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Thursday, January 30, 2014

VOLUME 45, ISSUE 31

Kirby Wright

Funds locked in for Rec Sports plan State money, gifts, alternative funding, secure 43 percent of cost for Master Plan Tara Brennan and Rachel Jones Herald Reporter and Print City Editor With a fast-approaching March referendum, Recreational Sports has already guaranteed 43 percent of the funding required for its Master Plan from alternate sources that do not rely

on student fees.

John Horn, Rec Sports director, said in an interview with The Badger Herald the organization has obtained 43 percent of guaranteed funding for the Master Plan through a combination of state money, gifts, the University of Wisconsin Athletics Department and Rec Sports program revenues.

The acquired funding equates to about $97 million of the $223 million estimate for the plan, Horn said.

In an email to The Badger Herald, Horn

said the funding split was decided with some assumptions.

The Associated Students of Madison recommended students should not be responsible for more than 60 percent of funding, Horn said. With the outside funding, students would likely be responsible for 57 percent of project funding, he said.

The UW Foundation and Chancellor Rebecca Blank have “stepped up in a big way,” and they feel very confident that the funding will be secured, Horn said.

Transgender students focus of county study Results compare youth numbers in mental health, homelessness Alex Arriaga Print City Editor Including the option to identify as “transgender” on Dane County’s 2012 Youth Assessment provided insight into mental health correlations and showed needs for guidelines that actively support transgender students in the community.

Brian Juchems, director of programs at the Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools, said it was one of the few surveys that allowed for students to identify as transgender.

Transgender youth are more likely to report having mental health problems when compared with nontransgender peers, he said.

Juchems said the results of the survey were that 1.5 percent of Dane County high school students identify as

transgender, or about 239 students. The numbers were not surprising and were in line with some national surveys of transgender adults, he said.

Sixty-two percent of transgender youth reported having no long-term mental health problems compared with 78 percent of non-transgender students, Juchems said.

Thirteen percent of transgender students reported having depression compared to 10 percent of cisgender respondents, and 14 percent have other mental health conditions, not including attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder compared with 2 percent of non-transgender youth, Juchems said.

“That’s not surprising when I look at some of the other data, I would say most transgender students in Dane County experience some sort of rejection from family and school peers,” Juchems said.

Juchems also said the

mental health issues are not shocking considering the daily stigma and minority pressures of transgender identification.

Steve Starkey, executive director of OutReach, Madison and South Central Wisconsin’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, said there are various challenges that transgender youth face that also result in disparities among homeless youth.

Starkey said the teen homeless rate in the U.S. is between 25 and 50 percent LGBTQ. This is a major disparity, considering the transgender youth population is much smaller, he said.

One reason for this disparity could be the issue of negative reactions some families have to discovering their child is LGBTQ, he said. Prostitution, drug and alcohol abuse are sometimes problems transgender encounter when they have

State funding will go directly to the Natatorium, where the educational components will be rebuilt, Horn said. State funding can only be acquired for the Natatorium because it serves as an academic

building as well as an auxiliary facility. The Natatorium currently houses the departments of kinesiology, athletic training and occupational therapy.

The Athletic Department will supply

funding for significant upgrades to the existing South East Recreational Facility pool as well as the addition of amenities at the new Natatorium site, Horn said.

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Proposal would limit city building heights Senator seeks to preserve Madison skyline, mantain views of Capitol Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor With cranes and bulldozers a constant feature scattering Madison’s skyline, concerns have been raised that the city’s rapid development poses a threat to views of the

iconic state Capitol.

Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, is circulating a bill among lawmakers that would extend a onemile zone restricting the height of buildings around the Capitol to less than the height of its dome, which is 1,032.8 feet above sea level.

The legislation would extend the buffer zone to two miles around the Capitol.

“We have an architecturally beautiful and important Capitol,

one of the best structures in the state if not the country,” Risser said in an interview with The Badger Herald. “In my opinion, it would be tragic if we hid it with skyscrapers.”

Risser said Madison is one of the fastest growing cities in the country, and if this legislation is not passed, it faces the threat of being “marred” by towering residences and office buildings. Risser

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62% of transgender youth report having no long-term mental health problems compared with 78% of cisgender students.

13% report having depression compared to 10% of cisgender students.

14% have other mental health conditions (not ADD or ADHD) compared with 2% of nontransgender students.

1.5% of youth who took the survey identified as transgender, or about 239 students.

Between 25 and 50% of those homeless youth are LGBTQ.

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Students voice support for new food cart space Vendors say new State Street spaces will also help create safer neighborhoods Alex Arriaga Print City Editor A crowd of students turned out to a city committee meeting Wednesday to voice their support for creating more room for food carts to set up shop on State Street.

Proposed changes would include the reconfiguration of locations in which late night vendors can park.

Seventy spaces have been proposed to the committee as possible vending spots.

Students showed their support for local food cart businesses at the meeting by holding up signs that said “food cart freedom” and “we heart freedom.”

The concerns expressed about food carts included noise and crowd concerns, issues with restricting the fire lane at the area

between the Statesider and Towers apartment buildings on State Street and problems with trash from food cart waste.

In response to the argument regarding noise issues, multiple students stood up and said the downtown area is not “serene” at all. The noisy and lively atmosphere has more to do with the bar scenes and UW’s “party school” status than because of the food carts, they said.

Jacob Beckert, a UW student, said as a triple

major, straight-A student, he does not feel the need to be protected from food cart disruptions. The area is already “ridiculous” as it is, he said.

“I have one message.

Stop it, just stop it,” he said.

“They’re delusional by thinking this area is serene and the only thing keeping these hoards of students from mobbing downtown and being loud is a lack of food carts.”

Rachel Berman, a UW student who lives in Statesider, said the food

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carts give her a sense of security when walking home after a night of going out. She said they create populated areas and provide sober eyes on the drunken crowds of State Street.

“I would still much rather go to State Street to get to a food cart than Broom street. It’s scary and dark. It is unsafe,” she said.

Jessica Wartenweiler, owner of the Curd Girl cart, said the current ordinances cramming food carts onto Broom Street

are not working. There are often frustrations that she and other food cart owners come across when it comes to parking, she said.

Steve Lawrence, owner of Fried and Fabulous, spoke in support of food cart interests and was met with applause from the large amount of UW students in the room after arguing that food carts create safer environments.

Lawrence also addressed the concerns about keeping fire lanes clear

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The legislation has already received significant opposition from some Madison city officials.

Carole Schaeffer, executive director of Smart Growth Madison, said in an article in the Wisconsin State Journal that the two-mile radius that spans from West High School to East High School and down to the Alliant Energy Center in south Madison is “overkill.”

“We would not be supportive of this particular initiative,” Schaeffer said. “I don’t see how a building two miles away is going to interfere with the view of the Capitol.”

While many University of Wisconsin student-athletes said they understood they were forfeiting a large amount of time and the chance to take a job by signing on to play Division I sports, administrators continue to debate whether they should be compensated.

Dale Bjorling, chair of the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board, said player compensation was not approved in their last meeting because of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s concern that smaller schools and conferences would not be able to provide compensation for student-athletes.

It would be possible for

some schools to provide student-athletes with this support if the institution chose but it would not be mandated, he said.

Bjorling said he thought the Athletic Department felt it was in a good position to provide support to athletes.

Financial compensation for student-athletes is an idea that has been around for a few years, according to Bjorling. In the past, the Big Ten Conference has been supportive of studentathletes receiving a $2,000 expense allowance, as competing at the Division I level while balancing academics is extremely difficult, he said.

“Student-athletes are in a very difficult position.

There is a gap between scholarship and personal

financial needs,” Bjorling said. “Although no one is sure what the right amount of compensation is, this would be a step in the right direction.”

Abbie Weigel, a member of the women’s track and field team, said being a student-athlete was a lifestyle she chose. She said when she committed her time to track and field, she went in knowing she would receive no financial compensation Weigel said she made many sacrifices by being a student-athlete, but it was “part of the package.”

The forms of compensation athletes currently receive, such as scholarships, tutoring and academic support, are enough, she said. Weigel also said she is happy to be

competing and attending UW. During a typical week, Mark Nitka, a member of the men’s rowing team, said he spends about 20 to 25 hours a week dedicated to his sport, even in the off-season.

Coaches may only get 20 hours a week with an athlete in-season, but meetings, outof-practice workouts and conditioning also have to be factored in, Nitka said.

Due to the large time commitment, Bjorling said it was unrealistic to expect student-athletes to have jobs.

“This does not leave time for a job. Options for obtaining funding for their needs are then left to other sources,” Bjorling said.

Taylor Zimprich, a member of the women’s cross-country and track teams, said fully committing

to her sport did not allow for them to get involved as most other students do in activities.

Zimprich said when applying to jobs or graduate school, it is “very impressive” to be a student-athlete, as employers generally understand that it is a major commitment.

Emma Paulson, a women’s swimming and diving team member, said spending time wisely was important.

Because student-athletes do not have any income, they need to balance their funds and be smart, Paulson said.

The timing and the process of the NCAA decision about allowing compensation for student-athletes is hard to predict due to many complications and other issues, Bjorling said.

Arts target of new program New initiative expands skill sets, creates career opportunities in local community Rachel Jones Print Campus Editor In a specialization that some say carries limited career opportunities, graduate students in the humanities are touting a new program to grow their skill set not only on campus but also in real world applications.

A new program paid for in part by a $1.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will place five graduate students in a paid parttime fellowship in the community.

The program aims to open up career choices for students in the humanities, Sara Guyer, director of the University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities, said in an email to The Badger Herald.

“Scholars have historically focused on a single track career as a professor in academia and more than that, university departments have focused on that career as the only viable outcome of a Ph.D.,” Guyer said.

Guyer said she hopes to adapt the focus of a graduate or Ph.D. degree in the humanities to reflect what is really happening in this field.

The program will help ease the view of real world versus academia, she said.

The belief that humanities degrees are no longer viable are false, Guyer said.

Thinking, interacting with language, literature, art and ideas is something “completely real world,” she said.

Guyer said the outlook for jobs in academia is “bleak,” as many students do not get jobs right away or at all in their fields of study, she said.

“Experience outside of academia during

Three University of Wisconsin buildings would also violate the proposed code but would be exempt: Van Hise Hall, the Engineering Research Building and the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Building.

The current one-mile buffer zone was established in 1989. Risser co-authored that legislation.

“Land is becoming more valuable, so promoters will be wanting to go higher and higher,” Risser said. “If we expand the buffer we will help protect the Capitol and the view there, and keep Madison’s isthmus a beautiful and attractive place to be.”

If enacted, the legislation would not affect any current development plans, as there are no contracts for buildings that would exceed the height limit, Risser said.

the course of graduate education helps to connect these skills to career possibilities outside of academia and allows graduate students to get career-appropriate training and mentorship, so that they are prepared for these other careers,” she said.

Anna Zeide, a graduate student in the program, said in an email to The Badger Herald that the program did not teach new skills, but provided an awareness of the versatility of skills. Not only will the students in the program benefit, but the community around the university will also be enhanced, Zeide said.

She said the program allows her to express her passionate about blurring the “town/gown divide.”

“Making the university feel responsible for creating some research that can be put to the use in the community and helping the public to see the university is a crucial and vibrant part of the broader social landscape,” Zeide said.

Zeide hopes to help UW and the surrounding community to work together in the program.

She said she thinks academics must shift from thinking about working for public partners to thinking about working with them.

It is important to listen to partners and respond to existing needs, rather than focusing on preconceived notions of what a community organization needs, Zeide said.

Guyer said the program was continuing to look for donations to support the expansion of the program’s reach. She said she would be interested in partnering with UW because the program fit nicely into the Wisconsin Idea.

The legislation would be a preventative measure, ensuring that no future buildings would interfere with views of the Capitol.

Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said he was opposed to the legislation, as Madison’s views are already sufficiently protected.

“This is a matter of local control and preservation of the Capitol view sheds are already highlighted within Madison’s zoning code,” Resnick said in a message to The Badger Herald.

The U.S. Capitol has similar height restrictions in Washington D.C., adhering to Congress’s enactment of the “Height of Buildings Act of 1910.”

The act was “instrumental in shaping the skyline and appearance of the city,” according to the National Capitol Planning Committee.

