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R’Place ordered closed after shooting Madison asks court to temporarily shut down southside bar for investigation Adelaide Blanchard News Editor A southside bar was the center of a whirlwind of controversy this weekend after a nearby shooting left three people injured, resulting in a city-mandated shutdown

of the bar and a Madison Police Department SWAT team searching an apartment seeking links to the shooting.

The shooting occurred Friday on the 1800 block of South Park Street, where R’ Place, owned by Rick Flowers, is located.

MPD Captain Joe Balles said Saturday the three victims left R’ Place the night of the shooting and one of the victims was a former employee.

Shortly after the shooting, R’ Place was

forced to close its doors for a few days.

On Friday, Madison Attorney Jenifer Zilavy filed an application for a restraining order on the bar through Dane County Circuit Court, according to an MPD report.

The restraining order, which claims R’ Place is a public nuisance, was granted. A hearing is scheduled for Sept. 27, according to the report.

A sign on R’Place’s door reads: “Closed without due process! Call

your alderperson! We will reopen 9/27/11.”

While Balles said no suspects are currently in custody, MPD’s SWAT team executed a search warrant Saturday in an apartment on the 1800 block of South Park Street to find anything related to Friday night’s shooting, according to an MPD report.

The report did not disclose if any items related to the shooting were found.

Balles called

the shooting an “assassination attempt” as three people were injured either from bullets or flying pieces of glass. A high-caliber assault style rifle was used in the shooting, which Balles said is unusual for Madison.

The victims of the shooting were taken to University of Wisconsin Hospital. Two of the victims are in “stable but serious” condition, Balles said.

On Friday afternoon,

Flowers declined an interview with The Badger Herald and said the media has misrepresented the story of his bar in the past.

The south side bar has been fighting for its liquor license for the past year.

The Alcohol License Review Committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday to deliberate on the status of R’ Place’s liquor license

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Ride the Drive cut short due to weather warning Streets reopened to cars, buses two hours early; attendance takes drastic drop Adelaide Blanchard News Editor Nasty weather literally rained on Madison’s parade Sunday morning, causing Ride the Drive to close two hours early.

By 12:30 p.m., approximately 1,000 people had turned up for the free family biking event, said Anne Whisner, who helped coordinate this fall’s Ride the Drive.

“Usually we have closer to 20,000,” she said. The last Ride the Drive in June drew a crowd of almost 25,000.

Whisner said the rainy, cold weather was to blame for the drop in attendance.

She said Madison Police, in coordination with the event planners

and city traffic engineers, decided to call the event two hours early at 1 p.m. because of the threat of severe weather and opened up the roads at that time.

But the on-and-off rain didn’t keep everyone off their bikes.

Amy Horton, a Madison resident, said Sunday marked the second time she had attended Ride the Drive, which is in its third year.

She and her two children, Annie and Izzy, said they had come up East Washington Avenue and had planned to bike around to the other stations at Olin Avenue and Brittingham Park, only to find the event was wrapping up.

Horton said while the weather dampened her family’s general mood, it was nice to have the streets to themselves.

“I like going off the bumps,” Izzy said, referring to hilly East

Washington Avenue.

If bicyclists were to start down State Street toward campus, the route would wind to Lake Monona through John Nolen Drive, and then turn back into the isthmus to East Washington Avenue, which would pour riders back into the Capitol Square, according to a map of the route.

Those streets were closed to car traffic, but despite the closures, Mary Carbine, director of Madison’s Business Improvement District, said businesses in the area generally welcomed the bike outing.

The fifth Ride the Drive saw some changes allowing for more car traffic, Whisner said.

The inbound lane of East Washington Avenue was open all the way up to the Capitol, according to a statement from the City of Madison. Butler Street was also open to traffic.

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During Sunday’s Ride the Drive event, Madisonians were free to ride, walk or skate through several of the city’s streets without worry for cars or buses. Madison began the popular event in 2009 after being inspired by a similar community event in Colombia.

Carbine said this weekend was “visitor intensive” with other events, including the Badger football game, drawing people to the city. The changes to the

Chow down!

Wisconsinites bite into cheese pizza on Library Mall for Ian’s Pizza on State Street’s 5th annual Pizza Eating Contest. Ian’s teamed up with cosponsors The Comedy Club on State Street, Majestic Madison and Fontana Sports Specialties to bring the finalists a pair of tickets to The Bindle, including the opportunity to see the Polish Ambassador, Conspirator and Ana Sia. Although prior sign-ups were required, some walk-ins were allowed to fill the spots of no-show contestants beginning at 5 p.m.

route made it easier for people traveling around the city.

“It was a little disappointing [to] not have quite as many roads open,” said Joel Gratz,

a Madison resident who has participated in at least three Ride the Drive events.

Gratz said the dreary

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ASM moves for transparency acts

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Council approves measure to allow UW access to understand seg fee allocations Selby Rodriguez Campus Editor Student Council held an extra session Sunday night to debate legislation revolving around transparency issues that could not be discussed last week because of time constraints.

Legislation ensuring referenda transparency when dealing with segregated fees was passed with unanimous consent during last night’s meeting.

This legislation mandates projects placed on the student referendum provide an initial estimate of how much a new building project will initially cost students, how much students will be paying per semester in segregated fees and how long students will be paying.

Student Services Finance Committee Chair Sarah Neibart said the legislation was important, as students need to know exactly what they are voting for and how long they will be paying for it.

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necessarily understand segregated fees and what they’re paying every semester,” Neibart said. “I think this is a problem on campus, and it’s our job to help educate.”

She emphasized the legislation is not a direct reaction to the Memorial Union Reinvestment Project, which will be put to a campuswide referendum following the council’s approval at last week’s meeting.

A separate transparent segregated university fee referendum act, guaranteeing new projects provide an estimate of their spending was also passed with unanimous consent — and will be voted on again during Wednesday’s meeting as part of the council’s normal procedure.

Rep. Tom Templeton spoke on an email transparency act, allowing listserv access to ASM members desiring it.

Members would have to notify Chair Allie Gardner in writing before being placed on the listserv that currently is sent to the

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United States Postal Service unions are reaching out to the public to seek support for a rally against the postal service cutbacks scheduled to be implemented around the country.

The rally, which will take place locally on the Capitol Square Tuesday, is organized by the members of four USPS unions, according to a statement from the American Postal Workers Union.

Protests have been scheduled in every congressional district in the country, the statement said, and will take place Tuesday in opposition to the Postal Reform Act of 2011, introduced in June by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight

and Government reform.

If passed, the Postal Reform Act will save the government agency an estimated $10.7 billion a year, according to a statement from Issa. The reform act would also prevent the struggling agency from receiving a multi-billion dollar bailout paid for with taxpayer money, the statement said.

Tuesday’s Madison rally will take place on Capitol Square and King Street from 5 pm to 5:45 pm, according to Save America’s Postal Service’s website.

Sally Davidow, the national representative for the American Postal Workers Union, said the purpose of the rally is twofold: to create awareness in Americans and politicians about the truth of the financial difficulty the USPS is now facing and to support a House bill that

would delay the cuts.

The legislation would push back the $5.5 billion payment the Postal Service is liable for to pre-fund health care for future retirees.

“The cutbacks are unfair because they are unnecessary,” Davidow said. “According to the provision of the 2006 postal law, the USPS is required to pre-fund a 75-year liability to cover the health benefits for future retirees within just 10 years.”

In the statement, Issa said the Postal Service lost over $8 billion in 2010, and is projected to lose at least that much this year and in 2012.

He said out of control labor costs and unnecessary infrastructure have caused USPS’s financial instability, and said these need to be eliminated in order to prevent a taxpayer bailout of the government agency.

