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Police may see body cameras after county and city study
Republicans enjoy majority in AssemblyBy Leo VartorellaTHE DAILY CARDINAL
State Assembly Republicans held a caucus Monday in order to introduce and welcome their 18 new members as well as vote on party leadership positions.
State Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, was unanimous-ly re-elected as the speaker of the assembly. In his nomina-tion speech, state Rep. Rob Swearingen, R-Rhinelander, lauded Vos for his fiscal respon-sibility and strong media pres-ence, calling him the “guy out front taking the bullets, the guy who cares about you.”
The caucus also elected state Rep. Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, as assembly majority leader. He was commended by his colleagues for his familiarity with Wisconsin’s legislative process. State Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, nominated Steineke, saying while many politicians provide little more than strong rhetoric, Steineke brings substantive policy skills to the position.
Rep. Tyler August, R-Lake Geneva, was re-elected speak-er pro tempore and Rep. Dan Knodl, R-Germantown, was elected assistant majority leader.
Swearingen’s boisterous speech captured the celebratory mood of the caucus, with Rep. Chris Kapenga, R-Delafield, noting the local implica-
tions of the larger, nationwide Republican trend.
With Republicans holding 63 out of 99 state Assembly seats, Kapenga argued the results of the midterm election represent-ed “a strong green light.”
“Let’s go do what our con-stituents hired us to do and run a conservative, Republican agenda through this assembly,” Kapenga said.
Vos also discussed the signif-icance of his party’s majority in his acceptance speech, encour-aging a unified caucus in order to pass legislation.
Gov. Scott Walker also spoke, noting with three electoral victo-ries in four years, he “now has more wins in Wisconsin than Jay Cutler.” Walker announced edu-cation would be a top priority in his second term. He not only emphasized the need to keep the UW System affordable, but also drew attention to the importance of funding for Wisconsin’s techni-cal colleges.
Walker said his budget is still in its formative stages and a key factor for its passage will be col-laboration between the executive and legislative branches.
According to Walker, howev-er, the most important aspect of his economic agenda is “getting government out of the way [and] putting power in the hands of people who create the jobs.”
By Eric CummingsTHE DAILY CARDINAL
Police in Dane County could be issued body cameras as soon as 2016.
Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, and Leland Pan, District 5 Supervisor for the Dane County Board of Supervisors, discussed a new study about police cameras at a press con-ference at the Student Activity Center Monday.
Pan and Resnick announced the study will attempt to discover the effectiveness of body cameras placed on law enforcement officials. Instead of relying solely on dashboard cameras, members of law enforcement would have cam-eras attached to their person while on patrol as an account-ability measure.
“It’s a policy that’s gaining traction, and a lot of things have happened recently that have put the policy on the forefront of ideas in the Madison and Dane County community, most recently with the shooting in Ferguson,” Pan said.
Pan hoped the cameras would ease the mistrust between law enforcement and minorities
in the Madison community.“There’s a huge issue with
underrepresented communi-ties with having a history of distrust of law enforcement,” Pan said. “I want to see this policy as a way of starting to build that trust of letting our underrepresented communi-ties, whether that be students or minorities, know that there is an oversight measure.”
The study would cost $20,000, and already has the support of Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, accord-ing to Resnick.
“I asked him, ‘Do you sup-port body cameras?’ and he said, ‘I would put them on every single officer if I had the budget,’” according to Resnick.
In response to a question about the impact of the new cameras on privacy and public access to the footage, Pan said the project is still in a study phase to investigate how to ensure the oversight measure is transparent while still protecting the privacy of community members.
Pan and Resnick hoped the law enforcement body camera measure would take effect as a Dane County policy in 2016.
COURTNEY KESSLER/CARDINAL FILE PHOTO
Leland Pan, District 5 Supervisor for the Dane County Board of Supervisors, discussed body cameras for police.
City group sees room for more diverse local candidatesBy Patricia JohnsonTHE DAILY CARDINAL
In lieu of recent elections, Equal Opportunities Commission mem-bers discussed possible ways to include more diverse candidates for spring elections next year and addressed disparities in Dane County’s court system for youths.
EOC members discussed the need for more minorities run-ning for office in local elections to reflect the dynamic demographic in Madison. While the members recognized existing groups that encourage female candidates,
Man claiming to be Spartacus arrested after breaking windows
Smashing windows with a fire extinguisher ended badly for one man who was arrested for criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct early Sunday morning.
One witness who was helping set up the Madison Marathon on the Capitol Square first saw 23-year-old Maxwell Kleinhaus use the fire extinguisher to smash windows of Sol’s on the Square, located at 117 E. Mifflin St., and the Bartell Theater, at 113 E. Mifflin St., at approxi-mately 12:59 a.m., according to Joel DeSpain, Madison Police Department spokesperson.
Staff members of a nearby bar were able to control Kleinhaus after he smashed a Heritage Tavern window at 131 E. Mifflin St., according to DeSpain.
Witnesses told police Kleinhaus was yelling “unintelligible” things while smashing windows.
After being taken into custody, Kleinhaus claimed to be Spartacus in the MPD squad car, according to DeSpain.
Police could not confirm wheth-er Kleinhaus was violent with any witnesses and said he did not resist arrest when police arrived.
An international lensRED GYM
The Red Gym is currently hosting the International Education Photo Exhibit, featuring work by UW-Madison international and study abroad students. Pictured is Carly Hamilton’s “Hands that Speak,” taken in Cusco, Peru. + Photo by Thomas Yonash
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Lucía Nuñezmember
Equal Opportunities Commission
“I don’t know if there’s an equivalent group in terms
of African American, or Latino or Asian candi-
dates.”
