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State Senate Republicans removed all fiscal items from the budget repair bill, avoiding the need for a quorum, and passed limits on collective bargaining Wednesday, sparking massive protests and raising questions of constitutionality.

The measure passed 18-to-1, with Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, dis-senting. The state Assembly will meet Thursday to vote on the bill and then Gov. Scott Walker will sign it.

“Enough is enough,” Senate Majority Leader Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said in a statement. “The people of Wisconsin elected us to do a job … The longer the Democrats keep up this childish

stunt, the longer the majority can’t act on our agenda.”

Democratic representatives questioned the constitutionality of the action because the Senate conference did not post notice of the meeting two hours beforehand and didn’t allow the public in. Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said he received an e-mail about the 6:00 committee meeting at 4:09.

However, Chief Clerk Rob Marchant said in a statement that no advanced notice is necessary during a special session other than posting it on a bulletin board.

The bill was first heard by a Committee on Conference consisting of Barca, Assembly Majority Leader Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, Rep. Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, Scott Fitzgerald, Sen. Mike Ellis, R-Neenah, and Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller, D-Monona. Miller did not attend.

Barca continually asked what the new bill consisted of, while Scott Fitzgerald said the bill was the same one the Assembly passed with some parts removed and called

a vote. Barca called the Republicans’ actions “unbelievable.”

“As we stand here … we’re not even sure what’s in this bill,” Barca said at a press conference. “They asked me to vote with-out any understanding of what they put in this document.”

In spite of Barca’s protests, the bill then moved to the Senate, where it passed quickly.

However, Barca and other Democratic representatives remained confident about the final outcome of the issue, no matter how it plays out in the Assembly Thursday.

“They may win this battle tomorrow, but I am quite certain they will never win this war,” Barca said.

Pat Hrubesky, a protester and the direc-tor of the Deferred Prosecution Unit in the Dane County District Attorney’s office, said the Republicans’ actions were “above the law” and “completely unconstitutional.”

“At various times in my life, I’ve taken an oath to uphold the constitution in this state,” Hrubesky said. “And I can’t believe this is my government.”

Other protesters swarmed the Capitol

as police let individuals in through a single door, forcing everyone to go through metal detectors and have their bags checked. Protesters passed out food and water bot-tles so they could bring in individual por-tions. As they waited to get in, protesters chanted: “This is a Capitol, not a castle.”

“We’ve been chanting about from day one that these things have no place in a fiscal bill, so for what it’s worth, they’re admitting that we were right all along,” said David Duncan, an agronomy graduate student. “At the same time, it’s absolutely bullshit.”

After the legislative session ended, police locked the Capitol doors with peo-ple still waiting outside, using handcuffs to prevent protesters inside from letting in others. Later, police abandoned most entrances and protesters flowed in freely. As of press time, protesters remained in the Capitol.

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, said he predicts a continuation of what took place Wednesday night.

“I think Saturday you’ll have the largest protest probably in state history,” Pocan said.

Court dismisses rape case against Sigma Chi fraternity

A lawsuit against Sigma Chi’s UW-Madison and national chapters, filed by a UW-Madison student who claims she was raped at the fraternity house in October 2008, has been closed, according to Milwaukee County Judge Timothy Dugan.

The woman, who claimed she was drugged and raped several times after a UW-Madison football game in the fall of 2008, went to the media with the story in February 2009.

She then filed a civil lawsuit against the fraternity claiming it was negligence by Sigma Chi that caused her injuries.

Dugan said he dismissed the plaintiff ’s claim because she could not prove her case.

Some defendants were dismissed by stipulation prior to the decision, Dugan said.

No attorneys on the case were available for comment, and UW-Madison declined to comment.

Protesters overtake the Capitol after Senate, committee pass bill

Poll of Wisconsin voters shows support for bargaining rights

A poll released Wednesday found a majority of likely Wisconsin voters oppose weakening public workers’ collective bargaining rights.

The poll, conducted by right-leaning Rasmussen Reports, asked 500 likely voters 11 questions involving the standoff between Gov. Scott Walker and unions.

The poll showed 57 percent oppose weak-ening collective bargaining rights, while 39 percent would favor such an action.

The results also showed that 48 percent of those surveyed supported the idea of voter

approval for public employee pension increases, while 39 percent disagreed and 14 percent were not sure.

However, when asked about voter approval for union employee pay raises, the results were much closer. Forty percent of those surveyed responded that voter approval should be required for such raises, while 41 percent disagreed.

Of the people surveyed, 51 percent voted for Walker in the November, while 43 percent voted for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

SENATE PASSES BARGAINING LIMITS

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I recently decided to major in communication arts, specifi-cally communication science

and rhetorical studies. I came to this decision after I signed up for Communication Arts 272: Interpersonal Communication. It counted for Comm-B and the description sounded intriguing, so I thought, “Why not improve my communication competence? I’m sure future employers will appreciate any powers of persua-sion or feigned interest I acquire out of this class.” Little did I know this class would zero-in on all of the things I do everyday without realizing it.

Every chapter I read or lecture I attend is like delving into my subconscious. Not only do I real-ize why I act and think the way I do, but I also have the comfort of knowing I am not the only one. I know we all like to think we’re unique in our own little ways, and in many ways we are, but after taking this class, I have realized that we humans are so much more alike than I thought.