Davidow said no other agency has been forced to shoulder the burden to prefund benefits.

“The cutbacks would destroy the Postal Service,” she said. “The cuts will degrade the service, and this will be inconvenient to both rural and urban areas, especially for people only with access to the post office and those who are dependent on our services.”

Since the cutbacks would be widespread across the country, Davidow said the effects would be felt by both workers and citizens.

If passed, the act would also create Postal Service Financial Reponsibility Assistance Authority in order to restruction the USPS and reduce annual costs to the agency, the statement said.

This authority would attempt to bring USPS in a position to pay off their debts if they do

into defualt with the federal government.

In the statement, Issa said the legislation will modernize the way the postal service operates, giving them a structure more attune to a business which will allow them to keep their costs down.

Postal service employees, the statement said, receive higher benefits than the workers of any other federal agency.

This disparity, which amounted to an estimated 700 million in lost savings last year, will be eliminated by the bill.

The bill would also insure workers receive wages closer to those of adjacent private sector employees. the statement said.

Contrary to popular belief, the Postal Service had been enjoying a surplus, Davidow said, making a revenue of $70 billion a year.

UW nuclear research spurred with US grant Federal funds to aid local workers in developing new ways of maintaining temperature in reactors through salt Seung Park News Reporter Scientists at the University of Wisconsin are planning to take nuclear research to the next level with the help of a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The grant will be put toward projects in collaboration with universities around the country, according to a UW statement.

One project, helmed by UW engineering professor Todd Allen, senior scientist Mark Anderson and distinguished research professor Kumar Sridharan, will seek to develop new ways of maintaining the temperature within a nuclear reactor using

molten salts instead of water.

“We’re trying to examine if you can use salt at a high temperature as a way to control a nuclear reactor,” Allen said.

“Right now, everything is cooled by water. We’re trying to develop a new type of nuclear reactor.”

One potential advantage of using salt is that it transfers heat better, Allen said.

The salt coolant project is a collaboration with the University of CaliforniaBerkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“In our research group at Madison, we have a long history of studying the material properties and heat transfer properties of

high-temperature salt,” Allen said. “The people at MIT and Berkeley had an interest in designing reactors that would use these salts,” he said. “It was a natural collaboration.”

The research gained even more meaning following the Japanese earthquake and ensuing tsunami. The earthquake highlighted several issues with water coolants, Allen said. Since the waterdependent Japanese reactors were breached during the disaster, the disaster crews were forced to pump water into the system to avoid a catastrophic meltdown.

“If you have a leak, your ability to cool the reactor is better [with molten salts],” he said.

“In order to use a water

reactor, you have to have high pressure,” he said.

However, using salt does not require as high of a pressure, Allen said, and salt removes heat better in a number of ways.

The new design generates higher temperatures and can also be used to produce transportation fuel, according to a UW statement.

Another project UW is working on is the development of new, longer-lasting storage systems for spent nuclear fuel in conjunction with six universities around the country.

“What we want to do is not a huge departure,” said Sridharan, who is leading the project. “Right now, the target is sixty

years of storage, but with the new approach, we want to go to 300 years.”

If everything goes well, the new technique could be in use very soon, Sridharan said.

“We are going to develop the methodologies for it, and it will be quite practical within a few years — 10 years, roughly,” he said.

“The materials we are dealing with are pretty standard.”

In addition, the grant from the Department of Energy included funds to upgrade related equipment, such as a new detection system for a scanning-electron microscope and the modernization of waterlevel sensing and control equipment for UW’s research reactor.

Badger fans given valet bike parking Camp Randall attendees to receive free services to alleviate football game stress to Computer Aided Engineering.

News Reporter The corral is open Badger football fans to the public an hour choosing bicycles as their before the game starts. mode of transportation Bicycles parked in the will no longer have corral must be picked up to worry about before one hour after the parking space after the game ends or the bikes University of Wisconsin will be impounded.

While bikes will not introduced a free bike be locked, they will valet last Saturday.

The service, which be watched by valet aims to provide access staff, the statement to a free, secure parking said. Newman said space for Badger fans attendants will be held riding their bicycles, responsible for the bikes, is sponsored by UW’s but students should not leave valuable Transportation items with their Services bikes. A check Department must be and provided “We thought claim presented to by the Bicycle claim a bike.

Federation of it would The lot will Wisconsin. be a safe, not be open Associate efficient to vehicle Director of UW parking during Transportation addition to the games.” the hours it Casey reserved Newman said Casey Newman is Director of UW for bike valet the service has been in Transportation services.

Newman discussion said Saturday’s since the first game was an Badger football opportunity for game of the UW Transportation to year.

“We thought it would gauge people’s response be a safe, efficient to the new service.

Associate Director of addition to the games,” the Bicycle Federation Newman said.

He added a number of Wisconsin Amanda of Madisonians will White said the new benefit from the service will provide service, especially with students and fans the the current weather opportunity to start off game days with conditions.

“If you look around less stress, making the the stadium, the overall experience more weather is nice; quite [a enjoyable.

“The bike valet is number of] people use [bicycles],” Newman hassle-free and located within a few blocks of said.

According to a UW the stadium,” White said statement, the bike in a statement. “Badger parking space is located fans will arrive [at] the in Lot 114 at 1420 game stress-free and Engineering Drive, next ready for fun.”

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ASM Chair Allie Gardner listens to debate Sunday night surrounding transparency issues on the UW campus and how the council could address the problems. The council looked at measures to increase access to seg fee allocations and the council email server.

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These individuals would have reading privileges only.

Templeton said this would ensure transparency previously promised by candidates running for the current session.

Rep. Sam Polstein agreed with Templeton’s proposal.

“This makes the body more transparent, as people more interested in ASM can easily follow what’s going on each week and what is on the agenda,” Polstein said.

Neibart opposed the legislation for two reasons,

one being the confidential matters SSFC deals with concerning budget hearings and eligibility.

Neibart also said she did not approve of the proposal being mandated through legislation, as students could just ask the chair to be included on the listserv.

After discussion, the motion carried.

Chief Justice Kate Fifield introduced new legislation concerning the closed session bylaws.

The Student Judiciary is the only branch of the Associated Students of Madison that is required to record all closed sessions, according to bylaw 104(3).

In a cover letter dealing with the new legislation, it is stated that this is

discriminatory against the Student Judiciary, as there are six circumstances for closed sessions. SJ is included under one of these, and if SJ is included, the cover letter states the other five circumstances must be as well.

Fifield stressed that SJ is one of the most transparent bodies of ASM as all decisions made are documented and explained thoroughly.

She also made the case that SJ is in charge of making a large number of sensitive decisions, which is why a closed session is needed.

Therefore, she said she is afraid council members may use any recordings in a negative manner.

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Dems: State funding for private schools harmful Leah Linscheid News Reporter Wisconsin Democrats are criticizing the renewal of a Milwaukee Parental Choice Program proposed by Republicans that would increase the amount of state money flowing into private schools.

The program, which has been in place since the 1990-91 school year, allows students from a low-income background to attend private schools in the Milwaukee area, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s website.

The private tuition is publicly funded by the state of Wisconsin. MPCP was recently expanded to the Racine area, and for the 2011-12 school year more than 100 private schools will participate in the program.

According to the DPI website, a student can qualify for the Parental Choice Program based on their current residency, their parents’ yearly income and where and if they were enrolled the previous year.

In the 2010-11 school year, the state aid granted for a student enrolled in the program was either $6,442 or the private school’s specific cost per student, whichever was less, the statement said.

