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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

Screamin’ for a reason

Madison’s Screamin’ Cyn Cyn and the Pons played a show at Memorial Union’s der Rathskeller Wednesday night as part of Human Rights Week.

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newly GOP Legislature will bring changesBy ariel ShapirotHe daily CaRdinal

With a newly elected, Republican-controlled state Legislature, Wisconsin will likely see a slew of deregula-tory bills this season.

The GOP now has a majority of 60-38, with one Independent in the state Assembly, and 19-14 in the state Senate.

Among the 14 Democratic lawmakers ousted this elec-tion cycle were some of the

most prominent people at the Capitol. Both Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, D-Wausau, and Speaker of the Assembly Mike Sheridan, D-Janesville, were defeated by their Republican challengers.

One of the top contenders for the next Speaker of the Assembly, state Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, is looking forward to creating jobs and minimizing government power, according to

GAB: statewide voter turnout at 50%By ariel ShapirotHe daily CaRdinal

Voter turnout for Tuesday’s midterm elections was rela-tively high at nearly 50 per-cent, meeting the Government Accountability Board’s origi-nal predictions.

“Based on the feedback we have received and media reports, this was a successful

election,” Kevin Kennedy, the state’s chief election officer said. “I consider it a successful elec-tion when most voters have a pleasant experience and remem-ber its outcome rather than any issues at the polling place.”

The 2010 election drew more of the voting-age popu-lation than any other midterm election since 1974, except for the 2006 election when voter turnout was 51 percent.

UW-Madison politi-cal science professor Charles Franklin said although the overall voter turnout was high for a midterm election, Democratic voter participa-tion dropped off significantly since the 2008 election.

French journalist speaks about trials of war criminals, attaining justice after genocideBy alicia GoldfinetHe daily CaRdinal

French journalist Thierry Cruvellier spoke in Memorial Union Wednesday about the pun-ishment and trials of war crimi-nals in countries such as Rwanda, Cambodia and Lebanon.

Cruvellier’s lecture kicked off the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Human Rights Awareness Week.

Cruvellier was the only full-time foreign journalist to cover Rwanda’s International Criminal Tribunal, which was formed to prosecute criminals after the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Cruvellier said justice is never easy to fight for, and every coun-try finds its own political transi-tion after mass genocide.

Rwanda has taken a unique approach by following mass murder with mass justice, which makes it is impossible for the government to punish all guilty parties, Cruvellier said.

“More than 1 million people have in one way or another been prosecuted, which is unbelievable and unprecedented and nowhere to be seen,” Cruvellier said.

Cruvellier said statements tribu-nal courts make about their opera-tions often stray from the truth.

“We have to look at these courts for what they do, not for what they claim,” Cruvellier said.

According to Cruvellier, for-eign political context behind tri-bunal courts inspires the way in which the court acts in Rwanda,

Cambodia, Sierra Leone and other countries.

“The courts can hardly do something that the international community behind it is not will-ing to do,” Cruvellier said.

Cruvellier said justice can best be attained through the combina-tion of trials, reparations, com-

missions and removal of state members involved in crime, though the victims will never receive a satisfactory answer.

“What is important to keep in mind is that trial is only a small answer to mass murder,” Cruvellier said. “It only achieves very little. It punishes, and that’s all it does.”

Mifflin residents robbed at gunpointFour men living on the

500 block of West Mifflin were robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning.

The Madison residents, three of the four said to be in their early 20s, were sitting on their front porch around 12:23 a.m. when the two black male suspects approached the resi-dents, according to the police incident report.

One suspect had a handgun and directed the four residents inside their house, police said.

Once inside, one of the sus-pects held the residents at gun-point, while the other suspect began to gather money and electronic devices in the house, police said.

The suspects also asked the

residents about drugs, specifi-cally marijuana, police said.

“One resident was punched and another stomped on during the robbery,” Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain said in a statement.

One suspect was said to be in his early 20s, around 5'8", 160 to 170 lbs. with a high-pitched voice. At the time of the rob-bery he was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, dark jeans and black tennis shoes.

According to police the other suspect is 20 years old, around 6', 175 to 180 lbs. with a lighter complexion and a thin beard. He was seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark jeans and dark shoes.

—Maggie DeGroot

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thierry Cruvellier, the only full-time journalist to cover Rwanda’s international Criminal tribunal, spoke Wednesday at the Union.

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“New York is great if you can pay the rent!” Thanks, LCD Soundsystem.

But even if I could pay the rent, I still wouldn’t live in New York City, despite its fashionable outlook and dream career”opportunities. My three-month stint living there in 2007, even if it was for an enriching summer internship, gave me a plethora of reasons not to live in NYC. Smelly. Hot. Expensive. Curmudgeonly cab drivers. Even crankier subway commuters.

But these factors pale in com-parison to the genuine reason I loathe the idea of living in New York long term: The cockroaches.

