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GROWING UP ON THE ICE

Frank Production’s Charlie Goldstone addressed city o!cials at a Freakfest press conference Monday. Additional private security will help o"set this year’s reduction in police presence.

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City leaders say fewer o!cers for Freakfest

Mayor’s vote denies Overture funding

By David JonesTHE DAILY CARDINAL

At a press conference Monday, city leaders out-lined final details regarding Freakfest, including plans to reduce police presence com-pared to previous years.

Police Lieutenant Dave McCaw was unable to specify how many fewer o!cers there will be but said private security firm RTM will supplement regu-lar police presence by providing crowd control.

“For the last four years, calls for service and problems in the State Street and university area have declined,” McCaw said. “There will also be less people involved with rush processing because our current history has been a reduc-tion of arrests for the event.”

Police presence was also reduced for the 2010 Freakfest.

McCaw said one reason for police force reductions is that Freakfest is no longer just a city-sponsored event.

“In the police department, we

view this as a reduction because it’s no longer a police program,” McCaw said. “This is a Frank Productions [event] now.”

Charlie Goldstone of Frank Productions said there will be “upwards of 100 or more” private security guards helping to moni-tor and control the crowds.

Security personnel will be stationed at the entrances and exits, ticket stands and around the stages, with some also patrol-

By Ben SiegelTHE DAILY CARDINAL

An even split at the Board of Estimates meeting Monday required the help of Mayor Paul Soglin’s tiebreaking vote to deny the Overture Center $500,000 in funding for its 2012 operating budget.

The 29 proposed amend-ments that were brought before the BOE Monday sought a com-bined total of $1 million addition to the mayor’s $250 million 2012 city operating budget.

The rejected $500,000 in Overture funding would go toward filling the gap between the $1.35 million allotted by Soglin’s budget and the annual $2 million promised by the Common Council last December, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4.

“A half a million dollars is a lot of money for anybody’s budget,” Verveer said. “It could make the di"erence between an individual having a job or not … between shows taking place or not.”

The funds would be raised through property taxes, which would tack an additional $5.65 annually on the average Madison home.

A large part of the Overture Center’s budget goes toward subsidizing performances for the community; a lack of funds prevents the center from doing so, Verveer indicated.

“I know there’s a perception that everything at the Overture Center is pricey to attend, and that’s just not accurate whatso-ever,” Verveer said.

According to Overture

Center Foundation Board of Directors Vice President Tom Basting, keeping the Overture Center on “sound financial foot-ing” goes beyond sustaining program availability.

Overture audiences annually spend $9.8 million downtown beyond their ticket purchases, Basting said. Since the Overture Center’s opening, property val-ues in the immediate downtown area have risen at four times the Madison average, which factors into property tax rates.

The amendment will be voted on again at the City Council operating budget meeting Nov. 16. Verveer pointed out that the amend-ment’s 13 sponsors is greater than the 11 required for a mea-sure to pass.

“It’s only a matter of time [before funding is approved] …the mayor may make a deci-sion whether or not he wants to veto the entire budget over this money,” Verveer said.

Occupy UW protesters few but passionate By Alex DiTullioTHE DAILY CARDINAL

While the approximately 20 protesters who participated in the Occupy UW march Monday were far less than the 100 expected, those in attendance spoke against the country’s alleged “unequal distribution of wealth.”

Beginning at Union South, demonstrators chanted, “Eat debt, screw you, Occupy UW” as they marched toward Memorial Union. UW freshman Noah Phillips, who led the march, said it is di!cult for most to attain a college degree without enormous debt in the cur-rent economic climate.

“It’s disheartening to live in a society where people have unequal access to education and you feel like you’re taking place

in this reinforcing of two-class society,” he said.

Associated Students of Madison member Justin Bloesch said the traditional American Dream has deteriorated given the di!culty of finding a job after graduation.

“What we were told … is that if we work hard, if we stay honest, if we shine by our merit then this society will take care of us; that’s the American Dream,” Bloesch said.

“But if that’s ever how the game worked, that’s not how it works now.”

Phillips said the movement, which recruited demonstrators via Facebook, hopes to build stu-dent participation in upcoming weeks by passing out flyers and speaking in lectures.

Phillips said busy schedules

should not deter students from protesting issues that directly a"ect them, such as student debt and job security.

“Students generally don’t real-ize that they can divert some of their energy from their classes and exams and drama and they can put it into something really exciting and really important,” he said.

After the march, protesters discussed ways to increase par-ticipation.

Once participation is higher, Phillips said the movement can take larger actions such as “occu-pying a building” or forming a teach in.

Weekly Occupy UW march-es will continue every Monday beginning at Union South at 12:30 p.m.

While the Occupy UW did not receive the turnout it expected, protesters hope for increased participation in coming weeks.

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Part two of three

Filling the gap

Promised to Overture Center in December 2010

$2 million

$1.35 million

Amount of city funds:

Proposed by Mayor Paul Soglin in 2012 city budget

Di"erence: $650,000

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I ’m recently single. By sin-gle I mean my girlfriend recently broke up with

me. By recently I mean three to seven months ago… which means I haven’t been handling it very well.

