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Chazen addition open to students, faculty and staff

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By Scott Girardthe daily cardinal

After more than two years of con-struction, the new addition to the Chazen Museum of Art opened to UW-Madison students, staff and faculty Thursday.

Primary donors Simona and Jerome Chazen cut the ceremonial ribbon Thursday morning, and hundreds of stu-dents and staff flooded in to tour the muse-

um’s new addition.UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward,

who attended the ceremony, said the Chazen Museum of Art has become an “anchor of the university community.”

“People like to talk about out of class-room experience being indispensible to a university education,” Ward said. “This symbolizes that so wonderfully.”

Employees took visitors on tours of the

three-story, 86,000 square foot building, leading them across the glass-windowed bridge that connects the two sections of the museum.

Overlooking East Campus Mall and Lake Mendota, the bridge offers “one of the best views on campus,” according to Chazen Director of Art Russell Panczenko.

Students report ‘pregnant’ woman scamming on campusBy Taylor Harveythe daily cardinal

Campus and city domestic abuse pre-vention groups have reported a woman using the pretense of domestic violence to extort money from students and others around the downtown area.

One student, who asked to remain anon-ymous, said “Misty Gaines” approached her on Library Mall saying she was depressed, three months pregnant and in an abusive relationship.

The student, a sophomore, said she fell for the story and ultimately, “under pres-sure,” gave Gaines $100 for a hotel, believ-

ing Gaines when she said all the Madison shelters were full.

When the student called police after the incident, the officer confirmed he recognized Gaines’ name, and identified her as “one of Madison’s con artists.”

According to Shannon Barry, executive director of Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, a Madison women’s shelter, the facility does not turn away any woman who seeks help.

Gaines and similar con artists misuse the shelter’s name to obtain money, Barry said.

“I think it’s concerning at this level because other people who do need our ser-

vices, if they hear about this, wouldn’t even bother calling us for help,” Barry said. “We want to make sure that people do call us for help when they need us.”

According to Barry, “about seven people” have reported Gaines’ scamming attempts to DAIS.

Student group Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) also con-firmed at least four of its members have been approached by Gaines.

PAVE Peer Facilitator Jayne Jones, who was approached on State Street, said Gaines told her she was looking for money for a cab to get to a battered women’s shel-

ter in McFarland because “the shelter in Madison was full.”

Jones said the woman, a little heavyset with a lip piercing, claimed she was six months pregnant.

Jones did not give the woman any money in part, she said, because she knows DAIS is “the only shelter in Dane County, and it’s in Madison,” Jones said.

“The best thing to do is let these people know that there are resources available to them, and have them contact a Madison Police Officer,” MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said. “We will get the resources to them if they need.”

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chazen director of art russell Panczenko led a media tour through the newly opened chazen Museum of art addition (left). afterward, students, faculty and staff explored the building while taking in the exhibits (right).

MCSC denied fundingBy alex Wolfthe daily cardinal

The Student Services Finance Committee denied the Multicultural Student Coalition’s request to receive fund-ing Thursday.

By a vote of 7-5, the SSFC ruled MCSC did not meet the requirement of allotting over 50 percent of its organizational time to providing direct services to students.

MCSC representatives said the group, which requested over $250,000 for 2012-2013, was “disappointed” in the ruling, and plans to appeal.

“MCSC is not one to take a decision and just let it stay,” said MCSC executive Althea Miller. “If we don’t agree with it, we’re going to fight it by any means necessary.”

In their eligibility hearing, MCSC esti-mated a majority of their time was dedicat-ed to providing direct student services. But SSFC Rep. Cale Plamann was among the seven committee members who disagreed.

“Over the summer, the group made some major restructuring without paying close attention to the criteria,” said Plamann.

Plamann said a major reason why some committee members voted to deny eligibil-ity was the way MCSC classified compo-nents of their media service division as direct services.

According to Plamann, some of those services listed by MCSC were similar to those already provided by the Digital Media Center and the Multicultural Student Center, programs funded by the university.

Miller said MCSC strongly disagreed with the argument that certain their services

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The electoral College Dropout Columnist Zach Tomae believes potential changes in Wisconsin’s

electoral college will devalue the state’s role in the 2012 elections.

A century of musicUW-Madison’s Pro arte Quartet is celebrating its centennial this year.

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Witte burns, freshmen celebrate

By Haley HenschelTHE DAILY CARDINAL

Witte Residence Hall burned down in a freak fire early Thursday morning. No residents or staff were injured.

Multiple fire alarms went off at 615 W. Johnson St. around 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct 19. All six of the residents in the building at the time were evac-uated safely despite the layers of vomit and Keystone that had started to gelatinize on several flights of stairs.

“It was actually pretty easy to get everyone out quickly,” Witte house fellow Hillary Rennigan said. “We just told them that there were free shots out on the street.”

Investigators are still try-ing to determine the source of the fire, although many spec-ulate that university officials

set it purposely because they couldn’t stand the sight of the shithole anymore.

Despite this unfortunate event, Witte residents seem to be pleased with the outcome of the incident.

