University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete campus coverage since 1892 dailycardinal.com Weekend, March 1-3, 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.” WIL GIBB/THE DAILY CARDINAL The Madison Fire Department responded to a fire Tuesday at a lab in the Medical Sciences building on the UW-Madison campus. No one was injured. Medical Sciences lab catches fire By Gloria Young THE DAILY CARDINAL University, state and federal offi- cials are investigating the cause of a Thursday fire on the fourth floor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical Sciences building. The Madison Fire Department report- ed no injuries after responding to a three-alarm fire at 1300 University Ave. around 8 a.m. The fire began in one of the building’s labs, but no bio-hazardous or flammable material was in the area. Investigators sealed off the portion of the building where the fire started, said MFD spokesperson Lori Wirth. State and federal investigators are working with the UW Police Department and MFD to deter- mine the cause of the fire. Wirth said the university will have to calculate potential damages, including research and specialized equipment as well as infrastructural damages. According to a UWPD press release, water, smoke and soot damaged parts of the building outside of the small portion of the building’s fourth floor where the fire was. The number of other buildings sur- rounding the Medical Sciences building as well as its massive size made finding the source of the fire difficult for the firefight- ers, according to Wirth. “The fire alarm system is older and it doesn’t really function the way the newer ones would,” Wirth said. “We had to send multiple crews in and try to [find the fire] Cuts, debt, deficit: the ins and outs of the sequester By Jack Casey THE DAILY CARDINAL The country has been abuzz in recent weeks with talk of the impend- ing sequester set to take effect Friday, but not everyone knows exactly what the sequester does or how it might affect them, or if it even will at all. This article describes the causes and poten- tial effects of the sequester: In simple terms, the sequester is a plan that will spread approximately $85 billion in spending cuts over a wide array of federally funded pro- grams and initiatives. The affected areas, which include defense, educa- tion and agricultural subsidies among others, are currently supported with federal discretionary spending, which means spending is not guaranteed and generally changes with each new fed- eral budget. Many people ask why the seques- ter is even necessary or why it exists. The answer, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor David Canon, is the seques- ter was created during debt-reduction talks in 2011, during which federal offi- cials decided they had to implement a plan to control the rising federal debt. The sequester plan was intentionally designed to be such a bad policy that a federal committee tasked with creat- ing debt-reduction initiatives would be forced to think of better ones. However, The National Science Foundation , an independent federal agency promoting scien- tific research at universities like the Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Madison, could be forced to reduce the number of new research grants provided this year as a result of sequestration, according to a recent press release. According to the Feb. 27 release, the organization will undergo a 5 percent reduc- tion in funding if the across-the-board government cuts known as the “sequester” set in Friday. UW-Madison received more than $104 million in research funding from the agency in 2011-’12, according to the university’s data digest. NSF Director Subra Suresh said in the release the foundation plans to maintain current funding commitments. However, Suresh said the organization is predicting a decline in the number of new research grants this year by 1,000, should the sequester go into effect. CHEYENNE LANGKAMP UW could see decline in research funds Design committee begins planning for 2014 Library Mall renovations By Sarah Olson THE DAILY CARDINAL The State Street Design Project Committee will work with two Madison engineering firms as it moves forward with plans to revitalize the Library Mall area. The project is part of a larger plan to update State Street that has been underway since 2003, and the Library Mall area is one of the last segments to be renovated. City officials will work with Madison engineering firms MSA Professional Services, which has done other State Street Projects, and SmithGroupJJR, which worked with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to design East Campus Mall. The committee opted to work with local firms with whom they have worked in the past due to time constraints. Chris Petykowski, a principal engineer for the city, said the city wants to sign a contract with MSA in the third week of March. He projected they will bid on a construction plan in January 2014 and construction will begin in middle to late March 2014. Although project planning is in its early stages, Petykowski said they plan to replace the storm and sanitary water sys- SSFC hears Wisconsin Union budget proposal By Megan Stoebig THE DAILY CARDINAL The Student Services Finance Committee heard the budget for the Wisconsin Union Thursday, which includes an increase in student segre- gated fee contribution for maintenance and building upkeep. The Union proposed a budget of $45,243,000 for the 2013-’14 fiscal year, requesting a 2.2 percent increase from last year, in addition to a $5 fee per student, to address ongoing maintenance and repairs, according to SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker. If approved, each student would contribute $7.80 to funding the organization through segregated fees. The Wisconsin Union budget is con- sidered non-allocable funding that is part of non-academic university departments. YIHAN LIAO/THE DAILY CARDINAL Wisconsin Union Director Mark Guthier presents the 2013-’14 budget proposal, which calls for more money to come from student fees. ssfc page 3 construction page 3 fire page 3 sequester page 3 Daniel Day-Lewis preps for the role of a lifetime: himself. The Daily Cardinal keeps you clued in to all things arts this month in Madison. This week in fake news... March Arts Calendar +PAGE TWO +ARTS, pages 4 & 5
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete campus coverage since 1892 dailycardinal.com Weekend, March 1-3, 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.”
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the Madison Fire department responded to a fire tuesday at a lab in the Medical Sciences building on the UW-Madison campus. no one was injured.
Medical Sciences lab catches fireby gloria Youngthe daily cardinal
University, state and federal offi-cials are investigating the cause of a Thursday fire on the fourth floor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical Sciences building.
