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Tenant rights may decrease Proposed bill would grant more power to landlords, present new renting challenges Alex Arriaga Herald Contributor

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Despite long-time controversy from members of the community and church, Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the council had no choice but to divide the church and school.

City passes conversion After a heated council debate, Holy Redeemer School will soon be separated from church and made into housing Bennet Goldstein Reporter After hearing impassioned pleas from residents, parishioners and Mayor Paul Soglin, Madison’s City Council narrowly granted approval for the property subdivision of Holy Redeemer School and Holy Redeemer Church.

The City Council’s approval allows for the conversion of Holy Redeemer School into a future housing complex called Lumen House aimed at University of Wisconsin students.

From the project’s planning stages, the development of Lumen House was orchestrated by

a development team and pastor who failed to gain the approval of church congregants, said Holy Redeemer parishioner Gail Geib.

“The development team and Monsignor Kevin Holmes have consistently misinformed Holy Redeemer parishioners, demeaned them and, on several occasions, even attempted to prevent them from voicing their extreme displeasure with this project in public meetings,” Geib said.

Parishioners who spoke to the council characterized the motivation behind the Madison Catholic Diocese and Cathedral Parish’s decision to convert the

school into student housing as purely financial.

Soglin said the project takes advantage of the Special Project Amendment to the state budget of 2010, which stipulates that residential property owned by nonprofit organizations are exempt from real estate and personal property taxes if 90 percent of tenants are enrolled at the University of Wisconsin. He said this amendment was not intended to be used for profitable motives.

“The purpose … of granting tax exemptions … is when [nonprofits] use the incremental savings in taxes to reinvest in support services for the utilization of the tenants on the site,”

Soglin said. “The money that is not paid into the coffers of the city, the county and school district goes into services of the low income residents who live there.

That principle has been violated.”

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, explained council members had no choice but to support the resolution despite the controversy it has generated in the parish.

He noted the council was approving a zoning survey using standards unrelated to the financial and social concerns that surround the project.

City Attorney Michael May said failing to approve

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Elected officials and prominent Madison-area community members have raised concerns about a proposed bill that they say would infringe on the rights of tenants in Wisconsin if adopted.

The new state bill builds upon a similar act passed the Legislature passed in 2011, which prompted the city to pass ordinances to increase the protection of tenants’ rights, Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said.

Resnick said Republicans support this bill in effort to standardize housing practices. He said the bill would create a number of hardships for tenants by giving more power to owners.

He highlighted one part of the bill, involving parking, which would allow landlords to tow any car violating parking rules, and would result in many parking tickets.

Resnick said the bill would impact students, especially when it comes to security deposits. In the bill, landlords would no longer be required to provide tenants with security deposits that are itemized, he said. This would make it difficult for renters to discuss the security deposits for fairness, or point out any flaws, Resnick said.

He said the cities that will be most impacted by this bill are Madison and

Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest urban centers, each with a large college student population.

Tenant Resource Center Director Brenda Konkel also said the bill would have negative impacts for many students.

“A lot of information provided to tenants is just not required to be provided anymore,” she said. “I think that’s very detrimental for students who are often times first-time renters and are unaware of various laws and information that they need, and now the landlord doesn’t have to give it to them.”

Resnick said the bill is following a similar pattern to that of 2011’s Act 143 in that many city ordinances that were designed to protect student renters were nullified by the state, he said. Resnick said he lacked optimism for a different outcome in this case.

Resnick pointed out that in the few areas where the previous laws have been a success is when legislators were shown there is a difference between the rental markets in Madison versus other cities in Wisconsin.

According to Konkel, over the last year and a half, there has been a pattern of passed legislation that infringes on the rights of tenants. She said the most recently proposed bill will

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UW experts talk LGBT sports Jason Collins breaks norms by coming out as gay; more common for females Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor When former Washington Wizards center Jason Collins came out on Monday, he became the first active athlete from the United States in professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey to be publicly gay.

University of Wisconsin sociology professor Jane Piliavin said the news could have an impact on sports and homosexuality.

Since Collins is a free agent, it will be interesting to see whether or not any team will pick him up next season, Piliavin said.

“At 34, this might not be because of his announcement,” Piliavin said. “He is getting old, and he is not a star. He is a journeyman.”

In terms of coming out, Piliavin said there is a difference between male and female athletes. She said there have been many “out” lesbians in women’s professional sports that are not matched by male athletes.

The better question, Piliavin added, is the difference between individual and team sports.

While there have been men, mostly ice skaters and divers, who have come

out in individual sports, Piliavin said there are no male golf players who have come out. She said many female golfers and tennis players have come out in addition to a few basketball players.

On the difference between male and female sports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Campus Center Director Gabe Javier said the culture around sports might make it difficult for people to come out.

However, he said, the same could be said for other social or faith groups with different circumstances.

Javier said Britney Briner, Women’s National Basketball Association top draft pick who just landed a lucrative deal with Nike, is another example of a courageous athlete coming out. While Collins’ coming out is a really important event, it is also important to remember the courageous stories of other athletes, he said.

When any high-profile person comes out as gay, Javier said it continues to add to the belief that people can come out and continue to lead healthy, successful and authentic lives. He said this is a really

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Jakob Schjoerring-Thyssen from Denmark and Kristion Pentti and Otto Lindberg from Finland enjoy the 85 degree sun at the Terrace for Scandinavian Labor Day. Kelsey Fenton The Badger Herald

ASM will allocate $50,000 to campus mental health facility New service strives to provide relief to students struggling with life’s stresses Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor The Associated Students of Madison has approved a $52,670 budget for a mental health office in the Student Activities Center that will be used to help students with

mental health issues.

SAC Governing Board Chair Katie Cary said the money will fund the construction of an office near University Health Services that will provide mental health services and be a stable place for students to go.

When student organizations applied earlier this school year for an office in the SAC, they did not receive the office they needed because they failed to meet certain requirements, and ASM

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cannot take a group’s viewpoint into account when deciding who receives funding from them, she said.

The mental health office needs to be located in a large suite because they need room for peer advisers to have private conversations with students, she said.

Because there are only nine suites, there is a high demand for them, she said.

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Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor The decision by a student government’s judiciary body, which ruled in favor of the recently-elected senior class president, agreed disqualification was not necessary for the violations present during the president’s campaign.

The Student Judiciary originally heard this case April 22. In the hearing, University of Wisconsin senior Ryan Hughes said “corrupted” Senior Class President Elect Joseph Meeker won his position only after hanging posters in violation of election rules.

Hughes filed a complaint against Meeker shortly after the conclusion of the spring 2013 elections, Chief Justice Nicholas Checker said in an email to The Badger Herald.

Checker said Hughes argued Meeker placed a number of posters on building columns of the Mosse Humanities Building and on a City of Madison light pole.

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Metro unveils plans for bus rapid transit City officials probe further into building dedicated system for commuters, families Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor Madison’s top appointed and elected officials heard a presentation on the results of a study done by a federal body, which focused on a long-term option to increase bus rapid transit in Madison, at a meeting Tuesday.

Bill Shaefer, the transportation planning manager of the Transportation Planning Board, said the federal body designated to produce policy recommendations for transportation in the Madison area was in charge of the study.

Bus rapid transit is a transportation system that runs on a high frequency with few stops to help improve urban mobility, Shaefer said. He compared bus rapid transit to train services, but designed for buses instead.

Shaefer said buses of this transit system would

be longer vehicles and have a modern look. The bus stations would have a raised platform, off-board information on the bus schedule and an off-board fair collection, he said.

Dozens of cities throughout the United States have bus rapid transit, either on its own or as a supplement to a pre-existing rail system.

Cities with bus rapid transit include Las Vegas, Seattle and smaller towns like Eugene, Ore. “We obviously need more community engagement,” Schaefer said. “We need to facilitate a community-wide discussion. [BRT] is the city’s long-range vision for transit in Madison.”

During peak hours, there would be a wait time of 10 minutes, and at other times of operation, wait times would range from 15 to 30 minutes, Schaefer said.

Schaefer said the capital costs, which include the buses themselves and a bus maintenance facility, would be between $138 million and $190 million, depending on the size of the project. He said $40 million of this will be for the buses themselves.

The bus maintenance facility will cost $30 million

but, since this facility is currently needed for Madison Metro Transit, it is unfair to attribute the entire cost to bus rapid transit, he said.

There would be an added $9.7 million operating cost for bus rapid transit, which would equal a 20 percent increase in operating costs for the entire Madison Metro bus system.

Potential funding for bus rapid transit could come from competitive federal grants, which could cover half of the capital costs of the projects, Schaefer said. He also mentioned the city of Madison and Dane County as potential funding sources.

