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UW sees rise in foreign students University sees growing student enrollment from Asian countries Tara Brennan Reporter For University of Wisconsin international student Ike Yen, a sophomore, it was not Madison’s “party school” reputation that attracted him to the university--but he was certainly aware of the culture.

Yen began his tenure at the university as one of 5,291 international students enrolled during the 2012-2013 school year, Laurie Cox, assistant dean and director of International Student Services, said.

According to Cox, UW is ranked 22nd for its total number of international students in the nation. The

number of international students on campus has seen a modest but steady annual increase from the 4,840 students in 2011 to 2012 and 4,647 in 2010 to 2011, Cox said. This trend has been apparent for the past seven years at UW, she added.

The majority of international students at UW come from China, South Korea, India, Malaysia and Taiwan, in that order, Cox said.

Yen said he chose UW because of its academic reputation and relatively low tuition.

In a first-year experience survey given to international students, the responses were similar, showing the number one reason they were drawn to UW was because of its national and international reputation, Cox said.

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Photo courtesy of Naomi Xia With the increasing numbers of Chinese international students, groups like the Chinese Undergraduate Student Association give students the opportunity to interact with each other in addition to meeting domestic students in the dormitories, in class and in first-year academic programs.

Wendy’s to open for business on 500 block of State Restaurant chain confirms downtown branch to open around Jan. 2014 Cogan Schneier City Editor Frosties and chili will soon be available on State Street as national fast food chain Wendy’s plans to move into a vacant

storefront on the 500 block.

Fitchburg Wendy’s Manager Steve Kirchenbeit said they are unsure exactly when the new Wendy’s location will open its doors, but management is shooting for an opening in January.

The restaurant will fill the space that previously housed Full of Bull and a combination Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said this is actually a return for Wendy’s, which had a State Street location years ago on the 600 block.

Mary Carbine, director of the downtown Business Improvement District, said she believes the new business will be positive for State Street.

“National companies like [Wendy’s] can be part of a healthy business

mix,” she said. “They deliver something that a segment of customers want, and they wouldn’t exist if people did not want the products they were selling.”

Carbine said she often hears concern from patrons that the downtown area, and State Street in particular, has too many “chain” businesses.

However, Carbine said

this is an “unrealistic” representation.

She said the downtown area has consistently had around 85 percent independent and locally owned businesses since she joined the improvement district in 2007.

“I just think this is important…because there’s often a conception that chains are taking over downtown Madison,

and well, they’re not,” Carbine.

“We have really strong locally and independently-owned businesses.”

Verveer said while national chains are fine in small numbers, he would be concerned if their numbers on State Street were to grow significantly.

“I would be absolutely

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Wis. to use paper apps for Obamacare enrollment Alexa Ardis Reporter After complications with the national health insurance marketplace website sparked concerns among Wisconsinites being moved off of BadgerCare, the state is switching to paper applications for enrollment.

Claire Smith, Department of Health Services spokesperson, said Gov. Scott Walker and DHS are moving forward with Walker’s plan to move residents above the poverty

line off BadgerCare and allow them to apply for insurance through the federal exchange.

One method of raising enrollment is the department’s decision to use paper applications, which were sent out starting Tuesday. Smith added the letters will include instructions on how to apply.

According to a Wednesday report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 877 Wisconsin residents have enrolled in marketplace plans so far.

Smith said while individuals who do not apply for coverage by Dec. 15 will not have health insurance when their BadgerCare plans end in January, open enrollment for federal plans does not end until the end of March.

Individuals were notified in late September that they might be affected, but will be sent official letters Nov. 23 to determine whether they will be affected or not, according to DHS. “Our goal is to have

uninterrupted coverage for members, so we are pushing for individuals to enroll by Dec. 15,” Smith said.

Smith also said the department has partnered with more than 1,500 groups to increase outreach.

“Critics continue to bring up policy debates and rehash decisions that have been made,” Smith said. “The bottom line is that we made fiscally responsible decisions to leverage the solutions that the federal government made available to states.”

But many, including David Riemer, a senior fellow at the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute, are still concerned about the timeline of the turnover in health care benefits.

According to the letter the institute sent to Walker’s office, the Affordable Care Act implementation plan will only achieve its goal of halving uninsured Wisconsin residents if 90 percent of those affected successfully transition into the new federal program.

“The governor set a goal of

insuring 224,600 more people by partially implementing the Affordable Care Act in Wisconsin,” Riemer said in a statement. “We thank him for committing to that shared goal, but we are also looking for assurances that Wisconsin is on track to meet the goal.”

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin also sent a letter Tuesday to Walker expressing concern about the short time between notifying affected families and the deadline for application

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Chronically ill homeless man gets aid from city Dan Kinderman Herald Contributor

Crafting for a cause

Joey Reuteman The Badger Herald

Campus community members meet to knit for charity in an event hosted at Memorial Library.

The Madison police and a member of the Bethel Lutheran Church helped a homeless man suffering from Huntington’s disease off the streets and into treatment in late October, shedding light on the struggles of the homeless living with chronic diseases.

The 40-year-old homeless man, whose name was changed to “Peter” to protect his identity, was found on the 100 block of State Street and brought into a facility to receive adequate care before the cold Madison winter set in, according to a Madison Police Department report.

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Joel DeSpain said Peter, who is now receiving the appropriate medication for the disease, was sent to a new facility that specializes in Huntington’s disease, where he can stay while professionals monitor his condition and care for him.

“Sometimes people get a slanted view of Madison if all they hear about is crime,” DeSpain said. “Actually, we are the fourth safest city in the state based on FBI statistics, and a lot of the work our officers do on the streets is proactive, particularly for people in crisis.”

Many people in this city are in need, and if someone has an illness like Huntington’s, they are not going to do very well out on the streets, DeSpain said. He

said many members of the police force and Madison community alike were very concerned about Peter.

The homeless can also receive free health care under the state BadgerCare program, which provides free health insurance to individuals who have incomes 100 percent below the poverty line, he said.

According to Connor Wild of Bethel Homeless Ministries, a man named Mark from the ministries helped the police get Peter to the facility. Wild said Mark was familiar with Peter.

“Mark has been working with Peter for a long time and has developed a really

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Cogan Schneier City Editor An armed robbery occurred at about 5:51 p.m.

Wednesday night behind

700 Regent Street on the bike path, Madison Police Department Lt. Dan Olivas said.

Olivas said the suspect approached the victim near

West Washington Avenue and Regent Street and confronted him with a knife, taking the victim’s laptop and cash. He then fled on foot on the bike path toward the Kohl center,

according to a WiscAlert.

The suspect is a white male, who wore jeans, a dark windbreaker and dark knit stocking cap, the alert said.

Olivas said police

attempted to use a dog to track the suspect but have not had any luck. He said police are currently investigating the case, and will issue a report if they make an arrest.

County to address 911 dispatch glitches Jamie DeGraff Reporter After a series of malfunctions, Dane County officials are looking to make improvements to their new 911 Computer-Aided Dispatching Emergency System in order to reduce the number of dispatch errors.

Fitchburg Fire Chief Randy Pickering said, if effective, the current seven-monthold system works like any modern computer application with “feature-rich software” that can more accurately locate incidents and send the necessary background information to the appropriate recipients.

However, the system’s effectiveness has been in question after a string of recent issues with dispatching

for emergencies around Dane County, Pickering said.

He said the different issues that have stemmed from mistakes made by the system range from wrong locations being dispatched to incorrect personnel being called to a specific incident.

These occurrences have resulted in several miscommunications in serious situations, leaving many emergency officials “scratching their heads,” Pickering added.

“There was a car crash, and the Fitchburg Police Department was dispatched to it, but the Madison Fire Department was dispatched, which makes no sense,” Pickering said.

In addition to communication mishaps, he said dispatchers trying to

gather accurate information from the system have also had difficulties, adding dispatchers currently must verify the information from the computer instead of trusting the received data.

“They have to stop and look at it and think through it, and check if it’s sending the right thing, the right people, the right equipment to the call,” he said.

Pickering said these “little annoyances” have increased the stress and workload of the dispatchers who are trying to send out crucial and accurate information as quickly as possible. On top of these efficiency issues, Pickering said these mix-ups and delays could result in serious consequences for people in need of immediate care.

Despite its problems,

Pickering was complimentary of Dane County’s decision to upgrade its emergency dispatch system, claiming the former system lacked modern technological capabilities and was expensive to maintain.

“The system was a very old, very outdated and reaching a point where it was hard to find people,” Pickering said.

Still, Dane County 911 Center Director John Dejung said when the system is working correctly, it has made great strides in improving emergency reaction times in comparison to the old system.

“The response times have gone down 10 seconds this October with the [ComputerAided Dispatching] compared to last October,” he said.

To help resolve some of the recent dispatching issues, Dejung said the County is

putting different strategies into effect. He said one of these methods is working with the Dane County Land Information Office so updated geographic information information could be provided by mid-December.

In the meantime, Dejung said the county is working to deal with the issues created by the system. “[The county is] in the midst of retraining all of their dispatchers on some coping mechanisms for how to deal with the Geographic Information System information we have now,” Dejung said.

He added the issues are not as bad how some reports to the public have made them seem.

He said although problems do exist, progress is being made toward finding solutions.

Lecture addresses global inequality Laney Thompson Herald Contributor As more wealth becomes concentrated among society’s wealthiest citizens, London School of Economics professor Robert Wade said in a talk Wednesday this trend contributes to more inequality in policymaking that favors the wealthy.

As part of the Havens Center lecture series, Wade explored a variety of political parties and organizations that have ignored inequality, such as the World Bank and the leading rich and developing nations in the Group of 20.

Wade referenced the Gini coefficient, a statistical measure of the distribution of income throughout the world, as evidence for why inequality is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Recently, there has been an uptick of concern about inequality on a national and international level with the World Bank’s reports on income distribution, Wade said.

The Global Risks Report 2012, presented at the World Economic Forum, addressed the chronic fiscal imbalances and disparities in income, he said.

Wade compared many different countries and their levels of inequalities citing new data about the top 1 percent of incomes.

A native of New Zealand, Wade explored the great liberalization or “big bang” in New Zealand from 1984 to 2011, in which the economy was supposed to soar, but instead sank.

The top 1 percent still did

very well, he said.

Wade said the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development measured inequality in 15 different countries, which showed the most unequal countries were the Latino and Middle Eastern countries, European Mediterranean countries and Northwestern European countries.

Wade said there is often a “difference in preference between the wealthy and general public,” citing the fact that 53 percent of the general public agrees with the idea that the government should provide jobs, while 80 percent of the wealthy agree. The wealthy tend to oppose things like health insurance and more spending on public schools, he said.

As income concentration increases, the wealthy make it harder for the general public to have a say in issues, he said.

“Preferences of the wealthy get translated into public policy,” Wade said, noting that such a reality makes him question the democracy of the United States.

Wade said there is a “money-empathy gap,” where people high on the social economic ladder tend to become less empathetic and more selfish, which explains why the preferences of the wealthy differ. The wealthy tend to believe that their own success is the result of their own merits and the poverty of others is due to their failures, he said.

The middle class does not seem to be raising issues against the wealthy

INTERNATIONAL, page 1 They also reported other reasons such as the opportunity to work with specific faculty, rankings, value and safety, she said.

Yen said he was aware of UW’s campus culture, but he was surprised to find out when he came here that it was completely up to the student to determine how they spend their free time. Of course, there are parties to attend, but there are so many other things to be involved in outside of the party scene, Yen said.

“To be studying in America is one of my dreams and goals, so I’m

Nate Hartung The Badger Herald London School of Economics professor Robert Wade said inequality policymaking typically favors the wealthy.

and the “moneyempathy” gap because they are more concerned with the redistribution of the lower class that could be raised, Wade said.

The mainstream left-

wing party has also lost its political narrative.