Comedian discusses new Denzel Washington-themed podcast
W. Kamau BellThanksgiving gift ideas + ALMANAC, page 2
Let Almanac help you find the perfect gift+ ARTS, page 5
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Tips and tricks for finding the perfect Thanksgiving presentAndy HolsTeendefinitely someone
L et’s face it: These days kids just can’t wait until Christ Claus comes down
the chimney on Dec. 25 to get their fix of toys, candies, spank-ings and good cheer. About nine Black Fridays ago, it became clear there had been a shift from a preference for Christmas and Hanukkah to Thanksgiving gifts. Whines have been heard from the children of this great nation and now parents are scrambling to find the best ways to burn money on their wittle sweetie weeties.
But it’s not just families affected by this influx of pre-holiday cheer. Your girlfriends/boyfriends, bros/brees—pretty much all people who haven’t been living under a rock since Super Bowl XXXVIII—expect you to get them a litany of Thanksgiving gifts. This is the new social currency. So don’t be afraid to drop a little bit of cash this week. Now listen up, we’ve got you covered this Thanksgiving season.
Make sure whatever you get, it’s expensive
“Oh, thank you for this pair of Crocs you clearly got at the outlet store off the frontage road next to the nuke plant.” No one’s going to say that. If you want to wow your friends and relatives this Thanksgiving, you’ve got to think like it’s 2015, or ’16 even. That means what-ever you get has to be rare, the fewer replicas the better. Some recommendations might be an iPhone 7, a new Mercedes or a jewelry store.
Get creative with the presentation
Just think of the reaction on the face of your significant other when they’re idly eating some stuffing and then suddenly bite into a Swiss watch. They’ll have
no idea how to react except for with pure joy. Just make sure they don’t choke on rings, car keys or necklaces.
Find an alternative object to associate with Thanksgiving
Since it’s impractical for most of us to put presents under a turkey, this is a great opportunity to grow closer to your loved ones by finding a communal object of worship. We’ve already heard a few
creative ideas such as Aunt Mildred’s urn and the mold patch behind the water heater.
Make sure to get at least one gift that asserts your dominance in the relationship
If you’re a couple, this can be as simple as a prenup. If you’re a parent, maybe get your child one of those leashes for kids. You can even surprise them by trying to put it on them in the middle of the night while wear-ing a funny Pilgrim hat.
Child’s playYou’re single. Your friend is
single, but ready for a baby. If you really want to go out of your way for someone this Thanksgiving, consider pro-viding them your sperm or egg. Thanksgiving is all about new
beginnings, so get giving.
“did you hear the Harringtons lost the mill?”
Sometimes the greatest gift is a little bit of gossip. Write it down using a quill pen on a piece of Japanese parchment. It’ll be an unforgettable gesture that will keep whoever’s now in the loop coming back to you for years. Maybe for next year’s Thanksgiving dinner you can dig up some dirt on Evellyn.
An overdone serious jokeMany people value experi-
ences over physical posses-sions. It’s a huge pain in the ass trying to find a Thanksgiving gift for someone like that. If you have a companion like this, call them up and give them some horrific news, tell them they’re a terrible person and that everything that has gone wrong in their life is entirely their own fault. Let this tension hang for at least 15 minutes. Maybe even hang up before ultimately letting the person know it’s all a gag. This ruse just never gets old.
A personality change never hurt anyone
If you really want to be pop-ular at Thanksgiving this year, give altering your entire per-sonality a shot. Not only does this grant you the potential to make some real friends within the family, people might finally realize you’re in the same room as them.
send in the clownsSend in the clowns, send
in the clowns. Nobody gives clowns enough credit.
order out this yearYou know grandma doesn’t
actually want to cook a massive meal for you ungrateful slobs. This year give her a break for once and order some take out. Italian food would be a good call. Cousin Kimmy does love alfredo sauce.
sort through that musty old box of clothes and action figures collecting dust in your parents’ basement
They’ve been pestering you for years, so now might be the time for you to really do something about all that crap you’re never going to use again. If you can make a little bit of cash selling it on eBay, you might be able to save up to get that special someone a stellar Thanksgiving gift. This is really a winning situation for everyone involved.
Thanksgiving gift giving cannot be complete without thanks
Thanks. Thank you for these wonderful Thanksgiving gifts.
For personalized Thanksgiving gift suggestions tailored specifi-cally to your needs, email Andy at [email protected].
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Instead of cutting down a tree, put your gifts around an urn. This will create an intensely personal environment in your home.
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Imagine how much happier you will be with a Thanksgiving baby.
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Legislative Affairs reaches out to officials concerning tuition
The Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee discussed Monday how it could reach out to state officials regarding its recent tuition affordability campaign.
With the midterm elections over and budget talks about to begin, committee members start-ed discussing which state offi-cials to contact for assistance.
“We’re focusing on who we need to reach out to that could help us along the way,” Chair Tom Gierok said.
Members also discussed how to garner support from state officials for the campaign as well as which questions to ask officials regarding upcoming state budget discussions.
They planned to sit down with
officials and discuss the poten-tial effects of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed extension to the UW System tuition freeze.
Walker called for a two-year tuition freeze in 2013 across the UW System in response to a $648 million surplus of unrestricted funds. In April this year, he pro-posed extending the freeze for
another two years. Mainly, members want to
know how this freeze could ultimately affect students and whether there would be a heavy financial burden for them to bear.
“One of the biggest issues we have, and that our students have, is affordability,” Gierok said.
In addition, committee mem-bers decided to talk to officials regarding past tuition figures and trends, including how much stu-dents have traditionally had to pay.
Members determined these steps would help to reach its goals of holding the state accountable for tuition funding and estab-lishing definite payment ratios between students and the state in tuition.
