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Protesters and legislators react to Gov. Scott Walker’s State of the State address at the state capitol Wednesday.

Walker: ‘We are heading in the right direction’

By Tyler Nickersonthe daily cardinal

Amid a contentious atmosphere and recall effort, Gov. Scott Walker delivered his State of the State Address at the Capitol Wednesday, calling for a continued effort to improve Wisconsin’s economy.

The governor spoke about improving worker skills, easing government regu-lations to help spark economic growth, education reforms and making govern-ment less wasteful. But the major focus was on jobs.

At Wednesday’s address, Walker introduced his Wisconsin Working plan, designed to improve job skills and create more opportunities for veterans.

“When I ran for Governor, I talked a great deal about the core principles I call ‘Brown Bag Common Sense,’” Walker said. “One of those principles is that people create jobs, not the government.”

Walker and Republicans in the leg-islature have asserted fewer taxes, less government regulations and keeping a balanced budget will create a better busi-ness climate in Wisconsin and lead to more jobs.

Opponents, however, disputed such claims at a Democratic response held shortly after Walker finished his speech.

Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller, D-Monona, criticized policies Walker

and the Republican controlled legislature have passed.

“Democrats believe everyone is part of the solution,” Miller said. “Government and the private sector should work together to create jobs. Democrats have and continue to push proposals that businesses and workers are asking for.”

Walker also described “money saving reforms” he made in education. A major reason opponents targeted the gover-nor for recall is legislation passed last year, which effectively ended collective bargaining rights for public employees, notably teachers. Walker defended that decision Wednesday.

“We can have great schools and pro-

Ordinance to curb house parties passes committee

By David Jonesthe daily cardinal

Ordinance controlling house parties may unfairly target student renters.

City officials passed a draft ordinance Wednesday to contain out-of-control house parties, but which opponents say unfairly target student renters.

This ordinance, passed by Madison’s Alcohol License Review Committee, establishes a set of seventeen guidelines that allow for law enforcement to identi-fy a nuisance party and determine what course of action to take in response.

After reviewing officer’s reports, police captains can decide whether or not a party falls under the guidelines qualify-ing it as a nuisance party.

According to East District police cap-tain Mary Schauf, a benefit of this ordi-nance is the involvement of the property

owners in the discussion about proper-ties where many large parties occur.

If found in violation of guidelines such as providing alcohol for minors or violating fire codes, tenants and prop-erty owners will be subjected to fines.

Downtown landlords voiced strong opposition to some of the provisions in the ordinance.

According to Curtis Brink, property owner, tenants are not included in discus-

UW to review policies after sexual assault

By alison Bauterthe daily cardinal

In the wake of allegations against Chadima, UW officials are investi-gating the “lack of clarification” for off-campus alcohol policies and procedures, Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said Wednesday.

The policy examination push comes at the recommendation of investigators who reported on the allegations and called on the univer-sity to consider developing rules or guidelines regarding alcohol service to students.

“University staff with whom we talked were unaware of any university regulations that would provide guide-lines for such events at off-campus facilities,” investigators noted.

The report, released Tuesday by an independent investigative team, said a long night of drinking at an annual party in Chadima’s hotel suite preceded the alleged incident of sex-ual assault.

The athletic department used donor funds to purchase the drinks

By alex DiTulliothe daily cardinal

Despite saying they were satisfied overall with how athletic department supervisors handled a student employ-ee’s alleged sexual assault, investiga-tors recommend the university sim-plify its sexual assault reporting procedure for faculty.

After viewing the report, Chancellor Ward called for uni-versity officials to investigate the campus sexual assault report-ing process because of reported confusion with the current policy. University legal services will lead the investiga-tion, according to Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney.

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Chancellor David Ward asked campus officials to examine UW-Madison’s sexual assault reporting process and alcohol poli-cies Wednesday, addressing gaps identified

in a recent report that revealed sexual assault allegations against former associ-

ate athletic director John Chadima.

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I think the concept of having one true soulmate is entire-ly destructive. It may sell

romance novels or self-help books, but when it comes to finding happi-ness in a relationship believing that there is only one person who can complete you and make you eter-nally happy is complete bullshit. I may be young, but even at my tender age I’ve already know three ladies I could imagine spending the rest of my life with. Unfortunately, none of the relationships have blos-somed into the romance that I’d hoped for.

First was Mary. I wasn’t even looking to find a girl. I was merely browsing the Craigslist classified ads looking for like-minded musi-cians to form a band. But then I found her: “Female singer influ-enced by Steelheart, Heart and Dokken looking for male lead gui-tarist to form 80s metal band and

make love with in the back of a ’69 Chevrolet.” Okay the last part wasn’t true, but everything up to and most importantly Dokken was. I couldn’t believe her taste in music. It’s one thing when a girl says she likes Guns N’ Roses, but when she likes an obscure 80s band like Dokken it’s commendable. I imme-diately fell in love. Then I decided it would probably be a good idea to contact the e-mail address she placed in the ad. After doing so I began writing songs, envisioning our future together based on our shared loved of the past. In a mat-ter of minutes the gods of soft core metal presented me with a gift enti-tled “Fighting for Love,” a power ballad about lovers who must over-come the forces of society that don’t want them to be united. I would not fully understand the irony of the song until a few e-mail exchanges later when I learned she was 12 years old. We never met, but at least I got a song out of it.

