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City reviews unofficial Revelry event detailsBy Cheyenne LangkampThe Daily CarDinal

Organizers for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Revelry festival provided unoffi-cial details about the event Wednesday when they received preliminary approval for a per-mit to close Randall Avenue for the May 4 event.

Sarah Mathews and Josh Levin, representatives from the Revelry Executive Committee, and Perry Blanchard, pro-duction manager at Frank Productions, spoke to the City of Madison Street Use Staff Commission about unofficial plans for the event, saying the goal is to create an event focused on a cultural immersion in music and the arts.

Mathews said it is meant to be a respectful, inclusive and responsible event to celebrate the end of the year.

She said the event is tar-

geted at UW-Madison students, though planners are considering an option to allow other guests. Additionally, the committee is cur-rently planning for between 3000 to 4000 attendees, a decrease from the original goal of approximately 7000, according to Mathews.

Levin said the primary stage is planned for Union South Plaza, which will showcase five to six national bands, with two smaller stages for regional talent and DJs, though the map is unofficial. This is a change from the previous pro-posal to have a second large stage in Engineering Mall.

Levin said the committee made the changes to create a more acces-sible, annual event.

Additional entertainment options could include a film viewing area, art installments, a dunk tank and vendors on Engineering Mall.

Revelry representatives said they are still unsure of how tick-

ets will be purchased, as well as which acts will be performing. However, Levin said the process is going well.

Representatives also asked the commission about using Randall Avenue, which would serve as the main entrance for the event.

Members of the SUSC, which grants permission to close city streets, said they will likely give Revelry permission to close the street, but want additional infor-mation first.

Madison Police Department Lt. David McCaw said he was concerned about the event’s security and communications plans because “resources will be strapped” on the day of the event, the same day as the Mifflin Street Block Party.

However, Levin said the com-mittee was pleased with the out-come of the meeting, saying the commission’s response was more positive than expected.

ASM, Regent discuss chancellor nominee

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Student regent Katie Pointer meets with the aSM Student Council Wednesday to review the UW chancellor recommendation.

By Paige VilliardThe Daily CarDinal

Student Regent Katie Pointer addressed the Associated Students of Madison Student Council Wednesday to discuss Monday’s recommendation of Rebecca Blank as the university’s next chancellor and to give the representatives a chance to voice their opinions and concerns.

A special University of Wisconsin Board of Regents com-mittee recommended Blank, who is currently the acting secretary of the United States Department of Commerce, to take over in July.

Student Council Rep. David Gardner said he felt concerned Blank was not aligned with the UW-Madison commitment to affordability, but supported a high tuition, high financial aid model instead.

Pointer said she had heard from other students and faculty that Blank has favored this type of model. Pointer said she was

concerned and went through tran-scripts to look for evidence but found no record of Blank favoring this model and said it must have been an “assumption made along the way.”

She said in conversations Blank “expressed quite the opposite” of a high tuition, high aid model.

Blank previously held a position at the University of Michigan, which has a much higher tuition rate than UW-Madison, but, according to Pointer, Blank said the demograph-ics of families in Wisconsin were different from those of Michigan.

Pointer said Blank has stressed the importance of keeping tuition affordable for Wisconsin families, which is part of the accessibility mission of the university.

ASM Diversity Committee Chair Mia Akers asked Pointer if she thought the next chancellor should prioritize diversity and have a “thorough understanding of what

Student Services Finance Com-mittee Chair Ellie Bruecker met with Chancellor David Ward Wed-nesday to discuss student organi-zations’ budgets for 2013-’14.

Bruecker said the chance-llor was “receptive” to SSFC’s con-cern over non-allocable bud-gets, or non-academic university departments, which all showed an increase from last year except for University Health Services.

She also reviewed all of the Gene-ral Student Service Fund groups, including those the committee denied eligibility to or minimally funded.

Bruecker said they also dis-cussed the funding of professio-nal staff for Wisconsin Public Inter-est Research Group, though Ward maintained his position that the group is not using the correct pro-cess to apply for those salaries.

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Officials propose amendment to liquor lawBy Melissa howisonThe Daily CarDinal

City officials introduced an ordinance to change the liquor license revocation process at a meeting Wednesday after hearing a State Street establishment’s not guilty plea to complaints brought against it, along with other cases heard at recent meetings.

Members of the Alcohol License Review Committee heard a plea from T. Sushi, located at 251 State St., challenging complaints assistant city attorney Jennifer

Zilavy brought against the down-town establishment for not using its liquor license for 15 consecutive days after the restaurant closed its doors December 31, 2012, while it underwent a managerial change.

Attorney Mary Beth Collins, representing T. Sushi’s owner Teddy Stevens, said the city attor-ney filed a complaint “for concerns rather than facts” regarding T. Sushi’s abrupt closure.

Under current law, if the city were to revoke T. Sushi’s license, any future tenant in the build-

ing would have to wait 12 months before applying for a new liquor license. The ALRC unanimously recommended the city Council adopt an ordinance at its April 16 meeting that would eliminate that stipulation.

