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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”
Report: State faces $143.2 million deficitJack CaseyThe Daily CarDinal
Wisconsin will face a $143.2 million projected state budget deficit for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, a release by the state’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau revealed Thursday, adding another dimension to the possible recall elections this spring or summer.
According to the bureau, the budget deficit comes because of decreases in several revenue-gen-erating areas. The biggest factor on the deficit is a shortfall in the estimated tax collection, which is projected to cause a loss of $272.8 million dollars compared to what they thought it would be.
The deficit has raised questions about the possibility of another budget repair bill. However, Gov. Scott Walker released a statement denying that he would seek such measures. Instead, he said he
remains confident that the state will finish the next two-year cycle with a balanced budget.
“As we have done in the last year, we will continue to manage the Wisconsin taxpayers’ money well, so we can keep the state’s fis-cal house in order,” said Walker.
But with a potential recall election looming, Walker oppo-nents said he has not followed through on his campaign prom-ise to balance the state’s budget.
One criticism came from Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, who issued a statement saying Walker’s eco-nomic plan “is not working.”
“[The report] illustrates how Gov. Walker’s irresponsible budgeting and lack of serious focus on jobs and the econo-my have left Wisconsin fiscally unsound and caused us to fall farther behind on the road to
economic recovery,” said Barca.Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester,
and Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, who chair the Joint Committee on Finance, released a statement touting the economic achievements since Walker took over and defending him from Democratic politicians who see his economic initiatives as unsuccessful.
“When Republicans and Governor Scott Walker took over, we rolled up our sleeves, made tough decisions and got our state headed in the right direction without raising taxes. We erased a $3.6 billion deficit and held the line on property taxes,” the legislators said.
Despite the controversy, Walker said in his statement, “When compared to the past and to other states Wisconsin is heading in the right direction.”
Third accusation against Chadima surfacesFor the third time in a
month, a man reported to the UW Police Department that he experienced “sexual impropri-ety or abuse of power” by John Chadima, the senior associate athletic director who resigned last month after a student employee claimed Chadima sexually assaulted him.
Similar to the second alle-gation that surfaced three days ago, UW Chancellor David Ward did not release any details about the report, but said in a statement Thursday that the UWPD “deems the allegation to be credible.”
Reports of misconduct by Chadima began in late
December, when a student alleged that Chadima sexu-ally assaulted him at a Rose Bowl party. In the report that detailed the student’s claim, university investigators said alcohol was present at the party, which involved sev-eral athletic department staff members and students, some of whom were under 21. The report also said the alcohol was purchased with money donat-ed to the athletic department.
After another man report-ed inappropriate behavior by Chadima two weeks later, Ward announced the university would launch a second investigation, led by Judge Patrick Fiedler, into
Chadima’s behavior. Fiedler also headed the team that reviewed the original incident that occurred at the Rose Bowl party. The university has not released any additional informa-tion about the investigation.
Ward said he continues to urge victims and people with information regarding inappro-priate behavior by Chadima to report to the UWPD. People can reach the department by phone at (608) 262-2957 or by email at [email protected].
Because the investigation is still open, UWPD decline to comment Thursday.
—Alex DiTullio
aSM leaders said they hope to gain student interest although few students showed up for their town hall.
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Trend continues with low turnout at ASM town hallDespite representatives’
attempts to “pump up” the atmo-sphere with pop music, only around 15 students showed up for the Associated Students of Madison’s Spring Town Hall Thursday.
Representatives acknowledged low turnout to ASM-sponsored events seems to be a trend.
“We’re just not that sexy,” ASM Rep. Mudit Kackar said.
ASM representatives said to change the low-turnout pat-tern, they could host more casual events that might stir more student interest.
UW-Madison freshman and prospective representative Maddy Schmid said she hopes
ASM can change its reputation as the “silent, ambiguous thing, that isn’t really definitive until you’re like ‘hmm, what is that?’”
Despite the low turnout, ASM members discussed campus issues like achieving smaller class sizes, making college more affordable,
and preparing for the after-college entrance into the job market.
ASM Chair Allie Gardner reminded those present of the importance of “making sure that the student voice is heard, lis-tened to, and acted upon.”
Diversity Committee Chair Niko Magallon said he wants to make diversity more of a prior-ity on campus by implementing a campuswide requirement for students to take a class that dis-cusses current cultural differenc-es throughout the country.
“We are going to be a proactive agent of change on campus,” said Magallon.
—Mckenna Kohlenberg
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Several UW System chancellors told the Board of regents Thursday they are seeing the impacts of funding cuts.
Regents discuss how to handle tight budgets, governing boardsBy Anna DuffinThe Daily CarDinal
With the UW System fac-ing over $300 million in budget cuts from the state, the Board of Regents convened Thursday to discuss how institutions throughout the state should be structured and more efficiently use their resources.
UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mike Lovell said the Wisconsin community needs to consider if it is willing to forfeit the quality of higher education institutions for a lower price.
“There always comes a point where if [funding] is low enough, you can’t become any more effi-cient; you’re going to offer less quality. I think we’re approach-ing that point now,” Lovell said. “On my campus, I’m not sure
what else I can do to make sure the quality isn’t degraded.”