Propane crisis persists Users only account for one-twelfth of total heating fuel usage inside state Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor As Wisconsin’s propane shortage continues to affect hundreds of thousands of residents around the state, the price of propane is through the roof at $5.74 a gallon, more than $4 higher than its usual price.

The shortage is mainly affecting those in the northern part of the state in areas not connected to Wisconsin’s natural gas pipelines, which is the main source of heat energy for Wisconsinites.

Natural gas imported from Canada and states such as Oklahoma and Louisiana provide nearly three-quarters of Wisconsin’s energy for space heating, according to a report from the Wisconsin State Energy Office. Because these major pipelines do not reach many areas in northern Wisconsin, residents and businesses rely on propane gas, wood burners and electric space heaters.

“Places that we are seeing folks using propane and heat oil as their primary heating source are generally in those places

of the state not served by natural gas pipelines,” Holly O’Higgins, energy analyst and program manager at the Wisconsin State Energy Office, said.

Adding to the energy issue, a natural gas pipeline in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada exploded last weekend, causing a shortage and increased demand for natural gas and propane from Wisconsin residents.

As the propane crisis persists, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation has approved a $5 million program that will create and expand current lines of credit to Wisconsin propane distributors for continued assistance during this time of emergency, according to a WEDC statement.

The extremely high prices for propane have made it increasingly difficult for people in need of heating to purchase it, Sen. Robert Jauch, D-Poplar, said.

“This is a crisis that is affecting families and businesses alike. I have heard from both individuals and businesses that simply cannot afford the current price of propane or, worse, cannot find a distributor to fill their tank,” he said. “I have heard from distributors who cannot afford the $40,000 to $50,000 they need to fill their delivery trucks to make

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and said the proposed food cart sites would not interfere with squad cars or fire trucks.

“You could drive two squad cars side by side in the fire lane even if all five of the spots were being used,” Lawrence said.

Lawrence said the concerns about food cart trash was a solvable problem and he proposed a $1,000 fine as a reprimand.

“To deal with trash and regulate the trash, the solution to all the trash is perhaps more garbage cans, not banning food-to-go,” Lawrence said.

Final decisions will be made at Vending Oversight Committee meeting in February.

nowhere else to turn, he said.

“Because they’ve left home, they don’t have resources, they don’t have a job and they don’t have money, prostitution is sometimes the only avenue they have,” Starkey said. “If they weren’t involved in drugs and alcohol at home, couch surfing and becoming involved in prostitution leads them to get involved.”

GSAFE works with students, educators, parents and community members to make schools more accepting for all students, especially LGBTQ students.

Juchems said GSAFE is collaborating with the Madison School District to launch a leadership

their rounds with their customers.”

In a letter to President Barack Obama about the propane shortage, Gov. Scott Walker asked for the U.S. Department of Human and Health Services to expedite funding to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which he said is “a valuable tool in helping families stay warm during these cold winter months.”

Despite the large concern surrounding propane supplies, propane users only account for about one-twelfth of the total heating fuel usage in Wisconsin.

Because most homes and businesses are not connected to propane pipelines, there is a large need for companies to truck in propane, which causes major delays, O’Higgins said. She added wood and heating oil are two major energy alternatives for those the shortage has affected.

In terms of the future of heating in Wisconsin, O’Higgins said she does not expect to see a change in the way Wisconsin residents heats their homes and businesses in the coming years based on the relatively static usage in past years.

“There is not currently a big push to see renewables as a primary source for space heating,” O’Higgins said.

class for youth of color that is looking at social justice with and LGBTQ lens.

“The work we do takes the form of helping students in gay-straight alliances to help them create a safe place in their schools, as well as to help their efforts to make schools more inclusive and safer,” Juchems said.

GSAFE also has a program called GEST, a support and leadership group particularly for high school transgendered students in the Dane County area, Juchems said. GSAFE also supports another group called Youth Empowered in the Struggle that looks at the achievement and education gap in Madison for students of color and LGBTQ students, he said.

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Community reacts to Dobra Tea closing Alex Arriaga Print City Editor After five years of making tea time an experience residents could indulge in on State Street, Dobra Tea is set to close its doors, much to the dismay of the community built around the shop.

The Madison community has shown solemn support in response to the news. Owner Adam Ernst said since the announcements of its closing, dedicated customers have packed the tea house. He said he has had to turn people away from the shop because it does not have enough space for everyone.

Jacob Kositzke, a University of Wisconsin sophomore and frequent customer of Dobra, said he is sad that such a unique establishment on State Street will no longer be there. He said he often goes in not just to spend time in the relaxing atmosphere, which

he said is what attracts many students, but also for their wide selection of fine tea.

“I wake up in the morning, go to the bathroom and piss straight Dobra tea. Now what am I gonna do?” Kositzke said.

Kositzke said he considers himself a “tea connoisseur” and has always been impressed with how many different kinds of tea he could buy at Dobra.

Hannah Friedrich, a UW sophomore, said she plans on visiting Dobra one last time before it closes and will miss the shop when it is gone.

Friedrich said she often sees other students studying or just hanging out at Dobra, and was surprised to hear that it was going out of business. She said she has fond memories of making a trip downtown just for Dobra with friends from her dorm freshmen year.

“I feel like there’s really no other place on State Street that compares to Dobra,” Friedrich

said. “It kind of puts all other cafes in a whole different circle because of the ambiance and atmosphere it provides.”

Anthony Verbrick, manager of Macha Tea House in Madison, said it was unfortunate to see Madison losing a tea house, especially one located downtown.

Verbrick said the demographic that Macha attracts in its Monroe Street location is a different clientele than Dobra does. He said it is very diverse, ranging in ages from 2 to 90. He said customers come from across the board, from Edgewood High School students to UW students.

Verbrick also said he would like to see more tea options in Madison.

“It is a challenging business to maintain open, especially considering all the coffeehouses Madison has, but we remain optimistic,” Verbrick said.

He said the traffic is seasonal for Macha. Winter is pretty busy, but business dies down a bit in the summer as everybody is leaving, he said.

Executive Director of the Business Improvement District Mary Carbine said businesses on State Street and Capitol Square will usually follow a seasonal pattern of closing and opening as well.

She said businesses often close in January or February, with new ones opening in the spring.

Dobra’s closing shows how businesses on State Street and Capitol Square are frequently in transition, Carbine said.

Carbine said because the crowd who lives in the downtown area is always changing, it makes sense that the market changes with it. She said she predicts a great deal of change in the downtown area after this year with the development of new housing developments.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Dobra Tea, a State Street mainstay for five years, will close up shop Feb. 9.

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No space for worship, meditation on campus UW lags behind other public spaces for prayer rooms Rachel Jones Print Campus Editor Meditation rooms, or space for religious observance, are quickly becoming commonplace in public spaces such as hospitals and airports.

But few universities, including the University of Wisconsin, make such spaces available to students.

A meditation or spirituality room would be a small measure to accommodate students,

and it is an important task for a public university such as UW, Naman Siad, the spokesperson for the Muslim Students Association, said in an email to The Badger Herald.

“It’s something that is often shunned or not talked about on campus, but it is something that is very important to a lot of students here at UW,” Siad said.

According to staff at Memorial Union, no rooms are currently available for meditation or spiritual practices.

There are rooms available at Union South, but these rooms must be reserved by a group and are not

available to individuals, Union staff said.

There was previously a single room designated for meditation in the Memorial Union, but it has since been shut down due to construction, Siad said.

Rooms like these are important to Muslim students because they often have trouble finding space for their five daily prayers, she said.

These rooms have potential beyond religious practices as well, Andrew O’Donnell of Yoga, Empowerment and Services Plus, said.

These spaces can serve as an “oasis” for students, faculty and staff alike,

O’Donnell said.

“I think these rooms should be placed in all ‘high-traffic’ areas,” O’Donnell said, adding such rooms should be available in student unions, libraries, dorms and possibly in class buildings for faculty and staff to use.

Even though UW is a public university, it is important for students to take care of their mental states, O’Donnell said, regardless of whether that is through religion, mindfulness or meditation.

“I absolutely think that the UW should have more quiet spaces on campus,” he said. “I mean they have

these rooms in hospitals and airports, why not in universities?”

According to its website, Michigan State University is the only other Big 10 school that offers a meditation or reflection room available to all students. Several other Big Ten schools offer meditation spaces for large groups or classes, but Michigan State is the only campus with a dedicated room for individual use.

It will be interesting to see how meditation rooms work out at other universities across the country, O’Donnell said.

UW has an atmosphere of open-mindedness that

is perfect for this type of venture, he said.

“UW should look into creating new spaces for students and faculty,” O’Donnell said. “They do not have to be reserved for religious use, but they can be a quiet place. These rooms could serve as an escape for faculty and staff from the competitive atmosphere that UW has.”

On a campus where new yoga or meditation studios seem to pop up over night, he said rooms like these would benefit the campus community as a whole, particularly on a campus where the pressure to succeed is intense.

Charter school plan dropped Different versions of school accountability plans have been drafted, failed in Capitol Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor The latest version of a school accountability plan proposed to close poorly performing public schools and reopen them as privately-managed charter schools has been wiped off the table by the chairman of the Senate Education Committee.

As charter schools continue to pop up around the state and nation, the ideological debate over charter schools continues in Wisconsin. Proponents of charter schools believe granting schools more flexibility in return for greater accountability will improve results.

Opponents believe the development of charter schools is a roundabout way of privatizing public education.

“Right now we don’t have the votes and that’s all right. Our goal is to continue to work on something,” Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, said, after learning the bill would not be voted on, according to an article by Anchorage Daily News. “If we get something done, we get something done.”

Currently, Wisconsin is home to 238 charter schools, some of which are under the control of public school boards and others that are managed by private management organizations, Christina Brey, Wisconsin Education Association Council spokesperson, said.

Under the latest proposals for the school accountability proposal drafted by Olsen, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction would be required to label at least 5 percent of the state’s public schools as “failed schools,” according to Olsen’s bill. This means that of the 2,285 public schools in Wisconsin, at least 115 schools would

either have been closed or turned into charter schools.

“We want high standards for schools,” Brey said.

“But what we want to see are community-based approaches to improving low-performing schools.”

Brey said issues such as poverty, unemployment and language barriers contribute to underperforming schools and that these things need to be addressed on the local level.

Although many different versions of this bill have been presented in the past, Olsen’s most recent proposal called for a major change in the criteria by which a school’s performance was graded.

According to the bill, any Wisconsin school that received public funding would be graded on an A to F scale based on the school’s state achievement tests, progress on closing the racial achievement gap and graduation and attendance rates, among other metrics.

“It was another very unfair so-called accountability measure,” Brey said. “There are better ways to turn around performance than simply selling out our public schools.”

Professor Julie Mead, chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin, said charter schools are a policy tool and can be used for good and bad purposes, like any other tool.

Mead added while she believes chartering schools can bring great improvements to a public school, she does not believe in “chartering for chartering’s sake.”

“There is nothing that says that simply converting a school to a charter school is going to make that school perform any better,” Mead said.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Senior Class President Joe Meeker presented a proposal for Varsity Day, which has a budget of $60,000, at the ASM meeting Wednesday.

Varsity Day set for early May Despite common Camp Randall commencement, officers plan to pull 2 speakers Rachel Jones Print Campus Editor After a senior leader resigned from his position, saying “nothing tangible” happens in student government, the University of Wisconsin’s senior class officers unveiled plans to continue Varsity Day despite the move to a singlecommencement ceremony.

Chief Justice Nick Checker announced his resignation from the Student Judiciary, citing his frustration with the direction the Associated Students of Madison was taking.

“There’s nothing tangible that’s happening through ASM,” Checker said.

“Students don’t know what [ASM] stand for or what you actually do. You should pick things that students can point to and say, ‘that is great that’s what my student government did for me.’”

Rep. David Vines said ASM was created for students to manage student fees. ASM was

REC SPORTS, page 1 Rec Sports program funding was added following additional analysis of the budget for the master plan, he said.

“We do not intend to come back to students for any additional segregated fee increases toward the capital projects within the referendum,” Horn said. “Any operational increases will need to

established after students demanded that it be put in place, Vines said.

Varsity Day The purpose of Varsity Day is to give students the opportunity to take charge of who is speaking at UW, Senior Class Secretary Sarah Neibart said. Varsity Day adds to the Wisconsin Experience by allowing students the opportunity to interact with a high profile speaker, Neibart said.