To illustrate my point, let us look at the actor-observer effect. For anyone who may not know, actor-observer effect occurs when someone attributes their own behavior, typically negative behav-iors, to external forces. Although I

would love to get on my high horse and say I totally take responsibility for all of my actions and own up to my mistakes like a virtuous young adult should, I most certainly do not. Some of my go-to excuses are, “The professor so did not emphasize those points in lecture, so those last 15 questions should be thrown out,” or, “Well you were an ass to me first, so of course I’m going to make bitchy, sarcastic remarks for the rest of the day.”

In reality, though, I most like-ly didn’t study those sections of my notes because I wasn’t as interested in them and/or gave up so my weary eyes wouldn’t roll to the back of my head. And in all likelihood my biting remarks stemmed from the simple fact that I am incredibly sarcastic and occasionally ill-mannered.

Another interesting phenom-enon we’ve discussed in this class is territoriality. A dog will piddle on a particular spot to claim it as their own so that their domain will not be invaded. I for sure have this one down, and it is actually quite ridiculous. A perfect example of my irrational territoriality takes place in my kitchen back home

that all five of us Alt’s use everyday. Whenever I come downstairs ready to cook me up some fish tacos or bake a fresh loaf of banana bread, I find someone standing over that stove, using my Giada de Laurentiis knife and my favorite sautéing pan. I lose it, but only inside. If my fierce territoriality were to come out everytime my brother tries to make grilled cheese, I probably would be served with a court order to attend anger management.

I have also realized I am very similar to men with regard to how much personal space I require and how I feel—pissed—when it’s invaded. For example, if anyone touches my face, even loved ones, you’d think they had just tried to brand me judging by how fast I jerk away. Why, you ask? I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I’ve witnessed too many people walk out of the bathroom without washing their hands.

The halo and the horn effect also struck a cord with me. The halo effect refers to people inter-preting anything someone says or does positively because they already have a positive gestalt for them. The horn effect is exactly

the opposite. I undoubtedly do this every single day. For example, let’s say my best friend peed on her sister’s pillow and then dried it with a blow drier because she’d been a little bitchy lately. My ratio-nale: That is frickin’ phenomenal ’cause her sister is totally a bitch. However, if my worst enemy did the same thing, then she/he would be the most repulsive individual I have ever met. (Note: My best friend actually did do that to her sister in high school.)

Overall, I feel this class is very useful. It allows me to finally embrace my irrational manner-isms while linin’ up my excuses, steaming over someone using my blender or defending my BFF for soiling her sister’s pillow that she regrettably sleeps on each night, as my classmates are doing the exact same thing.

So go ahead and keep on tellin’ your professor your paper was late because you’ve been “so busy.” What with 15 credits and a part time job at Pop’s, how could you have time to compare the political and philosophical ideologies of Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan” to Machiavelli’s “The Prince” or spend four hours on accounting problems that are broken into parts “a”-“g”? You can’t. So tell your professor you’ll get your paper in ASAP then go take a five-hour nap. Because that’s what I’m going to do.

Are your classes this interesting? If so, e-mail the class number to Rebecca at alt2@wisc.edu so she can sign up for it ASAP.

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ASM endorses change to campus attendance policy

Downtown Madison, Inc. announced Wednesday it is endors-ing incumbent Dave Cieslewicz for mayor and UW-Madison grad-uate Scott Resnick for District 8 alder among other candidates.

The DMI Board of Directors only made an endorsement if there was a super majority in favor of that position, DMI Executive Director Susan Schmitz said.

“DMI works very closely with all twenty alders and the mayor, and we look to them to support policies that invest in the health and vitality of downtown Madison,” Schmitz

said in a statement.The organization is also endors-

ing seven incumbent alders, including Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2 and Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6.

DMI is a nonprofit organized that addresses downtown issues such as the development and economy of downtown Madison. The organiza-tion consists of downtown residents, employees and business owners.

DMI works on many down-town-related projects and is config-uring the Downtown Plan, which will provide recommendations of issues specific to downtown.

DMI endorses Cieslewicz, Resnick

By Anna Duf!nTHE DAILY CARDINAL

The Associated Students of Madison unanimously passed legislation endorsing a change to the UW-Madison attendance policy Wednesday, which would forbid professors from rep-rimanding students who were absent due to illness and other personal reasons.

As it stands, departments are allowed to determine their own attendance policy.

According to University Affairs Chair Carl Fergus, who proposed this legislation, this leads to atten-dance requirements that are often vague and harsh.

Under the new policy, students would not be reprimanded for missing class due to “illness of the student or his or her depen-

dent, participation in intercolle-giate athletic events pursuant to the UW-Athletic Board’s Student-Athlete Missed Class Days policy, subpoenas, jury duty, military ser-vice, reasonable maternity/pater-nity leaves, and religious obser-vances.”

The legislation states that it would be the student’s responsibility to notify his/her professors about absences due to these circumstances and make up missed work.

“I think this is really important for campus to have a unified class attendance policy, and I think it is important for ASM to work towards that goal,” Fergus said.

With the passing of this leg-islation, ASM will seek support from other student organizations, professors, and faculty to imple-ment it.

BEN PIERSON AND MARK KAUZLARICH/THE DAILY CARDINAL

Protesters stormed the Capitol Wednesday night after the Senate passed restrictions on collective bargaining rights. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside until they gained entrance to the Capitol.