Regent David Walsh asked if there would come a point where UW institutions would have to limit enrollment to preserve edu-cational quality.
“You can’t keep being cut,” Walsh said. “At some point, you make a decision that the quality of the education isn’t fair to students.”
UW System President Kevin Reilly said while the question is at the forefront of many conversa-tions, he does not know the answer.
Lovell said faculty and staff compensation is perhaps what suffers most from budget cuts. While they are asked to increase enrollment in their courses because of other courses being
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“We’re just not that sexy.”
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By Sam WitthuhnFake neWs Friday
Over the last month, a group of drooling, passionate and eerily determined “safety first!” hound-dogs have barked up UW-Madison’s tree for more f o r m a l i z e d survival plans when an inev-itable disaster annihilates campus.
According to its Facebook page, the UW Disaster Resistance University Committee’s official mission on campus is to “Brainstorm thunder-ous safety strategies in the event a highly prob-able skull-crushing catas-trophe leads to mass death at UW-Madison—leaving streets filled with blood, our beloved Bucky dead and man-gled on the roof of Microbial Sciences and keeping only the Short Course dorms alive to represent our alma mater […] the horrors.”
In designing plans to cir-cumvent this inescapable fate, the group has taken it upon itself to instigate a series of suc-cessful disaster simulations, including pounding a tornado through the center of campus and concocting a biochemical gas explosion that accidentally took out half of Sterling and mutated a family of innocent ducks (Information on the sta-tus of the ducks is pending).
“You know, it’s really about survival in the face of any threat Wisconsin is going to fall victim to: acid rain, sink holes, a zombie and/or leg-growing shark apoca-lypse, those worms as big as a
bus in Tremors. It’s not a matter of if, but when,” DRUC project man-ager Tom McClintoc said.
McClintoc believes these simulations give the committee a real feel for disasters students will have to deal with, and thus
provide the group with the most accurate information for safety strategy planning.
“We want students to stop, drop and roll. Not stop, drop and roll into their graves,” McClintoc said.
The group says its next meet-ing will center around prepara-tions for the end of the world. As the Mayan calendar predicts our last day on earth will fall in December of 2012, the committee is already searching for a fresh-man virgin to sacrifice to the gods when such an event arises.
If interested in volunteering for the position, please contact the DRUC at [email protected].
Republicans swap ritualistic blood
Local mad scientist Andrew Krebs, known for his borderline nefarious research in genetic manipu-lation, made a public state-ment Thursday saying he was not, in fact, mad, just mildly upset.
Krebs cited a recent stub-bing of his big toe and a long line at the bank as the i n s p i r a t i o n for his most recent inven-tion, dol-phins with gun fins.
“I can see how working to create dol-phins with guns instead of fins could be misinterpreted as an evil, crazy idea,” Krebs said, “but it is honestly just small irritations that moti-vate my genius.”
Against conventional wisdom, Krebs revealed, “I mean, if anything I’m moti-vated more by the good old fashioned notion of a job of mounting aquatic animals with rifles well done.”
Krebs’ gun-equipped-dolphins plan, written in blood on the trees lining the Lakeshore path, was the sub-ject of harsh peer review and has long since been thought to be the instrument of his rage.
However, Krebs told news outlets he took the criticism quite politely and acknowl-edged that many of the points against his conclusions were indeed valid.
When Krebs was done taking questions, he cack-led as he fell back behind a black cape and jumped into Lake Mendota to retreat to his underground lair of dia-bolical devices beneath the lake bed.
—Tim McCorgi
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By Dr. Leonard McCoy, MDFake neWs Friday
Wisconsin’s Republican leg-islators were forced last June to exchange blood in a ritualis-tic pact of loyalty, a new report revealed Thursday.
GOP lawmakers received flack Monday when it was revealed they had taken a pledge of secrecy during the map-making process for the state’s redistricting.
None of the current Republican legislators agreed to comment on the pact, but recently recalled state Sen. Dan Kapanke recounted the harrowing experience.
“There was just a lot of blood, booze and speaking in tongues, you know what I mean?” Kapanke said before showing a scar run-ning the length of his hand. “This one is never going to fade.”
Kapanke said the rites were
required to make the legislators prove their loyalty, each vowing to never speak to the public about anything except specific items listed on a memo produced by a staffer of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Horicon.
The memo lists a handful of safe terms, including “on the right track,” and “abstinence.” Those banned from being spoken in pub-lic by the majority party include
“250,000 new jobs,” “budget repair bill” and “Scott Walker’s bald spot.”
The bottom of the memo reads, “If ye dare to break the sacred bonds of brotherhood, ye will be thrown from the top of the Capitol to your death, and any member of the brotherhood who sheds a tear will meet the same terrible fate.”
When approached about the pact, former State Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fon du Lac began to weep uncontrollably and screamed, “Don’t let them get me, please! I’ll do anything!”
Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, condemned the pact as anti-demo-cratic and poorly-handled.
“I mean, all of us in govern-ment have our freaky cults,” Barca said, “but you have to make sure your minions can keep it together, you know?”