According to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, if the Council adopts the proposal, a new busi-ness at 332 W. Johnson St., which used to be Logan’s Madtown Bar, would not have to comply with the

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a lawyer representing T. Sushi, located at 251 State St., contested a complaint Wednesday the city filed against the restaurant for violating the terms of its liquor license.

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O n many weeks this col-umn is a place of com-plaining, so much that a

person reading sometimes might worry that I had a sickness of the feelings. But this week is different!

You see, for several days now, the great conclusions of the American collegiate basketball sport have been already upon us. Oh, I am very excited. If you were standing near to me rather than reading these printed words, you would touch the bumps of geese on my arms and know my enthusiasm for the great Basketing of Balls!

I have always found these games to be of much interest. Firstly, there is the fast pac-ing, with the many runnings about. “See! The basketballers have all run to one end,” you might say, with happiness. But soon they will come back, one of them bearing the ball for

prompt basketing. It is always with the entertainment.

And if one of the basketmen successfully places the ball into the net of the enemy, that is the most exciting of all. If I am at the Basketball House when this hap-pens, I stand up from my seat to thank that person for basketing so successfully. Sometimes I lift my hands above my shoulders. Others do this too. Often, I see that their arms also have the goose’s bumps—how excited we are then!

There are many ways of bas-keting in the game of balls that bears its name. Simplest is when a player close to the enemy bas-ketnet inclines the hand and tips the ball into the ball receptacle. It looks much like laziness, but do not be deceived! This basketing can be very beautiful to behold, with the grace of the basketers in their competitive ballet. I also like very much when the player throws the ball with both hands toward the basketnet, and even more when the player throws from very far away. “Will the ball be basketed successfully?” we all wonder then.

But there is no time for questions! Soon the ball will be moving toward the other basketnet, and the ball-

men will follow it. Such is life. Did the visitors of the Basketball House stand up to express thanks? Maybe.

My very favorite basketing is when one basketer will jump very high with his ball and place it directly in the basketring (sometimes to hang from the bas-ketring in celebration!). The peo-ple watching the basketballings then will jump up and down and sometimes slap their hands at each other. Do not be alarmed! It is always the way with the great basketings. Such enjoyment then!

The players will often get very excited too. If one basketman has touched another man where he must not, then the one he has offended will be permitted to attempt basketings free of harass-ment, sometimes having many scorings in doing so. And of the scorings in a bastketball match, how many? No one can say! But not more than one thousand.

Last weekend was my time of maximum basketball excite-ment. For you see, the squadron of basketmen from our campus had overpowered the squadron of a distant university in the making of successful basketings. Such joy at that moment! If ever we meet

the students of that university, we will remind them of the sham-ing they suffered at the hands of our skillful basketmen. Their cheeks will darken to remember the embarrassment.

But then just days later: Another great shaming! But this time our basketmen suffered their own humiliation at the hands of an enemy squadron of basketballers, and so now we must forever avoid the students of another, mightier university, who will pound their chests at us to show their victory in the trials on the polished floors of wood. Such shame!

Even so, I will continue to enjoy the rest of this year’s basketballings, knowing in my heart that by next year we will once again be ready to support our squadron in their run-nings about and to thank them for their many successful basketings. So now let us give another cheer for our team of basketers and shout with much vigorousness:

“Hooray for Campus Team! The team for us!”

Sorry, Matt is loooong gone, so if you really want to com-ment on this column, you’ll have to leave one online at dai-lycardinal.com.

The best craft beer bars in Madison, part II

Cardinal classic: The basketing of ballsMatt Hunzikerhis dark Matt-erials

T wo weeks ago, I kicked off the list with the delicious dive bar brews of the

Malt House at No. 10, following Cooper’s Tavern’s rustic atmo-sphere and conservative tap list, which filled the No. 9 spot. The next bar on the list offers a simi-lar modern exposed-brick and wood interior design, with two full bars and plenty of American craft beers to choose from.

8. Brickhouse BBQWith its older crowd, gastro-

pub décor and menu and exten-sive drink list, Brickhouse feels like it belongs on the Capitol Square. Then again, considering it’s still snowing in mid March, I’m certainly not complaining about the shorter walk. The food is good, and the whiskey menu is long, but I’m coming here for the craft beer: nearly 40 on tap at all times.

The line-up tends to sample from midwestern breweries and has on occasion featured beers like Bell’s Hopslam, Central Waters Barrel Aged Barleywine and New Holland’s Dragon Milk Imperial Stout, along with the more commonly found Founders, Bell’s, Goose Island and New Belgium Seasonals. You also get a decent selection of Wisconsin breweries, though less so than bars like the Old Fashioned. If we are lucky, we might even see the almighty Founders KBS make an appearance at Brickhouse shortly after the brew’s release in April.

7. MaduroMadison, as a city, would not

be the same without the leath-er air chair, dim lighting and cigar-smoke-filled hipster oasis

that is Maduro. Careful not to let itself fall into the stereotyp-ical old-man cigar bar (think 1960s jazz music, lung cancer and waiters dressed like the Rat Pack), Maduro manages to draw in the young and the hipster with alt/electronic music and great drinks.