Wisconsin’s January unem-ployment rate dropped by 0.1 percent from December, according to preliminary num-bers released Wednesday by the Department of Workforce Development.

According to the numbers, the rate dropped from 7.5 per-cent in December 2010 to 7.4 percent in January 2011.

The private sector in Wisconsin added 10,100 jobs in the month of January, while the public sector lost 3,900, includ-ing 3,600 from state govern-ment, according to the report.

Gov. Scott Walker released a statement praising the job creation and touted it as evidence of a suc-cessful legislative special session.

“The number one goal of my Administration is to get government out of the way so that the private sector can create 250,000 jobs by 2015,” Walker said in the statement. “Our Special Session on Job Creation coupled with our continuing efforts to improve Wisconsin’s business climate sends a strong message to the global market-place that Wisconsin is Open for Business.”

Report shows decline in unemployment

Police placed handcuffs on doors at the King Street entrance to stop people from letting others in.

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‘Rango’ wins the wild west

Girl Talk brings amateur mix to professional parties

N obody really invites me to house parties anymore, and I sure do miss going

to them. For one, the beer is cheaper than at the Paradise or the Echo Tap. Second, there’s a good chance you have a mutual friend with most people who are also sitting in your friend’s musty basement and drinking Natty Light from a keg, which makes you seem like less of a creep when you talk to all of them.

Not long ago I used to host quite a few house parties of my own. I lived in a central location and my roommates and I had a whole house to ourselves, so we could turn the stereo up real loud and wild out in the living room while people did keg stands in the corner. Those were some of the best days of my life.

Although, other people maybe don’t remember them so fondly. In particular, I remember one short shorts-themed party in which some-one (wearing full-length pants—that should be enough of a descriptor here) started fiddling with the knobs on my stereo right in the middle of a song by the Avalanches. I, of course, cursed at her a lot until she quit. She, of course, didn’t understand why I wouldn’t let her and her friends lis-ten to dance music they recognized. Apparently being able to sing along is a prerequisite for dancing around on my furniture.

That was symptomatic of a pretty frequent disconnect between partygo-ers at my house though, and I sus-pect it happens elsewhere, too. And I assume that’s why most college par-ties just play music that re-engineers recognizable pop songs into intensely danceable contexts. I’m talking about mashups, but more specifically I’m talking about Girl Talk, a.k.a. famed DJ Gregg Gillis.

If you’re a regular reader of this column, you probably have a good idea why I didn’t go to the Girl Talk show at the Alliant Energy Center this past Monday. Chances are, you’re also probably one of my parents. But the idea is pretty simple: I don’t care much about mashups, and Girl Talk hasn’t done anything I’ve really cared about since before I saw him “per-

form” in 2007.I put “perform” in scare quotes par-

ticularly because of the feedback I got from friends who attended Monday’s show in Madison or Tuesday’s show in Minneapolis. Specifically, my friend Jake sent me a text message Tuesday night that read, “He’s in sweatpants and hasn’t yet played a new sample.” People in the crowd obviously noticed, and not much later I got another one that read, “He just replayed his intro music to try to get people to chant his name again. They did not.”

The problem, it seems, is a simple miscommunication, and ultimately the reason why Girl Talk as a perform-ing artist is reaching a dead end—Gillis now enters shows with a specific set of expectations. He plays dance music, and he expects everyone to dance. But the problem is that most people don’t expect him to simply play dance music—they expect him to perform it, or at least regurgitate his samples in a way that separates his shows from their own house parties. In other words, the crowd isn’t satisfied with Gillis simply facilitating a dance party, they want him to make the dance party. This dilemma is especially daunting for an artist whose primary attribute is his ability to get people to dance by using other artists’ songs, and now he’s stuck in a precarious position where he needs to re-invent himself as a performer if he wants to keep doing what he does as an artist. Otherwise, he risks being replaced by his own source material.

But of course there were others who genuinely enjoyed his set. They got drunk, they danced, they probably perspired through their clothing, and they left happy, having heard exactly what they expected to hear. But then again, those are probably the same people who hated sitting through every one of my house parties. Sorry, y’all.

But seriously, if that girl who messed with Kyle’s stereo is reading this, she can go to hell. If you are her and would like Kyle to send you a going-away-to-hell present, email him at ktsparks@wisc.edu.

KYLE SPARKStotal awesome

By Gabriella BonamiciTHE DAILY CARDINAL

Imagine desert rodents with firearms, a reptilian romance and a mariachi of owl narrators. Add in a great cast of voices, and you’ve got “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski’s newest kids flick, “Rango.”

In this animated western spin, Johnny Depp is the voice of Rango, a house pet chameleon who finds himself lost in the desert land of Dirt, where his talent for blending into any character soon lands him the position of town sheriff. Even as a cartoon lizard, Depp’s eccentric mannerisms make themselves evi-dent in his original and memorable performance. “Rango” is an animat-ed kids film with all the sophisti-cation of its adult counterparts. I was surprised at the maturity of the plotline and dialogue, yet its excite-ment and humor were not hindered in the least.

