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Students lobby for tuition cap at CapitolBy Cheyenne Langkampthe daily cardinal

Over 100 University of Wisconsin System students gathered in the Capitol Monday to lobby state legislators for a cap on tuition increases and a larger investment in financial aid.

The United Council of UW Students, a statewide student advocacy organization, organized the Lobby Day where students met with more than 40 state legis-lators to discuss the impact of the state biennial budget on students.

UC Vice President Beth Huang said it was a “great start” to the state budget campaign and the first event in an “advocacy heavy”

spring for United Council.UC President Geoff Murray

began the day by outlining the groups goals, including a three-to-four percent cap on tuition increases, at a press conference.

Murray said a tuition cap, which is not in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal, is important to give current and prospective stu-dents protection from unafford-able increases in tuition.

UC Rep. Ian Reese also spoke about the importance of restoring the link between tuition increases and financial aid increases that had been in previous budgets.

Reese said he believes every Wisconsin resident deserves the

opportunity to receive a quality, affordable education.

“We need more financial aid dollars in the budget so that every student who has a need can have that need met,” Reese said.

Throughout the rest of the day students split into groups by state district to lobby individual legislators, including a group who visited with state Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison.

UW-Madison student David Vines told Risser students are “highly concerned” that without a cap they could see a large increase in tuition next year. Vines cited the last

The state Joint Finance Committee passed a conten-tious mining bill on a party-line vote at its meeting Monday, meaning the bill will now move to the full state legislature for final passage.

The bill, which would make it easier for companies to secure a mining permit in Wisconsin, passed on a 12-to-4 vote.

JFC co-chairs state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and state Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, released a statement Monday sup-porting the bill, which they say will “protect the environment and create good paying jobs in an area that desperately needs them.”

“There is over 80 years of mining history in northern Wisconsin, and

the environment is as beautiful and pristine today as it was back then,” the legislators said in the release.

The bill is slated for consid-eration in both the state Senate and Assembly. Republicans hold the majority of seats in both houses of the legislature.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington, expressed confidence the bill will pass in the Assembly next week in a Monday release.

“This bill provides busi-nesses a level of certainty that they need in order to invest in Wisconsin and our workforce,” Vos said in the statement.

But state Sen. Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, criti-cized the bill in a press release, saying Republican legislators “are determined to fast-track this flawed, open-pit mining bill,” with Senate consideration as early as Wednesday.

“Rather than letting special interests write their own set of rules, we need to take a balanced and commonsense approach to protect taxpayers, local communi-ties, and our natural resources,” Shilling said in the release.

—Meghan Chua

TAA pursues pay increase, fee reduction

State Committee on Joint Finance passes mining legislation

The University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of the Teaching Assistants’ Association recently launched a campaign to increase graduate students’ incomes to make UW-Madison a more attrac-tive place for graduate students.

TAA Member Michael Billeaux said he has “never seen a cam-paign get so popular so quickly,”

with over 400 letters sent to Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell requesting uni-versity officials initiate a segre-gated fee remission for graduate assistants since the “Pay Us Back” campaign launched Feb. 11.

According to Billeaux, seg-regated fees, which he called a “long-standing issue” placing a

burden on graduate assistants, have increased even though graduate assistant incomes have remained stagnant since 2009.

“A lot of people resonate with this issue very deeply,” Billeaux said, noting how balancing fees and wages has remained a top priority

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assembly Speaker robin Vos, r-Burlington, said he is confident the state assembly will pass the mining bill when it is considered.

Mexican restaurant catches fire, owner plans to rebuildPopular Mexican

restaurant Taqueria Guadalajara caught fire early Monday morning, and the building sustained interior damage, accord-ing to a Madison Fire Department press release.

MFD firefighters arrived at the south side restaurant, located at 1033 S. Park St., at 7:16 a.m. and noticed smoke billowing from a vent on the side of the building from four blocks away, according to the release.

MFD crews initially believed someone was in the building due to an early report but nobody was found during the search, according to the release.

Firefighters extin-guished the fire within 10 minutes and managed to keep it contained in the two-story restaurant, pre-venting damage to sur-rounding structures.

South Park Street remained closed to all traffic for more than an hour, according to the press release, and the cause

of the fire remains unknown.The Wisconsin State Journal

reported the the owner of

Taqueria Guadalajara, Josefa Trejo, plans to repair and reopen the restaurant.

alberta Darling and John Nygrenco-chairs

state Joint finance committee

“There is over 80 years of mining history in Northern

Wisconsin, and the envi-ronment is as beautiful

and pristine today as it was back then.”

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Mexican restaurant taqueria Guadalajara caught fire Monday, damaging the building’s interior. no one was injured in the fire.

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Is it time to remove “Harlem” from “the shake?”

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an upset on the iceThe Badgers fell to the Nittany Lions 3-2 in OT Monday, hurting the team’s chances at an NCAA Tournament bid.

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The UW bathroom awards

O K, so this weekend I expe-rienced a completely dif-ferent, incredibly more

acceptable and meaningful kind of fandom that has nothing to do with television. I imagine you are shocked that I have any real inter-ests at all. You guys, I’m a real per-son, not a delirious crabfisher like you might have thought.

