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UW administration increases student wages, but workers say raise is not enough Official says paychecks are only meant to ‘defray’ living expenses

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University of Wisconsin announced an increase to student minimum wage to $9 an hour, but student organizations on campus argue the increase is not enough to offset the expenses of college living.

At UW there are approximately 10,000 student employees, and more than 5,300 graduate students, according to UW statement.

Beginning in September 2016, minimum wage for student workers will increase approximately $3. Prior to that increase, graduate students will receive a 2 percent increase July 1.

Since 2009, UW’s student minimum wage has sat at $7.25 an hour. The minimum wage increased to ensure the university was in compliance with federal requirements, after federal and state minimum wage increased in July 2009, UW Senior Director of Operations at the Office of Human Resources Mark Walters said.

The increase, Walters said, is meant to help students pay for various costs, such as housing, food or other living expenses.

But Danny Levandoski, a UW junior and member of the Student Labor Action Coalition, said the increase from $7 to $9 is not enough, and student minimum wage should be increased to $15.

Though Levandoski said student workers and student organizations appreciate the university’s efforts to increase student wages, he called the increase “a political move” on UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s part.

UW “cuts corners” all the time to save money, he said, but the money saved is not being given back to students. The money instead funds remodeling projects, like for Witte residence hall, which has plans to undergo major updates in 2017-19.

“People like to say that we are students first, but we have real living expenses like groceries, and on top of that we have tuition and books to pay for,” Levandoski said. “There’s just so much that goes into being a student.”

Samuel Park, sophomore member of SLAC and the Working Class Student Union, said the increases show that the entire campus — student workers and student organizations — were in favor of changing the minimum wage, and the increase to $9

demonstrates their hard efforts.

But Park echoed Levandoski that the increase is not enough.

Some students on campus are homeless and can’t even afford basic living expenses, which Park said is “completely unacceptable.”

In addition, Park said most student workers will barely be affected by the increase, as already they may be being paid about $8.

But while wages are meant to help students pay for living expenses and the wage increase is meant to help students with additional costs, they are not meant to be entirely used to pay for tuition and textbooks, Walters explained.

“The student hourly positions are never meant to pay for someone’s college education,” Walters said. “As far as being the primary source, it’s supposed to defray the cost of living expenses and tuition and housing.”

Furthermore, Walters said an increase of student wage to $15 would require money to come from a secondary source, like an increase in segregated fees. Some of the student workers, like those that work for recreational sports, are funded through segregated fees, so an increase in segregated fees would be needed to increase pay in student wages.

An increase in wages would therefore possibly mean an increase to student segregated fees, Walters said.

“I know there has been a lot of discussion about raising the wage to $15, but we have to balance providing a higher wage to what the cost is going to be,” Walters said.

Park said the university likes to “preach” that budget cuts prevent them from raising the minimum wage. But he said other universities like the University of Washington have been able to raise student minimum wages to $15, understanding the importance of ensuring student workers receive a wage they may live off of despite the cost.

The university needs to shift its focus to be more orientated to student needs, Park said.

Student organizations like SLAC, Working Class Student Union and Associated Students of Madison have been working together to further increase the student wage to $15, Levandoski said.

“This has been an issue for many, many years, and it’s a shame that it’s only starting to get looked at,” Levandoski said.

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Study finds rapid change in Wisconsin prairies over last 60 years Lack of prescribed fire, decreasing size of prairies have been dominant drivers of alterations

by Kayla Zacharias Science Writer

During his time as a civilian researcher in Haiti during World War II, John Curtis, a former University of Wisconsin professor of botany, was astonished by the changes in vegetation happening at the time.

He was concerned unique native species were vanishing forever and introduced species were taking their place — a pattern seen today in Wisconsin’s prairies.

When Curtis returned to University of Wisconsin after the war, he began planning a “systematic study of vegetation throughout Wisconsin.” Between 1947 and 1956, Curtis and colleagues walked the entirety of more than 200 prairie sites in Wisconsin, surveying plant species composition.

In 1987 and 1998, existing prairies were surveyed again, comparing results to those that Curtis found three decades earlier. The results of a third round of analysis, led by Amy Alstad, a UW graduate student in the Damschen Lab, were published Feb. 19.

“The number one finding is that the pace of change that’s happening in the plant community is

speeding up,” Alstad said.

The study shows the identity of prairie plant communities changed more drastically between 1987 and 2012 than between 1950 and 1987, despite the longer gap between the first and second round of surveys.

The study also found while the overall number of species hasn’t changed much, native plant species are being replaced by introduced species — mostly woody shrubs, bushes and fastgrowing trees, Alstad said. This is due to a decline in prescribed fire — the intentional burning of a landscape, which is a common management practice that encourages the growth of native vegetation in prairie landscapes in Wisconsin and beyond.

Plant species native to prairies are able to easily withstand fire, but introduced species often are not, Alstad said.

“If you start losing fire, what happens is you get more and more of these trees and shrubs establishing and then they shade out the wildflowers and grasses,” she said. “So the lack of fire allows woody vegetation to move in and then the woody vegetation starts out-competing the native species that you see there.”

If native species around the world were displaced by a few invasive species, that would drive down the total number of species in the world, Thomas Givnish, co-author of the study and professor of botany at UW, explained.

Fires were rare between 1950 and 1987, but have increased since then, according to the study. Not surprising to the researchers, sites that experienced more frequent fires were met with fewer extinctions and fewer changes in floristic composition.

In some instances, prescribed burning came in form of arson, Alstad said. Unidentified Wisconsin residents who knew prairies benefit from fire snuck out in the middle of the night and took it upon themselves to do the burning.

“In some ways, that’s also prescribed fire. But some cases are, shall we say … more legitimate than others,” Alstad said.

Givnish said increasing the use of prescribed burning is crucial to protecting Wisconsin’s prairies in the future.

“Managing sites with fires does tend to maintain diversity and exclude exotic species, so clearly we have to do that,” he said.

The study found in addition to fire frequency,

the physical size of the prairie site also proved significant in terms of extinction and colonization.

It was previously thought the area of a site was unrelated to species composition, but the study found that larger prairies are now better suited to fight extinction and maintain more of their original species diversity.

Alstad and her colleagues aren’t exactly sure why that is, but it likely has something to do with the species-area relationship — the idea more species are found in larger areas.

According to the DNR, tallgrass prairies are among the most threatened plant communities in the Midwest and the world. Most prairies here today are small remnants of their former selves, unable to support the full range of species native to prairie ecosystems.

Alstad said she believes it’s important to preserve what we have left of prairies in Wisconsin because there’s so little of it.

