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UW updates policy on gun law Campus police officers trained for concealed carry as rule goes into effect statewide today Leah Linscheid Deputy State Editor As agencies around the state prepare for the concealed carry law, effective today, the University of Wisconsin System updated police training and reiterated that weapons are prohibited in university buildings on campuses across the state.

According to UW Assistant Chief of Police Brian Bridges, concealed guns will not be permitted in buildings on the UW campus when the law goes into effect Tuesday, with the

exception of police officers.

UWPD Sgt. Aaron Chapin said exceptions to the policy under special circumstances will be considered by the chancellor or other officials and will be decided on a case-by-case basis.

Bridges said the possession of weapons will be allowed in both parking lots and on campus grounds. Under the state statue, Bridges said firearms will also be permitted on the grounds surrounding Camp Randall, but the stadium itself is considered a campus building and concealed carry will be prohibited there.

“It’s a complex law, and it’s a significant change from how it’s been for 150 years,” Bridges said. “There might be some confusion at the start, but the signs are in place, it’s been covered

in the media and we’ll work with whatever comes our way to make sure that people’s constitutional and statutory rights are observed and community safety is maintained.”

UW System spokesperson David Giroux said prior to the approval of the concealed carry law, the UW System had an administrative rule that banned all weapons from campus grounds.

Giroux said with the passage of the new law, universities are unable to prohibit concealed weapons on campus grounds because the law overrides provisions of the administrative rule.

According to Giroux, the statute requires UW campuses to post signs at each building entrance in order to continue to prohibit weapons in the facilities.

“Since the passage of this law, we’ve been posting signs at thousands of entrances of buildings across the state so we can continue to prohibit dangerous weapons from university buildings, as they have been banned for years and years,” he said.

Giroux estimated nearly 12,000 signs have been posted to prohibit weapons in university buildings.

The university system also updated their employee manuals, residence hall contracts and police and security officer training to address the concealed carry law, Giroux said.

“All of this work is being done with an eye toward maintaining safe learning and living environments

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Courtesy of the Associated Press

Concealed carry in Wisconsin • To apply for a concealed carry permit, a person must have four hours of firearms-related safety training.

• Weapons that may be carried: handguns, electric weapons (Tasers, etc.), billy clubs and knives.

• Weapons not allowed under concealed carry: machine guns, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and switchblades.

• All weapons will remain prohibited in city buildings, buses and bus shelters, as well as in all UW buildings.

Source: Wisconsin Department of Justice

Student court rules in favor of MCSC in suit ASM opinion finds SSFC waiver void; standing rules in place remain valid Jackie Allen Campus Reporter

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Madison’s Equal Opportunity Commission President Coco Bustamente said the group would seek to implement strict policies to address any discriminatory rules used by bars concerning the ID requirements for entrance.

Committee on equality weighs bar ID policies Members look for ways to educate owners, consider license revocations Dan Niepow City Reporter Members of the city’s Equal Opportunity Commission took preliminary steps to address controversial admittance policies in certain campus-area Madison bars, which some have charged are discriminatory.

Some campus-area bars have decided to no longer accept state-issued IDs as valid forms of proof of age for entrance — a policy which some critics have deemed discriminatory.

Heidi Wegleitner, a Madison-area lawyer, said this policy is not being enforced fairly and consistently in the meeting Monday.

She related a story in which a friend of hers was able to gain entrance to a bar using a state ID despite the fact that the establishment had signs posted prohibiting the

use of this form of ID for entrance.

“This is not uniform application,” Wegleitner said. “That is intentional discrimination.”

She also said other policies besides the policy on state IDs are discriminatory. She also accused certain dress codes of targeting black customers, with reference to a Logan’s Bar policy to only allow entrance with a University of Wisconsin student ID this past summer.

Mark Woulf, the city’s Alcohol Policy Coordinator, said he hoped to remedy the issue by educating bar owners on fair ways to address safety concerns. “[Mayor Soglin’s] position is that striving for a safe community or safe establishment and preventing discrimination are not competing values or goals in our society,” he said. “To that end, we have to provide the bar owners with the tools to have a safe establishment without discrimination against the patrons.”

He said the city provides free tavern training for bar owners every few

Members of the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary ruled in favor of the Multicultural Student Coalition in its suit against the Student Service Finance Committee, ruling the committee’s budget waiver is invalid due to the manner in which it was implemented.

However, the Student Judiciary upheld the decision of SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart to deny

MCSC its budget waiver and the rules which allow it to deny a student organization’s budget over $250,000 without the waiver.

According to the ruling, MCSC raised 14 issues against the committee, many of which centered around the waiver and the way it was implemented.

The Student Judiciary consolidated these issues and ultimately decided the required waiver form was a violation of due process.

“This opinion didn’t comment on the spending in general,” Chief Justice Kathryn Fifield said.

“This particular waiver is a violation of due process

because of the timelines it had to deal with and also because of the language that was used in it.”

The report said the one-week time limit was too restrictive based on the training, academic and extracurricular demands facing members of SSFC and other student organizations throughout the period.

The Student Judiciary added the “rushed” timeline for implementation of the budget waiver was due to the SSFC’s short time period to implement the new rules at the start of this academic

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months. He added these meetings have been “very poorly attended” in recent months.

Woulf brought an initial draft of a letter he and Soglin plan to send to Madison bar owners.

He said the letter laid out what would happen if bars continued to use policies found to be discriminatory.

In order for a policy to be considered discriminatory, citizens must first file a complaint, after which EOC or the Department of Civil Rights would take action, he said.

After this, the Alcohol License Review Committee may have the ability to revoke a bar’s liquor license, Woulf added.

Former District 2 Ald. Brenda Konkel came to voice her disapproval of both the various admittance policies as well as the city’s reaction to them.

She said the committee should not have to wait for citizens to file a complaint but should instead work with the police department, the mayor and alders to remedy the issue quickly.

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Members of a student government committee voted almost unanimously to pass the budget of an advocacy-based student organization, though with several caveats, at a meeting Monday.

The Student Services Finance Committee debated aspects of the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year before approving it with a few changes.

The main area of discussion for the committee surrounded the issue of the group’s contract status, which it has requested but has not yet received a decision on from the University of Wisconsin administration.

If the group were to obtain contract status, this would likely affect its funding and change the way its budgeting model works.

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WISPIRG Chair Matt Kozlowski presented on the organization’s budget during a Student Services Finance Committee meeting Monday night.

Members approved the group’s budget but added amendments which could revoke funds depending on contract status with the university. perspective, this would be better.”

The amendment was also approved.

Under the sunset clause umbrella, the committee voted to strike funding in the area of salary line items, as well as fringes, accounting and bank fees.

SSFC Vice Chair Chase Wilson explained that the area of accounting and bank fees is unique to groups with contract status, which the group does not currently have.

In addition, Plamann motioned to strike over $7,000 from funding in the area of WISPIRG staff development and said the body needed to remember that membership dues

must offer funding that cannot be attained elsewhere, according to bylaws.

He said he felt the funding should not fall within the area of membership fees and that the budget requested was too high.

WISPIRG Chair Matt Kozlowski spoke to the issue of staff development and said the funding for training is necessary for organizers to learn skills for themselves and teach them to others.

“People don’t just magically learn skills; they need to be taught them,” Kozlowski said. “Finding somebody cheaper might be difficult.”

After debate, the body passed Plamann’s motion.

The body also voted to strike $1,000 from printing and photocopying in the proposed budget. Wilson had originally proposed striking it by $2,000, but others noted that with the election year coming up it would make more sense to scale it down less.

