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C omo todos sabemos, un terremoto de 8,8 grados azotó Chile hace unas

semanas, atormentando a todo el país y dejando mas de 500 muertos atrás. A pesar de los grandes daños, especialmente en Concepción, donde toda la ciu-dad se movió aproximadamente tres metros, parece que el país lo ha soportado bastante bien.

El año pasado, estudié en el sur de Chile, en Valdivia, durante seis meses. La noche del terremoto, mis dos amigas “gringas” y yo nos reunimos en Madison por primera vez desde que vivimos juntas en Chile para celebrar el cumpleaños de una de ellas. Para nosotros era una noche especial porque fue la primera vez que nos reu-niamos en nuestro país. Esa madrugada recibimos la noticia de que había habido un terre-moto en Chile.

Al día siguiente, parecía que los daños causados por el ter-remoto no habían sido tan hor-ribles como yo me había imagi-nado. Lo noté especialmente

cuando la presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, no aceptó la ayuda de los EE.UU. ni de la comunidad internacional en general. Todo el mundo pensó que Chile lo tenía todo bajo con-trol. En ese momento me sentí aliviada, pero a pesar de ello, estaba enojada porque la gente acá no estaba tanta preocupada como con el terremoto Haití.

Yo sabía que la gente tenía razón porque Chile era un país mucho más preparado pero mi mente y corazón pensaban en mis chilenos y quería hablar con ellos todos los días. Sin embargo, cuando lo hice, todos estaban tranquilos. Cuando conversé con un amigo chileno que estudia en Madison, él me dijo que su casa en Santiago tuvo grietas y que también todos los platos se rompieron, pero que no habían daños mayores. También, hablé con otro amigo chileno que vive en Valdivia y me dijo que las rep-licas se sentían como olas pero hubo bastante tiempo para salir de la casa.

Estaba muy frustrada. ¿Por qué todo el mundo estaba tranquilo?

Después de mirar el Teletón de Chile, un programa anual de caridad que todos los canales nacionales transmiten en vivo, me di cuenta que en realidad

los chilenos tienen todo bajo control. Este Teletón, que se llamaba “Chile ayuda a Chile,” ganó el doble de la cantidad que tenía como meta. ¡Ganó $60 millones de dólares!

Esto fue extraordinario y me sentía orgullosa del país. Cuando Diego Torres cantó la canción “Color Esperanza”, un himno a la perseverancia, la pantalla mostró “Nuestra bandera más linda del mundo. Blanco, azul y rojo los col-ores de la esperanza. ¡Viva Chile!” Se podía ver también a la actual presidenta y al presidente electo, Sebastián Piñera, emocionados y con optimismo. Esto me hizo sen-tir que el país iba a estar bien.

El Teletón no es el único acto de solidaridad entre los chilenos. Existen pequeñas col-ectas y eventos para recaudar fondos para los damnificados del terremoto en las escuelas y las iglesias y adicionalmente la gente viaja para ofrecer sus ser-vicios y para reparar los daños. También se puede presenciar en Madison eventos planeados por los propios chilenos. Por ejem-plo, la Asociación de Estudiantes Chilenos organizó un campe-onato de fútbol y colectó $1,500 dólares para la organización “Un Techo para Chile.” También el 20 de marzo hay un baile lla-

mado “Dance for Chile,” en la casa de la fraternidad FIJI. Para los que quieran atender, tienen que registrarse para el evento mediante Facebook.

Algo interesante es que en la vida diaria, los chilenos son muy discretos e íntimos, pero cuando su país los necesita, son soli-darios. Creo que los comentar-ios que hicieron estos chilenos en YouTube sobre el Teletón nos muestran dicha solidaridad. “Me emociona ver como los chilenos nos unimos para levan-tar nuestro país. Gracias por el apoyo. Un abrazo enorme a todos los que dejan sus saludos y fuerza. Sé que vamos a salir adelante. ¡Vamos que se puede!” Otra persona dijo: “Gracias a todos nuestros vecinos por las buenas vibras. Grande mi Chile. Un orgullo que mi país se ame y se ayude. Amo a mi Chile mier-da. Nunca caerá porque Chile es un país unido y solidario.”

Es evidente que los chilenos mantienen un sentido alegre, unido, con confianza y soli-daridad en este momento de necesidad. ¡Chi Chi Chi le le le Viva Chile!

¿Conoces mas actividades para ayudar a los afectados de Chile? Diselo a Andrea enviandole un email a parins@wisc.edu

chile ayuda a chile

A mi manera

ANDREA PARINSsiempre nos quedará Parins

S pring Break. The big ol’ SB. Could also stand for Sun Burns, Sexy Bods, or Skimpy Bikinis.

And sometimes, to our dismay, (dun dun dunnn)—Sagging Bums.

For the few that are venturing to the tropics for spring break, the next two weeks herald the beginning of an insatiable and frenzied quest for physi-cal perfection. And as temperatures escalate to toasty 55-degree propor-tions here in Madison, many face one frighteningly frank fact: the sun’s com-ing out and their bodys aren’t ready for its close-up.

So, what’s a college student to do when that “extra sauce on the side” of their late-night slice goes straight to their waistline?

Well, it depends on whom you ask—and what their major is. We all know one of life’s fi ner truisms: “Thine’s major is thine self.” Not only is it the sole defi ning factor of our per-sonality, but it also dictates our future and other seemingly inconsequential aspects of our life, such as how many bananas to buy at the store, to drink from the big cup or the little cup and the number of bowel movements we’ll have in a week. And whether we like it or not, the department we so choose to dedicate years of classes to also dictates our diet and workout regimen.

Welcome to The Major(ly) Ass-Kicking Spring Break Work Out:

English: 9:45 a.m.: Brew a cup of tea while

balancing one leg on a lounge chair and one arm on a wine-stained copy of “Ulysses.” Eat half of an [organic] blueberry scone. Crunch up the rest and serve it in the bird feeder outside your bedroom window.

11:15 a.m.: Power-walk to the humanities building for class while contemplating whether the title of Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” was intentional foreshadowing, or just for effect. [Brain Food]

5:00 p.m.: Toss some porcini mushrooms, tomatoes and onions on the stove. Climb two stairs to yell at roommates for blasting “that vapid, rhythm-less, Metallica shit.”

5:17 p.m.: Consider killing your-self [like your girl Virginia Woolf], but decide to fi nd solace instead in two bottles of wine, some cognac and a shot of whiskey [Fitzgerald was an alcoholic genius]. Write some prose. Pass out.

Engineering:7:45 a.m.: Run fi ve miles on the

treadmill while reading last week’s lec-ture notes on microprocessor periph-eral devices.

10:00 a.m.: Buy a celery, beet and carrot smoothie from Jamba Juice and walk to class at engineering [four miles]. Consider buying a cookie from subway—don’t.

1:35 p.m.: Go to the bathroom

four times during lecture to achieve minimal water-retention and maximal stair climbing.

2:00 p.m.: Buy a ham and cheese sandwich at the café and discuss with friends the fundamentals of rheology and the various physical and mechani-cal aspects of your seven-grain bread [maintain rapid arm gestures for opti-mal energy expenditure].

6:15 p.m.: Jog home from the engineering building [nine miles]. Consider switching majors—don’t.

Psychology:10:15 a.m.: Suppress all urges to

eat two Pop-Tarts and a bowl of Cocoa Puffs for breakfast. Grab a yogurt.

12:10 p.m.: Bike two miles at the gym. Feel a sense of failure as you catch a glimpse of the chub around your stomach. Remind yourself that you are in control of your life, and any dis-torted feelings of self-worth are actually misinterpreted cognitions.