Generally, I consider myself a fairly “tough” girl. I enjoy travel-ing, even alone. I did move to New York for a summer having never visited there before in my life. And

I can ride a bike, take nasty spills on said bike—the last of which incurred large, handlebar-shaped bruises on my right thigh—and drink enough beer to keep up with the best of ’em.

“The best of ’em” being my decidedly braver male friends, who have no problem stomping on earwigs, disposing of crafty, fire-jumping mice that infest their stoves and knocking down mud-wasp nests from their porches.

But make me face a shiny, dark, exoskeletoned creature with more legs than necessary, mov-ing faster than any animal that size should, and I morph into Princess Shriek-a-lot.

The first time of four that I spotted a cockroach—albeit a baby one—in my New York summer digs, I fled to the Financial District and squatted in my friend Ira’s NYU dorm with him for two nights.

Upon my return to 103rd and Broadway, armed with industrial-sized cans of spray, I nearly poi-soned myself with the pesticide fumes by, uh, “exterminating” my apartment a little too zealously.

Flash forward to my post-under-grad years living in Madison—now.

In 2009, I moved into a new house on the near-west side, and my friend Patrick came over to enjoy a bottle of wine. As friends do, he politely asked, “Is there anything I can help with?”

I hesitated.“Well, yeah, there is one thing …

could you kill that bug?” I pointed at an insect on top

of a bookshelf in our new dining room that I had been watching—but afraid to touch—for the last five hours. He laughed, exclaimed something about stereotypes and gender roles, and squished the bug with a paper towel.

Most recently, wrapped in a towel post-shower one morning this September, I combed my wet hair. Lacking contacts or glasses at that hour, I squinted bleary-eyed at a puff of dust and debris on the floor floating by my toes.

These Madison apartments sure do get dusty, I grumbled. Probably time to bust out the vacuum cleaner again.

My boyfriend burst into our

bedroom hunched over, his right hand outstretching an insect-kill-ing jar left over from his entomol-ogy course last semester. “Did you see it??”

In a flash of insight, I leapt up onto the bed.

Shit. That wasn’t a dust bunny. That was a centipede.

Now perched, squatting on the bed, making sure my bare feet are nowhere near the quickly crawling limbs of the bug, I called out, “I think it went under your dresser!”

He glanced over his shoulder at me from his crouched stance in front of the dresser and cracked up.

“That’s very helpful, Erica. You just sit tight.”

I shrug. “Well, at least I let you put your

entomology collection up on our wall. That’s a step, right?”

He rolled his eyes. “Those are already dead, Erica.”

We never did manage to catch that centipede.

Have a similar distaste for creepy crawlies? E-mail Erica with stories about the creatures that scuttle through your nightmares at pelzek@wisc.edu.

Erica will do battle with bikes & beer but not bugs

Erica PElzEkguest columnist

Thursday Guest Column

I’ve always wanted to try a beer from the pun masters at Shmaltz Brewing Company, but I have also feared that the beers would not be as enjoyable as the clever titles of their He’Brew line—R.I.P.A. Rye, Messiah Bold (which sounds like a font name), Genesis Ale and this week’s pick, the Rejewvenator.

Well, I should have known that this line is called “the Chosen Beer” for a reason—the owners named it. Get it?! Okay, okay, I joke.

The beer is good. The Rejewvenator is He’Brew’s take on a Belgian Dubbel and a Doppelbock, only blended with a lot of concord grape juice.

The chosen brewers deliver honest results. The beer tastes like what it says it is supposed to taste like—double-doubling your pleasure with its crazy complexities and surprising balance. And the grape juice makes it seem like a happy childhood memory, only an alcoholic one. Nothing really takes over and overpowers the other flavors, and it reminds me of that Willy Wonka candy that tastes like each distinct part of a four-course meal: First came the sour Belgian flavors, then a sip of malty doppelbock and finally a refreshing wash of grape juice.

After the dessert course of the first glass though, I wasn’t entirely wowed. Shmaltz crafted an intriguing and flavorful brew, but in the end it boils down to my inability to really enjoy Belgian beer. So it depends whether you are a fan of Belgians to begin with. This could be someone’s sea-sonal favorite; the beer is certainly good enough to try the other He’Brews—especially the R.I.P.A. Rye. Oh how I love rye. And like rye whiskey, the Rejewvenator will

give you a kick in the pants with its 8.2 percent alcohol by volume.

L’Chaim!—Benji Pierson

New Beer Thursday

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Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald said the Obama administration, like the Bush administration, violates civil liberties.

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columnist criticizes Obama’s handling of war on TerrorBy anna DischerThe daily cardiNal

At a lecture Wednesday night, Salon.com columnist and civil liberties activist Glenn Greenwald condemned the Obama adminis-tration for continuing to violate citizens’ constitutional rights in the name of fighting terrorism.

Greenwald said despite Obama’s campaign promises to put an end to the Iraq War, the president has embraced and even expanded upon former President George W. Bush’s policies for the War on Terror.

