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Former President Bill clinton addresses thousands at the democratic national convention, where he said President Barack Obama deserves another term to build on an already successful four years.
Clinton officially nominates Obama, rebuts GOP criticism
aSM takes action against UW officials by Cheyenne langkampthe daily cardinal
Associated Students of Madison Chair Andrew Bulovsky signed a document Wednesday night that could lead to a law-suit with University of Wisconsin System administration over last year’s Wisconsin Union and Recreational Sports budgets.
The Student Services Finance Committee voted last February to deny funding increases for both budgets because the committee felt neither budget provided ade-quate details for a sound evalu-ation, according to former SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart.
UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward vetoed SSFC’s recommenda-
tions and the UW System Board of Regents passed both budgets, including their requested increases.
ASM Student Council approved a resolution giving Bulovsky the authority to sign a Notice of Claim against Chancellor David Ward, UW System President Kevin Reilly and the Board of Regents at its August meeting.
According to Mark Hazelbaker, a local attorney who will represent ASM should the situation result in a lawsuit, a Notice of Claim is a warn-ing that claimants could sue if the dispute is not resolved within the 120 days allotted for negotiations.
Hazelbaker said although it is
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by adam Wollnerthe daily cardinal
CHARLOTTE, NC—Former President Bill Clinton officially nominated current President Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential 2012 nominee Wednesday while fur-ther emphasizing the party’s populist convention theme in an address to the delegates.
Taking the stage to the loudest cheers of the convention so far, Clinton argued Obama deserves another four years in the oval office to finish cleaning up the “total mess” he inherited from the GOP and fully enact his agenda.
“No president—not me or any of my predecessors, no one—could have repaired all the dam-age in just four years,” Clinton said. “But he has laid the founda-tions for a new, modern, success-ful economy of shared prosperity.
And if you will renew the presi-dent’s contract, you will feel it.
The 42nd president also rebut-ted many Republican claims against Obama from their conven-tion last week, chiding their basic arguments about the role of govern-ment and the individual in society.
“We believe ‘we’re all in this together’ is a far better philoso-phy than ‘you’re on your own,’” Clinton told the crowd.
After Clinton wrapped up his remarks, Obama, who arrived in Charlotte earlier in the day, briefly joined him on stage.
Prior to Clinton’s speech, Eau Claire Delegate Judith Willink said she was looking forward to it more than any other address at the Democratic National Convention because she felt a personal connec-tion with him, having gone door-to-door for Clinton during his 1992 White House bid.
“When he was elected, that was euphoric,” Willink said. “So I’ve always had a real soft spot for Bill.”
Massachusetts Senate can-didate Elizabeth Warren spoke in the slot right before Clinton, asserting middle class Americans are fed up with an economic sys-tem that is rigged against them and that Obama’s policies will provide them with a fighting chance.
“President Obama believes in a level playing field,” Warren told the audience. “He believes in a country where nobody gets a free ride or a golden parachute.”
Instead of formally accept-ing the party’s nomination Thursday at the outdoor Bank of America Stadium as original-ly planned, Obama will address the convention at the Time Warner Cable Arena instead due to severe weather forecasts.
Social media scavenger hunt aims to familiarize students with UW campus
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the second annual #FindUW event Friday to reacquaint stu-dents with campus while also expanding the university’s social media presence.
#FindUW is a social media scavenger hunt created by the Center for First Year Experience and the Visitor and Information Programs.
Students are to follow clues from the #FindUW website and university Twitter accounts to locations around campus and find workers with red Bucky signs to be entered into drawings for prizes. Clues for the scaven-
ger hunt will be announced from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Prizes for the event range from gift cards to a dedicated table at Helen C. White Library for a semester.
University Communications and Marketing Social Media Coordinator John Lucas said the event will reinforce the universi-ty’s already expansive presence on social media platforms.
“One of my goals is to see [UW] be known as one of the most forward-thinking social media universities in the coun-try,” Lucas said.
The event is an effort by CFYE and VIP to connect stu-
dents with university social media accounts to spread news and events in a digital format, according to Student Services Coordinator Darcy Wittberger.
“[Social media] is where the students are,” Wittberger said. “This is where they get their news and information and we want to go where the students are talking to each other.”
Several hundred students participated in last year’s #FindUW and the university wishes to increase that number this year, Lucas said.
More information on #FindUW can be found at finduw.wisc.edu.
—Sam Cusick
Wis. sees unexpected revenue increaseA Department of Revenue
report released Wednesday shows Wisconsin took in $126.6 million more in general-purpose tax revenue during the 2011-2012 fiscal year than projected, a num-ber that could prove historic.
Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said in a statement he expects to report the largest transfer of money to the Budget Stabilization Fund in Wisconsin’s history if Gov. Scott Walker’s administration meets projected costs.
The Budget Stabilization Fund, known as the “rainy day fund,”
requires that half of the surplus revenue be set aside to help during fiscally troublesome times.
If Wisconsin spends as much as it expects, the state would end the biennial budget with a $274.1 million surplus, half of which would go to the rainy day fund under state law.
“After years of record budget deficits, we are clearly headed in the right direction,” Huebsch said in the statement. “However, fiscal stewardship does not take a break.”
The final Annual Fiscal Report for 2011-12 will be released by Oct. 15.
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I happened to be walking by Witte Hall the other day and witnessed a timeless staple
of freshman dorm life in the early fall: the get-to-know-you game of volleyball.
For the more outgoing and self-confident incoming freshmen, a casual game of volleyball is noth-ing more than a worthy excuse to get some sun and physical activity and make new connections. For the more socially awkward, like myself, it was an excruciatingly uncomfort-able exercise that followed a pre-dictable template: tell people your name, exchange the obligatory “nice to meet you” and showcase some token enthusiasm when your team scored a point. These things aren’t terribly difficult to do, but the superficiality of the whole affair is quite cringe-worthy.
So, just like many of the other freshmen, I played along. Hell, I needed to play along. After all, I had convinced myself that these were “my people,” and that some-thing like a casual game of volley-ball was commensurate with the college experience. At least that’s what all those college brochures made it seem like anyway.