“I worry that if we don’t start managing the prairie that we have left right now, especially with this increased pace of change, that it’s not going to look like prairie in another couple of decades,” she said. “The window of opportunity is closing.”

Why Wisconsin Assembly had its shortest session in 40 years

Democrats disappointed with end of session, while Republicans proud of bipartisanship

by Emily Hamer State Editor

The Wisconsin state Assembly session ended earlier this year than it has since 1970, resulting in late night sessions and high numbers of bills being passed. Some say, however, the speed of the session cut the public’s voice out of the process.

Rep. Mark Spreitzer, D-Beloit, said more than 200 bills were pushed through the Assembly the week of Feb. 14, with some sessions going until 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.

Mark Sommerhauser, a reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal, said when there are more than 100 bills on the calendar, it’s challenging — even for reporters — to keep track of all of the bills that are being passed.

He added Wisconsin residents don’t have eight to 10 hours a day to sift through legislation like reporters have to do full time.

“If it’s difficult for us as reporters, imagine how difficult it is for the public to try to keep up with what’s going on,” Sommerhauser said.

It’s typical for a large amount of bills to go through at the end of the session, but it’s unusual for the session to end so early, Rep. Chris Taylor, D-Madison, said. Spreitzer said he believes the reason is because it’s an election year, so lawmakers want more time to prepare for elections.

But Spreitzer said he thinks the high volume of bills that were pushed through the Legislature in marathon sessions cuts the public out of the legislative process.

Rep. Cody Horlacher, R-Mukwonago, acknowledged the end of the session “had a lot going on,” but said the public was still involved. He said public hearings were held to gauge the public’s opinion and all the information about a bill’s progress before it gets signed into law is available online at

the Wisconsin Legislature’s website, he said.

Additionally, all floor sessions are available for the public to watch on wiseye.org.

“I think it really gives a lot of power to the public to keep tabs on what we’re doing,” Horlacher said.

Even if all the bills didn’t get through the Legislature this session, Horlacher said those bills are now ready to go for next year’s session.

Holacher said he also now has extra time to meet with constituents, do outreach in his district and work on future bills.

But Taylor said this session did not do anything for the people of Wisconsin. She pointed to the $250 million cut to the UW System, bills that “gut” environmental protections and lack of support for K-12 schools and the “transportation crisis.”

“It’s been a total failure of a session,” Taylor said.

Despite Democrats’ disappointment with the end of the session, Horlacher said this year’s session was a success. Ninety-four percent of the bills that passed through the Assembly passed on a bipartisan vote.

Horlacher said only 6 percent passed on party lines.

The Assembly passed bills that supported Alzheimer’s and dementia, reformed mental health, addressed human trafficking and domestic violence and exempted underage drinking tickets for victims of sexual assault, among others — all on bipartisan votes.

The Assembly may get called back into session if the Senate adds amendments to bills.

The Senate and Assembly have to pass the same version of a bill before it can be sent to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk to be signed into law.

The Senate will hold their last session to take bills up for a vote March 15.

“We may not be done yet,” Horlacher said.

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In court or on street, Koval brothers find meaning in public service Heads of police, local judiciary both work to combat issues of homelessness, racial tension, restorative justice

by Teymour Tomsyck City Editor

At the helm of Madison Police Department and the city civil court are two brothers who’ve committed themselves to public service.

MPD Chief Mike Koval and Judge Daniel Koval reflect on their time working for the city of Madison and the changes and challenges they’ve witnessed. Within their respective fields, the two said they have worked to make progress on issues of homelessness and racial justice through restorative justice and community policing among other programs.

A family affair

The sons of a professor and school teacher, Mike Koval said his parents instilled in their children a value for public service from an early age. Both Kovals attended Madison West High School before attending University of Wisconsin.

While he had always seen himself working in public service, Mike Koval said his uncle, Shawn Riley, who worked for the Division of Criminal Investigation, inspired him to become police officer. It was Riley who, after years of trying to dissuade a teenage Mike Koval from joining law enforcement, suggested he look into the FBI as they had higher hiring standards.

In his junior year, Mike Koval attended an FBI info session that would steer his career path for years to come. After the session he spoke with the agent while helping him pack up. “[The agent] said, ‘Listen kid, I’ll be honest with you, we’re really looking for lawyers, accountants and language specialists,’” Mike Koval said. “It was that 30 second exchange that ended with me pursuing a law degree up in the Twin Cities.”

But while Mike Koval saw law school as a means to an end, Daniel Koval pursued a J.D. with the intent of practicing law.

After graduating from UW with a degree in political science, Daniel Koval moved to the Chicago area for 14 years, attended law school and eventually went on to become an assistant state attorney. Like his brother, Daniel Koval said he always envisioned himself working in public service.

“I never wanted to work in a law firm,” Daniel Koval said. “It’s the way our family was — we were raised with the spirit of giving back to the public.”

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Connecting the Madison community

In Minnesota, Mike Koval attended William Mitchell College of Law. Having almost completed his degree, MPD offered him a job that he took while eventually completing his degree at the UW Law School.

During his time at MPD, Mike Koval said he got his first real taste of community police work. But within 12 weeks of completing his degree, Mike Koval was hired by the FBI and worked in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mike Koval said he could have seen himself working for the FBI his entire life were it not for his time at Madison and factors within the FBI. “I loved the fresh approach to policing in Madison,” Mike Koval said. “There was a lack attorneys in the bureau and I knew I was going to be assigned legal to affairs.”

Not wishing to actually use his law degree, Mike Koval left the FBI and went back to MPD. In his time as judge, Daniel Koval said his work with juvenile offenders has been the most rewarding aspect of his job. He said he often finds himself going into schools and

meeting with the family and counselors of juveniles to figure out how to solve repeated misbehavior.

Daniel Koval noted working with homeless people to connect them with services and support systems has also been rewarding.

Mike Koval, who was tapped for police chief in April 2014, said his love for police work in Madison stems from the idea that the police officer is a community activist for the most vulnerable.

“The role of the police as a steward or guardian of the community was very attractive to me,” Mike Koval said.

Despite seeing terrible crimes during his time with the police, Mike Koval said he has maintained his positive outlook by fortifying himself through faith and support from his wife. He said this ability to stave cynicism is critical for police who see “the saddest, baddest [and] maddest of what the human condition has to offer.”

Mike said he believes if an officer ever loses sight of the inherent good of humanity, then it’s probably time to retire.

MPD takes pride in both its reputation for community policing and for its transparency and lack of corruption. Mike Koval said the department achieves this by striking a

balance between the traditional ideals of comradery and those of independence and integrity.

Creating change

Since beginning their work on both sides of the law, Daniel and Mike Koval said they have seen significant changes within their professions.