He said Wisconsin law currently does not allow the project to receive much funding from the state, but he hopes the law will change.

Schaefer also said it would be difficult to get much state funding because it does not increase if the services provided expand.

Schaefer added the costs could be covered by an increase in sales tax by a quarter or half cent in the city of Madison.

The ridership for bus rapid transit is estimated at 15,000 rides daily, which would

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Features of bus rapid transit, which has been successful in Las Vegas and Seattle, include a modern look, faster services, longer vehicles and off-board fair collection. increase over time as the system becomes more popular and expanded. He said bus rapid transit would charge the same for fares as the rest of Madison Metro buses.

Madison Metro’s general manager Chuck Kamp said the Madison community has been voicing concerns about public transportation that bus rapid transit could alleviate.

Bars move forward to sue underage patrons Lexi Harrison Herald Contributor A bill that would allow alcohol vendors to sue underage patrons for $1,000 cleared its first step with unanimous passage in a state Assembly Committee Tuesday.

All nine legislators on the Assembly’s Committee on State Affairs approved the bill, leaving it available for scheduling for a full vote from the Assembly.

The bill from Rep. André Jacque, R-De Pere, would let alcohol vendors sue any underage patrons for $1,000, regardless of whether that person faced a citation from police.

“There is a consensus among Democrats and

Republicans that drinking is an issue, both in purchasing underage and hosting,” Jacque said in an interview. “It is something that deserves a thorough response.”

The bill was amended to drop the requirement that patrons pay the bars’ attorney fees, as lawmakers were concerned those unclear fees could end up costing thousands of dollars.

The Tavern League of Wisconsin supported that change and supports the bill, which is modeled after a 2001 Alaska law that Jacque said was successful.

Currently, patrons can only face police fines of somewhere between $250 and $1,000. This bill would add the additional penalty

Class president to be sworn into office despite violation Student Judiciary to change wording in rule regarding hanging up signs

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to be followed.”

In the meeting earlier this month, Hughes said he noticed about six or eight posters on building columns in the Humanities Building in addition to the single poster placed on a City of Madison light post.

In the meeting, he said this violation of election rules gave Meeker an “unfair advantage.”

These are common election complaints, Vice Chief Justice Kenny Ho said in an email to The Badger Herald. He said the judiciary often sees one or two complaints per election.

However, Checker said this is the first year in his tenure in which a complaint was filed against a class officer while there were no complaints filed against any Associated Students of Madison candidate.

Though Meeker’s election violations warrant his disqualification, the judiciary found his violations to not be severe enough to do so, according to the decision.

On the judiciary’s ruling, Checker said the panel found Meeker’s explanation of oversight to be satisfactory. He said Meeker maintains the presence of other posters on the light pole as well as on the Humanities Building column led him to mistakenly conclude it was fine to post his

posters in those spaces.

“While election violations are taken seriously with the judiciary, the judiciary here found this poster violation did not constitute disqualification,” Ho said.

“The panel felt Mr. Meeker did not intend to break the rules and that his violations were understandable oversights given his argument that others posted on these restricted areas as well,” Checker said. “Effective ignorance of the rules was an excuse because of this.”

Meeker must complete a brochure outlining the rules of the election and certain rules and things to look out for, according to Ho. He said these are the same specifications required in the Student Election Commission vs.

BOOP hearing involving alleged violations during ASM elections from last year.

Failure to complete this brochure by 5 p.m. May 6 will result in Meeker’s disqualification, according to Checker.

The decision stated the Student Election Commission will make the wording for the rules regarding the hanging of posters “less vague” and will go into effect for the next ASM elections.

Both Meeker and Huges did not respond to comment.

from vendors that decide to sue patrons, even if they did not get a police citation.

Parents of those under 18 years would be the subjects of the lawsuit, and vendors are still responsible for checking whether someone is of age.

Jacque said he expects a strong bipartisan vote in the Assembly before summer.

The bill has not yet been scheduled for a committee hearing in the Senate, but Jacque said he expects that to happen before summer, as well.

Sen. Rick Gudex, R-Fond du Lac, a co-sponsor of the bill, said he thinks his colleagues in the Senate will approve the “commonsense” bill, his spokesperson Tim Lakin said in an email

CITY, from 1 the resolution would likely lead to a lawsuit, which the city would probably lose.

“The standards that you look at … relate to things like drainage of the property. Are there adequate transportation facilities nearby? Very, very limited things,” he said. “This is a permitted use in that area, so the standards that you have

ASM, from 1 student organizations connected to the mental health office will now have a permanent space that fits their needs at the SAC. The mental health office will no longer have to apply annually for an office — like other student organizations are required to do — due to the importance of the services, she said.

Along with providing peer-to-peer advising, the mental health office will also refer students to other resources and have access to professionals in UHS if a student comes to them with problems beyond their scope.

Cary said ASM will still have to decide how University of Wisconsin’s student organizations that deal with mental health, the Mental Health Coalition and Yes+ Bucky, will share the office.

Approximately 50 percent of UW students go to UHS for mental health services, Cary said, and the mental health office will help meet those students’ needs. She said UHS has difficulty meeting students’ needs because they are understaffed.

She said the mental health office will fill the gap left by UHS and

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“The people who are trying to break the law, thus making those extra expenditures necessary, should bear some of the financial burden,” Lakin said.

Maureen Busalacchi, Health First Wisconsin executive director, said in a written testimony two weeks ago the bill was on the “wrong path” for reducing underage drinking. She criticized the bill’s author for wanting to keep the $500 fine for bars that serve minors, compared to the $5,000 fine in Alaska, while increasing penalties on patrons.

The Associated Students of Madison opposes the bill and has multiple campaigns on campus regarding the

to apply are very limited.

Legally, I don’t think we have a basis for turning them down.”

Ald. Shiva Bidar-Sielaff, District 5, said even though City Council had few options to change the outcome of Holy Redeemer School’s conversion, they should take the case as an opportunity to evaluate city policies that affect downtown development

provide a space where students can get advice on a variety of mental health issues on campus.

“We’re hoping to get rid of the stigma for people who want to get help,” Cary said.

“Everyone experiences some sort of stress in college and no one should be ashamed to seek out help in any of those situations.”

An ASM statement said the space will be constructed so that students seeking mental health services have privacy. This includes having blinds for the windows and solid walls, which deviates from the other offices in the SAC, which have clear walls, the statement said.

ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky said he hopes the new space will allow for the desensitization of mental health on campus.

Students have had to wait an average of six months to receive mental health services from UHS, which Bulovsky said is unacceptable.

The health office should begin construction over the summer and should be ready to serve students by the fall, he said.

“It’s readily accessible and will better serve students with regards to mental health,” Bulovsky said.

bill, ASM Legislative Affairs Committee Chair Dan Statter said. Statter said ASM is especially concerned with the bill allowing vendors to sue minors that police did not charge.

United Council of University of Wisconsin Students, a statewide organization that advocates for UW System students, is also discussing this bill weekly, Statter said.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said the bill takes a lot of responsibility away from alcohol vendors. He said the bill should, instead, focus on educating bars on how to enforce laws of scanning IDs and admitting patrons properly.

“It is an unnecessary precaution,” Resnick said.

more broadly.

Ald. Steve King, District 7, questioned the logic behind being asked to vote with his hands tied.

“I’m ticked off about the process,” King said. “Why the hell do we have all this public debate if we are going to be told we can’t vote a certain way? Then are we even voting? Why does the process even allow this?”

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“Certainly there is an assumption in sports that someone will be ostracized because of their sexual orientation,” Javier said.

“Jason Collins and other athletes that have come out are starting to change the narrative.”

While there are all types of LGBT people, Javier said there is a need for more LGBT role models. He said he is “certainly glad” that Collins is one of those role models now.

If anything, Javier added, it is important to encourage the conversation about what it means to be a LGBT person and an athlete.

“Conversation needs to continue to happen,” Javeir said. “Just because Jason Collins comes out, it doesn’t mean everyone is comfortable.”

This, according to Javier, is a really significant event for people who follow the NBA and other major sporting organizations.

Javier said he thinks many of people in the LGBT community are proud Collins was able to come out in a major sport. However, as people continue to address homophobia in sports, Collins should be used as an example, he said.

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State will not have to pay redistricting case fees Judges: deletion of mapping files not done in bad faith, law firm may pay Isaac Ama Herald Contributor A federal court ruled Tuesday that Republican lawmakers and a law firm they hired would not have to pay for an investigation on allegedly deleted redistricting documents, though the ruling is subject to change if the court eventually finds them at fault.

