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UW-Madison senior dies Wednesday

A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison senior died Wednesday, accord-ing to Dean of Students Lori Berquam.

Berquam said there is no threat to the community but did not have any addi-tional details Wednesday evening.

“We are going to have to try to make sense of it,” she said, “and we are going to mourn the loss of what could have been a potentially amazing leader.”

A former UW-Madison student and friend of the student said losing a friend “just takes you back at first.”

“It’s tough to actually put into, even, words,” he said. “[They] always had your best interests ahead of [their] own.”

Berquam said she hopes students will reach out to other students for support and “make sure that we take care of each other in a time like this.” She added there are resources available to students such as walk-in appoint-ments at University Health Services and a Dean on call at the Dean of Students office.

“Every time that we learn of a stu-dent dying it impacts us as a community,” Berquam said.

Associated Students of Madison unani-mously approved a resolution in support for the controversial Human Resources Redesign proj-ect as well as passed the 2013-14 ASM Internal budget at its meeting Wednesday.

The HR Redesign project resolution sup-ports the implementation of the new HR plan with the added stipulation that stu-dents will continue to be recognized in the decision-making process and that any final plan be presented to Student Council.

Student Council Rep. David Gardner said student involvement was critical in passing the project because students have been “sidestepped” in the process so far.

“We made it very clear that students’ shared governance rights need to be taken into account in these decisions,” Gardner said.

“That’s a condition of our supporting the plan.”Additionally, ASM approved the 2013-14

ASM Internal Budget Wednesday after coun-cil representatives proposed several amend-ments to the budget after the Student Services Finance Committee made cuts to it last week.

Student Council Rep. Kyle Rak proposed an amendment to increase travel grant fund-ing for student organizations by $40,000, following cuts made by SSFC. The amend-ment passed, bringing total funding for travel grants to $120,000.

Members of Model United Nations spoke in open forum about the importance of travel grants, which help fund travel to events and conferences for many student organizations

ASM supports HR Redesign, passes 2013-14 Internal Budget

Officials: budget projection optimistic for UW SystemBy Cheyenne LangkampThe Daily CarDinal

State legislators and university offi-cials said the outlook for state funding of Wisconsin’s universities might be brighter following the Department of Administration’s announcement that the state is projected to have $1.5 billion more than originally pro-jected in the 2013-15 biennial budget.

The additional revenue will give the state legislature an opportunity to better express its priorities through the upcoming budget, Wisconsin State Assembly Republican Rep. John Nygren said.

The specifics of how the state will allo-cate the extra $1.5 billion have yet to be deter-mined, but the future is “looking a little bit rosier” for University of Wisconsin System funding, according to Nygren.

“We have definitely identified education as a priority for us to be able to continue to

grow our economy in Wisconsin,” Nygren said. “While we had to make some tough decisions last time around, we’ll have more flexibility to put dollars behind those priorities in this budget.”

The projection comes following a difficult budget cycle last biennium. In an effort to balance the 2011-13 state biennial budget the UW System received an initial $250 million in cuts, followed by an additional deduction of $66 billion due to a budget lapse.

“We are not above or beyond the difficult economic times we have faced over the last few years,” Nygren said. “I wouldn’t say all things are guaranteed, but the outlook is much brighter.”

The UW System took Wisconsin’s “fragile but improving” economy into account in mak-ing its 2013-15 biennial budget request, accord-ing to UW Spokesperson David Giroux. The

Sports Illustrated poll shows ‘Jump Around’ to be best college football gameday tradition in nation

Sports Illustrated announced Tuesday that fans voted the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “Jump Around” as the greatest in the nation, following a season-long campaign to find the best gameday tradition in college football.

UW-Madison students and fans alike have celebrated the Badgers by “jump-ing around” before the fourth quarter of every home football game since a 1998 game against Purdue.

“Jump Around” beat out traditions from college football powerhouses including the University of Southern California, Ohio State University and

the University of Notre Dame. These traditions range from riding a horse onto the field to touching a sign before leaving the locker room.