“The speaker at Varsity Day almost always stays and interacts with the students,” Neibart said.

“It’s not like the speaker comes, speaks and leaves, but the speaker often stays and chats and interacts with the students in attendance.”

ASM has allocated a budget of $60,000 for Varsity Day. The majority of the budget is used to pay the speaker, Senior Class President Joe Meeker said.

Any surplus will be used in a responsible manner, he said.

The senior class officers

also said the focus will remain on the single commencement ceremony at Camp Randall.

Varsity Day is an opportunity for all students at the UW to attend together as opposed to commencement which is often done separately, Meeker said.

Commencement is a service that celebrates the graduating seniors and the speaker will then reflect the desires of the graduating senior class, Neibart said.

She added the festivities will take place around May 1 at the Memorial Union Terrace, which has the capacity to cater to 6,000 students.

Neibart said she is confident a single university can recruit two different high profile speakers for both commencement and Varsity Day. The Varsity Day speaker is selected by the Distinguished Lecture Series through the Wisconsin Union and the commencement

speaker is selected by the Chancellor’s Office in cooperation with the Division of Student Life and the senior class officers, Neibart said.

Green Fund ASM voted to move the vote on the Green Fund bylaws to the next Student Council meeting to allow for more time to study the new version. The vote was moved because members felt the point system for choosing organizations was not clearly defined.

The Green Fund bylaws were changed based on criticisms received from the last ASM meeting, Sustainability Chair Will Mulhern said.

Sexual assault prevention and response campaign A campus-wide survey regarding sexual assault knowledge was sent out Wednesday.

According to Rep. Hannah Kinsella, the information gathered from this survey will help ASM work with Protecting Awareness, Victim Empowerment to educate students.

be approved through the Student Service Finance Committee in future years.”

Ian Malmstadt, leader of Badgers for Recreational Reform, said he feels confident about the outcome of the student vote.

The organization has been educating students about the master plan by visiting student organizations and flooding social media about the

need for more space and better facilities, Karlie Tetchlag, the organization’s spokesperson, said.

Rec Sports and Badger for Recreational Reform have spoken with many freshman, along with club and intramural athletes, Malmstadt said.

Their goal is to educate the students about what is being done with their money, he said, adding it is

important for students to realize that this is an important investment.

“When we talk to students about the stone-cold facts, they see that we are being responsible with our money, with their money, so I encourage students to get as much information as possible,” he said. “It is an investment, but it is a responsible one.”

Blank could not be reached for comment.

Editorial Page Editors Briana Reilly and Garth Beyer breilly@badgerherald.com, gbeyer@badgerherald.com

OPINION The Badger Herald | Opinion | Thursday, January 30, 2014| 5

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Wis. social bill Safety first, don’t exclude food long overdue

Back in my freshman year, I ordered a chocolate Badger Blast shake from Rheta’s convenience store.

Two hours later, I was in the hospital emergency room in anaphylactic shock with a puffy, watering face, labored breathing and welts which had risen up all over my skin. Allegedly, some traces of nut were left on the ice cream scoop from a previous customer, accidentally contaminating my shake.

It’s an easy mistake to make, but also a terribly dangerous one.

I have a nut allergy and have all my life. I’ve never bitten into a Reese’s Cup, never enjoyed peanut brittle at Christmas and have always had to seek alternative treatment for gummed-up hair.

I’m regularly forced to snub home-baked treats brought in by friends and coworkers. I routinely check the ingredients of my food with such vigilance that even MadEye Moody would blush.

I do this because with each close encounter

with peanuts, such as the “doom shake,” my reactions are expected to grow more severe and potentially lethal.

So why am I bugging you about my personal health? Why do I want you to care about nut allergies, and more importantly, why should you care?

In truth, I have seen a small degree of carelessness from fellow students in the realm of nut safety. I have no illusions that they act in malice; I sincerely doubt anyone is deliberately putting me or my nutty comrades’ health in peril. Wrappers for nutty snacks are often left near computers or in other study spaces not to mention the chance for residual nut traces to be left on the keyboards!

Treats and meals brought to several events often come without allergy information — I nearly served myself some unlabeled peanut-laden hummus at a club meeting.

For those living in the dorms, peanut butter is a popular item, especially in

communal kitchen areas.

When I resided on campus, it was not uncommon to find an open Jif jar with splatters of peanut butter underneath. I won’t equate these experiences to near brushes with death, but they are an omnipresent concern for those with high-risk allergies.

Do I demand a totally nut-free environment?

Of course not. If you’re still running your days off PB&Js, by all means, go nuts. We are by and large a healthy campus — most protein and energy bars that I see my peers consuming are nut-based products. I cannot ignore the utility and benefits that nuts provide to others, and I have no desire to impose the needs of the few onto the many.

What I ask, fellow Badgers, is for your consideration and for your vigilance. I am graced with excellent friends who always go the extra mile to keep me safe, and I’m certain that many of you know someone with a food allergy and have done just the same. I ask

that you extend the same courtesy you would your own friend to the entire campus. Make an extra effort to clean up shared spaces after a nutty treat.

Consider taking specific steps to make homemade snacks allergen-free if they are to be shared with peers, or clearly label snacks that include such ingredients.

Current estimates are that 1 percent of the U.S. population has a nut allergy — more than 425 students here at UW, or enough to fill two average lecture halls. It takes only one honest, careless oversight to put nut-sensitive students like myself in danger. An oversight that could affect someone you hardly know, someone you interact with in passing, or someone you truly care about. Don’t roll the dice — keep our campus healthy and safe for everyone!

Rick Zuern (zuern@ wisc.edu) is a senior majoring in engineering mechanics and astronautics.

Seize on every opportunity at UW Allison Ebben Contributor Enrollment week rolls around, and the intensity in the air is almost incessant. Students are glued to their MacBooks, hoping that one way or another that they get into the few classes that they NEED for their major. Big smiles paint the faces of those who receive their ideal schedule that took them days to perfect.

As a second semester freshman, I can easily say that the biggest academic mistake I have made in the past months was that I never once searched through the hundreds of classes to find something that interested me. I think it’s safe to say that the majority of students rush into finding classes that they NEED to take instead of WANT to take.

One of the biggest rookie mistakes I have made is not taking a class that I wanted to take because it simply interested me.

As I begin my second semester with a gender and women’s studies class, I found myself reading “Claiming an Education” by Adrienne Rich. Although Rich speaks deeply about women claiming an education, I feel as if this is essential not only to women but all students. It was not like any piece that I had read before because it left me speechless.

The majority of students attend college

because it is what they are expected to do, it is what their parents want or they want to pursue a future career. Too often students feel as if they are simply receiving an education. Young adults wander through high schools aimlessly, wondering how much longer they have to sit in class or why they need to know how to graph a sine wave. College allows those same students to claim an education in the fields that interest them. Unfortunately, that is hardly the case, as too many collegiate students just listlessly receive an education rather than actively claim one.

There is a large difference in claiming and receiving something.

Claiming is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “to take as the rightful owner.” On the other hand, receiving is defined as “to get or be given (something).” Sitting in class letting your mind wander rampant is not claiming an education and is not going to benefit you at all. My point here is not to scold you into paying attention in class (I mean, who hasn’t checked Twitter a few times during those long power lectures?) but instead to help you realize the endless opportunities provided on our beautiful campus that are not claimed. By immersing yourself into each and every cultural

Briana Reilly Editorial Page Editor A bill was passed by the state Assembly last Tuesday that would prohibit employers, landlords and colleges from requesting passwords of applicants’ social media accounts.

However, invasive Facebook creeping on the accounts of potential employees, tenants and students would still be permissible. This also includes the ability of employers to friend potential employees on Facebook. (Quick digression: Why does the image of a large room containing a majority of old, white and all-American males discussing the finer points of social media usage seem so hysterical?)

It is without a doubt

knowledge that potential employers can and will look through social media accounts, so it has become almost irresponsible to post something online that may jeopardize a job opportunity in the future.

However, having seen numerous pictures of underage college students drinking and multiple tweets about those same people regularly going out and “getting smashed,” I’m convinced that many are just completely apathetic in regards to potential future consequences. After all, it’s not your employer’s business what you share with friends and family on Facebook, what you rant about on Twitter, or what you reblog on Tumblr. Additionally, it seems ridiculous that an employer would need to assess someone’s personal

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It’s up to individuals to monitor their social media behavior.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Students are generally unaware of the untapped opportunities they hold in their hands.

opportunity, you may not only grow academically but also find something that you are passionate about.

College especially is one of the greatest times for selfdiscovery.

Claiming an education can mean a variety of things to an endless amount of people. The individuals who take those opportunities to connect with their peers by starting a new club, taking a class that interests them or going to the hospital on Wednesday nights to speak Spanish have not only claimed an education but claimed opportunities. The University of Wisconsin has more than 800 student organizations to help enrich your academics. These opportunities provide the experience necessary not only for majors, but also to fulfill some of our wildest dreams.

I cannot express the amount of times I have heard the regrets of upperclassman.

There are all too many “I wish

I would have….”. There are only a few years that these endless opportunities are available at the universities of our choices, so why not take a chance on claiming the things that we want? Although it is apparent that we must take classes that we need for our major, why not introduce ourselves to new topics, places and opportunities.

The biggest mistake anyone can make on this campus is something so simply obvious: not claiming every opportunity you can. On a campus that offers so much, step outside of your box and expand your horizons. By graduation, complete your college bucket list, and I promise you that you will never regret any of it. (Unless your regret involves not eating enough Ian’s mac and cheese pizza.)

Allie Ebben (arebben@ wisc.edu) is a freshman majoring in nursing with a certificate in gender and women’s studies.

that modern technology necessitates regulation and oversight—and a speedy legislative response, which has time and time again been left out of the equation.

This has forced regular Internet users into the dark, uncertain void of personal responsibility, lacking the sunshine that comes with nonstop government intervention; it is an area that is instead filled with somber and gloomy privacy violations.

However, this piece of legislation would not illuminate all the pitchblack corners of this void.

It does not, for example, prevent monitoring of social media users’ public posts. This means we must maintain our levels of constant vigilance by not allowing our youthful transgressions to catch up with us. (This means no posting those vulgar, cleavage-filled or alcoholinfused images you’re dying to display!) That is especially crucial to note since the new bill would allow photos and textual posts to still be used in a discriminatory fashion, meaning that the advent of this legislation would still require individuals to accept a certain level of personal accountability.

It has become common

life through such a means when looking only for a qualified individual to fill a professional position.

At the same time though, privacy online is simply nonexistent. It’s not realistic to expect that something you share via social media will remain confidential.

Overall, this piece of legislation is applaudable; though something of this nature is long overdue, it definitely does take a stab at protecting the privacy that many Americans have come to value as a civil liberty.

Regardless, it remains a mystery to me as to why employers especially feel that they need access to this type of information.

Since it is so easily accessible, however, it’s only expected that these resources would be tapped and eventually exploited. The best and safest thing we can do, as citizens of the 21st century with high hopes for future employment, is to sever our relationship with social media and go back to tapping out explicit messages to our friends via telegraph.

Briana Reilly (breilly@ badgerherald.com) is a freshman majoring in journalism and international studies.

Everyone deserves to be cheered for (even you) Garth Beyer Editorial Page Editor The valedictorian at my high school didn’t receive the most applause. At most races, the first place or second place runners don’t get the most applause. Even the first place paddlers at Muskoka River X, the longest single-day paddling race in the world didn’t get the most applause. In fact, it was the third place team who received the most applause. The next day, team Arowhon got a shout-out for being the most enthusiastic greeting committee. Can you guess how large their greeting committee was? Four people.

The lesson runs thick in the Muskoka River, but very thin here in Madison.

Who’s going to be there standing and shouting at graduation? Who’s going to be there to cheer you on for entering the engineering competition, even when you don’t win? Especially when you don’t win.

According to Playboy Magazine last year, the University of Wisconsin is ranked No. 2 in the top 10 party school list.

But partying is much different than cheering and celebrating. On that end, with the exclusion of sports, I feel confident in saying that we are terrible at celebrating other students’ success.

Many students on campus don’t have parents nearby to celebrate their successes. Many students that come here do so without any close friends.

To them, it’s starting over.

And to start over without anyone at the finish line waiting to cheer them on… that’s just upsetting.