Every 10 years, the

Legislature redraws voting maps after a federal census, although that process in 2011 led to some Democrats and an immigrant rights group suing the Republicancontrolled Legislature.

The federal court agreed with Democrats and Voces de la Frontera that two state Assembly districts in Milwaukee had to be redrawn. It is now considering a lawsuit that alleges Republican lawmakers and Michael Best and Friderich, the law firm they hired to draw the maps, withheld files and deleted files about redistricting “in bad faith.”

Those groups had asked

the defendants to pay for the investigation into the computers that would have held those files, a request the federal panel of three judges rejected Tuesday.

“While the court is fully aware of and concerned with the seemingly vast amount of file deletions that the plaintiffs’ investigation has uncovered, there has not yet been any showing that the files were either deleted in bad faith or would otherwise have been pertinent to the fact finding process in the underlying action,” the threejudge panel said in their decision. “Thus, the court is wary of requiring any other party to foot the plaintiffs’

bill.”

Republicans and the law firm could still pay for the costs of the investigation later, when the investigation is over, the judges said.

A final report from all parties in the case will come May 10, at which point the court will then have to make final decisions.

“At the same time, it should be noted that the court is not foreclosing any future monetary award to the plaintiffs,” the judges said.

“Rather, at this juncture, the court is simply denying the plaintiffs’ motion to be granted interim costs.”

The defendants had told the court they should not

have to pay for the costs of the investigation in briefs they filed Thursday.

The law firm said in its brief said it does not believe the firm should be accountable for the documents because they only provided the computers for others to use, and they had no control over whether documents may have been deleted from them.

The Senate, Assembly and the state’s Legislative Technology Services Bureau said federal court rules forbid them from paying for an investigation that has yet to conclude. They had also said a recent court declaration from someone who looked

into the computers had shown the plaintiffs “grossly exaggerated their claims.”

Democrats have claimed the timing of the deletions was suspicious, as that came shortly after Republicans lost their majority in the Senate following the 2012 recall elections.

Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, said because it appears the law firm was involved in destroying or not presenting documents that were court ordered, the court should have required it pay for the investigation.

Mike Browne, spokesperson for One Wisconsin Now, criticized the “shady” redistricting process.

Bousquet to return to UW French, Italian department Molly Coplan Herald Contributor A University of Wisconsin dean of international studies and vice provost for globalization, Gilles Bousquet, will return to campus after serving as UW-Eau Claire’s interim chancellor for the previous academic year.

Bousquet will complete his sabbatical during the 2013-14 academic year

before rejoining UW’s Department of French and Italian, according to a UW statement.

One of the first jobs Bousquet said he what he hopes to accomplish upon his return to Madison is to collect information on what the various universities in the UW System have in common.

“I hope to facilitate collaboration between UW System campuses in

student recruitment, study abroad opportunities and anything else to enhance the campuses’ economic development,” Bousquet said.

“We educate students with a broader frame of reference and knowledge.”

Bousquet added he would also like to find ways Wisconsin can promote and support global and economic health.

UW System President Kevin Reilly said in

the statement he is “appreciative” of Bousquet’s support for the System.

“I look forward to Gilles helping the rest of the System campuses identify and collaborate on international initiatives,” Reilly said in the statement.

Bousquet aided in building connections between UWMadison and China and helped establish UW’s Innovation Center in Shanghai, the statement

said. He said it was good for him to represent a campus other than Madison, because to succeed in China or anywhere else in the world, the collaboration of all the campuses is necessary.

Interim Chancellor David Ward said in the statement Bousquet is a leader in terms of international engagement.

“For many years, Gilles has led UW-Madison’s internationalization efforts, particularly in the areas of

collaboration and curricular innovation,” Ward said. “We look forward to welcoming him back to campus.”

Bousquet said he focused his tenure on the areas of economic development and how a liberal arts institution contributes to that, international perspective provided to the campus through his work in China and aiding UW-Eau Claire in establishing its standing on the national and world scale.

Bill to penalize any citizens who attempt to harass lawmakers Rep. says issues have gotten worse about legislator annoyance since Walker’s Act 10 Noah Goetzel State Politics Editor To strengthen penalties against harassing lawmakers and their family members, a representative began circulating bipartisan-backed legislation to that goal last week.

Rep. Garey Bies, R– Sister Bay, said current law offers some protection for legislators, but none for their family members.

Bies’ bill proposal would impose misdemeanor

charges on individuals for repeated acts of intimidation or force against lawmakers. The same penalty, which could result in a many as nine months in prison, would also apply for people who loiter within 100 yards of a legislator’s private property, he said.

Since Gov. Scott Walker instituted the Act 10 bill striking down collective bargaining to most public workers, Bies said harassment issues have escalated.

Bies said protestors have since often tried to intimidate legislators and convince them to change their views by standing nose-to-nose with lawmakers yelling and screaming derogatory

words at them as saliva sprays from their mouths.

Bies noted other legislators have fallen victim to more severe harassment than he has.

Assembly Speaker Rep. Robin Vos, R–Burlington, had beer spilled over his head in public and Sen. Lena Taylor, D– Milwaukee, had human feces mailed to here, according to Bies.

“I don’t think that’s right,” Bies said, adding he now pays an extra $10 a month to screen his house’s home phone calls after incidents of callers screaming, yelling and swearing at his wife.

Penalties to punish such harassment do not inhibit freedom of speech, according to Bies.

He said frustrated residents can sit down with him and discuss issues in a controlled manner, but his job does not entail dealing with such “disorderly,” “uncivilized” and “undemocratic” conduct.

“I don’t think myself or any other legislators have to put up with that type of crap,” Bies said.

“Freedom of speech goes to a point. You have a right to express your opinions and your thoughts, but I don’t think using loud voice and absurd speech and downright vulgar comments is right.”

American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin Executive Director Chris Ahmuty disagreed. He said in a statement Bies’ legislation is a “solution in

search of a problem.”

Ahmuty said increasing protection to immediate family members of lawmakers is not an issue, however he cited few harassment instances against them since 2011.

Ahmuty added such incidents are also already prohibited from current law.

Bies countered the ACLU should consider his right as well if the organization is committed to protecting liberties.

Rep. Samantha Kerkman, R–Powers Lake, said she has been the victim of three harassment incidents and therefore felt obligated to add her name as a co-sponsor to Bies’ bill proposal.

Kerkman said someone

threw firecrackers at the window of her house when her husband was running for judge of Kenosha County Circuit Court, people protested at the house when she was not home and another person staking out her house in the middle of the night.

“Somebody coming up into my yard and throwing firecrackers at my window at 10:30 on a Wednesday night is not something normal people do – I thought someone was shooting at my window.”

Kerkman said, adding legislators on both sides of the aisle do not want to deal with those sorts of events. “I don’t think throwing firecrackers at someone’s house is a free speech issue.”

Committee takes up transportation projects, circus museum partnership Joint Finance gives funds to some new programs, cuts Gov. Walker’s borrowing Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor The Legislature’s budget committee concluded its second day of voting Tuesday with voting for transportation projects, including one in the county of state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester.

The Joint Finance Committee did not focus on the larger parts of the transportation budget, such as major highway projects.

While it invested in some programs like a harbor assistance program, it also cut some borrowing from Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget.

Many Republicans want to reduce some of Walker’s proposed borrowing, especially given the $63.5 million transportation fund deficit revealed last Friday.

“We wanted to invest in economic development while reducing some of the bonding,” Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, who co-chairs the committee, said after the meeting. “I think we accomplished our goal today.”

The committee of four Democrats and twelve Republicans approved a $15.9 million investment

in borrowing for harbor assistance, $5.2 million of which would go to a harbor on Door County’s Washington Island. It also approved $700,000 in borrowing for a harbor assistance program in Racine County, where Vos’ home county.

Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine, had first proposed a $750,000 plan, which the committee rejected in a 7-9 vote, and after an extended break, proposed the $700,000 plan that passed 10-6. The second proposal also specified a year for the spending, which the first did not do.

Darling said although Vos, being from Racine County, made a “big difference” in the vote, committee members

realized the harbor would bring economic development to the area.

Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, criticized Mason for bringing the Racine proposal forward.

He said communities along Lake Michigan have asked for money for their harbors, and the Department of Transportation should choose which ones get the funding rather than legislators.

“We should let the professionals at the DOT determine this,” Grothman said.

The committee eliminated a provision that would have increased regulations on overweight trucks and the increased positions that came

with that, which Darling said was due to lawmakers trying to make the state more business-friendly by reducing fines.

