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October 10, 2011
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Chancellor sets the pace at the Panther Prowl
7th annual 5k race draws a record-setting 1,251 participants
Arrests on the rise for drugs and alcohol on campus UWM Police and security step up efforts to reduce substance abuse By Aaron Knapp Assistant News Editor news@uwmpost.com
79 runners received a t-shirt for beating Chancellor Mike Lovell in the 5k. Post photo by Sierra Riesberg By Steve Garrison News Editor news@uwmpost.com
Twenty runners could not claim the coveted “I Beat the Chancellor” t-shirt at the 7th annual Panther Prowl 5K Sunday morning, with Chancellor Michael Lovell finishing 80th overall in a recordsetting field of 1,251 participants. Volunteers scrambled to prepare water for the racers’ return, with Nate Weland, 27, crossing the finish line first after a 15:06 sprint through the scenic Lake Park course. Competitors Scott Mueller, 26, and Dan Held, 45, followed closely behind, with Mueller finishing the race in 15:30 and Held in 16:00. Graduate student Laura Benson led the ladies in the pack, finishing the race 41st overall in 19:25. Kristina Heinz and Jackie Giacalone followed with times of 19:43 and 19:53, respectively.
Lovell served as a pacesetter Sunday morning for many students in attendance. A prodigious cross-country competitor, the first 100 students to outrun the chancellor were awarded shirts declaring their victory. Other participants took a more leisurely approach to the 3.1 mile race, with Team Weckmueller, led by Department of Enrollment Services Director Beth Weckmueller, clinching the ignoble title of “Slowest Team.” Cooperation, not competition, was the main motivation for many participants, however, with proceeds from the race going towards UWM Alumni Association programs and student scholarships. Runners of all stripes, literally in the case of the canine competitors, trotted off from the Hartford Avenue racing line at 10 a.m. Freshman Sierra Townsend, the
2011 Panther Scholar, was chosen as the honorary race-starter for event. Runners followed Maryland Avenue to Kenwood Boulevard, eventually arriving at Lake Park before starting back towards the launch point where they were greeted by some 350 volunteers handing out water and cheering the competitors on. Barbara Flint, interim director of alumni relations, said she was happy that they managed to beat last year’s record of 1,196 participants. “I think it is fantastic,” Flint said. “Special thanks to the weather committee.” Lovell crossed the finish line at 20:43, running a little over a six and a half minute mile. “I did well,” Lovell said, as medical personnel strapped a bag of ice to his calf. “I ran the Lakefront Marathon last week, so there were issues from that.”
Lovell continued that he couldn’t be more proud about the turnout for the event, particularly with all the proceeds going to students. Andrew Forti, who placed third in the 19-24 division with a time of 17:45, said he trained fairly regularly, but the Panther Prowl was his first race in a while. “It wasn’t horrible, but I think I could have done better,” Forti said. “I started a little fast.” Benson was happy to place first for the women, a title she did not expect to hold, despite participating in crosscountry during high school and college. “…I am also training for a marathon, and I thought it would be good to run a 5k,” Benson said. To find more results from the race or to pledge money to Alumni Association programs, visit www4.uwm.edu/ pantherprowl/.
Students without cars could find access to jobs, school difficult
Proposed transportation cuts limit available routes for students By Jon Gorski Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com
The proposed Milwaukee County Transit System budget for the new fiscal year attempts to offset a funding reduction by cutting many routes used by students without cars to get to work and school.
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Governor Scott Walker’s nearly $7 million cut to MCTS's funds forces a 10 percent reduction of state funds to the public transit system. An analysis and report done by Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for Economic Development Joel Rast concludes that at least 13,553 jobs previously accessible by the bus system
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will be affected and inaccessible due to the decreased funding. However, Rast's report states, “the actual figure is quite likely to be far higher than this.” According to an MCTS map, the majority of the areas affected are suburban areas outside of the city of Milwaukee, including substantial cuts in Fox Point, Hales Corners and Glendale. With well over 2,000
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students affected by these changes, access to school and work could very well be impeded. For students of UW-Milwaukee who rely on UBUS for transit, the routes will remain unchanged and untouched, but for fans of the Brewers and Milwaukee’s summer festivals,
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Last year, UW-Milwaukee saw a dramatic crackdown by the UWM Police Department and other security groups on drug and alcohol use in and around campus, according to UWM’s Annual Security Report, which was released October 1. The report shows an increase of over 100 percent in arrests for alcohol law violations and a nearly 50 percent increase in arrests for drug law violations since 2008, the majority of these taking place in residence halls. These 360 arrests and close to 550 disciplinary referrals for drug and alcohol law violations made in campus housing signal a major effort to cut down on substance abuse on campus. “Substance use among college students impacts all aspects of university life, including student well-being, the educational environment and the quality of life on campus and in the surrounding communities,” the report said. “In an ongoing effort to mitigate these highrisk behaviors, UWM has instituted a variety of alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA) prevention and intervention initiatives.” The security report and the fire safety report are published together every fall semester and include crime statistics from the past three years that occur either “on campus” (the campus area spanning from Kenwood to Edgewood and Downer to Cramer or Maryland), “non-campus” (UWM property that is not attached to the main campus like offcampus residence halls and the School of Continuing Education) or on “public property” (the streets and sidewalks that run around UWM’s campus). While arrests for alcohol have jumped from 98 in 2008 to 214 in 2010 (two-thirds of which occurred on campus and over half in residence halls), disciplinary referrals have decreased by roughly 33 percent in that same time frame. These referrals are sent to the school and generally occur in residence halls, such as when an RA reports possession of alcohol by their residents. (Possession of alcohol is illegal on university property, regardless of age, except with special permission.) “At UWM, this means referral to the Dean of Students Office and initiation of non-academic misconduct charges or referral to University Housing’s Resident
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On Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 2:16 p.m., a student tried traversing the intersection at Maryland Avenue and Hartford Avenue via a makeshift tightrope. Police referred the gentleman to the University Safety and Assurances Office. On Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 8:22 p.m., a student at the Riverview dorms was hit in the eye with a ping pong ball and consequently transported to the hospital by a friend. On Sunday, Oct. 9 at approximately 11 p.m., an argument between a black male and woman turned violent outside the Golda Meir Library. The man, approximately 5’8”, 230 pounds, became violent after the woman refused to leave with him, punching her in the face repeatedly. Several onlookers quickly interceded, pulling the man off the woman and notifying authorities. The man was followed as he left the premises and was apprehended by police at the corner of Kenwood Boulevard and North Downer Avenue. A male student filed a complaint with police because his ex-girlfriend changed his Facebook password and was updating his status. Officers advised the exgirlfriend on the matter.
Milwaukee woman accused of ‘fetal abduction’ Milwaukee police are investigating a possible “fetal abduction,” the act of removing a fetus from its mother and kidnapping it. A 911 call on Thursday Oct. 6 came from a woman who said she had just given birth, and her baby was not breathing. When paramedics arrived, the baby was dead, and the woman was taken to the hospital. Following an initial investigation, the police returned to the woman’s house near the intersection of South 7th Street and Mitchell Street. There they found the body of a 23-year-old Hispanic woman in the basement. The baby had been removed by force from her womb. Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said there is no indication that the two women knew each other prior to this incident. The woman had been posing as pregnant and showed sonograms of her alleged baby to a neighbor, Keila Perez. She also told Perez she was close to giving birth by Cesarean section. The suspect is currently in custody. Gaddafi forces losing major city
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On Sunday, Oct. 2 at 9:13 p.m., police received a call that a fight was in progress close to Open Pantry. An older female was hitting a group of college age males.
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The mustache of Andrew Henry Ford get public exposure while he commutes around UWM. Post Photo by Austin McDowell
By Olen Burage Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com
The quiet majority of mustachioed men across Milwaukee can now rejoice in newfound glory and confidence. The American Mustache Institute has named Milwaukee the 6th most mustache-friendly city in the country, trailing Detroit, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Houston and its first place sister city, Chicago. The decision was based on a twoyear analysis of roughly 100 U.S. municipalities. “Our analysis is based on a 5-point criterion,” AMI Chairman Dr. Aaron Perlut said. “Those points are education, employment, transportation, entertainment and sport and culinary.”
Perlut has been a part of AMI since 1988, holding his position as chairman for the past three years. He said that the Milwaukee Brewers, along with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and his biker ‘stache, heavily inf luenced the AMI’s decision to place Milwaukee in the top ten. “A ‘stache tells me a few things about myself,” Perlut said. “It tells me that I have an over-abundance of confidence and that I’m 38 percent better looking than a shaven man.” On the UW-Milwaukee campus, mustachioed students proudly boast their years of facial growth and are not hesitant to say that it won’t be getting shaved anytime soon. “I feel great about [having a moustache],” sophomore Jake Bachman said. “I think it’s the greatest attribute to a man’s face.”
However glorious it may feel to have a hairy lip, there are some that prefer the latter. “Beards are better…” senior Bryan Short said. Amongst the rivalry are the passive few like junior Nick Nutter, who claims to just let his grow. For proud ‘stache-bearers, the ‘Stache Bash 2011 will be held in the most mustache-friendly city in the country, Chicago. The celebration is a charitable benefit to raise awareness and funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG. AMI will also announce the winner of the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year award. People from all around the country are invited to take part in the festivities on October 28th, mustached or not.
National Transitional Council commanders say they are close to taking the Libyan city of Sirte, the hometown of the now fugitive former leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi. The NTC has taken control of the primary hospital, university and a major city center. Fighting continues on the streets, and proGaddafi forces still control the city of Bani Walid. The NTC has stated that they will declare the national liberation of Libya once they have control of Sirte, regardless of the status of Gaddafi. They also said they hope to liberate both Sirte and Bani Walid within the next week. “Alcolock-ed” Netherlands
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A new law effective Dec. 1 will require Dutch drivers to attach Alcolocks to their cars if they are caught driving with a blood alcohol over 1.3 mg/dl, over six times the legal limit. The device requires the driver to breath into a mini-breathalyzer installed on the dashboard before they start driving and at regular intervals while driving. If they are over the legal limit, the engine will not turn on. Drivers will be required to keep the device for two years, with the possibility of a six-year extension if they are caught again. Two hundred people die a year from drunk driving in the Netherlands. The Netherlands ranks 14th amongst Europe’s top beer consumers. New fabric saves the cow’s hide Anke Domaske, a 28-year-old fashion designer in Germany, has begun designing clothes made from milk. She has developed a fabric called QMilch, which is made from high concentrations of the milk protein, casein. This is the first manmade fiber created without chemicals. In addition to its silky texture, Domaske has stated there are health benefits to QMilch. She says the fibers are antibacterial, anti-aging and can regulate the circulation of the blood and body temperature. Domaske has started to weave QMilch into the clothing of her fashion label, Mademoiselle Chi Chi. She says it takes about six liters of milk to make an entire dress with a cost around $200. Some car companies have looked at QMilch for creating interiors.