You see, I had been prepar-ing to leave for college since I was in middle school. I grew up in the rural village of Richfield, Wis., a fine place in its own right. However, it is one whose values I believed were strongly at odds with my own. Richfield largely held true to just about all
the familiar stereotypes of peo-ple from small-town Wisconsin you’ve probably already heard—a bunch of church-going, country music-loving, beer-swilling, deer-hunting, fish fry-eating lard-asses.
More than a few kids from my high school had Confederate flag decals on the rear windows of (what else?) their pickup trucks. It came as little surprise when I found out that Washington County, where Richfield is locat-ed, checked in at no. 74 in The Daily Caller’s 2010 rankings of the most conservative-friendly counties in America.
Don’t get me wrong, I created some great friendships during my upbringing, and I maintain many of those connections to this day. As the years passed, I just grew continuously weary of my surroundings, and dreamt of a place where I could be among more people with simi-lar worldviews and outlooks as me. I spent many a Friday and Saturday evening playing bas-ketball at a local park by myself, imagining what it would be like to get a fresh start elsewhere.
When it became too dark to play, I would retreat to my car, listening to artists like Bruce Springsteen, The Who, and Roy Orbison, whose lyrical themes often evoked the exact sentiments I was feeling: an underlying jad-edness toward the status quo but an optimistic outlook for the future. Upon leaving Richfield I embarked for Madison to begin my freshman year that fall, Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”
perfectly encapsulated my feel-ings at the time in the song’s final line: “It’s a town full of losers, I’m pulling out of here to win.”
As a result of this nascent dreaming, I became fully con-vinced that UW-Madison would be the orgy of awesomeness that I had desperately longed for. I envisioned debating my peers about the finer points of Sartre existentialism, the subtleties of art deco and art nouveau and other high-brow shit like that. I believed that all of my profes-sors would give these gripping, epic lectures, calling on students randomly to test their insight and resolve. I thought everyone got laid with regularity. In a sense, I thought college would be the pin-nacle of my existence.
Of course, I soon learned that my perception of college was quite warped. While freshman year was surely a whirlwind and up to that point, the greatest year of my life, I didn’t get nearly the level of fulfillment that I had expected going in. I had put the college experience on such a lofty pedestal that it simply couldn’t meet my expectations.
The lesson I’ve learned is to never let my perceptions of a particular environment dictate the breadth of my experiences. Growing up in Richfield, I placed so much emphasis on what I didn’t like about my surround-ing environment that I took for granted the aspects of the area that I did enjoy.
Rather than embracing the individuals and places that I
did appreciate, I retreated to my own inner sanctum, thinking that because almost everybody and nearly everything else didn’t meet my expectations, it meant that nobody and nothing else justifiably could. The same thing happened to me freshman year. I had a concept in my head of what college should be like, and when that schema wasn’t met, I became disappointed rather than moving on and discovering what I liked about the college experience.
Just as I did, I’m sure many of you incoming freshmen out there have visions of grandeur and come to Madison thinking, “HERE I AM, THE WORLD IS MY OYSTER!” And it’s true that some of you may have the stimulating conversations about high-brow shit like you always wanted. Some of you may have engaging professors who chal-lenge you and maintain your undivided attention throughout the power lecture. Some of you may even get laid.
So welcome to Madison, fresh-men. Your next four (or five) years of college will most likely be unique to any other period of your life at this point.
Just realize that even if your expectations of college aren’t met—or even if they are—there are still plenty of great people, places and things that you might still be overlooking.
Want to reminisce about your Freshman experience with Adam? Tell him your get-to-know-you game of volleyball was, like, total-ly rad at [email protected].
My freshman misconceptions
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T his article marks my first post in a series of columns about Madison
craft beer. An avid beer enthusi-ast for a while now, I’ve founded and operated a beer blog with a few friends for over a year and couldn’t be more excited to have this opportunity to write exclusively about Madison’s best beer, bars and brewpubs. However, before I jump into the heart of the craft beer scene sur-rounding UW-Madison, I want to take the time to tell you why I love writing about beer in the first place.
For me it starts with a simple idea: beer is not just a beverage, beer is art.
From its naming, to the label, to the brewing, to the bottling, hell, even the pour, every element of what takes a bag of barley and hops, some water and yeast, and brings it to your glass is about so much more than a factory line and a super-bowl advertisement. Instead it’s about creativity, pas-sion, determination and a love for brewing, drinking and more importantly sharing beer. When I look at a brand new bottle, I pop the cap like a baseball fan at opening day. I allow the sudsy gold, amber, nut-brown or black-as-night liquid to fill my glass, and I see the clouds of foam rise, fall, and breathe like a living rep-
resentation of its crafters. Each new beer is more than an expe-rience; it is an adventure and a mystery. After all, who knows what that first sip will offer? No two beers are the same, and every brew is a learning experi-ence for its consumer.
However, my questionably alcoholic obsession with the heavenly hop and beloved barley beverage is more than a simple appreciation of art. I like art, but I love beer. So, why do I abso-lutely adore the almighty ale? Because beer is not just about the
look, feel, smell, or taste of that perfect pint, and it’s certainly not just about getting a little too tipsy: Beer is about people.
Beer is about the memories
that it has the power to create. When I think about Westvleteren 12, the so-called “best beer in the world,” I don’t think caramel, fig, raison, toffee and vanilla. I don’t even ponder the legendary monks of Brouwerij St. Sixtus who have been carefully crafting the holy grail of beers for ages. Instead, I think about that three-hour walk through the beautiful streets of Stockholm with my uncle, desperately searching for any bottle we could get our hands on.
When I think about Founders
Kentucky Breakfast Stout, I don’t think buttery bourbon, cof-fee and dark chocolate malts, I instead remember my dad calling me at 8 a.m. to tell me that he was
waiting in front of the liquor store with my mom and grandparents to smuggle out as many bottles possible in consideration of that strict “one per customer” rule.
When I think about Bells Two Hearted Ale, I don’t think about those fresh citrus hops, I think about meeting a girl that has so much in common with me that it’s almost hard to believe. I recall that sunburnt summer day in August, splitting a pitcher at the terrace while thinking that this will likely become a new senior year tradition. Seriously, I don’t think I’ll be capable of ordering that beer without invoking a subtle recollecting smile for a long, long time.
