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Rec Sports proposes student fee increase

State Assembly hears university-related bills

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Director of Recreational Sports John Horn details the intended segregated fee increases under the proposed 2014-’15 budget, which would go toward facility improvements.

By Eoin Cottrell and Siddharth PandeyTHE DAILY CARDINAL

The state Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held a public hearing on two bills Monday that could affect research and scholarship funds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The first bill introduced at the hearing pertained to mone-tary value of academic excellence scholarships and the eligibil-ity criteria used to award them to students. Currently, $2,250 scholarships are awarded to high-achieving Wisconsin residents attending UW-Madison, accord-ing to a report from the Wisconsin

Department of Administration.State Rep. Duey Stroebel,

R-Saukville, testified to raise the number of scholarships given and individual scholarship amount to $4,500. During the 2013-’14 academ-ic year, 357 academic scholarships were declined, according to Stroebel.

Stroebel said Wisconsin’s stu-dents have chosen to attend other schools with larger and more prolif-ic scholarships as a result of a “bid-ding war.” Increasing scholarship money would make UW-Madison “more competitive to the academic excellent,” Stroebel said.

The Assembly committee also heard testimonies on a bill that would provide a broad exception to the Open Records Law relating to research and encourage the UW System to expand classified research.

State Rep. Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, announced moments before the hearing the section containing the exception

Scholarship, classified-research bills discussed at public hearing

By Emmett MottlTHE DAILY CARDINAL

Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee heard a budget proposal from the Division of Recreational Sports and discussed a pro-posed segregated fees bill at a meeting Monday.

SSFC is responsible for approving the allocation of stu-dent segregated fees to registered student organizations and non-academic campus departments.

Director of Recreational Sports John Horn presented a proposed student segregat-ed fee increase of $6 per stu-dent, a total budget request of $3,291,900.

According to Horn, this funding would cover immediate facility repair costs. The fund-ing request stems largely from the aging nature of the facili-ties and relatively high costs for repairs and maintenance.

The increase comes ahead of a student referendum to vote on a proposed funding request of $108 per student, as part of

the Rec Sports Master Plan. Horn said the current student segregated fee funding for Rec Sports is $36.78 per student, which is below the Big Ten average of $145.

According to Horn, Rec Sports has the ability to offer services similar to other uni-versities, but is limited by the condition of the current units.

“Where we are failing is in the facilities,” Horn said.

Horn noted that Rec Sports facilities and pro-grams recorded 1.7 million visits in the past fiscal year, emphasizing the division’s impact on student recruit-ment and retention. He stated

that even if the referendum fails, Rec Sports would still ensure that service is main-tained on campus.

The committee also voted unanimously to back the reso-lution from ASM members on a proposed state bill that would grant students the power to review all segregated fee usage. Currently, SSFC only has the power to make recommenda-tions on the allocation of non-allocated funding.

SSFC Chair David Vines spoke in favor of the resolution, highlighting the importance of student oversight over all stu-dent segregated fee usage. Vines highlighted current problems with funding procedures.

“The process is very prob-lematic and is really [kind of] reflective of the reason [seg-regated] fees have increased so significantly over the past,” Vines said.

SSFC also voted unani-mously to approve the University Health Services budget request of $13,154,240 for the next fiscal year.

UW-Madison alumna details reporting journey to AfricaBy Jackie BannonTHE DAILY CARDINAL

University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Erin Luhmann discussed her experiences and newly gained insights after traveling abroad with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof at a lecture Monday.

Kristof served as Luhmann’s guide through Mali, Niger and Chad as they practiced humani-

tarian reporting and helped raise awareness of global health issues, including food security, malnutri-tion and family planning.

Luhmann secured her position as Kristof’s mentee through his 2013 Win-A-Trip contest.

Luhmann owes her success in the journalism field to her ability to tell

Local man reports attack on Spring Street SundayA 23-year-old Madison man

reported being attacked on the 900 block of Spring Street early Sunday morning, according to Madison Police Department Spokesperson Joel DeSpain.

The man reported being punched in the head multiple times by several men and ini-tially thought the attackers

took his cellphone at approxi-mately 2:15 a.m. He later found the phone in a coat pocket, according to the report.

The victim contacted the MPD at 10 a.m. Sunday to report the battery that had occurred hours earlier. According to the report, the victim said he was walking

home while intoxicated when the men confronted him.

The man was unable to give MPD a detailed descrip-tion of his assailants, but he did say they were Caucasian and in their early 20s.

The report did not indicate if the victim was a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.

John Horn director

Rec Sports

“Where we are failing is in the facilities.”

Former UW-Madison journalism student Erin Luhmann traveled to Africa with The New York Times reporter Nick Kristof June 1-11, 2013.

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For the record

1878—The first U.S. bicycle club, the Boston Bicycle Club, is formed. The “Boston Bad Boys,” as they informally call them-selves, wreak havoc on Bean Town for decades.

1966—San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest MLB contract, $130,000 per year, or $300 quadrillion today.

1977—The heaviest known crustacean, a 20.2-kg lobster, is caught off Nova Scotia. After being pulled ashore, it kills three fisherman and makes its way back to sea, never to be seen again.

On this day in history...

When Valentine’s Day arrives,

Turn up the heat as you arise.

