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Roundtable to discuss Ethnic Studies classes

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Dylan Chmura Moore performs at Morphy Hall in the Humanities building Monday + Photo by Grey Satterfield

By Tamar Myersthe daily cardinal

An upcoming roundtable dinner will give students and staff an opportunity to provide feedback on the mandatory ethnic studies requirement as part of a student government campaign to reform the cur-rent structure.

The event, organized in part by the Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee, is planned for Feb. 18 and marks the next step in a process to apply large-scale changes to the mandatory eth-

nic studies requirement.According to the University

of Wisconsin-Madison’s web-site, all students are required to take an approved class of three or more credits discuss-ing marginalized racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. since the policy was adopted as a general education requirement in 2003.

The roundtable will include a presentation on the history of the requirement, an open-mic portion where attendees will be asked to share experiences with classes and make suggestions,

and smaller discussions led by ASM Diversity Committee mem-bers. Attendees will also be pro-vided note cards on which they can leave comments about their class experiences.

Suggestions from the round-table will be forwarded to the Student Ad Hoc Committee and Campus Diversity Plan Ad Hoc Committee to be incor-porated in the new campus Diversity Plan due for release in April.

At a meeting Monday, com-

PBR ads removed from busesThe controversial Pabst

Blue Ribbon advertisements will no longer be seen on Madison Metro buses due to the company’s decision not to renew its recently expired contract.

Metro Transit had noth-ing to do with the remov-al of the ads, according to Metro Transit spokesper-son Mich Rusch. The con-tract simply expired and PBR never renewed.

However, Rusch said the PBR ads received many com-plaints because they looked liked beer trucks. UW Transportation asked the buses be kept off campus and

many parents of middle and high school students com-plained about the buses driv-ing past schools.

“We had complaints that ... [the PBR buses] would go past schools, middle schools and high schools,” Rusch said. “There were a lot of concerns from parents.”

Rusch added the 2011 PBR ads were “artistic” and received no complaints, “whereas the ones this year just sorta caught your eye” because of their resemblance to beer trucks.

According to Rusch, beer ads cannot be banned because of free speech and, since the

ads were from a third-party vendor, they were allowed to be released without input from Metro.

Metro switched to an “in-house” advertising team this year, which allows them to con-trol what vendors they pitch to and will give them a say regarding the content of ads.

Rusch said if PBR were to contact Metro now, it would be possible to work togeth-er to “find ads that would be acceptable to the community.”

“We can’t say no to [beer ads], but [the in-house ad team] is how we can better address it,” said Rusch.

—Erik Thiel

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early Monday morning, a shot was fired outside of the frequency nightclub, the first gun incident since last May.

None injured after shot fired outside Frequency nightclub

A fight at a downtown Madison nightclub led a patron to fire one gunshot outside the venue early Monday morning.

According to a police report, two black men in their 20s were fighting inside the Frequency nightclub, 121 W. Main St., around 1 a.m. Monday when one pulled out a gun.

The men then moved out-side, according to police. The struggle continued outside the club and one shot was report-edly heard.

This is the first shooting in

downtown Madison since last May’s shooting near Segredo and Johnny O’s Sports Lounge, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4.

“Shootings never happen in downtown Madison,” Verveer said. “It’s very troubling.”

Verveer said police recov-ered the fired bullet from a nearby tree and added it was by “sheer dumb luck that no one was seriously injured.”

According to the report, both men left before police arrived and no arrests have been made.

Mining bill advocates outspend opposition on campaignsSupporters of the

Republican-backed proposal to ease mining regulations in Wisconsin spent 610 times more on political campaigns than the bill’s opponents between January 2010 and June 2012, according to new figures released Monday.

The government watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign reported special interest groups in favor of the mining legislation, which is designed to allow a new iron ore mine to open in northern Wisconsin, con-tributed $15.6 million to Gov. Scott Walker and state law-makers during the 30-month period, while environmental groups which oppose the bill donated just $25,500.

“There’s a very broad coali-tion of business interests behind

[the mining legislation], and they include some of the biggest cam-paign donors in Wisconsin poli-tics,” said Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Executive Director Mike McCabe.

Mining proponents con-tributed a total of $11.34 mil-lion to Walker for his 2010 and recall election campaigns and another $4.25 million to state legislators of both par-ties. However, Republican leg-islators, who have been push-ing mining legislation for the past two years, accepted an average of about $44,000 from pro-mining interest groups compared to approximately $16,000 for Democrats.

State Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, who faced a recall in the summer of 2011, received $467,000 from min-ing supporters, more than any

other state lawmaker during this time frame.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign did not include contribution amounts through the second half of 2012 in its report because that informa-tion is not available until the end of the month.

—Adam Wollner

Man hit by car outside Grainger HallAn intoxicated, middle-aged

man stepped into traffic on the corner of North Park and West Johnson Streets just outside Grainger hall at approximately 7:40 p.m. Monday, according to Madison police.

The man, who police said appeared to be in his 50s, was

intoxicated when he stepped into traffic and got hit by a pickup truck.

Paramedics took him to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

He will be cited for failing to yield to traffic, according to police.

Mike McCabeexecutive director

Wisconsin democracy campaign

“There’s a very broad coalition of business inter-

ests behind [the mining legislation], and they

include some of the big-gest campaign donors in

Wisconsin politics.”

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F or this upcoming article, would all my esteemed readers please imagine

Damian Lewis reading this in his normal voice.

