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Adidas refutes UW claims of violations Clothing contractor says manufacturers monitored to ensure fair pay, work hours Katie Caron Campus Reporter Christmas carols with a labor-oriented twist could be heard atop Bascom Hill Monday as members of a student organization rallied to demand action over the university’s relationship with Adidas.

Members of the Student Labor Action Coalition gathered at Bascom around noon before making their way to Interim Chancellor David Ward’s office to ask for action on his part regarding an Adidassponsored factory closing which left workers unpaid.

Located in Tangerang, Indonesia, the factory by the name of PT Kizone allegedly committed worker rights abuses when it shut down the factory and neglected to pay more than 2,800 workers a total of about $3.3 million in legally-

mandated severance pay.

On Dec. 2, the University of Wisconsin Labor Licensing Policy Committee requested in a letter that Ward put Adidas on a 90-day notice of termination of its contract by Dec. 15.

When the rallying students began singing outside Ward’s office yesterday, he emerged in front of the crowd and said he is committed to resolving the issue.

He said although it will likely not be resolved

by Dec. 15, he will move forward when he has more details he needs from the Worker Rights Consortium.

He said the university cannot advance any further without proper documentation from the WRC, which is an organization that oversees and investigates working conditions and labor rights in collegiate apparel factories worldwide.

“Until I get the appropriate documentation sent by the WRC, we can’t proceed,” Ward told the group. “We’ll be as prompt as we can.”

SLAC member Shelby Knuth said the rally was aimed at reminding Ward to take action and making sure he knew he was accountable to students.

“You could definitely tell that he was flustered with this today, and I think that’s a good thing — it makes him take notice,” Knuth said. “Now it’s up to the university to take it further to hold them to their code of conduct.”

In a statement released

by Adidas and obtained

by The Capital Times, the company said it values its relationship with UW and that it is working to

Taylor Frechette The Badger Herald

Members of the University of Wisconsin Student Labor Action Coalition gather on top of Bascom Hill Monday in protest of UW’s contract with Adidas after allegations surfaced last week that the official supplier of UW trademarked clothing had not paid workers $3.3M in severance pay.

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LABOR RELATIONS AND UW’S ADMINISTRATION Over the last decade, labor activists at UW have had a contentious relationship with university administrators, including current Interim Chancellor David Ward.

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First rallies outside of Ward’s office demanding disclosure of factory locations; 40 students begin a sit-in at Bascom Hall.

A month after the protest controversy, Ward steps down as UW’s chancellor. He says the controversy surrounding the protests did not affect his decision.

SLAC asks Chancellor Biddy Martin to cut UW’s licensing contract with Nike because of accusations the company did not properly compensate laid-off employees. UW cuts the contract that month.

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Mar. 2007

Police spray a “chemical agent” on protesters in Bascom Hall on the second day of a sit-in. Ward gives in to the protesters’ demands and revokes UW’s membership from the Fair Labor Association.

The Student Action Labor Coalition demands UW break its contract with Adidas because of alleged sweatshop violations.

Dec. 2011 SLAC holds a rally at Bascom Hall calling for UW to cut its contract with Adidas for reasons similar to the grounds on which Nike was cut.

GAB to launch multimedia campaign on voter ID Wisconsin to see multitude of ads reinforcing voting law requirements Mitchell Herrmann News Reporter Wisconsin government oversight officials are preparing to educate voters on new requirements at the polls before next year ’s state elections bring the implementation of

controversial voter ID laws.

The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board plans to promote public awareness leading up to the enacting of the voter ID law next year, according to GAB spokesperson Reid Magney.

The voter ID law was signed by Gov. Scott Walker last spring. It will require all Wisconsin voters to present a valid, current state-issued identification card to poll

attendants to be able to vote in any election.

To avoid confusion, the GAB is running an awareness campaign to inform voters of the law changes and remind them to bring their IDs to vote next year.

“Beginning in January, we are launching a multimedia ad campaign,” Magney said. “We will have TV ads, radio spots, a text message program, print ads, transit ads and billboards around the state.”

According to a memorandum for the GAB’s meeting Tuesday, the theme of the campaign is “Bring It to the Ballot” to remind those with a valid ID that it will become necessary to vote. The GAB will also focus on teaching those without an ID how to acquire a free state-issued one.

The ads will be used to attract people back to the campaign’s website, www.bringit.wisconsin. gov, or get them to call (866) VOTE-WIS for more

Virtual reality?

Madison community member Eric Southwell examines his environment during his trip to the CAVE, Living Environments Laboratory Monday afternoon. The exhibit makes its home at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, and anyone can register for a 15-minute slot to be taken to another virtual environment.

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information, according to a statement from the GAB. “The ads are only 15 and 30 seconds apiece,” Magney said. “They will direct people back to [bringit.wisconsin.gov], which lets them know if their ID is acceptable, and if it isn’t, how to get a free one.”

The statement said the GAB has hired advertising firm Knupp & Watson & Wallman to develop the campaign.

State funds will also be used to develop

and run the campaign, but the GAB is making partnerships to help lower the associated costs.

“For our media buys (television and radio), we have used the State of Wisconsin’s contract with Wisconsin Broadcasters Association to secure 28 weeks of broadcast media placement, … guaranteeing that public service announcements run statewide during unsold periods throughout the day,” the

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UWM students hit with scandal Student government president accused of sexual assault; members faces theft charges Molly McCall City Reporter

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s student government was recently thrown into turmoil when its vice president was accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student officer and was subsequently pressured to resign.

According to a timeline documenting the case compiled by UW-M student newspaper The UWM Post, former Student Association Vice President Brent Johnson allegedly assaulted a victim, another member of the student government, in her apartment early in the morning of Sept. 25.

The harassment allegedly continued

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800 Number of newspapers estimated to have been stolen from the UWM Post

$10,000 Maximum fine if convicted of newspaper theft in Wisconsin

4 years Maximum jail time if convicted of newspaper theft in Wisconsin Source: Student Press Law Center

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Members of the University of Wisconsin’s student government provided insight into a number of current issues central to student life on the UW campus at a meeting Monday.

Members of the Legislative Affairs Committee heard a presentation about how to lobby a Republican legislator in response to recent student government pushes to work with members of both parties against the voter ID bill and the student tenant rights bill.

Dan Posca, an Associated Students of Madison and Student Services Finance Committee representative, spoke on the proper technique of lobbying, specifically in relation to speaking with legislators on the Republican side.

Researching the legislator and the specifics of the

legislation is key to a successful lobby, Posca said. He said the extra homework done would impress the legislator and help representatives take the meeting seriously, which can be an issue when students are presenting a cause.

Despite common disagreements when students and legislators do not see eye to eye, Posca said student lobbyists should always remember to keep a respectful demeanor during meetings.

“To be honest, we do not have the best image at the Capitol,” he said. “We need to work on repairing that image so when we go up there, legislators will like to hear from students and will look forward to it.”

Following Posca’s presentation, students on the committee met with Mark Woulf, the city’s alcohol policy coordinator, to debate a proposed nuisance party ordinance that would hold student tenants and the city’s landlords to higher punishments for large and out of control parties.

The bill states if a gathering fits four of nine criteria pertaining to alcohol and noise related violations,

it would be deemed a nuisance party, and fines would be issued. Repeated violations would involve alderpersons, and as a last resort, students could face eviction after multiple parties in a six-month span, Woulf said.

Woulf said the purpose of this bill was to not only drive down the size of private house parties, but to also force negligent landlords to be more involved in their properties.

He said landlords and tenants would sit down with the city and come up with a list of expectations to be met after the first violation.

If landlords do not meet these expectations of working with their tenants and a nuisance is reported again, they are subject to fines under the new proposal.

While members of the committee said they liked the general context of what the proposal’s intentions are, they told Woulf the bill would not elicit the kind of response the city is targeting. They said the city should consider alternative avenues to achieve the same goals.

As the meeting came to a close, the committee

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SSFC Rep. Dan Posca presents to Leg. Affairs members on the best way for students to lobby legislators, especially when meeting with representatives who hold opposite views. turned its attention to the Mifflin Street Block Party after meeting with members of the Mifflin Neighborhood Association last week.

The two groups came together to debate how the party could be made a positive experience rather than one the community is worried about after multiple stabbings occurred at last year’s event.

ASM Legislative Affairs Chair Hannah Somers told the committee the group’s

work was productive.

ASM Chair Allie Gardner also talked about the UW restructuring that is occurring through a government-sponsored task force committee.

She suggested there be a similar student group that would voice their opinions on the decisions of the official task force.

