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UW athletes face cyberbullies Social media criticisms unavoidable, but some coaches look to control players’ use Morgan Krause Campus Editor With the rise of social media, a public figure’s personal critics are never more than 140 characters away.

Student-athletes are among those who feel the sting of ill-advised or critical social posts, which has raised the question as to whether universities should take steps to regulate the sites.

At universities that place an emphasis on their athletics program, it may not come as much of a surprise that personal social media attacks are a frequent

occurrence for a number of prominent studentathletes.

University of Wisconsin fullback Derek Watt said he sees the critique as an inevitable reality but that he believes athletes can choose to receive it in a variety of ways.

“People are behind their computers so they can say what they want,” Watt said. “Sometimes I use it as motivation. You just have to acknowledge it and let it go.”

UW quarterback Joel Stave is no stranger to criticism from fans and said he prefers to take the “don’t read it”

approach by staying away from Twitter completely, he said.

While Stave was aware that such criticisms were out there, he said he prefers not to seek the negativity out and sad he feels unaffected by this version of cyberbullying.

“All that really matters to me is what my teammates think, what my coaches think and what my family thinks,” Stave said.

Michigan State Coach Tom Izzo spoke about the effect social media can have on student-athletes on the ESPN radio show “Mike & Mike.”

Izzo said there was no

way to get away from social media.

“When you’re in the gym, two hours, they’re yelling at you. You get away, go back to your dorm and life becomes normal. Not anymore,” Izzo said. “Those same people at that arena are now yelling at you on Twitter. You can say, ‘Don’t read it,’ but I don’t think it’s the way our kids are brought up.”

Izzo also brought up that while he could not control what the athletes read, he could control what they tweet.

Universities around the country are adopting

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John Doe emails released Walker says Democrats will spin documents for political gain, denies importance Nyal Mueenuddin Print State Editor More than 28,000 pages of documents were released Wednesday in the closed John Doe investigation into a number of then-Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s aides.

The John Doe probe — which did not bring charges against Walker but did lead to convictions against

four of his staffers while he was county executive — expanded the day before Walker’s 2010 election as governor, the new documents show.

Another key finding in the newly released documents includes an email from Walker administration director Cindy Archer to deputy chief of staff Kelly Rindfleisch. Pending her appeal, Rindfleisch was

sentenced to six months in prison and three years probation for campaigning on county time for former Rep. Brett Davis, R-Oregon, a lieutenant governor candidate who is now the state’s Medicaid director.

In that email, Archer said she used the private wireless system that had been set up in the county office often.

“Consider yourself now in the ‘inner circle’. :) I use this

private account quite a bit to communicate with SKW and Nardelli. You should be sure you check it throughout the day,” Archer wrote to Rindfleisch.

Although many of the documents had already been public, the ones released today came after a court ruled that most of the John Doe documents could be released since the probe had

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JFC approves tax cut plan Amended version of Walker’s ‘Blueprint for Prosperity’ passed 12-4 in committee Dan Kinderman Herald Reporter The state’s Joint Finance Committee passed an amended version of Gov. Scott Walker’s “Blueprint for Prosperity” Wednesday, although the committee kept the bulk of Walker’s plan — roughly $400 million in property tax cuts and about $100 million in income tax cuts.

The compromise between the Senate and the Assembly, sparked by some Republican senators’ concerns with the structural deficit, makes $38 million in budget lapses, or cuts, to state agencies. It also puts the $117 million originally intended for the state’s rainy day fund into the state’s general account to lower the state’s structural deficit heading into the next biennial budget.

The moves would lower the state’s structural deficit to less than $660 million, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, lower than the $807 million structural deficit that the bureau had projected under

Walker’s original plan.

Walker’s $400 million in property tax cuts would save the owner of a medianvalue home $131, according to the LFB. The second bill the finance committee approved grants $35 million to workforce training and collaboration efforts between school districts and technical colleges.

Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, said returning a large chunk of the state’s projected $1 billion surplus through property and income tax relief was a major achievement for Republicans.

“I think it’s remarkable because we’ve had some very difficult years in the Legislature where we just haven’t had a whole lot of funds and we’ve had a lot of debt, and so to turn that around this session so much that we can provide property tax relief and income tax relief is something we can be amazingly proud of,” she said.

Democrats, who voted against the proposal, said the

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Preliminary diversity plan draft unveiled Rachel Jones Print Campus Editor A University of Wisconsin ad hoc committee released a preliminary draft of a new campus diversity plan Wednesday, outlining a variety of new campus goals with an emphasis on access and Jeff Miller University of Wisconsin accountability.

The draft outlines The draft revisits the 2008 plan, which emphasized increasing the number of students in targeted diversity groups.

a variety of measures for recommendations, emphasizing accountability for the university to develop programs and policies related to diversity and building an inclusive community.

The Ad Hoc Diversity Planning Committee began preparation for the new diversity plan began in November 2012 and is now

reaching its final stages before its adoption this summer.

The draft sets a framework to increase access to the university and its resources and to create an inclusive campus environment that ensures individuals in the community feel valued and supported.

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Committee proposes new campus budget model Current model lacks financial planning incentives, concerns over transparency Emma Palasz Herald Contributor A University Wisconsin committee proposed a new budget model for the university that would allow for more flexibility and the ability to

drive funding to departments as students flock to certain majors.

The Budget Model Review Committee released a white paper Tuesday which proposed possible changes to the university’s current budget model and compared it to other universities’ models.

The paper proposed four different types of budgets UW could follow, which include formula budgeting, zerobased budgeting, performance budgeting and incentive-based

budgeting.

The committee’s website described these budgets as respectively allocating budgets based on an algorithm, clearing a previous year’s budget and requesting a new one each year, funding a budget based on enrollment with units meeting certain requirements or units being responsible for their own expenses, respectively.

UW currently uses incremental budgeting, which assumes the university’s goals will not change from year to

year, the website said.

The white paper outlined problems with the current budget model, including a lack of incentives for academic units to involve themselves in financial planning, transparency concerns over resource decisions and the outcomes of those decisions and few clear financial incentives for innovation.

Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for finance and administration and head of the Budget Model Review

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Committee, said no changes have been made yet.

“The white paper made a case to change the current model [and] called for a followup team to consider different budget models,” Bazzell said.

Terry Warfield, department chair of accounting and information systems and Budget Model Review Committee member, said the current model does not have “too many flaws.”

“The current budget model is very good,” Warfield said. “It

has a lot of great features, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.”

Bazzell said the changes concern how the university can or cannot incentivize good budgeting practices of specific units at the university. He said the new plan addressed in the white paper is to accommodate changes in campus priorities.

Trends in students’ majors and degree choices are changing in correlation with

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Low-income students who struggle to compete academically without Internet access could gain free access in their neighborhoods under a city initiative to address the “digital divide.”

The discrepancy of Internet access in low versus high socioeconomic status neighborhoods creates struggles that are long lasting for students Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, said in an event on access at the Memorial Union Monday.

“What it takes to compete and get into the University of Wisconsin, to be able to use computers regularly in the household, to turn in homework in the classroom, to be

able to look things up on Wikipedia and to then try and get into the flagship university we have here creates a digital divide,” Resnick said.

He said even if a child does not have a computer in the home, they are expected to be academically competitive with the students who do have this privilege, which makes academic life very difficult for the kids in the lower income homes.

Resnick said the McDonald’s on Park Street is filled with high school kids after 8 p.m. every night, because the library closes at 7 p.m. and the only other place in the neighborhood with Internet at that hour is

McDonald’s.

The city has created a budget amendment of $150,000 to try and install Internet access in a lowincome neighborhood.

Resnick said although creating a Madison wireless company would allow for job growth and promote access across neighborhoods, the city is unable to do such a thing.

The school districts in Madison also want to have a technology plan for the students, Resnick said.

He said the schools want students to have a one-to-one device access so if a student does not have a computer at home, the district will provide them with one or a similar working technological

device.

City Chief Information Officer Paul Kronberger said the bigger point this initiative seeks to address is there are between 15,000 and 40,000 students in Dane County who lack Internet access. He said this is something Dane County takes note of and wants to address with this program.

A City of Madison statement said in a recent study, the Pew Foundation found 88 percent of households earning $75,000 or more have a high speed Internet connection at home.

That percentage drops to 54 percent for households earning less than $30,000, it said.

Dane County Supervisor Leland Pan, District 5, said while the county is not responsible for the specifi cs of the project, he thinks it will generally be a positive thing to bring Internet access to various communities in Madison.

Resnick said the city will focus on some neighborhoods in which Internet installment will be easiest since there is no guarantee this idea will work.

The statement said city staff will be working with technology and community nonprofit leaders and the Digital Technology Committee and that the project plan should be ready by early summer.

Author tackles racial disparity Native Madisonian says he returned to city to help fight racial discrimination Alex Arriaga Print City Editor Native Madisonian Richard Harris thought he would never return to the city after experiencing racial job discrimination, but said he returned to fight the problems that turned him away.

The author of “Growing Up Black in South Madison,” Harris was invited to speak at a Rotary Club meeting Wednesday.

Harris said he never noticed racial discrimination growing up. He said it was in the background in the form of what he called “mother’s watch,” a group of women including his mother who would go to department stores to fight the rule that blacks could not try on shoes or clothes. The rule was based on the view that whites would not purchase the items if a black person had worn them.

Harris said he had an enjoyable time at Madison Central High School and then went to the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1961.

“When I started here, Abe Lincoln was standing. Now, he’s sitting,” Harris joked.

Harris said his first real experience with racial discrimination was in 1961, when he was looking for a job following his graduation from UW. He had gone in for an interview and after receiving a cool greeting, a Dane County Sheriff came in and escorted him out.

“They made an awful mistake. I can’t interview.

My staff would never want to work with a colored person,” the interviewer said to Harris.

Harris said he then applied to jobs in Chicago, which immediately reached back to him with offers, and he said he did some social work involving Chicago gangs. It was after the job discrimination in Madison that he and his wife swore

Crimson. According to the article, universities have signed up for UDiligence, an outside program that monitors student-athlete activity on social media sites

they would never return to the city.

The most disturbing part of his book was in relation to blacks and Italian families that had been cheated on their properties in the Triangle Neighborhood, he said.

Harris said he has initiated a race discrimination complaint against Mayor Paul Soglin that then went to the state U.S. Department of Justice and is now at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A second race discrimination complaint Harris initiated was with the Madison School District after it was brought to his attention that only 2 percent of Madison teachers are black.

Harris said when a black teacher was interviewed in 1958 for a teaching job, a psychiatrist was brought in on the basis that she must have been crazy to think the district would hire her, knowing parents would not want their children to be taught by a black woman.