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Activists celebrate Capitol protests’ first anniversary
As the first anniversary of protests over Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining legisla-tion approaches, more than 100 progressive activists gathered at Madison Area Technical College Thursday to discuss the state of the protest movement.
John Nichols, columnist for The Nation magazine and author of a new book on the Wisconsin protests, said the possible recall election of Walker is important, but said the movement was larger than electoral politics and that it needed to hold politicians of both parties accountable.
“We should never be satisfied… with a politics that has at its end game the election of a new gov-ernor,” Nichols told the audience.
Local progressive activist Ben Manski said last year’s protests put the labor move-ment back on the map, both nationally and globally, and that activists need to regain that momentum independent of
the Democratic Party to make further progress.
“This struggle has been ongoing in Wisconsin, and we still have a lot of work to do,” Manski said.
Manski added he does not want to see former Dane County executive and recall candidate Kathleen Falk become governor. He mentioned state Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, and state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, as candidates he would support in a recall election.
Tina Treviño-Murphy of the Student Labor Action Coalition said activists need to be back at the Capitol to ensure their voice is heard, regardless of who is elected governor.
“Mass mobilization works,” Treviño-Murphy said.
Organizers are planning a series of demonstrations over the next week to mark the first anni-versary of the Capitol protests.
—Adam Wollner
Committee discusses changes to UnionRepresentatives from the
Memorial Union Reinvestment Design Committee, the state Historical Society, Hoofers and the Union Theater met Thursday to discuss ways to preserve a his-toric atmosphere in the renovat-ed Memorial Union, set to begin construction this fall.
To achieve the desired atmo-sphere in the renovation, with construction set to begin in the fall, representatives selected their favorite photographs of various room models off which to base the newly designed rooms.
“We’re not looking to drasti-cally change the feel of anything,” Wisconsin Union Directorate President Katie Fischer said. “People have lots of ties [with the Union] and it’s home for a lot of [them].”
Additionally, the committee discussed proposed changes to the “Sunset Lounge,” an addition to the north of the Union Theater
that will feature views of Lake Mendota. One of these modifica-tions included changing the for-mer circular shape of the lounge’s rooftop deck to a rectangular one.
Student Project Manager Colin Plunkett said this will help the deck match the design of the union theater lobby.
In addition to changing the Sunset Deck’s shape, the design team cut 1,200-square-feet from its original design, which Plunkett said saves more terrace space and it matched the students’ preferences.
“[The new design] fits much better with the historic aspect of the building and it’s nearly iden-tical to what the students voted on in the 2006 referendum,” Plunkett said.
According to Wisconsin Union Doctorate President Katie Fischer, the next step in the renovation process will be to choose finishes and colors for the different rooms.
—Kelly Kallien
State senators challenge recall petition signatures
Developers threaten to sell properties on State Streetby Jeffrey Morethedailycardinal
The Block 100 Foundation said they intend to abandon their proposal for development on the 100 block of State Street Wednesday if their most recent proposal is opposed.
The six buildings owned by the foundation on State Street between West Mifflin and Fairchild Streets are set to be either demolished or heavily renovated in a $10 million plan to create new office and retail space.
In a letter to the Urban Design Commission, Madison philanthropists Grant and W. Jerome Frautschi and Pleasant Rowland, founders of the Block 100 foundation, said they would sell the six properties if the com-mission opposes their plans.
“In the event that the Urban Design Commission is unwilling to support the design… the Block 100 Foundation is prepared to step aside and sell the six build-ings,” the letter said.
The threat may be carried out if the commission does not approve of the project as it is cur-rently planned when it meets on Feb. 15, putting pressure on the UDC to make a quick decision.
The Block 100 Foundation said its aim is to complement cul-tural buildings like the Overture Center and new Central Library through renovation of that area. The developers found them-selves at odds with the Urban Design Commission when the commission opposed an initial plan calling for the demolition of six historical buildings owned
by the foundation. Revisions to the plan, includ-
ing reusing the original facades of some buildings slated for demo-lition, have settled many of the differences between the Block 100 Foundation and the commission.
Differences remain between the proposal and the expectations of the commission, perspectives that may ultimately cost Madison as a whole, according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4.
“The proposal is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity [for Madison], given [the Frautschi’s] vast financial resources,” he said. “Nobody could come close to proposing a redevelopment of this half block…arguably one of the most important streets, not only in the city, but in the state.”
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cut, many of them have not received raises in years.
He said in the past year, 41 of UWM’s top faculty members have left the university for better paying jobs.
“They have reached a point where they say ‘enough is enough, I’m under-compensat-
ed,’” Lovell said.Regent José Vásquez said the
Regents need to ensure the edu-cation of diverse students and students with disabilities are still being met in light of attempts to help institutions save money.
Also at the meeting, Regents discussed adding advisory boards to campuses and regions to facili-tate communication between UW
institutions, regents and the state.The boards would serve “advi-
sory” roles and would not be given tuition-setting responsibilities.
“We as a board are not equipped to promote the goals of individual campuses in a way that they should be pro-moted,” Regent Michael Falbo said. “That would be the role that these groups would play.”