For Daniel Koval, the inability for many people to afford their own attorneys when pursuing civil cases means far more people are representing themselves in court, which delays the process. This means the courts must do their best to explain the rules and technical specifications surrounding court proceedings in layman’s terms.

Mike Koval said the role of the police officer within society has changed greatly since he began working as an officer. He said the duties of an officer increasingly revolve around being a mediator, healer and a social worker.

“This is a paradigm shift that is rarely seen in media or in movies; you just see the drama because that’s sexy,” Mike Koval said. “We are social workers with a badge, and you have to have that mindset to be responsive to the community.”

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The Big Pink to showcase new, redefined sound at The Frequency British indie-electronic band are advocates for giving back, hope to attract new fans with upcoming Madison performance March 9 Aidan McClain ArtsEtc. Contributor

British indie-electronic band The Big Pink not only seeks to expand and diversify their sound, but also to give back. With their fresh North American tour, they encourage their fans to do the same.

Set to perform at the Frequency March 9, The Big Pink is pit-stopping in Madison along with major metropolitan cities, including Montreal, Chicago and Los Angeles.

The Big Pink first got together in 2008. It now consists of four members, vocalist Robbie Furze, vocalist Mary Charteris, bass guitarist Jesse Russell and drummer Free Hallas. Band members said they are looking forward to visiting Madison, as well as other cities they have not been to before.

But Madison’s smaller size can provide the band and audience with a musically intimate encounter.

“We don’t usually come to these small places,” Furze said. “It can be a more intense experience.”

But regardless of the city or venue, The Big Pink always strives to put on the best show possible.

Indie-electronic may be the band’s official classification, but Furze said, “there’s something for everyone,” as their music comes from varied musical influences.

The Big Pink’s music is contagious and will induce instant foot tapping and singing along, particularly in the infectious rhythm of “Hightimes,” a song found off their new EP Empire Underground, which is set for release March 4. The band has long developed its sound, yet they stay true to their original “big beats, guitars and synths,” Furze said.

But Furze said he thinks this is going to be the “next level of Big Pink.” With a more redefined sound, their musicianship is better than it has ever been in the past.

The band recently released the third out of four songs on the EP, “Decoy” — the only song yet to come is the track titled, “Empire Underground.” The Big Pink has also implemented visually creative symbolism into their latest music video for “Hightimes.”

According to Furze, the band drew inspiration from “post-apocalyptic variations of symbols from the ‘90s and 2000s,” with the idea to “take elements of the video and make it into our own 3D world,” Furze said.

The Big Pink currently aims to continue to develop its sound and image as a band and expand their fan base. Musical aspirations,

Photo · The Big Pink anticipates a big year with reworking their sound and music video imagery.

Photo Courtesy of Victoria Stevens however, are not the only objectives of the band.

Along with other musicians, the band works closely with a charity called SOS, in which people can sponsor a child in need. The band hopes to give back and that others to do the same.

Aligning with their goals of reaching out, Furze encourages college students wishing to pursue music to push through and hold on to

their aspirations.

“Take time in making music you love,” Furze said.

The Big Pink’s North American tour is likely to attract new fans, particularly indie lovers here in Madison, with their redefined sound.

With their public efforts to give back to the community, it will be hardly surprising if they draw in a fair amount of passionate folks.

Catching their stride, The Werks will rock Madison with ‘giant dance party’ Dayton, Ohio-based band identifies as buffet offering something for everyone, but is distinctly fresh with disparate genres

by Sam Cleveland ArtsEtc. Contributor

Though Rob Chafin, drummer and producer of The Werks, who will play at the High Noon Saloon March 11, compares his band’s musical variety to a buffet, there is one trait the band has that the typical buffet does not: freshness.

While the comparison of The Werks, to a buffet holds true in terms of variety, the Dayton, Ohio-based jam band is metaphorically more akin to straight-fromthe-garden produce than a stale smorgasbord.

Throughout their 10-year existence, the band has incorporated disparate genres such as rock, funk, singer-songwriter and psychedelia to produce a dynamic, ever-changing sound.

“We also do ballads and singer-songwriter stuff and afro-bohemian stuff,” Chafin said.

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danceability and improv.”

Their wide-ranging sound attracts a wide range of people and promises something to please everyone. Chafin said that couples are a popular demographic, as the guys can “rock out” and the gals can dance.

According to Chafin, the band’s diverse sound comes from their varied musical backgrounds, tied together through common influences such as Phish, STS9 and Lotus.

Since their inception in 2005, The Werks have gone through numerous lineup changes.

While it seems like this would cause sonic discontinuity, Chafin stresses that lineup changes help the band develop. Each new artist influences the group with a new sound.

Perhaps because of this, Chafin believes the band is currently as good or better than it’s ever been.

“I feel like we’re playing some of the best music we’ve ever played right now as a band,

and it’s a really exciting time,” Chafin said.

“We’re definitely catching our stride right now.”

A big part of The Werks’ growth and development has been their busy touring schedule, and a big part of the band’s grind is the summer festival circuit. The band isn’t exactly playing the Bonaroo or Lollapalooza, rather the under-the-radar and surprisingly huge jam festival circuit.

A quick perusal of The Werks’ Facebook page shows a flurry of announcements of the band playing jam festivals all over the country.

The centerpiece of these, however, is the band’s own festival, The Werk Out Music and Arts Festival.

“We’ve been on the road grinding,” Chafin said. “We’ve been through the trenches and paid our dues and grown and explored a lot musically, and have a good chemistry because of it.”

Chafin, in addition to his typical duties with the band, also runs their music festival. Going into its eighth year, Werk Out has featured the likes of STS9 and Umphrey’s McGee. While running the festival warrants a heavy commitment, Chafin is anticipating some major growth for the band. The Werk Out Festival takes place about 100 miles east of Dayton, and the Midwest connection is important for The Werks.

“As we grew as a band and toured, the Midwest has always been one of our biggest markets,” Chafin said. “The Midwest is a very friendly, outgoing, community-based region, and we try to bring those vibes everywhere we go.”

While audiences could heavily analyze the band’s shows and break them down into all the genres they cover, perhaps the best explanation is the most succinct. Chafin himself said, “it’s basically just a dance party, man.”

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Estacion Inka offers fast, authentic Peruvian street food Whether for midnight drunchies, mid-day snack, new University Avenue spot has great taste

by Meghan Horvath ArtsEtc. Contributor

Skip the lines and generic commercial vibes at Chipotle or Qdoba, instead experience authentic Latin American cuisine at University Avenue’s newest addition Estacion Inka.

From the owners of long-standing Peruvian restaurant Inka Heritage, Estacion Inka offers downtown Madison traditional Peruvian food at a bargain price.