—Scott Bembenek
BETSY OSTERBERGER/THEDAILYCARDINAL
LegislativeAffairsmembers,includingViceChairMadisonLaning(left),prepareforupcomingstatebudgetdiscussions.
White House requests net neutrality rules
President Barack Obama addressed net neutral-ity Monday, asking the Federal Communications Commission to ensure people can equally gain full access to high-speed Internet services, according to a White House press release.
Obama asked the FCC to set up certain rules that would pre-vent Internet service providers from blocking websites from consumers, providing different Internet speeds for different pay rates and confusing consumers about regulations.
The FCC tried to set up reg-ulations to protect net neutral-ity four years ago. It failed after the court had problems with the FCC’s legal approach, not the necessity of these regulations, according to the statement.
The president pointed out that the right for everybody to have the same Internet services was the basis for the dynamic U.S. digital economy and that it had created many jobs.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., voiced her support for the president’s message in a state-ment and emphasized the impor-tance of an even playing field in
Internet service.“Net neutrality is a principle
that is at the heart of an open, accessible and free Internet,” Baldwin said in the release.
However, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., released a state-ment “strongly” opposing the president’s message.
“Last week, voters across the country rejected the president’s regulatory policies that have made this economic recovery the weakest in more than half a cen-tury,” Johnson said in the release. “Ignoring this, today the president has decided to go after one sector of our economy that has contin-ued to flourish: the Internet.”
—Xiaofei Xu
Lucía Nuñez noticed a lack of encouragement for other demo-graphic groups.
“I don’t know if there’s an equivalent group in terms of African American, or Latino or Asian candidates,” Nuñez said.
Ald. Anita Weier, District 18, agreed to write a news release encouraging minority candi-dates to file for spring elections before the Jan. 6 deadline.
EOC member Percy Brown also discussed possible ways to “level the playing field” across all races in Dane County’s youth court system. Members addressed the issue of juveniles convicted of similar crimes receiving harsher penalties based on race.
Due to limitations on EOC jurisdiction, members would only be able to influence policy in terms of employment, hous-ing and public accommodations.
Brown recommended perform-ing studies to seek connections between crime in youths and neighborhoods they come from that could present opportunities for improvement.
“Maybe we look at this not only from the lens of employment but also housing,” Brown said. “Do we have more coming from certain areas of the city and does that still fall in line with other barriers that people in those com-munities may be experiencing?”
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Two men injured after battery on State Street SundayOne man ended up in a
local hospital early Sunday for head trauma after engaging in an argument with a group of men on State Street that turned violent.
The 22-year-old Lyons man and 23-year-old Madison man told police they came across two other men on the 400 block
of State Street before the two groups broke out in an argu-ment, according to Joel DeSpain, public information officer for the Madison Police Department.
One of the attackers punched the Madison man in the face after the argument escalated, leaving him with a bloody nose. The Lyons man was knocked
unconscious and taken to a hospital for his head injuries at approximately 2:30 a.m., accord-ing to DeSpain.
The Lyons man told police he had been drinking that night and neither victim could give clear descriptions of their assailants.
Police could not comment on what triggered the argument.
PAVE requests elevated 2015-’16 budget in SSFC meetingPAVE, a sexual assault aware-
ness student group on campus, requested a slight raise in fund-ing to help foster growing stu-dent interest when presenting its 2015-’16 budget at a Student Services Finance Committee meeting Monday.
Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment is a peer-to-peer student organization dedicated to preventing sexual assault, dating violence, domes-tic violence and stalking through education and activism, accord-ing to its website. They provide workshops and events including Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October.
PAVE requested a $947.11 increase from their current bud-get of $81,343.31. PAVE repre-sentatives proposed increasing funding for ongoing campus awareness because they project larger campus interest in sexual assault prevention.
While the committee ques-tioned the low attendance of past events, PAVE Chair Hannah Serwe said she believes there will be an increase in attendance because of the It’s On Us cam-paign through the White House and the increased media coverage.
“Not a lot of people want to go to an event where they are going
to hear about crimes that are being committed in their area, but it is really important that we hold the events,” Serwe said. “I don’t believe that small turnout neces-sarily means a failed event.”
Serwe said PAVE noticed an increase in people who want to get involved in the first months of school. In its Wisconsin Welcome
Week event, 200 students attended.SSFC representatives also
asked about the funds for Social Work 672, a service learning course where students learn about different forms of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking.
SSFC will make a budget deci-sion Thursday.
—Maija Inveiss
BETSY OSTERBERGER/THEDAILYCARDINAL
PAVEChairHannahSerwepredictsmorestudentinterestinsexualassaultpreventionfollowinganationwidecampaign.
Tom Gierokchair
LegislativeAffairsCommittee
“One of the biggest issues we have, and that
our students have, is affordability.”
UW medical and computer scientists create a virtual surgery simulator
UW-Madison computer sci-entists and medical researchers recently collaborated to create an “unprecedented” learning simula-tor tool for surgical students.
Surgical students will benefit from virtual training in making incisions on skin and tissues under varying conditions. The computer software will expose them to real-life challenges in a safe virtual environment instead of the current standard of first learning on the surgery table.
UW-Madison surgical residents experienced a brief preview of the simulator earlier this month, according to a university release. The tool is still in its early stages and only emulates surgical proce-dures on the scalp, computer sci-ence Assistant Professor Eftychios
Sifakis said.Sifakis works with Medicine and
Public Health Associate Professor Timothy King, cleft lip and palate expert Court Cutting and computer science graduate student Nathan Mitchell, said in the release he and his team are excited for the simula-tor’s future developments.
Within the next year and a half to two years, the simulator will also cover surgeries conducted on the lower face and work toward more complex scenarios such as cleft lip and palate procedures and breast reconstruction.