Thankfully there has been one shining beacon of hope at the end of my post-breakup tunnel of metaphorical depres-sion—Facebook.

Facebook lets me know that while I may have some prob-lems, so does everyone else. I’m just not delusional enough to post them for semi-acquain-tances all over the Internet—although I find no reason not to bitch about them in a news-paper column. There is a dif-ference; writing a column takes intelligence and creativity. Posting statuses on Facebook only takes free Wifi.

For those who aren’t gifted with words, wake up and smell the pumpkin spice latte—no one cares to receive minute-by-minute updates on how hard and stressful your life is. Not me, not your “friends” (there’s a word for someone who claims to have over 1,000 friends—schizophrenic) and not the

guy you constantly text even though he broke up with you over a year ago. Go back to posting extremely vague sta-tuses that make it seem like you live a life full of constant excitement: “Tequila + Ke$ha = EPIC!”

Yet, I’m thankful that peo-ple inappropriately post their hardships on Facebook. What really gets me through hard times is not just knowing that my generation is a bunch of miserable, pathetic creatures—it’s “LIKING” it.

Unlike Marie, who’s liking it because she’s going through the same thing, or Matt, who’s liking it because he wants to provide support (and by “wants to provide support” I mean he secretly wants to stick his penis inside her, a sort of emotional tampon), I like it because, as Aristotle once said, the misery of others is funny!

I may be paraphrasing a bit, but if he were around to see the drama and tragedy people create out of their mundane, comfortable lives, I

think he’d say the misery of others is wicked hilarious.

Some people have called me an asshole for my Facebook likes—I don’t think that is fair. While it does seem a little callous to like others’ su!ering, I believe there is a fine line between dark, edgy humor and deeply o!ensive gestures. Although I don’t always know where that line is, I believe anything posted on Facebook is fair game.

If you’re ready to experience the exhilaration of unapologeti-cally mocking others’ misfor-tunes, here is how it works:

Liking other’s misfortune:That high school jock who

thought that being a division three all-star made him the shit just tore his ACL revoking his college scholarship? LIKE.

Your annoying roommate from freshmen year who thought having his annoy-ing girlfriend sleep over five nights a week in your dorm room wouldn’t inconvenience you just got cheated out of a

bunch of money by his land-lord? LIKE.

That girl who always comes to class early but sits on an end seat just got her triple venti latte with soy spilled all over her because someone actually requested a seat? LIKE. There are not even like enough like buttons to like even show how much I like that.

Life not fair? LIKE. Failed exam? LIKE. Pen exploded? LIKE. Herpes? LI… Ugh, I’m not touching that one.

Pants don’t fit? LIKE. Computer crashed? LIKE. Lying all alone, wishing you would call? LIKE. Flu? LIKE. Bloated? LIKE. Headache? LIKE.

Like, like, like, like, like!Grandma died? Li… wait.

This can’t be true. She has to be lying to get attention. Who would post that on Facebook? It’s a place to make fun of douche bags, not to ask for their condolences. Do you real-ly need solace from the guy you made out with at Wando’s last Halloween? Can’t you turn to your family for support (well, minus grandma of course)? Oh well, LIKE!

Turns out grandma did die; guess I am an asshole.

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MCSC criticizes SSFC process

CRIME IN BRIEFMan breaks into tattoo parlor

By Jessica YaoTHE DAILY CARDINAL

The Multicultural Student Coalition said UW-Madison’s stu-dent government finance commit-tee lacks a standardized process to determine if student groups are eligible for funding Monday.

The Student Services Finance Committee denied MCSC eligi-bility last week because commit-tee members said the group did not spend more than 50 percent of its time directly serving stu-dents, making it ineligible to receive funding.

MCSC members spoke against the decision, say-ing everything the group does directly serves students.

Former SSFC member Michael Jackson spoke on behalf of MCSC, saying some of SSFC’s decisions were not being made objectively. Jackson said

SSFC has no consistent formula for calculating the eligibility of an organization.

“You take into account your own individual calculations and you do not have a consis-tent formula [or a] standardized formula,” Jackson said. “You put yourself and the university in a significant jeopardy of further legal action because your policies are in violation of UW system statutes, state statutes, as well as federal statutes.”

But SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said SSFC’s pro-cess for determining eligibil-ity is respected. She said other schools have based their eligi-bility criteria on SSFC’s.

Neibart said while members of the committee might have dif-ferent opinions as to what con-stitutes a direct service, the dif-ferences in opinions facilitate

discussion within SSFC.“I think that allows for criti-

cal thinking of the members and that’s been since the begin-ning of time of SSFC, and that’s what we’ve been abiding by,” Neibart said.

Also at the meeting, SSFC discussed improvements it could make from next year in response to a proposal that would put additional checks on the committee.

The proposal would create a committee to approve forms, documents and legislation SSFC creates before the committee uses them.

SSFC Rep. Cale Plamann said the Associated Students of Madison Rules Committee should have more authority in determin-ing whether SSFC is functioning objectively and approving forms SSFC creates.

