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Chancellor finalists announced

ASM reacts to Walker’s state budget proposal

Crisis management expert speaks at UW

By Cheyenne Langkampthe daily cardinal

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly announced the four finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor position Thursday.

The four finalists are Dr. Rebecca Blank, Dr. Nicholas Jones, Dr. Michael Schill and Dr. Kim Wilcox, according to a UW

System press release.A chancellor search and

screen committee, chaired by UW-Madison history professor David McDonald, recommended the four finalists to Reilly and a UW System Board of Regents commit-tee, according to the press release.

McDonald said the finalists have a “very strong endorse-ment” from the committee.

“My colleagues and I feel that these four candidates are dis-tinctive for their fit for the needs of [UW-Madison] at this time,” McDonald said.

Cody Ostenson, undergradu-ate student appointee to the search committee, agreed saying all candidates showed a “vision-ary outlook” and paid special attention to student financial

issues, public service and the ability to search out new sources of funding.

Blank, who is currently Acting Secretary of Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce, said if chosen she hopes to increase the university’s global presence while looking into new learning

Dr. Michael Schill is cur-rently dean and Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Schill has been serving as dean of the school since 2010.

Schill earned his pro-fessional graduate degree from Yale Law School and his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University.

Schill has previ-ously served as a faculty

member and administrator at the University of California

Los Angeles School of Law, New York University School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School. Schill’s teach-ing focuses on hous-ing and education law.

Schill has also served as an American Academy of Arts and

Sciences fellow since 2011.

Dr. Rebecca M. Blank is cur-rently serving as the Acting United States Secretary of Commerce and has worked at the Department of Commerce since June 2009.

Blank earned a Ph.D in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor of sciences in economics from the University of Minnesota.

Blank has also served in various teaching positions

at several institutions, includ-ing the University of Michigan, Northwestern University and

Princeton University. She was also a Visiting Fellow with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Economics in the fall of 1985.

Blank has written and contributed to a number of publications

on poverty and welfare research.

Prior to the start of this year, Dr. Kim Wilcox served as provost and Vice President for Student Affairs at Michigan State University. Wilcox left the posi-tion for a special assignment with advo-cacy organization Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa this spring.

Wilcox received his Ph.D and

masters degrees in speech and hearing science from Purdue

University. He received his bachelor of arts degree in audiology and speech sciences from Michigan State University.

Wilcox has held vari-ous teaching and adminis-trative positions at numer-ous universities including Michigan State University, University of Kansas and

University of Missouri-Columbia.

Dr. Nicholas Jones currently serves as the Dean of Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, a position he has held since August 2004.

Jones earned his Ph.D and master of science degree in civil engineer-ing from the California Institute of Technology and his bachelor of civil engineering from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Jones has served in teach-ing roles at Johns Hopkins University and the University of

Illinois. He also served as president of the American Association for Wind Engineering from 2009-’10.

Jones’ research and publications focus on aerodynamics, wind hazards and earth-quakes. He has also received numerous

teaching awards.

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Student government leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Thursday they are disap-pointed Gov. Scott Walker decided to remove the tuition cap from his budget proposal, despite being pleased with the amount of money allocated to the UW System.

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crisis management expert Judy Smith speaks to UW students as part of a student group’s Black history Month celebration.

By Sam Cusickthe daily cardinal

Expert crisis communica-tor Judy Smith, who has repre-sented clients including Kobe Bryant, Monica Lewinsky and Michael Vick, spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday, as part of the Black Law Students Association’s Black History Month celebration.

Smith received her law degree from the American University Washington College of Law and was the

first African-American woman to work as the editor of the American University Law Review before starting her career in crisis communica-tion. Smith has since founded her own crisis communication agency, Smith & Company, which has represented clients from athletes and actors to for-eign nations.

In her speech, Smith advised students to be ready at any time for opportunities. She proved

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ghouls and dronesthe allegorical connection between american drone usage and a fictional town full of ghouls

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South Korean stylea group of young foreign exchange students’ “Snow

White” wows the stage at the Overture center +ARTS, page 4

By Kane KaimanFake News Friday

Evan Wray, a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, still refus-es to admit that the unsightly, bulbous red protrusion on his upper back is a pimple.

Aaron Cribbs, Wray’s roommate and good friend, noticed the growth last Thursday and brought it to his schoolmate’s attention.

“The kid was flexing his muscles in the mirror like he does every time he comes home from the SERF, and that’s when I saw it,” Cribbds said. “That’s when I saw that messed up, angry-looking pimple-thing on his back. I was like, ‘Dude, you got one heck of a zit on your lat.’ He looked at it and got really defensive.”

According to fellow class-mates, news of Wray’s skin condition has spread across campus like wildfire.

“Aaron told some people about how nasty it was and now everyone’s asking to see it,” said Daniel Gottlieb, Wray’s next-door neighbor in the Witte dorms. “He gets real-ly mad when you ask, though. I’m going to talk to his girl-friend about getting a picture of it or something.”

When questioned about the horrible, throbbing boil by Daily Cardinal reporters, Wray became visibly upset.

“I’m telling you, it’s a spider bite! I’ve gotten them before! Look at the redness around it, that’s like the venom or what-ever. Google it!”

Dr. Harold Francovis, a dermatologist and leading expert on pustules, white-heads and blisters, is not buy-ing Wray’s story.

“Yes, I can see all the tell-tale signs of a pimple here in his girlfriend’s photograph. He says it’s a bite, huh? Well, let’s just say that I don’t see him turning into Spiderman any-time soon.”

By Ginger SnapowitzFake News Friday

Since the pope surprised the Catholic community by announcing his resignation last week, several even more shock-ing revelations about his future plans have surfaced.