4:45 p.m.: Eat two bowls of chick-en soup and a cracker.

4:50 p.m.: Project your anger regarding your bland diet onto your roommate as she has, once again, left the cap off of the toothpaste.

7:35 p.m: Walk 0.4 miles to the grocery store, pace the vegeta-ble and candy aisle and condition yourself to reach for the tomatoes, not the Twizzlers.

Journalism:9:55 a.m.: Drink coffee with skim

milk, calorie-free splenda and the online version of MSNBC.

12:25 p.m.: Shuffl e feet in lec-ture as you consider the tasteful objectivity of The New York Times and Fox News.

3:15 p.m.: Type [200 words per minute] a resume that, despite your solid GPA and prestigious honor soci-eties and awards, will wind up in the cabinet behind the fridge of a newspa-per company’s greenroom.

4:00 p.m.: Eat two pieces of whole-grain toast, walk to class and sit in the aisle of the last row to ensure optimal “getting-up-to-let-those-latecomer-pieces-of-shit-in” procedure.

7:15 p.m.: Consume two bowls of cereal and ten sentences of your 120-page reading. Remind yourself that everything you need to know, you learned in kindergarten. Sleep.

Communication Arts:12:25 p.m.: Wake up, miss class,

walk to the bathroom [.02 miles].2:15 p.m.: Walk to Vilas for class,

get lost somewhere between room 4107 and 4208, give up and venture to the food court for mango-fl avored frozen yogurt.

4:10 p.m.: Go to third class and debate the cultural and socioeconomic signifi cance of the talking candlestick in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”

5:15 p.m.: Walk back home [0.5 miles], watch “Dexter” and be grateful that one of America’s leading modes of entertainment media is in your room, 40-inches and in high def.

Have another step to add to your major’s regimen? Let me know at gleicher@wisc.edu!

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Madison residents celebrated St. Patrick’s Day early by watching the St. Patrick’s Day parade around the capitol (above) and participating in the Tenth K on State Street (right)Saturday.

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In race for MIU, some departments left behindBy hannah McclungThe Daily carDinal

The Madison Initiative for Uundergraduates Shared Governance Oversight Committee and the Student Oversight Committee submitted 31 recom-mended proposals to Chancellor Biddy Martin in mid-February. That leaves 83 of the original 114 proposals on the outside looking in as Martin is slated to make her final decision on which proposals to fund by the end of March.

“There were many more good proposals than we could fund,” said Aaron Brower, vice provost for teaching and learn-ing. “They just didn’t rise to the very top because of how competitive it was.”

According to Brower, out of the 114 submitted pro-posals, the committees and Martin hope to fund between 15 and 25 programs.

Physics professor Peter Timbie did not know his pro-posal to establish a physics course for undergraduate biolog-ical science majors was not part of the top suggested proposals. The proposal’s estimated cost for the first year was $112,000.

According to Timbie, the phys-ics department has been work-ing on this project for 10 years and has applied for funding from the National Science Foundation but was rejected because the NSF thought the university should fund the project.

“Students and faculty often wish that their intro physics experience was more fun or more relevant and we’re disap-pointed that we can’t make that happen through this pro-gram,” Timbie said.

According to Brower, Martin can choose to accept or reject the rec-o m m e n d a -tions so the commit-tee did n o t want to get ahead of where her decisions were by c o m m u n i c a t i n g the recommenda-tion results to the departments and programs.

“The com-mittees worked very hard and looked very thor-oughly at the proposals, so the recom-menda t ions are very solid and I think she’ll take those

recommendations very seriously,” Brower said.

The Chicano(a) and Latino(a) studies program sub-mitted a $250,000 proposal to expand the program to include service learning experiences, courses geared toward enhancing professional training for nursing or social work in Latino com-munities and increasing faculty resources, according to Director Sandra Magaña.

“One of the things that I think has been undervalued in this initiative is the impor-tance of the ethnic studies programs and courses,” said Magaña. “There’s an ethnic studies requirement for every student but they’re not put-ting any resources into those programs that are cranking out those classes.”

According to Robert Radwin, biomedical engineer-ing department founder and chair, biomedical engineering is the most popular major among surveyed freshman intending to major in engineering.

“Every year we turn away about 50 percent of the appli-cants because we don’t have the space,” said Radwin.

“Biomedical engineering is the biggest bottleneck in engineering.”

The biomedical engineering proposal’s objective was to provide

resources so that the depart-

ment could i n c r e a s e

e n r o l l -m e n t to “fit

as many s t u d e n t s

as there is a demand,”

Radwin said. The proposal

would have cost $1.5 million over three years.

According to Radwin, his depart-ment will try again to gain funding through MIU because it is some-thing students are interested in and the future of engineering.

Thompson leads Feingold in WPRI poll, race for governor appears closeBy hannah FurfaroThe Daily carDinal

Tommy Thompson leads incumbent U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., in a hypotheti-cal matchup, according to a poll released Friday from the conser-vative-leaning Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

The poll showed that Thompson has the support of 51 percent of likely voters while Feingold received the support of 39 percent. Nine percent said they were undecided.

According to a statement from WPRI, Thompson likely leads

the race because of support from Independents. Both Thompson and Feingold received strong sup-port from their respective parties.

Ken Goldstein, UW-Madison

political science professor and director of the poll, said hypo-thetical matchup results could change if Thompson officially enters the race.

“The survey shows a lead for Thompson and a race between these two Badger state political titans would be intense. Still, hypothetical match ups can change once a potential candidate officially enters the race … it will be interesting to see if his support and lead hold up once the back and forth of a campaign starts,” he

Athletic officials top earners in UW SystemDocuments from the UW

System revealed that the highest paid UW-Madison official makes over three times as much as the governor.

According to UW System’s annual budget documents, UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez made $500,000 in 2008, which is the highest salary among all UW System employees.

Alvarez’s salary is over three times as high as Gov. Jim Doyle’s salary, which according to the Journal Sentinel Online was just

over $141,800 in 2008.According to the documents,

Alvarez is among 10 UW System employees who made over $300,000 in 2008.

Chancellor Biddy Martin was the second highest paid System employee with a salary of $437,000, and UW System President Kevin Reilly came in third at $414,593.

Martin, who was the only woman in the top 10, earned over $150,000 more than the chancel-lor at UW-Milwaukee, who was

UW System’s second highest paid chancellor.

UW-Madison head football coach Bret Bielema, men’s basket-ball coach Bo Ryan and Business School Dean Mike Knetter were also among the UW System’s top 10 highest-paid employees.

The documents said Bielema and Ryan’s salaries might actually exceed $1 million if private UW Foundation and athletic department

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aaron Browervice provost

UW-Madison Teaching and learning

“Thereweremanymoregoodproposalsthanwe

couldfund.”

ken Goldsteinpolitical science professor

UW-Madison

“ThesurveyshowsaleadforThompsonandaracebetweenthesetwoBadgerstatepolitical

titanswouldbeintense.”

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Five arrested in heroin drug bust on Park Street

The Madison Police Department arrested several individuals for possession of heroin Thursday evening, according to MPD South Police District Cpt. Joe Balles.

David Thomas, 42; Randall Bush, 52; Ronald Thomas, 57; Dana Atkins, 39; and Hillard Harris, 57; have been involved in the sale and distribution of heroin, or were in possession of heroin over the past few weeks, according to police.

According to the police report, officers from the South District Community Policing Team, along with the Bayview-

Braxton Neighborhood Officer, have been investigat-ing complaints of drug deal-ing in and around the CDA properties in the area over the past several weeks.

The “covert drug opera-tion” ended when the five individuals, all with crimi-nal histories, were arrested Thursday. Officers plan to continue working with CDA housing in evicting tenants who have been charged with distribution of heroin.