I was lucky enough to snag tickets (meaning I set four dif-ferent alarms to make sure I was awake and on my computer the moment tickets went on sale) to see my most giant-est heartthrobs and most loved lovers, Tegan and Sara. The concert was Sunday night; I’m sure some of you were there, and if you were, then “OMG HEY!” And if you weren’t, that’s OK. I understand (I guess).

I feel kind of blasphemous

writing a “humor” column about a topic that is oh-so sacred to me, but you know what, I have to write a column, and right now the only things available in my brain are their faces and their words and their hair and their leather jack-ets, so this is what you’re getting. And when I say “humor,” I mean me crying and clutching an empty PBR can as I scream every word to every song that has ever meant anything to me. Don’t think I can’t hear you laughing at me already. Side note: If you have any desire to pick up chicks, run out right this very moment and get your hair cut like Tegan or Sara Quin. Don’t ask, don’t Google it, just run.

I spent the whole weekend at a retreat, which was pretty exhausting (hence the word “retreat”), so by the time I got home, I was feeling like I mostly just wanted to sleep for a zillion years. I had about an hour to shower and pick out the most incredible, yet “Oh-I just-threw-this-on-and-then-dumpster-dived-in-it” outfit I could find.

My room looked like a scene from a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie, which is always a good sign.

I decided to get there at least an hour early, so I could get close enough to at least see the wrinkles in Tegan’s face when she sings (OMG WHY AM I SO CREEPY? I’M SORRY, TEGAN). My plan worked, and as my bestest buddies and I struggled through the open-er (you know what I’m saying), we dreamed of seeing our favorite twins—besides Tia and Tamara—sing their little Canadian hearts out and maybe, just maybe, looking deep into our souls and asking to be our BFFs and serenade us for-ever and always.

I could go into the details of what I might have looked like as I screamed or sang or cried or danced, but I might as quickly refer you to a picture of a pug dog waiting for a Beggin’ Strip, plus red lipstick and tights. I hope many of you know this feeling. Screaming every single word of every song of the band that you listened to on repeat for years in your car during high school, that band

that told you who you were, who you wanted to be and everything you couldn’t afford to be. Yeah, I have emotional depth. Get over it.

As I write this, I sit in my bed, ruined in a coma that is so glori-ous I would like to sit in it forever, except then I would not be able to go to another Tegan and Sara con-cert, so that would be a bad idea. Also, I think this column ended up being mostly about twins.

Were you at the Tegan and Sarah concert? OMG TALK TO JACKIE ABOUT IT!!! Email her at [email protected].

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I decided to get there at least an

hour early, so I could get close enough to at least

see the wrinkles on Tegan’s face when

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An obsessive fan’s take on Tegan and Sara

A behind-stall-doors look at the good, the bad and the ugly

H ere-yee! Here-yee! It is with great pleasure that I present to you

the first annual Daily Cardinal Bathroom Awards. Whether you are a nervous pooer or more of a free spirit, here you will find details on the stand-out spots to do your business, whatever business that may be.

Best in Show: Nancy Nicholas HallThis semester I have an

obnoxious number of classes that jump between Van Hise and Ag Hall, or what I like to call “Agricvltvre.” Between the two buildings is a gem that I have grown to appreciate more than I will appreciate any man. Within its walls are bathroom won-ders. I wish I had gastrointesti-nal issues so I had a legitimate excuse to use those bathrooms more often. No time spent in any other campus building com-pares to the 10 minutes I spend using the Nancy Nicholas wom-en’s bathrooms Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

A round of applause!The first floor: It’s supposed

to feel like a forest. It’s art, really. You hear birds chirping, streams rustling, maybe there is an owl in the distance? Fireflies? Look up to the night sky; the stars glisten and fade. Need to wash your hands? Go to the rock bed where water juts out of a stream. You are alone in the wilderness, with the con-venience of modern, simplistic Kohler appliances.

The second and third floors: You are in a children’s book—Snow White meets Harold and the Purple Crayon. The mirrors are exquisitely detailed, and on

the wall by the entrance there is a chalkboard wall with every-which color of chalk you could possibly desire. “<3 wish I was a human ecology student so I could use this b-room every day! <3 <3 [scribbles] <3.” In pink.

Upon entering Nancy Nicholas Hall (home of the School of Human Ecology), everyone must answer an unavoidable question: “Which exquisite bathroom experience do I want today?” The choice is yours. Well done, SoHE, well done.

Honorable Mention: Memorial Union, Second Floor

The Memorial Union’s sec-ond-floor bathroom near the East Corridor makes you feel like a visitor in a country club, circa 1997. Extra counters to throw your belongings on, extra mirrors that you can look at yourself in for longer than is acceptable, pretty colors... Solid work. Great effort.

For the Self-conscious Shitter: Memorial Library, South Stacks

The label applies to those who, after dropping the big one, wait an extra five minutes to exit the stall, until the “exces-sive hand-washer” finally leaves. There are bathrooms on every floor of Memorial Library’s South Stacks, ready for you and the four other people in the South Stacks at that moment. The bathroom itself is mediocre, with just two stalls and an indus-trial finish. But if you are ever interrupted doing your business, write me a complaint. South Stacks, while underappreciated, provide a service to those who are self-conscious shitters.

No. 1 Shit Hole: Social SciencesThe Social Sciences Building

would be cleaner and more hygienic if its bathrooms were removed. The ratio of stalls to the number of students in

the building at once is appall-ing, and during passing time I am afraid to contract pink eye when I walk inside. The bath-room smells of what I imag-ine to be lemon citrus mixed with ammonia, a quick fix to cover up the bacteria that has been building since 1962, when Social Sciences was erected. Could use improvement.