To my loyal subjects, thank you for electing me King of the World. Oh… kings aren’t elected? They’re just put into power because of fam-ily ties? You mean I had to do noth-ing to get to where I am? I am the Paris Hilton of royalty.

Moving on, since I am your new king, there will have to be changes. There are just too many things wrong in this world, and I, your dictator—excuse me, your king—will fix them.

First of all: no more blogs about your abroad travels. The only peo-ple who want to read your blog are your parents and no one else. If we wanted to go abroad, we would have. We would have taken pictures with those silent guards and the Eiffel Tower; we would have tried crazy food like foie gras and pizza; we don’t need to live through you. We get it: You’re hav-ing fun, and we don’t care.

My next new rule: No one can leave the house if they are wear-ing one of these following items: Uggs boots, Crocs, sweatpants, colored Converse sneakers, han-

dlebar mustaches, shirts that I don’t understand, headphones that aren’t on your ears, wool socks, outfits you bought while you were abroad (seriously dude, a beret in Wisconsin winter?) and anything else that makes me sad. All of my followers need to respect themselves when they leave the house, even if they’re just going grocery shopping.

Minions, you think my rules are here just to depress you all? Wrong. Here are some fun rules that everyone can get behind. Everyone must watch “Toy Story 3” once a month (we all must be reminded that we’ll soon grow old and that our toys come to life). Everyone has to learn the language Alex and Jane speak in “Happy Endings,” (higgityive figgityive). Everyone has to be circumcised (it’s mostly a health thing). Everyone needs to know their Bacon Number, (mine is 3: I once was in an Urban Outfitters with Amanda Bynes who was in “Hairspray” with Queen Latifah who starred in “Beauty Shop” with Kevin Bacon). Everyone gets their own personal assistant, but since everyone gets one that means everyone also has to be a personal assistant (it’s a complicated pro-cess that will make sure every-thing is done efficiently, maybe).

Wow, I am a good —nay—a great king. I’m so amazing I make Colin Firth look like an actor pretending to be a king. I make President of the Earth Richard

Nixon look like real-life Richard Nixon. I’m so amazing they’re casting me to play Will Smith in the “Independence Day” remake (that one was a bit of stretch, no?).

Side note: Why do I think no one finishes reading my articles ever? I’m so relatable!

Alright guys, here is my promise: I promise to be a good king, one that judges fairly and only makes threats to planets that seem to be making nucle-ar weapons (I’m watching you, Jupiter). I will make sure all of my attempted assassins get cast in Quentin Tarantino films as “extras.” I will restore order into the global economy by making fun-size Snickers the only type of currency (the most delicious of all currency).

I will also be a bad king; one that you will want to have on the guillotine, one that will try a really terrible British accent, and one that will laugh at the poor and say, “Let them eat cake!” Why would I be so cruel to my blind followers? Eh, I mean it’s a Tuesday and I’m bored and someone needs to be a stool so I can put up my feet. I also have no idea what the word “revolution” means, so whatever, go nuts.

I bet you all wish we still had a democracy, huh?

What do you think of Voloshin’s plans for world rule? If you’re abroad, blog about it—er, drop him an email at [email protected].

Making the ‘deadliest catch’

Hail the mighty King Voloshin

N ow that I’m back in the grind of the semester, I don’t have a lot of time on

my hands. I mean, there’s going to class, my internship, readings and now my newest commitment, which is the most time consum-ing: Having the couch fused to my leg hairs as I mentally ride the waves of the Bering Sea on the deck of the Northwestern during king crab season.

For those of you who know what I’m talking about… then you know what I’m talking about. For those of you who are sick of my weird TV crap and my cocky assumption that you ever read this/care at all, I urge you, in my last stitch effort to get you shaking and begging for your next hit of TV, to run, not walk, to Netflix, put your survival suits on and feast your eyes on some of the greatest TV ever made.

I’ve only been watching this show for a day and a half, and I’m already on the fifth epi-sode of the second season (and NO all my homework is NOT done, MOM). Every second I sit here (because clearly I can’t even pull myself away to write

this column, and don’t think I’m not a little bit irked that I can’t figure out why Maverick’s engine stopped running) I become surer and surer that I’m going to take a gap year and become a greenhorn (n00b) on one of these ships. I can see it now —queue Bon Jovi’s “Dead or Alive.”

I arrive on the docks of Dutch Harbor, Ala., just a dewey-eyed kid lookin’ for some fast money and a hard day’s work. As I go to shake the hand of Sig Hansen, captain of the Northwestern, he quickly denies me and adds, “I’ll shake your hand at the end of the season if you’ve done a

good job.” This isn’t going to be a crab cakewalk (lol), but there’s no time for jokes on the Northwestern. I’ve got to get to chopping up frozen bait.

In the meantime, I try to bond with the rest of the deck-hands, which mostly means me getting called “a wuss” and “a baby” and getting crabs shoved down my pants. Nothing has ever made me happier. I am a grinning fool.

Naturally, I’ve picked up a small chain-smoking habit, smell like sweat, testosterone and ocean mud, and I can bare-ly understand the words com-ing out of my mouth.

As we pull up full pot after full pot of

crab, we yell stuff like, “Arghlookat ’em yeeebuddy!” and “Asawaywelikemyeaaaa.” It’s such fun. Capt. Sig invites me into the wheelhouse (lol yea right) as a thank-you for my hard work. As he talks fish-ing strategy with our partner boat, he says stuff like, “Roger, Roger,” “’Bout to drop our gear,” and “I’m thinkin’ we’re gonna pull another string and head to offload.”