“Our realization was that sur-gical education is not catered to enough [by] computer technology, whereas other skill-related profes-sions have computerized their envi-ronments for training,” Sifakis said.
Ron JohnsonU.S.senator
Wisconsin
“Ignoring this, today the president has decided
to go after one sector of our economy that has
continued to flourish: the Internet.”
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Vonnegut remains modern literary icon
T omorrow would be the 92nd birthday of World War II Veteran, former
public relations worker for General Electric and great American novel-ist Kurt Vonnegut. Although he passed away in 2007, Vonnegut’s novels remain a gateway for young college students into the vast world of literature. Every college student should read a Vonnegut book at some point before graduation. His use of humor in narratives with deep subjects such as religion and death give his stories a unique voice that is matched by no other. This immortal author deserves recognition on his birthday for his ability to tell a story.
Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1922. His life was one of difficulty. Edith Lieber Vonnegut, his moth-er, committed suicide on Mother’s Day 1944 while Vonnegut was in the states on leave from World War II. While serving, Vonnegut was captured during the Battle of the Bulge by German soldiers. After capture he was transferred from the frontlines to Dresden, Germany, where he worked.
Dresden was considered a city safe from Allied powers bomb-ing because it housed no major weapons factories. As Vonnegut describes in “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Then a siren went off—it was February 13, 1945—and we went down two stories under the pavement into a big meat locker. It was cool there, with cadav-
ers hanging all around. When we came up the city was gone.” Vonnegut was one of few to sur-vive. He stated in his interview with the Paris Review that 135,000 died. Dresden’s bombing influ-enced Vonnegut’s most popular book, “Slaughterhouse-Five”.
The book was his fourth and best-received novel. It was pub-lished in 1969. The story is of a time traveling WWII Veteran named Billy Pilgrim. Vonnegut inserts himself as a charac-ter at select points during the story interacting with Pilgrim. The book is science fiction in genre but touches on the much deeper motifs of death and war. Another theme the book indi-rectly discusses is post-trau-matic stress disorder.
During WWII and Vietnam soldiers were not diagnosed with PTSD because the term was not coined until the mid-1970s. Vonnegut was one of the first to bring attention to this issue.
Vonnegut’s distinctive style of writing is very easy to follow and makes his novels easy and quick to read. The combination of this and their complex topics make them immensely popular among
college students. In addition, his abstract opinions of death, politics and religion are conveyed in his writing through humor. Rather than writing in a serious or mor-bid tone on Dresden, one of the biggest and quickest massacres of WWII, Vonnegut uses witty humor and effortless simplicity to express his opinions.
Vonnegut was also a bit of a graphic artist. First with “Slaughterhouse-Five” he incor-porated a few of his own graph-ics into the text. Then, in his 1973 novel “Breakfast of Champions,” he used significantly more graphics which was received as a taboo, but was very popular. His signature is perhaps one of his most popular pieces of graph-ic art. Featured on the back of most publications of his books, Vonnegut draws a side profile of his face and puts his name between the eye and the hairline. The signature is really represen-tative of Vonnegut’s writing.
On his 92nd birthday Kurt Vonnegut is still bridging the gap between young people and the broad and wonderful sub-ject of literature. Vonnegut’s clever satirical humor should
be read by every college student at least once to provide a new, somewhat morbid perspective on life.
I was so captivated by Vonnegut’s writing I had his sig-nature permanently tattooed on my body, with the famous quote from “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “So it goes.” If you do not under-stand the quote, the only solu-tion is to read the book. Whether you read “Cat’s Cradle,” to “Slaughterhouse-Five,” to “Breakfast of Champions,” Kurt Vonnegut will influence the way you think for the rest of your life.
Do you share Miller’s passion for Kurt Vonnegut’s work? What literary works have influenced you the most in your life? Tell us how you feel and please send all feedback to [email protected].
Steps to break cell phone addiction
W e all know we’re attached to our smart-phones, but sometimes
the addiction doesn’t really hit us until we’re left without it. Part of the addiction to smartphones stems from our worry that something enormously important will happen while we’re incommunicado, and we will be left out. But the main rea-son the addiction stems is because “everyone else is doing it.”
These past weeks, I have gone through a roller coaster of emo-tions due to the fact that my iPhone broke and I had to get a replace-ment. I spent an entire week with no phone and another week with a broken replacement which result-ed in yet another week without a phone. I am not going to rant about my cellphone company or curse Steve Jobs. Rather, I am going to enlighten you on my experiences without a cellphone.
Since I was not able to post on Instagram or Snapchat my friends, I relied on the prehistoric meth-ods of email, Facebook chat and Twitter direct messages to com-municate with others. While I soon became used to life with-out a phone, the people around me didn’t. I was able to go days without using GroupMe, but my friends continued to use it around me and whine about how I wasn’t a part of the conversation.
I am becoming part of the conversation now; and I am con-versing to YOU about cellphone addiction. I used to be one of those people advocating for others to “go a day without cellphones” or “look up at the world around you.” Although these are attempts
at breaking the addiction to cell-phones, they are not the solution. The real reason why you can’t put down your smartphone is because no one else will put theirs down. To put it simply, without our cell-phones, we have an extreme case of FOMO (fear of missing out).
Without my cellphone I had the feeling of absolute clarity to the world. I began to realize things on my daily walks to class I hadn’t noticed before due to my head being down. I thought of days before my cellphone. If I had sur-vived those days, I could survive today. Yet, without my cellphone, I began to feel that l was unconnect-ed to the world. Countless thoughts passed through my head each min-ute. “What if someone needs to reach me?” “What if there is an important message on Facebook or Twitter?” “What time is it?”