Bathroom Your Great-grandma Used: Wisconsin Historical Society

The bathroom on the Wisconsin Historical Society sec-ond floor near the reading room has the look, feel and plumbing of a 113-year-old building. If you’d like to take a step back in time, the stalls are for 1905-sized women, when average height was 4-foot-11 and the average weight was 115 pounds. They can be a tight fit today. The bathroom is mostly ivory with a robin-egg-blue fin-ish, and it comes with a closet, where I like to stash historical documents, my typewriter, some moldy bread… One of the two stalls is usually out-of-order, and the entrance door does not latch. (Not open Sundays.)

Full disclosure: As a social sciences kid, apologies to the real science folks who were hoping for bathroom insights on build-ings like Microbiochemistry or Agrichemical Engineering. Ag Hall is the farthest westward I have walked on campus. These reviews reflect my experience using these buildings’ women’s bathrooms. For those who do not use women’s bathrooms, please let me know how their counterparts stand.

What top-notch toilets did Samy leave out? Email at [email protected] next time you’re appreciating the ambiance on the john.

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A 21-year-old Madison woman was attacked on State Street after she left a down-town bar early Saturday morning, according to a police report.

The victim was walking on the 500 block of State Street when Jason Bogen, a 27-year-old homeless man, used a squirt gun to spray a substance similar to mace in her eyes.

The report said the victim told police her face felt like it “was on fire,” and officers used snow to wash the chemi-cals off.

Police were not able to locate the squirt gun but found a “police-type” baton on Bogen when they arrest-ed him.

He is being charged with causing bodily harm, carry-ing a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct, according to the report.

Homeless man maces woman on State Street

Man enters house on Langdon Street, takes backpack

An intruder entered a wom-an’s apartment on Langdon Street Saturday night through an unlocked door, according to a police report, drawing similari-ties to previous burglaries in the area earlier this semester.

According to the police report, the 22-year-old woman said she was leav-ing the bathroom when she noticed the intruder, who fled when she screamed.

The victim described the suspect as an African-American man in his late teens or early twenties.

The burglar managed to get away with the backpack of the woman’s roommate, which contained a laptop, an iPhone and a wallet, accord-ing to the report.

A female Madison resident was physically assaulted and robbed Friday while walk-ing downtown with friends, according to a police report.

The 19-year-old vic-tim passed a group of three men and one woman near the North Henry Street and Langdon Street intersection and was mugged shortly after by the woman.

According to the report, the suspect knocked the victim to the ground and punched her before stealing her phone.

The victim, with help from her friends, chased the sus-pect down and retrieved the stolen phone, but the police were not called until half an hour after the incident, Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

The report states one wit-ness told police it appeared the mugging was a result of a dare from the suspect’s male peers.

Downtown thief steals phone from passerby

Walker aide discusses budget with ASMGov. Scott Walker’s Education

Policy Assistant Michael Brickman met with student leaders Monday to discuss the implications of the recently released state biennial budget, which granted the University of Wisconsin System $181 million in new investments.

In an Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs meeting, Brickman highlighted Walker’s goals for the UW System, which include financial flexibility and incentives-based funding for innovative UW projects.

However, student leaders expressed concerns that the gover-nor’s budget did not include more need-based financial aid and a tuition cap to limit tuition increases.

Brickman said affordability is important to the governor but one potential negative of a tuition cap is that it could be seen as a standard amount to increase tuition by every year. Instead, he emphasized that allowing the uni-

versity more flexibility in deciding where funding goes will hopefully increase efficiency and prevent tuition from rising too much.

“We’re giving the university system … some of the flexibilities they were requesting,” Brickman said. “If they get the flexibilities we’re giving, they can help keep the cost down.”

Legislative Affairs Chair Dan Statter said the committee will continue to lobby to keep tuition affordable.

“UW having more flexibility is good for UW, but that doesn’t help a student, and ultimately, we are all here because of the stu-dents,” Statter said.

Brickman also said that $90 million would go to Wisconsin universities to be used as a flexible funding option for the creation of new programs, the improvement of existing ones and awards to top faculty and staff based on their performance.

—Mara Jezior

The Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee released four common themes that stemmed from student input at a recent roundtable event which focused on the future of the eth-nic studies requirement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Ethnic Studies Roundtable, held Feb. 18, facili-tated discussion and debate on the university’s ethnic studies class requirement, which cur-rently requires students to take one three-credit class from a list of approved ethnic studies classes.

ASM Diversity Committee Chair Mia Akers said the com-mittee will present its findings to other committees working on the campus diversity plan to show students’ perspectives.

“I’m just really excited that we got great feedback and we came away with tangible things that students want,” Akers said. “Hopefully the university will lis-ten to us and really take our con-siderations to thought.”

According to Diversity

Committee Vice Chair Hannah Kinsella, one of the most com-mon themes involved raising the requirement to six credits instead of three, and requiring students to take two classes about different areas of diversity, such as gender and women’s studies.

Another common theme par-ticipants requested was requir-ing students to take one of two required classes in their first two years on campus and the other in their next two years.

Students also showed interest in creating smaller discussion sections for ethnic studies classes, which Akers said could facilitate better dis-cussion on sensitive topics.