“My only question is why didn’t this happen sooner?” freshman Witte resident Benjamin Mooring. “It looks better now than it did before the fire.”Sellery residents have

been crowding the site for the past 12 hours trying to get a glimpse of what was formerly known as “Shitty Witte.”

“To tell you the truth, I’m actually kind of jeal-ous,” Sellery resident Adam Merhelm said.

There are reports of resi-dents of Elizabeth Waters also trying to leave their dorm to visit the scene of the renova-tions, but they keep getting lost

on the way out. Witte residents will not

be allowed to live in the new building until health inspec-tors examine the facility. In the meantime, students will be able to sleep on sheets of cardboard clustered together on the side-walk. Officials said they hope that this will help the residents feel as comfortable as they did in the old building.

“Renovation” hailed as vast improvement over old facility

Witte Residence Hall burned to the ground, leaving hundreds of UW-Madison students homeless, without posessions and much more satisfied with the building’s aesthetic.

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ASM praises ASM on new initiative to help improve conditions for ASMBy Maida N. WolfTHE DAILY CARDINAL

The Associated Students of Madison passed legislation Wednesday that will “really ben-efit” student council, ASM lead-ers said.

“ASM will be better organized and more e!ective thanks to this legislation,” ASM Chair Allie Gardner told The Daily Cardinal. “We’re very excited for ASM.”

ASM representative and Student Services Finance Committee Chair Sarah Niebart said SSFC was also pleased with the new policy.

“This will save money and benefit ASM as a whole,” Niebart said, adding after a pause, “and it will probably help the student body, too.”

Despite positive reviews from ASM members, bitter former student representatives writ-ing for campus blog, North Park Street, released a scathing review of the new policy.

“Alley Gardener doesn’t know what she’s doing, and Sarah Niburt keeps fucking shit up,” the blog post said. “And don’t get us started on that Multiculture Student Coalition.”

Former SSFC Vice Chair and current North Park Street blog-ger Brandon Williams said he plans to send student council another press release “basical-ly telling ASM to stop fucking up, except we really mean it this time.”

But a recent campus poll found the majority of UW-Madison stu-dents “don’t give a shit what ASM does,” according to the most common write-in response.

The Daily Cardinal tried to interview a broad sampling of the UW students to gauge cam-pus reactions toward the new policy, but were unable to elicit a response from most students.

“Um… I don’t really know,” one senior, Ida Givanef, said. “What’s an ASM?”

Heroin surpasses dairy products as Wisconsin’s top export

Travelers from far and wide are flocking to Madison to sample the state’s newest chief export—heroin.

With heroin usage on the rise in Madison and across the state, it may not be long before the ubiqui-tous cheese hats and curds of nov-elty fame are replaced by gummy hypodermic needles and inflatable Pyrex tubes in stores across State Street, according to the City of Madison’s Secretary for Drug Use and Dairy Regulations Clarence O’Toole.

“These things spread like wild-fire,” O’Toole, a lover of the hit series “Breaking Bad, said in an interview.“I wouldn’t be surprised

if heroin’s growing popularity forces the government’s hand and leads to legalization.”

An avid fan of the Prohibition-Era television series “Boardwalk Empire”, DUDR secretary thinks that heroin legalization could help turn the state’s fortunes around.

“This stu! has a following that cheese and other dairy products will never have,” he said. “You don’t see people standing in line outside of the Taco Bell to buy a bag full of queso sauce.”

Moo Inc., Madison’s union of milk-producing cows and goats, declined to comment.

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Adam MerhelmFreshman

Sellery Resident

“To tell you the truth, I’m actually kind of jealous.”

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MembersoftheMulticulturalStudentcoalitionspokeduringopenforumattheStudentServicesFinancecommitteeeligiblitymeeting.McScsaidtheyplantoappealtheruling.

Police launch investigation of 36 Regent-area burglariesBy Taylor Harveythedailycardinal

The Madison Police Department is investigating 36 residential burglaries that have occurred in the Regent Street area since Sept. 1 where most victims are students, Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain said Thursday.

According to DeSpain, police have some concern these burglar-ies are being perpetrated by hero-in addicts.

“We certainly do know we are dealing with this [heroin] epidemic,” DeSpain said. “There

is at least the possibility that people who are committing these crimes are people trying to get money for heroin.”

Investigators indicated crimi-nals have targeted laptop com-puters and other small electron-ics and, for the most part, usu-ally make entry through unlocked doors, according to police.

DeSpain said when it was warmer weather, many burglars would cut through screen doors or climb through open windows.

“A lot of these addresses are off-campus housing and there are many times where students do

not lock doors for one reason or another,” DeSpain said. “I would urge people to keep their doors locked and windows secured even when they are there.”

DeSpain said students should also hide laptop computers and other small electronics when they are away.

Police said burglaries have also occurred on Mound Street, North Breese Terrace, University Avenue and Lathrop Street.

DeSpain said police have made some arrests and there is a possi-bility some of the burglaries could be connected.

Bill would prohibit use of state funds for abortionsBy Mckenna Kohlenbergthedailycardinal

The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that prohibits coverage of abortions by health insurance plans offered through provisions in federal healthcare law.

