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” playing in the background, and this is unacceptable in Paris. Smiling at a stranger is almost synony-mous with: “Wanna make out?” You learn quickly that asking strangers to make out is not what you want to do. Needless to say, I ditch the happy-go-lucky look in favor of the Grim Reaper one when I go outside.
4. Everyone is richer and better looking than you. Deal with it.
Every day in Paris is like walking around backstage at a fashion show. (Or what I imagine that to be like; I won’t pretend I’ve ever done that.)
According to my completely dependable observations, 90 percent of Parisians are in their 20s, extremely good looking and have way more money than any of us will have. Or at least they are good at looking like it. At first, this is like being a kid in a candy store. But after a couple of weeks, you start noticing your growing muffin top and Great Clips haircut, and your self-esteem may take a hit. This is natural. If you want to eat less and start chain smok-ing to join the French, be my guest. I prefer to be an admir-ing onlooker, stuffing my face with eclairs.
5. Accept the eccentricities.Finally, as with any experi-
ence in a foreign country, there are things that are difficult to wrap my head around. Why
is the classic French shower designed to literally force you to sit down and wash yourself like a baby in a sink? I have no idea, but when I attempted to stand up in it anyway, I sprayed water all over the bathroom and wanted to kick myself. Why is there no online course cata-log for the French University? Again, no idea, but being a lost, late American makes it worth going along with the system. Of course, along with these come the charming, lovable eccentrici-ties that make Paris a city of leg-end. It just takes a little patience.
Has Riley’s column taught you a thing or two about French etiquette? If you’re looking for more advice, send an email to Riley at [email protected]. Look for more columns from birds abroad throughout the semester!
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M any of us can probably sympathize with the sick feeling of death
that enters our bellies when someone asks us what our plans are after we graduate.
Now, maybe you’re one of those people who has their future plans all figured out, all of your grad school applications turned in or career fairs marked neatly on your calendar, and if you are, then I am both super jealous and super stunned by you. I some-times envy those who have fig-ured out what their calling is, have some concept of direction or discipline in staying the course. However, most times, I just don’t understand. That’s probably because I aspire to approximate-ly 2,938,740,398 different career
paths every day and am majoring in things that are just plain cool to me, that tell me about the world and who I am and who you are, and do not correlate, like, at all, to a specific career. Unless being a feminist investment banker is a real job title. If it is, you know where to find me. Except I think I would hate investment banking. See! Told you I have no direction.
All of this questioning my life compass results in a lot of me being like, “Nope. This is it. I’m doing this,” to things like being an Orca Whale trainer at SeaWorld—additionally, I strug-gle with where my morality lies on the topic of SeaWorld being an OK thing, something that may hold me back on my pathway to SeaWorld stardom and Free Willy-esque bliss.... I also consid-er moving to Key West with my family to own and operate a char-ter fishing boat where we all have maritime nicknames. Or becom-ing the next White House press secretary (mostly because I want
to be C.J. Cregg from “The West Wing”), or becoming a documen-tary filmmaker, (here comes the money), under the condition that I only film on a skateboard.
These are only a few of the obviously super probable and attainable career paths I mull over on a daily basis in hopes that I’ll have some kind of an answer the next time someone asks me what my post-grad plans are.
Humor me, will you, as I follow a few of these plans through, and see what they might have to offer as a “legitimate” career. Because there’s no time like the present and no place like a public news-paper. OK, so there’s the owning a charter fishing boat with my fam-ily thing. What do we name the vessel? Wow, I already love how it feels to say the word “vessel.” I can dig this. Maybe something like, “The Big Cheese” to show our Wisconsin roots. OK, I like that, except it’s a little less majestic than I would like. Clearly this plan isn’t going to work if it’s taking me this
long to decide on a name. Next. Then, there’s the White House
press secretary thing. That seems much more like a socially accept-able and normal career choice, right? Surely. How the hell does one go about beginning to aspire to such a thing? Do I just keep watching “The West Wing” and take notes? Should I start walking with purpose and have file fold-ers in my hands everywhere I go? Maybe I should start recording my own daily press briefings and tweet them at President Obama. Yeah, that sounds important.
Listen, folks, this could go on forever, and your eyes probably hurt from rolling them at me, so I’ll shut up. If you have any sug-gestions or names for my poten-tial fishing vessel, let me know. Vessel, vessel, vessel.
