University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete campus coverage since 1892 dailycardinal.com Monday, October 26, 2009 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.” What do we want? BRAAAAIIIINS! LORENZO ZEMELLA/THE DAILY CARDINAL The Coalition of the Living Dead marched down State Street Saturday as part of its annual Madison Zombie Lurch. Grad school reform still faces criticism By Ryan Hebel THE DAILY CARDINAL UW-Madison faculty, staff and stu- dents continued to scrutinize Provost Paul DeLuca’s graduate school restructuring pro- posal at his fifth and final town hall meet- ing Friday, while Chancellor Biddy Martin offered several reassurances. The proposal would decouple the school’s current structure—where Martin Cadwallader acts as both dean of the graduate school and vice chancellor of research. According to supporters, it would increase UW’s influence within federal grant agencies and address increasingly complex financial and safety regulations required for federal grants management. “This is not some blithe proposal … this is about insuring that we can proceed with- out damage,” Martin said, alluding to several compliance-related “near misses” the university barely averted, which could have jeopardized research in animal care use, human subject use, and biological and chemical radiation safety. Critical audience members focused less on the need for change and more on the proposal’s lack of transparency and specifics, and its inat- tention to shared faculty governance. DeLuca acknowledged he hadn’t expect- ed “much controversy” when he presented his proposal to the University Committee in July, when the Committee, led by Chair Bill Tracy, urged him to slow down, deploy two ad hoc committees of academic staff and faculty to submit independent recommen- dations, and to gather more input. Although some voiced support for the provost’s new approach, others, like jour- nalism professor Lewis Friedland, said he remained wary of the plan’s unforeseen impli- cations. Friedland said his spouse teaches at UW-Milwaukee where a recent, simi- lar restructuring produced a “marked shift away from funding university social sciences and humanities … and faculty governance because of the centralization of power.” Martin, who said she oversaw Cornell University’s restructuring as provost, reassured faculty that centralization was not the goal. She added “the relative amount of [Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation] funding that the humanities and social sciences receive wouldn’t change under any reorganization,” and that discretionary funding for under- funded areas would likely increase. A Faculty Senate meeting scheduled for Nov. 2 will consider a Sociology Department resolution to formally oppose any restructuring until the committees and faculty have had time to deliver their rec- ommendations. DeLuca and Martin have said “interim action” may be necessary to protect the university. Enrollment of immigrants at UW still low H1N1 vaccines run out, priority groups come first By Caitlin Gath THE DAILY CARDINAL The long-awaited supply of H1N1 vaccina- tions, amid a national health emergency declared by President Obama, will be short-lived, accord- ing to the Madison and Dane County Public Health Department. According to a statement released Friday, all sup- plies of the vaccine will be “virtually exhausted” by Monday, Oct. 26. According to Jeff Golden, communications man- ager for the health department, new shipments are expected to arrive in upcoming weeks, but the department cannot predict when that will be. The statement also said that when the vaccines do eventually arrive, there would likely be not enough to meet the needs of the entire community. Together with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the city and county department has determined a new list of who would be in greatest need of the vaccination. These groups will be the first to receive the vaccine, the statement said. High-priority vaccination groups include health-care and emergency medical services personnel, pregnant women, children aged six months to four years old, people who live in the same house as infants less than six months old, as well as children and teenagers from five to 18 years old who have certain medical conditions that make them more susceptible to H1N1. Golden said in the statement the department would host special vaccination clinics for high-risk citizens unable to access the vaccine through an established provider. All school vaccination clinics will be cancelled beginning Monday, but will hope- fully be able to reopen by November. The health department is also encouraging com- munity members to not call their health-care providers about when the vaccine will be available. The health department recommended that if someone has flu-like symptoms, they should call their provider before going. If a person does not have a health-care provider, they are encouraged to call United Way 211 or 246-HELP. Health officials said regular updates will be issued as the situation progresses. By Kelsey Gunderson THE DAILY CARDINAL Although UW-Madison students who are undocumented immigrants may qualify for in-state tuition, the rate of such students using this option remains relatively low. According to David Giroux, UW System spokesperson, the new law only applies to students who have lived in Wisconsin for at least three years, have graduat- ed from a Wisconsin high school, have been admitted into a UW System school and have signed an affidavit vowing to seek U.S. citizenship as soon as possible. Students who meet these cri- teria are then able to pay in-state tuition at UW System schools, but are not able to receive federal or state financial aid. The law was included in the 2009- ’11 biennial state budget, which was signed by Gov. Jim Doyle in June. According to Giroux, the number of students who attend UW-Madison under this law is around four, but the UW System has not yet gathered the information to announce the official numbers. He said although this number is low, it is not surprising. “The simple reason is that we’re talking about a very small segment of the population over- all,” he said, adding that the number of people within this population who meet the criteria is even smaller. “We’re talking about the very narrow end of the funnel, and there are not a lot of people at the big end of the funnel to begin with,” he said. Giroux said the undocumented students who apply to UW System schools under this provision are not treated any differently in the admissions process, and they must be well-rounded students like any other applicants. He added the UW System takes the affidavit document seriously as well. “They are members of our society, but they are here illegally and that means they need to fix that, they need to pursue citizenship,” he said. Even though the law was only recently put into effect within the UW System, members of the UW Board of Regents have historically supported the idea, according to Giroux. “If they’re going to live here, work here, and pay taxes … we might as well provide them with some oppor- tunity to get a better education, and to get a better paying job so that they can become better members of our society,” he said. Two men robbed by four suspects on Monroe St. Two young men were robbed early Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m. on the 1600 block of Monroe Street. According to a police report, four black men approached the victims as they were walk- ing down Monroe Street. One of the suspects claimed he had a gun, but according to the report, the victims never actually saw it. Both victims are 18-year-old Madison natives. They were injured after being punched several times in the face, the report said. However, they were not hurt badly enough to require medical attention. According to the report, the suspects fled the scene on foot with the victims’ wallets, keys and cell phones. Two of the suspects are said to be between 18 and 20 years old. One suspect is believed to be about 5'9" with a husky frame. At the time of the robbery he was wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, the report said. The other suspect is described as 6'1" and 170 lbs., wearing a dark leather jacket with black pants. Fat Sandwich Company worker assaulted, robbed A sandwich delivery man making a late-night delivery on Saturday was robbed along the 1300 block of Chandler Street, according to a police report. Around midnight, a 20-year-old Madison man working for the Fat Sandwich Company, 555 State St., was approached by a man who demanded money from him. The delivery man was punched in the face mul- tiple times before the suspect fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash and the victim’s cell phone, the report said. The victim was not injured seriously enough to require medical attention. The suspect is described as a black man in his late teens to early 20s, around 6'0" tall with a thin build. He was said to be wearing a black and green hooded sweatshirt with jeans, the report said. KYLE BURSAW/CARDINAL FILE PHOTO Few undocumented immigrant students use in-state tuition option HERALD FAILS, BAFFLED BY FLAG FOOTBALL Friday’s 24-7 margin in the Cardinal’s favor brings out Herald’s other ugly side Trio of guitar legends pick each other’s brains as well as their favorite axes ARTS PAGE 7 l SPORTS PAGE 8 l
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Complete campus coverage since 1892 dailycardinal.com Monday, October 26, 2009l
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
What do we want? BRAAAAIIIINS!