There is no way for society to cure it’s addiction to smart-phones without everyone fight-ing the dependence at the same time. If one person puts down their phone, others will continue to use theirs and the person will break their resistance in fear that they are missing out on the latest social media trend. But if everyone commits to lessening their use of smartphones, society will go back to the pre-cellphone days.
I am not saying that smart-phones have completely ruined our society. In fact, they bring great advancements to civilization. But what I am saying is that I think everyone could go for a few days without their 6-ounce piece of alu-minum. Perhaps then you won’t procrastinate your homework. Or maybe you’ll be able to look your campus crush in the eyes, not just stalk them on social media.
Are we addicted to our cell-phones? Send all feedback to [email protected].
MILLER JOZWIAKOpinion Columnist
LILLY HANSONOpinion Columnist
His use of humor in nar-ratives with deep subjects such as religion and death
give his stories a unique voice that is matched by
no other.
Vonnegut’s clever satiri-cal humor should be read by every college student at least once to provide
a new, somewhat morbid perspective on life.
Whether you read ‘Cat’s Cradle,’ to
‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ to ‘Breakfast of Champions,’ Kurt Vonnegut will influ-ence the way you think for the rest of your life.
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W. Kamau Bell talks podcasts and TVBy Samuel JohnsonThe Daily CarDiNal
A day after launching his podcast “Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period” on the Earwolf Podcast Network, W. Kamau Bell told me about his time on his FX show “Totally Biased” and how he gaug-es audience laughter during his stand-up sets.
With the unfortunate cancel-lation of “Totally Biased,” Bell has now turned his attention to stand up and his new Denzel Washington-themed podcast alongside friend and “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” writer Kevin Avery.
“This year is a recovery from ‘Totally Biased.’ My wife and I just had our second child and I started a new podcast ‘Denzel Washington Is The Greatest Actor Of All Time Period’ on Earwolf.”
He added, “I like that podcasts give you total freedom. I mean, who has a better life than Doug Benson?”
Bell explained the creation of “Totally Biased” and how Chris Rock got involved.
“Originally, I had a live show called the W. Kamau Bell Curve that used stand up and multime-dia. It took place in the Bay Area and I entered it in festivals and performed it across the country. My friend Chuck Sklar knew Chris Rock at the time and invited him to a show. I got to meet Chris and he told me I should have a show. He helped work on ‘Totally Biased’ and was a producer.”
The world of TV was a very unexpected and rewarding envi-ronment for Bell to work in, often filled with stress and responsibility one normally doesn’t expect.
“It was like being the CEO of a company rather than a comedian. I found myself in more situations I’ve never dealt with as a comic. The bonus to this is the audience is larger, but most of the time people are looking at me to make tough decisions.”
Bell used a funny analogy to compare stand-up and running a TV show.
“It’s like the difference between being Noam Chomsky and Barack Obama. When you’re Chomksy, all you have to do is think about the situation and comment, but as Obama you have to make the final decisions that affect everyone.”
He likened the intensity of becoming the creator of a TV show
after being mainly a stand-up as “getting hit by a good car: It’s cha-otic, but in a good way.”
Bell’s stand-up is known for its topical and edgy subject mat-ter, which is risky when perform-ing in front of audiences who are sensitive to or don’t understand the material. However, Bell knows exactly how to combat hecklers and read his audience.
“You should come prepared for what you’re getting into. If
you don’t like it, just quietly leave. When people heckle, I mock them to the end of the earth. It’s the only way I know how to be.”
“Audiences have two kinds of laughs. There’s the ‘haha’ laugh at the punch line and there’s the ‘Oh my God he just said that’ laugh. My favorite is the ‘Oh my God’ laugh because they haven’t thought of that before. It shows that I’m being honest and so are they.”
Bell will be performing at the
High Noon Saloon on Saturday, Nov. 15 on his Oh, Everything! Tour. His political and social com-mentary reaches hilarious heights with blunt and witty delivery. Bell’s stand up blends well with the Madisonian culture, and will surely be a night to remember.
Also, if you’re looking for a good book to read while you wait for his show, Bell recommends any-thing by Malcolm Gladwell or “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
R ecently, I watched the movie “Lucy,” a science fiction thriller depicting
what happens if human beings can actually reach and utilize 100 percent—we’re purportedly using only 10 percent—of their cerebral capacity.
While the movie left a lot to be desired in many areas, what remained with me was the idea posed by Lucy—who, after acquiring telepathy, telekinesis and mental time travel, disap-pears into the space time con-tinuum—that there are no units in the world. No numbers, no alphabets, since they are only human conceptions and units. Created for man’s apparent inability to ever fathom all that exists. The lesson that the only thing that matters is time. Time, connecting everything and prov-ing the existence of all there is.
Moving on from that compel-ling notion and towards time: In the grand scheme of things, how important is a day? Can 24 mea-sly hours contain within them a plethora of events or life-chang-ing phenomena? If time really is what matters and even perhaps the only thing that matters, then what can a mere day do?
An unimaginable amount is (I believe) the answer to that question. Especially if the fol-lowing writers were asked that question. And they would know, because they all wrote books that took place in only a day; one single day.
“After Dark” by Haruki Murakami reinforces the unadulterated and pristine devotion fans feel for him for a multitude of reasons. With a set of bizarre events, the charac-ters go through within the span one night, Murakami not only explores the seedy underbelly of a city but existence itself.
Although it is one of his more overlooked works, the stagger-ing originality of the story and every single facet within it still showcases his immense talent as a writer. Between Chinese prosti-tutes/gangsters, love hotel man-agers, a young optimistic man who plays the trombone, a college girl with an identity crises, her older sister in a state of perpetual somnolence and an office worker with a bend toward violence dur-ing nighttime, Murakami spins you through all of their night in a kaleidoscope of events.