Located at 604 University Ave., the site that briefly held Taco Bros, Estacion Inka opened Jan. 21 as a late night food option, given its prime location in the thick of bars and its 3 a.m. closing time on weekends.

Unlike Inka Heritage on Park Street, Estacion Inka is centrally located, offering counter service in lieu of the sit down, waiter concept. These attributes target students looking for fast, convenient food.

Burgers, sandwiches and roasted chicken are the main features of the chalkboard menu at Estacion Inka, though a selection of fresh fruit juice smoothies and desserts are also offered.

The roasted chicken is affordable yet satisfying, with its spice-rubbed skin, and meat that is far from dry. This menu item is served with a choice of side — either yuccas, sweet plantain, salad or rice and beans.

The yuccas or yucca fries are made from the root vegetable yucca. It tastes much like traditional french fries, only its slightly denser than a potato. While the flavor is quite similar, the texture of yucca fries is much heartier.

A specials board advertising desayuno features a salchipapas con yucca dish, which arrives as sliced, pan-fried sausage atop a bed of yucca fries. The sausage is crisp and caramelized, yet juicy and teeming with savory flavor.

The salchipapas con yucca is served

with four sauces. The first is a lighter, cilantro lime sauce. Another is a deep purple color, reminiscent of a blueberry smoothie, but with a strong olive flavor.

The remaining two are a simple mayo and a spiced queso sauce. Each enhances the already gratifying comfort food flavor of the fries and sausage.

In terms of Estacion Inka’s most popular items, the staff recommends the chicharron de Esmeralda sandwich.

Served on a flaky sesame seed bun, the chicharron features roasted pork, red onion, lettuce, cilantro and garlic.

Per the menu, the sandwich includes a couple “secret ingredients” as well.

For something lighter, Estacion Inka’s jugos frescos (fresh juices) are prepared with 100% natural fruit and come in a variety of flavors. Though called juices, the drink’s texture is much more reminiscent of a smoothie. Among the listed options are papaya, fresa (strawberry), piña (pineapple), mango and chica morada, a traditional Peruvian beverage made from purple corn.

Continuing the sweetness, the dessert options at Estacion Inka include some Peruvian dessert classics. A creamy tres leches cake of condensed milk, evaporated milk and heavy cream is offered, as well as arroz con leche (rice pudding). Bite-size alfajores are served as caramel sandwiched between two buttery cookies. The mousse de lucuma then showcases the tropical lucuma fruit native to the coastal valleys of Chile, Ecuador and Peru.

Whether looking for late night drunchies, an affordable lunch between classes, or an afternoon smoothie to fight the mid-day slump, Estacion Inka enhances the food options downtown with its unique offering of fresh and authentic Peruvian flavors.

Photo · Estacion Inka sets the table with a variety of food categories, particularly its sweet Peruvian desserts.

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Experts calculate risks of repeated head trauma in high-impact sports

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en Fischer, lying at home, away from school and unable to function, was a vegetable — or at least that’s how his mother described him.

“I just couldn’t do anything and I had some issues as far as bodily functions go,” Fischer said. “My mom said I was just lying there. That in itself was really scary.”

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The vegetative state he found himself in for nine days came as the result of a concussion he suffered after a head-tohead collision with a teammate during high school basketball practice. He woke up in the hospital 40 minutes after the incident, with the following days consisting of his inability to do anything.

It was the second concussion he suffered, but in terms of the severity, the two were not comparable.

At that point, Fischer had to make a decision.

“One more and I’m going to call it quits,” Fischer said. “I knew once I got my third concussion, I was going to be done.”

That third concussion came two years later during a football practice at University of Wisconsin. Fischer, currently a sophomore, played football for the Badgers his freshman year.

Fischer doesn’t recall the exact events leading up to it, but his teammates told him he didn’t know what he was supposed to be doing and wasn’t even stable enough to drink water.

Recognizing the promise he made to himself just two years earlier, Fischer decided his football playing days were over.

“From my senior year [of high school] to the last day of training camp here at the start of my freshmen year, football was pretty much my life,” Fischer said.

“It was hard, but it was a relief at the same time.”

A poorly understood injury

Concussions have grown to become one of the biggest mysteries in the sports world. While research over the past decade has led to a better understanding of the head injury, there is still so much researchers and other professionals do not understand.

One of the biggest questions currently stumping researchers is just how many concussions is too many.

Dr. Alison Brooks, a sports medicine specialist at UW who sees any studentathlete who suffers a concussion, said there are too many individual factors that go into the injury to determine what that number is.

“At what point do you worry that the number of concussions that someone has had in their lifetime is going to resort to long-term issues?” Brooks asked.

“You couldn’t make … a cookbook that everyone can follow. It really has to be each individual athlete.”

After Fischer was diagnosed with his third concussion, his mental functioning

was inhibited to the point where he couldn’t do his schoolwork. He said he often failed to understand his class readings, and generally struggled to do anything beyond basic math. These symptoms lasted for about a month.

A year later, however, Fischer said he feels just fine. Complete recovery is an outcome common among athletes who abandon their careers at the college or high school level, Brooks said.

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At what point do you worry that the number of concussions that someone has had in their lifetime is going to resort to long-term issues?

Alison Brooks

“I have not seen any evidence right now that the millions of kids who play high school football go on to have any long term problems,” Brooks said.

“A lot of the concerning findings and information that we are hearing about is coming from a very select population, as in people who played in the NFL for 15 years.”

An underreported injury

A general lack of long-term consequences, however, does not dismiss the importance of reporting concussions at an amateur level, Brooks said.

Brooks said it’s common for athletes to feel internal pressure to return to the field, as they often feel as though they are letting their teammates down. But she, along with other trainers, continue to stress precautions the more they find out about these types of injuries.

“That’s part of the role of the medical staff, to intervene on an athlete’s behalf,” Brooks said. “Returning to the team is not in your best interest and we are not going to allow you to do that because an athlete cannot make that decision objectively.”

Studies show approximately 3.8 million concussions occur in the U.S. every year during recreational sports and competitive activities. Fifty percent of those concussions go unreported, Dee Warmath, a UW professor in the School of Human Ecology, said.

According to UW Health statistics,

those who have had a head injury are two to four times more likely to have another head injury.

Additionally, 33 percent of people suffering from concussions may have continued symptoms.

Altering perceptions

To better understand why about half the concussions active college-age students receive go unreported, Warmath and athletic training department head Andrew Winterstein are launching a study, “Making it Stick: A Social Marketing Experiment to Alter Concussion Attitudes and Behavior.”

Through the project, funded in part by the National College Athletics Association and the U.S. Department of Defense, Warmath, Winterstein and their team will study and survey members on UW’s recreational sports club teams to determine the best way to educate and alter student attitudes about concussions.