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Continued from page 1 Behavior Process,” the report said. Drug related arrests and referrals have also increased in frequency. Arrests have jumped nearly 50 percent and referrals are up over 400 percent. “While alcohol is the most commonly used drug among college students, the use of illegal drugs and prescription medications in a manner not prescribed by a healthcare professional is an issue of concern within the student community as well,” according to the report. The security report indicated only one robbery, one assault, 14 burglaries and three motor vehicle thefts last year. All of these crimes occurred at either a similar or lower rate in 2009, especially burglary, which is down 33 percent from 2009. These statistics are in sharp contrast, however, with the Milwaukee
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Continued from page 1 routes to Summerfest and Miller Park may be cut entirely. “Some students don't have cars, and they are looking for jobs now or looking for jobs in the future, and some of those jobs might have been accessible in the bus system, but they will no longer be accessible if these cuts are made,” Rast said. Property taxes are the main source of revenue for MCTS, which Rast called “highly unusual.” Rast said that property taxes are divided between multiple services, including the parks and courts systems, and a sales tax is the best way to fund public transportation. “You have to have courts,” he said, “but if you can find a different way of funding transportation, that would be great.” Segments of buses that give
Police Department’s statistics. A map of crime generated on MPD’s website of the area between Edgewood, Locust, the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan indicates that dozens of these crimes have taken place in the month of September alone. Additionally, UWM’s data reported only four forcible “sex offenses” in 2010, but the UW System also submitted data indicating 28 “reported sexual assaults,” second only to UW-Madison, which initiated a program that collected more reported cases of sexual assault. The Annual Fire Safety Report indicated that there were only three fires on campus last year, all of which occurred at Sandburg Residence Halls of undetermined causes and resulting in no injuries or property damage. The report was sent to all students in an email Sept. 29, but it can also be found at cleryact.uwm.edu.
students access to campus, such as route 22 and route 60, would be altered under the new budget proposals. According to the report, the proposed discontinuation of route 68 would eliminate access to 339 jobs, affecting 3,803 workvers. Students and graduates searching for work without alternate transportation and those already employed along the route would be heavily affected by the changes. Student Jennifer Kritz expressed her concerns as to how the changes would affect her and her neighbors. A woman on her block moved there solely because of the ease of access to the route 15 bus. With the new changes to the transportation system, she will be heavily affected. “She moved there [because] she was right by the bus stop,” she said. “[The changes] are going to screw up a lot of people's routes to school.” Rast said, however, that “we don't know whether these are going to take hold.”
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Diversity and UWM’s advising centers
Student-advisor relationship decided by several factors, including race By Olen Burage Staff Writer news@uwmpost.com
UW-Milwaukee is home to one of the most ethnically diverse student bodies in the country. It is a melting pot of students from diverse, unique and interesting cultural backgrounds. UWM caters to students of all races with its variety of advising centers created for foreign and non-foreign students. There is much question and speculation, however, about how UWM assigns certain students to certain advisors, where such advising branches originated from and why they exist. There are several advising centers based on different racial classifications, such as African-American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino and American Indian, to name a few. Most of these centers started off as organizations in the late 1970s to empower minority students and put an end to oppression and discrimination on campus. “Wisconsin has a large Asian population,” Southeast AsianAmerican Student Advising Center Coordinator Dao Vang said. Vang has seen a number of Asian students in his 14-year tenure as coordinator. According to UWM’s Cattrack, the number of Asian students has gone from 565 in 2007 to 798 in 2011. He explains that refugees of the Vietnam War were sent to the U.S. decades ago, many of which lacked a
strong background in education. The Southeast Asian branch of the advising service originated in 1986. It was set in motion to recruit more students and offer academic advising for Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese students without the stress of language barriers. Vang added that it has helped to achieve educational goals. But students aren’t assigned advisors by race. In fact, students of all ethnicities are completely free to choose whomever they please for academic advising. "Students tend to gravitate towards who they feel comfortable with,” Undergraduate Advisor Tobiah Deutsch said. “It’s not uncommon for students to have a negative experience with advisors.” Deutsch said that students are originally assigned advisors based on what race they may classify themselves as, but not strictly because they are a certain race. For instance, if a student decides to leave his or her race undisclosed, he or she may be assigned to a different advisor than that of a fully identified student. Advisor assignment is also based on last name and declared major. The Southeast Asian-American Advising Center isn’t the only branch that has empowerment and antidiscrimination origins. “The African-American Student Advising Center began in the late ‘70s as an organization to facilitate African-American students and help fight discrimination,” Equity and
Diversity Services Director Francene Botts-Butler said. Originally called Minority Affairs, the advising center began with the goal of equality and giving AfricanAmerican students all the same opportunities as other students. Over time, the name changed drastically – and so did the center’s goals. The focus was to have a positive effect on the recruitment, enrollment, graduation and retention rates among African-American students. Although the center wants to garner the attention of black students, they make it clear that the choice is ultimately up to them when it comes to advising. No student is forced to stay with any advisor. There are certainly factors of a student’s identification that determine what advisor facilitates what student. Among those are: year, academic status, major and, sometimes, race. Race is not a dominant determining factor, but it is a factor. There’s a difference, though, between being assigned an advisor due to ethnicity and being assigned an advisor due to country of origin. The primary reason such academic advising centers exist is to facilitate students of different nationalities to overcome obstacles like language barriers and discrimination. “The question of whether such centers are still necessary often comes up,” Butler said. “When you look at the retention rates, graduation rates and recruitment, the answer is yes.”
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SA taking over crumbling committee By Aaron Knapp Assistant News Editor news@uwmpost.com
The Student Association Senate voted to temporarily dissolve the Campus Activities Board, a senate committee, at Sunday’s senate meeting. The CAB chair unexpectedly resigned, leaving the five-member body unable to effectively function. In cooperation with the executive branch, the senate will take over CAB’s responsibilities, which includes funding activities on campus using approximately
$300,000 that the senate allocated it earlier in the year. “With [the resignation of the chair] and with the confusion over how they spend their money, and just all-around issues of how they function, pending reorganization, I would motion to rescind the CAB bylaws and to have the senate function as the Campus Activities Board,” Rick Banks said when he proposed the idea to the senate. “This would uphold all previous actions of CAB.” The decision to adopt Banks’ proposal to make the senate take over CAB’s responsibilities was a surprise development in what was otherwise short meeting. CAB was a five-member committee designed to organize and fund largescale events on campus with its $300,000
budget. In the past, these events have included the Spaights Spooktacular and the SA Block Party in spring. With the resignation of CAB’s chair, Hector Santiago, the committee lost its ability to function, and CAB’s charter allows it to operate without reporting to the senate. Additionally, changes to the senate’s bylaws that would have brought CAB more under its control have been pending for the better part of a month due to various delays. “The intention was to have CAB be a subcommittee of the senate, but because the senate bylaws never got passed with all of the debate and revisions, CAB was sort of in limbo,” Communications Director Dan Laughland said.
the uwm post According to Banks, the plan is to have legislation that would set up a new CAB by the next senate meeting on Oct. 23. In the meantime, the senate is not expected to take any actions on CAB-related activities, only temporarily holding CAB’s authority and maintaining its current initiatives, which include the campus wide game of tag, “Humans vs. Zombies.” “Assuming we act quickly, we can have a new CAB in place by the next senate meeting, and the things that they have passed will be administered by executive and the senate cooperatively to ensure that it goes through,” Banks said at the meeting. In addition, SA President Alex Kostal unveiled a new plan to address the limited amount of parking around campus since
the UPark lots closed last semester. His plan includes unifying SA to lobby officials and organize students to make areas close to campus have parking limits between two and three hours, lowering the cost of parking tickets and establishing a Neighborhood Student Association. In the first meeting with representatives of UW-Milwaukee’s freshman population, the senate also passed legislation correcting a $7,000 budget shortfall, supporting anticounterfeit IDs that students can use for voting – since stickers on student IDs will no longer be acceptable, according to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board – and it approved the charters for two new student organizations.
Student by day, racecar driver by night “Lovelling” the playing field By Callie Koller
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Superstition is prominent in all sports and provokes athletes to do anything – from a regimented set of warm-ups to wearing a pouch of minerals to ward off bad health – all in the hopes of bringing them success during the game. Although UW-Milwaukee senior Kelsey Bauer may not go to such extremes, she does admit to rocking out before a race. “Not going to lie, I sing in my helmet,” Bauer said. Bauer has been burning rubber on Wisconsin’s race tracks since she was 12 years old, beginning with a fateful challenge Bauer’s father made while attending a friend’s racing competition. “He said, ‘I bet you can’t do that,’ and I was like, ‘Really, Dad?’” Bauer said. Since then, Bauer has more than called her dad’s bluff. In her young career, Bauer has already won national and international awards, was accepted into the prominent NASCAR Driving for Diversity program and was named Late Model Rookie of the Year this past July. Among all her racing accomplishments, however, Bauer is most proud of what she has achieved academically off the track. Bauer has won the Alan Kulwicki Memorial Scholarship two years in a row. Managing a racing career, being a
full-time student and interning at Harley Davidson has been what Bauer lightly described as “a lot to deal with” and said receiving the Kulwicki scholarship was more than just helpful. “It really meant a lot to me knowing that the Kulwicki family was very impressed by me and was interested in me,” Bauer said. “It made me feel great.” Alan Kulwicki was a UWM alumnus who went on to become a NASCAR legend, best known for winning the Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup), the racing equivalent to the Super Bowl. Kulwicki also holds the distinction of being the first college graduate to win the cup. In addition to continuing his legacy through scholarships, the Alan Kulwicki Memorial Student Center was also created in his honor within UWM’s Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building. Beyond UWM, Bauer also happens to share many things in common with Kulwicki. Like him, she is majoring in mechanical engineering, drives a number seven racecar and dreams of racing professionally after graduating. “It’s something I’m passionate about and love to do,” Bauer said. Even after a minor collision with a fellow driver broke her wrist, forcing her to take a year off, she was anything but discouraged. When people asked if she was going to come back, she replied, “Of course. I'm not
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going to give up." Though she admits she was tentative returning the next year, Bauer said it’s her job. "Well, yeah, I was scared, but you have to overcome that to be successful," she said, admitting it to be one of the few times she was ever worried. A self-proclaimed tomboy, Bauer has always been considered a little rough around the edges. The youngest of three girls, she was the only one with an affinity for racing. You can almost hear the swell in her voice as she recalls trouncing her family on go-kart tracks in the Wisconsin Dells. Although Bauer is a woman in a maledominated sport, she said she doesn’t receive special treatment. “They do not give me any room on the racetrack. They try to pretty much beat you up out there to see how you crumble,” Bauer said. With plans to graduate in May, Bauer said she will be looking for a career in the automotive field but won’t be retiring from racing any time soon. When asked about whether racing was truly a sport, Bauer was unequivocal in her response. “It’s a sport, and it is very draining and intense,” she said. “If you lose your focus, and you lose your strength, you’re pretty much done for.”
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Chancellor Lovell named co-chair of Milwaukee Succeeds group By John Parnon Assistant News Editor news@uwmpost.com
UW-Milwaukee’s Chancellor Mike Lovell spoke to the Post this Friday about why he was excited to be nominated as co-chair of the group Milwaukee Succeeds and what this would mean for the university. Milwaukee Succeeds was created to collect and analyze data on students of all ages, regardless of where they were going to school. Lovell said the project encompassed students at public, private, charter and choice schools from all different grade levels all the way through college. Lovell was nominated to be cochair of Milwaukee Succeeds on Sept. 28 alongside John Schlifske, CEO of Northwestern Mutual and Jackie HerdBarber, a board member of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. “Knowing the challenges the city faces right now in terms of education, even for students that have already come to our campus, I know this is something important to our future and our campus,” Lovell said. “If we’re going to reach our potential, we really have to reach at the problems.” Lovell said that private business could also benefit from the initiative’s success. “Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce identified their biggest need in their last report. Education was necessary for their future success,” Lovell said. “So there is a huge industry push to attack this problem. They know their future workforce depends on how well we attack this problem.” Lovell then pointed to GE Healthcare donating $20 million to Milwaukee Public Schools this January, the largestever single corporation contribution to MPS. Lovell said that in the long term, UWM could expect grants not just from private sources, but government agencies and foundations as well. “There will be grants from government… and money from industry and corporate partners. Everyone understands how important these things are,” Lovell said. “The Greater Milwaukee foundation is already putting $1 million towards these efforts.” Lovell said it would be the better part of a year before they got all of the data they are looking for but also noted that this was the biggest initiative the state has ever had for the data Milwaukee Succeeds will be generating. “There has never been a study at this level before,” Lovell said. Lovell said that the study looked at a number of empirical statistics that help to measure student achievement. “A lot of it comes to college readiness.