Post-apocalyptic novels are revered to the extent that they are for a reason. There’s nothing more fascinating to read than a possible—however realistical-ly unlikely—depiction of what the world could be reduced to one day. It brings time into play again, because if you don’t sur-vive it then you’re out of time and if you do, there’s too much time in a world that more often than not doesn’t deserve it.
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” is one such post apocalyptic novel, based on one day, by Philip K. Dick. This book revolves around the possibility of androids not only acquiring human skills, but also wanting to run from death at all costs and possessing even a desire to understand the meaning of life.
Finally, the incomparable Nobel Prize recipient Saul Bellow decided to add yet another multi-faceted character to his long line of entrancing ones in “Seize the Day.” We are intro-duced to Wilhelm Adler’s exis-tential dilemma in the form of a grim midlife crisis, aggravated by
his isolation from his family and unemployment. Set in the 1950s, when the concept of the true mid-dle class life was taking shape, while also moving toward an era where it was clearly defined. The story therefore is meant to paral-lel this marked societal change with the protagonist’s struggles.
In the span of just one deeply affecting—albeit crowded—day, the author manages to weave in an emotional yet realistic conclu-sion and social commentary.
Know of any other 24-hour lit-erary masterpieces? Email your recommendations to Maham at [email protected].
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Parsing the role ofnostalgia in famousrock ’n’ roll bands
L ate last week, word came out that Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, along with
John Bonham’s son Jason, signed a contract that would’ve given them 500 million pounds (about $800 million) for the three of them (plus Robert Plant) to play 35 shows in three cities as Led Zeppelin.
When it was Plant’s turn to sign, he asked to think about it, which is odd, when you are being offered hundreds of mil-lions of dollars to do something you already do. Some 48 hours later, Plant returned to the table and summarily ripped up the contract.
Some of you may be think-ing, “Good, we don’t need another nostalgia band who is just in it for the money touring.” Some of you may be thinking, “If I was offered $250 million to do anything, I wouldn’t need 48 hours to think it over, I’d do it right away.”
Leaving aside the fact that Plant, as well as Page and Jones, are all wealthy men in their own right, while Jason Bonham would’ve loved the “unspecified wage” he would’ve been paid, it seems unconscionable to leave that much money on the table, particularly when someone as convincing as Richard Branson is offering it to you.
But this presents a good opportunity to look at bands that have either replaced parts of themselves or continue to tour well beyond their expiration date. To put it succinctly, let’s look at the nostalgia band and what makes a band a nostalgia band.
A good example of a band that has continued to tour despite one of its leading members being partially deaf while another two have died is The Who. Still tour-ing 50 years after their concep-tion, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend carry the flame of The Who’s torch burning bright-ly, despite Daltrey’s voice being a shell of its former self.
John Entwistle was an integral part of the band, but they have marched on without him since 2002 (after he died in a hotel room in Las Vegas of a heart attack) without so much as a hiccup, on the blessing of Entwistle’s son.
The band also dealt with the death of drummer Keith Moon, who died in 1978. Again, without much of a lapse, the band con-tinued on without him, rotating through a series of drummers.
While numerous bands throughout history have been able to deal with a death in the band—Zeppelin notwithstanding since, after the elder Bonham’s death, the band called it quits—the question of whether a band should keep going 30, 40 or 50 years after they started changes on a band-to-band basis.
Phish, one of this writer’s favorite bands, has been around
for 31 years at this point. While they have retained much of the original lineup and have kept the same lineup since they broke out of New England, they are not yet a nostalgia band.
While some diehard fans will say they are a nostalgia act at this point, the fact they are still creating new music and expanding into new musical ter-ritory (unlike say a Billy Joel, who hasn’t recorded a new rock record since 1993 and nothing since 2001) makes them less of a nostalgia band.
Some bands, whether or not they are creating new material, like AC/DC, who have a new album coming out at the end of the year and have released new material, are still ostensibly a nostalgia act at this point, resting on the laurels of their previous work like Back in Black or Let There Be Rock to fill stadiums and arenas across the world.
Another sign of a band mak-ing the transition into becoming a nostalgia act is playing entire albums in concert and touring behind that concept. Whereas Pearl Jam played all of their 1996 album No Code in Moline, Illinois and their 1998 album Yield in Milwaukee during their latest tour, they weren’t adver-tising that, using the perfor-mances of these entire albums as ways of thanking fans for traveling to rural Illinois or coming out to their show on a Monday night.
When the Pixies bill their show as a complete perfor-mance of Doolittle (an album that would comprise much of their set to begin with) they border into nostalgia territory. While this may just be prefer-ence—leaving aside the fact that I do really love Doolittle—bands not playing the casino circuit are a little harder to define as nostalgia acts.
To wrap this all up, while I admire Plant’s nobility—scoffing in the face of a 9-digit dollar amount written on a check, save three performances since 1980—the remaining pieces of Led Zeppelin will never play again and that makes me and millions of others very disappointed.
Though it would be chasing nostalgia, there’s a reason why tens of thousands of people fill basketball arenas and soccer sta-diums across the world to see the band they grew up listening to just one more time.
Is there a nostalgia band Brian missed? Any bands you feel nostalgic for? Send your recommendations along to [email protected].
RECORD ROUTINE
New Foo Fighters album engages in sonicjourney with middle-of-the-road results
By Michael FrettThe Daily CarDiNal
Sprawled across America’s sonic highways are the roots to the rock ’n’ roll music that made Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl and com-pany have never made the effort to hide their love for their roots, whether its the Washington D.C. hardcore scene that fostered pre-Nirvana Grohl or the anthemic rock that inspired Taylor Hawkins to take up the drum set. It’s a reverence and respect that made “Sound City” such an endearing love letter last year, and makes the “Foo Fighters Sonic Highways” HBO series such a charm.