Many of these stories have broken on the UW-Madison Confessions Facebook page, a page where University of Wisconsin-Madison students have taken to anonymously pub-lishing secrets about their daily lives. In a shocking turn of events, the pope revealed himself by post-ing non-anonymously and own-ing up to some pretty Madison-worthy plans.

In what he’s calling the “ultimate throwback Thursday move”—a pope has not retired for several hundred years—Pope Benedict

XVI has decided it is time to throw off the “total downer” image of the papacy and embrace a more fun-loving, free-wheeling lifestyle and, according to Facebook, he deter-mined UW-Madison to be the per-fect place.

He confirmed Thursday night he has already booked a flight to Madison in May for the Mifflin Street Block Party and already has several “totally badass” T-shirt ideas in mind for the event.

“I don’t want 2 spoil the sur-prise, but I can tell u that it’s going to involve some pretty hilarious puns,” [sic] said the Facebook post.

Some skeptics have expressed doubts that a man of the pope’s advanced years could adequately navigate the technology required to make such posts, but as anyone who has seen his wildly popular Twitter can attest, he is no stranger

to social media.The pope made a statement

that he was attracted to the page, which is run by an anonymous Facebook user who calls himself “The Creator,” because he has been listening to confessions for the duration of his career.

“I have been dying to share some of the juicy stuff I’ve heard over the years,” he said. “Besides, who knows more about Creators than me? I’m tight with the origi-nal Creator after all.”

The Vatican refused to com-ment on this story, but the pope took to Facebook one more time late Thursday night to confirm he will “definitely be raising some hell at mifflin this year —not liter-ally of course lol.” [sic] There has been no word on whether or not his beer bong skills will live up to his reputation.

Earth seeking a civil separation from Moon

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while awaiting an available residency, Moon cries while earth awkwardly tries not to notice.

Pope’s wild plans spice up UW Confessions

By regina phalangeFake News Friday

In a turn of events that has left many within the scientific com-munity shocked and upset, Earth announced Thursday that he will seek a separation from longtime spouse, Moon.

The couple has been together for about 4.5 billion years since they met in what scientists call the “giant impact.”

Moon described the initial exchange as “a surprise meet-ing of explosive chemistry that changed my composition forever,” but Earth said in a statement he has grown restless after such a long union.

“We got together when I was barely 40 million years old,” he said in a spontaneous interview with outer space gossip blog “Just Jupiter” outside his Milky Way

home late Thursday evening. “I didn’t even know what I wanted then. And now I feel like I’m just trapped in this endless orbit of clinginess and the same constant elliptical shape over and over—a guy needs some space out there in space!”

Moon was unavailable for comment, but her close friend, and fellow moon, Titan revealed in an interview she is devastated by the breakup.

“I don’t think any of us really saw it coming,” Titan told report-ers. “The two of them have always seemed so happy. And she did everything for him! Just tell me this: Who’s gonna help him with the tides now, huh? Who’s gonna reflect sunlight for him late at night when he’s cold and lonely? No appreciation. I always thought, gee, a moon and her planet, that’s

forever, right? But now I’m doubt-ing everything—I can’t lose Saturn and end up like the moon!”

Sources close to Earth reveal Moon will continue to orbit him until other arrangements can be made, but he is unsure in whose gravitational pull she will end up.

“I just want her to be happy, even if it’s not with me,” Earth said. “She’s a good moon. She’s just gotten to be a little too fond of attention, and quite frankly I think the werewolf thing was very immature on her part.”

NASA scientists are devastat-ed by the separation.

“It changes a guy, having your planet and your moon split up like that,” NASA spokesperson Bud Jarvis said. “Was it something we did? Is it because of us? We just don’t know.”

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In with the newon campus

a reception for the exhibit, “1934: The new Deal for art-ists,” featuring the band new mad city Ramblers was held Thursday at the chazen museum of art. + Photo by Wil Gibb

contentious mining bill could cost $170 million in lost taxes

Developers finalize building proposal requiring demolition of Stadium Bar

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau released a report Wednesday show-ing the state could lose approxi-mately $170 million in tax revenue if Wisconsin’s controversial mining law were passed in its current form.

One section of the bill sig-nificantly reduces the tax min-ing companies would have to pay for every ton of iron they extract from $7.03 per ton to less than 3 cents. Any tax revenue is designed to go toward recycling and environmental initiatives around the state.

State Republicans back the

mining bill, which aims to stream-line the mine permitting process for mining companies, saying it would stimulate the state’s declin-ing northern economy. But state Democrats and Bad River Band tribal leaders challenge the bill because they say it could allow for the creation of an environmentally dangerous mine in an area of the state known for its natural allure.

The Joint Finance Committee will likely vote on the bill Monday and, if passed, the bill would go to both houses of the Legislature for a full vote as soon as Wednesday.

A finalized proposal for a multi-purpose development requiring the demolition of Stadium Bar will go to a city committee for consideration April 8, according to a local city official.

The Opus Group, the proj-ect’s developers, plan to con-struct a multi-purpose building featuring commercial space on the ground floor and five addi-tional levels of rental space.

The original design proposed an eight-story building, but Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, said community members approve of the building’s height at six stories.

She said the building will add density to an area where many students look to live.

But Bidar-Sielaff added not all students can afford the high income, high end student hous-ing being built around the city.

“My biggest concern is, as we continue thinking about this new building, how do we bal-ance that with making sure that we have affordable housing for students?” she said.

The lot in consideration for the proposed complex, located at 1419 Monroe St., is current-ly home to the Stadium Sports Bar & Eatery, which would be demolished for the new multi-

purpose building.Popular on gamedays with

its proximity to Camp Randall Stadium, Bidar-Sielaff said there is “a sentimental attachment” to Stadium Bar.

“Current students who have enjoyed the Stadium Bar and alumni will miss that,” she said.