An investigation is ongoing, and additional arrests are pos-sible, according to the MPD.

Woman robbed, maced on Langdon Street

A strong-armed robbery on the 100 block of Langdon Street occurred Friday at approximately 2:40 a.m. and resulted in a woman’s purse being stolen.

According to the police report, a woman walking home alone was unlocking her front door when a black man

grabbed her purse and sprayed her with pepper spray when she struggled.

The man then fled the scene, entered a white car and headed east on Langdon Street. The suspect is described as being 200 pounds and wear-ing a black baseball hat, white shirt and blue jeans.

Man arrested following theft from vehicles

An officer from the Madison Police Department arrested a 27-year-old man after suspect-ing him of being involved with a series of thefts from vehicles in the Greenbush and Vilas neighborhoods.

According to the police report, at approximately 3:35 a.m. Friday the MPD officer confronted the sleeping man in a bus shelter on the 700 block of S. Park Street. The officer reported that the man smelled like alcohol and had an iPod charger in his pocket.

With consent from sus-pect Asanta Platt, the officer

searched Platt’s duffle bags and recovered stolen property, including an iPod, two iPod chargers, Nike tennis shoes and a leather wallet with money inside.

The MPD believes there are others who have been involved in similar criminal activities in the area, such as car thefts, despite the fact that Platt has been arrested.

Citizens are encouraged to assist the MPD by calling Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014 if they have any information pertaining to these crimes.

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“Not only are the engineering stu-dents interested in it but the students involved in the selection process rated it a very important program, so I cer-tainly hope that influences the chancel-lor’s selection,” said Radwin.

Round one and round two MIU proposals focused heavily on fac-ulty hires in high-demand areas like chemistry, foreign languages and math, according to Brower.

“I think after round one and two most of the really pressing, high-demand areas are going to be dealt with and I think there’s going to [be] more of a focus in round three on those people who have submitted proposals in emerging areas using innovative technologies,” said Brower.

“Part of the reason we’re con-straining ourselves this round is that we want to reserve enough

money to have a third round [of MIU proposals],” Brower said.

According to Gary Sandefur, Letters and Science dean and ex-officio member of the oversight committee, both committees looked at the quality of the proposals and did not pay a lot of attention to spreading the money across differ-ent departments or schools.

“I think the proposals that ended up being highly ranked are all really

good proposals and I understand why the review committee ranked proposals the way they did,” said Sandefur. “The only concern I have is that deans have a deeper, more thorough understanding of a department’s or college’s needs.”

According to Sandefur, there are three options for proposals that do not get the funding: The depart-ments can apply for the third round of MIU selections, seek interested donors with the UW Foundation or make a case to the university that the program is important enough to be funded outside of the MIU process.

“I hope to get the permission of some of the really good and successful departments to share their proposals with other departments so people can see what kind of proposal was really convincing and compelling to the oversight committees,” said Sandefur.

For complete Oversight Committee rankings go to dailycardinal.com.

said in a statement.F e i n g o l d ’s

campaign said their focus will “not be on polls” as they head into the election season.

“There will be a lot of polls between now and Election

Day eight months from now,” Trevor Miller, Feingold’s spokesperson said in a statement.

The poll also looked at hypo-thetical matchups between 2010 gubernatorial candidates.

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker was reported favor-able by 36 percent of potential voters in a head-to-head match-

up with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who received 32 percent of the vote.

Walker led fellow Republican candidate and former U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann by 19 percentage points in a matchup. In a matchup between Neumann and Barrett, the two tied with 34 percentage points each.

Keith Gilkes, Walker’s campaign manager, said the poll is indicative

of the “strength of Scott’s candidacy.”H o w e v e r ,

nearly one third of voters said they are undecided on who they support for the governor’s election.

“ V o t e r s still have lots to learn about the candidates. While all three are viewed favorably by Wisconsin likely voters, with each candidate, almost half of likely voters did not know enough about the candidate to offer opinion,” Goldstein said.

The survey polled 600 random-ly selected likely voters through phone interviews between March 7 and 9. The poll had a margin of error of plus-or-minus four per-centage points.

funds are included in the figures.Setting aside athletic and

administrative officials, the sala-ries of UW System professors in

general are below average.The average salary for a full-

time professor at UW-Madison is $109,600, according to the docu-ments, while the average salary for professors in the UW System as a

whole is $73,000, which is below the peer group average of $87,600.

To view the UW System sala-ries database, visit host.madison.com/data/uw_salaries.

—Kelsey Gunderson

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city crime in Brief

Gary Sandefurdean

letters and Science

“TheonlyconcernIhaveisthatdeanshaveadeeper,more

thoroughunderstandingofadepartment’sor

college’sneeds.”

Trevor millerspokesperson

Sen. russ Feingold, d-Wis.

“TherewillbealotofpollsbetweennowandElectionDay

eightmonthsfromnow.”

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Adjusting to Daylight Savings-in the Fall.© Puzzles by Pappocom

Evil Bird By Caitlin Kirihara kirihara@wisc.edu

Ludicrous Linguistics By Celia Donnelly donnelly.celia@gmail.com

Crustaches By Patrick Remington premington@wisc.edu

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.

Today’s Sudoku

GET COMFORTABLE

ACROSS 1 Actress West of old

fi lms 4 Nebraska hub 9 Acapulco abode 13 “Stalag 17”

denizens 14 1760-yard racer 15 “Roger, ___ and

out!” 16 Noteworthy

historical periods 17 It has a ring to it 19 Credo for a dieter

or trucker 21 “Now ___ seen

everything!” 22 Kentucky college

town 23 Hint of hue 27 Soldier’s helmet, in

slang 29 Pre-rehearsal job 31 Abates 32 Words of

comprehension 33 Annoy 34 Stays and gets

comfortable 39 “To a ...” poem 42 Mason’s brick

carrier 43 Chinese fruit (Var.) 47 Mother’s “maybe”

50 Suction device 51 Acclaim 52 Former Turkish

offi cial 55 Down-under bird 56 “Sit!” 59 Gossip 62 Devoid of a cover 63 Thermometer type 64 Unblinking look 65 Smaller in degree 66 Wire service output 67 Rains hard 68 Explosive initials

DOWN 1 Traditional region in

the Czech Republic 2 Comes to 3 Basic Latin verb 4 Food that may be

folded 5 15-year-old, legally 6 Bottom-of-

the-food-chain organisms

7 Pain in the brain 8 Jason’s vessel 9 Candy containing a

fruit or nut 10 “Hail,” to Ovid 11 Title for McCain

(Abbr.) 12 MOMA offering 13 Garment size 18 Salamanders, early

on 20 Lower in reputation 24 Writer’s fi ne pont? 25 Animal with a silent

fi rst letter 26 Breakfast

breakable 28 Males 30 Jesus’ mount, in

John 32 Venerable 35 ___ Who 36 Shoe reinforcement 37 Pelvic bone-related 38 “___/Tuck” 39 Be a debtor 40 New Year’s Eve

ends it (Abbr.) 41 Building add-on 44 Depreciate 45 Most cozy 46 Buries in a tomb 48 Places for pins 49 Almost-fi nished

cigar 50 Stock exchanges 53 Surrounding glows 54 Variety of whale 57 “___ we forget” 58 “Remington Steele”

character Laura 59 32,000 ounces 60 “... how I wonder

what you ___” 61 Barrister’s fi eld

Answer key available at www.dailycardinal.com

Today’s Crossword Puzzle

First in Twenty By Angel Lee alee23@wisc.edu

I bet it was a happy cow FROM WISCONSIN! The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

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

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opinion

P asteurization is not just a nightmare for cheese gour-mets. It is a nuisance for any-

one who sees selling and consuming raw milk as their natural right.