The left-wing party should focus its criticism of conservatives on advancing the interests and preferences of the wealthy, he said.

The conversation of inequality should focus on outcomes, not on improving equality opportunities, Wade said, and focus needs to be on the link between today and tomorrow.

excited to be in college here,” Yen said.

International Student Services provides an ongoing orientation for all new international students, including Wisconsin-focused programs that introduce students to everything from farm experience to ice fishing, she said.

ISS has also created a support program for international students’ parents, which has been extended to parents who speak Mandarin Chinese and partially to Spanishspeaking parents, Cox said.

She said other resources accessible to students include Building

Relationships in Diverse Global Environments and International Reach.

“As you can imagine, it is a challenge to study overseas at a world-class university typically reading and communicating in a different language. We look for opportunities to help international students engage with domestic students and make the most of their time inside and outside the classroom,” Cox said.

Yen said his allfreshman dorm and First-Year Interest Group, where he was able to interact with smaller groups of students in a normal environment,

helped make the transition easier.

Despite his generally positive experience, Yen said he wants UW students to recognize that although he is one of thousands of international students, many of whom come from Asia, they were raised in different backgrounds across the continent, so they each bring different opinions.

Yen said he and his fellow international students can enhance the UW community by sharing their ways of viewing the world, which can be very different from Westernized thought.

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Bill requires contact info on political ads Dan Kinderman Herald Contributor Political advertisements in Wisconsin could be required to display the contact information for their sponsors if a bill looking to increase transparency in elections and campaign finance passes through the Legislature.

Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber, D-Appleton, introduced a bill to mandate groups that bankroll political ads provide a contact number or a website throughout a television commercial or at the beginning and end of a radio ad.

While Bernard Schaber said she is personally passionate about the cause, she added her constituents were a source of inspiration

for the bill.

“It’s a bill we put forward from constituent input and from a desire to make sure that we have much more transparent and accountable elections,” she said.

Gillian Drummond, spokesperson for co-sponsor Senate Minority Leader Chris Larson, D-Milwaukee, said Larson has heard many Wisconsinites call for the bill and they are responding to constituents’ requests by introducing it to the Legislature.

While sponsors of the bill are arguing that the bill will increase electoral transparency, Michael Wagner, a University of Wisconsin journalism and political communication professor, said the bill could have limited effects.

“On one hand, I think it

would make the campaign finance system a bit more open, which I think is a good thing,” he said. “On the other hand, most of these groups wouldn’t have a very hard time putting together a phone number or an email address. If the goal is to provide sunlight to money in politics, this bill doesn’t go far enough to do that.”

However, the bill may not make it to docket of the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections, a crucial step in the bill’s advancement.

Chad Zuleger, spokesperson for committee chair Rep. Kathleen Bernier, R-Chippewa Falls, said although Bernier reviews every bill that comes to her desk, he doubts any action would be taken on the bill until the spring session,

which begins in January.

Bernard Schaber said she hopes the bill will be put on the docket, even if it may not be during the current session.

“I would hope that they would seriously consider this. I will write them and ask them to give it a hearing,” Bernard Schaber said. “This is a bill that I also proposed in the last session, so it’s nothing new to the Legislature.”

While the bill is currently sponsored by only Democrats in the Senate, there is one Republican sponsor, Rep. Garey Bies, R-Sister Bay, in the Assembly.

Although he said the bill may not go far enough in terms of providing insight into money in politics, Wagner said the idea is a good one to consider.

“I don’t think that the number of people who see a campaign ad call those numbers [displayed on the television] to begin with, but you know, the principle of requiring people to persuade us and give a chance to know who they are is a worthwhile principle for the Legislature to consider,” Wagner said.

Bernard Schaber said she realizes her bill may take work to attract bipartisan support, but said she believes it presents a good idea in principle.

“From my perspective, I don’t see why it shouldn’t [attract support], because it’s really helping our constituents, but it will take a major effort to make sure the bill moves through the Legislative process,” Bernard Schaber said.

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In the letter, Baldwin suggests extending BadgerCare coverage to current enrollees or temporarily accepting the federal Medicaid expansion through March as alternatives to the risk of Wisconsinites being left without insurance.

While Baldwin said she commended the state government’s increased efforts to reach families affected by the changes, she said the timeline will still be an issue.

Leah Hunter, Baldwin’s spokesperson, said Walker’s choice to not take federal dollars to cover Wisconsin residents decreases how many residents will have insurance.

“Seventy-seven thousand Wisconsinites would have been covered by that expansion with the federal government paying 100 percent of the cost,” Hunter said in an email to The Badger Herald. “Instead, he chose a path that covers fewer people at a higher cost to taxpayers.”

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UW grads work to break world record of onesies Madeleine Behr State Editor Two University of Wisconsin graduates will attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the most adults wearing onesie pajamas in one place.

Forever Lazy, a Wisconsin company created by UW graduates Dave Hibler and Tyler Galganski in 2009, sells adult-sized onesie pajamas

through infomercials and their website.

The company will donate money raised through the record event to Variety, the Children’s Charity of Wisconsin, which assists children with physical disabilities by providing wheelchairs and other equipment to lead a more normal life, according to the charity’s website.

Hibler said he and Galganski always played around with the idea of

starting their own business in college and decided to do so after working for a year and a half in “real jobs as young people, no wives, no kids and no mortgage.”

The company then began in Hibler’s parents’ basement in Brookfield, Hibler said.

“The onesie craze is really catching on,” Hibler said. “You see them on talk shows on TV, so we thought, ‘Geez, I wonder if

there are world records for them?’”

To break the record, Hibler said the event needs more than 700 participants, who will each receive a free onesie and two free drink tokens from Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee for their $20 participation fee.

Guinness World Records requires a video of the entire attempt, high resolution photos and witness reports from

qualified people, such as notaries or police officers who saw the event, Hibler said.

Hibler added he and Galganski are working to get witnesses for their report so there will be no problems on the day of the event.

The event also includes a .1 kilometer crawl, dubbed a “creep,” which is about the distance of a city block, Hibler said.

The “creep” starts at

Jackson’s Blue Ribbon Pub near Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee and ends at another bar in the city, Hibler added. It also has rest stations with beer tents and is downhill so participants can be more lazy, Hibler said.

“We never take ourselves too seriously, which is our key to success,” Hibler said. “The event is just a personal touch. We are just two laid-back guys who like to have a good time.”

Bill adds Hmong studies in school curriculums Madeleine Behr State Editor With the Hmong population in Wisconsin on the rise over the last decade, state legislators introduced a bill Tuesday that would require school districts to design a curriculum to teach Hmong history.

Bill author Rep. Fred Kessler, D-Milwaukee, said he felt the Hmong culture was “being ignored,” despite Wisconsin having one of the largest populations of Hmong people in the country, third only to Minnesota and California, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.

The Hmong are historically

from China, but also have populations in Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, according to the Wausau Area Hmong Association.

The census also found Milwaukee, Wausau and Sheboygan have the largest Hmong populations in the state, with a community of more than 10,000 in Milwaukee and more than 3,000 in both Wausau and Sheboygan.

The bill would specifically include the history of Hmong fighting in Vietnam for the U.S., their persecution by the Laotian government after the Vietnam War and the emigration of Hmong to

the U.S. in school districts’ curriculum.

“It is important that we let the public know the role Hmong community played in protecting American soldiers during the Vietnam War,” Kessler said.

Hmong people were recruited by the U.S. to serve as guerrilla soldiers to fight the North Vietnamese during the war.

According to the Wausau Area Hmong Association, 20,000 Hmong died after 1975 due to starvation, chemical spray, drowning, persecution or being killed by Pathet Lao, a communist leader in Laos.

David Chambers, a UW

Ph.D. student with a specialty in Southeast Asian studies, said most students do not know any Hmong history or culture, something he would have benefited from as a student growing up in a Hmong-populated area.

Chambers’ wife, Mylia Chambers, said she embraced her Hmong background as she grew up and learned more about the struggles of her grandparents and parents.

“In Hmong culture, we don’t like to say we are so proud because we’ve done this, this and that,” Mylia Chambers said. “They’re pretty humble about what they’ve done.”

Despite their history, Kessler

said there are still many people who do not like the special emphasis on specific cultures in course matter.

Kessler added there is a strong anti-immigrant feeling toward various populations including Africans, Indians, Pakistanis and others, when we should “keep talking positively” about such immigrant groups, especially when they are our allies.

“When you have a new immigrant group like this, who encountered a degree of discrimination, it’s perfectly proper for the state to address the positive things [the Hmong] have done for the people in this country,” Kessler

said.

Fellow bill sponsor Rep. Daniel Riemer, D-Milwaukee, said he went to school with many kids in the Hmong community while growing up in Milwaukee.

His mother, a Milwaukee public school teacher, also taught Hmong students in her classes, Riemer added.

He said he was unsure whether his classmates felt discriminated against, but said they participated in everything else other kids did.

“My personal experience makes me feel a little more strongly about making it part of the curriculum,” Riemer said.

Workplace flu shot rules prompt state legislation Madeleine Behr State Editor With nearly 20 health organizations already registered against the bill, a Wisconsin legislator made his case for legislation that would outlaw discrimination against employees who refuse a flu shot at a public hearing Wednesday.

Bill sponsor Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R-Fond du Lac, said at the Assembly Committee on Health hearing that he had a constituent who worked in a local hospital who was not given an exemption to her hospital’s requirement for employees to get flu shots while she was seven months pregnant.

“I do not believe you should be forced to take a vaccination into your body that you object to,” he said.

Thiesfeldt added a hospital in his community that enforced a similar policy for all hospital employees, regardless of whether they had patient contact, dismissed employees who refused the vaccination unless it was a religious exemption or for a specific health risk.

Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, added the bill would “stand up” to drug companies and hospitals that have “made a lot of mistakes,”

by allowing individuals to refuse flu vaccinations as a personal choice.

Current law does not require flu vaccinations, but many hospitals statewide have implemented policies requiring them for employees.

Committee member Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, said she questioned whether health care professionals have extra responsibility to ensure their own health to protect their patients.

Thiesfeldt said he understands why health care providers are against the bill because of patient safety concerns, but the providers also have a responsibility to their employees.

“I will stand up for the personal liberties of those [individuals],” he said. “They should not have to sacrifice their jobs or careers.”

Renee O’Day, assistant deputy secretary for the Department of Health Services, said flu vaccinations have been shown to reduce absences from work among hospital employees, reduce patient mortality and cut costs for hospitals.

O’Day added the bill could prevent hospitals from improving patient safety.

James Conway, a physician with UW Health who specializes in infectious diseases, said while there are

many myths about flu shots, the vaccinations are safe for the average person.

While some elderly, infants and pregnant women do not respond well to vaccinations, Conway said giving the vaccine to an average person not only protects the person but also positively affects the surrounding community.

Conway said he had a patient named Emily, a young child, who was in the hospital for another illness, but died after getting the flu from one of her caretakers in the hospital who was not vaccinated.

“This would be a major step backward from a public health standpoint,” he said. “I don’t want to be known as the state that pioneered [the bill].”

However, Committee Chair Rep. Erik Severson, R-Star Lake, said that particular child was a poor example to use against the bill as any person in a hospital is more likely to be infected because of its environment.

Severson, a physician, added while he favors flu shots for himself and his family, in his role as a legislator he must balance the freedom of individuals to make their own health care choices.

HOMELESS, page 1 close personal relationship with him,” Wild said. “This was a big moment for Mark to be able to get Peter into more stable circumstances.”

Wild said the people of the Bethel Homeless Ministry are happy Peter will be safer this winter and off the streets with Huntington’s.

Wild said in addition to helping Peter, the ministry helps many other homeless people as well. Wild said the ministry offers many services to help their homeless neighbors.

DeSpain said the police department makes an effort to help those people in need downtown.