Bidar-Sielaff added the remov-al of Stadium Bar will not change the area that dramatically.

The proposal will go before the Plan Commission for a recommendation April 8, and if approved, the city Council will likely consider it April 16, according to Bidar-Sielaff.

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the proposed six-story residential and commercial complex would be built at 1419 Monroe St., requiring the demolition of the Stadium Sports Bar & eatery prior to construction.

of Madison Chair Andrew Bulovsky said on ASM’s behalf he was disappointed Walker did not address rising tuition costs, given this year’s undergradu-ate tuition breached the five fig-ure mark for the first time. The governor previously instituted a 5.5 percent tuition cap, which would be removed under his new budget.

“It’s starting to become very

expensive for a lot of students, especially the average student in the state,” Bulovsky said. “It’s not as accessible as it once was.”

Still, Bulovsky said he was pleased with the additional $181 million investment in the UW System in what he called “one of the best budgets [the uni-versity] has seen in awhile.” The new investments include funding for the new UW Flex Option degree program and campus construction projects.

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the need for this by describing when the Press Secretary for former U.S. President George H. W. Bush saw her on a television interview and contacted her to replace him, which led to Smith’s job at the White House.

Smith emphasized the need for students to be true to them-selves no matter what challenges or opportunities come their way. She also talked about working hard and letting students’ work speak for itself.

“I am a big, big fan of letting your work speak for itself,” Smith said. “Just make sure to stay true to yourself.”

Additionally, Smith said while there will always be chal-lenges to being an African-American woman in her line

of work, she feels empowered by her identity. She shared a time when she was interview-ing and the interviewer thought the girl next to her was Smith because he assumed an African-American would not have her credentials. Smith said she left before being interviewed because she is proud of who she is.

BLSA President Ashley Davis said the group’s Black History Month events were created to “celebrate the past and seize the future,” and Smith’s lecture emphasized the latter aspect.

“Judy Smith exemplifies that example of a black woman who is using her law degree to accomplish a lot of things and also seize the opportunities that have been placed in front of her,” Davis said.

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technologies to teach more effec-tively and keep costs down.

“The answer is always hard work and very good manage-ment and real leadership that communicates to people how you need to move forward and how to strategically position the university to be on the cutting edge,” Blank said.

Jones, dean and professor of engineering at Johns Hopkins University, said although he is coming from a private institu-tion background he believes both JHU and UW-Madison are driven by “passion,” “commit-ment” and “camaraderie.”

Jones added he plans to make a strong effort to reach out to faculty, staff and students on campus if chosen.

“There’s great people, great motivation, great thinking that has already taken place about what the [university] would like to accom-plish,” Jones said. “Personally that’s an exciting environment for somebody like me.”

Schill, current dean and professor of law at the

University of Chicago Law School, said the appointment would be an exciting oppor-tunity for him at a university he believes has a strong com-mitment to affordable access, something very important to him as a former first-genera-tion college student.

He added that he recently visited campus to take an admis-sions tour and visit the student unions and was impressed by the “smart and incred-ibly engaged” students he spoke with and said he would make it a goal to engage regularly with students if appointed.

“There’s no way to know the university is doing the job it’s supposed to unless you talk with people who are consuming education,” Schill said.

Former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Michigan State University Kim Wilcox was not available for an interview.

Ostenson said Wilcox exhib-ited a very “student-focused stu-dent services mindset.”

According to Ostenson, Wilcox created health care resources and

“living-learning communities” for students while at MSU.

The public will have an opportunity to meet each candi-date at a series of public forums. Jones will be on campus March 5, Schill on March 7, Wilcox on March 11 and Blank on March 13 with each reception taking place from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Ostenson encouraged stu-dents and community members to attend the forums and inter-act with candidates.

“They are searching as well,” Ostenson said. “We should do our best to put our best foot forward and show why this is a great place.”

Reilly and a special Board of Regents committee will inter-view each candidate on March 15 before recommending a single candidate for the full Board’s approval, according to the state-ment. The board will likely announce and vote the next chancellor at its April meeting.

McDonald said he could not confirm when the new chancel-lor would take office.

Abby Becker contributed to this article.

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What Kurt Cobain would have beenBy Max FischerThe Daily CarDinal

Wednesday marked the would-be 46th birthday of Kurt Cobain, the indie kid that drove punk rock from the sweaty underground to the heights of MTV without sacrificing a shred of dig-nity. In just over five short years, he was transformed from an outsider weirdo recording under the name Fecal Matter to the messiah for an unfulfilled genera-tion–the posthumous ideal of a tortured artist, fated for perennial evaluation and reevaluation. What more can be said for the guy that hasn’t already been ren-dered banal by every entitled fan or con-troversial critic in the last two decades?

Happy birthday. You are missed. We are thankful for what you had to share with us.

Had Cobain not taken his life, would he have continued to put out the same old Seattle grunge until it became stale and irrelevant? Or did he have another game-changer in him yet? It’s unfair and selfish (not to mention completely unoriginal) for a journalist to play such what-if games with Cobain’s life, but they bring up an interesting point.

Two polar states bookend the creative spectrum of artistic progression: rein-vention, and reassessment. Some musi-cians are known for never releasing the same album twice. Others grab hold of a place in time and don’t let go, perfecting their craft over many years.

This is why any Neil Young album, regardless of when it was actually released, sounds distinctly 1960s.; why any Bruce Springsteen album sounds distinctly 1970s; any Smiths album dis-tinctly 1980s; and any Nirvana album distinctly 1990s. There are extremely talented artists on both sides of the fence here, but is there any more merit to one approach or the other?