“I feel that most whites I know and are in contact with in the city are fairminded people, but there is a small group of what I call redneck loose canons who are extremely racist and will do whatever they can to stop a black person from gaining economically,” Harris said.

Kaleen Caire, Urban League of Greater Madison president, said the discrimination that black residents face today is a result of generations of oppression that is just beginning to change with the post-Civil Rights era generations.

Caire said the generations of his children and his grandchildren will be those who face greater opportunities in society and will be able to see the benefits that whites had following the World War II generations through the 1950s and 1960s.

He said their prosperity was delayed, which should be anticipated.

like Facebook or Twitter.

“Just like we like to monitor their whereabouts, monitor their academics, we need to monitor their Twitter accounts as well,” Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker told The Crimson.

Suzy Merchant, the women’s basketball coach at Michigan State University, said to the State News that she has not been strict in punishing players for violating the social media policy in the past but plans to crack down on players in the future.

Watt said the 140 characters allotted by Twitter have a “potential for great power.”

“At the end of the day, we’re the ones out there doing something and they’re talking about it,” Watt said.

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald The proposal would allow undocumented immigrants to drive legally after completing DMV tests.

Bill proposes licenses for undocumented workers Officials say plan is a public safety measure, not a political proposal Emma Van Dyke Herald Contributor Undocumented workers in Wisconsin would be allowed to obtain driver’s licenses under a proposal from Democrats and one Republican, who said Wednesday the bill was a “common sense” public safety bill.

Rep. Garey Bies, R-Sister Bay, joined Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, D-Milwaukee and Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, in introducing the bill.

The lawmakers said the issue is not political and simply aims to improve safety on Wisconsin roads while giving undocumented immigrants a form of identification.

“One of the main purposes of the bill is to promote highway safety. The second is to permit undocumented immigrants to drive legally after completing the tests of the DMV,” Risser said at a news conference in the Capitol.

Thirteen other states across the nation have passed similar bills to allow undocumented individuals to obtain a driver’s license, Risser said.

Bies, a longtime Door County deputy sheriff, said as a former police official, the bill makes sense, as it ensures undocumented immigrants who drive have passed the driver’s license tests and understand the state’s driving rules.

Dane County Sheriff David Mahoney echoed Bies, saying driver’s licenses would be identifications for those undocumented immigrants, which is useful for police in situations such as car accidents or traffic violations.

“The absence of a license complicates law enforcement’s efforts to identify individuals,” Mahoney said. “It will allow law enforcement to do their job effectively and more efficiently.”

Zamarripa said providing undocumented immigrants with driver’s licenses would also increase the numbers of people with car insurance.

“Individuals will be more likely to purchase that car insurance which is law here in Wisconsin if they have licenses to drive,” Zamarripa said.

Although it is late in the Assembly’s session, Zamarripa expressed optimism that the bill can still be pushed through before legislators return to their

districts.

She said there are numerous bills that have been pushed through committees quickly, so if lawmakers feel the urgency to approve this bill, it can pass before the session ends.

As for getting more Republicans behind this bill, Bies said is a “work in progress,” but Zamarripa said getting even one Republican co-sponsor was a major victory already.

A group of undocumented workers also attended the press conference to show their support for the bill.

One of these individuals was Elaina Cruz, an undocumented middle school student.

Although Cruz is not old enough to drive, she described the struggles her community faces without access to driver’s licenses.

“Families get divided, workers get deported all because of something so basic,” she said.

Risser added restricting individuals’ access to driver’s licenses would cause additional economic and social strains on the families of these undocumented workers, saying individuals without a driver’s license are unable to buy groceries or drive themselves to the hospital in an emergency without breaking the law.

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Vendors call for new locations Daniel McKay Herald Contributor Following a harsh winter for business, food cart owners urged support for a drafted ordinance that would regulate late night hours and locations for vendors in the campus and downtown areas at the Vending Oversight Committee meeting Wednesday.

The ordinance would require food and drink vendors to obtain a late night vending license to operate in 10 designated spaces between the hours of 9 p.m. and 4 a.m.

Steve Lawrence, owner of the Fried and Fabulous food cart, was the most outspoken vendor at the committee meeting, encouraging the city’s support after a winter that did not bode well for local outdoor businesses.

“The business isn’t there, the numbers don’t work and what I really

urge this committee to do is not wait,” Lawrence said. “Please, pass this system, take a chance, try something new.”

Ariel and Lacey Pesce, who own the La Empanada food truck, said the winter has taken a toll on their lives as well, and more options and locations would benefit them and the other vendors.

Pesce said her part-time teaching income has had to fund the food truck after the weather caused a number of problems for their business, and both asked for the committee’s support in helping vendors succeed.

“I’m urging you to give us some more choices. We need to make up for this winter badly. We’ve got it all slammed on us at once,” Ariel Pesce said.

The areas currently zoned for vending include 10 sites on the 300 and 500 blocks of North Frances

Street, the 400 block of West Gilman Street, the 400 block of North Broom Street and the intersection of University Avenue and Lake Street.

The map of the proposed late night vendor locations includes space for eight large carts and two push carts, although one more large cart could be added if no push carts apply for licenses, Warren Hansen, street vending coordinator, said.

“I think what we have here on this map is really good for us, and any more time we spend debating, this will have a dire effect,” Jessica Wartenweiler, owner of the Curd Girl food trcuk, said.

Location priorities are determined by a seniority system, according to the ordinance, and once all spots are filled for late night vendors, the same system will be used on

a waiting list for new businesses trying to get licensed.

Hansen said if the ordinance proves successful, the committee may have to adjust the system if established day-time vendors with years of business decide to focus on the late night crowd as well.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, said the vendors were also willing to accept an increased penalty for littering.

The committee voted to amend the drafted ordinance to adjust the closing time for late night vendors from 6 a.m. to 4 a.m. The vendors in attendance said 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. was a good time frame for students and adults going to and returning from downtown bars.

No date has been set for further discussion on the amended draft of the ordinance.

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Democrats pounced on the emails, suggesting that Walker knew about the wireless system.

But according to the Associated Press, Walker told reporters just before the documents’ release that Democrats would inevitably try to spin the new emails for political gain and said he was not worried about what the documents would show.

“These people are naysayers who want things bad to happen in Wisconsin, so they are going to be circling again today,” Walker said. “It’s exactly what’s wrong with the political process that they’re hoping for something bad to happen in Wisconsin. It’s not. They’re going to do what they’ve done in the past which is over-hype things. And politically they’re going to be disappointed.”

Following a fundraising event in Madison on Wednesday, Democratic National Committee Chair and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, spoke to reporters on a conference call to address the documents’ release.

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Democratic Party Chair Mike Tate both said they found it hard to believe Walker could have been out of the loop regarding the “unethical” and illegal activities taking place in his office.

“Every released document has only served to reinforce that Walker has been aware of this criminal activity since at least May of 2010,” Tate said. “If Walker continues to surround himself with the very same bad actors, that to me suggests an environment where these crimes were not only accepted but they were encouraged.”

Walker, who will likely face Democrat Mary Burke in his reelection race later this year, is widely considered a potential 2016 GOP presidential contender, and the news drew coverage from national media outlets.

Another John Doe probe could implicate Walker’s campaign and numerous conservative groups during the 2012 recall elections.

But conservatives have characterized that new probe, initiated by the same Democratic Milwaukee County district attorney, as a politicallymotivated witch hunt aimed at silencing conservative voices ahead of the 2014 elections.

MPD offers input on tiny houses location Facing opposition on planned space to build, Occupy looks for new site Chantal Cowie Herald Contributor Occupy Madison’s tiny house project is still without a final location after receiving opposition from the Madison Police Department for the proposed project location.

Occupy has been searching for a new location for its tiny house project, which is small, portable housing, for the last eight months, Brenda Konkel, Tenant Resource

Center executive director, said. The project would consist of the construction of a retail store and nine tiny homes as well as a workshop for the building process, she said.

The Wisconsin State Journal reported the tiny houses currently must be moved around the occupied neighborhood a couple times a week because a city ordinance allows them to be parked on the street as long as they are moved every 48 hours.

According to Konkel, MPD is OK with Occupy’s proposed site at the corner of East Johnson and North Third Streets

being used for a building workshop, but not for the tiny houses because of its proximity to a park and school.

Konkel said the organization always runs into difficulty with issues related to homelessness because no neighborhood wants homeless services located near them. Moving to a different property is not very feasible because they have already started to spend money on it, and their lease at their current location is up on May 31, she said.

Konkel said Occupy has looked at more than 200 different properties and decided this location is

the best fit.

“Finding anywhere else that works is extremely difficult,” she said.

Konkel said the site is affordable, located near a bus line, close to services that the tiny house residents would want and close to where many of the volunteers live.

She said MPD is unfairly comparing the tiny house project to a public parking lot on 800 E. Washington Ave. that had 81 people living in it. The difference for the tiny house project, Konkel said, is the small amount of residents that will be living there and the fact that it is on private property.

Konkel said rules are in place for the proposed property, and they would have the authority to remove anyone from the property who does not follow those rules. If the person removed from the property attempts to come back on, they would be considered a trespasser, she said.

MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain said the department is not against the tiny house project, but there are concerns about where the houses are being placed. MPD has many officers that work every day with the homeless and the officers aim to ensure that they are treated with respect

and dignity, he said.

“In general, I think we have a pretty good working relationship with the homeless,” DeSpain said.

Konkel said part of the issue with the location of the project is affordability and so far, MPD has not come up with suggestions for locations that are better than the one Occupy is currently planning to use.

Konkel said there will be one or two more neighborhood meetings in March discussing the project, and it will also be discussed at Urban Design Commission and Plan Commission at the end of April.

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JFC passes bill for heroin treatment programs Dan Kinderman Herald Contributor As rates of heroin addicts and opiate-related deaths continue to climb in Wisconsin, the state Legislature is taking further action, with the Joint Finance Committee unanimously approving a bill Wednesday to establish treatment programs in rural areas.

The bill’s passage in the finance committee, the step before going to the full Assembly and Senate, came a day after the Senate approved an earlier package of bills to address the problem, sending the package to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk.

The bill passed through JFC and the package of bills headed to Walker’s desk both came from JFC co-chair Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, whose daughter has struggled with

heroin addiction and almost died from an overdose.

In an interview with The Badger Herald, Nygren said lawmakers’ unanimous approval of his bills reflect how widespread the problem is in Wisconsin.

“Every vote we’ve had to this point has been unanimous, and that to me just shows that other legislators — because we all come from different backgrounds and represent different areas — we all identify this as a problem back in our area and our hometowns,” he said.

The finance committee also approved expanding a Department of Justice program that tracks treatment data and boosted grants for county treatment and diversion from incarceration programs.