Ultimately, that’s what we want to do. We want students to be prepared and successful,” Lovell said. “The goal is to have students that don’t need remedial math when they get here. It seems to be such a challenge and a burden for the students.” Lovell said that students who enter UWM taking Math 90 have about a 14 percent chance of graduating in five years. Forbes recently rated Milwaukee a “D-” for education, citing a report that said only 21 percent of adults over 25 had a college degree, while Newsweek has labeled Milwaukee the “drunkest city in the country,” with 21 percent of the adult population categorized as binge drinkers. “I think there are a lot of problems that this city has, and they’re sort of all inter-related, but I think the core of getting at some of these problems is to educate the population,” Lovell said. “Standard of living … crime rate, the amount of people that need public assistance, all these things get better as people become more educated. I think there is some correlation [between drinking problems and education levels], but it isn’t direct.” Instead of replacing them, Milwaukee Succeeds will also integrate with already existing institutions and organizations with similar goals, like the Milwaukee Partnership Academy, playing to each other’s strengths. “Milwaukee Succeeds is identifying the resources and the processes, while MPA is on the ground level trying to actually invoke those changes … they are actually going to be implementing new pedagogy and making decisions at the school level on how these issues are going to be addressed,” Lovell said. The School of Education, students and faculty will see the most change on campus due to this new initiative. “In the short term, our School of Education will be a very important part of generating and analyzing the data. We are the largest school of education in the city, and, as a research institution, we are going to be an important part of analyzing what’s coming in and determining where the problems are,” Lovell said. Lovell said Milwaukee Succeeds is in the process of defining their longterm goals and hope to have those set of goals identified in the next three to four months. “I’m very excited about this, and another benefit of this is getting all of these people at the table, and they’ll all talk to each other – people from the school board union, people like myself, people in the community,” Lovell said. “The idea behind Milwaukee Succeeds is that the first thing we’re going to do is really get data that’s never been compiled before, never on this scale.”
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October 10, 2011
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Panthers keep on rolling
The state of the NFC North Packers and Lions reign supreme, Women’s soccer team wins again over Youngstown State Vikings fall behind By Nolan Murphy Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com
The recent success of Wisconsin sports teams left the UW-Milwaukee women’s soccer team no choice Sunday at Engelmann Stadium. They knew they had to keep on winning. The women’s team faced off against the last place Youngstown State on a beautiful fall afternoon. The result was the same as the Panthers’ previous five games, as Sarah Hagen and company were relentless on the pitch. The Panthers came into the weekend ranked 12th in the nation and on their way to clinching the 2011-12 Horizon League regular season title. Youngstown State came into Sunday’s match having not won a contest since Sept. 2. They left Milwaukee still winless in conference play. The Panthers controlled the
game from start to finish, outshooting Youngstown State 37-4. The Milwaukee Panthers finished yet another successful weekend in Horizon League play. Earlier this week, they had to take care of conference foe Valparaiso without star striker Sarah Hagen. Hagen traveled to Carson, California, to participate in training sessions with the United States U23 Women’s National Team. She looks to be in the mix for a 2012 Olympic roster spot. Coach Mike Moynihan spoke well of Hagen after Sunday’s match. “Sarah is a special player, as she showcased today. Her teammates and this staff were more than happy to see her earn a trip to the U.S. Women’s National Team training camp,” Moynihan said. On Sunday, Hagen added three points to her season resume putting her at 37 points for the season. Her 1.25 goals a game and 2.83 points a game are
both second in the nation. Midfielder Keara Thompson played her usual role of distributor Sunday, notching two assists. The Panthers are firing on all cylinders as the postseason approaches. Milwaukee looks to return back to the NCAA tournament for the second straight year. “This team is one of the best I have had a chance to be around. The chemistry, talent and the drive these girls have is tremendous,” Moynihan said. As the day came to an end, the Panthers walked off the pitch still undefeated in the series against Youngstown State at 11-0. UWM may be ranked nationally, but this team has their eye on a much bigger prize. The Panthers will take to the road to face Butler this Sunday, as they continue to dominate the Horizon League.
The Lions have joined the Packers at the top of the NFC North
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Junior Demi Price battles for the ball Sunday afternoon. UWM won 3-0. Post Photo by Austin McDowell
Panthers rally late, fall to Cleveland State Despite making a comeback in the final minutes, UWM’s men’s soccer team loses 3-2 By Nick Bornheimer Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com
The UW-Milwaukee men’s soccer team fell short to Cleveland State on Saturday 3-2 after rallying for two goals in the final three minutes of the contest. It was an 87th minute altercation that ignited the late Panther surge. A penalty kick from junior Cody Banks and a rebound goal from freshman Adam Hutchinson brought the game within reach, but Cleveland State held off the Panther attack and gave the Milwaukee club their first conference loss of the 2011 season. “Some of our players missed some easy chances tonight,” UWM Men’s Soccer Head Coach Chris Whalley said. “You have to take chances at this level.” The Panthers (5-5, 2-1 Horizon) had an 11-6 shot on goal advantage and a 1914 overall shot advantage, but allowed Cleveland State (3-6-1, 1-1-1 Horizon) to walk away with their first conference win of the season.
The Panthers missed a good opportunity in the fourth minute on a Keegan Ziada shot that was blocked by Vikings goalie Brad Stuver. A quick turnaround by Cleveland State allowed for Aaron Adkins to net the first goal of the game after a long sideline run, giving the Vikings the early edge. Cleveland State would score again in the 36th minute on a Zach Ellis-Hayden goal, putting the Panthers down by two going into the half. “We missed a good chance, and then they scored a goal,” Whalley said. “And then the guys didn’t react very well to the goal. We had some chances in the first half, had another mental lapse towards the end of the first half, and we’re twonil down.” A third Cleveland State goal, this time by Admir Suljevic, gave the Vikings a convincing lead with less than 25 minutes to play. A scuffle broke out in the Cleveland State box with just over three minutes to play in the match. Yellow cards were given to Stuver and Milwaukee freshman
Richard Johnson, allowing junior Cody Banks an opportunity to drill an upper 90 goal. Milwaukee was able to find the back of the net again in the 89th minute on a free kick played into the box. Two shots were fired on goal before freshman Adam Hutchinson scored and pulled the Panthers within one. It was too little, too late for Milwaukee, though. With just 51 seconds left to play, Cleveland State played keep away in the final seconds. Milwaukee looks to right the ship on Tuesday when they take on Big Ten foe Michigan State in East Lansing, Michigan. Kickoff is at 3 p.m. “We have to go to Michigan State with all intentions of winning the game,” Whalley said. “We don’t change what we’re trying to do. We just have to do everything a little bit better. We weren’t good enough today, but we have to make sure we execute better on Tuesday, and we’ll be fine.”
After one quarter of the NFL season, teams league-wide can really begin to see where they’re headed in 2011. Many divisions are solid thus far, but no other can compete with the NFC North, at least for the time being. The “Black & Blue” division is host to the only two undefeated teams in the entire league, the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions. One of the worst teams in football so far, the Minnesota Vikings, also calls the NFC North home. Is it the best division in football though? The answer remains to be seen. Green Bay Packers (5-0) What Super Bowl hangover? The Packers have shown this year that they aren’t suffering any negative effects from their victory in Super Bowl XLV. If anything, they look poised to repeat. Aaron Rodgers picked up right where he left off last season, leading the offense to a cool 37 points per game through week four. The Packers lost safety Nick Collins to a season-ending injury, but Morgan Burnett and Charles Woodson have been more than enough to remedy the loss. I can’t see the Packers slowing down. They battled through several major injuries last year and brought the Lombardi Trophy back to where it belongs, and it is quite possible that it will continue to remain in Green Bay. Detroit Lions (4-0) While I would argue that the Lions were somewhat of a trendy pick coming into the 2011 season, you can’t deny that they are a surprise team. Did anyone think that they would be undefeated after four games? Matthew Stafford is having the season that Lions fans have waited for since the days of the great Scott Mitchell in the mid-‘90s. Calvin Johnson makes it easier for Stafford, because he is clearly one of the best receivers in the league. The defense is holding up their end of the bargain as well. It’ll be interesting to see if they can compete for a division title all year. I think they can make the NFC
playoffs but a division title might be a lot to ask for Lions in 2011. Chicago Bears (2-2) I don’t know what to think about the Chicago Bears. They made Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons look like a high school team in Week One. Then the New Orleans Saints buried Jay Cutler in Week Two, because the Bears’ offensive line fell apart, which seems to be a recurring theme for the “Monsters of the Midway” during Cutler’s tenure. They played mediocre football at home against a lessthan-stellar Carolina Panthers and their shiny new quarterback Cam Newton in Week Four. Their offense has been below average, mainly due to sacks. Their defense has been pretty opportunistic. The lone bright spot for the Bears has been the special teams. Devin Hester is now the all-time leader for punt returns in NFL history, and Robbie Gould is perfect on the year with eight field goals. The Bears do have a fairly favorable schedule the rest of the way, so they may be a threat for the NFC North crown. Minnesota Vikings (1-4) Not much you can say about the Minnesota Vikings in 2011 – except that nothing has gone the way that Leslie Frazier has planned. One might say that the “Suck for Luck” campaign is in full effect in Minneapolis, but owner Zygi Wilf and the Vikings front office used their first-round pick on Christian Ponder back in April. I think that it might be “Ponder time” at the Metrodome. The off-season acquisition of veteran quarterback Donovan McNabb hasn’t worked at all. The team is second to last in the NFL in passing yards behind only the Jacksonville Jaguars, who have quarterback issues of their own. There won’t be a whole lot to cheer about in Vikings country this season. It is definitely a different look in the NFC North these days: the defending champion Bears in third place, the once woeful Lions the kings, or co-kings, for now. But there is a long season ahead, and no one is safe from a loss on any given Sunday.
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No more locked leagues Future of NCAA Football
NBA should be taking notes, after NFL lockout By Tony Atkins Assistant Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com
From the moment David Stern announced that the National Basketball Association’s preseason would be canceled (and quite possibly the first two weeks of the regular season), it became apparent that the lockout was serious. Many would have thought that the NBA and its teams’ owners would have gotten it together by now. But now we are reaching the worst case scenario: much money lost, aging players waiting to work and the delayed debut of Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest). David Stern has stated repeatedly that the ownership wants to create an environment where all of the franchises will be able to compete on an equal level while keeping each franchise profitable. This has proven to be a daunting task, however, as the National Basketball Players Association is looking to walk away with a larger portion of revenue in the agreement. The big argument here is a struggle over league revenue. Things got to a point where the owners found themselves biting the bullet and
making an offer a lot smaller than the 57 percent they wanted initially. The offer by the owners was initially a 5050 split but was later declined by the players during the meetings earlier this month. If a 50-50 offer wasn’t good enough, it seems unlikely that the lockout will end well – or soon. While some small market teams are thriving in terms of on-court success, the majority of NBA clubs are not profitable. The Arco Arena in Sacramento, California, home of the Sacramento Kings, is a great example of this. They are seriously considering a move closer to Los Angeles, in Anaheim, to draw nearer to a big market, in hopes of making more money and bringing in more fans. Last season, there was only a small number of teams actually selling out arenas and turning a profit – making owners reluctant to bring in better, more expensive players, if only to play in their half-full arenas. Players like Michael Redd, Tracy McGrady, Darko Milicic, Eddy Curry and a plethora of other oft-injured (or just plain bad) players are earning huge contracts, as the franchises they play for are losing money playing in front of crowds about the size of a college lecture. These players aren’t selling out
arenas (or at least not anymore, in the case of McGrady), and they are holding franchises hostage. The owners hold a valid point in terms of some players being overpaid, but isn’t this their fault for not lacking better judgment of talent? They are essentially asking the NBPA for a bailout, in trying to obtain more of the players’ portion of the revenue. The National Hockey League dealt with a lockout in 2004-05 that lasted for 44 weeks and two days. That lockout was followed by the NFL lockout of this past summer that ended when an agreement was reached right before the preseason. The interesting thing about this lockout is that the difference between it and the NFL’s lockout is that the NBA isn’t as competitive or as in-demand as the NFL. NBA owners don’t have a way to reach across the table and split profits with the players, because they are losing money themselves. This lockout is shaping up to be in the players’ hands. The NBA team owners are not as prosperous as the NFL team owners – they don’t have anything to give up to players. The players need to bite the bullet and take less money, and the owners need to make the right signings starting now.