I love this.

After a madly successful seven days at sea, we offload and I make out with $1,000, and final-ly, a prized handshake from Capt. Sig. I’ve been asked to come back next season as a deckhand. At this point, I’ve been watching the show so long I realized I’m just writing like the narrator because that’s apparently the only lan-guage I can communicate in now. This show has ruined me, but I love it.

Do you understand the phrase “Arghlookat ’em yeee-buddy”? Maybe you’d be inter-ested in joining Jackie and the other greenhorns on the crab boat. If so, send Jackie a mes-sage in a bottle or drop her an email at [email protected].

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mittee members said it would be vital that feedback from average students be considered in addition to hearing from current instruc-tors of Ethnic Studies courses.

“Everybody has to take the class before they graduate,” ASM Student Council Rep. Niko Magallon said “It will affect every-one’s educational experience.”

ASM Diversity Committee Chair Mia Akers said prelimi-nary ideas include expanding the breadth of classes to incor-porate facets of personal identity beyond race and ethnicity, such

as sexual orientation.The committee would also

like the university to mandate the class be taken in students’ first two years of school, which would allow students to apply knowledge from the class to their educational experience.

Akers said she wants the revamped requirement to make the classes a “game-changer” for students, providing them with greater insight into their identities.

“I hope that it’s something that challenges students,” Akers said. “They’ll look back on college and say ‘wow that really changed my perspective on things.’”

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Northern Wis. officials push for hearings on mining bill

Democrats in northern Wisconsin counties sent let-ters to state legislators Monday requesting public hearings in the areas most affected by the proposed mining legislation cur-rently backed by Republicans.

Officials from Ashland and Bayfield counties as well as other organizations, such as the Mining Impact Coalition of Wisconsin urged state Sen.

Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, and state Rep. Mary Williams, R-Medford, to hold public hear-ings before the state Senate and Assembly vote on the controver-sial mining bill, which, if passed, could lead to a new iron ore mine in Ashland County.

Kelly Westlund of the Ashland City Council said the bill would have “far-reaching” consequences on the people of

Ashland County, expressing her concern about the county’s water supply.

“This is about our access to a necessary quality resource we value far more than low-grade taconite,” Westlund said in a letter.

State Rep. Janet Bewley, D-Ashland, also announced recently she will hold a listening session Feb. 9 to gather citizens’ opinions on the bill.

Representatives of the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee and United Council of UW Students, a statewide student lobbying organization, met Monday to discuss strategies to lobby for a student-friendly state biennial budget.

Vice President of UC Beth Huang outlined plans to facili-tate a state-wide calling day Feb. 14 followed by a conference and lobby day the weekend of Feb. 23.

According to Huang, this approach will allow students to be both proactive and reactive to Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal, which will be released

around Feb. 18.“Our major push for the

semester is to get lots of students to tell their stories to legisla-tors,” Huang said. “It’s different when students go into the Capitol because we can actually tell our stories for ourselves and back up any numbers … so that leg-islators can actually see a face from their district tell them why the UW System matters so much and what their college education means to them.”

ASM Legislative Affairs Chair Dan Statter introduced a simi-lar plan to send budget packets to members of the Joint Finance Committee that will contain a

cover letter from the committee, budget priorities passed by ASM Student Council and letters high-lighting students’ personal expe-riences with rising tuition.

“The reason we do what we do is for those stories that we can communicate,” Statter said. “Tuition continuing to increase keeps students, Wisconsin resi-dents, our neighbors, [and] our classmates in high school, out of this institution.”

The committee also discussed continued progress and lobby-ing efforts for the Responsible Action and 18+ campaigns, which began last fall.

—Mara Jezior

Students prepare to lobby for support in upcoming state biennial budget

SSFC passes aSM Student Judiciary, WSUM budgetsThe Student Services

Finance Committee approved budgets for the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary and WSUM Monday.

Both of these groups are funded by student segregated fees, which are included in every student’s tuition bill. SSFC has jurisdiction over how this money is delegated to stu-dent organizations on campus.

SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker said segregated fees give stu-dents a voice in what services are provided on campus.

The ASM Student Judiciary received a funding level of $34,100 for the 2013-’14 fis-

cal year, a decrease from the group’s requested $41,850.

Bruecker said there were minor cuts to SJ’s program-ming and salaries.

WSUM received a funding level of $331,165 after a cut to the General Manager’s salary. The group initially requested $332,490.

According to Bruecker, the committee reduced the General Manager’s salary so it reflected a 2 percent increase from last year’s budget, which is the amount allotted by SSFC bylaws.

SSFC Rep. David Vines said he is comfortable with WSUM’s funding request because he has

worked with them in the past.“They have been very

vigilant about being fiscally responsible,” Vines said. “I feel like the budget and expendi-tures reflect that.”

SSFC will hear the bud-gets for Childcare Tuition Assistance Program and the Student Activities Center Governing Board Thursday.

Earlier this fall, the SAC Governing Board discussed requesting additional funding to undergo a re-branding of the facility in order to better serve students as a community space for student organizations.

—Megan Stoebig

State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and other legisla-tors received subpoenas to appear in an ongoing investigation into allegedly discriminatory redistrict-ing of certain Wisconsin districts.