The fourth common theme students at the roundtable sup-ported was incorporating a ser-vice learning requirement for students enrolled in ethnic stud-ies classes, which would require students to participate in cam-pus and community events and volunteer opportunities involv-ing diversity.

—Sam Cusick

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau released a report Monday detailing how Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed tax cuts would affect people at dif-ferent income levels.

Walker’s biennial budget, pro-posed last Wednesday, included lowering income taxes in an attempt to spur economic development.

The tax rate reductions that would take place affect the low-est three of Wisconsin’s five tax brackets beginning in the 2013 tax year. The report estimated these decreases would affect over two million Wisconsin taxpayers.

In his budget address, Walker said such a reduction would “truly stimulate the economy.”

“This will ensure a tax cut for everyone with the focus on making Wisconsin more com-petitive for middle class taxpay-ers and small businesses,” he said last Wednesday.

According to the report, individual income tax revenue would decrease by roughly $343

million between 2013 and 2015 under the cuts.

In response to the LFB report, state Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said in a statement the data made it clear Walker’s proposed tax cuts favored high-er-income families.

“A true middle-class budget would balance real middle-class income tax relief with invest-ments in important areas such as public education and access to affordable health care,” Barca said in the statement.

Individuals with taxable incomes greater than $100,000, who make up just under 20 percent of those who would be affected by the cuts, would receive almost half of the $170.1 million total decrease in 2014, the report said.

Almost $42 million of the total decrease would go those with incomes between $100,000 and $150,000.

—Meghan Chua

Diversity committee shares student roundtable findings

State fiscal agency analyzes effects of proposed tax cuts

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Gov.ScottWalker’seducationPolicyassitantMichaelBrickmanspeakswithstudentsaboutthestatebiennialbudgetMonday.

aSMdiversitycommitteeVicechairhannahKinsellasharesstudents’inputfromlastweek’sethnicStudiesroundtable.

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of the TAA for the past decade.According to data from

an Association of American Universities Data Exchange report Billeaux emailed to The Daily Cardinal, UW-Madison ranks the third lowest in graduate student compensation when compared to other Big 10 universities.

Additionally, UW-Madison graduate assistants have faced increases in healthcare contri-

bution due to Act 10 in recent years, according to Billeaux.

“It’s been a struggle,” Billeaux said. “But it’s what inspired the campaign.”

TAA representatives will continue to meet with university administration about wages and fee issues, according to Billeaux. He also said the organization hopes to work with other organizations on campus, such as the Faculty Senate, to accomplish its goals.

—Taylor Harvey

time the cap was removed, when students saw a 15 percent tuition increase in 2003, as an example.

Kayla Van Cleave, also a UW-Madison student, spoke to Risser in support of increased financial aid, saying she would not be here without the grants funding her Wisconsin educa-tion. Van Cleave pointed out that

a majority of jobs in Wisconsin now require a college degree.

“For students like me it’s actually a matter of job and no job,” Van Cleave said.

Risser said while he support-ed the proposals, he felt they would be difficult given the par-tisan nature of the budget.

“Education is our biggest business,” Risser said. “What we’ll do is we’ll do our best.”

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By Brian WeidyThe daily cardinal

The Daily Cardinal recently spoke with Ra Ra Riot bassist Mathieu Santos, as he waited in line at Coop’s Place in New Orleans for some jambalaya.

In 2006, Santos, along with Wes Miles, Milo Bonacci and Rebecca Zeller, started Ra Ra Riot at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y. While the band is now a polished touring outfit, they started as just another col-lege band.

“It was kind of almost like an accident,” Santos said. “When we formed in college, we just expect-ed to be together for the semes-ter and then after graduation, we figured everyone would go their separate ways.”

While the story could have ended there, the band was pick-ing up on a groundswell. So they decided to ride out their building wave of momentum.

“We had so much fun that first semester and things were going relatively well,” Santos said. “That summer we decided to put together a small tour of the northeast and we did that, and that seemed to be going well… we just had a tiny bit of momentum and no one has any real jobs yet.”

Shortly after that, Ra Ra Riot went into the studio for the first time, still a freshly minted band.

“It was like a big decision to make,” Santos said. “We all had to pitch in like $40 each to cover the cost of the demo and we were like

‘I don’t know, this is a lot of money, is it worth it?’ But we went up to Buffalo [New York] one weekend and just recorded the demo just to have something to give to people because people kept asking us.”

The next year, Ra Ra Riot recorded their first EP and all of a sudden, they took off.

“Being in the studio was thrill-ing,” Santos said. “I had never been in a proper recording studio before or anything like that. Every step of the way, it was just a really exciting type of surprise.”

While their first two albums could be easily classified as “Baroque Pop” by the Pitchfork enthusiast, with their third album, the band decided to shift gears considerably.

“It was more of just like an

attitude adjustment that we knew we needed to make,” Santos said. “With our second record, The Orchard, which we are proud of anyway, I think we had some issues with it, especially in terms of over-thinking things or just treating things as if they were too precious. We sort of just got locked into our methods of writing and arranging.”

On their latest album, Beta Love, the band opted to move into a more electronic sound, adding in synthe-sizers to change things up.

“If something sounds good, or feels good immediately, we can’t be scared of it and think it is too goofy or too weird,” Santos said.