Yet, that’s the status quo here. At a school with astounding national and international recognition, the little things go unnoticed. Think of the professors who put up with us semester after semester.

Rarely do they get applause (never have I seen a TA get applause without a professor telling students to give them a hand.) Think

of all the competitions and contests UW offers. Again, excluding sports, when was the last time you cheered another student on when they submitted an essay, entered an engineering contest or competed in some tournament? For a school that says it’s full of pride, damn do we fall short.

Paraphrasing a commenter on the Muskoka River X article, imagine an 18-year-old or your younger brother or sister or the kid who sits in the front of class. “Working hard every day at something they’re passionate about.

Pushing themselves. Tiring themselves. And at the end, they don’t get a pay

raise or a boring diploma.

What they get is hundreds of people cheering their name. They get lifted onto the shoulders of their mentors. They get tears from their friends and looks of admiration from younger scholars.”

Camp Arowhon (the team who cheered on the third place winners of Muskoka River X) understood the necessity of celebrating other people’s success, not just their own. I pitch celebrating others’ success on campus, not by learning to deal with your own jealousy, but by proactively searching for others whom you can shine the spotlight on.

I don’t care for canoeing.

I don’t care much for concrete (not that I’ve ever thought too hard about it).

But, I would cheer on any member of the UW concrete canoe team. Perhaps you need to reconsider what #badgerpride means.

Perhaps you need to worry less about who places first and worry more about those who don’t. Perhaps there’s no need for a hundred people with blow horns waiting at the finish line or an auditorium that amplifies noise to know who the real winners are.

Garth Beyer (gbeyer@ badgerherald.com) is a senior majoring in journalism and strategic communications.

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‘#RichKids’ of reality television stupidity Show glorifies people who can’t open wine bottles, set down iPhones Emily Kingman TV Columnist Photo courtesy of Ralph Lauren For the Sochi Olympics, Ralph Lauren opted to cover each inch of space in laughable, overly patriotic designs.

Ralph Lauren’s 2014 US Olympic uniforms suck Phebe Myers ArtsEtc. Staff Writer Move over ugly Christmas sweaters, there’s some competition in the hideous sweater department: the new Team USA Winter Olympics uniforms.

In case you missed it, Ralph Lauren recently debuted his designs for the 2014 American team, and they are ugly, to say the least. Navy sweaters covered in knitted American flags and Olympics memorabilia — these sweaters look like something that could be found in the back corner of some random thrift shop in the middle of Iowa or worn by hipsters 30 years from now in an “ironic” way.

After the controversy surrounding Ralph Lauren’s designs for the 2010 American Olympic team — when ABC News reported that the uniforms for Team USA were made in China — it seems that Lauren has overcorrected

by covering every possible knittable inch in patriotic gear. It seems Lauren’s imagination could not expand far enough to think of anything other than the typical flag regalia.

Other than the sweater, Lauren designed a pair of sweatpants for team USA to wear. Yes, sweatpants. What depicts the glory of America better than having our top athletes parade around in sweatpants?

The navy peacoat with a red stripe is very classic Americana, the perfect coat for athletes trying to be stylish without looking like they’re trying too hard.

And of course, the pea coat would not be complete without a standard Ralph Lauren polo symbol …

Having Ralph Lauren design the Olympic uniforms makes sense considering his place in American fashion history.

However, with the breadth of talent the American fashion scene currently offers, why not switch it up

and offer a newer American designer the chance to step out in red, white and blue?

An obvious first choice would be Michael Kors, who would provide very classic yet stylish pieces. The minds of Proenza Schouler could also dream up a more exciting uniform. The Olympic team could even create a design competition to find and cultivate new talent. This is the fourth time Lauren has designed the uniforms for Team USA and, judging from the lack of creativity exhibited by the designs, it’s high time to find a new outfitter.

Ralph Lauren’s designs for Team USA are unattractive and boring at the same time. How many variations on the American flag are we going to see in clothing this year? Could there have been a new way to present patrioticthemed clothing? Give the flag a break, and let’s see a new take on American patriotism for the next Olympics!

What’s there to say about the stars of “#RichKids of Beverly Hills” that’s not already expressed in the title of their E! Network reality show? Each one’s greatest accomplishment is having hit the genetic lottery, and each one’s greatest delight is in spending Daddy’s Benjamins.

Most important, however, is the fact that each one is currently member to a clique of the wealthiest 20-somethings in Hollywoodland. It’s this select group around which “#RichKids” revolves, cataloging joint texts and Instagram selfies as well as individual purchases, status updates and tweets.

Ultimately, the show is a direct reflection of the group itself: as flashy as a Mirrorball trophy and as substantial as a Dyson vacuum.

Of course, every self-respecting clique distinguishes its queen bees from its worker bees, and the “#RichKids” are no different.

Although the show highlights multiple personalities, it gives special focus to Dorothy Wang, a “funemployed” sizezero who’s supported by her father, a billionaire CEO; and her BFF, Morgan Stewart, a fashion blogger whose father made his fortune designing high-end department stores. Both are self-obsessed halfwits with less of an ability to stand on their own two feet than a squid with one tentacle.

To them, opening a wine bottle is “like, the hardest thing ever.”

They’re joined by a real estate mogul (Brendan Fitzpatrick), a wannabesinger (Jonny Drubel), a

self-proclaimed “Persian princess” (Roxy Sowlaty) and an aspiring fashion mogul (EJ Johnson). All are well-connected, and that’s all that’s needed to win the battle of getting on air.

Still, it’s not having connections, but the ability to keep making a connection that wins the war of staying on air. And it’s because these “#RichKids” are more suited to mirrortalking than engaging in any real discussion that their show has a shot in hell of surviving.

Take the irony of the title as special proof.

“Both are selfobsessed half-wits with less of an ability to stand on their own two feet than a squid with one tentacle.”

Hashtags have a specific purpose: to catalog similar conversations between users on social networking sites and facilitate the growth of online communities. However, these “#RichKids” are out to prove one thing: Their conversation is beyond the scope of comparison. For the duration of the program, they’re showing without connecting and making it known that they are indeed superior beings.

Within the show’s first 10 minutes, for example, there are myriad flashes of luxury products, such as Chanel dresses and brand new Ferraris as well as mentions of Berkin bags and Louboutin heels. In the same time frame, two “#RichKids” proudly tell how they get in their cardio by walking down Rodeo Drive with designer bags full of trendy purchases. It should be enough to make viewers—especially fulltime students who make near-hourly treks up Bascom Hill with Target-

bought backpacks full of textbooks—twinge with envy. Maybe that feeling (and the desire to keep watching) would be sustained if only the “#RichKids” returned to the same footing as their viewers every once in a while.

Even if they did, it’s unlikely that anyone within earshot of the show’s airing would reasonably desire any lifestyle that seems to come with such fixed terms as a nasal blockage during speech and an indefinite, inappropriate attachment to the word “like.” From content to tone, the way in which the “#RichKids” speak fulfills every stereotype in the book. “I like to be within a five mile radius of Barneys at all times,” Dorothy remarks, uttering the words with rising intonation at the end, as if they came together to form a question.

After organizing a blood drive, her sales pitch for donating (“Honestly, if you’ve had a needle in your face, you can put a needle in your arm and save three lives”) is less selfless than it is overly self-aware. She admits, “I started donating blood in high school because it was just a way to miss history class.” The sentiment obviously stuck. As she later relates, it’s only because it made others see her as a good person that she continued to donate.

Her intent both wasn’t and isn’t to be altruistic, but to be held in others’ esteem.

Ultimately, “#RichKids” is nothing more than a shameless vehicle that enables a select group of selfimportant do-nothings to flaunt their unearned wealth and appease their insatiable appetites for public attention.

Hopefully, viewers will pass up on the opportunity to endorse their endeavor sooner rather than later. “#RichKids of Beverly Hills” airs Fridays on E! at 9 p.m.

Ace Hood’s latest an ace look at hood life Florida rapper proves himself humble, tough on ‘Starvation 3’ Josh Villanueva Mixtape Columnist Once an artist is revealed in the limelight and reaches mainstream success, it often can become a struggle for them to reproduce the same types of tracks that first launched them into the spotlight. Big name artists like Jay Z, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and even 50 Cent simply cannot reproduce tracks like they used to because back in their humble roots their struggles were salient, their rise to fame unrecognized and their hunger unsatisfied.

Ace Hood has a knack of shunning any sort of spotlight the public has given him in recent years. The Florida native doesn’t boast his Cash Money or We The Best label deals and nearly excludes features from his tracklists; but he continues to show his unsatisfied hunger in the aptly named third installment of his Starvation mixtape series.

The rapper’s presence in 2013 and quick start in 2014 are clear demonstrations of Ace Hood’s work ethic. He released Starvation 2 this time last year, along with his fourth studio album Trials and Tribulations last summer; Ace Hood simply cannot stop his ceaseless flow of content, which sports a depth beyond just talking about how rich he is.

Ace Hood really brings his urban mentality into the studio, but words it so poetically that listeners cannot help but embrace the bars he spits. He puts his crew before himself, ride or dies for those he loves and mourns the losses of those he loves—while accepting everything as a part of the circle of life.

The best thing about listening to Starvation 3 is the constant feeling that Ace is never satisfied with his position in life. He always seeks to hustle, to make more money, to silence the haters and to lift up those he cares about in the process. He harshly criticizes what popular hip-hop is today and even goes as far as to claim that the legends of the past would condemn the work of most artists

today.

Ace Hood personifies hip-hop in one track, on which he claims the love he has for it is not reciprocal—it has chewed him up and spit him out. “Save Us” takes the same emotional perspective as the previous portions of his mixtape but takes a different tone that forces listeners to stare down the heartwrenching truths of the evils prevalent in society today.

Ace Hood has the star power to recruit a plethora of talent on Starvation 3, but he chooses not to. This shows that he has the talent to produce a quality piece of work without relying on features, and it really allows him to deliver the messages that he wants throughout the work.

Starvation 3 may not have a whole lot of radio-friendly jams, nor will it have a feature from another big-name rapper, but what it lacks in glamour it certainly makes up for in hardhitting, deep, gritty content reminiscent of classic hip-hop. It’s a must-listen for any avid hip-hop fans.

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New Semester, New Art Exhibits ‘The Mystery Beneath’ an imaginative Surrealist, Magical Realist journey through Wisconsin’s storied artistic history

‘Real/Surreal’ features hyper-realistic, Surrealistic artwork, synthesizes subconscious world of dreams with waking life

Photo courtesy of Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Duane Brissette, “Moonrise,” 1981. Acrylic on paper, 21½ x 25½ inches. Collection of the MMoCA.

Photo courtesy of Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Henry Koerner, “Mirror of Life, “1946. Oil on composition board, Overall: 36 x 42 inches. Whitney Museum of American Art.

Jack Gloss ArtsEtc. Writer The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted a new exhibit on Jan. 25, entitled “The Mystery Beneath.” This collection of paintings, drawings, etchings and prints focuses on the products of the Surrealist and Magic Realist movements, specifically within Wisconsin, from 1940 to 1975. The exhibit features works done by artists such as Alfred Sessler, Aaron Bohrod, Gibson Byrd and John Wilde – to name a few – all of whom were somehow connected to the great state of Wisconsin, whether they were born here, professors at University of Wisconsin or simply working out of Madison.

As many of these artists were based out of Madison, it is not surprising that much of their work was thought of as both progressive and inventive. The exhibit’s artists defied their times’ more traditional realist style by stimulating the audience’s imagination with unexpected colors and juxtapositions.

Essentially, they strove to create dream-like pieces rather than simply

depicting a physical landscape and, as a result, much of their work was highly criticized at the time.

All in all, the exhibit is intriguing, given its homegrown pieces and controversial goal of capturing one’s subconscious. Its pieces are full of character, featuring odd colorings, unexpected textures and juxtapositions.

“Spring Bonnet,” by Sessler, a Milwaukee native and former UW professor, is a great example of the collective pieces’ nature.

The etching features a woman wearing a bonnet overfl owing with fl owers-innocent in theory. Yet the lady’s unsettling facial expression and grotesque image leaves a lasting impression certainly unfit for that of a spring portrait. Many of the exhibit’s works include juxtapositions that are equally as creative.