The controls that reach your heart,

Set them to warm, hot, and bright.

As the winter wind howls all about,

“Let There Be Love,” said Valentino aloud.

No cost, no bills due for this course,

Clean Energy is the source!

Let it stay, Magda, not just today:

To eternity add a day.

Obituary for whatever it was you wereforget weak knees, forget freckles on cheeks. forget a season

of flower crowns where no one was royal & nothing was

really real. forget the way you couldn’t understand physics

(how the sun could be such a big zero in the nothingscape

July) or biology (if you never kissed his neck again would he

still sweat salt like stored-up tears?) forget the soreness of

knowing you’re wrong but being too sorry to say it aloud.

you don’t own the rights to any of these wrecking-ball real-

izations these days, so forget the way you used to pretend

every mirror went two ways & that someone cared enough

to look through. forget the way the pew forced your tiny

bird bones into an unnatural shape & the way you whistled

those lies through your larynx before your mom sat you

down and told you that no one needed to pretend anymore.

forget the disaster bag you had packed under your bed

before the morning you realized there’s no warding off the

cerebral catastrophes brewing in your brainwaves. forget

the limitless length of time it took you to understand that

you were dying a series of tiny deaths for nothing & no one.

forget absolution in the face of obvious puppet strings pre-

determining everybody’s every move forever. forget your

boarded-up bedroom window for making it impossible

to get out of bed. it’s ok to say fuck, you know, if it makes

you feel prettier than pink lips ever did. forget the way the

corners of your mouth contort when you’re about to cave.

forget the anti-explorative notions of anchors & the way

they keep you pressed to worn polyester attitudes of a city

you want to quit.

By Sean ReichardThe daily cardinal

K lasper and Foster climbed the ladder upward. Now they were

standing in the foyer between the upper floor ladder and the crisscrossing hallways leading to the kitchen and living room. The sun shone lilac through the front door’s windows.

Foster saw his friend as he hadn’t before, below. Besides the sequins and blood, Klasper was outfitted with a disheveled tux-edo—replete with creases and smudges—and a choking, desic-cated bow tie bandaged his neck. He wore black leather shoes, laces loose and aglets clacking. Foster was shocked. Klasper had never looked so put together.

“I’m surprised your folks weren’t home, Foster.”

“If they aren’t here, it means Terrance has errands to run and he got Mom to drive him.”

“No license?”“No worries.”“What kind of errands does

someone like that run?”“If I were to guess, he’s prob-

ably egging bookstores.”“Isn’t your stepdad a writer? Do

they not want to sell his books?”“He’s an anti-writer; he’s egg-

ing them because they want to sell his books.”

“Hmm.”Foster dragged his duffel bag

to the door and turned about face to Klasper.

“What happened to all your urgency, Klasp?” he asked in an askance tone.

“Being around you always mellows me, Foster.”

Foster accepted this, and Klasper had indeed regained a modicum of his composure.

They piloted a course to the kitchen, traversing the fog of innocuous tableaus Terrance had inherited from a distant uncle who managed a Perkins. They were the kind of pictures made to look like ocean vistas and warm feelings, but really only made you hungry for home fries. The kitch-en was small. The sink was piled with dirty dishes. Klasper walked to the fridge. With the ushering of a Freon breeze, his face broke out in a toothsome grin.

“Hot grits, your stepdad bought more Brews.”

Terrance Homily, semi-pater, had few passions: his wife, the obliteration of words and

Brews. An enigmatic beer, which Klasper and Foster had only seen in the confines of the Homily fridge, Brews came in 30-packs of 13-ounce cans. There was nothing suggesting character or identity—no brewery location, no marketing description, no nutri-tion label—nothing but the word BREWS embossed on the hellish cherry red cans and boxes.

There were two unopened boxes, which were gleefully piled by the door.

They also raided the pantry, removing jars of kimchee and garlic pickles, as well as Foster’s mother’s discount wine. It was a red table wine whose label bore a facsimile of a Florentine fresco, overflowing with strange rabbit-like creatures.

For the rest of the house, Klasper and Foster had to work out a kind of buddy system, wherein one climbed the upward ladder while the other waited at the bottom for loot. Foster could not think of anything useful or desirable on the upper floor, so he took the latter position.

Kasper bustled on the upper floor, and by the end had amassed a neat stockpile at the edge of the denuded stairspace. Among the pile of bags and boxes, Foster noticed that Klasper had stolen a few of his semi-pater’s tweed jackets, which he never wore, because they bespoke of aca-demic acumen. Terrance hoarded them so no one else could take advantage of that acumen.

When the house was exhaust-ed of interest, Klasper and Foster carried their spoils to Klasper’s car, which looked like the equiva-lent of a mutt, a misspent machine born out of wedlock between a station wagon and a Volkswagen bug. Its wood paneling was fake and the engine was in the rear and the rest of it was a gauzy lemon-yellow.

As Foster placed the Brews boxes in the back, on the floor, he noticed among the effects of Klasper’s machine (dubbed ‘Lycidas’) a shipping box poked with holes. He did not think much of it. Instead, he thought of the house, and thought of the trip he was about to take. He had no real inkling of what was to follow.

Want to know what happens to Foster next? What the hell is in that box with oxygen holes? Read part 3 of “Awake, arise, or be forever fallen,” Feb. 25.

