U.S. Department of Education Undersecretary Martha Kanter spoke on campus Tuesday about the future of higher education, emphasizing postsecondary education as a vital contribu-tor to the country’s economic and social future.

Kanter, who has served as undersecretary since 2009, said too many people do not finish college.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a graduation rate of almost 83 percent within six years, according to data from the university’s Academic Planning and Institutional Research office.

“If all of them could have the outcomes that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has … America would far exceed its international competi-tors in terms of a highly educated college group of Americans,” Kanter said.

Kanter emphasized maximizing the options for different approach-es to higher education, which could help more people complete degrees. She cited Massive Online Open Courses, which UW-Madison will pilot beginning in fall, and the UW Flex Option degree as examples.

She also mentioned the increasing financial burden on college graduates, say-ing the median student debt is currently about $25,000. According to Kanter, there are currently six federal tax credits for higher edu-cation, but they “mostly advantage the wealthier folks in this country.”

Dramatic government

spending cuts known as the sequestration, which took effect March 1, could affect 70,000 students in the federal work study program in the fall, according to Kanter.

Kanter also said she hopes ongoing budget discussions in the government will produce a decision on whether or not the sequestration will continue.

—Meghan Chua

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Design chosen for E. Washington AvenueBy Morgan HaefnerThe Daily CarDinal

A city committee unanimously agreed to recommend one of three designs submitted for a future building on the 800 Block of East Washington Ave. that will include resi-dential and commercial space, along with a Metcalfe’s Market.

The 800 block development commit-tee favored Gebhardt Development’s plan over the other two, submitted by C.D. Smith Construction and T. Wall Enterprises, based on Gebhardt’s ideas of sustainable development.

Gebhardt’s building proposes a geother-mal ground source heat pump, which is less environmentally invasive than traditional heating and cooling practices. Developers also reached out to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for funds to support a rooftop research production farm.

Ald. Lauren Cnare, District 3, added an amendment to the proposal that would ensure Gebhardt follows through with its

sustainability plans.Committee members provided four addi-

tional amendments to address their con-cerns regarding Gebhardt’s plans, including the potential high cost of rental units.

Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, pro-posed an amendment that would require 45 of the total 262 rental units be priced at a rate affordable for families within Dane County’s 50 to 60 percent income range.

Rummel also drafted an amendment to address committee members’ continuous con-cerns about a labor dispute within Metcalfe’s Market, which commissioned Gebhardt Developers. Metcalfe’s representatives said at a previous meeting the dispute would be resolved by the time of construction.

UW-Madison Senior Lecturer and commit-tee member Tom Landgraf supported Rummel’s amendment to hold company representatives to their word, and said it will “[encourage] the city

Gardening on city-owned land to require permit

Madison’s Food Policy Council approved an ordinance Tuesday that will allow members of the public to garden on city-owned land, effectively sending it to Common Council for final approval.

MFPC took public input into account when amending the original draft to address major concerns, mostly about the permitting process and enforcement of possible problems with the practice, before unanimously approving it.

Madison Food and Alcohol Policy Coordinator Mark Woulf said residents will have to apply for a permit to garden on a specific parcel of city land. MFPD worried the application process could become a burden to residents unfa-miliar with the city process, but Woulf said he hopes an online, user-friendly format will facilitate the process.

As stipulated in the ordinance, mem-bers will have to notify the alder of the Dictrict in which they intend to garden

as well as the appropriate neighborhood associations, although neither will have authority to affirm or negate applications.

The permits will be either accepted or denied by the governing body presid-ing over the respective planting area. For instance, the city Parks Commission will review applications for public gar-dening in Madison’s parks.

Each applicant will have to present a ‘planting plan’ outlining how they intend to use the land, and MFPC unan-imously agreed it will be the responsi-bility of the the respective presiding city entity to enforce the plans if community members complain the gardens are not being properly maintained.

Woulf will now draw up an official policy and an application template that he said could be presented to Common Council for final approval as early as April 16.

—Melissa Howison

Top higher education official speaks at UW, urges more U.S. college grads

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U.S. Department of education Undersecretary Martha Kanter speaks about the future of higher education.

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suspect named in 1986 murder of UW student Town of Madison police identified

a suspect Tuesday in the 1986 fatal stabbing of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, according to a Wisconsin State Journal article.

Town of Madison Police Chief Scott Gregory confirmed Donald Ameche Braxton, 49, is a suspect in the murder of 20-year-old Andrew Nehmer, who was stabbed in the neck during a convenience store robbery, according to the article.

Authorities took Braxton’s DNA in 2011, and tests show Braxton could not

be excluded as the source of DNA col-lected at the scene, according to Gregory.

The article also said Braxton has not yet been charged in Nehmer’s homicide.

Nehmer worked the night shift at an Open Pantry on Park Street, where he was found lying in a pool of blood on April 24, 1986.

Authorities arrested Braxton while investigating Nehmer’s murder in 1986, but could not link him to the crime.

Authorities will hold a press conference Wednesday to discuss the investigation.

Wednesday Morning Hangover discusses ‘Home Alone’ and anti-smoking commercials

John Berryman’s spot in one writer’s heart

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Wednesday Morning Hangover

B efore getting into the rest of the column, I’d be remiss if I didn’t first tip my cap

to the late Roger Ebert, one of the foundational figures not just for film critics, but for aspiring writers everywhere. In a world where Old Guard writers like Mitch Albom get paid millions to write books that make postmenopausal women soil their granny panties, it was refreshing to see Ebert remain rel-evant to his dying day, embracing new media platforms and pump-ing out even more content than he did in his healthier years. He’ll be missed dearly, no smarm intended.

Now, apropos of nothing, back to your regular, vulgarity-laden programming.