Health benefit exchanges, cre-ated through The Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, are federally certi-fied and regulated marketplaces that assist citizens and business-es in accessing health insurance plans that qualify for govern-ment subsidies.

This act enables states to pre-vent state funding for abortions by qualified health plans offered through the exchanges.

Thursday’s bill, if passed in the assembly, will completely pre-vent state funding for abortions in Wisconsin.

Per the bill, state funds can-not be used to pay for an abor-tion unless a woman’s survival is threatened by her pregnancy or if her pregnancy results from a legally reported instance of sexual assault or incest.

Sen. Rich Zipperer, R-Pewaukee

who supports the passing of the bill, said, “Taxpayers are going to be forced to subsidize abor-tion” if states had been allowed to fund abortions through federal exchanges.

Wisconsin Right to Life, the largest pro-life organization in the state, also supports the bill. Executive Director Barbara Lyons said the bill “continues the decade-long tradition of public policy where the taxpayer does not have to pay for abortion.”

Democrats insist the bill limits the type of insurance that citizens are allowed to buy.

Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, said the bill mirrors a state mandate on private insur-ance healthcare plans. The bill is an “expansion of state government prohibiting what private plans can do selling to private citizens,” said Vinehout.

“How far does government grow? Where do we cross the line?” said Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison.

Vinehout proposed to refer the bill back to the Committee on Senate Organization, but the motion failed.

The bridge connects the new addition with the old building from 1970, making them “one harmonious, continuing build-ing,” he said.

The museum now has 44,500 square feet of gallery space to dis-play artwork. The gallery space in the new addition will be used for both permanent and tempo-rary exhibits.

Current featured exhibits in the museum include a collection of watercolor paintings by art-ist Sean Scully, pieces from the Chazens’ personal collection, and works from the collection of Leslie and Johanna Garfield, who have collected art for over six decades.

The addition also includes

a 160-seat auditorium and two spaces for students and the public to study art, an oppor-tunity Panczenko said students did not previously have. He said staff had to take students to the storage area to study art in the old building.

The Chazens, who donated $25 million of the $43 million total project cost, said they were happy to contribute because of the important role the arts play on campus.

“Art is the defining measure of the importance of any civiliza-tion. It never gets enough play as were living our lives day to day,” Jerome Chazen said. “People worry about economics and all these other things it takes people to live, but art is what lasts.”

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City officials, police hopeful for this year’s Freakfest

voter iD Law comes under fire in municipal court suit

By stephanie Castillothedailycardinal

Police said they forsee minimal problems Halloween weekend at a city meeting where city officials discussed last minute Freakfest updates and changes Thursday.

“Everything is so well run,” Madison Police Lieutenant Dave McCaw said. “The key is that it’s a sponsored event, so it ends. We’re able to predict overtime, which lowers our cost.”

Lieutenant McCaw said only 44 arrests were made last year, which was “a giant decrease in com-

parison to previous years when Freakfest was not sponsored.”

The Madison Police Department will have five teams out on State Street to ensure safety of event-goers.

Madison resident Rosemary Lee said at the meeting that it is not just the students who get rowdy on Halloween.

“The rudest, most intoxicat-ed people I have encountered were people well over 35,” Lee said. “It is the so-called adults who are just as problematic, if not more so.”

Freakfest will be organized by local promotion company Frank Productions who said they will not make any signifi-cant changes, operationally or timeline wise, from last year.

“Last year, from our stand-point, everything ran pretty smoothly, so we didn’t make changes to the stage or fencing,” Frank Productions representa-tive Charlie Goldstone said.

City officials will fence off State Street at 6 p.m. Tickets will be accepted at 7 p.m. The event will last until 1:30 a.m.

By Jack Caseythedailycardinal

A lawsuit challenging the con-stitutionality of the heavily contest-ed Wisconsin Voter Identification Law was filed in Dane County Circuit Court yesterday.

Brought by The League of Women’s Voters of Wisconsin Educational Network, the suit claims the law violates the rights of low-income voters under the state constitution.

The Voter Identification Law requires voters to present valid state identification at polling places in order to gain entry. Valid identification is limited to

documentation that includes a date of birth, a signature and a valid expiration date.

Under the Wisconsin State Constitution, legislators are only permitted to restrict the voting rights of convicted felons and those deemed “incompe-tent.” The lawsuit claims that the Voter ID law oversteps that legal boundary.

According to a spokesper-son from The Women’s Voters of Wisconsin Educational Network, the law disenfranchis-es voters who lack the resources to obtain state IDs.

“The people most likely to be

disenfranchised by the new law are those who not only do not currently have an ID, but those who will find it difficult to get one before upcoming elections... the elderly, the disabled, low-income people and students,” she said.

In response to the lawsuit, Gov. Scott Walker released a statement claiming that the pro-visions defend the state’s elec-toral integrity.

“Requiring photo identifica-tion to vote is common sense—we require it to get a library card, cold medicine and public assistance,” Walker said.

were duplicated by the MSC.“Our services are much

richer and more applicable to students,” Miller said. “[MSC’s] services don’t begin to scratch the surface of what we offer.”

