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Mifflin St. to see housing proposal Developers to suggest six-story apartment development project to replace parking lot Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor

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City of Madison leaders oppose state legislation that would counteract more than twelve city ordinances that are meant to protect tenants and restrict landlord rights.

City backs tenant rights Madison leaders, mayor unanimously oppose bill proposed in Legislature Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor City Council unanimously chose to oppose a bill addressing landlord-tenant interactions in their meeting Tuesday evening after concluding the legislation would severely eliminate tenants’ rights in the state.

Although Madison has no jurisdiction over the bill itself, the motion was done as a gesture towards the Legislature in effort to demonstrate that city leaders, including Madison

conditions in the building, or tell them about any building code violations, Resnick said, adding that under the bill landlords would not be required to tell tenants why they deducted money from their security deposits, he said.

Soglin said these decisions should be left to local government to decide, not the state government. He said the bill is not supported by many Madison landlords, many of whom want to see the standards in their industry increase,

Mayor Paul Soglin, are adamantly opposed to the bill.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, listed more than a dozen tenant rights that were instituted by the city of Madison that the bill will remove, including city ordinances that require landlords a limit of a 5 percent charge for late rent payment and to have a written guest policy or inform renters if they are able to get an off-street parking permit.

Landlords would also not need to notify tenants of any dangerous

but was made to benefit certain large, out-ofstate corporations who own or manage apartment complexes in Wisconsin. He said these companies want a minimal uniform set of standards throughout Wisconsin, which the bill will provide.

The bill will mainly affect Madison, along with other larger cities including Milwaukee, Oshkosh and La Crosse, where more than half of the population rents, Soglin said.

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East Mifflin Street could see a new development project coming to the downtown area soon, as developers get ready to present a proposal for a sixstory apartment building in the neighborhood next Wednesday.

The development could replace four houses and East Mifflin Street could see a new development project coming to the downtown area soon, as developers get ready to present a proposal for a sixstory apartment building in the neighborhood next Wednesday.

The development could replace four houses and a large parking lot and would be located on East Mifflin Street, between 17 and 27 North Webster Street, according to a statement from Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4. The statement said the project’s developer is Rouse Company and the four houses that could be demolished were built between 1872 and 1904.

Ald. Ledell Zellers, District 2, said the six-story apartment building will target a general audience, including students, graduate students and professionals.

“Housing is a great use of the space,” Zellers said.

Currently, the area is taken up by Reynolds Transfer and Storage’s crane lot, which is basically a large parking lot, she said. Zellers also said housing will be a better use of the area, adding it makes sense to do something there and not just have a parking

lot in the space.

Zellers called the project promising and said she is optimistic that some form of the project will be built.

She did say she expects some changes will be made as a result of city processes and community input, however.

She said the apartment is being proposed to be built adjacent to a proposed hotel, which is at a similar level of development as the apartment, and both projects will likely be built at the same time. She said the hotel could create a stronger market for the apartment building.

Verveer said this proposal to build an apartment is part of a larger trend of the unprecedented downtown development that is either proposed or under construction. He said this is the most development downtown Madison has seen in recent history.

“New apartment buildings are either going up or scheduled to go up at a really breathtaking record pace,” he said.

He said developers believe the downtown housing market will be able to absorb thousands of additional bedrooms over the upcoming few years.

He said the city’s downtown zoning code, which has gone into effect within the last year, allows for taller buildings in many parts of downtown, which is why this proposal would be allowed to be six stories.

“It is particularly remarkable to me that developer after developer

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MPD investigates armed robbery on Mound Street Police warn against walking alone at night after victim held at gunpoint Sarah Eucalano City Hall Editor Robbery: Street

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A thief robbed a man walking down Mound Street early Tuesday morning, pointing a gun at the victim’s chest when he demanded the man’s phone.

According to a

Madison Police Department statement the victim was walking down Regent Street shortly after midnight near its intersection at Randall Street when the suspect asked the victim if he knew what time it was. The statement said the victim responded, and continued walking, but the suspect continue to talk, which the victim did not understand because he was listening to headphones.

The statement then said the victim turned around and the suspect was aiming a gun at him and demanding his phone, which the suspect took on the 1400

block of Mound Street and then ran away.

The statement gave the description of the suspect as a black male.

MPD Lt. Cory Nelson said the suspect in the incident has not been located, but MPD is assigning officers to do follow-up on the case.

Nelson said incidents like this are not uncommon and stressed situational awareness. “[People] need to be aware of their surroundings,” Nelson said.

He also recommended staying clear of strangers who attempt to approach

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Beer me As part of Madison’s annual Beer Week, students and community members participated in a craft beer tasting at Union South.

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UW transit looks to increase revenue, raises parking rates Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor As the start of a six-year initiative to sustain already available programs, facilities and support remodeling projects, the University of Wisconsin will increase parking rates next semester.

The plan is meant to ensure future funding for the University of Wisconsin Transportation Services,

according to Associate Director Casey Newman, who said the department has been operating at a structural deficit.

Next semester’s parking price increases, however, will improve their funding streams, Newman said.

When looking at past revenue needs, Newman said Transportation Services had to tap into its reserves in order to fund its services.

“We are sustaining,” Newman said. “But we foresee future costs.”

The department has to generate its own revenue to maintain funding, according to Transportation Services Marketing Coordinator Michelle Bacon. She said services are auxiliary, which means they do not receive any funding from the university or from the state.

Instead of raising rates

by a large increase, Bacon said Transportation Services decided to initiate smaller increases over a six-year span.

“I think it’s very important to us overall to make sure that we are able to sustain all of our programs for the long term,” Bacon said. “We don’t take it very lightly that we are trying to maintain all of these different components for the campus community.”

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Next year’s changes will adjust permit fees by a range of 3 to 10 percent increases for the 2013-2014 parking year, according to a Transportation Services statement. The statement said the new structure embodies “appropriate” funding levels for its services.

Bacon said there will be increases to permits, and university employees will have to pay $24 for the metro

bus pass that is used only on off-campus metro buses.

Right now, she said the metro bus pass is free for employees and added changes will go into effect in September.

The true value of the metro bus pass is valued at $700, according to Newman.

He said Transportation Services pays for the difference out of its revenues.

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Gov.’s budget could affect child Medicaid Provision proposes to give health departments flexibility to drop children from health care coverage Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor Although Gov. Scott Walker’s budget keeps Medicaid coverage for children the same in this budget cycle, a provision could give the health department flexibility to drop coverage for thousands of children starting in 2019, pending federal approval.

The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families outlined their concerns about the “resurrected” proposal Tuesday, as the federal government rejected the proposal in the 2011 budget. That year, the change would have led to 64,000 people losing their Medicaid coverage — 29,000 of them being children.

The Department of Health Services has “no immediate

plans” to make the changes and is seeking flexibility in case the department wants to do so in the future, spokesperson Claire Smith said in an email to The Badger Herald.

If DHS does decide to make the changes in the future, the department would still need federal approval, Smith added.

“It is important for the department to have the flexibility to make these reforms, should we decide to pursue them in the future,” Smith said.

The series of changes include making children ineligible for Medicaid if their parents can get insurance through employers and if that plan costs less than 9.5 percent of the family income.

The report noted, however, the plan’s costs are measured

from employee-only plans, not more expensive family plans, due to a “glitch” in the federal health care law.

Another change would charge premiums for children in families who make 150 percent of the poverty level, rather than the current 200 percent starting point for premiums.

Another would “lock children out” of Medicaid for a year if they are above 150 percent of the poverty level and their parents miss a monthly payment, rather than the current six-month suspension for those children.

WCCF Research Director Jon Peacock called the proposal a “mistake” because it would make Medicaid unaffordable for many families and complicate the health care law’s implementation.

He said the proposal should be taken out of the biennial budget, as discussions on the budget have focused on more immediate issues, including Gov. Scott Walker’s larger plan to reform Medicaid and reject federal expansion funds.

“These changes have been buried and have been completely overshadowed by other aspects of the budget,” Peacock said. “[They] are not taken seriously because they can’t take effect for many years [so] the public isn’t paying attention to that.”

Smith said the budget proposal codifies changes the Legislature’s finance committee already approved in 2011 and 2012.

When the state has a better idea of how President Barack Obama’s health care law will be implemented, DHS would decide whether changes to

the state’s Medicaid program like the one WCCF raised concerns about are needed.

Such changes would need federal approval, she said.

Smith said the proposal was part of a larger push for “common-sense reforms” from DHS to make Medicaid coverage similar to private insurance, some of which the federal government has already approved.

Those changes, which affected adults above 133 percent of the poverty level, included higher monthly premiums and requiring that they get employer-sponsored insurance if it is available, saving the state $28.1 million annually and leading to the first balanced Medicaid budget since 2007, Smith said.

Reporter Madeleine Behr contributed to this story.