The first phase of their study will examine how various external factors can affect a person’s likelihood to report a concussion, Warmath said.

These include education, the social context a concussion occurs in, and avoidance of concussions’ consequences, such as continuance of postconcussion symptoms like headaches and dizziness.

“Where does this incentive come from to play through getting your bell rung?” Warmath said.

Warmath said researchers will also work to find out which education materials on concussions may be more memorable or accessible to students.

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from to play through getting your bell rung?

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Researchers will communicate with club sports athletes to examine what matters to them in terms of brain safety, and how they comprehend concussion materials and intervention methods, among other questions.

As part of the study, each club sports team will also be evaluated to determine how effective the NCAA’s concussion fact sheet is compared with two other alternative educational intervention methods.

“Hopefully through surveying the different groups, we can work to move the needle forward to improve [students’] willingness, knowledge and attitudes toward reporting a concussion,” Winterstein said.

Because the researchers are examining a broad range of students in the study, Winterstein said the knowledge they gain from their research will be applicable to other active college-aged students, such as division three athletes at other schools.

Winterstein said the competitive club sports teams at UW are similar to athletes in Division III, so the educational materials they develop off of UW’s club teams will likely be applicable to them.

Division one athletes have likely received information on concussions their whole lives, Warmath said. But some students who have never been particularly interested or active in sports might have never received information — it all depends on what activities students have done and what their requirements might be, she said.

“It’s an interesting mesh of two areas that people wouldn’t logically put together, but it seems to be working so far, we’ll see in a couple years,” Winterstein said.

In numbers: Twenty percent of the estimated 1.7 million head injuries that occur in the United States each year are sports-related

What remains

But even if an athlete reports a concussion, there is no surefire way for those administrating the protocol to know whether a player is completely healed from it — another step for research.

“We do all this other clinical testing,” Brooks said. “Their balance has to be back to normal.

We test their vision in different ways and we do different cognitive testing. They have to pass that.

But we don’t have an objective way to really know if they are completely recovered from the injury.”

As part of the NCAA funded study, Brooks said UW researchers will research concussions among student athletes. They will go beyond basic clinical tests, tracking the athletes for their entire lives, giving them sophisticated MRIs of their heads and even getting blood work to look for particular markers of brain injuries.

This is all being done with the intention of finding a way for concussions to be explicitly identified.

“Our hope is that one of these days, with all of the smart people working on this injury, we are going to find some objective test,” Brooks said.

“We’re studying thousands of collegiate athletes with concussions and are going to be doing advanced testing on them. I’d like to think that in five or 10 years we are going to have an answer.”

But even if that day arrives, the consequences of concussions on the brain have proved too serious for Fischer to recommend high-impact sports to his future children.

For now, he is left regretting his own decision to stick with high-impact sports for so long.

“As I went through the long-term symptoms of my concussion, it helped to put things into perspective of what can happen when your mental health is messed with by something that could have been completely avoided,” Fischer said. “It’s like a shocking realization that you voluntarily put yourself in that position and you know the risks.” of my concussion, it helped to put things into perspective of what can happen when your mental health is messed with by something that could have been completely avoided,” Fischer said. “It’s like a shocking realization that you voluntarily put yourself in that position and you know the risks.”

In high school athletes, more than 50 percent have reported a history of concussion and more than 33 percent of collegiate athletes have reported a history of multiple concussions Approximately 10 percent of sport-related injuries require hospitalization

Those who have had a head injury are two to four times more likely to have another head injury

The majority of concussion patients recover quickly with rest, but as many as 33 percent may have continued symptoms 3.8 million concussions occur in the U.S. every year during recreational sports and competitive activities. 50 percent of those concussions go unreported.

Data courtesy of UW School of Medicine and Public Health

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Sex, love addiction presents treatment challenges in face of stigma

by Meredith Head Hump Day Columnist

In recent years, sex addiction has found itself in the spotlight in the media and pop culture.

Along with Tiger Woods’ 2010 sex scandal culminating in an admission to struggling with sex addiction, many films in the last 15 years have centered on sexual compulsiveness and addiction. Movies such as “I Am a Sex Addict,” “Shame” and “Thanks for Sharing” depict darkly comic protagonists who pursue prostitutes, infidelity and secret masturbation sessions.

Even Netflix joins in with the recent release of romantic comedy series “Love.” Starring Gillian Jacobs, the series follows the protagonist Mickey as she struggles with various addictions — ranging from narcotics and alcohol to love and sex. Mickey even attends SLAA: Sex and Love

Addicts Anonymous.

Despite sex addiction’s entrance into popular culture, this particular pathology remains controversial among psychologists and professionals in the medical community.

Following Patrick Carnes’ 1983 publication of “Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction,” experts began working to devise therapies and many treatment centers opened their doors to struggling sex addicts.

Although plenty of folks seek help for love and sex addiction, no such diagnosis exists in the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is used by psychologists and psychiatrists to make diagnoses and prescribe treatments. During their most recent update of the DSM to its fifth version, the American

Psychiatric Association — due to insufficient peer review — rejected two independent proposals for inclusion of “hypsersexuality,” the preferred terminology for many experts.

Those diagnosed by certified sex addiction therapists report sexual compulsions that they are unable to control despite negative consequences. Sex addicts may obsessively view pornography, even in inappropriate situations where they are likely to get in trouble, like at work. They may be incapable of resisting sexual opportunities, masturbation and engage in sex for pay activities whether it be over the phone, online or in person.

As these behaviors progress, the person may feel a “high” that acts as an escape from problems or emotional intimacy.

Unfortunately, the consequences of guilt, embarrassment or ruined relationships only serve to facilitate increases in disorderly sexual behavior, and the vicious cycle continues.

Love addicts, on the other hand, find themselves intoxicated by seduction, the initially overwhelming infatuation of the “honeymoon phase” in relationships and lust. Individuals identifying as love addicts may exhibit destructive patterns throughout intense, painful, insecure or codependent relationships. Once the rush of a new connection dissipates, they may grow bored and seek new relationships.

These unsuccessful relationships often recreate themselves as the love addict struggles to create lasting feelings of attachment.

Experts explain the phenomenon of sex and love addiction by reinforcement of intimate behaviors with positive chemical reactions in the brain. When lovers have sexual encounters, hold each other or even share emotional intimacies, the brain responds by flooding the body with oxytocin, dopamine and endorphins.

Oxytocin — the “cuddle chemical” — reinforces trust, dopamine creates positive feelings in our reward and pleasure centers and endorphins create a rush of excitement and satisfaction.

