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RETIRES

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Scott Gore retires as UWM Union director after 30 years

By Steve Garrison News Editor news@uwmpost.com

Campus life would be almost unrecognizable without the efforts of Scott Gore, who, after almost 30 years of service to the UW-Milwaukee campus, announced his retirement as Student Union Program Director this summer.

The architect behind such events as Campus Kick-off Week, Pantherfest, the Distinguished Lecture Series and Family Weekend will serve an advisory role for the foreseeable future as a special

assistant to the chancellor.

Gore said that the biennial budget published last spring and the financial impact it may have was part of the reason he chose to leave, but he also felt that after 30 years, it may be time for a change, both for him and for the organization.

“It is kind of my time … to retool in some shape or form,” he said.

Scott Peak, formerly the university’s housing director, will serve as the interim union director until a replacement is found.

Gore began mopping floors and serving drinks as a student employee in

the reservations department in 1972, a position referred to him by a friend.

Originally a theater major, Gore said he had “highfalutin’” ideas about what he wanted to do after graduation, but was intrigued by the possibility of beginning a career at UWM. “My experiences here on campus and the opportunities provided have helped me find my passion in many ways,” he said.

Gore said he probably worked in every single department in the student union before he was offered the opportunity to serve as the active programming director.

In the early 1970s, the union was a far cry from what it is today. Campus programs and events were often organized by external groups and individuals independent of the university who received funding from the federal government. As such, union activities were mostly business-minded, serving the greater community surrounding UWM with student activities serving a peripheral role.

However, in 1975 federal funds dried up, and the Union Activities Board was created to allocate student segregated fees for union events.

The UAB, still in existence today, is a student organization that provides support for speakers, events and programs with the intent to have an impact on the university, community and culture of Milwaukee, according to the UWM website.

While the UAB allowed students greater control over campus events, it also brought problems. “[The UAB] was self-elected, and depending on what was happening, it was either going to be productive or not productive,” Gore said.

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Gore provided early support for the UAB and was pivotal in transitioning the student organization into power, part of a larger effort to create a more insular community that emphasized the “learning laboratory” aspect of campus life.

“I did an evaluation … what is the content and mix of our university? What are we missing? So I began to rebuild the student activities experience at UWM, in conjunction with students, with the UAB, with student organizations,” he said. “Was it easy for me to do this? Yes, because I had all these relationships … that is how I started to build the campus activities process.”

Gore strengthened Union programming in the early ‘80s by creating the Union Marketing Services Department, which provided much

needed exposure for on-campus programming that otherwise went unnoticed.

“I met the director of marketing for San Diego State who did a seminar on how important marketing in the college union was,” he said. “I was inspired by this guy, and I came back and said this is what we need to do.”

The Marketing Services Department now provides anything from banners to catalogs, as well as lamination, printing and logo design, according to the department’s website.

In the 2000s, Gore helped create several noteworthy activities on campus, including the event that he would become most recognized for: Pantherfest.

“What we really need to do is kick-off the semester in the right way, and go for it,” Gore said in reflection.

“UWM has arrived – we need to go to Summerfest and create an event that will be a memorable experience.”

Gore said his track record of success encouraged administrators to entrust him with the project, but he was under

considerable pressure to succeed.

Thankfully, he was able to secure the Summerfest grounds, and the concert went off without a hitch. In 2010, more than 8,000 UWM students, faculty, staff and alumni attended the event, according to the UWM website.

“The most exciting piece of my career here has been the opportunities,” Gore said. “People have given me the opportunity to find my passion, to do things that are meaningful to the campus, but also have enriched me in so many ways. This career … I can’t believe I have been here so long.”

Gore said that when the union lost federal funding, it seemed devastating, “but out of the ashes, great things come.”

Although he is happy with how the union operates today, he said there are still issues that the student center faces, such as the growth of revenue-generating services.

“We were actually getting to the point where the union was becoming a business … and, some students have heard me say over the years that I

question the administration when they talk about making more money in the union,” Gore said. “What’s next? Paid toilets?”

Space constraints have also been an issue Gore has faced as the university continues to expand. “I don’t think [the union] is functioning, and I do not think it will function well for the projected enrollment increases in the future,” Gore said. “It needs to be the showplace where students come with their parents and think, ‘Is this a comfortable place? Is this a place I want to come?’”

As special assistant to the chancellor, Gore will provide input on future plans to expand the Union. Jan Ford, executive director of recruitment and outreach, said that Gore is an intelligent, driven individual who served as an inspiration to everyone who worked with him.

“His commitment to students and to student development is unparalleled, and I always benefited from that little different viewpoint that I got from Scott Gore,” Ford said.

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“After one warning, a sex worker caught working without a ticket would be fined up to $145,” according to The New York Times. Bonn has also constructed special wooden ptarking structures, called “performance areas,” where patrons can park their cars and have sex.

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Student Association takes over 25% pay raise

Limitations for future presidential hopefuls

SA President Alex Kostal (left) and Vice President Brent Johnson (right). Post file photo

By Aaron Knapp Assistant News Editor news@uwmpost.com The summer recess was an active time for the UWM Student Association, during which the Senate made a number of changes including salary increases in their annual budgets to at least nine officers of the executive and legislative branches.

The salary increases gave SA President Alex Kostal and Vice President Brent Johnson a $2,500, or roughly 25 percent, raise and placed their yearly stipends at $12,000 and $11,500, respectively. Although the executive branch was able to lower its overall budget by cutting some paid positions and other costs, the overall SA budget increased by approximately 10 percent to more than $280,000.

Senator Laura Webb, representative of the graduate school, voted against approving these budgets, arguing that there was not enough evidence or work done to justify the salary increases.

“I’ve never been at a school where an

SA President gets that much money,” Webb said.

Kostal justifies the salary increases as necessary components in making sure that representing students is a high priority for SA officers.

“Our goal this year has been to use the substantial funds that we have to make sure that all of our staff members are completely committed to working on student advocacy year-round,” said Kostal. “The last thing that we want is for our executive or our treasurer to be juggling multiple jobs and school and then coming into the office when they have spare time.”

The SA is responsible for allocating a portion of student segregated fees to improving the student body’s learning experience. SA does this by funding resource centers; student programs, like BOSS; events and activities, like Pantherfest; and the activities and events of student organizations. It also funds its own operations through these segregated fees.

The Senate approved budgets for SA’s legislative and executive branches at its

June 5 meeting, days after the elected Senators and officers assumed their roles.

Over half of the senators were absent from this meeting.

“It’s not fair to put a senate in charge of a budget, especially when most of them don’t know what the budget is for.

They’ve never done it before in their lives, they’ve not been briefed and they’re just beginning in the summer when most senators aren’t even around,” Webb said.

Although Senators like Webb are unpaid, top ranking officials on the Senate, Senate committee officials, executive officers and justices from the SA’s judicial branch all receive annual stipends. Raising the amount of these stipends will allow officers to spend more time in their offices working for the students, Kostal said.

“With a job like this, where you’re working with your peers and there’s not the same hierarchy that you might find at a restaurant or somewhere else, there’s always going to be that feeling that ‘Well, maybe I can put that off a little bit,’” Kostal said. “We wanted to make sure that we cut that out by making sure that

students can live off of our salaries.”

Webb, who also works full-time along with her class load and her SA responsibilities, counters this argument.

“Most of your students on campus are working two, three, maybe four jobs just to support themselves and to pay off their loans,” Webb said. “It frustrates me as a student who pays student fees to know that $12,000 of our student fees are going to pay Alex to goof around, and maybe, on occasion, attend a meeting, get paid for that, get food for that, get free travel for that.”

Speaker of the Senate Rick Banks, whose salary is now $11,000, recalled last year where he worked a part-time job while holding a position as an officer in SA and attending classes.

“My stipend last year was $3,500, and I worked part-time at the [Terrace Cafe],” he said. “So I felt like I wasn’t able to do as much as I wanted to or I could do, because I had to work there and I was doing school.”

Although Banks abstained from voting on the budgets, Senator Arrington Stoll, also secretary for the executive and

legislative branches, and Deputy Speaker Tereza Pelicaric voted to approve their own salary raises – legal according to the SA bylaws.

Stoll did not respond to a request for comment, but Pelicaric said the pay increases were justified because of rising expenses and a larger workload.