The beer list is not that long,

with close to 20 taps, but there are no fillers here. Seek out rare sea-sonals from Bell’s and Dark Horse, with some decent Belgians thrown in the mix as well. The staff is also usually pretty beer savvy, so don’t hesitate to tell them what you feel like and ask for a suggestion. Then again, if there’s a time or a place to skip beer all together, order a

nice whiskey or scotch and a cigar and embrace the pretentiousness you are far too young to indulge otherwise, well, Maduro is not a bad choice.

Niko will continue his series about Madison bars throughout the semester. His beer column runs every other Thursday. Send comments to ivanovic@wisc.edu.

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PostSecret founder shares secrets with UW studentsBy Shannon KellyThedailycardinal

Frank Warren, creator of the PostSecret Project, in which people share anonymous con-fessions on postcards, visited Union South Wednesday as part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Warren shares the post-cards on a website, in books and at live events. He started the project in Washington, D.C. in 2005 when he began distributing blank postcards addressed to his home to strangers on the street. He said he hoped to receive 365 post-cards and post one on his blog every day for a year, but the website quickly evolved and received over 100,000 visits in its first three weeks, and has since received more than

500,000 postcards.Warren discussed the his-

tory of the PostSecret Project and shared examples of the secrets he has received, includ-ing some that used photos of Bascom Hill and Downtown Madison. He said one of the benefits of sharing a secret on the website is that it makes people realize others share their struggles and helps them feel less alone.

“There’s this invisible net-work that connects us. You just can’t see it, but it’s there all the time,” Warren said. “Secrets feel like walls when we keep them inside, but when we find the courage to share them, they become bridges.”

Warren also shared the story of his own struggles with depression and attempted sui-cide, issues at the core of the

PostSecret Project.According to Warren, the

project has inspired the cre-ation of the PostSecret Suicide Prevention Wiki, the largest compilation of suicide preven-tion resources on the web, and has raised more than $1 million for suicide prevention.

Warren invited listeners to share their own secrets at microphones placed in the audience and several people shared emotional stories on topics ranging from religion and relationships to eating dis-orders and suicide.

“It made me re-evaluate things in my life that I’ve taken for granted in the past,” University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore Emily McKinney said. “It helped me put things into perspective and grounded me.”

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diversity is,” after expressing con-cerns about the Blank recommen-dation Monday.

Pointer said she felt prioritizing diversity is important for many rea-sons and pointed out that diversity was one of the top priorities of the Search and Screen Committee. She said she knew each of the four final-ists addressed diversity as a priority because they made it through the elimination process.

According to Pointer, diversity is often “over-simplified.” She said not only is racial diversity important, but also other types of diversity, such as economic background and political thought.

“[Diversity] is what makes us great, it’s what makes us learn from each other,” Pointer said. “It’s abso-lutely crucial and in our mission.”

Pointer added she felt confi-dent Blank held a clear under-standing of the necessity of all these types of diversity.

Details of Dayton Square plan finalizedBy Sarah OlsonThedailycardinal

A Madison commission approved final details Wednesday of two new apartment buildings to be located in off-campus areas after Common Council approved the buildings’ construction at previous meetings.

Eric Lawson, an agent for Madison architecture and interior design com-pany Potter Lawson, Inc., pitched additional chang-es to a plan for the Dayton Square Apartments, which would be located on the cor-ner of Dayton and Johnson streets to the Urban Design Commission.

In response to UDC’s previ-ous suggestions, Lawson said the company would remove overhead utility poles on Dayton Street, install pedestrian light poles and add three feet of space along the Johnson Street side of the building to preserve “green space.”

According to Lawson, the

easement could lead a widened the sidewalk in the future, but the company is still working with the city’s engineering department to finalize its plans.

Overall, the commission members had a very “positive reaction” to the architectural details and adjustments Lawson proposed, according to UDC Chair Dick Wagner.

The UDC also discussed the final touches to Vantage Point, a new apartment complex on West Dayton Street near Camp Randall, and approved plans for a non-traditional sign to be located outside the building.

Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, said the owners could change the sign if it became outdated, noting the Lucky complex also has a unique sign.

“I think it’s fun to have cool signs that are different,” Rummel said.

A Vantage Point representa-tive said the unique sign is appro-priate because the building’s

design also has a “little bit of a twist.”

Additionally, the commission heard a proposal for a new resi-dential building on the 400 block of West Washington Avenue, which would include a commer-cial complex and an attached fit-ness center.

John Sutton, of Sutton Architecture, said the com-plex would include 50 apart-ments, two levels of under-ground parking and a small public terrace.

Sutton sought the commis-sion’s input on whether the building’s design should be contemporary or traditional, and commission members rec-ommended a contemporary design, saying it should also be cohesive.

Sutton said his company will hold a formal neighbor-hood meeting April 10 regard-ing the project, and it hopes to start construction by the end of this year.

12-month waiting period because Logan’s liquor license revocation is pending until June.

Associated Students of Madison representative Rachel Lepak spoke with the ALRC about ways to bring more 18+ entertainment to the downtown area.