Musical preference is a subjective matter; don’t let anyone ever tell you otherwise. That said, in terms of sheer innovation and time-tested influence, compulsive and jittery artists with a fear

of stasis and an unbounded creativity will always be those that get credited with progress. Radiohead, David Bowie, the Velvet Underground; these are musi-cians that exist in trends only because they themselves created those trends. By the time they found something that worked, they were already on to bigger and better things.

Miles Davis had ascended to the top of the hard bop scene by the late 1950s. He then had already grown impatient with that format. When he released Kind of Blue in 1959, Davis simultane-ously invented and perfected modal jazz. Just as other musicians were beginning to catch up, Davis shocked the world with Bitches Brew and A Tribute to Jack Johnson, two of the most radically forward-thinking back-to-back albums ever made. Jazz fusion was born.

Likewise, try to name two post-1964 Beatles albums that sound more than vaguely similar. Revolver is the apex of the 1960s psychedelia. Abbey Road is an equivalently genius record, yet it bears almost no resemblance to Revolver.

Even today, bands on the cutting edge like Radiohead and Animal Collective are famous for reinventing them-selves with each new release. Even if Animal Collective’s most recent album, Centipede Hz, was a bit underwhelming, it was still a wildly ambitious step in a direction that nobody expected.

This inherent risk factor is part of what makes artistic redefinition so exciting to witness. If a musician finds a successful niche, it’s easy for them to hole up and nurse it until it’s dry. Finding that niche and then ventur-ing forth to explore new artistic terrain takes vision, insight and extreme confi-dence. And when a talented artist comes along and pulls it off, it’s nothing less than stunning.

Cobain was a genius robbed young of the chance for creative development. But in the end, whether an artist’s out-put is static or fluid does not deter-mine the value of their art. Rather, it determines how history will reflect on their work. Those who choose the less adventurous route will eventually grow dated. They will become inextricably linked with the aesthetics of their style and period.

Those who opt for persistent reinven-tion will instead become linked with ideas and concepts–a much loftier aspi-ration for any forward-looking artist.

Have any thoughts to share with Max? Any kind words about Kurt? Send him an email at mdfisher2@wisc.edu.

By Andy HolsteenThe Daily CarDinal

The Overture Center hosted a truly unique event Thursday eve-ning. It was truly a one-of-a-kind experience for me. No, there weren’t any famous musicians or artists put-ting on some extravagant perfor-mance. A handful of South Korean foreign exchange students, who were all between the ages of 11 and 14, did a play rendition of the classic fairy tale “Snow White.”

And let me tell you, I was wowed not only with the students’ com-mand of the English language, but their sense of humor, level of com-fort performing on stage and over-all grasp of American culture were undeniably impressive.

Maybe it’s best to take a step back and explain how and why these students were performing at the Overture Center at all, because it’s an interesting story.

In July of 2012, recent UW-Madison graduate Skyler Vadner began working with Privileged Schools of America, an organization that is trying to introduce foreign students to American culture through planned visits.

This is something that no one else in the Madison area is doing, accord-ing to Vadner.

“In Madison, we are absolutely the forefront. Every school we’ve talked to has never known this program,” said Vadner. “The gov-ernment of the state of Wisconsin came to our home because they’d

never heard of something like this … and actually they’re benchmark-ing a lot of new programs in the future on ours.”

The students don’t only focus on their academics. They are introduced to a broad array of American culture. The program goes out of its way to expose students to cultural experiences.

“They have [teachers for] the cello, the violin, we have some guys that come in to do guitar,” said Vadner. We’ve also gone to a lot of museums…so we do have a lot of art because that’s Mid-West culture.”

Beth Krause, one of the students’ teachers at Holy Cross Lutheran School in Madison, was very optimis-tic about the whole experience with the South Korean students.

She stressed that it isn’t just good for the South Korean students, the American children benefit as well.

“It’s good for our children to have an ethnic experience and hear about other cultures,” said Krause.

It was really impressive how well all of the South Korean students spoke in English. But it wasn’t just them recit-ing their lines up on stage in a mono-tone—they were legitimately excited and happy to be performing for all of their teachers and peers.

“They’re performing ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ obviously all in English,” said Vadner. “And it’s just a great chance for them to perform in America to their peers and teachers.”

Maybe the most telling thing was actually speaking with one of the South Korean students, Colin Park, who played Prince Charming in the play. I asked him about what he thought about his time in America, he simply told me “USA’s awesome!”

Without a doubt, Privileged Schools of America is spreading cultural awareness and acceptance among students in the Madison area. This will hopefull continute to build bonds between us and other countries.

But in the end, whether an artist’s output is static or fluid does not determine the value of their art.

Rather, it determines how history will reflect on their work.

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Radio play, records and Passion Pit’s passionBy Cameron GraffTheDailyCarDinal

Passion Pit has had, by all mea-sures, a stellar few years. Their first EP, Chunk of Change, was a love letter to a doomed romance, given as a gift by singer Michael Angelakos in 2008 and never meant to be heard by the general public. Since then they’ve released two albums of stadium-crushing pop, both topping their predeces-sors’ ever growing repute: 2009’s hit debut LP Manners and 2012’s darkly triumphant Gossamer. Their latest album’s success eschews the traditional pitfall of the sophomore slump, eclipsing the already impressive accom-plishments of Manners.

“We’ve been so lucky how since this band has started every-thing has worked out for us. There was part of me that was thinking that our luck was going to run out at some point and we

were going to have to figure out another game plan,” said bassist Jeff Apruzzese.

“It’s really awesome to see how it’s been growing but it’s also kind of different too. With this record especially we’ve been seeing a lot more commercial and radio stuff, a lot more than we did with the past two records… So now we’re starting to get a lot of people com-ing to our shows who only know the two songs that they hear on the radio. You know it’s like hav-ing a different crowd and fans, it’s been really cool.”

