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By Scott Girardthe daily cardinal

Wisconsin Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said Wednesday the state will continue to consider restrictions on collective bargaining in effect, despite a judge’s injunction against publishing the bill.

Huebsch released a statement saying he has a legal obligation to execute the law and criticized Dane County Circuit Court Judge

Maryann Sumi’s order to stop any further implementation of the law.

“Judge Sumi declined a request to declare that Act 10 was not law-fully published,” Huebsch said. “It is unclear how she can issue an order binding non-parties to a case who have not had their day in court.”

Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco released a statement condemning the department’s decision to disregard the injunction.

“I and every other prosecutor in the state have been upset and frus-trated with court decisions during the prosecution of thousands of cases, but we all recognize that we cannot ignore a court order because we disagree with it, regardless of the basis of our disagreement,” DeCecco said.

Although Gov. Scott Walker signed the limits on collective bargaining into law, Secretary of

ASM releases election results, discusses seg fee use for campaign ads

By Patrick Trickerthe daily cardinal

Gov. Scott Walker reintroduced fiscal portions of the budget repair bill Wednesday, after removing them to bypass the Senate’s quo-rum requirement, in a move he said would refinance the state’s debt to save $165 million and bal-ance the 2010-’11 budget.

The bill increases funding for Medicaid by $176 million and for the Department of Corrections by $22 million to address bud-get shortfalls. It also reallocates $37 million of excess Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds to the Earned Income Tax Credit.

“This legislation will allow the state to finish this year’s budget in the black without raising taxes on the middle class,” Walker said in a statement. “The balanced budget legislation also allows us to put an additional $176.5 million into health care for the poor.”

State Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, and State Rep. Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, released state-ments in support of the bill, say-ing the protests at the Capitol and Democratic senators fleeing the state never would have happened had this been the original budget repair bill.

“This is the budget adjust-ment bill the Legislature should

have been considering all along,” Barca said. “It addresses shortfalls in important programs without pushing an extreme policy agenda.

“It is strikingly similar to the amendment Assembly Democrats proposed during the floor debate—dealing with the state’s fiscal matters without controversial provisions on workers’ rights and other policy changes that brought hundreds of thousands of citizens to the Capitol.”

Rep. Robin Vos, R-Burlington, also released a statement support-ing the bill, but said he wished it had been passed with the original budget repair bill.

By Anna Duffinthe daily cardinal

The Associated Students of Madison announced the winners of its Spring 2011 election Wednesday.

Twelve students were elected to represent the College of Letters and Science, six to represent graduate stu-dents and five to serve on the Student Services Finance Committee.

Steven Olikara was elected Senior Class president, while Adam Johnson was named vice president and Katie Lorenz was elected both senior class secretary and treasurer. Lorenz will choose between secretary or treasurer, while runner-up and current ASM chair Brandon Williams will take the position she declines.

A referendum supporting the United Council of UW Students, which would require students to pay a refundable fee of $2.00 per semester, passed in the election with more than a 1,000-vote margin. The United Council of UW Students is a group that advocates on behalf of UW System students.

An amendment to the ASM Constitution also passed. The amend-

ment states terms served as first-year representatives will not count toward the three-year term limit. Also, separate term limit totals will be counted for undergraduate or special students and graduate or professional careers.

Voter turnout was 14.7 percent, with 5,924 completed ballots, an increase of 6 percent compared to ASM’s fall elections.

In other business at Wednesday’s ASM meeting, Johnson and University Affairs Chair Carl Fergus presented legislation in response to an advertise-ment opposed to the United Council referendum paid for by a group that receives funding from segregated fees.

The legislation would recommend the Student Election Commission change a bylaw to ensure segregated fees are not used for referendum pur-poses. Under current policy, groups are not allowed to use funds to campaign for their own referenda, however there is no restriction on funding campaigns of which they are not a part.

“These loopholes are a problem in our system and they have been exploit-ed by many, many, many groups on campus,” Fergus said.