Greenwald said there is a lack of clarity in the definitions of civil lib-erties and terrorism, both of which are key terms used in the context of the Iraq War.

“What strikes me as both interesting and important is that we use these terms all the time,” Greenwald said. “And yet I don’t think they really do have very clear or specific meaning, at least in terms of how they’re used.”

Civil liberties are constraints that we have placed on the gov-

ernment, and we do not need to define the term because we have the Constitution. Greenwald said the term terrorism is not easy to define and the manipulation of the word for political gains has caused it to lose its meaning.

Greenwald gave the example of a package containing bombs intercepted from Yemen to the U.S. was declared a terrorist attack. Yet when Obama ordered air strikes in Yemen in 2009 kill-ing 49 civilians, the U.S did not consider it an act of terrorism.

Greenwald said U.S. officials’ justification to the public that the attack was targeting an al-Qaeda suspect was an abuse of political power.

Greenwald said both Republican and Democratic poli-cymakers violate the public’s civil liberties, but many citizens over-look these violations as long as the perpetrators belong to their own political party.

Student Progressive Dane and the Middle Eastern Law Student Association organized the presentation.

ASM discusses internal budget, SSFC fundBy anna DuffinThe daily cardiNal

The Associated Students of Madison heard proposals for the ASM Internal Budget and the Campus Services Fund Wednesday.

ASM Chair Brandon Williams said the biggest change from last year’s internal budget is the addition of a staff member who would serve as a lobbyist.

“Obviously this is a tentative position at this point. We haven’t really gone through all the details as of yet,” Williams said.

The Division of Student Life allows ASM to have 11 staff members, of which they current-ly employ only 10. The Division of Student Life said it would take away the to have an 11th staff member if ASM left the position unfilled.

The lobbyist’s main duty would be to establish relation-ships at the State Capitol. ASM estimated the lobbyist’s salary at $60,000. ASM’s overall internal budget is $1,192,754.05.

Some members were concerned about who would have control over the position since they are hired through the university.

ASM Chair Brandon Williams said these concerns will be addressed as they come up.

Student Services Finance Committee Chair Matthew Manes proposed the Campus Services Fund.

This fund would enable any member of the Student Council to propose a service they would like to offer students.

After being approved by the SSFC and the Student Council, ASM would either control the service themselves, contract someone else to provide the ser-vice or find a related student group to provide the service with financial assistance from ASM.

Manes said he was pleased with how ASM received his pro-

posal and thinks the concerns brought up will be easily resolved.

“Most of them were logistical concerns about implementation and not necessarily philosophi-cal ones, and so all we’ll have to do is simply write language that addresses those,” Manes said.

Shared Governance Chair Kyle VandenLangenberg asked how ASM and SSFC will pre-vent costs from becoming exces-sive.

Manes said they should trust that future student government leaders will have good judg-ment about how much money to spend.

ASM will debate these pro-posals next Wednesday.

Board of ethics discusses Mayor’s tripThe Madison Board of

Ethics discussed an ordinance Wednesday that places stricter rules on third parties that pay for city officials’ expenses.

The board originally addressed this matter after

receiving a complaint from for-mer alder Brenda Konkel regard-ing a biking trip Mayor Dave Cieslewicz took to Europe in April, questioning how the trip will benefit the city of Madison.

Ald. Bridget Maniaci, Dist. 2, said she feels the board’s manual on the ordinance is vague.

“I’m not comfortable where this is right now. There’s not much at all in place,” Maniaci said. “The way it is now may cause people to not take advan-tage of conferences.”

Maniaci said she believes the current rule should be changed to allow for unexpected changes and should be flexible for indi-vidual budget increases.

Madison resident Rosemary Lee said she felt Maniaci’s pro-posed changes would be unneces-sary and would create more gray area for the comptroller’s office.

“City funds need to be con-trolled and spent appropriately and I think all of the safeguards are here,” Lee said.

Board member Laura Rose said the focus right now should be on making sure officials adhere to their budgets.

“We don’t want people get-ting reimbursed for things of excessive value,” Rose said.

—Jourdan Miller

his spokesperson Jim Bender.Rep. Kelda Helen Roys,

D-Madison, said the election results reflected voters’ econom-ic woes but that the legisla-tion the Democratic Legislature passed over the last two years will continue to help the econo-my recover.

Bender said there was not much done over the last few years at the state level that Republicans plan on dismantling. However, he said with Walker as governor,

Republican lawmakers will be able to pass bills that will make savings accounts tax-deductible and require voters to present a photo ID at the polls.

Roys said the policies that will come from the Republican Legislature in the next two years will benefit to corporations at the expense of the middle class.

“That’s why you’re going to see in two years people will have recovered their memories of how we got into this eco-nomic mess in the first place,” Roys said.