“We’re seen as simply a source of revenue without having anything to say,” she said.

Environmentalists: Mining bill bad for state Legislation could detrimentally impact green initiative, drown out citizens’ fears in permit process Leah Linscheid Deputy State Editor Assembly Republicans introduced a mining bill Thursday that environmentalists say would detrimentally affect Wisconsin’s green protections and stifle citizen input in the mining permit process.

Sam Weis, spokesperson for the environmental advocacy organization Clean Wisconsin, said the introduced bill outlines a streamlined process for mining companies to obtain permits.

Weis said the legislation was introduced in response to mining company Gogebic Taconite’s plans to create an iron mine in northern Wisconsin and is similar to a bill circulated last spring that was removed from the agenda after considerable

UWM, from 1 when representatives traveled to Washington, D.C. for a conference in October, according to the timeline.

Johnson allegedly made “unwelcome sexual advances” toward the victim while the two were at a nightclub on the trip.

The victim resigned from office a month after the second incident, the timeline said. Twelve days later, Johnson was taken into police custody and was subsequently suspended from UW-M. In a letter dated Dec. 6, Johnson formally resigned from office while declining to officially accept responsibility for the allegations made against him.

“Rather than to watch

public outcry over environmental concerns.

Weis said he was concerned for certain aspects of the current bill that allow mining corporations to dump toxic waste in wetlands and rivers and potentially contaminate the groundwater of neighboring properties to levels exceeding current standards.

According to Mike Mikalsen, spokesperson for Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, the bill will not affect environmental regulations because it focuses solely on the permit process mining corporations are required to go through.

“There’s nothing in the bill that rolls back environmental protections; that is simply false,” Mikalsen said. “The final decision of whether a mine will go into play and how it will function will still be up

to other departments. This bill does absolutely nothing in terms of a final decision.

This is just a way to speed up the process for making those decisions.”

Mikalsen said the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the national Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will make the final decision regarding whether a mining corporation will receive a permit to begin mining in the state.

University of Wisconsin environmental studies professor Calvin DeWitt cited a specific clause in the proposed mining bill that he said outlines potential detrimental effects to the environment.

“With all due respect, the law itself conflicts with what [Mikalsen] is saying,”

DeWitt said. “What the bill actually says is that there’s no recourse but to destroy wetlands if they get in the way. It is outlined in page 53 very clearly.”

Weis said the bill not only negatively affects the environment, but would also prevent citizens from bringing a lawsuit against a mining corporation if they witness illegal activity.

“The bill doesn’t just roll back absolutely common sense environmental protections, it limits what citizens can do to hold mining corporations accountable if they break the law, and that’s very concerning,” Weis said.

According to Weis, the bill would stifle public input throughout the mining permit process beyond removing citizen suits. For example, the bill would eliminate the use

of contested case hearings where the public has an opportunity to question mining corporations under oath.

Mikalsen said citizen lawsuits discourage corporations from opening mines and therefore creating more jobs in Wisconsin.

“They’re making it economically impossible for any entity to go through a three- or four-year process of obtaining a permit, and even after that process, they’re allowed to be sued by different groups like Clean Wisconsin,” Mikalsen said.

“Those people apparently don’t care about the need for jobs.”

Mikalsen said mining corporations not only bring mining jobs to Wisconsin but also provide jobs to manufacturing companies that create mining equipment.

as this Association combats controversies, distraction and groundless innuendo, I choose to tender my resignation, effective immediately,” he said in the letter. SA officers released a statement Dec. 11 that said they would have impeached Johnson had he chosen to not resign.

“If he were still in office, we would motion … [for] the impeachment and removal of former Vice President Brent Johnson for conduct unbecoming of an SA official and abuse of powers,” the statement said.

The SA also came under fire recently when reports broke that members had been involved in the theft of approximately 800

copies of the UWM Post on Oct. 31 and may now face civil suit charges.

According to a statement from the UWM Post, the accused are former SA President Alex Kostal and former Senate Oversight and Rules Committee Vice Chairman David Sidhu.

The theft occurred in response to an editorial in the paper, which criticized Johnson’s “Brighten the Night” event, a night walk around campus neighborhoods to help eliminate students’ fear of crime, the statement said.

The statement said because both of the accused are acting representatives of the state under Wisconsin State Statute, they can be

held accountable under civil rights law.

Zach Erdmann, the UWM Post’s Editor in Chief, said the missing papers were discovered when his distribution manager called him and expressed concern over a lack of papers at the student union.

“We weren’t expecting it to be a particularly hot issue,” Erdmann said.

He said it had been a slow week for news, but when an estimated 800 papers was reported missing, it was enough to be curious.

Erdmann said he filed a police report Nov. 2, but did not hear anything back for a couple of weeks.

“We didn’t suspect foul play,” Erdmann said.

In mid-November, an

employee at the UWM Post and the student union was able to get a hold of security camera footage and saw two people taking the papers, Erdmann said.

Erdmann said they started an investigation and eventually found people to go on the record saying the president told SA office manager Andrew Hapka to steal the papers.

According to the statement, Hapka, who is also a roommate of Kostal and Sidhu, said he and the president committed the theft and that Sidhu helped dispose of the papers after the UWM Post made inquiries.

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ADIDAS, from 1 provide more information about the work done with PT Kizone.

The statement also said Adidas terminated its commercial relationship with PT Kizone 10 months before it closed and that when it worked with the factory, it monitored the workplace to make sure it followed Adidas standards.

“We have taken meaningful actions to support the displaced workers from PT Kizone, including requesting

our other suppliers in the area hire the former workers to fill open positions at their factories and commissioning and funding an independent job placement agency to help the former workers retrain and obtain new jobs,” the statement said.

In a report, the WRC also said PT Kizone produced for Nike and the Dallas Cowboys, among other brands. The report also stated Adidas has refused to contribute monetarily at this point, and nearly $1.8 million is still owed to the workers.

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However, given short notice, not all timeslots may be available from the WBA, in which case it may cost the state up to $250,000 to purchase airtime at market rates, the statement said.

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin also plans to help educate voters, DPW spokesperson Graeme Zielinski said.

“We’ll be out in the community checking to see if folks have IDs [and] letting them

know the steps they have to take if they

“We should help people to comply with the law so everyone who can legally vote can do so.”

Andrew Welhouse Spokesperson for Sen. Scott Fitzgerald don’t have IDs. We just think everyone should be able to vote,” he

said.

Andrew Welhouse, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, also emphasized the importance of voting and of educating voters now before the law changes occur.

“There were a number of provisions, including financial resources, to educate people,” Welhouse said. “We should help people to comply with the law so everyone who can legally vote can do so.”

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Campus dissects gender meaning Campus Women’s Center members highlight misleading, unnecessary societal constructs Courtney Mullen News Reporter Members of the University of Wisconsin community delved into the meaning of gender Monday night as the Campus Women’s Center took on the meanings of masculinity, femininity and the associations held with “gender” during a group workshop.

The discussion was led

by UW senior and CWC intern Katie Cierzan and assisted by UW junior and CWC outreach coordinator Danaan Mirr.

The conversation began as Mirr explained the meaning of a safe space — a place where everyone can voice their opinion and where everyone else respects differing viewpoints.

The workshop then transitioned to a brief overview of basic definitions relating to gender.

“There is a difference between gender and sex.

Sex deals with if you are biologically born as a male or a female, whereas gender deals with construction — what society views as male or female,” Cierzan said. “Gender, as viewed in

society, is assigned rather than chosen by the person.”

Other terms clarified by Cierzan included: asexual — not physically attracted to either male or female; pansexual — someone physically attracted to an individual for the person they are regardless of gender; bisexual — someone who takes into account the gender of another person but is physically attracted to both genders, and transgender — someone who is biologically male or female but associates with the opposite gender.

Mirr clarified some of the misperceptions associated with transgendered individuals.

“A lot of people think that cross-dressing and transgender are the same thing, but they aren’t,” Mirr said.

The discussion then transitioned into stereotypes associated with women.

A major stereotype associated with women is that they are not as good at science and math as men, Cierzan said. Cierzan emphasized that while these roles are not always stated, they are enforced through

Malory Goldin The Badger Herald

Campus Women’s Center intern Katie Cierzan leads a community discussion on the roles gender plays in society and the constructions often associated with the term during a workshop Monday. actions.

Society also enforces gender-related stereotypes beginning at an early age, Cierzan said.

The group tackled the common example where children’s toys are geared toward their biological sex versus the child’s preference.

Cierzan pointed out that a two-year-old would not be able to determine which toy they are given and said these decisions, passed down through society’s influences on parents, can

have a substantial impact on children later in life.

