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Students propose new ASM constitutionBy anna DuffinThe Daily CarDinal

Members of different student groups from across campus are working to rewrite the Associated Students of Madison Constitution, a move that could alter the make-up and structure of student gov-ernment at UW-Madison.

ASM Constitutional commit-tee chair Alex Brousseau said under the current constitution, the ASM student government has been in a “deadlock” with-out a clear separation of powers between its branches.

The thirteen members of the committee come from the editorial boards of both student newspapers, members of the Greek community, various student groups and leaders of student councils from different schools within the university.

“We saw that ASM was not heading in the direction that we liked; they were focused too inter-nally and they weren’t listening to their students,” Brousseau said. “What we saw was less of a flaw in the individuals involved and more of a flaw in the constitution.”

The new constitution would restructure ASM into four

branches: an executive branch consisting of a president and vice president, a legislative branch made up of a Senate, a judi-cial branch similar to the cur-rent Student Judiciary and an allocations branch that would appropriate student segregated fees. Currently, ASM consists of a student council, the Student Services Finance Committee and the Student Judiciary.

Under the new constitution, student leaders from the individ-ual schools within the university would select the students to rep-resent their school in the Senate, a change one of the committee’s Greek representative and Student Service Finance Committee Chair Sarah Neibart said would make student council more accessible for students.

“It is more representative and it allows students to have more access and direct connections to their student government,” Neibart said.

ASM Chair Allie Gardner, who was not on the committee, said the current ASM constitu-

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Organizers in the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker and four Republican State Senators delivered an estimated 1.9 mil-lion signatures in the most participated-in recall effort in American history. But sev-eral significant issues must be resolved before recall elections actually occur.

Earlier this month, the Government Accountability Board, the group respon-sible for overseeing elections, announced it would need more than 60 days to officially declare recall elections.

But there is some concern about the integrity of the signa-ture review process and challeng-es to the GAB that could further delay any official announcement.

UW-Madison Professor Dennis L. Dresang said Republican challenges to signa-tures “are not substantive” since

Voter IDs available MondayBy alex DiTullioThe Daily CarDinal

In response to the new Wisconsin Voter ID law that requires voters to present valid state-issued photo identifi-cation at the polls, the Union South’s Wiscard office will dis-tribute UW-Madison voter ID cards to those who present a valid Wiscard.

The Wiscard office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.,but will offer extended hours on Monday, Jan. 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The UW-Madison voter ID cards are marked “VOTER IDENTIFICATION” and expire

two years from the issued date.In addition to a voter ID,

students are required to pres-ent proof of enrollment at poll-ing stations. Students can obtain a self-service Enrollment Verification letter from the StudentCenter at MyUW, which can be used as proof of residence for voter registration.

Students who are Wisconsin residents can use a state-issued driver’s license, identification card or a passport to vote and do not need a UW-Madison voter ID.

The new requirements will be enforced beginning with the Feb. 21 spring primary.

With a potential recall elec-tion looming, Gov. Scott Walker and his supporters are pre-paring to counter Democratic efforts against him and defend his record.

On Saturday, Walker suppor-ters held their first major rally in Wauwatosa. although Walker was not in attendance, Wisconsin First lady Tonette Walker addressed the crowd of over 1,000. Several pro-minent state republicans, inclu-ding former Gov. Tommy Thomp-son, also spoke at the event.

Walker also launched a new website Friday dedicated to highlighting his achievements in office and future initiatives.

“i look forward to talking to the people of Wisconsin about my continued promises to control

government spending, balance the budget, and hold the line on taxes,” Walker said in a statement.

recently, Walker has aimed to drum up the support of republi-cans across the country as well. The governor spoke to a group of conservatives in Texas earlier this month and attended a fundraiser in new york last week.

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Republicans react to potential recall elections

With an election looming, Gov. scott Walker is defending himself.

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Supporters of the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker celebrated at a rally Jan. 17, after they turned in 1 million signatures calling for a recall election of the governor.

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Frida’s restaurant closes permanently after shooting By abby BeckerThe Daily CarDinal

State Street’s Frida Mexican Grill is permanently closed fol-lowing a shooting at the restau-rant on New Year’s Eve.

Famous among students for their margaritas, Frida’s has a history of violent acts occurring in the restaurant and was facing eviction because of rent complica-tions at the time of the shooting.

The latest incident took place Jan. 1 when police closed down

the 100 block of State Street after shots fired in the restau-rant caused chaos. While no one suffered gunshot wounds, two victims were injured from a subsequent fight.

According to Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain, Madison police have not made any arrests in the shooting.

Due to past incidences, the city imposed conditions on Frida’s liquor license in 2010, which restricted the restaurant’s capac-

ity after 11 p.m., according to Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4.

Verveer said owner Mohamed Barketallah also confirmed to the police Frida’s was undergoing eviction proceedings by his land-lord, a company controlled by phi-lanthropist W. Jerome Frautschi.

Frautschi filed the eviction notice before the New Year’s Eve shooting, but because Barketallah owed a substantial amount of

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Community unites to aid victims of fireNeighboring churches, once at

odds over construction plans, have come together to aid displaced resi-dents of the Porchlight Transitional Housing Complex after the building was damaged in a fire this month.

Earlier this year, Madison’s Common Council approved a proposal for a student apart-ment development on the grounds of the Saint Francis House, which the adjacent Luther Memorial congregation

opposed.A second-floor fire Jan. 13.

temporarily displaced roughly 100 occupants of Porchlight, which houses the homeless. Sixteen female residents lost all their possessions in the fire.

As of last Tuesday, twelve of the women are being housed in Saint Francis, while Luther Memorial has contributed furni-ture and supplies to Porchlight and the fire’s victims.

Former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk became the first of many potential candidates to declare their candidacy in the likely recall election of Gov. Scott Walker.

“As your Governor, I will make different choices than Scott Walker,” Falk said in a YouTube video released Wednesday. “I know Wisconsin is a place where we can have good paying jobs, a clean envi-ronment, successful schools and affordable health care.”

Falk lost to Jim Doyle in the 2002 Democratic primary race for gover-nor and lost a 2006 bid for attorney general. In 2010 she stepped down as Dane County Executive.

A hazardous materials crew, police officers, ambulances and fire trucks responded to a chemical spill in a UW-Madison biochem-istry laboratory after a graduate student spilled a highly flammable solvent, injuring one person.

According to a graduate stu-dent in the Biochemistry build-

ing, the student spilled about 40 liters of tetrahydrofuran (THF), a chemical that can dissolve a wide range of materials includ-ing latex gloves, flooring and other plastics, in the Ronald Raines laboratory between 10:15 and 10:45 a.m.

The graduate student, who

wished to remain anonymous, said they received e-mails detail-ing the accident. According to the e-mails, a student was “reaching for a single, large bottle of THF when the shelf of multiple glass bottles crashed down.”

The person injured in the lab-oratory suffered a minor cut.

Workers at the UW-Madison Primate Center evacuated the building Jan. 10 as police inves-tigated a suspicious package that was later determined to be non-hazardous.

According to UW-Madison police, a UWPD security offi-cer identified a suspicious item

between 1223 Capitol Ct. and the Islamic Center.

Both buildings were evacuat-ed and additional resources were called in, according to UWPD Sgt. Aaron Chapin.

UWPD utilized explo-sive detection K-9s, the Dane County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad

and Madison Fire Department Hazmat team for assistance, according to UWPD.

While the item was not found explosive, the bomb squad “dis-rupted” the package, mean-ing the item was determined “safe and not a risk to anyone,” according to Chapin.

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Biochemistry building evacuated, one injured after chemical spill

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Kathleen Falk became the first candidate to announce they will run to replace Gov. Scott Walker if he faces a recall election.

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Amid misconduct allegations, athletic official resignsBy Anna DuffinTheDailyCarDinal

UW-Madison officials are investigating allegations of mis-conduct that preceded senior associate athletic director John Chadima’s resignation in early January, although they have been tight-lipped about the allegations.

A t h l e t i c Director Barry Alvarez placed Chadima on a d m i n i s t r a -tive leave Jan. 6 after learning of the miscon-duct. Chadima resigned later that day.

Chancellor David Ward said university officials are currently not releasing more details regard-ing the claims to allow the uni-versity to conduct an independent review of the allegations.

“To protect the integrity of the review and those who have shared information with us, it is imperative that the committee be allowed to complete its work,” Ward said in a statement. “It is my intent to provide the high-est level of transparency possible without compromising the integ-rity of the process.”