“I think that is reflective of both differential turnout, that the republicans were more motivated to get out to the polls,” Franklin said, “and secondly, some peo-ple, most notably independents, switching from Democratic to Republican support this year.”

However, similar to the Democratic participation drop-off

since 2008, Franklin said Republicans could have trouble maintaining voter turnout in 2012.

“It’s very difficult to maintain the enthusiasm of an insurgent movement, and so while I think the Tea Party deserves credit for being an extremely effective citizen movement this year, whether it can sustain itself and those voters back to the polls next time is a very open question,” Franklin said.

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C hances are, if you go to school at Central Washington University

or Ramapo College in New Jersey, “getting Loko” is banned. Recently, both schools have had major issues with the relatively new and very alcoholic beverage called Four Loko. As a result of the drink’s effects, around 30 people have ended up in the hos-pital, which police blame on the drink’s combined ingredients.

Four Loko comes in a 23.5-ounce can that is 12 percent alco-hol and has a significant amount of caffeine. ABC News says that one Four Loko contains as much alcohol as a six-pack of beer and the caffeine equivalent of one cup of coffee. According to ABC News, the manufacturer, Phusion Projects, defended its product to, “pointing to seven labels on the can warning of the drink’s contents and calling attention to the need for identification to purchase it.” Yet the drink’s warning labels don’t dis-pel the stigma of Four Loko being called “blackout in a can.”

Currently, the Food and Drug Administration is investigating caffeinated alcoholic beverages including Four Loko, Sparks, Joose and more. The FDA wants to know if there is any justifi-able reason to mix caffeine with alcohol. But for now, Central

Washington and Ramapo have banned Four Loko on campus.

First of all, there is no sci-entific justification for mixing caffeine (a stimulant) and alcohol (a depressant). It is bad for you and only gets you overly drunk and super hyper at an extreme-ly low price.

Y e t drinks that produce similar effects like rum and Coke or Red Bull and vodka fail to face investiga-tion. The only reason why Four Loko is being targeted is because it’s sold premixed. If anything it’s a brilliant idea because college stu-dents everywhere are going to jump on the Loko bandwagon—upping profits for Phusion Projects and

adding more competition to an already competitive market.

We should not be punish-ing Phusion Projects for making a product that consumers have

shown profound interest in. The cases in Washington and New Jersey are just mere examples of freshmen drinking for the first time and drinking way too much.

ABC interviewed one of the

freshmen that was at the party where Four Loko’s effects are being blamed for putting consumers in the hospital. The police report detailing the party said other drinks

aside from Four Loko were present, including vodka

and beer. While some students

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danger. Rather than waking up late the next

morning, their over-the-top level of alcohol consumption put them in a hospital the next day with an IV in their arm, a $300 ticket in their lap and a headache that felt like a bowling ball.

But why are we punishing Phusion Projects when in reality these kids just didn’t know when to stop? You can get the exact same result from any other alcoholic bev-erage. It was the combination of vodka, beer and Four Loko that put these kids in the hospital, not solely Four Loko.

It is unreasonable to argue that Four Loko is the one of the worst things that students are putting into their bodies. If protecting the health of students is the main con-cern, why don’t universities ban cigarettes, non-alcoholic energy drinks or junk food? These things cause long-term health risks too, yet they are perfectly acceptable.

What about Adderall? There is almost no control over consum-ing this dangerous substance and yet thousands of college students have tried it. Someone could have a stockpile of a hundred pills in their dorm room but as long as they have a prescription, which a six year old could con into getting, it is totally fine. The choice to put this crap into your body should be yours and yours alone. No univer-sity should be allowed to take that choice away.

Don’t get me wrong, Four Loko is a dangerous substance that is risky to consume, but if students want to ruin their health then who is the university to stop them? While it may be a drink worth taking pre-cautions for, Four Loko’s rousing effects of a drunken stupor can be not just dangerous but crazy as well.

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

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Cyber world is taking over real world through tech expansion

H ypothetical tweet: “I’m on the tallest mountain in the world, check out

this funny video I just found on

YouTube!” A tweet of this nature may cause you to ask how any-one could be watching YouTube on Mt. Everest. Well, now that 3G wireless coverage towers have officially been installed at the 16,994 feet above sea level base camp of Mt. Everest, connecting to the Internet and chatting with friends while braving avalanches is now possible.

ऀZTE Corp., a leading global provider of voice and broadband services has installed eight tow-ers at the highest base camp on the south side of Mt. Everest—providing cell phone access and wireless Internet services to those trekking up the tallest mountain in the world.

This will be a much more effi-cient alternative to the heavy satel-lite equipment climbers and their sherpas previously had to carry—provided that they want contact with the rest of the world from their icy dwellings.

