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What Madison lost when Kennedy diedA president who symbolized idealism and inspired sociopolitical awareness

S tepping out of his 11 a.m. calculus class as a sopho-more at the University of

Wisconsin-Madison 50 years ago, current Mayor Paul Soglin immediately realized some-thing was wrong.

“I got out of class, which was at Van Vleck, and walked alongside Bascom Hall to go down to the Union. At that hour, there were literally thou-sands and thousands of people going to and from class, and there was no one on the hill,” Soglin said.

“After I walked around Bascom Hall by North Hall, I ran into one lone guy and I said to him, ‘Where is everyone?’ It was like a scene out of one of these science fiction movies where you’ve got a city that’s desolate and all the people are gone,” he added. “And he said, ‘Haven’t you heard? The presi-dent was shot and they think he may be dead.’”

On Nov. 22, 1963, Soglin said he stood at the top of Bascom, devastated. And as he walked to Memorial Union to stand with students glued to the television, UW-Madison professor Joe Elder walked to his graduate-level sociological theory lecture.

Elder said although he noticed the flag at half staff, he was not aware President

John F. Kennedy had been shot until a student interrupted him during lecture. Despite his stu-dents assuming class would be canceled, Elder carried on.

“I can’t think of a good rea-son not to have a class. I’m here, you’re here,” Elder told his stu-dents. “I began giving the lec-ture, but it was one of these, ‘what’s going to happen here?’

and I was sort of amazed and horrified at the notion ... some-thing awful had happened.”

It was not until another fac-ulty member notified him the university had closed that Elder said, “OK, that’s all for today.”

During the following week, Elder said he was engrossed in keeping up with the details of the president’s assassination as

they emerged. At first, everyone watched television to find answers.

“What happened? Who did it? What would happen to Jackie?” Elder said.

As the story unfolded, Elder watched Lee Harvey Oswald get shot and Kennedy’s funeral procession. He said it was as if everything shut down until the funeral ended.

Elder said the UW-Madison faculty displayed “sorrow, dis-may, uneasiness … the possibil-ity that something was coming unraveled,” Elder said. “Mostly, it was like losing a friend.”

Although campus shut down, state Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, said the Capitol remained open. Fifty years ago today, Risser was sitting in a dentist’s chair when he heard Kennedy was shot. He said he ran home and spent the remainder of his day watching the news.

“It takes a while to register, because you can’t believe it,” Risser said. “The first feeling is that this couldn’t happen. And then when you realized it hap-pened, you get mad and sad at the same time.”

Risser said he personally met and spoke with Kennedy several times during his 1960 presidential campaign. At the Democratic National Convention, Risser was a del-egate under Hubert Humphrey, one of Kennedy’s demo-cratic competitors. Kennedy tried to persuade Risser and Humphrey’s other delegates to join his campaign.

“He was quite affirmative, quite focused,” Risser said. “I remember talking to him, saying ‘Get your staff out of here and let us talk to you personally.’ So he told his staff

A presidential hopeful at the time, Sen. John Kennedy, D-Mass., talks to University of Wisconsin-Madison students while visiting the Memorial Union May 16, 1958.

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Baldwin tweets with Wisconsin students

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., hosted a press conference Thursday through Twitter to give students a chance to ask her ques-tions about national political issues.

In an effort to connect with university students, Baldwin openly tweeted answers to their political questions. The issues that concerned students varied from health care and education to research grants and social issues.

One of the most frequent top-ics discussed was affordable health care for young people. A student tweeted a question asking how young Americans can get help enrolling in the federal and state health care exchanges. Baldwin said it is important for young people to have access to health services.

“We know young people aren’t invincible & need access to afford-able health care,” Baldwin tweeted.

Other students tweeted about the importance of education, including student loan rates and specifically the Computer Science

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A proposed residential development incited con-cerns at a community meet-ing Thursday from residents and University of Wisconsin-Madison students worried it would cost the Mansion Hill neighborhood some of its his-toric character and affordable housing options.

Steve Brown Apartments is proposing to construct a triad of adjacent five-story apartments at 121, 123 and 127 W. Gilman St. The project would require the Highlander House be torn down as well as a house built in 1894, located at 127 W. Gilman St., which Steve Brown Apartments Manager Dan Seeley said is structurally “unsalvageable.”

The apartments would col-lectively include 59 units and decrease the current room den-

sity on the three plots from 186 beds to 64.

Zach Remijas and Jake Roth, two UW-Madison students who planned to live at 123 W. Gilman St. next year, said the increased rental rates would force them to look elsewhere for housing.

Remijas and Roth said as it currently stands, each of them and their three other room-mates would pay approximately $634 per month to live in the four-bedroom house. However, Seeley said the proposed apart-ments are projected to cost approximately $900 per bed-room per month.

Given the rates and the amenities, David Pokorny, a former Epic Systems employee who now works for Sagacious Consultants, said the proposed housing is clearly aimed at the Epic Systems work force.

The amenities Steve Brown Apartments is proposing include underground park-ing, granite countertops and in-unit clothing washers and dryers. Pokorny also took

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The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee approved the 2014-’15 budget for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán at a meeting Wednesday after a long debate from committee members.