Treatment for love and sex addiction includes a 12-step program, cognitive-behavioral therapy, SLAA meetings, group therapy and inpatient or outpatient programs.

Various behaviors apart from sex and love — breastfeeding, exercising and even eating chocolate — also release these chemicals into the bloodstream. The simple fact is that any activity associated with these happy neurotransmitters has the potential to become addictive, since they create powerful reinforcements for behavior.

Skeptics of sex and love addiction argue that these risky behaviors likely stem from related but more legitimized disorders, such as bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or dopamine deficiencies.

Culture often shames people who struggle with sexual impulse control by labeling them “promiscuous” or simply incapable of commitment. But if one struggles with sexual compulsions, help should be sought. Regardless of whether or not sexual addiction should be characterized as a legitimate disorder, there is no disgrace in seeking assistance to create healthier, happier relationships. Find a sexpositive therapist and fight to erase stigmas surrounding mental health issues, especially those surrounding sex.

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Judge Hillary Clinton on her politics, not appearance Superficial factors like beauty, what color pantsuit she wears, but not hold her to higher standard

by Teresa Turco Columnist

I am not a politically-minded person. I watched the Republican debates with an eye roll and a bag of popcorn, and I could barely stomach the Democratic debates because socialism made me nervous and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton annoyed me.

When I started thinking about who I wanted to vote for, I immediately discounted Clinton solely because I find her unlikeable. She seems robotic and conceited. During debates, I hardly listened when she talked because I was too busy complaining about her to my roommates.

But why did I have this dislike for Clinton?

I realized that my distaste for Clinton had nothing to do with her politics and everything to do with my perception of her character. She seemed too self-assured, too scripted, too stiff. I didn’t like the way she argued or her pantsuit.

Yet, I didn’t hate the way Gov. Martin O’Malley, D-Maryland, talked or despised U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vermont, hair. I didn’t immediately discount U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, because I thought the way he held himself was robotic.

I didn’t like Clinton, but my reasons were unfair. Clinton has to pave her way in a man’s world, walking the lines of assertive vs. aggressive and empowering vs. alienating feminist. She has faced criticism of her age and her wrinkles, despite being far from the oldest or wrinkliest. She has to take it all while wearing unflattering pantsuits the general public mercilessly makes fun of.

I was judging Clinton to a different standard that I held the other candidates to.

Politics aside, Hillary Clinton is an impressive figure. She received her law degree from Yale University, and spent years in the White House, redefining the role of First Lady from hostess to presidential advisor. She served as a senator and as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, and she has been a prominent figure in national politics for 20 years, breaking barriers for women everywhere.

It would be fair to discount Clinton and support another candidate because I preferred their politics. But it would be unjust to declare I won’t vote for her because I find her stiff, unrelatable or unattractive because those words are gender-charged.

Social psychology has proven time and again that various physical and demographic characteristics impact our perceptions and a person’s success. For example, tall men earn higher salaries than shorter men and are more likely to hold positions of power in their companies. Attractive people are thought of as more intelligent, kind, talented and honest than unattractive people. Women are viewed as more hostile than their male counterparts if they ask for promotions and raises. All of this

Photo · Clinton has experience needed to be president, but despite all of her qualifications she struggles simply because of how society views women.

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Superficial factors like appearance and gender sway promotions, pay raises and even presidential elections. Thus, Clinton’s gender may put her at a disadvantage.

I am accustomed to certain talking patterns for women and I’ve come to expect them.

Women are more likely to nod and smile — a characteristically people-pleasing behavior — and an stern-faced woman is seen as cold.

Women tend to phrase directives as questions instead of commands, and if a woman does issue a command, it comes across as nagging.

Feminine speech patterns are generally sociable, friendly, and submissive, which is usually a good thing and makes women inclusive and likable communicators.

Unfortunately, the predominant speech pattern in politics mirrors the masculine traits.

One should speak with confidence, loudly and assertively. To me, it is unfeminine and off-putting when a woman speaks that way because I am not used to it.

If Clinton smiled and spoke softly, she’d be criticized as weak. But when she speaks

stridently and with confidence, I see her as bitchy and cold. She has been called shrill and been criticized for sounding like a nagging wife — all for speaking in a similar manner as her male opponents.

I think she is remote and distant, and when she tries to appeal to young audiences, her actions seem contrived.

I label her hair and her clothes conservative and unlikeable, but as a politician she must wear professional clothing that looks stuffy to me. I am used to seeing men in suits at event like homecoming, weddings or job interviews — men wear suits. But I didn’t grow up around women in pantsuits, so the sight is not normal to me and it is off-putting.

Gender biases influenced my opinions of Clinton and that’s not right. I should base my opinions on her political ideology and her past performance because perception of personality is much more subjective and lends itself to prejudice.

Unfortunately, I don’t think I am alone in my feelings about Clinton.

As a college student in a liberal campus,

I generally come across Sanders supporters.

They plaster “Feel the Bern” stickers on their laptops and post adorable videos of Bernie sprinting through the airport on the way to save America. His firm opinions spellbind them and they find his wild hair endearing. To them, he is like Yoda or Dumbledore, a little unorthodox but invariably wise and badass.

Despite being a college student in a liberal campus, I do not often meet Clinton supporters. Students don’t gush about her ideas or litter my newsfeed with loveable Hillary memes. They tolerate Clinton as the likely opposition to the Republican candidate, but they don’t like her. They find her cold, untrustworthy and unrelatable.

I hope, for our nation’s future and for glassceilings everywhere, their opinions are firmly based on facts and not swayed by pantsuits.

Teresa Turco (tturco@wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in psychology and economics.

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Bees keep Wisconsin’s industry buzzing, go underappreciated Pollinators are responsible for about $55 million worth of state crops

by Hannah Fricke Columnist

What’s the buzz about bees, and why should I care? Long story short, if you are a human who likes to eat food, there is a pretty good reason to care about the bee population, especially in Wisconsin.

Usually, words such as pollen and bees are not seen fondly, due to allergies, painful stings and whatnot. But despite the bad rap, bees and other pollinators are absolutely critical to the ecosystem. Nobody likes getting stung by a bee, but in the grand scheme of things, the little creatures contribute a lot to us humans.

These pollinators are essential for more than 150 crops in the United States alone, and contribute $55 million worth of crops in the state of Wisconsin. Unfortunately, we have not been doing our part in this symbiotic relationship, and bee populations are on the decline.

This is not good for us.

In Wisconsin, the disappearance of our natural pollinators means a decline in native crops like cherries, cranberries and apples. On a national scale, that group includes almonds, melons, fruit, grains — you get the idea.

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Photo · Bees are responsible for growth of 150 crops in the U.S. making them essential to continued agricultural and overall economic success.