By Anna Du!nTHE DAILY CARDINAL

Student government leaders throughout the UW System told state Assembly leaders Monday they oppose a bill that would remove restrictions currently in place on landlords.

Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers said SB107, which is being brought to the Assembly floor Tuesday, would take away rights stu-dents have as renters.

“This is really going to a!ect us in a horrible, horrible way,” Somers said. “Landlords are going to be able to do so many things that they really shouldn’t be able to do.”

Somers said under the law, landlords would no longer have to notify renters 24 hours before entering their apart-ment and could require renters to disclose their social security numbers to landlords.

ASM passed legislation over the summer o"cially opposing the bill.

Students from UW campus-es throughout the state signed a letter sent to assembly repre-sentatives Monday saying UW system schools oppose the bill.

“The passage of SB107 threatens the ability to provide a secure, fair housing environ-ment for student renters,” the letter said. “Thus, we urge you to please vote no on SB107.”

Somers said while she expects the bill to pass, she hopes the let-ter influences legislators.

“I’m hoping that the unified power behind all of those voic-es will impact their decision,” Somers said.

Somers said if the bill passes, ASM’s next steps would be to educate students about what has changed with the passage of the bill, inform them what their rights are and ensure they are not exploited by their landlords.

Student leaders: housing bill violates students’ rights

Over the weekend, police arrested an intoxicated man for breaking into a North Frances Street apartment and a tattoo parlor allegedly to “get a tattoo on his buttocks” at 1:24 a.m. Sunday morning.

When o"cers arrived, they found the suspect inside Big Guns Tattoo acting “agitated and confused,” according to the report from Madison Police spokesperson Joel DeSpain.

The report said the man “reeked of alcohol,” slurred his speech and claimed he was at the parlor “getting a tattoo.”

A concerned citizen alerted police early Sunday morning

after witnessing the suspect “smash through two glass doors” in the 400 block of North Frances Street, accord-ing to a police report.

The citizen who reported the incident said the suspect was outside the tattoo parlor earlier in the evening “yelling something about needing to get a tattoo on his buttocks.”

Police arrested the suspect, 22-year-old Ryan Brennan, on two counts of criminal dam-age to property, two counts of entry into a locked build-ing, and underage possession and consumption alcohol o! licensed premises.

Police arrested and ulti-mately asked to ban a 19-year-old man from State Street Saturday after the suspect attempted to rob several peo-ple, many of them college-aged women.

In the report, Madison Police spokesperson Joel DeSpain said an estimated 15 victims “encountered a ‘very loud, boisterous and bellig-erent’ armed robbery sus-pect,” who was later arrest-ed for “yelling at passerby, claiming to have a gun, and demanding money.”

According to the report, the suspect, identified as

Brandon P. Stull, told police he “had gotten drunk and was acting stupid.”

The police report quotes a 24-year-old woman saying she “felt terrified,” and another 22-year-old woman who said the incident “was scary.”

The suspect said he was trying to get money for food.

DeSpain also noted Stull was previously cited for her-oin possession after he was found shooting heroin in a South Hamilton Street Porta Potty Oct. 10.

As a condition of his bail, police requested Stull be banned from State Street.

‘Armed robber’ arrested on State

Gov. Scott Walker’s office announced a new website Monday that will present infor-mation on how many Wisconsin tax dollars have been saved by the administration’s policies.

“Since our reforms passed, a lot of people have wondered what kind of results we’re getting and why the reforms were nec-essary,” Walker said in a state-ment. “Reforms.wi.gov shows the results from our reforms and how they’re working.”

The website features a video message from Walker, a map that includes reported tax-dollar sav-

ings in local areas and an account of his reforms’ e!ect on local school districts.

According to a press release from Walker’s office, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau esti-mated Walker’s budget reforms have saved local governments more than $450 million because of Walker’s budget reforms.

The website includes sav-ings from pension and health-care contributions in addi-tion to information about how Walker’s reforms have improved the government.

But the Democratic Party of

Wisconsin finds fault with the use of taxpayer funds for the cre-ation of the website.

“If Wisconsin is so broke, it stands to reason that there is no money to pay for a website that papers over a terrible record of fewer jobs, more unemploy-ment and fewer services for the people affected by his terrible budget,” Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate said in a statement.

The website will be updated as additional data is released to the public.

—Mckenna Kohlenberg

New website will track tax-dollar savings under Walker

Go Big Read author to speak on campus ThursdayPulitzer Prize-winning writ-

er Sonia Nazario will add to the ongoing conversations sur-rounding her book chosen for this year’s Go Big Read pro-gram, when she speaks on cam-pus Thursday.

Nazario’s presentation, which is free and open to the

public, will begin at 7 p.m. in the Union South’s Varsity Hall. Her book, “Enrique’s Journey,” describes the plight of Enrique, a Honduran boy who, at age 16, repeatedly attempts to reach the United States in hopes of finding his mother in the United States.

Since the program began in 2009, the university has chosen a book each year to give out to the academic community to initiate discussion among students, fac-ulty and sta!.

As part of the program, the university invites the book’s author to speak on campus.