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candidates react to the spring student government election results Wednesday. Voter turnout increased 6 percent from the fall election.

city council hopefuls maniaci, Stevenson talk uW splitBy kate raythe daily cardinal

Madison Common Council candidates Sam Stevenson and Ald. Bridget Maniaci, District 2, expressed their opposition to UW-Madison’s proposed split from the UW System at a debate Wednesday.

Both candidates said such a split would not be wise for the city of Madison or the UW System.

“With regards to the privatiza-tion of the university, I think it’s really the wrong direction to be taking,” Stevenson said. “I think the most significant negative con-sequence of a split would be the increase in tuition.”

“UW-Madison is a university that has been under a lot of pres-sure both fiscally and politically,” Maniaci said. “That being said, we cannot splinter off, we have to be working together. I personally cannot see the benefit of this split.”

Stevenson said he believes the biggest issue the city will face is recovering from budget shortfalls, while Maniaci said the most critical issue is more neighborhood-focused.

“The most important issue for our neighborhood is what hap-pens on East Washington Avenue,” Maniaci said. “With the successful

development of East Washington Avenue we will be able to provide tax revenue that can really provide for the city.”

Stevenson is challenging the incumbent Maniaci, who has held the position for the past two years. Maniaci said she was proud of the job she has done as alder for the district.

“I stand by my record and I want to continue serving you,” she said. “I want to be here for you, District 2.”

“I think the role of a city alder is an empowered advocate for the community,” Stevenson said in his closing statement. “That is the way that I will pursue this position if I am elected.”

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city council candidate Sam Stevenson stressed his role as a community advocate at debate with incumbent Bridget Maniaci.

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Asm’s latest class of representativesThese are some of the winners in the 2011 ASM spring elec-tions. Full results are available at asm.wisc.edu.

class of letters and Sciences representatives Beth huang, allie Gardner, Johnny Koremenos, Sam Polstein, nikolas Magallon, thomas Sannito, tia nowack, Olivia Wick-Bander, tom templeton, leland Pan, hannah Somers and Mario ademaj

Graduate Student representatives lenora hanson, nancy rydberg, Michael Billeaux, Zachary deQuattro, Karen Scott and thom duncan

SSFc committee members arturo “tito” diaz, Joe Vanden avond, Sarah neibart, ellie Bruecker and dan tollefson

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T here are several things I absolutely would not give up to return to the sweet

decade of my birth. Giving up my Macbook and trading shows like “Dexter” and “Weeds” for “Roseanne” simply would not fly with me. And I can’t say I’m too keen on the scrunchies and Zubaz pants. But there were so many other truly magnificent things about the ’90s.

For starters, I miss the days when cell phones were a rare luxury. Nowadays, I see kids who are literally 11 years old and already has a cell phone that they flaunt around every chance they get. “Oh you need to make a call? Here, use my cell phone.” Why in God’s name does an 11-year-old need a cell phone?! Gotta call up a hot date you met on the monkey bars? Need to call AAA because you’re stranded on a suburban avenue with a flat tire on your new Huffy bike? What’s even worse is the fact that 95 percent of the time I am socializing with others, someone in the group is glued to their phone, texting every 30 seconds and completely ignoring every-thing that is said. Even my own mother, who needed my help figuring out how to use call wait-ing on her cell phone, texts non-stop whenever we are together. Visitation rights are going to start to be limited for friends and family if after every sentence I say I get the clicking of a keyboard rather than a response.

Next on the list is the cast of “Saturday Night Live.” It was absolutely phenomenal in the ’90s, and the show is just not the same now. How much better can

it get with cast members like Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan and Mike Myers?! Not to mention Molly Shannon. The skits were so much more edgy and diverse in the ’90s, and I would literally laugh at every single skit, whereas now I’m lucky to get in a few chuckles. Now I can only reminisce about the good ole days by watching “The Best of Chris Farley.”