“What we found last year is that everything’s getting expensive, especially for Alex,” she said. “He’s on-call all the time – if the chancellor needs to speak to him, he needs to be there.”

Additional changes include an amendment to the election bylaws that limits the presidential prospects of students new to UWM politics.

According to the new bylaw, a student must be a participant in SA for at least six months before they can run for president.

Also noteworthy, the United Council of UW Schools, of which UWM is a member, was paid $50,000 for services they provided for UWM, and a new committee was created, the Campus Activities Board, in order to bring more student-related programming to campus.

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Theft: A universal obstacle

How the UWM Bookstore curbs shoplifting

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Erin Hilt (left) and Laura Hilt (right) rent lockers to prevent their bags from being stolen. Post photo by Sierra Riesberg

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There are several financial and economic challenges that retail businesses face. There are always unexpected obstacles and almost never a time when hardship and afflictions are non-existent.

One of the expected, but less predictable, hindrances for the Unionlocated UW-Milwaukee Bookstore is the threat of theft.

“Theft is universal in retail… it occurs in every business,” Union Bookstore Director Erik Hemming said. Hemming has seen a fair share of shoplifting in his four-year tenure and says there was no specific time when it began. It’s an “inherited” problem that has long been in existence.

Books and magazines aren’t the only targets of bookstore shoplifters. Small, readily accessible items on the shelves catch the eyes of potential thieves, due to the ability to easily conceal them. Small in size, however, doesn’t mean small revenue loss. Although he wouldn’t state an exact figure, Hemming says that revenue loss is at an average percentage for a retail business. He still strives to keep it at a minimum.

There are a number of security measures enacted in the bookstore to help curb theft and, potentially, even lower the revenue loss percentage. The UWM Bookstore, for example, counts on the forensic function of security cameras mounted inconspicuously on the ceiling.

“It’s not about surveillance at any given moment,” Hemming said. “It’s about who did what, and where.”

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catch thieves in the act and bring them to justice, Hemming noted. For him and the rest of the bookstore’s staff, constant camera surveillance has helped enormously.

Another simple method enacted to put a crimp in criminal activity is the nobackpack policy.

Students are not allowed to bring backpacks into the bookstore, but if they happen to have them anyway, they are welcome to leave them at the door or rent a locker for 25 cents. Although some students may balk at leaving their backpacks near the exit, graduate student Joey Tidmore said he did not mind the precaution.

“I think it is a great idea,” Tidmore said. “It is so easy just to slip something in there. I mean, it is a big store.”

Hemming said he is also confident in the store’s police presence, swaying the dishonest intentions of potential thieves.

“The police have been really helpful in the past year and a half,” Hemming said.

“We’ve put a lot of time and energy into preventing theft.”

Although police assistance and cameras work well at the bookstore, Hemming and his staff still practice simple ways to stop shoplifters. Employees are always on the lookout for shifty and conspicuous behavior, like pacing, nervousness and shiftiness.

“We regularly catch people engaging in theft,” Hemming said. “I’ve been in other retail environments that aren’t so straight forward, but here, it is.”

If caught, a thief would face arrest and trial. A steeper sentencing would depend on past criminal history.

“If we can avoid theft,” Hemming said, “we will avoid theft.”

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After 40 years of dedication to early childhood development and continuing education in the UW-Milwaukee community, Pamla Boulton chose to retire this summer. Boulton – a Cardinal Stritch University graduate, best known on campus as the director of the UWM Children’s Center – saw the importance of recognizing all children as capable learners and applied a curriculum based on f lexibility and openness.

Her dedication to early childhood development and high-quality education has served as a model both within the state and internationally, extending her inf luence far beyond the UWM campus. “[Boulton] became a leader in the national campus childcare movement,” Dean of Students Emeritus Carmen Witt said. “With UWM as the model program, she raised the quality of childcare overall, both through her leadership in the National Association for the Education of Small Children and her push for all centers to receive accreditation, as the UWM center did.”

Boulton was honored along with former Union Director Scott Gore at a retirement ceremony held in late July.

Chancellor Michael Lovell spoke of how Boulton’s long-standing involvement has left an indelible mark on UWM and the community.

“In any organization, there are some people, when they leave, you think, ‘How are we going to replace them?’ … The legacy that both [Boulton and

Gore] are going to leave will impact this campus for decades,” Lovell said.

Witt referred to the UWM Children’s Center as one of our campus communities’ “crown jewels” and noted that Boulton’s dedication was no more evident than in the care and attention she provided to the community’s own children “While I have been given credit for [the Children’s Center’s] birth … it is truly the house that Pam built,” she said.

“UWM’s Children’s Center has enabled generations of UWM students, faculty and staff to pursue their academic and professional goals, knowing that their children were receiving the best preschool education and care possible.”

Witt also praised Boulton for her dedication.

“Pam’s professional profile is rare these days: 40 years spent at one institution, in one field, at one departmental home,” Witt said.

“What a legacy she leaves and what a responsibility for those that remain to inherit it.”

Boulton had her own words to accompany her departure from UWM. “I just want to say, thank you,” she said. “To this community, to UWM, to all of the families who have shared their children, to all the people who have shared their expertise and knowledge and have worked with me over all these years, to all those folks out in the early childhood community who have been willing to listen to me constantly tell them, ‘We can do it! We only need to work harder!’ … I just want to say thank you.”

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Neo-Nazis and community members clash in West Allis 2,000 counter-protesters promote peace and unity at Nazi rally

By Steve Garrison News Editor news@uwmpost.com Self-identified neo-Nazis were in short supply at the In Defense of White America Rally held in West Allis on Saturday afternoon, drowned out by the approximately 2,000 counter-protesters in attendance.

Speakers from the Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied for Hope fought an ideological war of words with the several dozen members of the National Socialist Movement, who argued in defense of “White America.”

Although a heated discussion took place between a group of AfricanAmerican youth chanting “peace” and neo-Nazi sympathizers, the argument was broken up peacefully by police, and no injuries were reported during the event.

Five were arrested, according to police, at least one for weapons possession and several for disorderly conduct.

Several UW-Milwaukee students attended the counter-protest, including members of Students for a Democratic Society, a leftleaning youth organization “working to build power in our schools and communities,” according to the group’s website.

SDS member Jacob Flom said that although SDS helped organize the peaceful rally, he would not hesitate to respond with violence if it was offered in kind by the NSM. “We are here supporting the nonviolent rally, but we stand in solidarity with anybody that wants to take any kind of action against Nazis,” Flom said.

Approximately 130 police officers from West Allis, the state and the surrounding communities stood watch over three blocks of West Greenfield Avenue as protesters began gathering before City Hall around noon.

NSM, a neo-Nazi organization based in Detroit, organized the rally in response to the violence that erupted at the Wisconsin State Fair earlier this summer.

Describing the incident, in which several dozen black youth attacked white fair-goers, as a “black f lash mob” of violence, NSM Commander Jeff Schoep encouraged “all respectable White Nationalists, Local Citizens groups, and friends” to attend the event via the organization’s website.

The “Walk of Faith” counterprotest, organized by Mandela Barnes through MICAH, called upon all people “committed to the spirit of community” to join in drowning out the racially intolerant message of NSM. West Allis Police Chief Michael Jungbluth sent a letter on August 24 urging businesses in the downtown area to close during the rallies activities, citing concerns of potential violence.

All the businesses located within the three block radius of City Hall followed suit. Papa John’s Pizza on W. Greenfield Ave. posted a sign that read, “We do not support hate.”

Communists, activists and members of various religious groups arrived carrying signs calling for racial unity and religious tolerance.

One sign read, “Jesus wasn’t white (but he loves you anyways).”

Factory worker and activist Derek Thacker said he came from Detroit to counter the NSM rally and “drown out the racist message any way I can.” Thacker said the NSM has never rallied in Detroit as they were attempting to do in West Allis.

“They tried to hold a holocaust denial meeting a few months ago, but once they caught wind that we were going to counter-demonstrate, it was cancelled,” Thacker said.

Speakers from MICAH took to the makeshift stage in heavy rain around 1 p.m.

In announcing the speakers, Barnes said, “I am glad to see everyone here today, despite the rain, but I would rather see the streets filled with rain than the streets filled with hate.”

Pastor Joe Ellwanger said they came to counter-protest anything that breaks down the beloved community for which they had previously fought for in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960s.

“We are here today to denounce everything that tears down that beloved community, but also to affirm everything that builds up that beloved community,” Ellwanger said.