UW campus buildings affected in blackout Failed electrical equipment causes afternoon power outage throughout university, 6 regain power by afternoon Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor Physical plant workers were able to quickly remedy a blackout that took away the power of seven University of Wisconsin’s campus buildings Tuesday afternoon.

University Communications received the first reports of a loss of power in the Law School building, according to UW spokesperson Susannah Brooks.

As of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday,

Brooks said the six campus buildings that completely lost power included the Law School building, Chamberlin Hall, Van Hise Hall, the Service Building, the Service Annex connected to the UW Service Building, Science Hall and the Bradley Memorial Building.

Sterling Hall, the seventh building affected during the blackout, maintained half of its power while the other half of the building had lost its power.

All seven buildings lost their power due to a

switch gear equipment failure in the campus electrical system, Brooks said. She said University Communications issued a message regarding the power outage on the UW homepage.

Brooks said she contacted Faramarz Vakili, associate director of the UW Physical Plant, shortly before 2:30 p.m., which was just before University Communications issued a campuswide message with information about the blackout. She said Vakili’s office was in the UW Service Building that was

affected by the blackout.

When University Communications issued the initial message notifying campus of the blackout, Brooks said six of the affected buildings were expected to regain their power by 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

University Commutations issued a second message just before 3:30 p.m. stating that power had been restored in six of the seven campus buildings affected by the blackout.

The Bradley Memorial building is expected to regain power by tomorrow,

according to Brooks. She said this solution was expected at the time she left the communications office.

“At the time we left, the estimate was that the Bradley Building would regain power by tomorrow,” Brooks said.

Brooks said she could not say for sure if the blackout had any impact on classes occurring in the buildings that lost power. But, she said she would guess that classes were affected Tuesday as a result of the blackout.

Vakili did not respond to a request to comment.

Bill ensuring healthy food stamp options passes Democrats raise concerns over “press release politics” legislation, find its solution unrealistic for impoverished Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor A bill that would ensure most food stamp benefits go to healthy food passed the state Assembly in a bipartisan vote Tuesday, despite Democrats raising concerns about the proposal not being realistic.

In a 68-26 vote, the Assembly approved the bill from Rep. Dean Kaufert, R-Neenah, that would make at least two-thirds of the state’s FoodShare program go to a list of healthy food.

Kaufert pushed the federal government to approve his plan, noting first lady Michelle Obama shares his wishes to improve nutrition.

“Let Wisconsin be the test case; let us lead the way,” Kaufert told reporters before the Assembly session. “We’re not being punitive. With your money, you can buy what you want. With taxpayer money, there are guidelines.”

Although most Democrats said they supported the bill’s intentions, they raised concerns over its implementation and its unclear specifications, which includes its unknown fiscal impacts.

Rep. Andy Jorgensen, D-Fort Atkinson, said the Legislature’s Certified Public Accountants Caucus, the

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In addition to passing the bill, increasing healthy food options for food stamp users with a 68-26 vote, Assembly also passed a vote penalizing food stamp trafficking. group of Republicans that uncovered the University of Wisconsin System reserves, should be concerned about the unclear costs to the state.

Some grocers also testified against the bill, as they were concerned about how much it would cost them to implement the changes, Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber, D-Appleton, said.

Kaufert responded, however, that he takes grocer concerns seriously but their costs would be reduced by improved technology. He also said most grocers recognize millions of food stamps dollars are spent on junk

food and soda.

“Privately, they’ll tell each and every one of you there is a problem out there,” Kaufert said.

While Kaufert said the bill might not be the exact solution, he said he is open to changes later on and wants to ensure taxpayer money goes to what it is intended for.

Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, D-Milwaukee, called the bill “press release politics” that would do nothing.

Another Milwaukee representative, Democratic Rep. LaTonya Johnson, said some neighborhoods in urban areas have few healthy options available.

Rep. Janet Bewley,

D-Ashland, said that is also the case in rural areas and that the bill would harm poor families.

“This bill would force children to go hungry,” Bewley said. “If you don’t understand that, then you don’t understand what it’s like to be poor.”

Kaufert’s bill originally called for all FoodShare benefits to go to healthy foods, although he changed it to the two-thirds level after hearing legislators’ concerns.

Another bill the Assembly passed increased fines for traffic violations around sanitation workers, similar to the increased fines in construction

areas. Rep. John Jagler, R-Watertown, introduced the bill after one of his constituents lost a leg in an accident.

In the Senate, senators voted 28-5 to penalize food stamps trafficking, a bill that passed the Assembly last month and will head to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk.

“By putting in place penalties for the trafficking of these benefits we can work to deter these actions and ensure that those individuals and families actually in need of assistance are receiving the necessary resources,” Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said in a statement.

ROBBERY, from 1 people at night.

He advised people to not walk with headphones in, because when people listen to music they are not aware of what is happening around them, adding people should avoid walking in dark areas without a partner.

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Democrats express further concerns over WEDC Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor Although Republicans said Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation was already being fixed internally and externally, Democrats expressed their concerns over a recent WEDC audit Tuesday at the state Assembly.

The Democratic proposal would have established a committee that would “devise ways to ensure” WEDC follows the law.

That proposal followed a state audit last week that said WEDC did not always follow the law in giving and tracking grants and did not track employee purchases

properly.

Republicans said the proposal was unnecessary, however, as the Legislative Audit Committee is hearing from the agency Thursday, and WEDC’s leadership has already taken steps to fix many of the issues.

Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale, who sits on WEDC’s Board of Directors, said the board would make changes much quicker internally than a legislative committee, which would take too long to make recommendations.

The latest revelation was that WEDC spokesperson John Gillespie resigned after WKOW reported he owed the state about $36,000 in back taxes and

received almost $8,000 in unemployment insurance that he was not supposed to receive.

WEDC spokesperson Tom Thieding declined to comment on the resignation, although he told WKOW that, since Gillespie lived outside the state when he was hired, his offenses did not show up in the quasiprivate agency’s background check.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, told reporters before the Assembly session that the resignation was an “embarrassing situation.”

Democrats criticized the agency throughout the session, using the latest news as another example

of the agency’s failures. In a statement, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate blasted Gov. Scott Walker for letting one of his former top staffers, WEDC Chief Operating Officer Ryan Murray, run the agency.

“Unfortunately, this is what happens when your governor is off campaigning for president, leaving an unqualified political hack with no business experience in charge of a multibillion dollar effort to save Wisconsin’s floundering economy,” Tate said.

WEDC is up for discussion at two joint legislative committees Thursday morning: the Joint Finance Committee that would approve WEDC funds and

the audit committee.

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, and other Democrats pushed a JFC co-chair to delay the WEDC budget decisions Thursday until more details came out. Barca also sits on the WEDC Board of Directors.

“It would be irresponsible to give them more money given the fact that they have violated the law in multiple occasions,” Barca said.

The audit committee co-chair, Rep. Samantha Kerkman, R-Randall, said the audit committee’s work would be enough and invited anyone with concerns to come to or testify at the committee hearing.

Rep. John Nygren,

R-Marinette, a JFC cochair, said passing a law to make sure an agency follows the law was “ridiculous” and that the agency was already solving many of the problems listed in the audit.

Vos echoed those comments and said if the audit bureau looked at WEDC current operations, it would likely find much different results.

“I would like to have things focused on economic development and creating jobs and not trying to find problems that are not there,” Vos said. “I know there are serious problems that exist.

There’s no doubt about that.

But many of them, I think, are in the process of being solved.”

New ASM chair to focus on accessibility, affordability Julia Skulstad Senior Campus Editor Ushering in the 20th session of Student Council, newly elected University of Wisconsin’s student government Chair David Gardner said he would implement student connections, issues and concerns into real change on campus.

Gardner said students should expect a big focus on issues of affordability from the Associated Students of Madison next semester.

He said this involves the cost to attend UW and the cost of living in Madison, in addition to student loan debt.

Gardner, among other members of ASM, will fight hard to ensure Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed tuition freeze will go onto place, according to Gardner.

He said this is something students on campus deserve.

Gardner said he would also fight for a “closer-toliving wage” for student hourly jobs.

“Increasing [student] debt is disappointing for me to see,” Gardner said.

In addition to issues of affordability, Gardner said he would also focus on the Campus Diversity Plan to increase diversity throughout the university.

He said he hopes something can be worked out by fall and added he will work with other committees to ensure that student input is a part of the plan.

Gardner, previously the press office director of ASM, said he will utilize the dialogue he was privileged to have over the past year with different campus aspects on issues about which students are passionate.

When moving from leading the press office to becoming ASM’s next chair, Gardner said he would strive to make sure that he is just as transparent and accessible in his new position as he was with the press office. In doing so, he will reach out to student groups, administrators and legislators with regard to

student priorities, he added.

With the university welcoming a new chancellor next semester, Gardner said he is excited to work with UW’s next chancellor, Rebecca Blank, to set student priorities and build a relationship that future sessions of ASM can benefit from.