ऀClimbers will now be able to use Twitter, Facebook, Skype and simi-lar wireless services as they make their dangerous ascent. However, I am having trouble deciding whether this is a good thing

ऀBy using Skype, people who are not physically or financially able to climb Mt. Everest can catch a glimpse of its majestic scenery. And as far as safety is concerned, hav-ing a reliable and efficient form of communication will be good under circumstances that would normally prove perilous to injured or weak-ened climbers. Internet and cell phone usage is undeniably helpful in case of emergencies or disasters. And there is also the added bonus of being able to keep in touch with loved ones despite being in such a remote location.

But in addition to all of these positive aspects, something about this whole setup is still concern-ing. Is there no sacred place that technology has not gotten its hooks

into? Presumably most people go on outdoor vacations and expedi-tions to get back in touch with nature. People crave adventures to just “get away from it all.” You would think that traveling to the highest point of elevation in the world would aid them in reaching this goal.

ऀThere is nothing left to stop people from wasting away their time surfing the Internet or Facebook-stalking their friends. Instead of exploring the other-worldly magnificence of the leg-endary mountain upon which they sit, access to the Internet is just a touch-screen away. It’s like no one can bear solitude anymore. It appears that all of these advances in technology help us get in touch with everyone but ourselves.

Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook have become a necessity for anyone who’s anyone to remain up-to-date with the world around them and to keep track of important events. Even our own Chancellor Biddy Martin tweets. It is only a secondary thought to realize that Internet on Everest can primarily be used for safety issues and as a resource—the way it truly should be used. The cyber world seems to be taking over the way we connect with each other rather than acting as a foundation for information.

Actual human-to-human com-munication has fallen to the wayside with our ever-deeper immersion in electronic devices. Just the other day, my friend and I were walking

side-by-side, failing to communi-cate with one another because we were both too busy texting. And I’m sure we are not the only ones this has happened to. Is it really more important to get back to a text mes-sage promptly instead of finishing a conversation with a person you are face-to-face with? Technology has become more of a distraction than an infinite resource of knowledge and information.

ऀAnd that is exactly what tech-nology and this new 3G service on Everest provide: distractions. We are distracted from reality, from the beauty of life around us, from our present company and from read-ing full words in a book instead of cryptic abbreviations in a text. This is why wireless for anyone who climbs Everest is not a good idea for it has the potential to only further distance people from real things and experiences.

ऀI propose that there should only be one or two designated phones and computers for the base camp that must be shared by all, and after that ban them. Go in nature to truly enjoy nature, and don’t deny yourself the ancient pleasure of self-reflection or getting to know another human being.

ऀIf you have exciting news dur-ing your trip to Mt. Everest, instead of tweeting about it, go tell it on the mountain, and save the rest for when you get home.

Jaime Brackeen is a sophomore intending to major in journal-ism. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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By Todd StevensThe daily cardiNal

I have never walked out of a movie before. Generally, two hours spent watching the most poorly made movie is a more pleasant experience than the best two hours spent wasting time at home. In order for me to even consider abandon-ing the theater, a movie would need to transcend badness and connect with me on a truly offensive level. That is the situation I ran into with “Saw 3D,” a movie I would have skipped out on without regret had

I not been bound by my movie critic duties.

The problems with “Saw 3D” are issues that have plagued the entire series, but seem to have been magnified for the supposed final installment of the franchise. The film kicks off with one of the series’ famous traps, featuring a love triangle of two men and their mutual two-timing girlfriend attached to a three-way table saw. The two boyfriends must either push against each other until the other boyfriend gets diced, or they

can agree that they’ve both been wronged by the girlfriend and leave the saw in the middle for her to get sliced in half. They choose the latter.

It provides a nice display of blood and gore to open the movie, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the events that transpire in the rest of the film. The sequence exists solely to give the audience some sadistic glee at seeing a pret-ty little harlot filleted in horrific fashion. And therein lies the fatal flaw of the entirety of “Saw 3D”: Moreso than any other horror film I can think of, it is just shallow, pointless sadism.

As with all the “Saw” films since the rather decent original, the plot takes a backseat to the Rube Goldberg-style death traps. All that is important is that the current Jigsaw killer (Costas Mandylor) is back on his intricate killing spree, and this time it revolves around an inspira-tional speaker (Sean Patrick Flanery) who falsely claims to have survived a Jigsaw trap. There is some extra filler about the current Jigsaw wanting revenge on the original Jigsaw’s wife (Betsy Russell), as well as an obliga-tory police detective (Chad Donella) on the hunt for Jigsaw, but there’s no real need to invest much interest, because right off the bat the audience knows most of these characters will die gruesome deaths before the credits roll. In fact, director Kevin Greutert and screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan seem to be under the impression that the easiest way to wrap up the series’ loose ends is just to

kill a lot of people.That’s not to say there is anything

wrong with death in a horror movie. High body counts have been a hor-ror movie staple for years. Granted, many of the best horror films, such as “Halloween” or “The Shining,” tend to keep their death counts small so every death matters. But nevertheless, the volume of the blood bath is not the problem in “Saw 3D,” the tone is.