Lorenzo zemeLLa/the daily cardinal
the coalition of the living dead marched down State Street Saturday as part of its annual Madison Zombie lurch.
Grad school reform still faces criticismBy ryan Hebelthe daily cardinal
UW-Madison faculty, staff and stu-dents continued to scrutinize Provost Paul DeLuca’s graduate school restructuring pro-posal at his fifth and final town hall meet-ing Friday, while Chancellor Biddy Martin offered several reassurances.
The proposal would decouple the school’s current structure—where Martin Cadwallader acts as both dean of the graduate school and vice chancellor of research. According to supporters, it would increase UW’s influence within federal grant agencies and address increasingly complex financial and safety regulations required for federal grants management.
“This is not some blithe proposal … this is about insuring that we can proceed with-out damage,” Martin said, alluding to several compliance-related “near misses” the university barely averted, which could have jeopardized research in animal care use, human subject use, and biological and chemical radiation safety.
Critical audience members focused less on the need for change and more on the proposal’s lack of transparency and specifics, and its inat-tention to shared faculty governance.
DeLuca acknowledged he hadn’t expect-ed “much controversy” when he presented his proposal to the University Committee in July, when the Committee, led by Chair
Bill Tracy, urged him to slow down, deploy two ad hoc committees of academic staff and faculty to submit independent recommen-dations, and to gather more input.
Although some voiced support for the provost’s new approach, others, like jour-nalism professor Lewis Friedland, said he remained wary of the plan’s unforeseen impli-cations. Friedland said his spouse teaches at UW-Milwaukee where a recent, simi-lar restructuring produced a “marked shift away from funding university social sciences and humanities … and faculty governance because of the centralization of power.”
Martin, who said she oversaw Cornell University’s restructuring as provost, reassured faculty that centralization was not the goal. She added “the relative amount of [Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation] funding that the humanities and social sciences receive wouldn’t change under any reorganization,” and that discretionary funding for under-funded areas would likely increase.
A Faculty Senate meeting scheduled for Nov. 2 will consider a Sociology Department resolution to formally oppose any restructuring until the committees and faculty have had time to deliver their rec-ommendations. DeLuca and Martin have said “interim action” may be necessary to protect the university.
Enrollment of immigrants at UW still low
H1N1 vaccines run out, priority groups come firstBy Caitlin Gaththe daily cardinal
The long-awaited supply of H1N1 vaccina-tions, amid a national health emergency declared by President Obama, will be short-lived, accord-ing to the Madison and Dane County Public Health Department.
According to a statement released Friday, all sup-plies of the vaccine will be “virtually exhausted” by Monday, Oct. 26.
According to Jeff Golden, communications man-ager for the health department, new shipments are expected to arrive in upcoming weeks, but the department cannot predict when that will be.
The statement also said that when the vaccines do eventually arrive, there would likely be not enough to meet the needs of the entire community.
Together with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the city and county department has determined a new list of who would be in greatest need of the vaccination. These groups will be the first to receive the vaccine, the statement said.
High-priority vaccination groups include health-care and emergency medical services personnel, pregnant women, children aged six months to four years old, people who live in the same house as infants less than six months old, as well as children and teenagers from five to 18 years old who have certain medical conditions that make them more susceptible to H1N1.
Golden said in the statement the department would host special vaccination clinics for high-risk citizens unable to access the vaccine through an established provider. All school vaccination clinics will be cancelled beginning Monday, but will hope-fully be able to reopen by November.
The health department is also encouraging com-munity members to not call their health-care providers about when the vaccine will be available. The health department recommended that if someone has flu-like symptoms, they should call their provider before going. If a person does not have a health-care provider, they are encouraged to call United Way 211 or 246-HELP.
Health officials said regular updates will be issued as the situation progresses.
By Kelsey Gundersonthe daily cardinal
Although UW-Madison students who are undocumented immigrants may qualify for in-state tuition, the rate of such students using this option remains relatively low.
According to David Giroux, UW System spokesperson, the new law only applies to students who have lived in Wisconsin for at least three years, have graduat-ed from a Wisconsin high school, have been admitted into a UW System school and have signed an affidavit vowing to seek U.S. citizenship as soon as possible.
Students who meet these cri-teria are then able to pay in-state tuition at UW System schools, but are not able to receive federal or state financial aid.
The law was included in the 2009-’11 biennial state budget, which was signed by Gov. Jim Doyle in June.
According to Giroux, the number of students who attend UW-Madison under this law is around four, but the UW System has not yet gathered the information to announce the official numbers.
He said although this number is low, it is not surprising.
“The simple reason is that we’re talking about a very small segment of the population over-all,” he said, adding that the number of people within this population who meet the criteria is even smaller.
“We’re talking about the very narrow end of the funnel, and there are not a lot of people at the big end of the funnel to begin with,” he said.
Giroux said the undocumented students who apply to UW System schools under this provision are not treated any differently in the admissions process, and they must be well-rounded students like any other applicants.
He added the UW System takes the affidavit document seriously as well.
“They are members of our society, but they are here illegally and that means they need to fix that, they need to pursue citizenship,” he said.
Even though the law was only recently put into effect within the UW System, members of the UW Board of Regents have historically supported the idea, according to Giroux.
“If they’re going to live here, work here, and pay taxes … we might as well provide them with some oppor-tunity to get a better education, and to get a better paying job so that they can become better members of our society,” he said.
Two men robbed by four suspects on monroe St.Two young men were robbed early
Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m. on the 1600 block of Monroe Street.
According to a police report, four black men approached the victims as they were walk-ing down Monroe Street. One of the suspects claimed he had a gun, but according to the report, the victims never actually saw it.