Movie from your childhood that kicks ass

“Home Alone” (1990)—Is it an asshead move to say “Keep

the change, ya filthy animal” to a delivery guy 20-plus years after this movie came out? I so desperately want to do this, I just don’t know if I have the stones to go through with it. Anyway, it’s kind of amazing how Macaulay Culkin, and real-ly most child stars for that mat-ter, see their careers go to shit once they go through puberty. It’s almost like it’s a prereq-uisite for famous child actors or actresses to get hooked on drugs, release a stream of awful direct-to-DVD films, and then get bounced in the third week of “Dancing With The Stars.” But alas, Macaulay, I’ll always remember your iconic perfor-mance from “Home Alone,” even as you likely sit some-where right now snorting nose candy off a hooker’s ass.

First-World Hate of the week

This week’s hate is reserved for those anti-smoking ads. You know, the ones that have the lady with the hole in her

throat because she smoked too much, and now when she talks, she sounds like she’s channeling Lucifer. Can somebody please tell the CDC that they’ve made their freaking point with these ads? This Terrie Hall lady is haunting my dreams, and I don’t even freaking smoke. Hall says in the ad that her crazy demon voice is the only voice her grand-son has ever heard. There’s about a 70 percent chance that poor kid ends up in an insane asylum. Why God, could you not have taken this lady’s voice away completely and saved Ebert’s? I don’t want to be subjected to this unholy combination of the D.A.R.E. program and “The Exorcist” anymore.

Song that Never Fails to fire me up

“Maneater” (Hall & Oates, 1982) – The great thing about Hall & Oates is that they’re the type of group that you can appreciate either legitimately or ironically, making them a staple of karaoke nights every-

where. “Maneater” is on the duo’s H20 album, and if you haven’t seen the back cover of the album, it’s worth checking out. The back cover contains a sweaty Hall and Oates stand-ing forehead-to-forehead, star-ing intensely into each other’s eyes in the most homoerotic way possible. I think if I could choose one image that encap-sulated the 80s, it would be that one.

Unedited moronic FAcebook Status from a kid from my high

school

“i do havta buy a present for some one this weeknd . . . an oil change for my truck good ol suzy q hey shes just as expensive she gets a lil syn-thetic royal purple lmao a man is only as good as his truck”

Do us all a favor and keep it in your pants, man.

Remember to email awolf3@wisc.edu to tell him how scarred you are by the anti-smoking commercials from his worst nightmares.

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W hat makes us laugh? Woah, woah, that’s a loaded question.

Let’s start from the beginning. Actually no, just kidding, that is the beginning. There seems to be a few theories as to why we find things humorous, and many come from the most over-rated and most overquoted psy-chologist, Sigmund Freud (I’m a closet Jungian).

The superiority theory says we laugh because someone does something we find dumb, thus we feel superior; this is a main reason why Adam Sandler mov-ies make money, because we’re all smarter than Adam Sandler.

The relief theory says we find events humorous when there is a release of tension. That’s why farts in complete silence are always funny.

The incongruity theory is when a strained expectation is changed, for example seeing a bunch of ugly, shirtless men walking around an Abercrombie & Fitch (shoutout to Improv Everywhere). Other theories

include defense mechanisms (where a release of tension hap-pens in the face of anxiety or stress. This mostly explains why I was a dick in high school) and high adaptive level, which is basi-cally maximizing gratification in the face of conflicting motives (like laughing at a sad movie, such as Grown Ups).

Those were a lot of words that weren’t very funny about something that makes us laugh, so how does that relate to the comedy of today and the future? Well, let’s start like this, look at this tweet from @jonny-sun: “first rule of fight club is no fightig. welcom to contra-dicton club evryone hav a seat adn dont hav a seat. also this isnt contradicton club[.]” Did that make you laugh? It should because it’s goddamn hilarious. If, it didn’t then I don’t want to know who you are, please delete me as a Facebook friend and go home and cry, Mom.

But seriously, this tweet is just an example of the alternative comedy world of the Internet. @jonnysun is part of a movement (I use this term loosely because most tweeters are doing it from their bedrooms or sex dungeons) called “Weird Twitter.” [Sidenote: second week in a row I’m writing about Twitter. I’ve lost all origi-

nality, I feel like a writer for sea-son four of “Community.”]

“Weird Twitter” is basically the complete opposite of the nor-mal “set-up, punch line” approach and it definitely challenges the main theories of humor. I don’t feel superior to these geniuses that like to misspell—there is no tension before the punch line and I don’t have a preconceived expec-tation to the joke. Hell, most of these jokes are so off the cuff that I can’t even think how they do it.

“‘Someone’s been sleeping in my bed!’ said mommy bear. ‘Who hasn’t’ muttered daddy bear. ‘What?! You wanna do this now, in front of the kid!’” @mean_crow tweeted Nov. 11, 2012.

These Twitter accounts of face-less comedians trying to get Rob Delaney famous have changed the way we see comedy. We must ask why critically acclaimed comedy shows like “Parks and Recreation” and Happy Endings have a fifth of the viewers of the hot garbage CBS spews on the daily. [Sidenote: hearing any respected sports announcer like Jim Nantz having to promote Two Broke Girls makes my everything something some-thing (comedy is hard, you guys)].

Is this the future of comedy; an endless stream of strange com-ments that are only funny when read, not said? Or are we doomed

to a life of jokes that only teens on Instagram, girls on r/funny, and newbs on 4chan find funny? Can we only find quality humor in the deepest depths of the Internet or at 1 a.m. on [adult swim], or will this indie subculture of comedy go the way of music and become popular, thus being saturated with terrible attempts at “being edgy” and giving us the Imagine Dragons of comedy? Maybe. I don’t know.

With the way society works now, everyone wants to be a content creator, but only a few float to the top. YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter and Memefactory can create unlike-ly stars, whether they are tell-ing an offensive joke or show-ing off their grumpy cat. We must respect those individuals who do make our sides tingle, our mouths sore, and make us breathe a little more air out of our nose than usual. These heroes, the @jonnysun’s, the @fart’s, the @hell_homer’s of the world are the new Richard Pryors, paving the way for weird people such as myself to have success in a nun-forgiving field such as comedy. God bless them and God bless alternative comedy.

How do you do alternative comedy? Share your favorite Twitter handles with Michael by emailing mvoloshin@wisc.edu.