“Saw 3D” offers nothing in the way of redemption for its characters, no matter how often it is mentioned by the little Jigsaw puppet. It would be easy to say it offers up no sense of catharsis either, but that wouldn’t be true. It

simply offers up a sick and twisted version of catharsis, where the healing comes from seeing some-one’s head split open or another person’s eyes get stabbed. Nor does “Saw 3D” offer anything in terms of suspense or thrills leading up to its gruesome deaths, which is where classic horror films earn their glory. Even the 3-D aspect is boring, as it barely factors into the look of the film at all. The sole motivating factor to watch “Saw 3D” is to see complete brutality thrust upon others. That is not a movie. That is a snuff film.

Hopefully this truly will be the final “Saw” film, though I have my doubts. Bringing back Cary Elwes from the first film as a throwback/deus ex machina opens up the series to further sequels should Lionsgate be jonesing for money next year. And the obligatory reboot is prob-ably just ten years down the road. But at least until then, moviegoers will no longer need to avoid the sick trap that is “Saw.”

‘Saw’ your eyes out before seeing this

The sole motivating factor to watch “Saw 3D” is to see

complete brutality thrust upon others.

Sean Patrick Flannery stars as an inspirational speaker in “Saw 3d.” Unfortunately, there’s nothing inspiring about his performance.

PhoTo CourTeSy lionSgaTe

I believe in a thing called alignment

When I was in high school, I saw the glam-rock revival-ists The Darkness in con-

cert twice. They were the best. Lead singer and guitarist Justin Hawkins wore flamboyant outfits, crowdsurfed while soloing, hit really high falsetto notes and cursed a bunch in a British accent. It was pure lightning in a bottle and I guzzled it down whole.

But nowadays, what I remember about those shows is how despondent the other members of the band were. Hawkins’ brother, Dan, would only stay on stage so much as his guitar cable made him, and never went more than a key change without a lit cigarette in his mouth. Many touring bands these days hire guitar techni-cians to tune their guitars between songs, but Dan Hawkins literally had someone prepare cigarettes for him to smoke.

I imagine that’s why Justin Hawkins—the one in sequins, in case you lost track—was the only one with a wireless guitar cable and a mic stand at the edge of the stage. The Darkness was strictly a one-man show; the rest were filler.

This is nothing new, of course. Pre-Beatlemania, most everything was this way. In the ’50s, guys like Ricky Nelson, Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley would hire a band to improve their sound, but it wasn’t until the next decade when bands like The Zombies and The Kinks would make the idea

of a band a more collaborative pro-cess.

The conventional singer-up-front-drummer-in-back lineup was created to showcase an individual, but what happens when the indi-vidual doesn’t fit the mold of Ricky Nelson? Tommy Lee used to drum while spinning upside-down or float-ing around, but I tend to think his appeal was less about what he did with his drumsticks than what he did with his, um, other stick.

But there are numerous times when a band’s artistic merit outdoes that of its individual members. The group most people put in this cat-egory is Grizzly Bear. The quartet play pretty conventional instrumental arrangements, but they feel the need to align themselves in a straight line across the front of the stage. The mes-sage: All these dudes are important, they all helped write these songs. Also, none of them are particularly ugly.

Sometimes I think about this band alignment in other contexts too, and one of my favorite examples is the Muppets. Kermit is strum-ming the guitar and croaking heartfelt love songs. Ms. Piggy is swooning harmonies somewhere over to the side in a sequin dress. Then there’s Animal, banging wildly and probably

off-tempo on his drum set. Do you really stick a performance as captivat-ing as Animal’s behind such a dull acoustic guitar? Yes, because it makes no sense to put the Muppets’ most recognizable face anywhere but front and center. It’s like a mullet—business up front, party in the back.

The more thought you put into this, the more convoluted it gets. My band in middle school didn’t have a singer. Well, we had two singers but neither one of them was any good. One was a better singer, but he had a big wart on his elbow and didn’t have many cute lady friends. The other was a worse singer, but he had more cute lady friends. The decision was pretty simple, and the latter served as our singer until we got so bad that even-tually not even his cute lady friends wanted to hear us play. We made the switch to the uglier, better singer, but we still didn’t sell all the two-song EPs we were handing out for free.

You see, it actually kind of matters. When Dan Bejar tours with The New Pornographers, he’s either at the front of the stage or off of it. There is no alternative so long as people’s atten-tion has no alternative. The Darkness only wanted you to hear one person, and they set it up that way. Grizzly Bear wants you to hear everyone, and you do. My band didn’t want you to hear much of anyone, and barely anyone did. Thank goodness.

Kyle knows what you’re thinking, and you’re right—this wasn’t really a music column at all. He does have a more hilarious story about seeing The Darkness with his friends in high school, but it has even less to do with music. If you want to hear it, e-mail him at ktsparks@wisc.edu.