The campaign allowed fans to vote on the traditions in an online brack-et. Participants who voted were also entered into a drawing to win a trip to visit the winning tradition, according to the magazine’s website.

Additionally, Sports Illustrated and LG Mobile conducted a mobile tour throughout the country, stopping in eight electronics stores to allow fans to vote in person.

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UW-Madison students have cheered on the Badgers by participating in the “Jump around” tradition since a homecoming game against Purdue in 1998.

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T he warm, hop-heavy days of summer-session drinking on rooftop

patios and Capitol Square beer gardens have long gone, forc-ing us beer geeks to stay home and find comfort in a fridge full of boozy, dark and rich ales. Thankfully, the craft-beer industry feels our pain, consis-tently saving many of its best and most ambitious beers for the cold winter months. Today’s column is devoted to highlight-ing the best of the winter sea-sonal beers to be released in the following months.

Tyranena The Devil Made Me Do It:

I’ll start with a beer that was just released into the Madison market. The Devil Made Me Do It is an Imperial Coffee Porter from the small Wisconsin Tyranena brewery. Anticipate a well-rounded, though not over-the-top profile of tangy oats, dry grain, medium-roast coffee, and a creamy hint of banana.

Bell’s Expedition Stout: This seems to be one of those

beers that has been around so long that everyone sort of forgets how amazing it is. The 2012 edi-tion was released a few weeks ago and has been readily available, despite being simply one of the best stouts in the world. In my opinion, this beer helped invent what the modern imperial stout is, and yet still holds up incred-ibly well after all these years. Unrelentingly rich and flavorful, Expedition Stout features tons of strong espresso, dark choco-late, vanilla, dark fruits and a boozy finish that lends itself well to aging.

Great Lakes Christmas Ale: The so-called “Christmas” or

“Holiday” ale is an enigmatic style of beer that seems to exist as a marketing gimmick rather than for any real purpose. Having said that, the Great Lakes brewers are mas-ters of malt, and their take on the style is actually pretty good. Just be warned that this beer is very sweet—but in a bready, cinnamon roll kind of way that doesn’t really come across as over the top.

Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Stout:

A bourbon barrel aged stout with this 9.5 percent ABV beer is very intense. With an aggres-sive lingering alcohol burn as it scratches down your throat, I would advise maybe aging this beer for a while to calm it down. However, if you are a whiskey/bourbon kind of drinker, then go for it straight off the bottling line, as the coffee and dark fruit back-bone will be at its most potent while fresh.

Bell’s Hopslam: Though IPA seasonals are

almost exclusively associated with summer, matching their bright citrusy profile to warm and humid weather, clearly Bell’s Brewery didn’t get this message. Instead, they chose to release their award-winning Imperial India Pale Ale in February. Regardless, do your-self a favor and pick this beer. With a fresh pine-hop bomb exploding across the taste buds, Hopslam provides the kind of flavor that only a handful of IPAs in the country can claim to offer. It was also ranked the sixth-best beer in the world by ratebeer.com in 2012.

Founders Imperial Stout: These guys brew stouts as

well as anyone out there. Their Imperial Stout is a limited win-ter seasonal that doesn’t receive as much credit as the famous Breakfast Stout series, but it actu-ally provides more flavor. Expect this beer to be less balanced how-ever, with big notes of smoke, dark fruit, and burnt chocolate.

Three Floyds Big Behemoth:

This late winter barleywine does a great job of representing the style. It’s really sweet and malty but not without a bitter-hop finish. Flavors include cara-mel, toffee, dark fruits like cran-berry, rye and a little tobacco.

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale:

Finally, I will end with prob-ably the most well-known and popular winter seasonal out there: Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale. Once again, it’s not entirely clear why exactly this beer is a holiday style ale, but the fantastic balance of hops and malt make this a very solid, though not breathtaking beer. Still, if you have yet to try this guy, I would definitely recommend it.

Have a favorite winter brew? Share your suggestions with Niko at ivanovic@wisc.edu.