Supporters are now ready to lift a 53-year-old ban on unpas-teurized milk in Wisconsin, the second largest dairy state in the country. While this is not the first statewide call against pasteuriza-tion it is now standing on even more solid ground.

In the past, advocates for raw milk never forgot to boast its taste and nutritional values. They soon found out that mere taste was the least persuasive reason and the nour-ishing effects of raw milk remained

to be seen in lab fl asks. The current campaign for unpasteurized milk has taken on a new tone. Pursuit of raw milk mirrors urban residents’ uneasiness with a grocery basket full of highly processed foods. Milk straight from the udder is not just a novel return to the envied pas-toral life or the intimate memory of a worry-free past. When people equate raw milk to real milk, they are voicing deep concerns about a food market that has gone beyond recognition.

Besides consumers, roughly 13,000 dairy farms in Wisconsin could breath a sigh of relief if the state allows the sale of raw milk. Currently, farms need to send their milk to dairy processors for pasteurization. The cost of trans-portation and processing invari-ably drive up the production cost. When this impact was compound-ed with sluggish dairy prices early in 2009, dairy farmers took an extremely hard hit. The raw milk bills would dairy companies to sell unpasteurized milk. Given the market size of unpasteurized dairy products, dairy farmers could gen-erate some extra revenue while the processors would not be signifi-cantly affected.

Of course, concerns arose once the state Rep. Chris Danou, D-Trempealeau and state Sen. Pat Kreitlow, D-Chippewa Falls,

brought up the bills. E.coli, listeria and salmonella scares show up in bold types, signal-ing worries about public safety. In this regard, the President of Wisconsin Farmers Union, Darin Von Ruden, has some insight-ful views. He was quoted by the Chippewa Herald as saying, “Our society has chosen to allow people the right to eat sushi, steak tartar or raw clams on the half-shell. Why can’t we allow people the right to drink raw milk?” If eat-ing raw food is up to individuals, singling out raw milk does not make a strong point. Remember, steaks and eggs which are not fully cooked could be ideal hosts of E.coli or salmonella.

Actually the bills have been fairly prudent about opening the market door to raw milk. Only licensed on-farm sale would be allowed, and the sale must be done in a sanitary manner. Except for some raw milk buffs, who will bother to drive 20 miles for a gulp from the udder?

Even if opposing voices still threaten to kill the bills, there’s one more compromise they could reach: Treat raw milk like ciga-rettes. Both are feared because of their risks. The law already requires tobacco companies to constantly remind consumers of health implications. A pack of Marlboros, for example, says, “Smoking seriously harms you and others around you.” In the same way, a new bill could ask raw milk providers to label poten-tial risks of listeria and other harmful bacteria that would be avoided with pasteurization.

On the other hand, a mini-mum age requirement could be enforced with raw milk sales. This way most health-conscious urban folks could still quench their thirst with their “100 per-cent natural” drink, and teenag-ers who might be under-informed would be shielded from a possible hazard. A bill would just make sure you know the risks before taking up the jug.

Ahead of Wisconsin, there are 28 states where sale of raw milk is already legal. While caution with raw milk in America’s Dairyland is neces-sary, consumers should be given the choices they long for, and most of all, choices they deserve.

Qi Gu is a junior major-ing in journalism. We welcome all feedback. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

I n a rare instance of the City of Madison and Dane County not seeing eye to

eye, a lawsuit resulted over their disagreements on how to handle 911 calls.

Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk recently announced that the County was seeking to implement an automated phone service to handle non-emergency calls such as parking enforcement issues.

Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz opposed this move, along with Falk’s request for the city to pay the county $33,000 to continue to handle Madison park-ing calls. The city quickly sought and received an injunction from a Dane County Circuit Court judge to temporarily postpone the shifting of the parking calls to the city, though the judge did allow the county to begin using the new automated system.

Falk argued that the new system and shifting of costs to the city were necessary so that dispatchers were more available for emergency calls, framing the issue as one on public safety. Cieslewicz and other mayors in the county said Falk overstepped her authority in implementing the system without getting the approval of the 911 center board that over-sees the facility.

The entire situation shows a breakdown in communica-tion between the city and coun-ty. Cieslewicz admitted to the Wisconsin State Journal that the issue did not need to become a lawsuit, though more of the blame rests with Falk for pushing through the automated system without the support of the 911 center board.

Although Falk’s prioritization of public safety is laudable, in this instance it appears more like a campaign slogan than an effective policy move. Her claims that the 911 center changes were person-nel issues, which would allow the

decision to fall under her author-ity, are also doubtful.

One possible solution, favored by Cieslewicz, is to create a new 311 line to handle all non-emer-gency calls. We support this idea as a way to keep emergency dis-patchers solely focused on their top priority and still cover the necessary burden of parking calls.

Although Cieslewicz has down-played the cost of such a service, we do think residents should know how much money such a program would require before signing up, as Falk had resisted the idea previously due to potential costs. But a 311 line is a far better solution than the current stalemate now between city and county offi cials.

It also needs to be pointed out that anyone who current-ly calls 911 to handle parking enforcement is grossly misusing the important service, though it is also possible that these same residents would do so after a 311 line was created.

This shows that any new non-emergency line would need to be well publicized before being implemented to avoid wasting the time of dispatch-ers who should be focused on life-threatening situations.

Residents of Dane County and the city deserve not only a functioning emergency response system unhampered from petty calls, but officials who can keep their disagreements from ending up in court. Unfortunately only one of those goals looks likely to be solved anytime soon.

Right to drink raw milk an individual choice

Milk straight from the udder is not just a novel return to

the envied pastoral life or the intimate memory of a worry-

free past.

QI GUopinion columnist

Cardinal View editorials represent The Daily Cardinal’s organizational opinion. Each editorial is crafted independent of news coverage.

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clean up emergency response protocol

Roughly 13,000 dairy farms in Wisconsin could breath a sigh of relief if the state allows the

sale of raw milk.

The entire situation shows a breakdown in communication between the city and county.

Although pasteurized milk still does the body good, there are plenty of people still clamoring for raw milk.

ANTHONY CEFALI/THE DAILY CARDINAL

If eating raw food is up to indi-viduals, singling out raw milk does not make a strong point. Numbers Don’t Lie:

Non-Emergency number proposal

$33,000Amount of money requested by Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk for the city to keep taking Dane County’s emergency calls.

72The total number people employed by the Dane County Public Safety Communications Center (PSCC)

8The average number of seconds it takes for a 911 call to be answered (approximately 1.3 rings).

12, 635The number of calls received by the PSCC in a given week.

Source: Phase 2 Report of Comprehensive Review of the Public Safety Communications Center, County of Dane.

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of Montreal documentary shines in Madison debutBy Dan SullivanTHE DAILY CARDINAL

The infamous 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner developed the idea of the gesamt-kunstwerk (commonly translated as “total work of art”), a multimedia form of artistic production that, he argued, was more effective and affecting than any of the arts on their own. For Wagner, it wasn’t enough for the arts to be siblings: They had to become full-blown kissing-cous-ins. Of all the venues I’ve been to in my four years as a Madisonian, it’s the Project Lodge that most reminds me of Wagner’s incestuous concep-tion of art.

This past Saturday night, the Lodge was the site for a screening of a new documentary about the band of Montreal entitled “of Montreal: Family Nouveau.” It was the film’s second public screening ever, having premiered less than two weeks ago at the Chicago International Movie and Music Festival.