“Particularly downtown we have a number of people who are homeless and may be in need of services,” DeSpain said. “We do monitor people down there and try to help them, but sometimes people don’t want to help themselves, which makes it difficult.”

DeSpain said the department’s goal is to ensure the safety of everyone and connect those in need with help. He said Peter really needed somewhere to go and receive long term help with his Huntington’s. He said in this case, that is exactly what the police helped to provide.

Henry Erdman The Badger Herald Crossing guards have seen a rise in dangerous driving around high pedestrian traffic areas in Madison.

Police see alarming rise in crosswalk violations ‘Terrible driving culture’ leads to 25 percent spike in tickets, fining Jessie Kanter Herald Contributor Pedestrians are being caught in a real-life game of Frogger on the streets in Madison, as police are seeing an uptick in vehicle crosswalk violations this fall.

Compared to this time last year, the number of tickets written for vehicle crosswalk violations is up 25 percent, Madison Crossing Guard Supervisor Patti Knoche said. Violations include drivers who do not stop or remain stopped when a crossing guard is present at a crosswalk.

Knoche said a school speed zone limit is 20 miles per hour and that drivers must come to a complete stop no closer than 10 feet from a crossing guard to ensure the safety of pedestrians.

However, Knoche said drivers are not complying with the most basic crosswalk rules, as drivers are blatantly failing to stop at crosswalks and nearly hitting crossing guards.

If a crossing guard goes down, there is no one to protect people crossing the road, she said.

Crossing guards are put on specific corners with high volumes of traffic and pedestrians, increasing the risk of an accident, Knoche said. She added drivers should think of crossing guards as a “physical barricade” and should wait to pass through until crossing guards and pedestrians get off the street.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, highlighted the intersection at Lake Street and State Street as a particularly troublesome spot on campus and said the city has “continually” had issues with drivers at that intersection.

Knoche said crossing guards are instructed to report violations.

The drivers are issued a fine of $88.80 with fi nes doubling in school zones, Knoche said.

Knoche attributes the lack of abiding to crosswalk laws to a lack of education among student drivers.

“I don’t think the information given to student drivers is thorough enough for school zone driving,” she said.

Knoche also said distractions are more

prevalent for young drivers. They have seen drivers talking on cell phones, texting, eating, reading the newspaper and even flossing their teeth while driving, she said, adding that eliminating these distractions could lead to fewer violations.

City traffic engineer Mark Winter said today’s “terrible” driving behavior is much different than drivers 20 or 30 years ago, and he would like to see more tickets being written. He also said the courtesy level of today’s drivers has signifi cantly decreased.

However, Resnick said drivers are not the only ones to blame, as officials and crossing guards often also have to remind pedestrians and cyclists to abide by crosswalk rules.

“Part of it is drivers, but it is making sure everyone is attentive,” he said. “It comes down to awareness and acknowledging that we do have issues on campus and around the city. Hopefully, we can solve these issues.”

Knoche said crossing guards will continue to report drivers and also continue to educate them in hopes that spreading the word will help reduce violations.

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UW, WARF to work together Bryan Kristensen Reporter

A newly-announced partnership between the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will provide resources for entrepreneurs across campus to sell their products, whether they’re created with the arts or in a lab.

Leigh Cagan, WARF chief technology commercialization officer, said the new project, called Discovery 2 Product, would boost entrepreneurship and other skills that enhance entrepreneurial opportunities.

“Whether it be for the faculty or the students, the idea for D2P is that it will be a place for people on campus to go to so they can get highly accurate information on what their resources are for entrepreneurship inside and outside of the university,” Cagan said.

She said D2P is different from other projects between UW and WARF because of its goal to raise awareness about entrepreneurship opportunities at UW. D2P is similar to what WARF and UW have done when trying to help licensees with their research and innovations, but D2P will be an opportunity to expand what WARF can do for these licensees, such as the creation of new companies, Cagan said.

WARF and UW will fund D2P equally, with $1.6 million coming from each to total an initial budget of $3.2 million, she said.

She also said D2P will benefit the university by providing opportunities that were previously unavailable on campus and create additional resources for people looking for these opportunities, such as mentors who are part

of the program and can provide ongoing guidance and assistance in certain fields.

Technology transfer, or taking ideas and innovations in a research lab and transforming them into real products and services that will benefit people, will be important in the program, Cagan said.

It could also bridge the gap between innovations that may occur in a biology or chemistry research lab and the business side of things following the innovations, such as turning it into a helpful drug for people, Cagan said.

A transfer process involves providing the commercial entity a license from the university, and allowing a transfer of knowledge to occur where people who created the technology can talk with people from the company about the product and what needs to happen moving forward, Cagan said.

At the launch event for D2P Wednesday, Thomas Mackie, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery director of medical devices, said all areas of study will be open to D2P, such as arts and social sciences.

To get the program off on the right foot, WARF and UW will need to bring in a strong director who has both an understanding of entrepreneurship and economic issues and an understanding of how people work in a research and academic environment, Cagan said.

Mackie also said D2P may need some time before the program can achieve success.

“This will be a long process for us to see that D2P will be a successful program and could take as long as a decade to get on its feet. It will take patience to wait for the success,” he said.

Jill Peters The Badger Herald Wendy’s will move into the space previously held by KFC and Taco Bell.

WENDY’S, page 1 horrified if the majority of State Street became national chains, be they restaurants or stores,” Verveer said.

Still, Verveer said having more affordable food is definitely a positive side of the new eatery.

Carbine also said a McDonald’s used to be located on State Street in the 1980s, with a Burger King at the corner of Lake Street and University Avenue.

She added chain businesses also bring an element of stability to the area, which has seen several store closures this year. “[Chain restaurants] do tend to bring some stability in some cases,” Carbine said.

“Sometimes we’ll have visitors from out of town and they want something familiar and something known and it’s just an aspect of the market that it exists, it’s there.”

Wendy’s will join national chains including the Gap, Walgreens and Urban Outfitters on State Street. Verveer said all of these chains have done relatively well in Madison.

“They certainly provide amenities that bring people to State Street that might not other wise come,” Verveer said.

Verveer said Wendy’s will still need certification from the city’s Health Department before they open.

Carbine said the complicated part of establishing the new restaurant is actually the leasing negotiations because it can take between six and 18 months for businesses to negotiate leases. She said it could be quicker for Wendy’s, as it is an established chain that probably has a streamlined process in place for opening new stores.

Henry Erdman The Badger Herald Student Council fails to tie the Green Fund to the spring referendum, allocating $80,000 for its creation in the $1,325,625.86 total internal budget.

ASM passes internal budget Aliya Iftikhar Campus Editor Heavy and politicized debate over the “Green Fund” continued on Wednesday as the University of Wisconsin’s student government sought to approve its internal budget.

The Associated Students of Madison ultimately passed the $1,325,624.86 budget in a 18-4 vote, an increase from $1,260,290.38 last year.

The Green fund allotted for $80,000 of the budget.

Green Fund One week ago, the Student Services Finance Committee voted to remove the amendment from the Green Fund that stated funding was contingent on ASM bylaw alterations for an allocation committee.

Rep. Maria Giannopoulos moved to reinstate the rider amendment and said if the Green Fund does not pass its bylaws, it would result in a “slush fund” of $80,000. She added if there was money in the budget without

stipulations, it would be a waste of student money because there would be no parameters.

Rep. Justin Bloesch said he originally put forth the motion because he was concerned it would not receive the two-thirds vote to pass with the bylaws.

ASM Sustainability Committee Chair Will Mulhern said in his conversations with members of administration, none have expressed concern with removal of the amendment.

Giannopoulos said putting money into a budget with no clauses on it would be terrible for students.

“I understand you want to pass it. I get it…it is also right of student council to say we may not want it…[you are] basically shackling people to a vote,” she said.

Rep. Jamie Wheeler said the Green Fund should be regulated like all other money ASM distributes, which is heavily regulated to ensure ASM members are

“good stewards” of the money.

After the motion to reinstate the rider amendment failed, Rep. Sarah Neibart motioned to tie the Green Fund to the student referendum in the spring and said if the Green Fund was something students wanted, they should vote on it.

Rep. Kayla Van Cleave said if the Green Fund was placed on the student referendum it would “greatly impede” planning.

The motion to tie Green Fund to the spring referendum ultimately failed.

Outreach Neibart motioned to add $6,000 to the internal budget for text messaging marketing software.

The software would be a good way to reach and recruit students, as they would likely be more responsive to texts. It would help keep ASM present in students’ minds, she said.

ASM members brought up concerns about privacy issues, as well as

students who did not have texting plans and would be charged for receiving the messages.

ASM spokesperson Grace Bolt said not enough research had been done to justify allocation of that amount of money and this was an initiative the press office board would be taking up next semester.

The motion failed.

Campus Committee on Civic Engagement Neibart also presented a framework for the development of CCCE, which would provide campus community members with a platform for long-range policy planning.

The idea of the committee came out of the student vote coalition last year when there were issues surrounding registering students to vote, Neibart said.

CCCE would focus on voter education and registration, she said.

Members agreed this was an issue that transcends party lines, and the motion was passed unanimously.

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6 | The Badger Herald | Opinion |Thursday, November 14, 2013

State legislators should stop sext dissemination Briana Reilly Columnist

It’s common knowledge that social media and technologies in general are progressing so rapidly that our elected representatives are oftentimes left tangled in the legal system, unable to quickly and efficiently enact legislation to combat contemporary areas of unlawfulness that arise from these new advances. Lawmakers have historically relied on the golden rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you) to govern the general populace as they take the time to familiarize themselves with the cutting-edge technological advances and decide on a course of action. Unfortunately, the golden rule often fails completely, and blatant disrespect for our fellow human beings, coupled with an almost anarchistic viewpoint, tends to prevail.

There are numerous examples that show the legal system is so obviously lagging behind technological innovation (and our subsequent interpretation of how that technology should be put to use), but one of the more interesting cases I stumbled upon has to do with what has been dubbed a “sexting” bill. This bill was brought before the state assembly on Tuesday after gaining widespread support during the month of October. The sexting bill, formally known as the Individual Privacy Protection Act, “seeks to criminalize the nonconsensual distribution of explicit images and

videos across the World Wide Web.” So basically, if one was to take a nude or partially nude selfie and send it to someone, the recipient of that image would not be able to publicize it without serious repercussions (i.e., a huge fine).

Similarly, any individual that takes an explicit picture of someone else would, likewise, not be able to publicize it without serious repercussions (i.e., a huge fine).

As we are all well aware, sexting is not a new fad; in fact, it became widely popular with teens in 2008.

The creation and now widespread use of Snapchat, a photo messaging application that has gained much acclaim because of its exploitation of this generation’s narcissistic tendencies, has really only made this process easier. According to research by Heather Hudson, one-third of college students (ages 18 to 24) have been involved in a form of nude sexting.

Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, these instances of sexting have not always yielded good (the definition of this word in this context is open to interpretation) results. And this leads us back to the sexting bill. Rep. John Spiros, R-Marshfield, has definitely acknowledged the negative effects, and his legislation would tackle the problem.

For example, there are a number of cases in which the recipients of pictorial sexts have, as I said above, posted the images online

without the sender’s consent, which is not only an invasion of privacy, but has led some individuals to respond by committing suicide in the most severe cases.

Other results include discrimination at work and humiliation, and victims have even changed their names and moved to escape the attention. Spiros argues that these individuals deserve the full protection of the law, which he will gladly deliver to them.

I think collectively we can all do our part as intelligent and respectful adults to ensure that members of our community don’t feel the negative effects of sexting. But there is also much that can be done on an individual basis.

Aside from completely getting rid of a Snapchat app or downgrading a smartphone for a common flip phone that doesn’t have a camera, people can start by sexting only those they trust.

Also, keep in mind that “over half (61%) of those who did send a naked picture or video of themselves had been pressured more than once by someone else,” so one must learn to be assertive and say, “No, I refuse to send you a picture of that private region of my body.”