The committee also approved $52 million for preserving freight rail, reducing $8 million in borrowing from the $60 million Walker proposed.

Rep. Jon Richards, D-Milwaukee, and the three Democrats wanted to keep the $60 million proposal because of the need for infrastructure investments.

“I understand highways [are important] but we also have ailing infrastructure in freight rail as well,” Richards said.

The committee decided unanimously the Circus

UW offers “text support” exhibits and events at campus libraries Program to educate public on art of papermaking, history behind it, invention of mechanical paper machine Mohammad Najafian Reporter The University of Wisconsin Libraries will host an exhibition titled “Text Support: A Library Exhibit About Paper” that will run through June and focus on the art and history of papermaking.

Tracy Honn, the senior artist for Silver Buckle Press, said papermaking is something people use in their everyday life, but they do not know much about it. She said it is an “invisible technology.”

The exhibition is about what UW has in its library, including books and research from the Wisconsin Historical Society of Madison, Honn said. She said the items are

not seen in the course of everyday life and people can go see them for free.

There are also some collections from the UW archives that have not been shown before and are considered extremely invaluable, according to Honn.

“We don’t know anything about paper,” Honn said.

“It’s a long tradition that people made — and made it very well.”

The exhibition will reveal the importance of the art of papermaking, its tradition and the invention of the mechanical paper machine, Honn said.

The only thing that the exhibition does not cover, she added, is that there are not many varieties of paper.

The idea for the exhibition came, in part, from Joe Wilfer, a papermaker from Wisconsin whose family donated collections of his work to the UW Libraries. Honn said Wilfer studied at UW, went on to become the first head of the Madison Art Center in the 1970s and was an influential teacher in his time.

“The decision to have Shawn Sheehy as a lecturer is because he has done a lot of work in the art of paper-making and paper-engineering,” Honn said. “He is an academic person, an artist, naturalist, environmentalist, interested in environmental education and the last, but not the

least of all, is that he is from Madison.”

Jim Escalante, associate dean and UW professor of art, said students will have the opportunity to attend a workshop May 14 with Shawn Sheehy, a wellknown artist and pop-up bookmaker. He said the elements in Sheehy’s work are moveable and feature sculpture-like objects.

“Students would definitely benefit from the exhibition and the sculptural objects from the library,” Escalante said.

The most important thing done by Honn and Rider for the exhibition is the successful contrast between utilitarian and colorful paper, according to Robin Rider, the curator of special collections at

Memorial Library. She said this enhances the reading experience.

Rider said the exhibition is the first on papermaking, and research that has been done on it over the past few years. However, she added, it is expected to have an online version of the show in the future.

“Students, faculty, community members, scholars and artists would benefit from the show as it has a lot of cultural and business value, since store groups can enhance their business and make a lot of benefit,” Rider said.

Escalante said the reason this is considered a multi-library exhibition is that there are many books and collections from other libraries in Wisconsin.

World Museum Foundation, based in Baraboo, will remain a private-public partnership, rather than be absorbed into the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Steve Freese, the museum foundation’s executive director, told reporters after the vote he was pleased to see lawmakers rejected Walker’s proposal.

Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, had sought to keep it a private-public partnership, but also wanted to give the foundation $300,000 per year through Historical Society grants.

His motion required the foundation to raise donations of at least $450,000 each year, or 150 percent of the grant.

TENANT, from 1 change the rules surrounding rentals more than the previous bills have.

Resnick and Konkel both said the bill is being rushed through the Legislature.

Resnick said much of the public has very little knowledge about this bill.

According to Konkel, the bill was circulated for co-sponsors at 3 p.m. Tuesday, with a hearing planned at 10 a.m.

Thursday.

“It’s a real shame; Madison is about 50 percent renters and nobody knows about it, and it is a lot of information for people to figure out before Thursday morning at 10.”

Konkel said she thought the bill is likely to pass.

She said the Tenant Resource Center will post information about the bill on their website by Wednesday, and hold a meeting at the Capitol at 9 a.m. Wednesday to help people understand what is in the bill.

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Herald Editorial Delusional activism by the slice regulations with the employee immigration audit, executives are not blameless. Now that the federal labor board has ruled on the matter, Palermo’s must make good on its promise to provide back pay for the fired workers. The company should also let workers form a union to allow for adequate representation should there be labor disputes in the future.

Student organizers were likely aware their sit-in and subsequent rally would not force Ward to rule on Palermo’s. And by abandoning moderate, rational discourse in favor of a sit-in, they failed to inspire any new sympathy or support from the student body at large for the plight of the Palermo’s workers.

Instead, they pushed the issue even further outside of students’ collective consciousness in yet another episode of SLAC’s eternal race to the far left.

But no one individual was more emblematic of the out-of-touch nature of the protesters than UW student Maxwell Love, with his ill-advised and

misleading all-campus email and subsequent arrest at Bascom Hall.

In the puzzling message, Love seemed intent on stringing together as many buzz words to appeal to the general populous as possible: Students should turn up on Bascom for pizza courtesy of the chancellor! For Mifflin!

For Revelry!

The email read: “Obviously Bucky is not happy and neither should you be. Come join the chancellor for some pizza!”

His message was so garbled that it prompted a clarifying tweet from @UWMadison, saying Ward was in no way planning on feeding the protesters (although Ian’s Pizza did send some slices their way, bringing back memories of the Capitol in February 2011).

But Love upped the ante by insisting on being arrested by police attempting to close the building. Rather than a fight in the name of workers’ rights, Love shouted from the back of a police van was emblematic of the failed event, which was a shameless ploy for attention rather than a

On Monday, as a dozen protesters staged a sit-in at Interim Chancellor David Ward’s office, the dispute over labor violations by Palermo’s Pizza was thrust into the campus spotlight.

While the event failed to achieve its only stated objective of forcing Ward to cut the contract with the Milwaukee-based pizza manufacturer Palermo’s, it was wildly successful in another respect: drawing ample negative attention to the Student Labor Action Coalition and the group UWMad@Palermo’s. But by employing their usual petulant tactics, it was clear SLAC did not have a mature or thoughtful policy discussion in mind.

If SLAC’s goal with the event was to affect real policy change, a sit-in was entirely the wrong tactic. For one, it is absurd for this group to believe they could motivate a chancellor whose time in office has been characterized by extreme inertia at best and categorical avoidance of decisionmaking on any substantive campus issue at worst. Ward is even less likely to cut the contract on his way out the door, lest he step

on Rebecca Blank’s toes before she takes office in July.

The event also demonstrates a high degree of naïveté about the chancellor’s basic job duties. Case in point: Ward wasn’t sitting in his office and was avoiding a confrontation with the group sitting in.

Instead, the University of Wisconsin Police Department reported he was off-campus for a meeting during much of the day. So by storming the top campus official’s office unannounced and demanding Ward make a major unilateral policy change, SLAC and its allies could not have been expecting a meeting with the chancellor. Rather, they were expecting just another line on their student activism resumes.

Let us be clear: This board is not organizing a pizza party with Palermo’s pepperoni any time soon — some of us are actively, but quietly, boycotting the company for their conduct in the labor dispute.

Although the federal National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the company Monday, saying they did not violate labor

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On Monday, student activists converged on Interim Chancellor David Ward’s office in protest of the University of Wisconsin’s business relationship with Palermo’s Pizza. call to get a seat at the table.

Moving forward, Blank and other campus stakeholders should have the opportunity to respond to the dispute in a calm, organized and representative venue. But for now, the case is closed: Ward was never likely to cut Palermo’s, but he’s exponentially less likely to take action on the dispute before leaving the university.

So by staging this kind of a stunt, SLAC and other organizers were simply performing baseless civil disobedience for its own sake and for their own

goals. And since the ink on the NLRB report has barely dried, campus organizers should save their poster board and any future sit-in plans until Palermo’s responds to the recommendations.

Wheeling and dealing with corporations can be a dirty business. The rules of the game mean that doing business with corporations will sometimes leave your hands dirty, as was the case with University of Wisconsin’s stake in the Palermo’s dispute. But the fight is over. So please, go home, and stop promising us pizza.

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Gas tax hike would generate revenue, internalize costs Joe Timmerman Editorial Page Content Editor One of the most important roles of a government is to build and maintain infrastructure — without a sound transportation network, not much else matters. If Wisconsin is to be, in the words of Gov. Scott Walker, “open for business,” the state must make sure it is a place where companies actually want to do business.

If our infrastructure is not kept up to par with that of other states, companies will simply choose to go to a state with a properly

maintained transportation network.