The screening was preceded by musical hors d’oeuvres from two local bands, All Tiny Creatures and Jivas. The Lodge’s walls feature a wealth of eye-catching abstract paintings, mak-ing for some supremely stimulating side dishes.

Present at the screening was the film’s maker, Spenser Simrill, an English professor from the University of Georgia-Athens. Following the band for 11 days on their 2009 European tour, the documentary offers glimpses of Glasgow, Amsterdam, Paris and, most significantly, the landscape of

the human body.Of Montreal’s stage show is

almost a gesamtkunstwerk in and of itself: a throbbing frenzy of pink and black, muscular male torsos, ani-mal masks and simulated domestic quarrels, this carnival-like spectacle recalls Jack Smith’s paradigm-shifting 1963 underground film “Flaming Creatures.” Lead singer Kevin Barnes, whose points of reference include the influential surrealist Georges Bataille and Greek mythology, oozes the sort of transgressive charisma that rock-eted performers like Smith’s her-maphroditic “Creatures” and Andy Warhol’s Factory Superstars to the upper tiers of cult fame. Barnes is at once macho and fey, an ambiguous figure who seems to occupy a sexual space outside of gender. The triumph of “Family Nouveau” is how well it captures the practical nitty-gritty of being so darn eccentric.

Indeed, the shadowy back-stage scenes, full of non sequitur conversations and pushup con-tests, would seem right at home in Warhol’s 1966 split-screen epic “Chelsea Girls.” Much of the aes-thetic force of of Montreal’s stage

show is a function of their screwy, slutty charisma; I wouldn’t have been surprised if Candy Darling stumbled onstage and fell at Barnes’ feet, desperately strung-out and hopelessly in love. The sexual indeterminacy of Warhol’s drag queens suggested serious ten-sions within the patriarchal family; it’s no coincidence that jokes about child-eating and masturbating while thinking of one’s parents are among “Family Nouveau’s” most memorable moments.

Simrill shot “Family Nouveau” with the affordable and portable Canon HV30, an HD camcorder he prefers for its inconspicuous-ness and the fact that it lends itself especially well to shooting with a wide-angle lens. During the Q&A after the screening, Simrill expressed admiration for the “fly on the wall” style of documentary filmmaking exemplified by the Maysles brothers. Simrill spoke of his own approach as being a “dance” of concealment and revelation, a gaze that desires to co-exist with rather than coerce its object. For Simrill, the point is to try to use the camera to bear wit-ness without intervening, a noble yet impossible goal. The resulting 45-minute film—distilled from 50 hours of footage—is a portrait of the artists as half-naked adults.

Much like a backstage musical, “of Montreal: Family Nouveau” is primarily concerned with the logistics of putting on a show; if that show happens to be a sensory orgy, so be it.

‘Heavy Rain’ drops innovative control in gamers’ fingertipsBy Alex BelmonteTHE DAILY CARDINAL

French developer Quantic Dream has raised the bar high for what they tout as a new genre of storytelling in their latest PS3 exclusive crime-drama game, “Heavy Rain.” The basic premise is this: As he triangu-lates the identity and whereabouts of a serial killer and his victim, the player controls four characters, alternating between a caring father, an insomniac pho-tojournalist, a drug-addicted FBI crimi-nal profiler and a private investiga-tor. Timed button presses and context sensitive control-stick movements are the vehicle for decisions and actions happening on screen; failure doesn’t mean game over, but rather branches the story along a different arc, creating a choose-your-own-adventure range of possibilities.

For instance, a convenience store robbery early in the game can go down a number of ways. By press-ing certain buttons properly with-out error, the player can surprise the gunman and wrestle his gun away. If his finger slipped or something, he can attempt to talk him into leaving the store, while holding the L1 and R1 buttons to the character’s hands above his head. Varying degrees of success with this tactic can lead to learning the robber’s sob-story and reasoning for his actions, another struggle for the gun and/or the clerk getting shot. Given the correct circumstances, even the main char-acters are not immune to death. If photojournalist Madison Paige slips up too many times, finally ending in a fatal misstep, the narrative will continue on without her.

The resulting marriage of story and interactivity pleases the viewer in just about every way. The camera-work is highly cinematic, as are the voices (Sam Douglas has the stand-out voice role as P.I. Scott Shelby) and swelling orchestral soundtrack. Graphical fidelity is very high.If not for the on-screen button prompts, someone walking into the room might assume they were watching a feature film, as the content ranges from the more “gamey” challenges like fist fighting to those as mun-dane and real as rocking an infant to sleep. The lion’s share of the ani-mation has been motion captured, which is great for dramatic delivery, but sometimes stumbles when char-acters physically interact with the

world because of a slight graphical spacing issue. It made one love scene in particular a bit uncomfort-able, as the character’s mouths and bodies were not quite touching the way they should, or at least the way I’ve seen it in real life.

While it is a blast to watch, actu-ally playing “Heavy Rain” brings a host of issues which reflect nega-tively on the experience. In a game about choice and accuracy, the con-

trols are constantly fighting with the player. If you can-not name the place-ment of the circle, square, X and tri-angle buttons with-out looking at the PS3 gamepad, you will want to play

the game on easy mode, as a delay in pressing them will cost you. Control stick movements seem intuitive and well contextualized, but the implementation of motion control is frustratingly inaccurate. In addi-tion, making selections between a number of speech options involves hunting through a swirling cloud of labels and button symbols around the character’s head, a difficult and frustrating task.

A final caveat, gamers accus-tomed to past attempts at truly interactive storytelling will instinc-tively reach for the power button when something goes wrong, in order to load a previous save and take different actions. Quantic Dream highly discourages this prac-tice by design, as shutting down during one of the frequent auto-saves could be bad for your game data. People looking for “the best” ending may feel cheated in this respect when a main character dies, but “Heavy Rain” is meant to be played multiple times. Being only about eight hours in total length, it begs to be replayed and explored for different story paths. A scene selection feature in the main menu encourages this, allowing players to revisit favorite sets, so they might toy with the narrative acrobatics the game presents.

Despite gripes about control and having to deal with the consequenc-es of poor decisions, “Heavy Rain” is less of a game than it is an inter-active experience. Every moment is permeated with a sense of urgency, and the emotional highs and lows approach those of a good film.This makes it one of the canonical enter-tainment works of the year. It’s likely the future of storytelling in our digital age.

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Search terms: Michael Jackson TransformationSome might think it’s in bad taste to mock the dead, but when you’re as capable as this woman of turning into the king of pop, there isn’t really an option.

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of Montreal is an Athens, Ga. based band known for its vibrant, eccentric concerts. The band’s new documentary, ‘of Montreal: Family Nouveau,’ follows the group’s escapades on their European tour.

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MidwestHome of the No. 1 overall

seed the Midwest region should be Kansas’ to lose. The Jayhawks stay close to home on Oklahoma city and then St. Louis and boasting a sterling 32-2 record. After them come teams like Ohio State (could be a challenger), Tennessee (crimi-nally under-seeded) and Michigan State. Georgetown at a three-spot seems a little high for a team that lost 10 games and ended the regu-lar season on a 2-4 skid. Few of the lower-seeded teams seem to have much upset potential, with 13- and 14-seeds Houston and San Diego St. which snuck in by scoring con-ference tournament upsets over more well-regarded teams (New Mexico and UTEP).