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Democrats petition to stop voucher expansion

Several Democratic state legislators announced Tuesday they plan to cir-culate a petition to remove Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to expand private school vouchers to nine additional school districts from the biennial budget.

The petition is spearheaded by state Rep. Sondy Pope, D-Cross Plains, and has already drawn support from other legislators including state Reps. Dianne Hesselbein, D-Middleton, and Chris Taylor, D-Madison. Pope said she start-ed the current petition after hearing concerns from citizens about Walker’s expansion plan and the potential nega-tive effects it could have on the state’s public school system that has already dealt with large funding cuts.

She added that petitions have been successful within the state recently, cit-ing last year’s recall petitions.

“I hope that [the petition] serves to pro-vide the governor with evidence that the

people of Wisconsin do not want to expand the voucher program at the expense of our public schools,” Pope said. “We are real people, this is where we live and we don’t want [the voucher expansion].”

Additionally, Pope said she was con-cerned Walker might use his power to veto portions of the final budget to expand the program to every school district in the state, instead of the cur-rent nine.

“[The veto is] something that needs to be noted and something that seems to slip past people,” Pope said.

The private school vouchers Walker proposed would give money to quali-fied low-income families so they could send their children to high performing private schools.

Walker has said the expansion would give students across the state access to the best education available.

—Jack Casey

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Gebhardtdevelopers,workingwithMetcalfe’sMarket,presentdesignplansfortheredevelopmentofthe800blockofeastWashingtonAvenue.

to get the developers to agree not to oppose any kind of union organization.”

Committee staff also identified C.D. Smith as the second in line to Gebhardt’s plan as a precaution against reliving a failed previous effort to develop the 800 block. When the city originally tried rede-veloping this city block, the first and only contractor fell through, which Landgraf

said terminated the construction.Should C.D. Smith Construction take

Gebhardt’s place, an amendment was created that will require its proposal follow the amendments specified at Tuesday’s meeting.

An official resolution will now be pre-pared for Common Council to review, with the 800 Block committee’s recommen-dation the Council accept the Gebhardt proposal and approve the amendments.

State Senate passes work-share billThe state Senate passed a Republican

version of a bill that would allow state employers to reduce the number of hours their employees work without being required to talk with labor unions, accord-ing to a statement from state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.

The bill aims to give state employers who are struggling financially the option to cut their workers’ hours instead of reverting to layoffs. Additionally, the bill would also allow workers whose hours have been cut to receive unem-ployment insurance.

The work-share bill was first created in both a Democratic form, which required discussion with labor unions, and the current Republican version. However, the Republican version was the only ver-sion to gain traction in the Republican-controlled legislature.

State Democrats maintain the cur-rent bill would infringe on state work-ers’ collective bargaining rights because it does not include mandatory discus-sions with unions.

The bill will now move on to Gov. Scott Walker for a signature.

sustainability Committee finalizes plans for fairThe Associated Students of Madison

Sustainability Committee finalized plans at a meeting Tuesday for its Sustainability Fair, which will feature a guest speaker, an orga-nization fair and focus group discussions.

Nelson Institute Director Paul Robbins will give a speech entitled, “Sustainable Conundrums: Three Ethical Rules for An Environment Run Amok.”

Following Robbins’ talk, the commit-tee plans to invite participants to explore information tables set up by different University of Wisconsin-Madison stu-dent organizations currently working on

improving sustainability on campus.The committee will also host focus

groups where participants can brainstorm possible solutions for sustainability prob-lems and formulate feasible steps the uni-versity could take to implement them.

Sustainability Committee Chair Colin Higgins said student input will help the university make day-to-day processes on campus more sustainable.

“Students having a voice in how to shape [the university’s] impact is one of the most powerful and profound things,” Higgins said.

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tribal leader talks mining, fishing in addressA tribal representative of the Wisconsin

Ojibwe nation called on state legislators to address a “breakdown in communication” between state government and tribal leaders during the annual state of the tribes address in the state Assembly chambers Tuesday.

Gordon Thayer, chairman of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, addressed issues ranging from the recent debate over Wisconsin’s controversial mining bill to tribal spearfishing quota rights.

His message during the speech cen-

tered on mending tribal-state communi-cation, specifically after Wisconsin tribal leaders have increasingly found them-selves in opposition to a number of mea-sures introduced by state Republicans.

But the speech did not seem to sit well with everyone, as state Rep. Bill Kramer, R-Waukesha walked out of the address dur-ing Thayer’s discussion of the mining bill.

Still, Thayer said he was optimistic about future communication.

“It’s something we can work through as long as we sit down [together],” Thayer said.

J.J. Watt visits UW for update on his foundationHouston Texans defensive end and for-

mer Badger J.J. Watt visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday to update the Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic on the status of his charity, the Justin J. Watt Foundation.

The clinic, staffed by UW-Madison law school students, helped Watt create his foundation in 2010 to provide athletic equip-ment and after-school athletic programs to schools in Wisconsin and Houston that do not have the resources to do so, according to

the foundation’s website.The foundation has provided athlet-

ic equipment, including footballs, jer-seys and flag-football flags to 30 schools in the Milwaukee area, as well as fund-ing five soccer programs near Racine, according to a university release.

Watt visited UW-Madison to con-sult with clinic law students about the foundation’s recent expansion into the Houston area, where Watt plays in the National Football League.

monona terrace to host local talent thursdayMembers of the public will be given

an opportunity to preview the future of Madison’s art and cuisine scene Thursday at a free event called PetchaKucha.

Architects in Tokyo devised the idea for PechaKucha, derived from the Japanese word meaning “chit chat,” in 2003 as a way to bring together up-and-coming local designers to share ideas and cultivate innovation.

PechaKucha nights follow a unique “20x20” photo sharing format, which allows each presenter the opportunity to showcase 20 different images display-

ing their work, and describe each for 20 seconds. Local presenters for Thursday’s event have not been released, but a post on the event website said artists from a variety of fields will share their work.

“Savor the experience as some of the most talented local gastronomes, from chefs and brew masters, to food critics and restaurant designers, reveal their unique contributions to the art and science of food and drink,” the event post said.