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Former SSFC member Michael Jackson said SSFC does not have a standardized procedure for deciding if groups are eligible for funding.

ling State Street.Businesses in downtown

Madison and on State Street have not expressed any major concerns regarding changes in the police presence.

“Given the recent history of the event, it seems reason-able to continue these gradual reductions of the police pres-

ence,” Mary Carbine, executive director of Madison’s Central Business Improvement District said. “We think the police well understand this event and are doing a good job gauging the amount of staff that they need.”

Neither McCaw nor Carbine expressed concerns regarding the predicted influx of visitors from outside Madison.

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arts

By Adam ParisTHE DAILY CARDINAL

When Rocksteady released “Batman Arkham Asylum” in 2009, they did what was seemingly impossible: they created a respectable Batman game. The franchise’s dismal history was well documented, but “Arkham Asylum” was a resounding success that finally translated Batman’s destructive skills into game-play. Two years later, the scope of “Arkham City” blows “Asylum” out of the water as Rocksteady has crafted an open-world game that trumps even its lauded predecessor.

The game opens with Bruce Wayne captured by Hugo Strange and thrust into the hostile world of Arkham City. Wasting no time in introducing the player to the visceral com-bat system, Wayne fights off several inmates before escap-ing to don the familiar Batsuit. Later the player meets the dis-ease riddled Joker who hap-pily gives Batman a dose of his affliction providing the main crux of the game’s story.

As you travel through Arkham City looking for a cure while battling the ensu-ing threat of Hugo Strange, you’re introduced to a lengthy list of classic Batman villains. Although this massive roster could have damaged the overall experience á la “Spider-Man 3,” Rocksteady successfully deliv-ers and implements each char-acter seamlessly into the vari-ous story and side missions.

The core gameplay mechan-ic is once again the brutal com-bat system, which provides the player with a real sense of Batman’s abilities. Various new gadgets are integrated smartly into battle through easy but-

ton inputs that help vary the combat system even further. A new skill tree allows the player to unlock new moves, suit upgrades and gadgets is also introduced, expanding well beyond what was offered in “Arkham Asylum.”

Another nice twist is the inclusion of Catwoman, who offers an entirely differ-ent experience from Batman. While her specific missions comprise a minimal part of the overall game, she provides a refreshing change of pace from the ruthless style of Batman.

In terms of presentation, this game ranks among the best of them. Powered by the Unreal Engine, movements are fluid and lifelike, facial animations are impressive and Arkham City is incredibly detailed, down to the garbage strewn about or the oppres-sive billboards scattered throughout the city.

The voice acting is some of the best in gaming, as each character is personified exem-plarily by stars such as Kevin Conroy (Batman) or Nolan North (Penguin). Kudos must be given to Mark Hamill, spe-cifically as he brilliantly deliv-ers the manic dialogue of the Joker, in what may have sadly

been his final performance.As stated already, the scope

of “Arkham City” is massive, with hours of side missions and collectibles worth discov-ering once the main story arc is done. There are easily 25 hours worth of content.

Akin to the Assassin’s tombs in “Assassin’s Creed,” each new location is a series of puzzles that require an arsenal of gadgets to be used in myriad ways so as to save the hostage. Although short, these gameplay segments are some of the highlights of the whole game. Hopefully they will make their return in future installments.

For those wishing to extend their gameplay experience, challenge and predator maps make their return, with gam-ers able to maneuver them as either Batman or Catwoman. Along with these challenge maps is a “New Game Plus” option where the gamer starts anew but with all of his Riddler trophies and gadgets in tow.

Put bluntly, “Arkham City” is a crowning achievement in game design. While the prequel was considered per-haps the greatest comic book game ever, this title stands among the very best of this entire generation. Rocksteady succeeded in translating the “Arkham Asylum” formula to an immense open world and included more than enough content to occupy gamers for a long time. Batman fan or not, this is an absolute must buy. While Rocksteady slips into the shadows to begin work on the next title in this franchise, we all have plenty of reason to continue hunting our prey amidst the darkened streets of Arkham City.

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M y natural inclina-tion is to believe that I am in charge

of my own listening habits and that I listen to those art-ists that I am strongly attract-ed to for whatever reason. In the ninth grade, the Clash filled a particular role in my life, being the strongly mascu-line but sensitive role models I needed after realizing that my three-foot tall superhero comic book collection wasn’t about to get me laid.

Before I knew it, I was following the Clash’s paths of influence up and down rock history, checking all the appropriate boxes along the way. Mick Jones was a roadie for Mott the Hoople, so it fol-lowed that I had better play “All the Young Dudes” 27 times daily and internalize the kid’s drugged out view from the crowd just before he gets kicked in the head by that talk-er up on stage.

And Fugazi, well they were really nothing more or less to me than the Clash’s moral program reborn. More serious and with a greater contextual appreciation of the evil com-promises too often conflated with success and survival in the post-industrial West.

The list goes on and on. I could write columns trac-ing the paths I took, free falling down endless rabbit holes through Wikipedia and AllMusic internal text page links for years before I discov-ered the modern, streamlined conveniences of Pitchfork and the A.V. Club.