Overall, with a lot of common sense and a little courage, we can all be safe sexters.

Briana Reilly (reillybrianar@gmail. com) is a freshman intending to major in journalism and international studies.

Individual Privacy Protection Act •

Bans the distribution of non-consensual texts, including images of a person who is nude, partially nude or engaging in sexually explicit behavior

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Updates current law to reflect new, emerging technologies

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Protects both images a person takes of themselves and images taken by another person

Data courtesy of the office of Rep. John Spiros

Wrongfully Convicted Reentry Act •

Automatically expunges criminal record and removes record from the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access Portal

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Provides social assistance immediately upon the release of the wrongly convicted individual

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Raises yearly compensation from $5,000 a year to the federally mandated level of $50,000 per year

Data courtesy of the Wisconsin Innocence Project

Wrongfully convicted deserve state benefits Aaron Loudenslager Columnist

Humans are not perfect.

A fortiori, our criminal justice system cannot always achieve just or accurate results.

Illustrative of this point is the fact that many people have been incarcerated for allegedly committing a crime only to later be exonerated by DNA evidence. When these people are exonerated and set free, they often face substantial obstacles while transitioning back into society. To help minimize these obstacles, many states provide financial and social services to exonerated individuals.

Wisconsin does provide compensation for exonerated individuals, but compared to other states across the country, it is a dismal amount.

The Wrongly Convicted Reentry Act, which is slowly making its way through the Wisconsin Legislature, would increase the compensation for exonerated individuals. I urge the state Legislature to enact this much needed measure.

Since our criminal justice system depends on the human judgment of police officers, witnesses, attorneys, judges and jurors, it is a certainty that there will be some erroneous results. Therefore, it is imperative that, as a society, we create sufficient safeguards to ensure that innocent people are not incarcerated.

This idea underlies William Blackstone’s aphorism that “It [is] better that 10 guilty persons escape, than one innocent party suffer.” But so far, we have not prevented innocent people from being incarcerated. In fact,

according to the Innocence Project, there have been 311 post-conviction DNA exonerations in United States history.

When we wrongly incarcerate an innocent person, it is our collective obligation and responsibility to help them transition back into society. This person will face substantial obstacles in transitioning back — for instance not being able to find employment because of the many barriers to having their wrongful convictions removed from their criminal record.

As Jack Healy noted in The New York Times, “Aside from the practical challenges — a criminal record can impede big things like finding housing and employment, and smaller things like getting a hunting license — people who have been exonerated say they feel unfairly marked, branded with a scarlet letter from a justice system that should not have locked them up in the first place.”

Not only do exonerated individuals face substantial obstacles to transitioning back into society, they have had one of their most fundamental rights taken away. Louis Brandeis once described this right as “the right to be let alone.”

In order to help alleviate these substantial obstacles to those who have been exonerated, many states have enacted laws that provide financial and social services to these individuals. Wisconsin has had a statute for more than a century that compensates people who have been exonerated, but according to the Wisconsin Innocence Project, “It has not been adjusted in over 25 years.”

This is problematic, especially since Wisconsin

only provides $5,000 annually (for a period of time equal to the duration of false imprisonment) to an individual who has been exonerated. The state caps the total amount an individual can receive in compensation for their wrongful imprisonment at $25,000. The minimal assistance it offers exonerated individuals puts Wisconsin in second to last place or worse when it is compared to other states’ figures.

The Wrongly Convicted Reentry Act would substantially update Wisconsin’s antiquated compensation law for those who have been exonerated.

As written, it “increases compensation from $5,000/ year to the federal standard of $50,000/year, removes the overall cap and indexes the amount for inflation.” It also “provides transitional assistance and social services immediately upon release.”

This proposed legislation has bi-partisan support in the Legislature, but although it has been introduced in each of the last two years it has somehow eluded the governor’s desk. I urge the Legislature to ensure that this important bill becomes law.

Our criminal justice system is not perfect; it makes mistakes. When it does make mistakes, society has an obligation to correct them — this obligation includes compensating those who have been exonerated. The enactment of the Wrongly Convicted Reentry Act would be a substantial step in correcting these past miscarriages of justice.

Aaron Loudenslager (loudenslager@wisc.edu) is a second year law student.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Egotism, poor use of funds make ASM irrelevant Today I hope to convince you of one thing: The Associated Students of Madison is not worth it.

I came to this realization a long time ago, but it was made ever more clear during my political theory seminar last week. During a discussion of the merits of different political systems, every student stated that they feel a duty to become involved and vote in national politics because it held some importance in their mind.

Afterward, the class proceeded to discuss why they would never vote in ASM elections (and have not in the past). They claimed they didn’t vote because: a) They had no idea what ASM really was, b) ASM is full of selfabsorbed students who have no idea what the wider student body truly wants and c) ASM is too preoccupied giving out absurd amounts

of money to services and programs for which there is no demand.

These are precisely some of the reasons why I am quitting the Student Services Finance Committee of ASM as of this week, and also why I feel the need to share this information with you.

The first point, that no one knows what ASM really does, or for that matter cares enough to vote in ASM elections, is evident throughout campus. The only, and I mean only, people who vote in the ASM elections are those who have a friend running for a position. This is because no one gives a damn about what ASM does, nor does anyone think ASM can make a difference in their life on campus, and they are all absolutely right.

You know that 24-hour library selling point? It happened a decade ago.

The Bus Pass? Happened

a while ago as well (and I would hesitate to call subsidizing bus rides an accomplishment). ASM and its annual grassroots campaigns have been useless since.

ASM’s lack of productivity is a consequence of the second point that my classmates made: ASM is self-absorbed. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve become good friends with many ASM leaders and I think they’re terrific people.

But this doesn’t take away from the fact that most of them falsely believe they represent the “student interest.”

These ASMers are begging students to get involved and wondering why students are so uninterested in what ASM is doing for them. No one is involved with ASM because it does nothing of value (for the $2 million charged to students every year!). Most students see ASM as a place for people

to ramble and shout at each other.

My classmates’ third point was that an absurd amount of money is allocated to student services that no one uses, salaries

“... no one gives a damn about what ASM does, nor does anyone think ASM can make a difference in their life on campus, and they are all absolutely right.

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that are not justified and ASM events no one comes to. That seems extremely irresponsible, and it is.

Every student I’ve ever asked thinks it is ridiculous that more than a hundred students are paid $9.19/

hour (after being hired by their friends) for unused services, when the poor guy down the street at Jimmy John’s makes minimum wage and wasn’t awarded a position based on nepotism.

The only people who defend these services are those who provide them, those who benefit from them and those who run candidates to protect their special interests.

Yes you read correctly, there are self-interest groups in ASM politics.

Weekend trainings at a horse ranch, an exclusive end-of-the-year appreciation dinner for ASM leaders and week-long excursions for leadership to dilly-dally in Washington, D.C. are just some of the budget items that reduce segregated fees to monopoly money.

Reforming the system is a must. But alas! A few of my colleagues and I introduced reforms last year, and they

failed because ASM didn’t want to get rid of salaries or hurt General Student Services Fund groups’ feelings.

So what does the student body really want from ASM? Nothing. I’ll tell you what most students are saying: Don’t try to get me involved, don’t fund anything stupid, get off your high horses and stop having esoteric and circular conversations that rarely translate into something tangible.

We tried to change ASM last year, and no one listened. Now I’m going to quit and do more productive things. ASM just isn’t worth it.

German Larrain (larrain@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in economics and political science. He is a former member of ASM Student Council and the Student Services Finance Committee.

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‘12 Years’ a painful, essential watch Nyal Mueenuddin ArtsEtc. Writer

Americans have a very hard time thinking about and discussing the past and present implications of slavery in our society.

Although American society makes a point to remember the hardships African Americans have endured over the course of this country’s history, slavery often remains a taboo topic. The thought of stripping a human of all natural rights to life is simply too cruel an idea for most to bear.

The film “12 Years a Slave,” directed by Steve McQueen (“Shame”), is a heart-wrenching portrayal of the plight of a black freeman, Solomon Northup, magnificently portrayed by Chiwetel Ejiofor (“Salt”). After being kidnapped and sold into slavery, we follow Northup along his 12-year journey through the slave South in the 1840s and, in so doing, we are exposed to the torment and horrors therein.

Northup, whose autobiography has been faithfully transferred to screen, is born a freeman in Upstate New

York and earns his living as a talented violinist.

Northup, who has been commissioned to play a gig in Washington, D.C. by a couple of “friendly” entertainers, awakes bewildered from a druginduced sleep, chained to a stone wall in a warehouse blocks away from the White House. Suddenly stripped of all liberty, Northup realizes what has happened to him as his kidnappers prepare him for his illegal transport into the South. He does not speak out against his captors for he knows it will do him no good. Northup’s gaze, so full of despair and bewilderment, creates a hugely emotional bond with the viewer.

Upon his arrival in Louisiana, Northup is sold to a wealthy plantation owner named Ford, played

by Benedict Cumberbatch (“Star Trek Into Darkness”).

Although he is a slave owner, Ford treats Northup with a certain respect; behind his veneer of business pragmatisms, Ford undoubtedly knows there is great shame in owning another man.

After Northup stands up to the overseer of Ford’s operations, Ford

is forced to sell Northup to a nearby plantation owner. The remainder of Northup’s time in Louisiana is spent on the cotton plantation of Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender, “Prometheus”). It is here that Northup feels the true sting of slavery.

Through his direction, McQueen portrays Northup’s resilience and determination to endure through an artistic lens. But it’s Ejiofor’s performance as Northup that gives this film its immense weight. Ejiofor’s eyes, which hold such softness and expression, draw the viewer into a state of distress as we long for Northup’s well-being.

Yet, compassion is not the only emotion we feel; it is paired with a sense of disgusted outrage with Northup’s captors, most notably Epps.

Fassbender, absolutely dedicated to his role, perfectly inhabits the sociopathic mindset of Epps. Deeply disturbed and alone, Epps directs his madness principally toward the beautiful and emotionally broken Patsey, portrayed by newcomer Lupita Nyong’o, whose piercing performance pulls

violently at the viewer’s heart.

In a moment of exceptional cruelty, Epps ties Patsey to a whipping post, lashing her within inches of her life. After such a lengthy emotional experience, one expects McQueen to spare his viewers from watching this horror; when the camera turns to Patsey’s shredded back, the image is nearly suffocating.

“12 Years a Slave” will completely alter the way you think and feel about this part of our country’s history. Through a moving story, brilliant acting and thought-provoking camerawork, the film allows access to emotions one ought to vicariously experience when remembering the women and men who lived and died without the American promises of liberty and justice. The scars of Northup and Patsey indeed live on today and the struggle for ultimate healing must continue.

12 YEARS A SLAVE

Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures “12 Years a Slave” is, in short, the finest screen depiction of slavery ever.

Hugely entertaining ‘Thor’ sequel fuses humor, action Elise Romas

ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Thor has bolted back into theaters.

That’s right, the well-chiseled, hammer-slamming god of thunder is back and ready to protect earth once again in Marvel’s newest film adaptation based on the popular comic.

Compared to previous Marvel superhero films, “Thor: The Dark World” has a slightly different twist.

Of course, it contains the predictable elements that every superhero trilogy does: A past problem caused by a villain needs to be resolved, the leading female needs to be rescued by the hero and said hero arrives to save

the world from mass destruction and chaos.

However, the sequel is much richer and unpredictable than the first Thor film. “The Dark World” contains many plot elements that quickly develop a storyline. Plot twists and surprises present themselves throughout the entire movie. All of these factors make for a suspenseful two-hour span and create an itching anticipation for what happens next.

Chris Hemsworth (“Rush”) gives a tremendous performance as the hero Thor.

His serious-yetcompassionate attitude and striking resemblance to the comic book character are perfect

for the role. These two components, along with his accent, provide a fullness to his portrayal.