MEChA introduced its pro-posed budget to SSFC last Monday. MEChA is a group that aims to empower students of the Chicano society through education and political involve-ment, according to the organi-zation’s website.

SSFC Chair David Vines said the majority of the contro-versy regarding the approval of MEChA’s budget stemmed from “whether or not the travel and events line item was over the $15,000 cap that is established in the bylaws.”

SSFC Vice Chair Ian Malmstadt introduced this con-

cern to the committee, citing that there were line items pro-posed by the organization as direct services that should be considered events.

MEChA representatives protested the claim, saying they had met with a financial advisor and were in accordance with the bylaws.

Vines noted there was “ambi-guity” among committee mem-bers as to what should be consid-ered a direct service and an event.

According to SSFC Rep. Devon Maier, direct services are any activities facilitated by organizations that are per-formed without the aid of out-side speakers or training. Maier said because speakers would be present at many of MEChA’s proposed direct services, those activities would be considered events and should be placed in the events line item.

ASM Assistant Director

of Financial Services Rich Sterkowitz said a financial advi-sor told MEChA its proposed budget exceeded the $15,000 cap and advised it to alter its budget to fix that issue.

SSFC members trans-ferred and removed funds from MEChA’s proposed budget and ultimately approved the organi-zation’s $82,422 budget in a 5-2 vote with one abstention.

The committee also heard a 2014-’15 budget proposal from Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group. WISPIRG’s mission, according to its website, is to try to evoke change in the world by encour-aging students to get involved in current events.

WISPIRG Chair Mariella Treleven noted only 9 percent of last year’s budget was not used.

SSFC will make a decision on WISPIRG’s budget at a meeting Monday.

New service to evaluate research ethics on campus

The Research Ethics Consultation Service, a new program for scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be available for ethical dilem-mas that arise during research, according to a news release.

The service will be available for scientists who come across ethical problems, commonly found in research areas such as human test subjects, animal wel-fare and intellectual property.

The Research Ethics Consultation team will help by referencing commonly accepted procedural methods

in relation to these dilemmas.According to data from simi-

lar services at other universi-ties, RECS is expected to receive 20-30 inquires annually.

In the release, bioethics pro-fessor Pilar Ossorio said she expects the panels will receive numerous questions in the field of genetic information due to challenges coming from genome sequencing and genetic mark-ers linked to serious diseases.

Researchers should consider using the service whenever they feel troubled about the future of a project, Ossorio said.

issue with the trend of develop-ers catering downtown hous-ing to Epic Systems employees because he said young profes-sionals, most of whom only stay in Madison for a few years, are “not invested in the city.”

“They don’t care if it’s a histor-ic district or not,” Pokorny said. “They just want to live downtown because they want to go to the bars and that doesn’t add to the

culture of the neighborhood.”Remijas agreed, and

said although Steve Brown Apartments made some fair concessions to adapt its pro-posal to the neighborhood’s aesthetic tradition, “it kind of seems like an effort to push students out of the area.”

The proposal will next go to the Landmarks Commission Monday before possibly going to the city for final approval as early as January.

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Education Act, which pro-motes K-12 computer education. Baldwin addressed both issues by emphasizing the impor-tance of improving the economy through responsible spending. She also said the government should spend money by encour-aging studies and research in areas, such as science and engi-neering, where looming seques-ter cuts could have a large effect.

“There are some amazing young researchers & innova-

tors in Wisconsin but [seques-ter] cuts are threatening their futures,” Baldwin tweeted.

Baldwin was also asked about updates on social issues such as pro-choice policies. Baldwin responded by say-ing Congress is opposed to the assault on womens’ reproduc-tive health rights. Another stu-dent wondered whether or not Congress could regain the pub-lic’s trust. Baldwin replied that she is more concerned on prog-ress instead of playing politics.

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to leave and was in the room alone with us and communicated with us, answered our questions. It was quite an experience.”

Elder said he too had a per-sonal experience with Kennedy, when the Massachusetts sena-tor at the time sat on the board of regents at Elder’s Harvard Ph.D. commencement ceremo-ny in June of 1959.

“So there he was with his top hat, and everybody was talking about this young senator who looked like he might run for president’s office,” Elder said.

After earning his degree, Elder contemplated joining the Peace Corps and said for years he trained Peace Corps volun-teers going to India. Because of that, he said he felt very engaged in Kennedy’s foreign diplomacies, especially in India.

Soglin also said the Peace

Corps became a popular option for UW-Madison students fol-lowing Kennedy’s assassina-tion. For those already politi-cally active like himself, Soglin said the incident “led us to reinforce our commitment to change.” In addition, Soglin said it mobilized other students to become involved with “an intensity that was never seen prior to the 1960s.”

“Up until the president’s assassination, U.S. students were probably less political than any other university students in the world,” Soglin said. “With President Kennedy’s election, there’s record campus political activity, which is then increased with his assassination, and we see it through the next decade.”

