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UW underselling itself, Blank says Aliya Iftikhar Campus Editor

Andy Fate The Badger Herald Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Friday she is looking at increasing out-of-state tuition to bring in more revenue.

Following the approval of a two-year tuition freeze for University of Wisconsin students earlier this year, Chancellor Rebecca Blank expressed her interest in raising out-of-state tuition in an interview with the Appleton Post-Crescent Friday.

The two-year tuition freeze only extends to resident in-state tuition.

Last year, the UW System Board of Regents decided to extend the freeze to all tuition ranges, but this only lasts for one year, David Giroux, UW System spokesperson, said.

Blank said in her interview with the PostCrescent she wants in-state tuition to remain low and relatively stable, but she is concerned about the price at which UW sells its services out-of-state. UW is comparable to University of Michigan with a similar number of high quality

student applications, Blank said.

University of Michigan’s price for out-of-state, however, is $14,000 higher than UW, while offering a virtually identical product, she said.

Blank said in the interview she does not understand why UW is underselling an excellent product to people out-ofstate and making it cheaper than competitors. She said she does not think it will have a substantial impact on the ability to recruit outof-state and international students.

About 10 to 15 percent of the increase in college costs has to do with new buildings and allowing faculty and staff to have competitive salaries, Blank said in the interview.

“My faculty have national and, in many cases, international reputations -- they compete in that national and international market,” Blank said. “So, if I don’t pay them the

salary that they could get at any number of other institutions around the country or around the world, they will not stay at Wisconsin.”

Blank said one of her goals is to see where UW can manage more efficiently and effectively and run a little bit leaner because that will help keep some of the costs down.

Associated Students of Madison Chair David Gardner is interested in college affordability on campus and said he recognizes UW wants to have the best quality university possible.

However, the university also needs to recognize the costs the students are facing, Gardner said.

The next time tuition prices will be decided is in summer 2014 for the 20142015 school year, and it is at this time the regents will have to decide if they want to make any adjustments

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University cuts CRIME IN BRIEF Egypt program Residential burglary: Lathrop Street

Many US schools end study abroad options in Middle East, cite concerns for student safety Casey Sheridan Herald Contributor University of Wisconsin students no longer have the option to study in Egypt after the university suspended its study abroad programs in the country indefinitely for safety reasons.

After a U.S. State Department Travel Warning was issued on July 3, UW’s International Academic Program made the difficult decision to suspend its study abroad programs in Egypt for the time being, Dan Gold, IAP director, said.

UW is not alone in its decision to suspend its study abroad programs in parts of the Middle East. Georgetown University, Northwestern University and Middlebury College are among

the many other American universities that made the same decision.

The Middle East is not a popular destination for the students who choose to study abroad, and only one application was completed for Alexandria, Egypt last year, Gold said.

The closing of the program is not a popular decision among all students. UW student Allison Schmidbauer, who studied abroad in Amman, Jordan and traveled to Cairo and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt preceding the latest protests, said the closing of these programs saddens her.

“I am so grateful for my vast experiences yet am troubled

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The University of Wisconsin football game was in its fourth quarter, as residents of 141 Lathrop St. saw strangers robbing their neighbors’ house through the window Saturday night.

The residents of 143 Lathrop St., who were next door at a party returned to their house when they saw the suspects, Lt. Corey Nelson said. Police arrested one suspect, a high school student from West High School, but did not release his name, Nelson said.

Two other suspects fled the scene, he said.

The Madison Police Department does not believe this crime is connected to the other home invasions and armed robberies in the GreenbushVilas neighborhoods.

“Not that we’re aware of,” Nelson said.

It does not appear any items were stolen from the residence, Nelson said.

Robbery: Langdon Street A residential home on Langdon Street was robbed late Friday night.

An 18-year old victim had his wallet and laptop computer stolen after his roommate allowed two black males

into their home to play video games, according to a MPD statement. The roommate met the suspects on the street around 1:30 a.m., the statement said.

MPD Spokesperson Joel DeSpain said he does not think this robbery is related to the armed burglaries that happened in the Greenbush-Vilas neighborhoods over the last few weeks.

“What’s been taking place in the Regent Street, Greenbush neighborhood is very brazen,” DeSpain said. “Those are very different crimes than burglaries or thefts.”

DeSpain added police do not have any further leads at this time in regards to arresting the suspects, but they are continuing to keep an eye out for them.

The two black males are described as having four letter tattoos on their left hands in cursive writing, the statement said.

“The person who let them into the apartment might be able to recognize them again if [they are] seen,” DeSpain said.

It is not clear if the victims are UW students, but DeSpain said they likely are.

DeSpain said the students should

take safety precautions when they are at home and be careful to guard their belongings.

“The main thing is to keep your doors and windows locked -- even when you’re at home,” DeSpain said.

“If you’re going to have a house party, know the people who are there.”

Robbery: State Street A victim was walking down State Street late Friday night when he was robbed at gunpoint.

The victim was approached by three suspects who demanded money from him, according to an MPD statement.

The suspects also presented a handgun, Nelson said.

Nelson said MPD does not know if they were related to the other armed robberies in the Greenbush-Vilas neighborhoods.

“We don’t know if they were connected,” Nelson said.

Nelson said they do not have any suspect names at this time, but the reports list that they were three black men in their 20s.

Nelson said he did not know if the 22 -year-old victim was a UW student or not. He said it is possible the victim’s phone was stolen.

Faculty, student role in decisions questioned Assembly leader raises concerns regarding shared governance policy Bryan Kristensen Reporter

Recent comments by a high-ranking Republican legislator suggest the future of shared governance at the University of Wisconsin and the entire UW System may be in jeopardy.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, spoke as a panel member at a UW System Board of Regents

meeting focused on regent governance and funding for the state’s public higher education system on Sept. 5.

In the meeting, Vos raised questions about what the role of faculty, staff and students at UW schools should really be compared to that of university chancellors.

“Does the role of allowing faculty to make a huge number of decisions on every campus help the system or hurt our ability to be flexible?” Vos said.

Vos added he does not believe faculty, staff and students always know what the best interest of the community is when

they are making certain decisions under their governance control.

“I believe that as each campus creates their own community, sometimes they do so in a bubble without ever saying to themselves, ‘Well what does the rest of the world have to say about how UWWhitewater’ - my own alma mater - ‘should interact with the rest of the world?’” Vos said.

“I think sometimes the discussions among faculty, staff and students is so insular… and then legislators feel the need to step up and FACULTY, page 2

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UW team designs 3-D printer for space Undergraduates’ proposal would allow International Space Station to print replacement parts Catherine Steffel Herald Contributor Replacement parts and new technologies needed in deep space may only be a print job away if an interdisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin undergraduates succeeds in designing and constructing a collapsible 3-D printer for use on manned, zero gravity space explorations like those of the International Space Station.

The Badger Compartmentalized Onboard Material Extrusion Technology project is one of seven projects selected to participate in the NASA Exploration Habitat 2014 Academic Innovation Challenge, according to the NASA website.

The design team, assisted by faculty adviser to the project engineering professor Fred Elder and graduate student Ryan Knippel, submitted a proposal for a 3-D

collapsible printer and was selected to participate in the challenge this past summer.

The development of additive manufacturing systems has piqued the interest of both academia and industry for decades, and the concept of a collapsible 3-D printer makes it ideal for applications of rapid design in deep space, Steve Wishau, design team member and head of the Badger COMET team’s outreach program, said.

A 3-D printer in deep space could revolutionize space habitats by allowing crew members to produce replacement parts and new technologies on demand, he said.

As with most engineering feats, the Badger COMET team needed to become experts in a specific field, in this case that of 3-D printing technologies, which have been on the market for more than 10 years, Wishau said.

“The project is new to the team and the implementation of the technology is new to NASA and most of the rest of the technical world,” Elder said. “Hence, this is no problem.”

Additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, technologies build a 3-D solid object from a digital model. The team chose a technique of fused deposition modeling for its 3-D printer in which a chamber inside the printer head melts and forms layers of plastic onto a printing surface, Wishau said. The technique can be compared to a highly accurate glue gun, he said.

So far, no space mission has used a 3-D printer, but a space manufacturing company called Made in Space and NASA hope to launch the first 3-D printer into space for use on the ISS in 2014, Wishau said.

For now, however, the UW design team will continue to focus on its own project,

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Bill Tracy, UWMadison department of agronomy chair, said he thinks some confusion exists about shared governance and how it works between lawmakers and those that participate in it at UW schools. Faculty members are more than happy to be involved in the conversation of how shared governance works, Tracy said.

Faculty members determine how they teach, create a certain academic culture on

space flight; hence, this is a gateway project for lengthy manned space missions.”