In the first 10 months of 2013, Dane County saw 32 deaths as a result of heroin,

DoIt previews changes at ASM Transition from WiscMail to Office 365 set for fall will save money, increase efficiency Rachael Lallensack Herald Contributor The Division of Information Technology presented the overhaul of MyUW and the transition plan from WiscMail to Microsoft Office 365 at the Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council meeting Wednesday.

The move from WiscMail to Microsoft Office 365 is expected to begin near the end of summer and be completed during the beginning of fall semester, Chris Holsman, director of enterprise internet services at DoIT, said.

After the change, WiscMail and WiscCal features would be made more efficient, Holsman said.

The campus formed a project team to consolidate all email systems to Microsoft Office 365, which was chosen over Google because Microsoft was more willing to sign a HIPAA business associate agreement that would provide better prevention and protection from health information being released, he said.

Holsman said the redesign is set up in two phases: first, email and calendar will convert to Office 365 and second, OneDrive, formerly SkyDrive, instant messaging, and other Microsoft programs will be implemented.

The process is still in its formative stages, and DoIt is still sorting through implementation steps, he said.

The campus will change usernames from “[first-letter-offirst-name-last-name]” to “[first-name.lastname]” titles, Holsman said. All emails from

WiscMail inboxes will need to be moved to Office 365, which will take more time depending on file sizes, he said. Once Office 365 is activated, students will still be able to forward mail to an external inboxes if they prefer, he said.

Once started, Holsman said the change will take several months to implement and switch all students and departments. The DoIt team expects to move incoming freshmen students’ accounts first and then continue sequentially by grade, he said.

DoIt expects to save about half of the current financial budget for MyUW after project is complete, Holsman said. Many other campuses, such as University of Nebraska, University of Iowa and several UW System schools have already made the transition to Office 365, he said.

Holsman said their biggest concern is the unavoidable period when there will be a discrepancy between students still on WiscMail and students using Office 365 because each must be transferred individually.

During a student’s transfer period, an offline period of less than an hour will occur, he said.

Holsman said the old account is locked while inbox contents are transferred, but new accounts will be accessible during the process.

ASM representatives raised concerns about the timing of the change and suggested DoIt offer an optional early transfer period to students who want to avoid an overlap during the school year.

which was a 33 percent increase from 2012 and a 350 percent plus increase from 2009, according to the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office. Statewide, deaths increased by around 50 percent to a total of 199 in 2013 in comparison to the previous year, according to the state Department of Justice.

The statewide rate of heroin use by high school students in Wisconsin is at 1 percent as of 2011, two points below the national average of 3 percent, according to the Department of Health Services.

“The heroin bill is very important because some would say it’s an epidemic statewide, and in rural areas and underserved areas they don’t have access to getting help,” JFC co-chair Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, said.

“This bill will give that kind of help to communities who

BUDGET, page 1 changes in the economy and job markets, which means certain departments are gaining more students and others are losing them, Bazzell said. This means certain departments need larger budgets than others, he said.

really need it.”

Nygren’s earlier package of bills — which the Senate approved Tuesday and are going to Walker’s desk — include bills that would give legal immunity to those who call the authorities if they think someone is overdosing, create a drug disposal program for prescription drugs that many say lead people to heroin, let all emergency responders administer naloxone, which fights overdoses, and require IDs for certain prescription drugs.

Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, and Sen. Bob Wirch, D-Somers, both agreed the bills would be a solution to the growing problem in the state.

“Unfortunately, heroin is becoming such a horrible problem and taking so many young lives that we struggle to try to address it,” Lazich said.

“Let’s hope that [these bills are]

He said with the university’s current incremental budget, if students flock to certain majors over time, budget dollars do not follow that change. That is the main way students would be affected by this budget model, he said.

Both Bazzell and Warfield said it was too premature

Kirby Wright The Badger Herald Deaths caused by heroin overdose have steadily increased in recent years.

going to serve families in such a way that we’re not losing good, young, productive members of society.”

Wirch said there’s a “real problem” with heroin in society that needs to be addressed, adding the bill was a good bipartisan solution.

Ultimately, Nygren

to predict effects of any new budget model since no changes were made to the current budget yet.

Warfield said the effects from this new budget model would not be directly felt by students, as this new budget model cannot make decisions within specific units or schools

expressed his hope the bills would alleviate Wisconsin’s heroin epidemic.

“It’s our goal that we can help them turn into productive citizens that can grow our economy with us, not just be reliant on us,” he said. “I think we’re headed in the right direction.”

within the university.

Warfield also said any specific changes made by the new committee called for in the white paper would not come into effect any time soon.

“It will probably be a threeto-five-year period,” Warfield said. “[Budget changes] have a pervasive effect on campus.”

Project to employ skilled workers Jessica Hamilton Herald Contributor As Dane County faces worker shortages and underrepresented members of the community suffer from high unemployment rates, a group of contractors and labor representatives are partnering to connect workers with trade jobs.

Project Big Step, an effort to collaborate on the issue of worker shortage and unemployment, was announced earlier in the week, and a variety of community groups have expressed interest in working with the program.

Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said the overall community response to the project has been positive.

Community organizations, contractors and laborers are coming together, he said.

Parisi said the program also seeks to address racial disparities in employment and the lack of representation of certain populations in the workforce. There is a high employment gap for black residents in Dane County, he said.

Greg Markle, executive director of Operation Fresh Start, said the the organization is collaborating with Project Big Step to reach its goal of linking people of color and people who are impoverished with opportunities in the construction field.

DIVERSITY, page 1 Additionally, the draft includes recommendations for promoting practices that recognize diversity as a source of creative and innovative teaching and learning and emphasizes the importance of maintaining the Wisconsin Idea.

The draft highlighted the 2008 Diversity Plan, which it said was intended to draw diversity into every aspect of campus by increasing the number of students of targeted diversity groups in the UW System, increasing financial aid availability and increasing accountability.

The draft said an evaluation of the 2008 plan showed progress toward

TAXES, page 1 proposal was unfair and slanted towards the wealthy.

“I’d suggest that the governor certainly misled us…this is a very unfair tax cut that favors the rich,” Sen. Bob Wirch, D-Somers, said.

Rep. Cory Mason, D-Kenosha, echoed Wirch’s concerns about the tax cut and discussed the Democrats’

Operation Fresh Start generally works to help disconnected youth between 17 and 24 work toward careers, Markle said. Their goal is to link people of color and people who are impoverished with opportunities in the construction field, he said.

Operation Fresh Start also helps build affordable housing, so the organization had previous connections with construction companies, Markle said.

When Parisi brought groups together to talk about the project, Markle said Operation Fresh Start was an obvious choice with which to partner.

“We hope to have about 20 people a year through our organization join the ranks of Union construction works through this,” Markle said.

Markle said he thinks the project will affect the City of Madison positively because a big construction boom is beginning. Projects in Dane County range from public projects to apartment complexes and housing roads, which he said keep the economy strong.

Markle said one of the biggest positive effects of the project would be hiring local people for jobs.

“Construction jobs are good jobs that help us sustain wage and provide connection through their apprenticeship system to a union job which provides a lot of security and

Chris Lotten The Badger Herald Project Big Step will create opportunities in the construction field.

opportunity,” Markle said.

Markle said he thinks Project Big Step will provide a opportunities for youth to get good paying jobs.

Another group collaborating with Project Big Step and Operation Fresh Start is Workforce Development at Urban League of Greater Madison.

Deirdre Hargrove, vice president of the Workforce Development at Urban League of Greater Madison, said the league has historically helped black residents receive jobs, but are willing to help anyone improve skills to increase chances of returning to the workforce.

Hargrove said the organization focuses on jobs, housing, education and providing help to people

within those areas.

Hargrove said the Urban League has developed a foundations program specifically designed to help people in trade jobs improve skills in teamwork, communication, professionalism and attendance.

The organization has been studying the gaps in skills of trade workers with the goal of improving these skills to help people secure jobs, she said.

Parisi said a strong infrastructure is vital to a healthy community.

“The construction industry has good paying, familysupporting jobs available,” Parisi said. “These jobs can provide a good paycheck to people who will reinvest it right here at home.”

achieving the goals, most markedly in the area of increasing the number of students of targeted diversity groups in the UW System.

Ryan Adserias, committee co-chair, said it was necessary to return to and address previous diversity plans.

“I would not say that there are problems with the older plans, they’ve just expired.

Diversity is something that is constantly changing and universities should not look at it once in a great while,” he said. “Diversity plans should be frequently revisited.”

The new draft will serve as a framework for the upcoming conversations between UW administrators and shared governance committees, Adserias said.

He also said it is important

to bring the preliminary draft to small groups first to ensure that the broad points are refined and corrected. Once this is done, he said, the draft will be brought to the larger university and Madison community.

“This draft has a lot of things in it that have not been refined yet,” Adserias said. “By mid-March we plan to release a polished draft that will be available to the general public.”

The preliminary draft was disseminated to UW administrators and members of shared governance committees and is meant to spark conversation and recommendations from these individuals and groups, Adserias said.

The draft features example

recommendations that may or may not appear in the sequential drafts of the diversity plans, Adserias said. The recommendations are designed to encourage UW administrators and shared governance committees to submit more recommendations that may be included in future drafts, he said.

“Every time you add more people to a situation, the more complicated it becomes to get to the essence of what folks are really asking for and what they are saying is really important,” Adserias said.

“Before adding 40,000 student voices as well as faculty, staff, and the Madison community into the mix. We’re hoping to get a lot of the broader point refinements to happen now.”

desire for tax cuts for lower tax brackets.

Sen. Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, said state programs and agencies would be hurt under the plan. She said despite the state’s large surplus, there has not been a push to help alleviate the large spending cuts that were made to state programs and agencies in past years.

Democratic concerns

about the tax cuts led to strong responses from Rep. Dean Knudson, R-Hudson, and JFC co-chair Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills.

“If you’re opposed to this tax cut, I’m willing to wager you’ll be opposed to any tax cut,” Knudson said.

Darling said the Democrats were being “sour” about giving taxpayers their money back and she did not know

why they were not cheering for the state.

“Real people get that it’s their money, that the state is doing a heck of a lot better, and we’re giving their money back to them,” Darling said.

The JFC-approved bill now heads to the Senate, which will take up the bill March 4, and the Assembly must approve the same bill before it goes to Walker’s desk.

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

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Herald Editorial Vote yes to investment in future of Rec Sports Four years ago, Recreational Sports proposed a plan to renovate the decrepit, 1960s-era Natatorium pool. The plan lacked transparency and input from students and was rightfully voted down.

The referendum before us, a Master Plan that paves the way for the next four decades of recreational facilities on campus, bears no resemblance.

When it comes to a campuswide vote in the spring elections March 3 through 5, we emphatically urge you to vote yes.