By Sina Siahpoosh

Campus Wordsmiths is a biweekly feature. It’s a space for writers from around campus to publish

their poems, stories and other creative pieces.

“Awake, arise, or be forever fallen” part 2

By Marina Oliver

Valentino

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Madison selects developer for new sustainable center

The city of Madison selected a developer Monday to begin constructing a new sustainable building, according to a release.

Baum Development, LLC will build the Madison Sustainability Commerce Center.

Madison said it envisions the Center as a “showcase building featuring green technologies” and “convergence point for the green and innovative commu-nity to share best practices, net-work and provide an active space that fosters tenant success.”

The contract with Baum Development will cost approxi-mately $75,000 of a $300,000 Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to the release.

Baum Development will determine different designs and technologies that could be used in the building, find spe-cific types of tenants poten-tially interested in the Center and manage a feasibility study, according to the release.

“We are eager to break ground on this innovative proj-ect,” Mayor Paul Soglin said in the release. “At this point we are looking for collaborators and tenants to help shape this important effort.”

The city has not finalized a location for the project but is considering the Capitol East District, midway between downtown Madison and Dane County Regional Airport.

Baum Development’s work includes the Green Exchange in Chicago, the country’s larg-est sustainable business com-munity, according to the proj-ect’s website.

“Being able to connect the links through a project like Green Exchange is one of the many reasons we were very attracted to Madison and Wisconsin,” Baum Development President David Baum said in the release.

A team will present its find-ings to Madison over the next several months.

—Dana Kampa

State legislators discuss school accountability

State Rep. Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, and state Sen. Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, released statements on multiple bills Monday that could change account-ability regulations for Wisconsin’s secondary-school system.

Steineke voiced support for leg-islation that would create a new grading system for public and charter schools, according to a statement. Under the proposed leg-islation, public schools that consis-tently fail the state’s school report-card system must close or convert to charter schools. He noted this proposed school-grading system is required as part of Wisconsin’s compliance in the No Child Left Behind Act.

“We want to give the school districts an opportunity to fix those schools, but if they don’t … we need to step in and shake things up to make sure we’re doing the right thing by the kids,” Steineke said.

According to Steineke, the goal in drafting the legislation is to “treat all schools and all children as fairly as possible… to get that apples-to-apples comparison for all taxpayers’ kids no matter what school they attend.”

Additionally, Shilling intro-duced two bills Monday that would require charter schools with state-funded special-education programs to hire licensed therapists for their students. The legislation would also increase reimbursement for special-education programs.

Shilling said in a statement her plan is necessary to get “serious about supporting quality educa-tional opportunities for all stu-dents in Wisconsin.”

“No school that accepts state taxpayer funding should be allowed to deny services to stu-dents with special needs,” Schilling said in a statement.

The legislature has referred both plans to its education committees.

—Andrew Hahn

ViceChancellorDarrellBazzellfacilitatesdiscussiononOpenBookWisconsinatacommitteemeetingMonday.

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Academic Staff talks OpenBook Wisconsin policyBy Emily GerberTHEDAILYCARDINAL

Representatives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Business Services pre-sented updates on the recently launched OpenBook Wisconsin policy at an Academic Staff Committee meeting Monday.

The OpenBook Wisconsin policy was an initiative stem-ming from Gov. Scott Walker’s administration, which aims to provide more transparency with the financial actions of the state government. The information includes spending from within the UW System.

The state law went into effect Jan. 2, when the OpenBook Wisconsin website was launched. The website allows public access to state expendi-tures through looking up any individual and seeing what costs they have reported.

Martha Kerner, assistant vice chancellor of the UW-Madison Division of Business Services, explained that the development of the site will be broken up in to three phases, with expenditures being the first. The second phase will focus on outlining salaries and fringe benefits, while the third will target grants.

Though the policy’s goal is to provide clarity of where exactly state dollars are being spent, Kerner said this system is not an accurate representation of the

financial actions.“Anyone who has a financial

background, or anybody who is really monitoring expenses, real-izes that this is not intended to be any sort of accurate financial system whatsoever,” Kerner said. “It is widely known that there are some peculiarities and oddities [to the figures], and people should not rely on them.”

Kerner said there is cur-rently no timeline in place for enacting the next two phases of the policy, but noted there had been many delays in establish-ing the first phase.

Director of Academic Personnel Office Steve Lund also presented information to the com-mittee on the new procedures in plan for completing background checks for personnel.

Under the new system, employees would be required to report an arrest within 24 hours of being taken into custody, and additional rechecks will take place for employees with inci-dents on record.

Committee members expressed concern that unfair assumptions would be made about employees through disclos-ing crime occurrences, though Lund said the important thing is for the university to know about the circumstances.

“It is our obligation as an employer to take those [incidents] seriously,” Lund said.

to the Open Records Law had been dropped from the bill due to concerns of public examinations.

The UW System drasti-cally reduced its classified research program after Sterling Hall, which housed the Army Mathematics Research Center, was bombed in August 1970 in protest of government research for the Vietnam War. Multiple parties have since lobbied for the UW System to expand clas-sified research.

State Rep. Mike Kuglitsch, R-New Berlin, testified for the bill, saying an increase in clas-sified research would encour-age larger grants from the fed-eral government.