During his approximately 23 years at the university, Chadima served in a variety of adminis-trative roles, including being a sport administrator for football, wrestling and men’s and wom-en’s golf. Chadima also super-vised Camp Randall Stadium’s $100 million renovation.

Ward announced Jan. 9 that retired Dance County Circuit Judge Patrick Fiedler will lead the inde-pendent review of the allegations.

Former Assistant Chief of the UW Police Department Dale Burke, former Dean of Students Roger Howard and former assistant Dean of Students Yolanda Garza will also serve on the review team.

Vice Chancellor for University Relations Vince Sweeney said while the review is not mandated by univer-sity policy and Chadima has resigned, Ward thought the evaluation would be “prudent.”

“We take all such allegations seriously so we followed up,” Sweeney said. “We still think it’s our job to follow up, and that’s what we’re doing.”

Since the review is indepen-dent and not outlined by univer-sity policies, the group does not yet have a specified date to report its findings to Ward.

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P.E. classes face budget axeBy Alison BauterTheDailyCarDinal

In the latest change resulting from statewide budget cuts to the UW System, UW-Madison’s School of Education will soon stop offering several of its one-credit physical education courses, according to the Capital Times.

The school is also terminat-ing its masters program for those training to become school counsel-ors, in addition to laying off 12 part-time academic staffers involved in the Department of Kinesiology’s physical education courses.

The department, like the rest of campus, is scrambling to find ways to save money following initial cuts of $250 million from higher education in the state’s

biennial budget and an additional $65.7 million in cuts late last year.

29 one-credit physical edu-cation courses will be elimi-nated by the end of 2012 due to funding shortages.

While the Capital Times reported that cuts will trim the kinesiology department’s budget by about 7 percent, the depart-ment will still have to eliminate another 1.5 percent of its budget to stomach the additional cuts from the lapse.

The masters program that trains students to be school counselors was eliminated after Professor Kimberly Howard, who ran the program, was offered $25,000 more to teach at Boston University.

UW scientist delays controversial avian flu researchBy Alex DiTullioTheDailyCarDinal

Authors of recent contro-versial research to modify the H5N1 virus, known as the avian flu, decided to take a 60-day pause from their work Friday to explain its benefits in the midst of negative media attention.

Two research groups, includ-ing one led by UW-Madison researcher Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, began the research to modify the H5N1 virus in a way that makes it transmis-sible through air within small mammal species. In doing so, researchers hoped they could gain insight on how humans

contract the virus.However, opposing groups

argued that publishing the research, which would include exact details of the viral muta-tions, could provide bioterrorists with the instructions to create the virus that has killed 60 per-cent of those who contracted it.

While researchers said the work is important to further understand the virus and cre-ate vaccines, they say negative attention has overshadowed these benefits. This led to the researchers’ recent decision to release a statement signed by the three leading authors and 36 co-authors outlining the

60-day hiatus.“We recognize that we and

the rest of the scientific com-munity need to clearly explain the benefits of this important research and the measures taken to minimize its possible risks,” the researchers said in the statement.

Although researchers said they took precautions to mini-mize any potential risk of the research’s accidental release, they said 60 days will allow time to discuss the “best solutions for opportunities and challenges that stem from the work” with organizations and governments around the world.

tion allows students to become active in student government through a variety of avenues.

“Schools around the country are fighting for a lot of the things that we have, and we have so many of them because of the broad student engagement that’s inherent in the variety of ave-

nues for involvement in ASM,” Gardner said.

Gardner said while she fears the drafting process was not as inclusive as it could have been, she hopes the new constitution would foster student involve-ment in ASM.

Brousseau said the commit-tee hopes to gain student input by holding informational meet-

ings almost every weekday from Jan. 25 through Feb. 5.

“This is really about non-ASM students, people who aren’t involved in the politics, getting involved and trying to change the structure of ASM,” Brousseau said. “This isn’t about anything political. This is about changing what we think is wrong, and I hope we can do that.”

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organizers gathered close to double the 540,208 valid signa-tures needed to force a Walker recall election.

But state Sen. Pam Galloway, R-Wausau, one of the four being targeted for recall, vows to make sure her recall is legitimate. Organizers gathered an estimated 21,000 signatures, but only need 15,647 to force an election.

“Over the next few days, my campaign will review each and every signature to make certain that they are valid and documented in accordance

with state law,” Galloway said in a Jan. 17th statement.

Additionally, there are cur-rently three lawsuits challeng-ing the constitutionality of the Voter ID law and multiple law-suits involving the new voting districts. When these decisions are made and what the rulings are could significantly influence recall elections.

Dresang said Republican defendants in the lawsuits have no interest in resolving either of the suits quickly and will “use all the legal maneuvers that they learned in the first year of law school to delay things.”

There is no particular time frame for either of the issues.

The GAB will take longer to confirm the gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial recalls than recalls for the state Senators. Dresang said it is significant whether or not the four Senate recalls will be delayed and held at the same time as the others.

“If we separate the senate race from the governor and

lieutenant governor race, con-ceivably the Democrats are going to take over the state senate,” Dresang said.

According to Dresang, this could “put the breaks” on legis-lation currently favored by the Republican majority.

Republicans argue hold-ing recall elections separately would cost more than hold-ing the elections at the same time. It is estimated the recall elections will cost $9 million in total.

While it’s difficult to say when the elections will occur, many predict they will take place this summer.

rent, he agreed to a settlement requiring Frida’s immediate clos-ing instead of suing for the rent, according to Verveer.

Barketallah has two other liquor licenses for Moe’s and

Icon, two State Street restaurants.“Although I’m always sad-

dened to see an establishment go out of business, especially for the employees, I think that given the past violent history of the establishment, it’s for the best,” Verveer said.

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F o r m e r U W- M a d i s o n C h a n c e l l o r Hugh Edwin Young, who led the university during the tur-bulent Vietnam War era, passed away Jan. 2 at the age of 94.

UW-Madison Professor Joe Elder said Young had to balance students’ opposition to the war with expectations from the capi-tol for him to support it.

“He had to defend what was happening on campus to the state assembly and the senate, and on the other hand he had

to be reasonably coherent and supportive of the students,” Elder said.

Young was dubbed the “War Maker, Strike Breaker” by some protestors for his stricter stance against extreme demonstrations of opposition to the war.

While controversial, he was praised for keeping the universi-ty open amidst the radical politi-cal activity on campus at the time.

“One demand transcends all others,” Young said in 1969. “It is that the doors of the University of Wisconsin remain open.”

Young is survived by his four children, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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Young

Pam Gallowaystate Senator

R-Wausau

“Over the next few days, my campaign will review

each and every signature”

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UW-Madison

“Conceivably the Democrats are going to take over the state

Senate.”

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I want to tell you about my roommate. For those three of you who read my column on a

regular basis, you know she, Claire, functions as a constant source of amusement. Yes, she most definite-ly has a sparkling sense of humor, but a sizeable chunk of this enter-tainment is of the accidental variety, which is to say Claire makes a fool of herself quite often.

To add insult to injury, many of Claire’s moments of amusement involve bodily functions. Now before you dismiss this column as 800 words written by a 22-year-old with an appreciation for potty humor, allow me to say this: Yes, my potty-humor enthusiasm is only matched by that of six-year-old boys, ones likely named Rex or Dick. Still, there exist golden nug-gets of hilarity within each of these stories, so I insist you keep reading.

A human pooper scooperHot, consensual tail can be hard

to come by any day of the week, but especially when you are an awkward 16-year-old. Claire was aware of this fact, thus when she got the urge to go whilst interlock-

ing braces with the dreamiest boy from social studies class, she made the executive decision that a little turd in the tunnel was not going to ruin her evening of “7th Heaven”-style romance.

Excusing herself ever so polite-ly from her horizontal position on the couch, Claire walked over to the bathroom, located convenient-ly close (and within earshot) to the couch from which she came. After doing her business, Claire tried to flush the toilet. To her dismay, there was not even a whimper of plumbing action. Neither the water nor her date-threatening dookie moved in what had now become a porcelain hellhole.

Claire went into panic mode. She was not going to be the one to prove girls do, in fact, poop. As such, she did what any horny teen would (not) do in that situation: She sub-merged her toilet paper wrapped hand into the commode to retrieve the item, wrapping it generously in toilet paper then tossing it in the wastebasket. After what I hope was a fierce hand washing, Claire returned to her previous position on the couch.

Unsurprisingly, the two never spoke after this interaction. Claire insists it was because of the inevi-table awkwardness that arises post-canoodling. I suspect, however, it was the result of the bathroom’s fresh-as-daises smell the next day.

You say garbage can, I say toilet

When you gotta go, you gotta go! Apparently, that is Claire’s motto, and one that becomes especially rel-evant after a night of Hopalicious.