This is why I LOVE craft beer, because each ale carries a web of memories, experienc-es and people that hold more value than any little bottle ever could in itself. For this reason, I insist that the passion for beer ought not only to be experienced but shared. By expressing my fascination with the barley bev-erage to those around me, I have convinced my family and count-less friends to appreciate the world of bold, bubbly brews, and I hope if you’re reading this you will too. Because honestly craft beer brings people together, and there are few things in this world more important than that.
Have questions, comments or suggestions for Niko? E-mail him at [email protected].
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True confessions of a craft beer fanaticNiko ivANovicBeer columnist
By Meghan ChuaThe Daily CarDinal
The balance between histor-ic buildings and new projects in downtown Madison came under discussion Wednesday night when city officials heard a proposal for a new student-oriented apartment complex slated for construction where three historic buildings cur-rently stand.
Two buildings on North Henry Street as well as a build-ing on Iota Court would be demolished to create space for a new, eight-story apartment com-plex catered to students.
According to Timothy Parks, a planner with the Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development, those three structures are historical.
“The new design of the proj-ect has to be exemplary … in order to support the removal of [the buildings],” Parks said.
The plan also includes a pedestrian walkway near the proposed apartment complex as well as a complete remodeling and an addition of two stories to the apartment building at 140 Iota Court.
Parks expressed concern about improving fire depart-ment access to buildings in the area under the proposal, which is still at an early stage. He said the proposed plan could improve on emergency vehicle access both to the new build-ing and nearby structures on Langdon Street.
Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, said emergency vehicle access in that area is currently an issue due to poor road availability leading to those buildings.
She said the benefits of a proj-ect that can construct a more accessible road and improve safety for the property and adja-cent buildings outweigh the cost
of losing “older” structures.However, Maniaci also said
residents “really appreciate that older characteristic to the neighborhood.”
Earlier this year, a similar debate over replacing historical buildings with new structures centered on State Street rede-velopments when city officials weighed preserving histori-cally significant buildings on
the 100 block against replac-ing them with commercial and office spaces.
The city ultimately approved the Block 100 Foundation’s proposal after a compromise between the city and project developers W. Jerome Frautschi and Pleasant Rowland that no longer included demolishing certain historic buildings.
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Student Council hears new ASM constitution logisticsBy Kristen TracyThe Daily CarDinal
Student government heard legislation proposing a new Associated Students of Madison constitution at a meeting Wednesday night that calls for a complete restructure of the current student govern-ment institution.
The proposed constitution would establish four different branches of ASM, which include the executive, legislative, judicial and appropriations branches. These would replace the insti-tution’s three current branch-es: Student Council, Student Services Finance Committee and Student Judiciary.
Former ASM Constitution Committee Chair Sam Seering, who proposed the new consti-tution at the meeting, said that while the judiciary branch would remain similar to its cur-rent form, changes to the other branches would significantly improve ASM operations.
Currently, Student Council is responsible for both student
outreach and legislative affairs. The new governmental structure would split these responsibili-ties between the legislative and executive branches, which would “create a more efficient organiza-tion,” according to Seering.
“You would have the inter-nal structure being debated in the [legislative branch] and the peer executive branch working on external relations and really trying to connect with students to make sure that ASM is rel-evant and working on issues that students want them to,” Seering said.
Former SSFC Chair Matt Manes spoke in support of a new
ASM constitution in open forum. “Structure is where ASM
has consistently failed year in and year out,” Manes said. “And that is because structur-ally [it is] set up to fail. [ASM] may have the greatest lead-ership, and [it] may all work together fantastically, but [its] success will be hammered by [it] structure.”
The legislation calls for Student Council to approve the placement of the constitution on the ASM Fall 2012 ballot, mak-ing the document subject to a student vote.
ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky said the resolution must receive at least 2/3 votes in two consecutive Student Council meetings to be placed on the fall election ballot.
Also during the meeting, members paid tribute to recently deceased UW-Madison student John “Vietnam” Nguyen by watch-ing a YouTube video of his song “If a Minute Would Reverse.” Nguyen apparently drowned in Lake Mendota Aug. 30.
Matt Manesformer chair
Student Services Finance Committee
“Structure is where ASM has consistently failed year
in and year out.”
Former associated Students of Madison Constitution Committee Chair Sam Seering introduces the new constitution Wednesday.
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Commission hears proposal for new student apartments
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ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, supports the proposed construction, emphasizing fire department access to the area.
Vilas Zoo brings in three new animals Henry Vilas Zoo brought in
three new animals, all native to Wisconsin, to join its facility after successfully rehabilitating them to health as part of its ani-mal rescue efforts.
The zoo adopted an Eastern Screech Owlet that was orphaned and hand-rasied, ren-dering it unable to survive in the wilderness because it associates itself with people.
The zoo also took in an oppossum joey that was injured by wildlife, as well as a Ruby-
Throated Hummingbird that was unable to fly due to an injured wing.
“Our three new, rescued resi-dents will increase the already tremendous diversity of our free zoo,” Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said in a statement.
According to zoo Director Ronda Schwetz, by telling these animal’s stories, the zoo is “fulfill-ing our mission to help educate our visitors to the issues facing wildlife and what our visitors can do to help.”
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impossible to tell, he does not predict that negotiations will resolve the issue.
“There have been attempts before to try to work out bet-ter working relations between the university and the students,” Hazelbaker said. “But honestly, in terms of real relief, we can’t very well count on it because they just haven’t proven to be very amenable to recognizing the role that students have in this fee set-ting process over the years.”
UW-Madison Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell
Bazzell said ASM did not notify administration of its plans to pur-sue a Notice of Claim, but admin-istration is willing to talk with students regarding the issue.
“If they want to sit down and talk, I think the chancellor’s always been open to that, has always engaged them when they’ve wanted to,” Bazzell said. “Obviously he’s not given them the answer they want in the budget but the communication has always been there.”
Hazelbaker said Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen will evaluate the claim in the coming days and then send it to univer-sity administration.
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associated Students of Madison chair andrew Bulovsky signed a document initiating possible legal action against UW System officials Wednesday.
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new city budget proposal could mean police layoffs
A drunk driver was unable to exit the State Street Campus Parking Garage on North Frances Street early Wednesday morning due to his high level of intoxication.
Police arrested 26-year-old Jorge Rojas on his fourth drunk driving offense with a .21 blood alcohol content, according to a police report.