In the 2010-11 school year, more than 20,000

students participated in the program, resulting in a cost to the state of more than $3 million, the statement said. Sixty percent of the cost was paid by the state, and the rest was covered by MPS. “Yet again, [Republicans are] passing policies that benefit the rich at the expense of people who work for a living,” said Graeme Zielinski, spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

“They’re taking money from public schools and funneling it into private schools.”

Zielinski said Republicans in the state have been implementing massive cuts to public education institutions in the state in order to subsidize private schools.

He added they have continuously tried to move public education in the state to a more privatized model, which he said was evident in their attempts to privatize the health care of school faculty in the state and privatize the UW System.

Proposals like this, Zielinski said, will hurt middle-class families who rely on the public education system.

In a June 2011 statement, President of School Choice Wisconsin Susan Mitchell said such proposals actually serve as a “huge victory” for Wisconsin and for all types of Wisconsin citizens.

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Tracy Drier from UW’s Chemistry Department demonstrates a glass blowing feature at the Science Festival this past weekend. The festival was held at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery in the first floor’s Town Center. Check online for exclusive Badger Herald video coverage of the festival.

“This is a game changer for Wisconsin--for the first time, parents outside Milwaukee will reap the benefits of educational choice,” Mitchell said.

Despite Zielinski’s accusations, the statement said Walker’s biennial budget, passed in June, dramatically expands MPCP “to include tens of thousands of working class and middle income families.”

According to the statement, Walker’s recent legislation creates a large increase in the family income qualifications, removes the cap on the number of students who can participate and an increase in the number of private school options for students throughout Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau is currently conducting a five-year study on schools participating in the program with students first selected from the 2006-07 school year, according to a statement from the LAB. The study hopes to determine how MPCP affects academic achievement in students, the statement said.

Although the report is still pending, research shows that on nationally normed standardized testing, about three-fifths of students nationwide scored higher than students enrolled in MPCP, the statement said.

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Taxes to apply to roll-your-own cigarette machines Customers who make their own product on site to see price increases Mollie Olsem News Reporter The Walker administration and state officials have contacted roll-your-own cigarette companies and warned them they will no longer be able to avoid paying the state’s cigarette tax.

According to a statement from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, the businesses responsible for selling and renting the roll-your-own cigarette machines to tobacco stores should be considered both manufacturers and

distributors.

Under this distinction, the businesses that rent the roll-your-own cigarette machines would not be allowed to avoid the state’s tax on cigarette retailers.

Advocates of the equal tax rule say the parallels between the roll-your-own product and cigarettes are evident.

The machines offer the same type of tobacco as store-bought cigarettes, Health First Wisconsin spokesperson Emily Rohloff said.

She said when a customer enters a store, they can request a specific tobacco based on what brand they normally prefer to smoke.

Once the rolling papers have been purchased, both the paper and the tobacco

are put into the machine by the customer, Rohloff said.

In approximately 20 minutes, the patron exits the store with as many roll-your-own cigarettes as they wish, each one very similar to the prepackaged product, she said.

Rohloff said the rollyour-own cigarette machine companies feel the new tax requirement is an unjust change because they are not the ones manufacturing and distributing the cigarettes.

Since the customers actually fill the machines, the companies behind them feel they should not be taxed, she said.

Still, Rohloff said this tax change is a promising idea.

“Some of the most

price-sensitive consumers of tobacco are youth. By having cheaper cigarettes, it makes cigarettes more

“By having cheaper cigarettes, it makes cigarettes more acceptable and more affordable.”

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acceptable and more affordable,” Rohloff said.

As of now, Rohloff said a carton of cigarettes bought pre-packaged in a store totals around $36 in state and excise taxes.

On the other hand, the tax on roll-your-own cigarettes is only about $7. The Department of Revenue wants the two to cost the same.

Rohloff said aside from preventing youth from starting to smoke and bringing in extra state revenue, the proposal could keep adults from starting or continuing to smoke. “[The lower price of rollyour-own cigarettes makes it] easier for a kid to start because they can afford it more,” Rohloff said. “It also makes it harder for adults to quit.”

Rep. Evan Wynn, R-Whitewater, supports the proposal.

In a statement, Wynn said he approves of the actions on behalf of Gov. Scott Walker and the

Department of Revenue and has expressed his desire for a speedy implantation.

He said he sees no difference in cigarettes manufactured in a plant or an in-store machine.

“The roll-your-own machines have been a concern of mine since I came into office,” Wynn said. “While I am against any increased or new taxes, this move by the Department of Revenue is about tax fairness.”

While the exact number of machines in the state of Wisconsin is unknown because of the lack of permits, the Department of Revenue is moving to solidify the new tax change starting with the makers of the machines, according to the WDR statement.

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will make the final call on R’ Place’s liquor license based on ALRC’s recommendation.

While R’ Place’s liquor license revocation process has been making its way through the city committee, Verveer said R’Place is currently operating under a Chief of Police Security Plan, which has increased security and placed strict conditions on how many patrons can be in the bar at one time.

after violent incidents unrelated to this weekend’s shooting called the safety of the establishment into question last year.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said nothing about if this weekend’s shooting will officially be taken into consideration when ALRC deliberates this week.

Ultimately, Verveer said, the City Council

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The ‘R Place bar on South Park Street has been temporarily closed down after a shooting incident left three severely injured this weekend. The bar’s liquor license has been under investigation for several months.

weather was a departure from the past rides he went on, when the weather set the perfect stage for the free community bike ride.

Those who came early had an array of activities to choose from if they were

brave enough to ride on the puddle-ridden streets. The station at the Capitol had live music and local bike and food vendors open, Brittingham Park on Lake Monona had some diversions for families and Olin Park on John Nolen Drive had a rock wall, Whisner said.

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MCSC wants both equality and preferential measures “The Multicultural Student Coalition is an alliance of students deeply committed to social justice and the principles of unity, integrity, responsibility and respect. ... MCSC’s institutionalized working structure provides a healthy environment for students and the campus community to work together, learn about and from each other, and take an active role in enriching [the] Madison community.”

This, my fellow Madison students, is a mission statement provided verbatim by the Multicultural Student Coalition on page six of their denied waiver requesting upward of $1.27 million in segregated student fees. In response to the submission of this mandatory waiver, MCSC claimed the form was rife with “white privilege,” “Eurocentrism” and finally, that the Student Services Finance Committee was

“dripping with the audacity of self-given and unearned power.”

I have no affiliation with the Multicultural Student Coalition, the SSFC or ASM in general. I may not represent these campus groups or in general a “marginalized” background, but I have ears. I have eyes. And as an individual who pays segregated fees, I most certainly have a voice. What I’ve seen and heard throughout these past few days has made me question the authenticity of the MCSC’s mission statement. Unity? Integrity?

Responsibility? Respect? Not according to my dictionary.

First and foremost, I want to shy away from ideological frustrations of race and instead project my frustrations in simple mathematical and administrative terms.

According to ASM’s website,

the funds the MCSC are requesting fall under a section of allocated fees known as the General Student Services Fund, which comprises 18 percent of total revenue from segregated fees (around $23 million).

This means the GSSF has somewhere in the ballpark of $4,140,000 to dole out to programs like Sex Out Loud, GUTS, Vets for Vets, the Working Class Student Union, Adventure Learning Programs and of course, the Multicultural Student Coalition.

To reiterate, MCSC requested $1,270,488.20 from the GSSF, or approximately 30.68 percent of the fund’s total available endowment.

This equates to a 480 percent increase from their 2010-2011 budget ($264,346). Some of these requests include $22,350 for printing and photocopying, $75,000 for rent (because they claim

their SAC office is filled with racists and gawkers), $5,100 for advertising and $488,653.20 for staff salaries.

