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State changes 2011 trend, gains jobs

By Mckenna KohlenbergThe Daily CarDinal

Although a Department of Workforce Development report released Thursday shows pos-itive job growth in January, it also revealed Wisconsin suffered substantial job losses in 2011.

The state gained 15,700 pri-vate-sector jobs this January, but lost private-sector jobs in five of the last six months and a total of 9,700 jobs in 2011.

The report shows that January’s unemployment rate is the lowest in a little over three years with a rate of 6.9 percent, down from 7 percent in Dec. 2011.

DWD Secretary Reginald Newson said the January job esti-mates show growth across most industries, and the 6.9 percent unemployment rate remains well below the national average.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said in a press release the numbers are “encouraging and show our reforms are continuing to take hold and are improving the eco-

nomic climate in Wisconsin.”But Democratic Party of

Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate disagreed with Fitzgerald, saying the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s revised numbers show Wisconsin had an overall job loss trend in 2011 and Walker’s policies are to blame.

Tate also said Walker can-not be credited for the addition of thousands of jobs in the state since January.

“The nation’s rising tide has lifted Scott Walker’s sinking ship, and we are all glad our friends and neighbors will finally see some of the relief that the rest of the nation has been experiencing for most of Scott Walker’s term,” Tate said.

Frustrated with the overall 2011 unemployment numbers, Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said in a statement he demands state lead-ers put a greater emphasis on creating jobs.

“While there is little time left in the spring legislative ses-sion and an agenda filled with extreme social bills, it is never too late to work together with a laser focus on job creation, as we have wanted to do for the past year,” Barca said.

‘Jungle’ Jack Hanna supports Vilas ZooBy Meghan Chua The Daily CarDinal

Wildlife expert Jack Hanna, who has been featured on “The Late Show with David Letterman” will join supporters of the Henry Vilas Zoo in a fund-raising event Saturday for a new arctic exhibit.

The sold-out event, “Take a Ride on the Wild Side With Jungle Jack Hanna,” is a dinner and entertainment event featuring Hanna and some of his wild animals organized by the Henry

Vilas Zoo to raise funds for its new Arctic Passage exhibit, which will house the zoo’s seals

and polar bear. The esti-mated $8 million project also includes a new ani-mal health center and concessions plaza.

“When you enter into Arctic Passage, you feel like you’ve been transported to the Arctic,” said Interim Zoo Director Ronda Schwetz.

Hanna hosted “Animal Adventures” for over 10 years

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Board of regents President Michael J. Spector presided over a meeting on financial aid and athletic Center renovations.

The names and addresses of those who signed a petition to recall Gov. Scott Walker or any of the four state senators up for recall are now online in a search-able database created Thursday.

Verify the Recall, a coalition effort of two tea party affiliated groups, Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty and We the People of the Republic, launched the data-base Thursday as part of their “initial promise in December 2011 to bring complete transpar-ency to the recall,” according to the website.

The data for Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who is also being targeted for recall, is not yet on the website.

While Republicans argue Verify the Recall should be allowed to file challenges to invalid signatures with the Government Accountability Board, which is responsible for reviewing the recall peti-tions, the Board said it would not accept challenges from third party groups.

The GAB decided not to cre-ate a searchable database of their own because people had security concerns since the peti-tions include the addresses of signees. Scanned copies of the petitions, however, are available on the GAB website.

The searchable database can be found at iverifytherecall.com.

Regents discuss financial aid, construction

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By anna duffinThe Daily CarDinal

A UW System official told the Board of Regents Thursday that financial aid for students is becoming increasingly impor-tant as the nation trends toward decreasing public funding to higher education, forcing insti-tutions to hike tuition.

The Regents also approved the second phase of construc-tion at UW-Madison aimed at enhancing Camp Randall Stadium’s academic and train-ing facilities for student ath-letes and construction of a heating and cooling plant on the West side of campus.

Financial aid is not increasing as quickly as tuition hikes are, so the average student today gradu-ates with about $27,000 in loan debt, System Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Mark Nook said.

“Those of us trying to find new methods to fund our mis-sion of public higher education nationally need to take a close look at financial aid and student cost,” Nook said.

Nook said as the system ulti-mately hopes to increase the number of jobs in the state by increasing the number of college graduates, it should look into how financial aid helps students graduate with less debt.

“We can’t do any of those things if we don’t educate a broader swath of the popula-tion in the state of Wisconsin, and that means making sure the tuition, room and board, all of the fees that these students have to pay are affordable.”

UW-Madison financial aid director Susan Fisher said some of the students who struggle the most with loan debt are students who fall just short of

qualifying for national need-based aid.

“They are really hurting,” Fisher said.

Also at the meeting, the regents approved the second phase of renovations to the UW-Madison student athletic performance center.

The center is currently undergoing the first phase of renovations, which the Regents approved in October.

Phase II will include renovat-ing the McClain indoor training center and installing new LED boards in Camp Randall.

Total construction is estimat-ed to be $77 million, funded by Athletic Department revenue and private donations.

The Board also approved the West Campus Cogeneration Facility Chiller Addition and Instillation project, expected to cost about $65 million.

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15,700 jobs gained in Wisconsin in January

9,700 net jobs lost in the last year in Wisconsin

6.9 percent unemployment in Wisconsin in January, the lowest since 2008

8.3 percent national unemployment rate

report: January saw first jobs increase in months

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By Maida N. WoulfFake neWs Friday

State representatives expressed frustration Thursday after a prominent mining com-pany allegedly broke a pinky promise when legislators failed to pass a bill easing Wisconsin mining regulations.

Members of mining corpora-tion Tocebic Gagonite (TGag) are reportedly now “throwing a total shitfit,” according to com-pany insiders.