What are your life plans? And how do you feel about whales? Help Jacklin figure it all out over some episodes of “The West Wing.” Email her to set up a date at [email protected].
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Contemplating career options, rest of life
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A Cardinal columnist reports on fumbles, faux pas and French culture
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at MSU.“I’ve worked with faculty
and students in different insti-tutions to make changes that were right for them and right for the institution,” Wilcox said. “I look forward to doing the same thing here.”
Wilcox also emphasized the importance of “finding ways to maintain and grow the resource base,” by integrating state fund-ing, tuition, philanthropic con-tributions and private sector partnerships.
“We can’t remain an excel-lent high quality university without more stable resources,” Wilcox said.
Emily Ten Eyck, a senior and Wisconsin Public Interest
Group member, said she want-ed to meet Wilcox to hear his thoughts on shared governance, which she believes “empowers students to have control over their college experience.”
Ten Eyck said she respected his desire to work with stu-dents to find solutions to issues, something she hasn’t seen from the current administration.
UW-Madison senior Alexandra Stewart said, although she attended the reception for extra credit, she hopes the next chancellor can bring the campus together into a “tight-knit community,” adding she was impressed by Wilcox’s ability to relate to students.
“And he’s 100 percent up for getting his first pair of Badger bibs,” she added.
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Campaign spending triples after Citizens United decision
Total campaign spending in Wisconsin tripled from the 2006 and 2008 election cycles to 2010 and 2012 largely due to a major Supreme Court decision and recall contests, according to a new report released Monday.
The 2010 and 2012 elec-tions marked the first in which the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which allowed inde-pendent groups to spend unlim-ited amounts of money on elec-tions, was in effect.
A Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found candi-dates and outside groups spent about $392 million on state and
federal elections in 2010 and 2012, compared to nearly $124 million in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.
Taking the $137.5 million spent on recall elections out of consider-ation, total election spending still doubled in Wisconsin between the 2010 and 2012 election cycles and the previous four years.
Outside groups alone poured more than $171 million into the 2010 and 2012 elections in Wisconsin after only spend-ing about $40 million in 2006 and 2008.
The Greater Wisconsin Committee was the top outside group in support of Democratic candidates in the state between
the 2006 and 2012 elections, spending $26.5 million, while the biggest outside spend-er in support of Republican candidates, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, doled out nearly $18 million.
The most expensive races dur-ing this period in Wisconsin were the gubernatorial recall election between Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, which cost $81 million; and the 2012 U.S. Senate campaign, which saw $77 million in total spending, featuring then-U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, and former Gov. Tommy Thompson.
—Adam Wollner
Owner of Capital Fitness plans new gym facility, apartment complex for downtown
A local fitness center owner and an architect pre-sented initial plans at a Bassett Neighborhood meeting Monday for a structure that would bring apartment units as well as a fitness center to West Washington Avenue.
Erik Minton, owner and operator of Capital Fitness, and John Sutton from Sutton Architecture proposed a five-story residential and service use building which would be located at 425 W. Washington Ave., the current site of a park-ing lot and one-story commer-cial building.
The building would include 50 one or two bedroom residen-tial units. Commercial spaces in the structure would provide working space for optometrist John Bonsett-Veal, whose office is currently on the lot, and a new Capital Fitness center.
“This is a building that’s going to add to the neighborhood in some fashion,” Minton said.
Under the current proposal, the building would include 64 parking spaces as well as moped and bike parking, though none of the parking would be intend-ed for the fitness center, which would not have a pool or offer
group fitness classes.Minton said he hopes people
would walk or bike to get to the gym, and if patrons wanted to use full facilities, including classes, they would go to Capital Fitness’ main location at 15 N. Butler St.
“To put the convenience stuff right in the neighborhood is our goal,” Minton said.
Construction could begin in fall 2013 if the proposal receives city approval. Minton has previ-ously received approval from the city for a project on the same lot but did not begin construction.
—Meghan Chua
Police arrest parolee after attempt to break into housePolice arrested a 44-year-old
man for violating parole Saturday after the man attempted to enter a house on the 300 block of South Orchard Street where he thought a party was occurring.
According to a police incident report, a 22-year-old woman called the Madison Police Department around 10 p.m.
Saturday night in response to banging on the front door of her home and sounds of someone attempting to enter the house.
Eric Griffin, who has no per-manent address, told police he heard rumors of a party in the area while at a bar earlier that evening, the report said.