Next was… Well, I don’t exactly remember her name. I was a secu-rity guard at a Mötley Crüe concert assigned to watch the front row seats and make sure only people

with tickets got through. She had shitty lawn tickets. She also had a lot of persistence and a leopard-skin mini skirt. For the longest time I held my ground and faithfully did my job; however, I eventually caved when she informed me if I let her through she would make it worth my while. I agreed, but to keep her honest I required that she give me her driver’s license and $20, which she could promptly redeem in the parking lot after the show. I had an enchanting 10 minutes or so with miss leopard skin mini skirt, although we never met again after our one night only spectacle. I think her old age may have played a fac-tor. I regret never having checked out her license to learn her true age. Let’s just say like a lot of 80s hair metal, she hadn’t stood the test of time all that gracefully. Maybe I don’t regret not checking the license. Oh well, at least I got some action out of it—and she never asked for the 20 bucks back either.

Most recently was Aimee. I met her at a party. We were intro-duced based on our shared love of 80s metal so we immediately hit it off. “What year did Def Leppard’s

Pyromania come out?” “What actress starred in both Whitesnake and Ratt videos?”—she knew all the answers in our trivia game and she played drums herself! Double Whammy (bar). Like with Mary, I envisioned our future together. However, unlike Mary I could ver-ify that Aimee was both hot and not a preteen. I imagined Aimee in a leopard skin mini shirt and she looked just as I imagine miss leopard skin mini skirt would have looked had 20 years of drinking Bud Light at rock concerts not caught up with her.

Aimee was perfect, but she was also unavailable—we’d been intro-duced by her boyfriend whom I’d known since high school. Somehow this kid who listened to gloomy grunge rock and wrote depressing poetry had managed to snag my perky, blonde party rock dream girl. Oh well, at least I got a column idea out of it. Maybe my future soul mate is reading it.

Feelin’ like you may just be the soul-mate Elliot has been looking for all his life? E-mail him at [email protected] and make your case for why you two are a match made in Heaven.

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The Dirty Bird sex and the student bodyConquering your fears: on being a never nude

Erica,

This is not exactly a “sex” question per se, but I’m wondering if you have any advice for people who are shy about being naked with someone else. I don’t have specific reasons and I feel like I’m overall pretty comfortable with my body, but I just often feel anxious or nervous when I’m naked in front of [my partner]. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

—Not Naked

A common problem, Not Naked—I’ll bet pretty much everybody has had a moment or two of insecurity in front of their partner, even those of us who generally feel fly about ourselves and our figures.

My strategies are somewhat contradictory to one another, but you can try both to see which works best for you. First, try being naked more often. Eat dinner naked. Sleep naked. Get ready for class naked. After awhile, being naked will seem like less of a big deal.

Additionally, spend some time checking yourself out while you’re naked. I’m super glad to hear you usually feel comfortable with your body; that in and of itself is worth celebrating. Play up that confidence. What parts of your body are really spectacular? If you’ve taken a thorough stock of your awesomeness, it will be much easier to calm the nerves when they crop up.

I’m not just suggesting checking yourself out visually,

though. How does your own skin feel under your fingers? How does the skin of your belly feel different than the skin of your face, or your feet? What does your breath sound like, and how does it change when you get excited about something?

See if you can get to know yourself well enough to elevate yourself from feeling “comfortable” with your body to feeling “great” about it. I’m not trying to feed you BS about how every body is perfect just the way it is or whatever; however, I firmly believe that everyone has something (and usually multiple things) about themselves toward which they deserve to feel love and pride. The trick is finding those things, and then bringing them to the front and center of our self-image.

As you start to find them and feel more confident, try hanging out naked more with your partner, even/especially in non-sexual settings. In time, you will likely become more comfortable being naked out of sheer necessity, but also out of slowly progressing self-confidence.

However, building self-confidence is an ongoing process that takes time. Sometimes a long-ass time. So until you get there, perhaps you could try the opposite tactic: not being naked. Sometimes, there’s this little voice that freaks out when absolutely everything is out on display. Sometimes it’s specific—OMG I HATE MY BUTT, OMG I FORGOT TO SHAVE—but sometimes it’s just OMG I’M NAKED.