The report said a private security guard found Rojas and his unnamed 33-year old pas-senger passed out inside a car at 1:40 a.m. Wednesday. The vehicle was playing loud music and contained empty beer bot-tles and cups which smelled like mixed drinks.
The guard woke up Rojas after trying for about 10 minutes
and offered to call a cab for the men, according to the report.
Despite saying a cab ride home was “fair,” according to police, Rojas later began driving through the ramp.
However, the report says, “he appeared not to be able to figure out how to use a credit card to … actually get out of the ramp.”
By abby BeckerThe daily cardinal
At a press conference Wednesday regarding Madison’s 2013 capital budget, Mayor Paul Soglin discussed a request he made in July that all city depart-ment heads present an operat-ing budget with a five percent reduction in spending.
The city’s annual operat-ing budget manages Madison’s spending for the upcoming year, while the capital budget includes city expenses that will last for more than 10 years like ambulances, fire stations and major street construction.
For departments like Madison Police, a reduction in operating budget spending could mean cut-ting their city funding by $3,303,330 and would result in eliminating 30 police officer positions, 11 civilian positions and the crossing guard program, Madison Police Chief
Noble Wray said in a letter to the mayor and council members.
“A reduction of this magni-tude ... would dramatically affect the manner in which we deliver police services here in Madison,” Wray said in the letter.
In addition, Soglin said that due to prior commitments with other communities and the feder-al government, there is not space within the capital budget for his own priorities, which include strengthening community and neighborhood centers, partner-ing with school districts and cre-ating a public market, which is similar to a farmer’s market.
“For those who are looking for this budget to reflect my own pri-orities, I’m sad to say that’s mini-mal because we don’t have a lot of flexibility given the inherited level of debt service,” Soglin said.
The idea of a public market in Madison would provide fresh,
local food, and would improve the local economy, according to Soglin.
“A public market that focuses on access to quality fresh food not only provides a health benefit to a community, but it also provides some economic savings,” Soglin said. “It provides an opportunity to grow locally owned and con-trolled businesses.”
Madison’s Common Council will vote on both the capital and operating budget together in November.
Police arrest drunk driver in parking ramp
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Madison Police department
“a reduction of this magni-tude ... would dramatically affect the manner in which we deliver police services.”
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‘Darksiders II’ finds rewards in looting
T he first “Darksiders” utilized elements from several classic franchis-
es to create a hybrid title that combined the fast-paced com-bat of “God of War” and puzzle-laden dungeons in the vein of “The Legend of Zelda.”
While some cried foul over the obvious homage to these classic franchises, the end result was a successful union of vastly different concepts. It is apparent in “Darksiders II” that Vigil Games is far more confident in their franchise this time around.
Numerous nods are still fairly overt, with Zelda-like tones to signal a solved puz-zle or gruesome finishers that would make Kratos proud, but “Darksiders II” expands far beyond the franchises that inspired the first title.
With the addition of expan-sive loot options and a plethora of dungeons to explore, Vigil Games has crafted a greatly expanded sequel marred only by technical issues and some uninspired design that made me miss the comfortable for-mula of its predecessor.
In a twist hinted at by the ending of “Darksiders,” play-ers control War’s brother Death during the 100 year imprison-ment of War that precedes the main events of the original game. In an attempt to prove his brother’s innocence, Death sets out in search of the Tree of Life, the key to restoring humanity and freeing War.
He discovers during his jour-
ney that Corruption (a char-acter in the game) has spread across a multitude of worlds and threatens their very existence. Death’s trek takes him to varied hub worlds that range f r o m c o l o r f u l f o r e s t e d areas to d r e a r y e n v i r o n -m e n t s ruled by the dead.
Each of these locales serve as indi-vidual hubs where Death can talk with NPCs and acquire q u e s t s . Quests are plentiful with col-l e c t i o n -b a s e d s i d e q u e s t s to full-s c a l e du n ge o n s that com-plement the b e h e m o t h s making up the main storyline.
The story is only mildly engaging and provides a satis-fying enough payoff, but the combat, piles of loot and innovative dungeon design are by far the most impressive elements. Expanding on the simplistic upgrade sys-tem of the previous game, “Darksiders II” features a diverse system of loot drops that keeps players invested beyond the game’s finale.
Defeated bosses and enemies shower loot upon defeat. I rec-ommend players enable an auto-loot system to easily gather items and then sift through them via the in-game menu system.
Even upon completion, I was
addictively scouring for superior items to upgrade my character. Vigil smartly added a new-game plus option that allows players to run through the game again with all their abilities and items intact as they search for objects to pro-
vide stat boosts as well as cos-metic enhancements.
Although the button-mash-ing that grew stale in the first title works, the loot system has
greatly improved the game’s combat system.
P l a y e r s collect a myr-
iad of second-ary weapons that diversify battles. Heavy w e a p o n s
p r o v i d e p o w e r f u l
f i n i s h e r s and faster
armblades or bucklers create
rapid kills when used in tandem with
the scythes. Players can also unlock
wrath abilities via an extensive skill tree. Two separate sides provide Death with abilities ranging from ghoulish min-ions, a defensive or strength boost, and a sweeping attack
that affects all enemies within the immediate vicinity.
Although both the combat and loot systems are impres-sive, the dungeon design is still the focal point of “Darksiders II.” With far more dungeons to
explore this time, the puzzles hold up sur-prisingly well con-sidering the level of
content. However, as a result of this expan-
sion, the game gets away from the traditional Zelda
approach of a specific item collected and utilized for each
dungeon I adored so greatly in the first game.
The early dungeons tend to rely solely on Death’s platform-ing skills and inherent abilities. As a result, the initial stages do not quite provide as inventive puzzles as later dungeons. As the game progresses and Death acquires more varied items I found myself wildly impressed with the creativity of the puz-zle solutions but couldn’t help wishing they had been able to instill this level of quality throughout the adventure.
Despite a two-month delay, technical issues still rear their ugly head from time to time. Some objects and textures don’t load in and at one point the game itself broke and I was unable to attack any enemies. However, these issues are fairly minor compared to the scope and overall quality of a game the size of “Darksiders II.”