The event will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Monona Terrace, located at 1 John Nolen Drive.

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forensic consultant to speak on date rapeForensic consultant David Lisak will

speak with University of Wisconsin-Madison students Wednesday as part of the Summit on Sexual Assault, Dating Violence and Stalking put on by the End Violence on Campus initiative.

Lisak will speak about campus sexual assault serial perpetrators, which are the core of his research, according to his web-site. He will speak to students about com-mon misconceptions of campus sexual

assaults and prevention methods.The summit will also feature break-

out sessions led by representatives from campus offices, student organizations and community members, according to a university release.

The keynote address will take place at Gordon Dining and Event Center Wednesday at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Other summit events will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the same venue.

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Apropos of nothing I picked up “The Dream Songs” by John Berryman, two

years after I last read it. I can remember when I last read that book: driving to Madison with my dad in March, a weekend trip. I had known since December I was accepted to the university, but this March trip was the first time I had visited as an actu-al student, not an applicant. Perhaps that association is why “The Dream Songs” possesses so much poignancy in my memory.

Berryman was an American poet who wrote from the early ’40s to 1972. He was loosely a Confessional Poet, or someone whose personal life is fair game for their art, whose art almost hinges on what happens in their personal lives. And there is no mistaking how much of Berryman’s poetry was autobiog-raphy or autobiographical.

He was a luminary for a time after he published a long poem

entitled “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet” and the two books that constitute “The Dream Songs” (“77 Dream Songs” and “His Toy, His Dream, His Rest”). He committed suicide in 1972 by jumping off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minn. Anyone who likes The Hold Steady may know this is referenced in their song “Stuck Between Stations.”

Berryman was a poet stuck between stations. He was a pas-sionate alcoholic, threading that ever-loving line between sobriety and drunkenness. He cheated on his wife and wrote over 100 sonnets on the subject, which he later pub-lished after they were divorced. He commanded respect, veneration, had a National Book Award and a Pulitzer to show for his efforts: Ostensibly, late at night, smashed and drifting, he would call up peo-ple and recite his poetry to them, a sort of unwarranted dependence, a plea reeking of gin and desperation.

He was stuck between the living and the dead. Berryman’s father shot himself when Berryman was twelve and nei-ther of them ever got over it.

“The Dream Songs” deal with all of those themes, though not

in the way you would expect. Every poem is about a man named Henry, who is some-times Mr. Bones or Sir Bones, and there might be another speaker somewhere but it’s unclear who’s speaking about who because Henry can and will refer to himself in the first, third and second person.

There’s also the trouble of dia-

lect in “The Dream Songs.” Some of the poems feature lines written like the dialogue in books like “Their Eyes Were Watching God” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” what some critics have called minstrel show language. It’s unset-tling, discomforting and in some interpretations quite harmful that Berryman chose to write some lines in a tenor whose original purpose was to denigrate African Americans with blackface and farce.

So why did he do it? Keep in mind, first off, that the lines in ques-tion do not echo minstrel shows in content. They evoke them aurally, phonetically, which puts the reader into the painful position of consid-ering minstrel stereotypes. This is not an excuse for what Berryman did. And consider the statement Berryman made when he received the National Book Award for “His Toy, His Dream, His Rest”: “I set up ‘The Dream Songs’ as hostile to every visible tendency in both American and English poetry.” That, too, is not an excuse for Berryman’s dialect.

That question, “Why did he do it?” is too long to consider here (whether he did it as a joke or in order to address, as Adrienne Rich said in an article titled “Living

With Henry,” “the roots of our [country’s] madness”), but what-ever side you fall on, it makes you feel uncomfortable, doesn’t it? Well, “The Dream Songs” are poems of discomfort, anguish, misery, despair and such and such. That is perhaps why I like them, and Berryman, so much. They are not reassuring. They make you think. They kind of hurt, actu-ally. And the dialect, so fleeting, is not so much dialect as idiolect. Berryman’s thorny idiolect.

I am not a big fan of poetry and consequently hold few poets dear to my heart. If my heart were a house, the poets would be relegated to the aortic attic or baying about the atria like dogs while the other writers go about their shrined business.

But Berryman? Berryman will go wherever he damn well pleas-es in my heart, Bronx cocktail in hand, tapping out odd rhythms on the septum drywall, commenting variously on the red, red wallpa-per. He is a sad, mad man who I would not trust with anything. He may have been a genius. He keeps me on my toes more than any other author I’ve read.

Have an opinion on John Berryman? Be sure and email Sean at sreichard@wisc.edu.

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Like a terrible, blood drenched disco ball ascending from the sty-gian bowls of the earth, The Knife have finally returned to us.

It’s been a minute (or, more specifically, over 3 million) since they last rocked both the social consciousness and booties alike with their unnerving 2006 IDM masterpiece, Silent Shout. The volcanic hype built around fol-low-up Shaking the Habitual shouldn’t really surprise, then—finally, we have another album from the group who have been prophesied since times forgotten to suture up the ever-widening gap between “intelligent” dance music (which grows more alien-ating by the day) and the ever-expanding pop-sphere (which is just as charmingly vapid as ever). So does Shaking the Habitual do what the ancient texts of Pitchfork ’06 predicted and liberate us from the shackles of unjust musical inadequacy? Well, yes and no.

The issue here isn’t The Knife are no longer the absolute best at what they do. Quite the con-trary. Even if their latest lacks the pure saccharine delights of such sugary numbers as “We Share Our Mother’s Health” (a charm-ing tune about the inevitability of death and the hopelessness of fighting against your inherited imperfections), there’s still some brilliant pop dementia on display.

The first single “Full of Fire,”

complete with its infectious chanting and constantly mutat-ing percussion and synth work, is wormy and fascinatingly bizarre. “Without You My Life Would be Boring,” despite its surreal lyr-ics and urological fascination, is likely the closest the album comes to pop-perfection, its title delivered as a show-stopping hook in between undulations of hypnotic orientalist percus-sion. Even “Raging Lung,” with its ambient five-minute outro, boasts a catchy, chirping synth line that snakes through the front half of the song.