“No one ever told me that I couldn’t be in science when I was younger,” Cierzan said. “It just kind of happened.”

The discussion then transitioned into how age, race, religion and other core qualities may play into how people identify with their gender in society.

The group also focused on how individuals acquire stereotypes from outside societal influences based on

their biological sex.

Workshop attendees then viewed the film “Why Men And Women Can’t Be Friends” and took the movie apart to determine its meaning.

In this video, a man goes to a library on a university campus and asks men and women their opinions on whether or not men and women can be just friends.

The results were that most of the women agreed that yes, they can be just friends, while most of the men said

no, they cannot.

After viewing the video, the group discussed the possibility that the video might be biased and also how men and women might have different definitions of friendship in general.

In regards to how the workshop went in general, participant and UW freshman Emily Cierzan said the event detailed a number of societal issues.

“It was very informal and an eye-opening experience,” she said.

CRIME in Brief UNIVERSITY AVENUE BATTERY A 19-year-old University of Wisconsin student and a 28-yearold Madison man were assaulted Saturday morning when the student tried to come between three men who were arguing, according to a Madison Police Department report.

One of the suspects grabbed the student and held him down while another began beating the 28-year-old man.

The student broke free and pulled the suspect off of the second victim. The victim was then taken to a hospital.

MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said most batteries take place on weekend nights and are heavily alcohol-influenced.

“Many batteries take place after midnight and bar time,” he said. “We have additional patrols on nights where we see the most

problems, so we do everything we can to have a police presence.”

Still, he said, “that’s not going to stop” an intoxicated person from getting into a fight.

SOUTH PARK STREET Overdose Madison Police and Fire responded to a call Thursday from a convenience store on South Park Street after a young woman overdosed on heroin in the bathroom, an MPD report said.

When officers arrived, they found a syringe in the woman’s purse and other heroin paraphernalia in the bathroom trash.

Officers managed to revive her and take her to a hospital, where she received treatment, the report said.

DeSpain called heroin use a “public health crisis” and said addiction is an increasing prob-

lem.

“One major problem is with opiates being prescribed to people who get hooked and go on to use heroin,” he said. “The city is trying to help people who are addicted get off drugs. We’re still seeing heroin reports on a weekly basis.”

CURRY PARKWAY Overdose A 21-year-old man was found passed out and not breathing inside a Curry Parkway apartment Friday, an MPD report said.

Police arrived and performed chest compressions. Fire paramedics then arrived and administered Narcan, returning the man to consciousness.

He was taken to a local hospital and booked for possession of heroin and paraphernalia.

DeSpain said heroin use is largely concentrated in certain areas.

“There are certain corridors, particularly near interstates, where we’ve had considerably more heroin sales and heroin use,” he said.

He added the city is increasing its efforts to combat heroin use.

“At the urging of Police Chief [Noble] Wray, the county executive and the mayor have gotten a group together to address the use of heroin, opiates and narcotics,” he said.

got into his car and accelerated out of the lot. On his way, he ran over a police officer’s foot, the report said.

The car was later located and found to contain marijuana and an electric scale. Its owner was also found walking on a nearby road.

VERONA ROAD Drug Investigation

A 15-year-old was arrested Sunday after an altercation with an East Towne security guard, an MPD report said.

The boy told the guard his father is a gang member and added that if the guard did not let him go without punishment, he would be killed, the report said.

Police were called, who then arrested the boy and his female accomplice. They were found to have stolen a BB pistol, a fixed blade knife, gloves and black neoprene face masks.

A citizen called the police Sunday to inform them of a drug deal in process on Verona Road, an MPD report said.

One of the suspects was found in possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia when officers responded and was taken into custody.

The other suspect refused to be questioned by the officers,

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Wis. schools employing merit pay Districts around the state have begun implementing salaries based on performances Mike Kujak State Reporter School districts across Wisconsin have made strides toward reforming the state’s teacher evaluation process by implementing new merit-based salaries for teachers under new powers provided by the budget repair legislation.

Under Gov. Scott Walker ’s controversial legislation, bargaining units for teachers are still able to negotiate base wages, but cannot negotiate other areas, including certain funds allocated for teacher performance. The bill now gives more authority to district leaders to make changes in working conditions, hours and compensation systems for teachers and staff.

Cedarburg School District in eastern Wisconsin is one of many schools making a move toward the merit-pay system for teachers. The district’s superintendent, Daryl Herrick, said the new criteria for pay would be based on a new evaluation model.

“There would be

teachers in threeyear cycles,” Herrick said. “There will be varied activities in the cycles where both the evaluator and the teacher provide direct observations to indicate their performance levels.

We’ll also have a goalsetting process in order to determine performance.”

Although Herrick has been working toward reforming the teacher evaluation process over the last six years, he said the Walker ’s repair bill gave the district the opportunity to create a pool of money based strictly on performance.

According to the budget repair legislation, there are two pools of money on hand. One pool is made of base wages that teachers can negotiate over, and a separate set of money is available that can be allocated based on performance.

Herrick said he is implementing the meritpay system criteria toward the $300,000 pool of money set aside for teacher performance.

According to Herrick, under the new criteria

the Cedarburg School District will no longer be acknowledging experience, graduate credits or master ’s degrees for the 2011-2012 school year.

Discussions on the

“The challenge is, and where the work really resides, is doing accurate, professional and fair evaluations of teachers.”

Daryl Herrick Superintendent Cedarburg School District pay-for-performance system have gone well, with the 25 percent of the Cedarburg School District’s teachers who have been included in the dialogue thus far, Herrick said. In the coming weeks, Herrick said he plans to go to every school in the district to explain the new system.

“The pay-forperformance part is pretty easy,” Herrick said. “The challenge

is, and where the work really resides, is doing accurate, professional and fair evaluations of teachers. That’s where we’ve done our work, so it’s been a reasonable transition to connect that to pay for performance.”

Daniel Nerad, Madison Metropolitan School District superintendent, said merit pay is relatively new and still in a developmental stage.

Acording to Nerad, major conclusions should not be reached at this point in time concerning the new process.

“Our approach would be to let this work unfold and see what models, if any, bear looking at,” Nerad said.

Nerad said the MMSD’s current evaluation process is based on national teaching standards and focuses on development.

According to Nerad, evaluation reform will vary from district to district depending on if a school district has existing contracts up to June 30, 2013 or not.

Cedarburg currently has a contract, and Madison does not.

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SSFC aims to better relations Committee sets goal to host power, privilege session for student government members Danielle Miller Campus Reporter Members of student government reflected on the past semester and planned future relations with student fee-funded groups in a meeting Monday in which a student organization’s budget was also altered and finalized.

Student Services Finance Committee members were praised for creating a welcoming environment during the meeting’s open forum.

Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group chair Matt Kozlowski commended the committee on extending itself to benefit student organizations this semester.

“With this year, I do see a lot more reaching out to groups and SSFC being a resource to groups,” Kozlowski said.

This coincided with comments made by Campus Women’s Center members following last week’s SSFC meeting covering the organization’s budget.

According to Rep. Tia Nowack, CWC members made comments recognizing the positive atmosphere this year’s committee put forth.

SSFC Chair Sarah Neibart also quoted a CWC member as saying that the current SSFC has a “very different climate” than had been experienced in previous years.

Keeping in line with this trend of working with student organizations in a positive manner, Neibart said that following winter break, SSFC and GSSF groups will be hosting a power and privilege programming session to improve relations between the entities.

Rep. Tito Diaz said the session would be a way to improve communication.

“We would like to better the relationship between SSFC and GSSF groups,” Diaz said. “We need to figure out how best to communicate with GSSF groups.”

Nowack, who has been working with Neibart and Diaz on the project, said that communication between SSFC and GSSF groups has been strained in the past. This, she said, may be partially attributed to how past committees interacted with these organizations.

Neibart added that prior to the power and privilege programming session, SSFC

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SSFC Rep. Tito Diaz agrees with other members of the committee that hosting a power and privilege programming session for some members of the student government next semester could be a positive investment. He said the committee would ultimately like to promote better communication and relationships with GSSF groups, and the session could aid in improving communications. will schedule a debriefing for the committee to review its own performance during the fall semester and discuss areas for improvement.

A date for the power and privilege programming session has yet to be determined, Neibart said, but it will be open to any GSSF groups interested in participating.

The full content of the session must also be decided, Neibart said.

“We will be talking about

power and privilege and having an open dialogue with GSSF groups,” Neibart said.