City Alcohol and Food Policy Coordinator Mark Woulf suggest-ed the city increase 18+ entertain-ment by providing business own-ers incentives for offering music to patrons under 21.

“One of the reasons we struggle so much with 18+ entertainment downtown is we have a fairly lousy music scene to attract those types of businesses,” Woulf said.

The ALRC also unanimously voted to deny Soga owner Jing Xun Jiang’s request to remove a condition on his license prohibit-ing him from playing anything other than “background music” at his restaurant.

Jiang said he applied to have his license allowances altered because he wanted to offer karaoke to the customers at his restaurant, located at 508 State St.

The council denied his pro-posal, saying loud music play-ing late into the night would be disruptive to the neighbor-hood, after community mem-bers opposed the measure and pointed out the State Street area is residential as much as it is commercial.

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Man tries to lure woman into van on S. Park Street

A man tried to pull a 33-year-old woman into his minivan Sunday night while she was walking on the 900 block of South Park Street, Madison police reported Wednesday.

The man pulled up to where she was walking at approximately 11:45 p.m. and offered her a ride in his “boxy, newer model blue minivan,” according to a police report. The woman ignored him, prompting the man to leave his vehicle, grab her arm and pull her toward the van’s door.

“She broke away, ran, and was able to find someone out walking a dog,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement. “This person helped her summon police.”

The woman received a ride home from a Madison police officer, according to the report. The woman reported she last saw the man, who she told police was black with dread-locks and a “chubby face,” driv-ing down South Park Street away from campus.

State Street 100 block to be shut down Saturday

The 100 block of State Street between West Dayton Street and West Mifflin Street will be closed to motor vehicles and bicycles Saturday, March 23 while construction workers assemble a crane in the vicinity.

Pedestrian traffic will be maintained, according to a City of Madison news release, and will be the only traffic permitted in the area that day.

The city encourages motor-ists to use different routes to deter traffic delays during the project, according to the release.

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A closer look at some solid SXSW films

O h man. SXSW. Okay, here we go, get ready, there’s kind of a lot.

SXSW is/was/will always be pretty incredible and pretty weird—the sights, the smells, the sounds—did I mention the smells? Seriously though the concentra-tion of amazing music and movies in one place was absolutely ridicu-lous. Luckily I managed to see a good handful of the amazingness up close and personal.

The first film I managed to catch (and I literally mean catch, I got in line basically as soon as we arrived and got the second-to-last magic “guaranteed spot in the theater” card) was Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers.” Going in I knew very little except a few former Disney princesses (Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez), shall we say, branch out from their pre-vious work, and James Franco was going to absolutely rock some

cornrows and sick grillz as a white rapper type character. It sounded goofy, fun and clever.

Instead what I got was a vio-lent, brutal examination of our love of excess and escapism as it gets manifested in spring break, and a Franco that manages to take everything that actually could be intimidating about a Vanilla Ice type, amplifies it 1000x and brings it to the forefront of your viewing experience. He gives a legitimately impressive, occasionally terrifying performance. He even dramatically sings a Britney Spears song from a piano overlooking the ocean. See this when it comes out.

While “Spring Breakers” was a highlight on the narrative side of things, the best documentary by far was “Good Ol’ Freda,” a documentary about the Beatles as told by their long time secretary Freda Kelly.

Maybe it’s just because I have a strong disposition towards any-thing Beatles related, but watch-ing Freda dig through the boxes in her attic to find old fan letters and memorabilia—watching her tear up... There were emotions all over. And watching her coyly

dodge the question of whether she ever went out with any of the Beatles might’ve been the hardest I laughed while I was down there. The entire theater was laughing with me. So yeah, it wasn’t just me, it was an excellent documentary.

Aside from the features, there was a full series of outstanding short films. Among the stand outs were “Boyfriends,” direct-ed by Hugo Vargas-Zesati and “Ellen is Leaving,” directed by Michelle Savill.

While “Ellen is Leaving” won the Grand Jury Best Narrative Short award at the festival, “Boyfriends” had to be my favorite short of the event. “Ellen” is great—it’s a smart-ly told story about a girl trying to gift her boyfriend to another girl before she leaves the country. It had some great acting and it looked phenomenal, very well directed and featuring a set design to die for (I really, really wanted to go to a party in that apartment).

However, “Boyfriends” was just of another frame of thought. It start-ed as a bizarre dream sequence fan-tasy fake out, shifted to slapstick to buddy comedy to a weird surrealist humor psychological breakdown

moment that was freakishly relat-able despite all of the lunacy—all this was within 10 minutes or so. I got to meet the director after the screening and got two pieces of very good news:

First, he’s just a really cool dude with an absolutely jaw-dropping beard and mustache combo. And secondly, he’s currently working on a feature film and has a TV pilot in the works. So definite-ly keep an eye on Vargas-Zesati because he’s going to be freaking great in the future.

Not to take anything away from Savill, who was also extremely cool and nice post-screening and is also working on a feature. She is already the sort of filmmaker that makes would-be directors like me really jealous.