Griffin tried to enter the home
but the front door was locked, according the report. He then attempted to enter the house using the back door, which was also locked.
When police arrived at the house, they found Griffin walking around the neighbor-hood and arrested him for a parole violation.
leave the university, their positions will auto-matically become academic staff positions.
Many campus stakeholders have expressed concerns over the difference in benefits given to classified and academic staff, as well as changes made to job security provisions, some of which were addressed in earlier revisions of the plan. The plan also calls for the flexibility to pay employees based on performance.
According to HR Design project team leader Bob Lavigna, the Office of Human Resources has begun work on an imple-mentation strategy which includes draft-ing new operating procedures and train-ing programs.
Lavigna added the formation of the uni-versity staff governance group will begin this month, with the creation of an advisory committee of classified staff and labor union representatives to oversee the process.
Multiple attendees questioned how supervisors would be held responsible, as performance evaluations will carry addi-tional weight under the new plan.
Lavigna said while OHR is creating training programs, the main solution is accountability.
“It’s not just about new policies and pro-
cedures,” Lavigna said. “It’s about account-ability, leadership and culture change.”
Lavigna also said OHR will pro-vide advising services to help classi-fied employees understand the decision
between becoming a university or aca-demic staff member.
He added all governance bodies, includ-ing the new university staff group, will be involved in the project’s implementation.
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what it is doing to this parish, and I wish the church were acting more like a church and less like a developer,” Levitan said.
According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, investors could use federal and state Historic Preservation Tax Credits, which allow businesses that owe taxes to invest in his-
toric landmarks, to redevelop the property and said he supports the designs.
“This, frankly, long neglected, beautiful historic landmark will receive desperately needed ten-der love and care,” Verveer said.
The Plan Commission will review the application at its April 22 meeting before it goes to the City Council for final approval.
—Melissa Howison
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patrons caught using a fake ID.At the meeting, student leaders also met
with Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, who expressed his concern over the bill.
“The only bars I see using something like this are the ones that are going out of busi-ness,” Resnick said. “I don’t think Wando’s wants to get into the system of suing their patrons. I just don’t see that as being a posi-tive business model.”
Although bars can be fined $500 if caught serving underage patrons, student leaders expressed concerns bars could exploit peo-ple under 21 by serving them alcohol so they could later sue them.
Resnick deflected the concerns, saying a bar can be shut down if it is caught serving underage patrons at least two times.
Also at the meeting, committee members discussed the drafting of the Tenant Bill of Rights, a set of student-friendly leasing poli-cies for tenants and landlords.
Committee member Ryan Prestil said if Student Council passes the bill of rights, ASM plans to support landlords who add it to their leases.
“The main focus of [the bill of rights] is to have students treated as fairly as adults,” Prestil said.
The new ‘Key’ to igniting patriotismG od bless the Internet.
God damn the Internet. I’ll get that etched on
my gravestone when I perish from a life of fast food and good music. What is the latest reason for such an attitude, you say?
Well… did you know about the new White House online peti-tion system that gives a smidgen of control back to the people in the democratic process? You might think we’re currently drowning in solutions to world
hunger, endings to all foreign wars, the dependency on for-eign oil… and we probably are. But again… this is the Internet, so someone started a petition to change our National Anthem to R. Kelly’s remix to “Ignition.”
It’s the remix to “Ignition.” Hot and fresh with petition. Mama got democratic, chan-gin’ the anthem’s the mission. Scott Key’s verses are dumb. Outdated and humdrum. It’s the freakin’ weekend, baby, let’s get patriotic for once, once.
I don’t know if Francis Scott Key has an estate or something, but I know if he does, they’re pissed. And that’s a double entendre. No, I didn’t forget our American hero Robert Kelly (*insert allegedly here*) urinated on a young girl, but apparently everyone else did. And he beat the charges, but you didn’t come here for all that (though I suggest you watch the episode of “The Boondocks” where that whole bonanza is explained in detail).
I usually don’t do this, but uh … I present to thee: the top three reasons why the remix to “Ignition” should be the new National Anthem.
God save us all.
1: It has the same com-ponents of “The Star Spangled Banner,” just culturally updated.