Another thing I pine for these days are Beanie Babies. I swear I had at least 300 of those little critters, and I have yet to give my mother the go ahead to sell them in a rummage sale or donate them to Goodwill. I used to beg my mom to buy me at least 10 new ones each time we went into a store that sold them. “Of course I need the green soccer bear named Kicks. He’s com-pletely different from my tie-dyed one named Peace!” I give props to McDonald’s for giving away mini Beanie Babies in their Happy Meals. Best business deci-sion ever. I cajoled my mom into buying me a Happy Meal at least three times a week while they were selling those bad boys. It’s truly astounding I did not slip into obesity.

Inarguably the thing I miss most about the ’90s is Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64. Great Scott, I tell you “Donkey Kong Country” was my life when Nickelodeon decided to have a marathon of “Rocket Power” rather than “Spongebob Squarepants.” I would stay up until 2:00 a.m. stuck either on the level

with the stop-and-go lights and the carts or attempting to out-smart the giant bumble bee until my mom charged into my room, took one look at my bloodshot, crazed eyes and demanded that I go to bed or else she’ll take away my precious video game for a week.

In this day and age, I cannot for life of me figure out any other

gaming system other than Wii—way more buttons than the sim-ple A, B, start, stop and arrows.

Maybe I only feel this way since I experienced the ’90s when I was in my prime. It’s kind of hard to hate life when all your days consist of are playing Boys Chase Girls at recess, watching a six-hour marathon of “The Wild Thornberries,” or challenging your older brother to a Mario Kart tournament. In any case, I will forever look upon this decade as an age of magic followed by the awkward years of adolescence from 2000 on that I am still try-ing to repress.

E-mail Rebecca at alt2@wisc.edu with your stories about the acid-wash ’90s.

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Four professors and a Wisconsin farmer discussed how the UW System split would affect the state at a forum Wednesday.

Panelists debate UW System split, effect on Wisconsin Ideaby alex DitullioThe daily cardinal

Four UW- Madison professors and a Wisconsin farmer discussed how splitting the Madison campus from the rest of the UW System would affect the Wisconsin Idea Wednesday.

Public affairs professor Dennis Dresang said the New Badger Partnership is necessary for UW-Madison to improve financial-ly, to increase flexibility and to hire stronger faculty. Nothing in the pro-posed split would obstruct coopera-tion between UW-System schools and UW-Madison, Dresang said, thereby preserving the Wisconsin Idea.

Political science professor Katherine Cramer Walsh, however, agreed with an audience member who said citizens would view UW-Madison as an elitist school if it separated from the UW System. But she said the initially nega-tive reactions would turn positive if the New Badger Partnership is successful.

“In the long term, if it is effective—if it lives up to the things we’re being told it might be able to achieve for this campus—it could very well be the one great hope,” Walsh said.

Farmer Jim Munsch said UW-Madison’s public authority status would hurt his current agricultural model. Munsch currently applies sci-ences, such as biology and agrology, he has learned from UW-Madison experts to his farming.

“A farmer’s job is to take the sci-ence from all of those disciplines and weave it into a picture on his land,” Munsch said.

Under the current UW-System, any UW Extension member can direct a person to an expert at UW-Madison to help them solve an issue, according to Munsch.

A separated system could sever these connections, said Munsch, as the UW Extension would become a separate campus.

UW-Madison earns billions for economy, report saysby kelly kallienThe daily cardinal

A report by Northstar Economics Inc. found UW-Madison contrib-utes $12.4 billion each year to Wisconsin’s economy.

The Madison-based firm said that number is an increase of $7.7 billion compared to its last study in 2003.

Northstar CEO David J. Ward said he is pleased with the impact UW-Madison has on the economy, and attributes much of the success to the university’s research efforts.

“These numbers show that the UW-Madison has been a wise invest-

ment on the part of the citizens of Wisconsin, one that will help lead us out of this recession,” UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin said.

Martin said she credits the uni-versity’s faculty, students and staff for the economic impact.

Although she is satisfied with the numbers, Martin believes the New Badger Partnership would allow the university to be even more successful.