Records uncovered dur-ing an ongoing redistricting investigation reveal the pinky promise took place at the state Capitol late last October.

A Senate spokesperson said legislators who participated in the promise swore to “pass legislation drafted by the com-pany as written, and as quick-ly as possible.” TGag in turn promised to build a mine in Northwoods Wisconsin, bring-ing jobs to one of the state’s most impoverished regions. Senators refused to compro-mise, the bill failed and TGag reportedly dissolved the pinky promise just two hours later.

“We get the message,” TGag CEO Will Billiams said in a

statement. “We will take our business elsewhere—some-where with lots of iron and less bitchy politicians.”

Billiams is currently holed up in his Hurely, Wis., hotel room, ordering “thousands of dollars in room service” and angstily playing Bright Eyes on repeat. When Daily Cardinal reporters asked for further comment, Billiams loudly slurred “I DON WANNA!” through his hotel room door.

Meanwhile, state politicians are scrambling to figure out what went wrong in budget negotiations.

Republicans blamed moderate Senate Republican and all-around badass Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center.

Schultz himself coun-tered that he brought up valid environmental concerns while Senate Republicans unanimous-ly responded by stick-ing both fingers in their ears and chiming, “JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!” until Schultz was effectively drowned out.

With barely disguised

glee, Democrats accused Republicans of killing jobs by not compromising on a bill that they themselves did not vote for.

As negotiations, or total lack thereof, continue, Billiams’ min-ing colleagues worry their compa-ny president’s “liver and stomach just can’t take it much longer.”

“It’s really getting bad,” confided co-worker Emma Rollerson. “While this parti-san bickering continues, poor old Will is eating and drinking himself to death on cheap hotel

food.”Another anonymous source,

definitely not Billiams’ mother, was more blunt.

“He needs to stop throw-ing this tantrum and just get the hell out of Wisconsin,” she said. “My Willy’s too good for this state anyway!”

The rest of TGag’s leaders have yet to stop sulking at a local bar, where they take their hands off their drinks only to give the TV the middle finger whenever political news comes on.

After two years of constant construction, no one is sure what was built or done to Library Mall.

“Well, first we tore up the side in front of Memorial Library, then we tore up the other side,” con-struction worker Otto Garricks recalled, “and then we tore up that first section again, and then I sort of lost count.”

What little is known is that underneath the dirt was a series of tunnels, which they may or may have not done something to.

“I think we installed some pipes, but we might have taken pipes out,” Garricks said. “We definitely created new sidewalks, I can tell you that much.”

Current freshmen and sopho-mores, unaware of a Library Mall without construction, are com-pletely overwhelmed with the new open field on campus.

“I can’t wait to lay in the grass and study while shirtless guys

throw frisbees around me,” fresh-man Ashely Dzick said.

The Board of Regents has admitted the project received the green light from a soft-spoken man who had passed away last year. No one remembered what the project entailed beyond that it sounded like a swell idea at the time.

The massive holes dug into the previously tranquil mall have been both an eyesore and a nui-sance in the eyes of many students navigating around them, but many are relieved to know that the project might have been suc-cessful at doing whatever it was they were doing.

According to Otto, “Yeah, I think we’re done for now. I think. I’ve heard rumors we might still need to carve out the north side. What for? Not quite sure, but hey, they’re paying me to do so.”

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Community unsure of what Library Mall construction accomplished

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Students riot upon news of ‘Figure It Out’ returnBy Yams McYummy, M.D.Fake neWs Friday

After Nickelodeon formally announced Thursday it would air 40 new episodes of the ’90s children’s game show “Figure It Out,” Madison police reported 12 cases of vandal-ism and three incidents of public displays of nudity on State Street as UW-Madison students marched to the Capitol in celebration.

Madison Police Spokesperson Joel DeSpain said that while the vandalism cases accounted for nearly tens of dollars in damage, the various spray-paint portrayals of the “Figure it Out” slime emblem, Billy the Answer Head and Summer Sanders in a bikini were “some of the most creative pieces of art I have had the pleasure of viewing.”

DeSpain noted he would have preferred not to have been flashed.

Lori Beth Denberg, a regular panelist on the show who currently resides in Cleveland where she acts

in community theatre productions, said she was glad Nickelodeon decided to bring the show back on the air.

“It taught us that we all have talents. We’re all just so special,” Denberg said. “The show made adults realize the full capabilities of the Echo Boom Generation. One kid can bite into a Kraft American cheese square and make it look like the state of Florida. Look how unique we all are!”

The show was known for spot-lighting a variety of young contes-tants’ talents. Liddy, age 10, could set a dinner table, with extra forks for salad, in just 30 seconds. Bobby, age 12, could salsa dance while counting to 20 in Spanish. And Alice, age nine, could take a shit on the floor.

Danny Tamberelli, the former child star of “The Adventures of Pete and Pete,” was not available for comment because he was busy being irrelevant.

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Officials introduce plan for 14-story building near CapitolBy Jeffrey MoreTheDailyCarDinal

Residents and city officials at a Mifflin neighborhood meeting Thursday discussed a proposed multi-purpose 14-story apart-ment building, which would include fire department facili-ties on the 300 block of Dayton and Johnson streets near the Overture Center.

Hovde developers proposed the $25 million building, which would include residences, office space and parking. The building could also house a new fire sta-tion, which would add additional floors for fire department resi-

dences and administration offices. The new building would

replace Fire Station #1, 325 W. Johnson St., which is about 40 years old and would have to be replaced in 10 years, Assistant Fire Chief Mike Popovich said. He also said it needs expensive renovations.

Popovich said the fire depart-ment favors the plans but does not want the new fire station to be built at the expense of other major projects.