The hotel lobby in the song has to be clear around 4 a.m., so the events must be going on “by the dawn’s early light.” Let’s be real. Everyone in Kellz’s party is definitely hailing as the twilight of early camera phones and dim hotel lighting gleams in the eyes of the people. I know someone in that party is wearing broad stripes and R. Kelly is a bright star. The ramparts of inhibition come tumbling down as every-one is drunken and hormonal in Kelly’s world, causing liquor and sex to stream in copious amounts. It will continue in the morning, from the bathroom floor to the free hotel breakfast. And despite it all, our freedom is intact as the freak flag symboli-cally flies in the proud wind of reckless abandonment.
2: The original for-mats of both works were, essentially, remixed.
Francis Scott Key’s origi-nal poem, “Defense of Fort McHenry,” was written after Key witnessed the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. It was later set to the tune of “The Anacreontic Song” by John Stafford Smith in 1814 and renamed “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Additionally, there are four stanzas in the original poem, but today we only sing the first one. Key was 35 in 1814.
On the contrary, the origi-nal “Ignition” was released as a single in 2003, but never charted on the Billboard. R. Kelly then did the remix, dropped it weeks later and it reached #2 to criti-cal acclaim. It appears on his 2003 album Chocolate Factory and most refer to the “Ignition (Remix)” as merely “Ignition” on first reference. Also, it is most
likely to find the drunken peo-ple at your social gathering only yelping the bridge and chorus in a joyous off-key harmony, but none of the verses. Kelly was 36 at the time of the single’s release.
3: It’s the epitome of America itself.
I dare you to deny it. What are two central components of American lifestyle? Prosperity and success. How do we person-ify these things as Americans? Materialism! Cars, clothes, clichés. What happens when Americans feel successful? No, when humans feel successful? We party until we’re sick and the DJ’s turntable overheats and Hollywood makes another rendition of the same high school/college party-gone-wrong plot premise. Does the remix to “Ignition” fill all of the criteria? Hell yeah! There are hands run-ning through afros (an American racial taboo), a Lexus coupe, a stretch Navigator, a Jeep, Cristal, Coke and rum; there is even “food everywhere” and a damn “Murder She Wrote” reference. This is Americana incarnate.
You can’t ask for more. All signs are pointing to
the revolution of Robert Kelly reaching the pinnacle of pop culture and the history of this great nation. It is time to stroke our way to genius as Robert has! It is time to revolt as we have done for decades! NOW IS THE TIME TO PLACE OUR KEYS INTO THE IGNITION OF THE OLD WORLD, FOG ITS WINDOWS, AND THUG OUR WAY OUT TO A NEW AGE OF AMERICAN IMAGERY.
LET’S FREAK THE SYSTEM THIS FREAKIN’ WEEKEND.
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TheSkinnyWho: Animal Collective and Dan DeaconWhere: The Orpheum Theatre, 216 State St.When: March 17, doors at 7:30 p.m. cost: $25 Why you should care: Both acts push the limits of live performances and are helping redefine organic electronic music.
check this out before you go:The one Animal Collective release you need to give a listen is their 2009 EP Fall Be Kind. Although not a full length album, the group puts forward some of their most original work on it. From opaque synth layers to defining hooks on tracks like “What Would I Want? Sky?” Fall Be Kind is an out-there, but worthwhile experience.
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TA grading system inherently flawedEli bovArnickopinioncolumnist
A mericans are over-weight. It’s a simple truth we’ve heard
countless times. More than one in three American adults are obese. And nearly one in five American children are obese. But what is to be done about it? First Lady Michelle Obama has championed exercise and healthy eating habits as inte-gral components of the school day for every American child.
Similarly, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces in New York City was supposed to take effect today, but bever-age makers and movie theaters filed a lawsuit, arguing that the New York City Board of Health can’t unilaterally imple-ment the soda ban. Yesterday, the New York State Supreme Court ruled that the ban was
“arbitrary and capricious.” For instance, gas stations like 7-Eleven can still sell sodas over 16 ounces because New York City doesn’t regulate the sale of food at gas stations. And coffee drinks are also exempt from the ban despite high lev-els of sugar because they contain milk. Moreover, the court ruled the ban would be ineffective at res-taurants because con-sumers could simply refill sodas that are 16 ounces or smaller. To me, the court’s legal argument makes sense: it’s unfair to regulate some estab-lishments and not others. But the ban also makes sense.