Now I understand there comes a point in the evening when the seal has been broken and each urge to tinkle must be addressed promptly. Such was the case one Friday eve-ning. I had stayed home for what was supposed to be a night of pro-ductivity but was really just hours of Etsy indulgence. Claire returned from the bars around 2 a.m., insist-ing she use the bathroom I was cur-rently occupying. I told her I would be out in a minute, but as it turned out, a minute was too long.

I emerged from the bathroom to find Claire in the hallway with an evil look on her face.

“What did you do?” I asked.After fighting a losing war with

the giggles, she responded, “I peed in my garbage can!”

As stories like the ones above and below might suggest, I was less than surprised. I laughed, saying the bathroom was free for her to empty it out in.

“Nah, I’m tired. I’ll deal with it in the morning,” she said before rush-ing off to bed.

Again, I understand the need to go, but parking garage stairwells have taught me there is little worse than the smell of stale pee. I am just

glad she slept with the door closed and hogged the smell for herself.

Wrapped up in goldWhen your friend drunkenly

wets the bed in which you are both sleeping, it would seem inevitable that said bed wetter would be the one most worthy of ridicule. This is not the case when Claire is the one with whom she is sharing the bed.

Last May, Claire went out to celebrate her good friend’s gradu-ation. The night was—as it should be—a riotous one that led to them both passing out in Claire’s bed. Both had partaken in a wee too much imbibing, moving her friend to lose control of her bladder and leave embarrassed around six in the morning.

This would seem a fitting end to the story. What is more embar-rassing, after all, than wetting the bed at age 22? Knowingly sleep-ing in urine-soaked sheets, that’s what. Claire remained in bed until noon when this same friend called her to see if she wanted to grab lunch. When she heard Claire had been marinating in her secretions all morning, the invite was taken off the table and a shower was advised.

Would you kill your roommate if she wrote a story detailing your most embarrassing moments? Well, that is why you are not as cool as Claire, but feel free to tell Jacqueline why at jgoreilly@wisc.edu.

Pittling habits of my roomieJAcquelIne O’ReIllYo’really?!

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Delving into ’s History

January 25, 1973

By Duke Welterof the Cardinal Staff

Local figures representing the entire history of the Madison peace movement expressed guarded optimism yesterday toward President Nixon's recent announcement of a Vietnam ceasefire. They also wondered why it couldn't have come sooner on the heels of Henry Kissinger's announcement in October that "peace is at hand."

Most of those interviewed by the Cardinal also expressed hope that the movement would now turn toward the many domestic and constitutional problems raised by the United States' 18-year involvement in the conflict.

"It's long overdue," Prof. Joseph Elder of the UW Sociology Department said."It could have been achieved shortly after Richard Nixon took office and he still has to explain what postponed it from October to now—and the settlement now makes the whole bombing of North Vietnam less understandable and more brutal.” Elder shared the podium with fellow Prof. Maurice Zeitlin at the first antiwar rally after the first bombing in 1965. Both are still on the UW faculty.

Henry Haslach, president of the UW Student Democratic Society in 1967, expressed doubt of a complete withdrawal. "I don't think they've given up on the area of South Vietnam. The victory for the Vietnamese people consolidated the revolution in the South, but the United States will be trying to keep down the movement there and elsewhere." Haslach, now a member

of Science for the People, predicts a "long struggle" yet to come in Southeast Asia.

Betty Boardman went to Haiphong in 1967 with a group of nine Quakers who sailed from Tokyo with ten thousand dollars worth of medical supplies for the people of North Vietnam. Today a building manager of the University YMCA, she says she is "glad it's happening, but I'm really bitter that neither Johnson or Nixon could have done it before all those people died ... I don't trust Nixon one little bit—we have to get our people and war material out of Vietnam now."

Veteran peace activist, mayoral candidate and Ald. Paul Soglin (8th Dist.) called the settlement "too little, too late." "It has to be made sure it never happens again," said Soglin. "I don't believe this country could have, or ever deserved to have, a peace with honor."

Ald. Dennis McDilligan's (4th Dist.) initial reaction "regarding Richard Nixon is that it's come 4 years and some 85 days too late. It's hard to tell whether the agreement concerns the surrounding countries each of which could become another Vietnamese quagmire, nor did it say anything about American non-military support."

One who was there during the climax of U.S. personnel involvement was Dick Larson, now a UW student and member of Vets for Peace. He doubts that Nixon will renege on this settlement, having already laid it before the American people. "It stuns me in a way—it hasn't hit us yet that it's over," Larson says, "but Americans

will finally be pulled out of the war and our POW's will be back. And hopefully our involvement will be over and Vietnam can finally be united." Larson hopes that the press will keep the American people informed about what happens after the final pullout, rather than yielding to the "credibility gap" of the Johnson years.

A statement yesterday from Gov. Patrick Lucey's office called for "mixed and subdued emotions." "We hope and pray that the coming days will see a speedy return of all American POW's and a complete accounting of those missing in action," the statement

read, in part. "We hope and pray that the last death has been recorded in a conflict in which the distinction between good and bad or victory and defeat long ago ceased to have meaning."

Now those in the movement look for inward turn, toward the problems raised by the conflict. "What we need now is a whole re-orientation of American society to cope with the damage to the individual and family, and also to the domestic problems it's raised," Soglin says, "here there'll have to be an examination of racism, of the whole corporate structure and the whole free enterprise system."

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The Daily Cardinal predicts nominees

Reitman flouted traditional likability in ‘Young Adult’

By Ethan Safranthe daily cardinal

This upcoming Tuesday morning one can expect to hear big things from such films as the black-and-white, early-Holly-wood homage film “The Artist,” the George Clooney drama “The Descendants,” and the Martin Scorsese-directed “Hugo.”

These three films have forged their way the past several weeks as the leading films in contention for Best Picture glory.

The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday morning. While one can hope for surpris-es, most of the nominations will follow the Academy’s precursors from this awards season.

At the age of 82, Christopher Plummer has been garnering significant praise for his sup-porting role in “Beginners,” a film about a 75-year-old man who announces his homosex-uality after the death of his wife. Comedian Albert Brooks, typecasted in the neo-noir film “Drive,” will very likely also receive an Oscar nomination for his role as a savage and ruthless gangster. Also look for Jonah Hill’s performance in the baseball drama “Moneyball,” Kenneth Branagh’s support-ing turn in “My Week With Marilyn,” and either Viggo Mortenson as Sigmund Freud in “A Dangerous Method” or Nick Nolte in the martial arts drama “Warrior” to take the fifth spot. However, to ignore Patton Oswalt’s performance in “Young Adult” or Andy Serkis’

motion capture performance in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” would be a mistake.

Considering Octavia Spencer will probably win Best Supporting Actress for her work with “The Help,” the actress will be joined by Jessica Chastain for her performance also in “The Help.” This would be a nomina-tion more or less for her year’s body of work consisting of other performances in “The Tree of Life” and “Take Shelter,” among others. Spencer will most like-ly also be joined by Berenice Bejo for her performance in

“The Artist,” Janet McTeer for her supporting performance in the period piece Albert Nobbs, and Shailene Woodley for her anguished yet nuanced perfor-mance in “The Descendants.” That is not to say that Melissa McCarthy’s raunchy perfor-mance in “Bridesmaids” or vet-eran actress Vanessa Redgrave’s supporting work in the Ralph Fiennes-directed “Coriolanus” have not a chance at a nomina-tion either.

Woody Allen’s Parisian come-dy “Midnight in Paris” and Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Artist”

will be vying for Best Original Screenplay, and one should expect to see this category bombarded by comedies. Will Reiser’s comedy-drama “50/50” and Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo’s comedic “Bridesmaids” also have a defi-nite shot at a nomination. The indie-comedy “Win Win” (the Oscar board likes its independent, quirky comedies) and the Iranian drama “A Separation” also have a probable chance at securing an original screenplay nomination.

As for Best Adapted Screenplay, a more focused field this year, “The Descendants,”

“Moneyball,” “The Help,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” and “Hugo” will most likely secure nominations. Writer-director Alexander Payne has proven his talent with both his 1999 film “Election” and his excellent 2004 comedy-drama “Sideways.” One can expect him to repeat with “The Descendants.” Likewise, the Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zallian-penned “Moneyball” features some fantastic writing from two of Hollywood’s most prominent screenwriters.