But while residents and city officials support the proposal, they are concerned the city will not be able to fund the project.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the city is trying to reduce bor-rowing, making it difficult to find funds for the proposed project.

Still, Verveer and Popovich said the city would save money by relocating the fire station now instead of seeking a new location in 10 years because the current location is less expensive than other properties that would be available in 10 years.

“The mayor is concerned we’re going to go out of condemnation to find a location,” Popovich said.

Board of Estimates, the city’s finance committee, will review the proposal Monday.

SSFC to review student group eligibility criteria

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The Student Services Finance Committee decided Thursday to review its eligibility criteria for student groups after several groups said it can be confusing.

Some SSFC representatives said certain student groups have strug-gled to understand the criteria and it is important to make the informa-tion as accessible as possible.

But Rep. Tia Nowack said it is unlikely SSFC representatives will agree on changes to eligibility cri-teria and she thinks the committee should focus its time on projects that it would likely complete.

“If [SSFC is] confident that we can come to some sort of a com-promise on them and see about something as a group about them, that would be one thing,” Nowack said. “I honestly don’t know if I see that happening.”

Rep. Cale Plamann said at

the very least, the committee could clear up confusing eligi-bility criteria.

“I think the least we could do is try to clear it up and make it a little easier for groups to work from,” Plamann said.

Also at the meeting, Rep. Joe Vanden Avond said Rec Sports Board Director Dale Carruthers recently told him that SSFC denying the group’s requested budget could force Rec Sports to close facilities, such as the SERF and NAT, earlier and decrease the number of machines in them.

But SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart said she thinks the information is “a little bit skewed,” since Carruthers was accounting for a $250,000 decrease in funding when SSFC granted the group only $30,000 less than requested.

—Anna Duffin

Hovde joins crowded race for open U.S. Senate seatBy Adam WollnerTheDailyCarDinal

Madison hedge fund man-ager and UW-Madison alumnus Eric Hovde officially entered the U.S. Senate race Thursday, join-ing a field that already includes three prominent Republicans.

Hovde will compete with for-mer Gov. Tommy Thompson, for-mer U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann and state Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, for the Republican nomination to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin.

Despite having little politi-cal experience, Hovde, the CEO of Hovde Capital Advisors, announced his candidacy at a series of appearances in Dane County, Milwaukee, Green Bay and Eau Claire throughout the day Thursday.

He said his frustration with career politicians compelled him to run for Senate, adding his business experience would help address the country’s economic and debt woes.

“Washington is full of career politicians who are beholden to the special interests that finance their campaigns,” Hovde said in a state-ment. “We need citizen legislators who have spent time in the private sector and who have the skills to put our economy back on track.”

Hovde has lived in Washington, D.C. for the past 24 years, but grew up in Madison. He also founded the Hovde Foundation, which supports multiple sclerosis research, with his brother in 1998.

Republican Party of Wisconsin Executive Director Stephan

Thompson said Hovde’s candidacy strengthens the Republican field and improves the party’s chanc-es of defeating U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, the lone Democratic can-didate, in the general election.

“With today’s announce-ment by Eric Hovde, voters have gained another strong conser-vative choice in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate,” Thompson said in a statement.

But Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate said Hovde is out of touch with the average voter.

“Wisconsin doesn’t need a multimillionaire carpetbagger trying to buy a seat in the U.S. Senate by trying to trick working families into thinking he some-how understands their struggle,” Tate said in a statement.

before starting his current show on CBS, “Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild.” Besides his yearly appear-ance on “The Late Show,” he has been on numerous other news and talk shows, educating the audience on animal conservation.

Schwetz said Hanna’s appearance at the fund-rais-er for the project “provides a really nice element of fun and recognition,” calling him “the face of animal conservation and zoos.”

Hanna will help teach attend-

ees about the animal world by showing a variety of animals up-close along with video clips of his favorite moments from “Into the Wild.”

“When you leave [the pro-gram], [you will have] learned something about the animal world,” Hanna said. “It’s a fun program.”

Hanna said the job of all zoos, including Henry Vilas Zoo, is to “save the animals on Earth” by working together with other zoos and the community.

“We can’t sustain the popula-tions of animals by ourselves,”

Hanna said. “We have to have everybody working together.”

Schwetz said she hopes the event will increase an “aware-ness about the mission of the Henry Vilas Zoo,” which includes providing the com-munity with a free zoo to learn about wild animal life and ani-mal conservation.

“Not only do we take great care of our animals, but we pay it forward and try and help their counterparts in the wild,” she said. “Every time somebody vis-its the zoo, they’re helping us achieve that mission.”

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Wisconsin cheesemakers win first in 30 categories at world competition

Cheesemakers represent-ing “America’s Dairyland” took first in 30 categories at the World Championship Cheese Contest Wednesday, bringing Wisconsin to the top of the charts.

While the Netherlands took first place overall with Sweden coming in second, Wisconsin cheesemakers won first in 30 cat-egories out of a total of 80, includ-ing mild cheddar, monterey jack, havarti and feta cheese. Four

Wisconsin cheese companies placed as a finalist in the top 16.

Participants contributed 2,400 cheeses and butters from 24 dif-ferent countries including Japan, India, South Africa and New Zealand, according to Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association director John Umhoefer.

The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association hosted the competi-tion, which took place over three days at Monona Terrace.

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More ‘womyn’ means more progressBy Michael Penn IIThe Daily CarDinal

As we progress deeper into Womyn’s History Month, it is time for us as people to appreci-ate the progression and growth of womyn empowerment and equality in America throughout the decades. Do not ignore this introduction as a mere spell-ing error: it is a UW-Madison-originated grassroots movement delivering tools and methods of female empowerment with a firm base in music culture. This collective is called Not Enough Mics, and on Saturday, March 10, the first annual NEM con-ference will be held on campus in celebration of this collec-tive’s success and the success of “womyn” in music.