Badgers quarterback Russell Wilson appears destined for NFL
Young quarterback shows skill set to play beyond college By Eric Engelbart Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com
The Wisconsin Badgers football team is off to a tremendous 5-0 start behind the stellar play of quarterback Russell Wilson. In fact, the team has won its first five games by a minimum of 34 points. Wilson, a transfer from North Carolina State, has shown a skill set worthy of national attention, and his name is already coming up as a Heisman Trophy frontrunner. Wilson’s play this season has been so dynamic that there is little question as to whether he will be drafted into the National Football League next year. Russell Wilson’s statistics this season have been scary good. Behind a dominant Badgers offensive line, he has completed almost 75 percent of his pass attempts while throwing for 13 touchdowns and only surrendering one interception. Wilson’s quarterback rating sits at an absurd 217. Michigan State quarterback Denard Robinson, who many believe to be Wilson’s chief
competition for the Heisman Trophy, has a quarterback rating of 144. Wilson has also shown that he knows how to run the football, as he rushed for a 46yard touchdown in the team’s first game against the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. It is rare for a quarterback of Wilson’s ability to play for the Badgers. Former Badgers quarterbacks Scott Tolzien and Brooks Bollinger were both drafted into the NFL but received limited playing time. Barring injury, Wilson will become a starter in the NFL. Wilson has demonstrated a vast potential due to his high football IQ , ability to scramble in the pocket, incredibly accurate throwing arm and unflinching poise in high-pressure situations. Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema told an ESPN reporter recently, “Russell has been very impressive how he's handled everything. Some moxie, some savvy, some Godgiven ability.” Wilson is a rare quarterback who possesses skills and instincts and understands how to use all of them to his advantage. The only negative feedback
he’s received from national pundits is that he is a one-year rental quarterback. Wilson transferred in from North Carolina State, a school with a much less prestigious college football program than Wisconsin. Wilson was scouted and recruited by Bielema, in order to improve the Badgers’ chances at a national title. This is similar to what Auburn did last year in recruiting Cam Newton, who eventually did lead them to a national championship and was later selected first overall in the NFL Draft. All indications point to Wilson following in Newton’s footsteps, and to most experts, the question isn’t whether Wilson will make the NFL, but whether the trend of quarterbacks transferring to powerhouse teams in their final year of college will take away from the integrity of college football. Regardless of how you feel about hired guns propelling programs to the top of the NCAA rankings, Wilson has started the 2011 campaign in an aweinspiring, nearly flawless manner and deserves all the acclaim he has been accredited.
Russell Wilson has vaulted Wisconsin to a No. 4 national ranking. Image coutsey of ongo.com
Conference realignment taking a toll on sport By Shawn Kumar Staff Writer sports@uwmpost.com
The newest official addition to the Southeastern Conference this past week was Texas A&M. The move was more A&M forcing themselves into the powerhouse that is the Southeastern Conference, but nonetheless, even the nation’s most dominate conference is expanding. Syracuse and Pittsburgh also bolted the Big East Conference to join the Atlantic Coast Conference. It seems to be on the horizon for many more schools to slowly shift their allegiance and settle in with new conferences. There are rumblings of UConn joining the ACC as well, Baylor and Iowa State want to join the Big East, and the latest is that the Pac-12 does not want to expand further and include Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State yet. Clearly, schools will, as the famous adage goes, “follow the money.” Nebraska and Utah paved the way last year by getting valuable contracts after switching conferences. This year, after a handful of teams have done the same, more are likely to follow. The fabled super conferences may be much more of a possibility. The Big 12 could easily dissolve, and the ACC, SEC, Big East and Pac12 could all expand to 16 teams each and house all of the most competitive programs. With super conferences comes a larger chance of a playoff system, which has been the fans’ dream for years. Finally, we may be able to have the 8or 12-team playoff, including bye weeks, which we all have been craving. With major realignment, new exciting rivalries will emerge. USC vs. Texas, Florida vs. A&M, Boise St vs. Oregon – and many more great possibilities. At first glance,
this new potential system is exciting and intriguing. But where will it end? Schools will always be looking for more money, more television exposure, more sponsors. Even after this theoretical realignment happens, teams and schools will still be looking for more. Where can we draw the line? Call me old fashioned, but everything right now is great the way it is. College football ratings have never been higher, and the Bowl Championship Series system is the greatest system in college sports. We can all agree that March Madness is the most entertaining playoff system in sports. March Madness, however, has become so grandiose that the entire regular season of college basketball has become meaningless. Regular season college basketball games have the lowest ratings in recent memory, and attendance is on the decline. A major playoff ruins the regular season, because teams just play for seeds. The BCS system adds suspense to every game being played each weekend. The Plus One system seems to be more likely than a playoff as of now. A Plus One is when after the bowl games are played, the winners are looked at carefully, and the two best teams battle it out for the title. This is the best method, because it still allows for the bowl system, where many schools can participate and receive sponsorship money, and it will allow for a fair and unbiased method in determining a true champion. Instead of the NCAA allowing for all the conference realignments and literally thousands of different combinations that could happen, they should improve their current system that has proven itself extremely successful and draw the line – before schools find another way to “follow the money.”
Nebraska is one of many teams switching conferences.
An indie icon’s new significance Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks at Turner Hall, admirable and down to earth Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks warranted a warm response from fans at their show Friday at the Turner Hall Ballroom. Photo by C.J. Foeckler
By Christopher Ryan Stone Special to the Post fringe@uwmpost.com
Outside Turner Hall on the balmy, Indian summer Friday on which Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks were to appear, the atmosphere was immediately palpable. It was reverence, the curious coexistence of a solemn exterior battling to repress an internal exuberance constantly in strife against its bounds. To explain her presence, one attendee explained how she had condensed for her boss Malkmus’ mythos: “This is my Beatlemania.” Emotional confliction, in this case, is perfectly logical. One must first consider tradition. Malkmus seldom receives press mention without the attachment of some qualifier to the
tune of indie god, alternative icon, genre molding, idiosyncratic innovator or ad infinitum. And these, especially the last, he has certainly earned. His decade of Pavement-creations and Silver Jewscontributions, of “beguiling song-music” are often compositions of a sensibility so poetic as to be shocking, paired as they are with their instantly accessible tunefulness. So, the solemnity is natural. But if stopped here, the entire previous decade’s immense wealth of material contributed by Malkmus – first alone, then with the Jicks – is effaced. Nonetheless, it is a fact that the vast majority of Malkmus’ celebrity is contained within the word, “Pavement.” And yet, here is this decade, when our brilliant musician has not introverted á la his brilliant contemporary, Jeff
Mangum, but has recorded consistently. Hence, we have the excitement. What were practically Malkmus’ first onstage words (after, to the elation of game-day Brewers fans, “I hate the fucking Cardinals, I fucking hate them.”) went to address this dichotomy of artistic phases: “Yeah, I thought about [playing Pavement songs, in a response to a request shouted from the floor]. But then I realized,” gesturing to his band, “these guys write good songs, too.” His humble and intelligent retort was, of course, damn right, as the Jicks would shortly prove. “Senator,” the single from 2011’s Mirror Traffic, opened with an attitude indicative, in its levity, of the performance to come: “I know what the senator wants/What the senator wants is
a blowjob/I know what everyone wants/ What everyone wants is a blowjob.” Possibly an invalidly universal by the jaded songwriter, it portrays a citizen’s true belief in satiric optimism as the proper outlook, either way. On “Mama,” even though, sang Malkmus, daddy is “taking disability ranks,” at least, “Mama’s making some crepes,” and, “boy, that Mama can cook.” Similarly, in “Forever 28,” while “the mystery of you and me will never quite add up,” at least, “doughnut glaze will rot your teeth.” And his Jicks accompanied both tightly and fluently, with admirable resilience through all of the singer’s unpredictable turns. As it was, apparently, “Fan Appreciation Night,” the set was punctuated thrice by random requests by the audience, including a
rendition of “Happy Birthday,” and frequent injections of personality – often in the form of dance-interpretations of whatever riff he happened to be playing. Thus was the audience privileged, not pandered to, by an enormously inventive artist. The crowd left enormously entertained. Their duality in anticipation had been satisfied. As the echoes of Jicks’ songs, mostly those recorded in 2011, reverberated for two hours against the floral austerity of the ballroom’s blanched walls and cracked ceiling, the marriage of past and present was inescapable. “And you can never quarantine the past,” Malkmus said in a Pavement-era maxim. True, but you can build over it. And as made apparent at the Turner, the Jicks have done just that.
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University of Colorado dropout Derek Vincent Smith, aka Pretty Lights, blew minds with a multi-dimensional audio-visual experience Friday night at The Rave.
A growing crowd celebrates a victory with a rising DJ
Pretty Lights created an ideal party environment By Graham Marlowe Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com
The citywide celebration of the Milwaukee Brewers’ advancement to the National League championship Friday night was responsible for more than the uncontrolled, ubiquitous cheering from bars and apartment buildings everywhere. Enough of that same energy made its way into the Eagles Ballroom to pack it tighter than a sardine can, this time for the pre- and post-midnight party of Derek Vincent Smith, the ultra-popular electro hop artist known as Pretty Lights. Openers DJ Chubby Chase and NiT GriT weren’t quite as appreciated as Pretty Lights’ label mate, Paper Diamond, but this was hard to judge given that a substantial portion of the audience had not arrived until after the game ended. Bred from the fast-growing Petri dish audiences of STS9, The Disco Biscuits and Bassnectar, the most obvious change from Pretty Lights’ appearance last November at the Rave Bar is the size of the spectacle that Smith imparted upon 3,000 strong who came along for the ride – a number that has since doubled. Looking at the crowd under a microscope, one would see things normally invisible to the naked eye, which partly explains the spectacular, out-of-body experience that was the light show. Electric skyscrapers were draped across the stage, giving a 3D, sometimes 4D, experience.
Meanwhile, lightning-fast strobes f lashed violently against the twilit backdrop, occasionally projecting blurred, cellular configurations onto the faces of the audience. With the help of an LED screen and, presumably, more than a few psychedelic experiences, the ruckus immediately caught the overstuffed audience gyrating together, as if on a deserted commune in the Southwestern U.S., embracing the freedom that comes from lack of any real-life responsibility, however f leeting it may have been. Smith, like much of his audience, functions best at midnight. Quite naturally, then, he chose to stretch the performance to 2 a.m. – an unusual length for electronic music shows. In all of the chaos surrounding him, Smith arrived at the show’s halfway mark shockingly fast, halfwondering where the blissful time had gone. The majority of the audience had already forgotten about it, bouncing and swaying to the artist’s every move. Near the midpoint, Smith began crisscrossing urban images with suburban ones, moonlit with stardust, showing fans his uncanny ability to not only visualize the music but also demonstrate his personal artistry by integrating himself into the mix. Whether he was lip-syncing vocal samples, forcefully bobbing with the music or multitasking between drum machines and sequencers, his joy in exceeding the role of a DJ was evident throughout. Given Smith’s lack of commercial
airplay, his mixed-bag set lists have proven as eclectic and shape-shifting as a jam band’s double-set. The show’s initial inertia came from Filling Up The City Skies cuts like “The Time Has Come” and “Hot Like Sauce,” but Smith had energy to spare until two and a half hours later, when betterknown songs like “I Can See It In Your Face” and “Finally Moving” blended together in a woozy throb of backbeats, soul singing and instrumental samples. Smith’s remixes practically form the second half of his gigs, and, on Friday, he focused on just a few. Truth be told, when people think of a remix, it’s often not in the same category of treatment that Smith gives to the original. Not only did these trip hop re-imaginings – Kanye West’s “All of the Lights” and Steve Miller Band’s “Fly Like an Eagle” among them – illustrate his encyclopedic knowledge of funk, rock and soul music, but they also demonstrated his photographic memory for songs, somehow creating a new and unique product by fusing past greatness with new, cutting-edge content. Smith’s older fans may be groaning at Smith’s recent absorption of fullblown dubstep transitions into his songs, like “I Know the Truth,” though there was no sign of dissatisfaction in the crowd anywhere. In fact, the thought of Smith enduring the genre’s meteoric rise of appeal to college males, it’s safe to say that Pretty Lights’ underground qualities are fading quickly into word-of-mouth celebrity.