Also during the meeting, Vets for Vets, a student organization focused on veteran issues, presented its budget to the committee, asking for an overall 4.6 percent increase in funding. The committee will reach a decision on this budget during its Thursday meeting.

Campaign aims to engage youth in politics Obama For America launches the “Greater Together” initiative, which focuses on addressing student issues Mike Kujak State Reporter

In an effort to rekindle the political excitement of his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama launched an initiative to involve more young voters in his reelection campaign.

Obama launched the “Greater Together” initiative Monday, which aims to get young people more involved in his reelection campaign. The Obama for America campaign hosted a conference call to announce the launch of the initiative, with representatives from the campaign taking questions from students across the country to address involvement and key political issues.

OFA spokesperson

Drew Anderson took questions from student reporters ranging from student loan debt to why students should get involved in political campaigns.

Anderson cited Obama’s recently proposed student loan reform plan as a reason why students should get involved in the campaign in the midst of tuition increases and a stagnant job market for college graduates.

Anderson said to help manage rising college costs, the president announced a plan last week to give graduates an opportunity to consolidate their federal student loans. He said the plan would give nearly six million students with loans the ability to refinance them into one

loan with a lower interest rate.

University of Wisconsin political science professor Donald Downs said the launch of the student debt reform plan and Obama’s initiative are strategically related.

Downs said students are an essential part of Obama’s base, and a similar strategy was witnessed in the “fire up the base” initiative from Karl Rove in the 2004 elections with former President George W. Bush.

Students also asked Anderson how the president plans to get student votes when many students feel he has broken previous campaign promises.

“I think the president has done more than his campaign promises.

He’s proposed a work

opportunity tax credit,” Anderson said. “We have already passed and signed into law a substantial expansion in Pell Grants.

He has proposed more loan repayments for public service, and that’s on top of his student loan reform and the American Jobs Act.” Downs also addressed students upset with Obama and how the president’s relationship with younger voters has likely changed since the 2008 election.

He cited a number of reasons why Obama may have lost some of the support he had in 2008, including a weak economy and little chance of improvement in the job market by the elections.

“I think students are much more concerned about the future than

they were four years ago,” Downs said. “There has been a lot of talk out there politically. Even the Occupy Wall Street movement has become partly focused on the problem of student debt.”

Downs also said younger voters in elections tend to be less reliable as far as voting figures are concerned as compared to other demographics.

Young voters are considered an unreliable segment and do not turn out at the polls as consistently as older voters, Downs said.

“Obama knows he’s in trouble,” Downs said. “[Young voters] tend to be a little more fickle.

Research has consistently shown that the older you are, the more reliable you are to vote.”

CRIME in Brief STATE STREET Sexual Assault

isolated and there is no pattern of sexual assault in the city.

A 28-year-old Madison woman was sexually assaulted at the Whiskey Jacks Saloon on State Street, a Madison Police Department report said.

FREAKFEST Crime update

MPD thanked Freakfest party-goers for helping to make the event safe and successful in the report.

DeSpain said this year’s Freakfest was highly successful, with the lowest number of arrests and citations to date.

KENNEDY HEIGHTS Shooting suspect apprehended

According to the report, a 20 to 30-year-old man made unwanted advances towards the woman and then put his hand down her shirt.

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recommended a “sunset clause” which would stipulate that if WISPIRG does not attain contract status by the end of the semester, there would be measures in place to remove proposed funding that is dependent on this status.

This would mean striking funding in those areas and reinstating them if contract status were not attained, Plamann said.

After some discussion, this amendment was approved by members.

Rep. Justin Bloesch later motioned to alter the nature of the sunset clause so that the money will remain in the hands of the group and be revoked upon attainment of contract status by the end of the semester.

He said this would better represent the way contract status is up to SSFC rather than the administration.

“I think this sends a much stronger message to the administration,” Bloesch said. “I think just from a symbolic

Police were called to the bar, but the suspect had left by the time law enforcement arrived.

MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said while incidents of “intoxicated males grabbing at females in bars” do happen, the event was relatively

An MPD report said that a total of 32 people were arrested. Twenty-five were cited and then released.

Most of the citations were for offenses including underage drinking and possession of open intoxicants on the street.

DeSpain added one person was sent to detox, two were hospitalized and four were sent to jail.

These numbers are also

lower than those of past years.

An MPD report said police have arrested a seventh suspect in a fatal shooting in May. Police arrested 18-yearold Myntrell Jarvis on Saturday morning. He was charged with being party to the homicide of Jonathan Wilson, the report said.

Six of the seven arrested individuals have been charged with being party

CONCEALED CARRY, from 1 for our students,” Giroux said.

UW Police Chief Sue Riseling said university police officers have prepared for a wide array of situations relating to carrying concealed weapons.

According to Riseling and Chapin, police officers have been trained

to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide DeSpain said.

The seventh man, 18-yearold Demetrius Matticx, has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly being the one who actually shot Wilson.

DeSpain added police are continuing to search for several more people who were at the scene. Police believe almost all of the individuals involved had strong connections to Madison gangs, he said.

EAST WASHINGTON AVENUE Battery A 34-year-old Madison man

on the different tactics to use when approaching both a threatening individual in possession of a weapon and when approaching an individual who simply possesses a weapon.

“We trained our officers on what the different types of responses are based on the facts at hand, and our officers will react based

was arrested for battery, disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana after allegedly biting a police officer.

An MPD report said the officer had to seek treatment after he was bitten in the arm by the drunken suspect. The bite broke the skin.

Police were called because the suspect had been in an altercation with Murphy’s Tavern security staff after a conflict in the parking lot.

The conflict arose after a car containing one passenger backed into another car in the lot. The suspect became agitated and allegedly struck the officer.

The suspect has not yet been apprehended.

on the situation they are faced with,” Chapin said.

Riseling said should students witness an individual carrying a gun within a campus building, they should call the police. Students who see someone with a gun on campus grounds and are uncomfortable with the individual’s behavior are encouraged to contact the police as well.

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City officials target students to fill open positions With nearly 100 vacant committee seats, alders aim for student applicants Ally Boutelle City Editor City of Madison officials are redoubling their efforts to recruit Madison residents to fill numerous vacancies on a diverse pool of city committees, including targeting students to lend their perspective to city politics.

The City’s website lists over 100 vacancies in areas ranging from the Urban Design Commission to the Madison Arts Commission

a preliminary level by speaking about student issues at committees or City Council.

Cnare agreed, saying several committees have had student members in the past.

Students who have a strong interest in a certain issue are encouraged to consider applying to be a member of a committee that address a specific area, Cnare said.

Resnick added experience with city policy can give students unique insight into both the political world and the city they call home.

“Serving on a committee provides an educational resource that can’t be supplemented in the

and the Committee on Community Gardens.

Ald. Lauren Cnare, District 3, said any Madison resident who is 18 or over is eligible to hold a city position.

Completed applications are filed with Mayor Paul Soglin’s office.

Cnare emphasized students are both eligible and encouraged to apply.

“There is a lot of value for students in being involved,” she said. “[Students] should use these as opportunities for an introduction to government and a way to have a say in what’s important to you.”

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said students can become involved on

classroom,” he said. “It’s a combination of learning in intricate details and how politics in general work.”

Associated Students of Madison Student Council representative Sam Polstein emphasized the impact students are able to have on their city.

“We have a right and a responsibility to get involved in the governance of this city,” he said in an email to The Badger Herald. “This is our city and we have to live with the consequences of city policies every day.”