Elder also mentioned the shift in the campus climate when Kennedy was elected into office. His presidency was “kind of like a euphoria,” Elder said. “We felt very good in the United States about having a vigorous, young, well-educat-ed, progressive president. And then, he was killed.”

And then he was killed. What would have happened if Kennedy did not die? Although nobody was asking it at the time, Soglin said when reflect-ing on his death, this is the most valuable question.

“The most important thing is what would have happened to this country if President Kennedy had lived,” Soglin said.

He said despite all the con-spiracy theories, “There’s others of us who think that maybe the social and economic changes in the fight for equity and equality would have advanced further if President Kennedy had not died.”

Fifty years later, people continue to speculate on what could have been. Fifty years later, people continue to be influenced by Kennedy’s legacy, a legacy from which Elder said lessons can be learned.

“There was this element of idealism, which he captured,” Elder said. “And a sense of youth-fulness. His death was a great loss. Here was somebody who was just getting going, who was bright and well-educated … the kind of person you were pleased to have in the White House.”

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Optimus Historius revealed himself to Madison natives, causing damage to both Library Mall and students’ psyches.

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After decades of speculation about the Mosse Humanities building’s odd design, the truth was revealed by the building itself Thursday.

Students at the scene reported the ground began to shake when the Humanities building rose up into the air and transformed into a new being altogether. Lecture halls and classrooms shifted into place, hallways became support columns, and the central air piping morphed into a circulatory system.

When the transformation was complete, Humanities stood an impressive eight stories tall and looked down upon the awed students and faculty with a pair of eyes constructed out of win-dows and personal computers.

“I am Optimus Historius,” announced the newcomer

in a deep and digital voice. “I arrived here from a world destroyed by the sort of conflict which now threatens yours. When I landed in what you call the ’60s, the social climate was too confrontational for me to reveal myself. Now I come to you, ready to aid in your epic battle against the Decepticons.”

To many on campus, including members of the History department, this does not come as a surprise.

“I always thought the build-ing’s design was backwards. Everyone told me it was sup-posed to be riot proof, but even that was a lousy excuse to exclaim that entangling laby-rinth of a floor plan,” assistant professor Mike Bey said.

This development might also explain the dozens of pro-fessors and students commit-

ted to psychiatric wards after repeatedly reporting hearing alien voices speaking of ‘All-Sparks’ and ‘Cybertron’.

“Oops,” Optimus Historius said when asked about the incidence of psychological problems.

Interestingly, no other Transformers have revealed themselves around the world. Optimus Historius has said he came ahead of his fellow Autobots at their request.

“They said they’d be here a little while after me,” he reported, looking rather uncomfortable.

“They never did like how much I talked about history though. Now that I think about it, the war with the Decepticons was going pretty well when they told me we were evacuating. Say, do any of you guys have an interspatial communicator? I gotta make a call.”

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Over the last few years, hype surrounding Black Friday shopping has reached an all-time high. So much so that for the past few years, stampedes for the top deals and fights among shoppers have become regular. Electronics supplier Best Buy looks to prevent such atrocities in its stores.

Best Buy is well known for its Geek Squad tech sup-port team. They are a group of employees that drive around doing in-home IT sup-port jobs. However, on Black Friday, they will operate as a Riot Squad.

“I took this job because I know how to use computers. Tackling people and using force wasn’t really my skill set,

but after going through the Police Academy, I am more than ready to throw some tear gas, and shoot some rub-ber bullets,” local Geek Squad Manager Tony Clark said. “Plus getting paid overtime helps.”

As competitors will be over-run by savage bargain hunters and coupon clippers, Best Buy will have the recently named “Riot Squad” patrolling the parking lot before they open at midnight to make sure patrons

are in orderly lines. Then, once the doors open, they will let one customer in at a time, using their riot shields to hold back the rest of the deal-crazed shoppers.

“Do I think this is pretty crazy? Yeah. Do I think it will work? Definitely,” 50-year Black Friday veteran Shelly Smith said. “I’m pretty sure I knocked someone out last year, it was all such a blur. This is a necessary change.”

Heralded economists including The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Krugman

weighed in on the situa-tion, agreeing this will

improve Best Buy’s sales.

“People don’t want to die on Black Friday. If that means

entering into a store run like a military state,

it’s a sacrifice consumers will make,” Krugman said.

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Jungle natives were frustrat-ed after another routine chase sequence ended in a successful waterfall jump Wednesday.

Archaeologist-Adventurer Jared Lang escaped the natives after diving off of a 100 foot water-fall, the third treasure-seeker to do so this month.

“I keep replaying the whole thing in my head over and over try-ing to figure out how we let this happen again,” one irritated native said.

After removing a golden idol from the inner sanctum of the Temple of Riches and outrun-ning a boulder booby-trapped to roll over him, Lang was pursued by the angry natives through the ruins of the Lost City.

“We knew the boulder wouldn’t get him, it never gets anybody. So, we did some light stretching and got ready for the big chase like we always do,” another native said.

Lang headed for the tree-line with the natives hot on his heels. Initially, Lang’s chances of sur-vival were slim.