His love interest, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman, “Thor”), is anything but a helpless damsel. Though her character experiences drastic conflicts, Portman plays Jane as a strong, intelligent, levelheaded female figure with the charisma and determination to help Thor and the Asgardians in any way that she can.

Loki (Tom Hiddleston, “Only Lovers Left Alive”) is hands down the best character in the movie.

He is the type of villain that superhero fans love and hate simultaneously.

His performance leaves the audience in a constant

state of questioning whether or not he can be trusted. He adds substance to the film as a great villain and provides a large amount of comic relief.

The vast amount of epic combat scenes interspersed with humor makes for constant laughs during even the most suspenseful moments.

This factor also separates “Thor: The Dark World” from other Marvel films.

While other adaptions contain little sparks of comedic indulgence, “Thor: The Dark World” adds these moments at the most unexpected and occasionally inappropriate times. The perpetual irony makes some jokes funnier than

they would be if used in a different context. Loki and Darcy (Kat Dennings, “Day One”) provide the most wit, supplying the audience with hilarious side comments that give the film a tragicomic air since war scenes or murderous battles surround them as they crack jokes.

Each fight scene is also well choreographed, amplifying the mystical techniques and gadgets used by the armies of Thor’s mythical world.

During these battles, gallant music is incorporated, heightening the audience’s eagerness for the outcome. Even though the music is nothing original, it does the trick of increasing

suspense and tension.

Although an attentive audience member will be easily driven by the plot, it might be helpful for a viewer to watch the first “Thor” or even “The Avengers” in order to get a general sense of the premise of this sequel.

“Thor: The Dark World” is a phenomenal film for people of all ages who enjoy action or superhero films. It’s the type of movie that forces its viewer to hang on tight, leaving a feeling of “I can’t believe that just happened!”

THOR: THE DARK WORLD

Chazen’s Mithila paintings pulse with color, life Lexy Brodt

ArtsEtc. Staff Writer “Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form” is an eclectic, captivating exhibit that dives headfirst into the culture of Bihar, one of the poorest states in India.

The collection, which is located in the Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gallery at the Chazen Museum of Art, is open to the public until Dec. 1 and is far from an ordinary art exhibit. An inherent appreciation of culture resonates through each piece, whether the artist sought to remain within the confines of his or her community’s customs or redefine expectations with displays of social commentary.

Mithila painting has evolved as a tradition

that started about 700 years ago, with women using flower pigments and bamboo to adorn walls with religious motifs and wedding décor. The themes of the Mithila paintings, which have now expanded dramatically, alter by caste and community; even the materials used are selective based on the community. Yet the level of detail in each of the paintings doesn’t change, the colors are characteristically bold and alive and the spaces are all overflowing with increasingly textured patterns.

Pages are splattered with flowers, trees, underwater spirits, snakes, almond eyes and indifferent, straight faces.

The paintings are less about the subjects and more about how they fit

into their surroundings, into nature; it is as if the artist is catching the scene just a moment before the subjects can react.

A vibrant piece called “Women Watering Krishna’s Kadam Tree,” by artist Sangita Kumari Bhagat, shows two women feeding water to a tree that represents the god Krishna.

Awkwardlyshaped triangles perfectly illuminate the tree’s curvature, forming geometric abstractions that come off as intelligent products of a pensive artist. The branches of the tree shoot out in all directions, hundreds of leaves delicately mapped out to reach all the empty spaces. As the eyes are drawn vertically up the branches, the tree seems to slip off the page,

leaving the imagination to decipher the larger image.

The Mithila artists seem to have a strong connection to the idea of snakes. Snakes are referred to as naga, and it’s difficult to tell whether they represent an evil or benevolent force, or perhaps both. In the more modern section of the exhibit, which focuses on political and social issues in both Bihar and India as a whole, a piece titled “Radiant yet Submissive” by Shalinee Kumari uses snakes to symbolize the men in a woman’s life. The female subject of the piece is split into two alter egos: The first radiating waves of light on the left, and the other nodding submissively to a pack of snakes on the right.

This painting is the first

of many that provides surprisingly explicit social commentary. One titled “From Marriage to Bride Burning” touches on the polemical problem of acid-burning in India. The painting, which is set up as a six-scene narrative, seems relatively harmless at first glance, like an extended form of the kohbar.

It becomes shocking when the viewer catches the last scene of the husband dumping kerosene on his bride while the mother-in-law strikes the match.

Other paintings in the second part of the exhibit quickly estrange themselves from the initial, harmless motifs of fishes, trees and domestic rituals.

The paintings become more and more thematically heavy, touching on

Photo courtesy of Chazen Museum of Art The Chazen’s collection of Mithila paintings uses colors and dense scenes to illustrate and comment on social issues. Pictured here is Dulari Devi’s “The Great Flood of 2006,” an acrylic paint on paper.

issues of abortion of female babies, 9/11 and HIV. The style stays the same throughout; thank goodness for that, because each piece is like a maze that’s just too perfectly complex to step away from. At times, the paintings providing social commentary try a little too hard to make a point.

“Creative Destruction: The Benefits and Costs of Capitalism” displays three symbolic figures, one of which sports an overloaded truck as a hat.

This comes off a little bit more silly than intended.

However, what sticks with the viewer most is the dedication, the attention and skill that goes into each piece.

Mithila paintings pulse with color and life, and the pieces are fascinating regardless of the subject matter.

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8 | The Badger Herald | Thursday, November 14, 2013 Student can’t find girlfriend in North Face jacket at nighttime...Guy Fieri eats housing food’s 18 wheeler dealer, dies...Katherine Krueger a feminazi???

Typhoon hits Lakeshore, left unnoticed In a tragic and meteorologically perplexing turn of events, Typhoon Haiyan has shifted paths from the Pacific Ocean to Lake Mendota, causing total destruction of the entire Lakeshore neighborhood.

The typhoon, with wind gusts of more than 200 mph, touched down on the area early Wednesday morning, destroying everything in its path, according to a house fellow from Dejope.

Though the typhoon has attracted the attention of news outlets worldwide, many UW students have yet to even notice the calamity.

“A typhoon in Lakeshore?

I’ve never even been over there,” junior Emily Reynolds commented. “Good thing no one lives over there!

Oh wait, people actually live over there? That really sucks—it’s so far away from everything!”

In a statement released Wednesday evening from the Madison Red Cross, there have been no reported casualties. However, all of the Lakeshore dorms, including newly constructed Leopold Hall, are in complete ruins.

“Rescue efforts were delayed, due to the fact that the 80 was running behind Wednesday afternoon

and no one really felt like walking all the way over there,” Madison Red Cross representative Thomas Winford explained during a press conference at the top of Bascom Hill. “However, we are doing all we can to assist Lakeshore residents during this time of need.”

Though most of the survivors are optimistic towards the rebuilding of their community, some feel jilted by the campus-at-large.

“I didn’t even list any Lakeshore dorms when I did my housing, so I still don’t understand how I ended up in Sullivan,” Sam Reed, a freshman, commented. “I

Student still waiting at bus stop in Oshkosh For the past 72 days, 19-year-old Andrew Sitzfeld has been eagerly waiting at the bus stop on Otter Avenue and Broad Street in Oshkosh.

“I’m just so excited to start my career as a UW student!” Sitzfeld said.

“I know that I’ll soon catch a glimpse of that beautiful yellow school bus, and once it comes, I’ll jump right on and meet all my brand-new Madison friends! I just have to wait a little bit longer. I can practically hear the kids singing ‘The Wheels On The Bus’ and ‘99 Bottles of Beer’ already!”

Lucy Lindel, an 8-yearold attending Roosevelt Elementary School, is one of many Oshkosh residents who have not yet had a problem with

the Otter and Broad bus stop. “I sit by my friend [Sitzfeld] every day.

He is always here. He’s funny! Once I told him I don’t think that his bus is ever gonna come. He told me that yes it would.

I told him he was an idiot, and he told me not to say that word. I got on my bus, and he looked at me like he was sad. He looks at me sad like that every day.”

Clad in only a Pokémon graphic T-shirt and hand-me-down cargo shorts from his older brother Stephen, Sitzfeld has recently survived a few subfreezing nights.

“Oh, I’ve been holding up alright.” said Sitzfeld, who, since Sept. 3, has eaten nothing but the two peanut

butter sandwiches that his mother cut into triangles and packed in a brown paper bag with a heartfelt Post-it note.

“I’m a little worried, though. Now that I’ve eaten these sandwiches, I don’t have a snack to eat during recess.”

Though his resolve has held up more than 10 weeks, Sitzfeld expressed signs that he was beginning to lose hope. “You know, I think maybe they just don’t know where to find me. Maybe they have my address wrong.

Actually, come to think of it, I never did actually receive that acceptance letter.”

Sitzfeld then fell into deep, pensive thought and did not respond to further questioning.

Jen Small The Badger Herald A local UW student figures out the best way to keep up his body heat in between his classes and work.

How to stay warm this winter on UW campus As the temperatures continue to plummet, UW students need ways to keep the heat up when they are walking to and from classes.

Here are some tips from the Misnomer on how to best retain heat and fight off the cold.

- Burn copies of the Badger Hookstead for warmth - Watch the Badger basketball team’s blazing speed on offense - FIREBALL WHISKEY, AMIRITE???

- Take pit stops around campus at any

of the Subway locations.

That should cover you - Maybe don’t wear those basketball shorts, bro - Make the bold choice to take that blanket from that hobo on State Street - Hire a travel cuddler from The Snuggle House to constantly embrace you as you walk to classes - GET A GIRL SO YOU CAN HAVE HOT STEAMY SEX WITH HER, AMIRITE? - Learn the mysteries behind spontaneous

mean, my friends already don’t want to come all the way out here to visit me… now who’s going to help me sift through all of this rubble and debris?”

Another resident, who wished to remain anonymous, remarked, “Becky Blank doesn’t care about Lakeshore people!”

CNN news reporter Anderson Cooper noted, “The students of Lakeshore are strong, resilient and have an unrivaled ability to endure long treks to the absolute perimeters of campus. They will overcome this.”

--Typhoon Haiyan caused huge devastation at Lakeshore dorms. www.redcross.org

This Day in Badgers’ History 2012 In his “History of Western Civilization” 350 lecture, sophomore Davis Hainesman develops his theory of male victimization when he zones out and accidentally mixes up minorities, women, homosexuals and the disabled with straight white men.

A UW Timely Warning On Nov. 11, 2013 around 1:00 p.m., a gun assault occurred on the top of Bascom Hill. The victim was permanently sitting on the hilltop when, in celebration of Veteran’s Day, a 21-gun salute at the hill’s midpoint went off.

The bullet ricohetted off the victim’s metallic exterior leaving a slight dent. The suspect was described as “a

middle-aged, bronze male dressed formally in army garb, blatantly holding and aiming and shooting a gun,” the victim reported. The victim also noted he, “can never tell a lie” and “This isn’t the first time I’ve been shot,” making this incident all the more legitimate and serious. Although the victim was unable to move out of further lines

of fire, the shooting luckily stopped.

The UW-Madison Police Department is actively investigating this case. If anyone has any information about the crime listed above, or are witnesses to other crimes on campus, please call the UW-Madison Police Department at 608-264COPS.

It is cold as fuck outside Students are sad because a crisp, wistful and innocent fall was quickly apprehended and subdued by a cold climate that latches onto its victims like a genital disease with nearly insufferable outbreaks that go into remission, sure to rear its ugly heads again, give or take a few months.

Students impatiently wait for these lasting surges of cold to lessen, and fear for their mercilessness to return.

You can tell students are cold because they walk around like they’re cold.

With their shoulders tensed and eyebrows furrowed in fixed concentration, the collective mind of students is something along the lines of “Oh God, I’m dying.