Rachael Lallensack The Badger Herald who enjoys eating. The honeybee die-off rates in Wisconsin in 2015 were among the highest in the country — a staggering 60 percent.

The list of benefits bees bring to us as a species and to the ecosystem goes on and on. Now that we are beginning to understand the importance of bees, we must ask ourselves why this decrease in population size is falling so dramatically.

A large component of that question boils down to pesticides. Wisconsin has a flourishing corn and soybean industry, which totals to a net worth of $6.2 billion. These crops are inarguably important, but often the pesticides farmers use on them can be harmful to bees.

Unlike many other types of plants, neither corn nor soybeans require pollination. Because of this, the importance of pollinating species populations is sometimes overlooked and brushed aside.

Some other contributing factors to the decline of bees include too few flowers to provide nectar, lack of genetic diversity in artificially bred honeybee populations and bee-targeting viruses and parasites.

This isn’t a game of pointing fingers and blaming someone for the decline of bees. It is an issue that should be attracting much more attention than it is because the significance of bees isn’t often considered in everyday life.

Thankfully, the government is starting to step in and implement a plan to save the bees. In May 2015, the Pollinator Health Task Force released the “National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honeybees and Other Pollinators.”

This plan is designed to address both immediate and long-term changes to help positively impact the population of pollinators across the nation. One of the goals of this strategy is to restore 7 million acres of land for natural pollinators by 2020.

Similarly, Wisconsin followed suit by introducing “Pollinator Protection in Wisconsin.”

This initiative, which the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection set into place, aims to inform the public of the importance of bees and distribute strategies to promote their longevity and well-being.

One of the largest controversies surrounding these initiatives is the question of whether or not these measures will be enough. The initiative outlines simple information and steps individuals can take on a voluntary basis, but no firm action or regulation on a large scale.

Bees are perhaps one of the most beneficial but underappreciated species in existence. It is easy to overlook the contributions they make to the ecosystem, and what they do for resources we use every day.

Next time you grab a piece of fruit at one of the dining halls, or sit down with fresh salad for dinner, remember the creatures that worked hard to pollinate that food and their importance to us as humans.

Hannah Fricke (hfricke@wisc.edu) is a junior majoring in microbiology and life sciences communication.

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Alvarez’s comments bring issues of struggling hockey program to surface Future of Eaves and team in question as attendance drops, players underperform

by Ben Cross Men’s Hockey Writer

With two losses to Michigan State, the Wisconsin men’s hockey team finalized its spot at the bottom of the Big Ten for the second straight season. The job security of head coach Mike Eaves is in question and the attendance in the Kohl Center has taken a noticeable spiral downward.

While those issues would normally be seen as the focus for such a storied program, recent comments by athletic director Barry Alvarez about the team are grabbing more of the headlines.

Alvarez said in a budget discussion two Fridays ago the hockey team “will not make or break us.” Several members around the Athletic Board construed the comment as an attack on the team and an indicator the men’s hockey is now taking a back seat to other sports.

Alvarez quickly stemmed the tide of those rumors through a letter he immediately released to students, faculty and staff outlining what he truly meant to say.

The letter, while vague, explains why Alvarez used the phrasing he did and how he was

referencing only the budget for the team, not the success or goals of the program.

“We are committed to reestablishing Wisconsin men’s hockey as one of the elite programs in the country,” Alvarez said in the letter. “I know and respect the great tradition that has been established by the student-athletes who have come through the program and the tremendous support we receive from a very loyal fan base.”

Whether genuine or not, men’s hockey has never truly been a main focus for Alvarez at Wisconsin. In 2006, the year after he stepped down as head football coach and became the school’s full-time athletic director, men’s hockey won its sixth NCAA championship. Since that time, the team has only been to one Frozen Four and won the Big Ten twice.

Last season’s total of four wins marked the worst season in school history. This year’s team has topped that feat by only two games with as few as three series left to play.

Now, with the head coaching position for basketball highly contested after Bo Ryan’s retirement, Alvarez has bigger fish to fry than a hockey team that is underperforming.

In a quick response to the alarming lack of success by men’s hockey, Alvarez neglected to send Eaves his annual contract extension. Rather, Alvarez sent Eaves a letter, explaining how the absence of the extension stemmed from his inability to compete over the last few years.

This opens the conversation to whether he will retain the spot into next season.

“It’s a shame the guys in that locker room aren’t being awarded for their effort with wins,” Eaves said. “I feel bad for our kids and I know they’re disappointed. The only adjustment I would make at this point would be to start putting the puck in the back of the net. We are still doing some really good things.”

Attendance is another main concern for the team, and could very well explain the comments from Alvarez. Season ticket sales have dropped 52 percent since the Alvarez era began and 23 percent since the Kohl Center era began back in 1998.

While those inside the athletic department are hesitant to admit the poor results of the team are affecting ticket sales, it’s becoming more and more apparent that they are. The series against Northern Michigan this season held two games that both

ranked in the top six smallest crowds to ever gather in the Kohl Center. Annual ticket sales have plummeted from more than $1 million to less than $40,000 in only five years.

Student tickets are often exchanged now for $5 or even free depending on the game, and from last year alone, season ticket sales for Friday games have dropped by almost a fourth.

With the growing popularity of men’s basketball, Alvarez has really struggled to keep interest in men’s hockey high. Wisconsin still ranks second in the NCAA for highest attendance each year, but falls outside of the top 20 in percentage of space utilized.

Whether Eaves remains as the coach or the team loses this season out, neither Alvarez nor anyone else can deny Eaves’ ability to recruit, and the promising young talent that is already on the team. The last series of the regular season at rival Minnesota could be a big indicator as to the future for Wisconsin men’s hockey.

The Badger faithful and Alvarez are looking towards the future, but that future still remains uncertain. Alvarez’s comments are alarming, but not indicative of any action to come.

Stand Gard: Badgers new head coach asserts place in top position Despite team leader’s selflessness, second half of season has been all about him, Badgers’ turnaround

by Nick Brazzoni Sports Editor

Greg Gard has been named head coach of the Wisconsin men’s basketball team. No more interim label, no more audition and no more need for endorsements from coaches around the country.

After 23 years as a college assistant, Gard has finally been awarded the job after the work he’s done with the Badgers this season.

Gard entered his time as interim head coach with the mindset that it wasn’t going to be about him. Despite those on the outside describing the second-half of the season as an audition, Gard insisted it was not.

Instead, it was about making sure all 17 of his players got the experience they deserve as part of this program.

“I said from day one that this is not about me,” Gard said, following the team’s final home game against Michigan. “I told the team, this is not an audition. I will coach them the same way, whether I have three months to coach them or 10 years.