For example, one of the works, by Bohrod, who was born in Chicago before eventually settling in Madison, is similarly as startling. Meticulously painted, baby angels fly over gruesome brains and the lone head of a deceased man in “Sprouts,” maintaining

the theme of beauty and gore coexisting in one painting, striking the viewer in a manner that just might tap into his or her ingenuities.

More contemplative is Bohrod’s piece “Reflection in a Shop Window.” This drawing depicts a store window, featuring various goods and such on its other side. The real beauty of the piece, however, lies in the window’s reflection, which shows a small-town cityscape. This unique concept almost forces its viewer to dazedly stare at the drawing in such a way that one cannot help but daydream for a moment.

This was one of the most fitting works of “The Mystery Beneath” exhibit.

That said, the pieces viewable to the public seem to be hit or miss.

Some have real value and undoubtedly succeed in striking its viewer in a special way, while others are simply too abstract to do so.

The exhibit displays a multitude of other works not mentioned in this article, most notably Gibson Byrd’s “Liberation” and a slew of pieces done by John Wilde, which will be on display with the rest of “The Mystery Beneath” until Apr. 13.

Sara Lawton ArtsEtc. Writer The Whitney Museum of American Art’s traveling exhibit “Real/ Surreal” has arrived at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibit features artwork from the 1920s through the 1940s, with a mixture of works from hyperrealistic to Surrealistic.

The Surrealist movement in the 1920s intended to synthesize the worlds of unconscious dreaming and conscious perception of reality, and was influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind and interest in dream analysis. Several works in “Real/Surreal” portray the processes of the unconscious mind as a slight distortion to reality, rather than the explicit abstraction or realism found in other works in the exhibit.

These works are the most interesting, as they are an experience in entering a modified reality of the artist’s imagination.

The exhibition itself is laid out in an open format, the works mounted on backdrops of deep red and golden yellow. The warm, dark-

toned colors give the gallery a cozy feeling — the viewer is aware they are enclosed even though the room is expansive. Often the contrast between works placed beside each other is almost jarring, however even in those places where the works complement one another, the viewer is led through a mixture of images from reality and dreams — and those found somewhere in between.

George Tooker’s “The Subway” is one of the first pieces seen when entering the exhibit.

Its central focal point features a group of strangers looking distressed and confused as they pass through the subway. Since the painting has a wide, landscape format but the focal point is in the center, the slight distortion of viewpoint is not perceived immediately, and the figures on the left in coffin-sized booths are not noticed right away.

As the viewer spends more time observing the painting, the people in it begin to look more upset, trapped and isolated.

Robert Vickrey’s “The Labyrinth” sports a dark, gloomy hue.

At first glance, the painting appears to be just a dark expanse of a twisting maze, with a figure standing in the foreground.

Looking again, human faces emerge from the shadows and a distorted reflection of the figure appears — I stopped in my tracks when I spotted the faces morphing out of the walls of the labyrinth, looming at any who pass through the maze. It was unsettling, watching something that initially seemed so plain.

Works which portray scenes in bright colors and are easily decoded, such as “Hudson Street”

by George C. Ault, are juxtaposed with works with hidden twists such as “The Labyrinth.” The viewer is left considering which images are realistic and which have “hidden” aspects of Surrealism.

The most interesting works are those that display qualities of both.

“Real/Surreal,” which runs until April 27, features an excellent combination of realistic and Surrealistic works which combine to create the experience of passing through a world that is not quite asleep and not yet awake.

Dum Dum Girls take synth-fueled trip to 80s Selena Handler ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Photo courtesy of James Orlando Dum Dum Girls’ latest LP is a rather stale collection that replaces the band’s ear for melody with 80s atmospherics.

Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls thrives under a guise. The frontwoman and mastermind of the band has created brilliant musical masterpieces while remaining under the masquerade of a young and naïve girl’s rock band.

She created the moniker after The Vaseline’s self-loathing track “Dum-Dum”-which focuses on the lazy life choices of a “no care bear”--and the Iggy Pop song “Dum Dum Boys,” which is similarly themed. Her album and song titles follow the mundane, easy-to-ignore pattern. But once the listener has pushed pass the pink and flowerscented smoke, sultry vocals that jump from major to minor in one bit of phraseology can finally be heard. This is music that reverberates through the heart as much as it does through the ears.

Dum Dum Girls’ brilliance usually lies in the band’s ability to sound so familiar, to feel classic, to feel reassuring and to support this sound with bold and creative lyrics; they take classic characteristics of old genres and reinvent them. The band has experimented with different periods of pop rock and worked to get its footing through two EPs and three studio LPs. With their most recent LP,

Too True, they’ve landed in an era characterized by inventive musical production but plagued by mundane lyricism.

The album itself is reflective of this descent into the realm of high-top fades and skinny jeans: the 1980s and 90s, with all of their highlights and lowlights. The tracks nod to the sound stylings of Pat Benatar and Morrissey, but the lyrics go more in the direction of the era’s one hit wonders like a-Ha’s “Take on Me,” which, I concede, was a great addition to the 80s collection despite the humdrum lyrics.

However, the lyrics still strike a chord with inconsolable self-loathers and jaded lovers who seem to lust and hate in the same line. But from track to track and even within the same song, the ideas don’t support a singular story. The album lacks the ideological flow that was present in the band’s previous releases.

Repetition and simplicity are characteristics of almost every track. This is particularly evident on “Rimbaud Eyes,” a track that repeats the line “You got Rimbaud eyes” about 15 times throughout, with only three short verses.

The line itself bears little substance; yes, Arthur Rimbaud had strikingly blue eyes, but a line with more sophistication would have served the track better.

Too True marks an introduction of tedious

wording but, more importantly, a shift in timbre.

Musically, Dum Dum Girls has traded in its smooth, vivacious vocals and consistent melodies for more experimental production and chunky electronicallyaltered vocals.

The album’s distinct 1980s and 1990s feel is yet another turning point in the band’s tour of music history. The band’s sophomore studio album, Only in Dreams, borrowed from 1950s guitar rock, whereas deeper bass and stronger vocals marked End of Daze, an EP that dabbles in more contemporary style. Perhaps as backlash to the new movement of bass dominance, the new album puts the guitar and drums in the spotlight.

The lyrics and sound of Too True are simple, but the music would have surely landed the song on VH1’s “I Love the 80s” if it were actually a part of the period. It might lack depth, but only time will tell if this album’s take on “Take on Me” has a-Halike staying power.

TOO TRUE DUM DUM GIRLS

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34 So-called “potted physician” 36 Oscarnominated film featuring a dentistturnedbounty hunter 40 Home of Sky Tower, the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere 41 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” girl 42 Morse bit 43 Contrarian’s abbreviation 44 Island where Artemis was born 47 Phishing lures 49 Disperse 51 Double ___ Oreo 53 Lead-in to type 54 Two-master 57 Sushi fish

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DOWN 1 Add zip to 2 “Hold on …”

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lillyhanson17

SO to the cold weather. As a guy with ED, I’ve never been this hard in my life. #winning

SO to Beyonce and Jay-Z, the power couple of the century. DSO to how sexy Beyonce is. RSO to how much swag Jay-Z carries with him at all times.

HMFASO to all the emotionally unavailable men out there. Y’all suck.

Not even this “feels like -24” bullshit can get me down when tonight’s JOHNNY O’SSS Alex Friedman @alxfriedman

Want some college advice??? Don’t wear a skirt when the windchill is -30 lol #lifelessons #riplegs Madison Smith @madi_k_smith

So excited to be a badger for the next 4 years!

Are sex nightmares a thing?

If anyone’s cold, you can come snuggle me. I’m a personal, fevery heater! But actually.

Sean Quillman @seanquillman

Ali Geisler @aligeisler

Someone at the coffee shop just ordered a latte with decaf espresso. #really? #whatsthepoint

Can’t feel my legs after walking to work #UWarctic #WIwinter Jane Roberts @J_Roberts8

Alixandra Jacobson @AlixJJ90

I’d rather attempt to score a 100 on the pacer test than walk up Bascom Hill in this weather again...

SO to Dean Berquam. You are the rook. Can I meet your chill friend Abe someday?

N.W. Po$$ ASO to nose hairs. And their tendency to freeze your sinuses into general discomfort. DASO to having to be outside in general.

SO to that moment when you’re walking home from the library breathing in that crisp 21 degree air, folk music in your ears, stars above your head, when you salute the big dick statue, your lighthouse, and you know you’re home.

DSO to Madison, last semesters, and putting things in perspective.

@ImPOSSibleBeats

SO to my favorite Badger for proposing at the top of Bascom Hill Friday night! SO for celebrating with Plaza burgers && a blue fishbowl afterwards.

You know you had a rough night when you end up at the kk... #welcomeback #dranksondranks @ katie_klinger Hannah Von Behren @hvonbehren

Proud moment of the day: went in Chamberlin, tunneled to Sterling, tunneled to Van Vleck, and only got lost ONCE! #tunnels #PolarVortex rhuBARB @LumberJackBarb

Hundreds Dead Or Missing After Ice Queen Lori Berquam Sets Devious Hot Chocolate Trap On Bascom.

HMFASO to my ass chafing from this fucking one ply my roommates insist on buying. If I wanted to finger my asshole, I wouldn’t use paper.

The Badger Harold @TheBadgerHarold

SO to my father. Two women. One night. I hope you’re happy wherever you are.

Happy hats with @thealexhenning #uwarctic Lori Berquam @UWMadison y’all canceling school tomorrow or @LoriBerquam nah?

How is it on a campus of 30,000 people I always manage to run into the ones I don’t want to see Sarah Snyder @saresnyder

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People who ride the 80 from Memorial Union to Bascom <<<<< #smh Eric Bakken @rockinbakken94

BREAKING: Health-conscious vending machine in college library to hold seminar this semester for juniors and seniors on sustainable energy.

ASO to the Van Vleck Math Library and its inhabitants. I am the only girl in this freezing study space and all of you are oogling me like I do not belong here or like you want to help me find myself somewhere less scientific to study.

Classes be damned, SO to not leaving my apartment for 4 days in a row.

jen_beth

SO to being slapped with mono my senior semester. No drinking and no physical activity?

What is this bullshit!

The Madison Misnomer @MadisonMisnomer

Too cold to make it out to any bars tonight.

HMFASO to the mother fucking line at the SERF. I think I probably burned more calories keeping warm than pumping iron.

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@UWMadison y’all canceling school tomorrow or nah?

Ant @AyyoAnt

kadegreen07 shoutout to my dorm wifi for being complete shit Matt J @Matt_Jay6

One good thing about braving the cold weather for class today was the fact that @uwmadison gave us free hot chocolate!

HMFASO to all the emotionally unavailable men out there. Y’all suck.

6 weeks til spring break... I can do this (I think)

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my homework is starting to add up.. when’s spring break again?

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Lori Berquam: You’d better fucking go

By Lori Berquam Dean of Students I know many of you will be attending your regular scheduled classes this week and with good reason.

You’re not a fuckfaced shit wagon.

Over the course of the past couple of days, the weather conditions have become increasingly more dangerous, and my advice to you about going to classes is this: You better go. You better fucking go. You better fucking go, you tiny-weinered assbagel.

Take advantage of the many transportation options available for use here in Madison. For instance, biking

your fat rolls down one of Madison’s many bike lanes, encountering your first close interaction with a member of the opposite on a campus bus or walking like the dumb piece of shit you are.

But, cuntbucket, you better fucking go to classes despite the extreme weather.

This kind of weather encourages really smart people to do real numb-nutty shit.

An example of one of those things is a T-shirt design I saw being advertised and sold that merged the cold weather with Cinco de Mayo.

Holy fucking Christ in my vagina, who the fuck keeps making these T-shirts?! I will say this one more time: It

is January. Cinco De Mayo is in May. Lord in bloody pussy heaven, don’t be a goddamned stupid chode.

So, goat rimmer, my advice again is this: You better go. You better fucking go to classes. Classes are campusfucking-accessible events, they are city-fucking-accessible events, they are attendanceis-mandatory-regardless-of-ifyou-make-up-some-bullshitexcuse-like-you-have-troublegetting-over-all-the-black-icein-your-wheelchair events. So, you better fucking go. Simple as cunt.

Whether or not you do go to classes, small balls, I have a little bit of weather advice for you.

No. 1: Fuck yourself. You’re

This Day in Badgers’ History 1914 Students greet cold the ol’ fashion way: by freezing to death.