The Madison Fire Department report-ed no injuries after responding to a three-alarm fire at 1300 University Ave. around 8 a.m.
The fire began in one of the building’s labs, but no bio-hazardous or flammable material was in the area.
Investigators sealed off the portion of the building where the fire started, said MFD spokesperson Lori Wirth. State and federal investigators are working with the UW Police Department and MFD to deter-mine the cause of the fire.
Wirth said the university will have to calculate potential damages, including research and specialized equipment as well as infrastructural damages.
According to a UWPD press release, water, smoke and soot damaged parts of the building outside of the small portion of the building’s fourth floor where the fire was.
The number of other buildings sur-rounding the Medical Sciences building as well as its massive size made finding the source of the fire difficult for the firefight-ers, according to Wirth.
“The fire alarm system is older and it doesn’t really function the way the newer ones would,” Wirth said. “We had to send multiple crews in and try to [find the fire]
Cuts, debt, deficit: the ins and outs of the sequesterby Jack Caseythe daily cardinal
The country has been abuzz in recent weeks with talk of the impend-ing sequester set to take effect Friday, but not everyone knows exactly what the sequester does or how it might affect them, or if it even will at all. This article describes the causes and poten-tial effects of the sequester:
In simple terms, the sequester is a plan that will spread approximately $85 billion in spending cuts over a wide array of federally funded pro-grams and initiatives. The affected areas, which include defense, educa-tion and agricultural subsidies among others, are currently supported with federal discretionary spending, which
means spending is not guaranteed and generally changes with each new fed-eral budget.
Many people ask why the seques-ter is even necessary or why it exists. The answer, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor David Canon, is the seques-ter was created during debt-reduction talks in 2011, during which federal offi-cials decided they had to implement a plan to control the rising federal debt. The sequester plan was intentionally designed to be such a bad policy that a federal committee tasked with creat-ing debt-reduction initiatives would be forced to think of better ones. However,
The National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency promoting scien-tific research at universities like the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Madison, could be forced to reduce the number of new research grants provided this year as a result of sequestration, according to a recent press release.
according to the Feb. 27 release, the organization will undergo a 5 percent reduc-tion in funding if the across-the-board government cuts known as the “sequester” set in Friday.
UW-Madison received more than $104 million in research funding from the agency in 2011-’12, according to the university’s data digest.
nSF director Subra Suresh said in the release the foundation plans to maintain current funding commitments. however, Suresh said the organization is predicting a decline in the number of new research grants this year by 1,000, should the sequester go into effect.
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UW could see decline in research funds
Design committee begins planning for 2014 Library Mall renovations by Sarah Olsonthe daily cardinal
The State Street Design Project Committee will work with two Madison engineering firms as it moves forward with plans to revitalize the Library Mall area.
The project is part of a larger plan to update State Street that has been underway since 2003, and the Library Mall area is one of the last segments to be renovated.
City officials will work with Madison engineering firms MSA Professional Services, which has done other State Street Projects, and SmithGroupJJR, which worked with the University of
Wisconsin-Madison to design East Campus Mall.
The committee opted to work with local firms with whom they have worked in the past due to time constraints.
Chris Petykowski, a principal engineer for the city, said the city wants to sign a contract with MSA in the third week of March. He projected they will bid on a construction plan in January 2014 and construction will begin in middle to late March 2014.
Although project planning is in its early stages, Petykowski said they plan to replace the storm and sanitary water sys-
SSFC hears Wisconsin Union budget proposalby Megan Stoebigthe daily cardinal
The Student Services Finance Committee heard the budget for the Wisconsin Union Thursday, which includes an increase in student segre-gated fee contribution for maintenance and building upkeep.
The Union proposed a budget of $45,243,000 for the 2013-’14 fiscal year, requesting a 2.2 percent increase from last
year, in addition to a $5 fee per student, to address ongoing maintenance and repairs, according to SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker. If approved, each student would contribute $7.80 to funding the organization through segregated fees.
The Wisconsin Union budget is con-sidered non-allocable funding that is part of non-academic university departments.
YiHaN liaO/the daily cardinal
Wisconsin Union director Mark Guthier presents the 2013-’14 budget proposal, which calls for more money to come from student fees.
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By Kane Kaimanfake neWs friday
Critically acclaimed meth-od-actor Daniel Day-Lewis is already preparing for his next role, himself, in the upcom-ing film “Method Man.”
Day-Lewis, famous for delving into his roles by taking on the physical and mental characteristics of his subjects for months on end, began preparing for “Method Man” immediately after the Civil War era biopic “Lincoln” finished filming.
“It’s like he was Abraham Lincoln one moment, and this Day-Lewis actor guy the next,” observed Steven Spielberg, director of Lincoln. “He kept telling me to call him Daniel now, instead of Abe. I thought to myself, does this guy ever stop working? Does he ever take a break?”
Since “Lincoln’s” comple-tion, the actor has not broken character on a single occasion, not even during his Oscar acceptance speech.
“That’s dedication. To go in front of 3,000 of your peers to accept your record-breaking third Academy Award and be so committed that you don’t even allow yourself to let go of your craft and enjoy the moment for even a second,” commented Ben Affleck. “The guy deserves a fourth Oscar for that.”
The eccentric film star does not break character at home, either.
Rebecca Miller, Day-Lewis’ spouse, said in an interview, “I’m used to having strangers walking around my house. I shared a bed with Abraham Lincoln for six months; I think I can handle another one of Daniel’s projects.”