Polstein added getting involved in city policy gives students the ability to have a say in numerous aspects of their lives.

“City policies influence

the condition of the houses that we live in, the way we’re treated by our landlords, entertainment options in the downtown area and the overall climate of the communities that we live in,” he said.

University of Wisconsin students have a history filling positions in the city. Openings in city groups are the perfect opportunity for students to continue this tradition, Cnare said.

Resnick said examples of significant student involvement are former UW students Mark Woulf and Sam Stevenson, who have both served on Alcohol License Review Committee.

Woulf served as Alcohol Policy Coordinator and Stevenson is a current member of ALRC. ASM Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers echoed the sentiment, saying students have the potential to make a significant impact on the city.

“One of the most important benefits of getting involved would be providing student perspective to the city,” she said. “The city is eager to hear from students because it doesn’t happen very often. Getting involved makes an impact because those students are able to represent the student voice.”

Committee takes on church, Mifflin Legislative Affairs Committee will gather student opinion on the party for use by city Hannah Filipiak News Reporter Members of student government’s Legislative Affairs Committee weighed the plans for the new St. Paul’s Catholic Center on Library Mall, with some members saying the plan is already too far along for students to provide meaningful feedback.

St. Paul’s presentation plans were revisited to get the feedback from the committee.

Committee members raised concerns that St. Paul’s seemed set in its plans and had only come to the committee as a courtesy, rather than for feedback on the plan.

Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers disagreed, saying committee members could still impact the proposal.

“It is not too late to make a difference,” she said.

Members also said this new reconstruction was too much too soon due to the history of St. Paul’s twice-redone building.

Members also expressed concern about the traffic

BAR IDs, from 1 “It should get resolved and it should get resolved right now, not in a month or two,” Konkel said. “These policies and these different mechanisms to keep certain people out of bars aren’t new.”

Both Konkel and Coco

MCSC, from 1 year.

It also cited the concern that the waiver would have determined the amount of MCSC funding without a set of objective criteria to ensure the SSFC decision was viewpoint neutral.

The waiver also requires a student organization explain how the increase in its spending would benefit the University of Wisconsin student body as a whole and how it would meet a “significant and demonstrable need” for students.

“The deadlines imposed by SSFC for the funding waiver were inappropriate

through Library Mall once the project started, saying they would have liked to hear more about how St. Paul’s would handle the issue.

Aspects of the project, including a green initiative and sustainability, were also raised in discussion, as well as the observation that the new church plan looked “too squeezed” in its current location.

Members spoke more positively when referring to the new student organization space and the way in which the church was willing to open up the new spaces to all students.

Committee members also discussed a campus wide survey on the Mifflin Street Block Party which will be distributed to gauge student opinion to be passed on to city officials.

This survey will ask students about their own experiences and perceptions of the wellknown block party to try to gather information about how to address the event moving forward.

Samuel Seering said the committee needed to focus on changing more

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Legislative Affairs committee member Samuel Seering said officers should place as much emphasis on students’ perceptions of the annual Mifflin Street Block Party as considering changes in the details of the event. The committee will send out surveys to the student body in the coming weeks with the objective of providing officials with a student perspective. than just the logistics of the event.

“It is as important to change the reality of Mifflin as it is to change the perception of Mifflin,” Seering said.

The committee also discussed the Housing Fair for students, which is currently slated for Nov. 17.

In addition, Somers presented ideas from a meeting with Nancy Jensen, director of the Apartment Association of South Central Wisconsin, to discuss methods to encourage students to utilize the resources offered by the event.

The concept for this year ’s event would

include scratch-off cards for attendees, Somers said, except everyone would be a winner, instead of only one student at the event.

She added it was important to note the idea is still on the drawing table and subject to change by the time the fair rolls around.

Somers also raised another issue with the fair, the idea of proper advertising the Legislative Affairs Committee does for the event, as well as the committee’s own advertising.

The committee also discussed a Mock Election to be held Nov. 15 at the Memorial Union.

Bustamante, president of the commission, agreed that members would like to implement a strict policy against discriminatory policies.

John Quinlan, secretary of the body, also asked Woulf if it was possible to “err on the side of as strong language as possible to

discourage [this policy]” in his letter to bar owners. Quinlan said he was most concerned about the potential for a disparate impact.

The group will discuss this policy further on Nov. 10 with representatives from the Madison Police Department.

Bill would allow vocational diplomas for high-schoolers

and unjustified given the significance of this change in ... funding procedure,” the ruling said.

The Student Judiciary also dismissed a claim argued by MCSC that Neibart unilaterally rejected the organization’s waiver based on the time in which it was submitted.

MCSC remains ineligible for a budget over $250,000 as its waiver form was submitted late, Fifield said.

Neibart added the decision should not affect SSFC processes in any way.

“I disagree with the Student Judiciary, but I understand why they ruled the waiver was invalid,” Neibart said.

MCSC also raised charges of malfeasance in office or inappropriate behavior on the part of the SSFC, Fifield said, but the judiciary body did not affirm these claims in the ruling.

Fifield said another MCSC case will be deliberated in the upcoming weeks regarding the organization’s petitions against the SSFC standing rules, but Neibart emphasized MCSC is still ineligible for the budget waiver.

“The Student Judiciary still rules in favor of all of our processes,” Neibart said. “The [future] case isn’t really germane to anything because MCSC is ineligible.”

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Proposal would alter state’s current policy on courses necessary to graduate in state News Reporter Bipartisan legislation proposed in the governor ’s special legislative session on jobs would allow for the creation of vocational diplomas for high school students, which would effectively lower mandatory course requirements for graduation.

The bill, currently circulating, was proposed

by Gov. Scott Walker and Rep. Mark Radcliffe, D-Black River Falls, would allow high schools to award vocational diplomas by changing graduation standards.

According to the bill, school boards around the state would be able to offer vocational curricula to allow students to graduate without earning the four credits of English, three credits of social studies, two credits of science, two credits of mathematics, one and a half credits of physical education and one half credits of health education currently required by the state.

The Vocational Studies Bill, originally proposed on Oct. 11, is part of the 2011 Special Session and has been referred to

the state Committee on Education, which held a public hearing for the bill on Oct. 19, according the the Legislature website.

Manufacturers around the state are advocating for the proposal, which they believe would help develop a more skilled workforce to hire from, James Golembeski, executive director of the Bay Area Workforce Development Board, said.

“I’m getting calls from manufacturers that are looking for technical, skilled workers,” Golembeski said. “Our schools have a college preparatory curriculum when only about 22 to 24 percent of students will actually get a four-year university degree within six years after high school.

A vocational curriculum might be more appropriate for a lot of students.”

In Wisconsin, around 30 percent of jobs require a bachelor’s degree, while about 50 percent require a technical degree. The more hands-on approach of a vocational program would be a good option for students wishing to enter the technical field, Golembeski said.

Christina Brey, spokesperson for the Wisconsin Education Association Council, said she is concerned vocational curriculum would not be sufficient and would leave students less prepared to enter the workforce.

“We like to see students enter the work world

ready to succeed,” Brey said. “We don’t think that this program will get students there. This approach waters down the academic standards.”

WEAC fully supports vocational education and realizes technical workers are in high demand, Brey said, but believes the proposal would lower the quality of education received by students who enroll in the program.

Instead of creating new vocational programs, Brey said she advocates the strengthening of vocational programs already in place, such as dual-enrollment courses offered by technical schools, which have proven successful in preparing students for technical work.

“Investing in what works would go a long way,” Brey said.