In addition to drafting a letter outlining student and shared governance priorities to go to the chancellor’s office, Gardner said he plans to meet with Blank this summer.

Former ASM Chair Andrew Bulovsky said it is important for Gardner and Blank to be able to communicate and have an understanding of each other’s offices.

Given Blank’s economic background, Bulovsky said he hopes Gardner will talk about possible future changes to the out-of-state enrollment cap. He said this is important for the future of the university in terms of accessibility and prestige.

“I hope David takes that in stride,” Bulovsky said.

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As David Gardner takes over as chair of ASM ,he looks to maintain the skills he learned as press office director and be a transparent leader.

“I have confidence that he will.”

After finals end, Gardner said he looks forward to meeting with UW’s administration, legislators and student leaders on campus. These meetings

will ensure his presence on campus and help move forward with student issues, he added.

Bulovsky said his transition out of the position was “smooth and calm,” adding that, during his

tenure as ASM chair, he was able to see the inner workings of Student Council and the impact that students can have on campus.

“It was a hell of a ride,” Bulovsky said. “It was a really incredible year.”

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Voucher school lobby accused of expense violations WDC files complaint citing $2 million in undisclosed campaign finance Polo Rocha Senior Legislative Editor A Wisconsin watchdog group filed a complaint against a voucher school advocacy group for allegedly not disclosing about $2 million in election spending Tuesday, in hopes of increasing enforcement to all groups that do so.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign filed a complaint with the

Government Accountability Board, which oversees elections, against the American Federation for Children for allegedly failing to disclose about $2 million in funds used to influence races.

WDC Executive Director Mike McCabe said, however, that AFC was not the only group that does this and called for more enforcement of campaign finance rules.

The complaint stemmed from an online AFC report to members, which has since been deleted, that said the group spent $2.4 million in influencing races, although it only disclosed $345,000 to the GAB. “The reality is that they

hid over $2 million worth of election spending from the people of Wisconsin, and what we want is for the GAB to begin enforcing their own rules and making groups like this come clean and honestly account for the full extent of their electioneering,” McCabe said.

AFC was able to keep most of its spending undisclosed, McCabe said, because the group spent money on advertisement for issues, rather than on candidates themselves.

However, in the AFC report, the WDC highlighted races it had “invested heavily” in, such as the highly contested state Senate race between

Sen. Rick Gudex, R-Fond du Lac, and former Sen. Jessica King, D-Oshkosh. McCabe argued in the complaint that for that reason, GAB should rule AFC violated campaign finance rules.

“With expenditures of $2,392,000, [AFC] engaged in hard-fought, successful battles to ensure educational choice majorities in both chambers of the Legislature,” the AFC report said.

The AFC report also praised Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators for their proposals to expand voucher schools to nine more school districts, in addition to the current programs in Milwaukee and

Racine. It also lauded their efforts to create a special needs scholarship program that would apply statewide.

McCabe said the report, in which he said AFC “bragged” about their achievements, was supposed to be for members only, and AFC took down the report as soon as it realized others were reading it.

WDC’s complaint is not just intended to highlight AFC’s $2 million in undisclosed spending, but also to push GAB to enforce rules it already has the authority to do, McCabe said. Common Cause in Wisconsin Executive Director Jay Heck said legislators often

question whether GAB has the authority to enforce “sweeping rules,” so a law from the Legislature would be a better deterrent.

Heck called on the Legislature to pass a bipartisan bill from two longtime state senators that would toughen state election laws, rather than enforcing GAB rules.

“The GAB has always thought that a legislative solution is really necessary to solve this problem,” Heck said. “I don’t fault the GAB for not enforcing their rules. I fault the failure of the Legislature for almost 20 years to pass a disclosure rule that reins in this electioneering.”

City commerce office plans year Bennet Goldstein Reporter The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce released its “Path to Progress” plan Monday, which outlines the chamber’s “advocacy agenda” for business development throughout the city in 2013 through 2014.

Jo-ell Carson, director of communications at the chamber, said the chamber modeled the agenda on a vision set by its new president, Zach Brandon.

“The main message is, ‘We must build a greater Madison.

Period,’” she said. “Looking at the Greater Madison community, … we are a great region, a great community, but we can be better.”

Carson said businesses, local government and educational institutions all affect commerce in Madison.

The chamber’s agenda promotes programs and pieces of legislation that it will foster entrepreneurship and innovation. The agenda identified four areas — government policy, public infrastructure, natural resources and education — that could be harnessed to promote economic growth in the region.

One of the key resources the city has, said Carson, is its students. “[Madison has] 40,000 students filled with unbelievably wonderful, great ideas — entrepreneurial ideas that sometimes leave our city,” she said. “We have this talent pool at the university, and we want to convince those students that this is a great place for them to … grow their ideas.”

According to Carson, the Chamber of Commerce hopes to utilize and encourage student entrepreneurship by supporting co-working spaces. These spaces are often a standard office, but students can share the costs, Carson said.

In addition to providing people with possible computer,

phone and printer access and other basic needs, Carson said co-working spaces also give students the opportunity to interact with businesspeople who have been around for a while and can serve as resources and connections.

Carson added the chamber “connects business to business, student to business and business to government” in an effort to answer any questions people may have.

Mary Carbine, executive director of Madison’s Central Business Improvement District, said BID’s work to develop retail, entertainment and restaurant establishments downtown overlaps with many of the goals listed in the chamber’s advocacy agenda. For example, Carbine said both the chamber and BID support reforming the city’s permitting process.

“A lot of small businesses and independent businesses interact with the city for various kinds of permits, whether it’s building permits or sign permits or awnings … or outdoor vending and cafés,” she said. “We do believe that there are opportunities to streamline and make the process more efficient — not getting rid of important checks, but simply making the process easier and a Chamber of Commerce agenda looks to student entrepreneurs for economic development more positive customerfriendly experience for small businesses.”

Another objective in the chamber’s agenda is preserving Madison’s natural resources — for instance, improving the water quality in the Yahara watershed, Carson said, adding such an initiative will attract visitors to the region.

Carbine said students may see the impact of the chamber’s recommendations on the businesses where they shop in the future, as well as the places where they take families who visit from out of town.

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University of Wisconsin, which received majority of the grant, looks to measure environmental footprint of dairy production in multi-institutional and multi-state research project.

USDA awards university $9.9M grant UW’s agricultural research department to create more sustainable dairy industry Mohammad Najafian Jazi Reporter A $9.9 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the agriculture research department of University of Wisconsin will fund efforts for a more sustainable dairy industry.

This grant will be used to perform multiinstitutional and multi-state test research, according to Raymond Knighton, a national program leader at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“The grant is one of the numbers of what we call coordinated agricultural project,” Knighton said.

The USDA rewarded UW the majority of the grant, according to Knighton.

He said Wisconsin is responsible for 48 percent of dairy production in the U.S. geographically and added the state has

PARKING, from 1 “There is not anything that we are shooting to change drastically or to eliminate,” Bacon said. “But, I don’t think anyone takes these increases lightly.”

According to the statement, increased permit fees include raises to Park and Ride permits by $8, motorcycle and moped

CITY COUNCIL, from 1 City Council also unanimously approved a compromise recommended by a city committee and devised

by Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, to allow late-night food carts to operate on the block of North Broom Street off State Street.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said both the city and food cart vendors are satisfied with the compromise, which will allow food carts to operate on the block except for particular spots in front of open businesses in the area.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said before the ordinance food carts were allowed to vend anywhere on the 400 block of North

many qualified experts for sustainable dairy research.

The University of Michigan, Penn State, Cornell University, University of Arkansas, Northern Carolina A&T State University and University of Washington are the other universities involved in the project for sustainable dairy research, according to a UW statement.

The statement also said four USDA-ARS laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy will also be involved in the project.

The main focus of the project, Knighton said, is for researchers to look at the environmental footprint of common dairy production practice.

Researchers will collect measurements to determine instances of gas emission, he added.

Once enough data is gathered, Knighton said

researchers will carry out life cycle analysis data tests to employ the most qualified practice in order to reduce the environmental footprint.

Research teams will work with features of milk production to find effective ways to retain carbon, nitrogen and water, the statement said.

Accordingly, Knighton said another purpose of the research is for a greener and more efficient production process to help farmers adopt practices to adapt to climatic changes.

One of the main sources of gas emissions comes from the manure of cattle because they produce gas through a technical process called eructation, which is the oral ejection of gas or air from the stomach, according to Knighton.

Knighton said the USDA has learned a lot over the years about the level of crude protein in cows’ diet and the kinds of emissions.