NASA, local Madison companies, the UW Space Sciences and Engineering Center, the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Physics Departments, Bjorksten | bit 7, the UW Mechatronics Laboratory, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery and the Wisconsin Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory have all offered their support for Badger COMET. UW is no stranger to the academic challenge.

In 2011, a team from UW won the NASA challenge with their prototype of a climate-controlled habitat, which could house four crew members for several days.

The design team ideally would like to continue this trend and hopes to send to NASA a prototype of the collapsible 3-D printer by the end of spring semester.

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he said. “he lab is where we all live,” Wishau said. “It began that way during the senior design courses, and we haven’t looked back since.”

In the design, the team has to consider issues related to both safety and volume because the usable living space on a deep space habitat like the ISS is small, and every square inch of space is vital to the operation and maintenance of the habitat, Wishau said.

The team is currently preparing to review the schematic design of the 3-D printer, and they are still searching for the appropriate design to move forward, Elder said. “[3-D collapsible printer technology] will be one of the basics in a future ‘shop in space’ where tools and flight hardware can be repaired, refurbished, or replicated,” Elder said. “The ‘shop in space’ will be an absolute requirement for any substantial manned

Public pianos on State provide creative outlet Art projects aim to foster community, collaboration with local businesses Alex Arriaga Reporter The sound of piano music in the 100 block of State Street may become a common occurrence after the recent addition of several colorful upright pianos to the area this past July.

Adam Braus, co-founder of 100State, came up with the idea for Artup Weekend, a project which involves gathering different teams to create works of art within a weekend. One of the teams decided to collect free pianos from Craigslist and leave them out as places for the public to gather and be creative, he said.

In the past, the 100 block of State Street was known to be an area where many homeless people stay, and drug issues have also been known to be present in the area, 100State Co-founder Niko Skievaski said. The Pianos on State project has unintentionally brought a creative outlet to many people as an innovative way of improving the area, Skievaski said.

“It’s a way of lowering

campus and determine what the academic mission for the students is, Tracy said.

According to state law, which outlines shared governance, faculty members have the right to determine parts of their own internal government, like faculty merit, Tracy said. Likewise, staff can make decisions about

barriers, it builds that community just like the Free Little Libraries,” Skievaski said. “We’re actually working on getting a Free Little Library out there as well.”

Braus said some of the other art projects include a mural, an artistic bike rack and a sculpting class for blind people. He said the pianos will stay out on State Street until midOctober.

The idea behind Artup Weekend captured the attention of a group in Washington, D.C. that is starting the same kind of team art projects, Braus said.

Artup Weekend started as a way for artists to monetize their art, Braus said.

The Pianos on State project is just one outcome of the 100State organization co-founded

by Braus, Skievaski and Michael Fenchel.

The organization, located on the fourth floor above Ian’s Pizza on State, has seen enormous growth in the past few months in its efforts to bring together the intelligent, creative and professional community abundant in Madison, Braus said.

“I like to think of it as a gym membership for your career,” Braus said.

“What’s important about it is the community of peers and mentors where there

their own legislation, and students can do the same, Tracy said.

The confusion could come from a misinterpretation that the faculty is holding up budgetary and business decisions, which is not in its hands, but rather the deans’ and the chancellors’ hands, Tracy said. He added

are opportunities to crate businesses, do consulting projects and have fun social events too.”

100State welcomes anyone with an idea, Braus said, adding they currently have people working on projects in fields from business and marketing to art, food and music. The organization is already producing some businesses and hopes to see great things come about as more people connect and share ideas, Braus said.

Braus said anybody is welcome to walk into 100State and check out the office. A membership fee is required for the opportunity to build relationships and create projects with young professionals in Madison, he added.

“You have the opportunity to make the money, the skills and the connections,” Braus said.

“Your whole career kind of kicks off when you walk through the doors.”

Skievaski said 100State is a new company. She said prior to its opening in June, it operated out of a train caboose on East Washington Avenue. Since then, they have grown from 11 people to about 60 in the course of two months, he said, with an even larger mailing list of 700.

deans and chancellors consult the faculty on certain aspects of the budget as it pertains to the academic mission of the university.

If UW loses shared governance, or any significant part of shared governance, less innovation in new curriculum decisions may occur, Tracy said. Since UW is a

With close to four million more students enrolled in school than before the 2007 recession, schools across the country are receiving less funding because of it, according to a new report from a nonprofit think tank released Thursday.

After analyzing state budgets from the past six years, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said in its report that 34 states are providing less funding per student this year than before 2007, largely because of the increasing costs of statefunded services since the Great Recession began as a result of inflation, demographic changes, rising needs and lack of federal funding.

In Wisconsin, there has been a negative $1038 change in dollars spent per student since 2008, the second highest cuts in the country and the highest cuts in the Midwest.

Other Midwestern states experiencing negative changes since 2008 in spending per student include Michigan, at negative $572 per student, Illinois at negative $202 per student and Ohio at negative $21 per student, the report said.

Minnesota and Iowa both increased spending per student. Indiana was not included in the report.

Even in times of funding increases, the increases are generally not enough to alleviate the cuts made in the past several years, the report said.

The state’s Department of Public Instruction advocated for amendments to the budget bill passed in June that would have given an extra $75 per student spending for the 20132014 school year, with an additional $75 per student in the 2014-2015 school year, for a total of $150 per student increase in the biennium.

However, DPI budget requests show the agency

leader in that shared governance, it will negatively impact the rest of the schools in the UW System, he said.

“I think that ultimately in terms of the faculty losing some of their power, there will be less innovation within every classroom, and that will in turn negatively impact our students as a result,”

advocated for more spending rather than less.

“There is more than enough revenue to increase funding for public schools and implement school finance reform – but this budget sets different priorities,” the DPI request said.

According to DPI requests, revenues for public schools will also go down as revenues for voucher schools will go up, which “closes the gap the wrong way.”

In the June budget for 2013-2015, public schools did not receive revenue in per-pupil increases.

However, independent charter schools and voucher schools received between $150 and $1400 per student.

DPI requests also said school funding should not be tied to performance because funding will go to affluent districts with high student performance, instead of urban or rural districts that do not have as high of performance.

A bill to tie school performance to funding and would create report cards based on such performances is currently in the Senate Committee on Education, chaired by bill author, Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon.

“I think the Legislature should be good stewards of taxpayer dollars, and no matter if you’re a public, charter or choice school, if you get a check, you’re going to get a yearly checkup,” Olsen said in a public hearing Thursday.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, also announced the creation of a task force to address issues faced by rural schools, including financial stability.

Calls to Rep. Steve Kestell, R-Elkhart Lake, chair of the Assembly Committee on Education, and Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, education committee member, were not returned.

Calls to Madison Metropolitan School District to address changes due to less funding were not returned, and DPI declined to comment on the CBPP report.

Tracy said.

The consensus between people within the university is that shared governance is working very well and that it is an important part of the system’s culture, David Giroux, UW System spokesperson, said.

Vos could not be reached for further comment.

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Private schools against new bill Republican senator pushes accountability for poor achieving students with legislation Madeleine Behr State Editor Private schools participating in the new voucher program voiced their opinions against a bill that would hold the schools accountable for poor student achievement.

During a public hearing Thursday, bill author Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, said parents and community members should know which schools are succeeding and which ones are not through public “report cards,” regardless of whether they are public, private, chartered or part of the voucher program.

Olsen said schools receiving taxpayer dollars should be subject to measures to ensure the school is performing well.

Sue Nelson, Wisconsin Council of Religious and Independent Schools vice president, said the data used for the accountability program could invade the privacy of students and their families.

Nelson added the portion of the bill requiring schools to report the scores of students involved in the voucher program separate from other students could skew the data used for the report card, even though parents have the option to opt out of including their children’s information.

“Parents are free to opt out of testing, that is their right, and someone had mentioned this,” Nelson said. “Oftentimes, parents who opt out, opt out because it serves as an identifier that their child is choice. It is most often the very savvy parents who make that decision to opt out.”

Nelson said students who opt out are often high performing students, and once students opt out, they are given the average score, which can lead to a lower grade.

Despite Nelson’s objection

to the possibility of skewed data, School Choice Wisconsin President Jim Bender said an accountability program for all schools, including those in the choice program, is necessary for parents to make a choice about schools.

Bender said while the bill has good intentions, it is far too complex and leaves too many decisions up to the Department of Public Instruction.

Olsen said people are concerned about the DPI and its treatment of different types of schools, but the bill has two measures to ensure fairness: a statute that the DPI would have to treat schools fairly and DPI would send all calculations to the Legislative Audit Bureau.