SSFC Rep. David Vines,

who voted in favor of eligibility, agreed with Miller’s sentiments.

In the media service division, Vines said MCSC allows students to acquire multimedia skills in a peer-to-peer setting, something significantly different from any-thing offered by the university, including the DMC and MSC.

Vines said he felt MCSC’s direct services met SSFC’s criteria.

“We took their conservative estimates [of direct services] and completely dismantled it by saying that the university pro-vides substantial, direct servic-es where, really, that is not the case,” said Vines.

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ElectoralchangesbadforWisconsin

I really tried not to like Rep. Dan LeMahieu’s plan to allocate Wisconsin’s Electoral College votes by congressional district, following a scheme known as the Congressional District Method.

Sure, the assemblyman from Cascade has proposed what looks like a blatant power-grab: since Democrats usually win Wisconsin’s popular vote, all of our Electoral College votes go to Democrats, even though they don’t win by very much. Under the new plan, the winner of the popular vote would only get two electoral votes; the rest would go to whoever won the popu-lar vote in each congressional dis-trict (meaning the Republican could get partial credit for their strong-holds in the state). Sure, the plan is just another piece of a Republican plan to change Electoral College rules to their benefit (left-leaning Pennsylvania is currently debat-ing the same plan, while blood-red Nebraska is considering going the other way, to give Republicans all of their electoral votes). Sure, this plan may disrupt the bal-ance in the always-controversial Electoral College.

But even knowing all of these

things, I can’t make myself dislike this plan. In fact, I think I see the logic of it: adopting the congres-sional district method in Wisconsin would make our presidential elec-tions more fair.

It’s pretty plain that the Electoral College has problems. Proportionally, voters in smaller states are better off than those in larger ones because their votes count for more (since there is a limit to how few electors a state can have, and the larger states don’t have enough electors to make up for this head start). However, most of the time, both big and small states are ignored, with only a few states get-ting attention. This is because the outcome in most states is a foregone conclusion, giving the candidates no reason to visit. Only a few states have competitive presidential elec-tions, so these states, Wisconsin among them, effectively decide who wins. This means that presiden-tial candidates will skip over many states to visit a few. Since these states are usually the same every time, their interests are over-rep-resented (ever wonder why Iowan ethanol subsidies are so sacred? This is part of the reason).

We could fix this by getting rid of the Electoral College, or effec-tively getting rid of it by convincing enough states to give their votes to the winner of the national popu-lar vote—after all, the framers of the U.S. constitution didn’t tell us

not to. Personally, I’d like to see the Electoral College disappear, but I think LeMahieu has a secret plan to make it better while we wait.

Since Wisconsin is a swing state, it gets more than its fair share of attention in presidential elections. However, if we adopted the congres-sional district method, we wouldn’t be making the election fairer for everyone. Wisconsin’s Electoral College votes are valuable because they all come together, even if the winner only wins by a little bit. But what would happen if they didn’t? Well, Madison and Milwaukee, at the very least, would push their dis-tricts to the left, predictably electing

Democrats. But since Wisconsin is a swing state, if there are a lot of predictably Democratic voters, there have to be a lot of predictably Republican voters as well, to bal-ance them out.

In the end, even though statewide races are close, most districts are already in the bag for one of the candidates. Now, instead of a whole state to fight for, candidates get to come to Wisconsin for the crumbs that are left over; Wisconsin would no longer get much national atten-tion during the election.

LeMahieu said that he wanted to “protect the vote in congressio-

nal districts that typically vote con-trary to the statewide vote,” such as those he represents. However, it seems he’s nice enough to pro-tect the votes of people outside his district, too—all over the country, in fact! Forget the appearance of partisanship; this bill might be the most selfless thing ever written in the Wisconsin Assembly.

I guess the only question is this: what if LeMahieu does not realize the unintended conse-quences of the legislation?

Zach Thomae is a freshman majoring in computer science. Please send all feedback to opinion@dai-lycardinalcom.

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The proposed electoral college changes could lessen Wisconsin’s value in presidential elections. Thus candidates may be less interested in appealing to the state as Obama did in 2009

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Eatin’ Cake 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

MOON KINGS

ACROSS 1 Ignores at a

ceremony 6 Insignificant bit 10 Assam and pekoe 14 Bone-chilling 15 “Nautical” prefix 16 “Be kind to critters”

org. 17 Enough to wet one’s

whistle 18 Boon to Aladdin 19 Compassionate

feeling 20 Attempted to no avail 23 “Boom-bah” lead-in 24 Bausch & Lomb

product 25 Chalked stick 26 Excruciating pain 28 Previously used by

Shakespeare? 29 Catch on to 30 Conventioneer’s

passport 32 Jiffy 33 Shark’s milieu 34 “Aloha”

accompaniments 35 Lung-heart connector 39 Tuscan river 40 John, to a Brit

41 “___ in cat” (part of an early lesson)

42 Whose 1867 folly? 44 Appeared in the

paper 45 300 cubit-long vessel 48 Children’s author R.L.