Started one year ago by First Wave student artists Blaire White, a senior, and Sofia Snow, a graduate student, NEM serves

as a base of collaboration and promotion of womyn hip-hop artists across the United States. The name was adapted from a lyric from rapper L-Boogie of The Fugees: “Too many emcees, not enough mics.” The quote resonated enough with the

founders to not only serve as a moniker, but as a concept to further and embody their own work and message. Though this movement was rooted in a con-text of hip-hop, it is inclusive of all genres of music.

With NEM present, there will be too many artists and too much talent represented for the American music landscape to

handle. In a male-dominated American music culture driven by sexist and classist ideals, the womyn of NEM are dedicated to changing the underrepresen-tation and misrepresentation of womyn in music through their presence and activism.

Why the ‘y’? NEM identifies itself as an all-inclusive move-ment with the ‘y’ in “womyn” symbolizing acceptance and col-laboration for those underneath the movement. The artists affiliat-ed are known as “SuperWomyn”. This includes any and all sexual and gender orientations, cultural and racial identities, and so forth. Furthermore, the ‘y’ can be self-

defined by the artists and allies within the movement as well; it is emphasized that there is no pres-sure to conform to any standard of womanhood or femininity.

Since NEM’s 2011 incep-tion, there have been two vol-umes of its self-titled mixtape

series released for free via the Internet as promotional tools for the artists affiliated with the movement. Some of the artists in the movement include, but are not limited to, K.Raydio, FM Supreme, Pyro, Bonnie, Jasmine Mans, and DJ BlaireBlanco. Other works from the members noted and more are available at http://

NotEnoughMics.com. The upcoming conference

will be in conjunction with the Multicultural Student Coalition and sponsored by WUD Music, WSUM 91.7FM, the UW-Madison Department of African-American Studies, the Associated Students of Madison and more. It will con-sist of a screening of the film “Revival” in Grainger Hall, sev-eral workshops on womyn in hip-hop and tools such as pro-motion and filmmaking, and will conclude with a concert in The Sett at Union South fea-turing Invincible and Tamar-Kali as artists currently on the “Born in Flames Tour.” Many NEM artists and affiliates will be in attendance, and it is open to the public.

Be sure to check it out and show your support for womyn in music.

Doomtree brings their Minneapolis sound to MadtownBy Colin KelloggThe Daily CarDinal

Friday night Minneapolis-based hip-hop crew Doomtree rolls in to Madtown for a free show at The Sett. The show is one of five stops on the second leg of their No Kings tour, before this group heads to SXSW next week.

Doomtree, which released its first self-titled album in 2008, is comprised of seven members; emcees Dessa, Mike Mictlan, P.O.S., Cecil Otter and Sims, as well as pro-ducers Paper Tiger and Lazerbeak. The members of Doomtree function as a sort of rap and hip-hop collec-tive; each member has worked on solo projects or collaborated on side projects in addition to their work as a group. No Kings is the group’s first completely collaborative release.

“This is the first time where we all sort of wrote the record together as opposed to people bringing their songs in and then asking someone to write a verse for their song,” said Lazerbeak.

Many of the songs from No Kings feature all five rappers, which Lazerbeak said has made perform-

ing on the tour more fun, since everyone is on stage together.

“It’s a party, basically,” he said. “ Everyone’s having fun and everyone contributes their own unique personality to that within and outside of the music itself.”

The Doomtree members have known each other for quite some time, which Lazerbeak credited for their ability to work so well together.

“We’ve been fortunate enough to know each other for over 10 years now, and have been making music for over 10 years together, so everyone’s gotten really com-fortable in their own style and in the way they make their music,” he said. “Once we get on stage it just really clicks.”

In order to write No Kings, the members of Doomtree exiled themselves to a cabin the middle of Wisconsin for five days in the summer. They had a deadlline approaching, and they knew the only way to write the album was to go away somewhere together.

“We had made a lot of the beats already so we kinda just went up

there and looped beats, and rap-pers would kinda pace around the kitchen table and write songs together, and then at night we would demo,” Lazerbeak said. “10 out of the 12 songs that are on No Kings were created in that environ-ment and then we brought them back and polished them up.”

It was an approach Doomtree had never attempted before, but Lazerbeak said he believes it worked really well for the group in the end.

“I don’t know how it would work if we tried it again, but miraculously, somehow, we could have come home with nothing but we ended up coming home with a finished record, basically,” he said.

Lazerbeak’s personal favorite track of the new album is “Team The Best Team,” partly because it has everybody on it.

“When played live it’s become probably one of the more powerful moments onstage during the set,” he said. “[It] has kind of a trium-phant vibe that I really like.”

Those attending the show can look forward to seeing “Team The Best Team” and most likely, stage diving by Doomtree’s mem-bers. Lazerbeak said some of his favorite moments on tour have been watching his crewmates crowd surfing.

“From my perspective I’ll be hitting some drum pads and all of a sudden I’ll look up and there’s Dessa in the middle of the crowd being lifted up by everyone,” he rec-ollected. “I may attempt it myself on this leg of the tour…I think I’m the only one in the crew that hasn’t done it now at this point.”

Lazerbeak, echoing a senti-ment others in Doomtree share, said he loves touring but real-ly enjoys coming back to the Midwest to perform.

“It always just feels like home so its nice to be around; to be around your people I guess,” he said.

With Doomtree performing in familiar turf and no admission price to bar you from coming, this is a WUD Music offering you should not miss. And with Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger spinning the afterparty

at DMF, the fun will continue well after the show ends.