“We shouldn’t lessen requirements when the job market is looking for more and more in students.”

Golembeski also believes a well-written vocational curriculum could still give as comprehensive of an education as traditional curriculums.

“A technical diploma just means kids learning in a different way. It’s less abstract, more applied learning,” Golembeski said. “The rigor still has to be there, but I think we can approach learning in a different way. We don’t need to dumb it down, but we do need a new approach.”

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Opinion

Push for redistricting dishonest, untimely Jake Begun Editor-at-Large When Republicans approved redistricting plans this summer, there was understandably a bit of a fuss over the maps benefiting GOP legislators.

Now, with the recall shitstorm looming on the horizon, at least one Republican is looking to strengthen that advantage by putting the new districts into effect this month.

The new district lines, as per their approval this summer, are supposed to go into effect Nov. 2012.

But as mentioned above, that simply will not do with so many Republican seats likely on the line when recall season is projected to roll around in the middle of

this month. State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, has proposed legislation that, if approved, would severely hurt Democrats chances of winning this game of legislative musical chairs that has become so popular.

Lazich is looking to move up the adoption of the new districts for the state Senate by a little bit, more specifically, next week. By doing so, she hopes voters can avoid the “quagmire of confusion” caused by the combination of recalls and redistricting. But beside providing a great name for my new experimental free jazz-bossa nova combo, Lazich makes a good point: Someone needs to stand up for voters and say ‘Stop fucking around’.

Unfortunately for Lazich however, that someone happens to be a fellow legislator greatly empowered by the recall elections of the summer: Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center.

The summer’s recall

elections unseated two Republican legislators, narrowing their majority in the state Senate to a single vote. Much to the chagrin of Republicans, Schultz, the new tipping point in the Senate, voted against Walker’s collective bargaining proposals and has recently thrown his hat in the ring in opposing Lazich’s legislation.

“I’m not going to vote for it because the people who sent me to Madison are the ones who should decide whether I ought to be recalled or not,” Schultz said to The Associated Press. It’s this kind of cavalier attitude, the kind that smacks of integrity, that we should be valuing in our elected officials, not some feigned concern of disenfranchisement.

Keep in mind that Lazich’s proposal to combat the “quagmire of confusion” only applies to the Senate; the Assembly would follow the law as it currently stands and adopt the

Tom Zionkowrski The Badger Herald

State Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, is pushing to implement redistricted maps nearly a year before the law is set to take effect, likely in order to protect against recalls. The future of the bill is unsure with the end of the session nearing. redistricted maps in November of next year.

On top of her plan to push forward the adoption of the new district maps, Lazich is also pushing legislation to require affidavits for recall petitions, putting yet another hurdle in place.

Though it’s hard to imagine that there aren’t quite a few

Wis. Bishops OK to nix concealed carry Taylor Nye Editorial Page Content Editor A lot of people I’ve spoken to about the new concealed carry laws have told me that they are uncomfortable with guns and don’t feel safe when they’re around. I’ve argued that I feel the same way about Coasties on mopeds, but we can’t ban them just as we can’t ban concealed carry. People have a right to tote their gun just as much as the Ugg and Northface clad demographic has the right to zoom down Charter and almost run me over.

However, a particularly relevant counterexample has caught my eye and gotten me thinking there might be more to the argument than I think.

Wisconsin’s bishops announced Monday that they urge parishioners not to bring their revolvers, rifles and pistols to mass.

As reported by Channel 3000, “They want local pastors to consider that Roman Catholic teachings stress non-violent conflict resolution and Catholic churches have a long tradition of serving as

sanctuaries for people fleeing violence.”

If Wisconsin bishops want guns out of church, why not take it a step further? The Roman Catholic Church claims many rights of a sovereign governing body and could theoretically issue such a ruling; it has a functioning bureaucracy and canon law already governs Catholic churches across the world.

And with the current debate over priest statutory abuse raging in the US, it’s not clear that a canon law couldn’t supersede other laws. Rulings on canon law are complex and nuanced, so church higherups could stand a good chance of outlawing guns in their place of worship.

If even the University of Wisconsin, a much less expansive body, will be able to outlaw guns in campus buildings, the Roman Catholic Church should be able to do it.

However, Wisconsin’s five state bishops have chosen, at least for now, not to go so far. It’s a strategic move and a wise one. The current concealed carry legislation is piecemeal at best, and it’s uncertain what will emerge in the following months about who will be able to bring what where. Furthermore, I suspect that such a ruling would be unpopular among church members as it is possible that the

subsets of those who support organized religion and those who support gun ownership overlap considerably (read: most of my family).

Thought if it is truly the case that Wisconsin bishops want to “stress non-violent conflict resolution,” their best move would be to outlaw concealed weapons in God’s house. There are those that would argue that the Catholic Church does not, in fact, have a “long tradition” of peaceful conflict mediation, but taking key measures such as this would help ensure that such a tradition is part of the present if not part of the past. Furthermore, even though some congregants may be disgruntled by the ruling, the question effectively is, “what are they really going to do about it?” Stop being Catholic?

Visiting family in Texas, land of firearms, I’ve seen signs barring concealed weapons just about everywhere. They are not allowed in the IHOP in Greenville and they are not allowed in the First United Methodist Church of Sulphur Springs. In fact, as reported by the Baptist Standard, 10 states specifically bar concealed weapons in any religious institution, and three more have similar, but less harsh statutes. And these are not just Catholic churches but

all places of worship in Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Lousiana, Missouri, Michigan, Wyoming and Texas. This has been accomplished for religious branches that have a less established governing body in deep South, all-red states, so it should be easy in Wisconsin.

So does my Coastie analogy stand up? In this case, no. The government does not have the right to outlaw my uncle from driving around with a rifle in his gun rack because of the nature of government.

But religion is a whole different institution with a different value system.

People cannot avoid being part of their government (believe me, my mom tries). But people choose their religion, and because of this, the Catholic Church of Wisconsin has the right to abolish concealed carry in their churches for whatever reason it wants.

Taking into account laws passed in other states as well as the strength of canon law, Wisconsin bishops should proceed with confidence to outlaw firearms in their churches and truly promote an environment of nonviolence and sanctuary.

Taylor Nye (tenye@wisc. edu) is a junior majoring in human evolutionary biology, archaeology and Latin American studies.

notary publics somewhat displeased with the current state of affairs in Wisconsin.

But as luck would have it, Wednesday, the earliest either bill would go before the Senate, happens to be the final planned day of the session and the year, so Schultz’s planned upset of the proposal may be for naught. But at least

Schultz has the intelligence and decency to recognize an affront to Wisconsin voters’ rights where other Republicans, like Lazich, see only an opportunity for self-preservation.

Jake Begun (jbegun@ badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in history and journalism.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

New idea for Eat Shit!Fuck You! I am proud of my fellow Badgers every time I hear Eat Shit! - Fuck You! It takes me back to the good ol’ days of bad football and all we had to look forward to was a good show from the loyal fans that showed up. Even though I loved the way cup fights looked, it was wise that cup fights went away and that body passing went away also. Those were dangerous temporary traditions. Eat Shit! - Fuck You! only hurts the ears of stuffy individuals like Tom Osborne.

I would like to propose a new yell.

Those of us that love Eat Shit - Fuck you will still be able to hear it in our heads.

EAT CHEESE! - DRINK BEER! EAT CHEESE! - DRINK BEER! EAT CHEESE! - DRINK BEER! EAT CHEESE! - DRINK BEER! Some people will still dislike this also, but fuck ‘em, Bucky fans!