According to Day-Lewis, this particular project could prove to be incredibly chal-lenging. “Playing arguably the most talented actor of all time is a daunting task, even for a seasoned performer like myself. I’ve just got to get into this man’s head. ...I need to become Mr. Day-Lewis.”
It may be a difficult role, but the talented thespian has never backed down before, and it appears he is fully committing yet again.
Day-Lewis has been seen walking around Hollywood in classic Day-Lewis fashion, with hoop earrings and slicked back hair. He is even sporting an English accent.
Day-Lewis is optimis-tic about his part in “Method Man.” He recently told report-ers, “I feel like I’ve been prepar-ing for this role my entire life.”
By I.P. Freelyfake neWs friday
Having only previously exchanged words to estab-lish a workable bathroom schedule, roommates Elise Riven and Diana Skarner were surprised and a lit-tle offended to find them-selves talking in their room Thursday night—to each other.
“She had just finished pas-sive-aggressively Skyping her long-distance boyfriend like she does every Thursday night. When I happened to walk in. I knew I had made a mistake the second I saw the light on and didn’t hear disappointed scolding, but it was too late to stop. All of the sudden we were making eye contact. And I couldn’t just stand there. So I said ‘Hi,’” comments Riven.
Before they knew it, Riven and Skarner had begrudg-ingly launched into an over-long, question-and-answer, back-and-forth, feeling-sharing banter session—or as some people colloquially refer to it—a conversation.
“How was your win-ter break?” inevitably led to remarks such as, “Thanks for taking out the trash the other day,” and, “Yeah, it was get-ting kind of smelly,” which gave rise to a slew of thought-ful questions. Highlights included, “Do you want to take out the trash today or should I?” and, “Would you like some of this leftover chili I made? It’s two days old but I think it’s still good.”
The whole ordeal left both girls visibly shaken.
“I don’t know what I could’ve done differently,” said an exasperated Skarner.
“I haven’t struggled to sustain a conversation like that since I first learned how to form sentences at age three,” added Riven.
By Daniel Harriganfake neWs friday
With the silence from renowned author J.K. Rowling in regard to writ-ing an eighth installment in her hugely popular “Harry Potter” series now reaching a record 2,191 days, fans of the series (known affectionately as “Muggles”) are reported-ly “reaching their breaking points,” according to book publisher Scholastic.
“The movies and the ‘Deathly Hallows’ epilogue only satisfy you for so long,” said UW-Madison student Sarah “Luna” Lovegood. “I just want a solid ‘Harry
Potter’ book to read and enjoy. Is that too much to ask?”
Reports later surfaced that Lovegood was seen on University Avenue brandish-ing a fallen tree branch while screeching “Accio Harry Potter 8! Accio Harry Potter 8!” at passing cars.
“I don’t have an addiction to the actual books or any-thing,” defended fellow stu-dent Albus Jones, who legal-ly changed his name when “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” hit store shelves five years ago. “It’s just that ‘Quidditch Through the Ages’ and ‘The Tales of Beetle the
Bard’ are nowhere near as good as the originals. I’ll bet you a Butterbeer that any true fan of the series would tell you the same thing.”
Despite the launches of a “Harry Potter” theme park in Orlando and the web-based experience Pottermore, mug-gles are still yearning for another entry into Rowling’s legendary series.
“I miss the books too,” admitted an anonymous UW-Madison professor who secretly calls himself “Snape, the Potions Master.” “At this point, I would be happy if book eight ended up being Ron Weasley’s diary.”
Day-Lewis already prepares to play self
Roommateslook at each other for first time since last semester, sparks unwelcome small talk
Harry Potter fans enter sixthyear without a new book, cry
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daniel day-Lewis hugs his three academy awards for actor in a Leading role to prepare for his next film, “Method Man,” in which day-Lewis plays three-time academy award winner daniel day-Lewis.
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SSFC hears non-allocable bud-gets and recommends funding levels, but the budgets are ulti-mately under the discretion of the university chancellor.
In its decision last year, SSFC voted to freeze the Union’s budget.
However, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor David Ward approved the Union’s budget.
Associated Students of Madison leadership is currently in negotiations over the decision, which could lead to a lawsuit if a resolution is not reached.
Bruecker said the Union failed to provide enough infor-mation to justify the requested increase in funding last year.
“We weren’t comfortable
with an increase that wasn’t well explained,” Bruecker said.
Much of the conversation at the meeting included the visible benefits that students would see from an increase in segregated fees.
SSFC Rep. David Vines voiced his concern that not enough of the funding through segregated fees directly served students.
“It seems like there’s a very big gap between the money stu-dents spend that’s going directly to students and to student activi-ties and the amount that’s being levied against us,” Vines said.
Bruecker said that while she understands the need for funding the upkeep of the unions, she is concerned students aren’t going to see any additional services.
“I guess that’s what needs to be done but I just hope in the future we don’t see any more $7 per stu-dent increases,” Bruecker said.
Union representatives responded by saying much of the budget goes toward mainte-nance and upkeep of their facili-ties that serve tens of thousands of students each day.
SSFC will vote on the budget at its next meeting Thursday.
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tem under the mall, as some of the pipes have not been updated since 1882.
Throughout the planning process, the committee wants to make flexibility a priority so that the Library Mall can be used for a wider variety of activities in the future, accord-ing to Bill Fruhling, Principal Planner for the city.