The ‘Three Little Bears’ of books: Novel, novella, short story

I recently finished reading “Going to the Territory,” a col-lection of essays by Ralph

Ellison. Among the topics he dis-cussed (art, African Americans, history, jazz) one of the most impor-tant and recurring topics was the Novel. Not the lowercase novel as a thing, as a piece of entertainment, but the uppercase Novel as an idea, as a form.

This factoid is more of a frame. I’m not here to contribute to what Novels constitute, what makes a Novel a Novel, or debate Mr. Ellison’s points. Instead, I want to compare the Novel, in all its heady significance, with the other pre-dominant prose form: the short story. The novel and the short story afford a writer two forms of fiction-al expression (outside of poetry and

plays, which have their own rules and mechanics).

The immediate difference between novels and short stories is length. Now, ignoring any termino-logical pussyfooting à la the novella, a novel is generally 50,000 words in length (which is how long “The Great Gatsby” is, as much a novel as any) and a short story usually falls far below that, generally below 5,000 words.

Novels, in many ways, are an integral part of our culture. Novels are the hubs of English class, novels line the walls of bibliophiles, and novels are practically enshrined in

libraries. Everyone has read at least one novel in his or her life.

Short stories, on the other hand, hold less sway in American culture. Sure, you’ve read a short story or two in your life, in English class or otherwise, sometimes they’re thrown in magazines or maybe you’ve got an author friend who shares his or her work, but on the surface, short stories have less of the glow and prestige of novels in culture.

Common sense would say, with the sheer volume of words, a novel would edge out short stories in terms of depth and emotion. By vol-ume, a novel inherently takes more craft and care, in creating such a momentous work, whereas a short story, you would think, is hardly anything compared to the Novel. Short stories seem slighter.

But there is nothing inherently inferior about short stories com-pared to novels. There is no paucity of meaning and feeling. Just because a short story is short doesn’t mean

it can’t strike a meaningful chord. Examples abound of profound and relevant short stories. Haruki Murakami’s “The Year of Spaghetti” packs a wallop of poignancy and forlornness in its short pages. “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace broke my heart both times I read it. J.D. Salinger’s “Nine Stories” is a near-perfect anthology of short tales. Some greatly respect-ed authors—Anton Chekhov, Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Caver—never even wrote full-on novels.

To tie this up (and back to my frame), one of Ellison’s points about the Novel was how, in the 19th cen-

tury and beyond, it was a vehicle for social criticism, as well as art. In many ways, that’s what separates a novel from a short story.

Novels can encompass whole periods of time, perhaps all time in the hands of someone par-ticularly gifted, but short stories are captured moments, fleeting. It takes a lot of craft to make a good short story, perhaps more craft than a novel since they’re working with limited resources. There is something consciously more artistic in a short story than a novel, due to its compact-ness. You have to know what to say where, and how to go about saying it as briefly as possible. Novelists, on the other hand, have the freedom to sprawl out and ruminate upon what’s happen-ing. The short story is a conscious art form, whereas the novel is a contemplative one.

Want to run your own story ideas by Sean? E-mail him at sreichard@wisc.edu.

Sean ReIChaRdyour raison d’être novels are the hubs of

english class, novels line the walls of bibliophiles,

and novels are practically enshrined in libraries.

There is no paucity of meaning and feeling. Just because a short story is

short doesn’t mean it can’t strike a meaningful chord.

The SkinnyWho: Doomtree feat. Invincible and Tamar-KaliWhere: The Sett, 1308 W Dayton St.When: Friday, March 9. Show starts at 9 p.m.Cost: FREEWhy you should care: This talented group of hip-hop artists rented a cabin in Wisconsin and recorded its latest album, no Kings, over the summer Bon iver-style (except hotter and likely with less crying). Doomtree is a collaborative group comprised of emcees Dessa, Mike Mictlan, P.O.S., Cecil Otter and Sims, and producers Paper Tiger and lazerbeak.

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

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logo 4 Not well mentally 8 Depicts with bias 13 The entire lot 14 Dish of many

ingredients 15 FedEx Field and

Fenway Park 16 Painful activity for

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Before you begin reading the rest of this article, you should either con-

jure up your memory of what a world map or go and look at one right now. Aim your focus at “The Middle East.” Understanding the Middle East’s geography is important to understanding the historical implications of the Arab Spring and other current uprisings.

One point of the region should stand out: Iran, America’s cur-rent fodder. Now look around that country. Afghanistan occupies a slight majority of Iran’s eastern border, Pakistan is underneath the other half, Iraq commands much of Iran’s western border and Turkey, a major NATO ally and possible new European Union member, engulfs Iran’s northern border.

No area on Earth probably experienced as much foreign gerrymandering in the 20th century as the Middle East. Many people’s and cultures were herded and corralled into various, non-unified nation-states which laid the ground of deep-seeded cultural, politi-cal and social conflicts for decades. These conflicts were exploited or intensified by for-eign interests as a means of fighting their ideological bat-tles, particularly in the after-math of World War II.

The Cold War is heav-

ily responsible for producing much of the regional norms and political regimes that structure the world today. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Lebanon have all been not only grounds for such battles but the pinnacles of the shadow wars world powers conducted. It is no surprise that the house built of playing cards eventu-ally comes tumbling back down to Earth.

No greater example of these global conflicts exists than Afghanistan. Is there really nothing to learn from Soviet Russia’s 10-year war in the country? There is no coincidence that the 10 years of heavy bleeding suffered by the Soviets, but most horrifi-cally by Afghan civilians. The war, at the last troop pullout in 1989, killed nearly 15,000 Soviet troops and approximately one million Afghan civilians; 1989 just happens to be the year the Berlin Wall came down, and just eight months after the last troop withdrawal.