Steve Kindschuh (sjkindsch@yahoo.com) received his bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin in 1988.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “Shady businesses can continue their illegal practices that screw consumers because they know the consumer has no recourse.”

-FRANCES REYNOLDS COLBERT, MADISON ATTORNEY Sen. Rich Zipperer, R-Pewaukee, is attempting to introduce a bill that would cap attorney fees to, at most, three times the amount of damages. Although this can be overturned in some cases, there is a worry that this will hurt poor or middle class defendants, who are more likely to have smaller cases that no attorney would want to take because the payoff would not be large enough. For example, said Reynolds Colbert, many Madison disputes are over security deposits, which can be only $600 or $700 dollars. On a student income, losing this fee is substantial, but a lawyer may not want to take a case that will involve winning, at most, only a few thousand dollars.

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Bill Burr to headline Barrymore Veteran comedian with New England roots stops by Madison on nationwide tour Lin Weeks ArtsEtc. Content Editor Here’s a joke Bill Burr tells.

He’s walking around at a street fair with his girlfriend. He hates street fairs; he thinks they’re stupid, just like everything else she wants to do.

“Typical girlfriend idea,” he says on the YouTube clip. “It sucks and it’s gonna take all Saturday.”

He’s an opinionated guy like that; a man’s man’s comedian, sticking up for do-it-yourself fix-up jobs and fast food, railing against brunch and sentimental movies. And street fairs.

He’ll make race jokes (“Let me ask you a question: How many of those white people are evil movies are they gonna make?”), he’ll make pedophile jokes (“Dude, you can’t say hi to kids anymore. I love kids!”) and he’ll make dog testicle jokes (“I haven’t seen that shit since the late ‘90s”) all within the same special.

Burr’s an edgy dude, but reached by phone on a walk

in Los Angeles, he explained that he mostly gets away with it.

“People are cool,” said Burr. “People know you’re joking. There’s always one or two really sensitive people slash selfish individuals who can laugh at everything til it comes around to their neck of the woods.”

Not that he he’s too thick skinned to reply if they do.

“One of the best ones I ever got was over in Houston, Texas. Some lady tried to — she sent an email to the club and she tried to make it seem like she got kicked out. She tried to make it seem like it wasn’t her that was writing the email, that it was some other audience member that didn’t even know her but totally agreed with her.”

So Burr fired back. “’In all my years of standup I’ve gotten countless complaints, but never have I seen anyone stoop so low as to pretend to be another audience member,’” he wrote. “I just totally called her out and she never wrote

back.”

See, it’s bullshit like that that bothers Burr. Bullshit like that and bullshit like the table in front of the woman he’s wandered over to in the joke while his girl checks out some homemade jewelry — “twigs, macaroni in it. It’s a table of crap!”

— because on this table are muffins. Tons of muffins.

Burr knows what he likes and it sure as hell is not muffins on an 85 degree day at a street fair.

It’s an attitude that Burr seems to apply to his real life as well as his standup routine. For instance, he didn’t like school, so he ended up performing.

When asked what led him down the comedy career path, Burr is relatively blunt.

“It had to do with flunking everything in high school and not being good academically,” he said.

And despite his degree in communications, college was no easier. “I finished at Emerson where the math requirement was adding fractions, I’m not even

joking. One of the classes was performance for radio, just to give you a hint.”

“I just remember I commuted and I had no friends,” Burr elaborated.

But once he figured out what he wanted to do, the steps became more clear.

“Right after that I signed up for a talent competition at Nicks Comedy stop in Boston. That’s where I started out.”

Anyway, so Burr is looking at these muffins and a thought comes to him.

How funny would it be, he thinks, if he just looked this woman, this woman with in the eye and “Wham! Wham!

Wham, wham, wham, wham!” started smashing her muffins one by one?

Seriously, how funny?

If anyone should know, it’s him. As a decades long veteran of the stand-up scene, the host of a highly rated comedy podcast and an occasional actor in films like “Date Night,” Burr might be in a unique position to rule on the comedic value of smashing baked goods. He juggles a

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Having appeared on programs like ‘Chappelle’s Show’ and ‘The Opie and Anthony Show,’ as well as starring in several stand-up specials of his own, Burr knows his way around a joke. host of side projects, and is currently especially excited about a short film he cowrote and produced that will premier at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival.

The online trailer for “Cheat” is intriguing, but Burr was coy on the film’s plot and content. “We can’t let you know what it’s about — it’s only 15 minutes long and there’s a major left turn.

And if we show you what the left turn is, it kind of kills the first three minutes of the movie ... Hollywood trailers now show you right up to the conclusion of act 3,” Burr said. “We did the opposite of that. We went ‘Crying Game’ on you guys.”

But back at the street fair, his girlfriend comes back over, and Burr tries to explain to her why he’s doubled over, weak from laughter. The horrified look on the muffin lady’s face, right? The pastries, smashed and mushed to a layer of dough? And she’s looking at him like: “Why do I go out with you?” She doesn’t even get the joke. Typical girl.

It’s funnier when he tells it.

Bill Burr performs November 4 at the Barrymore Theater on Atwood Ave (608241-8864). Tickets are $36 including fees and are available at www.barrymorelive.com.

King beautiful, haunting, catchy New EP from The Decemberists a rightful heir to greatness of January’s The King is Dead Aly Pavela ArtsEtc. Reporter The king has been resurrected quite successfully.

The Portland-based Indie folk rock band The Decemberists have produced a mostly acoustic six-track EP titled Long Live the King, due out today on Capitol Records.

As the title indicates, Long Live the King was recorded around the same time as the group’s hugely successful sixth album from earlier this year, The King is Dead.

Long Live the King is a collection of outtakes from that album.

Long Live the King highlights the band’s talent and emotions in a way not present in earlier albums, perhaps reflective of their turbulent past year.

From The King is Photo courtesy of Capitol Records Dead album topping The folk rock group has released a sampling of acoustic outtakes from its chart-topping billboard charts in early album from earlier this year in which folksy nostalgia and lyrical imagery are in ample supply. 2011, to lead singer

and songwriter Colin Meloy producing a children’s book, to one of the members of the band getting cancer, The Decemberists have been kept on their toes, and are keeping fans on their toes as well.

In a fashion similar to The King is Dead, Long Live the King mixes storytelling throughout songs with country, folk and rock influences seamlessly — a technique that highlights the band at its peak.

Throughout the Americana-based album, the Decemberists demonstrate their superior ability to tell stories through song by utilizing lyrical imagery.

Haunting, nostalgic, catchy and homey, this album is one that will stick with listeners.

“E. Watson” is the premier track of the album, and tells the dark story of a cruel sugar plantation owner in a haunting, acoustic

folksong.

Meloy’s voice is gravelly over the acoustic guitar and calls out to listeners in a spooky fashion.

Laura Veirs and Annalisa Tornfelt’s backup vocals add an eerie touch, singing “we laid him in his grave” repeatedly at the end of the song.

The first few notes of “Foregone” put a smile on your face, and its pleasant melody brings to mind a favorite song you’ve forgotten about.

Meloy’s voice sounds earthy and strong over the upbeat drums and bass. The simple country rock song makes you feel like you are at a live, outdoors show listening to the Decemberists play, identifying fully with every word of the lyrical song about incidents that have occurred in the past.

The album also features the creepy “Burying Davy” and the upbeat and fun “I 4 U & U 4 Me,” which tells the story of

two individuals who are messed up, yet meant to be together.