“What we need is to become more effective, more efficient, to have more flexibility, and more autonomy,” Martin said.

The study, led by Professor William A. Strang, director of the

Bureau of Business Research at the UW-Madison School of Business, also found:• UW-Madison generates $614

million in state tax revenue. • Out-of-state tuition earns $65

million annually. • For every $1 of state tax invest-

ment, there is about $21 of eco-nomic activity in the state.

• For every $1 billion UW-Madison earned annually from outside Wisconsin, $2 billion was gener-ated inside the state.

• UW-Madison and its affili-ate organizations support 128,000 jobs.

For first time ever, proposed plan could allow legal street drinking at Mifflin street block Partyby taylor HarveyThe daily cardinal

The Majestic Theatre proposed a plan Wednesday that would allow peo-ple 21 and older to drink on the street at this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party.

The proposed plan would allow those of legal drinking age to obtain special wristbands that would allow them to purchase alcohol from beer vending stations and drink within

the event’s zone areas, as long as they are wearing wristbands.

“The hope is that by not making beer a taboo item at the block party and allowing it to be drunk openly on the street by those over the age 21, we’ll end up with an event much more overt, much more on the street and much more natural flow with the music,” Majestic owner Scott Leslie said.

The Majestic plans to focus the event on live music to satisfy requests from the city. The theater is not yet officially involved with the planning of the block party, but is negotiating with Madison officials about the event.

Madison Police and Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, have said they want the event to move away from overcrowded house parties that often

include underage drinking.“The idea is to try and bring

people out of the backyard and the houses and onto the street checking out live music where we can actually watch them and they can be more visible,” Leslie said.

The proposed layout plan for the block party includes two stages that organizers believe will pull the crowd back and forth on the street to stretch

it out as much as possible. Vendors will be set up on Bassett Street, taking them off of Mifflin Street.

Stations where people can obtain the wristbands will be located in the area around Mifflin Street.

“We are not taking anything away from Mifflin,” Leslie said. “If you are over 21 and it’s a beautiful day, we don’t want to hold back drinking in the event zone.”

Madison officials listen to public input on Walker’s budgetby scott GirardThe daily cardinal

Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz condemned the state Joint Finance Committee for not scheduling a public hearing in Madison during a meeting at Memorial High School Wednesday.

Madison government and educa-tion officials held the public meeting to give citizens an opportunity to weigh in on Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget.

“When the Joint Finance Committee scheduled their public hearings, they neglected to schedule a public hearing in the second larg-est city in the state,” Ciewlewicz said. “In order to cure that fault, we thought that we would have our own public hearing.”

Hundreds of Madison resi-dents showed up to the gymna-sium to hear presentations from

the officials and voice their opin-ions of the proposal. Many said they feared cuts to education funding at both the K-12 and college level.

Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Dan Nerad said Walker’s budget cuts would hurt Wisconsin in the future.

“Investing in our future as a society means investing in the education of our young persons,”

Nerad said. “Clearly this repair bill and this proposed budget do not do that.”

Madison Area Technical College President Bettsey Barhorst agreed about the importance of education, and questioned how Walker’s “Open for Business” slogan fits with his cuts in the area.

“We can’t be open for business if we aren’t open in this state for educa-tion and training,” Barhorst said.

Madison firefighter Rob Kuhl said he worried about the impact the budget would have on the safety of Madison residents as well as the fire-fighters who protect them.

“Somebody’s going to get hurt,” Kuhl said. “It could be us, but we knew that going in.”

Cieslewicz also said they would send a video of the public input to Walker and the Joint Finance Committee.

State Doug La Follette has not been allowed to publish it.

Sumi ruled March 18 legislators broke the Open Meetings Law in the process of passing the legislation and issued a temporary restraining order to keep La Follette from publishing the law.

With La Follette unable to publish the law, he state’s Legislative Reference Bureau published it in a surprise move March 25.

Republican legislators and the Department of Justice have argued the bureau’s publication makes the law in effect as of March 26, and began implementing its provisions.

State Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, criticized the move, and said he was especially disap-pointed with Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

“I’m just stunned that the Attorney General, who’s supposed to be our chief law enforcement officer, the one who interprets the law, would be will-ing to take the step on a partisan basis to decide that they’re gonna ignore a court order,” Miller said.

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M ost Madisonians con-sider Mayor Dave Cieslewicz a nice

guy, and we won’t disagree. But the city faces a new challenge every day, and we don’t want it to lose its unique character. That’s why we’re endorsing former mayor, local legend and current challenger Paul Soglin on April 5.

Soglin has a long history of strong leadership in Madison. While attend-ing graduate school at UW-Madison in 1968, he represented the student-heavy District 8 seat on the city council. Four years later, he was elected mayor.

He floated in and out of the office over the next 30 years, serving as mayor for 14 of them; each time he left the city better than he found it. State Street Mall, the Madison Civic Center (now the Overture Center) and Monona Terrace are all prod-ucts of Soglin. Even when he’s not sitting as mayor, Soglin has played an advisory role in a number of big projects downtown.

Cieslewicz is not without his own

list of accomplishments, but contro-versy has accompanied many of his recent endeavors. We felt the city could have handled the Edgewater renovation differently, especial-ly regarding the questionable tax incremental finance structure.

Moreover, Cieslewicz got, quite literally, a free pass on his trip to Europe to study its biking culture. Along for the ride were representa-tives from Trek Cycling, which later received a no-bid contract to install a bike rental program in down-town Madison. We appreciate the mayor’s commitment to cycling, but that does not exonerate him from potential ethics violations.

On most issues Soglin and Cieslewicz take a similar stance, but they do differ in a few areas criti-cal to students. For starters, Soglin recognizes the inefficiencies of the Alcohol Licensing Density Ordinance, which makes it hard-er for businesses to obtain liquor licenses in an effort to curb crime and binge drinking downtown. In

reality, repeatedly extending the plan has only hindered economic development for the city.

Soglin also values revamping city building inspections. Irreparable and unsafe housing should be replaced, but elsewhere we need to enforce inspection codes to main-tain affordable, safe student hous-ing downtown.

For one reason or another, Cieslewicz has marched to the beat of his own drum lately—sometimes skirting city customs in the pro-cess. We don’t mind his initiative, but council members and other city workers are there for a reason, and the mayor should value their insight, not silence them.

The Cieslewicz top-down approach worked in some areas, but Madison is not a one-size-fits-all city. Soglin would bring an open and inclusive managerial style—a welcome change of pace for Madison.

Looking forward, both candi-dates understand the gravity of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget bill and its impact on the city. There is no easy solution to losing millions of dol-lars, but we need to be smart in the coming months. Madison should elect a savvy, proven leader who will protect vital city services while working to maintain its unique-ness. Come next Tuesday, Madison should elect Paul Soglin.

Full disclosure: Paul Soglin’s daugh-ter works for The Daily Cardinal.

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A s with many elections fea-turing incumbents, the Madison mayoral race has

largely become a vote on the tenure of the current office holder. With Mayor Dave Cieslewicz having served eight years, he has built up his share of successes, miscues, friends and enemies.

Enter former Madison mayor Paul Soglin. The crux of Soglin’s campaign has been Cieslewicz’s style of governance. Soglin has criti-cized Cieslewicz as domineering for improperly using the city budget to settle personal vendettas, dismiss-ing decisions of city committees and other strong arm tactics. Presenting himself as friendlier while emphasiz-ing social issues, Soglin effectively became the anti-Dave candidate.

And therein lies the problem with the Soglin campaign. Considering his decades-long experience in city affairs, we would like to believe that Soglin could have differenti-ated himself better from Cieslewicz. However, many of the faults Soglin has with Cieslewicz’s tenure can be

easily explained. In the case of city committees, it is understandable that their decisions were overturned so long as it is only done in select cir-cumstances. Cieslewicz’s dismissal of an employee from the city bicycling program seemed reasonable in terms of city policy.