___ 49 It contains a human

drum 50 “Hard ___!” (helm

command) 51 Wrath 52 NEWS indicator? 56 Cooling pie place 58 Rhine tributary 59 Like certain cereals 60 “Voila!” 61 Diva’s offering 62 Attack from all

directions 63 Stone and Stallone 64 Dash gauge 65 Church dignitary

DOWN 1 Agree out of court 2 “___ My God to Thee” 3 Bearish 4 Takes the bait 5 Budding prospect? 6 Waldorf salad

ingredient 7 “Everybody lift

together!”

8 “ ___ la Douce” 9 African antelope 10 1/192 qt. 11 “The Phantom

Menace” title part 12 Playing a part from 13 More than acquiesces 21 How many like their

beer 22 Apprehend 27 Amounts of laughter 29 Diamond or ruby 30 Front closing? 31 Where you might

drop off a child 32 ___-Kettering Institute 33 Start of many

Brazilian city names 35 When depositions are

taken 36 Awkward to carry 37 Tel. book figures 38 Furniture mover’s aid 39 Basketball stat 43 FF opposite 44 Gung-ho 45 Having wings 46 Go back on a deal 47 Better honed 49 Set of principles 50 “... but to no ___” 53 Part of Q.E.D. 54 Glow 55 Thorny bloom 57 ___ Cruces, N.M.

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If you were to ask around the Cardinal office you’d find out that electronic music is normally the bane of my exis-tence. It’s not that I don’t con-sider it music, I just prefer the full band sound.

I finally found a dubstep song that I like. When it hap-pened there were cries of jubila-tion from a select few people in the office. Even after going to Bonnaroo, I couldn’t fathom the draw of this music phenomenon.

Pinn Panelle’s cover of Skrillex’s “Scary Sprites and Nice

Monsters” blew my mind though. The band actually plays the song with a live drummer, a bass gui-tar player who does the dirty sub-bass live, with a bass guitar and other assorted musicians.

Take a look at the video on YouTube and tell me that the drop isn’t amazing. I’ll wait.

The song isn’t all that struc-turally different from the origi-nal, but the sound is so radically new and exciting. Without any of the hollowness that normally comes from electronic drums and manufactured bass I can definitely get into dubstep.

Using Source Audio’s Hot Hand setup the band’s bass-ist is able to play the sub-bass frequencies normally created using a low-frequency oscil-

lator. This allows for a much more organic sound.

When something doesn’t sound organic it makes it dif-ficult for me to listen to, and the way that the guitar plays with the bass and sub-bass on this track is great when layered over the top of a live drummer.

But is that natural sound all it takes to make good electronic

music? I can’t honestly answer that. I can acknowledge that Bassnectar and Skrillex are tal-ented in their field, but I can’t picture myself listening to their recorded mixes on my own for the hell of it.

It really takes that live com-ponent for me. Solo mixes can be cool, I’ve found many artists that just record them-selves playing multiple instru-ments to create unique works and covers. But I don’t want to listen to some guy and his Macbook making random nois-es for three hours.

There is a lot of electronic music out there, and I’m by no means an expert, but as more of the music breaks into the main-stream I find myself encoun-

tering more artists like Pinn Panelle. Taking what was a super underground sound and doing something new with it in a live setting is great. Making it more accessible to people that may not like the electronic sound is genius.

Bands like EOTO have been experimenting with this since dubstep was first hitting it big in the U.K. With Bassnectar and Skrillex blowing up in the last year, I’m willing to bet that electronic music’s heyday is just beginning.

Do you think electronic music is past its prime? Are Bassnectar and Skrillex just absolutely your jams? Are you looking to start up a live dubstep band? E-mail Jeremy at [email protected], and enlighten him.

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The Pro Arte Quartet (PAQ) has several events planned in order to allow

student, alumni and the Madison community to bask in the glory of this world-renowned quartet.

The PAQ was founded in 1911. They are the first actively perform-ing quartet to reach the centenni-al mark with violinist Alphonse Onnou as the original leader. Along with three other students of the Brussels Conservatory, the newly formed PAQ made their debut in Brussels, Belgium. Their reputation blossomed in 1919 as they began touring. They drew the attention of major composers such as Bartok, Honegger and Milhaud who provided the quar-tet with pieces to produce.

The PAQ took the United States by storm when they per-formed at the inauguration of the Hall of Music at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. The group eventually returned for a

total of 30 American tours. They made their debut in Madison in 1938 when the group found them-selves stranded after Hitler’s invasion of Belgium and the out-break of World War II made the PAQ unable to return home. The UW-Madison chancellor at the time, Clarence A. Dykstra, offered the Pro Arte Quartet a permanent home within the university.

The permanent residency of the quartet was the first of its kind ever seen at a major American University, and it served as the model for many similar arrange-ments to follow at other institu-tions. The original founder, Onnou, died in 1940 but PAQ as the quartet in residence until 1947. It became the faculty quartet in the 1950s and has remained as that since.

Today’s quartet is made up of David Perry and Suzanne Biea on violin, Sally Chisholm on viola and Parry Karp on vio-loncello. They have been play-

ing together for the past sixteen seasons and Karp had been part of PAQ for a record 35 seasons.