Now I’m no accountant, but MCSC’s request seems far from comparable to that of other student organizations requesting funds. Furthermore, when asked to prioritize their budget (in case the GSSF was not able to accommodate their request in full), the MCSC refused and called the mandate “atrocious.” Why? Because doing so “looks like us ranking which students deserve services paid for by their own segregated fees.” Frankly speaking, it appears that MCSC has already made that choice for us. By requesting over 30 percent of all available GSSF funds, their organization has effectively undermined equally indispensable programs like tutoring, sexual health and awareness

and services for student veterans. In the process, they have criticized our student government, which is equally dedicated to serving the students of this campus, of racism and bigotry for following protocol and having MCSC submit a waiver for an unprecedented budgetary request that toes the line of absurdity. As “marginalized” students they wish to be treated equally, and yet when it comes to financial and administrative procedures meant to establish uniformity, they expect ASM to adhere to their agenda or risk being castigated publicly.

This is not an issue of skin color. It is an issue of selfish entitlements. So much for unity, integrity, responsibility and respect.

Brett Bernsteen (bbernsteen@wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in United States history and Spanish.

Herald Editorial MCSC lacks tact, leadership in yearly budget dealings Diversity is in danger on this campus, as it has been for the last 163 years. UW needs ambitious, effective leadership to achieve a nurturing space for all its students, which comes at times from the Office of Diversity and Climate, classroom education, exchange programs and groups aimed at marginalized students.

For the last 10 years, the Multicultural Student Coalition has been one source of a dedicated diversity agenda. But after a request for nearly $1.3 million in funding for 201213, the future of that agenda is uncertain. With the $1,270,488.20 requested, up from the $220,586.88 received this year, MCSC hopes to add 17 more staff members,

including three full-time employees. They also plan to increase services on campus and move into an offcampus space they say will be much more conducive to their mission. To put it simply, they are gearing up for an all-out effort to tackle diversity issues at UW. That is an admirable, essential goal, but in the process MCSC has risked everything by compromising its credibility and putting its funding in danger. A waiver MCSC submitted to the Student Services Finance Committee is troubling in its disregard for balancing the organization’s overall mission with its idealism.

The last segment of the document details how MCSC is unwilling to provide a “prioritized list of spending”

because that “concretely looks like us ranking which students deserve services paid for by their own segregated fees.”

Diversity is an area where idealistic goals are needed, but not without a realistic approach to achieving them.

There are limited funds available to student groups on this campus, and there will always be organizations without the funding they need. SSFC’s core purpose is to find the best way to distribute segregated fees, and they make use of strict regulations to achieve some semblance of fairness. SSFC is, for a lack of a better word, the accountant of the Associated Students of Madison. They do not make the rules; they ensure they are followed.

While this board agrees there are flaws in the SSFC system, a funding application is not the place to fight them. Charges the system does not work should be taken very seriously, especially from an organization as prominent as MCSC. ASM has provided means to evaluate and change it, and MCSC should pursue their concerns with ASM at the appropriate time.

MCSC’s difficulty meeting SSFC deadlines is also troubling. SSFC dropped the ball in providing student groups with the appropriate amount of time to turn in paperwork, but MCSC is also at fault for not keeping in better contact concerning something as important as their budget. These are annual, set deadlines.

Alex Brousseau

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There is no reason to not be prepared.

Inclusiveness and the use of students’ segregated fee dollars are both realworld issues. Handling them requires all sides to play the part of professional organizations. No matter what importance they ascribe themselves, MCSC and SSFC can’t both be brick walls. Change must come from both parties.

MCSC has the potential to play an even greater role in the future of inclusiveness at UW, but only if they act with the tact and power to bring all parts of campus together. Money may bring the power, but the tactfulness to solve some of UW’s biggest problems can only come from a true display of leadership and cooperation.

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Proposed Bad River mine affront to Native rights Charles Godfrey Columnist Last week, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s tribal council had a meeting with Gov. Scott Walker at the Capitol. The meeting concerned the planned Gogebic Taconite mine on the Bad River Watershed, which will blast down to the iron ore and, in the process, create a four- to five-mile open pit mine. Open pit mining is the most primitive and environmentally

destructive form of mining that is still practiced today, and this is only the first phase of the project.

The Gogebic company and its supporters have boasted about the economic benefits the mine will bring to Wisconsin, claiming it will directly create 700 mining jobs and indirectly create almost 3,000 jobs in the trucking and foundry industries. The proposed mining project would bring in hundreds of millions of dollars per year to the state.

However, the Bad River Band has concerns.

They believe acid runoff from the mine will destroy their watershed and ruin their traditional rice harvests. The council feels it has been excluded

from the planning and approval process for their lands and waters, and wants to ensure it will have control in the environmental regulation for the mine. The Band insisted that contested case hearings, which allow citizens to contest a mining permit before it goes to trial, should be preserved. The current draft bill eliminates this process, giving the Native Americans no say.

For the Bad River Band, the proposed site of the Gogebic mine is their home.

“This is our land. This is where we live. We can’t just pack up and move,” said Frank Connors, a member of the tribal council. If anybody has the right to determine

the future of the land and resources of the Bad River Watershed, it is the Native Americans who live there.

Although Walker met with the Bad River Band, he seems to be indifferent to their requests. He said he supports the mine as long as it doesn’t harm other business sectors in the state, such as farming and tourism. Apparently, Walker listened to the Band’s thoughts about mining laws and then disregarded them.

The discussion about the process is moving forward. It seems the governor wants to make good on the mantra of creating Wisconsin jobs and won’t be dissuaded by the demands of the state’s Native American people.

It is disappointing

that the rights of Native Americans will once more be trampled in the pursuit of natural resources and economic interests. The consistent and systematic disregard for their rights to land use and resources is one of the ugliest and most tragic aspects of American history, and if the Gogebic Taconite mine opens up on the Bad River watershed, it will confirm that American government still disrespects its native people.

Today, Walker, lawmakers, the Gogebic Taconite company and the state of Wisconsin have an opportunity to be leaders for the rest of the country and set an example for the future of Native American rights, both with regard to land and resources and as

fellow citizens. Wisconsin could show the rest of the country that it values the cultural history of the Bad River Band and its right to a clean and healthy watershed more than the taconite lying in the ground beneath them.

I hope that those who will decide the future of this taconite mine realize that Wisconsin doesn’t need jobs and money that come at the cost of disregard for the dignity and civil rights of the Native American people who have lived here longer than Wisconsin itself existed.

Charles Godfrey (cwgodfrey@wisc.edu) is a sophomore majoring in math and physics.

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Rocky the Herald Comics Raccoon™ President Obama, my Keystonesian economics thinktank has come up with a stimulus plan: How about a tax holiday for booze purchases?

Then people won’t notice how bad the economy is.

Can we drink our way out of this recession?

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Films shine in Spotlight series

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MMoCA’s fall lineup illuminates five critically acclaimed indie documentaries Kevin Kousha ArtsEtc. Reporter Any Badger likely remembers their tour of the school, if they had one.

Despite all of the marketing and hype, tour guides always readily admitted what they believed to be the school’s only flaw: There was no movie theater within walking distance.

And yet, despite the frequency of this complaint, it failed to acknowledge the deeper truth. Between Memorial Union and now Union South, as well as independent film showings around the campus area and the Wisconsin Film Festival, the campus area does offer the occasional opportunity to catch a flick worth watching.

But for Mike King and Tom Yoshikami, curators of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s Spotlight Cinema Series, the offerings are not enough.