Immigrant advocacy group Voces de la Frontera and its Democratic partners began a law-suit against the state of Wisconsin last year, saying district borders the state drew in summer 2011 discrimi-nated against Latino communities in Milwaukee.

The subpoenas order legislators to present three computers used by aides in the redistricting process that have not been investigated pre-viously, according to Peter Earle, an attorney for Voces de la Frontera.

Earle said documents are known to have been withheld from the investigation previously, and the computers in question may contain indications that officials redrew leg-islative boundaries with the intent

of discriminating against Latinos.In February 2012, districts were

again redrawn after Voces de la Frontera won a trial on the basis of a federal law that declares it illegal to redistrict if it weakens a protected minority group’s vote, according to Earle.

Earle said Voces de la Frontera lacked evidence at the time to prove intentional discrimination.

“There may in fact be some of that evidence,” Earle said. “We won’t know until this process runs its course.”

This step of the investigation will bring about increased trans-parency, he added.

“The quality of our electoral process depends in large part on the quality of that redistricting pro-cess,” Earle said. “If it’s done secret-ly…the people cannot have confi-dence in the mechanisms by which they exercise their democracy.”

—Meghan Chua

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Police arrest man on lake Mendota for presciption fraud at pharmacy

Madison Police arrested a Beloit man on a frozen part of Lake Mendota Saturday afternoon after he fled from police for using a stolen prescription pad at a State Street drug store.

Dante Saunders, 21, attempted to fill a prescription for oxyco-done at 2:50 p.m. at Community Pharmacy, 314 State St., using a stolen prescription pad, according to a police report.

The pharmacist recog-nized Saunders and his pad from an identical incident last December when Saunders had come in to purchase oxyco-done, according to the report.

The pharmacy did not realize the pad had been stolen from a Milwaukee facility until after he left with the drug.

After recognizing Saunders on Saturday, the pharmacist called the police, according to the report. When police arrived, Saunders reportedly fled the scene and was pursued.

Initially Saunders ran down West Gorham according to the report, but changed course to State Street after dodging traffic. He ran through a church parking lot and over a wall before police finally cap-tured him on a frozen part of Lake Mendota.

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Madison to taste music from ‘Yonder’

Ducktails isn’t quacking with The Flower Lane

By Brian WeidyThe daily cardinal

The Daily Cardinal recently spoke with Yonder Mountain String Band’s guitarist and vocalist, Adam Aijala, amid the band’s 2013 winter tour.

In 1998, Jeff Austin, Dave Johnston, Ben Kaufmann and Aijala formed the Yonder Mountain String Band in Boulder, Colo. While the four have roots in the jam band scene, at heart the group is still a bluegrass band.

“We’re still a bluegrass band,” Aijala said. “Bluegrass is a tree and we are a branch of it. But you know, we are not traditional sounding at all.”

One aspect of the band that gets them clumped into the jam band scene is their ability to consistently tour. Their road-tested act has paid off big time.

“The Tabernacle is really cool,” Aijala said, discuss-ing venues. “The Tennessee Theater is another great one.”

At the end of the day, their Feb. 2 tour-closing perfor-mance at the Orpheum Theater in Madison is something Aijala is looking forward to.

“Love [Madison]. One of our favorite towns to play in for sure and I’m not just saying that,” said Aijala. “For years, it has been one of those places.”

A unique aspect of their live performances is their incorporation of cover songs into their sets.

“Generally, if we are playing something that is well known, it’s almost like a joke where we know we are being cliché,” Aijala said. “We try to pick covers that are a little more obscure and a little less well known.”

The band has also hosted their own festival of sorts, Strings & Sol, performing alongside other “jamgrass” stalwarts such as Railroad Earth, Leftover Salmon and The Infamous Stringdusters in Tulum, Mexico.

“I think it was my favorite weekend of the whole year,” said Aijala. “Probably because we were in the middle of a little break, you could relax already.

And going down to the tropics and just playing tunes on the beach, it was awesome.”

While the band’s innovative brand of music and outstanding chops have helped them ascend to their current level of popu-larity, they were initially aided by harnessing the increasing influence of the Internet.

“We had a website before ’99 even, and our first show was September ’98,” Aijala said. “And I think that created awareness.”

While the band made their best efforts online, it was also with the help of their fans on the Internet that they gained popularity.

“One of our fans set up a chat room, a Yahoo chat group kind of deal, and it was through that, that the whole B&P (blanks and postage) kind of thing happened,” Aijala said. “It really helped our career, where early on we would go to a town that we had never played in and there would be

100 people there, and we asked ourselves ‘How the hell do they know who we are?’”

The band also has found some of the best restaurants domestically. “There’s a place in southern L.A. (Los Angeles) called Asanebo, a great sushi place, and I mean obviously Nobu in New York, but there is this place that we are going to be in Covington, Ky., this riverside Korean restaurant that’s just amazing.”

A new album is something Yonder fans have been des-perately waiting for, and it looks like new studio material is finally on the horizon. The Show, the group’s last album, came out in August of 2009, but a full-length LP follow-up may not be forthcoming.

“Hopefully like an EP is what it’s looking like,” Aijala said, “We have four tracks that we have already started working on, but the hardest part is mak-ing the time, because there are babies … downtime was gener-ally the time we would use to record but now its more impor-tant for it to stay as downtime.”

Yonder Mountain String Band will take the stage at The Orpheum Theater at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 2.