To commemorate this remarkable milestone, the Pro Arte Quartet has prepared a series of four American Premieres. These Premieres are spread out over this year and are comprised of works by major

composers. Each premiere will be accompanied by a lecture from a prominent critic, a gala dinner and a pre-concert presen-tation, along with dessert served afterwards. Each of these events will premieres will be free to the public, except for dinners, which will be available at an extra cost.

The first American Premiere takes place this weekend, coincid-ing with the opening of the Chazen Art Museum. The PAQ is perform-ing works composed by Walter Mays to kick off the centennial celebration on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. in Mills Hall. Mays is a world-renowned composer, whose first string quartet, in G Minor, which was commissioned by The Pro Arte Quartet was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Mr. Mays will be on campus this week giving lectures in the School of Music, giving presentations to the public, helping coach the first per-formance, and being present for recording purposes. Additionally, the PAQ will be featuring work by Paul Schoenfield in November, William Bolcom in March and John Harbison in April.

The impact of the group on this university is outstanding. Since 1940, each of the quartet members has taught individual classes and given lectures in the UW-Madison School of Music. The members of the quartet make a conscious effort to

pass their musical knowledge along to the next generation of music lov-ers, and possible future members of the quartet. Additionally, they provide an extra outlet for artistic familiarity on campus.

“We expose people to classi-cal music, which is some of the greatest art ever made,” Karp said. “Madison is such a vibrant community, and we bring addi-tional cultural awareness.”

What’s the best part of being part of the quartet? According to Karp, “It has to be the amaz-ing repertoire we work with. Our companions, our friends, and partners everyday are none other than the greatest composers such as Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Mozart.” The passion that each member of the quartet has is felt through their vibrant performances and impassioned lectures. Anyone who sees them in action can feel the newly instilled appreci-ation for classical string music.

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In 1932, the PAQ was titled the Quatuo de la Cour de Belgique in recognition of their contribution to Belgian music. They will be releasing their Belgian Premieres recording.

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The quartet performs five live radio broadcasts per year for the Chazen Museum of Art and are releasing a book recording the professional history of the PAQ written by John Barker.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is proud to be the home of the Pro

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Minnesota, we’ve had good competition up to this point,” Johnson said. “It’ll be no differ-ent this weekend in both games.”

In fact, Wisconsin has played more top-ten opponents than any other top-ten team. Senior forward Brooke Ammerman would not have it any other way.

“We’re all very competi-tive,” Ammerman said. “I think we’d rather play in these games all year than have not quite that competition.”

Although the Badgers are

used to the high level of com-petition, they have yet to face the difficulties of playing on the road this season.

“To start off with a road trip at Minnesota Duluth is kind of like jumping in the fire,” Ammerman said. “We just have to get the younger players excited and bring energy and keep the pres-sure off them.”

Minnesota Duluth has played just one top-ten opponent this season. The Bulldogs split a home series against then-No. 5 Boston College two weeks ago.

This weekend will be

Minnesota Duluth’s first WCHA action of the season. It could not ask for a bigger stage than a home series against the defend-ing national champions.

“These games are exciting,” Ammerman said. “Every time you play them, you can’t wait. When you get those wins or those defeats, they hurt more or they feel better.”

Senior forward Haley Irwin is one of the Bulldogs’ key players.

“She’s big, she’s strong and she’s got a very good set of hands,” Johnson said of Irwin. “When she’s on the ice and she’s got the puck, you have to be con-scious of making sure that you play her one-on-one.”

Sophomore goaltender Alex Rigsby is used to preparing for offensive threats.

“I just have to be aware of where they are on the ice at all times,” Rigsby said. “I just have to play my game.”

The Badgers appear to have the right mindset going into Minnesota Duluth. Johnson will simply look for his team to out-work the Bulldogs.

“We’ll see how we react,” Johnson said. “We’ve played pretty well at home and now we’re going to see how we do col-lectively on the road.”

changes to his lineup for this weekend against the Fighting Sioux. Freshman forward Joseph LaBate moves up to skate on the top line with Barnes and sopho-more forward Mark Zengerle, and sophomore forward Michael Mersch moves down from the top unit to play with junior for-ward Derek Lee and freshman forward Matt Paape.

“We’re trying to stimulate,” Eaves said. “We changed a few things to try and stimulate some-thing that works.”

Lee says he is confident that the line shuffle will prove benefi-cial this weekend against UND.

“It’s always good to mix things up,” he said. “Me and Mersch have worked well this week and

that top line with LaBate on there now is looking real good too. So hopefully it works this weekend, I’m sure it will be good.”

North Dakota comes into the Kohl Center carrying the No. 6 ranking in the country. This is a huge conference series for the Badgers and they say that it hasn’t been hard to get pumped up to play against a big rival like the Fighting Sioux.

“It’s a challenge, it’s competi-tive and that’s something that all of us take very seriously,” Barnes said. “We have a good team com-ing in and you really want to stick it to them.”

“I like being the underdog,” he added. “When you have guys coming in thinking that they are better you want to show them up.”