Bender said turning data calculations to the LAB is not helpful since they have no authority to change how DPI conducts its report card calculations.

“A review from the audit bureau, that’s not a very open process where they can’t make any corrective action,” Bender said. “They don’t have any teeth.”

Bender added his organization is concerned with the bill in its current form, especially since the DPI was not in favor of school choice when it passed in June through the budget bill.

Nelson had no issues with the LAB audits, but said said the data used to calculate grades for schools is not clarified properly in the bill, and does not allow for other variables that go into student achievement.

“For anyone who was worked with a child or has been in a classroom, and has seen that growth over time, and still see them performing at a level that isn’t deemed acceptable or appropriate,” Nelson said. “It kind of negates that the growth has taken place.”

Badger Herald File Photo Mayor Paul Soglin and city staff are working to address rising demand for emergency housing with potential new affordable housing units.

City sees increase in homeless Sarah Link City Editor “Please understand that we receive many more requests for shelter than we can accommodate,” the voice mail inbox message for the Salvation Army’s shelter in Madison says.

“This means we may not be able to return your call and we may not be able to offer you shelter even if you are eligible.”

The Salvation Army’s homeless shelters may not be the only ones experiencing the effects of rising numbers of homeless citizens in Madison.

Brad Hinkfuss, the Director of Operations at Porchlight Inc., which operates three emergency shelters in Madison, said his shelter is unable to meet all of the needs due to a rise in the number of people seeking shelter in the last few years.

“The shelter system has become

overcrowded,” Hinkfuss said.

According to a Dane County report from 2012, the number of homeless served in the shelter system increased from 3,079 to 3,382. The report said there were no significant policy changes in shelters that could have caused this difference.

During the summer a shelter will see about 50 to 60 people a night, Hinkfuss said, and in the winter that number can be as high as 150 to 160.

The shelters have never turned anyone away due to space limitations, Hinkfuss said. However, Hinkfuss added, just because they are allowing eligible people in, it does not mean that they are meeting all the housing needs and may simply be keeping people out of the cold.

“We’re letting people in, but sometimes in the dead of winter when the numbers are high they

don’t even have a bed on which to sleep on,” Hinkfuss said.

Hinkfuss said the Salvation Army Family Shelter is not even this fortunate, and because of the increasing demand for emergency housing they often are forced to turn families away.

Katie Crawley, Mayor Paul Soglin’s spokesperson, said the problem of homelessness is one of his top concerns.

She said the city’s community development staff is currently working to address this issue. The staff works directly with nonprofit organizations and the homeless shelters throughout the area.

In the proposed 2014 Capital Budget, Soglin pledged funds toward a study that will look at the creation of new single room occupancy affordable housing units. The facility would house people who need assistance in order to

pay rent, Crawley said.

There is some money dedicated to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund that would provide rent assistance to those who need it, she said.

The budget pledges $4.2 million toward the project in two phases, one in 2014 and one in 2016, Crawley said. The facility would contain 110 units, Crawley said, and part of the study will be dedicated to research a good location for the residency.

The problem of homelessness, as well as preventing future homelessness in Madison, is not one that is easy to solve, Crawley said. Soglin and city staff, however, would like to continue addressing it through different methods such as the new residency.

“It’s a constant battle,” Crawley said. “It’s an issue that that the Mayor has been always working on.”

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County board reinforces collective bargaining Management, union workers collaborate on new handbook for public employees Sarah Link City Editor In a move away from last week’s decision by a federal judge to uphold a ruling that restricts collective bargaining, the Dane County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an employee handbook Thursday that reinforces collective bargaining agreements with workers.

The handbook was created in a collaborative effort with workers’ unions and management to honor bargaining agreements and

BLANK, page 1 to non-resident and graduate tuition prices, Giroux said.

ASM will be working with the Board of Regents to determine the price of tuition for next year, Gardner said.

“I can’t confirm what the Board of Regents will decide but ultimately our goal will be to say instate-tuition is frozen for two years and we’d like to see the same for outof-state as well,” Gardner said.

ASM’s short-term goal is to work along with Blank and the Board of Regents to find a common solution to potential problems regarding both quality and cost control, Gardner said.

EGYPT, page 1 that, at least for the time being, future Badgers won’t be able to experience the magic of Cairo and Egypt as a whole because of the suspension of study abroad programs,” Schmidbauer said.

Gold said safety concerns are the primary reason for the indefinite suspension of the Egypt programs, but the ability to focus on academia also plays a significant role in the choice to close the certain study abroad programs.

“As student safety is our first priority, we try to locate appropriate destinations where specific learning objectives can be met while student safety standards are also met,” Gold said.

The closing of the study abroad programs in Egypt has led to the opening of different programs in other areas in the Middle East. For the winter session of 2013-2014, Jerusalem was recently added to the new program list, Gold said.

UW student Tony Trenzeluk studied at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan this past spring. Life in the Middle East was a “controlled chaos,” but Trenzeluk said he never felt more safe than he did in Jordan. He added he felt even safer there than he did spending his summer in Washington D.C. However, Trenzeluk agreed with UW closing down select programs deemed dangerous in the Middle East. The situation in Egypt is too uncertain for the government to guarantee the safety of American students, Trenzeluk said.

However, Trenzeluk added it is a “tragedy” the American students will be unable to study a region, culture and people he believes are misunderstood.

The spectrum of study abroad programs suffers greatly due to the closing of certain programs in the Middle East, he added.

“I know that if more students were able to deviate away from the ‘traditional’ study abroad programs to really learn about a society so different from our own that we can move beyond those differences to positively impact our world,” Trenzeluk said.

illustrates communication and guidelines for the county’s employees, Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, who serves on the Dane County Board of Supervisors for District 18, said.

This decision was made in light of a judge upholding Act 10, Sargent said.

Sargent said Dane County created the handbook because, despite the ruling, the county would like to continue the process of sitting down with workers to negotiate.

“Its pretty much taking the same information from our collective bargaining contracts and putting that into handbook form,” Sargent said.

Dane County workers were instrumental in crafting the handbook,

Sargent said. The process deviated from the traditional approach of having the management create the handbook, she said.

Dane County Supervisor Mary Kolar, District 1, said the document effectively documents the communication between employees and the county.

“We have state laws that have repudiated the ability to communicate between management and labor,” Kolar said. “In Dane County we do value communication.”

Kolar said she thinks the handbook will create better workplaces because they function best with communication between employers and their employees. She said she

believes that agreements such as this should be a basic leadership requirement.

Sargent said the handbook had more people register in support of it than

It was “overwhelmingly supported by the workers in Dane County.

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Rep. Melissa Sargent D-Madison any item ever recorded by the board. She said this could be attributed to the amount of Dane County workers who showed up to support the document’s

creation.

“It was overwhelmingly supported by the workers in Dane County,” Sargent said.

“They were instrumental in drafting it and they showed up in force last [Thursday] night.”

Kolar said the handbook will be adopted once it is signed by the county executive, which she said will most likely be soon.

Sargent said she thinks Dane County is the first community to pass something like this since the judge’s ruling. She said she hopes other communities and institutions across the state will also honor their agreements with workers.

“We hope that other communities including the City of Madison, teachers in the school board and

other counties across the state will take our lead and use this as an example of how we can continue to the process of working with our employees rather than delegating to them,” Sargent said.

The Board of Supervisors also passed another resolution Thursday encouraging University of Wisconsin Health Clinics to continue collective bargaining efforts with its employees. UW Health’s collective bargaining agreements with workers are scheduled to end in 2014, Kolar said.

Kolar said the resolution also had “phenomenal support” and workers in the clinics would like the ability to have say in the scheduling of their shifts.

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College: It’s about the people, not the journey Charles Godfrey Editorial Page Editor This weekend my wonderful girlfriend and I went to a ceramics studio called Fired Up for a short evening lesson they call a “claydate.” Clearly, somebody involved in the studio has a penchant for a good pun now and then.

I couldn’t complain. After the instructor, a pottery guru named Ralph, gave us a brief crash course in the basics of throwing clay on the wheel, we experimented for an hour or so making cups, bowls and vases with mixed results.

Toward the end of the lesson, I was attempting to make a tall coffee mug. I had centered the clay and hollowed it out, and was straining all of my powers of concentration on raising the walls. Obviously, I am no expert on the wheel, and for me raising the walls of a pot is a precarious process of smoothing out wild density fluctuations and asking myself, “How thin can I make this clay without

centrifugal force tearing it apart and throwing it all about this room?”

As I was focused with an acute monomania on the task at hand, my hand caught the side of the pot and the angular momentum of the wheel instantly tore and collapsed my amateur artwork. I was stunned, and a little disappointed with myself for destroying the mug — I could have quit while I was ahead and ended up with something decent. As I was expressing my frustration, Ralph interjected with his analysis of the situation.