By Max FisherThe daily cardinal

For the last couple years, “indie” artists scrambling to make it onto the floor mix at Urban Outfitters have been playing the “Reinterpret the Theme Song to ‘Welcome Back Kotter’” game. The late 2000s saw fearless weirdoes Ariel Pink, Daniel Lopatin, James Ferraro and Destroyer toying with pastiche, neutered sounds of the late ’70s and early ’80s. They blended the white-collar, scotch-buzzed saxrotica of Steely Dan and the late night, cocaine-buzzed yacht rock of Fleetwood Mac with a perverse dosage of cheesy, new-wave synth and the musty scent of your dad’s stale cologne. Sounds that had been deader than dead for the last 30 years suddenly became fair game. Of all the artists that have leapt to the album-oriented-rock cru-sade, Ducktails comes as one of the most surprising.

Ducktails is the solo effort of Real Estate’s Matt Mondanile. Known for its effortless sound, Mondanile’s songwriting pos-sesses the uncanny ability to conjure long-lost, warm memo-ries of home and loved ones. His laid-back sunburned jams invoke floating on an inner tube in the midday heat of an eternal sum-mer vacation. Which is what

makes The Flower Lane so unex-pected. It’s a summer album to be sure, but one for strolling alone through a foggy park on a hot night under the moon and stars, rather than down a sepia, sandy beach. It’s a bittersweet, intro-spective, sobering affair; a delicate and beautiful antique china doll.

But does Mondanile pull off this new aesthetic? Do I break a sweat every time I walk up Bascom Hill? The Flower Lane is a gorgeous testament to the ballads of love and love lost on the Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours. “Sedan Magic” and “Letter of Intent,” easily two album highlights, are lovely call-and-response duets specifically reminiscent of the heartbreaking dialogue between Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

A lot of the material on this album also feels like a sexy, gerry-curled homage to the elastic pro-duction of Thriller in the same vein as Toro y Moi’s new album Anything in Return. Scuzzy glam guitars bounce off the ghostly, ethereal synthwork of guests Daniel Lopatin (of Oneohtrix Point Never) and Joel Ford (of, uh, Joel Ford). “Under Cover,” anoth-er highlight, offers up smooth, mature textures, trying to cop a feel of Ariel Pink’s 2010 magnum opus Before Today, complete with a reverb-drenched sax solo that would have Michael McDonald eating his heart out. “What do the streetlights say to your eyes/When you’re all alone/In the middle of the night,” Mondanile winks on the chorus. Excuse me while I go take a cold shower.

A lot of fans have lamented that Mondanile merely hopped a trend with The Flower Lane. And they’re completely justified in doing so. Nevertheless, what

is absolutely true of The Flower Lane is that it shows Mondanile is one of the most talented songwrit-ers out there, and the guests he has strung along for this release

are some of the most forward-thinking musicians in the game. Point being, The Flower Lane has capitalized on a trend, but it’s a trend that Ducktails pulls off

better than most of their peers combined. And ultimately that’s what counts.

Grade: A/B

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Higher education neglected at great cost

L ast year was a rough year for students at public universities, as state leg-

islatures throughout the coun-try continued to cut funding to their universities. Nationwide, states underwent one of the larg-est divestments in higher educa-tion in American history, slash-ing funding by 7.6 percent. And in 2011, for the second consecu-tive year, state and local funding to public universities reached a quarter-century low despite the fact that enrollment and the cost of educating students reached near-record highs.

State legislatures, to be sure, haven’t cut funding to higher education out of malice; the cuts are largely the result of decreased tax revenues following a severe and protracted recession. Nonetheless, the cuts remain devastating to higher education.

In a two-year period spanning between Biddy Martin and David Ward’s time as UW-Madison chancellors, legislators cut $316 million from the Wisconsin public university system. And while cuts to public universities have been draconian in many states, the cuts to the University of Wisconsin System have been particularly severe. Wisconsin’s spending on public universities dropped by 20.9 percent in 2012, accord-ing to the Center for the Study of Education Policy.

As state funding to the University of Wisconsin System has reached a low-point, students have been forced to pay more in tuition to close the gap in fund-ing, pricing many students out of the market for a college edu-cation altogether. For students from wealthy families, the tuition

increases that result from cuts are tough. For students from low-income families these tuition increases may mean that these students—whose best option for a quality, affordable college degree is the public university system—will not be able to afford to go to college at all.

The cost of attending Wisconsin’s flagship univer-sity is now roughly half the state’s median household income. And it requires two-thirds of the median household income in the state’s largest city, Milwaukee, for one year

of school. In this respect, Wisconsin is not unique; the cost of attending flagship uni-versities in states as diverse as Michigan, North Carolina and California is more than half of the states’ respective median household incomes. At pub-lic universities in California, tuition and fees have risen 72 percent since the 2007-’08 school year.

Crucially, federal stimulus dollars have helped offset a large share of the cuts in state aid to public universities. Moreover, as students have been forced to pay for a greater share of their education, the federal govern-ment has expanded its subsi-dized student loan programs, ensuring that students—espe-cially those that come from low-income households—can afford to invest in a college education. The expansion of federally sub-sidized student loans is hardly ideal; in fact, it has fueled the

burgeoning $1 trillion market of student debt while saddling America’s future workforce with massive amounts of debt. But the expansion is certainly preferable to the alternative, which is to leave those without the means to finance their edu-cation on their own.