Additionally, State Rep. Robb Kahl, D-Monana, said the U.S. Department of Defense allocates $13 billion annually for research funding and the UW System has remained in the top five universities for research in the past 25 years. Kahl also emphasized Johns Hopkins University receives more grant money than any other universi-ty in the country due to its focus on classified research.

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people’s stories truthfully while still incorporating compassion, according to UW-Madison Global Health Institute Associate Director Lori DiPrete Brown.

“I think that humanitarian reporting has kind of a bad rep of being soft news or human inter-est news, but it’s intense and it’s important,” Luhmann said.

Luhmann explained the act of helping others is an innate quality of humans, which often results in walking a fine line between report-ing and participating. She added that ethical concerns can make dis-tinguishing between helping sub-

jects and intervening difficult.On this topic, she discussed

several of her particularly con-troversial situations, including an encounter with an infant suffering from malnutrition who she and her team ultimately decided to transport to a hospital.

Additionally, Luhmann touched upon the challenges of interviewing people after trau-matic events and discussed seri-ous topics with sensitive subjects across a language barrier.

“Some of the niceties and all of that you would like to say you just don’t have the language for,” Luhmann said.

The task of transforming peo-

ple’s stories, lifestyles and expe-riences into words challenged Luhmann as well. She explained it is hard to detach words from judgment and values.

“People are very sensitive to

their image and how they’re por-trayed,” Luhmann added.

Humanitarian reporting encompasses all of these chal-lenges, which are sometimes overlooked and a central rea-son Luhmann encourages peo-ple to “have an appreciation for this sort of news.”

Hannah Chapman, a UW-Madison Ph.D. political sci-ence student, expressed her admi-ration for Luhmann.

“I think a lot of people in the field are controversial, but to see a female coming fresh into the field and getting a different perspective, I think that’s very interesting,” Chapman said.

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“Humanitarian reporting has kind of a bad rep of

being soft news or human interest news, but it’s

intense and it’s important.”

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University of Wisconsin-Madison students enjoy beer at the newly re-opened Der Stiftskeller. + Photo by Tommy Yonash

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Dear potential lover, I want your genitals near my genitals.

You took my kissing virginity behind a Jimmy John’s eight years ago. I think about you every few years. Turkey Toms. How is the stand-up career going? Do you still think about me? How is your step-brother who I secretly thought was cuter?

Dear G-spot, I’m so glad I have finally found you.Dear clitoris, You are still my number one. Couldn’t imagine life without you. <3 Happy Valentine’s Day.

Dear person I would like to have an ambiguous relationship with, that we will never attempt to define, and it will probably end badly for the both of us, Would you like to have casual sexual intercourse with me for an extended period of time?

Dear friend that I secretly hope to be more someday, I wish that at some point in the next five years one of us will make a move on the other and the other will thoroughly enjoy it.

Dear couple that says they are in love, I’m so happy for you and your happiness. The more you talk on social media outlets about how much you are deeply in love the more likely your relationship will fail.

Dear everyone, Is Tutto Pasta really that romantic?

Dear most special gal pal, Thank you for acting as my de facto significant other while I remain single. You’ll be my emergency contact until the day I die.

Dear Lena Dunham, Thanks a million for bearing all on national television. You’ve given this fellow pear-shaped girl an inflated sense of confidence that skinny girls with C cups must have all the time.

Valentine’s Day is almost upon us. (Friday, FYI). This year, instead of falling into cliches that put pressure on couples who might believe this day to be most important, throw singles into a metaphorical pit of despair and give everyone in between anxiety attacks, it’s time to get real. These are real Valentines I will be giving out this year, from the bottom of my heart. If one speaks to you please cut along the dashed line and attach a doily and some glitter. Should I work for Hallmark?

Dear all the people that have been in my sex dreams, Was it good for you?

Dear new love interest, I hope one day to be able to poop in your bathroom and fart in your presence. One day.

SAMY MOSKOLsam yams

Dear person I would like to break it off with, Roses are red, violets are blue, the sex isn’t good anymore so let’s just be friends.

Dear Mom, Thanks for the care package of assorted chocolates and heart-shaped doilies. I’m glad you still think I’m special.

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Dear ex-boyfriend from eighth grade,

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Cibo Matto still shines12 years after breakup

Some groups put the ‘super’ in supergroup

W hat happens when you put three, four or 12 famous-in-their-

own-right musicians together and tell them to write an album or go on tour? Decidedly mixed results.

Sometimes you can catch light-ning in a bottle. Other times, you get a proverbial “Dealin’ With Idiots,” a movie written, directed by and starring Jeff Garlin, who called all his famous friends to make arguably the worst movie ever made.

One of my favorite examples of a supergroup working is when Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age came together to cut one of the best albums of 2009 as Them Crooked Vultures and went on an inter-national tour that received the highest of praises. If you haven’t checked out the album, it is an absolute must-listen for fans of any of the projects listed above.

Two other notable supergroups are Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Traveling Wilburys. The former brought together Buffalo Springfield bandmates Stephen Stills and Neil Young with David Crosby of The Byrds and Graham Nash of The Hollies. Crosby, Stills & Nash would stay together lon-ger, but the album produced with Neil Young in the fold, 1970’s Déjà Vu, is by far their best work.