Sweeping changes to these

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sorely dated facilities were in order years ago. The campus has continued to put off extensive renovations on these spaces for too long, choosing time and time again to pay only for short-sighted solutions: akin to patching a bullet wound with a Band-Aid. Nearly 83 percent of the 43,000 students on campus use Rec Sports’ facilities or services at least once a school year, contributing to more than 1.7 million total annual visits.

They’re increasingly greeted by lines out the door, crumbling ceilings and congested spaces

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that don’t meet the demands of students and athletes alike. Simply put, we’re being underserved by these rundown facilities.

This plan is a responsible use of students’ segregated fees. Comparisons of the University of Wisconsin’s facilities to other Big Ten schools have been part of the narrative (spoiler: UW ranks dead last in the conference for total square footage of fitness space available.) However, Rec Sports Director John Horn said a guiding principle in creating the plan was to avoid

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“proposing Cadillacs” on the backs of students or engaging in an “arms race” for the shiniest facilities. Instead, the plan focuses on creating new spaces that will be functional and adaptable for decades to come while fostering opportunities for new revenue sources. It no longer makes financial sense to continue pouring students’ money into facilities that have outlived their usefulness.

Voting down the Master Plan will do little to keep student fees low. If the plan is not adopted, students would immediately see a minimum Rec Sports fee

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increase of $46 per semester just to restore the South East Recreational Facility and the Nat to their respective original 1983 and 1964 conditions.

There would be no new space, no possibilities for additional programming and segregated fees could continue to rise.

Under this plan, students get brand new facilities both indoors and out at the SERF, Nat and campus fields. Students would see a maximum increase of $108—thanks to a generous commitment of 43 percent of the total project’s funding from Chancellor Rebecca Blank,

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the UW Foundation and other alternative funding sources.

Voting down the referendum would mean turning down that $95 million in outside funding.

More space would allow Rec Sports to increase its capacity for intramural teams by 50 percent. The plans would also increase the availability of rental space at the SERF for student organizations by 100 percent.

Voting yes on the referendum is a critical investment in the campus’s future. It’s in our and future Badgers’ best interest to invest in this plan now.

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Will Haynes Digital Managing Editor

Editorial Board opinions are crafted independently of news coverage.

Bans on same-sex marriage violate Constitution Aaron Loudenslager Columnist Discriminatory state bans on same-sex marriage are increasingly being struck down by federal district courts. These recent decisions flow naturally from the U.S. Supreme Court’s essential holding in U.S. v. Windsor.

More recently, Wisconsin same-sex couples have sued state officials to invalidate Wisconsin’s ban on samesex marriage in Wolf and Schumacher v.

Walker.

Regardless of what the federal district court rules in Wolf, it is readily apparent that all state bans on samesex marriage will soon be held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Finally, people whose lives don’t fit into a rigid heteronormative paradigm will find themselves at the long awaited gates of justice.

Under Wisconsin’s constitution, marriage is defined as occurring “between one man and one woman.”

Furthermore, the state constitution forbids Wisconsin from recognizing “a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals.”

Currently, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is in the process of deciding Appling v. Doyle, a case involving a state constitutional challenge to Wisconsin’s domestic partnership law. Appling argues that Wisconsin’s

domestic partnership law confers “a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals.”

It should be clear that Wisconsin’s domestic partnership law does not violate the Wisconsin Constitution.

From a practical standpoint, though, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s future decision in Appling is likely to soon be moot. The Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act last summer as violating the Fifth Amendment in Windsor. The court emphasized its past holdings that “a bare . . . desire to harm a politically unpopular group” cannot constitute a legitimate state interest. The court ultimately concluded that DOMA reflected animus toward homosexuals and was thus unconstitutional. After the Court decided Windsor, though, it was unclear how lower courts would apply Windsor’s reasoning to state bans on same-sex marriage.

As Justice Antonin Scalia foreshadowed in his Windsor dissent, “State and lower federal courts should take the Court at its word and distinguish away” future cases involving bans on same-sex marriage.

Although it was unclear how federal district courts (and ultimately the Supreme Court) would handle constitutional challenges to state same-sex marriage bans immediately after Windsor

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was decided, the future of bans on same-sex marriage is now crystal clear. In the last few months, two federal district court judges in conservative-leaning states have emphatically held that marriage is a fundamental right, meaning that bans on same-sex marriage must be subject to strict judicial scrutiny. Thus, states may not prevent same-sex couples from entering into statesanctioned marriages unless the state has a compelling governmental interest, and the same-sex marriage ban is narrowly tailored toward accomplishing that interest.

The two federal district courts in question held that Utah and Virginia’s state bans on same-sex marriage were not narrowly tailored towards accomplishing a compelling government interest and thus were unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause. Additionally, the two district courts held that the respective state bans on same-sex marriage violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause because the bans, like DOMA in Windsor, reflected animus toward homosexuals.

These recent decisions by federal district court judges demonstrate the beginning of the end for state bans on same-sex marriage. The district court judge in Utah noted that Scalia recognized in his Windsor dissent that state bans on same-sex marriage

Chris Lotten The Badger Herald The fight for same-sex marriage continues as Wolf and Schumacher v. Walker battles its way to the Supreme Court.

would be unconstitutional under the Court’s holding in Windsor. As Scalia wrote in his Windsor dissent, “[T]he view that this Court will take of state prohibition of same-sex marriage is indicated beyond mistaking by today’s opinion.”

If DOMA is unconstitutional “[h]ow easy it is, indeed how inevitable, to reach the same conclusion with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status.”

Scalia is entirely correct.

The essential holding of Windsor compels courts to strike down state bans on same-sex marriage. The court in Windsor was concerned with the dignity and equal rights of same-sex couples, including the children of same-sex couples. As Justice

Anthony Kennedy wrote for a majority of the Court, bans on same-sex marriage interfere “with the equal dignity of same-sex marriages, a dignity conferred by the States in the exercise of their sovereign power.” Kennedy further emphasized that bans on same-sex marriage “humiliate tens of thousands of children now being raised by same-sex couples. The[y] make it even more difficult for the children [of same-sex couples] to understand the integrity and closeness of their own family and its concord with other families in their community and in their daily lives.”

Although the Court discussed the importance of federalism in Windsor, it is clear that an individual state cannot use

Letter to the Editor On April 1, members of Dane County District 5, including University of Wisconsin students, will have the opportunity to elect either incumbent Leland Pan or Chris Hoffman for a seat on the Dane County Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors is in charge of county ordinances and levying taxes, and the District 5 seat tends to be held by students. District 5 is largely made up of the UW campus, with Campus Drive as a southern border, Henry Street, Gorham Street and North Broom Street making up the eastern boundary and the area west of Eagle Heights Drive along the western edge.

federalism principles to deny people their constitutional rights.

It is a near certainty that one or more of these recent court decisions, including the future decision in Wolf, will make its way up to the Supreme Court. When it does, Kennedy will lead the Court in holding that all state bans on same-sex marriage violate the Constitution. Samesex marriage will be legal, regardless of anyone’s own personal views on marriage.

Our country will have moved ever closer to upholding its ideal of providing liberty and justice for all.

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

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Leland Pan looks to continue stewardship for students on county board

Leland Pan I have had the privilege and honor to represent students and the community in District 5 on the Dane County Board for the past two years and today I am asking you for your support to continue to do so. In 2012, I ran to empower the student voice, to facilitate the progressive work being done in the community and to stand up to regressive policies coming from Gov. Scott Walker, and I want to build on this work. This is, for me, a role to give

back to the community I was a member of for 12 years. Madison’s campus was the first place my mother lived in the United States. My parents first lived together in Eagle Heights. I want to make sure students like you, me and my parents are represented in our government.

In my two years as our county supervisor, I have worked with my colleagues to make progress on issues that matter to students. I’ve sponsored initiatives to reduce fossil fuel use in Madison and to help identify and reduce sources of greenhouse gases in Dane County. I’m proud to have worked with other downtown supervisors to help fund a new daytime homeless resource center that

will be opening later this year. We have found the resources to keep essential services for students like the Tenant Resource Center, Planned Parenthood of Dane County and LGBT Outreach Center open, despite cuts in state aid.

In the face of Walker’s attacks on workers’ rights, I was the lead sponsor of Dane County’s new law that ensures that our county continues to guarantee bargaining rights to its public sector unions. Because of these accomplishments, I am proud to have the support of U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, both of Madison’s state senators, state Reps.

Dianne Hesselbein, D-Middleton, and Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, County Executive Joe

Parisi and 26 fellow members of the County Board.

I have also been able to work with my colleagues to call for action from other levels of government on student issues. Just this month, the board passed a resolution written by District 33 Supervisor Jenni Dye, a UW graduate, and myself, calling for action on the problem of out-of-control student loan debt. On the April ballot, voters will have the chance to ask the state government to legalize marijuana because of a referendum I wrote. I am proud to be working with Sargent at the state level on her proposal to legalize.

I am your representative on the Dane County Board and

Dane County Board of Supervisors Pan hopes to continue representing Distrct 5 on the Dane County Board.

for the last two years I have worked with you and for you. I am asking for your support so we can continue to make progress on issues crucial to us, as UW students and as future leaders. I hope

I can count on your vote on April 1.

Leland Pan (ltpan@wisc. edu) is a Dane County Board supervisor representing District 5 and a fourth-year UW student.

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Note: I’ve attempted to make this review as spoiler-free as humanly possible. That said, this was really difficult. So if you haven’t watched the first episode of season two (at the very least) this is your formal warning that potential spoilers lie ahead.

In its second go-around, “House of Cards” starts off with a rail-shaking bang.

The scene, which involves the bloody elimination of a main character, serves as a pertinent reminder that Frank Underwood isn’t taking any chances in his quest to consolidate his political power.

Unfortunately, that gutwrenching episode (which left me literally shrieking in shock) contains the biggest revelation of the entire season, so it’s pretty downhill from there on out. Kevin Spacey is again impeccable as Frank, a political creature so adept at navigating Washington’s well-oiled corruption machine that we wait with baited breath for him to fall from grace, all while watching him evade a justified demise time and time again.

Without season one’s lynchpin and (generally) sympathetic protagonist, it’s hard to feel invested in Frank’s scheming. This season is mostly devoid of the charged, personality-driven

drama that made the show addictive and innovative from the onset. We’re left chasing shifting political plots—a trade war with China! Money laundering to PACs! Journalists hot on the trail of cyberterrorists!— that will likely beguile “West Wing” fans. While the first season was neatly packed, season two is a far more sweeping affair. But I didn’t feel invested enough in the political drama to tune into the particulars, which made the season lag a bit between the opening episode and the threesome (another highlight of the season).