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The Darkness only wanted you to hear one person, and they set it up that way. Grizzly Bear wants you to hear everyone,

and you do.

What bands’ stage setups reveal about their music

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Badgers host Winona State for first exhibition gameBy Mark BennettThe daily cardiNal

Unlike recent years, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team is entering a season with something hanging over them—expectations. Returning all five starters in 2009, the team emerged from virtually nowhere to put together a 21-11 season, a third place conference fin-ish while earning a seventh seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Now, with three of the team’s starting five returning and promising newcomers bringing fresh talent to the court, the Badgers will certainly aim to out-pace even last season.

“The kids are really motivated by the end of last year’s season,” said reigning Big Ten coach of the year Lisa Stone. “Certainly inspired by being in the tour-nament, but want more. Our team wants to win a Big Ten

Championship and they want to get to the Sweet 16.”

Senior Alyssa Karel, who aver-aged 14.3 points per game last season to lead the team, was a member of the second team All-Big Ten in 2009-’10. She is a preseason all-conference pick and is certain to carry the load for this year’s squad.

Also returning for the Badgers this season is senior forward Tara Steinbauer who averaged 8.6 points and 6.3 rebounds per game in 2009-’10.

Highlighting the class of newcomers to the court for the Badgers this year is redshirt soph-omore transfer Tiera Stephen, who practiced with the team all last season but was not able to compete due to NCAA transfer eligibility rules.

At Louisville as a freshman,

Stephan played in 37 games and started the final ten. Her Cardinal team advanced to the National Championship game that season, eventually ending the season as the runners-up. Her experience at those high levels of competition will definitely be an advantage to the squad this year.

Wisconsin also introduces three incoming freshman this sea-son, including 2010 Minnesota Gatorade State Player of the Year Cassie Rochel.

“The team chemistry is at an all-time high, so we’re excited about it,” Steinbauer said.

The Badgers begin the sea-son having received eight votes in the Associated Press pre-season poll, good for 37th in the nation. Previously, Wisconsin had not received votes to begin a season since the team opened up the 2000-

’01 campaign ranked No. 18.The favorite to claim the Big

Ten crown this season will once again be the Ohio State Buckeyes, who begin the year ranked sev-enth in the nation. Behind the Buckeyes though, every spot will be up for grabs in the conference. The only other teams ranked in the preseason polls are the No. 22 Iowa Hawkeyes and No. 25 Michigan State Spartans.

Wisconsin was the only other team in the conference besides Penn State to pick up preseason votes. The Nittany Lions received just one.

The Badgers will face tough competition early on, traveling to face in-state rival UW-Green Bay later this month before returning home to face Kansas three days later in the Big Ten- Big 12 Challenge Nov. 21.

The team will face its first big challenge of the year when they welcome No. 6 Duke to the Kohl center Dec. 2.

The Badgers, for better or for worse, play to an interesting confer-ence schedule this season. The team will see the Buckeyes just once, with that game coming as the regular season finale, in Columbus Feb. 27.

“It’s really exciting,” Steinbauer said. “We match up really well against Ohio State, so it’s exciting to have them as our last game. Every Big Ten game we have, we prepare for and it leads up to that grand finale.”

Long before the Badgers can worry about rankings, confer-ence titles or NCAA Tournament hopes, however, the team looks to its opening exhibition match of the season tonight against Winona State at 7 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

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Tennyson’s OT goal lifts UW over Flames

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Freshman midfiedler Joey Tennyson scored the game-winner for UW in overtime Wednesday. The conversion is Tennyson’s third on the season and it helped the Badgers win their third game of the year.

By Matthew KleistThe daily cardiNal

The eighth time is a charm for the Wisconsin men’s soccer team (0-4-1 Big Ten. 3-12-2 overall). Entering Wednesday night’s contest, the Badgers had gone into overtime seven times. In those seven games, Wisconsin went 0-5-2, not exactly the results a team wishes for.

When the Badgers entered over-time for the eighth time this season Wednesday night, a winning result against the University of Illinois-Chicago (3-4-0 Horizon League, 7-10-0 overall) seemed unlikely.

Prior to the extra session, the Badgers and Flames played 90 minutes of scoreless soccer. From the opening whistle, neither team looked as though it wanted to win the game. As the game progressed, however, it became evident that possession was the key to both teams’ game plans.

Wisconsin came into the night with the intent to control the ball defensively and in the midfield while looking for opportunities to send the ball forward on the attack. This phi-losophy is one that head coach John Trask has instilled and employed wherever he has coached.

Before arriving at Madison, Trask

was the head coach at UIC. It came as no surprise, then, that UIC played with the same defense-first style.

“Our defensive shape was pret-ty much the same,” UW freshman midfielder Paul Yonga said.

“They like to possess the ball and hold it, play less direct,” fresh-man midfielder Joey Tennyson said. “That’s what we like to do too.”