In light of this, the newly revised estimates from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau showing the state’s transit fund will be running a deficit are particularly bad news. The fund, which was originally predicted to have a $12.6 million surplus, is now projected to run a $63.5 million deficit by 2015, largely due to decreased revenues from the state’s gas tax.

This deficit is alarming for a state that is very much in need of both new jobs and rejuvenated infrastructure. Something must be done to remedy this situation — unfortunately, it’s far from certain that Wisconsin’s government will take the needed action.

Because of the importance of strong

infrastructure to the state’s economic growth, which has been lacking, simply cutting transit spending is not a viable solution to this problem. Doing so would only further dampen an already stagnant recovery. A better, although almost certainly more controversial, approach would be to increase the state’s tax on gasoline.

Currently, Wisconsin taxes “motor vehicle fuel” at a rate of $0.309 per gallon.

While increasing this tax rate would be somewhat of a financial burden to Wisconsinites, it is a far better option than simply cutting transit spending.

The fact of the matter is tax increases are nearly always unpopular. And for good reason — everyone agrees the government shouldn’t become bloated, people just disagree about

what actually constitutes “bloated.” However, this black-and-white view is overly simplistic. Simply rejecting all tax increases out-of-hand is a ridiculously inept policy. In some cases, taxes can have a clearly positive impact on society.

This is one of those cases.

Besides replenishing the badly depleted transit fund, an increased gas tax would also correct for the negative externalities involved with burning fossil fuels. Whenever someone burns gas, they’re incurring an additional cost on the rest of society — the cost of the added pollution caused by their consumption. In economics, a Pigouvian tax corrects for precisely these types of externalities. Adding a tax to the market price of a good with negative externalities forces the

person purchasing the good to more fully internalize the costs associated with their consumption, in the hope that they will reduce their consumption to a level closer to socially optimal level. In this case, those costs are pollution.

A higher gas tax would do more than discourage driving, though. It would also push people to drive more fuel-efficient cars (not that I’m not a fan of totally unnecessary SUVs.) This, in turn, would likely encourage car companies to invest in developing cheaper, better fuelefficient vehicles. This is a perfect example of how well designed incentives can lead to a far more desirable outcome for society.

An added benefit of increasing the gas tax is that it would be paid by the people who drive the most.

In other words, the brunt of the cost of closing the deficit in the transit fund would be borne by those who use Wisconsin’s roads the most.

Whenever possible, raising taxes should be avoided. This is especially true with regressive taxes, like a gas tax. With Wisconsin’s economy still struggling to keep up with the rest of the country, this is far from the ideal time to be raising any taxes.

However, we do not have the luxury of doing nothing, and increasing the tax rate on gas is far better than the alternative solution of cutting transit funding.

Joe Timmerman ( jtimmerman@ badgerherald.com) is a sophomore majoring in math and economics with a certificate in computer science.

Start a blog — join the intellectual hub of the Internet Garth Beyer Columnist This summer is going to be phenomenal. After all, one could say that it’s the story-making season.

I would also say that it is the season of life experience — when you build up your street smarts, when you work the right side of your brain, when you finally get around to the list of fun things you didn’t and don’t have time for throughout the rest of the year.

Three months.

That is how long you have to really learn what school can’t teach or doesn’t teach you before next semester begins. Three months is what you have to dedicate to self-teaching, to personal development and to sharpening the skills that will give you the edge in an

interview for your dream job.

But, I have to ask. Why only teach yourself?

What are you waiting for, Blog already!

Yes, that’s a capital “B” because Blogging is a significant action. What’s even more significant is that so few people do it.

In a journalism(!) class, I asked if anyone had a Blog.

One student raised their hand but said, “I rarely ever post on it.” For the hell of it, let’s count her as a Blogger.

That makes two students (including me) who have a Blog. Worth noting again, this is in a journalism class.

Contrary to popular belief, it seems that an extremely low number of people actually Blog.

So when I read a post from Slashdot.org by user ‘Dancin’ Santa,’ in The Myth of Digital Democracy suggesting that everyone

has jumped on the Blogging bandwagon, I had a hard time believing it. ‘Dancin’ Santa,’ says: “If everyone has a voice, no one really has a voice.

Any single voice will be drowned out by many thousands of “Gee, this is my blog, I thought it would be a good idea to start one because my cat is so cute.

I’ll post pictures of my cat and I love Jesus.”

Really though, that’s the complete opposite of what happens on Blogs.

Real content, real interaction I’m not sure if you have noticed this or not, but I have found that the more I research content online for homework assignments, I catch myself landing on Blogs that philosophize on concepts on which the assignment is focused.

Prior to Blogs, you had Wikipedia or strictly

academic material — far from the dynamic, openminded content that Blogs provide. On top of widening your mind by reading Blogged content, you also have the opportunity to interact with someone who, at least somewhat, specializes on a topic.

(Note that if the Blog did not contain strong content, typically it would not have been ranked in Google.)

So, while you can view academic material surrounding the tragedy of the commons, it’s much more difficult to interact with Garrett Hardin who coined it. Especially given that he is dead. You can, however, communicate with the writer of tragedyof-the-commons.blogspot. com.

What you need to take from this is that you and the writer of tragedyofthecommons.

blogspot.com have a lot more in common than you think. Especially more in common than you have with Garrett Hardin.

(Again, the fact that you are alive and he is not makes connecting impractical.)

You have a voice Returning back to ‘Dancin Santa’s’ comment, I have to say that writing isn’t about sharing your voice; it’s about finding it. Starting a Blog doesn’t mean you have a voice, and certainly creates little competition with someone else with a voice that wants to be noticed.

In fact, Blogging is simply about reflection, discovery and selfexperimentation. (And in some cases, sure, it involves LOLcats. I’m not complaining.)

All entertainment aside, the social development, the number of voices that

are found each day and the relatable experiences that are Blogged about are contributing to the connection economy.

A person interviewing at a coffee shop can say they have been Blogging about coffee for two and a half years and have connected with every local coffee shop in the area. A student interested in interning for Wired Magazine can say they have been Blogging about tech development throughout all four years of college. Heck, they may even be able to say that they have interviewed previous contributors to Wired.

No matter what your interest is, you have a voice.

It’s time to find it and use it to connect.

Garth Beyer (gbeyer@ wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in journalism.

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Looking for extra spending money after a summer of fun? Like to get dirty? Campus apartment company needs hard workers to assist with apartment turnover from August 14-19, 2013. Approx. 8 hours per day. $14.00/ hour plus bonus for exceeding expectations. You will work hard, but make some cake. Please call 250-0202, or stop by Tallard Apartments, 1445 Regent Street.

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car Boat mother moped v-card

into another man’s treasure

since 1969

HASO to the english TA sitting behind me in the booth at college library on Friday complaining about her students not going to class because of their dying grandmother and how lazy her students are and that she is upset with them. I understand you may have some issues with some students , but complaining about them in public is not professional in the least.

SO to this weather.

It’s about fucking time that spring gets its shit together and kicks that winter son of a bitch outta here.

ASO to people that think they love all Badgers. Even out of the 40,000 of us that go to school right now, I can guarantee that I absolutely hate a good number of you.

You’re welcome for this insight.

SO to the poop stand off in the Chem building this morning with four girls and no one had the courage to make the first move...way to keep it classy.

LOLSO to seeing my girlfriends ex, re-

membering how mad he used to make me, but just laughing now at how immature I used to be. RelatedASO to him. Talk to her ever and I’ll break your arms.

SO to summer in madison being a few weeks away. ASO to having no job, aka no beer money.

ASO to when a SO is so similar to your life, you could have written it ASO to those moments when you smell a guys cologne and you associate it with someone you used to have a relationship with. However, SO to the guy for smelling good though!

HSO to the group of six Badgers on lakeshore path by the terrace yesterday who stopped to help an old man who had fallen and couldn’t get up. DHSO to you guys for actually staying there and talking to him for a good 20 mins. I could tell that totally made his day.

ASO to all the barbaric wing eaters on this campus that just throw their nasty, half-eaten bones on the ground.

Because of your la-

ziness, not only do I have to reach in and grab them out of my dog’s mouth multiple times a week, but it also puts my dog’s life, and all of the other badger dogs’ lives, in danger. Please throw them away.

SO to Riley W. for the virtual bitchslap she sent “The Creator” on Twitter. That’s my kinda girl!

ASO to the girls a capella group at Union South this weekend. Who thought it was ok to try out “Trouble” by TSwift? The original isn’t even tolerable. STAHP. ASO to having sex with two guys on the same night. DASO to them being guys I’m friends with instead of randoms, which somehow seems worse in this situation. And the cherry on top of the cake, TASO them being roommates. QASO to sitting through an extremely awkward breakfast the next morning. You can all go ahead and judge me now, believe me I’m right there with you....but SO to getting some at least?