Even so, the show managed to keep me watching episode after episode, in the formulaic exploitation of human inertia that allowed Netflix to build a streaming empire. “House of Cards” manages to plant just enough seeds to keep the show vaguely interesting, even when it’s hopelessly mired in political in-fighting and little more.

The show also suffers from the opposite affliction. There are so many story threads ebbing, flowing and then never heard from again that it’s hard to get too attached to any in particular. By being about almost nothing and everything at the same time, the show still manages to hit its mark: getting you to binge-watch the entire thing without coming up for air. (I managed to finish the series in two days, which is not an

achievement worth bragging about.) As Todd VanDerWerff over at the A.V. Club points out, the show maintains just enough nondescript symbolism and political intrigue to make it seem like there’s something bigger at play, even when that’s clearly not the case.

The show also labors under the weight of its own bloated expectations. Showrunner Beau Willimon and director David Fincher couldn’t drill the notion that Frank is going full Machiavelli into viewers’ consciousness any more if he bludgeoned us over the heads with a 2-by-4 piece of cedar.

The show’s loud arrival on the D.C. scene is also clearly evident this time around.

After President Barack Obama and other members of the political elite engaged with the show, it makes sense that names like Rachel Maddow, “60 Minutes”’ Morley Safer and other prominent reporters are featured for an added air of authenticity.

The most interesting character development to trace this season is Claire’s deepening humanity. Robin Wright’s character is at once coldly calculating and resolute, the perfect complement to Frank, but she reveals herself to be far closer to human than we glimpse in season one. It’s immensely satisfying, then, to watch Claire break down in tears after an unnerving experience with a mentally

unstable sexual assault victim who’s wised up to the Underwoods’ political games.

In her well-coiffed collapse, she’s fragile and almost vulnerable before picking herself up and dusting off her always-banging structured dress. But that hardly means Claire has gone soft: She also tells a pregnant business former partner-turned-legal threat that she’s willing “to let [her] child wither and die inside of [her] if that’s what’s required.”

Another seminal moment comes when Claire reveals in a live national television interview that she’s had not one but three abortions during the time she’s been married to Frank. It’s a

watershed moment not just for the character but for the show’s trajectory. But even though her candidness about her rape by a now-prominent military official kicks off a well-meaning legislative battle, the interaction leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

She used the platform she given to further a critical issue for women, but only divulged the facts to create a diversion in the interview, which was quickly escalating into possibly damaging territory for the Underwoods.

The move feels calculated.

Even so, her contention that children weren’t a part of her vision for the future is refreshing, and it’s hard not to respect her strength and

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Traveling around world in one day International Fest at Overture allows Madisonians free cultural adventure Sam Sklar

ArtsEtc. Staff Writer

Courtesy of Jeff Miller / University of Wisconsin With arts, crafts, food and musical performances, the International Festival has it all.

Madison has long had a reputation for cultivating racial and ethnic diversity. In fact, in examining ethnic and racial breakdowns, it can very readily be classified as one of Wisconsin’s most diverse cities, making it a mecca for culture and for those who possess a desire to learn and explore.

The city’s ability to foster diversity has given birth to a series of multiethnic events, one of the most prodigious and revolutionary being the annual International Festival, which will be held this Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Overture Center.

What better way to get a taste, glimpse and sense of everything our community – moreover, our world – has to offer than by hitting up the festival

honesty.

With the widespread frenzy that surrounded the Valentine’s Day release of “House of Cards,” we’re likely to see the fever pitch surrounding the series continue to grow. The believable outlandishness of scheming politicians still makes for a satisfying watch, even if you’re not genuinely rooting for a single character.

Frank says early on that there are two kinds of vice presidents: matadors and doormats. It’s always been which one Frank is, and it’s entertaining to watch him resolutely stare down the bull time and time again, only to emerge from the arena without so much as a scratch.

and experiencing it firsthand?

The event will provide a distinct and enlightening cultural adventure, featuring arts, crafts, foods and performances from more than 25 different nations across the globe. While the arts, crafts and foods will be set up in the form of tables and booths, allowing them to remain accessible at any point during the festival, the cultural performances will follow a preestablished schedule, running from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The program will begin with a concert of traditional Swiss mountain instruments, followed by African and Hispanic dance acts, Brazilian acrobatics, interactive Caribbean folklore and traditional Taiwanese “glove puppet” theater.

For a lively finale, the line-up is set to conclude with Yiddish folk music, which will surely prompt dancing and celebration.

While learning about all of the cultures present would permit the festival to serve its educational purposes, attendees may come and go as they please, visiting booths with foods they particularly enjoy or viewing showcases that highlight cultures about which they are especially curious.

In holding this event, the Overture and event sponsors look to do more than

simply provide entertainment and education.

The event serves to put members of the community in direct contact with global cultural offerings and forms of artistic expression found right here in Madison.

It gives members of the public an opportunity to assimilate with groups that differ from themselves, an opportunity to broaden their horizons.

Ultimately, the International Festival fosters not only intellectual maturity but cultural maturity for us as global citizens.

It encourages openmindedness, acceptance, tolerance and intercultural relations.

Rather than wasting away another Saturday, do something out of the ordinary, see something different and learn something that extends beyond the four walls of a dreary classroom.

Take a trip around the world. You don’t need a plane or a train to embark on your journey.

The International Festival is bringing the world to you.

EVENTS • Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian (lecture) FEB. 20, 7:30 p.m.

Union south, varsity hall

• Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (music) FEB. 20, 8 P.M. CAPITOL THEATER

• Hannibal Buress (comedy) feb. 21, 8 p.m.

Barrymore theatre

• Aer (music) FEB. 21, 9 P.M. Majestic theater

• Fort Wilson Riot (music) Feb. 21, 9:30 p.m. memorial union, rathskeller

• International Festival (culture) FEB. 22, 11 A.M. OVERTURE CENTER

• Lucius (music) FEB. 22, 9:30 P.M. HIGH NOON SALOON

• Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious” (film)

FEB. 23, 2 P.M. chazen museum of art

• Nicole Atkins (music) Feb. 23, 8 p.m. high noon saloon

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Beck’s latest dictionary definition of ‘beautiful’ ‘Morning Phase’ harks back to 2002 classic ‘Sea Change’ Erik Sateren ArtsEtc. Editor Beck’s career has taken so many twists and turns it’s become difficult to explain what he’s all about to people who haven’t heard him. He explores genres for just as long as he’d like to and never stays in one spot too long. When he bursted on the scene in the early 1990s with his hit single “Loser,” he was a slacker, the king of anti-folk. He was the guy who, when interviewed by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, answered a question by taking his shoe off and throwing it over his shoulder. After his highlyacclaimed, Dust Brothershelmed Odelay, he began delving into other sounds and styles -- from the spacious, Nigel Godrichproduced Mutations to the sexy, funky Midnite Vultures to the orchestral, melancholic Sea Change.

Since then, his musical experimentation has stayed rather conservative. But what really matters is that, for the past six years, Beck hasn’t released an album. But now it’s here: his twelfth studio album, Morning Phase. And it’s beautiful.

Beck seems to have found a sound that he’s comfortable exploring twice. He’s called Morning Phase a sequel to Sea Change, and it shows.

Morning Phase borrows nearly the exact same sonic palette from its 2002 predecessor, which combined lush orchestral arrangements with lovelorn lyrics to create an album of stunning beauty. Beck wrote the album after breaking up with his girlfriend of nine years who had been cheating on him, and it’s arguably one of

the greatest break-up albums of all time. When my girlfriend and I ended our two-year relationship the summer before my freshman year of college, I played Sea Change on repeat, weeping profusely, taking long strolls by in the woods near my house, staring at things—typical post-break-up behavior.

It was pathetic, but Beck knew how I felt.

Everything’s back on Morning Phase: the perfectly-placed glockenspiel notes, the swelling strings and the reverb-laden vocals. The beginning of the album immediately announces itself as Sea Change 2.0 with “Cycle,” a 40-second track of stunning beauty that features nothing but string instruments. This segues into the standout track “Morning,” which melds simple acoustic guitar, percussion, piano and exquisitely-plucked electric guitar. Strings join the arrangement, and it all unfurls with some of the most vulnerable lyrics Beck has written: “This morning, I let down my defenses / It was just you and me / This morning, I ran all out of guesses / This morning, won’t you show me the way it could’ve been?”

Beck’s voice has never sounded stronger, and his diligent use of multitrack recording shows him utilizing his natural instrument to its fullest extent.

Some songs borrow heavily from country music (“Say Goodbye,” “Country Down”).

“Wave” functions as Beck’s “Pyramid Song,” as he sings atop instrumentation made up solely of strings. “Turn Away” presents Beck’s voice at its most evocative and goose-bumpsinducing. “Waking Light,” also a standout, is a nearperfect closer. “When the morning comes to meet you / Lay me down in waking light,” Beck sings

over a blend of heavy drums, sultry strings and soaring backing vocals, all of which swell and recede at the perfect moments.

The end of the song explodes as electric guitar soars above the beautiful kaleidoscope of sounds beneath it. You can’t end an album much better than this.

At times, Beck’s songwriting falters with lines like “Give me chasers of your lifeblood flowing / In a loving cup.” At times Beck has difficulty transitioning from verses to choruses to bridges without letting such transitions sound stilted, as evidenced on the hollow but generally pretty “Blue Moon.” And “Country Down” is just kind of boring. But these criticisms hardly detract from an album that, for all intents and purposes, could function as the dictionary definition of the word “beautiful.”

If Sea Change was the sound of a relationship ending, the optimistic Morning Phase is the sound of finally getting over a relationship ending. Just as he can produce greatness across a variety of genres, Beck can produce greatness tapping into a wide range of emotions. If the guy can make great music as a loser who writes songs called “MTV Makes Me Want to Smoke Crack” yet also produce an album as gorgeous as Morning Phase, chances are he’s got many more tricks up his sleeve. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another six years to hear them.

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Video games, from idea to functional gameplay Mirror, mirror, on the wall, how do I make the greatest game of them all?

Christian Moberg Herald Arcade Columnist Ever have an idea for a shiny new game that could transform the world of gaming as we know it? How do you get it to a reputable company? What happens after the game is submitted? What goes into creating a working game? Well, I thought I should explain what happens when someone wants to create a game.

Although it’s much easier to make a mobile app and sell it for $0.99, people still have ideas that fit the console gaming style better than the mobile gaming style.

Before an idea can be brought to the company, it has to be drafted.

Now, the drafts can be as informal as a basic synopsis of the story plus a general idea of gameplay. It doesn’t even have to be written down.

But, to protect the idea, write it down and have a copy. To reiterate, WRITE IT DOWN. If not written down, the company has the ability to use the idea any way it chooses, so don’t just talk to someone.

Please.

Once the proposal has a basic draft, it can then be brought to a representative from the gaming company. If you work in a gaming company, that person is usually the HR person.