In fact, this problem is the same problem and the only prob-lem I had with SXSW: there’s just too much awesome going on. Everywhere. I guess it’s an okay problem to deal with.

You can’t see one great movie without missing two others. You can’t walk down the street with-out getting distracted by the band that’s playing at any one of the pos-

sibly infinite number of stages that dot the city. Trying to buy posters to support some of the artists who showed up became a huge produc-tion because there were just way too many choices, and they were all as purely rad (yeah, I said rad) as the next one.

So yeah, I guess in summa-tion, if spending a week (or a few days at least) getting overwhelmed by amazing music, seeing count-less great films on display, milling through Halloween on State Street level crowds in one of the coolest cit-ies around while eating the cuisine of the south (I ate deep fried pickles. They are real) sounds like some-thing you’d be into, then I highly recommend going to SXSW.

And if not, you can always catch the films I mentioned above, and other great works like “Milo,” “The Scenic Route” and “We Cause Scenes” from the festival and sup-port some of the most talented independent artists in the country. Better yet, do both.

Are you as much of a film lover as Austin? Want to talk to him about his experience with SXSW film? Send any questions or inqui-ries to wellens@wisc.edu

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The Daily Cardinal’s quick Q&A with Dessa

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Kansas City, go to www.dailycardinal.comBy Ricardo RomeroThe daily cardinal

The Daily Cardinal recently spoke with Minneapolis art-ist Dessa, who is performing in Madison Saturday, March 23 at the High Noon Saloon.

Daily Cardinal: Have you performed in Madison before?

Desssa: Yeah, Madison is awe-some. It’s kinda like our home away from home!

DC: Your brand of hip-hop is rather unique, would you say that’s true?

Dessa: Yeah, I think some of the stuff I do falls pretty cleanly under a hip-hop heading and some of it is more indie rock and some of it ends up sounding a little experimental. So, I generally haven’t schlepped the genres too hard.

DC: How does that transfer to your live shows?

Dessa: Well, I travel with a full five-piece band. You’ve got a lot of sound being made on stage. Almost every track we’re playing live and you’ve got a lot of harmo-nies, which is something I really like writing. So for us it’s in most of the band member’s hands and sometimes their feet are occupied making a big, lush, full sound on stage. But I think we treat every song differently—like, what would be the best treatment for this tune? Sometimes it’s a pretty straight ahead rendering and sometimes it’s a total rearrangement to make the song pop live.

DC: In addition to being a rapper you do a lot of other things, such as being a poet and teaching.

Dessa: Yeah, I think I’ve got a driving interest in the language arts and sometimes that’s manifested in a song and sometimes a particu-lar idea is better suited in an essay and occasionally an idea seems best suited as a speech actually. So when people have asked me to speak on

a topic I usually say yes and I do that too.

DC: Where would you say your inspiration for your work comes from?

Dessa: Usually I think a par-ticular phrase will very often catch my ear and I’ll write it down. I’m not sure how or where it will end up, but I know that I like it. The figure of speech, “wrapped around the axle,” which I think my parent’s generation uses that term more than I do, I remember first hearing my dad saying that and thinking, “Wow, what a great phrase.” And so jotting it down and waiting for the occasion of the song to arrive if that makes sense. So, sometimes it starts at that language level where I will get caught up by a particular word or a particular phrase. So, very often it’s not so much inspired but much more this glowing … twin-kling light moment.

DC: What’s it like writing as a part of the Doomtree collective as opposed to as a solo artist?

Dessa: With Doomtree we work kinda modularly, so it’s my job to write the first verse and it’s [Doomtree member] SIMS’ job to write the second verse and Steph [Doomtree member P.O.S.] was the guy who had the whole idea for the song so maybe he’ll write a chorus. So ... you’re working on your particular part of the song and ... arranging them so those contributions feel well sequenced. Whereas I think on my solo stuff ... I really like subtext and I really like callbacks, meaning themes that are touched upon and then returned to quite a bit. So those, for me, take a lot of planning and those infrequently happen accidentally. So I think when I’m left to my own devices I do a lot of editing and a lot of rewriting which we gener-ally haven’t done a lot of as a col-lective with a more spontaneous, fast-paced writing process.

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Online relationships undeserving of taboo

A s far as the Internet goes, I’d say I’m a more-than-average user. On

my iPhone, you can catch me checking all of my social media, uploading pictures, download-ing music and iMessaging. On my computer, you can catch me doing all of these things simul-taneously, while also doing them on my phone. Social media has launched, landed and taken over our society, and I have to say that I’m a big fan.

While I understand being “plugged in” all the time is obnoxious and scary for some, I also know thousands of great connections have been made online. From experience, I can say online friendships are worth a try. If I told my mother 10 years ago that I had met my best friend on a blogging website, she would have warned me that “she” was actually a 64-year-old “he” who wanted to tempt me

with free candy and take me away. She also probably would have asked me why I was blog-ging at eight years old, but that’s another topic for another day.