Traditionally, Wisconsin has been one of the most committed states to education. During the recession, though, that com-mitment to education—as in other states—has waned, much to the chagrin of students.

Sadly, the effects of cuts aren’t

limited to students. Cuts to high-er education will likely accentu-ate income inequality and make poverty more pervasive.

Between 1993 and 2010, more than half of all inflation-adjust-ed income gains went to the top one percent of earners. And the one percent currently has more wealth than the bottom 90 per-cent. No matter how you slice it, America has a worsening income inequality problem. What’s more, 15.1 percent of Americans and almost one in four American children live in poverty today.

State legislatures have a moral obligation to invest in their public university systems, which provide quality, affordable college degrees. A degree can help individuals pull themselves out of poverty and help mitigate income inequality. But state legislatures don’t merely have a moral responsibility to invest in their public universities; they have a fiduciary one, too. Investment in higher education pays dividends in the form of less poverty, lower incarceration rates and even high-er income tax revenues from more college-educated citizens working higher paying jobs.

The economic headwinds our country has faced in recent years has forced states to establish tough budget priorities, which has result-ed in deep cuts to higher education. Unfortunately, these cuts have had, and will continue to have, unin-tended consequences. Thankfully, though, the economic crisis that once crippled state budgets has largely passed, and today states have reached a critical juncture at which they must invest in their public universities—the same uni-versities they have, in recent years, badly neglected. In 2013, states across the country should resolve to make the smartest investment of all—in their public universities, and their students.

Mike is a sophomore studying polit-ical science. Please send all feedback to [email protected].

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quality, affordable college degrees.

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dropped by 20.9 percent in 2012, according to the center for the study of

educational Policy.

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Wisconsin’s extra $137 million should be invested wisely, not cut

L ast week, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau released an estimate of Wisconsin’s

budget surplus that exceeded pre-liminary estimates by $137 million. Gov. Scott Walker’s administration has announced that it plans to use the extra funding in order to give a tax break to Wisconsin families in a terribly unsurprising move. Considering the extreme budget cutting techniques done in the name of state debt, a tax rebate is hardly the innovative way of build-ing tax base that Wisconsin needs.

Walker’s current plan to turn the bumped-up budget surplus into tax breaks is an easy choice but certainly the wrong one. Instead of returning the money to Wisconsin taxpayers through a tax bonus, the administration should create

an educational relief fund. A tax break is likely to benefit the wealth-iest more than average citizens. Additionally, a 2012 study released by the Congressional Research Service found no statistical support for the common Republican claim that tax breaks benefit job growth.

Although the national picture of unemployment and underem-ployment is slowly brightening, the figures for youth unemploy-ment and underemployment aren’t keeping pace with national numbers. Discouraged youth workers are the most likely to leave Wisconsin for greener pas-tures. Earlier this month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked Wisconsin 42 among the states in job growth. If Walker really wants to deliver on his promise of bringing jobs into Wisconsin he should educate the tax base to ensure fewer jobs go unoccupied.

By creating a relief fund for technical or job-focused edu-cation, Walker will be able to balance the many concerns on where this money should go.

First, Walker would be able to shed some of his reputation as an ideologue. Secondly, the fund will help rejuvenate struggling communities throughout the state as opposed to the minimal-but-statewide impact of a tax break. Third, investing in educa-tion is basically always money well spent as long as it is spent efficiently. Funding job training and technical courses is a rela-tively short-term and cost-effec-tive means of using education to grow the tax base. Finally, I am sick of hearing that Republicans have an advantage in business acumen while their strategies are outdated and contested.

Although the growth in surplus is relatively small, Wisconsinites should keep in mind how much it cost us to get the state into a budgetary surplus, and whether a one-off tax break could be worth all the trouble.

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I n the midst of the now-for-gotten NHL lockout, much was made about what player

were and were not taking advan-tage of the time off by play-ing in other leagues. Those who played in the American Hockey League or Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League were expected to come in and set the score sheet ablaze, while those who hibernated over the 119-day lockout would need some time to re-adjust to game speed.

NHL.com ran a story stat-ing that fantasy hockey play-ers should target players who remained active higher in their drafts than those who weren’t

Other sporting news organi-zations (such as Pro Hockey Talk and Yahoo! Sports) ran articles on the winners and losers of the lockout, with both naming play-ers who had remained active among the winners.

In short, playing in other leagues during the lockout has had no tangible effect on a league-wide basis.

When breaking down the top-20 leaders in points through the first week of the new sea-son, exactly half of the play-ers skated in some other league for at least five games, while the other half had no registered experience whatsoever during the break.

Patrick Marleau of the San Jose Sharks has been white-hot to start the year, record-ing nine goals and four assists for a league-high 13 points in just five games, including four-straight multi-goal games. He didn’t play a single game during the lockout.

Tampa Bay Lightning super-stars and line mates Steven Stamkos and Martin St. Louis have picked up right where they left off last season and are two of only four players in the league with 10+ points thus far. No ice time for them during the lockout either.

Of the top-five goaltenders in the wins category (really the only relevant goalie stat at this point in the season), none of them played more than one game in another league.

Corey Crawford of the Chicago Blackhawks appears to have turned the metaphorical corner and finally turned into a legitimate No. 1-type goalie. If you think that happened with the help of some offsea-son playing time, you would be wrong. No starts for Crawford during the break.

Marleau, Crawford and St. Louis were named as the NHL’s three stars of the week Monday, and not one of them had played since last spring.