Members of the NSM began arriving in groups around 2 p.m. and were separated from the counterprotestors by a wall of police dressed in riot gear.

Several NSM members chose not to enter the City Hall gates, they said, because they did not want to hand over their weapons.

One unidentified NSM member, when asked why he chose to attend the event, responded, “Don’t you watch the news?”

Schoep took the stage at 2:30 p.m. and castigated the counter-protesters for trying to drown him out with noise.

"If you actually listen, instead of judging before you hear what is going on, perhaps you'll open your mind to some new types of thinking and hear what we actually have to say,” he said.

“Notice of respect and decency is what we are asking for here."

Schoep then spoke out against the individuals who participated in attacks during the State Fair, inviting the “black mob” to try to attack the neo-Nazis in attendance.

“No longer will white people be easy victims, as we heard from some of these moronic animals that were attacking white people at the State Fair this year,” he said.

As he spoke, Schoep’s supporters in the crowd shouted, “White power.”

Ron Larson (right) with fighters at the Libyan front near Dafniyah. Photo by Ron Larson

Three wars, two majors and a Master’s degree

UWM Grad Student discusses his past and present involvement in Middle Eastern Wars

By John Parnon Assistant News Editor news@uwmpost.com UWM graduate student Ron Larson returned from a month-long trip to Libya on Aug 2. Larson, a University of Wisconsin graduate in History and Communications Arts, said he went on the trip not to witness history, but to experience, record and chronicle it.

“I don’t know if it’s a journalism thing or if it’s a history thing, but I want to experience the big events that are going on,” Larson said. “It’s not so much that my passion is to tell the world the news, but to tell a personal experience of it. I want to share with people what it was actually like.”

In 2003, one year after Larson had his first experience with journalism at his college newspaper, he earned himself a place embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq. Larson said it wasn’t his newfound passion for journalism that earned him an approval by the Pentagon, but instead his past experiences.

Larson joined the Army in 1981 at the age of 17. He spent three years in Germany and said he didn’t do much more than guard nuclear weapons.

“I joined the army when I was right out of high school. You know, you want to be in a war movie, and unfortunately… well I should say fortunately, there was no war. I spent my two years in Germany and got out,” Larson said.

Larson then spent a year acting at UW-Parkside, but said he grew bored of it quickly. He immediately set out for Afghanistan “I thought I need to do something – I need to go to a war” Larson said.

“I’m not into people killing each other over religious differences. I look at

Afghanistan and you’ve got Russians invading and these Afghans trying to kick them out. So that’s why I went there.”

The journey to Afghanistan would not be an easy one for Larson, but it was not weapons or IEDS (short for improvised explosive devices) that plagued his trip. Arriving in Karachi from London, Larson recalled his worst experience from three wars.

“I took a train from Karachi to Peshawar. I picked up some Indian food, some chicken curry or something, at the railroad station before I left,” Larson said. “I got amoebic dysentery from the food. It was the worst 30 hour train ride of my entire life. No, it was hands down the worst moment of my entire life. By the time I got into Peshawar, I was just laying on the floor between the cars. I was no longer sweating, because there was no liquid in my body.”

“The Drug Hotel,” as Larson called it, would be his next stop in Peshawar after leaving the train station. He soon found that it was a place where Europeans liked to stay for weeks to do drugs and later smuggle them back into their home countries.

“I spent the first two days walking down the street asking Afghan refugees if they knew any rebels. It was really stupid of me. I was 21 and didn’t really know any better,” Larson said. “It was just like, aside from the fact that I didn’t speak their language and they didn’t speak mine, this was in the ‘80s, and Americans were very unpopular in Pakistan. They had supported a dictator who took over.”

It was not long after arriving that Larson would run into a man who was there to set up a Radio Free Afghanistan and would put Larson into contact with

Afghan rebels.

“I’m walking, and I see this Caucasian man – and anytime you see a Caucasian in this part of the world you talk to them. Turns out he was German, and, of course, he spoke English better than I spoke German,” Larson said.

The rebels allowed Larson to work with them after he was introduced through his German contact, and he spent a few weeks taking photographs and writing about his experiences.

Upon returning to the United States, Larson moved to Los Angeles, CA, hoping to become one of the greats of new American cinema. The Iconic “Hollywood” sign hanging over Larson’s home on Beachwood Drive was a constant reminder for him.

From 1995 to 2001, Larson focused on commercial and documentary film, working on projects ranging from an award-winning Revolutionary War documentary to educational CD-ROMs. It wasn’t until 2001 that Larson finally realized journalism might have a place for him as well. In a corner of a small café at Fort Belvoir, VA, CNN broadcasted the day’s news behind Larson. He was there to meet with an old friend who was doing contract work at the military base.

“On CNN, there’s this video of these guys on horseback in the CIA, or maybe they’re paramilitary or the northern alliance in Afghanistan, and somebody is shooting video of this,” Larson said. “I realized that of any place on the planet right now I could choose to be, it wouldn’t be in the Hollywood hills writing a screenplay or anywhere else. It would be there, with the northern alliance in Afghanistan. It was kind of an epiphany.”

Larson’s story will continue in next week’s issue.

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The uprising in UWM’s Lady Panthers looking for continued success men’s soccer team UWM’s women’s soccer team back for more

Panthers looking to increase their wins for a second straight year

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By Tony Atkins Assistant Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com The UW-Milwaukee Panthers women’s soccer team has been extremely successful during the tenure of head coach Michael Moynihan. He has led the team to double digits in Horizon League Championships – all within 15 seasons – and that trend looks to continue this season.

Already this season, the Panthers are off to a blazing 6-0 start with home wins over Long Beach State, St. Louis, and DePaul. The team also took care of business on the road during their visit with the Michigan State Spartans.

The team got its first stiff test when they headed to Minnesota this past weekend competing in the Minnesota Gold Classic. The Panthers flexed their muscles behind solid play from senior

Sarah Hagen winning the Classic with a 1-0 win over the hosting Gophers.

This is their best start to a season since the 6-0 start to the 2008 campaign.

They are gaining national attention as they are now ranked No. 22 in the latest National Soccer Coaches Association of America Poll.

Like any team that has had consistent success over a large stretch of time, this team has great leadership heading into this year. With a roster laden with nine upperclassmen, this group has a healthy balance of veteran players to new players, which will only help the younger members of the team to grow and eventually become seasoned team members themselves.

Along with extended stretches of success comes expectations, and this group is well aware of that.

“We just make sure that we are working together as a team,” Hagen

said. “We build each other up, making us play with more confidence and poise.”

Hagen, the Panthers all time scoring leader, emphasized on how important it is for leaders such as Keara Thompson and herself to help guide the younger players and show them how to deal with the success.

“We build each other up, making us play with more confidence and poise, said Hagen. “The more comfortable everyone feels with each other, the more trust we place in one another. That helps us play as a more cohesive unit.”

The Panthers are heading into a stretch of games that will test their talent, facing off against major conference opponents, such as Marquette and Wisconsin. This is nothing that this group hasn’t handled before, though, as the Panthers strive for yet another Horizon League championship.

After winning only three games in their 2009 campaign, the UW-Milwaukee men’s soccer program decided that change had to be created in order to get back to winning.

And in came present coach Chris Whalley.

Whalley – an extremely successful head coach at Lees-McRae College, located in Banner Elk, North Carolina – took the Bobcats to three consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, including a trip to the 2009 national championship game.

Even after only one season at UWM, he has already proved himself, leading the men’s soccer team to double their wins from last year.

I got to sit down with Coach Whalley to discuss his transition from a successful program at Lees-McRae to a program in need of rebuilding at UWM. “It’s going to take a little time. I was [at Lees-McRae] for five years. For the first couple of years, we did okay, and by the third year, we were playing in the NCAA Tournament,” Whalley said. “We just have to make sure we continue to bring in the right players, train them and make sure they

buy into the system.”

So far, Whalley’s guidance seems to be a step in the right direction for the team. Even though the Panthers lost their season opener to Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, he remains optimistic.

“The first game doesn’t decide the season,” Whalley said. “We have a confident group of guys that are always looking forward and giving 100 percent to the task at hand.”

The first loss didn’t rattle the men as the team went on to claim a decisive 2-0 victory over Western Illinois this past weekend, evening their record at 1-1.