Thankfully, meeting people online has not only become more convenient, but it’s also a lot less taboo than it was a decade ago. Before we could be connected in a thousand differ-ent ways to a person, we had no idea who was really on the other end of the Wi-Fi (or the hard-wire, depending how far back you really want to take this one). Now I consider it a daily event to talk to people I’ve met on the Internet, some of whom I’ve never actually met in person.

I know for some people this whole concept is still really shocking, but as the saying goes, everything gets better after the first time. At some point, you get used to the con-cept and just accept that some-times the people who under-stand you best aren’t always your next-door neighbors. There’s always a site that solid-

ifies this fact for people and if you haven’t found it yet, chanc-es are you’re a sociable person who enjoys spending time with others instead of in bed at 3 a.m. on a Friday night.

For me, and I’m sure for at least a handful of others, it was Tumblr. To anyone who lives under a rock, Tumblr is a blogging website that takes over your life (Note: the sar-casm isn’t as heavy as it may seem). Much like in our every-day lives, there are two kinds of users—passive and active.

Passive bloggers tend to use Tumblr as another way to pro-crastinate; they reblog pictures of pretty sunsets or maybe a nice poem and a cup of tea every other week when they’re avoid-ing that economics homework deadline. This is a serious over exaggeration, but my focus isn’t on these people. Then there are people like me, the active bloggers. Tumblr is a commu-nity where I have met my closest group of friends, some of whom live where I do, and some of

whom live across the world.The first time I made a friend

on the Internet, I was terrified. I didn’t want to tell anybody because I didn’t want them to assume I was talking to the previously mentioned 64-year-old man with the Snickers. I didn’t have the courage to tell them I knew it wasn’t this unnamed predator because I had spent seven hours on Skype, video chatting with a complete stranger.

That friendship turned out to be one of the greatest I’ve ever had and I still speak to that friend very often. From there, I took charge and made bonds. I messaged people who seemed interesting and had the same ideas I did. I’ve met peo-ple across the country and the world because of Tumblr, and I’ve been lucky enough to meet some of them in person too. I speak to my Internet friends on a daily basis, probably more than I speak to my mom.

The concept of meeting on the Internet is so different

from meeting in person. On the Internet, you can be any-body you want. Hiding behind a screen, even with Skype, is a strange experience, but one that can be so worthwhile. People meet online every single day, and it’s so easy to become one of them. I think it’s so much easier to talk to people over the Internet because you can express yourself however you want. And no, that’s not me giving permission to anybody to be somebody they aren’t (this isn’t Catfish, kids).

Everybody should make an online friend at some point, if only to tell somebody yes, you have a friend in Australia and yes, she likes cats. It can be scary, but you never know who you could befriend that could change your life in a posi-tive way. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll meet a person who turns your world right-side up. Maybe you’ll marry them. How can you know if you never try?

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out, briefly) 9 Thailand currency

units 14 Stewart’s “Vertigo”

co-star 15 Feminine pronoun 16 Give or take 17 Nemesis 18 Seam valuable 19 Sharply dressed 20 Passionate 23 Finder’s take 24 Brew ina pint 25 Delphic diviners 27 Unlike batteries,

often 32 Turkish title of honor

(Var.) 33 Role for Keanu in

“The Matrix” 34 Incite a hen? 36 Certain bridge

positions 39 Belmont entry 41 “___ Joe’s” (restaurant

sign) 43 You, in the Bible 44 “___ came to pass ...” 46 “Buffalo Stance”

singer Cherry

48 “Now” or “long” preceder

49 Tropical tuber 51 Author W. ___

Maugham 53 Chuckle-evoking 56 ___-Wee Herman 57 Kind of chest or

paint 58 Tidy Lotto prize 64 Commonly sprained

joint 66 Singing twosome 67 Tibia connections 68 At quite an incline 69 Anita Brookner’s

“Hotel du ___” 70 Not perfectly upright 71 Rutherford or Helen 72 Three Stooges laugh 73 Cancun coins

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“space” 8 System of principles 9 First aid staple 10 Camel hair coat 11 Menopausal

symptoms 12 Homebound student,

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13 Eyelid sores 21 Break in a building’s

facade 22 Unforgettable time

for historians 26 Converse idly 27 Past Peruvian 28 Element of Times

Square 29 One way to kick a

habit 30 Actor Richard of “A

Summer Place” 31 Lavishes affection

(on) 35 Prefix for “billionth” 37 Went like lightning 38 Wintertime bird

treat 40 Madre’s sisters 42 Musical rates of

speed 45 Arm muscles 47 Audible dance step 50 “Dear Yoko” subject 52 Interact with others 53 Inundated 54 Large ocean ray 55 Devout 59 Waikiki wingding 60 Lampoon 61 Van Gogh’s flowery

subject 62 Scandinavian

seaport 63 Insect eggs 65 Writer Harper

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Is that why I get the chills every time I eat carrots? The amount of pressure you use to bite into a carrot is the same amount of

pressure you would need to bite off someone else’s finger.

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The Daily Cardinal Sports section’s top tweets: 3/14-3/20

We spend an inordinate amount of time on Twitter, so we’ve decided to justify that wasted time by compiling the week’s top tweets. They might be funny, they might be motivational and they might be none of the above, but as long as the tweets come from a past or current Badger player or coach, they pass the only prerequisite to make our list.