What makes “Rango” a notable childrens animated film is its ability to transcend age groups and enter-tain equally across the board. It was refreshing to see such a strange com-bination of genres and for such a combination to work so well. The

film balanced its western harshness with the lightness of its child audi-ence and PG rating. The creatures in the saloons are rowdy and surly, yet they innocently drink only cac-tus juice. The duels are silly and creative, dependent upon the crazy maneuvers of characters instead of actual shooting. Rango embraces the dirty and the disheveled, the ugly and the underdogs. But for all its mangy façade, the film is actu-ally very charming. The marriage of the western classic to the childhood fable creates an effect that is both rough around the edges and ador-able at its core, much like the movie’s characters. For once, our heroes are not princesses or cuddly critters, but rodents and reptiles who know how to spit and handle a pistol.

While lighthearted on the surface, deep down “Rango” is more complex then it lets on to be. The storyline involves suffering townspeople who struggle to make ends meet in the midst of a neverending drought, and under the rule of a secretive turtle mayor (Ned Beatty) who has his own interests in mind. When it is revealed that the mayor has been withholding the water supply in order to extermi-nate the last group of farmland own-

ers (an overt “Chinatown” reference), I couldn’t help but feel a chill at this dark turn off events.

Beneath all the happy stereotypes that characterize a kids film, “Rango” is actually a story about what happens when a group of people are deprived of their most necessary resources. It’s most evident message is about the importance of being true to your-self, which Rango ultimately learns through his series of adventures. But its vague and underlying message is slightly disturbing (remember, this is from the same director who also brought us “The Ring”).

“Rango” is visually creative and entertaining, with an equally fit-ting score. Most importantly, the film does not need to rely on 3D technology as a crutch like so many other newer kids’ movies. The plot was strong enough to stand on its own. There were only a few brief moments in which “Rango” seemed a bit dry for a kids movie or threatened to drag, but the film soon made up for these momentary lulls with the most elaborate and adventurous action sequences, solidifying the film in my mind as a quirky and detailed success.

PHOTO COURTESY NICKELODEON MOVIES

Though it may be targeted at the younger set, director Gore Verbinski’s “Rango” manages to offer enough quirk, charm and some dark themes to amuse even those born before the Clinton era.

@The Cardinal print edition will return Monday, March 21, but don’t despair. We’ll have pleny of online updates over spring break.

Check out our arts blog at daily-cardinal.com/arts for updates from South by Southwest in Austin, Tex., as well as movie reviews and more.

I don’t care about mashups, and Girl Talk hasn’t done anything I’ve really cared about since

before I saw him “perform” in 2007.

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R educe, reuse, recycle. Or is it reload? Continuing his ridiculous anti-environmen-

tal binge, Walker decided to target recycling and sustainability in his 2011-’13 biennial budget proposal after already terminating construc-tion of high-speed rail and restricting wind farms.

In his budget, Walker ends a decades-old recycling mandate and takes away state subsidies for local recycling programs. Wisconsin, home to the creator of Earth Day, has historically held a pioneering role in sustainable practices. This year, We Conserve, UW-Madison’s environmental stewardship pro-gram, successfully reduced the UW’s environmental footprint by 40 per-cent. Unfortunately, under Walker’s proposed budget cuts, the govern-ment is taking aim at Wisconsin’s history of conservation and forcing the state to take unreasonable steps backward from our recent environ-mental achievements.

Isn’t our motto “Forward?”Passing in 1990, the Wisconsin

Waste Reduction and Recycling Program, which touted the catchy tagline “Give your trash a second chance,” took full force in 2004. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Walker’s proposal is the biggest change to this program since 1995, when it became illegal to throw away aluminum cans and

newspapers. Studies conducted by the Wisconsin State Journal show that the amount of curbside recycled material has nearly doubled from 225,701 tons since 2004. In the same way that Oscar the Grouch changed his tune from “I Love Trash” to more encouraging recycling mes-sages, Wisconsin resonated with con-servation efforts as well.

Cutting funding to local govern-ment’s recycling programs total $32 million, with Madison taking a $1.1 million hit. For our community and other larger cities with established recycling programs, it is unlikely that recycling will be completely eliminated. Madison’s recycling coordinator George Dreckmann said Madison’s recycling programs cost about $6 million, so a $1.1 million cut will not halt but severely cut back recycling efforts in Madison. Smaller communities, which face local cuts on top of elimination of state grants, will be forced to raise taxes and seek more complex avenues for funding or end their programs.

The bottom line is that these cuts to state recycling grants will result in a significant reduction of material recycled and a sub-stantial increase in waste ending up in landfills. Walker is trashing Wisconsin. Literally.

Recycling is expensive. It costs businesses money. It costs the state money, but that money has ensured a greener future and kept waste from decomposing into greenhouse gases. If businesses are not required to recy-cle, it is highly doubtful that they will, likely erasing the progress Wisconsin has made in the past 20 years.

Progress? Moving forward? A bet-

ter future? I suppose I have been taking these promises, the Wisconsin Idea, for granted. I do not know why I’m still shocked Walker turns out time and time again to be the biggest party pooper this side of the Mississippi. I was a celebrator when we started progress on our segment of the Midwest Regional Rail Corridor high-speed rail. But before Walker was even sworn into office, former Gov. Jim Doyle halted the project in his correct anticipation that Walker planned to terminate it permanently.

There is one important lesson pro-gressive Wisconsinites can take away from Walker’s short time as governor: Just because we invest millions of dollars in a progressive project does not mean that Wisconsin won’t ter-minate it partway through.