Thematically, Shaking the Habitual is pretty airtight as well. The album functions as a work of high-concept art, a frequently vio-lent meditation on the likewise vio-lent subject of male/female gender roles and their mercurial overlap.

Promotional art for the album featured sibling duo of vocalist Karin Dreijer Andersson and pro-ducer Olof Dreijer standing out in a field, with Dreijer dressed in drag. “Full of Fire”’s video features an elderly woman cross dress-ing and pissing in the street in a meditated deconstruction of preordained femininity (among, you know, other things) while Andersson howls, “Of all the guys and the signori/Who will write my story?” in a fit of revisionist, third-wave-feministic rage. The second single “A Tooth for an Eye”’s music video features a woman leading a herd of hunky men in a dance routine, clearly functioning as the figure of power in the room. The Knife claimed this was their “punk” album, and here, in their aggressive dismissal of socially orchestrated divides, that becomes most apparent.

Despite the thematic drive, though, the album is undermined by a pervasive sense of bloated aimlessness. When Shaking the

Habitual was first announced, with its 13 tracks and 90-minute runtime (for the lazy out there, an average of seven minutes per track), I was absolutely salivating, espe-cially after the manic “Full of Fire” dropped and absolutely justified its nearly 10-minute length. When I found out that only five of the 13 tracks were around or under five minutes long, I absolutely lost it.

But the duo, shockingly, failed to live up to expectations. The 20-minute centerpiece “Old Dreams Waiting to be Realized” isn’t the giant groundbreak-ing deconstructive revelation it could’ve been—instead it winds up sounding like a poorly sketched bedroom drone blue-

print, 20 minutes of dull repeti-tions and minimalist experimen-tations. It breaks up the flow of the album, which actually ben-efits heavily from its removal. The other giant experimental center-piece, “Fracking Fluid Injection,” an improvised rallying call against its titular practice, likewise fails to impress with its overly-long ama-teur avant-garde-isms. The other instrumental tracks (the aggres-sive and mercifully short “Crake” and “Oryx” and the meatier, dan-cier “Networking”) either serve as short-but-startling intermis-sions or impressive testaments to Dreijer’s nightmarish produc-tion skills, but they can’t undo the damage. When roughly one

third of your album’s length is eaten up by two monstrous (and monstrously dull) tracks it’s hard to forgive, even if the other two-thirds are verging on perfection.

An appropriate comparison would be Swans’ latest, The Seer, an even longer album featuring even longer (mostly) instrumental grinds. And I’ll say the same thing about Shaking the Habitual that I did about The Seer when it first dropped: It’s an overly indulgent work of unprecedented, egomani-acal genius that will likely be one of the best, if not the most “impor-tant,” album of the year—but I’ll be damned if I listen to all the way throu ever again.

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UW nuclear fusion celebrates milestone

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Nuclear fusion education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has reached a major milestone after the graduation of the 400th Ph.D. student since the start of the program in 1963. While the number of people researching nuclear fusion is relatively small at UW-Madison, the university is consistently one of the strongest fusion pro-grams in the country.

Nuclear fusion is a way to produce energy in which atomic nuclei with low atomic num-

bers fuse to form a heavier nucleus while releasing energy. Fusion has a lot of potential as a future energy source, however the technology is not currently developed enough for mass use.

According to professor of nuclear engineering Gerald Kulcinski, UW-Madison fac-ulty and students are focused on “building a bridge between where we’re at today and where we want to get to in terms of fusion energy down the line.”

UW-Madison’s nuclear fusion department is nation-ally recognized for its strength and breadth. According to Kulcinski, the reason for this strength is because UW-Madison offers its students the chance to study fusion from a theoretical, experimental or technological aspect. Other programs do not provide the same kind of options, often

focusing on just one of the three areas of fusion study.

A f t e r g r adu at i n g, UW-Madison alumni have spread out all over the globe to work toward making fusion possible for the near future. “Graduates fall roughly into three areas: aca-demia, national laboratories and industry,” Kulcinski said.

There are some setbacks for someone looking to study nucle-ar fusion, however. Because the use of fusion as an energy source

is only a future prospect, fund-ing for research is more often given to people studying another type of nuclear energy in which nuclei are split, called fission.

According to Kulcinski, fis-sion presents many problems because the time it takes for half the mass of the radioactive materials to decompose —its half-life—is very long, taking thousands of years to become non-radioactive. Fission is also not as stable as fusion because it produces energy through chain reactions, meaning it’s more prone to accidental releases. Despite these problems, fission still produces approximately 20 percent of the electricity used in the United States from nuclear power plants around the country.

For these reasons scientists, like those at UW-Madison, keep trying to develop the availabil-

ity of fusion. In regard to the comparison between fusion and fission research, Kulcinski said, “It’s like the Model T and the Lexus. We’re working on devel-oping the Lexus when everyone else is still fixing the Model T.”

The impact of fusion energy is thought to be seen towards the middle to end of the century, according to Kulcinski. How soon science gets to this point depends on work done by people such as those at UW-Madison on advanc-ing the theoretical, experimen-tal and technological aspects of nuclear fusion knowledge.

“The promise that we’re aim-ing for is to make nuclear energy long-lasting, safe and economi-cal, with no nuclear waste,” Kulcinski said about the goals of fusion research. “We’re not there but that’s what we’re working towards and that’s what the stu-dents are working on.”

Discovery of superposed jets may lead to better forecastingBy Zhengzheng ZhangThedAilycArdinAl

Weather disasters such as floods and tornadoes can take a huge toll on people and their possessions. The 2011 tornado outbreak in the southern United States, for exam-ple, killed 348 people and made the record books as the largest tornado outbreak in history.

Despite the importance of anticipating these events, however, today’s weather models can accu-rately forecast only two or three days ahead.

A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison climate researchers has now identified an intense weather pattern called a “superposed jet.” Accurately fore-casting this pattern, they think, may make it possible to anticipate severe weather events as much as a week ahead of time.