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anyone, and then date trolls.

ASO to Ex’s that refuse to talk to you, heartbreak is a two way street

SO to masturbating for multiple hours for being the best form of procrastination. DSO to porn and my vibrator!

ASO to the nervous knot that composes my stomach right now. Terrace in 2+ week will never have felt so gooood.

Connect the Dots SO to figuring out the lack of boys in my life directly corresponding to the time spent in the library. Cheers to this summer for hopefully switching that around :D SO to the man riding the moped in a man thong. You’ve got

some balls, literally and figuratively SO to my amazing boyfriend Cru. The second chances are the reason why we are together today and since then it has been an amazing month!

ASO to the fucker who stole the fender off my bike. But guess what, the joke is on you shithead.

It’s the worst fender ever, too skinny to actually cover your tire. I hope you get swass forever.

SO to finally getting a summer internship and being able to spend the summer in

Madison. ASO to the fact that I am still receiving rejection emails from other places I applied to.

Seriously, SUCH a buzzkill. I didn’t really want to work for you bitches anyway!

ASO to not taking any notes in class because I was too busy thinking about fucking my professor. Finals aren’t here yet. Wtf brain?

Wait until next week to start having horrible procrastination daydreams.

ASO to people who say they want to stop seeing you because they don’t have time to date

ASO to me for doing highly regretables this weekend.

DASO to me again for wanting to do the same thing all over again but really cant. hate that I have morals, I’d be so much more fun without them.

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ARTSETC. PRESENTS “HUMP DAY”

Hot, electronic, lesbian humps dominate summer Katherine Harrill Hump Day Columnist Hey, Badgers! Staying steamy? As the weather warms up and the ladies throw on their sundresses, all of our thoughts are starting to turn to our summer plans.

Whether you will be taking a road trip crosscountry, returning to your hometown or working in Madison, you’re probably concerned about keeping in touch with your sexy someone(s) or finding a partner to enjoy the summer nights with.

Therefore, this week, Hump Day is going “Grease” and talking about getting some summer loving.

My boyfriend got an internship in Minnesota and I am staying here in Madison for the summer, and I am wondering if you have any tips for getting through the dry months ahead of me.

One word for you: webcam. No one ever said

that the sexy times have to stop with distance.

Play around with it! Get some lingerie and put on a show, and then mutually masturbate through the power of the interwebs.

Seriously, we have it much easier than our parents did thanks to technology.

Computers, tablets and smartphones have greatly expanded the availability of pleasure, with porn available to stream instantly, cameras giving us on-demand special time with our partners and the ability to order sex toys in our pajamas. So take advantage of all the fantastic tech and expand your repertoire of sexual activity to meet your needs!

Now, I can understand that while webcams have much to offer, some things are missing in the way of actually touching your partner. Not much can replace the amazing feel of naked chests on each other, but the sex industry sure is trying. There is a

toy that hits the market at the end of the month called “LovePalz,” a set of toys consisting of one dildo and one Fleshlightlike contraption. Both toys have multiple pressure and speed sensors that work without buttons and allow partners to feel what each other is doing to them in real time. The toys are a tad expensive at $189 each, but if you want to feel like your partner is plunging into you, than this is definitely the best for that purpose.

Sadly, there is no version currently out for same-sex couple, but hopefully the creators plan on extending their line soon.

There are also a variety of long-distance vibrators on sale, where your partner would be able to control the intensity of the vibration.

This way, your partner can surprise and tease you all night or go fast and furious for a quickie with a personal touch, no matter where he or she is.

Even Durex is getting on

the trend of long-distance devices and is currently developing a new product called “Fundawear,” a pair of underwear that vibrates when your lover touches certain buttons on their phone. This way, you are always connected to their touch and can intimately stimulate each other. I personally hope that this trend of smartphone-linked sex toys continues, and that great minds keep inventing new ways to get off.

I am a girl, and I recently broke up with my girlfriend.

This summer, I want to jump into the dating world and find a girl I can have some fun with over summer here in Madison.

Any recommendations for places to seek out a fellow lesbian?

Do you want the regular answer, or the cheesy answer? Well, I would recommend the usual, Sotto or Plan B, as great places to start. The only problem with those establishments is that, while they are gay clubs, many heterosexual

people also attend, since both places are great for people of any sexual orientation. However, if you don’t want to test out your gaydar all night trying to find people playing for your team, I would try some alternatives.

The great thing about Madison is that it offers many LGBT-friendly events. Pride marches and rallies are always tons of fun and promise that at least some fellows lesbians or bisexual ladies will be in attendance. Otherwise, see what Rainbow Bookstore or other places offer for LGBT-themed events, such as book clubs or movie nights. Going where your sexual orientation is celebrated is normally a safe bet when trying to find those who are willing to roll around in the sack with you.

Now, even if you figure out where all the lesbians and bisexual women are, there is still the problem of chemistry. Just because

you have the same taste in genitals doesn’t mean you will be attracted to each other. So, here comes the cheesy answer: Do what you like and hopefully other people of similar tastes will be there as well.

Take the most interesting mini-course that the Union offers — there are some really fantastic ones — or sit and enjoy the awesome music guests at the Terrace with a pitcher. If you are enjoying yourself, you will be more approachable and more comfortable with trying to ask out the cutie in the jean jacket who has been eyeing you up for the last hour. Either way, you have fun even if it doesn’t necessarily end with sex hair in the morning.

That’s it from me for the semesters, Badgers.

Enjoy your summer, keep it sweaty and sexy where ever you may be and stay safe. I can’t wait to see you back here next semester, same time and place, for more answers to your questions.

Ashes turn to diamonds in latest Phoenix album Bankrupt! anything but, boasting strong sounds tasting close to acclaimed works Nick Hoffmann ArtsEtc. Writer Phoenix rises again with the release of their latest album, Bankrupt! And, luckily for fans of indie genres alike, the band offers a mature and well-refined follow up to the critically acclaimed Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.

For those who may be out of the loop, Phoenix is a multidimensional, alternative indie rock band from Versailles, France. Released last Monday, Bankrupt! is

the band’s latest installation since the Grammy-winning Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, which hit audiences globally in 2009.

A few things to note about Bankrupt! right from the start is that, unfortunately, the first two songs are arguably the worst: They’re just somewhat forgettable, and the album really doesn’t start to pick up until the third track, “S.O.S. in Bel Air.” The album’s overt use of synthesizers is more or less uncharted territory for the four-piece band. Phoenix mostly uses the synths for texture and as production enhancers to fill space and provide a large sound, usually in the form of arpeggios (a chord played as individual notes instead of one simultaneous collection).

But Phoenix does synths justice all the same. However, songs like “Don’t” show that the band is capable of taking a synthesizer and rubbing it obnoxiously up in the faces of listeners successfully.

Bankrupt! is a concept album, meaning tracks flow into each other and the album as a whole takes on a life of its own, as an entirety rather than an assortment of more or less randomly dispersed songs. This is particularly notable in the album’s sevenminute interlude and title track “Bankrupt!,” which ambles throughout a series of Phoenix-familiar hooks and wandering stanzas.

The album finally finds its way into “Drakkar Noir,” an upbeat dance song reminiscent of Phoenix’s

Alphabetical-era disco-pop sound; these tracks are strategically placed to reexcite listeners.

“Drakkar Noir” ends with an ascending synthesized arpeggio that cuts the tempo in half and segues seamlessly into the album’s arguable apex “Chloroform.” This M83-esque R&B hit is heavy on the down stroke and sure to catch even the most zoned of listeners off-guard.

The song is significantly slower than the surrounding tracks: It leans heavily on the reoccurring textured synth work and is not a Phoenix staple. Mostly, the track oozes with attitude and charm, and the song is stylishly catchy to say the least.

Returning Phoenix fans will certainly not be

disappointed by the band’s tastefully composed followup album. Those unfamiliar with the power-pop quartet have more than enough to sink their teeth into as they delve and sift through the band’s endless supply of pop-gasms stemming from a catalog-sized discography upon hearing this new treat.

Moreover, the deluxe edition of Bankrupt! includes a bonus album full of equally impressive thirty-second to one-minute tasty gems. Did I mention the bonus album has 71 tracks?

Phoenix is one of those rare exceptions to contemporary indie music in the era of buzz bands and one-hit wonders, and they consistently deliver. This is not a huge surprise given

Phoenix got its start circa 1999-2000 and has been around the block. Their debut album, United, is still relevant to new listeners today. Bankrupt! presents a powerful first impression that packs heat and the caliber of work Phoenix is usually known for, giving it strong replay value.