Big problems call for inno-vative solutions, and the ban is just that. Mayor Bloomberg’s soda ban takes an important step in combating obesity,
which has reached epidemic levels in the United States. Critics, to be sure, will assert that the soda ban infringes on
New Yorkers’ civil liber-ties, and claim that Big Brother is telling New Yorkers what to drink. But the soda ban simply says that certain stores cannot sell any sugary drink over 16 ounces; it doesn’t say that you can’t buy two or ten 16 ounce sodas. If you want to buy multiple sodas, fine, do it—more power to you! The point of the ban is that you’re probably not going to
buy two 16 ounce sodas at once because, well, you’ll realize that it’s not a healthy choice.
Over the past few decades a pernicious trend has emerged in the American diet: not just less healthy food, but also more food. It’s no coincidence that chronic obesity has reached epidemic
proportions ,as food production has been industrialized to maxi-mize quantity, not quality.
Of course, obesity has its roots in the foods that Americans choose to eat, too. And the soda ban helps New Yorkers realize that they’re making the wrong choice when they buy massive sodas, but it doesn’t keep them from making the wrong choice. Similarly, under the Affordable Care Act—President Barack Obama’s signature piece of leg-islation—restaurants with 20 or more locations will have to post the calories of every item on
their menu starting next year. A large part of Americans’ poor eating habits stems from the fact that we don’t even real-ize exactly how bad the food we’re eating is for us. When the calorie count of what you’re ordering is staring back at you, though, you’re forced to realize what you’re doing to yourself.
The truth is, the way Americans are choosing to eat has costs—high costs, in fact. Countless Americans suffer from obesity-related diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, and have shorter life spans as a result. How does this affect us nationally? America spends $190 billion annually on treating those dis-eases. New York City’s ban on large sodas may be grounded in faulty legal reasoning, but we have to do something about the way we eat.
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T o college students at a large public university there are few things
more irritating than required Friday morning lectures, 20-minute walks to class, and the feeling of being a number rather than a person. Despite all of these annoyances, ask any student and they will likely tell you that teaching assistants (TAs) holding authority over their grades trumps them all.
Before I make my argument, let me first explain that I do not have a problem with the use of TAs. Teaching assistants are usually graduate students who are in school for the specific subject they are also helping to teach in the undergraduate classes. In addition, they lead discussion sections outside of lecture. It is fully understand-able that at any big public university where a professor lectures to a class of 200 stu-dents, the idea of that professor
individually grading everyone’s work is unrealistic. As is the case with any large bureaucra-cy, to accomplish everything on time, work has to be divided up among a handful of subor-dinate individuals. I also do not have a problem with TAs grading strictly. TAs are sup-posed to grade work with the same scrutiny that a professor would. If TAs gave every one of their students excellent grades, it would not teach the students how to improve upon their mistakes and would not be an accurate representation of how hard they worked to accom-plish their goals. However, while the TA system of grading is good, it has one major flaw.
The problem with the TA system is the inevitable incon-sistencies in grading. When looking at an assignment, test or paper, TAs are given a set of guidelines to help them accu-rately gauge what grade the student deserves. Despite this outline, TAs are not impartial computers, and they tend to grade more strictly or forgiv-
ing than their peers. The num-ber of TAs in a class can vary from one to half a dozen. Thus, inherently, there are often many different points of view when grading a paper from one TA to the next.
The reason why this is a large issue is because we live in a statistics-based society where your numbers define you. When applying to a major, graduate school or a scholar-ship, both the student’s grade point average and how they did in specific classes are often closely assessed and scruti-nized. Students are judged based upon their scores, and unfortunately, a bad grade can
make a seismic difference in their future. We have all gone through the experience of having unfair or strict teach-ers grading us, and unfortu-nately, this is just a part of life. However, there is a simple solution to make the TA sys-tem of grading more perfect and one that every university should adopt.
The use of grading curves is a system that colleges are quite accustomed to. There are class-es in which the average test grade is an F. As a result, curves are used to even out the playing field in a fair way by taking into account the entire class’ scores and raising grades accordingly. My proposal is this: Have TAs grade the way they are nor-mally accustomed to, and at the end of the semester calculate the average score in all of the discussion sections. Whichever average is highest, curve up the rest of the discussion sections so their average becomes the same. This could end up hardly affecting any of the grades, or it may have a slight impact.
Whatever the outcome, this would eliminate any discrepan-cies of students achieving high-er grades because their TA was more lenient and thus make the entire system fair.