“There were arrows whizzing by my head, snakes dangling from trees and tons of quicksand.” Lang said. “Seriously, I’ve never seen so much quicksand in my life.”

Lang gained some ground when he crossed a piranha-filled stream by using alligators’ heads as stepping-stones. But the relentless natives closed the gap after a vine Lang was swinging on snapped in his hand.

However, the natives knew the chase would end in disap-pointment after they encircled a ragged Lang at a clearing over-looking the large waterfall.

“I just threw my spear into the ground,” the lead native said. “And you just knew he was going to survive the jump, too.”

Lang took the plunge, neither dashing his brains on the out-croppings below nor the sharp rocks at the bottom of the falls. He swam to shore and bran-dished the golden idol for the natives to see.

At press time, sources con-firmed the natives had given up trying to roll the 15 ton booby trap boulder back into place after four hours of back-break-ing effort.

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A primer on how to brave the noiseBy Cameron GraffThe Daily CarDiNal

A little while back my girl-friend went to a My Bloody Valentine show. I don’t know exactly what she was expect-ing (“I’ve never really listened to Loveless but it makes great study music,” she said to me a little while prior—not a wrong statement at all, though certain-ly not how I think of MBV), but what she got seemed to sur-prise her. She enjoyed it, but found the noisier aspects of the show a bit unnerving. Choice texts on the matter included “I wish I could wear two pairs of ear plugs at once.” When the band closed with their standard 30-minute take on “You Made Me Realize”—about 10 percent of which was actual song and the rest monstrous waves of 130-decibel feedback—she con-sidered leaving early.

As jealous as I was of her attend-ing, I couldn’t really blame her for having doubts. I’ve never been to a show quite as loud as that, but I’ve come close. Over the summer I saw Swans play an (admittedly muted) set at the Pitchfork Music Festival, and even then every drum hit felt like a nail going through your brain. Later that night I saw Marshstepper and Pharmakon play their variations on power electronics and death industrial in the tiny upstairs bar of the Bottom Lounge. Their particular brand of sonic holocaust was so loud it bordered on evisceration. I was fairly certain I was going to puke at one point. It was probably the best show I saw all summer.

This naturally begs the ques-tion I get all the time: Why would anyone ever listen to something like that?

I don’t really have a concrete answer, honestly. In all of the

avant-garde’s most vile forms—especially harsh noise or wall of noise—it’s hard to give a rational or even sane explana-tion for the appeal. As opposed to most variations of pop, rock and roll, world music, hip-hop, electronica and so on, the point of the music here isn’t strictly entertainment, oftentimes it’s just as obsessed with discom-fort as pleasure, a concept that’s often times hard to get over. Yet, people keep tuning in, and with every year since Luigi Russolo’s proto experiments in 1913—espe-cially accelerated following the advent of the Internet—the scene and the sounds keep growing.

It’s not like noise doesn’t have a few claws skin deep into the flesh of the mainstream, either. If we’re talking indie rock, the early scene was replete with sonic troublemakers. Mission of Burma, Sonic Youth, Big Black, The Velvet Underground and others all toyed with abrasion and dissonance. Going up a layer, Neil Young and Iggy Pop had spheres of their careers marked by crushing distortion and ato-nality. Hell, even Skrillex and his brostep ilk, obsessed with their “dirty drops,” have a toe in noise.

So maybe noise isn’t actu-ally all that repulsive—at least not in the macrocosm. There’s always been some sort of primal urge in music to churn up chaos or violence and generally noise feels like a necessary and whol-ly natural extension of that, something that most people can at least sympathize with. And it’s not all unfocused and pain obsessed. Sometimes there’s a shocking amount of beauty hid-den under all the gruesome ele-ments too, and sometimes it can even be playful.

Kazumoto Endo’s While You

Were Out is a particularly glee-ful example; converging obnox-ious disco loops with blasts of dissonant sound, the result is something almost carnivalesque, a Dadaist justification of noise’s structureless aggression. Yellow Swans’ Going Places is remark-ably beautiful and soothing, with sonic textures that shimmer and flow under all the obfus-cating squall. Prurient and Pete Swanson have started dabbling in techno and EDM, infusing it with their distinct idiosyncra-sies. It’s not all just mindless flailing at knobs and dials to chase away the normies—a big intention of noise music is to push music itself, to see how far it will bend before it shatters into something absolutely unlis-tenable. I don’t think that will ever happen, but that won’t stop

people from trying. Anecdotally, I’ve come to love

noise and its brood through an adapted perspective. A friend of mine once shrugged off a bad breakup (after all the obligatory tissue shredding and ice cream gobbling) by acknowledging it as “just part of the spectrum.” Life is a variety of experienc-es—the good, the bad, the in between, all together they form a complete existence. I’ve sort of taken that to heart with all fac-ets of my life, media included.

We frequently see this philoso-phy reflected in film more openly than in music. People watch hor-ror flicks, unnerving depictions of physical violence and other wholly unsettling displays on the regular. Literature and physical art also often dwell in grittier and more uncompromising topics.

Why should music be any dif-ferent? It can’t be all sunshine and flowers and the Beatles all day (nevermind that, especially with Yoko’s influence, some later Beatles material dabbled heavily in noise).