“You know what happened?” he asked rhetorically. “You were so focused on the minute details, working on the walls, that you lost sight of the whole pot. When you are throwing a pot, you need to feel the details in your hands but constantly observe the work as a whole.”

He was right, of course.

Ralph’s advice resonated with me, but I wasn’t quite sure why at the time. After a day or so of turning that experience over in my head, I think I get it. It’s a rather Zen metaphor for healthy balance between awareness of the details of the present moment and

consciousness of the grand scheme of things, life as a whole. Actually, I have been struggling with this since my first days at the University of Wisconsin.

As I look back, I realize that for the past three years I have been busy as hell here in Madison with school and associated extracurricular activities, such as writing this column to you. I can only speak from my own experience, but I trust that what I am about to say sounds somewhat familiar to you – I am learning the importance of balancing school, work and my personal life.

While I would love to play cool and pretend that I don’t care about academics, that would be an utter falsehood because since freshman year I have been entirely too absorbed by my classes.

I am not telling you this with any air of pretentious nerdy pride – being stressed out about school has negatively impacted the rest of my life. Academic anxiety has caused me to exercise less, screwed with my eating habits, interfered with my social life and caused me no end of sleep deprivation.

Although I have always felt that having a job alongside school helps me to take my

mind off book-learning by forcing me do something else for a few hours a day and meet new people, it isn’t always relaxing.

For me, last spring was “rock bottom.” Taking one too many classes, I was up to my neck in homework and spinning out, burning out. Between school and work my schedule was dense, and the most exasperating feeling was that I simply didn’t have enough time to get everything done. I hardly ever ate a meal sitting down, and I can count on two hands the number of times I felt truly relaxed between the months of February and May. The grind started getting to me: Insomniac sleep deprivation made me frayed at the edges and frustrated; school consumed time I would have spent exercising and playing music; and spending time with my friends and family reminded me that I didn’t see them enough.

I knew that lifestyle was unsustainable. Ultimately, it was only with support of friends and family that I made it to summer, when I began learning to unwind and rediscovered the things I was missing while trapped in textbooks and glued to a computer — things like jazz

music, the great outdoors and putting everything else on hold to spend time with people I care about.

This fall, I arrived in Madison with nervous excitement, a surplus of optimism and a “new school year’s resolution”: to find a balance like the one Ralph pointed out as I picked up the broken pieces of clay that would have one day fed somebody’s caffeine addiction. While I cannot pretend to know all the answers or have a recipe for peace of mind, as I am on the other side of rock bottom, I am realizing by trial and error, what works and what doesn’t.

For instance, it is important to have some free time in your life.

Keeping up with the things you love to do, whatever that may be – for me it is being active outside – is not an inefficient use of time during the school year and in fact, I can’t sleep without taking an hour off at the end of the day.

Eating healthy food and exercising doesn’t hurt either. While it may seem that you don’t have time for these things, I can say from experience that I have never regretted putting things on hold to go for a run by the lake or putting in

some extra effort to make a legit stir fry in place of Ramen noodles. I have, on the other hand, regretted eating junk food and skipping out on exercise.

The energy and alertness that you’ll feel living a healthy lifestyle will more than make up for the time you put into it.

Most importantly, making time for people in my life is the healthiest decision I’ve ever made.

After all, ambition is all well and good, but ending up wealthy, famous or distinguished but lonely is no true success. Life isn’t about the homework you will do this fall, and it isn’t about the end goal of that, either, whether it is a degree or a career, or whatever. It isn’t even about the journey there – it is, however, about the people you meet along the way.

Ultimately, I am glad I inadvertently destroyed that pot. Sometimes one learns more from mistakes than from success, and to be brutally honest, the last thing the world needs is another poorly crafted ceramic coffee mug.

Charles Godfrey (cgodrey@badgerherald. com) is a senior majoring in math and physics.

University rankings overvalue selectivity Spencer Lindsay Columnist In the past two weeks the University of Wisconsin has received signals of sustained success from the world of academic rankings.

In the Academic Ranking of World Universities, UW remained ranked at No. 19, and, in the U.S. News and World Report Ranking of National Universities, UW also remained flat at 41. I expressed my weariness of college rankings in general last year in a column, but I feel like the over-politicized, oversimplified and overhyped U.S. News and World Report rankings deserve specific scrutiny.

The U.S. News rankings

attempt to be the gospel of college selection. Every year, their rankings make headlines and cause students to stress out about small things that don’t actually matter that much.

It seems that these rankings serve U.S. News and World Report much more than they benefit the general public.

The rankings have a clear bias towards private universities. Only three of the top 25 schools in the U.S. News and World Report rankings are public. This is not the case with other rankings of universities.

Nine of the top 25 American universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities are public. U.S. News and World report did not always have this bias. In the original 1983 rankings, three public schools were in the top 10. Soon after they started publishing the rankings annually, was a

clear drop in public school rankings occurred. In 1988, University of CaliforniaBerkeley was ranked fifth— the next year it dropped to 24th. Michigan also dropped significantly, from 8th to 25th, as did North Carolina, from 11th to 23rd. Wisconsin, William and Mary, Texas and Illinois were all ranked between 20 and 25, and all these schools dropped off the rankings entirely for about a decade. My theory is that in 1989, when the rankings were released annually, they became less about presenting an honest picture, and more about generating revenue for the publication. It’s relatively easy to get into large public schools that have 5,000-plus new students every year as opposed to small private schools that typically have 1,500 or fewer. By making small private schools the “better schools,” they create

competition and therefore interest in the rankings.

A high correlation between school selectivity and U.S. News and World Report Ranking exists.

Smaller schools tend to have lower acceptance rates because they can only house a smaller number of students. It logically follows that because schools try to pick the most qualified applicants, the average profile of the 1,000 students accepted to private schools will look a lot better than the that of the 5,000 students admitted to a public school.

The use of selectivity as a factor in determining the best universities is clearly beneficial to private schools, and the school’s selectivity in and of itself says nothing about the quality of that school. A public school’s top 1,000 students may look the exact same as a private school’s student body. Because public schools

Enjoy ‘just right’ fall while it lasts Hayes Cascia Columnist As I sit here on the laziest Sunday of the year, contemplating what the hell happened against Arizona State last night, I gaze out my bedroom window at the overcast sky and can’t help but notice that, minus the trees that have yet to change color, it looks a lot like mid-fall. The draft through my crappy window subtly reminds me it also feels like mid-fall. It is certainly a far cry from just last week when we played football powerhouse Tennessee Tech where, inside of Camp Randall, thermometers read close to one-bajillion degrees.

Then, people were complaining that it was too damn hot, like the “Transformers”scene-of-Megan-Fox-

running-in-slow-mo hot.

They wished for colder weather, weather that would put hair on your chest. If it didn’t, then you certainly wish it would so you could stay warmer. However, now that the wish has been granted during the past couple days with colder mornings and chillier nights, people have been saying it is too cold … but like, just put on some more clothes or something bro. I think this change in weather is for the best. If you don’t think so, not to worry. It’s supposed to get up to 80 degrees by Thursday, and, if your apartment doesn’t have air conditioning, you should be sweating balls in no time.

I, for one, love fall weather. Some find it a little on the chilly side, but those are usually the people who are still wearing shorts when it gets down into the 50s.

Just put some pants on, you turkey! With fall weather, you can always put on more layers if it is a little cold, but during the dog days of

summer when it’s on the upwards of 80 or 90 you can only dress down so much in public until you get arrested.

Fall weather is perfect for outdoor sports like football and pretty much any physical activity outside with the exception swimming.

It is not cold enough where you might pull a muscle, and it isn’t warm enough where you have to worry about sweating profusely. It is just right.

In regards to living conditions, fall weather is way better, especially if you live on a college campus where the landlords don’t really care enough to put in air conditioners. I live on the third floor of a house without air conditioning, so over the course of a 90-degree day, the heat rises and our apartment begins to transition into a sweat lodge that makes sleeping nearly impossible.

But, over the last few days, sleeping has been glorious. It’s been the perfect temperature

that allows me to utilize my blankets to their fullest potential, which in turn has helped my bed to run at optimal efficiency and given me a better night’s sleep.

I am now more rested and have the energy to take care of more chores and homework during the day. I still choose, however, to procrastinate and save things for the last minute. Classic college.

To me, the beginning and middle of the fall -with classic fall weather of mid-50s to 60s -- and a crisp breeze is the best kind of weather.

I do enjoy the summer months as well, but some days get too hot and sometimes the only way to cool off is to walk around naked, which I guess is frowned upon.