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Getting to know The Man
An interview with Portugal. The Man’s Zachary Carothers
Zachary Carothers (second to right) of Portugal. The Man recently talked with the UWM Post in advance of the band's show Friday at Turner Hall. By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com
Benefitting from a relentless schedule of touring and recording, Portugal. The Man has finally begun to emerge on the other side of fame. A quintet that hails from both Wasilla, Alaska (yes, that Wasilla – and no, they can’t see Russia from their front porch) and Oregon, the band has ridden indie rock’s psychedelic wave all the way to Turner Hall, where they will play a show this Friday, Oct. 14. The UWM Post recently spoke with bassist Zachary Carothers about the band’s cryptic name, getting their stolen gear back and the growing influence of social media on music. UWM Post: When last we heard from Portugal. The Man, you had gotten your gear stolen after your Lollapalooza show. How has that situation worked itself out? Zachary Carothers: Pretty good, actually. Luckily, thanks to all the people reposting it and reblogging on it and all the news sources that picked it up, we ended up finding all of our gear. The cops had an anonymous tip, and we found almost all of it. We got all of our
drums back, all of our amps back, and the only things we’re missing now – and it kind of sucks cause they’re the most personal things – are all of our guitars, my basses and the keyboards. But we got all of our amps back and all of our drums back, so we’re still pretty happy. And a bunch of companies sent us gifts and free stuff to get us back on track, and everybody showed a lot of love for us. It was pretty cool actually. Post: How have you seen social media, especially in the last couple years, have an impact on the music industry? ZC: It just makes everything move so much faster. It’s a great tool. If somebody puts out a single, it’s there. Everybody gets it right then. If there’s any new band in the industry, labels, releases, anything, you know about it instantly. It’s really amazing. And it’s fun to get to know some of the artists when you start following them on some of these sites. It’s funny to figure out their sense of humor. Post: Just to get it out of the way, what’s the band’s name about? It’s a question I’m sure you’ve heard ten million times. ZC: Yeah, we’re getting pretty good at answering it, so it’s totally cool. “Portugal” is an alter ego, in the vein
of Ziggy Stardust or Sgt. Pepper. We wanted the one person’s name, our fictional character, to represent our whole band, a whole group of people. We figured that a country is one name for one group of people with one voice in the world, and so we randomly picked Portugal. We knew we wanted to name it a country, and we thought Portugal would sound nice as a person’s name. Post: Since the band’s inception, you’ve been rather prolific – you’ve released at least one album every year since 2006 while still touring extensively. Is it difficult to balance recording and touring, and how have you managed the process? ZC: It’s difficult because there’s not enough time in the day or time in the year, but we always make it work. Playing music’s just what we do, and we do it every day, whether it’s out on tour playing live, rehearsing before the tour, writing, recording. We just play music every day. It’s our job. It’s our love. It’s what we do. We set that goal for ourselves when we first started, doing a record every year, and we’re trying to keep it up. I don’t see any reason why we need to slow down, but we don’t take too many breaks.
Post: Is there a great deal of songwriting and recording being done on the road? ZC: Every now and then there will be a song on the road, but not often. We usually come up with parts of ideas, but it all starts coming together around Christmas, when John [Gourley] and I go back to Alaska to hang out with our families. He starts writing in his room at his parents’ house, and I’ll come over and jam with him a little bit, and we’ll send the stuff down to Ryan [Neighbors] and Jason [Sechrist] in Oregon. And we’ll all start listening to it and talking about where we want the direction of the song to go, and the direction of the album, where we’re going to do it, who we’re going to work with. And usually in January or February, we go into a studio and start working things out. Post: In later years, it seems like there’s been a huge explosion of psychedelic music in indie rock. Being a part of that scene, has there been some particular situation that’s lent itself to the proliferation of bands like you, Tame Impala, and even MGMT? ZC: I don’t think so. Fads tend to come and go in styles of music, and bands will get hyped and buzzed for a little while,
but to tell you the truth, I don’t really pay attention to a lot of that stuff. I probably should pay more attention to it than I do, but our band has never really been in that kind of scene. We’ve never been a hype band or a buzz band. Pitchfork will never write about us. I do see what you’re saying, and I’m not sure what happens. A lot of those bands have been around for a little while, and it’s just that people start to pay attention to them a little more. Once someone gets big, like MGMT or Tame Impala, people listen to them and then start digging around because of social media and post similar bands that are a little smaller. It’s all about just finding a really specific genre of music, and then once someone starts getting some notoriety, people find other bands like that. Whenever there are phases, like trashy beach surf rock coming back, somebody likes a band and then everybody finds all the smaller bands that sound similar. Be sure to read the extended version of this interview, only on uwmpost.com.
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Marquette law student lives double life in music
Young producer gives history lesson, reflects on electronic music scene By Graham Marlowe Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com
As part of an ongoing feature on local electronic music, the UWM Post spoke with Donny Jankowski, aka Ghostkid and Spooky Child. Jankowski, a composition school dropout turned Marquette University law student, has an everyman’s grasp of what’s possible with good ideas, good equipment and a little time. Beyond the obvious time management miracles it takes to produce albums like The Unlikely Future of Reverse Engineering and Things That Go Dub In The Night, Jankowski hopes to move more into the role of producer sometime soon. UWM Post: Given the level of innovation taking place in the music industry, would you feel comfortable explaining the origins of this music to someone with, say, mainstream tastes? Donny Jankowski: Electronic music has been around much longer than most people realize. The precursors to electronic instruments stem from before 1900, and composers and musicians began to take advantage of these sorts of instruments, which use electricity to generate sound, as opposed to a pipe, string, et cetera, as they began to develop in the ‘20s and ‘30s. The thing is, as other genres evolved, many individuals who considered themselves music purists rejected electronic instruments as really being true musical equipment. The synthesizer was feared and hated by some during its early development. As both academics and more mainstream artists began to take notice of the versatility that an electronic instrument provided them, however, these generally heavy and expensive pieces of equipment began working their way into recording studios and into some artists' homes. Post: The progression of electronic music strikes me as very natural. In other words, as the technology – particularly that of synthesizers became increasingly practical, smaller and less expensive – the sounds made by these pieces of electronic equipment made their way into more recordings.
DJ: As far as mainstream music goes, artists like The Beach Boys and The Beatles both utilized electronic elements in their work, and, as psychedelic and prog-rock developed, bands such as Pink Floyd and Genesis demonstrated, to a sometimes musically suspicious audience, that electronic sound can still make for good art. As computers continued to develop and instrument designers began to innovate, machines called sequencers began to appear, which allowed one to trigger synthesizer notes and modulations in a recorded fashion, altering certain aspects of
the sound by hand while allowing a repetitive sequence of sound to run simultaneously. These sequencers also gave single artists the ability to control multiple aspects of multiple electronic instruments at once, allowing the sounds of an entire band to be triggered and altered by a single individual. Post: So what would you say we’re seeing today? DJ: We’re seeing the results of a hundred plus years of evolution: musicians on laptops, using software synthesizers and effects in combination with hardware to make art, some even combining newer digital technologies with more traditional instruments. We see artists who are able to create and record vast and expansive works in their college dorm rooms and share their music with the world over the internet. To me, electronic music is difficult to separate from other types of music based on any criteria other than simply the instruments used to create the music. This is fitting because, as music evolved over the years, electronic
instruments have not disrupted the development of “music as art” as some had deeply feared, but rather, like all good innovations, the development of electronic instruments has facilitated new generations of creativity and originality. Post: What experience led you down the electronic music path in particular? DJ: Initially, I was led to electronic music simply by a desire to record my non-electronic music on a computer. As I learned the ins and outs of music recording and sequencing software, I began to realize how powerful the electronic side of instruments and effects could be when creating a composition, and thus, I felt that electronic music simply gave me more options when I was creating. Post: What has your experience been in presenting to Milwaukeeans? Have they developed certain tastes that non-aficionados would recognize? DJ: I think Milwaukeeans love electronic music and really dig the scene. I feel that we're a little bit behind the curve in terms of support for the genre as a whole, though there are so many good electronic musicians and DJs in the city at the moment that I feel we're in a good place. Of course there could always be more electronic-centric music halls and bars, but I think we're in a good place. Too much of anything kind of dilutes the whole movement. Post: Electronic music requires a special kind of patience to get the full effect like any intellectually "involved" music. How do you account for this? DJ: This is definitely true, especially in the more instrumental genres of electronic music, which is the kind I make. I think the core issue here is that music without lyrics often requires more patience. Not only is there no human voice for a listener to identify with as the sound progresses, but the ideas that the artist or composer is trying to convey are only musical in nature, and thus, require an ear for music and musical changes. This is challenging as an artist because, as attention spans seems to be rapidly shortening, there is still a lot that can be said without words.
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A night of riotous behavior
The cult Canadian television series, Trailer Park Boys, was transformed into an incredibly outrageous live stage show Friday at the Pabst.