Sometimes, especially after a lifetime of glossy radio pop, it feels good to get the ears a little dirty. To explore the textures and sounds and concepts and ideas that never in a million years would you have thought appealing. I can’t promise you’ll love it, or even like it—but you’ll be able to walk away saying you’ve experienced one more shade of life. I think that’s maybe the most important thing that art can offer you.

Think all music these days is just noise anyways? Let Cameron know at cgraff2@wisc.edu.

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‘Almost Human’ treads a frustratingly predictable pathBy Jake smasalThe Daily CarDiNal

I’ve been a fan of J.J. Abrams for a long time. He’s made one of my favorite TV shows—“Lost”—and some damn good movies to boot. However, judging by the pre-views for his new show, “Almost Human,” it seems like the show is going to go down some well-traveled TV drama paths.

From what I can tell, the show revolves around a police detec-tive named John Kennex, played by Abrams mainstay Karl Urban, as he struggles to solve crimes in the future. Now, because this is the future, each detective has to be paired up with a police robot, which is a generally emotionless machine that catches things people don’t. Think Sherlock Holmes without the air of superiority and the accent.

However, Kennex gets paired with an older model of these future

robots that is designed to feel, and seems to envy humans their humanity. Stop me if you’ve heard this before.

Judging by this, there are a few things we can guess about this new Blade Runner/Cop Out hybrid.

First of all, I can tell you that this not the first time Kennex has had contact with a robot, and I would gamble that the interac-tion was not exactly positive. My bet is that a robot backfired in

some way and killed his wife, children or some other fam-ily member(s). This will lead our gruff but lovable detective to dis-trust our robot for the majority of the two-hour pilot.

Things will change at the end of the pilot when the feely-robot, who is named Dorian, does something that irrevocably proves his worth to Urban. This will probably consist of sav-ing Kennex’s life in some way, followed by a snide one-liner that may or may not connect to something Kennex said earlier.

But alas! The two will not immediately become best friends. Kennex will gradually grow to truly trust Dorian over the next few episodes as they solve a suc-cession of cases nobody else seems to be able to solve.

Also, for a while at least, the show will play to the feeling that

Dorian is actually more human than Kennex. This little bit of irony will manifest itself in different ways, but viewers will mostly be able to notice that Dorian express-es and uses his feelings much more than Kennex does. Kennex seems to be too tough for anything that isn’t sarcasm or, well, toughness.

Taking a break from my pre-dictions, I would like to point out that this has become a com-mon thread in recent televi-sion, both comedy and drama. More and more, networks are reworking and retooling old concepts. As I have mentioned, “Almost Human” seems to be a mix between a sci-fi movie and an odd couple skit. I can’t help but imagine J.J. Abrams catch-ing the last hour of “I Robot” on FX and suddenly coming up with this idea for a show. This is not new territory for anyone, let

alone one of the men who master-minded “Lost,” a show that could go down as the most unpredict-able of all time. While there cer-tainly seem to be unique aspects to “Almost Human,” the overall concept is familiar in everything from “Metropolis” to “Righteous Kill”—and that should be a con-cern for TV fans everywhere. I understand that TV is a business. I understand that people need to make money, but I wish Abrams would live up to his significant creative talents.

As for the rest of my predic-tions, I can also guarantee a hard, edgy police chief, a bunch of gad-gets that further the plot in pre-cisely zero ways and a love interest that will appear for either Kennex or Dorian within six episodes.

Did you really like “Almost Human?” Let Jake know at Smasal@wisc.edu.

THEPLAYLIST

Today’s playlist is in honor of the piano, the bane of every childhood misspent in the clutches of its ivory claws.

1 2 3 54 Wussy—“Magnolia”

Billie holiday—“i Wished on the Moon”

Bob Dylan—“Queen Jane Approximately”

suburbs—“Tape your Wife To The Ceiling”

nick Cave & The Bad seeds—“nature Boy”It’s a Nick Cave song, there’s a piano part. What more do you want?

The third best song on Highway 61 Revisted, this gor-geous ballad is a treat for the ears.

Wussy, Ohio’s great-est rock band, took it to the next level with 2011’s Strawberry, and in particular with this song.

This Minneapolis new wave act knew how to rock, and once the piano joins in, it’s a party.

Billie Holiday’s moni-ker was Lady Day, but on this song, the Lady embraces the night.

While there certainly seem to be unique aspects

to “Almost human,” the overall concept is familiar in everything from “Metropolis” to

“righteous Kill.”

opinion

A s you’ve probably heard, the Affordable Care Act has had a bit of a bumpy

rollout. At first, healthcare.gov, the website used to enroll new cus-tomers, was having technical dif-ficulties. Individuals were unable to sign up for the exchange through the website. Congressional hear-ings were held, and the creators of the website were questioned relent-lessly. In addition to the website not operating as expected, people were being kicked off their exist-ing insurance plans. This was not exactly what the Democrats had planned, and the Republicans were letting them hear it. So who really is to blame for all of these struggles and what can be done to fix them?