Things that look like vulvas

Students can’t hold free cocoa due to frostbite On Monday, the University of Wisconsin’s attempt to motivate disgruntled students to attend class in sub-zero temperatures by offering free hot chocolate backfired when it became apparent that most students had been struck with frostbite and were unable to hold the paper cups.

In some cases, the students’ inability to use their crippled fingers left them bobbling their cups of scalding Swiss Miss, leading to second-degree burns and the humiliation of having climbed Bascom Hill for nothing.

“I really thought the university was looking out for us with the free cocoa,” sophomore Allie Zunkfeld said. “Until I had to have eight of my fingers amputated.

“The UW Hospital did a

great job with that though.”

Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Dean of Students Lori Berquam were reportedly dispensing the liquid encouragement themselves, saying, “What’s wrong with your hands, punk?” and laughing at the students who struggled the most.

In their cruelest moments, the two campus celebrities did not even hand the cocoa to the students, opting instead to throw the cups from a distance or to splash the burning contents in the victims’ faces at point-blank range.

“It was all in good fun,” Blank said. “We just wanted to make this bitterly cold day a little more fun for everyone.”

Many students, however, did not seem to take the

“Bascom Cocoa Massacre,” as it will surely be known to future generations, in good fun. Even after the university apologetically cancelled classes on Tuesday morning, some students were left feeling cold about Monday’s incident.

“Mini-marshmallows are no consolation for the physical and emotional pain I have felt at the hands of the university,” cocoa victim Jack Sanchez, who does not have any classes before noon on Tuesdays, said.

“Overall, I’d say the free cocoa was a great success,” Blank said. “It definitely went over better than the time we dumped a bunch of hot coffee onto passing students from the top of Van Hise last winter.”

fucking going to classes. Am I not being clear? They’re a goddamn requirement shit shoes.

No. 2: Don’t wear weather appropriate clothing. Frostbite is just the kind of motivator your self-obsessed, war-less, Macklemore-loving hipster generation needs. Consider them winter tattoos. That’s what we did. Oh, reminds me, you know what else we did?

We fucking went to class.

No. 3: Wherever you go (be it on your way to class or on your way to a different class), don’t stop and chat with anyone. This shouldn’t be difficult since you don’t seem like someone who is allowed to talk to other members of society without a court-

appointed representative present.

No. 4: Disregard No. 2 and No. 3. Take another look at No. 1 and, once again, fuck yourself hard in your food holes. You’re fucking going to class, shit head.

No. 5: Be sure you’re leaving for class a little bit earlier than usual. Need to leave yourself enough time to trudge through that heavy snow! Yikes!

No. 6: If you don’t fucking go, and you miss an assignment that wasn’t mentioned on the syllabus and you fail a class and can’t graduate, I don’t give anything remotely close to a fuck. You think truancy’s a game? You think if I was dean of students at UW-Panama

I wouldn’t be personally cutting absence students’ hands off with my prisonmade machete?! FUCKING GO TO CLASS YOU GODDAMN COLD-CRYING, SICKLY CUNTNOSED, HAIRY-RECTUMED, BANANA-SELF-SODOMIZING LAZY PERSONIFICATION OF DISEASE! I look forward to the things you’ll do in your life and the amazing people you’ll become.

Don’t let this cold -- don’t let this one-time polar vortex -- have a detrimental impact on your life. It’s not worth it.

Again, go to class. Fucking go to class.

God is dead, Lori M. Berquam University of Wisconsin Dean of Students

Extreme cold makes conversation easier University of Wisconsin senior Eric Singer was thrilled to see the sub-zero temperatures and that his classes would be in session on Monday so he could finally make meaningful conversation in the minutes leading up to the start of class.

“The return of the polar vortex will provide excellent conversation starters,” Singer claimed. “Just think of all the possibilities!”

Singer mentioned the unusual weather to Angela Dupont, a girl in his 8:50 a.m. biochemistry lecture and asked if her snot had also frozen to her scarf.

Dupont responded positively

and added that her eyelashes had frozen to her hat. The two continued to make idle small talk about the weather until class started.

“I often have trouble relating to people, but I think that the weather is something that unites us all and brings us together, and when the weather is this extreme, methinks romance is in the air,” Singer said with a wink.

Singer had another “great talk” with Dupont on Wednesday when he recited to her the forecast for the next 24 hours. He plans to broach the topic of frostbite with Dupont

on Friday, hoping to perhaps use this as a segue to asking her out to dinner and a movie.

Dupont commented, “It’s really nice to have someone to complain about the cold with and to tell me the projected temperatures for the rest of the day, but I don’t think we have much else in common.”

Unfortunately, time is running out for Singer as the weather is becoming less frigid and more “normal” again. At press time, Singer is not sure what he will talk about with Dupont when he only has to wear one pair of pants.

Dear Drabby: Tiny frozen edition Dear Drabby, My house has been especially cold during this weird vortex thingy.

So to try to stay warm, a few of my roommates and I have been smoking a lot. The only problem is our fourth roommate who gets all snarky when we smoke in the house. How do we tell him to get over it so we can stay inside and smoke?

Sincerely, Heat Is Gone, Help Dear HIGH, Step one, make some hot chocolate for your roommate. Step two, immediately spill it on your face, causing third degree burns.

And that’s it! If he doesn’t feel bad enough for how fucking clumsy you are to let you smoke in the house now, then he’s probably an asshole that I’d like. And if you aren’t warm now, then you’re probably in shock.

Good luck with the medical bills!

Sincerely,

Drabby Dear Drabby, Whenever it’s really cold out, like now, I wonder how some girls manage to still dress so cute while I can only manage to look like a walking sleeping bag with a belt on.

Is there a way to dress fashionably and still stay relatively warm?

Sincerely, Bad At Girly-ness Dear BAG, I know it’s difficult to be concerned with warmth and a general will to live when faced with the reality that your knee-length Northface parka will only take you so far on the trendiness scale.

Perhaps you should just go outside naked. That way, you’re being a complete trendsetter, going where those other “cute girls” have never gone. And then maybe your jacket can be given to someone with more potential in life. Good luck with the frostbite!

Sincerely, Drabby Dear Drabby, I walked into the living room of my apartment yesterday to find my girlfriend and my best friend talking about their plans to go sledding at midnight, and I immediately said that it would be fun! But, then my girl left and she looked kind of annoyed.

What gives? Can you explain the female brain to me, Drabs?

Sincerely, Feeling Out Of Loop Dear FOOL, As much as I’d love to spell out for you what’s going on here I just don’t have the hea- Aw, who am I kidding? You’re girlfriend and your best friend are doing the bump and grind! Sledding is code for sex, and midnight is code for without you.

Good luck on the hunt for a new lady and wingman!

Sincerely, Drabby

Vortex by Norse goddess

Norse Goddess Skaldi, fresh from dropping a polar vortex on the upper half of the country.

Skaldi, the Norse Goddess of Winter and alleged second wife of the All-Father Odin, spoke with the Madison Misnomer this week about her successful casting of “this really fucking hard spell” on Sunday night.

The spell, which is called “Polar Vortex,” transmutes the weather to make it “so fucking cold that your tits freeze off and you lose all hope and memory of warmth.”

Skaldi also described how difficult this spell was to cast, noting “it takes three days of preparation, and another full day of incantation after that.

You need to be epic leveled to learn the spell, and at least a

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semi-divine spellcaster to have the strength to cast it.

The spell also requires the blood from three frost-bitten virgins, which I have a lot of now, but it was really hard to find them last week.”

Further expanding on the effects of the spell, the Norse Goddess explained, “Duh, it makes it really fucking cold, are you stupid? I was so pumped to hear that when I cast it on Sunday night, Loki had just cast a Mischief spell on Becky Blank to make sure she didn’t close campus.”

She added, “Can you believe the wench?

Like, does she know how cold a successful Polar Vortex spell makes it? As if she

had to walk from Humanities to Animal Sciences and freeze her face off; she probably drank that free hot cocoa in her office all day.”

When asked if she’d attempt to cast Polar Vortex again in the near future, Skaldi said, “Definitely, if given the opportunity.

Who doesn’t love the cold? I want to try and diversify my spellbook, though!”

Skaldi hopes that people “really appreciate the willpower behind [her] unparalleled winter school spell casting” and “enjoy the cold. At least you aren’t pussies like the U of M by canceling a full day of class.”

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Northwestern races past Wisconsin in 2nd half UW fails to close out game with sixpoint 2nd half lead over NU at home Sean Zak Men’s Basketball Writer Wisconsin was 16-0 once. That feels like ages ago, even it’s been just 15 days. They were 16-0, winning their first three conference games, one of those games by 27 points at Northwestern.

Fifteen days later, Jan. 29 came and went, taking with it much of the remaining respect for the No. 14 Wisconsin basketball team (17-4, 4-4) as it fell at home to that same Northwestern team Wednesday, 65-56.

The Kohl Center was quiet for much of the game, but there were points where it seemed ready to rock.

The basketball team let them down each time.

The first came just moments after tipoff, when Ben Brust connected on a 26-foot three-point try from the top of the key. Wisconsin’s leading hoister gave the Badgers a 3-0 lead. Just 50 seconds later, teammate Traevon Jackson matched him with a three of his own.

A few weeks earlier, it took the Badgers five-plus minutes to get six points against the Wildcats (11-11, 4-5). Wisconsin had an early lead on topping its early January blowout in Evanston, Ill. Only thing is, that was it for Wisconsin until just before the 11-minute mark.

By then Northwestern had erased the 6-point Wisconsin lead and quieted the Kohl Center for the first time, soon to be its common state for much of the game.

In fairness, an early lead is rarely fully sustainable. The Wildcats earned their way back to a 1-point halftime deficit.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin was shooting just 25 percent from the field.

The Kohl Center had reason to be mum.

But the Badgers gave it a reason to exit the slumber.

Wisconsin grabbed three offensive rebounds in the first few minutes of the second frame, leading to five second-chance

SHOCK, page 14 (41) from the first half in its previous matchup with Northwestern.

It was the opposite end of the spectrum for the Wildcats who shot 56.5 percent from the floor in the second half — finishing 47.9 percent from the field for the game — mostly coming from Crawford’s 20 points in the second half, but also from

INJURIES, page 14 career. “He works really hard in the corner, so his energy and physical play and his ability to finish— that’s a big chunk. But we’re going to have to keep our carts close to our car and play well as a team.”

Kerdiles, on the other hand, missed three games even before his injury because of the World Junior Championships.

Then, in his first game back in the lineup against Alaska Anchorage Jan. 4, Kerdiles sustained his shoulder injury midway through the game.

Before leaving the Badgers for Sweden and the WJC, Kerdiles led Wisconsin in scoring with his 17 points, and even with missing seven games he still only trails Michael Mersch for the team-lead in points by seven.

Despite losing a key scoring source, Wisconsin has found a way to make up for Kerdiles’ scoring with the help of new faces in

points. Brust was involved again. Five-straight points from the senior guard (including his third triple of the game) brought the team in white back up six points at 30-24 with less than 16 minutes remaining.

Northwestern first-year coach Chris Collins called a timeout. He knows how the Kohl Center can help force a game from close to far gone. He was an assistant coach at Duke in 2009 when the then-No. 6 Blue Devils lost hold of their undefeated record and the Grateful Red poured onto the floor.

“All I said to them was ‘Look, we were down six to nothing … and we came right back,’” Collins said. His 6-foot-5 junior guard JerShon Cobb promptly answered his call, connecting on his first three of the game; a shot Collins figured was the biggest shot all night.

“It kind of got us back going, making it a onepossession game.”

“Those are times, I like to call them breaking points,” Collins said. “In games when you are on the road, teams hit a couple shots. They’re getting a lead a little bit.

It’s kind of that time -does your team break or do you fight back?

“Fortunately we hit a couple shots and got right back in the game.”

One could almost argue that was when Wisconsin — not Northwestern — broke. Their next field goal came with less than three minutes remaining.

By then — after a 12-plus minute break without a bucket — the Wildcats had built a 13-point lead and were cruising to their first ever win at the Kohl Center.

Much like that night 15 days ago, during Wisconsin’s first loss of the season at Indiana, the Badgers had a formidable second-half lead and allowed the other team to not only tie the game, but also take control.