Despite a relatively slow paced game, both sides created solid goal scoring opportunities. After play-ing nearly nine minutes of back- and-forth possession, UIC broke into the UW defense. The Flames were able to get a good shot off, but on good effort by freshman keeper Max Jentsch, the ball was directed wide and out of play.

The Badgers nearly netted a goal just over a minute later. On a free kick just outside of the box, Tennyson was able to wrap the ball over the defensive wall, but put it just over the crossbar. Freshman forward Chris Prince also had his chance at a goal, putting a low shot toward the net that would go just wide with nine minutes remaining in the first half.

The second half was much the same for both sides. Tennyson ripped a shot off that missed just wide to the right five minutes into

the second half. The Badgers also put up some threats on set pieces, including a header off the post on a corner kick and a header blocked on the line following a free kick.

Neither side converted, though, resulting in a school-record eighth overtime appearance for UW. However, this time it was dif-ferent as the Badgers ultimately celebrated a victory.

Following a pair a nicely time slide tackles to keep the ball in UIC’s half, Yonga dished the ball off to junior defender Colin Mani, who played the one-two back to Yonga. He sent the ball through the center of the box, where it found the feet Tennyson who bur-ied it in the back corner, giving the UIC keeper no chance at a save.

“I didn’t know what else to do with the ball,” Yonga said. “I heard a scream from my left, I just played the ball through and luckily Joey was there.”

“It felt great,” said Tennyson. “We needed an overtime win.”

Trask, who defeated his former squad despite an overall disap-pointing season, said he expects to finish the season strong.

“It’s huge,” Trask said. “This is going to help us with confidence going into Penn State.”

Men’s SoccerOffensive costumes in hockey student section mar weekend

T his past weekend was a great time to be a men’s hockey fan in Madison.

Not only was there a series against Michigan Tech, but the annual Halloween madness meant Badger fans got to enjoy some Wisconsin wins in costume. The Kohl Center had a wealth of great ones, too—from the band member in a Mike Leckrone outfit to the awesome-but-mega-scary guy with a skate embedded in his head.

But just before Saturday’s game I noticed something that made me a lot less proud to be a Badger. A bunch of fans in section 117 were dressed as a band of Indians, complete with body paint that bordered on blackface and some celebratory (and more than a little stereotypical) whooping through-out the game.

For much of the night I thought those fans and their insensitive, ignorant costumes were just isolated incidents. Surely, more Wisconsin hockey fans would not make the same mistake.

Later in the game, however, it got far worse. The Kohl Center’s cameras found a group of stu-dents dressed as the Jamaican bobsled team (made famous by “Cool Runnings”), complete with spandex body suits, choreographed bobsled dances and, regrettably, blackface, and put them on the massive TV screen in the middle of the arena.

Before I go on, let me first say that I don’t care to start a debate about whether or not blackface is offensive, or whether it is a prob-lem for white students to dress up as Indians. It is offensive and unacceptable, and that is how I will proceed.

Clearly, the students who dressed as a troupe of Indians should never have done so, and those who caked on black makeup to complete their “Cool Runnings” costume should never have either.

Even worse, those responsible for organizing the Kohl Center’s costume contest should have never put those fake Indians on the ice in front of 12,690 people, which they did during an intermission. And the person operating the arena’s video board should never have put the students in blackface on the big screen. Choosing those students dressed as Indians to par-ticipate in the costume contest not only condones but encourages such behavior, and the same goes for putting those in blackface on the video screen.

The Indian costumes worn by those students are stereotypical and can be offensive. They make the students who wear them appear ignorant and uneducated, and only succeed in painting Badger fans as a whole in a negative light. I was proud when other fans in the student section booed those fake Indians and started a “racist cos-tume” chant, but saddened it was an issue in the first place.

The same goes for the students in blackface. Their decision to paint their faces black displays a profound ignorance we like to believe does not exist on this campus, but is sadly alive and well.

I would like to know what these students thought when they decided to make blackface a part of their costume. I wonder if they knew the history of black-face as an offensive piece of rac-ist minstrel shows and believed their use of it would not offend anyone (or, worse, did not care if it did), and if they had any idea what the implications of their costumes were.

On a night that showcased the creative talent of thousands of UW-Madison students and Wisconsin hockey fans, these fans ruined that.

Those students dressed as the Jamaican bobsled team could eas-ily have had a funny costume without blackface, which was completely unnecessary for the joke. I can’t imagine anyone say-ing, “Well, you’re in spandex body suits with Jamaican flags and run-ning around like a bobsled team, but how can I be sure you’re ref-erencing ‘Cool Runnings’ if your faces are still white?!”

The result of these students’ regrettable decision is a couple of shameful costumes that only make hockey fans in particular and students of this university as a whole seem ignorant and insensitive. We can only hope other UW-Madison students don’t make the same mistakes next year.

What did you think of the stu-dents in blackface at Saturday’s hockey game? E-mail Nico at savidgewilki@dailycardinal.com.

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