The meeting is pretty informal and generally consists of a face-to-face exchange to discuss the idea. If the correspondent does not like the idea, words are not minced, blatant

rejection ensues and after a conversation about how the to improve the idea to fit the company’s game style may start. If the correspondent enjoys the game idea, it will be taken to the higher-ups for further review.

A small caveat: If you work in the company you are proposing the idea to or working at another game company, there are likely rules about your ideas not legally being your property. I know from personal experience that this rule applies just about everywhere.

It sucks, but that’s how companies can gather large amounts of new ideas.

If the higher-ups are interested in the idea presented, they will contact you with a request for technical demo. A tech demo is basically a working presentation of a part of the game. The demo can be as basic as driving around with the controller on a single plane or showing part of the innovative aspects of the game like character customization or a battle simulation. The main idea is that the developers should be able to have some form of game to play during the demo.

The controls of the demo and predicted playability of the game are taken into account at this step.

The developers have had enough exposure to games to be able to tell if the presented game is marketable.

The tech demo is discussed at length, and then the company will make a decision after a few days about whether or not to pursue the presented game. Should the game be pushed forward, it then enters alpha testing where the most basic of basic

designs are added.

Usually, the game has unshaded characters, basic camera work and basic landscape structures. Most people will never see alpha testing, but it really looks like a hot mess.

As the hot mess slowly becomes a slightly-lesshot mess, the game enters beta testing, during which Q&A testers begin finding and reporting bugs as features are added into new builds of the game. Once the game has passed all of the Q&A requirements for two builds, it is then sent as a submission build to the first party (i.e. Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft). If the game passes the submission build, then the testing process occurs at the first party company.

From there it becomes a shiny, purchasable game.

The general gist of this, for those who dismiss it as TL;DR, is as follows. Once someone has an idea for a game, it can be submitted to a game company for consideration. Make sure the initial proposal, no matter how incomplete, is in a written form with a date on it. From there, make a tech demo of some form of working gameplay, generally not pretty. Present it. If they like it, then it’s sent to developers who will begin work on the game itself. The game begins in alpha testing where the most basic elements are put into the game and then it proceeds into beta testing. From there bugs are reported and builds are made with reckless abandon. The game will hopefully pass from beta testing through the first party submission where it will turn into a new game.

BOOM: That’s the magic of making games from an idea.

Photo courtesy of Peter Hapak Beck, a man never afraid to explore new genres, seems to have rediscovered his love for orchestras and angst.

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HSO to the not one, but two ‘valentines’ I hooked up with at the bars on Friday.

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ASO to awkward Badgers. DASO to how they all seem to be interested in me.

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Breaking news: there are patches of grass visible on Bascom Hill. #ohappyday #springweather

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Competitive Yoga students suffer injuries Motivated by tenacious commitments to get fit this year, University of Wisconsin students are recording a large amount of physical and mental health injuries acquired attempting to get into packed yoga programs near campus.

The rush to get a spot at sought-after classes, such as the always full Sculpt Class at Innerfire Yoga, has led clients to take dangerous measures and fostered unprecedented work-out aggression from clients and instructors.

Witnessing the sudden shift in student

temperament firsthand, popular Sculpt teacher Kaitlin said she and her fellow instructors are concerned for the wellbeing of the students.

“Yoga used to be relaxing, but now flocks of girls hover outside the door, boxing each other out,” she said. “One client broke in past closing to spend the night in our lobby so she could secure a spot in our morning class. She was only discovered after we noticed the droppings.”

The large crowds of sweaty, hungry students set personal values and

friendship aside when attending the class, UW Sophmore Michaela Cone said.

“One day my friend asked me to save her a spot,” she said. “Ha! What an insane request! We haven’t spoken in weeks.”

In the most recent classes, the spandex clad Sculpt attendees have been seen using physical force to ensure they get the fullest experience out of their workout, including hair pulling, wet willies, bra strap snapping and mud slinging.

“I guess I got my dose of

karma when a girl threw her eight pound weight at my foot before darting ahead of me to snag the last spot,” Cone said. “She broke my toes and never looked back! I envy her resolve.”

Gesturing with one of her crutches, Cone said making it through the door and into the 100 degree room is only half the battle.

“My last class was non-stop squatting, and in such a crowded, oppressively hot room, we were basically making a human centipede. I felt violated, but I couldn’t

stop,” Cone said.

“This is our Normandy Beach,” she said, a tear running down her cheek.

Most of these Sculpt addicts cannot restrain their movements, despite the lack of personal space.

Cone’s roommate, Sydney Wiese, reported being smacked in the head during a particularly aggressive sun salutation.

“The doctor says I have a concussion, but I won’t let that hold me back with spring break on the horizon. Can’t let a few dizzy spells get in the way of strutting my stuff on the What Mom? I told

you, I packed a cold lunch.

I don’t like the school’s brisket.” Wiese said, drooling onto the floor.

Most clients have expressed dissatisfaction with the classes’ recent overflow of participants.

However, a select few have learned to adapt to the new nature of the work-out environment.

“I love how aggressive the class has become,” UW Junior Abby Wanta said. “It gives me a leg up because, personally, I’ll do whatever it takes to get into this class until I’m restrained by some sort of law enforcement.”

Occupy Madison builds homeless village

Meg McMahon Occupy Madison began digging on site Monday. Group Discussion Head and Zen Guru Brenda Konkel said “It’s almost perfect for our use,” citing the large amount of green, hilly space.

In an effort to eradicate Madison’s growing homelessness problem, Occupy Madison has begun constructing a hobbit village in Brittingham Park, between West Washington Avenue and Monona Bay. Having recently reorganized as a nonprofit corporation, Occupy Madison decided to begin digging on site this Monday.

Group Discussion Head and Zen Guru Brenda Konkel said, “It’s almost perfect for our use,” citing the large amount of green, hilly space.

“With many homeless persons already residing in the area,” Konkel continued, “It seemed only fitting to begin digging hobbit holes in the ground. We plan on eventually training those in need to build their very

own circle-doored hobbit homes.”

The proposal has been adopted by several municipalities in the Pacific Northwest in the last few years as a way to address homelessness. Members of Occupy Madison toured such hobbit towns last year, and have been planning on creating a similar project for some time.

“We were amazed by what we found! Whole idyllic, British-style villages in the heart of Seattle! Firework displays, birthday parties, and magic tricks performed by aged members of the community! It was beautiful!” says Konkel.

Neither the City of Madison’s Parks and Recreation Department nor the Madison Police

Department have sanctioned this activity.

Chief of Police Gunther Crawley said, “Why do they need to build their homes here, in sight of everyone who wants to use the park? Why don’t we just round them up and ship them to Chicago, or even Milwaukee?”

Kim Driscoll, resident of the nearby Brittingham Apartments, said building a Hobbit village is not an appropriate strategy to house the homeless and pointed out that “the pipeweed is already starting to make me sick.

“We want to help fix the chronic homelessness which has gripped Madison since the beginning of time, but we don’t think setting up a community of hobbit holes is the correct way of

Student’s Instagram a winner After purchasing a Grande Caramel Macchiato at the State Street Starbucks last Friday afternoon, sophomore Abigail Riley posted a “breathtaking” picture of her beverage to her Instagram account that has acquired unprecedented attention.

“I’d never seen anything like it,” Riley’s Instagram follower and former roommate Rachel Dressler said. “I clicked ‘like’ so fast I almost broke my iPhone screen!"

The photo was posted

using the “Valencia” filter and a slight drop focus on the signature Starbucks logo.

The post garnered more than 37 likes in only a matter of minute, making it the most popular Instagram photo Riley has posted to date. The artist admits, though, that the artwork almost didn’t come to fruition.

“They spelled my name wrong on the cup,” said Riley.

“But then I just turned it a little so you can’t really see it."

The Chazen Museum of Art has already made a bid

on Riley’s photo, which is simply titled Starbucks <3.

“It’s a postmodern representation of our society's over-consumption and impatience,” explained Chazen curator Thomas Reed. “It would be an honor to put Starbucks <3 on display in one of our galleries.”

Abigail’s skyrocketing fame has not dissuaded her from continuing to post under her now worldrenowned Instagram handle, @abbiigaaiill. Since her Starbucks photo, she has

shared even more groundbreaking images, such as Me and my girls #tbt, Bascom Hill is so beautiful! #UW, and I miss my puppy!

Though these posts have yet to amount to the success of Starbucks <3, Abigail is sure that she will continue to snap and filter the world around her.

“I just post pictures of stuff I love,” she said. “Isn’t that what social media is all about?”

Riley’s work will be on display at the Chazen Museum of Art February 28

Kaden Greenfield While many have Instagrammed coffees over the course of the app’s existence, capturing the infamous Starbucks logo is unprecedented territory.

Chancellor says UW “not Wisconsin” enough Last week, in a speech to the Board of Regents, Chancellor Rebecca Blank declared that she would push for an increase in tuition for out-of-state students. She said, “After seven months as Chancellor, I have found that the University of Wisconsin just isn’t ‘Wisconsin’ enough.”

Blank appealed to the Board by saying, “This school has a proud

history of providing a stellar education to the state. Tuition hikes are necessary in order to get back to basics. Students of this institution go around saying, ‘Teach me how to Bucky.’ This is a travesty. I believe that by purifying the University of WISCONSIN to Wisconsinites, we will never have to hear that query again.”

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Chancellor, the UW charges less for out-ofstate tuition than many competing universities.

She claims that this is unacceptable, calling herself “an economist.”

Blank suggests putting a tier-based tuition system in place, charging students more the further they get from the “True Wisconsin” tier. Support of any team other than the Green

Bay Packers would raise tuition slightly, but support of the Chicago Bears or the Minnesota Vikings would make it skyrocket. A preference of wine over beer would also be penalized, as would aversion to snow and cold weather.

Vegetarianism and lactose intolerance would also result in a further tuition hike.

These new stipulations

come with some relief for potential out-ofstate students who have their hearts set on the UW. Students from brewing or meatpacking backgrounds would qualify for special aid.

Most students who hail from dairy farms would also receive aid, with the exception of those from California, who would fall into an especially expensive tuition tier.

“We want Wisconsinites at the University of Wisconsin.

What we’re going for is primarily German and Norwegian backgrounds,” Blank declared to the Board, before dabbing her forehead with a handkerchief.

She calls for a campus “whose blood runs red! Not just because everyone’s does!”

Hockey hosts second “Fill the Bowl” game In response the astounding success of their fourth annual “Fill the Bowl” event, Wisconsin Women’s hockey has announced plans to hold another “Fill the Bowl” game Sunday, April 20 at the Kohl Center. The team is scheduled to play against Colorado College, despite the fact that the set date is nearly a month after

the end of hockey season.