I love that Vigil was able to switch protagonists yet expand beyond simply a palette swap. Death is far more mobile and platforming is accentuated throughout the game. The char-acter change along with every other addition in this impres-sive sequel has me even more excited for future titles in what has quickly become one of my favorite franchises in gaming.
Grade: B+
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Certainty marks the death of tradition
A sk anyone about their experiences in a movie theater and they are
likely to tell you a few homoge-nous things. Namely, it is pretty difficult, even with the slight-est amount of movie theater experiences, to not remember a warm, focused light beam-ing across the theater, the humming of a projector heard beyond the walls of the projec-tionist’s room or the occasional flickering of the image on the silvery screen.
These are all staples of the cherished moviegoing experience.
Yet, to a certain extent, film, as we all know it, may be com-ing to an end.
It may not be a short, quick end, but rather a long, drawn-out and painful one, at least for the diehard moviegoers who embrace the medium and fear
what kind of damage digital filmmaking may inflict upon the culture of moviemaking.
As an advocate for the con-tinuation of both filmmaking and projection in the tradi-tional sense, I believe digital projection and filmmaking have their merits but are being rushed into the marketplace.
The arguments of film versus digital filmmaking, whether one realizes it or not, have mate-rialized at a quickening pace throughout the past few years.
In 2009, cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle won an Academy Award for his cin-ematography on “Slumdog Millionaire,” a film, apart from being a significant critical and commercial success, shot almost entirely with digital cameras.
This summer, Christopher Nolan, director of blockbuster hit “The Dark Knight Rises,” shot portions of the film with Imax cameras and reiterated his belief in the limits of 3D and digital filmmaking.
And this fall, certain capa-ble movie theaters throughout
the country will show director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” in 70 mm. Anderson shot the film with a 65 mm camera, a camera so large yet powerful it creates an incred-ibly high-resolution image.
In fact, a documentary released this year titled “Side By Side” explores the argu-ments in the battles of film versus digital. The documen-tary, produced by actor Keanu Reeves, features interviews which such directors as Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher, as well as cinematographers.
Yet, as much as certain film-makers and moviegoers may be against digital filmmaking,
some feel that digital projection is not necessarily a bad thing.
Fiscally, projecting a movie in film is expensive, as it costs nearly $1,500 to print and ship a single copy of a 35 mm movie to a movie theater for exhibi-tion. Compared to a digital copy which costs only $150, digital copies can save distribu-tors lots of dollars.
However, if parts of a digital projector break, it can become quite expensive to replace the bits and pieces. A broken bulb in a digital projector can easily break other parts within the projector and put a hefty price tag on the repair process.
By next year, the vast major-ity of movie theatres through-out the country will be forced to convert to digital projection. You can be certain that some independent art house theaters or other small theater chains may try and hold out for as long as possible, but it may boil down to a question of when, not if, movie theaters must convert to digital projection. Not con-verting may result in theaters
shutting down completely. A popular pro-film argu-
ment tossed around concerns the idea of film being “organic.” Like a number of things in this digital age, some consider digi-tal objects to be plasticy and lifeless. This includes the digi-tal aspects of filmmaking and medium itself. When shooting something on a digital format, one can look at a monitor to see immediately what one has shot. This does not occur with film, as film forces the filmmakers to create images without exactly knowing what kind of coverage they are getting.
Some people may say, “Who cares? It’s a movie after all. You’re still watching a movie either way.” Yet, until the tech-nology catches up, there is no denying that watching a movie shot and projected on film offers a richer moviegoing experience.
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New CAFE standards good for economy
J ust in time for day one of last week’s Republican National Convention, the Obama
administration announced its finalized plans for fuel efficien-cy regulations on American car manufacturers.
The regulations push Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for new American-manufactured cars and trucks to operate at 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
At a time when gas prices sit around $4 at the pump, this ini-tiative is far from punctual—it is long overdue.
Current regulations require manufacturers to create cars with fuel efficiencies of 28.5 miles per gallon between city and highway driving, and the next step towards fuel conser-vation will require vehicles to run at 35.5 mpg by 2016.
President Obama and his administration have worked with car manufacturers such as General Motors, Ford and Chrysler to arrive at a deci-sion both the government and automakers find feasible, yet Republican presidential nom-inee Mitt Romney has called the plan “extreme,” saying Americans will not be will-ing to pay the increased price for the more efficient vehicles, while House Republicans threaten to dramatically reduce the requirements.
This bashing comes as no surprise considering this pro-gram will likely be lauded as one of the greatest accom-plishments, both economically
and environmentally, for the Obama administration in his first term as president, which is not exactly good news for the Republican sect of which an overwhelming major-ity remains in denial about the increasingly worrying effects of global warming and green-house gas emissions.
However, I cannot say I dis-agree with Romney in calling the plan extreme, though I am looking at the term through a much rosier lens. Extreme situ-ations often call for extreme solutions and Obama is not afraid to take them.
NPR reported “that more than 20,000 high temperature records have been broken this year,” and in particular, any Wisconsin natives sweating it out on their way to class over the past couple of days cannot deny these September temper-atures are much higher than memory serves to recall. It is becoming harder and harder to push the dire situation of our environment on the back burner—this pot is boiling.
The new CAFE standards not only will save Americans around $3,000 over the lifespan of a car in gas money, if the plan can be upheld they will also cut ozone-damaging greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2025.
Environmental impact notwith-standing, the plan also has a couple other merits to offer Americans.
“These fuel standards rep-resent the single most impor-tant step we’ve ever taken to reduce our dependence on for-eign oil,” said President Obama in a White House press release.
The United States produc-es two percent of the world’s supply of oil to the 20 per-cent it consumes, according to New York Times writer and
University of Chicago profes-sor Richard H. Thaler. Relevant to this, the president’s fuel-effi-ciency regulations will “reduce U.S. oil consumption by 12 bil-lion barrels,” the White House said in the aforementioned press release.
Diminishing the necessity for foreign oil will not only make the U.S. a more autono-mous country when it comes to energy consumption and production, it would also likely
reduce demand for these stag-gering imports, which would ultimately drive the market price of oil down, therefore making gas simultaneously cheaper and less of a staple in American consumption.