“This gives emergency man-agers and the public an ample amount of time to prepare for an extreme event and better confidence in that event actu-ally occurring,” said Andrew Winters, a doctoral student in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies at UW-Madison. Winters is studying jet stream features as part of professor Jon Martin’s research team.

Winters and his colleagues began researching jet streams by studying the 2010 Nashville flood. They found heavy rainfall

was caused by both an extremely humid air mass moving north-ward out of the Gulf of Mexico and a remarkably strong jet stream above Earth’s surface.

A jet stream is a thin ribbon of rapidly moving air that moves east around the globe. It is produced by a clash between cold Arctic air and hot tropical air at mid-latitudes, the areas of the globe between the trop-ics and polar regions. Jet streams are crucial to our weather pat-terns and play an impor-tant role in determining the occurrence of extreme weather.

T y p i c a l l y, the Northern Hemisphere is characterized by two jet streams: the polar jet, which largely affects our weather in the mid-lati-tude, and the subtropi-cal jet, which sits fur-ther to the south over portions of the Gulf of Mexico and northern Mexico. Although a jet stream circles around the globe, the pattern is not a perfect ring. Instead, it has troughs and ridg-es similar to a wave.

Around each jet stream there is a motion of circulation, exchanging air masses between the

ground and the atmosphere. Thus, the trough of the jet wave sucks the air from below upward, leaving a low-pressure atmospheric sys-tem near the ground that results in wet and cold weather. The peak of the wave creates a high-pressure atmosphere above the

ground and is responsible for dry and warm weather.

Winters explains extreme weather happens when troughs or ridges of jet streams stay in an area for a long period of time. For example, if the trough part lingers

in an area for days at a time, the resulting low-pressure system

would keep dumping rain over the same area and

could cause flooding. On the other hand,

if a region is beneath the ridge for a long time,

the high pressure system would remain stable and

encourage drought. In the Nashville case, the atmo-

spheric pattern remained sta-tionary for nearly two and a

half days, which allowed heavy rain and flooding.

But things can get even more dramatic.

Martin’s group has identified the impact of a

superposed jet on the evo-lution of extreme events such as the Nashville flood and the 2011 tornadoes.

A superposed jet is formed by the positioning of

a polar jet and a subtropical jet on top of one another. Since this combined jet has more intense circula-

tion than a single jet, it could greatly increase the extremely humid air mass and have a great-

er influence on the formation of extreme precipitation over a region.

Martin’s group shows that, although these superposed jets are relatively rare phenomena, when they do play a role, their contribution to extreme events is clearly evident.

Specifically over North America, these superposed jets occur no more than a handful of times per month, but are most common over the southwestern United States and off the East Coast. Worldwide, this feature occurs most frequently over the western Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Japan. In the Northern Hemisphere, late fall, winter and early spring months see the major-ity of superposed jets.

Superposed jets have never been identified and examined before. By using data in the upper atmo-sphere—such as wind speed—gath-ered from global forecast models, Martin’s group is able to identify the location of superposed jets using a set of self-developed criteria.

Forecasting will always be an uncertain business. For example, while one superposed jet may antic-ipate severe weather, others may not. Thus, Martin’s group, accord-ing to Winters, needs to understand the formation process of superposed jets in order to more confidently assess the effects of these powerful streams. “We have already known a lot about our atmosphere, but not enough,” Winters said.

Dear Mr. Scientist,How does silly string work? It seems like a liquid in the can, but when

you spray it, it turns into a solid string.—Brian S.

Silly string is actually pretty simple stuff. There are only three things inside the can: a plastic resin, a surfactant to help the resin foam and a propellant to shoot everything out of the can. The can is pressurized, so all of the ingredi-ents inside are a liquid. Once you press the nozzle, the contents shoot out and go from the high-pressure environ-ment inside the can to a low-pressure

environment outside the can. Since the pressure outside the can is lower, the propellant that was once a liquid becomes a gas and evaporates. As the propellant evaporates, two things happen: The plastic resin foams and expands, and the surface of the resin dries out, creating a thin, flexible skin. In the end you are left with a really long, bendable “string” made of foam.

Dear Mr. Scientist,How are trick candles able to

relight after they are blown out?—Sarah C.

Those magic candles that are almost impossible to blow out contain a secret ingredient: magnesium. When you blow out a normal candle, the smoke rising from the wick is vaporized candle wax. This vapor is flammable, but once the candle is extinguished, the wick is no longer hot enough to set the vapor on fire. This is where the magnesium comes in. It cre-ates an incredibly hot flame, yet starts on

fire at a fairly low temperature. Although the wick isn’t hot enough to ignite the vaporized wax, it is hot enough to ignite the magnesium, which in turn ignites the vapor and the candle relights itself.

Ask Mr. Scientist is written by Michael Leitch. If you have a burning science question you want him to answer, tweet @DC_Science or email it to science@dailycardinal.com.

Ask Mr. Scientist: Silly string and trick candles

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T his week, as the sixth season of “Mad Men” premieres, we can reflect

on a few things. First, we are again treated to the entertain-ment and drama the AMC series, set in the 1960s, brings. Second, we are reminded how far our society has progressed from a time when overt sex-ism and demeaning women was rampant in the workplace.

The many scenes in “Mad Men” where women are rou-tinely talked down to, belittled and degraded based on their appearance, whether pretty or plain, came to my attention again this week when President Barack Obama was criticized for comments he made in support of California Attorney General

Kamala Harris. In a speech at a fundraiser in the Bay Area, the President commented that Harris is the “best-look-ing” Attorney General in the country. This remark came only seconds after he also described Harris as “brilliant,” “dedicated,” “tough” and as “exactly what you’d want in any-body who is administer-ing the law, and making sure that everybody is get-ting a fair shake.”

Immediately, the news media on all sides of the spectrum dis-sected every aspect of his state-ment. Some commentators took the President’s remarks as bla-tantly sexist and others charac-terized it as a harmless compli-ment. As usual, media pundits picked a rigid stance and stuck with it.