Last night’s meeting also included the finalization of a modified budget for the student organization Adventure Learning Programs.

Modifications included striking one cent from each hourly wage for ALPs staff, lowering the staff’s salary to $100,619.97.

Additionally, the low

ropes division of ALPs will be receiving an extra $200 to their transportation budget, with the high ropes division receiving $250 for transportation purposes.

These allowances will be used to convey ALPs staff to and from group-sponsored workshops.

According to ALPs members Abby Dare and Sam Rotter, the organization puts on, on average, 70 workshops throughout the year.

The facilities used for these workshops are an approximately 10-minute drive from campus and therefore a lengthy bike ride for some, Rotter said.

This, he said, necessitates transportation funds to supplement the group’s current practice in which group members provide their own personal vehicles for transport.

The ALPS finalized budget was decided at $151,005.65.

Group charged to find fitting dean of human ecology Committee hitting full swing in search for individual to implement changes Tess Keegan News Reporter The search for a new dean of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Human Ecology is in full swing following last week’s announcement of a 13-person search and screen committee.

The committee is

currently in the stage of recruiting exceptional applicants, according to chair David Riley, who is also a UW professor of human development and family studies.

This stage extends beyond merely posting the job opening in newsletters, Riley said.

Instead, the effort relies on the collective professional networks of committee members and their knowledge of great leaders around the country and the world, he added.

The new dean will receive an energizing start,

as their term will coincide with the addition of muchimproved facilities, Riley said.

These improved facilities are part of the $52 million expansion and renovation that began in 2010 and effectively double the available space for the school, according to a UW statement. Construction is slated to wrap up in summer 2012.

Riley said the search and screen committee is looking for someone who can fully utilize their knowledge and diverse expertise within human

ecology to lead the school into the future.

“It’s a great time for thinking about how to push us to the next level of excellence, so we’re looking for a visionary leader who is able to dream big,” Riley said.

“This is an extraordinary university and is a wonderful time in the history of the School of Human Ecology to come in as a leader.”

The school is comprised of trans-disciplinary departments with a collective mission of improving the quality of

human life, according to the school’s current dean, Robin Douthitt.

Douthitt said that through education, research and outreach, the school touches on several dimensions of human interactions within communities and non-profit organizations, the interface between consumers and the market, the progression of human development through infancy to old age and also designed environments and their effects on people.

Faculty and staff come from a wide array of

domains and include counseling psychologists, economists, architects, cyber-artists, community developers and textile designers, Douthitt added.

Douthitt, who has served as the School of Human Ecology’s dean since 2001, said when the new dean comes on board in the fall, they will be participating in a “year-long celebration” of the new facilities, citing the fact that any time programs get renovations or expansions like this, they will forever be transformed.

Rumors surface in light of Pakistani president’s leave Officials say leader on medical absence, others allege Zardari fleeing army ousting Sebastian Abbot The Associated Press

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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is escorted by former U.S. ambassador Husain Haqqani in Multan, Pakistan. The president has taken two weeks of medical leave for “exhaustion.” Some individuals have speculated Zardari’s absence is a sign of weakness in a time when the military could again be threatening a coup.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will likely need two weeks to rest in Dubai following medical treatment there before he returns home, the prime minister said, in comments that could add to speculation about the leader’s health and whether he is losing his grip on power.

Questions about the president’s future come as Pakistan is navigating a rough patch in relations with its most important ally, the United States, following NATO airstrikes last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The government called more than a dozen of its envoys back to Islamabad amid the crisis for a rare 2-day meeting that started Monday.

The attack has pushed the already strained U.S.Pakistani relationship close to the breaking point, imperiling Washington’s efforts to get Islamabad to cooperate on the Afghan war. Turmoil surrounding the Pakistani president would further complicate matters.

Zardari flew to Dubai last week for treatment related to a heart condition, setting off rumors he was fleeing army attempts to oust him following a scandal that has already forced the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. to resign.

The government initially said Zardari’s trip was routine and he would be home in a few days. But reports have surfaced since then that the president’s condition was more serious, with some unnamed officials saying he suffered a mini stroke.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani denied the president had a stroke in an interview with the BBC late Sunday. He said Zardari needed medical attention because he was “exhausted.”

“That was the reason and now his tests are clear, and he is improving,” said Gilani. “I did talk to him, and he has been talking to other Cabinet ministers as well. He sounded very well.”

The president’s supporters say the stories about his health and ulterior motives for going to Dubai have been whipped up by his political opponents. Speculation of military moves against the civilian government are common in Pakistan because the army has staged several coups and ruled the country for much of its more than 60year history.

Zardari has been under serious pressure since Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, was forced to resign amid allegations he sent a memo to Washington asking for its help in preventing a supposed military coup following the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May. The U.S. operation in a Pakistani garrison town outraged officials in Islamabad because they were not told about it beforehand.

Mansoor Ijaz, a U.S. businessman of Pakistani origin, has claimed that Haqqani crafted the memo

with the support of Zardari.

Both Haqqani and the president have denied the allegations.

Zardari has been asked to appear before the Supreme Court in its investigation into the memo scandal. The first hearing is scheduled for Dec. 19, and the president will submit his reply to the court if he has not returned from Dubai, said Zardari’s spokesman, Farhatullah Babar, according to Pakistan’s leading Englishlanguage newspaper, Dawn.

The State Department has said the U.S. believes Zardari’s trip to Dubai is “completely health-related” and not connected to the memo scandal.

In September, Zardari underwent an angiography — a medical imaging technique used to visualize the blood vessels of the heart — and some routine medical tests at London’s Royal Brompton Hospital and was reported to have received a clean bill of health.

Washington is likely watching Zardari’s situation very closely since the president is seen as a fairly solid ally of the U.S. However, the Pakistani army is the strongest player in the country and is still outraged by the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 soldiers along the Afghan border on Nov. 26.

The army has claimed the attack was a deliberate act of aggression — an allegation denied by the U.S. The meeting of envoys in Islamabad will likely focus at least in part on the crisis between the U.S. and Pakistan. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and the head of the army’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha, attended Monday’s session.

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Opinion page should be In upcoming primaries, forum for student voice GOP field wide yet barren Allegra Dimperio Editorial Page Editor In its purest form, the opinion page of a newspaper is a forum where citizens can share ideas, express concerns and promote change. It is a place where readers can find out not just what happened, but how what happened will impact them. It is also a place where all ideas are welcome and readers are occasionally inspired to become contributors.

The opinion page of The Badger Herald does not always attain this ideal, but it is not for lack of trying. Every semester a team of dedicated students take on the role of opinion writer, penning their thoughts for all their peers to see. They do their best to shed light on issues on campus, to call out politicians for bad behavior and to analyze the impact of proposed legislation and University of Wisconsin policies.

Sometimes they are insightful, sometimes they are inciting and sometimes they are incapable of proving a point, but they are all adding to the campus dialogue. Though the writers represent the best of those who applied for the position, they do not represent the whole student body.

Many opinions go unheard on the page, and it has been the struggle of each editor to give voice to those opinions. Every year we look for ways to get more students involved in the page, to encourage dialogue

and to solicit ideas. This task is more challenging than it may appear.

Each of you has an opinion on something; many have opinions on lots of things. But most are not compelled to share that opinion with others. But if each student on campus wrote just one opinion column, we would have enough content to fill the page for 95 academic years. No, that is not a misprint.

While we do not expect 40,000-some submissions to find their way to our inbox, we do strive for as much involvement from students as possible.

While we strive for total representation, our page can only publish what is sent to us: If you feel your opinion is not being represented, you are the only one that change that.

I have read valiant attempts at persuasive statements, and I have read downright awful columns.

Next semester the page will again seek out the opinions of many, but will likely be left with the opinions of the dedicated few.

Our efforts of inviting guest editorial board members will continue, as will our acceptance of letters to the editor and guest columns from those who have something to say but do not have the time to write on a regular basis. The page will renew its efforts to seek out opinions from student organizations.

But to make the page a reflection of the opinions of campus as a whole, we really need your help.

As outgoing Opinion editor, I have had the pleasure of reading the opinions of a diverse swatch of the student body. I have read scathing statements insulting politicians and policies, I have read humble pieces in support of drug reform, education and the environment, I have read valiant attempts at persuasive statements, and I have read downright awful columns. But each of those columns was written by someone who felt the need to tell the world what they thought.

We all have issues we care deeply about, we all have news stories that provoke strong feelings in us and we all have something to say.

Though not all current events elicit a reaction in us to take action or speak out, the next time a story comes up that gets a reaction from you, I challenge you to write about it. Take 600 to 800 words and tell us how you really feel.