The latter of the two groups included Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. Though I have never really been enamored with their two albums, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 and Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, the talent in this group is unparalleled.

Festivals like Jazzfest and Bonnaroo have embraced the idea of supergroups and super jams, and have made those terms a part of the popular music lexicon.

Though I have never myself made it down to the Bonnaroo farm in Manchester, Tenn., through the power of live record-ings, I have listened to some of the super jams, many of which were phenomenal.

Bringing together Jim James and Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, John Oates and Zigaboo Modeliste of The Meters together and throwing in guest spots from R. Kelly, Billy Idol and Larry Graham had potential writ-ten all over it, and certainly did not disappoint.

On the same token, bringing together D’Angelo with ?uest-love and some other handpicked musicians took about three songs for D’Angelo to get warmed up before coming out swinging for the final hour of the performance including a phenomenal cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Power of Soul” and a take on The Beatles’ clas-sic “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window.”

Unfortunately, sometimes put-ting a bunch of talented musicians together doesn’t live up to the lofty expectations placed upon the group. Other times, it just sounds plain horrible.

In 2006, Joe Russo and Marco Benevento of the Benevento/Russo Duo—a group famil-iar to few outside of the “jam” scene—came together with Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon of Phish for the super jam that year. As much as the fan-boy in me wants to say that this was the greatest super jam of all time, even a guest spot by Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead couldn’t save this performance from being dull and lifeless.

This group, touring under the moniker of G.R.A.B.—their last

initials—ended up creating some listenable moments on the tour that ensued from this perfor-mance. However, this was a text-book example of throwing musi-cians together who should sound good but decidedly don’t.

In 2009, Chickenfoot formed, which featured Sammy Hagar, a.k.a. the lesser of the two Van Halen singers, Michael Anthony of kicked-out-of-Van Halen fame, Chad Smith of The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Joe Satriani of… Joe Satriani. Aside from featuring arguably the worst name of all time, Chickenfoot also featured some of the worst lyrics of all time. Also, Satriani’s guitar theatrics don’t really work within the con-text of a band, no matter how often in interviews he said it would.

Last but not least, as much as I love The Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan may be the worst super-group ever put together. With Billy Corgan and Pumpkins band-mate Jimmy Chamberlin coming back together post-breakup num-ber who knows what, you know you’re probably off to a bad start. Throw in Matt Sweeney of Chavez and Skunk and David Pajo of a number of different bands, you think, “This could be really good.”

It wasn’t. In fact, it should serve as a cautionary tale to all supergroups that sometimes these just don’t work. The moral of the story is that as with all bands, sometimes as much as the pieces may fit together on paper, when they all get on stage together, everything needs to work prop-erly for it to sound good.

So as far as replacing Jon Fishman and Page McConnell with the Benevento/Russo Duo sounds like a perfect fit, and hav-ing Mike Gordon on his own perform with the Duo sounds fantastic, you may also end up with Zwan.

Think every supergroup is a Zwan waiting to happen? Tell Brian at weidy@wisc.edu

BRIaN WEIDyWeidyng outthe noise

By Conor MurphyThe Daily CarDinal

Meaning “crazy food” in Italian, Cibo Matto has a second definition to members of New York’s music scene. Japanese-born Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori disbanded their indie rock group Cibo Matto 12 years ago, citing, “it was time.” Now, the duo has teamed up with drummer Yuko Araki to revive the group and release their first album in 15 years.

Hotel Valentine, Cibo Matto’s third full-length album released Tuesday, was promoted as a con-cept album, describing falling in love in a hotel with ghosts. The track list itself seems to describe the progression through one’s time at the ‘Hotel Valentine.’

Bookending the album are tracks “Check In” and “Check Out,” two halves of the group’s signature sounds. The former is a loud, brash indie rock track fea-turing loud bass and electronic additions, with Hatori’s vocals seeping throughout the song, while the later is a smooth ballad,

complimenting the harsher tones of “Check In.”

Two of the group’s former members, Sean Lennon and Duma Love, have left indelible marks on both Honda and Hatori, as shown through the tracks “Déjà Vu” and “MFN.” “Déjà Vu” is reminiscent of ’90s R&B and Bossa Nova, with smooth beat-box recordings and progressive beats, which Love featured in the group’s 1999 release Stereo * Type A. The mid-album song “MFN” features near-carbon copy vocals of Lennon’s contributions to the group from the mid-’90s, harken-ing back to his brash lyricism and vocal talent.

While the first half of the album highlights what Cibo Matto was known for in New York dur-ing the late ’90s, the second half of Hotel Valentine allows for the three members to experiment with their abilities. The lyrical wit of Honda and Hatori is put on dis-play in songs like “Housekeeping” and “Empty Pool,” which compli-ments Araki’s contribution on the drums. Their skillful musician-ship has aged well over the decade, and Araki’s addition only adds to the group’s talent.

After their 12-year break, Cibo Matto seems to be back on track to revive their electro-bossa nova soul that they pioneered in the 1990s, and shows to their fans that the hiatus was well deserved.

Rating: A

hotel ValentineCibo Matto

CD REVIEW

Eric Church delivers mildbut listenable fourth album

By Jake SmasalThe Daily CarDinal

Eric Church’s The Outsiders leaves listeners in an interest-ing place. On one hand, The Outsiders is very much a coun-try album. Many of the genre’s boilerplate themes are repre-sented on the album—Church sings about his hometown, ado-lescence, cars, women—and if you took a shot every time he mentions whiskey you’d end up in a hospital.