What do you think of this week’s top tweets? Is there another 140-character dispatch of goodness that should replace one of the tweets on this list? Tweet at us @Cardinal_Sports with your favorite tweets!

Scheduling the Crimson Tide a step in the right direction for UW football

A s the Wisconsin Football Twitter and Facebook accounts

hyped a “big” announcement Wednesday, endless possibilities roamed through my head. Would the program unveil a new alter-native Adidas jersey to be worn next year? Would it officially be announcing the new realignment of the divisions, distinctly playing to UW’s advantage?

While my estimations were not even close in stature, the announcement to fans should be much more monumental in value than the football program initial-ly alluded to. Per a UWBadgers.com press release—the “big” announcement—Wisconsin will kick off the 2015 college football season against the powerful Alabama Crimson Tide in the state-of-the-art Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

What was my first impression of the announcement?

It’s about time. Badgers fans have been accustomed to see-ing the red and white take the field—either at Camp Randall Stadium or an away stadium—against the cup-cakes of the Football C h a m p i o n s h i p Subdivision (FCS) or marginal Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams year-in and year-out.

Dating back to for-mer head coach Bret Bielema’s arrival in 2006, Wisconsin has been anything but challenged in its non-conference schedule. The program has a combined record of 27-1 in such games over the last seven sea-sons, with the lone loss coming on the road against Oregon State this past season.

Moreover, the Badgers out-scored their lackluster oppo-nents by an average of three touchdowns (35.8 to 14.6) and scored over 35 points 17 times, including against all of their non-conference opponents during the 2011 season.

I really never understood the essence of scheduling opponents well below a team’s caliber of play, except for the fact teams can pat themselves on the back after bullying up on a less-than-superior opponent. Sure, they walk off the field feeling high and mighty after dismantling teams like Marshall, Cal Poly, San Jose State or UTEP, but does it really prepare them for the rig-ors of the conference schedule?

This past year, Minnesota took the route of scheduling its

fair share of lowly non-confer-ence teams, and it paid off for the Gophers in the short-term, as they owned a 4-0 record heading into the Big Ten season.

Want to know how that turned out? They went 2-7 the rest of the way, including a 34-31 loss to Texas Tech in the Meineke Care Bowl.

On the contrary, I com-pletely understand the notion of Southeastern Conference teams scheduling “cupcakes” mixed-in throughout the season, especially toward the end of the season, because of the depth of their gru-eling conference schedule.

However, they still challenged themselves to a certain extent throughout their non-conference slate. Alabama played preseason Big Ten favorite Michigan this past year in Cowboy Stadium. LSU kicked off their 2011-’12 sea-son with Oregon and Georgia played Boise State in the Georgia Dome in the same season.

While I’m sure Wisconsin fans are giddy about making trav-el arrangements to Arlington and finally seeing UW challenged on the field during its non-confer-ence slate, they should be more giddy about the explicit meaning behind the Alabama-Wisconsin announcement: Things are changing for the better under head coach Gary Andersen’s

regime, specifically in terms of scheduling.

Planning games against superior BCS-level programs like Alabama in 2015 and Virginia Tech in 2016 will provide a respect-able body of work for the playoff selection committee to refer to, should the Badgers be in contention for col-lege football’s play-

off in the coming years.Moreover, the message

Andersen and athletic director Barry Alvarez are sending aligns with the common sports saying, “In order to be the best, you have to beat the best.”

By in large, Alabama is cur-rently the face of college football, having won three of the last four national titles, and it is the closest thing fans have witnessed to a football dynasty since the days of Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart at Southern California.

Yet with the announcement, the Crimson Tide’s prestige did not phase Andersen and Alvarez. Both of them have made it known they want to compete at the high-est level, and this 2015 matchup will serve as a golden opportunity to do just that. Finally.

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Junior guard Ben Brust, Wisconsin’s leading scorer (11.2 points per game), will likely draw some of the man-to-man responsibilities defending rebels leading scorer, junior guard Marshall henderson.

Badgers open with red-hot Ole Miss in NCaa tournament

continue its season past Thursday afternoon, it is going to have to do just that.

“I think it’s going to be a classic battle just because it’s two wins each, this is kind of like the rub-ber match on a big stage,” Eaves

said. “Both teams are playing for a lot, so it should be one heck of a game.”

Senior center Derek Lee (knee) will travel with the team but will not play this week, and sopho-more defenseman Jake McCabe (lower-body) is a game-time decision for Thursday.

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By Vince huthThe daily cardinal

To some, Thursday marks the beginning of the college basketball season; The Big Dance is finally here. All right, the “first-round” games were technically played Tuesday and Wednesday, while Thursday marks the beginning of the “second round.” (According to the NCAA, 60 of the 68 teams received a first-round bye.)

The No. 5-seeded Badgers (12-6 Big Ten, 23-11 overall) will begin their run at an NCAA championship Friday morning (tip is set for 11:40 a.m. CDST) in a second-round matchup with No. 12-seeded Ole Miss, who clinched an automatic bid in the NCAA tournament after sweep-ing through the Southeastern Conference (SEC) tournament.