To win this battle, many for-eign factions poured their trea-sure and blood into the region. In our lifetime, Afghanistan has never been and prob-ably will never be a Western-style nation-state. The United States, through its “Operation Cyclone” program, funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to the Afghan-Arab Mujahideen to fight the Soviets. It worked by helping to defeat the Soviets, but it also ended up spawn-ing elements that founded the Afghan Taliban, other Arab terror groups, al-Qaida and

even Osama Bin Laden himself. India and Russia supported the communist government and the U.S., Israel, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia supported the Afghan-Arab rebels and thus became a multi-dimensional proxy battle. Afghanistan is the perfect parable to sum up the regional card house the world has created there.

With all card houses, eventu-ally the complexity all implodes in on itself, as it is now. The Arab Spring is very much a reaction to

the world’s artificial constructs. It is imperative to point out that the United States is not and never was the “Great Satan” the Arab dictators subsisted of. We are merely one more nation try-ing to gain influence in a region laying atop fossilized money and power. To get past the preoccu-pation of the U.S. being the only nation single-handily manipulat-ing the Middle East is to see the real truth and the real impor-tance of the recent uprisings.

This is exactly what has hap-pened to a new, digitally con-nected generation in the Middle East and around the world. The uprisings, particularly in Syria, see the truth in that mainly their own, foreign-controlled, gov-ernments are the real enemies. Consciousness has arisen and with it has brought about a new era in the region. Syrians, who just a few years ago were pour-ing insurgents into Iraq to fight

us, are now burning Chinese and Russian flags and uploading videos praising Robert Ford, the U.S. Ambassador to Syria. But at the heart of all of this is the very human battle against the forces of misery and oppression.

Protests rage against Putin. Gadhafi’s death is forever view-able on the Internet. Bashar al-Assad’s body, what is left of it, will be unrecognizable. Afghans still mistrust the United States. Iraq is still in a state of barely managed chaos. Tunisia is free. Egypt’s revolu-tion has reached the next, long-term phase. The United States has gone broke overextending its empire, just as the Soviets did; as with the passage of his-tory, things fall apart.

Matthew Curry is a sophomore majoring in political science and environmental studies. Please send your feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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L ast Tuesday was the first part of the “Promise of Our Democracy” dia-

logue hosted by the Interactivity Foundation. It is a series of din-ners where people split up into small groups with about six to eight people in each to talk about how we can make our democracy better. Being able to see people really flesh out how they think about things is special. The one thing that I noticed there that just blew me away was how nuanced people were. And it is not just about having mixed views, because that does not capture how dif-ferent people can be.

For instance, one partici-pant was a generally quiet and wise woman. She works as an educator, trying to make schools more empowering for people who don’t fit in. She used introverts as an example,

the quiet people who do not go out of their way to participate in school. Just because they do not talk as much, people are less likely to see how smart they are—she couldn’t help but see how unfair this is. She described herself as introvert-ed but said she sees the ways that the world makes things difficult for other introverts, so she has had to develop an extroverted personality to get around—an extroverted intro-vert, she calls herself.

The way she talked about how the schools mistreats peo-ple and how institutions can empower people instead of just getting in the way is very lib-eral. And if you did the math, she probably would be liberal. But she had a rather profound understanding of individual-ism, what we called “free to be you, free to be me.”

Sitting opposite her was a middle-aged entrepreneur. He was, in his own words, an ideological conservative. And sometimes he interpreted things in straightforward, con-servative ways. And if anyone

would have reason to be sus-picious of the government, it would be him—he was wrongly imprisoned for six years. But at the same time, he believed that the Constitution should be dynamic. He also agreed with the introverted liberal woman about a lot of fundamental parts of human nature and how the world works.

It’s funny how we forget a lot of really basic things when we talk about politics. People are complex, so they have dif-ferent facets of themselves—there is nothing particularly interesting about that. It is basically common sense. And the way that people’s experi-ences shape their views, that’s

common sense, too. And you would think that it’s common sense to look at these things when you’re disagreeing with someone about politics. But we almost never do this. When was the last time anyone asked why Gov. Scott Walker is a con-servative? The only time that we look at someone’s experi-ences when we’re looking at their politics is if we’re trying to figure out what went wrong with them. Just look at the way people treated President Obama by speculating he was not born in America and scru-tinizing his acquaintances growing up. They were only doing it to him to discredit him without addressing real issues.

Why don’t we do this more? It is rewarding to think how different people’s perspec-tives can be, and how dif-ferently they can look at the same things. But we don’t think about politics like this. Maybe it’s just too much to think about. Or maybe it’s just not necessary most of the time. Once you start putting politi-cal views on a spectrum, and

realize that you really can treat politics like math, adding up liberal and conservative views until you figure out how liberal or conservative someone is, it is really hard to change. This is especially true with only two major parties in America, and especially since they are becoming more polarized.

When you say that someone has some liberal and some con-servative views, even though you can mix views without limit, you call that person a “moderate.” It’s a useless label, but if you think about electoral politics—which is necessary given the limited ways that people can participate in politics—you have to do this. I do not think there is an answer to fixing labels on people. The dinners might be a temporary escape for some, but they cannot fix everything.

Zach Thomae is a fresh-man majoring in computer sci-ence. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com. Zach’s first article on the “Promise of Our Democracy,” appeared in the Feb. 28 issue of The Daily Cardinal.

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Political discourse deteriorates with labeling individuals

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It has been hard to ingore junior forward Brianna Decker’s play this season. Already recognized by the WCHA, Decker has now been named as a finalist for Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award.