One way to reduce the gas is to alternate the feeding system of cows, according to Matt Ruark, a UW assistant professor for the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and extension soils specialist. “[We] can use the technology and evaluate the digestion process and how to manage it,” Ruark said.\ Ruark said there is a team working on the development of a model for sustainable dairy research and the ability to predict gas emissions. In the long run, he said data can be used to build a comprehensive life cycle assessment to help in the understanding of the true life cycle, efficiency and sustainability of the production system.

Knighton said there are promising results that 25 percent of greenhouse gases will be reduced by 2020. As a result, he added USDA has entered an agreement to support the research and help to decrease gases.

permits by $4, department service permits by $25, monthly permits by $5 to $10 and an enhanced carpool permit policy.

Bacon said the overall objective of the plan is to bring the total number of different rates on campus down to the second price level.

According to Newman, maintenance operations and

parking replacements are two of the biggest changes that funding from increased parking rates will address.

Transportation Services plans to expand the UW Hospital ramp, Newman said.

Due to construction, he said much of the parking around the hospital is no longer available.

With restrictions on campus boundaries,

Newman said Transportation Services does not have the opportunity to build service lots. Service lots, he said, would be replaced by structured parking garages that are more expensive to build.

Newman said they are also looking at new opportunities to address accessible mobility around campus, including enhancing the bus service.

Broom Street anywhere after 10 p.m. He said the new ordinance, which does not allow foodcarts to be located directly in front of more traditional restaurants on the block, like Asian Kitchen, is considered a compromise.

He said it is considered a compromise because the traditional restaurants, the city and the food carts all agreed on it.

He said other proposed ordinances were “draconian” and did not allow for late night vending on the block at all.

Other areas that allow late night vending in Madison are Library Mall, part of the 400 block of North Frances Street and the blocks of West Johnson Street on either side of State Street,

Verveer said.

He said the city’s late night vending policy has been a result of years of compromises and figuring out where food cart vending has worked and where it has not.

He said in the past food carts were allowed to occupy more of the 400 block of North Frances Street, along with part of Langdon Street. Policies changed when people who lived and worked in the area complained to the city, he said. “[The venders choose] the most profitable location close to taverns with the highest amount of customers,” Verveer said.

“This will be the last time we talk about this issue for a while,” Resnick said.

MIFFLIN, from 1 believe that there is such a deep and wide housing market in downtown Madison,” Verveer said.

Zellers said the project still has several steps to go through, the first of which is an information session next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the U.S. Bank Building on 1 S. Pinckney St. Verveer said the downtown hotel proposal and the apartment proposal are on similar timelines, however, they are being proposed by different developers.

The proposal for the 10-story, 151-room hotel will be held next Tuesday at 7 p.m. on 211 N. Carroll St. at Madison College in Room D 240. a large parking lot and would be located on East Mifflin Street, between 17 and 27 North Webster Street,

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Collaborate, create over summer break Garth Beyer Columnist

Data courtesy of the UW System Office of Financial Administration

State funding for the University of Wisconsin sharply declined due to budget cuts made in 2011. Due to an uproar over revenue balances, the System’s budget is again in jeopardy.

Politics ensnares UW budget Joe Timmerman Editorial Page Content Editor Let’s rewind about a month and a half.

As hard as it may be to believe, it actually looked like relations between the University of Wisconsin and the state government were on the mend. Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank had just been chosen as UW’s next chancellor — a selection that was praised by, of all people, our very own Gov. Scott Walker. While not all Republicans were on board with the selection, one should not put too much stake in the opinions of folks with as weak a grasp on basic facts as Sen. Glen Grothman, R-West Bend.

However, since then, state-university relations have taken a turn for the worse, with state officials “discovering” a surplus of more than $600 million in the UW System.

Much has already been said about this

surplus, including an editorial by this newspaper that summarizes my thoughts on the issue quite nicely.

To put it succinctly, the so-called “slush fund,” which is obviously not actually a slush fund, is on par with what other schools in the Big Ten keep on hand. The only real mistake the UW System made was that it lacked transparency with regards to the revenue balance and handled the ensuing public relations situation very poorly.

Had System officials stayed in front of this story, this would be a nonissue, and activists on both sides of the aisle wouldn’t even know this was something they could be bitching about.

However, the time for mending the public relations situation has come and gone, so we’re left doing damage control — and there is plenty to be done.

On Monday, Walker announced his plans to divert some of the $181 million originally intended for the state’s higher education system to K-12 education. He also proposed tax cuts in response to the UW System cash reserve.

However, Walker declined to specify what proportion of the UW

cuts would go to public education, and what proportion would go to increasing his tax cut.

This is a wise political move. After all, no one wants to come out against increasing funding for K-12 public education. Think of the kids! By not specifying how much of the cut will go where, Walker guaranteed himself relatively favorable coverage (and muted criticism) of the announcement. Even if most of the money goes toward a tax cut — which, while purely speculative on my part, seems likely, the story will likely have died by the time he makes an announcement.

If I’m wrong and a significant portion of the cuts do in fact go to K-12 education rather than tax cuts, and if Walker truly believes that taking UW funding and giving it to K-12 education is the right thing to do, then it will be hard to argue against him. While UW could certainly use the money, so could the rest of the public education system.

It’s difficult to push for more UW funding at the expense of young students without reverting to simple selfish arguments. I certainly don’t want my tuition to go up more

than it has to, but I also don’t want to keep my tuition low at the expense of a younger generation.

However, if my hunch is correct, and this is just a political ploy by Walker to punish those pesky liberals pursuing a college degree, then it is truly reprehensible.

I’ve already written about Walker’s tax cut (hint: it sucks), so I won’t go into much detail about it here.

Simply put, the state would benefit far more from funding higher education than giving out a fairly small tax cut.

Education is too important to the future of the state for Walker to be playing politics with it. Unfortunately, it looks like that is precisely what’s happening. I sincerely hope state Republicans and system officials can come to a mutual understanding that will benefit everyone. It would be a shame for a new chancellor to be welcomed in the midst such hostile relations between the state and UW. Joe Timmerman ( jtimmerman@ badgerherald.com) is a sophomore majoring in economics and math with a certificate in computer science.

If you have read any of my columns this semester, you have likely noticed a trend. They all advocate for self-development and informal credentials with an anti-establishment and antitradition tone. In other words, I’m all about making a ruckus by challenging the status quo.

Am I the only one?

Last week I suggested you spend short periods of your summer blogging about what you’re teaching yourself. I asked you to share the stories you create while on your summer adventures, or at least to let others know about the mistakes you make so they don’t make the same mistakes themselves.

I noticed a problem with my appeal for action. Many people don’t know where to begin this summer, or where to find topics to write about. For most people, the plan is to work, relax and drink all summer.

However, I have come to discover that there are students on campus who think there is no one else with the same mindset as them, that there is no one else coming up with cool ideas, no one else who actually wants to get together to make them happen! Ideas like drafting a business plan for your oneof-a-kind business or putting together your own type of TED talk, or anything that involves your passion, whether it is folk music, art or Twitter.

The First Invitation Roughly two weeks ago, I posted a Facebook status on the University of Wisconsin’s 2013 Spring Transfer Group expressing my interest in working on a few summer projects. I wrote, “I’m looking to collaborate with a few designers/artists/web designers for some weird, memorable projects over the summer. We’re going to work on something remarkable and that represents, what I call, humanitarian energy.”

Less than a week later, I received the following response from a junior majoring in philosophy, Reed Kinning.

“I’ve always wanted to do a big project (of the scope that I believe you’re talking about) but I haven’t met someone with the same enthusiasm,” he replied.

This article — more or less — is for all those who haven’t met someone with the same enthusiasm. I’m writing this article to tell you that we’re

here and we want you to join us.

A Group Project As it is summer and all, it seems applicable to quote Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, “A dream alone is only a dream. A dream together is a reality.” And this dream is where ideas are happening.

This will be a group like no other; where there is no misunderstanding or lack of interest because you are going to get to do exactly what you are passionate about, what you have dreamt about, what you wish you had other people to help you complete.

And, unlike in class, it’s quite difficult to dislike people who think like you do. So, in one sense, were breaking the stigma surrounding “group project.”

Make a Difference Or Make a Revolution While Make a Difference Day makes an impact and gets organizations, clubs and a variety of people together to, well, make a difference — it’s only one day. Perhaps it is only me, but even the title seems to imply the results of the event are quickly forgotten once the day is over. I think one day of national good is a bit satirical.

On the other hand, making a positive ruckus by creating content and manifesting ideas produces a substantially larger impact — one might even say an immortal impact. Especially when you make one passionate event after the other, all the while connecting and sharing the events, results and personal experiences of those affected.

This is the goal of our team.

This is a summer to make ideas happen. Actually, it’s a revolution. An idol of mine, bestselling writer and marketer Seth Godin, wrote on his Blog, “A friend asked me the other day, ‘… given the sorry state of so much in the world, what’s possible to look forward to?’”

Seth responded, “The state isn’t sorry. It’s wide open.