So, as long as I do not join a nudist colony somewhere down the road, fall weather will always hold a special place in my heart.

have the capacity to educate a larger body of students, they are penalized in these rankings.

Another thing that suggests the U.S. News and World Report rankings are more about profit than about serving the public is the fact that rankings come out annually. Simply not that much changes on a year-to-year basis. Schools have faculty and students constantly coming and going, but to assess that change on a year-to-year basis is kind of like the weekly writers and coaches poll in college football — they are just snapshots in time that are expected to change constantly. There is no guarantee that your school will have the same ranking when you graduate as when you start, and worrying about the politics of it on a year-to-year basis is stupid. If U.S. News and World wants to serve the

general public and give itself more credibility it will stop publishing these lists annually.

If one wishes to create an unbiased ranking of universities, they may take into account statistics such as student graduation rates, employment rate of graduates or percentage of faculty with terminal degree, as these actually relate to the quality of the school. Using selectivity says nothing about the quality of the school (as it is a measure of students before they even step foot on campus) and is clearly bias toward private schools. If U.S. News and World Report wishes to serve the public, it will stop presenting its clearly politicized and self-serving rankings of colleges.

Spencer Lindsay (sclindsay@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in political science.

TWEET OF

THE DAY #karma

- @jenbielema After a tough “loss” on Saturday night, former head coach Bret Bielema’s wife tweeted the above. It’s not entirely clear what she means by “karma” in this case.

Perhaps it’s all that bad karma built up by the players who her husband recruited and then left for the SEC?

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

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UW art students dazzle in exhibit ‘///Some,’ a series of art department works, makes for vibrant, varied show of expertise Emily L. R. Adams ArtsEtc. Writer

Courtesy of ULM Hawkeye Tommy Emmanuel brought his unique brand of fingerstyle playing to Madison Thursday, covering Beatles classics and exploring political themes through guitar tones.

An immaculate Emmanuel Australian guitarist wows Overture with stunning technique, fun song choices Andrew Edstrom ArtsEtc. Writer Hailed by Eric Clapton as “the greatest guitarist I’ve ever seen in my life,” fingerstyle player Tommy Emmanuel took the stage at the Overture Center Thursday with the intent of proving Clapton right. His unique approach to guitar playing—simultaneously covering bass lines, melody, chord tones and percussion to mimic the effect of a full band with just one instrument—made for a ruthlessly entertaining and wonderfully intimate show.

Emmanuel walked on stage with the calm and confident demeanor of a man who’s spent 52 years onstage. He launched a mad volley of rapid-fire banjo rolls, wedged between popping bass rhythms and a crisp melody. It was immediate, high-energy, fast and very loud.

In his first few songs, Emmanuel proved that despite his astounding ability, he is first and foremost a performer. In a beautiful, slow piece full of long legato runs, he held his

picking hand in the air and pointed to the fingerboard, seemingly making a note appear out of nowhere.

The audience laughed, and Emmanuel smiled like a magician.

The setlist drifted through a broad range of styles: from a hearty ragtime performance of “Roll on Buddy” that would have delighted any respectable chain gang; to a sensitive tribute to his daughter, full of shimmering harmonics; and to a fast Texas shuffle a la Stevie Ray Vaughan.

In the show, Emmanuel demonstrated a universal, seemingly boundless musical competence.

There was no line between the covers and originals, between 50’s rock-nroll tunes and modern instrumentals. It was all “his” music and it burst with passion and energy.

Despite his incredibly technical approach, Emmanuel’s music doesn’t reek of the “if you were more talented you would understand why this is good” vibe that plagues so many musical virtuosos. It’s fast, fun and—in a strange

way—simple. Emmanuel is a living expression of the difference between a “guitarist’s guitarist” and a true musician.

Later, he paid tribute to his musical heroes with a series of medleys. The first, a collection of Beatles tunes mixed with songs like “Lady Marmalade” had the audience cheering on at least half-dozen different occasions. He followed the performance with a detailed explanation of how he arranged it.

“You can’t just learn the piano part and then learn the vocal part and mash them together,” Emmanuel said. “You have to work them out all at the same time, go very, very slowly and be meticulous. Practice until the skill becomes second-nature and turns to music. Then when you play, you only have to focus on the feeling.”

This impromptu guitar lesson was a godsend for the budding guitarists in the audience, and it was full of amusing anecdotes and great examples to make it just as engaging for nonmusicians.

At the end of the show, Emmanuel played a jarring piece called “Trails,” explicitly inspired by the struggles of Native Americans. This performance involved minutes-long sections of Emmanuel scratching his strings by the headstock and banging on the lower bout of his instrument to produce eerie, percussive sounds reminiscent of tribal songs and dances. The fauxdrumming was coupled with sections of long, reverbsoaked lines that could have easily been played on a wooden flute, broken up with a repeating, marching chord section likely meant to represent the Native Americans’ travels down the Trail of Tears.

At points, the music grew very abstract. It’s a testament to Emmanuel’s musical sensitivity and performance abilities that this bizarre, art-piece didn’t send the audience running for the hills. In fact, the audience seemed to like it. It was an amazing and somewhat baffling feat, a thought-provoking end to a fun and inspiring night.

As the fall semester gets off to a busy start, graduate students working toward their MA and MFA degrees have begun to exhibit their latest artworks. This year’s review show is called “///Some.” In it, 18 graduate students in the art department showcase one piece that best represents their progress in two years of study.

Upon first entering the exhibition space, the viewer’s initial response may be one of surprise. The seemingly sparse amount of art housed in the large room sets a quiet tone. However, this initial confrontation with stark openness grows familiar and comforting. The calmlylit, concrete gallery and its white walls demand a quiet observation from the viewer.

The viewer must focus with intensity — as if listening to hear the art speak — rather than simply looking at it.

The tone is aptly set and compliments the general muted palette among the paintings, prints and sculptures dotting the walls. Each individual piece effectively draws the viewer in for further examination and elucidates greater detail through its craftsmanship and, in some cases, significant conceptual meaning. Kendall McMinimy’s piece “Eminence Dissipated” is a fine example of exploration of materials and well-controlled technique. He uses white plaster to produce geometric shapes in an offkilter arrangement. A circular relief form presents color and a pattern of unrecognizable imagery. McMinimy’s piece draws the viewer’s eye in every direction. The seemingly subtle characteristics of the plaster material become alive with rhythm.

On the opposite side of the room a small plastic tarp hangs by two pins on each corner of its horizontal length. Unusually shaped, with cut-in square edges and the occasional organic hole shape, the clear

plastic has been carefully embroidered with thread and encased in a blanket stitch.

Large powder-pink and rosecolored lettering across the lower half reads, “I could just give up and be my mother.” The piece is titled “Dowry,” created

by Dominique Haller. Without having the luxury of seeing any other work by the artist, it is difficult to understand the level of sarcasm that Haller is striving for. Undoubtedly, every viewer will take away a different response.

Almost hidden on the back right wall of the gallery is “Eulogy,” by Jordan Adams.

This large-scale oil painting on panel has an unusual quality mark-making. Unlike traditional oil on panel, Adams’ approach challenges medium and application. Dark, ruddy black-browns and a center vignette of fuchsia-tinted oils melt across the surface, creating an illusion of a wondrous landscape. Some portions have been tightly controlled to juxtapose the gravity-induced dripping with straight edges. The title lends a melancholy atmosphere to the work, yet the technique provides a more magical one.

The overall exhibit holds together in continuity with a muted palette. Amidst the silent nature of the show, characteristics of movement appear to create “noise,” however subtle it may be. The level of ability to which each artist is able to express their own theory and stand out in a room of highly-trained artists is impressive.

The art department at the University of Wisconsin reigns strongly in the academic art world. In a national survey conducted by US News & World Report, UW-Madison’s overall graduate art program ranks in at number 18, scoring even higher in printmaking and metals at second and third place, respectively. “///Some” runs through September 20th. Check the UW-Madison art department website for more information.

‘Hello Ross’ entertains with interactivity, spunk Emily Kingman ArtsEtc. Writer On a typical Friday night, you’re bound to fi nd me in the midst of a “Say Yes to the Dress” marathon, petting my calico and dreaming of PrinceCharming-and-Single-andStraight. Go ahead, judge me. This week, however, I flipped the script, choosing to spend my evening with the all-too-charming, taken and gay Ross Mathews, whose interactive talk show “Hello Ross” recently premiered on the E! Network.

Mathews is a stranger to few these days.

Since darting to fame as “Ross the Intern,” a correspondent on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” he has frequently

appeared on another E!’s talk show, “Chelsea Lately,” as part of a rotating panel of comedians who are asked to comment on current events in pop culture. In both venues, his effusive personality helped to mark him as a fan favorite.