Charter Street is so far away, and since when did the wind get a nunchucks to bash my face in with its wind chill?”

Other students also spend their time between classes observing the outerwear of other students, trying to gauge how cold or not cold they might be. It has

been noted that students are probably warmer than students who don’t wear hats, but students who wear hats with say, Sperry’s or thin cotton-like sneakers are probably just a little less cold than people who wear winter boots without a hat.

The happiness level of students seems to wane a bit when they step outside and realize that it’s 19 degrees in the middle of November and that they have to walk a good 15 minutes to their first class of the day. It sucks because sometimes the sun shines brightly in the morning, tricking the tired college mind into thinking it could be a modest 40 degrees.

In reality, it’s cold-as-fuck degrees outdoors. It’s sad because then students are too cold in the paper-thin hoodie they threw on that morning. Baseball caps and layered sweaters just do not stand a chance against the abrasive gusts of wind that slash at the delicate skins of students like a million lethal paper cuts.

International students

and students from anywhere other than the Midwest seem particularly offset by the drastic turn of Madison’s weather. They aren’t used to having chilly blasts of air attack their corneas, turning the tears that run down their face into sad, cold droplets of ice. Nothing could have prepared them to face elements of this caliber, which is why the cold contributes to 69 percent of college dropouts -- Mother Nature’s way of natural selection. But even so, everyone’s cold. Because it’s cold as fuck outside.

It’s cold, and students are sad and cold. They need warmer jackets and hand warmers and foot warmers and thermal hats and mittens and dammit they need less cold weather. Students would give anything for less cold weather or at least a Christmas and some cute snow to make the weather festive. Too bad students are getting cold weather, whether they want it or not.

God, it’s cold as fuck.

combustion and channel them for your own selfish personal use - Wear a fucking hat - Carry a concealed weapon. With hand warmers - Find a badger and cut it open and make it into a sleeping bag like in “Star Wars” - Tell all passing children that Santa doesn’t exist.

It won’t make you warm now, but it’ll be warm in hell - Pumpkin latte baths - SERIOUSLY, an orgy in the Birge greenhouses

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DIVERSIONS

Comics Editor Stephen Tyler Conrad comics@badgerherald.com

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ASO to being intelligent enough to earn a Ph. D. in Engineering but also having the emotional intelligence of a 12 yr old. WTF is wrong with me? #Foreveralone SO to “romance the pants off me” is an expression for a reason ASO to my roommates.

We have a dishwasher.

There’s plenty of room in it. Why the hell do your nasty-ass dishes ALWAYS end up abandoned in the sink instead?

SO to the guy in the superman cape pushing a keg in a shopping cart down the street. You do gameday right SO to the guy on Saturday chasing a fox down

Observatory yelling “What is your sound?”

for making these cold days a little warmer

ASO to my boyfriend for ditching me for the next 3 weekends because “we want venison and I can’t let you go hungry so gotta do me some huntin.” I don’t even like venison.

DASO to starting to think he was actually raised in a barn. Nice grammar bro.

ASO to having to see my ex every freaking day and still wanting to kick him in the balls. DASO to me for still being angry as hell.

SO to having two of my three classes cancelled today. Monday didn’t completely suck for once.

SO to it being almost five o’clock and the only thing I’ve eaten today are muffins.

ASO to the times when “let’s swap papers” turns into, I’m going to secretly steal all your ideas.

C’mon dude.

You think I don’t know what you did, when you dodged sending me your “revised” version after I asked 3 times SO to the person(s) leaving positive message post-it notes on the Ingraham bathroom stall doors - thanks fellow Badger

ASO to the guy blaring his music so loudly in the silent section of College that I can hear it across the room. If you need your Skrillex music that loud you need to get out. Now. HMFSO TO THE STUDENT CENTER. Why the hell do you always assume I am looking for classes for the fall semester!?!?!

Nobody is looking for classes for the fall semester anymore, dummy SO to the lovely employees of the cafe at college library for giving me free coffee at 2am. your act of kindness + caffeine is just the boost i need to finish this paper! ASO to procrastination and senior slides.

SO to Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey.

Christmas is a comin’. ASO to

Thanksgiving not getting here fast enough...I’m hungry.

HMFASO to the asshat making pounding noises in the cage behind me at Memorial. This is library not a construction zone.

SO to those afternoons when I get home from work and my roommate is still out of the apartment so I can spend some fucking amazing quality time with my vibrator. SO to my vibrator. but ASO to really wanting the real thing now.

ASO to assholes.

SO to friends who change assholes’ names in your phone so there’s no way you can contact them.

Friends are great.

ASO to knowing your TA is aware of the massive crush you have on them.

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Senior captain trio leads way for men’s hockey Dan Corcoran Men’s Hockey Writer With the array of upperclassmen the Wisconsin men’s hockey team has this year, which includes nine seniors, there’s certainly no shortage of experience present on the Badgers’ roster. And going hand-inhand with that experience is leadership, which Wisconsin (3-1-1) doesn’t lack either, as 78 percent of Wisconsin’s scoring returned from last season.

But considering how many veterans the Badgers have — 16 upperclassmen in all out of 26 players — the players and coaches had a tough decision in front of them when it came to voting for captains before the season began, assistant coach Gary Shuchuk said.

“Just because you don’t have a ‘C’ or an ‘A’ on doesn’t mean anything.

[But] you can’t give seven

or eight guys letters.

You’re only allowed three, so you have to pick and choose who the right guys are,” he said.

But when it came down to the voting, it was hardly a tough decision for the players who nominated senior defenseman Frankie Simonelli captain and junior defenseman Jake McCabe and senior forward Jefferson Dahl assistants without any discrepancies.

The three captains selected just so happened to be the three that Shuchuk had in mind, each of whom bring differing leadership traits to the table, resulting in a blend of leadership roles.

“It kind of differs on every team because, based on our team, Frankie is kind of a lead-by-example kind of guy. When he speaks, guys will listen,” Shuchuk said. “He’s not the rah-rah type, but he leads by example on and off the ice, so he’s the

quiet captain.

“Jefferson Dahl, the assistant captain, he’s one of those guys that doesn’t say much, but he leads by example on the ice and what he does that shows – guys feed off the way he plays. Jake McCabe is one of those guys that’s more rah-rah, more vocal, one of those guys that, when he speaks, guys are going to listen. He won’t get in your face.

“But it’s kind of a different make-up of captain this year. Usually you have one guy that’s hard-nosed, in your face like John Ramage was last year and guys that are kind of the rah-rah type.

So it’s kind of a unique blend. They’re all unique in their own way.”

Although there may be differing leadership styles among Simonelli, McCabe and Dahl, they have seen firsthand the expectations for captains at Wisconsin from those before them.

For a Wisconsin program

Jen Small The Badger Herald Part of the strong senior class, forward Jefferson Dahl is one of three senior captains. The Eau Claire native was named the most improved player by his teammates in 2013 with 14 points on the season.

MCEVOY, page 14 who hurriedly lofted a pass well beyond his receiver, tumbling into McEvoy’s basket. It was an important moment that McEvoy would eventually downplay the significance of. He knew he had another interception opportunity on the last play of the game, where he crossed the field to break up a final Cougar pass.

Those two plays are largely why McEvoy has remained a part of the Wisconsin secondary; he can flat out cover ground and stalk the football. Add in his abnormal height and wingspan, and McEvoy becomes quite the asset in any secondary. He says he just likes making plays on the football field, something Ed Reed, his favorite player made an NFL career of.

Hammon said that one week McEvoy made something “like 11 interceptions in practice.”

Each day athleticism is readily apparent.

Back in August, backup quarterback Bart Houston likened McEvoy’s speed

to a deer. However, it’s more his placement within the secondary than his athleticism that has helped Wisconsin the most.

Earlier on this season, redshirt sophomore safety Michael Caputo was forced to guard receivers out of sheer necessity. With McEvoy in the mold, Caputo now generally spotlights opposing tight ends and aids the front seven in run defense, where he made 12 tackles against BYU. With McEvoy on the field, senior safety Dez Southward was able to play man coverage on BYU’s physical receiver Cody Hoffman, a matchup the Badgers defensive coaches sought out. McEvoy has really opened up options for Busch.

With just five weeks of safety game snaps under his belt, there remains plenty for McEvoy to learn and gain from the safety position.

Week-by-week the coaching staff warmed McEvoy into the mix.

“They kind of eased me into it,” McEvoy said. “They didn’t throw the kitchen sink

at me.”

Week-by-week he’s gained confidence in his play recognition and tackling tendencies. Week-by-week he plans for safety and covers the back end of the Wisconsin defense. While it seems like he’s a fullfledged safety this week, the question in Andersen’s press conference relayed a bit of uncertainty about McEvoy’s future spot.

Andersen ended his answer with, “He’s a safety next week, and we’ll move on from there.”

Busch said, “This week, he’s in my room, so we’ll get him ready to play.”

So whether he’s a quarterback or a safety or if in the future he’s a quarterback or a safety, it doesn’t really matter.

McEvoy thinks he can still play quarterback at Wisconsin, but will happily settle with safety.

“As of right now, in this season, in this week, I’m focusing on what we have to do against Indiana,” McEvoy said. “I’m just going to stick to playing safety until they tell me to do otherwise.”

steeped in tradition with a lineage of captainship that includes Shuchuk and head coach Mike Eaves, along with recent players such as Adam Burish and Blake Geoffrion, wearing a ‘C’ on the Wisconsin sweater is nothing to be taken lightly.

“There’s a standard when we first rolled in here as freshman, just the way they do everything,” Dahl said. “I remember looking back to our freshman year and the way our captains acted with us.

They were very positive and able to work with us, which was nice. I just try to pass that on to the younger guys, even though we don’t have as many of them. I just try to instill the same standards that we have all had to grow to and just try to continue to grow as a team.”

It’s not just Dahl who works to inculcate the values that have been passed onto him by former captains but a collaborative effort between the three captains. Hockey presents an interesting dynamic in that, instead of only one captain, there are oftentimes a head captain flanked by two assistants, distributing the duties among more than one player.

But despite the fact that there is a designated head captain aided by assistants, Simonelli mentioned the term assistant doesn’t carry with it lesser meaning or duties.

“We work as a group,” Simonelli said. “It’s not just me and they’re my little assistants or anything like that. We work as a group, setting the example on and off the ice, and then when things need to be done, whether it’s on the ice or off the ice, we need to step up and make sure those are getting done.”

McCabe added the leadership duties aren’t just limited to the trio of captains, but are shared by

many other players like seniors Mark Zengerle, Michael Mersch and Keegan Meuer.

“We’re a real close knit team and it just goes to show that there’s so many leaders on this team,” McCabe said. “Because it’s a form of leadership, you’ve got guys that play different roles. You’ve got goal scorers that are consistent gamein and game-out, so here it’s a leadership by committee.”

It didn’t take long for the captains and leadership of this year’s Wisconsin team to get tested, as it faced a fair amount of adversity when the Badgers traveled to Boston in their second series of the year only to get thumped

by Boston College and Boston University 9-2 and 7-3, respectively. The three captains took it in stride and met with Eaves the Monday following the series to discuss ways to remedy the situation and improve going forward.

And behind the leadership of the captains and their different roles, the Badgers rebounded from their first taste of adversity this season to take their next series from Lake Superior State, nearly two weekends ago.

“When something

needs to be said, I think me and Frank both do a pretty good job of that,” McCabe said. “Jefferson is always Mr. Steady out there. He’s always the most consistent player on the ice, game-in and game-out, so that’s what you expect from him.”

At first glance, Simonelli, McCabe and Dahl may not seem like the prototypical captains, but they earned the right to represent their teammates and have already past their first adversity test of the season. Now it will be seen if the three can lead their teammates and programs to even higher heights.

“Usually the captain is someone that you respect, guys respect in the locker room, on and off the ice – when he says something, you’re going to listen,” Shuchuck said.