FavoriteLike you really need to ask.It’s the Jayhawks, they have

talent coming out their ears, force turnovers, run and can overwhelm opponents defensively. Beastly big man Cole Aldrich is at the center of it all, dominating as a rebounder, swatting away 3.5 shots per game. on the perim-eter point guard Sherron Collins runs the show and is the team’s top scorer and distributor. The senior has plenty of experience

in March, having played a crucial role on Kansas’ 2008 champion-ship and even assisting on Mario Chalmers’ game-tying three which sent that title game to overtime. Besides those two Kansas has good depth and features efficient scorers like freshman guard Xavier Henry (.415 3-point shooter) and sopho-more forward Marcus Morris. The Jayhawks use their length well to shut down the middle and rank second in the nation in 2-point percentage allowed.

SleeperIt’s just such a copout but

the sleeper in this region has to be Georgia Tech, more by process of elimination than anything else. Northern Iowa should be here, but as a nine-seed they are a long shot to get Kansas in the second round (though a methodical offense, 10-deep rota-tion and trapping defense could make life difficult for the Jayhawks).

The bottom of the region is lack-ing so the 10-seeded Yellow Jackets fill this spot. We know they have tal-ent in players like freshman forward Derrick Favors, sophomore guard Iman Shumpert and junior forward Gani Lawal. We know they have depth (a solid nine-man rotation). What we don’t know is what shape they will show up in. Tech was only

19-11 in the regular season and had a losing record in conference. In the ACC tournament, however, they pulled off three close wins and were four points from winning the whole thing.

If Tech gets on a roll they basi-cally have no ceiling... their play-

ers can be that good. It would not be surprising for them to flame out in the first round, but they are also the only lower-seeded team that under the right conditions could take down an Ohio State or Kansas.

—Ben Breiner

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Breaking down the road to IndianapolisNo. 1 Orange could glide to Final Four through the WestWest

Look as hard as you want, you’re not going to find a region more wide-open than the West. The region’s top seed, Syracuse, saw its loss in the Big East tournament along with the injury to senior for-ward Arinze Onuaku resulted in it dropping from the third No. 1 seed to the fourth. But it might work out for the Orange because compared to the other regions they might have the easiest path to the Final Four for a No. 1 seed.

The region holds a couple of tough match-ups in the first round and possesses the opportunity for some great games in the second and onward. First, no No. 16 seed has never beaten a No. 1 seed, but Syracuse’s match-up with Vermont could give them some trouble. The last time the Catamounts were in the big dance was 2005 when they upset Syracuse. The Orangemen were a No. 4 seed then but you know they haven’t forgotten. Vermont is led by senior forward Marqus Blakely who is one of two players, along with Evan Turner of Ohio State, to aver-age over 17 points, nine rebounds and three assists. That being said, the Orangemen are still the favorites in the region.

Two bubble teams, Minnesota and Florida, get a chance to prove they belong by taking on Xavier and BYU. Many had the Gators on the outside looking in but they’re back for the first time since they won it all in 2007. And the Gophers are looking to rebound from Ohio State stepping on their faces in the Big Ten championship game.

Potential MatchupThe best potential match-up

would be a Sweet Sixteen battle between Syracuse and Butler. Usually a giant killer, Butler is now a No. 5 seed, and if they can get past a frisky UTEP team, they have the opportunity to do some damage. The Bulldogs have won 20 straight and have four players averaging over 10 points a game.

SleeperWant to impress your friends with

an insane sleeper? Try Murray State. The Ohio Valley Conference cham-pions are extremely balanced and hold their opponents to under 40 percent field goal percentage while shooting over 50 percent. Only two teams in the nation did that this year, the other was Syracuse. Over the last five years only four teams have done it and three of those made the Final Four. Vanderbilt should have its hands full and don’t be surprised if the Racers try on the glass slipper.

—Nick Schmitt

Junior forward Evan Turner and Ohio State are the No. 2 seed in the Midwest region.

Kentucky, Villanova should advance to Final Four

SouthThe South may be the weakest

of the regions with Duke, perhaps the worst No. 1 seed, and an ailing Purdue as the No. 4.

FavoriteDuke is the No. 1 seed, but

Villanova should be the favorite to advance to the Final Four from this reason. The Wildcats come into the tournament a bit cold, losing six of their last 10 games. But Villanova is more battle-test-

ed than Duke, playing in the Big East. And the Blue Devils have also put up weak showings in this event lately, while the Wildcats reached the Final Four last season.

This is the Wildcats’ year to win it all. The center of their team, guard Scottie Reynolds, is now a senior, and perhaps the most savvy point guard in the country. One would be hard-pressed to find a better veteran point guard to lead a team through the NCAA Tournament. Reynolds leads the Wildcats with 18.5 points per game, and is the team’s go-to scorer. But Reynolds can also function as a distributor, as his experience has made him a smart ball handler.

Villanova boasts even more experience, as its next three leading scorers are all of juniors (guards Corey Fisher and Corey Stokes and forward Antonio Pena). When the Wildcats face a pressure situation with the season on the line, they can turn to players who have been there before.

SleeperLast year in the NCAA

Tournament Siena took down Ohio State, then gave No. 1 Louisville all it could handle before falling to the Cardinals. This year the Saints return four of their five starters from last year’s team giving them NCAA experi-ence, and as a No. 13 seed, have a manageable path to the Sweet Sixteen, facing a No. 4 and poten-tially a No. 5.

In addition, the Saints catch a major break with their first-round match up, drawing Purdue. The Boilermakers had a fantastic regular season, but the injury of junior forward Robbie Hummel has completely devastated their team. In their last game, Purdue was blown out of the water against Minnesota, scoring only 12 first-half points and ultimately losing by 27 to the Gophers. Expect an experienced Siena squad to blitz Purdue, then take down Texas A&M to reach the Sweet Sixteen.

EastThe East region boasts two

giants, with Kentucky and West Virginia, both of which could have been No. 1 seeds.

FavoriteThe Wildcats (32-2) have to

be considered the team most likely to reach the Final Four because of the talent they can put on the floor. Everyone talks about fresh-man guard John Wall, and for good reason, but even the talent sur-rounding Kentucky without Wall is remarkable. Freshman forward DeMarcus Cousins is as power-

ful as anyone in the country on the low post. Along with junior forward Patrick Patterson, who is scoring 14.7 points and hauling in 7.4 rebounds per game, the Wildcats have a frontcourt few teams can contain.

But Wall is the centerpiece of the team and can take over games. He may be the most explosive offensive player in the nation, capable of single-handedly leading the Wildcats on scoring runs. Wall is quick, can create his own shot, get to the rim without trouble and hit outside jumpers. Few teams can throw out a defender to contain a player like Wall.

One fear analysts have with Kentucky is their inexperience, which can lead to the Wildcats having problems closing out games. But Kentucky’s talent makes them the odds-on favorite to advance to the Final Four.

SleeperThe Golden Eagles lost a lot

of talent after last season when Dominic James, Wesley Matthews and Jerel McNeal graduated. But head coach Buzz Williams has this year’s team playing hard, and as a result, Marquette has com-peted with every team its faced.

The Golden Eagles lost 11 games this year, but only one by double-digits. Six of their defeats (against Florida State, West Virginia, DePaul, Notre Dame and West Virginia twice) have come by three points or less.

Senior forward Lazar Hayward is the heart of this hard-nosed team, scoring 18.1 points per game. Hayward can shoot from long distance, and despite stand-ing only 6'6" tall, is strong enough to make an impact in the low-post.

Marquette has proven it can play with any team out there. One cannot count them out of any match up after seeing what the Golden Eagles did this season.

—Scott Kellogg

Watch for Marquette and Siena to make surprising runs

Senior forward Lazar Hayward and the Golden Eagles have been competitive in nearly every contest this season.

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As always, several teams were left unhappy after Sunday night’s selection show. Illinois believed it was in after beating Wisconsin and barely falling to OSU in the Big Ten Tournament, but was not selected. Virginia Tech was believed to be in most of the year, but flamed out late. Other burst bubbles include Rhode Island and MIssissippi State.