Even for the players who did skate during the lockout, it is questionable what kind of impact it really had. Buffalo Sabre line mates Thomas Vanek and Jason Pominville both played overseas during the lock-out, but just 11 and seven games respectively. Can that experi-ence really be the reason why they are both top-12 scorers in the NHL so far?

The one category of players that seem to have unilaterally

benefitted from play during the lockout is rookies. All 10 of the top rookie scorers in the NHL played extensively over the league’s extended offseason.

21-year-old St. Louis Blues sniper Vladimir Tarasenko recorded a point per game in 31 contests in the KHL, and his experience against grown men has transferred immediately over to the NHL, where he has recorded four goals and four assists in his first six games.

23-year-old Corey Conacher of the Lightning put up seven points in the first week of the season, and he did so after play-ing 36 games in the AHL.

22-year-old Edmonton Oilers defenseman (and former Wisconsin Badger star) Justin Schultz leads rookie defense-men in points with five in four games, and this comes after leading everybody in points for much of the season in the AHL.

It is of no real surprise that young players who are still developing have benefitted from some extra time on the ice, but for the wily old veterans who have gone through year after year of NHL play—what they did during the lockout hardly seems to have mattered.

Lockout plans have not had much impact on NHL seasonmatt mastersoNmasters degree

and shakes when they look at us offensively. I don’t think we’re intimidating anybody.”

If the Badgers want to pull off the upset in Columbus, they will need to shut down Buckeyes’ junior forward Deshaun Thomas.

“He can score in so many different ways,” Ryan said of Thomas. “He can score around the basket. He’s shoot-ing better from the perimeter, at least in the clips I’ve been looking at. He’s a threat out on the three, and he’s so strong and long.”

The Fort Wayne, Ind., native is averaging 20 points and 6.5 rebounds per game this season—both team highs for Ohio State.

Badger junior guard Josh Gasser is out the remainder of the season with an injury, but Ryan mentioned that he has still contributed to him team from the bench.

“He’ll say some things to the players. He’s not one of those guys that stands there and barks things out. His presence, especially to the guys that have played with him, they know how tough he is.”

men’s HockeyRiding high on a 10-game

win streak within the WCHA, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team (8-5-5 WCHA, 11-8-5 overall) will hit the road this weekend to take on confer-ence-foe North Dakota (8-5-5, 13-8-5).

The Badgers and Fighting Sioux are currently in a fourth-place tie in WCHA standings, a mere four points behind first-place St. Cloud State.

Despite their frustrating start to the season, head coach Mike Eaves is pleased with his team’s turn-around, especially their sweep of Alaska-Anchorage this past weekend.

“We were pretty solid,” Eaves said. “We’ve found a good way to answer the riddle

and get it done.” Wisconsin and North Dakota

have a heated rivalry, one that Eaves knows can wind up play-ers on both squads.

“Kids will be elevated in their emotions and their want and everything like that,” he said. “We just have to fine tune that. Probably pull in the reins a little bit, get a good game plan togeth-er and go from there.”

Last season, the Badgers swept the first series with UND, posting 5-3 and 5-4 victories. Wisconsin would not be so for-tunate in the two teams’ second series however, as they were swept in North Dakota.

“It’s a great place to play, first of all,” Eaves said. “If I’m a col-lege athlete or just an athlete in general, you’re playing in front of 11,000 fans, and the rink is designed such they’re right on top of you. They’re a good team. There’s a great rivalry.”

Senior forward Derek Lee is still recovering from a concus-sion, having passed a cogni-tive test but is still dealing with some mild headaches.

“He still has some residual headaches, so those have to dissipate before he can get on the bike,” Eaves said. “At this point, we’re hopeful. The fact that he passed the cognitive was a good step. He won’t go on the ice today, and tomor-row we’ll come back and see where he’s at.”

Freshman defensemen Eddie Wittchow and redshirt senior forward Ryan Little will both be back practicing in full this week.

The puck drops at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. Saturday.

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For the wily old veterans... what they did during the lockout hardly seems to

have mattered.

NHL League Leaderstop-10 points leaders through first the week of the season

1.) Patrick marleau- 13 points2.) Joe thornton- 13 points3.) martin st. Louis- 11 points4.) steven stamkos- 10 points5.) Joe Pavelski- 10 points6.) Zach Parise- 9 points7.) thomas Vanek- 9 points8.) Patrick Kane- 9 points9.) marian Hossa- 8 points10.) marian Gaborik- 8 points

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Senior derek lee was knocked out of last weekend’s game against alaska anchorage, but he may return friday night.

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“Kids will be elevated in their emotions and their want and everything like that. We just have to fine

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Wisconsin (5-2 Big Ten, 14-6 overall) may have ended its two-game slide with a win over then-No. 12 Minnesota Saturday, but it won’t be easy for UW to turn that victory into a winning streak. The Badgers will travel to Columbus, Ohio, for a show-down with the No. 11 Buckeyes (5-2, 15-4) Tuesday at the Value City Arena.

The Badgers have played three consecutive games (1-2) with-out sophomore forward Frank Kaminsky, who left in the first half against Indiana with an eye injury and hasn’t played since. The Lisle, Ill., native could pos-sibly be cleared to play Tuesday.

“We’ll find out tonight if they’ll let him run up and down with us a little bit,” head coach Bo Ryan said at his Monday press conference. “Then if he doesn’t have any prob-lems or any issues, then maybe we can get him back in there.”