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All four Republican state Senators being targeted for recall elections filed challenges Thursday to petition signatures they said were invalid.
Organizers of the recall effort now have five days to rebut the challenges, followed by a two-day period in which the officeholders can reply to those challenges. The Government Accountability Board, which is responsible for overseeing the recall efforts, will then use the rebuttals and replies to decide whether or not enough valid sig-natures were gathered to trigger recall elections. They have until March 19 to make decisions.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said he found more than 4,300 signa-tures Thursday that contained a “wide range of irregularities, errors and outright falsehoods.” The Board must conclude that about 3,860 of the signatures filed against him are illegitimate.
“The ‘recallers’ are trying to undo the will of more than 44,000 voters in 2010, so the least they can do is follow the rules and be honest with their signatures,” Fitzgerald said.
Sen. Pam Galloway of Chippewa Falls also issued a statement following Thursday’s deadline. She challenged “hun-
dreds of questionable signa-tures.” Around 5,350 signatures would need to be deemed invalid to cancel her recall election.
The other two Senators, Van Wanggaard of Racine and Terry Moulton of Chippewa Falls, have not yet said how many challenges they submitted to the board. Wanggaard would need to successfully contest around 8,650 petitions and Moulton around 6,050.
Election officials recently said the board would not accept input from anyone besides the leaders of the recall effort and targeted officeholders.
—Tyler Nickerson
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Do some books have a limited shelf life?
G enerally, when I pick books to read for fun, I prefer older books. I have nothing wrong
with newer titles—I do not find them puerile and immature, or anything silly like that—but I find, by and large, that I gravitate towards the tried and true in literature. Especially books from the 20s and 30s—Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Joyce and Woolf, those sort of people.
At the same time, I do have a cut-off. Generally, books that are older than, say, 200 years, I usually find tedious. Going further back, even Shakespeare (and I am aware I am committing a minor blasphemy here) grates a little bit to my modern mind. So the question arises: do books have an expiration date?
The age of a book shouldn’t mat-ter, necessarily. Just because a book is old doesn’t mean it shouldn’t carry as much weight as it did when it was first published, nor does it mean a book is inherently less enjoyable because it is older. At the same time, however, there is a sort of challenge and difficulty underlying older books.
The trouble stems from language: languages constantly evolve. Words rise and fall out of favor, or emerge from the ether to explain something particular (what was “telephone” before Alexander Graham Bell appro-
priated it?). In any culture, slang is ubiquitous. We flush (and if you ask our grandparents, clog) our conversa-tions with all sorts of shortcuts and turns of phrase that make us feel very special for taking language and mak-ing it into our own little code. By and large this is a beautiful process.
But as someone who is living in the present, there is a disconnect between the books of the past (and the culture from which they emerged) and my mind. Maybe I can’t wrap my mind around the phrasing, or I can’t place all the references and allusions. But at any rate, with older books, their age can become distracting.
Sometimes I wish this wasn’t the case for me, though on rare occasions it is not: I enjoyed “Don Quixote” when I read it in 11th grade, and Charles Dickens and Henry James certainly don’t belong in a reliquary quite yet. Poetry, too, is less suscepti-
ble to aging. Nonetheless, there is the feeling that in not liking older books, I’m missing out on whole swaths of history, distancing myself from a past I could learn from.
The greatest trouble with this trend is all books are susceptible. Even the books I love, from authors in the 20s and 30s, may someday be regarded as too old to enjoy. Inevitably, people won’t connect with “The Sun Also Rises” or “Dubliners” the same way they did when they were published, or now, or afterwards. As someone who loves writing and the written language, this is a little disturbing. But there is a solution.
One of my favorite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, has a quote on the matter: “An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.” By and large, I think this is true. As a book ages, it becomes less a fresh, living testament of the present world (discount-ing historical fiction) and more and more a piece of history. For instance, Dante’s “Inferno” is great if you ever want to learn about famous Italians Dante hated, rather than just a poem about bumming through Hell.
To keep them from going sour, that is how old books should be read—in the interpretive (read: schoolmaster’s) domain. They may not be flush with the same vitality and contemporary rel-evance, they may take on the weight of time, but a truly good book can still wow and impress a reader, no matter how old.
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By Matthew HonigThe Daily CarDinal
If there is one standup comic who resonates with the hipster mental-ity of today’s college generation, it is undoubtedly Demetri Martin. The comedian, actor and “Daily Show” cor-respondent brings his signature dead-pan style to the Barrymore Theatre Friday night with his “Telling Jokes in Cold Places” tour.
In an interview, Martin shed some light on his own college years while he mused about his less-comedic days at Yale.
“I had a good time in college,” he said. “We lived in suites... It was really social. In my college I had a lot of friends…I didn’t do any comedy or improv or acting. I participated in stu-dent government and hung out with my friends.”
Following his tenure as a Yalie, Martin continued his education at NYU Law—only to drop out and become a standup comedian. His rationale offers a disclaimer for all those at UW-Madison entertaining the idea of going to law school.