We do feel Cieslewicz made mis-takes with the Edgewater Hotel and Central Library, both of which are good projects in the long run but could have been proposed through a more open process. However, Cieslewicz has shepherded the city well through the recent recession, and he’s made progress in reviving the impoverished Allied Drive. With this track record over the past eight years, any challenger to Cieslewicz needed to prove definitively why he should be mayor, not why Cieslewicz should not be. Soglin hasn’t made that case, and because of that we will be casting our votes for four more years of Mayor Dave on Tuesday.

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I t’s no secret that the race for Dane County Executive has become about which candidate

can best distance themself from Gov. Scott Walker. Both Dane County Supervisor Eileen Bruskewitz and state Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, seem to have similar plans on a num-ber of important issues. However, Parisi’s compassionate outlook, expe-rience at the state level and deter-mination to increase green jobs and Dane County’s competitiveness earns him our endorsement.

In terms of the economy, Parisi and Bruskewitz seem to have surpris-ingly similar plans. Both promise to make the economy their top priority and each has proposals to boost job creation and support the innovation of local companies. Bruskewitz has said her plans to support a private econom-ic development corporation will be the best way to reach out to businesses. Parisi, on the other hand, plans to cre-ate an office of economic development that would work with local companies.

Parisi’s plan to house his new department within the county execu-tive’s office rather than in a private corporation is a more common-sense solution for individuals looking to the county for information about work-force or business services. Parisi says he hopes to look to UW-Madison and Madison College as sources of innova-tion. Moreover, he plans to grow green jobs in addition to jobs in the biotech and high tech industries is impressive.

In this time of political unrest, Dane County needs someone who is willing to find creative solutions for dealing with looming budget cuts from the state. Parisi says he wants to find savings and efficien-cies within the county criminal jus-tice system—a particular area of expertise for him considering his experience as the previous chair on the Assembly Committee on Corrections. While Bruskewitz’s plan to find efficiencies in the coun-ty’s 200 non profits is commend-able, Parisi seems to have a more focused plan to eliminate waste while protecting vital services.

Parisi’s experience as the Dane County Clerk and his time in the state Legislature gives him an edge. He understands the importance of work-ing with lawmakers and knows how to advocate for county-level resources. In addition, Parisi seems like the only candidate who plans to cooperate with county employees. Bruskewitz has a record of voting against collective bar-gaining rights for county workers and has said she supports the principles of the budget repair bill.

When it comes to the race for Dane County Executive, the candidate who will most like-ly decide the outcome of the race isn’t even on the ballot. The race has largely been defined by Bruskewitz’s weak attempts to distance herself from Walker’s policies and his poor handling of the budget repair bill. However, Bruskewitz’s efforts to paint her-self as a moderate conservative are superficial at best, and her record of staunch opposition to the Regional Transit Authority and collective bargaining rights are enough to solidify her as a lock-step Walker supporter.

It’s unfortunate that recent events in state politics have colored this elec-

tion. Nonetheless, it’s clear that Parisi is the only candidate who will bring the type of forward thinking Dane County needs.

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aCRoSS 1 Porgy 5 Obscuring hazes 9 Pappy Yokum’s boy 14 Highest rating 15 Cut and paste 16 Do watercolors 17 Part of a healthy

meal 20 Athlete in a crease 21 Lincoln Center

production 22 Nixon has two 23 “La la” lead-in 25 Workplace for an

actor 26 Drone, for one 29 “The Twelve ___ of

Christmas” 31 Suffix with “critic” 33 Intelligence, slangily 35 Hard-to-predict

outcome 38 Establish as law 39 False leads 41 Experi-mented with 43 2010 Super Bowl

champs 44 Takes pieces from? 46 Third bk. of the Bible 47 Male turkeys 51 Skirted square

dancer

52 “Caught in the act!” 54 Make the kayak move 56 Scot’s not 57 Garden dwarf 59 Common antiseptic 61 It’s followed in a