Interest rates are super low, violence is close to an alltime low, industries are being remade and there’s more leverage for the insurgent outsider than ever before in history. The status quo is taking a beating, there’s no question about it. That’s what makes it a revolution.”

And the best part is that we are the leaders of it.

If you are interested in being part of the team and you want to make your ideas happen, email me.

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

Underage drinking law will backfire on downtown bar owners Hayes Cascia Staff Writer Some of my favorite Bills include Cosby, Clinton, Gates and of course Shakespeare — however, I am not a fan of this new bill that is currently in the process of being approved by the state Assembly.

If passed, this bill would

make it legal for bars to sue underage drinkers for up to $1,000. And you would think there are more important things to take care of in court than slapping an 18-year-old with a $1,000 fine.

First off, a significant portion of the revenue of certain bars on campus comes from underage drinkers. I’m sure any University of Wisconsin student could tell you a couple bars off the top of their heads where you could get your visiting high school siblings in easily. If the bill passes

and it actually succeeds at keeping underage drinkers from going to bars, then these bars will likely go out of business.

It is also true that bars can go out of business from getting caught for knowingly letting in underage patrons — but if other bars are doing it, how will they stay in business anyway?

The main goal of this bill being passed seems to be to subdue Wisconsin’s drinking culture. I can say pretty confidently that this will not be achieved.

This is because the same

people who would have gone to these bars will likely just attend house parties, where drinking and other shenanigans will occur. Not to mention it gets cold as balls in the winter, so it’s always nice to have an extra jacket, even if it is made out of beer.

Basically, trying to pass this bill is a waste of time when the state assembly can be working toward other goals that have bigger implications — like dealing with the issue of gun control or the economy.

To go for the power play, state legislators could solve this whole issue by lowering the legal drinking age to 18 years old. I know people say this all the time, but I’ll say it too because it makes sense — if you can go off to war and get shot fighting for your country then you should be able to have a drink. Also, if people were able to freely drink in bars and designated areas at 18 years old, they probably would not be as prone to binge drinking on the weekends.

Although I will

hopefully be 21 years old by the time this law gets passed, I think that the Assembly should rethink the bill. It could put local bars out of business and it definitely will not get rid of Wisconsin’s drinking culture, which firmly stands in the glass boots of Germany. Let’s go back to the basics, change the drinking age to 18 and slow the roll of binge drinking.

Let’s do it for the kids … the 18-year-old kids.

Hayes Cascia (hcascia@ wisc.edu) is a sophomore with an undeclared major.

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ASO to people who break glass on the ground. It’s sandal season, people!

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SO to me for snapchatting in the library. SO to not caring at all. Judge away. RSO to the cute boy across from me.

ASO to the people who talk through our entire math discussion every Tuesday and Thursday. It’s incredibly annoying and rude to the rest of us. STAHP. ASO to having way too much fun drinking by myself in my room right now.

Maybe it’s because I have full control over the music, but oops.

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let me on the bus before him. Another SO to another guy on the same bus who let me off before him!

It’s a small gesture but it speaks volumes!

SO to the two guys on the back of the 81 on Friday night playing Wagon Wheel on banjos. I’m pretty sure the bus driver hated you guys/ hated his life but it seemed like everyone else thought you guys were amazing. Bravo, Bravo my good sirs!

SO to the potential start of a great relationship right before summer. It makes me want to be done with finals even more. ASO to finals.

SO to the guys on observatory who ran up behind me and caught the contents of my backpack when it unexpectedly decided to unzip.

Thank you fellow Badger!!!

SO to Madison, I miss you and would like to return as soon as possible so I can drink beer with my friends.

Shameless SO to any badger men staying in Madison this summer that are interested in a funloving lady badger that will watch GoT

SO to younger men.

Never thought I’d say it, but I’m so glad I gave it a chance. Best sex of my life! RSO to my hookup buddy. You kickin’ ass bro.

ASO to the two girls in my Zoology class who, every lecture without fail, will whisper through the hour. We can all hear you. If you want to talk, don’t come to class. Others are trying to learn.

ASO to the guys that live above us and smoke. You guys fucking smell and I hope that shit slaps you in the face later on in life.

SO to dirty day dreams about sexy men in the woods.

R(related)SO to Mike, last week was fun. Let’s go back to Canada.

ASO to the guy with Jimmy Jonhs next to me. Now I’m hungry as fuck.

ASO to finding ways to procrastinate this late. TV? SOs? Facebook? I’ll take ‘em.

ASO to whoever stole our door that we graciously supplied to play an assortment of drinking games on for mifflin.

Turns out doors are expensive. SO to the kind badger that returns it.

HSO to the two Badgers that approached me at the bus stop today and asked to pray for me, one of the many students on crutches. Your kindness and compassion one hundred percent made my day. Regardless of my religious affiliation, just knowing you care and are looking out for me means so much.

Thank you!

SO to reading the SOs religiously for the past 7 years. I will always remember the feeling of anticipation during the Wednesday morning walk or bus ride to class before I got my hands on a paper. DSO to graduating this spring.

ASO to my roommate asking if the Kentucky Derby is “where they race dogs”..no. Just no.

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Music lovers promise eclectic, Redefined set Rachel Rogerson ArtsEtc. Writer Redefined, the University of Wisconsin’s premier co-ed a cappella group, retunes music on campus with its dynamic sound and wide range of vocal styles. The group plans to give all profits from its endof-semester concert at the Overture Center for the Arts this Friday to the Wisconsin Foundation for School Music, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and continuing musical education in Wisconsin schools.

Grace Graszer, Redefined’s business manager, said she always wanted the group to give back to the Wisconsin music community.

“All of Redefined’s members were involved in music in some way during high school and those experiences got us where we are today as

members of Redefined,” Graszer said.

Kelly Nelson, Redefined’s music director, says she’s most excited for the show because of all the new directions the group is testing out.

“We have a new sound setup that will make our sound bigger and better than ever,” Nelson said. “We’ve never been this prepared to sing and perform an amazing show.”

With a set list featuring artists ranging from Justin Timberlake to the Rolling Stones and Etta James, Redefined has something for all music fans.

“We like to pride ourselves in having an eclectic set list and repertoire,” said Sam Fleischman, a sophomore member of the group. “We sing songs that are on the radio right now and that were written 75 years ago. We like to give people a little bit of everything.”

According to Graszer, part of Redefined’s versatility comes from being co-ed.

“We can make music in a complex way that utilizes both male and female voices,” Graszer said.

Having high-pitched, falsetto voices from female members along with the bass from the men makes a more full and interesting sound, Fleischman said.

“Not only do we get a greater vocal range, but we have a unique opportunity to do guy-girl duets that many other a cappella groups on campus can’t do,” Nelson said.

Redefined is able to accomplish all this despite being entirely student-run by nonmusic majors.

“We take six hours out of our week to practice singing together,” said Graszer. “It makes for a really close-knit group of friends who have quite different personalities,

but are linked by a love of music.”

In order to run smoothly, the group is run democratically.

Song selection is an ongoing process, and every song Redefined performs is selfarranged by members.

According to Nelson, when considering songs to arrange, members look for pieces that are catchy but not too repetitive. Songs must have a variety of parts that sound as good performed only using voices.

After a member arranges a song, they can present it during one of the rehearsals laid out for song submissions.

Everyone in the group then votes on their favorite, and the submission with the most votes wins.

“There are no executive decisions when it comes to what songs we want to sing,” Fleischman said.

During the voting process,

members try to look at songs objectively to determine whether the song will add something to their set list.

“If we have a lot of slow ballads, we would most likely choose an upbeat song that can help diversify our song list,” Graszer said. “We also think about songs in terms of their prime audience, and then we try to have a least one song that will please every subset of our audience.”

Although the performance at the Overture Center is one of Redefined’s biggest performance of the year, it’s far from their only one.

Graszer books the group’s gigs, averaging about one per week.

“We want to expand a cappella’s overall fan base, so performing for people who have never heard of a cappella is actually really fun for us,” Graszer said. “It’s always been part of my mission as business manager to give back to the

community, so I especially look for performances for charities or non-profits as well as events for the university.”

In addition to weekly gigs, Redefined has released six studio albums since the group’s debut in 2001. Their latest album, Inside Out, was released last fall and is available on iTunes and Spotify.

According to Redefined President Jack Angell, the group will be recording their seventh studio album next summer and hinted that a Christmas EP could be in the works.

“Redefined came from an idea of adding something totally new to the campus’ a cappella community, and we want to continue that tradition,” Graszer said. “We’re always looking for new ways to innovate: in our music, our stage presence and the types of performances and events we take part in.”

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Best bathrooms across campus sport creative modernity, flair Chris Kim ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Have you ever been walking to class and that familiar sensation hits?

That feeling of needing to relieve yourself in the imminent future? There’s always a dilemma when this situation hits. Where to go?