By Rex Shieldthe daily cardinal

The Wisconsin Women’s Soccer Team (3-2-3 Big Ten, 8-5-3 overall) returns home to the McClimon Soccer Complex for their final weekend series against Purdue on Friday at 7 p.m. and Indiana on Sunday at 1 p.m. after playing their last three games on the road.

The Boilermakers (3-4-1 Big Ten, 6-9-2 overall) started off the Big Ten season 0-2-1 but, as of late,won their last two of three games, beating Ohio State and Indiana. In those two wins, the Purdue offense was extremely effective, scoring two goals in four minutes against the Buckeyes in a 2-1 win and tying a program record with eight goals against Indiana in a 8-2 win. Purdue’s offense boasts newly named Big Ten Freshmen of the Week, Chinyelu Asher, as she scored two goals and assist-ed on another against Indiana on Thursday.

“With [Purdue] coming off that hot of a streak, we have to make sure to get good pressure on the ball and staying compact as a unit is going to be pretty important,” head coach Paula Wilkins said. “Letting them have opportunities to get shots off, they have proven they can get results.”

The Hoosiers (2-6-0 Big Ten,

6-9-1 overall) have struggled thus far in the Big Ten as they have lost three straight games to Penn State, 3-0, Ohio State, 8-2, and Michigan State, 2-1. During that stretch, they were outscored 13-3. Their lone wins in the conference have come against Nebraska, 2-1, and Northwestern, 1-0. The Hoosiers are led defensively by senior goalkeeper Lindsay Campbell who allows on-average two goals a game with a save per-centage of 73 percent. Offensively, they are led by Colombia native Orianica Velasquez, who leads the team with seven goals and 16 total points.

Wisconsin is currently

No. 5 in the Big Ten stand-ings with 12 points with three games remaining to solid-ify their seeding for the Big Ten Conference Tournament. Even though the Badgers have dropped in the standings as of late, Wilkins is still confident in her team.

“This team for the last two years have dealt with the pres-sures of getting into the NCAA [tournament] and being in the NCAA [tournament],” Wilkins said. “They are a mature team that understands what pressure is and I think that this expe-rience will help them in the stretch of these three games.”

you have to win on the road,” Henry said. “Anybody can win at home when they’re com-fortable, when they’re in their element. Once you get on the road where its just you and the guys you practice with and the coaches, you’re truly out of your comfort zone.”

On the defense, the Badgers have done a great job all season of getting off the field and giving their prolific offense an opportunity to

thrive. After allowing the Spartans to convert on nine third-down and two fourth-down chances in last years defeat, Wisconsin knows that third down defense will be a crucial factor in the outcome Saturday night.

“I think that defensive line-wise we are more productive on getting pressure, getting sacks,” Allen said. “Last year we had one big play maker and this year I feel like we have play makers all over our D-line.”

With Saturday marking

the beginning of a stretch that has UW on the road for four of their next five games, the Badgers are well aware that now is the time to make a state-ment that they can win any-where they go.

“[Last year’s loss] gives us motivation to prove that we’re a better team on the road than we were last year,” sopho-more defensive lineman Ethan Hemer said. “Its about us prov-ing that we’re an elite program and we can play anywhere.”

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freshmen defender aJ cochran will be called upon to contain northwesterns biggest threat in senior forward Oliver Kupe.

Big Ten supremacy free for the takingBy Dylan Flaksthe daily cardinal

The UW Men’s Soccer Team (3-0-0 Big Ten, 7-5-2 overall) will have short time to prepare for their next contest after their loss to Green Bay on Wednesday night. The Badgers will face the Northwestern Wildcats (2-0-1, 7-4-3), the second-place team in the Big Ten Conference, on Sunday in Evanston, Ill. at 1 p.m.

Northwestern is no joke and could quickly become Wisconsin’s hardest game of the year thus far. Sure, Indiana was tough, but the red and white played that game at home. They will have to travel for their second straight road game to an environment where the Wildcats are clearly more than comfortable, boasting a record of 5-1-1.

Not only are they outstand-ing at home, their one loss came Aug. 26th in the season opener. Northwestern is also riding a three game win streak as well as victories in four of their last five.

What will be vital to Wisconsin’s success? Scoring in the first period. The Wildcats have scored nine goals in the first half this year, but have given up just three. They have ,however, given up nine goals in the second period scoring only eight. If Wisconsin can tally one in the first 45, they could have a chance to beat Northwestern, assuming they do not give any up. Wisconsin will not only have difficulty scoring on the staunch first-half defense of Northwestern,

it seems that they may even run into problems getting shots off. If Wisconsin imitates anything close to the first half of the Green Bay game—they record-ed zero shots in the half—they will be in a huge hole, as the Wildcats give up only half as many shots in the first half as they take.

The Wisconsin defense will have to watch out for senior forward Oliver Kupe. Kupe has scored six goals this season so far, twice as many as any-one else on the team. Simply looking at size, Kupe has an advantage; At 6-feet-3 and 185 pounds. it is no wonder he is hard to stop.

The Badgers might have the perfect match for this threat, as AJ Cochran, W i s c o n s i n ’ s star freshman defender, will likely match up against Kupe, who stands as tall as Cochran.