See if you can quiet that part

by keeping just one little article on your body. Wear a shirt, or a

sheet, or a bra, or a watch, or socks (whatever, it’s winter)—something that

allows you to feel a little less OMG. If and when you

start to feel more comfortable, perhaps let that coverage come

off, or let your partner take it off for you. If it stays on the whole time, that’s okay too; sometimes leaving a little to your partner’s imagination can be sexier than baring it all.

Finally, please take a moment to consider whether your anxiety truly stems from being naked. Is it possible

that it’s not the state of being naked which makes you uncomfortable, but rather the activities you and your partner are engaging in while naked? Have an honest check-in with your boundaries. If you feel like some of those boundaries are being crossed, or like there are some trust issues in your relationship even when you’re not naked, then it’s time to have a chat with your partner—fully clothed.

Becoming Tobias Funke? E-mail Erica at [email protected] for tips on trampling your “never nude” predicament and learning to strut what your mama gave ya.

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Speakerscriticizedabilltheysaywillleadtoenvironmentaldegradationandgrimlong-termprospectsataprotestWednesdaynightoutsidethecapitol.

sions between law enforcement and property owners when a nui-sance party occurs.

“If you’re going to stop this, you have to bring...the landlord and the tenants together to dis-cuss what it’s about,” Brink said.

The Associated Students of Madison expressed similar concerns regarding tenant-landlord relations.

“It’s hard enough to have a good relationship with your land-lord, and we’re just worried that this will make that situation even

worse,” ASM Legislative Affairs Committee member Hannah Somers, said.

According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, this ordi-nance will affect the Mifflin Street block party.

According to Verveer, Madison’s Common Council “should have plenty of time to get this adopted...and enacted into law in time for the [Mifflin] block party.”

The ordinance will move on to the Public Safety Review Committee for a vote on Feb. 14 before moving on to Madison’s Common Council for a final vote.

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Mining bill sparks protestBy Jacob riedererThedailycardinal

Hundreds of citizens from around the state of Wisconsin gathered on the Capitol steps Wednesday to protest the Gogebic Taconite Iron Mining Bill, which would ease regula-tions and make it easier for com-panies to mine iron ore.

The bill is intended to aid Gogebic Taconite, a Florida based mining company, in building a 22-mile iron mine in Ashland and Iron counties.

Gogebic Taconite maintains that the mine itself will gener-ate 700 new jobs while add-ing another 2,000 jobs in the transportation and service industries. But they will not proceed with their plans unless Wisconsin lawmakers change the current permit process, which places more restrictions

on mining iron ore.Those at Wednesday’s protest,

however, said the mine would have harmful effects on the envi-ronment and water resources.

“Once that hole is dug, and once those wetlands are gone, and the streams are running backwards into a cesspool of pollution, there’s no way to reverse it; there’s only a way to mitigate it,” Red Cliff Tribal Attorney Glenn Reynolds said.

At the protest, Secretary of State Doug La Follette said min-ing proposals show Gov. Walker’s policies are moving Wisconsin in the wrong direction.

“What used to be a progres-sive state that cared about the people of the state has now been hijacked by the Koch brothers and millions of dol-lars of money from out of state; the kind of money that sup-

ports this kind of mining,” La Follette said.

But the Republican sup-ported bill received praise from Gov. Walker at Wednesday’s State of the State Address, call-ing the mining legislation “a tremendous opportunity for job growth.”

“We can pass legislation that will streamline the process for safe and environmentally sound mining,” Walker said.

Provisions of the bill include eradicating hearings on pro-posed mining permits, reducing the number of public hearings, and eliminating regulations that make it easier for companies to dump waste into wetlands and divert water resources.

The bill will likely pass when the State Assembly votes on it this Thursday but its fate in the senate is still uncertain.

Meeting on proposed ASM constitution sees low turnout

State election offi-cialS have an extra 30 dayS to verify the valid-ity of 1.9 million Signa-tureS filed in the recall effort againSt gov. Scott Walker, lt. gov. rebecca kleefiSch, Senate major-ity leader Scott fitzger-ald and three other State SenatorS, after a judge ruled WedneSday. before recall elec-tionS can be made offi-cial, the government

accountability board muSt declare that there Were enough valid SignatureS to force an election.While the gab WaS orig-inally alloWed only 31 dayS to complete the revieW proceSS, a dane county judge permit-ted 30 more dayS given the large number of SignatureS.the deadline could be extended again, but it iS not expected.

that Chadima, a UW official, then offered freely to student employees, many under 21.

“Chadima’s parties, in effect, were university events,” the report stated.

Using donor funds, rather than taxpayer dollars, is com-mon practice when buying alcohol for university events, according to Sweeney.

But due to what Sweeney termed the “lack of clarifica-

tion of policies and procedures for alcohol off-campus,” it is unclear whether the parties violated university policy in other ways.

Regardless of official policy, Sweeney said, the university “ought not be hosting a party that involves or encourages underage drinking.”

Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell will lead the alcohol policy examination, Sweeney said, emphasizing that Bazzell will

be looking at policy campus-wide, not only within the ath-letic department.

The university is not “point-ing the finger at athletics and saying, ‘You have to review your policies,’” Sweeney explained. “These are campus policies.”

Currently, there is no dead-line to complete the alco-hol review process. Sweeney said the timeline depends on what officials “unearth” in the course of their examination.

The alleged incident occurred Dec. 31, when stu-dent “John Doe” reported to his supervisors that Chadima unfastened Doe’s pants and grabbed his genitals after a Rose Bowl party in Chadima’s hotel suite.

Doe told his supervisors he did not want them to take action until their return to Madison for fear of disrupting the football team’s Rose Bowl preparations.

Given this request, investi-gators felt the response process by the supervisors was “nearly a model” of how they would hope all such cases could be handled. But investigators also

noted the supervisors were uncertain how to immediately respond after Doe made the allegations.

The investigative team reviewed reminders concerning proper sexual assault reporting procedure that university offices sent to faculty and staff last fall. While the large volume of infor-mation impressed investigators, they found it confusing at times, and suggest the university create a simplified reporting procedure for cases of sexual assault.

Investigators also suggest the university clarify terms of confidentiality concerning parties involved with a sexual assault case. During their tes-timonies to various officials,

the supervisors reportedly became confused whether their names would be released publicly.

Jacqueline O’Reilly, a representative from Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment and editor at The Daily Cardinal, said the group was pleased to see the complex situation handled well.

“The way different [victims] handle their assault varies from case to case and ultimate-ly what matters is that the peo-ple around them respect how they want to proceed,” O’Reilly said. “In the case of the stu-dent, that appears to be the case and that is very comfort-ing to PAVE.”

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Judge grants officials extra 30 days to verify Walker recall signatures

By anna duffinThedailycardinal

Despite low attendance, the first informational meeting about the proposed new Associated Students of Madison constitution did not lack criticism.

The two students who attended the meeting, both cur-rent graduate representatives on student council, asked why the committee that drafted the document did not let students know it was creating a new con-stitution.

Committee chair Alex Brousseau said if too many people were included in the drafting process, it would have been difficult for the committee to make progress.

“40,000 people can’t write a document,” Brousseau said.

Under the proposed con-stitution, student government

would consist of an executive, legislative, judicial and appro-priations branch as opposed to the current model contain-ing student council, Student Services Finance Committee and Student Judiciary.

Current ASM Nominations Board Chair Zach DeQuattro said the committee’s plan to pro-pose the constitution to student council on Feb. 29 does not give students and council members enough time to read and interpret the 70-page draft.

“I haven’t read it, I’m not even talking about the merit of it. In the brief overview, some of the aspects that you’ve mentioned sound really strong on the sur-face,” DeQuattro said. “But with-out having the chance to comb through a document of that length, of that magnitude, with the largest student government in the country, in the world, it seems dangerous and malfeasant to push that kind of timeline.”

Brousseau said the students who want to be involved will become involved and delaying the process would not help the committee gain student interest.

The committee will hold more informational sessions nearly every weekday until Feb. 5.

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“40,000 people can’t write a document.”

tect taxpayers at the same time. We just have to spend our money more wisely,” Walker said.

During the Democratic response, Miller criticized cuts made to the education budget, saying investment in educa-tion is essential for a strong economy.

“Whether it is K-12, the

technical college system or our University of Wisconsin System, we know that investment in education keeps our workforce strong,” he said.

Reflecting the passionate political fight that will undoubt-edly envelope the state for months to come, a crowd of pro-testers chanting “Shame!” were outside waiting for Walker after his speech.

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The SkinnyWho: Greensky Bluegrass with Strange ArrangementWhere: The Majestic TheatreWhen: Saturday Jan. 28. Doors at 9 p.m., show at 10 p.m.Cost: $12 Advance, $14 Day of ShowWhy you should care: They usually cover Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.”

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By Jeremy GartzkeThe Daily CarDinal

The sounds of dobro and man-dolin will soon be wafting off the historical stage at the Majestic Theatre. Maybe wafting isn’t the right word, more like pounding.

The name Greensky Bluegrass may sound like something your grandparents would listen to, but the show these gents put on is way more rockin’ than a Gene Autry sing-along. That is the aesthetic the band has been trying to culti-vate, too, according to dobro player Anders Beck in a recent e-mail interview. (FYI: the dobro is a type of resonator guitar, typical to blue-grass music.)

“We’ve also been working on bringing in more of a rock and roll type production level for our shows over the last few months,” Beck said. “We have an amazing sound engineer and have just recently started traveling with our own lights and lighting director, which is really exciting for us.”

It is this rock aesthetic that leads to things like a bluegrass cover of Michael Jackson hit,“Beat It,” or the “Ghostbusters” melody popping up in a solo section. Beck said the audi-ence can expect the band to feed off of the venue and the crowd for this week-end’s show.