What the campus still lacks, according to them, is the chance to see lesserknown independent and art house films on a consistent basis. Although it might be after a film is out of theaters, the unions allow people to see the “Black Swan”s or “Iron Man 2”s of the cinematic world eventually.

Catching the Sundance selection everyone’s been talking about or a film getting attention at the

Wisconsin Film Festival, for example, proves far more difficult.

As King put it, “Over the past few years, many local art house theaters have closed, which meant that many of the best new films weren’t screening theatrically in Madison at all.”

Entering this dwindling art house film scene is the MMoCA’s Spotlight Cinema series. Their current lineup, spanning the semester, features a five-film collection of documentaries and independent films on a variety of topics. Instead of being thematically unified, they simply try to bring into the public spotlight worthwhile and original films from around the world.

“We like putting together an eclectic lineup--films from different continents, and of different styles,” King said.

In doing so, they hope to revive the formally communal nature that lent itself to the viewing of art house films. The two also try to bring films from their favorite directors to Madison, often before their release in other parts of the United States.

The series’ selections prove this claim true. One film, “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” isn’t even showing in New York until December. Another, “Corpo

Photo courtesy of Kartemquin Films

‘The Interrupters’ led off the fall series at MMoCA’s lecture hall Thursday. Documentaries chosen by curator Mike King will play on select Tuesday nights through December.

Celeste,” isn’t slated to show anywhere until 2012.

The first film, “The Interrupters,” ran last Thursday. It follows the lives of three reformed gang members from Chicago’s South Side, re-entering the community and desperately trying to positively impact its residents and stop the violence that has plagued the neighborhood for decades.

Gritty and haunting, “The Interrupters” is much like the gang violence it portrays in that it takes absolutely no prisoners.

It is also the embodiment of the crossroads the Spotlight series tries to find: “The Interrupters” was a Sundance selection and an excellently shot documentary. In addition, it tells the tale of people not too far from Madison, with footage of lives many Madison residents have heard about but never seen.

As King put it, “There was palpable tension in the room … that you would never get at home.”

The Spotlight Cinema tries to tap into and amplify the art cinema undercurrent

running through Madison.

All of the films have been well received both by critics and audiences, and the venue and quality of the films make the $7 charge well worth it. Large enough to seat a respectable audience, but small enough to make the viewing personal, MMoCA’s Lecture Hall is the perfect venue for the kinds of films being featured. King agreed, “We couldn’t think of a better place for this.”

Perhaps there is no major movie theater in the nearby campus area, but there’s no

doubt that a sizable piece of the student body would rather see an independent film with John C. Reilly than the next installment of the “Twilight” saga.

Running intermittently on Thursdays at 7 p.m., “Spotlight is a chance to step away from your Netflix queue and have a communal experience with great art cinema.”

The Spotlight Cinema series is runs through December at MMoCA at 227 State St. For more information, visit mmoca.org.

Google must take leaf from ‘Book on consumer retention Sarah Witman ArtsEtc. Editor Facebook and Google are at war. This is a power struggle like our generation has never seen, except perhaps the one ongoing between Apple and Microsoft. When it comes to social media, for me, Twitter has always played second fiddle to Facebook — and Google Plus isn’t even in the band. But there’s more at stake than social network popularity, to make this issue sound more like two high school cliques’ bickering than it already does; both corporations continue to develop new features that could put them ahead in major industries like shopping, travel, music, movies and news.

Facebook’s only power lies in its 800 million members — it’s not innovative or multi-useful like Google — and stepping outside that role will lose the faith of those members.

Facebook seems to be acutely aware of this fact, and though it toes the line with its recent Spotify, Netflix and Washington Post partnerships it remains within bounds; music, videos and news are seamlessly incorporated into the conversations already taking place within its site, in ways that a “Facebook Documents” application or “Facebook Translate” would not.

Google, on the other hand, should be more worried. Google, as a business, is fun (see Time’s history of Google Doodles, including a recent tribute to Jim Henson, to back this up). Most people would consider the features developed by Google over the years to have diverse, convenient and valuable uses. However, Google as a whole is mostly serious.

Not quite Charles Schwab serious (pre-“Talk to Chuck” campaign), but serious all the same.

The 1998 company’s more popular additions to its top-notch search engine have been Google Maps, Android software, Google Translate, Gmail and the Chrome browser — all just about as sensible and

fun as my dad’s “driving shoes.” In contrast, one could argue that its most notable flop thus far has been its attempt at social networking with Google Plus. Google Plus has not yet served the purposes that Facebook has mastered: being all inclusive, offering information that its users want to know about their closest friends and acquaintances and providing features like photo-sharing to grease the wheels of these interactions.

Google Plus made its biggest mistake by networking through Gmail.

Although convenient, since everything was happening under Google’s umbrella, Gmail isn’t really social. A person can communicate with friends, but also family members, co-workers and strangers, without any crossover between these groups of the information being shared. Google Plus connected users with all these people at once, so they were getting invitations to join from friends — as well as professors, classmates and grandparents. This inevitable lack of separation created an awkward pressure, where Google Plus was more like LinkedIn

and Twitter trying to be Facebook all at once.

The anti-trust lawsuit brought by rival businesses against Google in the past week doesn’t hold much weight, especially since Google does not charge for the use of its services (something that makes both Facebook and Google exceptional). But this widely-publicized questioning over whether Google can be counted on to produce unbiased, relevant information to users should serve as a warning; the last thing a company, free or otherwise, needs is a faltering of consumer confidence.

Because of its highly addictive nature and ability to wend its way through the minutest intricacies of our lives, it would seem to follow that users would feel more threatened by Facebook than Google.

However, there’s something about the social networking site that makes it far less Orwellian than the ambitious projects set up

by Google — maybe the constant sight of our friends’ faces is subconsciously comforting. Or, more likely, it is Facebook’s ability to address that fear outright.

It’s no secret to users that the company’s revenue comes from ads; we’ve noticed them. But targeting these ads more specifically to users through the “likes” feature comes off as more beneficial than creepy, since you get bothered less by marketing that doesn’t concern you.

Besides, anything’s better than the Farmville days, when real notifications were unfiltered and became peppered with random quiz invites or promotions for games. Facebook learned how to avoid this unwanted media on its site, and rather than harken back to its initial days of megasimplicity, it is embracing the entrance of select businesses. Will recentlyannounced partnerships with Spotify, Netflix and Washington Post be good?

Probably, since they are addressing these choices, instead of just slipping them in. That is, as long as the industry of journalism isn’t doomed, Spotify doesn’t become illegal and Netflix doesn’t go under from its unpopular split between video streaming and movies-by-mail. But Facebook’s involvement should hopefully stave off

the impending fates of all three.

There’s no way around it: Google is the kid who does your economics homework, but when it comes to a social environment he just doesn’t fit in. Where Facebook and Google are powerful, they are highly distinct nonetheless.

Facebook is fun, honest and entertaining — everything we ever wanted from a social networking site, and more — and its new features provide more of what we already have come to love.

Google would do well to ensure that the features it introduces from here on out are supplementing the work users are already doing with it, instead of trying to be something it’s not.

The cutesy search engine needs to realize that, while being an equally-influential and more-innovative entity, it has much to learn from Facebook about respecting and understanding its clientele — especially since the two rivals are so fiscally dependent on users’ trust and regard.

Check out our multimedia coverage of the Facebook Hackathon in Madison online at badgerherald.com.

Gallery-goers can do better somewhere other than ‘Anywhere’ Chele Isaac’s exhibit delivers beautiful photography but falls short on emotion Lin Weeks ArtsEtc. Content Editor Unrest and discomfort go hand in hand. The former is an intermediate state, a feeling of flux that precludes normal behavior. The latter can be a result of unrest — the pain caused by turmoil or the uneasy feeling that creeps up in an unfamiliar situation. The two, when paired in art, elicit that stomach-churning stress that stays with the viewer long after walking away, the feeling that the artist has just pulled back the curtain on something

that’s not quite right.