The Panthers will have to make the right adjustments facing off against opponents, like Marquette, Western Michigan and Western Illinois, in the near future. Later on this season, the Panthers will head south to Alabama to face off against the University of Alabama at Birmingham and GardenerWebb University.

The UWM Men’s Soccer program has definitely taken a huge step in the right direction. This is a team with great leadership, talent and coaching. Be on the lookout for the Panthers as they venture toward a Horizon League title.

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Send a statement, dismiss Williams

Guard arrested after blowing three times legal alcohol limit

Staring point guard Kaylon Williams is entering his senior season. Post file photo

By Jeremy Lubus Sports Editor sports@uwmpost.com “Wow…” was definitely the first thing that came to many of the UWMilwaukee Panthers’ faithful minds when hearing the news of senior point guard Kaylon Williams’ arrest in his hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last month.

One thing is clear, Williams should not be allowed back on the Panthers team this season. Why should a young man who attempted to run from the law – not once but twice in a matter of minutes – be allowed to play basketball?

More importantly, why should he be allowed to attend this university for free?

According to multiple reports, Williams attempted to evade law enforcement both via car and on foot before finally getting caught by a K-9 unit. He had a 0.228 blood alcohol concentration – almost three times the legal limit.

Williams put himself in extreme danger by consuming that much alcohol; clearly, he wasn’t thinking about anyone, including himself. What

is scarier is that Williams was with a passenger, who later turned out to be the owner of the car. Williams doesn’t need basketball – he needs a wakeup call and maybe some new friends.

This kind of behavior should not be allowed, and if it is, what kind of message is the university sending? I personally liked Williams and felt he was a good fit for the school and the basketball program. Sometimes in life, however, you don’t get second chances, and he doesn’t deserve one.

If history has taught us anything, it’s that Williams will be dismissed when the legal process ends. In 2007, Coach Rob Jeter kicked off then-star player Torre Johnson, also a transfer like Williams, for allegedly hitting a woman. Johnson averaged 17 points per game for a struggling Panthers squad.

And Avery Smith, the Panthers’ leading scorer from the previous year, was suspended and later dismissed before that season even started.

So now what?

It is hard to tell how hard the Panthers will be affected if Williams is dismissed. Yes, he was an instrumental component to the team’s regular season conference crown, and he earned a spot

on the Horizon Leagues All Newcomer Team.

But there was a time when the team was struggling and some of the blame fell on Williams for doing too much with the ball. Some of that resurfaced in the Horizon League title game against Butler University when Williams played his worst game of the season.

The team needs to move on and will have tremendous recruiting opportunities for this upcoming season.

Freshman Shaquille Boga, younger brother of junior Lonnie Boga, will have a great opportunity to run the team. Boga passed on several Big Ten offers to play for Jeter.

Normally, I would be fearful of a true freshman running a team capable of making it to the NCAA Tournament again, but the team returns capable scorers who can take the pressure off Boga. If the Panthers wants to return to the title game, younger players, like Ja’Rob McCallum and Kyle Kelm, need to develop and play with confidence.

A decision like this is never easy.

Winning is not always number one, but some universities make it so. I just hope that this university isn’t one of those schools.

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“Milwaukee: A City Intersected” The Union Art Gallery’s attempt to define Milwaukee

By Justin Hamilton Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com Defining any city in its entirety is a difficult task to tackle. Factor in Milwaukee’s checkered development, history of segregation and postindustrial growing pains, and the prospect of accurately representing such a place becomes even more daunting.

That said, a fair amount of credit must be given to the UWM Union Art Gallery’s current exhibition, “Milwaukee: A City Intersected,” even if it falls short in a few aspects of its goal.

The showing attempts to portray the diverse neighborhoods of Milwaukee and the residents who inhabit them by collecting works from an array of local

artists. The result is a collage of styles and messages held together under the banner of the city as a whole.

Contributors featured in the exhibition range from grad students, UWM staff and professionals to local youth artists working collaboratively.

This assortment of talent paints the gallery in a unique light, with traditionally mounted art prints standing alongside photocopied handouts, un-stretched canvases and installation pieces.

Patrons will first notice the enormous graffiti-inspired painting sprawling across the entire back wall of the gallery space. The mural is perhaps the most immediately successful piece in meeting the exhibition’s somewhat lofty goals. Created by the local youth

group TRUE Skool, the mural directly brings members of the community into a gallery space and lets them loose. The result is a piece less concerned with depicting a literal picture of Milwaukee and more honestly representing the city.

A similarly honest contribution to the showing comes from Maikue Vang, who chose to work from her Hmong heritage to create uniquely beautiful and ornate fabric artworks. Vang’s pieces are distinctly exotic and illuminate one of Milwaukee’s most overlooked ethnic populations. Appropriately hung amidst a set of more contemporary-styled paintings, the work truly sets itself apart and is a welcome sight, which is not to over look the more traditional and equally gorgeous work contributed.

The paintings of Mike Fredrickson

are impeccably detailed and cast a light on everyday Milwaukeeans, whether at the bar or out bowling, and Chantala Kommanivanh’s chaotic layer-paintings adeptly capture an immense amount of city life in each composition.

The showing as a whole, however, stumbles despite these strong showings.

While all the artists present succeed on their own merit and hang well in the gallery, the collection feels a bit homogeneous when taken as a collection.

The representation of the city as a diverse collection of neighborhoods and personalities is somewhat dampened by a large showing of work centered on only one area.

The Riverwest-heavy stable of work dominates a large portion of the gallery, leaving something to be desired in terms

of diversity. With plenty of images focusing on Riverwest’s personalities and landmarks, there seemed to be a distinct lack of contribution from some of the city’s more overlooked neighborhoods and almost no recognition of the southern half of the city.

The showing is still well worth the time of anyone interested in local art, however, and serves as a great showcase of the art community surrounding the UWM area. The intention of the showing is admirable as well and should definitely be revisited in the future, when perhaps the scope of such an exhibition can be fully realized.

“Milwaukee: A City Intersected” runs through September 16 at the UWM Union Art Gallery.

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FLOATING IN SPACE

TV ON THE RADIO SPARKLES LIKE STARS AT THE PABST

By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com “Are you with us, floating in space?”

TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe asked, gesturing to the stardecked backdrop that framed his band during “Forgotten,” from album-of-theyear contender Nine Types of Light. The slow, cosmic daydream of a song was an unlikely choice for the penultimate number in the entire set, succeeded only by the still more improbably low-key, percussive capper “A Method.”

In the context of the performance, immaculately constructed to build and

build until a fever pitch was reached during first set pinnacle “Wolf Like Me,” it was an odd choice. But TV on the Radio has built a career around defying expectations. And during “Forgotten,” as the encore simmered and Adebimpe urged his audience as one to wish for light to shine through the universe, they demonstrated how valuable such a compulsion can be.

Playing before an absolutely packed Pabst Theater – the show had sold out mere hours before the opening act, Kentucky post-rock outfit Seluah, took to the stage – the band’s first Milwaukee gig in seven years was a welcomed, enervating, if not raucous,

one. The set was composed mostly, but not exclusively, of Nine Types of Light material. Even though a full six songs from the new album were represented, they still took second fiddle to the flow of the set, which rolled in like a wave of energy before peacefully and gently receding into the night.

The songs, drawn from all across TV on the Radio’s career were clear demonstrations of the band’s evershifting sound, dashing back and forth between genres, drawing on Prince for “Second Song” before shifting gears to hip-hop for “Repetition” and searing punk rock for “Wolf Like Me.” Even the band’s first studio album, Desperate

Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004), was represented with the post-punk stunner “Staring at the Sun.” No song lacked energy, but they all seemed to surge into one another. And even though the stage setup was very simple – the galactic backdrop, the sixpiece band, the basic but effective light show – the show as a whole seemed like a true performance in every sense of the word.

Aided by the Pabst Theater setting (which, like all bands who grace the stage, TV on the Radio was awestruck by), the concert seemed like a stage play, with the audience as one being taken to a specific place by the very definite

purpose behind the set’s construction, culminating with Adebimpe’s declarations of, “One, two, three, light!”

And it makes sense that TV on the Radio would be looking to emerge from a period of darkness. Longtime bassist and energetic mainstay Gerard Smith passed away just this year, only weeks after the release of Nine Types of Light, on which he was a key performer, a fact which Adebimpe only briefly and abstractly alluded to just once. But his memory, if not presence, clearly guided the band, which seemed to use the abstract beyond as a unifying theme for a wholly celestial set.