Beck said they try to pull influences from e v e r y w h e r e when they are playing, even the music between sets.

“We had played the [Ghost Busters] tune in its entirety at our Halloween show this past year, but not since then,” Beck said. “It’s stuff like that that keeps it fun for us. We were all cracking up on stage and it was all in good fun, which is a good thing to me!”

“As far as the cover of ‘Beat It,’ that’s something we learned the day Michael Jackson died and we’ve been playing every once in a while since,” he said. “It lends itself to be a great bluegrass song, though the Eddie Van Halen solo in there is

pretty hard to recreate.”Though many solo sections

in Greensky’s songs are pre-planned, bigger jams still have that organic vibe.

“During those it sort of just flows around the stage to whom-ever is feeling it and fits in the musi-cal moment,” Beck said. “It’s actu-ally harder to describe than I would have expected.”

Even more difficult for Beck than describing this improvisational vibe was choosing a favorite venue he has played. With an answer that nearly managed to avoid the ques-

tion Beck named off Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and Town Park in Telluride, Col., but main-tained that some of his favorite shows to play were “in small dirty

rock clubs too where the ener-gy is just packed into a tiny little room and it’s just raging.”

“It’s just mind-blowing to be playing music while literally sur-rounded on three sides by 13,000 foot peaks,” Beck said of the Colorado venue. “Places like that are where it hits me how lucky I really am to get to do this. It’s like a

dream sometimes.”Beck promised that this

show will be different from their November 2011 performance in Madison, saying they try to play a different setlist every night.

“We try to write one each night that takes into account what we played the night before and maybe the last time we were in that town, so that it is mixed up from that,”

he said. “We often just wing it, too, though, or write a setlist and devi-ate from it pretty quickly.”

Beck’s parting statements should help convince anyone on the fence about the show that it is worth checking out.

“Even if the word ‘bluegrass’ scares you off immediately, you should probably come to the show and check us out anyway,” Beck said. “While we play bluegrass instruments, it’s really more of a rock show.”

“Also, a great band Strange Arrangement will be with us. They’re this badass psychedelic rock band. It might seem like a strange fit for a bill at first, but it makes sense to us. “

Grandparent band, eh? Unlikely.

Banjo adds new flavor to fan favorites

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From dobro to banjo, Greensky Bluegrass own their instruments.anders Beckdobroist

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just recently started travel-ing with our own lights and

lighting director...”

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Eatin’ Cake Classic By Dylan Moriarty [email protected]

Caved In By Nick Kryshak [email protected]

Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.

Today’s Sudoku

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Linda 15 Tiny land mass 16 Remote letters 17 Weather factor 19 Vein find 20 Bioelectric swimmer 21 Formerly, on the

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beetles 27 Seoul residents 29 ___ Alamos, N.M. 30 Campus mil. grp. 32 Long-standing

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sport 41 Winter driving hazard 43 “Black gold” grp. 44 Pertaining to the

kidneys 46 Big name in camera

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recommends flossing 53 Innovator 56 Remove confusion

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Tanked Life

Don’t let their size fool you! Most elephants weigh less

than the tongue of a blue whale.

Washington and the Bear By Derek Sandberg [email protected]

Scribbles’n’bits Trial Comic By Melanie Shibley [email protected]

Evil Bird By Caitlin Kirihara [email protected]

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T he Republican Party is in disarray. For the first time ever, three different presi-

dential candidates have won the first three primaries of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and the GOP establishment has become worried that Former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-MA, whom they presume to be their most electable candidate, may not obtain the nomi-nation. For the past year, primary voters have been resisting Romney by switching from one conserva-tive alternative to another, includ-ing ridiculous fringe candidates like Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, and Herman Cain.

But these more conserva-tive choices have all had serious faults making them unmarketable to independent voters. I haven’t the slightest inclination to support any Republican regardless of the

nominee, but speaking as one of the many obsessed followers of the Presidential election, I see one solution to this problem: broker a convention and draft someone else.

A brokered convention, in which no candidate secures the needed majority of delegates and a special election is held to pick the nominee, is clearly attain-able. Although the race is still young, the delegates are well spread across the four remain-ing candidates. Consider a sce-nario in which Former Speaker Newt Gingrich sweeps the South, Romney wins the Northeastern states thanks to his Massachusetts name identity, Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-PA, gets a few wins

from blue-collar states, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, grabs whatever delegates he can from the caucus states to which his campaign has devoted the rest of its resources to. When the numbers are crunched, a brokered convention seems within reach for the GOP.

Those who remember the 2008 Democratic primary may recall “Operation Chaos,” a plan orches-trated by Rush Limbaugh wherein the popular radio host directed his listeners to vote for Hillary Clinton in the open primary elec-tions to prolong the Democratic nomination process and weaken the Democrats. As impossible to coordinate as this may be, it’s not insane to suggest that the Republicans could try and delib-erately divide the delegates to bro-ker their convention. In fact, for-mer Congressman and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has suggest-ed that Newt Gingrich’s victory in South Carolina is “a vessel… for a brokered convention.”