Ruined as I was by my Neil Young and Elvis Costello blasting parents, I retained strong rockist sensibilities throughout my digital jour-neys, all while many of my friends were getting their kicks off of ambient-electro-dub this or house-trance that.

However, I admire Justice’s nose thumbing appropriation of the Christian cross as mas-cot for their aggressive, poppy anti-pop or the Field’s mini-malistic humanism. These “unrock” exceptions char-acteristically contained an unusually large dose of emo-tional content, even warmth.

Today, I attribute my indifference to the great indie godheads to my lack of warmth. I remain mystified by the adoration directed at the numb-faced, detached musing of Pavement and Radiohead. Their apoca-

lyptic, not quite post-rock seems to best be for robots.

Now, I know I’m talking heresy and that my column could be yanked, my skinny-jean credentials revoked for life, but my bemusement has been begging to break out for some time. Better here, I think, than in some drunken rant on a Thursday night at the Plaza, where and when my life would be at the mercy of the raving, lunatic masses. It’s the rabble and the crowds from whom I fear reprisals. The civilized class, I suspect, reads the papers.

Therefore, allow me to make an appeal to your well-refined empathetic capacity. Imagine for a moment being a hipster through and through. You are dutifully loyal to the laconic ‘90s era slacker atti-tude and have collected an impressively diversified col-lection of plaid-patterned but-ton-downs. You love the indie nation and would even die to defend its honor.

Somehow, though, you find yourself feeling alien-ated and cold when faced with Radiohead’s relentless searching or Pavement’s too cool, absurd drawl. You strug-gle and you struggle, but as much you try, you can at most admire but never really love. If you’ve ever read George Orwell’s “1984” and lived through Winston Smith’s clandestine, impotent strug-gle against the ubiquitously cherished Big Brother, you can probably imagine the hell I live each and every day. (A metaphor I hope Thom Yorke would relish).

Worse, I can’t even claim my rejection of these two bands as absolute or unequiv-ocal. Even I have to admit “Cut Your Hair” is a jam among jams and that large isolated passages in Radiohead’s back catalog actually contain tell-tale signs of human life.

The trouble here is one of thought control, the same problem (experienced in less intensity) faced by Winston Smith. Early in Orwell’s novel, Smith seems inter-nally cautious and neurotic in his attempts to buy into the love of the Party, despite the slowly creeping realiza-tion that he yearns for free-dom. By the end of the novel, Smith is brutalized by the pressures placed on him by the state and has changed his mind, really convincing him-self that he loves Big Brother after all.

“1984,” of course, was a parable and thus an exag-geration of human truths fol-lowed to their logical con-clusion. Hipsters like myself cultivate their individual tastes in relation with that of the larger community. At what point, and to what degree, will we be willing to compromise those tastes?

How did you cultivate your musical tastes? Give Alex your questions and comments at [email protected].

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L ast week, ASM held elec-tions to fill seats on council and the Student Services

Finance Committee. With a small amount of open seats and a three day election period, the 11 per-cent turnout was no worse than I expected. Here’s to hoping that the 4,803 voters picked leaders that can help turn ASM’s year around.

Most of issues ASM focused on this year a!ect small num-bers of students on campus and are mostly internal struggles with rules too di"cult for stu-dent leaders and organizations to comprehend needing to address.

ASM has not had the most productive year so far, and it isn’t showing signs of improve-ment. The year started fine enough, then Vice Chair Beth Huang and Nominations Board Chair Niko Magallon failed to turn in their community ser-vice hours on time which were required to complete after both broke campaign rules by going to residence halls.

More drama ensued fol-lowing controversial SSFC decisions: WISPIRG regained

funding eligibility. SSFC ruled last fall that the group did not meet the qualifications to receive segregated feeds. How did the group change their direct services? As far as any-one can tell, they didn’t.

Oddly enough, the Multicultural Student Coalition (MCSC) was denied funding. According to SSFC, the organiza-tion doesn’t substantially serve the student body through direct services. This once largely funded group now hangs in the balance because of a potentially faulty interpretation of SSFC rules.

Even other student govern-ments are growing upset with ASM. CALS Student Council introduced a resolution calling out ASM for failing to “endorse or share any measure of power or [to] o!er permanent financial support to student governments.”

It is understandable that most people reading this would still wonder why it is

important to vote in student government elections. It’s just ASM, right? Who cares? It is confusing, and what is a “direct service” anyway?

The fact is, ASM is important and everyone should have voted because the group controls $40 million worth of students’ money. SSFC makes decisions that affect student groups, mak-ing a direct impact on our uni-versity experience. Why then, did only 4,803 people vote?

There is more than one answer, of course. People may be apathetic; people don’t vote for the president of the United States. Who can expect them to vote for student government spots? Another possibility

is that people may not know about the election. In fact, the only reason I knew the days of the election was a friend’s Facebook post telling everyone to vote before time ran out.

Whatever the reason for the low turnout, it reflects as poorly on ASM as it does on the apa-thetic student body. ASM lead-ers often tout around Wisconsin State Statute 36.09[5] which gives students the right to shared gov-ernance. But they rarely ever quote the ASM constitution. If they did, they would see that its first “Object” is “to ensure the greatest participation by students in the immediate governance of and policy development for the University at all levels.” Eleven percent is hardly a great amount of participation.