Both victims are 18-year-old Madison natives. They were injured after being punched several times in the face, the report said. However, they were not hurt badly
enough to require medical attention.According to the report, the suspects fled
the scene on foot with the victims’ wallets, keys and cell phones.
Two of the suspects are said to be between 18 and 20 years old. One suspect is believed to be about 5'9" with a husky frame. At the time of the robbery he was wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, the report said.
The other suspect is described as 6'1" and 170 lbs., wearing a dark leather jacket with black pants.
Fat Sandwich Company worker assaulted, robbed
A sandwich delivery man making a late-night delivery on Saturday was robbed along the 1300 block of Chandler Street, according to a police report.
Around midnight, a 20-year-old Madison man working for the Fat Sandwich Company, 555 State St., was approached by a man who demanded money from him.
The delivery man was punched in the face mul-tiple times before the suspect fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash and the victim’s cell phone, the report said. The victim was not injured seriously enough to require medical attention.
The suspect is described as a black man in his late teens to early 20s, around 6'0" tall with a thin build. He was said to be wearing a black and green hooded sweatshirt with jeans, the report said.
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trio of guitar legends pick each other’s brains as well as their favorite axes
I used to sleep with him every night. He was warm, approach-able, soft to the touch. He’d lie
across my bed and gaze into my eyes with a longing usually reserved for a platter of chocolate chip cookies after dinner. He was my confi dante, my companion, my second self. He was... Boopsie, my stuffed animal.
Fastened with a red bow and soft, black fur, Boopsie was like the dog I never had. He never pissed on my bedroom carpet, shit in the car, ate all my leftover Halloween candy or barked at 2 a.m. outside my door. No, Boopsie was the epitome of a mild-mannered, cud-dly and devoted canine friend. Plus, he never shed. What could be better than that?
Unlike most people’s stuffed ani-mals, Boopsie didn’t enter my life at the cusp of my second, fi fth or even 10th birthday. Nahhh. Boopsie took his sweet, sweet time. He shuffl ed right in at the age when it became admittedly pathetic for me to ever dote on a stuffed animal: when I turned 15 years old. Ohhh, yeah. And who said parents don’t give good gifts?
The fi rst year of his arrival was
like any other newlywed period, replete with warm, fuzzy (literally), can’t-get-enough-of-you feelings. I’d arrive home from school, drop my bookbag on the fl oor and fi nd him sitting on my bed, waiting for me. I’d rush into his arms/paws/one of four cotton-fi lled limbs and kiss him on the head. Then, I’d go online, have dinner and browse the Internet while he’d sit there and watch, completely content.
Boopsie understood that I was busy and had other obligations. He didn’t mind that he rarely left my bedroom, didn’t have tastebuds and would never be able to drink out of the toilet. All he knew was that a relationship like ours was rare and he loved me, wholly and completely. Our lives together were magical until... (dun, dun, dunnnn) Kirby entered the picture.
Kirby is my real dog—the family dog. In my sophomore year of high school, my parents adopted him from a shelter, brought him to our house and offi cially deemed him “Kirby Gleicher.”
Unlike Boopsie, Kirby is of the warm-blooded, mammal variety. He salivates all over the fl oor before din-ner, shits on the dining room carpet and gnaws on the chairs when we leave the house. Nonetheless, he is the golden child of the family, elicit-ing “awws” and squeezes from house visitors and strangers on the street.
From my sophomore year of high
school to graduation, Kirby didn’t pose much of a threat to Boopsie.
While Boopsie lounged on my bed and stared out the window, Kirby was outside hunting deer and eating his own crap. Their lives were as separate from each other as January and July.
When I came to UW-Madison as a freshman and then as a sopho-more, Boopsie came too, and Kirby, of course, stayed behind. Boopsie watched as I fought tirelessly with my fi rst roommate and devoured slices of late-night pizza with friends. He was even by my side when I craved my mom’s macaroni and cheese and a fl ight home. Just like our newlywed period, he was there when I needed him most.
It wasn’t until the summer of my sophomore year that Kirby became a bonafi de threat. Upon arriving back home with Boopsie, I found Kirby crying and whining with anguish over our months spent apart. When I’d go outside for a swim in our lake, he’d come too, and when I’d walk into the kitchen for a cookie, or fi ve, he’d join.
Suddenly, Kirby got jealous.He watched as I snuggled up to
Boopsie every night in bed and how I needed him so much I brought him with me to a college hundreds of miles away from home.
On a scorching Saturday in August, just days before I left for my junior year at Madison, I walked into
my bedroom and realized Boopsie had disappeared. I searched the house and desperately and breath-lessly asked my mom, sister, and dad, “WHERE IS HE?!”
I sat on my bed and stared out the window at the lake with the empti-ness of a grieving widow. For the fi rst time, I sat completely alone.
Then, I noticed something red outside moving in the grass. Rushing outside, I ran over to it. There sat Kirby—humping Boopsie.
“What are you doing?!?!” I yelled to Kirby. “What do you think he is?! A pillow?!”
I grabbed Boopsie from Kirby and looked him over; cotton stuck out from behind his ears, dirt fi lled the nostrils of his plastic nose and saliva coated his red ribbon.
Kirby grabbed Boopsie back from me and licked his stuffed tail, just like a steak bone.
“You’re such a piece of crap!” I yelled back at him and stormed into the house, enraged and empty-handed.
That summer, I realized the hard way that it was time to let go. Days later, I packed for junior year and left Boopsie behind—with Kirby. It was time to hand him down. Human or not, I guess everybody needs a snuggle buddy.
Do you have a stuffed animal you just can’t live without? Or a horny-ass dog that took yours away? Misery loves company. Let me know at [email protected]!
BONNIE GLEICHERthe bonnanza
By Grace FlanneryTHE DAILY CARDINAL
A todos nos gusta bailar, y con razón. Bailar es una expresión del alma y de la creatividad. En muchos sentidos es una representación de nuestro ser. Por ejemplo, yo soy una bailarina sin gracia y poco elegante, pero es encan-tador y puedo llegar a hacerlo bien en algunas situaciones. Bailar es un arte y a la vez un ejercicio. Nos permite soltar-nos, sentirnos libres y es una actividad que nos une.
El bailar está basado en la cultura y expresa esa cultura de una forma explicita. La gente asocia el baile con la cultura e identidad cultural. Por ejemplo, la salsa y los latinos, el baile de cuartetos y el granero, el hip-hop y la ciudad..etc.