“This is such an oppor-tunity,” Fruhling said. “This needs to be a great space within the community.”
Petykowski said the city
should consider the variety of stakeholders in the project including students, food-cart vendors, bicyclists, and people who live and worship in the area.
The project may require the city to coordinate with a potential construction project at St. Paul’s University Catholic Center, Petykowski added.
Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said he has collected feed-back from members of St. Paul’s Catholic Church and people who live in Pres House, and he hopes to hold meetings in both loca-tions to further discuss the issue.
Resnick said he is excited to
see what will come of an area so many students utilize.
“We’re essentially working with a blank slate so we could see any vision come out here,” he said.
assembly passes bills to increase state employment
The Wisconsin state Assembly passed two bills with bipartisan support Thursday designed to increase employment in Wisconsin.
The job bills, also known as the Marketing Manufacturing and Keeping Employees pack-age, were authored by state Reps. Andy Jorgensen, D-Fort Atkinson, Jeff Stone, R-Greendale, and Scott Krug, R-Rome.
One bill, AB37, would allocate funds to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to form a manufacturing trade show that aims to help businesses grow and develop. The second bill, AB38, would require the WEDC to work with small and midsize business manufacturers around the state to improve advertising plans.
State Rep. Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, said in a statement Thursday the bills would create a partnership between state govern-ment and the private sector that could improve the economy by
closing the growing gap between available jobs and the state’s expanding untrained workforce.
While the majority of Democrats and Republicans have supported the bill, others, such as state Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, have criticized it.
Nass said in a statement the bill is more focused on creating the appearance of bipartisanship than actually increasing state employment. As an example, he said one program, which aims to provide services to manufactur-ers within the private and public sectors, already exists in the state as the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
Still, Jorgensen said the bill is important because it represents members of both parties, giving it the ability to put politics aside and focus on economic growth and job creation.
The bills will now move to the state Senate for a vote.
—Maya Miller
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Drunk man crashes stolen car into Capitol square statueA Madison resident faces a
felony charge after he drunk-enly stole and crashed a vehi-cle into a public art sculp-ture on the Capitol Square Thursday, according to a police statement.
Michael Rivera, 20, was kicked off a Madison Metro bus around 12:15 a.m. after he
fell asleep intoxicated past the driver’s final route, according to the report.
Rivera later entered an unattended Metro Pontiac Vibe and drove it around Capitol Square in the wrong direction, according to the statement. He lost control and crashed the vehicle into an
arch-shaped sculpture next to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum around 12:56 a.m.
The report said the suspect had two cans of beer in his pock-ets, a blood alcohol level of .17 and no valid driver’s license.
Although the car was heavily damaged, Rivera was uninjured, according to the report.
UW professor studies positive effects of video gamesUniversity of Wisconsin-
Madison professor Richard Davidson published an article Thursday aiming to persuade video game designers to team up with scientists to create video games that are beneficial to consumers, con-trasting traditional views that video games do not stimulate your mind.
Davidson primarily studies human well being and creating
strategies to improve overall hap-piness. He said he and University of Rochester professor Daphne Bavelier studied video games to discover ways video games can more positively effect people, by promoting mindfulness and pro-social behavior.
“I think its important that [these games] be created because a lot of people are spending a lot
of time interacting with games,” Davidson said.
Davidson is also current-ly working on a project with Games + Learning + Science, a UW-Madison group that researches video games, to develop and test video games targeted at middle-school chil-dren to improve mindfulness and cooperation.
by the process of elimination.”Additionally, Wirth said part
of the building’s aged infrastruc-ture failed. Rather than sprinklers helping the MFD to extinguish the fire, as the MFD originally thought, some of the building’s water lines broke and sprayed into the room where the fire was.
“They just looked like sprin-klers to the firefighters because there was water coming from the
ceiling,” Wirth said.One animal was evacuated
from the building in a cage cov-ered to protect it from the cold, according to Wirth.
Only gross anatomy and undergraduate physiology class sections will be affected by build-ing closures which resulted from the fire, according to University Communications spokesper-son John Lucas. The remain-der of the building is open for UW-Madison students.
the committee, partly because of political disagreement, was unable to come up with a better plan. Thus, the country is faced with the sequester, which will take place today.
As far as the sequester’s actu-al effect, it will not plunge the country into another recession like some people have worried, according Canon. It is, however, expected to slow the economy down and leave as many as 1.2
million more people unem-ployed nationwide, he said.
The sequester will also hit closer to home by slash-ing between 5 and 8 percent of UW-Madison’s federal funding and leaving as many as 500,000 Wisconsinites out of work.
But Canon said the sequester will likely be temporary. He said federal legislators will eventu-ally be pressured into passing a better debt-reduction plan, despite their currently prohibi-tive political differences.
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DJ Boyfrrriend @ The Dragonfly Lounge 10 p.m.
Blessed Feathers @ The Frequency 9 p.m.
Ra Ra Riot @ Memorial Union 9 p.m.
Anna Vogelzang @ The Dragonfly Lounge 9 p.m.
The Bad Plus @ The Sett 8 p.m.
Murs & Prof @ The Majestic 8:30 p.m.
DJ Zukas @ Natt Spil 10 p.m.
Kellen & Me @ High Noon Saloon 8 p.m.
Robert Earl Keen @ The Majestic 8 p.m.