This has never been about me, it never will be. It’s about those 17 guys in that locker room.”

Despite what Gard has said — and he has stuck to his word throughout the second half of the season — it’s been quite clear this has been all about him from his very first game coaching against Green Bay. Game after game, Gard has faced criticism.

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with a heartbreaking buzzer beater in the Kohl Center from Maryland guard Melo Trimple.

Those surrounding the program started to lose hope, but Gard wouldn’t allow it to happen.

“I told them there is no pity party here,” Gard said following the Maryland loss. “Nobody feels sorry for us.”

From there, things only got worse.

The Badgers dropped a road loss to a Northwestern team, that currently sits in 10th place in the Big Ten. This was the lowest point of the Gard era.

Something was wrong, but no one from the outside looking in really knew what it was. This team had the talent to compete, especially against a team like Northwestern, but they weren’t showing they had what it takes to return to the NCAA tournament.

Was it the coaching? Was it a lack of motivation after so many losses? Were they simply not as good as Wisconsin fans expect the program to be year after year?

That answer came to light after the team’s win over then-No. 4 Michigan State, which served as the victory that turned the Badgers’ season around.

“Obviously numbers are one thing, but I’m happy how they’ve handled the locker room and they’re continuing to be messengers for the coaching staff,” Gard said after the game. “Just for the whole group for how they’ve bonded and become tighter and tighter as we’ve moved forward.”

Through the coaching change, the losses, the feeling of the team losing control of this season, the problem wasn’t talent, it was the inability to come together — team chemistry.

Photo ·After taking over as interim head coach at the end of December, Gard led the team to a 13-6 record through the end of regular season.

Marissa Haegele The Badger Herald Junior guard Bronson Koenig shared how they managed to do that following such a crushing loss.

“We just came together as a unit and told each other that we had to play for one another,” Koenig said. “I thought we had some good dialogue in the locker room after that game and let all of our emotions out. We knew that if we wanted to win, we had to do it together.”

From that moment, these Wisconsin Badgers would never be the same. The team won their next seven games in a row and 11 of their next 12, including wins over No. 19 Indiana, No. 2 Maryland and No. 8 Iowa Now, as it stands, the Badgers are tied for third place in the Big Ten and headed for the NCAA tournament after completing one of the biggest turnarounds in college basketball history.

Gard took a team that looked lost and hopeless, and turned them into not only Big Ten contenders, but also legitimate contenders on the national level. For that, he has been rewarded with the job opportunity he’s been working toward for the past 23 years under his mentor Bo Ryan.

But as Gard will continue to say, it was never about him and it never will be.

“These guys only have a very small spot in college on their life timeline,” Gard said. “I’ve only focused on trying to make sure these guys are having a great experience, and I think they are having a great experience.”

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Mom’s ‘Microsoft Office’ endorsement flings LinkedIn user to employment User hopes to include endorsement in resume after figuring out how to use ‘Microsoft Word’ resume template Adding to the long list of University of Wisconsin innovations, math theorists and engineers have allegedly created the thinnest toilet paper. The announcement was made Thursday after the toilet paper had passed extensive testing the Van Vleck bathrooms. Scientists around the world are hailing the revolutionary toilet paper, citing that it seemingly defies the laws of physics with its width.

“At first glance, the toilet paper appears to be only two dimensional,” lead researcher Glen Perry said. “But we all know that’s impossible. It’s actually a whopping 0.4 nanometers thick!”

The new toilet paper is expected to save the university thousands in paper costs, entirely making up for the recent budget cuts. Officials commented that the discovery could not have come at a better time, as the university was on the brink of having to take out loans to cover toilet paper costs.

“Having full one-ply toilet paper in every bathroom is luxurious,” Dean of Students Lori Berquam said. “But here at UW, we aren’t royalty. We’re people. We won’t continue to pamper ourselves with one-ply toilet paper anymore.”

Had the discovery not been made, the Board of Regents was considering removing toilet paper all together in favor of a campus wide “Use Your Hand” policy.

The new toilet paper will avoid this policy. As an added bonus, researchers said they have designed the product to be similar to the previous Van Vleck toilet paper in every way except thickness.

“We didn’t want students to have to make too big of an adjustment,” product testing coordinator Jim Farmington said.

“In this way we can gaurantee our new toilet paper is as fragile and frustrating as the old kind. Maybe even more so!”

Students are reported to be marveling at the sheer genius of the research. Many

bathroom goers claim to be in a state of disbelief after hearing about the new toilet paper.

“They actually found a way to make the Van Vleck bathrooms even shittier?” sophomore Alex Brunswick said.

“That’s actually incredible. I can’t even be mad about that.

They really outdid themselves.”

At present time engineers can be seen around the Van Vleck bathrooms checking to make sure the stall locks were still broken, as well as ensuring at least one toilet remains unflushed.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell admits to obstruction fetish McConnell’s wife finally understands regular outbursts of ‘filibuster’ and ‘government shutdown’ in the bedroom In what was originally thought to be an attempt to relieve stress caused by all the negative publicity surrounding him, senate majority leader Mitch McConnell was reported to be masturbating on an overpass above a large traffic jam in Washington, D.C. He released a statement detailing why he felt the need to masturbate to the sight of a traffic jam.

Following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, McConnell has been accused of obstructionism for his refusal to accept a new Supreme Court Justice until a new president is sworn in.

“I can’t help it,” McConnell said.

“Whenever I see something as obstructed or slow moving as cars in a traffic jam, I just get aroused. I can’t explain it, I just always have. To be completely honest I can’t get hard unless I’m looking at something obstructing something else. It’s why I love my job so much--not doing it gives me real sexual pleasure.”

Democrats said McConnell’s obsession with obstruction makes him unqualified to serve in the senate. Reports of McConnell’s interest in obstruction allegedly arose as early as high school, when McConnell got

suspended after a lecture on filibusters for what classmates referred to as ‘whipping his dick out’. After McConnell admitted to his obsession, his personal assistant Felicity Cummings and Democratic senator Edward Rikshin commented on McConnell’s behavior.

“Working with Mr. McConnell has always been odd,” Cummings said. “He had me hire people to cut in front of him in lines when he was already late for meetings. It felt like he was just trying to not do his job but this fetish thing seems like him.”

“Everything makes so much sense now,”

Rikshin said. “Every time any bill got rejected, Mitch would moan to himself until the next bill got introduced to the floor. We never once saw him take notes, nor did we see his hands above his desk.

People like him are the reason nothing gets done in Washington.”

Despite the criticism of McConnell, he is not without his supporters. Other obstruction fetishists, mostly republican senators, have rallied behind him. They coined the expression “Fili-Bust a nut” to describe their pleasure at the sight of obstruction.

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