El baile es valioso por varias razones, pero es algo difícil para mucha gente. Los que somos tímidos tenemos que esforzarnos bastante para soltarnos y bailar, pero cuando logramos hacerlo, nos hace bien. Hay varios métodos que podemos utilizar para sentirnos con confianza para bailar. Los métodos que han funcionado para mi son cosas como tomar unas clases, practicar solita en casa y encontrar un espacio donde me siento segura e invisible. Otra cosa que siempre hago para sentirme invisible y entonces poder bailar es ponerme gafas de sol. Luego cierro los ojos y bailo como loca. Si yo no veo a la gente, ¡ellos no me ven tampoco!
Madison tiene una población diver-sa y estudiantes de muchos lugares
diferentes, entonces tiene sentido que haya bastantes oportunidades para bai-lar muchos bailes de diferentes estilos, ambos en la ciudad y en la universidad. Es cierto que no hay clubes para bailar como los que se encuentran en Europa, Nueva York o las ciudades grandes del mundo, ¡pero esto no nos tiene que impedir bailar!
Existen varios grupos universita-rios que ofrecen clases y que tienen reuniones solo para practicar y bailar juntos. UWMBDA Ballroom Dance Association es un grupo que hace estas dos cosas y tiene programas en bailes latinos, el baile swing, baile de salón y mas.
También existe otro grupo solo para gente que quiere bailar la música de los 80, y se llama 80s Dance Zone. Aceptan a todo tipo de gente y el propósito de su grupo es solo bailar, no de aprender y enseñar. Una vez cuando andaba por Memorial Union, pasé por una sala vacía con las luces apagadas. Había unas diez personas bailando como locos música de los 80. Parecía ser un grupo relajado, divertido y abierto.
El grupo Freestyle Funk Sessions ofrece clases de hip-hop los martes a las siete de la tarde. Según la página web del grupo, FFS quiere ser un grupo divertido, que apoya y da ánimo a estu-diantes que desean aprender a bailar y expresarse.
También hay sitios interesantes donde podemos bailar fuera de la uni-versidad. El Brink Lounge, en 701 E. Washington Ave., tiene clases de salsa y tango los martes y swing los miércoles, a las nueve de la noche. Jolly Bob’s, en 1210 Williamson St., presenta DJs de reggae, bachata, merengue y dance hall a las diez de la noche los martes, jueves, viernes y sábados.
Como lugares nuevos y tal vez menos conocidos, está el club Plan B, en 924 Williamson St., que abrió en agosto de este año. Es un club gay, pero todo tipo de gente puede ir a bailar. El Cardinal Bar, en 418 East Wilson St., ha abierto nuevamente y ofrece bailes latinos toda la semana.
Para algo mas formal, la academia de baile Kanopy, en 341 State St., ofrece clases los sábados para principiantes en ballet y baile moderno.
Finalmente, el Isthmus siempre tiene una lista de actividades gratuitas que muchas veces incluyen algún tipo de clase de baile.
Espero que ya bailen mucho, pero si no, ¡tal vez con estas sugerencias sabrán a donde ir este fin de semana!
Si estas interesado en escribir en la sección en español de The Daily Cardinal, mánda-nos un e-mail a [email protected].
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bailando
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A bill prohibiting minors from drinking in taverns passed out of the Assembly Committee on Urban and Local Affairs Thursday.
The “Responsible Tavern Service” bill would prohibit indi-viduals under age 18 from drink-ing in taverns when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Current state law allows minors to drink when accompanied.
State Rep. Kim Hixson, D-Whitewater, who co-authored the bill with state Sen. Judy Robson, D-Beloit, said he introduced the bill
to prevent early alcohol dependence.The bill passed on a 5-3 vote,
with state Rep. Richard Spanbauer, R-Oshkosh, voting with Democrats and state Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer, D-Manitowoc, voting with Republican lawmakers.
“I am pleased that members of both parties on the committee saw the merits of this bill and recommended it for passage by the full Assembly,” Hixson said in a statement.
Members of the National Youth Rights Association oppose the bill.
Alex Koroknay-Palicz, director of NYRA, said it is the role of parents to decide when and where their children can drink.
“We think that the single best thing that any society can do to pre-vent abuses of alcohol is to get parents involved, get the family involved and get young people involved in mak-ing responsible alcohol decisions,” Koroknay-Palicz said.
The Senate version of the bill passed out of committee earlier this month and awaits debate.
—Hannah Furfaro
Grateful red Assembly passes bill banning minors from drinking in taverns
Rep. Wood will not seek re-election in 2010
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Senior shooting guard Jason Bohannon signs an autograph Sunday after the UW men’s basketball team played its annual red and White scrimmage.
State Rep. Jeffrey Wood, I-Chippewa Falls, announced Friday he will not seek re-election in 2010.
Wood was arrested on suspi-cion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated in Tomah last week. If convicted, this would be his third offense in under a year.
In a statement, Wood said he needed to put his recovery from drug and alcohol abuse above a potential re-election campaign.
“I believe it is in my family’s best interest for me not to seek re-election to the Assembly next year, and I plan instead to focus on recovery,” he said.
According to the statement, Wood was receiving in-patient treatment prior to his arrest for drug and alcohol abuse. In his statement he expressed regret and said he was “deeply embarrassed” for his actions.
State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, introduced an expul-sion resolution earlier this month in hopes of removing Wood from the Assembly. Expulsion requires a two-
thirds vote from Assembly members.State Assembly Speaker Mike
Sheridan, D-Janesville, expressed disappointment upon hearing about Wood’s arrest.
“It seems clear that Rep. Wood has not been solely focused on recovery and has again endangered himself and the public,” Sheridan said in a statement. “Now, we must take a very hard look at his case, and determine if he is truly able to serve the people of his district.”
Wood was arrested in January and September of this year on similar charges.
—Hannah Furfaro
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O ver a decade ago Plan 2008 was implemented to place an emphasis on
increasing diversity at UW-Madison. The plan targeted American Indian, black, Hispanic and Southeast Asian-American students at an early age to give them structure and motivation, primarily through PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence). However, the plan’s sentiments were undercut a few years later when the university was embarrassed by the cover of an undergraduate magazine that had a black student pasted in to create the appearance of diversity. The university found out quickly that Photoshop is not a proper substitute for actual minorities on campus.
Similarly, following the release of mildly increasing numbers among minorities on campus in fi rst-year retention rates and six-year graduation rates, The Daily Cardinal broke news of decreased graduation rates among partici-pants in minority programs such as Posse and PEOPLE. PEOPLE’s four-year graduation rate dropped from 18.9 percent to 9.8 percent, and Posse’s percentage dropped to 4.3 from 43.5.