Before Walker took office, he pleaded with Doyle to stop using biofuel technology at the Charter Street Heating Plant, although construction had also already begun on this renewable and via-ble project.

I guess we really shouldn’t be that surprised that the now Gov. Walker isn’t afraid to stop even 20-year-old environmental proj-ects. According to these warnings and developing trends, the longer Walker clings to power, the farther back into Wisconsin’s proud history he targets conservation efforts. Up next? Perhaps throwing away Earth Day. I bet Walker sees celebrat-ing the earth as too expensive for Wisconsin tax-payers.

Melissa Grau is a sophomore major-ing in journalism and communica-tion arts. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

Cardinal View editorials represent The Daily Cardinal’s organizational opinion. Each editorial is crafted independent of news coverage.

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shameStarting on Feb. 21, The Daily

Cardinal and countless other news outlets throughout the state began receiving an onslaught of e-mails from the governor’s press office titled, “Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue.”

Over the course of the next three weeks, we continued to receive such e-mails with examples attempting to show how public unions’ collective bargaining rights threaten our state’s financial solvency.

Ironically, such press releases may come back to bite the gover-nor, as his marionettes in the state senate pulled a trick play last night to push through the budget repair bill in committee. The clincher is that this vote was only possible in committee because the Republicans deemed that the collective bargain-ing provision was not a fiscal issue. Be careful where you walk around here, because the hypocrisy is thick.

So, Sens. Cowles, Darling, Ellis, Fitzgerald, Galloway, Grothman, Harsdorf, Hopper, Kapanke, Kedzie, Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Moulton, Olsen, Vukmir, Wanggaard and Zipperer, you have dishonored the honest Wisconsinites you claim to repre-sent. You have lied to them. You have openly acknowledged that you are breaking the rules and it is obvious that you frankly don’t care.

We commend Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, for standing up to Walker’s vote-bots and voting against the bill 18-1 when it was brought quickly and quietly to a vote by Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. Maybe if there were more free-thinking Republicans like Sen. Schultz representing us in the state legislature we would not be subject to the robotic “ayes” of an unblinking majority.

W hat would the state of sexual health look like if individuals were

free to make up information that suited them?

Yesterday, this newspaper ran an ad from Pro-Life Wisconsin urging students to make “healthy choices” over spring break, warning that emer-gency contraception can cause “chemi-cal abortions and deadly blood clots.”

“By golly,” I thought, “This is so dangerous! I must know more about these risks!”

I rushed home and went to the FDA website, which is where the ad claimed to get its information.

According to FDA.gov, “Emergency contraceptive pills are not effective if a woman is already pregnant.”

“But,” I sputtered, “Pro-Life Wisconsin said emergency contracep-tion can cause abortions!” But how can a woman have an abortion if she is not pregnant?

Further adding to my anxiety was the fact that the FDA made no mention of blood clots even once. Knowing the FDA’s notoriety as an evil liberal organization whose sole aim is to hide information from consumers, I had to get more specific.

I searched “emergency contracep-tives blood clots,” “progesterone risks,” “progesterone blood clots,” “progester-one side-effects” and “levonorgestrel blood clots.” I found one article claim-ing “Sales of emergency contracep-

tives over-the-counter will remove all safeguards for our youth, exposing them to serious health risks including ectopic pregnancies, blood clots and heart attacks.”

It was a letter to the FDA from Lake County (Ind.) Right to Life in 2006.

I may be just a woman with a small brain, but I don’t understand Pro-Life Wisconsin’s high-tech scien-tific research.

But you know what? I am confi-dent in asserting that yesterday Pro-Life Wisconsin published an ad which blatantly made shit up.

Let me be clear, I support The Daily Cardinal’s decision to publish an ad from Pro-Life Wisconsin. The students of this campus are intelligent adults, and we are free to sift and win-now as we please.

But I do not support Pro-Life Wisconsin’s choice (oxymoron?) to publish an ad containing what is, at best, misinformation and, at worst, naked lies. It is insulting, shameful and dangerous.

So, I return to my first question: What would it look like if my col-umn made up information for the sole purpose of serving my liberal homosexual agenda? It would look like this:

Did you know that Plan B tastes like candy? Yes, the only thing I love more than murdering the ghost baby in my non-pregnant uterus is the delicious, chocolatey goodness of levonorgestrel. Speaking of contra-ceptives, people ask me all the time what the best one is, and, person-ally, I’m a big fan of the copper IUD. Medical studies prove that frequent sexual intercourse will turn your cop-

per IUD to gold in just six months, which is convenient if you need to pay for an abortion. By the way, abor-tion turns periods into glitter and makes your breasts stand round and perky forever.

But I’ve got to give props to condoms, because condoms make your dick longer, thicker and more attractive. You don’t have to use a condom, though. You can just let your partner cum on your face, because semen cures acne. Except for Gov. Scott Walker’s semen, which is pure acid and will eat through your face and destroy your brain. That’s why Speaker Scott Fitzgerald, District 13, doesn’t have one. But brain-eating acid semen or not, every time you give a blow-job, an angel gets its wings.

And speaking of orgasms, did you know deep, slow buttfucking cures cancer? It’s science. Recent clinical trials also show that vibra-tor usage can lower your choles-terol, gay sex doubles your IQ and four out of five doctors recom-mend muff-diving as the best way to cure the common cold.