With his star power and dra-matic turn as a disconnected father figure, George Clooney will most definitely receive both an Oscar nomination and the coveted award for his work in “The Descendants.” One should expect to hear his name read alongside the likes of Jean Dujardin from “The Artist” and Brad Pitt from “Moneyball.” The last two spots could almost go anywhere. Leonardo DiCaprio’s role as J. Edgar Hoover in the Clint Eastwood film “J. Edgar” could easily score a nomina-tion (he already has three pre-vious nominations and has a lot of respect among fellow actors). Michael Fassbender, Gary Oldman, or Michael Shannon could take the final spot for their work in “Shame,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” and “Take Shelter,” respec-tively. Fassbender’s work as a sex addict in Steve McQueen’s sophomore feature Shame seems most likely to nab the fifth nomination slot.

nominees to 7

A nchoring your movie with a main character that is utterly unlik-

able and almost completely devoid of admirable qualities is a dangerous move. Aside from the innate human interest in just desserts and seeing bad things happen to bad people, there aren’t many ways to win over an audience’s interest, let alone affection, with a portrait

of a detestable human being.But that’s exactly what

director Jason Reitman (“Up in the Air”) and writing partner Diablo Cody (“Juno”) commit-ted to in their latest collabora-tion, “Young Adult,” in which Charlize Theron plays Mavis, the high school prom queen with a superiority complex who grew up to be an alcoholic medi-ocre ghostwriter for schlocky young adult novels.

Mavis returns home to her small Minnesota hometown in an attempt to steal back her high school sweetheart by lur-ing him away from his wife and child. Naturally, Theron’s char-

acter creates a myriad of horribly awkward situations for every-one around her, remaining com-pletely oblivious to it all.

In the post-laugh-track era, silent moments perme-ated by social awkwardness have become a well-used trope in comedies. Shows like “The Office” revel in the frequent awk-wardness afforded by carefully crafted un-selfaware characters like Steve Carell’s Michael Scott.

These characters, blind to how their actions are truly per-ceived by others, often clouded by notions of grandeur and and childlike wishful thinking, proj-ect their tinted perspectives of reality on those around them, usually resulting in humorously engaging, if awkward, moments.

However, a key aspect to the vast majority of these awkward-moment-generating characters is their innate likability. Despite their cluelessness, these char-acters usually posses likable, redeeming qualities. That is not the case with Mavis, the brilliant creation of Cody and Reitman, who has no personal warmth to inevitably win back the hearts of the audience. Even if she were fully aware of how her behaviors were perceived, Mavis, a borderline sociopath, wouldn’t care anyway.

While Reitman and Cody had me uncomfortably squirming in my seat every few minutes like clockwork, I was still compelled to remain there fully engaged by

the character portrait unfolding before me.

While I certainly felt no affec-tion for Mavis, she felt real in a way very few fictional characters do. She feels like a completely accurate portrait of a human being stripped of all the unre-alistic redeeming qualities that Hollywood storytellers inevita-bly force upon their creations.

She felt like a person I would actually have to deal with in real life and loathe in doing so. But that’s what makes “Young Adult” so inter-esting—it shows you the sad realities behind the obnoxious people you love to loathe.

Tina Fey’s progressive sit-com “30 Rock” frequently likes to set up a corny or clichéd joke, offering the audience an obvi-ous punchline, but then sub-vert expectations by taking the punchline in a completely unex-pected tangential direction. This usually turns traditional sitcom values on its head.

The conclusion to Reitman’s “Young Adult” feels very much like one of these riffs on clichéd

audience expectations, but with-out the zany odd-ball punchline. When Theron’s Mavis begins to possibly question her own mega-lomania and place in life, the plain quiet girl who worshipped her in high school despite being ignored is there to comfort her through what the audience immediately assumes will be the character’s transition into becoming a better person.

This is the point in the story where the character looks at herself introspectively, learns her lesson, vows to change for the better, and rides off into the sunset. The picturesque finale, delivered time after time by Hollywood, is precisely what Reitman deprives his audience of. Mavis never changes, instead becoming further entrenched in her bitterness and delusions.

Reitman’s subversion of typi-cal Hollywood tropes like the universally likable protago-nist, narrative arcs of personal growth, and happily-ever-after endings produces a product that, while assaulting to the rose-col-ored-glasses view disseminated by Hollywood, is ultimately a much more accurate portrait of real life where most people never actually change, and is intrin-sically fascinating as a result. Finally, someone is giving it to audiences straight, even if the message is that a lot of people are hopeless self-absorbed assholes.

Got an opinion? Let David know at dcottrell@wisc.edu.

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“the artist,” a black-and-white French film that pays tribute to old-school hollywood, has been lauded by critics and will most likely receive several nominations for 2012’s academy awards.

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by social awkwardness have become a well-used

trope in comedies.

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While she beat her competi-tor at the Golden Globes for Best Actress in a Drama Picture, Meryl Streep’s portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” will no doubt receive a nomination —that would be Streep’s seventeenth Oscar nom-ination—alongside Viola Davis’s work as a maid in “The Help.”

One should also expect to hear such names as Michelle Williams for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in “My Week With Marilyn” (she already won a Golden Globe for her perfor-mance), Tilda Swinton’s perfor-mance as a grief-stricken mother in the psychological drama “We Need To Talk About Kevin,” and Glenn Close’s portrait of a woman forced to don the identity of a man in her passion project “Albert Nobbs.” The Academy loves both films about historical figures and period pieces, and that would fit four of the five nominees in this category.

And what about Best Director and Best Picture? Expect Michel Hazanavicius, Alexander Payne, and Martin

Scorsese to receive direct-ing honors for their labored work on “The Artist,” “The Descendants,” and “Hugo.” Woody Allen will likely receive recognition for his work on “Midnight in Paris,” and the fifth slot could go to either Nicolas Winding Refn for his slickly directed and hip “Drive,” Terrence Malick for his metaphysical “The Tree of Life,” or even to David Fincher for his work on “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (a sort of apology for his awful loss to Tom Hooper at last year’s Academy Awards).

As for the prestigious Best Picture nomination, expect “The Descendants,” “The Artist,” “Hugo,” “The Help,” “Midnight in Paris,” and “Moneyball” to be safe bets, and due to the Academy’s recent voting changes, there can be anywhere from five to 10 Best Picture nominees. Four other possible nomi-nees could include Steven Spielberg’s sentimental war drama “War Horse,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Tree of Life,” or even “Drive.”

And what about “The Descendants”, “Hugo”, and “The Artist”? Expect “The Artist” and “Hugo” to gather a swarm of technical nomina-tions apart from picture, direc-tor, and screenplay nomina-tions (as well as acting nomi-nations for “The Artist”). A more conventional and “safe” bet given its dramatic and fam-

ily-oriented subject matter and star power, “The Descendants” will bode well with both younger and older voters of the Academy.

Regardless, the nominees in various categories will most likely represent the Academy’s typical voting patterns: honor-ing films that may seem grand now, but overlooking movies that will gather serious respect as the years pass by.

While one can hope for surprises, most of the

nominations will follow the Academy’s precursors

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It’s hard to shake the sense that Craig Finn has been through hell and back. And who wouldn’t think so? The wigged out, bleary voiced frontman of preeminent bar band The Hold Steady, Finn’s pieces are less songs than chroni-cles: lowlifes and down-and-outs ambling in a druggy haze, often in the shadow of some looming Catholic myth or profound litera-ture, while the guitars roar and rise like waves against a levee.

The Hold Steady is nothing if not energetic, but energy, sadly, is a finite resource for musicians. They either burn out or short circuit. So it makes sense that Craig Finn’s first solo album, Clear Heart Full Eyes features some of the least boisterous music he’s ever penned. No epic riffs or piano cascades here.

True to form, religious refer-ences are abundant throughout Clear Heart Full Eyes. The nar-rator spies the 12 Apostles during “Apollo Bay” and Christ crops up all over the album, most promi-nently on “New Friend Jesus.” Over a country-lite shuffle, Finn spins a friendly yarn about meet-ing Jesus in a parking lot, getting in his car, and starting a band, with a line that reads as a playful jab/allu-sion to The Hold Steady: “It’s hard to suck with Jesus in your band.”

In fact, compared to previous Hold Steady albums, as well as works by Finn’s previous band Lifter Puller, Clear Heart Full Eyes may be the most religious centered album he has ever released. True, 2005’s Separation Sunday was rife with Christ, crosses, biblical verses, and crucifixions, but the album’s mawkish, drug-addled Catholicism was meant for con-

ceptual texture, not conversion.Suffice to say, Craig Finn is

not trying to convert people with this album. Finn’s religion has always been for the sake of his songs: it was almost incidental to the way his characters were screwing up their lives and spi-raling out. But here the religion is a lot more homey, organic and day lit. On “Honolulu Blues,”—the closest Finn comes to pen-ning a Hold Steady song on this album—he references noted

Catholic author Graham Greene and acknowledges the comforts of growing up on hymns when you’re young (and how “they made perfect sense for you.”