There are other “objects,” though this one is the first one listed. ASM is supposed to engage the students, but its actions rare-ly do anything of the sort.

ASM’s focus is on the poli-tics of their positions more than the substance of its effects. The council is more worried about giving itself the ability to supervise SSFC than mak-ing sure students know what SSFC is or, more importantly, how to engage with it. Now they have to spend time filling the vice chair and nominations

board chair positions, which the Nominations Board will do without a vote from students. It is no wonder that few students care about ASM; it doesn’t affect them most of the time.

ASM is at a great point in the year, though. Gaining new members presents it with the opportunity to start over. It cannot squander this chance to make this year mean something. ASM needs to find energy from new members to make itself rel-evant to the student body.

There are plenty of opportu-nities to do this: It can help stu-dents get the identification nec-essary to vote in the next state and national elections. With new tenant laws on the books, it can help students navigate the rent-ing waters. Whatever happens, they need to prove to more than 11 percent of our student body that their voice matters and is needed.

ASM should focus more on engaging other student councils to make real grassroots e!orts to help and engage the student body and student organizations.

Whatever it does, ASM needs to focus on outreach and make sure their decisions and programs are known by the student body.

ASM is an important force on our campus, even if it hasn’t proved to be one this year. With another sad showing at the polls, students have voiced their opin-ions—they don’t think voting in ASM elections is worth five min-utes of their time. But the semes-ter is young, and there is plenty of time and opportunity to turn that opinion around.

Matt Beaty is a junior major-ing in mathematics and computer science. Please send all feedback to [email protected].

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MATT BEATYopinion columnist

ASM needs to refocus e!orts on outreach

ASM has not had the most productive year so far,

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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

GAME TIME

ACROSS 1 Cheddar type 6 Autumn bloomers 10 Billower on a pole 14 Bellhop, often 15 Polo’s destination 16 Brook 17 On the up-and-up 19 “Nay!” sayer 20 CD-___ (computer

insert) 21 Word said with a

salute 22 Made a small dent in 24 Part of epic films 27 Bundle of energy 30 1936 Olympian Jesse 31 Beefeaters 32 Time out of mind 33 Always, in a poem 36 It blew its top in

1992 37 Acquire intelligence 38 “Major” animal 39 Casting item 40 Malarial fever 42 Damascus denizen 44 Personnel director,

at times 45 Car wheel securer 46 Basis of democracy 50 Track and Field Hall

of Fame inductee Ashford

51 Charlemagne was its first ruler (Abbr.)

52 “Be on the lookout” letters

55 Unload 56 Golfer who won nine

majors in his career 60 Woody’s singing son 61 Egg, to a biologist 62 Word with “glasses”

or “bu!” 63 Put away for the

future 64 In the ___

breath (almost simultaneously)

65 “Beau ___”

DOWN 1 A feature of Old

Glory 2 Boxcar Willie

dressed as one 3 Basic building block 4 Gun, as an engine 5 Take for granted 6 Native New

Zealander 7 “Miracle on Ice”

chant 8 One-time shuttle

destination 9 Tack components 10 100-centime units 11 Jargon of a

particular field 12 Change, as a

hemline 13 Travel like a flying

squirrel

18 Plains bovine 23 Common contraction 24 Baby carrier? 25 With a reddish-

brown tinge 26 Vacationing 27 Like Easter eggs 28 Abominable

snowman 29 What the “poor dog’’

had 33 “___ go bragh!” 34 Twin in Genesis 35 Unleash a diatribe 37 Bird-feeder treat 38 Basic desire 40 Having no

perceptible weight 41 Yanks, in Mexico 42 Display bad

etiquette at the dinner table

43 Christmas warmer 44 Ichabod’s was

Sleepy 46 Badlands formations 47 Ward o! 48 Bill Cosby pitched it 49 What cats and rats

do 52 “For” votes 53 Sassy-mouthed 54 Hillside, in Aberdeen 57 Actress Gardner 58 Cuban alcoholic

export 59 “Congo” villain

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By Michael TewsTHE DAILY CARDINAL

In the wake of one of the most agonizing defeats in school his-tory, the dreadful memories of Saturday’s loss to Michigan State still linger for the Badgers. Yet, as di!cult as it is to continue mov-ing forward, it is imperative that Wisconsin maintains its focus as they invade Columbus to take on Ohio State this Saturday.

UW head coach Bret Bielema addressed the team’s disappoint-ment and urged the players to continue fighting.

“I told [the players] you should never get used to this feeling,” Bielema said. “This feeling should hurt. It’s something we need to get rid of and shake out tonight. If you ever accept it, then it’s going to hap-pen more than you ever want it to.”

Even after a shaky performance and an unsuccessful comeback, senior quarterback Russell Wilson remains optimistic about his team’s ability to overcome this adversity.

“The main thing is staying posi-tive, keep working hard like we do everyday and keep leading,” Wilson said. “There’s a lot of great oppor-tunities for us and we have a great opportunity to play Ohio State.”