Pretty ridiculous, huh? Pro-Life Wisconsin, this is what you sound like when you feed us junk ads full of bullshit fear and hatemongering. We don’t like it, and we won’t stand for it.

So everyone, have an awesome spring break, and remember—having fabulous, consensual, protected sex is correlated with feeling awesome at the end of spring break, as well as a 0.50 increase in your GPA.

Erica Andrist is page two’s sex col-umnist. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Getting through the last class before break© Puzzles by Pappocom

Eatin’ Cake By Dylan Moriarty EatinCake@gmail.com

Hoop Dreams By D.T. dtollefson@wisc.edu

Solution, tips and computer program available at www.sudoku.com.

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

Today’s Sudoku

ARRANGING FURNITURE

ACROSS 1 Washer batch 5 Cow comments 9 Macbeth, for one 14 Guns’ partner 15 Software graphic 16 What you get as you

grow older 17 Postpones a vote, in a

way 20 Word from a toaster 21 “Get it?” 22 Skater Brinker of

children’s literature 23 Part of Ralph

Kramden’s laugh 24 That woman 26 Track contest 28 Have coming 30 Kind of movie glasses 34 Librarian’s reprimand 37 Word stamped on a

receipt 39 Practice piece for

Chopin 40 What a man speaking

very carefully does 44 Slimy aquarium

growth 45 Ireland 46 Wine barrel material 47 Was rocked with

disbelief

49 Pre!x meaning “to the left”

51 Lily relative 53 Confederate soldier,

for short 54 Its members are

represented by stars 57 Agenda unit 60 “___ show time!” 62 List of players 64 What the tired CEO

might do? 67 ___ out (proven) 68 Word-of-mouth 69 “The Sun ___ Rises” 70 Thought things over 71 Seductively attractive 72 “___ there, done

that!”

DOWN 1 Gate clasp 2 Home of a mail-order

steak business 3 Orange-yellow shade 4 Big name in bananas 5 Deform 6 Pumpkin-buying mo. 7 Sounds of amazement 8 Villain’s contortion 9 It’s “company” 10 Until now 11 Polo explored it 12 Vegas sign !ller 13 Coastal raptors

18 Scots Gaelic 19 Vegetarian’s no-no 25 Wipe away the chalk 27 Work on a piece of

gum 29 Nothing, in Latin 31 Continental “dollar” 32 Old Icelandic saga 33 Item in an of!ce 34 Cutting-edge result? 35 Woodpecker’s creation 36 Gigantic 38 More fraught with

danger 41 Skin soother 42 Weak spot for Achilles 43 In a bad way 48 ___-yourself kit 50 Woodwind higher than

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beliefs 54 Serving some purpose 55 One of !ve faculties 56 Light-bulb gas 57 Long-range weapon,

brie"y 58 Commandment word 59 Prominent bunny

features 61 Desertlike 63 Blind guess 65 Type of meat or

pepper 66 To the ___ (fully)

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Washington and the Bear

‘Roasted coffee’ has a new meaning: All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.

Washington and the Bear Conclusion By Derek Sandberg kalarooka@gmail.com

The Pipesmokers By Joseph Diedrich jsdiedrich@wisc.edu

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Men’s Hockey

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Sophomore forward Craig Smith has 17 goals and 41 points this season. His 1.08 points per game ranks seventh best in the WCHA.

Badgers, Tigers face rematch in ColoradoBy Ryan EvansTHE DAILY CARDINAL

As the No. 19 Wisconsin men’s hockey team goes on the road for their first round WCHA playoff series with Colorado College, they do so with a renewed sense of confidence. After snapping their-six game winless streak with a 3-1 victory last Saturday, the Badgers believe they are ready and capable of making a deep playoff run.

This weekend’s best-of-three series in Colorado Springs will be a rematch of last weekend’s series in Madison that the two teams split. That familiarity is something that the Badgers say will work to their benefit.

“We have their tendencies fresh in our mind,” senior goaltender Scott Gudmandson said. “We know what they’re going to go on the power play and what certain players do on the ice and that’s going to be important and will help us win this series.”

“It helps us because we know who we’re playing,” senior forward Podge Turnbull said. “We know what they’re going to bring so its going to be an all out war out there. It’s playoff hockey. We have to play a smart and fearless game.”

This will be the sixth time in school history that Wisconsin will open the WCHA playoffs against the same team it played on the regu-lar season’s final weekend, with the Badgers winning four of the previous five times it occurred.

With the win against the Tigers Saturday, the Wisconsin halted its winless stretch that dated back to late January. The Badgers felt they played well enough to win both nights, against Colorado College but by snapping their streak Wisconsin now enters the playoffs with some much needed momentum; it’s what that win did for the team’s confidence that will have the greatest effect.

“It was great for the psyche,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “Talking about confidence, that win was a great thing to have. They get that feeling back, they get a bit of swag-ger, so for us to get that win on Saturday was big on many fronts.”

“It’s a weight lifted of our shoul-ders and a big monkey of our back,” Turnbull said. “As far as Colorado knows we’re coming in there with a win and we’re going to be high on confidence and it’s going to be a tough test for them to answer the bell. We don’t plan on losing.”

According to Gudmandson, the team’s 0-6-1 stretch through the month of February was something that needed to happen for this team and will only benefit them as they move into the playoffs.