“[Dropping out] happened dur-ing my second year of law school,” he explained. “I was in New York because my law school was right by a couple dif-ferent comedy clubs. Walking by those comedy clubs all the time [was what inspired me].”
Looking back even further into his past, Martin related what he felt was one of the most embarrassing stories of his life.
“When I was a kid, my family dressed up as [the characters from] ‘The Wizard of Oz’ one year for Halloween,” he reminisced. “I was the Tin Man and couldn’t go to the bathroom with my costume on…yeah, that really sucked
Examining his artistic influences, it is easy to see where Martin got
his wry sense of humor: Gary Larson (creator of The Far Side comic strip), Bill Cosby and Stephen Wright rank high among his comedic inspirations.
One of Martin’s most definitive attributes as a comedian is how he incorporates a slew of live musical instruments such as harmonicas, guitars and pianos into his act. Though, despite his current musicality, he wasn’t some sort of child protegé.
“I taught myself [how to play instruments],”he said. “It was really cool to learn how to do that.”
As for Martin’s taste in music, his top bands are far more Baby Boomer than Generation X.
“The Beatles are really great,” Martin remarked, “and also The Stones.”
For the most part, Martin’s favorite personali-ties in film and TV are also retro. A big fan of “Cheers,” he is also all about “Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, and (film directors) Alexander Payne and Wes Anderson.”
Martin himself has had a fair amount of exposure in the movie world, having been featured in Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock” (“there were so many extras on that set”) and Stephen Soderbergh’s “Contagion.” He feels that his experiences in front of the camera have “all been very educational.”
He provided some fascinating insight as to the reason why he is so successful today on the national comedy circuit.
“I try to write jokes about things that are pretty simple,” Martin said. “Hopefully the stuff I’m talking about is basic and universal enough for an 11 year old to understand…but a 60 year old can also enjoy it.”
If you consider yourself a fan of Demetri Martin’s work, then be sure to catch him “Telling Jokes in Cold Places” Friday at the Barrymore. The 38-year-old showman has high hopes for his fan base here in the Dairy State.
I t is hard to imagine a neigh-borhood with a bigger target on it right now than West
Mifflin Street.The threat most students know
and care about is directed at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party, thanks to Mayor Paul Soglin puff-ing out his chest to demand a tamer event and dangling a dare of ending the tradition he helped start over students’ heads. But the real dan-ger Mifflin faces isn’t happening in meetings between the mayor and student government, and we won’t see the result of it come the first Saturday in May.
No, the fight against Mifflin can be found in city planning meet-ings and documents with names so bureaucratically vague no one knows they conceal a threat to one of Madison’s most historic and unique neighborhoods.
As part of Madison’s Downtown Plan, the outline that will guide the city’s urban planning over the next two decades, one developer has pro-posed replacing the Mifflin neigh-borhood’s characteristic houses with blocks of 12-story apartment com-plexes. We’re not just talking about one or two unoccupied buildings get-ting knocked down so someone can build a few townhouses. No, the city is entertaining the notion of destroy-ing every century-old house in the
neighborhood and turning the whole place into expensive monstrosities.
And it’s easy to imagine any num-ber of city officials welcoming such a proposal with open arms, given the problems the neighborhood can contribute to. Madison wouldn’t suf-fer financially from more high-rises, either. Owners of many houses on the 500 block of Mifflin Street paid around $6,000 to $10,000 in property taxes last year. Meanwhile, Palisade Property paid nearly $300,000 in property taxes for its 12-story build-ing on West Johnson Street. Madison might notice a bump like that in annual revenue.
But while they look over this latest proposal, and consider putting the first nail in the Mifflin Street neigh-borhood’s coffin, we want to make sure the city asks itself one question: What makes Madison Madison?
What makes this town great? What makes it the place you’ve called home and the place you want to represent?
It might be the fact that Madison is dripping with history. It might be the university this city is tied to. It might even be the fact that it’s a bit...off, and that it is a weird and unique place.
Think about it though, and you’ll realize that what makes Mifflin great is exactly what makes Madison great. The neighborhood is historic, with a
number of houses built in the late 19th Century, and its role in Vietnam War protests is well known. Of course, it’s a campus neighborhood through and through. And we all know Mifflin is a bit weird too.
The houses are different from each other in design and paint scheme and boast a number of architectural quirks (such as stair-cases to nowhere or windows that look out onto drywall) that comes with a long life in a strange place. It’s not some anonymous high-rise where every apartment is exactly the same as the ones on the floors above and below it, and where, let’s be honest, the build quality isn’t that much better.
Mifflin is a quintessentially Madisonian neighborhood; the city’s identity boils down into these couple of blocks.
And if you want to strip away the emotional appeal of Mifflin, let’s get back to practical choices stu-dents have to make when they try to stretch their money far enough to pay for school, books, food and rent. The Downtown Plan looks 20 years into the future. Ask yourself if any of those costs are going down any time soon. The Mifflin Street neighbor-hood is a place where a poor college student can still put a roof over their head for less than $400 a month, and we challenge anyone to find rent that cheap in a luxury high-rise.