In Kaminsky’s absence, redshirt senior forward Jared Berggren has shot just 8-of-26 (31 percent) from the field and 2-of-9 (22 percent) from the free throw line. The redshirt senior’s 6.3 points-per-game average over the last three contests is just over half of his season average (12 ppg).

While it’s uncertain whether Berggren’s shooting woes are directly related to the thinner frontcourt, the Princeton, Minn., native said he’s confident his shots will start dropping sooner than later.

“It’s been a little frustrating,”

Berggren said. “I’m just gonna keep looking for my shots and keep trying to be aggressive.”

According to Ryan, Berggren simply has to get some positive vibes going offensively to get out of his mini shooting slump.

“I think he’s a little tight right now,” Ryan said. “He needs to get a game here or a flourish of hitting some free throws, getting to the glass, getting a put-back or two, hitting a three because he’s a good pick-and-pop guy for a big man.”

Ohio State’s strength lies in its wing players and guards more than its frontcourt, but that’s not to say Wisconsin will have an easy time winning battles in

the paint. Along with Berggren, redshirt senior forward Ryan Evans and senior forward Mike Bruesewitz figure to play a simi-lar role guarding the opponent’s frontcourt players as they have all season.

However, one player to keep an eye on Tuesday is redshirt junior forward Zach Bohannon. He played eight minutes Saturday against Minnesota and, although Bohannon’s stat line wouldn’t wow anyone (0 points on 0-of-1 from the free-throw line, 1 rebound), Berggren said the Marion, Iowa, native gave Wisconsin a key contribution off the bench.

“That was big for us. I don’t

think the stats show a ton of what he did, but he did some little things that were definitely big to help us be successful,” Berggren said. “Especially with Frank being out, it gave him a little more opportunity for minutes and he stepped up [Saturday].”

In regards to Ohio State’s backcourt, junior guard Aaron Craft could very well be OSU’s most important player. Buckeye junior forward Deshaun Thomas leads the team and the Big Ten in scoring (20 ppg), but Craft is the guy who gets that offense rolling.

Point guards have given UW some trouble the last couple games (Michigan State junior Keith Appling and Minnesota

sophomore Andre Hollins), so containing Craft will be key for the Badgers Tuesday. Sophomore guard Traevon Jackson figures to draw much of that burden.

“He’s a general out there for that team,” Jackson said of Craft. “He gets all their other guys going.”

In addition to Jackson’s in-game responsibilities, the Westerville, Ohio, native—whose father, Jim, starred for the Buckeyes from 1989-’92—will play his first collegiate game in the state of Ohio. The Badgers topped the Buckeyes last season in Columbus, 63-60, but Jackson did not see the floor.

Jackson acknowledged it’s much different prepar-ing to play at Ohio State as the Badgers’ starting point guard than it was as someone who wasn’t yet part of the regular rotation. However, any excite-ment the sophomore may have in returning home comes from UW’s chance to move up the conference standings.

“It’s just a big opportunity for us as a team to continue to get bet-ter,” he said “Hopefully we come out with the result we want.”

Ohio State isn’t the end of a tough stretch for the Badgers, either. Including the Buckeyes, UW will face four ranked teams in its next six games, with a matchup at Illinois—who has historically been tough to defeat at home—and a home bout against Iowa—who beat Wisconsin 70-66 earlier this season—sprinkled in between.

Tip is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday.

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Wisconsin sophomore guard traevon Jackson will have a bit of a homecoming tuesday night. the Westerville, Ohio native is making a return home when UW takes on Ohio State in columbus.

Badgers prepare for tough road test

UW coaches discuss the upcoming week

By adee Feiner and matt mastersonthe daily cardinal

Women’s BasketballWith the bye weekend behind

them, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team (1-6 Big Ten, 9-11 overall) will host No. 8 Penn State (7-0, 17-2) followed by Illinois (3-3, 10-8) Sunday afternoon.

Head coach Bobbie Kelsey recounted her team’s mistakes in their last matchup against the Nittany Lions a week and a half ago, and the challenges they face in this week’s game.

“In all areas of the game, we were really not poised and not executing our offense the way we should, and then that led to some turnovers,” she said. “Once Penn State gets going, they’re very hard to stop because they have a lot of guards that can really hurt you in a number of different ways.”

One aspect of the Badgers’ game that is a bright spot is their free-throw percentage, ranking them among the national lead-ers. “Sometimes we’ll do a free-throw challenge, which every-body gets one opportunity to step up. We try to do different things to put a little pressure on them.

Sometimes we do a game called Survivor Island, [when] they have to swish it. To break up the monotony of just shooting, we try to do fun things.”

Sophomore guard AnnMarie Brown will be out for at least four weeks with a knee injury. The ball drops against Penn State at 7 p.m. Jan. 31.

men’s BasketballThe Badgers men’s basketball

team (5-2 Big Ten, 14-6 overall) will head to Columbus to take on Ohio State (5-2, 15-4) Tuesday after taking down their border-rival Minnesota in a 45-44 victory Saturday.

Head coach Bo Ryan spoke to the media Monday about his team’s strong defensive perfor-mance that has countered their weaker offensive one.

“What they are doing is they are really hustling and work-ing so hard to limit looks and to not give teams second shots,” he said. “We’ve got to stay as solid as we can because I don’t think there’s any team, when they do their scouting report, shudders

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eaves discusses lee, north dakota; ryan talks matchup vs. Ohio State