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The acclaimed British Film Tyrannosaur will make its Milwaukee Premiere November 4th at the Union Theatre

Union Theatre fall preview A look at the Union Theatre’s fall programming options

By Kevin Kaber Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com Tucked away above the Union’s busy food court areas is the reputable Union Theatre – one of the best entertainment options on campus and in the Milwaukee area. Even better is that many of the films are free for students.

Like previous years, the Union Theatre has a variety of programming with films that are sure to please even the pickiest filmgoer. Besides the Campus Kickoff Series’ slightly out-ofplace options, the rest of the semester offers many distinguished new and old films from around the world.

The World Cinema series, for instance, offers a generous number

of foreign film options. Visionary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s first video feature, Film Socialisme (2010), will premiere in Milwaukee with multiple showings from September 1618. The film explores socialism in iconic Godard style. Although this is one of the few paid admissions, the small price is worth seeing a piece of Godard’s later works from his extensive career.

The World Cinema series also features the British 2010 film Tyrannosaur. The critically acclaimed directorial debut of Paddy Considine follows abusive and self-destructive Joseph on a path to redemption.

Tyrannosaur will be screening for free November 4-6.

The Documentary Frontiers series is popular as well. Blank City (2010) is a

documentary about the punk-influenced independent filmmaking in 1970’s New York City. Featuring intriguing interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Steve Buscemi and John Waters, Blank City speaks volumes about indie filmmaking and will premiere in Milwaukee costfree September 15.

The Redemption of General Butt Naked (2011) examines the redemption of a violent, mass-murdering Liberian general into an Evangelical preacher.

Though the title may cause some smirks, the subject is no laughing matter. Butt Naked shows November 10.

One of the Union Theatre’s biggest events ties is with UWM’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Famed and acclaimed documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock will lecture about

his latest documentary on October 19 in the Union’s Wisconsin Room. In the days before the event, Spurlock’s documentaries will play next door at the Union Theatre from October 14-16.

POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) is Spurlock’s latest feature about the gritty world of marketing and advertising. Spurlock also shares the short film “A Roshonda

by Any Other Name” in the feature documentary Freakonomics (2010), showing October 16. The esteemed and socially challenging feature is Spurlock’s Super Size Me (2004), in which the documentarian subjects himself to a month-long McDonald’s diet, which is scheduled for October 14.

The Union Theatre also offers a variety of other series. There are the

Experimental Tuesdays, featuring films like The Empty Quarter (2011), which documents Oregon’s so-called “empty quarter” of the state’s mass. The film’s creators will be in attendance on October 25 to advise others about their approach to filmmaking. And Locally Grown: The Nohl Fellows series will several works of Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund for Individual Artists Fellowship recipients on three separate nights.

Of course, having a film program on campus, the Union Theatre wouldn’t be complete without student screenings.

At the end of the fall semester, students will show their work on December 16, with a special screening for senior work on December 17.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band keeps faith in self

As their jam-band peers grow older, TTB’s music retains youthful, exploratory spirit

By Graham Marlowe Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com Those who entered the Riverside Theater Friday night did so in a hurry – as Mike Mattison’s Scrapomatic led his bluesy rasp through the types of soulful frenzies he’s been known to color Derek Trucks’ and Susan Tedeschi’s records and tours with in recent years. The problem is part of the audience had the sneaking suspicion they were late to the headliner.

Fortunately, those fans walked into the pleasant surprise of Mattison’s band plowing through a series of humorous road stories (“The Party’s Over”) and hotel-birthed blues originals – all the while casting a super-relaxed spell on ticketholders to whet the appetite perfectly for the Tedeschi Trucks Band, Mattison’s other vice.

Years ago, the first incarnation of TTB came under the Soul Stew Revival banner, a more honest title this time around, given the swampy synergy that’s merged Tedeschi and Trucks’ respective solo bands into a unified, loving whole. (And the fact that Trucks is family to the Allman Brothers Band explains much about the show’s progression.)

With the hushed excitement of a midnight theater in the seventies, TTB wasted no time beginning its fire-hydrant stream of inspired soloing, rough-hewn originals and Woodstock-lifted covers that spanned two hours. As is often the case with a band of this kind, the improvised segments lasted as long as the songs themselves. But this, which surely those in attendance would testify, was more the cause of a red-hot band unable to stop itself, as opposed to a band compensating for an absence of craftsmanship in its songs.

Before the first song, Joe Cocker’s “Space Captain,” even began, the energy level achieved a high point of hooting and hollering that sustained itself all night long, as the 11-piece ensemble moved with true jubilance atop a set of hippie-ish Indian rugs.

Even in the show’s loosest moments

– namely from trombone, trumpet and sax solos – Trucks’ amp crackled with an electricity usually reserved for the records of TTB’s musical heroes. Of those heroes, the Beatles’ “I’ve Got A Feeling,” Sly and the Family Stone’s “I Want to Take You Higher” and Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight” were all paid homage in the form of rollicking, lose-your-composure cover choices.

Trucks’ phrasing ricocheted against the theater walls, in turn creating a calland-response effect with TTB and the audience, even though it, like Tedeschi’s voice on Revelator material, bears close resemblance to an instrument bawling its eyes out. If it weren’t so special to witness, it would be overplaying, and the other band members are guilty as charged.

By the middle of the gig, it grew difficult to cut through the slow-brewing standing ovation. The band continually grew louder until, in certain charts, the songs’ original content disappeared as various band members retold the songs’ stories in their own musical voice. For keyboardist Kofi Burbridge, TTB’s “Anyday” was a groovy, wah-clavinet lobotomy, followed by Kebbi Williams’ new-age sax solo coda.

In the show’s final moments, Revelator’s “Simple Things” ensured it to be the most lasting, causing not only both drummers, but also trumpeter Maurice Brown to lose control in the chaotic, free-form segue into the aforementioned “I Want to Take You Higher.” The scene played like the tape-recorded majesty of Delaney & Bonnie’s Motel Shot (1971), famous for their gospel-infused energy and less famous for their fidelity.

In a room of rare enthusiasm, TTB stood gratefully in front of four hundred changed souls. Their Floridian roots-music fusion came to an endorphin-rushing halt just as the venue was growing too hot to handle (temperature-wise). For those who feel the merger of rock, soul and jazz has become a tired idiom, the performance was evidence of a brand new page in the reference book of how to ensure a musical legacy.

Lil Wayne falls short

A back-in-his-element Weezy makes a poor first impression

Lil Wayne's The Carter IV is a disappointing return to form for a great modern rapper

By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com It can sometimes be difficult to assess a Lil Wayne album. The former Cash Money all-star has built a career around stream-of-consciousness, absurdist nonsequiturs that reach pinnacles of silliness.

But what happens when the New Orleans emcee fails to reach the blissful heights of ridiculousness that he’s reached over the last half-decade?

This isn’t to say that Wayne’s songs aren’t focused; it’s that Lil Wayne functions like beat literature – on their own, his lines and verses are mere abstract bursts of imagery, but on the whole they add up to something larger, a clear image of braggadocio culled from competing parts.

Just like William S. Burroughs!

The problem is that when Wayne’s meanderings aren’t wild and genius enough, the larger picture becomes muddy. Such is the case on Tha Carter IV, his eagerly anticipated return to the studio after a succession of disparate and poorly-received releases: Young Money Entertainment collaboration We Are Young Money (2009), rock-rap experiment Rebirth (2010), proper

hip-hop release I Am Not a Human Being (2010) and the Sorry 4 the Wait mix tape from earlier this year.

It also marks the rapper’s first real album since his eight-month prison stint for weapons possession, a fact that he refers to not nearly enough. A bit off his game, Wayne is regularly outshined by his various contemporaries, and the few tracks that find him owning the mic are mostly disappointing.

It’s not just the relative tameness of Weezy’s words that hold the album down.

Also missing from the formula is the immaculate album assembly and lyrical imagery that made Tha Carter III (2008) such a blockbuster. Aside from a few neat touches – namely the “Intro,” “Interlude” and “Outro,” only one of which Lil Wayne has a part on – Tha Carter IV seems thrown together regardless of structure, as if the greater picture in Wayne’s head isn’t as clearly defined as it has been in the past.