“Talladega,” “Give Me Back My Hometown” and “Cold One” represent Church’s obligatory attempts to make his way to the top of the charts. “A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young” tries to show off Church’s soft side, and “Roller Coaster Ride” has “listen to me while you drink” written all over it. However, it’s the rest of the album that really shines.

It seems that while writing and recording The Outsiders, Church got bored of writing country songs and decided to

sprinkle a few songs into the album that sometimes feel like they have no right to be there.

The album starts off with the title track, and it sets off a vision for the rest of the album that doesn’t really hold true. “The Outsiders” is Church’s “Wanted Dead or Alive,” and he treats it as such. Between the murky bass, choirs and handclaps, “The Outsiders” tries to show diversity in Church’s songwriting, and, to an extent, achieves its goal.

“Broke Record” and “That’s Damn Rock & Roll” show off the same style, but “The Outsiders” is by far the best example of what Church is attempting to do with his album.

However, the most inter-esting track is “Devil, Devil (Prelude: Princess of Darkness)” An eight minute odyssey in which Church does nothing but talk over percussion and acous-tic guitars, the song is Church’s ultimate attempt to branch out in a new musical direction.

Overall, The Outsiders can at times be a somewhat predict-able, asinine country record. However, those parts of the album that show Church’s will-ingness to experiment and try new things make the album worth a listen.

Rating: B

The OutsidersEric Church

CD REVIEW

Now that Valentine’s Day approaches every-one feels the need to

express their extreme opin-ion about this little holiday. It seems like people either want to buy and receive flowers, choco-lates, balloons and rainbows on Friday or they want to light the Valentine’s Day card section on fire in the pharmacy. Both are wholly unnecessary, especially lighting anything on fire.

Hating this holiday is a huge waste of energy. Don’t have a want or need to celebrate? Don’t. No one is making you. Cupid is not beating you over the head with arrows.

If you have a significant other, there is no need to panic or stress about making it the perfect day. Talk about what the two of you expect out of the day, and be honest. Want to go full out? Make dinner reserva-tions, buy flowers and dress up.

Want to be creative? Get crafting, get baking, get writing or do something totally unique to your significant other. To me, Valentine’s day is not an obliga-tion to be amazing in your rela-tionship; it is an excuse to cel-ebrate it. Celebrate it however you both want to celebrate it.

Awkward couples are not the only Valentine’s Day hat-ers I want to convert. If you’re Valentine’s Day hating, you probably fall into a couple cat-

egories, and I have a solution for each one.

You might hate being asked about your Valentines Day plans. To lower your blood pressure, every time the small talk turns romantic just look at those questions the same way you look at people questioning your spring break plans. Use the tried and true “No I don’t have any plans, just relaxing/drinking/studying as usual” or “No, but I wish I did have plans!” There is no need to be offended by polite conversation if you can’t respond with “Yes, I am proposing on Friday.”

If you do not feel any con-nection to the holiday, it is okay. There is no family or social obligation. This is not a holi-day where you have to spend a long weekend with your family, pretending that you actually like that weird book your aunt bought you.

This holiday’s significance holds no weight if you choose not to give it weight. If you do not want to throw red and pink confetti in the air, treat it like it doesn’t even phase you; be respectful in your indiffer-ence. Worst case scenario your significant other wants to cel-ebrate and you do not. If that is the case, make the most of it and maybe even learn some-thing new.

Anyone who claims Valentine’s Day was invented by greeting card companies obvi-ously never did their homework. It is a very old holiday, deeply based in religion like almost every holiday. It has become materialized like Christmas or Halloween. It is thousands of years old, but the fact is it means nowhere near what it used to. Thus, you can make it mean whatever you want it to mean.

Maybe you would love Valentine’s Day if you had a spe-

cial someone but you pretend to hate February 14 because some people need to hate what the can’t have. Do not freak out, get together with a group of friends and do whatever you want to do come Friday. If that doesn’t work out, you do not need to seek anyone’s permis-sion to bring cupcakes to class or cards to work. Go crazy, anyone hating your celebration nature needs to get off their bitter bus.

It is a big waste of time and energy to hate an abstract and inconsequential holiday. Whether or not you believe that the day is important, Valentine’s Day is unavoidable. If you are in a relationship, it would benefit you to reme-

ber that treating your swee-heart extra special will only stregnthen your relationship. It seems simple to me; celebrate or don’t celebrate. No need to get Cupid’s bow in a knot.

How do you feel about V-Day? Tell us all about your elaborate plans or lack there of. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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opinionl

Humanity of capital punishment ceases legitamacy

Dennis McGuire, a confessed mur-derer and rapist of a pregnant woman in 1989, was executed

on Jan. 16, 2014. A Gallup poll taken in October 2012 said 60 percent of people would agree with the decision to exe-cute a person convicted of murder. But would those same people still agree with the decision to execute people if they knew it would take 26 minutes?

To not underplay the formality of the situation, one can do a multitude of things in 26 minutes. According to Rachel Ray, you can make Tuscan Pesto-Dressed Penne with Crispy Kale with Garlic and Broiled Tomato Crostini while also having time to run a mile at my incredibly slow pace.