Anywhere, an exhibit by Chele Isaac currently on display at Union South’s Gallery 1308, badly wants to provoke that kind of uneasiness. It’s evident from the set-up (smallish prints on vast white walls), ambiance (a soundless sideshow projecting an endless loop of images on one side of the gallery), content (mostly photographs of run-down houses) and finishing touches (two box-set televisions sit atop floral-patterned kitchen chairs, facing each other, rolling video of a heavily stubbled man walking very, very slowly down an abandoned road at night).

But it fails. Anywhere captures the unrest and turbulence it hopes to, but it is much too

disjointed to draw out any sense of discomfort.

The connectors meant to provide some context to

It’s impossible to tell whether the homes have been ill-kept, abandoned, vandalized or all three. The uncertainty is unsettling, but it’s undermined by the confusing additional elements. the images are less helpful than distracting. What’s left is an emotionally vacant exhibit and a

gallery of well-framed photographs.

Several elements attempt to bundle Anywhere into a digestible package: the aforementioned chairs and TVs, a thematic string of pictures of rooms in houses and a single print at the end of the hall showing two young girls, faces smudged, hair unkempt, looking blankly into the distance.

The house angle is the strongest of these three.

The exhibit’s most stirring photograph displays an empty room with cracked floors and walls and a broken window. A layer of dust covers the floor, but there are signs that people once lived there — a rag and a newspaper in the corner, a few metal objects near the wall. The entire setting is almost

monochromatically red, with almost no contrast between the now-ruined parquet floor and the brick facade of the fireplace. But a small, blue, unwrapped package sitting on the hearth screams out for attention. It, too, has a layer of dust.

All of the photographs of rooms are like that.

It’s impossible to tell whether the homes have been ill-kept, abandoned, vandalized or all three. The uncertainty is unsettling, but it’s undermined by the confusing additional elements.

By themselves, the pictures would tell a story, but when a man stalks his way through the middle of the room, unanswerable questions are raised. Is he transient, a product of those broken homes?

Or does he symbolize something that Isaac blames for the disarray?

The portrait of the girls only muddles the emotional message further. Normally, an image of children might signify hope, or, more darkly, lost innocence.

And though the girls are bathed in light, their blank stares signal only emotionless confusion, the indifference of being unable to understand.

The shot may as well be a metaphor for Anywhere itself. There’s a message in there somewhere, but it’s nowhere near cohesive enough to be truly impactful.

Anywhere is a free exhibit on display at Union South until October 4.

Gallery 1308 is open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

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Wisconsin buries Lindenwood in opening series RECAP Kelly Erickson Associate Sports Editor Scoring 24 goals in the first series of the season is nothing to complain about.

Extending its unbeaten streak from last season with a 13-0 win over the Lindenwood Lady Lions, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team has gone 29 games without a loss.

Nearly every Badger scored on the weekend, as all four freshmen found the back of the net. The only goalless Badger was sophomore Natalie Berg, who had four assists.

“It was really good,” said freshman defenseman Katarina Zgraja, who scored her first career goal Friday. “After you get your first goal, you’re more comfortable with the puck and you just feel good.”

Wisconsin held advantages in experience, talent and overall conditioning over Lindenwood, and senior forward Hilary Knight’s second goal of the game epitomized the series.

Twenty seconds after her first goal, Knight took the puck up the ice following the faceoff. She flipped the puck over the last defender and shot it past Lindewood’s goaltender, Taylor Fairchild, putting the Badgers up 2-0.

“I always practice

lifting it up and knocking it down and try to be a little creative — add a little spice to what we’re doing,” Knight said. “I like to have fun, and fortunately, that time it worked out.”

Knight and junior forward Brianna Decker each finished the day with a hat trick, while senior forward Brooke Ammerman and freshman forward Katy Josephs scored two goals apiece.

Head coach Mark Johnson was pleased to see contributions from most of his team so early in the season.

“Everybody got their feet wet, everybody had a lot of ice time and it’s nice to see everybody make a contribution,” Johnson said. “It’s good. If I’m a freshman, I got to play a lot, I made a contribution, so those jitters that maybe young kids have hopefully may be eased a little bit.”

In the drubbing, Wisconsin outshot Lindenwood 72-3. For the weekend, the Badgers put 132 shots on goal to Lindenwood’s 14.

Both sophomore goaltender Alex Rigsby and junior Nikki Kaasa saw time in net this weekend. Both games, Kaasa relieved Rigsby in the third period, facing about as many shots as Rigsby had in the previous periods.

“Yeah, my dad made a comment after the game on Friday, ‘Not a lot changed as you went out on the ice in the third period,’” Kaasa said.

“My defense, everybody played great this weekend, especially with us being short on players, definitely a good week to get our feet wet.”

Friday night’s season opener could not have set the tone for the weekend in a better way.

After watching a 201011 season recap video and

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finally dropping their national championship banner, the season opener was undeniably emotional for the Badgers.

Nevertheless, UW was able to stay focused in skating to an 11-0 shutout win. “[Knight] and I both looked at each other after the banner dropped and we said we got the chills,” Decker said. “We know it’s the start of a new season and we just have to be ready to go.”

The game began slowly.

Both teams had only practiced for about a week with their coaches, so things weren’t expected to click instantly.

Following a one-goal first period, the Badgers didn’t look back in scoring 10 goals throughout the remaining 40 minutes.

Not only did Wisconsin dominate Lindenwood in its first Division I game, it absolutely trounced the newcomer, out-shooting them 60-11.

With a short bench, the large majority of UW’s roster saw plenty of ice time. Specifically, the freshmen proved they can keep up with their defending national champion teammates.

On the Badgers’ fifth goal of the night, freshman forward Blayre Turnbull sent the puck through the crease to waiting freshman forward Karley Sylvester who sent it into the net.

“It means a lot,” Sylvester said of the goal.

“In the beginning, I was super nervous — all of us freshman were. After the first shift, we got it out.

Scoring in my first game, that’s pretty exciting.”

“I think we’ve got a really good group of freshman girls coming in,” sophomore defenseman Kelly Jaminski added.

“Even tonight it showed.

They work hard, so I think that’s exciting. That’ll be

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In their first series since winning the national championship in March, the Badgers swept the Lady Lions with 24 goals and no reply over the weekend at the Kohl Center. good because it helps our season keep going hard.”

As the most experienced Badger blue liner, Jaminski led UW’s defense while senior Brittany Haverstock and juniors Stefanie McKeough and Saige Pacholock are skating with the Canada National Team for the weekend.

Junior Alev Kelter is also playing with the Wisconsin women’s soccer team.

The sophomore scored her first two career goals as a Badger Friday night — both from the blue line — and also notched three assists on the night.

“New people stepped up today and it was really exciting to see that,” Decker said. “Our depth is as strong as it was last season and that’s what is going to be a big threat for us.”

Freshman’s late goal carries Badgers past Lions Heidi Hillebrandt Sports Writer Freshman David Caban’s goal with four minutes remaining pushed the Wisconsin men’s soccer team (4-3-1) past Loyola Marymount (2-6) for a 2-1 win Sunday afternoon.

The Badgers started the game off with a forceful offensive presence attacking the ball. Early on, junior Tamislav Zadro scored the first goal of the game for the Badgers at the 22:21 mark, the sixth time Zadro has scored a goal for the Badgers in the previous six games.