Because, let us be reasonable here, Obama is not the only one to blame (or really even one to blame at all) for gas prices fix-ing to knock the bell off the high striker—oil is a slave to the mar-ket and anyone who has taken Econ 101 can tell you increased demand for a product almost always drives prices up.
There have also been talks about increased tax breaks for those investing in fuel-effi-cient cars and trucks, offering yet another incentive to ease the burden of vehicle prices increasing by about $1,000 by 2016 (essentially the only qualm
Romney and his staff could come up with against the plan).
Regardless of tax breaks, the increased price of the vehicles is a modicum of money in the bank compared to the collec-tive $1.7 trillion the government predicts Americans will save when fueling up.
It is time for us to start think-ing long term when it comes to fixing the economy, the environ-ment and our country as a whole. President Obama and car manu-facturers who have helped reach this agreement know Americans are ready to invest in these some-what drastic measures, so let us now show our support for these fuel-efficient strides towards a cleaner and more economically independent tomorrow.
Jaime is a senior majoring in journalism. Please send all feedback to [email protected].
JAimE BrACkEENopinion columnist
The graph above depicts the rising requirements cars and trucks must follow. By 2025 miles per gallon requirements will reach 54.5 mpg almost double current standards.
W hen I attended my Student Orientation and Registration
(SOAR) session three years ago I was told the requirements to form a student organization on this campus were minimal. The University only demanded that the organization be composed of at least three students, and I don’t even remember hear-ing that an adviser was needed. Because I have held “leader-ship” positions in two organi-zations, I can tell you first hand that the requirements to form and register an organization have expanded dramatically. This is my complaint letter.
First, in order to form a new student organization, one must attend a workshop lead by The Center for Leadership and Involvement. Normally I would have no problem attend-ing an informative and pro-ductive leadership workshop. However, this hour-long ses-
sion consisted of a presenter going through every pos-sible link on the Wisconsin Involvement Network (WIN) website. In this day and age it is a rare individual who can-not navigate through a website. Spending an hour watching the presenter slowly and meticu-lously click on dozens of side bar links on her I-Pad was not my idea of fun.
Second, in order to be approved by the University, a comprehensive and lengthy constitution must be submit-ted. Our organization has had a constitution written for a num-ber of years, and we success-fully submitted that last year. This year our registration was rejected because our twelve-page constitution didn’t have “language that states that all
decisions are made by students, officers in the organizations must be UW-Madison students, and information about your leadership selection process in general” in the format that the University needed. We hadn’t modified or changed our con-stitution from years prior, but constitution language require-ments seem to have increased this year. It seems that by man-dating that certain language be present in a constitution, the University is forcing the design of that constitution, which is overtly authoritarian.
Finally, perhaps the most obnoxious aspect of leading an organization is the applica-tion for and the receiving of funds through ASM. Not only is ASM a maze of bureaucratic red-tape, but their rules and regulations regarding funding are absurd. Their requirement that an organization must slap the ASM logo on any items pur-chased with funding is exces-sive. Their requirements about how money is to be spent on food are insane. Their grant application process and allo-cation of funding is without sense or order. Last year some
groups were given dispropor-tionate amounts of money just because they were first in line for the grant process, leaving little for the rest of the UW stu-dent organizations.
The amount of time I spend preparing and applying to become a Registered Student Organization (RSO) and apply-ing for funding will probably surpass the amount of time my organization convenes dur-ing the school year. This isn’t acceptable, and it is a far cry from the streamlined process described to me at SOAR. I hope that both ASM and The Center for Leadership and Involvement make an attempt to ease this process in the future.
Have you also had trouble starting a student organization on campus? Let Steven know by
sending all feedback to [email protected].
Student organization creation process needs to be simpler
StEvEN NEmCEkopinion columnist
Not only is ASm a maze of bureaucratic red-tape,
but their rules and regula-tions regarding funding are
absurd.
i can tell you first hand that the requirements to
form and register an orga-nization have expanded
dramatically.
it is time for us to start thinking long-term when it comes to fixing the econo-my, the environment and our country as a whole.
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Badgers’ uninspired start may be the key to a successful season
T he 2012 opener at Camp Randall is in the books and Wisconsin football
remains undefeated. While it was only a five-point vic-tory over an FCS opponent, the Badgers won nonetheless.
So although many will spend the next few days lamenting what could have, to the naked eye, looked like a team destined for disaster, all we got to see on Saturday was a reality check.
Wisconsin football is back.Because lets be honest, last
season was a fluke. A fluke not in the sense of it being an 11-win campaign and a second con-secutive Rose Bowl appearance, but a fluke in the way in which that success was achieved.
From the opening snap of the 2011 cam-paign, there was a different vibe surrounding UW and its football program. Big Ten titles were always the goal but this team seemed very much capable of taking that a step further and running the table toward a school-first BCS title game.
Perhaps that vibe was too strong, leaving the team just a bit out of character in breaking from its trademark “1-0” mantra to focus on the prizes seemingly within its grasp.
This year is a different story. But while Saturday’s 26-21 win over Northern Iowa may have sounded the warning sirens across Badger nation, it is by no means time to panic.
The lessons every team has to learn are learned through adversity and after having to deal with that adversity in the form of devastating losses last season, the Badgers might have caught a break in being given the chance to go through that same hardship and come out of it unscathed.
“We get a lot more out of this than we do out of a 42-0 blowout,” UW head coach Bret Bielema said. “You have to touch a hot stove once and once you touch it, you don’t want to touch it again.”
With a new quarterback at the helm, six new assistant coaches on the sidelines and a new group of contributors across the board, the Badgers now get to spend a week ana-lyzing a game full of teaching moments, something last year’s
team didn’t really get a chance to get at until it had already been dealt a crushing blow.
“We won but the adversity struck this year a lot earlier than it had in previous years,” UW senior running back Montee Ball said. “Its an eye-opener for us.”
Despite what on the surface looked like a lackluster perfor-mance for the two-time defend-ing Big Ten champions, the Badgers are by no means facing the prospect of a down year.
Just think back to 2010. In what ultimately became a Rose Bowl year, the Badgers struggled mightily out of the gates. After earning a tough opening win over San Jose State, UW nearly lost (and by all accounts, deserved to lose) at home against Arizona State. They followed up that effort with a dismal performance as they opened conference play with a loss in East Lansing.