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Campus groups join to collect goods for hurricane victims

The Associated Students of Madison is collaborating with multiple campus groups to collect goods for a Hurricane Sandy Relief Drive to run from Nov. 29 to Dec. 8.

There will be several drop-off boxes located throughout campus during the week, where students can donate necessary goods for the victims. ASM members will help transport donated goods to those affected by the storm.

The campus Greek communi-ty will assist in collecting goods and organizing drop-off loca-tions, according to an ASM press release. UW-Madison Housing

will provide barrels for dropping off goods throughout the week, as will the Presbyterian House, located at 731 State St.

Donation boxes will also be available at student group First Wave’s performances, which are free to students, according to ASM Spokesperson David Gardner. These events typically consist of music, dancing and preaching spoken word.

The events will take place on Nov. 30 at 3:30 p.m. in the H’Doubler Auditorium of Lathrop Hall, Dec. 7 at 9 p.m. in the MSC Lounge of the Red Gym, and Dec. 8 at 9 p.m. in the Memorial Union Rathskeller.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison spent the fourth-highest amount of money nationally on research for the 2011 fiscal year.

This year the National Science Foundation’s survey, which is conducted annually, involved 912 schools. UW-Madison dropped

a spot after ranking third in 2010. Johns Hopkins University topped the list, followed by the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the University of Washington at Seattle.

Despite losing a spot on the list, UW-Madison has ranked

among the top five institutions on the list for more than 20 years, according to a statement released by the university.

The survey includes money spent in numerous categories, including engineering, business, social science, arts and humanities.

ASM, UW officials discuss raising student awareness of campus financial resources

Members of the Campus Diversity and Climate Committee met Monday to approve the makeup of a special ad hoc committee that will create the next University of Wisconsin-Madison strategic diversity plan.

The ad hoc committee will con-sist of twenty voting members, with equal representation for faculty, aca-demic staff, classified staff and stu-dents. Additionally, there will be five ex-officio non-voting members who will represent the Madison commu-nity. The CDCC approved the make-up of the committee by a 6-5 vote.

Various shared governance bod-ies will appoint members from their own constituencies by Dec. 12. The bodies include the Faculty Senate, Academic Staff Assembly, Council for Non-Represented Classified Staff and Associated Students of Madison student government

CDCC member Jonathan Gramling expressed concern over whether appointing members to the

ad hoc committee by shared gover-nance groups would be the best way to ensure the committee is composed of members who represent broad groups of campus diversity.

“If everyone is talking in isola-tion, that’s where you run the risk of lack of diverse representation,” Gramling said.

However, CDCC student rep-resentative Britt Moes said if each shared governance body focuses on bringing five diverse appointees, the committee will be diverse no matter what. She added it is more important that committee members are able to advocate for a number of diverse groups, rather than just specifically the race, gender or other group with which they identify.

“I want to know who’s going to advo-cate for a certain thing which is way more important than whether the body looks diverse or has diverse qualities. We’re looking for advocates,” Moes said.

— Cheyenne Langkamp

The Associated Students of Madison University Affairs Committee held a meeting Wednesday to discuss ways to make students more aware of the university’s resources to help students manage their personal finances.

Students who attended the meeting said they are concerned there is not enough information readily available to educate stu-dents about managing personal finances, including how to pay loans and taxes as well as apply for financial aid.

Students are not aware of the resources that exist in the university’s financial aid office,

according to Financial Aid Office Associate Director Michelle Curtis. She said the real issue is communicating the availability of these resources to students.

For instance, Curtis said there are 10 financial counsel-ors available in the Financial Office willing to help students with a number of different financial issues, including those beyond financial aid.

Mary Prunty, an intern for the University Affairs Committee with ASM, said there have been smaller meetings leading up to this forum, and now ASM hopes to start raising student awareness of available financial resources.

Curtis added financial lit-eracy is an issue that should be addressed campuswide, with action beginning in the financial aid office.

“Really only a fraction of students are applying for financial aid,” Curtis said. “We’re not even catching the majority of the campus.”