Though the band has pro-duced some impressive studio outputs, they have also toured relentlessly, not only domestical-

ly, but also internationally.“There [are] a lot of good

places. Playing in college towns is always a lot of fun,” Santos said. “You know, the crowds are younger and more energetic. Every town has a different vibe, but it is always fun connecting with people all over the place.”

While the band has played around the world, there is still something special about Madison.

“I think Madison is one of those college kind of towns where people are going to come out,” Santos said. “You get a really young, kind of positive energy… I remember those shows getting pretty energetic and a little rowdy too.”

Ra Ra Riot will take the stage at Great Hall at Memorial Union for free at 9 p.m. March 2.

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I f Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” is one thing, it is a damn sure success. Though it took an

entire year, Harry Rodrigues has singlehandedly dethroned “Gangnam Style,” reached number one on the Billboard and created a single that rose from the ashes of SoundCloud obscurity into being purchased over 250,000 times in a week. And the arguments… so… many… damn… arguments.

With the journalistic hip-hop head power vested in me, I solemn-ly swear that I shall not reappropri-ate (giggle) the endless amount of columns written on this damn song already. With that said, there’s some clarity to be shed that on what we’re all missing.

I initially felt like white people essentially hijacked yet another cultural staple from black people. I am black. Where I’m from, Harlem shaking looks not a goddamn thing like what I have seen these past few weeks. There is a technique to it—a coordinated flair that origi-nates in basements at the age of six or seven. I’m sickened by the thought of yet another piece of my culture, no matter how miniscule or insignificant in pop culture, being snatched in the name of good fun. I called it a byproduct of the new context of “trap music” spawned from the depths of EDM hell. No matter how damn good the song is, or the music from this new wave, it feels like black folk are, once again, the center of another joke.

But wait, there’s more to it. A specific debate through text mes-sage last week spawned my best friend’s assertion that the Harlem shake isn’t that much of a cultural staple. It is credited as our parents’ generation’s “Soulja Boy,” and that no one actually cares about the cul-tural appropriation of a dance that lived and died in the ’90s. All of the anger spawned from this argument is essentially rooted in the fact that Harlem is included; if this wasn’t the case, no one would care and it would essentially Kanye shrug its way back to acceptance.

I argued him down about what I summarized in that last para-graph… but my best friend is right

about a lot. Would anyone have given a crap in the world if it was all named something else random and inconspicuous?

As I contemplate it now, white people definitely shot videos of themselves collectively Soulja-Boying (is that a verb?) across schoolyards and fast-food park-ing lots and no one moved a sin-gle character in protest. Granted, I couldn’t spell “appropriation” in seventh grade, but I digress. I sure enough wasn’t mad. If the Harlem shake circa 2013 was merely named “The Shake”, it would mean abso-lutely nothing and appropriation wouldn’t even be in the forefront. Also, I’m sure Soulja Boy is just as much of a black cultural icon as Jesus is to America.

Yeah, I said it.The issue at hand is much more

than the fear of white kids in dorm rooms pelvic-thrusting their way to millions of views at a time. It is the fear that the African-American platform of hip-hop culture is cur-rently under siege at the hands of these white kids in dorm rooms. This is only justifiable on a limited level once we explore the exploi-tation of common tropes such as masculinity, stereotypes and other monolithic ideas behind the genre. Once one reconsiders perspec-tive on how this fear applies in the frame of the fad’s surge, it is simple to conclude that the new breed of Harlem shake has absolutely noth-ing to do with it at all.

This immediate and immense criticism of its track and involun-tary meme attests to the reaction-ary variable within hip-hop spheres that immediately damns anything to hell if it dares come near even the most obscure components of the genre. With this said, anyone with-in the culture of the oppressed can sample the dominant culture cease-lessly without penalty or threat because of what has been culturally established. Simply put, J. Cole or J Dilla can sample anything from any culture and never be charged with

appropriating cultures like anthem rock or country, but the inverse applies to Baauer or anyone mak-ing a video in his image.

Harlem is an epicenter of black-ness. Hip-hop is an epicenter of blackness. Baauer, by monolithic standards, does not fit these cri-teria, thus continuing the struggle for acceptance of white artists in all genres and subgenres spawned from hip-hop. White fans are sub-ject to challenge as well, with their authenticity being brought into question. This is a reactionary prin-ciple in motion no matter what the art may be or how harmless it actu-ally is. Hip-hop heads like me have been bred to reinforce it.

And the disconnect continues.I met Baauer backstage when

he came to Madison a short while ago, (that best friend I mentioned previously was the opening act for the show.) He stood alone with his Macbook in a jacket and beanie, quietly surveying the drink bar and using his words sparingly with us. We asked him about his Ableton set and how his Boiler Room per-formance left the Internet frenzied about the death of DJ culture and how laptops are the culprit. He smirked at how people gave him a lot of trouble for it.

I wonder if he smirks now when he reads columns about how he doesn’t belong, how he’s forwarding the zeitgeist of white people destroying hip-hop. All I hope for is that he doesn’t read this one the same way. It is time

to bury the impulse to react in the shadow of racism and appropria-tion in a culture that is suppos-edly founded with the intention of being purely open for anyone to remix, recreate and prosper. However, the subjectivity must stay for when artists like Baauer actually cross the line and vio-late upon the culture in ways that transcend audio or 30-second clips of people in sleeping bags gyrating underwater with a col-lege swimmer on a table. I don’t see the harm in that anymore. Not on this one.