Academy Evenings @ Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 7 p.m.
Royal Thunder @ The Frequency 9 p.m.
Lindsey Stirling @ The Barrymore Theatre 7:30 p.m.
Flosstradamus @ The Majestic 9 p.m.
The Writers Cafe @ MATC Downtown 7 p.m.
MC Geologic w/ Bambu @ The Sett 9:30 p.m.
Great Midwestern Bluegrass Bash, Night One @ The Majestic 8 p.m.
Great Midwestern Bluegrass Bash Night 2 @ The Majestic 8 p.m.
Dracula @ The Overture 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Amy Schumer @ The Barrymore 7 p.m.
Winter Festival of Poetry @ The Fountain 2 p.m.
Madison Socrates Cafe @ Redamte Coffee House 7:30p.m.
Chris Williams & Planet Earth @ The Frequency 9 p.m.
Mary Poppins @ The Overture 7:30 p.m.
Acoustic Alloy @ Brink Lounge 6 p.m.
Caspian w/ Native @ High Noon Saloon 8 p.m.
Minnesota @ Majestic 9 p.m.
Space Voyage: The Musical Frontier @ The Bartell Theatre 7 p.m. (through Mar. 16)
The Expendables @ The Majestic 9:30p.m.
Composers’ Jazz Quartet @ Der Rathskeller 5 p.m.
Lords of the Trident @ Regent Street Retreat 9 p.m.
Urban Spoken Word @ Genna’s Lounge 7 p.m.
Animal Collective @ The Orpheum 7:30 p.m.
Tracy Morgan @ The Barrymore 7 p.m.
Ghost of James @ The Frequency 9 p.m.
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Electric Children @ The Frequency 8:30 p.m.
Crowder @ The Majestic 7:30 p.m.
Jumptown Swing Dance @ Brink Lounge 9 p.m.
Starfucker @ The Majestic 9 p.m.
Sparetime Bluegrass Band @ The Frequency 6 p.m.
The English Beat @ The Majestic 9 p.m.
Electric Six @ High Noon Saloon 9:30 p.m.
The Intergalactic Nemesis @ Overture Center-Capitol Theatre 7:30 p.m.
Girls Rock Camp Fundraiser @ The Frequency 8:30 p.m.
Are We Delicious? @ Ensemble Theatre 7:30 p.m.
DJ Tolerance @ Natt Spil 10 p.m.
Madison Comedy Collective Open Mic @ Comedy Club on State 8:30 p.m.
Gerri DiMaggio Trio @ The Fountain 6:30 p.m.
DJ Vinyl Richie @ Opus Lounge 9 p.m.
Grupo Balanca @ The Cardinal Bar 5 p.m.
Story Slam @Johnson Public House 7 p.m.
Bobby Long @ The Frequency 8:30 p.m.
Nuggernaut @ The Alchemy Cafe 10 p.m.
Ducktails @ Der Rathskeller 9 p.m.
Sky Ferreira & How to Dress Well @ The Frequency 8 p.m.
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Constant campaigning crushes credibility
‘Argo’ inaccurately downplays American interventionism
Letter: Stalking’s presentation in the media glosses over its dangers
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Wisconsin mining legislation cur-
rently making its way through our state legislature. In the article, I mentioned conflicting information regarding the mine’s environmen-tal impact. Well, the confusion gods are at it again. In the past week, two contradicting polls were released, one showing that 62 per-cent of Wisconsinites support the mining bill and the other show-ing that 62 percent oppose it. This is something happening all the time in the world of politics, and
I mean all the time. As someone trying to stay informed on current issues, this is a bit disorienting. As someone trying to accurately and objectively report on these issues, it’s rather frustrating. As someone with a low tolerance for idiocy, it’s downright infuriating. Americans always talk about how tired we are with the dishonesty of those in politics, but we fail to realize the role we play in it. The truth is the people are just as responsible for the sea of nonsense standing between us and actually getting it together and moving forward as a country.
Information and media are subject to the free market. The more attention people pay to it, the more money goes to the people producing it. If people are making money, they will keep doing what
they’re doing. That’s called oper-ant conditioning. It’s how we teach dogs where and when to go to the bathroom and it pretty much explains how capitalism works. In the case of these polls, obviously at least one of them is inaccurate. My guess is they both are. People like to hear things that back up their views, so polls with higher disparities receive more attention. Basically, dishonesty sells.
The same is true with politi-cians. Everyone knows you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Washington D.C. A great deal of the people there, however, were either democratical-ly elected or appointed by some-one who was. Again, that’s on us, and it’s because dishonesty sells. Politicians don’t make concessions when they campaign. They tell us
what they want us to think. With this precedent in place, a politician who presents their plans objectively and includes pros and cons would appear to have a weak position. We’re stuck in a system where we are left to either guess what law-makers are hiding or hear it from their opponents. There is a very simple reason for this. Whether motivated by money, power, scor-ing chicks or actually bettering the country, politicians just want to be elected. And we elect them.
Because of this, we have a politi-cal discourse filled with informa-tion we can’t trust. Even worse, all the untruth stacks on top of itself until we have to do a great deal of digging to find the truth. To reverse this, we need to demand honesty. It won’t be pretty, though. In an election, an honest campaigner
who genuinely presents the draw-backs to their plans would appear much less equipped for the office than one who only touts the virtues of their position. Being presented with accurate information, how-ever, would allow voters to make informed decisions. There is a dis-connect here between what is best for the country and what is best for politicians. Ideally, those whose job it is to serve the nation would put its interests above their own.