There is still plenty of murk on Clear Heart Full Eyes—shady dealings in “Western Pier” where people are selling something or other, a luckless dude living in a “Rented Room”—but nobody ever sinks as low as Holly, Charlemagne, Gideon, or any other Hold Steady song alum. Some of Clear Heart Full Eyes’ characters come close though. On “Terrified Eyes,” the narrator pleads with his partner return-ing from the hospital (with bills in tow) that they can’t live like they used to, going to the bar all the time (or, the narrator con-cedes, “We can’t go every night”). Likewise, on “No Future,” Finn reels out in quick succession, “I

only died on the inside” and “I’m still alive on the outside.”

It is impossible to miss the note of resignation behind each of these songs. Sure, The Hold Steady play plenty of songs about invariably screwed up people, some of them irrevers-ibly damaged, but they are still a hell of a lot of fun to listen to, even if they plumb the lives of the lowest of the low. Here the tone is weary, even a little cyni-cal. “When No One’s Watching,” for instance, deals with a guy, “Feasting on the weakness of the women who were thinking / [he] might be held to half the things [he] told them.” It’s depressing. While Clear Heart Full Eyes doesn’t rock quite like a Hold Steady record, much of Craig Finn’s craft is on display, even if the songs are a little leaden.

Grade: B

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W hen Newt Gingrich triumphantly chal-lenged President

Obama to seven, three-hour Lincoln-Douglas style debates in early December, the pros-pect appeared to coincide with his image as the intellectual Republican candidate. Yet since his impressive performances in GOP debates, the professorial Gingrich appeal has tapered significantly. His disappoint-ing fourth-place finish in the Iowa Caucus—due, in part, to a horde of negative advertise-ments in the state—shattered any hopes of the utopian, debate-based primary Gingrich desired. A strong showing in Florida could give a jolt of ener-gy to his candidacy, but with a limited war chest and reserva-tions about his personal life, Gingrich would best avoid buy-ing new milk.

But if the Gingrich cam-paign is to die, his ideas ought not die with it. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were always a long shot; the Obama campaign would have little incentive to fully participate. And indeed the innate academic, philo-sophical and historical charac-teristics of a Lincoln-Douglas

style debate would, unfortu-nately, satisfy neither the tele-vision media’s nor the viewing public’s attention span.

Yet the prospect of increased public interaction between the branches of American govern-ment could potentially alter the structural foundations of both national campaigns and the legislative process. A series of ‘debates’ under the direction of a company-man moderator, however, won’t do the trick. What would fundamentally alter political interaction in the United States for the better—and perhaps Gingrich the orator would agree—is John McCain’s 2008 election proposal: intro-duce a regular time for both houses of Congress to publicly question the president in the style of the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary questions.

Every Wednesday, from noon to half-past, the Prime Minister of Great Britain is barraged with questions, accusations and gen-eral criticisms from the mem-bers of the House of Commons. The event is televised, wildly

popular and allows the United Kingdom’s legislative members an irreplaceable opportunity for direct interaction with their most executive member. As one would expect, the style in which parliamentary questions are asked often suggest an implicit criticism and the inquest can turn ugly. But the weekly oppor-tunity remains a direct, public check on the accountability of the prime minister.

The prime minister ques-tion session is also quite dif-ficult to handle. One of Tony Blair’s first actions as prime minister was to condense the parliamentary question time from two 15-minute debates per week into one 30-minute affair. He’s made little secret of his motivation: The stress of two weekly sessions was too much for him to handle. Imagine an American presi-dent having to sustain thirty minutes of questions from the members of the House of Representatives each week with no previous preparation and no limit to the scope and depth of questions. Former President George W. Bush would lie in shambles, but would Obama fair any better?

The implementation of a weekly period in which the president faced questions from both houses—moderated by the respective speaker of each—would fundamentally enhance the legislative process.

It would represent an inherent check on the growing power of the executive branch, encour-age public interaction between the parties and force the presi-dent to remain informed on his administration’s actions.

It would not, as some would suggest, challenge the concept of equal separation between the branches of government. Instead, regular question-ing of the president would help facilitate an end to the current culture of separatism and resentment between par-ties and politicians on Capitol Hill. Currently, the respective members of legislature con-demn the executive’s actions on television, and the President indirectly responds through his press secretary. An endless shouting match, amplified dur-ing elections, drowns out either side from taking accountability for the creation and implemen-tation of public policy.

This establishment of sepa-rate camps, like the antagonism between college football fans,

further impedes true coopera-tion while inciting legislative stalemate. Regular interaction between the legislature and executive through public ques-tions is hardly a complete solu-tion, but at least would offer something reminiscent of coop-erative government.

Such a requirement would also fundamentally change the way we judge candidates for the presidency. Do Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum have the ability to successfully respond to direct, public criti-cisms of their administration while in office? Did Nixon? If such a requirement became a regular construct of the presi-dential office, perhaps this would improve the quality of vetting during the primary sea-son, and thus the quality of the candidates themselves.

But is a public question and answer forum just a pipe dream? Unless a presidential candidate like John McCain committed to the implemen-tation of such a requirement, an overriding majority in the legislature would be necessary in order to pass such a bill—one that any sane president, fearful of the prospect of true accountability, would veto with all their might.

Miles Kellerman is a junior majoring in political science. He is writing from Sydney, Australia. Please send all feedback to opin-ion@dailycardinal.com.

Parliamentary style questioning keeps leaders in check

W hat is the ultimate purpose of the Associated Students

of Madison? How does a UW-Madison student govern-ment benefit the student com-munity? And more important-ly, why should we care?

These were questions The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board contemplated before agreeing to join the ASM Constitutional Convention last fall. Created to address and eliminate the mud-dled problems plaguing this year’s desultory and inefficient student government, the ACC was formed to design a student

government that focused on the students rather than its own bipolar agenda.

For weeks, representatives from The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board, The Badger Herald Editorial Board, delegates from outside student governments and General Student Services Fund groups met to meticulously win-now through and rewrite the standing ASM constitution in a steadfast effort to construct a stu-dent government that promoted the student interest.

Unfortunately, it’s no secret this year’s ASM has been, at its heart, a catalyst of contro-

versy. And it’s no surprise they have failed to execute the many initiatives they laid out to this board at the beginning of the year. In fact, this fall, much of ASM’s time has been deeply devoted to cross-branch bicker-ing over menial leadership roles and more oversight, oversight, oversight. For months, articles and editorial boards written in both papers surrounded the internal controversies facing ASM; little was reported on the progress and work student council executed for the 40,000 badgers they represent.

That, in itself, is not okay. Not only were we tired of flesh-ing out our disappointments week after week, but we were losing faith in this campus’ stu-dent leadership and the shared governance that UW-Madison prides itself on. So when the opportunity arose to do some-thing about it, we jumped on and didn’t look back.

However, this isn’t the first time students attempted to remodel ASM. In 2009, an ASM Constitutional Convention was created to alleviate participation and leadership problems by high-lighting shared governance as well

as promoting ASM as a means for students to affect change. Unfortunately for them, the initia-tive didn’t pass. This was mostly due to the fact that open communi-cation between the creators of the 2009 constitution and the rest of campus was limited.

That said, The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board, among others, stipulated that communication of the rewriting with the stu-dent body was required before joining the ACC. And one of the main differences between the current initiative and its 2009 counterpart is the fact that the new constitution is not set in stone. Over the next two weeks, the ACC will host ten, two-hour long town hall meetings to hear out criticisms, answer questions and make changes to the document before collecting

signatures that have the poten-tial to bring the new constitu-tion to a vote.

If we want ASM to be a voice for the students, it is crucial we incorporate that voice in our efforts to rebuild ASM. We urge students to share their opinions and voice their concerns in our effort to change the face of ASM. That is why this new constitution is so important and that is why we, The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board, promote it.

Because we are students who believe in the accessibil-ity and quality of public edu-cation and because we are students who advocate for an unwavering dedication to the Wisconsin Idea, we are stu-dents for a better ASM.

Miles kellerManopinion columnist

If the Gingrich campaign is to die his ideas ought not

die with it.

ASM needs new constitution, student input

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Although members of The Daily Cardinal Editorial Board were

involved in writing the proposed ASM constitution, like all edito-rial board activity that work was done completely independent of

our news coverage. The Cardinal’s news department has had no role

whatsoever in creating or plan-ning the proposed constitution.