This is the result of the manufac-turers of Pentobarbital and the ban on its sale for use in lethal injections. Lundbeck LLC, the manufacturers of the drug, stopped selling Pentobarbital to prisons in 2011. However, supplies of the drug have only recently begun to dry up.

Instead of using Pentobarbital, as Ohio had just recently ran out, they resorted to an untested combination of midazolam and hydromorphone to carry out the execution. This resulted in the slow and painful death of McGuire.This gives us all a chance to take a step back and look at how inhumane the practice of capital punishment truly is.

The United States is the only one of the G7 countries that include Japan, France, Germany, United Kingdom,

Italy and Canada, who still use capital punishment. Furthermore, it is one of just 21 countries that still use this prac-tice against 97 who don’t according to Amnesty International.

Furthermore, since 1973, more than 140 people have been exonerated while sitting on death row including an aver-age of five per year between 2000 and 2011. While that does not sound like a lot, those are more than 50 sons or daughters, many of whom may have kids of their own, who were almost killed for crimes they did not commit.

While economics should not play into this wholly ethical decision, when you look at the numbers, it is nonsensi-cal that the United States still uses capi-tal punishment.

By putting someone on death row, in the state of California, it costs $90,000 extra as opposed to them being sen-tenced to life without parole, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. When adding up the additional costs for the more than 660 prisoners on death row in California, that adds up to an extra $59 million per year.

In Texas, the numbers are just as eye-opening as a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million in 1992, which was about three times the cost

of imprisoning someone in the highest security prison for 40 years.

But while running the risk of resus-citating a stream of numbers, which get carted out every time a death pen-alty case makes the national news, one needs to think about the state of our prison system and how inhumanely our prison populations are treated.

Though nary a politician will touch the issue and taxpayers don’t want to foot the bill for the transgressions of others, the American prison system is an absolute nightmare.

To start, one needs to look at the overcrowding of outdated facilities. Between 1992 and 2011, America’s pris-ons went from incarcerating 1.3 million prisoners to 2.2 million. While no one wants to spend any money on making his or her stay in prison more comfort-able, it is creating a higher rate of recidi-vism rather than rehabilitation.

So as to not fully digress from the main issue, the moral of the story is that we have a broken prison system fueled by the highest incarceration rate in the world. While the United States had less than five percent of the world’s popula-tion in 2008, it boasted nearly 25 percent of the world’s prison population.

In closing, at some point in the

next few years, the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, will reach the sentencing stage. Though the case has been authorized to seek the death penalty, from both an economic and ethical standpoint, no matter how heinous his crimes were, he does not deserve the death penalty.

We as a society have moved past pub-lic acceptance of Hammurabi’s Code; we do not need an eye for an eye to justify execution. Tsarnaev is guilty and thus, should spend the rest of his life wasting away in a federal prison. The American government, as well as the American public, should realize that Tsarnaev would be in much worse shape living out the rest of his life in complete isola-tion as opposed to ending it early via capital punishment.

The death penalty seems poised to be a source of controversy for years to come. Will our prisons begin to move away from their violent nature?What is your opinion on the use of capital pun-ishment? Are there ever offenses that are worthy of the death penalty? Is it still worth the economic and moral cost? Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

BRIAN WEIDYguest columnist

While no one wants to spend any money on making his or her stay in prison more comfortable, it is cre-

ating a higher rate of recidivism rather than

rehabilitation.

Since 1973, more than 140 people have been exonerated while sitting on death row including an average of five per year between 2000 and

2011.

Valentine’s excitment grows as holiday approaches

Don’t have a want or need to celebrate? Don’t. No one is making you. Cupid is not beating you over the head

with arrows.

Valentine’s Day is not an obligation to be amazing in your relationship, it is an

excuse to celebrate it.

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But would those same people still agree with the decision to excecute people if they knew it would take

26 minutes?

This is not a holiday where you have to spend a long

weekend with your family, pretending that you actu-ally like that weird book

your aunt bought you.

SARA VINSONopinioncolumnist

comics In case you were wondering... The word ‘jumentous’ means ‘resembling horse urine.’

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Tough games highlight week to come for uW

Press Conference

by Jake Powers andColleen degnanThe Daily CarDinal

Women’s HockeyWisconsin (19-3-2 WCHA,

23-3-2 overall) will head into this weekend’s matchup against rival Minnesota on a high note after completing a sweep of Ohio State (6-13-5, 11-14-5) last Friday and Saturday in Columbus.

The Badgers beat Ohio State 3-0 and 3-2, respectively, in what head coach Mark Johnson called a strong defensive showing.

“I thought our Friday night game down in Columbus was one of our better defensive games that we’ve played all season,” Johnson said. “[Goaltender] Alex [Rigsby] did a nice job when she did get faced and came away with a nice shutout victory and then responded well Saturday, coming back with another good effort. Very happy with the sweep.”

Wisconsin will look to carry the momentum into its series against No. 1 Minnesota (22-1-1, 28-1-1) this weekend. Friday’s game will be played in LaBahn Arena, the usual venue for women’s hockey, while Saturday night’s “Fill the Bowl” game will take place in the Kohl Center.