“Frankie was that guy.

He’s that guy that when he says something when he has to say something, guys will step up and do it. I don’t think he’s afraid to get in guys faces and tell them they’re making mistakes. He’s also the kind of guy that will give a guy a pat on the back and say, ‘Hey, you’re doing a good job. Keep your head up.’ They’re all the right guys.”

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Women’s soccer team left wanting more Dan Corcoran Women’s Soccer Writer When the Wisconsin women’s soccer season kicked off in mid-August, expectations were high for the Badgers squad that would eventually finish 10-7-2.

The season began promisingly for Wisconsin with three straight nonconference victories, all of which came on the road.

Opening the seasoning at Connecticut, UW battled for a 3-2 victory, which was followed by a 4-1 trouncing of Illinois State only two days later. Then, in the second weekend of the season, the Badgers took to the west coast for two games against Oregon and Oregon State. Again, Wisconsin took care of business, disposing of the Ducks by a final of 2-1 and scrapping for a 1-1 double overtime tie to sustain a four-game unbeaten streak.

When Wisconsin returned home for its first home match of the season, it was greeted with an unfortunate 4-3 loss at the hands of Vanderbilt.

But that loss was a mere blemish, and the only losing outcome of the first 10 games of the season.

UW proceeded to rattle of four wins in the next five games, taking out Loyola 5-1 in Chicago, UW-Milwaukee 3-0 at home, Purdue 3-1 in West Lafayette, Ind. and Michigan State 2-0 in East Lansing. The only non-win came Sept. 27 in a 0-0 double overtime draw with Michigan, who finished as the second-place team in the conference.

Holding its own against one of the conference’s elite, Wisconsin looked like a team that was in the process of becoming one of those elite.

But that’s where things went sour, and losses and bad breaks came the

Badgers’ way in droves, which Wisconsin assistant coach Tim Rosenfeld explained was the reason for the mentality in the second half of the season.

“When something happens then you start thinking,” Rosenfeld said.

“Then the mind gets in the way and you start forcing things that shouldn’t be forced and playing balls you shouldn’t be. And your defending starts to go. Then it also becomes you get tired because it’s emotional. It can’t be that way. It has to be very focused. I think all of those things come into play.”

Wisconsin’s second loss of the season came in a 2-1 decision against 15time defending Big Ten champion Penn State — the Nittany Lions streak of Big Ten titles came to a halt this year. But it was a game Wisconsin wasn’t necessarily expected to win, and the Badgers rebounded two days later

to take out Ohio State in overtime.

With only one conference loss, Wisconsin was still in the conference title picture, but then, in the blink of an eye, they were gone.

Over the span of 15 days, the Badgers dropped four of their next five games and fell from the upper echelon of the conference standings to third-to-last.

None of the losses were easy to take in, but two stood out from the rest — a double-overtime loss to Nebraska with one second left and a double-overtime loss to Minnesota with just over a minute and a half left in the final overtime session.

Bounces might not have gone the Badgers’ way, and youth played a factor as well, with seven of the Badgers starting 11 either freshmen or sophomores.

But whatever the reason for the late-season struggles, Wisconsin just couldn’t find a way to get

over the hump.

“I’m not sure we’re right there yet, if everything we’ve done building up to this point has got us to actually believing, ‘Yeah, this is us now. This is our time,’” Rosenfeld said.

Wisconsin eased to a victory in the final match of the season with a 3-0 win over Northwestern to make the Big Ten tournament, but drew a tough first-round match up with Penn State. The Nittany Lions overwhelmed the Badgers again in the rematch, as they lost 2-0 in what proved to be their final match of the season.

Wisconsin wound up ever so close to a completely different season, but close was not enough. Of the games decided by one goal, Wisconsin was a paltry 4-6, and 12 out of the 19 games were either ties or one-goal affairs.

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only one starter, senior midfielder Alev Kelter, from this year’s squad, and will return next season with a wealth of youngsters and a total of 24 players out of 26. Most importantly, the leading scorers from this year, sophomore midfielder Kinley McNicoll (6 goals, 13 assists, 25 total points) and junior forward Cara Walls (9 G, 4 A, 22 total points) will both be returning, along with Big Ten Freshman of the Year freshman forward Rose Lavelle (6 G, 7 A, 19 total points).

Although this season may have had a disappointing end, the future for the youthful Badgers is bright if they can claw their way to the next level.

“I think that’s our step as a program that we really take a good, long look at ourselves and say, ‘Alright, what do we need to do looking forward into next season?”

Chapman constantly in battle playing Big Ten Lee Gordon Volleyball Writer She has become one of the smartest attackers on the team, developed a wickedly deceptive shot and has led the Wisconsin volleyball team in kills for three years in a row. But even as one of the top 10 attackers in the league, junior outside hitter Ellen Chapman is still learning to play big in the Big Ten. Chapman, who ranks ninth in the conference with 3.41 kills per set, is the premier offensive player for the No. 14 Badgers, which have not seen this high a ranking in five seasons.

However, Chapman is still occasionally apprehensive to play like the team’s offensive leader.

“I have a problem personally of being scared to error,” Chapman said.

“I always take a really safe shot instead of trying to be aggressive and trying to go

INDIANA, page 14 piece, with 6-foot-3 junior Cody Latimer leading the pack with eight so far this season. Latimer is also averaging nearly 100 receiving yards per game.

Usually, Indiana also boasts a nice complementary run game with sophomore Tevin Coleman, who is averaging 106.4 yards per game and more than 7 yards per carry, but Coleman is doubtful after suffering a sprained ankle in last week’s win over Illinois.

Instead, Indiana will look to senior Stephen Houston to take over for Coleman, a player that has tallied 12 touchdowns for the Hoosiers over the course of the season.

Still, while the Wisconsin defense might be anticipating an Indiana offense that depends a bit more than usual on

for it. Being aggressive is something that’s always in the back of my mind when I’m playing.”

Chapman has tallied 344 kills and 101 errors for a .249 hitting clip this season, which is the third highest percentage on the team. Chapman said she still has problems holding back the power of her swing. While she had a strong start to the season against weaker nonconference opponents, Chapman ran into trouble in the first part of the Big Ten season with her mentality.

Chapman had only 10 combined kills in the first two matches of the conference season against Purdue and Indiana. In four of Wisconsin’s first five league matches, she only managed to hit above .200 once.

Since then, Chapman has hit for better than .200 in eight of nine Big Ten matches, and has totaled double digit kills in 12

its passing game, the Wisconsin defense won’t be overlooking Houston either, who -- despite having nearly half as many carries -- averages nearly 60 yards per game on the ground.

“We came to that conclusion [that they might pass more] a little bit,” Hillary said. “But they have another great running back. He’s a downhill runner, who’s pretty big, and he can do some big things. We have to contain him too.”

Getting into poll position If Wisconsin can keep Indiana’s offense contained Saturday, it’s own offense may be capable of doing some serious damage of its own against Indiana’s defense, which has allowed an average of 37.4 points per game.

Currently sitting at No.

straight matches.

She said her key to success is to be conscious of attacking by reading the defense in front of her – something she only realized would make her a better player last season and the beginning of this season.

“Going up with a shot in mind has always helped me,” Chapman said.

“Just not being weak [in] hitting, which I have been in the past, and going up for the kill every time is something that I always have to keep reminding myself.”

Head coach Kelly Sheffield has advised Chapman to leave her total intensity out on the court, even if it means committing errors.

He wants to build her confidence and give her more freedom on the court to swing with more force.

Even though Chapman is still overcoming her fear of committing errors, Sheffield said Chapman

22 in the BCS rankings at the start of the week, running up the score against teams like Indiana could become a way for Wisconsin to climb those polls faster — former head coach Bret Bielema has been guilty of doing so against Indiana during his career at Wisconsin — but redshirt senior linebacker Conor O’Neill says that won’t be on their minds as they take the field Saturday.

Instead the goal remains to win out and let the cards fall where they may.

“We’ve lost two games to two good teams by two points and then a touchdown, so if the BCS wants to take away the chance at a bowl game for that, then so be it,” O’Neill said.

“We are just going to take care of our business on the field Saturday.”

has raised her game in the second half of the season, something that she has struggled with in past years.

“She’s kind of a silent assassin,” Sheffield said.

“She’s carried us in so many matches. I think her approach to every match has been very consistent.”

Fellow junior outside hitter Courtney Thomas said Chapman has improved immensely since her arrival in Madison two seasons ago. She said Chapman’s physical strength and volleyball knowledge have allowed her to be the team’s unquestioned go-to hitter.

“Her freshman year, it was more [her] going up there and swinging,” Thomas said. “Now I think she’s actually up there to score and knowing where the defenders are.”

Although both Thomas and Sheffield have seen proof of Chapman’s increasing physicality, Chapman still thinks she is

OHIO, page 14 get some consistency in our play,” Eaves said.

“Right now our first task, and our primary task is to get through that first 20 minutes on Friday night.”

Last season the Badgers faced off against the RedHawks at home, winning game one in a 1-0 shutout and falling 2-1 in game two to snap UW’s 11-game win-less streak.

Prior to last season, the teams had met just two previous times, once at the Dane County Coliseum in 1979 and in the NCAA tournament of 1993, both wins for the Badgers by scores of 3-2 and 3-1, respectively.

“The games are going to be very similar to last year, it was a fight for every inch of the ice last year. The tempo was very good,” Eaves said. “ I think it is going to be, when you talk about big

one of the weaker players on the team. Chapman said senior libero Annemarie Hickey and redshirt junior middle blocker Dominique Thompson can squat almost 100 pounds more than she can, and blames her weaker body on her lanky 6-foot-4 frame.

In this deficit, she’s learned to play to her strengths of accuracy and ability to read the opposition’s blocking strategy.

Sheffield admitted that she isn’t one of the stronger outside hitters in the game, but said Chapman’s offensive range and repertoire has been improving since the start of the year.

“She’s got a really good arm,” Sheffield said. “She’s using that arm to hit with a lot of range. She’s very deceptive. It’s hard to tell where she’s attacking.

There are people that have bigger arms, but at her height and angle and her deceptiveness, it’s really

games... goaltending, specialty teams and maybe a bounce of the puck.”

With another year of experience and plenty of time to prepare, the veteran Badgers will be a tough opponent for this Miami team. All but two of Wisconsin’s skaters have recorded points with no single player dominating the scoreboard. Sophomore forward Nic Kerdiles leads the pack with eight points, split between goals and assists and is riding an 18-game point streak.

Senior forward Michael Mersch is tied with Kerdiles with a team-high four goals and Faust leads the team with six assists after recording eight total points in his previous three seasons.

“The majority of our team has had experience playing at the collegiate level and we don’t have a

tough to defend her.”

Sheffield believes Chapman is closing the gap between herself and the top attackers in the Big Ten. In his first conversation with Chapman over the phone, Chapman didn’t think she necessarily had the skills or strength to join that debate or become an allAmerican. Now, Sheffield said reaching that personal goal is a solid possibility.

Sheffield said for Chapman to become one of the elite outside hitters in the game, she will need to pack on more muscle in the future. However, he has seen the required effort both on the court and in the weight room for Chapman to elevate her status to great Big Ten outside hitter.

“She’s not the hardest attacker in the league,” Sheffield said. “But she’s also not the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man either.

She can bring the heat.”

whole roster of freshman like other teams do so I think that helps,” Faust said. “It will be a challenge this week playing a good team after a bye week but I think we are up to it.”

Junior goaltender Joel Rumpel will make the trip to Ohio with the team, after missing the last two series due to an ankle injury sustained in practice Oct. 15. It is unclear whether or not Rumpel will see ice time during the series.

Junior goaltender Landon Peterson will get the start Friday, and Eaves said the decision to start Rumpel on Saturday — as the duo have customarily split series — has not yet been made.