W i s c o n s i n will need to strike early to have any hope of winning this game. This will be Wisconsin’s second road game in the Big Ten, the first resulting in a win against Michigan in a rather hostile environment, but this one is different. This one will prove whether Wisconsin belongs atop the Big Ten standings. Oh, and to make stakes higher, the winner of this game will have outright control of the Big Ten Conference.

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Coming into the season, it was expected that the Wisconsin men’s hockey team (0-2 WCHA, 1-3 overall), containing 20 fresh-man and sophomores, would face its fair share of adversity, but the hope is that the youth on this team will learn from those experiences and grow.

The Badgers find themselves with a 1-3 record in this young season, with all three losses coming in overtime. UW was swept on the road by perennial WCHA cellar dweller Michigan Tech in two overtime losses, but this inexperienced roster has put that disappointment out of their minds in order to focus on their next challenge—a two-game date with No. 6 North Dakota this weekend.

“That’s the beautiful thing about hockey,” sophomore for-ward Tyler Barnes said, “Last weekend is over and you get two more to focus on this weekend.”

Despite the 1-3 start, the Wisconsin coaching staff and players have liked what they have seen on the ice so far this season.

“We’ve battled each game and have been right there along with everybody,” freshman forward

Brad Navin said. “We could be 4-0. We’ve been in every game, we just have to find a way to fin-ish it. We’re a young team, but we can’t use that as an excuse.”

“We are young and resilient and people are learning every weekend,” Barnes added. “There is always something positive to look forward to in the future.”

Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves took a page out of UW head football coach Bret Bielema’s book as he described what the mentality of this young Badgers team has to be

moving forward.“Right now we want to be 1-0

on Friday and 1-0 on Saturday,” Eaves said. “I think if we have that mentality that speaks to the concept of controlling what we can control and that gives us the best chance of doing what we want to do.”

In order to try and jump-start the Badgers’ offense (which has scored only seven goals in four games) and be able to put games away late, Eaves made some

By Max Sternbergthe daily cardinal

While Wisconsin has rolled through the first six games of the season, winning all six by an average margin of over 40 points, not one has been a true road game. With the exception

of a neutral site game in Chicago against Northern Illinois, the Badgers (2-0 Big Ten, 6-0 overall) have yet to venture away from Camp Randall and that ultimate-ly is what has left them just No. 6 in the inaugural BCS rankings.

But this weekend UW hits the

road against a Michigan State team that is coming off their big-gest win of the season, over in-state rival Michigan, and is hun-gry to assert itself at the top of the Big Ten Legends Division. The Spartans (2-0, 5-1) beat Wisconsin in last season’s Big Ten opener

and are still spiteful after get-ting left out of the BCS picture because they finished in a three-way tie with UW and Ohio State at the top of the conference.

“There are a number of players that were not happy with their performance, including coaches,

including myself, after that game,” UW head coach Bret Bielema said. “Not necessarily because we lost, just because we didn’t play well and take pride in the way that you put things on film.”

“We are just trying to prove that we’re a better team than we were last year,” sophomore defensive lineman Beau Allen said. “One way to do that is obviously to beat a team that we didn’t beat last year.”

One of the intriguing points leading up to Saturday night’s kickoff is the similarities these teams share. As opposed to the more wide-open looks pre-sented by both Indiana and Nebraska, Michigan State,—much like the Badgers—is a true “Big Ten” team.

The Spartans are loaded with big-time backs and have been successful all year at using the run game to set up the passing attack led by senior quarterback Kirk Cousins.

“They’re gonna pound the ball, they’re gonna pound it and once they’re done pounding it, they’re gonna play action,” Wisconsin senior safety Aaron Henry said Wednesday. “The more and more I look at them, the more and more I see us.”

The knock on Wisconsin all season is that they have not been tested and with the Spartans coming in ranked No. 16 in the BCS standings, this is definitely an opportunity for the Badgers to silence the critics and move deeper into the national title conversation by notching a big road win in conference play.

“In order to be considered a championship-caliber team,

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the Wisconsin defensive line has shut down every opponent they faced this season. however, Kirk cousins and the Michigan State offense will be the first true test or the Badgers when they travel to east lansing Saturday night to play under the lights.

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in an attempt to reinvigorate his team, head coach Mike eaves moved freshmen forward Joseph laBate to the top line.

Clash of titans in Duluth: Wisconsin takes on Bulldogs in first road series

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together, Wisconsin and UMd have won the past six national championships. the two will meet in duluth this weekend.

By Vince huththe daily cardinal

The No. 1 Wisconsin women’s hockey team (3-1-0 WCHA, 5-1-0 overall) will play its first games outside the friendly confines of the Kohl Center this weekend when it travels to Minnesota Duluth to take on the No. 6 Bulldogs (0-0-0, 4-2-0).

To call it a hyped series would be an understatement, as the two teams have com-bined to claim the last six

NCAA championships.“We’ve had some pretty

good competition the past six or seven years,” head coach Mark Johnson said. “Obviously, going up there is going to be a challenge.”

The Badgers are in the midst of a challenging stretch in their season. This weekend will be Wisconsin’s third-consecutive series against a top-ten opponent.

“Playing North Dakota and

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