We can’t all afford to live in the Equinox or Lucky or the Palisades. And even if we can, we don’t all want to. The Mifflin houses are creaky and old, but they’re also cheap and fun and quite a few people at this school—including members of this editorial board—love them.
So, Madison, reject this foolish threat to one of your greatest neigh-borhoods. And when you plan this city’s next two decades, just leave Mifflin Street alone.
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GOP conducts a worthless investigation
A n investigation conduct-ed by the Wisconsin State Legislature’s Joint Audit
Committee last week revealed that the state’s FoodShare program, which provides money for low income fami-lies and unemployed to buy food, may have committed fraud. According to the audit, $32.9 million of the $1.1 billion in FoodShare loans, which are com-prised of both federal and state funds, were spent outside of Wisconsin which, while legally permissible under the fed-eral FoodShare provisions, has suggest-ed to some pundits and lawmakers that the program is being exploited by the program’s beneficiaries.
State Rep. Samantha Kerkman, R-Powers Lake, who headed the inves-tigation, asserted in an article in The Badger Herald that “some individu-als are using their cards in Wisconsin when they’re also using it out of state on the same day…we suspect that they’re selling their FoodShare cards for cash.”
Some may view this “scandal” as a dire offense of the state’s financial resources, but all factors indicate that this is yet another shameless, invented crisis by the political right.
How do I know it’s invented? Well, shoving aside the fact that spending FoodShare dollars out of state is com-pletely legal and the total money spent
out of state amounts to only 3 percent of the program’s budget, it’s worth not-ing that there were a grand total of 334 instances of actual FoodShare fraud reported last year.
The number of Wisconsinites that were benefitting from FoodShare in that same period was 829,720. Even if each instance of fraud were commit-ted by a different FoodShare recipi-ent, the amount of fraud generated from our state’s program would be an infinitesimal .04 percent. This nearly inexistent level of crime in the system indicates that protecting tax dollars and upholding the law is not Kerkman’s intention in bringing FoodShare fraud to light.
In fact, what she and other Republicans are doing here is what their party has attained mastery of: passing the most blame to the least among us. This year alone, we’ve seen Gov. Scott Walker pass a union-busting bill to “fix the budget,” and Republican-spearheaded Voter ID laws to “protect democracy.” Both laws show how the GOP’s priorities are fixated on making sure that lower-class citizens (mean-ing not Republican) have the maxi-mum number of disadvantages stacked against them. They can’t collectively bargain, they can’t vote and now, some state Republican representatives want to make it harder for them to eat.
According to FoodShare Wisconsin’s website, the maximum monthly income for participants is $1,816, or two times the federal poverty line. Anybody who has to survive on a pittance like that should be allowed to buy the cheapest
food wherever it’s available, and the flexibility to move across the country shouldn’t be taken away from the frag-ment of Wisconsinites who take advan-tage of this option. FoodShare, it bears repeating, is a program largely funded by the federal government, and there is no real legislative argument that proves why purchasing food in other states should be outlawed.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with FoodShare as it stands. If anything, given the unemployment rate at moment, the income limits for members should be raised to include more people.
If I were a public servant, I would not be directing my energy toward punishing my impoverished constitu-ents. I would be more concerned that one in eight people in Wisconsin need federal assistance just to feed them-selves and that my legislation has done nothing to make their plight any eas-ier. If I saw individuals selling their FoodShare cards on Facebook, my first reaction would not be to prosecute them, but to express concern that an economic environment has developed that requires them to sell their food source for extra cash.
There are bigger, more systemic issues to address here than whether a few poor people steal food, but the Wisconsin GOP seems to have a dif-ferent priority. First and foremost, it need to make sure the serfs stay in their place.
Ryan Waal is sophomore majoring in English. Please tweet your feedback to @dailycardinal or e-mail your thoughts to [email protected].
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with two points.In Monday’s loss to Ohio
State, the Badgers attempted only one free throw all game and made none, both record lows for Wisconsin. That wasn’t a problem against the Nittany Lions, as the Badgers got to the free throw line 17 times and sunk 15 of them. But unlike Monday’s game, Wisconsin did not shoot well from three-point range, and Kelsey thought her team was passing up too many three-point opportunities.
“We didn’t hit the shots that were open and people were being hesitant,” Kelsey said. “Taylor [Wurtz] was very hesitant. I don’t know why she didn’t shoot the ball. Maybe if you ask her she will tell you because I don’t know. That is someone we really depend on to shoot the three.”
The Nittany Lions relied on a balanced offensive effort to hold the lead from their first basket to the final buzzer. Four players scored in double-digits for PSU, including sophomore guard Maggie Lucas, the reigning Big Ten Freshman of the Year. As a team, the Nittany Lions shot 48.3 percent from the field and 40 percent on three-pointers.
“That is a great team over there,” Kelsey said. “All of them can shoot. They have people that can handle the ball and create their own shot and we don’t have a lot of that, so that hurt us tonight.”
Wisconsin has a one-week layoff to rest and regroup before its hosts Michigan State next Thursday at the Kohl Center. It will be the first and only regular season meeting between the two teams.