Curves are already being used on individual tests and in certain classes to make college more equal for the students. While there is hardly any-thing a university can do about early Friday morning classes, long walks to lecture and the amount of students at their school, they can substantially level their students’ expecta-tions by eliminating discrepan-cies in TA grading with curves that give each student an equal academic opportunity. Why not expand this system, which has been proven towork, to one of the more unequal aspects of a large public university?
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Obesity epidemic in United States stems from our choicesMikE brosTopinioncolumnist
The problem with the TA system is the inevitable
inconsistencies in grading.
new York city’s ban on large sodas may be ground-
ed in faulty legal reason-ing, but we have to do
something about the way we weat.
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1 in 5Number of obese children in the United States.
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I t’s 7:00 on a Friday night, and as the lights dim over the Kohl Center ice and
Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” fades in, five words flash across the big screen, juxtaposed over a highlight reel of the season’s biggest moments: “Wisconsin, this is your team.”
For the average 9,307 fans in attendance on any night of the season, this statement mani-fests itself in one particular quantifiable way: 10 athletes on the 26-man roster hail from the state, meaning the Badgers hold nearly half of the 22 total Wisconsin-raised players in the WCHA.
For redshirt junior forward Keegan Meuer, who went to high school just up the road from campus at Madison Memorial, going from watch-ing the team as a kid to play-ing for the program is a dream come true.
“It’s surreal. I never want-ed to do anything else when I was growing up,” Meuer said. “I had the same helmet the Badgers had, the same skates … It’s a Badger town and that’s all I ever really wanted to be.”
Meuer is a legacy at Wisconsin. His two uncles, Jeff and Rob Andringa, won three NCAA hockey titles during their tenure at UW. His mother and two older sisters played soccer for the Badgers, while his young-er sister McKenna, a freshman, is currently blazing her own path on the pitch for Wisconsin as well. His parents even cur-rently own the quintessential Madison bar, State Street Brats.
“There’s a lot of history and it’s kind of like carrying on the torch and the legacy here,” Meuer said.
The rest of UW’s in-state talent shares the sentiment, and appreciates the fact that they can play elite hockey while remaining close to home.
For the Little brothers, red-shirt senior Ryan and junior
Sean, forwards from Fond du Lac who have skated on the same line most of the season, being a Badger from Wisconsin comes with a little extra pride.
It also means that their par-ents, who live a little over an hour away, can make it to most of their games.
“You can still feel kind of
like a kid,” Sean Little said. “It’s definitely a benefit to live close to here.”
Locker room dynamics also benefit from the team’s local play-ers, most of whom have played against each other during their high school and youth hockey days. Impromptu games, such as their “Wisco vs. the World” scrim-mage, even occasionally break out between the players from Wisconsin and the others, according to Jake McCabe.
“It ’s just something that brings you closer together,” sopho-more goaltender Landon Peterson, an Oregon, Wis., native said.
Junior forward Jefferson Dahl is the forerun-ner of this team’s in-state tal-ent after winning the title of
“Mr. Hockey” in Wisconsin his senior year of high school, something his teammates won’t let him forget any time soon.
Ryan Little also likes to remind Dahl about a particular state semifinal game in which Ryan and Fond du Lac beat Dahl and Eau Claire Memorial.
“It cre-ates some g o o d -natured fun in [the lock-er room],” R y a n Little said.
D a h l k n o w s Wisconsin’s brand of hockey especially well, having been raised in Eau Claire, Wis., looking up to Jake Dowell, who won a national championship with the Badgers in 2006.
And Dahl isn’t alone in having a h o m e t o w n Badger hero to idolize growing up.
Sophomore f o r w a r d Brad Navin of Waupaca, Wis., grew up close to former Badger great
Joe Pavelski, and can’t remember a time when he
didn’t follow the red and white.“I always saw [Pavelski] as a
player and idolized him because he was so close by and went to my high school,” Navin said.
Joe Pavelski is a name that s o p h o m o r e forward Matt Paape, a native of Appleton, Wis., is also quite famil-iar with.
“ Y o u ’ r e skating around on the pond growing up and you’re like ‘I want to be Joe Pavelski’ or all those throw-back guys,”
Paape said. Part of
the experi-ence of being a Badger, a c c o r d i n g to Paape, is understand-ing that now you’re the one being looked up to.