The noting of his experience is not meant to say that “Hello Ross” is a copy of either “The Tonight Show” or “Chelsea Lately.”

If anything, his show is its own breed: an interactive program at the intersection of celebrity gossip and pop culture that’s specifically designed to function for the viewer, by the viewer.

Its closest relative might be Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” except, unlike “Live,” “Hello Ross” is taped well before

airtime, appears only once a week and escapes the scope of its own network’s programming.

Of course, there are also resonances to Mathew’s former days on late night.

The format of “Hello Ross” is a smart variation on the standard late night format designed to reel in the desirable 18 to 34-year-old demographic.

Mathews opens with a short monologue before launching into coverage of the latest events in entertainment and finishing with a guest interview.

Along the way, self-proclaimed “superfans” offer their opinions and ask the questions. Some sit in, while others call in or video chat. Everyone has been chosen for their

dedication to the topic under discussion. On the premiere, a Lady Gaga skeptic in the audience got on the nerves of a Skyped-in “Little Monster.”

Later, a fan of the pop duo LMFAO beamed in to ask the show’s first guest, a member of the group Sky Blue, why he cut his previously bushlike hair. He wanted to be an individual, Sky Blue responded.

The premiere also boasted a segment in which Mathews took an admirer of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise out for a makeover in Beverly Hills so that she, too, could dress and eat like stars Kyle Richards and Lisa Vanderpump.

The latter showed up as their mealtime server and,

though contrived, there’s no doubt that the whole thing was entertaining.

Ultimately, “Hello Ross” fits nicely into E!’s “pop of culture” programming dynasty. Whereas other shows on the network like “The Soup” and “Fashion Police” thrive on cynicism, defining what’s “in” and “out” of favor, “Hello Ross” focuses on a sense of community, turning out the seams of enthroned-Hollywood to bring the couch-dwellers into the fold. The viewing experience is akin to being invited to sit at the “popular table” of high school lore.

Mathews himself makes the show. A sassy, gay-bestfriend type, his voice is as high-pitched as his heart is full. He’s prone to poke fun

at himself and erupt into fits of giggles, but don’t mistake his silliness for stupidity. He’s quick-witted and perceptive, able to quickly make observations that are funny without being cruel.

Although in the transition from correspondent to host, Mathews often appears a bit uncomfortable, there’s every hope that time will ease his anxieties as he settles into his new role.

Until then, I am perfectly content waiting and watching. I’ve decided to welcome a new tradition for Friday nights: ditching thoughts of A-line gowns and making a beeline for the king of superfans himself.

“Hello Ross” airs Fridays on E! at 9 p.m. CDT.

Cherub lets the boogie loose on rowdy Majestic crowd Alissa Valeri ArtsEtc. Writer This past Saturday, I had my first experience at Madison’s Majestic Theater.

As a young person from the East Coast, I was at first uneasy about the art scene when moving to Madison, fearful that my surroundings would prove to be a little too Podunk to offer anything worthwhile. I was quickly proven wrong, however, by the countless and incredible acts that rolled through last year, including two of my favorites, Gramatik and Cherub, during the Age of Reason Tour. When I heard Cherub was making a second

stop right at the beginning of the school year, I instantly bought a ticket and resolved myself to having a rad first semester.

There is nothing quite like the Majestic. It is intimate, old and located in a part of the city that feels actually urban.

A few quick shots of tequila and I was ready to groove to the undeniable funk and fun of the Cherub experience.

Arriving at 10:30, I had to wait a solid hour before the duo—comprised of Jason Huber and Jordan Kelley— made an appearance. As the audience waited, we jammed out to their opener, ProbCause.

ProbCause— whose real name is Colin

Grimm—is a rapper from North Side Chicago whose fame has been growing, especially since the release of his most recent album, The Recipe Volume II, on which he collaborated with Chance the Rapper. The set’s volume was off, as was the general vibe before a Cherub headliner. Despite this, ProbCause spit well and held the attention of a very drunk and somewhat restless crowd.

The clock hit 11:30, and the magic began. The two took the stage, and their lighthearted but exuberant energy radiated out and into the crowd instantaneously.

Then, unexpectedly, Jason

addressed the crowd directly, exclaiming how stoked he was to be back in Madison, saying “I love you so much,” right before dropping some new material that got the crowd bumping. It was nonstop boogie town from then on. Pulling tracks from their beloved Mom & Dad album and their latest EP, 100 Bottles, the pair played perfectly to the overjoyed crowd. The show was completely sold out and the love was palpable between the audience and the artists.

Huber and Kelley asked the crowd to sing back the lyrics to their latest single, “Jazzercise ’95.” Before going in, Huber told the crowd to

go online and access their music online for free. He urged them, once again, to “show the love.” Cherub was headlining this show after an extensive summer festival circuit marked by hype and a growing fan base, and their excitement showed.

There is something special about an artist’s comeup, more special than the security of fame when artists might potentially dismiss their own fan base. Cherub and their entire persona are refreshingly free of cynicism.

In an August interview with Metro Jolt, a reporter asked Kelley if there was anything new in the works. Kelley responded, “Wanna hear

something?” And just like that, the reporter was given a private viewing of Cherub’s collaborative and creative process, comprised of all new material. What cool guys.

At the end of the show, after giving props to ProbCause and thanking the audience for an awesome night, Huber confessed to wanting to see the Mayweather fight and asked if someone in the audience to host him and Kelley for a second round of fun. Then Kelley picked up his bass and strummed out the first notes of their final song for the night, “Doses & Mimosas,” to a cheering of the rowdy crowd.

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UW volleyball finishes runner-up in InnTowner After loss to Kansas Friday, Wisconsin returned Saturday to claim 2 victories Mike Ryder Sports Writer The Wisconsin volleyball team proved Saturday it wouldn’t let a little bad luck from their home-opener Friday stop them from finishing out the Inntowner Invitational with a couple of wins.

After stomaching a heart-wrenching defeat to Kansas, the Badgers stormed back to win over UW-Milwaukee and Bowling Green, respectively, to conclude their tournament 2-1, finishing second behind Kansas (3-0).

Friday’s loss had to be in the rearview mirror for the Badgers to show up to win Saturday.

Despite quickly taking the first two sets against Kansas, No. 25 Wisconsin lost the next three to the Jayhawks, with the fifth set ending in dramatic fashion on a double match point. However, the team demonstrated how dwelling on the loss Friday would be for the weak and weary and wouldn’t allow it to affect their game plan Saturday.

“It’s hard not to be proud of [the team],” first-year head coach Kelly Sheffield said.

“That’s tough to lose 17-15, and then have to come back [Saturday] morning and play.

I thought we really showed up to play [Saturday] morning and evening.”

The biggest question going into Saturday was whether Sheffield would have a healthy roster to start the day.

Senior Annemarie Hickey was out for the tournament after suffering an ankle injury in practice Wednesday and starters Courtney Thomas and Dominique Thompson battled through injuries of their own as well.

“I’m not someone to

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Wisconsin held the Panthers to only one shot on goal throughout the entirety of the game, as the Badgers’ back line kept the action to a bare minimum for Richard between the posts.

In total, the Panthers managed only a meager six shots throughout the game – three in the first half and three in the second half – while the Badgers peppered UWM goalkeeper Paige Lincicum with 17 shots with eight of those on goal.

Wisconsin dominated possession over the course of the match, but it was the back line that keyed the shutout, according to Wilkins.

“I thought our two centerbacks did better,” Wilkins said of freshman Kylie Schwarz and redshirt junior Alexandra Heller. “I thought Kylie Schwarz was very good today in the back for us and I thought that Ali is getting back to her form that she was last year after her injuries, so I think that was an important element. And getting Lexi Peterson back on the field is huge for us.”

After starting the first five games, sophomore Peterson sat out the last two games due to an undisclosed injury, but was back in the lineup Sunday at outside back for the Badgers.

Although she did not factor into any of the scoring, Peterson’s return was seen in ways more than just on her stat line.

“It was awesome having Lexi back,” junior

talk about injuries a lot because those things happen in sports, but we’ve been hit awfully hard,” Sheffield said.

“I thought we showed up to play this morning and this evening we weren’t sure that Courtney and Dom [Thompson] were going to be able to play. They were in a lot of pain [but] they’re begging the training staff to let them play. They’re warriors. It’s hard not to respect a team that’s going to compete like that.”

The Badgers (8-1) topped UW-Milwaukee in the morning game three sets to one and later that night swept Bowling Green in straight sets. The last game against the Falcons though was easily the most impressive for Wisconsin as they dominated throughout.