Last season, the Badgers upset

the then-No.1 Buckeyes 31-18 before a raucous Camp Randall Stadium, a pivotal victory en route to a share of the Big Ten title and a trip to the Rose Bowl. On Saturday, the Badgers won’t have the comforts of home.

While the Badgers have won three of their last five meetings in Columbus, the most recent trip resulted in a 31-13 loss. The Badgers dominated in first downs 22-8 and total o"ense 368-184, but Scott Tolzein threw three interceptions, two of which were returned for touchdowns.

The Badgers are all too familiar with the consequences of missed opportunities, so it is essential they convert when they have their chances, especially against a tough defense, ranked 16th in the nation.

“Ohio State has got a lot of ath-letic ability up front all the way to the back end of the defense,” Wilson said. “The main thing is capitalizing on opportunities just like any other game.”

The controversy encompassing Ohio State this summer has been well publicized, as it was revealed several former Buckeyes received improper benefits while former head coach Jim Tressel lied to the NCAA about having any knowl-

edge of the transactions. Tressel has resigned, but the image of the program has been besmirched.

But even with all the negativity, Ohio State has remained competi-tive, coming o" its biggest victory against upstart Illinois, 17-7, last weekend.

“They look more and more like the traditional Ohio State as they get further in the season,” Bielema said. “Their defense is playing extremely well with that swagger.”

While a shot at the BCS title is gone, the Badgers still dictate their own destiny in the quest for the Big Ten title. Bielema has witnessed teams stuck in a hole claw their way back to become conference champions. In 2003 as Kansas State’s co-defensive coordinator, Bielema’s team lost three straight games against Marshall and conference rivals Texas and Oklahoma State, leav-ing them 4-3 overall but 0-2 in the division.

“One of things I really benefit-ted from my experience at Kansas State was I had a great two years of learning divisional play within a conference,” Bielema said.

“[Kansas State head coach] Bill Snyder said if we take care of our business, we can get in the confer-

ence championship game and get to a BCS bowl. Everyone was looking at him like he had three heads.”

The team rallied together and not only won the rest of their games, but shocked No. 1 Oklahoma in the Big 12 champion-ship, desecrating the Sooners 35-7

for the conference title and earn-ing a trip to the Fiesta Bowl.

“I think the biggest thing is what kind of kids you have in your pro-gram,” Bielema said. “I expect this group to bounce back as they did late in the fourth quarter and put everything into this preparation.”

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“We’re a close-knit group there in St. Louis, so there were always former play-ers around. We celebrated a lot of the holidays togeth-er, the Thanksgivings and Christmases as a group, and he got to be around and hear the hockey stories, and hear how we talked about the game—the respect for the game that we all have,” Rob Ramage said. “And he certainly has that.”

Talking to Rob Ramage about his son is easy. Ask him about the players John grew up learning from or how he coached him through the ranks of youth hockey, and you’ll get lengthy answers in response.

But when you ask him about the more recent history of his life—the one that changed on a road north of Toronto—his speech becomes much less natural.

When he answers a question about how his son has matured in the past year, much of which Rob Ramage spent behind bars, he picks his words with a great deal of cau-tion, stumbling through what he wants to say and how he will phrase it.

“He is a very committed and focused young man,” Ramage said, “and, yeah, it’s been just

incredible as a parent to watch that transformation and, so that’s, yeah, I guess that’s all I have on that.”

There is an awkwardness to that answer you will not find when he talks about St. Louis or John’s tournament in Slovakia.

It is to be expected, in a way. For the past eight years the story about Rob Ramage has been that of a legacy tarnished by a horrible decision.

“Ramage will forever be branded by the accident that took his friend,” a columnist wrote in the Globe and Mail soon after Ramage was con-victed. “The other stuff, about how he won a pair of Stanley Cups, how he was captain of

the Leafs and became an investment bro-ker and even a minor hockey coach in St. Louis, none of that will matter as much.”

When he got behind the wheel back in 2003, pointed his car east down Rutherford Road and slammed into Michelle Pacheco,

Ramage irreparably flipped his story and his son’s. Today, neither of them want to talk about the accident and they are hesitant to speak on what has happened since, but for the past eight years that is what the world has wanted to hear.

The final installment of this three-part feature will run in Thursday’s edition of The Daily Cardinal.

Football

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Wisconsin’s win over then-No. 1 Ohio State a year ago at Camp Randall Stadium helped the Badgers earn a Rose Bowl berth.

Badgers still have plenty to play for against OSU

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R. RAMAGE

By Max SternbergTHE DAILY CARDINAL

Wisconsin men’s basketball: same team, di"erent year.

This statement seems to ring true nearly every year under head coach Bo Ryan. But this season the Badgers must replace two All-Big Ten performers in Jon Leuer and Keaton Nankivil, who together were responsible for over 41 per-cent of last year’s scoring.

Although Wisconsin returns only two starters from last year’s Sweet 16 team, the Badgers are not as young as many have made them out to be.

“We’re pretty experienced,” senior guard Rob Wilson said. “A lot of guys played in the games somewhere down in their careers. Besides the freshmen being the youngsters, we have a lot of guys who’ve gotten playing time.”