Tha Carter IV also suffers from Lil Wayne’s more mediocre leanings and, more than any other Weezy release, seems to be built specifically for MTV instead of the incessant chatter in his own head. The album is absolutely packed with ballads, always Lil Wayne’s songwriting weak spot.

While some of them are exceptionally filthy expositions on Wayne’s sexual prowess – like “So Special,” a thoroughly dirty love song – many lack both lyrical bombast and insightful production. This is especially true for “How to Hate,” which features an auto-tune-less T-Pain doing what seems like a poor impression of TheDream, one of the few guest spots that fail to outshine Lil Wayne himself.

But Tha Carter IV is not without its bright spots and could perhaps have been a truly great EP if a few songs were stripped from the album. The four-song tidal wave that introduces the album is not without a single moment of greatness, especially the ubiquitous, Harry Belafonte-sampling single “6 Foot 7 Foot” that features the two most delightfully ridiculous verses on the entire album, one from Wayne – “Black and white diamonds / Fuck segregation” – and one from guest star Cory Gunz.

The appropriately named album-closer “Outro” features an absolute flurry of tongue-tying guest appearances from the likes of Nas and Busta Rhymes, the latter of which ends Tha Carter IV on perhaps the highest note of its entire run. It’s just a little too late to resuscitate an album that never really had a heartbeat.

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Jon Michael McDonagh's The Guard is a dense, gratifying treatise on crime and modern Ireland

Staring Out to Sea

The Guard turns a thoughtful gaze to a changing Ireland

By Steven Franz Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com There’s a bit of Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright’s loving send-up to cheesy buddy cop films, in John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard. It shares the same affinity for American crime-and-punishment clichés and penchant for drawing tremendously dark comedy out of the otherwise serious idea of life and death.

But whereas Hot Fuzz was nothing more than a loving, knowing nod to a running joke of a genre – and this film is certainly that – The Guard hides its motivations a little more carefully and disguises nothing less than a tragic treatise on the fate of Ireland as a nation within uproarious jokes about race and sex.

The film is centered on Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), a small-town policeman working on the west coast of Ireland with an unorthodox style, a distrust of technology and an obsession with American police clichés. (At one point, as a woman is reporting the disappearance of her husband, who also happens to be Boyle’s new partner Aidan McBride (Rory Keenan), he takes time to labor over the term “APB.”) His mother is dying of cancer, and as the film opens, he and McBride are investigating a murder that his partner

suggests has occult overtones – a nod to a deep British police story tradition – which Boyle immediately recognizes as simply being drug related. This leads to the arrival of FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle), and the start of the efforts of the two to put a stop to the $500 million trafficking ring.

Unlike Hot Fuzz, The Guard doesn’t revel in the eccentricities and absurdities of cop-and-robber fiction – it subverts them. There’s no mystery whatsoever as to who is behind the drug ring. The audience learns the criminals’ names within the first 15 minutes, and they spend the rest of the film trying to blackmail every police officer on the coast.

The film doesn’t follow the fish-outof-water tradition exactly either. While Everett does have difficulty adapting to Ireland, it’s a culture that doesn’t even understand itself. Some residents speak Gaelic to Everett, an all-but-extinct language, even though they know English, and others have such a stunted and mediainfluenced idea of the United States that when Everett doesn’t conform to their expectations for a black American they ignore him, outwardly disappointed in who he is. (Boyle once loudly declares that he thought only black lads deal drugs.)

McDonagh is well aware of the shifting nature of Irish identity and uses Boyle as a whipping boy for a nation losing

touch with itself. It’s not insignificant that, in one of The Guard’s many surprisingly tender moments, his mother is dying as the film progresses nor is it trivial that one night he takes her out to see a traditional Irish folk band at a local pub for a last attempt to reconnect with a dying national idea.

But even while Boyle, who knows Gaelic, makes every attempt to keep a hold on Ireland’s history – even its darker elements, as his dealings with a former Irish Republican Army agent suggest – he himself is implicit in that culture’s homogenization. He speaks in what one of the drug lords refers to as “Americanisms” (one could play a dangerous drinking game around all the times characters say, “See ya”) and cares far too much about the American popular culture that is overriding his own national identity, even going so far as to go to Disneyworld by himself.

But McDonagh isn’t so much placing the blame on American culture for Ireland’s disintegration, nor is he being cheaply nostalgic, as he is suggesting that Ireland’s Americanization is just another example of the inevitability of change, and in the film’s ambiguous final moments, he suggests that Ireland’s fate is as undecided as Boyle’s.

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Metaphysics on a budget

Another Earth a novice attempt at an interesting subject

By Kevin Kaber Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com What would it be like to meet yourself?

What would it be like to live alternate lives or to discover dramatically altered, yet seemingly parallel, histories?

Filmmaker Mike Cahill prompts theses questions and more in his debut feature, Another Earth. While these questions are massive in their philosophical roots, the writer and director takes an honest stab at asking, not answering, these eerie inquiries in this science fiction drama.

Another Earth follows the story of

young Rhoda (played by Cahill’s cohort Brit Marling), an aspiring astrophysicist who, in an early scene, takes the lives of composer John’s (William Mapother) wife and child in a drunk driving accident.

Moments before the accident, a radio station DJ announces the discovery of a new planet, a blue dot out in the distance similar to Earth.

After a four-year stint in prison, Rhoda is still emotionally distraught, and the blue planet has crept up to a gravitationally impossible distance from our planet, revealing itself as a duplicate of Earth. An adventurous and wealthy man decides to host a 500-word-or-less essay contest, and

the grand prize is a trip to the aptly named Earth Two. In search of a second chance, Rhoda submits her essay.

Though the rest of the movie may seem obvious, there are some blips in the story, like the odd and morally upsetting relationship between Rhoda and John, as well as Rhoda’s introverted and isolated lifestyle against her untapped intelligence and talent. Rhoda desires the second chance, even if it’s not guaranteed, but simultaneously wants to make right with John, who does not know of Rhoda’s crash.

As the film progresses, the metaphysical questions and theories become increasingly complex and hard

to grasp, but on the believability scale, the score dwindles. This is especially so after the first contact with Earth Two, in which a researcher contacts herself in the other world via radio waves. Why couldn’t Earths One and Two continue to communicate and learn from one another in this fashion before launching shuttle missions to do the same? We never find out.

Cahill, who claimed to have envisioned the film after composing images and film together, fails to create a scientifically believable image. Though the shots of Earth Two hovering above Earth One are beautiful, they cannot forge an acceptance,

due to the sheer implausibility. On the other hand, the special effects rival some of Hollywood’s grandest blockbusters, despite the film’s low budget. Some scenes take a hint from the documentary-style filmmaking of Cahill’s past, complete with shaking handheld shots and an almost annoying amount of obvious zooming.

But the film isn’t so much about the visuals as it is about metaphysics and parallel worlds. Rhoda’s life took a turn for the worse, and, by chance, she’s able to potentially change it all with the arrival of Earth Two, whether she’s on the twin planet or not.

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“One Day” is a story for a lifetime

Hathaway and Sturgess bring chemistry to the common love story

By Sean Willey Staff Writer fringe@uwmpost.com

Anne Hathaway is a polarizing figure. Some see her charm while others run from it. In One Day, she’s at her most adorable, and what makes her and the story such a treat to watch is its realism. It expresses some of the most universal fears and hopes about life and love. Love isn’t meant to be this dream we conceive, but instead a memory to

be held when we’re forced to change for the betterment of ourselves.

One Day, adapted from the 2009 David Nicholls novel of the same name, isn’t a sappy story. In fact, it lays the groundwork down well for a journey that’s easy to follow, a credit to director Lone Scherfig, who didn’t fall into the teenage girl adaptation trap.

Emma Morley (Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) are drunk and feeling like third wheels on July 15, 1988. When their eyes meet,

they attempt a one night stand, but they call it off and decide to let their friendship ride. It grows even stronger when Emma gets caught up in a dead end job in London, and Dexter goes on to teach English in Paris. She thought she’d make a difference, but it’s the encouragement from Dexter that keeps her pursuing a writing career.

Dexter soon finds fame and fortune and whisks Emma away on vacation when he realizes she needs the escape. The two have a charming back-

and-forth wit worthy of a few chuckles.

Dexter eventually falls prey to the evils of his party lifestyle and not only his amiability but his potential as well.

All the while, Emma is becoming the woman of his dreams.