Chris Smith, Branch Manager of Summit Credit, said Summit Credit also offers a free student loan seminar in the spring that helps upper-classmen understand their options for paying off loans after graduation.

—Michelle Turner

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department arrest-ed Ryan Loughrin Wednesday for stealing and selling multiple bicycles on campus, according to UWPD Sergeant Aaron Chapin.

The suspect was booked into the Dane County Jail Wednesday, with UWPD requesting charges of theft, according to the police report. Chapin also said UWPD is not sure how many bicycles were stolen and Loughrin could be charged with additional counts of theft as the investigation continues.

Loughrin admitted to police

that he stole the bicycles and sold the stolen bicycles on Craigslist, according to the report.

According to Chapin, Loughrin targeted bicycles with cable locks and cut through the locks to steal the bicycles.

UWPD urges students to use “U-Lock”-style bike locks and secure their bicycles through mul-tiple points to prevent theft, accord-ing to the report. Additionally, Chapin said students should be cau-tious when purchasing items from Craigslist, as thieves typically use similar sites to sell stolen items.

Man arrested for stealing, selling bikes

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from Model UN, the group has consistently dealt with insufficient travel funding from ASM, causing it to cut the number of members able to attend conferences.

Student Council Rep. Nurys Uceta said she supported the additional funding because traveling expands learning opportunities for students.

“Students get more benefit from traveling internationally and meeting people outside of our campus community,” Uceta said. “Those students can then bring back their experiences to our already diverse campus.”

—Paige Villiard

System is requesting $11,849,055,300 in the upcoming biennial budget.

Giroux said the request for the upcoming budget focused on how Wisconsin universities can assist the state in workforce develop-ment and economic growth.

“We know that our universities play a major role in strengthening the state’s economy and the state’s work-force, the communities that support both businesses, workers and citizens,” Giroux said. “We want to invest in tar-geted strategic areas where we can help improve our ability to do that.”

Although Giroux said the cuts to UW System funding in the last budget cycle were the “greatest dis-parity” between what the system

requested and what it received, he said there have been “lots of encour-aging signals” looking ahead to 2013-15, citing the recent projected surplus of revenue as one example.

Dan Statter, chair of the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee, said students have begun reaching out to Gov. Scott Walker and state legislators to advocate for increased support in three areas: general state funding, tuition and financial aid.

Statter said the legislature should consider investing in educa-tion due to the large cuts to the UW System in the previous budget.

“Education is one of the best investments we can make in the future,” Statter added. “Particularly when the administration is protecting a $1.5 billion surplus.”

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UW students showcase trifecta of talentBy Sara SchumacherTheDailyCarDiNal

The Wisconsin Singers have been around the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1967, and they won’t be leaving any time soon.

They will perform their show, fittingly titled “Can’t Stop Us Now!,” this weekend at the Overture Center.

Calling themselves Official Ambassadors of Goodwill for the UW, the Wisconsin Singers per-form 35 shows a year, only two of which are in Madison. But those two shows are important to the UW undergraduate singers, instrumen-talists, technicians and staff that compose the group. They look at it as an opportunity to perform for their fellow Badgers.

According to Robin Whitty-Novotny, director of the Singers for the past 22 years, UW students will be amazed at what the Singers put out, seeing as the performers are students just like them.

“I think campus will be blown away by the talent that’s on stage and realize that they’re sitting next to it in class.”

Most of the students involved with the Wisconsin Singers are not even music majors.

“They just have a passion to per-form,” Whitty-Novotny said.

Senior Bryce Mahlstedt, major-ing in Communication Arts, agreed.

“I wanted to continue to sing

and dance after high school and develop my performing skills while receiving a college degree from a nationally ranked university at the same time,” he said.

Whitty-Novotny cited the group’s trifecta of talents as what set the Singers apart from other musi-cal organizations on campus.

“The thing that makes the Singers most interesting is that it is a triple-threat group—it’s not just singing, it’s not just dancing, it’s not just instrumentals—it’s all three of those together,” she said. “The combination of Broadway-style choreography, a killer band and outstanding vocals gives the best of all worlds.”