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Men’s Tennis

Wisconsin dispatches Illinois State, Western IllinoisBy Emma CondonTHE DAILY CARDINAL

The Wisconsin men’s tennis team tallied two more wins this Sunday in their last pre-conference tune-ups against No. 70 Illinois State and Western Illinois, 6-1 and 6-0.

“Overall we got what we needed to get out of it,” head coach Greg Van Emburgh said. “I was hoping that the guys in the second match would have been pushed a little harder, but you don’t know until you go out there and they must have just gone out there played really well and took care of business quickly.”

Although Illinois State (7-5) fur-nished a solid lineup, the No. 38 Badgers (10-4) dismissed them almost empty-handed, allowing only one point with a singles victory at No. 4.

In doubles, the two teams split results at positions No. 2 and No. 3 where junior Marek Michalicka and senior Luke Rassow-Kantor skated to an 8-1 victory, but freshman Ricardo Martin and senior Michael Dierberger dropped their own pro set 5-8. Senior Moritz Baumann and sophomore Patrick Pohlmann fi nally earned the fi rst Badger point, 8-5.

Apart from the battle at No. 4, the Redbirds saw their best chance to col-lect and slip away at No. 1 where No. 21 Michalicka struggled to put down Alexander Pelaez in a fi rst-set tiebreak.

He fi nished the second more com-fortably, 6-3, but Van Emburgh said that’s the kind of tenacity he expects from a player like Michalicka, who is “every coach’s dream.”

“He shows up everyday, and he’s ready to work hard,” Van Emburgh said. “I’m not surprised at all that he’s 10-0. I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t lose a match all year.”

Against Western Illinois in the second match of the day, the Badgers sharpened their effi cient play and cleaned up the singles points 6-0, in a match contested without a doubles competition.

This time the Leathernecks (2-8) were unable to earn more than two service games in any given match except that between No. 13 senior Moritz Baumann and junior Jeff Cole at the No. 1 spot. While Baumann’s 6-4, 6-1 victory hardly seems like a dangerous match-up,

he wasn’t happy with the shots he let pass by.

“I lost a couple of matches over the last couple of weeks, so I’m trying to get my confi dence back and those were good opportunities,” Baumann said, also admitting it was tough to refocus for round two.

The Badger captain who led his team undefeated much of last season missed a few matches this season with shoulder problems but promises he is pain-free and back on to defend his rank for the conference season.

“He didn’t practice, didn’t train, didn’t play as much tennis as he did last year,” Van Emburgh said. “I think he’s right back on track right where he is. I feel good about where his game is ... and I know he’s going to be busting it everyday in practice this week.”

But victory celebrations will be short for the Badgers this week with the conference season right around the corner, and one of their toughest opponents is up fi rst in No. 15 Illinois.

“It’s going to be a battle out there. They’re going to come and they’re going to fi ght really hard,” Rassow-Kantor said. “They’re really talented ... It’s going to be a really tough match.”

According to Van Emburgh, it’s a challenge that the Badgers are

ready for.“We needed to play a lot of tennis

to make sure. Illinois is going to be a good team, and we’re right there with them ... That’s a match were really

looking forward to.”The Badgers will take on the

Illini next Sunday at 12 p.m., try-ing to maintain their perfect season at home.

Junior Marek Michalicka (above) and senior Luke Rassow-Kantor’s 8-1 doubles victory helped UW down Illinois State.

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we had to work a little bit harder to fi nish inside. Obviously we missed some bunnies, but for the most part we were getting good shots, it was just a matter of us fi nishing.”

In the fi rst half the Badgers hit a measly 18.2 percent of their shots and were only in the game on the strength of Leuer’s scoring and offen-sive rebounding. The junior from Minnesota had four of Wisconsin’s six baskets in the fi rst 20 minutes, but turned in a 1-for-5 performance after that.

There were stretches where the Badgers were just missing chance after chance to climb back into the game. They strung together defensive stops only to miss an open layup or clang a jumper off the rim at the other end.

Empty Illini possessions seemed to bring a bit of momentum that

moments later quietly dissipated with a Badger miss

“They missed some shots, we played some good defense, and going back the other way we got some good looks but they just weren’t fall-ing either,” Bohannon said. “Anytime you’re on the defensive end, get some stops you’ve got to make them pay on offense and we didn’t do that tonight and it cost us.”

What cost them more was Bohannon and Hughes’ shooting that was abysmal any way it’s broken down. Shooting 0-for-13 in the fi rst half, 5-for-26 for the game, the duo that accounted for well over one-third of the team’s baskets throughout the year was severely lacking in start of the postseason.

Hughes, despite a late fl urry that nearly brought Wisconsin back, had an especially diffi cult day, failing to fi nish any of the four lay-ins he

attempted around the rim. After the game he laid the blame on an ankle injury.

“I just couldn’t get any lift. I couldn’t jump and hit the layup. Hopefully I get healthy, it won’t be a factor,” He said.

For the game Wisconsin players missed 10 layups with seven coming from the team’s three starting guards and offensive creators.

After the game UW head coach Bo Ryan said that the only way to overcome a shooting game that poor would be dominating the turnover battle and getting to the free throw line. The Badgers came through on the turnovers, with a 17-5 advantage, and even hung in by crashing the offensive boards in the fi rst half.

But at games end Wisconsin play-ers had only visited the charity stripe

14 times and shot an uncharacteristi-cally low 57 percent.

“We get a team to turn it over, what did they end up with, 17 turnovers? Come on. That’s you put a team in that position where there’s a difference of 12, you’ve got to be on the other side with that one,” Ryan said.

“And then when you’re not, you lick your wounds and go to next.”

ith the NCAA tournament loom-

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three on Sunday night. Denver also wrapped up business on Saturday by sweeping Michigan Tech at home, but the other six WCHA teams had to play on Sunday to set the fi eld for the WCHA Final Five.

“This is a good step to get the ball rolling in the playoffs here,” Stepan said. “We just have to continue to play hard and play simple and get ourselves ready for next weekend.”

For Bendickson and his fellow

seniors, it might have been even a little more than that, getting two fi nal victories at the Kohl Center before hitting the road in search of a WCHA tournament title and ulti-mately a national championship.

“I got a little chill, actually,” said Bendickson, who had three goals in the series. “It’s kind of fl own by for all of us and we’re a tight group. It’s going to be tough not playing here anymore but we got out of here with a couple of wins and that’s a good way to go out.”

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swat those away before anybody could get back there.”

Saturday night featured several big stops from the junior, including a high-light-reel glove save that he made while laying on his backside. Senior forward and captain Blake Geoffrion called it a “momentum changer,” as it kept the Seawolves from tying the game at two in the second period. His one mistake came later in the same period, when he tried to play a puck behind the net but got beat to the puck by an Alaska-Anchorage player, allowing sophomore

Curtis Leinweber to bury the puck in a wide open net.

While the game was far from decid-ed at that point, Gudmandson did not seem rattled by the goal and locked down the Seawolves offense for the rest of the game. That moment aside, Eaves said he was impressed with the mobility of his goaltender and his crisp decision-making with the puck.

“He was out above his blue, he was challenging, he was quick, and he fought to see pucks through screens,” said Eaves. “You don’t win unless you have good goaltending and he was solid, especially in big moments.”

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Greg Van Emburghhead coach

UW men’s tennis

“Overall we got what we needed to get out of it.”

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Badgers given 4-seed, will take on Wofford

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Senior guard Trevon Hughes shot 4-of-16 Friday, killing Wisconsin’s chances of advancing in the Big Ten Tournament.