“I’ll be blunt,’” said Kohl center spokesman Beau Florentine. “The last game was just so much fun, we decided we had to do it one more time this year.

This joint-venture with Colorado College is going to make April 20 a hard day to forget.”

In an effort to attract even more fans than

the previous Fill the Bowl game, the April 20 event will be dubbed “Pack the Bowl” to emphasize the need to get as many fans into the bowl as possible to provide the best possible experience.

“We expect concession sales to be through the roof, due to the large crowds and intense competition between two great

hockey teams,” Florentine continued.

Women’s Hockey coach Mark Johnson added that this could be a great opportunity to get fan’s excited about the team. “In addition to “Pack the Bowl” bracelets, each fan in attendance will receive a free t-shirt bearing the slogan ‘Smoke Colorado,’ to show how badly we

want to beat this team,” said Johnson.

Aside from the hockey game, the event will have a charitable aspect as well.

“At the second intermission, we will hold a ‘Light the Bowl’ ceremony,” said event planner Sadie Wolfowitz. “The lights in the Kohl Center will be extinguished, and fans are encouraged

to hold up lighters and cell phone in an effort to show solidarity for hunger relief programs across Dane County.”

A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will go toward pizzas, Doritos, and Crunchwrap Supremes for local food banks.

The NCAA has also promised to match all donations received at the game to show

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Students calling for LaBahn to be painted

University of Wisconsin-Madison UWBadgers.com After opening for the 2012-2013 season and being only the second women’s-specific sporting facility in the country, LaBahn Arena has a group of students calling for its bare white walls to be painted.

Christian Karcher Women’s Hockey Writer As LaBahn Arena empties after yet another Badger win, a small group of students walks along the concourse singing “In Heaven There Is No Beer” in typical Wisconsin hockey fashion. As the group nears earshot of the press box, the song winds down and Lucas Pillar, a self-proclaimed superfan, finishes the song with a loud and defiant “Paint LaBahn!”

Members of the Athletic Department begin to grumble at the slightly annoying tradition.

Meanwhile, it becomes more apparent that the walls of LaBahn remain bare.

After its completion in 2012, LaBahn Arena became only the second women-specific stadium in the country, trailing the construction of Minnesota’s Ridder Arena

by only a year. The $27 million project created an arena with the capacity for 2,273 people. LaBahn’s impressive capacity matches that of nearly a quarter of the stadiums in Division I NCAA men’s hockey today and creates an intense and captivating environment for fans and athletes. However, the arena has one flaw in the eyes of the fans.

While the facility is state of the art and much of it, including the offices, media rooms, locker rooms and concourses are decorated with Badgers memorabilia and murals, the inside of the arena is starkly bare.

The small Wisconsin student section in LaBahn’s inaugural 2012-2013 season immediately noticed the difference. After a year of hoping for a change in scenery, the fans took to Twitter in protest at the beginning of the 2013-2014 season.

“The north concourse is nice,” Pillar said. “However the seating bowl feels like a plain practice facility, not the home of the Wisconsin Badgers, where the women’s hockey team plays its games.”

The “Paint LaBahn” saga began at the beginning of the season when the Wisconsin women’s hockey team faced off against Team Japan in an exhibition game. Pillar, as well as Dan Simanek, better known

by Wisconsin hockey fans as Superfan Dan, began tweeting @BadgerWHockey about painting LaBahn.

Although the tweets started off as a joke, #PaintLaBahn quickly caught on.

“Paint LaBahn has become a running joke all season,” Pillar said. “We considered it a wild success and pretty amusing when we saw someone we didn’t know use ‘#PaintLaBahn’.”

While Pillar and Simanek initially composed the

tweets for a bit of fun, the comments came from their real feelings about the stadium’s decoration. The two were still hoping that one day LaBahn would be a little bit more colorful.

The group of student superfans is not alone in its opposition to the bare walls of LaBahn either.

Many other spectators have commented on the walls and some have even taken to Twitter to help #PaintLaBahn trend on social media.

“Some of our tweets to @ BadgerWHockey are a little tongue-in-cheek, but we genuinely would like to see something on those plain walls,” Pillar said. “Based on some initial reaction from other fans over the last year, we are not the only ones.”

After Pillar and the other superfans decided they wanted LaBahn painted, the focus turned to what to paint on the wall of

could become a legendary stadium in women’s hockey history.

“They could paint it with anything from a giant motion W, to some kind of ring of honor, to big hockey murals.” Pillar said. “Send some art students. It would be awesome.”

While Pillar and other fans continue planning their grand design for LaBahn’s interior, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team remains unfazed by the controversy as it makes a run for its fifth National title. When asked about the possible renovations, many of the players merely chuckled and pushed the question off.

“I don’t really care,” senior forward Madison Packer said. “We don’t really look up in the stands.

It’s a nice facility, our locker room is painted and we have stuff hanging around the arena, so we’re happy with what we’ve got.”

Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson could hardly believe he was being asked about the movement. He shrugged for a few seconds before coming up with the only response he could think of: “It doesn’t matter.”

Still, the campaign rolls on while the second-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team continues to win game after game in the slightly empty LaBahn. The Badgers played their last home game of the regular season last weekend against Minnesota. After a best-of-three series next week for the WCHA playoffs, LaBahn will close for the season leaving, Pillar and Simanek waiting another year in hopes of seeing a painted arena.

As of now, the Athletic Department has no plans to paint the walls of LaBahn Arena, but you can be sure officials will be hearing about the blank walls until they makes a change.

Wisconsin looking for strong end to season Badgers take on No. 25 Michigan State Thursday with just 3 games left in season Eric Kohlbeck Women’s Basketball Writer The Wisconsin women’s basketball team is in the midst of its toughest stretch of games this season.

Wisconsin (10-15, 3-10 Big Ten) is in the second game of a three-game stretch that includes three ranked teams

and teams seeded first, second and fourth in the Big Ten standings.

Following a 78-68 loss at Penn State this past Sunday, the Badgers will welcome No. 25 Michigan State (17-8, 9-3 Big Ten) to the Kohl Center Thursday before heading to Purdue to take on the 23rdranked Boilermakers this Sunday.

The Badgers’ opponent Thursday, Michigan State, is currently in a tie for second in the Big Ten — one game behind first-place Penn State.

Wisconsin played one of its best games of the season this past Sunday against No. 11 Penn State holding a lead late in the second half before falling. It was a game that senior point guard Morgan Paige, who will be playing in her 100thstraight game Thursday, views as a confidence booster for UW. Having lost many close games to upper-echelon Big Ten opponents this season,

Paige and the rest of the Badgers are looking to get over the hump and into the win column against the top teams.

“Especially in the Big Ten this year, competition has been really, really tough,” Paige said. “Every team is good. Playing in [the Penn State game], you know you can compete with anyone in the conference. We’ve been competing and we’re so close. We just have to find a way to get over that edge and get a W.” Badger head coach Bobbie Kelsey said the team is close to winning some of these big games and has given itself opportunities to win.

However, it will take an all-around strong performance by her team – both offensively and defensively – to emerge victorious.

“You’ve got to give yourself an opportunity,” Kelsey said.

“When you’re that close—if I just

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box out, if I just make a free throw, if I just play a little better defense on that possession— throughout the course of the game, then you know you can knock somebody off. So I’m still believing.”

The Badgers will face one of the better insideout combinations in the Big Ten Thursday with Michigan State’s Annalise Pickrel and Aerial Powers. Powers, a 6-foot guard, is first on the team in both scoring and rebounding, averaging 13.6 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. Pickrel, a 6-foot3 forward, is second in both categories, averaging 12.7 and 7.2 respectively. Paige and Wisconsin will try to prevent the Spartans from scoring in the paint and rebounding the basketball. Michigan State is second in the Big Ten in defensive rebounding.

“With Michigan State

in particular, rebounding and keeping its points in the paint to a minimum will be huge for us,” Paige said. “That will help us tremendously.

If we can lock down the points in the paint and rebound the basketball, we’ll be in good shape.

And just taking that into the last couple of regular season games and hopefully make a nice little run in the Big Ten tournament.”

A nice little run in the Big Ten tournament is exactly what the Badgers are hoping for once regular season play comes to a close.

Currently second to last in the Big Ten standings, the Badgers will face an uphill battle in the tournament, but a few wins against top-tier opponents at the end of the season will bode well for them.

“Every win is a big win for us, but when you’re playing against the top of the league, you want

to have that statement, signature game that you can build upon,” Kelsey said. “It’s exciting for us to be able to go in. The pressure’s not really on us, so to speak. It’s on the team that’s ranked or has all these accolades and different things.”

Sophomore point guard Nicole Bauman is coming off a career performance this past Sunday against Penn State and knows a strong finish to the regular season will bring some much needed confidence to the Badgers. Bauman scored a career-high 17 points Sunday, including a 5-for-8 mark from beyond the arc.

“It would bring a lot of confidence,” she said.

“That’s something that would really be a good thing. I mean, we haven’t really had a lot of wins this season. So going into the Big Ten tournament with another win or two would definitely be a confidence booster.”

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Road woes plauging Wisconsin’s season Dan Corcoran

Sports Content Editor Coming into this season, the expectations for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team were riding high as the favorite to win the inaugural Big Ten crown while starting off the year with a No. 2 national ranking. But despite the Badgers’ wealth of veterans, they struggled on their first road trip of the season and only just picked up their second road win this past weekend, leaving a large discrepancy between their play at home and away.

Although winning on the road is no easy task, last year Wisconsin lost just two games away from the Kohl Center all season, winning eight. But even with many variables being held constant, the results have not been the same on the way to a 2-71 road mark this year for the Badgers, UW assistant coach Gary Shuchuk said.

“If you look at this team that we have this year, besides a couple players, we’re the exact same team that we were last year and we had a pretty good road record,” Shuchuk said of losing just four players from last year’s squad. “So it’s just kind of weird that it’s like that. If you look at all the games we’ve lost, except for the ones out in Boston, we’ve been in every game. Some mistakes here and there cost us.

But it’s different.”

The first series in Boston saw Wisconsin get pummeled by Boston College and Boston University in back-toback nights, giving up 16 goals in the process. But that weekend out east has proved an outlier as Wisconsin’s play has leveled off on the road.

Still, despite better road play than in that first weekend, the Badgers have only two wins to show for it and a record of 2-7-1.

Part of that struggle away from the Kohl Center might have something to do with the fact the Badgers have only played five total road series thus far this season and four since the first road weekend.

Situated just about halfway through those five series was a school-record 12game homestand, giving Wisconsin only four road games since Nov. 30.

“We haven’t really had the opportunity to get in a groove on the road as far as planning a few in the early half of the year and then with the big homestand and then going back on it. That’s just kind of stretching for something,” senior Mark Zengerle said of a reason as to why the away record is so much different. “Maybe it’s just coincidence that that’s our record like that.”