Gossamer was released not with a whimper but with a bang, exploding out into people’s homes and heads across the country. The album debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, a remarkable dem-onstration of faith in the album format that’s seen so much cyni-cism as of late.

“A lot of this generation of

kids has been born into the internet, like they don’t know anything else but social media,” said Apruzzese. “And with that comes a lost appreciation for records as a whole and every-thing being looked at as singles to add to your mixtape, you know, like, it’s crazy. You think of bands and you think ‘Oh, I really like that song now’ instead of ‘Oh, I really like that record.’”

If there was ever an album in 2012 to serve as bulwark against the compartmentalizing ethos of the 21st century, Gossamer is surely it. Resplendent with can-dy-coated, radio ready singles and propped up by a framework of darker and more difficult deep cuts, the album functions more as a cohesive statement than as a vessel for its (many) hits.

Despite this, Passion Pit has recently gained a heightened level of attention and controversy

in particular from the use of their song “Take a Walk” in a Taco Bell commercial. Reactions across the internet and beyond ranged from perplexed to downright furious to slightly hungry. Apruzzese, how-ever, has remained undeterred.

“The only people who can really talk about credibility are the ones who have been around and sold millions of records and don’t need to worry about get-ting their music put out any-more because you know, they don’t need it,” said Apruzzese of the people crying sell-out. “But younger bands really need that stuff, they really need every single push that they can get to really get their music out there … it’s a common misconception too that just because your music is being played on TV or on the radio, most of the time you’re not really getting paid for it.”

Passion Pit have recently embarked on an appropriately gigantic tour to support the release of Gossamer, spanning

Europe, Mexico and America— including a stop in Madison this Saturday. “This is kind of the biggest thing that we’ve done since this band’s career, I guess, this tour we have in February and March,” said Apruzzese. “I figure it’s going to be really extraordinary, you know, a real-ly beautiful show that we put together and I’m really excited to do this whole thing.”

And to everyone going to the show just to hear “Sleepyhead” for the millionth time, there’s a place for you in the band’s heart as well. “You know, I think the reaction to that song when we play it live kind of makes it, it kind of rejuvenates the song and makes it, you know, fun to play again,” said Apruzzese.

“The fact that you know every show where we play, that song, that’s the [biggest] reac-tion, you know that is the song that everyone is waiting for. And that’s the energy we feed off of.”

Snobs and their snubs: the people that the Oscars forgotBy Lars LindqvistGuesTColumnisT

Anytime Oscar season rolls around, I’m reminded of how impossible it is to please every-body. After the nominations are announced and the dust has set-tled on the passive aggressive (or in the case of some of this years nominations, very aggressive) tweets regarding the selections of the Academy, which films were so called “Oscar bait,” I think to myself how hard it must be sometimes to be a member of the Academy. And while I do agree that occasionally smaller films are overlooked in favor of “Oscar Bait,” I would submit that, more often than not, the best film of the year typically receives the nominations and awards it deserves.

However, I’m done sticking up for the Academy—this piece is about some terrible decisions they made with their nomina-tions this year. This is about Oscar snubs in two major areas: the nominations for best support-ing actor and best director.

The major snub in the best supporting actor category was Leonardo DiCaprio for his role as nefarious slaver owner Calvin Candie in Quentin Tarantino’s fan-tastic “Django Unchained.” To me, it’s crazy that Leo has been nomi-nated four times and has never taken home an Oscar. When I saw

his performance as Candie, though, I thought “this year is going to be his year.”

DiCaprio is one of America’s most talented and best known actors, typically starring the heroic lead in many popular films; So for him to disappear entirely into this role of a character Tarantino him-self has called “the most evil char-acter I’ve ever written” (and that’s saying something) is remarkable in itself. But DiCaprio isn’t just play-ing a bad guy in this film, he’s creat-ing a complex character, one who thinks he is much smarter than he really is, but is eventually revealed as a twisted and perverted child of a man. And this all comes across in the subtlety of his performance.

What’s more, the movie (a qual-ity piece in itself) clearly lags when he isn’t on screen, a tell tale sign of the engrossing quality of his per-formance. In his place for the nom-ination are five actors who have already taken home the Oscar, and, to me, DiCaprio’s lack of a nomina-tion in the place of these “safer” choices shows the Academy’s reluctance to nominate a bold and controversial performance.

However, the even bigger snubs have to be exclusion of directors Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck from the best director category. To be fair, all the nominations for best director are merited, but to leave off two of the best-directed films of the

year is a travesty. To be clear, best directed does

not mean best films of the year, though those two categories are often linked (so much so that since 2003 only one film that won this Oscar didn’t take home best picture). Things like the film’s organization and how that affects its pace and entertainment value, the overall performances and how and when what we are shown contributes to the effectiveness of the film; these are all things that make up a well directed film.

The best example I can give you from this year is Affleck’s “Argo.” With this film (the best of the year in my opinion), Affleck manages to tell a thrilling story about a group of CIA agents who produce a fake movie in order to get a group of six Americans out of Iran during the hostage crisis in the ’70s.

The film is able to keep its audi-ence glued to the screen, while simultaneously providing insight-ful commentary on what it takes to make a movie in Hollywood. Affleck manages this because, as a talented director, he knows what to show the audience when in order to keep the pace of his thriller. Every time the whole “making a fake movie” section starts to slow, Affleck intercuts scenes of the hos-tages so we, as an audience, know what’s at stake. All this leads to the most intense final half hour of any

film this year. At every turn, the plan to save the hostages comes so close to failing, and, even though we know it doesn’t, we’re still sincerely worried about the characters. To me that’s the sign of a good direc-tor; someone who can take a story where the audience already knows the ending and still manage to make it thrilling as all hell.