With the end of the first

RECEIVERS, from 10 of a floating, overthrown pass, Borland jumped the route on a pass from USD quarterback Dante Warren and snatched the ball before bringing it downfield for a 29-yard return.

“In our coverage, I was the free man there, so I was kind of reading the quarterback and I got a good jump on it,” Borland said. “As far as the return, I probably

TEST, from 10 easy, as he essentially let a poorly thrown pass from USD quarterback Dante Warren fall into his hands at UW’s 18-yard line with 7:43 remaining in the first quarter.

Johnson exited the game in the first half with

half nearing, the Badgers defensive unit made a more dominant showing on the field.

“It’s really nice, especially being a freshman, to get my first goal,” Caban said. “It was a bit of a relief, especially so late in the game. It’s pretty nice to come out on a Sunday and win.”

Caban’s goal was made possible with the assist from senior Josh Thiermann. After transferring to Wisconsin and being sidelined with injuries, Thiermann has been waiting to contribute to the team in a meaningful way.

should have stayed outside, but I’ll have to get another one and stay outside next time.”

Later, Warren fumbled the football on a fourth down right in front of the UW sideline, where linebacker Mike Taylor jumped on it, ultimately forcing it out of bounds and resulting in a turnover on downs.

“My goodness, listen, I was trying to scoop and score,” Henry said jokingly of the play. “I

a leg injury and did not return. Bielema said after the game it appeared that someone had stepped on Johnson’s knee or calf, and the trainers were concerned regarding the amount of internal bleeding. But after the game, Bielema said tests showed the injury wasn’t as serious as expected and

“Everybody always says, ‘Oh, you know it’s so emotional,’ but it honestly was for me,” Thiermann said. “To put the jersey on for the first official game meant the absolute world to me.”

Loyola Marymount scored a goal with three minutes remaining in the half to tie the game at 1-1.

Although the game was tied entering halftime, the Badgers had plenty of reasons to hold their heads high, especially considering they were outshooting LMU 8-5.

Opening the second half of the game, Wisconsin continued its heavy

don’t know what Mike [Taylor] had in mind, but he kind of dove. ...

Somebody stripped it, and the ball was just bouncing and it had my name all over it; that was the crazy thing. I’m thinking I’m going to catch it in full stride, go up the sideline and it’s going to be a beautiful, storybook ending. But Mike Taylor dives out of nowhere and tries to recover the ball, for what reason, I don’t know.”

Johnson should be fine, though he might spend the night in a hospital as a precaution.

Nearly seven minutes after Johnson’s interception, Chris Borland intercepted Warren and returned it 29 yards back the other way.

Borland, a former kick returner in high school,

defensive showing. The second half proved to be very physical with lots of pushing around and fighting for the ball.

The Badgers came off with four yellow cards in the second half as well as a few offside calls that seemed to be a struggle late in the game.

Nevertheless, UW wasn’t slowed.

After Thiermann capped the night with the gamewinning assist, head coach John Trask came away confident and impressed with Thiermann’s offensive play.

Trask felt Thiermann showed real knowledge

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Even the most rational Badgers fans would likely disagree with that ranking, and for good reason. And sure, they could very well be coming from one extragrumpy beat reporter yet to be drawn to the allure of Russell Wilson’s 75.8 completion percentage or 11:1 touchdown-to-

wound his way downfield on the interception return, breaking several tackles in another example of UW’s sudden big-play ability.

“We were in man coverage, and I was the cutter, as they say, I was the free man underneath to read the quarterback and pick off any [under-thrown

for the game and the team Sunday, realizing he needed to pass the ball off to Caban rather than go after the goal himself in the final minutes.

“Josh is playing hurt, and God love him for it but he is a fifth-year senior, and this is his last hurrah,” Trask said. “He is playing for the school, he is playing for the fans and he is playing for his teammates.”

Trask also felt it was UW’s overall athleticism that contributed to the victory against LMU. The Badgers out-shot the Lions 18-11, and with Sunday’s win, the Badgers find

interception ratio or Nick Toon’s five receiving touchdowns.

When Bielema revisited Nebraska Saturday, he managed to keep his expectation balanced. Sure, the Badgers want respect.

They feel they’ve earned it, but also know nothing’s guaranteed moving forward.

“We’ll take it for what it is. I realize from the outside looking in, there’s going to be a lot of

passes],” Borland said. “I saw [Warren] look down his receiver, and I got a good break on it.”

“I would’ve like to have had more turnovers, as far as interceptions go, but also turnovers in general,” safety Aaron Henry said. “I think we’re starting to peak at the right time, definitely

themselves sitting with a 3-2 home record.

“I thought it was a hard fought win today, and sometimes that’s all that college soccer is about, is winning,” Trask said.

The win is a solid confidence booster for the Badgers with a three-game home series approaching with games against instate rival Marquette and No. 1-ranked Indiana.

“They are home games.

You almost don’t need to say anything else,” Thiermann said. “Home games are the best; nothing is better than getting a ‘W’ at home in front of your home fans.”

eyes on us. But it’s only happening because we’ve done what we did.”

Mike is a senior majoring in journalism.

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going into conference play.

We had two interceptions today, probably should’ve had a fumble recovery, but it’s definitely a great feeling going into conference play with a win like this, and hopefully we can continue to put things together like this as we move forward in the next couple of weeks.”

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Wisconsin blows past South Dakota, 59-10; all eyes turn toward Nebraska Mike Fiammetta Sports Editor So much for looking ahead.

With the hotly anticipated game against Nebraska waiting one week away, Wisconsin (4-0) easily dispatched their Football Championship Subdivision foe South Dakota (2-2), 5910, Saturday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium.

The Badgers were carried by several big plays, including many by wide receiver Nick Toon, who caught seven passes for 155 yards and two touchdowns.

The seven receptions tied Toon’s career-high, and it was his second career game with at least 100 receiving yards.

Quarterback Russell Wilson also continued the stellar beginning to his Badger career, completing 19-of-25 passes for 345 yards and three touchdowns.

In total, the Wisconsin offense compiled 612 total yards, while the defense held South Dakota to just 173. 267 of UW’s yards came on the ground, as running back James White led all rushers with 95 yards and one touchdown on nine

carries (10.6 yards per) and Montee Ball finished with 88 yards on 15 attempts (5.9 yards per).

“What I like about our offense is, more so than any other time since I’ve been here, is that you really have to respect the run and the play-action game,” head coach Bret Bielema said. “They look so much alike, and there’s so much similarity between the two. It’s really difficult for defenders, especially the secondary support guys, corners, safeties, linebackers, that are trying to fill the run and [then] we pass.”

For an offense that scored at least 49 points in two of its first three games, Saturday’s game unfolded slightly in a somewhat more deliberate manner — for about five minutes. After South Dakota won the coin toss and elected to defer, Wisconsin gained only seven yards and was forced into a three-and-out on its first drive.

South Dakota, which had defeated the defending FCS champion and then-No. 1 Eastern Washington two weeks earlier, hung around early Saturday. Wisconsin led only 10-0 after the first quarter, and its third-down defense especially seemed to indicate that the game could unfold much closer than expected. South Dakota completed four of its first six third down attempts, and

for the game, the Coyotes finished 6-for-16.

“Defensively, today, there were some frustrating things a few times on third down, hopefully something we’ll improve on,” Bielema said.

But after forcing the Coyotes into a three-andout on their first drive, the Badgers’ onslaught began at the 8:25 mark, when a fiveyard run by Ball capped an eight-play, 60-yard drive that consumed 3:25. Kicker Kyle French added a 25yard field goal five minutes later after a 10-play, 73-yard drive that lasted 4:32.