While brokered conventions have made parties look disorga-nized and weak in past elections,

it could be life-saving for the Republicans this time around. All four remaining candidates can detonate a ticket in their own ways. Mitt Romney may seem like a strong national competi-tor to Obama, but his awkward behavior leaves many cold and his shadowy past in venture capi-talism makes him a prime target for the anger of the “99 percent” movement. Newt Gingrich’s bom-bastic grandiosity and high dis-approval ratings from his time as speaker diminish his viability. Ron Paul’s extreme libertarian views alienate him from even the base of the Republican Party. A brief Google search will explain Rick Santorum’s lack of appeal.

The Republicans have to select a candidate who both excites the base of their party and can compete in swing states. Plenty of these candidates are out there. Gov. Chris Christie, R-NJ, is probably the most obvi-ous choice. Governor Mitch Daniels, R-IN, who delivered the response to President Obama’s State of the Union address on

Tuesday, has a strong record of fiscal conservatism and was among the most desired can-didates for 2012. From Florida, Sen. Marco Rubio has a power-ful life narrative and Tea Party support behind him, and Former Gov. Jeb Bush may be weakened by his last name, but his tenure as governor was highly popular. All of these choices, and many others, would be better than the selections currently available. And while the potential chaos that a brokered convention would makes it more likely that Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich will capitalize on their momen-tum and wrap the race up quick-ly, said chaos could shake up the race in their favor.

Yes, sometimes brokered con-ventions lead to someone like Adlai Stevenson. But sometimes they lead to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Ryan Waal is a sophomore majoring in English. Please send all feedback to [email protected]

Dear Common Council Alders, ALRC members, and others receiving this letter,

The ASM Legislative Affairs Committee has given serious con-sideration to the proposed Nuisance Party Ordinance. After much dis-cussion and having many ques-tions answered by Mark Woulf, we are in opposition to the proposed Nuisance Party Ordinance.

We commend the creativity of this ordinance and believe that the general concept of making landlords more accountable and present with the tenants is great. We also agree that the actual qualifications for identifying a nuisance party are reasonable and provide a clear definition of such an event.

However, we believe that in gen-eral, the legislation is too ambigu-

ous. We are particularly concerned that there are too many potential loopholes for landlords. Despite the clause in 6(b)iii that states “A premise owner shall be prohib-ited from delegating or otherwise assigning any forfeiture assessed against the premise owner under this section to any occupant/tenant of the premises where the viola-tion occurred,” we are worried that landlords will find loopholes, or other ways to write clauses into their leases that would allow for the fines to be indirectly passed on to tenants or occupants.

This particularly worries us in light of the passage of SB107. This legislation only adds to the loss of many tenant rights and creates more barriers to students under-standing their rights, which is problematic given the fact that

most students do not currently comprehend their rights now.

We understand the intent of this legislation is to target absent landlords. However, the absent landlords are generally the land-lords that own huge property companies and can most likely afford to pay a Nuisance Party fine, or in the worst case scenario afford to lose a few tenants. We worry that this legislation will not accomplish its intent of making absent landlords more involved.

However, if it were to make absent landlords more involved, we believe that involving the landlord in this type of situ-ation, particularly landlords that are absent, will only con-tribute to a negative power dynamic between landlords and student renters. Many students

in Madison are new at rent-ing and do not have relation-ships with their landlords at all, especially the ones uninvolved. The Nuisance Party Legislation could make fines and threats of eviction the only interaction between often absent landlords and student renters, worsening already negative relationships.

In addition, there are no clear guidelines in the legislation that specifically outline the steps a landlord needs to take with a tenant to demonstrate he/she is in fact working with the occu-pant. Nor are there any clear guidelines demonstrating how the police force should execute this ordinance.

Further, we believe that add-ing on additional fines for essen-tially the same thing that police

fine for is excessive. A fine will hit most students hard. Increasing a fine will make it harder for the students to pay the fine off, but it is unclear whether this addi-tional fine will actually deter stu-dents from having parties in the future. We understand that the statistics are difficult to come by, but we think that it is important to know the rates of reoccurring house parties.

We do not believe that this legislation is in the best interest of students or the city. We ask that you vote against it.

Sincerely,Legislative Affairs Committee,

ASMDavid Gardner is the Chief of

Staff for Associated Students of Madison. Please send all feedback to [email protected].

I was recently sitting in an outdoor café in San Clemente, California, read-

ing J.M. Coetzee’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” and smoking the rare cigarillo, when I overheard the following:

“I hate politics. Politics and history, the two things I hate the most. Do you even know whose running for president? [Laughs] I mean it doesn’t matter; red, blue, it’s the same shit. Like, I wish we could just get back our old presidents, George Washington or something…Reagan was actu-ally a really good president.”