To be clear, two things must be remembered when consider-ing these facts. First, the percent-ages can exaggerate the numbers because member counts are not large statistically speaking (iron-ically a problem in itself ), and second, PEOPLE was planned to gauge numbers on a fi ve-year grad-uation plan. That said, with these numbers, UW-Madison still looks about as diverse as an Osmonds reunion. With such low standards to begin with and a 10-year plan to give the university plenty of time to ensure higher standards, it is disap-pointing to say the least.
Our editorial board met with ASM Diversity Committee Chair Steven Olikara to discuss the direction of UW-Madison’s diver-sity efforts. He focused on the thematic shift behind Inclusive Excellence. We were pleased with the basics of the idea and with his
conviction. The university is trying not to focus on concrete numbers, but instead on both getting more minorities on campus through K-12 outreach programs and giving them a face and niche on campus. He pointed to existing programs, such as Posse, as a good starting point while acknowledging the tendency of these programs to keep their respective demograph-ics insulated from campus. The other half of Inclusive Excellence focuses on the necessity of diver-sity on campus for enhancing the overall value of UW-Madison edu-cational experience, but pointing out the inherent value of diversity doesn’t really get us anywhere.
What has not come out of this new concept are plans of action. We agree that the emphasis should steer clear of setting numerical goals and standards, which only encourages superfi cial solutions. But as the results of Plan 2008, or lack thereof, are currently refl ected upon, our recent talks with both Chancellor Biddy Martin and Olikara left us wanting.
This is a crucial period of refl ection and planning for vice provost on diversity and climate Damon Williams, as well as the university’s diversity programs. We cannot remain excited at the mere prospect of improvement. As Williams spearheads the universi-ty’s next initiatives in the coming months, we will be looking for innovative steps involving not just K-12 prep, but also aiming to bol-ster on-campus programs.
A lack of diversity at UW-Madison has been an embarrassing stereotype for far too long. And the release of the latest fi gures proves it has not been addressed effectively yet. Don’t bother with a strict timetable, throw percentages in the trash, admit to failures of the past and use them to answer the discomfi ted question of diversity in a humanistic way that addresses everything from the structure of our campus to nightlife around town. Maybe then we can share in the enthusiasm.
diversity efforts not up to snuff
G rad-school reform has recently become the talk of Madison. Front-page sto-
ries and town-hall series have thrust provost Paul DeLuca’s proposal into the public eye. Currently Martin Cadwallader, dean of the grad school, is in charge of both graduate educa-tion and university research. DeLuca’s plan would add a vice chancellor to take up the research part. While this appears to be a feasible idea, the pro-vost failed to justify it to the entire UW-Madison community.
It’s beyond doubt that our grad school needs some changes. DeLuca brought up the same pro-posal years ago but didn’t gain enough momentum. Now, with accumulating problems in the pro-gram, he is standing behind the lectern again. This time, he has a more attentive audience and fancy slides, but he still hasn’t explained why adding a top-level position would rejuvenate the entire struc-ture. Many issues he mentioned can be readily addressed by lower-level administrators. For example, UW-Madison’s animal use opera-tions came close to severe pro-bation because of underequipped facilities. Why can’t the person directly in charge of the program fix this problem? Why, in this case, do we need a top official who is unlikely to have the expertise to dig into specific details? To some skeptical faculty members and stu-
dents, another new vice chancellor would just further complicate the administrative bureaucracy.
To convince 60,000 people at UW-Madison, DeLuca first has to prove he is among the most knowledgeable about higher edu-cation reforms. But when asked what we could learn from peer universities such as the University of California at Berkeley, the pro-vost paused for a while and even-tually said, “We should stream-line our system.”
Streamline? Sorry, I still don’t get it. The verb has been so abused that it could pair up with anything and still not present a real solution.
Obviously, DeLuca prefers another persuasion strategy: Glorify your plan if you want to push it through. But sometimes, the glaz-ing can be too cloying. At a town-hall meeting, I asked him how his proposal would directly benefi t graduate students. After pondering for 10 seconds, he told me it could curb academic dishonesty. Well, DeLuca, we have seven associate deans and six assistant deans in the graduate school alone. If they don’t even bother to tackle issues of academic misconduct, how can we expect a higher offi cial to make those problems a priority? If the plan has little to do with students, please just say it. There’s no need to magnify your proposal into a uni-versal blessing covering everybody.
Also, there’s no need to shy away from the truth about the vice chancellor position: we’re hiring a lobbyist. Washington said the same thing when DeLuca went there. Lobbying? That might be the last thing our provost wants to hear. Both he and Martin are concerned that UW doesn’t have enough presence in D.C. to for-mulate relationships with federal agencies. As a result, the univer-sity may be left out of consider-ation when it comes to national research projects. For the new position, enhancing communica-tion with the federal government
would be high on the agenda. So far, I don’t see any difference between an expert lobbyist and our prospective vice chancellor. Actually, “lobbying” looks like a pertinent summary of the new official’s responsibility.
Despite these public rela-tions fl aws, DeLuca’s plan could nonetheless be a decent solution. Currently in the graduate school 146 programs offer master’s degrees and another 110 offer doctoral degrees. The task of coordinating all the educational efforts is already intimidating, not to mention research enterprises. It is perfectly legitimate if Cadwallader needs someone to share his burden.
Some faculty members are more concerned with the costs of this proposal, labeling it as a “Cadillac” fix. According to DeLuca himself, the reorganized structure would cost the univer-sity $600,000 to $800,000 per year once implemented. These figures may look dazzling at first sight. But let’s just do a simple cost-benefit analysis. If this gets the university even one extra federal grant, the new position would probably offset all these expenses.
DeLuca has offered a novel solu-tion for UW-Madison. He just needs to be more honest about the “why” and “how” by dropping offi cial rheto-ric. Basically, all his plan wants to say is this: Cadwallader is overwhelmed by too much work. For UW’s sake, he needs some help.
Qi Gu is a junior majoring in journalism. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to [email protected].
Grad school reform poorly presented but worthwhile
Cardinal View editorials represent The Daily Cardinal’s organizational opinion. Each editorial is crafted independent of news coverage.
Why do we need a top offi cial who is unlikely to have the
expertise to dig into specifi c details?
Despite the public relations fl aws, DeLuca’s plan could be
a decent solution.
With last week’s rejection by the Alcohol License Review Committee of District 8 Ald. Bryon Eagon’s proposal to add a student vote to the committee, the issue now moves to the full Common Council. In the time between now and the upcoming vote, we urge students to get involved in the issue and express their opinions concerning student involvement in city policy.