classic movie 65 Farewell 66 “The Auld Sod” 67 “Ella Enchanted” star

Hathaway 68 Choral piece 69 Wetlands plant 70 Autocrat of old

DoWn 1 Drooped 2 Solar halo 3 On pins and needles 4 Banana discard 5 Like a flu sufferer 6 Dedicated

composition 7 Programmer “you

reap what you sow” 8 Staircase

components 9 Rented pad 10 “___ O’Riley” (song

by The Who) 11 Soccer shutout 12 Wind dir., sometimes 13 They may be human

or civil (Abbr.) 18 Young louse

19 Titleist supporters 24 Long-eared beasts of

burden 26 Victoria’s Secret

selections 27 Catchall abbr. 28 Slow finish? 30 Take the wheel 32 Many a

commissioned artwork

34 Uneasy feeling 36 Elimination method 37 Snoopy sort 39 Omani’s currency 40 Billed 41 Harbor sight 42 Threadlike molecule 45 Point out 48 Vidalia veggies 49 Tomorrow, in Tijuana 50 Sowing machine 53 “For ___ waves of

grain ...” 55 Chinese frypan 57 School singing club 58 Cleveland’s lake 60 “Blast the luck!” 61 Thanksgiving side

dish 62 Former name for

Tokyo 63 Touched a match to 64 Angry feeling

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Today’s Crossword puzzle

Hoop Dreams

Interesting Choice: Arlington National Cemetery is built on the former estate of Robert E. Lee.

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

The pipesmokers By Joseph Diedrich jsdiedrich@wisc.edu

Evil Bird By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

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State Radio goes live for a causeBy Riley BegginSenior ArTS reporTer

Street musicians, for many, are cheap outdoor entertainment, or an easy act of charity. Either way, they are characters that come in and out of people’s lives as quickly as it takes to walk past them and throw a quarter in their violin case. This is not the case for Chad Stokes, who made a life-changing decision by stop-ping to talk to the man playing buckets outside Boston’s Fenway Park.

The bucket-player, Mike “Mad Dog” Najarian, and Stokes found com-mon ties, and soon joined with bassist Chuck Fay to create the reggae-rock trio State Radio. “We realized we had mutual friends … it was one of those small world things,” Stokes said. Since forming in 2002, the band has done four albums and several tours focusing on human rights and political injustice.

They will be performing at the Majestic Theater this Friday along with a guest musician, Matt Embree of the

California band Rx Bandits, toting their jams and latest social commentary in the State of Troy tour. Before arriving in town, The Daily Cardinal got a chance to talk to front man Chad Stokes about his passion for activism and inciting social change through music.

Stokes explained how his enthu-siasm for politically charged music began in childhood, growing up next to a center for activists in his home-town of Sherborn, Mass.

“When I was a kid I was always see-ing [the activists] get together, chaining themselves to cranes, or protesting this or that military move,” Stokes said. “I always liked music that had a message, I always found that so powerful.”

State Radio’s sound varies from alternative rock to ska, reggae and punk inspired tracks. When it comes to songwriting, the band collaborates to complete older songs that were mainly written by Stokes.

“The inception [for a song] starts

because I really enjoy writing songs.It’s also really cathartic too,” Stokes said. “You know if I’m reading stuff in the newspaper, hear a great story or something, it’s fun to translate that into song.”

State Radio’s tours have historically focused on raising awareness and funds for social and humanitarian causes, and the State of Troy tour is no different. It’s focal point is the case of Troy Davis, a man sentenced to death for alleg-edly killing a police officer in Georgia in 1989. Davis has maintained his inno-cence and several of the original wit-nesses condemning him have recanted their stories, prompting further appeals and postponements of his execution.

“Troy has become a friend of ours over the years. He at first chose to go through Amnesty International, and we partner up with that organization quite a bit,” said Stokes. “We felt like we could get his story out there, we could help contribute to his fighting injustice,

and also serve as a larger symbol of our feelings toward the death penalty.”