Whitty-Novotny herself was a Singer before coming back to direct the group. She explained that being a part of the group was a huge influ-ence on her college experience, and she wanted to come back and cre-ate that same sort of experience for other students. For Mahlstedt at least, it seems Whitty-Novotny has accomplished this mission.

“Every weekend, I look forward to sharing our talents with count-less communities and representing the UW,” Mahlstedt said. “To top it off, I get to do this with people I love. You can’t beat that.”

This weekend’s show will fea-ture top American hits from the past 40 years from Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson,

all the way to current stars like Beyoncé and Katy Perry.

“We’ve got almost 70 differ-ent songs,” Whitty-Novotny said. “Anything American pop music, we do.”

Badger fans will especially enjoy the Wisconsin Singers’ rendition of the Fifth Quarter, as

they sing popular favorites like “Swingtown,” “Hey Baby,” “On Wisconsin” and “Varsity.”

“Every part of the show is going to touch you in some way with energy, and humor, and great vocals and instrumentals,” Whitty-Novotny said. “Come support our outstanding student performers.”

It’s not the length (of films) that matters, it’s how you use it

S o I was sitting at home over Thanksgiving break, and I gradually came to the real-

ization that college students simply live on a different level of the space time continuum than the rest of the population. As a result, I found myself sitting up into the wee hours of the morning as the only con-scious being in my house and did

what any highly motivated student would do: spend time watching and rewatching old movies.

While revisiting a few old favorites, I was struck by some-thing. That is, the capacity that many movies have to be equally deep, complex, enjoyable, well-paced and well-made while still being radically different in their execution and design.

The two films that sort of worked together to lead me to this realization were “Fargo,” the Coen Brothers’ modern classic, and “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” Sergio Leone’s, um… classic, classic.

For those of you out there who don’t memorize movies’ runtimes, let me take a second to point out that “Fargo” is just over an hour and a half long, while “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” is just under three hours long. Basically, the second is roughly twice as long as the first.

It’s not that “Fargo” is just infi-nitely simpler than “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” either. In fact, you’d be much harder pressed to summarize the former’s plot in a single sentence than you would the latter’s.

And yet neither is really hurt

by their overly long/short run-time, because both have a very developed style of storytelling perfectly tailored to the story being told. Probably why they call it good storytelling.

Anyway, let’s compare the two. Straight away, from their opening scenes, the two films couldn’t con-trast with each other more.

“Fargo” opens with a scene that’s almost entirely dialogue, just some of the characters sitting in a bar, and in it we are introduced to both the event that is the driving force behind the plot and three of the main characters, one of whom is our first protagonist, with the other two being our main antagonists. The three of them have their char-acters immediately developed in this conversation (Carl won’t shut up, Gaear doesn’t say two words, and Jerry is bumbling, nervous and polite). The scene itself doesn’t run more than five minutes.

Contrast this with “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” which sees no dialogue for the first 10 and a half minutes. Even after the first scene, which introduces the main object of the plot, we get another series of scenes that are only tan-gentially or not at all related to the focus of the story, serving instead to develop and flesh out the charac-ters more fully before introducing the main conflict.

These two styles of storytell-ing are introduced in the open-ing scenes of their respective films, then applied throughout the movie from that point on, and they represent two markedly dif-ferent but equally effective meth-ods for developing and executing a script.

Where “Fargo” presents its characters as they progress through the story, intrinsically

tying their development as peo-ple to the events of the plot, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” takes the time to first build up its characters, fleshing out their backstories in full scenes and subplots and writing their mythologies before they get to their central conflict, creating larger-than-life characters that seem like they’ve just stepped out of some Western legend.

In this way its characters are better fit to the epic scale, epic story and epic runtime of the film while at the same time contributing to it, while in “Fargo” we see the charac-ters as more human, we react with them, we grow alongside them and we more easily identify with them. Woody Allen achieved the same effect in “Midnight in Paris” by hav-ing the pedantic, annoying char-acter deliver the moral of the story right off the bat, but because we dislike him so much we’re resistant to the idea that he would be right about something, and so we have to gradually come to the realization at the same time as the main character does, letting us identify with him more and find him more relatable.