Trailer Park Boys’ tour stop in Milwaukee rivaled only by crowd’s energy By Kevin Kaber
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Of the crowds gathering near the corner of Water and Wells on Friday night, some wore Brewers gear, but others wore sweatpants and f lannel shirts, donning pompadours, moustaches, goatees and thick glasses. People wondered why they were handed Hershey’s Kisses, and those smoking continually prompted each other, “Smokes, let’s go,” while Pabst Blue Ribbon and Schlitz Tall Boy cans piled up in the lobby. The Trailer Park Boys were scheduled to appear at 8 p.m., but due to the Brewers’ major win only moments before, patrons of the night’s show stirred up a riotous frenzy. It was only after twenty minutes that the crowd settled to a mere roar in the theater, and the lights could be dimmed for the show to begin. Trailer Park Boys, a Canadian TV
series on the network equivalent of HBO, maintains a high status in the States, due to its accessibility on sites like Netf lix. The ever-raunchy and lowculture program has spawned some of the highest viewership ratings among Canadians and has since become a cult series everywhere. Although the series has long been finished, the boys do plenty of stage shows, films and guest spots while playing the characters so adored by fans. Stemming from the success of their previous live show tour, “Ricky, Julian and Bubbles Community Service Variety Show,” their current tour, “The Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, Drunk, High and Unemployed Tour,” showcases each of the characters’ traits. Ricky, a high school drop-out and petty criminal, is trying to shed his stupid persona and start an accelerated school for those who don’t intend on being in school for long at his trailer court. Julian, the goaloriented leader, as always, is aiming to make a buck, and Bubbles, the odd but
usually straight-laced one, just wants to submit an audition tape for an upcoming Jackie Chan movie. When the boys appeared onstage, they were met with the most outrageous standing ovation. The crowd’s energy, even after the hometown team’s win, had yet to plateau. Early on, the boys had already begun making Brewers references and even denounced the Diamondbacks, leaving the crowd in an even more unbelievable fit. As the boys began with their skits, the crowd finally quieted down enough for them to be discernable. Right away, Julian, who of course was holding a rum and Coke in his hand, began selling hot dogs to audience members (who actually paid up to ten dollars a dog). When this was happening, audience members freely walked onstage – notably women attempting (and succeeding) to grind and f lirt with the boys, especially Bubbles, who would go on to say in his hoarse voice (although the voice was noticeably lost due to the tour schedule),
“My ‘bird’ is going to like this!” while pointing up. Bubbles’ wide grin and magnified eyes were a favorite display on the onstage screen. He went as far as to bat self-pitched balls with his “bird” to the upper decks. Fans played a huge part of the night, whether invited onstage or not. When asking for three female volunteers to play “Are you smarter than a first grader?,” at least fifteen climbed and even asked to order drinks onstage. At one point, a man with a severe limp and neck brace managed to get to the stage and hand pepperoni sticks – Ricky’s favorite food – to the boys. After an hour and a half of nonsensical and outrageous goings-on, an intermission was held. As if the bars weren’t busy enough during the show, they were even more heavily bombarded at the break. It seemed as if there was at least a puddle of mixed drinks or a crushed can under each seat. The last half of the show delivered the same raucous behavior. Julian, who
wasn’t balancing out Bubbles and Ricky as much as he usually does in the series, prompted everyone to pay him for the Hershey’s Kisses and demanded a higher price after Ricky confessed that they were actually his leftovers from the hash driveway. This evidence proved that Ricky had eaten hamburgers out of dumpsters and smoked “cleaned” cigarette butts found in puddles, and Bubbles, who so desperately wanted to perfect his audition tape, sang “Liquor and Whores” in both Johnny Cash and Susan Boyle demeanors. When the show was over, the boys left the stage while the audience caught a sneak peak at a new series from the Trailer Park Boys. Afterwards, the actors came back in their actual personas and contended that Milwaukee had been their best crowd to date. The parallel energies of the crowd and the boys were terrific and, obviously, well deserved, given the night’s events.
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A perplexing night of comedy Steven Wright’s mumbles confound his audience in his patented demeanor By Kevin Kaber Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com
It was clear that fandom and curiosity were overwhelming presences at the Pabst Theater on Thursday night. Many in the audience were chatting about the comedian’s aura, his laid back and quiet demeanor that not only captivates but also confuses crowds. Then Steven Wright was introduced. Hailing from Massachusetts, Wright has been a cult figure in the comedy realm for decades. Not only has he been in the game for over 30 years, but he has also seen resurgences in his career by appearances in Half Baked and Reservoir Dogs, further owing to his show business mystique. Wright’s set at the Pabst was only another testament of his comedic approach. After his introduction, Wright waved to the crowd with his iconic mumble and said, “Thanks.” This first word into his performance generated the laughs that would last the rest of the night, although in sharp bursts. Wright’s delivery is quiet, grumbly and almost indiscernible. And as such, the crowd would simmer to a silence to hear a joke, only to burst out laughing. Hardly anyone continued his or her bellows when Wright spoke. The Pabst had become a laughter EKG that never f lat lined. In his regular, well-known get-up – a bowler cap covering long frizzy hair, a well-worn jacket and tennis shoes – the comedian blasted though an hour and a half worth of jokes, most of them only short one-liners. For instance, “Do you think the end of the Cold War started global warming?” or “I was Cesarean born. You can’t really tell, but every time I leave the house, I go out through the window.”
Even questionable and downright odd jokes, like the deadpan “I like to skate on the other side of the ice,” were met with uproars, though only after Wright put on a face and stared at the audience. To remember each and every one of those jokes is a testament to Wright’s 30 year-plus career and the jokes that define his uncanny comedy. Though his jokes are far different from other well-known comedians, they tackle a subject that is hard to accomplish. As seen on Thursday night, a lot of Wright’s jokes f lip reality on its head in his infamous illogical, bizarre and, at some points, smartass manner (notably in his hopefullyfictional, dialogue-driven stories), often times driving his subjects into a crying fit. But in the comedian’s own words, “Don’t think about it. It doesn’t mean anything.” Wright’s tone, which is just as important as his catalogue of oneliners, actually broke on a few occasions – cracking a wide, rarely seen smile or gasping an airy laugh after a punch line. Just as is with other comedy acts, when a comedian laughs at his or her own jokes, it’s either ego-driven or just the comic’s reaction to how odd and dim-witted a joke might sound. In this case, it’s the latter. Not even Wright could keep a straight face after some of his truly absurd jokes. Steven Wright’s character obviously isn’t textbook. His onstage persona has separated himself from others for three decades. Over that time, comedy has seen at least two or three booms, encompassing the rise of both HBO and Comedy Central comedy specials, popular late night talk shows and the rise and fall of numerous comedians. This truly unique comedian has stood the test of time and certainly will in the years to come.
Steven Wright, stand-up comedy's king of deadpan delivery, made due on his comedic promise Thursday night at The Riverside.
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Taking “torture porn” Zola Jesus’ powerful undertaking to the next level Conatus asserts its own identity amid both The Human Centipede 2 is an contemporaries and inspirations exercise in the disturbing By Casey Buchanan Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com
In the advertising campaign for the 1972 film The Last House on the Left, the production company used the tagline, “To avoid fainting just keep repeating, it’s only a movie.” With the premiere of The Human Centipede 2, the tagline should have read “To avoid cringing in mortal disgust and anguish, keep repeating, please don’t see The Human Centipede 2.” For gore hounds across Milwaukee, The Human Centipede 2 is a breath of fresh air that is truly needed. For all other general movie going public, they would be better off just staying away. Where the original film took the idea of sewing human extremities to other extremities, the sequel takes the original and places it in a category that could be considered “family friendly.” The Human Centipede 2 makes The Human Centipede look like it should be aired right after Yo Gabba Gabba!. The Human Centipede 2 is the story of Martin, a small, mousy, middle-aged man that works in a parking garage. The better part of his time is spent watching the original film on his laptop. All the while, he is licking his fingers and waiting for drunken club goers to stumble back to their cars. Sometimes he beats them with a tire iron. Sometimes he shoots them in the kneecaps.
Martin feels inspired from The Human Centipede (the actual film, which is a plot point here), because his home life is not quite ideal. Martin’s mother blames him as the reason that his father is in prison. Forget the fact that his father is in prison because he sexually molested Marvin as a child. Marvin likes to keep a scrapbook of all the ins and outs of The Human Centipede under his bed. The original fiml is 100 percent medically accurate, and Martin likes to take this into consideration when he is taking his bloodied and bashed victims to his secret warehouse apartment where he intends on doing experiments of his own kind. (It needs to be pointed out that Martin’s experiments are not 100 percent medically accurate.) The Human Centipede 2 is truly a test in how much ghoulishness a horror movie fan can take. In the original film, it was the disgusting undertones that were implied, but not shown that made the movie creepy and sadistic. In the sequel, the stakes are raised so high that it baffles the mind how this movie could even be considered anything but a snuff film. The Human Centipede 2 is a real stretch for even the most hardcore horror fans. It takes concepts that were merely scratched in the original and disembowels them in all their bloody, grisly detail. In all honesty, The Human Centipede 2 may be the most sinister film of our generation.
Images from director Tom Six's Human Centipede 2 are far too gruesome for the UWM Post, so enjoy this screenshot from the 1980 Atari arcade classic Centipede. It's something like this.
Zola Jesus' Conatus is a seeping album that plumbs the fringe of modern pop music and shines darkly.
By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com
The trend of the hour is ‘90s nostalgia, and Merrill, Wisconsin’s own Zola Jesus is right in the thick of it. Basking simultaneously in the throaty, emotive voice of Sinéad O’Connor, the abstractly ethereal electronic grind of Björk and the goth-infused industrial of groups like Stabbing Westward, the group’s new album, Conatus, was a surefire hit practically before it was ever recorded, the type of right-for-its-time release that can’t help but ride a wave of fad-driven buzz. And yet it manages to somewhat transcend its well-trodden trappings and emerge on the other side of its artifice as a deep work in its own right, an experiment in form and often substance that draws from across the spectrum to earn its keep. Upon its inception, Zola Jesus (first an alter-ego for 22-year-old Niki Roza Danilova, now a full ensemble) emerged from far more diverse crannies of the late-20th century goth club milieu than
now, drawing heavily from the likes of first-wave industrial titan Throbbing Gristle and shoegaze masters My Bloody Valentine. But Conatus (a Latin word meaning an effort or undertaking) steps in a different direction, dripping in Homogenic-era Björk and the echoing synthpop of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. It’s a sudden change but not an altogether unjustifiable one, as sometimes looking forward means looking back. A more streamlined style not only gives Danilova more room to explore but also a more birds-eye, objective image of her own art. What results are tracks like “Shivers” and the first single “Vessel,” songs indebted to both a standardized formula for pop music and the groups that actively and repulsively shunned it. Danilova’s wet sob of a voice carries within it an overwhelming amount of emotion, doubly when it’s reduced, as it so often is, to an almost wordless howl atop an arrhythmic drum patter and an echoing Cascio tone. But her penchant for balladry is more mainstream than her songwriting aspirations let on, and
there’s even a little bit of Lady Gaga in Conatus. But where Gaga and Zola Jesus diverge is the latter’s refusal to simply act as an empty sheen or a vessel for an era of music to which they seem indebted. Their affinity for conversing with and adding to the violin-imitating synths of Björk or the Britpop balladry of the Cranberries and the Verve, for mixing and matching and asserting their own identity amongst the rabble of their debtors, is what propels the group to the correct side of nostalgia and validity in their own right. Just last year, industrial music’s impact on the indie scene seemed all but certain with bands like Sleigh Bells (now the darlings of the television commercial world) and albums like M.I.A.’s Maya (which producer Diplo described on Twitter as being “like Skinny Puppy & gives me nightmares”). With Zola Jesus’ fully-formed musical identity now in the fore of music’s consciousness, it seems that trend might actually see its apex.
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Now showing at a theater near you
A look at what’s to come at UWM’s Union Theatre
The UWM Union Theatre is one of the most notable and diverse movie theaters in the entire country, but it can be easy to overlook, in the context of studies and the day-to-day bustle of the UWM campus. Every week, the staff at The UWM Post provides a brief guide to the theater’s most notable titles, in an effort to encourage students to make the most of this unique and vibrant resource. The Last Mountain (Wednesday, 7 p.m.) The Last Mountain documents the growing struggle between Big Coal and a concerned community. Focusing on a small mining town in West Virginia, director Bill Haney turns his camera towards those affected by Massey Energy, the area’s greatest supplier of coal. Massey Energy, which most notably gained national attention when 29 miners were killed during one of their operations in 2010 (and was just purchased by another mining company), has been under fire by locals for their lack of safety and ecological practices. Haney displays an intimate portrait of those affected by environmental destruction in pursuit of coal – a vital issue concerning this country as Americans seek a balance in energy practices. The Woman with the Five Elephants (Thursday, 7 p.m.) Showing for one day on Thursday, a Milwaukee premier, The Woman
with the Five Elephants is a poignant documentarian exploration of the morality of art and the shifting cultural landscape of the late 20th century. Svetlana Geier, the film’s protagonist, translated literature from Russian to German most of her life, and the film documents her journey back home to Kiev after a departure almost 70 years ago. The film plumbs the nature of the word, the moral and political complications of translating art – not just across languages but also across national borders – and the cultural transformation of an entire region of the world.