Is this going to happen? No. As I said before, it’s the job of politicians to get elected and no one can expect politicians to care more about the country than themselves. It’s important though that we recognize the role we play in perpetuating the dishonesty in the political world.
B en Affleck’s “Argo” took home the prize for Best Picture at the Oscars on
Sunday night. While I am pleased “Zero Dark Thirty,” Kathryn Bigelow’s film falsely portray-ing torture as central to uncover-ing Osama bin Laden’s hideout, went home virtually empty-hand-ed, Affleck’s film likewise comes packed with ideological baggage. Namely, “Argo” peddles in the same old Orientalist tropes long prevalent in Hollywood: bearded, wild-eyed, raging Iranians incom-prehensibly attempting to inflict harm on benevolent, good-hearted Americans. Such a Manichean portrayal does no service at a time when understanding, not demoni-zation, is required to avoid future fiascoes in the Middle East.
The movie opens with a token three-minute narration of the con-text of the hostage crisis, highlight-ing the 1953 CIA coup deposing the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in response to the nationalization
of the country’s oil reserves and the Shah’s subsequent oppres-sive rule. However, from this point onward, the movie presents solely the American point of view, making the Iranian protesters that overrun the American Embassy seem like maniacal mobs with no possible rationale for their actions. This fail-ure to provide a two-sided perspec-tive reflects Affleck’s narrow view of history, as he insisted in inter-views that, “There was no rhyme or reason to this action,” and that the hostage situation “wasn’t about us.”
To the contrary, the hostage crisis took place for two intercon-nected reasons. First of all, the U.S. gave asylum to the Shah after he fled Iran, rather than letting him face trial for the crimes commit-ted under his despotic rule. A 1976 report from Amnesty International detailed how, under the Shah, Iran had the “highest rate of death pen-alties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts, and a history of torture which is beyond belief.” With anywhere between 25,000 and 100,000 political prisoners in custody at any time, the organiza-tion stated unequivocally that, “No country in the world has a worse
record on human rights than Iran.” All the while, the U.S. lavishly
supplied the Shah with high-tech weaponry despite these blatant human rights violations, sell-ing $20 billion worth from 1970 to 1978, making Iran the top develop-ing world recipient of U.S. weap-ons. The CIA lent its own form of support, training the SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police, in Nazi torture techniques from World War II. Thus, any trial of the Shah would have also implicated the U.S. in the oppressive tactics undertaken dur-ing his reign. Naturally, they offered him asylum instead.
The Shah’s arrival in North America also led to the second main reason for the onset of the hostage crisis: the fear that the U.S. would plot to reinstall the Shah as head of Iran. Since the United States overthrew the last demo-cratically elected prime minister in Iran in 1953 and gave massive aid to the Shah during his rule, we can hardly call the Iranians of the time irrational for suspecting that covert U.S. machinations had begun. After decades of living in a nightmare, the people of Iran wanted desperately to prevent his
return, as would anyone under the same circumstances.
Unfortunately, 52 hostages were taken at the American Embassy in response, holding them for 444 days. President Jimmy Carter forcefully denounced the move, calling it a violation of the “moral and legal standards of the civilized world.” Of course, the hostage seizure did violate international law, but such moral grandstand-ing on the part of the U.S. rings hollow when the government had for decades supported a dictator in Iran who brutalized, tortured and extrajudicially executed those who dared to oppose his rule.
Affleck adopts President Carter’s viewpoint in failing to provide any of this context, instead relying on the woefully insuffi-cient three-minute clip opening the movie. This lack of empathy for, or interest in, the Iranian perspective permeates many of his decisions in the film. In one harrowing scene, the undercover Americans get accosted by irate Iranian civilians in the Grand Bazaar while undertak-ing research for their fake movie, an incident that never actually hap-pened. Additionally, Affleck does
not bother to provide subtitles for the Farsi spoken by any Iranians, with the exception of the maid serv-ing at the home of the Canadian ambassador, the lone Iranian given a sympathetic portrayal. Before the undercover Americans can board their plane, they demonstrate their savvy in fooling Revolutionary Guard members regarding the existence of their fake movie. From these scenes, Affleck paints a deeply flawed portrait of Iranians: inscrutable, irrationally angry, eas-ily duped and not worth listening to or understanding.
I understand the need to make certain alterations for the sake of adding suspense to a movie, and I, like most others, found the movie highly entertaining. However, the trade-off comes when a movie per-petuates harmful stereotypes and context-free generalizations, espe-cially at such a politically charged time between the U.S. and Iran. A movie dealing with such a momen-tous historical event has the respon-sibility not just to entertain, but to inform, empathize and humanize. “Argo” fails on all of these counts.
In today’s world, stalking has become a subject that many joke about. This often happens when there is a problem that we as a society don’t really understand. Mix that in with the puzzling mes-sages the media sends, and one can see how the crime of stalking is often misunderstood.
Under Wisconsin state law, stalking is committed when one intentionally engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes emotional distress, fear of bodily injury or death. Examples of stalking behaviors include unwanted phone calls, text messages, threats, sending gifts and even physical abuse or murder.
Unfortunately, stalking is still not widely recognized as a dan-gerous crime. Although there are many different factors, the media often contributes to this concern by trivializing stalking.