Jan. 29 could have been an instance where one team was hitting shots and another simply wasn’t. Or it could have been another peak into Wisconsin’s newfound inability to hit the accelerator in the moments that matter most.

“We lead most of the game and Northwestern

Chris Lotten The Badger Herald Traevon Jackson was one of many Badgers who struggled from the field going 2-12 from the floor for eight points to go with three turnovers.

is just hanging around,” junior guard Josh Gasser said. “We couldn’t hit enough shots to stretch the lead. Before you know it, five, six possessions and they really attacked us.”

Faltering in certain moments of momentum throughout January have now bitten the Badgers on multiple occasions.

Not increasing a lead or allowing a team to hang around, soon enough those ball-screen-aided

jump shots begin to fall just like they did against Michigan 11 days ago.

Things start to happen for the team that hangs around, be it at the Kohl Center, in Evanston, or next door in pick-up hoops at the SERF. It happened for Northwestern center Alex Olah.

The 7-foot sophomore from Romania, who had attempted just more than a dozen threepointers this season

redshirt sophomore Tre Demps who would score 9 of his 10 points off of the bench in the second half.

“Every morning I wake and I say ‘maybe this is the day we are going to shoot well,’” Northwestern coach Chris Collins said. “I’ve been waiting for a long time and I’m glad it was tonight.”

Demps gave NU the clear edge in the battle

of the benches, as UW didn’t get its first points from a nonstarter until Hayes scored with 15:01 left.

Wisconsin made a push to come back with its full court press down 12 with just more than two minutes left.

The pressure forced Northwestern into six turnovers, bringing the Badgers within four points, but the deficit proved to large to

overcome dooming UW to its first loss to NU in eight games.

It’s clear Northwestern isn’t the same team Wisconsin saw about a month ago, now the Wildcats have won four of its last six conference games, equaling the number of Big Ten wins that Wisconsin has.

“In one month’s time we have become a very tough group,” Collins

the lineup.

“Don’t get me wrong, we’d definitely love to have those two in the lineup every night. It is a big deal. Those two are key components to our offense and in the d-zone. They’re both solid players, so we’re definitely going to miss them but we definitely feel confident with Paape and Cavallini as well,” Little said of Matt Paape and Aidan Cavallini, who have seen playing time due to the multiple injuries among the forwards.

“Guys have been around the block a time or two and they know we’ve faced a lot of adversity the last couple of years with injuries and coaching changes and all that, so we’re almost used to it.”

The biggest instance of adversity Little made reference to was the 1-7-2 start to last year’s campaign that saw the Badgers lose Zengerle to a hand injury, an assistant coaching change and Kerdiles being suspended for

the first 10 games of the year. But following the miserable start, Wisconsin rebounded and won the WCHA Final Five tournament to secure an automatic bid for the NCAA tournament.

Twenty of the 26 players on this year’s roster experienced those trying times of the early portion of last season, setting the Badgers up for any adversity to come.

“Everybody was already moving onto soccer season.

They didn’t even want to watch hockey,” assistant coach Gary Shuchuk said. “For us, going through that whole stretch last year was a piece of cake. We know we overcame it, we know we had to adjust how we played.”

So although losing leading point-getters such as Kerdiles and Barnes may seem like a tough task from the outside, the experience the Badgers have had in adverse situations make this one just another day

in the life.

“From our standpoint it doesn’t affect us. The fan standpoint and everyone else around the league is like, ‘Oh, boy, they lost another player.’ But we can’t feel sorry for ourselves and, ‘Oh, boy, we shouldn’t even go to Michigan.

We’ll mail them six points,’” Shuchuk said.

“We’ll have to play hard.

We know what’s at stake, and no one in the locker room is going woe is us.

We’re fine. We’re good to go. We’re happy with the guys we have in the lineup.”

It is quite possible that Kerdiles could return to play this weekend when the Badgers travel to Michigan, but with Barnes out indefinitely, Wisconsin will be without at least one key player.

But interestingly enough, neither Eaves, Shuchuk or Little hardly seemed phased by their possible absences.

Instead of dreading the injuries, the Badgers and Eaves have embraced the adversity

(connecting on just two of them), fired his only three-point attempt from the left wing. It went in and extended the Northwestern lead to 12.

One reporter called it a “backbreaker” when Ryan asked his thoughts on the play.

“I was waiting for a manager to come off the bench and shoot next,” Ryan said, a bit surprised that Olah would all but seal the deal for the Wildcats. “The things that

said.

Now what looked to be a marquee match up of two of the Big Ten’s top teams in Saturday’s game between Ohio State and Wisconsin at the Kohl Center has become a contest between the two teams that might be struggling the most in the conference after Wisconsin lost to Northwestern and Ohio State lost to Penn State

and the experiences with it to come.

“This is the great part of sport. Who steps in?

Who does the job? So I’m excited who’s going to be that guy for us,” Eaves said.

can happen in this game.”

As Wisconsin found out, plenty can happen, especially in the span of a few weeks.

Fifteen days separate Wisconsin from those extravagant graces of 16-0, when they would step on the gas and race off when they absolutely needed to. The Badgers haven’t done that very much in the past 15 days, and consequently, they’ve fallen, maybe to rock bottom, maybe not.

Wednesday.

The only thing Ryan and his Wisconsin team can do is hope the ball bounces a little better than it did Wednesday night.

“I don’t know how you can look at those numbers do anything other than say ‘we’re due,’” Ryan said. “And hopefully that’s Saturday.”

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Five Badgers competing for Lombardi trophy RUSSELL WILSON

MONTEE BALL

Team: Seattle Seahawks Position: Quarterback Experience: 2 years

Since foregoing a career in major league baseball, transferring to UW from North Carolina State and leading the Badgers to the Rose Bowl in 2012 in his only season with the program, Russell Wilson has taken the NFL by storm.

Measuring in at just 5-foot-11, many NFL scouts had doubts about Wilson’s ability to succeed at the professional level.

The Seattle Seahawks, however, saw his athletic ability and composure as reason enough to draft him with the 75th overall pick in the third round of the 2012 draft to compete

with former Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Matt Flynn.

After beating out Flynn in the preseason, Wilson took a stranglehold on the Seahawks offense, putting together a rookie season that would earn him a third place in the voting for offensive rookie of the year behind only Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck.

Now in his second season as the signal caller in Seattle, Wilson has played well enough to put him in the conversation of league MVP, throwing for 3,357 yards and 26 touchdowns and doing so without some of his best receiving threats because Percy Harvin and Sidney Rice were out of the lineup for most of the season.

Team: Denver Broncos Position: Running Back Experience: Rookie

Although just two teams remain this NFL season, there are still a number of faces that are familiar to those who watch the University of Wisconsin football team.

In fact, five former Badgers will be either playing or coaching in Super Bowl XLVIII for the Seattle Seahawks or Denver Broncos.

Between them, they have five Rose Bowl appearances, but each of them will try to hoist the Lombardi Trophy with their respective teams Sunday at MetLife Stadium.

After deciding to wait on the NFL and return to Madison for his senior season with Wisconsin, Montee Ball put up numbers that have never been seen in college football. Ball broke the NCAA record for most touchdowns in a career with 83 during his four years at Wisconsin while going to three straight Rose Bowls with the Badgers.

The Denver Broncos selected Ball with the 58th-overall pick in the second round, but fumbling and pass protection issues kept the former Badger from seeing consistent time on the field during the first half of the season. In the latter half of his rookie campaign, Ball began to assume the role of a complementary back to starting tailback

Knowshon Moreno, getting some third down and goal line opportunities.

With his limited touches Ball was able to rack up 559 yards and four touchdowns while averaging 4.7 yards per rush.

After going to threestraight Rose Bowls to end his career at Wisconsin, Ball goes to the Super Bowl in his first year in the NFL, admitting “a lot of players in the locker room tell me I’m spoiled” at the Super Bowl media day.

CHRIS MARAGOS Team: Seattle Seahawks Position: Safety, Experience: 4 years Chris Maragos has been an unheralded player since he left high school—walking on to Western Michigan and then transferring to Wisconsin, where he would switch sides of the ball and play safety. Although Maragos led the Badgers with four interceptions his senior season in

2009 and received honorable mention All-Big Ten, the Racine Native went undrafted in the 2010 NFL draft.

Maragos was picked up by the San Francisco 49ers but was cut after just one year with the team which opened the door for the 5-foot-10 converted safety from Wisconsin to

join Seattle in 2011.

Time on the field isn’t easy to come by for Maragos, who plays behind Seattle’s 3-time allpro free safety Earl Thomas, but in the playing time he has had Maragos grabbed 12 tackles, including one in the NFC championship game against the 49ers this post season.

O’BRIEN SCHOFIELD Team: Seattle Seahawks Position: Outside Linebacker, Experience: 4 years Playing defensive end for Wisconsin from 2006 to 2009, O’Brien Schofield made his presence known on the defensive side of the ball, totaling 33 tackles for a loss and 17 sacks. During his senior season in 2009, Schofield ranked second in the nation in tackles for a loss with 24.5 to go with 12 sacks, which

earned him a spot on the first All-Big Ten Team.

The Arizona Cardinals drafted the South Carolina native in the fourth round with the 130th pick and converted him to outside linebacker.

After playing three seasons in Arizona, Schofield was released by the Cardinals in 2013

and claimed off of waivers by the Seahawks.

In Seattle, Schofield seldom sees the field in a talent-loaded defense that has been coined the “legion of boom.”

In his time on the field this season the former Badger picked up seven tackles and a sack.

DARRELL BEVELL Team: Seattle Seahawks, Position: Offensive Coordinator, Experience: 14 years as NFL assistant coach As the starting quarterback for Wisconsin in 1993, Darrell Bevell led the Badgers to a 10-1-1 record and a spot in the 1994 Rose Bowl, where they beat UCLA 2116 on a 21-yard run

by Bevell, which

put the game out of reach and secured Wisconsin’s first Rose Bowl win.

As coach in the NFL, Bevell has made stops in Green Bay and Minnesota before landing in Seattle as head coach Pete

Carroll’s offense coordinator in 2011.

Now in his third season manning the Seahawks’ offense Bevell has the team ranked 8th in the NFL in points per game and 4th in rushing yards this season.

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Wisconsin, Michigan square off in Ann Arbor UW, UM take to the ice for the second time in a three-week span Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor After losing its first Big Ten game since late November this past weekend at the Kohl Center, the No. 9-ranked Wisconsin men’s hockey team will prepare for another task this coming weekend that it has not had to deal with for several months: playing on the road.

Coming off a series split with Ohio State, the Badgers (14-7-1 overall, 5-3-0 Big Ten) will head to Ann Arbor, Mich., this weekend for a critical Big Ten series with 12thranked Michigan — the first away series since Nov. 29 and 30 at Minnesota — the prospects of which will give the Badgers a nice change of pace, according to head coach Mike Eaves.

“I think guys might look forward to getting on the road,” Eaves said Monday in his weekly press conference. “It just simplifies your schedule.

You get in, you practice, you eat, go back to the hotel. You chill with your buddies, your roommates, your teammates.

You get up, you practice and you’ve got to eat, sleep and play hockey for two days.

“That in itself can be refreshing, as experience has told us. When you’re on the road a lot, it can wear you down. But the fact that we haven’t been on the road for a while, I think the guys will be excited to get out there and have that kind of schedule.”

Wisconsin, which leads Michigan (12-6-2, 4-2-0) by only three points —

equivalent to one win — in the Big Ten standings, swept the Wolverines two weekends ago, but will be without at least one key piece come Friday night.

In the waning moments of Saturday night’s loss to the Buckeyes, senior forward Tyler Barnes crashed into the boards and did not return to play.

In the press conference, Eaves confirmed Barnes will not play this weekend and listed his injury as week-to-week.

Despite that bad news, another key player, Nic Kerdiles, could make his return to the Badger lineup after being sidelined with a shoulder injury since Jan. 3. Eaves said he will bring Kerdiles along on the trip and make a game time decision as to whether he will actually play.

Regardless of whether or not Kerdiles plays against the Wolverines, Eaves has some choices to make as far as his forward lines are concerned, especially with his top forward line that included Barnes, Mark Zengerle and Morgan Zulinick.

Based on what has transpired in practice this week and what Eaves said in an interview with The Badger Herald Wednesday after practice, senior forward Sean Little looks to be the replacement for Barnes on the first line.