“Obviously February didn’t go as well as we wanted, but it was a competitive month and I think it was one of the best things for us,” he said. “You have to go through some adversity if you want to be successful; adversity can help build your character and I think we needed that.”

A deep playoff run through the WCHA Final Five is vital if the Badgers hope to make a return appearance to the NCAA tournament, and accord-ing to the players, this is a team that is capable of making that type of run.

“I don’t think there is any doubt in anyone’s mind,” Turnbull said. “I think the ship finally turned around for us and we mean business. We can’t come out of there with anything less than two wins.”

“Anything can happen right now. All you have to do is have a posi-tive attitude and get hot at the right time,” sophomore forward Craig Smith said. “A lot crazier things have happened and it’s up to us and get-ting in there and playing like there is no tomorrow.”

Bulldogs so soon, being able to do so in Madison – not on neutral ice at the Frozen Four – will certainly be an advantage.

“If we’re going to play them, there’s no better place to play them than here at the Kohl Center,” junior forward Carolyne Prevost said.

Prevost, along with her senior linemates Kelly Nash and Mallory Deluce, have come up big for

Wisconsin so far this postseason.The Badgers’ third line totaled

six points in Wisconsin’s 3-0 vic-tory over North Dakota in the WCHA Final Face-off semifinals. The next night, Nash scored a game-winning goal in overtime of the finals to give the Badgers the WCHA playoff title.

“We played well for the past little while; we just haven’t had the bounces we’ve been getting lately. Now we’re playing with confidence,”

Prevost said. “When you play with confidence it’s going to help you along the way, and that’s what’s going on right now.”

Senior forward and team captain Meghan Duggan said that confi-dence has helped the line find anoth-er gear in the postseason. As some of Wisconsin’s bigger names racked up points and attention this season, Duggan said the third line has qui-etly gone about adding depth to the team’s scoring attack.

I’ve got two picks from somewhere in the heart of the pack that could very easily load up on Wheaties and run the table through to April.

St. JohnsSteve Lavin gave up his cozy spot

as an ESPN analyst for a job coach-ing St. Johns to do two things: Kick ass and chew bubblegum. And after a tough conference schedule in the Big East, the Red Storm are all out of bubblegum. Of late, they’ve run away from Villanova, UConn, Duke and Notre Dame, while squeaking out a tough one against Pittsburgh. Lavin’s got St. Johns on some serious ’90s Knicks shit, banging through the Big East like Charles Oakley still had eligibility. This is a team that just last year got knocked out in the first round of the NIT, and here they are sitting pretty, projected as a No. 4 seed in next week’s tournament in Joe Lunardi’s latest Bracketology.

Their style of play can get pretty ugly (case in point: last week against Seton Hall), but Coach Lavin’s pro-pensity to wear sneakers on the side-line should give a decent metric for what kind of hustle you have to bring against them. These guys have broad shoulders and some untamed ’bows, and their opponents are going to have to be ready to crack some skulls if they don’t want to get relegated to chump status on the Red Storm’s road to ruin.

Kansas StateWhile Gil Zero’s bottomless swag

went through a few too many hum-bling reconstructive knee surgeries and he’s been dropped to Starbury status on the Orlando Magic, Kansas State’s senior guard Jacob Pullen is like a little Hibachi in training. He even wears the same No. 0.

I doubt anyone would disagree if I said the most exciting game last year was when J. Pullen and Xavier’s Jordan Crawford threw down for

three overtimes and a combined 60 points in the Sweet Sixteen last year. God forbid Jimmer Fredette brings his neo-streetball and unlimited range at Brigham Young anywhere near Pullen & Co. this postseason.

K. State probably looks like a disappointment after dropping 20 spots from their preseason rank, but these polls have one major flaw. The polls measure the success of teams in regular season games—J. Pullen only cares about championships, and he has an incredible ability to turn his swag to 11 when the rubber hits the road down the stretch. And judg-ing by the way the Wildcats have elevated their play recently against Kansas, Missouri and Texas, Kansas State should be nothing but Nestle in this month’s Crunch time.

Kyle is ready to turn his swag to 11, and if you want to talk about how ill this tournament field is going to be in more detail than this word count permits, e-mail him at ktsparks@wisc.edu.

year’s team with a Badger squad this season who is on pace to set NCAA records for free throw percentage (82.7 percent), turnovers per game (7.47) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.79), all while carrying the nation’s second most efficient offense (1.19 points per possession) and ninth best scoring defense (59.1 points per game).

Simply put, the Wisconsin sys-tem is built for tournament play.

“It’s what our system is pred-icated off of. Taking care of the ball and not giving the other team easy opportunities, easy run-outs and defensively just being sound,” Leuer said. “Obviously you have to hit shots but if you play good defense and rebound, you’re going to have a chance to win any game.”

With a favorable matchup set

for Friday (Wisconsin will face the winner of Thursday’s Penn State-Indiana game), the stars are starting to align for what the Badgers hope is a long run into the postseason.

“We are going down there to win the thing,” Leuer said. “We wanted to win the Big Ten regular season and obviously we didn’t get a chance to do that but now we have a new oppor-tunity in front of us.”