However, despite the two fun-damentally different approaches to storytelling that are applied in “Fargo” and “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” both of the films deliver essentially the same message of the ridiculous lengths that people can be driven to by greed. Again, each film conveys the message in its own way, but both methods are perfectly suited to the movie in which they are found. The message resounds just as deeply in one as in the other, and both films can rightly be considered masterpieces for it.

Know of other great feats of film? Send them to wellens@wisc.edu.

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A s we finish up what’s left of our Thanksgiving leftovers and adjust our

belts—by which I mean we take them off—we look forward to Christmas, New Years and the fis-cal cliff. President Barack Obama and budget experts have congre-gated at Capitol Hill and have made a resolution for New Years to final-ize a plan that will put a stop to our deficit and set us on the right course to recovery. With the federal debt approaching the $16 trillion mile-stone, the freshly re-elected presi-dent has decided to take action and promised to have a decisive eco-nomic plan etched in stone by the first of January.

Fiscal cliff negotiations between Republicans and Democrats have gotten off to a rough start. Republicans advocate several severe cuts in federal spending in order to solve the problem. Though these cuts are yet to be specified, it has been demanded that Obamacare be put on the table for consideration. They argue everything needs be looked over and analyzed. It has been said that Republicans would like to cut programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and in turn keep taxes the same across

the board. In obvious disagreement Obama and Democratic propo-nents suggest that the best course of action would be to simply get rid of the Bush tax cuts for those mak-ing over $250,000 a year and keep it for those who make under that much. Obama says that he would be willing to let the taxes on bet-ter-off individuals go up to a little past 36 percent while Republicans debate that they will not support tax increases past the set 35 per-cent. Democrats are reluctant to put Obamacare in the negotiations, say-ing the plan will actually save the country money in the long-term.

In order for anything to get done there is going to need to be some sacrifice from all sides. Interest groups across the nation have flocked to media outlets and Capitol Hill in a strained effort to keep their interests off the chopping block. Union leaders in the federal sector have pleaded to be left out of the negotiations under the pretext of having sacrificed enough by taking a freeze in their wages. Organizations like the AARP are sending out com-mercials in order to keep social security and Medicare in place. Several organizations believe an attempt to solve a problem like this should take more con-

sideration and be given ample time, not a deadline.

So in the frenzy of it the entire situation comes down to two ques-tions: Is it reasonable to assume that the government can formulate a plan that will create $6 billion by New Years? And is it possible for Democrats and Republicans to come to agreement in order to

stand off the fiscal cliff? I believe that it is likely going to be a stretch, but a necessary one. The biggest obstacle will be to find common ground between a Republican-backed federal cut-back strategy and a Democrat-supported tax raise plan. While I believe that it will be necessary for both parties to compromise on certain issues, I

am hopeful the president does not decide to put Obamacare through the shredder. Regardless, the com-promise needs to be made, because anything is better than the incom-ing cuts and tax-raises of the 2013 fiscal cliff.

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M adison is home to tons of history and sentimen-tal hotspots. We have

the big ones such as the Capitol, Memorial Union, Bascom Hill and many others. However, it’s the smaller, more unnoticed areas that are under attack.

Real estate developers have made plans to destroy the Stadium Bar on Monroe Street and put a six-story apartment complex in its place. The Minneapolis-based OPUS Group plans to create a complex with retail space on the first floor and five floors of apart-ments. This brings the entire build-ing to a total of 100 units and 150 bedrooms with 40 underground parking spaces.

While it is extremely important that every student finds a place to live while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this contin-ual construction of more and more

apartment complexes is getting out of control.

I don’t know about anybody else, but I have never had trouble find-ing a place to live and I have lived off campus for three straight years. Like most incoming freshmen, I spent my first year at UW-Madison in a dorm—Sellery to be exact. Every year since then, I have signed a lease for a house off campus early spring semester and in no way have I felt the need to stress out about my living situation.