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With the regular season com-ing to a close, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team (20-2-2 WCHA, 26-2-2 overall) knows its weekend series against St. Cloud State 4-20-0, 5-23-2) will be the last time it has a guar-anteed a road game. After this weekend, if the Badgers are to play away from home they will need to earn their tickets to Duluth, Minn., for two week-ends: the WCHA Final Face-Off and the NCAA Frozen Four.
As the team gets set for the postseason, players and coaches see this road test—in the form of games against the Huskies Friday and Saturday—as a chance to make final tune-ups for the biggest games of the sea-son against an easier opponent.
St. Cloud has struggled this season, and with just 12 confer-ence points to show for the year the Huskies are trying to avoid last place. Meanwhile, the Badgers could clinch a regular-season WCHA championship
with wins this weekend.According to head coach
Mark Johnson, the habits he hopes his players have learned over the past few months will carry them through the end of the regular season and playoffs.
“The big thing is: Don’t get complacent, don’t get ahead of yourself,” Johnson said of his team’s mentality. “Continue what we’ve done.”
With postseason play in mind, along with the knowl-edge that the team did not look its best through January, Johnson must have been glad to see Wisconsin play a complete and consistent game Feb. 5, as the Badgers defeated Minnesota State 6-0. Senior forward and team captain Hilary Knight said Sunday it was the first time she had seen the team play a “three-period game” in weeks.
According to junior forward Brianna Decker, the team will be looking to find that level of play again this weekend.
“Consistency is always something you can improve on—not just period by period but shift by shift,” Decker said.
If there is anything Wisconsin has learned it can count on from Decker it is con-sistency, as the talented cen-ter on the team’s top line has created scoring opportuni-ties for herself and her line-mates: senior forwards Brooke Ammerman and Carolyne Prevost. Decker is often spoken
of as a hard-working player, a label that Johnson said is root-ed in her competitiveness, and which is evident whenever she is on the ice.
“They’re three great play-ers playing together,” Knight said of Decker, Ammerman and Prevost, “but Decker has this ability to find other people all over the ice, and see the ice extremmely well.”
“If you’re playing with someone like [Decker] it’s a lot easier for you to do your own
job,” Knight added.But while the production
from Wisconsin’s forwards has been undeniable—Decker has contributed 64 points this season, Ammerman 58 and Prevost an injury-stunted 42—the Badgers are missing a scor-ing touch on the blue line.
Junior forward Stefanie McKeough has missed the past four games with an upper-body injury, and Johnson said her status is day-to-day. But Knight said that, while the team has
missed McKeough on the ice, younger Wisconsin defense-men like sophomore Natalie Berg have helped make sure the loss is not too great.
“She’s our [defensive] anchor, and she brings a lot of wisdom back at the end of the bench, so missing Steph [McKeough] is a huge loss to us,” Knight said. “It’s unfortu-nate that sometimes our anchor isn’t there, but we have other girls that are stepping up and making big plays.”
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The No. 21/22 Wisconsin men’s basketball team (8-4 Big Ten, 19-6 overall) rebound-ed from its most recent loss against Ohio State, albeit not easily, as it defeated Minnesota (5-7, 17-8) in the 190th meeting of the Border Battle Thursday night, 68-61 in overtime. This was the Badgers’ first win at The Barn since 2008.
“I’d be lying if I said this didn’t mean a lot,” senior guard Jordan Taylor said. “I’m elated to get a win here [at Minnesota].”
In sports, the saying goes that when one has an opponent down they have to step on their throat and finish them, but the Badgers were unable to do this to the Gophers. The Badgers led comfortably for most of the second half, even leading 49-36 with just under nine min-utes left. But there is a reason
they call it a rivalry. With the Badgers unable to deal the final blow, Minnesota got on a 15-2 run to tie the game with 1:02 to go. There was no scoring from that point on and the game was forced to overtime.
In the overtime period Wisconsin’s nine-minute scor-ing drought was finally broken by a pair of free throws from sophomore guard Josh Gasser to put the Badgers up by two. Junior forward Ryan Evans then stepped up, hitting a jumper and a pair of free throws to put the Badgers back up by six. The Badgers continued to make their free throws down the stretch to finally vanquish their arch-rival.
The star for Wisconsin was a man who hails from the Land of 10,000 Lakes, senior guard Jordan Taylor. What a home-coming it was for Taylor as he was unstoppable in the first half, making 5-6 shots including 4-4 from three to score 14 points. Although he cooled off in the second half and overtime, he still finished with a game-high 27 points.
Evans also had a big game for the Badgers, posting a dou-ble-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds. Evans was clutch in the overtime period, leading the Badgers with six points in the
extra session.One of the big reasons for the
Badgers’ disappointing loss to the Buckeyes on Saturday was their inability to hit the three-point shot, shooting only 5-26 on the day.
This was definitely not the case against Minnesota as the Badgers made nine threes and made more threes in the first half against the Gophers, seven, than they did against Ohio State. This quality three-point performance makes perfect sense if you look at the Badgers’ season numbers. The Badgers came into this game shooting 40 percent from three on the road, but only 23 percent at home.