Republicans would like to say President Barack Obama is responsible for this whole mess. President Obama said multiple times before the law went into effect that if you liked your coverage plan, you could keep it after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. This promise has turned to be prob-lematic as people have been losing their plans. Republicans say that President Obama has broken this promise to the American people.

I disagree with that. President Obama is not the one who broke the promise. He held up his end of the dealt was the insurance companies who didn’t meet their end. The reason plans are being cancelled is because these plans do not meet the mini-mum standards required by the ACA. Lawmakers knew people had these plans prior to 2010 and that some might want to keep them, so lawmakers accounted for this. When the ACA was passed March 2010, there was a provision that said people who had these plans prior to the pas-

sage of the bill would be grandfa-thered in and would be allowed to keep the plans. Canceling the plans because they do not meet the set standards are all plans that were sold after the passage of the ACA. Insurance companies knew these plans did not comply with the ACA and would be cancelled but they con-tinued to sell them. President Obama could do nothing about this. So the blame does not rest with President Obama, rather the insurance companies.

Solutions are needed for both these issues. IT specialists are working non-stop on the healthcare.gov website, and a solution to this problem is being devised. It is essential that this solution is given time to fab-ricate and rushing it will only cause a larger mess.

As for the issue of plans being cancelled, President Obama and Republicans each have their own solution to fix the problem. Representative Fred Upton, a Republican from Michigan, has introduced a bill that he thinks will fix the issue. In his plan, people would be allowed to pur-chase plans that do not meet the standards set by the ACA for no penalty. This is a terrible idea because it will undercut the entire bill. These low cost plans are usually sold to young-er, healthier people who do not need such comprehensive plans. By allowing these plans to con-tinue to exist, they are essen-tially cutting out the legs from under the Affordable Care Act. Premiums will rise because the market will be skewed toward individuals who are more prone to injury or sickness.

It is critical that young people sign up for health care exchanges because they balance the market, and ensure the insurance market remains solvent. By allowing peo-ple to keep these low cost plans

without penalty, the Affordable Care Act will fail.

President Obama has pro-posed a much more rational plan for the issue. In his pro-posal, these plans can be sold for another year to people who have already purchased one. This will allow people with these plans

another year to search for ones that fit the standards set by the ACA. President Obama’s pro-posal will smooth the transition and rollout of the ACA, unlike Representative Upton’s plan that would set the ACA up to fail.

As President Obama has said, the rollout was fumbled. Mistakes

were made, and this is unfortunate. However, this is only a small part of the big game, and there are solu-tions to the problems. Lawmakers need to take a step back, and it is essential to realize patience is of the utmost importance.

Please send all feedback to opin-ion@dailycardinal.com.

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S quish! You might remember that sound. That was the sound of the vanquished

Republican Party under the feet of Democrats in last year’s general election. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney—a formidable, moderate candidate who ran on the far right to win his party’s nomi-nation lost to President Barack Obama, failing to win nearly all swing states. This, too, was the case in Congress. Democrats won nearly every important seat in the Senate, like that of Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri, where her opponent famously asserted women’s uter-uses have magical powers to undo the pregnancies of rape. They even reigned in Indiana, a state Gov. Romney won, after Sen. Joe Donnelly’s opponent made similar comments about these pregnancies being “a gift from God.” President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress trounced their Republican opposition despite the intense winds of the economic downturn blowing against them.

After sulking around and lick-

ing their wounds, Republicans dusted off their Italian-made suits, reshaped their finely designed com-bovers and did some much needed soul-searching and self-reflection. Looking into their political woes, Republicans discovered something quite strange—political minorities don’t vote for them.

Indeed, voting blocs like Hispanics, women and the LGBT community don’t go to the polls for the Republican Party. Upon this realization, Chairman Reince Priebus issued several prescrip-tions for an ailing Republican Party, each promoting a recurring theme: It’s time for the GOP to reform its extreme social ideology and rein in its members who refuse. Among other things, Priebus called for his colleagues in government to sup-port comprehensive immigration reform, welcome the gay communi-ty and put an end to their “biologi-cally stupid” comments to mitigate their vote share problems. To push the party in that direction, he also called for a more controlled pri-mary process so that leaders don’t need to run so far right to win the votes of primary goers. Yet after a year of legislating and an elec-

tion cycle later, GOP leaders aren’t drinking the slightly less distaste-ful Kool-Aid. Instead, Republicans remain the gauche party they’re known to be.

Their first misstep: immigration reform. After much compromise, the Senate passed a comprehen-sive immigration reform bill this summer: a bill that’s protective of our borders and holds illegal immi-grants accountable while giving those who want to be Americans a pathway to get there. The bill, which could be an overnight politi-cal remedy for Republicans, sits at the desk of Speaker John Boehner, who has promised the House won’t vote on it this year.

Their second misstep: women. House Republicans passed a 20-week abortion ban this sum-mer, and Sen. Lindsey Graham has finally taken up the bill in the Senate. Further, Republican state legislatures, like that of Wisconsin, have pushed through other restrictive abortion bills, worsening the pervasive gender gap Democrats own.