“ G e t t i n g a chance to hopefully be
that dream for a little kid grow-ing up, it’s fun, it really is a dream come true,”
he said.H e a d
coach Mike Eaves, a for-mer Badger great in his own right, u n d e r -stands this s y m b i o t i c relationship between his team and the state’s youth. He keeps his eye
on players from high-profile youth programs and all-star teams such as Team Wisconsin throughout the year.
“We have a section on our boards just for high school kids in Wisconsin,” Eaves said. “We have an extra effort to find and do our due diligence about learning as much as we can about the boys in Wisconsin.”
While making players’ dreams come true is just part of a college coach’s job in a state where there are no professional teams, Eaves recognizes that those youth are some of his most
dedicated fans as well. “When you’re
seven, eight, nine, 10, the guys in col-lege are bigger than life,” Eaves said. “[Wisconsin] only plays twice a week, so every weekend is like the Stanley Cup Finals, you’re playing game six and game seven. That’s what makes it so special.”
There is a stone at the top of Bascom Hill commemorating the Wisconsin Idea with a quote from former University of Wisconsin President
Charles Van Hise: “I shall never be content until the benefi-cent influence of the university reaches every home in the state.”
It looks like, at least for now, the Wisconsin men’s hockey program is
trying to do just that.
home-state hockey: a dream come true10 local players who grew up watching the Badgers are now
leading the team into the WCHA playoffs
Story by Brett Bachman
men’s hockey
Jake McCabe and Jefferson Dahl,
Eau Claire
“It’s everything I thought it would be.” -Dahl
Brad Navin, Waupaca
“I’ve followed the Badgers my entire life.”
Gavin Hartzog, Pewaukee
“It’s a great program ... a great experience”
Keegan Meuer, Madison
“It’s a Badger town and that’s all I ever really wanted to be.”
Chase Drake, Mosinee
“We have a lot of pride putting on the jersey every night.”
Landon Peterson, Oregon
“ W a t c h i n g these guys as you grow up ... you just want to be a part of it.”
Matt Paape, Appleton
“It was definitely a dream growing up.”
“There’s a special bond from playing each other grow-ing up. It’s a pretty special thing.” -McCabe
Sean and Ryan Little, Fond du Lac
“Anyone growing up in Wisconsin knows the cul-ture, the tradition we have here at the university.” -Ryan Little
“Wisconsin is definitely a great place to be if you aspire to be a collegiate ath-lete.” -Sean Little
By taylor Valentine tHe dAily CArdinAl
Bo Ryan has done it again. The Badger men’s basket-ball coach received his third Big Ten Coach of the Year honor Monday after leading Wisconsin (12-6 Big Ten, 21-10 overall) to a fourth-place finish in arguably the best conference in college basketball.
Ryan was selected for the honor by the media and coach-es from around the confer-ence. The only coaches with more Big Ten Coach of the Year
selections are Purdue’s Gene Keady (7) and Indiana’s Bob Knight (5), neither of whom are still coaching.
Ryan beat out other contenders such as Indiana’s Tom Crean, Michigan’s John Beilein, Ohio State’s Thad Matta and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo—all from teams that finished the sea-son ranked higher than the Badgers.
The UW coach separated him-self with how the Badgers persevered this year in a league where they were picked to finish in the lower half. That was even before the loss of junior point guard Josh Gasser to a torn ACL, which he suffered in October. The Badgers overcame the loss of their
point guard by finishing with the team’s third straight 20-win season, making it Ryan’s 12th straight season finishing in the top four of the Big Ten regular season standings.
Ryan boasts an impressive resumé this season, rebound-ing from a rough start early that left many fans wondering if the Badgers were going to have to struggle to make the NCAA tour-nament, a feat Ryan has accom-plished every year since becom-ing the UW head coach.
After a 6-4 start the Badgers
reeled off seven straight wins, including a statement road win against No. 2 Indiana. Ryan’s squad went 5-5 against AP top 25 teams this year, including victories over No. 12 Illinois and No. 13 Ohio State by more than 20 points.
The Badgers are not usually the flashiest team on the court and seldom do they have the sexiest team on paper, but Bo Ryan’s consistency has made the Badgers a perennial threat in the Big Ten. He’s got the plaques to prove it.
Badgers’ Bo Ryan honored by Big Ten as coach of the yearmen’s Basketball
3Number of times Bo Ryan has been named Coach of the Year.
2Number of coaches who have won the award more times than Ryan.