And when that passion shines on the accompanying album, it raises an otherwise forgettable peg in Foo Fighters’
legacy from underwhelming to uplifting. Grohl and company waste no effort in punching-up their songs with energy and passion; each growl is with pride and each riff drops with rhythmic admiration.
On highlights like “Something from Nothing” and “Congregation,” it’s moving. It lit a rock ’n’ roll-loving fire beneath me I felt like I had forgotten. And on finale “I Am a River,” it’s brought home in a dramatic, Joan Jett-assisted fanfare, which sums up the dream-chasing themes that permeates both the album and the musical mythos Foo Fighters have dedicated themselves to.
With Sonic Highways, Foo Fighters may have bit off too much. What makes catalogue staples like “Best of You” and “Monkey Wrench” so essen-tial are their tendencies to ignore grand histories, opt-ing to punch the gut instead with heart-to-pen immediacy and growled honesty. Instead, with Sonic Highways, Grohl’s tried to capture the spirit of each city with his lyrics, from the “muddy waters” of
Chicago to “southern ground” of Nashville, basing his lyrics off of the corresponding HBO series’ interviews.
The effect is underwhelm-ing, with the cities represented being lightly glazed over rather than fully engaged. It doesn’t help that hometown heroes are almost wastefully tagged onto songs; Foo Fighters already have two rhythm guitar play-ers: Is it really worth adding another in the form of icons like Jett or Rick Nielsen?
Foo Fighters’ roads are jammed; twenty-car pileups of references and excessive features all lead (eventually) to the titan-ic, arena rock the Foo Fighters defined almost 20 years ago. Yet, the roads there, as cluttered and indirect as they may be, offer a revering reflection—though not image—of that America Grohl and company love so much. Not the most vibrant of runs, there’s still enough crunching guitars and impassioned love worthy of at least a scenic drive down these sonic highways.
Rating: B-
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ALBUM REVIEW
DJ Rashad receives fitting tributefrom footwork colleages, admirers and friends on new compilation
By Jacob WitzThe Daily CarDiNal
The world hasn’t quite been the same since the death of Chicago footwork pioneer DJ Rashad. Rashad Harden was on the verge of bringing a very local-ized music scene worldwide. His fast-paced high-energy beats were revolutionary enough to break out of Chicago’s West Side to London, where Harden and his Teklife crew signed to Hyperdub Records.
Half a year after his drug overdose and the electronic music community is still reel-ing from losing so much tal-ent. Hyperdub and Teklife have brought their best for-ward to honor the legend with Next Life.
Next Life is an incredibly appropriate title for this com-pilation of footwork and juke beats. While Harden may have left this world, his spirit still lives on in his fellow musi-cians and their songs. Almost every song sounds like it could be pulled from DJ Rashad’s excellent final release Double Cup. Most of tracks are incred-ibly well-produced, blending the influence of U.K. garage with the frantic MPC-mashing beats that defined the footwork scene. Other tracks tended to either be completely U.K.-influenced
or pure footwork dance tracks, and these tended to be the weak-est spots on the album. RP Boo goes a little too crazy with the samples on “That’s it 4 Lil Ma,” and Gantman’s track “Jungle Juke” doesn’t even sound like it belongs on the album.
The strongest parts of this album were songs produced by DJ Rashad’s closest col-laborators, mainly DJ Earl, DJ Spinn and DJ Manny. Songs like “Burn that Kush” and “Do This Again” exemplify the best aspects of footwork: soulful samples repeated over and over, tight snares that explode and surprise on every measure and basslines that sound like the beat of a heart exposed to at least a dozen narcotics.
Traxman’s “Sit Ya Self Down” combines dark and sentimental chords with a constantly thud-ding bass and a relentless sample of an old man asking the listener to sit themselves down. It was a sound fit for a rave in an empty snow-filled park at night.
Unsurprisingly, the most memorable song on this album was the one which Harden actu-ally collaborated on. “OTS” has the massive amount of energy and Chicagoan vibe to go down as a classic footwork track. It’s pure, unadulterated fun in the form of Harden proudly declaring over and over “We Off The Shits.”
Next Life is an excellent ded-ication to DJ Rashad. Teklife has done an exceptional job at maintaining footwork as a com-plex yet fun dance genre, all while paying homage to one of the most influential producers in Chicago’s history.
Grade: B+
Next lifeVarious Artists
ALBUM REVIEW
PLAYLIST
Jenny Lewis“Late Bloomer”
Hot lyrics, warm music: this’ll make you forget the cold.
The Decemberists“The Crane Wife 3”
A song (and an album) that is essen-tially snowfall ren-
dered auditory.
Gorillaz“November Has
Come”
“Well you know November has come/
When it’s gone away.”
The National“Mr. November”
It has November in the title. Enough
said.
Deerhoof“Oh Bummer”
Hear San Francisco’s most interest-
ing avant punks lay down a chewy
groove.
It’s set to startsnowing soon. Have
some songs tochill to.
BRIAN WEIDYweidyng outthe noise
To put it succinctly, let’s look at the nostalgia band and what makes a band a
nostalgia band.
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Press Conference
UW builds on late season successes
By Bobby EhrlichTHE DAILY CARDINAL
It is safe to say the Badgers were slightly snubbed with their seed for the 2014 NCAA Tournament.
After compiling an 18-2-2 record, finishing second in the Big Ten in the regular season and then winning the Big Ten tournament, Wisconsin received a No. 4 seed from the NCAA selection committee.
“I thought we would have a 3 seed. You never know what’s going on with the NCAA committee and what plays into it. We thought we’d be a little bit higher seed,” said head coach Paula Wilkins.
This means UW will open up the tournament against DePaul, a team that has not lost a game all season. DePaul is 16-0-4 and won the Big East regular season title and the conference tournament.