Contact city aldersThe contact information for all city alders can be found at cityofmadison.com/council. Send an e-mail to city offi cials to let them know your stance on creating a student voting member on the ALRC.
Watch video of last week’s ALRC meetingTo see video of last week’s vote against the ALRC student vote, go to cityofmadison.com/mcc12 and select the Oct. 21 meeting of the Alcohol License Review Committee. Debate of Eagon’s proposal begins at the 4 hour, 12 minute mark.
The ALRC Student Vote Campaign
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Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.
Today’s Sudoku
AnimAL inSTincTS
AcROSS 1 Not as much 5 Legendary actor
Gregory 9 Supercilious people 14 Auto-shop shaft 15 Drool-inducing Dr.
Pavlov 16 Big bone 17 “The Man in the Gray
Flannel ___” 18 “I couldn’t ___ less!” 19 Baker’s finishing touch 20 1954 Elizabeth Taylor
film 23 Judge and jury 24 Further down 28 Ike’s turf, once 29 ___ tai 31 Magma on the move 32 The final frontier 35 Starchy tuber 37 Briefcase item 38 Confined critter in an
old gasoline ad 41 Biochemist’s letters 42 Let ___ (leave a
person alone) 43 Banishes 44 “___ free country” 46 “___ fi fo fum” 47 Channel that used to
run country videos 48 Aspen or cottonwood
50 Kmart jeans brand 53 Joan Crawford
melodrama 57 Knotty tree
protuberance 60 Jewish calendar
month 61 The Iron Chancellor’s
first name 62 Bar brawl 63 Abominable snowman 64 Bank’s property claim 65 All-too-agreeable
fellow 66 Give lip 67 Ash Wednesday’s
season
DOWn 1 Emit coherent
radiation 2 Jump for joy 3 Comparatively
cunning 4 Part of the scenery 5 Rogue 6 “Dynasty” actress
Linda 7 Country club vehicle 8 Was versed in 9 Turner in a subway 10 Buffalo ___
(discontinued coin) 11 Tokyo sash 12 Bulk foods container 13 Yield to gravity
21 Sexual classification 22 “Goodbye, cheri” 25 They made the
Mamas a quartet 26 Word with “main” or
“blessed” 27 Captain, general, etc. 29 “I won’t rule it out” 30 Ubiquitous medicinal
plant 32 Steakhouse order 33 Bean variety 34 Visibly shocked 35 Snicker follower? 36 “On the double!” 39 Prefix with “red” or
“structure” 40 Sushi bar order 45 “Batman” butler 47 Baghdad’s river 49 Cat’s home, maybe 50 Black cloud formers,
sometimes 51 Brief instruction for
casual dress, perhaps 52 Like Cheerios 54 “Say Hey Kid” of
baseball 55 Writer’s block
breakthrough 56 “___ Worry, Be
Happy” 57 Clock standard, briefly 58 “The Matrix” lead role 59 Words before “carte”
Jack White carefully winds a length of wire around two fresh nails as uninterested cattle graze in the green field behind him. He brings the wire taut over a glass Coke bottle and secures a round electromagnet beneath. The familiar hum of an amp clicks through the speakers as he twists a knob, sending an electric chill through your spine. White leans over his contrap-tion and starts cranking crazy riffs from his newly minted instrument. The cows look up, amazed.
After a moment of playing, he looks up and inhales from his cigarette. “Who says you need to buy a guitar?”
Jack White certainly enjoys playing the maverick in “It Might Get Loud,” a docu-mentary that celebrates the passion that three celebrated rockers share for the elec-tric guitar. Finally arriving in Madison at Sundance Cinema this last weekend, the rock doc follows guitar legends Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White as documentar-ian Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) captures their musical roots, cre-ative differences and, most importantly, their universal love of their instrument.
Guggenheim quickly establishes the cre-ative differences between the three, particularly between the Edge and White. U2 rocker the Edge discusses at length his love of effects ped-als, electronic distortion and digital manipula-tion of his riffs to get them “exactly as they sound in his head.” He has specific guitars tuned for specific songs, a truckload of effects equipment and a dedicated roadie whose gray-ing hair is likely linked to serving the needs of the Edge’s tech-heavy performances.
White responds about how technology destroys creativity, declaring his preference for battered instruments and improvisation over
polished sound and rehearsed performance. Whether by Guggenheim’s editing or White’s actual hatred for The Edge’s obsession with the perfect riff, it’s not hard to believe White when he says his meeting with The Edge will likely end in a fist fight.
But the petty differences melt away as Jimmy Page seems to tutor the young-er rockers at a discussion/studio session. Guggenheim captures the impact the meet-up had on the performers as they share influences and philosophies and come to realize their common love of what an electric guitar is capable of. The Edge asks Page to dissect a riff from a Yardbirds song. White excitedly explains his custom Gretsch guitar with a built-in harmonica mic for vocal solos after Page explains why the double-neck Fender was a necessity for playing “Stairway to Heaven” on stage.
And all of these great moments are inter-cut with a wealth of archival footage and stunning concert video of each performer. A prepubescent Page politely introduces himself as “James Page” after performing on black and white TV. The Edge plays amidst a sea of screaming fans. White bangs away at his treasured Gretsch to the point of bleeding all over it. The film only falters when this video is used as wallpaper instead of being showcased—Guggenheim seemed to have too many great sound bites and crammed in as many as he could, at times even at the expense of the music. A few could have been cut to allow more time to just sit back and enjoy the music.
The film drags at times if you aren’t as interested in guitars and the creative process as the rockers are. But anyone obsessed with the power of the electric gui-tar in music history should find something to love in this flick.
Grade: A
‘Loud’ praise for rock doc
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PHOTO COURTESY THOMAS TULL PRODUCTIONS
Jack White’s startling foundationalism plays a central role in ‘It Might Get Loud.’
By Dan SullivanTHE DAILY CARDINAL
Joel and Ethan Coen enjoy a fairly ambivalent standing amongst today’s audi-ences: Their films are widely beloved by the mainstream (to name a few: “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski” and “No Country for Old Men”), while the more self-consciously film-savvy crowd is deeply suspicious of their artistic motives. Indeed, the Coens are accused of being postmodern misanthropes just as often as they’re called a great directo-rial duo. Their latest film, “A Serious Man,” will do little to convince either of these two opposed camps that the other has been right all along. Nevertheless, “A Serious Man” is a slick 105 minutes that presents quite a bit to chew on; the question is, what exactly does it taste like?