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The  week  ahead  in  

Men’s  Hockey:

March 12-14: WCHA First Round

March 17, 18:WCHA Quarterfinals, Semifinals

March 19:WCHA Championship

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Men’s Basketball Subordinate rooting interests to heighten your tournament

T here are 67 games in the NCAA March Madness Men’s basketball tourna-

ment, and the Badgers will only have to play six of them before they can cut down the nets in Houston. That leaves 61 games and 62 teams unaccounted for. Yet most of us are going to sit in front of the television and let Bryant Gumble direct us through almost all of them anyways. My point is: There are abundant opportunities for subordinate root-ing interest to heighten your March Madness experience, no matter how devoted you are to Buckingham U.

Most of the time these ephem-eral allegiances manifest in so-called Cinderella teams from mid-major conferences that don’t get a lot of love during the regular season: Upstart,

hot-shooting squads like last year’s Northern Iowa or Cornell (never for-get). This year’s field has no shortage of those, and you know I’m pumped to see what Oakland, George Mason (remember those guys?), Saint Mary’s and even Old Dominion could do to some tougher defenses. But also keep in mind, last year neither Northern Iowa nor Cornell made it out of the Sweet Sixteen. And, don’t forget that the so-called surprises of the tourna-ment, Butler and Baylor, were both ranked in the top-10 at some point during the season, and both ended the regular season in the top-20.

Cinderella stories are awesome, but at the end of the day it’s the team with the most rocks in their jocks and tough road experience that kicks it at the White House.

So instead of trying to predict which mid-major team can pull the few upsets that’ll make the difference in your dorm’s crappy bracket pool,

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Freshman Josh Gasser, who has started in all but three games this season, will help lead Wisconsin into the Big Ten Tournament this weekend. The Badgers will face the winner of Thursday’s Penn State-Indiana matchup.

Let the Madness beginBadgers begin push to Big Dance at Big Ten Tournament

By Max SternbergTHE DAILY CARDINAL

The 2010-’11 men’s basketball campaign has thus far stuck to the Bo Ryan script. Ryan took a team picked to finish in the middle of the Big Ten standings and wound up continuing his streak of now 10 seasons of top-four finishes top four in the conference.

Heading into the conference tour-nament in Indianapolis this week-end, the expectations are high for a Wisconsin team that carries the third seed in the tournament.

Despite coming into the post-season winning eight of the last 10, the Badgers know that regular season success does not guarantee a tournament run. Take one look at the way the 2009-’10 campaign fin-ished (second round loss to Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament and second round loss to Cornell in the NCAA Tournament) and that fact

should be fairly well established.“Last year was a different year,

a different team,” freshman guard Josh Gasser said. “This is what we’ve worked toward, to win a Big Ten title and go to the Final Four.”

Still, for every point of criti-cism that could be made against Ryan’s program and its lack of a Final Four run, it is hard to argue with two conference tournament titles, four Big Ten championship game appearances and 12 NCAA Tournament victories, three more than the Wisconsin program had in the 96 years prior to hiring Ryan.

First team All-Big Ten selec-tions Jordan Taylor and Jon Leuer have combined for 37.1 points per game this season, second most in the Big Ten and sixth in the nation. Add in the fact that Taylor is currently on pace for an NCAA record with his 4.26 assist to turnover ratio, and it seems

that the talent is certainly there for a postseason run.

As much as the blowout loss to Ohio State on Sunday brings back thoughts of the Cornell loss, it is difficult to compare last

Women’s Hockey

Wisconsin opens NCAA play at Kohl Center against Minnesota-DuluthBy Nico SavidgeTHE DAILY CARDINAL

To win a national championship this year, the Wisconsin women’s hock-ey team knew it would have to beat Minnesota-Duluth. When the NCAA tournament kicks off for the Badgers this weekend, they will have to do just that, albeit a week earlier than they thought they would.

Much of the women’s hockey world expected to see the teams meet some time at the Frozen Four March 18-20. Instead, two of the sport’s most storied programs will play in Madison this weekend, facing off at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Kohl Center in an NCAA quarterfinal matchup.

When the puck drops, both teams will know they are three wins away from earning a national title. They will also know they are one loss away from ending their season far earlier than they would have liked as they

enter the truly “win or go home” part of their schedules.

“It comes down to who has enough in the tank and who’s going to give themselves the best opportunity to win three games,” Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson said.

The Badgers and Bulldogs already have a bitter rivalry that includes a number of postseason meetings, the winner of which has often gone on to claim the NCAA title. As they prepare to face one another again this weekend, Johnson said the rivalry will be as intense and UMD as hard to beat as ever.

“Both teams will be hungry —both teams want to go on to the Frozen Four,” he said. “They’re the defending national champions, they’ve got a lot of kids that have been through this process before.”

Saturday’s matchup was the result of a controversial decision from the

NCAA selection committee, which paired No. 1 seed Wisconsin with defending national champion Duluth. After the tournament’s bracket was announced Sunday, Johnson said it showed a “lack of respect for what we did this year.”

But while the Badgers were sur-prised to see they would play the

The   week   ahead  

in  Basketball:

March 10-13: Big Ten Tournament in IndianapolisMarch 13:NCAA selection show

March 15, 16:NCAA First Round

March 17,18:NCAA Second Round

The  week  ahead  in  

Women’s  Hockey:

March 12: NCAA Quarterfinals

March 18:NCAA Semifinals

March 20:NCAA Championship

KYLE SPARKShard in da paint

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