The album also includes an amazing cover of Grateful Dead’s “Row Jimmy.” The EP concludes with “Sonnet,” an enchanting and breezy track. Yet, the horns in the song come as a shock, making the song a bit too honky-tonky, and thus the weakest track of the album.

Long Live the King won’t be the chart-topper that The King is Dead was.

However, it’s an album that true Decemberists fans will love and appreciate for its indie, intricate manner.

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THE BADGER HERALD PRESENTS LOW-FAT TUESDAY

No bones about it: Calcium critical mineral for overall health structure.

Rachel Werts Low-fat Tuesday Columnist Living in the heart of America’s Dairyland, we Badgers are no strangers to the saying “Drink milk for strong bones.” However, young adults nationwide continue to disregard this advice.

In America, the calcium intake of adolescents and young adults has been continuously declining.

Since calcium is the most abundant mineral in our body, an inadequate intake can cause serious consequences. Today I’ll address some of the common misconceptions that may lead to our age group’s lower intake of calcium.

I’m not growing anymore. I don’t need calcium because I’m not building bones right now.

Although we have reached our maximum height, we are still able to add density to our bones.

To do this, however, we need adequate calcium and vitamin D in our diet to strengthen our bone

I’ll work on getting enough calcium in my diet when I’m old and actually have weak bones This is a huge misconception about calcium. We only have until roughly age 30 to reach our peak bone mass. After this age our bones lose the ability to add additional mass. So when we’re older we cannot simply increase daily intake of dietary calcium and start building stronger bones; we need to do this now.

The greater our peak bone mass is, the longer we can hold off serious bone loss later in life, so getting enough calcium is critical right now!

I don’t eat milk or foods that contain milk so there’s so way for me to get enough calcium from my diet.

It’s no secret that foods like yogurt, cheese and milk are full of calcium. But in addition to foods containing milk, you can find calcium in dark leafy green vegetables, such as kale and broccoli. Calcium fortified foods like soy milk, tofu, orange juice and cereal are also ways to get the calcium you need.

I don’t care about my bone health, so calcium intake

doesn’t apply to me at all.

Calcium is not an essential part of diet for strong bones and teeth alone. It is also needed for normal muscle and nerve function. If calcium intake is insufficient, calcium must be taken out of our bones in order for these processes to occur. When this happens it further depletes bones mass.

In addition to nerve and muscle function, calcium may play other important roles in our health. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) sited several studies that have linked calcium intake with decreased risks of hypertension and colon cancer.

So now that you know why you need calcium, you’re probably wondering how much you should be getting. The recommended daily allowance for men and women between the ages of 19 and 50 is 1000 mg per day. This is equivalent to about three 8 ounce glasses of milk, three 1.5 ounce servings of cheese or two 8 ounce cartons of yogurt. Tofu and soy milk vary from providing between 14 and 50 percent of your RDA per serving.

A 6 ounce glass of fortified orange juice is about 35 percent, while one cup of broccoli or kale is about ten

percent of your RDA. Since vegetables that are considered good sources of calcium are still low compared with your daily needs, I suggest finding a fortified beverage to drink if you don’t eat dairy.

If you hate every food I’ve listed but you still want to make sure you get enough calcium, talk to your doctor or a registered dietitian about taking a supplement. This is a good option for many people, but make sure you talk to a professional — if taken in the wrong manner, calcium supplements can cause constipation. They can also interfere with other medications or require additional vitamin D supplements.

I hope this information inspires you to be proactive about your health and help to change our age group’s low calcium intake. Milk in your cereal is not enough: Changing your habits today can help you prevent problems in the future!

Rachel Werts is a senior in the dietetics program. For more information on calcium go to the National Institutes of Health fact sheet at ods. od.nih.gov/factsheets/ calcium. If you want to write a question to the column, just email wisconsin.dnc@gmail. com.

RECIPE OF THE WEEK This week’s recipe is broccoli cheese soup — perfect for those cold days that chill you to the bone and a great source of calcium to strengthen them!

Broccoli cheddar soup (yields: 8 servings)

Ingredients: 1 teaspoon canola oil 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 teaspoon minced garlic 4 cups chicken broth 1 1/2 cups chopped, peeled potato 1 16-ounce package frozen, chopped broccoli 3 cups low-fat or nonfat milk 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 8 ounces low fat cheddar cheese, shredded (white or sharp)

Preparation: 1. Heat oil in a large stock pot over medium-high heat.

Add the onion and garlic, and cook 3 - 4 minutes. Add the chicken broth, potato and broccoli, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes until the potato is tender.

2. In a separate dish, whisk together the milk and flour.

Add the milk mixture to the potato mixture, and cook 3 - 4 minutes, stirring constantly until thickened. Remove the soup from the heat and add the salt, pepper and cheese. Stir until the cheese is melted.

3. Place half of the soup mixture in a blender and process until smooth. Return the soup to the pan, then serve.

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Grades: Special teams stumbles again Badgers surrender yet another blocked punt; Toon largely invisible in second loss Elliot Hughes Sports Content Editor Every week, Herald Sports will look back and evaluate the most recent game by the Wisconsin football team on a scale of zero to five.

The Badgers suffered their second consecutive loss Saturday night, falling to Ohio State 3329 at Ohio Stadium. The loss drops Wisconsin into a three-way tie for second place in the Big Ten Leaders Division, with a conference record of 2-2 (6-2 overall).

Quarterbacks — 4 out of 5 Fifth-year senior Russell Wilson had a more polished game than he did against Michigan State, completing 20 of 32 passes for 253 and three touchdowns.

His feet allowed him to avoid some sacks as well, and he was especially savvy in UW’s last two drives, throwing a perfect ball to Jared Abbrederis in the back of the end zone during the first and finding him wide open downfield on the second.

Nevertheless, Wilson’s decision-making was suspect at times. He began the fourth quarter with a costly intentional grounding call that moved the Badgers to their own 6-yard line, and his second-to-last

ANSWERS, from 8 Ohio State, boosting his season total to 86, a rate of 10.8 per game that ranks second in the Big Ten. Chris Borland, who switched to middle linebacker from the outside at the beginning of the season, is right behind Taylor with 84 tackles and leads UW with 10.5 tackles for loss.

Bielema also took time Monday to highlight Kevin Claxton, who, despite

HUGHES, from 8 currying favor with it.

You always see and hear fans talking about a lucky pair of socks or a lucky t-shirt, or uttering a jinxinducing phrase or talking about how some broken routine by one fan led to the demise of their beloved team.

I’m sure there was plenty of that in Badger Nation following Saturday’s loss to Ohio State (whether it was sarcastic or only halfsarcastic) and the overall heartbreak quickly turned into an aw-shucks, thefootball-gods-hate-usand-the-season-is-over kind of attitude thanks to what transpired the week before.

But Badger fans shouldn’t feel like the football gods are torturing

throw of the game was to a wide receiver that was not open and unable to score. However, a flag for pass interference gave him another chance.

Backfield — 3 out of 5 The Wisconsin backfield was held to under 100 yards rushing for the first time in nearly two years, but the blame doesn’t rest squarely on the backs, nor can one forget about the production in the air.

Running back Montee Ball and fullback Bradie Ewing provided an essential safety net for Wilson to rely on throughout the game, combining for six catches, 67 yards and one touchdown.

Tight ends — 3 out of 5 Redshirt sophomore Jacob Pedersen started strong for UW, catching two passes for 11 yards and one first down in the first half. However, Pedersen became pretty quiet after that, catching only one more pass the rest of the game.

Wide receivers — 3.5 out of 5 Redshirt sophomore Abbrederis came up big for Wisconsin in the fourth quarter, scoring two touchdowns and finishing the night with six catches for 113 yards.