The answer seems simple.

One might respond, “To the closest bathroom, obviously!”

However, our campus has a multitude of options for conducting your business.

In fact, each building has a multitude of options.

As I’m sure every Badger knows, our bathrooms vary in quality. They range from awful to average to awesome. Well, I went to find the highest-quality relief stations that our campus has to offer, and there are indeed some hidden gems.

Let’s start off by mentioning the bad. You definitely do not want to visit those quasi-dungeons they call bathrooms in

certain buildings. (I’m looking at you, Van Vleck.) No one wants their experience marred by an appearance from Shelob dancing around in the corner in a nest of webs.

It’s also disconcerting when vulgarities are written on the wall next to you. They ruin your focus. Speaking of which, who has the time and energy (and the foresight to bring a pen into a stall) to leave their mark on public facilities? Also, you never want full eye contact with your neighbor when you stand up or are conducting your business.

The bathroom is not a social gathering place, and the height of the stall walls should afford some privacy. Also, some of those gaps between stall doors and stall walls allow for complete viewing pleasure to the general public.

Prime examples of buildings with bathrooms that should be avoided at all costs include Van Vleck, Van Hise and College

The Microbial Library. Note: only use in Sciences Building has emergencies!

The average bathrooms a large amount of stalls on campus are prevalent — with a spacious semiand easy to spot. Just head handicapped stall and to a newly built or recently a full handicapped stall renovated building, and — and a cool modern you have a clean, efficient design with black granite and smooth experience on countertops.

The your hands.

Wisconsin These Institutes bathrooms usually have There’s something for Discovery has some Xcelerator wrong when the particularly or Dyson toilet paper is see- interesting sink Airblade designs with hand dryers through and feels a modern red, or enMotion like industrialwhite and silver paper towel grade sandpaper. color scheme. dispensers.

For those The sinks familiar with are often video games, automatic the space has a and have conveniently-located soap strong “Mirror’s Edge” or dispensers. Stalls and “Portal” vibe.

The Education Building urinals, for the guys, afford full privacy and have mixes modernity with traditional; think Bascom ample space. but renovated.

Standouts in this Hall, category include the Modern white walls mesh Microbial Sciences well with wood to give Building, the Wisconsin the bathrooms a clean, Institutes for Discovery understated feeling.

However, there is and the Education one flaw that every Building on Bascom Hill.

single bathroom on our campus shares: the toilet paper situation at the University of Wisconsin is horrendous. There’s something wrong when the toilet paper is see-through and feels like industrialgrade sandpaper. Also, it can’t be saving money or be good for the earth since dozens of sheets are needed instead of a couple of sheets of higher-quality toilet paper.

There’s only one place where good toilet paper can be found and that leads us to the best bathrooms on campus.

The best buildings for using the bathroom are hands down Union South and Nancy Nicholas Hall, aka the School of Human Ecology. Union South has modern facilities, a large number of stalls and has the best toilet paper on campus, bar none.

Nancy Nicholas Hall was recently remodeled and opened in June 2012 with a focus on the innovative, modern and sustainable.

The building is a joy to

tour and look at, especially the new west wing. In this wing, one will find the best bathroom on campus.

It earns the title because of its interactivity and modernity.

This bathroom has a nature theme to it, with lights emulating the starry night sky and jungle and rainfall noises playing in the background. There’s a plaque outside the bathroom outlining the conservationist message of the décor.

Also, every other bathroom in Nancy Nicholas Hall has a chalkboard wall, complete with eraser and different colors of chalk. These walls are riddled with various potty-humor messages and UW pride slogans. There was even a math problem on the second floor bathroom chalkboard. Due to its interactivity and message, Nancy Nicholas Hall’s first floor bathroom in its new west wing is the best bathroom on campus.

You can stop holding it now.

Cinematheque turns moviegoing into discovery Vilas Hall theater shows only film prints, encourages traditional viewing Erik Sateren ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Roch Gersbach looks out the glass of the projectionist’s room down at the crowd of about 50 at the Cinematheque theater, located in Vilas Hall. The crowd, as usual, is made up of primarily older individuals, people who have spent years crafting sophisticated film tastes. The theater is small but intimate with a lavish, blue stage curtain, well-varnished wood walls and a couple hundred red cushioned chairs. There is a slight hum of conversation as the audience members read over their programs for the night’s film, “Classe tous risques,” a 1960 French thriller directed by Claude Sautet and starring Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Gersbach, a talkative man with an intense passion for film projection, continues to stare. He says nothing; this pause is noticeable respite from the preceding 20 minutes of conversation concerning nearly every facet of film projection — split reels, Dolby surround sound, aspect ratios, aperture plates, film emulsion, plastic versus metal reels,

etc. The only noise in the small, cramped room is the steady roar of two 35 mm film projectors. Finally, he speaks.

“You have the cream of the crop of cinephiles here,” he says, still staring at the crowd. “A DVD or a tape is fine, but it’s only a souvenir of cinematic experience. You can’t beat watching it with other people. There’s just something about the social experience. It’s like going to church, you know? Like you’re all believing in the same guy.”

Since 1999, crowds have flocked to the Cinematheque to revel in classic and art house features presented in the highest quality film prints available.

The University of Wisconsin was once home to a great number of film societies; during the 1970s and ‘80s, there were sometimes 20 competing film societies in a given night, according to Cinematheque Director Jim Healy. But home video came along and these film societies went extinct.

So, too, did the practice of watching movies on film in small theaters.

The Cinematheque was founded by several UW film professors, including Lea Jacobs, David Bordwell, J.J. Murphy and others, to once again offer experiences in distinctly cinematic settings to both film lovers and novices.

The Cinematheque prides itself in its strict adherence to showing films

on 35 and 16 mm film, both will become scarce.

Healy remains of which offer the highest optimistic, noting that, possible image resolution.

“You’re going to see an while some practices of actual film print the way it film viewing might be was meant to be shown and dying off, film viewing not some electronically- never will.

“Moviegoing isn’t what reduced format,” Healy it used to be,” he said. “But said.

This practice is part at the same time, a lot of of the Cinematheque’s people do go to movies. So dedication to taking I think as long as there’s film history seriously, one movie that brings in Healy said. Because the millions of people every Cinematheque doubles weekend, that means that as a lecture hall, its people are still interested films are couched in an in going and having a academic setting. This isn’t theatrical experience. If a bad thing. Part of the there are people interested Cinematheque’s mission in movies, then I suppose is to foster audience there will always be an discovery and reveal eras interest for discovery.”

For the spring or artists season, the to which a Cinematheque viewer might “A DVD or a tape continued this never have dedication been exposed. is fine, but it’s to audience “What is only a souvenir through its life without of a cinematic numerous film movies?” series, including Healy asked. experience.”

Roch Gersbach the films of “What is life Preston Sturges, without art? rare John Ford For me, the films, Spaghetti supreme art (in honor is movies. Once you’re in, Westerns you’re in. You’ve become of the recent “Django committed. You’ll realize Unchained”) and the films the possibilities of the of Studio Ghibli, which art form. If you’re serious was co-founded in 1985 by about being alive, then you acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki. In July should be here.”

As the majority of major 2013, the Cinematheque movie theaters switch will resume its screenings to digital projection and with films from French Hollywood churns out comedian Pierre Étaix, as massive blockbusters well as a salute to Roger designed to make profits Ebert: a selection of his above all else, many “Great Movies,” guilty cinephiles are concerned pleasures and one he wrote that experiences like those in 1970, “Beyond the Valley offered at Cinematheque of the Dolls.”

“People are there because they love movies and they’re there to enjoy movies and discover something,” Healy said.

“You can really feel the energy from movie-loving in the crowd.”

Back in the projectionist’s room, Gersbach has two reels of “Classe tous risques” loaded into the two 35 mm projectors. When a reel runs out in one projector, it is Gersbach’s job to switch to the other one. It must be a seamless transition.

Gersbach is eager to explain the process.

“I have to watch each and every reel,” he says.

“There’s no warning, no buzzer, no bell. So, I have to watch, and when I start to see it get down to the end of the reel, I’m on the other machine — hopefully already threaded up so I don’t have to rush — sitting there waiting for the changeover mark. Then, I’ll start the projector.

There’s a button over there that says start. I start that.”

He speaks of his craft with a hushed and excited reverence.

A woman who walks into the projectionist’s room is quick to say, “This is the best projectionist ever,” to which Gersbach said, “The best projectionist money can buy.”

Roch has been projecting films for nearly 35 years.

He says he’s worked at all the theaters in town and proceeds to take his time listing off nearly 20 theaters in the Madison

area for which he’s projected films.

“I’m not a film buff,” he says. “But I am a motion picture showman. I am the Picture Show Man.” He laughed.

Like art house cinemas, film projectionists are a dying breed, Gersbach said.