Badger seniors come up empty in Indianapolis

By Scott KelloggTHE DAILY CARDINAL

The NCAA announced Wisconsin earned a No. 4 seed and will face Wofford this Friday in the 2010 NCAA Tournament.

“These guys played well enough over a four-month period to be in a pretty good position in the NCAA Tournament. That’s how it’s judged, it’s judged on your entire body of work,” Head coach Bo Ryan said. “I’m very proud of these guys, I’m extremely excited about the fact that they get to play again and I’m sure they’re excited to play again too.”

The Badgers went 13-5 this season in the Big Ten, 23-8 overall and beat three teams ranked in the top 25 of the RPI and six in the top 50 to help achieve their seed.

Their regular-season accom-plishments become irrelevant, however, as Wisconsin now pre-pares for knockout basketball. Senior guard Jason Bohannon said he acknowledges UW now has a clean slate, and can do something positive after his team’s short stint in the Big Ten Tournament.

“The last game kind of left a sour taste in our mouth in how we performed,” Bohannon said. “Luckily we played well enough during the season to put us in the position to play another game.”

The Badgers fell to Illinois in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, 58-54. While Wisconsin begins a new tourna-ment Friday, Bohannon said the loss can factor in as a motivator for his team, noting how well the

Badgers have responded to defeats this season.

“Even though we lost the game we have to bounce back stronger and better than we have before and we did that throughout the course of the season,” Bohannon said. “When we had a loss we bounced back strong and we have the same mentality going into this one.”

During the regular season Wisconsin has won each game it’s played after a loss.

Now the Badgers turn their attention to Wofford, a No. 13 seed. The Terriers went 26-8 this season and 15-3 in the Southern Conference, winning the regular-season and tournament crown.

Ryan and the players did not discuss Wofford with much detail. Instead they talked about how happy they were to be in the event.

“We’re just happy to be play-ing whoever we’re playing,” Bohannon said.

If the Badgers advance past Wofford Friday, they will face the winner of the Temple-Cornell match up on Sunday. A victory in that game would send Wisconsin

to Syracuse for the Sweet Sixteen.Ryan said he believes the

Badgers must succeed in multiple facets of the game to make a run in the NCAA Tournament.

“You have guard play is extremely important, rebounding and defense will give you the best chance of staying alive and then you got to have some player shooting a pretty good percentage in order to advance," Ryan said. “You need defense to keep you in it and you need some players to get hot offensively. I haven’t seen a team advance without a combi-nation of those things. We’ve got senior leadership, we’ve got some guys who potentially can be very hot in a game, can score at a high rate of efficiency.”

Senior guard Trevon Hughes said he thinks Wisconsin can advance deep into this tournament.

“Every time we step on the floor we feel like we can do some damage,” Hughes said. He added that he thinks the Badgers have the ability to beat anyone.

This is the 12th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance for Wisconsin, meaning Hughes and fellow senior Bohannon will have played in the event all four years they went to Wisconsin.

“Me and Trevon have been fortunate enough to have the chance to play four years in the tournament consecutively,” Bohannon said. “That’s a great accomplishment and we’re real-ly looking forward to another chance to get out there and per-form again.”

By Ben BreinerTHE DAILY CARDINAL

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—4:51.That was what the clock read in

the second half when a member of Wisconsin’s senior guard duo finally connected on a shot from the field. Up to that point Jason Bohannon and Trevon Hughes had gone 0-for-18 from the field and had combined for just four points.

And it was not like their team-mates stepped in to fill the void.

The Badgers could not find the

basket from near or far, suffering their worst shooting performance of the year in the midst of their Big Ten Tournament elimination loss to Illinois. It was not even a matter of the Illini making the attempts dif-ficult, just a day where it seemed the Badgers were completely ice cold for the first 35 minutes. Wisconsin finished shooting a season-low 28.6 percent from the field.

“We were getting some decent looks, and they just weren’t falling,” junior forward Jon Leuer said. “But

Final Five now awaits Wisconsin after Badgers sweep away Alaska-AnchorageMen’s Hockey

By Parker GabrielTHE DAILY CARDINAL

Senior forward Aaron Bendickson says he is not a spotlight type of guy, that he doesn’t like a whole lot of attention. It would be hard to imag-ine, however, that he did not enjoy his final seven minutes at the Kohl Center. The center scored his 10th and 11th goals of the season in a 12-second span to put the game out of reach in the third period and send the Badgers to the WCHA Final Five next weekend in St. Paul.

Fellow senior center Blake Geoffrion added two goals of his own as the graduating class com-bined for five goals and 12 points as the Badgers pulled away from a scrappy Alaska-Anchorage team on the brink of elimination by scoring five times in the final 22minutes.

After Geoffrion opened the scor-ing three minutes into the contest and senior winger Michael Davies extended the lead later in the first, the Seawolves grabbed momentum back with a goal that came sec-onds after the Badgers killed off a two-man advantage. When the Seawolves knotted the game at two in the second period, UW head coach Mike Eaves said he thought his team was on the ropes.

“We were dogpaddling,” he said.

“During the TV timeout we talked to they guys and said ‘we knew this was going to happen, they’re fight-ing for their lives.’”

Sophomore forward Derek Stepan pushed the Badgers back ahead with a power-play conversion and freshman defenseman Justin Schultz added another power-play goal just over a minute later. Those goals served two purposes as they kick started the team as a whole and also a power-play unit that had gone 18 chances without a goal.

“That settled us down and gave us our feet back under us again,” Eaves said.

Despite going 0-for-8 with a man-advantage on Friday night, the Badgers put together a gritty effort and earned a 4-1 victory in a slow-paced game. In a best-of-three for-mat, getting the first game is always important, and afterwards, Davies said he would take post-season vic-tories however they came.

“We’ll definitely take the win but at the same time that definitely was not our best hockey,” he said. “We have to be better tomorrow, we know what we have to do, and it’s just all about execution.”

Davies and the rest of his team-mates were better on Saturday, and avoided having to play a game

By Parker GabrielTHE DAILY CARDINAL

In the midst of Ryan Miller’s string of dominating performances between the pipes for Team USA in the Olympics, Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves said that a hot goaltender “can steal you a series, can steal you a cup, can steal you a national championship.” After sweeping Alaska-Anchorage and punching a ticket to the WCHA Final Five next weekend in St. Paul, it appears that UW junior goalten-der Scott Gudmandson is heating up at the right time.

Gudmandson turned in two rock-solid performances this weekend and established himself as the clear No. 1 option moving forward. After taking a shutout into the final minute of Friday night’s 4-1 victory over the Seawolves, the junior shook off one big mistake on Saturday and made 35 saves, drawing praise from his head coach.

“One of the things you ask a goaltender to do is to stop the shots he should and maybe two out of four of the ones he shouldn’t,” Eaves said. “[Gudmandson] did that tonight, did it to a tee.”

On Friday night, Gudmandson made 27 saves and had a shutout working until Alaska-Anchorage

junior forward Craig Parkinson converted with 48 seconds remain-ing. While he was very good at directing rebounds with his block-ers, Gudmandson dropped mul-tiple pucks from his glove and gave credit to his teammates for helping

him out. “I didn’t think my glove was very

good,” he said. “I kept dropping some pucks there but the guys did a good job in blocking out so I could

Junior goalie Scott Gudmandson has now established himself as the No. 1 goaltender for Wisconsin.

KELSEY EATON/THE DAILY CARDINAL

RECAP ANALYSIS

Bo Ryanhead coach

UW men’s basketball

“These guys played well enough over a four-month peri-od to be in pretty good posi-

tion in the NCAA Tournament.”

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