This is where the movie’s brilliance comes across – it somehow finds a way to mirror the two friends’ emotions against each other but at different times. We understand how parallel this friendship is and just how much opposites do attract. It’s beautiful and

hopeless. That’s what makes their love pop.

One Day is a nice twist on the typical cookie-cutter romantic formula. It’s a love story with a lot of real world resonance and an enchanting performance from Hathaway. One Day will leave you with hope and, perhaps, a little sourness, but also the ambition to take cupid’s arrow and never let it go.

It’s amazing what can be accomplished in just one day.

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A retrospective view

New Chili Peppers heavy on metaphor, light on context

By Graham Marlowe Assistant Fringe Editor fringe@uwmpost.com In the absence of longtime guitarist John Frusciante, the Red Hot Chili Peppers now carry a reputation that hasn’t exactly had much to lose for at least the last decade. The Chili Peppers established themselves early on as modern classics for suburban white audiences – a respectable place to be if you want the stability of having a career that can go in any direction, for any reason, at any time and still remain self-sufficient as an artist.

The chilled-out, midtempo melancholy found on I’m With You, the band’s 10th album, is the result of a Frusciante-less band finding its new voice with Josh Klinghoffer – a longtime, on-off collaborator to the band and its members’

solo projects. But the change of guitar style needs to be addressed.

The artsy R&B of Frusciante simply doesn’t jive with the band as hotly as their 90’s radio hits once did. This is no coincidence, as Frusciante has lately found more value (and thus, more of himself) amidst solo recordings than in the emotional investment of a touring rock band. The band is not as wild anymore, and that’s OK, because these songs are written from a perspective that is older and, at times, a bit deflated about the world to come.

Their style of Indian rug-composed poetry naturally stewed out of them as residents of Los Angeles in the ‘80s and ‘90s – a place they still understand as a cold, rainy afternoon, with the artfulness of a serious drug comedown. (But who can blame them for their eloquence?) The song

“Police Station” achieves similar success by painting a “Batman”-esque scene where people, and their souls, are bought and sold each and every day in a dark alley at midnight.

It’s easy to tell that the band is expanding on themes like this, but from an older perspective, one not as attached to the chaotic party underworld they inhabited as young men. In turn, it is a sad reflection on a troubled period of life – despite its broad commercial appeal – that articulately waves goodbye to the past.

The Peppers’ touring schedule has rarely allowed the band to go off and do their own thing very often, or for very long, and the new spin on their writing style serves as a reassertion of the band’s identity, as well as gives the musicians a chance to collect their thoughts as a band.

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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.

Justification for SA pay raises just isn’t there

Wrong Focus, Wrong Process Ominous Way to Start School Year There’s a reason SA President Alex Kostal didn’t campaign on pay increases for SA leadership when he was running for office last spring. It’s because he wouldn’t have been elected. Yet one of the first acts of Kostal’s administration was to sign off on double digit raises for leadership positions and key staff members. The president’s stipend increased 25%, raising Kostal’s salary from $9,000 to $12,000.

Kostal maintains the extra money will enable members to devote themselves to the full-time demands of their positions.

While payments to SA members are certainly reasonable, overpayment is not. SA positions were never intended to be full-time jobs. SA positions are more like demanding part-time jobs for ambitious students, all of whom obviously need several hours a week to dedicate to schoolwork.

Beyond that, Kostal is now the highest paid student government official in the UW system. The executive at UW-Madison gets by on $9,200 despite representing 10,000 more students. A stipend that is roughly equal to a year and half of in-state tuition at UWM seems exorbitant.

We do not begrudge anyone adequate compensation for their time and effort, nor are we opposed to a raise in pay as a reward

for a job well done. We do, however, have a serious issue with thousands of dollars in student segregated fees being awarded to the people charged with overseeing said money as compensation for work yet to be done. Such an action is closer to personal finance than public service.

Likewise, we have serious issues with the manner in which the pay raises became policy. One would think that if there were legitimate grievances about SA salaries, members wouldn’t be shy about making that fact known. A clear need would likely have been met with only marginal opposition had students been able to provide input on how to fairly appropriate their money.

It’s even possible the debate would have produced better legislation had the SA entertained outside suggestions before voting. For example, replacing a yearly stipend with an hourly wage and timecards, or fidelity to the 27th amendment, which stipulates pay raises for Congress go into effect only after the next election.

Instead, the resolution was adopted during a half-empty Senate session by a nascent government a month after spring classes ended. The process appears engineered to be as quick and quiet as possible and calls into question the SA’s

motivations and priorities.

Additionally, the SA has exacerbated a longstanding organizational issue over the separation of powers, despite the fact that legislation tinkering with member’s salaries would be a natural tool for reform.

Because senators don’t get paid, many take second positions on paid staff of SA’s executive branch. This creates an obvious conflict of interest, as those pulling double duty are responsible for both helping set the president’s agenda and then voting on it. Kostal himself pledged to curtail the practice during his campaign.

The only changes made so far, however, have been to reduce staff and put the savings towards raises for the remaining positions.

Senators now have an even bigger incentive to work for the president, as four continue to do.

New governments should generally be given some benefit of the doubt. With a full school year still ahead, the current SA certainly qualifies as new. But bare-faced self-interest by elected officials always looks bad, and in our eyes, the SA has lost some measure of legitimacy. Unlike their salaries, restoring credibility will be conditional on what they accomplish moving forward.

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Labor Day Considerations Enjoy your Labor Day holiday? The reason we celebrate Labor Day is largely because of the contributions made by unions to the betterment of America's workers. The numerous beneficial influences of organized labor cannot be ignored. Most of the benefits workers now enjoy are directly attributable to unions. To cite but a few: the 40-hr. work week; paid holidays and vacations; sick leave; grievance procedures, collective bargaining and generally superior wages.

Unfortunately, succeeding generations have come to take those benefits for granted. Those benefits came about because of unions and soon became the norm for union workers and many non-union workers as well.

All American workers owe a debt of gratitude to Organized Labor for its achievements.

Paul G. Jaehnert, Vadnais Hts., MN

Tuition subsidies for students in high demand fields

In response to “Walker tells students to take a (tuition) hike,” published August 29

A combination of Board of Regents authorization and differential tuition allocations would be necessary to pull this off, but: Increase tuition the most for those schools with the least real-world demand for graduates (e.g. most liberal arts fields), while minimizing tuition increases in greater-demand fields so that more students will be immediately incentivized to enroll in those more economically useful schools (e.g. colleges of applied science and practicum). This will make the most in-demand fields have the lowest tuition in corresponding academic departments to sway otherwise undecided students to choose a more lucrative, if perhaps more challenging, field of study. …But of course, no one will seriously consider this, now that they’ve seen the source. Opponents of such a measure can now use a potent scarecrow fallacy, “Joe Ohler said it, so it must be a bad idea.”

Joe Ohler, Jr. (online)

National Socialist Movement members demonstrate support for “White America” during Saturday’s “Defense of White America Rally” at the West Allis City Hall. Story on page 5. Post photo by Sierra Riesberg

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Weapons of mass distraction

VMAs add “Best Video Social media can promote antisocial tendencies With A Message” category

By David Rangel Special to The Post editorial@uwmpost.com

There was a time when MTV's sole purpose was to promote musical acts through showing videos. That time has long past. These days when we turn on MTV, music-related things are notably absent. Instead, we are bombarded with “reality” shows that most often focus on the sensationalistic drama of teens and twentysomethings with shows like “Jersey Shore” and “Cuff 'd.”

But MTV still retains one of its last ties to the music industry – the annual Video Music Awards. Though these awards arguably promote only a select few of the biggest selling mainstream albums in a given year, this year’s awards deserve kudos for implementing the new “Best Video With A Message” category.

Artists in this category make the public more aware of social challenges.

The overall theme among this year’s nominees was self-empowerment.

Rise Against focuses on suicide among gay teens with “Make It Stop (September’s Children).” Lady Gaga, Pink and Katy Perry narrows in on being an individual with “Born This Way,” “Fuckin’ Perfect” and “Firework,” respectively. Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie,” featuring Rihanna, illustrates the tribulations of domestic violence, and Taylor Swift takes a stand against bullying in “Mean.”

As an event that purposely features at least one over-the top act of ridiculousness

(past examples include Britney Spears' and Madonna's open-mouth kiss, Kanye West's criticism of Taylor Swift and her comeback song to him), the VMAs have taken a much needed step towards keeping MTV relevant within the music industry.