Still not convinced on Penn’s argument about taking “Harlem” out of the “Harlem Shake?” Let him know at [email protected].

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harlem is an epicenter of blackness. hip-hop is an epicenter of blackness.

W ith the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker last summer, Wisconsin’s

political divisions have captivat-ed the nation recently. But other divisions in Wisconsin merit far more attention. According to an analysis of the 2010 United States Census Bureau data by William H. Frey, a demographer and sociologist at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Milwaukee—the state’s largest city—is the most racially segregated major metro-politan area in the United States.

To some extent, Milwaukee is not unique in its segregation; a myriad of cities across the nation still face issues of de facto segregation, and Milwaukee is just marginally more segregated than the second most segregat-ed metro area, New York City. But Milwaukee’s segregation is unique in at least one respect—its persistence.

In 1965, 90 percent of Milwaukee-area blacks lived in

the inner city. Today, that fig-ure remains steady at 90 percent, while whites—as in many metro areas—have flocked to suburban and exurban enclaves in droves.

As a member of the Midwestern Rust Belt, Milwaukee’s economy has struggled as manufacturing jobs have been lost to automa-tion, outsourcing or elimination resulting from firms going out of business. In fact, Milwaukee has seen a 40 percent drop in manu-facturing jobs since 1970.

Consequently, Milwaukee’s middle class has been signifi-cantly narrowed, from 37 percent of the area’s population in 1970 to just 24 percent today. African-Americans have been particular-ly adversely affected by the loss of manufacturing jobs. In 1970, blacks and whites had similar

rates of employment, but by 2012 there was a 32 percent gap in employment. As the manufac-turing jobs that once kept work-ing-class whites in the city have been eliminated, white residents have moved out of the city, exac-erbating de facto segregation in the metropolitan area.

What will the confluence of Milwaukee’s segregation and its manufacturing decline mean for the future of the state’s larg-est city? The short answer: We can’t be certain. But as M.I.T. economist Daron Acemoglu and Harvard political scien-tist James A. Robinson noted in their book “Why Nations Fail,” exclusive economic institu-tions—like those in Milwaukee, where many blacks can’t find employment—have lower rates of economic growth and overall productivity. For instance, hypo-thetically alienating all men from the workplace—half the poten-tial labor force—would mean capturing just half of the ideas, innovations and productivity possible. Similarly, Milwaukee’s economy loses when members of any demographic cohort are unemployed or haven’t been pro-

vided the tools to reach their full potential. What’s more, accord-ing to Acemoglu and Robinson, “Inclusive economic institutions lead to a more equitable distribu-tion of resources than extractive institutions,” meaning a higher employment rate among African-Americans would likely lead to greater income equality among all cohorts and foster a stronger middle class.

To be sure, the solutions to Milwaukee’s segregation and economic challenges are beyond the purview of this column, and for that matter any single piece of public policy. But the factors contributing to Milwaukee’s seg-regation are manifold, and the solutions are, too. Strengthening efforts to integrate schools

would be a step in the right direction. Mitigating pover-ty, especially in the inner city, would surely help. And making inner city volunteer work com-pulsory for high school gradua-tion at urban and suburban high schools would help integrate the metropolitan area. Most impor-tant, policy makers must work to improve the perennially under-performing Milwaukee Public School System, which is impera-tive to spurring growth and, in turn, abating segregation.

The fact is that elected offi-cials have failed to remedy Milwaukee’s deep-seated, long-lasting segregation problem for decades now and, as a result, de facto segregation in Milwaukee remains. Similarly, policy mak-ers have failed to pay adequate attention to the city’s defi-cient economic development. America has made immense social and economic progress in past decades, but segregation and the decline of the middle class in Milwaukee illustrate the dire need for greater progress.

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MTV’s ‘Catfish’ damaging and exploitative to participantseli Bovarnickopinioncolumnist

a higher employment rate among african-americans would likely lead to great-er income equality among

all cohorts and foster a stronger middle class.

P hilosopher Karl Marx urged his supporters to understand that some-

one is always benefitting from every bad situation. This ideal is applicable to the Manti Te’o hoax. Te’o, the college football star, allegedly deceived the nation by making up a girlfriend who succumbed to leukemia in order to bolster his image. As it turned out, Te’o was just supremely naïve and did not intentionally deceive the public. The entire sit-uation became a waste of time for everyone involved, but as Marx taught, there were a few who ben-efitted. As a result of Te’o’s scan-dal, MTV’s controversial show, “Catfish,” which deals with many of the same themes found in Te’o’s case, has become increasingly popular among young viewers. In addition, like the Te’o scandal, “Catfish” proved to be a waste of time for the public, as it is unethi-cal and amoral.

“Catfish” is a reality-based docudrama series about the truth and lies of online dat-ing. The show’s creator, Nev Schulman, became famous after releasing a documentary at the Sundance Film Festival (under the same name as the show) about his own expe-rience of being duped by an online acquaintance that mis-lead him about her true iden-

tity. In the TV version, people who have heard of Nev’s story enlist his help to uncover the truth of the people whom they have developed an online rela-tionship with.