“A lot of archival prints come through here,” he said, “Which is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me. There are no more union projectionists.

They’re done. Everything’s gone to digital. There’s no film in theaters anymore.

Everything’s automated. In fact, I don’t know if they even shut the equipment off. They just put it on standby. Then it kicks in the morning. So, there’s no showmanship anymore.

That’s all gone.”

The clock strikes 7 p.m., and it’s time for the Picture Show Man to begin his work. He shuts off the lights in the booth, and the house lights follow.

A brief crackle is heard on the film’s soundtrack before a lush, black-andwhite image shoots upon the screen. The audience watches at the opening credits begin to roll.

For nearly two hours, the audience will sit there silently, watching as a strip of celluloid passes 24 images per second onto a screen in front of them.

And until the lights come back up, the audience will have the chance to experience their feature as it was mean to be seen: on film.

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End of road nearing for softball’s seven seniors With 2013 campaign nearly finished, UW veterans looking for long postseaon run

through a coaching change as Chandelle Schulte was replaced with Yvette Healy.

Healy brought in her own coaching staff and the players were forced to adapt to a new situation.

“At first it was a little nerve-wracking just because you don’t know what to expect,” Blackshear said. “You don’t really know what’s coming in, and these coaches are coming in not knowing a lot about you and not recruiting you, so it’s just kind of play by play and seeing how it goes.

I think it’s been a great experience. Coach Healy and coach Schneider and coach Adix have been very welcoming and caring. And they’ve never one day put it in our face that they weren’t the ones who recruited us.

They’ve always taken us and they’ve taken our abilities and they’ve worked with it and they’ve made us better.”

But after that sub-par freshman campaign, the current group of seniors — Blackshear, Whitney Massey, Meghan McIntosh, Kendall Grimm, Maggie Strange, Molly Spence and Kelsey Horton — has gone on to earn 123 career wins, the second most in school

Dan Corcoran Softball Beat Writer Every year, in almost every sport, a batch of wideeyed freshmen show up on the college sports scene eager to begin their careers.

Then, before they know it, these rookies transform into veterans on the cusp of graduation about to face the real world. It’s a bittersweet time with uncertainty and new challenges on the road ahead and a great deal of memories — both good and bad — on the road behind them.

Although many of the seven seniors on this year’s Wisconsin softball team will continue school in the fall, their collegiate playing days will come to an end in a few short weeks. It’s a transitory period not unlike what the seven have been through in their time with the Badgers.

After a 20-31 finish to their freshman year, Shannel Blackshear and her Badger teammates went

DAYNE, from 12 asking if he had heard an official word that he finally solved the puzzle, holding the football for the first time just minutes before a congratulatory call from Alvarez.

Despite his historic accolades, Dayne refused to assume he would be part of the Class of 2013 before he opened up that fateful package. It was more than staged modesty in a class that included two other Heisman winners, former Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde and former Florida signal-caller Danny Wuerffel.

“It was just crazy that I was getting calls a couple days before, I guess because I was on the ballot,” Dayne said. “People were like, ‘Congratulations, congratulations.’ I’m like, ‘For what?’”

To even be considered for a Hall of Fame spot, players must have received near-unanimous recognition as a first team AllAmerican — something Dayne achieved in three of his four years — and must be 10 years removed from their last college football down. Players must also be retired from professional football.

Dayne’s award puts him in

KORGER, from 12 themselves as Walsh went from youngster to the greatest college boxing coach of all time.

Wisconsin won five team championships under his guidance and went unbeaten and untied nine different seasons. In fact, Walsh was such a dominant coach that the unofficial champion trophy of college boxing was named after him in 1948, the year Wisconsin hosted the NCAA tournament.

The sport of violence College boxing matches featured three two-minute rounds where the boxers would don headgear and larger gloves than the professional prizefighters.

Still, critics saw boxing as a sport whose sole object was to hurt the opponent and that any risk of brain injury outweighed the benefits of the sport. Too barbaric, the critics said, for a

STAGE, from 12 the Wildcats in a twogame series at Goodman Diamond in April.

Junior pitcher Cassandra Darrah, who is set to be UW’s starter Friday, knows she will have to shell out a solid pitching performance against a Northwestern team who has the thirdbest batting average in the Big Ten at .305. “[Having solid starting pitching] is super important,” Darrah said.

“The pitching staff has to set the tone for the tournament, so we have to do our best.”

In her only appearance

the career mark for most doubles with 40 in her career as of Sunday. She plans to graduate next winter with hopes to go into a career in the field of criminal justice.

First baseman Shannel Blackshear tied the career mark for home runs with her 30th when she went deep against Indiana April 26. She also holds the career mark for most RBIs with 135, easily breaking the previous record of 114.

After graduating, Blackshear would like to go into coaching or a job in recreation.

With her breakout season this year, sporting a .384 batting average, Grimm has moved her way into the top 10 for career batting average, along with having the second longest streak of games, having reached base in UW history at 24 games.

She is an environmental science major planning to graduate next fall.

McIntosh has also had a breakout season with a career best 12 wins in 2013, moving her to seventh on the UW all-time wins list with 35. She pitched two no-hitters this season, tied for the most in one

history and only four wins amount of time.

“It’s definitely a really behind the record of 127.

Not only have the players great feeling knowing that transformed individually, we’ve progressed so much. but they have come Coming in as freshman, we together to transform the knew that we were going program too, helping set to get better together as a the school record for wins class. Knowing that we’re with 39 this season, with ending up on such a high the postseason still left to note is a great feeling and I’m sure everyone feels the play. same way,” “I think, as Grimm said. a class, we’ve Massey really grown “I think I’m going has played together,” to have this be my everything McIntosh last go of it and from outfield said. “We’ve really just see where life to second base catcher and experienced takes me.” to had this to it all, coming add about the in from our Shannel Blackshear group dynamic freshman First Baseman among the year, getting seniors. the new “We’re like a family,” coaches, experiencing the change and being a part of Massey said. “We’re all so changing history here. No different, yet we all get one else got to experience along really well. We know the first coaches and then to each other so well; I don’t get the change and see the know what I’d do without program grow. I think we’ve them, that’s for sure.”

Other than breaking really come together as a team records, these seniors class.”

Grimm, who plays left have also garnered many fielder and is a career personal achievements.

On Sunday, Massey set .308 hitter, echoed many the same sentiments of the single season mark McIntosh while noting for home runs with her what it has been like to 12th long ball on the come so far in such a short season. Massey also holds

rarified air, with less than 900 players and coaches claiming spots in the College Football Hall of Fame.

“Over five million people have played college football,” Alvarez said. “There’s, like, less than 1 percent that have gone into the Hall of Fame; .02 percent of all the people that have played college football are in the Hall of Fame. That gives you the magnitude of this honor.”

A true workhorse back with a bulldozing style, Dayne’s name remains firmly atop the leaderboard for career rushing yards, in large part because he carried the ball at least 260 times in each of his four years, twice surpassing 300 carries Pounding and slamming his way to 2,109 yards as a true freshman, his career high for yards in a season, Dayne was the central force behind the UW offense throughout his entire career. In today’s era, where the mileage put on running backs is so closely monitored, it could be decades before anyone challenges his career rushing record.

“As we said, there are a lot of guys that played this game, and no one did what he did,” Alvarez said. “… I told a story in the meeting that there was a

year and second-most in a career. McIntosh is a sociology major who will also graduate next fall.

Except for Massey, none of the players will try to continue their softball careers after this season.

However, Blackshear, like her fellow seniors, embraced what the future holds even though softball may not be part of it for the first time in quite a while.

“I think I’m going to have this be my last go of it and just see where life takes me,” Blackshear said.

Dr. Seuss once said a thing or two about where life will go.

“Oh the places you’ll go!

There is fun to be done,” Seuss wrote. “There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”

With only four more wins, this Badgers’ senior class can be the winningest winners of all as Seuss once described. But even with many more places to go for these seven Badgers, the places they have already gone are an extraordinary feat.

DAYNE AT UW Career rushing yards: 7,125 Rushing TD: 71 Average yards per carry: 5.8 Bowl Game MVPs: 3 Big Ten Offensive POW: 9

stretch when he was a true freshman, an 18-year-old freshman, he carried the ball 49 times, 51 times, 47 times (in three consecutive games).

We played Minnesota when he was a freshman, he carried the ball the first 17 plays of the game.

“So I think he goes down as one of the greats that ever played college football to this day.”

prestigious school to be associated with, as reports of boxers suffering “punchdrunkenness” surfaced.

That criticism looked to have some measurable weight. According to author Martin Kane in an article entitled “You Can Blame it on the Moms” appearing in the March 30, 1959, issue of Sports Illustrated, in 1948 there were 55 colleges playing intercollegiate bouts.

However, by 1952, just 29 teams remained with more on the verge of disintegrating.