A big reason for this great shooting performance was the unselfish passing the Badgers displayed. Wisconsin found open man after open man, assisting on 13 of their 19 made baskets.
Wisconsin started the game off on fire, making five of their first six shots. Wisconsin then went on a 0-6 cold streak, how-ever, that lasted over six min-utes and found them down by two. But Taylor stepped up for the Badgers and propelled the team to a six-point lead by scor-ing eight straight Badger points. The Badgers would continue the momentum from there, taking a
32-24 lead into halftime.The team that Wisconsin fans
dread to see reappeared once again late in the game as the Badgers went on one of their pat-ented cold stretches and shot 28 percent in the second half.
The leading scorers for the
Golden Gophers were fresh-man guard Andre Hollins with 20 and junior forward Rodney Williams with 16 points.
The Badgers will now have a week to gear up for another Big Ten road showdown against Michigan State next Thursday.
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Outdoor hockey is in their bloodthe Winter classic should come to the State of hockey
T he NHL recently announced that the 2013 Winter Classic is going
to be held at Michigan Stadium featuring the home-state Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Sure, this is a classic match-up of Original Six teams, but other than that, I see no appeal to this game. I can’t think of two more hated teams in the National Hockey League than these (the Boston Bruins could give them a run).
Seeing this matchup got me thinking about the past games and who played in them. The 2013 Winter Classic will be the sixth outdoor game under the “Winter Classic” name. In those six games, half of the participating teams have been Original Six teams.
If the Heritage Classic (the Canadian equivalent) is includ-ed, there have been (after 2013) eight major outdoor games and eight of the teams will have been Original Six.
I understand that those who tune into hockey for maybe the first time want to see teams that they can recognize. And I believe that the NHL has done a
great job in drawing large audi-ences for these games.
But for those who love the game, and are not fans of the Original Six teams, there is a cry for other teams to be included. That means not just putting an Original Six team up against a different team each year, which the NHL also have failed to do (the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers have each played in two of these games).
What the Winter Classic needs are two completely dif-ferent teams, two that have not been in the game before. With 30 teams in the league, it cannot be that difficult to arrange.
These games are the perfect opportunities to highlight some of the NHL’s rising teams or perhaps non-historical rival-ry that may have spawned in recent years.
What I am getting at here, and I know my bias is show-ing, is the NHL needs to hold a Winter Classic in Minnesota. It is absolutely appalling that this has not been done yet. I know that the Winter Classic has not been around very long, but are you fucking kidding me (excuse my language)?
Every piece of the Winter Classic puzzle can be found in Minnesota.
First, you have a team that just celebrated its 10th anniver-sary last year. If the league is as
concerned with cultivating tal-ent in every one of its teams and promoting the sport, why has it looked away from the State of Hockey?
In addition to a young team, the fan base in Minnesota is the best in the NHL. Minnesotans love hockey and they love the Wild, enough said.
The state has the venue also. With the construction of Target Field, the home of the Minnesota Twins, an outdoor game can be very easily held in Minneapolis.
The last piece, then, is an opponent. This may be the most obvious part. The Dallas Stars. What better storyline than bring-ing the team that left the State of Hockey back in Minesota in the league’s biggest game outside of the Stanley Cup Finals?
This is just one of the many possibilities that are available for the Winter Classic. But in my mind, this is the most obvious one and it needs to be done soon.
It is clear that the NHL has chosen to pass up Minnesota again this year. But if it is seri-ous about this game and serious about cultivating hockey across the country, they it bring the Winter Classic to the State of Hockey in 2014.
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Senior guard Jordan taylor hit a game-high 27 points, winning his final game at the Barn in Minneapolis, Minn., thursday night.
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Senior forward anya covington’s game-high 20 points was not enough as Wisconsin took the loss at penn State.
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Cold start dooms BadgersBy adam Tupitzathe daily cardinal
Three days after setting the school record for the most three-pointers made in a game, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team couldn’t get anything to fall from behind the three-point line. The Badgers shot 1-for-12 from three-point range in a 69-54 road loss to No. 18 Penn State (9-3 Big Ten, 19-5 overall) Thursday night.
Wisconsin (4-8, 8-16) was boosted by the return of senior for-ward Anya Covington, who had missed the previous two games due to illness and was a game-time decision for Thursday’s game. She came off the bench and scored 20 points in only 24 min-utes of action, leading all scorers in the game despite the limited
playing time.“She’s coming off a scary
episode with chest pains, so we wanted to get her back slowly,” head coach Bobbie Kelsey said. “I didn’t want the next game to be her first game, then you have a whole week. I didn’t realize she had 20 points to be honest with you.”
It was a tough night for Wisconsin’s guards, who weren’t able to make much of an impact on the offensive end of the floor. Junior guard Taylor Wurtz fin-ished with 11 points, her fewest in a game since going scoreless in a Jan. 5 victory over Purdue. Sophomore Morgan Paige shot 0-for-4 from the field and finished
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Taylor’s homecomingSenior guard Jordan Taylor got his first win at minnesota.Wisconsin’s 68-61 overtime win was the first time taylor won at the Barn in his home state.