Upon returning from inside with a freshly filled cup of coffee I noticed that the girl who had offered such an eru-dite analysis was a college student from the University of California. The Reagan com-ment remains mysterious, but the sense of disillusionment

and indifference to political debate was all too familiar. It seems particularly fashion-able to disregard any differ-ence between red and blue, Republican and Democrat, thus rendering primary elec-tions and the transfer of power meaningless. There is evidence to support this rational, yet at its foundation, it remains an all too comfortable sophism.

One might point to President Obama’s hyper-neoconser-vative approach to foreign policy—or the continuation of invasive domestic surveillance legislation—as examples of this apparent meaningless. To this I would concede. Indeed the inevitable forfeit of conviction in the creation of federal law is disheartening. (Incidentally, disenchantment due to monot-ony coincides with disenchant-ment due to polarization).

Yet the apparent blending of colors, as if the drapes remain the same despite the holder of the office, should not be inter-preted verbatim. The baby-boomers had plenty of opportu-nity to debate the justification of

drastically different political the-ories and institutional systems such as Marxism, Trotskyism, etc. With the evenements de quatre-vingt neuf, and Francis Fukuyama’s declaration of the end of history and the inevitable success of democratic capital-ism, the current generation has been born and raised with a pre-established absolutism. Instead of debating the very structure and process of American gov-ernment, one simply questions the allocation of resources and attention to specific parts of the same machine. A little less defense spending here, a tad more social security there, like the adjustment of bass and reso-nance in a recording studio.

The Republican candidate

promises jobs. The Democratic President promises they’re coming. One can understand the charm of indifference.

But such temptation should be avoided, and antagonistic debate encouraged. Most have heard the adage that the truth lies not at the extreme but rather some-where in between; the world is not black and white but rather a shade of gray (Christopher Hitchens, while observing a Civil War reenactment, noted that “those who wore the gray had been conditioned to think in terms of black and white”). And while there is truth in such maxims, and indeed the nature of our legislative process does induce compromise, the average is dependent upon the outliers. In other words, the scope and depth of political discussion determines the eventual com-promise reached.

But comfort in laziness is the death of critical thinking. The constant back and forth between politicians assumed to be uniform, and hence the motivation to become indiffer-ent to this constant migration,

is rooted in the one-dimensional conception of political debate. When we evade the temptation of regularity and think critically about the design of American government, we expand the conversation into the three-dimensional. There are numer-ous exterior forces that benefit from the existing scheme of things and would gladly keep the conversation simplistic. It is this simplicity, and the failure of television debate moderators to extract legitimate complexity from this simplicity, that nul-lifies the political conversation and inspires disenchantment during the primaries.

Whether Reagan was a good president, as this college girl so claimed, I defer to Blake:

“The prince’s robes and beg-gar’s rags/Are toadstools on the miser’s bags./A truth that’s told with bad intent/Beats all the lies you can invent.”

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Miles Kellerman is a junior majoring in political science. Please send all feedback to [email protected]

GOP Must Reconsider Pres Candidate

Disillusioned Americans lack faith in monotonous politics

Letter: Proposed Nuisance Party Ordinance leaves ASM with concerns

Ryan waalopinion columnist

Miles kelleRManopinion columnist

The Republicans have to select a candidate who both excites

the base of their party and can compete in swing states.

But comfort in laziness is the death of critical thinking.

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By max SternbergThe Daily CarDinal

It didn’t appear likely a few weeks ago, but the Wisconsin men’s basketball team (5-3 Big Ten, 16-5 overall) returns home on a four-game winning streak and just a half game out of the Big Ten conference lead.

While it was certainly a welcomed sight Sunday when the Badgers beat Illinois for their first road win over a ranked opponent since 2008, Thursday’s return to the Kohl Center is no pushover as No. 16/17 Indiana (4-4, 16-4) looks to hand UW its fourth home loss for the first time since the 1995-96 season.

Although the Hoosiers came into the season unranked, their return to national prominence after a three-year drought didn’t come as much of a surprise those who had

seen them both on the court and in the recruiting world.

“They had a lot of talent returning,” sophomore guard Josh Gasser said of Indiana. “[Indiana freshman forward Cody] Zeller is a guy that came in and really boosted them over the top.”

While Zeller has come in and immediately made an impact, averaging a team-high 15.1 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, it has been the three-point shooting of the Hoosiers that has led them to victories over No.1 Kentucky and No. 2 Ohio State.

Indiana comes into Thursday shooting a Big Ten-best 44.9 percent from three-point range, bested on the national level only by Creighton’s 45.1 percent pace. But with the Badgers holding their opponents to a NCAA-best 35.9 percent from the field, something has to give.