The moment that one begins to talk about “A Serious Man,” one finds oneself confronting Jewishness head-on. The film’s only non-Jewish characters are a small fam-ily of über-Aryan blondies who have a not-so-latent anti-Semitic thing going on; because “A Serious Man” is set in the uni-formly squashed suburbs of Minneapolis circa 1967, this Germanic-Semitic dialectic comes off as being slightly more plausible than it might otherwise. The events that unfold in this thoroughly Jewish environ-ment abide by comic-strip logic, which shouldn’t surprise anybody who has seen any of the Coens’ previous works.
The story of “A Serious Man” con-cerns a woefully schmucky physics profes-sor named Larry Gopnik who lives with his cranky, dysfunctional family in an eerily shtetl-like ’burb. Larry, whose area of expertise happens to be the dizzyingly complex mathematics underlying Erwin Schrödinger’s famous “cat in the box” para-dox, is subjected to one awful experience after another. Larry’s bitchy wife leaves him for a noxiously sappy pillow of a man named Sy Ableman; an enigmatic Korean exchange student tries to bribe and then blackmail Larry for a passing grade; Larry’s
daughter’s existence seems to consist of complaining and washing her hair, while his son’s seems to consist of smoking weed, listening to Jefferson Airplane and pretend-ing to work on his haftorah; Larry’s brother is a cringe-inducing schmendrik who sleeps on the family’s couch, nightly draining an enormous cyst on the back of his neck while working on “the Mentaculus,” a sort of probability-based Rosetta stone for com-pulsive gamblers. As you might imagine, all of this adds up to a crisis of faith for hapless Larry.
By now it should be rather obvious that “A Serious Man” is very much the product of a certain culture, one that the Coens assume their audience is at least slightly familiar with. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine that goys are going to derive much pleasure from the film’s strongest passage, an ingenious meta-fable called “The Goy’s Teeth.” However, “A Serious Man” has something for everyone; Jews and gentiles alike will appreciate the Coens’ knack for precise compositions, their fidel-ity to shot/reverse-shot structures and their wicked sense of humor, reflected in every-thing from the film’s uncomfortably pale color scheme to their insistence on shoving every character up against the lens at one point or another, effectively emphasizing the inherent grotesqueness of all mankind. (It should be noted that the Coens don’t discriminate when portraying people as hideous creatures.)
If there’s one thing that keeps “A Serious Man” from scoring big, it’s that the film doesn’t take as many stylistic risks as it could. The uninspired soundtrack intrudes during scenes where it has no need to, and the Coens’ aforementioned adherence to shot/reverse-shot actually works against the fragilely uneasy atmosphere that they other-wise succeed in conjuring.
So, then, is the Coens’ reputation for being po-mo misanthropes justified? Probably; but if that misanthropy yields works as solid as “A Serious Man,” who really cares?
Another ‘Serious’ winner from Coens
Search terms: Kid Stuck in Skate BowlMany of you may recall the legend of Sisyphus, who was condemned to rolling a boulder up a hill, only to have it fall back again, according to Greek mythology. This video is pretty much the modern equivalent. A slightly overweight kid is stuck in the middle of a large skate bowl as a crowd of hundreds watches efforts to get him out. Remember that time in elementary school when your pants accidentally fell down on the playground during recess? This is about 100 times worse.
Search terms: Super Mario Proposal 1 1/2 So you think you’re a nerd, huh? Your collection of “Star
Wars” figurines rivals George Lucas himself? You’ve been to every Comic-Con in your time zone? The day “Firefly” went off the air was like a death in the family for you? Your dorkdom cannot possibly rival that of the man in this video, who uses a custom level of Super Mario to propose to his girlfriend. At least she says yes, making the endeavor mildly respectable, but they’re still both huge nerds.
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PHOTO COURTESY MIKE ZOSS PRODUCTIONS
Hold the phone! Despite their somewhat divisive following, the Coen brothers continue to deflect criticisms by supplying characteristically awesome films.
Indeed, the Coens are accused of being postmodern misanthropes just as often as they’re called a great directorial duo.
If there’s one thing that keeps “A Serious Man” from scoring big, it’s that the film doesn’t take as many stylistic
risks as it could.
sportsl8 Monday, October 26, 2009 dailycardinal.com/sports
Ass Kickings
Cardinal steamrolls Herald foes in 24-7 victory as cheap shots nearly cause brawl
Men’s Hockey
Brendan Smith was one of six Badgers to score against Minnesota State Friday and added another goal Saturday.
STEPHANIE MOEBIUSCARDINAL FILE PHOTO
By Parker GabrielTHE DAILY CARDINAL
After a dominating performance Friday night, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team had a chance to sweep Minnesota State on the road. But back-to-back five-minute majors on the Badgers led to a long power play, handing the Mavericks a win Saturday night and sending Wisconsin home with a frustrating series split.
The Badgers’ offense exploded out of the gates Friday, scoring three goals in the first 16 minutes of play and setting the tone for the entire evening. Wisconsin put 40 shots on goal and had continuous pressure on the offensive end.
The most notable first-period goal was scored by senior forward Blake Geoffrion, who returned to the lineup after losing time last weekend because of a concussion.
The explosive offense continued into the second period, as the Badgers put 18 shots on goal and convert-ed three more times. Juniors Cody Goloubef and Podge Turnbull and sophomore Jordy Murray each tallied
their first goal of 2009 to turn the game into a rout.
For the second straight weekend, junior goaltenders Brett Bennett and Scott Gudmandson split the weekend between the pipes for the Badgers. Bennett handled the duties on Friday night and helped Wisconsin to its first shutout of the season. The Badger defense held the Mavericks to just 19 shots on goal for the night.
With Gudmandson in the net Saturday night, the Badgers once again came out and exerted con-trol early. For the second straight night, Geoffrion tallied a goal, this time on a power play with just less than seven minutes left in the first period.
After giving up two goals in the second period to the Mavericks, the Badgers tied the game at 2 in the third period when junior Brendan Smith collected a behind-the-back pass from Geoffrion and beat Mankato’s keeper, Austin Lee.
From there, however, the Badgers beat themselves badly, and it cost them a chance at a weekend sweep. Less
than two minutes after the goal, Craig Smith received a five-minute major for checking from behind and was issued a game disqualification. In addition to being ejected, he will miss the Badgers’ next game.
Wisconsin had killed off more than four minutes of the penalty when junior Ryan McDonagh was charged with another major penalty, again for checking from behind. The Badgers were unable to survive playing a man down for another five minutes, and Maverick senior Zach Harrison put the game-winner past Gudmandson on a rebound with 7:38 left in the third period.