This allows me to transition nice-ly into the second snub—Kathryn Bigelow and her hunt for Osama Bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty.” Similarly to Affleck’s “Argo,” most people who saw the movie already knew how it was going to end, yet Bigelow also managed to make it into an exciting and intriguing film.

However, what’s most impressive about Bigelow’s directing is her ability to funnel massive amounts of information into a coherent nar-rative that can still be exciting.

The story takes place over sev-eral years and features several dead ends, false leads, and difficult names to remember. Part of this is intentional, to give the audience a sense of the tiring circumstances endured by the agents in the hunt for Bin Laden, yet the fact that Bigelow keep this tone while man-aging not only keep her audience interested but excited as well is a testament to her ability as a director.

Got a beef with the Oscars? Let Lars know at llindqvist@wisc.edu.

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GRaPhiC By DyLan moRiaRty

F or years, Madison has been a hotbed of political activity on both sides of

the aisle. With Wisconsin state politics often being controversial, and often leading to mass pro-tests within the city of Madison, Gov. Scott Walker has passed an ordinance requiring any group of four or more to obtain a permit for protest within the Capitol building that comes with a 72-hour waiting period before that protest takes place.

Last week, UW-Madison associate professor Michael Kissick filed a lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin seeking to eliminate the necessary per-mit application and the unwar-ranted arrests associated with the protests, and is being rep-resented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. Kissick stated, “I resent being treated as criminal for speaking freely in a public forum. This country was founded on dis-

sent, so I view myself as a proud American exercising my rights to engage in the most protected of all speech.”

This editorial board believes the ordinance is harmful to the individual rights of citizens to gather and protest, as per-mits can be denied for reasons unknown, and the 72-hour waiting period denies citizens the right to directly react to the actions of their government.

For example, each day at noon, a group of individu-als who call themselves the Solidarity Singers gather in the rotunda and respectfully dis-sent the policies enacted by Gov. Scott Walker. These simple sing-alongs are nowhere near disruptive to the political pro-cess, and their presence is their constitutional right. The major-ity of state offices within the building are located nowhere near the rotunda, therefore low-ering the chances of a personal issue between individual state workers and protesters.

Permits for protest have been

deemed constitutional by state and federal courts alike.

However, we feel that it is the responsibility of the citi-zenry to actively participate in the political process, and to dissent against a government that is not acting in their best interests. We understand cer-tain concerns of those back-ing the ordinance. Protesters must be held accountable for damages rendered to the build-ing, and safety is an impor-tant aspect to any gathering of people. Workers in the Capitol should maintain the right to expel protesters who are com-mitting illegal activities such as drug use, violence or graffiti. It is understandable that govern-ment officials do not want the likes of a Neo-Nazi or Ku Klux Klan rally within the building, but regardless of the ideology of the protesting group, their right to free speech stands.

The Capitol building is the center for action within the state. It is the place wherein decisions, laws and budgets

are made. It is also the center of gravity for Wisconsin citi-zens who feel as if they are not being fairly represented by their politicians will logically gather to have their voices heard. If state politicians make a decision that is highly controversial and contested by a large percentage of the population, requiring a permit to dissent this decision amidst its discourse costs voters time they do not have. A bad law could easily be passed within 72 hours. Requiring the lapse of this time period is an indirect way of suppressing the efforts for democratic discourse from the citizenry.

The First Amendment is bigger than any policy Gov. Scott Walker wants to instate. Naturally, there will always be tension between radicals and politicians. But by limiting the radicals’ rights, the politicians are only fueling the fire.

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A Dilemma in Speculum: An allegory of modern policy

S peculum, a minute, secluded village encir-cled by dense forest, has

a security problem. Though the village itself is relatively safe, danger lurks beyond its timber borders. Every time a mem-ber of the community ventures into the woods, they return a monstrous version of their former selves. In some cases the transformation takes years; others reappear by nightfall. Regardless, their intention (do they still have intentions?) is the same: to wreak havoc on the community and prey upon the weak. They froth at the mouth like rabid dogs, covered in cuts and bruises beneath the tattered remnants of their for-mer clothes. Some say they no longer feel pain, running at full speed despite missing limbs and inconceivable wounds. Such ghoulish imagery domi-

nates the frightening tales told to Speculum’s children and occupies the minds of their apprehensive parents.

And though the appearances of returning ghosts—referred to as ‘visits’ in ashen mur-murs—have recently dissipat-ed, the danger sustains. Most of Speculum’s adults know a previously lost soul, and the elders can remember anarchic periods in which the very exis-tence of the community was at risk. Indeed, for many years the threat of woodland ghouls was daily; children were snatched in the middle of the night, and the stench of rotting flesh per-fumed the morning breeze. Luckily, however, a solution was attained. After years of tinkering, a young man named Rex produced a mechanic con-traption capable of eliminat-ing the ghouls effectively. And effective it was—Rex adeptly employed its power to allow for relative peace and stability. But, due to its complexity, only Rex was capable of using the mighty weapon. At first, the village raised no objection to this arrangement (one doesn’t protest when ghouls are at one’s door). But after the fog had cleared, and the last wave

of ‘visits’ was repelled, pensive heads grew anxious.

And, indeed, the village is right to be concerned. First and foremost is the dangerous arrangement of human physi-ognomy, in which one’s hands are subject to the direction of one’s brain. To endow such immense power to the former is to expose it to the stormy waves of the latter. And though we hope that Rex is a benevolent and trustworthy compatriot, this may not always be the case. Within all men lies Narcissus; within all men lies Hyde.