The show always features a person who has fallen in love with someone online, but is suspicious of his or her true identity. That individual calls on Nev to come save the day and help the two people con-nect in reality. Then, Nev sets up a Jerry Springer-style forced meeting between the two par-ties. Eventually, the two people meet and almost always, you guessed it, the other person was faking their identity. Nev then awkwardly makes them tell the heartbroken person who was “catfished” why they chose to hide their identity. This often ends up becoming an uncom-fortable televised admission of the person’s lifelong self-esteem and confidence issues.

After watching several epi-sodes of “Catfish” a few things become clear. First, the show is all about Nev and Nev’s cat-fish sized ego. Nev believes that because of his experience of being deceived and having a camera there to document it, that he has somehow become the expert of Internet love hoax-es. Just five minutes in, it is clear that Nev is more interested in using these people who are about to be crushed by the fact that they have been deceived for his own fame rather than their own peace of mind. This fac-tor takes the focus away from any educational value the show might have.

Next, the show is only truly benefitting a few people while harming the majority of view-ers. MTV has achieved high ratings from airing “Catfish” and many people find it enter-taining as well as a way to gain

insight into the current issue of online relationship hoaxes. However, while the show has been tagged as a way for the public to understand the tri-als and tribulations that people involved in anonymous online relationships experience, the way the episodes are directed makes it into more of a mockery of the people it features, rather than having any educational value. The main reason people tune in is to look down upon certain individuals having a tough time finding love.

As viewers of TV in this country, it is our responsibil-ity to censor ourselves from watching content that not only lacks value, but exists solely to single out and humiliate frag-ile people. There is nothing to be gained from shows like “Catfish” if we strive to treat everyone equally. “Catfish” exploits people to make them look foolish, weak and crushed in their most vulnerable moments, allowing the audi-ence to look down upon them and feel better about them-

selves. As Marx taught us, it is crucial to look for who benefits from every situation. In this case, the show benefits only a few people while negatively affecting everyone else.

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badgers fall in overtime to Penn Stateby matt mastersonThe daily cardinal

While it was not lacking in chances, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team could not take advan-tage of them as they fell to Penn State 3-2 in overtime.

The Badgers (10-7-7 WCHA, 14-11-7 overall) took a 2-0 lead in the third period, but the Nittany Lions (13-14) fought back with two goals of their own to force the extra frame. With 34 seconds left in overtime, Penn State junior forward Taylor Holstrom scored his second goal of the game to seal the victory in the team’s last game of the season.

“I wouldn’t say momentum has been lost, but yes it’s devastating, especially after what kind of hap-pened around college hockey last night,” junior center Mark Zengerle said. “You can’t do anything about it now, we still control our fate as far as getting home ice and going from there.”

Coming off a 5-0 victory over the Nittany Lions Sunday, the Badgers were hoping to maintain their posi-tion in the Pairwise rankings, where they had jumped into a tie for 17th place, with another win. Following the loss however, the team falls back down into a tie for 28th, effectively killing their hopes for an at-large bid in the NCAA tournament.

“I think what it does… it just squeezes the importance of our last four games,” head coach

Mike Eaves said. “We have to pri-marily win out.”

During a power play in the first period, senior center Derek Lee left the ice with an apparent lower body injury, and did not return to the game. Lee has been the team’s power play quarterback this season, recording a team-high 18 assists on the year.

The pace would pick up in the second period, with Wisconsin recording 20 shots on net en route to taking a 1-0 lead. With just under four minutes left in the period, Zengerle found himself on a two-man break with freshman forward Nic Kerdiles. The two passed back and forth before Zengerle buried a wrist shot past Penn State fresh-

man goalie Matthew Skoff.Wisconsin would see its

lead grow to two in the third period when sophomore for-ward Joseph LaBate found the back of the net, but the celebra-tion would be short lived. Just seven seconds after the goal, Holmstrom beat sophomore goaltender Landon Peterson to

cut the lead back down to one.With less than eight minutes

left in regulation, the Nittany Lions would strike again, this time on the power play. After a faceoff in the UW zone, the puck drifted in front of Peterson, who misplayed it, allow-ing PSU freshman forward Casey Bailey to put the puck between the goalie’s legs for the goal.

“For the most part I thought it was pretty good,” Eaves said of Peterson’s play. “On the second [goal] [Peterson] took a chance and tried to poke check it and got beat there.”

Wisconsin controlled much of the play in overtime, but after a faceoff in the Badger zone, Kerdiles could not clear the puck, which eventually ended up in front of Peterson, and eventually in the back of the Wisconsin net.

“We’re going to look back at this game and say it was a game of missed opportunities,” Eaves said. “We’re going to probably look at the film and say we out-chanced them 2-to-1 and we didn’t score enough to put out of the game in regulation.”

The Badgers recorded 44 shots on goal, but they failed to score on any of their four power play opportunities, and only had four shots with the man advantage.

The Badgers will have a chance to bounce back on the road next weekend when they travel to Nebraska-Omaha.

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Junior center Mark Zengerle put the Badgers on the scoreboard first in the second period with his sixth goal of the season, but it was not enough as Wisconsin fell 3-2 to Penn State in overtime.

NFL combine coverage getting out of hand

W hen it comes to overhyped sport-ing events, nothing

takes the cake quite like the NFL scouting combine. What began as simply a series of physical tests for NFL-bound athletes has been transformed by the 24-hour news cycle of the sports media world and their talking heads, desperate for a discussion point.