It very well might be coincidence, but what’s

HAYES, page 14 true. I think Indiana’s down season gives Vonleh more freedom on the court and presents a willingness from the coaching staff to give him minutes that he might not otherwise get on a stronger, deeper team.

Don’t get me wrong.

I still think Vonleh is a terrific player with a very high ceiling.

He has a very bright future in front of him and likely a successful professional career. But, just looking at individual accomplishments and contributions to the team, I think Hayes has a stronger case.

The biggest thing Hayes has going for him is that he plays for a team that will more than likely finish in the top four of the conference, again.

The fact that Hayes has contributed as much as he has and owns such an important role with Wisconsin as a freshman is impressive. Granted, the Badgers were in desperate

maybe even more striking about the Badgers’ season to this point is their home record. After bumbling to a 10-8-3 record at the Kohl Center last year, Wisconsin has been nearly unstoppable at home having lost only two games on home ice with a record of 15-2-1.

Attendance lagged early in the season, but now, in the thick of the home Big Ten schedule, Wisconsin has drawn the three largest crowds at home since 2010 and once drew 15,359 spectators, the largest crowd ever to witness a hockey game at the Kohl Center.

“As we’ve gotten down in the Big Ten here toward the end, we’ve had great crowds. It’s been an unbelievable atmosphere,” senior defenseman Joe Faust said. “It’s definitely the most exciting place to play in the league and I’m happy to call it home.”

But although the large crowds and unique atmosphere may make playing at home more exciting for the players, the mindsets of playing at home versus playing on the road make the contrast between the records surprising.

“That’s why it’s weird that our home record is so good because you’re trying to impress the students. You’re trying to impress the full building.

You try to do certain things,” Shuchuk said.

“On the road, it’s kind of a meat and potato way to play. You don’t do anything fancy. You just try to simplify the game.”

Outside of intangibles, the biggest difference in Wisconsin’s play on the road has a lot to do with a lack of scoring. At home the Badgers average almost twice as many goals per game (3.83) as they do on the road (2.00). This past Saturday against Ohio State, Wisconsin did something offensively it had yet to do this season away from home: score more than three goals. It’s not just the four-goal mark that has proved elusive, though, as the Badgers have only reached three goals or more four times this year out of the 10 total road games.

To make matters worse, the Wisconsin defense has had its struggles, too.

The Badgers are giving up just under twice as many goals on the road, with a goal-allowed per game of 3.7 on the road and 1.89 mark at home.

However, if the first two games are thrown out, Wisconsin allows only 2.63 goals per contest on the road, and for the most part the last eight road games have been quite close -- four have been decided by one goal or less.

“I don’t know if I’d say it’s completely accurate but it is what it is,” Faust said of the road record.

“There’s nothing we can

need of frontcourt help, so Hayes may have landed in Madison at just the right time.

But, just because there is a need at a position doesn’t mean a player is going to get inserted into the lineup just by necessity, not on a Bo Ryan coached team. But, Hayes has met coach Ryan’s lofty standards and has worked his way to becoming the first player off the bench for Wisconsin.

The 6-foot-7 forward has shown massive improvement in his game since beginning his collegiate career in November. In his first 11 games, Hayes averaged just four points and 1.7 rebounds. Now, in his last 15 games, he is nearly tripling those numbers, averaging more than 11 points and four rebounds per game.

Hayes’ effectiveness and offensive production in the latter half of the season isn’t lost on his head coach.

“But when we’re

Chris Lotten The Badger Herald Senior forward Mark Zengerle leads the Badgers with 27 points and 21 assists, but it hasn’t been enough to hault UW’s losing trend on the road.

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do about it at this point.”

With just one home series left this weekend, the only thing Wisconsin can do now is find a solution to reverse their road woes before it’s too late.

“If we want to end up second place or first place in the Big Ten we’ve got to win on the road. Even when you get to the NCAA tournament you’re not playing at home. You’re playing on the road, so you got to win in different environments, hostile environments,” Shuchuk said. “You can’t have any excuses. You’re one and done.

“The way I look at it, this is the same team we had last year that had the mindset of being road warriors.

We just got to find that going down the stretch now.”

effective, I’ll tell you the catalyst still has been Nigel, without a doubt,” Ryan said after Wisconsin’s win over Minnesota Feb. 13 at the Kohl Center.

When you have been with the program for less than a year and Ryan, who has been coaching for 29 years, is already calling you a guy he’ll remember coaching when he looks back on his career, you’ve done something special.

Not only does Hayes have a shot at Freshman of the Year, but sixth man of the year is a real possibility as well, as he averages the most points and rebounds and has the highest shooting percentage of any player in the Big Ten who has not started a game in the Big Ten. But whether or not the quirky kid from Toledo might get the nod for any Big Ten awards this season, he will still find his way into press conferences and will more than likely still bring a smile to his coach’s face.

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Road to gold:

Road to gold:

Feb. 8 Finland 1, United States 3

Feb. 8 Switzerland 0, Canada 5

Feb. 10 Switzerland 0, United States 9 Feb. 12 Canada 3, United States 2 Feb. 17 Sweden 1, United States 6

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Feb. 10 Finland 0, Canada 3 Feb. 12 United States 2, Canada 3 Feb. 17 Switzerland 1, Canada 3 Record: 4-0-0 Goals per game: 3.5 Goals allowed per game: 0.75 Shots on goal per game: 47.5 Shots allowed per game: 19.25

Record: 3-1-0 Goals per game: 5 Goals allowed per game: 1.28 Shots on goal per game: 48.25 Shots allowed per game: 16.25

Feburary 20 at 11 a.m., Women’s hockey Olympic final

A week after falling to Team Canada 3-2, the United States women’s Olympic hockey team has its chance for revenge and this time it’s for the ultimate prize: a gold medal. Both teams have breezed through the qualifying and semifinal rounds on a collision course for an inevitable rematch. Between the two teams, five former Badgers are gunning for the top spot on the podium and Wisconsin is guaranteed to gain at least one gold medal as Canada has one Badger and Team USA boasts four.

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Sports Content Editor The United States is currently in the midst of a gold drought in Olympic men’s hockey that is beginning to border on gold starvation.

Since the last gold medal in the “Miracle on Ice” in the 1980 Lake Placid Games, the U.S. has endured a 34-year streak without winning a gold, something accomplished twice since hockey was established as an Olympic sport in 1920.

But for the second straight Olympics, the United States has a chance to move on to the final game. Unfortunately, Team USA will have to get past reigning gold medal winner Canada to even reach Sochi’s gold medal game.

The semifinal matchup between the Americans and Canadians in Sochi is a repeat of the gold medal game in Vancouver in 2010, which the U.S. wound up dropping by a

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final score of 3-2.

Looking for some revenge after the heartbreaking loss in Vancouver, Team USA comes into the game riding high after dismantling the Czech Republic 5-2 in the quarterfinals Wednesday afternoon in Sochi.

The U.S. has been bulldozing through the competition so far as the top scoring offense, with the only close matchup coming against the home country Russia during Round Robin play. Thanks to the dangling abilities of TJ Oshie, though, the U.S. got past the tournament favorites by winning the shootout against the Russians with four goals on six attempts from Oshie.

Besides that tight matchup, the United States also triumphed 7-1 over Slovakia and 5-1 over Slovenia to secure Pool A in the tournament and a second seed in the tournament. That second seed got the U.S. a bye

through the qualifications round and to the quarterfinal Wednesday afternoon where it easily handled the Czechs.

The United States’ effort has been led in part by a handful of former Wisconsin men’s hockey stars. Joe Pavelski, who was a member of the Badgers’ National Championship team in 2006, is currently second on the team with five points in the tournament that includes a goal and four assists. Former Wisconsin defenseman Ryan Suter, who is one of the assistant captains for Team USA, has three assists in the tournament all of which came in the quarterfinal win over the Czech Republic. Ryan McDonagh, Suter’s defensive partner for much of the tournament and another exBadger, has recorded a goal and assist of his own to help bolster the American effort.

Meanwhile, the Canadians come into Friday’s semifinal after barely squeaking out a

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2-1 win over heavy underdog Latvia.

Canada peppered Latvian netminder Kristers Gudlevskis with 57 shots in the game, but he stood on his head for much of the game, recording 55 saves, but in a losing effort. Latvia managed only 16 shots on goal and Carey Price stopped 15 to help the Canadians escape.

Canada has allowed the fewest goals of any team in the tournament with only three goals surrendered in four games.

The other semifinal matchup will pit the number one overall seed Sweden against the fourth seed Finland, who reached the game with a 3-1 win over the home country Russians in the quarterfinal. Sweden, despite being without one of its top players in Henrik Zetterberg, reached the semifinal with a 5-0 drubbing of Slovenia. This semifinal is a rematch of 2006 Torino gold medal game.

At the beginning of the Wisconsin men’s basketball season, I never knew what to expect going into a Bo Ryan press conference, no matter how many I had previously attended.

It seemed the only thing you could count on was at least one story from “back in the day.” But, as the regular season began to wind on, it became apparent that I could add one more expectation to coach Ryan pressers: Nigel Hayes.

The freshman forward out of Toledo, Ohio gradually carved a spot for himself in the rotation and not long after, Hayes became a favorite among fans, media and his coaches, including Ryan.

His ability to absorb coaching, draw fouls and absurd consistency with his mid-range jumper made him a coach’s dream.

His quirky personality, expressiveness and fixation with useless trivia made him an instant hit with the media and fans alike.

The result was Hayes’ hysteria in the press room as it seemed the freshman’s name came up in interviews whether it was prompted or not.

As a freshman, Hayes has become one of the most consistent players for Wisconsin — save for the free-throw troubles — and has begun to grab the attention of the Big Ten conference, earning his fourth Freshman of the Week award and thrusting his name into the Big Ten Freshman of the Year discussion.

With just a month left in the regular season, it looks like a two-horse race between Hayes and Indiana’s Noah Vonleh for the freshman of the year honors. But I believe Hayes’ case is getting stronger by the game, and although his stats are not quite on Vonleh’s level, his impact with the Badgers makes up for anything that might be lacking in the stats department.

Hayes is averaging 7.9 points, 2.6 rebounds per game and a 53.7 shooting percentage — second best on the team among players with at least 25 games played.

Vonleh’s numbers are gaudier as the freshman out of Haverhill, Mass. averages nearly a double-double with 11.6 points and 9.5 rebounds per game along with a shooting percentage of 54 percent. However, the Hoosier averages nearly eight more minutes per game than Hayes and plays for a bad team.

It seems logical that playing for a team in the bottom half of the Big Ten would be a disadvantage for a young player, but I believe the opposite is

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