The band expresses their objec-tion to the death penalty and unjust incarceration through more than just their music, such as the track “State of Georgia,” featured live on their album Let it Go. They partner with Amnesty International to write letters to politi-cal prisoners around the world. “It’s all about people power, getting as many letters out as possible,” Stokes said.

Stokes also mentioned they may be tailoring their service project and show to current events in Madison, with a focus on human rights connected to unions. People can take part in the proj-ect Friday from 1-3 p.m. by registering online at countingallcrows.org on the Madison event. As Stokes commented, “the more the merrier,” when it comes to social justice events. Who knows, making some noise could make a dif-ference—it certainly did for the bucket-player outside of Fenway Park.

Guitarist Chad Stokes (top) and drummer Mike najarian (bottom)

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Sophomore Jon Budmayr (left) is one of the front runners this season to replace Scott Tolzien (right) in the quarterback role.

Badgers still looking to replace big-role playersBy Parker GabrielThe daily cardinal

Just three months after the Badgers’ disappointing 21-19 Rose Bowl loss to Texas Christian University, head coach Bret Bielema and his 2011 squad are already in their second week of spring practice.

While the Badgers return with a significant amount of tal-ent on offense, defense and spe-cial teams, there will certainly be some important races—notably behind center—as UW works up to the spring scrimmage April 23, through summer conditioning and into fall workouts. Here’s a look at how some of those races may shape up between now and Wisconsin’s opener against UNLV.

QuarterbackTwo years ago, few Badger

fans would have expected Scott Tolzien to win a starting job, hold that job through two full seasons and turn in one of the most effi-cient years in school history en route to a Big Ten title. In fact, two years ago, much of Badger nation wanted to see how then-freshman Curt Phillips fared with his arm and his legs.

Today, coaches have yet to really see what Phillips possesses due to two knee surgeries. He will not take part in contact drills this spring, and redshirt soph-omore Jon Budmayr will have every opportunity to win the job.

The Woodstock, Ill. native saw sporadic action a year ago, per-forming mop-up duty at the end of three Badger blowouts.

Budmayr threw just 10 passes in 2010 but completed eight of them, including a 74 yard strike for a touchdown against Indiana.

Freshman Joe Brennan will also get work under center for Wisconsin through spring ball. The coaching staff likes his size and skill set, but the coaches also like Budmayr’s grasp of the offense, mostly because this is his third spring in camp.

Defensive end

Wisconsin returns all of its defensive tackles from last sea-son, meaning the interior should be difficult to run against. The biggest loss on defense clearly came when the dynamic end J.J. Watt decided to forego his senior year and jump to the NFL. Senior Louis Nzegwu will be looked to as an anchor of the unit. The Platteville. native started fast last year, but disappeared at times during the Big Ten slate, despite benefiting from the attention Watt garnered on the other side.

Junior David Gilbert will have the first crack at replacing Watt

on the UW line. Gilbert played in all 13 games for the Badgers a year ago and registered 1.5 sacks and 21 tackles.

Bielema spoke highly of red-shirt sophomore Pat Muldoon several times late in the season last year, and redshirt freshman Konrad Zagzebski figures to get some reps as well.

Tight end

Departed senior Lance Kendricks was not only the Badgers most reliable receiver in 2010, he also made a habit of delivering crushing blocks in the run game. None of Kendricks’ potential replacements in the offense have his physicality, but there is certainly some offensive potential in this years’ corp.

Redshirt sophomore Jacob Pedersen established himself as a threat over the second half of 2010 and should be the pri-mary target among tight ends this year. Redshirt freshman Sherard Cadogan looked natural catching the ball during drills last year and has the potential to develop into a down-the-field target.

Competition for a few spots will heat up once all the incoming fresh-men report for fall camp. In addi-tion, senior wide receiver Nick Toon is out for all of spring camp as he recovers from offseason foot surgery.

The Badgers have 10 more practices before the April 23 Spring Game.

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