There is likely someone on campus who agrees with you, and they’ll thank you for making your voice heard.

The Badger Herald opinion page may not be the ideal forum, but effort from both staff and readers can push it closer to that goal.

When you come back next semester, keep oped@badgerherald. com in your address book. Your fellow students will be ready to hear what you have to say.

Allegra Dimperio (adimperio@ badgerherald.com) is a junior majoring in journalism.

Ryan Plesh Staff Writer With the 2012 Iowa caucuses scheduled for Jan. 3, 2012, the Republican Party presidential primary race should begin to take form soon. With the recent suspension of Herman Cain’s campaign, eight candidates remain.

However, that number is sure to dwindle shortly after the Iowa caucuses because there are basically three groups of candidates right now: the frontrunners, the walking dead and the reasonable candidates that have no chance.

Thus far, the race has seen its fair share of ups and downs in the polls. Various candidates have surged and then lost support quickly.

Mitt Romney has been the frontrunner for the nomination since he lost to McCain in the 2008 primaries. He’s an experienced politician, but there are several things holding him back. Romney is not a social conservative, and the way in which he has changed his positions over the years on the most controversial social issues disturbs many conservatives.

Furthermore, the health care program he enacted while governor of Massachusetts is strikingly similar to the plan enacted by President Barack Obama, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, unless you’re a Republican.

The newest challenger to Mitt Romney’s position as head honcho is Newt Gingrich. There can be no doubt in the minds of Republicans about his conservative credentials, although there are

concerns regarding his personal ethics. It’s more than a little bit ironic that Herman Cain’s withdrawal from the race due to an alleged sexual affair is expected to help Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, had a very public affair of his own while spearheading the campaign to impeach President Bill Clinton for sexual misconduct.

Rick Perry is the third frontrunner, although he is one of the candidates who peaked early and may now fade into oblivion. He’s a legitimate conservative, and Texas saw more job growth during his tenure as governor than any other state in the nation. However, he is a horrendous debater, and most Republicans seem to recognize that no matter how much they like him, he would be shredded in debates with an outstanding orator like Obama.

The candidates in noman’s-land are US Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum.

Both are hardcore social conservatives; Bachmann experienced an early swell with support from the Tea Party, but has since fizzled out, while Santorum has consistently polled very low. Neither candidate really has any chance of winning the Republican nomination in 2012.

One candidate who has put forth serious policy proposals throughout his campaign is Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah.

Huntsman is socially conservative, but he’s not afraid to admit that he believes in things like global warming and evolution, which are subjects that are usually taboo for Republicans.

Fiscally, Huntsman is also conservative, but he takes a more moderate

approach than most of his competitors. Huntsman supported raising the debt ceiling, wants to reform the tax code and wants to limit the size of a handful of major banks in the United States so that they cannot be “too big to fail.”

Another intriguing candidate who has not received much attention thus far in the race is former governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson.

He is a libertarian to his core, and many of his positions are similar to those advanced by Ron Paul. However, Johnson has actual executive experience. One serious criticism of Paul is that no one knows if he would actually reduce the size of the federal government to the extent he claims he would, and no one knows exactly what the effects would be. However, while governor, Johnson vetoed more bills than every other governor combined, and the sky didn’t fall on the Land of Enchantment Of course, the only remaining candidate is Ron Paul. Ever-present, always consistent, Paul is the face of modern libertarianism, but he has no real chance to win the nomination, and sadly, is such a black sheep within the Republican Party that the chance of him being appointed to a position in any potential Republican president’s cabinet is probably null.

The Republican primaries are just beginning, but shortly after the Iowa caucuses in early January, there will probably only be a few candidates left standing.

It is anyone’s guess who they’ll be. Of course, the three frontrunners all have a great chance of doing well in Iowa, but Huntsman or Johnson may be able to make a run in the near future.

Ryan Plesh (rplesh@wisc. edu) is a senior majoring in philosophy and physics.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Reading Corps tutoring meaningful job for alums Graduating this semester and need a job? Minnesota Reading Corps has 1,100 tutor positions to fill for the 2012-2013 school year.

These literacy tutors serve in schools across Minnesota, working toward ensuring that all kids read at grade level by the end of third grade.

Currently, somewhere around 15,000 third graders in Minnesota fail to achieve basic literacy skills by third grade. This is a vital age, when children need to stop learning to read and start reading to learn. The Reading Corps helps to lower that 15,000 by working one-on-one with kindergarten through third grade students in their schools, using datadriven reading strategies to improve students’ skills.

The Minnesota Reading Corps and its companion organization, the Minnesota Math Corps, are AmeriCorps programs. This gives volunteers who are recent graduates useful benefits, such as the option of putting student loans into forbearance and earning an education award upon completion of service that can go toward loans or grad school.

Both of these are on top of a year’s worth of work experience, a living allowance, plenty of opportunity for professional development and invaluable support of the youth in our communities.

Working for the Minnesota Reading Corps has been a valuable experience for me. After I recently

graduated from the University of Wisconsin, I was looking for a short-term commitment that offered me a chance to give back to the community that I grew up in. By working one on one with students from St. Paul schools, I have found a way to give back and learn from my work at the same time. Watching a child finally make a new connection in reading creates a sense of accomplishment that rivals completing my degree. Education is a vital aspect of our lives, and yet across the nation many students are falling behind. Reading Corps data reports that seven out of 10 children enrolled in tutoring services pass the reading portion of their standardized testing at the end of third grade — all of whom were students who were on track to fail beforehand.

The Minnesota Reading Corps is a rapidly growing organization, hoping to expand even further in order to better serve the needs of our students. This year, there are around 800 tutors working to make a difference in children’s lives. As previously mentioned, next year an amazing 1,100 tutors will be in elementary schools all over the state, and you can be one of them. Choose to give back and put your education to good use! The online application opens Dec. 15.

Carissa Carroll (carissa.l.carroll@ gmail.com) is a UW graduate and an elementary literacy tutor.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Every day it’s religion, religion, religion.”

-ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR, FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION The state Capitol now boasts a nativity scene, which was set up by a conservative group, Wisconsin Family Action. Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation is now mischievously planning its own holiday “solstice” scene, which will contain “a different type of wise people.”

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What? You still don’t get it? Come, on, really? It’s not calculus or anything. Honestly, if you don’t know how to do a sudoku by now, you’ve probably got more issues than this newspaper.

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East of Park, ‘Wild Waste’ awaits

Student-painter assembled gallery product of entire semester’s work; eclectic gallery opens this week in Humanities Bennet Goldstein ArtsEtc. Reporter Students in the University of Wisconsin’s art department have committed the egregious error of underselling their passion and talent for creating works of art.

All twelve students are enrolled in the department’s Advanced Painting Workshop, a thesis painting class for the university’s “most talented undergraduate painters,” professor Nancy Mladdenoff said.

This week, the workshop’s students have assembled a collection of their artworks from the past semester.

While they humorously call the exhibition the Wild Waste Show, visiting the Humanities Building’s 7th Floor Gallery reveals it is nothing of the sort.

Senior Anna Wehrwein explained that the difficulty in developing a title for this exhibit came out of organization of the workshop itself. The Wild Waste Show’s eclectic mix of artworks reflects this unique structure: “The title is sort of a non-sequitur. It’s hard because it’s a group show.

It’s very disparate. How do

you come up with a title for 12 different people?”

The Advanced Painting Workshop brings together undergraduate painters with a variety of interests and styles. Each semester, art majors may submit a portfolio for department review. This determines whether they are accepted into the workshop. Those who are accepted are given their own studio space and participate in the culminating show each semester.

Logistically, workshop painters select two or three pieces for each semester’s exhibition. For the Wild Waste Show, Wehrwein said that she and her classmates had two group critiques among the students and individual critiques with their professors. From these, each student chose their favorites: “We have much more work that’s not getting in,” Wehrwein said. “You picked the things you really felt great about.”

Most unique to the workshop are its free-form requirements. “We’re all sort of free,” Wehrwein said.

Fellow workshop student Kendall Helland added, “there are no assignments, no rules, nothing. We just get in the class; they give us our space and say, ‘go make a ton

of paintings. Make art.’”

This structure makes the Advanced Painting Workshop distinct from other courses in the art department.

“I remember feeling a shift from other painting classes and other art classes. [In those,] you’re a student and … have assignments. [The course instructors] set up parameters. All of a sudden, when you come to this class, you’re not being assessed as a student as much as an artist,” Wehrwein said.