“People have a visceral reaction against boxing,” author and Wisconsin State Journal columnist Doug Moe said. Moe wrote the definitive history of Wisconsin boxing in his book “Lords of the Ring: The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing’s Greatest Team.”

“College professors maybe more than most for other reasons. There were

discussions whether this was a good activity for prestigious universities to be engaged in. Certainly the boxing people here in Madison had a lot of support and belief among themselves that the sport built character to use a cliché, and was more than a worthwhile activity but they were losing ground because colleges were dropping it. Big boxing schools were getting out of it so the writing may have been on the wall.”

A study released by two doctors working for the New York State Athletic Commission in 1959, Harry Kaplan and Jefferson Browder, said there was no evidence in their study of 1,403 professional boxers using electroencephalograms that a blow to the head by a padded glove “rarely produces cerebral changes demonstrable by any test that we have at the present time.” They also went on

against Northwestern this season, Darrah pitched a gem allowing only one run on four hits and racking up seven strikeouts.

With an RPI rating of 26, Wisconsin is in line to make the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005, but Healy isn’t worried about her team overlooking the competition this weekend.

“I think everybody’s got their eyes set on game one, and I think that’s what you have to do for the rest of the year,” Healy said. “Any win that you get from this point on, it’s going to be a history-making win, it’s going to be a huge

accomplishment. The fact that we are sitting on 39 wins makes it even more thrilling.”

For the seniors on the squad, the postseason stretch run is going to be an emotional ride as they make their first postseason appearances in their careers, knowing their time as Wisconsin softball players will soon come to an end — something Massey thinks will give her team an advantage.

“It’s definitely going to put some emotional charge behind every single game,” Massey said.

“It will feel like Senior Day every day.”

While Wisconsin has been home to 22 consensus All-Americans, likely none of them had the same impact on the program as Dayne. Suiting up in the cardinal and white from 1996 through the 2000 Rose Bowl, it is no coincidence his career signaled the peak of Alvarez’s revival of the Badgers’ football program.

His No. 33 jersey was

to disagree with what they called a common medical opinion, saying there was no evidence to support the idea that a knockout in boxing caused multiple “pinpoint” hemorrhages in the brain.

retired in 2007. Joining the inscribed names of Alan Ameche (Wisconsin’s only other Heisman winner) and Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch on the second deck at Camp Randall Stadium, Dayne played a vital role in vaulting the Badgers into a national brand.

As Alvarez noted, Wisconsin football and Ron Dayne have become one.

Wisconsin continued on as signs that the sport was in decline swirled around them, even producing a champion in the NCAA meet the same year. That boxer was a 165-pound fighter named

“I think anyone today that follows college football, when you mention Wisconsin, I think they picture Ron carrying the ball and us running the ball,” Alvarez said, adding the panel selected his former star by a unanimous vote.

“I think that describes the brand of football that we established here, and that’s how everybody pictures it.”

Charlie Mohr.

(Part 2 will appear in Thursday’s paper. Information and facts from Doug Moe’s book “Lords of the Ring” were used in this column.)

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Dayne elected to college football HoF Former Badgers Heisman winner enshrined after illustrious career Ian McCue Sports Writer Thirteen years after he took his final strides in a Wisconsin uniform, Ron Dayne remains inexorably linked to Badger football.

He is one of only two University of Wisconsin alums to win college football’s most prized award, the Heisman Trophy. Dayne was twice a Rose Bowl champion and MVP and still stands as the NCAA’s all-time leading rusher with 7,125 yards to his name. Now, he is one of the newest members of the College Football Hall of Fame, earning the nod from the National Football Foundation Tuesday.

Dayne had a toothy smile plastered on his face from the moment he sat down at a press conference Tuesday afternoon, wearing a polo emblazoned with the Motion ‘W’ he made

famous. His former coach, Barry Alvarez, sat beside him. Alvarez was a 2010 inductee and is currently the UW athletic director.

It was as if it was 1999 all over again, with the mentor and star embracing the spotlight after another Big Ten championship.

“I can’t stop smiling,” Dayne said.

“I’m excited and happy, especially for me and my teammates.

We worked on it; we worked on it as a team.”

The ultra-durable Dayne, who carried the ball more than 1,200 times over his four-year career as a Badger, was a bit delayed in learning he had added another achievement to his extensive resume.

Although he received the white football inscribed with his name and the words “A Member of the 2013 College Football Hall of Fame Class” Monday night, Dayne’s daughter tossed aside the package when she received it. It was not until this morning when people began

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After being elected to the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 2011, Ron Dayne was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame Tuesday, joined in the 2013 class by three quarterbacks, Danny Wuerffel, Vinny Testaverde and Tommie Frazier.

Softball ready for B1G stage UW to face either Northwestern or Indiana in conference quarterfinals Senior Whitney Massey says there Associate Sports Editor is a definite buzz With a record-setting amongst the team this regular season now in week going into the the rear-view mirror, post season and the the Wisconsin softball players’ first Big Ten team sets its sights on tournament.

“There’s a lot of the postseason where it will play in the excitement,” Massey Big Ten tournament said. “We’ve never been here before, so having quarterfinal Friday.

Wisconsin (39-11, the Big Ten tournament 16-7 Big Ten) will head coming up is exciting to Lincoln, Neb., as … I know I’m really the No. 4 seed in the excited about it and tournament and await it’s kind of cool that it’s the winner of the happening my last year game between No. 5 here, so I get to be a Northwestern and No. part of it too.”

No matter who 12 Indiana.

Falling to the fourth Wisconsin is matched with Friday, spot in the Big Ten is a up or bit of a disappointment Northwestern for the Badgers who Indiana, it will have the confidence had a slim of chance of snagging “We’ve never been knowing it can beat the top here before, so them as the spot going Badgers into last having the Big weekend’s Ten tournament ... swept their regular threeis exciting.” season game series with series with Whitney Massey both the Michigan Catcher Wildcats State, and the though is still an accomplishment Hoosiers.

If the teams play Wisconsin coach Yvette Healy and her team are to their seed and Northwestern emerges proud of.

“To be a top-four from the first round, seed in the Big Ten, it will set the stage with how strong the for a matchup with conference is this Wisconsin that could year, it’s still a huge rehash some grudges achievement,” Healy and bad blood as it said. “To finish in the was the Wildcats, not top four, that was one the Badgers, who were of our goals, to get a given a bid to the NCAA bye in the tournament tournament last year was a goal. It wasn’t despite UW’s superior as flashy being fourth, record. This time, but it’s one of our small Wisconsin is looking victories along the way.” to turn the table on This weekend will Northwestern.

“We have that focus mark the first time the Big Ten tournament behind us because they will be held since took the bid away from 2008, after the Big us last year,” Massey Ten decided to go said. “So, I think we will without a conference have that edge behind tournament for four us.”

Wisconsin was able years, making this the first appearance in to hold Northwestern to the tournament and just three runs in their postseason all together 3-1 and 4-2 wins over for everyone on the roster.

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where the championship banners of the Wisconsin boxing program didn’t seem so out of place in a place affectionately called the “old barn.” A day where the fate of two legends would be decided in a matter of minutes.

Korger’s Korner On a lucky occasion, wandering into the Field House after hours can render a surreal exposure. With dimmed lights and a faint reflection from the hardwood floors, the old gym almost seems false, an apparition, a sight linked in limbo of a storied past and a still-used future.

Maybe it’s in those moments; if you listen hard enough, the roars from April 9, 1960, still echo. A day

Simply the best There was never a program that came close to the clout of the Badgers in the arena of intercollegiate boxing. Boxing at Wisconsin started out in April of 1920 with something called an “all university” boxing tournament. It featured student-boxers — and prominently, student-boxers who had been trained and exposed to boxing during the training regimens in the army during World War II —

in six weight divisions vying to be named champion and was housed in a building that still stands as iconic as ever on campus: the Red Gym. The event became so popular that it eventually had to be moved from the Red Gym — where 1,800 spectators had been in attendance for the 1929 finals — to the UW Stock Pavilion in 1930. That same year the tournament drew 8,000 fans for the finals. Finally, in 1931, the Field House was completed. Soon after, UW publicity director George Downer secured the new building for the 1931 tourney.

Just a few short years after the move, Wisconsin took the leap from amateur/ intramural to official intercollegiate boxing in April of 1933, when it

welcomed St. Thomas College of St. Paul, Minn., to the Field House. The match ended in a 4-4 draw, but the most noticeable result of the match came from who was in attendance.

Coaching and boxing for St. Thomas was a 21-year-old and Minnesota native by the name of John Walsh. Watching in the crowd, Downer saw a man he believed could lead Wisconsin boxing to the upper echelon. Originally planning to attend law school at St. Thomas, Walsh accepted the job upon learning St. Thomas was dropping its law program, opting to coach the Badgers and attend law school at UW. The results speak for

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