Reaching for Higher Ground
Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut is indecisive but promising
The films of Morgan Spurlock (Friday-Sunday, various times) In advance of what’s being billed as “The Greatest Lecture Ever Told” next Wednesday in the Union Wisconsin Room, the Union Theatre is screening three films that distinguished lecturer and mustachioed statesman Morgan Spurlock has notched into his filmmaking gun over the course of his career. Super Size Me, his self-referential documentation of the dangers of fast food reliance, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, about product placement and advertising culture and the feature film adaptation of Freakonomics, for which he directed a short segment, are all featured as part of the six-day campus takeover in which Spurlock is implicit.
Morgan Spurlock's 2004 fast food doc Super Size Me is one of a three-film series highlighting the director this weekend at the Union Theatre.
Vera Farmiga's directorial debut is a great starting point, though its message is unclear
By Kevin Kaber Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com
Portraying the faith of a close-knit and highly religious community in a respectful manner from the outside can be quite difficult. When a filmmaker changes the perspective from outside to in, it also has its difficulties, especially when the film’s protagonists are those that the film is trying to satirize. Based heavily on Carolyn Briggs’ memoir, This Dark World: A Story of Faith Found and Lost, Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut, Higher Ground, portrays the introspective life of Corinne (played by Vera Farmiga herself), whose place within her religious community is uncertain. As a child, Corinne was openminded. She liked to write and read poetry and soon found herself falling for Ethan (portrayed as an adult by Joshua Leonard, of The Blair Witch Project), a rock band front man. After having their first child in their teens, the couple soon finds God after Ethan’s tour bus, carrying Corinne and their baby, crashes
into a river. From that moment on, their lives become heavily dominated by their strict Evangelical Christian beliefs. Corinne begins questioning her life upon a visit from her free spirited sister, who is a complete antithesis to Corinne herself. The visit is short, but rather than doubting her sister’s lifestyle, Corinne looks to see if her life and religion is actually what it promises to be. Noting slight differences in the religious practices of her peers and being scolded by her female elder (the only woman in her church allowed to teach anyone, albeit she could only teach women) for wearing a dress that revealed her shoulders shake Corinne’s relationship with her husband and her position within the church. Higher Ground ’s aims become slightly unclear: Is it veering to the opposition of the church’s enforcement of a strict lifestyle, or is it trying to define the hardships that even the most faithful must overcome to prove their devotion to God? There are nods to either side of this spectrum in the film, although they are mostly all satirical in a lighthearted and noncritical fashion.
A lot of Corinne and her friends’ religious practices are portrayed in this light, and it’s hard for audiences to decide whether it is supposed to be chuckle-worthy or serious. For instance, the Baptism sequence where everyone has a different reaction or the gibberish, but well-known, “prayer language” and the quest to achieve it are vignettes with an undecided sincerity. The back-and-forth between Farmiga as director and Farmiga as lead actress is an issue in this film. Though the character of Corinne questions her role in life, that doesn’t mean that the director must question hers. For the most part, Higher Ground loses grasp of what it’s message really is, but delivers it in a way that is both interesting and emotional, culminating to a touching scene in which Corinne and Ethan’s youngest child celebrates his seventh birthday and makes his wish (although that does sound cliché). For a directorial debut, Farmiga has promisingly started in the right direction, though her subject matter is a bit too touchy to concretely envision.
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Top five horror films
The Post takes a look at the best of horror films
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is among the most frightening of horror flicks. By Casey Buchanan Staff Writer Fringe@uwmpost.com
How many times have you paid good money for a movie or wasted those precious two days waiting for Netflix to bring you a movie that turned out to be complete crap? For your average film nerd, it happens on a weekly basis. With Halloween slithering its way onto college campuses once again, it can be assumed that many scary movies will no doubt be placed into DVD players and streamed on laptops. There are a lot of good ones, a hell of a lot of bad ones and once every great while, there are those horror movies that scare the living crap out of us and are instantly deemed classics. So without further adieu, here are the best of what horror has to offer.
The Descent (2005) This is the most recent of all the movies on this list. Its story follows six friends that go exploring in underground caves and encounter evil humanoid creatures that pick them off one by one. The conjoining of the psychological aspects of claustrophobia and being stalked by an unseen evil is a powerful brew. From the opening scene on, it toes the line between what is real and what is not. Pet Sematary (1989) Stephen King is the current reigning king of terror. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, and many of them have failed to achieve the amount of horror that comes from reading his books. “Sometimes things need to stay dead” is the basic premise of this film. Pet Sematary
Milwaukee’s Fashion Affair 2011 Local designers show off style for benefit
By Patrice Vnuk Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com
Milwaukee’s fashion industry had a night to show off its creations last Friday at Fashion Affair 2011, a fundraising runway show. Started by Roots Salon, 100 percent of the evening’s proceeds went to the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. Roots Salon’s members organized the show to focus on local designers and boutiques, such as An/ droo/jak, Flirt, Savvy Bride, Fred Boutique and Francesca’s. The Harley Davidson Museum housed the show in its “garage,” which added a raw industrial backdrop to the sleek and polished white and black of Roots’ runway fixtures. Each designer and boutique worked within the theme of “lace and leather” with fall styles on the models. As this was a show of local fashion and not exactly Parisian couture, the looks were very wearable – the “readiest” of ready-to-wear. Even though most of the clothes were trendy and not too avant-garde, there was some stand-out flare that added a creative twist to event. At first, it seemed that with so many puffed up hairstyles
and Bump-Its present, the show was an Amy Winehouse tribute (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but once Savvy Bride took the runway, the hairpieces looked more like works of art. Hair piled high, wild curls and bleached locks all made appearances as the night progressed. The Roots’ stylists gave each clothing line’s models distinctive hair and makeup that complemented the clothes they were wearing. The color palate kept within fall realms in dark and earthy tones, although some designers added a bright pop of blue or red. Francesca’s fall line was a more fun take on the traditionally conservative season and added shorts and tights with playful colors. Their all-American and lacey vibe stood out from the other designers, who included darker and edgier looks. While this show was a way for designers to exhibit their products, it was about more than just the clothes on the runway – it promoted a lifestyle and an image of the designers who participated. Local fashion retained its edge and creativity while still being marketable, and nothing advertised that better than a charitable and entertaining fashion show.
is the most faithful adaptation of a King novel that really captures the essence of the novel’s suspense and terror. With an ending that will leave you physically disturbed, Pet Sematary is take-noprisoners horror. Psycho (1960) A lot of people may be turned off by a black and white film, but don’t let the age of Psycho fool you. This 1960s thriller is suspenseful and horrifying enough to keep anybody on the edge of his or her seat. Norman Bates owns and operates the Bates Motel, a middle of nowhere motel at the center of a young woman’s embezzlement scheme. He also has some really interesting “mommy” issues. After the film’s release, many people refused to take showers.
The Exorcist (1973) How could a top five scariest movies list be complete without this classic? The Exorcist was one of the first films to include religious implications into its narrative. Satan possesses a young girl – that’s all you need to know. The dark settings and gloomy atmosphere do not shed any ray of hope on the sinister film. It was also considered cursed during filming due to multiple unexplained “accidents” that occurred, causing injury to the film’s crew. The Shining (1980) The Shining could possibly be the scariest film ever made. Director Stanley Kubrick adapted the basic structure of the Stephen King novel to create this masterpiece. Starring Jack Nicholson and
Shelley Duvall, a family of three spends the winter at a secluded hotel. The basic concept of being trapped in a maze in which a supposed nurturer is trying to kill you is absolute mind-melting terror. Honorable Mention: The Tell-Tale Heart animated short (1953) You can find this 8-minute long video on YouTube. This short film, adapted from the Edgar Allen Poe short story, received an X-rating in the United Kingdom for its depictions of horror. Watch alone with the lights off for the full effect.
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EDITORIAL The following piece represents the views of the Editorial Board of THE UWM POST. The editorial board is not affiliated with the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and these views do not represent the views of the university.
Goodbye, Columbus Day In twenty-hundred ten and one, it’s time for Columbus Day to be done
There are two people whose lives are so significant that we observe a national holiday in remembrance of their accomplishments. One was a pacifist civil rights activist. The other enslaved a race of people and cut off their hands when they were unable to meet his impossible demands for gold. To be fair, that’s not the real reason America celebrates Columbus Day. It doesn’t seem to matter what Columbus did after sighting land in the early morning of Oct. 12, 1492. Nor does it matter that he wasn’t the first person, or even the first European, to discover the Americas. Nor does it matter that Columbus never set foot on what would become United States soil. And it really doesn’t matter that every contemporary educated person was well aware of the true shape of the earth. But should it matter? We think so. Especially the slavery part. We feel that in light of fuller revelations of Columbus’s life and legacy, Columbus Day should be removed from the list of national holidays. We believe it to be well-intentioned, but, ultimately, it whitewashes history while simultaneously and secretly memorializing genocide. This mixed message is not what we want enshrined in the pantheon of federal observances. This is not to diminish the significance of 1492. Indeed, Columbus’s voyage was nothing short of epoch-changing. On top of that,
his personal struggle shows incredible determination and resourcefulness and was, dare we say it, heroic. But none of that excuses what came after. While it is certainly possible to take iconoclastic historical revision too far, we feel it better to err on the side of caution. Better to be labeled the avenging angel of political correctness than to casually gloss over centuries of exploitation and systematic extermination of people whose only crimes were worshipping the wrong deities and possessing inferior weaponry. While we advocate repeal of official recognition of Columbus Day, we are not calling for replacing it with another work day. That’s pretty much the last thing we would support. Rather, we think another federal holiday should be recognized in its place. Surely our country has other historical triumphs to celebrate that are closer to being morally unassailable. Perhaps we can recognize Sept. 17, the anniversary of the day the Constitution was signed. The document also has a mixed legacy, to be sure, but the motivations behind it are infinitely more defensible than the motivations behind Columbus’s voyage, and, at the end of the day, there is a lot to celebrate. Things like individual liberty and states’ rights are the exact opposite of the worst things Columbus stood for. In fact, it’s the latter concept that allows two states, Hawaii and South
Dakota, to exercise their right not to recognize Columbus Day. We invite readers to consider why citizens in those states might not be so gung ho about Columbus Day and all that it stands for. History is important. As philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” Yet, for all its supposed virtue, history tends to rub a lot of people the wrong way. To Napoleon, history is “a set of lies agreed upon.” To Henry Ford, befitting of his efficient character, history is “more or less bunk.” To conservative thinker William F. Buckley, history is “the polemics of the victor.” To Arthur Schopenhauer, who perhaps was having a really bad day, history is “as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.” Perhaps observances like Columbus Day are why. Raucous celebrations coupled with crass commercialism don’t really lend themselves to solemn reflections about the full implications of historical events. Ironically, one of the more apt quotes about history was uttered by a fictional character. In James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus calls history “a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.” Continuing to celebrate Columbus Day is the cosmic equivalent of hitting the snooze alarm.