The third: the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. While Democrats in the Senate, with

the help of several moderate Republicans, passed a bill mak-ing it illegal to discriminate against LGBT employees, it remains a non-starter in the House, just like immi-gration reform. While their com-ments to the community are less intolerant than they were 10 years ago, their actions toward LGBT people remain as archaic as ever.

Despite the party’s unwise maneuvers, moderate Republicans claim to have found a beacon of hope—a light of unearthly guid-ance—in Gov. Chris Christie. A maverick, charismatic figure, Christie is a political miracle: a centrist GOP governor of a blue state who just won a landslide re-election against his Democratic opponent. But while certain Republicans believe Christie can be the party healer, their next presidential nominee, and even the next occupant of the White House, their hopes may be tarnished over the next year. Much to their dis-may, Christie is set to become the next chairman of the Republican Governors’ Association where his primary responsibility will be to campaign for his GOP counter-parts across the nation. Doing so

will force him further to the right when he has to defend the policies of figures like Gov. Rick Scott and our own Gov. Scott Walker. His association with these policies—like controversial voter ID laws and failure to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act—could forever taint his centrism in the eyes of the electorate and ruin his presidential ambitions—just like Gov. Romney. Alas, the Republican identity crisis con-tinues while a new party fails to emerge. With looming budget fights and midterm elections, it’s clear 2014 will be a crucial year for Republicans to promote their brand for 2016. Will they pro-mote party discipline? Will the House and their extreme counter-parts move toward the center? It all comes down to one question: Do they want to win? Ultimately, that’s what the GOP has yet to answer correctly.

Do you think the Republican Party can survive without changing their traditional view-points? Is Sean accurate with his description of the GOP? Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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By Cameron KalmonThe daily cardinal

Saturday afternoon No. 19 Wisconsin (5-1 Big Ten, 8-2 overall) travels to Minneapolis to square off against No. 25 Minnesota (4-2, 8-2).

The battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe is expected to be a cold one, with a projected high of 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

Late November football becomes an entirely different game than the late August and September games earlier in the season, when players and coaches need to deal with inju-ries and weekly beatings sus-tained throughout the year.

In below-freezing tempera-tures the ball becomes more firm, making kicking and pass-ing much more difficult. Players need to adjust, keep warm and stay loose.

“When it’s 12 degrees, you need to adjust how you pre-pare, catch the ball better if your hands aren’t as warm as they can be. That’s just a well-known fact,” head coach Gary Andersen said.

“If you get all seized up on the sideline your risk for injury is much higher.”

In the most historic rivalry in college football, Minnesota and Wisconsin meet for the 123rd time.

The Gophers lead the all-time record 58-56-8. Before the current axe trophy, the two teams used to face off for a slab of bacon. The Badgers have held the current prize, Paul Bunyan’s Axe, for the last nine years. Minnesota has been riding a four-game Big Ten win streak and has the same overall record as the Badgers at 8-2.

Wisconsin has an arguably more difficult schedule this season than in the past, los-ing to undefeated No. 3 Ohio State and No. 17 ASU, both on the road. Minnesota has lost to both Michigan and Iowa, whom Wisconsin beat for the Heartland trophy earlier this month.

The Badgers have showcased their running game all season, unleashing senior running back James White and red shirt soph-omore Melvin Gordon, both of whom have over 1,000 rushing yards this season.

In comparison the Gophers’ leading rusher, junior David Cobb, has only 970 yards on 175 attempts. Cobb is averaging 94.2 yards a game.

Wisconsin is also boasting a statistically better quarterback, redshirt sophomore Joel Stave.

The Badgers’ signal caller has 1,948 passing yards and 16 touchdowns this season, while Minnesota’s sophomore quarterback Philip Nelson has passed for 1,128 yards and nine touchdowns in comparison.

Redshirt junior Dallas Lewallen, out the last two games with a knee injury, is currently a game-time decision at center for the Badgers, while redshirt offensive line Dan Voltz is expected to start for Wisconsin.

With a lot of Gopher pride on the line and old man winter attending the game Saturday the Badgers will have to travel to Minneapolis prepared.

“As we all know in rival-ries like this, it’s a one-game championship,” Andersen said. “It’s three hours and whatever minutes it takes to get it done.”

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Minnesota looks to end UW’s reign over the axe

Football

Team effort takes down FalconsBy Blake DuffinThe daily cardinal

After Tuesday’s performance, junior forward Frank Kaminsky knew he had to stay focused and not dwell on the past to win in the Badgers’ first game of the Cancun Challenge Thursday.

Kaminsky and Wisconsin (5-0) found a way to pick up right where they left off Tuesday, defeating Bowling Green University (1-2) in a back-and-forth contest 88-64.

The teams were neck and neck in the early minutes of the game, as the Falcons displayed their athleticism and ability to grab offensive rebounds.

Bowling Green shot 45.2 per-cent in the first half, despite not converting on a three-pointer or free throw the entire first half. Its first three-pointer did not come until midway through the second half, and the Falcons would score 42 of their 64 points in the game from the paint.