UW returns both starters in the backcourt, with Wilson and sophomore guard Ben Brust

coming into the year with game experience at the guard positions. Senior guard Jordan Taylor will enter the season as a candidate for national player of the year, while sophomore Josh Gasser comes o" of a freshman season that saw him average nearly six points and four rebounds per game over the course of 34 games, tying the UW record for games played by a freshman.

“[We have] really high expec-tations this year,” Taylor said. “We have a lot of experience in the backcourt and everybody’s been working hard.”

With the backcourt dealt with, the focus turns toward a front-court that will feature three new starters. Despite the turnover, the Badgers have a trio of juniors with plenty of big-time game experi-ence in Mike Bruesewitz, Jared Berggren and Ryan Evans. The three started 14 games last sea-son and combined for nearly 10 points and 6.5 rebounds per game,

numbers they believe will trend upward as this season rolls on.

“I guess it’s the Wisconsin way, upperclassmen lead the way,” Bruesewitz said. “When it’s your turn to step up, you’ve got to embrace that role.”

This season UW adds redshirt freshman Evan Anderson. The 6 foot 10 inch Stanley native has already impressed his teammates in early practices and will bring a new dimension of strength to the Badger front line.

“That’s what I hope to do this year, just to be a strong guy in the middle,” Anderson said. “And not let guys like [Ohio State sopho-more forward] Jared Sullinger and some of those other guys get so many easy baskets.”

Anderson and the rest of the big men are hoping to improve on an interior defense that was a glaring weakness last season. Although Wisconsin was fourth in the nation in scoring defense, giving up just 58.6 points per game, they struggled to contain big men, specfically Butler senior Matt Howard, whose 20 point e"ort in the NCAA Sweet 16 doused the Badgers’ hopes of a run at the Final Four.

In addition, this new front-court brings a far greater inte-rior presence on the o"ensive end than the Nankivil-Leuer tandem did last season.

“Jon and Keaton are such good shooters from the perim-eter that we needed to get the ball on the outside. It’s a tough matchup for a lot of bigs to cover them on the perimeter,” Gasser said. “This year, with Jared Berggren, he’s a good post scorer. And then Evan Anderson, he’s such a brute down low. Its pretty hard to stop him one-on-one.”

Men’s Basketball

Mike Bruesewitz is one of the frontcourt players the Badgers will rely on to fill the voids left by Jon Leuer and Keaton Nankivil.

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I n so much of John Ramage’s story, he is a passive character.

His father is the NHL star who coached him, the hockey community in St. Louis is the atmosphere he was raised in and, since he plays defense-man like his dad, it seems like his style was determined for him. He admits the defenseman role is “just something I fell into,” and that he “never really thought otherwise.”

Even his father’s biggest mistake is something that hap-pened to John Ramage, a force acting upon him.

But watch him on the ice, and “passive” is not a word that comes to mind.

Mike Eaves played in the pros at the same time John’s father did, and as the head coach of the Wisconsin men’s hockey team, he has watched Ramage grow from a promis-ing freshman to a strong-willed leader. Like anyone else who has watched Ramage – nicknamed “Rammer” by his teammates—ves sees a tough edge that makes

him one of the more talented players in NCAA hockey.

That physicality doesn’t manifest itself in fights, like it did for Ramage’s father and might in the NHL, but instead in the kind of hard work that requires a drive and dedication to match strength and skill.

“If you just watch him in front of the net and in the cor-ner, his determination and drive to win battles, that’s how we express it in college hock-ey,” Eaves said. “Not so much with the fighting, but with his ability to compete in the cor-ners and the hard areas of the rink. He’s very good at it.”

When he talks about Rob Ramage as a player in the 1980s, Eaves uses a lot of the same words he might employ to describe the junior defense-man currently on his roster—the one who wears number 55, the same number his dad was wearing when he lifted the Stanley Cup in ‘89.

Another member of the Wisconsin program, wom-

en’s hockey head coach Mark Johnson, played alongside Rob Ramage for part of the 1985 season in St. Louis.

Back then, teammates called the forward Johnson “Magic” for what he could do with a puck. Like his son would hear a couple of decades later, they called the hard-nosed defense-man with a wicked shot and a tough demeanor “Rammer.”

“If somebody wanted to take liberties with certain players

on your team, you had other players within your group that made sure that wasn’t going to happen, and if it did, it wasn’t going to happen very often,” Johnson said.

That was Ramage, who amassed 2,226 career penalty minutes.

“Rob had the ability to play different ways. If he wanted to play a finesse game, he could play that way,” Johnson said. “If he wanted to get physical and drop the mitts, he wasn’t

shy in that category either.”His father’s experience cer-

tainly impacted the way John Ramage learned hockey, but shaping the young player as well were those old players he learned from growing up. The ones who, like his father, knew the game in its tougher days and gave him the kind of work ethic that comes from the 1980s style of hockey.

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Men’s Hockey

The captainand his father

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Today, Wisconsin boasts a hard-nosed defenseman named Ramage who can score from the blue line. In the 1980s, the St. Louis Blues could say the same.

Story by Nico SavidgePart two of three

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