Vertical planking is among some of the dangerous activities UWM students engage in on a weekly basis. Post photo by Austin McDowell
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TO THE EDITOR
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"Got Opinions? Make Them Reality" "Everyone has something they'd like to see changed at UWM, myself included. The big problem is how to get those ideas turned into actual change. Well, there's a simple solution: join a committee. Committees are how you can make a difference on this campus. Students and administrators sit down at a table, administrators listen to what students say, the members vote, and suddenly a suggestion becomes policy. See, the committee is a key part of students' relationship with the university. Wisconsin state law demands that students have an equal say in how our campus is run, and administration listens to students during committee meetings. Committees cover all areas of university life, from Dining Services to Budget Planning. Say you want more composting bins on campus. Join the Physical Environment Committee. You want to see a specific sport on campus? Join the Athletics Committee. More funding for your student org? Join the Senate Appropriations Committee. No matter your interest, there is an easy way to get your voice heard. The best part? Committees are open to any student. Just apply through the Student Association's website sa.uwm.edu (check the tabs under the "About the SA" page). You'll also find a list of committees there. If you have a question about the process or just want info, feel free to email the Shared Governance Director Mike Ludwig at msludwig@uwm.edu" Thanks! Brent Johnson UWM Student Association Vice President
Study links Facebook posts, drinking By Anh Dao, Abby Meredith and Emily Stephen Cavalier Daily, U. Virginia via UWIRE
A study published this week in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine reported a link between public Facebook habits and personal drinking problems. “[The study] found that underage college students who referenced dangerous drinking habits, such as intoxication or blacking out, [on public Facebook profiles] were more likely to have scores that indicate problem drinking or alcohol-related injury,” Dr. Megan Moreno, author of the study and assistant professor of adolescent medicine at U. Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, said in a National Institutes of Health press release. Researchers from U. Wisconsin-Madison and U. Washington, Seattle polled undergraduates with public Facebook profiles from two different state universities. A total of 224 users participated, of whom 54.5 percent were female and 67.9 percent were white. The average age of the participants was 18.8 years old. The profiles of the participants were classified into three distinct categories — 64.3 percent were nondisplayers without any signs of alcohol references, 19.6 percent were displayers with minor alcohol references and 16.1 percent were intoxication/ problem drinking displayers with references to “being drunk” or “getting wasted.” The study found that the intoxication/problem drinking “displayers were more likely to be white compared with other races,” but there were no differences based on age, sex or universities. The researchers then invited the participants to fill out an online version of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, or AUDIT, a 10-question scale designed to assess alcohol consumption and dependence. AUDIT scores can range from 0 to 40 and a score of 8 or higher typically indicates a risk of problem drinking. On average, intoxication/problem drinking displayers scored 1.48 times higher on the AUDIT test when compared to alcohol displayers. The intoxication/ problem drinking displayers were also the only group among all three to show average AUDIT scores which reached into the problem drinking category. There was no statistically significant difference found between the nondisplayers and the displayers with minor alcohol references. In their report, the authors suggest using Facebook as a “complementary and innovative screening tool” to assess possible drinking problems in student populations and diagnose the potential need for counseling or intervention efforts. Moreno said the study also “suggests that parents and college health care providers who note references to problem drinking on the Facebook profiles of adolescents should consider discussing drinking habits with their children and patients.” Dr. James Thomson, a psychiatrist at U. Virginia’s Student Health Center, said the study could be useful for dealing with student drinking problems. “[It is] an innovative study,” he said. “Since denial of any problem is a prominent characteristic of alcohol and substance abuse, being able to find ways to reach students at risk will aid early treatment and maybe save some students from the serious consequences.”
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Long live the independent record store
In this digital age, many people still want something tangible By David Rangel Special to the Post editorial@uwmpost.com
There was a sense of déjà vu. These excursions were now few and far between. I spent what felt like hours rummaging through rows of new, used and import compact discs that caught my eye. I felt like I was 12 again, discovering the bands that would end up being so much a part of me. The array of photos dazzled. In the back of the store was a huge selection of vinyl records. Autographed posters of bands covered the walls like works of art. I was in a setting that is slowly going the way of the buffalo. This, the independent music store, is dying. Not many people buy CDs anymore. Vinyl records? Who wants to go through all of that effort to listen to music? At the click of a mouse, you have iTunes, eTUNES and many other digital music stores. Some call people like me audiophiles. I, and others like me, prefer tangible music mediums. We love the thrill of the hunt for that obscure gem and the satisfaction when we bring it home to take its place in our musical libraries. These recordings are the soundtracks to our lives. They are the part of our
personalities that can't be downloaded in the cold, generic atmosphere of a digital music “store.” This connection to music is what makes the old brick and mortar record stores relevant and necessary, even in this age of the quick digital download. These stores provide a social outlet and a place to gain more music knowledge with a human touch. I get where people are coming from when it comes to digital music. It's very storage-friendly. But for audiophiles, the physical library is part of the appeal. Moreover, the aural nuances of a CD are superior to a downloaded track. Sure, we can still order tangible records on Amazon and other sites. But getting music that way overrides one of the main appeals of the physical store. It's a social thing. There's something comforting about going into a music store and talking about music with the clerks you know because you're a regular. We need to preserve this kind of human interaction. Independent record stores have been steadily closing across the country. Stores like Milwaukee's now-closed Atomic Records helped foster rich music communities. But it's not just music fanatics that are affected. When an indie band is in town, it's not uncommon for
that band to play a smaller in-store show before their main gig later that night. Those intimate performances can really help a struggling band on the road. They help to form business and social relationships that no amount of technology can replace. There has been a resurgence in the last few years with regard to music. Bands are rediscovering recording on analog tape for that warm feeling and putting out music not only as downloads but also in vinyl form. The large sections of CDs and vinyl in corporate entities like Best Buy are proof of this. Young people should get to experience the atmosphere of the indie stores that was almost a rite of passage for many of us over 30. These stores should be kept alive for them to get the chance to discover a world that may shape their tastes and establish their identity within pop culture. If you mainly know music as something downloaded from a computer, seek out a record store. There are still some good ones left in Milwaukee including RushMor Records, The Exclusive Company and Bullseye Records. You may find some interesting surprises. If you’re older, go relive some good memories. Support your local record store!
No Jobs too big for the Mac daddy
Remembering a brilliant innovator By Jesse Anderson Special to the Post editorial@uwmpost.com
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Those were the words of Apple CoFounder Steve Jobs to Stanford University students at their 2005 commencement. Now six years later, that message rings with a kind of truth that reaches to the core of the American spirit. The creative genius behind the garage start-up turned $65 billion industry leader passed away on Oct. 5. Immediately, the world began paying tribute via Twitter and Facebook, many using a device that he invented.
It is no wonder why people hold the man in such high regard. He rescued the company that kicked him out, turning the most humiliating failure of his life into his greatest triumph. His accomplishments include the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes and, while away from Apple, a company you may have heard of called Pixar. Almost equally impressive, he did all of this while wearing the same outfit: New Balance sneakers, blue jeans and a black turtleneck. Steve Jobs changed the world. Just think about that for a second before passively reading on. Jobs didn't entertain the world. He changed millions, maybe billions of lives, and it all started with his thoughts – thoughts just like we all have. Google and Facebook engineers who think of ideas and develop them into software use computers designed by Jobs and his company. As you read this, you may have one of his ideas in your pocket. The tangible results of his ideas sit on tables and desks all over this campus. Just last week my iPod disappeared, and I was distraught for most of the day, to say the least. He has touched most of us, whether we know it or not. That is impact.
Technology is the thread that weaves the people of the world together, and Apple is largely responsible for the fabric being so tightly knit. That, however, is not as important as the messages Jobs delivered. He reminded us to “be a yardstick of quality,” that “innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” and that “our time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.” His words will live on forever in the information age he helped to create. There isn't much else to say about him. Only his words can bring his story to an end: “Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently – they're not fond of rules ... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things ... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs February 24, 1955 October 5, 2011
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Constant bashers, every day users
Facebook critics shouldn’t be Facebook users By Allesha Gilbert-Ewing Special to the Post editorial@uwmpost.com
“Facebook is so weak.” “Facebook is lame.” “I’m deleting my Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.” These are just some of the statuses that I read on a weekly basis, and they drive me insane. I only have about 178 Facebook friends, all of whom I know from the past or present, and I can truly say that at least once a week, I see some of these friends posting statuses like the ones listed above. I just don’t get it. Most of my friends complain about Facebook being lame or boring. Another complaint is that there aren’t interesting people on there, yet, every time I log into my Facebook app, they are always people available to chat. What’s up with that? Facebook was simply designed to help friends from near and far catch up and interact with each other on a more consistent basis. It was not created for people to change their relationship status from single to married and married to single within a matter of hours, and Facebook was definitely not created for its users to bash the social network on their status. Those types of things should be discussed with a relationship counselor or on a blog. Maybe there is a good reason why people are constantly deleting and reactivating their pages and indirectly
encouraging people to become a part of a different social network. I think some people do not want to be a part of Facebook because it can often enable distraction, which causes countless hours of procrastination. This may be the reason behind the constant whiplash. For others, I think that they want to leave Facebook, but it has such a gravitational pull and such a significant place in our culture that to remove oneself from it would lead to social leprosy. There are over 500 million users and over 350 million mobile device users – hardly anyone is left out. As far as indirectly encouraging people to join Twitter or other social sites, I think the reasons are twofold. First, they might be trying to present themselves as a leader. Saying “follow me on Twitter” tends to give that vibe. Secondly, I think they might be trying to show that they have the capability of removing themselves from the social norm, a way to express uniqueness, even if uniqueness means that you don’t have a Facebook but have an account on Twitter. All those reasons help me understand the deletion and reactivation process as well as the constant bashing comments. But, what I suggest is for people to, for once, keep some information to themselves. When it boils down to it, critics can’t be users.
Avoid a fifth year at UWM Or how not to be a “super senior” By Miranda Rosenkranz Special to the Post editorial@uwmpost.com
As a junior in college, I am independent, reluctant to take help and certainly won’t ask for it. This was my attitude while making my fall class schedule in spring 2011. I figured after two years of this whole university thing I had a handle on the ins and outs of my degree, so I neglected my usual semester advising appointment and whipped up my own fall 2011 schedule. When fall crept up, I had everything set, from balancing my class schedule and work schedule and purchasing all of the necessary textbooks. On a whim, I decided to meet with my advisor about some law school questions and long-term planning. I was in for an academic shock. Turns out I failed to notice I was in an unnecessary upper-level class and not in a course I needed for my major. The course was a part of a sequence that would take two years to complete, and the classes were not offered in the summer. Basically, I had to get into this one class, or I was going to spend another semester at UWMilwaukee. Thankfully, everything worked out – however, I wound up paying an additional $100 for books I did not need, and I lost three hours of work, because the class I needed interfered with my planned work schedule. Despite these setbacks, I was back on track for graduating in spring of 2013. If I would not have met with my advisor, I would have been stuck at UWM for another semester.
What makes this situation even worse is that I see my advisor every day, because I work in the advising office. In this office, I deal with other students who are frantic because they missed a deadline to add or drop a class, or they enrolled late and cannot get into a course they need to graduate. I always thought that would never happen to me. After all, I had a handle on college scheduling. But even the most experienced of students can overlook a requirement. It is foolish to not see your advisor at least once a semester. The services they provide are free and can save you a semester or two of tuition. Some people will read this and think, “I rarely see my advisor, and I am on the four year plan.” Well, bully for you! For students like me with an extensive educational plan – for instance, my double major and a minor – semester planning is a balancing act. Scheduling needs to be done correctly, or it will cost you. This is where advisors come in. These people go through training to figure out what classes students need. They can also help you double or triple up on requirements. For example, one class can fulfill a humanities, international and major requirement. This means you can get three classes for the price and effort of one. Advisors meet with hundreds of students. They hear about which classes are easy, which professors are difficult and which lectures are most interesting. The benefits of scheduling help outweigh the cost of 30 minutes of your time. See your advisor. Failure to do so might leave you kicking yourself in the future.
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PET OF THE WEEK Dash (black and white Maine Coon mix) and Piper (Buff and Cream Shorthair) are two of the most lovable cats you’ll ever meet. Always in the mood for a rousing game of laser-chase or even gentle wrestling, Dash and Piper are the life of the party. They sure know how to take a mean cat nap too. Thanks to the Wisconsin Humane Society, these beautiful little boys have a nice new home and are quickly becoming best friends.
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SUDOKU INSTRUCTIONS: Fill in the squares so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 exactly once.
solution found on page 4
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INSTRUCTIONS: Fill the squares so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the following letters exactly once: C, T, O, A, I, K, E, R, H. One row or column will reveal a hidden word!
solution found on page 4
solution found on page 4
Having recovered her lost sheep, Little Bo Peep asks you to show how to enclose each sheep in a separate pen by the aid of only three straight marks.
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