In the 81-day void between the Super Bowl and the Draft, NFL fans and media, desper-ate for some football, turn to the “Underwear Olympics” and end up making a much bigger deal out of it than is necessary.

It’s ridiculous to try and project a players’ pro future based on how many reps of 225 pounds they can bench press or how fast they can run 40 yards with no pads on. Run a 4.3 forty and all of a sud-den, three years of inconsis-tent play is forgotten. Put up just 20 reps on the bench, and suddenly being one of the most consistent offensive lineman in the country over a four-year span isn’t so important.

That is the case for Auburn running back Onterio McCalebb and Wisconsin center/guard Travis Frederick. After run-ning a 4.34 forty, McCalebb—once seen as a late round pick at best—is now in the discussion for the middle rounds of the draft. Frederick, on the other

hand, the same guy who squats an inhuman 770 pounds, is now having his strength questioned after his admittedly disappoint-ing performance.

That is just how fickle the draft process can be. One good test and you’re on top of the world. One misstep, and you could lose out on millions.

ESPN, the NFL Network and countless other media outlets expound for hours over every tenth of a second in a dash and every quarter inch in a broad jump. But for what?

It’s funny to look back over the years and see draftniks gawk over a player’s eye-popping workout. In 2007, LSU quarter-back JaMarcus Russell was the talk of the town.

“I can’t remember being in such awe of a quarterback in my decade of attending combines and pro days,” NFL Draft expert Todd McShay said prior to the 2007 draft. “Russell’s passing ses-sion was the most impressive of all the pro days I’ve been to.”

Russell went No. 1 overall to the Raiders and was out of the NFL three years later. Now weighing over 300 pounds, Russell is attempting to break back into the league.

A year later, Ohio State defen-sive end Vernon Gholston became the poster child for not talk-ing combine results too literally. Gholston blew the pants off scouts in Indianapolis when he ran a 4.58 forty and put up 37 reps on the bench press while weighing just 225 pounds.

The New York Jets scooped up Gholston with the sixth overall pick in 2008 and in three

years with the team, he record-ed just 42 tackles before being released in 2011. To put that number in truly pathetic per-spective, Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis was credited with 51 tackles in just four playoff games this season.

“What can you say? We’re human,” Ravens general man-ager Ozzie Newsome said in a 2011 interview with the New York Post. “We’ve all been guilty. It’s a situation where you some-times forget that these guys aren’t going to play football on Sundays in shorts.”

Yes, there are obviously sto-ries of players who made names for themselves at the combine and rode that to a successful pro career, but they are not nearly as common. In 2008, little-known East Carolina running back Chris Johnson ran a record 4.24 forty and pushed his draft stock into the first round where he was selected by the Tennessee Titans.

In his second professional season, Johnson would go on to become the sixth rusher to ever record a 2,000-yard season in NFL history. This however, is hardly the norm. For every one success story like Johnson’s, there are ten Aaron Maybins or Matt Joneses.

For an event that is no more indicative of future success than the Senior Bowl or team pro days, it should not warrant the media coverage that it receivers.

The combine is in no way the only determining factor when it comes to teams’ evaluations, but the way it’s covered, you’d think that it was the end-all, be-all for the future of NFL draft picks.

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Badgers host Huskers in Big Ten matchup

men’s basketball

by Vince HuthThe daily cardinal

Nebraska (4-10 Big Ten, 13-14 overall) has been more competitive this season than its four confer-ence wins would suggest. While the Cornhuskers have yet to come away with a win against the Big Ten’s upper ech-elon, they have certainly made things interesting in a handful of such games.

Back in the early stages of conference play, Nebraska was within one possession of Wisconsin (10-4, 19-8) in the final minute of the game before the Badgers pulled away with a 47-41 victory.

Since then, the Huskers have been com-petitive in the second half of games with Michigan, Michigan State (twice) and Ohio State.

Both teams will likely be comfortable with the pace of play when the Cornhuskers visit Madison Tuesday—they average an identical 63.7 possessions per game. It will be key for Wisconsin to contain Nebraska’s top three scorers, each of whom averages in double figures.

It isn’t the Cornhuskers’ number of double-digit scorers that makes them a heavy focal point however, as more than half of the teams in the Big Ten have at least three guys averag-ing at least 10 points per game. What makes Nebraska’s top three a point of emphasis is that

senior guard Dylan Talley (14 points per game), junior guard Ray Gallegos (12.5) and senior forward Brandon Ubel (11.4) have combined for 65 percent of Nebraska’s scoring this season.

Although the Cornhuskers’ statistics would not lend many to believe they could knock off UW Tuesday—they rank either at or near the bottom of most notable statistical categories in the Big Ten—Nebraska comes into town having won two of its last four games, including its biggest win of the sea-son, a 64-60 win over Iowa Saturday.

Wisconsin’s coaches and players have said,

dating back to Big Ten media day back in October, that any team in the conference could beat another. While it is not uncommon to hear coaches and players tout the toughness or parity of their conference, that kind of talk is perhaps no more appropriate than this year in the Big Ten.

Head coach Bo Ryan said at his Monday press conference that, while this season hasn’t exactly been “unpredictable,” it certainly has to have been enter-taining for the fans.

“Results are unpredictable,” Ryan said. “So to me, it would seem like it would be something that fans would relish.”

67Average points per game for Wisconsin.

63.7Average possessions per game by Badgers and Huskers.