The Coyotes got on the board in the second quarter, when after a 13-play drive, kicker Kevin Robb converted a 24-yard field goal. But two plays later, White broke loose on a 49yard touchdown run that put the Badgers ahead, 17-3.

“We just try to go out there and execute our offense, and whoever touches the ball, they’re going to try to make a big play,” White said. “If it’s over 600 yards, then that’s what happens with our offense.”

The Badgers final three scores in the second quarter all came on drives that lasted less than two minutes, an indication of the team’s remarkably big-play potential. White’s 49-yard run capped a two-play, 61 yard drive in 39 seconds, while Toon caught a pass

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On just nine carries, sophomore running back James White (20) rumbled off 95 yards, including a 49-yard sprint to the endzone in the first half. Wisconin’s talented stable of running backs ran amok Saturday, with four of them scoring at least one touchdown. from Wilson off a bubble screen, broke loose from one tackle and raced down the right sideline for a 59-yard score. That three-play, 78yard drive lasted only 1:12.

Three minutes later, with just 12 seconds remaining in the half, Toon dove to catch a two-yard pass from Wilson that capped a nineplay, 74-yard drive that lasted 1:45. That long drive was accelerated largely by the hurry-up offense, but also by a 45-yard pass from Wilson to Toon.

By halftime, Wisconsin’s lead was extended to 21-3.

South Dakota did not score again until 6:44 remained

in the game, and by that point, the Badgers led 5210 and the game was well out of reach. A 41-yard run by freshman running back Jeffrey Lewis put Wisconsin in the endzone with 2:06 left in the game and raised the score to 59-10.

“When I came here, I knew that we’d have a great offense,” Wilson said. “Week to week, we have to prove ourselves and get better every single week. I think that shows in practice.”

Aside from the stunning proficiency of the offense, Saturday’s game buoyed Wisconsin’s confidence

in its defense’s ability to produce turnovers and sacks.

Both of those areas had repeatedly been identified as areas that the defense could stand to improve on.The Badgers entered Saturday with seven sacks on the season and just one turnover, a fumble recovery

by Jordan Kohout against Oregon State in Week 2.

But against South Dakota, Wisconsin forced two turnovers — both interceptions on consecutive Coyote drives.

Safety Shelton Johnson had it

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SIDEBAR Kelly Erickson Associate Sports Add blowout No. 4 to the record books.

In its final nonconference game of the season, the Wisconsin football team crushed the South Dakota Coyotes, 5910.

While the Badgers weren’t necessarily in top form to begin the game, quarterback Russell Wilson opened up the field with the passing game, proving UW doesn’t just have a formidable rushing attack, but also an impressive attack through the air.

“Russell does a very good job focusing on getting the ball to other people, getting other people involved in the game plan,” wide receiver Jared Abbrederis said.

“Whoever’s open is going to get the ball. And you saw that today. Nick (Toon) had a couple great catches; [Wilson] got me a couple of the balls.”

Toon caught seven passes for 155 yards and two touchdowns and Toon played arguably his best Megan McCormick The Badger Herald game to date, gaining 100 Wide receivers Jared Abbrederis (left) and Nick Toon both hit the century mark against South Dakota Saturday, teaming up yards in a single game for for 256 yards and three touchdowns on 12 receptions. Both players caught a touchdown pass that went for 51 yards or more. the first time this season

and the second of his career. His performance also marked the first 150yard game of his career.

The Middleton native provided one of the most memorable plays of the game, stretching for an overthrown pass and catching it solely with his fingertips.

“Nick’s healthy,” head

“Whoever’s open is going to get the ball. And you saw that today.”

Jared Abbrederis Wide Receiver

coach Bret Bielema said.

“We’ve seen him make plays like that in practice.

He plays big. He’s catching the ball, in my opinion, as well as he can with his hands. Very few things are getting near his body. ... He’s a guy that, when he’s healthy and playing well, is as good as any wide receiver in the country.”

Toon wasn’t the only 100-yard receiver of the game. Abbrederis caught five passes for 101 yards

and a touchdown — also the first 100-yard receiving game of his career.

“He’s grown so much over these past two years,” Toon said. “He’s a competitor. He plays hard every play and obviously made enough plays to become a starting receiver for us.”

Defense finally generates turnovers Toon and Abbrederis’ performances weren’t the only season-firsts of the game.

After getting their hands on passes and breaking up several, the defense finally caught two interceptions and also forced a fumble.

“They always come in bunches,” safety Aaron Henry said. “Luckily enough for us today, we were able to get two back-to-back. Both of them were interceptions

by Shelton Johnson and Chris Borland. Hopefully this can catapult us going into Big Ten play, and hopefully we can develop more turnovers.”

While Johnson’s interception was the result

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Nebraska right opponent as Wisconsin seeks respect Mike Fiammetta Mike’d Up Sunday evening, shortly after yet another demolition of an inferior non-conference foe, Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema sat in the McClain Center media room, talking about things like the Badgers’ strong week of practice, the brief — very brief — moment of “adversity” UW faced in the first quarter against South Dakota and all the “fun things” his team has to prepare for this week against Nebraska.

It was all standard fare

for a Bielema postgame press conference, particularly in this 2011 season, where the Badgers have won their first four games by a combined 19434 margin of victory. The questions Bielema and his players have faced thus far typically reference the weaker competition in non-conference play, while some trend toward a sort of nit-picking over the perceived “weaknesses” in UW’s game, such as why the team has committed six penalties in every game or why Alec Lerner’s kickoffs have seemed inconsistent. The answers supplied by the Badgers have been expected, and thus, very few negative things have been written about this team.

But Bielema seemed to alter the pattern

somewhat in his opening statement following Sunday’s 59-10 victory over the Coyotes.

Unprovoked, Bielema played the “respect” card, a bit of a surprise considering the Badgers have already risen to No. 7 in both the AP Top 25 and USA Today Coaches Poll.

“The word ‘respect’ to me means a lot,” Bielema said. “I want people to respect what we do. We spend a lot of time trying to build up a reputation here of playing physical football, a mentality of being able to … put people away and kind of put your foot on them and go. I thought these guys did that.”

For a program — and the media covering it — that talks so frequently of “turning the corner”

into sustained national prominence, Bielema’s timing in mentioning the level of respect Wisconsin garners is excellent. With the Cornhuskers — as well as ESPN’s “College Gameday” pregame show

“Hopefully, it’ll be a nice informerical all week for the University of Wisconsin.”

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— finally coming to town for their inaugural Big Ten contest, the Badgers’ couldn’t have asked for a bigger platform under the national spotlight. “[It’s going to be]

a great scene, a great environment for college football,” Bielema said.

“Hopefully, it’ll be a nice infomercial all week for the University of Wisconsin.”

Outside of these two teams, the Big Ten has inspired very little confidence in the college football landscape.

Michigan State and Ohio State have each suffered embarrassing nonconference losses, while traditionally mediocre Illinois has emerged as the popular dark-horse candidate. If Wisconsin can turn back Nebraska, it can seize a powerful spot alone at the top of the conference.

Sure, road matchups with the Spartans and Buckeyes still loom in late October. But if Wisconsin were to falter against

Nebraska, the significance of those contests would be significantly altered.

When talking about becoming a consistent national power worthy of the “respect” that Bielema desires so greatly, winning these games against the toughest possible competition is a must.

Dominant as they’ve been four games into 2011, the Badgers still have doubters throughout the country. Sure, they’ve looked so good that the only legitimate question seems to be if their sixthranked scoring offense and third-ranked scoring defense are benefits of a weak schedule. But that question has been powerful enough to give critics some life.

According to Pollspeak.

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