In an era where young people face problems like cyberbullying, due to the advent of new technologies and social media, life-altering situations are occurring frequently – sometimes to the point of tragedy. Credit should be given to these artists for their efforts in getting the public to think about these issues.

While a seemingly positive step on the part of celebrities, the “Best Video With A Message” isn't without its detractors.

Huffington Post writer Lucas Kavner wrote that the new category is “a strange pander to the most common denominator of superfluousness.” Other fans have tweeted that the category was intentionally made up to shed light on Lady Gaga, because she was expected to lose to Katy Perry in the “Best Female Video” category.

I doubt it, but people are entitled to their opinions.

It is my belief that the intentions of the artists are genuine. I think we will see more of these “message songs” as musicians become increasingly aware of the positive responses they can evoke. If the whole thing truly is a marketing ploy, so be it. At least the message is getting heard, which is a much needed start to combating problems that only continue to worsen.

Welcome to college – please drink responsibly

Overindulgence the quickest way to kill a good time

By Miranda Rosenkranz Special to The Post editorial@uwmpost.com

In the midst of getting situated into college life, whether a new or returning student, it is tempting to let your guard down and go out for a few drinks.

Although the University of WisconsinMilwaukee provides activities and events as alternatives to drinking, some students are still going to go out and have a few rounds. If you fall under that category, it is crucial that you act maturely and take measures to avoid run-ins with the police.

Even though you are probably itching to see your friends during the first week of school, the police tend to be strictest at the beginning of the semester. Last year, a party with 150 people in attendance was busted. This past January – at the beginning of the spring semester – $30,000 in tickets and 232 underage drinking citations were distributed in one weekend.

The police like to use these big busts as deterrents for students thinking about participating in underage drinking.

Use your head – if you can spot a party from the street, the police can, too. Play it smart, and avoid becoming another example to be used in front of the rest of the student body.

Try to not draw attention to yourself while going out. Go to a party with a friend for safety reasons, but don’t travel in large packs (cough … freshmen … cough).

A big group of loud and obnoxious college students is more obvious than a few people together when walking around the East Side.

If you are going to drink, make sure you are doing so responsibly and in moderation. Every year, some student passes out on the side of the road. First of all, that’s embarrassing. It is also dangerous, because you cannot protect yourself from becoming a victim of muggings or other criminal acts. Drinking too much and either passing out or vomiting outside of a house party is a also a surefire way to get the attention of the police.

In some instances, excessive amounts of alcohol can leave you unconscious and in need of having your stomach pumped, otherwise known as alcohol poisoning.

This is a very real issue that can potentially be fatal, so it is important to stay aware of how much you and your friends are drinking, in order to avoid the need for medical assistance.

Ultimately, the only way to avoid an underage drinking ticket is by abstaining from drinking altogether, but if that’s not going to happen, at least try to be smart about it. It may seem like it’s missing the point to make guidelines for drinking, but a little caution goes a long way. If you do decide not to bother, make sure you’re prepared to spend some time at the University Legal Clinic.

By Jessica Wolfe Special to The Post editorial@uwmpost.com

It’s that time of year again – time to procrastinate on homework and spend endless hours buried in social media. Fall is the time to buckle down and hit the books, but many students spend equally as much time dedicated to updating statuses, uploading photos and videos and viewing the profiles and accounts of family and friends.

This is the epitome of procrastination.

I plead guilty and fall victim to these weapons of mass distraction daily. I’ll have you know that I am writing this article while Facebook is simultaneously minimized on my computer screen. And other social media sites, like Twitter, Foursquare and YouTube, are equally as addicting.

Advancements in technology have provided us with these alternate forms of communication. There is a sense of isolation that comes with relying too heavily on social networking sites to communicate. The internet was intended to keep us better informed, providing access to almost any information at the tips of our fingers. Our electronic devices are now stealing the sanctity out of

communication and distracting us from our everyday lives.

Letters, even casual emails, have seemingly been forgotten. Facebook allows us to connect with friends and family, yet it seems to disconnect us from actual face time. Interpersonal skills require practice and will eventually diminish as we begin to rely more and more on online interaction. So does Facebook contribute to a greater social experience? Or does it in fact make us less social?

We spend hours accessing social media each week, daily for some individuals, but how much of this time is actually spent communicating? Many people simply access Facebook and other social networking sites to surf the content of friends and other users. And how many of these people do we actually know?

There is a fine line between friends and acquaintances. I have 874 friends on Facebook; I certainly do not socialize with all 874 of them (and it’s about time I filter out some of them). Any time spent surfing through the profiles and uploads of an acquaintance or stranger is taking away from the time we could be socializing with friends – or doing homework, for that matter.

Social media seems to pervade every aspect of our daily lives. Not only can we access social networking sites via our

smart phones, we now have the ability to access them through our car’s speakers.

I saw a commercial recently for the new Chevy Cruze highlighting Facebook integration with real-time status updates.

The man in the commercial gets into his car after a first date and immediately accesses Facebook.

The driver’s seat is one place where social media technology should be kept to a minimum. Chevy apparently thinks that the addition of this feature is enough to make consumers want to buy the Cruze. If a drive home is too long to wait to check Facebook, that’s a problem.

So where does it all lead? Will we lose all aspects of personal intimacy when we post our thoughts and conversations for others to see? Communication is vital to the formation and preservation of all relationships, but with social networking sites, there is always an audience, and one’s personal life become far less personal.

Facebook is intended to help us share and connect with the people in our lives, and its users should do just that. But let's not forget the value of a handwritten thank you card, a timely note of encouragement or a late night conversation on a front porch with a friend who didn't have to click an accept button to talk to you.

No “Love in This Club” Bars and nightclubs are the wrong places to look for love

By Angela Schmitt Special to The Post editorial@uwmpost.com

someone in a crowded bar when you’re surrounded by a bunch of your friends and three sheets to the wind? While many people rely on “liquid courage,” the fact of Being young and single is tough. How the matter is that no one – not even Brad many more times can you hear that it’s Pitt – is hot when they’re two inches from so much fun, because you’re free to do your face, sweating and slurring out some whatever you want? These people probably cheesy pick up line. all have significant others, because the If someone came up to you and said, truth is that being single is a little boring, “Wow, I was right – you are as cute as I a little depressing and, on some occasions thought you were from far away,” would (ahem, Valentine’s Day), downright brutal. you truly be flattered? Would this sweep Just as animals instinctively look for you off your feet? This, sadly, is an actual their mates by making mating calls, young pick-up line someone recently used on me, single men and women head to the bars on and I responded with, “Wow, I’m so glad I Saturday nights to search for their future didn’t disappoint you. Have a nice night.” one and only. Women get all dressed up in Pick-up lines aside, there is another tiny dresses and load on the makeup, while little trick people try to use in the dating the men gel up their hair and spray on half scene, and it’s the main reason why bars a bottle of Acqua di Gio, hoping to reel are the last place you should go looking each other in. for a relationship: People lie. And I’m not Tell me – does it ever work? How many talking fake numbers; I’m talking blatant soul mates did you squeeze past to get to lies to make people think they are better the bathroom? How many Casanovas than they really are. bought you a drink? Does anybody ever A few weeks ago, I was out having a really meet a special someone at a bar? I few drinks with my girlfriends, and a man don’t know anybody that has. approached me. Clearly, I do not believe in How are you supposed to meet meeting people at the bar, but I still give

them the benefit of the doubt and hear them out.

This gentleman proceeded to tell me he had just moved from Boston, because he was enrolled in a very specific engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He then went on to tell me that he could have gone to MIT or Harvard, but he chose to attend UWM instead. UWM is a great school, but if you’re studying to be an engineer and MIT is knocking on your door, you don’t say no.

When I pointed this out to this guy, he responded with “I like it when a girl challenges me.” To which I replied, “I’m challenging you, because you are clearly lying,” and I walked away.

Hot, sweaty, drunk guys with terrible pick-up lines and lies don’t really sound appealing, and I’m sorry to tell you, but that’s the general population in any given crowded bar on the weekend. Go out and have fun, but in the meantime, I suggest you pay extra attention to who’s behind you in line at the grocery store or sitting next to you at the coffee shop. Those are some soul mate meeting scenarios I can get behind!

Bar Two in Riverwest, Milwaukee. Image courtesy of onmilwaukee.com

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