With the score close at 19-17 towards the end of the first set, alltournament selection setter Ellen Chapman rallied to score the last three points for Wisconsin.

And she wasn’t done after that. Finishing the night with 13 kills, Chapman served seven straight in the second set to give the team a convincing lead at 21-12. In the third set, with the Badgers up one point, the 6-foot 4-inch junior again proved why she was deserving of the tournament honors with a kill and a block to end the match and get the sweep. But she was also quick to give her teammates credit as well.

“I think we did a really good job this weekend terminating the ball,” Chapman said. “Deme [Morales] did a great job passing, stepping in with Anne’s injury. Courtney, Taylor Morey and Deme did a fantastic job getting the ball to the target, which made it much easier for the hitters.

Jen Small The Badger Herald Junior outside hitters Ellen Chapman (above) and Deme Morales were both named to the InnTowner Invitational All-Tournament team after strong showings.

Lauren [Carlini] did a good job running the system.

Everything just meshed well this weekend.”

Along with Chapman, junior outside hitter Morales, replacing the injured Hickey, also received an alltournament selection and finished Saturday with eight kills and eight digs. It was her performance Friday, however, that earned her the much-deserved recognition, ending the night with career highs in kills (17) and digs (13). Believing they showed true resiliency, Sheffield was proud of the way his team played this weekend, and that their efforts didn’t go unnoticed.

“These guys want it so bad and you see the

forward Cara Walls said.

“It’s awesome having an outside back that can get forward and having an outside back that steps and doesn’t let people turn. She’s not afraid to get forward and she’s really confident when she steps with the ball, so it makes everything a lot easier for the midfield and the forwards.”

Not only was Wisconsin strong in its defensive third, but the Badgers also displayed fireworks in the offensive third as well, especially early on.

In just the sixth minute, freshman Rose Lavelle found a wide open redshirt junior Kodee Williams, and after

“For us Milwaukee has always been a big competitor for us, so to be able to get a shutout here ... was important.”

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receiving the through pass, Williams finished it off for an early 1-0 Badgers’ lead.

“The through ball that was just a great run by Kodee. I could kind of see it unfolding and I saw her make that run so I just slipped it through and she had a wide open shot against the goalie,” Lavelle, who tallied two assists in the game, said.

Only eight minutes later, Lavelle facilitated more Wisconsin offense as she finessed a corner kick into the eight-yard box where redshirt sophomore Marisa Kresge managed to track down the ball and head it into the back of the net to

extend the lead to 2-0.

But for almost the rest of the game the Wisconsin offense was held in check, and only notched the final goal as a result of some sloppy defensive play by the Panthers. Lincicum came out into the 18-yard box to play a pass by one of her defenders, but Lavelle harassed Lincicum into a turnover. Wisconsin’s leading scorer Walls found the loose ball and easily drilled a shot into the wide open net.

The lack of Wisconsin offense in the middle part of the game was an area that Wilkins feels needs some fine-tuning before the conference season begins.

“I thought we did a better job in the first, like, twenty minutes keeping it wide,” Wilkins said.

“I thought it could have been more consistent.

I thought sometimes we made the game too complicated and that we could have kept more balls where we gave balls away in bad areas.

That caused some things for them to have some chances in the second half and that’s something that we’ll go back with in terms of consistency.”

Still, nearly everything went Wisconsin’s way against UWM, as the Badgers blew out their in-state rival in their first home win of the season.

“I think every time we’ve gone up, we’ve kind of lost focus and let down a bit, which has let the other team get back in it,” Lavelle said. “So I think we kind of stayed focused even though at the end they had a lot more opportunities than we would have liked. We just fought through it and got the shutout.”

performances of some players, like Ellen growing in front of our eyes and you’re seeing Deme Morales having such a monster weekend and filling a role she hasn’t even practiced,” Sheffield said. “You want to win. You do everything you can to win. I think what you take out more from this weekend is how

we played rather than what our record is.”

The Big Ten powerhouse was also very happy playing in front of their home crowd for the first time this season and was pleased with the high attendance for all three games.

“It was an awesome feeling,” Chapman said.

“It’s a new year and we want all the fans to come back and support us because we have the greatest fans in the country in my opinion.”

Wisconsin looks to face NC State, Virginia Commonwealth and Colgate next weekend Sept. 20-21 in the upcoming NC State Invitational Tournament.

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Morales, Carlini guide young team to victory Pair sets tone for volleyball squad on way to 2 wins in home tourney Eric Kohlbeck Sports Writer The Wisconsin volleyball team came in as not only host to, but as a favorite to win the InnTowner Invitational.

The Badgers started play Friday against Kansas with a perfect 6-0 record and a new No. 25 ranking.

Although they finished second with a 2-1 record for the tournament, UW had to fight through injuries to get to that point. After losing senior Annemarie Hickey earlier in the week, and juniors Courtney Thomas and Dominique Thompson playing through injuries, the Badgers needed someone to step up.

That someone was junior Deme Morales.

Filling in as outside hitter for the injured Hickey, Morales began her explosive weekend Friday, recording a team high 17 kills and 13 digs.

She set career highs in both of those categories as well total attacks, 47, and blocks, four. Head coach Kelly Sheffield was happy with the way Morales stepped up on such short notice.

“We had to change our lineup about 48 hours ago,” Sheffield said after losing Hickey for the weekend.

“I thought Deme Morales was really, really good tonight. She’s a warrior, has a heart of a lion.”

“It felt awesome,” Morales said on having such a big Friday night.

“I know I need to get that going sooner if we want

our team to excel.”

And excel is what Morales and the rest of the Badgers did Saturday.

Bouncing back from the loss to Kansas, UW had a four set win over Milwaukee and a three set win against Bowling Green to close out the tournament with a record of 2-1.

Saturday, Morales continued her strong performance with 12 kills and 13 digs against Milwaukee, before closing out the tournament with another eight kills and eight digs against Bowling Green. Her three game performance earned her all-tournament honors alongside teammate, junior setter Ellen Chapman.

After such a promising weekend from Morales, she will be looking to build on her performance as the team heads into its final nonconference tournament this weekend and Big Ten play. Effort and being a team player will help her do that.

“Selling out every game,” Morales said about how she’ll continue her success for the rest of the season. “Trying to help out my teammates and be as much of a team player as I can be every single game.”

Carlini makes home debut The InnTowner Invitational was also the first chance for Badger fans in Madison to see 2012 Gatorade National Player of the Year Lauren Carlini. The freshman setter led the Badgers with 44 assists per game and managed to add on 14 digs per game. Despite playing in earlier games this season, Carlini was anxious to play her first

game at the Field House.

“I usually don’t get butterflies before I play, but today I definitely had some butterflies... not in a nervous way, just anxious,” Carlini said.

“The crowd especially was amazing, and the atmosphere felt awesome.”

Carlini’s presence was especially felt in the second game against Milwaukee as she turned in a 50-kill, 20-dig performance. Sheffield was happy with how Carlini played but knows she has some things to work on as well.

“I thought she had her moments where she was really good, and then there were other moments where she looks like it was her third college match,” Sheffield said.

“She’s awfully, awfully talented. She and I will watch some film, and there will be some things that she wished she hadn’t done, but that’s part of the growing process.”

After the tournament was over, Sheffield raved about Carlini’s work ethic. “[Carlini] is a perfectionist, she wants to be great,” Sheffield said.

“She studies the game.

We had two matches today and she’s up there watching film of not just opponents, but studying herself. She was in video; probably watched two or three hours of video today on top of the two matches. She’s trying to be really good.”

If the InnTowner Tournament is any indication, Carlini could become a crucial cog in the team as they look to begin a challenging Big Ten schedule in the coming weeks.

Jen Small The Badger Herald Junior Deme Morales had a big weekend, recording a team high 17 kills and 13 digs in UW’s Friday matchup with Kansas.

The Badger Herald | Sports | Monday, September 16, 2013 TEAM, page 12 underclassmen out of a total roster of 26 players, and only two of the upperclassmen are seniors, Alev Kelter and Nicole La Petina, who both sat out last year – Kelter to focus on hockey and La Petina because of an injury. So Wilkins didn’t have a clear cut choice for captain.

However, the biggest part of the decision wasn’t that Wisconsin has an unusually small senior class and an unbalanced roster with only one less freshman (7) than the total of upperclassmen (8).

In fact, the decision was based on just how balanced the Badgers are, not in a sense of age or experience, but in leadership ability.

“No one is afraid to step up,” Walls said.

“No one is afraid to say anything about how they feel, and we all kind of feel like we’re on equal playing fields. It makes it a really fun dynamic for the group.”

That equal playing field makes for an equal balance of power that for once isn’t dominated by only a select few players, allowing players to settle into their natural roles.