Flash for-ward just two
months and that same team was celebrating a Rose Bowl bid clinched on the Camp Randall turf.
The reality is that Wisconsin football, or
Wisconsin athletics for that mat-ter, succeed by gritting it out on the field.
They win not by making plays destined for Sportscenter, but by being fundamentally sound and remaining dead set on the task at hand: getting a win.
Last season was a fluke, a sea-son where the Rose Bowl seemed almost a disappointment given the obvious potential the Badgers had to run the table.
Although it won’t be courtesy of incessant blowout victories, not one thing that transpired on Saturday would suggest that the same potential doesn’t exist for the 2012 campaign.
“From my point of view as a head coach and in my twisted mind, it couldn’t have worked out any better,” Bret Bielema told reporters. “We’ll take these cor-rections and we’ll move forward.”
Nothing that I or any writer could say would persuade the masses that a 26-21 squeaker over an FCS school is a good start for a team looking to book a third straight trip to Pasadena.
But at a school where suc-cess on the field is generally not pretty, an ugly start might be just what the doctor ordered.
Do you think the Badgers ugly start was exactly what they needed? Will they rebound next week, or will they continue to struggle? Let Max know what you think at [email protected]
But at a school where suc-cess on the field is usually
not pretty, an ugly start might be just what the
doctor ordered.
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The no. 15 Wisconsin women’s soccer team is hoping to continue their early success and push their way towards the top of the Big Ten standings this fall.
Women
Simply put, the No. 15 Wisconsin women’s soccer team (4-1-0 overall) is an early-season favorite to win the Big Ten conference this year.
The Badgers are one of just two Big Ten teams currently ranked, along with No. 7 Penn State, whom Wisconsin will play at University Park in Pennsylvania in the Big Ten opener.
The September 16th date will be the only regular season matchup between the two teams.
Wisconsin opened its season sweeping a three-game home stand, knocking down—and shutting out, at that—Notre Dame, South Dakota State and Loyola Chicago.
Senior goalkeeper Lauren Gunderson recorded nine saves over the stretch, including a season-high seven in a 1-0 win over the Fighting Irish.
The Badgers outscored their three opponents by a combined score of 10-0, and senior goalkeeper Olivia Hoff also recorded two saves in 60 minutes of action.
Wisconsin shared the load offensively, as not one player scored more than once in any of the three games.
No. 2 UCLA put out the flames to Wisconsin’s hot start, outshooting
the Badgers 16-6 en route to a 2-0 vic-tory in Los Angeles in late August.
The game was scoreless until the 77th minute, when Bruins sophomore forward Rosie White converted a cross from
sophomore Caprice Dydasco.The Badgers bounced back
later on the road trip with a 4-2 win over Loyola Maramount despite being outshot by the Lions 12-9.
The Badgers will be in action at home this weekend at the McClimon Soccer Complex, where they will host Illinois State (3-1-2 overall) Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Men
Its record through three games is the clear-cut definition of average, but the Wisconsin men’s soccer team (1-1-1 overall) has shown promise this fall.
The Badgers opened their season on the road at Memphis, where they took down the Tigers 4-3 in dramatic fashion.
Trailing 2-0 at halftime, Wisconsin used a 4-1 scoring outburst in the second half to come away with the win.
The game’s first score didn’t come until the 76th minute, when freshman midfielder Drew Conner found the back of the net off a pass from sophomore defender AJ Cochran. Junior forward Chris Prince tied the game just two minutes later, and redshirt junior midfielder Derek Pitts capped a furious scoring barrage in the 84th minute to give the Badgers the lead.
Howe ve r, Me m p h i s answered just one minute later, tying the game with five min-utes to play. In a second half filled with scoring, it was only fitting five minutes would be ample time for one side to net the game-winner.
Sophomore midfielder Jide Oluyedun did just that for the Badgers as he converted on a
pass from junior midfielder Joey Tennyson in the game’s 89th minute.
The game’s combined seven goals would equal the output of Wisconsin’s next two contests.
The Badgers opened the Nike Portland Invitational squaring off against now-No. 21 Washington. The Huskies notched an early goal in both halves, but Wisconsin matched each score.
D e s p i t e o u t s h o o t -ing its opponent 10-7, the Badgers could not respond to Washington senior defender Dylan Tucker-Gangnes’ go-ahead goal in the 72nd minute. The Huskies ended up coming out on top in the battle of UW schools, 3-2.
In a match against host team Portland, Wisconsin ended a scoreless game late in the sec-ond half off Prince’s penalty kick goal. However Portland senior forward Ricardo Carrillo netted an 85th-minute goal, and the match ended in a 1-1 draw.
Wisconsin’s season—filled so far with a second half come-back, a competitive match against a top-25 team and a draw on the road—will return to Madison this weekend.
The Badgers return to Madison to open their home slate against Florida International (3-0-0 overall) Friday at 7 p.m. and No. 13 Georgetown (4-0-0 overall) at 12 p.m. Each one of these matches will be held at UW’s McClimon Soccer Complex.
UWBadgers.com contributed to this report.
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S top me if you’ve heard this at some point during the week, but the Badger
football squad didn’t exactly turn in a Picasso on Saturday against Northern Iowa.
It has been well document-ed and much-talked about on campus and yeah, a Football Championship Subdivision team had the ball and a chance to take the lead in Camp Randall in the final three minutes.
However, without at least another game, and really, prob-ably several more, it’s difficult to pin exactly what a 26-21 squeaker means for UW’s for-tunes this year.
No team can really be accu-rately judged on 60 minutes, though we can usually take some cues.
With a few days to digest last week’s win and as the team gets fully into its preparation for Saturday’s road game against Pac-12 opponent Oregon State, here are a few things that have struck me as interesting.
history lessons
More than the five-point dif-ference Saturday, the Badgers’ point total of 26 was obviously a surprise.
While Wisconsin extended its winning streak against regular season, non-conference oppo-nents to 33, it also scored the school’s fewest number of points since the 2011 Rose Bowl against Texas Christian (a 21-19 loss).
The Badgers had not scored fewer than 30 points in Madison since beating Arizona State 20-19 on Sept. 18, 2010 and averaged 54.5 points in the 12 home games between that day and Saturday.