If we want ASM to be a voice for the students, it is crucial we incorporate

that voice in our efforts to rebuild ASM.

Regular interaction between the legislature and executive through

public questions is hardly a complete solution.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler and Allie GardnerASSOCIATEDSTUDENTSOFMADISON

What group constitutes the greatest percentage of the staff employed by UW-Madison? Is it Faculty? Graduate Assistants? Academic Staff? Classified Staff? In fact, it’s none of these. All of these are dwarfed by the number of student hourlies on campus.

There are almost as many stu-dent hourlies as all the other staff combined. Students fill roles as diverse as checking IDs at the NAT, repairing library books, serving you food, helping keep the campus computer networks up and running, and making sure people get home safe late at night.

But of all these groups, stu-dent hourlies are the only ones with no rights or representation. Faculty have tenure, classified staff have Chapter 230, which governs relations between state

employees and their employers. Even academic staff and graduate assistants have some measure of protections (though not enough by any means).

Why is this? It’s not because students don’t depend on their jobs as much as other workers. For many students, this is a major part of how they pay tuition and afford to stay in college.

It’s not because students are less important, or more replace-able. Can you imagine what the state of the university would be without the labor from students on campus?

It could be because the most student jobs are shorter term than other groups. But some stu-dents stay in their job for the full four years that they are at the university. Many more stay for two years or more.

If something were to happen at your job, such as getting fired

for expressing a political view someone took issue with, or because of something that your co-worker did and pinned on you, what would you do about it? Do you know who to appeal to? And what would you do if that person refused to listen to you?

Almost none of the students I asked had an answer to this besides to simply move on and get a new job, no easy feat given the current campus employ-ment opportunities.

To compound the problem,

student workers are paid ter-ribly. The median wage for stu-dent hourlies is $8.50 an hour. Given that rate, if you were to work to pay tuition it would take 70 hours a week of work. Over a thousand students are paid less that $8.00 an hour; some are even paid $7.25, the federal minimum wage.

We now have a unique oppor-tunity to change this situation. The last Wisconsin budget bill included passages which instruct UW-Madison to reconstruct the Human Resources System. This means over the coming semester, UW-Madison faculty, staff and students will be rewriting the personnel rules. This is a perfect chance to create solid protections for student hourlies on campus.

The Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) and ASM are launching a kickoff event and training for the campaign for stu-

dent workers rights on January 28th, 2 p.m. TITU. It will feature Joe Richard, a recent university graduate that has worked on stu-dent rights and labor organizing.

Stop by if you want to get involved, get trained, have sug-gestions or ideas, or simply want to discuss the issue or tell your story. It is imperative that students take this opportunity to better their workplace con-ditions for not only us, but for future generations. We need to ensure that all students can pay for rent, tuition, and other rising costs, and ensuring well-paying jobs is part of that.

Simon Fondrie-Teitler is a sopho-more and former intern with the Associated Students of Madison and a member of the Student Labor Action Coalition. Allie Gardner is Chair of the Associated Students of Madison. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Letter: Campus student workers need more rights

Mercury and other pollutant regulations beneficial for Wisconsin citizens

O n Dec. 21 the mercury pollution saga finally came to an end. The

long awaited Environmental Protection Agency regulations were finalized and put into effect. The new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) are the first ever national lim-its on mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants. These new regulations will ulti-mately improve people’s health by requiring power plants that contribute to air pollution in Wisconsin to use widely avail-able, proven pollution control technologies. These technolo-gies will help protect families from pollutants such as mer-cury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases.

Exposure to these tox-ins can drastically affect the health of Wisconsin citizens. Complications such as can-cer, heart disease, neurological damage, birth defects, asthma attacks and premature death are all linked to toxins in the air. According to Wisconsin Environment, one in ten American women of childbear-ing age has enough mercury in her blood to put her baby at risk should she become pregnant.

Clearly, these new regula-tions are a necessity for the state of Wisconsin and for the nation. According to EPA estimates, the regulations will prevent over 200 premature deaths and cre-ate about $1.8 billion in health benefits just for the state of Wisconsin. On a national level, the new regulations will pre-vent 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks and 130,000 asthma attacks each year.

The EPA has created some-thing that will help every indi-

vidual person in America, which is something we can all take pride in. Not only will the health of the people be posi-tively influenced, but the power plants are affected positively as well.

According to the EPA, many power plants have taken advantage of loop-holes or have been old enough to not have to comply with pollution regula-tions. Meanwhile, competing power plants are forced to comply, spending limited resources on pollution control and ultimately losing to their competition. Mercury and Air Toxics Standards close loop-holes that allow some power plants to pollute freely which evens the playing field for com-peting power plants. In other

words, everyone has to comply with the new regulations.

However, not all changes have to be made immediately. Power plants have plenty of time to get

their affairs in order and slowly adjust to the new regulations. Existing sources of mercury pollution will have four years if they need it to comply with MATS. Furthermore, states can grant power plants an extra year for technology installation.

There should be no reason why power plants can’t change their operations for the better. In my Dec. 1 article, I specifically called out Columbia Energy Center and

its parent company Alliant Energy. The plant brags about its Environment Management System, however, it is ranked one of the worst polluters of

mercury in the nation. I am looking to Columbia

Energy and Alliant Energy to rapidly enhance its environ-mental protection policies and decrease its carbon footprint. I hope to see no power plants based in the state of Wisconsin on the list of worst polluters this year. That would be a great stride for the state and for the people who live here.

The EPA has accomplished something incredible. These new regulations will eventu-ally save thousands of lives and improve the overall health of Americans. This is something we can all support, and I hope that the citizens of Wisconsin will help ease the transition of power plants.

It will not be easy for the plant to fundamentally change how it operates and any help from the community will go a long way.

Nick Fritz is a junior majoring in marketing. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

NICK FRITZopinion columnist

220Estimated premature deaths pre-vented with new regulations in the state of Wisconsin.

1.8Billions of dollars in estimated health benefits saved in Wisconsin.

But of all these groups, student hourlies are the

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By Parker Gabrielthe daily cardinal

In a conference as deep as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, there is no such thing as a bad win. Some may be more pretty than others, but—especial-ly come January and February—teams will take points any way they come.

That rings especially true for teams like Wisconsin (7-9-2 WCHA, 12-10-2 overall), a young squad trying to put itself in posi-tion to finish in the top six spots of the league in order to host a playoff series in early March.

The Badgers took a step in that direction this weekend, sweeping Alaska-Anchorage and picking up four points to move into ninth place in the WCHA. With 16 points, UW is just one point behind Michigan Tech and St. Cloud State and two back of North Dakota, currently in sixth place.

“We’re focusing on home ice,” freshman defender Jake McCabe said Friday following UW’s 4-0 win

over the Seawolves (3-14-1, 6-14-2). “We’re looking at the board in our room every day trying to climb up those standings and get every point we can.”

For the majority of this sea-son, turning Friday success into Saturday production had been a tall task for the Badgers, who did not have a second-night win against a conference opponent since a 6-3 win over Nebraska-Omaha Oct. 29, 2011. Before freshman winger Joseph LaBate tallied the game-winner in the final four minutes Saturday night, UW showed the same inconsistent play that has plagued them much of the season.

“One of the things we felt was frustrating after the first period was we didn’t come out and play nearly as hard or as effectively as we need-ed to,” head coach Mike Eaves said Saturday night. “To me, that’s a sign that we still haven’t matured to the point where we come back-to-back and do the things necessary to be the type of team we want to be.”

“By forging the win the way we

did tonight, we’re hoping that leads us to some maturity and under-standing of what we need to do.”

With the two wins, the Badgers are now 7-2-1 over their last ten games and are two games over the .500 mark for the first time all sea-son. The two key reasons: improved goaltending from freshman Joel Rumpel and elite production from the team’s two stars, sophomore center Mark Zengerle and junior defenseman Justin Schultz.

Rumpel (9-5-2) became the first freshman to record two shutouts in a season for Wisconsin since the 1980 season. Despite giving up two goals Saturday, he controlled rebounds with authority and did not make the sort of mental mis-takes seen earlier in the year.

“You can see his confidence real-ly growing throughout this year,” said McCabe.

With the good play in net as a base, Zengerle and Schultz have provided the spark on offense.

The Badgers scored seven goals on the weekend, all at even strength.

Schultz was on the ice for every single one. He finished the week-end with six points—a goal and two assists each night—and started Saturday’s game-winning sequence with a long sprint down the right wing and beautiful backhand pass to LaBate.

“On the ice, he does things I can only imagine doing,” LaBate said of Schultz Saturday. “He’s playing at an NHL level right now.”