But Wilson didn’t have many other options at wideout as fifth-year senior Nick Toon had another quiet night with 39 yards on three catches.

Offensive line — 2.5

out of 5 Wisconsin’s front five were dominated by Ohio State’s front seven all game long and could not get anything going on the run, producing just 89 yards on the night.

Take away a fourthquarter 40-yard dash by Ball, and the running game averaged just 1.75 yards per carry.

Pass protection was not much better, either, as Wilson was sacked three times and chased around all evening.

Defensive line – 3 out of 5 On an astounding 58 rushing plays, Ohio State rattled off 268 yards rushing — an average of 4.6 yards per carry.

On several occasions, the Badger D-line was able to apply pressure on Buckeye quarterback Braxton Miller but only contained him once when redshirt junior Brendan Kelly earned the unit’s lone sack in the first quarter.

Miller ran for 99 yards and two touchdowns on the night.

Linebackers – 4 out of 5 With such a profusion of rushing attacks from Ohio State, the Wisconsin linebacking corps was forced to play a more aggressive game and answered the call with all the starters leading the team in tackles.

Redshirt junior Mike Taylor gobbled up an incredible 22 stops on the night, while sophomore Chris Borland pitched in 13 more. Senior Kevin Claxton totaled 10

breaking a bone in his hand on the opening kickoff of the season Sept. 1 against Nevada-Las Vegas, has played in seven games this season and is fourth in the team with 32 tackles.

“Clax is the guy that from game one to where we are now has really improved,” Bielema said. “He’s got a cast on his hand, he’s become an effective blitzer.

[Borland] gets more and more comfortable with that middle linebacker spot.

I think those three guys

them like a little boy slowly pesters an anthill.

I don’t believe in goodluck charms or goodluck routines — or their opposites. I only believe in luck as a synonym for coincidence or chance.

So while I don’t think Wisconsin can just regain favor of luck or the football gods or whatever you want to call it, fate doesn’t have it in for the Badgers. The ball has just bounced the wrong way this year, when last year it just happened to do the opposite. And it can always bounce back into UW’s way at any given moment this year.

Last year, many called the Chicago Bears the NFL’s luckiest team as the season wore on while others dubbed the Green Bay Packers the league’s unluckiest due to its

EFFORT, from 8 hasn’t gone to that next level. … I think Tyler has aspirations of playing at the next level, which one of the definitions of being a professional athlete other than being paid is that you’re consistent day in and day out.”

overflowing infirmary.

And yet, it was the Packers that felled the Bears in the NFC Championship Game and went on to win a Super Bowl.

The Badgers are down, but not out. They’ll need help to climb out of a three-way tie for secondplace in the Leaders Division and emerge on top, but this Badger team is still a much better squad than Penn State and Illinois, while Michigan is salivating at the chance to end its losing streak against Ohio State.

Keep those fingers crossed.

Elliot is a senior majoring in journalism. Did all of your hope for the 2011 season die in Columbus? Revive it by emailing ehughes@ badgerherald.com or tweeting @BHeraldSports.

tackles and scored 2.5 tackles for loss, including one sack.

Secondary — 2 out of 5 Ohio State didn’t pass the ball much — just 12 times — but it was ultimately the secondary that came away with the most egregious — and costly — of errors.

Miller ’s 40-yard heave with 20 seconds left landed in the hands of Devin Smith in the middle of the endzone with no defensive back in position to make a play, losing the game for the Badgers.

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Despite ultimately finishing with a 5.0-yards-per-carry average, Montee Ball and WisconSpecialists — 1 out of 5 In more ways than one, sin’s rushing attack took a while to get going Saturday night. UW finished with only 89 yards. the special teams unit can claim a good amount of responsibility for Saturday’s loss, as well. The most memorable instance is, of course, the blocked punt in the third quarter, which led to the Buckeyes taking a 17-7 lead.

Later in the fourth quarter, Abbrederis opted to field a punt inside his own 5-yard

line rather than let it bounce for a touchback.

UW eventually punted from its own 6-yard line on that drive, allowing OSU to get a field goal out of its gifted field position.

Then, after Wisconsin took the lead with 1:18 remaining, UW’s kickoff team allowed a 42-yard

kick return to the OSU 48, setting up the gamewinning score.

The unit’s only redeeming quality was a fourth-quarter fumble recovery by linebacker Andrew Lukasko on a punt, which eventually led to a Badger touchdown.

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Despite thriving linebackers, Wisconsin’s late-game defense struggles through road stretch Mike Fiammetta Sports Editor After more than 10 minutes of seemingly exhausting questions about his team’s ability to respond from its last two crushing losses, Bret Bielema outwardly welcomed the first question regarding Wisconsin’s next opponent, Purdue.

“Fifteen minutes into this thing, and I don’t get to answer a Purdue question,” Bielema said in his weekly Monday press conference, somewhat playfully.

The Badgers haven’t received many welcoming questions over the last two weeks, between a lastsecond loss at Michigan State and a last-minute collapse at Ohio State in Wisconsin’s first two true road trips of the season.

Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio, UW trailed by as many as 12 points with 4:39 remaining in the game before mounting a furious comeback that put the Badgers ahead 29-26 with 1:18 left. Yet, a weak

kickoff and a 40-yard pass with 20 seconds on the clock from OSU quarterback Braxton Miller allowed Ohio State to pull out a stunning 33-29 victory.

Altogether, Wisconsin’s suffered an all-around inconsistent effort (UW had a blocked punt for the second consecutive week) that even its late comeback was unable to overcome.

“There was a number of good examples on film on Saturday of guys doing a lot of good things, at times; different units performing, very, very efficiently, at times,” Bielema said.

“But just not enough of a complete game. So we took that and kind of dismissed that on Sunday night. We don’t practice on Monday, but from what I’ve seen from this group, I know that they’re going to respond very, very positively and come back with a good week of practice.”

Bielema also briefly touched on the peripheral issues facing this team, such as which of its top players will be tempted to leave early for the National

Football League after this season. Though the question was referencing potential tiebreaker scenarios and Wisconsin’s bowl chances, Bielema specifically alluded to Ball and center Peter Konz.

“I’ve got a running back and a center that are probably two of the best players on the team,” Bielema said. “I’ve got to think long-term about what do I have to do to replace those guys, beyond on what’s in front of me.

That’s my job as a head coach; I’m responsible for everything we do. For me not to have that in the back of my mind is wrong.”

Late-game defense struggling Despite the very clear weaknesses the Badgers displayed over its past two games, the most distinct reason for the losses was an inability to prevent big plays from opposing offenses in the fourth quarter.

Two Saturdays ago, Wisconsin was stunned by a 44-yard Hail Mary from Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins

to wide receiver Keith Nichol, who caught the football off a deflection and muscled it past the goal line. That play capped a nine-play, 78-yard drive that the Spartans developed in just 1:26.

Against Ohio State, Miller’s game-winning heave wasn’t necessarily a Hail Mary, as it came after the freshman quarterback took the snap out of the shotgun, rolled right and avoided two Badger defensive linemen before unfurling the high-arcing pass downfield to a wideopen Devin Harris. The cross-body, cross-field throw itself was surprising coming from Miller, a quarterback regarded more for his mobility than his throwing prowess.

But Harris, a freshman wide receiver who had not caught a pass all game long, was wide open and able to settle comfortably under the football.

As the Badgers attempt to move forward and potentially salvage a BCS bowl berth, Bielema’s message to his team was simple.