Decker is the fourth Badger to be a finalist for women’s college hockey’s highest individual honor.

Playing center on Wisconsin’s top line, Decker has been a leader on and off the ice all season.

Decker leads the team in both goals (36) and assists (42). Her 78 points this season lead the Badgers and are good enough for second in the nation behind North Dakota’s Jocelyne Lamoureux, who was also named as a finalist.

Northeastern’ Florence Sche-lling joins Decker and Lame-rourex to round out the Patty Kazmaier field.

Decker was already named the WCHA Player of the Year and first team All-WCHA prior to the WCHA Final Face-Off.

The Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner will be announced during the NCAA Frozen Four Satur-day, March 17.

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Decker named as one of three Patty Kazmaier finalists

Brianna Decker could be the fourth Badger to win the award.

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performance from Wisconsin on the offensive end could be the team’s best defense.

“Hopefully us going against each other every day in practice prepares us for [Mercyhurst’s offense],” Ammerman said. “As long as we can keep on the attack and keep them out of our zone, that’s probably the best defense

we can play.”Special teams are a crucial

aspect of every hockey game, and Saturday’s contest will feature two of the nation’s best. Mercyhurst and Wisconsin own the nation’s best power play efficiency and pen-alty kill percentage, respectively.

“Hopefully we can just stay out of the box so we don’t have to worry about their power play at all,” Decker joked. “If we just stick

to our penalty kill and watch video to prepare for their power play, we should be all right.”

Ammerman noted Wisconsin has done a good job this season staying out of the penalty box. She thinks the team needs to continue that trend Saturday.

“We’re not in the box that often, but when we do we kind of get our-selves into trouble,” Ammerman said. “That’s the one thing: stay out

of the box and try to play five-on-five hockey.”

No matter what the statis-tics might show, Johnson said Saturday’s game will ultimately come down to how well each team executes.

“We can set the table for them, and we can put them up in their chair under the table,” Johnson said. “But they’re the ones that have to go on the ice and execute.”

Wisconsin has a large amount of playoff experience on its roster this season. Senior forward Brooke Ammerman noted that this experience has taught them to take things one game at a time.

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Brooke ammermansenior forward

Wisconsin women’s hockey

“Now we’ll be playing for our lives. Now it’s just one

game.”

after putting up elite offen-sive numbers this season Wiscon-sin men’s hockey junior defense-man Justin Schultz and sophomore forward Mark Zengerle were hono-red by the WCHA Thursday.

For the second straight season Schultz was named WCHA Defensive Player of the Year as well as first team All-WCHA and Zengerle was named third team all-conference.

Zengerle and Schultz were the key cogs in the Badgers’ offense this season, ranking first and second on the team with 49 and 42 points, respectively.

Schultz was the highest scoring defenseman in the country for the second consecutive season, pacing all blue liners with 15 goals and 42 points. Schultz is the third player in WCHA history to win two WCHA Defensive Player of the Year awards

and is on pace to be just the first defenseman in UW history to lead the team in goal-scoring.

Zengerle had a breakout sea-son for Wisconsin, scoring 12 goals this year. His 49 total points ranked second in the WCHA and his 37 assists are tied for the national lead.

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Schultz, Zengerle honored by WCHA Thursday

Justin schultz’ leads Wisconsin in scoring this season.

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back-to-back weekends, but knocking off Denver at home sparked a season-high four game win streak.

“There’s been signs of that all season,” junior forward Ryan Little said about his team turning the corner. “I think that Denver weekend we finally put together a pretty solid weekend.”

Not only did that victory put Wisconsin on the right path heading into the postseason, it also allowed the coaching staff to key in on certain matchups head-ing into this weekend’s series.

“The execution of our special teams, the play of your goalten-der, and the little subtle adjust-ments that each team is able to make… that’s the unknown fac-tors that we have to deal with,” Eaves said.

One of the biggest factors working against the Badgers this weekend is a lack of playoff experience. Wisconsin has nine freshmen on its roster who will be getting their first taste of playoff action this week-end, while those who played for Wisconsin last season met a swift exit at the hands of Colorado College.

But while experience may be lacking, the Badgers should be ready for a “do or die” scenario, as they have been in a similar sit-uation for the last several weeks.

“Its been playoff time a long time for us,” Eaves said. “We’re fighting for our lives in terms of the RPI, trying to gain ground there so that we keep our hopes alive, so nothing really changes.”

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Finding successthe Badgers look to win on the road in the playoffs.Wisconsin’s season ended earlier than its liked last year. After winning game one 3-1, the Badgers dropped their next two and were eliminated.Freshman defenseman Jake McCabe is one of nine Badgers who will be skating in their first

playoff series this weekend when Wisconsin travels to Colorado to face Denver University.

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to prove that they let one get away back in Madison.

One of the reasons that the Hoosiers felt that way was the sub-standard play of fresh-man forward Cody Zeller. The Big Ten’s freshman of the year, Zeller finished the regular sea-son averaging 15.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. But against the Badgers, Zeller managed just seven points and three rebounds while strug-gling through foul trouble for most of the game.

“He got a foul called on him the second possession of the game,” Crean said after that game. “There were a couple times we tried to get the ball to him but they three-quartered him, and we didn’t give him the chance to post up like he is used to.”

Outside of a bad night in

Madison, Zeller has been one of the best players in the Big Ten. The Washington, Ind. native has been a major factor in Indiana’s 13-game improve-ment over last season and would figure to play a pivotal role should the Hoosiers make a run through the postseason.

“You could tell from his bloodlines how good he could be,” UW head coach Bo Ryan said of Zeller. “Sometimes potential is a curse but not in his case, not with what he has been around.”