The evidence that housing options out-number student popu-lation can be seen every fall semes-ter. Ever seen landlords offering free lunch and other goodies to students who view their proper-ties? Clearly there is some degree of worry that their units won’t be filled, which means students have found alternative options. So again I ask, why is the city still allowing these real estate developers to come in and demolish historic buildings and replace them with apartments when they aren’t necessary?

Not only are there other hous-ing options for students off cam-pus, but the university has plenty

of options for students on campus as well. New dorms are being built almost just as frequently as new apartment complexes. Dejope Hall has just recently been completed and another residence hall called New 32 Hall is planned to open up in August of 2013.

The bottom line is the student population is growing at a rate slower than that of the number of housing units becoming available. Even if students outnumbered the number of beds, there are solutions to this problem other than tearing down Wisconsin’s history.

Why not invest in a better public transportation system so students can get to classes quickly, even if they live far away? Or perhaps real estate companies could partici-pate in reconstruction projects to expand already existing apartment complexes. The university could take a more active role in this issue as well, building complexes tailored for sophomores and juniors rather than just building more dorms for incoming freshmen.

At the end of the day, Stadium Bar is just another bar. However, at what point is more development

too much? Can we demolish Mifflin Street? The sophomore slums?

When I come back to UW-Madison later in life you can bet the first thing I will want to do is visit all my favorite spots on campus. I can’t imagine how disappointed I will be if I find my favorite bar or neighborhood has been replaced by apartments.

While Stadium Bar may just be a bar, to some students and even some alumni it holds a lot of memories. I implore students to attend a meeting Thursday, Nov. 29 at 6 p.m. at Union South and let them know that demolishing history is unacceptable.

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Normally the Wisconsin men’s basketball team (4-3 over-all) thrives in tight, slug-it-out type games, but Wednesday, the Badgers were given a taste of their own medicine, falling to Virginia 60-54 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

Virginia (5-2) played tough defense all night and was able to out-physical the Badgers en route to winning its third straight game in the Challenge.

Down 58-54 with 32 seconds left in the game, Virginia’s tough man-to-man defense forced the Badgers to waste precious sec-

onds, resulting in junior guard Ben Brust trying to draw a foul on a long 3-pointer. The foul was not called and the shot fell well short.

The Cavaliers regained pos-session and Virginia junior guard Joe Harris sank two free throws to put the game on ice.

“I made the wrong play. It was open right away and then just caught it in no man’s land a couple of times,” Brust said. “I should’ve attacked, get fouled or scored and stopped the clock.”

After struggling to take a lead through the first half of the game, the Badgers pulled ahead 36-31 on a long 3-pointer by Brust,

but the lead did not last long, as Virginia was able to answer with five quick points to tie the game back up.

“It was 36-31 and then next thing you, in the snap of a fin-ger, it was 36-36,” Brust said. “Everything we built for kind of went away,” Brust said.

The Cavaliers went on a 24-11 run, which was keyed by Wisconsin-born freshman for-ward Evan Nolte, who scored all eight of his points during this stretch.

What set the tone for Virginia’s win, however, was the physical play of their big men—junior Akil Mitchell and sophomore Darion Atkins. The two were relentless in the paint and around the basket, combining for 25 points—15 of them coming in the second half. They also controlled the boards, pulling down a com-bined 17 rebounds, including six on the offensive glass.

“They didn’t do anything out of the ordinary or that we hadn’t seen before, but like I said before, they just kind of out-toughed us tonight,” senior center Jared Berggren said. “Those are two good players, two hungry kids who work hard and they got the best of us tonight.”

Leading the way for the Badgers was Brust with 15 points, but he shot just 6-16 from the floor. Brust’s struggles were emblematic of the team’s overall shooting woes as the stingy Virginia defense allowed Wisconsin to shoot just 38 per-cent from the field. Virginia also

held Brust to just four rebounds on the night, his second-lowest output this season.

