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Monday, January 26, 2009
Promoter killed in monster-truck accident By Anna Discher THE DAILY CARDINAL
A Madison monster-truck show resulted in the tragic death of 41-year-old promoter George Eisenhart Jr., of Chardon, Ohio, after he stepped into the path of a monster truck during the event Saturday night. Three deputies immediately responded to the Dane County Coliseum after the accident, and Eisenhart was rushed to a local hospital. He later died of major internal injuries after being crushed by the tires of the truck, which alone weigh approximate-
ly 600 pounds. There were no issues of distraction by the drivers, and Eisenhart was struck after walking into the obstructed vision of the driver. “The event that occurred Saturday evening was a rare accident and is uncharacteristic of the monster-truck show,” Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney said. Detectives spoke to drivers Sunday morning about what occurred Saturday night. It appeared the drivers were utilizing safety measures during the event and Eisenhart truck page 3
RESTAURANT EEK Eat classy on a student budget. Madison Magazine is presenting Winter Restaurant Week starting Sunday, Jan. 25 and ending Friday, Jan. 30. Restaurant Week allows food lovers to sample some of Madison’s finest restaurants for a price that won’t break their budget. During the week, participating restaurants will offer three special, fixed-price, three-course menus for just $25 per person (beverages, tax and gratuity not included). Some restaurants are also offering a three-course lunch menu for $15 in addition to the dinner special. Madison’s Restaurant Week was
modeled after San Diego’s highly successful Restaurant Week and is now an annual culinary celebration that allows the community to check out the diverse array of restaurants Madison has to offer. No tickets, passes or coupons are required, but diners are strongly recommended to make reservations in advance. To see which restaurants are participating and for more information, visit madisonmagazine. com/winterrestaurantweek. Stay tuned this week for profiles of featured restaurants in The Daily Cardinal.
PICK OF THE DAY Dayton Street Grille
Dayton Street Grille, 1 W. Dayton St., delivers contemporary American cuisine with global influences. Executive chef Charles Lazzareschi exemplifies the Madison Concourse Hotel’s fine dining experience with Dayton Street Grille, pairing entrées with three signature sauces to create sweet, savory and spicy flavor combinations. Pick and choose from several options per course to create a threecourse meal of exotic and tantalizing cuisine. Begin with an appetizer of baby frisée lettuce, braised sweetbreads of fennel and shiitake mushrooms in puff pastry or grilled
octopus with a warm chickpea salad. For an Asian-inspired main course, try the five-spiced salmon accompanied by sweet chili soy, Asian barbecue and wasabi cream sauces. In the mood for Mediterranean? The braised chicken with feta, Greek olives and puffed couscous is served with signature sauces, grilled corn relish, rosemary roasted garlic cream and sunset pepper coulis. For something hearty and earthy, the grilled hanger steak comes with chimichurri, porcini cream and poblano lime sauces. To learn more about Dayton Street Grille, visit concoursehotel. com/dining/Dayton-street-grille.
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The grilled hanger steak with fingerling potatoes and mushrooms.
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Residents of the Lakeshore residence halls hurl snowballs at their Southeast foes on Bascom Hill Saturday.
Having a ball
Snowball fight draws crowd, fails to break record By Beth Pickhard THE DAILY CARDINAL
Students from the UWMadison Lakeshore and Southeast residence halls congregated on opposite sides of Bascom Hill Saturday afternoon to participate in a snowball fight they hoped would go down in history. The fight, which did not break any world records because of limited participants, lasted for 45 minutes. Mike Basak, organizer of the snowball fight, said he was not the original planner of the event but took on the project two months ago. “The people who originally started it went to the Chancellor, and she didn’t like the idea at first ... Then they backed off and gave it to me,” he said. “I made it a little more
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Lakeshore residents aim a slingshot at their enemies across the hill. safe and more organized.” To make the event safer, Basak asked for help from UW-Madison Student Emergency Medical Services. According to Emily Anstadt, copresident of SEMS, the team of volunteers did not work under a specified medical director and could not per-
form typical service practices. “We can’t do a bunch of things we would be able to do if we were a service ... We’re just doing anything any good Samaritan would do,” she said. Mike Tomcheck, a participant in snowball page 3
State may receive $3.5 billion from stimulus bill According to a recent estimate, Wisconsin could receive $3.5 billion from the U.S. House of Representatives’ federal economic-stimulus proposal. The National Conference of State Legislatures released a breakdown Friday, prepared by Federal Funds Information for States, of each state’s estimated portion of the stimulus. President Obama has requested the federal stimulus bill be passed by midFebruary. The U.S. Senate is currently working on its own version of the stimulus plan.
Jeff Hurley of NCSL said the state will not see benefits from some of the federal funding for two years, but some of it will be distributed immediately. “A lot of it has to be allocated within the next 30 days, 60 days, 90 days … In that sense it should help right away,” Hurley said. Hurley said he expects Wisconsin to see its stimulus first used in the areas of education and highway construction and maintenance. The House Appropriations, Transportation and Infrastructure Committees also released figures
about Wisconsin’s expected share of the stimulus package and estimated the state will receive around $3.2 billion. According to their estimates, roughly $13 million would go toward educational technology, $317 million toward education modernization, renovation and repair and $312 million to increase the need-based Pell Grant maximum award. Gov. Jim Doyle’s new Office of Recovery and Reinvestment will allocate the state’s stimulus funds. —Sara Lieburn
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”