“I think everybody up in Minnesota and certainly the peo-ple in Madison that follow us has this weekend circled on their cal-endars,” Johnson said. “It should be an exciting couple of games, and certainly Saturday night’s game is going to be special not only for our players but certainly for our fans.”

“Fill the Bowl” night will prove to be an emotional test for the Badgers, as Saturday’s game is also the team’s final regular-season game at home. Johnson said his team will have to man-age its nerves on senior night in order to take advantage of play-ing in front of a larger crowd.

The Badgers were swept by Minnesota Oct. 11 and 12 on the road, but Johnson stressed that his team has progressed since then and will be ready to com-

pete this weekend.“They don’t give up a lot of

opportunities,” Johnson said. “You’re going to have to capital-ize on it and you have to play real good disciplined hockey.”

Women’s basketballWisconsin (3-8 Big Ten, 10-13

overall) fell short to Indiana (4-6, 17-6) 76-69 Saturday. The loss gave IU the most wins in a sea-son since 2008-’09.

Head coach Bobbie Kelsey expressed her disappointment about the recent loss to Indiana.

“They played really well, and we played well the second half, but obviously the game is two halves, 20 minutes each, 40 min-utes total,” Kelsey said.

Transfer student Michala Johnson, who came from the University of Connecticut and started all 22 games thus far, leads the badgers with 16.7 points per game.

“She’s naturally someone that people look to, she’s not real real vocal, but she is vocal enough,” Kelsey said. “She’s done a nice job for us as far as being a leader on and off the court.”

Looking ahead, the Badgers are set to take on Minnesota Wednesday at the Kohl Center, along with a trip to Penn State Sunday. Prior to Wednesday’s game will be a “chalk talk” thirty minutes before tip.

Gearing up for Minnesota, Kelsey is prepared to face Rachel Banham, the Big Ten’s top scorer this year.

“You can’t shut someone like that down, she’s going to get her points, but we have done a good job in the past of limiting her touches,” Kelsey said. “They have been struggling a little bit too, but they are on a little win streak here, so everybody’s look-ing for that win, everybody needs it, we need it.”

In her third year as head coach, Kelsey has gotten used to the pressure of the Big Ten, though she never stops feel-ing it.

“This year’s been harder for me than any other year,” Kelsey said. “I don’t know why. It just seems harder that we’ve got all these pieces. Now you’ve got to put them together and try to get them playing well at one time.”

Elite-level sports are no place for retaliation

Marcus Smart is not a happy camper. His Oklahoma State team

has pulled “a Wisconsin” by losing five of their last six games and now, he’s in some very hot water over his actions at Texas Tech.

In case you didn’t see the entire hour-long SportsCenter devoted to the incident, here’s what happened. Oklahoma State was about to continue its skid downward with a loss at Texas Tech, Smart jumped behind the basket for the ball and a self defined Tech “superfan” named Jeff Orr started yelling in his face. Smart respond-ed by shoving Orr and stomping away while telling his coaches Orr dropped an N-bomb. Orr maintains he only called Smart a “piece of crap.”

Obviously, the whole thing is a mess. At best, Orr is your stereotypi-cal “take sport too seriously” jerk and at worst, a racist twit. Smart, on top of everything, has clear anger issues.

Lets get this out of the way: what Smart did was inexcus-able. An attack on a fan, no matter how much (s)he has yelled, is never warranted.

People like to create simple causalities in logic for these kinds of things, like the follow-ing two sentences, “If Orr real-ly did say what Smart alleged, I guess he should have been shoved. If it was just ‘piece of crap,’ then Smart is just crazy.”

Neither of those statements are true. Smart isn’t the first athlete to hear vile insults thrown at him, nor will he be the last. He’s only notable because he responded, and that is simply not okay.

Nothing is more scary for sports leagues than fans fear-ing for their safety at events.

When a girl died at a

Columbus Blue Jacket game from an errant puck to the head, the NHL almost immedi-ately introduced protective net-ting. When a Texas Ranger fan died by falling from the upper decks, MLB ramped up their safety measures. When Ron Artest went berserk and drove the Malice in the Palace into overdrive, the NBA suspended him and any other player who so much as lifted a finger dur-ing the brawl.

Anything that endangers fans, even racist fans, needs to be treated as a problem.

Especially when that thing is a 6-foot-4, 220 pound future NBA player with an anger problem.

To defend Smart, we’ve all heard some variant of the line, “If I called a guy Smart’s size a piece of crap, I’d be lucky to only

be shoved.” I guess that’s true. But

it has no importance to this situation.

Smart shoved Orr as a representative of Oklahoma State, during a season-long audition for a league that still remembers the Artest fiasco well.

Sure, Orr was out of line. But there’s an intentional double standard when it comes to fan-athlete interactions. The same weekend, we heard reports of Oregon assistants being spat on by Arizona State fans and there was no outrage. Heck, we heard the Wisconsin stu-dent section repeatedly chant “Izzo swallows” to welcome Michigan State.

Every athlete eventu-ally learns how to deal with the inevitable jerks they will encounter in their careers.

In the press conference where he accepted his three-game suspension, Smart showed he is working on learn-ing that, and how to deal with his anger.

It’s a good thing because if he doesn’t, he simply doesn’t have a future in professional basketball.

Was Marcus Smart right in his actions? Let Jack know by emailing jfbaer@wisc.edu.

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