The Badgers will now return home for a Halloween weekend series with New Hampshire.
The Wildcats are next in a sequence of talented opponents for Wisconsin. The Badgers will have the luxury of playing in Madison for the next three weeks as No. 11 Minnesota and Alaska-Anchorage visit the Kohl Center before the Badgers hit the road again.
—uwbadgers.com contributed to this report.
Penalties cost Badgers chance at road sweep
Women’s Hockey
UW continues trend of splits against BuckeyesBy Joe SkurzewskiTHE DAILY CARDINAL
For the third time this sea-son, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team split a weekend series with a WCHA opponent, losing the first game of a series and coming back to win the sec-ond. This time, the Badgers fell against Ohio State 4-3 Friday and returned the favor Saturday with a 5-3 victory.
Wisconsin lost Friday despite a spirited third-period rally. After the Buckeyes took a commanding 3-0 lead, the Badgers stormed back, scoring three goals in seven min-utes to tie the game 3-3. But Ohio State freshman forward Hokey Langan capitalized off a Badger turnover and scored the go-ahead goal with five minutes left to give the Buckeyes the victory.
Freshman defender Saige Pacholok, who made her first career start Friday night, was one of the three Badgers who scored during the rally.
“We really do need to start get-ting the lead early so we can stay in the lead instead of coming back,” Pacholok said.
Despite the loss, Wisconsin head coach Tracey DeKeyser stayed optimistic about the team’s comeback.
“What it demonstrated to themselves and to us was that they have the ability to come back after a three-goal deficit,” DeKeyser said. “So it’s there, it’s just a matter of being consistent for 60 minutes.”
Early in the third period of game one, Wisconsin junior for-ward Kelly Nash went down with an injury and was scratched for game two. DeKeyser said Nash did not play the second game as a precautionary measure and would be ready for the Badgers’ next series against No. 2 Minnesota.
Wisconsin struck first in game two, as junior defender Geena
Prough scored to give the Badgers a 1-0 lead.
Both teams provided the offen-sive fireworks in the second, com-bining for five goals. When Ohio State took a 2-1 lead, the Badgers once again responded with three goals of their own, including a penalty shot from sophomore forward Brooke Ammerman.
“That was a class-A example of what she can do and will continue to do for the season for us,” DeKeyser said of Ammerman’s goal.
Ammerman remained hum-ble about scoring in a high-pres-sure situation.
“That was good timing, and a little bit of luck,” Ammerman said.
Wisconsin’s defense stood up to the challenge Saturday night. With a 4-3 lead late in the third period, the Badgers killed off a 5-on-3 Ohio State power play. When the penalties expired, junior forward Mallory Deluce burst out of the penalty box and sealed the victory with a goal.
DeKeyser attributed the Badgers’ defensive stand to a quartet of forwards in freshmen Breann Frykas and Lauren Unser, junior Maria Evans and senior Emily Kranz.
“They did a great job,” she said. “They just played their role, and they really helped us secure this victory.”
Wisconsin freshman goalie Becca Ruegsegger, who started both games over senior goalie Alannah McCready, allowed seven goals on 47 shots for the series.
Prough and Deluce led Wisconsin in scoring for the series, with two goals each. Meanwhile, Langan and sopho-more forward Laura McIntosh led the Buckeyes for the series with two goals apiece.
Wisconsin now prepares to host the Golden Gophers on Halloween weekend, with games Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 at 2 p.m.
There are some games in which two bitter rivals battle for every point, trading the lead until one can will its way to a close-fought victory. The Daily Cardinal’s 24-7 depantsing of The Badger Herald Friday afternoon was not one of those games.
Instead of the tight game some foolish analysts predicted,
the Cardinal simply dominated: A smashmouth defense combined with an efficient offense led the way to victory over their over-matched Herald foes. In one of the most physical and emotional contests in the history of either paper, nay, in the history of foot-ball, let it be known that the
Cardinal rose to the occasion and destroyed its opponent.
The game was so physical, the loss so devastating and the Herald staffers so aware of their inferiority that they fled the field not long after the game to drown their sorrows in Silver Mine subs, skipping the tradi-tional postgame flip-cup like a bunch of whiny pansies.
“I knew all along they produced a better newspaper,” Herald Editor-in-Chief Jason Smathers said, unable to hold back tears. “Now I must accept that they are infinitely better at foot-ball as well.”
Even the near brawl started by a number of belligerent, over-served Herald hooligans at the end of the game could not tarnish the Cardinal’s day, as the oldest and best newspaper on campus celebrated yet another football victory.
The Cardinal secondary, led by cornerbacks Nick Schmitt and Ryan Hebel, forced some 4,682 intercep-tions as Herald quarterback Lukas Keapproth felt the heat from the Cardinal’s Kyle “Pain Train” Sparks and Andrew Carpenter. The rabid,
rottweiler-like Sparks said after the game he knew Keapproth was going to be his chew toy from the first snap.
“He should’ve known not to bring that weak shit in my house,” Sparks said while eating thunder and crapping lightning.
It took the Cardinal a couple of drives to find their feet, allowing the Herald a few seconds of glory as they jumped out to a 7-0 lead. But once the team started clicking there was no turning back, as the Cardinal racked up 24 unanswered points to storm back for the win.
The Cardinal offense, led by quar-terback Tom Shield, made a fool of the weak Herald secondary, and some clutch defense helped extinguish one last Herald comeback effort late in the fourth quarter. Although the game’s outcome had long ago been decided, the fireworks were far from over.
As the clock ticked toward zero and yet another Cardinal win, former Editor-in-Chief Al Morrell called a controversial timeout, which forced the Herald to run one final play, lead-ing to an outburst from the Herald’s Jordan Schelling.
“Be mature!” Schelling yelled from the sidelines. “Act your age and get into a fight with someone over a flag football game in a public park!”
On the Herald’s final play, Schmitt caught yet another inter-ception, and while returning Keapproth’s errant throw, he was tackled by the quarterback, who must have forgot-ten he was play-ing flag football. The cheap shot sparked a large scuffle between Herald and Cardinal players, although referees and level-headed C a r d i n a l i s t a s prevented a full-scale brawl, which the Herald certainly would have lost as well.
With yet another victory in the books, the Cardinal will have to spend the next few months only beating the Herald on news racks before the two rivals do battle once again on Vilas Park’s softball diamond in the spring.
Daily Cardinal cornerback Nick Schmitt is taken down by Herald quarterback Lukas Keapproth. The dirty hit nearly led to a fight.