With 37 (12 G, 25 A) points on the season, Schultz trails only Minnesota-Duluth’s Jack Connolly (40) and Zengerle (38) in the WCHA scoring race.

“A lot of times it comes down to your playmakers making plays and finding ways to get it done,” Eaves said Saturday. “Tonight, and this weekend, was an example of [Zengerle] and [Schultz] doing that for us.”

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Badgers take two from UAA

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Freshman forward Joseph laBate notched the game-winning goal Saturday night to complete the sweep of alaska-anchorage.

Women’s Hockey

Wisconsin wins in overtime, sweeps UMDBy Vince Huththe daily cardinal

The Wisconsin women’s hockey team (16-2-2-1 WCHA, 22-2-2 over-all) made a successful return to the Kohl Center this weekend, sweep-ing No. 8 Minnesota-Duluth (9-10-1-1, 12-11-1).

It was Wisconsin’s first series on its home ice since Thanksgiving weekend. Despite a slow start Friday afternoon, the Badgers scored two goals in the second peri-od and held on for a 2-0 victory.

Junior defender Alev Kelter scored her first goal of the season early in the second period to put the Badgers up 1-0. Kelter has played in just 14 games this season, join-ing the team after the end of the women’s soccer season.

In addition to missing the team’s first 12 games, Kelter has only recently started playing the forward position. She has used part of her defensemen skill set to

make the transition. Based on this weekend’s performance, she has done so seamlessly.

“Defensively, you always want to have an offensive mind,” Kelter said. “Jumping up in the play is something that usually happens a lot as a defensemen. To have a forward role now, it’s pretty exciting.”

Two minutes after Kelter scored, sophomore forward Madison Packer scored her second goal of the season. Packer wrestled the puck away from a Bulldog defender on the boards behind the net, and then backhanded a shot past senior goal-tender Jennifer Harss.

Sophomore goaltender Alex Rigsby made 36 saves to record the shutout for the Badgers.

“It was a game that never really got any kind of flow to it. It wasn’t very pretty to watch,” head coach Mark Johnson said with a smirk. “The most important thing is you

end up winning the game.”Minnesota Duluth jumped out

to the fastest of starts Saturday afternoon when junior defensemen Jessica Wong scored just nine sec-onds into the game.

Junior forward Brianna Decker tied things up later in the first period. The Badgers put a flurry of shots on goal, and Decker was able to secure a loose puck and shoot it past Harss.

The Badgers did not record as many shots over as they are accustomed to, but they made good use of their limited chances.

“When we play Duluth, it’s always a transition game,” Decker said. “Not as many shots as we would like, but at least we peppered some and got some in.”

Wisconsin took advantage of a couple Minnesota Duluth penalties in the second period, notching two

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By Max Sternbergthe daily cardinal

CHAMPAIGN, Ill —If there is one thing that Badger fans should have learned by now it would be to never count a Bo Ryan-coached team out for the count. After the Wisconsin men’s basketball team (5-3 Big Ten, 16-3 overall) dropped three straight to fall to 1-3 in Big Ten play, many thought the season was headed for a disastrous finish. But after Sunday’s 67-63 win at No. 25 Illinois (4-3, 15-5), UW is right back in the Big Ten title hunt and playing as well as anyone in the conference.

After finding themselves in an early 7-2 hole, UW responded with a quick 16-4 run that gave them a seven-point lead just under half-way into the opening half.

“You don’t want to get the crowd too into it and you want to get your confidence going,” sopho-more guard Josh Gasser said. “To get one to go down early is defi-nitely big and then we can get it going from there.”

After a first half that saw the lead change hands seven times, finishing with a tie at 26, the sec-ond half was another seesaw affair. Illinois took the lead first, extend-ing their cushion to as much as four with just over nine minutes to play. Senior guard Jordan Taylor got the Badgers within a basket with a quick floater then junior forward Mike Bruesewitz buried a three-pointer, erasing Illinois’ final lead of the game with just under either minutes left.

The Badgers knew that victory hinged in large part on their abil-ity to hold Illinois junior guard Brandon Paul and sophomore forward Myers Leonard in check. Leonard, coming in averaging over 13 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, struggled for most of the first half, managing just two points on 1-of-5 shooting.

“We’re not long and lanky out-side of the five spot,” head coach Bo Ryan said. “So we have to work hard to try and not allow looks in the post.”

Perhaps more importantly, Gasser held Paul to just 10 points on 3-of-11 shooting, never really impacting the game. This after the Gurnee, Ill. native put up 43 points against Ohio State in the Illini’s last home game.

“Brandon Paul’s been playing with a lot of confidence and prob-ably has been the best player in the league the past couple games,”

Taylor said. “Josh [Gasser] came in and did an outstanding job to slow him down a little bit.”

While Leonard picked up his game in the 2nd half, finishing with 16 points and 11 rebounds, Berggren matched him step-for-step. The Princeton, Minn. native had perhaps his best performance since the loss at North Carolina back in early December, finish-ing with 18 points and 5 rebounds while staying out of foul trouble defending on the interior.

“[Jared] knocked down some huge threes and also down low he had some nice moves,” Gasser said. “When Jared is playing like that, it is tough to stop us.”

But as the Badgers looked to close the game out in the sec-ond half, it was Taylor who got them to the finish line. Managing only 5 points in the opening half, Taylor turned up the heat down the stretch, finishing with a game-high 19 points, a team-high 9 rebounds, and a perfect 5 assists to zero turnovers.

“I just try and run stuff that we run everyday in practice. When the opportunity presents itself, I just try to take shots and knock them down,” Taylor said. “I’m still not shooting a great percentage,

but I will take the win.”Wisconsin struggled at the line,

making just three of their first ten tries at the line. But despite the struggles (finishing 10-of-18), Taylor was about as clutch as it gets coming down the home stretch. The Bloomington, Minn. native posted UW’s final seven points, icing the game by hit-ting five consecutive free throws right in front of Illinois’ vaunted “Orange Krush”.

“He is our leader,” Berggren said of Taylor. “He is as clutch as they come down the stretch.”

“We have struggled at times this year at the free throw line,” Taylor said. “But I feel like when we have actually needed to step up and knock them down, we have.”

Already the only Big Ten team with at least five wins away from home, the Badgers are now 6-2 in road or neutral-site games. With wins at Purdue and Illinois, UW has swept games in West Lafayette and Champaign for the first time since 1918.

“It’s a crazy league,” Berggren said. “It’s a long season and every-one is going to take some bumps. We were able to fight and scratch our way back into things and now we are in a pretty good position.”

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Badgers extend streak to four

Senior Guard Jordan taylor led all scorers with 19 points as he led the Badgers to a late victory against the Fighting illini.

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warm-ups going into that exact same direction, so I told (offen-sive coordinator) Paul (Chryst) if we could get to the opposite forty yard line, we’d have an opportu-nity for a field goal.”

Timeouts also haunted the Badgers in the second half, when the team burned two in the first five minutes of the third quarter. One came because when the offense lined up wrong. Bielema called the other when freshman Ducks wide receiver De’Anthony Thomas (314 all-purpose yards, two TDs) appeared to step out of the end zone on a kick return before decid-ing to kneel the ball. In order for the play to be ruled a safety, the ball must completely cross the goal line regardless of where the player is, and Bielema took a timeout to try to get an explanation.

“I was trying to ask the replay official on my sideline if I could challenge whether or not he came across the line and he was looking at me like I had three heads,” said Bielema, whose bowl game record is now 2-4.

As a result, the Badgers had just one timeout to use when soph-omore receiver Jared Abbrederis lost a fumble at Oregon’s 27-yard line with under three minutes to go. Oregon managed to run the clock to 23 seconds before punting back to UW.

The fumble itself sat inches from the sideline before junior linebacker Michael Clay landed on the ball and slid out of bounds. That play was also reviewed and upheld after replays showed the ball clearly sitting in play.

This is not the first heartbreak-er for Wisconsin this year. Losses against Michigan State and Ohio

State featured last-second scores and, in East Lansing, Mich., an official review with no time left on the game clock.

“We lost three games, basically, with in a total of maybe 40 sec-onds,” said Wilson, who finished the season with 3,175 yards and 33 touchdown passes. “It’s pretty wild. All of those situations were all unfortunate. It’s pretty crazy how each one of them panned out.”

For the second straight season, the Badgers will travel back to Madison with a Rose Bowl loss in hand. A year ago, UW also used two costly timeouts in the second half, but still managed to be in posi-tion to tie the game late. In 2012, a fraction of a second kept Wilson from getting the same opportunity.