“Big picture, [Sunday]

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Linebacker Mike Taylor had a career-high 22 tackles Saturday, two of which were for a loss of five yards. Taylor was one of the Badgers’ few bright spots in a last-minute 29-33 loss to the Buckeyes. night what I basically did is kind of went around and talked about taking things personally,” Bielema said.

“As a man, a lot of times guys take things to heart, what they really believed to be a big part of who they are, what they are. I pointed out certain guys around the room and kind of stressed that for us to get to where we need to be — whether you’re playing good ball, whether you didn’t do well, whether you played 80 snaps well and five wrong — take

personally what you did and try to carry that forward and help the team.”

Linebackers thriving Widely perceived as the strongest position group on the defense entering this season, Wisconsin’s linebackers have widely lived up to the weighty expectations placed on them this fall.

Mike Taylor recorded 22 tackles (2.5 for loss) against

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Right winger Tyler Barnes scored two goals in Wisconsin’s Friday night 5-4 loss to Nebraska-Omaha. Barnes leads the Badgers this season with five goals through eight games.

Eaves pleased with effort Badgers finish first month of season with .500 record; penalty kill needs improvement Kelly Erickson Associate Sports Editor After scoring 19 goals in the past two weeks, drive and ambition are simply not issues for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team.

After splitting a penalty-packed, highscoring series against Nebraska-Omaha head coach Mike Eaves addressed the media in his weekly Monday press conference, assuring that at the close of the first month of the season, effort is not a concern.

“Not at all,” Eaves said. “I think that was an indication that we got from our strength coach Jim Snider from what he said this summer. He felt never he had to go to the whip. … He said these guys just naturally push themselves.”

The effort has already translated into goals for Wisconsin. The Badgers have scored 28 times this season off of 191 shot attempts. Their opponents average about 10 more shots per game but have scored three less goals.

At the beginning of the season, Eaves admittedly expected scoring to be more difficult for his team.

“The one thing that came up with the coaching staff the last

two weekends is that we can put the puck in the net,” Eaves said. “That’s been fun to see.

“We said at the beginning as a projection that we’d have to have scoring by committee because we didn’t have anything really proven coming back to a high degree.

We found some nice things. We scored a big time goal this Saturday. … Those are the things that you see at the next level.”

Despite its success finding the net, Wisconsin struggled to kill penalties against Nebraska-Omaha, allowing the Mavericks to score six power play goals throughout the series. With a combined total of 33 penalties in the two games, the Badgers went on the penalty kill 17 times.

Eaves explained that penalty killing cannot be reproduced in practice to the same standard as a game atmosphere. As a result, it is difficult to improve play short one skater without game experience.

“I think that our penalty killing is an area that still needs improvement,” Eaves said. “We talked about it again this morning. We looked at the reasons as to why — I think we’re in a little bit of a funk.

I’ve never seen so many blocked shots end up on their sticks with open net shots before in my life.”

The penalty kill was not Wisconsin’s only major issue this weekend. For the first time this season, Eaves’ team had to protect a 3-0 lead, twice. Friday night, UW couldn’t hold on, losing 5-4. Saturday, it had better success, winning 6-3.

As Friday was the first time the Badgers faced such a situation this season, it was something unfamiliar.

“It’s really an emotional thing,” Eaves said. “It’s about playing with poise and confidence and really understanding what the situation of the game is and how to execute in that.”

With their struggles and successes, the Badgers sit at an even 4-4-0, 3-3-0 WCHA record one month into the season. It is a mark that some consider to have exceeded the expectations for such a young team.

But Eaves does not want to put any expectations or limits on his team; he just wants to continue to watch it grow.

“I really think that with a young team, it’s hard to put expectations

on a team,” Eaves said.

“I think it’s better to have an open mind, don’t limit them and don’t put low parameters on them. As we go along, we’ll see how they grow. Maybe for the second half of the season, we’ll see how we feel, and we can set better parameters.

“They’re still trying to get their feet underneath them in so many areas that they’re just going out there playing as hard as they can and hoping that the things that they do are the right things to do.”

One skater in particular epitomizes Wisconsin’s circumstance after its first four games.

Sophomore forward Tyler Barnes leads the Badgers with five goals, the majority of which have come on Friday nights.

According to Eaves, Barnes has great Friday nights but just does not play to the same level on Saturdays.

“Well if we can get Tyler Barnes to play Saturday like he does Friday, we’ll have something special,” Eaves said. “On Friday, he’s been dynamite.

He leads our team in stats and production.

Saturday night, he still

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Luck is a funny and fickle thing.

It makes a person’s day or it can ruin it — kind of like how in sports, it can send a team to the moon or toss it down a well.

I’m not writing this column to make any kind of excuses for the Wisconsin football team, which has experienced one of the most racking back-to-back losses I have ever witnessed. Rather, I’m taking a step back from schematics and statistics of Wisconsin’s performance in the last two games and pointing out something that the Badgers of 2011 are missing compared to the those of 2010 — some luck.

Not to take anything away from the 2010 Badgers, but they wouldn’t have reached Pasadena without some fortunate events, while this year, it seems like a lack thereof could potentially prevent the squad from making a return trip.

Several moments from two games stand out from last year, where if the course of action in any of the plays changed, the entire fabric of the season would have been altered.

Against Arizona State, return man Kyle Middlebrooks broke free on the last play of the second half — a kick return — with reservations for one in the end zone until Wisconsin safety Shelton Johnson chased him down and stopped him one yard short of paydirt.

Later in that same game, after running back Cameron Marshall scored on a 2-yard run with less than five minutes remaining in the game for ASU, UW safety Jay Valai blocked the extra point.

Wisconsin went on to win, 20-19.

Five games later, the Badgers’ J.J. Watt blocked an extra point and head coach Bret Bielema audaciously called a key fake punt when nobody was looking.

Wisconsin beat Iowa, 31-30.

Neither of those plays are miracles by any stretch, but Middlebrooks’ would-be

touchdown was decided by an arm’s length or less and blocking an extra point is no common occurrence, especially the way Watt blocked his.

Situated that close to the posts, a kicker doesn’t have to worry about kicking aerodynamically and can afford to kick it high, above leaping defenders.

Nevertheless, Watt jumped into the air and, by chance, put his hand in the path of the ball.

As earned as those wins were, there is still an air of fortune in each.

This year’s pivotal moments are even more mind-boggling. Wide receiver Jared Abbrederis mistimed his jump in the Michigan State Hail Mary, allowing the ball to continue downward and bounce off another player’s helmet and into the arm’s of Keith Nichol on the 1-yard line, who then muscled the ball over the line — just barely.

MSU’s fortuitousness on that play is self-explanatory.

A week later, Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller chucked a deep ball inches away from the line of scrimmage to a wide-open Devin Smith in the endzone for the game-winning score. Both Ohio State and Michigan State blocked a punt against Wisconsin that led to six more crucial points.

Again, not something frequently seen.

All of those plays — especially MSU’s Hail Mary, which is an authentic sports miracle — had a dash of good luck involved, even though both the Spartans and the Buckeyes had already put themselves in a good position to make a play that mattered.

There were many other components that factored into Wisconsin’s two losses this year (whether it be mistakes made on the field or coaching decisions), but after taking a quick comparison between 2011 and 2010, you can easily see that one team was luckier than the other in crucial moments.

Although this fact angers many sports fans (mainly when they’re the victim), luck has an anchored and influential stake in the survival-of-the-fittest world of sports. And it is so pivotal and rogue that it can drive sports fans into a tizzy about

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