“It’s upsetting a little bit, the echo of the players is that last year we felt we got slighted with Ohio State getting ninth in the Big Ten and making the NCAAs and us being fifth and not getting in,” Wilkins said. “I think they feel the same way this year in that they did enough to win the Big Ten Tournament, only lost two games all season, and now they’re playing a team that’s undefeated, but we’re excited for the challenge.”
The positive side of the No. 4 seed is that Wisconsin earned a home bid and will take on DePaul in Madison. The players echoed Wilkins’ attitude toward the tough test of facing an unbeaten team.
“We were all pretty surprised but I think this is just something you have to take in stride,” said red-shirt senior Kodee Williams. “Yeah we’re playing an undefeated team and we’re prepared to give them their first loss.”
Calm, cool and confident. That sums up the Badgers’ attitude heading into what will certainly be a difficult match in the first round. Junior Kinley McNicoll, who sealed the Big Ten champi-onship with her corner kick goal in the 104th minute, felt similar to Williams.
“At some point in the NCAAs we’re going to face adversity and I think the past season, this past year, we’ve overcome obstacles and this is definitely another obstacle we can overcome,” McNicoll said.
Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year Genevieve Richard seemed utterly unaffected by the tough draw.
“I’m up for the challenge. I have faith in my team,” Richard said nonchalantly.
The Badgers will take on DePaul Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the McClimon Sports Complex.
UW to play DePaul in first round of NCAAs
Women’s Soccer
By Matt DavisTHE DAILY CARDINAL
FootballComing off a 34-16 win against
Purdue, No. 22 Wisconsin (4-1 overall, 7-2 Big Ten) look forward to facing No. 11 Nebraska (4-1, 8-1) this Saturday in a game with Big Ten championship implications.
“It’s going to be fun,” said head coach Gary Andersen. “It’s going to be a great environment for us, and with three games left in the schedule, this is a very important game for us.”
Even though this will be a key matchup for the Badgers, they will prepare for Nebraska just like they have for any other team this year.
“We’re going to prepare the same. As a coach I think it’s important to allow the kids to prepare exactly the same way to put them in a position to win because if the buildup for the game is too big or not big enough, that’s not good for the players or the coaches.”
Volleyball This past weekend, No. 4
Wisconsin beat Michigan 3-2 and Michigan State 3-0 to extend their winning streak to 13 games.
“We had two good wins that we were fortunate enough to get,” said head coach Kelly Sheffield. “Sophomore Haleigh Nelson bounced back and had a great week, and Kelli Bates played spectacular at times.”
However, the Badgers’ two victories were not as easy as they seemed and they hope to improve
with each game they play. “Michigan seemed like
an uphill battle for us and we had a tough time dealing with them. We played pretty well against Michigan State especially offensively but we had a tough time slowing them down,” said Sheffield. Despite the difficul-ties UW faced against Michigan, Sheffield was happy with the way his team stuck together and battled to win.
“It was important for us to be tested like that. To win at the high-est level you’re going to have nights where things aren’t going your way and you will have to battle and stay
together to win,” he said. “I was really proud of the way they did that against Michigan.”
Women’s basketball The Badgers opened up exhi-
bition play with a 94-55 win over UW-River Falls.
“We are pleased to have won our game last night. We showed a lot of growth in our scoring, and our defense will catch up, but offense is harder to get, believe it or not, than defense”, said head coach Bobbie Kelsey. “We’ve been focusing a lot more on that, but we will ratchet up our defensive intensity here in practice for the
next few days and going forward in our games.”
Kelsey expects junior guard Dakota Whyte to play at a high level this year.
“I hope she continues to do that. Dakota has come a long way. She got to play with the Canadian junior national team this sum-mer, and I think that gave her a lot of confidence coming back to our team,” Kelsey said. “We look to her, she plays hard and she does everything we ask her to do.”
Women’s hockey After having the weekend off,
UW will get ready to play a two game series against Minnesota State this Thursday night and Friday afternoon, an atypical scheduling quirk.
“Well, for us, you know, it becomes a school issue. It’s going to be their ability to come in and take their school hat off and put on their hockey helmet and go out and perform Thursday night,” said head coach Mark Johnson. “Friday becomes a little bit more challenging because you play in the afternoon, so some of the kids are coming right from class into the locker room, warming up, putting their gear on and practicing.”
Wisconsin also will have three key players returning from the Four Nations Cup, but Johnson was happy to have had the chance for other players to gain more experience in their absence.
“The nice thing about the depth that we have is when we
missed the players, other kids were given an opportunity with more ice time and did very well, so that’s encouraging,” Johnson said.
Men’s and women’s cross country
After finishing first and second, respectively, in the Big Ten cham-pionship meets a week ago, the men’s and women’s cross country teams are looking ahead to the NCAA Great Lakes Regional this Friday at home at Zimmer Course.
“The women getting ranked sixth for the first time since 2008, that’s awesome,” said UW Cross Country Director Mick Byrne. “They’re very excited about the upcoming meet, the regional meet here at home and obviously the NCAA championships, and the men winning back our Big Ten trophy. That was awesome … hopefully we get a big crowd out there if the weather cooperates.”
In the race Friday, the women are expected to be in a tough battle against conference cham-pion Michigan State. The men’s team is very young, but is ready to show they can compete with some of the nation’s elite teams this Friday.
“On the women’s side, hope-fully you get out of this meet without beating yourself up too much and move onto next week-end,” Byrne said. “Right now, in terms of both squads, it looks like we have plenty of at-large points, so if we don’t get in the top two, we still have a real good shot of moving forward to the NCAA championships.”
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Freshman Kelli Bates has been a key player for UW, starting 17 matches and ranking second on the team in kills per set.