In this instance, we should judge Obama harshly but not label him. On the one hand, Obama should know better than to make a comment assert-ing one woman’s superiority based on her looks. As “Mad Men” should demonstrate to us, the world in which a woman was blatantly defined by her looks over her skills in the workplace should be a thing of the past. Today, women are in positions of leadership based

on their qualifications. Obama should understand any com-

ment about a woman’s appearance, even if intended as a compli-ment, opens him up to criticism that pro-fessional accomplish-ments are secondary to physical beauty. There is no benefit to making this kind of comment.

On the other hand, labeling Obama as sex-

ist is not valid either. Obama did not use that remark to dis-criminate against, stereotype or diminish Harris’ accom-plishments. Obama’s policies have brought women forward, highlighted by appointing two women to the Supreme Court and signing into law the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Obama is reportedly good friends with Harris and made sure to high-light the characteristics that made her successful as a profes-sional before, regrettably, com-menting on her appearance.

We are a society that is quick to label people based on few remarks. Republicans and Democrats alike have both been widely labeled in different ways based on comments made by members of their respective par-ties. Sometimes these labels have validity and many times they

do not. Obama’s comment this past week was regrettable, but indicative of nothing more than a statement he never should have expressed publically.

As the new season of “Mad Men” begins this week, we can reflect on how women, based on their qualifications, have become a strong voice in our nation since the 1960s. We can also acknowledge how far soci-ety still needs to go to treat professional women equally. Finally, we can all agree that

despite whatever beauty Kamala Harris may possess, comment-ing on it belongs in private and not in a public forum. Obama’s comment reminds us that while we have come a long way from the “Mad Men” type workplace, we still have a long way to go.

Is there any location in the pub-lic, political sphere for womens’ bodies? Is the reaction to Obama’s comment feminist, anti-feminist or just antagonistic? Please send all feedback to opinion@daily-cardinal.com.

I brahim Abdul-Matin’s book, “Green Deen: What Islam Teaches about

Protecting the Planet” begins, “the Earth is a mosque, and everything in it is sacred.” The quote is based off a hadith (a report of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings, acts, approvals and disapprovals) which quotes the Prophet as stating when the time comes for daily prayer, it is acceptable to pray anywhere on Earth since, as mentioned above, the Earth itself is a mosque. Beyond determining protocol for ful-filling the daily prayer obliga-tion, this hadith has been one of the foundations of the envi-ronmental movement within Islam; as Abdul-Matin relates, “Islam teaches a deep love of the planet, because loving the planet means loving ourselves and loving our Creator. That is to say, Islam teaches that we are all One.”

Abdul-Matin spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently, and if you missed it, don’t worry. Tonight at 7 p.m. in the Vandeburg Auditorium of the Pyle Center, you can catch Frederick M. Denny, professor emeritus out of the University of Colorado at Boulder, discuss the idea of faith-based stewardship of the Earth within Islam. Denny will discuss the religious aspect of conservation and how one can interpret the Qur’an as a call for the active preservation of the Earth.

I would recommend this lecture to anyone with even a passing interest in religious studies, Islam or the environ-mental movement. One of the large-scale measures “Green Deen” calls for cooperation with other religions and groups to meet and exceed goals of the environmental movement as a whole. Religious dialogue and solidarity are wrapped up in this topic. Furthermore, anyone with a religious or ecological motivation who feels passion-ate about the environment will

find an ally with the Islamic movement, which Abdul-Matin outlines and which Denny’s lecture will shed light on.

On cooperation, Abdul-Matin writes, “harnessing this passion with the passion of those who are drawn to the environmental movement for other reasons makes the overall movement to protect the planet, animals, people and plants a stronger movement that repre-sents the diversity of the planet.” In short, we all live on this plan-et—Muslim, Christian, atheist,

vegan, fraternity brother, soccer mom and so on—and regardless of our individual motivations we ought to, at least in this case, have the same end goal: keep-ing the planet alive. Attending the Pyle Center lecture tonight can help you learn about the Qur’an’s take on the issue: This will help anyone, Muslim or not, foster this sort of cooperation.

If religious environmental-ism as a whole interests you, also consider reading “Green Deen.” What is more, the Religious Studies program here

at the UW offers “Religion in Global Perspective” (listed as RELS101), which has religion and the environment as one of its themes. Finally, Dr. Anna Gade, UW-Madison professor (who happens to be teaching RELS101 this semester), has a Vimeo page with plenty of content on Islam and ecology in Indonesia.

I realize this week’s column is mostly about promoting a lecture, but this is the kind of event which should be taken advantage of by students. I realize we spend our whole day in class, but the environmental movement and Islam are two topics that are important to our world today, and this lecture combines them. So, if you’re a devout Muslim interested in what the Qur’an has to say about conservation, or you’re a passionate environmentalist looking for more information about ally groups, or you’re just a student whose interest has been slightly piqued by this topic, consider heading to the Pyle Center tonight.

Tom is a senior majoring in religious studies. Do you have any religous topics you think would make for a good column? Send any suggestions or feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Badgers’ core built for bright future This is the second part of Max’s

season recap of Wisconsin hoops. The first part published last Friday.

F or several years it has been said Wisconsin is built to protect leads. More than

one color analyst has commented, “A 10-point lead for Wisconsin is like a 30-point lead for anyone else.” This season, Wisconsin lost leads of nine or more points in seven of its last 12 games prior to the NCAA Tournament (not once before that stretch) and lost leads of six or more points in a total of 12 games.

If having a 10-point lead for Wisconsin was like another team having a 30-point advantage, then the Badgers were not safe this season leading by 30.

This is surprising, especially given the defen-sive prowess put on dis-play by this year’s squad. While Badger teams tend to be better at hold-ing leads because of their preferred slow pace and ability to limit turnovers, this year’s team had the added benefit of being able to defend some of the nation’s best offensive lineups, holding Indiana and Michigan to a total of 59 points per game (compared to their sea-son averages of 80.0 and 75.2 ppg, respectively). Given head coach Bo Ryan’s UW teams have annually

been one of the nation’s premiere defensive units, it seemed like UW’s ability to defend might be enough to overcome inexperienced guards.