Wisconsin, on the other hand, continued its solid three-point shooting, going 7-for-13 from beyond the arc in the first half.

Sixteen minutes into the game

UW paved its way to a 10-point lead, staying in double digits for the remainder of the game.

Wisconsin freshman guard Bronson Koenig came off the bench early in the game, going 2-for-2 from the field, including a 3-pointer and an assist in 11 min-utes of play in the first half.

Koenig finished the game with 10 points and three rebounds on a career-high 27 minutes of play.

“He’s learning to adjust to col-lege also, more so [than others] because he hasn’t played in col-lege,” head coach Bo Ryan said.

The leading scorer for the Badgers at the half was sophomore forward Sam Dekker, but every player that entered the game for Wisconsin in the first half scored, making for a balanced offensive attack that went into halftime with a convincing 44-28 lead.

The Falcons showed a full-court press early in the second half and managed to create a little bit of trouble for the Badgers, gen-erating more than one turnover.

Despite this, Wisconsin domi-nated the second half, never allowing Bowling Green to show

any signs of a comeback.“This group has a lot of guys

who put work in and have made sure that when they get the opportunity with an open look, they’re gonna knock it down,” senior guard Ben Brust said.

It was an overall team effort for UW, with six players scoring in double digits, led by Brust with a team-high of 19.

“We have four or five guys that at any night could easily lead our team in scoring,” Dekker said. “We got to use that to our advan-tage that we have good balance.”

UW shot 60 percent from the 3-point line, 10 percent better than what the Falcons shot from the free throw line, who only managed to make half of their free throw attempts.

Defensively, Wisconsin gave up more points than they would have liked.

“I definitely don’t think we’re happy at all with our defensive performance,” said redshirt junior guard Josh Gasser. “We’re still working through some things. I think it’s better than last game, but still not where we want to be.”

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Sophomore Sam dekker slammed home a basket for Wisconsin Tuesday against north dakota.

Badgers win nCaa tournament openerBy Jonah BeleckisThe daily cardinal

The win or go home mental-ity is what makes the postseason in any sport so compelling and so thrilling. In collegiate athlet-ics, many senior players have reached their peak and will never play a competitive match again.

With their season on the line, Wisconsin (4-3-0 Big Ten, 14-4-2 overall) and its 13 seniors con-tinued their home win streak, beating in-state rival Milwaukee (5-2-0 Horizon League, 15-3-2) 1-0 Thursday night at the McClimon Soccer Complex.

“There are that many seniors who are dying on the field, we literally have nothing left on the field,” senior forward Chris Prince said. “The fact that we have that mentality just makes us an even better team.”

The Badgers almost took advantage of a bobbled shot by Milwaukee goalkeeper Liam Anderson, but it was cleared off the goal line by a Panther defender. It only took until the next chance for Wisconsin to capitalize.

After a cross by senior forward

Nick Janus found Prince, who slotted home what would be the deciding goal in the 13th minute.

“Janus and I have that certain connection where I knew I could see his body turning to bring the ball back across the box and I cut back in front of my man and just tucked it in the back side,” Prince said. “We’ve done that play so many times whether it’s him play-ing me the ball or me playing him the ball. It just worked out perfect.”

It was a physical game in front of almost 1,500 fans characterized by 38 fouls by both teams.

The Wisconsin defense knew Milwaukee’s physicality would come into play when balls were crossed into the danger area.

“This Milwaukee team, their set pieces and their services inside the box were quality all night,” junior defender and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year AJ Cochran said. “We knew this game was going to be won or lost in the air.”

Senior goalkeeper Max Jentsch made two crucial saves in the final minutes of the first half which allowed the Badgers to keep their lead going into the intermission.

Being down a goal at halftime, the Panthers threw everything including the kitchen sink at Wisconsin in the second half.

Milwaukee outshot Wisconsin 9-1 in the second half and had eight corner kicks to the Badgers’ two. Wisconsin’s strong defense han-dled the pressure with composure.

“Max [Jentsch] has been very good recently, he has been rock solid,” head coach John Trask said. “The defense has really come together over the last third of the season ... [Cochran] was fantastic. He was every bit of an All-American tonight.”

And hang on they did. Wisconsin provided a proper finale to their perfect 10-0-0 home season.

Trask and assistant coach Keith Tiemeyer personally paid for 100 tickets, encouraging more fans to come support the Badgers in their first tournament game since 1995.

“I know $4, it’s a sandwich, it’s lunch for college students, I didn’t want people to miss out,” Trask said. “If we are here again next year and we’ve got a home game in the NCAA tournament I guar-antee I will double that number.”

“We wouldn’t be at this point in our season without every single one of our seniors,” Cochran said. “I could say so much about each individual. But just as a group, man they don’t want to lose. And when you have 13 guys who just don’t want to lose in their final sea-

son, it picks everyone else up and raises their level ... You feed off of their energy and their leadership.”

Wisconsin will now travel to South Bend, Ind. to play one of the country’s top teams, the No. 3 seed Notre Dame (7-1-3 ACC, 12-1-6) Sunday at 6 p.m.

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Senior forward chris prince plays in his final UW home game.