“They have multiple guys who can shoot it, from their bigs to their guards,” Gasser said. “We just have to play to out strengths and keep them out of a rhythm.”

Although seemingly unable to find the bottom of the basket at times, Wisconsin has more than held its own from beyond the arc as well. In 21 games this season, UW has shot 37.5 percent from three-point range, which is the third highest in the Big Ten.

Perhaps more importantly, the Badgers are a perfect 14-0 this sea-son when shooting a better percent-age from the field than their oppo-nent, something they will no doubt look to do against Indiana. For UW head coach Bo Ryan, accomplish-ing that goal is just as much about defensive execution as it is about knocking down shots.

“If you are doing the best you can on [the defensive] end and you are trying to fight through slumps [offensively],” Ryan said, “then you have a chance.”

One thing that is undeniable is the importance of knocking down free throws. Just one year after nearly setting an NCAA record last season by shoot-ing free throws at an 81.8 per-cent clip, the Badgers have struggled mightily by their high standards. Yet, even after shooting just 60.9 percent over the first seven games of the season and starting Sunday’s win by missing seven of its first

nine attempts, UW has man-aged remain over the 70 percent mark from the charity stripe. More importantly, Wisconsin has made free throws consis-tently down the stretch, icing close games at the line in Champaign as well as in West Lafayette. In fact, during the

final five minutes of Big Ten games, the Badgers are shoot-ing 78 percent at the line.

“We have to get back on the free throw line and be confident,” junior forward Mike Bruesewitz said. “We still shoot the ball pretty well there but its not as good as it was last year.”

ThurSDay January 26, 2012

men’s Basketball

Streaking Badgers welcome indiana

Mike Bruesewitz and the Badgers—winners of four straight—will be tested Thursday by a sharp-shooting hoosiers team.

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Athletic department deserves praise for its handling of Chadima scandal

A t some point in the early hours of Wednesday morning, as we pushed

to the end of a hectic night at the Cardinal, I sat down and opened an e-mail from my mom with the sub-ject line “I assume you’ve seen this.”

It was a link to a National Public Radio story that began, “First came sexual-assault allegations against Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at Penn State. Then, molestation accusations against Bernie Fine, an assistant basket-ball coach at Syracuse. And now, new details about what led John Chadima, an associate athletic director at Wisconsin, to resign earlier this month.”

Twenty-four days after a drunk John Chadima allegedly forced his hands down a student employees pants and threatened to fire the stu-dent if he reported it, 18 days after Chadima was placed on adminis-trative leave and resigned from his position, and a few hours after the university released its report on the incident, there it was. Wisconsin had become the next stop on the shameful tour of sexual assault scandals in college athletics, the lat-est program to be bunched in with Penn State and Syracuse on the nation’s roll of imfamy.

But amid all of the shock and

anger at someone like Chadima, who abused his power as a senior athletic department offi-cial to threaten his victims, Wisconsin students, fans and college sports observers in gen-eral should be relieved to see how the program has handled the allegations against Chadima.

There was no years-long cover-up, nor has anyone tried to discredit the allegations against Chadima, regrettable decisions we saw at Penn State and Syracuse. Instead, when that student reported the alleged assault, it was dealt with in a timely and professional manner that emphasized getting to the bot-tom of what happened.

Of course, the athletic depart-ment will have to answer for why it allowed Chadima to host parties and drink with students, some of whom were under 21, for years. But while this doesn’t excuse it, giving booze to under-age college students—when not connected to sexual assault, as it should be obvious—is not likely to raise too many eyebrows.

I don’t praise the Wisconsin Athletic Department out of blind student loyalty, either. There have been times when the program has wrongly sought privacy over transparency in handling scan-dals, and perhaps when faced with wrongdoing by an even more prominent figure the university could fail itself and its fans. And, of course, there could be another shoe waiting to drop if this report

leads more students to come for-ward and say they were assaulted by Chadima or anyone else.

But from where we stand today, the athletic department and uni-veristy handled the allegations in an honorable and refresing way. Wisconsin acted the way we would hope our institutions would act.

Not long after the Penn State scandal began to subside last fall, I wrote about how something simi-lar could happen at Wisconsin, or anywhere. The programs in State College and Madison aren’t all that different as institutions—they have brands to protect and public reac-tion to worry about, meaning they have the same incentives to cover up scandals rather than be transparent and forthright about them.

Those incentives are still there, as is the reality that (no matter how much people like to pretend otherwise) this school and program we love is more than capable of being flawed and corrupt. That didn’t disappear overnight because Wisconsin did the right thing this time.

But this week, as we recoil at what John Chadima allegedly did in a hotel room a few weeks ago and praise his victim for finding the courage to report the crime, we should recognize the university for its actions. We should thank the people in whom we invest our trust for showing they are worthy of it.

How could Wisconsin better handle the John Chadima scandal? E-mail Nico at [email protected].

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