The second concern is eas-ily deduced from the first: By way of possessing a monopoly on the use of force, Rex has de facto power to identify to whom that force should be directed. Admittedly, identify-ing a ghoul is usually simple—

the frothing mouth and thirst for blood is a giveaway. But just last year, a bold young bach-elor, hoping to court a beautiful girl, stepped into the woods just briefly, returning, according to his companions, unchanged. Regardless, Rex eliminated the intrepid adolescent imme-diately, claiming he could see an alteration in the color of his eyes. Such confidence provided no assurance to the young bach-elor’s family, and the swiftness of Rex’s action has inspired a newfound fear of going near the village borders. Who, indeed, is Rex to decide who is a ghoul? Further, what if, in the elimi-nation of ghouls, Rex makes a mistake? Causes unintentional collateral damage? Such haz-ards are far from theoretical—a pessimist would go so far as to predict their inevitability.

One village elder proposed that a counsel of men and women be composed, whose vote would be necessary for Rex to label an individual a ghoul and initiate an attack. But what if, as is often the case, the danger is eminent? Surely Rex can’t be expected to idly wait for a majority decision as ghouls are punching through the windows. Indeed, the very

advantage of Rex’s weapon is that he can attack swiftly and effectively, premeditating clos-er encounters. If deliberation restricts the ability of Rex to defend the village, is this not just as dangerous as his cur-rent, autarchic control? The extent of this risk, one suppos-es, depends upon a subjective assessment of ghoulish threat.

Such is the crux of Speculum’s dilemma. On the one hand, the village must defend itself from the danger that lies in the woods. And yet, Rex and his machine, though effective in their defense, lack account-ability. Perhaps an intermediate scheme can somehow assuage the concerns of both parties, but until then, the community must defer to the status quo. Their predicament is one from which all communities could learn; for if one were to take a close look at the tiny, encircled village of Speculum, one would see a reflection of themselves, or at least a version thereof.

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Perhaps an intermedi-ate scheme can somehow assuage the concerns of both parties, but until

then, the community must defer to the status quo.

A narrative view into American drone usage

comicsEatin’ Cake Classic By Dylan Moriarty www.EatinCake.com

NIC CAGE FAN 4LYFE

ACROSS 1 Annoyance for a

fairytale princess 4 ___ point (hub) 9 Big girder 14 In the style of 15 Get around 16 French explorer La ___ 17 Muckraker Tarbell 18 “The West Wing”

creator 20 Bimonthly tides 22 Tidy 23 Legal guardian 26 Naval petty officer 30 Accident

consequences 32 Tom who hosted “The

Late Late Show” 34 Beach volleyball

team, e.g. 36 Whimsically

humorous 38 Tear asunder 39 Make a deep

impression 41 Bermuda border 43 “You can say that

again!” 44 Kunis of TV and film 45 Group of six 47 Poetic adverb 48 Pertaining to the

eyes 51 Bygone Spanish coin 53 Away from one’s

mouth 55 Islamic fasting month 58 Sweeping story 60 Look at things to

come? 61 They can be used

remotely? 67 Pimple 68 What a chiropractor

manipulates 69 Cunning 70 Id’s counterpart 71 Awaits action 72 Enlighten 73 “Smoking or ___?”

DOWN 1 It’s removed by

stripping 2 Senior church official 3 Group for drivers 4 Dined sumptuously 5 Reproductive cells 6 Monopoly token 7 Commotions 8 Singer Kravitz 9 Equiangular

geometric figure 10 Where many a joke is

set 11 Second-largest deer 12 Self-proclaimed

“greatest” of boxing 13 What boys will be 19 Files litigation 21 Abbreviation on tires

in Greece? 24 Mark replacement

25 Historic time 27 “___ Breckenridge” 28 Cheap 29 “Not a chance!” 31 An alarm stops it 33 “In the Line of Fire”

actress Russo 34 Audition tape 35 New York burg 37 Not as strict 40 Angel costume

accessory 42 Discovery launcher 46 Jack the “Manassa

Mauler” 49 Rugged mountain

ridges 50 Spellbound 52 Road surfacing stuff 54 Lord of the manor 56 Barcelona buddy 57 “___ my watch!” 59 Disgusting buildup 61 Cleo’s feller? 62 Follow, as in Simon

Says 63 Recycling receptacle 64 “Then what

happened?” 65 “East” on a

grandfather clock 66 Character in a

Christmas special, often

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Today’s Crossword Puzzle

Blimey! Only 22 of the 196 countries in the world have never been invaded by the British.

Caved In By Nick Kryshak nkryshak@wisc.edu

By Melanie Shibley shibley@wisc.edu

Being hip, and therefore, square© Puzzles by Pappocom

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

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

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“I want you to draw a man with Kirby’s face in a suit riding a bike. While he’s rid-ing his bike, he grabs a cup of coffee on his hand and a piece of cheesecake on the other hand. Also, he’s pedalling with his left leg, wearing a long sock and pants fold-ed up to his left knee. His right foot is on the bike handle bar. His face looks spacey with half opened eyes and he’s drooling. And he doesn’t notice that he’s about to fall into a manhole.”

-Andre S.

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men’s Hockey

Sophomore defenseman Jake McCabe and the Wisconsin men’s hockey team are looking to move closer to earning an NCAA bid with a pair of home wins this weekend over Penn State.

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badgers take on Penn State for first timeby matt mastersonthe dAily CArdiNAl

Coming off a big win over No. 2 Minnesota in Chicago last weekend, the No. 18 Wisconsin men’s hockey team is return-ing to Madison to host Penn State in the first ever meeting between the two teams.

While they are not facing a WCHA oppo-nent this weekend, the Badgers (10-7-7 WCHA, 13-10-7 over-all) cannot afford to let any game get away from them.

Wisconsin is cur-rently ranked 25th in the USCHO.com Pairwise rankings—one of the definitive sets of rankings used in deter-mining NCAA bids.

“I think we know where we are in the Pairwise,” sophomore defense-man Jake McCabe said. “We’ve got to do work here in the next six games to try and get in that top-16 and get an NCAA berth. I think that’s what our main focus is.”