“There’s no hierarchy,” Wilkins said.

“They’re all coming from the point is they want the program to be successful and they all have their different roles. I think when they know their roles that’s really important.”

Just what those roles are differ from player to player. Regardless, one thing is certain: They are the ones ultimately in charge of the team, captains or no captains.

“I always tell players they make the team,” Wilkins said. “I’ll never score a goal. I’ll never make a save.

They spend more time interacting with each other than I would ever.

I see them at practice and I see them sometime

ZAK, page 12 The night of Sept. 14 was always going to be meaningful for the 2013 Badgers, long before they took the field at Sun Devil Stadium and even Camp Randall a few weeks ago. It was going to be that point in every season where the world realized Wisconsin was either a team that coasted through a couple butterfly opponents or a team deserving of its attention.

In the end, Wisconsin went on the road, played a good team from a good conference in (what seemed on TV to be) a great atmosphere, and came up agonizingly short. This proves them worthy of attention. The Badgers left Tempe with a 2-point defeat, and as sour as the aftertaste may be, the night of Sept. 14 will still be a defining moment.

Wisconsin’s season can continue as if that judgment call never occurred — if the Badgers want to consider themselves undefeated, no one should really care — or they can treat it as a thorn in their side, constantly whispering, “What if?”

The best thing they can do is yank that thorn out, stomp it into the ground and get ready for Big Ten football, their fantastic companion during

the last few years.

Replacement referees stabbed a thorn into the Green Bay Packers’ side in 2012, but the Packers quickly pulled it out, forgot it ever happened and won the NFC North.

Wisconsin should — and presumably will — take a lesson from that.

And it shouldn’t be a difficult lesson to take.

Nor should their path be any different than it has been in the past.

The Arizona State defeat likely deserves many dishonorable references, but in the grand scheme of things, can largely be forgotten. The game had little bearing for UW’s postseason goal of playing in Pasadena again, similar to the Oregon State loss a season ago.

If Wisconsin does what it needs to do to play in the Big Ten Championship, it will once again be one victory from playing in the Rose Bowl, each step of the way far removed from the judgment of any Pac-12 referees.

The world may have seemed like an unfair place Saturday night, but Wisconsin’s chances of playing in Pasadena haven’t wavered an inch.

Right now, the young 2013 Wisconsin season is sort of like a résumé.

The Badgers have some great bullet points in their two shutout victories and what was

a sufficient performance on the road. The résumé is also very clear — UW will hope to ground and pound it’s way toward points — but it also includes some impressive declarations like the increasingly remarkable redshirt sophomore running back Melvin Gordon and Stave’s improvement within the Wisconsin offense.

That résumé would sit near the top of the list in the Big Ten. Right now, however, it seems to have a coffee stain on it, left by the night of Sept.

14. Maybe it’s wrinkled, too, but we’ll find that out soon enough. Wisconsin can reprint that résumé on brand new paper and add to it by moving on from ASU, refocusing on the Big Ten and setting

their gaze on playing an early December game in Indianapolis.

It’s up to head coach Gary Andersen and Wisconsin in finding out what to do, and that is to forget about ASU.

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outside but they obviously live together and are in the training room together, locker rooms together, classrooms together.

They spend much more time [together] and so they create that atmosphere and I think those personalities really kind of come together and mesh.

“I think it’s been their sincerity with each other that has really made a difference.”

Any sort of governance always has cons to counter the pros. With no designated leader, there is room for discord and chaos among the masses with a very slight chance of anarchy.

But so far for the Badgers, Wilkins’

afraid “toNosteponeup.is No one is afraid to say anything about how they feel, and we all kind of feel like we’re on equal playing fields. It makes for a fun dynamic for the group.

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Cara Walls Junior forward experiment has gone off without a hitch. The Badgers are 4-1-1, and internally they have had fewer problems than past years.

It remains to be seen whether Wisconsin’s success both on and off the field continues, but the unorthodox strategy has proved quite fruitful to this point in the season.

While only one armband might be on the field during the game, in reality, that single armband unites the Badgers, which could make for a special season.

“We’re all on the same level,” Meuer said. “We all have the same amount of importance on the team and I think that’s really cool and I think ultimately that’s going to be one of the biggest contributors to our success this year.”

Sean is a senior majoring in journalism and communication arts. Still reeling over the ASU defeat?

Let him know on Twitter at @sean_zak or with an email to szak@badgerherald.com.

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Ian Thomasgard The Badger Herald Junior forward Cara Walls finished off the scoring for Wisconsin Sunday afternoon with her goal in the 75th minute to lead her team to a 3-0 shutout victory.

Badgers blank Panthers UW women’s soccer earns first shutout of season in 3-0 win over instate rival UWM Dan Corcoran Women’s Soccer Writer For the first time this season the Badgers (5-11) blanked an opponent in their 3-0 win over instate rival UW-Milwaukee,

which fell to 1-6-1 on the season, Sunday at the McClimon Soccer Complex.

After the game, Wisconsin head coach Paula Wilkins said despite the comfortable win, she was most impressed

with that blank slate by the Badger’s defense and goalkeeper redshirt junior Genevieve Richard.

“The biggest excitement that I had is that we were able to get a shutout, and I think that’s very important

for us,” Wilkins said. “We hadn’t gotten one this year, and especially being on our home field. For us, Milwaukee has always been a big competitor for

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An armband doesn’t usually have any inherent meaning.

It’s merely a piece of brightly colored fabric.

But, in one place that yellow armband, something otherwise small and meaningless, brings with it power and a great deal of responsibility.

On the soccer field, an armband isn’t just the sign of a great player, but more importantly the sign of a great leader. It’s an honor and a privilege bestowed upon only a select few who prove themselves worthy of leading the team: the captain.

Now, on the field only one person can wear the armband, as it’s reserved for the field captain. For the Wisconsin women’s soccer team, junior Cara Walls occupies that role of field captain. But what’s both interesting and unique is the fact that Walls only occupies the position of captain on the field. Off the field, she’s not a designated team captain. In fact, not a single person on this year’s Badger squad is a designated captain.

It seems odd to be captain-less, but as sophomore midfielder McKenna Meuer explained, the team’s structure made the rather outlandish idea a perfect fit.

“I think it’s very rare to find a team that has enough leadership qualities that you don’t even need captains,” Meuer said. “The whole reason you assign captains is so that when things get a little

bit hectic or if you have a lot of people that don’t step up then you have those designated people that fill that role. It’s really special to find a team where there’s so many people with so many good leadership qualities that you don’t need to designate that.”

Actually, the Badgers were in the process of designating captains during the season’s beginnings as the players voted on who those captains would be for the upcoming season. But following that vote, Badgers’ head coach Paula Wilkins decided to step in and change things up a little.

According to Wilkins, democracy in soccer is not something that usually pays dividends.

With the players and personalities present on her roster however, democracy was, for the first time in her coaching career, in order.

“Well, I came up with the concept or the idea and then I kind of brought it to the team and see what their thought process was,” Wilkins said. “I think we have a lot of different types of leaders and I think that to limit it to one or two people was going to be an issue. And I thought that something different, something to kind of build on and talk about throughout the season, and we’ll see how this goes.”

But what exactly made Wilkins and the players agree that having no team captains was the right choice? For starters, the Badgers have 18

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UW needs to block out ASU Sean Zak Zak It To Ya It seemed pretty unfair that the Wisconsin football team flew home from Arizona without a victory.

They did just about everything they needed to do in order to beat Arizona State.

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Joel Stave commanded a late drive into ASU territory, advancing the Badgers to the Sun Devil 15-yard line. With the game clock trending toward single digits, Stave split the hash marks and took his knee. It appeared as though the Badgers would attempt a 32-yard game-winning field goal, by all means a chip shot.

But a whistle was blown, the ball left lonely on the ground, Arizona State’s defense

freaked out before Wisconsin’s offense freaked out and bizarre became the only fitting adjective for how a great game came to an inexplicable close. The field goal never came, and the Sun Devils topped the Badgers 3230.

It seemed unfair, and it probably was. Much like the Michigan State Hail Mary from 2011 and the failed spike opportunity later that season against Oregon, Wisconsin was on the brink of victory, only to have its present fate be decided on the judgment of the men wearing black and white stripes. The final 15 seconds personified the unfortunate side of sports that rears its ugly head only so often, but when it does, stomps the heart of many players and fans.

It’s unfortunate, but unfairness is, at times, a guaranteed part of sports and competition and life in general.

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Jen Small The Badger Herald A series of almost comical events including an awkward kneel by sophomore quarterback Joel Stave in the waning seconds made for a disheartening loss Saturday.