Bankrupt! will fit neatly on any fan’s favorites shelf.

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Society to blame for Bynes’ imminent fame-fueled demise Twitter storm of disturbing selfies, retweets precursor to possible disastrous conclusion Katherine Krueger ArtsEtc. Contributor

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ArtsEtc. Contributor Amanda Bynes needs our help.

No, really. It’s easy to write off the “plight” of the rich and famous as they descend into irrelevance after their spotlight fades. Most child stars, or otherwise marginally famous figures, are content to go back to leading normal lives, raising families in suburbia or seeking out work behind the camera as their good looks begin to fade.

But for others, being out of the public eye seems to initiate a self-destruct sequence in their personal and professional lives.

We watch them make headlines with their batshit insane behavior, DUI charges and sex tapes. Still worse, these events can signal a sad downward spiral where, after a time off the front page of the gossip magazines, the next news we hear is of their untimely death.

It may sound melodramatic, but these are the deaths we saw coming that grab headlines: Brittany Murphy, Amy Winehouse, Anna Nicole Smith, Whitney Houston — the list goes on and on.

Our celebrity-obsessed culture is partially to blame for catalyzing or hastening these casualties of fame. As these people hit every rung on the ladder while they fall into pits of addiction or mental illness, many are urged onward by a renewed public interest in their problematic behaviors.

This is symptomatic of society’s morbid interest in the decline of the rich and famous: A sense that even millions of dollars, mansions and award shows don’t make celebrities’ battles with addiction or mental breakdowns look

much different from those of the average person on the street. We fetishize talented celebrities dying young and elevate them as legends, but they’re really just people like us.

If her recent trouble with the law and erratic Twitter feed are any indication, Amanda Bynes could be the next celebrity casualty — a prediction we really don’t want to be right about after a childhood of watching her wit and personality shine on “The Amanda Show.”

The Nickelodeon prodigy’s descent into mania and the limelight began with a DUI in April of last year. Fast-forward through reports of erratic behavior — including smoking weed at the gym and acting strange outside her New York City apartment — the spotlight has turned to her Twitter, a place that provides an almost too direct and cringe-inducing window into her psyche.

She mostly tweets strange photos of herself and directs media outlets like US Weekly and Complex Magazine to only print the ones she tweets.

When news outlets don’t comply, she tweets things at them like, “you’re ugly writers, I don’t want to be in your lame ass magazine thanks!” and threatens to sue.

Just last night, Amanda tweeted probably her millionth revealing bathroom selfie. The duck face she usually molds her expression into was nowhere to be seen, replaced with a most concerning photo of her wearing a bra, tweeting: “About to put on makeup! I weigh 135, I’ve gained weight! I need to be 100 lbs!”

More disheartening tweets like this have come along recently. Perhaps the most notable one thus far pointedly

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Just one example of the almost surrealist images with which the former child star continues to barrage followers of her social media accounts, encouraging fans to manipulate them further. read: “I want Drake to murder my vagina.” Drake never responded, but the Internet did.

Amanda’s fandom has taken to creating elaborate fan art, which includes photoshopped images of her and Drake getting married, her face spliced into religious figures and Teletubbies and the addition of cats

sprinkled throughout her self-promoted selfies.

We won’t lie — the retweets are fucking funny.

But the whole Twitter situation is representative of what celebrity status has done to Amanda. Society feeds her, and she feeds off of society, fueling her warped self image.

According to her IMDb

biography page, she’s previously been quoted as saying, “People should strive to be happy with who they are and not be obsessed with how they look. Beauty is nothing.”

Reading things like this that the current Amanda contradicts is saddening and serves as a reminder of how far anyone — celebrity or

not — can fall when she loses touch with reality and herself.

No one is above the frailty of human weakness.

Any person, celebrities included, should get the help they need. And we, as Amanda’s Twitter followers and as a society, shouldn’t consume Amanda’s recent missteps as entertainment. #SAVEAMANDA

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Wisconsin head coach Yvette Healy knew what she was getting when she hired Adix to be a member of her staff, coaching her during her time as an assistant at DePaul.

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“I kind of just jumped into it,” Adix said of her decision to go into coaching, admitting it was probably not the best route. “I’ve never been one for sitting at a desk and sitting in a cubicle.

I like to be outside, I like to move and not sit in one place for very long. I think just my competitive spirit is what made me want to get into coaching.

It was either that or firefighting, and my parents weren’t too fond of the firefighting, so they were like, ‘You should go into coaching.’”

Besides being the closest in age of any coach to the Badgers’ players, Adix also totes success within the field of her job as a player. At DePaul during her senior season, Adix went 22-4 with the fifth best ERA in the country at 0.89, and more notably led her team to the Women’s College World Series.

One of Adix’s fondest memories was during that

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UW has grown comfortable with the role of cardiac kids, as six of its 38 wins have come from runs scored to take the lead in the sixth inning or later.

Wisconsin’s greatest threat at the plate, senior outfielder Mary Massei, who boasts a teamleading batting average of .429, says her team’s cool in late-game pressure situations is something that has been instilled in the program ever since she has been wearing the cardinal and white.

“Since day one that I’ve been here as a freshman, we’ve always been a comeback team,” Massei said. “I feel like, in those tough situations, you look in the dugout and none of us are stressing. We are always confident in our abilities to get it done.”

The Badgers’ latest installment of lategame heroics came last weekend in Bloomington, Ind., when senior third baseman Shannel Blackshear propelled Wisconsin to a 5-2 victory over Indiana with a tworun double, giving her

2007 playoff run when point, she’s just a really thanks to her arm; her hard worker. She’s super thorough, Blue Demon squad upset organized, Oklahoma — the No. 4 does all of the dirty work team in the country at behind the scenes of the time — two games in paperwork and forms and a row to advance. Adix submitting every little bit and DePaul eventually — the pencil-pushing that fell in the World Series no one knows about.”

Wisconsin’s ace, junior quarterfinals, but Adix had Cassandra certainly Darrah, who proved is 22-5 on herself as the season, one of the “Since she’s so was quick nation’s top young she can to echo the pitchers. relate to us and words of her “First of head coach all, from she’s actually regarding an age experienced Adix. standpoint everything that “Since she’s it’s nice that we’re going so young she she relates,” through.” can relate Healy to us and said. “She’s younger Cassandra Darrah she’s actually and she’s UW junior pitcher experienced everything cooler than that we’re we are, so going through, she knows so I thought that was one all the inside track stuff.

“From a pitching of the nicest aspects of standpoint, she was just a her,” Darrah said. “And phenomenal All-American she’s also just fun to be pitcher, so she brings around and a very good that knowledge of how coach.”

The Badgers’ senior to get it done, how to compete. And then from pitcher Meghan McIntosh the professional stand has also benefited a great

team the lead in the game’s final inning.

Wisconsin hitting coach Randy Schneider believes it is no coincidence his hitters are prepared to come up with the clutch hit when the team needs it most.

“It’s something that we constantly talk about with the kids,” Schneider said. “It’s really about being in a good state of mind and feeling good when they get up to bat, not necessarily feeling the pressure … It’s more about count management in those situations and understanding that, when you get a pitch on zone, take a good cut but don’t just swing at everything off zone to try to get the key hit, because a lot of times you’re going to just run yourself out.”

That “good state of mind” is something Healy says is essential for a team to remain competitive in games, even when a victorious outcome looks to be out of reach.

“When we get down, we just talk about it’s weak and it’s lazy if you want to pout when you are losing,” Healy said.

“It’s really tougher to change that mentality and

believe and keep trying to get better and stay the course and have some composure.”

With only three games remaining on the regular-season schedule for the Badgers and the postseason looming, Wisconsin’s “exciting” style of play might come back to bite them as better teams begin to lace-up in the opposing dugout.

Schneider says life at the plate is only going to get tougher for the Badger hitters, and they have to be willing to work on weaknesses this late in the season.

“Once you get towards the end of the year, scouting reports go out on you, and everyone has more information,” Schneider said. “What you do is to encourage kids to constantly challenge their weakness and that means do the thing that is the hardest for you. Learn to hit this low-inside pitch or learn to hit this slowoutside pitch. If they put a lot of time against it, they’ll be good. If they don’t, they’re going to struggle because people will just constantly work that part of the zone.”

deal from the presence of Adix on the coaching staff. Over the summer of 2012, Adix set McIntosh up with a workout regimen designed for an All-American type player.