“We need to build our resume and the only way we can build our resume is to get some ‘W’s this weekend,” head coach Mike Eaves said.

The team’s 3-2 win over Minnesota in the Hockey City Classic last weekend not only helped in the Badgers in the conference standings, it also helped to bring the team together in the locker room.

“Yea I think so,” freshman forward Nic Kerdiles said about his team coming together last weekend. “We were all jok-ing around Saturday when we got there and getting to look around during practice and see everything. Obviously every-

body enjoyed it and we all had some laughs together.”

On a national stage, the Badgers also showed off to the country that they can compete anywhere and with any team in the country.

“I think that was our brand of hockey,” McCabe said. “We grind-ed it out, our goals weren’t pretty, but that’s what it’s going to take. Earlier in the year we weren’t quite get-ting those gritty goals and finally we’re starting to see those.”

The Nittany Lions (12-13)—who are in their f irst season of Division-1

hockey—are riding a seven game win streak, and have earned victories over Ohio State, Michigan State and Alabama-Huntsville.

This series will serve as a preview for next season as both teams will be joining the Big Ten conference for 2013-’14.

“If they can beat us, they’re going to be coming in on a high next year and we don’t want to give them that at all so we’re going to come out hard and play our game and keep

it simple,” Nic Kerdiles said. “We’re going to respect them just like every other opponent and we’re going to play our game out there.”

Penn State is led offen-sively by a pair of freshman forwards in David Glen and Casey Bailey. They are tied for the team-lead with 25 points and Glen is tied with UW junior forward Michael Mersch for tenth in the coun-try with 16 goals.

With the state wrestling tournament taking over the Kohl Center this weekend, the hockey games have been pushed back to Sunday and Monday, giving Wisconsin extra time to prepare coming off of an emotional series and facing a team they have never seen before.

“Our coaches do a pretty good job of pre-scout videos,” McCabe said. “They’ll pull clips from their previous games and whatnot so we can scout their power play and penalty kill so we have a pretty good idea of what their systems are.”

The Nittany Lions are playing in their last two games of the season, while Wisconsin still has two more series remaining—heading to Nebraska-Omaha next week-end and hosting conference-leading St. Cloud State in the final week of the season.

“Nobody is looking past [Penn State] because they understand that we need wins,” Eaves said. “It would be our 14th and 15th win … so they’re talking about that. I think because of what’s at stake here at the end of the year, that we’re focused on what we need to do this weekend.”

The puck drops at 7 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Kohl Center.

women’s Hockey

Wisconsin women head to Bemidji State in regular season finale

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defense has been key to Wisconsin’s late season run, and no player has embodied that more than goaltender Alex rigsby.

by rex Sheildthe dAily CArdiNAl

It is not where you start, it is where you finish. This phenom-enon extends to teams year-in and year-out, especially to the No. 6 Wisconsin women’s hock-ey team (15-9-2 WCHA, 19-9-2 overall) this season.

After enduring their first three-game losing streak in pro-gram history early in conference play, the Badgers have come on strong as of late, winning five out of their last eight series—includ-ing two consecutive sweeps—and are playing their best hockey when it matters most.

Wisconsin will look to build upon its momentum this week-end as they hit the road to take on conference foe Bemidji State (5-20-1, 6-22-2) for the final series of the regular season Friday and Saturday.

While it is just another conference series for the Badgers, it can be viewed as a chance for redemption, with the Beavers spoiling opening night of LaBahn Arena with a 1-0 victory.

“It’s not a revenge I don’t think—at least I don’t get into that. You look over the course of a season and there’s prob-ably one, two, three, four games you would like to have back,” head coach Mark Johnson said. “Obviously being the opening night in our home building, you would like to have it back...It comes down to that ability to execute and play hard for six periods and that’s what we’re looking forward to do.”

A large part of the Badgers late-season success has been the play of their defense, as they have only allowed 49 goals—good for second-best in the WCHA. At the beginning of the year, the defense was faced with the absence of senior defense-man Stefanie McKeough and new faces on the line, forcing a

difficult maturation process in communication and trust.

However, experience and improved communication amongst the defensive line has translated into the recent success.

“I think that’s an underly-ing theme that if you’re going to be successful, especially at the end of the season, you’re going to have to defend well,” Johnson said. “For most of [the defensive players], they’ve improved and it’s helped us win hockey games.”

Junior goaltender Alex Rigsby echoed her coach’s remarks. “I think the biggest thing for us that has been different than the past couple years I’ve been here has been communication between defenseman. I think that’s helped a lot.”

While the defense as a col-lective unit has improved dra-matically, the improvement of junior defenseman Natalie Berg should be noted. During her first two seasons on the ice, Berg appeared in a total of 36 games, compared to 27 games already this year. Moreover, the elevated game-time experience has helped her gain more con-fidence on the ice and made her an integral part of the defense.

“I’d say a big part of that is game experience,” Berg said about her improvement this year. “Playing against Bemidji [State], it was some of the first couple games I played in—it’s just gaining confi-dence in game situations.”

The common phrase of “offense wins games, defense wins championships” is used frequently in lieu of a team’s postseason run and ultimately defines a championship. When asked if this extended to this year Badgers’ squad, Berg did not hesitate in her affirmation.

“Definitely, I think so. We’ve really developed over the sea-son,” Berg said. “I think Rigsby trusts [the defense] enormously.”

Jake mcCabesophomore defensemanWisconsin men’s hockey

“we’ve got work to do here in the next six

games to try and get in that top-16 and get an

nCaa berth.”

16Number of goals by UW’s Michael Mersch and Penn State’s David Glen, who are tied for tenth in the nation.

0Number of previous matchups between Wisconsin and Penn State.