The puck will drop at 6:30 p.m. in Oxford (5:30 p.m. CDT) Friday and Saturday’s game will begin at 7 p.m. (6 p.m.

CDT).

In-state Panthers up next for Badger hoops Erik Kohlbeck Women’s Basketball Writer After a dominating 6641 win over Drake this past Sunday, the Wisconsin women’s basketball team will take the hour-and-a-half trip across I-94 to do battle against instate rival UWMilwaukee on Thursday.

Following Thursday’s game in Milwaukee, the Badgers will return home to face Northern Illinois on Sunday.

Milwaukee will open its regular season against the Badgers (1-0) on Thursday.

The two teams have played 26 times with Wisconsin owning a 23-3 overall record.

The Badgers won last year’s meeting 74-56.

There is plenty of familiarity between the two teams, especially with Milwaukee head coach Kyle Rechlicz,

who served as an assistant at UW before becoming the head coach at Milwaukee.

Rechlicz also played collegiate basketball at UW from 1998 to 2002.

Rechlicz has turned Milwaukee into an up-tempo running team that loves to shoot from the perimeter.

The Panthers ranked fourth nationally last season, averaging just under nine three-pointers made per game and returning 70 percent of its scoring as well. Milwaukee had four of the top 15 threepoint shooters in the Horizon League conference last season.

Their up-tempo offense, when it’s clicking, can be a force, as seen when they scored 116 points in a game last season.

Badgers’ head coach Bobbie Kelsey wants to fix their defense from last Sunday, which, if not improved, could

allow Milwaukee to score in bunches.

“Transition defense -- we didn’t do that well on Sunday,” Kelsey said. “Milwaukee does shoot transition threes. The defense starts when the other team gets the ball. That’s what’s going to hurt us, if we can’t get back and turn around.”

Although she scored just five points Sunday, junior forward Jacki Gulczynski understands scoring isn’t necessarily her role on the team. With redshirt junior forward Michala Johnson drawing attention from opponents’ defenses, Gulczynski has been trying to do whatever she can to contribute in the frontcourt opposite Johnson.

“We have so many options and so many weapons,” Gulczynski said. “So for me not to score, it doesn’t bother me.

Whatever way I can contribute

to the team, whether that’s rebounds, points, hustle plays … the points will come.”

Another player who will look to build on Sunday’s performance is sophomore guard Dakota Whyte. Whyte set a career high with 18 points on Sunday and wants to carry that over into the game against Milwaukee. She is always looking forward to playing an in-state school such as Milwaukee, as it gives the team more motivation to win with the eyes of the state on them.

“Absolutely we want to win,” Whyte said. “Instate rivals are big in Wisconsin so we want to stay the top school in Wisconsin as the Badgers. I think we’re going to have a lot of fun with it and I’m excited.”

After Thursday’s in-state game, the Badgers will return home to the friendly confines of the Kohl Center

for their third game of the season against the Huskies of Northern Illinois, who were just 7-23 last season. Northern Illinois (1-1) is coming off a win over Mississippi Valley State on Tuesday after being crushed

by Green Bay last Friday, 77-48.

The Huskies are led by Amanda Corral, who was their leading scorer and rebounder last season, averaging 12.7 points and five rebounds per game. Northern Illinois is headed by another former Badger coach, Kathi Bennett, who served as an assistant coach at UW from 2008 to 2010.

Both the Panthers and Huskies will have the tall task of stopping Johnson in the post. Coming off career highs in points and rebounds, 16 each, Johnson and the rest of the Badger team know what to expect when she

gets the ball down low. After scoring the first six points in the game on Sunday, Drake immediately sent a double, sometimes triple team down low to stop Johnson. Kelsey and Gulczynski feel they have prepared themselves to deal with this expected defense.

“We worked on other ways that [Johnson] can look for some other things besides feeling like she has to turn and shoot,” Kelsey said. “The other players know where they should be going to help her.

We’re not waiting for her to get doubled. We just know it’s going to happen.”

“When she gets doubleteamed, we’re just going to have to hit shots,” Gulczynski said. “Whether that’s me, [Taylor Wurtz or Morgan Paige], as long as we’re hitting open shots, it doesn’t matter who’s getting it.”

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IU begins final Big Ten stretch for Wisconsin Nick Daniels Sports Editor Many would have predicted before the season began that the next few weeks for the Wisconsin football team (7-2, 4-1) against Indiana and Minnesota would be smooth sailing for the Badgers.

But the football season can be unpredictable, and this one is no different.

Suddenly, with most of the season behind them, Indiana (4-5, 2-3 Big Ten) is averaging 43.1 points per game on offense, and Minnesota boasts an 8-2 record and is receiving votes in the polls. More importantly, neither game looks quite like the guaranteed win that it once appeared to be — something head coach Gary Andersen doesn’t mind.

“Moving on to this week, Indiana has a very potent offense that’s proven itself week in and week out,” Andersen said.

“Football is year-byyear, and Indiana’s done some really nice things this year. … They score at least 28 points each week.

Claire Larkins The Badger Herald If that doesn’t make you stand up and grab your Redshirt sophomore Darius Hillary began the season as one of the few experienced pieces of the Wisconsin attention as a defender, secondary but has been instrumental in leading the group. Hillary grabbed his first interception against Iowa. then nothing will.”

While at first it might seem silly to think that Indiana would be anything other than Wisconsin’s punching bag this year when they come to town Saturday — UW has averaged 52 points per game on its way to an eight-game winning streak over Indiana — a quick look at Indiana’s offensive statistics suggest a different story.

On the year, Indiana has the second-most successful offense in the conference behind only Ohio State. They average 43.1 points per game and 527 yards per game — an interesting change of pace for an offense that only managed an average 16 points per game against Wisconsin over their last eight meetings.

Responsible for a large chunk of Indiana’s scoring, the passing game has become one of the Hoosiers most potent weapons this season.

While sophomore Tre Roberson was named the starting quarterback on day one, sophomore Nate Sudfeld has taken over much of the role and now averages just more than 240 passing yards per game, in addition to the 19 touchdowns he has thrown.

Even more dangerous for the Wisconsin defense is Indiana’s receiving corps, which is almost the exact opposite of Wisconsin’s.

Many of Wisconsin’s opponents, including Indiana, know that redshirt senior wide reciever Jared Abbrederis is the main focus of Wisconsin’s passing playbook — particularly on deep balls. But Indiana has a number of options when it comes to moving the ball down the field.

For redshirt sophomore cornerback Darius Hillary and the rest of the secondary, this has meant a return to the basics this week as they look to shut down one of the better offenses in the conference and minimize potentially costly mistakes.

“We just have to stay with our guys. They thrive off the deep ball and so when the ball is in the air, just like our coaches said, we have to be the ones to go up and get it,” Hillary said. “They’ve got a very talented core, and I’m excited to see how that battle goes Saturday.”

Four of Indiana’s receivers have caught at least five touchdowns a

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Men’s hockey heads to Ohio Caroline Sage Men’s Hockey Writer A battle awaits the Goggin Ice Center this weekend as the No. 12 Wisconsin men’s hockey team travels to Oxford, Ohio to take on a impressive No. 8 Miami team.

The Badgers (3-2-1) enter the game coming off their second bye week of the season, having played just two games in the past three weeks.

While using the time off to improve on skills both as individuals and their all–around team performance, keeping focused with no game in sight was a challenge of its own heading into the upcoming series against the RedHawks (6-3-1).

“It’s definitely different and not how we would have wanted it to be. You want to start the season playing games, get your feet under you and get some experience,” senior defenseman Joe Faust said. “But we’re not going to use that as an excuse either and I think it’s a good thing that coaches preached to us not to make excuses … just because we’ve had weekends off doesn’t mean we’re not ready to go.”

While UW may be lacking in game-time experience this season heading into Friday night’s matchup, Miami has not had a weekend off in its schedule since its opening night back on Oct. 11. With one of the toughest earlyseason schedules, Miami fared well, splitting its series against No. 13 North Dakota and most recently splitting games with No. 3 St. Cloud State on the road.

A young team, with

just 10 upperclassmen on the roster and two seniors, the RedHawks have not dropped a game this season by a score differential more than two. The wellrounded squad ranks 11th in the nation on offense, 10th on defense and eighth on the power play with 12 goals on the man-advantage.

Leading the way offensively for Miami are top-line skaters junior Austin Czarnik and sophomore Riley Barber, who have each recorded 15 points thus far into the season.

“They are very good one-on-one,” head coach Mike Eaves said. “They have that combination of speed, vision and ability to do what they want to do with the puck.”

Coming out early will be key for the Badgers, who have been outscored 8-4 in the first period of their last four games, including giving up the first goal in three of the four matchups.

“We are definitely emphasizing that we need to start the game like we did the Saturday against Lake Superior State. We can’t take a period off in college hockey,” junior forward Joseph LaBate said, referring to UW’s 2-0 lead to end the first period after beginning game one of the series down 3-0 in the first four minutes. “Again against a good team like Miami we are going to have to be ready.”

Beyond wanting to come away with a pair of wins, Eaves would like to see his team take strides at improving in this area.

“It would be nice to

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Andy Fate The Badger Herald Redshirt sophomore do-it-all Tanner McEvoy is now playing safety for Wisconsin, but who knows what position he’ll be playing in six months.

McEvoy remade as UW safety Sean Zak Sports Content Editor Just moments after Wisconsin beat BYU 27-17 last Saturday — in which transfer quarterback-receiver-safety Tanner McEvoy made his first career interception — Andy Baggot of the Wisconsin State Journal queried head coach Gary Andersen about McEvoy’s prospects as a quarterback, either now or in the future, at Wisconsin.

It seemed like an odd question to ask, given the context.

Andersen was succinct, saying he hadn’t contemplated McEvoy at the quarterback position, which felt like an obvious response.

Thoughts of McEvoy playing quarterback this season were dispelled months ago when he faded in the quarterback race and started catching passes more often than throwing.

And it wasn’t long — no more than a few weeks and a few game reps — before his stint at receiver was over following a surgery to repair a broken wrist. It would be a defining moment in McEvoy’s first season at Madison.

“He was going to miss a lot of reps because he couldn’t do anything,” safeties coach Bill Busch said. “That’s when it kind of clicked.”

McEvoy, at 6-foot-6, 223 pounds, lauded for his speed and overall athleticism, was going to be relocated to the sidelines because his broken wrist impeded his offensive effectiveness.

Wisconsin’s noteworthy sophomore transfer was trending down Danny O’Brien’s path as opposed to Russell Wilson’s.

Then an idea arose where McEvoy could use his extraordinary frame on the other side of the ball.

“I mean, when you’re

6-foot-6 and can move like that, definitely people notice you,” redshirt freshman safety Nate Hammon said.

And so McEvoy found his way onto the field for Wisconsin, even if he intended to play quarterback all along. In just a few short weeks, he had a package of third down plays where he was used. Then Ohio State happened.

McEvoy’s role was expanding each week, but following a first drive where OSU quarterback effortlessly escorted the Buckeyes to a 7-0 lead, largely through the air, Andersen knew McEvoy — who played safety in high school — was needed more than ever.

“We needed to get some athletes on the field. We really thought that,” Andersen said following the 31-24 loss. “To throw him in the moment was definitely risky, to say the

least. That’s what we felt we needed to do.”

Wisconsin fans saw McEvoy’s No. 17 jersey — different from the No. 5 he wore as a quarterback — on the field for most of the remaining minutes in Columbus, Ohio. What they didn’t see was any big plays or mistakes on McEvoy’s behalf.

And since then, there wasn’t much for news on the McEvoy front.

“I haven’t done anything wrong, but I haven’t done anything great,” McEvoy said, describing his first four games with an ingrained role in the defense. That’s why this past weekend against BYU was important for him.

McEvoy was the benefactor of redshirt senior line backer Chris Borland’s pressure on BYU quarterback Taysom Hill,

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