“I’m kind of tired of tears of sadness,” Bielema said. “I wanted to come out here and experience tears of joy at some point.”

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the call and it is what it is.”“With one second left, I think

we could have capitalized there.”Once again, the Badgers found

themselves on the losing end of a classic finish.

“What I brought from last year to this year is that you have to capitalize on every play and every opportunity,” junior running back Montee Ball said. “Obviously, we fell short once again. “

Wisconsin’s inability to do the things it does better than anyone ultimately left the Badgers win-less in the past two Rose Bowl games. They couldn’t finish off drives in the red zone, wasting those two opportunities.

Just as importantly, Wisconsin couldn’t take care of the ball. The Badgers turned the ball over twice on Monday night, both times turning potentially game-chang-ing drives into lost opportunities.

Those few mistakes ultimate-ly cost the Badgers dearly, with a

second straight year coming to a close in heartbreaking fashion.

“Obviously [the game didn’t end with] an outcome that we’re happy with, something that we’ll carry with us for the rest of our lives.” Bielema said. “As far as us moving forward, I’m kind of tired of tears of sadness. I wanted to come out here and experience tears of joy at some point.”

Given the way the game and the season played out, Badgers are obviously heartbroken from this final loss. But in a season that included three such last-second defeats, they feel there is plenty to gain even in the midst of a tough loss.

“We lost three games, basi-cally within a total of maybe 40 seconds.” Wilson said. “It’s pret-ty crazy how each one panned out. But for whatever reason, I think that next year’s team is going to have a great bunch of guys that, one, have a lot of expe-rience now, and two, have a lot of determination to be great.”

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goals to take a 3-1 lead. Decker scored her second goal of the game off a great give-and-go with senior forward Carolyne Prévost, and senior forward Brooke Ammerman snuck the puck between Harss’s legs to extend Wisconsin’s lead.

However, the Bulldogs scored just 32 seconds after Ammerman’s goal and added another late in the period to enter the third period tied 3-3.

Each team recorded seven

shots in a fast-paced, back-and-forth third period, but neither found the back of the net. It was the third consecutive series in which the Badgers had an over-time game.

Ammerman made quick work of the extra time, scoring less than one minute into overtime

“You’re playing against a team that’s scratching and clawing trying to figure out ways to win games late in the season,” Johnson said. “It’s a big difference between winning that in overtime and going to a shootout.”

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Sports

By Max Sternbergthe daily cardinal

PASADENA, Calif.—After a roller coaster season that includ-ed some of college football’s most memorable finishes, Wisconsin’s 2011 football campaign has come to a close after a heartbreaking 45-38 loss to Oregon in the Rose Bowl Game. And just as it did with the first loss back in October, the Badgers’ final contest ended with a replay, this time confirming the call that senior quarterback Russell Wilson’s spiked pass did not hit the ground before the clock hit zero.

This Rose Bowl Game was one for the ages even before the frantic finish. The Badgers (6-2 Big Ten, 11-3 overall) and Ducks (8-1 Pac-12, 12-2 overall) traded scores throughout the first half, with Rose Bowl records set for highest scoring first quarter (28) and half (56). But after leading throughout the first half and hav-ing to kick to begin the second, the halftime draw at 28 felt like a certain deficit.

Even while it was turn-ing into a shootout, this game looked like it would end, as it did, with the Badgers regret-ting two consecutive red zone possessions that ended with a combined three points.

Late in the 2nd quarter, Wisconsin drove to the Oregon 17 yard line facing 3rd and 1. After junior running back Montee Ball was stopped for no gain, Wisconsin shunned a field goal attempt in favor of a fourth down try, remembering a similar situa-tion last season that ended with kicker Philip Welch missing a

crucial field goal. Instead of try-ing to run up the gut again, UW tried to roll Wilson out on a play action fake but Oregon’s defense was ready, sacking Wilson for a three-yard loss and a huge shift in momentum.

“We came in before the game with the idea that on third down we would make the decision whether or not to go for it on fourth down,” head coach Bret Bielema said. “We had a third and short and felt we had an opportu-nity to get it in two downs

“[We] definitely wanted to think that when we got down near the end zone we wanted to get touchdowns, not field goals.”

Ultimately, the Badgers’ inabil-ity to do just that proved costly. After Wisconsin gave up a quick score on just the third play of the second half to give Oregon their first lead of the game, sopho-more receiver Jared Abbrederis returned the kickoff 66 yards to the Oregon 36.

Yet again, Wisconsin stalled down near the end zone, pick-ing up a big third down conver-sion before calling a timeout on first down that not only proved to loom large later, but also seemed to stunt the offense’s momentum. Welch’s 29-yard field goal only got UW within four points.

After Wisconsin held the lead throughout a first half that seemed to resemble a gridiron version of penalty kicks in soc-cer, Oregon returned the favor in the second half, scoring on the opening possession and hold-ing on for the duration. While both defenses were able to make big plays, Wisconsin’s inability to capitalize on Oregon’s few offen-sive mistakes left the Badgers

gasping for air.“The game was basically 0-0

the whole game,” Wilson said after the game. “No matter if the score is 35-35 or 7-7. It’s a 0-0 game the way I look at it. There at the end it was 7-0 and we thought we could come back and score.”

Although at the time it appeared as if Abbrederis’ fum-ble inside Oregon territory with just over four minutes remain-ing would be the infamous play of the 2012 “granddaddy of them all,” Wisconsin gave itself that one final shot, taking over at its own 13 with just 16 seconds on the clock trailing by seven points.

Wilson nearly pulled off the miracle, starting off the drive with a quick pass for 29 yards to Abbrederis out at the UW 42. With just nine seconds left, Wilson then found senior receiver Nick Toon near the left sideline for 33 yards, but Toon was unable to get out of bounds as the clock tem-porarily paused with two seconds remaining and the chain gang scrambling to get into position.

Wilson and the Badgers were able to line up before the clock started, giving themselves a shot to spike the ball in the remain-ing two ticks. However the spike went down with the clock show-ing all zeros.

The play headed to review, but UW again came out on the losing end, falling just 25 yards and potentially one second from a game-tying score.

“As soon as the referee blew the whistle, I snapped it and spiked it,” Wilson said. “I didn’t think there was any way that two full seconds ran off the clock there. They made

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By Parker Gabrielthe daily cardinal

PASADENA, Calif.—Football is a game of inches, the old cliché goes.

For the 2012 Rose Bowl, “inches and seconds” might be a little more adequate.

Start to finish, top to bot-tom, No. 10 Wisconsin (11-3) and No. 5 Oregon (12-2) put together an electric evening of offensive production the likes of which the annals of the Bowl Championship Series patriarch had never seen. En route to scor-ing a Rose Bowl-record 83 total points, the Badgers and Ducks were never separated by more than seven points, and only two of the 13 total scores did not either tie the game or change the lead in Oregon’s 45-38 victory.

“The game was basically 0-0 the whole game,” UW senior quarterback Russell Wilson said. “No matter if the score was 35-35 or 7-7, It’s a 0-0 game. That’s the way I look at it.”

With the offenses so even throughout the night, multiple clock management situations ultimately went Oregon’s way and went a long way to deter-mining the outcome.

The most notable came in the waning moments. Faced with needing 87 yards in the final 16 seconds to tie the game, Wilson (19-25, 296 yards., two TDs, one INT) completed two passes for 62

yards. The second, a 33 yard com-pletion to senior wide receiver Nick Toon (nine rec., 104 yards., TD), came with two seconds remaining. Wilson then tried to spike the ball at Oregon’s 25-yard line when the referee restarted the clock, but time ran out and an official review ended the game.

“Obviously, with one second left, I think we could have capi-talized there. As soon as the ref-eree blew the whistle, I snapped it and spiked it,” said Wilson, who became the first quarter-back in program history to throw for 3,000 yards in a single season. “I didn’t think there was any way that two full seconds ran off the clock there.”

“But it’s one of those things where I always have to look at it again.”

Clock management also hurt Wisconsin at the end of the first half, when the coaching staff thought Toon was called out of bounds at UW’s 39 on a short reception with about 19 seconds showing on the clock.

However, the clock started when the ball was reset and Bielema did not take a time-out until the clock showed six seconds.

“You know, we saw the play go out of bounds, the officials signaled it,” head coach Bielema said. “We had seen (senior kick-er Philip Welch) make, I believe, a 62-yard field goal in pregame

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Junior runningback Montee Ball rushed for 164 yards and one touchdown in the Badgers 45-38 loss to Oregon in the rose Bowl Game in Pasadena, calif.Mark kauzlariCh/the daily cardinal

Clock management leads to Badger loss

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