“Ole Miss is a team that’s gonna have a lot of momen-

tum coming in,” redshirt senior forward Jared Berggren said. “We’ll see what happens.”

The Rebels (12-6 SEC, 26-8 overall) play faster than any team in the Big Ten, averaging 73.7 possessions per game. By comparison, UW averages 63.6 and Indiana, the fastest-paced team in the conference, aver-ages just below 70.

Wisconsin and Ole Miss had two common opponents this season—Arkansas and Florida—both of which play with the Rebels in the SEC. The Badgers beat the Razorbacks on a neutral court in November but lost to the Gators by 18 points in Gainesville. Similarly, Ole Miss dropped a road game to Florida, 78-64, and beat Arkansas at home.

However, the Rebels also knocked off the Gators in the SEC tournament title game, 66-63, during which they outscored Florida 40-25 in the second half.

“[The Rebels] are a dangerous team, to go in and beat Florida—that shows what they’re capable of,” Berggren said. “We’ll have our hands full.”

Ole Miss has used its up-tempo style of play to aver-age over 78 points per game this season, good enough for seventh-best in the nation. Rebels junior guard Marshall Henderson leads the offensive attack, averaging more than 20 points per game.

On the interior, Ole Miss senior forwards Murphy Holloway (14.6 points per game, 9.6 rebounds per game) and Reginald Buckner (9.5 ppg, 7.4 rpg) provide the Rebels with a stout inside presence. While Holloway and Buckner’s combined 17 rpg outnumbers that of any duo in the Big Ten, Berggren said playing in the nation’s top league will have UW ready for tip Friday.

“What we’ve gone through in the Big Ten throughout the year and this weekend as well, it’s prepared us for anything,” Berggren said.

The Wisconsin-Ole Miss winner will square off in a third-round matchup with the winner of No. 4-seeded Kansas State and No. 13-seeded La Salle’s matchup.

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men’s hockey

By matt mastersonthe daily cardinal

After facing off four times in the regular season, the No. 14 Wisconsin men’s hockey team will take on No. 8 Minnesota State one more time Thursday in St. Paul, Minn., in the first game of the WCHA Final Five.

The Mavericks (16-11-1 WCHA, 24-12-3 overall) swept the Badgers (13-8-7, 19-12-7) back in November, falling 4-2 in back-to-back nights. Wisconsin rebounded, however, taking down Minnesota State with consecutive overtime wins in the teams’ January series off goals by senior defenseman John Ramage.

“I think that definitely helps us going into the game, but we’ve been playing playoff hockey the last couple months and we’re just going to need to keep it the same,” junior center Jefferson Dahl said of their previous overtime wins. “There’s a lot of similarities between our team and their team.

When we played them early on, we weren’t at our best, but we know it’s going to be a battle like any team in the conference is.”

While the game has obvious implications for the rest of the WCHA tournament, it also has fur-ther reaching consequences on a national scale. Both teams are fight-ing for a spot in the NCAA tourna-ment, and while the Mavericks are currently sitting inside the bubble,

the Badgers need to win to keep their hopes alive.

Wisconsin is coming off a two-game sweep of Minnesota-Duluth in the opening round of the confer-ence playoffs last weekend, while Minnesota State was forced to go to three games before finally taking down Nebraska-Omaha. Despite the extra rest, head coach Mike Eaves is unsure of any advantage that may bring for UW.

“I’ve seen teams—when we coached in the American Hockey League—play three games in three nights in three different cities and play their best hockey on the third night,” Eaves said. “We’re not look-ing at that as ‘We have an advantage because they played three games.’ It’s just, we have to get there and play well.”

This will be the first taste of the Final Five for many of the Badgers,

having not been since 2010. Despite a lack of experience, though, Eaves does not expect his players to get caught up in the hype of a win-or-go-home type game.

“I think there’s general excite-ment, and being on a big stage is what all athletes have dreamed about,” Eaves said. “This is our 12th-straight weekend [with games on the schedule] so we’ve been play-ing for awhile, so I think if there is an energy boost we get from being on this stage, that’s a welcome thing at this time.”

Minnesota State is led by sopho-more forward Matt Leitner, who leads the team with 45 points, and senior forward Eriah Hayes, who has a team-high 19 goals.

The Mavericks also posses the No. 4 ranked power play in the country, but after keeping Duluth’s No. 5 power play unit off the score sheet last weekend, the Badgers know what they will be getting into.

“We just have to keep work-ing hard,” Dahl said. “[Minnesota State] likes to go cross-ice just like [Duluth] does. Last weekend we did well blocking shots and taking away lanes for them.”

With a win, the Badgers would advance to play No. 1 seeded St. Cloud State in the second round Friday. If Wisconsin wants to

Wisconsin, mavericks meet in Final Five

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the Badgers, who currently sit in a five-way tie at no. 16 in the pairWise rankings, will likely need a win against Minnesota State thursday to solidify their ncaa tournament hopes.

thursday showdown carries ncaa tournament implications

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