“He adds a little grit and a little hockey smarts with Mark and Morgan. I think he’ll open up ice for those guys. I think that that’s the plan right now and we’ll go from there,” Wisconsin assistant coach Gary Shuchuk said about Little’s new spot on the top line.

“I’m not saying Sean Little is like Tyler Barnes, but he’s willing to go into corners. He’s willing to be a forechecker and bang guys. I think that’s going to

add an element to that line that it hasn’t had before.

For now, it’ll be a good adjustment.”

Still, with the possibility that Kerdiles could be out again, the first road series in more than two months could present a unique challenge for the Badgers.

After being swept by Wisconsin Jan. 10 and 11, the Wolverines, like the Badgers, have only played one series since coming off a bye weekend on Jan. 17 and 18. But in that only series, Michigan completed a sweep of its own against archrival Michigan State, beating the Spartans at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit 2-1 Friday night and then 5-2 in East Lansing, Mich. Saturday night.

As the Wolverines have a fairly unreliable scoring offense that ranks fourth in the Big Ten out of six teams averaging 2.85 goals per game, their calling card rests in freshman goaltender Zach Nagelvoort.

Nagelvoort did let in seven goals in the Wisconsin series, allowing Badger goaltender Joel Rumpel to surpass Nagelvoort for first in the league in goalsagainst-average.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald However, Nagelvoort still holds the best league The new look line of Michael Mersch, Brad Navin and Jefferson Dahl look to break through for a series sweep. mark with a 93.5 save percentage and only being out again, Wisconsin unfamiliar, meeting for done. The rivalries are trails Rumpel’s 1.95 may have to rely more the first time in Ann Arbor going to increase because GAA with his mark of on defense in the series since 1980, but the new of the fact that I mean, this 1.98. against the Wolverines.

Big Ten alignment, which works out really well. We While Michigan will But the belief in the allows teams to play homehad a spirited series, and most likely go with offense still remains and and-home series in the now we’re getting right Nagelvoort in between Wisconsin displayed that conference season, has back at it. It’s just going to the pipes, Wisconsin’s it could score in the first forged and an already elevate it to another level,” Rumpel should get series even though Kerdiles intense rivalry displayed in Eaves said. the nod in net for the was sidelined. the first series.

“And in the barn they Badgers, as he had “Since the past couple That spark will give play in — if I’m a college started five games in a of weekends they’ve been Wisconsin an exciting hockey fan, this is going row and played in 12 of out—it definitely doesn’t opportunity in a big-time to be on my calendar this the last 13 and leads the help our team, but we’ve hockey environment when weekend.” league in GAA. got enough depth at the it takes the ice Friday and Wisconsin will take on With at least one forward position that we’re Saturday at Yost Ice Arena.

No. 12 Michigan at 5:30 key offensive threat not too worried about it,” “But the fact is, when p.m. Friday on Big Ten out in Barnes and the Little said. you play four times, you’ve Network and 5:30 Saturday possibility of Kerdiles The teams may be got an even shot to get it on NBC Sports Network.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald After being held scoreless this past weekend against Ohio State, senior forward Michael Mersch looks to improve on his 14 Big Ten goals, which also give him the most career goals under head coach Mike Eaves.

NCAA, page 14 and their participation in college sports is voluntary. We stand for all student-athletes, not just those the unions want to professionalize,” the NCAA may have already missed its shot.

Although the NCAA’s statement possesses an air of truth, two major problems present themselves in just the two sentences, sentences that contradict one another.

For starters, the statement exudes a sense of arrogance in that the governing body believes it is completely in the right, essentially saying the players have no chance of accomplishing the feat of unionizing.

But this isn’t the first time the NCAA has been guilty of such arrogance.

The omnipotence and omniscience of the organization’s leaders led them to believe that they could cut corners in the investigation of Miami early in 2013,

which resulted in the firing of the head of the NCAA’s enforcement division, Julie Roe Lach.

The same arrogance also impaired the governing body’s foresight when it decided to allow athlete’s likenesses to be used for its own profit, not the athletes, leading to the O’Bannon class action case that could eventually cost the NCAA an exorbitant amount of money.

Unfortunately, these three incidents aren’t isolated or infrequent, but merely a handful of plot points that connect together with the myriad of other all-too-similar situations to illustrate the motive of the organization.

This is where the contradiction in the above statement comes into play. Sure, the idea of student-athletes unionizing might seem a little ludicrous, but is the notion behind the movement really that absurd?

What these players

want is to be ensured the safety, security and the right to what they deserve. However, by dismissing the players’ idea to unionize as a laughable joke hardly worth its time, the NCAA refuted any beliefs that it stands for all athletes.

Perhaps a time existed when all was well and good in college athletics, the revenue sports were pure and the world was full of sugar, spice and everything nice, but those days are long gone.

The NCAA was originally founded in 1906, and not for the reason of giving the leaders of college athletics an opportunity to make wads of cash off unsuspecting “amateurs.”

It was born out of a necessity to protect players from injury and death at a time when both of those possibilities were all too real.

Now, the organization that had its origins in serving those who put their bodies on the line has packed those distant

relics of what used to be people full of meaning and worth into a box, dropped them in the attic and left them in the dark.

The athletes and their well-being, at least at the time of the NCAA’s inception, were cared for and recognized for their worth, but as time has worn on, money came into sight and the athletes lost their significance.

Situations have surfaced throughout the years that have made it seem like the NCAA truly believes the athletes are of the utmost importance instead of the money.

However, those scenarios have only taken place when the athletes have fallen into the path of the NCAA, such as the O’Bannon lawsuit, leaving it no choice but to recognize and deal with the faces that drive the organization.

In those situations, the NCAA’s body of governance has been quick to dismiss those who confront it.

If they can’t dismiss the

problem, then the leaders of college sports fix the problem on the surface and quickly throw it to the wayside without addressing the core issues that bring about basically every problem the NCAA faces, specifically money.

This time, the studentathletes concerns had nothing to do with money.

They simply wanted a seat in the roundtable discussion of college athletics. Going for unionization might not have been the best tactic, but with how the athletes have been disregarded in the past, what choice did they have left but to directly confront the NCAA by filing for representation?

The decision of the National Labor Relations Board is yet to be seen, but regardless of the outcome, the NCAA is one step closer on its march to death row.

There has been ample opportunity for the leaders of college athletics to affect change

and make the move for the better. But by ignoring the players, the roots of the organization, the NCAA has sealed its fate.

All that’s left to be seen is what becomes of the organization and what happens to the revenue sports of basketball and football.a In the meantime, enjoy what moments of “purity” remain—because they won’t be around for much longer.

Dan is a sophomore undeclared major. Think the NCAA’s death is imminent?

Let him know at dcorcoran@ badgerherald.com or tweet him @dancoco7

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Chris Lotten The Badger Herald Junior Center Frank Kaminsky was one basket short of a double double with eight points and 10 rebounds in 25 minutes of play in Wisconsin’s fourth loss in its last five games. Only two Badgers scored in double digits.

Wildcats shock Badgers at home Shooting troubles doom Wisconsin in fourth loss in last five games Spencer Smith Sports Editor Sam Dekker — a regular at Wisconsin’s post game press conferences — didn’t talk to the media Wednesday night because he was busy. He was busy taking shots on the Kohl Center floor where just a few minutes earlier his team suffered a loss that would have seemed unthinkable just a month ago.

On Jan. 2, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team cruised into its Big Ten conference schedule

with a 76-49 win over Northwestern in Evanston, Ill. putting them at 14-0.

That couldn’t feel any further away now as the problems just keep piling up for the Badgers.

Just when defense looked like the biggest issue for No. 14 Wisconsin (17-4, 4-4 Big Ten), it shoots 26.3 percent from the field in its first loss ever at the Kohl Center to Northwestern (11-11, 4-5) 65-56.

Drew Crawford led the way for the Wildcats scoring a game-high 30 points on 10-15 shooting, playing all 40 minutes.

Senior guard Ben Brust was one of two Badgers to score in double figures with a team-high 21 points,

but shot just 7-18 from that percentage, I’d have the field as no player said no way,” Wisconsin wearing cardinal and coach Bo Ryan said. white shot more than 50 “Once you start missing, percent from the field though, sometimes that Wednesday. basket starts getting UW as pretty a team small would and it shoot 15obviously 57 from got pretty Vitals: Wisconsin shot a the floor small.” season low 26.3 percent on or 26.3 The 15-57 shooting from the floor percent — game its lowest started INSIDE: Poor shooting shooting performance in the second half promising clip of the enough prevents Badgers from pulling season for the away against WIildcats. and nearly Badgers NEXT: Saturday vs. No. 24 30 percent hitting Ohio State at the Kohl Center lower than their at 11 a.m. it shot first two against NU shots that they put in the first up — both coming from meeting this season.

“If somebody would behind the arc. But, from then on Wisconsin have told me that we go ice cold would have shot, getting would those shots that we had, missing its next 12 shots

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and hitting only six total field goals the entire first half.

On the other end, Northwestern was finding success down low, scoring all but four of its first half points in the game while Wisconsin managed only four points in the paint.

The Wildcats were squeezing the driving lanes, making entry passes and drives to the rim difficult, but the Badgers weren’t too disappointed with their shot selection.

“We made the extra pass a few times just like you want to. Move it around the perimeter until we got an open look and some of the times we just didn’t knock them down,” Wisconsin junior guard Josh Gasser said. “We just have to

stay confident. We know we can put the ball in the hoop, but tonight we didn’t.”

Yet, despite Wisconsin’s shooting woes and its inability to score close to the rim it still owned a one point lead — 23-22 — going in to the half.

Wisconsin built a lead in the early part of the second half, up by 6 with just about 16 minutes left to play, but again the shots wouldn’t fall. Once freshman forward Nigel Hayes made a layup with 15:01 left in the game, the Badgers wouldn’t hit another field goal for the next 12 minutes and 15 seconds.

It wasn’t until the 2:46 mark in the second half that Wisconsin would match its scoring total

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Injuries not breaking UW

NCAA’s clock running out

With several key players on sideline, Badgers still performing at high level

Northwestern’s filing for unionization putting current athletic system in doubt

Dan Corcoran Sports Content Editor Injuries and sports go hand in hand. As undesirable as they are, dings, nicks, tears and breaks are just an accepted part of athletics.

As Wisconsin men’s hockey head coach Mike Eaves put it, “To think you’re going to go through a season without injuries, you’re kidding yourself.”

Right now, Eaves’ squad is dealing with its own set of injuries, which he acknowledged as part of the struggle of a long, grinding season in a high contact sport.

“Every trip you go on, you’re going to have storms and we’re dealing with some of our storms right now,” Eaves said.

Although all of 20

players on the dress list for each game each possess unique strengths and fill different roles, the players the Badgers have lost to injury are some of the most critical players on the team.

Earlier in the season, Wisconsin lost goaltender Joel Rumpel, who, thankfully for the Badgers, missed only five games with an ankle injury and has come back to win 10 of 12 games.

After Rumpel returned, the Badgers remained healthy all-around for a stretch of five consecutive weeks, until misfortune struck twice in the course of a week when they lost forwards Sean Little and Nic Kerdiles to shoulder injuries the week of Dec. 30.

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Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Missing players on the ice has moved forward Brad Navin to the second line.

Wisconsin got Little back this past weekend in the series against Ohio State after he missed four games, but then lost another key piece in Tyler Barnes in the second game against the Buckeyes this past Saturday.

“He’s energy. I know he’s got 10 goals,” Eaves said of Barnes, who is Wisconsin’s third leading scorer with 18 points and, more notably, has only missed one game in his

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As the NCAA’s proverbial ship has slowly but steadily taken on water, one can only ponder how much longer the organization—at least as is—can stay afloat before it finally capsizes.

With the filing of Northwestern football players for representation by a labor union led by former Wildcats’ quarterback Kain Colter, the NCAA has

taken a subtle but crucial blow below the bow that could ultimately spell the doom of the governing body of collegiate athletics.

Unlike previous scenarios such as the Miami football scandal from last winter and the ongoing Ed O’Bannon class action lawsuit, this time the NCAA had, or maybe still has, the ball in its own court. But after NCAA Chief Legal Officer Donald Remy released a statement on the organization’s website Tuesday, which, among other things, said that “Student athletes are not employees,

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