Helland explained that this approach to creating art directly impacts the outcomes of students’s pieces. “[We learn] how to make stuff for a show, to make a product rather than just a project,” Helland said. While other art classes give students assignments like painting portraits or in abstract styles, workshop students focus on the longterm: “It’s not one project at a time. It’s the collective growth.”

Just because the requirements are openended does not imply that these painters do not work hard at their craft.

“We are all really serious artists who are planning to pursue this long term,” workshop student Cara

Feeney said. This devotion is evident when you visit their studios in the Humanities Building. In fact, the large amount of time these painters spend “on the ground” is metaphorical as well as literal: A mattress, couch and other life necessities all sit inside the workshop studios.

“There’s a certain point when you realize that when there is a fridge, a toaster oven, a microwave and a coffee pot, you probably should be living here,” Wehrwein observed.

Spending so much time together has made the group cohesive, sometimes even familial. “It’s close quarter; we’re talking, and we are working together to a certain extent and learning so much from each other,” Wehrwein said.

In their cozy workspaces, they discuss technique and share their thoughts about their peers’ artwork. This was certainly the case during the students’ preparation for the Wild Waste Show’s opening. Whether it was lastminute lightbulb installation or placement suggestions for their paintings, the subtler forms of collaboration among the group were evident.

Wehrwein’s painting,

Tom Zionkowski The Badger Herald

The art department’s Advanced Painting Workshop holds a gallery exhibition each semester to showcase their efforts. The deceptively titled ‘Wild Waste Show’ will be open through Friday. titled “Girls Talking to Girls about Boys” provides a great example of this. It depicts several hands scooping mouthwatering breakfast foods onto several plates.

“I was almost [finished].

I knew there was this plate of bacon that needed to be there, but I had no idea what color plate [to paint]. ‘What color is that? What color is that plate?’ And then [my classmate] Kelsey [Hall] had a little scrap of fabric in her studio, and she was like, ‘How about this?’ And we we held it up, [saying] ‘Yeah!

That’s right!’”

The words and phrases “elegant” and “like a New York gallery” have been used to describe the Wild Waste

Show. “This is on par with some of the best,” professor Derrick Buisch said. And Hall emphasized painting’s value for the university and artists all over: “This is exciting stuff! It’s bright, it’s new, [it’s] interesting. Interesting!”

The excitement generated for the Wild Waste Show illustrates two important things about the 12 students who live in the seventh floor attic above Park and University: they have demonstrated their aptitude for creating visual art and “self-deprecating” irony.

The Wild Waste Show will be open through Friday in the Humanities Building 7th Floor Gallery.

Exhibition impressive in theory, incomplete in practice Trippy 3D CAVE gallery features photo work of Lisa A. Frank Lin Weeks ArtsEtc. Content Editor One minute you’re staring at a blank wall. The next you’re ant-sized, looking up at flowers that seem to loom feet above your head, trying to brush away blades of grass that are dangerously close to your face. Of course, your hands go through the blades; they hit only air, unless you really reach, and then they hit plexiglass. You fly through space, rising in altitude and

increasing in size, until you can see fireworks overhead and the garden you once inhabited down below. At least, you see that unless you look behind you into the darkened room where four people and their computers sit at a table not 10 feet away.

If art is too expensive to view in its best form, should the viewer be impressed?

This is the paradox presented by <1>:”der”//pattern for a virtual environment now on display at Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. The exhibition is a series of immersive, three dimensional environments created by photographer and artist Lisa A. Frank (the Madison native, not the Lisa Frank of secondgrade girls’ social studies folder art fame). The

environments are projected onto the $2.5 million dollar Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) environment in the basement of WID and viewed through special glasses by groups of between six and eight people, plus a guide, in 15 minute increments.

The environments, such as they are, are spectacular.

Frank uses objects found in nature to create complex pattern-based designs that are remarkably easy to get lost in. The overall effect of her work (in still or virtual form) is like peering into a kaleidoscope while sitting in the woods. It’s an effective literal twist on the old nature-as-patterns idea that math textbooks love to reference, but acres more

visually arresting than a pen drawing of the golden ratio as found in a nautilus shell.

Her work is well suited for the CAVE environment, but the presentation is dampered somewhat by caution and setting. WID is, after all, a research facility, and its assets in this case are protected to the detriment of the artwork.

As was explained to the group, the environment is projected onto three sides of the ten-foot plexiglass cube, then reflected to the top and bottom via mirrors (the fourth side is missing so people can enter and leave). Advanced glasses make images pop out from all sides in similar fashion to a 3D movie and track the images so that a sense of perspective is maintained at

all times.

The problem is there’s little room to explore.

Since the display would be confused if multiple perspectives had to be maintained, the tour guide keeps the master bar (the one for which perspective is always maintained; think of it like the tracker you put on your TV stand in order to use a Wii) at his own eye level at all times. This means the best, most distortion-free view of the room is through his glasses. It’s clear that the keepers of the exhibit don’t trust people to view it by themselves — there are about four checkpoints and a locked door barring entry to the environment — but the artistic experience suffers as a result.

Still, the overall experience is mindopening, worth the visit and quite clearly dripping with potential applications. The guide mentioned that CAVE and other similar systems have been used in connection with elderly assisted living environments as well as architectural simulations to move in space through interiors before they’re finished. The ways it could be applied artistically, one would imagine, are similarly diverse — though it seems like a similar (if slightly less immersive) concept has already emerged in the form of 3D IMAX. However, for CAVE to become an effective gallery viewing experience, there remain major hurdles to clear.

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This new year, make feel-good resolutions you can keep Rachel Werts Low-fat Tuesday Columnist

products. By choosing whole grain breads, pastas and cereals or by using whole grain flour you will incorporate more B vitamins, iron and especially dietary fiber into your diet. The latter may help reduce your risk of heart disease and contribute to satiety, or fullness, with fewer calories.

It’s mid-December and that means it’s time for final exams, Rose Bowl preparations, holiday shopping and get-togethers, and a new year is just right around the corner. Many of us will choose to make resolutions to encourage ourselves to make 2012 our best year yet.

Although resolutions are typically synonymous with failure, making the resolution to live a healthier lifestyle in 2012 is easier to achieve than you think.

Start by choosing one or two simple things you want to change. These changes may seem minor, but they will add up over the year and become permanent healthy habits in your daily life.

The key to being successful in making these changes is to be specific.

Simply saying, “I want to eat healthier in 2012” is not going to cut it. Need some easy specific ideas for improving your 2012 eating habits? Try one (or two) of these.

Limit your consumption of regular and diet soft drinks.

Drinking one can of soda is the equivalent of adding 10 teaspoons of sugar to your diet. This is well over the recommended allowance of refined sugar, which is about six teaspoons a day for women or nine teaspoons for men. If you pass on one soda per day and don’t add on extra calories from something else, you can lose up to 15 pounds in a single year! So pass on sugary drinks all together, if possible, and choose a diet soda instead. Make sure to limit these as treats as well, though. The Harvard School of Public Health says artificial sweeteners can be up to 600 times sweeter than sugar and some studies suggest this may interfere with your body’s natural ability to assess caloric intake and satiety. A cup of water, fruit juice, or low-fat milk are healthy substitutions to incorporate into your diet instead.

Choose whole grains over refined ones.

Processing takes the natural vitamins and minerals out of grain

Keep a healthy meal pattern.

This means eating breakfast in the morning, which boosts your metabolism and not

skipping meals throughout the day to prevent binges.

Keep track of when you’re most likely to get hungry throughout the day and pack healthy snacks. Coming prepared with an apple or low-fat yogurt will keep you from adding unnecessary calories from those donuts and chips offered around campus and keep money in your pocket, as well. Healthy meal patterns also mean preventing late night binges.

Returning from a night out and ravishing everything in sight can really add up if you do it every weekend.

Remember only limiting your consumption of alcohol can truly prevent a hangover, so all that late night junk food is only hurting, not helping your healthy diet resolutions.

Shoot to make fruits and vegetables one half of what you eat at each meal.

The recommended ratio of vegetables to fruits from the USDA Myplate guidelines is 3:2. This means 30% of every meal should be vegetables and 20% fruits (for a combined 50% of the total).

By making sure half your plate is fruits and vegetables you’ll guarantee that you’re eating nutrient dense meals.

Eat a variety of colors and textures to pack a range of vitamins and minerals you’re your diet. Also, most fruits and vegetables are naturally lower in calories so by loading your plate with these options you’ll be more likely to consume a healthy amount of calories. You can

also try eating the fruit and veggie half of your plate first so that you’ll fill up on those healthy foods and have less room for high-calorie helpings of dessert.