The media tends to por-
tray stalking as romantic or comedic rather than trauma-tizing and potentially lethal. Advertisements, songs, movies and television shows teach that if you stalk someone long enough it proves your love, and eventually they will fall in love with you too.
Additionally, the media send out so many messages that stalk-ing is a way to express love, that we don’t often see the harmful behavior to begin with.
Take for example the popular book series, soon to be turned into a movie franchise, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” “Fifty Shades of Grey” features the relation-ship between Christian Grey and Anastasia “Ana” Steele. Christian’s actions throughout the first book in the series exem-plify intimate partner stalking.
As previously stated, some examples of stalking are repeated and unwanted phone calls or text messages. In “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Christian tracks Ana down and gives her gifts such as a laptop and
cellphone. Throughout the novel, Ana struggles with her feelings and even though she ultimately accepts Christian’s behavior, this does not make his behavior acceptable.
According to the Stalking Resource Center, 3.4 million people over the age of 18 are stalked in the United States each year, with people age 18-24 expe-riencing stalking at the highest rates. While there is little data specific to Madison, it can be inferred that not only is stalk-ing happening on this campus, but that it is a big problem that demands our attention.
Additionally, because of how stalking is portrayed in the media, people often write stalk-ing off as a crime perpetrated by a creepy stranger, one that peers into women’s windows in the middle of the night. While this form of stalking does happen and should be addressed, it is by no means the norm, especially on a college campus. Perpetuation of this stereotype makes it difficult
for people to truly understand the issue and how to help a victim when one comes forth.
The media’s lightheart-ed portrayal of stalking also implies that the crime is not as dangerous or prevalent as it is and thus stalking has become normalized and accepted behavior on college campuses.
When the media creates images or situations that make light of stalking, we as a society become desensitized to the hor-ror that stalking victims live with every day.
There are ways pop culture can depict stalking so the message is not disrespectful and creates a conversation about the dangers of stalking. Stalking and other forms of violence can and should be discussed in pop culture, but it should be in a manner that is both
healthy and productive. Even though most of us
aren’t executives in the enter-tainment industry, there are still ways to help. PAVE chal-lenges you to counteract these negative messages and speak out on behalf of survivors in our communities, especially starting right here on campus.
If you believe you are being stalked, you can contact the UW Police Department at 608-264-COPS or the Domestic Abuse Intervention Service’s crisis line at 608-251-4445. PAVE is a stu-dent organization dedicated to preventing sexual assault, dat-ing/domestic violence and stalk-ing on the UW-Madison campus through education and activism. For more information or to find out how to get involved, email [email protected].
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women’s hockey
Junior forward Madison Packer and the Wisconsin women’s hockey team begin their trek down the path to a WCHA title this weekend with a home series against St. Cloud State.
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The race for the 2013 WCHA conference tournament crown is underway and second-seeded and No.6 ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team (17-9-2 WCHA, 21-9-2 overall) will look to build upon their late-season momentum, as they host seventh-seeded St. Cloud State (5-21-2, 9-22-3) in the first round of the WCHA Playoff series—the first ever playoff series at the LaBahn Arena.
Moreover, the players and coaches will have the luxury of not having to travel to the Eagle’s Nest in Verona like years past.
“It’s kind of fun to kick it off [at LaBahn Arena]. I’ve never had a first time in a facility like this,” senior defenseman Saige Pacholok said. “Obviously, it’s going to be really exciting. I think the crowd will be good and being able to have a playoffs here rather than anywhere else in the Madison area I think is special... I think it will be a very special moment for our whole team, especially the seniors.”
Wisconsin enter this weekend’s series as one of the hottest teams not only in the conference but in the country, as they concluded the
season with six-straight victories. During this stretch, the offense has averaged 35.7 shots on goal and 3.7 goals per game, led by senior forward Brianna Decker, as she registered a total of 12 points (eight goals, four assists). The defensive lines held their own as well, as junior goaltender Alex Rigsby reg-istered a save percentage of .964.
While those statistics are impressive in their own right, Wisconsin is putting their string of consecutive victories in the rearview mirror and treating this weekend’s series as the beginning of a second season—a win-or-go home scenario.
“There are a lot of teams that we are going to face—St. Cloud State being one of them—[where] one of us loses and it’s the end of your season,” junior forward Madison Packer said. “It’s hard to end some-one’s season. No one wants that—everyone wants to keep going so I think we have that in the back of our minds. It’s a different position we’ve been in the past but we know what it feels like.”
In their four previous meetings, Wisconsin got the best of St. Cloud State, significantly outshooting them by a combined margin of 77 (170-to-93) and outscoring them by
a combined margin of 19 (23-to-four). However, with the Huskies playing the role of the underdog, head coach Mark Johnson point-ed out it will be important for the Badgers to get off to a fast start.
“The competition now goes up a notch and everyone wants to win hockey games,” Johnson said. “So the task at hand is chal-lenging and difficult... I’m more concerned with us. If we play up to our capabilities and do the things we’re good at, that will give us a chance to create scoring opportunities. If you can do it early, that will be very helpful.”
The Badgers currently sit tied for eight place with North Dakota (23-10-1) and Northeastern (21-10-2) in the USCHO’s Pairwise Rankings, which attempts to mimic the method used by the NCAA Selection Committee to determine participants for the NCAA Tournament. Yet, Johnson stressed his team is focused on the task at hand this weekend.