As a result of the help from Adix paired with the commitment and hard work of McIntosh, the senior pitcher has gone on to record a career-high 12 wins and a career-low and team-leading 1.57 ERA in 2013.

Whether the statistics are a direct result of the pitching coach’s work or not, one thing is clear: Adix’s “bulldog” mentality, as Healy referred to it, has certainly rubbed off on the Badgers around her.

“She always says live in the moment, so every pitch, every play, every at-bat, every batter,” McIntosh said, comparing Adix’s mentality to the old here-and-now mentality of the football team. “It’s kind of like the 1-0 football [motto], but just to let [past events] go. You can’t really bring back anything from the past, and just look for the next pitch.“

While Schneider admits he’d prefer to have the lead late in games rather than rely on clutch hitting, he believes the amount of success the team has had in the face of adversity has given confidence to the entire team.

“It’d be great to be ahead so that we don’t have to deal with [late-game heroics],” Schneider said.

“As the season has wore on, we got those wins and they’ve seen each other put a ball out of the park in a key situation — like against Northwestern. It tells people that you can do it, we can all do it, get that timely hit to win the ball game. This team’s kind of had that mentality the last couple of years.

“We always expect to win, it just doesn’t matter.”

anything the Big Ten can offer in the conference season.

By playing the first week of the season against a team that could very well be the four-time defending national champions, the Badgers ensure that the spotlight will be on this game and this game only.

Now, just imagine if they win.

3. My third reason is tied into the national exposure part of this huge event. Games like these mean big bucks for the universities involved. BIG bucks.

In 2011, the first-annual Cowboy Classic, the LSU Tigers took $3.5 million back to Baton Rouge with the Oregon Ducks receiving $2 million.

The following year, Michigan and Alabama made history with the highest payout of any regular season game: $9.4 million. The Wolverines and Crimson Tide split the check down the middle with each school taking home a hefty $4.7 million paycheck. I’m no Darren Rovell, but if I had to put my finger on it, I would say that the payout for the 2015 Cowboy Classic would only be more profuse.

4. The fourth and final reason why the Badgers should take on the best team in the land and play a game of such magnitude is because if you win one of the biggies, you’ll reap the benefits in the polls the rest of the season.

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With a win over Alabama, Wisconsin would instantly jump toward the top of the BCS rankings and be considered one of the best teams in the country.

The 2014 Big Ten divisional realignment makes it so the Badgers have to play Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern and Purdue — none of whom come anywhere near touching the talent level of Alabama.

The Badgers could wind up with a resume at the end of the season that includes going undefeated in a power-six football conference and having beaten the number one team in the land (it’s not that far-stretched of an assumption that Alabama will find itself in that position every season that Nick Saban is at the helm).

If the Badgers were to add a Big Ten Championship to that already impressive resume, in which case they would more than likely have to beat Urban Meyer and the perennial Big Ten power Ohio State Buckeyes, one would have to think it would be near impossible for the selection committee to leave Wisconsin out of the College Football Playoff.

Taking on the Alabama Crimson Tide on the biggest regular season stage in college football is a no-brainer for the University of Wisconsin.

The only question is: Mr. Alvarez? Can you spare me a few bucks for gas?

Sports Editor Nick Korger sports@badgerherald.com

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Rumors are swirling of a potential game between Wisconsin and LSU taking place in the future at Lambeau Field.

Students who show up to Goodman Diamond to watch the Badgers take on the Spartans will get free ticket and pizza.

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Adix brings UW ‘bulldog’ mentality 3rd-year Wisconsin pitching coach has staff thriving in program’s historic season Dan Corcoran Softball Writer Competitive, tough, a bulldog, fun, caring and laid-back are the words Wisconsin softball head coach Yvette Healy and pitchers Cassandra Darrah and Meghan McIntosh used to describe Tracie Adix. They may seem paradoxical, but the two separate phrases are apt descriptions of the Badgers’ third-year pitching coach.

Like Adix, plenty of players transition from participatory role in a sport to a coaching position in that same sport. However, unlike most players, Adix is now coaching with the same coach she was once recruited by and subsequently played for in college.

At a recent practice, Adix recounted her betterlate-than-never approach, which landed her the job at Wisconsin almost three years ago.

“I was looking for a job the summer of 2010.

I had applied for a lot of jobs and didn’t really get a whole lot back,” Adix said.

“And I saw that [Healy] got the job here and I actually thought that her pitching coach was going to come with her, so I just emailed her and said, ‘Congratulations, good luck, and if you need a

pitching coach, I’d love the opportunity.’

“In the time that she called me, I had already been offered a job [and] was setting up another interview with another program. I had a comfort level with her, having played for her and having played in the same program, so we talked and she offered me the job and I was like, ‘Heck yes.’ To be part of the Big Ten would be awesome, especially since where I did grad school was a little smaller school than what I was used to.”

Adix’s start in the world of coaching began a few years prior to taking the job at Wisconsin and like her start with the Badgers, her decision to begin coaching was also made in a last-minute fashion.

After graduating from DePaul University in 2007, Adix spent time playing softball in Europe. When one of her teammates left to take an assistant coaching job and with only three weeks left in the summer, Adix decided that she wanted to coach as well and get her graduate degree. So after applying to a graduate assistant position at South Dakota State University, and with barely any knowledge of the school, Adix accepted the position with the

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Wisconsin senior and No. 2 pitcher Meghan McIntosh (21) has benefitted immensely from the coaching of Adix. The lefty has a team-low and career best 1.57 ERA in 2013 for the Badgers.

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Mary Massei and her .429 batting average lead a Wisconsin attack that has had no problem coming up with key hits, producing 16 come-from-behind victories this season.

Clutch when it matters most Down but never out, Badgers’ offense continues solid production in toughest at-bats Spencer Smith Associate Sports Editor It’s the top of the seventh, down one run with one out and the bases empty: a familiar situation in which the Wisconsin softball team found itself again Sunday.

And yet again, the Badgers persevered, bringing in four runs to secure another

come-from-behind victory.

There’s no question Wisconsin has developed a flare for the dramatic en route to its most successful campaign in program history, sporting a cool mark of 16 comeback victories during 2013. “[The come-from-behind wins] make it exciting, and I think those big walk-

off hits just show that nothing’s easy,” Wisconsin head coach Yvette Healy said. “Everybody looks at the record and numbers and they want to say, ‘Oh, you guys are cruising.’

Really, for as well as we’ve done, we’re not cruising.

“At any point, any team could beat us, and we’ve had so many games come

down to that last inning or the last hit. And I think it just shows that the team has a lot of fight and a lot of grit. Of course, we’d love to win some games where we didn’t have to work so hard, but it’s actually fun.

Every game is a battle and walk-off hits at the end are

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It’s roughly 1,040 miles from Madison to Dallas, Texas, but come fall of 2015, I plan to be in a car with classmates en route to watching the Badgers take on — and defeat — the Crimson Tide of Alabama in what will be the fifth annual Cowboy Classic at Cowboy Stadium.

The Badgers appear to have a newfound appetite for facing teams from the SEC as part of their out of conference schedule.

Rumors even surfaced this week about a possible matchup with the Louisiana State University Tigers at Lambeau Field sometime in the near future. While some are already expressing concern that facing such tough teams — especially away from the friendly confines of Camp Randall — will have a detrimental effect on the team’s chances in taking part of the new and aptly-named “College Football Playoff” system and that UW should reconsider such risky scheduling before it’s too late.

I say, “Bring it on!”

The Badgers and their fans should embrace these challenging games without hesitation.

Here are just four reasons why.

1. Despite the fact that Michigan suffered a brutal 41-14 loss to Alabama in last year’s Cowboy Classic, since 1998 the SEC holds a

not-so-impressive 2824 record against the Big Ten in the regular season and bowl games. Had Michigan not lost twice to SEC opponents last season, the conference would have played to an even 26-26 mark.

Assuming the Badgers will have more on the line in the 2015 season opener, an upset is not out of the question and could be the statement game that head coach Gary Andersen uses to try to bring a national championship to Madison in what will be his third season.

2. Wisconsin should be excited about the chance to play a team that has won the past two national championships, and three of the past four, because of the national exposure the the Badgers will receive in such a highly visible game.

ESPN announced its Big Ten primetime slate for the 2013 season earlier this week and the Badgers found themselves playing at Ohio State on national television.

Don’t get me wrong, I love that the Badgers are on national television and hope they continue to get the exposure that they deserve, BUT — call me greedy — it’s only one game.

Plus, the matchup falls on the same time and date as the LSU and Georgia game, which is sure to get a higher rating than

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