But after Wisconsin won its first 12 games this year when holding its opponent under the magic 60-point mark, UW went just 6-6 over its final 12 such games.

As much as people like to call out Ryan for his supposed strategy of reducing games to low-scoring brawls, Wisconsin has been able to score under Ryan. Though his personnel have generally resulted in an intentional effort to limit pos-sessions, Ryan’s teams have found ways to put the ball in the basket consistently. This year, the Badgers weren’t able to do that.

After failing to score 50 points on just five occasions since the start of the 2007-’08 season, Wisconsin finished short of the half-century mark seven times in the final 21 games this season. In fact, prior to that run, it had taken 193 games for UW to find itself below 50 points on seven different occasions, a stretch that goes back to the final weeks of the 2006-’07 season.

Prior to this season, Badger teams had found

themselves in shooting droughts. Any UW basketball fan remembers the awful stretch suffered late last year by forward Mike Bruesewitz, and it shouldn’t be hard to think back at times in the Ryan era during which the shots simply weren’t fall-ing for a sustained period of time.

But unlike past teams, this year’s Badger squad didn’t seem willing to

make an effort at finding another way to put points on the board. Just two years after coming within a shot of setting the NCAA record for team free throw percentage, Wisconsin was dead last in the Big Ten this season, shooting 63.4 per-cent at the charity stripe.

While UW shot just 33 percent as a team from 3-point range, the Badgers took more shots from beyond the arc than any Big Ten team other than Illinois. Despite having three experienced front-court players and arguably the most athletic 7-footer in the conference, Wisconsin took 784 3-point shots, 184 more than Ohio State and 273 more than Michigan State. Of the 1,959 shots Wisconsin took dur-ing the 2012-’13 season, 40 percent of them were from 3-point range. Big Ten regular season champion Indiana took just 32 percent of its shots from beyond the arc.

Unless UW finds a group of shooters, this trend of over-reli-ance on the triple has to reverse itself before Wisconsin once again contends for a Big Ten title and makes a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. Given the Badgers’ top-tier defense, it makes no sense that UW cannot win the six straight games necessary to secure a national title, even when the shots aren’t falling. If any one program should be built to “sur-vive and advance,” it is Wisconsin.

Unfortunately, the inability of this year’s team to recognize its flaws starts at the top. Game after game, I heard Ryan shrug off a poor shooting performance with the age-old, “The shots will fall eventually” insistence, contend-ing the shot selection was fine and

nothing else could be done to get the ball to go through the hoop.

For the first few such games, this was a good attitude. Although never as consistently as coach-es and players would admit, the missed shots were—for the most part—good looks. However, as the jump shots continued to fall by the wayside, the Badgers did not work the ball inside, but rather continued fitting what had become a square peg into an increasingly round hole.

Ultimately, that inability to accept a major flaw and deal with it head-on is what set the stage for the disappointment of Wisconsin’s sec-ond-round loss. Defensively, UW did everything it needed to do. The Badgers held Mississippi under 60 points for the first time all season and did not allow Ole Miss junior guard Marshall Henderson to get going early. Wisconsin kept the Rebel big men under control for the most part and controlled the tempo, keeping the game slow.

But when jump shots began to clank off the iron in the second half, Wisconsin did not make much of an attempt to find another way to sur-vive and advance. Ultimately, that is why the Badgers were eliminated from the NCAA Tournament ear-lier than expected.

Now that the season is over, the focus turns to next season. In addi-tion to the return of will-be red-shirt junior guard Josh Gasser, UW brings to campus the state defensive player of the year in guard Bronson Koenig and adds two solid big men from Ohio: Vitto Brown and Nigel Hayes. This class, along with remaining pieces in forward Sam Dekker, guard Ben Brust, forward Frank Kaminsky, forward Evan Anderson and, yes, even forward Duje Dukan, gives Wisconsin fans plenty to look forward to.

Once again, the Badgers will be challenged from the start. Although the Cancun Challenge, UW’s Thanksgiving tournament, is far from loaded, Wisconsin will entertain Florida and Marquette at the Kohl Center and will likely face a road game in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge (perhaps against one of the conference’s newcom-ers). With the Big Ten forecast to be just as strong as it was in the

2012-’13 campaign, Ryan and com-pany will once again face a tough task as they enter conference play.

With most of next year’s nucleus having no more than a full year of experience, Gasser’s return will be crucial. If there is one thing that was missing from this year’s team, it was consistency at the point guard position. Though Traevon Jackson produced some clutch shots against Iowa, Minnesota and Penn State, he also went through prolonged spells during which he struggled with his shot and failed to take care of the ball. Guard George Marshall, despite enormous expectations in his redshirt freshman year, failed to provide much support off the bench. So even with the addition of Koenig, Gasser will still be relied upon to provide the consistency Wisconsin lacked this season.

But whatever happens at the point guard position, Wisconsin will be more fun to watch in the coming years. With star power in Dekker, Koenig and potentially Hayes, the Badgers have the pieces to be a serious contender not only in the Big Ten, but also on the national scene. In contrast to the prodding offense of the past few years, the Wisconsin teams of the next four should be able to run. They won’t be Michigan or Indiana, but they won’t be held under 50 points seven times in a span of 21 games, either—that I can promise you.

This year, despite the disap-pointment of an early postsea-son exit, UW outlived realistic expectations. Lacking a true point guard and failing to get consistent production from its seniors, Wisconsin still man-aged to put itself squarely in the Big Ten title race and run all the way to the conference tourna-ment final. Criticize all you want, Ryan got everything he could out of his team this season.

Going forward, there is plenty of promise and perhaps even great-er expectation. For the first time since the 2010-’11 season, Ryan will have two bona fide stars on his ros-ter. With the calming influence of Gasser and the outside shooting of Brust, Wisconsin has all the pieces.

Now, it’s time to finally put those pieces together.

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Guard Ben Brust, who led Wisconsin in scoring this season (11.2 ppg), will be one of just two seniors on next year’s roster.

58percent of UW’s scoring set to return next season

46percent of UW’s rebounding set to return next season