“I think everyone knows where we are and what we have to do,” Johnson said. “What’s most important is taking care of business this weekend because if you don’t, then [the NCAA Tournament] doesn’t matter.”
men’s hockey
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Following a tough 3-2 overtime loss Monday night, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team looks to regroup and make a run over its last two series of the season.
The Badgers (10-7-7 WCHA, 14-11-7 overall) are essentially in a must-win situation, where four wins in its last four regular sea-son games could possibly result in a playoff berth for the No. 16 ranked Badgers.
“We have to win. We’ve got to get some W’s on the road,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “That’s our first task.”
Up first is No. 13 Nebraska-Omaha (14-8-2, 18-12-2) Friday, a team coming off a 3-2 loss, this one to the U.S. National Development Team.
After allowing two third-period goals and another in overtime against Penn State, the Badgers have their work cut out for them against the No. 2 offense in the country.
Nebraska-Omaha’s offensive prowess this season is due in large part to junior forward Ryan Walters, the second ranked scorer in the nation.
Junior forward Tyler Barnes, who had four points in last week-end’s series against Penn State, acknowledged the need to keep pace with the Mavericks high-cal-iber scoring threat.
“[Offense] is something that our team’s been struggling with, but I think we match up good against offensive teams because we play so well together,”
Barnes said.Senior forward Derek Lee, one
of Wisconsin’s primary producers and the team’s assists leader, is out for the weekend with a lower-body injury.
UW does see an advantage in heading to Omaha, where the rink at CenturyLink Center is smaller than that of the Kohl Center, and is closer to the size of the Badgers’ practice facility at the LaBahn Arena in Madison.
This plays to Wisconsin’s strengths as a team, Eaves said.
“I think on a smaller rink it kind of plays into our hands,” Eaves said. “We play a sim-pler game.”
Following a turbulent couple of weeks, including an outdoor game in Chicago and a rare Sunday-Monday series, Barnes said it is tough to keep a level head, but the turnaround UW was able to complete after starting the season with a less than ideal record was good practice in hold-ing an even keel.
“You have to be able to forget the past, have a short memory,” Barnes said. “You could say that about our whole season, starting 1-7, going 13-3, now it’s just a short-er version of the same thing.”
Although Monday’s loss cer-tainly set the Badgers back in their postseason hunt, Barnes isn’t let-ting it get to him, nor is the team.
“The only way to get to where we want to be is to continue win-ning, he said. “Even if we were in the No. 1 spot we would still be thinking about what we need to do to win every time.”
men’s basketball
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Five Badgers will suit up for their final game at the Kohl Center Sunday when Purdue (6-9 Big Ten, 13-15 overall) vis-its Wisconsin (11-4, 20-8) in the midst of UW’s push to capture a share of the regular season con-ference championship.
Wisconsin’s five-man class—guards Dan Fahey and J.D. Wise and forwards Jared Berggren, Mike Bruesewitz and Ryan Evans—is the second largest in the Bo Ryan era, only smaller than the 2010-’11 UW team that fell to Butler in the Sweet 16.
Going into Sunday’s match-up, Wisconsin’s 2013 seniors will have been a part of 49 Big
Ten wins and 95 overall (the Badgers also finished 10-8 in the conference and 20-13 over-all during Berggren and Evans’ redshirt season).
In contrast to the Badgers’ senior-laden squad, the Boilermakers have one of the more inexperienced teams in the conference. The Purdue roster boasts just five total upperclass-men, and six of its top eight min-utes-earners are either freshmen or sophomores.
The young Boilermakers have not found much success on the road this season. Its two Big Ten wins away from Mackey Arena came at Penn State and Nebraska, two of the confer-ence’s bottom three teams.
Further, Purdue has yet to win a Big Ten game against an oppo-nent with a better conference record than its own. It knocked off then-No. 11 Illinois in the teams’ league opener, and its win over Iowa came at a time when the Hawkeyes were a measly 2-5 in the Big Ten.
With a crucial matchup looming against the Spartans in East Lansing, Mich., next week, Wisconsin’s matchup with the Boilermakers certainly has the makings of a trap game. Whether that’s the case, only the guys on the UW roster know, but it doesn’t appear they’re approach-ing it that way.
“We’ve got Purdue next. They’re a young team, a team that
plays extremely hard,” Berggren said after the Badgers’ 77-46 win over Nebraska Tuesday. “They’re gonna give us a good challenge here. We just gotta take it one game at a time.”
In addition to Purdue’s strug-gles against superior league competition and on the road, the unlikelihood of a trap game for Wisconsin is further man-ifested in UW’s dominance of late. The Badgers have won their last three games by an average of 27 points, with their smallest margin of victory coming in a 22-point drubbing over then-No. 13 Ohio State. They didn’t lead by fewer than 12 points in the sec-ond half in any of those games.
Wisconsin will need a bit of
good fortune if it wants to finish atop the conference at season’s end. However, UW could certain-ly put itself in position to do so if it maintains its recent command. Berggren said in addition to the Badgers’ offensive firepower, they’re shoring things up on the defensive end, too.
“We’re shooting better, which is a big part of why it looks so good—we’re just hitting shots right now,” Berggren said. “Defensively we’re getting things all on the same page here and we’re playing hard.
“Hopefully we’ll close things out in the Big Ten and hope for the best as far as getting the help we need to be able to com-pete for a title.”
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