Make exercise part of your routine.

Total health is not just about eating right, it’s also about exercise. The key to making exercise a part of your daily life is to find an option that works for you. The recommended 30 minutes of physical activity five times per week can be fulfilled in a million different ways, so find the type of exercise you enjoy that works in your schedule.

Even moderate exercise contributes to cardiovascular health so don’t be afraid to make the small changes of walking up one flight of stairs instead of taking the escalator, or scaling Bascom Hill on foot instead of on the 80.

The key to making a successful New Years health resolution is to make small changes that you can make happen every day and will eventually become part of your routine Also, remember you’re only human and that slip-ups occur. Just because you don’t meet your goal once doesn’t mean you should abandon it all together. Don’t be afraid to make 2012 your healthiest year yet!

Rachel Werts is a senior in the dietetics program. Email the column at wisconsin.dnc@ gmail.com.

RECIPE OF THE WEEK This week’s recipe incorporates veggies and whole grains and is the perfect party snack to kick off your resolution on New Year’s Eve.

Homemade Whole Wheat Crackers (Yields 32 servings) 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup olive oil 1 cup water salt for sprinkling Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a medium bowl, stir together the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour and 3/4 teaspoon salt. Pour in the vegetable oil and water; mix until just blended. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough as thin as possible — no thicker than 1/8 inch. Place dough on an ungreased baking sheet and mark squares out with a knife, but don’t cut through.

Prick each cracker with a fork a few times and sprinkle with salt. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until crisp and light brown. Baking time may be different depending on how thin your crackers are.

When cool, remove from baking sheet and separate into individual crackers.

Roasted Red Pepper Bean Dip (Yields eight servings) 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar 1 (16-ounce) can cannellini beans, rinsed and drained 1 (7-ounce) bottle roasted red bell peppers, rinsed and drained 1 large garlic clove 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Place first five ingredients in a food processor; process until smooth. With processor on, slowly add oil through food chute. Stir in salt and black peppers.

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McGehee traded; Ramirez signed MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers agreed to terms with free agent third baseman Aramis Ramirez on Monday, agent Paul Kinzer told The Associated Press.

Ramirez will provide a much-needed big bat for the Brewers, who are expected to lose first baseman Prince Fielder through free agency and may be without NL MVP Ryan Braun for the first 50 games of next season if he loses his appeal for testing positive for a banned substance.

Kinzer said Ramirez expects the Brewers to be a contender next season, a critical factor in his decision.

“That was one of his criteria,” Kinzer said.

“There were about four teams that he liked that were contenders, and Milwaukee was at the top of his list.”

Kinzer said Ramirez also likes the idea of playing indoors at Miller Park early in the season.

The 33-year-old Ramirez played 149 games for the NL Central

BADGERS, from 10 expecting that trend to continue when they enter Milwaukee, the Panthers do have a skilled frontcourt that can cause headaches, despite being shorthanded.

Starting forwards Kyle Kelm and James Haarsma are the only big

HUGHES, from 10 the rest of the regular season (should they clinch home-field advantage next week) after working at breakneck speed for a year. This is the time of year where every team has to start grinding rather than resting, and Green Bay has already showed proficiency at the former.

There is a video I watch every now and then on YouTube of Barry Sanders, taken from an NFL Network program counting down the league’s best 100 players to ever play. The fiveminute video, narrated by musician Wynton Marsalis, is a joy to watch — even, I suspect, for nonfootball fans — simply because Sanders’ talents reduced defenders to these silly nincompoops who look like they had never tried to tackle a couch cushion before.

rival Chicago Cubs last year, batting .306 with 26 home runs and 93 RBIs. Ramirez played the past eight-plus seasons with the Cubs after he was traded by Pittsburgh to Chicago in the middle of the 2003 season.

His deal is subject to a successful physical.

Milwaukee began last season with Casey McGehee as its regular third baseman, but McGehee’s performance slipped after his breakout 2010 season.

Jerry Hairston Jr., acquired in a midseason trade with the Washington Nationals, took over at third base for the Brewers late in the season.

Bringing back Hairston was no longer an option for the Brewers after he signed a $6 million, twoyear deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Late on Monday, the Brewers traded McGehee to Pittsburgh for righthanded reliever Jose Veras, who went 2-4 with a 3.80 ERA and one save in a career-high 79 appearances last season.

Getting more

production from third base will be even more critical for the Brewers next year, especially if they lose Fielder and are without Braun for a significant chunk of the season. On Saturday, Braun’s representatives issued a statement maintaining his innocence. Braun’s appeal is expected to be held in January.

Major League Baseball is 12-0 in defending drug suspensions in arbitration.

The Brewers also finalized their one-year contract with free agent shortstop Alex Gonzalez, a deal that includes an option for 2013 that could become guaranteed.

“Alex brings to our ballclub a veteran presence who has experienced winning in the postseason,” Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said in a statement. “He is a plus defender who will be a welcome addition to our infield.”

The 34-year-old Gonzalez batted .241 with 15 home runs and 56 RBIs in 149 games with Atlanta

men who have earned more than 10 minutes on the floor consistently, and together they put up about 20 points and grab just over 13 rebounds a game.

So while the Badgers won’t ignore the Panthers from perimeter, they’ll be sure to mark Kelm and Haarsma as well.

“Threes haven’t gone down for them, but they got guys that are definitely capable of shooting them; they’ve got a more experienced frontline with Haarsma, … who’s had some experience,” associate head coach Greg Gard said. “Kelm got some experience last year as a freshman.”

There’s a minute in the video where Marsalis seemingly tries to describe Sanders as a living example of a running back’s essence — a man that runs past, through and around defenders.

And that’s what Sanders was. He embodied everything a running should be.

Marsalis — along with an old quote from Sanders — explains that the old Detroit Lions running back played so fast that his game was based on instinct rather than actual thought processes.

Had he slowed down to think about it, his game wouldn’t have been what it was and I can’t help but feel the same way about the Packers — especially with regard to their passing game.

The passing game has carried Green Bay this season, and it is a passing game that is stupefying (and might even be better

than New England’s in 2008). Rodgers might have two other quarterbacks throwing more yards than him currently, but nobody has ever started a season by posting passer ratings of over 100 in 12 straight games.

Rodgers and his fleet of downfield targets are completing ridiculous passes with precision.

Green Bay receivers catch over-the-back shoulder bullets while hugging the sidelines with ease.

Green Bay’s receivers are also finding ways to run after the catch as well, as Jordy Nelson, Greg Jennings and James Starks have combined for 909 yards after the catch.

And together, those three account for less than half of Rodgers’ main targets.

This is a living example of a passing game’s essence — completing passes no matter how narrow the window (69.6 percent), scoring

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One year after a breakout season, Milwaukee Brewers third baseman Casey McGehee was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates Monday for reliever Jose Veras. The Brewers signed coveted free agent third baseman Aramis Ramirez earlier in the afternoon. last season.

He made 146 starts at shortstop and had a .981 fielding percentage, which ranked third in the NL and fifth in the major leagues at his position.

Gonzalez is expected to

GRADES, from 10 when the Badgers had no one in goal that they were most successful offensively.

Wisconsin skated with an empty net for 5:42 to end the game. Consistently having the man advantage, the Badgers were able to stay deep in the Bulldogs’ zone and come away with two goals. On the few occasions

touchdowns (39) and not turning the ball over (six interceptions).

This offense is averaging a league-best 35.8 points per game. Tell it to slow down just once — after not doing so for about one year — and run the risk of experiencing a

replace last year’s regular shortstop, Yuniesky Betancourt, who is a free agent.

The Brewers also announced that they signed catcher George Kottaras to a one-year

contract, avoiding arbitration, and that catcher Mike Rivera and first baseman Travis Ishikawa have agreed to minor league contracts with invitations to spring training.

UMD got a shot down the ice and really put the game away, they consistently missed the net.

the man advantage in the second period of game two.

Penalty kill — 4.5 out of 5 The penalty kill probably had one of its best series of the season. UW skated with a man down a total of nine times over the course of the weekend and UMD only capitalized once with

slow reboot.

Injuries didn’t slow down this team a year ago when it had no choice but to win.

And as long as Green Bay keeps playing like it has no other choice, then no other fate will befall it.

Power play — 4 out of 5 The power play also looked its best all season, but unfortunately for UW, the puck just would not go in. The Badgers went 3 for 15 on the power play. Two of those goals came from freshman forward Brad Navin, the first of his career.

Elliot is a senior majoring in journalism. Do you think the Packers should make a serious effort to go 16-0 or play it safe and protect their starters?