In 2011, a 35-0 win over Oregon State was the low-mark for the offense in the first six weeks. Fast starts, like confer-ence championships and trips to Pasadena, have become the
expectation by Wisconsin fans. That’s fine. High expecta-
tions are great. But they’re also just that. Is it realistic to assume the Badgers will score more than 26 points against Northern Iowa? Sure.
But it probably isn’t wise to assume the Badgers will waltz over every non-conference opponent forever, no matter how soft the schedule is.
In 2010, the Badgers beat San Jose State 27-14 and squeaked by Arizona State the next week. They went to the Rose Bowl that year.
Yes, San Jose State plays in the Western Athletic Conference and ASU in the Pac-12, but I’m not sure Saturday’s game is as dire as something like the 36-35 overtime win against Cal Poly in 2008.
First of all, that game was late in the season. In addition, UW let UNI back in the game with a couple breakdowns in the second half. They were chasing Cal Poly the whole game in 2008 and needed three missed extra points to get by.
Questions still lingering
That’s not to say there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Mental errors and cover-age breakdowns led to the two long touchdown passes in the fourth quarter Saturday.
Big-play vulnerability doomed UW in all three of its losses a season ago. The Badgers can’t afford to miss key tack-les like the one first-year start-ing free safety Dez Southward missed on the Panthers’ 55-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter.
The offense will have to be more consistent. Head coach Bret Bielema admitted after the game that star senior running back Montee Ball faced no live tackling all of camp.
In 32 carries, he looked a half step slow at times. Tuesday after practice, he willingly acknowl-edged he was, “rusty” and said this week he felt back to normal.
If he backs that up Saturday, UW will find itself in far fewer
long yardage situations on sec-ond and third down.
As an aside, it was pointed out by a reporter Tuesday that 151 total yards being considered a sub-par performance gives some insight to the expectations for Ball this year.
bright spots
As the season moves ahead, it will be interesting to see if the young corps of wide receivers can continue to produce.
Against UNI, the unit com-bined for 11 catches, 144 yards and two touchdowns. Redshirt junior Jared Abbrederis, red-shirt freshman Jordan Fredrick and sophomore Kenzel Doe each had big catches and wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni said he was impressed with how his young receivers han-dled themselves.
After an inconsistent camp, if the group continues to grow, defenses will have to respect the passing game more than UNI did Saturday.
It will also be interesting to see how the Badgers’ pass rush develops. Redshirt junior Chris Borland is a force coming off the edge in the nickel and the front four got a couple of pressure in key situations.
Going forward
Your outlook probably depends on whether or not you believe Bielema when he said a hard-fought win was “the best thing that could have happened to us.”
If corrections are made and preparation is better—junior cen-ter Travis Frederick and Ball both said they thought that would be the case, Tuesday—then maybe a trip to Oregon State will start to show UW’s true colors.
Maybe a lack of focus and just-a-bit-off preparation are the team’s true colors. I would have been more likely to believe that in 2009 than I am now.
Time will tell.What do you think are the
Badgers’ true colors? Let Parker know at [email protected]
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peaks and valleys fill badgers’ first victory
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Bret Bielema and his team will have to get over mental mistakes and defensive lapses if they want to win a second consecutive Big ten title and make a return trip to the rose Bowl.
Football
Badgers turn to underclassmen for help on the outsideYoung receivers Fredrick and doe have stepped into leading roles behind starter Jared abbrederis.
Through spring practice and fall camp, wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni consistently acknowl-edged he had a group that lacked experience beyond redshirt junior Jared Abbrederis.
Players like redshirt junior Jeff Duckworth and redshirt sopho-more Chase Hammond have been in the program for multiple years, but Hammond does not have a career reception.
Duckworth caught 15 passes for 230 yards and a score in 2011, high-lighted by a 36-yard reception on fourth down against Michigan State in the Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis.
Saturday, Azzanni went young around Abbrederis, and the results were positive. As a unit, wide receivers caught 11 passes from junior quarterback Danny O’Brien for 144 yards and two touchdowns.
Abbrederis registered both scores, one on a corner route in the red zone and the other after he got deep behind the sec-ondary on a post pattern for a 53-yard touchdown.
The two scores give the former walk-on—he was awarded a schol-arship prior to this season—13 for his career, good for No. 10 all time at Wisconsin.
“He’s a short kid from Wisconsin that wasn’t recruited,” Azzanni said of Abbrederis when asked how the Wautoma, Wis. native continues to fly somewhat under the radar.
“He’s not your prototypical 6’4, 210 lb. guy that was recruited by everybody in the country and peo-ple just don’t want to accept that he’s a really good player.”
“He’s one of the best in the country,” Azzanni said. “He’s one of the best in the conference and in the country.”
Redshirt freshman Jordan Fredrick recorded his first two
career receptions for 31 yards. Sophomore Kenzel Doe caught three passes for 21 yards, includ-ing two third-down catches on underneath routes that moved the chains.
Doe, listed generously at 5’8 and 170 lbs., showed a willingness to go over the middle, where linebackers live and where some receivers get gun-shy about catching the ball.
“If they want me to go over the middle I’m going to have to do it to be successful,” Doe said Tuesday. “I can’t just shy away from it or be scared.”
With three catches, Doe sur-passed his production from 2011 (two catches for four yards) despite playing just nine snaps Saturday.
“He knows that’s his deal, that he can maneuver his way thorugh there,” said Azzanni, who was the offensive coordinator at Western Kentucky in 2011 and coached for Urban Meyer at Florida before that. “I was proud of him to come out and have a really good game. He deserves it.”
Abbrederis is the top returning receiver in the conference and is a consistent threat. With a load-ed backfield that will get plenty of work (47 carries Saturday) and talented group of tight ends, UW should have more big play ability than it showed Saturday.
How much the wide receiv-ers past Abbrederis are a part of that is yet to be determined, but the young group showed promise against Northern Iowa—though the Panthers often played one deep safety to help stop the Badgers’ ground game.
For Azzanni, building trust between O’Brien and his group is the key.
“I don’t care if it’s four catches if we get four thrown to us,” he said. “Whatever’s thrown to us, we have to make. We did that Saturday, so I was pleased with that.”
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Junior Jared abbrederis heads a young group of Badger wide receivers who are looking to gain experience this fall.