While it seems likely that Zeller’s numbers will begin to regress toward their mean, junior forward Jared Berggren has been a kryptonite of sorts for the Zeller family this sea-son. Before holding the young-er Cody to his second-worst scoring of the year, Berggren held older brother Tyler to just 12 points in Wisconsin’s 60-57

loss at North Carolina back on Nov. 30. The elder Zeller was just 3-for-5 from the field, his lowest single-game shot total of the season.

Unlike some teams headed to Indianapolis, the Badgers have the NCAA Tournament to look forward to next week. But with a conference champi-onship on the line, there is no doubt that their focus will be on the task at hand.

“We are who we are and now we go on to ‘next’,” Ryan said. “And next is the Big Ten Tournament.”

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Big ten history lessonthe Badgers will attempt to do something not done in over two decades.The last time the No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament won the champion-ship was Michigan in 1998.

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men’s Basketball

Postseason play brings new chances

By max Sternbergthe daily cardinal

Having finished off the regular season in style with three straight conference vic-tories, Wisconsin men’s bas-ketball now heads down to Indianapolis to begin what it hopes is an extended postsea-son run. Just a year after being upset in the Big Ten quarterfi-nals by Penn State, the Badgers (12-6 Big Ten, 23-8 overall) will likely enter Friday’s quarterfi-nal matchup with Indiana (11-7, 25-7) as a slight underdog.

Although Wisconsin was able to defeat the Hoosiers at the Kohl Center back on Jan. 26, IU will no doubt have an advantage with the game

being played at Indianapolis’ Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Just 2-6 outside the state of Indiana, the Hoosiers are 23-1 in their home state, with three of those victories coming against top-five opponents.

“ The crowds [ in Bloomington] have been so fan-

tastic and I have no doubt that it is going to carry over there,” Indiana head coach Tom Crean said Monday. “I know our guys thrive on it.”

Beyond the Hoosier home court advantage, the Badgers will have to overcome the demons that inevitably accom-pany a team that hasn’t won in Indy since the 2008 champion-ship game, a run of three con-secutive losses in the confer-ence’s postseason tournament.

While UW will be trying to exact revenge for its recent struggles at the renamed Bankers Life Fieldhouse, the Hoosiers will no doubt be out

Junior forward Jared Berggren shut down indiana’s cody Zeller during the regular season. he will have to do the same Friday.

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By matt mastersonthe daily cardinal

A fter wins in four of its last five games, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team (11-15-2 WCHA,

16-16-2 overall) is heading into its WCHA playoff series at No. 9 Denver this weekend playing at its best hockey of the season.

“Our performance has shown that and there’s no better time to play your best hockey,” freshman defenseman Jake McCabe said. “This is what we’ve been working for all year.”

After earning just one win in their first five road series this season, the Badgers have won three of their last four away from Madison, includ-ing a dominating 4-1 win over No. 5 Minnesota last Friday.

“Not only are we saying that now, but people around watching who have seen us in the beginning, seen us in the end, have said there’s a resounding differ-

ence,” head coach Mike Eaves said about his team’s recent top-level performance.

Heading into the opening round of the WCHA playoffs, Wisconsin could not have picked a better time to start winning games on the road, especially facing one of the most dominant home teams in the country.

The Pioneers (16-8-4, 21-11-4) earned a 12-5-2 record at home this season while averaging 3.47 goals per game, good for eighth best in the nation. Junior forward Drew Shore has paced Denver this season, scoring a team-high 21 goals and 47 points.

The Badgers and Pioneers split their series earlier this year at the Kohl Center, but UW’s 5-2 win that weekend may have marked the turning point in their season.

Wisconsin had lost five straight games, including getting swept on

By Vince Huththe daily cardinal

T he WCHA champion and No. 1 seeded Wisconsin women’s hockey team (23-2-2 WCHA, 31-4-2 over-

all) will host Mercyhurst (8-1-3 CHA, 23-7-3 overall) in the NCAA quarterfinals this weekend at the Kohl Center.

The Badgers lost to Minnesota-Duluth in the semifinal game of the WCHA confer-ence tournament last weekend. As far as head coach Mark Johnson is concerned, Saturday will be the start of a new season.

“Regardless of what happened in our playoffs, we have another chance to play,” Johnson said. “What we’ve done in the past—you throw it out the window. It comes down to one game.”

While junior forward Brianna Decker does not view Wisconsin’s loss to Minnesota-Duluth as a good thing, she thinks it worked to prevent the Badgers from entering the playoffs over-confident.

“I think it’s an eye-opener for us. It shows

that we can be beat,” Decker said. “We’ve just got to be ready to play Saturday.”

Senior forward Brooke Ammerman has enough experience to know playoff hockey and regular season hockey are two entirely different games.

“Now we’ll be playing for our lives,” Ammerman said. “Now it’s just one game.”

Wisconsin and Mercyhurst have the sec-ond- and third-best offenses in the nation, respectively. In fact, two players from each team are among the nation’s top-10 in scor-ing. Despite the strong offenses that will be on display Saturday, Johnson does not forsee a shootout.

“In [playoff] games, you generally don’t see [shootouts],” Johnson said. “You usu-ally see low-scoring affairs. You see one-goal games, overtime games, pretty tight games.”

Ammerman pointed out the Badgers have played against talented offensive play-ers in practice all season. She thinks a good

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Wisconsin given a glimpse of hope in tournament play after finishing the regular season on three-game streak

Must-win situation for the Badgers in WCHA playoffs

Wisconsin women set for NCAA Quarterfinal game

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Wisconsin men’s basketball

“we are who we are and now we go on to ‘next’. and next is the Big Ten

Tournament.”

one game at a time

For Wisconsin, the playoffs offer a chance at remdemption and repeat

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