Email him at ehughes@ badgerherald.com or tweet @BHeraldSports or @ elliothughes12.

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UW-Milwaukee As opponents target Taylor, sophomores Brust, Gasser round out scoring efforts Elliot Hughes Sports Content Editor If there’s one thing opposing defenses have learned about the Wisconsin men’s basketball team’s offense, it’s that there’s plenty to worry about outside of point guard Jordan Taylor.

The Badgers’ most recent foe, Nevada-Las Vegas, applied some heavy pressure on the preseason All-American in Wisconsin’s most recent game, a 62-51 win at the Kohl Center Saturday afternoon.

UNLV pressured Taylor up and down the court Saturday, forcing fellow guards Josh Gasser and Ben Brust to take the ball up the court and administer the first actions of UW’s swing offense. The Rebels also occasionally collapsed two defenders onto Taylor on ball screens, again forcing him to defer to someone else.

Those tactics did prove effective against Taylor, who averaged over 18 points a game last season and was averaging over

12 prior to Saturday’s tip-off.

Against the Rebels, however, Taylor failed to hit any of his 10 shots from the field and managed to score a total of just four points on the day.

But if Wisconsin’s (82) next opponent, UWMilwaukee (8-2, 2-0), wants to employ the same strategy, the Panthers will have to remember to keep an eye on the rest of the Badger roster Tuesday

“Teams, they have to do something special to control [Taylor]. I think UNLV did a pretty good job of scoring the ball out of his hands.”

Jared Berggren Forward

night at U.S. Cellular Arena.

Against the Rebels, Taylor nevertheless managed to surpass his quota of assists in dishing out six to his teammates, who handled the responsibility of scoring

appropriately.

Brust tied a school record in shooting 7-for7 behind the 3-point arc on his way to totaling 25 points, while forwards Jared Berggren and Ryan Evans contributed nine and seven points, respectively.

“Teams, they have to do something special to control [Taylor],” Berggren said. “I think UNLV did a pretty good job of scoring the ball out of his hands. He’s always able to find open teammates, and when you put that much pressure on one player, it’s going to open some other guys, and he’s great at finding some other people.”

Brust and Berggren are the two largest beneficiaries of Taylor ’s reduced direct influence on the scoreboard this season. Brust, a 6-foot1 sophomore, leads the team with 12.6 points per game despite coming off the bench in every game and is shooting a fiery 49.2 percent from 3-point range.

Berggren, a 6-foot-10 redshirt junior, has been a steady source of inside scoring for the 3-pointhappy Badgers, scoring 11.8 points per game (just above Taylor) and shooting at a clip of 52.7 percent.

Gasser, as the starting

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Sophomore guard Ben Brust leads Wisconsin with 12.6 points per game in what has so far been a breakout season. guard opposite Taylor, has done well to fill in for the senior in both scoring and facilitating offense. Gasser is shooting 48.1 percent from the field and 60.7 percent from the arc and has nearly twice as many assists (21) as turnovers (11).

“When Jordan gets pressured, against UNLV, I think me and Josh did a better job than in the past of going to get the ball and bringing it up to take some pressure off him,”

Brust said. “We just try and find each other.”

It’s this basic scoring structure that has allowed Wisconsin to outscore its opponents by an average of 23.2 points.

UW-Milwaukee, in the meantime, has had to deal with more close games this season. The Panthers, despite holding their opponents to a stingy 58.6 points on average, have only been winning games by about six points.

Of the Panthers’ seven

players regularly playing more than 10 minutes a game, four of them are shooting better than 45 percent from the field, but only one has been able to convert at least 40 percent of his shots from the perimeter.

All told, UWM is currently seeing 34 percent of its shots from the arc fall on target.

Although the Badgers aren’t necessarily

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Sophomore forward Mark Zengerle had an assist on a goal junior defenseman Justin Schultz scored in Friday night’s 3-3 tie with Minnesota-Duluth.

Grades: Penalty kill thrives Offense inconsistent in weekend series; goaltenders surrender 7 goals over weekend Kelly Erickson Associate Sports Editor Herald Sports has been bringing you grades all season long after each football game, rating each unit on a scale of one to five. Here’s a look at how the Wisconsin men’s hockey team fared against No. 1 Minnesota-Duluth after tying game one 3-3 and dropping game two 4-2.

Offense — 3.5 out of 5 Wisconsin’s offense could not have looked better Friday night in the 3-3 tie. The Badgers jumped ahead early, leading 2-0 after the first period.

However, UW didn’t score again until 28 seconds into the third period, when sophomore forward Mark

Zengerle centered the puck to junior defenseman Justin Schultz, who was waiting in the slot and simply had to knock in the puck.

In game one, the Badgers created 24 shots on goal and followed up in game two with 31.

In game two, Wisconsin’s offense started off slow. On the few chances they had through the first two periods, no one could get the puck in the net. As a result, the Badgers went into the third period down 4-0.

But in the third, with the aid of a string of UMD penalties, UW had 17 shots on goal and capitalized on two of them, cutting the Bulldogs’ dominating performance to a two-goal game.

Defense — 3 out of 5

Led by Schultz, the UW defense is generally pretty solid, but in game two a defensive breakdown between defenders Joe Faust and Jake McCabe allowed the Bulldogs to beat the defense and score.

Throughout the series, the defense did look strong, but the Badgers ultimately allowed 36 shots on goal Friday night and 29 the following night.

Additionally, the Bulldogs also scored seven goals in the process.

Goaltending — 2.5 out of 5 While both Joel Rumpel and Landon Peterson are freshmen, it definitely did not show this weekend.

Rumpel got the start both nights and had a solid game one. The Swift Current, Saskatchewan native made 33 saves and

faced two goals that would be hard to stop at any level.

But the following night was not a career night for Rumpel. He allowed all four goals UMD scored in game two and was pulled halfway through the second period after the fourth goal. During his 30 minutes minding the net, Rumpel made only 14 saves.

Peterson came in and was immediately solid for UW. He also had what was arguably the save of the weekend as he dove across the crease for an amazing glove save, keeping UMD at bay through the rest of the second. Peterson finished with 11 saves throughout the rest of the game.

Surprisingly, it was

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If the opportunity presents itself, should an NFL team really gun for the sacred undefeated season?

This is a cute little debate that seems to rear its head nearly every other year these days. In fact, it would be wonderful to know just how many hours ESPN has devoted to the subject over the past 10 years.

Somewhat amazingly, this debate has been localized this year, now that the Green Bay Packers sit at 13-0 with two of their final three games at Lambeau Field.

In my lifelong career as a Packer fan, I dreamt of one day experiencing a Super Bowl victory. That dream was achieved one year ago, but never did I imagine that one day the Packers would have to concern themselves over whether or not they want to give 16-0 a shot.

Of course, the debate generally comes down to a bout of practicality versus achievement.

Practicality, because a team should do what it can to preserve a healthy roster in meaningless games (which are inevitable in the NFL when one begins to run the table) and achievement, because only one team in league history has won every game it played in a season, including the Super Bowl.

What makes this year’s edition of the undefeated conundrum unique, however, is there is a dose of practicality in the Packers playing to win their last three games of the regular season like they’ve won their past 19 (including last year’s championship run).

This 19-game tear Green

Bay is on started with its back to the wall last season.

The Packers had to win their final two games of regulation, and from there, would have to play every playoff game earned on the road. They played like they were cornered and in response ground out six weeks of tense, exciting pro football that culminated in the Lombardi Trophy.

That backed-into-a-corner feeling has carried over into the 2011-12 season, with the Packers’ offense (specifically the passing game) performing at the rate of an omnipotent being and the defense creating so many turnovers they make opposing offenses look allergic to the ball.

The offense is so good that when it received the ball with 58 seconds left against the New York Giants and the game tied, I had no worries about Aaron Rodgers leading his teammates down the field for a field goal.

The only thing that caught me off guard was that Green Bay moved down MetLife Stadium even faster than I expected them to. After four plays had moved the Packers to the Giants’ 30-yard line, Rodgers was able to watch a few more seconds go by before he calmly called a timeout with three seconds left. Then kicker Mason Crosby gave them win No. 12.

Slow down Green Bay’s pace and you could destroy the beams that have supported every one of its 19 consecutive wins.

“Injuries, injuries, injuries,” all the others will say. I know, I know, I know.

Greg Jennings left Sunday’s game with a sprained knee and A.J. Hawk and Charles Woodson have also sustained some ouchies lately as well.

But I don’t know how else to say it — the Packers can’t afford to coast through

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