Virginia dominated the battle of the boards, out-rebounding the Badgers by 11, 36-25. Virginia was also more physical in driving the ball to the basket, drawing 15 fouls on the Badgers, which led to 14 points off 17 free throw attempts. The Badgers only had five attempts from the line.

Despite the loss, the Badgers

remain optimistic that a loss like this can better prepare the team for what lies ahead.

“It’s got to help us grow. If we don’t grow from this it’s going to be a long season,” Berggren said. “There’s a lot we can take from tonight and learn from.”

The Badgers will have three days to learn from this loss before they play their next opponent, an undefeated California Bears squad Sunday at the Kohl Center.

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Defense looks to shut down HuskersBy ryan hillthe daily cardinal

Hidden behind overtime thrill-ers, records being broken on offense and costly missed field goals lies a Wisconsin defense that may be quietly peaking just in time for Saturday’s rematch against Nebraska (7-1 Big Ten, 10-2 overall) in the Big Ten Championship game.

The Badgers (4-4, 7-5) allowed more than 14 points last Saturday against Penn State for the first time since—you guessed it—Sept. 29 in Lincoln, when they allowed 20 sec-ond-half points in their 30-27 loss to the Cornhuskers.

The Badgers’ defense made first team All-Big Ten Michigan State junior running back Le’Veon Bell a non-factor in their 16-13 overtime loss, holding him to 77 yards on 21 carries. He averages over 137 rush-ing yards per game.

They made the Big Ten’s Offensive Player of the Year in sophomore Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller look silly at times by holding him to 48 yards rushing on 23 carries and 97 yards through the air. He averaged nearly 106 yards rushing per game and 169.9 passing yards per game this season.

“Our goal on defense is to never peak,” redshirt senior safety Shelton Johnson said, who is play-ing Nebraska for the first time in his career Saturday. “Especially with [defensive backs] coach [Chris]

Ash. But we are playing our best ball that we’ve been playing all year, I would definitely say that.”

Redshirt junior linebacker Ethan Armstrong had to think a bit longer when asked if the defense was peaking but agreed with Johnson in the end.

“Maybe we are,” he said. “We definitely hit a stride. We are kind of getting hot.”

Although it has been two months since the Badgers saw senior quarterback Taylor Martinez and the Huskers, they have squared off against some very similar ath-letes in the past two weeks to the ones that Nebraska boasts.

The Badgers were able to sig-nificantly slow Miller’s run game two weeks ago, and many Badgers attributed that to different looks on third down and showing a 4-2-5 more often. While Miller bears a resemblance to Martinez, Johnson doesn’t think the similarities are strong enough to show the same type of schemes Saturday.

“I wouldn’t say we’re bring-ing our Braxton Miller game plan and putting it on Taylor Martinez,” Johnson said. “Some of the plays are very similar, but a lot of them aren’t.”

But Armstrong—who said Martinez is faster, but not as shifty as Miller—says the similarities shouldn’t necessarily go unnoticed.

“There are some parallels

and we have to defend them in similar ways,” he said. “They’re great players.”

The Badgers saw a back simi-lar to Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead just last week against Penn State in junior running back Zach Zwinak, who ran for a career-high 179 yards. Although Johnson said the shiftiness is much more evident in Burkhead than Zwinak, coming off a game featuring a bruis-ing running back will definitely benefit the Badgers.

Add sophomore running back Ameer Abdullah to the mix, who has 1,071 yards on the ground this season, and Armstrong says the offense resembles “a perfect storm.”

While the Badgers have shown virtually no ability to close out games this season, the Huskers have done the complete opposite by winning four conference games in which they trailed at halftime.

The ability to close out in crunch time like the Huskers have done is a perfect testament to the extent of the team’s growth in just this season alone and what distinguishes them from the Badgers, Armstrong says.

“You can definitely see that they’re maturing,” he said. “They’ve closed out some close games, and come back from some pretty big deficits. So you see the intangible things happen in those situations and the leadership kind of take over in their offense.”

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